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Frontispiece WILLARD, EMMA. H............... J. Karst....... . . . . . 649 XENOPHON,........................ J. Karst..... * * * * * * 1059 YOUNG, EDWARD ......... . . . . . . . J. Karst............ i049 ZIMMERMAN, J. G. ................. J. Karst......... . . . 1055 ZENO............................. . . . J. Karst........... 1059 ZOROASTER, (Steel)................ A. Robin... Frontispiece Total number of Portraits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 149356 PR E L U D E. “A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems.” —WILLIAM B. SPRAGUE. “I have friends here whose society is very agreeable to me ; they are of all ages, and of every country.”—PETRARCH. “The multiplicity of facts and writings is becoming so great, that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts.”—VOLTAIRE. “Grand and dignified thoughts must be expected from those alone whose minds are ever employed on glorious and noble objects.”—LONGINUS. “Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age ; less portable valuables disappear.”—LORD STANLEY. “A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten a truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.”—HOWARD CROSBY. “How many of us have been attracted to reason—first learned to think, to draw con- clusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life—by Some dazzling aphorism ſ”—BULWER. “What laborious days, what watchings by the midnight lamp, what rackings of the brain, what hopes and fears, what long lives of laborious study, gre here sublimized into print.”—HORACE SMITH. * - “We content ourselves to present to thinking minds the oriinal seeds from whence. spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and en- larged.”—CHEVALIER RAMSAY. - “Read and fear not thine own understanding. This book will create a clear one in thee; and when thou hast considered thy purchase, thou wilt call the price of it a charity ... to thyself.”—JAMES SHIRLEY. “Thus have I, as well as I could, gathered a poesy of observations as they grew; and if some rue and wormwood be found among the sweet herbs, their wholesomeness will make amends for their bitterness.”—LORD LYTTELTON. * “We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland ; first select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its colour and brightness on the next.”—S. T. Col.FRIDGE. “I pluck up the goodlisome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory—by gathering them together; that so having tasted their sweetness, I may the less perceive the bitterness of life.”—QUEEN ELIZABETH. “As a good housewife out of divers fleeces weaves one piece of cloth, a bee gathers wax and honey of many flowers, and makes a new bundle of all—floriferis wit apes in saltibws omnia libant, I have laboriously collected this cento out of divers writers, and that sine injurić; ; I have wronged no authors, but given every man his own.”—ROBERT BURTON. “I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax and some with honey. Fear not to approach There are no hornets here. If some wanton bee should chance to buzz about thine ears, stand thy ground, and hold thine hands: there is none will sting thee if thou strike not first. If any do, she hath honey in her bag will cure thee too.” —FRANCIS QUARLES. • “What a happiness is it that, without the aid of necromancy, I can here call up any of the ancient worthies of learning, whether human or divine, and confer with them upon all my doubts ; that I can at pleasure summon whole synods of reverend fathers and acute doctors from all the coasts of the earth, to give their well-studied judgments in all doubtful points which I propose.”—JOSEPH HALL. “The importance of illustration for the purpose of enforcing truth is so obvious, that it seems a work of supererogation to say one word concerning it. A man may often find materials to enliven a discourse which might otherwise have proved very dull, or to fasten on the conscience a truth or a warning, which otherwise would have fallen on the ear unnoticed, and glided past the mind unfelt.”—GEORGE BARRELL CHEEVER. “Here is the best solitary company in the world, and in this particular chiefly excelling any other. What an advantage have I, by this good-fellowship, that, besides the help that I receive from hence in reference to my life after this life, I can enjoy the life of so many ages before I lived That I can be acquainted with the passages of three or four thousand #. ago, as if they were the weekly occurrences. Here, without travelling So far as ndor, I can call up the ablest spirits of those times, the most learned philosophers, the greatest generals, and make them serviceable to me. I can make bold with the best jewels they have in their treasury, and without suspicion of felony make use of them as mine own.”—SIR WILLIAM WALLER. E’ F. E. F. A. C. E. “The preface in the beginning makes the whole book the better to be conceived.”—TRYPHIODORUS. ITH the conviction that there is no richer treasure than a collec- W tion of the beautiful thoughts and maxims of the world's literati and distinguished men, the Compiler offers the present work for public approval. The brilliant passages of the most eminent writers, the wise sayings of the great philosophers, and the sparkling phrases of cele- brated orators—among which many fine intellectual gems, and many noble and useful truths are found—have been accumulating for ages; and in this book-making generation, and among so large a number of collectors, have become so colossal in mass by accretion, as to almost bewilder a compiler in making his selections; consequently, it is only by large experience, great mental labor, and years of tedious research, that one is able to acquire that adequate skill, judgment, and taste, requisite for a task of this character and magnitude. The immortal Johnson has wisely remarked, that “he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literature of his own age; he that collects these is very laudably employed, as he facilitates the progress of others, and by making that easy of attainment which is already written, may give some adventurous mind leisure for new thoughts and original designs.” In procuring the material for this work, the Compiler has met with many publications whose antiquated style and quaintness of character have invested them with more than ordinary interest, and of which no mention is made in any dictionary of authors; and he has reason to believe that there is in his possession more than one volume of which no other copy remains extant. If, A R AE A' A C E. therefore, some useful aphorism, some sententious laconic, or beautiful sentiment has been gleaned from these rude pages of coarse paper, printed with ill-formed type, at a period almost co-existent with the birth of the typographic art, a small service, at least, has been rendered. And again, on looking over the vast field of literature, from the dark ages—the midnight of the human mind—up to the early part of the seventeenth century, it was found that a number of excellent writers on theology, moral philosophy, and belles-lettres, had been almost entirely forgotten by our bibliographers; these works were carefully examined, and many beautiful extracts obtained, and it is hoped a further service rendered in the endeavor to resuscitate the names of their authors. In other words: “I have culled a garland of flowers, and the only thing I can call my own is the string that binds them.” But to cull a still larger garland of flowers from the wide garden of the world's literature, where so many have been gathered during the past two hundred years, was found to be no easy task; and more gigantic a labor did it appear to attempt to collect the whole of these choice flowers—many of which are now withered and dead—and select from them those that have been made beautiful by age, and those which are still beautiful by youth, and form them into a bouquet that would be more lasting in its fragrance and more glorious in prismatic hues. Yet not only has such been the aim of the Compiler, but he has also explored ground never before traversed; and from the wild-woods and hedge-rows of literature, of every nation and of every clime, he has gathered some of the rarest and some of the sweetest blossoms. The most precious jewels are found in out-of-the-way places, and often amid rude surroundings, yet, nevertheless, they are just as beautiful as those set in the crown of a king. Thus it is with the jewels of literature; as among a heap of oyster shells may be found one pearl which glorifies all of them by its brilliancy, so among the writings of the most obscure may be found, at least, one thought that is worth preserving for its purity and beauty. In too many instances have compilations of prose quotations been issued from the press with little regard to convenience of reference, or order of arrangement. The plan adopted in the work here presented, is thoroughly an exhaustive one, containing, as it does, nearly forty A R AE A' A C E. thousand extracts, on more than two thousand subjects, being many times in excess of any other collection published; these are not taken from the gleanings of others, but have been gathered from the original works of the writers. It differs entirely, and is far in advance of other books of quotations of smaller dimensions, not only in a much greater number of extracts and diversity of topics, but in grandeur of concep- tion, unity of plan, and simplicity of classification. It has not been compiled, like many others, at moments of leisure, nor has it been gathered together during several years of desultory reading; but it has been the result of research of an entire lifetime, devoted to the avowed purpose of giving to the public an encyclopædia of prose quotations from the most eminent authors and celebrated men of all ages and of all nations, forming a rich casket of literary pearls—the best impressions of the best minds—the lustre of which will never grow dim; thus making a volume of noble thoughts in noble language and well chosen words—for “Words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” The greater portion of the book consists of quotations and illustra- tive passages upon all topics within the ordinary range of thought, from the works of English-speaking authors, such as philosophers, historians, divines, essayists, novelists, statesmen, and Orators of the United States and the British Empire; and from the prominent authors of France, Belgium, Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, and other Northern countries of Europe, it has been the endeavor to extract the most valuable “words of wisdom" contained in their writings, whose productions, though rich in sentiment, are but little known to those who have confined themselves to the English tongue. The noble truths taught by the ancient philosophers of Greece and Rome, and the early Egyptian writers, are amply illustrated, form- ing a valuable epitome of beautiful sentiments, many of which have never been cited by previous compilers; likewise from the writings of the philosophers and poets of China, Japan, India, Persia, and Arabia, a great number of comprehensive passages have been specially translated and inserted in the work. Choice extracts are also given from the Chinese Classics of Confucius and Mencius, the Vedas of Hindustan, viii A R AE A' A C E. the Buddhas of India and Ceylon, the Ku-Ral of the Tamil country, the Zend-Avesta of Zoroaster, the Talmud of the Jews, the Koran of Mohammed, and the Snorra - Edda of Iceland. Nor is the limit of research confined to this already wide compass, but from the remotest places of the earth, and isolated islands of the sea, many curious speci- mens of barbaric literature are given; these have been gathered from the Wakatauki (Proverbs) of the New Zealanders, the trite sayings of the natives of the Sandwich Islands, the various tribes on the coast of Guinea, in West Africa, and from the innumerable Indian tribes of the continent of South and Central America, besides many trenchant utterances, and rude, unpolished similes from the “Council Fire Talks” of the North American Indians. In all extracts given, the Compiler has not allowed himself to be confined to any opinions, creeds, sects, or nationalities; but when a quotation was found apt, it was placed under its appropriate heading. In selecting from so vast a field, and from such a multitudinous array of writers, there were, no doubt, many subjects upon which more than one extract from the same author might have been found worthy of record, but the space required by their admission was a constant reminder that the work would be swelled to unlimited dimensions. In translations that have been made from either ancient or modern authors, it has been the aim to give the ideas of the writer in the terse yet com- prehensive form in which they are supposed to have been written; many instances were found where the sentiment could be best expressed by giving it a liberal instead of a literal translation. In a work of this character it is hardly to be expected that it would contain any considerable amount of original matter; indeed, the very title of the book would indicate it to be a collection of the best thoughts taken from the works of authors already published. In this connection, however, it may not be out of place to mention that a number of valuable gems from writers, known and unknown, now for the first time appear in print; among these will be found contributions from some of the first scholars, statesmen, and theologians of the present age. Those laconics or paragraphs which occasionally appear over the Compiler's name, have been inserted more to fill a vacant space than with any intention of obtruding his own writings upon the public. A R AE A' A C E. In preparing for publication a work of this magnitude, the Com- piler had occasion to call to his assistance numerous literary friends, to whom he now takes this opportunity of returning his sincere and grateful acknowledgments for valuable services rendered. As history has sometimes presented instances of a ruler, who not possessing a very high order of regal talent, has, nevertheless, encircled his administration with a halo of glory by gathering around him men of eminence who could discharge the duties of ministers, cabinet officers, and ambassa- dors, with marked ability, and by so doing, has taken upon himself credit for an able reign, so does the Compiler of this volume give vent to his egotism in proudly boasting of his abilities—not to write, but to appreciate the writings of others. Some years ago, it was his good fortune to meet MR. JAMES ELLIS, who had prepared a volume for publication, under the title of “LACONIA; OR, GEMS OF LITERATURE, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.” This production contained so many quo- tations that were adapted to this work, that an arrangement was at once entered into by which the manuscript was secured, and the author himself engaged to assist in completing the CoILACON. This work being a collection of extracts in prose, it cannot be expected to contain a very extensive selection from the writings of those whose laurels have been chiefly obtained in the regions of poetry and song; still sufficient gems are given from the prose writings of these authors, to prove that their genius was not entirely confined to the fields of poetic literature. It will also be generally conceded that there is—or ought to be—“a Bible in every house,” and a “Concordance” in every student and pastor's library; therefore, to give quotations in the present work from the Sacred Volume, would be only adding to its size without a corresponding increase in its usefulness. A new and distinctive feature of the present work, is the intro- duction of a biographical dictionary of authors and eminent persons quoted, conjoined with a topical index of extracts taken from their writings and sayings; the practical usefulness of this mode of indexing compilations of this nature will be better understood and more readily appreciated, on examining the indices of books of quotations hitherto published. In many of these, to find a selection from the writings of any particular author is almost impossible; in others, the page-references A R AE A' A CA. to the extracts are given in figures, and therefore of no practical utility. In contradistinction, in this work the name is given with time and place of birth, date of death, with a list of extracts; and if the reader wishes to find a quotation upon any particular topic—as for example: “Addison” on Happiness—he refers to that name in the index, then by glancing over the synopsis of subjects which follow, he finds at once the object of his search; the simplicity and usefulness of this feature, are too obvious to need further explanation. This addition necessarily opened up to the Compiler an almost inexhaustible field of labor, the material and data having to be gathered for more than eight thousand biographical notices; yet, after many years of patient research, he has, with the able assistance of his collaborateur, accomplished this most difficult task, and is confident that it will not only be a valuable appendage to the work, but a useful handbook of biographical reference. - It is unnecessary to mention all the benefits that may be derived from a compilation of this character, as an examination of its pages will convince the most critical observer of its simplicity of arrangement, convenience of reference, and general usefulness. To the journalist and student it will be found indispensable, to the literati an invaluable auxiliary, while to the clergyman, the essayist, and the statesman, it cannot fail to render almost incalculable service. The whole volume comprises nearly forty thousand quotations from over eight thousand authors, on more than two thousand subjects, together with a biographical index, and forming a dictionary of reference of twelve hundred pages, which it is believed will find a place on the table of every scholar, author, journalist, statesman, and divine, and in every library in the United States and the British Empire. In conclusion, the Compiler has only to add, that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well; how far he has fulfilled the tenets of this truism, he leaves for the public to decide. EDWARD P. DAY. INDEX TO STUTEJIFCTS. “An index is the soul of a book; it is the key to its essence of thought.”—JAMEs ELLIs. 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" Years - - tº º Yeoman tº tº © e Yesterday tº * Yielding .. º Yoke e tº & © Youth.. • * e e Zeal - - tº º Zealousness tº e Zeph © tº Zest .. e tº e e ion tº e ZOdiac tº º e is One • tº “WHATEVER WE MAY SAY AGAINST such COLLECTIONS WHICH PRESENT AUTHORS IN A DISJoINTED FORM, THEY NEVERTHELESS BRING ABOUT MANY EXCELLENT RESULTS. WE ARE NOT ALWAYS SO COMPOSED, SO FULL OF WISDOM, THAT WE ARE ABLE TO TAKE IN AT ONCE THE WHOLE scope OF A WORK ACCORDING TO ITS MERITS. DO WE NOT MARK IN A BOOK PASSAGES WHICH SEEM TO HAVE A DIRECT REFERENCE TO OURSELVES 2 YOUNG PEOPLE ESPECIALLY, WHO HAVE FAILED IN Acquir[NG A CoMPLETE CULTIVATION OF THE MIND, ARE ROUSED IN A PRAISEWORTHY WAY BY BRILLIANT QUOTATIONS.”—Goethe. *I. JOSEPH ADDISCRJ- E N C Y O L O PAET) IA. OF LACON ICS AND PROSE O U OTATION S. “What a world of thought is here packed up together.”—BISHOP Joseph HALL. ABIT,ITY. Ability is active power. N. Webster. Ability is the power of doing. G. Crabb. M. Wrem. Ability is a poor man's wealth. Let each one do according to his ability. Terence. Do not feel too much joy at your ability. Tsang. Ability is that sufficiency which cometh from God. J. Wycliffe. Ability consists in doing what we apprehend we can do. Hakewell. No person shall be obliged to do beyond his ability. Mahomet. Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends. Diogenes. A husband without ability is like a house with- out a roof. Eudoacws. Ability is the power of applying knowledge to practical purposes. G. F. Graham. Every man's ability may be strengthened or in- creased by culture. J. Abbott. Ability in man is knowledge which emanates from Divine light. - Zoroaster. To know, and not have the ability to perform, is doubly unfortunate. Solom. Native ability without education is like a tree which bears no fruit. Aristippus. We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt. N. Macdonald. If you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Sir J. Reynolds. It is not genius So much as ability that carries one through the battles of life. A. B. Street. No matter how skilfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability—did he win 3 C. Lever. An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and by resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid. Chesterfield. foreseen vicissitudes of life. ABILITY. Ability wins us the esteem of the true men ; luck that of the people. Rochefoucauld. The concealment of our abilities hath not more of modesty than safety. J. Hall. Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. Lord Bacon. The rich are able, but not liberal ; the poor are generous, but lack ability. Acton. All experience shows that different persons have different degrees of ability. R. Whately. Human ability is an unequal match for the un- Blair. Ability is the act of knowing how to judge of men and things by what is in ourselves. Confucius, Ability doth hit the mark, while presumption over-shooteth, and diffidence falleth short. Cusa. To become an able man in any profession, there are three things necessary—nature, study, and practice. Aristotle. The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the Commonwealth. Demosthemes. In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb. Pliny. Natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. - Cicero. The man who is fitted out by nature, and sent into the world with great abilities, is capable of doing great good or mischief in it. Addison. There is no greater proof of the abilities of a general, than to investigate, with the utmost care, into the character and natural abilities of his op- ponent. Polybius. What we lack in natural abilities may usually be made up by industry ; a dwarf may keep pace with a giant if he will only move his legs fast enough. G. D. Prentice. 2 J) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. ABILITY. Nothing is more destructive of individual charac- ter than for a man to lose all faith in his own abili- ties for the prosecution of his work. J. G. Fichte. A man without abilities rarely has enemies ; he may excite contempt, but seldom rises to the dig- nity of being an object of envy or hate. E. P. Day. It is not enough to have real abilities alone : one must add that self-assurance which leads him to aim at high ends, and to assert his claims before the public. Bruyère. The world is apt to regard a man, not So much for his education, position, and wealth, as for the ability he has of turning these possessions to the best account, C. Nicholsom. That man is indeed unfortunate who is under the control or guidance of those who, when difficulties arise, have neither ability nor prudence to guide and extricate him. S. CroacCull. When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the op- portunity she offers. Machiavelli. How few there are who are furnished with abili- ties sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish them from the rest of mankind. Steele. There are few men who know their own abili- ties, or the strength of their propensities for weal or woe ; they know not the good they can do, or the evils they can perpetrate. L. C. Judson. Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every hu- man spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature ; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve. Magoon. An early and entire attachment to one particu- lar calling, narrows the abilities of the mind to that degree that he can scarce think out of that track to which he is accustomed. Seed. The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed ; if you pull it upon your shoulders, you leave your feet bare ; if you thrust it down upon your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. Sir W. Temple. In learning the useful part of every profession, very moderate abilities will suffice ; even if the mind be a little balanced with stupidity, it may in this case be useful. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moder- ate OneS. Goldsmith. In all classes we find men possessed of high in- tellectual qualities, though often without mental cultivation ; for natural abilities can almost com- pensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. Schopenhaw.fer. Both practical and speculative ability are, no doubt, modifications of mental power; but one, On that account, by no means implies the other, any more than dexterity in reefing a sail involves the art of leaping a five-barred gate, though they are both instances of physical skill. S. Bailey, ABILITY. The multitude, who only look at the outside of things, judge of abilities by the result ; they in- sist that we do not flag in our career, and that miracles shall continue to be performed. Corneille. Intellectual abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some in every nation; and are of power to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the pertuba- tions of the mind, and set the affections in right tune. Milton. The abilities of man have not been exhausted; nothing has been done by him that cannot be bet- ter done ; there is no effort of science or art that may not be exceeded, no depth of philosophy that cannot be deeper sounded, no flight of imagination that may not be passed by strong and soaring wing. W. Aytown. Men of the best intellectual abilities are apt to strike off Suddenly, like the tangent of a circle, and cannot be brought into their orbits by attraction" or gravity ; they often act with such eccentricity as to be lost in the vortex of their own reveries : whereas, men of common abilities, in a regular routine of business, act with more regularity and greater certainty. J. Trusler. One dislikes to be always setting a high value upon those who set no value upon themselves, and who Sneak away into the obscurest seats on all oc- casions. Great deeds they may have done, possi- bly, evincing brilliant abilities; but who can be- lieve the fact, while they themselves never speak Of them, except perhaps to underrate them 3 It is the opinion we appear to cherish of ourselves, from which—deeming we must be the best judges of our Own merits—others take, in a great measure, their opinion of us on trust. It is taken for granted, in an age like the present, that every man pretends to the utmost he can do, and he who pretends to little is apt to be capable of nothing. W. Mathews. ABRIDGEMENT. Abridgments are almost a necessity. Sir E. Coke. What man of taste or feeling can endure abridg- mentS T. B. Macaulay. In abridgments we have as much substance, although in smaller space. G./F. Graham. iginal in value, Abridgments often surpass the w ent. G. Crabb. when they are made with jud y the omitting some arger work. Goodrich. An abridgment is mad less important parts of Abridgments have/the same use with burning glasses—to collect/the diffused rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagi- nation. / Swift. An abridgment or abstract of any thing, is the whole in little ; and if it be of a science or doc- trine, the abridgment consists in the essential or necessary parts of it contracted into a narrower compass than where it lies diffused in the ordinary way of delivery. J. Locke. A A' O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 3 ABSENCE, Absence is a foe to love. Cervantes. Absence sweeteneth love. J. Howell. Absence puts off happiness. T. Crisp. Absence doth increase fear. Horace. Absence adds vigor to love. Flatman. Speak not evil of the absent. Washington. Absence is the worst of evils. La Fontaine. Absence is a negative quality. R. Ainsworth. It is absence that tries fidelity. Mrs. J. Hunter. Absence is the coward's safety. P. Brooks. Let not absence lessen affection. Henry VIII. Absence severs as well as death. A. Dumas. Never speak ill of an absent friend. Plawtus. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Bayly. Friends, though absent, are still present. Cicero. The absence of friends is the presence of many griefs. Bicts. Absence from the councils of wicked men is true wisdom. J. Bellamy. Absence in love makes true love more firm and COnstant. Niphºws. Absence does not impair true friendship, but in- creases it. Thwcydides. Absence, if not too long continued, adds zest to friendship. E. P. Day. Absence increases true love, but it destroys its counterfeit. Capt. F. Marryatt. The evils that are begotten of absence are cured by wisdom. J. Bentham. We ought to be equally mindful of our absent and present friends. Thales. The absent are never without fault, nor the pre- sent without excuse. Franklin. May God never make our friends so happy as to forget us in our absence. S. Pricho'rd. The grief of unwished absence is worse than the wounds of a stubborn lance. Adelard of Bath. We should say nothing of a person in his absence that we would be unwilling to say if he were pre- sent. N. Webster. He that ridicules the absent, shows his company what they may expect from him when he leaves them. L. Cobb. Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we have loved ; we cannot realize the inter- vening changes which time may have effected. Goldsmith, Absence lessens Small passions, but augments great ones ; as the wind extinguishes the taper, but increases the flames of a burning dwelling. Rochefoucauld. ABSENCE. To be absent from the one we love is to carry a vacant chamber in the heart, which nothing else can fill. Henrietta Dwºmont. As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. Alcibiades. The heart perhaps is never so sensible of happi- ness as after a short absence from the object of its affections. Mme. d’Arblay. We never know how profitable the presence of a friend is, until we have felt the want of his ab- sence for a time. Bernardo de Alderete. Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for awhile from the ties and objects that recall them. Hazlitt. The presence of those whom we love is as a dou- ble life ; absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. Jameson. How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight. W. S. Landor. I am the better acquainted with you for absence as men are with themselves for affliction ; absence doth but hold off a friend to make one see him truly. Pope. Absence is what the poets call the death of love, and has given occasion to abundance of beautiful complaints in those authors who have treated of this subject in verse. Addison. In our absence we fancy that life, existence, and breath, will come to a general pause ; but, alas ! the gap which we leave is scarce perceptible, so Quickly is it filled again. Goethe. Every hour of absence from my native land rolls heavily by, like the sandy wave of a desert ; and the fair shores of my country rise blooming to my imagination, clothed in the soft, illusive charms of distance. W. Irving. There are people whom we love when they are absent from us, but who when present, cause us to feel a repugnance toward them, which engenders a temporary dislike, and consequently an unjust appreciation of their character. Salm-Dyck. How bleak and cold the word absence sounds ; and yet, bleak and cold as it does sound, how in- finitely short it falls of the reality | When at a distance from those we love, although surrounded with all the heart can wish for, how futile seems every enjoyment, and uninteresting every plea- Sure Julius Bate. Few men who have gratified their vanity in a great metropolis are qualified to quit it ; few have the sense to perceive they must soon inevitably be forgotten ; they represent to themselves imaginary scenes of deploring friends and dispirited compan- ions ; but the ocean might as well regret the drops exhaled by the Sunbeams; life goes on, and whe- ther the absent have retired into a cottage or a grave is the same thing. Sydney Smith. 4 - AN A Y’,S CO / / A C O AV. ABSTINENCE. Abstinence is a virtue. St. Augustime. Abstain in order to enjoy. Epicurus. There is health in abstinence. Mary Astell. Abstinence requires self-denial. Rabbi Akiba. Abstinence is approved of God. Chaucer. Shakspeare. Dr. Lettsom. Abstinence engenders maladies. Abstinence induces to happiness. Abstinence destroys the food of disease. Proclus. Abstinence is the surety of temperance. Plato. Abstinence is an excellent remedy for immoder- ate love. Crates. Abstinence and fasting cure many a grievous complaint. Svend AageSen. Abstinence is the elder and better daughter of temperance. Stoboews. Abstinence is many times very helpful to the ends of religion. Tillotson. Abstinence is the best remedy for those diseases arising from gluttony. Galem. Abstinence would seldom be required if interm- perance did not exist. Frankhwmv. By abstaining from most things, it is surprising how many things we enjoy. W. G. Simms. Ah how much suffering might be spared some- times by a single abstinence. Lavater. Abstaining so as really to enjoy is the epicurism, the very perfection of reason. Rousseaw. Total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks is the only remedy for intemperance. E. C. Delevan. Let the pride of the flesh be curbed and restrain- ed with the sharp bit of abstinence. Aristotle. Abstinence from low pleasures is the only means of meriting or of obtaining the higher. Landor. The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience ; temperance in prosperity, and courage in adversity. Seneca. A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence ; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of pov- erty. Kames. If we consider the ancient sages, a great part of whose philosophy consisted in a temperate and ab- stemious course of life, one would think the life of a philosopher and the life of a man were of two different dates. Addison. To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the fathers observes to be, not a virtue, but the groundwork of a virtue. By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution, and secure the power of resistance when pleasure or in- terest shall lend their charms to guilt. Dr. Johnsom. AIBSUIRIDITY. Absurdity refutes itself. Bartholini. Do not sanction an absurdity. Mme. de Genlis. Absurdity violates common sense. James Ellis. Admit one absurdity and twenty others will fol- low. J. Fenimore Cooper. Absurdities are great and small, in proportion to custom or disuetude. W. S. Lamdor. Every absurdity has a champion to defend it ; for error is always talkative. Goldsmith. The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. F. Atterbury. To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others, is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools Ourselves than to have others so. Pope. We receive great satisfaction from the opinion of some pre-eminence in ourselves, when we see the absurdities of another, or when we reflect on any past absurdities of our own. Addison. Let any of those who renounce Christianity write fairly down in a book all the absurdities they believe instead of it, and they will find it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it. Colton. Of all the authorities to which men can be called to submit, the wisdom of our ancestors is the most whimsically absurd ; we are an older generation than they were, and since experience is the conse- quence of age, we must necessarily be wiser. They, in their successive generations, laid aside absurdi- ties which had descended to them from their fa- thers ; that was a piece of wisdom on their parts which we might imitate with advantage. Jeremy Taylor. A BUINIDANCE. Abundance cometh from God. Berencius. In abundance prepare for scarcity. Mencius. Abundance is the forerunner of vice. Plutarch. Abundance changes the value of things. Terence. Abundance without discretion is plain penury. Matthew Gribaldws, Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. IErasmus. It is unhappy abundance, where real enjoyment attends not all the treasures which we hoard. F. Hagedorm. If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself ; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others. G. Herbert. Oh God what unutterable horror must be in store for those who, intrusted by Thee with an over- flowing abundance, disregard the misery around them in guilty selfishness and indolence, or expend it in sensuality and profligacy. S. Warrem. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. . 5 ABUSE}. Abuse is a viper biting a file. AEsop. Pay no regard to personal abuse. J. Otis. Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar. Goodrich. Most men are shocked at abuses, only by Seeing them in detail. St. Pierre. Abuse is often the reward of public as well as private services. B. F. Butler. It is the wit, the policy of sin, to hate those men we have abused. Sir W. Davemant. The man who can stand abuse can generally stand prosperity. H. W. Shaw. If abuse, like a weed, be cut down by the scythe of neglect, it will die of itself. T. Bryson. To abuse a person is not the way to reform him ; we should reprove with gentleness. J. Alden. There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to abuse themselves. Seneca. I know no evil so great as the abuse of the un- derstanding, and yet there is no one vice more COIll IſlCIl. Steele. There is a time when the hoary head of inveter- ate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection. Burke. When certain persons abuse us, let us ask our- selves what description of characters it is they admire ; we shall ever find this a very consolatory question. Colton. Scurrility has no object in view but incivility ; if it is uttered from the feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse ; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery. Cicero. If abuse be uttered against those who do not de- serve it, that I consider to be abuse ; but if it be uttered against those who are deserving, it is fair censure, in my way of thinking, at least. Plawtus. Abuse is not without its benefits ; an abusive enemy will inform us, in ten minutes, of more faults which really need correction, than we could possibly learn from our best friends in as many years. E. P. Day. Bemember that it is not he who gives abuse or blows who affronts, but the view we take of these things as insulting ; when, therefore, any one pro- vokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion that provokes you. Epictetus. I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them : and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the per- son who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature. Jame Porter. Intemperate abuse excites our sympathies, not for the abuser, but the abused, a fact which some of our virulent critics and political writers are very apt to forget. Like other poisons, when adminis- tered in too strong a dose, it is thrown off by the intended victim, and often relieves where it was meant to destroy. Chatfield. ACCENT. Accent is decided by custom. J. Walker. There is often music in an accent. Winfield Scott. The ill-accenting of a word often spoils a whole Sel’II) Oll. I. Walton. There is a Sweet accent in the tender voice of WOIOla Il. Annie E. Lancaster. Accent is the soul of language ; it gives to it feel- ing and truth. Rowsseaw. The character of a man's native country is as strongly impressed on his mind as its accent is on his tongue. Rochefoucauld. A forcible and well-placed accent, and a distinct utterance of the unaccented syllables, distinguish the elegant speaker. G. Brown, Accent is to the voice what money is to the purse ; there are individuals who through an incorrect ear are unable even to modulate their voices correctly, and who thus produce the most ludicrous effect without knowing it themselves. Chatfield. A CCIDENT, - Nothing is accidental. Buckminster. Nothing under the sum is accident. G. E. Lessing. Manythings are the result of accident. Cervantes. The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved. L’Estrange. God overrules all accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His service. Aurelius. We turn the most indifferent circumstances into misfortune, and suffer as much from trifling acci- dents as real evils. Addison. There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn to their own disadvantage. Rochefoucauld. The life of man is unstable ; having nothing cer- tain, it is moved here and there by accidents; yet hope cheers the mind ; no one knows what an hour may bring forth ; God rules all the affairs of men, and often a boisterous storm overwhelms them in calamity. Simonides. A CCURACY. Accuracy is commendable. John Todd. Be accurate, but do not be mean. Imód. The value of a writing is determined by its ac- curacy. Demophilus. Teach men to think, to reason, and to judge with accuracy. T. Reid. The author who would write for immortality should study with accuracy the plan of his work, the propriety of his characters, and the purity of his diction. Virgil. Knowledge without accuracy is a diamond un- polished and without setting ; it is therefore of the greatest importance the young should early acquire the habit of accuracy. D. G. Mitchell. 6 A) A Y',S CO / / A C O AV. ACCU SATION. Abstain from false accusations. Besançon. Lend not an easy ear to accusations. P. Syrus. A false accusation accuses the accuser. Majws. No man may be both accuser and judge. Solom. Let not my sworn enemies be my accusers. Anne Boleym. A bare accusation is not full presumption of guilt. Thomas Brown. The accused is not deemed guilty until he be con- victed. Lactantiws. He is indeed accused who hath his own conscience aS 8,OCUISél". St. Gregory. Accusation is to be used against enemies guilty of injustice. Thucydides. Let him that uttereth a false accusation against a citizen be branded with infamy. Phocas. He that accuseth another must look that he be not guilty of the same fault himself. Sallºwst. A false accusation, when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, falls away at Once and vanishes. Cicero. Every man hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, and to be confronted with his accusers. G. Mason. A false accuser is a monster, a dangerous mon- ster, ever and in every way malignant, and ready to seek causes of complaint. Demosthemes. ACQUAINTANCE. Make few acquaintances. Rothschild. Acquaintance softens prejudice. AEsop. Slight acquaintance breeds distrust. Viera. Long converse brings acquaintance. Sowth. An acquaintance should improve to friendship, and ripen into love. L. Ewsden. A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship. Bolingbroke. If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. Dr. Johnsom. Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehi- cle, will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years. º Lavater. If we engage in a large acquaintance and various familiarities, we set open our gates to the invaders of most of our time ; we expose our life to a quoti- dian ague of frigid impertinences, which would make a wise man tremble to think of. Cowley. What makes us like new acquaintances is not SO much any weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently ad- mired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being more so by those who do not know so much of us. Rochefoucauld. ACQUIREMENT. Acquirements are born of industry. Sturtevant. Acquirements usually are estimated by their COSt. Abbé Mullois. The acquirements of one should not be to the injury of the many. Tacitus. What we acquire becomes, to a great extent, permanently our own. C. A. Goodrich. The most valuable acquirements are those that are the result of labor and self-denial. Demophilus. That good sense which nature affords us is pre- ferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire. Comines. That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest ; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one. Colton. To acquire, we must possess a determined spirit ; and if we wish to attain to any proficiency in the arts or sciences, the mind must be firmly set on an objective point, to reach which the heart, the head, and the will, must work in unison together. H. Ott. ACTING-, Act, but do not overact. Alcaews. Perform not acts of superfluity. Terence. It is difficult always to act wisely. Theophrastus. Even not to act may be acting ill. Carneades. Acting should follow deliberation. Demophilus. Acting consists in following nature. Valentia. All the world practices the art of acting. Petronius Arbiter. It is better not to act than to act wickedly. Gwevara. Be slow in considering, but resolute in acting. Bias. It is good to think well; it is divine to act well. Horace Mann. Acting through fear or compulsion is not our Own act. Hugh Moore. Talking is not difficult ; acting is the true test of manhood. Wan Chang. The best way to keep good acts in memory is to repeat them with new. Cato. A wise man should spurn even lawful acts that may be offensive to mankind. Memw. Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs in the biography of Souls. Thomas. We ought to refrain from acting during a mo- ment of passion, for it is always imprudent to put to sea in a storm. D. La Fite. A right act strikes a chord that extends through the whole universe, touches all moral intelligence, visits every world, vibrates along its whole extent, and conveys its vibrations to the very bosom of God. T. Binney. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 7. ACTION. Action is the test of life. Bowrdalovie. Action is natural to man. B. Disraeli. Man's life was made for action. Lucille. Action is the charm of eloquence. Mullois. Weigh actions rather than words. Zoroaster. A good action is never wholly lost. Calderon. - Action, not speech, proves the man. Northmore. Action is the language of the body. Cicero. The wise are known by their actions. Salis. Outward actions show internal secrets. Cowan. The beauty of a man consists in his actions. Demophilus. A brave man fears nothing so much as a mean action. Stretch. Have an eye always to the end and life of thy actions. Maacimilian I. Actions are the letters by which we spell cha- racters. Mme. d'Arblay. Men's actions should be free from self-sacrificing motives. James Platt. Action is the first, second, and third requisite in an Orator. Demosthemes. Action is one of the first elements of health and happiness. Rev. J. M. Awsten. Thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth. J. G. Fichte. Actions, measured by time, seldom prove bitter by repentance. L. Murray. Our actions are our own ; their consequences belong to heaven, P. Francis. We are not only to look at the bare action, but at the reason of it. Stillingfleet. The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. Dr. Johnsom. Action is the life of nations as of persons; nei- ther ever stand still. Mansfield. Action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachments of friends. Washington. Life, not only its greatness, but its enjoyment, consists in—action—action | S. Warrem. In the performance of a good action, a man not only benefits himself, but he confers a blessing up- On others. Sir P. Sidney. Every gracious action is a seed of joy, and every sinful action the seed of anguish and sorrow to the Soul that soweth it. Flavel. All our actions take their lines from the com- plexion of the heart, as landscapes take their va- riety from the light. W. T. Bacon. We would often be ashamed of our noblest ac- tions, if the world were acquainted with the mo- tives that impelled us. Rochefoucauld. ACTION. The end of man is an action, not a thought, even though it were the noblest. Carlyle. Manage all your actions in such a manner as if you were just going out of the world. A wrelius. Allowing the performance of an honorable action to be attended with labor, the labor is soon over, but the honor is immortal. J. Stewart. Thought and theory must precede all action that moves to salutary purposes ; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. Wordsworth. Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, or else from some oblique de- sign, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road. Sir W. Davenant. There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose ; the most consummate hypocrite cannot at all times conceal the workings of the mind. Molière. Action can only be understood and represented by the spirit ; no one knows what he is doing while he is acting rightly, but of what is wrong we are always conscious. Goethe, There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end. Thomas of Malmesbury. Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own also ; all action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon. R. W. Emerson. Great actions and striking occurrences, having excited a temporary admiration, often pass away and are forgotten, because they leave no lasting results, affecting the prosperity of communities. D. Webster. Men are not made truly religious by performing certain actions, which are externally good ; but men must have righteous principles in the first place, and then they will not fail to perform vir- tuous actions. Lºwther. To do an ill action is base ; to do a good one which involves you in no danger, is nothing more than common ; but it is the property of a truly good man to do great and good things, though he risk everything by it. Mariws. The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry ; it is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves ; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others; and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves: this makes the great distinction between virtue and vice. Swift. It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considera- tions, age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances ; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust. Sowthey. 8 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AW. ACTION. Individual actions prove nothing either for or against men ; the whole life must be taken into account, for there is no other measure of character than the relation of the will to the conscience, or the feeling of right and wrong, good and evil. G. Forster. It is the usual custom of the world to pronounce an action to be either right or wrong, as it is at- tended with good or ill success ; and accordingly you shall hear the very same conduct attributed to zeal or folly, to liberty or licentiousness, as the event happens to prove. Pliny the Younger. Man is born for action ; he ought to do some- thing. Work awakens a sleeping force and roots out error. Who does nothing, knows nothing. If thy knowledge is real, employ it ; wrestle with nature ; test the strength of thy theories ; see if they will support the trial ; act Aloysius. Those who labor to make human actions harmo- nize, find great difficulty in piecing them together, and causing them to assume the same gloss ; for in general they contradict each other in so strange a way, that it seems impossible that they should have issued from the same workshop. Montaigne. There are three sorts of actions : those that are good, those that are bad, and those that are doubt- ful ; and we ought to be most cautious of those that are doubtful ; for we are in most danger of these doubtful actions, because they do not alarm us; and yet they insensibly lead to greater trans- gressions, just as the shades of twilight gradually reconcile us to darkness. A. Reed. The most trifling actions that affect a man’s credit are to be regarded ; the sound of your ham- mer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day, demands it be- fore he can receive it in a lump. Franklin. It must always be remembered that the actions of public men will be subjects of thought to a fu- ture period, when interest is stifled and passion is silent ; when fear has ceased to agitate, when dis- cord is at rest, and when conscience has resumed its sway over the human heart. Nothing but what is just, therefore, can finally be expedient, because nothing else can secure the permanent concurrence of mankind. - Sir A. Alison. The only things in which we can be said to have any property, are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison ; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken from us by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death ; but our actions must follow us beyond the grave. With respect to them alone we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world ; our actions must clothe us with an im- mortality. These are the only title-deeds of which we cannot be disinherited ; they will have their full weight in the balance of etermity, when every- thing else is as nothing. Colton. ACTIVITY. Man is by nature an active animal. Hales. The most active men are not always the most learned. Platina. Activity is necessary to throw off the effete ma- terial of the body. Dr. Tammer. Activity is a warlike virtue, and is ever asso- ciated with true courage. Henrietta Dwmont. Look around you, and you will behold the uni- verse full of active powers. Blair. In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom ; but he who reflects not, never reaps. E. Young. Life is a short day, but it is a working day; ac- tivity may lead to evil, but inactivity cannot lead to good. Hammah More. Man, being essentially active, must find in ac- tivity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory ; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward. Whipple. The blessings of an active mind when it is in good condition is, that it not only employs itself but is almost sure to be the means of giving whole- some employment to others. G. R. Derzhavin. No man should be so much taken up in the search of truth, as thereby to neglect the more necessary duties of active life ; for after all is done, it is ac- tion only that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. 4. Cicero. A man's activities, within his proper calling, are not like trees scattered up and down the wayside, or over the wilderness, when much of the fruit is lost; ; but like well-planted and well-trained vines in a garden, where the most is made of them, and they are all husbanded and preserved. Stowghton. All the conditions of man's physical existence, are framed upon the supposition of his activity ; it is so in man's physical frame. The elastic foot is for speed ; the firm lithe limb for endurance ; the arm, at once supple and sinewy, for toil ; the eye and the ear are for their respective revelries, in sight and sound. There is a necessity to man, then, for activity. W. M. Pºtºmshom. Active employment and kindly acts are gifts from heaven, a compensation for hearts that have been unfortunate in love : for a man born for ac- tive life undertakes plans beyond his strength, and weighs himself down with labors ; this is well enough, till some physical or moral impediment steps in, clearly showing the disproportion of the powers to the undertaking. Goethe. You must act ; inactive contemplation is a dan- gerous condition for minds of profound moral sen- sibility. We are not to dream away our lives in the contemplation of distant or imaginary perfec- tion ; we are to act in an imperfect and Corrupt world; and we must only contemplate perfection enough to ennoble our natures, but not to make us dissatisfied and disgusted with these faint ap- proaches to that perfection, which it would be the nature of a brute or a demon to despise. Sir J. Mackintosh. P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 9 ACTOR. An actor is a public instructor. Ewripides. An actor should refine public taste. Aristophames. When an actor is too old to act, he may teach Others to act. Roscius. Actors and actresses ought to be excluded from decent society. Rousseau. A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part. Sophocles. An actor represents not himself, but another person whose character he assumes. Thespis. A good actor, in whatever part of the drama he may appear, will meet with applause. Northmore. Actors are allowed to represent not only man- kind, but also spirits and divinities, both celestial and infernal. AEschylus. If we applaud an actor of falsehood in public ex- hibitions, we shall soon learn to applaud falsehood in private life. Solom. That the requisites for a first-rate actor demand a combination not easily to be found, is an errone- ous assumption. Coltom. It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these per- sons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage. C. Lamb. He who fairly considers the requisites indispen- sable to an actor, will allow that the professors of that art must be persons of intellectual capacity and personal endowments, much superior to the common herd of mankind. Inskeep. Actors are a marked and distinct class ; they do not mingle with the general current of society ; they have passions, feelings, habits, and affections that other men wot not of, and play the game of life after a fashion of their own. W. Coac. The actor is in the capacity of steward to every living muse, and of an executor to every departed one ; the poet digs up the ore, he sifts it from the dross, refines and purifies it for the mint ; the actor sets the stamp upon it, and makes it current in the world. R. Cumberland. Vivid conception and keen sensibility will not of themselves make a good actor ; but it may be ques- tioned whether a good actor can be made without them ; rare indeed is the physical and moral com- bination that produces a superior performer, as will at once appear if we compare the best amateur with a second or even a third-rate professional actor. Chatfield. Actors are the only honest hypocrites ; their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness ; the height of their ambition is to be beside themselves ; to-day kings, to-morrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing ; made up of mimic laughter and tears, passing from the extreme of joy or woe at the prompter's call, they wear the livery of other men's fortunes ; their very thoughts are not their own. Hazlitt. AIDAPTATION. Adaptation proves a Creator. E. Foster. Adaptation is the test of wisdom. Kwºng Chow. We are the victims of adaptation. Emerson. He alone is wise who can adapt himself to every condition of life. Bias. Mutual adaptation, in a matrimonial alliance, is a safer rule than mutual inclination. Plato. To adapt himself to every temper and to every change of life, is peculiarly the business of a wise IIlall. Demophilus. It is the adaptation of a thing to our nature, wants, and circumstances that gives to it a real value. Dr. Raffles. As long as we are engaged in the world we should adapt ourselves to the maxims of the world ; for nothing is more unprofitable than the wisdom of those who set up for reformers of the age in which they live. St. Evremond. ADIDRESS. Dress is much, address more. Sir John Sinclair. Address is stronger than force. Victor Hugo. You can always discover a true gentleman by his address. James Ellis. Many are the inconveniences which happen from the improper manner of address. Steele. A person's address in society should be like the address on a letter, plain, meat, and without too many flourishes. E. P. Day. A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address; if pleasing, others at once conclude that he has merit ; but if ungraceful, they decide against him. Chesterfield. Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes wherever he goes ; he has not the trouble of earn- ing or owning them ; they solicit him to enter and possess. Emerson. I could produce innumerable instances, from my own observation, of events imputed to the profound skill and address of a minister, which in reality, were either mere effects of negligence, weakness, humor, passion, or pride, or at best, but the natu- ral course of things left to themselves. Swift. ADIEU. Adieus are soon forgotten. Mary J. Holmes. Adieus repeated become wearisome. Voltaire. Bitter is the moment when with tears a vassal receives his lord's adieu. Man-yo-shiw. Adieu ! Farewell ! may we at last meet in that blest land where adieus and farewells shall be for- ever unknown | S. Cross. There is something beautifully pious and tender in this word “A-Diew 1" that is, “to God,” It im- plies regret at parting, and commendation to the care of Divine Providence. Hugh Moore. 10 ZO A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. ADMIRATION. Admiration is safer than love. Diogenes. Admiration accompanies respect. H. P. Tappan. There is a pleasure in admiration. Tillotson. We do not all admire the same thing. Horace. Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. Zemo. Every fool will find some greater fool to admire him. Boilectu. There is an admiration that is not the daughter of ignorance. R. Glamville. It is no unusual thing for men to admire what they do not love. A. Fuller. We always love those who admire us, but do not always love those we admire. Rochefoucauld. The way to make ourselves admired is to be what we affect to be thought. Socrates. All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great. Lord Bacon. Those who are formed to win general admiration, are seldom calulated to bestow individual happi- IłęSS. Lady Blessington. Admiration is a short-lived passion, that imme- diately decays upon growing familiar with its ob- ject, unless still fed with fresh discoveries. Addison. Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it ; and how much soever is given there must always be reason to imagine that more remains. Dr. Johnsom. As a general rule, no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration, is ever well pleas- ed in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place. H. Fielding. Learn to admire rightly ; the greater pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired : they admired great things ; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. Thackeray. Admiration and moderate contemplation have a great power to prolong life ; for these detain the spirits upon pleasing subjects, without suffering them to tumultuate and act disorderly; but subtle, acute, and severe inquiries cut short our life : for they fatigue and wear out the spirits. Byron. There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terri- ble ; the latter on small ones and pleasing ; we submit to what we admire, but we love what sub- mits to us ; in one case we are forced, in the other we are flattered into compliance. Burke. It is a good thing to believe ; it is a good thing to admire. By continually looking upward, our minds will themselves grow upward ; and as a man, by indulging in habits of scorn and con- tempt for others, is sure to descend to the level of what he despises, so the opposite habits of admira- tion and enthusiastic revenge impart to ourselves a portion of the qualities we admire. M. Arnold. ADORATION. Adoration emanates from the heart. Horace. Adoration is ever pleasing to the gods. Yacca. Adoration is for the good and the beautiful. Rosa. Adoration is the noblest employment of created beings. Hammah. More. Men shall cease to prosper when they cease to adore God. St. Bernard. Adoration is a state of soul that can only be ex- pressed by Song. Professor Vinet. The adoration of any other than God, the source of light, is blasphemous. Zoroaster. With adoration let thy prayers ascend to heaven, that grace may descend upon thee. St. Ambrose. A king hath far more need to humble himself in adoration to God than a subject hath to adore his king. Gustavus of Sweden. Adoration is a devout emotion awakened by the thought of what Jehovah is—the praise of the di- vine perfections. Dr. J. Hamilton. Adoration may be an intensified reverence, but it certainly is not intensified admiration ; the dif- ference between admiration and adoration is ob- servable in the difference of their respective ob- jects; and that difference is immeasurable ; for strictly speaking, we admire the finite, but adore the Infinite. Canon Liddon. Man is not only the temple of God, but is also the adorer of God, for all those creatures who, being unable to know Him, present themselves to man as if to invite him to render homage to God for them; thus man is the contemplator of visible nature, in order that he may be the priest and adorer of in- visible and intellectual nature. Bosswet. Adoration is a universal sentiment ; it differs in degree in different natures; it takes the most varied forms, and often ignores its own existence; sometimes it betrays itself by an exclamation ut- tered from the heart in the midst of the grand scenes of nature and life ; sometimes it rises silent- ly in the mute and penetrated soul ; it may wan- der in its mode of expression, and err as to its ob- ject. V. Cowsin. ADOR.INIMIENT. Indulge not in costly adornment. Barrett. Costly adornment leadeth to beggary. C. Kent. Adornment of the mind is to be preferred to that of the body. Erasmus. Any homage we receive by reason of adornment, is to be accredited to the rich garment, not to our- selves. Archimnides. Those who place the adornment of the body be- fore those of the mind, are as they that praise the scabbard in preference to the sword. Lord Howe. The cause why adornment of the body is so much esteemed, is the respect the world taketh of the outward appearance, and neglect of the inward excellence. J. Andress. P R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 11 ADULTERY. Do not commit adultery. Buddha. Avoid all adulterous desires. Krishna. Adultery is the injury of nature. Plato. Adultery desireth not procreation, but pleasure only. St. Anselm. White men say adultery is a crime, yet they commit crime. King Ortw. The adulterer must become a liar and a villain ; he not unfrequently breaks all the commandments of God, before he can ruin the object of which he is in pursuit. W. Dodd. Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian assemblies, notwithstanding they might seek it with tears, and all the appearances of the most unfeigned repent- all Ce. Addison. The crime of adultery is of an exceedingly ag- gravated nature, aside from being a violation of the law of chastity it is also a violation of a most solemn contract ; the misery which it inflicts upon parents and children, relatives and friends, the total annihilation of domestic happiness, and the total disruption of parental and filial ties which it necessarily produces, mark it for one of the ba- sest forms of human atrocity. F. Wayland. ADULATION. Practice not adulation. Pitto cuts. Adulation is glossing courtesy. Vossius. Adulation is the desire of woman. Abbé Mariti. Adulation is of no more service to the people than to kings. Burke. Men practice adulation from sordid motives and a mingled spirit of falsehood and hypocrisy. C. A. Good)'ich. Honor does not forbid adulation, except when Separate from the idea of a large fortune, and Connected only with the sense of our mean condi- tion. Montesquiew. ADVANCEMENT. Advance slowly, but advance. J. J. Lefranc. Burleigh. T. More. Advancement followeth humility. Rejoice in each other's advancement. An advancement makes one friend and many enemies. Lowis XIV. Advancement in knowledge and virtue is an ad- vancement in happiness. E. Rich. The ardent man by being in too great haste for advancement, often loses his object. Wan Chang. Those that are advanced by degrees are less en- vied than those that are advanced suddenly. Bacon. If a ruler advance the upright and set aside the Crooked, then the people will submit ; but if he advance the crooked and set aside the upright, then the people will not submit. Confucius. ADVANTAG.E. Use your advantages. BOvee. Situations have their advantages. Addison. Associate only with those who can advantage you. Puh Shang. Advantages are too much overlooked by the young. J. R. Chamdler. In war it is lawful to take any advantage of the enemy. Julius Coesar. Advantages are never beneficial when obtained by meanness. J. Lewis. Disdain to use an advantage obtained through corrupt means. Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy. We do not always lose an advantage when we dispense with it. Goethe. Learn to make good use of your advantages by improving them. Plautus. There is nothing advantageous which may not also be injurious. Ovid. Many prefer the smallest pleasure to the most important advantage. Cicero. Some neglect their advantages, and then ex- claim against their unlucky stars. Propertius. He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be murmured against. Confucius. Whatever advantages of birth or fortune you possess, never display them with an ostentatious superiority. H. Blain". In everything thou wilt find annoyances, but thou oughtest to consider whether the advantages do not predominate. Memounder. To expose one's self to great danger for trivial advantages, is to fish with a golden hook, where more may be lost than gained. Avgwstus Coesar. There exists, in the economy and course of na- ture, an indissoluble union between virtue and hap- piness, between duty and advantage. Washington. Our advantages in life generally bear a direct proportion to the exertions we make to secure them ; by neglecting them, they often flee from us never to return. |W. T. Burke. When we are superior to another it furnishes us that convenience or opportunity, to take an advan- tage by which we can make him useful, profitable, and beneficial to us. Sir H. Lowe. It will be an interesting occupation of the pen- sive hour, to recount the advantages which we have received from the beings who have left the world, and to reinforce our virtues from the dust of those who first taught them. J. Foster. If thou desire to take the best advantage of thy- self, keep temperate diet, use moderate exercise, observe seasonable and set hours for rest ; let the end of thy first sleep raise thee from thy repose ; then hath thy body the best temper, then hath thy soul the least incumbrance ; then no noise shall disturb thy ear, no object shall divert thine eye. F. Qwarles. 12 A AD A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. ADVENTURE. Without adventure there is no gain. Von Tromp. Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard. Tacitus. It is only the adventurers that perform great actions. Montesquiew. There is true pleasure in seeking new countries in quest of new adventures. Capt. John Smith. An adventurous spirit sometimes leads a man into unnecessary difficulties. Cowmt Vom Moltke. It is invidious to distinguish certain individuals as adventurers ; we are all such. Bovee. How many there are who will endure every pri- vation for the sake of adventure. Sir D. North. We are all adventurers in the battle of life ; but, alas ! how many fall in the struggle. Eupolis. He who seeks adventures to obtain riches, un- dertakes a risk that will bring him nothing but disappointment. Sir John Hill. Once start a being out of the usual course of ex- istence, and many and strange will be his adven- tures, ere he be allowed to regain the common stream, and float down in silent tranquility to the grave. Capt. F. Marryatt. It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road. De Foe. In passing through the path of life, we often un- dertake strange adventures to accomplish some lofty object, wherein the heart fails and the feet falter at the hazards we are taking, and it is only by courage, skill, and judgment that the danger is Surmounted. W. Prynne. There are tales of adventures which did not oc- cur in God's creation, but only in the waste cham- bers of certain human heads, and which are part and parcel only of the sum of nothings; but which, nevetheless, always obtain some temporary re- membrance, and lodge extensively at this epoch of the world in similar, and still more unfurnished Chambers. T. Carlyle. ADVERSAIR Y. An adversary is our best teacher. Aristiphames. A secret enemy is worse than an open adver- Sary. Dr. Johnson. Conciliate your adversary, if you cannot de- stroy him. Vitalis Ordericus. Adversaries in law strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Shakspeare. Do not indulge in the habit of constant vituper- ation against an adversary, however much you may have suffered from him. Pluto'rch. An adversary makes a stricter search into us, and discovers every flaw and imperfection in our tempers ; a friend exaggerates a man's virtues ; an enemy inflames his crimes. Addison. ADVERSITY. Adversity happens to all. E. Arber. Adversity is a good teacher. Hannibal. Adversity is a great teacher. Hazlitt, In adversity be spirited and firm. Horace. Adversity is the trial of principle. H. Fielding. Adversity is the first path to truth. Byron. Adversity reminds men of religion. Livy. Be not much dispirited in adversity. Isocrates. Despise not the blessings of adversity. Tupper. Adversity is a forerunner of happiness. Basil. Adversity is often a blessing in disguise. Bruce. Brave men ought not to be cast down by adver- sity. Silius Italicus. Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them. Pacuvius. Prosperity tries the fortunate, and adversity the great. Pliny. Adversity exasperates fools, and dejects the coward. E. Berkeley. Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. Sulzer. Adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroic virtue. Lord Bacom. Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends; prosperity is no just scale. SwSO. He never reaped comfort in his adversity, that sowed it not in his prosperity. F. Quarles. As leaves fall from a tree in cold weather, so in adversity do false friends drop off. Confucius. The lessons of adversity are often the most be- nignant when they seem most severe. R. Cheneviac. As gold is tried by the furnace, and the baser metal is shown, so the hollow-hearted friend is known by adversity. Metastasio. Adversity is a serious calamity ; for hard times after a life of luxurious ease are felt more keenly by a man of spirit than death. Thucydides. By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. S. Daniel. The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen ; so adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth. Balzac. If adversity hath killed his thousands, prosperity hath killed his ten thousands; therefore adversity is to be preferred ; the one deceives, the other in- StructS. R. Burton. There is nothing more difficult to direct than a man on whom fortune smiles ; nothing more ea- sily managed, when the clouds of adversity over- whelm him. - Lucullws. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S 13 ADVERSITY. Adversity is the lot of all ; sorrow everywhere abounds. To escape misery, I fled to the hills; but, alas ! the deer's sad cry, overtaken by the hounds, filled my soul with anguish. Taiw. Show me a man who is firm and collected, and not depressed in adversity—composed, not inflated by prosperity—and I will show you a man formed for great and noble actions. J. Bartlett. Adversity is rather to be desired than continued prosperity ; in the vast Ocean of life, more are ruined in the haven of tranquility, than amid the billows and surges of Sorrow. Speroni. It is a melancholy reflection, that the sons of genius generally seem predestined to encounter the rudest storms of adversity, to struggle, unnoticed, with poverty and misfortune. H. K. White. It has been truly said that there is but one spec- tacle more grateful to Heaven than a good man in adversity—and that is, a good man who has been successful in a great and good cause. Sward. When visited by adversity, do not shed tears and indulge in vain lamentations, nor seek to end your life. As for me, though I desire a place in Para- dise, I would wish to arrive there as late as possi- ble. Sordello. In your adversity do not visit your friend with a sad countenance, for you will embitter his cup ; relate even your misfortunes with a smile, for wretchedness will never reach the heart of a cheer- ful man. Eddim Scladi. Those adversities which place us beneath our condition, are the hardest of all to endure, because there comes with them a sense of our degradation, which diminishes our fortitude, but increases our adversity. E. Sterling. Adversity is like the period of the former and of the latter rain–cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and animal ; yet from that season have their birth the flowers, and the fruit, the date, the rose, and the pomegranate. Sir W. Scott. When the fierce winds of adversity blow over you, do not linger inactive, or sink cowardly down by the way ; but with stout heart and firm step go forward in God's strength to vanquish trouble, and to bid defiance to disaster. H. W. Beechey”. A wise and virtuous man, when in adversity, may, like a dull lantern in the night, seem dull and dark to those who are about him ; but within, he is full of light and brightness ; and when he chooses to open the door, he can show it. Feltham. It is good for man to suffer the adversity of this earthly life, for it brings him back to the sacred re- tirement of the heart, where only he finds he is an exile from his native home, and ought not to place his trust in any worldly enjoyment. T. & Kempis. Some crosses and trouble are necessary, as win- ter to summer, else pleasures and prosperity would become dry, stale, wearisome, and cloy us; it is a mixture of crosses and adversity, that makes pros- perity and pleasures most sweet unto us. Sulzer. ADVERSITY. Adversity is of no use to some men, and pros- perity is of no advantage to others. Experience is wanting to both, and the cloud and the rainbow are misconceived alike—the fºrmer is no token of darkness ; the latter no covenant of peace. Acton. There are many who encounter adversity that are happy, while some in the midst of riches are miserable ; everything depends on the fortitude with which the former bear their misfortune, and on the manner in which the latter employ their wealth. Tacitus. In the height of your prosperity, expect adver- sity, but fear it not ; if it comes mot, you are the more sweetly possessed of the happiness you have, and the more strongly confirmed ; if it comes, you are the more gently disposed, and the more firmly prepared. W. Fleetwood. Ask the man of adversity how other men act toward him ; ask those others, how he acts toward them. Adversity is the true touchstone of merit in both ; happy if it does not produce the dishon- esty of meanness in one, and that of insolence and pride in the other. Lord Greville. In the experience of life it is found that the wholesome discipline of adversity in strong natures usually carries with it a self-producing influence ; but while prosperity is apt to harden the heart to pride, adversity in a man of resolution will serve to ripen it into fortitude. Smiles. Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by the Supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know our- selveº, as he loves us better too ; he that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill ; our antagonist is our helper. Burke. He that never has suffered extreme adversity, knows not the full extent of his own deprivation ; and he that has never enjoyed the summit of pros- perity, is equally ignorant how far the iniquity of others can go; for our adversity will excite tempta- tions in ourselves, our prosperity in others. Coltom. Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, particularly being free from flatter- ers. Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from ex- amining our conduct ; but as adversity leads us on to think properly of our state, it is most beneficial to us. Dr. Johnson. As full ears load and lay corn, so does too much fortune bend and break the mind. Adversity is a desolate and abandoned state ; the generality of the people are like those infamous animals that live only upon plenty and rapine ; and as rats and mice forsake a tottering house, so do these the falling IIlall. - P. Charron. When we have once undergone the pelting of the pitiless and umpitied storm of adversity, and when few sympathized with us, we felt these were in- deed days of anguish, and when they have once come upon us with their appalling weight, we can never be beguiled into a forgetfulness of them ; the memory of them will endure as long as life shall last. N. F. Zaba. 14 AD A Y S CO / / A C O AV. ADVERSITY. Adversity is often described as a school in which the servants of God are taught wisdom. The evil of sin, the vanities of earth, the feebleness and un- certainties of an arſh of flesh—these are all matters of which we may learn something by the hearing of the ear, but it is through the medium of adver- sity that the eye Seeth them. H. Vaugham. Heaven, that gave us all, has taken all ; why should we murmur ! He will enable us, if we pray for His assistance, to bear with equanimity our present adversity, as well as our past prosperity He has wise ends in view, though we see not nor comprehend them. Faint not, when you are re- buked of Him “If ye faint in the day of adversi- ty, your strength is small.” S. Warrem. Some kinds of adversity are chiefly of the char- acter of trials, and others of discipline ; by disci- pline is to be understood anything, whether of the character of adversity or not, that has a direct tendency to produce improvement ; and by trial, anything that tends to ascertain what improve- ment has been made, or what qualities exist. Both effects may be produced at once. R. Whately. There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, then they become so ; as the hydrophane, a variety of Opal, so it is with many a Christian ; till the floods of adversity have been poured over him, his character appears marred and clouded by selfish- ness and worldly influences ; but trials clear away the obscurity, and give distinctness and beauty to his piety. Prof. Hitchcock. A smooth sea, never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success Qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the fac- ulties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill, and fortitude of the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calami- ties, acquired a loftiness of purpose, and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security. Capt. F. Marryatt. Adversity is a school in which many valuable lessons are learned, which can scarcely be gained in any other. One of the greatest advantages de- rived from adversity is that elevated and spiritual state of mind which prepares us cheerfully to re- linquish the present transient scene, and enter a world of refined and unending blessedness. Though the good things of this life ought ever to be duly estimated, and gratefully acknowledged, they al- ways become injurious when they engross the affections of the heart. H. Martyn. Adversity is very often a blessing in disguise, which by detaching us from earth and drawing us toward heaven, gives us, in the assurance of last- ing joys, an abundant recompense for the loss of transient ones. “Whom the Lord loveth he chas- teneth.” Many a man in losing his fortune has found himself, and been ruined into salvation : for though God demands the whole heart, which we could not give him when we shared it with the world, he will never reject the broken one, which we offer him in our hour of sadness and reverse. H. Smith. AIDVERTISEMENTS. Advertising is the chief auxiliary in trade. Tooke. Advertising is not the road to success, but success itself. A. D. Richardson. Advertise your business; I owe all my success to printer's ink. P. T. Barnſwºm. The most truthful part of a newspaper is the ad- vertisements. T. Jefferson. The man who pays more for shop rent than for advertising does not know his business. H. Greeley. How can one man know what you want unless you ask for it, or what you have to sell unless you advertise it ! James Ellis. The virtues of advertising have been much com- mended, and certainly the press partakes freely of its favorite prescription. M. Halstead. The advertisements which appear in a public journal take rank among the most significant in- dications of the state of society of that time and place. Dickens. A well-laid-out advertisement is never sleepy, lazy, or unproductive ; but, on the contrary, it fre- quently creates wants, as well as tells people where Such can be supplied. G. P. Rowell. If you advertise, it gives your place a reputation around ; folks will crowd to your Warehouse, and make it too lively. If you don’t want to do any- thing, keep as still as you can. C. F. Browne. There is an absolute necessity for advertising ; there is a great eagerness to compete for attention, and no one gets it unless it is by giving, as it were, SO many strokes of the hammer, one after the Other, to compel people to notice what is going on. W. E. Gladstome. A paper may have an immense circulation and Very little advertising ; newspaper projectors who start with the expectations that immediately they have a large circulation their advertising business will be proportionate, will find themselves mis- taken. D. G. Croly. There is more matter for thought to be gained from advertisements than is commonly supposed. How they show, if scrutinized, every side of human nature How it displays, to an attentive eye, all the devil, and some of the angel of human na- ture. The advertisement sheet is a small world in itself. Celsus Cope. Advertisements are of great use, as they are in- struments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette may easily creep into the advertisements ; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an am- bassador. Addison. An advertisement to the business man is what machinery is to the mechanic, only ten fold more valuable. If a piece of machinery will do the work of hundreds of hands, an advertisement will do the talking of hundreds of tongues. A man, therefore, who advertises, not only saves much valuable time, but is actually economical of his own breath, in that he induces the printing press to do his talking for him. E. P. Day. P R O S E O U O 7. A 7" / O M. S. 15 ADVICE, We ask advice, but we mean approbation. Colton. Advice comes too late when a deed is done. Low. A simpleton sometimes gives important advice. Boileau. The worst men will sometimes give the best ad- vice. S. Bailey. How is it that even castaways can give good ad- vice 2 Ninom de l'Enclos. We give advice by the bucket, and receive it by the grain. - W. T. Alger. Ask your husband's advice, and he will be sure to follow yours. Fanny Fern. There is nothing so difficult as the art of making advice agreeable. Addison. Advice is seldom welcome ; those who need it most like it least. Dr. Johnson. Let us hearken unto good advice, and something may be done for us. Franklin. He who can take advice is sometimes Superior to him who can give it. Von Knebel. If the advice of a fool is once good, a sensible man must carry it out. Lessing. Let no man presume to give advice to others, that has not first given good counsel to himself. Semeca. Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains, and are laughed to scorn. Phoedrus. It is easy for a man to give advice to his neigh- bor ; but to follow it one's-self is not so easy. Philemon. Every man, however wise, requires the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. Plautus, It is with advice as with taxation ; we can en- dure very little of either, if they come to us in a direct way. Arthwr Helps. Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself ; you will never err if you listen to your own Sug- gestions. Cicero. In order to convince, it is necessary to speak with spirit and wit ; to advise, it must come from the heart. D'Aguesseaw. How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning : Swift. The best advice on the art of being happy, is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick. Mme. Swetchine. There are two sorts of people that are seldom use- ful in friendship or confederacy ; such as concur with no advice. N. Macdonald. It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice, than those who have taken the least of it themselves. Goldsmith. To take advice of some few friends is ever hon- orable ; for lookers-on many times see more than gamesters; and the vale best discovereth the hill. Lord Bacom. ADVICE. - When we feel a strong desire to thrust our ad- vice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness ; but we ought rather to suspect Our OWI). Colton. A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well founded. Richter. Experience has taught me never to advise with a person concerning that which we have already determined, where he has a right to expect that one shall be decided by his judgment. Pliny. There are moments when advice is gratefully re- ceived, when the person is the friend of your heart, and you are well assured that his wishes for your safety and happiness influence his conduct. - J. Bartlett. There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever So small ; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance, or worth. T. Yowng. It is expedient to have an acquaintance with those who have looked into the world ; who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted. G. Horne. Advice, as it always gives a temporary appear- ance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious ; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to in- struct his neighbor. Dr. Johnsom. Advice, however earnestly sought, however, ar- dently solicited, if it does not coincide with a man's own opinions, seldom answers any other purpose than to put him out of humor with himself, and to alienate his affections from the adviser. G. Camming. It would truly be a fine thing if men suffered themselves to be guided by reason, that they should acquiesce in the true remonstrances addressed to them by the writings of the learned and the advice of friends ; the best teacher one can have is neces- sity. François la Nowe, Nothing is less sincere than our manner of ask- ing and giving advice. He who asks advice would seem to have a respectful deference for the opinion of his friend ; whilst yet he only aims at getting his own approved of, and a friend responsible for his conduct. Rochefoucauld. A word of advice may be of service to men in directing their thoughts to what they were not re- garding ; but we should not expect that we can make persons see exactly as we do ; it is one thing to make a man turn his head, and another to make him see with our eyes. F. D. Huntington. The most difficult province in friendship is the let- ting a man see his faults and errors, which should, if possible, be so contrived that he may perceive our advice is given him, not so much to please our- selves as for his own advantage ; the reproaches, therefore, of a friend should always be strictly just, and not too frequent. Budgell. 16 t A) A Y'S CO Z.Z. A C O AV. ADVICE. - Advice, to prove beneficial, depends upon these grand requisites; honest persons, with capacity and discretion to give that which is Salutary ; and hom- est hearts, willing to receive and be guided by it ; it is as abundant as spring flowers in May, but not always as Odoriferous. L. C. Judson. No One is ever the better for advice ; for what we call giving advice, is properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense ; and to receive advice, is little better than tamely to afford another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects. Shaftesbury. Ilay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice ; generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do and remain firm to their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on various points, even upon matters of expediency and duty ; but after all he must de- termine his course of action for himself. Hwmboldt. Advice and reprehension require the utmost de- licacy ; and painful truths should be delivered in the softest terms, and expressed no farther than is necessary to produce their due effect ; but advice divested of the harshness, and yet retaining the hon- est warmth of truth, “is like honey put round the brim of a vessel full of wormwood ; ” even this ve- hicle, however, is sometimes insufficient to conceal the draught of bitterness. J. G. Percival. Advice is almost the only commodity which the world is lavish in bestowing, and scrupulous in re- ceiving ; we seldom ask it until it is too late, and still more rarely take it while there is yet time to profit by it ; great tact and delicacy are required, either in conferring or seeking this perilous boon, for where people do not take your counsel they generally take offence ; and even where they do, you can never never be sure that you have not given pain in giving advice. Chatfield. There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice ; we look upon the man who gives it us as offering an affront to our understand- ing, and treating us like children or idiots ; we con- sider the instruction as an implicit censure, and the zeal which any one shows for Our good On such an occasion as a piece of presumption or impertinence ; the truth of it is, the person who pretends to ad- vise does, in that particular, exercise a superiority over us, and can have no other reason for it but that, in comparing us with himself, he thinks us de- fective either in our conduct or our understanding. Addison. There is nothing more necessary in matters of difficulty, and nothing more dangerous, than to ask advice ; advice is less necessary to the wise than to the unwise ; and yet the wise are those who derive most advantage from taking counsel with others ; but then when advice is asked, how shall we be sure that advice on which we can depend will be given ? For the counsellor, if he be not strongly attached to us, often directs his advice to that end that is most to his own profit, or which pleases him most ; and these private ends, being unknown to the person who is asking advice, he does not per- ceive the dishonesty of the advice. Guicciardini. ADVOCATE. The advocate is the guide of the disconsolate pri- SOIlêI’. Horace. Advocates must deal plainly with their clients, and tell the true state of their case. Jeremy Taylor. A faithful advocate can never sit without clients; nor could any man lose by it in the end, that would not undertake a cause he knew not honest. Feltham. It is the duty of an advocate to defend the guilty, provided he be not an abominable and impious wretch ; mankind desires this, custom allows it, and even humanity is willing to tolerate it. Cicero. It is not that advocates generally are not useful to the public : they are even necessary; but extra- ordinary ability in an advocate is an advantage only to himself and his friends: to the public, the most desirable thing is, that pleaders should be as equally matched as possible. R. Whately. The client who was conscious of the goodness of his cause would prefer the advocate whose known maxims of conduct gave weight to every cause that he undertook. When such a man appeared before a jury, they would attend to his statements and his reasonings with that confidence which integrity only can inspire ; such a man would have a weight of advocacy which no other qualification can Sup- ply. J. Dymond. An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other. To save that client by all expedient means —to protect that client at all hazards and costs to allothers, and among others to himself—is the high- est and most unquestioned of his duties; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the tor- ment, the destruction, which he may bring upon any other. Lord Brougham. AIFIFABILITY. Be affable and obliging to all. J. Hintom. Affability results from good mature. G. Crabb. Affability is the sunshine of social life. Arnold. Men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and affability of speech. Cicero. The wise man is affable, but not adulatory ; the - low man is adulatory, but not affable. Confucius. A pleasing affable behavior is not to be neglected; suavity of countenance, like beauty, always cap- tivates. N. Macdonald. Affability is a happy quality which never fails to make its way into the good Opinion and into the very heart. F. Atterbury. Such is the effect of refinement and affability of manners, when blended with intelligence and Vir- tue, that our prepossessions are at once enlisted in favor of those who are so pre-eminently endowed. Acton. All people are judges of the lesser talents, such as civility, affability, and an obliging, agreeable address and manner, because they feel the good effects of them, as making society easy and pleas- ing. Chesterfield. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7 ſo w S. 17 AIFFECTATION. Avoid all affectation. J. Collier. L. Camõens. H. Blair. Affectation is a foe to love. Affectation is certain deformity. No man is free from affectation. Rala.kawa. The least affectation is to be held a fault. Voltaire. There is pleasure in affecting affectation. Lamb. Affectation is sooner cured by ridicule than by I'êa,SOI). J. Beownvont. Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body. * Hazlitt. Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox. St. Evremond. Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. H. Mann. Affectatien springs from the desire of appearing better than we really are. G. Crabb. All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich. Lavater. Affectation is an artificial show, an elaborate ap- pearance, a false pretence. Dr. Johnson. Affectation is an attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real. N. Webster. There is nothing in poetry, or indeed in society, so unpleasant as affectation. W. S. Landor. I loathe all affectation ; it is my perfect scorn ; object of my implacable disgust. Cowper. Men are never so ridiculous by the qualities they have, as by those they affect to have. P. Charron. An affected man proclaims his own deficiencies, tells what he desires, and yet lacks. Steele. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy. J. Locke. All affectations of knowledge are more odious than any want of knowledge can be. Sprat. Affectation excites the pity of friends, the ha- tred of enemies, and the contempt of all. Anon. Affectation discovers sooner what one is, than it makes known what one would fain appear to be. Stanislaws. The affectation of learning is pedantry ; of vir- tue, prudery ; of honesty, hypocrisy ; of piety, Cant. R. B. Sheridom. The vain affectation of seeming to possess wealth, has done as much harm in the world as its abuses where it has really existed. Acton. It is remarkable that great affectation and great absence of it, are at first sight very similar ; they are both apt to produce singularity. R. Whately. Great vices are the proper objects of our detest- ation, smaller faults of our pity ; but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridicu- lous. H. Fielding. AIFFECTATION. Every man affects a character of some sort, only it is the good fortune of some men to affect a cha- racter so like their real one, that the affectation is not perceived. BOvee. Affectation in gesture, speaking, and manner, is often a result of inertness or indifference ; and it seems as if devotion to an object or serious busi- mess made men natural. Bruyère. Affectation is the greatest enemy both of doing well, and good acceptance of what is done. I hold it the part of a wise man, to endeavor rather that fame may follow him than go before him. Hall. Be yourself ; ape no greatness : be willing to pass for what your are ; a good farthing is better than a bad sovereign ; affect no oddness, but dare to be right, though you have to be singular. Coley. When Cicero consulted the oracle at Delphos, concerning what course of studies he should pur- sue, the answer was, “Follow nature.” If every one wonld do this, affectation would be almost un- known. J. Beawmont. Nothing more exposes us to folly than affecting to making ourselves different from others, and nothing assists more to maintain our common sense than a life spent in the common way amid general Society. Goethe. It is to affectation that the world owes its whole race of coxcombs. Nature, in her whole drama, never drew such a part ; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making. Anon. Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and dis- gusting finery, are easily attained by those who choose to wear"them ; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please. Goldsmith. Affectation naturally counterfeits those excel- lences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence. Dr. Johnson. The wild havoc affectation makes in that part of the world which should be most polite, is visible wherever we turn our eyes ; it pushes men not only into impertinences in conversation, but also into their premeditated speeches. Steele, Affectation may be compared to a coat of many pieces and divers colors, ill fitted, and neither stitched nor tied, which some unblest mortal might endeavor, with ingessant pains and solicitude, to hold together and wear ; his affectation and folly are more conspicuous than his wisdom. J. Barrett. I will not call vanity and affectation twins, be- cause, more properly, vanity is the mother and af- fectation is the darling daughter ; vanity is the sin, and affectation is the punishment ; the first may be called the root of self-love, the other the fruit. Vanity is never at its full growth, till it spreadeth into affectation ; and then it is complete. Savile. 2 18 JD A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. AFFECTION. The affections are immortal. Bulwer. The laws of human affection are uniform. J. C. Calhown. No decking sets forth anything so much as affec- tion. Sir P. Sidney. How our affections cling to things our hearts have nursed Mrs. Esling. Love is strong in its passion, affection is powerful in its gentleness. Michelet. Woman either loves or hates ; her affections know no medium. Publius Syrus. True affection would rather be joined in death than separated in life. Maacimºws. It is sweet to feel by what fine-spun threads our affections are drawn together, Sterne. Our happiness in this world depends on the affec- tions we are enabled to inspire. De Praslim. It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections, but to regulate them. Addison. We seek what we love ; our efforts follow our affections, whether we know it or not. Wilson. Affection is an implanted instinct, exalted by a feeling of gratitude and a sense of duty. Chatfield. There are moments of mingled sorrow and ten- dermess, which hallow the caresses of affection. W. Irving. Affection usually returns whence it has been re- moved, and love that is just repairs its lost strength. Seneca. Woman's power is over the affections ; a beauti- ful dominion is hers, for the seat of it is in man's heart. Hearts may be attracted by assumed qualities, but the affections are only to be fixed by those that are real. De Moy. A resemblance of humor and opinion, a fancy for the same business or diversion, is a ground of affection. J. Collier. Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart. H. W. Beecher. We wrong ourselves and others in matters of af- fection, while we confess and mourn over the lesser wrongs of life. FI. Hooker. The affection of young ladies, is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night. TW. M. Thackeray. The successes of intellectual effort are never so great as when aided by the affections that animate social converse. J. Foster. When the tide of family affection runs smooth and unbroken, it bears the bark of happiness se- curely on its bosom. Mrs. Opie. There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot be gained by mildness, their con- fidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neg- lect. Zimmerman. Bovee. AFFECTION. Though you may look to your understanding for amusements, it is to the affections that we must trust for happiness. H. Welby. Affections injured by tyranny or compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never Spring to timely growth. J. Ford. If we would know what affection is, we must consult the records of the past, and appeal to the early visions of the heart. Acton. Affection bred by wealth or power is like a flower wrought in silk, in color and form most like, but nothing at allin substance and savor. T. H. Horne. How time strengthens family affections, and in- deed all early ones . One's feelings seem to be weary of travelling, and like to rest at home. Haag. We sometimes ignore the affections of those who are yearning for our love, and give our affections to those who are not deserving, and who do not re- quire them. James Ellis. Be it never so true which we teach the world to believe, yet if once their affections begin to be alienated, a small thing persuaded them to change their opinions. R. Hooker. If the deepest and best affections which God has given us sometimes brood over the heart like doves of peace, sometimes they suck out our life-blood like vampires. Mrs. Jameson. Neither the voice nor the affections can extend beyond a contracted circle ; but we may carry a wand with us, and mark out with it that circle in every path of life. W. S. Landor. Affection, like spring flowers, breaks through the most frozen ground at last, and the heart which asks but for another heart to make it happy, will never seek in vain. E. Bentham. The affections, like the conscience, are rather to be led than driven ; and it is to be feared that they who marry where they do not love, will love where they do not marry. T. Fuller. If you desire to profit by affection, strive to make others love you ; if you fail in that, endeavor to make them love themselves—then make the most of their good humor. M. Macdonald. Affection is still a briber of the judgment ; and it is hard for a man to admit a reason against the thing he loves, or to confess the force of an argu- ment against an interest. F. Sowth. TJniversal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all hands alike, and none closely ; but true affec- tion is a glove with fingers, which fits one hand Only, and sets close to that One. Richter. Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of downright in- difference; love will subsist on wonderfully little hope, but not altogether without it. Sir W. Scott. Fraternal affection approaches very nearly to self-love ; for there is but a short remove from Our own concerns and happiness to theirs who came from the same stock, and are partakers of the same blood. L. M. Stretch. P & O S A Q & O 7. A 7 ſo y S. I9 AFFECTION. Compassionate affections, even when they draw tears from our eyes for human misery, Convey satisfaction to the heart. H. Martyn. As the dove will clap its wings to its side, and cover and conceal the arrow that is preying On its vitals, so it is the nature of women to hide from the world the pangs of wounded affection. W. Irving. The heart will commonly govern the head ; and it is certain that any strong passion, Set the wrong way, will soon infatuate even the wisest of men ; therefore the first part of wisdom is to watch the affections. D. Waterland. Unless parties are united in affection before they become so in law, they act in opposition to the spirit of the institution ; the necessity for this af- fection is obvious; they cannot be happy in each Other without it. PH. Winslow. Instances occur in the affections when a kind Smile would attach us forever, and bind us indis- solubly to the objects of our regard, though in their place we receive the slight and the disdain which change us entirely. Mrs. E. A. Yowmans. Affection is a chastened feeling under the con- trol of the understanding ; it promises no more pleasure than it gives, and has but few alloys : marriage may begin in love, but it ought to ter- minate in affection. G. Crabb. To cultivate affection is not to strive to excite it by any direct effort of abstract thinking, but to show, by the whole tenor of a life of disinterested goodness, that our happiness is really promoted by seeking the happiness of another. F. Wayland. How ill does true affection agree with pompous expressions; there is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do ; there are: movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels. Alfieri. In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness, recurring daily and hourly —and opportunities of doing kindnesses, if sought for, are forever starting up—it is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks, that affection is won and preserved. G. A. Sala. How often a new affection makes a new man The sordid, cowering soul, turns heroic ; the frivo- lous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love ; the career of bounding impulses turns into an an- them of sacred deeds. E. H. Chapin. If ever household affections and loves are grace- ful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud at home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal, and bear the stamp of heaven. Dickens. It appears unaccountable that our teachers gene- rally have directed their instructions to the head, with very little attention to the heart ; books with- out number have been composed for cultivating and improving the understanding ; but few, in pro- portion, for cultivating and improving the affec- tions, kames. AFFECTION. The deep-rooted sentiments of affection, in gene- rous natures, are so entwined with the existence that they end but with their being ; there are ties that bind together those of one family stronger than those of taste, choice, friendship, or reason, for they enable us to love even in opposition to them all. F. Blackburne. How sacred, how beautiful, is the feeling of af- fection in pure and guileless bosoms . The proud may sneer at it, the fashionable may call it fable, the selfish and dissipated may affect to despise it ; but the holy passion is surely of heaven, and is made evil by the corruptions of those whom it was sent to bless and preserve. C. Mordawmt. Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich, and as glorious as thou canst ; if the foundation be beauty, or wealth, and the building virtue, the foundation is too weak for the building, and it will fall ; happy is he, the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue, walled with riches, glazed with beauty, and roofed with honor. F. Quarles, The affections are never SO engaging as when they improve the character ; this, indeed, is their natural tendency, inasmuch as they prevent our attention from being confined to ourselves, and create both an interest in the welfare of others, and an anxiety to recommend Ourselvesto their esteem : they also show that when properly directed, they are productive of the most generous and heroic virtues. B. Disraeli. The mind does not possess, inherently, any such passion as natural affection ; should a son be taken from his natural guardians, in the first stage of in- fancy, and receive the fostering, affectionate care of a stranger, until the age of manhood, and then be brought into the presence of his father, or his mother, nature would not point out his real parents; and, if informed, custom would induce him to ac- knowledge them, yet his heart and his affection would be all his foster parent's. J. Bartlett. In marriage, they who have the most to bear, require the greatest amount of love. A woman with a jealous, suspicious, Sullen, and fretful hus- band, requires a heart full of love, otherwise she loses that love which she has ; and a man with an imperious, contradictory termagant of a wife, re- quires quite as much to keep up the romance of affection ; but woman in general, as she has less power, requires more affection, and we believe this is the rule; the contrary is the exception. - Faroline Bower. The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue fal- sify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented. The poor bride can give her hand, and say, “I do,” with a languishing air, to the man she is obliged by cruel parents to take for mercenary reasons, but at the same time she cannot look as if she loved ; her eye. is full of sorrow, and reluctance sits in a tear, while the offering of a sacrifice is performed in what we call the marriage ceremony. Steele. 20 Al A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. AIFFLICTION. Afflictions clarify the Soul. F. Quarles. It is by afflictions we rise. Chabot. A man of firm mind never weeps under afflic- tion. Atáhiya. Afflictions cannot injure when blended with Sub- mission. FI. F. Burder. There is good to invoke the gods when we fall into affliction. Euripides. Affliction is a winged chariot that mounts up the soul toward heaven. T. Adams. David's pen never wrote more sweetly than when dipped in the ink of affliction. G. Mason. As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. R. Burton. If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. J. Burgh. Every affliction has an errand, and is sent to accomplish some especial purpose. M. J. Qwin. Whatever we pretend, interest and vanity are the usual sources of our afflictions. Rochefoucauld. Affliction is a school of virtue ; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. J. Taylor. It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost, that the arrows of affliction are pointed. A. S. Mackenzie. Afflictions do not attack the good man by sur- prise, and therefore do not overwhelm him. H. Blair. God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that He may raise again. R. Sowth. Affliction moveth even our enemies to pity ; suc- cess and happiness cause even our friends to envy. R. Dodsley. A consideration of the benefit of afflictions should teach us to bear them patiently when they fall to Our lot. R. Pall. The very afflictions of our earthly pilgrimage are presages of our future glory, as shadows indicate the sun. Richter. It is by affliction chiefly that the heart of man is purified, and that the thoughts are fixed on a bet- ter state. Dr. Johnson. If we repent seriously, submit contentedly, and serve Him faithfully, afflictions shall turn to our advantage. W. Walce. Afflictions are the methods of a merciful Provi- dence to force upon us the only means of setting matters right. L’Estrange. The storms of affliction, which happen to God's children, are encompassed with brightness and Smiling felicity. N. Cawssin. When God visits us in affliction, it is as a man when he goes to try a vessel to see whether there be wine or water in it, and of what quality. FI. W. Beecher. AFFLICTION. The diamond of piety never sparkles so brightly as when the christian is surrounded with the dark- mess of affliction. L. P. Bérenger. The furnace of our affliction refines us from our earthly drossiness, and softensus for the impression of God's own stamp. R. Boyle. When the flail of affliction is upon me, let me not be the chaff that flies in Thy face, but let me be the corn that lies at Thy feet. T. Fuller. The mind which does not wholly sink under mis- fortune, rises above it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction. Cheneviac. Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. M. Henry. Though all afflictions are evil in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to Our Cure. Tillotson. Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue where patience, honor, sweet humanity, and calm forti- tude take root, and strongly flourish. Mallet. No man is more unhappy than the man who is never in adversity ; in other words, the greatest affliction in life is never to be afflicted. J. Bate. Can any man trust a better support under afflic- tion than the friendship of Omnipotence, who is both able and willing, and knows how to relieve him 3 R. Bentley. Affliction is a thorn, but still it is from God, by which He pierces through the leaves of pride. Many trees grow better in the shade than in the sunshine. Krummatcher. Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed. W. S. Landor. Afflictions are the medicine of the mind; if they are not toothsome, let it suffice that they are whole- some ; it is not required in physic that it should please, but heal. Bishop Henshaw. Let us thank the Eternal Power that heaven but tries our virtue by affliction ; that the cloud which wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days. J. Brown. There are a great many sore afflictions of the physical body, for which there are many good remedies; but of the human mind there are many afflictions for which there is no remedy but death. James Ellis. Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon ; and after it is digested, it comes too late ; but there is a mark between these two, as fine almost as a hair, for a comforter to take aim at. Sterme. The truly great and good in affliction bear a countenance more princely than they are wont : for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened. Sir P. Sidney. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 21 AFFLICTION. When God afflicts the saints, it is to try their precious faith ; afflictions are his spade and mat- tock, by which He digs into His people's hearts to find out the gold of faith. Rev. W. Gºwrmall. Though it be not in our power to make affliction mo affliction, yet it is in our power to take off the edge of it, by a steady view of those divine joys prepared for us in another state. F. Atterbwry. Sanctified afflictions are an evidence of Our adop- tion ; we do not prune dead trees to make them fruitful, nor those which are planted in a desert ; but such only as belong to the garden, and possess life. Rev. J. Arrowsmith. In affliction we obtain clear views of the insuffi- ciency of all earthly things; a dark shade is thrown over the smiling scenes of life ; and we learn to estimate above all treasures an assured interest in Christ. D. Forbes. As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless, so doth the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires, and pruned with afflictions. Sir M. Hale. When we are under any affliction, we are gener- ally troubled with a malicious kind of melancholy: we only dwell and pore upon the sad and dark oc- currences of Providence ; but never take notice of the more benign and bright ones. Bishop Hopkins. How naturally does affliction make us Christians; and how impossible is it when all human help is vain, and the whole earth too poor and trifling to furnish us with one moment's peace; how impossi- ble isit then to avoid looking at the gospel. Cowper. Afflictions sent by Providence melt the constancy of the noble-minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile; the same furnace that hardens clay liqui- fies gold ; and in the strong manifestations of di- vine power Pharaoh found his punishment, but David his pardon. Colton. Afflictions show us the darkness of the world, and the brightness of heaven, and they stimulate to perseverance to death, in order to receive the radiant crown of everlasting life ; they are de- signed to brighten the graces of God’s people—to strengthen their faith and patience. W. Nicholson. Look upon thy affliction as thou dost upon thy physic; both imply a disease, and both are applied for a cure—that of the body, this of the soul; if they work, they promise health ; if not, they threaten death; he is not happy that is not afflic- ted, but he that finds happiness by his affliction. F. Quarles. There is a certain equanimity in those who are good and just, which runs into their very sorrow, and disappoints the force of it ; though they must pass through affliction in common with all who are in human nature, yet their conscious integrity shall undermine their afflictions; nay, that very affliction shall add force to their integrity, from a reflection of the use of virtue in their hour of af- fliction. A. C. Hervey. AIFFLUENCE. Bow not low to affluence. Bias. Affluence detracts from true merit. Phoedrus. Affluence may carry its wealth to the grave, but must there leave it. Theognis. When affluence seeketh honors, how often doth competition flee from it ! Sophocles. To live in affluence would be well enough, if it did not take money to do it. T. Elwes. Those degrees of fortune which give fulness and affluence to one station may be want and penury in another. J. Rogers. Affluence, when accompanied by virtue and health, is indeed a happy lot ; and yet, cannot the same be said of poverty ? Pindarus. We show our affluence by the style of our living ; he who lives in affluence is apt to forget the un- certain tenure by which he holds his riches. Crabb. Vulgar affluence fills the street from wall to wall of the houses, and begrudges all but the gut- ter to everybody whose sleeve is a little worn at the elbows. John Weiss. Though an unwieldy affluence may afford some empty pleasure to the imagination, yet that small pleasure is far from being able to countervail the imbittering cares that attend an overgrown for- tune. R. Boyle. There are three things that chiefly move men to seek for affluence : first, the love of ease, mirth, and pleasure ; secondly, the love of honor, wor- ship, and glory ; thirdly, the distrust of wicked and faithless men, who are only for themselves; and think all they acquire is too little to suffice them. Solon. AIFFRONT. An affront is best met by reserve. Shenstone. Affront your friend in sport and you will lose him in earnest. D. Ferguson. Young men soon give and soon forget affronts ; old age is slow in both. Addison. A moral, sensible, and well-bred man will not affront me, and no other can. Cowper. An affront is a fault wilfully committed, and therefore cannot be amended by repentance. Ives. God may sometime or other think it the concern of His justice and providence to revenge the af- fronts put upon the laws of man. South. An affront offered one person in a mixed Com- pany should be resented by all except the person for whom it is intended : for no one has a right to offend many in order to gratify his spleen toward Ollé. E. P. Day. An affront is seldom worthy of notice; whether Coming from a drunken man, an idiot, or a child, we should consider its source, and treat it accord- ingly. Then why regard any affront, since it can only be offered by one intoxicated by rage, des- titute of reason, or wanting the understanding of a man Ż Lord Orrery. 22 A) A Y',S C O Z Z. A C O AV. A.G.E. Age succeeds age. Cicero. C. Ariamws. Publius Syrus. Every age has its passions. Age can never conceal itself. Each age of life is a new creation. Dr. Cheyne. Age does not always consist in years. Heinecken. While advancing in years age will bring expe- rience. Cervantes. Middle age should protect young age, and revere old age. T. Coram. Every age hath its end—except old age, which hath none. Sallust. He who has not the spirit of his age has all of its unhappiness. Voltaire. Let youthful age honor mature age, and rever- ence old age. Zoroaster. Age is a quality that can neither be accelerated nor deferred. Varro. A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous. Chilo. At twenty years of age, the will reigns ; at thir- ty, the wit ; at forty, the judgment. Grattan. Infancy has its age ; SO has youth, manhood, and old age ; but death claims every age. Gamaliel. Youth is the age to receive instruction, middle age to make use of it, and old age to impart it to others. Pythagoras. Every age has its wants to be supplied, its pas- sions to contend with, and its duties to be per- formed. Hemawlt. Each age has its enemies to combat ; in youthful age, passion ; in mature age, disputes ; in old age, avarice. Confucius. Presume not too much upon thy age, either for the levity of childhood, the vigor of manhood, or the wisdom of old age. Acacints. The age of man resembles a book ; infancy and old age are the blank leaves, youth the preface, and manhood the body or most important portion of life's volume. E. P. Day. The heart never grows better by age ; I fear ra- ther worse ; always harder ; a young liar will be an old one ; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. Chesterfield. As we advance from youth to middle age, a new field for action opens, and a different character is required ; the attention is now transferred from pleasure to interest ; that is, to pleasure diffused over a wider extent, and measured by a larger Scale. H. Blair. Our first age is all hope ; our middle age is half in hope for the future, and half in proof for that which is past ; our old age is out of hope, and alto- gether in proof. It is good for youth to look for- ward, and propound the best things to itself ; for an old man to look backward, and repent wherein he hath failed ; in middle age we should look both backward and forward, comparing hopes with proof, redeeming the time ere it be all spent. Hall. A.G.E.S. Ages have ever been the same. Goethe. Each age is ignorant of Succeeding ages. Stativs. Every age has its vices ; all ages have their im- perfections. Horace. Ages differ, and most men bear the impress of the particular age in which they live. S. Niles. The world has been divided into four ages ; the Golden Age, the Silver Age, the Brazen Age, and the Iron Age. Ovid. Happy and innocent were the ages of our fore- fathers, who ate herbs and parched corn, drank the pure stream, and broke their fast with nuts and roots. Taylor. The four ages of the world may be compared unto the four seasons of the year ; the first re- Sembling the spring-time, the second summer, the third autumn, and the fourth winter. Perdiccas. Old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light ; but could we go back and touch the reality, we should find many a swamp of disease, and rough and grimy paths of rock and mire. E. H. Chapin. Almost every age has something in common with other ages, and something peculiar to itself ; it has its characteristic signs impressed upon it by the hand of God ; a young man rightly impressed with the circumstances of the age will guard assid- uously against its evils ; for every age has its ap- propriate dangers. J. A. James. AG-G-FESSION. Aggression is natural to man. Hobbes. Let aggression be met by aggression. Coesar. The insolence of the aggressor is usually propor- tioned to the patience of the sufferer. Ames. Aggression commonly cometh from the covet- ousness of kings from which proceedeth war, ra- pine, and violence. Lactantiws. Self-preservation requires all men not only bare- ly to defend themselves against aggressors, but many times also to prosecute such as are wicked and dangerous. Wollastom. AGONY. In agony we hope for ease. J. G. Pike. Agony is the extremity of suffering. N. Webster. Agony is pent-up sorrow ; tears alone will afford relief. Cicero, Agony can only be endured when we feel it is not deserved. Gustavus III, of Sweden. If there be any misery for which a man ought to be pitied, it is agony of mind; this I experience when many shapes of ill assail me. Plautus. Agony and anguish are produced by violent causes, and disease in its most terrible shape ; º wounds and torments naturally produce corporeal agony ; a guilty conscience that is awakened to a sense of guilt will suffer mental agony. G. Crabb. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 23 AGREEABLENESS. Agreeableness is innate benevolence. J. Hughes. Agreeableness is benevolence in Small things. W. Mathews. We should strive to render ourselves agreeable to others. Mrs. A. L. Phelps. Even persons of the gravest demeanor may prove very agreeable. E. P. Day. An agreeable countenance includes in the idea an agreeable and gentle disposition. J. Usher. An agreeable behavior is better than a beautiful form ; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures. R. W. Emerson. If you wish to appear agreeable in Society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. Lavater. Every one endeavors to make himself as agreea- ble in society as he can ; but it often happens that those who most aim at shining in conversation, overshoot the mark. Sir T. Browne. We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the feature to each other, and to the air and complex- ion of the person. Rochefoucauld. Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company, and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who by a very few faults, they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable. Swift. The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, and wisdom, conduce to the profit and delight of society; yet a man may be too invari- ably wise, learned, or witty, to be agreeable. R. Cwmberland. The true art of being agreeable is to appear well pleased with all the company, and rather to seem well entertained with them, than to bring enter- tainment to them. A man thus disposed, perhaps, may have not much learning, nor any wit ; but if he has common sense and something friendly in his behavior, it conciliates men's minds more than the brightest parts without this disposition. Addison. A G-REEMENT. Agreement is pleasurable. Mrs. Caroline Orne. Agree, for the law is costly. Sir A. Fitzherbert. Agreement is like the uniting of two halves of a Seal. Mencius. A man of real intellect seldom likes to have a man agree with him entirely. E. Eggleston. When agreements are made according to what is right, that which is spoken can be easily made good. Yew Jo. He who agrees with himself agrees with others; but a man may not assimilate always in the ideas of others, and other minds may not assimilate with his ; when this is the case it is wise never to en- gage in a controversy. Joseph Samvewr. of all other industries. their destined occupation. AGRICULTURE. - Agriculture is civilization. E. Emmons. Agriculture is better than war. Emperor Shºwn. Agriculture is favorable to good morals. Colman. Agriculture is the most general occupation of Iſlall. N. Webster. Agriculture is a fundamental source of national prosperity. J. J. Mapes. An agricultural life is one eminently calculated for human happiness and human virtue. J. Quincy. Agriculture is doubtless one of the oldest, most honorable, and important pursuits among civilized nations. M. M. Rodgers. Agriculture was the first occupation of man, and as it embraces the whole earth, it is the foundation E. W. Stewart. The treasures and delights of agriculture are so various, that they are not easily to be described, and never to be excelled. S. Croacall. The art of agriculture established the idea of a more permanent property in the soil, than had hitherto been received and adopted. Blackstone. Agriculture for an honorable and high-minded man, is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living. Xenophon, Agriculture is the archimedean lever which, though it does not move a world, tends to fill it with plenty, with moral health, and human hap- piness. - J. Buel. Who can estimate the importance of agriculture, in a national point of view, as controlling the cha- racter, the prosperity, and independence of our country 3 E. Mack. As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture ; they will find it in their natural— Burke. Agriculture is the great art of directing and aid- ing nature in the performance of those functions which were designed by Providence for the com- fort and subsistence of man. L. Cass. Agriculture is the most certain source of strength, wealth, and independence ; commerce may well be termed the younger sister, for in emergencies she looks to agriculture, both for defence and for sup- ply. Colton. The intelligence of agriculturists, we believe, will compare favorably with any other class of men ; but it is our conviction that agriculture, as a busi- ness, is not so critically and systematically studied by men engaged in it, as are other trades and professions. D. JD. T. Moore. Agriculture is the great Support of morals and religion ; it renders marriages easy, necessary, and happy : Small possessions double and quadruple in a country both crops and the hands that produce them ; great estates, on the contrary, in the hands of One man, transform a country into vast soli- tudes. St. Pierre. 24 A) A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. AGRICULTURE. Practical agriculture is wholly indebted to sci- ence for a knowledge of the elements which nature must have to form each plant, seed, and fruit grown on the farm or in the garden. Isaac Hill. Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the Ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man ; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture. Derby. Agriculture affords the largest share of happi- ness, because the most independent of all profes- sions. To raise, gather, and enjoy the fruits of the earth, and attend to flocks and herds, were the employments first assigned to man by Our great Creator. L. C. Judson. We have the high authority of history, sacred and profane, for declaring that agriculture is a dignified and time-honored calling, ordained and favored of heaven, and sanctioned by experience ; and we are invited to its pursuit by the rewards of the past and the present and the rich promise of the future. D. S. Dickinson. In a moral point of view, the life of the agricul- turist is the most pure and holy of any class of men ; pure, because it is the most healthful, and vice can hardly find time to contaminate it ; and holy because it brings the Deity perpetually be- fore his view, giving him thereby the most exalt- ed notions of Supreme Power, and the most fascin- ating and endearing view of moral benignity. Lord J. Russell. Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civ- ilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd, into that of social man, gathered into fixed communities and surrounding himself with the comforts and blessings of neighborhood, country, and home. It is agriculture alone, that fixes men in stationary dwellings, in villages, towns, and cities, and enables the work of civilization, in all its branches, to go Oil. E. Everett. There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth ; the first is by war, as the Romans did in plundering their conquered neighbors—this is robbery ; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating ; the third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real in- crease of the seed thrown into the ground, in a , kind of continued miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry. Franklim. Agriculture is the parent of all industries; it is from the cultivator of the soil that the mechanic, the manufacturer, and the man of commerce, draw their supplies; his granary is the storehouse from which all households receive their daily food; from his flocks and fields are wrought the fabrics which clothe the human race ; and upon his domains are , laid the foundations which support the pillars of government, and upon which are erected those in- stitutions which encourage the arts, cultivate the sciences, and render the charities of life effective for improving, beautifying, and benefiting the whole world. E. P. Day. AGRICULTURE. If by application of science to agriculture we car, fathom the depths of nature, and bring up to the light, for the admiration and benefit of mankind, her previous hidden treasures, shall we hesitate to do it 2 M. P. Wilde?". Agriculture occupies four-fifths of the laboring population of the land ; from the agricultural ranks have Sprang many of the most illustrious names whose Services have adorned and honored their Country. B. P. Johnson. Agriculture is the greatest among arts, for it is first in supplying our necessities ; it is the mother and nurse of all other arts ; it favors and strength- ens population ; it creates and maintains manufac- tures.; gives employment to navigation, and ma- terials to commerce ; it animates every species of industry, and opens to nations the surest channels of opulence. Mac Neven. AID. & Aiding wrong injures right. Crates. Despise not the aid of the humble. Laberiws. Aid the victor that he may aid you. Metius. Aid sometimes comes from a source whence it is least expected. Celsus. Give aid to a friend, not as you would wish, but as you are able ; for the aid of a friend in trouble half ends the trouble. J. Bodenham. Man was created to worship God and aid one another ; our aid should be timely ; for aid that cometh too late is not aid ; and it is folly to refuse aid, even of a stranger, when we are in need. Lee. AIM. It is the aim that makes the man. The aims of life should be higher than life. Pestalozzi. Paley. Have some aim in life ; be not simply good, be good for something. Thoreau. Set your target in the clouds and aim at it ; if it falls short, try again. Fanny Fern. What are the aims, which are at the same time duties 2 They are the perfecting of ourselves ; the happiness of others. B. Kant. Our aim in life, to be effective, needs concentra- tion ; the marksman who aims at the whole target will seldom hit the centre. W. Mathews. Aim high ; he who aims at the Sun, although pretty sure not to hit it, will shoot higher than if he only aimed at the ground. E. P. Day. To aim high is a good rule, if we mean by it, to aim at being wise in piety and virtue ; but to aim at attaining high worldly station or great riches, will most likely involve a man in trouble and mor- tification. Mrs. Willoºrd. Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable ; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it, than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. Chesterfield. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 25 AIR, Air is the Soul of man. A maacimenes. It is a great art to control air. Simon Magus. Even to the poorest air is free Horace. Air existed from the beginning. Sanchomiathom. Air is above all the other elements. Zoroaster. Pure fresh air is a great curative for most dis- €8SéS. Florence Nightingale. The air contains the principles of life and vege- tation. W. Mavor. The downy, thistle-seed, hard to be unrooted, is carried by the lightest breath of air, and takes an imperceptible hold on what it catches. Landor. Air is so thin as only to be visible when she bor- rows drapery of water ; air has no robes like the grace of her fine-woven and everchanging drapery of silver. N. P. Willis. Air is of use to the life and breathing of all ani- mated beings ; without air we could not converse with each other ; we should have no music, no smell, no light. Sturm. The air conducts to our ear all the diversities of sound ; while danger is at a considerable distance, this advertises us of its approach, and urges us to provide for our safety. J. Ferguson. The air is the great physician of the world : health confides in it as its most faithful friend ; the weak it invigorates, the weary it refreshes; under its genial stimulous we forget our vexations and disappointments ; we become vivacious, and thence more willing to refuse the evil and to choose the good. L. Grimdom. Man is the only being who gives air all the mo- dulations of which it is susceptible ; with his voice alone he imitates the cries of all animals, while he enjoys the gift of speech, denied to every other ; sometimes he communicates sensibility to the air ; he makes it sigh in the pipe, complain in the flute, threaten in the trumpet, animates to the tone of his passions the brass, the box-tree, and the reed; sometimes he makes it his slave ; he forces it to move to his advantage an endless variety of ma- chinery ; in a word he yokes it to his car, and con. strains it to waft him even over the billows of the OC68.I]. St. Pierre. ALARM. An alarm is the signal of danger. Livy. An alarm fills with apprehensions. Richardson. The despot is a prey to his own alarms. Nugent. Have not an unreasonable alarm as to thy bodily wants. Horace. We are alarmed for what we apprehend ; alarm springs from any sudden signal that announces the approach of danger. G. Crabb. An alarm is a note of warning ; it should come from a friend rather than an enemy ; for is it not the office of a friend to point out impending dan- ger, while an enemy holds his peace even though imminent destruction be upon us? W. Ninmºno. ALCHEMY. The alchemist laboreth in folly. Thupper. The alchemist, in his very failures, has enlight- ened the chemist. Colton. Agriculture is the noblest of all alchemy : for it turns earth and even manure into gold. Chatfield. Alchemy is art without art, which has its begin- ning in falsehood, its middle in toil, and its end in poverty. W. Occam. In the palmy days of alchemy, the nature and powers of Occult and intangible agents were deem- ed worthy the study of princes. Mrs. Kirkland. I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same pur- pose. Sir W. Temple. Alchemy is an imaginary art, once much prac- ticed among modern nations, and even now perhaps not wholly exploded ; its object was the produc- tion of gold and silver. The principle of the al- chemists was, that the baser metals were all con- vertible into these two precious substances by a long series of processes. W. T. Brande. Alchemy may be compared to the man who told his sons he had left them gold buried somewhere in his vineyard ; where they by digging found no gold, but by turning up the mold about the roots of their vines, procured a plentiful vintage. So the search and endeavors to make gold have brought many useful inventions and instructive experiences to light. - R. Bacom. The conduct of the scientific alchemists of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries presents a pro- blem of very difficult solution. When we consider that gold, silver, and indeed all the metals, may be extracted from transparent crystals, which scarcely differ from a piece of common salt, and that the diamond is nothing more than charcoal, we need not greatly wonder at the extravagant expectation that the precious metals and noblest gems might be produced from the basest metals. Sir D. Brewster. ALIEN. Let the alien become a citizen. G. Morris. I thank the gods I am not an alien. Socrates. I am opposed to any alliance with aliens, or ene- mies of our country. B. Arnold. In treating with aliens the citizen of a republic should not himself become an alien. A. Ceba. A citizen is not an alien ; alienage is an insepar- able barrier, till removed, to citizenship. Calhoun. We should not use undue haste in the admission of aliens to the rights and privileges of a free gov- ernment. T. Dwight. An alien, before having the right to vote con- ferred on him, should purge himself of his allegi- ance to other powers. A. H. Stephens. An alien ought to attend to nothing but his own business, never to meddle with the affairs of others, and least of all to pry into the concerns of a foreign State. Cicero. 26 A) A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. ALLEGORY. Allegories at once please and instruct. S. Town. Allegory dwells in a transparent palace. Lemierre. Allegory is in words what hieroglyphics are in painting. N. Webster. Allegory exhibits one thing in words, another in meaning. Quintilian. Good writing and brilliant discourses are perpet- ual allegories. R. W. Emerson. The allegory of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress has been read by thousands with tears ; other allego- ries only amuse the fancy. T. B. Macawlay. Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracts of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful. Addison. Allegories are not so much an ornament of style, as an artful way of recommending truth to the world in a borrowed shape, and in a dress more agreeable to the fancy, than naked truth herself can be. H. Felton. Allegories were a favorite method of delivering instructions in ancient times ; for what we call fables or parables are no other than allegories ; where by words and actions attributed to beasts or inanimate objects, the dispositions of men are figured ; and what we call the moral, is the unfig- ured sense or meaning of the allegory. H. Blair. An allegory is in every respect similar to an hieroglyphical painting, excepting only that words are used instead of colors ; their effects are precise- ly the same ; a hieroglyphic raises two images in the mind, one seen which represents one not seen ; an allegory does the same, the representative sub- ject is described, and resemblance leads us to apply the description to the subject represented. Kames. Allegory differs from a single metaphor, in the same manner as a cluster on the vine does from a single grape ; for example : Of all the flowers that embellish the region of eloquence, there is none that rises to such an eminence, that bears so rich and beautiful a blossom, that diffuses such a copious and exquisite fragrance, or that so amply rewards the culture of the poet or the orator. E. Gibbon. ALLEGIANCE. Allegiance to law is true liberty. Pawl Pater. Allegiance may exist under any form of govern- ment. C. A. Goodrich. Allegiance is that tie or band of fidelity by which subjects are bound to their prince. Skinner. We owe allegiance to liberty and good govern- ment, but we owe no allegiance to slavery or des- potism. W. L. Garrison. Every citizen owes allegiance to the country in which he is born ; this is called natural or implied allegiance which arises from the connection of a person with the society in which he is born, and his duty to become a faithful subject, independent of any express promise ; express allegiance is that obligation which proceeds from an express promise, or oath of fidelity. N. Webster. ALLIANCE. Contract no entangling alliances. E. S. Gilbert. In any alliance interest will generally prove stronger than parchment. E. P. Day, Make no alliances with the straws driven by the wind, but rather with the wind that drives them. W. Pinkney. Taking care always to keep ourselves in a re- spectable defensive posture we may safely trust to temporary alliances, for extraordinary emergen- cies. Washington. Nothing is more necessary toward completing and continuing the well-being of mankind, than entering into and preserving friendships and alli- all CéS. S. Croacall. Relationship, friendship, the advantages of a good understanding, the prospect of aid in cases of necessity, are the ordinary motives for forming alliances. G. Crabb. The fate of nations, in the present state of the world, depends greatly on their alliances with others ; and these again are materially influenced and determined by the nature of their foreign po- licy. J. R. M’Culloch. ALMS. By giving alms you lose not. Alms is the best wealth for the rich. Harlow Porter. Tiberints. The alms of the benevolent are sweet. Gessner. Those who give alms often receive greater benefit than those who receive them. St. Bernard. It is proper that alms should come out of a little purse, as well as a great sack. Feltham. That man can only be considered liberal who distributeth alms according to his substance, and where it is most needed. Thales. Though our donations are made to please our- selves, we insist upon those who receive Our alms being pleased with them. 2 immerman. One cannot, surely, always pass by, in his walks for health, restoration, or delight, the lone way- side beggar, without occasionally giving him an alms. T. Chalmers. Here is another magistrate propounding from a seat of justice, that it is desirable that every per- son who gives alms in the streets should be fined for that offence. Dickens. The poor beggar hath a just demand of an alms from the rich man, who is guilty of fraud, injustice, and oppression if he does not afford relief accord- ing to his abilities. Swift. People do not care to give alms without some security of their money ; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there. H. Mackenzie. In giving thy alms, inquire not so much into the person, as his necessity ; God looks not so much upon the merits of him that requires, as into the manner of him that relieves ; if the man deserve not, thou hast given to humanity. F. Qwafles. A R O S E Q U O T A T / O M S. 27 ALONE. He that lives alone lives in danger. Awrelius. Alone ! the very word is sad to utter. Michelet. A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone. Swift. They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. Through the wide world he only is alone that lives not for another. S. Rogers. The man who lives alone is apt to forget the individuality of others. Almeida. When traveling alone we may choose the short- est and most convenient road, provided we have prudence to guard against danger. Erskine. It is when we are alone the mind recalls the re- miniscences of the past ; if pleasing, they give us joy; if full of regrets, then how desolate is the heart | C. Battewas. Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but at the same time best know how to prize them the most. Coltom. More and greater sins are committed when men are alone than when they keep themselves in fel- lowship. When Eve, in Paradise, walked alone, then came the evil one and deceived her. I myself have never fallen into more sin than when I was alone. M. Lºwther. ALPHABIET. The alphabet is a first step in language. A. Boyle. The alphabet is the most important of all inven- tions. J. Caww.in. The alphabet of a language is the key by which we unlock the thoughts of its people. Alabaster. Every alphabet now in use may be traced with historical certainty to one original, the Phoenician or Syriac. Chatfield. Why should not a scientific convention harmon- ize the letters of the alphabet with the sounds of the languages } J. A. Weisse. Alphabets, if rightly understood, can be made to tell their own history, as well as the history of those who employed them. Prof. Sayce. On the greatest and most useful of all human in- ventions, that of alphabetical writing, Plato did not look with much complacency. T. B. Macawlay. It is from Cadmus, the inventor of the alphabet, this ingenious art comes to us of painting words, speaking to the eyes, and by the different form of traced figures, giving color and body to the thoughts. De Brébeuf. It is a mathematical demonstration, that these twenty-six letters admit of so many changes in their order, and make such a long roll of different- ly-ranged alphabets, not two of which are alike, that they could not all be exhausted though a mil- lion millions of writers should each write above a thousand alphabets a day for the space of a million millions of years. R. Bentley. ALTERATION. Alteration is partial change. N. Webster. Continued alterations subvert power. N. Lee. Alteration contemplates improvement, and im- provement denotes wisdom. C. Hammond. Alteration, though from worse to better, hath in it inconveniences, and those weighty. R. Hooker. A sudden alteration of opinion, or change of party, is generally looked upon with suspicion, or at least considered an evidence of fickleness of mind. Lord Stowell. The man differs so much from the boy—his prin- ciples, manners, temper, and conduct undergo so great an alteration—that we no longer recognize in him our old playfellow, but find him utterly un- worthy and unfit for the place he once held in our affections. Cowper. AIMBASSADOR. An ambassador beareth no blame. Sir T. Wyat. Ambassadors are the eyes and the ears of the state. Gwicciardini. It is a cowardly government that would punish an ambassador. Al-Kiraja. Make a man of sense an ambassador, and he will need no instruction. Sebastian I, of Portugal. It is contrary to the law of nations to violate the rights of ambassadors. J. Bowvier. Ambassadors must be treatetl with respect ; they are not to be struck or flogged. Peter the Great. An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for the sake of the commonwealth. Wottom. To expose an ambassador to abuse, it is only re- quisite to send him away without an answer. Zeno. An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot. Aemocrates. He that is base at home, will not acquit himself with honor when sent as an ambassador to a for- eign country; for it is not the man but the place that is changed. AEschines. Ambassadors are ordinary when they reside per- manently at a foreign court ; or extraordinary, when sent on a special occasion ; they are gener- ally ordinary in talent and extraordinary in ex- penses, ignorance, and presumption. Dr. Johnson. The ambassador generally has nothing to do ; his office is purely ornamental, being used as a reward for distinguished, political merit ; he is a luminary that reflects the lustre of his country, and his only duty is to shine as bright as he can. J. De Mille, The law of nations requires that princes shall send ambassadors ; and a reason drawn from the nature of things does not permit these ambassadors to depend either on the sovereign to whom they are sent, or on his tribunals ; they are the voice of the prince who sends them, and this voice ought to be free. Montesquiew. 2S - A) A Y’.S. C. O Z Z. A C O W. AIMBITION. Ambition is a glorious cheat. N. P. Willis. Ambition is refined selfishness. Wisdelow. Ambition plagues her proselytes. Sir F. Greville. Ambition is the mind's immodesty. W. Davenant. Ambition is the ground of all evils. Timocles. Ambition is often the ruin of genius. Al-Kirriya. Ambition is not a vice of little people. Montaigne. Ambition has made many hypocrites. Sallust. Ambition knows no gorge but the grave. Venºm. Ambition rightly directed leads to glory. Lee. Ambition is as hollow as the soul of an echo. Prof. M. Baumgarten. Fling away ambition ; by that sin fell the an- gels. Shakspeare. Ambition is the malady of a very extensive ge- nius. Burke. Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man as- pires. H. W. Beecher. Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated. Cormeille. Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays Sir J. Denham. Ambition to rule is more vehement than malice to revenge. Q Macariws. Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy. W. Lilly. Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. T. D. English. Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. Qwintilian. and rivals. Go on with laudable ambition in the path that leads to honor and renown. S. Kirkham. Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. Sir W. Scott. Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots 2 Seneca. Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown. Sir P. Sidney. Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed by enjoyment. T. Otway. The only ambition that is commendable, is zeal in the cause of virtue and good actions. Adalbert. We frequently pass from love to ambition, but seldom return from ambition to love. - Rochefoucauld. One may easily enough guard against ambition till five-and-twenty ; it is not ambition's day. Shenstone. “w *-*-* Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions. Longfellow. AIMBITION. Ambition destroys the pleasures of the present in ardent aspirations after an imaginative future. F. W. Thomas. The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. Wm. Pemm. To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow ; as we advance, it recedes. W. T. Burke. Ambition is torment enough for an enemy ; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want. J. Hall. Ambition is like a tread-wheel ; it knows no limits; you no sooner get to the end of it than you begin again. H. W. Shaw. Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. L’Estrange. Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme, to be sublimely great, or to be nothing. T. Southerm. Ambition is full of distractions ; it teems with stratagems, and is swelled with expectations as with a tympany. Jeremy Taylor. Ambition often puts men upon doing the mean- est offices ; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. Swift. Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need Of that which it hath not. Sir W. Raleigh. Ambition is a lottery, where however uneven the chances, there are some prizes ; but in dissipa- tion every one draws a blank. S. Montague. How often is the ambitious man mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought ! Addison. Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it 3 It is a wind, who can fathom it ! It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues there- Of 2 N. Cawssim. A slave has but one master ; the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his for- tune. Brwyðre. What complicated wretchedness follows the train of ambition—contempt of human suffering, countries depopulated, and fields deluged with blood | J. Abercrombie. Blind ambition forces wretched men to overleap the line of justice, and sometimes to climb night and day with unwearied steps toward wealth and power. Lucretius. Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual ; for ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love. H. Taylor. The ambitious person must rise early, and sit up late, and pursue his design with constant, indefati- gable attendance ; he must be infinitely patient and servile. R. South. P AE O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 29 AMIBITION. The road ambition travels is too narrow for friendship, too crooked for love, too rugged for honesty, and too dark for conscience. Acropolita. Ambition is a rebel both to the soul and reason ; it enforces all laws, all conscience ; it treads on re- ligion, and offers violence to nature's self. Jonson. Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or Squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. H. Burton. The modesty of certain ambitious persons con- sists in becoming great without making too much noise ; it may be said that they advance in the world on tiptoe. Voltaire. There is a native easiness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it tem- porarily gains its object. J. W. Simons. Whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight, they fight from ambition, which is so power- ful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied. Machiavelli. Where ambition can be so happy as to cover its enterprise even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of all human passions. Hume. To be desirous of doing valorous deeds for the benefit of mankind is a praiseworthy ambition; but to raise one's self to a high position for selfish ends is certainly a most unworthy ambition. Mencius. Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pesti- lence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind ; none of them surely for our admira- tion. W. S. Landor. Ambition is a mental dropsy, which keeps con- tinually swelling and increasing until it kills its victim. Ambition is often overtaken by calamity, because it is not aware of its pursuer, and never looks behind. Chatfield. Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth ; she begins by accumulating power as a means to hap- piness, and she finishes by continuing to accumu- late it as an end. Colton. Without ambition, we creep through life with a snail-like pace, unnoticed and unknown ; with it, we soar like the eagle, take a station above our fellow men, and often wield Sceptres and govern nations by our nod. J. Bartlett. When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous ; and, if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch themselves in their own Snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction. F. Qwarles. Why dost thou court ambition, the most baneful of deities 2 Do it not, she is an unjust goddess ; for often hath she entered into houses and flourishing cities, and issued forth again, bringing destruction on those who welcomed her. Euripides. AIMBITION. Ambition is like choler, which is a humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped ; but if it be stopped, and cannot have its way, it becometh fiery and thereby malign and venomous. Lord Bacom. For a fit of ambition, go into a churchyard and read the grave-stones ; they will tell you the end of ambition. The grave will soon be your cham- ber-bed, the earth your pillow, corruption your father, and the worm your mother. Mrs. Hoey. Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the Soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or a home that is filled with ashes. W. G. Simºns, Ambition, that high and glorious passion, which makes such havoc among the sons of men, arises from a proud desire of honor and distinction, and, when the splendid trappings in which it is usually caparisoned are removed, it will be found to consist of the mean materials of envy, pride, and covet- OllSIless. R. Burtom. Man is the creature of interest and ambition : his nature leads him forth into the struggle and bustle of the world ; love is but the embellish- ment of his early life, or a song piped in the inter- val of the acts ; he seeks for fame, for fortune, for space in the world's thoughts, and dominion over his fellow-men. W. Irving. As long as the world lasts, and honor and virtue and industry have reputation in the world, there will be ambition, emulation, and appetite in the best and most accomplished men who live in it ; if there should not be, more barbarity and vice and wickedness would cover every nation of the world than it yet suffers under. Clarendon. Say what we will, we may be sure that ambi- tion is an error ; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed ; it steals away the freshness of life ; it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments: it shuts our souls to our own youth ; and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years. Bulwer. Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases. High seats are never but uneasy, and crowns are always stuffed with thorns. T. Brooks. Those great objects of self-interest, of which the loss or acquisition quite changes the rank of the person, are the objects of the passion, properly called ambition ; a passion which, when it keeps within the bounds of prudence and justice, is al- ways admired in the world, and has even some- times a certain irregular greatness which dazzles the imagination when it passes the limits of both these virtues, and is not only unjust, but extrava- gant. Adam Smith. 30 A) A Y'S CO Z Z. A C O AV. AIMIENDIMIENT. Amendment is repentance. William Brown. Amendment is entitled to reward. St. Bernard. Amendment should follow closely on repent- 8,1] Cé. Julius Alberoni. There are plenty of things that need amend- ment. C. A. Dana. Happy is he who doth amend himself without others' help. Patrick Adamson. The wise man blushes at his faults, but is not ashamed to amend them. Confucius. If reproaches are true let them be cause for amendment of thy conduct. Socrates. The judicious amendment of an obnoxious law is sometimes better than its repeal. J. Leverett. That sovereign is a tyrant who refuses to sub- mit to the amendment of an unjust law. J. Pym. It will often happen when a thing is originally wrong, that amendments do not make it right : but more often they do as much mischief in one way as good in another. T. Paine. AMIABILITY. Practice amiability. Lord Hyde. Amiability shines by its own light. Horace. Be amiable, that thou mayest be loved. Ovid. Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools. Miss M. E. Braddon. An amiable disposition is in itself a good letter of introduction. Lady Lwmley. How easy it is to be amiable in the midst of happiness and Success. Mme. Swetchine. We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man. Cicero. The man who is amiable will make almost as ma- my friends as he does acquaintances. Chesterfield. Amiable people, while they are more liable to imposition in casual contact with the world, yet radiate so much of mental sunshine that they are reflected in all appreciative hearts. Mme. Delwzy. That constant desire of being amiable, which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this, that it scarcely ever fails of attaining its ends, when not disgraced by affection. Fielding. Amiability is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the vir- tues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood. W. G. Simms. Religious young men, be amiable as well as pious ; not only your happiness, but your useful- ness requires it ; you know that vice has not unfre- quently its attractions in the amiabilities with which it is associated, and that some are reconciled to it on this ground. J. A. James. AMINESTY. Amnesty is a noble word. AEschimes. A general amnesty may add strength to the State. Thrasybulus. A proclamation of amnesty is a pleasing docu- ment to write. Coesar. After a general amnesty has been passed, let past offenses be forgotten. Howell. It is better to grant an amnesty to all, than that innocent persons perish with the guilty. Alphonsus. Sometimes a general amnesty will win back a revolted province, when undue severity would Only confirm its loss to the state. Mazarine. A well-timed amnesty often recalls an offending power to its senses, and gives time for the ruling passions to subside, and to reconsider the claims they had upon their supposed enemy. Onesic ritus. AIMUSEMENT. Amusement allures and deceives us. Pascal. Amusement should not be indulged in at the ex- pense of virtue. Queen Kiam. Even the very amusements of a man of fortune should be founded in utility. W. Gilpin. The mind ought sometimes to be amused, that it may the better return to thought. Phaedrus. Those amusements should be selected which, while they interest the mind, afford exercise to the body. Dr. Rush. Joining in the amusement of others is, in our social state, the next thing to sympathy in their distresses. |W. S. Lamdor. Amusements, though they be of an innocent kind, require steady government to keep them within a due and limited province. H. Blair. Encourage such innocent amusements as may disembitter the minds of men, and make them mutually rejoice in the same agreeable satisfac- tions. Addison. Mere innocent amusement is in itself a good, when it interferes with no greater, especially as it may occupy the place of some other that may not be innocent. R. Whately. If those who are the enemies of innocent amuse- ments had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring and youth ; the former from the year, the latter from human life. Balzac. It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement ; if we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of all its flowers, and blot out its pleasant sunshine. E. H. Chapin. It were unjust and ungrateful to conceive that the amusements of life are altogether forbidden by its beneficent Author; they are the wells of the desert ; the kind resting-places in which toil may relax, in which the weary spirit may recover its tone, and where the desponding mind may resume its strength and its hopes. A. Alison. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 31 AIMUSEMENT. - If man were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of study or business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by pa- ralysis. Herodotus. The habit of dissipating every serious thought by a succession of agreeable Sensations is as fatal to happiness as to virtue ; for when amusement is universally substituted for objects of moral and mental interest, we lose all that elevates our enjoy- ments above the scale of childish pleasure. Amma M. Porter. There is a certain limit to be observed even in our amusements, that we do not abandon ourselves too much to a life of pleasure, and carried away by such a life sink into immorality ; sport and merriment are at times allowable ; but we must enjoy them as we do sleep and other kinds of repose when we have performed our weighty and impor- tant affairs. Cicero. In studying the character of a people, ourinquiry should be, what were their amusements 2 We here get hold of great features, which often unriddle the rest. In the finer tracts of the temperate re- gions of the earth, you meet amusements that are elegant, and pleasures that are refined ; departing on either hand to the south, or to the north, you find taste to degenerate, and gratifications to become impure. F. W. Robertson. Amusements are the most properly applied, to ease and relieve those who are oppressed, by being too much employed ; those that are idle have no need of them, and yet they, above all others, give themselves up to them ; to unbend our thoughts, when they are too much stretched by our cares, is not more natural than it is necessary; but to turn our whole life into a holiday, is not only ridiculous, but destroyeth pleasure instead of promoting it. Sir H. Saville. Innocent amusements are such as excite moder- ately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth ; such as refresh, in- stead of exhausting the system : such as recur frequently, rather than continue long ; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit ; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety ; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused. W. E. Channing. That amusement is necessary to man, the most superficial observation of his conduct and pursuits may convince us. The Creator never implanted in the hearts of all his intelligent creatures one Common universal appetite without some corres- ponding necessity ; and that He has given them an instinctive appetite for amusement as strongly as any other which we labor to gratify, may be clear- ly perceived in the efforts of infancy, in the exertions of youth, in the pursuits of manhood, in the feeble endeavors of old age, and in the pastimes which, even the uninstructed savage nations have invented for their relaxation and delight. S. F. Bradford. ANALOGY. You may prove anything by analogy. W. Pitt. Analogy darts away to the most sublime disco- Veries. Sidney Smith. Analogy is milk for babes, but abstract truths are strong meat. Tupper. Analogy, though it tends to convince, is no proof as a matter of fact. W. Gilpin. A desire to trace real or imaginary analogies be- tween different systems of nature is shown by the students of almost every science. R. P. WCL)-cl. Analogy, although it is not infallible, is yet that telescope of the mind by which it is marvellously assisted in the discovery of both physical and moral truths. Colton. Analogy is a likeness between things not in them- selves, but in their relation to certain other things: either in their position, or in their use, or any other circumstances. R. Whately. Although there is an almost infinite variety in the parts of the creation, yet there is a general analogy running through and connecting all the parts into one scheme, one design, one whole. J. Ferguson. If there be an amalogy or likeness between that system of things and dispensation of Providence which revelation informs us of, and that system of things which experience, together with reason, in- forms us of that is, the known course of nature —it is a presumption that they both have the same Author and Cause. Bishop Butler. ANALYSIS. º Analysis is in general the instrument of inven- tion. T. Galloway. The position of a teacher is one which requires the constant analysis of the subject of his teaching. E. D. Mansfield. The investigation of difficult things by the me- thod of analysis, ought ever to precede the method of composition. Sir I. Newton. In the analytic method of reasoning we have a sensible pleasure, like mounting upward, which is more agreeable to the imaginative than the syn- thetic. Rames. Analysis and synthesis, though commonly treated as two different methods, are, if properly under- stood, only the two mecessary parts of the same method. Sir W. Hamilton. The word analysis signifies the general and par- ticular heads of a discourse, with their mutual con- nections, both co-ordinate and subordinate, drawn out into one or more tables. I. Watts, Philosophers hasten too much from the analytic to the synthetic method ; that is, they draw general conclusions from too small a number of particular observations and experiments. Bolingbroke, In the study of the natural laws of the universe, analysis throws a new light, and unveils to our eyes its past and future conditions, and affords one of the noblest of the pleasures reserved for the human I’8,Ce. Laplace. 32 AX A V 'S CO /, / A C O AW. ANARCHY. - There is no greater ill than anarchy. Sophocles. In a state of anarchy power is the measure of right. Lucanus. Fear not anarchy ; for what is government but lawful robbery : Brissot. Anarchy may right itself; but tyranny grows more tyrannical. J. Bradshaw. Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy. AEsop. Anarchy leaves the people a prey to foreign in- vasion and domestic violence. W. Dodd. An anarchist is a social Ishmaelite, whose hand is against every man, and every man's hand against him. C. D. Drake. Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny ; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them. When there is no law or supreme power, or when the laws are not efficient, and individuals do what they please with impunity, that is anarchy. N. Webster. Anarchy invites to usurpation ; but no Sooner is the usurper raised to power, than he puts forth every energy to banish the very evil by which he has obtained his supremacy. W. Bent. There is a natural and necessary progression from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny, and arbitrary power is most easily es- tablished on the ruins of liberty abused to licen- tiousness. Washington. Society could not exist under an anarchy, it would be self-destructive ; for a nation without laws is like a business without a system of conduct- ing it ; the one falls into political confusion for the want of government, the other to financial ruin for the want of management. James Ellis. We find that whenever men have become hearti- ly wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionably great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism, like ship- wrecked mariners clinging to a bare and rugged rock as a refuge from the waves. R. Whately. The nature of anarchy has never been sufficiently understood ; it is undoubtedly a horrible calamity, but it is less horrible than despotism. Where anar- chy has slain its hundreds, despotism has sacrificed its millions. Anarchy is a short-lived mischief, while despotism is all but immortal ; it is to des- potism that anarchy is indebted for its sting. P. Godwin. Anarchy is preferable to despotism ; for with no goverment we may defend our person and proper- ty, and avenge our wrongs; or at least we may have the right to try to do this ; but under a legal- ized despotism any such attempt is treason, and we are not only punished for remonstrating against injustice, or uniting with friends for self-defence, but we are actually taxed to support and maintain our oppressors while committing the most grievous wrongs against us. E. P. Day. Milton. ANATOMY. Anatomy has laid open the astonishing artifice of the Creator. H. Whistlecraft. I conceive some knowledge of anatomy to be a requisite part of female education. Mrs. Sigowrney. Anatomical knowledge must have been acciden- tally acquired by the earliest inhabitants of the globe. Galen. A man must be a sage before he can understand the amatomy of his body, which Heaven has con- ferred on him. Mencius. It is to those only who are skilled in anatomy that we ourselves would trust our health in case of disease, or our persons in any great operation. T. Copeland. Those who were skillful in anatomy among the ancients, concluded from the outward and inward make of a human body, that it was the work of a Being transcendentally wise and powerful. Steele. It is shameful for man to rest in ignorance of the anatomy of his own body, especially when the knowledge of it mainly conduces to his welfare, and directs his application of his own powers. - Melancthom. The dryest of all the natural sciences is anatomy: it is a valley of dry domes ; yet to an ancient anato- mist, Galen, every bone of the skeleton was a verse, and every joint a stanza in a hymn of praise to God. Rev. E. Thomson. Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I be- lieve, will never be an atheist ; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature. Lord Herbert. Since the circulation of the blood has been found out by our modern anatomists, we see new won- ders in the human frame, and discern several im- portant uses for those parts, of which uses the an- cients knew nothing. Addisom. Astronomy and anatomy are the two sciences which present to our minds most significantly the two grand characteristics of the Creator ; the One, His immensity, by the distance, size, and number of the heavenly bodies ; the other, His infinite in- telligence, by the mechanism of animate beings. Fontenelle. The labors of the comparative anatomists con- tinually tend to bring to light examples of struct- ures, designed with reference to especial purposes, of the most striking and forcible description ; and thus provide for the moralist and divine a store- house of facts peculiarly adapted to the illustration of the doctrine of final causes. Richard Owen. In the study of anatomy we behold the nerves, the muscles, the bones, the beautiful structure of the human frame; but no one has unfolded a Satis- factory solution of their operations or connection. The corpse is but a dust, but it often surpasses in perfection of machinery that of living men, and the more we study man and his anatomy, the more there seems to be no necessary connection between the flesh and the spirit. T. B. Thorpe. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 33 ANCESTRY. Boast not of thy ancestry. Demcullict. Noble ancestry demands noble issue. P. Syrus. Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors. J. Warrem. We ought to pity Adam because he had no an- cestors. Duke of Somerset. Whoever serves his country well has no meed of ancestors. Voltaire. It is not ancestry, but virtue, that makes a man truly noble. Emperor Claudiws. Let your ancestors' memory be ever remembered with respect. |Wan Chang. Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. Lucanus. He who boasts of his ancestors boasts of what does not properly belong to him. Seneca. Boast not of the titles of your ancestors ; they are their possessions, none of yours. Ben Jomson. Ancestors have sometimes been more solicitous to keep up the breed of their dogs and horses, than their children. Goldsmith. If it is fortune to be of noble ancestry, it is not less to be such as that people do not care whether you are noble or ignoble. Bruyère. The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestors, is like a potato, the better part of which is under ground. Sir T. Overbwry. We do not always follow the steps of our ances- tors ; careless habits, the nature of the times, everything makes us degenerate. La Fontaine. Those who depend on the merits of their ances- tors, may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to pro- duce. * I. Barrow. Pride of ancestry is a natural and ennobling sentiment ; and the man who does not feel it will contribute nothing of which posterity will be able to boast. Thomas Kinsella. I think every man would like to come of an an- cient and honorable race ; as you like your father to be an honorable man, why not your grandfather and his ancestors before him : W. M. Thackeray. The character of the reputed ancestors of some men has made it possible for their descendants to be vicious in the extreme, without being degener- ate ; and there are some hereditary strokes of character by which a family may be as clearly distinguished, as by the blackest features of the human face. Junius. There may be, and there often is, indeed, a re- gard for ancestry, which nourishes only a weak pride ; as there is also a care for posterity, which only disguises an habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and groveling vanity ; but there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates the character and im- proves the heart. D. Webster. ANCIENTS. We revere the ancients. Plaw.tws. It is profit to study the ancients. Earl Rivers. Why stand in awe of the ancients : Confucius. In the philosophy of history the moderns have very far surpassed the ancients. T. B. Macawlay. Ancient law-givers studied the nature of man, and formed his mind to virtue and glory. Piomingo. We meet with more raillery among the moderns, but more good sense among the ancients. Addison. The ancients are dead bones used for the purpose knocking down live flesh, or in assaulting our Con- temporaries by comparison with them. Chatfield. Among the ancients there was not much delicacy of breeding, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or coun- terfeit. Hwºme. From the sublime and lofty spirit of the ancients there flow certain emanations, like vapors from the sacred vents, which penetrate imperceptibly into the breasts of imitators, inspiring those who are not distinguished for genius with the fire and vigor of others. Longinus. We must view everything relating to the ancients with impartiality; their religion was foolish; their chemistry, astronomy, and matural philosophy were a set of dry, feeble efforts. Our natural phi- losophy is as superior to their system as the accents of an orator to the lispings of a child. T. Dwight. ANECDOTES. All anecdotes are lies, De Qwincey. An anecdote is a story not yet published. Cicero. The anecdotes of an age illustrate the manners and morals of an age. 4. Nicetas. Interesting anecdotes afford examples which may be of use in our own conduct. Melmoth. A single anecdote leads us more into the genius of a manthan a multiplicity of volumes. I. Disraeli. Why have we such a pious shrinking from the introduction into a sermon of a pertinent and tel- ling anecdote % D. Moore. Anecdotes, if well chosen and also well written, would precede common histories, which are but repetitions of no uncommon events. John Timbs. Anecdotes often tell well, and that makes them fashionable ; a just taste will direct you whether it will be best to fly your anecdote, or keep it in a cage ; keep it in a cage by all means if you are a party in it. Dr. Sturtevant. Amecdotes are not to be despised ; the world of anecdote is no doubt a very large and varied one, to it the very greatest minds have not disdained to contribute some portion of their stores ; it is of— ten by anecdote that we become acquainted with the nicer and finer details, the more unknown and remote charcteristics of men and women, of whom we desire to know all that carſ be known. Hood. 3 34 AJ A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. ANGELS. Angels surround the throne of God. A. Knapp. Angels are winged with God's power. Solom. We shall never be like angels till our passion dies. T. Decker. Angels worship God with purity and love ; men, with fear and trembling. James Ellis. Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth. Virgil. If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep. G. D. Prentice. Every sincere believer is under the constant care and never-failing patronage of the highest and greatest of the angels. Earl Stanhope. The angels of heaven, who are spirits, see God present to them ; but we on earth can only see Him through a glass darkly. Jones of Nayland. The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty, but right with them and with us is one and the same thing. E. H. Chapin. The historical Scriptures relate to us the myste- rious intervention of angels in the affairs of this world, in those of the church, and those of heaven. R. Hall. The obedience of men is to imitate the obedience of angels, and rational beings on earth are to live unto God, as rational beings in heaven live unto Him. W. Law. The guardian angel of life sometimes flies so high that man cannot see it : but he always is looking down upon us, and will soon hover nearer to us. Richter. Man is neither an angel nor a brute, and as bad luck would have it, the very attempt to raise him to the level of the former sinks him to that of the latter. Pascal. The supposition that angels assume bodies need not startle us, since some of the most ancient and most learned fathers seemed to believe that they had bodies. J. Locke. The very names assigned to angels by their Creator, convey to us ideas pre-eminently pleas- ing, fitted to captivate the heart, and exalt the imagination ; ideas which dispel gloom, banish de- spondency, enliven hope, and awaken sincere and unmingled joy. T. Dwight. Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body ; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is in- finite and uncreated. J. C. Hare. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual, the glorious inhabitants of those sacred palaces where there is nothing but light and immortality ; no shadow of matter for tears, discontentments, griefs, and uncomfortable passions to work upon ; but all joy, tranquility, and peace, even for ever and ever, do dwell. R. Hooker. AINGER. - Anger is the ruin of clemency. Al-Kirriya. Stadius. Anger makes a man differ from himself. Thales. Anger manages everything badly. Anger makes men witty, but it keeps them poor. Queen Elizabeth. Anger is transient hatred ; or, at least, very like it. R. Sowth. To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is bet- ter. J. Edwards. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. Cato. Anger begins with folly, and ends with repent- all Cé. Pythagoras. Do not allow thyself to be carried away by anger. Zoroaster. Our own anger hurts us more than the acts of others. J. M. Peebles. To be angry is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves. Pope. A married couple should not both be angry at the same time. M. Henry. He overcometh a stout enemy that overcometh his own anger. Chilo. He that will be angry for anything, will be an- gry for nothing. Sallust. Anger is like rain, which breaks itself upon that on which it falls. Seneca. Anger is opposed to learning ; it can be best sub- dued by wisdom. J. Al Kendi. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. T. Jefferson. When a man is wrong and will not admit it, he always gets angry. Judge Haliburton. An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. Publius Syrus. Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another. P. Qwesnel. On the heels of folly treadeth shame; at the back of anger standeth remorse. R. Dodsley. Anger is like unto a cloud, that maketh every- thing seem bigger than it is. Solom. He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. T. Secker. Anger has some claim to indulgence, and railing is usually a relief to the mind. Junius. He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. Plato. Be careful to discountenance in children any- thing that looks like furious anger. Tillotson. The angry man meditating upon mischief, think- eth that he hath good counsel in hand. G. Qwa. Anger is blood poured and perplexed into a froth ; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath. Sir W. Davemant. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 35 ANGER. If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. Seneca. Anger springs from injury done unto us; but hatred oftentimes is conceived of no Occasion. Aristotle. As disordinate anger is a fault, so is sometimes the want of moderate choler, or rather hatred of vice. J. A. Quenstedt. The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth. Dryden. Women are sooner angry than men, the sick sooner than the healthy, and old men sooner than young men. Hermes. Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present pur- pose of revenge. J. Locke. Wise anger is like fire from the flint ; there is great ado to bring it out ; and when it does come, it is out again immediately. M. Henry. Anger is a noble infirmity, the generous failing of the just, the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue. Tupper. Consider how much more you always suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. Awrelius. Be ye angry, and sin not ; therefore all anger is not sinful ; I suppose because some degree of it, and upon some occasions, is inevitable. Paley. When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way ; the man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely. R. Savage. Beware of him that is slow to anger ; anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept ; abused patience turns to fury. F. Qwarles. A man can as easily be intoxicated with anger, as with wine ; both produce a temporary insanity, and during the paroxysm, he should be avoided as a madman. J. Bartlett. As a conquered rebellion strengthens a govern- men; J, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases, so anger, when re- moved, often gives new life to affection. Fielding. Anger is the most impotent passion that accom- panies the mind of man ; it effects nothing it goes about ; and hurts the man who is possessed by it, more than any other against whom it is directed. Clarendon. Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry ; if he has charged you with any- thing, you had better look it up ; anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not. H. W. Beeche)". Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill ; but to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored, will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger. Plutarch. ANGER." He who cannot control his angry passions, will wish undone what mad resentment shall have prompted, while he hastems to gratify his feelings of insatiate hate. Horace. The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves, and we injure our own cause in the opinion of the world, when we too passionately and eagerly de- fend it. Colton. Anger is certainly a kind of basemess; as it ap- pears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns—children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must carry their anger rather with scorn than fear. Lord Bacon. As fire, being kindled but with a small spark, often worketh great hurt and damage, because the fierceness thereof was not at the first abated; so anger, being harbored in the heart breaketh forth often into much cruelty. Aristarchºws. Consider that anger is a professed enemy to coun- Sel; it is a direct storm, in which no man can be heard to speak or call from without, and is not to be suppressed but by something which is as inward as itself, and more habitual. Jeremy Taylor. To be angry about trifles is mean and childish: to rage and be furious is brutish ; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils ; but to prevent and suppress rising re- sentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. º I. Watts. As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earth- quake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities : so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him ; danger and destruction wait on his hand. R. Dodsley. Let the person disposed to excessive anger, re- peat the Lord's prayer, Or, if he be indisposed to do this, let him count twenty ; the action of the or- gans of speech, employed in either, will serve to convey off a portion of excitement from his mind, as well as to give time for the reflux of blood from the brain. Dr. Rush. Never do anything that can denote an angry mind ; for, although everybody is born with a cer- tain degree of passion, and, from untoward cir- cumstances, will sometimes feel its operation, yet a sensible man or woman will never allow it to be discovered. Check and restrain it ; never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided ; and always avoid saying anything that you may wish unsaid. Lord Collingwood. There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger ? It is then no longer cor- rection but revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physi- cian who should be animated against and enraged at his patient : Montaigne. 36 JD A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. AINGLING. Angling is an innocent cruelty. G. Parker. An angler is a piscatory assassin. L. C. Beck. Angling is a line with a bait at the One end and a fool at the other. Franklin. God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. I. Walton. In angling, always have your hook ready : for there are fish where you least expect them. Ovid. Everything appertaining to the angler's art is cowardly, cruel, treacherous, and cat-like. Chatfield. The pleasantest angling is to see the fish cut with her golden oars the silver stream, and greedily de- vour the treacherous bait. Shakspeare. Satan is a subtle angler, and uses great cunning in the casting of his net, and searching out the vein of water, where every one is delighted. St. Basil. To justify the cruel sport of angling let us have recourse to sophistry : “Big fish devour the little ones,” saith the proverb : therefore, it is only a question whether we shall make for ourselves a mice meal out of the finny tribe, or leave them to be devoured by ugly sharks. E. P. Day. I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract motions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures, in the tranquil cruelty of angling ; I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement, by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery practised toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the ut- most. - Bulwer. ANGUISH. We are in love with anguish. R. Dodsley. Anguish may be dispelled by mercy. E. Wagner. To relieve anguish of mind, patients often inflict pain upon themselves. Dr. Rush. More hearts pine away in secret anguish than for any other calamity in life. T. Young. Anguish is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter long- ing to lie down and die. Miss M. E. Braddon. Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide ; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more importance to our hap- piness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive. Colton. Anguish arises from the reflection on the evil that is past ; thus the mother has her peculiar anx- ities for her child, while rearing it in its infant state ; the father has his anxiety for its welfare on its entrance into the world ; but they both suffer the deepest anguish when their child disappoints their dearest hopes, by running a career of vice, and finishing its wicked course by an untimely, and Sometimes ignominious end. G. Crabb. ANIMALS. An animal is the slave of man. Bºwmboldt. Improvable reason is the distinction between man and the animal. T. Binney. Could we understand the language of animals, how instructive would be a dialogue of dogs. JEudoacws. Some animals are so faithful that I hesitate to call them brutes, and therefore designate them as members of the mute creation. Lord Erskime. Animals in their generation are wiser than the Sons of men ; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Addison. Animals, in their natural language of articulate Sounds and gestures, find a facility of expression amply sufficient to serve the limited purpose of their creation. C. M. Burmett. He that can look with rapture upon the agonies of an unoffending and unresisting animal, will soon learn to view the sufferings of a fellow-creature with indifference. Dr. Poº"?”. The perfections of animals afford perpetual scope for reflection and improvement. Every individual of the vast host of animated creation, whether bird, beast, fish, or insect, displays qualities fitted with unerring precision to its wants. Mac Cormac. Human sagacity, stimulated by human wants, seizes first on the nearest natural assistant. The power of his own arm is an early lesson among the studies of primitive man ; this is animal strength ; and from this he rises to the conception of employ- ing, for his own use, the strength of other animals. D. Webster. The notion that animals are machines is too absurd to merit refutation. Many animals are capable of balancing motives, which is a pretty high degree of reason. Young animals examine all objects; the first period of their lives seems dedicated to study ; thus they gradually improve their faculties, and acquire a knowledge of the ob- jects which surround them. Henry Bergh. Animals, in our degenerate age, are every day perishing under the hands of barbarity, without notice, without mercy; famished, as if hunger was an evil: mauled, as if they had no sense of pain ; and hurried about incessantly from day to day, as if excessive toil were no plague, or extreme weari- ness were no degree of suffering ; surely, the sen- sibility of brutes entitles them to a milder treat- ment than they usually meet with from hard and unthinking wretches. A. Dean. In all the visible corporeal world we see no chasms or gaps ; there are fishes that have wings, and are strangers to the airy region ; there are animals so near of kin both to birds and beasts that they are in the middle between both ; amphibi- ous animals link the terrestrial and aquatic to- gether ; the animal and vegetable kingdoms are so nearly joined, that if you take the lowest of the one and highest of the other, there will scarce be perceived any great difference between them. J. Locke. A R O S E O U O 7' A T / O M S. 37 AINIMIOSITY. Animosity is the child of hate. S. Warren. He who is guided by a spirit of animosity is un- fit to have any command over others. G. Crabb. Heat and animosity may sharpen the wits; they never strengthen the understanding, guide the judgment, nor improve the heart. Dr. Johnson. Men who were far asunder will come nearer and nearer in the course of life, if they have strength enough to quell, or good Sense enough to assuage, their earlier animosities. Addison. Animosities carried too far expose those who yield to them to a fate analogous to that of the fish hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried un- der and drowned by it. Bovee. The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave to its animosity; inveterate antipa- thies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others should be excluded ; and, in place of them, just and amicable feelings toward all should be cultivated. Washington. ANNIHILATION. Annihilation is an absurdity in terms. Palissy, Annihilation is God's mercy to the wicked. Nicom. It is impossible for a body to be utterly annihi- lated. Lord Bacon. Nothing whatever is annihilated ; matter, like an eternal river, still rolls on without any diminu- tion. Rowcher. A positive act of the Creator is necessary to the annihilation of a substance ; the annihilation of a being that subsists, requires an act of power simi- lar to that which gave it existence at first. Sawrim. If a piece of silver be immersed in diluted nitre, all the characteristics which distinguish it as a metal, are annihilated. Must we conclude it is an- nihilated ? Put some pieces of copper into the so- lution, and the silver will re-appear in small bril- liant metallic crystals. Though solution is one of the simplest processes of nature, the limited facul- ties of man will not permit him to comprehend the mode in which it operates. Dr. J. Leland. ANSWER, Give an answer promptly. Perionder. No answer is itself an answer. Zemo. Every reply is an answer, but every answer is not a reply. G. F. Grohom. No answer to a sentinel's challenge calls for an answer of lead. Joseph Hooker. A personal answer ought to have three qualities: be pertinent to the matter in hand, be absolute and unconditional, be clear and certain. Ayliffe. When a man asks me a question, I have it in my power to answer, or be silent ; to answer softly or roughly, in terms of respect, or in terms of con- tempt. Beattie. ANTICIPATION. Boast not of your anticipations. Periander. Most miseries lie in anticipation. Balzac. Indulge not in gloomy anticipation. T. Ewing. It is better to anticipate than be anticipated by others. G. Vincente. Half of suffering is anticipation of possible or probable evil. E. P. Roe. Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest. Goethe. The services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality SO many anticipated kindnesses to our- selves. - Rochefoucauld. I would not anticipate the relish of any happi- ness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives. Addison. There is nothing so wretched and foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness to expect evil before it arrives | Seneca. Men spend their lives in anticipations, in deter- mining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have time ; but the present time has an advantage over every other—it is our own, Colton. In Our pursuit of the things of this world, we an- ticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them ; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation. nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing. Tillotson. ANTIQUARY. An antiquary enjoys the past. L. Lam2i. An antiquary knows the value of everything except time. La Fontaine. To the antiquarian nothing is useful until time has rendered it useless. P. Quesnel. An antiquary is one that has his being in this age, but his life and conversation is in the days of old. S. Butler. The antiquarians are for cramping their subject into as narrow space as they can ; and for redu- cing the whole extent of a science into a few gen- eral maxims. Addison. A thorough-paced antiquary not only remem- bers what other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think it is proper to remember. Colton. I do by no means advise you to throw away your time in ransacking, like a dull antiquarian, the minute and unimportant parts of remote and fabulous times. Let blockheads read what block- heads wrote. Chesterfield. An antiquary is too often the collector of valua- bles that are worth nothing, and a recollector of all that time has been glad to forget ; his choice specimens have become rarities, simply because they were never worth preserving ; and he at- taches present importance to them in exact pro- portion to their former insignificance. Chatfield. 38 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. ANTIQUITY. Antiquity was once new. Tacitus. Antiquity is the history of monstrosities. Gawbil. Antiquity is not always a mark of verity. Juda. Many things called new are of the veriest an- tiquity. Lord Bacon. Antiquity I like its ruins better than its con- structions. Jowbert. Antiquity, the nearer it was to its divine origin, perhaps perceived more clearly what things were true. Cicero. Antiquity is the stalking-horse on which knaves and bigots invariably mount, when they want to ride over the timid and credulous. Chatfield. In matters of antiquity, if their originals escape due relation, they fall into great obscurities, and such as future ages Seldom reduce into resolution. - Sir T. Browne. It is with antiquity as with ancestry ; nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation. Colton. He who values things on their antiquity, values wrongfully ; forgetting that the most modern are really the most ancient of all things in the world, like those that reckon their pounds before their shillings and pence. J. Butler. Considering the casualties of wars, transmuta- tions, especially that of the general flood, there might probably be an obliteration of all those monuments of antiquity that ages precedent at some time have yielded. Sir M. Hale. Antiquity what is it but man's authority born some ages before us? Those things which we reve- rence for antiquity, what were they at their first birth ? Were they false ? Time cannot make them true. Were they true 3 Time cannot make them more true. J. Hales. Antiquity | Thou wondrous charm, what art thou, that being nothing, art everything ? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity ; then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to blind veneration— thou thyself being flat, jejune, modern ? C. Lamb. Who would wish for an origin obscured in the darkness of antiquity ? Who would wish for other emblazoning of his country's heraldry, or other ornaments of her genealogy, than to be able to say that her first existence was with intelligence, her first breath the inspiration of liberty, her first principle the truth of divine religion ? D. Webster. The volumes of antiquity, like metals, may well serve to amuse the curious ; but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use ; the former are often prized above their intrinsic value, and kept with care ; the latter seldom pass for more than they are worth, and are often subject to the mer- ciless hands of sweating critics and clipping com- pilers. Goldsmith. scattered sentences. ANXIETY. Anxiety always steps on itself. H. W. Shaw. The virtuous are free from anxiety. Confucius. Anxiety often lies in the imagination. G. Crabb. The morrow shall have its own anxieties. J. Maclawrim. The mind that is too anxious about the future is wretched. Seneca. The souls of many that yesterday were full of joy are now shadowed with anxiety. Peabody. We generally obtain very especially what we are not too anxious to obtain. Rowsseau. To paint the miseries of deep-seated and long- cherished anxiety, were an easy, but at the same time, a useless task. H. Martyn. Almost all men are over-anxious ; no sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. S. Rogers. The poor man seeth not the vexations and anxi- ties of the rich, he feeleth not the difficulties and perplexities of power, neither knoweth he the wearisomeness of leisure ; and therefore it is that he repineth at his own lot. R. Dodsley. Anxiety is the poison of human life : it is the parent of many sins, and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, where you may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappoint- ment, what means this restless stir and commotion of mind 2 Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events 3 H. Blair. A PATHIY. Apathy borders upon folly. Publius Syrus. In sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found. Hume. Mental apathy is stoicism, a calmness of mind incapable of being ruffled by pleasure, pain, or passion. N. Webster. As the passions are the springs of most of our actions, a state of apathy has come to signify a sort of moral inertia, the absence of all activity or energy. According to the stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. W. Fleming. APHORISM. Aphorisms are portable wisdom. W. R. Alger. A genuine aphorism is truth done up in a small package. H. W. Shaw, The most ancient inquiries into truth were wont to throw their knowledge into aphorisms, or short, Lord Bacon. The aphorisms of wise and excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds. The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse senti- ment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in few words. Dr. Johnson. Tillotson. . A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 39 APOCRAPHA. The Apocryphal books are not canonical. Origen. The Apocrypha is without authority of belief. J. Wycliffe. There is an intellectual value in certain portions of the Apocrypha. Bulwer. Many of those books called Apocryphal bear evi- dence of being inspired by God. St. Awgustine. Some of the books of the Apocrapha contain a great deal of good sense and truth. Burke. We hold not the Apocrypha for sacred, as we do the Holy Scripture, but for human composi- tions. R. Hooker. Those books, denominated Apocryphal, are to be used by the church for instruction, not for estab- lishing of doctrine. St. Jerome. APOLOGY. An unwilling apology is no apology. Arnaud. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Holmes. No really sensible person ever made an apology. R. W. Emerson. Apologies only account for the evil which they cannot alter. I. Disraeli. Be not too forward to apologise for your short- comings, nor to give an excuse when one has spoke ill of you ; for this savors of conceit. Epictetus. Right actions for the future are the best expla- nations or apologies for wrong ones in the past : the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive. T. Edwards. Apology is as great a peacemaker as the word “if.” In all cases, it is an excuse rather than an exculpation, and if adroitly managed, may be made to confirm what it seems to recall, and to aggravate the offence which it pretends to extenu- ate. Chatfield. A POTHEG-MI. An apothegm is a diminutive salt-pit. Cicero. Apothegms are the sententious sayings of the wise. Ray. Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to re- present a man truly what he is. Plutarch. Apothegms not only serve for ornament and de- light, but also for action and civil use. Lord Bacon. The wise men of old have sent most of their mo- rality down the stream of time, in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram. E. P. Whipple. It is astonishing the influence foolish apothegms have upon the mass of mankind, though they are not unfrequently fallacies. Sydney Smith. Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered, from the time of the Seven sages of Greece to that of Poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action. T. B. Macaulay. In a numerous collection of our Savior's apo- thegms, there is not to be found one example of sophistry or of false subtilty, or of anything ap- proaching thereunto. Paley. APOSTASY. Apostasy from error is laudable. Thrasimºwnd. Angels, by apostasy, fell from God. J. Bale. Apostasy is the first step to perdition. Marca. The apostate toward God and His kingdom, is an apostle of the devil. Aldws Manutivs. Look to your secret duty ; the soul cannot pros- per in the neglect of it. Apostasy generally begins at the Closet door. P. Henry. When the apostate disciple became sensible of his atrocious guilt, life had no longer the shadow of a charm for him ; “he went out and hanged himself.” - Dr. Davies. APOSTLE. Revere the memory of the apostles. Earl Rivers. The apostles suffered for their faith. Jennison. The apostles were the living witnesses of Jesus Christ. Rev. W. Hogarth. The twelve apostles were typified by the twelve sons of Israel. Prof. Bawr. It took twelve apostles their whole life-time to build up Christianity. Voltaire. The apostles were the first missionaries sent to preach the gospel to heathen Gentiles. C. Joram. The apostles went in among corruption, like the Sunbeam which reveals it, suffering no taint through the contact. Dr. Gºwthrie. The apostles were appointed to be witnesses of the life, doctrines, death, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and in their being witnesses consisted the peculiarity of the apostolic office. A. Barnes. As a tree on fire kindles a whole forest into a flame, so the apostles, burning with the fire of heaven, set in a blaze the whole world, and filled it with the light of truth and the warmth of cha- rity. St. Augustine. AIPPAR.E.T. Apparel oft proclaims the man. Shakspeare. Apparel is the artificial ornament of man. Hall. Let your apparel be frugal, meat, and comely. S. Converse. Apparel, however clean and handsome, is again soiled by use. Demophilus. The world is apt to judge of the goodness and social standing of a man and the rank he lives in, Dr. Hugh Bowlter. A man's apparel ought to conform to the custom of the nation, and the fashion that is decent and general, to the occasion, and his own condition : for it behooves a man to barter for a good esteem, even from his clothes and outside. Feltham. by his apparel. In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness; be not too early in the fashion : nor too late ; decency is the half way between affectation and neglect ; the body is the shell of the soul ; apparel is the husk of that shell ; the husk often tells you what the kernel is. F. Qwarles. 40 Z) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. APPEARANCES. First appearances deceive many. Phoedrus. Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. La Fontaine. The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be. Socrates. We learn by chess the habit of not being dis- couraged by present appearances in the state of Our affairs. Franklin. Becautious against the deception of appearances; judge of affairs which concern social happiness by facts ; judge of man by his deeds. J. Qwimcy. In every profession every individual affects to appear what he would willingly be esteemed ; SO that we may say the world is composed of nothing but appearances. Rochefoucauld. In many cases mere appearances have all the effect of realities, and a person under a firm per- Suasion that he can command resources, virtually has them : that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions. Livy. , Surely you will not calculate any essential dif- ference from mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over brackish depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace. You know that the bosom can ache beneath dia- mond brooches; and how many blithe hearts dance under coarse wool | E. H. Chapin. APPETITE. Refine your appetite. Congreve. Mrs. Wolstonecraft. Joseph Hall, Spurn lawless appetites. Appetite must be curbed. Appetites prompt to industry. I. Barrow. Appetite turns water into wine. J. Richardson, Mencius. Cato. Appetite maketh the food sweet. Appetite hath a belly, but no ears. Appetite is deaf to the calls of health. Frankhwan. Reason should direct, and appetite obey. Cicero. A wise man will ever keep his appetite in sub- jection. Memw. A well-governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. - Seneca. He who pampers his appetite is the enemy of his own body. Coecilian/ws. Men in general are too partial in favor of a sen- sual appetite. - L’Estrange. Choose rather to punish your appetites than to be punished by them. Maacimºws. Always rise from table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. W. Penn. Heavy will our sufferings be, when the solicita- tions of appetite lead us to forget the reason we have to restrain it. Dean Bolton. APPETITE. Appetite and reason are commonly like two buckets—when one is at the top, the other is at the bottom ; now of the two, I had rather the reason bucket be uppermost. J. Collier. No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his vo- luptuous desires by stinting his strength and con- tracting his capacities. Tillotson. Our appetites, of one or another kind, are an excellent spur to our reason, which might other- wise but feebly set about the great ends of preserv- ing and continuing the species. C. Lamb. There be those that make it their glory to feed high, and fare deliciously every day, and to main- tain their bodies elementary, search the elements, the earth, the sea, and air, to maintain the fire of their appetites. A. Warwick. The youth who follows his appetites too soon, seizes the cup before it has received its best ingre- dients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces a manhood of imbecility and an age of pain. Goldsmith. APPT, AUSE. Applause waits on success. Franklin. Applause is the wind of fate. Ben Zohair Cab. Applause springs from impulse. Grotorolus. The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. J. Boswell. Be more careful to deserve the applause of men than to obtain it. Thales. A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper, or an envious spirit. Hammoth More. Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. Colton. A universal applause is seldom less than two- thirds of a scandal. L’Estrange. Both the applause and the censure of the igno- rant are to be equally disregarded. Demophilus. If we would have applause for what we do, we must not too much applaud ourselves. Stanislaws. Applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable. Shenstone. In an audience of rough people a generous senti- ment always brings down the house; in a tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed. T. W. Higginson. The good citizen will look beyond the applauses and reproaches of men, and persevering in his duty, stand firm in conscious rectitude and the hope of approving heaven. Washington. Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity ; it is therefore not only neces- sary that wickedness, even when it is not safe to censure it, be denied applause, but that goodness be commended only in proportion to its degree. Sterne. /* R O S / O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 41 AIPPLICATION. Application is the ally of genius. D. B. Tower. It is by diligent application that a great reputa- tion is achieved. Sir I. Newton. The power of application, steady and undissi- pated to a single object, is a sure mark of superior genius. Chesterfield. Think not that any affluence of fortune, or ele- vation of rank, exempts you from the duties of application and industry ; whatever you pursue, be ennulous to excel. H. Blair’. You may have a good mind, a sound judgment, a vivid imagination, or a wide reach of thought and views, but you can never become distinguished without severe application. J. Todd. Leisure and application are the great requisites for improving the mind ; leisure is useless without application ; but application with a very little lei- sure may produce very material benefit ; if you are careful of your vacant minutes, you may ad- vance yourselves more than many do who have every convenience afforded them. T. Young. APPRECIATION. We love appreciation. S. Warrem. Appreciation results from conduct. Tsze-Chang. Next to excellence is the appreciation of excel- lence. W. M. Thackeray. Men seek less to be instructed than appreciated and applauded. Bruyère. To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. Goethe. Do not appreciate the things as they touch you the nearest, and have not your eyes always fixed upon yourself. Richter. Appreciation looks on the favorable side of things ; we never speak of appreciating a man's faults, but his merits. N. Webste?". Everything and every existing creature appear to be appreciated, either by opinion or the neces- sity we have for them. Grapaldws. AIPPREHENSION. Apprehension comes not to all alike. Mencius. People's apprehensions are greater in proportion as things are unknown. Livy. The apprehension of the good gives but the greater feeling to the worse. Shakspeare. A man who is apprehensive of receiving insults, is conscious he deserves them. J. Bartlett. Apprehension springs from a sense of danger when somewhat remote but approaching. Webster. Better to be despised for too anxious apprehen- sions, than to be ruined by a too confident secu- rity. Batºke. It should be the endeavor of parents to give chil- dren just apprehensions of things, as soon as they are capable of receiving them. Dean Bolton. APPEROBATION. Love of approbation is a noble incentive. Greeley. Many seek approbation of good things, yet fol- low the bad. Ovid. Approbation should be received with commend- able modesty. D)'. R. Kidden'. Approbation is a compliment to our understand- ing, that we receive with pleasure. Dean Boltom. At every step we take to gain the approbation of the wise, we lose something in the estimation of the vulgar. W. S. Lando?’. There is but one approbation that may be sought without peril : in heaven, God's ; on earth, that of His saints. Prof. Vinet. When we hear of good and bad actions, there is a feeling rises in our minds, of approbation to the good, and disapprobation to the bad. Mrs. Willard. There cannot be a greater satisfaction to an hon- est mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself, seconded by the applause of the pub- lic. Addison. Nothing in human life can afford a liberal mind more rational and exquisite satisfaction, than the approbation of a wise, a great, and a virtuous Illall. Washington. To obtain the approbation of the wise and good by doing what is right, simply because it is right, is most gratifying to the natural wish to escape the censure and claim the approval of our fellow- Creatures. R. Whately. No human being is entirely indifferent to the opinions of others respecting him ; we are so con- stituted that the approbation or disapprobation of those especially whom we love is cordial or worm- wood to our spirits. H. Winslow. There are some persons who confer their appro- bation with such a niggardly spirit, that it utterly destroys its benefits ; they seem to fear that they are running the risk of humbling themselves in order to elevate others. James Ellis. APPROVAL. Approval is the knowledge of right. Adamson. Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century. J. C. Lettsom, Next to the disapproval of our friends, the ap- proval of our enemies is most to be dreaded. Octave Fevillet. When a severe struggle has been had, and a triumph has been won on the side of virtue, the feeling of self-approval is peculiarly rich and de- lightful. H. Winslow. As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own con- science. St. Ambrose. Next to the approval of our own conscience is the satisfaction we feel in knowing that our con- duct meets the approval of those whose approval is worth having. - M. Van Buren. 42 A) A Y ',S C O / / A C O AW. AR.BITRATION. Arbitrate justly, and not with favor. Homer. It is the duty of an arbitrator to follow the truth. Cicero. A lawyer worships money ; a court, statutes and decisions; an arbitrator, justice. |W. Talbot. It is seldom that equitable arbitration does not satisfy one party, and commonly both. Belsham. In all cases of arbitration, equity and reason should take the precedence of mere legal difficulties and technicalities. James Ellis. The right of a citizen to have his differences ad- justed by arbitration, is a surer Safeguard to life, liberty, and property, than all the so-called courts of justice in Christendom. E. P. Day. On the subject of the settlement of international differences by arbitration, this much at least may be said in its favor, that One war, even a short one, would cost more, without taking into account effu- sion of blood, than could be lost in this way from the corruption, bad faith, or partiality of referees, in centuries. Bovee. The office of an arbiter, although not so elevated as a judge in its literal sense, has often the impor- tant duty of a Christian peacemaker; and as the determinations of an arbiter are controlled by no external circumstances, the term is applied to mon- archs, and even to the Creator as the Sovereign Arbiter of the world. G. Crabb. Arbitration has this advantge, there are some points of contest which it is better to lose by arbi- tration, than win by law ; but as a good general offers his terms before the action, rather than in the midst of it, so a wise man will not easily be persuaded to have recourse to a reference, when Once his Oponent has dragged him into a court. Coltom. If we lay aside prejudice and folly, and think calmly of the matter, we shall find that going to law is not the best way of deciding differences about property ; it being, generally speaking, much safer to trust to the arbitration of two or three honest Sensible neighbors, than at a vast expense of money, time, and trouble to run through the tedious frivolous forms, with which, by the arti- fices of greedy lawyers, a court of judicature is contrived to be attended. S. Croacall. In a question of dispute or disagreement merely, how much time, temper, and money might be saved if each neighborhood had its board of arbitrators ; we firmly believe if this course was more gener- ally pursued, it would diminish the amount of litigation one half or more, and lessen the number of disputes and misunderstandings among men ; for it would make them more careful not to provoke the scrutiny of their acts which arbitration in- volves, and which must be judged of in their nak- edness, stripped of all legal tergiversation ; arbi- trators would be brought face to face with facts, there would be less reliance upon the skill of a law- yer, to tangle up a jury in a web of legal phrases and consequent doubts, and a far clearer view and appreciation of justice and equity. D. D. T. Moore. AIRCHITECTURE. Architecture is frozen music. Mme. de Staël. Greek architecture is the perfect fiowering of geometry. R. W. Emerson. Of the building of life, God is the architect, and man is the contractor. H. W. Beecher. A free and easy proportion, united with simpli- city, seems to constitute the elegance of form in architecture. J. Usher. Architecture becomes a fine art only when draw- ing and sculpture add their grace and power to the builder's skill ; hence some urge that architecture be made the first among the fine arts. Samson. Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art ; it involves all the powers of design, and shows the greatness of man, and should teach him humi- lity. Coleridge. All pure architecture, material and immortal, is characterized by elegance, grace, and grandeur; all the ornaments are subordinate to the substan- tial portions, arranged in perfect conformity to the general design. Magoon. Architecture is the printing-press which gives a history to the state of society of all ages. The Tower and Westminster Abbey are glorious pages in the history of time, and tell the story of an iron des- potism, and the cowardice of unlimited power. Lady Morgan. Greatness in the works of architecture may be considered as relating to the bulk and body of the structure, or to the manner in which it is built. As for the first, we find the ancients, especially among the eastern nations of the world, superior to the moderns. Addison. Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification ; it addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the parade of barbaric pomp and splendor ; it is the form in which the revenues of a semi-civilized people are most likely to be lavished ; it is one of the first steps in the great march of civilization. W. H. Prescott. From the first formation of society, order in ar- chitecture may be traced. When the rigor of the seasons obliged men to contrive shelters from the inclemency of the weather, we learn that they first planted trees on end, laying others across to Sup- port the covering ; the bands which connected these trees at top and bottom are said to have given rise to the idea of the base and capital of pillars; and from this simple hint originally arose the more im- proved forms of architecture. M. Manwal. Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be requisite to do it justice. Buildings of every des- cription, from the humble cottage to the lofty temple, are objects of such constant recurrence in every habitable part of the globe, and are so stri- kingly indicative of the intelligence, character, and taste of the inhabitants, that they possess in them- selves a great peculiar interest for the mind. A. J. Downing. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7 / o A. S. - 43 ARGUIMIENT. Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them. Amacharsis. Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswer- able. Addison. Arguments, like children, should be like the sub- ject that begets them. T. Decker. Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument. I. Watts. Be calm in arguing ; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. G. Herbert. In the eyes of a wise judge, proofs by arguments are of more value than witnesses. Cicero. Better that ignorant men remain silent, than babble from the lack of argument. Downey. No argument is enough for an incredulous heart : no reason, no sense, nor experience. J. Black. He who establishes his agument by noise and command, shows that reason is weak. Montaigne. When arguments press equally in matters indif- ferent, the best method is to give up ourselves to neither. Addison. Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty. Washington. Gratuitous violence in argument betrays a con- scious weakness of the cause, and is usually a signal of despair. Junius. Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading. Swift. The true end of argument is information ; for if you search purely after truth, it will be almost in- different to you where you find it. E. Budgell. Nothing is more certain than that much of the force, as well as grace of arguments, or instruc- tions, depend on their conciseness. Pope. If thou continuest to take delight in idle argu- mentation, thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with Iſle Il. Socratee, Passionate expressions and vehement assertions are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it. W. Chillingworth. Argument may be overcome by stronger argu- ment, and force by greater force ; but truth and force have nothing in common by which the one can act upon the other. Pascal. Argument is with fools, passion, vociferation, or violence ; with ministers, a majority ; with kings, the Sword ; with fanatics, denunciation ; with men of Sense, a sound reason. Chatfield. Acuteness in argument is a drawn sword, which confounds the enemies of truth ; a man learned in argument is a falcon, and his opponents are pigeons, whom he devours at will. Al-Tabari. AIR.G.UIMIENT. Hunting after arguments to make good One side of the question, and wholly to refuse those which favor the other, is so far from giving truth its due value that it wholly debases it. J. Locke. In argument there is no such thing as finally and definitively putting down an opponent ; there is always still something to be said, under cover of which a decent retreat may be made. Bovee. Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow, the force of it depends on the strength of the hand that draws it ; argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force though drawn by a child. R. Boyle. An argument proposed with noise and blustering may break the head, and dismount the brain, but it never makes impression on the understanding. Truth, like a gentle shower, soaks through the ears, and moistens the intellect. Bergerac. Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it frequently ; a government can interfere in discussion only by making it less free than it would otherwise be ; thus, instead of a contest between argument and argument, we have a contest between argument and force. T. B. Macaulay. Reply with wit to gravity, and with gravity to wit ; make a full concession to your adversary, and give him every credit for those arguments you know you can answer, and slur over those you feel you cannot ; but above all, if he has the privilege of making his reply, take especial care that the strongest thing you have to urge is the last. Colton. In holding of an argument, be neither choleric nor too opinionate ; the one distempers thy under- standing, the other abuses thy judgment ; above all things decline paradoxes and mysteries : thou shalt receive no honor, either in maintaining rank falsehoods, or meddling with secret truths ; as he that pleads against the truth makes wit the mother of his error, so he that argues beyond warrant makes wisdom the midwife of his folly. F. Quarles. It is a common argument among divines, in the behalf of a religious life, that a contrary behavior has such consequences when we come to die. It is, indeed true, but seems an argument of a subordi- nate kind ; the article of death is more frequently of short duration. Is it not a stronger persuasive, that virtue makes us happy daily, and removes the fear of death from our lives antecedently, than that it smooths the pillow of a death-bed ? Shenstone. As the physical powers are scarcely ever exerted to their utmost extent but in ardor of combat, SO intellectual acumen has been displayed to the most advantage and to the most effect in the contests of argument. The mind of a controversialist, warmed and agitated, is turned to all quarters, and leaves none of its resources unemployed in the invention of arguments, tries every weapon, and explores the hidden recesses of a subject with an intense vigi- lance, and an ardor which it is next to impossible in a calmer state of mind to command. R. Hall. 44 A) A Y’ S C O /, / A C O AV. f ARISTOCRACY. AIRISTOCRACY. An aristocracy is where the best citizens rule the There is a fretfulness about every man's position State. Aristotle. with us, which is positively frightful. He is never An aristocracy of learning is superior to one of wealth, power, or hereditary descent. E. P. Day. Aristocracy is the worst of all governments; des- potism gives you one tyrant, an aristocracy many. J. Bartlett. Aristocracy is not contemptible as a system of government ; in fact, it is the only one a true gen- tleman can acquiesce in. W. S. Landor. Aristocracy, if they are what they ought to be, are in my eye the great oaks that shade a country, and perpetuate their benefits from generation to generation. Burke. Aristocracy has three successive ages—the age of superiorities, the age of privileges, and the age of vanities ; having passed out of the first, it degene- rates in the second, and dies out in the third. Chateawbriand. It is not in a splendid aristocracy, supported by powerful monopolies, that the people will find hap- piness, or their liberties protection ; but in a plain system of government, devoid of pomp, and grant- ing favors to none. A. Jackson. An aristocracy is the true, the only support of a monarchy; without it, the state is a vessel without a rudder—a balloon in the air. A true aristocracy, however, must be ancient ; therein consists its true force, its talismanic influence. Napoleon I. The clearest dictates of reason are made to yield to a long succession of follies ; this is the foundation of the aristocratic system at the present day : its stronghold, with all those not immediately inter- ested in it, is the reverence of antiquity. E. Everett. Among the masses, even in revolutions, aristo- cracy must ever exist, destroy it in the nobility, and it becomes centred in the rich and powerful House of the Commons; pull them down, and it still Survives in the master and foreman of the work- shop. - Guizot. If the pomp and splendor which surround kings form a part of their power, modesty and simplicity of manners form the strength of aristocratic no- bles ; when they affect no distinction, mingle with the people, are clothed like them, take part in all their pleasures, their weakness is forgotten. Montesquiew. There are but three ways in which aristocracy can be maintained: by a distinction, which is made part of the religious code, and perpetuated by the superstitions of the people ; by military gradation ; and where the law, and not talents or industry, creates an unequal distribution of property. E. D. Mansfield. Aristocracy of birth has given place to aristocra- cy of wealth, and become a mere shadow in those countries where it has lost its possessions ; the feudal baron with his dependants who owe him allegiance, is replaced by the banker or capitalist, who is sur- rounded with a train equally dependent and ser- vile. A. Brisbane. easy ; for there is always some little line of demar- cation between him and his ineighbor, which he toils to pass over. The aristocracy descends through every link, from the golden to the copper of the country. Bulwer. Every school-boy can mention instances in which SOvereigns have allied themselves with the people against the aristocracy, and in which the nobles have allied themselves with the people against the Sovereign ; in general, when there are three parties, every one of which has much to fear from the others, it is not found that two of them combine to plunder the third. T. B. Macaulay. The interest of the community, considered in the aggregate, is that each individual should receive protection, and that the powers which are consti- tuted for that purpose should be employed exclu- sively for that purpose ; the interest of the king and of the governing aristocracy is directly the re- verse : it is to have unlimited power over the rest of the community, and to use it for their own ad- Vantage. J. S. Mill. The aristocracy understand not what necessity, what suffering means ; they know not what it is to a noble mind to be obliged, like the worms, to crawl upon the earth for nourishment, because it has not strength to endure famine ; life moves around them with so much grace, splendor, and beauty ; they drink of life's sweetest wine, and dance in a charming intoxication ; they find nothing within them which can enable them to understand thereal sufferings of the poor ; they love only them- selves, and look at mankind only in their own narrow circle. Lord Howghton. ARITHMIETIC. Arithmetic is an aid to every science. E. P. Day. Arithmetic is indispensable to a money-making nation. D. B. Tower. He who is ignorant of the arithmetical art is but half a man. Charles XII. Arithmetical inquiries give entertainment in Soli- tude by the practice, and reputation in public by the effect. Dr. Johnson. Arithmetic is the first fountain at which the young votary of knowledge drinks the pure waters of intellectual truth. C. Davies. Arithmetic is so necessary to the business calcula- tions of the world, as never to be omitted in any course of instruction, however slight. E. D. Mansfield. It is the mental discipline, the power of abstrac- tion, the habit of attention and reasoning which arithmetic develops, that constitute its chief value. G. B. Emerson. Children are capable of learning doctrines, words, facts, and men, and a number of arithme- trical truths. In arithmetic the ideas are so dis- tinct, and the definitions so well stated, that chil- dren will learn more in this science than in any Other. T. Dwight. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 45 ARMY. - Great armies need great generals. J. Mair. A good army makes a stable throne. Nadir Shah. An army should yield to the civil power. Cicero. An army without discipline is but an organized mob. Livy. An army in time of peace is not an army ; it is a livelihood. C. A. Dana. The proper place for a general is at the head of his army. Napoleon I. Fleets and armies are not always the strongest bulwarks. Tacitus. Standing armies are dangerous to free govern- ments in time of peace. A. Jackson. A Roman army does not ask how many the ene- my are, but where they are. Belisarius. Standing armies in times of peace should be a- voided as dangerous to liberty. G. Mason. Standing armies are attended with great waste of property and destruction of life. Peter Cooper. When fate decides upon the loss of an army, it gives the command to a bad general. Procopius. An army could not be ruled submissively, if it were not awed by fear and reverence of their chiefs. Sophocles. He who commands an army should know how to bring on an engagement if stronger than his enemy, or avoid one if weaker. Agesilaws. When war becomes the trade of a separate class, the least dangerous course left to a government is to form that class into a standing army. Macaulay. Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage; for it never troubles the wolf how many sheep there be. Bacon. Standing armies are proverbially the graves of republics, and almost all monarchies have had their rise in the consolidation of the military power. W. Goodell. The meanest soldier that has fought often in an army, has a truer knowledge of war than he that has written whole volumes, but never was in any battle. R. Sowth. The army is a school in which the niggardly be- come generous, and the generous prodigal ; and if there are some soldiers misers, they are a kind of monsters but very rarely seen. Cervantes. Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power, for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too, by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it. Chesterfield. An army ought not to depend immediately on the legislative, but on the executive power; to pre- vent the executive from being able to oppress, it is requisite that the armies should consist of the peo- ple, and have the same spirit as the people. Montesquiew. man character. virtues appear vices. ARMY. The army are the mere agents of the civil power; out of the camp they have no other authority than other citizens ; and their offences against the laws are to be examined not by a military officer, but by a magistrate. Washington, The army is a good book to open to study human life; one learns there to put his hand to everything, to the lowest and highest things; the most delicate and rich are forced to see poverty living nearly everywhere, and to live with it, and to measure his morsel of bread and draught of water. De Vigny. Of all the evils of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the genius of every other. War is the parent of armies ; from these proceed debt and taxes ; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the do- minion of the few. J. Madison. Armies have overturned the liberty of most coun- tries, and all who are well affected to liberty have hated them. They are subject to an explicit obe- dience to their officers, and to laws of their own. They are so many lusty men taken from work, and maintained at an extravagant expense upon the labor of the rest. They are many ways burden- Some to the people in their quarter, even under the best dicipline, especially in dear countries. They are a cause of undue influence in the hands of de- signing ministers. J. Arbwthnot. ARROG-ANCE. Arrogance is always offensive. Beattie. Arrogance is the parent of infamy. Diogenes. Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly. Plato. Arrogance is great obstruction of wisdom. Bion. Arrogance without power is the height of folly. Qween Elizabeth. The arrogance of some people makes even their Bowhow.rs. When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken. Hwºme. Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dung- hill ; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings. Feltham. Arrogance creates disgust in some, and ridicule in others, more especially if it be shown by an in- ferior towards his superior. Livy. Even the high and powerful allow themselves to be carried away by arrogance, and subject them- selves to miseries and losses. Hesiod. In some people arrogance takes the place of great- ness of mind; want of humanity is in the room of firmness of character ; and low cunning, of under- Standing Bruyère. What is so hateful to a poor man as the purse- proud arrogance of a rich one 3 Let fortune shift the scene, aud make the poor man rich, he runs at once into the vice that he declaimed against so feel- ingly ; these are strange contradictions in the hu- R. Cwmberland. 46 A) A Y’.S CO / / A C O AV. ART. ART. Nature is the art of God. Sin" T. Browne. The study of art possesses this great and pecu- g - liar charm, that it is absolutely unconnected with Art is nature concentrated. * the struggles and contests of ordinary life. Guizot. Art is pleasure, even in old age. E. Qwellin. Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharp. Unless art deceives, it is not art. Reiner. ens the wit as the other does the sight, and con- --- Verts every object into a little universe in itself. Every art cherishes its sister arts. Horace. Hazlitt. Art helps nature, and experience art. Rembrandt. The perfection of art is to conceal art. Quintilian. Art is art, even though unsuccessful. J. Harris. Art is a sweet consoler in misfortune. Amphis. He that sips of many arts drinks of none. Fuller. Art is a ready means of access to royalty. Tiberius Maacimºws. It is in the province of all countries to cherish art. Emperor Nero. Arts, commerce, and good government flourish together. T. G. Bergen. The true work of art is but a shadow of the Di- vine perfection. Michael Angelo. Art is more godlike than science ; science dis- covers, art creates. John Opie. Through the arts the wonder of the ignorant multitude is excited. Amaacilaws. In no circumstance whatever can man be com- fortable without art. Ruskin. The first essential to success in the art you prac- tice, is respect for the art itself. Bulwer. The object of art is to crystalize emotion into thought, and then to fix it in form. F. Delsarte. Arts that respect the mind were ever reputed In O- bler than those which serve the body. Ben Jonson. The highest problem of any art is to cause, by ap- pearance, the illusion of a higher reality. Goethe. A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal. R. W. Emerson. Art is mighty ; for art is the work of man under the guidance and aspiration of a mightier power than man. J. C. Hare. In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose, a more harmonious and luminous vehi- cle of thought. Mrs. Jameson. We speak of profane arts, but there are none properly such ; every art is holy in itself, it is the son of etermal light. Bishop Tegner. Art, as far as it has ability, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master ; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. Dante. He that seeks popularity in art closes the door On his own genius; as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own. W. Allstom. Art needs solitude, or misery, or passion ; luke- warm zephyrs wilt it; it is a rock-flower flourishing by stormy blasts and in stony soil. A. Dwmas. The acquirement of art is difficult, its reward is transient. Art is the right of nature ; the latter has only given us being, the former has made us Ille]]. Schiller. The charms of the fine arts are, indeed, literally derived from the Author of all nature, and founded in the Original frame and constitution of the human mind. C. Sir T. Fitzosborne. What has pleased, and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art ; and on this immovable foundation they must forever stand. Sir J. Reynolds. Wherever the arts are cultivated with success, they almost imperceptibly educate the general taste, and make politeness of manners keep pace with refinement of mind. Jeremy Taylor. The enemy of art is the enemy of nature ; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature ; and what nature will he honor who honors not the human nature ? Lavater. Never were the arts more nobly employed than by our forefathers, when they raised those beauti- ful piles, our cathedrals, churches, universities, and abbeys, to the honor of that religion which God hath given to man. Mrs. A. E. Bray. I believe that the ages which are to follow this will surpass our possibilities of art. The art of to- day should embody the highest life of to-day for the use of to-day; for those who have gone before us need it not, and those who will come after us will have something better. J. G. Holland. Arts and Sciences, in one and the same century, have arrived at great perfection ; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particu- lar studies ; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward. Dryden. There is no more potent antidote to low sensual- ity than the adoration of the beautiful ; all the higher arts of designs are essentially chaste with- out respect to the object; they purify the thoughts, as tragedy purifies the passions; their accidental effects are not worth consideration; there are souls to whom even a vestal is not holy. Schlegel. It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellish- ment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master ; some of which may be of his drawing, but he is not allowed to touch the principal figure. Art may make a man a suit of clothes, but nature must produce a man. Hwme. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 47 ARTIFICE. Artifice is weak. J. C. Hare. Shallow artifice begets suspicion. Congreve. Artifice undiscerned is strength, discovered, in- creased weakness. - AEtiws. Error alone needs artifice to support it; truth can stand by itself. W. B. Lawrence. We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artifices as we do ourselves. Schopenhaufer. The man who uses artifice for dishonest purposes, will commit a greater crime. James Ellis. An artful woman can make a man sane or in- Same, sick or well, at her pleasure. Coeciliws. Artifice is allowed to deceive a rival: we may use everything against ou. enemies. Richelieu. To tell the people they are free is the common artifice of the factious and seditious. J. Collier. Artifice may be perfectly innocent when it ser, es to afford a friend an unexpected pleasure. Crabb. The ordinary employment of artifice is the mark of a petty mind ; and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover himself in one place, uncovers himself in another. Rochefoucauld. AIRTIST. An artist must live by his art. H. Brandi. Artists are men of subtle craft. John Galt. An artist has more than two eyes. Halièvrton. Madden. Crabb. To encourage art, reward the artist. An artist is a practiser of the fine arts. In works of art nature is to be imitated, not the artist. Lysippus. It is the business of an artist to sell pictures, not tell news. Epimerides. The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. Novalis. An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist may be an amateur. B. Disraeli. A tolerable artist, with the help of a little pov- erty, may become a good one. Powssin. *-*. A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators, and effect the noblest designs by easy methods. Burke. An artist should endeavor to imitate natural ob- jects; success in this is the highest pleasure of a lover of art. Zevacis. The life of an artist is one of thought, rather than action ; he has to speak of the struggles of mind, rather than the conflict of circumstances. W. Home. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline, which no man need go to Rome to enter upon. G. S. Hilla?'d. ARTILESSINESS. Artlessness charms. J. B. Phillips. The highest art is artlessness. F. A. Durivage. Artlessness is the piety of nature. J. J. Olier. Artlessness often disarms a foe, and gains a friend. Lactantius. Artlessness will sometimes gain a favor, when force and cunning have failed. C. D. Stuart. What is termed artlessness is, in nine cases out of ten, nothing more nor less than downright stu- pidity. Mme. de Staël. There are plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them, and rather slow than forward to believe anything extraordinary and out of the common course of nature. Portews. ASPIRATION. Aspire to be great. J. Platt, B. F. Butle?". R. W. Emerson. Aspire to higher honors. We write from aspiration. The aspirations of the human mind know no limit. J. W. Barker. Our glorious aspirations, which give us life, grow torpid in the dim of worldly bustle. Goethe. When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second, or even linger in the third rank. Cicero, Aspiration after the holy is the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointments. Maria M'Intosh. What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are ; the mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. Mrs. Jameson. He who kindles his aspirations with ambition's fire may scale its dizzy heights, may unlock the mysteries of nature, decipher the symbols that hide the Chald's sublimer lore, and read the finger- marks of Him whose hand has spread the starry scope, and strown with gems the ocean cave. Mrs. S. H. De Kroyft. ASS ASSINATION. Assassination is cowardice. Juvenal. Assassination is a sure remedy. Ravaillac, Assassinations are detestible things. O. Cromwell. When assassination is a necessity, it is justified by God. J. J. Amkarstrom. The most deadly assassin is the man who tells no one what he is going to do, and makes no provision for escape. - T. Kimsella. Those who allow an assassin to remain unpun- ished, become accomplices in his guilt, and partners in his infamy. Belisarius. A man of honor will not consent to the assassi- nation of an enemy or rival; but he may challenge him to mortal combat, either on his own account, or to please his sovereign. Crillom. 48 A) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. ASSERTION. Assertion is not proof. Hölderlin. A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth. G. D. Prentice. False assumption and false assertion are always supreme folly. Magoon. It is not so much the opinion as the assertion of the opinion, that brings enemies, and friends also. Simon Cameron. Violent asseverations, or affected blunders, look not more suspicious than strained sanctity or over- affected modesty. Zimmerman. Assertion, unsupported by fact, is mugatory : Surmise and general abuse, in however elegant language, Ought not to pass for proof. Junius. Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove; remembering that truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness. Sir P. Sidney. ASSISTANCE. Engage proper assistance. P. T. Ban-munm. It is good to assist the distressed. Confucius. The wisest man may need the assistance of the veriest fool. J. Gwy. The more hopeless the cause, the more needful the assistance. La Fayette. Assist others to preserve and develop life, liber- ty, and property. Lo Mennais. For man to assist man is to be a god; this is the path to eternal glory. Pliny. If we gave assistance to each other, no one would be in want of fortune. Memonder. Return love for love, and assist him who assists thee ; give to him who gives to thee, and give not to him who gives not. Hesiod. Those enjoying prosperity should always be ready to assist the unfortunate, for no one can say what the future may bring forth. Demosthemes. Friends should assist friends in misfortunes : when fortune smiles, what need of friends 2 For God himself sufficeth, being willing to assist. Ewripides. It is the property of a generous and noble mind to assist and do good to others ; he who conferreth benefits, imitates the gods; he who demands them back is like the usurers. Seneca. Those who are constrained to solicit for assistance are really to be pitied ; those who receive it with- out are to be envied ; but those who bestow it un- asked are to be admired. Zimmerman. There is no person in the world so little but even the greatest may some time or other stand in need of his assistance ; and consequently it is good to use clemency, where there is room for it, toward those who fall without our power. A generosity of this kind is a handsome virtue, and looks very graceful whenever it is exerted, if there were nothing else in it. S. Croacoll. ASSOCIATION, Great economies lie in association. A. Brisbane. Association is the delight of the heart. Willmott. -- - - Associate with the good and wise, if you would be learned and happy. Zemo. If men wish to be held in esteem, they must asso- ciate with those who are estimable. Bruyère. The design of human association is to enhance the happiness of man, and to do good one to an- other. J. W. Barker. From the good thou shalt learn good, but if thou associate with the bad, thou wilt lose even the sense thou possessest. Theognis. Associate with men of good quality, if you es- teem your own reputation ; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. Washington. When bad men combine, the good must associ- ate; else they will fall, one by one, an umpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Burke. Associate with men of good judgment; for judg- ment is found in conversation ; and we make another man's judgment ours by frequenting his company. T. Fulle”. It is expedient to associate with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted. Bishop Horne, In all Societies, it is advisable to associate, if pos- sible, with the highest ; not that the highest are always best, but because if disgusted there we can at any time descend ; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible. Colton. Wherefore fathers keep their sons, even though they be virtuous, from the society of the wicked, as they consider association with the virtuous as likely to incline them to virtue, and with the wicked as sure to prove its destruction. Aemophon. Man is the slave of association; and if there ever once has existed an argument for Or against a thing or a person, it is more than probable that, in exact accordance to the personal argument, we shall love or hate that thing or person forever after. Dickens. When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their dis- ciple ; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults. Agapet. There is no man who has not some interesting as- Sociations with particular scenes, who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections; the view of the house where one was born, of the school where one was educated, and where the gay years of infancy were passed, is in- different to no man ; they recall so many images of past happiness and past affections, they are con- nected with so many strong emotions, and lead altogether to so long a train of feelings and recol- lections, that there is hardly any scene which one ever beholds with so much rapture. Sir A. Alison. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 49 ASSURANCE. Assurance begets confidence. Von Hain?mer. Make assurance doubly Sure. Shakspeare. Assurance putteth away Sorrow. Stoboevts. Assurance is the prime error of heretics. Cardimal Bellarmire. An immoderate assurance is perfect licentious- IlèSS. Shemstome. After all, assurance is the winning card in the game of life. Emile Gaboriant. Assurance never failed to get admission into the houses of the great. T. Moore. When we say a moderate assurance, we under- stand the just mean between bashfulness and im- pudence. E. Budgell. Assurance and intrepidity, under the white ban- mer of seeming modesty, clear the way to merit that would otherwise be discouraged by difficul- ties. Chesterfield. The man who comes to assurance, and maintains it, while his conscience testifies of him that he is habitually declining in religious affections, living in the habitual neglect of known duty, or in the indulgence of actual sin, is one of the most fearful instances of self-deception in our world. James. ASTROT.OGY. Astrology reveals the will of the gods. Juvenal. Astrology can boast of great antiquity. Nolin. Astrology is a science through which the future may be foretold. Amaacimander. Astrology, though an ignorant mother, has a wise daughter, astronomy. E. P. Day. It is by study of astrology the coming of the Messiah can be certainly foretold. Abraham. He is a poor astrologer who pretends by the stars to point out another's destiny, and yet does not know his own. Jaafar. Astrologers with an old paltry cant and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world. Swift. A belief in the powers of certain delusive arts, particularly astrology, has greatly retarded the progress of knowledge, by engrossing the attention of many of the finest geniuses the world has ever produced. O. Gregory. Astrology is the art which teacheth by the mo- tions, configurations, and influences of the signs, stars, and celestial planets, to prognosticate of the natural effects and mutations to come in their ele- ments, and their elementary bodies. Ptolemy. Astrology rests on proofs which cannot be inva- lidated ; an impartial survey of the history of mankind from the earliest traditionary records to the present day, in relation to the influences of astrology, must impress this truth deeply on the mind of every observer ; the birth-place of Jesus of Nazareth was pointed out by the star, which led the shepherds of Judea to the spot where the young child was. C. W. Roback. ASTRONOMY. An undevout astronomer is mad. E. Young. Astronomy is the first of wisdom. Hipparchws. Astronomy is a great aid to history. Abulfaraj. Shall not the astronomer revere God who made the stars ? Avicemna. Astronomy is the science of the harmony of in- finite expanse. Sir R. Maltravers. Astronomy is a science in which we have the gods for our fellow-students. Belws. Astronomy shows, beyond all other sciences, the magnificence of God's creation. Paley. Astronomy is the science of the stars, and the guide of mariners in navigation. Gerbert. Of all the sciences, astronomy is by far the most ancient, because the objects of it attracted the first notice of mankind. J. Baseley. Astronomy is that sublime science which makes us acquainted with the figures, distances, and rev- olutions of the planetary bodies. W. Mavor. In tracing the connection of the physical sciences, astronomy affords the most extensive example of their union ; in it are combined the sciences of num- ber and quantity, rest and motion. Mrs. Somerville. Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of hu- man investigation ; the mind that grasps its facts and principles, receives something of the enlarge- ment and grandeur of the science itself. H. Mann. Shall we set down astronomy among the sub- jects of study ? The use of astronomy is not to add to the vulgar comforts of life, but to assist in rais- ing the mind to the contemplation of things per- ceived by the pure intellect alone. Socrates. Astronomy has been separated from natural philosophy, of which it is one of the noblest pro- vinces, and annexed to the domain of mathematics; the world stands in need of a very different astron- omy—of an astronomy which shall set forth the nature, the motion, and the influences of the hea- venly bodies as they really are. T. B. Macaulay. Astronomy is not a science which had its origin in necessity ; it sprang from the curiosity of man— a curiosity that leads him upwards through the works of creation to creation's God — a science which has been increasing, developing, and ex- panding through all time, until it has become the exponent of the highest powers of the human in- tellect. D. G. Mitchell. The state of perfection to which astronomy is now brought, is the greatest triumph of human exertion and reason. The motions of the moon and the planets are known with the utmost accu- racy: our knowledge of the planetary system may be regarded as complete ; that of the sideral hea- vens must always be limited by the optical powers of the human eye and the telescope ; in this depart- ment of astronomy, a boundless field has been thrown open for future research. T. Galloway. 4. 50 A) A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. ATHEISM. Atheism is true liberty. M. Knuzen. Atheism is bondage to sin. William King. I die, because I am an atheist. Theodorus. No one has ever died an atheist. Plato. No atheist can become a Freemason. M. Manual. By night an atheist half believes a God. E. Young. Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of Illa, Il. Lord Bacon. Atheism has almost universally been considered a crime. D. M. Bennett. An atheist's laugh is a poor exchange for Deity offended. R. Burns. The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Pascal. No atheist can be a true friend, an affectionate relation, or a loyal subject. R. Bentley. I am an atheist, because I see crime, injustice, and perjury go unpunished. Diagoras. The true reason why any man is an atheist, is because he is a wicked man. Tillotson. Atheism stabs the soul to death at one stroke, and puts it out of the way of salvation. J. Flavel. How can an atheist direct prayers to a Deity, in whose existence he does not believe 2 Bowrsaw.lt. The pious man and the atheist always talk of re- ligion ; the one speaks of what he loves, and the other of what he fears. Montesquiew. Atheism is an inhuman, bloody, ferocious sys- tem, equally hostile to every useful restraint, and to every virtuous affection. J. Hall. Show me a contented atheist, and I will show you a man who never wept over a tragedy, who never felt an enthusiastic burst of joy. Bebbington. There is no being eloquent for atheism ; in that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings —the clearest proof that it is out of its element. - J. C. Hare. The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist, who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe. H. Miller. Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reasons, of good eating and ill-living ; it is the plague of society, the cor- rupter of manners, and the underminer of prop- erty. Jeremy Collier. An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety ; they put on a false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear. Pope. I should like to see a man sober in his habits, moderate, chaste, just in his dealings, pronounce the truth of atheism, and assert that there is no God; he would speak at least without interested motives; such a man is not to be found. Bruyère. not believe in God.” ATHEISMI. An atheist must be the most miserable of beings; the idea of a fatherless world, swinging by some blind law of chance, which may every moment expose it to destruction, through an infinite space, filled, perhaps, with nothing but suffering and wretchedness, unalleviated by the prospect of a future and a happier state, must be almost intoler- able to a man who has a single spark of benevo- lence in his bosom. Chatfield. If we cannot exhibit a better life than an atheist, we must be very bad calculators, and if we cannot exhihit a better doctrine, we must be still worse reasoners; but if all who wished there were no God believed it too, we should have many atheists. He that has lived without a God, would be very happy to die without one; and he that by his con- duct has taken the word NOT out of the command- ments, would most willingly insert it into the creed. Thou shalt kill, and thou shalt commit adultery, would be very conveniently supported by, “I do Colton. The atheist may speculate, and go on speculating till he is brought up by annihilation; he may then return to life, and reason away the difference be- tween good and evil; he may even go further, and imagine to himself the perpetration of the most atrocious acts; and still he may eat his bread with relish, and sleep soundly in his bed; for his sins, wanting as it were substance, having no actual solidity to leave their traces in his memory, all fu- ture retribution may seem to him a thing with which, in any event, he can have no concern ; but let him once turn his theory to practice, let him make crime palpable, in an instant he feels its hot impress on his soul. |W. Allstom. ATONEMENT. God's love led to the atonement. Abelard. The death of Christ is atonement for sin. Davies. Atonement is the at-one-ment, or reconciliation, with God. Lady Russell. If we have atonement, it is through the blood of Jesus Christ. Dr. R. Newton. Atonement is the reconciliation of God to man by the death of His Son. A. A. Hodge. When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, I think the best atonement he can make for it, is to warn others not to fall into the like. Addison. There are men coming after us that shall partici- pate of the blessings of that atonement, which generations have either ignorantly rejected or wickedly despised. Dr. Thomas. Atonement is not an expedient contrary to law, but above law; in the administration of a govern- ment, an atonement means something that may justify the exercise of clemency, without relaxing the bands of just authority. T. W. Jenkyn. Justification is an act of God, whereby having given His only begotten Son to make atonement for them by his death ; in consideration of this atonement. He freely pardons the sins of all those that believe in Him through Jesus Christ. Goodwin. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7 / o A. S. 51 ATTACHIMIENT. Pure attachment is a virtue. Bowſflers. The attachments of youth are bright reminis- cences in old age. James Ellis. The most inviolable attachment to the laws of our country, is everywhere acknowledged a capital virtue. Hume. An attachment may outlive youth, beauty, and fortune ; it sometimes survives interest, but never indifference. E. P. Day. Our attachment to every subject around us in- creases, in general, from the length of Our acquaint- ance with it. f Goldsmith. The very consciousness of being beloved by the object of our attachment, will disarm even death itself of its terrors. B. Disraeli. A passionate attachment of one nation for an- other, produces a variety of evils: such an attach- ment, of a small or weak toward a great and powerful nation, dooms the former to be the satel- lite of the latter. Washington. The attachments formed in early life are gener- ally more enduring than those formed in after- years; almost every person looks back with a melancholy pleasure, with a smile and a tear, upon the sun-bright hours of childhood and youth ; sur- rounded by the noise and strife of an eager, con- tending world, fancy will at times bear him back to the hallowed spot of his birth. N. Rowe. ATTAINMENT. Let every attainment in what is good be firmly grasped. Confucius. . Is he wise who hopes to attain the end without the means ? Tillotson. Attainment is often followed by neglect, and possession by disgust. Dr. Johnson. Intellectual attainments and habits are no secur- ity for good conduct, unless they are supported by religious principles. Southey. Multitudes suffer themselves to be satisfied with indifferent attainments and miserable mediocrity, without any attempt to rise. H. Ware. The grand originary right of all rights is the freedom of every man to seek the attainment of his highest worth of moral character. FIickok. The most useful of all attainments are those branches of science which contribute the most to others, and which are connected with the most numerous pursuits in life. E. D. Mansfield. Our gifts and attainments are not only to be light and warmth in our own dwellings, but are as well to shine through the window, into the dark night, to guide and cheer bewildered travellers on the road. FI. W. Beecher. Most men become distinguished through certain attainments; sagacity and knowledge of the world, and of mankind, are superadded afterward to a reputation acquired by other means, but by those enlarged and preserved. Acton. ATTENTION. Attention is a very necessary thing. I. Watts. If we cultivate a habit of attention, it will be- come natural. R. Hall. Attention to the mind is the natural prayer that we make to interior truth, that we may discover it. Malebranche. To view attention as a specialstate of intelligence, and to distinguish it from consciousness, is utterly inept. Sir W. Hamilton. Attention is ever current coin with the ladies, and they weigh the heart much more scrupulously than the hand. Colton. We should accustom ourselves to make attention the instrument of volition ; let the will be deter- mined by the conclusions of reason, and then let attention be wielded by both. J. F. Ferrier. Attention makes the genius ; all learning, fancy, and science depend upon it ; it builds bridges, opens new worlds, and heals diseases ; without it taste is useless, and the beauties of literature are unob- served. R. A. Willmott. Our minds are so constructed, that we can keep the attention fixed on a particular object until we have, as it were, looked all around it ; and the mind that possesses this faculty in the highest de- gree of perfection, will take cognizance of relations of which another mind has no perception. Sir B. Brodie. We should carefully cultivate that habit of active attention on which all the higher qualities of the mind depend ; the difference of the intellect in men depends more upon the early cultivation of this habit of attention, than upon any great disparity between the powers of one individual and another. - S. Smiles. Attention is the first requisite for making a pro- gress in the acquirement of knowledge; it may be given in various degrees, and it rewards according to the proportion in which it is given; a divided attention is however more hurtful than otherwise ; it retards the progress of the learner, while it in- jures his mind by improper exercise. G. Crabb. ATTEMPT. - A wise attempt defeated is no failure. E. P. Day. Attempting what is out of our power only ex- poses us to ridicule. W. O. Bourne. To attempt great things, we must possess skill, judgment, and experience to accomplish them. Acton. Deliberately consider whether a thing be practi- cable ; if it be not practicable, do not attempt it. J. Hunter. Great attempts, which require extraordinary efforts either of body or mind, always meet with an adequate share of public applause. G. Crabb. Never attempt anything beyond your reach ; ambition and high resolves are noble qualities; but in our attempts to reach the goal of our desires, be sure that the foot is firm, the head erect, and the purpose Sound. James Ellis. 52 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. AUDACITY. Audacity and rashness are ever accompanied by folly and arrogance. Plato. Audacity is the characteristic of those who are ignorant of the common Courtesies of social life. Mary Grover Bwraett. An audacious man speaks with a lofty tone, without respect and without reflection; his haughty demeanor makes him forget what is due to his su- periors. S. Girard. Audacity makes a man to be hated ; but it is not always such a base metal in the estimation of the world as it ought to be ; it frequently passes cur- rent for boldness when it is practised with success. - G. Crabb. Audacity is a quality that has made more than One successful man, by its very boldness sweeping away all obstacles, and quickly landing its posses- Sor in reach of the prize, when a whole life of toil would have failed. James Ellis. AUDIENCE. An audience is a tribunal from which an actor has no appeal. Colton. Never trouble to bring an audience to their wits by dry reason. L’Estrange. A poor speaker who practices only by himself has a poor audience. Demomaac. Audiences have often been reproached by writers for the coarseness of their taste. Steele. Never censure an audience for dullness or inat- tention ; never expect your hearers to understand or believe what you find yourself unable to ex- plain. O. B. Pierce. An audience is a crowd of people in a large thea- tre, so called because they cannot hear; the actors Speak to them with their hands and feet, and the spectators listen to them with their eyes. Chatfield. A USTERITY. Austerity is the companion of solitude. Plato. I have always discriminated between a calm dignity and a rigid austerity of manner. Steele. I would never follow those austere maxims which cause children to count the days of their fathers. Molière. It is better to be austere than ambitious ; better to live out of society than to court the wealthy, proud, and arrogant. |W. S. Lamdor. The best of men have done themselves incalcu- lable injury by their austerity ; the shell being so rough that the world could not believe there was a precious kernal within. W. Mathews. Ye men of gloom and austerity, who paint the face of Infinite Benevolence with an eternal frown, read in the Everlasting Book, wide open to your view, the lesson it would teach . Its pictures are not in black and sombre hues, but bright and glow- tng tints; its music, save when ye drown it, is not in sighs and groans, but songs and cheerful sounds. Listen to the million voices in the summer air, and find One dismal as your own. Dickens. AUTHORITY. Authority and example lead the world. Schopenhaufer. When men of talents are punished, their autho- rity is strengthened. Tacitus. No man ought wantonly to attempt to weaken authority by calumnies. G. P. Morris. The constraint of receiving and holding an opin- ion by authority, was rightly called imposition. J. Locke. The reason why the simpler sort are moved with authority, is the consciousness of their own igno- I’à.]]Cé. R. Hooker. There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass. Sir P. Sidney. The practice of all ages and all countries, hath been to do honor to those who are invested with public authority. F. Atterbury. Ten thousand things there are which we believe, merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken, or written of them. I. Watts. Whatever lessens a man's dignity, lessens also his authority ; men will not respect in others what good sense teaches them to despise in themselves. N. Macdonald. Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by cus- tom. R. Hall. Three means to fortify belief are, experience, reason, and authority ; of these the more potent is authority ; for belief upon reason or experience will stagger. Lord Bacon. Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom ; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. Sir W. Temple. Nothing more impairs authority than a too fre- quent or indiscreet use of it. If thunder itself was to be continual, it would excite no more terror than the noise of a mill. Rabawt-Saint-Etiemme. Authority is a great responsibility, yet in some degree it is bestowed upon all, and with it comes the injunction to use it aright for our own good and that of Our fellow-creatures. James Ellis. With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of com- mon minds ; who, standing, like Socrates, on the apex of wisdom, has removed from his eyes all film of earthly dross, and has foreseen a purer law, a nobler system, a brighter order of things; in short, a promised land, which, like Moses on the top of Pisgah, he is permitted to survey and anti- cipate for others, without being himself allowed either to enter or to enjoy. Colton. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. - 53 ATUTHOR. Authors live in their works. Magliabecchi. An author departs; he does not die. Miss Mulock. Authors are the glory of the world. Delirio. Authors are the doctors of the laws. Henry I. An author's works are his monument. Zabarella. Choose an author as you would choose a friend. Roscom.mon. Authors have generally been mild and moderate II].611. Salvani. Authors, like coins, grow dearer as they grow Older. Pope. It requires more than mere genius to be an author. Bruyère. The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. Dr. Johnson. He who proposes to be an author should first be a student. Dryden. Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food. Jowbert. Authors are lamps, exhausting themselves to give light to others. Chatfield. A pin has as much head as some authors and a great deal more point. G. D. Prentice. It is a delight to read ancient authors, for recrea- tion and passing of time. Earl Rivers. The works of an author may be considered the representation of his mind. Dionysius. One hates an author that is all author; fellows in foolscap uniform, turned up with ink, Byron. Authors have not always the power or habit of throwing their talents into conversation. Sir E. Brydges. There is no author so poor who cannot be of Some Service, if only for a witness of his time. - C. Fawchet. An author had better be applauded by the few that are wise, than laughed at by the many that are foolish. Cervantes. The two most engaging powers of an author, are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new. W. M. Thackeray. Professed authors who over estimate their voca- tion, are too full of themselves to be agreeable Companions. - H. T. Twekerman. It would be well for all authors if they knew when to give over, and to desist from any further pursuit after fame. Addison. Authors are to be used like lobsters, you must look for the best meat in the tails, and lay the bodies back again in the dish. Swift. There are authors that take so many pains with, and polish so much their writings, that all they give to the public are nothing but mere dust and filings. Stanislaws. *m-- AUTHOR. Of all unfortunate men, one of the unhappiest is a middling author, endowed with too lively a sen- sibility for criticism. I. Disraeli. The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world, put their names to the books which they invite the world to read. Cicero. Let every author regard this maxim ; if the wise do not express their approbation, it is bad; if the fools applaud, it is worse. Yriarte, A judicious author has the master key to human nature, and as he touches it each complicated word unfolds itself to his power. S. F. Bradford. Nothing is so beneficial to a young author, as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitu- tionally at the freezing point. D. Jerrold, The motives and purposes of authors are not al- ways so pure and high, as in the enthusiasm of youth we sometimes imagine. Longfellow. An author may be considered as a merciful sub- stitute to the legislature ; he acts not by punishing crimes, but by preventing them. Goldsmith. The success of many works is found in the rela- tion between the mediocrity of the author's ideas, and that of the ideas of the public. Chamfort. To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridic- . ulous ; or even if he did, you would find fault with him as a pedant ; authors expect to be read not heard. Hazlitt. Peace be with the Soul of that charitable and courteous author, who, for the common benefit of his fellow-authors, introduced the ingenious way of miscellaneous writings. Shaftesbury. Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsman, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for thought and activity of their happier brethren. T. Carlyle. The most original modern authors are not so be- cause they advance what is new, but simply be- cause they know how to put what they have to say, as if it had never been said before. Goethe, There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character, by the character of his works ; we find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad IIla, Il. E. P. Whipple. An author is in the condition of a culprit ; the public are his judges ; by allowing too much, and condescending too far, he may injure his own cause ; and by pleading and asserting too boldly, he may displease the court. M. Prior. An author by profession had need narrowly to watch his pen, lest a line should escape it which by possibility may do mischief when he has been long dead and buried. What we have done when we have written a book, will never be known till the day of judgment ; then the account will be liquid- ated, and all the good it has occasioned, and all the evil, will witness either for or against us. Cowper. 54 - AD A V 'S CO /, / A C O AV. AUTHOR. If we look back into past times, we find innumer- able names of authors once in high reputation, read perhaps by the beautiful, quoted by the witty, and commended on by the grave, but of whom we now know only that they existed. Dr. Johnson. Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget our unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are rec- onciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race. Diderot. Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cher- ished designs, will bear testimony to the fact that much which he meant to convey has never been guessed at in any review of his work ; and many a delicate beauty of thought, on which he princi- pally valued himself, remains, like the statue of Isis, an image of truth from which no hand lifts the veil. Bulwer. Authors may be divided into falling stars, plan- ets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect, and in a moment vanish forever ; the sec- Ond, wandering stars, have a longer duration : they shine often more clearly than fixed stars, and are confounded with them by the ignorant ; mean- while they quickly vacate their place, have besides only borrowed light and a confined sphere of work- ing on their contemporaries ; they wander about ; an orbit of a few years is their utmost duration : but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, work for all time, never changing their as- pect, for they have no parallax ; but on account of the height of their position, their light requires many years before it is visible to the dwellers on the earth. Schopenhaw.fer. ATUTHORSHIP. There is pleasure in authorship. Lord Morley. Good authorship embalms knowledge. Rycgius. Good authorship and brevity are inseparable to SUICCéSS. Peter Danet. The art of modern authorship is a triumph over ancient genius. L. Grimdon. There is something very bewitching in author- ship, and he who has once written will write again. Carraccioli. There is infinite pathos in unsuccessful author- ship ; the book that perishes unread is the deaf mute of literature. O. W. Holmes. Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue. Schlegel. There are three difficulties in authorship ; to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible men to read it. - Colton. Much might be said of a proper preparation for authorship ; to be a good author, requires native genius with high cultivation, intellectual and mor- al. Books written by the ignorant are insignificant; by the immoral, wicked and dangerous. Willard. AUTUIMIN. Autumn is the Sabbath of the year. Logan. Autumn strews the ground with leaves, Virgil. Evening is an emblem of autumn, and autumn of declining life. Dr. Johnsom. Autumn, with its glowing tints, binds up the year ; SO Time, with noiseless step, binds up our lives. Earl of Desart. An autumn Sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embel- ishment. R. A. Willmott. A moral is attached to autumnal scenes : leaves falling like our years, flowers fading like our hours, clouds fleeting like our illusions, light diminishing like our intelligence, and the sun growing colder like our affections. Chateawbriand. Autumn with its golden fruitage, waving fields, and gentle airs ; its forests of variegated hue, its brown hill sides regally clothed in purple, and its still waters slumbering in the drowsy Sunshine is exceedingly beautiful. C. J. Peterson. The bright hues of autumn, like the pleasant things of life, soon fade before us ; the earth is strewn with fallen leaves, which rustle to the pas- sing footstep, and the wind sighs through the bar- ren branches that wave above us. A. S. Roe. What is more beautiful in autumn than the leaves; they are still on the trees, they have only changed color ; instead of being green they are the color of the dawn, and in such a variety that they compose a brocade of gold, rich and magnifi- cent, which we would find more beautiful than green, were it not the signal for a change of sea- SOIlS. Mme. Sévigné. The impressions we feel from the scenery -of autumn are accompanied with much exercise of thought ; leaves then begin to fade from the trees : the flowers and shrubs, with which the fields were adorned in the summer months, decay ; the woods and groves are silent ; the sun himself seems gra- dually to withdraw his light, or to be enfeebled in his power. A. Alison. What can be more beautiful or more attractive than the season of autumn 2 The labors of the hus- bandman approach their natural termination ; and he gladdens with the near prospect of his promised reward. The fields wave with their yellow and luxuriant harvests ; the trees put forth the darkest foliage, half shading and half revealing their ripened fruits, to tempt the appetite of man, and proclaim the goodness of his Creator. J. Story. At that season which is called autumn, we See little that recalls to our mind the universal joy which lately reigned through all animated nature ; we no longer behold the charms of Spring, or the magnificence of summer ; the woods and gardens are stripped of that great ornament, their leaves; the fields which have bestowed such abundance upon us, promise no more this year ; the winged songsters are silent, and even the Sun, when it shines, appears not in its usual glory. Sturm. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 5 5 AVARICE. - Avarice is ever poor. 4 wrelius. Avarice is insatiable. L’Estrange. Avarice is always base. Dr. E. Nott. Avarice is the miser's dream. Hazlitt, It is abundance that creates avarice. Montaigné. Great wealth does not prevent avarice. Ar-Rumi. Avarice increases with increase of gold. Jwwenal. Avarice is the father of unsatisfied desires. Yorwba. Avarice is discreditable in every station in life. Al-Mawsili. Poverty is in want of much, but avarice of every- thing. Publius Syrus. When all other sins become old, avarice is still young. Lefranc. Avarice subverts confidence, homesty, and other virtues. Sallust. Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals. Mrs. Jameson. r Poverty wants some things, luxury many things, avarice all things. Cowley. Avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplora- ble piece of madness. Sir T. Browne. What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust James Otis. Avarice, the mother of every wickedness, is al- ways thirsting for more. Clawdiam. The avaricious man is kind to no person, but he is most unkind to himself. John Kyrle. The avaricious man does not possess an estate, but his estate possesses him. Biom. An avaricious man is a great lover of generosity —in everybody except himself. G. D. Prentice. Avarice is like a graveyard ; it takes all that it can get, and gives nothing back. H. W. Shaw. There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. Swift. Avarice is a most stupid and senseless passion, and is the surest symptom of a Sordid and sickly mind. P. Charrom. If, of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men. Helvetius. Some men are called sagacious, merely on ac- count of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born. Shenstone. Avarice reigns most in those who have but few good qualities to recommend them ; it is a weed that will grow only in a barren soil. J. Hughes. The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind, that their wealth seems rather to possess them, than they to possess their wealth. Pliny. AVARICE. Avarice keeps a man always in the wheel, and makes him a slave for his lifetime ; and his head or his hands are perpetually employed. J. Collier. Avarice often produces opposite effects; there is an infinite number of people who sacrifice all their property to doubtful and distant expectations. Rochefoucauld. Avarice in old age is foolish ; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road, the nearer we approach to our journey's end. Cicero. Avarice palsies mental exertion ; the tide of generous feeling, the holy Sympathies, still com- mon to our fallen nature, freeze beneath its torpid influence. Mrs. Moodie. The objects of avarice and ambition differ only in their greatness ; a miser is as furious about a halfpenny, as the man of ambition about the con- quest of a kingdom. Adam Smith. The avaricious man is like the barren, sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. Zemo. There are two considerations which always em- bitter the heart of an avaricious man ; the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches ; the other, the prospect of leaving what he has already ac- quired. Fielding. Avarice is the mistake of the old, who begin mul- tiplying their attachments to the earth, just as they are going to run away from it, thereby increasing the bitterness without protracting the date of their Separation. Chatfield. It commonly happeneth that those men which enjoy most wealth are most vexed with the avari- cious desire of getting more, and mightily molested with fear, lest they should lose what they have already gotten. St. Augustime. It would be as great a toil to count the waves upon the shore, when the wind drives them to land along the surface of the green Sea, or to wash the dirty brick clean with violet-colored water, as to overreach the man who is a slave to avarice. Theocritus, Avarice begets more vices than Priam did chil- dren, and like Priam survives them all ; it starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it. Colton, The sin of avarice appears in its most abject and degrading form in the practice of hoarding up money, exclusively for the love of accumulation : a man under the control of this vice is injurious to society, an enemy of God, and suicidal of his own happiness. C. G. Low. Avarice isolates man from the great universe and the holy God, deadens the sensibilities to the highest joys, and shuts the soul up in its own dark self, the victim of a thousand miserable suspicions, and the subject of attributes that every generous heart must loathe. Thomas of Malmesbury. 56 A) A Y',S C O Z / A C O AV. AVARICE. Avarice is a principle not only detestable in its nature, but prejudicial to the possessor of it; inas- much as it alienates the mind from God, frequently leads to dishopesty among men, and what is worse, is a disorder hardly ever cured Other passions have their holidays, but avarice never suffers its votaries to rest. C. Buck. Avarice is a vice which needs to be guarded against with the utmost care ; more especially be- cause to the greater part of mankind the pursuit of gain—the earning of money—is a matter of ne- cessity and of duty, that they may be able to sup- port themselves and their families; the more care, therefore, is to be taken lest avarice should creep in and gain possession of the heart, under the dis- guise of what is allowable and right. R. Whately. An avaricious man will be little affected by the arguments of reason, philosophy, or religion ; he is born and framed to a sordid love of money, which first appears when he is very young, grows up with him, and increases in the middle age; and when he is old, and all the rest of his passions have subsided, wholly engrosses him ; the greatest en- dowments of the mind, the greatest abilities in a profession, and even the quiet possession of an im- mense treasure, will never prevail against avarice. H. King. There are two sorts of avarice: one consists in a solicitude to acquire wealth for the sake of those advantages which wealth bestows, and the dread of poverty and its attendant evils: the other is an anxiety for wealth on its own account only, and which sacrifices to the attainment of it every ad- vantage that wealth can give ; the first is the ex- aggeration of a quality which, when not carried to excess, is praiseworthy, and is called economy; the other, when indulged in the extreme, produces the effect of a species of prodigality. S. F. Bradford. AVERSION. Death often changes aversion to love. Bulwer. Aversion is the experience of hatred and fear. R. B. Sheridan. We may have an aversion for an enemy without being revengeful. Confucius. Aversion, well-seasoned though it be, brooks scant indulgence. Arabella Southworth. It is the property of the human mind to have an aversion to those we have injured. Tacitºts. An aversion to persons, places, and things some- times exists, not only without reason but contrary to it. E. P. Day. Aversion between human beings is not unfre- quently the result of dissimilarities of tastes and opinions. Mrs. Jacksonv- Winchester. To be an object of hatred and aversion has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. Thwcydides. As nothing more effectually prevents dishonesty than removal of its opportunities, so nothing more powerfully serves to restrain our passions, than aversion to that which excites them. Macdonald. AWE. Awe checks resolves. A. de Beauvoir. Awe causes submission. Richardson. Learn to stand in awe of thyself. Democritus. Awe is a mixture of ignorance, fear, and know- ledge. Tsang. A certain awe of his own acts sometimes subdues a tyrant. Claudian. Awe is a mixed feeling of sublimity and dread, in view of something great or terrible. Goodrich. Awe is that constant apprehension of God's pre- sence, which keeps us from offending Him. Gilpin. When we contemplate a pestilence sweeping over the land, and hurrying thousands to eternity, or an earthquake, or volcano, engulfing and burying up whole cities, or a deluge overwhelming the whole world in a common grave, we then have an emotion of awe. H. Winslow. AWKWARDNESS. Awkwardness excites laughter. Catwllus. Awkwardness is embarassing to its possessor. Margaret Lee. Airs of awkwardness are worn away in com- pany. - I. Watts. I can forgive a crime—it may have some grand motive—but never an awkwardness. Recannier. Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be ; it often occasions ridicule. Chesterfield. Awkwardness is a defect of bodily carriage, not of the body itself ; for even a humpback may be a model of ease and gracefulness. E. P. Day. We always make our friend appear awkward and ridiculous, by giving him a laced suit of tawdry qualifications which nature never intended him to Weal”. Junius. The manner of showing respect is different ; the man of fashion expresses it naturally, easily, and without concern ; whereas a man who is not used to keep good company expresses it awkwardly. T. Percy. AXIOM. Who can dispute a plain axiom ? Quintiliam. An axiom is a position admitted. Johnson. An axiom is a self-evident truth, which is taken for granted as a basis of reasoning. C. A. Goodrich. Embody truths in distinct statements, or axioms, and the mind at once admits them. H. Winslow. There are such things as axioms, which are and always have been immutably true. Wollaston. There are a sort of propositions which, under the name of axioms, have passed for principles of science. Locke. Axioms, or principles more general, are such as this, that the greater good is to be chosen before the lesser. R. Hooker. C. ºº º- ºº º - ſ º Q HENRY WARD BEECHER. EDMUND BUR KE. ERLYERE. GEORGE BANCROFT. LYTToN BULWER. LORD BURLEIGH. HUGH ELA. R. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 57 B. BABE. A babe may become a man. Franklin. A babe's birth is a mystery of life. R. Dodsley. A babe has no past ; its future is uncertain. Lobb. Babes are fragile beginnings of a mighty end. Mrs. C. E. Norton. A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love. Thupper. A babe's breast against a mother's bosom fans the holiest flame that ever kindles her heart. Tilton. Happy babe the cradle is still to thee a vast space ; become a man, and the boundless world will be too small for thee. Schiller. It is well for us that we were born babies in in- tellect; could we understand one-half that mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance which would ren- der us insupportable through life. J. C. Hare. The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his babe's birth ; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time ; every stroke he strikes is for his child ; new social aims, new moral motives come vaguely up to him. T. W. Higginson. A babe is a mother's anchor, she cannot swing far from her moorings ; and yet a true mother never lives so little in the present as when by the side of the cradle ; her thoughts follow the imag- ined future of her child ; that babe is the boldest of pilots, and guides her fearless thoughts down through scenes of coming years. H. W. Beecher. BACHELOR. A bachelor's time to marry never comes. Thales. Bachelors have a right to be fussy, especially old bachelors. - Fanny Ferm. A bachelor is a moral monster ; heaven help us from the fate of old bachelors | J. Short, It is true that a married man has many cares ; but a bachelor has no pleasures. Dr. Johnson. A bachelor is a nondescript in human society, like the odd half of a pair of shears, of little use until joined to its mate. Franklin. A bachelor cuts himself off from a great blessing for fear of some trifling annoyance ; he rivals the wiseacre who secured himself against corns by amputating his leg. Chatfield. The bachelor who passes through life without marrying, is like a fair mansion left by the builder unfinished ; the half that is finished runs to decay from neglect, or becomes at best but a sorry tene- ment, wanting the addition of that which makes the whole both useful, comfortable, and ornamen- tal. G. P. Morris. BACKBITER. Woe unto you, every backbiter. Mahomet. Backbiting leads to false accusations. Phaedrus. sº-º-m-m-mºs 4. A backbiter carries sunshine in his face and tempest in his heart. Seelbach. The apostle ranks backbiters with fornicators, murderers, and haters of God. Tillotson. Whoso backbiteth his neighbor, let his tongue be pierced; and whoso listeneth to the backbiter's mis- reports, let his ears be cut off. Palaeologws I. He who backbites an absent friend, who does not defend him when he is attacked, who seeks eagerly to raise the senseless laugh, and acquire the fame of wit—that man is a scoundrel. Horace. BALL AD. There are sweet memories in old ballads. Bwssy. Ballads are the vocal portraits of the national mind. O. Lamb. Give me the writing of the ballads, and I care not who make the laws. Fletcher of Saltown. Ballads are the gypsy-children of song, born under the hedge-rows, in the leafy lanes and by- paths of literature. Longfellow. Ballads are capable of producing wonderful ef- fects on the human heart, and therefore worthy to be ranked with the highest poetry. Bishop Lowth. There are persons who will sleep during a ser- mon, turn away from an oration, or sit unmoved during the performance of a tragedy, who never- theless go into ecstacies over the recitation of a popular ballad. H. G. Abbey. BALLOT. There is a silent eloquence in a ballot. H. Clay. Election by ballot is open to excessive corrup- tion. Pliny the Yownger. The ballot-box is more powerful than the cart- ridge-box. John Bright. The purity of the ballot-box is the only safe- guard of liberty. Winfield S. Hancock. A just ballot is always successful whether a can- didate be elected or not. E. P. Day. The ballot not only places the elector on a foot- ing of independence, but removes all inducement to bribery. J. R. M’Culloch. If bad men cast their ballots, and the good refuse or neglect to vote, then are good men chargeable with the evils of bad government. Awlus Gellius. The ballot annihilates two species of corrupt in- fiuence by which electors are liable to be swayed —the influence of threats, and the influence of bribes. J. Cauvin. 58 A) A Y',S C O /, / A C O AV. BANDIT. Expect no mercy from a bandit. Montezuma. Bandittiflourish when anarchy prevails. Croacall. A bandit is a hero of ungoverned liberty. Pagi. Banditti are the offshoots of a bad government, and an oppressed people. Isotta Nogarola. Banditti, trampling upon all laws, human and divine, refuse to be governed in any other way than by their own licentious regulations. Beattie. A bandit is an unlegalized soldier, who is hanged for doing what would get him a commission and a medal, had he taken the king's money, instead of that of travelers. Chatfield. BANISHMENT. The faithful fear not banishment. G. Wishart. Banishment is not always a just cause for lamen. tation. Musoniws. Self-banishment is an excellent preventive for imperial banishment. J. S. Erigema. A ruler may banish a Christian from his realm, but not from the presence of God. St. Clement. No banishment is sweet, but the banishment of a righteous soul from the prison of a world-wearied body. Stoboews, A fool is banished, though in his own country; a wise man is in his own country, even though banished. F. Quarles. Banishment has been the fate of the best men that ever lived ; how often have those who have saved their country from destruction been exiled from it. Malvezzi. Banishment is the putting away or driving out of any man, either from the place where he ought and should inhabit, or from the place where he took delight and desired to dwell. JEutropius. Banishment, with all its train of evils, is so far from being the cause of contempt, that he who bears up with undaunted spirit against them, while SO many are dejected by them, erects on his very misfortune a trophy to his honor. Bolingbroke. BANK. Banks are the creatures of law. P. Cooper. A bank is an organized conspiracy against liberty and property. W. Bowme. Before a bank can extend credit to the people, it must obtain credit with the people. G. H. Evans. Banks are financial illusions: they add nothing to a country's real wealth, but are, on the contrary, a burden to protective industry. A. Brisbane. A bank like fire or water is a good servant, but it is a bad master; it may save a nation in time of war, yet ruin it in time of peace. J. Commerford. Banks, properly established and conducted, are highly useful to the business of the country, and doubtless will continue to exist in the state so long as they conform to their laws, and are found to be safe and beneficial. M. Van Bwrem. BAPTISM. Baptism is regeneration. Dr. C. J. Vaugham. Baptism is not regeneration. Rev. Z. Riggs. Baptism is not a preventive of sin. P. Hamilton. Thousands go to heaven without baptism; thou- sands, alas ! perish with it. Dr. T. Gwthrie. Christian baptism was formally appointed by Christ himself, between his resurrection and his ascension. William Day. The Sacrament of baptism is one thing, and the conversion of the heart is another; but the salva- tion of man is completed in them both. Awgustine. Baptism is for true believers in Christ ; he that committeth any sin after having been baptised, should be forever expelled from the church on earth. Bishop Acesius. Baptism is the rite of initiation into the commu- nity of Christians, ordained by Christ himself, when he commissioned his apostles to go and bap- tize all nations. J. R. M’Culloch. BARBARISMI. Subjugate the barbarian. Emperor Probus. Barbarism is an advance on civilization. Strabo. The faith of barbarians rests on fortune. Livy. Barbarous nations have peremptory ways. R. D. Blackmore, Barbarism is quicker to learn the vices than the virtues of civilization. S. Parker. The worst of barbarism is that which arises, not from the absence of laws, but from their corrup- tion. W. S. Landor. A barbarous country must be broken by war, ere it be capable of government ; and when sub- dued, if it be not well planted, it will soon return to barbarism. Sir. J. Davies. The injustice of the barbarian system is revolt- ing, because it is open, direct, and based on brutal force : the injustice of civilization is glossed over by an appearance of equity and justice ; but the same enormous injustice characterizes both socie- ties. A. Brisbane. * B.A.R.D. The Muses teach the bards to sing. Homer. No bard can exist without the spirit being on fire. Cicero. The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. J. Mason. The bards of olden time sang verses in praise of the achievements of the brave, and in reproach of the coward. Lucanus. When the bard, the servant of the Muses, sings the glorious deeds of ancient heroes, he who is now suffering forgets his present sorrows, and remem- bers no more his many griefs. Hesiod. There are a kind of people called bards, whose profession is to set forth the praises or dispraises of men in their poems or rhyme ; the which are held in high regard and estimation. E. Spenser. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 59 BARG-AIN. A bargain is a bargain. Lyly. Make the best of a bad bargain. Arbuthnot. Many are ruined by buying bargains. Franklin. Lose no time in sealing a good bargain. C. Reade. Make a bargain at once ; learn to be an off-hand Ill&I). Rothschild. Before making a bargain, be sure you understand it thoroughly. Sissa. The buying a bargain is a temptation not in the nature of most women to resist. Mrs. Barbawld. As to bargains, few seem to be excellent, because they all terminate into one single point. Swift. A dear bargain is always annoying, chiefly for this reason, it is a reflection on the judgment of the buyer. Pliny the Yownger. We frequently see men sharp enough in making a bargain, who if you reason with them in matters of religion appear perfectly stupid. J. Locke. BASEINESS. How base is baseness. S. Yorke. Avoid all whose inclinations are base. Vidal. In the Ocean of baseness, the deeper we get the easier we sink. J. R. Lowell. Whosoever of mortals is of a base nature, him the gods chastise. Ewripides. Every base operation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other. Sir P. Sidney. The mind that gives birth to base deeds, trains up everything else to become base. Sophocles. As lawyers, it is very often our business to ex- aggerate baseness, and make the worst of a bad IIla, Il. C. Lever. When baseness and avarice are made masters, they neither know themselves, nor consider the lowliness whence they sprung ; they have no hearts for pity, nor ears for the poor man's cause ; gold is the goal they run to, and gifts the god they worship. Alkmar. BASEIFULINESS. . Avoid an awkward bashfulness. N. De Moms. Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a re- proach to old age. Aristotle. Bashfulness is like a concealed flower, springing from a humble stem. A. P. Stanley. The bashfulness of a lover in the presence of his mistress, is distressing to both. Beatriac. Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward ; merit without modesty, insolent. J. Hughes, Bashfulness is becoming to every one ; but we must know how to overcome it without ever losing it. H. Attwell. Bashfulness often gives rise to mistakes and blundering ; it is an abashment or agitation of the Spirits at coming in contact with others. Webster. BASEIFULINESS. Bashfulness is more frequently connected with more sense than we find assurance ; and impu- dence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity. Shenstone. Modesty, diffidence, and proper humility are jew- els in the cap of merit ; but downright bashfulness is terrible, and is a distinct mark of ill-breeding, or rather of no breeding at all. M. M. Noah. Let your address when you first come into com- pany be modest, but without the least bashfulness; steady, without impudence ; and unembarassed, as if you were in your own room. Chesterfield. As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them, so, in undermining bash- fulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent mod- esty, good-nature, and humanity, Plutarch, There are two distinct kinds of what we call bashfulness : this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb ; that, a consciousness which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove. H. Mackenzie. Bashfulness is not so much the effect of an ill education as the proper gift and provision of wise nature ; every stage of life has its own set of man- mers that is suited to it and best becomes it ; each is beautiful in its season ; and you might as well quarrel with the child’s rattle, and advance him directly to the boy's top and spam-farthing, as ex- pect from diffident youth the manly confidence of riper age. Bishop R. Hurd. BATEH. The bath is a great medicine. Dr. Wilson. Extend the benefits of the bath among all classes of society. D. Dwnlop. There is scarcely a religious system into which bathing has not been introduced. W. Aleacander. No other agent can be compared to bathing in the treatment of rheumatic disorders. Dr. Gosse. Those only who have gone through the bath can say, “Now I know how filthy I have been.” David Urquhart. The bath is as valuable a remedy in disease as it is a luxury and means of training in health; I am unable to point out any class of cutaneous diseases, in the cure of which it may not prove an impor- tant auxiliary. Dr. John Fife. There is nothing so conducive to health and comfort at all seasons of the year as bathing ; it invigorates the body, braces up the system, and a corresponding improvement is felt in the spirits and the imagination. In emerging from the river or the bath, a person feels light, airy, vigorous, and buoyant ; he seems to have left behind him a por- tion of the dross that clogs the wings of the soul, and the beneficial effects are felt both as a bodily and a mental purification. Theodore S. Fay. 60 & JD A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. BATTLE. Away from battle all are soldiers. Aristobulus. The next dreadful thing to a battle lost is a bat- , the won. Wellington. The fame and glory of a battle-field grows with its years. R. A. Willmott. The battle-field should be the last resource, the dernier resort, of nations. |Washington. The battle is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Patrick Henry. It appears, on many accounts, to be an honora- ble thing to fall on the field of battle. Plato. The battle-field is the place where all the ener- gies, all the offerings, and all the virtues of a whole life, are crowded into an hour. Richter. The merits of a general are not to be appreciated by the battle alone, but by those dispositions that preceded it, and by those measures that followed it. Coltom. The fate of a battle is the result of a moment— of a thought ; the hostile forces advance with va- rious combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time ; the critical moment ar- rives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object. Napoleon I. What a scene must a field of battle present, where thousands are left without assistance and without pity, with their wounds exposed to the piercing air, while the blood, freezing as it flows, binds them to the earth, amid the trampling of horses and the insults of an enraged foe . If they are spared by the humanity of the enemy and car- ried from the field, it is but a prolongation of tor- IIlent. R. Hall. I have been as enthusiastic and joyful as any one after a victory, but I confess that even the sight of a field of battle has not only struck me with horror, but even turned me sick, and now that I am advanced in life I cannot understand how beings who call themselves reasonable, can employ this short existence, not in loving and aid- ing each other, and passing through it as gently as possible, but in endeavoring to destroy each other, as if time did not do this with sufficient rapacity. Napoleon III. EEARD. Beards are the work of nature. W. Aleocander. A beard is the sign of manhood. C. Richardson. The beard was never the true standard of brains. T. Fuller. Many of our modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards. A. Karr. He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath none is less than a man. Shakspeare. The beard was for many ages looked upon as the type of wisdom among the ancient philoso- phers, who endeavored to rival one another in the length of their beards. Budgell. IlêSS. BEAST. Let the beast have its rest. Gozzi. All beasts of prey are either strong or treacher- OUIS. George Herbert. Wild beasts, though ferocious to others, agree among themselves. Juvenal. The difference between men and beasts is small; this difference fools neglect, but the wise will pre- Sel"Ve. Mencius. As long as man rules the beast all goes well: but when the beast rules the man, it is bad for the beast, and worse for the man. Lodoli. Beasts of prey have a make conformable to their destination ; they are endowed either with pecu- liar strength, agility, industry, or address. Sturm. Beasts have not the high advantages which we possess ; but they have some which we have not ; they have not our hopes, but then they have not our fears ; they are subject like us to death, but it is without being aware of it ; most of them are better able to preserve themselves than we are, and make a less bad use of their passions. Montesquieu. BEATITUDE. Study the beatitudes. Dagobert. The beatitudes blossom in this life, but mature in the life to come. Rev. W. Nimmo. Beatitude is not a plant of earthly growth : her gardens are the skies. R. Burton, Beatitude is that declaration of blessedness made by our Savior to particular virtues. Tr. Johnson. Beatitude denotes the quality of happiness only which is most exalted ; namely, heavenly happi- G. Crabb, What are the pleasures of earth, what is wealth, power, and gratified appetite in comparison with the promised beatitudes of the true believer ! Rev. T. Bryson. As in the next world, so in this, the only solid blessings are owing to the goodness of the mind, not the extent of the capacity ; friendship here is an emanation from the same source as beatitude there. Pope. BEAU. The beau carries his brains on his back. Close. A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it. Fielding. A beau dressed out resembles the cinnamon tree; the bark is of greater value than the body. H. Parr. Homer tells us that the blood of the gods is not real blood, but only something like it; so the brain of a beau is not real brain, but only something like it. Addison. Your dashing impudent beaux, who say a thou- sand silly things to the ladies, and flutter around them like butterflies, are yet more endurable than your bashful fellow who sneaks into a corner, ter- rified to catch a look, or to even exchange a word with a pretty woman. M. M. Noah. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7 ſo ws. 61 BEAUTY. Beauty is a silent deception. Theophrastws. Beauty is a solitary kingdom. Carmed des. Beauty is a privilege of nature. Plato. Beauty is a delightful prejudice. Theocritus. Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Socrates. Beauty is a glorious gift of nature. PHomer. Beauty is a favor bestowed by the gods. Ovid. Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined. Petroniws Arbiter. Beauty can give an edge to the bluntest sword. Sir P. Sidney. Unity and simplicity are the true sources of beauty. Winckelmann. It is far better to acquire beauty than to be born with it. E. Foster. Beauty without virtue is like a flower without perfume. - Ruffini. None but a wise man can duly appreciate beauty in a woman. Antisthemes. Beauty without kindness dies unenjoyed and undelighting. Dr. Johnson. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. Lord Bacon. Even virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person. Virgil. Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. Zimmerman. Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions ; it is itself the greatest distinction. Bovee. There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than the adoration of beauty. Schlegel. There is nothing that makes its way more di- rectly to the soul than beauty. Addison. Whatever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. Father André. The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth. H. Tuckerman. Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wis- dom rely upon its momentary delight. Seneca. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder. Locke: Beauty is only truly irresistible when it shows us something less transitory than itself. Mme. de Krudemer. The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty it- Self is all that inspires pleasure without. S. T. Coleridge. That which is striking or beautiful is not always good ; but that which is good is always beautiful. Nimon de l'Enclos. BEATUTY. A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eyes. Fontenelle. What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty, if you have a sensibility to beauty ? H. W. Beecher. In the forming of female friendships, it is very Seldom that beauty recommends one woman to another. H. Fielding. The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions. |W. S. Lamdor. Beauty, like truth and justice, lives within us; like virtue, and like moral law, it is a companion of the soul. G. Bamcroft. Where the mouth is sweet, and the eyes intelli- gent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart. L. Hwnt. Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, mO- desty, and heroism. St. Pierre. A female never forgave a man who doubted her possessing beauty ; it is an unpardonable sin in the court of gallantry. J. Bartlett. Beauty is a great gift of heaven ; not for the purpose of female vanity, but for One who loves, and wishes to be beloved. Maria Edgeworth. Beauty attracts us men, but if, like an armed magnet, it is pointed with gold or silver beside, it attracts with tenfold power. Richter. If thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life to that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee One year. Sir W. Raleigh. A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face ; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures ; it is the finest of the fine arts. R. W. Emerson. You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay, by using them ill. Sir W. Temple. The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature, which, but for this appearance, had been forever concealed from us. Goethe. Take the whole sex together, and you find those who have the stronger possession of men's hearts are not eminent for their beauty. J. Hughes. Affect not to despise beauty, no one is freed from its dominion ; but regard it not as a pearl of price, it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds. Tupper. Beauty charms, sublimity moves us, and is often accompanied with a feeling resembling fear, while beauty rather attracts and draws us toward it. W. Fleming. The divine right of beauty is the only divine right that a man can acknowledge, and a pretty woman the only tyrant he is not authorized to resist. Junius. 62 ZD A Y',S C O /, / A C O AV. BEAUTY. There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity ; both being equally subject to change. Pope. Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a dis- tance, or like a sharp sword : neither doth the One burn, nor the other wound those that come not too near them. Cervantes. The beauty of the face is a frail possession, a short-lived flower, only attached to the mere epi- dermis ; but that of the mind is innate and un- changeable. Moliere. The mind that has beauty in it and learns not to express it, is like iron that has a jewel set in it—it holds it for no suitable use, and is rust-gathering while it does so. Rev. H. Hooken". The greatest gift that ever the gods bestowed upon man is beauty ; for it both delighteth the eye, contenteth the mind, and winneth good will and favor of all men. Amacharsis. It is only through the morning gate of the beau- tiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge ; that which we feel here as beauty, we shall one day know as truth. Schiller. The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away. E. P. Whipple. Beauty is a fairy: sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young face. G. A. Sala. The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination ; if false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corres- ponds with right reason, and is not merely the creation of fancy. Lord Greville. and moral truth: for all beauty is truth ; true fea- tures make the beauty of a face, and true propor- tions the beauty of architecture, as true measures that of harmony and music. Earl of Shaftesbury. Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though ma- turally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, con- fused and mixed with theirs. M. E. Montaigme. A smooth, soft, and transparent skin, is no less indispensable to the perfection of beauty than elegance of figure ; it is, indeed, the barometer of the health and soundness of the individual, and the most indubitable sign of true beauty. Sir J. Clark. Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature; art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its powers and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage. V. Cowsim. BEAUTY. Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to cor- rupt the mind of the wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husband ; a figure agreeable and engaging, which inspires affection, without the ebriety of love, is a much safer choice. Lord Kames. Beauty has been the delight and torment of the world ever since it began ; the philosophers have felt its influence so sensibly that almost every one of them has left some saying or other which inti- mated that he knew too well the power of it. * Steele, In all things that live there are certain regulari- ties and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty ; no human face is ex- actly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. Ruskin, Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and that cannot last ; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance ; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtues shine and vices blush. Lord Bacon. Sometimes there are living beings in nature as beautiful as in romance. Reality surpasses imagi- nation ; and we see breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes, sights dearer to our hearts than any we have ever beheld in the land of sleep. Jame Awstem. How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe ! How many courtiers, how many slaves have sub- mitted to it ! But, alas ! why must it be that what flatters our senses almost always deceives our souls 3 Sarah Williams. The human heart yearns for the beautiful in all ranks of life ; the beautiful things that God makes are His gift to all alike ; there are many of the poor who have a keen sense of the beautiful, which rusts out and dies because they are too hard pressed to procure it any gratification. Mrs. H. B. Stowe. It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any man should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it. Earl of Clarendon. Nature has given horns to bulls, hoofs to horses, swiftness to hares, the power of swimming to fishes, of flying to birds, understanding to men. She had nothing more for women. What then does she give 2 Beauty, which can resist shields, and spears; she who is beautiful, is stronger than iron and fire. Anacreon. Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire ; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering. Jane Porter. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 63 BEAUTY. Beautiful things are suggestive of a purer and higher life, and fill us with a mingled love and fear ; they have a graciousness that wins us, and an excellence to which we involuntarily do rever- €11Cé. T. T. Lymch. If man, or woman either, wishes to realize the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cher- ishing noble hopes and purposes; by having some- thing to do, and something to live for, which is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding the capacities of the soul, gives expansion and symmetry to the body which contains it. Upham. Beauty depends more upon the movement of the face than upon the form of the features when at rest ; thus a countenance habitually under the in- fluence of amiable feelings acquires a beauty of the highest order, from the frequency with which such feelings are the originating causes of the movement or expressions which stamp their char- acter upon it. Mrs. S. C. Hall. Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee ; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee ; if thou love it, it disturbs thee ; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee ; if virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise ; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory ; it is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace. I'. Quarles. A taste for beauty is worthy of being cultivated; man dwells with felicity on ideal female attributes, and in imagination discovers beauties and perfec- tions which solace his wearied hours, far beyond any other resource within the scope of human life; it cannot, therefore, be unwise to cultivate and refine this natural tendency, and to enhance, if possible, these charms of life. Sir A. Carlisle. The greatest passion of man is the love of female beauty; it has been the theme of Sages in all times; poets have sung of beauty, devotionists have spoken of its vanity; individuals and nations have sacrificed this world and the next for its possession. Beauty of person is a paramount power in society; it infuses madness into one, energy to another, de- votion to a third, and obedience and respect from all. D?". Porte)'. Beauty is an all-pervading presence ; it unfolds to the numberless flowers of the spring ; it waves in the branches of the trees and the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone ; and not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the hea- vens, the stars, the rising and setting sun, all over- flow with beauty. W. E. Chamming. Beauty has so many charms one knows not how to speak against it ; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, something may be al- lowed it—and something to the embellishments which set it off ; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, is never so glorious as when it goes the plainest. Sterne. BED, The earth is a queen of beds. Wolof. As one maketh his bed, so must he lie. Polycarp. A bed free from anxiety is the most agreeable of all things. - Tamil. When our bed is straw, we sleep in safety ; but when we lie down on roses we must beware of the thorns. Prof. C. Walker. Give your children the fullest amount of sleep they will take, by compelling them to go to bed at some regular, early hour. Dr. F. Winslow. A bed is a bundle of paradoxes; we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret ; and we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. Colton. How much valuable time is wasted in bed Sup- pose two persons retire each night at the same hour, One of whom rises at five o'clock, and the other not till eight ; in a lifetime of sixty years, the former will have gained over the latter sixty- five thousand seven hundred and forty-five hours, which is equal to seven and a half years, added to his life. Philip Doddridge. BEES. Bees are busy ever. Miss Muloch. Bees taste of all flowers. Lucretius. The bees feed their young on flowers. Virgil. The bee stings, but the honey is sweet. Gwalter. Where the honey is, there will be bees. Plautus. The greatest profit lies in saving bees, not in killing them. Edward Prince. Bees approach nearer to man, in reason, than any other creature. A. J. King. Bees are not gluttons, and never consume their honey unnecessarily. Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper. Bees delight more in one flower than another, and therefore have taste. Lord Bacom. He is not worthy of the honeycomb that shuns the hive because the bees have stings. Shakespeare. A bee is a happy creature so long as it is assidu- ously occupied in gathering honey from the flowers, and accumulating a store of it. Gotthold. The honey-bee is the companion of the white man, and seems content to toil for him all the summer, only that he may be allowed to enjoy the refuse of his own labors in winter. J. K. Paulding. Honey is not made by the bees, but is simply gathered by them from the mectaries of flowers, and from that peculiar deposit on vegetation dur- ing summer, called “honey dew.” Dr. Kirtland. We are always accustomed to associate the hum of the bee-hive with the farm-house and flower- garden, and to consider those industrious little animals as connected with the busy haunts of man. W. Irving. 64 AD A Y’,S C O Z / A C O AV. BEGGAR. Beggars should not be choosers. Cem-gw. Modesty is not good for a needy beggar. Homer. He who begs complains of many misers. Yoruba. The true beggar is the only king above all com- parison. G. E. Lessing. The insolent, proud in prosperity, may in their turn become beggars. S. R. Sherwood. Begging is a bad trade, and a beggar by profes- sion, is at best, an unworthy example. Mogridge. All beggars are liable to rebuffs, with the cer- tainty besides of being considered bores. Prince Albert. If ordinary beggars are whipped, the daily beg- gars in fine clothes, out of respect to their quality, Ought to be hanged. J. F. Saville. Petitioners for place and position are worse than common beggars, for the latter only beg to relieve their necessity, but the former beg to gratify their vanity. J. Hintom. Beggar ! the only freeman of the commonwealth; free above Scot-free, that observe no laws, obey no governor, use moreligion, but what they draw from their own ancient custom, or constitute themselves; yet they are no rebels. W. Broome. How often are beggars relieved only for their rude importunity; not that the person who relieves them is satisfied of their real want, nor yet moved to pity by all their cry and cant, but to rid himself from the vexatious noise and ding ; so that to pur- chase his quiet he gratifies the beggar, but indeed relieves himself. Bishop R. Sowth. BEGINNING-. Every beginning is difficult. Goethe. The beginning is half the battle. Julius Coesar. Beginning and ending shake hands. Bede, The beginning of all things is small. Cicero. The beginning of life is more glorious than the end. Pythagoras. Evil beginnings have most commonly wretched endings. Ewripides. A foolish man beginneth many things, and end- eth nothing. Aristotle. Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. Publius Syrws. Nature is counted the beginning of all things: death the end. Quintilian. The beginning of things is in our own power, but the end resteth at God's disposing. Stoboews. Never attempt any wicked beginning in the hope of a good ending ; the time between the be- ginning and the end is short. Saint Gregory. A beginning is uncreate ; for everything that is created must necessarily be created from a begin- ning, but a beginning itself from nothing what- eVer. Plato. BEGINNING. When the ancients said that the work begun was half done, they meant that we ought to take the utmost pains in every undertaking to make a good beginning. Polybius. Beginning is the first appearance of anything ; and there can be nothing without a beginning, but only that Almighty power which first created all things out of nothing. N. Lymge. The considerable actions in the world have usually very small beginnings. Of a few letters how many thousand words are made ; of ten fig- ures how many thousand numbers . A point is the beginning of all geometry ; a little stone flung into a pond makes a little circle, then a greater, till it enlargeth itself to both the sides ; so from small beginnings, God doth cause an efflux through the whole world. S. Charmock. BEHAVIOR. Behavior is everything. Fanny Fern. Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. - Goethe. Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous. Seneca. The behavior of a single child is often the means of making or marring the happiness of a whole family. Mrs. G. Whittlesey. Men's behavior should be like their apparel, not too strait or point-de-vice, but free for exercise or motion. Lord Bacom. Good manners, as we call them, are neither more nor less than good behavior, consisting of courtesy and kindness. S. Smiles. Wisdom, valor, justice, and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed of these ex- cellences, if he wants that inferior art of life and behavior called good breeding. Steele. Polite behavior with her silken sleeve rounds off and polishes the snow-white cubes of truth, so that, when they have got a little dingy by use, it be- comes hard to tell them from the rolling balls of falsehood. O. W. Holmes. With servants and inferiors avoid familiarity, but yet be courteous and affable in your behavior ; insolent and haughty words are unbecoming. Scorn not those beneath you ; it is not your merit, but your good fortune, that has placed you above them. J. Gwy. Oddities and singularities of behavior may at- tend genius; when they do, they are its misfor- tune and blemishes ; the man of true genius will be ashamed of them ; and at least he will never affect to distinguish himself by whimsical pecu- liarities. Sir W. Temple. The true art of being agreeable is to appear well pleased with all the company, and rather to seem well entertained with them than to bring enter- tainment to them. A manthus disposed may have not much learning, nor any wit ; but if he has common sense, and something friendly in his be- havior, it conciliates men's minds more than the brightest parts without this disposition. Addison. PA O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 65 BELIEE'. No man can be forced to believe. H. Croft. What the mind wishes, it believes. Heliodorus. He who knows most believes the least. Butchele. Belief is not a matter of choice, but of convic- tion. R. G. Ingersoll. God knows I had rather be a believer than a king. T. Adams. You believe that easily which you hope for earn- estly. Terence. You do not believe, you only believe that you believe. Coleridge. There is no more virtue in belief than vice in disbelief. Charles Southwell. He is a fool who believes he knows neither what nor why. Feltham. Men willingly believe to be true what they wish to be true. Julius Coesor. All moral character is built upon, and ever mo- dified by beliefs. Dr. Thomas. A firm religious belief is more preferable than any other blessing. Sir H. Davy. The devils, we are told, believe and tremble ; our part is to believe and love. J. C. Hare. The want of belief is a defect which ought to be concealed where it cannot be overcome. Swift. Men may be too easy of belief ; but it is just as great a weakness to be too full of suspicion. Bridges. The men I am most afraid of are those men who believe everything, subscribe to everything, and vote for everything. Bishop Shipley. Belief is a blossom of the soul ; in this blossom thou knowest the truth. Believe whatever reason bids you, and your heart advises. Zschök:ke. The living belief which has really been implanted in the soil of thought and feeling, cannot but bear its proper flower and fruit in the moral and intel- lectual life of a thoughtful man. Canon Liddon. Many of our most cherished beliefs are like drinking-glasses of the ancient pattern, that serve us well so long as we keep them in our hand, but spill all if we attempt to set them down. Holmes. There are three means of believing : by inspira- tion, by reason, and by custom ; Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by in- spiration. Pascal. In every Christian land, the youth and the man- hood are accountable for their belief, because accountable for their use or their neglect of that inquiry by which the belief ought to have been determined. T. Chalmers. Upon the great field of human life, belief is the general rule ; disbelief belongs only to the excep- tions from that rule ; he, therefore, who always believes, will be much less often in the wrong than he who always doubts. I. Taylor. BELLIES-LETTERIES. Belles-lettres is the ethics of literature. Angelus. Belles-lettres is the science of good taste in speak- ing or writing. C. Rollim. The influence of belles-letters has been felt and acknowledged in all ages. J. Cawvin. Belles-lettres is merely the appellation for supe- rior education and polite literature. H. J. Loaring. Belles-lettres improve our sensibility for all the tender and agreeable passions, at the same time they render the mind incapable of the rougher and more boisterous emotions. Plume. The study of belles-lettres supposes and requires a proper acquaintance with the rest of the liberal arts ; it embraces them all within its circle, and recommends them to the highest regard. H. Blair. Under the term belles-lettres is understood the most proper method of communicating our thoughts, whether by speaking or writing ; also to unfold and apply the principles of sound criti- cism. William Barrom. BELLS. How sweet are the Sabbath bells 1 Edmeston. When the great bell rings no one hears the little O]]6S. Bwn gener. To my mind there is no music so delightful as that of the Church bells. Rev. Walter Field. The bell never clinks of itself ; unless it is han- dled and moved it remains dumb, Plaw.tws. Every man's passing bell hangs in his own stee- ple ; we begin to die as soon as ever we begin to live. W. Secke?". Of all sound of all bells—bells, the music nighest bordering upon heaven—most solemn and touch- ing is the peal which rings out the old year. Lamb. It Ought to be held a misdemeanor to sadden a sleigh-ride by omitting the bells; the cheery snow, the crisp air, the merry blood, all call for the ac- Companying music of the bells. T. Tilton. The chime of church bells is, of all sounds, that which conveys the most melancholy or the most joyous impressions to the heart, according to the circumstances under which it is heard, and the as- sociations with which it is connected. Lady Dacre. BELLY. It is the belly that rules mankind. The belly is the father of the gods. Efik. Yoruba. It is difficult to speak to the belly, because it has I1O €al’S. Plutarch. The belly has no ears ; hunger will make a mon- key eat pepper. Haytien. The belly is the master of all art, he is the boun- teous giver of genius. Persius. Belly-gods satisfy their wants more than they ought : people of excessive slavish dispositions are apt to do this. Aristotle. 5 66 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. EENEFACTOR. Love thy benefactor. Tyndall. A benefactor has reward from God. Tiberius II. He is our best benefactor who leads us to God and virtue. Rev. John Brown. Thy benefactor has a right to divide his bounty as he judges best. Flowrens. When a man knows that another has been his benefactor, he should hazard everything for him. Herod the Great. It is better that the world should be made up of benefactors and beneficiaries than that men should be independent of each other. J. G. Holland. We are taught by the law of nature that he who receiveth a benefit oweth to his benefactor, honor, faith, and service, according to the proportion of the benefit received. Spelman. A benefactor is not bound to comply with the demands of such as ask unmerited favors ; though conscious that he himself might be apt to make as extravagant requests, were it his turn to be the object of another man's beneficence. Atterbury. As the branches of a tree return their sap to the root from whence it arose, as a river poureth his streams to the sea from whence his spring was supplied, so the heart of a grateful man delight- eth in returning a benefit received ; he acknow- ledgeth his obligations with cheerfulness; he look- eth on his benefactor with esteem. R. Dodsley. BENEFICENCE. An act of beneficence is never lost. Plautus. Christian beneficence is distinguished by cheer- fulness. H. Martym. The beneficent ever look out for a reason to con- fer favors. Publius Syrus. Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received, a benefit. G. Camming. A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth and spreading fertility ; it is therefore more delightful and more honorable to give than to receive. Epicurus. There is no use of money equal to that of benefi- cence ; here the enjoyment grows on reflection, and our money is most truly ours when it ceases to be in our possession. H. Mackenzie. Do not so do good that we may thank your death-bed for it, and not you ; late beneficence is better than none, but early beneficence is better than late; he that gives not till he dies, shows that he would not give if he could keep it. J. Hall. Beneficence may exist without benevolence : arising from a sense of duty, not from sympathy or compassion, it may be a charity of the hand rather than of the heart. There is an apparent beneficence which has no connection either with right principle or right feeling, as when we throw alms to a beggar, not to relieve him of his distress, but ourselves of his importunity or of the pain of beholding him. Chatfield. BENEFITS. To benefit others is a duty. Voragine. A benefit worketh a double good. John Quarles. Benefits are like bread—soon become stale. Orme, We should never remember the benefits we have Conferred, nor forget the favors received. Chilo. Nothing is so long remembered as a benefit con- ferred, nothing so soon forgotten as a benefit re- ceived. Alvaro. If thou promise little and perform much, it will make thy benefits to be the more thankfully re- ceived. Attrelius. It is a law of the gods, which is never broken, to sell somewhat dear the great benefits which they confer on us. Colºneille. Let us then not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travelers in the rugged ways of this wretched world. Chesterfield. He who has bound us to him by benefits alone, rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in , Some measure forfeited our freedom. Goldsmith. I had rather never receive a kindness, than never bestow one ; not to return a benefit is the greater sin, but not to confer it is the earlier. Semeca. There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. J. F. Boyes. As the moon doth show her light in the world which she receiveth from the sun, so we ought to bestow the benefits received of God to the profit and commodity of our neighbor. D. Cawdray. Benefits accrue upon benefits. One good turn deserves another. Sometimes, nay, frequently, One ill turn lays the foundation for another, and then it is like snow falling upon ice. Quintom. This is a law that should be observed between the giver and the receiver; the one should straight- way forget the benefit bestowed, and the other should always have it in remembrance. Solom. Time, which gnaws and diminishes all things else, augments and increaseth benefits ; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man of reason, doth grow continually by his generously thinking of it and remembering of it. Fabelais. Men are not only prome to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them ; the neces- sity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwill- ing to submit. Rochefoucauld. Services and presents should not be great and seldom bestowed, but small and frequent; for such is the nature of man, that the sense of the last benefit is entirely lost, if there be no hope of re- ceiving more; and though the obligation be great, yet if one single request be refused, it occupies the mind so entirely as to bury all former favors in oblivion. Travers Twiss. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 67 BENEVOLENCE. Benevolence is a duty. E. Kamt. To love all men is benevolence. Confucius. Benevolence is a double blessing. Amadius IX. Benevolence wins our affections. W. J. Unwin. Benevolence is worthy of royalty. W. Morell. Benevolence is the minister of God. Carlyle. The gods urge man to benevolent deeds. Aratus. Benevolence is an inspiration from God. Adorni. True benevolence will know why it gives. Lwnt. The benevolent man does good to himself. * Elie Salomon. Benevolence always flows from a pure fountain. Eliza Swsam, Quincy. Benevolence is a sentiment common to human nature. Sir Sidney Smith. Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions. W. M. Thackeray. Benevolence is allied to few vices ; selfishness to few virtues. Lord Kames. How much pleasure often springs from a trifling benevolent action. James Quinn. Men are rich, not in proportion to their avarice, but to their benevolence. Lucy LCºrcom. Wherever the tree of benevolence takes root, it sends forth branches above the sky. Eddim Saadi. After all, does not a person's benevolence depend somewhat upon his humor at the time 2 D. Garrick. A life of passionate gratification is not to be com- pared with a life of active benevolence. E. Mason. Co-operation in works of benevolence and use- fulness, is one of the best means of self-improve- ment. John Whitecross. If it were put out of our power to perform acts of benevolence, our life itself would become poor enough. Baron L. Tieck. As the rose breatheth sweetness from its own nature, so the heart of a benevolent man produceth good works. R. Dodsley. Every virtue carries with it its own reward, but none in so distinguished and pre-eminent a degree as benevolence. R. P. Bwddicom. Animated by Christian motives and directed to Christian ends, true benevolence shall in no wise go unrewarded. Joseph Sturge. No right judgment can ever be formed on any subject having a moral or intellectual bearing without benevolence. W. Allston. No rich man is safe, but in the imitation of that benevolent God, who is the dispenser of all of the riches in the universe. O. Dewey. Nothing is so wholesome, nothing does so much . for people's looks, as a little interchange of the small coin of benevolence. Ruffini. pable of giving and receiving benefits. BENEVOLENCE. Benevolence is a Christian duty; without it fast- ing, watching, prayer, a celibate life, and even faith itself availeth nothing. CoeSariws of Arles. Benevolence, though a distinct principle, is ex- tremely serviceable to self-love, and doth most service when it is least designed. H. Grove. The conqueror is regarded with awe ; the wise man commands our esteem ; but it is the benevo- lent man who wins our affections. Fénélon. Benevolence is not merely a feeling, but a prin- ciple ; it is not a dream of rapture for the fancy to indulge in, but a business for the hand to exe- Cute. T. Chalmers. To feel much for others, and little for ourselves, to restrain our selfish, and to indulge Our benevo- lent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. Adam Smith. The domestic man has a benevolence of feeling which seems to ray out from him, and to diffuse a pleasurable sense over those near him, like a soft, bright day. R. H. Dana. The propriety of cultivating feelings of benevo- lence toward our fellow-creatures is seldom denied in theory, however frequently the duty may be omitted in practice. Elizabeth Hamilton. Benevolence is always a virtuous principle ; its operations always secure to others their natural rights, and it liberally superadds more than they are entitled to claim. T. Cogan. No disposition is considered as more important in the realization of genuine Christianity than true benevolence ; amid all the glories of religion, this is the most resplendent. R. Porter. The only way to be loved, is to be, and to appear lovely ; to possess and display kindness, benevo- lence, tenderness ; to be free from selfishness, and to be alive to the welfare of others. W. Jay, Benevolence is the most commendable when it is bestowed upon those in distress ; it is a token of righteousness, whereby we acknowledge the gifts which God hath put into our hands. B. Johnson, As benevolence is the most sociable of all virtues, so it is of the largest extant ; for there is not any man, either so great or so little, but he is yet ca- Semeca. The continuance of abstaining from all that is sinful or hurtful, leads to emaciation of character, unless one feeds largely also on the more nutritious diet of active sympathetic benevolence. Holmes, There cannot be a more glorious object in crea- tion than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render him- self most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to his creatures. H. Fielding. We should never permit the cares of life, the visits of friendship, or the pleasure of sense to so monopolize our time, as to prevent us from attend- ing to those works of benevolence and usefulness which God hath enjoined upon us. W. Carstairs. 68 AD A V 'S CO /, / A C O AV. BENEVOLENCE. The mild splendors of the rising sun, the ruddy glowing tints of evening, the moon's calm radiance in a serene night—all these swell our bosoms with pleasure ; but sweeter, still sweeter, is the recol- lection of a benevolent deed. Gessner. Every man's absolute obligations and duties in- crease in proportion to his wisdom, power, and wealth; and all omissions in expressions of benevo- lence, are as criminal and injurious to the world as fraud, theft, or any other villainy. R. Williams. We have every reason to conclude that benevo- lence exerts its noblest emergies among the inhabi- tants of distant worlds, and that it is chiefly through the medium of reciprocal kindness and affection that ecstatic joy pervades the hearts of celestial intelligences. Dr. T. Dick. There is nothing that requires so strict an econo- my as our benevolence ; we should husband our means as the agriculturist his manure, which, if he spread over too large a superficies, produces no Crop, if Over too small a surface, exuberates in rankness and in weeds. Colton. Benevolence is the soul of religion. That benevo- lence which flows forth through the melting ten- derness of compassion, and betokens a heart alive to all the deep-seated sensibilities of humanity, is what commends the Soul to Heaven's complacent regard, and qualifies for the enjoyment of Heaven's favors. Mrs. Howstom. Christian benevolence does not stop to inquire whether famine or pestilence came on the sufferer through his own negligence or imprudence; it asks not how he came to be travelling the road which led to either ; it finds him in want of bread or healing ; it cannot let him die if it has bread or medicine to give him. Lord Osborne. The Soul of the truly benevolent man does not Seem to reside much in its own body ; its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others; it migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own hap- piness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or Solacing their pains. H. Mann. EENIGNITY. Benignity is the flower of purity. B. Kennet. A benign mind shows a pure heart. Belleforest. Goodness of disposition, and kindness of heart, produces a benign mind. Mrs. S. B. Johnson. Benignity is a wholesome quality ; it is a salu- brity which tends to promote health. Wiseman. He who useth the benefit of any special benigni- ty, may enjoy it with good conscience. R. Hooker. A benign mind ever perceives harmony and hap- piness around it, and discovers in the bounty and beauty of nature something to admire. O. Wilde. Esteem a habit of benignity greatly preferable to munificence ; the former is peculiar to great and distinguished persons; the latter belongs to flatterers of the people, who court the applause of the inconstant vulgar. Antoninus. EEREAVEMENT. Bereavement is the gate of death. G. Upfold. There is a pleasure in bereavement. W. G. Clark. Repine not at bereavements, but improve them. Bishop Adom. Submit to bereavements; from them we often may date God's richest mercies to us. T. Goodwin. Bereavement is a dispensation of God; what He gives in His goodness He has a right to take away in His wisdom. Dr. H. F. Burder. Our bereavements teach us to leave trusting to Creature comforts, the importance of eternal reali- ties, to understand the divine character and word, and sympathy for others. G. S. Bowes. |BETRAYAT,. Silence never betrays you. J. B. O'Reilly. A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes. George Eliot. Those that are betrayed do feel the treason sharply. Shakspeare. There is nothing that more betrays a base, un- generous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Addison. How often do men betray those who have loved them ; what an absolute littleness of soul. There is no character so despicable as the one who can betray a trust that has been entrusted to him. Harriet Lee. BETROTHAL. All betrothals are not the outcome of love. Shea. Pure love should be the essential element in all betrothals. John Wolley". A betrothal is the half-way house on the road to matrimony. Mme. Marie Viot. Harbor not a thought which might prejudice the happiness of your absent betrothed. F. Buldwen. If an Eden can be to mortals, the era of wooing and betrothal approaches it most nearly. Elizabeth A. Thwºrston. A betrothal is like purgatory, from which per- sons are wont to depart for a state of happiness or misery. Eleanor P. Lee. A betrothal may turn out an Elysian fount or lake of Como, to some ; but a Black sea, or a mael- strom of Norway to others. B. Whitelocke. BETTING-. All betting is immoral. Derwent Coleridge. A bet is a test of sincerity. Isaiah Rynders. Betting is a medium sin between covetousness and theft. Sir John Lubbock. Be that loseth his substance in betting shall be accounted a fool natural, wanting wit to govern himself. Awrelius. Betting has become a modern science ; it has been reduced to a system, and constitutes one of the rules and methods of sporting life. When a vice is thus systematized, honest poverty and humble toil may well be proud of their integrity and upright- I16SS. - David Swing. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7'ſ O AV S. - 69 BIBLE. The Bible is common sense inspired. R. Howels. A man may find much amusement in the Bible. W. Cecil. The longer you read the Bible, the more you will like it. W. Romaine. It is the Bible that is the secret of England's greatness. Qween Victoria. Like the needle to the north pole, the Bible points to heaven. R. B. Nichol. The Bible is a power in every government that is governed by it. L. Kossuth. The Bible is a precious storehouse, and the Magna Charta of a Christian. J. Berridge. The Bible among other books is as a diamond among precious stones. J. Stoughtom. Study of the Bible will keep any man from being vulgar in point of style. S. T. Coleridge. There is no book like the Bible for excellent learning, wisdom, and use. Sir M. Hale. There is no book upon which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible. J. Selden. The Bible is true, and science is true : there is no disagreement between them. J. S. Mawry. The publication of unauthorised editions of the Bible should be discountenanced. Pope Leo XII. All amusements are but a shadow compared with the pleasure of reading the Bible. Lady Jane Grey. God is light, so is the religion of the Bible ; God is love, so is the religion of the Bible. G. Spring. The Bible is a window in the prison of hope through which we look into eternity. T. Dwight. You will find your Bible to be a jewel indeed ; the more it is worn, the brighter it will shine. J. Bowden. The Bible belongs to the world, like the air, the ocean, the rivers, and the fountains of water. G. Redford. In preparing a guide to immortality, Infinite Wisdom gave not a dictionary, nor a grammar, but a Bible. Dr. J. Hamilton. The Bible stands upon four immoveable pillars— the power, the understanding, the goodness, and the purity of God. Bishop D. Simpson. There never was found, in any age of the world, either religion or law that did so highly exalt the public good as the Bible. Lord Bacon. Learn the Bible through the Bible, the Old through the New Testament : either can only be understood by the needs of thy heart. J. Von Muller. The Bible is a divine encyclopædia in itself ; it contains history the most authentic and ancient, tracing back to the first creation of our world. H. K. White. BIELE. Men cannot be well educated without the Bible ; it ought, therefore, to hold the chief place in every situation of learning throughout Christendom. Dr. E. Nott. Many believe the Bible until they find it con- demns the vicious course of life they are leading ; then they suddenly discover it to be only “an old fable.” E. P. Day. The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible. F. Novalis. In whatever light we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, history, or morality, it is an invaluable and a inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue. J. Q. Adams. It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance ; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. Milton. A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district—all studied and appreciated as they merit—are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty. Franklim, The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the plain man and the palace of the king ; it is woven into literature, and it colors the talk of the street ; it enters men's closets, mingling in all the grief and cheerfulness of life. T. Parke?". The Bible evidently transcends all human effort ; it has upon its face the impress of divinity ; it shines with a light which from its clearness and its splendor shows itself to be celestial. Surely, then, it is the word of God. A. Aleacander. There is no one book extant in any language or in any country which can in any degree be com- pared with the Bible, for antiquity, for authority, for the importance, the dignity, the variety, and the curiosity of the matter it contains. - Bishop Portews. The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more im- portant history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written. Sir W. Jones. The Bible will be to you what you are to it ; to the Christian eye every page is covered with a mild radiance. With divine light and sunshine, an instinct in himself detects the words—a secret life in the words themselves makes them stand Out prominent and lustrous. Rev. T. Binney. If it were possible to annihilate the Bible, and with it all its influences, we should destroy with it the whole spiritual system of the moral world, all refinement of manners, constitutional government, security of property, our schools, hospitals, and benevolent associations, the press, the fine arts, the equality of the sexes, and the blessings of the fire- side. E. Everitt. 70 A) A W ',S CO Z Z A C O AV. º BIGOTRY. A bigot is a religious coward, trying to play the autocrat. H. W. Shaw. Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. Colton. Bigotry delights to feed on human flesh, and to drink human blood. Hierocles. A proud bigot is vain enough to think he can deceive even God by affected zeal. Boiled w. In philosophy and religion, the bigots of all par- ties are generally the most positive. Dr. Watts. In this land, the light of truth and reason have triumphed over the power of bigotry and Super- stition. Washington. The persons whose tempers are peculiarly distin- guished for bigotry, are those who have drank most sparingly of the water of life. Bissland. There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities; it dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other conti- ments of thought, and checks the circulation of its OWI). E. H. Chapin. Bigots who are violent, positive, and intolerant in their religious tenets, ought to feel very much humbled when they reflect, that they would have been equally so for any other religion of their parents or native country. Burke. Bigotry has no head and cannot think; no heart, and cannot feel ; when she moves, it is in wrath ; when she pauses, it is amidst ruin ; her prayers are curses, her communion is death, her vengeance is etermity, her decalogue is written in the blood of her victims; and if she stops a moment in her in- fermal flight, it is upon a kindred rock, to whet her vulture fang for a more sanguinary desolation. C. Phillips. A bigot is a man of respectable opinions, but very ordinary talents; defending what is right without judgment, and believing what is holy without charity. Generally obstinate in propor- tion as he is wrong, he thinks he best shows his love of God by hatred of his fellow-creatures, and his humility by lauding himself and his sect. Vain is the endeavor to argue with men of this stamp. Chatfield. Intemperate zeal, bigotry, and persecution for any party or opinion, however praiseworthy they may appear to weak men of our own principles, produce infinite calamities among mankind, and are highly criminal in their own nature ; and yet how many persons, eminent for piety, suffer such monstrous and absurd principles of action to take root in their minds under the color of virtues Addison. The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a very few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me: for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you ; for it is my duty to persecute error. Macaulay. BIOGRAPHY, Biography and chronology are the two eyes of history. FHammah More. There is properly no history, only that of biog- raphy. R. W. Emerson. One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography. W. E. Chamming. Biography is the stones from which history forms its future edifices. N. P. Banks. Biography is the most universally pleasant, uni- versally profitable, of all reading. Carlyle. Of all the species of literary composition perhaps biography is the most delightful. R. Hall. Biography should hold a place between geogra- phy and history, and should be studied as system- atically as either. S. L. Knapp. Biography sets before us the whole character of a person, who has made himself eminent either by his virtues or his vices. J. Burgh. There cannot be too many biographies of good men written, nor too few of bad men. In reading the life of a good man, the wish unconsciously rises to be like him, and insensibly the character is modified by it. Bovee. The biographies of great and good men, like Elijah's mantle, ought to be gathered up and pre- served by their survivors; that as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in their benefit. M. Henry. Biography, especially the biography of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions from poverty and obscurity to eminence and use- fulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records. H. Mamºn. Biography is not only valuable as an example to imitate, but as a beacon to warn. To praise desert can scarcely fail to be a stimulus to virtuous action; the thought of being handed down to posterity in colors of infamy must check the vicious machina- tion, and stay the atrocious deed. W. Mavor. As a master key to the study of the human heart, the biographical account of particular indi- viduals, is infinitely superior to history. It is universally acknowledged that mankind, in gene- ral, derive greater pleasure from biography than from most other kinds of writings. S. F. Bradford. Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth. W. S. Landor. As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicat- ing such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern. Fielding. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7 ſo w S. 71 BIRDS. Birds fill every grove with melody. A. Picket. There is a dialect in the songs of birds. E. Jesse. The birds of the air are preachers of faith to Iſlall. Luther. The birds tell of heaven with their love-warb- lings in the green twilight. H. W. Beecher. The music of birds was the first song of thanks- giving which was offered on earth before man was formed. G. Horne. Of all the endowments of birds, none is more striking, or ministers more to the pleasure and delight of man than their varied song. W. Kirby. Undoubtedly birds of each species have peculiar sounds, whereby they understand each other, and express their wants, and perhaps their desires and . Sentiments. L. A. P. Hérissant. What little we know of the generation of birds is sufficient to prove the wisdom of the Creator, as it can neither be attributed to a blind chance nor to art-assisting mature. Stwºrm. The admirable wisdom of Providence is nowhere more conspicuous than in the nests of birds. No sooner have the trees put forth their leaves than myriads, or rather millions, of little workmen Commence their labors. Chateawbriand. How wonderful are the birds ! A passage through the air, which has been denied to other animals, is Open to them ; they are capable of soaring up to the clouds; they suspend their bodies and continue motionless in an element lighter than themselves ; they remount, and then precipitate, themselves to the earth like a descending stone. J. Mair. BIRTH. Birth is nothing where virtue is not. Molière. The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a Soul. W. G. Simºns. My birth has had some effect on my habits and tastes in life. Bulwer. Every anniversary of a birth-day is the dispel- ling of a dream. Zschokke. The Graces smile upon those over whose birth Venus presided. Lowis Qwinze. Men are equal: it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes them differ. Voltaire. We can only be said to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. W. Hazlitt. My maxim has always been : A career open to talent without distinction of birth. Napoleon I. Men of birth are noted to be envious toward new men, for their distance is altered. Lord Bacon. What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring 2 Sir P. Sidney. Birth is a shadow ; courage, self-sustained, out- lords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors. Sir R. Hill. IBIRTH. Distinguished birth is indeed an honor to him who lives worthily of the virtues of his progeni- tors. E. Qwinet. Custom forms us all ; our thoughts, Our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of Our place of birth. A. Hill. Our birth, ancestry, and all other things which we ourselves have not acquired, can scarcely be called our own. Ovid. When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too. Lord Greville. The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is con- cermed, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it. R. Whately. High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem toward those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor. Bruyère. A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one, and place his virtues in the fairest light. G. Lillo. It is those only who "have no peculiar good in their own nature, who have recourse to splendid monuments and their noble birth, and who count up all their ancestors who have preceded them. Mencumder. There is a mingled feeling of rapture and awe in revisiting the spot of one's birth, particularly if time should have swept his scythe with unrelenting fleetness over the scenes of our youthful and inno- cent festivity. G. E. Howard. Of all vanities and fopperies, the Vanity of high birth is the greatest ; true nobility is derived from virtue, not from birth ; titles indeed may be pur- chased, but virtue is the only coin that makes the bargain valid. R. Burton. Those who have nothing to recommend them to the respect of others but their birth, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouths perpetually full of it ; they swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word. P. Charron. Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national charac- ter. Our home, our birthplace, Our native land; think for awhile what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism. Sowthey. Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the plea- sant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty ; in either case it may be a stain or an honor. If he is born in poverty, and his future life throws a lustre over an humble birth, the re- ward will not only be great, but his name will stand higher on the roll of honor and virtue, than he who can only boast of his proud descent. James Ellis. 72 AD A Y’.S C O /, / A C O A'. BLAME. Aim to live a life without blame. E. Rich. Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others. A. F. Büsching. In arms, the praise of success is shared among many ; yet the blame of misadventures is charged upon One. J. Hayward. Nothing can be justly despised that cannot be justly blamed ; where there is no choice there can be no blame. R. Sowth. We need not hesitate to blame as occasion may require ; but it is proper to be cautious how we deal out reproof where the necessity of the case does not fully warrant it. G. Crabb. If nature is at all chargeable with blame in con- stituting us with faults, and in rendering us blind to them, she has sought an effectual remedy for these evils, in rendering all other eyes observable of our defects, and all other tongues disposed to speak of them, although they discover not and speak not of their own. Actom. BLASPHEMY. Blasphemy properly denotes calumny. C. Buck. There is only one sin utterly without pardon, and that is blasphemy. * St. Basil. Blasphemy is a breach of the third command- ment, a reproach aimed against God. A. Ritchie. Blasphemies, when proclaimed from the pulpit, are received as truths by gaping credulity. Linen. Blasphemy is an injury offered to God, by deny- ing that which is due and belonging to Him, or attributing to Him what is not agreeable to His nature. Linwood. The devil tempts thieves, libertines, and mur- derers with hope of gain, pleasure, or revenge; but the blasphemer serves him better than all, and without any wages. Lorenzo Dow. BLESSEDINESS. Blessedness is an outward quietness. Aristotle. He alone is blessed who never was born. Prior. Blessedness is a whole eternity older than dam- nation. Richten'. True blessedness consists in a good life and a happy death. Solom. True blessedness is hid from mortal eyes, and left as an object to purer spirits. J. Melville. Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world ! Yet more blessed is the memory of those who have kept them- selves unspotted in the world ! Mrs. Jameson. If we could see things as they are ; if we were not deceived by the masquerade of this poor life; if we were not so easily taken in by the masks and dresses of those who act in this great drama, be it comedy or tragedy: if we could but see what the men are behind the scenes, penetrate their hearts, watch the inner motions, and discern their secret feelings, we should find but few who could hear the name of “blessed.” C. H. Spurgeon. BLESSING-. No blessing lasts, forever. Plautus. It is no true blessing which hath an end. Joy. Every time your enemy fires a curse, you must fire a blessing. H. W. Beeche). The man of prudence and discretion will, for the sake of future blessings, patiently submit to pre- Sent evils. S. Croaccull. The blessings of fortune are the lowest ; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health ; but the superlative blessings are those of the mind. L’Estrange. Learn to ask God’s blessing on little things, as well as great ; there is nothing for which it is right for us to do, but it is also right to ask that God would bless it. Dr. J. Hamilton. We become conscious of our blessings principally through their loss ; thus let a man lose a limb, and he will at Once become sensible as he never was before of what a benefit it was to him. Bovee. It is too generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful what they owe to God for any blessing, is that they should receive that bless- ing often enough and regularly enough. Whately. Blessings we daily enjoy ; and for most of them, because they are so common, most men forget to pay their praises ; but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made the sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers, and meat and content. I. Walton. What the Powers divine send us from above are Only blessings common to all the world; their light rejoices us, yet it makes no man rich ; in their eternal realm no property is possessed. The jewel, the all-valued gold, we win from the deceiving powers, depraved in nature, that dwell beneath the daylight. Schiller. The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of Divine grace it is the most sov- ereign balm to the miseries of life, both to him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it. Bishop Portews. To really feel a blessing in its truest sense, the Soul should be in harmony with God ; then the dim light of glory attending the gift will light up the heart, and the recipient will know in his in- most Soul that the light in which he receives the blessing is a beam of that brighter world, of which he now only enjoys, as it were, the foretaste and blessedness. Jane E. Locke. Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; its continuance should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings ; a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful : the second, humble ; and the third, moderate. Hannah More. A R O S / O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 73 BLINDINESS. Do not take a blind guide. Aristophames. Blindness is a malady of the body, and not of the mind. Aldrovandws. In a country of blind people, the One-eyed man is king. St. Cyril. A blind man sees a great many things which others do not. Rev. W. H. Milburn. Instead of eyes the blind pickup gems of thought with their fingers. Mrs. S. H. De Kroyft. He that is stricken blind, cannot forget the pre- cious treasure of his eyesight. Shakspeare. The blind man that governs his steps by feeling, in defect of eyes, receives advertisement of things through a staff. Sir K. JDigby. As blind people can only read their books because the characters are embossed, and stand out boldly from the blank sheet, so often, by affliction and trial, old truths are thus raised and brought out to the mind of the spiritually blind. G. S. Bowes. BLISS. Bliss is the joy anticipated in heaven. N. Webster. The wise man starts and trembles at the perils of a bliss. E. Young. Bliss can only be made perfect in the presence of the Eternal. Grace Aguilar. True bliss is the grace of God and his benefits, bountifully bestowed on them that serve Him. Jamakeckari. There is no truer bliss in this world than to pur- Sue that course of life, which beginneth everlasting bliss. Philippedes. All creation is accurately adjusted to man's ca- pacity for bliss. He tastes the dainties of festivity, breathes the perfumes of morning, revels upon the charms of melody, and regales his eye with all the painted beauties of vision. Whatever can please, whatever can charm, whatever can expand the soul with ecstacy of bliss allures and solicits his attention. F. Burges. BLOCKHEAD. Blockheads are the rubble-stones of life. Braden. Heaven and earth fight in vain against a block- head Schiller. Many a blockhead draws a golden prize, while the really gifted often fail. R. S. Mackenzie. Of all the miseries I know, commend me to that of being thought a blockhead, Sir R. Blackmore. A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense Bruyère. Blockheads alone are incapable of improvement, be it self-conceit, stupidity, or hypochondria, that makes them stiff and unguidable. Goethe. There never was any party, faction, sect, or ca- bal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent ; for a bee is not a busier ani- mal than a blockhead. Pope. BLOOD. Blood will tell. Blood follows blood. There is no caste in blood. AEmstrelredamºws Alardws. De Foe. Edwin, Arnold. Let my blood expiate my crimes. Suleyman. Blood is the base of all things—law and war. Philip James Bailey. What I taught with my lips I now seal with my blood. John Huss. Tyrants stain their weapons with innocent blood. Bramieri. Ridicule me if you will, but the blood does cir- culate. William Harvey. I confess I cannot honor blood without good qualities. S. Worrem. If one has fighting blood in him he will fight at the proper time. W. Black. Blood | Blood | | When will there be an end of murder and bloodshed? Charles IX. of Sweden. What can the noble blood of our ancestors profit us, if we imitate them not ? It is not blood that makes men great ; it is brains. Wermullerws. Noble blood bah What blood is more noble or so pure as that of the lion ? And yet he is only a brute. It is merit, education, and virtue, not blood, that lift men above the level of brutes. Michel le Fawchewr. BLUNIDER. Blunders blind our judgments. Torshell. Worse than a crime ! It is a blunder. Talleyrand. It is one thing to forget matter of fact, and an- other to blunder upon the reason of it. L'Estrange. The more blunders we commit the better prac- ticed do we become in framing apologies for them. De Retz. The man who has got into the habit of never making any blunders, is altogether too good to live in this world. H. W. Shaw. It is our own ignorance that makes us charge those works of the Almighty, as defects or blun- ders, as ill-contrived or ill-made. W. Derham. BLUNTNESS. Bluntness is a great spoiler of etiquette. Bucham. Bluntness of manner arises more from ignorance than good breeding. Sir T. North. To use too many circumstances, ere one come to the matter, is wearisome ; to use none at all is bluntness. Lord Bacon. Manage disputes with civility ; whence some readers will be assisted to discern a difference be- twixt bluntness of speech and strength of reason. R. Boyle. Some simple souls imagine bluntness and honesty to be constant associates; but if they expect to find the pair always in company, many and grievous disappointments await them in this uncertain world. J. J. Jarves. 74 AX A Y’,S C O Z / A C O AV. BLUSHING. A blush is beyond control. Mrs. P. Cudlip. Blushes are confessions of love. Magalotti. Blushing maketh truth evident. Demetriws. A blush is the complexion of virtue. Diogenes. It is better for a young man to blush than to turn pale. Cato. Give me the eloquent cheek, where blushes burn and die. Mrs. Osgood. The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes incon- venient. Goldoni. Ridicule stifles the blush, and destroys all sense of shame. W. Gilpin. They teach us to dance O, that they could teach us to blush | Mme. Delway. A wise man need not blush to confess an error, if he abandon it. Brodzinski. The man who cannot blush has arrived at the acme of impudence. Menamder. The inconvenience or the beauty of the blush, which is the greater ? Mime. Necker. A blush on the countenance is better than a blemish on the heart. Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. Brwyère. The woman who dare not maintain her rights is the one who ought to blush. Lucy S. Blackwell. Blushing is the livery of virtue, though it may sometimes proceed from guilt. Lord Bacom. When a woman has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for. Talleyramid. A blush is the sign which nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell. Gotthold. The blush is nature's alarm at the approach of sin, and her testimony to the dignity of virtue. Fuller. For every blush that kindles in thy cheeks ten thousand little loves and graces spring to revel in the roses. N. Rowe. He who knows not how to blush, or be afraid, has within him the first principles of every kind of baseness. Diphilus. Why of all things living art thou alone made capable of blushing ? The world shall read thy shame upon thy face, therefore do nothing shame- ful. R. Dodsley. The man of wit and humor is never so happy as when he can raise the blush of ingenuous merit, or stamp the marks of deformity and guilt on the features of innocence and beauty. Smollett. What a mysterious thing is a blush, that a single word, a look, or a thought should send that inimi- table carnation over the cheek It is strange, too, that only the face, the human face, is capable of blushing ! The hand or the foot does not turn red ..with modesty or shame, more than the glove or the socks which cover it. It is the face only that is heaven Sarah Awstim. Cadalso. BLUSTERING. Let the daring only bluster. Llywarch Hem, A man may bluster, and yet fear. Brucker. A blustering night brings a fair day. G. Herbert. Bluster combines cowardice with vanity. Cole. Those that make the most bluster, execute the least. Pawlus Buys. Beware of the silent man ; of the blusterer, fear nothing. P. Francius. A coward makes a great deal more blustering than a man of honor. L’Estrange. Mistake not the bluster of the mere bully for the less Ostentatious boldness of the man of true cour- age. C. Butler. A dog that barketh much will bite but little ; so will a blustering man that maketh great promises, yield but small performance in the end. Iarchus. A coward who makes a great bluster about his courage, may sometimes be successful in deceiving strangers, but he is only an object of derision to those who know him. Phoedrus. BOASTING. Reep the boaster at a distance. Rabbi Eliezer. He who boasts much does little. Yorwba. Those that boast most, fail most. D. Bowlands. Boasting does not plant bananas. Haytien. A boaster, if he die, cannot return to life. Tamil. A boaster is cousin-german to the liar. A. Caro. Boasting necessitates the use of the tongue only. D. ab Gwilym. Where there is much boasting, much has been borrowed. Lavater. A boasting tongue is a manifest sign of a cow- ardly heart. Bias. To fill thy mouth with boasting is to fill thy name with slander. J. Hogg. He that boasteth himself to know everything is most ignorant ; and he that presumeth to know nothing is wise. Plato. Boasters, when they lie, try not to speak too particularly or plainly, from fear of being dis- proved afterwards. AEschines. Boasting is a part of pride, wherein a man seek- eth to extol himself vain-gloriously beyond his de- serving, or the repute of the world for any action done. Rabbi cle Santob. Some men are fond of boasting, and are prolific in schemes of usefulness, but are miserably poor in execution ; like some trees, they spend themselves in blossom, and never yield fruit. G. Griffin. Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit ; but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are su- perior to their opponent by the prudence of their IT1628,SUITOS. Thweydides. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. - 75 BODY. A feeble body weakens the mind. Rowssed w. Nature which hath put our body together will dissolve it. Carmed des. A well-dressed body takes precedence of a well- stored mind. Acton. The destruction of the body is the light and happiness of the Soul. Calamws. We cannot keep our bodies long here ; they are corruptible, and will tumble into dust. Sherlock. Men indulge passions in the Soul which destroy the health of the body, and introduce distempers into it which impair the powers of the Soul. G. Horne. Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time ; but if it be too much or indiscreetly tam- pered with, the alarum runs out before the hour. R. Hall. The more we study the body and the mind, the more we find both to be governed, not by, but ac- cording to laws such as we observe in the larger universe. O. W. Holmes. A man's body and his mind—with the utmost reverence to both I speak it—are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining ; rumple the One, you rumple the other. Sterne. God made the human body, and it is by far the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand. It is a study for One's whole life. H. W. Beechen”. Body and mind must be exercised, not one, but both, and that in a mediocrity ; otherwise it will cause a great inconvenience. If the body be over- tired, it tires the mind. R. Burton. If there were any real difficulty in determining the best means of developing the body and pre- venting deformity, the comparison of Savage with civilized man would at once remove it. G. Combe. The more fully that we comprehend the structure of our body, the more attentive shall we be to its preservation in a state of health, and the more capable of accomplishing that all-important object. R. Chambers. Body and mind are harnessed together to perform in concert the journey of life, a duty which they will accomplish pleasantly and safely if the coach- man, judgment, do not drive one faster than the other. Chatfield. If one had nothing but a soul to keep, he need not go to service to maintain it ; but a body is a very indigent sort of a thing, it cannot subsist on its own growth, but stands in want of continual Supplies. J. Collier. When I hear persons gravely affirm that they have made up their minds to forego this or that improper enjoyment, I often think in myself that it would be quite as prudent if they could make up their bodies also. He that strives for the mas- tery must join a well disciplined body to a well regulated mind. Colton. fore more often succeed. BOLDNESS. Boldness is akin to power. Tupper. Fortune and love befricnd the bold. Ovid. Boldness in business is the first, Second, and third thing. Franklin. In great enterprises, at least, boldness is deser- ving of praise. Propertius. Boldness and arrogance are the out-crops of pride and ignorance. James Ellis. The bold and sufficient pursue their game with more passion, endeavor, and application, and there- Sir W. Temple. Some men have the fortune to be esteemed wits, Only for making bold to scoff at those things which the greatest part of mankind reverence. Tillotson. A kind imagination makes a bold man have vigor and enterprise in his air and motion ; it stamps value upon his face, and tells the people he is to go for so much. J. Collier. A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, min- isters must be bold to reprove. Gºwrmall. Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe not that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it ; it is not to the action that it is due, but the manner of performing it. R. Dodsley. It deserves to be considered that boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences : whence it is bad in council, though good in execu- tion. The right use of bold persons, therefore, is that they never command in chief, but serve as Seconds, under the direction of others ; for in coun- cil it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them, unless they are very great. Lord Bacon. BOND AGE. A human life is a Soul's bondage, whose freedom can only be purchased by death. James Ellis. A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage. Mrs. Jameson. A servant commonly is less free in mind than in condition ; his very will seems to be in bonds and shackles, and to desire itself under durance and captivity. F. Sowth. The bondage in Egypt, though in some respects disadvantageous to the Hebrews, was calculated to impress many salutary lessons upon them, which in no other way that we know of could have been so effectually taught. Wºm. Goodell. We may be in a sort of bondage to others because they have power over us, and we are under duty to them : but the most common and contemptible of all bondage is that when we run our feelings and tastes into a mere conformity with others, as though there were no outgoings of reason in us, and life were all an Outside, a thing to be looked OIl. H. Hooker. 76 ZD A Y’,S C O / / A C O AV. BOOKS. Books are embalmed minds. Bovee. Books are a languid pleasure. Montaigne. A book is the only immortality. Rufus Choate. A book is a friend that never deceives. Piacárécow?'t. He who destroys a good book, kills reason itself. Milton. A good book may be as great a thing as a battle. B. Disraeli. Books are the immortal sons deifying their sires. Plato. Books make up no small part of human happi- IłęSS. Frederick the Great. A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit. Milton. We are as liable to be corrupted by books as by Companions. Fielding. A book like a grape-vine should have good fruit among its leaves. E. P. Day. Books have brought some men to knowledge, and Some to madness. Petrarch. Little books have their fates according to the taste of the reader. Mawrws. Men love better books which please them than those which instruct. - Dubois. We should be careful what books we put into the hands of children. C. Buck. There is no book so worthless, that I cannot col- lect something from it. Scaliger. Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisi- tion is that of good books. Colton. There was a time when the world acted upon books; now books act upon the world. Joubert. There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man. Johnsom. Books, while they teach us to respect the interest of others, often make us unmindful of our own. Goldsmith. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swal- lowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Lord Bacon. The quantity of books in a library is often a cloud of witnesses of the ignorance of the owner. Oacenstierm. Books are a sort of dumb teachers; they cannot answer sudden questions, or explain present doubts. I. Watts. Worthy books are not companions, they are soli- tudes; we lose ourselves in them, and all our cares. -- - - - - - - S. Bailey. Books are negative pictures of thought, and the more sensitive the mind that receives their images, the more nicely the fine lines are produced. O. W. Holmes. BOOKS. It is thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and gives health and vigor to the mind. T. Fuller". A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life; I would not exchange it for the riches of the Indies. E. Gibbon. Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed. Sir W. Temple. Books are loved by some merely as elegant com- binations of thought ; by others as a means of exercising the intellect. Lord Dudley. |He who loves not books before he comes to thirty years of age, will hardly love them enough after- ward to understand them. Earl of Clarendom. It is not how many books thou hast, but how good ; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth. Seneca. In comparing men and books, One must always remember this important distinction, that One can put the books down at any time. N. P. Willis. A thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept their pale, unbodied shade, to warm us from fleshless lips. Bulwer. Books are a guide in youth, and an entertain- ment for age. They support us in Solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. J. Collier. A book may be compared to the life of your \, neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long ; * if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. Brooke, y Of the things which man can make or do here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy, are the things that we call books. Carlyle. It is books that teaches us to refine our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, en- ables us to recall them with satisfaction when old. L. Humt. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in Cimmerian dark- IłęSS. Bartholim. Books produce the same effect on the mind that diet does on the body ; they may either impart no salutary nutriment, or convey that which is perni- cious. - Mrs. Sigowrmey. Books are the windows through which the soul looks out ; a house without books is like a room without windows. It is a man's duty to have books. H. W. Beecher. If the crowns of all the kingdoms in Europe. were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books, and my love of reading, I would spurn them all. - Fémélon. Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of Spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. H. Manſm. A — . P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 77 BOOKS. Some books are drenched sands, on which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps, like a wrecked ar- goSy. Adam Smith. Some books we should keep in our hands, and on our hearts; the best way we could dispose of others would be, to throw them in the fire. Acton. Books give the same turn to our thoughts that company does to our conversation, without loading our memories, or making us even sensible of the change. Swift. Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not feel more contented with thy exis- tence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings. Labater. The book that will make its way in the world, that will remain, or survive, as an imperishable monument, or memorial, must have the stamp of genius upon it. Martial. Books are the legacies that genius leaves to man- kind, to be delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those that are yet unborn. Addison. Those who are conversant with books well know how often they mislead us, when we have not a living monitor at hand to assist us in comparing practice with theory. Junius. When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the work by ; it is good, and made by a good workman. Bruyère. We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest : not forbidding either, but approving the latter most. Plutarch. Books are standing counsellors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested, having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. R. Chambers. It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections. Hume. Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity ; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad ; companions by night, in travel- ing, in the country." Cicero. After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speak- ing of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought, which we have acquired by the culture of letters. C. Nodier. The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading ; but a great book that comes from a great thinker, is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty. T. Polyºke?". BOOKS. With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid than which to choose ; for good books are as scarce as good Com- panions, and, in both instances, all that we can learn from bad onesis, that so much time has been worse than thrown away. That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. Colton. Books are the friends of the friendless, and a library the home of the homeless; a taste for read- ing will carry you into the best possible company, and enable you to converse with men who will in- struct you with their wisdom, and charm you by their wit, who will soothe you when fretted, refresh you when weary, counsel you when perplexed, and sympathize with you at all times. G. S. Hilliard. Let us consider how great a commodity of doc- trine exists in books ; how easily, how Secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of human ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and fe- rules, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep ; if, investigating, you interrogate them, they conceal nothing ; if you mistake them, they never grumble ; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you. Richard de Bury. The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent companions of pure thoughts and in- nocent hours become in the seasons of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, our books only retain their steady value. When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friend- ship which never deceived hope, nor deserted SOI"I’OW. - W. Irving. Except a living man, there is nothing more won- derful than a book. A message to us from the dead—from human souls whom we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away ; and yet these, in those little sheets of paper, Speak to us, amuse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, Open their hearts to us as brothers. I say we ought to reverence books, to look at them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion or politics, farming, trade, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things, the teacher of all truth. C. Kingsley. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy inter- course with superior minds. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their soul into ours. God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers; they give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live. W. E. Channing. 78 ZX A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. BOOKS. The silent power of books is a great power in the world ; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noise- less though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the Order of na- tions. H. Giles. Many books belong to Sunshine, and should be read out of doors. Clover, violets, and hedge roses breathe from their leaves; they are most loveable in cool lanes, along field paths, or upon stiles overhung by hawthorn, while the blackbird pipes, and the nightingale bathesits brown feathers in the twilight copse. Willºmott. Rnowledge of books is like that sort of lantern which hides him who carries it, and serves only to pass through secret and gloomy paths of his own ; but in the possession of a man of business, it is as a torch in the hand of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered, the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare. Steele. The poor man who has gained a taste for good books will, in all likelihood, become thoughtful : and when you have given the poor a habit of thinking, you have conferred on them a much greater favor than by the gift of a large sum of money, since you have put them in possession of the principle of all legitimate prosperity. R. Hall. Of all amusements which can possibly be imag- ined for a hard-working man, after his daily toil, there is nothing like reading an entertaining book, supposing him to have a taste for it, and the book to read. It calls for no bodily exertion, of which he has had enough. It relieves his home of dull- ness and sameness, which, in nine cases Out of ten drives him to the alehouse. Sir J. Herschel. BOR.ES. Bores are not to be got rid of except by rough IIlêa,]].S. - Bovee. There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the bores of occupied people. L. G. A. Bonald. It is to be hoped that with all the modern im- provements, a mode will be discovered of getting rid of bores. Byron. Bores should be lenient effough to bear in mind this truth: that it is with the fire of conversation as with any other fire—little sticks kindle it, great sticks put it out. Colton. A bore is a brainless, babbling, button-holder ; a wretch so deficient in tact that he cannot adapt himself to any society, nor perceive that all agree in thinking him disagreeable. Chatfield. A heavy, pompous, meddling bore will occupy a large share of the conversation, saying things in ten words that only required two, evidently convinced he is making a great impression. Sydney Smith. My experience of the world has shown me that, upon the whole, a bore gets on much better in it, and is more respected and permanently popular, than what is called a clever fellow. Dickens. ...that gives willingly. EORROWING. The borrower runs in his own debt. Emerson. A borrowed garment never sets well. 47.0m. Borrowing may do for once, but make it not a custom. J. P. Bishop. If you would keep your poverty a secret, neither borrow nor beg. E. P. Day. It is a shame to choose to be borrowing in all places, from every one, rather than to work and gain. Rabelais. If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some ; for he that goes a borrowing goes a Sorrowing. Franklin. Never purchase any enjoyment if it cannot be procured without borrowing from others. Never borrow money ; it is degrading. R. Haydon. When a man wants to borrow money or obtain credit, have the courage to tell him why you refuse the One, or will not lend the other. James Ellis. EOT ANY. Botany is dull, but flowers are pretty. Eva Day. Let one and all study botany ; it is full of ab- sorbing interest and unalloyed pleasure. Fowler. The study of botany imparts new attractions to the summer sylvan walk, and prompts both to sa- lubrious and scientific research. Mrs. Sigowrmey. To be wholly ignorant of botany is to live a per- fect stranger amid some of the most beautiful objects in nature, which daily solicit our regard. A. P. Candolle. A knowledge of botany aids in the cultivation of produce and the changes of crops, teaching the nature of grains, esculent roots, vines, and the vari- Ous trees of the Orchard and forest. Mrs. Willard. BOUNTY. From bounty issues power. Akemside. If you will be popular, you must be bountiful. Jeremy Taylor. Unseemly bounty is a waste both of wealth and wit. Felthoºm. The vanity of giving often exceeds the love of bounty. N. Macdonald. Those bounties are the most precious which the giver hath made so. Ovid, He that gives for gain, profit, or any by-end, destroys the very intent of bounty ; for it falls only upon those who do not want. Seneca. A bountiful disposition has no bottom ; for where can there be any moderation when both those who are accustomed to obtain, and others, are anxious for the same thing ? Cicero. He gives not best that gives most ; but he gives most who gives best. If then I cannot give boun- tifully, yet I will give freely ; and what I want in my hand, supply by my heart. He gives well A. Warwick. A R O S E Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 79 BOYS. The boy is earnest ; the man cautious. E. Tiffin. Boys have a natural genius for combining busi- mess with pleasure. C. D. Warner. Men of worth and parts will not easily admit the familiarity of boys. Locke. In the boy, we see the early spring of a civilized education, or the first wild shoots of natural rus- ticity. W. Gilpin. A boy that is not fond of fun and frolic may make a very tolerable man, but as a boy he is very intolerable. Bovee. The most necessary things for boys to learn are those which they will put in practice when they become men. Aristippºts. Those who make companions of boys only, will have no more manhood than the boys with whom they associate. Zemo. Boys ripen into men, and ripen better often under the shade than in a wild intoxicated world, the bane of youth. Goethe. It is as important that boys should be harnessd with modesty and emulation, as horses equipped with bridle and spur. Lycom. Boys are boys, and not little men ; they all in- herit the same pride, the same ambition, the same spirit of mischief, and the same freemasonry of mutual confidence in all affairs relating to the gov- ernment of the boy-world. S. Hibberd. Now a boy is, of all wild beasts, the most diffi- cult to manage ; for, in proportion as he has the fountain of his mental faculties not yet properly prepared, he becomes cunning and sharp, and the most insolent of wild beasts : wherefore he must be bound, as it were, with many chains. Plato. The honest boy is upright in all his words and actions; he is not so mean as to impose upon any One by a falsehood ; he never speaks ill or slanders any one ; he is above practicing a cheat in word or deed ; truth he values more than money, and nei- ther bribes nor threats can ever make him depart from it. A. Picket. Show me a boy who obeys his parents, who is diligent, who respects age, who always has a friendly disposition, and who applies diligently to get wisdom and to do good toward others, and if he is not respected and loved by everybody, then there is no such thing as truth in this world. Re- member this, boys, and you will be respected by others, and grow up and become useful men. R. Busby. Boys, did you ever think that this world, with all its wealth and woe, with all its mines and mountains, Oceans, seas, and rivers; with all its shipping, its steamboats, railroads, and magnetic telegraphs; with all its millions of grouping men, and all the Science and progress of ages, will soon be given over to boys of the present age—boyslike you ? Believe it, and look abroad upon your in- heritance, and get ready to enter upon its posses- sion. The presidents, kings, governors, statesmen, philosophers, ministers, teachers, men of the future —all are boys now. E. Burritt. BRAINS, The brain is the chief seat of the soul. Alcaemon. What an abortion when both heart and brains are missing ! Fanny Fern. The brain is the dome of thought and the palace Of reason. J. Bommer. It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. lMontaigne. A man's brains and his money should both be put Out at interest. J. Bartlett. The brain, like the hand, does the work of the mind, as it is ordered. Dr. Brown-Séquard. Brains to a man of fashion are rather an encum- brance than otherwise. Bovee. Cultured brains are the monuments where human knowledge is most surely engraved. Rousseaw. When God endowed human beings with brains, he did not intend to guarantee them. Montesquiew. The brain is simply the machinerv for putting the thoughts, desires, and will of the heart into action. Dr. V. B. Wyckoff. One of the most inconceivable things in the na- ture of the brain is, that the organ of sensation should itself be insensible. Wigan. Nature carves with her own hands the brain which holds the creative imagination, but she casts the Over-sensitive creatures in scores from the same mold. O. W. Holmes. If we contemplate man, what an amazing pro- digy is the substance of his brain, which preserves with great Order such genuine representations of SO many objects. Otto vom Gwericke. If the brain were as active as the heart, we should live in a perpetual delirium of sensation and thought : for thought is to the brain what the blood is to the heart. Acton. There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts. Mrs. Jameson. The brain is a master-worker, whose appliances we do not one-half know ; and this heart of ours is a rare storehouse, furnishing the brain with new material every hour of our lives; and their limits we shall not know, until they shall end. Mitchell. As good digestion requires a sound stomach—as athletic power requires muscular and sinewy arms —so extraordinary intelligence requires a brain uncommonly developed, well formed, distinguished by its peculiar texture, and animated by a vigorous pulse. Schopenhaw.fer. Individuals possessing moderate-sized brains eas- ily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their ap- propriate place ; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth, and, while unknown, they are not trusted with great undertakings. G. Combe. 80 A) A Y 'S CO Z Z. A C O AV. BRAVERY. Fortune favors the brave. Terence. God is the brave man's hope. Plutarch. Brave men are brave from the first. Corneille. Every country is the brave man's home. Ovid. A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth. Aristotle. The brave may be moved by tears, but they do not shed them. Lucretia, P. Hale. True bravery is inseparable from the humane, generous principles of the soul. J. Both 'tlett. Bravery to contend for a good cause is noble ; silently to suffer for it, heroical. Chrysoloras. A man may be voted to be a general, but it is only true bravery that can make him one. Antisthemes. A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the bravery of his soldiers doth spring. Sir P. Sidney. There are those who make it a point of bravery to bid defiance to the oracles of divine revelation. r L’Estrange. It is honorable for a brave man to die, having fallen in front of the ranks, fighting for his native land. Tyrtaews. True bravery is shown by performing in secrecy what one might be capable of doing before all the world. Rochefoucauld. A brave man dies but once ; while he that lives in constant fear of death, every moment feels its tortures. Julius Coesar. That man is truly brave who, prepared to meet every extremity, if it is close at hand, is also able to wait coolly for its approach. Lucanºws. All brave men love ; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. E. Howse. No man can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil of life, nor temperate who con- siders pleasure to be the highest good. Cicero. A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury ; for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it. Pope. It denotes no great bravery of mind to do that out of a desire of fame, which we could not be prompted to by a generous passion for the glory of Him that made us. Addison. The brave man who fearlessly rushes to the mouth of the cannon may tremble at his own shadow as he passes through a churchyard, or turn pale at the sight of blood. G. Crabb. Everything that a truly brave man does is done from principle not impulse, and when no one sees him he is just as heroic as he would be if he was in the eyes of the multitude. H. W. Shaw. BRAVERY. Men's words are ever braver than their deeds, and many a One who now appears lesolute to meet every extremity with eager zeal, will on a sudden find in their breast a heart he wot not of. Schiller. A brave mind is always impregnable ; resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of re- ligion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism. J. Collier. Bravery is a cheap and vulgar quality, of which the highest instances are frequently found in the lowest savages, and which is often still more con- spicuous in the brute creation than in the most intrepid of the human race. Chatfield. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal bullying insolence ; and in the very time of danger are found the most serene, pleasant, and free. Rage, we know, can make a coward forget him- self and fight : but what is done in fury or anger can never be placed to the account of bravery. - Shaftesbury. The dangers of life make us brave, but bold and incautious ; its difficulties render us wary and cir- cumspect, but timid and doubtful : they therefore who are fittest to protect, are not always most suitable to govern ; for the brave need circum- Spection, as much as the circumspect need valor. Acton. He that stands bold and strong is not so easily pushed down ; however, when the enemy strikes hard, and a man has a great deal to grapple with, something will be felt in spite of all the bravery imaginable. To bear pain decently is a good sign of inward strength, and an undoubted proof of a great mind. J. Elmes. The bravery founded upon the hope of recom- pense, upon the fear of punishment, upon the experience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance of dangers, is common bravery, and does not merit the name : true bravery proposes a just end, measures the dangers, and, if it is necessary, the affront with coldness. F. la Nome. BREAD. Bread is the staff of life. Amon. Each succeeding year God piles the table of the world with bread. J. Hurdis. The most important elements of nutrition are not in the bread we eat, but in the bran we throw away. S. Graham. Mankind have found the means to make grain into bread, the lightest and properest aliment for human bodies. Arbuthnot. Love is God's loaf ; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, “Give us this day our daily bread.” H. W. Beecher. What is the worst bread which is eaten ? That which is taken out of other men's mouths, who are the true proprietors thereof; such bread may be sweet in the mouth to taste, but is not wholesome in the stomach to digest. T. Fuller. A R O S A. Q ZZ O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 8 l BREVITY. Brevity is the soul of wit. Shakspeare. Brevity is the child of silence. H. W. Shaw. Next to taciturnity brevity is the most commen- dable. Pythagoras. When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be with brevity. Horace. Brevity is the best recommendation of a speech, not only in the case of a Senator, but also in that of an Orator. Cicero. If you would be pungent, be brief ; for it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. Southey. Many authors, aiming at too great brevity in their writings, leave so much unexplained as to become obscure to their readers. Quintilian. Brevity in writing is what charity is to all other virtues; righteousness is nothing without the One, nor authorship without the other. Sidney Smith. Brevity of language is of excellent service to persons of competent ability and knowledge, though to stupid and ignorant persons it may be useless. J. Cardam. Brevity constitutes what is termed the concise style. A concise writer compresses his ideas into the fewest words ; he employs none but the most expressive ; whatever ornament he admits is adop- ted for the sake of force, rather than of grace : the same thought is never repeated ; the utmost precision is studied in his sentences; and they are generally designed to suggest more to the reader's imagination than they express. J. Walker. BRIBERY. A bribe will enter without knocking. T. Crisp. Bribery is the tree, of which covetousness is the TOOt. Awrelius. If a man be covetous, profits or bribes may put him to the test. L’Estrange. The universe would not be rich enough to bribe or buy the vote of an honest man. St. Gregory. No sin has a deeper dye of wickedness than bri- bery, and none is more clearly marked for awful punishment. Magoon. Bribery has often been resorted to for the pur- pose of gratifying the ambition of a certain class of unprincipled politicians; but bribery availeth not a candidate for heaven. R. Sowth. By resisting his bribes, I conquered Philip ; for as the purchaser conquers when a man sells him- self, so the man who refuses to be sold, distiains to be corrupted, conquers the purchaser. Demosthemes. In the Subjugation of provinces, it often happens that gold is more powerful than arms; for in every Country are to be found those who are accessible to bribes: and it is indeed seldom that a gate of a walled city is so strongly guarded that a camel laden with gold cannot enter therein. Philip of Macedon. BRIDE. Every bride is beautiful. J. P. Collier. A bride without a dowry hath no liberty to speak. - Euripides. It were worth ten years of travel to find a truly virtuous bride. Awreliws. Choose a bride who regards health and virtue more than fashion or wealth. Dr. Porter. The bride goes to the marriage-bed, but knows not what shall happen to her. Ben Syra. Whoso weddeth a fair and chaste bride is the envy of men, and the glory of angels. Bermes. The bride of ancient times was a body only ; the modern bride is a woman made up of a soul, mind, and body. Michelet. It is far better for a bride to choose a bridegroom with wisdom and without money, than one with money and without wisdom. Hipparchia. Bride and bridegroom, pilgrims of life, hence- forward to travel together In this the beginning of your journey, neglect not the favor of heaven ; and at eventide kneel ye together, that your joy may be not unhallowed ; angels that are round you shall be glad, those loving ministers of mercy, and the richest blessings of your God shall be poured on His favored children. Tupper. BROTHEREHOOD. O man thy brotherhood is with all. Tupper. Brotherhood is the root of true benevolence. Confucius. Give bread to a stranger in the name of the uni- versal brotherhood that binds together all men under the common father of nature. Quintilian. Christianity, or the religion of the Bible, is em- phatically and distinctively, the religion of the equal and common brotherhood of mankind. W. Goodell. There is, and must be, brotherhood in the body of Christ ; there only it glows with brightness and flows forth with affection. Then be ye broth- erly. R. Steel. The era of Christianity—peace, brotherhood, the golden rule as applied to governmental matters— is yet to come : and when it comes, then, and then Only, will the future of nations be sure. Kossuth. This principle of universal brotherhood is a re- Cognition of the claims of humanity ; under its influence the most wealthy and the poorest have a kindred tie, and an equal claim to enjoy the boun- ties of Divine Providence. C. E. Toothaker. Brotherhood, properly carried out, will give to every man the fruits of his labor, will secure to every worker a homestead, will so reform public Opinion that legislators will no longer dare make Special laws, and bestow special privileges on one man at the expense of ninety-nine of his brothers and sisters. G. Lippard. 6 82 - JD A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. BROTHER.. True brothers never part in danger. . Schiller. A brother is a friend given by nature. Socrates. Consider it impious to injure even a bad brother. Semeca. A brother's sufferings should ever claim a broth- er's pity. Addison. Harmony between brothers is a stronger defence than a wall of brass. Amtisthemes. Tet the bonds of affection unite thee with thy brothers, that peace and happiness may dwell in thy father's house. R. Dodsley. The word of a brother, pronounced from Holy Scripture in a time of need, carries an inconceiv- able weight with it. M. Luther. Bind to your bosom your brothers and sisters, cherish them as your dearest and best companions through the journey of life. J. Gwy. What is more infamous than want of friendship between brothers ? Who, of all men, can we SO well pay regard to as to a brother ? Memophon. Every delicate attention which tenderness may prompt, every mark of politeness which refined society may require, ought to pervade the inter- course of brothers and sisters. Mrs. Sigourney. A brother is born for adversity ; and not only should Christian be to Christian a friend that stick- eth closer than a brother, but he should exemplify the loveliness of his religion to them that are with- out. J. M. Mason. In every relative action change conditions with thy brother; then ask thy conscience what thou wouldst be done to; being truly resolved exchange again, and do thou the like to him, and thy charity shall never err ; it is injustice to do what without impatience thou camst not suffer. F. Quarles. Nothing is more annoying than a nest in which there sit none but brothers or none but sisters ; the nest must be shaken up into a mixed and mot- ley gradation—that is to say, of brothers and sis- ters packed in layers, so that an honest pastor fido can come and ask after the brother, when he is only on the look-out for the sister ; and so too must the girl who loves a brother, absolutely and by stronger necessity, have a sister whose friend she is, and who may be hook and handle to the brother. Richter". Brothers in flesh are rarely brothers in spirit. Of all the people in the world, I am inclined to think, brothers are the least disposed to give each other credit for taste, fancy, sensibility, Or Superior discernment. They open their hearts to strangers, but close them to each other. Nursed in the same mother's arms, and rocked in the same cradle in infancy ; sharing the same joys, and partaking of like sorrows in their youth, we might more natu- rally expect to find them in their riper years united together in the closest ties of affection and sympa- thy, and accustomed to that active interchange of thought and feeling in which the truest friendship alone consists. Bovee. BRUTE. There is no opposing brutal force to the strategem of human reason. L’Estrange. Brutes, and brutish men, are commonly more able to bear pain than others. N. Grew. Even brute animals have several significations to call, warm, chide, cherish, and threaten. Rev. H. E. Holder. Were it true that brutes were mere machines, they could have no perception of pleasure or pain. J. Ferguson. It is a singular fact, that when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes. N. Hawthorne. The brutes have no need of treatises of morality to teach them to love, nourish, and bring up their Young. + W. Bent. We are apt to be kinder to the brutes that we love than to the women that love us. Is it because the brutes are dumb 2 G. Eliot. To those three present impulses, of sense, mem- Ory, and instinct, most if not all the sagacities of brutes abay be reduced. | Sir M. Hale. The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent. Newton. Brutes possess, in some degree, every faculty of the human mind ; sensation, memory, imagina- tion, curiosity, and cunning are all discernible in them. S. Cobb. We have seen some men so brutish in their na- ture and habits, that we have felt that only the theory of development from brutes could excuse their existence. James Ellis. Philosophers have been much puzzled about the essential characteristics of brutes, by which they may be distinguished from men. Some define a brute to be an animal that never laughs, or an ani- mal incapable of laughter ; some say they are mute animals. Chatfield. Brutes are either aerial, terrestial, aquatic, or amphibious ; aerial, those that have wings, where- with they can support themselves in the air ; ter- restial, those whose only place of rest is upon the earth ; and aquatic, those whose constant abode is upon the water. Locke. Whether brutes be governed by the general laws of motion, or by a particular movement, is what we cannot determine ; be that as it may, they have not a more intimate relation to God than the rest of the material world ; and sensation is of no other use to them, than in the relation they have either to other particular beings, or to themselves. Montesquiew. Notwithstanding that natural love in brutes is much more violent and intense than in rational creatures, Providence has taken care that it should be no longer troublesome to the parent than it is useful to the young ; for so soon as the wants of the latter cease, the mother withdraws her fond- ness, and leaves them to provide for themselves. Addison. P R O S E O U O 7. A 7 ſo A. S. 83 BUILDING. Building is a sweet impoverishing. A. Buckinck. Fools build houses ; wise men buy them. Cato. Buildings are almost as various in character and style as the people who occupy them. E. P. Day. Houses are built to live in more than to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Lord Bacon. Never build after you are five-and-forty ; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate. - • H. Kett. You are ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor marrow basis cannot sustain the giddy totter- ing column. Schiller. Many men build as cathedrals were built ; the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete. ~, H. W. Beecher. A blind partiality for any one style of building is detrimental to the progress on improvement, both in taste and comfort ; the variety of means, habits, and local feelings will naturally cause many widely different tastes to arise among us. A. J. Downing. BULLY. A bully is always a coward. Haliburton. A bully cannot sleep without a brawl. Dryden. A bully fights with bullies, not grandees. Oji. Bullying and cowardice are remote from true Valor. Beattie. You may bully a judge at the trial, if you have bribed him the night before. Yoruba. A bully is a noisy, blustering, quarrelsome per- son, who generally puts on the appearance of courage. Dr. Johnson. BURDEN. A burden one chooses is not felt. J. Swllivan. It is hard to go fast when you have a heavy bur- den. Howleglass. A burden must be carried, before we can put it down. Tamil. When a burden is divided among many, it is easy to carry. Alkmar. Impose not a burden on others which thou canst not bear thyself. Laberius. What is really a burden should not be looked upon as an ornament. Yoruba. There are so many burdens in this life that must be borne, it seems weak-minded to add to them voluntarily. The Dwchess. If we would only take the burden appointed for each day, we might easily manage it : but we choose to increase our trouble by carrying yester- day's over to-day and adding to-morrow’s burden before we are required to bear it. John Newton. BUR.I.A.L. How awfully impressive is a burial. I. M. Jost. The burial of the dead is a solemn duty. Cyprian. Weddings, christenings, and burials follow each other. Musoews. Neglect not to have a place consecrated for the burial of the dead. Lowis IX. of France. Let my burial be without pomp ; lay my body Quietly away in the earth. John. Howard. A ruler should order that every corpse in his realm have a decent burial. King Wam. The rites of Christian burial are highly instruc- tive to the believer in Christ. W. R. Williams. Let my body be buried under the eaves of the church, that the rain may wash away the impuri- ties of my life. William of Normandy. The Christian custom of burying the dead, dates from the earliest history of man; and as well from the Old as the New Testament we learn that it has ever been followed by those who professed to obey the divine will. Rev. W. Field. From the earliest ages the desire to be buried in holy ground has been great ; nor has this craving been confined to Christians alone; Mohammedans, pagans—all classes have their holy places, in which they long to have their bodies rest. Mrs. E. Stone. As the soul is the man, and the material body Only his house while upon earth, a man is never really buried ; no human being since the world began has ever yet been buried—no, not even for a few moments. Buried How can a living soul be buried ? Man is where his conscious being is— his memory, his love, his imagination ; and since these cannot be put into the grave, the man is never put there ; hence, the common notion of a burial is a gross material idea, unpoetical, unscrip- tural, a striking proof of the small amount of spi- rituality current in the popular religious creed. Leo H. Grimdon. BURLESQUE. Burlesque vice, but not virtue. E. P. Day. Burlesque humor, without refinement, is low and vulgar. Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger. One kind of burlesque represents mean persons in the accoutrements of heroes. Addison. Burlesque is rather a species of humor than di- rect wit, which consists in an assemblage of ideas extravagantly discordant. G. Crabb. Burlesque is of two kinds; that which excites laughter, and that which excites derision, and though a great engine of ridicule, it is not confined to that subject. Kames. What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former the painter seems to have the advantage, So it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer ; for the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint. Fielding. S4 A) A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. BUSINESS. Business is business—always. Emile Gaboriant. Business is a power, not a name. Blackmore. There are men for every business. Ibn Khallikan. Business neglected is business lost. Defoe. Whatever your business, do it well. W. Gray. In business never lose your temper. W. Pitt. Do not give, but lend yourself to business. Seneca. Every man has business and desire, such as it is. Shakspeare. Business should be so regulated as to make life agreeable. E. Brooks. If you would have your business done, trust not too much to an agent. J. Bigelow. There are in business three things necessary : knowledge, temper, and time. Feltham. It is the business of a philosopher to know the proper time for every business. Arcesilants. A man who cannot mind his own business is not fit to be trusted with the king's. J. F. Saville. Let every man employ himself in the business with which he is best acquainted. Propertius. “Business must be attended to,” is one of the best and safest maxims in the world. L. Grimdon. The difference in men and their success may be attributed to their habits of business. J. Freadley. Rare almost as great poets, rarer perhaps than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business. 4. Helps. Attention, application, accuracy, method, punc- tuality, and dispatch, are the principal qualities required for the efficient conduct of business of any sort. S. Smiles. Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power, which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of common- place capacity. Hazlitt, Call on a business man at business times only, and on business ; transact your business and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business. Wellington. This is a fair test of professional earnestness; when we find our thoughts running after our busi- ness, and fixing themselves with a familiar fond- ness upon its details, we may be pretty sure of our way. Dr. Tulloch. The great secret both of health and successful industry is the absolute yielding up of one's con- sciousness to the business and diversion of the hour —never permitting the one to infringe in the least degree upon the other. Sismondi. It is odious for a man of an overgrown fortune to go on in business to a great age, still striving to increase a heap already larger than is necessary, to the prejudice of younger people, who ought to have a clear stage and opportunity of making their way in life. J. Burgh. BUSYBODY. The busybody is ever ill-mannered. Pacuvius. There is nothing more unbecoming than an old busybody. Martial. Busybodies attend to every bodies affairs except their own. Hartley Coleridge. Busybodies and intermeddlers are a dangerous Sort of people to have to do with. L’Estrange. Tattlers and busybodies, going from house to house, are the canker and rust of idleness, as idle- ness is the rust of time. Jeremy Taylor. In truth there is nothing more foolish or more stupid, nothing more lying, or indeed more tat- tling, more Self-conceited, or more forsworn, than those men of the city everlastingly gossipping about, whom they call busybodies, Plawtws. There is in every town a certain set of busy- bodies who are always moving about in a hurry : very active, though having in reality nothing to do ; always in a bustle, though they are really idle ; panting without a cause, and in affecting to do much, doing in fact nothing whatever; trouble- Some to themselves, and a perfect nuisance to others. Phoedrus, BUYING. Trade is supported by buyers. Judge Hilton. There are more foolish buyers than sellers. Roy. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap. T. Jefferson. See what you buy ; nobody buys yams in the ground. Accra. The buyer hath need of a hundred eyes, the seller wants but one. Franklin. The buyer who buys in small parcels, keeps his own house and other men's too. R. Foulis. Buy what you have no need of, and ere long you will sell what you cannot do without. T. Hope. When thou art the only purchaser, buy ; when other buyers are present, be thou nobody. Talmud. How much skill, in buying all manner of things, there is necessary to defend yourself from being cheated. Steele. To unsalable wares we must try to entice the buyer ; good wares will easily find a purchaser, although they may be hid in a corner. Plautus. Never buy but with ready money; and be drawn rather to fix where you find things cheap and good, than for friendship or acquaintance, who are apt to take it unkindly if you will not consent to be cheated. L. Osborn. There is this difference in the case of buying, the trade carried on is in proportion to the wants of the nation that has the greatest demands ; whilst in bartering, the trade is only according to the wants of the nation, whose demands are the few- est; without which this last would be under an im- possibility of balancing its accounts. Montesquiew. THOMAS GARLY." (E. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 85 C. CALAMIITY. Calamity has no voice. Yorwba. Bear calamities with meekneSS. Ewripides. Calamity was ordained for man. Davenant. Calamity is man's true touchstone. Beaumont. Calamity often embitters existence. Engel. He who foresees calamities suffers them twice OVer. e Portews. It is a general calamity alone that makes people wise. Sir R. Maltravers. Calamities present to the view, though slight, are poignant. Sophocles. To endure calamities with patience is the mark of a valiant mind. Cicero. It is seldom God sends such calamities upon man as men bring upon themselves. Jeremy Taylor. Calamity driveth away the slumbers of happi- ness, and putteth an end to peace. Panthea. He who has never had a calamity befall him, is unacquainted with true happiness. Seneca. It is our great unhappiness that when Calamities fall on us, we are uneasy and dissatisfied. Wake. It is easy for one to partake of another's pros- perity, but a difficult task to feel for his calamity as for his own. Altanesi. Calamities of every sort have existed in every age, as many and as great as those that exist at the present time. Orosius. Folly hath often the same results as wisdom ; but wisdom would not engage in her School-room so expensive an assistant as calamity. Franklin. Howevery hostile feeling becomes mitigated into something like kindness, when its object, perhaps lately proud and unjust, is now seen oppressed into dejection by calamity. J. Foster. Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds ; the purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Colton. The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it ; and so in great calamities it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. Sir W. Scott. While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded ; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day, than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives. Goldsmith. CATICULATION. Calculation is practical wisdom. J. O. Taylor. Calculation comes before wisdom. Yoruba. Calculation is better than hard work. Hewgh. If a calculation cannot be depended upon, of what use is it to calculate at all ? J. Martin. It is very simple to calculate the gain on any conjectured plan in theory, but it is not so easy to make the same figures show in practice. Gormicki. Calculation is the mind of business ; a readiness to calculate gives a man great advantages over his less experienced neighbor ; for many a man has brought his goods to a bad market from inability to calculate quickly and accurately. J. Freadley. CALLING. Follow a true calling. W. H. Ainsworth. In every calling men may come into notice by merit. Marveil. Honest men need not be ashamed of their lawful Callings. Joseph Hall. It is in the power of every man engaged in an honest calling, to make it respectable. George III. Because we have faculties which qualify us for usefulness in many callings, we are not therefore to attempt all callings. John Bigelow. No man should undertake anything, except he be called thereunto. Calling is twofold : either divine, which is done by the highest power, which is of faith ; or else it is a calling of love. Luther. Many men mistake their callings; one man, perhaps, proves miserable in the study of the law, who might have flourished in that of physics or divinity ; another runs his head against the pul- pit, who might have been very serviceable to his country at the plow ; and a third proves a very dull and heavy philosopher, who possibly would have made a good mechanic. R. South. CALMINESS. Be calm ; calmness is a power. Mrs. Randolph. Calmness is the companion of fortitude. Crabb. The pursuit of things should be with calmness and tranquility. Cicero. Calmness is the most abundant origin of all that is keen and deep in the movements of the mind. Stratford de Redcliffe. Endeavor to be cool and steady upon all occa- sions ; the advantages of such a steady calmness are innumerable. Chesterfield. The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution ; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns. Seneca. 86 AX A Y’.S C O Z Z 4 C O AV. CALUIMINY. Live down calumnies. Burke. Neglected calumny soon expires. A. Murphy. something of calumny always sticks. Boileau. Calumny is only the noise of madmen. Diogenes. Calumny may ruin, but cannot dishonor me. Réveillière-Lépawa. He who is first in calumny is generally last in valor and merit. Malespini. There are calumnies against which even inno- cence loses courage. Napoleon I. To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to caluminy, Washington. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as Snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Shakspeare. Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least. Stanislaws. We cannot control the tongues of others, but a good life-enables us to despise calumnies. Cato. Calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will per- form for nothing. Lavater. A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies ; but sensible men will pay no attention to them. J. A. Froude. I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies ; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. Boerhaave. He that lends an easy and credulous earto calum- ny, is either a man of very ill morals or has no more sense and understanding than a child. Memander. Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains, and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scy- thian Abaris; and like him, rides upon a poisoned al"I'OW. Colton. I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so en- deavored and taken pains to belie me ; it shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions. Ben Jonson. Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it ; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever. Chamfort. Too much stress should not be laid upon calumny by the Calumniated, else their serious work will be forever interrupted ; and they should remember that it is not so much their business to explain to others all they do, as to be sure that it will bear explanation and satify themselves. A. Helps. Calumny is a monstrous vice; for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. He who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubtfully injured—first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny. Herodotus. CALUMNIATOR, Take no notice of the calumniator. L. Parsons. A just reward awaits the calumniator. Phaedrus. The calumniator brings disgrace on one. Yoruba. The Calumniator is a travelling pest-house. Azzo. There never was a calumniator who was brave, honest, or just. J. Bartlett, Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. Colton. A calumniator is like the dragon that pursued a woman, but not being able to overtake her, opened his mouth, and threw a flood after her to drown her. Edward Blunt. CAINDIDATE. I pity unsuccessful candidates. E. Livingston. A candidate should be earnest in pursuit. Pliny. A candidate should not alone be known by his white robes, but by a spotless life. Livy. Virtue, probity, and integrity are the qualities requisite in a candidate, not mere fluency of speech, nor a knowledge of the arts and sciences. Cicero. I am no candidate for office ; I never wish, never expect to be. Low, grovelling Souls, utterly inca- pable of elevating themselves to the higher, nobler duties of pure patriotism, judge me by the venal code which they prescribe to themselves. H. Clay. The candidate for leadership appeareth careless of the honor, yet secretly desireth it ; he shaketh every one by the hand, and keepeth open house to all who wish to enter, giving audience to all in turn, even if he wish it not, and seeking by affabil- ity to gain popularity with the people. Ewripides. CANDOR. Be candid, but not rude. Lölward Bates. Candor is ever the brightest gem of true criti- cism. B. Disraeli. Candor may be considered as a compound of justice and the love of truth. J. Abercrombie. Candor is not a more conspicuous trait in the character of governments, than it is of individ- uals. Washington. The simplicity or candor of women is always a valuable quality ; but when conducted with good sense, it approaches to perfection. Feyjo. Candor is a very pretty thing to talk about ; in some people it may be compared to barley-sugar drops, in which the acid preponderates over the Sweetness. Chatfield. None fall into so few mistakes, none so free from the pain of doing wrong, as those who walk amid the errors of our tainted life, clothed habitually with candor. Grace Greenwood. Candor is a disposition to form a fair and impar- tial judgment on the opinions and actions of others; or a temper of mind unsoured by envy, unruffled by malice, and seduced by prejudice ; sweet with- out weakness and impartial withoutrigor. C. Buck. P R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 87 C.A.N.T. Cant is but mock humanity. E. C. Brewer. Cant is the parrot talk of a profession. Coleridge. Cant is the voluntarily overcharging or prolon- gation of a real sentiment. Hazlitt. Of all sorts of cant, though the cant of hypocrisy may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most annoying. Sterne. The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words, is the most ruinous cor- ruption in any language. Swift. Is not cant the materict prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations body themselves ; from which no true thing can come 2 For cant is itself properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie. T. Carlyle. There is such a thing as a peculiar word or phrase cleaving, as it were, to the memory of the writer or speaker, and presenting itself to his ut- terance at every turn. When we observe this, we call it a cant word or a cant phrase. Paley. Is it not most disgusting and loathsome to hear some broad-backed, thick-calved, greasy-faced, well-fed, and not badly-drunk caitiff, of some cant- ing caste, preaching and praying, and exhorting young people, full of flesh and blood of the purest and clearest quality, to forsake and forswear the world 3 J. Wilson. CAPACITY. Make a fair estimate of your capacity. Trower. Capacity is the power of receiving and retaining knowledge with facility. G. F. Graham. No intellectual creature is able, by capacity, to do that which nature doth without capacity and knowledge. R. Hooker. Men of small capacities put into great places, like statues set upon high pillars, appear the less by their advancement. Plutarch. Each man's understanding when ripened and mature, is a composite of natural capacity to re- ceive ; I do not say there is always a capacity to receive the very thing they desire, for that may be impossible. J. Harris. It is an error to think that there are few men born with the capacity of discerning the ideas of fered to them, and that the greater part lose their time and pains in endeavoring to conquer the in- nate idleness of their minds. Qwintilian. Men are of three different capacities ; one un- derstands intuitively, another only understands SO far as it is explained ; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation ; the first is excellent, the second commendable, and the third altogether useless. Machiavelli. Those who in confidence of superior capacities or attainments disregard the common maxims of life, should remember that nothing can atone for the want of prudence ; that negligence and irreg- ularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. Johnson. CAPITAL. Capital is accumulated labor. D. K. Lee. Capital and money are two things very differ- ent. Lord Trevelyan. Capital is the agency that is giving to commerce its extension. R. H. Patterson. Capital is not what a man has, but what a man is; character is capital : honor is capital. Macduff. The great forces, named Capital and Labor, are the same in essence ; they are allies not ene- mies. Edward Atkinsom. Capital stock pays the wages of productive labor, whether engaged in agriculture, manufactures, or COIll IIle1"C6. A dam Smith. In every instance where capital is so employed as to produce a profit, it arises either from supplant- ing a portion of labor, which would otherwise be performed by the hand of man, or from perform- ing a portion of labor beyond the reach of man to accomplish. - Lord Lawderdale. CAPRICE. Caprice governs the world. Rochefoucauld. Caprice is the daughter of vanity. St. Gregory. Caprice knoweth not its own wants. Gildas. - Caprice buyeth a folly, then exchangeth it for a greater folly. - John Gower. . Caprice suggests resources to artifice, and is of great value in love. A. Walker. It is easier to guard against the waves of the sea than the caprices of woman. Gavdºwdam. Caprice is the only law which the fashionable, wealthy, worldly-minded choose to obey, Wilbur. Caprice is a humor, giddy thought, fantastical conceit, a sudden will, or purpose to do a thing for which one hath no apparent reason. Cotgrave. A Capricious man is not one man merely ; he is Several at once ; he multiplies himself as often as he has new tastes and different behaviors ; at each moment he is what he was not before ; do not ask of what temperament he is, but of what tempera- ments. Brwyère. CAPTIVITY. - Show kindness unto the captives. Mahomet. Captivity that comes with honor is true liberty. Massinger. It is better to be a free peasant than a captive king. Casimvir III. What terrors await one upon a realization of his captivity. Smiglecius. Christ came to proclaim liberty to the captives: every man has been taken captive by Satan, and Christ has come to snap his bonds. Moody. I confess I cannot hear the noise of a dog rat- tling his chain, without being moved to sympathy for the animal ; if any pronounce this a weakness, let him endure the long years of captivity I have suffered, and he will not wonder at it. Trench. 88 - AD A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. C.A.R.E. Cares are tyrants. Jacques Vincent. Light cares are talkative. J. Poynder. Cares increase with riches. Phoedºws. Trust in God, but use care. Rapniste. Care is an enemy to beauty. Bogdanovitch. Every one has his own cares, J. Norton. Care brings age without years. Celtes. Unceasing care is very worrying. Mrs. Lyman. We care the most for those that care the least for us. C. Reade. Care brings trouble, but want of it brings greater trouble. John Davenport. To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back. Haliburton. Our chief care should be not for the body, but for the soul. Philip III, of Spain. A care for earthly goods lessens the desire for Spiritual goods. Bengelius. Choose that life which is most free from the cares of the world. Camden. Second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, are easy to come off and on. Dickens. Care is no cure, but rather corrosive for things that are not to be remedied. Shakspeare. Cares, both in kind and degree, are as innumer- able as the sands of the seashore. R. Burton. Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about. Qwesmel. Care may indeed bring wealth, but it often in- jures the health, and ruins the soul. Bastingius, Providence has given us hope and sleep as a com- pensation for the many cares of life. Voltaire. Care, like envy, is that fatal mildew which feeds upon itself, and destroys that which supports it. - Pythagoras. Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow upon it. Richter. The cares of life are so uncertain, and so full of disappointments, that nothing is to be counted upon from human actions. Washington. Our cares are the mothers, not only of our chari- ties and virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures. W. G. Simms. The cares of to day are seldom the cares of to- morrow; and when we lie down at night, we may safely say to most of our troubles, Ye have done your worst, and we shall meet no more. Cowper. Care, like a foul hag, sits on us all ; one class presses with iron foot upon the wounded heads be- neath, and all struggle for a worthless Supremacy, and all, to rise to it, move shackled by their ex- penses. Coleridge. C.A.R.E. If thou hast any business of consequence in agi- tation, let thy care be reasonable, and seasonable; continual standing bent weakens the bow ; too hasty drawing breaks it. Put off thy cares with thy clothes. Quarles. Care straightway nestles in the deep heart of man, hatches undefined sorrows there, and, rocking ceaselessly, scares away joy and rest ; she is al- ways putting on some new disguises; she may appear as house and land; as wife and child; as fire, water, dagger, and poison. Goethe. The alarms and cares that nestle in the breast of man are not dispersed by the noise and fierce con. tests of war ; they boldly take up their abode in the breast of kings and the powerful of the earth, nor are they put to flight by the glistening of gold, nor the gay sparklings of the purple dye. Lucretius. The every-day cares and duties of life, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counter- poises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion : and when they cease to hang upon the wheels the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still. Longfellow. C.A.R.EFULINESS. Carefulness is the first step to economy. Bushe. Ah ! too much carefulness is often dangerous. Westland Marston. A habit of carefulness will bring us blessings every day of our lives. E. Rich. Such as are careless in their own causes hardly can be careful about other men's affairs. Thales. Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by carefulness and prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny. Schille)". Every step of life shows how much of our care- fulness is required ; yet nobler is it, if the soul tells us where we may dispense with prudent foresight. Goethe. CARELESSINESS. Carelessness is a disease. May Crommelin. Carelessness trusts to luck. Snorri-Sturluson. A careless watch invites a vigilant foe. Pages. Carelessness does ſhore damage than a want of knowledge. Franklin. The more curious a woman is about her face, the more careless she is about her house. Ben Jomson. To do our work well, or to be careless in doing it, are as much different as working hard is from being idle. Ischomachºws. Childish, imbecile carelessness is enough to ren- der any man poor, without the aid of a single positive vice. F. Wayland. The world is full of careless people, and conse- quently the newspapers are full of dreadful acci- dents, and shocking casualties. Children are ex- pected to be rattle-brained and careless ; but for their fathers and mothers there is no excuse. T. S. Arthur. A R O S A. Q U O 7. A 7" / O M S. S9 CARICATURE. A caricature prostitutes art. Holbein. Caricature exaggerates defects and diminishes beauties. - T. Nast. The caricaturest is one of the best of historical commentators. Mark Lemon. The only good copies are those which point out the caricature of the originals. Rochefoucauld. Never draw caricature ; by the long practice of it, I have lost the enjoyment of beauty ; I never See a face but distorted ; I never have the satisfac- tion to behold the human face divine. Hogarth. Caricature in painting is an exaggerated repre- sentation of any object, in which any natural de- fects are overcharged, so as to make it appear ridiculous. T. Galloway. Nothing conveys a more inaccurate idea of a whole truth than a part of a truth so prominently brought forth as to throw the other parts into shadow. This is the art of caricature. Bulwer. C.A.R.O.L. Carols enliven merriment. Wa'rton. Let jolly carols be sung upon Christmas day. Thomas Tusser. On Christmas let the clerks chant the carols of the church. King John. Christmas carols are believed to have been de- vised as a substitute for the songs of the old heathen festivals. A. P. Barnard. The blessed choristers on high sang their Christ- mas carol, and taught the church a hymn for the anniversary of this festivity. Dr. C. C. Pise. The first carol was the song of angels mentioned by St. Luke : “Glory to God in the highest, and on the earth peace, good will toward men;” for it was a song of joy in relation to the Nativity. Loaring. CASTLES-IN-THE-AIR.. A sigh can shatter a castle-in-the-air. Alger. No tribute is laid on castles-in-the-air. Chºwrchill. Ah castles-in-the-air cost a great deal to keep up. Bulwer. To build castles-in-the-air is man's imaginative vanity. Sir W. Raleigh. An indolent mind is often occupied in the inju- rious habit of castle-building. Jane Taylor. If you have built castles-in-the-air, your work need not be lost ; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Thoreaw. It would be difficult to enumerate what august palaces and stately castles have grown under the castle-builder's powerful fancy and wild imagina- tion. Steele. Castle-building is far from being an innocent or a safe exercise of the mind; to be constantly dwell- ing on imaginary pictures has an obvious tenden- cy to make us restless and dissatisfied in the sta- tion assigned to us by Providence. Lady Rutland. CATECHISMI. Children should be taught the catechism. Ball. Catechising is an excellent mean of informing the mind and impressing the heart. C. Buck. Catechisms are the short, simple, and connected views of the truth of God and of Christian doc- trine. John Green. Those who deride all catechisms as unprofitable forms, may deride themselves for talking and using the form of their own words to make known their mind to others. Baacter. The catechism is the most important of books, for in the teaching of our children it is as the ma- ternal breast, either over-flowing with pure and life-giving nourishment, or full of insidious poison. Père Hyacinthe. CATHEDRAL. A cathedral is a magnificent church. E. Robbins. If we had not cathedrals it would be necessary to found them. Rev. Canon Venables. The cathedral church is called “the mother church of the diocese.” Bishop Wordsworth. Every cathedral church should have its school- master for poor scholars. John Stow. The cathedral service is the very highest ideal of the earthly worship of Almighty God. Doane. Though cathedrals have a general designinthem all, yet they seem, each one, to have its own per- Sonality, as much as a human being. H. B. Stowe. The cathedral, whether it be attended by few Or many worshippers, is still the perpetual temple of the Holy Ghost, the altar of morning and eve- ning sacrifice, the oratory of daily and unceasing prayer. Bishop Selwyn. CAUSE. God hides Himself behind causes. C. Rollin. A good cause makes a stout heart. J. Bem. A rotten cause abides no handling. Shakspeare. -* Causes are superior to human will. J. Vincent. A noble cause doth ease much a very grievous Ca,Se. Sir P. Sidney. In war important events are produced by trivial CallSeS. Julius Coesar. When the cause is just an honest pride may be indulged. Sophocles. We know the effects of many things, but the causes of few. Colton. There is nothing happens without a cause, not even among those events which seem to be most fortuitous. Polybius. Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way ; for want of a block, he will stumble at a straw. Swift, The general idea of cause is that without which another thing, called the effect, cannot be ; the final cause is that for the sake of which anything is done. Lord Monboddo. 90 A) A Y 'S CO Z Z A C O AV. CAUTION, Becautious and bold. Rothschild. The cautious seldom err. Confucius. Becautious, but not fearful. W. Penn. There is security in caution. Cavendish. Too great caution defeats its object. Cheraskow. - Caution is the lower story of prudence. Carlyle. It is a good thing to learn caution by the mis- fortunes of others. - Publiws Syrws. Caution is sometimes the cause of misfortune, as well as its prevention. Avicenna. Caution holds all generous impulses in check; it is often a blind and sly keeper of self. H. Hooker. Caution, ever awake to danger, is a guard against it ; but security lays every guard asleep. Gilpin. Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. Zimmerman. If there be inevitable dangers, there are many we give in to by imprudence, and still more which we may avoid by a little caution. Stanislaws. Be cautious in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care ; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor fol- lows a good life. H. Ballow. The bird is cautious not to alight on the spread met when it beholds another bird in the snare ; take warning by the misfortunes of others, that Others may not take example from you. Saadi. Caution in crediting, reserve in speaking, and in revealing one's self to very few, are the best secu- rities both of peace and a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds. T. d. Kempis. The more important the affair is about which we are engaged, the more cautious ought we to be, and we ought to enter with mature deliberation on those measures which, if they once get a wrong bias, cannot be set to rights. Gwicciardini. When you have need of a needle, you move your fingers delicately, with a wise caution ; use the same precaution with the inevitable dullness of life: give attention, keep yourself from imprudent pre- cipitation, and do not take it by the point. Rance. CAVIL. A great man never cavils. Lavater. The best things have been subject to cavil. Joss. Religious cavils have debarred the Christian's progreSS. R. Traill. Cavil is not always an efficient ally for the de- fense of truth. Sadoleto. Envy and cavil are the natural fruits of laziness and ignorance. Addison. Those who contend more for victory than truth, will be apt to cavil when they are at a loss for fair argument. G. Crabb. CELEBRITY. Seek honorable celebrity. M. Drºwmºmond. Be celebrated for your virtues. Richard Gifford. The road that leads to celebrity is often very short. Baim. Celebrity is desirable only when it is the reward of virtue. Sir A. Shirley. so strongly is man disposed to link his feelings with futurity, that the phantom of posthumous celebrity is often preferred to the present. R. Hall. Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon Our nearer acquaintance with him ; and we sel- dom hear of a celebrated person without a cata- logue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmi- ties. Addison. CELERITY. Celerity wins the race. Sir John Astley. Celerity is the lazy man's enemy. R. Lowe. Celerity is never more admired than by the neg- ligent. Shakspeare. There is no secrecy comparable to celerity ; like the motion of a bullet in the air, it flies so swift it outruns the eye. Lord Bacon. There is a medium between celerity and torpid- ity ; the Italians say it is not necessary to be a Stag, but we ought not to be a tortoise. I. Disraeli. CELIBACY. Celibacy is good. Menedemws. Celibacy honors the priesthood. Pope Martin, I. Celibacy is the great evil of our nation. Steele. Celibacy is cowardice if it does not glorify mar- riage. Père Hyacinthe. Celibacy was never a design of Providence, but is a result of man's folly. Dr. Porte?". It is better to live a life of celibacy than to have matrimony cut short charity. E. Colston. The strong personality of our girls, which often asserts itself the day after the wedding, frightens the celibate. Michelet. The state of celibacy is great hypocrisy and wickedness ; Christ with one sentence confutes all arguments for it : “God created them male and female.” Lºwther. CEMETERY. A cemetery is a city of the dead. Mrs. E. Stone. The sea is the largest of all cemeteries. T. Herme. Cemeteries were held in great esteem by the primitive Christians. C. Buck. Even in the cemetery there is no equality; even here the storied monument is a memorial of an empty show of sorrow. Longfellow. In the cemetery there is no distinction between the rich and the poor, the great and the small; but men's vanity creep in even there to display their wealth by the gilded monument and the sculptured urn. Claude Fawchet. P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 91 CENSUR.E. Censure is often a self-corrector. Cavowr. Scarcely any man can abide censure. Stanislaws. Censure is most effectual when intermixed with praise. Bovee. Censoriousness is a compound of many of the worst passions. Magoom. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Swift. The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure is to correct ourselves. Demosthenes. We often censure that conduct in others which we ourselves practice without scruple. J. Gwy. The censure of those that are opposite to us, is the nicest commendation that can be given us. St. Evremond. It is folly for an eminent man to think of es- caping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. Addison. Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure which is useful to them, to praise which deceives them. Rochefoucauld. Some people seem to consider the severity of their censures on the errors of others, as an atone- ment for their own. Carathéodory. The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure ; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure. Colton. Judging of others by ourselves, it will invariably be found that the most censurable are the most censorious ; while those who have the least need of indulgence are the most indulgent. Chatfield. Some men's censures are like the blasts of rams’ horns before the walls of Jericho ; all a man's fame they lay level at one stroke, when all they go upon is only conceit, without any certain basis. Rev. J. Beawmont. To arrive at perfection a man should have very sincere friends, or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct either by the censure of the One or the admonitions of the others. Diogenes. It is harder to avoid censure than to gain ap- plause ; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age ; but to escape Censure, a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing. . Hume. There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world—to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it ; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second. Swift. Be not censorious, for thou knowest not whom thou judgest : it is a more dextrous error to speak well of an evil man, than ill of a good man ; and safer for thy judgment to be misled by simple charity than uncharitable wisdom ; he may tax others with privilege that hath not in himself, what others may tax. F. Quarles. CEREMONY. Truth and ceremony are two very different things. Awrelius. It is no worse to stand on ceremony than to trample on it. E. P. Day. When love begins to sicken and decay it must be a forced ceremony. Shakspeare. If we use no ceremony toward others we shall be treated without any. FIazlitt. Ceremony is the poison of social intercourse and the grave of friendship. J. Bartlett. Ceremony is all that is considered necessary by many in religion and friendship. Chatfield. When the pale of ceremony is broken rudeness and insult soon enter the breach. Czartoryski. To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. Bulwer. There are ceremonious bows that throw you to a greater distance than the wrong end of any tele- Scope. Ruffini. I do not love much ceremony ; suits in love. should not, like suits in law, be rocked from term to term. J. Shirley. It is superstitious to repose our confidence in forms and ceremonies ; but not to submit to them is pride. Pascal. Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding: that civility is best which excludes all superfluous formality. Sam Houstom. As ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance, so good breeding is an expe- dient to make fools and wise men equals. Steele. Ceremony keeps up things; it is like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost. Selden. Christianity has no ceremonial; it has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind. Rev. G. Croly. All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of manners and decency, which would be too often broken in upon if it were not for that defence which keeps the enemy at a proper distance. It is for that reason that I always treat fools and coxcombs with great ceremony; true good-breeding not being a sufficient barrier against them. Chesterfield. Ceremonies are different in every country ; but true politeness is everywhere the same. Ceremo- nies which take up so much of our attention, are only artificial helps, which ignorance assumes in order to imitate politeness, which is the result of good sense and good nature. A person possessed of those qualities, though he had never seen a court, is truly agreeable ; and if without them, would continue a clown, though he had been all his life a gentleman usher. Goldsmith. 92 ZO A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. truth. CHANCE. Chance is a second master. Pliny the Elder. Chance is but a mere name, and really nothing in itself. R. Bentley. Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. Rochefoucauld. Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe. Memounder. The mines of knowledge are oft laid bare through the forked hazel wand of chance. Tupper. . There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it. W. G. Simms. To say a thing is chance or casualty, as it relates to second causes, is not profaneness, but a great R. Sowth. It is the part of the wise, in their estimates of success, to make due allowance for the effects of chance. Thucydides. How often events, by chance, and unexpectedly, come to pass, which you had not dared even to hope for. Terence. It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason, that there is no such thing as chance, or accident. A. Clarke. Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman runs away with the applause. Rames. Chance is always powerful; let your hook always be cast ; in a pool where you least expect it there will be a fish. Ovid. Chance is but the pseudonym of God, for those particular cases which he does not choose to sub- scribe openly with his own sign-manual. Coleridge. What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand 3 Provi- dence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs. Schiller. It is mere chance that suggests thoughts; it is mere chance that obliterates them from the mind; there is no particular method by which they may be preserved or acquired. Pascal. Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things in this world depend upon such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, yet is he not certain to win the game. G. Herbert. Chance is a term we apply to events to denote that they happen without any necessary or fore- known cause. When we say a thing happens by chance, we mean no more than that its cause is un- known to us, and not, as some vainly imagine, that chance itself can be the cause of anything. Buck. Chance never writ a legible book ; chance never built a fair house ; chance never drew a meat pic- ture. It never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them, which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree. Barrow. CHANGE. In adversity, hope for a change. Borace. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. Goethe, Changes are expected and allowed in woman. Lord Stowell. Change as little, and correct as much as possible. W. S. Landor. The state of man is changeableness, ennui, anx- iety. Pascal. There is no deeper law of nature than that of change. Ammie E. Lancaster. Change and inconstancy spring from lightness of the mind. St. Gregory. It is sometimes better to do amiss than to change Our purpose. Catherine II. There is no change more certain than the change of life to death. Crates. The purest thing that is may be changed betwixt evening and morning. Aristotle. Change in all matters, except they be mischiev- Ous, is most dangerous. Aemophon. Nothing is lighter than the change of time, nor any time more certain. J. F. Boyer. All things do change, yet under the canopy of heaven there is no new thing. Sirach. The world is a scene of changes, and to be con- stant in mature is inconstancy. Cowley. A great change in life is like a cold bath in win- ter; we hesitate at the first plunge. L. Byrm. Changes are almost always taking place in men and manners, in opinions and customs. J. Gwy. Good things have a bond of union which all changes do but tend to disclose and strengthen. H. Hooker. If there be a greater fool than one who is always changing his mind, it is he who never changes it. Potamo. Change is the only thing which is constant ; mu- tability being an immutable law of the universe. Chatfield. It is as common for men to change their taste, as it is uncommon for them to change their incli- nation. Rochefoucauld. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error ; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone. Colton. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light T. Jefferson. Changing hands without changing measures, is as if a drunkard in a dropsy should change his doctors, and not his diet. J. F. Saville. As there is nothing more certain than the change of life, so there is nothing more uncertain than the time when it will change. H. Howard. and transient causes. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 93 CHANGE. The antipathy of ignorance to change of custom, originates in the attachment to existing customs, merely because they exist. S. Montagwe. A single moment causes such changes in the lot of man, that in this high fortune which I have reached I fear some great reverse. Corneille. * There is a sense of insecurity in the beginning of all change ; we dread movement until we are fairly roused, and then we seem as if we could never know rest again. R. Leighton. There is no better change than for a man that hath been vicious to become honest ; and for a woman that hath been lascivious as Lais, to wax as repentant as Magdalen. J. Brownswerd. All desire improvement ; yet many are averse to change. We forget, that though there may be change without improvement, there cannot be im- provement without change. O. B. Pierce. All things are changing ; when a man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another, like wave upon wave, and their rapidity, he will despise everything that is mortal. Awrelius. The whole world is nothing but a shop of change; for riches we exchange poverty, for health sickness, for pleasure sorrow, for honor contempt ; briefly, it is nothing but change whatsoever chanceth unto {IS. J. Lanjwinais. Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other ; such are the changes that keep the mind in action ; we de- sire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated ; we desire something else, and begin a new pursuit. Dr. Johnsom. Perfection is immutable ; but for things imper- fect, change is the way to perfect them ; it gets the name of willfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better; therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good ; in things ill, it is not virtue, but an absolute vice. JFeltham. The things of the world are ever rising and fall- ing, and in unceasing change. This change must be in accordance with the will of God, as he has given to man neither the power nor the wisdom to control it and bring it to a close. The great lesson to be learned in such cases is, that man must strengthen himself doubly to perform his duty, and do what is right, seeking his happiness and in- ward peace in objects which cannot be taken away from him. Hwmboldt. Change is the common feature of society. The world is like the shifting scenes of a panorama: ten years convert the population of the schools into men and women, and make and mar fortunes; twenty years convert infants into lovers, fathers, and mothers, and decide men's fortunes; thirty years turn fascinating beauties into bearable old women, and convert loversinto grandfathers; forty years, change the face of all society; and fifty years will, alas ! find us in a world of which we know nothing, and to which we are unknown. Frowde. CHARACTER. / Character is a perfectly educated will. Novalis. The great hope of society is individual character. W. E. Channing. Society is rigidly exclusive as to persons, but lax as to characters. Lord Morpeth. Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. Rochefoucauld. Character is what nature has engraven in us; can we then efface it 2 Voltaire. The way to gain a good character is to endeavor to be what you appear. Socrates. Characters never change ; opinions alter : char- acters are only developed. B. Disraeli. It is the fine tints and fluent curves which consti- tute beauty of character. Bulwer. Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Schiller. It is the sign of a trifling character to catch at fame that is got by silly reports. Cicero. Men show their characterin nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable. Goethe. The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. Emerson. Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us. Humboldt. The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an affinity of little accidents. Danton. All men are alike in their lower natures ; it is in their higher characters that they differ. Bovee. Many persons carry about their characters in their hands; not a few under their feet. Mwrillo. As daylight can be seen through small holes, so do little things show a person's character. Butler. The most brilliant qualities become useless when . they are not sustained by force of character. Segwr. Public Safety, national honor, personal reputa- tion, rests upon the force of individual character. Lord Stanley. Circumstances form the character; but, like the petrifying matters, they harden while they form. W. S. Landor. He that has character need have no fears for his condition ; character will draw after it condition. H. W. Beecher. A good man keeps up a uniformity in his actions and preserves the beauty of his character to the last. Addison. Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another. Richter. Some characters are like some bodies in chemis- try: very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other. - Lord Greville. <-- 94 Z) A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AW. | CHARACTER. It is an error common to many to take the char- racter of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them. Fielding. The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity is that of a good character. J. Winthrop. The characters of men placed in lower stations of life are most useful, as being imitable by greater numbers. F. Atterbury. The public character of a man is the tinsel worn at court ; his private character is the service of gold kept at his bankers. Sir T. Overbwry. Every man has in himself a continent of undis- covered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. Sir J. Stephens. The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light : all others act comedy with their fellow-men unto the grave. Lady Blessington. He whose character seems fair, yet if all his er- rors and follies were articled against him the man would seem vicious and miserable. Jeremy Taylor. Character is the basis of progress and prosperity; and character is more easily established or devel- oped in the country than in the city. H. Greeley. If our character is lovely, we are loved ; if hate-- ful, we are hated ; if contemptible, we are con- temned ; if despicable, we are despised. Preston. The most accomplished persons have usually some defect, some weakness in their characters, which diminishes the lustre of their brighter qualifica- tions. Junius. A man's character is like his shadow, which sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, and which is occasionally longer, occasionally shorter, than he is. Mad. de la Rochefaqwelein. It would be very advantageous exercise to incite attentive observation, and sharpen the discriminat- ing faculty, to compel one's self to sketch the cha- racter of each person one knows. J. Foster. If virtue were established as necessary to cha- racter, and vice not only loaded with infamy, but made the infallible ruin of all men's pretensions, our duty would take root in our nature. Swift. The effect of character is always to command consideration ; we sport and toy and laugh with men and women who have none, but we never con- fide in them. W. G. Simms. If any man tell you that a mountain has changed its place, believe it if you think fit ; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, believe it not. - Mahomet. Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital expe- rience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men. W. Whipple. Ordinary people regard a man of a certain force and flexibility of character as they do a lion ; they look at him with a sort of wonder, perhaps they admire him ; but they will on no account house with him. Merkel. A CHARACTER. It is amusing to detect character in the vocabu- lary of each person ; the adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indi- cate the temperament. EI. T. Twckerman. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume. Burke. The crown and glory of life is character; it is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general good-will, dignifying every station, and exalting every posi- tion in Society. Smiles. A good character is carefully to be maintained for the sake of others more than ourselves ; it is a coat of triple steel, giving security to the wearer, protection to the oppressed, and inspiring the op- pressor with awe. Colton. When upon a trial, a man calls witnesses to his character, and those witnesses only say, that they never heard mor do not know any ill of him, it in- timates, at best, a neutral and insignificant, though innocent character. Chesterfield. The only equitable manner of judging the cha- racter of a man, is to examine if there are personal calculations in his conduct ; if there are not, We may blame his manner of judging, but we are not the less bound to esteem him. Mºme. de Stael. Character is like stock in trade ; the more of it a man possesses, the greater his facilities for makiug additions to it; character is power—is influence; it makes friends, creates funds, draws patronage, and support, and opens a sure and easy way to wealth, honor, and happiness. Rev. J. Hawes. Character is the dearest earthly possession, in- asmuch as it is that alone which can Secure and render permanent every other. To be without character is to be without honor or friendship in our intercourse with mankind, and without princi- ple or self-approbation in the retirement of our own bosoms. T. Sharp. Man is not the creature but the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. Our strength is measured by our plastic power ; from the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks, until the architect can make them something else. T. Carlyle. It is of great importance to observe that the character of every man is in some degree formed by his profession. A man of sense may Only have a cast of countenance that wears off, as you trace his individuality ; while the weak, common man has scarcely ever any character, but what belongs to the body ; at least, all his opinions have been so steeped in the vat consecrated by authority, that the faint spirit which the grape of his own vine yields, cannot be distinguished. Society, there- fore, as it becomes more enlightened, should be very careful not to establish bodies of men, who must necessarily be made foolish or vicious by the very constitution of their profession. Mary Wollstonecraft. A At’ O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 95 CHARITY. Charity is an eternal debt. Pasquier Quesnel. Charity is a universal duty. Dr. Johnson. Charity is better than learning. Cardinal Bona. True charity finds its just reward. T. May. Charity is the first-born of religion. Frazer. Charity is the very livery of Christ. Latimer. Charity does not consist in alms-giving. Lando. Charity is an angel breathing on riches. Hale. True charity makes others' wants its own. Robert Damborne. First daughter to the love of God is charity to ICl8l.Il. Dremmam. The poor claim charity as a right from the af- fluent. Montawdon. True charity is the scope of all God's command- ments. St. Crysostom. He always hath something to give that is full of charity. St. Berward. Be charitable and indulgent to every one but yourself. Joubert. A woman who wants a charitable heart, wants a pure mind. Haliburton. Let your charity begin at home, but do not let it stop there, H. Martyn. O. Charity Thou friend to him who knows no friend beside Camom, Bowles. The highest exercise of charity is charity to the uncharitable. John S. Buckminster. That charity which longs to publish itself, ceases to be charity. J. Hwttom. How beautiful it is to be able to sing for pur- poses of charity Jemmy Lind. Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands. J. R. Lowell. True charity should begin at home, among Our kindred and friends. Lodi. Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. Colton. Charity taken in its largest extent is nothing but the sincere love of God and our neighbor. W. Wake. Charity is the gate of the Sanctuary which lead- eth to the vision of the Holy Trinity. Maacimus. The nature of charity is to draw all things to it- self, and make them partakers of itself. Lactantiws. True charity is not methodical, and scarcely ju- dicious, so to speak, but is liable to excesses and transports. Massillom. A rich man without charity is a rogue; and per- haps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. Fielding. "We often meet with more instances of true cha- rity among the ignorant and poor than among the those who profess to be Christians. M. Bandello. CHARITY. Those deeds of charity which we have done shall stay forever with us; and that wealth which we have so bestowed we only keep ; the other is not OUll’S. T. Middleton. In every relation of life we must bear and for- bear ; we must not expect perfection, and each party should carry the cloak of charity for the other. Rev. M. Huggins. He that rightly understands the reasonableness and excellency of charity, will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly. W. Law. Because men believe not Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard ; they do not believe any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. I. Barrow, The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits diametrically opposed to charity—the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy, and the spirit of indifference. Bossuet. Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it. Sterne. I have no respect for that self-boasting charity which neglects all objects of commiseration near and around it, but goes to the end of the earth in search of misery, for the purpose of talking about it. G. Mason. The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enamelling the vales of human beings as the flow- ers paint the meadows; they are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natu- ral instinct. G. Bancroft. Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity. Confucius. I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to con- verge into egotism. Mrs. Jameson. Charity in adversity is patient, in prosperity temperate, in passions strong, in good works quick, in temptations secure, in hospitality bountiful, amongst her true children joyful, amongst her false friends patient. N. Lynge. Nothing seems much clearer than the direction of charity. Would we all but relieve, according to the measure of our means, those objects imme- diately within the range of our personal know- ledge, how much of the worst evil of poverty might be alleviated Dr. T. Chalmers. There is a debt of mercy and pity, of charity and compassion, of relief and succor, due to human na- ture, and payable from one man to another ; and such as deny to pay it to the distressed in the time of their abundance, may justly expect it will be denied themselves in a time of want. W. Burkitt. 96 AD A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AW. CHARITY. The sweet charities of life, sympathy, affection, and benevolence, are the blessings blended with sorrow, sickness, and infirmity ; and from the re- straints of temper and mutual forbearance we practice to each other, arise the kindnesses and good-will which are the charms of social life. King. Charity gives perfection to the will, as faith does to the understanding ; faith begets charity, and charity increases faith, which without charity will go out, as a lamp that has no oil. Faith in- creased renders charity vigorous; faith is the root, the works of charity are the branches bearing fruit. Matt. Elemchws. It is an old saying that charity begins at home ; but this is no reason it should not go abroad ; a man should live with the world as a citizen of the world ; he may have a preference for the particu- lar quarter or square, or even alley in which he lives, but he should have a generous feeling for the welfare of the whole. R. Cwmberland. It is charity only that maketh riches worth the owning ; when charitable men have ruled, the world hath flourished, and enjoyed the blessings of peace and prosperity, the times have been more pleasant and smooth, nor have any princes sat more secure or firm in their thrones than those that have been clement and benign. Feltham. Never to despise, never to judge rashly, never to interpret other men's actions in an ill-sense; but to compassionate their infirmities, bear their bur- dens, excuse their weaknesses, make up and con- solidate the breaches of charity happened by their fault, to hate imperfections, and ever to love men, yea, even your enemies; therein the touchstone of true charity is known. N. Cawssin. Shut not thy purse-strings always against pain- ted distress ; act a charity sometimes. poor creature—outwardly and visibly such—comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the “seven small children,” in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth to save a half-penny ; it is good to believe him. C. Lamb. Every good act is charity; your smiling in your brother's face is charity ; an exhortation of your fellow-man to virtuous deeds is equal to alms-giv- ing ; your putting a wanderer in the right road is charity ; your assisting the blind is charity; your removing stones and thorns, and other obstructions ... from the road is charity; your giving water to the thirsty is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellow- Iſlä,11. Mahomet. The measure of charity which it is our duty to bestow upon the poor, is a point of very difficult adjustment, as well as the manner we may choose to adopt in the distribution of our means ; but if we have sufficient resources for the purchase of luxuries, it is in vain to pretend we cannot give to the poor ; and if we will not spare a little out of our little, we cannot expect to be believed when we boast of the pleasure it would afford us to be charitable with more. When a Mrs. S. S. Ellis. CHAIRMS. Charms captivate the heart. Ventadowr. Charms are heightened by humility. Cabestaing. Charms deprive the mind of reason. P. Vidal. Lest charms should ensnare me, I will not behold them. Cyrus the Great. Charms decrease in woman with an increase of knowledge. Cabamis. The most difficult mastery we can possibly attain over ourselves, is to resist the grief of her who charms us. Steele. If beauty knew all the advantages of the mo- desty that heightens its charms, it would not con- stantly expose it to so many dangers. Stanislaws. The charms of a virtuous woman make her an agreeable companion for her husband; the charms and graces of woman lose not their influence like beauty. Kames. The same charms do not please women that please men; a thousand winning ways which light up the breasts of the latter powerful passions, cre- ate in the former aversion and antipathy. Bruyère. CHASTENING. The mind is chastened by holy thoughts. J. Ball. God chastens His faithful people to cleanse them from their transgressions. G. Crabb. Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine because he chastems us, that we are forsaken of Him, W. Wolce. God chastens, purifies, perfects: there are cer- tain schools which can only mutilate, cut off, and destroy ; God's mode of procedure seems to dis- please them ; they like exclusion better than selec- tion. & Mime. Swetchine. The chastenings of heaven if properly employed will prove inestimable blessings. For the warnings of heaven, whatever be their nature, we are an- swerable ; they, too, are talents ; and unless we improve them, we shall be counted unprofitable servants. Bishop J. Jebb. CHASTISEMENT. Chastisement should improve, not punish. Gore. Gold must be beaten, and a child must be chas- tised. Ben Sira. Chastisement and tenderness combined subdue the stubborn. . Rev. Joel Parker. Reason first ; if one will not listen to reason, then chastise him. Anne Bromté. Parents chastise their children to prevent the repetition of faults. G. Crabb. Chastise the good, and he will mend ; chastise the bad, and he will grow worse. J. Florio. Sickness is the kind chastisement and discipline of our Heavenly Father, to wean our affections from the world. R. Bentley. When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offense, he needs no chastisement. H. Mann. P R O S E O U o T A T / O M. S. 97 CHASTITY. Chastity is the seal of grace. Lady Hwntingdom. N. Lynge. Ovid. Chastity is the beauty of the soul. Chastity once lost, cannot be recalled. When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no crime. Tacitus. Chastity is of no account without humility, nor humility without chastity. St. Gregory. If chastity be once lost, there is nothing left praiseworthy in a woman. Niphºws. Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires. Solom. Beauty without chastity is like a mandrake- apple, which is comely in show, but poisonous to the taste. Carbajal y Hinojosa. Do not say thou hast a chaste mind, if thine eye be wanton ; for a lascivious look is a sign of an in- Constant heart. St. Bernard. There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity ; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable. Sir P. Sidney. A man defines his standing at the court of chas- tity by his views of woman ; he cannot be any man's friend, nor his own, if not hers. W. A. Alcott. Chastity consisteth either in sincere virginity, or in faithful matrimony, and is only possessed of those who keep their bodies undefiled. Longws. A hard-favored woman renowed for her chastity, is more to be honored than she is that is inconstant, though ever so famous for her beauty. Awrelius. Among all the conflicts of a Christian soul, none is more hard than the wars of a chaste mind ; for the fight is continual, the victory rare. Cypriam. A chaste soul is by virtue that which an angelis by nature; there is more happiness in the chastity of an angel, but there is more courage in that of a Iſla, Il. Magoon. A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of the earth, and sole wonder of the world. Hermes. Chastity and modesty are sufficient to enrich the poor ; rather make choice of honesty and manners, than looseness of behavior with great lands and rich possessions. John Pierpont. There is no chastity so agreeable to God, as a faithful marriage ; but there is more merit in living chastely, when one can be contented with the state of virginity. J2arm. How large a portion of chastity is sent out of the world by distant hints, nodded away and cruelly winked into suspicion by the envy of those who are past all temptations of it themselves. Sterne. Chastity is the beauty of the soul and purity of life which refuseth the corrupt pleasures of life, and is only possessed of those who keep their bo- dies clean and undefiled ; and it consisteth either in virginity, or in faithful matrimony. B. Jenks. CHASTITY. Chastity consists in a fixed abhorrence of all forbidden sensual indulgences, a recollection of past impurities with shame and sorrow ; a reso- lute guard over our thoughts, passions, and actions for the future ; a steady abstinence from the dis- tant approaches of evil desires and indecency. Rev. J. Beaumont. Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its col- lateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives a man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things. Addison. A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation, sober counsels and inge- nuous actions, open deportment and sweet carriage, sincere principles and unprejudicate understand- ing, love of God and self-denial, peace and confi- dence, holy prayers and spiritual comfort, and a pleasure of spirit infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity. Jeremy Taylor. CHEAPNESS. Good cheap is dear. C. de Casawac. He who cheapens means to buy. Regenbogen. Cheapness does not always consist in price. Levi. A gift is a gift ; a sale is a sale : no one thanks you for selling cheap. Yoruba. Plenty produces cheapness, but cheapness always ends in negligence and deprivation. Addison. Some buy at all times as cheap as they can, and Sell as dear as they can ; this is a wicked rule ; there is a fair price for everything ; let that be paid. Raméhaméha. CHEATING. No man will trust a known cheat. R. Sowth. He is most cheated who cheats himself. Boym. He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God. Lavater. Are not the towns full of people who live by cheating each other ? W. Black. A man given to cheating, can neither be friend to himself nor trusty to another. Thomas Shaw. There are people who find that the most effectual way to cheat the people, is always to pretend to infallible cures. Tillotson. A cheat is a freeman of all trades, and all trades of his fraud and treachery are his calling, though his profession be integrity and truth. T. Fuller. It is a dangerous commerce where an honest man is sure at first of being cheated ; and only recovers his losses, but by learning to cheat others. Dryden. We naturally love to cheat ; it is interwoven with our constitution ; by the same token, we often boast that we have palmed false dice upon others, . when we ourselves are the bubbles. J. Hughes. 7 98 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. CHEERFULNESS. Be cheerful, but not light. W. Penn. Cheerfulness is an element of strength. C. Bush. Cheerfulness is as friendly to the mind as to the body. Addison. The burden becomes light which is cheerfully borne. Ovid. Cheerfulness is health; the opposite, melancholy, is disease. Haliburton. Cheerfulness is always to be kept up if a man is out of pain. Steele. The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness. Montaigme. Mirth and cheerfulness are but the due reward of innocence and life. Sir T. More. An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. T. Fulley". Cheerfulness is a friend to grace ; it puts the heart in tune to praise God. T. Watson. A cheerful temper spreads like the dawn, and all vapors disperse before it. Jame Porter. If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness. Bulwer. Cheerfulness is just as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek. Ruskin. Cheerfulness, which is a quality peculiar to man, opens, like spring, all the blossoms of the inward IIlā, Il. Richte,". There seem to be some persons, the favorites of fortune, and darlings of nature, who are born cheerful. W. Whipple. To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat, sleep, and exercise, is one of the best precepts of long lasting. Lord Bacon. Cheerfulness charms us with a spell that reaches into eternity, and we would not exchange it for all the soulless beauty that ever graced the fairest form on earth. Anna Cleaves. As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness. Pliny the Younger. Be cheerful ; do not brood over fond hopes un- realized, until a chain, link after link, is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the travelling monument of despair and melancholy. A. Helps. Cheerfulness is, as it were, the sunny ray of life. This is the constant portion of none, and the word itself comprehends also a multitude of degrees and modifications. The sum of all is this, that man, ever from inward and outward circumstances, forms for himself a nature which is peculiar to him, and is the track on which his life glides ; this is a beneficent arrangement of Providence, for no struggle after harmony and elevation is ever with- out effect. Humboldt. CHEMISTRY. Chemistry converts waste into use. Herschel. Chemistry teaches what the crop derives from the soil, and how. Prof. S. W. Johnson. Physiological chemistry is the crowning point of every physiological inquiry. C. G. Lehmann. The object of physiological chemistry is to con- ciliate the chemical phenomena attending the vital processes. George E. Day. Chemistry, pursued with attention, has discov- ered many effects of fire, and of mixtures, and general properties in metals, minerals, and other bodies, that give daily surprise. Sir H. Davy. The object of chemistry is to examine into the composition of the numerous modifications of mat- ter, which occur in the organic or inorganic king- doms of nature, and to investigate the laws by which the continuation and decomposition of their parts is effected. Justus Liebig. CHESS. There are rare beauties in chess. Ammenhawsen. Chess is a wooden or ivory allegory. Chatfield. In a game of chess we see illustrated the game of life and its vicissitudes—success and failure. Opoiac. Chess-playing is but a small art, yet without the whole mind being given, a man cannot succeed at it. Menciws. Chess is too troublesome a game for some men's brains ; it is too full of anxiety, all but as bad as study ; besides it is a testy, choleric game, and very offensive to him that loseth the mate. Burton. Chess is a game in which no other approaches it in the scope afforded, by the number and variety of powers of the pieces, for skill and foresight, in- volving the faculties of memory and conception especially to a large degree. H. Hartshorne. Life is a kind of chess, in which we have points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a great variety of good and ill events, that are in some degree the effects of prudence, or the want of it. Franklin. CHIDING. Do not chide overmuch. Lowis de Jaucourt. Better a little chiding than a great deal of heart- break. Shakspeare. So fareth it by a chiding wife : if she chide him not in one place, she will chide him in another. Chaucer. There is nothing that so soon casteth the mind of the husband from his wife, as doth much scold- ing and chiding. Vives. Frequent, and especially passionate, chiding les- sens the authority of the parents, and the respect . of the child. Locke To chide marks a stronger degree of displeasure than reprimand ; a person may chide or repri- mand in anger; great offences call forth for chi- dings. G. Crabb. A /ø O S A. Q V O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 99 CHILD. The child is father of the man. Wordsworth. A child is a man in a small letter. Bishop Earle. A petted child makes an irascible man. Talmage. A child is an angel dependent on man. Maistre, A child says abroad what it hears at home. Accra. The principal joy of a child's life consists in eat- ing. Miss E. S. Phelps. A child's existence is a bright, soft element of joy. G. B. Rodney. A child ought to learn that which he should do when he is a man. St. Antgwstime. A child must ask its mother whether it may be a wise man or a fool. W. L. Weems. A torn jacket is soon mended ; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. Longfellow. As a wise child makes a happy father, so a wise father makes a happy child. F. Quarles. Call not that man wretched who, whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. R. Sowthey. A child should never hear ought from a mother's lips but persuasive gentleness. Mrs. H. Wood. An artful, hypocritical child is one of the most unpromising characters in the world. Channing. The training of a child is a profession where we must know how to lose time in Order that we may gain it. Rowsseaw. Blessed be the hand that prepares a pleasure for a child, for there is no saying when and where it may bloom forth. D. Jerrold. I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them. C. Lamb. When looking upon the open countenance of a child, the vicious find something to rebuke the workings of their guilty souls, while the virtuous see something in it to admire. Mrs. Aleacander. The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's Sorrow ; and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum, as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame. E. H. Chapin. There is a magic in a child's winning ways— honesty and truthfulness in its expression and af- fection; there is something grand and lofty in that young untainted soul, which should pass through life uncorrupted by the deception and sensuality of the world. Bishop Oacendem. A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought—what on earth can be more beautiful ? Full of hope, love, and curiosity, they meet your own ; in prayer, how earnest in joy, how spark- ling ! in sympathy, how tender . The man who never tried the companionship of a little child, has carelessly passed by one of the great pleasures of life, as one passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing its value. Mrs. Norton. sider what duty children have to him. them 2 CHILDHOOD. Childhood is the sleep of reason. Rowsseaw. Childhood's days will return no more. Gironi. Childhood shows the man as morning shows the day. Milton. The golden age of life does not commence in childhood. J. Payn. The scenes of childhood are the memories of fu- ture years. - J. O. Chowles. That is but half a childhood which lacks a fath- er's love and care. Grace Greenwood. We could never have loved the earth if we had had no childhood in it. George Eliot. Where a virtuous and a godly childhood goeth before, there a godly and virtuous age follows after. Bishop J. Jewell. It is interesting to visit the head-spring or source of a great river ; in like manner it is instructive to study the childhood of a great man. Kidder. All minds, even the dullest, remember the days of their childhood ; but all cannot bring back the indescribable brightness of that blessed season. Washington Irving. Is the world all grown up 2 Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best Some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments 2 C. Lamb. A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other! D. Jerrold. CHILDREN. Love God and little children. Gilprazer. Thales. Children are what they are made. John Collet. Children are an uncertain good. Children are the to-morrow of society. Whately. A good man gives not away his children. Oji. Children of the same parents do not always agree. Wolof. Children have much more need of models than of critics. Jowbert. Through our children we may know once more a worthy and happy love. Mrs. Mary A. Denison. “I have children l’’ is a reflection that saves many a man's heart from despair. Mrs. P. Cudlip. Children | Happy is he who has them It is na- ture's law, and who can gainsay it? B. L. Farjeon. Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children. Mrs. Oliphant. As a father hath natural love to his children, con- James I. Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with Epictetus. : : . 3. : 100 Z) A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. CHILDREN. CHIVALRY. Be ever gentle with the children God has given Love chivalry. Arnaud. º h h tantly : 'ove th --- you ; watch over them constantly ; º Chivalry achieves noble feats. G. P. R. James. earnestly, but not in anger. If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. J. Higginson. We ought to give good examples to our children, because if they see no uncomeliness, they shall be forced to follow goodness and virtue. Xenophon. Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive your slightest defects ; in general, those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. Fémélom. Children are the flowers of the invisible world ; indestructible, self-perpetuating flowers, with each a multitude of angels and evil spirits underneath its leaves, toiling and wrestling for dominion over it, I J. Neal. Oh how precious to me have been the prattlings of little children, and those subtle questions and still subtler replies that I have heard coming from their spotless lips, and have listened to as to oracu- lar breathings. Rev. G. Gilfillam. The plays of natural lively children are the in- fancy of art ; children live in a world of imagina- tion and feeling ; they invest the most insignificant object with any form they please, and see in it whatever they wish to see. Oehlenschläger. Children, in too many instances, are treated as incumbrances, or worse; and the neglect in which they are brought up, renders it almost impossible for them, when they grow older, to know anything properly of moral or social duties. D. Hartley. I am fond of children ; I think them the poetry of the world, the fresh flowers of our hearths and homes; little conjurers, with their “natural magic,” evoking by their spells what delights and enriches all ranks, and equalizes the different classes of so- ciety. Rev. T. Binney. Children always conform to the natural impulse of self-love, until they learn from the discipline which is applied to them, that they cannot have their own will without subjecting themselves to a suffering, the dread of which controls the natural impulse. W. Chambers. It always grieves me to contemplate the initia- tion of children into the ways of life, when they are scarcely more than infants; it checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of en- tering into our enjoyments. Dickens. God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race—to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of kindly sympathies and affections ; to give our souls higher aims, and to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion ; to bring around our fireside bright faces and happy Smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the Great Father every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children. Mary Howitt. Chivalry is the essence of virtue. Lord J. Russell. A. Delvam. Chivalry destroys the enemies of Christ. Folquet. Chivalry was the parent of honor. God and chivalry concord well together. - - Richard I. The Spirit of chivalry has not entirely died out, in this prosaic age. 4. Cecelia Findlay. It is a maxim in chivalry that he who ordains a knight must himself be virtuous. Mills. The age of chivalry has gone, and one of calcu. lators and economists has succeeded. Burke. In the times of chivalry, a knight must have proved his prowess before he could successfully as- pire to the hand of his lady-love. Mrs. Southworth. Our romances of chivalry flattered the desire of pleasing, and communicated that spirit of gallan- try which we may affirm was very little known to the ancients. Montesquiew. Chivalry delighted in outward show, favored pleasure, multiplied amusement, and degraded the human race by an exclusive respect for the privi- leged classes. G. Bancroft. Chivalry consists in a passion for arms, in a spi- rit for enterprise, in the honor of knighthood, in rewards of valor, in eagerness to run to the succor of the distressed, and in redressing wrongs and re- moving grievances. Vertot d’Aubeuf. The true spirit of chivalry is a generous impa- tience of wrong, an active sympathy with the op- pressed, an unquenchable fury against the oppres- sor, a general protection of the weak against the guilty and the powerful, with a little tinge of absur- dity and a small spice of extravagance. Chatfield. CHOICE. Secure a choice where you can. Daniel Drew. Where there is force there is no choice. N. Grew. It is only the superior man who can make a right choice. Confucius. The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen. C. Lamb. If the eye be the chooser, the delight is short ; if the will, the end is want ; if reason, the effect is Tea,SOI!. Theopompus. There's no liberty like the freedom of having our own choice, whether we will live to the world, or to ourselves. L’Estrange. He that chooseth an apple by the skin, and a man by his face, may be deceived in the one, and over- shot in the other. N. Lynge. Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take to be so is in our power, that we might have refused it. If the fire consume the stable, it chos- eth not so to do, because the nature thereof is such that it can do no other. R. Hooker. * , s: e e 2. ºº e < * *** * * & º (; e © gº * @ e o & • *, * O to _ _ sº © º º © e G P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 101 ſº-- God. gods. apostle. CHRIST. Christ is my joy. Thomas Rwtherforth. Christ is our hope. Jarmam. Christ is our leader. Christ is Our ranSOm. Christ is our captain. Christ is my strength. Tankerfield. Christ is our advocate. J. Overall. Christ is our mediator. Queen Elizabeth. Christ is the rock of life. Jovinian. Christ was a human god. Make Christ your all in all. Christ is our only physician. Christ is the rock of salvation. We shall meet Christ in glory. Christ is the shepherd of Souls. Christ is the physician of Souls. Eutychiws. Christ is the ruler of the world. Melancthom. Christ is truly the bread of life. John Owen. Victory cometh through Christ. Giles Fletcher. Christ is a faithful recompenser. R. Hilles. Christ is my hope of eternal life. Tait. Christ is the fountain of wisdom. Mosellanus. Our redemption is through Christ. G. Cassander. Through Christ cometh Salvation. Farellºws. To worship Christ is not our duty. F. Davidis. Christ is God manifest in the flesh. R. Ximenes. Christ took our sorrows on himself. De Guérin. Christ is a prince over earthly kings. J. Renwick. Christ is ever present with his people. J. Ryland. Christ gave himself a ransom for all. Pascal. Christ removeth doubt from the Soul. Wesselws. Suffer death rather than deny Christ. J. Huss. Christ vanquisheth through his saints. Frith. Christ is nigh to all that call upon him. R. Cecil. Christ is our resurrection to eternal life. Curoews. None can destroy the kingdom of Christ. Chober. Christ is co-eval with the co-eternal years of R. Abbey. Let the name of Christ be placed among the Emperor Tiberius. Christ, the son of Mary, is no more than an Mahomet. Thomas Sampson. John Wycliffe. Lawrence Humphrey. Miss E. S. Phelps. W. Romaine. Richard Coaº. Saint Martin. Lord Otto. Bishop Horne. CHRIST. Christ is the quickening spirit of Christian hu- manity. Rev. Camom, Liddon. Keep close to Christ ; none shall pluck you out of his hand. Moody. Christ instituted a new passover in remembrance of his death. R. Gooch. The redemption of Christ is sufficient for the whole world. Rev. Basil Woodd. The whole world is but dross in comparison with the excellency of Christ. Rollock. We can do nothing without Christ ; but He can do all things without us. Raoul Pictet. Honor is due to Christ alone, and cannot belong to any other human being. Bishop J. Jewell. All excellencies that are in creatures are emi- nently to be found in Christ. D. Clarkson. Christ is a prince ; so he is styled, born, and given to establish a government. Andrews. Christ is a king ; he reigns in his church, and rules in the heart of every believer. M. Nicholson. The story of Christ is the last, grandest, fullest utterance of the Divine mind and will. Calthorp. Consider Christ attentively, and thou wilt dis- cern in his person both a God and a man. Du Bose. Christ rules in heaven by his power, in the church by his grace, in hell by his justice. Leigh. If Christ be Jesus—if Jesus be God—all rever- ence, exterior as well as interior, is too little for Him. Sir E. Dering. Christ is God manifest ; he is the Word—God heard ; he is the Light—God seen ; he is the Life— God felt. Wolfe. If the life and death of Socrates are those of a philosopher, the life and death of Christ are those of a God. Rousseaw. The death of Christ was a perfect sacrifice once offered in opposition to the Old Testament animal sacrifices. Dr. Ebrard. The cause of Christ has always had many ad- versaries, and the best persons are always worst spoken of. E. Worcester. The Gospel not only represents the doctrine of Christ to be believed, but also the life of Christ to be followed. Dr. Worthington. We know a little of Christ our Savior, but, oh how small a portion have we seen of the fullness that is in him W. Symonton. If I win Christ, I am rich ; if I am found in Christ, I am safe ; if I know Christ, I am wise unto salvation. Bishop Trail. Christ hath not only the holiness of angels, the loveliness of saints, and the treasure of heaven, but also the fullness of the Godhead. Rev. J. Dyer. Fellowship with Christ, from which the spirit and the life of Christ pass into the soul, makes the believer a partaker in all that Christ Himself is. Dr. Ullman. I ()2 AX A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. CHRIST. If thou endurest wrong for Christ's sake, he is a revenger; if sorrow, he is a comforter; if sickness, he is a physician ; if loss, he is a restorer; if life, he is a reviver. Tertulliam. At the birth of Christ there was a universal peace through all the world; for he that was born was the Prince of Peace, and came to reconcile God with man, and man with his brother. Dr. Pise. Unless Christ be learned spiritually and really, divines shall speak of the Word of God as men speak of riddles, and as priests in former times said matins when they hardly knew what they were saying. William Perkins. The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit ; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfacto- rily explained. Napoleon I. The revealed Christ is the mediator in the Order of nature, and in the Ordination of grace. God, by the mediation of Christ, unites Himself with our earthly and imperfect nature, and by faith the soul is transformed from a lower to a celestial species. Walker. All the excellencies that are in the creatures are eminently to be found in Christ ; nay, they are to be found in Him in a more excellent manner— perfectly, without any shadow of imperfection ; infinitely, without any bounds or limits ; un- changeably and eternally, they ebb not, they wane not, they alter not, they decay not. Clarkson. Unlike all other founders of religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of nominance ; and his system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, inexpressibly pure, and—most marvelous of all—went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny. W. Howitt. The death of Christ is a great mystery, but his birth is even a greater ; that he should live a hu- man life at all, is stranger than that, so living, he should die a human death. I can scarce get past his cradle in my wondering, to wonder at his cross. The infant Jesus is, in some views, a greater mar- vel than Jesus with the purple robe and the crown of thorns. Rev. A. Crichtom. Christ is a rare jewel, but men know not his value ; a sun which ever shines, but men perceive not his brightness, nor walkin his light ; he is a gar- den full of sweets, a hive full of honey, a sun with- out a spot, a star ever bright, a fountain ever full, a brook which ever flows, a rose which ever blooms, a foundation which never yields, a guide who never errs, a friend who never forsakes, Balferm. Christ, is oftentimes divided ; at least, in preach- ers' minds. One, for example, makes his person everything, to the comparative exclusion of his work ; whilst another magnifies his work to the comparative neglect of his person. Again ; One makes the atoning blood everything, to the exclu- sion of the vicarious obedience ; whilst another overlays the blood by giving an exaggerated place to the obedience. John Baillie. CHRISTIAN. Christians are offensive to tyrants. Philpot. Christians are made, not born such. Tertullian. Christ is the leader of the Christians. Titus. A Christian is the highest style of man. Young. A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman. Hare. Every Christian is born great, because he is born for heaven. Massillon. Every true Christian is a gem in the crown of Jesus Christ. Johm, Dickson. If any person accuse a Christian unjustly, let him be punished. Tiberiws. Christians are men who perfectly serve God, and keep His law. Reynold Pecock. I could die 'like a Roman, but choose rather to die like a Christian. Marquis of Argyle. The Christians are a sort of men of a new and magical superstition. Swetomiws. We are afraid of being desperate Christians ! Oh, let us be desperate Powerscourt. It is not every one who looks like a Christian that lives like a Christian. W. Secker. The persons called Christians are a low, illiter- ate, unphilosophical set of men. Awrelius. As Christ died for us, so should every true Chris- tian be willing to die for his cause. D. Cargill. A Christian believes in Christ, and is not bound to observe ancient customs, or Jewish laws. Agricola. A sincere Christian is like a massive vessel of gold, that keeps its own shape and figure at all times, in all places, and in all companies. T. Brooks. If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty, the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury. Rowsseaw. Many there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion; but for their crimes the Gospel is in no wise answerable. G. S. Faber. A Christian on a fine day and amidst the glo- rious scenery of mature, often elevates his hopes respecting the enjoyment of a future state, by thinking—if this beautiful world be our prison, what shall our home be 2 Catherime Sinclair. The relations of Christians to each other are like the several flowers in a garden, that have upon each the dew of heaven, which, being shaken by the wind, they let fall the dew at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of one another. Bunyam. The people called Christians, who have their de- nomination from Christ, that was put to death as a criminal under Tiberius, by the procurator Pon- tius Pilate, are commissioned for destruction by the Emperor [Nero], not out of regard to the pub- lic welfare, but to gratify the cruelty of one man. * Tacitus. PA O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 103 CHRISTIANITY. Christianity exists. Macgregor. Christianity is not a device. Cardinal Wiseman. Let all embrace Christianity. Constantime. Christianity is a heavenly thing. Bishop Wilson. Christianity is Christ in the heart. Dr. Cwmming. Christianity is a harmless religion. Pliny. Christianity is the religion of fools. Lucian. Christianity repays by immortality. Bulwer. Christianity is as old as the creation. Tyndall. May we not have Christianity without Judaism 2 Prof. Baden Powell. Christianity is the highest perfection of human- ity. Dr. Johnson. It is the glory of Christianity that it stoops to the lowly. T. Tilton. All the duties of Christianity are comprised in that of charity. Rodriguez. Christianity controls the progress of nations and of the human race. Leonard Bacon. Christianity is the best faith, because it contain- eth nothing but goodness. Cublai Khan. What a solace must Christianity be to one who has a conviction of its truth ! Napoleon I. Christianity was the first religion which aimed at a universal, permanent, moral conquest. Milman. Christianity has been more widely disseminated over the face of the earth than any other religion, true or false. P. W. Grayson. Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts—the cradle of its infancy and the divine source of its claims. De Tocqueville. Christianity, which is always true to the heart, knows no abstract virtues, but virtues resulting from our wants, and useful to all. Chateawbriand. The moral nature of man can be permanently raised and transformed by nothing short of the benignant influence of Christianity. Alonzo Potter. I do not want the walls of separation between different orders of Christianity to be destroyed, but only lowered that we may shake hands a little easier Over them. R. Hill. Alas ! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and knaves and bigots at another ; by self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave If there was anything defective in the evidences of Christianity, it would be found out, not by the thoughtless sceptic, but by the anxious enquirer, who stakes his whole soul upon God's word. Evans. There is not a more effectual way to revive the true spirit of Christianity in the world than seri- ously to meditate on what we commonly call the four last things: death, judgment, heaven and hell. Colton. . Bishop Sherlock. CHFISTIANITY. What other science can even make a pretension to dethrone oppression, to abolish slavery, to ex- clude war, to extirpate fraud, to banish violence, to revive the withered blossoms of paradise ? Such are the pretensions and blessings of genuine Chris- tianity. Olinthus Gregory. The influence of Christianity has been very effi- cient toward the introduction of a better and more enlightened sense of right and justice; it taught the duty of benevolence to strangers, of humanity to the vanquished, of the obligation of good faith; of the sin of murder, revenge, and rapacity. Kent. Christianity, as it works in the heart, is mightier than it is when explained and enforced in a thou- Sand volumes. Christianity in books is like seed in the granary, dry and all but dead; it is not written, but living characters that are to convert the infi- del ; the life of good men, and not the library of theologues, is the converting power. Dr. Thomas. Over the external and physical world Christi- anity sheds a brilliant Sunshine, to which the natu- ral eye of man is blind ; it teaches us that the world's mountains have been hallowed by the foot- steps and the prayers of incarnate Deity; that the bosom of its troubled lakes have calmed at His bidding ; that its fruits have nourished His frame: that the sun veiled its face before His agony and death. |W. F. Huºndall. Christianity did not come from heaven to be the amusement of an idle hour, to be the food of mere imagination ; to be as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and playeth well upon an instrument. No 1 it is intended to be the guide, the guardian, the companion of all hours ; it is in- tended to be the food of our immortal spirits; it is intended to be the serious occupation of our whole existence. Bishop J. Jebb. CHRISTMAS. Forget not Christmas. Henry IV, of England. Hallow Christmas day. Farquharson. Christmas comes but once a year. T. Tusser. With Christmas comes merry-making. J. Poole. On Christmas-day we will shut out from our fire- side nothing. Charles Dickens. Christmas-day is the season of good cheer all the world over. Theodore S. Fay. On Christmas-day all should be welcomed with good cheer and true hospitality. John Stow. A regularly Orthodox jolly Christmas is sugges- tive of big fires, plum puddings, and family gath- erings. Alice Fisher. Christmas is a time of hospitality, of joy, and merriment to thousands whose wants are supplied : but often it is a time of anxiety and suffering to the poor. G. Mogridge. Christmas is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling—the season for kindling not merely the fire of hospitality in the hall, but the genial flame of charity in the heart. W. Irving. 104 AD A Y',S C O Z Z A C O AV. CHURCH. Love the church. The church is God's vineyard. H. Bullinger. Christ is the head of the church. Christ intercedes for the church. The church is the bride of Christ. T. Sampson. Charnock. E. Pearse. The church is always, and for all. St. Vincent. Eromote the welfare of the church. F. Mycomints. Jesus Christ is Lord of the church. W. Day. Christ is the sole head of the church. A. Macbeam. God will never forsake His church. R. Taylor. The church is the light of the world. Dr. Davies. He who loves the church enriches it. Siactus III. The church is an institution of Christ. A. Shields. Christ is the bridegroom of the church. Gaulter. The life of the church is her inward life. Garbett. The glory of the church is that of Christ. Lord. Christ is the head of the Christian church. Reynold Pecock. The gifts of poverty are the richest gifts to the church. Dr. J. Horris. The church was in the beginning a community of brethren. D'Awbigné. It belongs to the church to suffer blows, not to strike them. Be20. That is the best church, that does the best duty of a church. Cwmming. Christ came into the world to establish a church Or kingdom. Harbaugh. A church is the same thing as a commonwealth of Christians. T. Hobbes. The church was founded by the ministry and death of Christ. Mosheim. All men agree that Jesus Christ organized the Christian church. Sawyer. Christ laid the foundation of the outward struc- ture of the church. Neander. Christ is a king, and has a kingdom in the gov- ernment of his church. Lord Warriston. The way to preserve the peace of the church, is to preserve the purity of it. M. Henry. What is the church but the external association of religious people, as such 3 R. Abbey. Jesus is not the founder of a school, but the founder of a religion, and a church. Hagenbach. The government of the church introduced its priesthood, and ordained its sacraments. Seabwry. The church is the pillar and stable foundation of truth, because in it soundeth the voice of the Son of God. J. Philpot. Hawker. CHURCH. The directions given in Holy Writ, for the for- mation of the church in the time of the apostles, are to be applied in all ages. |William Hey. The coming of Christ in the clouds of heaven is the grand hope of the church—the mainspring of Christian watchfulness to the people of God. D. T. K. Drwmºmond. The church which Christ formed, and which the apostles more completely established, was, from its first beginning, an organized body of believers. Bishop Quintard. The Christian church was founded by bishops, because the apostles, who were bishops, were the first preachers of the gospel, and planters of the churches. Bishop Hobart. The church has a good stomach ; she has swal- lowed down whole countries, and has never known a surfeit ; the church alone can digest such ill-got- ten wealth. - - Goethe. The church of Christ, which is partly militant and partly triumphant, resembles a city built on both sides of a river; there is but the stream of death between grace and glory. A. M. Toplady. The church is a society of men on earth, united together by the profession of one and the self-same Christian faith, and the communion of the same sacraments, under the government of lawful pas- tors. Bellarmine. Under the name of church I understand a body or collection of human persons, professing faith in Christ, gathered together in several places of the world, for the worship of the same God, and united into the same corporation. J. Pearson. We believe that there is one church of God, catholic and universal, and dispersed throughout the whole world ; this church is the kingdom, the body, the spouse of Christ ; Christ alone is Prince of this kingdom, the head of this body, the Bride- groom of this spouse. Bishop J. Jewell. As we may say of a rock—nothing more quiet, because it is never stirred ; and yet nothing more unquiet, because it is ever assaulted—so we may say of the church—nothing more peaceable, because it is established upon a rock ; and yet nothing more unpeaceable, because that rock is in the midst of seas, winds, enemies, and persecutions. Reynolds. The church must grope her way into the alleys and courts and purlieus of the city, and up the bro- ken staircase, and into the bare room, and beside the loathsome sufferer ; she must go down into the pit with the miner, into the forecastle with the sailor, into the tent with the soldier, into the shop with the mechanic, into the factory with the op- erative, into the field with the farmer, into the counting-room with the merchant. Ilike the air, the church must press equally on all the Surfaces of society; like the sea, flow into every nook of the shore-line of humanity ; and like the Sun, shine on things foul and low as well as fair and high, for she was organized, commissioned, and equipped for the moral renovation of the whole world. Bishop Simpson. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7 / O M. S. CIRCUIMSTANCES. Circumstances alter cases. J. Clemens. Circumstances ! Why, I always make circum- stances. Napoleon I. What folly it is not to take advantage of cir- Cumstances. Sévigné. Men are dependent on circumstances, and not circumstances on men. Herodotus. It often happens that a man can not do as he would, if circumstances prevent it. Terence. Circumstances are the rulers of the weak: they are but the instruments of the wise. S. Love”. Men are the sport of circumstances, when the circumstances seem the sport of men. Byron. Common-sense is governed by circumstances, but circumstances are governed by genius. H. W. Shaw. Men's plans ought to be regulated by circum- stances, not circumstances by their plans. Livy. Circumstances form the character ; but like pet- rifying matters, they harden while they form. Miss L. E. Landom. Such as yield to circumstances appear to super- ficial observers to want dignity, consistency, and integrity. W. H. Channing. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. Hume. We often think ourselves to be something, which we are only from circumstances, for should they change we feel ourselves to be nothing. G. Forster. Man has it in his power to modify the circum- stances in which he lives, with a view to the pro- motion of his organic well-being and preservation. - R. Chambers. It is our relation to circumstances that deter- mines their influence upon us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port, may blow another off shore. Bovee. The circumstances in which you are placed, as members of a free and intelligent community, de- mand of you a careful improvement of the means of knowledge you enjoy. Rev. J. Hawes. How truly are we the dupes of show and cir- cumstances ! How different is virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing obscurely in a wilder- ness | W. Irving. There are moments in life in which circumstances, like winged shuttles, move backward and forward before us, and ceaselessly finish the web, which we ourselves, more or less, have spun and put upon the loom. Goethe. Some men, by the union of great abilities and favorable circumstances, have succeeded in making themselves not only distinguished, but have become the representatives of some abstract principle or quality which is held in great estimation among mankind. Acton. * CIRCUIMISTANCES. Men are not altered by their circumstances, but as they give them opportunities of exerting what they are in themselves ; and a powerful clown is a tyrant in the most ugly form he can possibly ap- pear. Steele. If a letter were to be addressed to this most in- fluential word, circumstances, concluding thus—“I am, sir, your very obedient humble servant,” the greater part of the world might subscribe it, with- out deviating from the strictest veracity. Chatfield. Circumstances make men ; had there been no revolution, in all probability the names of Wash- ington, Jefferson, Hancock, Adams, and many others, would never have been heard of beyond their native province, or survived the generation in which they lived. J. W. French. It is a painful fact, but there is no denying it, the mass are the tools of circumstance ; thistle-down on the breeze, straw on the river, their course is shaped for them by the currents and eddies of the stream of life ; but only in proportion as they are things, not men and women. Man was meant to be not the slave, but the master, of circumstance ; and in proportion as he recovers his humanity, in every sense of that great obsolete word—in propor- tion as he gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty to an idea beyond himself, a God above himself—so far will he rise above circumstances, and wield them at his will. Rev. C. Kingsley. CITIZEN. A citizen should be an honest man. Aristippus. Citizens are the best walls of a free city. Lycurgus. Every citizen is king under a citizen king. Favart. A city is ruined when it cannot distinguish be- tween good and bad citizens. Amtisthemes. The truest definition of a complete citizen that can be given is probably this—that he shares in the judicial and executive part of the government. Aristotle. A citizen is under moral obligation to contribute his proportion to every effort which affords a rea- sonable prospect of rendering his fellow-citizens wiser and better. |Wayland. The aid of a good citizen is never without a bene- ficial effect ; for he assists by everything he does, by listening, by looking on, by his presence, by his nod of approbation, even by obstinate silence, and by his very walk. Seneca. A citizen ought to live on terms of equality with his fellow citizens, neither cringing nor Sub- servient, nor haughty nor insolent ; he ought to be favorable to measures in the state which lead to peace and quietness, for such we consider to be the character of a virtuous and upright citizen. Cicero. There are two qualities which ought always to distinguish a virtuous citizen ; he ought, in the high offices of state, to maintain the honor and pre-emi- nence of his country, and in all times and circum- stancesto show kindly feelings; these are dependent upon mature, but abilities and success are the gifts of another power. Demosthenes. 106 D A Y's co Z / A co A. CITY. Cities are the sinks of the human race. RowsSeaw. What a constant uproar there is in a city E. B. Foote. If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. - Colton. Great cities are but a large sort of prison to the soul, like cages to birds. • P. Charrom. It is not stones of a city well built in, but brave men that are the bulwark of a city. Alcocws. Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. R. W. Emerson. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civiliza- tion, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark. T. Parke?". It is only a free city that is strong ; for it is only in a free city that the mass of the people can be armed. W. S. Landor. I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, contract not only an effeminacy of habit but of thinking. Goldsmith. There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city ; SO many thou- sands of men and not one friend. Boiste. The number of objects we see from living in a large city, amuses the mind like a perpetual raree- show, without supplying it with any ideas. Hazlitt. No greater good can befall a city than when several educated men, thinking in the same way as to what is good and right, live together in it. Goethe. If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits, and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities - Bruyère. The city is an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues ; it contains the products of every moral zone ; it is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but in a spiritual sense. A. B. Chapin. I bless God for cities ; cities have been as lamps of life along the pathway of humanity and religion ; behind their walls freedom has fought her noblest battles; they have stood on the surface of the earth like great breakwaters, rolling back or turn- ing aside the swelling tide of oppression. Cities, indeed, have always been the cradles of human liberty . Dr. Gºwthrie. Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments, in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the wor- ship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the mer- chant rising to his Mammon matins with the self- denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he may be beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers. Ruskin. them. CITY. There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities, that one part of the inhabi- tants live to little other purpose than to wonder at the rest. Some have hopes and fears, wishes and aversions, which never enter into the thoughts of others; and inquiry is laboriously exerted to gain that which those who possess it are ready to throw away. Dr. Johnson. The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned ; but there is connected with the business of the city so much competition, so much rivalry, so muchne- cessity for industry, that I think it is a perpetual, chronic, wholesale violation of natural law. There are ten men that can succeed in the country, where there is one that can succeed in the city. Beecher. The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization—the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre- eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell. Bulwer. CIVILITY. Civility costs nothing, and is worth everything. Lady Mary W. Montague. Proud looks lose hearts ; but civil words win Ferdimand. Civility is a desire to receive civility, and to be accounted well-bred. Rochefoucauld. Incivility is the extreme of pride ; it is built on the contempt of mankind. Zimmerman. Civility makes a man of property seem worthy of his fortune, and a man of poverty deserving of a better. N. Macdonald. The general principles of urbanity, politeness, or civility, have been the same in all nations; but the mode in which they are dressed is continually va- rying. Sir J. Reynolds. Something is due to courtesy at all times and in all places, but the obligation of civility is doubly binding where it has been taught as a part of good- breeding. Bovee. Civility, intended to make us easy, is employed in laying chains and fetters upon us, in debarring us of our wishes, and in Crossing Our most reason- able desires. J. Swift. The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possi- ble, more shocking than his rudeness could be : because he shows you by his manner that he thinks it mere condescension in him; and that his goodness alone bestows upon you what you have no pretence to claim. Chesterfield. I hate nothing so much as the grimaces of those who make great protestations of friendship, and squeeze you with hypocritical warmth, tickle your ears with obliging words, who are overwhelming you with civility, but treat in the same way the man of sense and the silly coxcomb. Molière. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. CIVILIZATION. Civilization is a blessing. John Hall. Civilization is a constant warfare against mature. G. P. Marsh. The ultimate tendency of civilization is toward barbarism. J. C. Hare. Civilization is man's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. Chatfield. The natural progress of civilization, by refining the organization, abridges the period of slumber imperceptibly, century by century. F. G. Fairfield. The most civilized people are as near to barba- rism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. Pivarol. It so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness as the difficulties, the privations, and sterilities of the lowest. Colton. Civilization fosters the growth of the passions in its very repression of them. Therefore, different customs, different attire, and stronger restraints must be adopted as civilization culminates. H. Glyndon. | Such is the diligence with which, in countries completely civilized, one part of mankind labor for another, that wants are supplied faster than they can be formed, and the idle and luxurious find life stagnate for want of some desire to keep it in mo- tion. Dr. Johnson. Civilization is a kind of Ocean that constitutes the wealth of a people, and in whose bosom all the elements of a people's life, all the forces of their existence, meet and unite ; wherever civilization is recognized, we are tempted to forget the price it has cost. Gwizot. CLEANLINESS. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. J. Wesley. Cleanliness is to some a virtue, to some a neces- sity, to others a luxury. Mrs. A. M. Winchester. In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself. Joubert. So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth ; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously attentive to clean- mess who was a consummate villain. B. Rumford. Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied ; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look On it with more pleasure than on a new vessel can- kered with rust. Addison. Cleanliness has a powerful influence on the health and preservation of the body. Cleanliness, as well in our garments as in our dwellings, prevents the pernicious effects of bad smells and contagious va- pors; cleanliness keeps up a free perspiration, re- news the air, refreshes the blood, and even animates and enlivens the mind. W. Aspinwall. CLEMENCY. Clemency is ruined by anger. Al-Kirriya. Clemency is a kingdom's best preserver. Marcus Awrelius. Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. - Corneille. Clemency alone maketh man equal with the gods. Clawdian. Clemency becomes no one more than a king or prince. Seneca. Good men are won by justice, and the bad by clemency. Alphonsus, King of Naples. Clemency is no less arbitrary than the veriest despotism. s E. P. Day. There is no virtue that sets forth a prince more than clemency. Umbreit. Clemency is the brightest jewel a monarch can wear in his crown. Charles V. of France. Clemency is often more useful to the conqueror than the conquered. Cyrus the Great. Clemency for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not. Rivarol. Nothing is more worthy of a great and brave man, than clemency and readiness to be pacified. J. Mair. No music is so sweet to my ears as the request of a companion-in-arms to exercise clemency toward any of his friends. Julius Coesar. Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more Suited to a great and illustrious man than placa- bility and clemency. Cicero. The true notion of clemency is mercy, compas- sion, good-nature, humanity, Or whatever else it may be called, so far as is consistent with wisdom. Addison. Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture Of all three. Rochefoucauld. Clemency is not only the privilege, the honor, and the duty of a prince, but it is also his security, and better than all his garrisons, forts, and guards, to preserve himself and his dominions in safety. L. M. Stretch. Q Clemency is most proper for a principality, Se- verity for a republic ; but moderation in both ; excess in the one breeds contempt, in the other hatred ; when to sharpen the first, and when to sweeten the last, let time and occasion direct thy judgment. F. Quarles. Our forefathers and ancestors on the winning of a battle preferred, as a memorial of their triumphs and victories, to erect trophies and monuments in the hearts of the vanquished by clemency, rather than by buildings in the lands which they had con- quered ; for they esteemed of more value the lively remembrance of men fixed by liberality, than the dumb inscription of arches, pillars, and pyramids, subject to the injury of storms, and to the envy of every one. Rabelais. 108 AX A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. CLERGY. CLOCK. The true clergyman is a reflex of his Master. A clock serves to point out the hours. Fontenelle. André Dacier. The clergy are the lot and portion of the Lord, or the Lord is their lot. St. Jerome. Clergymen consider this world only as a dili- gence, in which they can travel to another. - Napoleon I. That country where the clergy have the most influence, and use it with the most moderation, is England. Colton. It seems to be in the power of a reasonable cler- gyman to make the most ignorant man compre- hend his duty. Swift. A clergyman should be a very philosophic man, of general learning, great sanctity of life, and the most exact good-breeding. Steele. There is nothing noble in a clergyman, but burn- ing zeal for the salvation of souls ; nor anything poor in his profession but idleness and worldly spirit. Law. We hold that God’s clergy are a state which hath been, and will be as long as there is a church upon earth, necessary, by the plain word of God himself: a state whereunto the rest of God's people must be Subject as touching things that appertain to their soul's health. R. Hooker. That which makes the clergy glorious, is to be knowing in their profession, unspotted in their lives, active and laborious in their charges, bold and resolute in opposing seducers, and daring to look vice in the face, though ever so potent and illustrious ; and lastly, to be gentle, courteous, and Compassionate to all. Sowth. CLIMATE. The happiest climate does not produce all things. J. Anderson. There may be as much courage in hot climates as in cold. - W. S. Landor. The institutions of a country, in great measure, depend upon the nature of its soil and climate. J. Möser. It cannot be doubted that the climate of a coun- try has a great effect in producing those differences of mind, manners, and temper which exist among the inhabitants. -- Plutarch. Men are very much in dispositions and feelings according to the nature of the climate of the coun- try which they inhabit ; nor can we attribute it to any other reason that we find so vast a difference in features, complexion, and customs. Polybius, You will find in northern climates people who have few vices, many virtues, much sincerity and frankness. Approach southern countries, you will think that you are removed altogether from mo- rality; strong passions will multiply crimes; every One will try to take over others all the advantages which may favor their passions. In temperate regions you will see people changeable in their manners, even in their vices and virtues ; the cli- mate has not a quality firm enough to fix even these. Montesquiew. He who disputes an oracle so popular as the par- ish clock, is suspected of heresy. J. H. Hottinger. Clocks Sound the march of generations; a time to be born, as well as a time to die. Talmage. If a man be in sickness or pain, the time will seem longer without a clock or an hour-glass than with it. Lord Bacon. Clocks are pieces of mechanism invented by the ingenuity of man to denote life's passing hours; but, unfortunately, like him they falter and stop, and have the same weaknesses and uncertainties as their inventor. James Ellis. Gravest of moralists, loudest of preachers, most inflexible, the most equitable of despots, the clock resides in a lofty place ; he reigns Supreme over his own church and people ; he is sole defender of the parish faith ; he is a just, yet a patermal king. Arethusa. CLOUID. There is a silver lining to every cloud. Carron. For every cloud there are two warm rays of Sun- Shine. J. Brooks. No cloud can overshadow a true Christian, but his faith will discern a rainbow in it. Horne. Clouds which conceal from us the beauty of the sky, are the sources of beneficent rains, which ren- der the earth fruitful. Sturm. Looking at the clouds merely as aqueducts, we miss the chief part of their beautiful ministry, which is to fill the sky with the idea of life. L. Grimdom. Clouds, those airy argosies sailing over the ocean of heaven's blue, and manned by crews of loving angels, come to us richly freighted with blessings from our Heavenly Father. Annie E. Lancaster. Castles in the air, battlements in mid-heaven, tumbled ruins of great cities, upheaved rocks and mountains, illimitable coast-lines, profiles of human faces—all these, and a thousand more pictured glo- ries, one sees in the clouds. T. Tiltom. Dark clouds sometimes shut out the blue empy- rean vault of heaven from our view, yet the sun still shines beyond ; so with our lives, the dark clouds of misfortune and sorrow may darken our path, yet far beyond there still exists for us the everlasting light of immortality. James Ellis. The clouds are the pitcher with which, like a gardener, Thou waterest the sultry globe in times of drought. They are the pipes by which Thou conductest moisture into the firmament, and thence causest it to descend in rain, and bless the earth ; they are great curtains, which at Thy good plea- sure, Thou drawest as a covering over the plants, that they may not be withered and destroyed by the continuance of the heat ; they are the arsenal in which Thou keepest Thine artillery of thunder and lightning, in order, at set times, to strike the chil- dren of men with reverential awe, Or inflict upon them some great punishment. Gotthold. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 109 COLLEGEE. COMEDY. A college air pursues the student. Lavater. Comedy drives dull care away. G. Colman. What is a college, but a monopoly of effete learning ? E. S. Manning. A college education shows a man how little other people know. Haliburton. A student's life in college usually foreshadows his future career. John, Norton. There are no colleges for girls; would there were none for boys. Rowsseaw. It is a noble season of opportunities for a young man while he is at college. Bengel. Men close the door of colleges against the women who help to build and endow them. Are they nurseries of thought or sex Z Mrs. C. H. Nichols. A college is an institution where young men are apt to learn every thing but that which professes to be taught, although that which professes to be taught falls very short of what a modern gentle- man ought to learn. H. Smith. COLLISION. Welcome collision, for bayonets think. Kosswth. The collisions we meet with in active life, reveal to us how difficult is active goodness. H. Vaugham. Sparks of truth are forced out of contention, as sparks of fire out of the collision of the flint and steel. Hakewell. Collision is as necessary to produce virtue in men, as it is to elicit fire in inanimate matter ; and chivalry is the essence of virtue. Lord J. Russell. Collisions are not always disastrous ; for were it not for the collision of men's thoughts, know- ledge would have made no progress, and Science would now be unknown. Henry Morley. COLOR. - - Color is entangled sunlight. Lowisa S. Costello. Color is the life of a portrait. G. Amiconi. In choosing colors, follow nature. Caravaggio. Color is an attribute of substance ; its richness depends on the substances it adorns. G. W. Samson. The power of drawing, modelling, and using colors is very properly called the language of the art. Sir J. Reynolds. It is a seeming color which mocks our eyes; for the sky in reality has no color; the heaven with this azure fiction tells a falsehood. Calderon. Of all natural appearances, the coloring of the human face is the most exquisite ; it is the strong- est instance of the ineffable art of nature in adapt- ing and proportioning its colors to the magnitude, figure, and position of the parts. Kames. Color is the type of love, and is especially con- nected with the blossoming of the earth, with its fruits, with the spring and fall of the year, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man. Ruskin. Death is jealous of a good comedy. Whitehead. A comedy is the wine-table of the mind. Taylor. A comedian is a genial public instructor. Shaw. The wittiest person in a comedy is he who plays the fool. Cervantes. Comedy is a representation of common life, in low subjects. Dryden. True comedy is when the writer understands, and the actor comprehends, the subject and scope of the play. G. Langbaine. A comedy is like a cigar ; if good, every one wants a box ; if bad, no amount of puffing will make it draw. - H. J. Byron. It is not so difficult to fill a comedy with good repartee as might be as first imagined, if we con- sider how completely both parties are in the power of the author. Colton. Comedy should be mere common life, and not one jot bigger; every character should speak upon the stage, not only what it would utter in the situa- tion there represented, but in the same manner in which it would express it. Chesterfield. Comedy is an imitation of the worst of men ; when I say worst, I do not mean in all sorts of vices, but only in the ridiculous, which are pro- perly deformities without pain, and which never contribute to the destruction of the subject in which they exist. Aristotle. In the name of art as well as in the name of vir- tue, we protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters. If comedy be an imitation of real life, how can it have no reference to the great rule which directs life, and to feelings which are called forth by every incident of life 2 Macawlay. The pleasure that pertains to comedy lies in laughter, that of tragedy in tears ; but the honor of the poet requires that the laughter he excites be agreeable, and the tears comely ; in other words, tragedy and comedy should make us laugh and weep decently. What forces our laughter and wrests our tears is not praiseworthy. Joubert. COMBINATION. Combination will resist oppression. Inchiquin. God planned all perfect combinations. Brainard. Combinations of men are distasteful to tyrants. Hemsterhwys. Unite ; for combination is stronger than witch- craft. - Towssaint l’Owvertwre. Combinations of workingmen may command higher wages, but at the same time they make bad workmen. |Watteville. Combinations of men do not always indicate strength ; for men more often combine for pur- poses that are dishonest, and dishonesty is not only weakness but rottenness. G. Nazianzen. II () A) A V 'S CO Z Z A C O AV. COMET. A comet is a visible nothing. Prof. Babinet. A comet is an irregular planet. Halley. A. comet is a forerunner of war. Tibullws. Comets are blazing stars, of hairy appearance, and dreadful to be seen. Pliny. Comets are regarded with dread, not merely by the ignorant, but also by a large portion of the peo- ple. G. B. Ide. The luminous part of a comet is something in the nature of a smoke, fog, or cloud, suspended in a transparent atmosphere. Sir J. Herschel. In former times comets were regarded with ter- ror and apprehension, naturally excited by har- bingers of indefinite and unavoidable calamity, be- tokening the displeasure of God. Galloway. Who can contemplate without astonishment the motion of a comet, running far beyond the orb of Saturn, endeavoring to escape into the pathless regions of unbounded space, yet feeling at its ut- most distance the attractive influence of the sun ; hearing, as it were, the voice of God arresting its progress and compelling it, after a lapse of ages, to reiterate its ancient course? Bishop Watson. COMFORT. Comfort is the liberty of the Soul. Plato. The multiplying of comfort is the assuaging of Ca.I’êS. Solom. Give me the comforts of God, and I can well bear the taunts of men. C. H. Spurgeon. Of all the created comforts, God is the lender ; you are the borrower, not the owner. Rutherford. In the exhaustless catalogue of Heaven's mercies to mankind, the power of finding Some germs of comfort in the hardest trials must ever occupy the foremost place. Dickens. If you take the comforts of this life in your hands, and lay them too near your hearts in affec- tion and love to them, they will quickly melt and vanish away from you. T. Brooks. The comforts we enjoy here below are not like the anchor in the bottom of the sea that holds fast in a storm, but like the flag upon the top of the mast that turns with every wind. C. Love. COMMAND. Serve well, if you would command. J. Tobin. He commands enough that obeys a wise man. - W. Tytler. He that commands well, shall be well obeyed. William of Newbury. There is nothing SO sweet as to command and be obeyed. Cervantes. They who command the most, enjoy themselves the least. Clement Walker. A command of gall cannot be obeyed like one of Sugar. A man must require just and reasonable things, if he would see the scales of obedience pro- perly trimmed. Basil. COMMANDMENTS. Obey the commandments of God. Salviam. The commandments are the laws of God. Boys. Enow God's holy laws, and obey all his com- mandments. William de la Pole. The Commandments were “written by the fin- ger of God.” Rev. A. P. Stanley. The law can shoot a great way ; have a care then to keep out of the reach of those great guns— the ten commandments. Bwnyan. We see four characteristics of these wonderful commandments: first, their universality ; second- ly, their simplicity ; thirdly, their practicalness; and fourthly, their spirituality. Dr. Crosby. The commandments are a fence from evil—no- thing else ; I challenge the world to put its finger on any one of these Ten Commandments, which is not meant and calculated to keep us from harm- ing ourselves or hurting others. Dr. Gºwthrie, COMMENDATION. Commend things that are honest. H. Allon. With commendation only, honor may starve. - Jww.enal. Commendations make the labor light, the wit studious, and the hope rich. A. ab Avendomo. To give commendation to noble actions is, in some measure, making them our own. Rochefoucauld. The good, when praised, feel something of dis- gust, if the commendation be to excess. Euripides. Commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and he will receive you into his bosom. Fielding. There is one way in which we may always com- mend ourselves to good effect, and that is in Com- mending the merits of others. H. Hooker. It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's ex- pectations of them too high by undue and imper- tinent commendations. Sprat. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so ; it is this which distinguishes the appro- bation of a man of sense from the flattery of syco- phants and admiration of fools. Steele. COMMENTATOER. All commentary is a question of taste. Colet. Purity is the most perfect commentator, and experience the deepest expositor in the things of God. R. Montgomery. The commentator's professed object is to explain, to illustrate, to enforce the doctrines claimed as true. Prof. Whewell. Commentators are excellent, in general, where there are but few difficulties, but they leave the harder knots still untied. R. Cecil. Our real commentators are our strongest traits of character ; and we usually come out of the Bible with all those texts sticking to us which our idio- syncrasies attract. H. W. Beecher. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. I 11 COMMER.C.E. Commerce is king. Cassius M. Clay. Establish commerce. John Hancock. Let commerce make its own bed. Nottingham. Commerce adds to national renown. J. Anderson. Commerce has made all winds her mistress. J. Sterling. Commerce and industry are the best mines of a nation. Washington. A statesman may do much for commerce by leaving it alone. W. H. Russell. Commerce is the great combiner of all the ac- tivities of the world. Carl Ritter". Upon the extent of the commerce of a country, depends much of the character of its morals. Harriet Martimeau. Commerce, so beneficial in itself, is, notwith- standing, a near neighbor not only to fraud on the one hand, but to violence on the other. Gladstome. A well-regulated commerce is not, like law, phy- sic, or divinity, to be over-stocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors. Addison. Commerce supplies the wants of one country by importing the riches of another, and gives a value to superfluities which they could not otherwise obtain ; it increases the revenue of a people. Kett. In observing the advance of commerce, we shall find that in its first stages it supplies mutual necessities, prevents mutual wants, extends mu- tual knowledge, eradicates mutual prejudice, and spreads mutual humanity. Dr. J. Brown. Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices, which maintain distinction and animosity between nations ; it softens and polishes the manners of men ; it unites them by one of the strongest of all ties—the desire of supplying their mutual wants. F. W. Robertson. One of the greatest benefits which foreign com- merce confers, and the reason why it has always appeared an almost necessary ingredient in the progress of wealth, is its tendency to inspire new wants, to form new tastes, and to furnish fresh motives for industry. T. R. Malthus. Commerce, however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother; she chooses her residence where she is least ex- pected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, to all appearance, most firmly settled. Johnsom. Commerce is a cure for the most destructive pre- judices ; for it is almost a general rule that where- ever we find agreeable manners, there commerce flourishes ; and wherever there is commerce, there we meet with agreeable manners. Commerce has everywhere diffused a knowledge of the manners of all nations; these are compared one with an- Other, and from this comparison arise the greatest advantages. Montesqview. loss for readier change. COMMON-SENSE. Common-sense is of itself an income. G. Webbe. Common-sense is a rare commodity. E. Moore. Common-sense is the growth of all lands. M'All. Common-sense is as valuable as it is rare. M. P. Wilder. Common-sense is nature's gift, but reason is an art, Beattie. Common-sense is the best indication of a sound mind. Dr. Cheyne. Common-sense is genius dressed in its working- clothes. Bºmerson. Good common-sense is worth more than bank- notes or lands. Amos Lawrence. Common-sense cannot enable men to judge where the experience of common life cannot be well ap- plied. Drummond. Common-sense is the average sensibility and in- telligence of men undisturbed by individual pecu- liarities. W. R. Alger. Common-sense has given to words their ordinary signification, and common-sense is the genius of mankind. Gwizot. Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common-sense is contented to be right with- out them. Colton. Common-sense is that degree of judgment which is commonly possessed by men with whom we con- verse and transact business. Dr. Reid. Common-sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men. W. Fleming. Common-sense is only a modification of talent ; genius is an exultation of it ; the difference is, therefore, in the degree, not nature. Bulwer. Common-sense meant once something very dif- ferent from that plain wisdom, the common heri- tage of men, which we now call by this name. R. C. Trench. Common-sense may be compared to a young plant ; it needs careful training and perpetual air- ing, to keep it in good health and cause it to blos- som and bear fruit. Mrs. S. Wesley. Common-sense is an attribute very much needed to carry on successfully the duties of life; yet unfor- tunately, very few possess it in sufficient quantity to make it of any value to them. Burgom. Fine sense and exalted sense are not half as use- ful as common-sense ; there are forty men of wit to one man of sense ; and he that will carry no- thing about him but gold, will be every day at a Pope. To act with common-sense, according to the mo- ment, is the best wisdom I know ; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation. Walpole. I 12 AN A Y'S CO / Z A C O AW. COMMON WEALTH. Commonwealth is not common weal. E. Miall. The blessedness of a commonwealth is the obe- dience of citizens. Stoboews. The overthrow of a commonwealth is the dis- honesty of the rulers. Socrates. A commonwealth cannot be well conducted un- der the command of many. Nepos. That is not a commonwealth where one man lords it with despotic sway. Sophocles. Next to the glory of God, we ought to regard the welfare of the commonwealth. Seneca. If the liberty of the people be not restrained, the commonwealth will be destroyed. Hermes. We cannot prolong the period of a common- wealth beyond the decree of heaven. Swift. Commonwealths and nations entirely indepen- dent of each other, should yet be liable to a mutual intercourse. Sir W. Blackstone. The commonwealth itself has no other strength or hope than the intelligence and virtue of the in- dividuals that compose it. Josiah Qwincy. Of right that commonwealth ought to be des- troyed, which of all other hath been counted the flower of virtue, and after becometh the filthy sink of vice. Aristippus. Happy is that commonwealth where the people fear the law as a tyrant ; and those persons should be more honored who in peace maintain the state in tranquility, and in war defend it by their labor and magnanimity. Plato. The heart, understanding, council, and soul in a commonwealth, are the good laws and ordinances therein used ; and the most necessary law for a commonwealth is, that the people among them- selves live in peace and concord, without strife or dissension. Cicero. The best commonwealth is that in which the middle class has the most influence, and is, if not more powerful than both the others combined, yet able, by throwing its weight into one scale, to turn the balance, and prevent either of the others from going into extremes. T. H. Benton. A legitimate commonwealth is where the com- monweal, or good of the whole is consulted ; whether under a king, an aristocracy, or a democ- racy. But if either of these act unjustly, or in defiance of the law, there is no longer a common- wealth ; nor are the people properly a people, but a mob, because not united under common laws, or a community of rights and advantages. Xenophon. Let that commonwealth which desiresto flourish be very strict, both in their punishments and re- wards, according to the merits of the subject, and offence of the delinquent ; let the service of the de- server be rewarded, lest thou discourage worth ; and let the crime of the offender be punished, lest thou encourage vice ; the neglect of the one weak- ens a commonwealth ; the omission of both ruins it. F. Qwarles. brothers. COMMUNION. Communion is a holy sacrament. Alger of Liege. Communion with God is the beauty of holiness. Dr. Thulloch. Past faults must not keep you from the commu- nion. H. L. S. Lear. I know not a more beautiful festival than the Communion. Dr. Cwmming. Bare communion with a good Church can never alone make a good man. Sowth. It is more difficult to hold communion with Jesus in a calm than in a storm—in easy circumstances than in straits. John Berridge. We come to Christ for life, and to the Holy Com- munion with life. We come to Christ for forgive- ness, and to the Holy Communion with forgiveness, Bishop Gregg. The Holy Communion like the ancient Passover, is a great mystery, consisting both of Sacrament and sacrifice; that is, of the religious service which the people owe to God, and of the full salvation which God is pleased to promise His people. Dean Brevint. COMMUNISM. Communism is the dream of fools. C. R. Swimmer. Communism is the flower of idleness. G. Tickmor. Money, not work, is the banner of communism. James White. A victory for communism must at the same time be a victory for despotism. Baron J. Eötvös. Communism is a system in which private pro- perty is abolished by law or mutual consent. Theodore D. Woolsey. The principle of communism is the enrichment of the idle at the expense of the provident ; it is plunder legalized. Mary Trimmer. Communism is not always equality; but it is more so than property is. In communism inequa- lity springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. ` Prowdhom. The history of communism is a history of tyran- ny, rapine, and murder ; its propagandists proved themselves red-handed scoundrels, and their fol- lowers consummate idiots. D. Urquhart. COMMUNITY. Community is universal love. H. Marsh. Community is the common possession of all legal rights. Where does it exist Ž E. Cook. We have been born to associate with our fellow- men, and to join in community with the human ItaCe. Cicero. Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of Joseph Mazzini. A community is only a theory existing in the minds of men; it is not a fact, as some would have us believe, for such things as common rights and common privileges do not exist. G. J. Holyoake. A R O S E O U O 7" A T / O AV S. 113 COMPANION. Be not every one's companion. W.T. Thornton. A companion is but another self. St. Clement. A man is known by his companions. Virgil. Wicked companions invite us to hell. Fielding. A really good companion is worth his weight in gold. David Wedderbwirm. Bad companions will make others as bad as them- selves. R. Bolton. A pleasant companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. If I have found any good companions, I will cherish them as the choicest of men. Feltham. A companion that is cheerful, free from Swear- ing and scurrilous discourse, is worth gold. Walton. Companions are to be avoided that are good for nothing ; those to be sought and frequented that excel in some quality or other. Sir W. Temple. Unity with wicked companions is one of the strongest chains of hell, and binds us to a partici- pation both of sin and punishment. R. Sibbes. What is companionship where nothing that im- "proves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimensions of the smaller ? |W. S. Landor. Evil companions are the devil's agents, whom he sends abroad into the world to debauch virtue and to advance his kingdom ; and by these ambassa- dors he effects more than he could do in his own person. A. Horneck. Be careful to choose those companions which be- come you in age, circumstances, temper, attain- ments, and character, for “He that walketh with wise men shall be wise ; but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.” J. Bate. COMPANY. Beware of ill company. J. Mason. Company shows the man. J. Towlmin. A man is known by his company. Al-Ahmaf. Good company makes short miles. G. Camming. It is good to have company in trouble. J. Florio. Be very circumspect in the choice of thy com- pany. .. Lucanus. Reep good company, and you shall be one of the number. A. B. Bacellar. Enjoy good company if you would hope to attain to old age. Lowis Cornaro. To keep bad company is the ruin of even the best reputation. Al-Kirriya. Merry company is the only medicine against melancholy. R. Burton. If you keep good company, the devil will not care to join it. R. Challomer. Choose the company of your superiors, whenever you can have it. Chesterfield. Publius Syrus. COMPANY. Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. I. Walton. Tell me what company you keep, and I will tell you what you are. Cervantes. The freer you feel yourself in the company of another, the more free is he. Lavater. We should only associate with such company as will in some way advantage us. Puh-Shang. Reep such company that whoever sees you, you will have no reason to be ashamed. Hippocratidas. The company in which you will improve most, will be the least expensive to you. Washington. It costs far more trouble to be admitted or con- tinued in ill company than in good. Pope. The danger of keeping bad company, arises from our aptness to imitate their manners. W. Gilpin. That part of life which we spend in company, is the most pleasing of all our moments. Steele. Never give your company or your confidence to persons of whose good principles you are not cer- tain. W. H. Coleridge. I cannot be certain not to meet with evil com- pany, but I will be careful not to keep with evil Company. A. Warwick. Without good company, all dainties lose their true relish; like painted grapes, they are only seen, not tasted. Massinger. As a man is known by his company, so a man's company may be known by his manner of express- ing himself. Swift. What you learn from bad habits and in bad com- pany you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. J. B. Gowgh. Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. W. M. Thackeray. Company is an extreme provocation to fancy; and, like a hotbed in gardening, is apt to make our imaginations sprout too fast. Shaftesbury. The company of a gentleman, singularly free from affectation, not learned, but of perfect breed- ing, is pleasing to all who know him. O. W. Holmes. No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their Virtues ; a disease is far more contagious than health. Colton. We gain nothing by being in company with such as Ourselves; we encourage one another in medioc- rity ; I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. C. Lamb. Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which after the first or second blow may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruc- tion of the wood. St. Awgustine. 8 114 AJ A Y’,S C O / / A C O AW. COMPARISON. All comparisons are offensive. Cervantes. Comparison makes men happy or wretched. Machiavelli. Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. Condorcet. If we will rightly estimate what we call good and evil, we shall find it lies much in comparison. J. Locke. Solon compared the people unto the sea, and Ora- tors and counsellors to the winds ; for that the Sea would be calm and quiet if the winds did not trou- ble it. Lord Bacon. A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man by one that is lower than himself ; the One produces aspiration, the other ambition. Beecher. In speaking of your friends, do not compare them One with the other. Speak of the merits of each One, but do not try to heighten the virtues of one by comparing them with the vices of another. David Hartley. No man can think it grievous, who considers the pleasure and sweetness of love, and the glorious victory of Overcoming evil with good, and then compares these with the restless torment and per- petual tumults of a malicious and revengeful spirit. - Tillotson. COMPASSION. Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow. N. Webste)”. Compassion is the sense of our own misfortunes in those of another. L. M. Stretch. Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. H. Bloºm”. Some people's compassion is worse than their in- difference or even hatred. E. P. Day. There never was any heart truly great and gen- erous that was not also tender and compassionate. R. Sowth. By compassion we make others’ misery our own ; and so by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. Rev. I. B. Brown. The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. R. Dodsley. Heaven seems to indicate the duty of even bar- ren compassion, by inclining us to weep for evils which we cannot remedy. Dr. Johnson. Compassion to an offender who has grossly vio- lated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peace- able subject who has observed them. Jwniws. Want of compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind ; the black ingre- dient which fouls our disposition is envy. Fielding. Let our compassion express itself in efforts to bring the erring back to sacred principles, and if they persist, let us pity them the more for a blind- ness so fatal to themselves. S. E. D. Charmage. COMPASSION. Half the misery of human life might be extin- guished, would men alleviate the general curse they lie under, by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity. Addison. Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of Sufferings ; compassion, in the first in- stance, is good for both ; I have known it to bring Compunction when nothing else would. Landor. Grief for the calamity of another is pity, and arises from the imagination that the like calamity may befall himself; and, therefore, it is called compassion, Or in the phrase of the present time a fellow-feeling. T. Hobbes. Compassion is that species of affection which is excited either by the actual distress of its object, or by Some impending calamity, which appears inevitable ; it is a benevolent sorrow for the suffer- ings or approaching misery of another. C. Buck. Compassion does not only refine and civilize hu- man nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an indolent happiness, such an indifference to man- kind, as that in which the stoics placed their wis- dom. Steele. If we yield to false compassion, industry will go to ruin ; sloth will predominate if man has nothing to hope or fear from his own exertions ; all being secure of subsistence, will look to their neighbors for support, being idle in their own business and a burden to the public. Tacitus. COMPENSATION. No evil is without its compensation. Seneca. A moral compensation reaches to the secrecy of thought. Tupper. The pleasures of life are no compensation for the loss of divine favor. N. Webster. Every duty brings its peculiar delight, every de- nial its appropriate compensation. W. Mildmay. Providence has given us hope and sleep, as com- pensation for the many cares of life. Voltaire. Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wis- dom is the art of finding compensation. De Levis. Whatever difference may appear in the fortunes of mankind, there is, nevertheless, a certain com- pensation of good and evil which makes them equal. Rochefoucauld. Nothing is pure and entire of a piece ; all ad- vantages are attended with disadvantages; a uni- versal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence. Hume. Compensation often denotes a return for services done, in which sense it approaches still nearer to remuneration, recompense, and requital ; but the first two are obligatory; the latter is gratuitous. Compensation is an act of justice; the Service per- formed involves a debt; the omission of paying it becomes an injury to the performer. The laborer is worthy of his hire ; the time and strength of a poor man ought not to be employed without his receiving a compensation. G. Crabb. A R O S E O U O 7" A T / O AV S. COMPETENCY, A competence is often vital to content. Young. Let him who is blessed with a competence wish for nothing more. FHorace, Many men want wealth ; not a competence alone, but a five-story competence. H. W. Beecher. The man of affluence is not, in fact, more happy than the possessor of a bare competency; unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be for- tunate. Herodotus. We cannot well attach too much value to a Com- petency, or too little to a superfluity; but we may, and do err, in generally defining the former as lit- tle more than we already possess. Heshwsius. What does competency in the long run mean Ž It means, to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, op- portunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving. E. P. Whipple. Competency is a financial horizon, which recedes as we advance. This word is by no means of in- definite meaning ; it always signifies a little more than we possess. We are none of us wealthy enough im our own opinion, although we may be too much so in the judgment of others. Chatfield. COMPLACENCY. The wisest of men is he who has the most COm- plaisance for others. G. P. Morris. Royal favorites are often obliged to carry their complaisance further than they meant. Colton. Complacency of temper outlives all the charms of a fine face, and makes the decays of it invisible. Steele. Complacency is a coin by the aid of which all the world can, for the want of essential means, pay his club-bill in Society. Voltaire. Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable ; it smooths distinction, sweetens conversation, and makes every one in the company pleased with himself. Addison. Complaisance pleases all, prejudices none, adorns wit, renders humor agreeable, augments friend- ship, redoubles love, and united with justice and generosity, becomes the secret chain of the Society of mankind. M. de Scuderi. We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offence, or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance. Hazlitt. Complaisance may be defined as an address which aims at pleasing by disreputable means. The com- plaisant is one who salutes a man at a distance, calls him the best of creatures, seizes both his hands with expressions of admiration, and will not let him go ; he insists upon accompanying him a little way, teases him with inquiries of “when shall he have the honor of seeing him,” and at last leaves him with exclamations of praise. Theophrastus. COMPLAINT. Never-ceasing complaining has caused hatred to many. Propertius. The usual fortune of complaint is to excite con- tempt more than pity. Dr. Johnson. It is a just matter of complaint, that sincerity and plainness are out of fashion. Steele. Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. Swift. I have always despised the whining yelp of com- plaint, and the cowardly feeble resolve. Burms. We lose the right of complaining sometimes by forbearing it ; but we often treble the force. Sterne. Every one must see daily instances of people who complain from a mere habit of complaining ; and make their friends uneasy, and strangers merry, by murmuring at evils that do not exist, and re- pining at grievances they do not really feel. - R. Graves. Dost thou complain that God hath forsaken thee ? It is thou that hast forsaken Him ; it is thou that art mutable : in Him there is no shadow of change, in His light is life : if thy will drive thee into a dungeon, thou makest thy own darkness, and in that darkness dwells thy death ; from whence, if He redeems thee, He is merciful; if not, He is just ; in both, He receives glory. F. Quarles. COMPLIMIENT. Compliments are only lies in court clothes. J. Sterling. Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them. J. F. H. Claiborne. Compliments are the blue fire that lights up life's dingy scenery. PHeine. Deference is the most complicate, the most indi- rect, and the most elegant of all compliments. Shenstone. Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost one nothing but pen, ink, and paper. Chesterfield. Compliments which our merit deserves, are, in general, less pleasing than those which our vanity CI’a,VeS. N. Macdonald. Virtue, religion, heaven, and eternal happiness, are not trifles to be given up in a compliment, or sacrificed to a jest. S. Rogers. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect, as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram, will not refuse a liqueur. Colton. Compliments, which we think are deserved, we . accept only as debts, with indifference ; but those which conscience informs us we do not merit, we receive with the same gratitude that we do favors given away. Goldsmith. Though all compliments are lies, yet because they are known to be such, nobody depends on them, so there is no hurt in them : you return them in the same manner you receive them ; yet it is best to make as few as One can. Lady Gethin. 116 AX A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. COMPOSITION. CONCEIT. Good sense is the foundation of all good compo- Conceit is a great help to shallow wit. E. P. Day. sition. J. Walker. -º-m- Ease and simplicity are ornaments to every spe- cies of composition. D. Irving. Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for mine years at least. Horace. Grace in composition must be attained by an habitual acquaintance with classical writers. D. Stewart. A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns of expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression. E. P. Whipple. The graces of composition have been employed to disguise or to supply the want of matter; and the temporary applause of the ignorant has been courted, instead of the lasting approbation of the discerning ; but such imposture can never maintain its ground long ; knowledge and Science must fur- nish the materials that form the body and substance of any valuable composition. H. Blair'. The great cause of that delight we receive from a fine composition, whether it be in prose or in verse, I conceive to be this : the marvelous and magic power it confers upon the reader; enabling an inferior mind at one glance, and almost without an effort, to seize, to embrace, and to enjoy those remote combinations of wit, melting harmonies of Sound, and vigorous condensation of sense, that cost a superior mind so much perseverance, labor, and time. Colton. CONCEA LIMIENT. Concealment is sometimes a virtue. Avicenna. Either to conceal or reveal is sometimes equally painful. S. Marmion. He that would conceal a secret from a friend de- serves to lose him. M. B. De Garcia. He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs. Lavater. Vice desires concealment, but virtue desires to be Seen and known by all men. Confucius. Concealment and disguise take place, more or less, in all human intercourse. D. Irving. When a person becomes over-anxious to obtain your secret, then concealment is prudence. Rochefoucauld. Concealment among friends proceeds from du- plicity, and is a just cause for suspicion and dis- trust. Menciws. To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. Dickens. Concealment is a faithful humor, which strength- emed by virtue, concealeth, in despite of misfortune, those things which one knoweth may either prove his enemy, or prejudice his friend or country. Miss Catherine Cockbwºrm. He who conceits himself wise, has an ass near at hand. Hofmannswaldaw. Conceited men think nothing can be dome with- out them. C. Cottom. Conceited people are never without a certain de- gree of harmless satisfaction, wherewith to flavor the waters of life. Mime. Delwzy. Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second fre- quently deceives others too. Zimmermany. The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are thereby rendered as inactive, and consequently as useless, as if they really were so. R. Sowth. Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweaning self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all. H. W. Beechen". When men think none worthy of them, but such as claim under their own pretences, partiality and their own conceitedness make them give the pre- eminence. - J. Collier. Conceit is the most contemptible and one of the most odious qualities in the world ; it is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. FIazlitt. People seek for what they call wit, on all subjects and in all places; not considering that mature loves truth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourish- ing. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. Pope. Strong conceit is a kind of mental rudder which reason should hold for the purpose of steering the mind into its right course ; but reason too frequent- ly suffers itself to be carried away by the strong gales of a corrupt and vitiated fancy, and by the violence of those perturbations which unrestrained passions create. R. Burton. Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human character what Salt is to the ocean ; it keeps it sweet and renders it endurable. Say rather it is like the natural unguent of the sea-fowl's plu- mage, which enables him to shed the rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers will soon soak through, and he will fly no more. O. W. Holmes. There are some who conceit themselves very learned whilst they know nothing, or very wise and clever while they are exposing themselves to perpetual ridicule for their folly, or very handsome while the world calls them plain, or very peaceable while they are always quarreling with their neigh- bors, or very humble whilst they are tenaciously stickling for their own ; it would be well if such conceits afforded a harmless pleasure to their au- thors, but unfortunately they only render them more offensive and disgusting than they would otherwise be. G. Crabb. A R O S F O U O T A 7" / O M. S. 117 CONCORD. Concord is superior to light. Emperor Matthias. A small state increases by concord. - Sallust. Concord is strength of brotherhood. G. Lippard. What are numbers without concord 2 Trebwtiém. Concord is wise for the commonweal. Cymddelio. Nothing is so commendable for a people as con- cord. Moelm wal. Concord of many states maketh them as one na- tion. E. D. Clarke. Silence and patience cause concord between mar- ried couples. Plotin/ws. There can be no lasting concord between liberty and tyranny. - Demosthenes. Concord and industry maintain a state ; but ha- tred destroys it. J. G. Cooper. The knowledge of true religion, humility, and patience entertaineth concord. St. Chrysostom. Concord among the people is the virtue and the strength of the commonwealth. Oliver Cromwell. Concord maketh small things mightily to in- crease ; but discord maketh great things suddenly to decay. Ibrahim, Bem, Valid. Concord encircleth all things in its everlasting embrace; it is the life of the world, that joineth in harmonious peace the jarring elements. Lucanus. As the stone called tyrrhenus, being whole swim- meth, but being broken every piece doth sink; so by concord we are sustained and held up, but by discord and strife we come to decay and ruin. D. Cawdray. CONIDEMINATION. Condemn no man unheard. Charles V of France. Unjust condemnation is void. A limenes. All are not hanged that are condemned. Buzot. A just man will condemn according to know- ledge. Bowilly. Condemnation should not proceed from anger, but from justice. Mencius. Whoever condemns without sufficient know- ledge, condemns unjustly. Smarius. We condemn mistakes with asperity, where we pass over sins with gentleness. J. S. Buckminster. God withholdeth condemnation in answer to the prayers of his chosen servants. Caab. Men are too apt to condemn in others the very things they practice themselves. T. James. It is far easier to condemn a man than to forgive him his fault ; and once condemned, the cloud can never be entirely lifted from his character. Cybo. He that passes the first condemnatory sentence is like the incendiary in a popular tumult, who is chargeable with all those disorders to which he gave rise. N. Grew. CONDITION. All conditions are equal. Polybius. Every condition sits well on a wise man. Cato. Every one thinks his own condition is the hard- est. W. O. Bowrme. Hamper not a gift with conditions that may im- pair its value. C. Lever. Prefer a low condition with safety to a high one with insecurity. Bias. We often envy those whose condition is really not as good as Our Own. Krasicki. Some think it would be a calamity for woman to improve her condition, mere fanaticism to rise still higher. C. C. Burleigh. Inequalities in condition, which men naturally and rightly desire to correct, exist side by side with envy and hate. Henry N. Day. Few entertain doubt of the abstract right of the slave to free himself from the condition in which he is kept without his own consent. C. F. Adams. In a state of war, the slaves of fugitive masters have assumed the condition, which we hold to be the normal one, of those created in God's own image. Gem. B. F. Butler. Whatsoever thy condition is in this world, thou mayest glorify God in it, and bring praise to His name, and show as excellent grace as in the highest condition ; he that grinds at the mill may glorify God, as well as he that sits on a throne. Dr. Bates. CONDUCT. Conduct and courage lead to honor. I. Milner. A tongue recites, but conduct shows. Briçonnet. Let a man live without evil conduct. Trefredyn. Reep thy conduct free from reproach. Llefoed. A man’s conduct abroad shows how he was edu- cated at home. Larivière de Brutel. The world examines the conduct of princes with a jealous, scrutinizing eye. George IV of England. The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. Junius. He that would revenge himself heavily upon his foes, let him conduct himself uprightly. Aber Dar. We are quick to spy the evil conduct of others; but when we ourselves do the same, we are not aware of it. Sosicrates. When a man's conduct is changed toward his brethren, on obtaining authority, we know he is not fitted for the place. Yahya. Young men in their conduct embrace more than they can hold, stir more than they can quiet, and fly to the end without consideration of the means. Lord Bacon. It is not enough that you form the most excellent rules for conducting yourself ; you must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the ex- ception. Lord Greville. 118 AX A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. CONFESSION. A sin confessed is half forgiven. J. Florio. Open confession is good for the Soul. Tertulian. The tears of confession bring comfort. Gregory. Confession without repentance is mere loss. Ariosto. Confession is a rack, a torture, applied to the consciences of men. J. Calvin. Confession should be made only to such as have power to apply a remedy. St. Basil. If our sin be only against God, yet to confess it to his minister may be of good use. W. Woºke. Let all confess their faults, while he that has offended enjoys life, and his confession can be re- ceived. St. Cyprian. Why does no man confess his vices 2 Because he is yet in them ; it is for a waking man to tell his dream. Semeca. When the sinner becomes his own accuser, and confesses his sin, he discharges the cause of his malady. Origen. Go and confess to thy God all thy tribulations ; His ear is open to thee, and His comforts shall re- fresh thy heart. St. Bernard. As in confession the revealing is for the ease of a man's heart, so secret men come to the knowledge of many things, while men rather discharge than impart their minds. Lord Bacon. What are the transitory shame and confusion which accompany confession of sin, compared with the eternal shame and confusion which must be endured by the unrepenting sinner ? Smarius. Confession of sin should be free particular, full, penitential, earnest, accompanied with heartfelt hatred of sin, supplication for mercy, forsaking sin, an implicit faith in Christ for the forgiveness of the same. J. Bate. When thy tongue and heart agree not in confes- sion, that confession is not agreeable to God's plea- Sure ; he that confesses with his tongue, and wants confession in his heart, is either a vain man, or a hypocrite ; he that hath confession in his heart, and wants it in his tongue, is either a proud man, or a timorous. F. Qwarles. A man will confess sins in general ; but those sins which he would not have his neighbor know for his right hand, which bow him down with shame like a wind-stricken bulrush, these he passes overin his prayer; whether they shall confesstheir faults or not, they generally leave to their moods, and not to their principles. H. W. Beecher. As a man who hath money to pay is loath to part with it, but when it is once paid, he is glad that it is discharged ; even so men, before they have confessed their sins, are unwilling to disbur- then themselves of them ; but when confession is Once made, they have eased their hearts, and find Such comfort as they could not before conceive. D. Cawdray. CONFIDENCE. Confidence begets confidence. Goethe. Confidence is the companion of success. Ruffini. He who has lost confidence can losenothing more. Boiste. Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bOSOm. Earl of Chatham. A man never Suspects, who has confidence in himself. - J. Bartlett. Confidence in conversation has a greater share than ability. Rochefoucauld. Confidences are sometimes blinding, even when they are sincere. George Eliot. Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness. Jane Porter. Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of a man's own. Montaigme. No man can reasonably expect the confidence of Others who distrusts himself. Dr. Johnson. Nothing but innocency and knowledge can give Sound confidence to the heart. R. Hall. A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest confidence in its lowest estate. Sir P. Sidney. Let us have a care not to confide our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us. Girardim. Better to be despised for too anxious apprehen- sions, than ruined by too confident security. Burke. We shall not be ever the less likely to meet with success, if we do not expect it too confidently. F. Atterbwry. A confident dependence ill-grounded creates such a negligence as will certainly ruin us in the end. W. Wake. People forget how little they know, when they grow confident upon any present state of things. R. Sowth. Though hope often deceives us, we have still the same confidence, and our life passes away in hop- ing. Stanislaws. Confide not in him who, without proofs, trusts you with everything, or when he has proved you, with nothing. Lavater. He that puts his confidence in God only, is neither overjoyed in any great good things of this life, nor sorrowful for a little thing. Jeremy Taylor. Ilet not the quietness of any man's temper, much less the confidence he has in thy honesty and good- ness, tempt thee to convince any mischief against him. Bishop St. Patrick. We may have the confidence of another without possessing his heart. If his heart be ours there is no need of revelation or of confidence ; all is Open to us. Dw Coeur. To confide, even though to be betrayed is much better than to learn only to conceal ; in the One case, your neighbor wrongs you ; but in the other, you are perpetually doing injustice to yourself. W. G. Simms. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 119 CONFIDENCE}. It is unjust and absurd of persons advancing in years to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side; the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. Miss Edgeworth. If a person in whom we have been accustomed to place implicit confidence deceives us once by a false- hood, subterfuge, or even a mere finesse, the charm is broken forever, and the person seems changed and deteriorated in all he does. Salm-Dyck. To betray a confidence is to make yourself despi- cable ; many things are said among friends which are not said under a seal of secrecy, but are under- stood to be confidential, and a truly honorable man will never violate this tacit confidence. D. Hartley. Confidence being destroyed, there could be no friendship, no union of hearts, no affectionate in- tercourse, no social converse, no consolation or comfort in the hour of distress, nor hopes of deliv- erance in the midst of danger, and no prospect of enjoyment from any being around us. Dr. T. Dick. . CONFINIEMENT. Confinement of any kind is dreadful. Johnson. Confinement to the refractory is only a forerun- ner of death. Mimos. Confinement sometimes cures, sometimes tends to increase a malady. Dr. Rush. The confinement of business is a thousand times better than the liberty of idleness. M. Henry. Confinement often reduces the passions of men to their proper limit, conserves their minds, and balances their judgment. |W. D. Howells. A man in solitary confinement is never alone ; if he be a good man God and holy angels are with him ; if bad, the devil and his own evil thoughts are present to torment him. John Habberton. CONFIRMATION. Believe and be confirmed. Milton. The act of confirmation is the first step toward salvation. Rev. R. Sowthgate. Confirmation is a most solemn and important ordinance. Bishop Oacemden. What is prepared in catechising is in the next place performed by confirmation. H. Hammond. The intent of confirmation is sufficiently obvi- ous, as the complement and Seal of infant bap- tism. C. Bridges. Whether confirmation be a sacrament or not, it is of no use to dispute ; and if it be disputed, it cannot follow that it is not of very great use and holiness. Jeremy Taylor. What strange beings we are sometimes | We Surround children with the most tender and assi- duous care up to the time of confirmation, and then, at the most critical age, when their passions begin to cross them, we launch them forth without Support and counterpoise, into a pestilential at- mosphere, and then wonder why they do not per- severe in the right path. Abbé Mullois. CONGRATULATION. Congratulations are often spurious. C. Burdett. Congratulations follow success, not merit. Dorr. Congratulations are the experiences of genuine sympathy and joy. Trench. Congratulations are due to those who abase their enemies, and exalt their friends. Gwi de Cavaillon. Congratulations are often only outbursts of ex- treme egotism in Some men, and should be taken for what they are worth. Mrs. C. F. Corbin. Compliments of congratulation are always kind- ly taken, and cost one nothing but pen, ink, and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer. Chesterfield. CONGREGATION. God blesses a prayerful congregation. Déléon. How blest is the congregation who know and prize the Gospel. H. F. Lyle. That is the best congregation which does most for the spread of the Gospel. Dr. Cumming. A congregation is an assembly brought together from congeniality of sentiment, and community of purpose. G. Crabb. A congregation is a public assemblage in a spi- ritual theatre, where all the performers are pro- fessors, but where very few of the professors are performers. Chatfield. The congregation, as an organized Christian so- ciety, has a two-fold work to perform : the first is within itself, and includes whatever is done by the members of the congregation for their mutual good ; the Second is without itself, and includes the good done by the whole body to the world be- yond. Dr. Macleod. A congregation, after a week's labor, amid the Cares and perplexities of business, come to the Sanctuary for something better than the dry crust of philosophical research, or profound intellectu- ality ; they want to be made to feel as well as to think ; they want something for the heart as well as for the understanding—to have their connection With etermity kept before their minds, and their whole soul stirred up to prepare for it. J. A. James. CONGRUITY. Congruity is the mother of love. G. W. Dasent. The congruity of our lives does not always pro- duce happiness. Mme. A. Craven. Congruity of opinions to our natural constitu- tions, is the one great incentive to their recep- tion. Lord Granville. Congruity and propriety are commonly reckon- ed synonymous terms ; congruity is the genus, of which propriety is a species. Rames. The congruity of things is their suitableness to such or such a state or condition ; and it is a great law in the Divine and first constitutions, that things should incline and move to what is suitable to their natures. Glanvill. 120 AD A Y’.S C O Z Z. A C O AV. CONJECTURE. Conjecture is not proof. Dwns Scotws. I am weary of conjectures. Addison. Our conjectures are like our hopes. Jane Taylor. Deal not in unreasonable conjecture. Mrs. Marsh. Conjecture is aided by appearances. Bruyère. Conjecture may injure innocency itself. Boleslas. ſº tº In conjecturing, we arrive at a possible conclu- sion from uncertain premises. G. F. Graham. Conjectures may satisfy fools, but it takes hard facts to convince a man of sense. C. Gibbon. A business man has no right to act on conjec- ture ; by doing so, it proves that he lacks the first principle of business—sound reasoning. Foote. Although some conjectures may have a consider- able degree of probability, yet it is evidently in the nature of conjecture to be uncertain ; in every case the assent ought to be proportioned to the evidence. Dr. Chalmers. CONQUEST. He that will conquer must fight. F. L. Benedict. By the sign of the cross, conquer. Constantime I. He is a conqueror who can suffer. Whitgift. They can conquer who believe they can. Dryden. He conquers twice who conquers himself in vic- tory. Publius Syrus. Conquest, which valor obtains, gives glory, and diffuses plenty. Pietro Verri. It behooves a conqueror to extend his conquests. rather by policy than power. Philip of Macedon. A perfect conquest of a country reduces all the people to the condition of subjects. Sir J. Davies. To conquer a negro, feed him ; to conquer an Indian, kill him ; to conquer a white man, fee him. Dw, Tertre. He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered ; such noble despair perishes with diffi- culty. Cormeille. Conquest has exploréd more than curiosity has done ; and the path of science has been commonly opened by the sword. Sydney Smith. To conquer by the moral manifestation of the will is to conquer like a god : to conquer by the manifestation of brute force is to conquer like a beast. Elihu Burritt. It is a proof of greater wisdom, and requires more skill, to make a good use of victory ; for many know how to conquer ; few are able to use their conquest aright. Polybius. If thou hast made a conquest with thy sword think not to maintain it with thy sceptre; neither conceive that new favors can cancel old injuries: no conqueror sits secure upon his new-got throne, So long as they subsist in power that were despoiled of their possessions by his conquest. F. Quarles. CONSCIENCE. Enjoy liberty of conscience. S. Gorton. Conscience is not to be forced. Maacimilian II. A good conscience is paradise. Arminius. Conscience is superior to all law. Justinian, A good conscience is the best law. J. Burmett. Conscience is the sentinel of virtue. Johnsom. Conscience is the chamber of justice. Origem. Keep your conscience void of offense. H. Vane. Conscience is God's deputy in the soul. T. Adams. Atender conscience is a great blessing. N. Adams. Not to hear conscience is the best way to silence it. Maria S. Cummims. A man's conscience should at all times be his master. John Kelly. Many a lash-in the dark doth conscience give the wicked. Rev. T. Boston. Conscience and wealth are not always agreeable neighbors. Massinger. He whose conscience does not condemn him needs no pardon. S. Adams. The tortures of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. J. Calvin. Conscience warms us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge. Stanislaws. A guilty conscience is a worm that biteth, and never ceaseth. M. Knºwzem. The conscience is the inviolable asylum of the liberty of man. Napoleon I. He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. I. Walton. A tender conscience, of all things, ought to be tenderly handled. Burke. Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor. Shenstone. Trust that man in nothing who has not a con- science in everything. Sterme. A good conscience is sometimes sold for money, but never bought with it. Sir John Mason. Reep alive in your breast that little spark of ce- lestial fire called conscience. Washington. Conscience raises its voice in the breast of every man, a witness of his Creator. Abercrombie. Conscience implies goodness and piety, as much as if you call it good and pious. Earl of Clarendon. That conscience alone is good which speaks much with itself and much with God. R. Leighton. Conscience is a great ledger book in which all our offenses are written and registered. R. Burton. A good conscience is a port land-locked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. Dryden. P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. CONSCIENCE. While conscience is our friend, all is peace ; but if once offended, farewell the tranquil mind. Lady Mary W. Montague. Some think a tender conscience is a weak one ; but it is a sign of their weakness who think so. Beddorne. To disregard the warning of our conscience is a terrible thing, of which it is impossible to see the end. Unlimited liberty of conscience is an absurdity and an error, and dangerous to society and reli- gion. Pope Gregory XVI. Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. G. Bancroft. There is no witness so terrible, no accuser SO powerful, as conscience, that dwells in the breast of each. Polybius. It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin ; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a coun- terfeit bill. E. H. Chapin. If conscience is as a thousand witnesses in the mind of mam, the all-seeing God is as a thousand consciences. J. Arrowsmith. Conscience is the vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose “still small voice” the loudest revelry cannot drown. W. H. Harrison. The wound of conscience is no scar, and time cools it not with his wing, but merely keeps it open with his scythe. Richter. To what purpose have I a conscience of my own, if I must live and die according to the conscience of another man 2 J. Gerson. No man thinks his conscience erroneous ; every one judges himself to be in the right, and to be rightly informed. E. Hopkins. To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism ; had we never sinned, we should have had no conscience. T. Carlyle. Every man's conscience testifies that he is unlike what he ought to be, according to that law engra- ven upon his heart. Rev. S. Charnock. The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it ; but it is also so clear that it is im- possible to mistake it. Mme. de Stael. I believe that we cannot live better than in seek- ing to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience. Socrates. He has a secret spring of spiritual joy and the continual feast of a good conscience within that forbids him to be miserable. R. Bentley. The philosophers count those men incurable whose consciences are not touched with repent- ance for those sins which they have committed. St. Gregory. Conscience, if suffered to inspect faithfully and speak plainly, will recount irregular desires and defective motives, talents wasted, and time mis- spent. W. E. Channing. kiw-6. - CONSCIENCE. He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed ; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge. Selden. A man who sells his conscience for his interest, will sell it for his pleasure; a man who will betray his country, will betray his friend. Miss Edgeworth. Conscience is an internal monitor, implanted in us by the Supreme Being, and dictating to us, on all occasions, what is right or wrong. Llandaff. If conscience plays the tyrant, it would be greatly for the benefit of the world that she were more arbitrary, and far less placable than some men find her. Jwniws. He that hath a blind conscience which sees no- thing, a dead conscience which says nothing, is in as miserable a condition as a man can be on this side of hell. Philip Henry. Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy pas- sions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony. G. Chalmers. Our conscience is a fire within us, and our sins as the fuel ; instead of warming, it will scorch us, unless the fuel be removed, or the heat of it al- layed by penitential tears. Dr. F. Mason. A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day. D. Jerrold. A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom “opin- ion,” than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark. Bulwer. Preserve your conscience always soft and sensi- tive ; if but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell easy there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities. I. Watts. Although the conscience of many seemed to be seared with a hot iron, as if it were void of all feeling of sin ; yet at the point of death it is awak- ened, yea, and it driveth the miserable soul to des- peration. Appias. Understanding is a common glass, that lets in all the forms and colors of external objects; conscience is a looking-glass, opaque, which reflects only inter- nal objects: through the first we see other people; by the second we see ourselves. G. Gordom. What is conscience 2 If there be such a power, what is its office 2 It would seem to be simply this: to approve of our conduct when we do what we believe to be right, and to censure us when we commit whatever we judge to be wrong. Crombie. Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Too often reason de- ceives us ; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it ; but conscience never deceives us ; it is the true guide of man ; it is to man what instinct is to the body, which fol- lows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray. Rousseaw. 122 A) A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. CONSCIOUSINESS. We are ever conscious of evil. Lwmell. The consciousness of our powers increases them with double force. W. Black. A consciousness of having acted right, is the best compensation for disappointment. L. De Qowrray. Consciousness is the faculty by which we become cognizant of the operations of our own minds. Dr. Wayland. What comfort does overflow the devout soul from a consciousness of its own innocence and in- tegrity. Tillotson. A child of four years old possesses consciousness of right and wrong as well as a person of forty ; and the boy who lies at four years old will lie when he has grown up. Sir R. B. Cottom. Consciousness is confined to the actions of the mind, being nothing else but that knowledge of it- self which is inseparable from every thought and voluntary motion of the soul. C. Buck. To feel the want of reason is next to having it : an idiot is not capable of this sensation. The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb. Brwyere. CONSECRATION. Consecrate to God, not mammon. John Ball. Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemnly declares it so. R. Sowth. Consecration has this power : when a man has consecrated anything to God, he cannot of himself take it away. - J. Swimmerfield. The immeasurable love of Calvary demands the consecration of all we have ; and only in such con- secration can we be perfectly happy, and feel se- cure in the keeping of the Great Purchaser. Ritchie. Entire consecration embraces three things—be- ing, doing, and suffering ; we must be willing to be, to do, and to suffer, all that God requires ; this embraces reputation, friends, property, and time; it covers body, mind, and soul ; these are to be used when, where, and as God requires ; and only as He requires. W. Macdonald. CONSENT. To consent is to accord with others. Père Girard. We consent to those things which we do not positively refuse. Mrs M. A. Denison. As reason is essential unto law, so likewise unto human laws is common consent. N. Grew, Consent is to think and feel as others think and feel ; to be of the same mind, opinion, thoughts or sentiments. C. Richardson. When the wills of many concur to one and the same action and effect, this concourse of their wills is called consent, by which we must not understand one will of many men, but many wills to the pro- ducing of one effect. T. Hobbes, CONSEQUENCE. Consequences belong to God. B. Björnsen. In deploring consequences we too often over- look their causes. W. T. Burke. Were it possible for anything in the Christian faith to be erroneous, I can find no ill consequences in adhering to it. Addison. Not to foresee the consequences which are fore- Seen by others, evinces a more than ordinary share of indiscretion and infatuation. G. Crabb. A prudent man will carefully weigh the conse- quences of what he may think of doing, and be guided by the consideration of them. A. K. H. Boyd. As the dimensions of the tree are not always regulated by the size of the seed, so the conse- quences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Coltom. Consequences inevitable follow every action of our lives ; the consequences of a life of intemper- ance are disgrace, poverty, disease, and premature death ; but the consequences of a temperate and virtuous life naturally lead to health, honor, and happiness. James Ellis. Most fatal consequences often follow from the errors and irretrievable oversights we commit in life ; but time, which brings many hidden mys- teries to light, reveals these mortifying secrets at last, and shows us how we have let slip the golden opportunities of fortune, and which have involved us in obscurity and disappointment. Lancaster. CONSERVATISM. We expect old men to be conservative. Beecher. Conservatism is conservative of whatever is ve- nerable by age, no matter how stupid. Dr. Porter. A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon, out of respect for that “ancient insti- tution,” the old one. D. Jerrold. Conservatives are those “solid gentlemen” who go about treading upon the coat-tails of progress, and crying, whoa, whoa Chatfield. Progress goes abroad in search of truth ; con- servatism stays at home, and if truth visit it, shuts the door against it because it came not there be- fore. E. P. Day. The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifu- gal force ; he sighs for the “good old times”—he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn. - E. H. Chapin. Conservatism is a very good thing ; but how many conservatives announce principles which might have shocked Dick Turpin, or nonsensicali- ties flat enough to have raised contempt in Jerry Sneak | E. P. Whipple. We are reformers in spring and summer; in au- tumn and winter we stand by the old : reformers in the morning, conservative at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative ; conserva- tism goes for comfort, reform for truth. Emerson. A R O S A. Q U O Z' A 7" / O AW S. I23 CONSIDERATION. CONSISTENCY. Consideration is the parent of wisdom. Combe. Consistency, thou art a jewel. Amon. Consideration is the enemy to untimely attempt. Keep One consistent plan from end to end. Solom. Addison. True consideration is the tutor both to action and Without consistency there is no moral strength. R. Alsop Hagedorn. Speaking. The consideration of past pleasures greatly aug- ments present pain. Chilo. Consideration is an honor to the meanest, and improvidence shame in a prince. Ovid. He who considers of a thing with prejudice has judged the cause before he hears it. Sowth. Wise men will always consider what they ought to do, before they conclude anything. Appias. Consideration is the root of all noble things; for by her do we attain to the end of all our hopes. Jacques Cujas. Let us think with consideration, and consider with acknowledging, and acknowledge with admi- ration. Good consideration ought to be had before we give credit ; for fair tongues oftentimes work great mischief. Archimedes. Be considerate to all fools; many a clown who tumbles in public to make you laugh, aches bitterly for it in private. A. L. C. Coquerel. Hearken unto the voice of consideration ; her words are the words of wisdom, and her paths shall lead thee to safety and truth. R. Dodsley. Consideration is that glass which represents spi- ritual objects in other colors than were before ob- served and detected in them. A. Horneck. Whoever considers frequently on the uncertainty of his own duration, will find out that the state of others is not more permanent than his own. Dr. Johnsom. In any affairs whatsoever there is no greater danger, or else no greater safety, than SOundly to consider into whose hands men commit their cause. St. Justin. Frequent consideration of a thing wears off the strangeness of it ; and shows it in its several lights, and various ways of appearance, to the view of the mind.e. R. Sowth. Consider before you speak, when the business is of moment ; weigh the sense of what you mean to utter, and the expressions you intend to use, that they may be significant, pertinent, and inoffensive. Sir M. Hale. Wise consideration is that which properly ought to be in every magistrate, observing the tenor of the law ; it is the extinguisher of controversies, and bringer forth of happy counsels and agree- ments. G. C. Demina We ought to have a consideration for all who are in our service, not to demand more of them than what we may reasonably expect ; we ought at all times to have a regard for our own credit and re- spectability among those who are witnesses of our Conduct. G. Crabb. Sir P. Sidney. Consistency is founded upon the worth of a man's character. G.L. Craik. Great consistency of character invites to great confidence. Sir R. Maltravers. The consistency of a man's practice with his pro- fession, is the only criterion of his sincerity. G. Crabb. The most consistent men are not more unlike to Others, than they are at times to themselves. Coltom. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do ; he may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. R. W. Emerson. It is a mere idle declamation about consistency, to represent it as a disgrace to a man to confess himself wiser to-day than yesterday. R. Whately. The man who spends one-half of the day in study- ing what is just, and the other half in practising what is so, shows a knowledge of consistency. J. A. James. Let your light so shine before men, that others, awed and charmed by the consistency of your godly life, may come to inquire and to say they have been with Jesus. W. M. Pwnshon. It is the want of consistency which has caused more secret uneasiness, and more relative discord, than almost any other failing connected with a man's character. W. S. Martim. As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their consistency at all times and under all circumstances. H. W. Beecher. Consistency of character must arise from a clear conviction of the excellencies of certain principles adopted, and certain habits formed, an infringe- ment upon which would be considered as a derelic- tion of duty. Titws Dzialymski. He who prays as he ought, will endeavor to live as he prays ; he who can live in sin, and abide in the Ordinary duties of prayer, never prays as he Ought. A truly gracious praying frame is utterly inconsistent with the love of, or reserve for, any sin. J. B. Owen. A bigot is inconsistent, because he will not allow freedom to reason ; a passionate man is inconsis- tent, because he is not governed by the dictates of Sober judgment ; a proud man is inconsistent, be- Cause he argues from comparison of great things to Small, and not also of Small things to great. On the contrary, a man of liberal feelings is consis- tent, because he allows the same freedom of opinion to others which he claims for himself ; a temperate man is consistent, because he does not suffer him- self to be imprudent ; and a humble man is consis- tent because he never forms a false estimate of his own worth. W. S. Moore. 124 ZD A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. CONSOLATION. Consolation is the balm of the holy. Socrates. Consolation is God’s rose for sorrow's thorn. C. Swain. It is the greatest consolation to sorrow, that God rules the world. Böethiws. The angel of consolation ever attends the right- eous when sorrow and adversity overtake them. James Ellis. Consolation heals without contact, somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe. Mme. Swetchine. Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon ; and after it is digested, it comes too late. Sterne. We can console ourselves for not having great talents, as we console ourselves for not having great places ; we can be above both in our hearts. Vawvenargues. Consolation, indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering under affliction, only serves to in- crease our pain and to render our grief more poig- nant. Rowsseaw. One should never be very forward in offering spiritual consolations to those in distress ; these, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. S. T. Coleridge. What is consolation ? It is the relief of mind under any trouble or pain ; or the presence and en- joyment of a good which is able to prevent alto- gether, or else carry away and bear down before it, as in a full tide or flowing stream, all evil felt Or feared. - Dr. Beawmont. CONSPIRACY. Conspiracies no sooner should be formed than executed. Addison. The crime of a conspirator consists in the failure of the conspiracy. Duke Aveiro. Where the people's happiness is assured, the con- spiracy of traitors is prevented. Bias. To prevent conspiracies, allow no malcontents, either in the army or state, time to form them. Oliver Cromwell. Conspiracies, like thunder-clouds, should in a moment form and strike, like lightning, ere the Sound is heard. Aleacander Dow. In some causes silence is dangerous ; so if any know of conspiracies against their country or king, or any that might greatly prejudice their neighbor, they ought to discover it. St. Ambrose. Agreat villain was never despised ; the man who becomes a conspirator and commits treason, puts all at hazard, and barters his virtue for kingdoms; we may execrate and detest him, but we never can despise him. J. Bartlett. Conspirators and traitors are like moths, which eat the clothin which they were bred ; like vipers, that gnaw the bowels where they were born ; like worms, which consume the wood in which they were engendered. Agesilaws. CONSTANCY. Be constant, but not obstinate. W. Penn. It is often constancy to change the mind. Hoole. Constancy is the ornament of all virtues. Damm. When thy constancy faileth thee, call in thy hope. Damdamis. Constancy is the daughter of patience and hu- mility. Niphus. Constancy and temperance in our actions make virtue strong. Aristotle. Whoever finds constancy in a woman, finds all things in a woman. Querbeuf. Love variety in trifles, and constancy in things of greater moment. Mrs. E. Montagu. Without constancy there is neither love, friend- ship, nor virtue in the world. Addison. The lasting and crowning privilege, or rather property of friendship is constancy. R. South. Constancy is the health of the mind, by which is understood the whole force and efficacy of wis- dom. Cicero. He is not to be reputed constant, whose mind tak- eth no fresh courage in the midst of his sorrows and adversities. St. Bernard. Love is benefited much by a feeling of confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much, is able also to love many things. Propertius. There are men in whom the habit of constancy and undeviating attachment is as strong and un- conquerable as in virtuous women. C. Smith, Constancy is the true and immovable strength of the mind ; it is sometimes called stability and perseverance, and is the best part of fortitude. - Nicholas Breton, The business of constancy chiefly is bravely to stand to, and stoutly to suffer those inconveniences which are not otherwise possible to be avoided. Montaigne. It is not to be imagined how far constancy will carry a man ; however, it is better walking slowly in a rugged way, than to break a leg and be a Cripple. J. Locke. Nothing in the world sooner remedieth sorrows than constancy and patience, which endureth ad- versity and violence, without making any show or semblance. Agrippa. Constancy in love is perpetual inconstancy ; it attaches us successively to all the good qualities of the person beloved, giving sometimes the prefer- ence to one, sometimes to another. So that this constancy is no more than inconstancy confined to a single object. Rochefoucauld. There is something truly noble and praiseworthy in constancy. To be firm in the midst of opposi- tion, to endure hardships without murmuring, and to persevere through every difficulty, is highly characteristic of the Christian spirit ; such, how- ever great their sufferings, shall not lose their re- ward. C. Buck. A R O S A. Q J O 7" A 7" / O M S. CONSTITUTION. The constitution cannot destroy itself. Lincoln. The constitution is a Series of compromises. Clay. Above all, preserve the constitution inviolate. T. Corwin. The constitution is a charter of limited powers. J. Q. Adams. In the constitution all authority is derived from the people. James Wilson. The constitution denounces human bondage as a crime against God. |William Jay. Stand by the constitution ; we are lost if the con- stitution is overthrown. C. R. Drake. The faith and honor of the people are pledged to support the constitution. John Adams. Within the constitution the people are sovereign; under it let traitors beware. E. D. Baker. The constitution of a mation should be based upon Sound and liberal principles. James Ellis. The constitution guarantees to every state a re- publican form of government. A. Johnson. The constitution is instinct with freedom, radiant with the principles of universal liberty. O. Lovejoy. The constitution was designed by those who framed it as a work of concession and compromise. M. Vam, Buren. Having been sworn to support the constitution, we are bound to disobey any act which violates that constitution. C. Summer. The constitution is intended to assure us security and protection in the engagement of our rights of person and property. S. Moore. The physician of the state who, not satisfied with the cure of distempers, undertakes to regenerate constitutions, ought to show uncommon powers. Burke. The broad foundation upon which our constitu- tion rests, being the people, a breath of theirs hav- ing made, a breath can unmake, change, or modify it. |W. H. Harrison. Having been sworn to protect, preserve, and de- fend the constitution, the executive should reject any measure that comes in conflict with that insti- tution. J. Tyler. Constitutions ought not to be followed, unless they are rightly made ; they cannot be rightly made if they are contrary to the universal law of God and mature. Sir P. Sidney. The constitution is not only so broad as to pro- tect the people in times of quiet, but in the midst of civil war, the surest protection; in the face of national disaster the safest refuge. H. W. Davis. Our constitution has preserved unimpaired the liberties of the people, secured the rights of prop- erty, and Our country has improved, and is flourish- ing beyond any former example in the history of nations. A. Jackson. CONSTITUTION. Maintain your constitution until our temple of civil and religious liberty shall be complete, lifting its headstone of beauty above the towers of watch and war, until all mations shall flee unto it, and its glory shall fill the whole earth. K. S. Bingham. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authen- tic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. Washington. Let us stand by the constitution as it is, and by Our country as it is, one, united, and entire ; let it be the truth engraven on our hearts ; let it be borne on the flag under which we rally, in every exi- gency, that we have one country, one constitution, One destiny. D. Webste?". When we have formed a constitution upon free principles, when we have given a proper balance to the different branches of administration, and fixed representation upon pure and equal princi- ples, we may with safety furnish it with all the powers necessary to answer, in the most ample manner, the purposes of government. A. Holmilton. I shall resist all encroachments on the constitu- tion, whether it be the encroachment of this gov- ernment on the states, the executive on Congress, or Congress on the executive. My creed is to hold both governments, and all the departments of each, to their proper sphere, and to maintain the au- thority of the laws and the constitution against all revolutionary movements. J. C. Calhown. Like one of those wondrous rocking stones reared by the Druids, which the finger of a child might vibrate to its center, yet the might of an army could not move from its place, our constitution is so nicely poised and balanced, that it seems to sway with every breath of opinion, yet so firmly rooted in the heart and affections of the people, that the wildest storms of treason and fanaticism break over it in vain. R. C. Winthrop. There is nothing so much thought of, and so little understood, as the constitution. It is a word in the mouth of every man ; and yet when we come to discourse of the matter, there is no subject on which our ideas are more confused and perplexed. Some, when they speak of the constitution, confine their notions to the law; others to the legislature ; others again, to the governing and executive part ; and many there are who jumble all these together in One idea. Fielding. The constitution is an imperishable monument in the highway of nations. The waves which sweep away the ephemeral productions of human genius, will wash in vain its adamantine base. It is a durable structure. Opposition will cement its strength: age will make it classical; posterity will admire its beautiful proportions; generation after generation will repose in security under the pro- tection of its lofty columns; the student of liberty will come a pilgrim to its portico from every clime, and its glorious form become a model to every na- tion. E. D. Mansfield. 126 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. CONTEMPLATION. Contemplation is a soul without a body. Schiller. He that contemplates, hath a day without a night. Dominique Francois Arago. In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate. Descartes. From the contemplation of what is great and magnificent in nature, the soul rises to the Author of all. gº Mrs. S. Moodie. There is not much difficulty in confining the mind to contemplate what we have a great desire to know. I. Watts. The world hateth contemplation, because con- templation discovereth the treasons and deceits of the world. Erasmus. The frame of the soul is most delectable and di- vine, while it keepeth in the views of God by con- templation. M. Collins. Frequency in heavenly contemplation, is particu- larly important to prevent a shyness between God and thy soul. R. Baacter. Contemplation is the faculty of keeping the idea which is brought into the mind for some time ac- tually in view. J. Locke. Open air, shade, water, and pleasant walks, seem above all things to favor that exercise the best suited to contemplation. J. Harris. Happy is that man, whom worldly pleasures can- not draw from the contemplation of God, and whose life is a continual prayer. St. Ambrose. Contemplate thy powers, thy wants, and thy connections ; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all its ways. R. Dodsley. A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other ; but it is the Divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise. - Lord Burleigh. Reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things ; yet it is our own contemplation and meditation that must form our judgment. B. H. Coates. Contemplative men may be without the pleasure of discovering the secret of state, and men of action are commonly without the pleasure of tracing the secrets of divine art. N. Grew. There are two functions, contemplation and prac- tice, according to the general division of objects; some of which entertain our speculation, others employ our actions. R. Sowth. It is very reasonable to believe, that part of the pleasure which happy minds shall enjoy in a future state, will arise from an enlarged contemplation of the divine wisdom in the government of the world. Addison. The faculty of contemplation of mankind in the abstract, apart from those prepossessions which, both by nature and the power of habitual associa- tions, would intervene to cloud our view, is only to be obtained by a life of virtue and constant meditation and purity of thought. H. K. White. of their illustrious benefactor | CONTEMPLATION, Contemplation is both delightful and profitable, and if we desire to improve the mind and heart we must contemplate ; to meditate on the past and re- flect upon the future, is not only knowledge to the mind but virtue to the soul. James Ellis. As those states are likely to flourish where exe- cution follows sound advisements ; so is man, when contemplation is seconded by action. Contempla- tion generates ; action propagates. Without the first, the latter is defective ; without the last, the first is but abortive and embryous. Feltham. Contemplation, when the mind is long attached to one subject, becomes painful by restraining the free range of perception ; Curiosity, and the pros- pect of useful discoveries, may fortify one to bear that pain; but it is deeply felt by the bulk of man- kind, and produces in them aversion to all abstract Sciences. Kames. In the harmony of contemplation and action lies the perfection of Christian character ; they are not contradictory and incompatible, but mutually help- ful to each other ; contemplation will strengthen us for action, and action will send us back again to contemplation ; the inner life and the outward life will thus be harmoniously developed. A. L. Foote. There is no lasting pleasure, but contemplation ; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use ; and when a man hath run through a set of vani- ties, in the declension of his age, he knows not what to do with himself, if he cannot think; he saunters around from One dull business to another, to wear out time ; and hath no reason to value life but because he is afraid of death. Sir T. P. Blownt. CONTEMPOR.A.R.Y. Contemporary what a havoc of demi-godism does this word create L. G. Clark. Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit ; but posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. Coltom. The active part of mankind, as they do most for the good of their contemporaries, very deservedly gain the greatest share in their applauses. Addison. It is impossible to make the ideas of yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow to be the same ; or bring ages past and future together, and make them con- temporary. J. Locke. Contemporaries are anxious to redeem a defect of penetration by a subsequent excess of praise ; but from the very nature of things, it is impossible for posterity to commit either the one or the other. - Colton. Illustrious contemporaries may be likened to the greater stars, toward which, so long only as they remain above the horizon, our eye is turned, feels strengthened and cultivated, if it is allowed to take such perfections into itself. Goethe. The sighs of contemporary gratitude are now at- tending the sublime spirit of Washington to its paternal abode ; while the prayers of ameliorated posterity will ever ascend in glowing remembrance Paine. A R O S E O U O T A 7" / O AV S. I27 CONTEMPT. Contempt is always silent. Cicero. T. Dibden. Contempt is the sharpest reproof. No sacred fame requires us to submit to contempt. Goethe. Contempt is usually worse borne than real inju- ries. Sir Edward Leigh. Contempt is very frequently regulated by fa- shion. Zimmerman. Nothing can be great, the contempt of which is great. Longinus. Contempt will sooner kill an injury than re- venge. L. P. Jussiew. Contempt is the only sure way to triumph over calumny. Mime. de Maintenom. None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt. Rochefoucauld. Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a bad heart. Fielding. A wise man would not speak contemptuously of a prince or a peasant. Tillotson. To discover the imperfection of others is pene- tration ; to hate them for those faults is contempt. Uastejon. Contempt is a kind of gangrene, which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees. Dr. Johnsom. Contempt is a thing intolerable, forasmuch as no man can think himself so vile, that he ought to be despised. Solom. If you would know the depth of a man's capacity for contempt, sound it by the measure of his gene- rosity, and you will find them equal. H. Hooker. It is very often more necessary to conceal con- tempt than resentment, the former being never for- given, but the latter sometimes forgot. Chesterfield. Nothing is so contemptible as habitual contempt ; it is impossible to remain long under its control, without being dwarfed by its influence. Magoon. If one governs tyrannically in youth, he will be treated contemptuously in age ; and the baser his enemies, the more intolerable the affront. L’Estrange. Four very good mothers have four very bad daughters; truth has hatred, prosperity has pride, Security has peril, and familiarity has contempt. Cicero. If you see a man tamely submit to contemptuous treatment, be certain he merits it ; an innocent, independent mind will keep arrogance at a dis- tance. J. Bartlett. Contempt blunts the edge of a keen lampoon-bet- ter than reason ; railing is no creditable qualifica- tion, for who flings dirt that has another weapon at Command 3 T. C. Croker. Speak with contempt of no man ; every one hath a tender sense of reputation; and every man hath a sting, which he may, if provoked too far, dart Out at one time or other. R. Burton. CONTEMPT. Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over ; but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt. E. H. Chapin. Contempt putteth an edge upon anger more than the hurt itself ; and when men are ingenious in picking out circumstances of contempt, they do kindle their anger much. Lord Bacom. Contempt is not a thing to be despised ; it may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down upon him from above. Burke. Contempt naturally implies a man's esteeming of himself greater than the person whom he con- temns ; he therefore that slights, that contemns an affront, is properly superior to it ; and he conquers an injury who conquers his resentment of it. R. Sowth. There is no action in the behavior of one man toward another, of which human nature is more impatient, than of contempt, it being a thing made up of these two ingredients—an undervaluing of a man upon a belief of his utter uselessness and in- ability, and a spiteful endeavor to engage the rest of the world in the same belief, and slight esteem Of him. Miss Frances Browne. CONTENTION. Love not contentious persons. Jovimiam. Contentiousness, cruelty, and study of revenge, seldom fail of retaliation. R. Bentley. A readiness to enter into contention, is like vine- gar to the teeth, like caustic to an open Sore. T. S. Arthwºr. I will do much to be at peace with all men, but suffer much ere I contend with a mighty man. A. Warwick. Contention is like fire : for both burn so long as there is any exhaustible matter to contend with. T. Adams. There never arises contention in a common- wealth, but by such men as would live without all honest order. Wöchter. There is naturally in every man's mind, a kind of fancied infallibility in themselves which makes them contentious. Leightom. In contending for a point of faith, charity is sometimes lost by both parties; arguments are sharpened with invective, and wounding personali- ties provoke bitter recriminations. H. Martyn. The ancients made contention the principle that reigned in the chaos at first, and then love ; the one to express the divisions, and the other, the union of all parties in the middle and common bond. Elizabeth Burnett. Contention is the curse of life ; its imbroglios fill the heart with bitterness, and convert many a home, otherwise peaceful and happy, into dreary and desolate wastes. Discord is a dragon-tree, poisonous and unsightly; and wherever it is rooted, nothing good can grow ; it is planted by demons, and reared and nurtured by them. Acton. 128 D A Y’,S C O /, / A C () AV. CONTENTMENT. Content is the true riches. Tupper. He has enough who is content. J. B. Colbert. Contentment is a continual feast. Herder. He who is content has everything. Bartholomew. Contentment swells a mite into a talent. Cowmtess Howdedot. The spirit of contentment ever wears the hues of joy. Calderon. No worldly riches are comparable to a contented mind. Plutarch. Some have too much, many too little ; none are Content. Justinian II. Many men lose by desire, but are crowned by Content. Plato. Contentment gives a crown where fortune hath denied it. J. Ford. Nature is content with little, grace with less, sim with nothing. Rev. T. Brooks. The utmost we can hope for in this world, is contentment. Steele. If you are but content, you have enough to live upon with comfort. Plautus. A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others. Bulwer. Content hangs not so high but that a man on the ground may reach it. J. N. Colbert. Content is great riches, and patient poverty is the enemy of fortune. J. Bodenham. Content is worth more than a kingdom, and love no less worth than life. Appias. A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. Addison. God grant that, having a competency, we may be content and thankful. I. Walton. What we have by the world is misery, what we have by content is wisdom. A wreliws. To live content with our state, is the best means to prevent ambitious desires. Archimedes. It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. Sir J. Mackintosh. Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. T. Fuller. He is richest who is content with the least ; for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates. Without content we shall find it almost as diffi- cult to please others as ourselves. Greville. To learn the art of contentment, is only to learn what happiness actually consists in. Paley. There are two sorts of content ; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence ; the first is a virtue, the other a vice. Miss Edgeworth. CONTENTMENT. Content is to the mind like moss to a tree ; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth. Marquis of Halifaac. Contentment, without external honor, is humi- lity ; without the pleasure of eating, temperance. - N. Grew. No chance is evil to him who is content, and to a man nothing is miserable unless it is unreason- able. Jeremy Taylor. Contentment is not happiness: an oyster may be Content ; happiness is compounded of richer ele- ments. Bovee. Content is the blessing of nature, the slave of poverty, the master of sorrow, and the end of misery. Cypriam. I have somewhat of the best things ; I will thankfully enjoy them, and will want the rest with COntentment. B. Hall. Content and patience are the two virtues which conquer and overthrow all anger, malice, wrath, and backbiting. St. Augustine. Contentment is the most solid virtue, the sound- est philosophy, the purest religion, and the most profound wisdom. Maltravers. When one is contented, there is no more to be desired ; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it. Cervantes. To be content kills adversity if it assault, dries tears if they flow, stays wrath if it urge, wins heaven if it continue. St. Ambrose. You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man ; a con- tented mind confers it on all. Horace. True contentment depends not upon what we have ; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. Colton. Contentment is a pearl of great price, and who- ever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires, makes a wise and a happy purchase. T. Balguy. Content is a quiet and settled resolution in the mind, free from ambition and envy, aiming no further than at those things already possessed. Angwillara. The riches that men gather in time may fail, friends may wax false, hºpe may deceive, vain glory may tempt ; but content can never be con- quered. Aristippus. If men lived according to reason's rules, they would find the greatest riches to be to live content with little ; for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. Lucreţius. The highest point outward things can bring us to, is the contentment of the mind ; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable. Sir P. Sidney. He that troubles not himself with anxious thoughts for more than is necessary, lives little less than the life of angels ; whilst, by a mind content with little, he imitates their want of nothing. Cave. GOOPER, ſº Nº||Nº|ORE FE Jº A A' O S / O U O Z"A 7" / O AW S. 129 CONTENTMENT. Contentment abides with truth ; you will gener- ally suffer for wishing to appear other than what you are, whether it be richer, or greater, or more learned. Hume. Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself ; not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be SO, is content ; and in him alone belief gives itself being and real- ity. Montaigne. It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment; he is born to hopes and aspirations, as the Sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature, and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion. Southey. Contentment produces, in some measure all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone ; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing, by banishing the desire of them. Addison. Happy are the moments when sorrow forgets its cares, and misery its misfortunes ; when peace and gladness spring up upon the radiant wings of hope, and the light of contentment dawns once more upon the disconsolate, unfortunate, and unhappy heart. Acton. That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, “I have enough,” is the highest attainment in philosophy. Happiness consists, not in possessing much, but in being content with what we possess; he who wants little always has enough. * Zimmerman. If thou hast but little, make it not less by mur- muring ; if thou hast enough, make it not too much by unthankfulness. He that is not thankfully con- tented with the least favor he hath received, hath made himself incapable of the least favor he can receive. F. Quarles. The fountain of content must spring up in the mind ; and he, who has so little knowledge of hu- man nature, as to seek happiness by changing any- thing but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove. Dr. Johnson. They that deserve nothing should be content with anything ; bless God for what you have, and trust God for what you want ; if we cannot bring our condition to our mind, we must bring our mind to our condition ; if a man is not content in the state he is in, he will not be content in the state he would be in. Erskine Mason. Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness 2 Yet the . inverse is true ; we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented ; well regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a Small portion of content. W. S. Landor. Contentment, taken in a large sense, is that vir- tue whereby a man is easy in whatever state and Condition he is placed ; and denotes an evenness and Sedateness of temper ; but in a more strict sense it is that virtue whereby a man rests satisfied with the enjoyment of those things that are necessary for the support of himself and family. Limborch. CONTENTMENT. I would be so content with what I have, as I would ever think the present best; but then I would Only think it best for the present : because, when- soever I look forward, I see what is better ; to ar- rive at which my soul will long. The soul that with but half an eye sees God, will ever be on the wing, till she alights on Him. Feltham. We must not make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends; a man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to rise ; a bird that sits patiently while it broods its eggs flies bravely afterward, leading up its timid young ; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. H. W. Beeche)". There is scarce any lot so low, but there is some- thing in it to satisfy the man whom it has befallen; Providence having so ordered things that in every man's cup, how bitter soever, there are some cordial drops, some good circumstances, which if wisely extracted, are sufficient for the purpose he wants them—that is, to make him contented, and, if not happy, at least resigned. Sterne. Learn to be contented with your condition. Is that animal better that hath two or three moun- tains to graze on, than a little bee that feeds on dew or manna, and lives on what falls every morn- ing from the clouds, the storehouses of heaven 3 Can a man quench his thirst better out of a river than a full cup, or drink better from the fountain which is finely paved with marble than when it wells over the green turf Jeremy Taylor. How many deaf, dumb, halt, lame, and blind miserable persons could I reckon up that are poor, and withal distressed, in imprisonment, banish- ment, galley-slaves, condemned to the mines, quar- ries, to gyves, in dungeons, perpetual thraldom, than all which thou art richer, thou art more happy, to whom thou art able to give an alms, a lord, in respect, a petty prince ; be contented, then, I say, repine and mutter mo more, for thou art not poor indeed but in opinion.. JR. Burton. Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire ; not in multiplying of wealth, but in subtracting men's desires. World- ly riches, like nuts, tear many clothes in getting them, but fill no belly with eating them, obstruct- ing only the stomach with toughness, and fill the bowels with windiness; yea, your souls may sooner Surfeit than be satisfied with earthly things. He that at first thought ten thousand pounds too much for any One man, will afterward think ten millions too little for himself. T. Fullen'. A man diseased in body can have little joy of his wealth, be it ever so much; a golden crown cannot cure the headache, nor a velvet slipper give ease to the gout, nor a purple robe fray away a burning fever; a sick man is alike sick wherever you lay him—on a bed of gold, or on a pad of straw ; with a silk quilt or a sorry rag on him ; so no more can riches, gold, or silver, land and livings, had a man ever so much, minister unto him much joy, yea, or any true joy at all, where the mind is distract and discontent. Without contentment there is no joy of Ought, there is no profit, no pleasure in any- thing. H. Spencer. 9 130 JD A Y',S C O / / A C O AV. CONTR, ADICTION. CONTROVER.SY. Contradiction should awaken attention, not pas- Controversy begets controversy. E. Rich. sion. St. Basil. --- Let there be an end to controversy. Tacitus. It is not lawful to contradict a point of history known to all the world. Dryden. There are many who are fond of contradicting the common reports of fame. Addison. A spirit of contradiction is so pedantic and hate- ful that a man should watch against every instance Of it. I. Watts. We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us ; for a madman is not cured by an- other running mad also. Antisthemes. If any man will oppose or contradict the most evident truths, it will not be easy to find arguments where with to convince him. Epictetus. Peevish contradiction about trifles is infinitely more vexatious than a generous opposition where matters of importance are involved. T. Bentham. It is a breach of politeness ever to contradict flatly; it is a violation of the moral law to oppose without the most substantial ground. G. Crabb. Strong spirits are usually more patient of con- tradiction, and less violent, especially in doubtful things ; and they who see farthest, are the least peremptory in their determinations. R. Leighton. CONTROL. If a man does not control his passions, they will control him. D. Hartley. If we control our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength. Rochefoucauld. If thou have not so much power as to control thine anger, yet dissemble it, and keep it secret. Philip Melvillc. The art of controlling the passions is more useful, and more important, than many things in the pursuit of which we spend our days. Jortim. What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth ; the passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker. Bulwer. Those accustomed in childhood to curb and deny their little appetites and passions, will be best able to struggle with and control the passions and ap- petites of their riper years. Adelaide Ann Procter. Everything in us men is forced, is the necessary result of a control which depends not on ourselves; the free, therefore, is not he who is free from all force, for there is no such creature, but he who is only under the least force, the most natural, if I may Say SO. G. Forster. When we turn our serious attention to the econ- omy of the mind, we perceive that it is capable of a variety of processes of the most remarkable and most important nature ; we find, also, that we can exert a voluntary power over these processes, by which we control, direct, and regulate them at our will ; and that, when we do not exert this power, the mind is left to the influence of external impres- Sions, or casual trains of association, often unprofit- able and frivolous. J. Abercrombie. Be not too warm in your controversies. Budgell. Controversy destroys peace, love, and charity. - J. Prideawat. It is the love of controversy more than of truth that leads to disputations. Bovee. Happy is he who is engaged in controversy with his own passions, and comes off superior. Jortin. In every controversy we should hope more from reason than from the weight of authority. Cicero. What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs. F. Osborn. When controversy grows warm and noisy, en- deavor to put an end to it by some genteel levity or joke. Chesterfield. Some controversy in which words play a princi- pal part, will virtually put an end to that contro- versy altogether. F. C. Trench. In any controversy, the instant we feel angry, we have already ceased striving for truth, and be- gun striving for ourselves. Rev. A. Alison. Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of controversies. R. Hooker. When the state of controversy is plainly deter- mined, it must not be altered by another disputant in the course of the disputation. I. Watts. However some may affect to dislike controversy, it can never be of ultimate disadvantage to the in- terests of truth or happiness of mankind. R. Hall. Controversial discussions are not only harmless, but useful, provided truth be the inspiring motive, and charity the medium of conducting them. C. Buck. Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then rigidly adhere to their definitions. J. Edwards. Controversies, disputes, and argumentations, in both philosophy and divinity, if they meet with discreet and peaceable natures, do not infringe the laws of charity. Sir T. Browne. To assert that there should be no controversy were, in affect, to assert that a universal and per- petual embargo ought to be laid upon the exercise of thought and reason. H. Martyn. Where is the opinion, so rational and plausible, that the spirit of controversy cannot shake it 3 Can any position be so absurd as to render specious ar- guments incapable of supporting it 2 Armobius. It happens in controversial discourses as it does in the assaulting of towns, where, if the ground be but firm whereon the batteries are erected, there is no farther inquiry whom it belongs to, so it affords but a fit rise for the present purpose. J. Locke. A R O S A. Q U O Z. A 7" / O M S 131 CONTROVER.SY. Controversy is wretched when it as an attempt to prove one another wrong. Religious controversy does only harm ; it destroys the humble inquiry after truth ; it throws all the energies into an at- tempt to prove ourselves right. F. W. Robertson. All controversies that can never end, had better perhaps never begin ; the best is to take words as they are most commonly spoke and meant, like coin, as it most currently passes, without raising scruples upon the weight of the alloy, unless the cheat or the defect be gross and evident. Temple. We should take care that we do not carry our religious controversies so far as to give the infidel the same advantage over usin matters of faith, that the ancient Pyrrhonists obtained over other sects in matters of philosophy : for all the sects of phi- losophers agreed in one thing only—that of abusing each other. Colton. Controversial writing is not wholly unprofitable; and book merchants of whatever kind or degree, undoubtedly receive no small advantage from a right improvement of a learned scuffle ; nothing revives them more, or makes a quicker trade, than a pair of substantial divines or grave philosophers, well matched, and soundly backed. Shaftesbury. There is no learned man but will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies, his senses awakened, his judgment, sharpened, and the truth which he holds more firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write 3 In logic they teach that contraries laid to- gether more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true : which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth. Milton. Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil. To give up everything worth contending about, in order to prevent hurt- ful contentions, is, for the sake of extirpating nox- ious weeds, to condemn the field to perpetual ste- rility ; controversy on subjects too deep and mys- terious, is indeed calculated to gender strife ; for, in a case where correct knowledge is impossible to any, and where all are, in fact, in the wrong, there is but little likelihood of agreement ; like men who should rashly venture to explore a strange land in utter darkness, they will be scattered into a thousand devious paths. R. Whately. The most notable way of managing a contro- versy, is that which we may call arguing by tor- ture ; these disputants convince their adversaries with a sorites, commonly called a pile of faggots; the rack is also a kind of syllogism which has been used with good effect, and has made multitudes of converts; men were formerly disputed out of their doubts, reconciled to truth by force of reason, and won over to opinions by the candor, sense, and in- genuity of those who had right on their side ; but this method of conviction operated too slowly ; pain was found to be much more enlightening than reason ; every scruple was looked upon as obsti- macy, and not to be removed but by several engines invented for that purpose. Addison. CONTUIMELY. A proud man's contumely is the quintessence of his ignorance. James Ellis. Contumelies that are cast upon us in the cause of God, may safely be repaid. R. Codrington. A wise man can afford to disregard the contumely of an arrogant, haughty fool. E. P. Day. Why should any man be troubled at the contu- melies of those whose judgment deserves not to be valued ? Tillotson. Vex not yourself when ill spoken of ; contume- lies, not regarded, vanish ; but repined at argue either a puny Soul Or a guilty conscience. J. Hall. Eternal contumely attends that guilty title which claims exemption from thought, and arrogates to its wearers the prerogative of brutes. Addison. When a man treats another with contumely, and affects to spurn and contemm with that insolence which characterize the eye of disdain and the look of Scorn, it is a convincing proof of weakness and littleness of mind and character. Acton. CONVENIENCE. Convenience is a wise man's anchor. James Ellis. Nothing is convenient which does not favor one's purpose. - G. Crabb. I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination. Washington. Every man must know something for the con- veniency of his life, for which he must be obliged to others. E. Calamy. Convenience, it is evident, forms a guiding prin- ciple of trade, and requires the same consideration as the actual value of an article. W. Chambers. Conveniency is, when a thing or action is so fitted to the circumstances, and the circumstances to it, that thereby it becomes a thing convenient. - W. Perkiºms. CONVENTION. |Unanimity should exist in conventions. Talbot. Every convention has the power to enact its own rules and regulations. W. V. Barr. A convention has no more right than an indivi- dual to commit suicide. K. A. Bailey. Public conventions are liable to all the infirmi- ties, follies, and vices of private men. Swift. A convention of the people is always the first step toward reforming the abuses of any government. N. P. Tallmadge. A convention is a self-constituted assembly, which has no power except what it assumes to it- self ; it may be either domestic or political. Crabb. We have conventions for everything and for every purpose ; we have conventions to put people into public office, conventions to improve the breed of horses, conventions to promote the growth of chickens, and now we have conventions to enlarge woman's rights. Dr. Porter. 132 JD A Y’,S C O / / A C O AV. CONVERSATION. Conversation is ventilation of the heart. Irico. Conversation is improved by conversation. Day. Conversation teaches more than meditation. Schiller. Converse but little with others, much with your- self. Conrad III. Repose is as mecessary in conversation as in a picture. Hazlitt. Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of con- Versation. Goethe. Loose conversation operates On the Soul, as poison does on the body. G. Brown. Confidence furnishes conversation with more spi- rit than wit does. Rochefoucauld. In conversation, humor is more than wit, easiness more than knowledge. Sir W. Temple. Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors. R. W. Emerson. Conversation is a relaxation, and not a fencing School, nor a game of chess. D’Alembert. Conversation opens our views, and gives our fa- culties a more vigorous play. |W. Melmoth. Conversation enriches the understanding, but Solitude is the school of genius. E. Gibbon. The language of conversation should be plain, but not homely; idiomatic, but not vulgar. G. S. Hilliard. Some persons in conversation are not only full of their subject, but their subject is full of them. Bovee. Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable na- ture. Washington. Be not too brief in conversation, lest you be not understood ; nor too diffuse, lest you be trouble- SOIſle. Protagoras. In conversation, a wise man may be at a loss to know how to begin ; but a fool never knows how to stop. J. A. James. Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles. W. B. Clwlow. Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours. Greville. Much of the pleasure and all the benefit of COIl- versation, depend upon our opinion of the speak- er's veracity. Paley. One could take down a book from a shelf ten times more wise and witty than almost any man's conversation. T. Campbell. One of the first rules for a guide in polite conver- sation, is to avoid political or religious discussions in general Society. D. Hartley. Our conversation should be such that youth may therein find improvement, women modesty, the aged respect, and men civility. Saint Gwerin. CONVERSATION. One of the first observations to make in conver- sation is the state, or character, and the education of the person to whom we speak. Mme. Necker. One of the best rules in conversation is, never say a thing which any of the company can reason- ably wish we had rather left unsaid. Swift. The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular Sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze. Burke. Counsel and conversation are a second education, that improves all the virtues, and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself. Clarendon. Conversation is the music of the mind, an intel- lectual Orchestra, where all the instruments should bear a part, but where none should play together. Colton. It is when you come close to a man in conversa- tion that you discover what his real abilities are ; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack. - Dr. Johnson. The advantage in conversation is such as that, for want of company, a man had better talk to a post, than let his thoughts lie Smoking and Smoth- ering. J. Collier. Conversation is a traffic ; and if you enter into it without some stock of knowledge to balance the account perpetually betwixt you, the trade drops at Once. Sterne. There is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any inten- tion to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive. Plato. Conversation should be pleasant without Scur- rility, witty without affectation, free without in- decency, learned without conceitedness, novel with- Out falsehood. Shakspeare. The progress of a private conversation between two persons of different sexes is often decisive of their fate, and gives it a turn very distinct perhaps from what they themselves anticipated. Sir W. Scott. The conversation of most men is disagreeable, not from any deficiency in wit or judgment, but from a want of that refinement and good breeding, which may be properly called discretion or tact. - Charles Anthon. If conversation be an art, like painting, Sculpture, and literature, it owes its most powerful charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words. H. T. Twekerman. The object of conversation is to entertain and amuse; to be agreeable, you must learn to be a good listener; a man who monopolizes a conversa- tion is a bore, no matter how great his knowledge. - H. Stephens. To improve our minds on conversation, we must get acquainted with persons wiser than ourselves; if they are reserved, use obliging methods to draw out of them what may increase our own knowledge. I. Wotts. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. I 33 CONVERSATION. No one will ever shine in conversation who thinks of saying fine things; to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad. Edward H. Locker. The conversation of a man resembles a piece of embroidered tapestry, which when it is spread out, shows its figures, but when folded up they are hidden and lost. Plutarch. In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. Addison. Conversation is the daughter of reasoning, the mother of knowledge, the breath of the soul, the commerce of hearts, the bond of friendship, the nourishment of content, and the occupation of men Of wit. Carcano. The wit of conversation consists more in finding it in others, than in showing a great deal yourself; he who goes from your conversation pleased with himself and his own wit, is perfectly well pleased with you. Bruyère. In conversation, as soon as we have perceived the result of the mind of those with whom we speak, we should stop there ; all that is said further, being no longer comprehended, might pass for ridiculous. Stanislaws. The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural ; it is neither tedious nor frivolous ; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumul- tuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation. Rousseaw. Let thy conversation with men be sober and sin- cere ; let thy devotion to God be dutiful and decent; let the one be hearty, and not haughty; let the Other be humble, and not homely; so live with men, as if God saw thee; so pray to God, as if men heard thee. F. Quarles. Avoid in conversation all singularity of accu- racy. One of the bores of society is the talker who is always setting you right ; who, when you report from the paper that ten thousand men fell in some battle, tells you it was nine thousand nine hundred and seventy ; who, when you describe your walk as two miles out and back, assures you it wanted half a furlong of it. Deam H. Alford. To excel in conversation is the lot of few ; it im- plies great intellectual powers united with cordial feelings, and a strong sympathy with outward and invard nature ; to reach this excellence, we must have learned as much from inward abstraction as from outward observation, and we must be equally able to depict what we know, what we have seen, and what we have felt. S. Burder. Ordinary conversation, or intertalking, is not often instructive ; it is mostly a pastime indulged by tongue-pads, who show a willingness to listen to commonplace recitals, which spare them the labor of reflection or the pain of turning their thoughts in upon themselves; he who can contri- bute nothing to conversation, should “keep his teeth clean, and preserve silence.” Acton. CONVERSATION. A conversationalist must not exclude others from conversation at the dinner-table, as if it were his own possession, but he ought to regard mutual in- terchange of ideas to be the rule in conversation as in other things. - Cicero. It is dangerous to fall into impure conversation; when anything of the kind is said before you, if the place and person permits, reprove him that spoke ; if that is not convenient, by your blushes and your silence show at least that you are dis- pleased. Epictetus. How incalculably would the tone of conversation be improved, if we would make it a rule never to speak of a man's virtues to his face, nor of his faults behind his back ; the observance of which would at once banish flattery and defamation from the earth. Conversation being a joint and common property, every one should take a share in it ; and yet there may be societies in which silence will be Our best contribution. Chatfield. The dialect of conversation is now-a-days SO swelled with vanity and compliment, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language, and when he should come to understand it, it would be a great while before he could bring himself with a good countenance and a good conscience to con- verse with men upon equal terms, and in their own way. Tillotson. It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him ; the latter is the more general desire, and I know very able flatterers that never speak a word in praise of the persons from whom they obtain daily favors, but still practice a skillful attention to whatever is ut- tered by those with whom they converse. Steele. Conversation ought to be a delightful and im- proving intercourse between intellectual and im- mortal beings; and to attain excellence in it an assemblage of qualifications is requisite; disciplined intellect, to think clearly, and to clothe thought with propriety and elegance ; knowledge of human nature, to suit subject to character ; true politeness, to prevent giving pain ; a deep sense of morality, to preserve the dignity of speech, and a spirit of benevolence, to neutralize its asperities and sanc- tify its powers. Mrs. Sigowrmey. Conversation furnishes the very best possible opportunity for cultivating and improving style ; because while others are talking, we can both listen and arrange our own ideas and language ; those who cannot be really eloquent in conversation, Can- not be eloquent anywhere; it lacks neither interest nor excitement, because both are brought to their highest pitch of healthy action ; there is also some- thing in the very nature of this conversational in- terchange of ideas and feelings—in artswering, replying, and answering again—every way calcu- lated, not only to elicit mental action and beauty of sentiment, but also to facilitate this eloquent, charming, forcible expression. O. S. Fowler. 134 A) A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. CONVERSION. A man's whole life is but a conversion. Frazer. Conversion is redemption through Christ. Stahl. The most zealous converters are always the most Tan COTOUIS. Colton. Conversion is a work.of argument, for the judg- ment is gained by the truth. Sutcliffe. Conversion is not the result of education, though it may be through the medium of education. Evans. True conversion does not consist in being turned from one set of opinions to another, but on being turned from darkness to light. J. Wilson. It is mot for a desultory thought to atone for a lewd course of life : nor for anything but the Su- perinducing of a virtuous habit upon a vicious one, to qualify an effectual conversion. L’Estrange. Conversion is to be distinguished from regenera- tion thus: regeneration is a spiritual change; con- version is a spiritual motion ; in regeneration there is given us a principle to turn ; conversion is our actual turning. S. Charnock. In what way, or by what manner of working, God converts a soul from evil to good, how Heim- pregnates the barren rock—the priceless gems and gold—is to the human mind an impenetrable mys- tery in all cases alike. S. T. Coleridge. Conversion goes on more prosperously in those provinces of India where there are no Europeans, than in those where they are numerous ; for we find that European example in the large towns, is the bane of Christian instruction. Dr. Buchanam. As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge ; God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can ap- proach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures. Goethe. CON VICTION. Conviction is not conversion. C. G. Finney. By conviction, a sinner is brought to repent- ance. N. Webster. The accused is not considered guilty until he be convicted. Lactantiws. Conviction of sin is the first step to repentance ; after that should come confession of sin, followed by a turning away from it, and change of conduct. Rev. J. Ryland. Their wisdom is only of this world, who put false colors upon things, call good evil and evil good, against the conviction of their own con- sciences. Swift. Conviction must precede conversion ; no man can be converted from sin until he is convinced that he is a sinner ; and this is nothing more or less than conviction. Rev. T. Adam. © -* When therefore the apostle requireth ability to convict heretics, can we think he judgeth it a thing unlawful, and not rather needful to use the prin- cipal instrument of their conviction, the light of Pełł SOI). R. Hooker. CONVIVIALITY. There is a time for conviviality. Ismaeloff. Even the beggars have their seasons of convivi- ality. Steele. He is not worthy the name of a man, that spend- eth a whole day in conviviality. N. Lynge. A social and convivial spirit is such that it is happiness to live and converse with. Sir I. Newton. There are few tables where convivial talents will not pass in payment, especially where the host wants brains or the guests money. Zimmerman. Conviviality among friends is often a relaxation from study, and the pleasures of the table are not to be considered as a reproach to philosophy. J. C. Adelwng. Where there is too much conviviality, there will Soon be too much ruin ; its tempting draughts Steal unawares upon the senses, until we find our- Selves on the precipice of destruction. Staszyc. The man who can set the table in a roar at a convivial gathering, though usually courted by the young and the gay, is seldom so much respected by the world as the man of gravity ; the first shows his whole Soul and his fine feelings; the other, in hypocritical silence, conceals the defects of his mind. J. Bartlett. There are some who carry their conviviality so far, that they think there is no other way of con- vincing you how completely you are welcome, than by making you completely drunk. Although this amiable prejudice has a good deal worn off, it still prevails in a considerable degree ; for as long as you remain at table, you are not permitted to decline drinking to every toast that is offered, whatever may be your inclination or capacity. T. Percy. COOKERY. Teach your cook to be punctual. Mrs. Marsh. Good cooking tempts the appetite. Rabbi Ada. God sends meat, and the devil sends cooks. Charles VI. Even a miser does not refuse meat to the cook. Efik. Before cooking one must have something to cook. Wolof. Punctuality should ever be the motto of a good cook. Piramowicz. A good cook has great power to assuage grief by his art. Mowchy. Cookery is an excellent calling, and sorely needs recruits. Grace Greenwood. If anything goes wrong at the table, the cook is forever dishonored ; he survives not the disgrace ; let him welcome death. Votel. It is the art of cooking that makes the distinction of man and the lower animals; and a good cook who has a thorough knowledge of his art, should be entirely devoted to the gratification of taste, and the preservation of health. M. Ude. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. CO-OPERATION. Co-operation is mutual operation. H. C. Pemmell. Co-operation should always be united with good- fellowship. John Oacenford. Co-operation is the best system for the cultiva- tion of large land estates. F. A. Lange. It is one of the chief duties of man to co-operate with his fellow-man to promote their mutual hap- piness. T. Walker. Associations for the mutual assistance of the operative will be beneficial only when honesty, in- tegrity, and equal recognition, are made the fun- damental basis of co-operation. J. Nasmith. A co-operative association, possessing all the elements of soundness, may be compared to a full-rigged ship, laden with a rich cargo and well- manned, but not officered ; it cannot successfully battle with the storms of envy, jealousy, rivalry, and ambition, without a good commander and an experienced pilot. John Mowltrie. COQUETRY. Coquetry is a desire to please. C. Trellon. Coquetry is a womanly instinct. M. Bandello. Coquetry is love without conscience. M. Mole. Coquetry has always been of advantage to the beautiful. Propertius. Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in. 4Cldison. Coquetry whets the appetite ; it is the thorn that guards the rose. D. G. Mitchell. The characteristic of a coquette is affectation governed by whim. Fielding. A coquette is one who draws a cheque upon the bank of affection, and then dishonors it. G. Keate. An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others in the same proportion as she feels none her- self. Hazlitt. A coquette is a rose from which every lover plucks a leaf ; the thorns are reserved for her hus- band. - Montalembert. Heartlessness and fascination, in about equal quantities, constitute the recipe for forming the character of a court coquette. Mme. Delwzy. A coquette may be compared to tinder, which lays itself out to catch sparks, but does not always succeed in lighting up a match. H. Smith. A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty. Brwyere. -- Coquettes are those who studiously excite the passion of love, though they mean nothing less than to gratify it ; the male coquettes are nearly as mu- merous as the female. Tacitus. A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms of person than graces of mind, more ad- mirers than friends, more fools than wise men for attendants. Longfellow. CORPORATION. Corporations have only one voice. H. Trevanion. An incorporated body has no heirs nor execu- tors, nor can it die. Lofft. A corporation often means the protection of a few to the detriment of the many. F. A. Klein. Corporations cannot commit trespass, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no Souls. Sir E. Coke. If anything is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members thereof, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation OWeS. Justinian. Corporations are very often useful bodies of men ; but they more frequently outlive their use- fulness and become corport mortwi to all intents and purposes. David Jennings. CORPULENCY, Corpulency is not always strength. J. Jephson. Corpulency of the body often covers a corrupt mind. James Kenney. If the mind of man grew in corpulency at the same ratio as the body, what a world of corpulent wisdom we should have. L. S. Lavenw. Corpulency of the body is like the corpulency Of Some of our institutions ; the larger they grow the more corrupt they become. John Livingstone. A corpulent man may not inaptly be compared to some men with a corpulent purse ; the one may often lose his feet, the others more often lose their heads. Thomas Powell. CORF,BCTION. Correct what is erroneous. C. Butler. Correction, when timely, is just. J. Tucker. A correction to be effectual should be without malice or passion. Dr. Matthews. A bad citizen deserves a severer correction than the bitterest enemy, Cicero. Man is in discord, in war with himself ; his pas- sions clash and lead to conflict, and must be sus- ceptable of correction. A. Brisbane. In the correction of children, there is always a present sorrow and a future hope ; for we must always bear in mind that the faults of the child become the crimes of the man. Na2zowmee. CORF, ESPONDENCE. To correspond is not always to respond. Paley. We delight to correspond with those we love and respect. N. Webster. The characteristic traits of both man and woman, can be traced in their correspondence. A. Russell. We write many things in our correspondence that we would not say with our tongues. I. Ritson. Correspondence may often be turned to good ac- count; in a woman's correspondence, it is the means by which we can discover her vanity ; in a man's his egotism. Sir C. Sedley. 136 J) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. CORRUPTION. COUNSEL. The world is full of corruption. J. M. Bailey. Hear good counsel. P. Damiami. Corruption is a man's inheritance. Anacletus. Harsh counsels have no effect. Helvetius. Ovid. It is the corrupting of the good to keep company with the evil. St. Gregory. Never consent to the election of a corrupt minis- ter or magistrate. Viscow’nt Kenmuir. All things can corrupt perverse minds. Corruption is a tree whose branches are of an unmeasurable length. F. Beawºnomt. The corrupt heart breaketh out by the lewd tongue ; and such as speakevil of all men are mon- sters among good men. Jºenophon. I see corruption so largely rewarded that I doubt not that I should thrive in the world, could I get but a dispensation for my conscience for the liberty of trading. A. Warwick. COSTUIME}. Be decent in thy costume. J. Beawmont. A costume is a key to the age in which it was in vogue. C. M. Cracherode. How beautiful is national costume in countries where it exists. 4. Blackwood. No man is esteemed for his gay costume, but by fools and women. Sir W. Raleigh. Our costume should correspond with the age and country in which we live. F. W. J. Schelling. A lady of genius will give a genteel air to her whole costume by a well-fancied suit of knots, as a judicious writer gives a spirit to a whole sentence by a single expression. J. Gay. A simple garb is the proper costume of the vul- gar ; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure ; but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. Brwyere. All costume off a man is pitiful or grotesque ; it is only the serious eye peering from, and the sin- cere life passed within it, which restrain laughter and Consecrate the costume of any people : let a harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too ; when the Soldier is hit by a cannon-ball, rags are as be- Coming as purple. Thoreow. COTTA.G.E. Love in a cottage is hungry. N. P. Willis. In a cottage there may be more real happiness, than kings or their favorites enjoy. Horace. Great virtues may sometimes be found in cot- tages, while they are totally wanting among the great. Thomas Day. Every leisure hour spent in renderin g more lovely and agreeable the humblest cottage, is infinitely better employed than in idle dissipation. Downing. “A rustic cottage 1” says the lover to his be- trothed, “that is the desire of my heart It is the home I have dreamed of, for you and me ; here may we live together, and seal this Paradise of ours with mystery and forgetfulness of the past.” Michelet. Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow. Van der Does. Counsel with few, perform with many. Louis IV. They that will not receive counsel cannot receive help. Franklin. Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. Veneroni. Hasty counsels are generally followed by repen- tance. Laberiws. Take no counsel of a man given wholly to the world. Pythagoras. In time of necessity a wise man will be glad to hear counsel. Sirach. Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy. JYemocrates. Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's counsel. G. Chapman. Counsel doth more harm than good, if the giver thereof be not wise. Bias. Counsellors would be wanting if there were dan- ger in giving advice. Rufus. Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous. Tuckerman. Good counsel may properly be called the begin- ning and ending of every good work. Severus. I will adhere to the counsels of good men, al- though misfortune and death should be the conse- quence. Cicero. Good counsels observed are chains to grace, which neglected, prove halters to strange unduti- ful children. Fuller. The fellowship of a true friend in misery is al- ways sweet, and his counsels in prosperity are always fortunate. Aristippus. As it is the part of a wise man to consult and give counsel, so it is the duty of a wary man heed- fully and uprightly to judge. L. V. Guevara. No man is so foolish but he may give another good counsel sometimes, and no man so wise but he may easily err, if he takes no other counsel than his Own. Ben Jonson. Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself ; his counsel may then be useful, where your own self-love might impair your judgment. Seneca. He is the first man, in point of abilities, who of himself forms good counsels; the next is he who submits to good advice ; he who can neither him- self form good counsels nor knows how to comply with those of another is of the very lowest capa- city. Livy. Counsels that are new and of an unusual charac- ter may at first sight appear perhaps more glorious and noble, but they are undoubtedly more danger- ous and fallacious than those which have been in all ages and by all men approved of by reason and experience. Gwicciardini. ;. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 137 COUNTENANCE. The countenance is the index of the mind. Lavater. Often the countenance speaks without a voice. Ovid. A pleasing countenance is a silent commendation. - Publius Syrus. A countenance full of fear usually betrays many crimes. Semeca. Out of clothes, out of countenance ; out of coun- tenance, out of wit. Ben Jonson. The countenance is the very portrait of the Soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. Cicero. The two maxims at court are, always keep your countenance, but never keep your word. Swift. The human countenance never lies; if read aright it always presents the real index of the mind. Mrs. S. Moodie. The countenance that is chastened by brightness is only gathered by those who tread the path of sympathy and love. Condorcet. He that lieth, bearing the countenance of an honest man, by his outward show of honesty sooner deceiveth the ignorant, than many others which seem unfit. Appias. Remember that the qualities of the heart and the actions of the life stamp the features with an inef- faceable mark, either with goodness or vileness, and cultivate those affections and habits which will write upon the tablets of your countenance that which no one reading can but love and admire. S. A. Brooke. COUNTERFEIT. Counterfeits imply an Original. W. Jay. Whatever is too dear for us we are tempted to counterfeit. FI. Hooker. A counterfeit disease is sometimes taken away with a counterfeit syrup. Plotimus. No one is easily satisfied with the counterfeit of an object still present, but how prized is every even shadowy likeness of one who is absent or de- parted Goethe. We may counterfeit the person or character of a person for whom we would wish to pass, but if the likeness be not very exact the falsehood is liable to detection. G. Crabb. A pretended affection is not easily distinguished from a real One, unless in seasons of distress; for adversity is to friendship what fire is to gold—the only infallible test to discover the genuine from the counterfeit ; in all cases they both have the same common marks. Cicero. To counterfeit is to put on the likeness and ap- pearance of some real excellency : Bristol-stones Would not pretend to be diamonds, if there never had been diamonds; there would be no counter- feit but for the sake of something real; though pretenders seem to be what they really are not, yet they pretend to be something that really is. Tillotson. “itself. COUNTRY. Honor thy country. Thales. Never desert your country. N. Biddle. He who changes country changes luck. Guicciardini. There can be no affinity nearer than our country. Plato. Everywhere we should remember our country. Lord Malmesbury. That is every man's country, where he lives best. Aristophanes. Necessity compelleth every man to love his coun- try. Euripides. A man should love his country more than him- self. T. Jefferson. Love of country is more powerful than reason Ovid. I regret that I have only one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale. Our country is that spot to which our heart is attached. Voltaire. It is shameful for a man to be ignorant of his own country. Manutivs. Wherever the brave man chooses his abode, that is his country. Rufus. An honest man has no attachment greater than to his own country. George III. The love of my country will be the ruling influ- ence of my conduct. Washington. A king ought to prefer the good of his country to that of his children. Seneca. I should love my country very much, if it were not for my countrymen. H. Walpole. Our country ! may she always be right; but our country, right or wrong. S. Decatur. Men are taught virtue and a love of independence by living in the country. Memounder. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestions. E. H. Chapin. Every patriot will do what he can to benefit his country—his whole country. FH. W. Show. He is worthily hated of all men, that beareth not a faithful heart to his country. T. Conant. To some men their country is their shame, and Some are the shame of their country. Calcime. Men are not born for themselves, but for their country, parents, kindred, and friends. Cicero. It is Providence that has given us the country, and the art of man that has built the cities. Varro. I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country. |W. A. Alcott. There is one memory which is engraven upon every man's heart, the memory of his native coun- try. - James Ellis. 138 - AD A Y 'S CO /, / 4 C O AV. COUNTRY. There is nothing more to be desired, nor anything Ought to be more dear to us, than the love of our country. Stoebews. The infant, on first opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it. Rowsseaw. I fancy the proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country, is to reside some time in a foreign One. Shenstone. A glorious death is his who dies fighting for his country, while his wife is safe, and children, home, and heritage unimpaired. Homer. The country is the philosopher's garden and library, in which he reads and contemplates the power, wisdom, and goodness of God. W. Penn. A country life gives a man a greater stock Of. health, and consequently a more perfect enjoyment of himself, than any other way of life. Addison. That country may, above all other, be counted happy, where every man enjoyeth his own labor, and no man liveth by the sweat of another's brow. E. S. Ffowlkes. The love which we bear to our country is not piety, as some suppose, but charity; for there is no piety but that which we bear to God and our pa- rentS. A. F. Doni. Hear and keep this fixed forever in thy breast : to be incensed against thy country is impious, nor is there any sin more heinous that conducts man to the grave. Siliws Italicus. Children, parents, and friends are near to us, but our country challengeth a greater love ; for whose preservation we ought to oppose our lives to the greatest dangers. St. Basil. It is a fair presumption that there must be some- thing of the child still in the character of the men, or the women, whom the country charms in ma- turer as in dawning life. Bulwer. The country is the place in which the court, as in its point of view, appears glorious and admir- able; if we approach it, its beauties diminish, like those of a fine piece of perspective viewed too near. Bruyère. O country, when shall I behold thee, and be allowed to drink a sweet oblivion of the cares of life, musing on the works of ancient sages, or in gentle sleep and hours of peaceful abstraction from the world's busy scenes | Horace. A man who renounces his allegiance to his native country or sovereignty, should be cautiously trus- ted by that nation in which he becomes a citizen : the love of country is inherent with our natures, and is never eradicated by an oath. J. Bartlett. The happiness of the dweller in the country is shown in new treasures year by year, and freedom and delight make his countenance serene; slander, pride, and cares, which enslave those who lead a town life, darken not his mornings, oppress not his nights. Hagedorm. COUNTRY. The ruin of a country is not the blight of corn, nor the impetuosity of hailstones; it is not inunda- dation nor storm, pestilence nor famine ; a few years, perhaps a Single One, may cover all traces of such calamity. But that country is too surely ruined, in which morals are lost irretrievably to the greater part of the rising generation. Landor. Men almost universally prefer their native coun- try before every other, on account of what they consider to be its singular beauty or superior matu- ral advantages; it is a well-known fact that they who are natives of a dreary and barren region are as attached to the land of their nativity as they are whose native country is of the most fertile and beautiful description. Carter. Seldom shall we see in cities, courts, and rich families where men live plentifully, and eat and drink freely, that perfect health, that athletic Soundness and vigor of constitution, which is com- monly seen in the country, in poor houses and cottages, where nature is their cook, and necessity their caterer, and where they have no other doctor but the sun and fresh air. R. Sowth. Love of country is inseparable from individual pride ; and the dearer she is to her children, the more haughtily do they admire their mother. Slight or scorn shown to her by any alien, is felt to be a personal insult to themselves ; and she, again, regards every demonstration of such feelings toward the least of her offspring, as disrespectful or contemptuous of herself, and will vindicate her native worth by vengeance on all offenders. Coco. I never enter the country but my spirits are re- vived, and a sweet complacency diffuses itself over my whole mind; and how can it be otherwise, where the music of falling waters, the symphony of birds, the gentle humming of bees, the breath of flowers, the fine imaginary of painting and sculp- ture—in a word, the beauties and the charms of nature and of art court all my faculties, refresh the fibres of the brain, and smooth every avenue of thought ! And when I turm up some masterly writer to my imagination, methinks here his beau- ties appear in the most advantageous light, and the rays of his genius shoot upon me with greater force and brightness than ordinary. Steele. The sentiment, “Our country, right or wrong,” is as profligate and impious as would be the senti- ment, “Our church, or our party, right or wrong.” If it be rebellion against God to violate his laws for the benefit of one individual, however dear to us, not less sinful must it be to commit a similar act for the benefit of any number of individuals. If we may not, in kindness to the highwayman, as- sist him in robbing and murdering the traveller, what divine law permits us to aid any number of our own countrymen in robbing and murdering other people He who engages in a defensive war, with a full conviction of its necessity and justice, may be impelled by patriotism, by a benevolent desire to save the lives, and property, and rights of his countrymen ; but, if he believes the war to be one of invasion and conquest, and utterly unjust, by taking part in it he assumes its guilt, and be- comes responsible for its crimes. W. Jay. P A O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. I 39 COURAGE. Courage baffles ill fortune. A. Botello. True courage is unassuming. FIwlsius. Be courageous, but not rash. W. Penn. Courage is the lamp of adversity. Vawvenargues. True courage is the result of reasoning. Collier. Courage without reason becomes rashness. Sir Thomas Craig. Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. G. S. Bowes. Courage profits men nought, if God denies His aid. - Ewripides. The courage of the soldier may be bought for gold. H. Thuttle. It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons. Cervantes. The courage of a man is seen in the resolution of his death. W. Raa. Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood. Sir P. Sidney. Courage is a wise man's coat, and cowardice a fool's cognizance. Solom. If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else. Niebuhr. Courage and greatness are as much aspired to in schools as from nature. Archimedes. Courage contemneth all perils, despiseth calami- ties, and conquers death. Stoboews. Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive. Rames. Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have. Greville. There is no courage but in innocence ; no con- stancy but in an honest cause. T. Sowthern. The true courage of the hero is to forget the rank he has attained by his courage. Lorraine. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished as your sword. R. B. Sheridam. Courage consists not in blindly over-looking dan- ger, but in seeing and conquering it. Richter. Courage adventureth on danger, conquereth by perseverance, and endeth with honor. Sully. There is not anything hard to be accomplished by him that with courage enterprised it. Cicero. Courage is the champion of justice, and never ought to contend but in righteous actions. Epictetus. Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause. Plutarch. The courage which emulation inspires for an en- terprise, soon finds the means of succeeding. Stanislaws. COURAGE. Courage begun with deliberate constancy, and continued without change, doth seldom fail. Appias. It cannot be accounted courageous and true vic- tory, that bringeth not with it some clemency. Bias. Courage depending on mediocrity hath auda- ciousness for one, and fear for the Jther extreme. - Lucretius. It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and fool- ish. Rowsseaw. Courage is incompatible with the fear of death ; but every villain fears death ; therefore no villain can be brave. Golton. Courage may be virtue, where the daring act is extreme ; and extreme fear no vice, when the dan- ger is extreme. T. Hobbes. Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate. Goethe. Courage is a sort of armor to the mind, and keeps an unwelcome impression from driving too deep into perception. J. Elmes,” Courage, in able men, is the force of resolution ; but what is called fortitude in fools, is rather con- tempt of danger. N. Macdonald. An intrepid courage is at best but a holiday kind of virtue, to be seldom exercised, and never but in cases of necessity. Dryden. Gallant and fearless courage will turn into a native and heroic valor, and make us hate the cow- ardice of doing wrong. Milton. True courage is sometimes perfectly consistent with a degree of caution, which, under other cir- cumstances, would amount to timidity. A. Ceba. Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter. A. Hill. Courage is a fiery humor of the spirits, kindling the mind with forwardness in attempts, and bear- ing the body through danger and the hardest ad- Ventures. Bisaccioni. True courage has so little to do with anger, that there lies always the strongest suspicion against it, where this passion is highest ; true courage is cool and calm. Shaftesbwry. The truest courage is always mixed with circum- spection; this being the quality which distinguishes the courage of the wise from the hardiness of the rash and foolish. Jones of Nayland. Personal or private courage is totally distinct from that higher and nobler courage which prompts the patriot to offer himself a voluntary sacrifice for his country's good. H. Clay. All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half-starved commonalty of other coun- tries. Sir W. Temple. 140 D A Y’,S C O / / A C O AV. COURAGE. Moral courage is a virtue of a higher cast and nobler origin than physical ; it springs from a consciousness of virtue, and renders a man, in the pursuit or defence of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt. S. G. Goodrich. A man without courage would be as ill-prepared to discharge his duty in his intercourse with the worki, as a woman without fortitude would be to support herself under the complicated trials of body and mind with which she is liable to be as- sailed. G. Crabb. Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness ; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest Self-dis- trust ; and never does the human Soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. E. H. Chapin. As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning courage ; I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforseen events, leaves full freedom of judgment and decision. Napoleon I. Courage, like other dispositions, may be applied to wicked purposes; it may be injurious to the courageous persons, and injurious to others. If courage makes men less happy, if it injures the comforts, or destroys the property of others, it is not a virtue, but a vice. Dr. Bowring. Courage in suffering for a good cause is well ; but if courage be not tempered with meekness, if our resentments burn in our breasts, and boil over in projects of revenge, Opprobrious language, or any sort of indecent bitterness, neither we nor our cause are likely to gain by it. Earl Stanhope. Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile gentle because courageous. Ruskin. Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way ; and moral cour- age, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp, the latter for council ; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary. - Coltom. Let every soldier arm his mind with hopes, and put on courage ; whatsoever disaster falls, let not his heart sink ; the passage of providence lies through many crooked ways; a despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of fortune, but not break them. -- F. Qwarles. Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resour- ces; in desperate straits the fear of the timid ag- gravates the dangers that imperil the brave. For cowards, the road of desertion should be left open ; they will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears ; the poltroon, like the scabbard, is an en- Cumbrance when once the sword is drawn. Bovee. COURAGE. Courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it ; and when it is only a kind of instinct in the soul, it breaks out on all occasions, without judgment or discretion. That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in an uniform man- ner, and according to the dictates of right reason. Addison. He who is truly courageous fears but two beings in the universe, God and himself ; he fears lest his own rash passions or mistaken views may lead him to do what is wrong ; but, once assured that he is right, he cares not for one man nor many men ; he cares not for their ridicule nor their contempt. That which you think is right, do ; that which you think is wrong, avoid; without regard to the frowns or the smiles of any or of all others; only so can you prove yourself courageous. Brºwn., Let him not imagine who aims at greatness that all is lost by a single adverse cast of fortune; for if fortune has at one time the better of courage, courage may afterwards recover the advantage. He who is prepossessed with the assurance of over- coming, at least overcomes the fear of failure ; whereas he who is apprehensive of losing, loses in reality all hopes of subduing. *Boldness and power are such inseparable companions that they appear to be born together ; and when once divided, they both decay and die at the same time, H. Venºn. We all understand the general difference between physical and moral courage ; the One belonging rather to the bodily temperament, the other to the mind—the one to the animal, the Other to the man ; physical courage opposing itself to dangers which threaten the person or the life ; moral courage the opposite of weakness, and proof against ridicule, false shame, the fashion of the day. And it is often to be noted that those who abound in physical courage, never appalled by dangers, or even court- ing them, are deficient in moral courage, afraid of their companions, easily seduced to evil, shrinking before a laugh or a sneer. 2^ A great deal of talent is lost in the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained in obscurity because their timidity has who, if they could have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame. The fact is, that to do any- thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and dan- ger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calcula- ting risks and adjusting nice chances; it did very well before the flood, when a man could consult his friends upon an intended publication for a hum- . dred and fifty years, and then live to see his success afterwards; but at presentaman waits, and doubts, and consults his brother and his particular friends, till one fine day he finds that he is sixty years of age ; that he has lost so much time in consulting . his first-cousins and particular friends, that he has no more time to follow their advice. Sydney Smith. S- prevented them from making a first effort ; and JDr. Hawkins. ~l-` \ ~ L' A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 141 COURTESY. Courtesy on one side never lasts long. Boileau. The courtesies of the world are hollow and thank- less. J. Hall. Proud looks lose hearts, but courteous words win them. Ferdimand. Courtesy is the true characteristic of a good mind. F. L. T. Joseph. The small courtesies sweeten life ; the greater ennoble it. Bovee. A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood. Sir P. Sidney. Courtesy covereth many imperfections, and pre- venteth more dangers. Thomas Carew. Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. Bem Jonson. If ever Ishould affect justice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none. Feltham. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. O. W. Holmes. He that is mild and courteous to others, receiveth much more honor than the party whom he honor- eth. We must be as courteous to a man as to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. R. W. Emerson. Courtesy is the oil in the machinery of social life; it is necessary for comfort, and it helps to make people happy. Gertrudis Gomes Avellameda. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well-tried, before you give them. your confidence. Washington. There is a courtesy of the heart ; it is allied to love ; from it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. Goethe. Those studied courtesies, in which truth has little part, tend to bewilder and break up that sincerity, which is an essential element of friendship. Mrs. Sigourmey. As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors. T. Fuller. Many a heart has been won through the exercise of such little kindnesses and courtesies as are natu- ral to the generous in spirit and the noble of soul. T. S. Arthwºr. In the intercourse of society, courtesy finds place for promoting the happiness of others, and for strengthening in ourselves the habits of unselfish politeness. D. Hartley. Hail! ye small, sweet courtesies of life, for Smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight ; it is ye who open the door and let the stran- ger in. Sterne. Plutarch. , COURTESY. - Courtesy is often mere ceremonial formality, and the tenderness which is sometimes showered upon us has more of pity than of favor ; true cour- tesy should emanate from pure respect, joined with a condescending confidential kindness. James Ellis. As the tree is known by its fruits, the gold by the touch, and the bell by the sound, so is a man’s birth by his benevolence, his honor by his humility, and his calling by his courtesy ; as the bag strain- eth the lute-strings, so courtesy stretcheth the heart-strings. D. Cawdray. Genuine courtesy grows out of an assiduous self- denial, and a constant consideration of the happi- ness of others ; the forms and usages of etiquette derive all their beauty and significance from the fact that each of them requires the sacrifice of one's own ease and convenience to another's comfort. J. Foster, Courtesy is a virtue which belongeth to the cour- ageous part of the soul, whereby we are hardly moved to anger. Her office and duty is, not to suffer herself to be hastily carried to revenge, nor to be easily spurred to wrath ; but to make him that possesseth her, mild, gracious, and of a staid and settled mind. J. B. Colbert. The way to make yourself pleasing to others is to show them those small courtesies, in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affec- tionate looks, and little acts of attention, giving others the preference in every little enjoyment, at the table, in the field, walking, sitting, and stand- ing. - W. Wºn't. Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to further inti- macy and friendship, opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in Our character worthy of imitation. Montaigme. Courtesies to noble minds are not only gifts, but purchases that buy men out of their own liberty. Violence and compulsion are not half so dangerous ; these besiege us openly, give us leave to look to ourselves, to collect our forces, and refortify when we are sensible of our own weakness ; but the other undermines us by a fawning stratagem ; and if we be enemies they make us lay down our weapons, and take up love. - J. Beawmont. Courtesy in the world is by no means a false and culpable pretence. It softens rather than dissimu- lates ; and, on the whole, since it deceives nobody, it cannot be accused of falsehood. Incompatibility of character, the profound and radical differences which are born of principles drawn from hostile sources, the eager pursuit of conflicting ends—all these elements of discord, brought into play by the lively irritability of self-love, wounded pride, or opposing interests, make it hard to understand why the assembling together of men is not oftener the occasion of strife, invective, and bitter provoca- tion. Mme. Swetchine. 142 A) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. COURT. Courts have no almanacs. Gleim. At court the steps are slippery. Stolberg. Let him who wishes to lead a virtuous life eschew COurtS. Lucanus. Courts are the places where the best manners flourish. T. Otway. Faith never enters the courts of kings: it is the splendor that excites. Semeca. A court does not render a man contented, but it prevents his being so elsewhere. J. Brentz. The court is like a palace built of marble ; I mean that it is made up of very hard and very polished people. Bruyère. A court attendance seems pleasant to those who have never tried it : a little experience convinces us of its irksomeness. FHorace. The general affectation among men, of appear- ing greater than they are, makes the whole world run into the habit of the court. Steele. The courts of two countries do not so much differ from one another, as the court and city, in their peculiar ways of life and conversation. Addison. The court, a country where the people are sad, merry, ready for everything, unconcerned about everything, are what the prince pleases, or, if they cannot be so, endeavor at least to appear so. La Fontaine. There is a court jargon, a chit chat, a small talk, which turns singly upon trifles; and which, in a great many words, says little or nothing. It stands fools instead of what they cannot say, and men of sense instead of what they should not say ; it is the proper language of levees, drawing-rooms, and antechambers. Chesterfield. COURTIER,. A courtier is a creeping-climbing hypocrite. Sir John Hill. Courtiers are the moths and scarabs of a state. Ben Jonson. A courtier's dependant is very like a beggar's dog. Shemstone. A courtier should be without feeling and without honor. Lemoine. A courtier will not contest a point with his sov- ereign. Favorinws. A court is an assemblage of noble courtiers and distinguished beggars. Talleyrand. Courtiers, faithless in other respects, are particu- larly so in regard to the concealing of secrets. Livy. The chief requisites for a courtier are a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. Lady Blessington. No being is more miserable than a courtier, ex- iled to a little town, where he is without intrigue. C. Fourier. COURTIER,. A luckless courtier must somewhat resembles the showman's amphibious animal, “who cannot live on the land, and dies in the water.” Chatfield. Nothing is more common than to hear people abusing courtiers, and affecting to despise courts, yet most of these would be proud of the acquain- tance of the one, and would be glad to live in the Other. Colton. There is nothing that humbles certain courtiers So much as the presence of the prince ; their fea- tures are so changed, and they are so chop-fallen. The proud and arrogant are the most abashed, for they lose most ; the man of high principle and modesty maintains his position best ; he has no- thing to change. Bruyère. An old courtier, with veracity, good sense, and a faithful memory, is an inestimable treasure ; in him one may find the history of the age which we never meet with in books: from him we may learn such rules for our conduct and manners, of the more weight, being founded on facts, and illustrated by Striking examples. G. T. Bottoºri. Among all the creatures, there is none stranger than man ; and among all men, there is none so strange as a courtier. Man is the quintessence of the oddities of the world ; and a courtier is the quintessence of the Oddities of men. It is hard to describe a man ; but it is impossible to describe a courtier ; for his irregularities are as irreducible as the moon's. J. Hinton. Ambition in the midst of a life of sloth, meanness with pride, the desire of becoming rich without labor, aversion for the truth, flattery, treachery, perfidy, the abandonment of all his engagements, contempt for his duties as a citizen, dread of the virtue of the prince, hope of his weakness, and, above all, perpetual ridicule thrown on everything virtuous, form, in my opinion, the character of the greatest number of courtiers, seen in all places and in all times. Montesquiew. The rapidity with which men, in all the various positions of life, rise and fall is very marked ; but this is chiefly seen in those who are attached to the court of kings ; for as the counters which are em- ployed in calculation assume their particular value at the will of the man who casts up the account, sometimes representing a talent, sometimes a far- thing, so courtiers are rich and prosperous, wretch- ed and poor, at the nod of their prince. Polybius. A courtier, to all men's thinking, is a man, and to most men the finest ; he smells ; and putteth away much of his judgment about the situation of his clothes; he puts more confidence in his words than meaning, and more in his pronunciation than his words. Occasion is his cupid, and he hath but one receipt of making love ; he follows nothing but inconstancy, admires nothing but beauty, hon- ors nothing but fortune ; loves nothing. The sus- tenance of his discourse is news, and his censure like a shot depends upon the charging. He is not, if he be out of court, but, fish-like, breathes des- truction, if out of his own element. Neither his motion, or aspect are regular, but he moves by the upper spheres, and is the reflection of higher sub- stances. Sir T. Overbury. A R O S A. Q O O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 143 COURTSHIP. Courtship is a very ancient practice. Chambers. Men dream and laugh in courtship, but wake and sigh in wedlock. Pope. Courtship is a vast hunting party; all the plea- sure lies in the pursuit. Fanny Ferm. Courtship is the bud, of which marriage is the blossom ; but the bud sometimes withers before blossom-time. Mrs. Jackson – Winchester. Courtship consists in a number of quiet atten- tions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor SO vague as not to be understood. Sterne. Courtship and marriage, are but as music in the play-house, till the curtain is drawn ; but, that Once up, them opens the scene of pleasure. Congreve. The lover disguises his real character under va- rious garbs ; and very often those who appear the most perfect in courtship, turn out the most despi- cable in marriage. James Ellis. The whole endeavor of both parties, during the time of courtship, is to hinder themselves from being known, and to disguise their natural temper and real desires, in hypocritical imitation, studied compliance, and continued affectation. Johnson. The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his pas— sion be sincere, and the party beloved, kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit. Addison. Courtship is a fine bowling-green turf, all gal- loping round and Sweethearting, a Sunshine holiday in summer time ; but when once through matri- mony's turnpike, the weather becomes wintry, and some husbands are seized with a cold, aguish fit, to which the faculty give the name of indifference. G. A. Stevens. COVENANT. Reep sacred your covenants. G. Lippard. Make no covenant with sin, nor any league with hell. W. L. Gorrison. A covenant is a contract, or agreement, between two or more parties, on certain terms. N. Webster. The covenant of grace is generally defined to be that which was made with Christ, as the second Adam, and in Him with all believers. C. Buck. The covenant consists of these two words, “Christ,” and “Faith :” Christ bestowed. On God's part, faith required on Ours; Christ the matter, faith the condition of the covenant. H. Hammond. God's covenant with man is a gracious engage- ment on the part of God to communicate certain unmerited favors to men, in connection with a par- ticular constitution or system, through means of which these favors are to be enjoyed. Alexander. God's covenant with man, of which the rainbow is a token, was not that no rain should ever fall on the earth, but that floods should not destroy it ; so now His covenant with His people is, not to keep them free from trials, but that they shall not be overwhelmed and destroyed by them. W. Day. COVETOUSINESS. Covet nothing overmuch. Chilo. Covetousness bursts the bag. Cervantes. Do not covet another's property. Cleobulus. The coveteous is the slave of fear. Horace. The covetous are most easily cheated. - A. Albwrquerque. He that coveteth riches is hardly capable of good instruction. Plotin/ws. He deservedly loses his own property who covets that of another. Phoedºrws. Covetousness debaseth a man's spirit, and sinketh it into the earth. Tillotson. Poverty wanteth many things; but covetousness denieth itself all. R. Dodsley. The excuse of the covetous man is, that he ga- thereth for his children. Apollonius. Covetousness is never to be satisfied ; the more it has, the more it wants. Lºwther. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man. H. Spencer. Beware of the beginning of covetousness, for you know not where it will end. R. Mant. Covetousness is an improper desire to obtain something we do not possess. A. Ritchie. By liberality, men's vices are covered: by covet- ousness, laid open to the world. St. Awgustine. Covetousness swells the principal to no purpose, and lessens the use to all purposes. Jeremy Taylor. The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. T. Adams. The glutton's mind is of his belly, the lecher's of his lust, and the covetous man's of his gold. St. Bernard. The disease of the covetous man is scarcely cura- ble ; for the more he has, the more he desires. - J. Mair. Covetousness, like a candle ill-made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. F. Osborne. Covetousness cracks the sinews of faith, and be- numbs the apprehensions of anything above sense. - Sir T. Browne. A covetous person wants what he has, as well as what he has not ; because he is never satisfied with it. A. Chalmers. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that wealth may be said to pos- sess him. Lord Bacon. Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness. S. R. N. Chamfort. Covetous persons are like sponges which greedily drink in water, but return very little until they are Squeezed. G. S. Bowes. 144 JO A Y',S C O / / A C O AV. COVETOUSINESS. Covetousness is unprofitable ; it defeats its own purposes; it breeds restless daring, where it is dan- gerous to venture. H. W. Beecher. Some men are so covetous as if they were to live forever; and others so profuse as if they were to die the next moment. Aristotle. Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it ; while prodigals, who need it most, have the least regard for it. A. Wilson. The property of a covetous man is, to live like a beggar all days of his life, and to be found rich in money, at the hour of his death. Archimedes. Covetousness, by a greediness of getting more, deprives itself of the true end of getting ; it loses the enjoyment of what it has got. Sprat. The only gratification a covetous man gives his neighbors is, to let them see that he himself is as little better for what he has as they are. W. Penn. The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world; to take in everything, and part with nothing. R. Sowth. A covetous man passeth great travels in gather- ing riches, more danger in keeping them, much law in defending them, and great temper in departing from them. Periander. Covetousness is a vice of the soul, whereby a man desireth to have from all parties without rea- son, and unjustly withholdeth that which belongeth to another. Aristippus. When covetousness gains a complete ascendancy, engrossing the whole man, it forms that compound of all that is mean and despicable, that monster of moral deformity, usually called a miser. Guéret. Covetous men need neither clock nor bell to awake them : their desires make them restless. O. that we could with as much eagerness seek the true riches, which alone can make us happy J. Hall. The covetous man, in seeking after riches, pur- chaseth care for himself, envy from his neighbors, a prey for thieves, peril for his person, damnation for his soul, curses for his children, and law for his heirs. Lucretius. Covetousness teaches men to be crueland crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice ; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has Snatched. Jeremy Taylor. The spirit of covetousness which leads to an over- value and over-love of money is independent of amount ; a poor man may make an idol of his lit- tle just as much as the rich man makes an idol of his much. E. B. Ramsay. Let not the covetousness of a captain purloin to his own use, or any way bereave his soldiers of any profit due unto their service, either in their means or spoils; such injuries are never forgotten ; what soldiers earn with the hazard of their lives, prophesies an overthrow in the next battle.’ F. Quarles. COVETOUSINESS. The character of covetousness is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardli- ness or ill-grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence; very few pounds a year would ease that man of the scandal of avarice. Pope. The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them ; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own ; and makes a hard shift to be as poor and miserable with a great estate as any man can be without it. Tillotson. Covetousness is the root of all evil, from whence do proceed, as from a fountain of mishap, the ruin Of common weals, the subversion of estates, the wreck of societies, the stain of conscience, the breach of amity, the confusion of the mind, injus- tice, bribery, slaughter, treasons, and a million of other mischievous enormities. Awrelius. Covetous men are fools, miserable wretches, buz- zards, madmen, who live by themselves, in per- petual slavery, fear, suspicion, Sorrow, discontent, with more of gall than honey in their enjoyments, who are rather possessed by their money than pos- sessors of it ; mancipati pecumiis, bound appren- tices to their property ; and, servi divitiarwm, mean slaves and drudges to their substance. R. Burton. No vice has been more correctly delineated than covetousness ; none pursued and attacked with more energy and ardor ; yet the monster remains unsubdued, and stalks forth, imprinting the giant footsteps of desolation. An avaricious temper has been detected through the most Specious disguises, traced in all its workings, portrayed in all its symp- toms; but who has been able successfully to pre- Scribe for its cure ? H. Martyn. The covetous man is a downright servant, a man condemned to work in mines, which is the lowest and hardest condition of Servitude ; and, to in- crease his misery, a worker there for he knows not whom : “He heapeth up riches, and knows not who shall enjoy them ;” it is sure that he himself neither shall nor can enjoy them. He is an indigent, needy slave': he will hardly allow himself clothes and board-wages; he defrauds not only other men, but his own genius ; he cheats himself for money. But the servile and miserable condition of this wretch is so apparent, that I leave it, as evident to every man's sight as well as judgment. Cowley. Had covetous men, each of them one hundred hands, they would all of them be employed in grasping and gathering, and hardly one of them in giving or laying out, but all in receiving, and none in restoring ; a thing in itself so monstrous, that nothing in nature besides is like it, except it be death and the grave, the only things I know which are always carrying off the spoils of the world and never making restitution; for otherwise, all the parts of the universe, as they borrow of one another, so they still pay what they borrow, and that by so just and well balanced an equality, that their payments always keep pace with their re- ceipts. R. Sowth. A R O S E O U O T A 7" / O AV S. 145 COWARDICE. Cowards have no luck. Kwlman. The coward pretends to be cautious. P. Syrus. A coward's courage is in his tongue. Burke. A hundred times in a life a coward dies. Marston. A coward threatens only when he is safe. Goethe. Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce. Metastasio. What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards ! Wellington. To the coward there is neither glory nor safety. Homer. To know what is right, and fear to do it, this is cowardice. Confucius. God is the brave man's hope, and not the cow- ard's excuse. Plutarch. Cowards die many times; the valiant never taste death but once. Juliws Coesar. A coward is not necessarily bad, nor a brave man necessarily good. Dr. Bowring. Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. Queen Elizabeth. That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. Colton. A coward does not always escape with disgrace, but sometimes loses his life. There never was found a man who had Courage to acknowledge himself a coward. J. Bartlett. In battle the greatest cowards are in the greatest danger ; boldness is the best defence. Sallust. It is vain for the coward to fly ; death follows close behind ; it is by defying it that the brave es- Cape. Voltaire. Cowardice is mot synonymous with prudence ; it often happens that the better part of discretion is valor. Hazlitt. All mankind is one of these two cowards: either to wish to die when he should live, or live when he should die. Sir R. Howard. It is not the force of words to paint the varied ills which befall a man, if he has been actuated by cowardice. Tyrtaews. Never make a friend of a coward: his heart is a dunghill, while suspicion is the only cock that ever crows on it. R. Carew. It is the coward who fawns upon those above him ; it is the coward that is insolent whenever he dares to be so. Junius. Every coward who showeth his timidity in the hour of danger, is lavish of words and playeth the braggart with his tongue after the battle. Tacitus. If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor. Jane Porter. R. Sowth. COWARDICE. The coward who fears to draw his sword in the cause of the Prophet, shall have no part among the the dark-eyed maidens of Paradise. Ratara. There is a very large class of cowards who, not having the courage to speak face to face the bitter- mess with which their hearts prompt, resort to the mean alternative of writing what they dare not Speak. S. S. Packard. Never yet was an honest man a coward ; never yet was a coward an honest man. All big rascals are big cowards as well. The braver the tongue, the greater the coward ; the greater the coward, the greater the scoundrel. James Ellis. I hate that man worse than poison that offers to run away, when he should fight and lay stoutly about him. Is it not better and more honorable to perish in fighting valiantly, than to live in disgrace by cowardly running away ? Rabelais. Cowardice is a contemptible attribute, rarely, if ever, found in the character of an honestly honor- able man; it should never be confounded with fear ; there is as much difference between them as be- tween a toad-stool and a mushroom. Annie E. Lancaster. A coward in the field is like the wise man's fool; breaks his ranks and abandons his colors he will be punished with death by his own party, will take his chance against the enemy : but a man who thinks little of the one, and is fearful of the other, acts from present feelings, regardless of conse- Quences. Washington. A coward in the field is like the wise man's fool : his heart is at his mouth, and he doth not know what he does profess; but a coward in his faith is like a fool in his wisdom ; his mouth is in his heart, and he dares not profess what he does know. I had rather not know the good I should do, than not do the good I know. It is better to be beaten with few stripes than with many. Warwick. Nothing more discourages a man than cowardice and a base fear of danger; the smooth way it makes difficult, the difficult inaccessible. If ever he does anything well it was fortune, not wisdom, was his guide ; his fear begets delay, and delay begets danger. If he is to speak, fear puts an ague into his tongue, and leaves him either amazed or distracted ; for too serious an apprehension of pos- sible shame makes him forget what should keep him against it—plain boldness, bequeathing to all his faculties and senses. J. Beaumont. It is a lamentable fact, nevertheless a fact, that Some of earth's greatest heroes have been the basest moral cowards. As the reward of their victories, they have been adormed with robes of office ; their breasts have been decked with stars, and made to flash with gems. And well they might : for be- neath that glittering robe was a heart stained with foulest blots and infamous crimes. The gems, in many cases, were all outside ; not a single star of virtue studded the heart, or beautified the soul: within, like their own field of carnage, was full of dead men's bones, moral putrefaction, and death. R. Roberts. 1() 146 ZO A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. COXCOMB. CRAFT, - A coxcomb is vanity's fool. J. H. Merivale. Craft borders on knavery. J. Baalem. A coxcomb is but half a man. Walckemaer. Craft is an enemy to justice. Erizzo. The soul of a coxcomb is his clothes. W. Story. Foppery is never cured ; once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb. Dr. Johnsom. A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit. Boileav. A coxcomb is ugly all over with the affectation of the fine gentleman. Steele. A coxcomb is of that brittle texture, which like glue, will bear no rough usage, though it can re- ceive a polish. Francesco Samsovino. None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves. Colton. All the world says of a coxcomb is, that he is a coxcomb : no one dares to say it to his face ; he dies without knowing it, and without any one be- ing avenged on him. Bruyère. We should not esteem a man a coxcomb for his dress, till by frequent conversation we discovered a flaw in his title ; he should not wear a French dress, until he could give an account of the best French authors, and should be versed in all the oriental languages before he should presume to wear a diamond. Shemstome. COYNESS. Coyness is a shield for virtue. P. B. St. John. Coyness adds ardor to gallantry. Arlotto. Coyness is the offspring of a guileless heart. Hay. Coyness in a woman conciliates and subdues Just in man. Balqwangwal. Coyness in man is weakness; in woman, it adds beauty and strength. G. W. Thornbury. Coyness is often the refuge of the most depraved; and as the world judges more by what it sees than by what it knows, it passes current. S. Trimmer. Coyness does not always denote modesty; it may indicate a reserved manner ; yet there are many instances where a coyness of manner, mild voice, and pleasing looks hide a demon heart. E. B. Tyler. COZENING. All men are cozeners. Aylander. Call me cousin, but cozen me not. L. Cobb. We may cozen the world, but we cannot cozen our own hearts. Mrs. F. Sheridan. There are cozeners abroad, and therefore it be- hooves men to be wary. Shakspeare. Children may be cozened into a knowledge of their letters, and be taught to read, without per- ceiving it to be anything but a sport. Locke. There are a class of men who live by cozenage ; there are defects of character in all men, but where bad faith dwells in the heart, treachery lurks at its COTe. Sir R. Sibbald. Craft bringeth nothing home. G. Carleton. The minds of men are crafty. C. Hammond. W. Stukeley. Craft putteth on it the habit of policy. Sheil. Craft is the weapon of the liar. Everybody is distrustful of crafty men. Locke. Craft is used by the vicious over the innocent. Abw Mwhammed Makki. Craft has need of cloaking, whereas truth is naked. - Colombo. It falls out often, that plain dealing puts craft Out of countenance. J. Hall. The crafty and designing are not unfrequently foiled by their duplicity. H. Smith. He who desires to be crafty should endeavor to avoid the reputation of it. N. Macdonald. The more craft a man hath in him, the more he is to be suspected and despised. Cicero. Craft is like him that shoots up high, looks for the shaft, and finds it in his forehead. Middleton. Crafty men can be guilty of a thousand injustices without being discovered ; or at least without be- ing punished. Swift. The mind of a crafty dissembler is hardened more by practice, than the hands of an artificer by great labor. Capacelli. A woman that is quick in anger, and a man too, can be more easily guarded against than one that is crafty and keeps silence. Euripides. A cunning rogue seldom finds out till it is too late, that he is involved in difficulties raised by his own craft, which an honest course would have es- caped. R. Whately. Craft leads to knavery; it is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery : lying only makes the difference ; add that to craft, and it is knavery. Bruyère. In dealing with crafty persons, we must ever consider their ends to interpret their speeches; and it is good to say little to them, and that which they least look for. Lord Bacom. If by craft and crime a successful adventurer should be enabled to usurp a kingdom, and to com- mand its legions, there may be moments when all must be staked; an awful crisis, when, if his throne be overturned, his scaffold must rise upon its ruins. Colton. In business, honest precaution is frequently more useful and surer than craftiness or methodical in- trigue. Knaves are often detected entirely through the improvidence of their own ingenuity. When craft is opposed to craft, advantage devolves on ability and sudden dispatch, but when honest cir- cumspection becomes the antagonist, cunning is apt to fail in vigilant continuity. Mackenzie. A R O S E Q U O T A 7" / O AV S. 147 CREATION. Creation is wide. C. F. Gellert, Man was wonderfully created. St. Augustine. Creation speaks the power of God. J. Deiteritch. Creation is the office of God alone. Walafrid. The whole creation is God's temple. Bennett. The Almighty Lord is the head of all His crea- tion. Coed mom. At the creation of the world the earth was emp- tiness and desolation. E. Burgess. God would not rest from the work of Creation until man was formed. Arrowsmith. Every morning the darkness is lifted before the sun, and the miracle of creation is renewed. Grace Greenwood. Whatever a thing is created for it does without law and unrestrained ; the growth of every seed is a creation. M. Luther. The Mosaic account of creation is in wondrous harmony with that which science has long since been revealed. W. S. Rae. God created the earth in two days, and provided the food of the creatures, designed to be the inhab- itants thereof, in four days. Mahomet The Hindoos and the Jews are the only people who have a just conception of the creation of the world, and the beginning of things. Megasthenes. God created this world a place of pleasure and reward; wherefore such as suffer in adversity, shall in another world be recompensed with joy. Hermes. Creation was Adam's library : God bade him read the interesting volumes of His works, which were designed to make known the Divine charac- ter. L. Richmond. The study of the works of creation tend to make us wiser and happier, and lead us to the contem- plation of the omniscient Dispenser of the objects we admire. B. Mawnd. Man is indeed the lord of creation ; it is plainly his well-being only that has any demand on the brute creation, not his caprice, nor his folly, nor his morbid sentiment. E. Jarvis. There are but few souls that know how far the harmony of outward nature with our own reaches, and in how very great a degree the whole creation is but an aeolian harp, with longer or shorter strings, with slower and Swifter vibrations—passive before a Divine breath. Richter. Creation is the work of God ; “without Him was not anything made that was made.” He only can create. The architect can rear a cathedral, the sculptor can cut forms of symmetry and grace from marble, the painter can depict life on his canvass, the machinist can construct engines that shall serve the nations, but not one of them can create ; they work with materials already in existence ; they bring existing things into new combinations; this is all. God alone can create. Dr. Thomas. CREATOR. Blessed be God, the best Creator Abdallah. Let the creature worship the Creator. Kapniste. The Creator must be above the creature. Stwºrm. The voice of the Creator is in the most minute creature. S. Charmock. God is related to the universe as Creator and Preserver, Montesquiew. Man is the only creature capable of worshipping his Creator. Basil. Worship the true living God who is the Creator of all things. - Alban. The Creator has a right to give laws to the crea- tures He has made. Rev. M. Huggins, To say the creature can destroy the Creator is the most absurd of all doctrines. Gov. Randolph. The hand of the Creator has ordered all things with wisdom and understanding. Goethe. The great Creator we behold not ; He veils Him- self within His own eternal laws. Schiller. God is our Creator, and we who are Christians know that creating and sustaining are the same thing. M. Lºwther. How close does it bring the Creator to us to re- gard Him, not so much as having made the world, as still engaged in making it. L. Grindon. The farther we inquire into the works of our Great Creator, the more evident marks shall we discover of His infinite wisdom. Soame Jenyns. It is scarcely too much to say, that every object in mature, animated or inanimated, is in some man- ner beautiful; so largely has the Creator provided for our sense of sight. J. Maccwlloch. Let us carry ourselves back in spirit to the mys- terious week, to the teeming work-days of the Cre- ator, and behold the shadow of approaching hu- manity, the Sun rising in the kindling morning of the creation. Coleridge. CREATURE. We are all God's creatures. Thomas Day. To put our confidence in the creature is to de- spair of the Creator. St. Gregory. Man is a reasonable creature, though he may be an unreasonable man. John Donme. The happiness of the creature consists in being ever dependent upon the Creator. Poynder. Man considered as a creature must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator. W. Blackstone. We are disappointed when trusting to the crea- ture, in order that we may be led to perfect trust in the Creator. Sedgwood. Can that Being who planted, watered and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings. of creatures formed after his own image % Surely not. Lord Stanley. 148 A) A Y’.S C O / / A C O AW. CREDIT. Credit is better than ready money. Rist. Credit is better than ill worn clothes. R. Burns. Creditors have better memories than debtors. Franklin. He that has lost his credit is dead to the world. Fortini. The way to increase our credit is first to have credit. J. Bodenham. He getteth a great deal of credit who payeth but a small debt. - Ruffini. The credit got by falsehood vanishes at the ap- proach of truth. E. P. Day. Men's credit should be better than debts, for faith should exceed oaths. Sir P. Sidney. Credit is a constant trust in such things as are spoken or covenanted. Dzow'l-Rom/met. Credit is nothing but the expectation of money, within some limited time. J. Locke. Credit is like chastity: they can both stand temp- tation better than suspicion. H. W. Show. Every man's credit and consequence are propor- tioned to the money that he possesses. Jwvenal. Buy nothing on credit ; remember that, keep to it, and feel under obligations to no man. A. S. Roe. Credit is necessarily employed as an instrument of exchange beyond real or metallic money. G. P. Scrope. The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms. Lavotter. An adequate provision for the support of the public credit, is a matter of high importance to ma- tional honor and prosperity. Washington. Credit is like a looking-glass, which, when only Sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again, but if once cracked, can never be repaired. Sir W. Scott. Too large a credit has made many a bankrupt, but taking even less than a man can answer with ease, is a sure fund for extending it whenever his Occasions require. Steele. A merciless creditor is the most abhorrent of hu- man beings; like a hyena he devours his own race, and like a cannibal gluts himself with the miseries, the groaning, and the wretchedness of his suffering debtor. J. Bartlett, Those are the men to maintain themselves with credit in the world, who never suffer their equals to insult them, who show proper respect to their superiors, and act with thoughtful kindness to their inferiors. Thweydides. Nothing so cements and holds together in union all the parts of society, as faith or credit ; which can never be kept up, unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they Owe to one another. Cicero. CREDIT. Credit, next to real stock, is the foundation, the life and soul of business, in a private tradesman; It is his prosperity ; it is his support in the sub- stance of his whole trade ; even in public matters it is the strength and fund of a nation. Defoe. There is nothing in this world so fiendish as the conduct of a mean man, when he has the power to revenge himself upon a noble one in adversity; it takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose, is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor. H. W. Beecher. Remember that credit is money; if a man lets his money lie in my hands after it is due, he gives me the interest, Or as much as I can make of it during that time ; this amounts to a considerable Sum where a man has a good and large credit, and makes good use of it. Franklin. A man's credit is dearer than life itself ; and if beside the laws of murder, men have thought fit, Out of respect to human nature, that whatsoever else moves to the death of man should be forfeited to pious uses, why should there not as well be deo- dands for reputations. - A. Marvell. Very exaggerated notions are commonly enter- tained of the influences of credit ; but, in fact, all operations in which credit is given or acquired re- solve themselves into a new distribution of wealth already in existence ; the “magical” effect that is every now and then ascribed to credit is quite im- aginary. J. R. M’Culloch. Creditors are singular people ; one would sup- pose they would not entertain the kindest feelings toward their defaulting debtors, but on the con- trary they take a more than paternal interest in their welfare, which is evinced in their never los- ing sight of them, if it can be avoided, and always wishing them the highest pecuniary prosperity. Bovee. The credit which we have with others is marked by their confidence in our judgment, by their dis- position to submit to our decisions, by their reli- ance in our veracity, or assent to our opinions, credit redounds to the honor of the individual, and stimulates him to noble exertions ; it is beneficial in its results to all mankind, individually or col- lectively. G. Crabb. To hearsome worthy reasoners talking on credit, that she is so nice, so squeamish, so capricious, you would think they were describing a lady troubled with vapors, or the colic, to be removed only by a course of steel, or swallowing a bullet. By the narrowness of their thoughts, one would imagine, they conceived the world to be no wider than Ex- change-alley. Swift. In dealing on credit we must in most cases sub- mit to the dealer ; the advantage is naturally on his side, but he takes double advantage of an ad- vantage ; and frequently, if we buy only an egg, or an oyster, something extra must be paid for the shell; if a bundle, a trifle for the string ; and twenty per cent more for the rent of the store. If we have a knack of buying on credit, then the double and single entry process is served upon us. Acton. A A' O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 149 CREDULITY. Credulity opens the door of error. Credulity thinks others short sighted. Lao-Kiwn. Guérin. Generous souls are most subject to credulity. Sir W. Davenant. Some of the noblest matures are the most credu- lous. H. C. Chapman. The only disadvantage of an honest heart is cre- dulity. Sir P. Sidney. Credulity is belief on slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. Gwergwil. The prejudice of credulity may, in Some measure, be cured by learning to set a high value on truth. I. Watts. Credulity has as many ears as fame has tongues, and is as open to every sound of truth as of false- hood. |W. Havard. They that have been frequently deceived can be deceived again ; credulity stops to hesitate, not to discriminate. N. Macdonald. Credulity is a certain ground and unfeigned trust, which we repose in the object propounded to our imaginations. G. Gweret. The incredulous are the most credulous ; they believe the miracles of Vespasian, in order not to believe those of Moses. Pascal. Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue, and he who is spontaneously suspicious may be justly charged with radical corruption. Dr. Johnson. To take for granted as truth all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity that men would blush at on any other subject. - Jane Porter. It is a curious paradox, that precisely in propor- tion to Our Own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. Colton. The most positive men are the most credulous ; since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their fellow flatterer and worst enemy, their own false love. Pope. Credulity diminishes as we gather wisdom by experience, and yet, even among the Old and Sus- picious, it is probable that many falsehoods are believed, for a single truth that is disbelieved. Chatfield. The credulous are generally the virtuous mem- bers of society ; if they become the victims of deception and wrong, it comes of accrediting that worth to others which they themselves are ever more ready to concede than own. H. Hooker. To distrust all, and believe all, is equally bad and erroneous; of the two, the safest is to distrust : for fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard around us that does watch and defend us; but cre- dulity keeps us naked, and lays us open to all the Sly assaults of ill-intending men ; it was a virtue when man was in his innocence ; but since his fall, it abuses those that own it. Feltham. CREDULITY. In proportion that credulity is a more peaceful possession of the mind than Curiosity, so far prefer- able is that wisdom which converses about the surface, to that pretended philosophy which enters into the depth of things, and then comes back grave- ly with the informations and discoveries, that in the inside they are good for nothing. Swift. Credulousness is the concomitant of the first stages of life ; and is indeed the principle on which all instruction must be founded ; but it lays the mind open to impressions of error, as well as of truth ; and when suffered to combine itself with that passion for the marvellous which all children discover, it fosters the rankest weeds of chimera and superstition. J. G. Percival. Credulity is a far greater source of error than superstition, for the latter must be always more limited in its influence, and can exist only, to any considerable extent, in the most ignorant portions of society ; whereas the former diffuses itself through the minds of all classes, by which rank and dignity are degraded, and ignorance is enabled to claim for itself the prescriptive right of deliver- ing oracles, amidst all the triumphs of truth and the progress of philosophy. Credulity has been justly defined, belief without reason, while scepti- cism, its opposite, is reason without belief, and the natural and invariable consequence of credulity; for it may be observed that men who believe with- out reason are succeeded by others whom no rea- Soning can convince. M. Paris. CREED. Creeds are human compositions. W. Gilpin. Creed is the husk, good works the kernal. Kidd. The church should receive the creed of the church. St. Julius. The creed of the apostles is virtue beyond all vir- tues. M. Luther. Let us have unspoken creeds, and these quick and operative. W. A. Alcott. Every creed has had its temples, and every divin- ity its worshippers. C. E. Lester. Creed or good faith consisteth, above all things, in prayer and meditation. J. Foster. Judge the church rather by its creed than by the conduct of some of its dignitaries. A. S. Roe. Some men make everything of their creed ; pity their creed can make nothing of them. Bovee. Why do men wrangle about cold creeds and out- ward forms, and refuse to listen to the Soft persua- sion of scrutimizing reason ? J. Linen. Will they who decry creeds and creed-makers, say that one who writes a treatise of morality, ought not to make in it any collection of moral precepts 3 - R. Fiddles. Mahomet's creed we call a kind of Christianity. The truth of it is imbedded in portentious error and falsehood ; but the truth of it makes it be be- lieved, not the falsehood; it succeeded by its truth. T. Carlyle. 150 D A Y'S Co Z Z A Co M. CRIME. Crime leads to misery. J. Kay. It becometh not man to punish crime. J. Locke. One crime is everything ; two, nothing. - Mme. Delwzy. When a criminal is not condemned, the judge is. E. P. Day. The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Napoleon I. Whoever commits a crime strengthens his ene- my. D. O'Connell. Fear always follows crime, and is its own punish- ment. Voltaire. Crime and bloodshed darken the history of the world. J. W. Barker. Wretched are those who take pleasure in their crimes. C. C. Gallºws. Heaven will permit no man to secure happiness by crime. * Alfieri. Hardening in Crime decays the heart just as rust decays iron. Plutarch. He who overlooks one crime invites the commis- sion of another. P. Syrws. Crimes sometimes shock us too much ; vices al- most always too little. J. C. Hare. Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. Bruyère. Crimes succeed by sudden despatch, honest coun- sels gain vigor by delay. Tacitus. The neglect of any of the relative duties, render us criminal in the sight of God. S. Rogers. Laws act after crimes have been committed ; prevention goes before them both. Zimmerman. Where there is initiation in crime from earliest years, it becomes a part of nature. Ovid. Some people seem to consider that crime is not a crime until discovery makes it so. L. Byrn. Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted. Seneca. Crime has not been increased by civilization ; but it exists in spite of civilization. Rev. H. C. Chapman. Of all the causes that move men to revenge, ha- tred of crime is certainly the least common. N. Macdonald. Crimes lead one into another ; they who are ca- pable of being forgers are capable of being incen- diaries. Burke. The perfection of a thing consists in its essence ; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity. La Roche. Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens within the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. R. W. Emerson. CRIME. We have nothing to guard against in life except crime ; and when we are free from that, we may endure everything else with patience and modera- tion. Cicero. Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest : every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel —dark misgivings at the inmost heart. Schiller. There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us, and we seem to stand by and won- der ; they carry in them an inspiration of crime, that in one instant does the work of premedita- tion. G. Eliot. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox, and squirrel and mole. R. W. Emerson. There are crimes which become innocent, and even glorious, through their splendor, number, and excess; hence it is that public theft is called ad- dress, and to seize unjustly on provinces is to make conquests. Rochefoucauld. Great crimes seldom spring from any sudden de- moralization in the natures of its perpetrators. What seems to us as a fearful precipitation of cha- racter, is no more than the rending of a veil from the hitherto concealed parts of it. Bovee. Small crimes always precede great crimes. Who- ever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness. Racine. Those crimes committed against the Security of property should be punished with the loss of pro- perty ; and this ought indeed to be the case if men's fortunes were common or equal ; but as those who have no property are generally the readiest to at- tack the property of others, it has been found necessary, instead of a pecuniary, to substitute a corporal punishment. Montesquiew. Great crimes are commonly produced either Out of a cold intensity of selfishness, or Out of a hot in- tensity of passion ; it is not difficult for any one to say which will lead to the more detestable results. The visible ferocity, the glare of envy or wild hatred in the criminal who slays his enemy—foul and de- testable as it must ever be—is not so loathSome as the tranquil good humor of the wretch utterly lost in self-content, ready without a particle of malice or compunction to pluck neighbors' lives, as fruit, for his material refreshment. Dickens. Crime, which has opened the gates of danger and destruction before, has closed the door of peace and safety behind. Security is abandoned, and ruin– utter, overwhelming ruin—is inevitable. Is there honor in life? Is there glory in the world? Is there esteem in the breast of man, or love in the heart of woman 2 Oh, guilt 1 it is not for thee to share them. Thou art shut out from all these, an outcast in the world, its scorn, its hate, and its re- proach ; an object not of its favor and protection, but of its vengeance and retribution. Acton. A /& O S A. Q U O T A 7" / O M S. CRITIC. The author dreads the critic. James Ellis. Critics are like brushers of other men's clothes. J. Hwtchinsom. Critics dispute, and the question is still undecided. Horace. It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose. M. Muller. A just criticism injures no man's proper influ- ence. T. Tilton. It may be laid down as an almost universal rule, that good poets are bad critics. T. B. Macaulay. The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's. W. S. Lando?". The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics. E. P. Whipple. It behooves the minor critic who hunts for blem- ishes, to be a little mistrustful of his own Sagacity. Junius. A critic's head should be wise enough to form a right judgment, and his heart free enough to pro- nounce it. Southgate. The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in ori- ginal composition. Hazlitt. There is scarcely a good critic of books born in our age, and yet every fool thinks himself justified in criticising persons. Bulwer. We are naturally displeased with an unknown critic, as the ladies are with a lampooner, because we are bitten in the dark. Dryden. Certain critics are cowards and traitors who wait to attack till unhappy authors are dead, be- cause alive they would answer. Yriarte. Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. Longfellow. If thy writings please not the critics, it is no doubt an evil sign ; but when they are lauded to the skies by fools, it is time to blot them out. Gellert. Where an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves and shower down their ill nature. I. Watts. It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic forever, like the Old Man of the Sea, upon his back. T. Moore. The first duty of the critic is to create happiness, where it may be done faithfully, and to shrink from giving pain, where it can honestly be avoided. L. Grindom. Critics must excuse me if I compare them to cer- tain animals called asses, who by gnawing vines originally taught the great advantage of pruning them. Shemstome. CRITIC. If a faultless poem could be produced, I am sat- isfied it would tire the critics themselves, and annoy the whole reading world with a spleen. Scott. Some men make their ignorance the measure of excellence ; these are of course very fastidious critics; for, knowing little, they can find but little to like. W. Allstom. The ignorant critic and dull remarker can read- ily spy blemishes in eloquence or morals, whose sentiments are not sufficiently elevated to observe a beauty. Goldsmith. A critic is like an idler amusing himself with a spy-glass; he looks at the defects of a work through the end that magnifies, then inverts the instrument to discover the virtues. E. P. Day. A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than defects; to discover the concealed beau- ties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth its observation. Addison. Professional critics are incapable of distinguish- ing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough state, or gold in bars ; they are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Jowbert. The eye of a critic by profession is apt to become so microscopic, that it takes in only parts and atoms of a subject, instead of surveying the whole, com- paring the parts, and comprehending the results. Guerimeau De Saint Peravy. I love truth as chiefest among the virtues; but I would never be a critic, because I know I could not always tell it ; I might write a criticism of a book that happened to please me ; that is another matter. O. W. Holmes. A true critic in the perusal of a book is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. Swift. Critics have been represented as the great abridg- ers of the native liberty of genius; as the imposers of unnatural shackles and bonds upon writers, from whose cruel persecution they must fly to the public, and implore its protection. H. Blair. As the devil can quote scripture for his purpose, So can the practised critic, by severing passages from their context, and placing them in a ridicu- lous or distorting light, make the most praiseworthy work appear to condemn itself. Chatfield. Men famous for their abilities, great poets and celebrated historians, are always envied by those who take a pleasure and make it their particular delight to criticise other men's writings, without ever having published any of their own. Cervantes. The best discrimination is that which detects the fewest faults. The good-natured critic—one who discriminates in favor of more than against the ob- ject under consideration—enjoys this advantage, that if he errs he is Sure to err on the amiable side. Bovee. | 52 A) A Y',S C O Z Z A C O AV. CRITIC. Of all mortals a critic is the silliest ; for, inuring himself to examine all things whether they are of consequence or not, he never looks upon anything, but with a design of passing sentence upon it ; by which means he is never a companion, but always 8, CéIlSOI’. Steele. Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters, who, like deer, goats, and divers other graminivorous animals, gain their subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity. W. Irving. The critic, as he is currently termed, who is dis- cerming in nothing but faults, may care little to be told that this is the mark of unamiable dispositions or of bad passions ; but he might not be equally easy, were he convinced that he thus gives the most absolute proofs of ignorance and want of taste. Dr. J. Maccwlloch. It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity of critic, every writing critic is bound to show himself capa- ble of being a writer; for, if he be apparently impotent in this latter kind, he is to be denied all title Or character in the other. G. Smith. The critics are a race of scholars I am very little acquainted with ; having always esteemed them but like brokers, who, having no stock of their own, set up a trade with that of other men ; buying here, and selling there, and commonly abusing both sides, to make out a little paltry gain, either of money or of credit, for themselves, and care not at whose cost. Sir W. Temple. Critics demand something that is altogether new and original, and condemn resemblances and imi- tations. Do they ever recall to mind that there is nothing very new in criticism itself, and that their own carping tirades are identically the same as their predecessors for the fiftieth generation before them have used ? There is perhaps less originality in criticism than in anything else. Acton. There is a light in which many modern critics may with great justice and propriety be seen, and that is that of a common slanderer. If a person who pries into the characters of others with no other design but to discover their faults, and to publish them to the world, deserves the title of a slanderer of the reputation of men, why should not a critic who reads with the same malevolent view, be as properly styled the slanderer of the reputa- tion of books 3 Fielding. Critics have done nearly the same in taste as ca- suists have in morals; both having attempted to direct by rules, and limit by definitions, matters which depend entirely on feeling and sentiment, and which are therefore so various and extensive, and diversified by such nice and infinitely gradu- ated shades of difference, that they elude all the subtleties of logic, and the intricacies of calculation. Rules can never be made so general as to compre- hend every possible case, nor definitions so multi- farious and exact as to include every possible cir- cumstance or contingency. R. P. Knight. CRITICISM. Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. Destowches. Criticism is a matter of intellectual estimate. S. F. Bradford. Criticism is the child and handmaid of reflection. R. G. White. Criticism is an art founded wholly on experience. H. Blair. Criticism must never be sharpened into anato- my. R. A. Willmott. A just criticism is a commendation, rather than a detraction. H. Jacob. It is easy to criticise an author, but it is difficult to appreciate him. Vawtemargues. Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together. Richter. Of all the cants in this canting world, deliver me from the cant of criticism. Sterne. Manifold are the advantages of criticism when Studied as a rational science. Rames. Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. Johnson. Those who criticise most severely the works of Others, seldom can produce any themselves. J. Bartlett. Criticism is now become a mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors. Dryden. The most noble criticism is that in which the Critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. I. Disraeli. He who would shun criticism must not be a scribbler : and he who would court it must have great abilities or great folly. J. Monro. There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. J. F. Boyes. Criticism is as often a trade as a science ; it re- quiring more health than wit, more labor than capacity, more practice than genius. Bruyère. The exercise of criticism always destroys, for a time, our sensibility to beauty by leading us to regard the work in relation to certain laws of crea- tion. The eye turns from the charms of nature to fix itself upon the servile dexterity of art. Alison. Criticism is like champagne, nothing more exe- crable if bad, nothing more excellent if good ; if meagre, muddy, vapid, and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind ; but if rich, generous, and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart. Colton. Criticism very often consists of measuring the learning and the wisdom of others, either by Our own ignorance, or by our little technical and pe- dantic partialities and prejudices; a book thus unfairly treated, may be compared to the laurel, of which there is honor in the leaves, but poison in the extract. Chatfield. A R O S Z Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 153 CROSS. CROWID. Christians carry the cross. Rev. J. Purchas. Prejudices rule the vulgar crowd. Voltaire. Welcome the cross of Christ. F. Sawnders. Every one must bear his cross. H. Witzstaedt. The devil lurks behind the croSS. Cervantes. We may gain heaven by the cross. A. Ritchie. Everywhere thou shalt find the cross. G. Eliot. The cross of Christ is the endless triumph of thy Soul. Diodati. The cross of Christ was the noontide of everlast- ing love. J. Maclawrim. Christ and his cross are better than the world and its crown. J. Dyer. The cross is the Christian emblem of sorrow, suffering, and pardon. Mrs. Notley. Keep heart he who bears the cross to-day, shall wear the crown to-morrow. Gerald Massey. God's people are never in a more thriving con- dition than when carrying the cross. Romaine. The energy of the cross is beyond the force of thunder, yet it is more mild than the dew on the graSS. Rev. David M'Laren. Welcome the cross of Christ, and bear it tri- umphantly; but see that it be indeed Christ's cross, and not thine own. C. Wilcoac. Christ's cross is the sweetest burden that ever I bore : it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my har- bor. S. Rutherford. Our Saviour has borne his cross, and was borne upon it ; we should esteem it more highly than many of us do, and bear it daily in remembrance of him. J. Foster. The cross of Christ is as a key of gold which opens paradise for us; but, if unaccepted, it be- comes an iron key, and opens the gates of hell before us. Damascenºts. The cross is the strength of a minister ; I, for one, would not be without it for the world ; Ishould feel like a soldier without arms, like an artist with- out his pencil, like a pilot without his compass, like a laborer without his tools. J. C. Ryle. The cross of Christ is more beautiful in a Chris- tian's eye than the crown of Caesar, and the duty enjoined by the One far more momentous than any command that can be issued, even when accompa- nied with the authority and impress of the other. Dr. Cwmming. If God hath sent thee a cross, take it up and fol- low Him ; use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable ; bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable; behold in it God's anger against sin, and His love toward thee, in punishing the one, and chastening the other ; if it be light, slight it not ; if heavy, murmur not : not to be sensible of a judgment is a symptom of a heartened heart ; and to be displeased at His pleasure is a sign of a rebellious will. F. Quarles. where there is no love. Better is an empty house than too great a crowd. Yoruba. Be not too nice an observer of the business of a Crowd. Pope. He who never mixes with the crowd knows nothing. Cervantes. Many who will not listen to individuals will yet not refuse to follow a crowd. Cato. Such is the fickleness of the crowd, that the de- signs of to-day they proceed to abandon on the In OTI’OW. Calderon. A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, Lord Bacon. A crowd is that gay and splendid confusion in which the eye of youth sees all that is brave and brilliant, and that of experience much that is doubt- ful, deceitful, false, and hollow ; hopes that will never be gratified, promises that will never be ful- fulled, pride in the disguise of humility, and inso- lence in that of frank and generous bounty. Scott. CROWN. A crown is no cure for the headache. Voltaire. He that has no cross deserves no crown. Qwarles. I return unto God the crown which He has given Iſle. Fernando I. of Spain. A crown cures some evils, and it entails many more. Heraclides. Every blood-stained cross has its flower-wreathed CI’OW11. H. Tuttle. Our Savior is not the only one who wore a crown of thorns. James II. There is a brief day for the cross, uncounted ages for the crown. Fanny Fern. Few men would wish to wear a crown if they knew the cares that lie beneath it. Cyrus the Great. A realm can have but one crown ; I will either uncrown my rival, or he shall uncrown me. Pope Innocent III. It does not become a Christian to wear a crown of gold, when the Son of God wore a crown of thorns. Godfrey of Boulogne. I would not accept a crown from man on earth; I will choose rather my recompense from God in heaven. M. Lºwther. The most glorious crown has only false diamonds, with which its splendor surrounds it ; and he on whom heaven confers a sceptre, knows not the weight till he bears it. Corneille. It is not enough to begin in the spirit, and end in the flesh; it is not for him that runneth, but for him that runneth to the end, that persevereth, that the crown is reserved ; it is he that shall eat of the hidden manna, he that shall have the white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth, save he that receiveth it. Spencer. 154 A) A Y',S C O Z Z A C O AV. CRUELTY. All cruelty springs from weakness. Seneca. Cruelty is the attribute of a coward. Mawritius. Cruelty is condemned by every law. Calderon. Cruelty and fear shake hands together. Balzac. Cruelty is the first attribute of the devil. Nant. Cruelty is commonly taken for every extreme wrong. N. Lymge. I have a fixed, immovable hatred to cruel men and cruel measures. T. Paime. The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that of the hardy. Lavater. Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency. Sir P. Sidney. A brave man may feel cruelty, and know it to be cruelty, and yet not complain. Al-Maram. When the cruel fall into the hands of the cruel, we read their fate with horror, not with pity. Colton. Even birds of the air bear accusation to their Creator against those who, with wanton cruelty, destroy helpless innocence. |W. Harmisch. We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the mean- est insect with wanton cruelty. FI. Blair. The Angel of mercy stoppeth not to comfort, but, passeth by on the other side, and hath no tear to shed when the cruel man is damned. Tupper. Cruelty constitutes the greatest moral distance at which an intelligent creature can be removed from a God of forbearance and mercy. J. Dalton. Cruelty has its expiations and its remorses, gene- rosity its chances and turns of good fortnne; as if Providence reserved them forfitting occasions, that noble hearts may not be discouraged. Lamartine. Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes, than it is the cure of sufferings. Compassion, in the first in- stance, is good for both ; I have known it to bring Compunction when nothing else would. Landor. The man or boy who will be cruel to the tiniest of God's creatures, cannot be trusted to be tender even.to his sister or his child ; but he whose large, brave heart cares for the feeblest, is always ready to help and comfort any who may need his aid and . Sympathy. Julia A. Mathews. Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distin- guishing vices of the lowest and basest of the peo- ple ; wherever it is found it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; an intrinsic mark, which all the external advantages of wealth, splendor, and nobility cannot obliterate. E. Jones. Nothing can be more contrary to mature, to rea- son, to religion, than cruelty ; hence an inhuman man is generally considered as a monster ; such monsters, however, have existed ; and the heart almost bleeds at the recital of the cruel acts such have been guilty of ; it teaches us, however, what human nature is when left to itself ; not only treacherous, but desperately wicked. C. Buck. mannerS. CRUSADES. Crusaders war with infidels. Gava'udan. A crusader is the soldier of God. Peter the Hermit. Let the church command a crusade. St. Cyr. * Crusaders look to God for recompense of their valor. Count Badowm. Let crusaders punish the cruelty of the infidel Turks. Pope Honorius II. A crusader should be a man of honor as well as of valor. Mme. Nugida. The crusades were the master-stroke of papal despotism. Mrs. Susannah Dodson. The spirit of the crusaders died with the spirit of chivalry. Mary Mapes Dodge. A crusade to the Holy Land is the best expiation for a sinful life. William, Count of Poitow. The crusades were among the most glorious en- terprises of mankind. Chateaubriand. All Christian nations should give aid and pro- tection to the crusaders. Richard I. The crusades, on the whole, were undoubtedly hurtful to the human race. E. Gibbon. The crusaders are God’s servants, to avenge the loss of the fallen Christians. Folquet. Christian Crusaders will hasten to rescue the holy sepulchre from infidels. Giraud de Borneil. God will receive the souls of such crusaders as fall, into His paradise of peace and joy. Ogier. The gallant crusader captures spoils from the enemy and the hearts of the fair ladies. Giorgi. A gallant crusader will enrich his lady-love with the spoils taken from the vanquished enemy. Bertramol de Borm. It becometh all Christian nations to engage in a crusade, and punish the outrages of the Turks against the Holy Land. Pons de Capdweil. The crusaders were neither agriculturists, shep- herds, nor colonists ; those who remained were either monks or hermits. Olive R. Seward. The crusades, in order to rescue the holy land from the hands of the infidels, first roused Europe, and introduced a change in her government and W. Robertson. The crusades gave a great impulse to Europe ; they roused the energy of man, and its operation has produced great effects. I do not believe the reformation would ever have taken place but for the crusades. T. Dwight. Much as we smile at their folly, how easily can we account for the ardor which was displayed by unlettered minds and fanatical tempers on the sub- ject of the crusades 1 Connected also, as was a pil- grimage to the Holy Land, with the idea of merit, and merit even sufficient to purchase salvation, nothing can be conceived more calculated to arouse every honorable and indignant feeling, than the obstructions in the way of such devotion. Robbins. P AE O S E O U O T A 7" / O M S. 155 CULTURE. - Culture is good. John Hall. The mind must be cultured. P. Féval. Culture expands the reason. Caroline Bawer. Culture is a true philosopher's stone. J. Johnsom. Culture of the mind is the gift of luxury. Lynch. Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food is to the body. Cicero. The culture of the mind is attended to in early years to prepare the soil to bear fruit. Graham. It matters little whether a man be mathemati- cally, philologically, or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated. Goethe. Man's nature runs to either herbs or weeds ; let him culture them by seasonably watering the One, and destroying the other. Lady Gethin. As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind, without cultivation, can never produce good fruit. Seneca. A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is Only one single mind which has been educated during all this time. Fontenelle. I am very sure that any man of common under- standing may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself whatever he pleases, except a great poet. Chesterfield. I call that education which embraces the culture of the whole man, with all his faculties—subjecting his senses, his understanding, and his passions to reason, to conscience, and to the evangelical laws of the Christian revelation. P. E. von Fellenberg. Many parents are anxious to cultivate the mind, though at the expense of the body. ; they think they cannot instruct their offspring early enough to read and to write, while their bodily constitu- tion and health are overlooked. Spwrzheim. The social principle which throughout life de- serves and rewards culture, cannot so safely expand during the season of school education as in the com- pany of those engaged in similar pursuits, or of those still older and wiser friends who know how to blend instruction with delight. Mrs. Sigowrmey. Body and mind ought to be cultivated in har- mony, and neither of them at the expense of the other ; health should be the basis, and instruction the ornament of early education; the development of the body will assist the manifestations of the mind, and a good mental education will contribute to bodily health. A. Potter. The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand ; so fares it with the intellectual System of man. If you are a parent, then, con- sider that the good or ill dispositions and princi- ples you please to cultivate in the mind of your infant may hereafter preserve a nation in pros- perity, or hang its fate on the point of the sword. Horace Mann. CUNNING. Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom. W. R. Alger. Cunning is the counterfeit of wisdom. N. Biddle. Cunning to wisdom is as an ape to man. W. Penn. Cunning may acquire an estate, but it cannot gain friends. L. Murray. Discourage cunning in a child ; cunning is the ape of wisdom. J. Locke. Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of wisdom. Lord Bolingbroke. Cunning is best employed when scheming to do good, or gain wisdom. Hillel. The sure way to be cheated is to fancy ourselves more cunning than others, Rochefoucauld. Enowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. Plato. A wise ruler may employ cunning even when falsehood would be disgraceful. Hanifa. We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage, always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend othel's. Lord Greville. A woman's cunning often saves us from all our pain and sorrow ; for the deceit of priests and the cunning of woman surpass everything, as you know. Bürger. It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art ; but I know not how, among Some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is not to appear cunning. Steele. We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wis- dom ; and certainly there is a great difference be- tween a cunning man and a wise man, not only in point of honesty, but in point of ability. Bacon. All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase “profound cunning,” has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased. Mrs. Jameson. CURE. The deepest wounds have a cure. Qween Caroline. God cures, and the doctor takes the fee. E. Hall. The cure may be worse than the disease. May. Leisure for men of business, and business for men of leisure, would cure many complaints. Piozzi. Cures are manifold ; sometimes air is a cure ; so is sleep ; rest is a cure, and so is labor ; medicine may be a cure, and often not to take medicine has proved a most effective cure. Mrs. E. Willard. A cure is sometimes employed for the thing that cures, but only in the sense of what infallibly cures. Quacks always hold forth their nostrums as infallible cures not for one but for every sort of disorder; experience has, however, fatally proved that the remedy in most cases is worse than the disease. G. Crabb. 156 AX A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. CTURIOSITY. CURIOSITY. I loathe that low vice curiosity. Byrom. Curiosity is a languid principle, where access is • * * * ºs. Fletch easy and gratification is immediate ; remoteness Curiosity is scandal's microscope. P. Fletcher. and difficulty are powerful incentives to its vigor- The over-curious are not over-wise. Dufferin. | ***ing operations. J. Monro. Curiosity leads men into bitterness. Wolof. There are different kinds of curiosity, one of in- Curiosity is the forerunner of discovery. Duke. Curiosity is a key which would fain fit every lock. Strype. Check curiosity ; the ears do not weigh more than the head. Haytien. Curiosity is as much the parent of attention as attention is of memory. R. Whately. Curiosity is one of the strongest and most lasting appetites implanted in us. Steele. Curiosity is looking over other people's affairs, and over-looking our own. Chatfield. Were not curiosity so ever-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death. D. Jerrold. . Men are more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction. Quesnel. Curiosity in children, nature has provided to re- move that ignorance they were born with. Locke. One who is too curious in observing the labor of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. Pope. Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running, about a thing that cannot in- terest him. Lavater. Curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit, which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, Some- times to the danger of his choking. T. Fulley”. Curious questions and vain speculations are like a plume of feathers, which some will give anything for, and some will give nothing for. Henry Smith. No heart is empty of the humor of curiosity, the beggar being as attentive in his station as to an im- provement of knowledge as the prince. Osborne. A prevailing curiosity to know things that can be turned to no account, indicates a mind whose im- provement has stopped, or will soon do so. Hooker. Curiosity is a feeling which causes us not to be content with the beauty and fragrance of the flower, but which prompts us to look under the I’OSé. Mrs. Inchbald. Curiosity is a desire to know how and why ; so that man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by the singular passion, from all other animals. T. Hobbes. Of all the faculties of the human mind, curiosity is that which is the most fruitful or the most bar- ren in effective results, according as it is well or badly directed. Palmieri. What can limit the excursive flight of human curiosity ? It dives into the bowels of the earth, explores the mine, and speculates on the formation of the world itself. E. Yowng. terest, which causes us to learn that which would be useful to us; and the other of pride, which Springs from a desire to know that of which others are ignorant. Rochefoucauld. There is philosophy in the remark, that every man has in his own life follies enough, in the per- formance of his duty deficiencies enough, in his own mind trouble enough, without being curious after the affairs of others. R. Dibdin. The principle of curiosity, which was implanted in man for high and holy ends, took a wrong bent and direction at the moment of his first transgres- Sion ; and is to be rectified only by the influence of the same spirit, who first breathed it into the soul. C. J. Blomfield. The curiosity of an honorable Imind willingly rests there where the love of truth does not urge it further onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop ; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward ; and charity cries, Halt . Coleridge. Curiosity is a remarkable and interesting trait of childhood, and, though possessed in various de- grees of activity, is common to all children; it is first manifested in the infant's stare at the lighted candle ; it is afterwards displayed in the eagerness with which he asks various puzzling questions. S. G. Goodrich. The love of variety, or curiosity of seeing new things, seems wove into the frame of every son and daughter of Adam ; we usually speak of it as one of nature's levities, though planted within us for the solid purpose of carrying forward the mind to fresh inquiry and knowledge ; strip us of it, the mind would doze forever over the present page ; and we should all of us rest at ease with such ob- jects as presented themselves in the parish or pro- vince where we first drew breath. Sterne. CURIOSITIES. Curiosities are pleasing to all. Massinger. Curiosities are often the freaks of nature. Coac. If curiosities were abundant they would not be curiosities. W. Stukeley. Every old town hath its curiosities of which the inhabitants are wont to boast. Joseph Strutt. The natural curiosities of a nation hold a che- rished place in the hearts of its people. Chettle. All curiosities of time, nature, and art, are in- timately associated with the history of mankind, and with the progress of society. Sir John Cheke. In the judgment of antiquarians all curiosities take precedence of one another according to their seniority, and are valued not by their value but by their age. A. Montgomery. PA O S / O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. l 5 7 CUR.S.E. Curses are always Out of Season. J. A. Lehm us. A curse is like a cloud—it passes. P. J. Bailey. The curse on the hearth wounds the deepest. McDonald Clarke. Curses, like young chickens, come home to roost. Bulwer. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses. H. W. Beecher. An opinion that is backed by curses, shows a limited range of ideas. E. H. Chapin. Curses are like processions ; they return to the place from which they came. Ruffinvi. The curse of man stands for nothing ; but the curse of God is everlasting damnation. James Ellis. “In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread ;” this is a curse which has proved a blessing in disguise. Colton. Dinna curse him, sir; I have heard a man say that a curse was like a stone flung up to the hea- vens, and maist like to return on his head that sent it. Sir W. Scott. If every curse should stick a visible blister on the tongue, as it doth insensible Ones On the Soul, how many men's tongues would be too big for their mouths, and their mouths as an open sepulchre full of dead men's bones. H. Spencer. The term curse differs in the degree of evil pro- nounced or wished ; imprecation and execration always imply some positive great evil, and in fact as much evil as can be conceived by man in his anger ; the anathema respects the evil which is pronounced according to the canon law, by which a man is not only put out of the church, but held up as an object of offence. G. Crabb. Curses often have a contrary effect ; if uttered by those who are lavish with them, they pass for nothing ; but if from those whom we love, they exert a powerful influence over us, because we them know that their displeasure must be great to draw forth such condemnation. On the whole, curses are bad : for like the boomerang in the hands of a skillful thrower, they are apt to return upon those who sent them. |W. T. Burke, Look outward, and behold a curse in the crea- ture; vanity, emptiness, vexation, disappointments, every creature armed with a sting to revenge its Maker's quarrel. Look inward, and behold a curse in the conscience ; accusing, witnessing, condemn- ing, haling to the tribunal of vengeance: first defil- ing with the allowance, and after terrifying with the remembrance of sin. Look upward, and behold a curse in the heavens ; the wrath of God revealed from thence upon all unrighteousness. Look down- ward, and behold a curse in the earth; death ready to put a period to all the pleasures of sin, and like a trap-door to let down into hell, where nothing of sin will remain but the worm and the fire. Look into the Scripture, and see the curse there described: an everlasting banishment from the glory of God's presence, an everlasting destruction by the glory of His power. Bishop Reynolds. CUSTOM, Custom is a tyrant. P. Syrws. Custom is the law of fools. Sir J. Vanbrugh. Ičochester. T. Cwmha. Custom often overrules reason. Every land has its own custom. Roussectu. Aristotle. A bad custom ought to be broken. People love their ancient customs. Custom is the universal sovereign. Pinda)”ts. Custom is a most powerful master. Pliny. National customs are national honors. Thaarup. Men do more things from custom than from rea- SO]]. Fabctria. Custom has an ascendency over the understand- ing. I. Watts. Nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature. Pascal. Custom may lead a man into many errors : but it justifies none. Fielding. How many unjust and wicked things are sanc- tioned by custom. Terence. Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error. Cyprian. Custom is the tyranny of the lower human facul- ties over the higher. Mome. Necker. It is hard to abolish a custom once introduced, however foolish Ol' effeminate. A. Sever'ws. There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. Bovee. If you are determined to live and die a slave to custom see that it is at least a good one. E. P. Day. There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd. Charlotte Bronté. Custom will often blind one to the good, as well as to the evil effects of any long-established sys- tem. R. Whately. The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others COIſle. Dantº . Custom is the sovereign of mortals and of gods: with its powerful hand it regulates things the most violent. - Pindarus. By custom, practice, and patience, all difficulties and hardships, whether of body or of fortune, are made easy. L’Estrange. Custom governs the world ; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners, and rules with a hand of a despot. J. Bartlett. Choose always the way that seems the best, how- ever rough it may be ; custom will render it easy and agreeable. Pythagoras. It is of great advantage when the customs of a nation are such as are likely to lead to good habits among the people. G. F. Graham. 158 A) A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. CUSTOM, A person might as well refuse to speak the lan- guage of a country, as to comply with its customs in matters of indifference. T. Bowdler'. Old customs are as the blossoms on the tree of a nation’s life : and, when they wither and fall off, death and carnage are at the roots. A. Hove. Custom is the great leveller ; it corrects the in- equality of fortune by lessening equally the plea- sures of the prince and the pains of the peasant. Rames. Men commonly think according to their inclina- tions, and speak according to their learning and im- bibed opinions, but generally act according to cus- tom. Lord Bacon. Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth ; all is custom that goes on in continuity ; all customs are not alike beneficial to us. Zimmerman. Custom sanctions many falsehoods ; to speak the truth always would make us many enemies ; but we might better have them than to contradict the truth. T. S. Arthur. Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another ; but the two parties often clash, for precedent of the legislator of the first and nov- elty of the last. Colton. Habit or custom, like a complex mathematical scheme, flows from a point, insensibly becomes a line, and unhappily in that which is evil, it may become a curve. R. Robinson. It is an ancient custom to hold nothing good but that which he thinketh well of, although it be evil : and esteem nothing evil but that which he hateth, although it be good. D. W. J. Juymboll. It is difficult to bring people to approve of amy alteration of ancient customs ; they are always naturally disposed to adhere to old practices, unless experience evidently proves their inexpediency. - Livy. Custom is a reason for irrational things, and an excuse for inexcusable Ones. While we exercise Our Own judgment in all matters of importance, we should do well, in trifles, to conform without inquiry to existing modes. Chatfield. As impossible as it is for a blackamoor to east away his skin and to become white, and for a leo- pard to put away his spots, so impossible is it for them that ensnare themselves, and accustom them- selves with evil doing, to change their custom and do well. D. Cawdray. Custom and frequency in sin breeds a familiarity that produces an affection to it, and ends in a re- solved continuance in it. And as it is said by the apostle upon another occasion, “that perfect love casts out fear ;” so where custom has fastened a man's love upon sin, the awe and the dread of it vanishes ; and the sinner can break a precept under the very eye of sin-revenging justice without trem- bling, without feeling any inward wound or blow upon his heart, which is a frame of spirit, leaving a man not far from a reprobate mind and Seared conscience. R. Sowth. tance from his forefathers | CUSTOIM. Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse ; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheri- For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion. Schiller. Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconve- nient custom ; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden altera- tions ; he that pulls down a bad building by the bulk, may be ruined by the fall; but he that takes it down brick by brick, may live to build a better. F. Quarles. Custon is a violent and treacherous schoolmis- tress. She, by little and little, slyly and unper- ceived, slips in the foot of her authority, but hav- ing by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannical countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes. Montctigme. Of all tyrants, custom is that which, to sustain it- self, stands most in need of the opinion which is entertained of its power ; its only strength lies in that which is attributed to it ; a single attempt to break the yoke soon shows us its fragility. But the chief property of custom is to contract our ideas, like our movements, within the circle it has traced for us ; it governs us by the terror it inspires for any new and untried condition ; it shows us the walls of the prison within which we are enclosed, as the boundary of the world ; beyond that, all is undefined, confusion, chaos ; it almost seems as though we should not have air to breathe. Guizot. CYNICISMI. A beardless cynic is the shame of man and of nature, Milton. To conciliate cynic censors of moral worth is al- most impossible. Magoon. The cynic is to the world what the confirmed bachelor is to mankind. E. P. Day. None but those of a cynical disposition will re- fuse to partake of the Social enjoyments of life. S. F. Bradford. The aim of the cynical philosophy was to induce every man to become the custodian and rigid at- tendant upon true virtue. J. R. M’Culloch. Don’t be a cynic ; don’t bewail and bemoan ; don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good ; set down nothing that will not help Somebody. R. W. Emerson. The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one ; he is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes—openly bad and secretly bad ; he holds that no man does a good thing except for profit : the effect of his conversation upon your feelings, is to chill and sear them ; to send you away sour and morose. H. W. Beecher. GHARLES DIGIKEN.3, A R O S E Q U O 7" A T / O AV S. 159 D. DAINTINESS. - Dainty maketh dearth. E. Spenser. Dainties cloy the appetite. Artdaceraces. Dainty food is a good present. Efik. Plain foodsuitsnot dainty appetites. Eliza Tabor. A dainty stomach beggars the purse. Cydias. It ill becomes a Christian to indulge in worldly dainties. Fulgentius. Those who can dine only on dainties will often go supperless to bed. AEmeliws. He that hath never tasted of coarse fare knows not how to relish the dainties of life. W. Spence. Eat and drink with thy friend; yea, partake of his choice dainties ; but beware of buying from or selling to him. Confucius. Plain food is far more wholesome for the young than dainties; they corrupt, enfeeble, and destroy the mind as well as the body. C. J. Davrewa. Very few people are dainty, and yet how many pretend to be so But like the ass that wore the lion's skin, their braying betrays them. Daa. It is not in diminutive size, nor in beauty, nor in finish, that daintiness lies, but in a combination of the three. An ant is small, Yosemite is beautiful, the Venus-de-Medicisis finished, but whoever called them dainty ? Annie E. Lancaster. DALLIANCE. By dalliance thy days shall be few. R. Dodsley. Dalliance leadeth its votaries to penury. Nicias. It is madness to dally any longer when Souls are at stake. E. Calamy. Dalliance with unlawful love is the pathway to perdition. Pliny. Suffer not a woman to come into thy presence, lest thou be tempted to dalliance. Sulpicius. Dally not with one of the opposite sex when in the presence of strangers, for this is downright folly. Cleobulws. As dalliance with an enemy in war is the first step to treason, so is dalliance with sin the fore- runner of destruction to the soul. St. Macarius. Dalliance with unlawful pleasures resembleth fruit growing upon the edge of a precipice, which may be devoured by reptiles, crows, and vultures, but cannot be safely gathered by men of virtue and honor. - Diogenes. He that allows himself in any sin, or useth any unnatural dalliance with any vice, does nothing else in reality than entertain an incubus demon ; he prostitutes a wanton soul, and forces it to commit lewdness with the devil itself. Rev. John Smith. DAMAGE. Damages cannot be twice exacted. E. Coke. A so-called damage often proves a blessing in disguise. James Creighton. He who has suffered damage has a right to de- mand satisfaction. J. Locke. No greater damage can be done a man than to damage his character. Daberna. He who suffers damage by his own fault, cannot claim compensation from another. Justinian. A vicious dog, an aching tooth, and an unruly tongue, are three things which a man can only possess to his own damage. C. Nicholson. Gross errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to instruct them, to the great dam- age both of their fame and fortune. Lord Bacon. IDAMINATION. Strive to escape damnation. R. Baacter. To escape the damnation of our soul, ought to be our greatest care. Catherine of Aragon. It is impossible fully to realize the horror of eternal dammation. Massillon. He is justly damned who chooses eternal death rather than to love God. St. Thomas of Villanova. Through wickedness of the body cometh the damnation of the Soul. Chrysostom. The punishment of sin is the damnation of hell ; this is called the second death. J. G. Pike. What are all worldly honor and gain, if accom- panied by the damnation of the soul? Herménegild. Christianity started with an incredible creed, threatening damnation to unbelievers. E. Wright. It would be treason to abjure my faith, and call down damnation on my soul, merely to save my life. Joam D'Arc. Such as do wickedly on earth, setting a bad ex- ample to their fellow-men, shall in the end suffer damnation. .St. Ambrose. Judas sold his salvation very cheap, for thirty pieces of silver ; and yet they that paid the money paid very dear, for they bought their own damna- tion. R. Venning. It is said that “eternal damnation is too long as a penalty for the sins of a short life;” but we never heard it objected to eternal salvation, that it was too long to be the consequence and reward of this brief life. N. Adams. God did not create you in order to damn you ; he left that fearful power to yourself ; like a good father, He gave you the means to be saved, and told you at the same time that the abuse of them would lead to your own destruction. Smariws. 160 J) A Y'S CO / / A C O AW IDANCING. No man in his senses will dance. Cicero. Dancing is a harmless amusement. Lucretia Mott. All are not merry that dance lightly. G. Herbert. Dancing is a most excellent recreation. Scipio. Shame on those Christians who advocate dan- cing. Adam Clarke. Dance, laugh, and be merry, but be also inno- Cent. Thédore Barrière. Dancing is a fitting recreation even for a philoso- pher. Socrates. Eschew the dance, lest it provoke thee to wan- tonness. St. Wulfstan. Dancing is good, as an exercise, but not as a dis- sipation. Dr. S. S. Fitch. They love dancing over-much who will dance among thorns. Capacelli. Dancing for the young is dangerous ; for the old it is ridiculous. Bussy-Rabwtim. Hunting is the proper exercise for a man, dam- cing for a woman. Magnus Albertws. Many children appear graceful enough until they begin to learn to dance. S. T. Coleridge. A dancer is never a good scholar, for he guides his feet better than his pen. TWordroephe. It is better to be sick with a burning fever, than give one's self up to dancing. Frederick III. Those who teach children to dance, instruct them in the quick steps to perdition. J. Knapp. A man does not rise to eminence in the world who is merely a good singer and dancer. Rowsseau. Dance, dance, as long as you can ; we must travel through life, but why should we make a dead march Of it 3 Eliza, Cook. I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together. W. S. Landor. A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time ; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth. Alphonsus. They who love dancing too much, seem to have more brains in their feet than their head, and think to play the fool with reason. Terence. Learn to dance, not so much for the sake of dan- cing, as for coming into a room and presenting yourself genteelly and gracefully. Chesterfield. I am not of the opinion that all dancing is repug- nant to virtue, although some persons excellently learned, especially divines, so do affirmit. T. Elyot. Time and dancing are twins, begot together ; time is the first-born, being the measure of all moving ; and dancing the moving of all in mea- SUII’é. Ibrahim I. Through dancing many matrons have lost their honor, and virgins have learned things of which it would have been better had they remained igno- rant. Plutarch. IDANCING-. e The soberer and wiser sort among the heathem have utterly disliked dancing ; and among the old Romans it was counted a shame for a man to dance. - Sozzini. Ought not we to pity poor children who have to dance in the cellars and alleys of the town, and those, big and little, who are crowded into great, hot, and dusty rooms, without any grass, flowers, and trees, and who are obliged to hop round at the music of fiddles and horns, instead of the sweet melody of the birds 2 Rev. E. Haven. Are not the young amongst us ready to dance # And as to the old of us, do we not think that we act properly in enjoying the sight, while we hail with delight their fun and merry-making after our activity has left us 2 Regretting this, and recollect- ing our fondness for such amusements, we establish games for those who are able in the highest degree to recall to our recollection the joyous days of our youth. Plato. I love rural dances—from my heart I love them. This world, at best, is full of care and sorrow ; the life of a poor man is so stained with the sweat of his brow, there is so much toil and struggling, and anguish and disappointment, here below, that I gaze with delight on a scene where all those are laid aside and forgotten ; and the heart of the toil- worn peasant seems to throw off its load, and to leap to the sound of music. Longfellow. ID ANDY. Dandyism is refined vulgarity. G. F. Goss. Dandyism is a variety of genius. Hazlitt. Dress neatly and with taste ; but eschew dandy- ism. O. N. Guild. A dandy is a philosopher in the realms of ex- treme folly. J. Deinhardtstein. Damdies, when first rate, are generally very agreeable men. Bulwer. The dandy hopes to achieve distinction by the cut of his garments. H. Smith. The coat of a horse is the gift of nature ; that of a dandy the work of a tailor. G. D. Prentice. A dandy is one who dresses himself like a doll, and carries his character on his back. N. Webster. A dandy is a nice, fine fellow, made up of starch, manners, and assurance, with a few cents in his pocket, and no sense in his head. F. Cowdery. A dandy is a clothes-wearing man, a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes; every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse, and person, is heroically consecrated to this one object. T. Carlyle. This world will never be rid of the dandy ; there are so many pincushion hearts and heads not made for brains, there is so much vanity that is amply pleased with a dog's head on a bamboo cane, there is such a glory in being a pin-feather king for an evening among silly hearts, that young dandies will keep being born, and old dandies will frisk in spite of the gout, or anybody's philosophy. Shaw. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. IX ANGER. In time prevent danger. Dangers delight the brave. Sir James Stewart. Reep yourself clear of danger. Mrs. R. H. Davis. Run not heedlessly into dangers. Cleobwlws. Danger overcome promotes virtue. Guergwil. Walk not into the mouth of danger. Fiorentino. We cannot avoid danger without danger. Syrus. Danger is sweet for religion and country. J. Ker. Nothing great is obtained without danger. Freer. The best way to meet danger is to avoid it. Sir B. Roche. Great results usually arise from great dangers. Herodotus. That danger which is despised arrives the soon- est. Laberiws. If a man must fall he should manfully meet the danger. Tacitus. No great and famous deed is accomplished with- Out danger. Terence. Danger levels man and brute, and all are fellows in their need. Byrom. We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. Corneille. In imminent danger the faintest hope should be taken into account. Goethe. It becometh a wise man to be heedful, but not to be fearful ; for base fear bringeth double dam- ger. Vegetius. A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. Richter. Men who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking ; whereas troops unused to Service, often apprehend danger where no danger is. Washington. That knowledge is most useful that teaches a man how to adventure upon danger, and take in hand dangerous things without being terrified thereby. Socrates. A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow. Smollett. It is at the approach of extreme danger, when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts. Schiller, Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than force them ; nay, it were better to meet some dan- gers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their ap- proaches ; for if a man watch too long, it is odds he will fall fast asleep. Lord Bacon. Lilly. of it but failure. IDARENESS. Out of darkness cometh light. Lightbody. In the dark all men are black. Becamws. There is no darkness but ignorance. Shakspeare. Darkness is the mother of thought. I. Bekker. Darkness is always overcome by light. Stodard. The forest is dark, but night is darker. Yoruba. Darkness is not evil, but in comparison of the light. St. Augustine. The darkness of our virtues, and not of our eyes, is to be feared. Awrelius. The bats once petitioned Jupiter to blot out the sum, as it interfered with their flying ; there are similar birds of darkness stillin existence. Poynder. When all around us is drear and dark, the hid- den glories of heaven may be caught in a tear trembling upon the eyelid and pictured vividly and beautifully upon the soul. G. D. Prentice. Darkness is more grievous to such as have en- joyed light, than to a man born blind ; so it is more grievous to a Christian who has had light to be in- volved in the darkness of sin than for one who never found the light of life. B. Keach. DARING-. Fortune assists the daring. H. Mackinnon. Success attends those who dare. M. Mowbray. Daring and wisdom should go together. Birney. He who is daring provokes resistance, and courts danger. * G. Crabb. There is nothing too daring for the immortal mind of man. J. B. Lyman. I dare do all that may become a man ; who dares do more, is none. Shakspeare. Let us be sure that our daringness be commen- Surate to our duty. H. Hammond. Life is one long difficulty from beginning to end ; and only by daring or doing can we make anything Mrs. Lawra E. Lyman. IDATE. Egyptian chronology has no dates. E. Burgess. Dates are the monuments of history. T. Linacer. We would not alter Scriptural dates. Bunsen. What is public history but a true register of dates. Lacépède. Dates are nails that fix things in their proper places. Miss Mwlock. Many traditional dates have been approximate- ly, while others have been rigorously verified by astronomy. Rodier. Any writer who mentions the rising or setting of any star at any particular time of the year, with respect to the sun, furnishes us with data suf- ficient to determine the time in which he wrote. Priestley. --~~~~ * 4 ...~~~~ > ------" as-- 11 162 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. IDATUGHTER. I) A Y. Good daughters make good mothers. Whittlesey. Our days are few. Bishop T. Cooper. A daughter should obey the wishes of a wise pa- One day is like to all days. Montaigne. rent. Damo. -*- cº- One day presses upon another. Horace. Daughters are easy to rear, but they are hard to - marry. Opitz. We are the creatures of a day. Pindarws. A daughter is an embarassing and ticklish pos- No day is without its innocent hope. Ruskin. session. Menarvoler. - The daughters of a great man go quickly to The longest day soon comes to an end. Pliny. Efik. Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves. Lord Bwrleigh. Daughters often keep aged fathers out of the almshouse. Julia Ward Howe. It is almost a misfortune to have one's daugh. ters too popular. Mariom, Harland. market. A rich man whose children are all daughters will soon be poor. Ram wri. He who has daughters is always a shepherd, and ever on the watch. Thomas Limacer. If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter. F. Quarles. Daughters more frequently inherit the charac- teristics of the father, and sons the characteristics of the mother. Elizabeth Cady Stantom. To a father waxing old nothing is dearer than a daughter ; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness. Ewripides. Mothers should excite their daughters to perform services to the younger members of the family cir- cle, as the best preparation for their own future duties. Mrs. Sigourney. There is no one so slow to note the follies or sins of a father as a daughter : the wife of his bosom may fly in horror from his embrace ; but his fair- haired child cleaves to him in boundless charity. Dr. Amol rew Ross. Certain it is that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic, as that of a father to a daughter ; he beholds her both with and without regard to her sex. In love to our wives there is desire ; to Our Sons there is ambition ; but in that to our daughters, there is a something which there are no words to express. Addison. IDAWN. Dawn succeeds the night. Dr. Johnson. Every dawn is a new creation. J. Barbow'r, Dawn, as the herald of morning, dispels the shades of night. Ovid. Eve has its spell of calmness and consolation, but dawn brings hope and joy. B. Disraeli. How beautiful is the dawn in sweet summer- time ; one almost fancies that angels have been resting around us, the air is so sweet. D. Lindsay. The dawn has a fleeting empire over the day, giving gladness to the fields, color to the flowers, the season of the loves, harmonious hour of wak- ening birds. Calderon. He who has lived a day has lived an age. Bruyère. Let us every day do that which the day requires. B. Constant. Day and night creep insensibly one upon the Other. H. Spelman. Every day is either better or worse than the one before. Publius Syrus. Count that day lost wherein thou hast not got- ten a friend. Vespasian. You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for, your last day. Martial. Though a day may pass without profit, yet is it reckoned a part of our life. Al-Magribi. Every day that passeth is not to be thought of as the last, but that it may be the last. Seneca. There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can com- mend it without envy. Shenstone. Every day is a little life ; and our whole life is but a day repeated ; those, therefore, that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate. R. Hall. “Day is for man, and night is for the gods.” Yes ; the day, with its noise and activity, belongs to man and his affairs, as do youth and the strength of manhood ; while the night, with its silence and meditation, is God’s. Mime. Swetchine. IDEAFNESS. Be deaf to ill reports. Publius Syrws. The worst deafness is in the will. D. B. Ross. Deaf men are quick-eyed and distrustful. Nicol. Some men are deaf in Society where they should pay most profound attention. Annie E. Lancaster. One of the best cures for deafness we have ever known is, to tell a man you have come to pay him some money. G. D. Premtice. An infant born deaf cannot attempt those mo- tions of the organs of voice which gradually attain perfection by practice. Richard Owen. Deafness is sometimes a kind dispensation of Providence; when age comes upon us, the noise and bustle of the world become less wearisome to our declining years. E. P. Day. If the ear is the road to the heart, and the heart to the affections, how keen must the affliction of deafness be to those who possess great tenderness of the one, and susceptibility of the other. J. Ellis. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 163 DEATH. IDEATH. Death cures all evil. Hegesias. Death and the Sun are not to be looked at stead- * sº ily. Rochefowcawld. Death is another life 2 P. J. Bailey. ------- All is well ; let my death perpetuate my mem- Death comes quickly. Bürger. ory. Epaminondas. War not with the dead. Sermini. An honorable death is to be preferred to a base --- life. Still. Death dissolves a union. Mammi. *mmºm --------- A glorious death is better than an ignominious Death is in itself sacred. A. Dwmas. life. Otho I. Go not to certain death. Abdallah. Death is the passage to the Giver of Eternal Death i t Isleep. Mirab Life. Hervey. 8, UEl 1s 8,1]. 6256] 118,1 SeeO. 7.7°CLOeCºſtſ. *=sm * € sleep. Deep is the sleep of the dead | low their pillow of Innocence dignifies death. D. Wise. dust Ossian. Death is a minister of fate. Garth. Death terminates a life of wretchedness and de- *mºmº-º-º-º Spair. W. De Latowr. Death is a leap in the dark. T. Hobbes. The most glorious victory is the victory over Death makes all men equal. Claudian. death. Daniel March. *ºmºmºsº g Death is the voice of my Master calling me Death should not be feared. Bishop Aylmer. home. St. Anselm. Death loves a shining mark. E. Young. Death is the return of a pilgrim-stranger to his Death is a mighty mediator. Schiller. home. Thawmartwrgus. th **-m-º-º-º-me Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates Christ holds the key of death. A. C. Thompson. of all } Abd-el-. €7°. Death is the jewel of the just. H. Vaughan. Death is not a dreaded enemy, but a smiling --- friend. & in. Death triumphs in every place. R. Knowles. I’len --- W. Goodwin, - He who fears death has already lost the life he Death is preferable to dishonor. Vergniawd. COvets. Cato. The thought of death is terrible. Longfellow. It is not good to wish for death, but worse to — . fear it. Henry V. of Germany. Death dispels the dreams of life. J. C. Grot. Death snatches away the nearest and dearest of What is there no bribing death 3 Beaufort. friends. º Meikle. — sº Death is not terrible, if we only know how to We welcome death in a good cause. Teignmowth. meet it. . M. Chalvet. Death will not regard any ransom. J. Trapp. mal life. •m-m-mºmºmºmº J. Todd. *m-º. Death is the ultimate bound ll hum Death is the happiest period of life. W. Russell. º: is the ultima. oundary of a H* A dead man will never strike again. Fiorentino. I feel that death will come suddenly. Whitefield. Death ends a life of care and misery. Salisbury. Death is no dissolution ; it is a union. Toplady. Death is the end of all things on earth. Reynolds. Death spares neither pope nor beggar. Amchieta. Death is the most terrible of all things. Aristotle. The word death is forbidden at court. Lowis XI. Death is a crown of life to the faithful. T. Hogg. Death is the privilege of human nature. Rowe. Death is a gain to the true servants of God. Philippe. It is our idea of death which brings our honor. C. S. Robinson. Good men but see death, the wicked always taste it. Ben Jonson. Even in the hour of death I have such sweet thoughts. Prince Albert. Is death the last sleep 3 No ; it is the last final awakening. Sir W. Scott. Death I esteem a trifle, when not merited by evil actions. Plawłºws. I have no complaint to make of my death, but of the mode. Major Andre. Death is the beginning of a life which does not end in death. Rev. E. Mead. Death is an awful manifestation of God's intol- erance of sin. Dr. Chalmers. What difference does it make where our dear, dead ones lie Ż Mary Cecil Hay. Death separates by an abrupt break this life from the next. C. E. Lºwthardt. There is no death for those who believe in Christ ; it is only sleep. Ephraim. When death comes I shall smile upon him if God Smiles upon me. Rev. B. Grosvenor. 164 AD A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. IDEATH. Although an old man I am not yet willing to welcome death. Ebenezer Elliot. Death is a port where all may find a refuge from the storms of life. Earl of Stirling. Death ought to be cheerfully borne, and wel- comed by all men. Herod, the Great. Spiritual death leads to temporal, and this passes into eternal death. J. J. Van Oosterzee. Death does not change the company of one who has lived with God. Dr. Preston. The dead speak by their lives, by their works, and by their words. W. Aikman. I have trusted in God ; He will not forsake me in the hour of death. Oliver Cromwell. Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. J. Donne. Through the atonement of Christ, the Christian triumphs over death. Rev. A. Brwmson. Let the boys be allowed a holiday on the anni- versary of my death. Anaocagoras. Every man must meet death; the swiftest courser cannot flee from him. Jaafar. Nothing is more commonplace than death— nothing more solemn. T. O. Swimmers. Death will cause the bud of grace to blossom in- to the flower of glory. T. Brooks. The calmest rest is when we sleep well, and death is called a sleep. James de Koven. I regret not death ; I am going to meet my friends in another world. Ariosto. I would rather choose a sentence of death, than too long a sentence of life. Deering. No evil is honorable ; but death is honorable ; therefore death is not evil. Zemo. It is by death that God sets us free from the chains of this mortal body. Cyprian. Death is in the power of all ; it is despicable to wish for it, and yet fear it. Luigi. Death is simply the slipping off of the outer body, as a husk slips off from its kernel. Miss E. S. Phelps. The gods conceal from men the happiness of death that they may endure life. Lºwcam w8. Death possesses a good deal of real estate, name- ly, the graveyard in every town. N. Hawthorne. If some men died and others did not, death would indeed be a most mortifying evil. Brwyère. Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts, and set us free. J. R. Lowell. Death is the end of those who have done nothing to cause their names to live after them. Xenophon. How can we know the state of the dead, seeing we hardly know the state of the living 2 Confucius. I have two best friends in the world, Christ and death ; Christ is my best friend, death is my sec- Ond. Dr. Gowge. IDEATH, Nothing is more certain than death, nor nothing more uncertain than the hour of death. Socrates. Death, so much dreaded as the destroyer, should be looked on as the renovator of the world. Burmet. I look upon death to be as necessary to our con- stitution as sleep ; we shall rise refreshed in the morning. Franklin. Death stares the sinner in the face; all have sinned, and it is written, “The soul that sinneth shall die.” Christmas Evans. Ah how unwilling we are to frame in our own thoughts, or speak unto the unconscious air, that grim word—death ! Eliza Tabor. It matters not at what hour of the day the right- eous fall asleep : death cannot come to him un- timely who is fit to die. H. H. Milman. There are flowers which only yield their fra- grance to the night ; there are faces whose beauty only fully opens out in death. Mme. de Gasparin. O death ! thou strange, mysterious power, seen every day, yet never understood but by the incom- municative dead, what art thou ? G. Lillo. When you are dead, you will be no more con- cerned in what you leave behind, than you were in what was before you were born. Theocritus. Death is the tyrant of the imagination; his reign is in solitude and darkness, in tombs and prisons, over weak hearts and seething brains. Procter. Death, of allestimated evils, is the only one whose presence never incommoded anybody, and which Only causes concern during its absence. Arcesilaws. O thou savior Death I do not despise me coming to thee, for thou alone art the physician of incur- able woes; no sorrow reaches the dead, AEschylus. Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat up- sets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set in. T. W. Higginson. Death is the liberator of him whom freedom can- not release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. Colton. Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious. A. Clarke. Could we but know one in a hundred of the close approachings of death, we should lead a life of per- petual shudder ; often and often do his bony fin- gers almost clutch our throat, but a saving arm pulls him back ere we have seen so much as his shadow. J. Wilson. When death strikes down theinnocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the pant- ing spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes. Dickens. P R O S E Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. I65 IDEATH. What is our death but a night's sleep º' For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the power of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh, and strong, and joyous ; so at the last day we shall rise again, as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong. M. Luther. Death is only a word ; experience alone can first tell us what is the true meaning of the word. The appearance of the dying tells us nothing. What we see is merely the prelude to death ; a dull un- consciousness is what strikes us. Whether this be so—how and when the spirit wakes to life again— this is what we wish to know, and which never can be known till it is experienced. Humboldt. Death reigns in all the portions of our time. The autumn with its fruits provides disorders for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp dis- eases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and bram- bles to bind upon our graves. Calentures and sur- feits, colds and agues, are the four quarters of the year, and all minister to death ; and you can go no whither but you tread upon a dead man's bones. Jeremy Taylor. We picture death as coming to destroy; let us rather picture Christ as coming to save. We think of death as ending ; let us rather think of life as beginning, and that more abundantly. We think of losing ; let us think of gaining. We think of parting ; let us think of meeting. We think of go- ing away ; let us think of arriving. And as the voice of death whispers, “You must go from earth,” let us hear the voice of Christ saying, “You are but coming to me !” Rev. Norman Macleod. To me few things appear so beautiful as a very young child in its shroud ; the little innocent face looks so sublimely simple and confiding among the terrors of death ; crimeless and fearless, that little mortal passed under the shadow and explored the mystery of dissolution. There is death, in its sub- limest and purest image ; no hatred, no hypocrisy, mo suspicion, no care for the morrow ever dark- ened that little one's face; death has come lovingly upon it ; there is nothing cruel or harsh in its vic- tory. Leigh Hwnt. O death, how bitter is the thought of thee ; how speedy thy approach ; how stealthy thy steps: how uncertain thy hour ; how universal thy sway! The powerful cannot escape thee; the wise know not how to avoid thee; the strong have no strength to oppose thee; there is no one rich for thee, since none can buy life with treasures. Everywhere thou goest, every place thou besettest, in every spot thou art found. Thou art a hammer that al- ways strikes, a sword that is never blunt, a net into which all fall, a prison into which all enter, a sea on which all must venture, a penalty which all must suffer, and a tribute which all must pay. O cruel death ! Thou carriest off in an hour, in a mo- ment, that which has been acquired with the labor of many years, and filleth the world with orphans ; joinest the end to the beginning without allowing any intermediate space. O death ! Why hast thou entered into the world 2 Lwis de Granada. DEATH-BED. The death-bed of the just is sweet. E. Young. Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a death-bed. Pope. A death-bed figure is certainly the most hum- bling sight in the world. J. Collier. A death-bed repentance ought not to be neglect- ed, because it is the last thing that we can do. Atterbury. Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death- bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on. Sterne. There are things a man shall remember with joy upon his death-bed ; such as shall cheer and warm his heart, even in that last and bitter agony. Sowth. The mention of a death-bed calls up to every mind a familiar train of interesting, yet painful imagery ; who has not felt the stroke, to avert which man's best remedies are vain. Miss Simclair. A death-bed is a wonderful reasoner; many a proud infidel hath it humbled, who, but a short time before, would have defied all the ability of man to shake the foundation of his system. Rev. George Dawsom. IDEBATE. Be calm in debate. George Barrow. Men often debate for opposition's sake. Cobden. Men ordinarily debate to force others to submit to their judgments. Locke. In parliament, men often debate for the sake of Opposing the ruling party, or from any other mo- tive than the love of truth. G. Crabb. In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonist than offer him any of thy own; thus you will fight him in his own country. Fielding. Debate seldom allows the speaker that full and accurate preparation beforehand; arguments must be suited to the course the debate takes. Blair. For brethren to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy, thereby mak- ing him the judge, or at least the well-pleased au- ditor of their disagreement, is neither wise nor comely. Milton. IDEBILITY. Debility is the child of intemperance. Dio Lewis. The body may be in full strength, while the mind is debilitated with various ailments. S. Jenyns. To debilitate the body by debauchery and in- temperance, is defying the laws of nature and Di- vine Providence. Syrus Ephrem. Debility prevents the active performance of the ordinary functions of nature ; it is a deficiency in the muscular power of the body. G. Crabb. We not only debilitate the body by allowing our passions to have full sway, but we debilitate the mind, thus weakening the force and warmth of those affections that give to life its happiness and its blessings. Ida Hahn-Hahn. 166 JJ A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. IDEBT. IDEBT. Debt is the worst poverty. Lichtºwer. Contracting debts is like the man who goes to - ------- A sea without a compass; he may steer clear of rocks, Run not in debt to bestow presents. Ar-Rumi. sand-bars, a leeshore, and breakers, but the chances He that gets out of debt grows rich. Rabelais. He is rich enough who is not in debt. Gleim. Debt is grievous slavery to the free born. Syrus. Getting into debt is getting into a tanglesome net. Flemming. A slight debt produces a debtor ; a heavy one an enemy. A. S. Doane. Many delight more in giving of presents, than in paying their debts. Sir P. Sidney. Two classes are seldom in debt ; those who will not get trusted, and those who cannot. E. P. Day. The hardest one to collect a debt from, is the man who is always willing to pay, but never ready. H. W. Shaw. Some people use half their ingenuity in getting into debt, and the other half in avoiding payment of it. G. D. Prentice. It is a remarkable peculiarity with debts, that their expanding power continues to increase as you contract them. R. C. Dallas. Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine government, and corrupt the people. W. Phillips. There is no happiness with responsibilities which cannot be met, and debts increasing without any prospect of their discharge. Jacob Abbott. Every child should be taught to pay all his debts, and to fulfil all his contracts, exactly in the man- ner, completely in the value, punctually at the time. T. Dwight. Debt haunts the mind ; a conversation about justice troubles it ; the sight of a creditor fills it with confusion ; even the sanctuary is not a place of refuge. Dr. Chartery. Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too ; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same. Seneca. Small debts are like small shot ; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound ; great debts are like cannon, of loud noise but little danger. Dr. Johnson. A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was in- tended for her preservation. Colton. Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor. Bulwer. The debtor is the creditor's criminal, and all the officers of power and state, whom we behold make So great a figure, are no other than so many per- sons in authority to make good his charge against him. Steele. are greatly against him ; and if he runs foul of either, ten to one he is lost. L. C. Judson. There is nothing more to be dreaded than debt ; when a person, whose principles are good, unhap- pily falls into this situation, adieu to all peace and comfort ; the reflection embitters every meal, and drives from the eyelids refreshing sleep. Jeremy Taylor. A man who owes a little debt can clear it off in a very little time, and if he is a prudent man will ; whereas a man who by long negligence owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all. Chesterfield. Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate ; debt, which consumes so much time, which so crip- ples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suf- fer from it most. R. W. Emerson. Think, think what you do when you run in debt ; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor ; you will be in fear when you speak to him ; you will make poor, pitiful, Sneak- ing excuses, and by degrees come to lose your veracity, and sink into base, downright lying ; for the second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. Fromklim. Run not into debt, either for wares sold, or for money borrowed ; be content to want things that are not of absolute necessity, rather than to run up the score ; such a man pays at the latter end a third more than the principal comes to, and is in perpetual servitude to his creditors, lives uncom- fortably, is necessitated to increase his debts to stop his creditors' mouths, and many times falls into desperate courses. Sir M. Hale. Paying of debts is, next to the grace of God, the best means in the world to deliver you from a thousand temptations to sin and vanity. Pay your debts, and you will not have wherewithal to pur- chase a costly toy or a pernicious pleasure ; pay your debts, and you will not have what to lose to a gamester. In short, pay your debts and you will of necessity abstain from many indulgences that war against the spirit, bring you into captivity to sin, and cannot fail to end in your utter destruc- tion, both of soul and body. D. P. Delamy. Hunger, cold, rags, hard work, contempt, sus- picion, unjust reproach, are disagreeable; and debt is infinitely worse than them all. And, if it had pleased God to spare either or all of my sons to be the support and solace of my declining years, the lesson which I should have earnestly sought to im- press upon them is, “Never run into debt ; avoid pecuniary obligation as you would pestilence or famine. If you have but fifty cents, and can get no more for a week, buy a peck of corn, parch it, and live on it, rather than owe any man a dollar.” H. Greeley. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. DECAY. Sad are the signs of decay. C. Lever. Decay is resurrection's life. W. H. Burleigh. Decay seems to be written on everything. Ricord. Institutions founded in wrong soon decay. Clay. It is hard to restore what has once gone to de- George Rennie. cay. The breath of decay never Sullies the pure blow- ing air. Schiller. Whatever is called old must have the decay of time upon it. f J. Locke. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. Dr. Johnson. When all things by time decay, knowledge by age increaseth. Aristotle. Decaying nations reveal the elements of national decline and ruin. A. P. Peabody. If the plant cease to grow, or the fruit to ripen, it will, of course, decay. A. Butler. Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay. O. W. Holmes. He that plots to be the only figure among cy- phers, is the decay of a whole age. Lord Bacom. All the forms of decay are but masks of regenera- tion, the secret alembics of vitality. E. H. Chapin. The failure of the mind in old age is often less the result of natural decay than of disease. B. Brodie. The decay which is most usually noticed in old people, both by others and by themselves, is a de- cay of memory. R. Whately. As the touch of decay corrodes and prosfrates the glory and pride of the forest, so do the insidi- ous ravages of disease weaken and undermine the stoutest constitution. W. B. Rogers. IDECALOGUE. Preserve intact the decalogue. Jwriew. The decalogue is God's law book. Onderdonk. The decalogue is the most ancient code of moral law. Aleacander Rhodes. To abridge or alter the decalogue is a sin against God. F. Jwmctim. The decalogue teaches us to live purely, honestly, and godly. H. J. Rose. The decalogue is itself a code of laws, the most ancient known to the world. R. Morris. In the decalogue may be found the whole duty of man to God, as well as to his fellow man. J. C. Kunze. The decalogue bears innate evidence of having been inspired by a God of justice, wisdom, and benevolence. D. Nelson. The decalogue is the foundation of all laws, both human and divine ; but in order to have them ob- served, we have to resort to rewards and punish- ments. Bruno Ryves. DECEIT. In art, deceit is truth. Praaciteles. To deceive is to disappoint. C. Hammond. Drive the deceiver far away. Rig-Veda. Deceit discovers a little mind. Lyman Cobb. Deceit is the jewel of cunning. Jakowbovitch. Deceit is the red man’s wisdom. Pontiac. The deceitful find no favor with God. Al-Ahnaf. Wiles and deceits are female qualities. AEschylus. Life is the art of being well deceived. Hazlitt. We never deceive for a good purpose. Bruyère. Deceit and treachery make no man rich. Inglis. How wonderfully a man can be deceived. Hay. Between brothers there should be no deceit. Dafi. Very seldom does deceit remain long undiscov- ered. Demophilus. Deceit is never safe to any person in any lurking place. Camerariws. It is indeed a double pleasure to deceive the de- ceiver. La Fontaine. Society is made up of deception—even our best society. Bret Harte. It is easy for the best judges sometimes to be deceived. Im-Kyô-Tew-Wo. We are seldom deceived unless we wish to be deceived. Rousseaw. After all, there is less deceit among animals than among men. Emile Achard. I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned. Washington. It is as hard to find a man without deceit as a fish without bones. Archytas. The strong and the wise are two that will be suddenly deceived. G. Montpelier. The best epitaph of every man on his tombstone is, “The deceived.” Ewbwlides. Any form of deceit or misrepresentation is but a falsehood in disguise. John M. Niles. The cunning man uses deceit, but the more cum- ning shuns deception. Adam Ferguson. He that trusts a deceiver the second time, de- serves to be deceived. Mabinogion. It is a pity we so often succeed in our attempts to deceive each other. Empress Irene. Not only is lying sinful, but to speak the truth in a deceitful manner. James Mitchell. He who is accused of deceit, and condemned by his own people, must die. Shongmwmecwthe. A deceitful man chooses hypocrisy and dissimu- lation for his companions. Riashi. It is not lawful to deceive men even when it is for their benefit to be deceived. Plato. 168 JO A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. DECEIT. No one more easily deceives others than he who has the reputation never to deceive. Guicciardini. A deceitful promise is like a sword, when its edge rebounds harmless from the foe. Yamami II. It is a great deceit to speak otherwise with our tongue, than we mean with our heart. Pacuvius. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and just- ly; and if you speak, speak accordingly. Franklin. Alas! How long have I suffered from the deceit of men, in whom I have placed my trust. Abenface. It many times falls out, that what the heart craftily thinketh, the looks deceitfully betray. Leo. It awakens a feeling of indignation in a man, to find he has been deceived by a professed friend. D. O'Connell. Wonder not that thou art deceived by a wicked man; rather wonder if thou art not deceived by him. Demosthemes. A man's face is the gate of his mind, declaring outwardly the inward deceit which the heart con- taineth. Livy. There are three persons whom you should never deceive : your physician, your eonfessor, and your lawyer. H. Walpole. Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disap- pointed. H. Mackenzie. Deceit is like the newly fallem snow on the hill- side ; it seems moonlight till it melts : we are then undeceived. Ko-Kin-Shiw. The silly when deceived exclaims loudly, the fool complains, and the man of integrity walks away and is silent. La Nowe. It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiv- Ting it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding it out. Rochefoucauld. Virtue and decency are so near related, that it is difficult to separate them from each other, but in our imagination. T. Tully. The serpent hidden in the grass stingeth the fool; and a deceitful man under show of honesty often- times deceiveth the simple. Poggio. Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them. A. Hill. He is not worthy to find the truth that deceit- fully seeketh her ; it is more impious to be deceit- ful, than to conceal the truth. Hierome. When dogs fall a snarling, serpents a hissing, and women a weeping, the first means to bite, the sec- ond to sting, and the third to deceive. Archimedes. Be faithful to thy trust, and deceive not the man who relyeth upon thee : be assured it is less evil in the sight of God to steal than to betray. Dodsley. There is no game so small, wherein from my own bosom naturally, and without study of en- deavor, I have not an extreme aversion for deceit. Montaigme. IDECEIT. Deceit is a byway leading to confusion and dis- grace, a falsehood arrayed in truth’s robe, and a cloak, the longer worn the more difficult to leave Off. J. Imisom. The deceitful are like the chameleon, apt to all objects, capable of all colors ; they cloak hate with holiness, ambition with good government, flattery with eloquence ; but whatsoever they pretend is dishonesty. Mary B. Brwinton. It is pleasant enough for a bystander who hap- pens to be in the secret, to note the double decep- tion, and the reciprocal hypocrisy that is constantly going on between the young and old, in this wicked and transitory world. Colton. Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver ; and the act by which kindness was sought, puts an end to confidence. Dr. Johnson. Deceit is the excess of prudence ; it is that which leadeth a man through willful ignorance to oppose himself against that which he knoweth to be duti- ful and honest, causing him, under the counterfeit name of prudence, to seek to deceive those that will believe him. Sermini. Of all the agonies of life, that which is more poignant and harrowing—that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organiza- tion one lacerated, mangled heart—is the convic- tion that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love. Bulwer. When once a concealment or deceit has been practiced in matters where all should be fair and Open as the day, confidence can never be restored, any more than you can restore the white bloom to the grape or plum that you have once pressed in your hand. How true is this, and what a neglected truth by a great portion of mankind. J. W. Joyce. IDECENCY. Decency is not pride. De la Newfoille Quiem. Decency is a part of religion. Judge Scott. Conduct as decency requires. Serenus. Decency must outrank wealth. R. Nash. We are bound, in this world, to keep up the de- cencies of life. Cownt de Rémusat. Decency of behavior adds infinite weight to what is pronounced by any one. E. Budgell. Decency is the least of all laws, yet it is the law that is the most strictly observed. Rochefoucauld. Religion, stripped of all the external decencies of worship, would not make a due impression on the mind. F. Atterbury. That is decent which is agreeable to our state, condition, or circumstances, whether it be in be- havior, discourse, or action. I. Watts. As beauty of body pleases the eye, so does decen- cy of behavior obtain the approbation of all with whom we converse, from the Order, consistency, and moderation of our words or actions. Steele. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 169 DECISION. Quick decision is unsafe. Sophocles. J. Vincent. Decision puts an end to doubt. R. F. Stockton. Decision is the mark of an able ruler. Chwmg Yew. Upon decision hangs destiny. Make decisions founded upon justice. Tappam. Carefully consider both sides before making a decision. R. B. Taney. Decision of character commands universal ad- miration. J. W. Barker. Decision and promptitude are as requisite in self- culture as in business. Smiles. Decision of character is one of the most impor- tant of human qualities. G. W. Burmap. On the verge of a decision we all tremble ; hope pauses with fluttering wing. G. Eliot. There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. Hazlitt. For the want of decision men first make up their minds, and then seek for the reasons. R. Whately. If there be a loftiness and nobleness in decision, it is most lofty, most noble in religion. J. A. James. Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firm- IlêSS. Colton. Without decision, a human being is indeed a pitiable atom, the sport of divers and casual im- pulses. J. Foster. Decision and promptitude will in the long run, more often conduct to success than a slow judg- ment that comes too late. J. Locke. He who has decision of character enough to speak a disagreeable truth, is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice, and never ceases nibbling. Lavater. When it is necessary to come to a decision, and we have no certain or fixed data to go upon, it is necessary, when we have weighed the different op- posing views, to adopt that which is most probable and has the most powerful conjectures in its favor. - Gwicciardini. DECLAIMIATION. Heed not vain declamations. R. Dodsley. A declaimer is noisy—a man of words. G. Crabb. Mere declamation soon becomes insipid. Blair. Declamation often takes the place of truth, Yart. Declamation for the cause of the oppressed is approved of God. Duchess of Sutherland. Thereason declamations prevailso greatly is, men suffer themselves to be deluded by them. Hooker. A torrent of declamation, where all is sound and Verbiage, has often served the ends of the oppres- Sor, and proved fatal to the oppressed. Colton. In declamation there is nothing which more powerfully operates on the hearer's mind, than when the speaker illustrates his argument by way Of antithesis. & W. Hicks. IDECL.A.R.A.TION. Declare only what is good. Vahimewmi. Be candid in your declarations. Withof. Let not declaration be too far in advance of ac- tion. E. P. Day. Men's declarations are worthless unless substan- tiated by truth. James Ellis. A declaration is positive and explicit ; it leaves no one in doubt. G. Crabb. Let those who have been in error hasten to de- clare for the truth. Symphronianws. Our declarations should ever be in the interest of truth, virtue, and honesty. Annie E. Lancaster. God's promises are nothing else but declarations, what He will do for the good of men. R. Hooker. There are nowhere so plain and full declarations of mercy and love to the sons of men, as are made in the Gospel. Tillotson. Though wit and learning are certain and habitual perfections of the mind, yet the declaration of them, which alone brings the repute, is subject to a thousand hazards. R. Sowth. DECORATION. Avoid decorations begotten of vanity. Götze. Decorations should accord with nature. Watteaw. The decorations of an enemy belong to his con- queror. r Te-mo-tei-tei, In the external show of dwellings there may be grace, beauty, and grandeur; but the most costly decorations are all within. Ammoews Ypey. As it is no mark of wisdom to admire the scab- bard and despise the blade, so it is mere folly to praise the Outward decorations of a man, and dis- commend his decency of soul. G. Xavier. IDECORUIM. Decorum is a guard against offense. J. Yates. To speak and behave with decorum is essential to good breeding. N. Webster. A man of rank should observe the rules of deco- rum, and keep himself from violence and heedless- IlêSS. Tsang. Virtue and love of order naturally induce us to observe decorum ; to shake off the yoke of deco- rum is openly to prove we are either impatient or vicious. E. A. W. Zimmermann. TXECREE}. Obey the decrees of the church. St. Ulmar. A decree is a sentence laid on the law. Wharton. All things happen according the decrees of our Heavenly Father. E. Udal. When God decrees, man is but the passive instru- ment of his decretal. Placido Zurla. Many place implicit faith upon the influence of God's decrees, and have their settled convictions in regard to this belief. W. de Wykeham. By the decrees of Providence, the humble are lifted up and the lofty let down. The thrones of kings have been taken from them, to be trans- ferred to ploughmen and fishermen. J. Wysocki. D A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. DEEDS. Every noble deed is heaven. J. M. Peebles. Deeds not words are the test of character. Demophilus. Words are as leaves; deeds are the flowers and the fruit. J. Juvenal des Ursins. Good deeds are a better perfume for the dead than the powder of musk. Dwwółd. Deeds show what is in man ; each vessel can only exude the liquor it contains. Hais Bais. There must not only be in a man a mind of chari- ty, but also charitable deeds. St. Ambrose. We are not secluded from the expectation of re- ward for our charitable deeds. G. Smalridge. Asses do not give birth to elephants; neither do men of small souls perform noble deeds. W. S. Downey. Though men pride themselves on their great deeds, they are often not the result of design, but of chance. Rochefoucauld. Deeds lie in the memory of age like the coral islands, green and sunny, amidst the melancholy waste of ocean. Dr. Thomas. Such as thy words are, such will thy conversation be esteemed ; and such will thy deeds as thy af- fections; and such thy life as thy deeds. Socrates. It is deeds of high renown that give age to man ; these are what ought to be counted ; time is to be filled with these and not with years of idleness. Ovid. The deeds that men commit in their youth, were never yet found so upright and honest, but it was thought more praiseworthy to amend them, than to declare them. Isidorus. A good deed leaves behind it an impression of seemingly incompatible effects: on the one hand, it attaches us to life ; on the other, it strengthens us against death. Mme. Swetchine, Inure thyself by times to the love and practice of good deeds ; for the longer thou deferrest to be acquainted with them, the less every day thou wilt find thyself disposed to them . F. Atterbury. A generous, a brave, a noble deed, performed by an adversary, commands our approbation ; while in its consequences it may be acknowledged preju- dicial to our particular interest. Hume. I hate ill-designing men, who, devising evil deeds, gild them over with artificial ornament ; I would rather have an honest, simple friend, than one whose quicker wit is trained to evil. Euripides. Deeds are greater than words. Deeds have such a life, mute but undeniable, and grow as living trees and fruit-trees do; they people the vacuity of time, and make it green and worthy. Why should the oak prove logically that it ought to grow, and will grow % Plant it, try it : what gifts of diligent judicious assimilation and secretion it has, of pro- gress and resistance, of force to grow, will then declare thern. T. Carlyle. DEFAMATION. The most eminent sin is the spreading of defam- atory reports. Dr. Johnsom. It is a certain sign of an ill heart, to be inclined to defamation. J. Hughes. Defame not your neighbor in character : bear no false witness against him. R. Dodsley. We never injure our own characters so much as when we defame those of others. Bismarck. It is a grievous perverting the design of speech, to use it to the defaming and disquieting of our neighbor. I. Barrow. There is nothing so scandalous to a government, and detestable in the eyes of all good men, as de- famatory papers and pamphlets. Addison. Those who are pleased with reading defamatory libels, so far as to approve the authors and desper- sers of them, are as guilty as if they had composed them. Steele. Defamation is the uttering of contumelious lan- guage of any one, with an intent of raising an ill fame of the party, and this extends to writing, as by defamatory libels; and to deeds, as reproachful postures, signs, and gestures. J. Ayliffe. The nature of defamation is to pass a hard and ill-natured reflection upon an undesigning action ; to invent, or, which is equally bad, to propagate, a vexatious report, without color and grounds; to plunder an innocent man of his character and good name, a jewel which perhaps he has starved him- self to purchase, and probably would hazard his life to Secure. R. B. Kimball. DEFEAT. In defeat, save himself who can. M. Czaijkowski. A defeat to a brave man is only a victory de- ferred. James Ellis. Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. H. W. Beecheq". Present defeat is overshadowed by advancing victory. Talmage. He that would be reputed valiant must not let a chance defeat dismay him. Awreliws. Wit is a parliamentarian's sword, he who can wield it is a conqueror in defeat. T. Tilton. What is defeat 3 Nothing but education, nothing but the first to something better. W. Phillips. Man finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being, that can defeat all his designs, and disap- point all his hopes. Tillotson. A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled. AEschimes. No man is defeated without some resentment, which will be continued with obstimacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bit- terness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong. Dr. Johnsom. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. DEFECT. Man can remedy the defects of nature herself. F. Burges. A deep conviction of the defects of our lives tends to make us humble. N. Webster. We had rather follow the perfections of those whom we like not, than in defects resemble those whom we love. R. Hooker. A defect is a deviation from the general Consti- tution of man ; it is what may be natural to the man as an individual, but not matural to man as a species. G. Crabb. It is perhaps better that a work should be defec- tive than faulty, for defects will often happen in the haste of composition ; whereas faults may gen- erally be traced either to the author's ignorance or imperfect knowledge. G. F. Graham. DEFENSE. • National defense must be provided for. J. Adams. The chief defense of nations is the education of its people. Bwrke. A few swords, in a just defense, are able to re- sist many unjust assaulters. Sir P. Sidney. Offensive operations, oftentimes are the surest, if not the only means of defense. Washington. There is no way so effectual to betray the truth, as to procure it a weak defender. R. Sowth. Defensive warfare, in the cause of religion, is the most noble of all ; offensive, the most hateful. Mme. Swetchine. Man, in defense of his own hearthstone and fire- side, is invincible against a world of mercenaries. G. A. Grow. The indiscriminating defense of right and wrong contracts the understanding, while it hardens the heart. Junius. To be defended is almost as great an evil as to be attacked ; and the peasant has often found the shield of a protector no less oppressive than the sword of an invader. Colton. IDEFERENCE. Deference is dumb flattery. H. W. Show. Deference is the most indirect, and the most ele- gant of all compliments. Sir P. Sidney. A natural roughness makes a man uncomplaisant to others; he has no deference for their inclina- tions, tempers, or conditions. Addison. Deference often sinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger. Shenstone. Deference is the instinctive respect which we pay to the great or good—the unconscious acknowledg- ment of the superiority or excellence of others. - Elizabeth B. Anspach. A spirit of deference, steadfast, sincere, and en- lightened, belongs to a perfection so rare that the majority of men must remain strangers thereto. Mme. Swetchine. DEFORMITY. Deformity is a fit cure of pride. J. Hall. A deformed spirit is the ugliest of all things. Mrs. E. S. Ledsham. A deformed body may have a beautiful soul. D. B. Ross. A deformed body is best remedied by good deeds. Hannah M. Crocker. The deformity of heart is the worst deformity of all. - N. Cottom. If you are deformed, supply the defects of nature by your virtues. Bias. He who ridicules deformity of body betrays his own deformity of soul. E. P. Day. A virtuous and great soul may be enclosed in a deformed and mean body. Seneca. Deformity is peculiar to the civilized part of mankind, and is almost always the work of our own hands. Dr. Porter. The greatest deformities of the mind may be re- formed and rectified by industry and reasonable applications. Clarendon. T)eformity is daring ; it is its essence to overtake mankind by heart and soul, and make itself the equal, aye, the superior of the rest. Byron. The finest woman in the world would rather make deformity her choice than idiocy; would rather have ugliness than incapacity her reproach. - Dean, Bolton. Deformity of body is as nothing when compared with deformity of mind ; for time levels low the former, but the latter lives through ages, and throws disgrace around its possessor for time to CODOlê. W. T. Burke. IDEGENERATION. Man is a degenerate being. N. Webster. The most enlightened nations have degenerated. W. T. Burke. The ruin of a state is generally preceded by a universal degeneracy of manners. Swift. Men degenerate by vicious habits ; they lose their good qualities, and fall from a moral to a demoralized state. R. W. Emerson. A man must be of a degenerate temper whose heart doth not burn within him in the midst of praise and adoration. Addison. The character of the reputed ancestors of some men has made it possible for their descendants to be vicious in the extreme, without being degene- rate. Junius. It is with the degeneracy of nations as with the degeneracy of men; the one is the fault of a lax system of government, and the other from a laxity of morals. James Ellis. When a man so far becomes degenerate as to quit the principles of human nature, and to be a noxious creature, there is commonly an injury done some person or other. J. Locke. D A Y'S CO Z Z A CoA. DEGRADATION. Deplorable is the degradation of man. R. South. Man degraded himself by degrading women. E. D. Mansfield. Nothing can be so degrading as the violation of truth and sincerity. G. Crabb. We degrade ourselves when we allow our pas- sions to guide us. Robert Crowley. The word degradation is commonly used to de- note a deprivation and removing of a man from his degree. J. Ayliffe. The principal cause of the degradation of certain classes, is that they are treated as degraded by Other classes. Bovee. Vice degrades a man in the view of others, and often in his own view ; drunkenness degrades a man to the level of a beast. N. Webster. So deplorable is the degradation of our nature, that whereas before we bore the image of God, we now retain only the image of men. R. Sowth. There exists not any man or woman of an affec- tionate and generous nature, who would not much rather blame themselves than blame the object of their esteem and tenderness; no feeling is more difficult to be borne than the conscious degradation of the being one has fondly adored. Coverdale. Degradation means the application of a thing to purposes lower than that for which it was intended. It is degradation to a man to live on husks, because they are not his true food. We call it degradation when we see the members of an ancient family, decayed by extravagance, working for their bread; it is not degradation for a born laborer to work for an honest livelihood ; it is degradation for them, for they are not what they might have been. F. W. Robertson. IDEISM. A deist would be an atheist if he dared. Plutarch. Deists are most effectually beaten in all their combats. I. Watts. One of the defective and absurd principles of deism, is the contemming the goodness, justice, and holiness of God. James Ellis. Deism, or the principle of natural worship, is only the faint remnant or dying flame of revealed religion in the posterity of Noah. Dryden. The deist claims to revere the God of nature; but Christians revere and worship not only the God of nature, but of grace and glory. S. Bradburn. Not one in fifty of those who call themselves deists, or atheists, understand the nature of the religion which they profess to reject. D. Bogue. How is it that the deist in the present day is bet- ter informed as to the divine character ? Has he Superior Sagacity, or a more elevated genius than Homer or Virgil—than Socrates or Cicero 3 As- suredly not. He has derived his greatest light on this all-important subject from the very volume which he inconsistently rejects. If he has not done So, let him tell us from whence he has derived his more rational sentiments. M. Frank. DEITY. Above all things revere Deity. Publius Syrus. Intellect understands the Deity. Zoroaster. Deity alone can command the affections of the great. R. M. Johnson. If Deities be not above man, then men would not sacrifice to them. 2Cenophames. It is the fashion with the larger part of the world to paint Deity like themselves. J. Bartlett. There never was any people so rude which did not acknowledge and worship one Supreme Deity. Rircher. Let the sacrifices to Deity be of trifling value, that all men, at all times, may be able to offer them. Lycurgus. The Deity has superadded pleasure to animal sen- sations, beyond what was necessary for any other purpose. E. Young. Contemplation of human nature doth, by a neces- sary connection and chain of causes, carry us up to the Deity. Sir M. Hale. It is evident that the Deity is powerful and wise, but that we cannot ascribe either goodness or jus- tice to him. Lord Bolingbroke. The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. Addison. Which way soever we turn ourselves, we are encountered with clear evidences and sensible de- monstrations of a Deity. Tillotson. The presence of the Deity, and the interest which so august a Being is supposed to take in our con- cerms, is a source of consolation. L. Murray. The Deity is more incomprehensible to us than anything else whatsoever, which proceeds from the fullness of His being and perfection. R. Cudworth. In adversity, in prosperity, in sickness, and in health, our joys will be pure, our sorrow lightened with the holy emanation of the Deity in our bo- SOIDS. V. Knoac. How monstrous for men to think it a display of wit to be able to dispute against a Deity, and a piece of gallantry to live above the fear of their Maker. M. Barker. Our own being furnishes us with an evident and incontestable proof of a Deity ; and I believe no- body can avoid the cogency of it who will carefully attend to it. J. Locke. There is no creature in the world, wherein we may not see enough to wonder at ; for there is no worm of the earth, no spire of grass, no leaf, no twig, wherein we do not see the footsteps of a Deity. Joseph Hall. Our existence is dependent on a succession of changes which are taking place at every moment in ourselves, over which we have no power what- ever, but of which each one involves the necessity of the existence and the superintending power of the Deity. F. Wayland. P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. I 73 DELAY. All affairs admit delay. Al-Iraki. Delays have dangerous ends. Shakspeare. An hour's delay may ruin an empire. E. P. Day. Sometimes a cause is served by delay. Ennius. Every delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom. Publius Syrus. Every delay is regarded as long, which puts off our joys. Ovid. Delay has ever been injurious to those who are prepared. Lucanus. Never delay that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. E. Budgell. Delay has always been unfortunate to those who are ready. Dante. Delays increase desires, and sometimes extin- guish them. R. Dodsley. Every delay, however trifling, seems too long to a man in haste. Seneca. We can always find some excuse for delaying good resolutions. Addison. Delay is indeed good fortune to a man, when it is the means of averting evil. C. Nicholson. The conduct of our lives, and the management of Our great desires, will not bear delay. J. Locke. He who delays the honesty of to-day till to-mor- row, will prorogue his to-morrows to eternity. - Lavater. By One delay after another, we spin out our whole lives, till there is no more future left for us. L’Estrange. Delays oftentimes bring to pass, that he which should have died, doth kill him which should have lived. Clemens of Aleacander. As there is no deliberate good that hangeth on delay, so no counsel is profitable that is followed unadvisedly. J. A. Rabawt-Pommier. The longer we delay the show of virtue, the stronger we make presumptions that we are guilty of base beginnings. A. Possevino. Delays, whether in the business of God or our own, are hateful and prejudicial ; many a one loses the land of promise by lingering. Joseph Hall. He who delays his repentance, with his eyes open, abridges the time allotted for the longest and most important work he has to perform ; he is a fool. J. Butler. Delay has been the ruin of thousands; it is the destroyer of riches, the mother of poverty, the pillow of laziness, the curse to righteousness, and the currency of idiots. James Ellis. When the mind is made up to do a thing, delay breeds delay, and one pernicious example is the oc- casion of many, until Our purpose becomes halting, and we limp, when we ought to run toward our object. Bovee. IDELAY. Never delay till to-morrow what reason and con- science tell you ought to be performed to-day. To-morrow is not yours ; and though you should live to enjoy it, you must not overload it with a burden not its own. W. E. Channing. • I am afraid that, in the practice of jurisprudence, circumspection more than rarely means dilato- riousness; delay of justice is injustice ; when offences are defined, and punishments are appor- tioned, no circumspection is necessary. W. S. Landor. Delays mostly arise from faults in the person delaying, and are seldom found reasonable or ad- vantageous ; we may defer or postpone an act with discretion, but we are indolent if we delay anything that we can accomplish with interest. G. Crabb. How dangerous to delay those momentous refor- mations which conscience is solemnly preaching to the heart | If they are neglected, the difficulty and indisposition are increasing every month ; the mind is receding, degree after degree, from the warm and hopeful zone ; till at last it will enter the artic circle, and become fixed in relentless and eternal ice. J. Foster. God oftentimes delays that His people may come to Him with greater strength and importunity : He puts them off, that they may put on with more life and vigor : God seems to be cold, that he may make us the more hot ; He seems to be slack, that He may make us the more earnest : He seems to be backward, that He may make us the more for- ward in pressing upon Him. T. Brooks. DELICACY. Delicacy is an attribute of heaven. James Ellis. Delicacy is to the mind what fragrance is to fruit. A. Poincelot. Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to beauty. J. M. de Gerando. A delicate and flexile demeanor is a prominent trait in polished life. Magoom. Many things are too delicate to be thought ; many more, to be spoken. Novalis. An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to beauty. Bwrke. *----- If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast. Mrs. H. B. Stowe. Delicacy of taste tends to invigorate the social affections, and moderate those that are Selfish. Kames. True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in lit- tle things. t Mary Howitt. At court we find a delicacy of taste in every- thing, a delicacy arising from the constant use of the superfluities of an affluent fortune, from the variety, and especially the satiety of pleasures, from the multiplicity and even confusion of fan- cies, which if they are but agreeable are always well received. Montesquiew. , ZD A Y',S C O Z Z. A C O AV. DELIGHT. Delight is moderate joy. R. B. Sheridan. Our bodily delights are worldly poisons to infect Our Souls. Pompignan. The delights of this world are like bubbles in the water, which are soon raised, and suddenly laid. J. Quinquarboreus. He which delighteth in this world must either lack what he desireth, or else lose what he hath won with great pain. Cratinºws. Sensual delights soon end in loathing, quickly bring a glutting surfeit, and degenerate into tor- ments when they are continued and intermittent. John Howe. The delight we inspire in others has this enchant- ing peculiarity, that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever. G. D. Premitice. The great, perhaps the principal cause of that delight we receive from a fine composition, whether it be in prose or in verse, I conceive to be the mar- vellous and magic power it confers upon the reader. Colton. IDELUSION. Delusion leads to folly. Mrs. Willard. No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Bovee. Delusion produces not one mischief the less, be- cause it is universal. Burke. Delusions, like dreams, are dispelled by our awakening to the stern realities of life. Dallas. It many times falls out, that we deem ourselves much deluded in others, because we first deluded ourselves. Sir P. Sidney. We are always living under some delusion, and instead of taking things as they are, and making the best of them, we follow an ignws fatwws, and lose, in its pursuit, the joy we might attain. James Ellis. Our spirit is often led astray by its own delu- sions; it is even frightened by its own work, be- lieves that it sees what it fears, and in the horror of night sees at last the objects which itself has produced. Voltaire. Delusive ideas are the motives of the greatest part of mankind, and a heated imagination, the power by which their actions are incited ; the world, in the eye of a philosopher, may be said to be a large madhouse. H. Mackenzie. The delusions we cherish are supposed to be al- lied to our happiness, and when our happiness is uncertain in its nature they probably are so ; but it must be short-lived, it must be a misery in dis- guise, that which makes truth unwelcome and be- guiles the reason. H. Hooker. Delusions, many and strong, are plentiful every- where; sportive with the young, inveterate with the old, ingrafted upon opinions, modes, habits, and customs ; yet not without purpose is life beset and teeming with them ; they are means, not ends, and doors and windows to our prudence and discre- tion. Acton. DEMAG.OGUE. It is honest men and not demagogues that make a nation prosperous. James Ellis. Demagogues, in most cases, are unfit from igno- rance for the duties of Office. J. C. Calhown. In the mouth of an expert demagogue there is a dangerous and dreadful weapon. R. Sowth. The demagogue that frets the angry multitude, is like froth upon the mountain wave. Sir A. Hunt. In every age the vilest specimens of human na- ture are to be found among demagogues. T. B. Macawlay. The demagogue, with his opinions, is like the farmer fattening turkeys; what they will not eat he Crams down their throats. E. P. Day. The demagogue who smiles upon every man he meets, and the cynic who does not Smile upon any man, are equally to be avoided. J. Bartlett. A demagogue is bold in language, but with a right hand slow in battle ; in counsels deemed no trivial adviser, and is powerful in faction. Virgil. The lowest of politicians is the demagogue ; the man who seeks to gratify an invariable Selfishness by pretending to seek the public good. H. W. Beecher. Among the various qualities necessary for a demagogue to make his way with the mob, he must be foul-mouthed, base-born, and a low, mean fellow. Aristophames. There never are wanting demagogues who are ready on every occasion to inflame the people ; a kind of men who in all free states are maintained by the favor of the multitude. Livy. Demagogues, however fond they may affect to be of independence and liberty in their public speeches, are invariably tories in their private ac- tions, and deposits in their own families. Colton. The inflated demagogue puffs the people up with words, and turns as interest prompts him ; by his pleasantry he winds himself into their hearts to- day, and offends to-morrow ; then with fresh ca- lumnies cloaking his former errors, escapes from justice. Ewripides. When a democracy is controlled by fixed laws, a demagogue has no power, but the best citizens fill the offices of state ; when the laws are not su- preme, there demagogues are found ; for the people act like a king, being one body; for the many are supreme, not as individuals, but as a whole. Aristotle. The line can readily be drawn between the dema- gogue and the man of sincerity and truth ; the latter sacrifices present popularity for the people's present and future good ; he considers the interests of posterity, and is willing that they shall pass judgment upon his actions: the demagogue, On the other hand, sacrifices the people's good for present popularity, and gives no thought to the future ; the action of the one glides into oblivion, while that of the other into renown. W. T. Burke. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 175 DEMOCRACY. Democracy is better than tyranny. Periander. Democracy is a mischievous dream. Brownson. Your little child is the only true democrat. - Mrs. H. B. Stowe. True democracy favors equal rights, and is Op- posed to all monopolies. Wm. Leggett. The affairs of a kingdom cannot be properly Con- ducted by a democracy. C. Nepos. The principles of democracy and the principles of morality, are one and the same. M. Jaques. A democratic government is one that is friendly to equal rights, and opposed to all monopolies. E. Curtis. Democracy is equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or poli- tical. T. Jefferson. A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, poverty, and vulgar employ- ments. Aristotle. Ill fares it with the better ranks when those of low degree hold dignity, wielding at will the fierce democracy. Ewripides. A democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon. W. S. Landor. A regular democracy holds too much of civil liberty ; while the domination of the few differs but little from absolute monarchy. Tacitus. If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically ; so perfect a government is not suitable to men. Rowssed:w. A democracy is a government of the people, a government where the supreme power is in the people, and all power and authority emanate from them. L. D. Slamm. The connection between democracy and Chris- tianity is so vital, and so intimate, that the one cannot exist in its integrity and purity without the other. W. Goodell. A democracy is a form of government repugnant to the dictates of wisdom and justice ; those who are the wealthiest are more likely to conduct pub- lic affairs successfully. Thwcydides. Where the majority have the whole power of the community, and employ all that power in mak- ing laws, and executing those laws, there the form of government is a perfect democracy. J. Locke. That is a democracy where the poor, getting the upper hand in the state, kill some and banish others, sharing equally among the remaining citizens the magistracies and high offices, which are usually divided among them by lot. Plato. It is among the evils, and perhaps not the small- est, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they can see. When this happens, they are roused to action ; hence it is that those kinds of government are so slow. Washington. DEMOCRACY. A democracy is a government that recognizes the equal right of all people to all things created for their use, as the air, earth, light, and water ; and at the same time gives protection to each and every individual in his life, liberty, and property, so long as he does not violate any of the rights of Others. E. P. Day. That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. Neither the inclination nor the know- ledge will suffice alone ; and it is difficult to find them together. Pure democracy, and pure demo- cracy alone, satisfies the former condition of this great problem. T. B. Macawlay. An absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government ; we think it rather the cor- ruption and degeneracy than the sound constitution of a republic. If I recollect rightly, Aristotle ob- serves that a democracy has many points of resem- blance with a tyranny. Burke. Between our form of government and our con- dition of society we have an irreconcilable anta- gonism : we have a government democratic in most of its features, but erected over and built upon a social organization not adapted to it, and which received its characteristic form and elements in periods and institutions widely different. Bovee. Our democratic principle is not that the people are always right ; it is this rather, that although the people may sometimes be wrong, yet they are not so likely to be wrong and to do wrong as irre- sponsible, hereditary magistrates and legislators ; that it is safer to trust the many with the keeping of their own interests, than it is to trust the few to keep those interests for them. O. Dewey. In democracies, where the right of making laws resides in the people at large, public virtue and goodness of intention is more likely to be found than in either of the other qualities of government. Popular assemblies are frequently foolish in their contrivance, and weak in their execution ; but generally mean to do the thing that is right and just, and have always a degree of patriotism or public spirit. Blackstone. Intellectual superiority is so far from conciliating confidence that it is the very spirit of a democracy: to be the favorite of an ignorant multitude, a man must descend to their level ; he must desire what they desire, and detest all they do not approve ; he must yield to their prejudices, and substitute them for principles; instead of enlightening their errors, he must adopt them ; he must furnish the Sophistºry that will propagate and defend them. Fisher Ames. The principle of democracy degenerates, not only when it loses the spirit of equality, but also when it takes to itself the spirit of extreme equality, and when every one wishes to be equal to those whom it has chosen to rule ; for then, the people not being able to submit to the authority which it has con- ferred, wishes to do everything by its own hands, to deliberate for the senate, to execute for the mag- istrates, and to assume the power of the judges. Montesquiew. 176 JO A Y’,S CO /, / A C O AV. DENIAL. - DEPRAVITY. A civil denial is better than a false promise. It is not in the power of man to sin to such ex- E. P. Day. cess, as a depraved woman. J. Bartlett. Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials I d t beli in total depravit . conceal truth. Demosthemes. O R1O €Ve al depravity ; every man To deny principles is to deny truths ; and to deny truths is heresy. M. Postlethwayt. The more we deny to ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. Horace. Denials make little faults great, and truth makes great faults indifferent. Berz. He that denies compassion to the penitent, shall find small favor when he himself asketh forgive- IlêSS. Clemens of Alexander. A blockhead will deny more in a single hour than a hundred doctors have proved in a hundred years. Dr. Johnson. He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven. St. Aquinas. Denial is the refusal of anything propounded, or an apostate back-falling from a thing formerly affirmed, known, or taken. E. L. Posselt. He who has never denied himself, for the sake of giving, has but glanced at the joys of charity. We owe our superfluity; and to be happy in the per- formance of our duty, we must exceed it. Mme. Swetchime. IXEPENDENCE. Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind. J. Collier. God has made no one absolute ; the rich depend On the poor, as well as the poor on the rich. Feltham. Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity, than any other motive whatsoever. Addison, Depend on no man, on no friend, but he who can depend on himself ; he only who acts conscienti- ously toward himself will act so toward others, and vice versa. Lavater. Dependents on great men, as well from the ho- mage that is accepted from them as the hopes which are given to them, are become a sort of creditors: and these debts being debts of honor ought, ac- cording to the accustomed maxim, to be discharged first. Steele. We enter upon life weak, unconscious infants, depending every moment on other eyes to watch for us, and other hands to minister to us ; while we kindle in their hearts the most powerful emotions: but not less dependent are we on our fellow-crea- tures for our continuance in life from the cradle to the grave. Macleod. The man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge, such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily; this is the man of moderation ; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom. Plato. has something in him to show that God made him. H. W. Shaw. Controlled depravity is not innocence ; and it is not the labor of delinquency in chains that will correct abuses. Burke. We all have a catalogue of the blackest sins that human nature, in its lowest depravity, is capable of committing. R. South. Nothing can give us so just a motion of the de- pravity of mankind in general, as an exact know- ledge of our own corruptions in particular. Jeremy Taylor. Man is born with a depraved nature ; wars, per- secutions, cruelty to men and animals, all testify to the depravity of human nature, and show the need of regeneration by the Holy Spirit. Ritchie. I have never known one who was fond of main- taining the selfishness and extreme depravity of human nature, who was not in himself an exem- plification of the soundness of his doctrine. Bovee. It is a sad demonstration of the desperateness of our depravity, that we invent the most of our dan- gers; we voluntarily incur the risk of perdition for the sake of enjoying the excitement, and court temptation for the pleasure of feeling its force. Magoon. The depravity of human nature is a favorite topic with the priests, but they will not brook that the laity should descant upon it ; in this respect they may be compared to those husbands who freely abuse their own wives, but are ready to cut the throats of any other man who does so. Colton. We fall not from virtue, like Vulcan from hea- ven, in a day. Bad dispositions require some time to grow into bad habits: bad habits must under- mine good, and oft repeated acts make us habit- ually evil; so that by gradual depravations, and while we are but staggeringly evil, we are not left without parentheses of consideration, and merciful interventions, to recall us to ourselves. J. Brown. IDEPRECIATION. Depreciate no one; an atom has a shadow. Dyer. Houses, lands, or money may depreciate; but the natural rights of man are unchangeable. J. Commerford. It is very natural for those who have not suc- ceeded to depreciate the works of those who have. Addison. We should never depreciate anyone ; the work- man loves not that his work should be despised in his presence ; now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work. Mme. De Sales. Any one who is much talked of, must be much maligned ; but when we consider how much more men are given to depreciate than to appreciate, we must acknowledge that there is some truth in the Saying. r Sir A. Helps. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S 177 DERISION. Deride not the unfortunate. Chilo. Derision is the argument of a fool. Qwigmomez. Derision is malicious ; it is the gratification of a malignant feeling. G. F. Graham, Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. Jeffrey. Men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies be- yond their sympathies. Goethe. Derision is often used as a shield to ignorance : and when resorted to either in the spirit of evasion or malice, should be beaten down with silent con- tempt. E. M. Eyring. DESCENT. Disgrace not an honorable descent. Stoboews. Honorable descent is in all nations greatly es- teemed. Aristotle. Hereditary honors are a noble and splendid trea- ure to descendants. Plato. No man living is a thousand descents removed from Adam himself. R. Hooker. Descent from noble ancestry proves base, if pre- sent life continue not the dignity. Osorius. A man's descendants will differ from him in the same ratio as he differs from his ancestors. W. G. Palgrave. The glory of illustrious ancestors is a lamp for their descendants, which only embellishes their virtues, or hides their defects. A. Ceba. Ever remind the descendants of early settlers of the obligation they are under, to cherish the vir- tues of their ancestors, and in testimony of their descent, to uphold and support, wherever they may dwell, freedom, law, learning, and religion. George E. Day. IDESERT. Honor desert. Periander. Desert and reward seldom keep company. Zeno. It often shames men to be flattered beyond their desert. Queen Christina of Sweden. Were all punished according to their desert, none would be saved. John Joseph. A man's deserts, even in serving the cause of God, are sometimes unrequited. Al-Mwmajjim. The more deserving a man is, the more ready he is to applaud the desert of others. L. Byrn. Those qualities you possess are the effects of God’s liberality, not of your deserts. John Sage. A man in his own opinion, deserves more than he receives; in the opinion of others, he receives more than he deserves. J. Van Buren. He that from small beginnings has deservedly raised himself to the highest stations, may not always find that full satisfaction in the possession of his object, that he anticipated in the pursuit of it. Colton. DESERTION. - Desertion is a disgraceful fault. Jolibois. Death is the penalty for desertion. Stewben. Desertion shows the spirit of a coward. Eymard. God will not desert those who refuse to desert a good cause. Hannah Arnett. He who at the approach of evil deserts his post, is branded with cowardice. J. Hawkesworth. As rats will desert a sinking ship, so will a mere politician desert a failing cause. M. Walsh, A true woman will not desert a cause for which her husband has laid down his life. Molly Pitcher. He who will desert a friend or cause for a price, will again desert for a larger price. Eacm.owth. As a flower in winter mourns the summer which is past, so does the forsaken maiden mourn the desertion of her former lover. Sadaihe, Death is not as hard to bear as desertion, for in death we feel that a power higher than ourselves rules ; but in desertion we cannot help fearing that we must be in some way partly to blame for our anguish. Mrs. C. E. Riddell. IDESIGN. God designs all things. Iactlilacochitl. Mind designs ; wisdom directs. C. Hammond. A good person does good by design, harm only by accident. Mrs. E. Cady Stamton. A wise man is distinguished by the judiciousness of his designs. N. Webster. Design pervades all things, and is more universal than life itself. Cornwallis. O that we could be as importunate for Our good, as wicked men are for compassing their own de- signs ! Joseph Hall. Many designing men, by asking small favors, and evincing great gratitude, have eventually obtained the most important Ones. Colton. He is an unthrift of his honor that enterprizes a design, the wherein may bring him more disgrace, than the success can gain him honor. F. Quarles. Let boys be instructed in all the designs of na- ture, and they will be improved in morals, and learn to love animals, instead of throwing stones at them. Oscar Wilde, Men, when their designs are laid deepest, are yet forced to change the manner of the execution of their resolves, by reason of some outward accidents that obstruct them in their course. S. Charmock. They who once engage in iniquitous designs, mi- serably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther ; one fault be- gets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt which, at the commencement of their career, they would have died rather than have incurred. R. Southey. 12 I'78 AJ A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. IDESIRE]. Desire not that which you cannot obtain. Chilo. We never desire ardently what we desire ration- ally. Rochefoucauld. Is that which one earnestly desires, to be regarded as a divine inspiration ? Virgil. We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since mature has set none. Bovee. Desire not that of another which thou thyself being asked wouldst deny. Pythagoras. Desire dieth when it is attained, and the affec- tion perishes when it is satisfied. Sir W. Raleigh. Desire of what we cannot get torments us, as the hope of that we may have comforts us. Bias. In all thy desires let reason go along with thee, and fix not thy hopes beyond the bounds of proba- bility. Stanislaws. The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. Dickens. A wise man will desire no more than he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. - Lord Bacon. If we gratify our desires at the expense of reason, we must learn to cultivate our reason at the ex- pense of pride. W. T. Dwight. Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying ; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself. Sir P. Sidney. The madness of desire shall defeat its own pur- suits; from the blindness of its rage thou shalt rush upon destruction. R. Dodsley. Desires are the first issues and Sallyings out of the Soul to unlawful objects ; they are sin, as it were, in its formation. R. Sowth. Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who, while he was chill, was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison. Dr. Johnson. Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoy- ment carries the idea of delight with it. J. Locke. When a man's desires are boundless, his labor is endless ; they will set him a task he can never go through, and cut him out work he can never finish. J. Balgwy. Our nature is inseparable from desires, and the very word “desire”—the craving for something not possessed—implies that our present felicity is not complete. T. Hobbes. Every desire bears its death in its very gratifica- tion. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimu- lants, and novelties cease to excite surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle. W. Irving. All man's thoughts, all his desires, all his pur- poses are evil, expressly or by implication ; because the subject of them is avowedly sinful, or because they do not proceed from a holy principle, and are not directed to a proper end. T. Dick. DESIR.E. Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep, we are on the death-bed. Bulwer. It is a most miserable state, for a man to have everything according to his desires, and quietly to enjoy the pleasures of life ; there needs no more to expose him to eternal misery. J. Wilson. It should be an indispensable rule in life to con- tract our desires to our present condition, and whatever may be our expectations, to live within the compass of what we actually possess. Addison. The passions and desires, like the two twists of a rope, mutually mix One with the other, and twine inextricably round the heart, producing good if moderately indulged, but certain destruction if suffered to become inordinate. R. Burton. Our desires are the presentiments of the faculties which lie within us, the precursors of those things which we are capable of performing ; that which we would be, and that which we desire, present themselves to our imagination, about us, and in the future. Goethe. He who can wait for what he desires, takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it ; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently, thinks the success when it comes, is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it. Brwyère. Our desires are like the waves of the sea ; they follow each other in rapid succession ; they settle with the calm, and rise with the storm ; when kind and gentle, they waft us tranquilly into the haven of peace and happiness; when furious and uncon- trolled, they endanger our safety, or overwhelm us in ruin and despair. . . . 4cton. Desire is love exercised upon a good which we behold at a distance, and are reaching at ; delight is love solacing itself in a present good ; they are as wings and arms of love ; those for pursuits, these for embraces; or, the former is love in mo- tion, the latter love in rest ; and, as in bodily motion and rest, that is in order to this, and is per- fected in it. J. Howe. Those things that are not practicable are not de- sirable ; there is nothing in the world really bene- ficial, that does not lie within the reach of an in- formed understanding and a well-directed pursuit ; there is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world ; if we cry like children for the moon, like children we must cry on. Burke. Every one would have something, such perhaps as we are ashamed to utter; the proud man would have a certain thing, honor; the covetous man would have a certain thing, too, wealth and abun- dance; the malicious would have a certain thing, revenge on his enemies; the epicure would have pleasure and long life; the barren, children; the wanton, beauty ; each would be humored in his own desire, though in opposition both to God's will, and his own good. Joseph Hall. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 179 IDESPAIR. You must never despair. Horace. Despair regards sorrow as endless. M. Luther. Despair is the greatest of our human errors. Vawvenargues. Some noble spirits mistake despair for content. N. P. Willis. Despair is a great incentive to dying with honor. Rufus. Despair makes the victims sometimes victorious. Bulwer. Rage is for little wrongs, but despair itself is dumb. Hannah More. Despair comes of the feebleness of courage, and the lack of wit. Saint Isidorws. Despair is but to ante-date those miseries that must fall on us. - Massinger. There are situations in which despair does not imply inactivity. Burke. Despair is the damp of hell; rejoicing is the serenity of heaven. J. Domme. Despair is the ashes of hope, which the wind of tribulation Scatters. H. W. Beecher. Of all the perturbations of man’s mind, despair is the most pernicious. Livy. Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. Lady Blessington. He that despairs, measures Providence by his own little contracted model. R. Sowth. Let no one despair to whom in the murkiest night hope's last glimmer vanishes. C. M. Wielo rid. Despair leadeth damnation in chains, and vio- lence lays claim to the wrath of God. St. Bernard. Despair not when all worldly means are done ; for God will raise thee, if thou trust in Him. St. Augustine. It is not right for him who is in misfortune to despair, but always to expect better fortune. Apollodorus. To despair because we are poor and wretched is not humility, but the most abominable pride. J. Wilson. I am not the one to be severe upon despair ; I know too well how much courage is needed to re- sist it. Mme. Swetchine. He who despaireth of the end, shall never attain unto it ; and he who seeth not the pit, shall perish therein. R. Dodsley. Despair defies even despotism ; there is that in my heart would make its way through hosts with levelled spears. Byron. Despair is the destruction of all hope, the death- less sting, that refines the torment of the finally impenitent and lost. L. C. Judson. So long as we are not absolutely bound and im- prisoned by the stern law of impossibility, despair can never constitute any part of our duty. Magoon. IDESPAIR. Despair has the noblest issue of all ill, which frailty brings us to ; for to be worse we fear not, and who cannot lose is ever a frank gamester. Sir R. Howard. He who despairs wants love; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light to— gether, nor does the one shime without the other. Metastasio. He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word ; and in vain hath read the Scriptures, the world, and man. Feltham. Despair is the thought of the unattainableness of any good, which works differently in men's minds; sometimes producing uneasiness or pain, Sometimes rest and indolence. J. Locke. The passage of Providence lies through many crooked ways ; a despairing heart is the true pro- phet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of fortune, but not break them. Quarles. Despair is like froward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness ; it grows angry with it- self, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head. P. Charrom. One sign of despair is the peremptory contempt of the condition which is the ground of hope ; the going on not only in terrors and amazement of conscience, but also boldly, hopingly, and confi- dently, in wilful habits of sin. H. Hammond. Lachrymal counsellors, with one foot in the cave of despair, and the other invading the peace of their friends, are the paralyzers of action, the pests of so- ciety, and the subtlest homicides in the world; they poison with a tear ; and convey a dagger to the heart, while they press you to their bosoms. Jame Porter. As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves, will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world; persons in strong health and spirits, who take plenty of air and exercise, who have a thorough relish of the good things of this life, sel- dom devote themselves in despair to religion or the muses. Hazlitt. What burning agony of the soul, what direful convulsions of the brain attend despair, when every hope seems gone, and when everythrob of the heart is a death-stroke , when the fibre of every nerve is charged with piercing, searching, and writhing tortures, and the intensity of life is upon us; here it is where the unfaltering energy of great minds fails not, but boldly wrestles with it. Acton. Despair makes a despicable figure, and is descen- ded from a mean original ; it is the offspring of fear, laziness, and impatience ; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty too ; after all, the exercise of this passion is so troublesome, that nothing but dint of evidence and demonstration should force it upon us. I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed, I saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. J. Collier. 180 A) A Y',S C O Z Z. A C O AV. IDESPERATION. DESPONDENCY. Desperation is grounded on danger. Maam. Never despond. Nicholas Biddle. Desperation is a want of faith in God. E. Haag. Despondency is a censure of God. Ignatius. Desperation tempteth to self-destruction, Kaas. Despondency is moral cowardice. Yeow Wang. Desperation springeth from the ignorance of God. St. Augustime. When a man becomes desperate he has lost all hope. James Ellis. Desperation, in all cases, preferreth profit before honesty. Brasmus. The fear of inevitable punishment is the cause of desperation. Stoboews. Desperation is a double sin, and final impenitence hath no remission. Ortensio Lando. He that is desperately inclined to his own will, is ever most near to the wrath of God. St. Bernard. Desperation, like poison, sometimes averts de- struction by being taken in an Overdose. Laale. Desperation is a sorrowfulness without all hope of better fortune, a vice which falsely shadoweth itself under the title of fortitude and valor. Lynge. Desperation ought to be treated as a kind oftem- porary insanity, and crimes committed under its presence should be considered in that light. Ripley. When a man is so desperate as to devote his own life to the chances of taking the life of another, no precaution is sufficient to prevent him from mak- ing the attempt. George III of England. IDESPISING. Despise not any one. Lamont. Neither fear nor despise. C. W. F. Walch. It is galling to be despised. Al-Husain. Who despises a little may lose much. Iacaia. It is only those who are despicable who fear be- ing despised. Rochefowcawld. To be despised for laboring for the cause of truth is true glory. St. Romwald. Despising rank and fortune is the only way to add lustre to it. Marcellinºws. Despise not those who differ from us, but seek to instruct them. St. Stephen, of Cîteauac. It is not always safe to despise, for it more often results from enmity than contempt. James Ellis. Nothing can be a reasonable ground of despising a man, but some fault chargeable upon him. Sowth. Insolent is he that despiseth in his judgment all other folk, as in regard of his value, of his cunning, of his speaking, and of his bearing. Chaucer. Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything ; for there is no man that hath not his hour, nor is there anything that hath not its place. Ben Azai. There are many that despise half of the world ; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them. Colton. Despondency sits heavy on the heart. E. Ricord. Despondency is for cowards, not men. H. Arnett. When hope leaves a man, despondency begins to subdue him. Plato. Despondency doth not become one who hath faith in God. Saint Hyacinthe. Despond not ; for God will defend those who fight in a righteous cause. Oswald. Despondency is ingratitude to heaven, as cheer- fulness is the most acceptable piety. H. Smith. If men with souls live only to eat, drink, and be amused, is it any wonder if life be darkened with despondency 3 T. Chatterton. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination I J. Collier. To despond is to be ungrateful beforehand; be not looking for evil ; often thou drainest the gall of fear, while evil is passing thy dwelling. Tupper. It is every man's duty to labor in his calling, and not to despond for any miscarriages or disap- pointments that were not in his own power to pre- vent. L’Estrange. There are moments of despondency, when Shak- speare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter ; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts. Colton. It is well known that the very boldest atheists, out of their debauches and company, when they chance to be surprised with solitude or sickness, are the most despondent wretches in the world. R. Bentley. Despondency is not a state of humility ; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cow- ardly pride ; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our Course. Fénélon. Life is a warfare ; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty ; he betrays the noblest pro- perty of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe. Jane Porter. Despondency is the spirit of bitterness and dark- ness; it is a disease that stunts the faculties, ener- vates the heart, chills the affections, and dries up every channel of life ; it leads to a purgatory of grief, and often ends in a miserable death. Ellis. At times we are at a loss to account for our des- pondency, and seek in vain for the causes of it in our present, or adjacent circumstances; the diffi- culty consists in our not looking far enough ; the explanation for it lies not in a part, but in the whole and in the totality of our lives. T. Davies. P R O S E O U o 7. A 7 y o M. S. 181 DESPOTISM. Despotism ever pleads necessity. I. Rynders. Despotism is the vampire of liberty. J. Ledyard. Despotism, though often cruel, is not always blind. - Miss Olive R. Seward. Intimate alliances with despots are never safe to free states. Demosthemes. Lions and despots see more clear in the dark than in the day. George Buchaman. Anarchy soon becomes the most horrid of all despotisms. Despotism is not government, but the abrogation of government. Demetriws. What is anarchy but a localized, capricious, and irresponsible despotism ? W. Goodell. Despotism is a silent file, that insensibly works through the barriers of liberty. Chann-Pi—Pi. Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor. S. Horsley. All governments run ultimately into the great gulf of despotism, widem or contract them, straight- en or divert them, as you will. W. S. Landor. Despotism can no more exist in a nation, until the liberty of the press be destroyed, than the night can happen before the sun is set. Colton. It is odd to consider the connection between des- potism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less. Addison. Travellers describe a tree in the island of Java, whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade ; so it is with despotism. Ruffini. Whenever men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been pro- portionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism. R. Whately. I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically, when I find a man born into the world with boots and spurs, and a nation born with saddles on their backs. A. Sydney. There is something among men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake ; that is the threatened indigmation of the whole civilized world. D. Webster. As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fearis what is required in a despot- ism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there. Montesquiew. As long as it remains true that the greater part of mankind spend their lives rather in the pursuit of sensual pleasures and follies, than like rational beings, so long will despotism be necessary. Forster. Public opinion is the prop of good governments, when that opinion is based upon knowledge; fear is the support of despotic governments, to which ignorance is as congenial as it is abhorrent from the genius of a free people. R. Hall. M. Fillmore, . IDESPOTISM. Even despotism does not produce its worst effects so long as individuality exists under it ; and what- ever crushes individuality is despotism, by what- ever name it be called. J. S. Mill. A despot is merely an individual, and becomes. quite powerless when those masses of individuals, in whom the ability to coerce others really resides, disapprove of his proceedings. J. R. M’Culloch. Despots govern by terror ; they know that he who fears God, fears nothing else ; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Vol- taire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infam- ous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage. Burke. When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a de- sign to reduce mankind under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. T. Jefferson. Despotism makes a wanton and luxurious court, filled for the most part with the worst and vilest of all men. Good God | What hard-heartedness and barbarity, to starve perhaps half a province, to make a gay garden | And yet sometimes this gross wickedness is called public spirit, because forsooth a few workmen and laborers are main- tained out of the bread and blood of half a million. G. Gordom. There is a natural connection between despotic governments and depraved manners, free govern- ments and comparative purity ; free institutions not only open to the rich higher and more worthy objects of ambition than the gratification of the senses, but operate as a wholesome restraint upon the upper ranks, by making them dependent, in some degree, on the good opinion of the lower classes. Chatfield. The simplest form of government is despotism, where all the inferior orbs of power are moved merely by the will of the Supreme, and all that are subjected to them directed in the same manner, merely by the occasional will of the magistrate ; this form, as it is the most simple, so it is infinitely the most general ; scarcely any part of the world is exempted from its power ; and in those few places where men enjoy what they call liberty, it is continually in a tottering situation, and makes greater and greater strides to that gulf of despotism which at last swallows up every species of govern- ment. Burke, Despotic dynasties are now becoming matters of history and curiosity ; the contest formerly was, which should be the most powerful despotism, now it is beginning to be, which shall be the freest re- public 3 Of old, the rivalship was in respect to the greatest show ; now the question is, which shall be of the greatest use ? The world has become prac- tical and utilitarian ; arbitrary and despotic sway is unpopular and unpalatable, and as yet, history has chronicled no ill effects which have arisen from making a people more free and more happy. To direct and control the national destinies of a host of freemen is a great and noble enterprise. Acton. 182 A) A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. DESTINY. DESTRUCTION. Destiny cannot be avoided. A. Cummingham. Destruction is for our enemies. Edward IV. Destiny is the decree of God. G. Copway. Nothing is capable of destruction. Roucher. Men are ignorant of their destiny. A. Brisbane. There is no refuge against destiny. Crwydrad. Who can turn the stream of destiny ? Spenser. It is the destiny that is born with man which de- termines all his actions. Pindarus. Let woman steer straight onward to the fulfill- ment of her own destiny. Mrs. Emma R. Coe. We owe to him who holds our destiny in His hands, the tribute of our grateful devotions. Chester A. Arthwºr. Three are the causes of evil destiny to man— want of knowledge, hatred of good, and love of evil. Barddas. There is a certain destiny of everything, regula- ted by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works. Leibnitz. Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably un- der the control of destiny. Goethe. Let no character be written on the wall for us, no horoscope of our destiny be cut ; for us, let the great book of fate be unopened and its mystical contents forever unknown. John Inglis. We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth ; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows, will stay in our presence forever. Bulwer. DESTITUTION. Sell all to aid the destitute. St. Serapion. The destitute fear no thieves. Hilarion. Are not the destitute God's children 3 Hedwiges. Destitution is not feared by the faithful. Cybar. Destitution is not feared, but rather desired by holy men. Saint Winwaloe. The destitute are often timid ; search them out, and succor them. St. Twbwriws. The destitute are the property of the church : let them be cared for. St. Lawrence. A state of destitution does not always justify one in receiving gifts from the opulent. St. Sigfrid. I sell my corn to the destitute ; those who have money to pay for it, let them go elsewhere. David Crockett. Even those in the humblest walks of life may do Something to relieve the destitution of those about them. Screfsta. Destitution should be relieved by employment, rather than gifts of money. Many of the poor might be instructed in shoemaking, and like trades, whereby their wants would be supplied, either in whole or in part. St. Crispin. Destruction is for the body, not the soul. St. Jonas. The destruction of surfeit is the doctor's starva- tion. T. Gruffudd. The destruction that is going on in the world is only that of evil. - H. Hooker. Fear not the destruction of the body, but the de- struction of the soul. St. Raymund. We should never cease our efforts to save a hu- man being from destruction. Francis II, Germany. The best thing in the hand of a fool may be turned to his destruction ; and out of the worst the wise will find the means of good. R. Dodsley. There is nothing new under the sun; and per- haps destruction has caused as much novelty as in- vention ; for that is often a revival which we think a discovery. Colton. Many can unite only in noble designs; the alli- ance of wickedness and selfishness carries the seed of ruin in itself ; therefore wise nature will not attempt what man has so often found impossible and destructive. - Rºrwmmacher. DETERMINATION. Determination is power. Eadfrith. Determination decides destiny. Cham Chi. Determination will bring victory. Amaru. A determined heart takes no counsel. Quiros. To him who has determined, it only remains to act. J. Florio. Determination is the exercise of the power of the will. Jeremiah Day. The proper acts of the intellect are deliberation, and determination or decision. Sir M. Hale. It is determination in action, such as taking in- stant advantage of an enemy's mistakes, that so often wins the battle. Sir Colin Campbell. Consult thy judgment, affections, and inclina- tions, and make thy determination upon every particular ; and be always as suspicious of thyself as possible. E. Calamy. He that undertakes to guide the vessel, may at last be swept away from the helm, by the hurri- cane ; while those who have battened themselves down, determined to follow the fate of their vessel, rather than to guide it, may arrive Safe on the shore. Colton. The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men—between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant —is energy, invincible determination—a purpose once fixed, and death or victory ! That quality will do anything that can be done in the world ; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it. Sir F. Buacton. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S 183 IDETRACTION. DEVIL. Detraction engenders hatred. Yahya. All devils breed malice. L. G. Cothi. Detraction, like a crab, runneth backwards. I. The devil is the author of evil. F. Quarles. Detraction is a weed that grows only on a dung- Serve not in the devil's kitchen. Otmar. hill. Michaelis. -*- The devil assumeth many shapes, T. Rys. A man is usually brought to open his bosom to his mortal enemy, by detraction. R. Sowth. A detractor is always a bad man, and wanteth those good qualities which he would disparage. I. Barrow. If detraction could invite us, discretion surely would detain us from any derogatory intention. Sir T. Browne. Unjustifiable detraction always proves the weak- ness as well as meanness of the party that employs it. Magoon. The most intangible, and the worst kind of a lie is a half truth ; this is the peculiar device of a “conscientious ” detractor. W. Allston. Never circulate reports that detract from the reputation or honor of your neighbor, without ob- vious necessity to justify the act. J. Dickinsom. If detraction were a new thing to me, I might not be displeased with the suppression of the first libel that should abuse me ; but since there are enough of them to make a small library, I am se- cretly pleased to see the number increased, and take delight in raising of the stones that envy hath cast at me without doing me any harm. Balzac. Those who propagate evil reports frequently in- vent them ; and it is no breach of charity to sup- pose this to be always the case ; because no man who spreads detraction would have scrupled to produce it ; as he who should diffuse poison in a brook would scarce be acquitted of a malicious de- sign, though he should allege that he received it of another who is doing the same elsewhere. Dilke. DEVELOPMENT. Development is the art of learning. Azzoobeydee. Development is continued creation. O'AEdha. Nature's development is unceasing. James Ellis. The development of science is progressive. Mason. Human development is an ennobling inspira- tion. J. B. Robertson. The cultivation of arts in female education de- stroys the development of thought. Mme. Campan. The highest development of the whole man de- pends upon the equal application of all his several powers. Mirabeau. Development is one thing—that system of cramp- ing, perverting, and mystifying called education is quite another. Mrs. E. Cady Stanton. Doubtless, it belongs to man to grow and mount unceasingly. The desire of development, but of an eternal, purely moral, regular, and peaceful deve- lopment, which is but the law that summons him to perfect his being, is in the front rank of his at- tributes. Mrs. Swetchine. most idle. Devils must be exorcised with devils. Tscherming. The devil is ready to purchase souls. Viera. The devil's bait is sweeter than Christ's. Hierome. Devils dwell only in the brains of fools and mad- IſleIt. B. Bekker. By God's help we are able to triumph over the devil. D. Cargill. It is easy to raise the devil, but not so easy to lay him. Arnulphus. Thou, O Lord, didst make hell as a portion for the devil. Cosmodym. The devil is always the busiest, when you are Erwin. Howse. It is by watching and prayer the devil is to be OVer’COIIlê. St. Romwald. One may understand like an angel, and yet act as a devil. Jablonowski. Let the devil catch you by a hair, and thou art his forever. Lessing. An unregenerate man is wholly under the com- mand of the devil. Chemelles. The devil flees from one making a sign of the cross on the forehead. St. Cyril. The devil careth more to destroy the souls of men, than their bodies. Pawl, the Hermit. The devil, not able to oppose God in himself, as- saults him in his members. St. Augustime. The devil was the first author of lying ; the first beginner of all subtle deceits, and the chief de- lighter in all sin and wickedness. Philo. The devil in the last day shall rise against us in condemnation, for that he hath been more careful to get souls than we to save them. St. Bernard. Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him by his children. Swift. The devil having the nature of an angel, know- eth a great deal ; he doth not, however, know everything ; and as the angelic nature is more subtile than that of man, so is he more informed than man. Elewcidariws. As the children of God are workers together with God in every good thought, word, or action, so the children of the devil are workers together with him in every thought, word, or work ; as all good tem- pers, and remotely all good words and actions, are the fruit of the good Spirit, in like manner all evil tempers, with all the words and works which spring from them, are the fruits of the evil spirit. Wesley. 184 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. IDEVOTION. DEXTERITY. Devotion is the life of religion. J. Hall. Dexterity comes by experience. Zalwºiamski. Devotion, like fire, goeth upward. Zoroaster. Dexterity lends an air of ease to every action. — G. Crabb. All is holy where devotion kneels. Holmes. Devotion signifies a life devoted to God. Law. Devotion must not be neglected for any worldly COrlGer’IlS. Alkmar. Theoretical piety is never more deceptive than in acts of devotion. Austin Phelps. Those who make use of devotion as a means and end, generally are hypocrites. Goethe. Secret devotions resemble the rivers which run under the earth, they steal from the eyes of the world to seek the eyes of God. N. Cawssin. Devotion is the sole asylum of human frailty, and the sole support of heavenly perfection ; it is the golden chain of union between heaven and earth. Bishop M. Yowng. The secret heart is fair devotion's temple ; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unac- cepted. Hammah More. Characters that in youth have been most volatile and most worldly, often, when bowed down and de- jected by the adversity which they are not fit to en- counter, become the most morbidly devout. Bulwer. There is no way in which the young can better learn the sentiments of devotion, or the old pre- serve them, than by cultivating those habits of thought and observation which convert the scenes of nature into the temple of God. Alison. If faith be the mainspring, devotion winds up the machinery, and keeps it in continual motion ; it is as impossible for the soul to remain strong in faith, and active in obedience, without continued communion with God the fountain of all grace, as it is for a clock to perform its revolutions without being regularly wound up. Bishop Jackson. IDEW. Dew depends not on Parliament. J. Otis. The dew waits for no voice to call it to the Sun. Rev. J. Parker. There can be no dew till it is disenchanted of earthliness. Dr. Pulsford. Dew-drops are the gems of morning, but the tears of mournful eve 1 S. T. Coleridge. None can give the dew but God; it comes from above, and is of celestial origin. Bishop Reynolds. The dew of heaven is as much needed for the flowers as for the crops of the field. Lady Fullerton. The dew of heaven is often as beneficial as rain : it is one of those dispensations of a wise and gra- cious Providence. Sturm. Various and very absurd notions prevailed among the ancients in regard to the dew ; by some it was supposed to descend from the stars, and to be possessed of wonderful virtues. Barnard. The race is won as much by the dexterity of the rider as by the vigor and fleetness of the animal. Earl of Bath. Dexterity respects the manner of executing things ; it is the mechanical facility of performing an office. Abbé Girard. A man who knows the world, will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know ; and will gain more credit by the dexterity he displays in hiding his igno- rance, than the pedant by bis awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. Sir R. B. Cottom. DIAMOND. Diamonds cut diamonds. Tamil. . Diamonds are best plain set. Rolle. A rough diamond is better than the polished paste. Tupper. A diamond polished was first a diamond in the rough. G. W. Doone. If a diamond be thrown into the mud, it is a diamond still. Ahmed Vesik. Diamonds are not only dug for, but sometimes worn by slaves | Richter. The diamond, though small, is a heavy load for a poor man to carry. Efik. A diamond, though set in horn, is still a diamond, and sparkles as in purest gold. Massinger. The diamond has been always esteemed the rar- est stone, and the most precious of all ; among the ancients it was called the stone of reconciliation. Lewis Vertoman. The diamond is more valuable than any other Stone, and vastly superior to all others in lustre and beauty ; as also in hardness, which renders it more durable and lasting. Woodward. To the diamond is attributed the virtue of the talisman, and it is even said that he who wears the stone is always assured of victory, however numerous his enemies may be. Garcias ab Horto. IDICTIONARY. Dictionaries are word-pictures of language. Coac. The design of dictionaries is to show the use of words. Leibnitz. An army or a parliament is a collection of men, a dictionary, or nomenclature, is a collection of words. I. Watts. Dictionaries have come to be, in too many cases, the permicious record of unreasonable, unwar- ranted, and fleeting usage. R. G. White, No man will harbor any fear of degradation in the ranks of literature, because he has devoted his portion of ability and learning to the drudgery of a dictionary. C. Richardson. PA O S E O U O 7. A Z / O M. S. IS5 DIET. DIFFICULTY. Be simple in your diet. Q. Tubero. Difficulties make desire. Wyatt. Diet cures more than the lancet. Abermethy. In difficulties, despair not. Cleobulus. Use a spare diet ; and thus cut off the enemies' Difficulties strengthen the mind. Seneca. provisions. Dr. Tronchim. *-*-*. - g — Out of difficulties grow miracles. Brwyere. We often diet a healthy body into consumption, *º-º-º-º-º-º-º-º: by plying it with physic instead of food. Swift. Difficulties give way to diligence. Baher. Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet ; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health. Horace. What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, is not much better than tedious disease. G. D. Prentice. It is by no means improbable that the national character of human societies may be modified by their favorite diet. Chatfield. No part of diet, in any season, is so healthful, so natural, and so agreeable to the stomach, as good and well-ripened fruits. Sir W. Temple. Simple diet is best : for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heap- ing several meats upon each other. Pliny. DIFFERENCE. Different people think differently. G. F. Graham. Different times bring different manners. Clerk. The less the difference, the greater the quarrel Over it. Bovee, Different things are required to give pleasure to different tastes, Gawricus. There never was anything useful or great, about which men have not differed. Origen. We should be generous and liberal toward all persons who necessarily differ with us on unset- tled questions. T. L. Brown. In all differences consider that both you and your enemy are dropping off, and that ere long your very memories will be extinguished. Attrelius. It is but one out of many who can discuss politi- cal or religious differences with candor and judg- ment, and yet so far control his language and tem- per as to avoid giving or taking offense. Hartley. It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else ; their difference begets contradiction ; contradiction begets heat : heat Quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will ; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment. Cotto. If the mind is so formed, in different persons, as to consider the same object to be somewhat differ- ent in its nature and consequences, as it happens to be placed in different points of view ; and if the oldest, the ablest, and the most virtuous statesmen have often differed in judgment as to the best forms of government, we ought, indeed, rather to rejoice that so much has been effected, than to re- gret that more could not all at once be accom- plished. Washington. Difficulties at most are but relative. Montesquiew. A difficulty is a thing to be overcome. Lynāhurst. To overcome difficulties is an evidence of a great mind. N. Webster. Not everything difficult is therefore a labyrinth without a guiding thread. Koenig. The three things most difficult are—to keep a Secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure. Chilo. It is difficulties which give birth to miracles; it is not every calamity that is a curse, and early ad- versity is often a blessing. G. Sharpe. Difficulty excites the mind to the dignity which sustains and finally conquers misfortune ; and the ordeal refines while it chastens. Lady C. Bwry. Real difficulties are the best cure of imagimary ones, because God helps us in the real ones, and makes us ashamed of the others. Dora Greenwell. It is weak to be scared at difficulties, seeing that they generally diminish as they are approached, and oftentimes even entirely vanish. D. M. Moir. The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it ; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which Set off virtue. Johanna Scopenhaufer. He who weakly shrinks from the difficulties of , life, who will offer no resistance, who will endure no labor or fatigue, can neither fulfill his own vo- cation, nor contribute aught to the general wel- fare of mankind. Schlegel. What is difficulty ? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing par- ticular objects, a mere notice of the necessity for exertion ; a bugbear to children and fools, only a mere stimulus to men. S. Warrem. Difficulties are things that show what men are. In case of any difficulty, remember that the gods, like a gymnastic trainer, have pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end ? That you may be an Olympic conqueror, and this cannot be with- out toil. Epictetus. The school of difficulty is the best school of moral discipline for nations as for individuals; indeed, the history of difficulty would be but a history of all the great and good things that have yet been accomplished by men ; if there were no difficulties there would be no success ; if there were nothing to struggle for there would be nothing to be achieved. Difficulties may intimidate the weak, but they act only as a wholesome stimulus to men of resolution and valor. Smiles. 186 A) A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. DIFFIDENCE. DIGNITY. Diffidence is the right eye of prudence. Crates. It is easier to add to dignity than to begin it. Silence is the happiest course a man can take who is diffident of himself. Rochefoucauld. Diffidence altogether unmans a person, and dis- qualifies him for his duty. G. Crabb. Diffidence and presumption both arise from the want of knowing, or rather endeavoring to know ourselves. Steele. Persons extremely diffident are like oldenameled watches, which had painted covers that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was. H. Walpole. Submit your sentiments with diffidence; a dic- tatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust. Washington. The educated man hath no diffidence in leaving home, for he knows whither he goeth. He can meet the world with a familiarity and graceful- neSS which are valuable ornaments of character. J. W. Barker. Diffidence may check resolution, and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe ; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage. . Dr. Johnsom. Diffidence is a great virtue ; without it, our knowledge is full of pretension and presumption : it is a deserving grace ; and when allied to real worth, accompanied by humility, is one of the beauties of life, and the chief grace and perfection of the mind. James Ellis. It is an unfortunate thing for fools, that their pretensions should rise in an inverse ratio with their abilities, and their presumption with their weakness ; and for the wise, that diffidence should be the companion of talent, and doubt the fruit of investigation. Colton. Nothing sinks a young man into low company, both of women and men, so surely as timidity and diffidence of himself; if he thinks that he shall not, he may depend upon it that he will not please ; but with proper endeavors to please, and a degree of persuasion that he shall, it is almost certain that he will. Chesterfield. Diffidence is the mark of the man of the world: pretension in him is absent ; he does not make a Speech ; he takes a low, business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact, and calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from all evil tongues their sharpest weapon. R. W. Emerson. While we behold some possessed but of little knowledge and a mediocrity of talent, put on all the consequences of learning and all the boldness of authority, we are sometimes, on the other hand, spectators of men of uncommon worth, fine genius, and extensive abilities, laboring under the fetters of diffidence and fear; it is, however, an unhappy circumstance for such, as it must be injurious to themselves, while it precludes in some respect their usefulness to others. C. Buck. truth of things. deserving them. the deeds of the great. Laberius. Dignity and pride are too near relationship for intermarriage. Mme. Delwzy. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real E. P. Whipple. Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in Aristotle. Pride gives itself a sort of dignity by emulating Magoom. Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they COntinue long together. Ovid. A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity. Comfwciws. The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it. Plutolºch. True dignity is blended with the most placid mildness and condescension. J. M. Sewall. Whoever has fallen from his former dignity is in his calamity the scorn even of the base. Phoedrus. Ambitious men raised once to dignity, accuse af- terward all other estates of insufficiency. Bodirus. Dignity of manner can only result from a lofty sense of superiority, either of mind or position. C. W. Day. Place confers no dignity upon some men ; like a balloon, the higher they rise the smaller they look. G. D. Prentice. There is a great deal of dignity in this world, that is composed entirely of dignity, and nothing else. H. W. Show. Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression. |W. S. Landor. Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, pretty much as it does to dignity of carriage ; give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it. Bovee. Those people who are “sticking on their dignity” are continually losing friends, making enemies, and fostering a spirit of unhappiness in them- selves. D. Hartley. Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed ; it ever commands our respect ; as- sumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt. J. Bartlett. We never attribute dignity to any action but what is virtuous, nor meanness to any but what is faulty; every action of dignity creates respect and esteem for the author ; and a mean action draws upon him contempt. Kammes. In regard to our intercourse with men, we should often reflect, not only whether our conduct is proper and correct, but if it is urbane and digni- fied. A trifling air and manner bespeak a thought- less and silly mind, but a grave and majestic One is, as it were, the palace of the Soul. Acton. A R O S A. Q U O Z" A 7" / O M S. I87 IDILIGENCE. Diligence ensures success. R. G. Parker. Diligence accomplishes all things, Strato. Diligence is the mother of good fortune. Ariosto. It is the diligent hand and head alone that mak- eth rich. There is nothing so hard but diligence and labor makes it seem easy. Virgil. Diligence is the philosopher's stone, that turns everything to gold. N. Webster. Prefer diligence beforeidleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness. Plato. In all affairs thou undertakest, a diligent prepa- ration should be made. Cicero. Diligence, frugality, and perseverance, are the leading steps to wealth. Downey. Diligence is the mother, while negligence is but a step-dame to all learning. Boethiws. Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Franklin. What we hope ever to do with ease we must learn first to do with diligence. Dr. Johnson. By diligent and laborious examination of things past, we may easily foresee things to come. King. The hand of diligence defeateth want ; prosper- ity and success are the industrious man's attend- ants. R. Dodsley. A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our jour- ney's end, than a fluttering way of advancing by Starts. L’Estrange. He that sows the ground with diligence gains more religious merit than by repeating ten thou- sand prayers. Zoroaster. The expectations of life depend upon diligence ; and the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. Confucius. We must be diligent in our particular calling and charge, in that province and station which God has appointed us, whatever it be. Tillotson. Diligence is a steady, constant, and pertinacious study, that naturally leads the soul into the know- ledge of that which at first seemed locked up from it. R. South. Innocence and diligence are inseparable compa- nions, and only those who are active in the dis- charge of their duties here below are blessed from On high. Magoom. Diligence and perseverance are the composites of the philosopher's stone, and instances are not want- ing wherein their application has transformed the poorest material into the purest gold. W. T. Burke. Diligence is the mistress of learning, without which nothing can either be spoken or done in this life with commendation, and without which it is altogether impossible to prove learned, much less excellent in any science. Madeleine Guerchois. Smiles. DINNER, A good dinner attracts the low-minded. Jww.emal. A good dinner sharpens wit, while it softens the heart. J. Doram. Those who come late to dinner must dine On bones. -*-*. A. Kolliker. A dinner warmed again was never worth any- thing. Boilea w. When I have enjoyed a good dinner, my heart is firm and steadfast. Molière. When you invite a man to dinner, never forget that during the short time he is under your roof his happiness is in your hands. B. Savarim. Dinners ought to be by all means encouraged among officials of government, for the well-being of a state rests upon the foundation of reciprocal hospitality. R. B. Todd. Do not go on that foolish plan which has been laid down by persons who pretend to know life, as a means of popularity—of giving dinners better than other people. Bulwer. A good dinner is a good thing in itself, but a good dinner-party is another thing ; for to make a dinner-party good, not only the viands and the cookery must be in keeping, but due regard must be paid to the persons you invite. Sir A. H. Elton. Properly understood and used, an excellent and well-arranged dinner is the culminating point of all civilization ; it is not only the descending mor- sel, and the enveloping sauce, but the rank, wealth, wit, and beauty which surround the meats. The hour of dinner should, in short, include everything of sensual and intellectual gratification. Chatfield. DIPLOMACY. Diplomacy must be placed in the foremost rank of the useful Sciences. Von Martem. Our diplomacy should be direct and frank, nei- ther seeking to obtain more nor accepting less than is our due. J. Buchanam. Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplo. macy; governments rely more upon the Supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the Soundness or justice of their claims. James Ellis. A diplomatist of moderate capacity, if favored by circumstances, may accomplish much more than the man of genius who has to contend with adverse fortune; but this difference of success makes no change in their relative ability, and those acquain- ted with the circumstances readily discriminate between sagacity and accident. J. R. M’Culloch. As in the game of billiards, the balls are con- stantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute mor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn: so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected. Colton. 188 AX A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. DIRT. DISAPPOINTIMENT. Dirt is matter out of place. Lord Palmerston. Grieve not at disappointment. Periander. Dirt soon ruins a nice garment. Helen Campbell. Disappointments steel the heart. R. Savage. Dirt is what we are all made of. D. Dancer. Beware of dirt ; for filth and vice generally go hand in hand. Lawra E. Lyman. I never knew a man with dirty hands and face to have a clear mind. David Paul Brown. I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty. W. G. Clark. When a child is brought up in dirt, he may think, in his simplicity, that all the world is dirty ; the mind and habits become so accustomed to unclean- liness that it often verifies the old proverb, “A dirty child makes a dirty man.” B. Barton. IDIS AIBILITY. Disability is not always inability. Zendrixvi. All men are conscious of their disability. Cadog. Want of age is a legal disability to contract a marriage. Sir W. Blackstome. There are many who withdraw themselves from active life through disability. Francesco Bosisio. The human mind is not without its disability ; if all mankind possessed intellectual power in its full- est sense, all men would be perfect. D. W. Rannie. Disability differs from inability, in denoting de- privation of ability ; whereas, inability denotes destitution of ability, either by deprivation or Otherwise. N. Webster. DIS AGREEMENT. In non-essentials agree to disagree. Babington. Who shall decide when doctors disagree ? Pope. Our disagreements often prove our want of judg- ment. Katherine S. Macquoid. There is no disagreement where there is faith in Christ, and minds consent in one accord. Udal. That which is disagreeable to one is many times agreeable to another, or disagreeable in a less de- gree. Wollastom. There necessarily arises an agreement or dis- agreement of Some things to others, or a fitness or unfitness of the applications of different things or different relations one to another. Clarke. DISASTER. Disasters teach us humility. St. Anselm. The air, Sea, and earth breed disaster. Balchers. To prevent disasters we should always be pre- pared to meet them. Gastom Paris. You may dam up the waters of agitation, but if their source remains, you are but preparing in the future for a great disaster. C. Russell. It is in periods of apparent disaster, during the sufferings of whole generations, that the greatest improvements in human character have been ef- fected. Sir A. Alison. All things end in disappointment. E. M. Archer. Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. Roche. I would never willingly disappoint a child or an aged person. Jessie B. Fremont. The first disappointment of the heart is the hard- est to be borne. Miss E. Bogart. Disappointment is the companion of the first earthly happiness. Colton. Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder- storm is to the air. Schiller. Disappointment in love is one of the severest tests of character in man or woman. E. P. Roe. When fully prepared for disappointment, you may seek worldly wealth and honor. Jermingham. Mean spirits under disappointment, like Small beer in a thunder-storm, ever turn sour. Randolph. Every day brings some disappointment, some diminution of pleasure, or some frustration of hope. J. Bigland. It is folly to pretend one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion ; such wounds always leave a scar. - Longfellow. There is something in our nature that cannot brook disappointment, wherever we expect to do or see anything. John Galt. In all cases of heart-ache, the application of an- other man's disappointment draws out the pairl and allays the irritation. Bulwer. Frequent disappointments teach us to mistrust our own inclinations, and shrink even from the vows our hearts may prompt. Jwnius. Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold wa- ter is to burning Imetal ; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. Eliza Tabor. Disappointment in the matter of friendship arises chiefly, not from liking our friends too much, but from an over-estimate of their liking for, or opin- ions of us. Charlotte Bromté. When we meet with better fare than was ex- pected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the scrupulous ; when we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better. Zimmerman. When I was young I was poor ; when old I be- came rich ; but in each condition I found disap- pointment. When the faculties of enjoyment were, I had not the means ; when the means came, the faculties were gone. Michael Russell. There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his meek career of life, I have often thought, must be regarded by the kind eyes above with as much favor as the splendid successes and achievements of coarser and more prosperous men. W. M. Thackeray. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 189 IDISCERNMENT. Discernment in man is indispensable. G. Crabb. Without discernment there is no understanding. Dr. Johnson. The errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment. - M. Webster. Discernment discovers those faults in others that predominate in ourselves. James Ellis. After a spirit of discernment the next rarest things in the world are diamonds and pearls. Bruyère. There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done. Swift. A reader that wants discernment, loves and ad- mires the characters and actions of men in a wrong place. H. Ainsworth. To succeed in the world, it is much more neces- sary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. Talleyrand. Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connec- tion with impartiality and truth ; for are not pre- judice and partiality blind 3 Greville. IDISCIPLINE. Discipline is everything. Ignatius Loyala. Discipline makes a good soldier. Galba. This world is a place not of rest, but of discipline. F. Atterbwry. Discipline is the glory of both army and com- mander. Flamiminus. Discipline and subordination add life and vigor to military movements. Washington. A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. H. Spencer. No evil propensity of the human heart is so pow- erful that it may not be subdued by discipline. Seneca. The noblest sight, and surest defense for a nu- merous army, is to observe strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers. Thucydides. It is by the assistance of the eye and the ear es- pecially, which are called the senses of discipline, that our minds are furnished with various parts of knowledge. I. Watts. If a strict hand be kept over children from the beginning, they will in that age be tractable ; and if as they grow up the rigor be gently relaxed ac- cording to their deserts, former discipline will increase their love. J. Locke. - $ That discipline which corrects the baseness of worldly passions, fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, enlightens the mind with useful know- ledge, and furnishes it with enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity, than all the provision we can make of the goods of for- tune. H. Blair. DISCONTENT. There is no malady more severe than habitual discontent. Flemming. A latent discontent is the secret spur of all Our enterprises. Bovee. Discontents arise from our desires oftener than from our wants. Rrwmmacher. Man creates more discontent to himself than is ever occasioned by others. - Grün. The best remedy for discontent is to try and es- timate things at what they are really worth. Clerc. The discontented man is unhappy himself, and is continually sneering at the happiness of Others. Hagedorm. The discontented man is ever restless and un- easy, and always dissatisfied with his station in life. Stemmet. Every one must perceive that an almost univer- sal discontent with their condition, pervades man- kind. Joseph Hall. A discontented mind and a diseased body are, beyond comparison, the two greatest evils in this world. Tillotson. He that prays against discontent, binds himself to watch and strive against it, or else his prayers are sin. Steele. Men complain of not finding a place of repose ; to themselves alone should they impute their dis- COntent. Goldsmith. He that changes his condition out of impatience and discontent, when he has tried a new one wishes for his old again. L’Estrange. That which makes people discontented with their present condition is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. J. Thomson. Discontent is a restlessness in men's minds ; to be something they are not, and have something they have not, is the root of all immorality. Fielding. Against the malignity of the discontented, the turbulent, and the vicious, no abilities, no exer- tions, nor the most unshaken integrity, are any safeguard ; it is much easier to avoid disagree- ments than to remove discontents. Washington. When the humors of the people are stirred by discontents or popular grief, it is wisdom to give them moderate liberty to evaporate ; he that turns the humor back too hastily makes the wound bleed inwardly, and fills the body with malignity. F. Quarles. Let not those who have really been visited with serious misfortunes, give themselves up to discon- tent ; it is a noxious weed, which, having Once taken root, soon pervades every thought, and an- nihilates every kind and noble feeling ºf the heart. . T. Acheley. Discontents are sometimes the better part of Our life. I know too well which is the most useful ; joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit ; and sometimes those so far help me, that without them, I should want much of the joy I have. Feltham. 190 ZD A V 'S CO Z Z. A C O AV. DISCORD. In the battle of life, we fight discords to produce harmony and peace. Ammie E. Lancaster. Discord is anger more bitter than hatred con- ceived in the inmost breast. Cicero. As music is a medicine to an afflicted mind, so is discord a poison to a healthy one. E. P. Day. The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God ; the sowers of discord the children of the devil. St. Bernard. Our life is full of discord ; but by forbearance and virtue, this same discord can be turned to harmony. James Ellis. Let but patience be in the heart, and neither an- ger, nor discord, nor hatred, will be able to find a dwelling within it. St. Augustine. As musicians sometimes go through perplexing mazes of discord in order to come to the inexpres- sible sweetness of after chords, so men's discords of trouble and chromatic jars, if God be their leader, are only preparing for a resolution into such harmonious strains as could never have been raised except upon such undertones. H. W. Beecher. IDISCOURSE. Discourse is that which shows what anything is Ol” Wä.S. Antisthenes. Long discourses are over-feathered arrows that overshoot the mark, and ordinarily lose both game and labor by wearying the attention. C. Herle. Some in their discourse desire rather commenda- tion of wit in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment in discerning what is true. Lord Bacon. Let thy discourse be such as thy judgment may maintain, and thy corrupany may deserve ; in neg- lecting this thou losest thy words; in not observing the other thou losest thyself. F. Quarles. The weather is not a safe topic of discourse; your company may be hippish ; nor is health; your asso- ciate may be a malade imaginaire; nor is money : you may be suspected as a borrower. Zimmerman. IDISCOVERY. It is easy to discover what another has discovered before. Colwºmbws. A new principle is an inexhaustible discovery of new views. Vawvenargues. The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents. Pliny. The greatest discoveries have been made by leav- ing the beaten tracks and going into by-paths. P. Hesmivy d'Avribeaw. Although there are discoveries which are said to have been made by accident, if carefully inquired into, it will be found that there has really been very little that was accidental about them. Smiles. It is a mortifying truth, and Gught to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valu- able discoveries have been the result of chance, rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design. Colton. “. DISCRIETION. Discretion comes not always by years. Guevara. Take away discretion, and virtue will become VICE. F. Jaccard. Without discretion, the cause of Christianity is injured. Coltom. True discretion is never purchased but by true humility. J. Bodenham. … An ounce of discretion is better than a pound of Ruffini. Discretion in conduct and speech is more than eloquence. Lord Bacon. In a state where discretion begins, law, liberty, and safety end. - Junius. knowledge. It is convenient in love to be discreet, and in hatred provident and advised. Hermes. All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle. Cervantes. Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it. Bovee. Without discretion people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment. J. Collier. To be discreet in prosperity, and patient in ad- versity, is the true motion and effect of a virtuous and valiant mind. Cicero. Dangerous is a daring pilot and sailor in a ship ; wise is he who knows his time to moor it in safety: to my mind discretion is valor. Euripides. I do not contend against the advantages of dis- trust ; in the world we live in it is but too neces- sary ; some of old called it the very sinews of dis- cretion. Burke. The greatest parts without discretion may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eye, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature. Hume. There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the power of fortune, as that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion. Swift. Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life ; cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interests and welfare. Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understanding ; cum- ning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the fewest removes from them. Bruyère. There are many shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the per- son who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Addisom. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A T / O AV S. 191 IDISCRIMINATION, IDISEASE. Discrimination is often in the wrong. Sophocles. Meet disease as it approaches. Persiws. It is the office of discrimination to detect errors, Disease conquers life little by little. Sawlt. but of good-nature mot to mention them. Bovee, * -* - Disease is sometimes worse than death. We discriminate animals by names, as nature Pherecydes. has discriminated by different shapes and habits. N. Webster. Discrimination in the selection of studies and authors for perusal, is quite as important as in the Selection of living companions. L. W. Billington. You owe little less for what you are not, than for what you are, to that discriminating mercy, to which alone you owe your exemption from mise- ries. - R. Boyle. IDISCUSSION. Free discussion reveals truth. FIerodotus. Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth. G. Campbell. Whoever is afraid of submitting any question, civil or religious, to the test of free discussion, is more in love with his own opinion than with truth. J. T. Watson. In political discussions, the victory is usually not with the side that advances the weightiest reasons, but with the party that talks with the loudest Voice, and most confident manner. Bovee. The more discussion the better, if passion and personality be eschewed; and discussion, even if stormy, often winnows truth from error—a good never to be expected in an uninguiring age. W. E. Chamming. The freest possible scope should be given to all discussions and investigations of the learned ; if frail they will fall, if right they will remain ; like Steam, they are dangerous only when pent in, res- tricted, and confined. Colton. DISDAIN. Disdain is an ornament of the proud. James Ellis, Disdain the man who attempteth to wrong thee. R. Dodsley. He that disdaineth to feel an injury, retorteth it upon him who offereth it. K. C. Engel. Let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, So low and mendicant that it makes us beg it of all Sorts of people. Montaigme. Three words, uttered with charity and meekness, shall receive a more blessed reward than three thousand volumes, written with disdainful sharp- mess and wit. FI. Hooker. The man of elevated mind disdains a mean ac- tion ; he disdains the society of profligate, worth- less men ; he disdaims to corrupt the innocent, or insult the weak. N. Webster. There are silly persons who will scorn to be seen in the company of such as have not an equal share of finery ; and there are weak upstarts of fortune who disdain to look at those who cannot measure purses with themselves. G. Crabb. Disease is a crime ; a man has no moral right to be sick. C. G. Finney. Our bodies become subject to disease as soon as we are born. St. Awgustine. Disease generally brings that equality which death completes. Addison. A physician visits the sick, not to catch the dis- ease, but to cure it. Amtisthemes. An ignorant physician is only an additional dis- ease to a sick person. E. P. Day. Nature employs disease, not to destroy the body, but to preserve it. E. Newbery. An orator persuades not all men, nor doth a phy- sician cure all diseases. Aristotle. We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal. Dr. Rush. The diseases of the body are more easy to be cured than those of the mind. L. Fabbro. If the just cure of a disease be full of perih, let the physician resort to palliation. Lord Bacon. In these days our diseases often come from the neglect of the body in the over-work of the brain. Bulwer. If diseases are painful, they equal all conditions in life, making no difference between a prince and a beggar. Sir W. Temple. A good physician will advise himself whether a disease cometh from God, or is the fault of the party diseased. Hippocrates. Some diseases have abated their virulence, and have, in a manner, worn out their malignity, so as to be no longer mortal. Dryden. It is idle to propose remedies before we are as- sured of the disease, or to be in pain until we are convinced of the danger. Swift. When languishing under disease, how grateful is the solace of our friends ; how are we penetrated with their assiduities and attentions. T. Jefferson. The art of perceiving diseases and of removing them is not the same ; perception exists in all ; but it is by skill alone that diseases are cured. Ovid. It matters not whether you place the sick man on a wooden bed or one of gold ; wherever you lay him, he carries his disease along with him. Seneca. It is with diseases of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do. Colton. Disease and medicine are like two factions in a besieged town ; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, na- ture. Lord Francis Jeffrey. I92 Al A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AW. DISEASE. Disease is a departure from health ; it is not a natural condition; to a very great extent we manu- facture our own diseases, or preserve our existing state of health. Dr. J. Shew. Disease and pills, when they enter a man's body, are like two lawyers when they undertake to set- tle his affairs, they compromise the matter by laying out the patient. H. W. Shaw. Diseases gather together within our bodies, which proceed no less from being too full, than be- ing too empty; and oftentimes a man hath more trouble to digest meat than to get meat. Thomas d’Ashbwºrm.e. Adam knew no disease so long as temperance from the forbidden fruit Secured him : nature was his physician, and innocence and abstinence would have kept him healthful to immortality. R. South. The shafts of disease shoot across our path in such a variety of courses, that the atmosphere of human life is darkened by their number, and the escape of an individual becomes almost miracu- lous. J. S. Buckminster. Almost every diseasé, hereditary diseases ex- cepted, in its incipient stage is some other disease, generally of less dangerous character; and we have only to discover it in some one of its earlier forms, and perhaps under a different name, to find it sus- ceptible of cure. Bovee. DISGFR.A.C.E. Avoid disgrace. Periander. If the gods do anything disgraceful, they are not gods. J. Berry. Act with propriety, and disgrace will keep far from you. Chwng Yew. Disgrace is immortal, and lives when one would think it dead. Plaw.tws. Every vice is a disgrace to a rational being ; men often boast of actions which disgrace them. N. Webster. Men's passions will carry them far in misrepre- senting an opinion, which they have a mind to disgrace. T. Burmet. Two heads upon one body is a monstrous sight : but one unthankful heart in a bosom is more dis- graceful to behold. Bias. It is more disgraceful for men in high office to improve their private fortune, by specious fraud than by open violence. Thucydides. To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead. Plato. Those who rely on their own prudent exertions, and properly improve their talents, are under no necessity of suffering either penury or disgrace. Magoon. Masters must correct their servants with gentle- ness, prudence, and mercy ; not with upbraiding and disgraceful language, but with such only as may express and reprove the fault, and amend the person. Jeremy Taylor. DISGUISE. All men wear a disguised habit. Terence. We often find error disguised in the garb of truth. Addison. In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. C. Lamb. A treacherous design is often concealed under the disguise of great candor. G. Ashby. We endeavor to conceal our vices under the dis- guise of the opposite virtues. Fielding. To disdain disguise is manly ; it not only shows our spirit, but it proves our strength. E. Young, Men sometimes disguise themselves for the pur- pose of committing crimes without danger of de- tection. N. Webster. An enemy that disguises himself under the veil of friendship, is worse than one that declares open hostility. G. Brown. All things would work together for Our good, no matter how unpleasant, if we would but wait pa- tiently for them to lose their disguise. James Ellis. Were we to take as much pains to be what we ought to be, as we do to disguise what we really are, we might appear like ourselves without being at the trouble of any disguise at all. Rochefoucauld. IDISHONESTY. The ship of dishonesty always leaks. James Ellis. It is better to be parsimonious than dishonest. - Confucius. Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for tem- porary advantages. Bovee. It is dishonest victory that is gotten by the spoil of a man's own country. Cicero. It is a point of dishonesty in a man, to make a show of one thing and do another. R. Aylett. Dishonest men conceal their faults from them- seves as well as others ; honest men know and confess them. Rochefoucauld. Dishonesty may seem for a while to promote rapid gain, yet it is sure to end in disappointment, disgrace, and dismay. Magoon. Dishonesty is an act which engendereth its own torment, for from the very instant it is committed, and with the continual remembrance thereof, it filleth the soul of the malefactor with shame and confusion. S. Batman. I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Do not trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. Dickens. It is dishonest to take anything from another which does not belong to one ; it is knavish to get it by fraud or artifice, or by imposing on the con- fidence of another. We may prevent dishonest practices by ordinary means of security ; but we must not trust ourselves in the company of knavish people if we do not wish to be over-reached. Crabb. - ALIGHTERI DANITIE, A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 193 DISHONOR. Honor not dishonor. Demophilus. There is an immortality in dishonor. Plato. Gain gotten by dishonor is so much loss. Syrus. Where there is no honor there is no dishonor. A. Albuquerque. No end can be honorable that is dishonorably obtained. N. Macdonald. Some men dishonor themselves by attempting the dishonor of others. Al-Hôtimi. A dishonorable man enters into his office with- out an enemy, and retires without a friend. Ar-Rûdrówari. Dishonor ever waits on perfidy ; a man should blush to think a falsehood ; it is the crime of cow- ards. Dr. Johnson. It is hard to say which of the two we ought most to lament, the unhappy man who sinks under the sense of his dishonor, or him who survives it. Junius. We are not so much to strain ourselves to make those virtues appear in us which really we have not, as to avoid those imperfections which may dis- honor us. Dryden. A dishonorable man renders himself an outcast among his equals ; he must then descend to his in- feriors, among whom he may become familiar with the disgraceful and the shameful. G. Crabb. IDISINTERESTEDNESS. Disinterestedness is an unmeaning word. J. Orr. Disinterestedness is the very soul of virtue. Fenn. Those who act in a disinterested way seldom miss their reward. G. Forster. If patrons would be more disinterested, ingrati- tude would be more rare. Colton. It is motive alone that gives real value to the ac- tions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it. Bruyère. Disinterestedness in our pursuits, and steady per- severance in our national duty, are the Only means to avoid misfortunes. Washington. Disinterestedness is one of those rare attractive qualities of the mind, which insures to the persons who are possessed of it, the admiration and regard of all who know them. Millar. The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and re- freshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling ; we should cherish kind wishes, for a time may come when we may be enabled to put them in practice. Miss Mitford. Men of the world hold that it is impossible to do a disinterested action, except from an interested motive, for the sake of admiration, if for no gross- er, more tangible gain ; doubtless they are con- vinced that, when the Sun is showering light from the sky, he is only standing there to be stared at. - Berz. IDISLIKE. We often dislike where we should love. J. Ellis. So behave that no one may justly dislike you. Publiws Syrus. All wise and good men manifest their dislike to folly. J. A. Delwc. Whatever you dislike in another person, take care to correct in yourself. T. Sprat. Our likings and dislikes are founded rather upon humor and fancy than upon reason. L'Estrange. We dislike some persons because we do not know them, and will not know them because we dislike them. Colton. To think well of every other man's condition, and to dislike our own, is one of the misfortunes of human nature. R. Burton. How apt nature is to maintain animosities against those whose calling, or person, they pretend to find cause to dislike. Joseph Hall. A man shows his dislike to measures which he disapproves, to a proposal which he is disinclined to accept, and to food which he does not relish. N. Webster. 'In order to lessen the number of our dislikes we Ought to endeavor not to dislike without a cause ; and in order to lessen our dissatisfaction we ought to be moderate in our expectation. G. Crabb. The jealous man is not indeed angry if you dis- like another ; but if you find those faults which are found in his own character, you discover not only your dislike of another, but of himself. Addison. IDISOBEDIENCE. By disobedience angels became devils. C. Buck. By one man's disobedience many were made sin- IlêTS. J. Wesley. Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. Haliburton. Opinion is the original of disobedience, and dis- obedience is the beginning of fury. Demares. Disobedient children, if preserved from the gal- lows, are reserved for the rack, to be tortured by their own posterity. T. Fuller. Disobedience proceedeth from negligence; for he that governeth well shall be obeyed well ; but he ...that giveth to his servants too much liberty shall be sure to have too much loss. Theopompus. As the natural disobedience of Adam conveyed itself by natural propagation, from him to all his offspring forever, even so the obedience of Christ pertains to those who are spiritually begotten of him by a lively faith. P. Bayne. After a storm comes fair weather, after winter comes summer ; SO in the doctrine of our souls, first God teaches the law, preacheth repentance, threateneth vengeance for sin, casts down man in his own sight, and lets him look even into hell, with fear of conscience for his disobedience ; but afterward. He comforts him, raises him up, and heals him. D. Cawdray. 13 194 J) A Y’,S C O Z / A C O A' . IDISORDER. The minds of bad men are disorderly. H. Blair. Disorder will ruin the greatest empire. Syrus. There is a natural disorder between tyranny and liberty. Demosthemes. Order never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, disorder. Dr. Johnson. The people have no interest in disorder; when they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. Burke. Disorder, confusion, and sin, are the three prin- cipal rulers in a family where neither love, virtue, nor religion is to be found. James Ellis. A disorderly multitude, contending with the body of the legislature, is like a man in a fit, under the conduct of one in the fullness of his health and strength. Addison. Disorder sours the temper, and thus inflicts an incalculable moral injury ; and how much more pleasantly that family lives when all always return everything to their places, and know just where to find whatever is wanted | O. S. Fowler. IDISPATCH. Dispatch is taking time by the ears. H. W. Shaw. The swiftest dispatch seems slow to desire. Syrus. The dispatch of a good office is very often as beneficial to the solicitor, as the good office itself. Addison. In civil broils, where there is need of action rather than deliberation, nothing is safer than dis- patch. J. Mair. Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices of dispatch and skill ; but neither of them ever learn their master's trade. Colton. The pride of learned judges is more in research than dispatch, and they think it better to decide learnedly than quickly. Bovee. True dispatch is a rich thing ; for time is the measure of business, as money is of wares, and business is bought at a dear hand where there is small dispatch. Lord Bacon. In races, it is not the large stride, or high lift, that make the speed ; so, in business, the keeping close to the matter, and not taking of it too much. G. H. Allem. In the counting-house and the cabinet, dispatch is equally important ; as we cannot do more than one thing at a time, it is of importance to get that quickly concluded to make way for another. G. Crabb. A man to be excellent in a business way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet dispatch must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm. A. Helps. at once, procureth dispatch. IDISPARA GEMENT. We often destroy worth by disparagement. Biom. It Ought to be no disparagement to a star that it is not a Sun. R. South. We disparage a man's performance by speaking slightingly of it. G. Crabb. In a commonwealth much disparagement is oc- casioned, when able spirits are inflamed with fac- tion. Sir H. Wotton. Whenever disparagement sums up by denying the existence of any given quality, you may be sure that the quality exists in some degree. Mime. Swetchime. It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself ; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. A. Cowley. The man who scruples not breaking his word in little things, would not suffer in his own conscience So great pain for failures of consequence, as he who thinks every little offense against truth and justice a disparagement. Steele. DISPLAY. Those persons that govern most make the least display. J. Selden. Make not a display of your person, dress, or ac- quirements. Pythagoras. One cannot have too much wit, or too much pro- bity, but one can make too great a display of them. Bovee. Those who have display proportioned to their means, and splendor according to their circum- stances, remember whence they are sprung. Ploºttus. The works of nature and the words of revela- tion, display truth to mankind in characters so visible, that those who are not quite blind, may read. J. Locke. The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with display ; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity ; they never once consider that he is breaking the ice for them- selves. Shemstone. The virtues of the mind, and even wisdom her- self seems to us to be without her proper reward, if she be confined to our own mind, if she be not displayed before the world and approved of by Others. Montaigme. The horses which make the most display are, in general, those which advance the least ; it is the same with men ; and we ought not to confound that perpetual agitation which exhausts itself in vain efforts with the activity which goes right to the end. Baron de Stassart. We may exhibit our powers from a laudable ambition to be esteemed ; but we seldom make a display of any quality that is in itself praiseworthy, or from any motive but vanity ; what we exhibit is, therefore, intrinsically good ; what we display may often be only an imaginary Or fictitious ex- cellence. G. Crabb. # A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 195 IDISPOSITION. IDISPUTE}. Evil dispositions need no tutors. Publius Syrus. In almost every dispute woman is the cause. Jww.emal. . Evil dispositions are early shown. T. James. Disposition is that temper of mind which any person possesses. C. Buck. How sweet is goodness of disposition when tem- pered with wisdom Menander. The star that presides over the natal hour pro- duces twins with widely-differing dispositions. Persius. Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. Jeremy Taylor. The love we bear to our friends, is generally caused by our finding the same disposition in them which we feel in ourselves. Pope. Be careful to consider the good or ill disposition of the people toward thee upon ordinary occasions; if it be good, labor to continue it. F. Quarles. Is it the disposition or the means to do good that may be said to be wanting in us? The disposition, undoubtedly, for the disposition creates the means. Bovee. In some unlucky dispositions there is such an en- vious kind of pride, that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth for excel- lent. Feltham. Our dispositions will be suitable to that which we most frequently think on ; for the soul is, as it were, tinged with the color and complexion of its own thoughts. Awrelius. A good disposition I far prefer to gold ; for gold is the gift of fortune ; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate. Plautus. The man who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life-in fruit- less efforts, and multiply the griefs which he pur- poses to remove. Colton. It is very rare to find a pretty face and a good disposition in the same person, since vain self-es- teem, occasioned by uncommon physical charms, tends to pervert the whole character and degrade it to absolute contempt. Magoon. That which is won ill will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it ; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending. M. Henry. When we are cross and morose with those who perhaps have done their best to please us, we can- not but be aware that our conduct must appear rather in an unamiable light, and those who have thus suffered unjustly must secretly despise and pity us. No man can be happy who is conscious that he has incurred and deserved the unfavorable opinion of his fellow-creatures: consequently, a bad disposition must be the very hot-bed of wretch- edness and discontent. E. B. Warburton. people are deaf I am dumb. People must be of the same mind in order to dis- pute. P. S. Ballanche. Even the wisest may learn something by dispu- tation. JFavorinus. Disputations leave truth in the middle, and party at both ends. G. A. Lobineaw. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper, and dis- turb one's quiet. Franklin. Disputes would not continue so long, if the wrong lay but on one side. Rochefoucauld. There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion. W. Sherlock. A disputationis always dangerous to temper, and tedious to those who cannot feel as eager as the dis- putantS. D. Hartley. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper, which is so necessary to I. Watts. The pain of dispute exceeds by much its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf ; and when Jowbert. Do not use thyself to dispute against thine own judgment, to show thy wit, lest it prepare you to be too indifferent about what is right. Wm. Penn. contemplate truth. If men disputed upon no subjects but those they understand, what a narrow compass would all dis- putes, especially on religion, be reduced to ? John Taylor. If thou continuest to take delight in idle disputes, thou mayest be qualified to combat with the so- phists, but will never know how to live with men. Socrates. It is in disputes as in armies; where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are. Swift. Avoid disputes as much as possible ; in order to appear easy and well-bred in conversation, you may assure yourself that it requires more wit, as well as more good humor, to improve than to con- tradict the notions of another. E. Budgell. In disputes about common things, as every One feels that he may be mistaken, stubbornness and obstinacy are never carried to an extreme ; but in those which we have respecting religion, as every one naturally feels sure that his opinion is the true one, we are highly indignant against those who, instead of changing, are obstimately bent on mak- ing us change. Montesquiew. Avoid disputes altogether, if possible, especially in mixed companies, and with ladies : you will hardly convince any one, and may disoblige or startle them, and get yourself the character of a conceited pragmatical person ; whereas that of an agreeable companion, which you may have without giving yourself any great air of learning or depth, may be more advantageous to you in life, and will make you welcome in all companies. Prentice. 196 A) A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. DISSIMULATION. Eschew dissimulation. A. A memorius. Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of In En. Cicero. Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom. Lord Bacom. He who knows not how to dissimulate, knows not how to rule. Conrad III, of Germany. He that dissembleth sinneth not through igno- rance ; but deceiveth by a color which he himself knoweth to be false. Origen. The cloak of dissimulation is a main part of the garment spotted with the flesh : a vice thus cov- ered is worse than a naked offense ; there is no devil to the hypocrite. A. Warwick. As to this virtue of dissimulation, which is now in so great request, I mortally hate it ; it is a cow- ardly and servile humor to hide and disguise a man's self under a vizor, and not to dare to show himself what he is. Montaigme. Dissimulation is ever to be pardoned ; it is that which men have recourse to, in order to obtain sit- uations which may enlarge their sphere of general usefulness, and afford the power of benefitting their country, to those who must have been otherwise contented only with the will. Colton. DISSIPATION. Beware of dissipation. Gambetta. Dissipation soon gets a bore. B. Disraeli. Dissipation ruins both soul and body. Morrison. Dissipation is the bane of man, and the curse of fools. Canvilla Towlimin. The best change is from a life of dissipation to one of virtue. C. Albergati. When a man dissipates the wealth bestowed upon him by a kind and beneficent Providence, he de- serves the execrations of all mankind. M. Wace. The best parts of man's nature are destroyed by dissipation ; a noble mind becomes callous; a gen- erous heart becomes selfish ; and a virtuous man becomes a beast. Alaric Alexander Watts. IDISSOLUTION. A dissolute life is its own curse. Tom Taylor. Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. - Tacitus. The end of a dissolute life is, commonly, a des- perate death. Biom. The soul sickening, recoils within itself, and no longer startles at dissolution. Regina M. Roche. If we look into the common management, we shall have reason to wonder, in the great dissolute- ness of manners which the world complains of, that there are any footsteps at all left of virtue. Locke. A dissolute life is steeped in sensuality, and dis- figured with debauchery ; and how bitter is the reflection that there is nothing to console in the view of the past—the day has been—the dark, sad night has come ! Miss L. M. Finkelstein. IDISTANCE. Distance is overcome by love. Geoffroi Rudel. Distance sometimes endears friendship. Howell. Distance of time and place do generally cure what they seem to aggravate. Fielding. Some persons, like certain paintings, appear to better advantage at a distance.Mary G. Horsford. Distance lends enchantment to the moral and mental, as well as the physical view. J. R. Browne. If a man bids me keep my distance from him, it is no little Satisfaction that he keeps his own at the same time. Swift. We all know that things placed at the greatest distance from us, as well as those whose character we have never known by experience, are most apt to excite our admiration. Thwcydides. DISTINCTION. Distinction is attained by labor. J. B. Aleotti. It is God who raiseth to distinction. Ali Beg. Social distinction must ever rest on personal merit. H. W. Shaw. To the passionate fondness for distinction are owing various frolicsome and irregular social prac- tices. J. Hughes. Nice distinctions are troublesome ; it is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbor is good for nothing, than to enter into all the cir- cumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion. George Eliot. DISTORTION. A distortion of nature provokes art. W. Young. A morbid mind produces a distorted fancy. Isla. There are a class of men who distort all they see and hear. G. H. de Langsdorff. Distortion of facts is pardonable in ourselves— not in others. D. R. Locke. By the simple distortion of a fact, many men have been ruined, and many good reputations blasted. S. Baring-Gould. DISTRACTION. Distraction is the storm of mind. A. G. Willard. Commiserate all those who labor under a settled distraction. F. Atterbury. A distracted mind is a mind unsettled from its strength or soundness. C. Richardson. When the mind is free from the distractions of a sinful life “what a glory doth this world put on.” Sophia H. Oliver. Distraction is the culmination of grief ; it dis- turbs the understanding, overthrows the brain, and locks up all the senses. Annette L. Noble, There are distractions of the mind which are brought on by grief, by anger, and by love ; the first calls forth our sympathy, the second our ab- horrence, and the third our contempt. Manners. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 197 IDISTRESS. A person in distress is a sacred object. Ovid. Distress is usually followed by happiness. Al-Khild fat. In distress a friend comes like a calm to the tem- pest-tossed mariner. Ewripides. Tears are no cures for distress, neither do present complaints ease a passed harm. St. Basil. In the distress of our best friends, we always find something that does not displease us. Rochefoucauld. Perception of distress in others is a natural ex- citement, passively to pity, and actively to relieve it. R. Whately. Without distress, the world would be a wide, dreary waste, joyless, irksome, tasteless, and in- sipid. - J. Bartlett. Relieving distress is doing one's self a kindness, because it engages others to relieve us, On the like occasion. J. Himton. Nothing so powerfully calls home the mind as distress; the tense fibre then relaxes, the Soul re- tires to itself, sits pensive and susceptible of right impressions; if we have a friend, it is then we think of him ; if a benefactor, at that moment all his kindness presses upon our minds. Sterne. DISTRUST. Distrust is poison to friendship. C. F. Maaném. Distrust is the mother of Safety. Rowsseau. The feeling of distrust is always the last which a great mind acquires. Racine. Distrust is a defensive principle; they who have much to lose have much to fear. Pwrke. Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion ; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifying the deceit. Seneca. Excessive distrust is no less hurtful than its op- posite: most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. Vawven argues. That which commonly hinders us from showing the openness of our hearts to friends, is not so much a distrust of them, as of ourselves. Rochefoucauld. Distrust makes our dangers greater, and Our helps less than they are, and forecasts even worse than they shall be; and if evils be possible, it makes them certain. Joseph Hall. A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same atmos- phere with it. Mºme. Necker. Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished toward us, than to show distrust; to be suspected as an enemy, is often enough to make a man become so ; confidence leads us naturally to act kindly ; we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. Mme. de Staal. IDIVERSION. Innocent diversion relaxes the mind. Socrates. When diversion becomes the business of life, it is no longer diversion. R. G. Parker. Works of wit and humor furnish an agreeable diversion to the studious. N. Webster. A bow is rendered useless by constant extension, and a mind without diversion. Publius Syrws. He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labor, forgets the early rising and hard riding of huntsmen. J. Locke. Private diversions may arise from merriness of heart ; public ones are only founded on idleness and affluence. |W. Aleocamder. Diversions are the most properly applied to ease and relieve those who are oppressed by being too much employed. Sir H. Saville. The habit of dissipating every serious thought by a succession of agreeable diversions is as fatal to happiness as to virtue. Amma Maria Porter. Mere innocent diversion is in itself a good, when it interferes with no greater, especially as it may occupy the place of some other that may not be innocent. R. Whately. Society cannot subsist without a diversity of sta- tions ; and if God should grant every one a middle station, he would defeat the very scheme of hap- piness proposed in it. S. Rogers. Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces, as the reading of useful and entertaining authors ; and with that, the conversation of a well-chosen friend. Addison. Whence comes it that men are transported to such a degree with gaming, hunting, or other di- versions ? It is not because there is any real good to be obtained by these pursuits; but it is the heat, the bustle, and the hurry which divert them from the mortification of thinking. Pascal. DIVINATION. Do not dislike divination. Chilo. Divination is the pretended art of knowing future events by superstitious means. J. Hinton. It does not become men to pay indiscriminate respect to every kind of divination. Pythagoras. Divination is the revelation of things hidden, in virtue of a compact made with the devil. Delrio. Among the many pretended arts of divination, there is none which so universally amuses as that of dreams. Addison. The excellency of the soul is seen by its power of divining in dreams; that several such divinations have been made, none can question who believes the holy writing. • Steele. Since the remotest period of antiquity divination formed a regular science, intimately allied to re- ligion, and furnished with peculiar rules and regu- lations, more or less skillful and ingenious in pro- portion to the state of civilization of the people by whom it was practised. J. Caww.im. 198 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. DIVINITY. DOCTOR. Nothing divine dies. R. W. Emerson. An ignorant doctor is the aid-de-camp of death. Divinity has neither begining nor end. Thales. Th -*- Avicemºva. - e doctor is not unfrequently death's pilot-fish. It is a good divine that follows his own instruc- quently º D. %. ice tions. Shakspeare. - e vvv, - The blunders of a doctor are not felt by himself The divinity requires no aid, and is not able to but others. Ar-Rumi. Seneca. The divinity of Christ is spread throughout the humanity of Christ. M. Luther. Divinity is an attribute of God; the divinity of Christ signifies the divine nature of Christ. G. F. Graham. One ounce of practical divinity is worth a painted ship-load of all their reverences have imported these fifty years. Sterne. be injured. He has imprinted on His stupendous works the character of His divinity, and it is only our weak- ness that hinders us from perceiving it. Montaigme. Some divines make the same use of fathers and councils as our beaus do of their canes, not for sup- port Or defense, but mere ornament and show, and cover themselves with fine cobweb distinctions, as Homer's gods did with a cloud. J. Hughes. IDIVORCE. Death is the eternal divorcer of marriage. Sir W. Drummond. Divorces are not honorable to women, nor is it right to repudiate a husband. Euripides. The practice of divorce, though in some countries permitted, has been discouraged in all. Burke. When a handsome female is matched to a man beneath her, prudence recommends a divorce. Jahir. In general, women are divorced for glaring and notable faults; yet sometimes an uncomplying temper, and Small but constant bickerings, cause incurable distastes in married life. Plutarch. A divorce can be agreeable to nature, only when it is by consent of the two parties, or at least of One of them ; but when neither consents, it is a monstrous kind of divorce ; in short the power of divorcement can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sen- sible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease. Montesquiew. IDOCILITY. Docility shows an aptness to be taught. Webster. A docile disposition will, with application, sur- mount every difficulty. Mamliws. He is happy who has a sound body, a rich for- tune, and a docile nature. Thales. Docility lies altogether in the will ; it is inde- pendent of the judgment, and is applicable as well to brutes as to men. G. Crabb. To be docile in our demeanor shows a tractable spirit ; it is an attribute that should be cultivated by all : it will give an aptness to learn all the vir- tues of Social life. James Ellis. The best doctors are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merriman. Amon. Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's. Zimmerman. It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome. H. W. Shaw. A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature. John Taylor. A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to sup- ply his necessities. Addison. I think you might dispense with half your doc- tors, if you would only consult Doctor Sun more, and be more under the treatment of those great hydropathic doctors, the clouds ! H. W. Beecher. DOCTRINE. The life of doctrine is in application. Joseph Hall. Doctrine without precept is as a book without print. W. S. Downey. Preach doctrine practically, and practice doc- trinally. Legh Richmond. False doctrine can never be corrected by fire and sword. Julian. Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. H. W. Beecher. The doctrines of grace have set all mankind to- gether by the ears. C. Buck. The question is not whether a doctrine is beauti- ful, but whether it is true. J. C. Hare. There is no doctrine so false, but that it may be intermixed with some degree of truth. D. Burgess. Every one cleaves to the doctrine he has hap- pened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest. Cicero. There is no such way to give defense to absurd doctrines, as to guard them round about with le- gions of obscure and undefined words. J. Locke. Many people seem to think that ministers should be dwelling constantly upon promises rather than on doctrines; but every promise is founded upon a doctrine. G. S. Bowes. Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to SO- ciety, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine. Coltom. That doctrine which rectifies the conscience, purifies the heart, and produces love to God and men, is necessarily true, because, as it has been demonstrated that righteousness and benevolence are the greatest good of the Soul. J. B. Walker. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7 / o A. S. 199 DOGTMATISM. Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth. D. Jerrold. The dogmatist's opinioned assurance is para- mount to argument. Glanvill. He who is certain, or presumes to say he knows, is, whether he be mistaken or in the right, a dog- matist. Fleming. The greater the importance we attach to our opinions, the greater our dogmatism ; our own experience might teach us better, for every man has differed from himself. Chatfield. A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censo- rious of his neighbors ; every one of his Opinions appears to him written, as it were, with Sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. I. Watts. It is profound ignorance that inspires a dogmatic tone ; he who knows nothing, believes that he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; he who knows much, scarcely thinks that what he says can be unknown to others ; and he speaks with less assurance. Brwyère. Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be dogmatical on any subject ; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained, it would not be more destructive to all just reasoning and inquiry. When men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper delibe- ration and suspense which can alone Secure them from the grossest absurdities. Hwme. If it be true, that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists, and I am inclined to think it is so, it ought to follow that men of weak ima- ginations are the reverse ; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it un- fortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstimate, or less open to conviction, than a fool, and the only difference between the two would seem to be this, the former is determined to force his knowledge upon others, the latter is equally determined that others shall not force their know- ledge upon him. Colton. DOG.S. It is better to have a dog fawn upon you than bite you. Dr. Caiws. Even a wise man may become attached to a dog when he is well brought up. Goethe. The dog is the only animal that leaves his own species to take up his abode with man. Goldsmith. The dog who barks the loudest is not always the best watcher, neither are braggadocios the most valiant. Downey. Dogs are one of the luxuries of civilization ; in uncivilized life they are perhaps more one of the necessities. H. W. Shaw. Some men are kinder to the occupants of their kennels than to their families; they will treat wife and children like dogs, but not dogs themselves so. G. D. Premtice. . DOMIESTICITY. A knowledge of domestic duties is beyond all price to a woman. Mrs. L. M. Child. Our domestic behavior is the main test of our virtue and good-nature. Seed. Domestic privacy is necessary not only to our happiness, but even to our efficiency. R. Dabney. The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. Hannah More. The more the heart is exercised in the domestic affections, the more likely it is to be sympathetic and active with regard to external objects. R. Walsh. The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of. R. W. Emerson. No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction ; a man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed. Dr. Johnsom. Domestic society is the seminary of social affec- tions, the cradle of sensibility, where the first elements are acquired of that tenderness and hu- manity which cement mankind together. J. Hall. Unless you habitually court the privacy of the domestic circle, you will find that you are losing that intimate acquaintance with those who com- pose it, which is its chief charm and the source of all its advantage. W. C. Taylor. Among the most important fruits of domesticity of life, are the better appreciation of the worth of the female character, woman's higher rank as an object, not of passion, but of reverence, and the reciprocal moral influence which the two sexes exercise over each other. G. P. Marsh. Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains; when men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all indus- try, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs; thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men. Fielding. DOOIVI. * To toil for subsistence is the doom of most men. N. Webster. Nothing is exempt from the universal doom of degeneration and disintegration. Mme. Swetchine. It is the common doom of man, that he must eat, his bread by the sweat of his brow. Bwrke. No man can antedate his doom ; and though no man can escape his fate, yet the doom of neither the coward nor the brave has been determined at their birth. Homer. In the great day, wherein the Secrets of all hearts shall be laid open, no one shall be made to answer for what he knows nothing of ; but shall receive his doom, his conscience accusing or excusing him. J. Locke. 200 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O N. DOUBT. Who doubts, errs not. J. Lem fant. When you doubt, abstain. Zoroaster. A noble mind never doubts. Publius Syrus. N. Lee. He doubts nothing who knows nothing. Appleton. To live in doubt is to live in torment. The more doubt, the more room there is for faith. G. Berkeley. Men who know nothing in the Sciences, have no doubts. Leighton. Doubt interrupts our progress in the attainment of truth. G. Crabb. To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting. Stanislaws. Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief. N. Macdonald. Human knowledge is the parent of doubt and in- vestigation. Lord Greville. Love is careful, and misfortunes are subject to doubtfulness. Sir P. Sidney. There is nothing more troublesome than doubt- ful thoughts. Archimedes. Doubts chase away friends, strengthen enemies, and slander all men. J. Bodenham. Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient in- quiry leadeth the way. H. Ballow. Even in matters divine, concerning some things we may lawfully doubt. H. Hooker. Never do anything, concerning the rectitude of which you have a doubt. Pliny the Yownger. Doubts are not overcome with violence, but with reason and understanding. Isocrates. He who doubts, and yet seeks not to be resolved; is equally unhappy and unjust. Pascal. We know accurately only when we know little ; with knowledge doubt increases. T Goethe. While we are in doubt as to any particular COUll"Se or thing, we are able to do nothing. Martial. Whilst the mind is in a state of doubt, the smal- lest impulse directs it to either side. Terence. There is great doubt of that man's wisdom which is too much ruled by the will of woman. Awrelius. Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass, be- fore they can enter into the temple of wisdom. Colton. Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that Says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes. A. Hill. He that doubteth of that thing which he seeketh, shall never know when to find that which he lack- eth. St. Bernard. There is no weariness like that which rises from doubting from the perpetual jogging of unfixed I'êa,SOIl. R. Sowth. DOUBT. Doubts are any uncertain or irresolute opinions of things, whereby the mind is altogether unsatis- fied and perplexed. - T. Blacklock. Can that which is the greatest virtue in philoso- phy—doubt—be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins 2 Bovee. To doubt or mistrust a man for his well-meaning is the very next way to cause him to change his mind into false dealing. J. Awbrey. When a doubt is propounded, you must learn to distinguish, and show wherein a thing holds, and wherein it doth not hold. Seldem. He that doubteth every certainty, and admireth every trifle, shall sooner be laughed at for his folly, than commended for his discretion. Bias, In contemplation, if a man begins with certain- ties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Lord Bacom. Doubt is an accompaniment of research, and when it faileth to find a satisfactory solution, it will assuredly reject the whole system : God hath set limits to the knowledge of man, beyond which all is impenetrable darkness. J. Limen. Doubt is a weak child lawfully begotten between an obstructed judgment, and a fair understanding: opinion is a bold bastard gotten between a strong fancy, and a weak judgment ; it is less dishonora- ble to be ingenuously doubtful, than rashly opin- ionate. F. Quarles. Doubt is sadness ; there is no levity in it ; inquiry is never thrown aside ; a great problem is never forgotten, never trifled with ; and the doubt is but transitory—an obscuration, not a departure of faith ; it is but the cloud upon Mount Sinai ; the sacred mountain itself is not removed. Blackwood. We doubt within ourselves ; the cause of our doubt is our imperfect knowledge ; when we ques- tion, it is with the view that our doubts should be removed; by questioning, we endeavor to remove our ignorance, and thus resolve our doubt ; we may doubt without questioning, but we cannot question without doubting. G. F. Graham. . What is the cause of doubting but the disap- pearance of truth 2 How comes the mind to be frightened and amazed, but because it is in the dark? When truth wraps itself in a cloud, and shuns the eye, then the reason of man is in suspense, and under various fluctuations which way to de- termine ; but it is certainty alone that is at the bot- tom of all rational determinations. R. Sowth. The mind is easily seduced by doubt ; it is readily carried away by the wind of strange doctrine and so-called novel truths; but it possesses, neverthe- less, this admirable quality, that after having been swayed off, it soon returns to its right balance, and proper equilibrium ; if it wrongs itself, it rights itself, until finally it acquires a well-equi- poised firmness and stability, just to itself and others ; and if not infallible, at least far less prone to error. James Ellis. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 201 DRAMA. The drama is a mirror of life. John Listom. Drama shows vice it's own image. Shakespeare. The drama should commend virtue. C. M. Yowmg. Dramatic fame is in the keeping of the mob. King. It is in drama where poetry attains its loftiest flight. Don Luis I. of Portugal. The theatre is the stage of life, and the drama real life. Mrs. Dora Jordan. In a drama we applaud the right, and condemn the wrong. Charles Kean. The drama shows virtue its reward, and vice its Own image. Robert Badderley. The drama lifts the mask the human face wears in social life. Charles Macklim. It is one thing to criticise a drama, quite another to write one. J. Dennis. The drama is the most refined pleasure of a po- lished people. Dion, Bowcicault. A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man. Edwin Forrest. A good drama delineates the best and the worst passions of the human heart. Richard Burbage. Drama written expressly for the stage, Cramps the genius, and curtails the fancy of the poet. Alfred Austin. The drama teaches by precept and example; it commends virtue, and exposes vice and folly. Margaret Woffington. The drama is often a looking-glass in which we See the hideousness of vice, and the beauties of virtue. Fanny Kemble. The drama has been the means of turning the feet of mortals from the path of wrong to the path of right. Samwel Foote. I would never permit my wife or daughter to witness a dramatic entertainment, without first learning its character. Edwin Booth. Many men can trace their progress in life from lessons learned from the varied struggles of men's characters in a drama. Helen Faucit, That the drama is a most powerful moral agent in society, has been admitted by men of learning and wisdom in all ages of its existence. Mrs. Cibber. As the drama is lewd and iniquitous, it is hereby ordered that all stage-plays be absolutely forbid- den, and the players punished as rogues and vaga- bonds. Praise-God Barebones. Dramatists can only gain attention by hyperbol- ical or aggravated characters; and he that should form his expectations of human affairs from the play or from the tale, would be deceived. Johnsom. No species of fiction is so delightful to us as the old English drama : even its inferior productions possess a charm not to be found in any other kind of poetry ; it is the most lucid mirror that ever was held up to nature. . T. B. Macaulay. DRAMA. Every movement of the theatre, by a skillful poet is communicated, as it were by magic, to the spec- tators, who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which ac- tuate the Several personages of the drama. Hwme. The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it ; painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids; the costliest lights of a peo- ple's intellect burn at her show ; all ages welcome her. R. A. Willmott. When the subject of a drama is once compre- hended, we should diligently and patiently study every phrase, fix the images of the poet in our mind in their true relation to one another, and place ourselves in imagination in the time and place of the action. Tommaso Salvini. Dramatizations, even of good novels, and when well presented, are at the best poor affairs ; being neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, and always very un- satisfactory to readers of the novel, who have already formed their ideals of the various charac- ters, and who feel disappointed at not seeing them realized. Ernest Harvier. I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others ; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was poetry ; He formed it, and that was Scripture: He colored it, and that was painting ; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal drama. Charlotte Cushman. The written drama offers in its impersonations a life, one side of life, a life in which all the actings appear without the ends and simply as in play, becomes to the cultivated reader a spring of the intensest and most captivating spiritual incitement; he beholds the creative genius of a man playing out impersonated groups and Societies of men, clothing each with life, passion, individuality, and character, by the fertile activity of his own in- spired feeling. H. Bushnell. By the dramatic art could the men of former times, as the living can now, learn the manifold changes of fortune, the great diversities of charac- ter, and the events of life. The dramatist was a teacher of all the virtues, inasmuch as he brought the images of the bad upon the theatre, not that men might form their minds on such a model, but that they might learn to shun them ; he acted a feigned part, yet, as a teacher, he represented the truth. Eustathiws. There are men respectable for piety and for learning, who have suffered themselves to be be- trayed into opinions hostile to the drama ; these will even read plays, and profess to admire the poetry, the language, and the genius of the dra- matic poet, but still make war upon scenic repre- sentations, considering them as stimulants to vice —as a kind of moral cantharides which serves to inflame the passions and break down the ramparts behind which religion and prudence entrench the human heart. Bradford. 202 A) A Y',S C O Z / A C O AV. DREAMS. DREAMS. * We are near waking when we dream that we Dreaming is the having of ideas, while the out- dream. Novalis. ward senses are stopped, not suggested by any Dreams are steeds on which a lover visits his mistress. Al-Barmaki. Dreams, like hopes, are frequently realized by the dreamer. J. Limen. I thank God for my happy dreams, as I do for my good rest. Sir T. Browne. Life is so often like a dream, that we know not where we are. Dr. Johnson. Whosoever regards dreams catches at a shadow, and follows the wind. L. Cobb. As dreams are the fancies of those that sleep, so fancies are but the dreams of those awake. Sir T. B. Blowºut. It often happens that men of strong feelings, whether they think much or not, dream much. T. Dwight. Nothing so much convinces me of the boundless- ness of the human mind, as its operations in dream- ing. W. B. Clwlow. Dreams alarm me that portray my real misfor- tunes, and my waking senses are ever alive to my SOI"I'OWS. Ovid. Dreams, in general, take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day. Herodotus. Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can ; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood. La Fontaine. Dreams are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; which is as thin of substance as the air, and more inconstant than the wind. Shakspeare. Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attest- ing in all men the creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakspeare. F. H. Hedge. What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to- morrow, the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations. R. W. Emerson. If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is, as the French say, tawt gagne, so much added to the plea- sure of life. Franklin. Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on the earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. Dickens. Dreams in their development have breath and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy ; they leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, they take a weight from off our waking toils, they do divide our being ; they become a portion of our- selves as of our time, and look like heralds of eter- nity. Byron. external objects, or known occasion, nor under the rule or conduct of the understanding. J. Locke. In Sleep we dream ; the lawyer pleads, makes laws ; the soldier fights his battles over again ; we, too, are busily engaged on what occupies our work- ing thoughts, tracing nature's laws, and explaining in our native language. Lºwcretius. How inconceivably eccentric and illimitable may a dream be in its flight, when it is released from its earthly tegument, and revels in the boundless wilds of imagination, as a liberated balloon soars into the invisible enpyreum. Chatfield. Metaphysicians have been learning their lesson for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us some- thing. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the Operations of the mind are carried on with undimin- ished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant 2 Colton. We have in dreams no true perception of the lapse of time—a strange property of mind; for if such be also its property when entered into the eternal disembodied state, time will appear to us eternity ; the relations of space as well as of time are also annihilated, so that whilst almost an eter- nity is compressed into a moment, infinite space is traversed more swiftly than by real thought. F. Winslow. Who cares for dreams ? Who attaches any im- portance to the idle shadows that flit across the brain in sleep 3 It is in vain to ask such questions or reply to them. We would despise dreams if we could ; and in spite of the sneers of scepticism, cir- cumstances have actually occurred with reference to dreams which are out of the ordinary roll of events, yet not the less true, make what use of them you will. Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. Some count it trifling and full of folly to speak of dreams. But, because any subject has been abused by superstition and ignorance, is it never to be ap- proached with clear and rational thought 2 Dreams occupy a formidable portion of the span of human life ; they are sources, for the time, of pleasure or of pain, and have power in some measure to cast their shadows over our waking moments ; our feel- ings throughout the day, may partake of their coloring. Mrs. Sigourmey. Among the powers in man which suffer by this too intense life of the social instinct, none suffers more than the power of dreaming. Let no man think this a trifle; the machinery for dreaming planted in the human brain was not planted for nothing ; that faculty, in alliance with the mys- tery of darkness, is the one great tube through which man communicates with the shadowy ; and the dreaming organ, in connection with the heart, the eye, and the ear, compose the magnificent ap- paratus which forces the infinite into the chambers of a human brain, and throws dark reflections from etermities below all life upon the mirrors of the sleeping mind. W. Spottiswoode. P R O S F O U O 7" A T / O M S. 203 DRESS. We are captivated by dress. Ovid. Judge not a man by his dress. G. B. Childs. Dress does not give knowledge. Yriarte. A bad dress usually covers a good drinker. Cervantes. She that has an ill husband shows it in her dress. Dubois. The true ornament of a matron is virtue, not dress. Justin. No woman dresses below herself from mere ca- price. C. Lamb. We eat to please ourselves, but dress to please others. Franklin. Dress has a moral effect upon the conduct of mankind. Sir J. Barrington. The plainer the dress, with greater lustre does beauty appear. Halifaac. A rich dress is not worth a straw to one who has a poor mind. Az-Zwbaidi. Innocence and piety do not consist in wearing an old or coarse dress. Eddim Saadi. The only medicine which does women more good than harm is dress. Richter. In the matter of dress, one should always keep below one's ability. Montesquiew. As a rough shell encloses a pearl, so does a mean dress often cover the upright and noble. Ar-Rashid. Dress changes, but we are not to suppose on that account that the make of the body changes also. Fontenelle. As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion, nor the last out of it. - J. Wesley. The perfection of dress is in the union of three requisites—in its being comfortable, cheap, and tasteful. Bovee. Those who think that in order to dress well, it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. G. D. Prentice. Dress, so far as it respects neatness and cleanli- ness, is of great importance to the first impression we make upon others. R. G. Parker. If dress hides deformities, it hides beauties also : a well formed man is easily known, but generally there is suspicion about a woman. Dr. Porter. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, and ob- tains more credit, than lace and embroidery, in the eyes of the judicious and sensible. Washington. A gentleman's taste in dress is, upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant ; it con- sists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness. Bulwer. The greatest beauty in female dress is that which is most simple, and at the same time gracefully adapted to exhibit the natural beauty of the female form, G. P. Morris. DRESS. Ye who dress in sumptuous array ! Know that the saddle-cloth changeth not the nature of the ass, nor splendid trappings the pedigree of the pack-horse. Al-Mwbarrad. The glitter and finery of dress, is one of the most trifling consideratfons in nature, and what a man of sense would be ashamed to reckon even as the least part of merit. S. Croacall. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain ; but take care that your clothes are well made and fit you, for other- wise they will give you a very awkward air. Chesterfield. It is not the dress that makes the monk ; many are dressed like monks who are inwardly anything but monks ; and some wear Spanish caps who have but little of the valor of the Spaniard in them. Rabelais. It is an assertion which admits of much proof, that a stranger of tolerable sense, dressed like a gentlemen, will be better received by those of quality above him, than one of much better parts whose dress is regulated by the rigid notions of frugality. Steele. Dress is the gate that opens to respect ; a hand- some suit of ciothes will always procure additional respect ; therefore it is highly essential to those who desire to live more by show than merit, that they should appear in a dress rather above than below their fortune. James Ellis. Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain ; their birth, rank, title, and its appendages are at best invidious ; and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantages of it, they make their superiority set more easy. Shenstome. As the index tells us the contents of stories, and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments, give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point all the internal quality of the soul ; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross mani- festation of poor, degenerate blood and breed, than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly dress. Massinger. Nothing can be better calculated to increase the price of silk than the present manner of dressing. A lady's train is not bought but at some expense, and after it has swept the public walks for a very few evenings, is fit to be worn no longer ; more silk must be bought in order to repair the breach, and some ladies of peculiar economy are thus found to patch up their tails eight or ten times in a sea- SOIl. Goldsmith. As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tail- oring we must set people to work at, not lace. - Ruskim. * 204 JD A Y',S C O / / A C O AV. IDRESS. DRINEING. A ship is not so long a-rigging, as a young girl is Use no intoxicating drinks. P. T. Barnſwºm. in trimming herself up against the arrival of her * - - - —. sweetheart. No painter's shop, no flowery mea- Drinking is a good quality in a sponge, but not dow, no graceful aspect in the storehouse of nature, in a king. Demosthenes. is comparable to a moviseta, or Venetian virgin, If it were not for drinking, our courts would who is dressing for a husband. . B. Burton. have nothing to do. Judge Patterson. It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat ; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat be- yond their means, but of living somewhat within them ; for every one sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. Colton. The greatest part of the ladies lose themselves very advantageously under their dress. How many indifferent faces pass well enough with jewels and diamonds, and conquer hearts by candle-light, that would make a very sorry figure without them. The richest necklace in the world would have an ill effect upon you. It would make some alteration in your person, and every alteration that happens to a perfect beauty, would certainly be for the WOI’S6. J. Hughes. Let women paint their eyes with chastity; let them adopt that chaste and simple, that meat and elegant style of dress, which so advantageously displays the charm of real beauty, instead of those preposterous fashions and fantastical draperies of dress which, while they conceal some few defects of person, expose so many defects of mind, and sacrifice to ostentatious finery all those mild, amia- ble, and modest virtues, by which the female char- acter is so pleasingly adorned. Tertulidºv. Look on this globe of earth, and you will find it to be a very complete and fashionable dress. What is that which some call land, but a fine coat faced with green 3 Or the sea but a waistcoat of water- tabby ? Proceed to the particular works of the creation, you will find how curious journeyman nature has been to. trim up the vegetable beaux. Observe how sparkish a peruke adorns the head of a beech, and what a fine doublet of white satin is worn by the birch. To conclude from all, what is man himself but a micro-coat, or rather a complete suit of clothes with all its trimmings. Swift. It is well known that a loose and easy dress con- tributes much to give to both sexes those fine pro- portions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues; their women were ignorant of the use of whalebone stays, by which ours distort their shape instead of displaying it. Can it be a pleasant sight to behold a woman cut in two in the middle, as it were, like a wasp 3 On the contrary, it is as shock- ing to the eye as it is painful to the imagination. A fine shape, like the limbs, hath its due size and proportion ; a diminution of which is certainly a defect; such a deformity also would be shocking in a naked figure ; wherefore then should it be esteemed a beauty in one that is dressed ? Grace- fulness cannot subsist without ease ; delicacy is not debility ; nor must a woman be sick in order to please ; infirmity and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health. - RowsSeaw. Drinking is letting a thief in at the mouth to steal away the brains. Seneca. The drinker and debauched person is the object of scorn and contempt. R. Sowth. Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunken- ness belongs only to man. Fielding. No animal except man ever drinks in connec- tion with his food ; man ought not to. Alcott. There is scarcely a crime before me that is not, directly or indirectly, caused by strong drink. Judge Coleridge. Every moderate drinker could abandon the in- toxicating cup if he would ; every inebriate would if he could. - J. B. Gough. The first drink serveth for thirst ; the Second for pleasure ; the third for shame ; and the fourth for madness. Anacharsis. The use of strong drinks, to most persons, is as pills of arsenic disguised in a honeycomb; although palatable at first, it is ruin at last. Downey. Drink is the curse of the poor man, and the de- stroyer of happiness and harmony in every house- hold where it exists; it proves a man's ruin Socially and financially. W. T. Burke. Drinking is bad ; for it is from wine that spring the breaking of doors, and the dealing of blows, and the throwing of stones; and then the paying of money after your drunken bout. Aristophames. Young men, with good fortunes, good hearts, and sound constitutions, by being drawn into the habit of drinking, have become by degrees the most loathsome and despicable of mankind. W. Cobbett, Many men knowing that merry company is the only medicine against melancholy, spend all their days among good fellows in a tavern or alehouse, drinking venewm pro vino, like so many malt- worms, men-fishes, water-Snakes, or frogs in a puddle, and become mere funguses and casks. R. Burton. The votaries of distilled drinks and voluptuous dishes, saturated with alchohol, bloated with glut- tomy, and filthy with tobacco, inflame their de- bauchery to the greatest degree until nature is ex- hausted, and then, down the gloomy gulf of Suicide or the fiery one of delirium tremens, they plunge to eternal death. Magoon. The maxim, “in vino veritas—a man who is well warmed with wine, will speak truth,” may be an argument for drinking, if you suppose men in gen- eral to be liars ; but, sir, I would not keep compa- ny with a fellow, who lies as long as he is sober, and whom you must make drumk before you can get a word of truth out of him. Dr. Johnsom. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 205 IDRUNKENNESS. Drunkenness is the devil's agent. James Ellis. A drunkard is his own tormentor. E. P. Day. Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph. Zimmerman. Drunkenness is the most fertile source of crime. Judge Alderson. Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary mad- TheSS. Seneca. Drunkenness is sometimes a cure for certain dis- €8.SeS. Celsus. Habitual drunkenness is the epitome of every crime. . D. Jerrold. Every crime has its origin, more or less, in drunk- eIllness. Judge Gºwrmey. Drunkenness destroys discipline and efficiency in an army. Winfield Scott. Excess is the work of sin, and drunkenness the effect of riot. , Solom. Beware of drunkenness, lest all good men be- ware of thee. F. Quarles. Drunkenness is disgraceful in man, is detestable in a monarch. Catherine II. of Russia. Drunkenness maketh a man a beast, a strong man weak, and a wise man a fool. Origen. Total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks is the only sure remedy for drunkenness. E. C. Delavam. Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, is not him- Self. St. Augustine. A vine bears three grapes—the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repent- 8.I] Cé. Amacharsis. The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice, than the best that was ever preached upon that subject. Sir H. Saville, Drunkenness is that vice which stirreth up lust, grief, anger, and extinguishes the memory, opinion, and understanding. John Ashwell. Language would fail to characterize a drunken man; for a drunken woman there never was found an appropriate term. J. Bartlett, Experience has proved that almost all crime into which juries have to inquire may be traced, in one way or other, to the habits of drunkenness. Judge Williams. Man has evil as well as good qualities peculiar to himself ; drunkenness places him as much below the level of the brutes as reason elevates him above them. Sir G. Sinclair. It is not so much the memory that drunkenness wastes as the misery it produces—the domestic, temporal, and eternal misery—which most of all appals us. Gºtthrie. If the headache should come before drunkenness, we should have a care of drinking too much ; but pleasure, to deceive us, marches before, and con- ceals her train. Montaigne. DRUNKENNESS. A drunkard is one that will be a man to-morrow morning, but is now what you will make him ; for he is in the power of the next man; and if a friend, the better. Bishop Earle. Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals, or manners. Franklin. Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory—of a constitution so treacherous- ly good, that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that it recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting Sober. Colton. All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst kind ; it spoils health, dismounts the mind, and un- mans men ; it reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, las- civious, impudent, dangerous, and mad. He that is drunk is not a man, because he is, for so long, void of reason that distinguishes a man from a beast. Wºm. Pennºn. Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections, this disorders, nay, banishes reason ; other vices but impair the soul, this demolishes her two chief fac- ulties, the understanding and the will ; other vices make their own way, this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice. F. Quarles. Drunkenness is a social festive vice. The drinker collects his circle ; the circle naturally spreads; of those who are drawn within it, many become the corrupters and centres of sets and circle of their own ; every one countenancing, and perhaps emul- ating the rest, till a whole neighborhood be in- fected with the contagion of a single example. Paley. Let Solomon pronounce what he will, the drunk- ard will never be terrified with the fear of beggary, whilst he sees rich and great men affected with the same pleasure with which he is delighted and reproached, and to whom it may be he stands more commended by his faculty in drinking, than he would be by the practice of any particular virtue. Earl of Clarendon. Drunkenness is a beastly, detestable, and often punished vice, in the ignorant lower Order, whose ebriety is thrust upon the public eye as they reel along the streets, but softened into “a glass too much,” or being “a little elevated,” when a well educated gentleman is driven home in his own carriage, in a state of insensibility, and put to bed by his own servants. Chatfield. It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness : for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness; for the longer it pos- sesseth a man, the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it ; for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree ; or as the worm that engendereth in the kernel of the nut. Sir W. Raleigh. 206 A) A V 'S CO /, / A C O AW. DUIELLING. Duelling is a relic of barbarism. E. P. Day. Duelling is an absurd and shocking remedy for private insult. Cockburn. Away with the pretence that there is any fair- ness in settling questions by duels. T. Dwight. It is astonishing that the murderous practice of duelling should continue So long in vogue. - Franklin. If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way. Colton. The duellist values his honor above the life of his antagonist, his own life, and the happiness of his family. G. Dubois. Duelling, as a punishment, is absurd ; because it is an equal chance whether the punishment falls upon the offender or the person offended. Paley. If every one who fought a duel were to stand in the pillory, it would quickly lessen the number of these imaginary men of honor, and put an end to so absurd a practice. Addison. In many armies, if the matter should be tried by duel between two companions, the victory woul go on the one side ; and yet if it be tried by the gross, go on the other side. Lord Bacom. Duelling is as often a sign of cowardice as of courage; for many a challenge has been given and accepted through fear of what the world might say of him if he refused to fight. G. D. Prentice. Duels are but illustrious murders. Duelling is an imperious crime which triumphs both over public revenge and private virtue, and tramples boldly upon the laws of the nation and the life of our enemy. H. Mackenzie. Though some unhappy instances of frivolous duels have occurred, I cannot think that it is the vice of the times to be fond of quarreling ; the manners of our young men of distinction are cer- tainly not of that cast. R. Cwmberland. Duels area happy invention of civilization, which enable the man who has injured another to shoot him also, and gives him who has for years forfeited his honor, the power of fighting, to prove that though he possesses not the substance, he adheres to the shadow. W. L. Mackenzie. A duelist is a moral coward, seeking to hide the pusillanimity of his mind, by affecting a corporeal courage. Instead of discharging a pistol, the re- sort of bullies and bravoes, the really brave soul will dare to discharge its duty to God and man, by refusing to break the laws of both. Chatfield. Let public opinion, uniformly and universally, point the finger of withering scorn at the duellist. That cool, deliberate murder should be tolerated in this land of gospel light and moral reform, is as astonishing as it is humiliating and disgraceful ; and that the murderer should afterwards be coun. tenanced, and even caressed, and honored with places of public trust and emolument, is shocking to every man who has a proper sense of moral obligations. L. C. Judson. peel. DULLINESS. A man is never ruined by dullness. J. Hughes. Dull souls despise the things of which they are not capable. Bovee. Dullness, turned up with temerity, is a livery all the worse for the facings. Sydney Smith. Nature, by a continual use of anything, groweth to a Satiety and dullness, either of appetite or work- ing. Lord Bacom. Do not we see how easily we pardon our own actions and passions, and the very infirmities of our bodies; why should it be wonderful to find us pardon Our Own dullness. Swift. Correction may reform negligent boys, but not amend those that are insensibly dull ; all the whet- ting in the world can never set a razor's edge on that which has no steel in it. T. Fuller. What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times | A ground glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds. O. W. Holmes. A dull man is so near a dead man that he is hardly to be ranked in the list of the living ; and as he is not to be buried while he is half alive, so he is as little to be employed while he is half dead. Sir H. Scºville. You shall seldom find a dull fellow of good edu- cation, but, if he happens to have any leisure upon his hands, will turn his head to one of those two amusements for all fools of eminence, politics, or poetry ; the former of these arts is the study of all dull people in general ; but when dullness is lodged in a person of a quick animal life, it generally exerts itself in poetry. Steele. IDUPES. We are easily duped by those whom we love. Molière, A man never reckons his dupe as a friend, but as a fool. - E. P. Day. Men in power, accustomed to dissimulation, are dupes to their love of duping. Coleridge. The surest way of making a dupe, is to let your victim suppose that you are his. Bulwer. Men would not live long in society, were they not the mutual dupes of each other. Rochefoucauld. You think a man to be your dupe; if he pretends to be so, who is the greatest dupe—he or you? - Bruyère. Nothing is more vexatious than to feel that we . have been made a dupe, to serve some end to which we are opposed. James Ellis. We are all more or less the dupes of those who, “with bated breath and whispering humbleness,” sway more by their empty praise, than the best logician can by argument. Magoon. Do not allow yourself to be duped by appear- ances; examine and see that all is right, for when those who wish to deceive have done with you, they will throw you aside as they would a lemon- Annie E. Lancaster. t A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 207 DUPLICITY. Duplicity admits of no pardon. Cyrus. Duplicity is a most odious vice. Bermes. Duplicity to a friend, except for his benefit, is faithlessness to God. Nusair. Duplicity of action, in that it hath a similitude of truth, is the more to be hated. Qwintilian. He who has once been found guilty of duplicity of conduct, will hardly afterward be trusted. Livy. Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others. Laboulaye. We may expect but little reliable assistance from the person who contends that duplicity is the prin- ciple that guides all mankind in their conduct through life. Gwicciardini. It is a deplorable state of things when a fair and upright conduct avails less in the success of an un- dertaking, than the employment of duplicity and artifice, and would be most likely to defeat it, when the other would be almost certain to accomplish the end in view. James Ellis. IDURATION. Duration is a lengthening out of time. G. W. Coac. Time is one thing, and infinite duration is an- Other. N. Grew. When the succession of ideas ceases, our percep- tion of duration ceases with it, which every one experiments while he sleeps soundly. J. Locke. All the motion we have of duration, is partly by the succession of its own operations, and partly by those external measures that it finds in Sir M. Hale. Duration is a circumstance so essential to happi- ness, that if we conceive it possible for the joys of heaven itself to pass from us in an instant, we should find ourselves not much concerned for the attainment of them. S. Rogers. motion. Duration is illimitable ; time and etermity are separated from each other only by the mere act of dying ; they are in fact only a continuation of that endless duration into which the first dawnings of Consciousness usher UlS. O. S. Fowler. IDUTIFULINESS. Be dutiful to your parents. Cowntess of Mosby. For one cruel parent we meet a thousand undu- tiful children. Addison. Dutifulness to parents was a most popular virtue among the Romans. Dryden. To deserve the name of dutiful, a child ought to make the parent's will to be his law. G. Crabb. Undutiful children are like weeds in a garden; they soon outrun all moral culture and discipline. Mrs. Brooke. It is the dutiful child that receives the true and right direction, which leads to peace, usefulness, and honor, and makes him distinguished in after life. John Lowe. -- IDUTY. Do your duty. Collingwood. Duty is that which binds. W. E. Gladstone. Duty is often disagreeable. Mrs. Notley. Duties are ours ; events are God's. R. Cecil. Duty is the same thing as happiness. G. Wilson. To do our duty is the noblest of all things. Mrs. E. S. Ledsham. England expects every man to do his duty. Horatio Nelson. Perish discretion whenever it interferes with duty. Hannah More. Duty ever makes pleasure doubly sweet by con- trast. Halibwºrton. Let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effec- tively. A. Lincoln. Duty is the sublimest word in the English lan- guage. e R. E. Lee. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Margaret Fuller. After too long good fortune duty becomes irk- Some to the bad. Jaafar. TJnder the laws of Providence we have duties which are perilous. Rev. Austen Phelps. In every profession the daily and common duties are the most useful. T. Copeland. The duties of life are the commands of the same God who forbids sin. Bishop Edmund. The performing of one duty excuses the non- performance of another. Halkerston. Let us not run out of the path of duty, lest we run into the way of danger. R. Hill. Beyond all maternal duty is the duty that a woman owes to her husband. Miss Muloch, Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master, from whom he would be free. La Roche. Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty. Burke, Wherever duty summons man, woman has a corresponding duty in the same place. Mrs. E. Cady Stanton, It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any other path of safety, except that of duty. g Nevins, Our duty, though it is set about by thorns, may still be made a staff, supporting even while it tor- tureS. D. Jerrold. There are persons who have so far outgrown their catechism, as to believe that their only duty is to themselves. - T. Hood. Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder, worshipped the “still small voice.” S. Dobell. Duty is like Aaron's rod ; hold it fast, and it per- forms miracles ; cast it from you, and it becomes a loathsome reptile. E. P. Day. 208 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z 4 C O AV. DUTY. DYING. A good man will see his duty with only a mod- We die daily. Cooper. erate share of casuistical skill ; but into a perverse te — heart this sort of wisdom enters not. E. D. Baker. All that live must die. Shakspeare. Be not diverted from your duty by any idle re- We can but die, and all must die. J. Docume. flections the silly world may make on you, for their censures are not in your power, and consequently should be no part of your concern. Epictetus. It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, there is the sublimest accent of self-sacrifice ; to do less would class you as an object of eternal Scorn, to do so much pre- sumes the grandeur of heroism. De Qwimcey. Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or un- certain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: “Do the duty which lies nearest thee,” which thou knowest to be a duty Thy second duty will al- ready have become clearer. Carlyle. The true hero is the great, wise man of duty : he whose soul is armed by truth and supported by the smile of God ; he who meets life's perils with a cautious but tranquil spirit gathers strength by facing its storms, and dies, if he is called to die, as a Christian victor at the post of duty. H. Bushnell. DVVAIRE'. Neither make choice of a dwarf or a fool. Cecil. The born dwarf never grows to the middle size. R. A. Willmott. A man may be a dwarf in body, and yet in mind, a giant. James Ellis. A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant, can see farther than the giant himself. Stella. A dwarf cannot increase its size, although it may stand on the mountain top ; but a giant will appear large even in the valley. Ansaldo Ceba. Dwarfs and buffoons should be matched with those of their own level ; a man in sense or stature would be ashamed to encounter either of them. S. Croacall. DVVELLING. Adorn your dwellings. Mrs. L. E. Lyman. On a farm the dwelling-house represents the people ; the barn, the work. H. W. Beecher. A dwelling should accommodate those within as well as please the eye of those without. R. Smith. Two persons dwelling together in harmony do not more surely grow to look alike, than two apart- ments placed in close communication. Gardner. In dwelling-houses that are too small for variety of contrivance, utility ought to prevail, neglecting regularity as far as it stands in opposition to con- venience. - Rames. In a dwelling-house, the expression of purpose is conveyed by the chimney-tops, the porch or ve- randa, and those various appendages indicative of domestic enjoyment, which are needless, and there- fore misplaced, in a public building. Downing. Dying is often easier than living. Eliza Tabor. The people of God die comfortably. Dr. J. Gill. My Son, see how a Christian can die. Havelock. I am dying ; they have deceived me. George IV. It is infamy to die, and not be missed. C. Wilcoac. Even a strong believer may fear to die. Martin. It is pleasant to die near those we love. Lwigi. It is better at once to die than live in perpetual fear. Illicini. What can those persons suffer that do not fear to die 3 Damindas. When a man is dying let him turn to the fullness of God. Rev. George Dawson. The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. J. Ray. I must die ; my work is done ; but God will not leave His people. Oliver Cromwell. I never saw a Christian die without feeling that it would be gain to die. A. E. Dickinson. I bless thee, O God, that I am capable of dying ; that I am appointed to die. M. Adams. One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magis- trate ; but he must die as a man. D. Webster. Nature's laws must be fulfilled, and something must die that something else may live. D. G. Elliot. Let us so order our affairs that when we come to die, we may have nothing else to do. C. Scriver. To die, I own, is a dread passage, terrible to nature, chiefly to those who have, like me, been happy. J. Thomson. Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it. W. Walce. When a man dies, they who survive him ask what property he has left behind ; the angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him. Mahomet. DYNASTY. - Ancient dynasties are uncertain. E. Burgess. Dynasties are unpopular, especially new ones. B. Disraeli. At some time or other all the beginners of dyn- asties were chosen by those who called them to govern. Burke. That dynasty governs best, whose ruler implores heaven to bestow upon him that divine wisdom by which he can uphold the principles of justice, vir- tue, and intelligence. Emperor Wuthing. / ）！ ■ ----， Laeſ Ź. |× % Enapawed BY J. Kapst. JAMES ELLIS, EDWARD EVERETT. copyRIGHT SECURED. RALPH WALDO, EMERSON. DEs cane D. EY MIRs. JAMEs ELLls. EDWARD PARSONS DAY. JONATHAN EDWARDS. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7 I O W.S. 209 E. EAGERNESS. Eagerness is the ardor of desire. N. Webster. To preserve eagerness, novelty is indeed neces- Sary. - Dr. Johnson. A man's eagerness very often disappoints his hopes. N. Webster. - Eagerness in the pursuit of our duty brings hap- piness, F. C. Day. Eagerness to charge with the spear and the Sword proves a man's valor. Ibn Nusair. Eagerness in the pursuit of pleasure, most com- monly causes it to perish in Our grasp. J. Gwy. Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, plea- sure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. Erasmus. An undue eagerness to obtain more, frequently causes one to lose what he hath already. AEsop. Eagerness for the attainment of wealth, is com- monly followed by the fear of losing it. St. Augustine. The eagerness of the mind after knowledge, if not warily regulated, is often a hindrance to it. J. Locke. Eagerness for revenge is begotten of anger, which, in its turn, cometh from hastiness of speech. Isocrates. Eagerness to reach the front, and resolution to excel, are wrong if they have their root in selfish- IlêSS. Dr. McCawley. More eagerness is generally displayed in the pur- Suit of the phantom pleasure, than in doing our duty. James Ellis. / - Never be eager, loud, or clamorous ; for, take it for granted, if the two best friends in the world dispute with eagerness upon the most trifling sub- ject imaginable, they will find a momentary alien- ation from each other. Chesterfield. EAGLE. The eagle has an empire in the air. Jahir. An eagle does not stoop to catch flies. J. Florio. The eagle is privileged with pinions that outstrip the wind. G. W. Hervey. Eagles fly alone ; they are but sheep that always herd together. Sir P. Sidney. The eagle may be said to have a contempt for all other birds. J. Neal, When an eagle soareth nearest to the sun he is hovering for his prey, and when a woman is most lip-holy she is most bunt on mischief. Dempster. Save for Fourth of July orations, eagles are of but little worth ; being filthy, cruel, ugly at the beak, fierce at the eye, and loathsome at the claw. Talmage. EAR. • W $ The ear is the road to the heart. Deshowlières. Short ears are an element of beauty. AEliam. A quick ear hears the smallest Sound. G. Crabb. Do not overcharge the ear with a useless load of words. Horace. We can shut our eyes and hold our nose, but the ears stand Open. E. B. Foote, Suffer not thine ear to listen to that which is im- pure and of evil report. Hermes. By the ear, and not by the eye, do men come to the knowledge of the truth. St. Bernard. Vain and frivolous persons, like empty vessels, are easily laid hold of and borne along by the ears. Demophilws. Nature hath given us two ears, and only one tongue, to the end that we should hear more than we speak. Socrates. The door of the ear stands always open, and both good and evil enter; let us see to it that we des- troy the evil. W. Coºmbe. Shut not the ear against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent. R. Dodsley. The earis worthy of our admiration; the best way to prove our gratitude for so great a blessing, is to make a good use of it. Sturm. Put no faith in those who enrich the ears of others with words, that they may replenish their own houses with gold. Attiws. Ears are the ports of entry to the soul, through which all ships are more easily admitted than those laden with the whispers of prudence, or the lessons of prudence and experience. J. L. Ewald. A person born with defective ears, so as to pre- vent him from hearing the voices of others, is Sentenced to a life-time of silence ; even aged per- Sons, when they become deprived of their sense of hearing, feel a growing reluctance to engage in Conversation. E. P. Day, The pleasures of the ear are the most spiritual of all enjoyments, the least sensual of the senses. Where can its sensibilities be so well cultivated, and impart such a hallowing character to delight, as amid the various and exquisite harmonies of nature, the vocal fields, the rustling woods, the deep-mouthed and Sonorous sea 2 Let each of these pleasant Sounds, at it falls upon the drum of the ear, be as a reveille, calling upon our thoughts to arise, and be wafted heavenward upon the sym- phonious air ; these are the feelings that make all music Sacred. No wonder that the deaf are often morose and dejected, while the blind, shut out as they are from the world, almost invariably draw in cheerfulness through the ear. Chatfield. 14 210 ZD A ‘Y”.S C O Z Z A C O AV. EARLY RISING. Rise early, and watch. G. Gil Polo. Girls ought to be taught to get early to bed, and get up early in the morning. Eliza Cook. Early rising is conducive both to the health of the body and improvement of the mind. C. Buck. - Early rising seems generally to have been asso- ciated with the industry of those who have attained eminence. Mrs. Sigowrmey. Children awake early, and would be up and stir- ring long before the arrangements of the family permit them to use their limbs. R. Southey. Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheer- ful mind, and active habits, I place early rising, as a means of health and happiness. T. Flºt. He that from his childhood has made rising be- times familiar with him, will not waste the best part of his life in drowsiness and lying in bed. J. Locke. When old people have been examined in order to ascertain the cause of their longevity, they have uniformly agreed in one thing only, that they all went to bed, and all rose early. John Taylor. Early rising is beneficial to health, and sluggish- ness should be deprecated ; but in these go-a-head times, when night is turned into day, early rising is becoming a thing of the past. James Ellis. Few ever lived to a great age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising. You rise late, and, of course, com- mence your business at a late hour, and everything goes wrong all day. J. Todd. The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, Supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life. P. Doddridge. Early rising, not only gives to us more life in the Same number of our years, but adds to their num- ber; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same measure of time, but in- Creases also the measure. . Colton. Early rising is friendly to the health and the heart ; and if the idler is so manacled by the chains of habit, that he can do no more, he will do wisely and well to inhale pure air, to watch the rising sun, and mark the magnificence of nature. J. Dennie. Early rising is equally important to the health of the system as early rest ; whoever shall accustom himself thus to rise, will enjoy more undisturbed sleep during the night, and awake better refreshed than those who indolently slumber all the morn- ing. James Hall. I would have inscribed on the curtains of your bed, and the walls of your chamber, “If you do not rise early, you can make progress in nothing ; if you do not set apart your hours of reading, if you Suffer yourself or any one else to break in upon them, your days will slip through your hands un- profitable and frivolous, and unenjoyed by your- Self.” Lord Chatham. EARNESTNESS. Be earnest, yet not ardent, O. B. Peirce. The earnest eye anticipates desire. Cypriam. Earnestness alone makes life eternity. T. Carlyle. Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. Pascal. Earnestness and simplicity carry all before them. W. Alley. Real earnestness in good works, is above all price. E. P. Day. A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. Sterling. There is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness. Dickens. By earnestness and constant use, man may be brought to a new nature. Demosthemes. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the quali- ties which produce conviction. D. Webster. Earnestness in labor cureth error, removeth mountains, and refineth the wits. R. Izaacke. Earnestness is more to be commended in a preach- er, than an elegant manner and much learning. - St. Basil. A little real earnestness in our work would ac- complish wonders; but, alas ! we are seldom in earnest. Annie E. Lancaster. Whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment. H. T. Twekerman. There is no great lack of earnestness in the world; unfortunately, this earnestness is not vol- untary but enforced. B. Drake. No man ever went successfully through with any great enterprise whose earnestness did not almost amount to enthusiasm. C. J. Foac. This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest ; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come. F. W. Robertson. When men's love frame their opinions, they are more earnest in defense of error, than Sound be- lievers in the maintenance of truth. R. Hooker. The reason why delivery is of such force, is that, unless a man appears by his outward look and gesture to show his earnestness by the truths he is uttering, he will not animate his hearers. H. Blair. Earnestness is needed in this world as much as any virtue: if in the possession of a wise and dis- creet man, it becomes a valuable acquisition ; if in a fool, it becomes a great evil and will lead him to ruin. James Ellis. Patience is only one faculty ; earnestness the de- votion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience ; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them. Bovee. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 2 II E.A.R.TH. The earth is our mother. L. Jwniws Brwtws. The flowers are but earth vivified. Lamartine. The earth is a piece of divine architecture. T. Burmet. Earth is a revelation of the glory of its Maker. C. F. Gellert. The earth was created for the use of all man- kind. Az-Zubaidi. Earth is the battle-field, where good must com- bat with evil. Tupper. If you tickle the earth with a hoe, she laughs with a harvest. D. Jerrold. All the productions of the earth have been crea- ted for the use of man. Cicero. The earth yields us blessings every year, and friendship every moment. Demophilus. This earth is but an enemy to those upon whom it bestoweth its pleasures. St. Awgustime. The earth is great, but the heart which rests upon it is still greater than the earth, and greater than the sun. Richter. Speak no harsh words of earth ; she is our moth- er, and few of us, her sons, who have not added a wrinkle to her brow. Aleacander Smith. God has given to man the wide earth and the open sky, yet it is narrow, too narrow, for the Soul to live and grow up in. A. Raleigh. The poets say that after chaos was brought into form, the earth was divided into four ages, the golden, the silver, the brazen, and the iron. Ovid. . The earth is a paradise to whoever seeks only to please God; but, on the contrary, it is an antici- pated hell to the man who rejects His invitations. S. Judd. O wonderfully beautiful is God's earth, and worthy of being delighted in Therefore shall I, till I am changed into ashes, rejoice in this beauti- ful earth ! Hölty. What wants of an earthly nature may not man supply from the earth ? And should his wants in- crease a thousandfold, he would still find a supply. What a magnificent, gracious gift in this to man Should he not think of the Giver, and thank Him? J. Bate. The earth faithfully rewards the farmer's toil, and returns with incredible interest all that is laid out upon it ; unimpaired by age, it constantly re- Sumes the charms of spring, and after having pro- duced the most plentiful harvest, a winter's rest entirely repairs its losses. Sturm. If we view the earth as the Lord's, and the ful- ness thereof—if we view every good gift and every perfect gift as coming down from above—we shall find “good in everything ;” we shall find more to Occupy our minds amid the green fields, despite their solitude and stillness, than in the crowded city. W. Poliſm. E.A.R.TH. It was a thousand years after the fall of Rome, that the greatest of geographical discoveries was founded on the astronomical discovery that the earth was a sphere. E. D. Mansfield. What is this earth but a theatre full of vain show 2 Heroes, to-day victorious, are to-morrow scarcely shadows; see chains, bonds, and fetters lie alongside crowns, thrones, and victories - Hofmannswaldaw. From the cultivation of the earth, a second par- adise of beauty and sweets springs up to our de- lighted view ; from exertion and industry our most valuable comforts arise ; and the endeavors we use in the attainment of any earthly good, stamp a double value on its possession, and give a keener relish in its enjoyment. Mrs. King. The earth on which we tread was evidently in- tended by the Creator to support man and other animals, along with their habitations, and furnish those vegetable productions which are necessary for their subsistence; and, accordingly, He has given it that exact degree of consistency which is requisite for these purposes. T. Dick. The aeronaut, who spurns the earth in his puffed balloon, is still indebted to it for his impetus and his wings ; and still, with his utmost efforts, he cannot escape the sure attraction of the parent sphere ; his floating island is a part of her main ; he revolves with her orbit, he issped by her wings; we who stand below and watch his motions, know that he is one of us; he may dally with the clouds awhile, but his home is not there ; earth he is, and to earth he must return. F. H. Hedge. The earth is not only the home of each man's personal affections, but the native country of his very soul, where first he found in what a life he lives, and to what heaven he tends; where he has met the touch of spirits higher than his own, and of Him that is highest of all ; it is the abode of every ennobling relation, the scene of every worthy toil, the altar of his vows, the observatory of his knowledge, the temple of his worship ; he is set here to live, not as an alien, passing in disguise through an enemy's camp, where no allegiance is due, and no worthy love is possible, but as a citizen fixed on an historic soul, pledged by honorable memories to nurse yet nobler hopes. Ainsworth. It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born ; it is this alone of all the elements around us that is never an enemy to man. The waters deluge man with rain, oppress him with hail, and drown him with inundations ; the air rushes in Storms, pre- pares the tempest, or lights up the volcano ; but the earth, gentle and indulgent, ever subservient to the wants of man, spreads his walks with flow- ers and his table with plenty, returns with interest every good committed to her care, and though she produces the poison, she still supplies the anti- dote ; though constantly teased more to furnish the luxuries of man than his necessities. yet, even to the last, she continues her kind indulgence, and when life is over, she piously covers his remains in her bosom. Pliny. 212 AN A Y’,S C O Z / A C O AV. EASE. EATING". All men desire ease. John Taylor. Eat not immoderately. Pythagoras. Never covet easy paths. J. H. Evans. In good eating there is happiness. Apicius. He lives at ease that lives freely. Barbour. Thou shouldst eat to live, not live to eat. Cicero. Often a life of ease becomes irksome. An-Nashi. The mind is unfitted for ease, while in the pur- suit of riches. E. P. Day. That which we call ease is only an indolency, or a freedom from pain. L’Estrange. Easy natures are like fair weather, welcome and acceptable to all men. Claremolon. We spend the whole of our lives in search of ease, but overlook it in the search. Cwvillier-Flewry. Ease of mind can only be obtained by a strict and constant discipline to virtue. A. Arbuthnot. When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. Addison. He that would live at ease should always put the best construction on business and conversation. J. Collier. Ease of mind is incomparably the most valuable of all possessions; not the ease of indolence, but of action. D. M. Moir. If thou desirest ease, in the first take care of the ease of the mind, for that will make other suffer- ings easy. T. Fuller. They who diligently cultivate the habits neces- sary to attain ease of mind, place themselves above its disturbance. F. Parkman, Jr. Those that are easy in their conditions, or their minds, refuse often to enter upon public charges and employment. Sir W. Temple. After we have practised good actions for awhile they become easy ; when they become easy, we begin to take pleasure in them. W. Bent. It is easy to be humble where humility is a con- descension ; easy to concede where we know our- selves wronged ; easy to forgive where vengeance is in our power. Mrs. Jameson. Easiness of disposition conciliates bad and good alike ; it draws affections to it, and relaxes enmi- ties; but that same easiness renders us too often negligent of Our graver duties. W. S. Landor. How many men's ease must be destroyed by su- perabundance, who would have been happy with less temptation, Or with the feeling that less was expected from them. S. Walker. To enjoy ease of mind there must be a feeling that we are fulfilling our duties to the best of our power, otherwise we only sear our conscience in- stead of satisfying it. Sowthgate. In order to enjoy ease of mind in our intercourse with the world, we should introduce into our habits of business, punctuality, decision, dispatch, and ex- actness ; in Our pleasures, harmlessness and moder- ation ; and in all our dealings, perfect integrity and love of truth. Burke. A man must eat though every tree were a gal- lows. C. M. Clarke. The wicked man liveth to eat, but the good man eateth to live. Socrates. He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce. Menophon. A rich man may eat when he will, but a poor man when he can. Diogenes. Eating and drinking not only maintain life, but are the cause of death. PHomer. Intemperance in eating is generally more moxious than excess in drinking. Celsus. The rule is never to eat or do anything from the mere impulse of pleasure. Gorgia Liontino. Eating to repletion is bad; but what we eat should be good of its kind. Dr. S. S. Fitch. It is seldom a man dies from eating too little, but often from eating too much. IIippocrates. It is not the eating, but the inordinate desire thereof, that ought to be blamed. St. Augustine. Through a surfeit in eating, wisdom is hindered, and the understanding is darkened. Alphonse. In eating it is a great fault for a man to be ig- norant of the measure of his own stomach. Seneca. Let us eat, drink, and play while we live, for we cannot do those things when we are dead. Sardamapalus. Moderate eating is the wise man's cognizance ; but surfeiting epicurism is a fool's chief glory. F. Ogier. Some eat as if they were to die to-morrow, but furnish their houses as if they were to live forever. Empedocles. It is not to be conceded that God made all the good things in this world exclusively for fools to eat. Fontenelle. The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor, but in your- Self. Horace. Health of body and vigor of mind is more de- pendant on the food we eat, than on any one thing. - L. Coleman. The pleasures of eating deal with us like Egyp- tian thieves, who strangle those whom they em- brace. Seneca. Animals feed, man eats; tell me what you eat, and how you eat, and I will tell you what you are ; the man of intellect alone knows how to eat. B. Savarin. Eat not for the pleasure thou mayest find there- in ; eat to increase thy strength ; eat to preserve the life which thou hast received from Heaven. Confucius. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 213 IEATING. As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases. Diogenes. The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this : the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it. Sir W. Raleigh. There is no proper and peculiar seed of diseases, but the corruptions of those things withinus which we eat, and the faults and errors we commit against them. Plutarch. In the vigor of youth, scarce anything we eat appears to disagree with us ; we gratify our palate, with whatever pleases it, feeling no ill conse- quences, and therefore fearing none. D. Bolton. When we eat we must remember we have two guests to entertain, the body and the Soul: what- soever the body hath departs away quickly, but what the soul receiveth abideth forever. Isidorus. The brutal practise of eating enormous quantities for a wager, or out of bravado, sinks men below the level of beasts in grossness and folly, not to mention the scandalous immorality of such actions. Dr. Falcomer. No one need think ill of eating, or of any of its associations, except the abuse ; to eat, in the true idea of the act, requires a far more scientific use of the mouth, than is the case with mere feeding. L. H. Grimdom. He that will not eat until he has a demonstration that it will nourish him, he that will not stir until he infallibly knows the business he goes about will succeed, will have little else to do but sit still and perish. J. Locke. You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is immortal; too late and unwisely—a caution that should have been used before—after he has eaten up his substance, he reckons the cost. Plowtºws. Eating and drinking is supplying the lamp of life with cotton and oil. The proverb is somewhat musty, but it cannot be too often repeated, that we should “eat to live, not live to eat,” for if we make the stomach a cemetery of food, the body will soon become the sepulchre of the Soul. Chatfield. Eat little to-day, and you will have a better appetite to-morrow, more for to-morrow, and more to-morrows to indulge it ; for he is a real sensualist who looks upon the world as stocked with eatables and drinkables, believing that he was made for them, and they for him, and regrets that life is too short to satisfy his desires to the fullest extent. - Acton. We must eat and drink more to supply the neces- sities of nature than to please the palate, for these necessities can be easily supplied, while the clamors of lust are unlimited and unceasing ; thus we find in ancient times so many monstrous decoctions for the palate, and would to God they were forgotten in our own days; but he who would preserve his physical power must absolutely restrain his lusts and appetites. AmSaldo Ceba. ECCENTRICITY. Abstain from all eccentricities. H. Stephens. Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity. Balzac. All eccentricities are defects of natural charac- ter. N. Macdonald. A character of an eccentric virtue, is the more exact image of human life, because he is not wholly exempted from its frailties. Dryden. A man should be himself at all times ; eccentrici- ties, and even inaccuracies, are more tolerable than mimicry, affectation, and false consequences. S. H. Coac. Eccentric men are esteemed fools by some and enigmas by others ; while their virtues are acknow- ledged by, and their irregularities are counted for, only by the more discerning few. Bovee. Eccentric men have peculiar habits: they do not seem to move in the same sphere with other mor- tals, but are actuated by different influences from those which affect the bulk of mankind. Graham. Eccentricity of behavior may sometimes attend genius ; when it does it is a misfortune ; but a man of true genius will be ashamed of it, or at least will never affect to be distinguished by it. - Sir W. Temple. Eccentricity is sometimes found connected with genius, but it does not coalesce with true wisdom. Hence men of the first order of intellect have never betrayed it; and hence also men of secondary tal- ents drop it as they grow wiser; they are content to awaken regard and obtain applause by the recti- tude and gracefulness of their going, rather than to make passengers stare and laugh, by leaping over the wall or tumbling along the road. W. Jay. IECHO. Echo hath a voice, and nothing more. Virgil. The Jews of old called an echo “the daughter of the voice.” Bathkeel. An echo is like a woman, always determined to have the last word. H. W. Shaw. Where we find echoes, we generally find empti- ness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart. J. F. Boyes. That tuneful nymph, the babbling echo, has not learned to conceal what is told her, nor yet is able to speak till another speaks. Ovid. The ancient philosophers were unacquainted with the true nature of the echo ; the poets supposed it to have been a nymph who pined into a sound for love of Narcissus; but the modern state of philoso- phy has established it upon unerring principles. A. Dyce. The echo is the shadow of a sound, a voice with- out a mouth, and words without a tongue. Echo, though represented as a female, never speaks till she is spoken to, and at every repetition of what she has heard, continues to make it less, an exam- ple recommended to the special imitation of chat- ter-boxes and Scandal-mongers. Chatfield. 214 AX A Y 'S CO / / A C O AV. ECONOMY. ECONOMY. Economy is wealth. Franklin. Sound economy is a sound understanding brought º tº º * into action ; it is a calculation realized ; it is the Economy is of itself a great revenue. Cºero. doctrine of proportion reduced to practice ; it is Economy is commendable, even in a pope. Innocent VI. Is it economy to burn out a candle to find a pin 3 J. Awdelay. Nothing is worse than waste, except false econo- my. Jared Ingersoll. Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation. Mme. Swetchine. Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense. Zimmerman. Economy is simply the art of getting the worth of our money. H. W. Shaw. Without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor. Dr. Johnsom. The art of economy is best mastered by those who apply to it early in life. Hulsemann. A habit of economy is the prolific parent of a numerous offspring of virtues. C. Butler. Economy is no disgrace ; it is better living on a little than outliving a great deal. Berz. I have no other notion of economy, than that it is the parent of liberty and ease. Swift. When we have reached the end of our property it is then too late to become economical. Semeca. The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last. Shemstome. If you see a youth economical, he will in man- hood be avaricious and selfish, and in old age a miser. J. Bartlett. Without economy, men of the highest intellect have lost all respect, and fell into the lowest depths of disgrace. H. Martyn. Economy before competence is meanness after it ; therefore economy is for the poor ; the rich may dispense with it. Bovee. Economy in our affairs has the same effect upon our fortunes, which good-breeding has upon our conversation. There is a pretending behavior in both cases, which instead of making men esteemed, renders them both miserable and contemptible. Steele. Men talk in raptures of youth and beauty, wit and sprightliness ; but after seven years of union, not one of them is to be compared to good economy in family management, which is seen at every meal, and felt every hour in the husband's purse. J. Witherspoon. It is no small commendation to economize a lit- tle well ; he is a good wagoner who can turn in a little room. To live well in abundance, is the praise of the estate, not of the person ; I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more. Joseph Hall. foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them ; it is expecting contingencies, and being prepared for them. Hannah More. In expenses I would be neither economical nor prodigal ; yet, if my means allow it not, rather thought a little too sparing than a little profuse ; economy inclines to judgment, but lavish expenses to levity and inconsiderateness ; with the wise it is no disgrace to make a man’s ability his compass of sail and line to walk by ; and to exceed it, for them that are not wise, is to be sure to exceed them as well in folly as expense. Feltham. Economy is one of the chief duties of a state, as well as of an individual ; it is not only a great vir- tue in itself, but it is the parent of many others; it preserves men and nations from the commission of crime and the endurance of misery ; the man that lives within his income, can be just, humane, charitable, and independent ; he who lives beyond it, becomes, almost necessarily, rapacious, mean, faithless, and contemptible ; the economist is easy and comfortable ; the prodigal, harassed with debts, and unable to obtain the necessary means of life : so it is with nations. National character, as well as national happiness, has, from the begin- ning of the world to the present day, been sacrificed on the altar of profusion. John Taylor. Economy is not parsimony ; it is separable in theory from it ; and in fact it may or it may not be a part of economy according to circumstances. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy, if parsimony were consid- ered as one of the kinds of that virtue; there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection. Parsimony requires no provi- dence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comprehension, no judgment ; mere instinct, and that not instinct of the noblest kind, may produce this false economy in perfection. The other econ- omy has larger views; it demands a discriminat- ing judgment and a firm, sagacious mind. Burke. ECSTASY. Ecstacy is the acme of delight. James Ellis. A well-disposed mind does not affect by rapture and ecstasy. R. Sowth. Be not cast down by to-day's gloom ; it may be to-morrow's ecstasy. Mrs. Jackson-Winchester. By ecstasy the thoughts are absorbed, and the mind for a time lost. Dr. Johnsom. Whether what we call ecstasy be not dreaming with our eyes open, I leave to be examined. Locke. We often feel ecstatic in the attainment of some noble object ; it is the extreme delight experienced by excess of love. Annie E. Lancaster. Ecstasy and rapture are always pleasurable, or arise from pleasurable causes ; an ecstasy benumbs the faculties; it will take away the power of speech and often of thought ; it is commonly oc- casioned by sudden and unexpected events. Crabb. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 215 EDITOR. Editors direct the current of thought. Acton. Every editor of a newspaper pays tribute to the devil. La Fontaine. The editor must understand Something of every- thing. Talmage. The editor lays every day a mass of facts before all people capable of thought. Dickens. A statesman thinks for a nation; an editor thinks for statesmen and all nations. E. P. Day. The community should require of its editors that they be firm, independent men. P. Godwin. I do not believe in the absurd notion that Our present editors had journals ready made for them. J. C. Goldsmith. The first qualification of an editor is knowledge, the next is the power of applying it to current eventS. Horace White. There is no more esprit dw corps among clergy- men, lawyers, physicians, or merchants, than among editors. F. Hudson. An editor should always trust wholly to his in- ner consciousness in forming a judgment as to the course of events. C. A. Dama. How well our best editors and correspondents write, one can easily see by writing himself on One of their themes. F. B. Samborn. The want of union, of individual respect, and courtesy among editors of established character, injures the press. J. G. Bennett. The editor's work is allied to the statesman's, the politician's, and takes rank as it takes tribute of letters, science, and law. M. Marble. The newspaper editor has to view human nature from a very different standpoint to that of the scientist or the moralist. D. G. Croly. An editor is nothing if not representative ; he must be the type of a class, and will be great or small according to his class. H. Watterson. When an editor takes up the pen he abdicates his seat as critic, and becomes a special pleader on the subject of which he writes. Mary Booth. The editor of the editor or weekly journal is in the nature of an encyclopaedist ; he passes over the whole realm of thought, of human Sentiment, of human feeling. H. W. Beecher. An intuitive perception of the popular taste, with a quick, impartial, discriminating judgment, are some of the principal materials for the making of a successful editor. W. Hyde. The editor of every paper is responsible to the public for the character of the paper; and his re- putation for integrity is important to the public and to the journal he edits. H. J. Raymond. The editor should be on his guard against pub- lishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals ; but whether he will follow this caution in regard to taste will of course depend upon his own intellectual culture. W. C. Bryant. other employments for him ; EDITOR. The press is to-day the most potent agency for good or evil; and editors, far more than states- men, are guides of public opinion. C. F. Wingate. Where no one man is absorbing and trading upon the reputation of a journal, it will be easier to pro- cure as editors, assistants, and reporters, men of the best ability and culture. S. Bowles. An editor of a daily paper should express the principles of the paper he represents, and not his own opinions and prejudices ; for a newspaper should echo the voice of the people, and ignore the personal piques of its editor. James Ellis. If the editor must discriminate, upon what Com- pulsion must he 3 How far may he plainly expose the vices that lie hidden like man-traps and Spring- guns all around the path of the great journey 3 What is the press but a detective's lantern ? How can it be more advantageously used than by being turned on skulking villany. G. W. Curtis. We dislike to see editors eternally supplicating a reluctant public to come to their rescue and keep their noses above water ; all such had better take their hats in their hands, and station themselves, like other beggars, at the corners of the streets: if an editor fails to please the public, are there not G. D. Prentice. If Junius had been the editor of a newspaper, we presume he would have found it in his temper to accept personal quarrels rather than permit public infamies, for it is at times difficult to strike a blow that harms a villain without hurting some- body, and we are not always able to be impersonal, or to enjoy the advantage he had of being anony- II].OUIS, M. Halsted. On all important matters, it is the duty of the editor to say what is true—be it much or little— to say nothing what is not felt to be true ; nothing in passion, nothing from prejudice, nothing for effect ; to search and sift till the nearest possible approach to the truthis reached; to search and sift everything till the heart of truth or error in it, the soul of good or evil in it is found. T. Tilton. The editor of a newspaper is usually selected by this feeble-minded generation to bear the burden of their incapacity. There is not a day, probably, when he has not the private affairs of some help- less innocent placed in his hands, with request for aid ; what he may do individually concerns himself alone ; editorially he is bound to urge upon these helpless aspirants the truth of the old saw, that he is best served who serves himself. H. Greeley. We shall see the time when the strictly profes- sional education of journalists will be far better than it is now. We shall see, too, a better appre- ciation of journalistic honor ; and a professional esprit dw corps that will discourage the habit of perpetual personal attack upon individual editors, rather than upon newspapers they conduct and the principles they advocate. Why should it not be a universally accepted rule that public discussion has nothing to do with the editor, but only with the paper? Whitelaw Reid. 216 JD A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. ſ h EDUCATION. Education forms the man. J. Gay, Education is the apprentice of life. Willmott. Education is the chief defense of nations. Burke. Education should always be rendered pleasing. Speusippus. Education ought to depend on the inclination of the child. Goethe. The education of the human mind commences in the cradle. T. Cogan. Common education instils into young people a second self-love. Rochefoucauld. Education is like a crown of gold, uniting honor with real worth. Demophilus. Nature supplies the raw material, education is the manufacturer. Julius Fröbell, * Education is our only political safety ; outside of this ark all is deluge. . H. Mamm. The greatest evil of modern education is the in- jury it inflicts on health. O. S. Fowler. The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. W. Phillips. Our common education is not intended to render us good and wise, but learned. T. Fuller. Practical education implies the art of making active and useful what we learn. J. W. Barker. Begin early the course of education, while the mind is pliant and age is flexible, Virgil. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think. J. Beattie. No woman is educated who is not equal to the successful management of a family. G. W. Burmap. The best and most important part of a man's tº education is that which he gives himself. E. Gibbon. We speak of educating our children; do we know that our children also educate us? Mrs. Sigowrney. Eć ion begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him. J. Locke. v. He is to be educated because he is a man, and ^ not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins. W. E. Channing. In this country every one gets a mouthful of education, but Scarcely any one gets a full meal. T. Parker. In the education of children love is first to be in- stilled, and out of love obedience is to be educed. S. T. Coleridge. Effeminate education, which we call indulgence, destroys all the strength both of mind and body. Quintilian. The education of children is a thing which is intimately connected with the instruction of their mothers, and is really a matter of the most abso- lute importance. Mutsuhito. EDUCATION. The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures. Sydney Smith A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year, than by a private education in five. e Goldsmith. h -*-*. ſ. To develop in each individual all the perfection of which he is susceptible, is the object of educa- tion. . E. Kamt. The art of educating requires skill in fostering a love of mental activity and a desire of know- ledge. J. Hambleton. The education of the common people is a most effectual means of securing our persons and Our property. T. B. Macaulay. All nations have agreed on the necessity of a strict education, which consisted in the observance of moral duties. Swift. As a father should provide for the religious edu- cation of his children, so should a government for the instruction of its subjects. Sir G. Simclair. As farmers believe it most advantageous to SOW in mist, so the first seeds of education should fall in the first and thickest mist of life. Richter. Where education has been entirely neglected, or improperly managed, we see the worst passions ruling with uncontrolled and incessant sway. S. Parr. It is a great art in the education of youth to find out peculiar aptitudes, or, where none exist, to create inclinations which may serve as Substitutes. D. M. Moir. The education of the child is principally derived from its own observation of the actions, the words, the voice, the looks, of those with whom it lives. Bishop Jebb. The general desire for education, and the general diffusion of it, is working, and partly has worked, a great change in the habits of the mass of the peo- ple. Bishop Ryder. I consider that it is on instruction and education, that the future security and direction of the des- tiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rest.S. L. Kossuth. Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting Sergeant. - E. Everett. It is not only by bodily exercises, by educational institutions, or by lessons in music, that our youth are trained, but much more effectually by public examples. AEschylus. One of two things must be done in this country. Parents must spend money to educate their chil- dren, or they must pay taxes to build penitentia- ries to punish crime. - F. Holden. <-- In some who have run up to men without educa- tion, we may observe many great qualities dark- ened and eclipsed; their minds are crusted over, like a diamond in the rock. H. Felton. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 217 EDUCATION. All who have mediated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of em- pires depends on the education of youth. Aristotle. It depends on education—that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands—to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery. Jane Porter. How can man be intelligent, happy, or useful, without the culture and discipline of education ? It is this that unlocks the prison-house of his mind, and releases the captive. G. Mogridge. A very important principle in education is, never to confine children long to one occupation or place ; it is totally against their nature, as indicated in all their voluntary exercises. J. Foster. The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other ; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness. Fémélon. For parents to hope everything from the good education they bestow on their children is an excess Of confidence, and it is an equally great mistake to expect nothing, and to neglect it. Bruyère. Bducation commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children, tends toward the formation of character ; let parents bear this ever in mind. H. Ballow. Education may be compared to the grafting of a tree. Every gardener knows that the younger the wilding-stock is that is to be grafted, the easier and the more effectual the operation. R. Whately. The force of education is so great, that we may mould the minds and manners of the young into what shape we please, and give them the impres- sion of such habits as shall ever after remain. F. Atterbury. Education is incompatible with self-indulgence, and the impulse of vanity is too often mistaken for the impulse of nature ; when Miss is a wit, I am . apt to suspect that her mother is not over-wise. - R. Cwmberland. It is education that improves the powers im- planted in us by nature, and sound culture that is the armor of the breast; when moral training fails, the noblest endowments of nature are blemished and lost. PHorace. I call education, not that which smothers a wo– man with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of char- acter ; that which tends to form a friend, a com- panion, and a wife. Hannah More. Education does not commence with the alpha- bet ; it begins with a mother's look, with a father's nod of approbation, or a sign of reproof ; with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance. G. A. Sala. The result of any system of education depends entirely upon the power that a man possesses of applying the influences brought to bear upon him to the ends of self-culture, or whether he allows himself to be moulded by them. Humboldt. EDTUCATION. The world is a seminary ; man is Our class-book ; and the chief business of life is education. We are here to learn and to teach ; some of us for both of these purposes, all at least for the former. Greeley. Education is a companion which no misfortunes can depress, no clime destroy, no enemy alienate, no despotism enslave, at home a friend, abroad an introduction, in solitude a solace, and in society an Ornament. C. Phillips. Every man must educate himself ; his books and teacher are but helps; the work is his. A man is not educated until he has the ability to summon, in an emergency, his mental powers in vigorous exercise to effect its proposed object. D. Webster. A parent who sends his son into the world un- educated, and without skill in any art or science, does as great injury to mankind as to his own family ; he defrauds the community of a useful citizen, and bequeaths to us a nuisance. Alcott. If you would have the sun continue to shed its rays upon the face of freemen, then educate all the children in the land. This alone startles the ty- rant in his dreams of power, and rouses the slum- bering energies of an oppressed people. Jefferson. The general mistake among us in the education of our children is, that in our daughters we take care of their persons and neglect their minds ; in our sons we are all so intent upon adorning their minds, that we wholly neglect their bodies. T. Hughes. Education is either from nature, from man, or from things; the developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature ; all that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education. Rowsseaw. Begin the education of the heart, not with the noble propensities, but with the cutting away of those that are evil. When once the noxious herbs are withered and rooted out, then the more noble plants, strong in themselves, will shoot upward. Richter. Men derive no greater advantage from a liberal education than that it tends to soften and polish their nature, by improving their reasoning facul- ties and training their habits, thus producing an evenness of temper and banishing all extremes. Plutarch. What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative . value. And education often wastes its efforts in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnet- ism, which is sure to select what belongs to it. R. W. Emerson. The extreme profligacy, improvidence, and mis- ery which are so prevalent among the laboring classes in many countries, are chiefly to be ascribed to the want of education. In proof of this, we need only cast our eyes on the condition of the Irish compared with that of the peasantry of Scot- land. Joseph Hall. 218 AD A Y’.S CO / / A C O AV. FEDUCATION. Real education is the formation and training of the mind; to train the mind requires hard, patient, and independent thinking and work; the mere crude teaching a youth a bundle of facts, which he acquires with no labor, and, only retaining, neither digests nor assimilates, is no training at all. Cayley. The one sole design of education when properly understood is not to make a gentleman, or a law- yer, or a mechanic, or a farmer, but to draw out to their utmost limits all the susceptibilities of our threefold nature ; and the product of this true dis- cipline is not a scholar, nor a philosopher, nor an artist, but a fully-developed man. B. F. Tefft. I consider a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its in- herent beauties until the skill of the polisher fetches out the colors, makes the surface shine, and dis- covers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfec- tion, which without such helps are never able to make their appearance. Addison. EFFECT. Effect follows cause. J. Evans. Effect without profit is of no value. J. Aylmer. Great effects are sometimes produced by trivial CallSèS. Emile Achard. Effects are the legitimate children of their CallSèS. E. Littleton. Effect is the substance produced, or simple idea introduced into any subject, by the exerting of power. Locke. From the natural working cause, the effect must needs follow, as thus: If the sun shine, the day must needs be, which is the effect or workmanship of the sun. Sir T. Wilsom. EFFEMINACY. Effeminacy foreruns ruin. Effeminacy is wearing moral petticoats. Sanders. Through effeminacy was Carthage subdued and Rome brought to ruin. St. Awgustine. An effeminate man is one who refuses the boon of manhood offered him by nature. Diogenes. The effeminate man goes through life on his tip- toes, and dies like cologne water spilled on the ground. H. W. Show. Supineness and effeminacy have ruined more constitutions than were ever destroyed by exces- rive labors. Dr. Rush. A masculine woman is much more endurable than an effeminate man ; for, though both are abandoning their proper sphere, the former seeks to rise above, the latter to sink beneath it. There is an ambition about the one, which, though it may be offensive, does not move our scorn ; whereas there is a pitiful meanness in the other, which al- ways renders it contemptible. Chatfield. F. Qwarles. EFFICIENCY, Efficiency is the only power. R. Ainsworth. The efficiency of great men constitutes their greatness. O. S. Fowler. Experience with instruction is the best way to efficiency. N. Lynge. Efficiency in worldly wisdom does not give an efficiency in virtue. Mrs. M. M. Sherwood. There is a calmness in efficiency, which is only attained by the confidence we have in our own knowledge. Ella W. Thompson. Men more often become efficient in wickedness than in goodness; efficiency in good works is of the soul, and can only be obtained by a mastery of the wickedness of the body. W. D. Arnold. EFFORT. Effort is a species of talent. J. Aldrich. A good effort is praiseworthy. P. Headley. Great efforts require sometimes to be eased with honest pastimes. Dr. W. Adams. The most enviable power on earth is the power for making efforts. E. P. Day. We must adapt our efforts to the express object which we seek to attain. Mary Willard. If men praise your efforts, suspect their judg- ment ; if they censure them, your own. Colton. There never was a time when signal efforts and sacrifices for human welfare were more urgently demanded than now. G. W. Juliaſm. It is marvellous what can be accomplished by continued efforts, and yet how many lack the cour- age and firmness to grapple with them. James Ellis. Effort is never entirely lost, nor any strenuous and honest endeavor to improve the condition of man is ultimately made in vain. Rev. R. Fellowes. Efforts, to be permanently useful, must be uni- formly joyous—a spirit all sunshine, graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright. Carlyle. It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success. Princess de Salm-Salm. EFFRONTER.Y. Effrontery is a mark of ill-breeding. N. Webster. Effrontery is the characteristic of a confirmed villain. Park Benjamin. He that by bold effrontery boasteth to know everything, is commonly the most ignorant. Plato. A bold man's effrontery in company with women must be owing to his low opinion of them, and his high one of himself. Addison. Effrontery makes a man despised ; it is of too mean and vulgar a stamp to meet with general sanction ; it is odious to all but those by whom it is practiced, as it seems to run counter to every principle and feeling of common honesty. Crabb. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 219 IEGOTISM. ELECT. - We are all egotists. O. W. Holmes. God will save the elect. T. Shepard. Egotism is the tongue of vanity. Chamfort. All blessings are for the elect. J. Arrowsmith. Nothing is so weak as an egotist. Pfleiderer. The elect are God's own children. MacCarthy. An egotist is selfishness personified. E. M. Sewell. Christ died for the elect, all of whom shall be *- saved. M. Madam. It is ext I to be egotistical. Colton. is extremely easy to be eg To the elect God can make sour sweet and misery Let the degree of egotism be the measure of con- felicity. J. Philpot. fidence. Lavater. Egotism is the most usual and favorite figure of most people's rhetoric. Chesterfield. Here is the egotist's code ; everything for him- self, nothing for others. S. Dubay. Christian piety annihilates egotism of the heart ; worldly politeness veils and represses it. Pascal. The egotist has this adyantage over every other species of devotee—his idol is ever present. Gore. I shall never apologize to you for egotism ; I think very few men writing to their friends have enough of it. Sydney Smith. We never could very clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing. T. B. Macawlay. An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure ; but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversa- tion. - Bruyère. You may rely upon it, reader, that all the world, except you and I, are egotists; so that, bye the bye, we ourselves must have had a very narrow escape. A. Clarke. Egotists, in conversation, are generally the vain or shallow part of mankind ; people are naturally full of themselves when they have nothing else in them. Steele. Egotism is the coquetry of a modern author ; whose epistles, dedicatory prefaces, and addresses to the reader are so many affected graces, designed to draw the attention from the subject toward himself. Shaftesbwry. We are all so egotistical that we are never weary of those private interviews with a lover during the course of whole years, and for the same reason the devout like to spend much time with their confes- sor; it is the pleasure of talking of themselves, even though it be to talk ill. Mme. de Sévigné. The etymology of an egotist may be rendered thus: one of those gluttonous parts of speech, that gulp down every substantive in the social gram- mar into its personal pronoun, condensing all the tenses, moods, and voices of other people's verbs, into a first person singular of its own. J. B. Owen. The pest of society is egotists ; there are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists; it is a disease that like influenza falls on all consti- tutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly on One spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady ? Emerson. Prove your conversion, and you need not doubt your election. J. Alleine. Men believe because they are elected, not elected because they believe. Sladen. God’s love makes a net for elect souls, which will invariably catch them, and surely haul them to land. T. Bostom. The doctrine of election may have done harm to many, but only because they have fancied them- Selves elected to the end, and have forgotten that those whom Scripture calls elected are elected to the means. Rev. H. Melvill. Elect sons and daughters of God, remember what the life of the elect Son of God was ; and when by his cross and passion you have yourself been saved from the grinding tyranny of sin, strive to realize your position Rev. T. Teign mowth. Shore. ELECTION. Election decides the man, not the merit. Slade. Election, and not purchase, secures the best com- mander. - Galba. Corruption in elections is the greatest enemy of freedom. J. Adams. In all free governments, contentions in elections will take place. Washington. In the election of men to office, merit should al- ways precede influence. Ezra Abbot. Elections should be made rightly and freely, without any interruption. Justinian. There is no occasion which so much manifests human nature as a general election. A. K. Bailey. Interference by officers at elections should be deemed sufficient cause for removal. T. Jefferson. If men maintain themselves in power against an adverse decision at the elections, such example will be imitated. S. J. Tilden. One good rule in choosing representatives is, to elect such as show they understand the manage- ment of their own affairs. T. Dwight. The day of election is madmen's holiday ; it is the golden day of liberty, which every voter on that day takes to market, and is his own sales- IIla, Il. Steevens. The common plea of availability should not be set up, at the next election, as an apology for put- ting aside the best man for one more accidentally usable, because he is more politically influential. T. Tilton. 220 JD A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. ELECTRICITY. Electricity is life ; it is death. Dr. S. Chitter. A. Maverick. Cooke. Electricity pervades all matter. Electricity annihilates time and space. It has been established that electricity and light- ning are the same. Dr. Boyntom. Electricity and steam have brought the ends of the earth together, and the antipodes speak face to face and exchange products. A. L. Rawsom. If electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, there is no reason why a system of signs cannot be devised by which means intelli- gence might be transmitted between two distant points. S. F. B. Morse. The mighty power of electricity, sleeping in all forms of matter—in the earth, the air and the water—permeating every part of the universe, carrying creation in its arms, is yet invisible, and too subtile to be analyzed. C. F. Briggs. ELEG-ANCE. Elegance inspires admiration. Mrs. Eastman. When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt. W. S. Landor. A man should be great in great things, and ele- gant in little things. Dr. Johnson. An elegant woman may be ignorant, but she never forgets her elegance. O. W. Holmes. Elegance is more than a freedom from awkward- ness or restraint ; it implies a precision, a polish, a sparkling—spirited, yet delicate. Hazlitt. Whoever would write elegantly, must have re- gard to the different turn and juncture of every period ; there must also be proper distances and pauses. Pope. Only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms, can be found that harmonious variety of line and motion which is the essence and charm of grace. J. J. Winckelmann. Elegance must always imply something that is made or invented by man. Elegance is the charac- teristic of art, and grace of nature ; animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. Whately. ELOCUTION. Elocution makes the orator. P. F. W. Oertel. Elocution is reading and speaking with science and effect. Prof. C. P. Bromson. We claim for elocution a positive quality of goodness of its own. D. Moore. Elocution is the vocal delivery of extemporane- ous or written composition. H. L. D. Potter. Elocution is nothing else but the art of speaking and talking : our first studies and training of it commences in childhood. J. H. McIlvaine. A knowledge of elocution not only enables us to interpret thought and emotion to others, but great- ly assists us in understanding them ourselves. F. T. Graham. ELOQUENCE. Who can resist true eloquence 2 Miss Francis. Eloquence is the image of beauty. S. N. Sweet. Eloquence is vehement simplicity. Bwrleigh. Eloquence is not without its poison. P. Syrus. There is eloquence in the eyes of a lover. E. P. Roe. Eloquence is indeed the talent of very few. Pliny. Knowledge is the foundation of eloquence. B. Disraeli. Eloquence is in the assembly, but is not in the speaker. W. Pitt. Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to its parts. Bruyère. False eloquence passeth only where truth is not understood. H. Felton. False eloquence is exaggeration ; true eloquence is emphasis. W. R. Alger. It is but poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk. Sir J. Reynolds, Men love eloquence ; they court its presence; they solicit its power. W. W. Nynde. True eloquence consists in saying all that is pro- per, and nothing more. Rochefoucauld. As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence. Cicero. Eloquence is the joint product of the mental ac- tion of the speaker and audience. J. H. McIlvaine. One of the great and more prominent preroga- tives of any preacher is eloquence. E. P. Hood. Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress-tree, which is great and tall, but beareth no fruit. Aal. When the lips of perfect eloquence are opened, we behold the goodly similitudes and images of the Soul. W. H. G. Kingston. The tongue, by eloquence, serveth to perfect and instruct others, and likewise to hurt and corrupt them. H. Kingsley. It is of eloquence as of a flame ; it requires mat- ter to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. Tacitus. There should be in eloquence that which is pleas- ing and that which is real; but that which is pleas- ing should itself be real. Pascal. Eloquence directed with a religious understand- ing is a song, tuned with all the concords of the true harmony of virtue. R rumºmacher. The eloquence that is effectual and irresistible, must stir the inert mass of prejudice, and pierce the shadows of ignorance. Miss H. Keddie. A just and reasonable modesty does not only re- commend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. Addison. Eloquence is made by air, beaten and framed with articulate and distinct sound ; yet the reason thereof is hard to be comprehended by human SeH1Sé. Quintilian. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 221 ELOQUENCE. Eloquence consists in the exuberance of beauti- ful images, in simple and sublime conception, in passionate but plain words. Chatfield. In true eloquence I wish that the things be sur- mounted, and that the discourse fill the imagination of him who hears, that he has no remembrance of words. Montaigne. Eloquence is an art which teacheth the laudable manner of well-speaking ; it is the ornament of the brain, and the gilt sometimes to an evil-reputed matter. T. Godwin. No man ever did or ever will become truly elo- quent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an ardent admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. F. Ames. Brilliant thoughts are, I consider, as it were the eyes of eloquence ; but I would not that the body were all eyes, lest the other members should lose their functions. Vawvenargues. Eloquence is relative ; one can no more pro- nounce on the eloquence of any composition than on the wholesomeness of a medicine without know- ing for whom it is intended. R. Whately. Great is the power of eloquence but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and re- turned to it again with tears. Sterne, In oratory, affectation must be avoided ; it being better for a man, by a native and clear eloquence, to express himself by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn. G. Herbert. Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools ; the passions are power- ful pleaders, and their very silence, like that of Garrick, goes directly to the soul. Colton. A cold-blooded man might, for anything I know, compose in his closet an eloquent book; but in public discourse, arising out of Sudden occasions, he could by no possibility be eloquent. Lord Erskine. Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves lit- tle room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understand- ing. Happily, this pitch it Seldom attains. Hume. Eloquence, that leads mankind by the ears, gives a nobler superiority than power that every dunce may use, or fraud that every knave may employ, to lead them by the nose ; but eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year, Bolingbroke. The loftier reaches of thought are seldom requi- site, and it is only in cases of peculiar difficulty and distress that the advocate finds an opening for effec- tive eloquence ; to take from beneath the cloak of duplicity and guile the garbled truth which mis- representation may have concealed, is his province, and numerous are the examples in which ability of the first order has been thus evinced. Warter. ELOQUENCE. True eloquence does not consist in speech ; labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain ; words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it ; it must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. - D. Webster. True eloquence is good sense, delivered in a na- tural and unaffected way, without the artificial ornament of tropes and figures. Our common elo- quence is usually a cheat upon the understanding ; it deceives us with appearances, instead of things, and makes us think we see reason whilst it is only tickling our sense. Sir R. Baker. In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself ; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the Occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said ; hence the term “abandonment,” to describe the Self-surrender of the Orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd. F. W. Emerson. The end of eloquence is to enchant the sense, to govern the passions, to delight the understanding, and to command the will ; or, in a word, to exer- cise upon mankind a tyrannic power without com- mitting violence ; however, eloquence is not limited to great subjects : it may be displayed in simple narration, or a historic sketch, or even in light conversation ; but these last require nice discrimi- nation in the use of language formed on simplicity. T. Ain'd. Give me eloquence, in the pulpit, in the forum, or on paper, and I will mould mind, fashion motive, and develop soul; I will wean erring humanity from its fooleries and its errors ; I will make sinful, miserable man, virtuous and happy : I will reform and adorn my country. till it becomes the model nation of the world ; I will even make earth an- other Eden ; only give me eloquence, I care not what you take ; take this boon, I care little for what is left. O. S. Fowler. Eloquence is a high talent and of great import- ance in Society ; it requires both natural genius and much improvement from art ; it requires, in its lowest state, soundness of understanding, and considerable acquaintance with human nature ; and, in its higher degrees, it requires, moreover, strong sensibility of mind, a warm and lively im- agination, joined with correctness of judgment, and an extensive command of the power of lan- guage ; to which must also be added the graces of pronunciation and delivery. H. Blair. How noble and divine is eloquence the mistress of all things, which enables us to learn those things of which we are ignorant, and to teach others those things which we know ; by this we exhort ; by this we persuade ; by this we console the afflicted ; by this we dissipate the fears of the timid ; by this we restrain the eager; by this we put an end to passions and desires; it is this that has bound man- kind by the community of privileges, of laws, and civil society ; this it is which has removed us far from the ills of the savage and barbarous life. Cicero. 222 D A y's co Z L A co w. EMBARRASSMENT, Our ideas are sometimes embarrassed. Webster. To grieve too much for worldly embarrassments is a sign of foolishness. N. Lymge. Commendation from the bad is often a cause of embarrassment to the good. E. P. Day. Embarrassment is hesitating without motive, and stumbling without cause. At-Kirriya. Embarrassments are the greatest troubles that can arise to disturb the peace of a man's mind, and impede his action in practical life. G. H. Lewes. The embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to authors, that self is a subject which they ought very rarely to descant upon. Colton. That ever embarrasses which interrupts the even course or progress of one's actions; pecuniary dif- ficulties embarrass, or contending feelings produce embarrassment ; but steadiness of mind prevents embarrassment in the outward behavior, and firm- ness of character is requisite in the midst of per- plexities. G. Crabb. EMIGRATION. Encourage emigration. Patrick Henry. Emigration should be voluntary. A. Jackson. The history of our race is a history of emigra- tion. T. Darcy Magee. Emigration and immigration obey political in- stincts. W. H. Seward. Emigration carries off the most enterprising part of a people. Thomas Aleaconder. TJnder some conditions emigration is the safety- valve of a people. B. Disraeli. Emigrants, in leaving their native land, should not leave their hearts behind them. G. Ebers. Here we were born ; here our fathers are buried. Shall we say to the bones of our fathers, Arise, let us emigrate to a strange land 1 Iroquois Chief. Why should there not be emigration ? Our lit- tle isle is growing too narrow for us; but the world is wide enough yet for another six thousand years. T. Carlyle. My opinion with respect to emigration is, that, except of useful mechanics and some particular descriptions of men or professions, there is no need of encouragement. Washington. A country which needs foreign immigration, must be destitute of the number of inhabitants ne- cessary for its defense; or in want of men of learn- ing ; or in want of manufacturers. T. Dwight. Emigration is, in modern times, chiefly regarded in the light of a mode of relieving a country or district laboring under excess of population ; the prejudices which formerly existed against it, on account of the loss of inhabitants thus sustained by a country, have long been removed, both by se. vere necessity, and by the progress of economical knowledge. J. R. McCulloch. EMINIENCE. To be eminent is not to be happy. Harriet Lee. A good life is the readiest way to honor and emi- IlêIlC6. Erasmus. Eminent stations make great men more great, and little ones less. Bruyère. Eminence alone should be the object of those en- gaged in the study and practice of law. Justinian. Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside. Simms. Where men cannot arrive to any eminency of estate, yet religion makes a compensation by teaching content. Tillotson. How often is the vain man cast down from his fancied eminence, to find himself the scorn and hate of the good and virtuous. J. W. Barker, There is nothing in history which is so improv- ing to the reader as those accounts which we meet with of the deaths of eminent persons, and of their behavior in that dreadful season. Addison. The road to eminence and power from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all rare things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation ; if it be open through vir- tue, let it be remembered too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle. Burke. EMOTION. Emotion is the soul of oratory. C. P. Bromson. Emotion is spiritual earnestness. G. F. Pardom. Emotion to the satiated and quiescent, is a cold, dead window for the outward world. C. Gibbon. To a man under the influence of emotion, nature is ever a great mirror full of emotions. Elton. Loving emotions, like plants, shoot up most rap- idly in the tempestuous atmosphere of life. Richter. The emotions of the human heart cannot be de- scribed in words; the inner secrets of the heart are too sacred in their emotions to be portrayed to the outside world. Mrs. A. S. Macfarland. He who embodies his own emotions in the ver- biage of his tongue and pen, addresses an eternal audience ; for human nature is identical, and its highest vernacular never changes. Magoon. Emotions are raised in us, not only by the quali- ties and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold a man in distress, without partak- ing of his pain; nor in joy, without partaking of his pleasure, Rames. There are so many tender and holy emotions fly- ing about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act ; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was in- vented, which receives into its limbs all these in- corporeal spirits, and the perfume of all these flow- €I’S. Richter. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 223 EMPEROR. EMPLOYMENT. God preserve the emperor. Hayden. Employ thyself in something. Cleobulws. The emperor is free from laws. Justinian. Enter into Some employment. B. F. Butler. An emperor should not spend his time catching To be employed is to be happy. T. Gray. flies. Tyranoews. *-m-m-º-º: An emperor's word must neither change nor quibble. Bürger. It is the business of an emperor to be constantly on the march. Pertimaac. An emperor should adapt himself to the times, and to his people. Theodosius II. An emperor should look to the safety of the peo- ple rather than himself. Adrian. An emperor should subdue nations, raise armies, and be reverenced as the king of kings. Sesostris. It becomes an emperor to govern his people in accordance with the dictates of justice and reli- gion. Darius of Persia. It is incumbent upon an emperor to die in the discharge of those duties, which are for the true glory of the empire. Emperor Vespasian. Emperors rely more upon the supremacy of their authority through awe inspired by the elevated position they occupy, than upon the influence of popular institutions. A. L. Karsch. BMIPIR.E. An empire is easier got than kept. Phocas. The empire belongs to the highest bidder. Didiws. When the contest is for empire, there is no mid- dle course. Tacitus. No empire is safe unless it is strong in the good- will of the people. Nepos. Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendor. Dr. Johnson. An empire can only be maintained by discipline, by patience, by determination, and by a reverence for public law and respect for national rights. B. Disraeli. When an empire after having gone through many and great dangers, reaches the highest pinnacle of power, ànd reigns with undisputed sway, it can- not be otherwise than that luxury and expensive habits should be developed, and that men should indulge in ambitious projects, and be desirous to acquire the high dignities of state. Polybius. Can all the illusions of ambition realized, can all the wealth of a universal commerce, can all the achievements of successful heroism, or all the establishments of this world's wisdom, secure to empire the permanency of its possessions ? Alas ! Troy thought so once ; yet the land of Priam lives only in song. Thebes thought so once ; yet her hundred gates have crumbled, and her very tombs : are but as the dust they were vainly intended to commemorate | So thought Palmyra–where is she 3 So thought the countries of Demosthenes and the Spartan ; yet Leonidas is trampled by the timid slave, and Athens insulted by the servile, mindless, and enervate Ottoman C. Phillips. Employment is an element of existence. Ewbank. A girl without employment is thinking of mis- chief. H. Mayhew. An honest employment is a child's best patri- mony. Julia Kavanagh. We appear little in an employment that is too great for us. Lucy Aiken. It is better to wear out by employment, than to rust out in idleness. R. Cwmberland. It is useful and legitimate employment that makes people happy. D. Webster. The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed. C. H. Spwrgeon. Employment is one of the best remedies for the disappointments of life. Dr. Pratt. Employment is nature's physician, and is essen- tial to human happiness. Galem. Days come and go much more pleasantly when our time is fully employed. Gessner. Be always employed about some rational thing, that the devil find thee not idle. St. Jerome. He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief. Talmud. Employment is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery. R. Burton. Constant employment is an antidote to the fear of death ; for fear, like vice, is the offspring of idleness. Dr. Rush. The usual employments and everyday occur- rences of life are the best things for taking away our grief. Mrs. E. D. Cheney. We may appear great in an employment below our merit ; but we often appear little in one that is too high for us. Rochefoucauld. It is better to be employed in the most insignifi- cant thing in the world, than to reckon half-an- hour insignificant. Goethe. Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spi- rits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it. 4. G. Horne, The connection between employer and employed is too often regarded by both as a mere matter of bargain ; so much work on the one hand, to be given in return for so much wages on the other. Mrs. C. Tucker. Next to reading, meditation, and prayer, there is nothing that so secures our hearts from foolish passions, nothing that preserves so holy and wise a frame of mind, as some useful, humble employ- ment of ourselves. E. Law. 224 AD A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. EMULATION. There is emulation even in vice. Eugene Sue, Emulation is good for mankind. Hesiod. Emulation is lively and generous. Monvel. Emulation I condemn ; I think it is a wicked passion, and the cause of great evil. T. Dwight. Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions ; envy is only moved to malice. Balzac. Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly. Johnson. Emulation is a noble passion, inasmuch as it strives to excel by raising itself, and not by de- pressing others. S. Heymes. By a virtuous emulation the spirit of man is ex- alted within him ; he panteth after fame, and re- joiceth as a racer to run his course. R. Dodsley. Emulation looks out for merits, that she may ex- ert herself by a victory ; envy spies out blemishes, that she may have another by a defeat. Colton. Some emulation may be good, and may be found in some good men ; but envy should be utterly con- demned, as wicked in itself, and only to be found in wicked minds. Aristotle. Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. T. Hobbes. Emulation, even in the brutes, is sensitively ner- vous. See the tremor of the thorough-bred racer before he starts; the dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. Bulwer. We should look upon the merits and virtues of men, to emulate and excel them ; not upon their blemishes and faults, to conform to them, or to re- joice over their possessors. J. Foster. Grief for the success of a competitor, if joined with endeavors to enforce our own abilities to equal or excel him, is emulation ; if joined with endea- vors to supplant or hinder, envy. O. W. Holmes. Emulation is to competition as the motive to the action ; emulation produces competitors, but it may exist without it ; they have the same marks to distinguish them from rivalry. G. Crabb. Although there may be some degree of pride in emulation, yet a laudable ambition should always be encouraged, especially in youth, for without this they will never rise to eminence in anything. J. Beaumont. Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold ; but it is a spur com- posed of baser materials, and if tried in the furnace, will be found to want that fixedness which is the characteristic of gold. Colton. Emulation admires great actions, and strives to imitate them ; envy refuses them the praises that are their due ; emulation is generous, and only thinks of equalling or surpassing a rival; envy is low, and only seeks to lessen him. C. Buck. EMULATION. Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy ; but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humanity ; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of Our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced. Joseph Hall. Emulation is a handsome passion ; it is enterpris- ing, but just withal; it keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others. J. Collier. Jealousy and emulation are called forth by the same object, which is the prosperity or talents of others, with this difference, that the latter is a feeling natural to man, noble, frank, which gives energy to the Soul, makes it profit by great ex- amples, and often carries it beyond what it ad- mires; whereas the former, on the contrary, is a vehement mental disturbance, and, as it were, a compulsory confession of excellence which it can- not reach. Bruyère. Emulation seems to be synonymous with laud- able ambition ; for when we excite emulation among children, what is it, but ambition that we stir in them 2 And, in doing so, we cannot too care- fully guard against provoking their envy and jea- lousy ; and the teacher, while he excites emulation ought, in order to check presumption, to take fre- quent occasion to remind his successful pupil that everyone gifted with distinguished talents is justly expected proportionately to excel his competitors. John Taylor. ENCOURAGEMENT. Encouragement after censure is as the Sun after a shower. Goethe. What God sees necessary for encouragement, we may expect. C. Buck. In times of necessity good counsels are an en- couragement to the wise. P. Werf. We ought never to neglect the encouragement of youth in generous deeds. Dr. Johnsom. The praise of good men serves as an encourage- ment to virtue and heroism. N. Webste?". Those who have no religion, will profess them- selves of that which has the encouragemºnt of the law. S. Rogers. The spirited steed, which will contend of its own accord for the victory, will run still more swift if thou givest encouragement. Ovid. Encouragement not only stimulates to emulation and exertion, but it acts like the electric fluid com- municated along a succession of wires; the central one is touched, and all the subordinate ones par- take of the influence and act in sympathetic concert with it. Acton. Timid dispositions are not to be encouraged always by trivial circumstances, but sanguine dispositions are easily emboldened; the most flat- tering representations of friends are frequently necessary to encourage the display of talent ; the confidence natural to youth is often sufficient of itself to embolden men to great undertakings. - G. Crabb. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 225 ENDING. The end of everything is doubtful. Ovid. Everything comes to an end which has a begin- ning. Qwintilian. What was doubtful in the beginning is made cer- tain by the end thereof. B. Googe. As there is no end of the joys of the blessed, so there is no end of the torments of the wicked. St. Gregory. What thing soever in this world hath a begin- ning, must certainly in this world have also an end- ing. Arienti. Since Deity always did exist, it always will exist; for it is plain that what had no beginning will have no end. Thales. If the present course of things does not answer our wills, we ought to apply our wills to the end of them ; it is the end that is not only the last of everything, but that which we hope shall be the best of anything. Aristotle. Everything with an end, beginning, and origin, has the mark of its circumscribed nature in itself. The duration of a universe has, by the excellence of its construction, a permanence in itself, which comes near to an endless duration ; perhaps thou- sands, perhaps millions of centuries will not bring it to an end; but while the perishableness which adheres to evanescent natures is always working for their destruction, so eternity contains within itself all possible periods, so as to bring at last by a gradual decay the moment of its departure. E. Kant. ENDURANCE}. Prolonged endurance tames the bold. Byron. There was never yet a philosopher that could en- dure the toothache patiently. Shakspeare. A student needs great endurance ; for his burden is heavy, and his course is long. Tsang. To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have most need to know. Rousseaw. The gout haunts usually the easy and the rich, the nice and the lazy, who grow to endure much, because they can endure little. Sir W. Temple. I would fain know whether that man takes a ra- tional course to preserve himself, who refuses the endurance of these higher troubles, to secure him- self from a condition infinitely more miserable 3 R. Sowth. Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles which are imposed upon it ; it is thus that we enter upon the most perilous plans after having had the 'shame of failing in more simple OIlêS. R. Rapin. As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work ; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are not to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious. Sir P. Sidney. ENEMY. There is no little enemy. Franklin. He who has no enemy is to be pitied. Syrus. Our enemies are our outward consciences. Shakspeare. The dead body of an enemy always smells sweet. Charles IX. If you would be a man, have plenty of enemies. Talleyrand. Let the enemies of your country be your enemies. N. Biddle. Speak not ill of your friend, and curse not your enemy. Diogenes. It is great wisdom to distinguish an enemy from a friend. Cleobºwlws. A man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies. Plwtarch. Our enemies can do no more than God will per- mit them. - Cecil. A strong man's enemies are generally the weak men about him. G. D. Prentice. Give your enemy mild instruction, rather than violent reproof. Al-Kendi. Make no enemies ; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm. Colton. Our worst enemies are those we carry about with us in our own hearts. A. Dwmas, Jr. A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends. N. Macdonald. There is more danger in a reserved and silent friend than in a noisy, babbling enemy. L’Estrange. Did a person but know the value of an enemy, he would purchase him with pure gold. Seram. However rich or powerful a man may be, it is the height of folly to make personal enemies. Lord Lyttleton. Our enemies approach nearer to the truth in their judgment of us than we do ourselves. Rochefoucauld. The best defense against a secret enemy, is to make him believe you are not aware of his snares. Tacitus. Never fear the man who threatens you with an injury; the silent enemy is the most dangerous. J. Bartlett. To love an enemy is the distinguished character- istic of a religion which is not of man but of God. J. P. Kennedy. Oh, how pleasant it is to pity the fate of an ene- my, when we have no longer anything to fear from him Corneille. It would be a rarity worth the seeing could any One show us such a thing as a perfectly reconciled enemy. R. South. We should never make enemies, if for no other reason, because it is so hard to behave toward them as we ought. E. Palmer. 15 226 A) A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. IENEMY. Conquer your enemies by kindness, preserve your friends by prudence, deserve the esteem of all by goodness. - L. C. Judson. 'Speak not ill of a great enemy, but rather give him good words, that he may use you the better if you chance to fall into his hands. Selden. Get your enemies to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self, that he will judge too like you. Pope. If we could read the secret history of Our ene- mies, we should find in each man's life Sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Longfellow. Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest ; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance. Dryden. We constantly complain that our friends forget us; our enemies have much better memories; they often think of us, and lay up something in store for us. Acton. There are times when even wormwood is more acceptable to the taste than honey, and circum- stances sometimes render an enemy of more value than a friend. Demophilus. Some men are more beholding to their bitterest enemiesthan to friends who appear to be sweetness itself. The former frequently tell the truth, but the latter never. Cato. Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us, viz.: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. Petrarch. Where enmities are of old standing and of a se- rious nature, it is difficult to effect a real reconcili- ation, for it is prevented either by suspicion or by the desire of vengeance. Guicciardiºvi. Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excelus : and endeavor to ex- cel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. Plutarch. A Christian should not discover that he has ene- mies by any other way than by doing more good to them than to others. “If thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink.” T. Wilson. Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee; and those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. Lavater. In a contest with an able enemy, it is better that he should undervalue than over-rate our strength, as the more highly he esteems it, the greater will be his efforts and the means he will bring to bear, to sustain himself, or to overcome us. Bovee. There is no small degree of malicious craft in fix- ing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill will ; a word, a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at. Sterme. ENEMY. Everybody has enemies. To have an enemy is quite another thing ; one must be somebody in or- der to have an enemy; one must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. Mime. Swetchine. Bitter and unrelenting enemies often deserve better of us than those friends whom we are in- clined to regard as pleasant companions ; the for- mer often tell us the truth, the latter never. Cicero. Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and, among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this in particular, that by the reproach which is cast upon us, we see the worst side of Ourselves. Addison. He that professes himself thy open enemy, arms thee against the evil he means thee, but he that dissembles himself thy secret friend, strikes beyond caution, and wounds above cure ; from the first, thou mayst deliver thyself ; from the last, good Lord deliver thee. F. Quarles. If any man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies, but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth ; for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one. Plato. Men of sense often learn from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle can- not be learned from a friend, but an enemy ex- torts it immediately. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their proporties. Aristophames. When we conquer our enemies by kind treat- ment, and by acts of justice, we are more likely to secure their obedience than by a victory in the field of battle ; for in the one case they yield to necessity ; in the other, it is their own free choice. Besides, how often is the victory dearly bought, while the conquest of an enemy by affection may be brought about without expense or loss! Polybius. Neglect an enemy, but contemn him not. Dis- dain will banish patience and bring in fury. Con- tempt unbridles fear, and makes us both to will, to dare, and to execute. It is not good too far to pursue a victory. We know not what may show itself when contempt awakens a sleepy mind. Thou canst not sit on so high a cog but may, with turning, become the lowest in the wheel. If we have enemies it is better to deserve their friendship than either to despise or irritate them. Beaumont. As horses start aside from objects they see imper- fectly, so do men. Enmities are excited by an in- distinct view: they would be allayed by confer- ence. Look at any long avenue of trees by which the traveller on our principal highways is protec- ted from the sun; those at the beginning are wide apart, but those at the end almost meet. Thus hap- pens it frequently in opinions; men who were far asunder, come nearer and nearer in the course of life, if they have strength enough to quell, or good sense enough to temper and assuage their earlier animosities. P. S. Duponceaw. P R O S E O U o 7. A 7" / O M. S. 227 ENERGY. Energy is consistent with humility. Newman. Energy should ever consort with sobriety and virtue. Demophilus. Energy implies a fixed, settled, and unwavering purpose. Joseph Atterley. True wisdom in a general consists in energetic determination. Napoleon I. Energy and intelligence come to the front, and have a right to be there. T. B. Aldrich. Energy will do anything that can be done in this world ; and no talents, no circumstances, no oppor- tunities, will make a two-legged animal a man without it. Goethe. Moral energy, or constancy of purpose, seems to be less properly an independent power of the mind, than a mode of action by which its various powers operate with effect. W. H. Prescott. If you seriously resolve to be emergetic, depend upon it you will for your whole life have reason to rejoice that you were wise enough to form and act upon that determination. T. F. Bºtacton. Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details, and carries him onward and upward in every station in life : it accomplishes more than genius, with not one-half the disappointment and peril. A. A. Sykes. ENG.A.G.EMENT. All engagements are sacred. Grace Ramsay. The greatest engagement is not to forfeit an op- portunity. - H. Hammond. Engagements should be cautiously made and never violated. J. Bartlett. Men are often more ready to make engagements than to fulfill them. N. Webster. It is not so hard as people suppose, to be faithful to one's engagements ; the engagement which is to be kept, keeps you in its turn. Mme. Swetchine. It will generally be found that the men who are habitually behind in their business, are the men who fail in their engagements. S. Smiles. All engagements, both public and private, that take their rise from necessity or from particular emergencies, soon come to an end when the con- junctures or necessity ceases. Dionysius. ENIGMA. Man is an enigma. T. Hope. An enigma may amuse, but it rarely instructs. Sarah W. Lander. An enigma is often as difficult of solution as Some men's characters. A. Esquiros. Is not the world sufficiently full of enigmas, that one must make simple appearances also to be enig- mas 2 Goethe. In the present day the enigma is only a jew d'esprit, or a species of amusement to beguile a leisure hour. J. Cawvin. ENJOYMENT. Actual enjoyments are few. Mrs. Meredith. True enjoyment cannot be expressed in words. Rowsseaw. He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy a great deal. Lavater. Hope makes time very long, and enjoyment very short. Stanislaws. To make our enjoyment lasting, we must be vir- tuous and reasonable. H. Hooker. Enjoy the pleasure of the passing hour, and bid adieu for a time to grave pursuits. Horace. Thy enjoyment of the comforts and the pleas- ures of life thou owest to the assistance of others. R. Dodsley. He is the true possessor of a thing who enjoys it, and not he that owns it without the enjoyment Of it. Maria, Nathwsi ws. Gratitude is memory of the heart ; therefore forget not to say often, I have all I have ever en- joyed. Mrs. L. M. Child. Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written upon your heart that fearful word, Satiety. - F. Qwarles. Light as a gossamer is the circumstance which can bring enjoyment to a conscience which is not its own accuser. W. Carleton. To sell one's self to sensuality is one thing ; to enjoy the honest pleasures of the senses is quite a different matter. D. Macleod. Any enjoyment which is continued for too long a time, becomes an abuse, blunts the senses, and destroys its pleasure. C. Fowrier. If we well knew how little others enjoy, it would rescue the world from one sin—there would be no such thing as envy upon earth. T. Young. All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than enjoyment ; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. Feltham. All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to man have been just as possible to him since first he was made of the earth as they are now. Ruskin. Every comfortable enjoyment, whether it be in relations, estate, health, or friends, is a candle lighted by Providence for our comfort in this world. Flavel. We never enjoy perfect happiness : Our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of Our satisfaction. Corneille. All solitary enjoyments quickly pall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable mi- sery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Dr. Sharpe. Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoy- ment by immovable boundaries, and has set differ- ent gratifications at such a distance from each other, that no art or power can bring them to- gether. Dr. Johnson. 228 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O N. ENJOYMENT. The Muses have left no diaries, or doubtless we should find that they had their gipsy-parties and lively games—that they danced and sang for pure enjoyment. L. H. Grimdon. Every countenance bright with Smiles, and glow- ing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror trans- mitting to others the rays of a Supreme and ever- shining benevolence. W. Irving. Whatever can lead an intelligent being to the exercise or habit of mental enjoyment, contributes more to his happiness than the highest sensual or mere bodily pleasures. B. Kennicott. Imperfect enjoyment is attended with regret ; a surfeit of pleasure with disgust. There is a certain nick of time, a certain medium to be observed, with which few people are acquainted, St. Evremond. The enjoyments of this short life, which are in- deed but puerile amusements, must disappear when placed in competition with the greatness and dura- bility of the glory which is to come. A. Haller. In the common enjoyments of life, we cannot very liberally indulge the present hour, but by an- ticipating part of the pleasure which might have relieved the tediousness of another day. Dwight. No enjoyment is transitory ; the impression which it leaves is lasting, and what is done with diligence and toil, imparts to the spectator a secret force, of which one cannot say how far the effect may reach. Goethe. No enjoyment, however inconsiderable, is con- fined to the present moment. A man is the hap- pier for life from having made Once an agreeable tour, or lived for any length of time with pleasant people, or enjoyed any considerable interval of in- nocent pleasure. Sydney Smith, There is often no material difference between the enjoyment of the highest ranks, and those of the rudest stages of society. If the life of many young English noblemen and an Iroquois in the forest, or an Arab in the desert are compared, it will be found that their real sources of happiness are near- ly the same. 4. Alison. All solitary enjoyments quickly pall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges ; only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die, Oh how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance 2 Sharpe. Enjoyment arises from activity of mind ; both are ever united. There is indeed also an enjoy- ment which streams in upon us as a pure gift of heaven ; such, however, we should not seek after ; it is to be regretted when an anxious longing for this arises. But the great enjoyment, the great happiness, that which cannot be torn from us by any power, lies in the past and in the thought that happiness is indeed a great and precious good, but yet the improvement of the soul by joys and griefs, the development of noble feelings, is the true and only end of existence ; whereas everything else in the world is ever changing, and in its nature tran- sient. Hwºmboldt. ENNUI. A scholar has no ennui. Richter. Ennui was born one day of uniformity. Motte. Employment and ennui are simply incompati- ble. Mme. Deluzy. Ennui is the parent of expensive and ruinous vices. Ninom de l'Enclos. Labor rids us of three great evils—poverty, vice, and ennui. Deschamps. Ennui is usually created by a superfluity of the enjoyments of life. Dr. Rwsh. Ennui is a growth of English root, though name- less in Our language. Byron. We need not have recourse to turbulent pleasures in order to banish ennui. Sturm. Ennui is our greatest enemy, and remunerative labor our most lasting friend. Möser. We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui. Mºme. Swetchine. “Ennui” is a word which the French invented, though of all nations in Europe they know the least of it. G. Bancroft. Ennui, perhaps, has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. Colton. Social life is filled with doubt and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. Miss L. E. Landon. This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name— this word of France has got a terrific significance ; it shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light. R. W. Emerson. Ennui is a French word for an English malady, which generally arises from the want of a want, and constitutes the complaint of those who have nothing to complain Of. Chatfield. When we are oppressed with ennui, we have only to exert ourselves manfully, and the mind will awaken from its comatose condition to one of energy and enlightenment. James Ellis. The ennui, or the wearisomeness of inaction, is a more general and powerful spring of action than is imagined ; of all pains this is the least ; but nevertheless it is One. The desire of happinessmakes us always consider the absence of pleasure as an evil. Helvetius. Ennui is an evil to which only too little attention is paid, though it at last paints despair on the face; it causes beings who have so little kindly feeling for each other, as men, to seek each other's com- pany, and is thereby the origin of social inter- COUTSè. Schopenhaufer. There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application ; then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, de- pendent nature, powerlessness, emptiness; imme- diately there issue from his Soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, and despair. Pascal. A R O S E O U O T A 7" / O M. S. 229 ENTERPRISE. Enterprises require personal sacrifices. Crabb. The spirit of enterprise gives the full use of all energy. • Burke. Enterprising men often succeed beyond all hu- man probability. N. Webste)”. The profession of a soldier is well suited to a man of honor and enterprise. J. Ledyard. On the neck of the young man Sparkles no gem so precious as enterprise. Hafiz. Lawful enterprise in the long run will declare larger dividends than dishonest scheming. Talmage. The man of sober enterprise works as well as wishes, and is honored ; while he who attempts to live upon indolent hope, dies fasting, and is forever disgraced. Magoon. The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and to execute with vigor : to sketch out a map of possibilities, and then to treat them as probabilities. Bovee. There would be few enterprises of great labor or hazard undertaken, if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages which we persuade ourselves to expect from them. Johnsom. What passes in the world for talent, or dexteri- ty, or enterprise, is often only a want of moral principle ; we may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients. ENTERTAINMENT. We often have rich entertainment in the conver- sation of a learned friend. N. Webster. The best of entertainments for the summer is an entertainment in the open air. Prwolhomme. Go slowly to the entertainments of thy friends, but quickly to their misfortunes. Chilo. The best entertainments are those from which we rise almost as hungry as we sat down. Plutarch. While we are entertaining ourselves with the pleasures of youth and manhood, old age steals upon us unawares. Juvenal. With all his care, and toil, and penury of time, the man who devotes himself to learning, or science, or business, is no gainer in the end, if he does not take part sometimes in lively entertainments. L. H. Grimdon. He who supplies society with entertainment un- adulterated by vice, who contributes the pleasure without impairing the innocence of his fellow-be- ings, and above all, who instructs while he delights, may justly be ranked among the benefactors of mankind. S. F. Bradford. Theatres are said to be necessary as sources of entertainment ; to admit it would be to suppose that God has not furnished men with sufficient Sources of amusement ; that He has not allowed them such means of recreation as may be used without making them worse. T. Dwight. Hazlitt. ENTHUSIA SIM. Without enthusiasm there is no zeal. J. Ellis. The enthusiast suffers his imagination to follow his heart. G. Crabb. Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. Schiller. When enthusiasts get together, they soon un- derstand each other. W. Irving. The best thing which we derive from history, is the enthusiasm that it raises in us. Goethe. Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. E. Kant. Faction and enthusiasm are the instruments by which popular governments are destroyed. Ames. All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish Stage, and grow wiser and more serene. W. E. Channing. Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world, is the triumph of enthusiasm. R. W. Emerson. The more enthusiastic, the more liable we are to be imposed upon, and to become the tools of the designing. JBovee. Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening brain. J. Locke. Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so neces- sary to consolidate their mutual interests. W. Woºrburton. The same reason makes a man a religious enthu- siast, that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way—an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body. Hazlitt. Enthusiasm is that effervescence of the heart or the imagination, which is the most potent stimulus of our nature, where it stops short of mental in- toxication. Chatfield. Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm ; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment. H. T. Tuckerman. Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthu- siasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. * • * Dr. Chalmers. Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm ; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sin- cerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. Bulwer. The enthusiast has been compared to a man walk- ing in a fog : everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle, of which he himself is the centre, all is mist, error, and confusion. Colton. 230 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O M. ENVY. ENVY. Put away envy. Cleobulws. He who envies me, makes my virtue his vice, and Envy is its own tormentor. Andrada. | *Y happiness his torment. H. Hooker. - - How can we explain the perpetuity of envy, a Envy is the saw of the soul. Socrates. vice which yields no return ? Balzac. A happy man can bear envy. Publius Syrus. Who would envy the prosperity of the wicked, Envy never enriched any man. Montgomery. and the Success of persecutors ? John Taylor. Envy crawls toward the wealthy. Sophocles. Virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liber- Envy is implanted by nature in man. Herodotus. Molière. Chilo. The onvious will die, but envy never. Envy no man's perishable possessions. Envy is only to be overcome by death. Horace. Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. Clawdian. The envious are only a torment to themselves. Rufus. To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied. Pindarws. As rust corrupts iron, so does envy corrupt man. Antisthenes. Those who raise envy will easily incur censure. Chºwrchill. Envy is prone to insult, and sickens at another's joys. Stativs. A man that is busy and inquisitive is commonly envious. Lord Bacom. Envy is repining at the prosperity or good of another. J. Ray. Thou oughtest not to envy the wealth of thy neighbor. Homer. I do not allow of envy ; but for good, I would be envied. Euripides. If any man be good, he is envied ; if evil, himself is envious. P. J. Jaguchinski. A weak mind is ambitious of envy, a strong one of respect. E. Wigglesworth. Envy is a sickness growing from other men's happiness. Awrelius. As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy con- SUIIIlê 8, IOla,Il. Chrysostom. There is no such thing in nature as an honest and lawful envy. R. Sowth. Most men are envious, and this is above all a. common fault. Cicero. Envy assails the noblest ; the wind howls round the highest peaks. Ovid. It is only when we get a little that we begin to envy a great deal. Bovee. Envy is blind, and can do nothing but dispraise virtue. Envy no man. Solom. Envy is nothing else but grief of the mind at other men's prosperity. St. Ambrose. Envy is blind, and has no other quality but that of detracting from virtue. Livy. ality Subsist with niggardliness. Cervantes. An envious person is mean, and miserable, and abhorred of both God and man. E. Rich. Envy is like a fly that passes all a body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. G. Chapman. When men are full of envy, they disparage every- thing, whether it be good or bad. Tacitus. Envy wears herself away, drooping like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. Samma2aro. A woman does not envy a man for his courage, nor a man a woman for her beauty. J. Collier. It is a common vice in great and free states for envy to be the attendant upon glory. Nepos. Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks ; be content to be envied, but envy not. Sir T. Browne. Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame, that no body ever had the confidence to own it. • Earl of Rochester. There was never envy that was not bloody ; for if it eat not another's heart, it will eat our own. Joseph Hall. Envy makes us see what will serve to accuse others, and not perceive what may justify them. J. Wilson. There is nothing which more denotes a great mind than the abhorrence of envy and detraction. Addison. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance. R. W. Emerson. The only cure for envy is to look upon the pros- perity of the envied person as belonging to one's self. Dionysius. Envy is as the sunbeams, which beam hotter upon the bank, or steep rising of ground, than upon a flat. W. Bent. He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot. L’Estrange. Envy sets the stronger seal on desert ; if he have no enemies, I should esteem his fortune most wretched. Ben Jomson. Envy is the grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill fortune that may befall him. T. Hobbes. Many men profess to hate one another, but no man owns envy, as being an enmity or displeasure for no cause but goodness or felicity. Jeremy Taylor. A R O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 231 ENVY. The potter envies the potter, the carpenter the carpenter, the poor is jealous of the poor, and the bard of the bard. Hesiod. There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy, and it is he who has never ex- amined his own heart. W. Dwyvcam. The envious man is an enemy to himself, for his mind is always spontaneously occupied with its own unhappy thoughts. Memonder. If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world. E. Yowng. We ought to be guarded against every appear- ance of envy, as a passion that always implies in- feriority wherever it resides. Pliny. Thou shalt escape envy if thou makest no show, if thou boastest not of thy fortunes, if thou know- est how to enjoy them thyself. Seneca. Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in pro- voking it ; I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale. Montesquiew. We are often vain of even the most criminal of our passions; but envy is a timid and shameful passion that we never dare acknowledge. Rochefoucauld. Envy is, above all other vices, inconsistent with the character of a social being, because it sacrifices truth and kindness to very weak temptations. Dr. Johnsom. Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. Colton. The vulture, which gnaws the liver and distracts the breast, is not that which the poets imagine, but the diseases of the heart, envy and luxurious habits. Petronius. When God would reveal true excellence to the world, He allows envy to attack it ; did not fire burn the aloes tree, the sweet odor would be un- known. Dwwółd. They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the court to learn envy and revenge. N. Cawssim. Envy is frequently the foundation of ill reports; there is a jealousy in some characters which ren- ders the success of others the subject of malevolence instead of approbation. Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey. Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of some excuse ; but envy wants both ; we should strive against it, for if indulged in, it will be to us as a foretaste of hell upon earth. R. Burton. The envious man is made unhappy, not by his own misfortunes, but by the successes of others: and, on the other hand, he does not enjoy his own good fortune so much as the misfortunes of his neighbors. St. Gregory. ENVY. It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to SOme One else. Plutarch. To envy because it goes well with another and goes badly with yourself, is misery. Those who envy, pine in poverty ; they who are envied, abound in wealth. Plawtºws. In the sea of malice envy frequently gets out of her depth ; and whilst she is expecting to see an- other drowned, she is either drowned herself or dashed against a rock. D. Dalrymple. Envy, like the fly, feasts on the richest luxury, and destroys everything within its reach ; like the tiger, it exults over the prostration of its victim, and riots on suffering virtue. J. Bartlett. You cannot envy your neighbor's wisdom, if he gives you good counsel; nor his riches, if he sup- plies you in your wants; nor his greatness, if he employs it to your protection. - Swift. Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by Smoke, was diminished into a speck of light ; but no smoke ever breathed so thick a mist as envy or detraction. R. A. Willmott. Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion ; there is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation, Deering. If envy, like anger, did not burn itself in its own fire, and consume and destroy those persons it pos- sesses, before it can destroy those it wishes worst to, it would set the whole world on fire, and leave the most excellent persons the most miserable. Earl of Clarendon. We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men ; we know not the inward can- ker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than our- selves. Joseph Hall. Envy and hatred are always united, and gather strength each from being engaged. On the same Ob- ject ; they are not to be distinguished from each other, except that the one fastens itself on the per- son, and the other on the state and condition of the individual. Bruyère. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects, pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its ob- ject, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never dying strains. Thucydides. When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public ; and if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs— her only answer to them is “to shine on.” R. Whately. 232 ZD A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. ENVY. There is some good in public envy, whereas in private there is none; for public envy is an Ostra- cism, that eclipseth men when they grow too great; and therefore it is a bridle also to great Ones to keep within bounds. Lord Bacom. Envy may justly be called “the gall of bitter- ness and bond of iniquity;” it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so Sub- tle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul. H. Ballow. If you act a part truly great, you may expect that men of mean spirits, who cannot reach you, will endeavor by detraction to pull you down to their level ; but posterity will do you justice, for envy will die with you. M. Qwimtam. If envy is rankling in your bosom, declare war against it at once ; a war of extermination ; no truce, no treaty, no compromise. Ilike the pirate On the high seas, it is an Outlaw, an enemy to all mankind, and should be hung up at the yard arm until it is dead. L. C. Judsom. Few men have strength of mind to honor a friend's success without a touch of envy ; for that malignant passion clinging to the heart doubles the burden of the man infected by it ; he is weighed down by the weight of his own woes, and sighs to See the happiness of others. AEschylus, Envy is the hatred of another's felicity ; in res- pect of superiors, because they are not equal to them ; in respect of inferiors, lest he should be equal to them; in respect of equals, because they are equal to them. Through envy proceeded the fall of the world and the death of Christ. F. Quarles. Do not envy the violet the dew-drop or glitter of a sunbeam ; do not envy the bee the plant from which he draws some sweets; do not envy man the little goods he possesses, for the earth is for him the plant from which he obtains some sweets, and his mind is the dew-drop which the world colors for an instant. L. Schefer. Surely, if we considered detraction to be bred of envy, nested only in deficient minds, we should find that the applauding of virtue would win us far more honor than the seeking slyly to disparage it. That would show we loved what we commended, while this tells the world we grudge at what we want in Ourselves. Peltham. An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of se– cret sedition, and the perpetual tormentor of vir- tue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; avenom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh, and drieth up the marrow of the bones. Socrates. Envy is blind and cares for nothing but to de- tract from virtues, to debase the honorable and take from their rewards ; there are no dispositions more prone to envy than those of persons whose mental qualifications are inferior to their birth and rank in life ; such always harbor an antipathy to merit, as a treasure in which they cannot share. Livy. ENVY. - Envy is the most odious of human vices, because it is most destructive of human happiness; it im- pairs health, because it is a moral, corroding can- cer; thus it shortens the duration of life. Lawyers, players, and politicians are much subject to it ; hence they are not so long-lived as those whose thoughts are more abstracted from surrounding ir- ritating scenes. R. Maltravers. Envy stalks on with sullen step ; her face is pal- lid and her body emaciated ; her eye never looks straight before her: her teeth are brown with rust ; her breast overflows with gall, and from her tongue drips drops of poison ; she never smiles except when the wretched weep ; nor does she enjoy rest ; ever kept moving by her sleepless cares, she sees with evil eye the success of men, and pines away as she beholds; she distresses others, and is herself distressed, and bears her own tormentor in her breast. Ovid. The envious man is in pain upon all occasions which ought to give him pleasure. The relish of his life is everted ; and the objects which adminis- ter the highest satisfaction to those who are exempt from this passion, give the quickest pangs to per- sons who are subject to it. All the perfections of their fellow-creatures are odious. Youth, beauty, valor, and wisdom are provocations of their dis- pleasure. What a wretched and apostate state is this ; to be offended with excellence, and to hate a man because we approve him Steele. EPICURE. The epicure puts his purse into his belly. Opitz. Surfeiting epicurism is a fool's chiefest glory. - H. d’Averanches. What epicure can be always plying his palate 3 - Sowth. The epicure is a sensualist and a voluptuary; he makes the pleasures of Sense his god. G. Crabb. An epicure has no sinecure ; he is unmade, and eventually dished by unmade dishes. Chatfield. He is the best epicure who is blest with wisdom, eloquence, public influence, good health, and the comforts of life, a purse that never fails in time of need, and amid all hopes and cares never forgets that the present may be the last day that will dawn upon him. FHorace. EPIGRAM. - Epigram is the lowest step of poetry. Dryden. Conciseness and point form the beauty of epi- grams. N. Webster. An epigrammatist is a poet of Small wares, whose muse is short-winded, and quickly out of breath ; his wit is like fire in a flint, that is nothing while it is in, and nothing again as soon as it is Out. S. Butler. Mixed wit is a composition of pun and true wit, & / * and is more or less perfect as the resemblance lies in the ideas or in the words ; the only province for this kind of wit is epigram, or those little occa- sional poems that in their own nature are nothing else but a tissue of epigrams. Addison. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 233 EPITAFEI. EQUALITY. Epitaphs are mortuary lies. Horace Smith. Equality causes no war. Solom. It is a kind of sacrilege to steal epitaphs. Pope. An epitaph must be made fit for the person for whom it was made. Selden. Greatness may procure a man a tomb, but good- ness alone can deserve an epitaph. J. Atkinson. Epitaphs of the present day are crammed with fulsome compliments never merited. W. Chambers. The perusal of epitaphs is not to be considered as a frivolous and light amusement ; what biography is to history, an epitaph is to biography. H. Kett. An epitaph will seldom supply the exigencies of character ; and men of talents are not always, even in these favored times, at hand to eternize the vir- tues of private life. H. K. White. The ashes of an oak in a chimney are no epitaph to tell me how high, or how large it was ; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what men it hurt when it fell. The dust of great persons' graves is speechless too ; it says nothing, it distinguishes nothing. J. Domme. When the person is buried, the next care is to make his epitaph ; they are generally reckoned best which flatter most ; such relations, therefore, as have received most benefits from the defunct, dis- charge this friendly office, and generally flatter in proportion to their joys. Goldsmith. Let no man write my epitaph ; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times, and other men, can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the na- tions of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written. R. Emmett. EPISTLE. - Search the Epistles for thy guidance. John Bab. The Epistles are theology revealed by revela- tion. Franz Xaver Baader. Epistles, or familiar letters, may be called the larum bells of love. J. Howell. Rich in doctrine, laden with the finest of the wheat, the Epistles are the fruitful fields which fill the Church's granary. Dr. J. Hamilton, It was to gratify the two great passions of ask- ing and answering questions that epistolary cor- respondence was invented. H. Bigelow. There should be one form, one design, and one tendency in an epistle ; otherwise things we have Said in one part may be unsaid in another. Barddas. The Epistles were written upon different occa- sions; and he that will read them as he ought, must observe that what is in them is principally aimed at ; find what is the matter in hand, and how managed, if he will understand them right, and profit by them. J. Locke. All men are created equal. T. Jefferson. Secure equal rights for all. Lucy S. Blackwell. Nothing is so unequal as equality. Pliny, Elder. Efik. Indifferent equality is best superiority. Plotimus. Equality best consorts with equality. We are not all equal, nor can we be so. Goethe. We ask for woman, as for man, equality before the law. Ann Preston. Women should have equal pay with men for equal work. Mrs. Emma R. Coe. I desire marriage shall confer equal rights upon both parties. Mrs. H. T. Cutler. To be equals, with everybody uppermost, is the vanity of all. Napoleon I. Right is of no sex; woman is entitled to equal rights with man. F. Douglass. God created the first pair equal in rights, posses- Sions, and authority. Rev. Antoinette L. Brown. Equality is a dream ; the law cannot equalize men in spite of nature. Vawvenargues. Governments should carefully guard the equal rights of every citizen. M. Jacques. I believe in the equal rights of all human beings, women as well as men. D. O'Connell. There is not a denomination that places woman on an equality with man. Stephen S. Foster. What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights 2 Ermestine L. Rose. Woman insists upon being respected as a kindred intellect and political equal. Rev. Henry Bellows. The kingdom of God is no other than the king- dom of equality and justice. Pawline Roland. I am for equality ; I think men entitled to equal rights, but to unequal things. C. J. Foac. Equal liberty was originally the portion and is still the birthright of all men. B. Franklin. Woman has fully proved her equality with man in every position she has filled. Matilda J. Gage. All men are equal : it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference. Voltaire. All men are equal in having political power ; all women are equal in having none. T. W. Higginsom. Make woman equal before the law with man, and wages will adjust themselves. Mrs. C. A. Dall. Let him who believes in perfect equality, com- mence its practice in his own family. Lycwrgus. Concede that woman has a rational soul, and you concede the equality of her rights. C. G. Ames. Equality among all classes is the goal for which the world is marching, and it will reach it. Lester. 234 A) A Y',S C O Z Z A C O AV. EQUALITY. Woman, in order to be equally independent with man, must have a fair and equal chance. Mrs. Abby H. Price. The idea of the equality of woman with man—I do not believe it is in. the heart of man to refuse it. Rev. Asa Maham. It matters not who has the praise, so that justice be done to woman—an equal everywhere with Iſlall. Swsam B. Anthony. There should be equality among brethren in filial respect, brotherly love, and paternal inheri- tance. Llwarch. Hen. Equality is the share of every one at their ad- vent upon earth, and equality is also theirs, when placed beneath it. Nimon de l'Enclos, All those ideas resting upon the assumption of the equality of the races are founded in error ; they are fundamentally wrong. A. H. Stephens. It is untrue that equality is a law of nature ; na- ture has no equality ; its sovereign law is subor- dination and dependence. A. Arnold. Moral obligations rest equally upon both sexes; whatever is injurious to the moral nature, deli- cacy, and refinement of woman, is equally so to Iſla, Il. Henry C. Wright. I doubt whether a more important movement has ever been launched, touching the destiny of the race, than this in regard to the equality of the SeX6S. W. L. Garrison. Never, till woman stahds side by side with man, his equal in the eye of the law as well as the Crea- tor, will the high destiny of the race be accom- plished. C. L. Sholes. So far is it from being true that men are natur- ally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superi- ority over the other. Dr. Johnsom. If all men were on an equality, the consequence would be that all must perish ; for who would till the ground; who would sow it ; who would plant; who would press wine ! John Asgill. As to moral equality, has not woman conquered it by the power of sentiment 3 She will yet conquer civil and political equality, on which depends the happiness of the world. Jeanne de Roime. Allmen are by nature equal, all made of the same earth by one Workman ; and however we may de- ceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor pea- sant as the mighty prince. Plato. Christianity recognizes the unity and equality of all men, and seeks to unite them on the basis of that equality and union, under the protection of the common Father of all. William Goodell. The first great political truth to be impressed on the minds of our youth is, that they are born free, and that no acts of legislation should deprive them of perfect equality in rights. I. S. Smith. A state of cultivated equality is that state which, in speculation and theory, appears most consonant to the nature of man, and most conducive to the extensive diffusion of felicity. W. Godwin. EQUALITY. All men are born equal, and independent of each other ; no one on coming into the world, brings with him a right to command. Lamennais. Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in Society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks. Thackeray. There are some races more cultivated and ad- vanced and ennobled by education than others: but there are no races nobler than others; all are equally destined for freedom. Humboldt. All men are not equal in the faculties of either body or mind, by which riches or respect are ac- quired ; a necessity of Superiority and subordina- tion springs from the very nature which God has given us. J. Bishop. The love of equality in a democracy limits am- bition to the sole desire, the sole happiness of doing greater services to our country than the rest of our fellow-citizens ; they cannot all render her equal services, but they ought all to serve her with equal alacrity. Montesquiew. Equality is one of the most consummate scoun- drels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler; a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profli- gate idleness or indolent stupidity. L. Langstaff. Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it ! It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality, that the force of legislature must always tend to maintain it. Rowsseaw. As to equality, if by it be meant an equality of property or condition, there is no such a thing : nor was there ever such a thing in any country since the world began ; the inequality of property and condition, which some silly or bad people are so fond of declaiming against, existed in the very infancy of the world, and must from the nature of things, exist to the end of it. T. Watson. EQUANIMITY. Let us preserve our equanimity. Engel. Equanimity is the brightest gem in virtue's chap- let, and the loveliest in her calendar. W. A. Alcott. In equanimity one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and pros- perity. Philemon. Equanimity is a virtue which is necessary every hour, in every place, and in all conversations; and is the effect of a regular and exact prudence. Bell. I am sent to the ant to learn industry, to the dove to learn innocence, to the serpent to learn wisdom ; should we not go to the robin to learn equanimity and patience 2 A. Warwick. Great inquietude is to be avoided, but great fe- licity is not to be attained. The great lesson is equanimity, a regularity of spirit, which is a little above cheerfulness and below mirth. Steele. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 235 EQUITY. Show equity to all men. Protagoras. God is the father of equity and justice. Curtis. Those who ask for equity Ought to do it. J. Jay. God will weigh the actions of men in the balance of equity. Zoroaster. Natural equity is still more just than all the laws of the land. Stanislaws. Equity is the treating of a person according to justice and reason. N. Webster. The Lord is just and righteous, and will judge the earth with equity and truth. R. Dodsley. Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder. Colton. Equity is a law in our hearts; it conforms to no rule, but to circumstances, and decides by the con- sciousness of right and wrong. G. Crabb. How difficult a thing it is to persuade a man to reason against his own interest, though he is con- vinced that equity is against him. J. Trusler. Equity is the law of reason, exercised by the chancellor or judge, giving remedy in cases to which the courts of law are not competent. Sir W. Blackstone. An act of Parliament may be void from its first creation, as an act against natural equity; for the laws of nature are immutable ; they are the law of laws. J. H. Hobart. Making some allowance for the circumstances varying in different ages and nations there is a spirit of equity in the laws of Moses which is well worthy to be transfused into those of any state. T. Scott. Equity is that exact rule of righteousness or jus- tice which is to be observed between man and man. Our Lord beautifully and comprehensively expres- ses it in these words: “All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them ; for this is the law and the prophets.” Buck. I hold it particularly worthy of a man of honor to be governed by the principles of strict equity in his domestic as well as public conduct ; in small, as in great affairs; in his own concerns, as well as in those of others; and if every deviation from rectitude is equally criminal, every approach to it must be equally laudable. Pliny the Yownger. Equity in law is the same that the spirit is in re- ligion, what every One pleases to make it ; some- times they go according to conscience, sometimes according to law, sometimes according to the rule of the court. Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have a measure, we know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. It is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot a chancel- lor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be 3 One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot ; it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. Selden. EQUIVOCATION. Equivocation is falsehood's brother, Al-Ahnaf, We make use of an equivocation to deceive. J. Trusler. Equivocation is considered a mean and sneaking vice. G. Brown. How much less sensible is equivocation than silence. Montaigme. By equivocations, business men avoid manly straight-forwardness. T. Tilton. Equivocation is incompatible with the Christian character and profession. E. A. Dwyckinck. The object of the equivocator is to deceive ; he conceals the real meaning under the One put forth. - G. F. Graham. When there is a show of some likelihood of truth, then are we soonest deceived by subtle equivoca- tion. E. Gregory. It is more from carelessness about truth than from equivocation, that there is so much falsehood in the world. Dr. Johnsom. It is the rich who equivocate with impunity ; an agreement is no agreement, no agreement is an agreement, just as it suits them. Plaw.tws. To equivocate is the dishonorable work of dupli- city ; the upright man will not equivocate in his intercourse with his fellow-men. N. Webster. An honest man will never employ an equivocal expression ; a confused man may often utter am- biguous ones without any design. H. Blain". There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie ; en- thusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense. H. Ballow. A sudden lie may be sometimes only manslaugh- ter upon truth ; but by a carefully constructed equivocation, truth always is with malice afore- thought deliberately murdered. G. Morley. An equivocation lies in the power of particular terms used, which admit of a double interpretation; the equivocation misleads us in the use of a term in the sense which we do not suspect. G. Crabb. Candor is to be always admired, and equivoca- tion to be shunned ; but there is such a thing as supererogation, and very bold and ingenuous avow- als may do much more harm than good. R. Walsh. Equivocating, evading, shuffling, in order to re- move a present danger or inconveniency, is some- thing so mean, and betrays so much fear, that whoever practises them always deserves to be, and often will be, kicked. Chesterfield. We should avoid all equivocation, for truth is a standard according to which all things are to be judged ; when we appeal to it, it should be with sincerity of purpose and honesty of feeling, divest- ing ourselves of all partiality, passion, paradox, and prejudice—of every kind of Sophistry, subter- fuge, chicanery, concealment, and disguise, and laying the soul open to what is honest, right, and true. Acton. 236 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O N. IERROR: ERROR. Error is frail. Zoroaster. Error is the lot of humanity ; we have errors of e º e judgment, errors of calculation, errors of the head, Error is ever talkative. Goldsmith. . . . } G. Crabb. Strive to extirpate error. Confucius. St. Amastasius. B. Schmolck. S. Bailey. Brror should be repressed. Let not error robus of good. Error is worse than ignorance. Error is but the shadow of the truth. Stillingfleet. A great mind never compliments error. Syrus. All men commit errors, each in a different way. FIorace. An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory WOIOl. Caroline Leigh Gascoigne, Error assailed reels and staggers like a drunken Iſla,Il. T. L. Harris. Error may be tolerated, where truth is left free to combat it. T. Jefferson. It is the judgment that errs, and the will that em- braces the error. J. F. Bielfeld. If you would escape the path of error, follow the dictates of reason. Demophilus. Error blindeth the eyes of the wicked ; but pun- ishment opens them. St. Gregory. To fall into error is human ; to persist in it satanic ; to flee from it angelic. • E. P. Day. No tempting form of error is without some lat- ent charm derived from truth. A. Keith. He is the best accountant who can cast up cor- rectly the sum of his own errors. W. Nevins. In all sciences errors precede truth, and it is bet- ter they should go first than last. H. Walpole. Error is insidious in its approaches; it flatters by liberality and always betrays by sophism. R. W. Hamilton. Find the earth where there grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows. - J. S. Knowles. We can get out of certain errors only at the top ; that is, by raising our minds above human things. Joubert. One devious step at first stepping out, frequently leads a person into a wilderness of doubt and error. S. Richardson. There will be mistakes in divinity while men preach, and errors in government while men gov- €I’m. Sir D. Carleton. Errors, such as are but acorns in our younger brows, grow oaks in our older heads, and become inflexible. Sir T. Browne. Every error is a stain to the beauty of nature, for which cause it blusheth thereat, but glorieth in the contrary. R. Hooker. Errors, however trivial, ought never to be poin- ted out to another without meeting respectful ac- knowledgment. Sir W. Scott. The foundation of error will lie in wrong mea- sures of probability, as the foundation of vice in wrong measures of good. - J. Locke. It is common for men to err ; but it is only a fool that perseveres in his error; a wiseman, there- fore, alters his opinion, a fool never. S. F. Adams. Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth, that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other. W. B. Clwlow. Our understandings are always liable to error ; nature and certainty are very hard to get at, and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense. Aurelius. Be willing always to look fairly at your own errors, and be honest and honorable enough to make all proper concessions and restitution. E. Rich. Before we permit our severity to break loose upon any fault or error, we ought surely to consider how much we have countenanced or promoted it. Dr. Johnson. It is more fitting to err on the side of religion from a regard to ancient and received opinions, than to err through obstimacy and presumption. Plutarch. When one errs from ignorance he merits pity ; but when he errs willfully let us be sparing in Our reproaches, for all men have human sensibilities. W. S. Downey. All errors spring up in the neighborhood of Some truth ; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity. T. Bimney. Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding ; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery. W. S. Landor. The more confidently secure we feel against Our liability to any error, to which in fact we are lia- ble, the greater must be our danger of falling into it. R. Whately. How happy is he who can still hope to lift him- self from this sea of error | What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know. Goethe. Errors are of three sorts ; some are against the foundation of saving truth, some about it, some be- side it. The first sort subvert, the second pervert, the third divert. Herle. There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness, while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still be- low the horizon. S. T. Coleridge. Errors look so very ugly in persons of Small means—one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray—whereas people of fortune may na- turally indulge in a few delinquencies G. Eliot. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 237 --- ERROR. For the first time, the best may err, art may per- suade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt. Goldsmith. My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts. Sir I. Newton. The prejudice of education, the pride of place, the ignorance which we might have overcome, or the glory of this world's dominion, will yield us no apology for error before the throne of God. E. Hopkins. When we would convince men of any error by the strength of truth, we should first pour the sweet balm of love upon their heads ; truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world. R. Cwdworth. It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered ; or, as the Chinese better say, the glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall. Bovee. Truth only is prolific ; error, sterile in itself, pro- duces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains ; it may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, can- not be transmitted. Mime. Swetchine. Oh, how full of erroris the judgment of mankind They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons. They call it fortune when they know not the cause, and thus worship their own ignor- ance changed into a deity. Metastasio. There are in certain heads a kind of established errors against which reason has no weapons ; there are more of these mere assertions current than one would believe ; men are very fond of proving their steadfast adherence to nonsense. Vom Knebel. Every one can, if he will, make his past errors a source of moral elevation ; and though we are un- able to recall the errors of the past, we may so deal with them that they will promote our virtue, our wisdom, and our happiness. Horatio Seymour. To all of mortals to err is common ; but having erred, that man is not unblessed nor unadvised who, having fallen into error, heals the wound, nor perseveres unmoved ; it is the obdurate mind that incurs the imputation of folly. Sophocles. Few practical errors in the world are embraced upon the stock of conviction, but inclination ; for though indeed the judgment may err upon the ac- count of weakness, yet, where there is one error that enters in at this door, ten are let into it, through the will. R. Sowth. Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil ; in the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and the foolish ; for there is no error so crooked but it hath in it some line of truth, nor is any poison so deadly that it serveth not some whole- SOIſle UISé. Tupper. ERROR. Error is the cause of man's misery, the corrupt principle that has produced evil in the world ; it is this which begets and cherishes in our souls all the evils that afflict us, and we can never expect a true and solid happiness, but by a serious endeavor to avoid it. Malebranche. Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them ; it is only from this alli- ance that they can ever obtain an extensive circu- lation ; from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief. Sydney Smith. The life of nine-tenths of mankind is a gross error of calculation, since they attach themselves to the evanescent, and neglect the permanent, accumu- lating riches in a world from which they are con- stantly running away, and laying up no treasures in that eternity to which every day, hour, minute, brings them nearer and nearer. Chatfield. Once upon the inclined road of error, and there is no swiftness so tremendous as that with which we dash adown the plane, no insensibility so obstinate as that which fastens on us through the quick des- cent. The start once made, and there is neither stopping nor waking, until the lowest depths is sounded; our natural fears and promptings become hushed with the first impetus, and we are lost to everything but the delusive tones of sin. E. Bickersteth. The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in an- ger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to my- self the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends, I would fain leave the er- ring soul of my fellow-man with Him from whose hand it came. Longfellow. The grand means of guarding against the errors which surround us, is the diligent, obedient, devout, teachable study of God's word. Errors in doctrine, errors in practice, errors which are floating in the atmosphere in which we live, and which nothing but familiarity with God's word, and the having our minds impregnated with it, will preserve us from imbibing. Only let us remember that it is not merely head-knowledge that we want ; it is such a knowledge as is acquired by prayer, and is turned as we acquire it into practice. C. Hewºrtley. It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors, as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information ; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scrib- bled one, from which we must first erase. Ignor- ance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth, but error is more presumptuous, and pro- ceeds in the same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one ; the consequence is, that error, when she retraces her footsteps, has far- ther to go, before she can arrive at the truth, than ignorance. Colton. 238 J) A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. ESSAY. ESTEEMI. An essay gives wings to thought. F. Fertiawlt. Esteem all things that are good. Tibullws. An essay is demonstrated thought. Erichsen. Refuse not the token of our esteem. - —— e Queen Phillippa. A good essay is wisdom condensed into a small º - * Compass. Eisler. It is common to esteem most what is most un- º —. º e known. Tacitus. To write essays requireth time in the writer and - leisure in the reader. Lord Bacom. Esteem good men, and endeavor to be esteemed by them. Periander. An essay or chapter that has been only ham- mered out, is seldom good for anything. T. Tilton. In every period of English literary history, au- thors have sought to hold the mirror up to nature by means of essays. Dickens. As an assay of gold is to ascertain and measure its alloys, and to determine accurately its value, so is an essay of anything in human nature submitted to a like process within the mind. Henry Morley. The excellence and value of well written essays consist in their being the observations of a strong mind operating upon life, and, in consequence, you will find there what you seldom find in other writ- ings. Sir A. Gramt. A good essay never fails to communicate know- ledge ; and whether the subject treated be theo- retical or practical, or general and universal, it tends to excite the intelligence by the information it imparts, and calls into exercise the native and original powers of the mind. G. d’Eichthal. ESTATE. A medium estate is the best estate. Plotimºws. An estate inherited is the less valued. Qwita. The clergy should not own an estate. R. Sacho. Only a competent estate yields the quiet of con- tent. A. Warwick. Let a man be punished for crime according to his estate. Bishop Odo. He that sees another man's ruin feareth for his Own estate. Ailred. It is the greatest of wickedness to lessen your paternal estate. Cicero. By distributing our earthly estate in charity, we may hope for a heavenly estate. St. Nathalam. By spending our estate as we go, we avoid all trouble and lawsuits among our heirs. H. W. Shaw. When a man's estate can no longer be devoted to making himself and others happy, life is but a burden. Cown't Largorysky. No man is so perfectly grounded in any degree of estate, but that he may be made subject to chance and alteration of life. W. Adams. Laws regulate real estate, and those who own an estate, whether men or women, should have a voice in the enactment of those laws. J. Pierpont. A great estate may raise a man to an exalted station, and procure a respect for his outward per- son ; notwithstanding it may so happen that every time he speaks and acts he cannot help playing the fool. S. Croacall. Shun the esteem of man ; but seek the esteem of God only. Macarius, the Elder. I will never pretend esteem for a man whose principles I detest. Gustavus III, of Sweden. It is a hard matter to esteem another just as he wishes to be esteemed. Vawwemargites. We should esteem a person according to his ac- tions, not his nationality. Warenes. Nothing is worth our esteem that does not ad- vance the divine love in our souls. St. Colwmbkille. There is no prize more worthy of aspiring after than the esteem of the good and the wise. Halm. As love without esteem is volatile and capricious, so esteem without love is languid and cold. Dr. Johnson. To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. Helvetius. Esteem cannot be where there is no confidence, and there can be no confidence where there is no respect. H. Giles. What will it avail a man to be esteemed on. earth, and afterwards be delivered up to the tor- ments of hell ? Fulgentius. Esteem generally rises upon the degrees of satis- faction ; and that which is best to us, we are apt think is best in itself also. J. Collier. Esteem has more engaging charms than friend- ship, and even love ; it captivates hearts better, and never makes ingrates. Rochefoucauld. The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue ; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard for it. Burke, Under the assumption of profound esteem, the flatterer wears an outward expression of fidelity, as foreign to his heart as a Smile upon the face of the dead. Magoon. We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth ; but the world is like the Ocean, the pearl is in its depths, the sea-weed swims. G. P. Morris. Never esteem any man the more for money; nor think the meaner of him for want of it ; virtue be- ing the just reason of respecting, and the want of it of slighting any one. J. Duché. We have so exalted a notion of the human soul, that we cannot bear to be despised by it, or even not to be esteemed by it ; man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem. Pascal. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 239 ESTEEMI. We must never prefer the esteem of men to the approbation of God; every day this sacred rule is transgressed, by sacrificing virtue and conscience tô false honor and popular renown. Jortin. There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence ; it proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with ourselves. Joubert. We enjoy much esteem more than we do reputa- tion ; the one affects us nearly, the other lies more at a distance ; and though greater we are less sen- sible of it, as it seldom comes close enough to be- come a real possession. G. L. Dwyckinck. Local esteem is more conducive to happiness than general reputation ; the latter may be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer so remotely as to afford little light and no warmth ; the former is like the sun, each day shedding its prolific and cheering beams. W. B. Clwlow, As thou art a moral man, esteem thyself not as thou art, but as thou art esteemed ; as thou art a Christian, esteem thyself as thou art, not as thou art esteemed ; thy price in both rises and falls as the market goes. The market of a moral man is wild opinion ; the market of a Christian is a good conscience. F. Quarles. We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us ; and we re- ceive reputation, or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and de- pends most on success. G. A. Sala. No other branch of the human constitution shows more visibly our destination for society, nor tends more to Our improvement, than appetite for fame or esteem ; for as the whole conveniences of life are derived from mutual aid and support in society, it ought to be a capital aim to secure these conve- niences, by gaining the esteem and affection of others; and the appetite mentioned is a motive more powerful than reason, to be active in gaining esteem and affection. Rames. ESTRANGEMENT. Estrangement is a cold, bitter word. James Ellis. Estrangement of friends is the first fruit of sus- picion. - Bias. Estranged affections produce the same effects as estranged passions. Acton. Though a good man may err through ignorance of sudden passion, yet he cannot be estranged from goodness. Plato. As fire and heat cannot be separated from each other, so there can be no lasting estrangement between the hearts of true friends. Aristotle. There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole Catalogue of human suffering, as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us. H. de Balzac. ETERNITY. Eternity is but time continued. F. V. Mothe, Eternity is the lifetime of the Almighty. Baba. Eternity gives nothing back of the minute that has struck. Schiller. Eternity is the very heaven of heaven, and the hell of hell. A. Cayley. The thought of etermity consoles for the short- ness of life. Malesherbes. Eternity is a goodman's meditation; for by think- ing thereon he preventeth sin. St. Basil. It may be part of our employment in etermity to contemplate the works of God. J. Ray. If we stretch our thoughts as far as they can reach, etermity is still before us. J. Edmondson. Eternity is so certain and terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it. Vergniawd. Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous. C. Buck, All great natures delight on stability ; all great men find etermity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. R. W. Emerson. If we but provide for eternity with the same so- licitude and real care as we do for this life, we could not fail of heaven. Tillotson. Eternity is an infinite duration ; duration dis- charged from all limits, without beginning, with- out succession, and without end. A. A. Hodge. Eternity eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagina- tion conceive, no rhetoric describe. Hannah More. There are two eternities, a past and a future; of the past we know but little, of the future, nothing; between these two eternities lies a speck called time. - E. P. Day, Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are per- mitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing. W. Mowntford. Eternity is a negative idea clothed with a positive name ; it supposes in that to which it is applied, a present existence ; and is the negation of a begin- ning or of an end of that existence. Paley. The nature of eternity is such that though our joys, after some centuries of years, may seem to have grown older by having been enjoyed so many ages, yet will they really continue new. R. Boyle, Eternity is but one immense, indivisible point, wherein there is neither first nor last, beginning Qor ending, succession nor alteration, but is like God himself, one and the same for ever. J. Case. Eternity Ah know you what it is ? It is a time- piece, whose pendulum speaks, and incessantly re- peats two words only, in the silence of the tomb— ever, never—never, ever—and forever. James Bridaine. 240 AX A Y’.S. C. O Z / A C O AV. ETERNITY. Eternal happiness and eternal misery, meeting with a persuasion that the Soul is immortal, are, of all others, the first the most desirable, and the lat- ter the most horrible, to human apprehension, R. Sowth. Eternity will be one glorious morning, with the sun ever climbing higher and higher, one blessed spring-time, and yet richer summer, every plant in full flower, but every flower the bud of a love- lier. J. R. Macduff. He that will often put eternity and the world be- fore him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more he contem- plates them, the former will grow greater and the latter less. Colton. If there remains an eternity to us after the short revolution of time we so swiftly run over here, it is clear that all the happiness that can be imagined in this fleeting state is not valuable in respect of the future. J. Loeke. As eternity is of greater importance than time, so ought men to be solicitous upon what grounds their expectations with regard to that durable state are built, and on what assurances their hopes or their fears stand. S. Clarke. Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, in- scribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seem very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance. Addison. None can comprehend etermity but the eternal God. Eternity is an ocean, whereof we never see the shore ; it is a deep, where we can find no bot- tom ; a labyrinth, from whence we cannot extri- cate ourselves, and where we shall ever lose the door. Rev. T. Bostom. One object of life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity ; we now ask the Sage, the genius, the philosopher, the divine ; none can tell ; but we will open our series to other respondents ; we will ask angels—God J. Foster. Our imagination so magnifies this present exist- ence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce etermity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity ; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us, that all the force of rea- Son cannot induce us to lay it aside. Pascal. Let the man who now slumbers at his ease, rise and shake off the torpor and indifference which oppress him ; let him seriously ponder the impor- tant concerns of eternity till his heart be affected; let him join in unfeigned and oft-repeated prayer, crying, “Lord, so teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Madison. In my solitary and retired imagination, I remenº. ber I am not alone, and therefore forget not to con- template Him and His attributes, especially those two mighty ones, His wisdom and eternity ; with the one I lecreate, with the othér I confound my understanding; for who can speak of ternity with- out a solecism, or think thereof with an ecstacy ? Sir T. Browne. ETERNITY. Eternity invests every state, whether of bliss or of suffering, with a mysterious and awful impor- tance entirely its own, and is the only property in the creation which gives that weight and moment to whatever it attaches compared to which all sub- lunary joys and Sorrows, all interests which know a period, fade into the most contemptible insignifi- CallC6. R. Hall. Who is competent to measure the height, span the breadth, or fathom the depth of a boundless eternity ; arithmeticians have figures to compute all the progressions of time ; astronomers form imaginery lines by which they measure the hea- vens and the earth; mariners have their plummets, by which they sound the depth of the waters; but by no human method whatever can mortals sound the depths of etermity. Who can number the sand Of the sea, the drops of rain, and the days of eter- nity ? W. L. Browne. Suppose, after one of our most violent snow- storms, which covers the earth for thousands of miles, one single flake were melted in a thousand years ; or if a single beam of the sun's rays stood for a year, and as many years were added as there have been rays flooding the earth since the sun be- gan to shine ; or if a single drop of the Ocean were exhaled in a million years, till the last drop was taken up ; though we cannot conceive the duration of such apparently almost interminable periods, yet though we could, eternity would stretch as far beyond them as if they had not yet begun. H. W. Beecher. ETHICS. We should all know the ethics of life. J. Ellis. The science of ethics teaches men their duty, and the reasons of it. Paley. I will never set politics against ethics; for true ethics are but as a handmaid to divinity and reli- gion. - Lord Bacom. Whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur, is in itself ethical. Bulwer. Ethics make a man's soul mannerly and wise ; but logic is the armory of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons. T. Fuller. If the atheists would live up to the ethics of Epi- curus himself, they would make few or no prose- lytes from the Christian religion. R. Bentley. Ethics is the doctrine of manners, or Science of philosophy, which teaches men their duty and the springs and principles of human conduct. G. Mawmder. The science or philosophy of morals is sometimes called ethics; it treats of human conduct, and teaches such rules as lead to wise, good, and right actions. Mrs. Willard. Ethics and sacred literature should Occupy a prominent place in our system ; these embrace a wide range, and comprehend some of the most gifted minds of which our world can boast. Mrs. Sigourmey. A R O S E O U O T A T / O M S. 241 ETIQUETTE. Etiquette regulates our conduct. Mrs. Sherwood. Etiquette has no regard to moral qualities. D. Jerrold. It is starch makes the gentleman ; etiquette the lady. Beaw, Brwmmell. A violation of the rules of etiquette is no mark of genius or learning. G. Ellis. Etiquette is not to be worshipped, nor yet is it to \, be indifferently overlooked. T. Hill. He that would please in company must be atten- tive to the forms of etiquette. Bommard. A moderate knowledge of etiquette gives a man Some assurance, and makes him easy in all com- panies. E. Budgell. Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of Society according to its rank. J. R. M’Culloch. A moderate conformation to the laws of etiquette is well ; it is when men are precise in carrying out those laws that they become absurd. W. T. Burke. As good-breeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equals, so etiquette is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Steele. So long as we are in the world, we must, to a certain extent, conform to its fashions; the estab- lished rules of etiquette are not to be lightly passed by. - S. Frost. We show wisdom by a decent conformity to so- cial etiquette ; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in man, and coquetry in WOIIla,I). Robert Adam. Man, a social animal, is formed to please in so- ciety, and a person that would break through the rules of etiquette, so as to shock those he conversed with, would lose the public esteem, and become incapable of doing any good. Montesquiew. EUTIOGY. To eulogize the dead is not flattery. Solom. Compose a eulogy for him who deserves it. Llyglow. It is better to be eulogized for truth than honored for lying. E. Eadmer. No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. St. Awgustine. He that does nothing himself worthy of praise, is ever backward in pronouncing a eulogy upon others. Jwstim. Eulogies have a tendency to be fulsome, but it is only right for us to listen to all the good that can be said of men. W. T. Buºrke. For a man to eulogize too much his own writ- ings, is to give men occasion to speak evil both of him and his works. Scotws Adam. Many brave young men have oftentimes, through hearing the praises and famous eulogies of worthy men, been stirred up to affect the like commenda- tions. E. Spenser. EVANGELIST. The evangelists were holy mem. Hollingshead. The facts related in the evangelists may be de- pended on. J. Trum.cºm. No language can equal the Sublime simplicity of the evangelist's narrative. C. Tonstall. It is not true that the evangelists contradict each other, or themselves. Bishop Watson. Evangelists, who go forth taking nothing of the Gentiles, are the Church's stipendiaries. Heard. The evangelists were men in whom the truth displayed itself in deeds rather than words; they evangelized not only the church, but the world. Spurgeon. Evangelists are matter-of-fact men ; they are rather inspired by the past than the present ; the facts of the Gospel are their all and in all ; of the laws of the facts they know nothing ; they are believers, but blind. Dr. Pulsford. One mark of integrity which appears in the compositions of the evangelists, is the simple, um- affected, and unostentatious manner in which they deliver truths so important and sublime, and facts SO magnificent and wonderful, as are capable, one would think, of lighting up a flame of oratory, even in the dullest and coldest breasts. G. West. How admirable is the wisdom of the evangelists; they never speak injuriously of the enemies of Jesus Christ, or of his judges ; they report the fact without a single reflection ; they comment neither on their Master's mildness when He was smitten, nor on His constancy in the hour of ignominious death, which they thus describe—“And they cru- cified Jesus.” Racine. EVASION. Be above all evasion. J. W. French. Evasion becometh not a teacher. Rabbi Samwel. As soon as a law is made, an evasion is con- trived. Gil Vicente. The evasion of a direct answer weakens the tes- timony of a witness. N. Webster. Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation. Balzac. Subterfuges and studied evasions are but as the birth of the laboring mountains, wind and empti- Ił6SS. J. Glanvill. The evil-doer, like Cain, when interrogated con- cerning his wickedness, seeks to evade the question by asking another. C. Hammond. Evasions are the common shelter of the hard- hearted, the false, and impotent, when called upon to assist ; the really great alone plan instantane- Ous help, even when their looks or words presage difficulties. Lavater. There is no evasion where God intends a revenge. It is a good care how we may not anger. God ; it is a vain study how "ve may fly from his judgments when we havg angered him; if we would run out of the world, even there shall we find his revenges far greater. Joseph Hall. 16 242 AD A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. FVENING. IEVENTS. Every evening brings us nearer God. M. Luther. There is no event that is discordant. Beecher, The evening is an emblem of autumn, and au- Certain signs precede certain events. Cicero. tumn an emblem of declining life. J. Gwy. There is hardly anything that gives a more sen- sible delight than the enjoyment of a cool, still evening, after the uneasiness of a hot, Sultry day. • . Steele. We should amuse our evening hours of life, in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted, to a happier clime. Washington. When the evening hour is come, and the cares of the day are gone, the heart can dwell aloft from the world, and recall all the scenes of the past, and contemplate the events of the future. Montpelier. Is there not an evening to every day ? Comes not the morning back again after the most terrific night 2 Sometimes I have thought the Sun can never rise again ; and yet it came back again with its early dawn. Tieck. When at eve, at the bounding of the landscapes the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope—a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal. . Mme. De Stael. There is no part of the day that does not afford us pleasures both for our senses and Our minds as the evening ; while the Sunilluminates the horizon, a thousand agreeable objects strike our eyes; and when the night spreads its veil the majesty of the sky transports and charms us. Sturm. There is an eventide in the day and hour when the sun retires and the shadows fall, and when nature assumes the appearance of Soberness and silence ; it is an hour which in all ages the good have loved, as bringing with it sentiments and affections more valuable than all the splendor of the day, then the world is withdrawn from us and we feel Ourselves alone. A. Alison. A summer's evening ! How beautiful it is when the sum is just hovering over the verge of the west- ern horizon, and nature is arrayed in her most glorious dress, to admire its magnificent and suc- cessive scenes; all things are voiceful and full of meaning, our senses are animated and regaled ; our minds and souls expanded and edified ; and it is here we may learn the most valuable and im- portant lessons of His divine beneficence and good- 1162.SS. James Ellis. There are two periods in the life of man in which the evening houris peculiarly interesting—in youth and in old age. In youth, we love it for its mellow moonlight, its million of stars, its thin, rich, and shooting shades, its still serenity; to youth evening is delightful; it accords with the flow of his light spirits, the fervor of his fancy, and the softness of his heart. Evening is also the delight of a virtuous age ; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life, it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it. Bulwer. Time is not measured by hours, but by events. C. E. Lester. Great events have sent before them their an- nouncementS. Calderon. Events affect nations and communities as well as individuals. G. Crabb. There can be no peace in human life, without the contempt of all events. L’Estrange. The events of life are a sacred text on which the mind may ponder and comment. Mad. Swetchine. The more unforeseen and unexpected events are, the more do they frighten and cause terror to man- kind. Guicciardini. Great events may be traced back to certain great thoughts, which stand to them in the same relation as obscure progenitors to illustrious descendants. Bovee. It is an old supposition, that all events are linked together by an invincible fatility; the situation of all nations on the globe are derived from a chain of events, apparently quite unconnected by any one thing, and connected with everything. Voltaire. It is not at all surprising that fortune being ever changeable, should, in the course of numberless ages, often hit on events perfectly similar ; for if there be no limit to the number of events that hap- pen, fortune can have no difficulty in furnishing herself with parallels in this abundance of matter; whereas, if their number be limited, there must ne- cessarily be a return of the same occurrences when the whole cycle has been gone through. Plutarch. EVIDENCE. - Nothing that is self-evident can be the proper subject of examination. R. Sowth. Evidence is the impression made upon a man's own mind, through his own Senses. Colton. One eye-witness is of more weight than ten who give evidence merely from hearsay. Planttws, The judges and sages of the law have laid it down that there is but one general rule of evidence —the best that the nature of the case will admit. y Lord Hardwicke. Though no evidence affects the fancy so strongly as that of sense, yet there is other evidence which gives us full satisfaction and as clear a conviction to our reason. F. Atterbury. Reason can never permit the mind to reject a greater evidence to embrace what is less evident, nor allow it to entertain probability in opposition to knowledge and certainty. J. Locke. It should be a permanent rule of opinion, not to reject one thing for less evidence than you believe another; it should also be a rule of similar force in conduct, to make the honesty you Solicit from others the measure of your own integrity. N. Macdonald. A R O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 243 EVIL. - None are all evil. Byron. Evil be to him who evil thinks. Edward III. Evil is more frail than nonentity. Zoroaster. Evil counsel is swift in its march. Plutarch. In evil counsel women exceed men. Syrus. Evil is evil because it is unnatural. F. W. Robertson. All evils are equal when they are extreme. Corneille. Of two evils the less is always to be chosen. T. & Kempis. In the world there is no evil without a remedy. - Samnazaro. Often the fear of one evil leads us into a worse. Boileant. He who is an evil is also in the punishment of evil. Swedenborg. There is not one false man but does uncountable evil. T. Carlyle. No evil is great if it is the last which we are to bear. C. Nepos. He that helpeth an evil man hurteth him that is good. Crates. The doing an evil to avoid an evil cannot be good. Coleridge. To great evils we submit; we resent little provo- Cations. Hazlitt. We cannot do evil to others without doing it to Ourselves. Desmahis. Good and evil meet on the earth, as on an arena for battle. T. L. Harris. All men are full of evil, and removed from truth and justice. Heraclitus. The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils, Junius. An evil intention perverts the best actions and makes them sins. Addison. Real and imaginary evils have the same effect on the human mind. J. Bartlett. The evil with which men are best acquainted is the most tolerable. Livy. To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil. Mohammed. By the very constitution of our nature, moral evil is its own course. T. Chalmers. In human affairs there is no evil that has not some good mingled with it. Gwicciardini. Men ought not to devise evils against one an- ther ; evil deeds never prosper. Homer. Imaginary evils soon become great ones by in- dulging our reflections on them. Swift. The remembrance of evil things is to be observed by the contemplation of good matters. Thomas Atkinsom. EVIL. The evils from which we suffer are seldom posi- tive evils, but only comparative. Bovee. There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental. Sir P. Sidney. There is no moral evil in the world separate from the condition and will of man. Acton. There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one that is striking at the root. Thoreaw. Nothing is to be esteemed evil which God and na- ture have fixed with eternal sanction. J. Taylor. Not to return one good office for another is in- human; but to return evil is diabolical. Seneca. Evil report, like the Italian stilletto, is an assas- sin's weapon, worthy only of the bravo. Mme. de Maintenon. If we stand boggling at imaginary evils, let us never blame a horse for starting at a shadow. L’Estrange, If ever we ought to be economists even to parsi- mony, it is in the voluntary production of evil. Burke. Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils, but present evils triumph over philosophy. Rochefoucauld. The dread of evil is a much more forcible prin- ciple of human actions than the prospect of good. J. Locke. It is not possible to get rid of evil altogether; for there must always be something opposite to good. Plato. Evil shows its head, its sharp tooth, its fang. A certain amount of evil is done ; but it is limited and Separable. Mºme. Swetchine. To be without evil thoughts is God's best gift ; but we must call him happy who has ended life in prosperity. AEschylus. It is not good to speak evil of all whom we know bad ; it is worse to judge evil of any who may prove good. A. Warwick. Sometimes the very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary. R. Hooker. After some account of good, evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or ab- sence of good. R. Sowth. Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder ; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long. Hannah More. He that intendeth not to do good, should refrain from doing evil ; but it is accounted evil if we re- frain to do good. H. L. Quelen. Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; when it has continued a long time, it is usually more diffi- cult to get rid of. Cicero. In the history of man it has been very generally the case, that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure. E. H. Chapin. 244 AX A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. EVIL. If thou only knewest the evils which others suf- fer, thou wouldst willingly submit to those which thou now bearest. Philemon. A noble spirit meeteth the evils of life as a man that goeth forth into battle, and returneth with victory in his hand. R. Dodsley. Of the origin of evil no universal solution has been discovered; I mean, no solution which reaches all cases of complaint. Paley. Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition ; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always. W. S. Landor. The truest definition of evil is that which repre- sents it as something contrary to mature ; evil is evil because it is unnatural. F. W. Robertson. The evils inflicted by heaven ought to be borne with patient resignation, and the evils inflicted by enemies, with manly fortitude. Thweydides. When the evil is certain, neither complaint nor fear can change our fate; and the man with the least foresight is always the wiseSt. La Fontaine. The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils, even in number ; and no joy can be weighed against the smallest degree of grief or pain. Pliny. If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked account- able 3 Nay, why do we call men wicked at all ? Evil is inevitable, but it is also remediable. H. Mann. Good is positive: evil is merely privative, not absolute ; it is like cold, which is the privation of heat ; all evil is so much death or nonentity. R. W. Emerson. To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, where- by we digest the mixture of our few and evil days. Sir T. Browne. Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil : I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end. Rev. J. Newton. If there was no evil-speaking in the world, thou- Sands would be encouraged to do ills, and would rush into many indecorums, like a horse into the battle, were they sure to escape the tongues of men. Sterme. We should keep acknowledged evil out of the way of youth and its fealty ; as we would avert frost from the blossom, and protect vegetable or animal life of any kind in its immaturity, from perilous exposure. R. Walsh. In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thy own self ; another is but one witness against thee ; thou art a thousand ; another thou mayst avoid, but thyself thou canst not ; wickedness is its own punishment. F. Quarles. Evils in the journey of life, are like the hills which alarm travellers upon their road ; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them, we find that they are far less insurmounta- ble than we had conceived. Colton. EVIL. There can be no doubt that there are certain evil qualifies of character which we feel the presence of, and shun by a sort of instinct ; like a blind per- son on the edge of a precipice, we feel the danger which we can neither see nor comprehend. Princess de Salm-Dyck. Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as evil in the world. There may be inconveniences, which Our want of knowledge may induce us to call evils; but if we seriously sit down to use our intelligence, and examine according to our reason, we shall dis- cover that positive evil is a mere chimera. Sir R. Maltravers. Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite va- riety ; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good ; and often particular evil of this class passes for good ; it needs even a certain greatness of Soul to attain to this, as to that which is good. Pascal. That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horse-back, and go away on foot : we have often seen a sudden fall, or one meal's surfeit bath stuck by many to their graves ; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur. R. Hall. As surely as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil ; for by the religious mind, sickness, and pain, and death, are not to be accounted evils. Moral evils are of your own mak- ing ; and undoubtedly the greater part of them may be prevented. Deformities of mind, as of body, will sometimes occur. Southey. EXACTNESS. Exactness is the sublime of fools. Fontenelle. A ruler should not be too exact with his people in small matters. Chung Kung. The exactest vigilance cannot maintain a single day of unmingled innocence, Dr. Johnson. Some think that their exactness in one duty will atone for their neglect in another. S. Rogers. A grateful person being the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims his debts. R. Sowth. Kings may be enriched by exactions, but their power is weakened by the consequent disaffection of their subjects. N. Webster. Early habits of method and regularity will make a man very exact in the performance of all his du- ties, and particularly punctual in his payments. G. Crabb. Many gentlemen turn out of the seats of their ancestors, to make way for such new masters as have been more exact in their accounts than them- selves. Addison. Men often speak contemptuously of over-exact- ness, of attending to minute and subtle distinctions, while these minute distinctions are exactly those which call for careful attention in all who would escape or detect error. Sir W. Dugdale. A R O S E O U O T A 7" / O M. S. 245 EXAGGERATION. Avoid exaggeration in discourse. Mrs. Sigourmey. Make due allowance for exaggeration. & H. Stephens. Praise and blame ; but do not exaggerate. Al-Iraki. We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. La Harpe. A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes. Addison. Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood, and nearly as blamable. H. Ballow. It is a species of slander, to lessen the merits or exaggerate the failings of others. W. Gilpin. Avoid all exaggeration, and be sober, modest, and truthful in all your observations. G. Mogridge. There is in us a tendency to exaggeration ; we exaggerate the merits of our friends, and the worth- lessness of our enemies. Bovee. Exaggeration is not only one form of falsehood, it is one of its worst forms: since the swollen and contagious body gains admission by walking in upon healthy legs. Berz. Exaggeration, as to rhetoric, is “using a vast force to lift a feather;” as to morals and character, it is using falsehood to lift one's self out of the con- fidence of his fellow-men. Hugo Arnot. The habit of exaggeration, like dram-drinking, becomes a slavish necessity, and they who practise it pass their lives in a kind of mental telescope, through whose magnifying medium they look upon themselves and everything around them. J. B. Owen. Exaggeration is neither thoughtful, wise, nor safe : it is a proof of the weakness of the under- standing, or the want of discernment of him that utters it, so that even when he speaks the truth, he soon finds it is received with large discount, or ut- ter unbelief. W. B. Kinney. Never to speak by superlatives is a sign of a wise man ; for that way of speaking wounds either truth or prudence. Exaggerations are so many prostitutions of reputation ; because they discover the weakness of understanding, and the bad dis- cerning of him that speaks. J. Earle. There is a sort of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in ex- aggeration ; their usual intention is to please and entertain ; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be truth, these people mis- take the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame. Hume. The habit of exaggeration in language should be guarded against ; it misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive ; it imposes on us the society Of a balloon, when a moderately-sized skull would fill the place much better; it begets much evil in promising what it cannot perform, and we have Often found the most glowing declarations of in- tended good services end in mere Irish vows. Eliza Cook. EXALTATION. God can exalt the humble, and destroy the proud. Horace. The higher the exaltation the greater is the fall. Clawdian. He that knoweth himself best exalteth himself least. Plato. Time never fails to bring every exalted reputa- tion to a strict scrutiny. F. Ames. In God all perfections, in their highest degree and exaltation, meet together. Tillotson. Exalt one of base stock to a high degree, and no man living will sooner prove proud. J. Austin. He that exalts himself by other men's heads, climbeth so high that he breaketh his neck. - Richard Atkyns. An ambitious body will go far out of the right way, to be exalted, which his heart desireth. Sir P. Sidney. Men that have their thoughts exalted, and their estates low, live always a pensive and discontented life. Earl of Ancrum. Men, however exalted may be their sphere, ought to be on their guard against the lowly, for skill and address may enable them to take revenge. Phaedrus. Exalt not thyself to the heavens; for, lo l the angels are above thee : nor disdain thy fellow-in- habitants of the earth, though they are inferior to thee. Are they not the work of the same hand Ž R. Dodsley. EXAMINATION. Examine thoroughly and impartially, and then judge. Lyman Cobb. Be always more ready to examine than justify your conduct. N. Macdonald. Examine all things with care ; and fix not on anything too suddenly. Annie E. Lancaster. The body of man is such a subject as stands the utmost test of examination. Addison. We ought, before it be too late, to examine our souls, and provide for futurity. W. Woºke. The student examines the evidences of Christian- ity, that he may strengthen his belief. G. Crabb. Different men according to their examination, skill, or observation of the subject, have different €SSen CeS. J. Locke. Examinations are formidable, even to the best prepared ; for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Colton. Did we examine our own thoughts attentively, we should have less time to detect, and more in- clination to pardon, those of others. G. B. English. Shall we examine new theories, hoping for im- provement ; or, shall we condemn and reject, with- out examination, whatever lacks the stamp of age 3 O. B. Peirce, 246 JJ A V 'S CO /, / A C O AV. EXAMPLE. EXAMPLE. Most of my actions are guided by example, not Beware of setting examples that you would be choice. Montaigne, ashamed to have others follow, or that would be Examples make a greater impression upon us than precepts. J. Hughes. The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example. Sir C. Morell. Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding. Pliny. A good example is one of the loudest bells to toll people to church. G. S. Bowes. Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men. S. Rogers. No man is so insignificant as to be sure his ex- ample can do no hurt. Lord Claremolom. Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule. E. Spenser. Learn from the example of others what may be to your own advantage. Terence. An example easy to be imitated in its faults is sure to deceive the ignorant. Horace. No precepts are sufficiently able to enforce what our example tends to destroy. N. Macdonald. Every man is bound to tolerate the act of which he himself has set the example. Phoedrus. Example is a dangerous lure ; where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. La Fontaine. No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example. H. Ballow. Let your good example meet sin at every turn, and put it out of countenance in every place. Dr. Sprat. One of the most effectual means of doing good, and impressing the minds of others, is by example. C. Buck. If a man cannot leave such property to his friends as he may wish, he can at least leave a good exam- ple. Seneca. Is example nothing? It is everything : example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no Other. Burke. There is a transcendent power in example ; we reform others unconsciously when we walk up- rightly. Mme. Swetchine. What the world wants is good examples, not so much advice ; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves. H. W. Shaw. Nothing is so contagious as example ; never was there any considerable good or ill done, that did not produce its like. Rochefoucauld. Example is more forcible than precept ; people look at my six days in the week, to see what I mean on the seventh. Lord Burleigh. Examples of vicious courses practised in a domes- Lic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons of authority. Jwvemal. E. Rich. There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law. Montesquiew. injurious if followed. There is no service which a man of commanding intellect can render his fellow-creatures better than that of leaving behind him an unspotted example. A. Norton, Precept is instruction written in the sand ; the tide flows over it and the record is gone ; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost. W. E. Chamming. There is only one remedy existing that is, to do good as far as in us lies ; example preaches better than precept, and that too because it is so much more difficult. G. Forster. It is much more easy to imitate bad example than good, because it has our natural inclination On its side ; perverse natures find a positive grati- fication in doing wrong. Chatfield. Those who know what is right, should set the example of practicing it and those who persist in doing wrong must be made an example to deter others from doing the same. G. Crabb. Whatever parent gives his children good instruc- tion, and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in One hand and poison in the other. John Balgwy. A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage ; the good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them; the bad he will by all means avoid. T. d. Kempis. He that gives good precepts, and follows them by a bad example, is like a foolish man who should take great pains to kindle a fire, and when it is kindled, throw cold water upon it to quench it. T. Secker. It is of infinite importance that we never expect from our children that which we do not do our- selves, and that all we enjoin or forbid should be strengthened by the powerful authority of our own example. W. Burdom, Example is universally allowed to be more pow- erful than precept; when we wish to stimulate or to warn, we ought to have recourse to such examples as will allure by their practicability, or deter by their consequences. W. Mavor. The example of a sovereign derives its powerful influence from that pride inherent in the constitu- tion of our nature, which dictates to all not to copy their inferiors, but which at the same time causes imitation to descend. Colton. Example has more followers than reason ; we unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and insensi- bly approximate to the characters we most admire. In this way, a generous train of thought and of ac- tion carries with it an incalculable influence. Bovee. A A' O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 247 EXAMPLE. If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices; thou canst not rebuke that in children that they behold practised in thee, till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts ; such as thy behavior is before thy chil- dren's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs. F. Quarles. Examples should suffice for our instruction, if we ought to be guided by example alone ; but example often is only a deceitful mirror ; and the law of fate which constrains our thoughts, is not always written in past events ; sometimes one is wrecked where another is saved, and where one perishes another is preserved. Corneille. Though “the words of the wise be as nails fas- tened by the masters of the assemblies,” yet sure their examples are the hammer to drive them in to take the deeper hold. A father that whipped his son for swearing, and swore himself while he whipped him, did more harm by his example than good by his correction. T. Fuller. In the discharge of thy place, set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of pre- cepts; and after a time set before thee thine own examples ; and examine thyself strictly whether thou didst not best at first. Neglect not also the examples of those that have carried themselves ill in the same place ; not to set off thyself by taxing their memory, but to direct thyself what to avoid. Lord Bacon. The examples of vice that we witness at home corrupt us more speedily and sooner, when they insinuate themselves into our minds, sanctioned by those on whom our earliest thoughts dwell ; such practices may, perhaps, be spurned by One or two youths whose hearts have been formed by God with kindlier art and moulded of a purer clay ; but their sire's footsteps, though they deserve to be shunned, lead on the rest, and the path of in- veterate profligacy that has long been pointed out to them lures them on. Juvenal, Examples do more compendiously, easily, and pleasantly inform our minds than precepts. Pre- cepts are delivered in a universal and abstracted manner, maked, and void of all circumstantial at- tire, without any intervention, assistance, or suf- frage of Sense; but good example, with less trouble, more speed, and greater efficacy, causes us to com- prehend the business representing it like a picture exposed to sense, having the parts orderly disposed and completely united, contained in a narrow Compass and perceptible at one glance. I. Barrow. Example is one of the most potent of instructors, though it teaches without a tongue; it is the prac- tical School of mankind, working by action, which is always more forcible than words. Precept may point to us the way; but it is silent, continuous ex- ample, conveyed to us by habits, and living with us in fact, that carries us along ; good advice has its weight ; but without the accompaniment of a good example it is of comparatively small influ- ence ; and it will be found that the common saying of “Do as I say, not as I do,” is usually reversed in the actual experience of life. Smiles. EXCELLENCE. f Excellence of the soul is chiefest of all good that can exist. Plato. Excellence is never granted to man but as the re- ward of labor. Sir J. Reynolds. A man of excellence will ever give respectability to any situation, J. Bartlett. If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. Colton. If sculptured excellence is worthy of admiration, how much more so is living worth. Magoon. Birth and fortune never gave any man much ad- vantage in the career of excellence. A. Barmes. We measure the excellence of other men by some excellence we conceive to be in ourselves. Selden. Nothing great or excellent can be accomplished without the most resolute perseverance. - J. W. Barker. Those who seek excellence in every art, must not repine at the labors and the sacrifices it calls for. - Bovee, -sº- A man that is desirous to excel, should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excel- lent. Epictetus. Much of the real as well as fictitious excellence which has adorned the world, may be traced to the principle of emulation. J. S. Buckminster. That company is to be avoided that is good for nothing ; and that to be sought and frequented that excels in some quality. Sir W. Temple. Nothing is such an obstacle to the production of excellence as the power of producing what is pretty good with ease and rapidity. J. Aiken. Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one common pursuit : for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. Dr. Johnson. Excellence of any sort is invariably placed be- yond the reach of indolence ; and any solid reputa- tion can only be attained by emergetic application. S. Smiles. Excellence is providentially placed beyond the reach of indolence, that success may be the reward of industry, and that idleness may be punished with obscurity and disgrace. Biom. Among the other excellencies of man this is one, that he can form an idea of perfection much be- yond what he has experience of in himself ; and is not limited in his conception of wisdom and virtue. Hume. He who excels in his art, so asto carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable, may be said in some measure to go beyond it : his transcendant productions admit of no appellations. - Bruyère. It is not wonderful, that base desires should ex- tinguish in men the sense of their own excellency, as to make them willing that their Souls should be like the souls of beasts, mortal and corruptible with their bodies 2 R. Hooker. 248 J) A Y',S C O Z / A C O AV. EXCELLENCE. EXCESS. If thou doth distinguish thyself among the most Avoid excess. Demophilus. excellent, thy talents shall be noticed ; but if thou s remainest in mediocrity, thou wilt merit nothing Excess is dangerous. Ancelot. but contempt. a- Calansom. Seek nothing in excess. Pyrrho. Excellence, in whatever department, must be the — e child of an ardent general predilection; it can never Repress excess of passion. Magalotti. be the offspring of qualities, however eminent, con- Excess weakens the spirits Confucius strained from their native bias. T. Amory. Those who aim at excellence must possess a con- tinuity of character, joined with strength, bravery, and an unfaltering nerve ; with these it will be a crowning triumph ; without them a disastrous defeat. Pierre d’Awvergne. Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fabled flower, which, according to the Rabbis, Eve plucked when going out of paradise—severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden.; and while charming—beautiful, but dead. C. Stamford. If every one could be made to feel how full the world is of excellence, and how much must be done to produce anything worthy of being placed beside what has already been produced, scarcely one would feel enough courage, perseverance, and tal- ent to work quietly for the attainment of a similar mastery. Goethe. The desire to attain to excellence marks a supe- rior mind ; ignoble natures are content to dwell upon the dead level of mediocrity, without a single aspiration to mount ambition's ladder, scale the walls of honorable renown, or breathe the purer ethereal that circles around the mountain tops of virtuous celebrity. Lowise Malcolm Stenton. The desire of excellence is the mecessary attri- bute of those who excel. With the desire for ex- cellence comes, therefore, the desire for approba- tion ; and this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence ; the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge. Bulwer. EXCEPTION. To God's laws there are no exceptions. R. Abbot. Deal not with exceptions, but with general prin- ciples. Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose. Laws should be greater than any exception to to them. Halkerstan. An exception which confirms the law, also ex- pounds the law. Bulstrode. Nothing can be rendered more exceptionable than an exception, even when accompanied with an invidious eulogy. H. Smith. Every exception is a rule ; and every rule is sub- ject to its own exceptions. An exception not care- fully watched tends to take the place of a rule. - Bouvier. A consent to accept a particular exception of a joint instrument, made by one of the parties to it, in its own favor, at the time of signing, would justify the idea that some advantage is, or may be suspected to be, intended to be taken by the Other. Charles Francis Adams. Excess of power intoxicates. Mme. de Rémusat. Excess is the bane of enjoyment. D. Arnaud. Avoid excess ; too far east is west. Dyscinetws. Let pleasure be ever so innocent the excess is always criminal. St. Evremond. Enrich not one who has expended an inheritance in folly and excess. Dawphin d’Awvergne. Excess usually causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction. Plato. Excess in laughter drives away respect, excess in jesting drives away politeness. Al-Ahnaf. Excesses are, perhaps, hardly avoidable when great popular forces are set in motion C. Russell. Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect. Zoroaster. It is a hard but good law of fate, that, as every excessive evil, so every excessive power, wears it- self out. He?"der. The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. - Colton. There can be no excess to love, none to know- ledge, none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. R. W. Ehmerson. The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the Divine Spirit we had been endowed with. Horace. If a man get a fever, or a pain in the head with overdrinking, we are subject to curse the wine, when we should rather impute it to ourselves for the excess. Erasmus. The misfortune is, that when a man has found honey, he enters upon the feast with an appetite so voracious that he usually destroys his own delight by excess and Satiety. J. Knoac. He who indulges his sense in any excesses, ren- ders himself obnoxious to his own reason ; and to gratify the brute in him displeases the man and sets his two natures at variance. Sir W. Scott. It is wisely ordered in our present state that joy and fear, hope and grief, should act alternately as checks and balances upon each other, in order to prevent an excess in any of them. H. Blair. The desire of power in excess caused angels to fall ; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can man nor angels come into danger by it. Bacon. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 249 EXCHANGE. Even exchange is no robbery. D. Calderwood. Exchange has a natural tendency to correct it- self. J. R. M’Culloch. An exchange of commodities is a convenient mode of trade. G. Crabb. The world needs an exchange in matters per- taining to science, as well as financial and Com- mercial exchanges. J. E. Holbrook. When exchange is lower than specie, a profit may be made by sending it abroad ; for the same reason, when it is higher than specie, there is a profit in causing it to return. Montesquiew. No nation produces everything ; each nation produces something ; yet each nation can use, ap- propriate, and enjoy the products of all nations, by a judicious system of exchange. E. P. Day. If we examine the various regions of the globe, we shall find that each yields products peculiar to each, which all require; this general want can only be satisfied by exchanges of products, an operation which is eminently advantageous to all. Brisbane. In transactions of trade it is not to be supposed that, like gaming, what one party gains, the other must necessarily lose ; the gain to each may be equal. If A. has more corn than he can consume, but wants cattle, B. has more cattle, but wants corn, exchange is gain to each ; thereby the com- mon comforts in life are increased. Franklin. IEXCITEMENT. By excitement we feel strongly. G. F. Graham. What in private persons is termed excitement, in great men is called fury. G. P. R. James. The raging excitements of the mind punish rea- son, and blind the sight of wisdom. Amaacagoras. As he that loveth quietness sleepeth secure, so he that delights in excitement and anger passeth his days in great danger. R. Dodsley. The weak and superstitious are excited by priest- craft, the enthusiastic by loyalty, the rapacious by the desire of riches, the timid by the fear of the enemies' sword. Sir R. Maltravers. Both in individuals and in masses violent excite- ment is always followed by remission, and often by reaction ; we are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor. T. B. Macawlay. EXCLUSIVENESS. Exclusiveness savors of arrogance. Plato. Exclusiveness is the ruin of business, a bane in social life, and a curse to religion. Mrs. J. Gambier. Human exclusiveness in religion is more than any one ought to be called to endure. J. Bate. It is a satisfaction for us to reflect that those ex- clusives who shut us out from their Society, are by the same act most effectually excluded from OUII* OWI1. M. H. Pike. EXCUSE. A bad excuse confirms a fault. Al-Isfaraini. The ill-doer never wants excuses. Bartholomew. A private excuse will not atone for a public in- Sult. Hamid. Bad men excuse their faults ; good men will leave them. Bem, Jomsom. There are a great many excuses that are worse than the offense. H. W. Shaw. An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. Pope. I never knew a man who was good at making excuses, good at anything else. Franklin. He that does amiss never lacks excuse ; any ex- cuse will serve when one has not a mind to do a thing. Gwicciardini. When a man makes a mistake, let us exercise our ingenuity in trying to find a good excuse for his fault. Yahya Main. The sincere intention of doing a good action, and a good excuse for not doing it, are equivalent to its performance. Yahya Khālid. Petty and shuffling excuses, which satisfy vain and little minds, do but irritate generous ones still more than the fault which they would explain away; there is no valid repentance but that which is full and sincere. Princess de Salm-Dyck. EXECUTIVE. Executive is fulfillment of law. Richardson. The executive power ought to be in the hands of a monarch. Montesquiew. That executive power is best that is vested in One person. J. R. M’Culloch. We should study to defend the rights of the executive and judicial departments. Z. Taylor. The executive power of a nation or a state should be selected from an assembly chosen by the people, and vested with supreme power. B. Ludlow. Where the legislative and executive authority are in distinct hands, the former will take care not to entrust the latter with so large a power as may tend to the subversion of its own indepen- dence, and therewith of the liberty of the subject. º Blackstone. EXEMPTION. There is no exemption from death. Effie Afton. The laws of God exempt no man from the obli- gation to obedience. N. Webster. No man, not even the most powerful among the sons of men, is exempt from the chances of human life. F. Atterbury. The good man prayeth not for exemption from evil, but that he may be able to overcome evil with good. St. Basil. Let us not expect too much pleasure in this life; no situation is exempt from trouble ; the best per- sons, no doubt, are the happiest ; but they too have their trials and afflictions. A. Picket. 250 JJ A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. EXERCISE. Let exercise alternate with rest. Pythagoras. In exercise study to avoid fatigue. Demophilus. Keep the body in health by exercise. Cleobulus. Exercise should be taken at the same hour every day. Dr. S. S. Fitch. Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble con- stitution. Mrs. Sigowrmey. A man must often exercise, or fast, or take phy- sic, or be sick, Sir W. Temple. Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties. H. Blair. You will never live to my age without you keep yourself in breath with exercise. Sir P. Sidney. The exercise of the memory is of the first im- portance in the education of children. G. Crabb. Moderate exercise and toil, so far from preju- dicing, strengthens the body and consolidates it. Dr. Rush. He who has a weak constitution becomes stronger by manual exercise than a robust man without it. Aemophom. Moderate exercise is indispensable : exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue. - Socrates. God madenofaculty, but he also provided it with a proper object upon which it might exercise itself. R. Sowth. Whatever is over-wearied by the day's exercise is, as it were, new born by the night's rest and quiet. Tully. Immoderate labors weaken the body ; but a tem- perate kind of exercise conserveth the same in health. D, Ellis. The body when over-labored becomes heavy and jaded ; but it is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. Cicero. There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise, that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. De Quincy. We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind ; nor exercise the mind with- out the joint assistance of the body. Plato. Men Ought to beware that they use not exercise and spare diet both ; but if much exercise, a plen- tiful diet ; if sparing diet, little exercise. Lord Bacom. The benefit of daily exercise will not only be ac- companied by daily health, but for preventing the intrusion of those maladies which abridge life, or Cut off from it all that constitutes the value of life. D. Unwins. Labor or exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redun- dancies, and helps nature in those secret distribu- tions without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the Soul act with cheerfulness. Addison. EXERCISE. As the exercise of the body natural is moderate recreation, so the exercise of the body politic is military discipline ; by that the one is made more able ; by this, the other is made more active ; where both are wanting, there wants no danger to the One, through a humorous superfluity, to the Other, by a negligent security. F. Quarles. People are afraid to take exercise, because they fancy they want breath, and feel weak; but the very effort would free the heart from this burthen, by urging the blood forward to the extremities; it would ease their breathing by liberating the lungs from the same superabundance ; it would make the frame feel active and light, as the effect of equalized circulation and free action. P. Ayres. He that in his studies wholly applies himself to labor and exercise, and neglects meditation, loses his time ; and he that only applies himself to medi- tation, and neglects labor and exercise, only wan- ders and loses himself. The first can never know anything exactly ; his lights will be always inter- mixed with doubts and obscurities; and the last will only pursue shadows; his knowledge will never be certain, it will never be solid. Confucius. There is a strange slowness in assenting practi. cally to that great law of nature, that the faculties are strengthened only by exercise ; it is so with the body, and it is so with the mind. If a man would strengthen his intellectual faculties, he must exercise them ; if he would improve his taste, he must employ it on the objects of taste ; if he would improve his moral nature and make progress in goodness, he must perform acts of goodness. M. Hopkins. It is certain that as in the body, when no labor or natural exercise is used, the spirits, which want their due employment, turn against the constitu- tion, and find work for themselves in a destructive way: so in a soul or mind unexercised, and which languishes for want of action and employment, the thoughts and affections, being obstructed in their due course, and deprived of their natural energy, raise disquiet, and fonment a rancorous eagerness and tormenting irritation. Shaftesbury. The benefits of exercise, to those whose occupa- tions does not lead them to make any physical ex- ertion, cannot be too highly estimated ; the body must undergo a certain amount of fatigue to pre- serve its natural strength, and maintain all the muscles and organs in proper vigor ; this activity equalizes the circulation, and distributes the blood more effectually through every part : cold feet, or a chill anywhere, shows that the circulation is lan- guid there ; the muscles during exercise press on the veins, and help forward the currents by quick- ening every vessel into activity ; the valves of the heart are in this way aided in the work of sending on this stream, and relieved of a certain amount of labor ; when exercise is neglected, the blood gathers too much about this central region, and the oppression about the heart, difficulty of breath- ing, lowness of spirits, anxiety and heaviness, nu- merous aches and stitches, are evidences of this stagmation. J. W. Mailler. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. EXERTION. - Exertion is vain and foolish when possibility Cea.SeS. Al-Karriya. No valuable acquisition can be secured without exertion. Demophilus. All exertion is in itself delightful, and active amusements seldom tire us. G. Sharp. It requires little exertion to live with money ; genius is always displayed in living without it. J. Bartlett. How often does all exertion seem in vain Our duty is nevertheless to go on, and strive to do all We Carl. L. W. Grimdom. With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good ; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual, to do incalculable mischief. W. Irving. If you would relish your food, use every exertion to labor for it ; if you would enjoy the raiment, pay for it before you wear it; if you would sleep Soundly, take a clear conscience to bed with you. Berz. Exertion never lives in hope or expectation, with arms folded. God helps those that help themselves; Providence Smiles on those who put their shoulders to the wheel that propels to wealth and happiness. W. B. Sprague. When the will has exerted an act of command upon any faculty of the soul, or member of the body, it has done all that the whole man, as a moral agent, can do for the actual exercise or employment of such a faculty or member. R. Sowth. Every one imputes good luck to his own exer- tions; and if we suffer a check, we rail against fortune ; nothing here is more common ; the good, we accomplish it'; the bad, it is fortune's ; we are always in the right, fate always in the wrong. La Fontaine. Those islands which so beautifully adorn the Pacific were reared up from the bed of the ocean by the little coral insect, which deposits one grain of Sand at a time ; SO with human exertions; the greatest results of the mind are produced by small but continued exertions. J. Armstrong. EXIGENCY. A wise man adapts his measures to his exigen- cies. N. Webster. Dissimulation in war may be called stratagem and conduct ; in other exigencies address and dex- terity. W. Broome. As men, we are at Our own choice for time, place and form, according to the exigency of own occa- sions. R. Hooker. While our fortunes exceed not the measure of real convenience, and are adapted to the exigencies of our station, we perceive the hand of Providence in our gradual and successive supplies. S. Rogers. A prudent traveller will never carry more money with him than will supply the exigencies of his journey ; and in case of an emergency, will rather borrow of his friends than risk his property. Crabb. EXILE. An exile feeds on vain hopes. AEschylus. What exile ever fled from himself 3 Horace. Exile draws many evils in its train. Ewripides. A. monarch in exile can count his friends on his fingers. Charles II. He that exileth himself from his country is in banishment already. Aleacander of Hales. Why mourn a short exile from thy country : Death will soon exile thee forever. Ar-Rashid. Exile is serene happiness to a noble mind ; but to a base one it is perpetual misery. James Ellis. Exile would indeed be terrible if the banished could not be accompanied by his own virtues. Cicero. Pity the exile, for he has no home, no country, no people ; he is utterly alone in even the crowded city. Ammie E. Lancaster. Let us extend timely relief to the exile who has been driven to our shores by blighted hopes and un- just laws. G. P. Morris. There is more sorrow in being an exile from a man's own country, than in conquering a world of other nations. Themistocles. Sweet is rest after a long pilgrimage, and great is the comfort that a man in exile takes at the tidings of his recallment. N. Lee. It is a needless question to ask a sick man if he is willing to have health ; or an exile, if he would be called from banishment. C. Blowmt. Before deciding if it be expedient to welcome the exile of another country, it might be well to in- quire critically into the causes for which he was compelled to absent himself from the land of his nativity. Baton. It is considered better that an innocent person should sometimes suffer, and be sent into tempo- rary exile, than that the whole people run the chance of suffering from the designs of an ambi- tious individual. C. Nepos. That man can hardly be considered an exile from his country, who carries with him into banishment a goodly proportion of the heart's affections, and best wishes of the commonwealth from which he has been expelled. J. Garth. Mathematicians tell us that the whole earth is but a point compared to the heavens ; to be exiled from one's country, then, is little more than to re- move from one street to another. Man is not a plant rooted to a certain spot of earth ; all soils and all climates are suited to him alike. Plutarch. That government which consigns a disturber of the state to exile, virtually admitsits own weakness. It is in fact a confession, either that the peculiar tenets of the agitator are founded in justice, or that the sovereign power has not sufficiency of wit, wisdom, and popular trust to show to the contrary. E. P. Day. 252 ZD A V 'S CO Z / A C O AV. EXISTENCE. Existence is no blessing. Napoleon I. Our existence is derived from God. Demophilus. This mortal life is the hope of an existence that is immortal. St. Augustime. Life, as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless Ocean of existence. O. W. Holmes. Existence was given us for action rather than indolent and aimless contemplation. Magoom. Annihilation of itself, termination of the exist- ence of its being, is an idea of which the mind can form no conception. L. Larrabee. One man is quickened into life, where thousands exist as in a torpor, feeding, toiling, sleeping, an insensate weary round. H. K. White. A Supreme Being and first cause of all other be- ings must have existed from etermity, for no being can have created himself. N. Webster. Death is not a break in existence ; it is but an in- termediate circumstance, a transition from one form of our finite existence to another. Hwmboldt. The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence, where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith. Southey. For what end has the lavish hand of Providence diffused innumerable objects of delight, but that all might rejoice in the privilege of existence. T. Coºter. Nature has not conferred upon us a responsible existence, without giving us, at the same time, the strength, rightly exerted, to perform its duties. Bovee. The nearer we approach to the goal of life, the better we begin to understand the true value of our existence, and the real weight of our opinions. Burke. To live is not merely to breathe, it is to act ; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties, of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feel- ing of existence. Rowsseau. Existence is only valuable while it is necessary to some one dear to us ; the moment we become aware that our death would leave no aching void, the charm of life is gone. J. W. Barker. There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuous- ly employed, to trace Out our own progress in ex- istence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor SOTTOW. S. Johnson. Giving full, fair play to the intellect and affec- tions, we not only discover what it is to live, and how easy to live happily, but the period of our exist- ence upon earth ceases to be short, and becomes immensely long. L. W. Grimdom. It is as easy to conceive that an Almighty Power might produce a thing out of nothing, and make that to exist de movo, which did not exist before, as to conceive the world to have had no beginning, but to have existed from eternity. R. Sowth. EXISTENCE. There is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence ; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discov- erable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted Souls. Cicero, What a shame is it for men to complain of God for the shortness of their existence, when they themselves, as short as it is, do through riot, malice, murders, care, and wars, make it much shorter, both in themselves and others. Theophrastus. The date of human life is too short to recom- pense the cares which attend the most private Con- dition ; therefore it is, that our souls are made, as it were, too big for it ; and extend themselves in the prospect of longer existence. Steele. The meditative man endeavors to enlarge his con- ception of the mysteries of his own existence ; and the more he learns, and the deeper he penetrates, the more cause does he find for being serious, and the more inducement to be continually thoughtful. H. K. White. There is, in the consciousness of every man, a deep impression of continued existence. The casu- ist may reason against it till he bewilder himself in his own sophistries; but a voice within gives the lie to his own speculations, and pleads with authority for a life which is to come. Abercrombie. I think, therefore, I am; that is, I who am, think; therefore I, who think, am ; I being supposed to exist, do think, therefore this thinking proves that existence. I could not be certain of my existence except I perceived something ; yet surely the per- ception of my own existence must be both as early and as evident as any other perception. Is it not absurd then to attempt to prove our own existence from any other medium, namely, from any of Our operations ? John Taylor. EXPATRIATION. Expatriation is a willful banishment. Dumont. There are those who, by expatriation, benefit themselves, and relieve their country. E. P. Day. The right to expatriate one's self is denied in feudal countries, and much controverted in the TJnited States. N. Webster. The whole fabric to which the pretended right of expatriation belongs, I regard as unfounded and visionary. T. Dwight. Expatriation may be justifiable in such as love their country, not for itself, but what they possess in it, or obtain from it Hystaspes. A bad man desiring self-expatriation from the body-politic, is not unlike a diseased limb seeking to be cut off from the body-physical. Dr. Duncan. A man who by self-expatriation renounces his allegiance to his native country or sovereignty, should be cautiously trusted by that nation in which he becomes a citizen ; the love of country is inher- ent with our natures, and is never eradicated by an oath. J. Bartlett. A R O S E O U O 7" A T / O AW. S. 253 F}XPECTATION. Expectation ends only in heaven. Rentijerm. In expectation there is happiness. Shi-Ka-Shiw. A good expectation is better than a bad posses- sion. Ibn-Hafsoon-Omar. Expectations are blossoms ; few only mature in fruit. Emperor Ye-Wang. Those who live on expectations are sure to be disappointed. Joachim, Murat. The way not to be disappointed in our expecta- tion is not to expect too much. W. Jenks. In a little place is hid a great treasure, and in a small hope a boundless expectation. J. Bodenham. To expect a requital of benefits bestowed, may rather be counted usury than virtue. John Ellis. The expectation of loving our friends in heaven, kindles our love to them while on earth. Baacter. Expect no more from the world than it is able afford; it promises more than it bestows. J. Gwy. Expectation prepareth applause with the weak, and prejudice with the stronger judgment. Sir H. Wottom. He that will lose a present good for one in ex- pectation, hath some wit, but a small store of wis- dom. Bias. We love to expect, and when expectation is dis- appointed or gratified, we want to be again ex- pecting. Dr. Johnson. Those who live in expectation of an inheritance, must expect to receive the evil as well as the good there with. Lord Norbwry. The glorious expectation of meeting a heavenly kingdom after death, makes one look with disfavor upon marriage on earth. Abbess Werebwrge. Nothing in this world is so fatal to the develop- ment of the intellectual powers of the young, as what are commonly called expectations. Arster. Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life : security is an insipid thing ; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. Congreve. We part more easily with what we possess, than with the expectation of what we wish for ; and the reason of it is, that what we expect is always greater than what we enjoy. G. E. Ayscough. We ought not to speculate on the future as if it were already past, nor build expectations on events which may eventually turn out very differently from what they seemed at first to promise. Polybius. In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment by expectation ; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness and worldly pleasures by delightful forethoughts of them ; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing. Tillotson. EXPEDIENCY. Whatever is right, is expedient. C. M. Clay. Nations are ruled by expediencies. Ismaeloff. Franklin, Expediency is the nursery of time. It is always expedient to deal justly. S. P. Chase. Expediency is the science of exigencies. Kossuth. It is sometimes necessary to sacrifice comfort to expediency. Mrs. Amelia, Bloomer. Expediency, to effect some good end, is always suitable and justifiable. V. Mott, It is always a mistake to do a thing not exactly right, for the sake of expediency. U. S. Grant. Too many expedients may spoil an affair; we lose time in choosing. Let us have one ; but let it be a good One. Fontaine. Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be "true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good for a less. Whately. There is nothing expedient which is not also honorable, nothing honorable which is not also ex- pedient ; and there is no greater injury done to men than by those who try to separate them. Cicero. It is easy to see how moral discipline must fare under the doctrine of expediency—a doctrine which teaches man to be looking continually abroad—a doctrine which not only justifies but enjoins a dis- trust of the suggestions of the inward monitor. R. Hall. EXPENSE. Discourage useless expense. Franklin. Living is attended by expense. Mary J. Graham. A wise man moderates expense. H. Dafi. We should serve God even at the expense of life itself. St. Severinus. Expense may be an essential part in true eco- nomy. Burke. Is expense an object, if by that expense we carry law and protection to every man 2 David Ramsay. Remove from an expensive Country ; to beg is meanness, and to starve is stupid. S. Curwen. The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense, corrupts the purest Souls. Fénélon. A ruler should not indulge in extravagant ex- penses, lest he should lay too heavy burdens on his people. Lowis IX. That man is to be accounted poor, of whatever rank he be, and suffer the pains of poverty, whose expenses exceed his resources; and no other man is, properly speaking, poor. Paley. A man had need, if he be plentiful in some kind of expense, to be as saving again in some other ; as, if he be plentiful in diet, to be saving in apparel; if he be plentiful in the hall, to be saving in the stable, and the like, for he that is plentiful in ex- penses of all kinds will hardly be preserved from decay. Lord Bacon. 254 JD A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. EXPERIENCE. Experience is the boast of age. Anne Bacon. Experience is a good teacher, but costly. Solom. Experience is more serviceable than precepts. Qwintiliam. All is but lip wisdom which wants experience. * Sir P. Sidney. Experience, acquired by faults, is a very costly master. Stanislaws. Experience is the key that unlocketh the door of science. Confucius. Experience avails more in making one's fortune than wit. Experience always sows the seeds of one thing after another. Marviliws. Man knows nothing but what he has learned from experience. C. M. Wielcºnd. Experience sees much that is doubtful, deceitful, false, and hollow. Sir W. Scott. Experience has to clarify youth's force of con- ception and vigor of action. Mme. Swetchine. There is nothing so easy to learn as experience, and nothing SO hard to apply. H. W. Shaw. Experience teaches wise men how to avoid dan- gers, but fools, how to create them. N. Macdonald. Experience is the most eloquent of preachers, but she never has a large congregation, Berz, Experience does take dreadfully high School- wages, but he teache like no other. T. Carlyle. Experience is an unerring guide, which no man can desert without falling into error. G. Crabb. Experience is that chill touchstone whose sad proof reduces all things from their hue. Byron. No definition, no supposition of any sect, is of force enough to destroy constant experience. Locke. How frequently in the course of our lives do we gain an experience by the loss of pleasure C. Nordhoff. Experience, in its strict sense, applies to what has occurred within a person's own knowledge. - R. Whately. Nobody will use other people's experience, nor has any of his own till it is too late to use it. N. Hawthorne. Experience is dear-bought wisdom, of great value to ourselves, but seldom of much use to others. Armobiws. A man may, by experience, be persuaded that his will is free ; that he can do this or not do it. Tillotson. Icall those experienced whoseminds are strength- ened by knowledge, as the hands are hardened by labor. Cicero. To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. S. T. Coleridge. Bruyère. . EXPERIENCE. Experience is the common School-house of fools and ill men ; men of wit and honesty are other- wise instructed. Erasmus. Experience has taught us little, if it has not in- - structed us to pity the errors of others, and to amend our Own. Amelia, B. Edwards. The knowledge drawn from experience is quite of another kind from that which flows from specu- lation or discourse. R. Sowth. No man was ever so completely killed in the con- duct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. Terence. Would they could sell us experience, though at diamond prices; but then no one would use the article second-hand 1 Balzac. The powerful are more deaf to the voice of ex- perience than their inferiors, from the very circum- stances in which they are placed. Colton. It is a painful thing to re-experience experience ; to be doubly lashed by the thongs of folly, and to fall a second time into the stream. Dw.failli. We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought ; we learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it. JBovee. It is experience that causeth our mind to move forward by the skill we acquire, while want of experience subjects us to the effects of chance. Plato. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that ; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. Franklin. In all instances where our experience of the past has been extensive and uniform, Our judgment concerning the future amounts to moral certainty. .J. Beattie. Every man's experience of to-day, is that he was a fool yesterday and the day before yesterday: to-morrow he will most likely be of exactly the same opinion. C. Mackay. Experience, gained from the consequence of our faults, almost always, sooner or later, gives us a vague and unsatisfactory consciousness that such things exist within us. Biom. Experience gradually teaches us that the greater part of what we look upon as misfortunes, arises from our endeavoring to hasten or constrain the natural course of events. Princess de Salm-Dyck. Experience is like medicine ; some persons re- quire larger doses of it than others, and do not like to take it pure, but a little disguised and better adapted to the taste; like medicine, also, it is a cure for many ills to which we are liable. Acton. How little do we know of even our most familiar associates. Hopes, feelings, and passions petrify one after another ; the crust of experience SOOn hardens over the hidden past , and who, looking on the calm and subdued exterior, could dream of the wreck and ravage that lies below 2 Edwards. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 255 EXPERIENCE. . The present only has a being in nature ; things past have a being in the memory only ; but things to come have no being at all, the future being but a fiction of the mind, applying the sequels of ac- tions past to the actions that are present, which with most certainty is done by him that has most experience. T. Hobbes. A man of the best parts, and the greatest learn- ing, if he does not know the world by his own ex- perience and observation, will be very absurd ; and consequently very unwelcome in company; he may say very good things ; but they will be probably so ill-timed, or improperly addressed, that he had much better hold his tongue. Chesterfield. Verily they be fewest in number that be happy Or wise by unlearned experience ; and look well upon the former life of those few, who without learning have gathered, by long experience, a lit- tle wisdom and some happiness ; and when you do consider what mischief they have committed, what dangers they have escaped, then think well with yourself, whether you would that your own son should come to wisdom and happiness by the way of such experience or no. R. Ascham. EXPERIMENT. Experiments confirm our opinions. G. Crabb. Life is only an experiment, and it rests with man to make it a success. Sacchetti. When we are searching out the nature or pro- perties of any being by various methods of trial, this sort of observation is called experiment. Watts. Science advances by experiments which are un- dertaken by scientific men, and an experiment is a positive fact, of which all men may avail them- selves according to their ability. R. G. White. It is very dangerous, to try experiments in a State, unless extreme necessity be urgent, or popu- lar utility be palpable ; it is better for a State to commive a while, at an inconvenience, than too suddenly to rush upon a reformation. F. Quarles. EXPIATION. Expiation must be made for sin. Dr. Livingstone. Human life is made up of expiations. Hopkins. Expiation produces only a real or supposed ex- emption from sin and its consequences. G. Crabb. In expiation men should not only feel the conse- quences of sin, but what sin is in itself before God, its exceeding sinfulness. G. Moberley. Ye that have made no expiation for your sins ! O, that God would open your eyes to the horrors of your situation, before these horrors are unutter- ably augmented Rev. D. Stuart. Let a man's innocence be what it will, let his virtues rise to the highest pitch of perfection, there will be still in him so many secret sins, so many offences of ignorance, passion, and prejudice, so many unguarded words and thoughts, that with- Out the advantage of such an expiation and atone- ment as Christianity has revealed to us, it is im- possible he should be saved. Addison. friendship. EXPLAINATION. An explanation should explain itself. D. B. Ross. An explanation which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. Horace. When any one explains himself guardedly, nothing is more uncivil than to put a new ques- tion. Richter. I am an enemy to long explanations ; they de- ceive either the maker or the hearer, generally both. oºthe. A plain, and truthful explanation would often save our friends and ourselves many a heart-ache and bitter tear. Hannah Smith. An explanation serves to assist the understand- ing, to supply a deficiency, and remove obscurity; it serves to assist the memory and awaken the at- tention. G. Crabb. EXPOSTULATION. Expostulation diminishes authority. B. Price. When life is extinct, expostulation comes too - late. Jahir. Expostulations end well between lovers, but ill between friends. Addison. Expostulation is just toward friends who have failed in their duty. Thucydides, It is madness for friendless, unarmed innocence to expostulate with invincible power. L'Estrange. Expostulation when coupled with good inten- tions, will often prove beneficial, and accomplish more than was requested. F. E. Smedley. Expostulation is a priv e accusation of one friend touching another, supposed not to have dealt singly or considerately in the course of good Ayliffe. Expostulation often leads to argument, and some- times to anger, thereby increasing the trouble at issue ; but we should, however, always endeavor to avoid expostulation. James A. Maitland. EXPOSUIRE. Crime consists in the exposure. ºr. M. Tavel. We should not expose ourselves unnecessarily in any cause. G. Soame. Exposure is the certainfate of those who attempt to deceive God. Yahya Modd. Exposure is a pleasure to the brave, even to the death, if by so doing they may hope to triumph over a tyrant. Nusair. To expose one's self to great dangers for trivial matters, is to fish with a golden hook, where more may be lost than gained. Awgustws Coesar. We are all exposed in this life to many things that, were it not for an ever beneficent Providence, would bring us to a premature grave. Gwilleville. A man may expose himself in many ways ; if a brave man, in war he will expose himself to death ; if an honest man, he will often expose himself to suspicion ; if a weak man, he will expose himself to ridicule. Miss Anne Manning. 256 JD A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. EXPRESSION. EXTENTUATION. Expression can invest beauty with Supreme Com- Oftentimes extenuating a fault doth make the mand. Fuseli. fault the worse, Shakspeare. Obscurity of expression generally Springs from confusion of ideas. T. B. Macawlay. Simplicity of expression is more interesting and elegant than turgidness. Addison. Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. Boileau. Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rath- er than an embellishment of discourse. Hºwme. Expression is of more consequence than shape ; it will light up features otherwise heavy. C. Bell. An expression of one's feelings and sentiments to those whom we esteem, is the supreme delight of Social beings. G. Crabb. When once an idea is clearly expressed, every additional stroke will only confuse the mind, and diminish the effect. H. K. White. The best and most proper expressions are those which a clear view of the subject suggests, with- out much labor or inquiry. H. Blair. No adequate description can be given of the nameless and ever-varying shades of expression which pathos gives to the voice. Dr. Porter. If a man is ashamed to give his thoughts expres- sion, it is time to ask himself, if he ought not to be ashamed of the thoughts themselves. T. Tilton. A facility of style, and an easy turn of expres- sion, are acquisitions to be derived from an early interchange of sentiments by letter-writing. C. Butler. The more power we have of discriminating the nicer shades of meaning, the greater facility we possess of giving force and precision to our expres– sions. R. Whately. There are three principal modes of expression : by suggestion, by indication, and by explanation ; the first is a method of genius, the second of talent, and the last of prosers. - Bovee. A man who expresses himself well is always lis- tened to attentively, though his conversation pos- sesses but little intrinsic merit ; while that of the man of fine ideas is unheeded, if clothed in a re- dundant, frivolous, or awkward language. Thomas Morris. It is a mark of great prudence in a man to ab- stain from threats or any contemptuous expres- sions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself. Machiavelli. Expression, although it gives beauty to men, makes women pay dearly for its stamp, and pay soon. Nature seems, in protection to their loveli- ness, to have ordered that they who are our supe- riors in quickness and sensibility, should be little disposed to laborious thought, or to long excursions in the labyrinths of fancy. W. S. Landor, It is a noxious criminal that hath no extenuation to offer for his offense. Cicero, If we would extenuate a fault, the best way is to Say nothing at all about it. Annie E. Lancaster. Endeavor not to extenuate thy faults by words, but to amend them by reproof. Pythagoras. Ignorance in an offender may serve as an exten- uation of his guilt, although not of his offense. G. Crabb. When sin is to be judged, the kindest inquiry is what deeds of charity we can allege in extenuation of our punishment. F. Atterbury. We excuse a fault which admits of apology or extenuation, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it. N. Webste?". Justice should impartially consider the crime, with whatever extenuating circumstance there may be connected with it. Sir J. Reynolds. No criminal can successfully plead, as an exten- uation of his guilt, that the crime was committed while in a state of intoxication. FI. Waſre. Crime where there is less temptation, is more criminal than where there is more ; this principle is not often used to extenuate crimes ; however, I think that temptation does diminish the turpitude of a crime. T. Dwight. EXTORTION. Extortion is an act of tyranny. Demophilus. Extortion is like a whirlpool, that swalloweth whatsoever it catcheth. Crates. Extortion grinds all pleasure out of life, and all money out of the pocket. James Ellis, An arbitrary prince extorts from his conquered subjects whatever he can grasp at. G. Crabb. The ill-gotten gain that cometh by extortion, brings with it contempt, many curses, and infamy. T. Nash. An extortioner is a filching and corrupt citizen, who both stealeth from his neighbor, and defraud- eth himself. R. Bancroft. Many misers prefer the shame of being called ex- tortioners to the punishment of being profuse with their money. Stanislaws. As the greedy ravens seek after carrion for their food, so doth the covetous extortioner hunt after Coin to fill his coffers. Philo. If I err in believing that the souls of men are im- mortal, not while I live would I wish to have this delightful error extorted from me. Steele. The more a usurer winneth by his extortion, the more doth the sin of covetousness daily corrupt his conscience. Treasures hoarded up by the extortion- ate are most commonly wasted by the prodigal heir. W. Cartwright. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 257 EXTRAVAG-ANCE. Extravagance is its own destroyer. Zemo. Extravagance leads to insubordination. Mencius. Wisdom seldom consorts with extravagance, Menedemus. There is great difference between living well and living extravagantly. Plato. Some men are as extravagant as if they expec- ted to die immediately. Aristotle. We ought to be more offended at extravagant praise than real injuries. Stanislaws. Careless extravagance wasteth that which dili- gent labor hath purchased. Hiao-King-ti. If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods. Aristippus. He is truly extravagant who giveth beyond his ability, and where his gifts are needless. Bailey. It is better to be hated for having much, than to be pitied for extravagantly spending all. Bias. A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extra- vagant man grows poor by seeming rich. Shenstone. Extravagance consisteth not in the quantity of what is given, but in the habit and fashion of the giver. R. Carliell. He that is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence and invite corruption. Dr. Johnson. Let a spendthrift grow to be old, he will set his heart on saving, and labor to build up by penury that which extravagance threw down. Twpper. To excuse their extravagance, the Ostentatious assume to have a taste for the beautiful, urging that as this is natural, there can be no harm in it. Bovee. The extravagant spendthrift who scatters his money without reflection, and the miser who never has a farthing for the distressed, deserve equally the detestation of the virtuous. J. Bartlett. Our follies are our most effectual instructors; and the strongest resolutions of our manhood flour- ish best in that soil in which the extravagances of youthful hopes have found a grave. Delia Bacon. An extravagant man, who has nothing else to re- commend him but a false generosity, is often more beloved than a person of a much more finished character, who is defective in this particular. Addison. Extravagance stirreth up evil wars and seditious injuries, to the end that her humors may be fed; fishing in all troubled waters, that she may have the wherewith to maintain her prodigal expenses. George Bannatyne. It is easier to extinguish the first extravagant desire, than to restrain the torrent of ungovernable passion that is sure to succeed ; it is impossible for the extravagant long to avert penury and disgrace. Magoom. EXTRAVAG-ANCE. How many, by the wild fury and extravagance of their own passions, have put their bodies into a combustion, and by stirring up their rage against others, have armed that fierce humor against them- selves. Tillotson. The world in general is disposed to show too much indulgence toward those who pursue a course of wild and wanton extravagance, and no one alive to the interests of virtue can doubt its injurious tendency. W. Bagehot. Laws cannot prevent extravagance ; and per- haps it is not always an evil to the public. A shil- ling spent idly by a fool may be picked up by a wiser person, who knows better what to do with it ; it is, therefore, not lost. Franklin. A princely mind will ruin a private fortune ; keep the rank in which Providence has placed you, and make not yourself unhappy because you can- not afford whatever a wild fancy might suggest. Therevenues of all the kingdoms in the world would not be equal to the expense of one extravagant per- SOIl. L. Qwinet. That is the height of extravagance when parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle ; when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godli- ness; then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his Own will. J. Lyly. Extravagances committed to-day, the effect is experienced to-morrow ; first the pleasure, then the penalty, and the passion before the punishment, which is mild in the beginning, but afterward more and more severe, until the excesses are too often indulged, and nature has sounded her warnings in vain ; then the retribution is death. If an admo- nitory sign-board were hung out, for the benefit of the old and young, there should be inscribed upon it, in prominent characters, “No Extravagance.” Acton. He will err in judgment who indulges in great extravagances with small means, or undertakes the same extravagances in a private as in a pub- lic station ; he who knows not how to make the expense worthy of the work, and the work worthy of the expense, and distinguish where to augment the one or the other, will fail also ; as he, too, will transgress the proper end in view, who, through vanity of showing his wealth, rather than through zeal for country, undertakes the same work. Ansaldo Ceba. The world has always been divided into two classes—those who have saved, and those who have spent—the thrifty and the extravagant ; the build- ing of all the houses, the mills, the bridges, and the ships, and the accomplishment of all other great works which have rendered man civilized and happy, has been done by the savers, the thrifty ; and those who have wasted their resources have always been their slaves; it has been the law of nature and of Providence that this should be so; and I were an impostor if I promised any class that they would advance themselves if they were extravagant, thoughtless, and idle. R. Cobden. 17 258 Al A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O ZV. EXTREMIES. EXTREMIES. No violent extreme endures. T. Carlyle. Men are stoics in their early years, epicureans in -* & their latter ; social in youth, selfish in old age. There is danger in all extremes. James Ellis. In early life they believe all men honest, till they Women are ever on extremes; they are either better or worse than men. Bruyère. Our age knows nothing but reactions, and leaps from one extreme to another. Niebuh?’. There is a natural progression from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny. Washington, Though little fire grows great with little wind, yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. - Shakspeare. All extremes are error ; the reverse of error is not truth, but error still ; truth lies between these extremeS. Lord Burleigh. That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm. built on the most profound observation of the hu- man mind. Colton. We must remember how apt man is to extremes —rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust. Bulwer. It is the characteristic of volatile tempers to be always in extremes, either the extreme of joy or the extreme of Sorrow. G. Crabb. The two extremes to be guarded against, are des- potism, where all are slaves, and anarchy, where all would rule, and none obey. H. Blain'. The tendency of ardent temperaments is to ex- tremes ; such a One, if he escapes being a very bad man, has a fair chance of turning out a very good OIle. Bovee. Extremes meet in almost everything ; it is hard to tell whether the statesman at the top of the world, or the ploughman at the bottom, labors hardest. John Lacy. Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects; extreme heat mortifies, like extreme cold; extreme love breeds satiety as well as extreme hatred ; and too violent rigor tempts chastity as much as too much license. Chapman. As all things have their extremes, from which they are removed by contrary principles, so the positive and negative poles of no two things are more remote than truth and falsehood, for they are as far asunder as light is from darkness. Pindarus. As in the material world, the middle climates farthest removed from the extremes of heat and cold, are the most Salubrious and pleasant ; so in life, the middle ranks are most favorable to virtue and happiness, which dwell not in the extremes of poverty or riches. S. Jenyms. Extreme old age is childhood : extreme wisdom is ignorance, for so it may be called, since the man whom the oracle pronounced the wisest of men professed that he knew nothing : yea, push a cow- ard to the extreme and he will show courage : op- press a man to the last, and he will rise above oppression. J. Beawmont. know them to be knaves; in late life they believe all to be knaves, till they know them to be honest. Thus somehow or other men pass in the course of living from One of these extremes to the other, and from having thought too well of human nature at first, think at last too ill of it. Dr. Johnson. We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with Our feelings that they are impalpable ; we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects. The mind is equally affected by too great youth, and by excessive old age ; by too much and too little learning ; in short, extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them ; they escape from us or we from them. Pascal. It is natural for men when they leave one ex- treme in which they have been forced to live, to run speedily to the opposite without stopping in their course ; thus men who free themselves from tyrants, if they are not restrained, rush into un- bridled license, which may be justly called tyran- my, for a people is like to a tyrant when it gives to the undeserving, and takes away from the deserv- ing, when it confounds ranks and degrees of men. Guicciardini. There are extremes in every phase of life ; but it is the great provocations, the severe reverses, and the extreme endurances of life, which produce the conjoint and double convulsions of the mind and heart ; when the idols we have worshipped have all been cast down and broken ; when the brain has been fired, and the heart smitten with the fiercest torture, the last scintillation of kindness is forever quenched, the last light of hope extinguished, and the last links of affection severed Acton. EXULTATION. Exultation of foes is bitter to the heart. Nukta. We secretly exult in the misfortunes of men, when we are one of them. C. James. Exulting pride is like a vapor which ascendeth high and vanisheth away. Plwtarch. After the exultation and pleasures of the body followeth the destruction of the flesh. Awrelius. Pleasure is a certain exultation, or an exceeding rejoicing, sprung of the events of things desired. Thomas Urquhart. Exultation usually springs from the gratification of our desire of some good ; particularly, of dis- tinction or superiority, or of that which confers distinction ; it often springs from the gratification of pride or ambition. N. Webster. Though every old man has been young, and every young man hopes to be old, there seems to be a most unnatural misunderstanding between those stages in life ; this unhappy want of commerce a- rises from the insolent arrogance or exultation in youth, and the irrational despondence or self-pity in age. Steele. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 259 EYE. Govern your eyes. Periander, Eyes were made for use. Fanny Ferm. Two eyes see more than one. Camõems. Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes. Balzac. The eyes are the amulets of the mind. Alger. Hell trembles at a heaven-directed eye. T. Ken. Men of cold passions have quick eyes. N. Hawthorne. The best weapon in the world is a steady eye. E. Eggleston. The eye always sees what it brings the power to see. T. Carlyle. A wanton eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart. St. Augustime. The eye strays not while under the guidance of I'êaSOIl. Publius Syrus. The eyes, like sentinels, occupy the highest place in the body. Cicero. The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. Franklin. Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies. Lavater. The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the Soft tale of love. Propertius. The eye infinitely surpasses all the works of the industry of man. Sturm. Neither a man's eye nor his good name will bear to be jested with. Jean de Fabas. The eye receives light from the firmament, the Soul from learning. Aristotle. Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever color they be. - - Jowbert. Though the eye possess the darkness of night, yet it gives light to the body. Ralakis. The eyes are the windows of the soul, and the most precious part of the body. Adam Davie. Our eyes, when gazing on sinful objects, are out of their calling and God's keeping. T Fuller. The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see. Whipple. We credit most our eye; one eye doth please our trust far more than ten ear-witnesses. R. Herrick. Well-formed, clear, and brilliant eyes, are the accompaniments of good Organizations. Dr. Porter. Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off. G. Eliot. The balls of sight are so formed that one man's eyes are spectacles to another to read his heart with. Dr. Johnson. Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, ap- point, and finally speak all things by means of their eyes. Montaigme. EYE. - The eye is continually influenced by what it can- not detect ; it is most influenced by what it detects least. Ruskin. The eyes were given to men, to be as watch- towers and Sentinels, the guides and leaders of the body. Cynewulf. Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind; desire conceals truth as darkness does the earth. Semeca. Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. Colton. The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard. H. Ballow. An eye in a state of inflammation avoids all bright and glaring colors, and loves to rest on what is dark and shady. Plutarch. The eye of a man is a window, through which may be seen the thoughts which enter into and issue from his heart. Victor Hugo. That which is conveyed through the ear, affects us less than what the eye receives, and what the spectator sees himself. Horace. The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions. W. A. Alcott. With the eye of the body, we behold things pre- sent and changing ; but with the eye of the soul, we see glories unchanged. Downey. What is seen by the eye, bears but a small pro- portion, either in amount or value, to what is di- vined by the imagination. Bovee. The eye of a good mother is like the sun ; it shines on a world that would be dark without it, and its brightness is as that of love. H. Hooker. Wait upon him whom thou art to speak to with thine eye ; for there are many cunning men that have secret heads and transparent countenances. R. Burton, I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star ; those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady, lambent light—are luminous, not sparkling. Longfellow. The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us ; if all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. Franklin. O, the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven I All beings live from light ; each fair created thing, the very plants, turn with a joyful transport to the light. Schiller. There are eyes that invite confidence—bland, serene, clear-shining, out-looking eyes, at once pa- tient and intelligent ; this is the eye of the good listener. T. Emlyn. Speech is a laggard and a sloth, but the eyes shoot out an electric fluid that condenses all the elements of sentiment and passion in one single emanation. H. Smith. 260 J) A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. EYE. A judicious, well-instructed eye sees a wonderful beauty in the shapes and colors of the commonest things, and what are comparatively inconsidera- ble. J. Richardson. Little eyes must be good-tempered, or they are ruined ; they have no other resource ; but this will beautify them enough ; they are made for laugh- ing, and should do their duty. Leigh Hunt. Men with gray eyes are generally keen, ener- getic, and at first cold ; but you may depend upon their sympathy with real sorrow; search the ranks of our benevolent men, and you will agree with Iſlē. Dr. Leask. The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth, the door ; the intellect, the will, are seen in the eye. The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes; even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. H. Powers. It is the eye through which the soul perceives the glories of the summer sky, and searches for its mid- night stars; it is the magic instrument which con- veys to the soul all the varied harmonies of sound, that soothe, elevate, and solemnize. Dr. Macleod. The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthful- ness surpassing speech ; it is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly ; it is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream. H. T. Tuckerman. Dark blue eyes are most common in persons of delicate, refined, or effeminate nature ; light blue, and much more, grey eyes, in the hardy and active; greenish eyes have generally the same meaning as the grey ; hazel eyes are the most usual indications of a mind masculine, vigorous, and profound. T. Burbridge. What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body as the sun in the world ; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greatest multitude of spi- rits necessary for the act of vision And this little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven. Charnock. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed ; this little member gives life to every other part about us, and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part ; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself. Addison. What strange emotions, what thoughts, do we discover in this little mirror of the soul | There is the “glance, the stare, the sneer, the invitation, the defiance, the denial, the look of love, the flash of rage, the sparkling of hope, the languishment of softness, the squint of suspicion, the fire of jeal- ousy, and the lustre of pleasure ;” all but a mere specimen of the endlessly varied expressions of what the human eye is capable ; there is probably not a thought, not an emotion of the soul, which it may not mirror forth. Rev. H. Read. EYE. What a variety of emotions the eye can appro- priately represent It sparkles with intelligence, flashes with indignation, melts with grief, trembles with pity, languishes with love, twinkles with hu- mor, starts with amazement, or shrinks with hor- ror, according to the impulse given to it by the soul within. Prof. Blaikie. That fine part of our constitution, the eye, seem as much the receptacle and seat of our passions, appetites, and inclinations, as the mind itself ; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thor- oughfare to let our affections pass in and out ; love, anger, pride, and avarice, all visibly move in those little Orbs. - J. Hughes. A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man ; to enslave him, and inflame ; to make him even forget ; they dazzle him so, that the past becomes straightway dim to him, and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess them. What is the fond love of dearest friends compared to his treasure ? Is memory as strong as expectancy, fruition as hunger, gratitude as desire 2 W. M. Thackeray. Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near ; they speak all lan- guages ; they wait for no introduction ; ask no leave of age or rank ; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them | Emerson. EYE-SERVICE. Eye-service is the courtier's art. L'Espinoy. Duttom. Eye-service is but fawning sycophancy. Baillie. An eye-servant is a paid enemy. Place no confidence in one who has been found to be merely an eye-servant. Philip Astley. An eye-servant pretends friendship ; yet he de- spises you behind your back. Yoruba. Instances of peculation and eye-service will na- turally provoke increasing rigor and harder exac- tion. H. N. Day. As a dishonest servant robs his master of money or goods, so is an eye-servant not less a knave who robs him of valuable time for which money is paid. Peter Folger. EYE-WITNESS. An eye-witness outweighs all others. Justinian. One eye-witness is better than a hundred hear- says. C. Aleyn. An eye-witness testifies to what he has seen, and is therefore supposed to know. L. Ten Kate. An eye-witness may see, but should not interfere with what does not concern him. Yoruba. Of all kinds of evidence, that coming from an eye-witness of an act has ever been considered the most reliable ; yet even in this mistakes will some- times OCCur. - M. C. Riggs. EENJAMIN FRANKLN- A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 261 H O FABLE. - FACE}. Fable is love's world. Schiller. A kind face is ever beautiful. R. Baillie. Fables abound everywhere. Acton. The face is the tell-tale of years. Juvenal. Every external event is a fable, which illustrates some moral truth. Mºme. Swetchine. Fables are every day circulated, as true as those of AEsop—in everything but the moral W. Orton. . The wisest men in all ages, have more or less em- ployed fables and fictions as the vehicles of know- ledge. PH. Bloºr. Fable gives human intellects to brutes, in imita- tion of nature, which sometimes gives brute intel- lects to man. - Chatfield. Under the form of fable, more or less developed, the earliest knowledge of every nation has been handed down. T. James. In some cases, fables decked out in cunning fic- tions beyond the truth, give false accounts of the traditions of men. Pindarus. From reading fables, or pretended conversations between beasts, birds, and things, which never did and never could take place, have been formed in youth the first stages of lying. Lyman Cobb. In fables which are intended to convey some moral and interesting truth to the mind, it is not expected, neither indeed is it necessary, that every word should be agreeable to the exact truth of things. T. Kirk. Fables were the first pieces of wit that made their appearance in the world, and have been still highly valued, not only in times of the greatest simplicity, but among the most polite ages of mankind. Steele. The virtue which we gather from a fable or an allegory, is like the health we get by hunting ; as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure, and makes us insensible of the fatigues that accompany it. Addison. In all ages of the world there is nothing with which IIlankind hath been so much delighted as with those little fictitious stories which go under the name of fables or apologues among the ancient heathens, and of parables in the sacred writings. Porteus, I have always been wonderfully delighted with fables, allegories, and the like inventions, which the politest and the best instructors of mankind have always made use of. They take off from the sever- ity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time they conceal it. Dr. Johnson. Fables have accomplished much, not only in fiction but in precept ; in the politics of ancient Greece they effected their work by their precepts. In our own modern civilization, they instruct our children by their precepts, and amuse them by their fiction. James Ellis. The face is the silent echo of the heart. Chatfield. A good face is a silent recommendation. Syrus. All men's faces are true, whatsoever their hands al’6. Shakspeare A good face is a good letter of recommenda- tion. Aristotle. A good face is the best letter of recommenda- tion. Queen Elizabeth. It is far better to have a red face than a black heart. J. Amchieta. Fall not a victim to the face before you know what the body is. Az-Zāhiri. A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather. Franklin. Those faces which have charmed us the most escape us the Soonest. Sir W. Scott. Nature gives the features of the face; deceit al- ters them at discretion. Stanislaws. Fire burns only when we are near to it ; but a beautiful face burns and inflames, though at a distance. Aenophon. The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. Bovee. Fair faces have gotten foul vices, straight per- sonages crooked manners, and good complexions bad conditions. T. Blundville, We see faces which if examined part by part are never found to be good, but if taken together are not uncomely. Lord Bacon. I think all lines of the human face have some- thing either touching or grand, unless they seem to come from low passions. G. Eliot. There is is in every human face either a history or a prophecy, which must sadden, or at least Soften, every reflecting observer. S. T. Coleridge. There arefaces sofluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. R. W. Emerson. A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces; we have a suspicious, fearful constrained counten- ance, often turning and slinking through narrow lanes. Swift. No part of the body besides the face is capable of as many changes as there are different emotions in the mind, and of expressing them all by those changes. J. Hughes. 262 ZO A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. IFACE. Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking, if you wish to know his real sentiments; for he can command his words more easily than his countenance. Chesterfield. Not the entrance of a cathedral, not the sound of a passing bell, not the furs of a magistrate, nor the sables of a funeral, were fraught with half the solemnity of a face Shemstone. Faces are as legible as books, only with these cir- cumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us. Lavater. The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the objects she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life. Mme. de Stael. The face is the index of the soul; if rightly un- derstood, it will never betray us in misplaced con- fidence, which may eventually destroy our proper- ty, Or prostrate our reputation. J. Bartlett. The distinguishing characters of the face, and the lineaments of the body, grow more plain and visible with time and age ; but the peculiar phy- Siognomy of the mind is most discernible in chil- dren. J. Locke. There remains in the faces of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those ren- dered so by religion, an after-spring, and, later, an after-Summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom. Richter. It seems as if there were some happy and some unhappy faces; and I believe there is some art in distinguishing affable from simple faces, severe from rude, malicious from pensive, scornful from melancholic, and such other bordering qualities. Montaigne. As the language of the face is universal so is it very comprehensive ; no laconism can reach it ; it is the short-hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room. A man may look a sentence as Soon as speak a word ; the strokes are small, but so masterly drawn that you may easily collect the image and proportions of what they resemble. Jeremy Collier. While the bloom of youth lasts, and the smooth- ness of feature peculiar to that period, the human face is less marked with any strong character than in old age. A peevish or Surly stripling may elude the eye of the physiognomist ; but a wicked old man whose visage does not betray the evil temper- ature of his heart, must have more cunning than it would be prudent for him to acknowledge. Beattie. Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face ; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a couple row of ivory, made it the seat of Smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light. Addison. FACE. How few of nature's faces there are to gladden us with beauty The cares, and sorrows, and hun- gerings of the world change them as they change hearts ; and it is only when those passions sleep, and have lost their hold forever, that the troubled clouds pass Off, and leave heaven's surface clear. Dickens. As from our beginning we run through a variety of looks before we come to consistent and settled faces, so before our end, by sick and languishing alterations, we put on new visages, and in our re- treat to earth may fall upon such looks which from Our Community of Seminal originals were before latent in us. Sir T. Browne. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry ; all admit irregularity as they imply change ; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for their imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment mercy. Pwskim. The face of a man, as a rule, speaks more elo- quently and in a more interesting manner than his mouth ; for it is the compendium of everything which the latter has to say ; since it is the mono- gram of the thinking and acting of the man; be- sides the mouth only utters the thoughts of the man, whereas the face expresses the thoughts of nature ; wherefore every man is worth being closely observed, though every man is not worth being talked to. Schopenhaufer. FACETIOUSINESS. Facetiousness is more seemly at a wedding, and Solemnity at a funeral. Garth. Facetiousness is the over-flowing of wit, and the superfluous scum of conceit. J. Barclay. That facetiousness is a virtue is rather a new idea to many, and yet there is very much to be said in its favor. F. P. Cobbe. Facetiousness is not always wit ; it is often used in an ironical sense to incite ridicule. In argument it is resorted to by some persons to conceal their ignorance—the dernier ressort of a fool. J. Ellis. A man is facetious from humor : he indulges himself in occasional pleasantry, or allows himself to be jocose, in order to enliven conversation ; a useful hint is sometimes conveyed in jocular terms. G. Crabb. Such facetiousness is not unreasonable or un- lawful, which ministereth harmless divertisement and delight to conversation ; and if jocular dis- course may serve to good purposes of this kind; if it may be apt to raise our drooping spirits, to allay our irksome cares, to whet our blunted in- dustry, to recreate our minds, being tired and cloyed with graver occupations ; if it may breed alacrity, or maintain good humor among us ; if it may conduce to sweeten conversation and endear society, then it is not inconvenient or unprofitable. I. Barrow. A R O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 263 FACT. Facts are stubborn things. Facts are better than systems. Anna F. Canfield. Amon. Let us accept facts as they are. Gail Hamilton. Noreligion should shrink from facts. E. O. Haven. The majority of minds rest satisfied with facts. Imogen Merceim. There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact. G. Camming. Some people have a peculiar talent for denying facts. G. D. Prentice. IEvery fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts. E. L. Yowmans. , Fact includes in it nothing but what really is or is done. G. Crabb. Matter of fact breaks out and blazes with too great an evidence to be denied. H. Hooker. Remember that if you are professedly engaged in narrating facts, you cannot call imagination to your aid but at the expense of truth. Falcomer. It is a fact that before we begin to think we seem to know every thing ; while when we set about thinking in earnest, we seem to know nothing. Chatfield. Facts, it is said, are stubborn things, but they are not more stubborn than the authors of Some theories, who refuse to give them up when they are proved to be false. Bovee. The mind seems to be conducted to the investiga- tion of facts, and where mysteries reach a point where greater mysteries prevail, we endeavor to penetrate and solve them. James Ellis. In the education of facts, the great object is to make children observe and reflect ; without their previous acquisitions are but matters of rote, well enough as a means, but worthless as an end. M'Cormac. In matter of fact they say there is some credit to be given to the testimony of man, but not in matter of judgment ; we see the contrary both ac- knowledged and universally practised throughout the world. R. Hooker. Facts are to the mind the same thing as the food to the body. On the due digestion of facts depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other. The wisest in coun- cil, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts. Burke. Fact is allowed by everybody to be plain-spoken, and of every few words ; tropes and figures are its aversion ; it affirms everything roundly, without art, rhetoric, or circumlocution ; it is a declared enemy to all kinds of ceremony and complaisance. Fact flatters nobody ; yet so great is its natural eloquence that it cuts down the finest orator, and destroys the best contrived argument, as soon as ever it gets itself to be heard. Addison. FACTION. It is hard for factions to coalesce. W. L. Marcy. Faction is a combination of a few to oppress the liberties of the many. Seba Smith. A feeble government produces more factions than an oppressive one. F. Ames. A spirit of faction, and men's regard to their own private interests, are things which ever did and ever will impede the public counsels. Livy. Where statesmen are ruled by faction and inter- est, they can have no passion for the glory of their country, nor any concern for the figure it will make. Addison. A weak, unequal faction may animate a govern- ment ; but when it grows equal in strength, and irreconcilable by animosity, it cannot end with- Out Some crisis. Sir W. Temple. All rising to great places is by a winding stair ; and if there be factions it is good to side a man's Self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance him- self when he is placed. Lord Bacom. Faction is the excess and the abuse of party; it begins when the first idea of private interest, pre- ferred to public good, gets footing in the heart. It is always dangerous, yet always contemptible. R. Cheneviac. By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community. J. Madison. It is no wonder that faction is so productive of vices of all kinds ; for, besides that it inflames all the passions, it tends much to remove those great restraints, honor and shame, when men find that no iniquity can lose them the applause of their own party, and no innocence secure them against the calumnies of the opposite. Hwºme. FA CILITY. It is a great error to take facility for good na- ture. L’Estrange. The gods will that great deeds shall not be ac- complished with facility. Virgil. We judge of a person's facility by comparing him to others, who are less skillful. G. Crabb. The facility which we acquire of doing things by habit, makes them often pass in us without our no- tice. J. Locke. Facility is worse than bribery; for bribes come now and then, but if importunity or idle respects lead a man, he shall never be without them. Lord Bacon. Facility refers to the doing of a thing ; it is some- thing real or apparent in the nature of the thing which causes it to be done with ease ; it is a power belonging to the agent, and regards the peculiar skill of him who performs. A practised hand per- forms with facility. G. F. Graham. 264 D A Y'S CO Z Z A Co W. FACULTIES. Faculties are God's gifts. God endows us with faculties. H. H. Garmett. R. Hooker. If we do not exercise our faculties, they will be- come impaired. L. F. Allem. God gives faculties to man ; but He designs that man shall improve them. C. Mammers-Swttom. Man is made to acquire the full possession and mastery of his faculties by toil. J. B. Jwkes. Reason in man supplies the defect of other facul- ties wherein we are inferior to beasts, and what we cannot compass by force, we bring about by stratagem. L’Estrange. Every human being receives from nature the right of exercising all his faculties according to his own pleasure ; but only so long as their exercise does not encroach upon the rights of his fellow- IſleIl. W. H. Diacom. FAILING.S. All men have their failings. - J. Kemp. He who never fails, never succeeds. J. Lalaim. Others' failings show our own frailty. Kinney. Our Sorrows come from our failures to succeed in life. Miss Mulock. © - A failing of the head is less censurable than a failing of the heart. Dwns Scotws. Failure or success depends on many things quite independent of merit. J. Paym. Even good men have many temptations to sub- due, and many failings to lament. S. Rogers. Water may be spilled, yet the calabash be un- broken ; if one attempt fails, try again. Yorwba. One may love, and still be able to see foibles and failings clearly ; thousands of women do this. Roe. From the experience of others do thou learn wisdom ; and from their failings correct thine own faults. Bishop Stigand. If we had no failings ourselves, we should not take so great pleasure in finding out the failings of Others. - Rochefoucauld. The most suspicious morality is that which is fond of descanting upon the failings and deficien- cies of others. Prof. C. Anthon. Never allow small failings to dwell on your at- tention, so much as to deface the whole of an ami- able character. H. Blair. What we conceive to be failings in others, are not unfrequently owing to some deficiencies in ourselves ; thus, plain men think handsome women want passion, and plain women think young men want politeness. Colton. Such is the force of envy and ill-nature, that the failings of good men are more published to the world than their good deeds; and that one fault of a deserving man shall meet with more reproaches than all his virtues will praise. W. T. Lowndes. FAILURE. Failure breaks the heart. Ring Philip. Let no failure discourage. Helen Campbell. Gwalchmai. Rim-Yo-Shiw. Failure is ever displeasing. Failure causeth tears to flow. A first failure is often a blessing. A. L. Brown. After a failure the cause is evident. Emperor Yao. The surest way not to fail is to determine to suc- ceed. R. B. Sheridan. Against the failure of the authority of truth, de- liver us. H. D. Ab Ifan. A failure in part may not necessarily be a fail- ure in all. E. L. Yowmans. Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. E. Eggleston. -*. One of the worst failures is a failure to write to absent friends. Sarah B. Riggs. Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. T. Hood. Failure is a word that belongs not to those who labor in a righteous cause. Martha Mayhwrst. Failure in any good cause is honorable ; success in any bad cause is infamous. S. Smiles. Failure in private business is not the best recom- mendation for a public official. T. Weed. In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as “fail " Bwlwer. Failure always overtakes those who have the power to do, without the will to act, and who need that essential quality in life—energy. James Ellis. It is far from being true, in the progress of know- ledge, that after every failure we must recommence from the beginning ; every failure is a step to suc- CéSS. |W. Whewell. FAIRIES. Fairies are pleasing myths. Rahbek. Fairies disappear with children's growth. Pike. The fairies take care of children, drunken men, and idiots. C. Barksdale. Wherever there is love and loyalty, even though in a hovel, there is fairy-land. C. Kingsley. Mortals have been occasionally transported into fairy-land, and have found that all its apparent splendor was delusive. W. T. Brande. Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom—it is true as sunbeams ; and although you cannot coin them into golden coin, and then count them and weigh them, yet they are true as light. J. Leech. The most beautiful and interesting relic of that popular creed of superstition which characterized the olden time, was the belief in fairies; and in that belief they contemplated them as links in a golden chain connecting the mortal with a fancied immortal nature. W. Irving. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. FAITH. * As faith is, so is God. M. Luther. Faith is proved by works. J. Amchieta. Faith is necessary to victory. Hazlitt. A firm faith is the best divinity. S. Awstin. Nowhere is there faith on earth. Virgil. Faith is the soul riding at anchor, H. W. Shaw. Faith is nothing else but the soul's venture. W. Bridge. Faith can grasp things hoped for and unseen. - G. W. Bethune. Faith is the flame that lifts the sacrifice to hea- Ven. J. Montgomery. Faith is the subtle chain that binds us to the In- finite. Mrs. E. O. Smith. Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its Wants. Rev. T. Bostom. Faith spans the gulf of death with the bridge of eternal life. D. Durand. Faith is the pencil of the soul, that pictures hea- venly things. T. Burbridge. None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith. M. Henry. As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith be- fore good works. R. Whately. Nowhere does faith remain long to mortals when fortune fails them. Siliws Italicus. Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater. O. W. Holmes. Good faith is the philosophy of politics, the re- ligion of government. F. Ames. Faith is the root of all good works; a root that produces nothing is dead. Bishop Wilson. It is impossible to be a hero in anything, unless one is first a hero in faith. J. G. Jacobi. He only that hath given faith unto us can give life and action to our faith. Sir J. Reynolds. Faith in God hallows and confirms the union be- tween parents and children. Pestalozzi. Only by faith can you run that race which is set before you, as before those of old. M. Hopkins. Let us fear the worst, but work with faith : the best will always take care of itself. Victor Hugo. Christian works are no more than animate faith, as flowers are the animate spring-tide. Longfellow. Faith may rise into miracles of might : faith may sink into credulities of weakness. Tupper. Whatever is the subject of faith should not be submitted to reason, and much less bend to it. Pascal. As faith is the evidence of things not seen, so things that are seen are the perfecting of faith. Warwick. FAITH. The power of faith will often shine forth the most, when the character is naturally weak. J. C. Hare. Faith gives us arms and conquests too ; love in- spires with courage, and bestows the crown. Wogam. True virtue being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest human perfection. Miltom. Faith is a humble, self-denying grace ; it makes the Christian nothing in himself, and all in God. R. Leighton. The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out ; I believe in Him who made it. Mme. Swetchine. Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep. Bulwer. It is not the quantity of thy faith that shall save thee; a drop of water is as true water as the whole OCéall. Rev. J. Welsh. Faith is an understanding grace ; it knows whom it trusts, and for what and upon what grounds it trusts. R. Sibbes. Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire. Franklin. In temptation, tribulation, and adversities, we should have perished, except faith went with us to deliver us. W. Tyndale. Men are far readier to make themselves a faith, than to receive that which God hath formed to their hands. R. Baacter. Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest, in those whose character may be called the weakest ? Mme. de Stael. Faith is that conviction upon the mind of the truth of the promises and threatenings of God, made known in the gospel. S. Clarke. Faith is letting down our nets into the untran- sparent deeps, at the Divine command, not know- ing what we shall take. F. W. Faber. Faith is like the evening star, shining into our souls the more brightly, the deeper is the night of death in which they sink. Mowntford. The shade of faith and the cloak of true godli- mess, is the best equipage for the storm of adversity, and the keen atmosphere of selfishness. Downey. How happy a thing is faith ! What a quiet safe- ty, what a heavenly peace doth it work in the soul, in the midst of all the inundations of evil. R. Hall. Our faith is the centre of the target at which God doth shoot when he tries us ; and if any other grace shall escape untried, certainly faith shall not. C. H. Spwrgeon. Faith is an entire dependence upon the truth, the power, the justice, and the mercy of God ; which dependence will certainly incline us to obey Him in all things. Swift. L^ 266 AX A Y',S C O / / A C O AV. FAITH. Faith consists in believing things because they are impossible. Faith is nothing more than sub- missive or deferential credulity. I know a courier, swift and sure, who will carry us to the absent—faith. He knows the road Have no fear, he will not stumble or stray. Mme. de Gasparin. There was never found in any age of the world, either philosopher or sect, or law, or discipline, which did so highly exalt the public good, as the Christian faith. Lord Bacom. Faith is compared to gold ; but faith is much more noble than gold ; as gold is the most precious metal in things mortal, so faith doth most excel in things spiritual. Cawdray. It is by faith that poetry as well as devotion soars above this dull earth; that imagination breaks through its clouds, breathes a purer air, and lives in a softer light. H. Giles. The human mind is so mutable, that no indivi- dual can fix a standard of his own faith, much less can he commission another to establish one for him and his posterity. Percival. Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested when he prayed for his enemies on the cross. H. Ballow. Faith and works are as necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men ; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body. Coltom. Men seldom think deeply on subjects on which they have no choice of opinion ; they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith and so are con- tent with the surface. R. B. Sheridan. Faith in the object of adoration must precede the act of adoration. It is the root supporting the whole tree ; or as the reasoning Soul informing and dig- nifying the whole body. C. Swmmer. Faith is the key that unlocks the cabinet of God's treasures ; the king's messenger from the celestial world, to bring all the supplies we need out of the fulness that there is in Christ. J. Stephens. In our age faith and charity are found, but they are found apart. We tolerate everybody, because we doubt everything ; or else we tolerate nobody, because we believe something. Mrs. Browning. There is no action without faith, no faith with- out a word. Happy is the man which in all things, neglecting the counsels of flesh and blood, depends upon the commission of his Maker. Joseph Hall. Enowledge precedes faith ; faith produces love ; love evidences faith ; it shows it to be true ; it is not the cause of faith, but the sign of it, as breath is of life, and a full tide of a full moon. T. Fuller. A firm religious faith makes life a discipline of goodness; creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over decay, the destruction of existence, the most georgeous of all lights. Sir H. Davy. Voltaire. FAITH. Faith is a homely, private capital ; as there are public savings' banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessity of individuals, So here the faithful take their coin in peace. Goethe. In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abtruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church ; but the faith of the individual, centered in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them ; faith is subjective. S. T. Coleridge. We should never inquire into the faith or pro- fession, religious or political, of our acquaintance ; we should be satisfied when we find usefulness, in- tegrity, beneficence, tolerance, patriotism, cheer- fulness, sense, and manners. R. Walsh. Faith without works is like a bird without wings ; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven ; but when both are joined together, then doth the soul mount up to her eternal rest. J. Beaumont. The want of a genuine religious faith is a great misfortune, but it should never be punished as a great crime, and it never is or will be by those who truly possess it. It is only religious prejudice, mis- takenly called religious faith, that is intolerant. Bovee. Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory ; everyman that hath this grace is as certain that there are glories for him, if he persevere in duty, as if he had heard and sung the thanksgiving song for the blessed sentence of doomsday. Jeremy Taylor. There is no fighting on a quagmire. Faith fur- nishes the Only safe ground on which we can con- tend. Faith clothes us with the whole armor of God. Faith connects us with the Captain of our salvation, without whom we can do nothing, but through whose strengthening us we can do all things. W. Jay. If thy faith have no doubts, thou hast just cause to doubt thy faith; and if thy doubts have no hope, thou hast just reason to fear despair; when therefore thy doubts shall exercise thy faith, keep thy hopes firm to qualify thy doubts ; so shall thy faith be secured from doubts ; so shall thy doubts be preserved from despair. F. Quarles. Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith ; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith ; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confi- dence, their leader which they mistake for faith ; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. C. Lamb. The first principles of any science are not found by art and study, but are taken on faith as neces- sarily true, and so faith receives the weightier truths of religion as first realities, which no de- monstration can make clearer. The witness of the mind and the witness of the thing agree. No one learns in science or religion without faith ; he can- not learn without this, as a forefeeling of some- thing to be known, and that something is a primal unvarying truth. H. Hooker. A A2 O S A. 267 Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. FAITH. T'aith is a deep feeling of security for the present and the future ; and this security arises from the firm trust in an infinite, almighty, and incompre- hensible Being. Faith is a holy vessel into which every one is ready to pour his feelings and his im- agination, as completely as he can. Goethe. Faith is not the lazy notion that man may with careless confidence throw his burden upon the Sa- vior and trouble himself no farther—a pillow upon which he lulls his conscience to sleep, till he drops into perdition; but a living and vigorous principle, working for love, inseparably connected with true repentance as its motive, and with holy obedience as its fruits. E. Osler. Faith is the free exercise of the mind, resting only on the discernment of the truth ; just as sight is the free exercise of the eye, resting only on the discernment of light ; and no man can possibly believe, in submission to authority, that which he does not discern to be true, any more than he can behold the sun at midnight in obedience to an ex- ternal command. J. Robertson. FAITH FULINESS. Faithfulness is from God. Wingfield. Be faithful in all you undertake. E. Abowt. Be faithful in all accepted trusts. N. Longworth. Faithfulness shines in misfortune. Tufton. Faithfulness is better than houses and lands. Gibb. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excel- lences and endowments of the human mind. Cicero. When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other, will be much disappointed. G. Horne. Faithfulness to our word, faithfulness to our principles, are Christian graces which ought to be carefully cultivated ; they do much commend the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ. A. Ritchie, There is not a relation we sustain in life that does not compel us to depend on the faithfulness of an- other—as husband, wife, friend, agent—some one in whose honor, affection, chastity, and integrity we must confide. E. P. Day. IFAITHLESSINESS. A faithless man is base. Blair. Faithlessness blights the life of man. Biom. A faithless wife is the shipwreck of her husband's fortunes. William the Conqueror. Whoever deserts his friend in need is guilty of faithlessness. Curl Peter Heinzen. Alas ! how many who have been confided in for years, have yet suddenly proved faithless to the trust reposed in them. Faithlessness is one of the most pernicious sores of our social life ; it contaminates all it touches, and spreads disorder, ruin, and despair in the path of those who have loved, trusted, and been be- trayed. James Ellis. Mrs. H. Buckner. FALLACY. There is fallacy in all things. Periander. There are fallacies against which a man cannot always be on his guard. G. Crabb. All men, who can see an inch before them, may easily detect gross fallacies. Dryden. Educational fallacies having had their day, let us proceed to cast them out of the synagogue. C. H. Anthony. There is, indeed, no transaction which offers stronger temptation to fallacy and sophistication, than epistolary intercourse. Dr. Johnson. In all religious dogmas there are fallacies which are believed to be truths ; among the most objec- tionable of these fallacies, may be moticed that of accounting their superstitions and imaginations to a divine influence and revelation. Lord Amberley. FAT,LIBIT,ITY. Man is fallible ; God infallible. Brute!. Frequent changes only prove the fallibility of the human race. Lipsius. Man is fallible ; let us not vainly confide in our own infallibility. McDuffie. Wise men admit their fallibility; fools only claim to be infallible. Rev. M. L. Bellows. If man were not fallible in his judgments and opinions he would cease to be man. L. Andrews. Do not falsify your resolution with hopes that are fallible; to-morrow you must die. Shakspeare. The Pope's infallibility is neither more nor less than the fallibility of imperfect humanity. Rev. R. Crakanthorpe. There is a great deal of fallibility in the testi- mony of men ; yet some things we may be almost as certain of as that the sun shines, or that five twenties make a hundred. I. Watts. FALLING. It is easier to fall than rise. M. Altman. By falling one learns to go safely. L. G. Waa. He that is down can fall no lower. S. Butler. A great man is great even in his fall. Zschökke. Some men are like cats, they always fall on their feet. Anthony Collins. When a man is falling, every one gives him a push. Vaſmimi. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall. Goldsmith. The world was made for man, and man for God; the upper link gave way, and all that depended on it fell. W. Arnot. In the various vicissitudes of life we find that some men are doomed to fall into its lowest possi- ble depths ; others seem to be the select favorites of fortune. Margaret Chappellsmith. 268 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. FAILSEHOOD. Falsehood is cowardice. H. Ballow. Falsehood and death are synonymous. G. Bancroft. Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty. Tacitus. False modesty, is the most decent of all false- hoods. Chamfort. It is better to prefer falsehood to truth when it is injurious. Menander. There is nothing of so ill consequence to the pub- lic as falsehood. C. Lloyd. - Falsehood hath more wit to devise and more skill to deceive than truth. Pliny. Falsehood is of slight texture ; it is pellucid if thou lookest closely at it. Seneca. Falsehoods not only disagree with truths; but usually quarrel among themselves. D. Webster. Falsehood, like the dry rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. R. Whately. The chief enemy to the universe is falsehood ; by a single falsehood the world was destroyed. T. Dwight. Falsehood is susceptible of an infinity of combi- nations, but truth has only one mode of being. Rousseaw. Not the least misfortune in a prominent false- hood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. H. Ballow. To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a sabre; for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will re- main. Saadi. They begin by making falsehood appear like truth, and end with making truth itself appear like falsehood. . Shenstone. So close does falsehood approach to truth, that the wise man would do well not to trust himself On the narrow ledge. Cicero. Falsehood is not only one of the most humiliating vices, but, Sooner Or later, it is most certain to lead to the most serious crimes. Berz. Where fraud and falsehood invade society the band presently breaks, and men are put to a loss where to league and to fasten their dependences. R. Sowth. The more weakness, the more falsehood; strength goes straight : every cannon-ball that has in it hol- lows or holes, goes crooked. Weaklings must die. - Richter. If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt ; if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry ; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius. W. S. Landor. We should never allow ourselves to employ those exaggerations and colors in the narration of facts which many, who would shudder at a deliberate falsehood, freely indulge. R. Hall. IFALSEHOOD. If an ingenuous detestation of falsehood be but carefully and early instilled, that is the true and genuine method to obviate dishonesty. J. Locke. A man never derived any permanent advantage from a falsehood ; it is a garment of depravity that will never conceal the wearer from the indignation and execration of the world. J. Bartlett. Woe to falsehood l it affords no relief to the breast, like truth ; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god, flies back and wounds the archer. Goethe. Falsehood is frequently perpetrated under hol- low and treacherous appearances, as pernicious as they are vile ; it often insinuates itself into those who are appointed to be the messengers of truth Only. Magoom. Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mis- lead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. Colton. Falsehood is indeed, on all accounts, most culpa- ble, and can never proceed but from some unworthy principle, as cowardice, malice, or total contempt of virtue and honor ; the difficulties it runs one into are not to be numbered. J. H. Blunt. If falsehood had, like truth, but one face only, we should be upon better terms ; for we should then take the contrary to what the liar says for cer- tain truth ; but the reverse of truth hath a hundred figures, and a field indefinite, without bound or limit. Montaigme. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery- makers, under whatever strength of sympathy, or desire to prolong happy thoughts in others for their sake or your own only as sympathizing with theirs, it may originate. All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfish- IleSS. S. T. Coleridge. Some men relate what they think, as what they know ; some men of confused memories, and ha- bitual inaccuracy, ascribe to one man what belongs to another ; and some talk on without thought or care ; a few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods which are afterward innocently diffused by succes- sive relaters. Dr. Johnsom. Clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature, and mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. Lord Bacon. Whatsoever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under an everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. Tillotson. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 269 FAIME. Fame outlives marble. TW. G. Cloºrk. Fame is but a phantom. J. Brooks. What a lottery is fame ! R. S. Mackenzie. Fame is a magnifying glass. Pavillon. To many, fame comes too late. Camõems. Fame is a thin shadow of eternity. M. Luther. Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. Socrates. Fame is the next grandest word to God. Alexander Smith. Fame is a flower upon a dead man's heart. W. Motherwell. Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Milton. The love of fame usually puts spurs to the mind. Ovid. He who slights fame shall enjoy it in its purity. - Livy. Of our present fame think little, and of future less. Aristophon. There is less danger from great fame than from infamy. Tacitus. He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest. Solon, Fame is the shame of immortality, and is itself a shadow. - E. Young. If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it. Martial. Fame is the spur by which almost all noble ef- forts are made, Sir E. Brydges. Fame can never make us lie down contentedly On a death-bed. * Pope. Much greater is the thirst for fame than for generous deeds. Juvenal. What a heavy burden is a name that has become too soon famous ! Voltaire. Fame, like a river, is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off. La Nowe, Fame is the chastisement of merit and the pun- ishment of talent. Chamfort. Fame, like any other commodity, is sometimes cheaply purchased. Bovee. There is no sweeter friend than fame, nor worse enemy than report. Jacob Aal. Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome. Rowsseaw. Who despises fame will soon renounce the vir- tues that deserve it.' -D. Mallet. Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them. G. Williers. The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue ; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards Ż Juvenal. FAIME. To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a de- sirable avant-cowrier. Balzac. Desire to be famous, but first be careful to pur- chase fame with credit. A. S. Irailh. As the shadow doth follow the body, so good deeds accompany fame. Cicero. Though fame is smoke, its fumes are frankin- cense to human thoughts. Byron. The way to fame is like the way to heaven— through much tribulation. Sterne. Fame'is a ladder; a hard thing to climb up, but easy enough to climb down. H. W. Shaw. Keep the fame which thou hast honestly gotten, for it is a jewel inestimable. Archias. Fame is the last and least of all the motives that lead to authorship of any kind. D. Hoffman. Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife. Bulwer. Though there may be many rich, many virtuous, many wise men, fame must necessarily be the por- tion of but few, R. Holl. He who who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure ; the dread of censure is the death of genius. W. G. Simmºns. There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as fame ; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. Bruyère. Of all the possessions of this life, fame is the no- blest ; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. Schiller. Fame is like a whimsical mistress; she flies from those who pursue her most, and follows such as show the least regard to her. S. Croacall. What is fame 2 The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. Stanislaws. Be not eager after fame, found by experience to carry a trumpet, that doth for the most part con- gregate more enemies than friends. L. Osborn. In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race. Zimmerman. Fame may be compared to a scold; the best way to silence her is to let her alone, and she will at last be out of breath in blowing her own trumpet. T. Fuller. Fame and reputation are weak ties; many have not the least sense of them ; powerful men are only awed by them as they conduce to their interest. Dryden. Fame is an undertaker that pays but little atten- tion to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave. Colton. 270 ZD A Y'S CO /, / A C O AW. FAIME. Common fame is the only liar that deserveth to have some respect still reserved to it ; though she telleth many an untruth, she often hits right, and most especially when she speaketh ill of men. Sir H. Saville, Fame and honor were purchased at a bitter pen- nyworth by satire, rather than by any other pro- ductions of the brain ; the world being Soonest provoked to praise by lashes, as men are to love. Swift. Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident ; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion ; no man can foresee what a day may bring forth ; while those who cheer to-day will often curse to- rūOl"I’OW. H. Greeley. Fame is the inheritance, not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity, who drink of that flood of glory as of a river, and refresh our wings in it for future flight. Hazlitt. Fame is is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away : for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers. Lord Bacon. Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns bright- est in the bravest breast. Jeremy Collier. If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thine own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of popular- ity is shame ; if thou be once up, beware ; from fame to infamy is a beaten road. F. Quarles. Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight des- perately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death. A. S. Mackenzie. It is a very indiscreet and troublesome ambition which cares So much about fame ; about what the world Says of us ; to be always looking in the face of others for approval ; to be always anxious about the effect of what we do or say: to be always shouting, to hear the echoes of our own voices. Longfellow. As the desire of fame in men of true wit and gal- lantry shows itself in proper instances, the same desire in men who have the ambition without pro- per faculties, runs wild and discovers itself in a thousand extravagances, by which they would sig- malize themselves from others, and gain a set of admirers. Steele. Desire of fame naturally betrays the ambitious man into such indecencies as are lessening to his re- putation. He is afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private, lest his deserts should be concealed from the notice of the world, or re- ceive any disadvantage from the reports which others make of them. Addison. FAME}. It is often observed of wits, that they will lose their best friend for the sake of a joke ; candor may discover that it is the greater degree of their love of fame, not the less degree of their benevo- lence, which is the cause. Shenstone. To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating Cup placed to the lips, they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads ; but to others fame is “love disguised,” the love that an- Swers to love in its widest, most exalted sense. Mrs. Jameson. Fame, like all other things which are supposed to give or to increase happiness, is dispensed with the same equality of distribution. He that is loudly praised will be clamorously censured ; he that rises hastily into fame will be in danger of sinking sud- denly into oblivion. Dr. Johnson. A man's heart must be very frivolous if the pos- session of fame rewards the labor to attain it ; for the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable, or present ; we do not feel, or see, or taste it. People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise ? Bulwer. Fame ! that common crier, whose existence is only known by the assemblage of multitudes; that panderer of wealth and greatness, so eager to haunt the palaces of fortune, and so fastidious to the houseless dignity of virtue ; that parasite of pride, ever scornful to meekness and ever obsequious to insolent power ; that heedless trumpeter, whose ears are deaf to modest merit, and whose eyes are blind to bloodless, distant excellence. J. Q. Adams. To be rich, to be famous ! Do these profit a year hence, when other names Sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin 3 But only truelove lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings, or pervades you and inter- ceeds for you. Non Omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hope- less, living, if a sainted departed Soul still loves and prays for me. W. M. Thackeray. Fame cannot spread wide, or endure long, that is not rooted in nature, and manured by art. That which hopes to resist the blast of malignity, and stand firm against the attacks of time, must con- tain in itself some original principle of growth : the reputation which arises from the detail or transposition of borrowed sentiments may spread for awhile, like ivy on the rind of antiquity, but will be torn away by accident or contempt, and suffered to rot unheeded on the ground. E. Bronté. Nothing astonishes me more than the envy which attends literary fame, and the unkindly apprecia- tion which waits upon the writer. Of every species of fame, it is the most ideal and apart ; it would seem to interfere with no one ; it is bought by a life of labor, generally also, of seclusion and pri- vation ; it asks its honors only from all that is most touching and most elevated in humanity. What is the reward that it craves?—to lighten many a solitary hour, and to spiritualize a world, that were else too material. Miss Landom. P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 271 FAIME. Fame, like money, should neither be despised or idolized; an honest fame, based on worth and merit, and gained, like large estates, by prudence and in- dustry, deservedly perpetuates the names of the great and good. We have a species of spurious fame, some call it glory, that either dies with the incum- bent, or is ungrateful to the memory ; genuine fame is a better undertaker than physician, and deals more in epitaphs than prescriptions ; tran- sient fame, or glory, requires as much, and more difficult labor to acquire it, because the offspring of ambition. L. C. Judson. As time advances more things appear, which enable the world to judge of the characters of re- markable men ; in our judgments of them, at first we are influenced by the opinions which their con- temporaries held respecting them, but gradually another opinion arises, on which at last what is Called posthumous fame is built up. Men in this way become in a certain degree like phantoms; much which belongs to them vanishes, and what remains assumes quite a different aspect ; there- fore what we know of them will be received ac- cording to the spirit of the existing time. So uncertain is the image which even the greatest men leave behind them in history. Humboldt. Fame is the peculiar inheritance of the few no- ble. The honor which is devoted to the memory Of a great man Often lights up the sparks of genius in another bosom ; with a zeal which overcomes every obstacle he strives for a prize which appears in his eyes So great, so pure, and god-like : and if at the end of his course he throws a glance over the past, he leaves this busy scene in full content- ment, joyous, and with the firm trust that his ex- ample and the fame of his name will implant the living flame in some other breast in the same way as he had received it. This fame is as it were a debt, which posterity must pay; and an age which passes over in silence the merits of the noble, de- serves as a punishment that it should not bring forth such a one in its midst. G. Forster. FAMILIARITY. Familiarity breeds contempt. Cato. Familiarity produces neglect. Dr. Johnson. Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. Hazlitt. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. Addison. The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity. Joubert. Be not too familiar with thy servants; at first it may beget love, but in the end it will breed con- tempt. R. Fuller. Familiarity is a suspension of the laws of civili- ty, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease. Rochefoucauld. There is no greater mistake in social life than in indulging in over-familiarity ; intercourse, even between intimate friends, should have some digni- ty about it. Annie E. Lancaster. FAIMILY. A happy family is a paradise. Varro. Where can a man be better than in the bosom of his family Marmontel. Every well-regulated family might be as a per- petual school. Mrs. Sigowrney. The family is as permanent associety, of which it is the primitive element. Lamennais. Many men find it a harder task to govern their family, than to govern a province. Tacitus. Families are so many centres of attraction, which preserve mankind from being scattered and dis- sipated by the repulsive powers of selfishness. R. Hall. The fire of discord turns a house into a little hell, full of the tormenting passions, Sorrow and an- guish, disdain and despite, malice and envy, that blast the most flourishing families. W. Botes. A house without a roof would scarcely be a more indifferent home than a family state unsheltered by God's friendship and the sense of being always rested in His vidential care and guidance. Dr. Bushmell. In your family alone can there be that inter- course of heart with heart, which falls like refresh- ing dew on the soul, when it is withered and parched by the heats of business and the intense selfishness which you must hourly meet in public life. W. C. Taylor. The most lasting families have only their Seasons, more or less, of a certain constitutional strength. They flourish and shine, perhaps, for ages; at last they sicken, their light grows pale, and at a crisis when the offsets are withered, and the Old Stock is blasted, the old tribe disappears. Borlase. Most salutary is family worship as a means of promoting domestic happiness, and adding to the attractions of home. It is something to bring the members of a family together twice a day ; for in proportion as the subjects of mutual obligation live apart, they will cease to care for one another. Biom. The ties of family and of country were never in- tended to circumscribe the Soul. Man is connected at birth with a few beings, that the Spirit of hu- manity may be called forth by their tenderness ; and, whenever domestic or national attachments become exclusive, engrossing, clannish, so as to shut out the general claims of the human race, the highest end of Providence is frustrated, and home, instead of being the nursery, becomes the grave of the heart. W. E. Channing. There are many persons who have heard so much of family-government, that they think there cannot be too much of it. They imprison their children in stiff rooms, where a fly is a band of music in the empty silence, and govern at morn- ing, and govern at night, and the child goes all day long like the shuttle in the loom, back and for- ward, hit at both ends. Children subjected to such treatment are apt to grow up infidels, through mere disgust. H. W. Beecher. 272 A) A Y 'S CO / / A C O AV. FAMINE. FANATICISM. Fate forbiddeth famine to abide where plenty Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, dwelleth. T. Ellwood. has always served not only to render men more In a famine, if need be, let the poor be fed from the church treasure. Pope John VI. God is the efficient cause of famine, and sins the impulse or forcing causes. St. Basil. Famine is a vehement hunger which filleth the stomach with evil humors, and destroyeth the life thereof. Galen. Famine is like to the eating and devouring ulcer called the wolf, which ulcerateth the skin, and eat- eth the flesh to the very bones. Babacouschi. Famine is more intolerable than pestilence or the sword ; when God gave David his choice of these three evils, he chose the pestilence, as the easiest to be endured. Jaspar Mayme. In time of famine, mice, dogs, horses, asses, and, at the last, man's flesh, have been used for susten- ance ; yea, what is not to be spoken without trem- bling, mothers have been constrained, through hunger, to devour their own children. F. Josephus. Famine and dearth do thus differ; dearth is when all things change that belong to the life of man : meat, drink, apparel, are rated at a high price ; famine is, when all these necessaries are not to be had for money, though there be store of money. Robert de Brwinne. FAINATICISMI. - Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by judgment. Mrs. H. B. Stowe. Fanaticism is the daughter of ignorance, and the mother of infidelity. J. Bellendem, If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic. Lavater. Famatics sometimes affect to be inspired, or to have intercourse with superior beings. N. Webster. The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. E. H. Chapin. This is fanaticism ; when, by thinking too much of the other world, a man becomes unfit to live in this. Bovee. Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of super- stition, the father of intolerance and of persecu- tion. J. Fletcher. The blind, foolish fanaticism of one foolish man, may cause more evil than the united efforts of twenty rogues. Baron de Grimm. What is fanaticism to-day is the fashionable creed to-morrow, and trite as the multiplication- table, a week after. W. Phillips. Let none of us cherish or invoke the spirit of religious fanaticism ; the ally would be quite as pestilent as the enemy. R. Walsh. Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying ; it stimulates and fer- ments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them. W. Warburton. brutalized, but more wicked. Voltaire. Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression of the ideas relating to the future world as dis- Qualifies for the duties of life. R. Hall. Of all things wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to fur- mish any kind of resource. Burke. Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured ; bearing, indeed, about the same rela- tion to it that a monkey bears to a man ; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion. E. P. Whipple. A fanatic, either religious or political, is the sub- ject of strong delusions; while the term illusion is applied solely to the visions of an uncontrolled ima- gination, the chimerical ideas of one blinded by hope, passion, or credulity, or, lastly, to spectral and other ocular deceptions, to which the word il- lusion is never applied. R. Whately. Fanatics are inexorable to all entreaties for mer- cy ; all who are not with them, they treat as ene- mies; considering all heterodox, who do not em- brace their dogmas. Fanaticism arrays father against son, mother against daughter; disregards all the ties of consanguinity, all the bonds of former friendship, and all whom it cannot control, endeav- ors to destroy. L. C. Judson. It is a most solemn duty to cultivate our under- standings to the utmost, for I have seen the evil moral consequences of famaticism, to a greater de- gree than I ever expected to see them realized ; and I am satisfied that a neglected intellect is far oft- emer the cause of mischief to man than a perverted or over-valued one. Men retain their natural quick- ness or cleverness, while their reason and judgment are allowed to go to ruin. Dr. Armold. Infamy and ridicule only should be employed against fanatics; if the first, their pride will be overbalanced by the pride of the people ; and we may judge of the power of the second, if we con- sider that even truth is obliged to summon all her force when attacked by error armed by ridicule ; thus, by opposing One passion to another, and opinion to opinion, a wise legislator puts an end to the admiration of the populace, occasioned by a false principle, the original absurdity of which is veiled by some well-educated consequences. Beccaria. There is not any cruelty so inexorable and unre- . lenting, as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. Under the influence of such hallucination, all com- mon modes of reasoning are perverted, and all general principles destroyed. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance of obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value, in pro- portion as it is effected at the expense of every feel- ing, both of justice and of humanity. Colton. A A' O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 273 FANCY. Fancy cures more than the doctor. Paracelsus. The false fancy brings a real misery. Schiller. A fanciful man always forms visionary projects. W. Huºnter. Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste. - Goethe. We are all subject to the tyrannic sway of fancy's empire. G. Brebeuf. Innumerable are the diseases that arise from our busy fancy. J. Millington. All impediments in fancy's course are motives of mere fancy. Shakspeare. Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past. Ruffini. A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets. W. R. Alger. We sometimes fancy a lady at first sight, whom, On acquaintance, we cannot esteem. N. Webster. Fancy and humor early and constantly indulged, may expect an old age overrun with follies. I. Watts. Fancy restrained may be compared to a foun- tain, which plays highest by diminishing the aper- ture. * Goldsmith. Fancy rules over two-thirds of the universe, the past and the future, while reality is confined to the present. Richter. In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it. Addison. However strict a hand is to be kept upon all the desires of fancy, yet in recreation fancy must be permitted to speak. J. Locke. Fancy is imagination in her youth and adoles- cence ; fancy is always excursive ; imagination, not seldom, is sedate. W. S. Landor. The pleasures which the brutal part of the crea- tion enjoy, are not subject to be lessened by the uneasiness which arises from fancy. F. Atterbury. Fancy is a butterfly, which must be delicately handled ; if rude fingers tamper with it, the bloom is rubbed off, and the gay insect perishes. F. Bowterwek, The fancies of men change, and he that loves to- day, hateth to-morrow ; but let reason be thy school-mistress, which shall ever guide the aright. Sir W. Raleigh. A lively spirit and warm feelings soon carry us beyond the limits of the real ; and whatever may be the favorite subject on which our intellect is en- gaged, our fancy throws a halo around it. G. Forster. Ye race of mortals, how I deem your life as no- thing but an airy dream . For this is the only hap- piness granted to man, to fancy that he has it, and so fancying to see the glittering vision melt away. - Sophocles. FANCY. It is the fancy, not the reason of things, that makes us so uneasy ; it is not the place, nor the Con- dition, but the mind alone, that can make anybody happy or miserable. L’Estrange. Every fancy that we would substitute for a re- ality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excel- lent than that which we sacrifice to it. J. Sterling. An ambitious fancy is a great stutterer, and fruitful of miscarriages, from its extreme liability to miscalculate its strength ; it has the wing to carry usinto the air, but not through it. Bovee. Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop ; it is like one of those fiends in old stories which any one could raise, but which when raised, could never be kept within the magic circle. R. Whately. When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it to some smooth, velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rosebuds of delights ; and having taken a few turns in it, comebackstrengthened and refreshed. Sterne. The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends to the illusion it calls up a gay, flattering hue, much oftener than one which in- spires terror. Hwmboldt. Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and envy, derive their principal nourishment from a cause apparent- ly so trivial ; its effect on the common affairs of life is greater than might be supposed; naked real- ity would scarcely keep the world in motion. W. B. Clwlow. The queen of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is more deceitful because she does not always deceive ; she would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood ; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false. Pascal. Let not thy fancy be guided by thine eye; nor let thy will be governed by thy fancy ; thine eye may be deceived in her object, and thy fancy may be deluded in her subject ; let thy understanding moderate between thine eye and thy fancy ; and let thy judgment arbitrate between thy fancy and thy will ; so shall thy fancy apprehend what is true ; SO shall thy will elect what is good. Quarles. Most marvellous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make the flowerets bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens; this faculty is incomparably the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men. T. Fuller. 18 274 ZO A Y’.S C O /, / A C O AV. FARCE. FARMER. Farce pleases the multitude. Philemom. The farmers are the founders of all civilization. Farce is a sort of compromise between Satire, buffoonery, and tragedy. Bradford. Farce appears to have risen to the dignity of a regular theatrical entertainment. W. T. Brande. In a farce, the irregularity of the plot should answer to the extravagance of the characters. J. Gay. Almost any actor of talent may compose a trage- dy, but it requires not talent only but wit to pro- duce a farce. Sharp. A farce is a dramatic representation written without regularity, and stuffed with wild and lu- dicrous conceits. Dr. Johnson. Farce is that in poetry which grotesque is in a picture ; the persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false ; that is, incon- sistent with the characters of mankind. Dryden. FAREWELL. That word, farewell, the happy never say, and never hear said. W. S. Londo?". God hath mot created a greater torture than the moment of farewells. Abw Lovina. The air is full of farewells to the dying, and mournings for the dead. Longfellow. In the word farewell, our temporal wish is based on hope, our spiritual on faith. James Ellis. When our loved ones leave us, the deepest sorrow is when the voice dies away in the distance with a mournful farewell, and the familiar form is hidden from our sight. Lowise Otto. The farewell we breathe to friends at parting for a day or a year, is not the farewell we utter to loved ones at the brink of death's dark river, when parting for eternity. Mrs. O. Andress. Men's feelings are always purest and most glow- ing in the hour of meeting and of farewell ; like the glaciers, which are transparent and rosy-hued Only at Sunrise and Sunset, but throughout the day gray and cold. Richter. From the passionate farewell to the woman who has your heart in her keeping, to the cordial good- bye exchanged with pleasant companions at a watering-place, a country house, or the close of a festive days' blithe and careless excursion—a chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practised in re-splicing broken ties. Bulwer. What means this word farewell, blending in harmony, sweetness, and melancholy % Why does it fall with such a crushing weight upon the listen- er's ear? Why do bright eyes grow dim, and rosy. cheeks rival the lily's whiteness, as this moment- ous word falls from the lips of some long cherished one 3 Alas! it tells of childhood, weeping at its first sorrow ; of leaving home and country to seek lmore happiness, more joy ; of poverty and strug- gles with the cold world ; of beauty fled from earth. Emma, Jame Worboise, D. Webster. The farmer is never too old to learn until he is too old to labor. J. R. Lawton. The happy farmer at his independent table need not envy the luxury of kings. Mrs. Sigourmey. To the intelligent farmer nature unfolds her beauties as well as her bounties. J. A. Pearce. The farmer that sows his grain upon marble, will have many a hungry belly before his harvest. - Arbuthnot. He who would look with contempt upon the farmer's pursuit, is not worthy the name of a man. H. W. Beecher. The most successful farmers are those who have embraced agriculture as an occupation with a de- termination to succeed. L. F. Allem. Let every farmer who has a son to educate, be- lieve and remember that science lays the foundation of everything valuable. J. W. JDraper. The farmer has no need of popular favor ; the success of his crops depends only on the blessing of God upon his honest industry. Franklin. If the farmer will not study science because it is interesting, he must study it because it is useful— because it is necessary to the successful cultivation of his land. J. Tufts. The sages and heroes of Greece and Rome, not only directed the operations of farming, but thought it no disparagement to till the soil with their own hands. E. Mack. The farmer is independent ; with the mechanic and manufacturer as his allies, he makes our coun- try safe against foreign foes, for it becomes perfect by its own resources. G. Bancroft. The farmer who could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential Service to his country, than all the politicians put together. Swift. Trade increases the wealth and glory of a coun- try ; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land; in the simplicity of a farmer's life is found the simple- ness of virtue, and the integrity and courage of freedom. Lord Chatham. The situation of an independent farmer stands among the first for happiness and virtue; it is the one to which statesmen and warriors have retired, to find in ºne contemplation of the works of nature that serenity which more conspicuous stations could not impart. J. Quincy. The farmer contributes to the wealth of a country . by his perpetual toil ; everything begins with him; every day in the year has its various and its con- tinuous operations; all directed, however, to this One point—to bring the greatest quantity of pro- duce from a given number of acres. G. Burmap. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 275 FARMER. Farming is always a failure when a man knows nothing about it ; if a man can afford to make a large outlay for his own amusement, and the health of his family, let him hasten to his country pur- chase ; but no one save a city fool will think to keep a business in town, and make a farm finan- cially profitable. Talmage. The practical farmer should be continually im- proving his mind by study and reflection ; reading and study in his leisure hours, reflection and observation in his daily toil ; the field of his labor is unbounded, and, his mind could be continually employed in searching out the nature of his Soils, and what they require to make them productive. J. R. Lawton. Does the farmer aim at a life useful and benefi- cial to his race 2 Let him remember that every acre that he reclaims, every blade of grass that he bids to grow where none grew before, ameliorates the condition of his fellows. Does he aspire to wealth 3 Let him reflect that his gains, if less bril- liant and striking than those of trade and the pro- fessions, are more certain and uniform, and that gradual improvement of his estate, and the silent but continued rise of property, promise eventual prosperity. E. H. Derby. Ennobled, indeed, must be the profession, whose proper abode is amidst the finest scenes of creation, and under the immediate influence of the celestial phenomena ; the farmer stands in connection with the agencies of the universe. The refreshing dews, the enriching rains, the winds, the Snows, the frosts, all contribute to the results he prosecutes : when the sun shines, it is to ripen his harvests ; when the clouds collect, it is to water his pastures; and if, from time to time, destructive meteors ex- cite his fears, or disappoint his expectations, they also recall him to a sense of his dependence on heaven, and they give an increased value to what they spare. Mac Neven. The man who stands upon his own soil; who feels that by the law of civilized nations he is the rightful owner of the land he tills, is by the con- stitution of our nature under a wholesome influ- ence, not easily imbibed from any other source. Perhaps the farm of this man has come down to him from his fathers; they have gone to their last home ; but he can trace their footsteps over the daily scenes of his labors; the roof which shelters him was reared by those to whom he owes his being ; the favorite fruit tree was planted by his father's hand; he sported in his boyhood by the side of the brook, which still winds through his meadow ; through the field lies the path to the village school of his earliest days; he still hears from his window the voice of the Sabbath bell which called his fathers and his forefathers to the house of God; and near at hand is the spot where he laid his parents down to rest, and where he trusts, when his hour is come, he shall be dutifully laid by his children. These are the feelings of the owner of the soil ; words cannot paint them ; gold cannot buy them ; they flow out of the deepest feelings of the heart ; they are the life-spring of a fresh, healthy, generous, national character. E. Everett. FAIRMER. In order to the highest pleasure, profit, and digni- ty of the farmer's life, he wants an accurate know- ledge, scientifically, of the mature of plants and of soils, the uses of manure, the methods of vegetable growth–such information as will give him power to control the operations of his farm, and bring them into harmony with the laws of nature. I. N. Tarboat. The farmer stands upon a lofty eminence, and looks upon the bustle of cities, the intricacies of mechanism, the din of commerce, and brain-con- fusing, body-killing literature, with feelings of personal freedom peculiarly his own ; he delights in the prosperity of the city as his market place, acknowledges the usefulness of the mechanic, ad- mires the enterprise of the commercial man, and rejoices in the benefits that flow from the untiring investigations of science. L. C. Judson. One of the greatest embarrassments of the farmer is the want of proper education for his calling ; in other arts and professions we employ only those who are properly trained for their business. The reason is evident. We do not expect others to Succeed ; but why do we not apply the same logic and practical sense to agriculture ? We do not en- Courage an uneducated physician or a mechanic who is not master of his trade ; why then do we expect men to succeed in farming who know no more of the nature of soils, nor of the adaptation of different species of manures to the various kinds Of grain, grass, vegetables, and fruits, than they do of the rotation of day and night, or the seasons in One of the newly discovered planets? M. P. Wilder. FASCINATION. - The young are fascinated by love ; female beauty fascinates the unguarded. N. Webster. A woman fascinates us quite as often by what she overlooks as by what she sees. G. D. Prentice. The Turks hung old rags on their fairest horses, to secure them against fascination. Sir W. Waller. None of the affections have been noted to fascin- ate and bewitch, but love and envy. Lord Bacon. Fascination may be to the injury of the subject; a loose woman hath in her power to fascinate. G. Crabb. There is a certain fascination in words, which makes them operate with a force beyond what we can naturally give an account of. R. Sowth. One would think there was some kind of fascina- tion in the eyes of a large circle of people, when darting altogether upon one person. Addison. A strange, strong power is fascination, no matter what the source ; we are bound by it in chains none the weaker because they are forged by the imagination. James Ellis. Fascination consists of a subtile, inexplicable charm, which is part and parcel of the charmer ; it is not beauty, for ugliness will fascinate ; it is the concentrated power of the will, which in its strength draws with an irresistible force the will of another being. Annie E. Lancaster. 276 JO A Y’.S C O / / A C O AV. FASHION. Fashion is the custom of the great. Addison. Fashion is the bastard of vanity, dressed by art. Fuseli. Fools invent fashions, and wise men follow men. Rousseaw. The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint. Bulwer. Never be the first one h a fashion, nor the last One out of it. J. Wesley. Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all. H. W. Shaw. Fashion is, for the most part, nothing but the os- tentation of riches. J. Locke. Too much attention to fashionable dress displays an imbecility of mind. Alphonsus. A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tail- or's fool, and his own foe. Lavater. Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Thoreaw. Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. O. W. Holmes. Women cherish fashion because it rejuvenates them, or at least renews them. Mme. de Puisiewa!. Change of fashion is the tax which industry im- poses on the vanity of the rich. Chamfort. Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency. H. T. Thickerman. It is not in the power of costly and fashionable equipage, to make a gentleman Or lady. J. W. Boºrker. Fashion is a word which knaves and fools make use of, to excuse their knavery and folly. C. Churchill. There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them. Bovee. Fashion governs the world; it regulates the mor- als, the way of thinking, dressing, eating, writing, entertainments, pleasures—everything. Isa Craig. Fashion is gentility running away from vulgari- ty, and afraid of being overtaken by it ; it is a sign the two things are not far asunder. Hazlitt. The laws of fashion are often so preposterous, her dominion so arbitrary, that reason and philoso- phy can have little hope of gaining ground in her empire. Mrs. Sigowrney. The desire of appearing to advantage, establishes the embellishments of dress ; and the desire of pleasing others more than ourselves, gives rise to fashions. Montesquiew. Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beau- tiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things ; she must be forever new, or she becomes insipid. J. R. Lowell. FASHION. Fashion is among the last influences under which a human being who respects himself, or who com- prehends the great end of life, would desire to be placed. W. E. Channing. One would not object to the prevalent notion that whatever is fashionable is right, if our rulers of the mode would contrive that whatever is right should be fashionable. Chatfield. Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy, who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be unable to distinguish them- selves from the vulgar. Shenstone. Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain. P. W. Emerson. Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it : what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous ; where the eye is jury, thy apparel is the evidence. F. Quarles. The most improper things we commit in the con- duct of our lives, we are led into by the force of fashion ; instances might be given, in which a pre- vailing custom makes us act against the rules of ma- ture. Steele. Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us; we must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes; but being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the . wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it. Pavillon. Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade ; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear SO ; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to Ostentation. Colton. The external graces, the frivolous accomplish- ment of that impertinent and foolish thing called a man of fashion, are commonly more admired than the solid and masculine virtues of a warrior, a statesman, a philosopher, or a legislator. C. Buck. There is a set of people whom I cannot bear—the pinks of fashionable propriety—whose every word is precise, and whose every movement is unexcep- tionable ; but who, though versed in all the cate- gories of polite behavior, have not a particle of soul or cordiality about them. T. Chalmers. We take our ideas from sounds which folly has invented ; fashion, bon ton, and virtu, are the names of certain idols, to which we sacrifice the genuine pleasures of the soul; in this world of resemblance, we are contented with personating happiness, to feel it is an art beyond us. A. S. Mackenzie. It may be a sufficient censure of some fashions, to say that they are ridiculous ; their chief effect is to disfigure the female form ; and perhaps the inventors of them had no worse design than to make a trial, how far they could lead the passive, unthinking many in the path of absurdity. Sir I. Newton. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 277 FASEHION. Of all useless beings the mere man of fashion is perhaps the most useless ; and of all modes of liv- ing, the most idle and unsatisfactory is the life of those who spend their days in ambitious endeavors to maintain themselves in a higher position of SO- ciety than their station and their attainments war- rant. Prof. Gresley. Fashion is the great governor of this world ; it presides not only in matters of dress and amuse- ment, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and all other things of the gravest kind ; indeed, the wis- est of men would be puzzled to give any better reason why particular forms in all these have been at certain times universally received, and at other times universally rejected, than that they were in or out of fashion. H. Fielding. Let women adopt that chaste and simple, that neat and elegant style of dress, which so advanta- geously displays the charms of real beauty, instead of those preposterous fashions and fantastical dra- peries of dress which, while they conceal some few defects of person, expose so many defects of mind, and sacrifice to ostentatious finery all those mild, amiable, and modest virtues, by which the female character is so pleasingly adorned. Tertulliam. Fashion makes people sit up at night when they ought to be in bed, and keeps them in bed in the morning when they ought to be up and doing ; she makes her votaries visit when they would rather stay at home, eat when they are not hungry, and drink when they are not thirsty ; she invades their pleasures, and interrupts their business ; she com- pels them to dress gaily, either upon their own property or that of others ; she makes them through life seek rest on a couch of anxiety, and leaves them, in the hour of desolation, on a bed of thorns. Mrs. Balfowr. FASTIDIOUSNESS. Fastidiousness is an enemy to poverty. Freytag. The fastidious are unfortunate ; nothing can sat- isfy them. La Fontaine. Fastidiousness is the envelope of bad taste and indelicacy. Halibwºrton. Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to be fastidious. G. Crobb. Fastidiousness is not a proof of taste, but an evidence of its absence. J. Maccwllowgh. He who affects fastidiousness, because he consid- ers it an evidence of taste, is pitiably ignorant of the common courtesies of life. Miss G. M. Craik. The perception as well as the senses may be im- proved to our own disquiet ; and we may by dili- gent cultivation of the powers of dislike raise in time an artificial fastidiousness. Dr. Johnson. Like other things spurious, fastidiousness is often . inconsistent with itself ; the coarsest things are done, the cruellest things said, by the most fasti- dious people. If we observe a person who is proud of a reputation for fastidiousness, we shall always find that the egotism which is its life will at times lead him to say or to do something disgusting. Mrs. Kirkland. FASTING. No one fasts without a cause. Oji. Fasting is a cure for many diseases. Dr. Tanner. Fasting cannot purchase God's favor. Zoroaster. Fasting is the perfection of God's law. Zamzalws. It is easy to preach fasting with a full belly. Vander Weyde. We feast when we can, and we fast when we must. Servetws. Through fasting one may get a near view of death. Hegesias. He that is given to fasting, thinks himself very devout if he fast often. C. S. Whitmarsh. Fasting makes everything sweet except itself, for want is the teacher of habits. Antiphanes. Fasting is, in the Christian sense, a result of ar- dent devotional feeling, or of deep sorrow already existing. R. L. H. Wiseman. It avails nothing if we distress our bodies with fasting, if we do not amend our hearts, or care for Our Souls. Coesarius of Arles. Fasting and prayer are the great barriers to keep out all temptations of intemperance and sin from the minds of men. Rev. Canon Barry. Fasting is not to be condemned, but rather en- couraged ; our Lord did not disapprove of it, and the holiest saints practiced it. Prof. Vinet. Though fasting be a means of grace, yet it is better to devour a whole ox on Good Friday, than bewray the soul by falsehood. Berthold. Of fasting, it may be said, while it has been per- verted into a superstition, yet “There is more fear of a pottengerful of gluttony than a spoonful of superstition.” Grosart. God ordained fasting ; and to fasting pertaineth four things: gifts to poor folk ; gladness of heart spiritual ; not to be angry or annoyed ; nor to grudge that he fasteth. Chawcer. Fasting should be free and voluntary, a sort of free-will offering, not merely what is put upon us by constraint ; we should abstain from all suste- nance of the body, if possible without injury, and from all the delights of sense for a time, for a re- ligious end. Dr. Beaumont, FATIGUE. Fatigue not yourself unnecessarily. Howleglass. Fatigue does not always win sleep. R. Choate. Of what use is it to fatigue one's-self and make efforts by which one does not profit. E. Villetard. Fatigue implies destruction of life ; every cause of fatigue in speaking should be avoided on all oc- casions. J. H. McIlvaine. When we are fatigued we should rest ; perpet- ual toil will soon wear us out, and nature would defeat her own ends if she disqualified us for what she designed us to do. Erckmann-Chatrian. 278 Al A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. FATE. FATE}. Fate governs the world. Pythagoras. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed unaltera- sº — * * * ble course of events ; but then they held also that The fates will find their way. Virgi'. they fell out by a necessity emergent from and in- g º •-rr rº *e herent in the things themselves, which God himself Oftentimes fate is very cruel. E. Brooks. could not alter. R. South. To bear is to conquer our fate. J. Campbell. Fatalism is the belief of an unchangeable destiny, The future is dependent on fate. Goethe, to which everything is subject, uninfluenced by Fortune comes and goes with fate. Sigismund I. The fates glide with linked hands over life. . Richter. Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulses. S. T. Coleridge. The bright light of fate leaves nothing concealed. * Claudian. When we choose, we are masters of our own fate. Ferrier. Whosoever quarrels with his fate, does not un- derstand it. Bettinct Wom. A 7"niºn. Man's breath is a bridle, and fate holds and directs it as she will. Hutsain. All things are in fate ; yet all things are not de- creed by fate. - Plato. A mortal must endure the necessity of fate pro- ceeding from the gods. Ewripides. Many are the things that we must altogether leave in the hands of fate | G. Forster. O, the merciless fickleness of that undivine pro- vidence which we call fate | T. Tilton. It frequently happens that men, by endeavoring to shun their fate, run directly upon it. Livy. The senses of men are usually blunted and dead- ened, when fate lays a heavy hand upon them. Marcellinºws. Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. - W. R. Alger. No one can escape his fate, neither the coward nor the brave, as it has been determined at his birth. Homer. The fatalist stands a good chance of being con- tented with his lot, unless it is ordained to the con- trary. Zimºnerman. Fate distributes wealth and honor; the skillful archer sometimes misses the deer, while he who is no archer strikes it. Al-Hôtimi. Call not fate fearful, call not its determination envy ; its law is eternal truth, its goodness God's purity, its might is necessity. Herder. Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low ; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. Horace. Fate is nothing but a series of events, considered as necessarily following in some certain order, or of which it has always been true that they would be in their determinate times and places. W. H. Wollastom. ports an inexorable necessity. enduring despair. reason, and independent of a controlling cause ; the doctrine, in short, which teaches that all things take place by inevitable necessity. G. Maunder. Concerning fate or destiny, the opinions of those learned men that have written thereof might be safely received, had they not thereunto annexed and fastened an inevitable necessity, and made it more general and universally powerful than it is. - Sir W. Raleigh. The forbearance of God allows demons to afflict the virtuous, and bestow prosperity on the vicious ; this must not be ascribed to fate, for fate would destroy volition ; but angels and men have free- will, may do right or wrong, therefore the wrong- doer will be punished at last. J. Martyr. A strict belief in fate is the worst slavery ; im- posing upon our necks an everlasting lord or ty- rant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day ; on the other hand, that is some comfort that God will be moved by our prayers ; but this im- Epicurus. The decrees of fate often lead us astray ; it con- ducts mortals, it directs their steps by secret paths which they know not ; it plunges them into the pit, and sometimes draws them out of it ; it loads with chains, it raises them to the empire ; it causes them to find life in the midst of the tomb. Voltaire, We often close every door against the admission of fate but the very one by which it enters ; being taken off our guard, we are like soldiers asleep in the fortress which they supposed to be secure ; but there was one weak and undefended part which the enemy scaled, and having gained one point, gained all. Acton. It is the best use of fate to teach a fatal courage. Go face the fire at Sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of destiny; if you be- lieve in fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good. F. W. Emerson. The fates of men are balanced with wonderfully nice adjustments; the scale of this life, if it sinks, rises there, while, if it rises here, it will sink to the ground there. What was here temporary affiic- tion, will be there eternal triumph ; what was here temporary triumph, will be there eternal and ever- Schiller. What must be shall be ; and that which is a ne– cessity to him that struggles against fate, is little more than choice to him that is willing ; I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined. Seneca. P A O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 279 FATHER.. Posterity pay for the sins of their fathers. Rufus. A father is dear if he treat affectionately his children. Philemon. Honor the father who gave you life, the mother who has cherished you in her bosom. Lamennais. A father when punishing, is always a father ; a slight punishment suffices for his anger. Racine. When thy father waxeth old, remember the good deeds he did for thee when thou wast young. Fry. How greatly should we love a good and kind father ; and how careful should we be to serve and please him. .J. Gwy. What greater ornament is there to a son than a father's glory, or what to a father than a son's honorable conduct 2 Sophocles. The task of making a reasonable provision for the future wants of children belongs, in common cases, to the father. C. Butler. The father that maketh his son worthy to be es- teemed, hath done much for him, although he leave him but little wealth. A. Frawnce. Nothing is better commended in a father, than the teaching of his children by good example, as much as by godly admonition. Biom. The most indifferent thing has its force and beau- ty when spoken by a kind father, and an insignifi- cant trifle has its weight when offered by a dutiful child. Steele. There are unnatural fathers, the whole of whose life seems only employed in furnishing their chil- dren with reasons why they should be comforted at their death. Bruyère. How delightful is a father, gentle and cheerful in his manners . It is not difficult to know a father, for he loves much ; he is also irritated at the small- est faults in those he loves. Menamder. As those men which bring up horses, will first teach them to follow the bridle, so the father that instructs his children ought first to cause them to give ear to that which is spoken. Berz. The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity. Richter. The best inheritance that a father can leave to his children, and which is superior to any patri- mony, is the glory of his virtue and noble deeds ; to disgrace which Ought to be regarded as base and impious. Cicero. “Fathers provoke not your children to wrath, lest they be discouraged.” If the life of a child be embittered, and the result be shyness and secret aversion, that is the most unnatural state of all ; if love be extinguished and the feeling of confidence lost, where shall we again find the key with which we can open their hearts? Where shall we find the bit by which we can direct their young minds from the road that is leading them to ruin Ż Schleiermacher. FAULTS. Every one has his faults. Catwillws. He that finds fault means to buy. Jan Call. We may mend our faults as easily as cover them. S. I. Prime. When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. Menciws. The fool glories over his faults, the wise man cor- rects them. Puh-Shang. He who overlooks one fault invites the Commis- sion of another. Publius Syrus. Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfections ? Mme. de Sévigné. It is only your friends and your enemies that tell you of your faults. Haliburton. To have faults, and not strive to correct them, is to add to Our faults. Confucius. No character is more truly despicable than your habitual fault-finder. Sir R. Adair. He shall be immortal who liveth till he be stoned by one without fault. T. Fuller. In war, the gain is always with him who com- mits the fewest faults. Napoleon I. Men with many faults are the most anxious to disclose those of others. James Ellis. It is more honorable to acknowledge our faults, than to boast of our merits. Stanislaws. Better it is to tell a man of his faults than to speak of them in his absence. Downey. Just as you are pleased at finding faults you are displeased at finding perfections. Lavater. No one is born without faults ; he is the most perfect who is subject to the fewest. Horace. He that is angry at another man's faults, and is not angry at his own, is a hypocrite. J. Wilson. It is the characteristic of folly to discern the faults of others and to forget One's own. Cicero. If we commit small faults without regretto-day, we shall commit greater ones to-morrow. Biom. . Had we not faults of our own we should take less pleasure in observing those of others. Rochefoucauld. What patience we manifest in the discovery and correction of faults, when they exist in other peo- ple ! E. P. Day. If we took as much trouble to conquer as to dis- guise our faults, we should get rid of them very soon. Berz. The hardest thing to learn is to know one's self; the easiest to find fault with the doings of other people. Thales. To be desirous of a good name, and careful to do everything to obtain it, is so far from being a fault, that it is a great and indispensable duty. F. Atterbury. 280 AN A Y’,S C O / / A C O AV. FAULTS. Only those faults which we encounter in our- selves are insufferable to us in others. º Mme. Swetchine. We often appear unconscious of our faults, merely from frequency of viewing them. N. Macdonald. If the best man’s faults were written on his fore- head, he would draw his hat over his eyes. T. Gray. Mankind in general seem to take about as much pride in bragging of their faults as of their virtues. H. W. Show. The fault is to be imputed to the father, if chil- dren, for the want of good bringing up, fall to any dishonest kind of life. T. Carte. There are some faults so nearly allied to excel- lence, that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. Goldsmith. When thou hast committed some fault, be glad that thou hast failed, for it is chiefly in this way that the becoming is preserved. Philippides. Even if we do know of faults in others, we can- not show ourselves more nobly virtuous than in having the charity to concealthem. J. Armstrong. Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbor's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own. Shakspeare. To acknowledge a fault, submit, and ask pardom, are the ready means to take off resentment ; for a generous mind is soon cooled by submission. J. Walke?". There are some faults slight in the sight of love, some errors slight in the estimate of wisdom ; but truth forgives no insult, and endures no stain. Rwskim. Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another ; but as most of our vices are compound, SO also is their punishment. Colton. Some men's natural disposition is such that they show rather a dislike to the commission of faults than sufficient resolution to punish them when committed. Livy. People are commonly so employed in pointing out faults in those before them, as to forget that Some behind may at the same time be descanting on their own. L. W. Dilwyn. On the whole we make too much of faults; the details of the business hide the real centre of it. Faults? The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. T. Carlyle. He who relates the faults of others to you, de- signs to relate yours to them ; the best friends we have in the world are the spies of our actions, who publish our faults. W. Aubrey. We are willing enough to keep at ever so great a distance from the faults to which we have little Or no inclination, and often affect to make our zeal in that respect remarkable. W. Secker. FAULTS. Make no man your idol . For the best man must have faults, and his faults will usually become yours, in addition to your own. Mrs. Jameson. We should never speak, at least openly, of our own faults or those of others, if we do not think thereby to effect some useful purpose. Goethe. Counsel me ; direct me. Even were I sensible as you are, I should not be able to discover my own faults ; the clearest eyes do not see the cheeks be- low, nor the brow above them. W. S. Landor. To find fault, Some one may say, is easy, and in every man's power ; but to point out the proper course to be pursued in the present circumstances, that is the proof of a wise counsellor. Demosthemes. He who exhibits no faults is a fool, or a hypo- Crite, whom we should mistrust ; there are faults so intimately connected with fine qualities that they indicate them, and we do well not to correct them, Jowbert. That even a woman should be faultless is an ar- rangement not permitted by nature, which assigns to us mental defects, as it awards to us headaches, illnesses, or death ; without which, the scheme of the world could not be carried on. Thackeray. If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we as- sociate ; if we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this will alarm our vanity. Fémélon. It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which, if destroyed and consumed on the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there. Pope. With a true wife a husband's faults should be sacred. A woman forgets what is due to herself when she condescends to that refuge of weakness, a female confidante. A wife's bosom should be the tomb of her husband's failings, and his charac- ter far more valuable in her estimation than his life : if this be not the case, she pollutes her mar- riage vow. G. D. Prentice. The difference between a fault and an eccentri- city is this: a fault may be corrected ; it is not above reach, and if nothing else will work a refor- mation, a regard for one's character or reputation may effectually do it. But an eccentric man is above all such regard ; his peculiarity has become a second nature, and must be endured, whether you will or not. W. C. Dana. To a pure, sensitive, and affectionate mind, every act of finding fault, or dealing in condemnation, is an act of pain ; it is only when we have become callous to the world, and strangers to the senti- ments of compassionate love, that we are able to play with unconcern the parts of persecutors and slanderers, and that we can derive any pleasure from malignity and revenge. Acton. PA O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 2S1 FAVOR. Favors should be timely. Acton. The word favor has an odious Sound. Miss Muloch. Favors should be esteemed at their just value. Mukla. The small man thinks of favors which he may receive. Confucius. - Nothing waxeth sooner old than a good turn or a favor. Diogenes. Forget the favors you bestow, but not the pro- mises you make. Yahya Khálid. A favor that only comes through solicitation is already paid for. Makki. The remembrance of a favor ought to make the receiver thankful. Awrelius. To be over-thankful for one favor is in effect to lay out for another. R. Cwmberland. It is better never to receive favors than to be unthankful for them. S. J. Field. The gratitude of place-expectants, is a lively sense of future favors. Sir R. Walpole. Whoever accepts a favor from a friend, or a king, must honor him. Chrysippus. Favor well bestowed establisheth a kingdom; but services unrewarded weaken it. Archimedes. Many gain favor because their enmity is not dreaded, and others because it is. Mme. Clairon. The favor of great men and the praise of the world are not much to be relied on. Roy. Favor places a man above his equals; but his fall from favor puts him below them. Chatfield. When thou hast received a favor, remember it : when thou hast granted one, forget it. G. Brown. Favors properly bestowed and received, are like truth and righteousness kissing each other. G. J. Zollikoffer. While in the enjoyment of favors some are only weak friends, but when refused them, are strong enemies. C. Middleton. Refuse the favors of a mercenary man, they will be a snare unto thee; thou shalt never be quit of an obligation. S. Awstin. Honors and public favors sometimes offer them- selves the more readily to those who have no am- bition for them. Livy. Be always ready to do others little as well as great favors ; and also to receive the same with due notice and returns. JE. Rich. Trifling favors are often readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed ; but important ones are most rarely remembered. Ruffini. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them ; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely. Bulwer. FAVOR,. Where a great man is delicate in the choice of favorites, every one courts with greater earnest- ness his countenance and protection. Hwºme. We absolve another from all gratitude to us when we remind him of a favor ; the obligation becomes from that moment simply a debt, to be paid off as soon as possible. Povee. The regret which the kind-hearted experience in denying favors, may lead to the granting of them afterwards with a better grace ; but it is a concession which benevolence exacts of generosity, in defiance of inclination. Cervantes. No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance ; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver ; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron. Seneca. Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them. It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace ; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost? Bruyère. To receive favors from the unworthy, is simply to admitthat our selfishness is superior to our pride. Most men remember obligations, but not often to be greatful for them ; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent. |W. G. Simms. To forbear making allusions to favors conferred, is sometimes to confer a greater favor than all the previous services already rendered : to declare these allusions openly, is to offer the greatest insult that can be given, and one that is seldom pardoned. J. A. Ernesti. The hatred of favorites is nothing more than the love of favor ; our indignation at not possessing it ourselves is soothed and mitigated by the contempt we express for those who do ; and we refuse them our homage, because we are not able to deprive them of that which procures them the homage of every one else. Rochefoucauld. Some from choice, others from necessity, live altogether upon favor ; they are either entirely helpless, or are slothful, Servile, time-serving, treacherous, and unprincipled ; they receive fa- vors, but never bestow them ; and they acknow- ledge no friends or acquaintances, but the wealthy and powerful, who have something to bestow, some bones or bounties to throw away upon these cringing spaniels of the human race, who know how to adapt their bark and bite to all whom they meet. Acton. Many men act recklessly and without judgment, conferring favors upon all, incited to it by a Sud- den impetuosity of mind ; the kindnesses of these men are not to be regarded in the same light or of the same value as those which are conferred with judg- ment and deliberation ; but in the conferring and requiting of a favor, if other things be equal, it is the duty of a manto assist whereit is most required; the very opposite of this often takes place, for men assist those from whom they hope to receive in re- turn, even though they do not require it. Cicero. 282 D A Y’.S CO /, / A C O AV. F.E.A.R. FEAR,. Fear has many eyes. Cervantes, All the passions seek that which nourishes them ; e — º fear loves the idea of danger. Jowbert. Fear is a great inventor. Campistron. Fear is stronger than love. Pliny the Younger, We hate that which we fear. Shakspeare. Fear is ever credulous of evil. Semeca. Nothing is to be feared but fear. Lord Bacon. Fear is the mother of forethought. H. Taylor. Fear always springs from ignorance. Emerson. By daring, great fears are concealed. Lucamus. Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind. Virgil. It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. Publius Syrus. Fear makes men prome to believe the worst. Rufus. Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude. Constans II. What we once feared is spurned with pleasure. & Lucretius. Fear always represents objects in the worst light. Livy. Fear is a bad guardian of a thing that requires to last. Cicero. Fear is cousin-german, or rather sister, to sor- I’OW. R. Burton. The soldier's fear is the fear of being thought to fear. Bovee. The man that is without fear is always without hope. N. Webste?". Fear is the tax that a wicked conscience pays to guilt. T. Sewell. The moment that my fear begins, I have ceased to fear. Schiller. Fear is the white-lipped sire of subterfuge and treachery. Mrs. Sigowrmey. There are few cowards that know the extent of their fears. Rochefoucawld. A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness. Cardinal de Retz. It is as natural to fear as to hope, when one is unfortunate. Stanislaws. Fear follows hope ; wherefore if thou wilt not fear, hope not. E. N. Damilaville. Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. Sir P. Sidney. Fear standeth at the gates of the ears, and putteth back all persuasions. Plato. Fear, the very worst prophet in misfortunes, an- ticipates many evils. Stativs. The life of those is to be pitied, who prefer to be feared rather than loved. - Nepos. It is better to suffer the worst at once, than to live in perpetual fear of it. Julius Coesar. Fear is a matural passion, and its use is to put us upon Our guard against danger. S. Croacall. The man who lives in fear of another, whatever he may think of himself, is a slave. Antisthenes. The man who affects to regard death without fear must not expect to be believed. L. Grimdon. Fear alone will not teach a man his duty, and hold him to it for any length of time. Xiphilimus. Many men would be only too glad to speak their minds, except for fear of their neighbors. T. Tilton. We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often to despise what we really fear. Coltom. Fear is often mistaken for condescension, and condescension and forbearance for mere pusillani- mity. Berz. We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment ; of fear itself only should we be afraid. Epictetus. Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving. Montaigme. Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and his laws take the surest hold of us. Tillotson. In how large a proportion of creatures is exis- tence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations—fear. Bulwer. Noise, of any kind, dissipates fear; hence boys obviate it by whistling, or hallooing when they pass by a graveyard alone, after night. Dr. Rush. There is nothing so ingenious as fear ; it is even more ingenious than hatred, especially when its concern is with the preservation of money. B. St. John. Many never think of God but in extremity of fear, and then, perplexity not suffering them to be idle, they think and do as it were in a frenzy. R. Hooker. Shun fear, it is the ague of the Soul | a passion man created for himself ; for Surely that Cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory. A. Hill. Fear and awe are only weak chains to secure love; when these fetters are broken, and man who for- gets to fear will begin to show the effects of his hatred. Tacitus. Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides. Fielding. God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. H. W. Beecher. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 283 FEAR, Fear plunges the system into that state of debility which predisposes it to fatal impressions, while the moral force of confidence enables it to repel con- tagion. J. W. Dawson. It is a painful truth, that the operation of fear is more sure and more frequent than that of love in influencing the conduct of human beings toward each other. William Russell. In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in famaticism. Fear, either as a principal or motive, is the beginning of all evil. Mrs. Jameson. Fear naturally represses inventions, benevolence, and ambition ; for in a nation of slaves, as in the despotic governments of the East, to labor after fame is to be a candidate for danger. Goldsmith. The passion of fear determines the spirits to the muscles of the knees, which are instantly ready to ... perform their motion, by taking up the legs with incomparable celerity, in order to remove the body out of harm's way. Earl of Shaftesbury. Fear nothing but what thy industry may pre- vent ; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat ; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived. F. Quarles. Fear never was a friend to the love of God or man, to duty, or conscience, truth, probity, or hon- or ; it therefore can never make a good subject, a good citizen, or a good soldier, and least of all a good Christian, except the devils, who believe and tremble, are to be accounted with good Chris- tians. H. Brooke, Early and provident fear is the mother of safety; because in that state of things the mind is firm and Collected, and the judgment unembarrassed ; but When the fear and the evil feared come on together, and press at once upon us, deliberation itself is ruinous, which saves upon all other occasions ; be- cause, when perils are instant, it delays decision ; the man is in a flutter and in a hurry, and his judg- ment is gone. Burke. FEE. A fee often gets the better of reason. J. Besley. It is better to give a fee to the cook than to the doctor. William, Caldwell Roscoe. Lands held in fee are reduced to the nature of a patrimony. Traynor. A fee is that which any one holds from any cause, whether tenement Or rent. Sir E. Coke. A term, and the fee, cannot both be in one and the same person at the same time. Plowden. A large fee will bring out the erudite principles and historical associations of the law ; but these professional dainties are too costly for poor people. E. H. Plumptre. The fees of the law do not coincide and harmo- nize with a spirit of active benevolence and philan- thropy : for certain it is, that it is the custom of the law to receive, not to bestow. Macvey Napier. FEASTING.. A feast to-day makes a fast to-morrow. Plawtus. How long do you retain the taste of the dainties of a feast 2 Riw-ó. A day of feasting may prove worse than a day of fasting, Al-Aziz. A great feast often furnishes employment for many doctors. Awbrey C. Price. A plain dinner, with wise men for guests, is in- deed a royal feast. Memedemus. Prepare feasts for the sun which prepares so many feasts for us. Huayma Capac, At a feast we enjoy the society of men, at a fast the society of gods. Proclus. A feast is not pleasant without company, nor riches without virtue. Amtisthenes. When luxury makes a feast, death claims an in- vitation, and comes among the guests. Empedocles. When the rich may feast and the poor cannot, health then leaves the palace and dwells in the hovel. - An-Nafis. He that feasts his body with banquets and deli- cate fare, and starves, his soul for want of spiritual food, is like him that feasts his slave and starves his wife. Basil Selweidoe. FEATURES. Handsome features inflame hearts. H. B. Smith. The features are the index of the mind. Livy. One feature will not beautify a plain face. - The Duchess. Beautiful features always attract admiration, as honor applause. S. Pordage. The temper of a woman is generally formed by the turn of her features. Goldsmith. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. Thorea'w. No woman can be handsome by the force of fea- tures alone, any more than she can be witty by the help of speech alone. J. Hughes. Every feature is surely a manifestation of one's character, is most surely a means of challenging the temper and disposition, and hence of properly training the whole human being. Dr. Porter. Remember that the qualities of the heart and the actions of the life stamp the features with an inef- faceable mark, either with goodness or vileness: cultivate those affections and habits which will write upon your countenance that which no one reading can but love and admire. J. W. Bowlding. There are faces so fluid with expression, Soflushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. When the delicious beauty of lineaments loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared, that an interior alld durable form has been disclosed. R. W. Emerson. 284 AD A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. FEDERALISM. Eederation is founded on unity. Baden Powell. Federalization is not consolidation. W. R. Davie. Federalism was the glory of our fathers. Hawley. We are all Republicans; we are all Federal- ists. T. Jefferson. Confederation is a league between sovereign States. R. D. Spaight. Federalism is a compact between Self-governing States. C. C. Pinckney. The States may unite in two or more federal governments. James Wilsonv. Our Federal Union is an association or confede- racy of independent States. A. Hamilton. Our existence as a State depends upon a strong and efficient Federal Government. Livingston. It is for the interest of the Federal Government to preserve the State governments. Pendleton. The great object of the federal compact is to unite States for common defense and general wel- fare. Tench Coace. In a federate alliance, the two societies still Sub- sist entire, though in a subordination of one to the other. Warburton. Federation is several twigs tied into One bundle ; consolidation is several pieces of metal melted to- gether. Franklin. Without a confederacy the several States, being distinct sovereignties, would determine disputes by the law of nature. James Bowdoin. There is a distinction between the federal pow- ers vested in Congress, and the sovereign authority belonging to the several States. S. Adams. The two most consoling principles which political experience has yet brought to light, are those on which we have founded our constitutions ; I mean representative democracy and the federalization of States. Joel Barlow. The Confederation entered into by the thirteen Provinces, at the commencement of the American conflict was a mere rope of sand , but the Federal Union formed at the close of the Revolution is a chain of brass, which we trust will never, never be broken. Charles J. Folger. FEEDING. Feed sparingly, and defy the physician. J. Quain. He that feeds on charity but seldom has a good dinner. Henry Owen. He that over-feeds his body prepares a feast for his enemies. M. Laing. There is a Sacramental feeding and a spiritual feeding ; and the spiritual is the nobler of the two. Daniel Waterland. All that lives must be fed ; the fate of nations depends upon how they are fed. The Creator in making it obligatory on man to eat to live, invites him thereto by appetite, and rewards him by the pleasure he experiences. B. Savarim. composed. FEELING. Feeling hath no fellow. J. Damhowder. We must feel before we act. Memcius. Want of feeling is the fool's defence. W. Tooke. If feeling prompt not, you will not succeed by hunting after it. Goethe. Our feelings were given to us to excite us to ac- tion and emotion. J. Sandford. Life is a comedy to him who thinks, and a trage- dy to him who feels. H. Walpole. Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim. W. Carleton. Feelings are always made the excuse of temper; whereas temper much more frequently influences feelings. Biom. There is no mode of flattering man or woman, so sure as that which insinuates a knowledge of personal feelings. Mrs. John Lillie. Fine feelings, without vigor of reason, are in the situation of the extreme feathers of a peacock's tail —dragging in the mud. J. Foster. What vast differences exist among men in re- gard to feeling ; the strong and emergetic have little sympathy and fellowship with the feeble and sensitive. Charles M. Taggart. Nothing moves the masses more than the exhibi- tion of deep feeling ; it speaks a language which the very humblest can understand, and challenges a response which not even the most callous are dis- posed to withhold. Aleacander F. Tytler. It is in the middle classes of society, that all the finest feelings, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally flourish and abound; for the good opinion of our fellow-men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue. Colton. Feelings are like chemicals, the more you ana- lyze them the worse they smell; so it is best not to stir them up very much, only enough to convince one's self that they are offensively wrong, and then look away as far as possible, out of One's self, for the purifying power ; and that we know can only come from Him who holds our hearts in His hands, and can turn us whither He will. C. Kingsley. Feelings come and go like light troops following the victory of the present ; but principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed, and stand fast. All our strong feelings, like ghosts, hold sway only up to a certain hour ; and if a man would always say to himself, This passion, this grief, this rapture, will in three days certainly be gone from this soul, then would he become more and more tranquil and Richter. Some feelings are quite untranslatable ; no lan- guage has yet been found for them ; they gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow-worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms, like so many others. Longfellow. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. FELICITY. Felicity lies much in fancy. Regmard. Felicity eats up circumspection. Piis. Even felicity, unless it moderate itself, is oppres- sive. Seneca. Nothing can sweeten felicity itself, in this world, but love. Jeremy Taylor. Felicity shows the ground where industry builds a fortune. Sir H. Wottom. A felicity that costs pain will always give dou- ble content. A. Scot. This ocean of felicity is so shoreless and bottom- less, that all the saints and angels cannot exhaust it. R. Boyle. Felicity, pure and unalloyed felicity, is not a plant of earthly growth ; her gardens are in the skies. R. Burton. Many run about after felicity, like an absent man hunting for his hat, while it is on his head, or in his hand. G. Sharp. The felicity of man embraces every element and circumstance of life ; he is the representative of every class of created beings, and enjoys a general and exclusive privilege. Mrs. Charlotte Smith. Felicity depends upon the state of the mind, its contentment and tranquility ; whilst beatitude, or bliss, refers to a future condition of being, and is reserved here for those exemplary and devout per- sons, who already anticipate the enjoyments of another existence beyond the present. Rowsseaw. FELLOWSHIP. Men are made for fellowship. Calamy. God has created mankind for fellowship, and not for solitariness. Lºwther. Shun not fellowship, lest you forget your friends, and learn to hate yourself. Sadaihe. Nothing is worse than wicked fellowship, the fruit of which is fraught with death. Æschylus. We should be careful not to hold fellowship with any one of bad character, or to join the society of those who profess bad principles. G. Crabb. God having designed man for a Sociable crea- ture, made him with an inclination and under the necessity to have fellowship with those of his own kind. J. Locke. The craving for fellowship shows itself at first in the youngest and most innocent childhood, and is the last feeling that dies out in humanity ; none are so criminal as to have no power of love to others, and everything proves the value of fellow- ship. Rev. Edward Barry. Fellowship of souls does not consist in the prox- imity of persons. There are milliions who live in close personal contact, dwell under the same roof, board at the same table, and work in the same shop, between whose minds there is scarcely a point of contact, whose souls are as far asunder as the poles. IDr. Thomas. FESTIVAL. Suit the festival to the place. Planttus. Festivals are very often succeeded by funeral piles. Herodotus. A festival has always either a sacred or a serious object. G. Crabb. The festivals of a country vary with the fashions and employments of the people. John Stow. Not unfrequently the miserable hovel, or the house of mourning, adjoins a mansion whose walls re-echo with festivities. H. Haverstick. Festivals, when duly observed, attach men to the civil and religious institutions of their coun- try ; it is an evil, therefore, when they fall into disuse. Southey. In so enlightened an age as the present, I shall perhaps be ridiculed if I hint, as my opinion, that the observation of certain festivals is something more than a mere political institution. Walpole. FEUIDAILISM. Feudalism is contrary to nature. Dr. H. More, Feudalism robs every remnant of a family, ex- cept the heir, of their rights. Ochley. The first quality of the feudal tenure is to con- fine the descendible property to the eldest male issue. Peter Barlow. Feudal bondage, the last remnant of the slavery of antiquity, has almost entirely disappeared from Europe and this country. A. Brisbane. Feudalism is so abominable in its operation, that it has seduced and perverted nature ; it has made men tyrants and their victims brutes and slaves; it has hushed the voice of nature, and stifled all progress. Bishop Wilson. The feudal laws form a very beautiful prospect ; a venerable old oak raises its lofty head to the skies; the eye sees from afar its spreading leaves: upon drawing nearer it perceives the trunk, but does not discern the root ; the ground must be dug up to discover it. Montesquiew. FICKLENESS. A fickle man is a human weathercock. Kmita. It is the duty of men of high rank to oppose the fickle disposition of the multitude. Cicero. Ficklemess has its rise in the experience of the fallaciousness of present pleasure, and in the igno- rance of the vanity of absent pleasures. Pascal. A man of fickle disposition always has a new project on hand, which he generally starts on in delight and enthusiasm, and leaves unfinished in disgust ; he is a philosopher in theory, but a fool in practice. James Ellis. Men are the most changeable and inconstant ; women are the most variable and fickle; the former offend from an indifference for objects in general, or a diminished attachment for any object in par- ticular ; the latter from an excessive warmth of feeling that is easily biased and ready to seize new objects. G. Crabb. 286 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. FICTION. Man is a lover of fiction. Epicurus. Fiction is the region of poetry. Mrs. McLehose. I always liked a time-honored fiction better than a dry modern fact. C. E. Lester. The love of fiction is an evil we can better con- ceive than describe. H. Hooker. It is plain that truth is a very minor concern, with writers of fiction. T. S. Grimké. The greater part of our lives is thrown away in fiction ; it is only in maturer years that we awake to the stern realities of life. James Ellis. The fables of AEsop are fictions of the simplest kind, but yet such as required a peculiarly lively fancy and inventive genius to produce. G. Crabb. In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the ex- ample which every Christian ought to propose to himself. T. B. Macawlay. Those who delight in the study of human nature may improve in the knowledge of it, and in the profitable application of that knowledge, by the perusal of fiction. R. Whately. A book is not bad because it is fictitious ; SOme of the best and truest things ever written are ficti- tious in their outward form ; Christ himself used fiction as a means of instruction. E. Eggleston. Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting ; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions, which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction. Dryden. Fictions are revelations, not of truth, for they are most unreal, but of that which the Soul longs to be true ; they are mirrors, not of actual human ex- perience, but of dreams and aspirations of the eternal desires of the heart. Chamºisso. Addison acknowledged that he would rather in- form than divert his reader ; but he recollected that a man must be familiar with wisdom before he willingly enters on Seneca and Epictetus. Fic- tion allures him to the severe task by a gayer preface ; embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. R. A. Wilmott. No kind of literature is so generally attractive as - fiction ; when we consider how many hours of lan- guor and anxiety, of deserted age and solitary cel- ibacy, of pain even, and poverty, are beguiled by the perusal of this fascinating department of liter- ature, we cannot austerely condemn the source whence is drawn the alleviation of such a portion of human misery. J. C. M. Bellew. Many works of fiction may be read with safety : some even with profit ; but the constant familiari- ty, even with such as are not exceptionable in themselves, relaxes the mind, dissolves the heart, stirs the imagination, irritates the passions, and above all disinclines and disqualifies for active vir- tues. Though all these books may not be wicked, yet the habitual indulgence in such reading, is a silently undermining mischief. Hannah More. FIDELITY. Fidelity is tried by absence. E. P. Day. Fidelity is the sister of justice. Horace. To a good heart fidelity comes Spontaneously. Riw-6. Show fidelity tothy friend, and equity to all men. Protagoras. A breach of fidelity attaches disgrace to the in- dividual. G. Crabb. Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Cicero. Fidelity must be considered the foundation of true friendship. T. Kºrk. Fidelity that is bought with money may be over- come by money. Seneca. It is no small grief to a good nature to try the fidelity of his friend. Euripides. The best security for the fidelity of men, is to make interest coincide with duty. J. Hamilton. The honor of a servant is his fidelity ; his highest virtues are submission and obedience. R. Dodsley. Be slow to fall into friendship ; but when thou art in, let thy fidelity continue firm and constant. Socrates. The agreement of the wicked is easily broken, but the fidelity of a virtuous friend continueth for- €VēI’. Hermes. A woman who consecrates her fidelity to a sinful affection is like those workmen who substitute Monday for Sunday. Mºme. Swetchime. The fidelity of most men is one of the arts of self- love, to procure confidence ; it is the means to raise us above others, by making us the depositaries of moment Ous COncerns. Rochefoucauld, Fidelity is a careful and exact observance of duty, or performance of obligations; hence, we expect to find fidelity in a public minister, in an agent or trustee, in a domestic servant, and in a friend. N. Webster. FIELD. Neglected fields run to weeds. J. Mair. Fields have eyes, and woods have ears. Foiac. A field long at rest makes a plentiful return. Ovid. The fertile field becomes sterile without rest. Yriarte. When you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Dr. Johnson. It is folly for men to neglect their own fields, and go to weed the fields of others. Menciws. There is a virtue in fields, streams, and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy. W. A. Alcott. The reason that there are so many fields, and so great a variety of herbs and plants is, that all the different animals may find their proper food. Sturm. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 287 FIEND. Fiends are fallen angels. Thomas Bilson. Fiends are the aristocracy of hell. Ynad Goch. There is a fiend in every dram of gin. Cruikshank. Fiends hope to disturb God's people. V. Ferrer. When we resist a fiend, we torment our tor- mentor. Macariws. Fiends are ever on the watch to torment the saints of God. St. Martin. Protect me, O Lord from the torments of the fiends of hell ! Cosmodym. Fiends have the will to hurt mankind, but they want the power. St. Augustine. When a wicked man dies, fiends will escort him to the gates of hell. Elewcidariws. Fiends are cursed with immortality, to be the executioners of heaven. G. Lillo. There are divers fiends, or wicked spirits, which are wont to deceive and mislead people, and tempt them to their own destruction. Psellws. The fiends have diverse effects ; the one troubles the spirit, the other molesteth the body ; some in- sinuate and steal into our hearts, where depraved desires are engendered; or else into our understand- ing, to hinder the use and office of reason. Miles Bloomefield. FIRESIDE. The fireside is to be enjoyed. Gwto y Glion. There is no place so delightful as one's own fire- side. Cicero. The fireside of home is the brightest and happi- est spot on earth. James Ellis. Nothing adds more to our knowledge of charac- ter than the history of the fireside. A. Blackwood. There are few who can receive the honors of a college, but all are graduates of the fireside. Long. Welcome care and toil, if these bring peace and happiness to those dear ones who meet around the fireside. E. Peabody. Guard your fireside, and make it a temple of wisdom, and of such pleasures as benefit the heirs of immortality. Mrs. Sigowrmey. The fireside is a seminary of infinite importance ; it is important because it is universal, and because the education it bestows, being woven in with the woof of childhood, gives form and color to the whole texture of social life. S. G. Goodrich. The domestic fireside is the great guardian of society against the excesses of human passions. When man after his intercourse with the world, where he finds so much to inflame him with a feverous anxiety for wealth and distinction, retires at evening to the bosom of his family, he finds - there a repose for his tormenting cares ; the ten- derness of his wife and the caresses of his children introduce a new train of softer thoughts and gen- tler feelings ; he is reminded of what constitutes the real felicity of man. Thacher. IFIRE. Fire is the soul of light. Barddas. To animals, fire is a curiosity. D. Boome. Desolate is a hearth without fire. L. G. Cothi. Fire betrays itself by its own light. Catalan. From the agitation of fire smoke will be raised. r Taliesen. The mortal who approaches fire shall have light from God. Zoroaster. Well has it been said that fire and love cannot long remain concealed. D. ab Gwilym. Fear not temporal fire which soon passes, but dread the fire which is eternal. Tarachºws. What a thing fire must have been to the primi- tive man the first time it flashed upon him I Beloe. Those that burn here with the fire of evil desire, shall burn hereafter with fire everlasting. Eleucidarius. If we cannot endure the pain of temporal earthly fire, how can we endure the everlasting fire of hell ? Martinianws. Fire is affliction's emblem, consuming the dross, and causing the precious metal to shine more brightly. James Balfowr. The fire which seems extinguished often slum- bers under the ashes; he who dares to stir it may find himself suddenly startled. Cormeille. Fire is the universal instrument of all the arts and all the necessaries of life : without it nature and all its treasures would become useless, and lose in our eyes the most of their charms. Stwrm. FIRIMINESS. When right, be firm. Be firm in the cause of truth. John Davis. St. Valentine. Firmness is itself a strong support. Coedman. Be firm in the cause of your country. Raper. Firmness is not inconsistent with mildness. J. G. Birmey. Great is the reward of those who remain firm in the faith. N. Ewlogius. Firmness in the cause of righteousness shall be rewarded of God. St. Gervasives. Be firm in good resolution if you would attain to the heavenly kingdom. St. Oswald. Nothing is so firm as to be impregnable to the attacks even of the very weakest. Rufus. The firm without pliancy, and the pliant with- out firmness, resemble vessels without water, and water without vessels. Lavater. Profound firmness is that which enables a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume. H. Cockton. It is only persons of firmness that can have real greatness; those who appear gentle are in general only of a weak character, which easily changes into asperity. Rochefoucauld. 288 A) A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. FITNESS. FLATTER.Y. Fitness is superior to fashion. Cicero. Be no flatterer. Washington. Fitness should outrank fortune. Condamine. Beware of flattery. E. Fentom. Decorative art should possess fitness. O. Jones. The flatterer speaks fair. R. Greene. There is an eternal fitness in all things. Collet. Flattery should be despised. J. Kay. Be fit for more than the thing you are now do- No flatterer ever truly loves. H. Morford. ing. James A. Garfield. What struggles have been made before we are fit to live. Zimmerman. Fitness and absolute truth are essential elements to all real art. R. W. Edis. There is a manifest fitness in all things which we term right and just. G. Crabb. There is a fitness through the whole system of nature ; and he who studies mature is delighted with new and wonderful discoveries. Beattie. In things the fitness whereof is not of itself ap- parent, nor easy to be made sufficiently manifest unto all, yet the judgment of antiquity, concurring with that which is received, may induce them to think it not unfit. R. Hooker. FL.A.G. Where the flag goes, there I go. S. Thatford. This flag is an emblem to represent the birth of a free nation. Mrs. Elizabeth Ross. The American flag must wave over States, not over provinces. Rutherford B. Hayes. A soldier has a sentiment approaching to idola- try for his flag. Napoleon I. Our flag is as much the gift of heaven, as though it fell from the skies. Valdemar II. If any one attempts to pull down the American flag, shoot him on the spot. John A. Diac. My only defense is the flag of my country, and I place myself under its folds. J. R. Poinsett. I want no more honorable winding sheet than the brave old flag of the Union. 4. Johnson. It was God Almighty who nailed our flag to the flag-staff, and I could not have lowered it if I had tried. Major Robert Anderson. Let the battle-flags of our brave volunteers which they brought home from the war, with the glori- ous record of their victories, be preserved as a proud ornament in Our State-houses and armories— but let the colors of the army under which the sons of all the states are to meet and mingle in common patriotism, speak of nothing but union. C. Schwrz. In all the world there is not such another flag, that carries within its ample folds such grandeur of hope, such soul-inspiring emanations of hope as Our dear old American flag, made by and for li- berty—nourished in its spirit and carried in its ser- vice its priceless value cannot be estimated ; wher- ever our flag has gone it has been the herald of a better day ; it has been the pledge of freedom, justice, order, civilization, and of Christianity. J. C. J. Langbien. A flatterer is the shadow of a fool. T. Overbury. No man flatters the woman he loves. Tuckerman. Flatterers are the worst of enemies. Tacitus. When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. De Foe. It is the flatterer who injures us, not our revil- €1’S. - Demaretes. Flattery is like champagne; it soon gets into the head. - W. Browne. Not kings alone, the people, too, have their flat- terers. Mirabeaw. Consider the man who flatters you to be your enemy. Confucius. Flattery is like a base coin ; it impoverishes him who receives it. Mme. Voillez. All flatterers are mercenary ; and low-minded men are flatterers. Aristotle. It is a dangerous crisis, when a proud heart meets with flattering lips. Flavel, If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others would not harm us. Bowhow.rs. Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest, save he who courts the flattery. Bannah More. If any man flatters me I will flatter him again, though he were my best friend. Franklim. The most subtle flattery a woman can receive is conveyed by actions, not words. Mºme. Necker. Of all wild beasts, preserve me from a tyrant ; and of all tame beasts, a flatterer. Ben Jomson. The love that a man gains by flattery is worth just about as much as the flatterer. H. W. Shaw. Flatterers only lift a man up, as the eagle does the tortoise, to get something by his fall. Feliac. The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all. Talleyrand. Flattery is the destruction of all good fellow- ship ; it is like a qualmish liqueur in the midst of a bottle of wine. B. Disraeli. The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber. Jane Porter. Flattery is compounded of the most sordid, hate- ful qualities incident to mankind : namely, lying, servility, and treachery. Dwns Scotws. Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are, nevertheless, to be flat- tered, by being told that they do despise it. Colton. A R O S A. O. U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 289 ...; d. , FLATTERY. Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none ; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. Swift. A death-bed flattery is the worst of treacheries. Ceremonies of mode and compliment are mightily out of season, when life and salvation come to be at stake. L’Estrange. Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression : it swells a man's ima- gination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person. J. Collier. Flatterers of every age resemble those African tribes of which the credulous Pliny speaks, who made men, animals, and even plants perish, while fascinating them with praises. Richter. Flattery, delicious essence How refreshing art thou to mature . How sweetly dost thou mix with the blood, and help it through the most difficult and tortuous passages to the heart | Sterne. We must define flattery and praise ; they are dis- tinct ; Trojan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric of Pliny : Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of the senators. Lowis XVI. Fattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket-money at court; where, by custom and con- sent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment. Chesterfield. The most servile flattery is lodged the most easily in the grossest capacity ; for their ordinary conceit draweth a yielding to their greaters, and then have they not wit to discern the right degree of duty. º Sir P. Sidney. Tet the passion for flattery be ever so inordinate, the supply can keep pace with the demand, and in the world's great market, in which wit and folly drive their bargains with each other, there are traders of all sorts. R. Cwmberland. To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pro- nounce them ; for they prove at least our power, and show that our favor is valued, since it is pur- chased by the meanness of falsehood. Dr. Johnson. Flattery willcome before youin dangerous forms; you will be commended for excellences which do not belong to you, and this you will find as injurious to your repose as to your virtue ; if you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone. |W. S. Landor, He is unwise that rather respecteth the fawning words of a flatterer, than the little love of a faith- ful friend. People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly over- top ; so that truth and ceremony are two things. Awrelius. Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from Virtue. Sir W. Raleigh. FLATTERY. Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise ; their praise is costly, designing to get by those they bespeak ; they are the worst of creatures ; they lie to flatter, and flatter to cheat ; and which is worse if you believe them, you cheat yourselves most dam- gerously. Wºm. Penºn. There is an oblique way of reproof, which takes off the sharpness of it : and an address in flattery, which makes it agreeable, though never so gross ; but of all flatterers, the most skillful is he who can do what you like, without saying anything which argues he does it for your sake. Pope. Deference before company is the genteelest kind of flattery. The flattery of epistles affects one less, as they cannot be shown without an appearance of vanity. Flattery of the verbal kind is gross ; in short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swal- lowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable. Shenstone. The difference between compliments and flattery is this: one is the offspring of sincerity, the other of hypocrisy ; these coins of compliments and flat- tery circulate everywhere in society. The true is of gold ; the base of brass; but many are so eager to receive them, that they do not pause to examine the genuine from the counterfeit. Acton. It requires a great genius to flatter great person- ages; the common arts of adulation are thrown away upon them ; they are so accustomed to these that they take no notice of them. Invention is re- quired, and we can only attract their regard by some such stroke of Originality as that by which Raleigh won the favor of Elizabeth. Bovee. As those who are hired to mourn at funerals are more vociferous in their grief than those who are sincerely afflicted, in like manner the flatterer is much louder in his praise than the real friend. We are told that when men of high rank are prepared to honor any one with their friendship, they try them with wine, to see if they are worthy of this distinction. Horace. FLIRTATION. Flirtation is injurious to a woman. Hannah More. Flirtation is a desiré to be regarded as an object of admiration by the opposite sex. Maturin. Flirtation is always a dangerous game ; but the chief charm lies in a knowledge of that fact. E. P. Day. Flirtation has many varities and degrees; some of them so mild and innocuous as to be insipid, others so fast and furious as to be full of peril. G. Mogridge No girl ever made a happy union by flirtation ; because no man capable of making a woman per- manently happy, was ever attracted by that which is disgusting. Margaret Ascham, A young lady fond of flirting possesses more beauty than Sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms of person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, more fools than wise men for attendants. B. Blackburn. 19 290 ZD A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. ELOWERS. FLOWERS. Flowers have a language. Swain. The culture of flowers is one of the few pleasures -— that improves alike the mind and the heart, and Flowers are nature's jewels, G. Croſy. makes every true lover of those beautiful creations Flowers are the pledges of fruit. B. Bekker. of Infinite Love, wiser, purer, and nobler. J. Vick. Flowers are like the pleasures of the world. Shakspeare. Lovely flowers are the smiles of God's goodness. - Wilberforce. Flowers, leaves, fruit, are air-woven children of light. Moleschott. The dispositions of the mind are expressed in flowers. James Ellis. There are many flowers from which no fruit is produced. Confucius. He who does not love flowers has lost all fear and love of God. Lwdwig Tieck. On the earth, the Infinite has sowed His name in tender flowers. *-s Richter. Cherish flowers; a flower plucked from its parent stock soon loses its beauty. Catwllºws, The very perfume of flowers seems to be an in- cense ascending up to heaven. E. Jesse. Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. H. W. Beecher. The flowers strewed on the grave of merit, are the most grateful incense to living worth. W. Mavor." To me the meanest flower that blows, can give thoughts that often lie too deep for tears. Wordsworth. A love of flowers is a love of the beautiful : a love of the beautiful is a love of the good. S. Robinson. We gladden our eyes with the beauty of flowers; yet in one short morning they die and pass away. Saigiyo. It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous, but I believe never the sweet. J. C. Hare. Nothing affords greater pleasure to the members of the family than the cultivation and daily sight of flowers. D. D. T. Moore. If thou wouldst attain to thy highest, go look upon a flower ; what that does willessly, that do thou willingly. Schiller. The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand. Lord Bacon. A passion for flowers is, I really think, the only One which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence. Mrs. Hemans. There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker. R. South. Flowers are the terrestrial stars that bring down heaven to earth, and carry up our thoughts from earth to heaven ; the poetry of the Creator, writ- ten in beauty and fragrance. Chatfield. Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth ; they waft us back, with their bland, odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves. Cowntess of Blessington. Doubtless botany has its value ; but the flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them ; they are apt to stop preaching though, so soon as they begin to dissect and botanize them. H. N. Hudson. There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers, that now and then, from the influence of mood or circumstances, reasserts itself like the reminiscence of childhood, or the spell of love. H. T. Tuckerman. Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us ; he has inscribed his thoughts in these marvelous hierogly- phics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand. T. Parker. There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry ; they blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobstrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world. N. P. Willis. God creates out of the dry, dull earth so many flowers of such beautiful colors, and such sweet perfume, such as no painter nor apothecary can rival. From the common ground God is ever bringing forth flowers, golden, crimson, blue, brown, and of all colors. M. Lºwther. Flowers and fruits are always fit presents ; flow- ers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the sombre coun- tenance of ordinary nature ; they are like music heard out of a workhouse. Berz. The tending of flowers has ever appeared to me a fitting care for the young and beautiful; they then dwell, as it were, among their own emblems, and many a voice of wisdom breathes on their ear from those brief blossoms, to which they apportion the dew and the Sunbeam. Mrs. Sigowrney. Flowers are esteemed by us, not so much on account of their extrinsic beauty—their glowing hues and genial fragrance—as because they have long been regarded as emblems of mortality—be- cause they are associated in our minds with the ideas of mutation and decay. Bovee. The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sym- pathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those de- licate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium. G. S. Hillard. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 291 IFLOWERS. Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful genera- tions concern not us ; we have had our day : now let the children have theirs. B. W. Emerson. A taste for flowers and a love for the beautiful, as exhibited in the wonders of Creative power, are evidences of a refined and sensitive nature, and peculiar traits of character which distinguish man from the lower order of animals. Celestia R. Colby. Who is there who has not experienced that often a nosegay of wild flowers, which was to us as vil- lage children a grove of pleasure, has in after years of manhood, and in the town, given us. by its old perfume an indescribable transport back into god- like childhood ; and how, like a flower-goddess, it has raised us into the first embracing Aurora-clouds of our first dim feelings 3 Pichter. The little flower which sprung up through the hard payment of poor Picciola's prison, was beau- tiful from contrast with the dreary sterility which surrounded it. So here, amid the rough walls, are there fresh tokens of nature ; and oh, the beauti- ful lessons which flowers teach to children, espe- cially in the city The child’s mind can grasp with ease the delicate suggestions of flowers. - E. H. Chapin. How the universal heart of man blesses flowers | They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage- altar, and the tomb : all these are appropriate uses. Flowers should deck the brow of the youth- ful bride, for they are in themselves a lovely type of marriage ; they should twine round the tomb, for their perpetually renewed beauty is a symbol of the resurrection ; they should festoon the altar, for their fragrance and their beauty ascend in perpe- tual worship before the Most High. Mrs. L. M. Child. The love of flowers seems a naturally-implanted passion, without any alloy or debasing object in its motive ; we cherish them in youth, we admire them in declining years ; but perhaps it is the early flowers of spring that always bring with them the greatest degree of pleasure ; and our affections seem to expand at the sight of the first blossom under the sunny wall, Ol' sheltered bank, however humble its race may be. With summer flowers we seem to live, as with Our neighbors, in harmony and good order ; but spring flowers are cherished as private friendships. G. A. Sala. Why has the beneficent Creator scattered over the face of the earth such a profusion of beautiful flowers? Why is it that every landscape has its appropriate flowers, every nation its national flowers, every rural home its home flowers ? Why do flowers enter and shed their perfume over every scene of life, from the cradle to the grave 3 Why are flowers made to utter all voices of joy and sorrow in all varying scenes? It is that flow- ers have in themselves a real and natural signifi- cance ; they have a positive relation to man ; they correspond to actual emotions; they have their mission—a mission of love and mercy ; they have their language, and from the remotest ages this language has found its interpreters. Flemºrietta, Dumont. FOLLY. Folly is worse than tyranny. Al-Aziz. I laugh at the follies of mankind. Demetriws. Let another's folly be thy wisdom. Ibn Munir. I weep over the follies of mankind. Heraclitus. Follies that last the shortest time are always the best. Molière, He who lives without follies is not so wise as he imagines. Rochefoucauld. Men laugh at the follies of themselves, except they bring dishonor. T. Hobbes. Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly. Swift. I am not ashamed to own my follies, but I am ashamed not to put an end to them. Horace. Our follies are too often unknown to us ; this makes us easy in the midst of them. Parmell. For one who deplores his own follies, you will find a hundred who prefer to deplore their neigh- bors'. Bovee. None advocate folly, except the lovers and fol- lowers of it, or they would believe that private vices and follies are public benefits. Acton. Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control ; thus wherever men are found, there are follies, aye, and the same follies. Fontenelle. Take my word for this, reader, and say a fool told it you, if you please, that he who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture, hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. C. Lamb. I know of nothing in the world more sensible than to turn the folly of others to our own advan- tage ; I know not whether it is not a nobler plea- sure to cure men of their follies. Goethe. It is the folly of the world, constantly, which confounds its wisdom; not only out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, but out of the mouths of fools and cheats, we may often get our truest les- SOIlS. O. W. Holmes. If thou art subject to any secret folly, blab it not, lest thou appear impudent ; nor boast of it, lest thouseem insolent. Every man's vanity Ought to be his greatest shame ; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest Secret. F. Quarles. When our follies afford equal delight to ourselves and those about us, what isthere to be desired more ? We cannot discover the vast advantage of “Seeing ourselves as others see us.” It is better to have a contempt for any one, than for ourselves. Hazlitt. The wise man has his follies no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference —the follies of the fool are known to the world, but are hidden from himself ; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world. Colton. 292 AX A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. FONDINESS. FOOL. To be fond is to be weak. Copland. A fool is harder than a stone. Stilpo. Women are more fond than men. Who can tell Fools plot against themselves. Yahya Aktham. the reason 3 J. Bartlett. The fool aks f lish thin tº 9 There is no fondness in the world like the fond- he fool speaks oolish thingS. Euripides. ness of a mother. J. Ritson. A fool at forty is a fool indeed E. Yowng. Fondness is better than harshness; one may in- jure the parent, while the other ruins both parent and child. Lithgow. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair gray, that has forgotten the fondness of a mother. G. Mogridge. Children and animals who have no control over their appetites will be apt to be fond of those who indulge them. G. Crabb. The fondness and doating reverence a parent feels for his offspring, serve to soothe and melior- ate the heart, and send the delighted spirit into the future full of glorious hopes. Horace Smith. IPOOD. To enjoy food is nature. Raow-Pwh–Hae. Poor food requires richer spices. Accra. Good blood requires a plentiful supply of good food. - Dr. Porter. He who has plenty of food, need not fear a fa- mine. Yorwba. When one is without food, it is a good time to keep a fast. Howleglass. He who aims to be a man of complete virtue, in his food does not seek to gratify his appetite. Confucius. For the sake of health, medicines are taken by weight and measure ; so ought food to be, or by some similar rule. Rev. P. Skelton. It is true, man does not live by bread alone, but food constitutes a considerable factor in any ques- tion relating to life. Miss Mwloch. For what is food given 2 To enable us to carry on the necessary business of life, and that our sup- port may be such as our work requires; this is the use of food. Man eats and drinks that he may work ; therefore, the idle man forfeits his right to his daily bread. Jones of Nayland. What is food 2 The general definition is: Every- thing which nourishes us. The scientific definition is this: By food we mean those substances which, submitted to the stomach, are susceptible of ani- malization by means of digestion, and repair the losses which the human body suffers from the course of life. Brillat-Savorin. Most people are fond of good living, and no doubt you are fond of it too ; but let me ask what it is that you call good living 2 For if you have fallen into the common mistake, that eating im- moderately of dainty food, and drinking freely of intoxicating liquors, if you really think that these things constitute good living, we by no means agree ; for such a course is the worst living in the world. The best living must be that which is most conducive to health ; for without health all other temporal blessings are vain. G. Mogridge. There is no fool like the foolhardy. M. C. Hay. To play the fool sometimes is proper. Memander. Even the fool is wise after the event. Homer. If a family have a fool in it, let him not take the lead. Lodoli. A senseless fool in prosperity is certainly a heavy burden. AEschylus. He who gives countenance to a fool, is a fool's brother. Yoruba. The wittiest person in a comedy is he that plays the fool. Cervantes. A fool always finds one still more foolish to ad- mire him. Boileau. Ever since the days of Adam fools have been in the majority. Casimir Delavigne. One never needs so much wit as when the world is full of fools, Mang Chwang. Fools of all ranks and of all ages are to me equally intolerable. Eliza Leslie. Whoever wishes not to hear folly, let him depart from the empire of fools. Howleglass. The fool does think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. Shakspeare. Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. G. Chapman. The worst fools are those who are sots in serious affairs, but wise in mischief. Wyncheslaws. I am always afraid of a fool ; we cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. Hazlitt. A decent, quiet man sometimes means a fool, that has neither wit nor spirit. May Crommelin. It is a matter of indifference to a fool whether you laugh with him or at him. S. Warren. If a man do a foolish act once in his life, he should not be eternally condemned for it. Darnley. A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible. Colton. There are more fools than wise men ; and even in the wise men, more folly than wisdom. Chamfort. Fools with bookish knowledge are children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain. 2immerman. All men are fools, and he who does not wish to see them must remain in his chamber and break his looking-glass. Marquis de Sade. Fools are very often united in the strictest inti- macies, as the lighter kinds of wood are the most closely glued together. Shenstone. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV. S. 2.93 FOOL. Fools often, while they try to raise a silly laugh, provoke by their insulting language, and bring themselves into serious danger. Phoedrus. To succeed in the world, it is much more neces- sary to possess the penetration to discover who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. Cato. The difference between a wise and foolish man is this—the former sees much, and speaks little ; but the latter speaks more than he either sees or thinks. W. S. Downey. A fool does not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise up, nor is he silent, nor does he Stand on his legs, like a man of sense and under- Standing. Bruyère. Some be fools by nature, and some be crafty fools to get themselves a living ; for when they cannot thrive by their wisdom, then they seek to live by their folly. J. Bodenham. There is in human nature generally, more of the fool than of the wise ; and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds are taken, are more potent. Lord Bacon. The imputation of being a fool is a thing which mankind, of all others, is the most impatient of, it being a blot upon the prime and specific perfection of human nature. R. Sowth. To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others, is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so. Pope. Whenever I have wanted to study fools at great parties, I have always looked round regularly for a great beauty ; they gather round such a one like wasps around a fruit-woman. Richter. Fools may be met with anywhere and every- where passim et wbiqwe, although the most cunning disguises are worn by them ; the finest specimens and the richest varieties are always to be found in very large cities. R. M. Ballantyme. Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation ; but, alas ! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity. Goldsmith. He is a fool who seeks what he cannot find ; he is a fool who seeks that which, if found, would do him more harm than good ; and he is a fool, who having several ways to bring him to his journey's end, selects the worst one. AEneas Sylvius. There is nothing more intolerable than a prosper- Ous fool ; and hence we often see that men who were at one time affable and agreeable, are com- pletely changed by prosperity, despising their old friends, and clinging to new Cicero. If men were to be fools, it were better that they were fools in little matters than in great ; dulness, turned up with temerity, is a livery all the worse for the facings ; and the most tremendous of all things is a magnanimous dunce. Sydney Smith. FOOIL. - The greatest fool is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant. Shaftesbury. An especial fool, considered solely in reference to himself, is provoking and ridiculous enough ; but fools combined and leagued together, are contuma- cious, refractory, and intolerable. P. Allia. Always win fools first ; they talk much ; and what they have once uttered, they will stick to ; whereas there is always time, up to the last mo- ment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion. A. Helps. The fool has an ancient sanction for acquiring riches and rank by inheritance, but that he should obtain them without this privilege of birthright, and defraud the just claims of talent and sagacity, is unaccountable, and makes merit blush, and wis- dom despair. T. W. A. Buckley. Fools, who know how to assume a grave and Solemn aspect, gain more esteem in the world than wise men, whose looks are not set off with an air Of gravity and wisdom. Any one may be a fool by the head, or by the heart, that is, the old script- ural fool, and escape detection, but if he is a foolin . the face, he is indubitably condemned. Acton. FOP. A fop depends on his dress for his success in life. James Ellis. A fop is a ridiculous character, in every one's view but his own. L. Mwrray. Foppery is never cured ; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which like those of the body are never rectified. Dr. Johnson. What is the difference between the Hottentot who smears with grease, and the fop who uses pomatum ? T. Dwight. A fop is a vain man, of weak understanding and much ostentation, whose ambition is to gain ad- miration by showy dress. M. Webster. A fop who admires his person in the glass, soon enters into a resolution of making his fortune by it, not questioning but every woman that falls in his way, will do him as much justice as himself. J. Hughes. Is there no laugh in the world loud enough to reach the ears of the fop, no pointed finger for his eyes to see, or no secret misgivings to make him doubt and feel, remember and amend ? Was that head made only for ointments and curls, that face for lotions and mirrors, or those hands for gloves and canes 2 Acton. There is a class of fops not usually designated by that epithet—men clothed in profound black, with large canes, and strange, amorphous hats, of big speech, and imperative presence, talkers about Plato, great affecters of senility, despisers of women, and all the graces of life, fierce foes to common-sense, abusive of the living, and approving no one who has not been dead for at least a cen- tury. Sydney Smith. 294 AD A Y’,S C O / / A C O AV. FOR.B.E.A.R.A.N.C.E. FORCE. Forbearance subdues resentment. Ewclid. Do nothing by force. Cleobulus. The forbearance of sin is followed with Satisfac- tion of mind. N. Webster. If thou desireth to be borne with, thou must bear also with others. T. & Kempis. Examples of forbearance and clemency carry something touching and sublime in them. Blache. Forbearance is a domestic jewel, not to be worn for state or show, but for daily and unostentatious Ornament. G. S. Bowes. A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than forbearance, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin On OUITS. Tillotson. That house will be kept in turmoil where there is no forbearance in each other's errors, no lenity shown to failings, no meek submission to injuries, no soft answer to turn away wrath. S. Coleridge. By forbearing to do what may be innocently done, we may add hourly new vigor and resolu- tion, and secure the power of resistance when plea- sure or interest shall lend their charms to guilt. Dr. Johnson. Forbearance toward the faults of others, is a noble and great thing ; to cover the blemishes and to excuse the failings of a friend ; to draw a curtain before his stains, and to display his perfections ; to bury his weakness in silence, but to proclaim his virtues upon the house-top. R. Sowth. Forbearance cannot be more our duty than it is our interest and necessity; for it is our preservation in the midst of powerful lusts within, and potent enemies without. If all good men could but make a shift to tolerate one another, this wicked world must be bound to endure them all. J. White. Forbearance should ever be exercised in the do- mestic circle ; if one member of a family gets into a passion, by using forbearance toward him, he will cool down ; but oppose temper to temper, and let one harsh word be followed by another, and the whole household will be thrown into a state of dismay and confusion. James Ellis. How many heart-aches should we spare our- selves, if we were careful to check every unkind word or action toward those we love, by forbear- ance ; the time may soon arrive when the being whom I am now about to afflict may be snatched from me for ever to the cold recesses of the grave, secured from the assaults of my petulance, and deaf to the voice of my remorseful penitence. Fielding. In order to love mankind, expect but little from them ; in order to view their faults without bit- terness, we must accustom ourselves to forbear with them, and to perceive that indulgence is a justice whichfrail humanity has a right to demand from wisdom. Now, nothing tends more to dis- pose us to indulgence, to close our hearts against hatred, to open them to the principles of a humane and soft morality, than a profound knowledge of the human heart ; accordingly, the wisest men have been always the most indulgent. Carpenter. What is refused as a gift may be taken by force. Anastasius. Where wisdom is required, force is of but little avail. Herodotus. No man is obliged to accomplish what exceeds his force. Ibn Khallikan. Blows are sarcasms turned stupid ; wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest. G. Eliot. Force attended by wisdom is very advantageous, but ruinous apart ; it brings calamity. Stoboews. Force rules the world, and not opinion ; but Opinion is that which makes use of force. Pascal. Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing ; God only helps when men can help no more. Schiller. The arm of justice must exercise force in order to bring offenders to a proper account, and all who are invested with authority have occasion to use force at certain times to subdue the unruly will of those who should submit. G. Crabb. FORESIGHT. Human foresight often leaves its proudest pos- sessor only a choice of evils. Colton. A man betrays his want of foresight who does not provide against losses in trade. G. Crabb. Difficulties and temptations will be more easily borne or avoided, if with prudent foresight we arm Ourselves against them. S. Rogers. Use not to-day what to-morrow you may want ; neither leave that to hazard, which foresight may provide for, or care prevent. S. Austim. It is only the surprise and newness of the thing, which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us ; for that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight. Seneca. FORETHOUGHT. A man without forethought is like a mariner without a compass. James Ellis. To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch ; to have too little is the part of a fool. Cecil. Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought must submit to fulfill the course of destiny. Schiller. First-rate talents, and other advantages, often become useless, or worse, for want of foresight and and sober judgment. E. Rich. It is a proof of a lofty intellect to anticipate by forethought coming events, and to come to a con- clusion somewhat beforehand what may possibly happen. Cicero. As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflec- tion is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast. S. T. Coleridge. P A O S E O U O T A T / O M S. 295 FORGETFULNESS. FORGIVENESS. I ask not to forget ! Mrs. Hemans. To err is human ; to forgive, divine. Pope. We often forget too much. It is sometimes expedient to forget. Syrus. Forgetfulness is the ruin of knowledge. Al-Kirraya. Men are men ; the best sometimes forget. Shakspeare. The last and hardest work of man is to forget. James T. Fields. The first forgetful person was the first of men. Abw Novas. Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts: old age is slow in both. Addison. God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offence into everlasting forgetfulness. H. W. Beecher. We sail on the stream of time from wave to wave ; the sea of forgetfulness is our last place. Herder. Men should not think too much of themselves, and yet a man should be careful not to forget him- self. G. D. Prentice. A scent, a mote of music, a voice long unheard, a stirring of the summer breeze, may startle us with the sudden revival of long-for-gotten feelings and thoughts. Talfowrd. Oh what bliss to forget for awhile all our troubles and trials, and live only in the joyous present ; but were forgetfulness perfect, we would lose the strongest check on wrong-doing. *. Annie E. Lancaster. There is no forgetfulness ; this will be the bitter- est part of the hereafter. How can any part of our lives be blotted out, leaving other parts 2 Lethe is only a stimulant to memory ; forgetfulness is an empty word—the name of Something which has no existence. James Ellis. There is nothing, nothing innocent or good, that dies, and is forgotten—forgotten Oh, if the good deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear ; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affec- tion, would be seem to have their growth in dusty graves | Dickens. It is sufficient to have a simple heart in order to escape the harshness of the age, in order not to fly from the unfortunate ; but it is to have some un- derstanding of the imperishable law, to seek them in the forgetfulness against which they dare not complain, to prefer them in their ruin, to admire them in their struggles. Sénancowr. It is an old saying, that we forget nothing, as people in fever begin suddenly to talk the language of their infancy , we are stricken by memory Sometimes, and old affections rush back on us as vivid as in the time when they were our daily talk, when their presence gladdened our eyes, when their accents thrilled in our ears—when, with pas- sionate fears and grief, we flung ourselves upon their hopeless corpses. W. M. Thackeray. Mme. Swetchine. cause it was really more difficult. They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. P. J. Bailey. It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. Mme. Delwzy. It is easier for the generous to forgive, than for offense to ask it. J. Thomson. My enemies have trampled on my heart ; I pity and forgive them ż Simon Bolivar. You should forgive many things in others, but nothing in yourself. Ausonius. The truly great man is as apt to forgive, as his power is able to revenge. Sir P. Sidney. The mind that too frequently forgives bad ac- tions, will at last forget good ones. Sir J. Reynolds. It is only right that he who asks forgiveness should be prepared to grant it to others. Horace. To forgive our enemies, yet hope that God will punish them, is not to forgive enough. Sir T. Browne. Paradise will be the reward of those kings who restrain their resentment, and know how to for- give. Eddim Saadi. When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose be- tween them. Latimer. He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself ; for every man has need to be forgiven. Lord Herbert. It is more easy to induce a person who has been offended to forgive, than it is to make one who has taken possession of property to make restitution. Gwicciardini. A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury ; for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it. Pope. If our enemies' offences against us are very hein- ous ; if they repeat their injuries as often as we forgive them, yet we are bound to forgive them still. J. D. Nowºrse. Learn from Jesus to love and to forgive ; let the blood of Jesus, which implores pardon for you in heaven, obtain it from you for your brethren here upon earth. Valpy. It is in vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God, forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others. F. Parkman. There was more true courage and generosity in bearing and forgiving an injury, than in requiting it with another ; in suffering than in revenging ; be- De Rentº. A forgiving temper will pass by many offenses unnoticed ; an irritable and resentful spirit keenly watches and looks out for provocations, and is almost sure to find or fancy them. J. H. Frere. 296 AJ A Y’,S CO /, / A C O AV. FORGIVENESS. FORMI. Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put Form constitutes the beauty of a statue. their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own. Dryden. If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes: for- give thyself little, and others much. R. Leighton. We often wrong ourselves, but we soon forgive ourselves of these wrongs, and they do not at all lessen our love to ourselves ; and in like manner we should forgive our neighbors. Wilberforce. When thou forgivest—the man who has pierced thy heart stands to thee in the relation of the Sea- worm that perforates the shell of the mussel which straightway closesthe wound with a pearl. Richter. He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life ; there is a manner of forgiveness so divine, that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth. Lavater. The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should it rise upon our confidence ; we should for- give freely, but forget rarely ; I will not be re- venged, and this I owe to my enemy ; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. Coltom. It is hard for a haughty man ever to forgive one that has caught him in a fault, and whom he knows has reason to complain of him ; his resentinent never subsides till he has regained the advantage he has lost, and found means to make the other do him equal wrong. Bruyère. Of him that hopes to be forgiven, it is indispensa- bly required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended ; and to him that refuses to practice it, the throne of mercy is inacces- sible, and the Savior of the world has been born in vain. Dr. Johnsom. There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world —a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take One who has offended, and set him down before the blow-pipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him ; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then—they forgive him. H. W. Beecher. When a man has been at some pains in making suitable returns to an enemy, and has the instru- ments of revenge in his hands, to let drop his wrath, and stifle his resentments, seems to have something in it great and heroical. There is a particular merit in such a way of forgiving an enemy ; and the more violent and unprovoked the offense has been, the greater still the merit of him who thus forgave it. Addison. The brave only know how to forgive ; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. Cowards have done good and kind actions: cowards have even fought, nay, sometimes conquered ; but a coward never forgave —it is not in his nature ; the power of doing it flows only from a strength and greatness of soul conscious of its own force and security, and above all the little temptations of resenting every fruitless at- tempt to interrupt its happiness. Sterne. Demophilus. Some may live upon forms, but there is no dying upon forms. G. S. Bowes. It is not to be denied but there is something irre- sistible in a beauteous form. Steele. The erect form of man is one of the distinguish- ing marks of his superiority over every other ter- restial being. G. Crabb. Of what use are forms, seeing at times they are empty & Of the same use as barrels, which at times are empty too. J. C. Hare. Beauty of form affects the mind ; perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystallime covering. Jane Porter, A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face ; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. R. W. Emerson. The artist may mould matter into forms of en- rapturing beauty, and make us feel their elevating and purifying influences; but what is the marble Moses of a Michael Angelo, or the cold statue of his living Christ, compared to the embodiment of the Hebrew law and the spirit of Jesus in the sculp- ture of a holy life 2 What are all the forms of moral beauty in the Pharisee of religion, compared with the true and holy life of the heart of the de- voted Christian Ž Bishop Thomson. FORMALITY. Where friendship is solid formality is done away with. Niftawaih. Many a worthy man sacrifices his peace to form- alities of compliment and good manners. L'Estrange. Formalities of extraordinary zeal and piety, are never more studied than in desperate designs. Charles I. Those formalities are best which have been long- est received and authorized in a nation by custom and use. Sir W. Temple. Formality creeps into our churches and families by such silent and umperceived approaches, as too often to elude all our suspicion and vigilance. Hugh Murray. True philosophy respects formalities as much as pride despises them. We require a discipline for our conduct, just as we require an Order for our ideas. Portalis. It is a ridiculous thing and fit for a satire, to persons of judgment, to see what shifts formalists have, and what prospectives to make superficies to seem a body that hath depth and bulk. Lord Bacom. A certain formality is requisite for the sake of order, method, and decorum, in every Social mat- ter, whether in affairs of state, in a court of law, in a place of worship, or in the private intercourse of friends ; SO long as distinctions are admitted in society, and men are agreed to express their senti- ments of regard and respect to each other, it will be necessary to preserve the ceremonies or polite- . ness which have been established. G. Crabb. P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. FORTITUDE. Fortitude is the reward of patience. E. P. Day. Fortitude gives a man a quiet mind. S. 4ttstim. Our best support and succor in distress is forti- tude of mind. Plawtus. The most important lesson of life is that of pa- tient and enduring fortitude. A. Balfowr. |Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. Lord Bacom. Where true fortitude dwells, loyalty, bounty, friendship, and fidelity may be found. J. Gay. True fortitude is seen in great exploits that jus- tice warrants, and that wisdom guides. Addison. Fortitude is so becoming in human nature, that he who wants it scarce deserves the name of a man. Lucy Hooper. Who fights with passions and overcomes, that man is armed with the best virtue—passive forti- tude. D. Webster. Fortitude and sensibility are inseparable com- panions; a mind of magnanimity can never be cruel or revengeful. J. Bartlett. Fortitude has its extremes as well as the rest of the virtues, and ought like them to be always at- tended by prudence. Voet. As temperance suffereth it not to be drawn from honesty by any allurements, so fortitude suffereth not the mind to be dejected by any evils. Stephen Gossom. How shall we learn to look with steadfast eye on the crushing sorrows which await us? By endur- ing with fortitude the lesser griefs and trials of each day. Lady Georgiana Chatterton. There is nothing that gives a man greater forti- tude than the trial of a perverse fortune ; it gives him stability of faith and patience to bear the great- Ceolfrid. As the camel beareth labor, heat, hunger, and thirst through deserts of sand, and fainteth not, so a man of fortitude shall sustain his virtue through perils and distress. R. Dodsley. Fortitude is not the appetite of formidable things, est of adversities. nor inconsiderate rashness, but virtue fighting for a truth, derived from a knowledge of distinguished good or bad causes. T. Nabb. The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, nót in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride, and worldly honor. Dryden. Fortitude is the medium between timidity and audacity, which bears one through terrible crises, by the power of integrity, into which, to save repetition, we shall resolve all the moral virtues. Ansaldo Ceba. Blest is that creature who possesses fortitude : bearing with cheerful countenance the heaping mis- eries of the world ; such a one gives courage to others, and radiates a glow of hope and good cheer Over all. - W. T. Burke. been solemnly intrusted. IFORTITUDE. Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues ; and without courage a man will Scarce keep steady to his duty, and fill up the character of a truly worthy man. J. Locke. Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought ; it rises upon an opposition, and like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped. J. Collier. We should possess fortitude even in adversity, for all is not lost by a single adverse cast of for- tune ; he who is prepossessed with the assurance of overcoming, at least overcomes the fear of failure ; whereas, he who is apprehensive of losing, loses in reality all hopes of subduing. H. Wenm. Portitude is sometimes taken in a large sense to denote that constancy of mind, which is conspicu- ous not only in the undertaking of difficult enter- prises, but likewise in bearing of hardships, and thus it includes patience; sometimes it is taken in a stric- ter sense to denote that particular virtue whereby a man contemns dangers, and undauntedly sets upon some daring undertaking. P. Limborch. Courage resists danger, fortitude supports pain. Courage may be a virtue or vice, according to the circumstances ; fortitude is always a virtue ; we speak of desperate courage, but not of desperate fortitude. A contempt or neglect of danger may be called courage ; but fortitude is the virtue of a rational and considerate mind, and is founded in a sense of honor and a regard to duty. C. Buck. We can make no pretensions to courage or forti- tude, unless we set aside every personal considera- tion in the conduct we should pursue : we cannot boast of fortitude where the sense of pain provokes a murmur or any token of impatience ; since life is a checkered scene, in which the prospect of one evil is most commonly succeeded by an actual exist- ence of another, it is a happy endowment to be able to meet them with fortitude. G. Crabb. Fortitude is that noble and steady purpose of the mind, whereby we are enabled to undergo any pain, peril, or danger, when prudentially deemed expedient ; this virtue is equally distant from rash- ness or cowardice ; and should be deeply impressed upon the mind of every man as a safeguard or security against any illegal attack that may be made, by force or otherwise, to extort from him any of those valuable secrets with which he has Masonic Manwal. Fortitude teaches us to bear with patience and re- signation the pain, and sorrow, and suffering that may overtake us in the short probation of life ; to learn to view the storm-cloud as the portal to a bright, glorious, and everlasting immortality ; and though these lessons are sometimes hard to learn, and our life is one unchanging scene of griefs, tri- als, and misfortunes, we shall find that fortitude, if supported by the virtues of a good life, will enable us to bear all with firmness and courage, and to look forward to that time when the dark shadows shall fall, and the sun of our earthly life shall fade, with a calm Serenity of faith and hope. James Ellis. 298 A) A Y’.S. C. O Z / A C O AV. FORTUNE. FORTUNE}. Fortune befriends the bold. Virgil. Fortune is a sore, sore thing ; but we must bear - -- it in a certain way as a burden. Apollodorus. Fortune is but a fickle dame. H. Stephens. - Fortunefavors whom she pleases. Pope Julius III. Fortune befriends only to deceive. As-Saffār. Fortune brings strange things to pass. Bassami. It is easier to gain fortune than hold it. Phocas. Fortunes of slow growth last the longest. G. D. Premtice. Every one is the architect of his own fortune. Socrates. Every one wishes fortune to enter his dwelling. Makki. In good fortune, be moderate ; in bad, prudent. Periander. Of what benefit is a fortune unless you make use Of it 3 Leo III. Fortune does not change men ; it only unmasks them. Fortune gives too much to many, but to none enough. Martial. Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave. J. R. Lowell. The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. Molière. Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward. Seneca. Fortune in no worldly things is more uncertain than in war. Magmws. Fortune is but a synonymous word for nature and necessity. R. Bentley. The most exalted state of fortune is ever the least to be relied on. Livy. The changes of fortune and end of life are al- ways uncertain. Pacuvius. We rise to fortune by successive steps ; we des- cend by only one. Stanislaws. Fortune is of glass, or a bubble which breaks while it is shining. Publius Syrus. Those who lament for fortune do not often la- ment for themselves. Voltaire. Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. Ben Jomson. Fortune is sometimes generous, sometimes cruel, sometimes indifferent. Abw Lainá. He who begs of fortune and receives, becomes a greater beggar than before. Al-Haddad. No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatis- fied with his understanding. Deshowlières. We treat fortune like a mistress, the more she yields, the more we demand. Mme. Roland. If fortune favors you, do not be elated ; if she should frown, do not despond. Ausonius. Mºme. Riccoboni. Fortune is like a market, where many times if you wait a little the price will fall. Bahon. We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune. Juvenal. O Fortune 1 strange that thou art never constant, never to be depended on in thy favors. Terence. The worst inconvenience of a small fortune is, that it will not admit of inadvertency. Shenstone. The events of fortune are unexpected, and there- fore can never be guarded against by men. - Arrianws. The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune ; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. La Fontaine. A broken fortune is like a fallen column, the low- er it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain. Ovid. Fortune is inconstant, and will quickly require again what she hath before bestowed upon thee. Thales. There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever upon their feet. Colton. Men have made an all-powerful goddess of for- tune, that they may attribute to her all their follies. Mme. Necker. Fortume deceives us often, yet we follow her ; if friends thus deceived us, we would leave them forever. Ar-Rūdrówari. While fortune is steady, men have a gay coun- tenance ; when she vanishes, they disappear basely in flight. Petronius. Fortune exalts some, depresses others; those whom she exalts' bless her, and those she depresses curse her. Yahya Aktham. Dame fortune, like most others of the femalesex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads. Otway. The wheel of fortune turns incessantly round, and who can say within himself, I shall to-day be uppermost 3 Confucius. There is no greater check to the pride of fortune than with a resolute courage to pass Over her crosses without care. Sir T. More. Unexpected fortunes of every kind are the least substantial, because it is seldom that they are the work of merit. Vawvenargwes. The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable ; the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Swift. Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. Pope. . Those whom fortune has induced to trust to her, she makes in a great measure rather desirous of glory than able to seize it. Rufus. P R O S E O U O T A T / O M S. 299 FORTUNE. We should manage our fortune as we do Our health, enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and enjoy it any Way. E. Foster. The noble ought to bear with patience the evils of life which fortune brings upon them, when they have not themselves to blame. Memonder. If fortune wishes to make a man estimable She gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him es- teemed, she gives him success. Jowbert. The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven, and the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. Saadi. Not only is fortune herself blind, but she gene- rally causes those men to be blind whose interests she has more particularly embraced. Cicero. Fortune is nothing else but a power imaginary, to which the successes of human actions and en- deavors were for their variety ascribed. Raleigh. Many have been ruined by their fortunes; many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune ; to Ob- tain it, the great have become little, and the little great. Zimmerman. There is some help for all the defects of fortune, for if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter. A. Cowley. Fortune distributes her gifts to her favorites: to some honor, to some talent, to some goodness ; when having nothing else left, she bestows wealth upon fools. Al-Mubarrad. It is with fortune as with fantastical mistresses —she makes sport with those that are ready to die for her, and throws herself at the feet of others that despise her. J. Beaumont. Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are ; ambition has the eye of an eagle, prudence that of a lynx ; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground. Bulwer. There is no man whom fortune does not visit once in his life ; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. Cardinal Imperiali. It is we that are blind, not fortune ; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the pro- vidence of the Almighty. Sir T. Browne. The old Scythians painted blind fortune's power- ful hands with wings, to show her gifts come swift and suddenly, which, if her favorite be not swift to take, he loses them forever. H. C. Chapman. In human life there is a constant change of for- tune ; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemp- tion from the common fate ; life itself decays, and all things are daily changing. Plutarch. We ourselves make our fortunes good or bad ; and when God lets loose a tyrant upon us, or a sick- ness, if we fear to die, or know not to be patient, the calamity sits heavy upon us. Jeremy Taylor. FORTUNE. Fortune has rarely condescended to be the com- panion of genius ; others find a hundred by-roads to her palace ; there is but one open, and that a very indifferent one, for men of letters. B. Disraeli. To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast in the lap of fortune ; for our faculties then undergo a development, and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible. Franklin. A fortunate shepherd is nursed in a rude cradle in Some wild forest, and if fortune smile has risen to empire ; that other, swathed in purple to the throne, has at last if fortune frown gone to feed the herd. Metastasio. All Our advantages are those of fortune ; birth, wealth, health, beauty, are her accidents; and when we cry out against fate, it were well we should remember, fortune can take naught save what she gave. Byrom. A man is thirty years old before he has any set- tled thoughts of his fortune ; it is not completed before fifty ; he falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed. Bruyère. It is just as well that fortune is blind ; for if she could only see some of the ugly, stupid, worthless persons on whom she showers her most precious gifts, the sight would annoy her, so that she would immediately scratch her eyes out. John Bamim. Fortune does us neither good nor hurt ; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases, being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her happy or unhappy condition. Montaigme. The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky, which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light to- gether ; so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. Lord Bacon. It is a lamentable thing that every man is full of complaints, and constantly uttering sentences against the fickleness of fortune, when people gene- rally bring upon themselves all the calamities they fall into, and are constantly heaping up matter for their own sorrow and disappointment. Steele. What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune ; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arises from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mu- tually related. Goethe. It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually re- gard it as implying that every man, by his folly or wisdom, prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light—namely that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispensation of Providence as to be happy in ourlot, whatever may be its privations. Hwmboldt. 300 J) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. FORTUNE-TELLING. -- - Fortune-telling is the vocation of fools. J. Muir. Who believe in fortune-telling ? The credulous, the thriftless, and the insane. F. D. Mawrice. Who would wish to have his fortune told, if he only saw by what a small thread of causes his des- tiny hung 3 M. A. Lower. A fortune-teller is a pickpocket, who is discern- ing enough to limit his or her depredations to gulls and simpletons. H. Smith. Of many who say they do not believe in fortune- telling, I have known few on whom it had not a very sensible effect. H. Mackenzie. The hand of mercy has wisely veiled the face of futurity, and all the stories of fortune-telling and second-sight are the tricks of charlatans to delude the weak-minded. Thomas Jarrett. The gift of prophecy is not within the power of mortals. No one can tell your fortune ; to pretend to do so, is imposture of the most bare-faced kind; to believe it, is credulity of the grossest descrip- tion. Dr. Lawncelot Addison. FORWARDNESS, Forwardness lacks experience. T. de Trugillo. A forward man possesses more assurance than SellS6. Latreille. It is sometimes difficult to restrain the forward- ness of youth. M. Webster. Forwardness in youth is not a sure sign of bright- ness in manhood. Maria, E. Lowell. All men are anxious to go forward, but many there are who lack that boldness, confidence, and assurance which forwardness demands. H. Reeve. The man who possesses the elements of forward- ness in its perfect sense, implies that very concep- tion of character which contains the qualities of usefulness and efficiency. Arthwºr Kelton. FOSSILS. Each plant shows separate fossils. Brongniart. Fossils are a history of former ages. C. Gesner. Fossils reveal the botanic history of myriads of centuries. Dr. Woodward. Fossils prove that whole forests have been turned into stone. De Bost. Fossils are natural productions turned into stone —not impressions merely. Wolfgang Wedel. What a world of thought is excited by the ap- pearance of a single fossil. C. Schovenkfeld. By fossils we know that wood is a substance that can be petrified—turned to stone. Schoockiw.s. Fossils of plants, fishes, and all marine animals are found imbedded in rocks, even in the interior of the earth. Aemophames. The chief interest of modern geology is derived from the fact that the solid strata of the earth are characterized by fossil remains, each having its distinct cabinet of botany and zoology. Pattison. FOULINESS. Where sin exists, there is foulness. Champneys. A foul hand makes a clean hearthstone. A foul mouth must be provided with a strong Davie. back. A. Kall. A foul breath is a calamity ; a foul mouth a criminality. Simmons. As a weak body cannot lift a heavy burden, so a foul mind cannot think clearly on matters per- taining to its own welfare. Eugene Bessier. Foulness of the body is to be dreaded, and all hidden diseases of a protracted character, which have become firmly seated ; yet how much more important it is that we should keep the soul from foulness. Laziws Wolfgangius. FOUNDATION. Let life's foundation be upon truth. Mellor. A weak foundation destroys the superstructure of any building. Alexander Hannay. The foundations of all things appertaining to the welfare of civil and social life should be so based, that no one should be wronged unjustly. Cheshire. Some are all their days laying the foundation, and are never able to build upon it to any comfort to themselves or usefulness to others ; and the rea- son is, because they will be mixing with the foun- dation stones that are only fit for the rising build- ing. Rev. John Owen. FOUNTAIN. Noisiest fountains run soonest dry. Whittier. The best fountain is the fountain of grace. Dale. That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. Longfellow. Alas ! the fountain which shall restore to us the days of our youth is yet undiscovered. P. de Leon. A fountain of water is useful for three things— for quenching thirst, for washing away filth, for watering the earth and making it fruitful. Henry. That fountain throws the clearest water that comes from the purest spring; so with the fountain of life, the best actions emanate from the purest heart. Maria. Hare. IFOX. A fox is subtlety itself. Aristophames. Ismaeloff. The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb. Shakspeare. A fox counts hens in his dreams. A fox never sent a messenger better than him- self. Bassompierre. An old fox never goes twice into the same trap; who would outwit one must rise early. Agelastus. One had better be laughed at for taking a fox's skin for a fox, than be destroyed by taking a live fox for a skin. L’Estrange. Many more have been deceived and undone by the craftiness of the fox than have ever been con- quered by force of arms. Qween Elizabeth. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7 / o A. S. 301 FRAILTY. FERATERNITY. Frailty, thy name is woman I Shakspeare. Be faithful to thy fraternity. Bellingham. Man is frail, and prone to evil. Jeremy Taylor. Even holy men have their frailties. C. Gayarre. A wife's frailty bringeth Sorrow to an honorable husband. Lepidws. All men are frail, but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself. Thomas d Kempis. There is nothing among all the frailnesses and uncertainties of this sublunary world, SO tottering and unstable as the virtue of a coward. J. Norris. So frail is humanity, so many the occasions for Offense, and so strong and frequent the temptations that assail us, that it is a hard thing to escape. Michele Colombo. When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find, at last, that the ma- terials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand. S. Rogers. FRANCHISE. Franchise is man's natural right. Roby. A restricted franchise is restricted liberty. Neal. When eligible to the right of franchise, vote early and often. Robert H. Newell. Franchise is the inherent right of all—especially those who belong to our party. D. R. Locke. No man has a right to the franchise who does not obey the laws of his country. John B. Nichols. The franchise of human rights is God's gift, and is the inalienable property of all men throughout the world. James C. Prichard. Women ought to vote at all the ballotings ; she Ought not only to have the right of franchise, but should ever exercise it. Miss H. M. Weber. FRANKNESS. Be frank with the world. Edward Powell. Erankness belongs to youth. Miss L. E. Landon. Frankness is the child of honesty. R. E. Lee. Frankness should beget frankness. F. W. Ricord. Impertinence is one thing ; frankness another. F. H. Converse. Frankness of speech is generally chidden, seldom welcomed. T. Tilton. The ablest men that ever were have all had an openness and frankness of dealing. Lord Bacon. It is the ordinary practice of the world to be frank with those civilities that cost nothing. L’Estrange. The frank man is under no restraint ; his lips are ever ready to give utterance to the dictates of his heart ; he has no reserve. M. Quintime. There is nothing which all mankind venerate and admire so much as frankness ; it exhibits at once a strength of character and integrity of pur- pose in which all are willing to confide. W. Weir. Fraternity is a part of our motto. Lowis Blanc. With what terms of respect knaves and Sots will speak of their own fraternity. R. Sowth. Men, the issue of a common parent, should form but one great family, united by the gentle bond of fraternal love. Lamennais. Fostering the maxims of an ingenuous and vir- tuous policy, may tend to strengthen the fraternity of the human race. Washington. There can be no lasting fraternity among wicked men ; they cannot be friends to each other, and the good cannot be friends to them. Socrates. It is a necessary rule in alliances, societies, and fraternities, and all manner of civil contracts, to have a strict regard to the humor of those we have to do withal. L’Estrange. When men will work together in the spirit of fraternity, the true idea will be accomplished, in establishing the right of every man to the fruits of his labor, to land, and home. G. Lippard. The world is a fraternity of men, and yet how little of fraternal love is to be found among them ; they band themselves together for the purpose of cultivating a fraternal spirit, but it will be found upon investigation, that one half of such institu- tions, both civil and religious, are founded upon hypocrisy and selfishness. James Ellis. FRA UID. Things got by fraud abide not. Sophocles. It is a fraud to support a fraud. Publius Syrws. Fraud should not be allowed to prosper. Adams. He who has once been guilty of an act of fraud can never regain his former credit. Phoedrus, It is more disgraceful for men in high office to improve their private fortune by special fraud, than by open violence. Thucydides. He is worthy to be abhorred who beateth his brains to work wickedness, and seeketh by fraud to bring other men to misery. Sanderson. Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem, is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force. Machiavelli. For one man to practice a fraud upon another, and increase his own property at the expense of his neighbor, is more injurious to nature than death, poverty, grief, or anything else than can affect our bodies, or happen to our person, or cir- Cumstances. Cicero, Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenu- ousness, that is thrown around them ; the slightest mystery would excite suspicion, and ruin all ; such stratagems may be compared to the stars, they are discoverable by darkness, and hidden only by light. Colton. 302 AD A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. FREEDOM. FREEDOM. Boldly push for freedom. Epictetus. To be free is not to be doing nothing ; it is to be - e One's Own master as to what one ought to do, or not God created all men free. 4* | to do; what a blessing in this sense is liberty Preedom is twin-sister of virtue. G. Croly. Bruyère. No man is free who is a slave to the flesh. Semeca. Void of freedom, what would virtue be 2 Lamartime. The cause of freedom is the cause of God. C. Bowles. A slave may yet have a mind that is free. Al-Mahdi. Religion and morality are the safeguards of free- dom. R. P. Smith. To be free, man needs only to know the value of freedom. Reverdy Johnsom. When God wills a man to be free no sovereign can prevent it. Al-Hariri. The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty. A. Forbes. Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fer- tile, but as they are free. Montesquiew. Freedom is only in the land of dreams, and the beautiful only blooms in song. Schiller. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Goethe. The man who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self, is made to be a slave. De Tocqueville. The greatest glory of a freeborn people is to transmit that freedom to their children. Havard. Freedom is ferment of freedom ; the moistened sponge drinks up water greedily; the dry One sheds it. O. W. Holmes. A freeman contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth. Washington. Free people, remember this maxim : We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is Once lost. Rowsseaw. The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues. G. Bryan. Easier were it to hurl the rooted mountain from its base, than force the yoke of slavery upon men determined to be free. R. Southey. We do not know of how much a man is capable if he has the will, and to what point he will raise himself if he feels free. J. Wom Müller. Freedom must be subordinate to whatever power may be necessary to protect Society against anar- chy within, or destruction from without. J. C. Calhown. Whatever natural right men may have to free- dom and independence, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others. Lord Greville. To have freedom is only to have that which is absolutely necessary to enable us to be what we Ought to be, and to possess what we ought to pos- SéSS. C. Rahel. Civil and religious freedom go hand in hand, and in no country can much of the one long exist, without producing a corresponding portion of the Other. Colton. In the dignity of freedom I would have fought upon the threshold of my country, and its enemy should enter only by passing over my lifeless corpse. R. Emmett. Nursed in freedom, unconquered and unconquer- able, let us show these usurpers what manner of men they are that old Caledonia shelters in her bosom - Galgacus. Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it. J. Locke. The tomb where freedom weeps can never have been prematurely reached by its inmate; such mar- tyrdom is blessed, indeed. What higher future can ambition covet : Byron. The ends for which men unite in society, and submit to government, are to enjoy security to their property, and freedom to their persons, from all injustice or violence. H. Blair. The cause of freedom is identified with the des- tinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground, by and by, it will be a com- mon gain to all those who desire it. Eosswth. The sea, as well as air, is a free and common thing to all ; and a particular nation cannot pre- tend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public uSage. Qween Elizabeth. Our freedom consists in the civil rights and ad- vancements of every person according to his merit; the enjoyment of those never more certain, and the access to these never more Open, than in a free commonwealth. Milton. All men feel a peculiar pleasure in the enjoyment of freedom ; but there is a far greater pleasure in its enjoyment if it emanates from just laws, sound principles, and pure virtues; and there is no coun- try or nation that can offer the true principles of freedom to its citizens, unless its constitution is based on these attributes. James Ellis. There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear; and there is damnation in the things that wicked men love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and mala- rial regions, which waft away the elements of dis- ease, and bring new elements of health ; and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast. BI. W. Beecher. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 303 FREEDOM. Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free, till they are fit to use their free- dom; the maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. T. B. Macaulay. If it be the pleasure of heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the vic- tim shall be ready at the appointed hour of Sacri- fice, come when that hour may; but, while I do live, let me have a country, or, at least, the hope of a country, and that a free country. J. Adams. Of what use is freedom of thought, if it will not produce freedom of action, which is the sole end, how remote soever in appearance, of all objections against Christianity ? And therefore the free think- ers consider it an edifice wherein all the parts have such a mutual dependence on each other, that if you pull out one single mail, the whole fabric must fall to the ground. Swift. The savage makes his boast of freedom ; but what is its worth 2 Free as he is, he continues for ages in the same ignorance, leads the same com- fortless life, sees the same untamed wilderness spread around him ; but progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty ; and without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom. W. E. Chamming. In a free country, every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters ; that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion upon them. They sift, examine, and discuss them ; they are curious, eager, attentive, and jealous ; and by making such matters the daily subject of their thoughts and discoveries, vast numbers contract a very tolerable knowledge of them, and some a very considerable One. Burke. Freedom pre-supposes something, which is how- ever never found: a whole people, at least the grea- ter part of them, to be virtuous. The passions and sensual feelings have ever much more power over men, taking them as a whole, than reason and the clearest truth. The world had indeed always in its mouth moral saws, yet acted on impressions dic- tated by passions; at the best the good people de- ceive themselves, and were selfish in their love of mankind, so tyrannical in their patriotism, so blind, eagle-eyed though they were, when it touched their weaknesses and favorite inclinations. G. Forster. It remains with you, then, to decide whether that freedom, at whose voice the kingdoms of Europe awoke from the sleep of ages to run a career of virtuous emulation in everything great and good ; the freedom which dispelled the mists of supersti- tion, and invited the nations to behold their God; whose magic touch kindled the rays of genius, the enthusiasm of poetry, and the flame of eloquence ; the freedom which poured into our lap opulence and arts, and embellished life with innumerable in- stitutions and improvements, till it became a thea- tre of wonders ; it is for you to decide whether this freedom shall yet survive, or be covered with a funeral pall, and wrapped in eternal gloom. R. Hall. FREEMASONRY. Masonry is not religion, but it is rooted in re- ligion. S. Fallows. Not a step can be taken in masonry without faith in God. Rev. J. F. Forester. The science of freemasonry embraces every branch of moral duty. G. Oliver. Masonry is a succession of allegories, vehicles of great lessons in morals and philosophy. A. Pike. Masonry is the truest exemplification of our na- tional motto: liberty, equality, fraternity. W. Hugo. Freemasonry is a federation, the members of which are allied together for the good of mankind. Carl Van Dalem. Freemasonry is universal ; all the Lodges spread over the whole world, in reality constitute but one Lodge. Rudolph Seydel. Masonry is a successive science, only obtained in any degree of perfection by time, patience, and in- dustry. W. T. Anderson. I know of no more efficient and faithful friend of morality and Christianity, than the institution of freemasonry. D. W. Haley. It is the internal, not the external qualifications of a man that should recommend him as a candi- date for masonry. G. Carlyle. Freemasonry is a system of ethics, and teaches the theory and practice of all that is good in rela- tion to God and man. John W. Brown. Other societies and institutions, like the Colossus of Rhodes, may extend from land to land, but ma- sonry overstrides the world. J. N. Maffit. O that the world could behold a brotherhood of nations, actuated by the same principles that gov- War is impossible between two Garibaldi. It cannot be denied that the system of morality in which we, as masons, have been instructed is the very highest and best that the wisdom of man has ever devised. H. W. Nye. As a military man I can say, and I speak from experience, that I have known many soldiers who were masons ; I never knew a good mason who was a bad soldier. Lord Combermere. ern us as maSOns ! brothers. Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness, upon the best and truest princi- ples of moral life and social virtue. Calcott. The object of masonry is to inculcate faith, hope, and charity among men. Woman being already possessed of these virtues, it would be a work of supererogation for her to become a member of the Order. E. P. Day. Masonry is an art, useful and extensive, which comprehends within its circle every branch of use- ful knowledge and learning, and stamps an indeli- ble mark of pre-eminence on its genuine professors, which neither chance, power, nor fortune can bes- tow. Preston. 304 A) A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. IRREEMASONIRY. FREE-THINEING. A mason's lodge is supported by three grand pil- Think, and think freely. S. Hodgson. lars; they are called wisdom, strength, and beauty º - — , , —wisdom to direct us in all our understandings, Free-living leads to free-thinking. D'Arco. strength to support us under all our difficulties, Free-thinking pioneers all reforms. Rahel. and beauty to adorn the inward man. Hemming. Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by vir- tuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recall- ing to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social plea- sures, founded on liberality, brotherly love, and charity. A. C. L. Arnold. Freemasonry holds out two mighty arguments in its favor, a universal language understood by the fraternity in every quarter of the globe, and a universal fund for the relief of the distressed, what- ever may be their religion, or country, or com- plexion. George Taylor. The abstract principles of masonry are of Divine origin ; the system embraces and inculcates evan- gelical truth ; there is not a duty enjoined, nor a virtue required in the volume of inspiration, but what is found in and taught by speculative free- masonry. S. Town. Under the genius of masonry we unloose the chains of the captive, we raise the drooping head of the orphan, we present a cupful of the ambrosia of hope to the children of sorrow. Hand in hand we stand around the blazing altar, and chant the hymn of charity. Rev. B. Fosbroke. Masonry is a mystic science, wherein, under apt figures, select numbers, and choice emblems, sol- emn and important truths, naturally tending to improve the understanding, to mend the heart, and to bind us more closely to one another, are most expressly contained. D. Twºmer. Masonry is intended to make good men better, to awaken the dormant energies of the apathetic, to arouse in the breast of its votary that divine spark—that inward symbol of the Deity—which is implanted in man, as a monitor against evil, and an incentive to good. J. W. Simons. To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of the masonic institution, and it is most fervently to be wished that the conduct of every member of the frater- nity, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race. Washington. Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable insti- tution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth, power, and talents are not necessary to the person of a freemason ; an unblemished char- acter, and a virtuous conduct, are the only quali- fications for admission into the order. Lawrie. Over the whole habitable globe are our lodges disseminated ; wherever the wandering steps of civilized man have left their foot-prints, there have our temples been established ; the lessons of ma- sonic love have penetrated the wilderness of the West, while the arid sands of the African desert have more than once been the Scene of masonic greeting. A. G. Mackey. Free-thinking leads to free inquiry. Kneeland. The free-thinker should be the free speaker and the free actor. Mrs. Mary E. Tillotson. A free-thinker is generally one who is is free from thinking. Charles Bénard. Thought cannot be too free ; be a free-thinker, not in name, but in reality. C. P. Bromson. In all periods of human development free-think- ing has been painted as a crime. Matilda J. Gage. A free-thinker is a man who says, “I will find Out what is truth, and defend it.” H. L. Green. Many a keen, capable, alert free-thinker does not dare speak a word of his real opinions. Leland. A believer is a bird in a cage ; a free-thinker is an eagle, parting the clouds with his tireless wing. R. G. Ingersoll. The free-thinker loves liberty of thought and expression, for it brings fact and truth to the front. T. L. Brown. Free-thinkers are one family, whether spiritual- ists, infidels, liberals, atheists, and perhaps I might say, Christians. Horace Seaver. There are a class of men calling themselves free- thinkers, who hold that nothing is sacred except their own way of thinking. W. H. Mallock. Free thought, scientific research, and a potent spiritualism, have, with united persistence, under- mined the theologies of the ages. J. M. Peebles. As free-thinkers, we must maintain the right and duty of absolute freedom in thought and in discussion, providing what we say is true, cour- teous, and decent. J. E. Oliver. Nothing can be plainer than that ignorance and vice are two ingredients absolutely necessary in the composition of free-thinkers, who, in propriety of speech, are no thinkers at all. Swift. A good deal of invective has been levelled at free-thinking ; the only distinction worth attend- ing to on this point is that between accurate and inaccurate, true and false ; thinking can never be too free, provided it is just. Bailey. Some sciolists have discovered a short path to celebrity ; having heard that it is vastly silly to believe everything, they take it for granted that it must be vastly wise to believe nothing ; they therefore set up for free-thinkers, though their only stock in trade is, that they are free from thinking. It is not safe to contemn them, nor very easy to convince them, since no persons make so large a demand against the reason of others, as those who have none of their own ; just as a high- wayman will take greater liberties with our purse, than our banker. Colton. A R O S E Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 305 -- ship—never. FFIENDSHIP. A friend is another “l.” Zemo. An old friend is the best. Gration. Friendship requires deeds. Richter. Friendship is the wine of life. E. Yowng. Friendship is a holy principle. M. W. Anderson. The advice of a friend is good. Homer. We can never replace a friend. Schleiermacher. My friends ! There are no friends ! Aristotle. Friendship is stronger than kindred. Syrws. The greatest medicine is a true friend. Sir W. Temple. A good friend is life's best inheritance. Albert II. of Germany. He who reckons ten friends has not one. Malesherbes. A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. Shakspeare. Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. La Fontaine. We call friendship the love of the dark ages. Princess de Salm-Dyck. Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune. Richeliev. Friendship is love without its flowers or veil. J. C. Hare. Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits. Sir P. Sidney. A faithful friend in the true image of the Deity. Napoleon I. Friendship is a youth to which old age succeeds not. At-Twnikhi. There can be no friendship where there is no free- dom. Wm. Penn. Do not allow grass to grow on the road of friend- ship. Mme. Geoffrin. The greatest pleasure in life is the Society of a friend. Mayo. Friendships ought to be immortal, but enmities mortal. Livy. He who cannot feel friendship is alike incapable of love. Talleyrand. Friendship, love, and piety, should be treated in private. Novalis. While love decreases with age, friendship in- CI'ê8Se.S. E. P. Day. Friendships ought not to be unripped, but un- stitched. Cato. He who slights a friend will soon have no friends to slight. Dwwód. Friendship often ends in love; but love in friend- Colton. A new friend is sometimes Only a troublesome acquaintance. James Etlis. IFFIENDSHIP. Friendship is the gift of heaven, and the delight of great souls. Voltaire. Be the same to your friends, both in prosperity and adversity. Periander. There is no better relation than a prudent and faithful friend. Franklin. He who has not the weakness of friendship, has not the strength. Joubert. Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love. Chamfort. In friendship, we see only the faults which may injure our friends. Dw Coew'r, Friendship is a cadence of divine melody melting through the heart. Mildmay. There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend. Socrates. That friendship will not continue to the end that is begun for an end. F. Quarles. It is chance that gives us relations, but we give friends to ourselves. Delille. The words of a friend joined with true affection, give life to the heart. Chilo, We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends. Dr. Johnson. Friendship is one soul in two bodies ; he who has many friends has none. Aristotle. Acquaintances are best formed in prosperity ; friendships in adversity. T. A. Emmett. All things should be common between friends, Our friend is another self. Pythagoras. He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superior- ity has ceased to love him. Mme. Swetchine. It is not words that give strength to friendship, but a similarity of interests. Demosthemes. It is better to have one friend of great value, than many friends of little value. Amaacarchºws. A faithful friend is better than gold : a medicine Of misery, an only possession. Miss L. Barton. The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them. Alfieri. True friendship, like a diamond, radiates stead- ily from its transparent heart. Mrs. L. M. Child. Purchase no friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. T. Fuller. A friend is a being that is willing to bear with us in all our faults and failings. G. Forster. The cause of a friend, a destitute and an exem- plary cause, we ought to defend. Throsea. Wise friends are the best book of life, because they teach with voice and looks. Calderon. I love a friendship that flatters itself in the Sharpness and vigor of its communications. Montaigne. 20 306 A) A Y’.S. C. O A. Z. A C O A7 FRIENDSHIP. The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for. Rames. Be slow to fall into friendship ; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Socrates. Friends must be preserved with good deeds, and enemies reclaimed with fair words. Seven-ws. The friendships of the world are often confeder- acies in vice, or leagues of pleasure. Addison. Whoever looks for a friend without imperfec- tions, will never find what he seeks. Cyrus. Every friend is to the other a Sun, and a sun- flower also ; he attracts and follows. Richter. Procure not friends in haste, and when thou hast a friend part not with him in haste. Solom. Life is no life without the blessing of a true, friendly, and edifying conversation. L'Estrange. - A real friend is somewhat like a ghost Or appar- ition ; much talked of, but rarely seen. C. Buck. Friendship ! mysterious cement of the Soul sweetener of life and solder of society H. Blair. Take heed of a speedy professing friend ; love is never lasting which flames before it burns. Feltham. Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. N. Hawthorne. Be on such terms with your friend as if you knew that he might one day become your enemy. Laberius. Injuries from friends fret and gall more, and the memory of them is not so easily obliterated. º Arbuthnot. Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. T. Jefferson. The light of friendship is like the light of phos- phorus—seen plainest when all around is dark. Crowell. It ill corresponds with a profession of friendship to refuse assistance to a friend in time of need. G. Crabb. There are no rules for friendship ; it must be left to itself; we cannot force it any more than love. Hazlitt. Whatever the number of a man's friends there will be times in his life when he has one too few. Bulwer. When men arefriends there is no need of justice; but when they are just, they still need friendship. Aristotle. Something like home, that is not home, is to be desired ; it is to be found in the house of a friend. Sir W. Temple. A friendship will be young after the lapse of a century ; a passionis old at the end of three months. Nigw. FRIENDSHIP. Nothing is more dangerous than a friend with- Out discretion ; even a prudent enemy is preferable. La Fontaine. Friends should be weighed, not told ; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends, has never had OIlê. Coleridge, The extension and perfection of friendship will constitute a great part of the future happiness of the blest. R. Whately. True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invit- ation. Theophrastus. While you are prosperous, you can number many friends; but when the storm comes, you are left alone. Ovid. He that doth a base thing in zeal for his friend, burns the golden thread that ties their hearts to- gether. Jeremy Taylor. As the harbor is the refuge of the ship from the tempest, so is friendship the refuge of man in ad- versity. Demophilus. Friendship improves happiness, and abates mis- ery, by the doubling of our joy, and the dividing of our grief. Cicero. Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind can- kered with ambition, or the lust of power and grandeur. Junius. Life is to be fortified by many friendships ; to love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. S. Smith. . The friends of the present day are of the nature of melons; we must try fifty before we meet with a good One. Clawde-Men’met. Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. Pythagoras. Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. E. Budgell. Friendships which are born in misfortune, are more firm and lasting than those which are formed in happiness. D'Urfey. It is pleasant to enjoy good fortune with one's friends; but if any ill befall, a friend's kind eye beams comfort. Euripides. To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweet- est thing upon earth, friendship ! To vanity and and to interest. Malesherbes. There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship, and, indeed, friendship itself is but a part of virtue. Pope. Friendship, like love, is self-forgetful : the only inequality it knows, is one that exalts the object, and humbles self. H. Giles. We lose some friends for whom we regret more than we grieve ; and others for whom we grieve, yet do not regret. Rochefoucauld. If we would build on a sure foundation in friend- ship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own. Charlotte Bromte, A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 307 IFRIENDSHIP. Do good to your friend, that he may be more wholly yours; to your enemy, that he may be- come your friend. Cleobwlws. Now-a-days friends are no longer found ; good faith is dead, envy reigns supreme ; and evil habits are ever more extending. Sanmazaro. The instability of friendship furnishes one of the most melancholy reflections suggested by the con- templation of human life. R. A. Wilmott. A friend gilds the scene of life with Sunshine, seasons the cup of plenty, assuages fear, quickens hope, and animates pleasure. T. L. O’Beirne. A similitude of nature and manners in such a degree as we are capable of, must tie the holy knot, and rivet the friendship between us. F. Atterbury. We must love our friends as true amateurs love paintings ; they have their eyes perpetually fixed On the fine parts, and see no others. Mme. d'Epinay. Nothing is more common than to talk of a friend ; nothing more difficult than to find one ; nothing more rare than to improve one as we ought. Henry A. Oakley. The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies—cold friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm friends. Lavater. A principle fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. Lord Bacom. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must never undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. Washington. Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him : a new friend is as new wine ; when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure. Sirach. Friendship and love require the deepest and most entire confidence, but souls of a high character de- mand not communications of a familiar nature. Hwmboldt. False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. R. Burton, There is perhaps no time at which we are disposed to think so highly of a friend, as when we find him standing higher than we expected in the esteem of others. Sir W. Scott. A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of haz- ard and necessity, when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart. Ennius. Charity commandeth us, where we know no ill, to think well of all ; but friendship, that always goes a step higher, gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend. R. South. FRIENDSHIP. You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are characters decidedly bad. Callenberg. False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. Bovee. Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts. Horace. Friendship has the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother. Earl of Clarendon. Leave a friend ? So base I am not. I followed him in his prosperity, when the skies were clear and shining, and will not leave him when storms begin to rise. Metastasio. In your friendship and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter ir- reconcilable. ' Chesterfield. When danger threats, the friend comes forth resolved and shields his friend ; infortune's golden smile what need of friends? Her favoring power wants no auxiliary. Euripides. I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly ; if you can not have inti- mate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good. W. M. Thackeray. There are a sort of friends, who in your poverty do nothing but torment and taunt you with ac- counts of what you might have been had you followed their advice. Zimmerman. I have never believed that friendship supposed the obligation of hating those whom your friends did not love, and I believe rather it obliges me to love those whom they love. Morellet. As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked ; it dwindles hour by hour ; but friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadow, till the sun of life sets. Herder. A man that is fit to make a friend of, must have conduct to manage the engagement, and resolution to maintain it ; he must use freedom without rough- ness, and oblige without design. Jeremy Collier. We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity, than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect. Jane Porter. Friendship has steps which lead up on the throne of God, through all spirits, even to the Infinite ; only love is satiable, and like truth admits no three degrees of comparison ; and a single being fills the heart. Richter. There is power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encour- agements hold him to his task ; what has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever vir– is in use. R. W. Emerson. 308 A) A V 'S CO / / A C O AV. FRIENDSHIP. As friendship must be founded on mutual esteem, it cannot long exist among the vicious ; for we soon find ill company to be like a dog, which dirts those the most whom he loves the best. Chatfield. Nothing makes so much impression on the heart of man as the voice of friendship when it is really known to be such ; for we are aware that it never speaks to us except for our advantage. RowsSeaw. Friendship is more firmly secured by lenity to- ward failings than by attachment to excellence ; the former is valued as a kindness, which cannot be claimed ; the latter is exalted to the payment of a debt to merit. |W. B. Clwlow. There are jilts in friendship, as well as in love ; and by the behavior of some men in both, one would almost imagine that they industriously sought to gain the affections of others with the view only of making the parties miserable. Fielding. Are we capable of so intimate and cordial a coa- lition of friendship as, that one man may pour out his bosom—his very inmost soul, with unreserved confidence to another, without hazard of losing part of that respect which man deserves from man. A. Burm. How dear the sure counsel of a present friend, whose heavenly power failing, the lonely one sinks in silence ; for earnest thought and resolution, locked within his breast, are slowly ripened ; the presence of the loved one soon warms them into being. Goethe. Friends are discovered rather than made : there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they do not know each other ; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the freemason's sign—they reveal the initiated to each other. Mrs. Stowe. Friendship is like a debt of honor; the moment it is talked of it loses its real name, and assumes the more ungrateful form of obligation. From hence we find that those who regularly undertake to cultivate friendship find ingratitude generally repays their endeavors. Goldsmith. Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous; as it can only be preserved among esteemable persons, it forces us to resemble them : you find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, and Succor in our distress. Mme. de Lambert. With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch. Gotthold. Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend ; and when thy impartial judgment concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely ; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his ; he is thy very self ; and use him so ; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so. F. Quarles. FRIENDSHIP. The friendship of some men is like the love of Some women ; it is variable and capricious, incon- stant and uncertain, hard to win, and when won, not worth having. Acton. It is better to decide a difference between our enemies than our friends ; for one of our friends will most likely become our enemy ; but on the other hand, one of our enemies will probably be- come our friend. Bias. What is commonly called friendship is no more than a partnership, a reciprocal regard for one an- other's interests, and an exchange of good offices: in a word, mere traffic, wherein self-love always proposes to be a gainer. Rochefowcawld. True friends are the whole world to one another ; and he that is a friend to himself, is also a friend to mankind ; even in my studies the greatest delight I take is that of imparting it to others ; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything with- Out a partner. Seneca. If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things: the first, that they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, be- cause they have more to lose than thou hast ; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess. Sir W. Raleigh. It is in the time of trouble, when some to whom we may have looked for consolation and encour- agement regard us with coldness, and others, per- haps, treat us with hostility, that the warmth of the friendly heart and the support of the friendly hand acquire increased value and demand addi- tional gratitude. Bishop Mant. The friendship of the world is like the leaves fall- ing from their trees in autumn ; while the sap of maintenance lasts, friends swarm in abundance ; but in the winter of our need, they leave us naked. He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need ; but he is more trnly happy that hath no need of a friend. Warwick. In the hour of distress and misery, the eye of every mortal turns to friendship ; in the hour of gladness and conviviality, what is our want # It is friendship. When the heart overflows with grati- tude, or with any other sweet and sacred senti- ment, what is the word to which it would give ut- terance 2 My friend. TV. S. Landor. A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar ; the case is very different in re- gard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, sus- picion, and rancor toward the latter part of life. Shenstone. The man who will share his purse with you in the days of misfortune and distress, and like the good Samaritan, be surety for your support to the landlord, you may admit to your confidence, incor- porate into the very core of your heart, and call him friend; misfortunes cannot shake him from you ; a prison will not conceal you from his sight. J. Bartlett. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 309 FRIENDSHIP. FRUG-ALITY. Friendship may outlive love and its passions : Frugality is a part of bounty. E. P. Day. for instances have not unfrequently occurred, in which parties who have ceased to regard each other as lovers, have been found necessary as friends and confidential advisers. Mme. de Pompadowr. Friendship is not a state of feeling whose ele- ments are specifically different from those which compose every other. The emotions we feel toward a friend are the same in kind with those we expe- rience on other occasions ; but they are more Com- plex and more exalted. R. Hall. Friendship is one of the greatest boons God can bestow on man. It is a union of our finest feelings; an uninteresting binding of hearts, and a sympathy between two souls. It is an indefinable trust we repose in one another, a constant communication between two minds, and an unremitting anxiety for each other's souls. J. Hill, When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still ; then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life : it is only needful to place yourself so that it may come, and then it comes of itself ; and then everything turns and changes itself for the best. Frederika, Bremer. It is a hasty conclusion, and one which marks an inadequate apprehension of the nature of friend- ship, to say we lose a friend when he dies ; death is not only unable to quench the genuine sense of friendship between the living and the dead, but it is also unable to prevent the going forth of a real feeling of friendship for the dead whom, it may be, we have never known at all. H. C. Trwºmbull. E’RIGHT. Fright is an enemy's ally. Pulaski. Fright is the parent of flight. I. H. Fichte. It is the mind that frights itself. J. Locke. Fright makes one enemy a hundred. J. Read, Jr. Fright is the greatest enemy of safety. E. P. Day. Fright is for what is hunted, not for those who hunt. Piomingo. Fright is for our enemies, but victory is for our friends. Vitachwoo. To the fearful, fright is greater than the danger anticipated. - Richter. More are killed in battle through fright than by the enemies' bullets. B. Price. It is no less than madness to have frighful appre- hensions of that which is most benign and bene- ficial ; mor can true love exist with fear. Wilkins. It is no ways congruous that God should be frightening men into truth who were made to be wrought upon by calm evidence and gentle methods of persuasion. F. Atterbury. The devil can indeed frighten, overwhelm, and kill ; he offers heaven before sin, and after we have sinned, drives us to despair. Christ does the Contrary; he gives heaven after we have sinned, and peace to the troubled conscience. M. Luther. Frugality is an estate of itself. Lady Wortley. Frugality is the badge of discretion. Bamfylde. Frugality is the first step to fortune. J. F. Unger. To live frugally is to live temperately. Plato. Frugality differs widely from parsimony. Yvon. The world has not yet learned the riches of fru- gality. Cicero. By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest. - - Agesilaws. Some so love frugality that they are frugal of the truth. M. M. Pomeroy. Let us be frugal as to our dress, our time, our diet, our money. F. Field. Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits. Bulwer. Be frugal, and let frugality be a part of your children's education. Thºurlow Weed. Frugality, like a short and pleasant journey, is attended with much enjoyment and little toil. Demophilus. It is impossible to march up close to the frontiers of frugality, without entering the territories of parsimony. Arbuthnot. Frugality may be the cause of drinking water ; and that is no small Saving, to pay nothing for one's drink. Lord Bacon. Doth frugality become a prince 2 Though the ant gathereth subsistence for a year, yet how can a lion store up his daily food 2 Ibn Söbir. When one abides continently and frugally in the path of industry and beneficence, the flowers of ex- istence are bright and fragrant to the last. Magoon. Frugality, if it be not a virtue, is at least a qual- ity which can seldom exist without some virtues, and without which there are few virtues can ex- ist. W. B. Carpenter. Frugality may be termed the daughter of pru- dence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty ; he that is extravagant will quickly be- come poor, and poverty will enforce dependence and invite corruption. Dr. Johnson. Frugality is good, if liberty be joined with it; the first is leaving off superfluous expenses ; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need : the first without the last begets covetous- ness ; the last without the first begets prodigal- ity. W. Penn. If frugality were established in the state, if our expenses were laid out rather in the necessaries than the superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness; the rich and the great would be better off to satisfy their creditors ; they would be better able to marry their children ; and instead of one marriage at present, there might be two, if such regulations took place. Goldsmith. 310 AD A Y’.S C O / / A C O AW FFUIT. The fruit proves the tree. Honoré d'Urfel. Bowvier. Ide. Fruits enhance an inheritance. Without blossoms there can be no fruit. Hanging fruits constitute a part of the farm ; gathered fruits do not. Justiniarv. The fruit-tree is an emblem of life ; culture iru- proves its beauty and usefulness. Drelimcourt. T}oubtless God could have made a better fruit than the strawberry, but God never did. Boteler. Fruit-trees that expend all their forces in the production of wood-growth, produce little or no fruit. E. S. Hwll. Fine fruit is the flower of commodities ; it is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. A. J. Downing. Every fruit-tree is a silent preacher in the cause of temperance, a formidable ally in morality, reli- gion, and philanthropy. Mrs. H. Coleridge. Planters of fruit-trees ought to encourage them- selves, by considering all future time as present : indeed, such consideration would be a useful prin- ciple to all men in their conduct of life, as it re- spects both this world and the next. J. T. Watson. It is one thing to assist nature in producing, for the benefit of mankind, the choicest grains and the most delicious varieties of fruit, but quite another to pervert nature, by changing the yellow corn, the golden apple, the blushing peach, or the purple grape, into a beverage for man's degradation and destruction. E. P. Day. Good fruit is a great luxury, in which we may freely indulge, not only with impunity, but with advantage as to health, as well as pleasure. How delightful, refreshing, and salutary are strawber- ries and cream; or delicious cherries, ready to burst with their rich juices; the golden apricot, with its fine flavor ; the plum, with its honeyed juice ; the Splendid peach, with its luscious sweetness; the melting pear, with its rich, sugary, or vinous fla- vor ; the apple, in all its variety and excellence ; they add a charm to social life, affording to friends a delightful treat, and to children a constant, harm- less feast. S. W. Cole. FRUITFULNESS. Fruitfulness is a blessing from God. Francklin. The fruitfulness of a country inclineth the people to laziness. Nennius. Extreme fruitfulness in a tree is not generally conducive to longevity. Pliny. The fruitfulness of plants and trees is often in- creased by judicious pruning. Bowden. The olive presents a beautiful emblem of Chris- tian fruitfulness. Munificent to the lofty and the lowly—yielding the grateful fruit to prince and peasant. Here is an emblem of Christian fruitful- ness worthy of study in these cold, revival-less, unproductive days. Rev. T. L. Cuyler. FUGITIVE. Give protection to the fugitive. Topal Osman. Adherbal. A fugitive should not forget the past. Kossuth. Protect a fugitive from injustice. A fugitive has either rebelled against himself or the laws of his country. Roebuck. Care followeth a fugitive, even as a shadow fol- lows the body ; his only comfort is, that there be many fugitives. De Carbonensis. Although I am a fugitive from my native land, I cannot forget the oppression that drove me from it ; therefore, will I seek to revenge it. J. Mitchell. A political fugitive is a rebel, and deserves no sympathy : I hold it the greatest of crimes for a man to raise his hand or his voice against his coun- try or his flag. Palmerston. FUT,LINESS. In fullness of form there is beauty. A. Karr. The fullness of Christ is fullness of joy. Gwthrie. To lapse in fullness is sorer than to lie for need. Shakspeare. In Jesus Christ there is a fullness, and it is a fountain-fullness. Philip Henry. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness of the heart, which pas- sions of all kinds do cause and induce. Bacon. The fullness of the earth is a fullness that runs into emptiness ; but the fullness of Jesus Christ is a dwelling fullness, and a fullness runs out into believers, and yet he is full of himself, in him the fullness of the Godhead dwells, it dwelleth there. W. Bridge. The most beneficent Being is He who hath an absolute fullness of perfection in Himself, who gave existence to the universe, and so cannot be supposed to want that which he communicated without diminishing from the plenitude of His own power and happiness. H. Grove. FUN, _-----TT To a young heart everything is Dickens. 2: rough, rugged, low, and vulgar merri- ment. N. Webster. Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what we can least spare. Agnes Strickland. Fun and horse-play are recreations fit only for the low and vulgar. Napoleon I. Fun, real, homest fun, is gladness; but so much is the word abused, that it has almost come to mean cruelty. Miss H. M. Williams. Fun has no limits ; it is like the human race and face ; there is a family likeness among all the Spe- cies, but they all differ. Haliburton. Fun is a sugar-coated physic; it is both cheáp and durable. There is not only fun but virtue in a hearty laugh ; animals cannot laugh, and devils will not. H. W. Shaw. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 3.11 P'UNERAL. A dry funeral is a hateful sight. D'Arco. In a funeral sermon a few eulogistic lies are sel- dom objected to. J. Garlinghouse. The pomp that is attendant on funerals feeds rather the vanity of the living than does honor to the dead. Rochefoucauld. Pompous funerals and sumptuous monuments are made more out of design to gratify the vanity of the living, than to do honor to the dead. Field. In many of our funeral addresses, it is difficult to ascertain whether any distinction is made be- tween the righteous and the wicked—all are good at death. Rev. J. Reid. The only kind office performed for us by our friends, of which we never complain, is our fune- ral ; and the only thing which we are sure to want, happens to be the only thing which we never pur- chase—our coffin. Colton. Funerals in the country are solemnly impressive; the stroke of death makes a wider space in the vil- lage circle, and is an awful event in the tranquil uniformity of rural life ; the passing bell tolls its knell in every ear ; it steals with its pervading melancholy over hill and vale, and saddens all the landscape. W. Irving. FURNITURE. Furniture is inanimate Society. Mrs. Church. Lack of furniture, and bare floors, cannot of themselves condemn anyone. Mrs. J. H. Riddell. The furniture of a room should not only be use- ful, but in harmony with the general decoration of the walls. Robert W. Edis. However rich or poor a man may be, you can judge of the quality of his mind by the furniture in his dwelling. Miss F. C. Fisher. I like appropriate emblems in furniture, where pleasant associations can be awakened, and I would admit none of a contrary tendency. H. Smith. I have a ghastly fear of modern furniture ; a drawing-room chair nowadays consists of a woven straw bottom, held in the air by four gilded no- things, called legs. G. H. Hepworth. FUR.Y. Fury is the inflammation of the blood. W. Gray. Fury without judgment gives aid to thine ene- my. Salah-Ad-dim. Excessive fury fails in its object ; the joy of the wicked never lasts long. Claudian. The furious man is more misgoverned than he who is addicted to loathsome drunkenness. Mwret. It is good for a man to abstain from fury, if not for wisdom's sake, yet for his own bodily health's sake. Plato. Fury not only obscures the reason, but often paralyzes, for the moment, the bodily energies; it is a paroxysm, which fortunately serves as a pro- tection both to ourselves and others. H. Smith. FUTURE. All future is uncertain. Virgil. Let the future care for itself. W. H. Ainsworth. The future is full of uncertainty. Pittacws. Cease to inquire about the future. Eunapius, He is a fool who shall trust the future. Racine. The curtain of the future is always down. John Bigelow. Reason will neither affirm nor deny a future state. Lord Bolingbroke. A bird may have a long neck, and yet not see the future. Bornow. We must wait for the future, and enjoy or bear the present. Hwmboldt. He who has no future, has no life ; he exists, but does not live. O. A. Brownson. The future is known to Deity, and those to whom he has revealed it. AEdesiws. Age and sorrow have the guilt of reading the future by the sad past. J. Farrar. The fear of the future is worse than the fortune of the present moment. Quintilian. It is vain to be always looking toward the future, and never acting toward it. J. F. Boyes. The desire to pry into the future is as universal as the longing after immortal life. W. Dwnlap. God has wisely hidden the events of the future under a dark veil, and smiles if a mortal is distress- ing himself beyond what is right. Horace. Everything that looks to the future, elevates hu- man nature ; for never is life so low, or so little, as when occupied with the present. W. S. Landor. Surely there is none but fear a future state; and when the most obdurate swear, do not their trem- bling hearts belie their boasting tongues. Dryden. The great encouragement is the assurance of a future reward, and the firm persuasion thereof is enough to raise us above anything in this world. Tillotson. No man on earth has ever yet found any sure presage from Heaven about his future success, for the indications of coming events are impervious to mortals. Pindarus. The golden age is not in the past, but in the fu- ture ; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane. E. H. Chapin. Look not mournfully into the past—it comes not back again ; wisely improve the present—it is thine ; go forth to meet the shadowy future with- out fear, and with a manly heart. Longfellow. We take pleasure in looking into the future be- cause we think that we may be able by our silent wishes to guide in our own favor what is undeter- mined in it, being moved this or that way. Goethe. 312 AD A Y',S C O Z Z A C O AW. FUTURE. FUTURITY. The future is a great land ; a man cannot go How blind is man to futurity Epimenides. round it in a day ; he cannot measure it with a is a º - bound ; he cannot bind its harvests into a single Futurity is the reward of God. T. Amory. sheaf ; it is wider than the vision and has no end. D. G. Mitchell. The present is a point to which but little thought appertains, while the mind hovers backwards and forwards between the past and the future, expend- ing the store of its regrets upon the one, and wast- ing all its wishes upon the other. J. A. James. We are led to the belief of a future state, not only by the weaknesses, by the hopes and fears of hu- man nature, but by the noblest and best principles which belong to it, by the love of virtue and by the abhorrence of vice and injustice. A. Smith. Not merely is there a future beyond the grave, but it is inhabited by one who speaks to us, who went there by the way that we must go, who sees us and can help us as we make our way along, and will receive us when we arrive there. P. Brooks. The greatest loss of time is delay and expecta- tion, which depends upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance—and so quit a certainty for an uncertainty. Semeca. As the pleasures of the future will be spiritual, and pure, the object of a wise man should be to fit himself for a better life, by controlling the un- worthy propensities of his nature, and to promote the bappiness and welfare of those who are in any degree dependent upon him. R. Southey. The future mingles itself with every thought and sentiment, and casts its beams of hope, or its shad- ows of fear, over the stage both of active and con- templative life : it appears and disappears like a variable star, showing in painful succession its spots of light and of shade, and at the great tran- sition, when the outward eye is dim, the image of the future is the last picture which is effaced from the retina of the mind. Sir D. Brewster. The future is always fairy-land to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies, and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an open- ing which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak ; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived—to reach a desert waste. G. A. Sala. Those who accuse mankind of folly in hankering and panting after things to come, and who warn us to enjoy the present, and to take our fill of it, as we have no sufficient hold on the future, as little indeed as on that which is past and gone, have hit upon one of the most common of human delusions; we are never occupied with what is within us; we are always looking beyond ; fear, desire, hope are spurring us on toward the future, stripping us of all feeling and thought about what is, in order to amuse us with what will be, even when we shall be no more. Montaigne. No one knows what lies hid in futurity. Zabóda. Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken. Schiller. Futurity is locked up from mortal eye in shady leaves of destiny. Richard Crashawe. The veil which covers the face of futurity, is woven by the hand of mercy. Bulwer. It ever is the propensity of restless and aspiring minds, to look into the stretch of dark futurity. J. Baillie. Futurity is an inscrutable mystery, of which we can only guess at a solution, by referring to the past and the present. Horace Smith. Futurity is the greatness of man, and that here- after is the grand scene for the attainment of the fullness of his existence. J. Foster. Futurity discloses to us a life of darkness and a life of light. The life of darkness is the life of sin; sin is darkness, holiness is light. Rev. J. H. Potts. All futurities are naked before the All-Seeing Eye, the sight of which is no more hindered by distance of time, than the sight of an angel can be determined by distance of place. R. Sowth. We see darkly into futurity ; we never know when we have real cause to rejoice or lament : the worst appearances have often happycircumstances, as the best lead many times unto the greatest mis- fortunes. Mrs. E. C. Grey. It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy. Let us do nothing to forfeit his es- teem, and treat him with respect ; not yet with servility. Colton. Oh I that this ceaseless current of years and of Seasons were teaching us wisdom ; that we were SO improving the futurity that lies before us, that when death shall lay us in our graves, we may, on the morning of the resurrection, emerge into a Scene of bliss too rapturous for conception, and too magnificent for the attempts of the loftiest elo- quence. W. Hanna. Futurity is the great concern of mankind; whilst the wise and learned look back upon experience and history, and reason from things past about events to come, it is natural for the rude and igno- rant, who have the same desires without the same reasonable means of satisfaction, to inquire into the secrets of futurity, and to govern their conduct by Omens, dreams, and prodigies. Burke. Who has not felt inclined to set down and ima- gine the brilliancy of futurity, rather than to set to and lighten the present 2 Though so sure as hope alone is indulged, will affliction remain stationary, at the best ; but let us understand that to hope is a good thing, when backed by earnest effort ; that we may dream if we also omit not to work : that we may lay hold of circumstances and push our- selves along. Lady Fullerton. |ORAGE GREELEY. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 3.13 G O GAIN. GHALLANTRY. Gain unjustly acquired is odious. Periander. A gallant man is above ill words. J. Selden. Gain smells sweet from any Source. Juvenal. Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the Do not make unjust gains ; they are equal to a loss. Hesiod. Gain hath a pleasant odor, let it come whence it will. |Wespasian. The hope of ill-gotten gain is the beginning of loss. Democritws. Great men desire goodness ; mean men desire gain. Confucius. He who would seek for gain, must be at some expense. Plautus. The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much. J. Beawmont. By unjust gains thou wilt see more sink in ruin than triumph in success. Sophocles. There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have. Publius Syrus. The gains of the wicked bring short-lived plea- sure, but afterwards long-continued grief. Antiphanes. Gain is that which comes to a man ; it is the fruit of his exertions, or agreeable to his wish. G. Crabb. The courteous smiles which the avaricious fre- quently assume, are at once converted into resolute looks when the love of gain is called into play. Acton. Death and eternity put an end to all our worldly gains ; for however great may be our possessions, death levels them, and eternity retains us among the ruins. A. P. Damiens de Damicourt, Gain may be temporary and uncertain ; but ever while you live expense is constant and certain ; and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. Franklin. In our life-struggle for gain, let it not be simply a struggle for this world's goods, but let our minds also gain in knowledge, Our Souls in grace, our hearts in true content, and our lives in virtue, love, and spiritual faith. James Ellis. To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best ; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst. Colton. Content with small gains and never discouraged by difficulties, the diligent man is sure ultimately to be crowned with success ; he is not furious, but firm and active ; sunshine and storm come and go, but there he is, like the provident art, laying up substantial supplies for the future time of need. e Magoon. COurt. Mme Necker. The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery. Rochefoucauld. Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. R. B. Sheridam. A man of gallantry came into this world on a poor errand, and the Sooner he quits it the more to his own credit, and to the honor of the human l'a,C8. J. Bartlett. A gallant man will always be a gallant when he can render the female any service ; sometimes, however, his gallantries may be such as to do them harm rather than good. G. Crabb. Gallantry exhibits itself toward a sister or moth- er, as well as to any other pretty friend. It is manifested toward a stranger, even though she should not possess the requisite amount of personal attractions to to compel it. A. Holbrook. Gallantry, though a fashionable crime, is a very detestable one ; and the wretch who pilfers from us in the hour of distress, is an innocent character compared to the plunderer who wantonly robs us of happiness and reputation. H. Kelly. G-AMES. All nations have their games. J. R. M’Culloch. Games of exercise, for amusement, may not only be permitted, but encouraged. Washington. The pleasure of playing games comes from the small vanity of beating our opponents. Bovee, Profitable employments would be no less a diver- sion, than any of the idle games in fashion, if men could but delight in them. J. Locke, Let the world have their May-games, wakes, and whatsoever sports and recreations please them, pro- vided they be followed with discretion. R. Burton. Theinstitution of games and sports was intended, by all governments, to turn off the thoughts of the people from busying themselves in matters of state. Addison. Take heed to avoid all those games and sports that are apt to take up much of thy time, or engage thy affections; he that spends all his life in sports, is like one who wears nothing but fringes and eats nothing but sauces. T. Fuller. Young men may still be pronounced “fast” by prudes and hypocrites, but so long as they addict themselves to manly sports and games, there need be no fear but that the coming generation will surpass its predecessors in all the points essentialto male perfection. F. Queen. 314 P A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AW. GAMING". Do not gamble. C. A. Dama. Gaming is an extravagant vice. Wºn. Smith. Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming. Fromklin. Lookers-on, many times, see more than game- sters. Lord Bacon. Gaming finds a man a cully, and leaves him a knave. J. Hughes. Gamblers usually or often become cheats and knaves. N. Webster. The more a gamester understands his art, the viler he is. Publiws Syrws. By gaming we lose both our time and temper, two things most precious to the life of a man. - Feltham. How happy is a gambler his pocket is a trea- sure I under his lucky hands brass becomes gold. - Regnard. Gaming is stealing away of time, abusing Our understanding in vain things without any profit. J. P. Pagés de L'Ariège. Hunters and gamblers are poor economists ; they kill time, a species of game that cannot be repro- duced. H. W. Show. Gaming is the destruction of all decorum ; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty. Marchioness d’Alembert. The gamester begins by being a dupe, speedily becomes a knave, and generally ends his career as a pauper. Chatfield. All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment. R. Whately. Avoid gaming ; this is a vice which is productive of every possible evil ; equally injurious to the morals and health of its votiaries. |Washington. Games of chance are traps to catch schoolboy novices and gaping country Squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage. R. Cwmberland. The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubtly ruined; he adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit heaven. Colton. A covetous person is seldom cured of the passion for gaming ; besides the hope of gain, he finds in it the advantage of hiding his avarice under an air of disinterestedness. Stanislaws. Sports and gaming, whether pursued from a de- sire of gain or love of pleasure, are as ruinous to the temper and disposition of the party addicted to them as they are to his fame and fortune. - R. Burton. The coldness of a losing gamester lessens the pleasure of the winner ; I would no more play with a man who slighted his ill fortune than I would make love to a woman who undervalued her repu- tation. Congreve. G-AMING". Gambling-houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend ; there no spectator can be indifferent ; a card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of in- fants, and their nearest relatives. Zimmerman. An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high ; a melancholy solici- tude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth, or distinctions. Bruyère. Gambling is the origin of more extensive misery than all other crimes put together ; and the mis- chief falls principally on the unoffending and belp- less ; it leads, by insensible degrees, a greater num- ber of wretches to the gallows than the higher at- trocities from which that terminus is seen more plainly. W. S. Landor. Gaming is a vice, the more dangerous as it is de- ceitful; and contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of in- creasing its wealth ; so that avarice itself is So far from securing us against its temptations, that it often betrays the more thoughtless and more giddy part of mankind into them. Fielding. While gaming leaves the mind to languish, it produces its full effect on the passions and on the heart ; no throb of ingenuous and philanthropic feeling is excited by this detestable expedient for killing time ; but it is only amidst the filth and debauchery of gambling, that the full effects on the passions and on the heart of man are seen. E. Nott. Gambling blots out all the nobler powers of the heart, paralyzes its sensibilities to human woe, severs the sacred ties that bind man to man, to woman, to family, to community, to morals, to religion, to social order, and to country ; it trans- forms men into brutes, desperadoes, maniacs, mis- anthropists ; and strips human nature of all its native dignity. L. C. Judson. The vice of gambling has been practised by the most civilized and enlightened people, as well as by the most barbarous and ignorant. The coroneted legislator of the foremost nation in refinement, has been known to sacrifice a princely income to this passion ; no station is free from its degrading influ- ences; the brutal bull-baiter and the most profound thinker have alike met ruin in its vortex. Lawrence Oliphant. No passion can lead to such extremities nor in- volve a man in such a complicated train of crimes and vices, and ruin whole families so completely as the baneful rage for gambling ; it produces and nourishes all imaginable disgraceful sensations; it is the most fertile nursery of covetousness, envy, rage, malice, dissimulation, falsehood, and foolish reliance on blind fortune ; it frequently leads to fraud, quarrels, murder, forgery, meanness, and despair; and robs us in the most unpardonable manner of the greatest and most irrecoverable treasure—time. º Baron Knigg. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 315 G-ARDEN. A garden is a gift of nature beautified. J. Phin. A garden rests the soul, and cheers the heart. R. J. Dodge. Nothing can be prettier than a pretty garden. H. W. Sargent. A flower-garden is a great teacher ; it is an em- blem of purity and love. James Ellis. Feed your farm before it is hungry, and weed your garden before it is foul. Aloysius. Gardening or husbandry is a fit and healthy re- creation of study or business. J. Locke. In the quiet retirement of the garden, genius often seeks meditation and repose. Jeremy Taylor. God Almighty first planted a garden ; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. Lord Bacon. The life and felicity of an excellent gardener, are preferable to all other diversions. Evelyn. A garden is a beautiful book, written by the finger of God ; every flower and every leaf is a let- ter. Sir J. Bowring. Money may purchase all the products of a gar- den, except the pleasure experienced in their pro- duction. - E. P. Day. Every resident of village or suburb who owns or occupies a rod Square of mother earth, should have a garden ; it pays largely in health and plea- SliTe. D. D. T. Moore. Our first most endearing, and most sacred asso- ciations are connected with gardens; our most simple and most refined perceptions of beauty are combined with them. Mrs. Hofland. There can be no doubt, that if the arts of culti- vation were abandoned for only a few years, all the annual varieties of plants in our gardens would disappear, and be replaced by a few original wild forms. G. Lindley. The general Superintendence of a garden has been repeatedly found favorable to health, by lead- ing to frequent exercise in the open air, and that communing with nature which is equally refresh- ing to the heart. Mrs. Sigourmey. To the end of the world the word garden shall be sweeter than flower or fruit could make it : for the Son of God, the fairest thing that ever grew, was planted there, and sprang from thence in ce. lestial bloom and glory. H. W. Beecher. To cultivate a garden is to work with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choi- cest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works else- where. Bovee. The gardener gives space and freedom to young plants, that they may grow and spread forth their sweet branches, and so should masters provide in- dulgence for the young, who, by oblation, are planted in the garden of the church, that they in- crease and bear fruit to God. St. Anselm. G-ARDEN. The mind, which can with genuine taste occupy itself in gardening, must have preserved some por- tion of youthful purity ; it must have escaped, dur- ing its passage through the active world, its deep- er contaminations, and no shame nor remorse can have found a seat in it. Cowrtenay. As gardening has been the inclination of kings and the choice of philosophers, so it has been the common favorite of public and private men ; a pleasure of the greatest, and a care of the mean- est; and indeed an employment and a possession, for which no man is too high nor too low. Sir W. Temple. Behold the flower-garden, and reflect on the number of beauties in this little space ; the art and industry of man have made it a charming scene of the finest flowers | But what would it have been without care and culture ? A wild desert, full of thistles and thorns. Such would youth be, if they were neglected to be formed, or properly edu- cated ; but when young people early receive useful instructions, and are under wise direction, they are like lovely blossoms, which delight with their beauty, and will soon produce fruit beneficial to society. Sturm. I hold that any farmer, who is worthy of the name, will prepare a small plot of ground for his wife and daughters, and that he will, out of love to them, make it all they wish or desire. It is these little things that make home pleasant and happy : and it has been the lack of these that has driven many a loving heart out into the world, and away from a sterile, barren home. The family is seldom unhappy whose dwelling is surrounded with shade trees, and whose garden is gay with cultivated plants. Do not, then, I beseech you, forget the lit- tle flower-garden. S. A. Peters. G.A.Y.ETY. When gayety enters, thought departs. J. Ellis. A gay body often accompanies a weeping soul. |W. S. Downey. Gayety is the soul's health ; sadness is its poison. Stanislaws. Gayety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. - E. H. Chapin. Gayety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness. Mme. de Staël. Gayety is not a proof that the heart is at ease, for often in the midst of laughter the heart is sad. Mme. de Genlis. The gayety of the wicked is like the flowery sur- face of Mount AEtna, beneath which materials are gathering for an eruption that will one day reduce all its beauties to ruin and desolation. E. Ouldhall. Gayety is to good humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance; the one over-powers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them ; gayety seldom fails to give some pain ; good hu- mor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending. Dr. Johnson. 316 ZD A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. GENEROSITY. True generosity defers not its gifts. Ar-Rwmi. All are friends to the generous man. Al-Mawsili. A generous heart shows a noble mind. J. Ellis. Almost always the most indigent are the most generous. Stanislaws. Generosity is like the sea ; and yet the sea hath its bounds. Al-Haddad. The whole effect of generosity is in the love of doing good. R. Fleming. A generous man is sad when compelled to refuse relief to a friend. Manstºr. The secret pleasure of a generous act is the great mind's great bribe. Dryden. An act of generosity is a seed, which even drop- ped by chance, springs up a flower. J. D. Forbes. Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth ; pity and gratitude are its attendants. Corneille. The generous and liberal man doth daily seek out occasions to put his virtue in practice. Cicero. Avaricious men are the greatest lovers of gene- rosity—in everybody but themselves. G. D. Premtice. A generous man will not too long hold resent- ment against a man for his former wickedness. Confucius. Generosity, wrong placed, becometh a vice ; a princely mind will impoverish a private family. T. Fuller. - 4, . e How much easier it is to be generous than just 1 Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest. Jurvives. Generosity hath open hands, a zealous heart, a Constant faith in earth, and a place prepared in heaven. Sir T. Chalomer. He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity ; the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice. Henry Taylor. The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, ap- proach the throne of heaven. Lavater. What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks little in- terests in order to gratify great ones. Rochefoucawld. A generous man will, in his treatment of an ene- my, resemble the Sun, which pours light all around it, even upon the clouds that strive to dim its lus- tre. Annie E. Lancaster. Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. H. Manſm. A generous, a brave, a noble deed, performed by an adversary, commands our approbation ; while in its consequences it may be acknowledged preju- dicial to our particular interest. Hwºme. GENEROSITY. A generous nature, when it forgives an abuse of its favors, seeks by increased kindness to prevent a repetition of the ingratitude. Bovee. Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. Pope. All my experience of the world teaches me that, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe side and the just side of a question, is the generous side and the merciful side. Mrs. Jameson. True generosity does not consistin obeying every impulse of humanity, in following blind passion for Our guide, and impairing our circumstances by pre- Sent benefactions, so as to render us incapable of future ones. Goldsmith. The generous man in the Ordinary acceptation, will soon find that he has sacrificed to fools, knaves, flatterers, or the deservedly unhappy, all the op- portunities of affording any future assistance where it ought to be. Steele. It is very easy, oftentimes, to do a generous act impulsively, and on the spur of an occasion ; and as so done—it may be both useful and gratifying to the recipient—may confer a real favor, and merit thanks and the feeling of gratitude. G. A. Sala. The hand of the generous man is like the clouds of heaven, which drop upon the earth fruits, her- bage, and flowers ; but the heart of the ungrateful is like a desert of sand, which swalloweth the showers that fall, burieth them in its bosom, and produceth nothing. J. Moir. One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is their finding so little there. Generosity is catching ; and if so many escape it, it is in a small degree for the same reason that countrymen escape the small-pox—because they meet with no one to give it to them. Lord Greville. A single act of generosity has a stronger and more lasting effect than a thousand misfortunes. It is better to trust the redeeming power of charity than to the energies of wrath. One tender look, one generous expression, may create a feeling of cordiality, a tide of happiness, that will circulate instantaneously throughout the greatest multitude. Magoon. In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of generosity and opportunities of doing good, that affection is won and preserved. He who neglects these trifles, yet boasts that, whenever a great sa- crifice is called for, he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. The likelihood is, he will not make it ; and if he does, it will be much rather for his own sake, than for his neighbor's. P. Frowde. The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap ; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all; a man, for instance, who should give a servant four shil- lings would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown would be reckoned generous ; so that ...the difference of those two opposite characters turns upon one shilling. Chesterfield. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 317 GENIUS. Genius is brilliant. Genius is the gift of heaven. Pliny the Younger. Genius when young is divine. I. Disraeli. Genius is the faculty of growth. S. T. Coleridge. Genius is independent of situation. C. Churchill. Genius is only protracted patience. Buffon. Genius is strengthened by difficulties. Henrietta Dwmont. Genius is an intuitive talent for labor. Jam, Waloews. Genius is a capacity for taking trouble. Leslie Stephens. One genius has made many clever artists. Martial. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. R. B. Lytton. Genius like fire is a good servant, but a terrible master. Mrs. Sigourmey. Genius is nothing but a continued study and at- tention. - Helvetius. There is an intimate alliance between genius and insanity. Mme. Roland. How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity. Plautus. There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness. - Seneca. A genius is never to be acquired by art, but is the gift of nature. J. Gay. There are two kinds of geniuses—the clever and the too clever. G. Brimley. Genius, after all, is nothing more than elegant COIſlD1OIl SellS6. H. W. Shaw. Genius and abilities are given as lamps to the world, not to self. Sir Egerton Brydges. The first and last thing which is required of gen- ius is the love of truth. Goethe. enius is noth- W. Hogarth. I know no such thing as genius ; ing but labor and diligence. Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. PH. W. Beecher. Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out. Lady Blessington. It seldom happens that a premature shoot of ge- mius ever arrives at maturity. Qwintilian. One of the strongest characteristics of genius is, the power of lighting its own fire. J. Foster. Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths in a riddle to the dull. Bulwer, Genius may, at times, want the spur, but it stands as often in need of the curb. Longinus. Genius, like the sun upon the dial, gives to the human heart both its shadow and its light. Field. .* John Hall. G-ENIUS. Genius is subject to the same laws as those which regulate the production of cotton and molasses. T. B. Macawlay. Genius ever stands with nature in solemn union, and what the one foretells, the other shall fulfill. Schiller. Genius is but a mind of large general powers accidentally determined in a particular direction. Dr. Johnson. It is characteristic of true genins, that in the meagre, absurd, and foolish, it appears foolish too. J. Byrom. This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd, by those rays of the heat they complain Of. Margaret Fuller. Every man should examine his own genius, and advise with himself what is proper to apply him- self to. Epicurus. Genius is only entitled to respect when it pro- motes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind. Earl of Essex. Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth is only a stone. Longfellow. Genius in olden times was more precious than gold, but the barbarism of the present day puts no account on it. Ovid. The power of applying an attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of a Superior genius. Chesterfield. In the exact science at least, it is the patience of a sound intellect, when invincible, which truly constitutes genius. L. G. Cuvier. A man of genius may sometimes suffer a miser- able sterility; but at other times he will feel himself the magician of thought. J. Foster. The merit of great men is not understood, but by those who are formed to be such themselves ; gen- ius speaks only to genius. Stanislaws. The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it. E. H. Chapin. Genius is a fragile and delicate plant, and is easily beaten to the ground by the winds and rains of harsh and ungenerous criticism. G. P. Morris. There never appears more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them. • Swift. Genius can, it is true, of itself attract attention ; but it cannot win continued and universal admir- ation, except in alliance with virtue. Bancroft. Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave, and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life 2 R. W. Emerson. The characteristic of genius is originality ; the inventive or creative faculty is the sure exhibition of genius; talent simply strives to imitate. Ernest Harvier. 3.18 JD A Y',S CO / / A C O AW. GENIUS. Genius without money is, in the estimation of the world, like a piece of rich soil, without culti- vation—very little advantage to the possessor. - J. Bartlett. Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones ; it sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light. 4. Schopenhaufer. Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Tts carriage is free : its manner has a touch of inspiration ; we see it come, but we never see it walk. Cowmt de Maistºre. A genius and great abilities are often wanting sometimes only opportunities ; some deserve praise for what they have done, and others for what they would have done. Bruyère. The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of matural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary. W. B. Clallow, Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace ; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the in- habitant sits in darkness. Hannah More. The effusions of genius, or rather the manifesta- tions of what is called talent, are often the effects of distempered nerves and complexional spleen, as pearls are morbid secretions. R. Walsh. The drafts which true genius draws upon pos- terity, although they may not always be honored as soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. Colton. Ill-directed genius torments and harasses a com- munity ; it again and again perils the position of the possessor ; it is well if it do not eventually wreck his fortunes and blast his name. Sir W. W. Follett. Was genius ever ungrateful ? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered, and swept away ; but genius lies on the bosom of memory, and gratitude at her feet. W. S. Landor. Whilst we believe that education is the greatest gift that can be conferred on a human creature, we are not sanguine enough to expect that its more general diffusion will increase the number of men of genius. P. J. B. Buchez. The three indispensables of genius are, under- standing, feeling, and perseverance ; the three things that enrich genius are, contentment of mind, the chérishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory. Sowthey. The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences are 'infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing. Addison. Genius can be the lot of only a few ; good for- tune may come to any, but it would be the part of a fool to wait for it ; whereas all may work with heartiness and might in the work to which they have given themselves. Dr. J. Tulloch. GENIUS. Who knows how many have shrunk, with all the exquisite sensibility of genins, from the rude and riotous discord of the world, into the peaceful slum- bers of death. H. K. White. Humger has a most amazing faculty of sharpening the genius; and he who with a full belly can think like a hero, after a course of fasting shall rise to the sublimity of a demi-god. Goldsmith. Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are out of the reach of the rules of art ; a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire. Sir J. Reynolds. Genius grafted on womanhood is like to over- grow it and break its stem, as you may see a grafted fruit-tree spreading over the stock which Cannot keep pace with its evolutions. O. W. Holmes. There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius ; it is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Hazlitt. The proportion of genius to the Vulgar is like one to a million ; but genius without tyranny, without pretension, that judges the weak with equity, the superior with humanity, and equals with justice, is like one to ten millions. Lavater. The richest genius like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces to its slothful owner the most abundant crop of poisons. PHume, Genius has one trial which finds no sympathy ; it is the trial of being measured as coarse things are ; of seeing its jewels accounted of no value, its inspirations lost for want of interpreters, or used up as fit mixtures with common things. H. Hooker. Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers; it reasons, but it is not reasoning ; it judges, but it is not judgment ; it imagines, but it is not imagination ; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion ; it is neither, because it is all. E. P. Whipple. The cause of the differences in men is only known to that mystic genius who presides at our birth, who directs our horoscope, the god of nature, liv- ing and dying with each, changeable like each, propitious or malign according as we obey his be- hests. Horace. What we call genius may perhaps with more strict propriety be described as the spirit of dis- covery. Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought ; it is always in advance of its time ; it is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. W. G. Simºns. Genius is that power of man which by deeds and actions gives laws and rules. When any one rushed into the world on foot without knowing precisely why or whither, it was called a journey of a genius; and when any one undertook some absurd- ity without aim or advantage, it was a stroke of genius. Goethe. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 3.19 GENIUS. GENTILITY, Every man should examine his own genius, and Gentility buys no corn in market. Strickland. advise with himself what is proper to apply him- - - - - - — - self to ; for nothing can be more distant from tran- Gentility is nothing but ancient riches. Bacon. quility and happiness, than to be engaged in a course of life for which nature has rendered thee unfit. Epicurus. The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is, that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequent- ly employs the advantages that chance presents to him ; it is the lapidary who gives value to the dia- mond, which the peasant has dug up without know- ing its value. Abbé Raymal. What is commonly called genius for any parti- cular pursuit, is often nothing more than a dispo- sition toward it, generally given by accidental causes ; and the superiority attainable in it, does not always depend on any innate propensity of the mind, but on the general strength of the intellect, and on the intense and constant application of that strength to a specific purpose. Clara M. Mundt. If a man shows invention, no intellectual defects which his performance may betray, can forfeit his claim to genius ; his invention may be irregu- lar, wild, undisciplined, but still it is regarded as an infallible mark of real natural genius ; and the degree of this faculty that we ascribe to him, is al- ways in proportion to our estimate of the novelty, or the difficulty, of his invention. G. Gerard. The highest occupation of genius is to diffuse use- ful information, to farther intellectual refinement, a sure forerunner of moral improvement to hasten the coming of that bright day, when the dawn of general knowledge shall chase away the lazy, lin- gering mists, even from the base of the great Social pyramid; this indeed is a high calling, in which the most splendid talents and consummate virtues may well press onward to bear a part. Browgham. GENTILE. Christ favored the Gentiles. Ferronnays. Bear the name of God unto the Gentiles. W. Crashawe. The Gentile is an unsavory odor to the Jew. Sir T. Browne, It was the Gentiles who honored Christ at his birth. Butomarotti. Revelation alone taught the Gentiles to receive Christ. Rev. A. Gomthier. Christ drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. Isidorws Pelusiota. The first acknowledgment of the righteousness of Christ was made by a Gentile. Rev. H. Allon. In Christ's command to preach the gospel to all the world, the election of the Gentiles is mani- festly set forth. Brºwno of Aste. The preaching of Stephen was probably the first bold declaration of the equality of the Gentile with the Jew, and the vision which is vouchsafed to Peter recognizes distinctly the claim of the Gen- tiles to the benefits of the Gospel. Rev. C. Merivale. How weak a thing is gentility, if it wants vir- tue. T. Fuller. Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary. A mon. Gentility is a quality which is unknown to its possessor. Mrs. R. A. Parker. There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be al- ways talking and thinking of being genteel. Hazlitt. I would have you not stand so much on your gentility, which is an airy and mere borrowed thing from dead men's dust and bones, and none of yours, except you make and hold it. Ben Jonson. Gentility does not consist in fine clothes, or a bold, commanding mien, or in the possession of worldly goods; but in an easy, graceful behavior, and a politeness of manner, which is the indelible stamp of a refined education. James Ellis. Gentility is neither in birth, wealth, manner, nor fashion, but in the mind ; a high sense of honor, a determination never to take a mean advantage of another ; an adherence to truth, delicacy, and po- liteness toward those with whom we have deal- ings, are its essential characteristics. J. F. Smith. GENTLEMAN. It is not the gay coat that makes the gentleman. Vawven argues. He is the best gentleman who is the son of his own deserts. Victor Hugo. A gentleman is one who does all he can to help others, and make them happy. Roswell Smith. The gentleman is always the gentleman, and in- variably proves himself such in need and in dan- ger. Napoleon I. We sometimes meet an Original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. R. W. Emerson. Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station. Talfowrd. The taste of beauty and the relish of what is de- cent, just, and amiable, perfects the character of the gentleman and the philosopher. Shaftesbwry. The real gentleman should be gentle in every- thing, at least in everything that depends on him- self—in carriage, temper, and constructions, aims, desires. J. C. Hare. That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen ; to be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective. Bulwer. Custom is not at once overthrown; and he is even now deemed a gentleman who has arms recorded in the Herald's office, and at the same time follows none except a liberal employment. Shenstone. 320 AD A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. GENTILEMAIN. He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them with familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature, as his companions are by rank. Colton. Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and with civlliza- tion, in this world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles—the spirit of a gentleman and the spirit of religion. Burke. Whoever is open, loyal, and true, of humane and affable demeanor, is honorable in himself, and in his judgment of others, and requires no law but his word to make him fulfill an engagement ; such a man is a gentleman. H. Smith. You may depend upon it, religion is, in its es- sence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world : it will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant, and I know nothing else that will, alone ; certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand em- bellisher of manners. S. T. Coleridge. Riches and rank have no necessary connection with genuine gentlemanly qualities. The poor man may be a true gentleman—in spirit and in daily life ; he may be honest, truthful, upright, polite, temperate, courageous, self-respecting, and self- helping—that is, be a true gentleman. S. Smiles. The true gentleman is extracted from an ancient and worshipful parentage. When a pippin is plan- ted on a pippin-stock, the fruit growing thence is called a renate, a most delicious apple, as both by sire and dame well descendéd. Thus his blood must needs be well purified who is genteelly born on both sides. T. Fulle'?”. The character of a gentleman is a relative term, which cam hardly subsist where there is no marked distinction of persons ; the diffusion of knowledge, of artificial and intellectual equality, tends to level this distinction, and to confound that nice percep- tion and high sense of honor which arises from con- spicuousness of situation, and the claims of per- sonal respect. Hazlitt, A gentleman is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle—men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated ; who can look the world honestly in the face, with equal manly sym- pathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well-made, and a score who have excellent manners ; but of gentlemen how many ? Let us take a little scrap of paper and each make out his list. W. M. Thackeray. When you have found a man, you have not far to go to find a gentleman, for you cannot make a gentleman till you have first a man. To be a gen- tleman, does not depend upon the tailor, or the toilet ; good clothes are not good habits ; a gentle- man is gentle, is modest, is courteous, is generous; is slow to take offense, as being one that never gives it ;, is slow to surmise evil, as being one that never thinks it ; goes armed only in consciousness of right : he subjects his appetites, refines his taste, subdues his feelings, and deems every other better than himself. G. W. Doone. G-ENTLENESS. Gentleness or lenity is a virtue. Arminius. Gentleness succeeds better than violence. La Fontaine. Gentleness of heart and mind is the glory of all years. N. Lynge. The power of gentleness and kindness are always irresistible. H. Martyn. Better make penitents by gentleness than hypo- crites by severity. F. de Sales. Gentleness and a kind heart are often found be- neath the humblest garb. Susan Warner. Gentle means will often accomplish what force and fury can never effect. W. O. Bourne. I never knew a young man remarkable for he- roic bravery, whose very aspect was not lightened up by gentleness. Lord Erskine. Always encounterpetulance with gentleness, and perverseness with kindness ; a gentle hand will lead the elephant itself by a hair. Saadi. Gentleness stands opposed, not in the most de- termind regard to virtue and truth, but to harsh- ness and severity, to pride and arrogance. J. Galt. Gentle feelings produce beneficial effects upon stern natures ; it is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven. Fredriko, Bremmer. Have always, as much as you can, that gentle- ness of manners which never fails to make favora- ble impressions, provided it be equally free from an insipid smile or a pert Smirk. Chesterfield. Gentle words do more than hard speeches; as the sunbeams without any moise will make the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him. R. Leighton. Gentleness in society is like the silent influence of light, which gives color to all nature ; it is far more powerful than loudness or force, and far more fruitful ; it pushes its way quietly and persistently, like the tiniest daffodil in spring, which raises the clod and thrusts it aside by the simple persistency of growing. S. Smiles. Gentleness is love in society ; it is love holding intercourse with those around it : it is that cor- diality of aspect and that soul of speech which assures us that kind and earnest hearts may still be met with here below ; it is that quiet influence which, like the scented flame of an alabaster lamp, fills many a home with light and warmth and fra- grance altogether. Rev. J. Hamilton. Be very gentle with the children God has given you ; watch over them constantly ; reprove them earnestly ; adversity may wither them, sickness may fade, a cold world may frown on them, but amidst all let memory carry them back to a home, where the law of kindness reigned, where the mother's reproving eye was moistened with a tear, and the father frowned “more in sorrow than in anger.” Elihu, Bºwrritt. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 321 GEOGRAPHY. Geography is a handmaid to history. W. Pittz. Geography is a science of practical wisdom. V. Coromelli. A knowledge of ancient geography is a help to history. C. Cellarius. The design of geography is to give us a know- ledge of the earth. Prof. Barnwm, Field. Geography will be studied as long as there are products to be sent to market. G. W. Greene. Geographical inquiry tends to the persuasion that man's goodly freehold has never yet been fully surveyed. William M. Leake. It is a very interesting inquiry to trace the dif- ferent notions of the ancients about the form of the earth, and examine their geographical know- ledge at different periods. B. G. Niebuh?". The time when attention was first paid to the pleasing and useful study of geography is unknown; it was very imperfect in its beginning, and has ad- vanced slowly toward its present state of perfec- tion. Sidney E. Morse. Geography has to do with all that promotes hu- man agencies, the capacity of passing from place to place, and the compelling of all the elements to be the servants of man in his work of taking pos- Session of the globe. C. Ritter. GEOLOGY. Geology is Nature's Bible. Mrs. Mary J. Holmes. Geology is the silent historian of time. Boynton. Geology, even when the pyramids were being built, had a very ancient history. E. Loomis. I consider a detailed study of the geology of the planet in which we live, to be the most interesting and extensive of all sciences. A. T. Werner. Geology is, and is not geography; geology is, and is not history ; geology is, and is not theology ; it is less than each of these, it is more than all of them combined. Warren Day. Geological researches have shown us the exist- ence of races of animals, that lived, died, and suc- ceeded each other in countless myriads, through long and indefinite periods of time. J. P. Norton. GEOMETRY. Geometry is the science of space. Bielski. Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy. Aenocrates. In geometry we are presented with a series of proportions connected together in regular order. Sidney E. Morse. Although there be a certain truth, geometricians would not receive satisfaction without demonstra- tion thereof. Sir T. Browne. Geometry is usually divided into speculative and practical ; the former of which contemplates and treats of the properties of continued quantity abstractedly ; and the latter applies these specula- tions and theorems to use and practice. J. Harris. GESTURE. Gesture should be natural. G. Colman. Gestures may express as much as words. Roscius. I warn you against the wickedness of taking any studied gestures into the pulpit. Dr. Parker. The chief attraction of a reader is to have a ready command of tone and gesture. W. Enfield. A gesture ought to carry that kind of expression which nature has dictated, and unless this be the case it appears stiff and forced. H. Blair, Gesture is the language of the body, and, though less comprehensive than artificial oral language, it is more expeditious and convincing. Cicero. An attention to gesture may appear to be below the dignity of the pulpit ; but it is only necessary to witness the awkwardness of many preachers, by no means deficient either in talent or learning, to be convinced of its importance. Dr. Sturtevant, GHOSTS. Our ghost is our conscience. Mrs. M. C. Harris. Nobody makes war upon ghosts. Accra. What makes a ghost so respectable a character is, that nobody ever saw one. H. W. Shaw. I do not believe in ghosts; in fact, I have seen too many of them to believe in them. Coleridge. Ghosts like to linger around places where their happiest and saddest hours have been spent. E. M. Archer There is a skeleton in every house, and every family of respectability has its family ghost. Montaigne. There are people who are always imagining there are ghosts, when there are none, and thus get frightened at a shadow. Alice Cary. The appearance of a ghost is the result of a dis- ordered nervous system, or a vived imagination, assisted by a little credulity, and judiciously mixed with a moderate dose of mental anxiety. H. Smith. G.I.A.N.T. The giants of old were stupid animals. Bigelow. There are more giants in evil than size. Lister. It is excellent to have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. Shakspeare. Giants may have a great deal of muscle, but often lack a due proportion in brain. M. Camo. Whoever slays giants, whether of vice or sloth, is worthy of the good-will of all men. Mitchell. We have no room for the giant man, but we have plenty of room for the man with a giant mind. Margaret Gatty. The giants of old that we read of in story-books, displayed great powers of strength ; but our mo- dern giants possess not the strength of muscle, but the strength of will. Mrs. C. A. Warfield. 21 322 A) A Y’.S. C. O /, / A C O AV. GIFTS. GIFTS. Gifts are often losses. L. Molina. We ought not, indiscriminately, to accept gifts - - tº from all ; for virtue ought not to be maintained Gifts make beggars bold. T. M. Eberwein. by vice. - Crates. It is not good to refuse a gift. Homer. Gifts make friendship lasting. P. Charrom. A gift with reproach is disagreeable. Makki. Pay thy debts before thou makest gifts. Jehuda. A gift long waited for is sold, not given. Gatty. The will and not the gift makes the giver. Lessing. Who can know heaven except by its gifts 2 Marviliws. Give quickly, lest thy delay be construed into de- nial. Themistocles. A gift with a kind countenance is a double pre- Sent. Gwicciardini. He giveth too late who waits till he is asked to give. Plawtws, The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver. Ovid. Gifts come from on high in their own peculiar forms. Goethe. The gifts of enemies are no gifts, and are fraught with mischief. Sophocles. The value of a gift is often heightened by being given opportunely. G. Crobb. Gifts, and gifts alone, are often but a poor relief to the unfortunate. Mrs. C. M. Kirkland. Fewer persons know how to give than to receive a benefit graciously. R. Holmes. Good gifts come from God ; He employs good men to bestow them. Al-Misri. God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers. F. Quarles. That gift which is accompanied by a willing heart, is doubly acceptable. Egww.lf. Great gifts make beggars bold; therefore give little and often, but with discretion. Hawghton. Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple ; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold. W. Burkitt. He that can give and will not, to relieve one's necessities, is not a friend, but an enemy. Awrelius. The most disinterested of all gifts, are those which kings bestow on undeserving favorites. Coltom. He that bestows a gift should forget it ; he that receives one, should ever hold it in remembrance. Solom. Give freely to him that deserveth well and ask- eth nothing ; and that is a way of giving to thy- self. T. Fuller. Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it be given with affec- tion. Pindarws. Gifts always weigh like mountains on a sensitive heart : to some they are oftener punishments than pleasures. Mme. Fee. Gifts are like fish-hooks ; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows 2 Martial. In making gifts to relatives, we follow the dic- tates of nature ; in giving to enemies, we follow the dictates of virtue. Averroës. If I cannot give bountifully, yet I will give free- ly ; and what I want in my hand, supply by my heart ; he gives well that gives willingly. A. Warwick. Gifts are the greatest usury, because a two-fold retribution is an urged effect that a noble mind prompts us to ; and it is said we pay the most for what is given us. J. Beaumont. A gift—its kind, value, and appearance ; the silence or the pomp that attends it : the style in which it reaches you—may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver. Lavater. Gifts that are bestowed with good will, are not only given with greater pleasure by those who grant them than such as are extorted, but are also more lasting to those who receive them. Dionysius. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious ; as among ourselves we say even of a trifling gift, “It comes from a hand we love,” and look not so much at the gift, as at the heart. M. Lºwther. It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give, and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it ; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how. Seneca. The secret of giving affectionately is great and rare; it requires address to do it well; otherwise we lose instead of deriving benefits from it ; this man gives lavishly in a way that obliges no one ; the manner of giving is worth more than the gift. Another loses intentionally at a game, thus dis- guising his present; another forgets a jewel, which would have been refused as a gift. A generous booby seems to be giving alms to his mistress when he is making a present. Corneille. Some men give so that you are angry every time you ask them to contribute ; they give so that their gold and silver shoot you like a bullet. Other persons give with such beauty that you may remember it as long as you live ; and you say, “It is a pleasure to go to such men.” There are some men that give as springs do; whether you go to them or not, they are always full ; and your part is merely to put your dish under the ever-flowing stream. Others give just as a pump does when the well is dry, and the pump leaks. H. W. Beecher. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" I O M S. 323 GIRL. Find profitable work for girls. Mrs. A. H. Price. A tender girl is a sweet flower. Catwillws. A lazy girl makes a brisk mother. Meilyr. Little girls must not hear everything. To. Agnew. Girls were created to love and be loved. S. Ceri. All girls are good; whence come ill wives. Minot. A girl unemplºyed is thinking of mºnier Labé. A youth will run all hazards to win the girl of his love. Bargagli. Rºleºn. in distress, lest they be tempted to commit sin. St. John of God. A man cannot understand a girl's feelings in many matters. E. P. Roe. Girls we love for what they are : young men for what they promise to be. Goethe. Give girls, as well as boys, an occupation by which they can take care of themselves. Clarke. The heart of a young girl in love is a golden sanctuary which often enshrines an idol of clay. Pawline Limayrac, Mothers should bring up their girls in all the virtues which should be inseparable from their SOX. Mme. Campam. Many girls draw nothing but sheer blanks in the great lottery of life, simply because they are neither useful nor wise—companionless compan- ions. J. Hook. A girl is often loved for the fascination of her charms; but if these are not supported by the strength, uniformity, and consistency of her vir- tues, they are as nothing—with these, her power is irresistible. Heydenreich. We love a girl for very different things than un- derstanding ; we love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices ; but we do not love her understanding. S. C. Hall. Supplying our girls with occupation and objects of interest, would not only save them from lives of frivolity and emptiness, but open the way to use- ful and lucrative pursuits, and so raise them above that degrading dependence, which is so fruitful a source of female misery. Harriot K. Hunt. Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modelled like a piece of clay after some artificial specimen of humanity ; like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or profession. E. Cady Stanton. The girl of the period seems sorrowfully ignorant or ashamed of the good old fashions which make woman truly beautiful and honored, and through her, render home what it should be — a happy place, where parents and children, brothers and sisters, learn to love, know, and help one another. Lowisa M. Alcott. GLADINESS. Gladness is ever on the wing. Martial. Gladness consorts with prosperity. Eliwlod, Gladness is ever mixed with grief. Plato. Gladness is a weakness when it comes as a result of one's own vanity. Catwllws. Gladness and sorrow intermingle with each other during our whole life. Phoedrºws. It is better to enter the house of mourning than the habitation of gladness. Origen. The gladness of our heart adds length to our life ; but sorrow of life hastens death. |W. Gilbert. All worldly gladness rideth upon the wing of time ; in heaven only is perfect gladness found. Ranulph Higden. The benevolent only know how much gladness may be purchased with a few pence and a kind word. M. Wilks. From the crushed flowers of gladness on the road of life, a sweet perfume is wafted over to the pre- sent hour, as marching armies often send out from heaths the fragrance of trampled plants. Richter. Gladness or pleasure is properly called that de- light which moves and tickles our senses; which quickly flies and slips away, and for the most part leaveth behind it occasion rather of repentance than of calling it again to remembrance. George Gascoigne. GT, OOM. Let gloom be dispelled by energy. Mrs. H. Armett. Gloom is turned to joy through patience. St. Zeno. The gloomy man distresses himself most. Bion. The gloomy mind sees in the world its own sha- dow. H. Bimney. A man of gloomy disposition is an involuntary agent of ill. G. Ysendoorm. He who is only just is stern ; he who is only wise lives in gloom. Voltaire. As the pearl is dissolved by acid, so is happiness destroyed in man by gloom. St. Yves. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists which por- tend a storm. Mrs. Sigowrmey. With a gloom which bespeaks the presence of a public calamity, the prejudices of party are ab- sorbed in the tide of national grief. H. Gray Otis. Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the ori- gen of hysterics ; this disease is in the imagina- tion ; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear which supports it. Rousseaw. There are some persons who spend their lives in this world, as they would spend their lives if shut up in a dungeon ; everything is made gloomy and forbidding ; they go mourning and complaining from day to day that they have so little, and are constantly anxious lest what they have should es- cape out of their hands. Grace Kennedy. 324 A) A Y’,S CO Z Z A C O AV. GLORY. Follow after glory. No flowery road leads to glory. Thales. La Fontaine. Glory is never where virtue is not. Le Franc. True glory is a flame lighted at the skies. H. Mamm. Though glory deserves respect it is unstable. Dionysius. Glory is a poison, good to be taken only in small doses. - Balzac. Glory comes too late when it is paid only to our ashes. Martial. The way to prove superior to death is to die with glory. Al-Mughallis. To be used as an instrument of God's glory should be our highest joy. Oliver Cromwell. Alas! how difficult it is to maintain the glory we have inherited. Publius Synºws. Glory can be safely despised by those only who have fairly won it. W. S. Landor. Obloquy is a necessary ingredient in the compo- sition of all true glory. Burke. Prefer glory that will last for ever, rather than that which lasts but a day. Pompey. When a man measures out glory for himself he always heaps the half bushel. BI. W. Show. Glory is the casual gift of thoughtless crowds; it is the bribe of avaricious virtue. Dr. Johnson. Glory leads all men, ignoble and noble, captive at the wheels of her glittering car. Horace. The love of glory can only create a great hero ; contempt of it creates a great man. Talleyrand. The delights of glory are so great, that to what- ever it is attached, even to death, we love it. Pascal. Glory is a torch to kindle the noble mind, and confidence in the uncertain results of Mars is fool- ish. Siliws Italicus. Men are guided less by conscience than by glory : and yet the shortest way to glory, is to be guided by conscience. Kames. Glory fills the world with virtue, and like a be- neficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits. Vawvenargues. As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the di- vine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man. Addison. Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror is nothing but the first slave. J. Thomson. Let us not disdain glory too much ; nothing is finer, except virtue ; the height of happiness would be to unite both in this life. Chateawbriand. True glory takes root, and even spreads ; all false pretenses, like flowers, fall to the ground ; nor can any counterfeit last long. Cicero. GLORY. There is but one thing necessary to keep the possession of true glory, which is to preserve the virtue by which it was acquired. Steele. Glory is safe when it is deserved ; it is not so with popularity ; One lasts like a mosaic, the other is effaced like the crayon drawing. Boufflers. Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind ; censure stimulates and contracts, both to an ex- treme ; simple fame is, perhaps, the proper me- dium. Shemstone. The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden ; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them. Colton. Glory attends on the just and nobie ; it increases after death ; for envy does not long survive them, and sometimes it has disappeared before their death. Plutarch. True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and bet- ter for our living in it. Pliny. Glory, or internal gloriation or triumph of the mind, is the passion which proceedeth from the imagination or conception of our own power above the power of him that contendeth with us. T. Hobbes. Military glory is sharing with plague, pestilence, and famine, the honor of destroying your species: and participating with Alexander's horse the dis- tinction of transmitting your name to posterity. Chatfield. He that first likened glory to a shadow did bet- ter than he was aware of ; they are both of them things exceedingly vain. Glory also, like a sha- dow, goes sometimes before the body, and some- times in length infinitely exceeds it. Montaigme. Glory, O glory ! thou hast uplifted high in life countless mortals who were nought ; those I deem to be happy who have acquired glory truthfully ; but those who have it falsely I consider to have it not ; it is the mere wantonness of fortune that has given it to them. Euripides. Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kin- dling fires the greatest smoke ; envy is the reverse of charity ; and as that is the Supreme source of pleasure, so this is of pain. Envy has under its banner, hatred, calumny, treachery, with the mea- gerness of famine, the venom of pestilence, and the rage of war. E. Spenser. One of the strongest incitements to excel in such arts and accomplishments as are in the highest es- teem among men, is the natural passion which the mind of man has for glory ; which though it may be faulty in the excess of it, ought by no means to be discouraged. Some moralists are too severe in beating down this principle, which seem to be a spring implanted by nature to give motion to all the latent powers of the soul, and is always ob- served to exert itself with the greatest force in the most generous dispositions. J. Hughes. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 325 GLUTTONY. GOD. Gluttony kills more than the sword. S. Butler. God is but One. Josephus. A glutton quickly outsets his pleasure. R. Sowth. There is no God but God. Mahomet. A glutton lives like a beast, and digs his grave In God we place our trust. FChallikan. with his teeth. Cervantes. Gluttony causeth innumerable maladies, and shortens man's life. Horace. Gluttony is a vice in a great fortune, but it is a curse in a small One. B. Holyday. A drunkard may be generous ; but selfishness rules the appetite of the glutton. Goldoni. Through drunkenness and gluttony wisdom is hindered, and the understanding darkened. Alphonse. Gluttony fatteth the body, maketh the mind dull and unapt ; nay, which is worse, undermineth Tea,SOn. W. Kennedy. Gluttony stirreth up lust, anger, and love in extremity, lessening understanding, Opinion, and memory. Plotimus. Gluttony and luxurious living are followed with shame, but temperance and frugality with com- mendation. Plato. Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils atten- dant on them ; they make the carcass Smart, as well as the pocket. Awreliws. Gluttony is a vice, and scandal lies hidden there- in ; miserable is he who is servant to his belly, who eats till his girdle bursts. Radjumna. The belly of a glutton is an unthankful beast, never requiting the pleasure dome, but craving continually more than it needeth. Crates. Gluttony is irrational, indecent, dangerous, and sinful ; professed habitual gluttons may be reck- oned as among the monsters of nature. C. Buck. Some men, find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness; but no delicate Viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to im- part its glow to their shrivelled hearts. Whipple. Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by the superabundance of oil, a fire extin- guished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. R. Burton. If a glutton were to say in excuse of his gluttony, that he only eats such things as it is lawful to eat, he would make as good an excuse for himself as the greedy, covetous, and ambitious tradesman, that should say he only deals in lawful business. |W. Law. It is no slight argument of the dishonor we incur by gluttony, that nothing is more carefully avoided in a well-bred company, nothing thought by such more brutal and rude, than the discovery of any marks of our having eaten intemperately, or ex- ceeded that proportion of food which is proper for Our nourishment. Dean Bolton. The works of God reveal God. C. Hammond. God is the source of life and light. J. Neander. There is a God to direct all things. Stoboews. I believe in one God, and no more. T. Paime. No mortal sees God, but He sees all. A. Kippis. God is revealed through His goodness. A. Fuller. God extends from etermity to eternity. Aristotle. Nature reveals God, but nature is not God. Cecil. The Christian's God is the one only true God. Kawmwali. God wills, and all things must be as He wills. Rudolph II. The essence of God is that by which God exists. e Arminius. God comes at last when we think He is farthest Off. T. Bugge. God is our King, who rules in the armies of heaven. Alfred the Great. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to in- vent One. Robespierre. There is indeed a God, who hears and sees what- ever we do. Plautus. God is a unity ; we should be filled with venera- tion for Him. As-Suhrawardi. The gods of the people are many, but the God of nature is One. Antisthenes. God is where the sun glows, God is where the violet blooms. Dinter. There is a just God who presides over the desti- nies of nations. Patrick Henry. How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies 2 S. T. Coleridge. Our God is the Great Spirit, who is angry with those that do evil. Tecwmseh. The doctrine of a God is superior to reason, but it is not contrary to it. T. Raffles. The Great Spirit is the God of the red man, as well as of the pale face. Black Hawk. We must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is. E. H. Chapin. There is one God, who is omniscient, all-power- ful, and everywhere present. Namek. The red man knows the Great Spirit is God, yet he had no Bible to tell him SO. Red Jacket. God is a light that is never darkened; an un- wearied life that can never die. F. Quarles. Who can find out God, unless the man who is himself an emanation from God? Manilius. 326 A) A Y’.S CO / / A C O AV. G.O.D. God is incapable of doing anything which is un- worthy of a pure and happy nature. Dionysius. As a state ought to acknowledge God in its public capacity, so ought each individual family. Varro. There is one God, and but One ; and all agency in this world proceeds from that one God. Dr. S. T. Spear. There is one God; Him the Christians, Him the Jews, Him all the Gentile people worship. Emperor Adrian. There is no truth which a man may more evi- dently make out to himself, than the existence of a God. J. Locke. God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous IſleIl. * Lavater. I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being. St. Bernard. God has revealed Himself to us as a Being en- dowed with every attribute of natural and moral excellence. F. Wayland. If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men. Tillotson. A God resides in us, and we have intercourse with heaven ; this spirit within us comes from the eternal abodes. Ovid. “I have set God always before me ; ” this should be our principle, and it will grow to be our exceed- ing great delight. A. W. Hare. The Supreme God who fills the wide circle of heaven, is the object to whom prayers and hymns should be addressed. Herodotus. If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections. F. Atterbury. All things proceed from God. His power is un- bounded, His wisdom is from eternity, and His goodness endureth forever. R. Dodsley. The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me His exist- ence. I feel there is a God. Bruyère. Nothing is hidden from God: He is present in our minds and comes into the midst of our thoughts. Comes, do I say ?—as if He were ever absent Seneca. God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affec- tions, and the governing power of our whole soul. Massillon. When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise ; all this is evil, yet it is in- nate. Pascal. Amid so much war, contest, and variety of opin- ion, you will find one consenting conviction in every land, that there is one God, the King and Father Of all. Maacimus Tyriws. GOD. God is the Creator of the universe, and also the Father of all things, in common with all, and a part of Him penetrating all things. Diogenes. Nothing is more ancient than God, for He was never Created ; nothing more beautiful than the world, it is the work of that same God. Thales. They that deny God destroy man's nobility ; for certainly man is like the beasts in his body : and if he is not like God in His spirit, he is an ignoble Creature. - - Lord Bacon. If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love. Mime. Swetchine. God is the sun himself incarnate ; He is from the beginning ; a mother hath not borne Him, nor a father begotten Him ; He is God and Goddess, for He created Himself. Egyptian. Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of a God ; for what nation or race of men is there that has not, even without being taught, some idea of a God 3 Cicero. What land or what sea will man find without God? Into what part of the earth wilt thou des- cend and hide thyself, O unhappy wretch where thou canst escape from God? Plutarch. The evidences of the existence of God are every- where present, above us, around us, and within us; they are addressed to the moral constitution, as well as to the speculative understanding. C. Hodge. Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart | A God whispers quite softly in our breast, softly, yet au- dibly; tells us what we ought to seek and what to shun. Goethe. The Supreme Being whom we call God, is neces- sary, self-existent, eternal, immense, omnipotent, omniscient, and best Being ; and therefore also a Being who is and ought to be esteemed most sacred or holy. N. Grew. God maintains an existence distinct from nature, though in nature, as its Conserver ; and were all material things annihilated, He would still have a being, as a man may, though all his works may be utterly destroyed. John Bate. If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object around ; Search in your breast, and you will find Him there ; and if you do not yet per- ceive where He dwells, confute me, if you can, and say where He is not. Metastasio. The existence of God is the foundation of all re- ligion ; if there be not a God, it is impossible there can be one ; SO all religion would be vain, and un- reasonable, to pay homage to that which is not in being, nor ever can be. S. Charnock. So long as the word “God” endures in a language will it direct the eyes of men upward. It is with the Eternal as with the sun, which, if but its small- est part can shine uneclipsed, prolongs the day, and gives its rounded image in the dark chamber. Richter. A R O S Z O U O Z. A 7" / O AW. S. 327 G.O.D. There is a God ; a holy will is active, however much the human will rocks to and fro; high over time and space a sublime thought is woven, and though everything is in labor and change an im- mutable Spirit continues. Schiller. The God who hath bestowed on man a life of toil, of transient joys and fleeting pains, that he might not forget the higher worth of his enduring soul, and might feel that immortality waited for him beyond the grave—He, He is one only God. Klopstock. While earthly objects are exhausted by familiar- ity, the thought of God becomes to the devout man continually brighter, richer, vaster ; derives fresh lustre from all that he observes of nature and Pro- vidence, and attracts to itself all the glories of the universe. W. E. Channing. Those who apply themselves to learning are forced to acknowledge one God, incorruptible and unbegotten ; who is the only true being, and abides forever above the highest heavens, from whence He beholds all the things that are done in heaven and earth. Stillingfleet. He is God, the Great, the Mighty, the Tremen- dous, the Merciful, the Gracious, the Benign, the Wise, the Faithful, the Just, and the Virtuous ; Omniscience, Omnipresence, Omnipotence, are His alone, whose Being knew no beginning, and can know no end. The Mishma Torah. In all His dispensations God is at work for our good; in prosperity. He tries our gratitude ; in me- diocrity, our contentment ; in misfortune, our sub- mission; in darkness, our faith ; under temptation, our steadfastness ; and at all times Our Obedience and trust in Him. A. Czymmermann. Every furrow in our fields is loaded with evi- dences of a Divine power; and not “five thousand” only, but millions of millions, to whom God gives meat in due season, are sustained by Omnipotence ; and not one of them ever feeds at less expense than that of a wonder, nay, of an infinite train of won- ders. Dean Stanhope. The moment God Almighty gives the knowledge of Himself to any one, it makes him cease to be vicious, for he who by faith has obtained the know- ledge of God, must immediately discover His glo- rious beauties and perfections ; and he who has discovered these, will find himself obliged to love God ; and he who loves God must needs obey Him. J. Howe. God is known to us by certain attributes or modes of being, the conception of which is possible to us, and which truly represent Him as far as they go ; we conceive of each of these attributes as pos- sessed by God in a degree to which we put no limits, and to which we know that no limits can be assigned. A. A. Hodge. God is a spirit, as man is a spirit. There is no difference as to what may be termed the popular characters of spirit, between the spirit of man and God, considered as a spirit ; for God made man in His own image ; but there is one great and radi- caldifference; human and angelic spirits are finite; God, whom we worship, is Infinite. R. Watson. G-OD. The primal truth that God is the self-existent, independent, and all perfect One, is unhesitatingly assented to ; but the practical testimony to that truthis withheld ; the proofs of the being and char- acter of God, drawn from the phenomena of mind and matter, convince the understanding ; but amid all the light that beams from these phenomena, the heart is alienated and darkened. T. Pearsom. It is the nature of every artificer to tender and esteem his own work ; and if God should not love His creatures, it would reflect some disparagement upon His workmanship, that He should make any- thing that He could not own. God's power never produces what His goodness cannot embrace. God oftentimes, in the same man, distinguishes between the sinner and the creature ; as a creature He can love him, while as a sinner He does afflict him. R. Sowth. There is not a city, there is not a village, not a house, on which the eye of God is not fixed ; he notices the actions, words, and thoughts of every member of every family, in this and in every place ; He observes every family in which no prayer is offered, and marks that as a house on which His blessing cannot rest ; if they acknow- ledge not God, neither can God acknowledge them as His ; for “them that honor me,” saith God, “I will honor ; and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.” - Preston. O you unwise and unlearned teach us first what God is that you may be believed in accusing me of impiety ; tell us where God is. Is He shut up within the walls of temples 2 Is this your piety to place God in the dark, or to make Him a stony god 3 O you unskillful I know ye not that God is not made with hands, and hath no basis or fulcrum to stand upon, nor can be enclosed within the walls of any temple ; the whole world, variegated with plants, animals, and stars, being His temple 2 The universe itself is God. Heraclitus. It is observable how God’s goodness strives with man's refractoriness. Man would sit down at this world : God bids him sell it and purchase a better; just as a father, who hath in his hand an apple and a piece of gold under it ; the child comes, and with pulling, gets the apple Out of his father's hand ; his father bids him throw it away, and he will give him the gold for it, which the child utterly refus- ing, eats it, and is troubled with worms ; so is the carnal and wilful man with the worm of the grave in this world, and the worm of conscience in the next. G. Herbert. God is unsearchable ; the ages of His eternity cannot be numbered, nor the spaces of His immen- sity measured ; the depths of His wisdom cannot be fathomed, nor the reaches of His power bound- ed; the brightness of His glory can never be de- scribed, nor an inventory made of the treasures of His goodness. This is a good reason why we should always speak of God with humility and caution, and never prescribe to Him, nor quarrel with Him ; why we should be thankful for what He has re- vealed of Himself, and long to be there, where we shall see Him as He is. Matthew Henry. 328 /D A Y S C O Z Z. A C O AV. GOD. God is an infinite, eternal, and incomprehensible spirit, infinite in wisdom, power, goodness, justice, and holiness ; omniscient and omnipresent, eternal, unchangeable, and incomprehensible ; the God of nature, of grace, and of glory ; the sovereign ruler of all things visible and invisible ; the greatest and the best of beings ; wonderful in counsel and ex- cellent in work. Rev. S. Bradbwºrm. Ere we can say there is no God, we must have roamed over all nature, and seen that no mark of a divine foot-step was there ; and we must have gotten intimacy with every existent spirit in the universe, and learned from each that never did a revelation of Deity visit him ; in other words, be- fore man can deny the existence of God he must be a God himself, for he must possess the ubiquity and omnipresence of the Godhead. C. Amthom. There is a Most Holy One, a Creator of the full- ness of the earth, a ruler of days: He is the God of gods, the exalted Maker of the stars and the hea- venly hosts, which are praising Him above our head ; the Creator of the exalted race of mighty princes and governors, who sit in judgment, who condemn the wicked ; He is the Ruler of the world, the light which convicts the evil-doer; the Judge of every deed, the Preserver of the laws of Egypt, and the King who dwells at On, the city of the Sun ; He is the Light; with Him is no night : He dwells in the exalted land of light ; in Him is join- ed together the glory of the Sun and the King of the world. The Most Holy One lives: He seeth as ye see : He heareth as ye hear : He standeth as ye stand ; He sitteth as ye sit. Let the Lord God be exalted in His Holy Temple, and be worshipped On bended knees; let burnt-offerings and victims for sacrifice be brought for Him whom all the world feareth ; for He is the end and the beginning of all things. Ahabamwk. GODS. Revere the gods. Euripides. Gods are immortal men. Heraclitus. Sacrifice not to false gods. Nicephorus. Worship not strange gods. Queen Kaahumanºw. All things are full of the gods. Aristotle. Every country has its own gods. Dicaearchws. The gods of nations are but devils. Sapricus. To reproach the gods is not wisdom. Pindarws. Worship not the sun, nor heathen gods. Sadoth. Idol gods die; but the Christian's God never dies. Kamehameha II. It was fear that first introduced gods into the world. Petronius, If there be one God why should there not be many gods? Lao-Kiwn. It is an error to say there is a plurality of gods; God is but one. St. Leo. I neither know whether there be many gods, nor where they are. Protagoras. GODS. Those who sacrifice to false gods are deceived by the devil to do this. Tarachus. The gods have been worshipped by all men from the very beginning. Xenophom. All the gods of Egypt were once mortals who dwelled on the earth. - Mametho. Let the man who dares to disregard the god Buddha fear for his life. Tok:whom. If the history of the world proves one God, it also proves many gods. N. Freret. Pray to gods of heaven; pray to gods of earth ; ever dreaded be the gods. Man-yo-Shiw. Sacrifice not to false gods; they cannot help the needy, nor grant your petition. St. Alban. The sun which gives heat and light is a god ; the moon and the stars also are gods. Pythagoras. The god Varuna is the god above all other gods, to whom we should offer sacrifice. , Veda. Indian gods are sometimes good, sometimes bad ; the Christians' God is always good. Taki-too-i-tis. Christians worship a God who died on a tree ; we worship the sun, a god that never dies. Atahualpa. There are two gods, Ormuzd who is the author of all good, and Ahriman who is the author of all evil. Mamichaeus. The God is the king of gods; he acknowledges those who acknowledge Him, and protects them that serve Him. Nofar-Hotep. We know that the one God is good ; but not knowing that other gods are good, we waste our labor to search them out. Zoroaster. At first men worshipped productions of the earth for gods, in accordance with the imbecility and narrowness of their minds. Sanchoniathon. When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence. R. W. Emerson. Osiris, who hath his body in the sea is king of gods; therefore sacrifice to him, and let the things of all other gods be destroyed. Amenophis III. The gods have been tried, and found wanting : therefore let their temples be overthrown, and the worship of the true God established. King Edwin. May not most of the arguments advanced by theists to prove the existence of one God, be also used by polytheists to prove the existence of many gods? T. Immam. How is it possible for one God to be three gods, or three gods to be only one God, any more than for one man to be three men, and three men to be only one man Ż W. Freeke. The aid of the gods is procured not by vows and womanish supplications; all things turn out well by watching, activity, and good counsel ; when you have given yourself up to sloth and idleness, it is in vain to implore the gods; they are angry and hostile to you. Sallust. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 329 GODI,IINESS. Godliness is the great support of man's welfare. T. Young. He that lives in godliness cannot be weary of his life. B. Hall. In loving a godly man we love both God and II].8]]. Downey. Where the fear of God is there will exist a life of godliness. Gregory Nazianzen. Every man living in a state of godliness is a per- petual miracle. Jeremy Taylor. The godly man walks aloft, while the base world- ling is licking the dust. Rev. W. Gurnoull. Virtue and godliness of life are required at the hands of the minister of God. R. Hooker. What is gain 3 The worldly man says money, the word of God says godliness. R. B. Nichol, Godliness is that outward deportment which characterises a heavenly temper. G. Crabb. The greatest gain in the world is godliness ; it hath the promise of this life and of that which is to come. J. Caryl. God throws many sweet allurements around the man who lives a godly life, and places before him useful things and needful acts in order that he may seek and perform them. Bishop Hopkins. Let it not be imagined that a life of godliness must necessarily be a life of melancholy and gloomi- ness ; for a man only resigns some pleasures, to enjoy others infinitely greater. Pascal. Godliness is to act with a pious spirit toward God; it includes the whole of practical religion ; it is a Christian duty, and has the promise of the life that now is, as well as the life which is to come. - A. Ritchie. He who traffics in godliness derives a sure and constant interest which tells upon name, character, relations, business, prospects : in One word, which yields him gain for this world and for that which is to come. John Bate. Before the coming of Christ, sacrifices to be ac- ceptable, were by God's command to be seasoned with salt, else the Lord would not allow them ; so unless we be seasoned with the Salt of true godli- ness, we and all our doings shall be unsavory to the Lord. D. Cawdray. Christ would have us believe on him who justi- fies the ungodly, and therefore he doth not require us to be godly before we believe ; he came as a physician for the sick, and doth not expect they should recover their health in the least degree be- fore they come to him. C. H. V. Bogatzky. Godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come ; but then it is not godliness without other things, but with them ; a good and holy man is not to expect to succeed by the favor of God, without either industry or ability ; God's blessing is not to be looked for as a substitute for these. J. A. James. GOLD. Worship not gold. Pherecydes. All is not gold that glitters. Shakspeare. Gold is the picklock that never fails. Massinger. Gold is no balm to a wounded spirit. Seneca. Gold has many remarkable qualities. N. Leitch. How few have God and gold together. Williers. If all were rich gold would be penniless. Bailey. Gold goes in at any gate except heaven's. Hosius. Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an in- got. Sir P. Sidney. Gold is the key to society, but poverty its bar- rier. Downey. As the touchstone tries gold, so gold always tries Iſleſſl. Cleobulws. Gold has greater power over men than ten thou- sand arguments. Ewripides. Gold and silver were mingled with dirt till ava- rice parted them. R. Carruthers. It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. T. Fuller. Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his de- fects from the world. Feltham. Cursed craving for gold, what dost thou not force mortals to perpetrate Virgil. Misers mistake gold for their good, whereas it is only a mean of attaining it. Rochefoucauld. To make the possession of gold the chief basis of social preference is to abuse it. Soroſh, Mortin. Gold should never be made the god of our idola- try, but the agent of our benevolence. Appleton. Gold gives to the ugliest a certain charm, and without it everything else is a miserable affair. Molière. Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hard- ens clay, expands great Souls and contracts bad hearts. Rivarol. Gold is one of the most valuable and beautiful of the metals ; hence used in the Scriptures to de- signate purity. A. Ritchie. It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, “that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.” Dr. Johnson. This is now truly the golden age ; the highest honors are bought with gold ; even love is pur- chased with gold. Ovid. Gold can make its way through the midst of guards, and break through the strongest barriers more easily than the lightning's bolt. Horace. By gold good faith is banished ; justice is sold for gold, the law follows gold, and soon the modest woman will be without the protection of the laws. Propertius. 330 A) A Y',S C O /, / A co A. * GOLD. In consequence of gold there are no brothers, no parents, but wars and murders arise from it; and what is worse, for it we lovers are bought and sold. Anacreon. Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's ; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's ; give therefore those things unto Caesar which are Caesar's, and unto God which are God's. F. Quarles. The love of gold is a vertiginous pool, sucking all into it to destroy it; it is troubled and uneven, giddy and unsafe, serving no end but its own, and that also in a restless and uneasy motion. Jeremy Taylor. Gold is called the bait of sin, the Snare of Souls, and the hook of death ; which being aptly applied may be compared to a fire, whereof a little is good to warm one, but too much will burn him alto- gether. Sir R. Filmer. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understand- ing ; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant, accommodates itself to the meanest capa- cities, silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible. Addison. Nature has put a considerable share of iron in the blood, but no gold ; but the love of gold is found in the heart of man, not to refine and embel- lish, but to debase and corrupt it, and all considera- ations, of whatever nature, become absorbed in the sole regard of self and of lucre. C. Fowler. Nature hath hid gold beneath the earth, as un- worthy to be seen ; silver hath she placed where thou tramplest it under thy feet ; meaneth she not by this to inform thee that gold is not worthy of thy regard—that silver is beneath thy notice 2 Hath not gold destroyed the virtue of millions ? Did it ever add to the goodness of any ? R. Dodsley. Midas longed for gold, and insulted the Olym- pians. He got gold, so that whatever he touched became gold, and he with his long ears, was little the better for it. Midas had insulted Apollo and the gods ; the gods gave him his wish, and a pair of long ears, which also were a good appendage to it. What a truth in these old fables | T. Carlyle. Gold is the only power which receives universal homage ; it has often been able to boast of having armies for its priesthood, and hecatombs of human victims for its sacrifices. What part of the globe's surface is not rapidly yielding up its lost stores of hidden treasure to the spirit of gain } It scorns the childish dream of the philosopher's stone, and as- pires to turn the globe itself into gold, J. Harris. Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry—the power of their idol. It is true that like other idols it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand ; but unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had, This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, with- Out a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. Colton. G-OLD. There is a sort of men whose gold runs in streams imperceptibly under ground ; others expose it in plates and branches, so that to the one a farthing is worth a crown, and to others the contrary ; the world esteeming its use and value according to the show. Montaigne. A vain man's motto is : Win gold and wear it : a generous man's : Win gold and share it ; a mis- er's : Win gold and spare it ; a profligate's : Win gold and spend it ; a broker's : Wim gold and lend it ; a fool's : Win gold and end it : a gambler's : Win gold and lose it ; a wise man’s : Win gold and use it. W. Wottom. When savage nations are first visited by the civ- ilized, they evince the greatest eagerness to obtain iron, as soon as they have come to know the uses of it, while the Christians who go amongst them, manifest a still greater desire for the possession of gold. To accomplish these mutual ends, the Sav- ages resort to cunning, pilfering, and bartering, and their more enlightened brethren to deception, violence, and fraud. Acton. Let a man be ever so rich in estate, yet if his heart be not satisfied, but he is still whining, and Scraping, and pining for more, that man is misera- ‘bly poor; it is not having by which we can mea- sure riches, but enjoying ; the earth hath all trea- Sures in it, yet no man styles it rich ; of these which the world calls goods of fortune, opinion only sets the value. Gold and silver would be metals, whe- ther we think them so or not ; they would not be riches if men's conceit and institution did not make them such. - R. Hall. The avaricious hoard up their gold and silver, because as they do not care to spend, they are fond of signs that are not subject to decay ; they prefer gold to silver, because as they are always afraid of losing, they can best conceal that which takes up the least room ; gold therefore disappears when there is plenty of silver, because every one has Some to conceal ; it appears again when silver is Scarce, because they are obliged to draw it from its confinement. It is then a rule that gold is com- mon when silver is scarce, and gold is scarce when silver is common. Montesqview. Gold has been from the earliest period used as a measure of value and universal equivalent ; if both gold and silver coins be made legal tender, it is obviously indispensable that their value with re- spect to each other should be fixed by authority ; but the value of each of the precious metals is liable to perpetual changes ; and hence, how accurately soever their proportional value, as fixed by the mint regulations, may correspond with the propor- tion which they actually bear to each other in the market when the regulation is made, the chances are ten to one that it will speedily cease to express their relation to each other ; the moment, however, that such a change takes place, it becomes the ob- vious interest of every one who has a payment to . make, to make it in the overvalued metal ; which consequently becomes the sole, or nearly the sole, currency of the country ; hence the reason why the coins of some countries are almost wholly of silver, and others almost wholly of gold. W. T. Brande. A R O S E O U o 7. A 7. I O A. S. 331 GOOD. Good men are Scarce. Juvenal. Do good unto good men. Cleobulws. All lands bear good men. Lessing. Good shall be triumphant. T. L. Harris. A good man is a free man. Cato. Learn the luxury of doing good. Goldsmith. Man's greatest good is to do good. Stilpo. Day and night think of doing good. Zoroaster. All that God does is right and good. Al-Misri. Let all people be good, and do good. John. Ii. He hurts the good who spares the bad. Syrus. God is the chief good and works no evil. Boethiws. Even a poorman may do much good. Puh-Shang. Do good whenever you can, and forget it. Penn. In the good there is every kind of wisdom. - Ewripides. Good men are like angels—only a little damaged. C. Lamb. - We come to know our good when we have lost it. - Plaw.twis. Doing good is the only pleasure that never wears Out. Confucius. The good hate sin from an innate love of good- IlêSS. Horace. A good action is a treasure guarded for the doer's need. Calderon. There is a warp of evil woven into the woof of good. Marviliws. A good man enlarges the term of his own exis- tence. Martial. God is goodness itself, and whatsoever is good is of Him. Sir P. Sidney. We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good. I. Barrow. Good is positive ; evil is merely privative, not absolute. R. W. Emerson. God is absolutely good, and so the cause of all that is good. Sir W. Raleigh. Doing good in this life is the best preparation for the life to come. J. d'Andrada. It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good. Sophocles. A good man in his dark strivings is still well aware of the right way. Goethe. Few persons have courage enough to seem as good as they really are. J. C. Hare. Do good, and throw it in the sea ; if the fishes do not know it, God will. Lowis Ferrer. In human affairs there is no evil that has not Some good mingled with it. Gwicciardini. GOOD. A man is not to be accounted good for his age, but for his charitable actions. J. Caryl. Good men can more easily see into bad ones than the latter can into the former. Richter. The good we do in this world makes the path in life smooth and the heart light. James Ellis. The good man is not of necessity happy; but the happy man is of necessity good. Archytas. You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. Lavater. Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow-creatures. Cicero. If thou wouldst be good and great, take copies of the writings of the good and great. Egyptian. If you have done something good in little, do it also in great, as the good will never die. Manuel. Whatsoever is right and honest, and joined with virtue, that alone is only good. W. Chamberlayne. To believe good and to do good truly and trust- fully, is the healthiest of humanity's conditions. - J. N. G. Forchhammer. There is no greater delectation and comfort to a good man, than to be seen in the company of good II].62]]. Plato. He who is truly a good man is more than half way to being a Christian, by whatever name he is called. F. Sowth. How indestructibly the good grows, and propa- gates itself, even among the weedy entanglements Of evil. T. Carlyle. Neglect no opportunity of doing good, nor check thy desire of doing it by a vain fear of what may happen. F. Atterbury. Let not your good be evil spoken of, and follow the highest examples in mild and explicit self-vin- dication. C. Chowmcy. God brings good out of evil ; and therefore it were but reason we should trust God to govern His own world. Jeremy Taylor. In doing good, we are generaly cold, languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. Burke. Out of all earthly things there cometh out good and evil; the good through God, and the evil from the evil heart. . S. T. Coleridge. Profuseness of doing good is a soul unsatisfied with all it has done, and an unextinguished desire of doing more. Dryden. None deserve the character of being good, who have not spirit enough to be bad ; goodness for the most part, is either indolence or impotence. Rochefoucauld. Do not try to pass for more than you are worth ; if you do your duty, your good qualities of head and heart will be discovered and appreciated. Joseph S. Coyne. 332 A) A Y’,S C O /, / A C O AV. GOOD. The chief good is to live in perfect indifference to all things of an intermediate character between virtue and vice. Ariston. Every man calleth that which pleaseth and is delightful to himself good, and that evil which displeaseth him. T. Hobbes. A good man always draweth good things out of the treasury of his heart, and a wicked man that which is wicked. Chrysostom. We may talk of the best means of doing good, but after all the greatest difficulty lies in doing it in a proper spirit. A. Nettleton. A very small page will serve for the number of Our good works, when vast volumes will not con- tain our evil deeds. J. Wilson, He is a good man that is better than men com- paratively are, or in whom the good qualities are more than the bad. Sir W. Temple. A good man always profits by his endeavor ; yea, when he is absent ; nay, when he is dead, by his example and memory. Some things are good, yet in so mean a degree of goodness that many are only not disproved nor dis- allowed of God for them. R. Hooker. Littlemen buildup great ones, but the snow Colos- Sus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand. W. S. Landor. The further a good man is known, the further his virtues spread and root themselves in men's hearts and remembrance. S. Hallifaac. Good is slow ; it climbs. Evil is swift ; it de- scends. Why should we marvel that it makes great progress in a short time 2 Mine, Swetchine Thou canst not be perfectly good when thou hatest thine enemy ; what shalt thou then be when thou hatest him that is thy friend ? Socrates. We may as well pretend to obtain the good which we want without God's assistance, as to know what is good for us without His direction. G. Smalridge. To those who do good in the morning every hour of the day brings pleasure, and for them peace and joy spring from every object around. Gessner. The best rule is to say all the good we can of every one, and to refrain from saying evil, unless it becomes a clear matter of duty to warn. Jodrel. Good is done by degrees; and the benefit which follows individual attempts to do good, a great deal may be accomplished by perseverance. Miss Frances M. Hill. That which is good to be done cannot be done too soon ; and if it is neglected to be done early, it will frequently happen that it will not be done at all. R. Mont. The good man makes the greatest and most be- neficent conquests ; and he who exerts the widest influence, and does the most good, is destined here and hereafter to receive the brightest reward. Magoon. Ben Jonson. GOOD. The Pythagoreans make good to be certain and finite, and evil, infinite and uncertain ; there are a thousand ways to miss the white, there is only one to hit it. Montaigme. If we will take the good we find, asking no ques- tions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis; everything good is On the highway. R. W. Emerson. He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse ; for vice, virtue, and time, are three things that never stand still. Colton. Good is what is apt to cause or increase pleasure or diminish pain in us ; or else to procure or pre- Serve us in the possession of any other good, or absence of any evil. J. Locke. He that does good to another man does also good to himself; not only in the consequence, but in the very act of doing it : for the conscience of well- doing is an ample reward. Seneca. How often do we sigh for opportunities of doing good, whilst weneglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would frequently lead to the accomplishment of most important usefulness. G. Crabb. God’s livery is a very plain one ; but its wearers have good reason to be content ; if it has not so much gold lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper. J. R. Lowell. Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, “It will not benefit me.” Even by the fall- ing water-drops a water-pot is filled ; the wise man becomes full of good, even if he gather it little by little. Buddha, A good desd is never lost ; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship ; and he who plants kindness gathers love ; pleasure bestowed upon a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude be- gets reward. . St. Basil. If the good deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear ; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have growth in dusty graves. C. Dickens. The good which sight or sense can no longer ap- prehend, is yet as real an existence as when we could both see and feel it ; nothing good can be ultimately lost ; memory may still preserve it, and love carry us to it at last. H. Hooker. A good man is affectionate toward his parents, beneficent to his relations, and benevolent to his friends, grateful to his well-wishers, well affected toward good men, kind to all, injurious to none, harsh to nobody, and not cruel or severe to an enemy. J. Mair. He is good that doeth good to others. If he suf- fers for the good he does, he is better still ; and if he suffers from them to whom he did good, he is arrived to that height of goodness that nothing but an increase of his sufferings can add to it ; if it proves his death, his virtue is at its summit ; it is heroism complete. Bruyère. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 333 GOOD. The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us, is the purest and Sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and it will not only soothe and tranquilize a troubled spirit, but inspire a constant flow of good humor, Content, and gayety of heart. Bishop Portews. Remember that he is indeed the wisest and hap- piest man who, by constant attention of thought, discovers the greatest opportunity of doing good, and with ardent and animated resolution breaks through every opposition that he may improve these opportunities. P. Doddridge. As that which hath a fitness to promote the well- fare of man, considered as a sensitive being, is styled natural good ; so that which hath a fitness to promote the well fare of man as a rational, vol- untary, and free agent, is styled moral good ; and the contrary to it, moral evil. Bishop Wilkins. When all the good of a system, can easily be traced to general principles, and when all the evils appear to be exceptions, closely connected with Some good, the excess being evidently, though, per- haps, but in a small degree, on the side of good, the contriver must be regarded as beneficent. Le Sage. He who diffuses the most happiness and miti- gates the most distress within his own circle, is un- doubtedly the best friend to his country and the world. Let one great passion alone influence our breasts, the passion which reason ratifies, which conscience approves, which heaven inspires—that of being and doing good. R. Hall. To all etermity the bad can never be but bad, the good but good ; nor in misfortune does man de- generate from his nature, but he is always good. Is this difference from parents or from education ? To be brought up well instils, indeed, the princi- ples of honor ; and he that is thus taught knows by the law of honor what is base. Ewripides. To see nothing but what is good is impossible, and to say nothing but what is good would be de- ceitful ; but it is the part of both wisdom and charity to see all that there is, and to say all that we can. There is a great deal of latent good which must be looked for before it can be found, but which is worth finding, and therefore worth looking for. Eliza Haywood. The unexcitable and passionless lack the will to do good, but have not the power to do harm ; they possess not the requisite elements, either of great- ness or of happiness; and are so far from being more blessed, by being destitute of occasional im- pulses or wayward efforts, which are so many feelers after happiness, that they are generally feeble in character, and strangers to the highest zests of life. Acton. Live for something ; do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy ; write your name in kindness, love, and mercy, on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year; you will never be forgotten. No, your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind, as the stars on the brow of evening ; good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven. T. Chalmers. GOOD. With a double vigilance, should we watch our actions, when we reflect that good and bad ones are never childless ; and that, in both cases, the offspring goes beyond the parent—every good be- getting a better, and every bad a worse. Chatfield. Some good we can all do ; and if we do all that is in Our power, however little that power may be, we have performed our part, and may be as near perfection as those whose influence extends over kingdoms, and whose good actions are felt and ap- plauded by thousands. T. Bowdler. Nothing can be very good that requires of us anything like a serious effort to reconcile it to our conscience. Grave doubts as to the propriety of anything that we are desirous of doing are not likely to arise unless there are good and sufficient reasons for them, and in such cases it is better at Once to drop the purpose or to gratify it. Bovee. It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is plea- Sant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory ; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire. Tillotson. It is not in divinity, as the philosophers say in morality, by doing good works we are made good ; no, we are by grace made good, then we do good ; as the fountain must be before the stream, and the root or tree before the fruit ; thus our Savior says, “Make the tree good, and the fruit will be good.” Thus Abel's person is first accepted, then his per- formance. A. Burgess. . The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together ; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them out ; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted ; yet the belief in the good and beauti- ful has never forsaken us; it has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and suc- CeSS. Leigh Hunt. There are some natures so happily constituted that they can find a good in everything ; there is no calamity so great but they educe comfort of Some kind or other from it ; no sky so black but they can discern a gleam of sunshine issuing through it from one quarter or another ; and if the sun is not to be seen at all, they at least com- fort themselves with the assurance that it is there though now veiled from them, doubtless for some good purpose. These happy, sunshiny beings are to be envied ; they have a beam in the eye—a beam of pleasure, gladness, philosophy—call it what you will ; sunshine is ever about their hearts; life is to them strewed with flowers ; existence is with them a constant summer ; their mind gilds with its own hues, all things that it looks upon ; they draw comfort from sorrow ; they educe good out of evil ; like the bee, they gather honey even from poison flowers. E. P. A. Hohenhawsen. 334 A) A Y',S C O Z / A C O AV. GOOD-BREEDING. Good-breeding is surface Christianity. O. W. Holmes. A well-bred boy will be liked, whether he wear broad-cloth or blue overalls. Gail Hamilton. Good-breeding is the only thing that can make a fool endurable. H. W. Shaw. A man's own good-breeding is the best security against other people's ill-manners. Chesterfield. One may know a manthat never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding. Addison. Good qualities are the substantial riches of the mind ; but it is good-breeding that sets them off to advantage. J. Locke. Good-breeding is benevolence in trifles, or the preference of others to ourselves in the daily occur- rences of life. Earl of Chatham. There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding. Stanislaws. Good-breeding is as necessary a quality in con- versation to accomplish all the rest, as grace in mo- tion and dancing. Sir W. Temple. A moderate knowledge in the rules of good-breed- ing gives a man Some assurance and makes him .easy in all companies, Budgell. One principal point of good-breeding, is to suit Our behavior to the three degrees of men—our su- periors, our equals, and those below us. Swift. A man endowed with great perfections, without good-breeding, is like one who has his pockets full of gold, but always wants change for his ordinary occasions. Steele, Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by ex- ternal signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company. Cato. Good-breeding is a guard upon the tongue ; the misfortune is, that we put it on and off with our fine clothes and visiting faces, and do not wear it where it is wanted—at home. G. Ferrers. Good-breeding ought highly to be valued; which, typical of benevolence, though not benevolence it- self, loves to put every one in good humor, and call forth the good feelings only of those with whom we associate. Howel. Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. “Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you.” This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them. Fielding. Among well-bred people, a mutual deference is affected ; contempt of others disguised ; authority concealed ; attention given to each in his turn ; and an easy stream of conversation maintained, with- out vehemence, without interruption, without eag- erness of victory, and without any airs of superio- rity. Hwme. GOOD-EIUIMOR. Good-humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison. Stanislaws. A good-humored man recommends himself par- ticularly as a companion. G. Crabb. The good-humor of some people is owing to an in- exhaustible fund of self-conceit. P. Fonseca. Good-humor is the blue sky of the soul, in which every star of talent will shine more clearly. N. A. Calkins. Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason ; abate some degree of pride and morose- IlêSS. I. Watts. Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunken- IlêSS. Pope. Inviolable fidelity, good-humor, and complacen- cy of temper, outlive all the charms of a fine face, and make the decay of it invisible. Ben Jonson. Honest good-humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small, and the laughter abundant. W. Irving. Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener ; and for this plain reason good-humor must operate on gene- rosity, ill-humor on meanness. Lord Greville. This portable quality of good-humor seasons all the parts and occurrences we meet with, in such a manner that there are no moments lost ; but they all pass with so much satisfaction, that the heavi- est of loads, that of time, is never felt by us. Steele, Let us try to be good-humored for a single day : if we let the sun-light into our souls, it will gene- rate in our hearts every good motive, and we shall feel life strengthened, and ourselves armed to fight, on the coming morrow, the battle of every trick of fate. James Ellis. If good-humor were not sometimes the mask of contentment, worn by dissembling and deceit ; if it possessed the cordial balm to soothe the ills we suffer, and if it could benefit and expand the mind, them to be good-humored would be indeed to be happy. Acton. Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy ; deeper than tears these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens; go, laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles; the Satans will flee at the sight of these redeemers. - W. A. Alcott. Good-humor may be defined a habit of being pleased ; a constant and perennial softness of man- ner, easiness of approach, and serenity of disposi- tion, like that which every man perceives in him- self when the first transport of new felicity have subsided, and his thoughts are only kept in motion by a slow succession of soft impulses. Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern ; the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another. Dr. Johnson. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 335 GOOD-NATUR.E. Strengthen good-nature. Shairp. L. Parsons. Stillingfleet. Be good-natured to all men. Good-nature wins the heart. Good-nature is the beauty of the mind. Hanway. Good-natured people make the best of things. E. M. Archer. Without good-nature man is but a better kind of vermin. Lord Bacon. Good-nature is the very air of a good mind, the sign of a large and generous Soul. Goodman. Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation. Bulwer. Any one may do a casual act of good-nature ; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament. Sterne. Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable tem- per of mind which disposes us to feel the misfor- tunes and enjoy the happiness of others. Fielding. A man who is commonly called good-natured is hardly to be thanked for anything he does, because half of that is acted about him is done rather by his sufferance than approbation. J. G. Hughes. A shrewd observer once said, that in walking the streets of a slippery morning, One might see where the good-natured people lived by the ashes thrown on the ice before the doors. Franklin. The current of tenderness widens as it proceeds; and two men imperceptibly find their hearts filled with good-nature for each other, when they were at first only in pursuit of relaxation. Goldsmith. A young fellow who seems to have no will of his own, and does everything that is asked of him, is called a very good-natured, but at the same time is thought a very silly, young fellow. Chesterfield. Inexhaustible good-nature is the most precious gift of Heaven ; it spreads itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeps the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. W. Irving. Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise; good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason. Dryden. Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is far more amiable than beauty; it shows virtue in the fairest light ; takes off in some mea- sure from the formality of vice, and makes even folly and impertinence supportable. . Addison. There is perhaps no one quality that can produce a greater amount of mischief than may be done by thoughtless good-nature. For instance, if any one, out of tenderness of heart and reluctance to punish or to discard the criminal and worthless, lets loose on society, or advances to important offices, mis- chievous characters, he will have conferred a doubtful benefit on a few, and done incalculable hurt to thousands. R. Whately. GOOD-will. Good-will creates good-will. Magoom. Good-will is of more value than the result that follows. Goethe. The good-will of the world is often gained by hypocrisy and deceit. Grace Ramsay. Professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it. Washington. Good-will, like a good name, is got by many ac- tions, and lost by one. Lord F. Jeffrey. If we have the good-will of our conscience, the good-will of the world will surely follow ; without a clear conscience, the good-will of men is worth- less. Mlle. de la Rame. The good-will of the benefactor is the fountain of all benefits ; nay, it is the benefit itself ; or, at least, the stamp that makes it valuable and cur- rent. Seneca. Quiet and easy matures are like fair weather, welcome to all, and acceptable to all men ; they gather together what the other disperses, and all whom the other incenses ; as they have the good- will and the good wishes of all other men, so they have the full possession of themselves, have all their own thoughts at peace, and enjoy quiet and ease in their own fortunes. Earl of Claremolom. GOODLINESS. Goodliness delighteth the eye. R. Hooker. Goodliness is harmony of the soul. St. Xavier. Goodliness of soul consisteth of innocency and humility. St. Gregory. Goodliness of mind is more to be desired than comeliness of body. T. Yard. Goodliness consisteth neither in apparel, nor beauty, nor riches ; but in honesty of purpose and benevolence of heart. John Toland. To goodliness of body add goodliness of mind, to goodliness of mind add goodliness of soul, if ye would be perfect in goodliness. Bishop J. Dowglass. The goodliness to the sight, which is ever per- ceptible in those fruits which genuine piety bear- eth, will certainly produce veneration to the au- thority which enjoins them. Isaac Barrow. GOOD-BYE. Good-bye is a every-day salutation. M. Rudd. A good-bye should come from the heart. Upton. We use the same word “good-bye” for an hour, or a year, or a life-time. Mary Cecil Hay. Good-bye! How often has this word been the moonlight of a sweet memory. Miss F. Upcher. Good-bye | For how long 2 One cannot but help thinking of that sometimes when starting on a journey. Fanny Fern. The bosom chills at the word “good-bye ;” for how often has its utterance severed kindred and friends ; even despair is blended in its tone, for it sometimes sounds a death-knell to all earthly bliss. Miss Annie Thomas. 336 AD A Y’.S CO Z / A C O AV. GOODNESS. GOODNESS. - Goodness is immortal. Rev. J. F. Forrester. If there is nothing so glorious as doing good, if Goodness centers in the heart. E. A. Sheldom. Goodness is beauty in its best estate. C. Marlowe. It is not goodness to be better than the very bad. Semeca. A good man is one whose goodness is part of him- self. - Menciws. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. R. W. Emerson. No act, effort, or aspiration of goodness shall be in vain. Leonard Bacom. All goodness in man is most charming ; all wick- edness is most odious. Dr. T. Sprat. The more our grace and goodness doth increase, the more our souls address themselves to God. St. Basil. He that feeleth in his own breast no love of good- ness, believeth his neighbor like unto himself. R. Dodsley. As the goodness of wise men continually amend- eth, so the malice of fools evermore increaseth. Pythagoras. The moral goodness, or evilness, of natural ac- tion, falls not within the verge of a brutal faculty. Sir M. Hale. Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are ; to be is the great thing. E. H. Chapin. Goodness is that which makes men prefer their duty and their promise before their passions or their interest. Sir W. Temple. True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes, except those of Hea- ven, are upon it. J. C. Hare. Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom, and love in the world than men imagine. Gehler. Goodness, in general, makes every one think the strength of virtue in another, whereof they find the assured foundation in themselves. Plato. Our whole life is startlingly moral; there is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice ; good- ness is the only investment that never fails. Thoreaw. Goodness is generous and diffusive ; it is large- mess of mind, and sweetness of temper—balsam in the block, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit. J. Collier. In the heraldry of Heaven goodness precedes greatness ; so on earth it is more powerful ; the lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted. G. Horne. There is that controlling worth in goodness that the will cannot but like and desire it ; and on the other side, that odious deformity in vice, that it never offers itself to the affections of mankind but under the disguise of the other. R. Sowth. there is nothing that makes us so like God, then nothing can be so glorious in the use of our money as to use it all in works of goodness. E. Law. To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine. Shaftesbury. Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of ma- ture, the inclination ; this, of all virtues and digni- ties of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the Deity ; and without it man is a busy, mis- chievous, wretched thing. Lord Bacon. Goodness has a wider range than justice ; for we are bound by mature to observe the dictates of law and equity in our dealings with men, while the feelings of kindness and benevolence overflow, as from a gushing fountain, from the breast of the tender-hearted to creatures of every species. Plutarch. True goodness is not without that germ of great- ness that can bear with the mistakes of the ignor- ant, and the censures of the malignant. The appro- bation of God is her “exceeding great reward,” and she would not debase a thing so precious, by an association with the contaminating plaudits of Illall. Colton. Goodness does not more certainly make men hap- py than happiness makes them good ; we must dis- tinguish between felicity and prosperity ; for pros- perity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment ; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once ; while the reaction of good- ness and happiness is perpetual. W. S. Landor. Human nature is not so much depraved as to hinder us from respecting goodness in others, though we ourselves want it ; this is the reason why we are so much charmed with the pretty prattle of children, and even the expressions of pleasure or uneasiness in some part of the brute creation. They are without artifice or malice ; and we love truth too well to resist the charms of sin- cerity. Steele. One of the almost numberless advantages of good- ness is, that it blinds its possessor to many of those faults in others, which could not fail to be detected by the morally defective. A consciousness of un- worthiness renders people extremely quick-sighted in discerning the vices of their neighbors; as per- Sons can easily discover in others the symptoms of those diseases beneath which they themselves have suffered. T. Godfrey. Goodness is love in action, love with its hand at the plow, love with the burden on its back ; it is love carrying medicine to the sick, and food to the famished; it is love reading the Bible to the blind, and explaining the Gospel to the felon in his cell ; it is love at the Sunday-class, or in the Rag- ged School ; it is love at the hovel-door, or sailing far away in the missionary ship ; but whatever task it undertakes, it is still the same—love follow- ing His footsteps, “who went about continually doing good.” Dr. J. Hamilton. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 337 G-OSPEL. The Gospel exalts man. T. Guthrie. Let the gospel be read standing reverently. Anastasius I. The gospel is the good news of Salvation to lost Illell. A. Ritchie. The gospel declares pardon of sin to those that are heavy-laden with it. R. Cudworth. It is the great design of the gospel to restore us to holiness as well as to happiness. I. Watts. God writes the gospel, not in the Bible alone, but on trees, flowers, clouds, and stars. M. Lºwther. The common standing rules of the gospel are a more powerful means of conviction than any mi- racle. F. Atterbury. The commands of the gospel are such, that no man's reason which considers them, can doubt of the excellency of them. Stillingfleet, When man revolts against the gospel he takes another master—himself ; One who renders all inferior masters possible. Mime. Swetchine. There is a nobleness and an elevation in the maxims of the gospel, to which mean and grovel- ling minds cannot attain. Massillom. The main object of the gospel is to establish these two principles: the corruption of nature, and re- demption by Jesus Christ. Pascal. The gospel comes to the sinner at once, with no- thing short of complete forgiveness as the starting- point of all his efforts to be holy. B. Bomar. The gospel of Christ, as taught by Himself and His apostles, in its original plainness and purity, is a doctrine of truth and simplicity. A. Clark. The excellency of the things contained in the gospel are so suitable to a rational being, as no other religion or profession, whatsoever, hath thought of, or so expressly insisted upon. J. Wilkins. Look into the gospel ; there you will find every reasonable hope of nature, nay, every reasonable suspicion of nature, cleared up, and confirmed ; every difficulty answered and removed. R. Sherlock. There is not a book on earth so favorable to all the kind and to all the sublime affections, or so un- friendly to hatred and persecution, to tyranny, injustice, and every sort of malevolence, as the gospel. J. Beattie. The gospel doth not ground the doctrine of im- mortality on metaphysical speculation, nor on complex argument ; it grounds it on the only prin- ciple that can support the weight with which it is encumbered. Sawrin. If Christians in any country—yea, if any col- lected body of them—were what they might, and Ought, and are commanded to be, the universal re- ception of the gospel would follow as a natural and a promised result. R. Southey. GOSPEL. The gospel has always afforded to my mind the most conclusive internal evidence of the divine authority of its Author. There is a certain plain, severe, direct, substantial impression of the truth stamped upon its revelation, which declares its origin to be derived from the very source of truth. It is at the same time purely spiritual, and strictly practical. W. Harmtess. God hath kindled the bright light of His gospel, which in times past was suppressed and hid under the vile ashes of man's traditions, and hath caused the brightness thereof to shine in our hearts, to the end that the same might shine before men to the honor of His name ; it is not only given us to be- lieve, but also to confess and declare what we be- lieve, in our outward conversation. J. Philpot. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assem- blage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity; it possesses a secret virtue, a mysterious efficacy, a warmth which penetrates and soothes the heart. One finds in meditating upon it that which one experiences in contemplating the hea- vens. The gospel is not a book ; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades everything that opposes its extension. Napoleon I. GOSSIP. Gossips should not marry. Theodorus. Gossips have great leisure, with little thought, and no brains. 2 immerman. Gossips turn out in rain and storm to go first to tell startling news. St. Clement. Gossips are always delighted to have something happen out of the usual course. E. Eggleston. Gossips are a pitiable race, especially the noto- rious gossips of a country town. Mrs. A. Opie. Gossips are well versed in the defects of others, but they never think of trying to discover their OWI1. " Annie E. Lancaster. A mere gossip ought not to wonder at persons being tired of him, seeing that they are indebted for the honor of his visit solely to the circumstance of his being tired of himself. Breen. There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder cha- racters to kill time ; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it. R. B. Sheridam. There are different kinds of gossips: the pious, the mischievous, the vicious, the dangerous, and a host of others; but it matters not what garb they assume, they are a useless class of people, being a burden to themselves, and the plague-spots of social life. James Ellis. If you wish to cultivate a gossipping, meddling, censorious spirit in your children, be sure, when they come home from church, a visit, or any other place where you do not accompany them, to ply them with questions concerning what everybody else wore, how everybody looked, and what every- body said and did. Kate Field. 22 338 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. GOVERNMENT. - . A government that is hated seldom lasts. Seneca. The duties of a government are paternal. W. E. Gladstone. With how little wisdom is the world governed. Oacemstierºn. That government is the best which is the most rational. H. Smith. All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the devil. Jacobi. Reason has as much influence on government as steel has in war. Demetriws. It is a dangerous thing to try new experiments in a government. Duke of Buckingham. Government is an art above the attainment of an ordinary genius. R. Sowth. It is better to govern a country well than to en- large its boundaries. Rudolph of Hapsburg. The strength of a government is the friendship and love of its people. Victor Emma wel II. Governments which do not curb evils are charge- able with causing them. G. D. Prentice. As government is impressed by its constitution, So it must necessarily act. |W. H. Seward. There is no stronger bond of loyalty than a mild and equitable government. Livy. It is only through hereditary succession that government can be perpetual. Tai Tsowng, Civil government is the proper remedy for the inconveniences of a state of nature. J. Locke. In all sorts of government man is made to be- lieve himself free, and to be in chains. Stanislaws. The worst governments are always the most chargeable, and cost the people dearest. J. Butler. The enormous expenses of government have pro- voked people to think by making them feel. John Taylor. The best government is where the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates the laws. Solom. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respect- able. J. Madisom. We are often governed by people not only weak- er than ourselves, but even by those whom we think SO. Lord Greville. When a new government is established, by what- ever means, the people are commonly dissatisfied with it. Hume. We cannot dispense with governments; we must commit power to somebody, and therefore expose it to abuse. T. Dwight. Religion hath a good influence upon the people, to make them obedient to government, and peace- able one toward another. Tillotson. GOVERNMENT. The government of man should be the monarchy of reason ; it is too often the democracy of passion, or the anarchy of humors. Dr. Whichcote. Few consider how much we are indebted to gov- ernment, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it. F. Atterbury. All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and di- rected by knowledge, is a tyranny. Mrs. Jamesom. It is a principle never to be forgotten, that it is not by absolute, but by relative misgovernment, that nations are roused to madness. Macaulay. The science of government is merely the science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to time, place, and circumstances. Hese. The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is or ought to be the end of all government. Washington. The surest way of governing, both in a private family and a kingdom, is for a husband and a prince sometimes to drop their prerogative. T. Hughes. Except wise men be made governors, or govern- ors be made wise men, mankind shall never live in quiet, nor virtue be able to defend herself. Plato. The administration of government, like a guard- ianship, ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, and not of those who receive the trust. Cicero. A government derives its authority from Society, of which it is the agent ; that society derives its authority from the compact formed by individ- uals. F. Wayland. Government, when unmolested, is like the fire, which communicates a genial warmth : but when its anger is aroused, it is a conflagration which COInSUIſles. G. Ellis. The government most conformable to nature, is that whose particular disposition best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established. Montesquiew. It is not a piece of paper, it is not a few abstrac- tions engrossed on parchment, that make free gov- ernments. No! the law of liberty must be inscribed on the heart of the citizen. H. S. Legare. Government may be a tyranny, but it cannot be a chaos; the moment it becomes a chaos it ceases to exist. Society must be recognized, and must re- institute its political institutions. E. D. Mansfield. A tenacious adherence to the rights and liberties transmitted from a wise and virtuous ancestry, public spirit, and a love of one's country, are the support and ornament of government. Addison. Quality alone should only serve to make a show in the embroidered part of the government ; but ignorance, though never so well-born, should never be admitted to spoil the public business. Saville. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 339 GovKRNMENT. Evils in government grow by success and by impunity ; they do not restrain themselves volun- tarily ; they can never be limited except by ex- termal forces. T. Hendricks. The end of all government is the happiness of the whole community ; and whenever it does not secure that it is a bad government, and it is time it was altered. J. Barlow. Government is a necessary evil, like other go- carts and clutches ; our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children ; all governing over- much kills the self-help and energy of the gov- erned. W. Phillips. They that govern most make least noise. You See when they row in a barge, they that do drud- gery work, slash, and puff, and sweat ; but he that governs sits quietly at the stern, and scarce is seen to stir. J. Selden. In such, a government as ours, no man is ap- pointed to an office because he is the fittest for it, nor hardly in any other government; because there are so many connections and dependencies to be studied. Dr. Johnsom. In all governments there must of necessity be both the law and the sword ; laws without arms would give us not liberty but licentiousness, and arms without laws would produce not subjection but slavery. Colton. There are nations in which the theory of govern- ment has never formed a subject of reflection or of discussion ; they have adopted at random some one of the systems which they ought to have chosen after mature deliberation. Sismondi. Much of the strength and efficacy of any govern- ment, in procuring and Securing happiness to the people, depends on opinion—on the general opinion of the goodness of that government, as well as of the wisdom and integrity of its governors. Franklin. It is requisite for all those who have rule and governance in a commonwealth, to know the bounds of their state, and the full effect of their duty; that by executing justice they may be feared, and by showing mercy they may be loved. Lactantius. Though there be a kind of natural right in the noble, wise, and virtuous, to govern them which are of a servile disposition, nevertheless, for mani- festation of this their right, the assent of them who are to be governed seemeth necessary. - R. Hooker. Government is, or Ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, Or Community, and not for the par- ticular emolument or advantage of any singleman, family, or set of men who are part only of that community. Pennsylvania Declaration of Rights. The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are deadweights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians. W. G. Simms. GOVERNIMENT. When any of the four pillars of government— which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure— are mainly shaken, or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather. Lord Bacom. The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clockwork, which, depend- ing on so many motions, are therefore more sub- ject to be out of order. Pope. When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aris- totle and his followers call the abuse and corrup- tion of one. Swift. Refined policy ever has been the parent of con- fusion, and will be so as long as the world endures. Plain, good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind. Burke. Government, like every other contrivance, has a specific end ; it implies the resignation of just as much liberty as is needful to attain it ; whatever is demanded more is superfluous, a species of ty- ranny, which ought to be corrected by withdraw- ing it. R. Hall. That government is the best which the people obey the most willingly, and the most wisely ; that state of Society, in which the greatest number may live and educate their families becomingly, by un- strained bodily and unrestricted intellectual exer- tion. W. S. Landor. A government, when it is founded on opinion and imagination, subsists for awhile ; such a gov- ernment is mild in its character, and willingly submitted to ; that of force reigns always. Thus opinion is, so to speak, the queen of the world, but force is the tyrant. Pascal. There is no slight danger from general igno- rance ; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept en- slaved and ignorant. S. T. Coleridge. The government which takes in the consent of the greatest number of the people may justly be said to have the broadest bottom ; and if it be ter- minated in the authority of one single person, it may be said to have the narrowest top ; and so make the firmest pyramid. Sir W. Temple. No government can be either lasting or free which is not founded on virtue, and on that inde- pendence of mind and conduct among the people which creates energy, and leads to everything that is noble and generous, or that can conduce to the strength and safety of a state. Mrs. W. Grey. Virtue affords the only safe foundation for a peaceful, happy, and prosperous government ; when the wicked rule, the nation mourns. Not that rulers must necessarily profess religion, by being members of some Christian church, as desir- able as it may be, but they must venerate it, and be men of pure moral and political honesty. L. C. Judson. 340 AJ A Y’,S CO Z Z A C O AV. GOVERNIMENT. A search after abstract perfection in government may produce, in generous minds, an enterprise and enthusiasm to be recorded by the historian, and to be celebrated by the poet ; but such perfection is not an object of reasonable pursuit, because it is not one of possible attainment. G. Camming. Men well governed should seek after no other liberty, for there can be no greater liberty than a good government ; the truth is, the easiness of the government has made some so wanton as to kick against it ; our own historians write that most of our kings have been unthankfully used. Raleigh. When we run over in our mind, without feeling any prepossession for our country, all the different forms of government, one knows not which to choose. What is most consistent with reason and safest, is to regard that government under which we are born as the best of all, and quietly to sub- mit to it. Bruyère. There are three sorts of government : monarchi- cal, aristocratical, democratical ; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin—the first, by tyranny ; the second, by ambition ; the last, by tumults. A commonwealth grounded upon any one of these is not of long continuance; but, wisely mingled, each guards the other and makes the gov- ernment exact. F. Qwarles. But I say to you, and to our whole country, and to the crowned heads, and aristocratic powers, and feudal systems that exist, that it is to self-govern- ment, the great principle of popular representation and administration—the system that lets in all to participate in the counsels that are to assign the good or evil to all—that we may owe what we are and what we hope to be. D. Webster. There are two ways in which a government de- generates; when it contracts, or when the state is dissolved. The government contracts when it passes from a large number to a small, from a de- mocracy to an aristocracy, or from an aristocracy to royalty ; that is its natural bent. If it went back from a small number to a great, we might say that it relaxed ; but such an inverse progress is impossible. Rowsseaw. Providence has laid upon us the responsibility and the honor of solving that problem in which all coming generations of men have a profound inter- est—whether the true ends of government can be secured by a popular representative system. Never before was a people so advantageously situated for working out this great problem in favor of human liberty ; and it is important for us to understand that the world so regards it. H. A. Boardman. That is a just and good government which is ade- quate to every purpose for the social compact and progress of its people ; a government elective in all its branches, under which every citizen may, by his merit, obtain the highest trust in its gift ; which contains within it no cause of discord, to put at variance one portion of the community with another, and which protects every citizen in the full enjoyment of his rights, and is able to protect the nation against injustice from foreign powers. James Monroe. GOVERNMENT. When the ideas and passions of a people have been stirred up, good sense, moderation, and abili- ty are not long sufficient to govern them. The day is not slow in coming round in which, whether to do good or to hinder evil, clear as well as lofty convictions and energetic volitions become indis- pensable in governments. Guizot. It is contrary to the eternal and unalterable laws of nature, and to the decrees of the Maker of man and of nations, that a government, founded on and maintained by injustice, rapine, murder, and athe- ism, can have a fixed endurance or a permanent Success ; there are, self-sown in its own bosom, the Seeds of its own inevitable dissolution. Sheridan. All governments should be founded on love ; and So they are, on love of one or another kind ; on the love of justice, the love of law and equal rights, the love of power, the love of oppression, the love of Ostentation, the love of gain and plunder ; but the greatest and strongest of all love—the love of Self. Of all these loves, self-love and the love of plunder predominate. Actorv. It is not mere matter of opinion, but truth itself, that the best form of government for every na- tion is that under which it lives ; its form and es- Sential fitness depend upon custom. We are too apt to be dissatisfied with the present state of things ; but I maintain, nevertheless, that to be desirous of an oligarchy when we are living in a republic, or in a monarchy, of another form of government, is folly and wickedness. Montaigme. Some have said that it is not the business of priv- ate men to meddle with government—a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery ; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed. Cato. In general, all mankind will, agree that govern- ment should be reposed in such persons in whom are most likely to be found the three great requi- sites of wisdom, goodness, and power ; wisdom, to discern the real interest of the community ; good- ness, to endeavor always to pursue that real inter- est ; and strength, or power, to carry this know- ledge and intention into action. These are the natural foundations of Sovereignty, and these are the requisites that ought to be found in every well-constituted frame of government. Blackstome. The reason for which government exists is, that one man, if stronger than another, will take from him whatever that other possesses and he desires —but if one man will do this, so will several—and if powers are put into the hands of a comparative- ly small number, called an aristocracy, they will take from the rest of the community as much as they please of the objects of desire ; they will thus defeat the very end for which government was in- stituted. The unfitness, therefore, of an aristocracy to be entrusted with the powers of government rest on demonstration. J. Mill. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 341 GOVERNMENT. As rust is the canker of iron, and worms destroy wood, and as these substances, even though they may escape a violent end, at last fall a prey to the decay that is, as it were, natural to them ; in the same manner, likewise, in every kind of govern- ment there is a particular vice inherent in it which is attached to its very mature, and which brings it to a close ; thus royalty degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into Savage violence and anarchy. Polybius. The regular distribution of power into distinct departments—the introduction of legislative bal- ances and checks—the institution of courts com- posed of judges holding their offices during good behavior—the representation of the people in the legislature, by deputies of their own election—these are either wholly new discoveries, or have made their principal progress toward perfection in mod- ern times. They are means, and powerful means, by which the excellencies of republican govern- ment may be retained, and its imperfections les- sened or avoided. A. Hamilton. I know, indeed, that some homest men fear a re- publican government cannot be strong—that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experi- ment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may, by possibility, want energy to preserve it- self? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth ; I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern. T. Jefferson. “Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.” To the true understanding of the po- litical science, it is in the first place necessary to perceive that all government, abstractedly con- sidered, is an evil. Like medicine, it is often a necessary evil—the lesser of two evils; but yet, under all circumstances, an evil still. The less medicine we require, the better is our moral condi- tion. Drugs and laws are rendered necessary in ninety-nine cases out of fifty not by nature but by education ; by false or neglected education ; by a neglect to train the body and the mind, as under favorable circumstances they may most easily and most pleasantly be trained. G. J. W. A. Ellis. The ruin or prosperity of a state depends somuch upon the administration of its government, that to be acquainted with the merits of a ministry we need only observe the condition of the people ; if we see them obedient to the laws, prosperous in their industry, united at home, and respected abroad, we may reasonably presume that their affairs are conducted by men of experience, abili- ties, and virtue ; if on the contrary we see a uni- versal spirit of distrust and dissatisfaction, a rapid decay of trade, dissensions in all parts of the em- pire, and a total loss of respect in the eyes of foreign powers, we may pronounce without hesitation, that the government of that country is weak, dis- tracted, and corrupt. Junius. GRACE. Grace is a fountain of life. J. C. L. Allendorf. Neither race nor place makes a man, but grace. C. V. T. Gallws. All our graces are to be cultivated to the neglect of none of them. Dr. Gºwthrie. It is possible to come short of the promise of the grace of God. W. M. Pumshom. God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses. H. W. Beecher. One that is rich in grace continues in a perfect state free and pure. Macarius. Divine grace, even in the beart of weak and sin- ful man, is an invincible thing. R. Leighton. Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. Hazlitt. By God's grace the most abject of His creatures may rise to a rank of a celestial force. Mºme. Swetchine. Grace in the heart constantly acts like itself ; but a gracious heart does not always do so. G. D. Premtice. A little grace from Christ is better than none at all, just as a little money is better than no money. J. Bate. The Christian graces are like perfumes, the more they are pressed by affliction, the sweeter they smell. J. Beaumont. The being of grace must go before the increase of it ; for there is no growth without life, no build- ing without a foundation. Lavington. The more a man lives in the sight of gospel- grace, the more sin will be discountenanced, resis- ted, hated, and totally displaced. T. Brooks. Grace comes into the Soul as the morning sun into the world ; there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the Sun in his excellent brightness. T. Adams. Virtue, wisdom, and goodness are the true graces which are linked hand in hand, because it is by their influence human hearts are so firmly united to each other. R. Burton, Let grace and goodness be the principal load- stone of thy affections ; for love, which hath ends, will have an end ; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. Dryden. Grace infuseth a spirit of activity into a person ; grace doth not lie dormant in the soul ; it is not a sleepy habit, but it makes a Christian like a Se- raphim, swift-winged in his heavenly motions; grace is like fire, it makes one burn in love to God. T. Watson. There is nothing so effectual to obtain grace, to retain grace, and to regain grace, as always to be found before God, not over wise but to fear. Hap- py art thou if thy heart be replenished with three fears : a fear for received grace, a greater fear for lost grace, a greatest fear to recover grace. F. Quarles. 342 ZD A Y’,S C O /, / A C O AV. GRACEFULNESS. GRAMMAR. Gracefulness is a natural gift. R. Whately. There is no English grammar. J. Wetherell. Gracefulness results from nature, improved by Grammar teacheth us to speak properly. art. G. Crabb. T. Baker. Gracefulness is an idea not very different from Grammar tells about the words that make up a beauty. Burke. language. Dr. Morris. Gracefulness is to the body what good sense is to Grammarians are the guardians, not the authors, the mind. Rochefoucauld. of language. Seneca. Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. Schiller. Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful. Cicero. A graceful presence bespeaks acceptance, gives a force to language, and helps to convince by look and posture. J. Collier. The world lives by woman ; she contributes two elements which create all civilization ; her grace- fulness, her delicacy ; but this last is chiefly a re- flection of her purity. Michelet. Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease ; deli- cacy is not debility ; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity and sickness may ex- cite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health. Rowsseaw. There are few instances in which you find beauty, elegance of figure, and gracefulness of manners, united with strong, energetic powers of mind ; the fairest flowers in nature's garden are often desti- tute of fragrance, and filled with deadly poison. J. Bartlett. Gracefulness increases as refinement progresses, and among the remote advantages that may be expected to flow from the spread of intelligence, especially from the laws of health becoming more generally understood and observed, is an indefinite increase of manly beauty and feminine loveliness. Bovee. Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished—it hardly looks better than a common pebble ; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms. Jane Porter. Gracefulness, like beauty, is one of those spon- taneous inherent qualities which, though felt and acknowledged by all, yet have never been satis- factorily explained. Like beauty, too, it is only to be found in that nice, that hair-breath calculation, so precisely situated between the poco piw o meno, equally avoiding the tameness of insipidity and the affectation of grimace. J. J. Winckelmann. Gracefulness in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-pos- session, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations, and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresisti- ble than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, “in their eyes, arms, hands, and face,” which robs us of our Selves, and draws us by a secret sympathy toward them. - Holzlitt. What folly to devote one's time to such a subject as grammar ! Perizonius. Grammar lords it over kings, and with a high hand makes them obey its laws. Molière. The most adroit parser is often unable to write a simple sentence grammatically. G. B. Emerson. To use the right words either in speaking, writ- ing, or printing, is called grammar. O. Leonicenſus. Grammar is the art of using words properly ; it is the science of speaking correctly. Dr. Johnsom. Grammar is an orderly arrangement of the facts which concern the form of a language. Roby. English grammar is the art of speaking and writing the English language correctly. W. Lily. The grammarian gives rules for the attainment of correctness in the use of language. S. P. Newman. To write grammar we must write according to the practice of good writers and speakers. - N. Webster. We make a countryman dumb, whom we will not allow to speak but by the rules of grammar. Dryden. Few tasks are more dry, repulsive, and unmean- ing than learning the Ordinary forms and rules of grammar. D. Patterson. I would have any one name to me that tongue which one can speak as he should do by the rules of grammar. J. Locke. It is not the business of the grammarian to give law to language, but to teach it, agreeably to the best usage. G. Brown. A knowledge of English grammar is very prop- erly considered an indispensable part of an English education. P. Bullions. The greater part of an English grammar must necessarily be a compilation ; Originality belongs to but a small portion of it. L. Murray. In the grammar of the Latin or the Greek, we have a language reducible to rules, the rules given, and the reasons for them shown. T. Dwight. Natural grammar is based on the constitutional functions of all the intellectual faculties, and of course involves position as well as other things. O. S. Fowler. The applied Science of language, if confined to the speech of a single country or district, forms the particular grammar of the language there spoken. Sir J. Stodard. A R O S / O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 343 GHRAMMAR. For the attainment of correctness and purity in the use of words, the rules of grammarians and critics may be a sufficient guide. D. Stewart. Grammar is that branch of knowledge which teaches the art of speaking correctly ; properly speaking, it includes only etymology and syntax. Prof. Whitney. The defining of parts of speech is a serious affair. The whole fabric of grammar rests upon the clas- Sifying of words according to their functions in the Sentence. D. A. Baim. The only method to render the study of grammar inviting and interesting, is to communicate a true knowledge of the principles on which the science is founded. S. BCLºrett. The office of the grammarian is to state what the language is, and to know what the language is he must learn what is the established usage of the best writers and speakers. E. Everard. Few authors have written with philosophical accuracy on the principles of general grammar ; and what is more to be regretted, fewer still have thought of applying those principles to the English language. FI. Blair. If a sentence is right, and we have to change it, in the least, to make it agree with the rules of grammar, the rules are defective or wrong, and the grammar, so called, is not a grammar of the language. O. B. Peirce. As a person may be able to recite every word of the Koran and yet not practice a single one of its precepts, so may One know all the rules of gram- mar and yet not speak or write with elegance or propriety. Ibn Khallikółm. However various are the grammars of differ- ent languages, yet grammarians are everywhere obliged to adopt a general classification, just as the geologist is obliged to adopt general classes of stra- tification for the elementary earths. Mansfield. He who speaks or writes a language in defiance of the rules of grammar; and boasts that he speaks naturally in so doing, is not unlike the savage who, eschewing knives and forks, may with truth main- tain that he is following nature when he eats with his fingers. E. P. Day. Grammar, or the doctrine of language, treats of the laws of speech, and in the first place of the word, as its fundamental constituent with respect to its matter and its form ; in prosody, or the doc- trine of Sounds, and in morphology, or the doctrine of forms, and then of the combination of words in speech ; in syntax, or the doctrine of the joining of words and sentences. Prof. Moetzner. People have yet fully to grasp the fact that there is really no such thing as a grammar of the English tongue: that all systems of teaching English-speak- ing children their mother tongue by rules, excep- tions, and observations, are useless ; and not only SO, but worse, because they are led by such a sys- tem into the injurious misapprehension that writ- ing or speaking grammatically is something else than writing or speaking naturally—something else than saying just what you mean. R. G. White. GRANDEUR,. The grandeur of man's nature turns to insignifi- cance all outward distinctions. W. E. Channing. The grandeur and sublimity of God are seen more in mercy than in punishment. Bradshaw. When once the filial feeling is breathed into the heart, the soul cannot be terrified by justice, or any form of divine grandeur. H. W. Beecher. To me grandeur in objects seems nothing else but such a degree of excellence, in one kind or an- Other, as merits our admiration. T. Reid. The mind of a great prince is exalted with the grandeur of his situation; he resolveth high things, and searcheth for business worthy of his power. R. Dodsley. The grandeur and magnificence of wealth tends to enslave the body. ; but the grandeur of the works of God elevates the soul, and expands and purifies the mind. Amºnie E. Lancaster. The love of glory regards, in view of its lofty deeds and daring aspirations, the insignificance of the present by contrasting it with the grandeur of the future. - Acton. Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite that you often diminish the one as you increase the other ; vanity is most akim to the latter, simplicity to the former. Shemstone. All grandeur that has not something correspond- ing to it in personal merit and heroic acts, is a delib- erate burlesque, and an insult on common sense and human nature. Hazlitt. There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of man- kind endeavor to procure in the little circle of their friends and acquaintance. Addison. Those who are ambitious for earthly grandeur are rarely in a temper of mind to take a just view of themselves and of all things that surround them ; they forget that there is anything above this, in comparison with which it sinks into insignificance and meanness. - G. Crabb. What grandeur can compare to the grandeur of mature, in the peals of her orchestral music, the chiming winds, and the mingled Sounds of many waters ; and where is there a more pure, divine, or ennobling inspiration than the spectacle of heaven and earth. James Ellis. Why is there such splendor in the works of God? Why is there such grandeur in all that we see ? If the works be so complete, what must the Creator be 2 If such is the beauty of creatures, what must be the inexpressible beauty, the infinite grandeur of Him who beholds with one glance the whole Creation ? Sturm. The starry heavens, though occurring so very frequently to our view, can never fail to excite an idea of grandeur; this cannot be owing to the stars themselves, separately considered ; the num- ber is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Burke. 344 JJ A Y',S C O Z Z A C O AV. GRATITUDE. Gratitude is the memory of the heart. Massiew. Gratitude is the purest of the heart's memories. Mrs. S. H. De Kroyft. Be and remain grateful to any one who hath helped thee. Rabbi Iechiel. Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it. Epicurus. The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favors. H. Walpole. A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. Lessing. The feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion in noble hearts. A. Poincelot. Gratitude is a painful pleasure, felt and expressed by none but noble souls. L. C. Judson. It is not best to refine gratitude; it evaporates in the process of subtilization. Nicole. The gratitude of a mean soul is little more than a glow of gratified selfishness. Bovee. He enjoys much who is thankful for little ; a grateful mind is a great mind. T. Secker. No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful. Coltom. Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which mone have a right to expect. Rousseaw. Grateful persons resemble fertile fields, which always repay more than they receive. J. Cornwell. Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from. because it is always at our own disposal. Charron. A grateful mind is not only the greatest of vir- tues, but the parent of all the other virtues. Cicero. One man is grateful for his convenience, and an- Other man is ungrateful for the same reason. L’Estrange. Gratitude is a virtue which approaches more nearly than any other social virtue to justice. S. Parr. Gratitudein the generality of men is only astrong and secret wish to receive still greater benefits. Rochefoucauld. It becomes a man, if he hath received aught grateful to his mind, to bear it in remembrance. Sophocles. Gratitude is a delightful emotion ; the grateful heart at once performs its duty and endears itself to others. Gratitude is much diminished, when we are benefitted by a public charity, instead of a pri- vate benefactor. F. Wayland. * Beneficent people are rarely grateful ; they look upon common favors like common politeness as a matter of course. Chatfield. It is with gratitude as with trust among trades- men, we pay to engage people the more easily to trust us another time. Amºve Bradstreet. G. Brown. GRATITUIDE. It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love ; love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never. Pascal. There is a selfishness even in gratitude, when it if too profuse ; to be over-thankful for one favor is in effect to lay out for another. R. Cwmberland. Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. Pope. Men are deficient in gratitude, even at the time when a favor is received ; and much less are they apt to retain a proper sense of it afterwards. Livy, If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parents, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of man due to our Father in heaven - H. Ballow. That man is most blessed, who receives his daily bread with gratitude and thankfulness from the hand of God ; and he who does so, experiences a pleasure that exceeds description. Ratlalcantot. It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation ; if you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them, for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely. Bulwey. Gratitude is a temper of mind which denotes a desire of acknowledging the receipt of a benefit ; the mind which does not so feel is not as it ought to be ; but, like every other grace which is required of us, virtuous gratitude depends, in part, on right views. E. Williams. Gratitude is a virtue disposing the mind to an inward sense and an outward acknowledgment of a benefit received, together with a readiness to return the same, or the like, as occasions of the doer of it shall require, and the abilities of the re- ceiver extend to. R, Sowth. As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also is it an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; SO obvious, that wherever there is life there is a place for it ; SO cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the slug- gard may be so likewise without labor. Seneca. As flowers carry dew-drops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving ; and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude. H. W. Beecher. There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude ; it is accompanied with such an in- ward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently re- warded by the performance ; it is not, like the practice of many other virtues, difficult and pain- ful, but attended with so much pleasure that were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it for the gratification which accompanies it. Addison. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 345 GRAVE. How vital is the grave E. Young. The grave is a sacred workshop of nature A. L. M. M. Jowrdain. How peaceful and how powerful is the grave. Byron. In the grave we shall rest, and take a long sleep. Osceola. The grave is the place appointed for all the liv- ing. Samuel Davies. The grave is the temple of silence and reconcili- ation. T. B. Macaulay. There are innumerable roads on all sides to the grave. - Cicero. The grave is a common treasury to which we must all be taken. - Burke. A grave wherever found preaches a short, pithy Sermon to the soul. Hawthorne. We can carry nothing beyond the grave but our virtues and our vices. W. Gilpin. The grave is the gate through which we pass, from the visible to the invisible world. Chatfield. The grave is deep and still, and fearful is its brink ; it covers with a dark mantle an unknown land. Salis. Of every tear that sorrowing morals shed on green graves, some good is born, Some gentler na- ture COmeS. Dickens. He who shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it. Bovee. If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors ; the grave re- quires no marshal. F. Quarles. Grave-yards are solemn volumes, in which even the blind may read upon their marble pages the records of hopes all departed. Mrs. S. H. De Kroyft. There is something beyond the grave ; death does not put an end to everything, the dark shade escapes from the consumed pile. Propertius. The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved ; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing. - H. W. Beecher. We die every day ; every moment deprives us of a portion of life, and advances us a step toward the grave ; our whole life is only a long and painful sickness. Massillom. When conscience is awakened upon the borders of the grave, it beholds death in its utmost horror, as the curse of the broken law, as the accomplish- ments of the threatenings of an angry God. - I. Watts. Here is the landmark of all power, the limit of all exertion ; art, beauty, splendor, pomp—all re- sist in vain. Books, the plough, the sword, the staff of office, seek a grave under the same dust. A. Gryphius. GRAVE. We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fad- ing beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory. Evelyn. The grave is not deep ; it is the shining tread of an angel that seeks us. When the unknown hand throws the fatal dart at the end of man, then boweth he his head, and the dart only lifts the crown of thorns from his wounds. Richter. Attractive as home is, there is one other place that is still nearer the human heart ; and that is the churchyard which holds our friends ; a moth- er's grave is the Mecca that our memory ever kneels to, be our pilgrimage where it may. Parker. The wisdom which has determined that our victo- ry over our spiritual death should be by means of a various and protracted warfare, has arranged that victory over natural death should be through the passage of the grave. H. Vawgham. The grave is a discoverer of the absurdity of sin of every kind; there the ambitious may learn the folly of ambition ; there the vain may learn the Vanity of all human things ; there the voluptuous may read a mortifying lesson on the absurdity of Sensual pleasure. C. Buck. The grave buries every error, covers every de- fect, and extinguishes every resentment ; from its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should have warred with the poor handful of dust that lies moldering before him 2 W. Irving. When the hand shall be pulseless, cold, and mo- tionless as the grave wherein it must lie—when the winding-sheet shall be our sole vesture, and the close-sealed sepulchre our only home, and we shall have no familiar companion and no rejoicing friend but the worm—O, thou cold hand of death, unlock for us then the portals of eternal life, that whilst our bodies rest in their bed of earth, our Souls may recline in the bosom of God 1 Acton. When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuse for every weakness, and palliations of every fault ; we recollect a thousand endearments which before glided off our minds without impres- sion, a thousand favorsunrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed, and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood. S. Johnson. Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave; it is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves, lie quiet forever ; there the child nestles as peaceful as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brainis pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of charity that covers all blame. E. H. Chapin. 346 Al A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. GRAVITY. GREATNESS. Gravity is the ballast of the soul. T. Fuller. Greatness is goodness displayed. Menciws. Gravity is twin brother to stupidity. Bovee, All great virtues become great men. Corneille. Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. Lavater. Gravity is the best cloak for sin, in all countries. Fielding. Gravity is only the bark of wisdom, but it pre- serves it. Confucius. Gravity is the homage that a fool pays to wis- dom, without knowing it. H. W. Shaw. Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the defects of the mind. - Rochefoucauld. If the scholar have not gravity, he will not call forth any veneration, and his learning will not be solid. Tsang. Gravity is of the very essence of imposture ; it does not only make us mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself. Shaftesbury. Gravity of demeanor supplies the place in many of capacity ; they seldom deign to open their lips, and think that in this way they imitate the wise. Yºriarte. There is no affectation in the world so great as the affectation of gravity ; it is frequently but a mere counterfeit, and at best but a kind of quack- ery. Mme. de Motteville. There is a gravity which is not austere nor cap- tious, which belongs not to melancholy, nor dwells in contraction of heart ; but arises from tender- ness, and hangs upon reflection. |W. S. Landor. As in a man's life so in his studies, I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness. Pliny. Gravity is peculiarly ascribed to a judge, from the double cause, that much depends upon his de- portment, in which there ought to be gravity, and that the weighty concerns which press on his mind are most apt to produce gravity. G. Crabb, There is a false gravity that is a very ill symp- tom ; and it may be said, that as rivers which run very slowly have always the most mud at the bottom, so a solid stiffness in the constant course of man's life, is the sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain. Sir H. Saville. Gravity is an arrant scoundrel, and of the most dangerous kind too, because a sly one ; and more honest, well-meaning people are bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth, than by pocket-picking and shoplifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, he would say, there was no danger but to itself; whereas the very essence of gravity was design, and consequently deceit ; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and know- ledge than a man was worth. Sterne. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. Jeremy Taylor. The Sad stories of the great make a deep impres- sion. Euripides. You cannot produce the great man before his time. V. Cousin. The greatest men have been able both to see and to do. F. Meyer. Nothing can be great, the contempt of which is great. Longinus. A great soul is above insult, injustice, grief, and mockery. Bruyère. The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. Sir J. Malcolm. While a great man is living, people hope and fear in him. Zabóda. Happy are the people who recognize and follow a great man. Napoleon III. To be a great man a person must accomplish great things. H. M. Gallagher. We value great men by their virtue and not by their success. Nepos. There never was a great man unless through di- vine inspiration. Cicero. In the truly great, virtue governs with the scep- tre of knowledge. Sir P. Sidney. The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness. E. P. Whipple. The great are only great because we are on our knees; let us rise up. Prudhomme. Everything great is not always good ; but all good things are great. Demosthenes. It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot. Washington. True greatness of mind is to be maintained only . by Christian principles. G. Brown. There is no true greatness in this world, nor is any mortal really wise. Catherine II. True greatness is that which produces the great- . est amount of happiness. L. C. Judson. In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die. Wawven argues. It is, alas ! the poor prerogative of greatness to be wretched and unpitied. Congreve. It is the curse of the great that the low possess themselves of their open ears. Schiller. That which is great and splendid is not always laudable, but whatever is laudable must be great. G. Fothergill. Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are prin- - cipally remembered for the mischief they have done. Bovee. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 347 º / W ‘J ſ GREATNESS, The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them. Boiste. It is highly imprudent in the greatest of men un- necessarily to provoke the meanest. If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great enterprises, even though they fail. Seneca. Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ; ordinary men gain much. W. S. Landor. Nothing can make a man truly great, but being truly good and partaking of God's holiday. M. Henry. The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world. Goethe. The superiority of some men is merely local ; they are great because their associates are little. Dr. Johnson. Great minds are the first that find their own griefs, though they are the last that find their own faults. W. Bent. Our greatness is best seen, not in the great things we do or aspire to, but in the great things to which we are called. H. Hooker. A. solid and substantial greatness of Soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude. Addison. Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, Some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Shakspeare. Nature produces in every age men suited to be great men; but the times do not always allow them to develop their talents. Fontenelle. Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing as the content- ment of it cannot requite. F. Hall. Great souls are not those which have less passion 2 and more virtue than Common Souls, but Only those which have greater designs. Rochefoucauld. Great acts and great eloquence have most Com- monly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages. Milton. There is always, and everywhere, some restraint upon a great man ; he is guarded with crowds, and shackled with formalities. Cowley. There is something of oddity in the very idea of , , greatness, for we are seldom astonished at a thing | very much resembling ourselves. Goldsmith. It is always a sign of poverty of mind when men are ever aiming to appear great ; for they who are really great never seem to know it. Burleigh. Such is the destiny of great men that their supe- rior genius always exposes them to the butt of the envenomed darts of calumny and envy. Voltaire. The most substantial glory of a country is in its virtuous, great men; its prosperity will depend on its docility to learn from their example. F. Ames. L’Estrange. ..] | Sºoise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces. GREATNESS. Every man is great as a man ; for he who pos- sesses the divine powers of a Soul is a great being, be his place in society what it may. - J. O. Halliwell-Phillips. Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if pro- sperity carries a man never so little beyond his ***, Seneca. He is happiest wił advances more gradually to greatness ; whom the public destines to every step of his preferment long before he arrives at it. A. Smith. Great persons have need to borrow other men's Opinions to think themselves happy ; for if they judge by their own feelings, they cannot find it. Lord Bacon. Great souls attract sorrows as mountains do storms ; but the thunder-clouds break upon them, and they thus form a shelter for the plains around. Richter. Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the light of heaven. Sir T. Browne. The true test of a great man—that at least, which must secure his place among the highest order of , great men—is his having been in advance of his . age. Lord Browgham. A man's greatness lies not in wealth and station, but in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and every- thing else. G. Long. There never was a great truth but it was rever- enced ; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind. T. Parke?". A contemplation of God’s works, a generous con- cern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious. Addison. There is something on earth greater than arbi- trary power ; the thunder, the lightning, and the earthquake are terrific, but the judgment of the people is more. D. Webster. There is no man so great as not to have some lit- y| tleness more predominant than all his greatness. “ Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the play- thing of our follies. Bulwer. If I am asked, Who is the greatest man? I an- swer, The best ; and if I am requested to say, Who is the best ? I reply, He that has deserved most of his fellow-creatures. Sir W. Jones. It is meet the great should have the fame of hap- piness, the consolation of a little envy ; it is all their pay for those superior cares, those pangs of heart their vassals never can feel. T. Yowng. In order to be great we must form great plans, and satisfy ambition that we are capable of im- proving great opportunities, by the sagacity we manifest in our management of Ordinary ones. - N. Macdonald. 348 AD A Y',S C O / / A C O AV. GHREATNESS. All great men are characterised by three things: simplicity in manners, simplicity in speech, sim- plicity in spirit. J. Bate. He only is great who has the habit of greatness ; who after performing what none in ten thousand could accomplish, passes on like Samson, and “tells neither father nor mother of it.” Lavater. It is the duty of a great person so to demean him- self, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no quality but such as any man may arrive at. Steele. Success and opportunity constitute greatness— the illustrious Washington would have lived and died without distinction on the banks of the Poto- mac, had the American Revolution never taken place. J. Bartlett. All our endeavors after greatness proceed from nothing but a desire of being surrounded by a mul- titude of persons and affairs, that may hinder us from looking into ourselves, which is a view we cannot bear. Pascal. Substract from a great man all that he owes to opportunity and all that he owes to chance, all that * he has gained by the wisdom of his friends and by the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be left a pigmy. T. Barlow. The greatest men have not always the best heads: many indiscretions may be pardoned in a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and dis- cretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind. Baron de Grimm. If wrecks, and ruins, and desolation of kingdoms are marks of greatness, why do we not worship a tempest, and erect a statue to the plague 2 A pane- gyric upon an earthquake is every jot as reasonable as upon such conquests as these. J. Collier. Greatness can only be, rightly estimated when minuteness is justly reverenced. Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness ; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least. Ruskin. The great make us feel, first of all, the indiffer- ence of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere ; only the low habits need palaces and banquets. R. W. Emerson. I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men; but there are forms of greatness, or at least of ex- cellence, which “die and make no sign ;” there are martyrs that miss the palm, but not the stake : he- roes without the laurel, and conquerors without the triumph. G. A. Sala. A man who has a noble cause, and who subor- dinates, and even sacrifices themself to it—he is a great man. A man who does his duty in despite Of all outward contradiction, and who reverences his conscience so greatly as that, to preserve it un- harmed, he will face any difficulty and submit to any penalty, he is a great man. J. Ferguson. GREATNESS. Great men are like oaks, under the branches of which men are happy in finding a refuge in the time of storm and rain ; but when they have to pass a Sunny day under them, they take pleasure in cutting the bark and breaking the branches. Themistocles. The great men of the earth are the shadowy men, who having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts; thus liv- ing, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air. H. W. Beecher. Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God, and secret passages, running deep beneath external nature, give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the laborers on the . surface do not even dream. Longfellow. The greatest manis he who chooses the right with invincible resolution ; who resists the sorest temp- tations from within and without ; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully ; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menace and frowns: and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering. W. E. Chamming. Great men are in general not comprehended by their contemporaries, over whom they tower too much ; nay, they are often persecuted on account of the prejudices which they trample down in their progress. It is a late posterity, which, finding what the great man discovered to be the truth, and enjoying the fruit of his toil, pays him the thanks due to his deserts. G. W. F. Hegel. Great men like comets are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Hence, like those erratic orbs in the firmament, it is their fate to be miscomprehended by fools, and misrepresented by knaves; to be abused for all the good they actually do, and to be accused of ills with which they have nothing to do, neither in design nor execution. Colton. If the title of a great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be charged with an indiscre- tion or a vice, who spent his life in establishing the independence, the glory, and durable prosperity of his country ; who succeeded in all that he under- took, and whose successes were never won at the expense of honor, justice, integrity, or by the sac- rifice of a single principle—this title will not be denied to Washington. J. Sparks. Society, indeed, has its great men and its little men, as the earth has its mountains and its valleys. But the inequalities of intellect, like the inequali- ties of the surface of our globe, bear so small a pro- portion to the mass that in calculating its great revolutions they may safely be neglected. The Sun illuminates the hills while it is still below the hori- zon, and truth is discovered by the highest minds a little before it becomes manifest to the multi- tude. This is the extent of their superiority. They are the first to catch and reflect a light which, with- out their assistance, must in a short time be visible to those who lie far beneath them. T. B. Macaulay. ſº A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 349 GREEDINESS. GRIEF. Greediness bursts the wallet. A. Crowgwill. Give not way to grief. Al-Hāft. Greedy people have long arms. Joseph Hatton. Grieve not for the impossible. Democritus. Greediness of food bringeth intemperance, lust, There is also a satiety of grief. Homer. and contempt of the wise and good. Plato. - - -- Let not thy grief expel reason. Rwºzik. Through every stage and revolution of life the - - greediness for more wealth increases with renewed Grief conquers the unconquered man. Ovid. eagerneSS. Annie E. Lancaster. When after long abstinence thou comest to food, eat not with greediness like a dog ; but imitate the camel, and eat with moderation. Omar Selmeh. Because men believe not Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard ; they do not believe any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. I. Barrow. Greediness is the characteristic of low and bru- tal minds; avidity is in mental desires what greedi- is in animal appetites; the miser grasps at money with greediness, or the glutton devours with greed- iness. G. Crabb. An able man will arrange his interests, and con- duct each in its proper order. Our greediness often hurts us, by making us prosecute so many things at once ; by too earnestly desiring the less consider- able, we lose the more important. Rochefoucauld. We are all of us richer than we think we are ; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than our own. Man can in nothing fix and Con- form himself to his mere necessity ; of pleasure, wealth, and power he grasps at more than he can hold ; his greediness is incapable of moderation. Montaigne. GREETING". Greet with sincerity. E. P. Day. A hearty greeting does not always denote friend- ship. Chatfield. A warm greeting between friends is like a ray of sunshine. James Ellis. fºxtend courteous greeting to every One, what- ever be his faith. Rabbi Ieehiel. The greeting ill received, which hard men mock at, rendeth the feelings of the tender. Tupper. The greeting of a gentleman is always courteous to strangers, and with warmth to friends. P. Fitzgerald. To receive a warm greeting at the house of a friend, is something that is not home, and yet is SO like it. Sir W. Temple. On meeting an acquaintance, some persons greet his dress, some his money, some his position in life, and it is but seldom that a cordial greeting is given to the man. J. S. Buckingham. As ships geet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep ; so men meet in this world, and I think we should cross no man's path without hail- ing him, and if he needs give him supplies. H. W. Beecher. Grief alone can teach us what is man. Bulwer. Grief and joy look out of the same window. J. T. Headley. Grief seems to be next neighbor to madness. Antiphanes. Grief, to be expressive, should be without excess. Confucius. Every one can master a grief but he that has it. Shakspeare. In a dull and torpid soul grief is a slow anguish. Miss M. E. Braddon. He conquers grief who can take a firm resolu- tion. Goethe. Grief should have no part in the hearts of chil- dren. Fanny Fern. One can never be the judge of another person's grief. Chateawbriand. Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak no- thing. R. Crashaw. There is no grief like the grief which does not Speak. Longfellow. Light griefs are plaintive, but heavy ones are dumb. A Seneca. Grief is the culture of the soul ; it is the true fer- tilizer. Mme.de Girardin. There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. Cicero. The business of life summons us away from use- less grief. S. Johnson. Woman's grief is like a summer storm, short as it is violent. Miss J. Baillie. Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two bear it lightly. W. Hauff. Grief can teach us nothing, nor carry us one step into real nature. R. W. Emerson. Grief is apt to imagine to itself evils more than double the reality. Philemon. He is indeed a strong man who is at all times able to master his grief. Al-Aziz. The best cure for our own grief is to attempt to cure the griefs of others. Ficinus. We pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can. Holzlitt. Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. R. A. Willmott. The man who is greatly grieved takes his best comfort when he finds time to lament his loss. T. Bradwardine. 350 A) A Y',S C O / / A C O AV. GFIEF. There is no greater grief than in misery to turn our thoughts back to happier times. Damte. We should not grieve at reverses until time de- cides whether they be for evil or good. J. Britton. None grieve with so much ostentation as those who in their hearts rejoice at the event. Tacitus. Too much grief in a man is as much to be con- demned as too much boldness in a woman. Bias. Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. JYemophom. We sometimes lose friends whom we regret more than we grieve for ; and others for whom we grieve yet do not regret. Rochefoucauld. In the loss of an object, we do not proportion our grief to its real value, but to the value our fancies set upon it. Addison. It is the part of a man to affected with grief, to feel sorrow, at the same time that he is to resist it, and to admit of comfort. Pliny. That grief is the most durable which flows in- ward, and buries its streams with its fountain in the depths of the heart. Jane Porter. Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than hap- piness ever can ; and common Sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Lamartime. Real grief is never clamorous ; it seeks to shun every eye; and breathes in solitude and silence, the sighs that come from the heart. M. Antoinette. Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid; joy may elevate, ambition may glori- fy, but sorrow alone can consecrate. H. Greeley. If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now ex- cite envy would appear to be the objects of pity ? Metastasio. Grief is only the memory of widowed affection; the more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence. J. Martineaw. In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent ; in the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation. Mme. Swetchine. What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation, that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our plea- sure we have more. Greville. Grief never sleeps; it watches continually, like a jealous hand ; all the world groans under its sway, and it fears that by sleeping, its clutch will become loosened, and its prey escape. Marie Jeanne Héritièr de Villandom. As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief, only when it begins to melt and pass away. H. W. Beecher. only wells. G-RIEF. The greatness of the affliction is not to be reck- oned from the number of tears; the greatest griefs are above these testimonies, as the greatest joys are beyond utterance. R. Dodsley. Grief is a slow, yet sure poison to the body na- tural ; it dries up the sources of existence; it drains the Springs of life, and marches the subject to an early, premature grave. J. Bartlett. He who troubles himself more than he needs, will also grieve more than is necessary ; for the same weakness that makes him anticipate his mise- ry, makes him enlarge it also. Mrs. Hodson. Griefs are like the beings that endure them ; the little Ones are the most clamorous and noisy ; those of older growth and greater magnitude are gene- rally tranquil, and sometimes silent. Chatfield. It is true we can bear the occasions of grief with- out being sunk or drowned in those passions; but to bear them without a murmuring heart—then is the task ; and in failing, there is the sin. Lady Russell. Grief is a flower as delicate and prompt to fade as happiness; still, it does not wholly die ; like the magic rose, dried and unrecognizable, a warm air breathed on it, will suffice to renew its bloom. Mime. de Gasparim. What is grief ? It is an obscure labyrinth into which God leads man, that he may be experienced in life, that he may remember his faults and abjure them, that he may appreciate the calm which vir- tue gives. L. Schefer. Of permanent griefs there are none, for they are but clouds; the swifter they move through the sky, the more follow after them; and even the immova- ble are absorbed by the other, and become smaller till they vanish. Richter. Grief or misfortune seems to be indispensable to the development of intelligence, energy, and Vir- tue; the proof to which people are submitted, as with individuals, are necessary then to draw them from their lethargy, to disclose their character. FI. B. Fearon. Those great and stormy passions do so spend the whole stock of grief, that they presently admit a comfort and contrary affection ; while a sorrow that is even and temperate goes on to its period with expectation and the distance of a just time. Jeremy Taylor. Do not grieve ; misfortunes will happen to the wisest and best men ; death will come, and always comes out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What has passed, and cannot be prevented, should not be grieved for. Maha Chief. There are thoughts that lie and glitter deep; tear- ful pearls beneath life's sea, that surges still and rolls sunlit, whatever it may hide. Common woes, like fluids, mix all round. Not So with that other grief. Some mourners load the air with their la- mentations ; but the loudest notes are struck from hallows: their tears flow fast, but the deep spring K. T. Körmer. P R O S E O U O T A T / O AV S. 351 G.R.U.M.B.L.E.R. GUEST. The grumbler is short-lived. E. y Chywaid. |Uninvited guests sit on thorns. J. Colet. Repair first, grumble afterwards. T. Coram. A guest against his will is no guest. Al-Yazid. It is a good wife that never grumbles. P. Bush. He has a right to grumble who is perfect in all things. E. J. Chawdom. The grumbler is willing to be miserable himself if he can make others SO. E. T. Freedley. Those persons who grumble most are generally those who should be grumbled at. Philip Henry. Every one must see daily instances of people, who grumble from a mere habit of grumbling, Graves. We should never grumble at those things We could have prevented—nor at those things we could not have prevented. Mrs. Caroline Ward. Dost thou want things necessary 2 Grumble not : perchance it was a necessary thing thou shouldst want. Endeavor lawfully to supply it. F. Quarles. He is a fool that grumbles at every little mis- chance. Put the best foot forward is an old and good maxim. Do not run about and tell acquaint- ances that you have been unfortunate ; people do not like to have unfortunate men for acquaint- all CeS. A. P. Forbes. Grumblers are a class of misanthropes who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief plea- sure in being displeased. E. P. Whipple. GUARD. : Heaven still guards the right. Shakspeare. The guard die, but never surrender. Cambronme. When on my guard I commit no faults. Al-Farrá. A guard should both watch and fight. Crillon. A citadel on its guard is not surprised. Correa. Woe be to the shepherd that will not guard his fold . Taliesem. The best guard for a ruler is the good-will of his subjects. Periamden'. Guard thyself continually against every chance of falling. H. D. ab Ifan. The surest safety is to be on your guard, even when safe. Publius Syrus. Men are always upon their guard against an ap- pearance of design. G. Smalridge. The best guards to man's conduct are sound prin- ciples impressed upon the mind. J. Locke. As long as we are upon this earth, we are, as it were, in a camp siege, and we should ever be on our guard. Weymºllerws, If you would enjoy in perpetuity that liberty which your forefathers conquered for you by their valor, and transmit it as an inheritance to your posterity, you must be on your guard against the first attack. Queen Elizabeth. A good guest is always dear to a host. St. Cyrill. A guest in the house is a good witness. Calabar. Beneficence towards guests is a quality of the generous. Ibn Matrúh. A guest and a fish have an unpleasant odor after three days. G. Cavalcanti. When the guest is in his most favor he will do well to quit. Gotthold. The presence of certain guests always disturbs one's equanimity. Hamilton Aide. It is a great gratification to have for a guest one eminent in both war and peace. Chwlahlongkorn. How shall one that ill treateth a guest, or turn- eth a traveller from the door, become a guest in the paradise of true believers ? Abū Bekir. No one can be such a welcome guest in the house of a friend, that he will not become a bore when he has stayed three continuous days. Plowtºws. I receive all my guests with equal honor ; for they are invited to supper, and not to be labelled according to rank : I make every man on a level with myself whom I admit to my table. Pliny. Sweetly it was said of a good old housekeeper, “I had rather want meat than want guests; es- pecially if they be courtly guests ; for, never trust me, if one of their good legs made in a house be not worth all the good cheer a man can make them.” He that would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife. Ben Jomson. GUIDE. Do not take a blind guide. D. R. da Cwmha. God is a ruler's best guide. Emperor Joseph II. The root of guidance is knowledge. Dyfrºwal. A wise enemy is a more valuable guide than a foolish friend. - Comfwciws. The man who does not know his way to the sea, should always take a river for his guide. Plautus. A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time, and to eternity. John Pinkerton. You must first apply to religion as the guide of life, before you can have recourse to it as the re- fuge of sorrow. H. Blair. A Christian, in all his ways, must have three guides—truth, charity, wisdom ; truth, to go be- fore him, charity and wisdom on either hand ; if any of the three be absent he walks amiss. R. Hall. To be a careful guide to children, parents must show them a good example, and all those instances of love, tenderness, care, and watchfulness, so that they may look upon them as their friends and pa- trons, their defence and sanctuary, their treasure and their guide. Jeremy Taylor. 352 JD A Y 'S CO /, / A C O ZV. GUILT. It belongs to the guilty to tremble. Seneca. Nothing is so wretched as a guilty conscience. - Plautus. Guiltiness needs no prophet to assure it of pun- ishment. Joseph Hall. Alas ! how difficult it is not to betray guilt by Our Countenance Ovid. Men's minds are generally ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. Livy. Nothing that isobtained through guilt can be per- manently profitable. Cicero. Guilty mortals bathe themselves in blood and tremble at the altars. Voltaire. To acquit the guilty is as great an abomination as to condemn the innocent. J. Bradshaw. Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it. R. Sowth. The guilty mind debases the great image that it wears, and levels us with brutes. Havard. The guilty is he who meditates a crime ; the punishment is his who lays the plot. Alfieri. It is more becoming for a young person to blush for shame, than to look pale with guilt. Cato. The great lines of our duty are drawn so strong, that any deviation from them is not error, but guilt. W. Gilpin. Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman. Seneca. The slave can rejoice at the prospect of laying down his burden with his life ; but to the slave of guilt there arises no hope from death. H. Blair. It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown ; the sin lessens as the guilt increases. Schiller. In the breast of the guilty there dwells a fury, which tears the bosom night and day, until the wretch is overwhelmed to the depth that he has sinned. Metastasio. There is no man that is knowingly wicked, but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that car- ries guilt about him, but he receives a sting into his soul. Tillotson. When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret, brings it to the face. T. Southerm. While the pure suspect with caution, and censure with mildness, the base are the first to turn from their fellow mortals in despair, and Sound the alarm bell of their guilt. Carcano. No local associations are so impressive as those of guilt ; how much there is in a thousand spots of the earth that is invisible and silent to all but the conscious individual. J. Foster. GUILT. Think not that guilt requires the burning torches of the Furies to agitate and torment it ; their own frauds, their crimes, their remembrance of the past, their terrors of the future are ever present to their minds. R. Hall. When once a man has involved himself deeply in guilt, he has no safe ground to stand upon ; everything is unsound and rotten under his feet. The crimes he has already committed, may have an unseen commection with others, of which he has not the slightest Suspicion. Bishop Portews. Guilt is a poor, helpless, dependent being. With- out the alliance of able, diligent, and let me add, fortunate fraud, it is inevitably undone. If a guilty culprit be obstinately silent, it forms a deadly presumption against him ; if he speaks, talking only tends to his discovery, and his very defence often furnishes the materials for his con- Viction. Junius. Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness. The evident con- sequences of Our crimes, long survive their com- missions, and like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor ; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of world- ly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace. Sir W. Scott. They who once engage in iniquitous designs, mis- erably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther ; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary ; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred. R. Sowthey. GUINIPOWIDER. The inventor of gunpowder deserves death. Wymcheslaws, of Germany. Gunpowder is the most conclusive argument of kings. Lowis XIV. A soldier had better smell of gunpowder than musk. Cervantes. Gunpowder is the evil genius of men's wrath; it was the direct suggestion of the devil. James Ellis. The invention of gunpowder has proved a curse to prowess, for against the flying bullet no valor can avail. E. A. Freeman. Gunpowder is the emblem of politic revenge, for it biteth first, and barketh afterward; the bullet being at the mark before the report is heard, so that it maketh a noise, not by way of warning, but of triumph. T. Fuller. Such I hold to be the genuine use of gunpowder ; that it makes all men alike tall; nay, if thou be cooler, cleverer than I–if thou have more mind though all but no body whatever—then canst thou kill me first, and art the taller. Hereby at last is the Goliath powerless and the David resistless ; savage animalism is nothing, inventive spiritual- ism is all. T. Carlyle. --~~ Bºº. C. º: º º º º º º --- - - --> -- O º º º [A] - *º º º º º sº -- º º º º º - sº º J. G. HOLLAND, T. C. HALIBURTON. JULIUS CHARLES HARE. BISHOP JOSEPH HALL. - CTOR: HUGO. OLIVER we NDELL HOLMES. K. W. HUMBOLDT. A R O S E O U O T A 7" / O AV S. 353 H. HABIT. Habit is not a trifle. Plato. Habit is a second nature. Cicero. Men are creatures of habit. D. G. Croly. Learn to unlearn bad habitS. Amtisthemes. Nothing is stronger than habit. Ovid. Habits are never to be neglected. A. Tscherning. Habit reconciles us to everything. F. Hopkinson. Habit is more powerful than nature. Rufus. Men's habits are formed by their instincts. Miss Olive R. Seward. Evil habits soil a fine dress more than mud. Plawtwis. Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. St. Awgustime. Habit will reconcile us to everything but change. Colton. It is habit to which all of us are more or less slaves. La Fontaine. Habit, with its iron sinews, clasps and leads us day by day. Lamartime. Habits are contracted by bad example, or bad management. A. Thicker. How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit ! Terence. Habits are formed insensibly ; a single deed does not create a habit. J. M. Austin. Habits of diligence are recommended by the happiness they impart. Mrs. Sigowrmey. Habit has more force in forming our characters than our opinions have. R. Hall. Evil habits, when they once settle, are more easily broken than mended. Qwintilian. Reep the currents of Hife pure by pure habits, and all thy being shall be healthful. J. O. Barrett. Habit is a cable ; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. H. Manſm. Man is but a creature of habit ; habit becomes to him not only necessity but luxury. F. Marryatt. Whosoeverintroduces habits in children deserves the care and attention of their governors. J. Locke. A single bad habit will mar an otherwise fault- less character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. H. Ballow. It must be conceded that, after affection, habit has its peculiar value ; it is a little stream which flows softly, but freshens everything along its COUII*Se. Mme. Swetchine. gº *D BIABIT. Habits are easily acquired, and with difficulty laid aside ; man's nature is changed by habit. J. Bartlett. How many habits and opinions do we begin from impulse, and persevere in from indolence 1 C. Damby. Good habits are always acquired, but bad ones come upon us when we are heedless and neglect- ful. . J. W. Boºker. Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be asserted of it. Fielding. Habit is a wonderful thing, and to it must be charged the commission of many of our daily sins; still a habit for good is as easily to be cultivated as a habit for evil. Montpelier. As the snow gathers together, so are our habits formed ; no single flake that is added to the pile, produces a sensible change; no single action creates, however it may exhibit a man's character. J. Bentham. Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may, in the end, prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe. Mrs. Sigowſrney. There are habits, not only of drinking, swearing, and lying, and of some other things which are commonly acknowledged to be habits, and called so, but of every modification of action, speech, and thought. Alpha. Habit, in most cases, hardens and encrusts by taking away the deeper edge of our sensations ; but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giv- ing a mechanical felicity, and by engrafting an ac- quired sense ? Hazlitt. In early childhood, you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your chil- dren ; teach them right habits then, and their fu- ture life is safe. R. Rantowl. Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful ; make prudence a habit, and reckless pro- fligacy will be as contrary as the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes are to any of us. Lord Browgham. Habits influence the character pretty much as under currents influence a vessel, and whether they speed us on the way of our wishes, or retard our progress, their effect is not the less important be- cause imperceptible, Bovee. Habit is our primal fundamental law—habit and imitation ; there is nothing more perennial in us than these two ; they are the source of all working and all apprenticeship, of all practice and all learn- ing, in this world. T. Carlyle. 354 AJ A Y’,S CO Z Z A C O AV. IHABIT. BIAND. The current of the mind grows more and more The hand that gives gathers. Eugene Swe. restricted to the course in which habit has taught them to flow. These intellectual and moral habits, form many peculiarities of character, and chiefly distinguish one individual from another ; they are, therefore, of the utmost importance. Goodrich. Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can—and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained—but those who are subject to their influ- ence may, by timely caution, preserve their free- dom ; they may effectually resolve to escape the tyrant, whom they very vainly resolve to conquer. Dr. Johnson. Man is a bundle of habits ; there are habits of in- dustry, attention, vigilance; of indolence, dilatori- ness; of vanity, self-conceit, melancholy, partiali- ty; of fretfulness, suspicion, captiousness; of pride, ambition, coveteousness; of Over-reaching, intrigu- ing, projecting ; in a word, there is not a quality or function, either of body or mind, that does not feel the influence of this great law of animated na- ture. Paley. There is such corruption engendered in man by bad habits, that the sparks, as it were, of virtue, furnished by mature, are extinguished, and vices of an opposite kind arise around and become strengthened. Vicious habits are so great a stain to human mature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them. Cicero. IHAIR.. Gray hairs are death's blossoms. Schiller. Goethe. A flowing shade of hair sets all beauties in the most agreeable light. Addison. Black hair, when youth has passed is ever re- garded with Suspicion. Ar-Rwmī. The smallest hair throws its shadow. By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory ; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. G. Bancroft. A silver line, that from the brow to the crown, and in the middle, parts the braided hair, just serves to show how delicate a soil the golden har- vest grows in. W. Wordsworth. There are bad people of every color of hair, and not more, perhaps, comparatively, of the red than of other colors ; this particular hue of hair often distinguishes those who are as bland and soft as their complexions are chaste and fair, who possess delicacy of sentiment and refinement of feeling, and are proud, ambitious, talented, and high- minded. Acton. Hair is at once the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love ; it is so light, so gentle, so escaping from the idea of death, that with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and com- pare notes with the angelic nature, may almost say : “I have a piece of thee here, not unworthy of thy being now.” Leigh Hwnt. The wise hand does not all that the tongue says. Cervantes. A good hand is a good point in a person's cha- racter. Napoleon I. My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity. Euripides. The right hand of the wicked cannot offer due homage to the gods. Ovid. I love a hand that meets mine own with a grasp that causes some Sensation. Mrs. F. S. Osgood. Nothing is more pleasing to God than a hand liberally opened, and a tongue strictly silent. G. D. Premtice. The hand is the mind's only perfect vassal, and when, through age, or illness, the connection be- tween them is interrupted, there are few more affectingtokens of human decay. H. T. Tuckerman. Neither the naked hand nor the understanding, left to itself, can do much ; the work is accom- plished by instruments and helps, of which the need is not less for the understanding than the hand. Lord Bacom. The hand is an instrument applicable to every art and occasion, as well of peace as of war ; with the hand we weave the garment, construct the lyre and lute, and the numerous instruments employed in the several arts of life, erect altars and shrines, and bequeath to posterity in writings, the intellectual treasure of the divine imagination. Galem. The hands have a great share of expression as to character ; raising them toward heaven, ex- presses devotion ; wringing them, implies grief ; folding them, idleness; waving the hand from us, prohibition ; extending the hand to any One, peace, safety, or protection ; laying the hand on the heart, affection ; placing it on the lips, silence. Dr. Porter. For the queen's hand there is the sceptre, and for the soldier's hand the sword ; for the carpenter's hand the saw, and for the Smith's hand the ham- mer; for the farmer's hand the plow ; for the mi- ner's hand the spade ; for the sailor's hand the oar; for the painter's hand the brush ; for the sculptor's hand the chisel ; for the poet's hand the pen ; and for woman's hand the needle. But for all there is the command, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.” Dr. G. Wilson. It is with the hands and arms we solicit, refuse, promise, threaten, dismiss, invite, entreat, and express aversion, fear, doubting, denial, asking, affirmation, negation, joy, grief, confession, and penitence. With the hands we describe, and point all circumstances of time, place, and manner of what we relate ; with them we also excite the passions of others, and soothe them, approve or disapprove, permit, prohibit, admire, and despise ; thus they serve us instead of many sorts of words ; and where the language of the tongue is unknown, or the person is deaf, the language of the hands is understood, and is common to all nations. Qwintiliam. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 355 EIANDSOMENESS. Handsome is, that handsome does. Goldsmith. Handsomeness is a moderate degree of elegance or beauty. N. Webster. It is really a very great plague to be too hand- SOHOle à, IIla,Il. Plaw.tws. As handsomeness is often less, So it is often more than beauty. E. P. Day. A man may be handsome, and a woman pretty, without either of them having an intelligent ex- pression. G. F. Graham. Let women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that they are always delighted to hear themselves called handsome. Cervantes. A hard favored woman, if chaste, is far more handsome than one who is inconstant, though never So famous for her beauty. Awrelius. A handsome fellow alarms jealous husbands, and everything that looks young or gay, turns their thoughts upon their wives. Addison. Happily, there exists more than one kind of beauty, and I honestly protest, a naturally good- looking woman is always handsome. Dickens. Handsomeness is the more animal excellence, beauty the more imaginative. A handsome Ma- dona I cannot conceive, and never saw a handsome Venus; but I have seen many a handsome country girl, and a few very handsome ladies. J. C. Hare. EIANDWRITING.. Elegant handwriting feasts the eyes of the body and mind. Al-Bawwób. Give me six limes in the hand-writing of the most homest man, and I will find enough to hang him. Richeliev. It is a shame for a man to write a bad hand ; he that has the use of his hands and eyes may learn to write any hand he pleases. Chesterfield. Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practice of a fair and quick hand in writing ; for it is no immaterial accom- plishment. Quintilian. Style of writing should be such as is capable of great rapidity of execution ; for the man of busi- ness and the scholar, a ready, simple, and swift running hand is very important. G. B. Emerson. The first beauty in writing is legibility ; every- thing should give way to this ; flourishes may be useful in giving freedom of hand, but they should be practiced by themselves, and never introduced into writing, least of all in a signature. The plainer the writing, the more difficult to counterfeit it. - T. H. Palmer. The handwriting is considered one of the talis- mans of character ; whether this test may be depended on or not, the fact that letters travel farther than the sound of the voice, or the sight of the countenance can follow, renders it desirable that they should convey no incorrect or unfavor- able impression. Mrs. Sigowrmey. EHAPPINESS. He who is good is happy. Habbington. Only the good are happy. Boethiws. No man is happy in every way. Nicostratus. Happiness is the offspring of virtue. Aristotle. No man is happy who does not think himself so. Awrelius. Happiness consists in the constitution of the hab- its. Paley. The happiness of life is made up of minute frac- tions. S. T. Coleridge. There is even a happiness that makes the heart afraid. T. Hood. The happiness of the wicked passes away like a torrent. Racine. Happiness does not consist in things, but in thoughts. Rev. A. Booth. They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations. Lord Bacon. He who has no wish to be happier, is the hap- piest of men. - W. R. Alger. The greatest happiness is to be able to make Others happy. Louis XVI. Happiness like liberty is often overlooked in the search after it. Mrs. Bruce. The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes. Richter. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreea- ble consciousness. Dr. Johnson. Happiness keeps no dial, and always forgets to number the hours. Mrs. S. H. DeKroyft. There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin. Mrs. Sigowrmey. The remembrances of past happiness are the wrinkles of the soul. E. T. Chamming. Happiness depends on the mind, not on any ex- termal circumstances. J. Bartlett, It is a kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy. Rochefoucauld. Happiness is like the statue of. Isis, whose veil no mortal ever raised. W. S. Landor. If you are acquainted with happiness introduce him to your neighbor. E. Brooks. Man's happiness or misery is, in a great measure, put into his own hands. FI. Blair. What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature ? Lessing. Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. BI. Ballow. Happiness, like a snail, is never found from home, nor without a home. L. C. Judson. God himself metes out happiness to men, to the good and bad, to each as to Him seems best. Homer. 356 AD A Y 'S CO Z / A C O AV. EIAPPINESS. O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes | Shakspeare. Our happiness in this world depends on the af- fections we are able to inspire. Duchess de Praslin. If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least so live as to deserve happiness. Fichte. The happiness of the body consists in health ; that of the mind in knowledge. Thales. The greatest happiness which we can feel in this life is that of comforting others. Mme. de Genlis. Much of the happiness of man depends upon in- tellectual and moral cultivation. Wayland. Happiness is within the reach of every man ; a contented mind confers it on all. Horace. The man who enjoys the smiles of fortune day by day I pronounce to be happy. Ewripides. We always overrate the happiness of others, and underrate the means of Our own. H. Hooker. Compassion more than reality makes men hap- py, and can make them wretched. Feltham. Into the composition of every happiness enters the thought of having deserved it. Joubert. General happiness can have no other basis than the universal law of justice and love. V. Schoelchem. Happiness is neither within us nor without us ; it is in the union of ourselves with God. Pascal. Happiness only begins when wishes end ; and he who hankers after more, enjoys nothing. Barker. It is ever thus with happiness; it is the gay to- morrow of the mind that never comes. B. W. Procter. There is nothing we talk so fluently about as happiness, and nothing we know so little about. H. W. Shaw. Happiness and misery are the names of two ex- tremes, the utmost bounds whereof we know not. J. Locke. As the ivy twines around the oak, so does misery and misfortune encompass the happiness of man. R. Burton. There are men who seem to the world around to be happy ; but inwardly, men are very much alike. g - Menander. The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. Goethe. That state of life is most happy, where superflu- ities are not required, and necessaries are not want- ing. Plutarch. Man courts happiness in a thousand shapes, and the faster he follows it, the swifter it flies from him. Tillotson. Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. Jeremy Taylor. HAPPINESS. The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music ; it is needful to have the instrument in good order. H. W. Beecher. We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so our- selves. Confucius. He is happy who is cheerful, though possessing little ; he is unhappy who is troubled amidst much wealth. Democritus. Happiness is a matter of opinion, of fancy, in fact ; but it must amount to conviction, else it is nothing. Chamfort. Call no man happy till thou knowest the end of his life ; up till that moment he can only be called fortunate. Herodotus. The best advice on the art of being happy, is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick. Mºne. Swetchine. He only is happy who is healthy in his body, easy in his circumstances, and well-instructed as to his mind. C. C. Fulton. The happy are those who are competently furn- ished with external advantages, act honestly, and live temperately. Solon. Happiness is the fine and gentle rain which pene- trates the soul, but which afterwards gushes forth in springs of tears. M. de Gwerim.' Happiness and virtue reach upon each other ; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. Bulwer. There is in man a higher aim than love of hap- piness ; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness. T. Carlyle. Happiness consists not in luxury and pride ; on the contrary, to want nothing is divine: to want the least, next to divine. Socrates. Every scheme of happiness must needs be imper- fect, that does not embrace the three incidents of wife, home, and children. ty Bovee. Happiness is a blessing often missed by those who run after pleasure, and generally found by those who suffer pleasure to run after them. Chatfield. The happiness within our reach we covet not, but affect to despise ; that which is beyond it, we desire to possess, and overrate its real value. Acton. Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidently ; make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. N. Hawthorne. There is no such thing as real happiness in life; the justest definition that was ever given of it was “a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delu- Sion.” Sterme. We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most for- tunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satis- faction. Corneille, A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 357 HAPPINESS. There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters till his heart is pure ; and this is human happiness. N. P. Willis. Probably the happiest period in life most fre- quently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun. Dr. T. Arnold. To be happy, the passion must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy ; a propensity to hope and joy is real riches ; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty. Hume. The happiness of man depends on no creed and no book; it depends on the dominion of truth, which is the Redeemer and Saviour, the Messiah and the King of glory. Rabbi Wise. Happiness must not only be prepared and fitted for man, but man for his happiness; he must be- come a rational creature before he can enjoy a ra- tional pleasure. R. Lucas. To enjoy true happiness we must travel into a very far country, and even out of ourselves; for the pearl we seek for is not be found in the Indian, but in the empyrean ocean. | Sir T. Browne. Happiness lies beyond either pain or pleasure, is as Sublime a thing as virtue itself, indivisible from it , and under this point of view it seems a perilous mistake to separate them. Mrs. .Jameson. What avails all the pomp and parade of life which appear abroad, if, when we shift the gaudy flattering scene, the man is unhappy where happi- ness must begin—at home ! J. Seed. The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man ; we na- turally aim at happiness, and cannot bear to have it confined to our present being. Dryden. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so ; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. Colton. If one only wished to be happy, this could be readily accomplished ; but we wish to be happier than other people ; and this is almost always diffi- cult, for we believe others to be happier than they 8,I’é. Montesqview. False happiness is like false money, it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordin- ary Occasions ; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss. Pope. The haunts of happiness are varied and rather unaccountable, but I have more often seen her among little children, and home firesides, and in Country houses, than anywhere else—at least, I think so. Sydney Smith. Mankind differ in their motions of supreme hap- piness; but in my opinion he truly possesses it who lives in the conscious anticipation of honest fame, and the glorious figure he shall make in the eyes of posterity. Pliny the Younger. HAPPINESS. It is not the lot of men to be perfectly happy in this world; the only thing which remains to us is to make the best of what we receive and obtain, being as comfortable and happy as our circum- stances allow. G. Forster. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise ; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a Se- lect companion. Addison. Happiness is a roadside flower, growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall whither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet ; be useful, be happy. Tupper. Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence. W. Irving. The common course of things is in favor of hap- piness ; happiness is the rule, misery the exception. Were the order reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency, in- stead of disease and want. Paley. Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of His creatures in this world ; but that He has very much put in Our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I have steadfastly believed. T. Jefferson. In vain do they talk of happiness, who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of hap- piness only as the blind do of colors. H. Manºn. The enjoyment of earthly happiness depends much upon disposition, taste, fancy, and imagina- tion. The great secret of substantial happiness consists in contentment, and a constant commu- nion with God, and a full reliance on Him at all times. L. C. Judson. God loves to see His creatures happy : Our law- ful delight is His ; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolators thought a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves ; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself. R. Hall. All rational happiness consists in a proper and just exercise of those abilities and graces which our Heavenly Father has mercifully bestowed upon us. The higher we rise, and the broader we ex- tend in knowledge of moral holiness, righteousness, and truth, the more happy we are capable of be- ing. H. Ballow. Every human soul has the germ of some flowers within ; and they would open, if they could only find sunshine and free air to expand it. I always told you that not having enough of sunshine was what ailed the world. Make people happy, and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there is. Mrs. L. M. Child. 358 ZD A Y'S CO Z, Z. A C O AV HAPPINESS. All are desirous of happiness, and all, more Orless, study the means of attaining it : yet we scarcely meet one who will not admit that in spite of his best directed and most persevering efforts, he has failed in the object of his wishes, F. Soave. Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms, without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it re- flects itself with redoubled brightness. Happiness is not perfected till it is shared. Jame Porter. Happiness is only evident to us in this life, by deliverance from evil; we have not real and posi- tive good. “Happy is he who sees the day !” said a blind man ; but a man who sees clearly does not say so. “Happy is he who is healthy l’” said an invalid ; when he is well he does not feel the hap- piness of health. Nicole. If thou canst desire anything not to be repented of, thou art in a fair way to happiness ; if thou hast attained it, thou art at thy way's end ; he is not happy who hath all that he desires, but that desires nothing but what is good ; if thou canst not do what thou need, repent not, yet endeavor to repent what thy necessity hath done. F. Quarles. No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in a mold and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us from heaven ; she is a divine dew, which the soul feels dropping upon it from its amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of paradise. Charlotte Bronté. Human happiness, according to the most received notions, seems to consist in three ingredients—ac- tion, pleasure, and indolence ; and though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different propor- tions, according to the particular disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely want- ing, without destroying in Some measure the relish of the whole composition. Hwºme. I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity; in this situation I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to mylot; they amount to fourteen. O man place not thy confidence in this present world. Caliph Abdalrahmam. There are two ways of being happy ; we may diminish our wants, or augment our means: either will do ; the result is the same ; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which hap- pens to be the easiest ; if you are idle, or sick, or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means. If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants ; but if you are wise you will do both at the same time, Franklin. BIARD-HEARTEDINESS. Hard-heartedness is abhorred of God. Melito. Hard-heartedness is an inhuman vice. Viamºney. Hard-heartedness is an enemy to valor. Wrangle. Hardness of the heart is mean selfishness. Wise. To be hard of heart is to revolt against our own nature. H. Blair. Single men are more hard-hearted, because their tenderness is not so often called on. Lord Bacon. When a father is hard-hearted toward his chil- dren, there is very little left of the man but what is mean and selfish. J. Madison. Morton. I know no friends more faithful, more insepara- ble, than hard-heartedness and pride, humility and love, lies and impudence. Lavater. A hardhearted parent is a monster who spurns from him the being that owes his existence to him, and depends upon him for support. Steele. Of all hardness of heart there is none so inexcus- able as that of parents toward their children. An obstinate, inflexible, unforgiving temper is odious upon all occasions ; but here it is unnatural. The love, tenderness, and compassion, which are apt to arise in us toward those who depend upon us, are that by which the whole world of life is upheld. Addison, FHARDIHOOD. Hardihood is increased by exercise. J. Craik. In battle, the prize is won by hardiness and valor. Thomas Day. Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardihood. R. Sowth. A hardy man speaks with a resolute tone, which seems to brave the utmost evil that can result from what he says. William J. Thoms. We do not find any one so hardy as to deny that there are very great advantages in the enjoyment of a plentiful fortune. E. Budgell. Who is there hardy enough to contend with the reproach which is prepared for those who dare ven- ture to dissent from the received opinions of their country Ż J. Locke. HARDINESS. Nothing is hard to a willing mind. J. B. White. Nothing is so hard but search and study will find it out. Herrick. It is only a weak man who gives way before the hard knocks of the world ; if you possess the aver- age strength, you will conquer. H. Marsh. We often fancy that the world is hard toward us; but if we will but search our hearts we shall find that this fancy only springs from our own ac- tions. Mrs. M. Yowng. Brave life with a stoical indifference, and if in the tenure of your way you meet with hard knocks, hit back, blow for blow, and if your path in life lie in hard places, never succumb, but labor on with a firm step. Mrs. Amme Yearsley. A R O S E O U O Z. A 7" / O AW. S. 359. HARDSHIP. FHARMONY. Disdain hardships. Frederick, King of Sicily. Harmony is the soul of music. T. Brittom. Hardships must be endured. C. Buck. Harmony governs the universe. Fowrier. Be not discouraged by hardships. Washington. Harmony is society's law of life. Mazzini. It is better to die, than to continue to live in hard- There is delight in new harmonies. A. Corelli. ships and misery. Thomas Day. Hardships are pleasures when they are self-im- posed, but intolerable grievances when they are required by our duty. F. Cisnero de Ximines. We may bear the hardships and oppressions of the world, but it is hard to bear the treachery and deceit of those in whose truth and love we had placed implicit faith. James Ellis. So prome are we to discontent and complaint, that even when men bear their real hardships with tolerable composure, they are apt to invent imagin- ary ones, to which they cannot submit with any degree of patience. H. Smith. HARLOT. Let harlots be married or whipped. Pope Pius V. A handsome harlot is poisoned honey. Diogenes. A harlot is a judgment on civilization. Calvert. The harlot joyless, unendeared, meets her rich master in a masquerade. Dr. Snead. On first ceasing to be a divinity woman became little better than a harlot. Bulwer. The winding-sheets of men hang over the abode of the harlot, and ruin and death follow in her footsteps. Rev. P. H. Waddell. No one ought to marry a harlot, whose matri- monial oblations, arising from the prostitution of her body, God will not receive. Josephus. EH.A.R.M. Harm no one in malice. Duff Porter. It is well to be out of harm's way. W. Jerdam. I would not wish to harm any one. Nell Gwynn. We can harm in thought as well as deed. Allon. It is an impious pleasure to delight in harm. G. Granville. Do not stand in the way of anything that is harmful. H. H. Brackenridge. Half the wrong-doers in the world really mean no harm. May Crommelin. There is more irreparable harm done in the world by pride, misunderstanding, and envy than by any real cause. Van Dorem. More than one-half the harms we suffer and pine over are of the fancy ; and if we investigate and meet them with manliness, we shall find they will disappear like vapor. J. G. Shea. If the world harm us, our chance of happiness is small, or it is wholly limited to our particular feelings; but if we indulge in harm to others, our lot is an unenviable one. J. G. Nichols. Heaven's harmony is universal love. C. Jenner. The wicked disturb general harmony. Cleanthes. Let Christians dwell together in peace and har- mony. • Dioscorvus. A perfect harmony runs through all parts of the universe. H. K. White. Harmony is a compound idea, made up of differ- ent sounds united. I. Watts. Harmony is the support of all institutions, espe- cially this of ours. Masonic Monwoºl. There is music wherever there is harmony, or- der, or proportion. Sir T. Browne. The harmony of brethren is a stronger defence than a wall of brass. Antisthenes. The soul is in harmony, and hath its nearest sympathy unto music. - Plato. In the beautiful and sublime world around there are many entrancing harmonies. H. R. St. John. Harmony exists in difference no less than in like- ness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. F. Lieber. Infinite wisdom must accomplish all its works with consummate harmony, proportion, and regu- larity. - G. Cheyne. Harmony is love, peace, and music ; and whoso- ever is harmonically disposed, delights in the har- mony of Sounds. - Mrs. Jane Thomas. The tongue and the heart blessing God both in concert, make that harmony which fills and de- lights heaven and earth. IE. O. Haven. Harmonical sounds, and discordant sounds, are both active and positive ; but blackness and dark- ness are, indeed, but privatives. Lord Bacon. We ought to employ our time in those harmonies which stir up to commendable operations and mo- ral virtues, tempering desire, greediness, and sor- I’OWS. Joshua Towlimin. God has made the intellectual world harmonious and beautiful without us ; but it will never come into our heads all at once ; we must bring it horne piece-meal. J. Locke. If we look upon the world as a musical instru- ment, well tuned, and harmoniously struck, we ought not to worship the instrument, but Him that makes the music. Stillingfleet. There is such harmony, as in all things of na- ture that one might explain the whole without referring to a higher Providence ; but this only proves the more clearly and certainly this higher Providence, which has given existence to this har- mony. Humboldt. 360 AD A Y 'S CO / Z A C O AV. EIARMONY. EIAR, VEST. If we consider the world in its subserviency to After a bad harvest, sow again. Seneca. man, one would think it was made for Our use ; * > — . . but if we consider it in its natural beauty and har- The harvest is nature's bank dividend. Halibwrton. mony, one would be apt to conclude it was made for our pleasure. Addison. That all these distances, motions, and quantities of matter should be so accurately and harmonious- ly adjusted in this great variety of our system, is above the fortuitous hits of blind material causes, and must certainly flow from that eternal fountain of wisdom. R. Bentley. The admirable harmony established by the Creator between the various constituent parts of the animal frame, renders it impossible to pay re- gard to, or infringe the conditions required for the health of any one, without all the rest participating in the benefit or injury. A. Combe. I find my soul is become more harmonious, by being accustomed so much to harmony it calls in my spirits, composes my thoughts, delights my ear, recreates my mind, and so not only fits me for af- ter business, but fills my heart, at the present, with pure and useful thoughts. J. Beveridge. Harmonious words render ordinary ideas accept- able ; less ordinary, pleasant ; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and liv- ing beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified, and raised into immortal life by harmony. W. S. Landor. He who has a spirit of harmony in his nature will exhibit it in every other direction as well as in that of music. There will be a pleasing concord in all his thoughts, words, and actions; and the moral harmony of his nature, will empower him to pur- sue the right way with a steady and Orderly step, amid all the quicksands of his life's pilgrimage. Chatfield. BIARSHINESS. Be not harsh with a friend, but admonish with kindness. Confucius. Examine thine own conduct, ere thou be guilty of harshness to another. Lao-Kiwn. More minds can be drawn by the cords of love, than driven by the stripes of harshness. J. Bartlett. Harshness in a person's conduct acts upon the feelings, and does violence to the affections. G. Crabb. Harsh words are like hail stones in summer, which if melted would fertilize the tender plants they batter down. B. F. Teft. Bear patiently the harsh words of thy enemies, as knowing that the anger of an enemy admon- ishes us of our duty. Jeremy Taylor. It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are as rigorous to offences as if we had never offended. H. Blair. Avoid harshness of manner, if you would re- store a maniac, tame a savage, or make a friend of a foe; for this good work can only be accomplished by the mollifying influence of loving-kindness and Christian beneficence. E. Rich. Good harvests make men prodigal, bad ones provident. W. Penºn. When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train. E. H. Derby. The seed-time knows that its promise will be fulfilled by the harvest. T. Tilton. The waving and golden harvests of autumn, shall extend over a thousand hills, and stretch along a thousand valleys. D. Webste?". The abundant harvests which crown the labors of the industrious and skillful husbandman, are consummations of the Almighty promise. E. Mack. The sight of the copious harvest demonstrates to the husbandman that there is a God ; and in- spires him with gratitude to the Great Being, who has united the transient society of men by an eter- nal chain of blessings. St. Pierre. The farmer sows his seed, and has no doubt but that the harvest will repay him ; but he who em- barks in speculations that promise sudden and great wealth, knows that he may be “Sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind.” J. Quincy. How plentiful has the autumnal harvest been The earth has now filled its designs for this year. Let us ask ourselves if we have been equally ac- tive ; have we so employed our time as to be able to show the fruits of it. The farmer now counts his sheaves; ought we not to count our virtues and good works? Sturm. BIA STE. Hasten slowly. Awgustus Coesar. Haste makes waste. Constantine III. Great haste makes great waste. Fromklin. Hastiness is improvident and blind. Livy. Precipitate haste leads to injustice. Euripides. Make not too much haste on a journey. Chilo. Always be in haste, but never in a hurry. J. Wesley. Hasty counsels are followed by repentance. Laberius. Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops it- self. Seneca. TJnreasonable haste is often the direct road to eITOI". Molière. He who decides hastily, will soon repent of his decision. Publius Syrus. Haste turns usually upon a matter of ten minutes too late, and may be avoided by a habit of being ten minutes too early. Bovee. Haste and rashness are storms and tempest, breaking and wrecking business ; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the haven. T. Fuller. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 361 BIATE. Hatred is self-punishment. H. Ballow. Envy will ever hate prosperity. M. E. Braddom. Hatred is might ; kindness is day. Swhyawardi. Hatred is the madness of the heart. Byron. Bitter hatred is an enemy to repose. Dwwółd. Take care that no one hate you justly. Syrus. Few people love with the violence they hate. N. Macdonald. - Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love. Vawvenargwes. Hate no one ; we should hate their vices, not themselves. D. Brainard. Hate injures no one ; it is contempt that casts men headlong. Anne C. Lymch. When our hatred is too keen, it places us beneath those we hate. Rochefoucauld. Thousands are hated, whilst none are loved with- Out a real cause. Lavater. An implacable hatred is a greater burden than we usually think it is. Stanislaws. No hatred is so intense and immoveable as that of women for women. W. S. Landor. The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is quiet. Richter. It is lawful to bury private hatred when it is for the public advantage. Tacitus. Hate hath Sundry affections, as contempt, anger, debate, and scornfulness, Roger Boyle. It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured. Tacitus, Hatred is active, and envy passive disgust ; there is one step from envy to hate. Goethe. Hatred is nearly always honest ; rarely if ever assumed ; so much cannot be said for love. Nimon de l'Enclos. The hate which we all bear with the most Chris. tian patience, is the hate of those who envy us. Coltom. As the lover is blind to the faults of his mistress, so a hater fails to see the good qualities of his en- emy. E. P. Day. Though men's persons ought not to be hated, yet without all peradventure their practices justly may, R. Sowth. There are few men in the world who hate, and yet know the excellences of the object of their hatred. Confucius. That hatred is commonly most deadly which hath Once been buried, and afterwards through injury is revived. A. Borde. If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody. Plannah More. make our minds sore and uneasy, IBIATE. Hatred does not cease by hatred, hatred ceases by love ; this is the eternal rule. Buddha. Malice and hatred are very fretting, and apt to Tillotson. Hatred is the vice of narrow souls ; they feel it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. Balzac. People generally have more fluency in condemn- ing than approving ; they hate with more ardor than they love. Bovee. Dislike what deserves it, but never hate ; for that is of the nature of malice, which is applied to persons, not things. Wm. Penn. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to pursuade ourselves that any one can love those whom we ourselves hate. Princess de Salm-Dyck. The passion of hatred is so durable and so inve- terate, that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man, is a wish for reconciliation. Bruyère. Open and avowed hatred far more becomes a man of straightforward character than concealing our sentiments with a smooth brow. Cicero. Hatred like the eagle that carries up its prey to dash it down to a more certain death, seems to elevate the object it is about to destroy. H. Grattan. All men naturally hate one another ; I hold it a fact, that if we knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. Pascal. If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you. Plwtorch. The hatred of the wicked is only roused the more from the impossibility of finding any just grounds on which it can rest ; and the very consciousness of their own injustice is only a grievance the more against him who is the object of it. Rowsseaw. Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself ; to couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and bor- row to her aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand. Milton. There is no faculty of the human soul so persist- ant and universal as that of hatred ; there are hatreds of race, hatreds of sect, social and per- sonal hatreds. If thoughts of hatred were thunder and lightning, there would be a storm over the whole earth all the year round. H. W. Beecher. Of all the malignant perversions of our common nature, hatred is the worst : when once it takes possession of a man or woman, his or her better nature is overwhelmed, and buried beneath an ava- lanche of tremendous passions ; the victims to its headlong fury, die to all the good that advanced mankind along the pathway of civilization, and become fiends, more tortured than torturing. Mrs. Frances Brooks. 362 J) A Y’.S C O Z Z 4 C O AV. | HAUGHTINESS. - EIEALTH. A haughty person hates mankind. Oji. Welcome, Health ! Mabinogion. Haughtiness heedeth not instruction. St. Hilary. He who has health is young. J. Freind. Haughtiness is a mockery of greatness. Jouy. Haughtiness displeases God, and is offensive to Illa, Il. Camwte. Where haughtiness dwells, ignorance is a near neighbor. Genevieve de Brabant. How often is injustice the result of haughtiness and mere prejudice. Miss Sarah P. Remond. The more haughty a man is when rich, the more humble he becomes when poor. J. H. Ingraham. Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a Iſla Il. Jowbert. I own that there is haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please. Burke. The haughty man and the low proud man are different characters, though commonly confoun- ded ; they both deserve reproof, but of different kinds. The haughty ambitious man uses all but base means to rise in life ; he will not beg, though, to make himself rich ; nor bear to be trampled on by some, in order to rule over others. V. L. Gotti. BIEAD. - A great head has great cares. Khivese. The head must overlook the body. Joseph Hall. The head isoften the dupe of the heart. Wardlaw. Wisdom is not in the eye, but in the head. Kanwri. He who has a good head, will not want for a hat. S. Mazard. Who falls short in the head must be long in the heels. Gottlieb. I would not bear on my shoulders a head that would let me receive disgrace. Llywarch Hem. Everybody speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to speak well of his head. Rochefoucauld. A woman's head is always influenced by her heart ; but a man's heart is always influenced by his head. Lady Blessington. By the head we make known our supplications, our threatenings, our mildness, our haughtiness, our love, and our hatred. Dryden. After all, the head only reproduces what the heart creates ; and so we give the mocking-bird credit when he imitates the loving murmurs of the dove. G. J. W. Melville. There can be no doubt that the seat of perfect contentment is in the head ; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. Colton. The head truly enlightened will presently have a wonderful influence in purifying the heart ; and the heart really affected with goodness will much conduce to the directing of the head. T. Sprat. Take good care of thy health. F. R. Stockton. Without health life is not life. Rabelais. St. Patrick. Health is the paradise of the body. St. Theodore. Health is regained through faith, Health is a choice gift of the gods. Alciphron. Health depends somewhat on dress. A. Bloomer. He who has not health has nothing. Rousseaw. Health is indispensable to happiness. Edwards. Health is precious, yet easily injured. Dionysius. Health and cheerfulness make beauty. Cervantes. Health is the boon of heaven, but you can destroy it. Erwin. Howse. If you would be healthy, be sober and temper- ate. - Franklin. A man may appear in good health, and yet be unwell. * Ar-Rûdrówari. Let this be the epitaph inscribed on my tomb— ** Health.” Theodosius. Health dwells in the forest, and is the child of air and exercise. Copway. It is sinful to impair our health, and thus shorten life by improper diet. St. Macedoniws. Healthful exercises give elasticity to the mind, and vigor to the body. J. T. Irving. The three most precious things for man are— health, liberty, and virtue. Trioedd. It shall be my earnest endeavor to teach to my own sex the value of health. Elizabeth Blackwell. O what a blessing is health ! And those who want it are the best able to feel its value. William Orton. Health consists in preserving a due mean be- tween the extremes of heat and cold, dryness and moisture. F. H. Day. Health is the greatest of all possessions, and it is a maxim with me, that a hale cobbler is a better man than a sick king. E. Bickersteth. It is a very wise rule in life not to be too anxious about health, or to be entirely free from the incon- veniences and bodily ailments of old age. Humboldt. It is health that makes your meat Savory, your drinkpalatable, yoursleep refreshing, your delights delightful, and your pleasures pleasurable. Combe. Let us therefore praise Providence that, since health is the foundation of all our physical happi- ness, it has laid this foundation so far and wide on the earth. - J. G. Herder. The health of the people is of Supreme impor- tance ; all measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases, and to the increase of sanitary knowledge for such pur- poses, deserve attention. Chester A. Arthwºr. P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 363 HEALTH. A defective physical education is one of the pri- mary causes of unhappiness in marriage ; a girl cannot be a useful or happy wife, she cannot make her husband or children happy, unless she be a healthy woman. Mrs. E. D. N. Southworth. Were a young man to write down a list of his duties, health should be among the first items in the catalogue ; this is no exaggeration of its value, for health is indispensable to almost every form of human enjoyment. H. Mamm. If health is the most precious boon of life, we must avoid everything that tends to injure or af- fect it ; without it any considerable degree of labor is impossible. Health is the greatest of blessings, and gives a rest to all other enjoyments. Dr. Fawst. Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured ; thousands and millions are of small avail to alle- viate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the pow- ers of digestion. Dr. Johnson. The first wealth is health ; sickness is poor-spirit- ed, and cannot serve any one ; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fulness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and in- undates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. R. W. Emerson. Better is the poor, being sound and strong of constitution, than the rich man that is afflicted in his body ; health and a good state of body are above all gold, and a strong body above infinite wealth ; there are no riches above a sound body, and no joy above that of health. Siroch. The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the im- patience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy them- selves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health. H. W. Beecher. Good health is to be secured by an acquaintance with our constitutions, and by observing what things benefit or injure us ; by temperance in liv- ing, which tends to preserve the body ; by refrain- ing from sensuality ; in short, by employing the skill of those who have devoted themselves to the study of the human body. Cicero. He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping ; therefore be sure you look to that. And in the next place look to your health ; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience ; for health is the second bless- ing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing that money cannot buy ; therefore value it, and be thankful for it. I. Walton. Men that look no farther than their outside, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick ; but I, that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. Sir T. Browne. EHEALTH. - There is this difference between those two tem- poral blessings, health and money—money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed—health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied ; and this supe- riority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all their money for health. Colton. Health ! thou most august of the blessed god- desses, with thee may I spend the remainder of my life, mayest thou benignly dwell with me ; for if there be any pleasure to be derived from riches, or if there be any other delight bestowed on men, or respite from pains, with thee, blessed health, all these flourish and beam effulgent like the spring arising from the graces ; without thee no one is happy. Ariphron. Health and liberty are without dispute the great- est matural blessings mankind is capable of enjoy- ing ; I say matural because the contrary states are purely accidental, and arise from nature de- bauched, depraved, or enforced. Yet these bless- ings are seldom sufficiently valued whilst enjoyed ; like the daily advantages of the sun and air, they seem scarce regarded, because so common, by those that are in possession of them. Molesworth. Health is the soul that animates all enjoyments of life, which fade, and are tasteless, if not dead, with- out it. A man starves at the best and the greatest tables, makes faces at the noblest and most delicate wines, is poor and wretched in the midst of the greatest treasures and fortunes; with common dis- eases strength grows decrepit, youth loses all vigor, and beauty all charms ; music grows harsh, and conversation disagreeable ; palaces are prisons, or of equal confinement ; riches are useless, honor and attendance are cumbersome, and crowns them- selves are a burden ; but if diseases are painful and violent, they equal all conditions of life, and make no difference between a prince and a beggar. Sir W. Temple. IHEARING. Hearsay is half lies. Hölty. Hear first and speak afterwards. Calderon. Befonder of hearing than talking. Cleobulus. Hear, see, and say nothing if you would live in peace. D. Goez. If you would be a good judge, hear what every one says. A. Gowved. The ears of a fool are on his back ; he hears when he is beaten. Ptah-Hotep. Hear one man before you answer; hear several before you decide. J. Damhowder. He who decides the question without hearing the other side, though he decide with justice, cannot be considered just. Seneca. He who can give a proper hearing to what is said, and avails himself of it, is superior to one who comprehends everything by his own intellect : for the one has only comprehension, while the one who takes good advice has action also. Zemo. 364 /) A Y'S CO / Z A C O AV. EIE.A.R.T. - The heart does not lie. Alfieri. The heart is no traitor. Yºrio.ºrte, Hearts are oftener blind than eyes. Mubarrad. The heartisan exhaustless fountain. Fanny Fern. There are doors in every human heart. Virginia F. Townsend. A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. Shakspeare. The heart does not think all the mouth says. Ariosto. What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. Rabbi de Santob. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion. Napoleon I. The heart is in motion always, the brain Seldom. G. D. Prentice. The heart seldom feels what the mouth expres– SeS. - Campistron. The mouth obeys badly when the heart mur- IIllii'S. Voltaire. Human hearts should be temples where angels dwell. T. L. Harris. The heart groweth tender in the presence of beauty. S. Neftanish. The heart ought to give charity when the hand cannot. P. Quesnel. There is no blessing equal to the possession of a Stout heart. S. Smiles. The heart is a vain heart, a vagabond and un- stable heart. F. Quarles. An empty human heart is an abyss earth's depths cannot match. Anne C. Lynch. The heart is the seat of this life, and necessary to a future life. Egyptian. A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another. Goldsmith. A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world. Fielding. The wrinkles of the heart are more indelible than those of the brow. Mme. Delway. When hearts hold converse, other parts of the body are in repose. Al-Misri. The human heart is like heaven ; the more an- gels the more room. Fredriko, Bremer. The heart is the lord of the body, as a man is the lord of his own house. Eiw-ó. To try to conceal our own heart, is a bad means to read that of others. Roussed w. The ways of the heart, like the ways of Provi- dence, are mysterious. W. Woºre. If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit. Bulwer. The dreariest poverty is that of the heart : ban- ish this, and we shall all be rich. Bovee. BIE AIR.T. The hardest trial of the heart is, whether it can bear a rival's failure without triumph. J. Aikin. As the heart is, so is love to the heart ; it par- takes of its strength or weakness, its health or dis- €a Sê. Longfellow. Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart. H. W. Beecher. The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the cords of which require putting in harmony. Saadi. The heart of a wise man should resemble a mir- ror, which reflects every object without being sul- lied by any. Confucius. What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans ! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head. T. Porker. The heart is, perhaps, never so sensible of hap- piness, as after a short separation from the object of its affections. Miss May Hamilton. Happy that heart in which no more idols are to be found, but the holy God dwelling there alone as in His holy temple. R. Leighton. Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world ; no heart was ever cast in the same mould, as that which we bear within us. F. Berni. When the heart is still agitated by the remains of passion, we are more ready to receive a new one, than when we are entirely cured. Rochefoucauld. DOst thou think that there is little difference whether thou dost a thing from the heart, as na- ture suggests, or with a purpose ? Terence. The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters; it is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. V. Hugo. If my heart were as poor as my understanding, I should be happy : for I am thoroughly persuaded that such poverty is a means of salvation. Pascal. The heart must be perpetually fortified by wise counsel and high moral principle, or it will inevit- ably submit to the invasion of the vilest foes. Magoon. A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads, that eventhe owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it. Ruffini. A human heart can never grow old, if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the repro- duction of flowers, and the changing tints of au- tumn leaves. Mrs. L. M. Child. Some people carry their hearts in their heads ; very many carry their heads in their hearts ; the difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together. A. W. Hare. The human heart is like a millstone in a mill; when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds, and bruises the wheat into flour; if you put no wheat in it, it still grinds on ; but then it is itself it grinds, and slowly wears away. M. Luther. A R O S F O U O Z. A 7 I O W S. 365 IHEART. The heart must be at rest before the mind, like a quiet lake under an unclouded summer evening, can reflect the solemn starlight and the Splendid mysteries of heaven. M. Clarke. When the heart of man is serene and tranquil, he wants to enjoy nothing but himself; every movement, even corporeal movement, shakes the nectar cup too rudely. Richter. The heart has its Sabbaths and jubilees, in which the world appears as a hymeneal feast, and all natural sounds and the circle of the seasons are erotic odes and dances. R. W. Emerson. In the heart of a carnal man all things lie in a confused order ; heaven below, and earth at top ; earth seems to him to be vast and infinite, but hea- ven a little inconsiderable spot. E. Hopkins. The heart never grows better by age, I fear rather worse ; always harder. A young liar will be an old one ; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. Chesterfield. Every man in this age has not a breast of crystal for all men to read their thoughts through ; men's hearts and faces are so far asunder that they hold no intelligence. Dwke of Buckingham. How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him ; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into Smiles. W. Irving. There are cords in the human heart which are only struck by accident ; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch. Dickens. The thoughts we have had, the pictures we have seen, can be again called back before the mind's eye and before the imagination ; but the heart is not so obliging, it does not reproduce its pleasing emotions. Goethe. Nothing is so hard as our heart ; and as they lay copper in aquafortis before they begin to engrave it, so the Lord usually prepares us by the Search- ing, softening discipline of affliction for making a deep, lasting impression upon our hearts. J. T. Nottidge. Each heart is a world ; you find all within your- self, that you find without ; the world that sur- rounds you, is the magic glass of the world within you ; to know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you. - Lavater. How mighty is the human heart, with all its complicated energies ; this living source of all that moves the world ; this temple of liberty, this king- dom of heaven, this altar of God, this throne of goodness, so beautiful in holiness, SO generous in love | H. Giles. We should not trust the heart too much ; the heart speaks to us very gladly, as our mouth ex- presses itself; if the mouth were as much inclined to speak the feelings of the heart, it would have been the fashion long ago to put a padlock on the mouth. Lessing. ceptacle of so many sympathies | sider how exquisite are those conditions by which EIEART. The heart is to the man what the sum is to na- ture. The richest principles in one and the most vegetative powers in the other, would lie dormant without the enlivening warmth of the soul of mor- als, or of the universe. J. H. Balfowr. The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower ; in the same way the anguish of the soul, though buried in the breast, is often revealed by a deceitful smile, for it is difficult to feign peace on the brow when there is tumult in the heart. Metastasio. The heart has ever been compared to the needle for its constancy ; has it ever been so for its varia- tions 2 Yet were any man to keep minutes of his feelings, from youth to age, what a table of varia- tions would they present ; how numerous, how diverse, and how strange | J. C. Hare. He that possesses a susceptible heart, has an in- exhaustible mine of sweet emotions ; let him cher- ish its tenderness, and guard, above all things, against those outpourings of envy or uncharitable- ness, which inevitably harden the heart, as the foam exuded by testaceous animals encrusts into shell. Chatfield. The wisdom of the Creator is in nothing seen more gloriously than the heart ; it was necessary that it should be made capable of working forever without the cessation of a moment, without the least degree of weariness. It is so made ; and the power of the Creator, in so constructing it, can in nothing be exceeded but by His wisdom | W. Hope. What is the human mind, however enriched with acquisition or strengthened by exercise, unaccom- panied by an ardent and sensitive heart # Its light may illumine, but it cannot inspire ; it may shed a cold and moonlight radiance upon the path of life, but it warms no flower into bloom ; it sets free no ice-bound fountain. FI. T. Tuckerman. The heart of a man is a short word, a small sub- stance, Scarce enough to give a kite a meal; yet great in capacity, yea, so indefinite in desire that the round globe of the world cannot fill the three corners of it; when it desires more, and cries “give, give l’” I will set it over to the infinite good, where the more it hath, it may desire more, and see more to be desired. J. Hall. What a proof of the divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and re- When we con- it is even made capable of so much suffering—the capabilities of a child's heart, of a mother's heart —what must be the nature of Him who fashioned its depths, and strung its cords? E. H. Chapin. The heart, when broken, is like sweet gums and spices, when beaten ; for as such cast their fragrant scent into the nostrils of men, so the heart, when broken, casts its sweet smell into the nostrils of God. The incense, which was a type of prayer of old, was to be beaten or bruised, and so to be burn- ed in the censer. The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out. - Bunyan. 366 ZX A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. EHEART. We strive as hard to hide our hearts from our- selves, as from others, and always with more suc- cess; for in deciding upon our own case, we are both judge, jury, and executioner; and where so- phistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sen- tence by bribing the third ; a bribe that in this case is never refused, because she always comes up to the price. Colton. The heart is the grand central organ for the cir- culation of the blood, and sends that vivifying, thought-bearing fluid through every part of the body, causing every other organ to perform its respective office or function ; it is also the recep- tive and directive organ of spirit, life and Soul, thought, mind, and will ; the brain and nervous system responds to the mandates of the heart, manifesting their obedience through language, locomotion, and all physical and mental actions. V. B. Wyckoff. Light hearts | Light hearts | Where are ye to be found 2 Not amidst the rich, for there are care and avarice ; not amidst the poor, for there are vice and poverty, want, cares, and disease. Light hearts, where are ye? Not in the child, for there is Some longed-for toy, or some wished-for playmate ; not in youth, for there are blighted hopes and Cherished affections; not in manhood, morinage, for there is some regret for the past, some dread of the future, or some seeking after an unattainable ob- ject. Light hearts, where are ye? We ask our old friend and close companion, conscience, and it answers in its usual mild and quiet way, “No- where.” There may be found light heads, light fingers, and light sovereigns, but there are no light hearts. Eliza, Cook. IBIE AIRTH. Virtuous hearths make good wives. Schiller. The paternal hearth is that rallying place of the affections. W. Irving. The object of all ambition should be to be happy at our own hearth. Annie E. Lancaster. Commend us to the cheerful household hearth, the altar of freedom, and the focus of happiness. Susanna Hopton. Wearied with the fatigues, or what is worse, with the impertinences of the day, how pleasant it is to retreat to one's own hearth. W. Beattie. The ties that bind the wealthy to home may be forged on earth ; but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth bear the stamp of hea- Vell. Dickens. It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endear- ments of a family. James Ellis. How much happiness can be condensed at the humblest hearth ; a cottage will not hold the bulky furniture and sumptuous accommodations of a mansion ; but if God be there, a cottage will hold as much happiness as might stock a palace. Rev. .J. Hamiltom. BIEAT. Excessive heat enfeebles man ; it invites to re- pose and inaction. Prof. A. Guyot. The heat of Milton's mind might be said to su- blimate his learning. Dr. Johnson. Heat is producible or exists to a greater or less degree, in all material substances. R. Dwnglison. Heat is the great agent in numberless important processes of chemistry and domestic economy and the actuating principle of the mighty steam engine which now performs half the labor of society. N. A^*nott. Heat is always excessive and mostly violent : those commotions and fermentations of the mind which flow from the agitation of the passions, par- ticularly of the angry passions, are termed heat. G. Crabb. The application of heat to the various branches Of the mechanical and chemical arts has, within a few years, effected a greater change in the condi- tion of man than had been accomplished in any equal period of his existence. Mary Somerville. Except thou desire to hasten thine end take this for a general rule : that thou never add any arti- ficial heat to thy body by wine or spice until thou find that time hath decayed thy natural heat ; and the sooner thou beginnest to help mature the sooner she will forsake thee and trust altogether to art. Sir W. Raleigh. HEATHEN. The heathen oracles are dumb. J. Linen. The heathen's fortune is the Christian's Provi- dence. J. Wesley. The heathen are those who are ignorant of the gospel of Christ. A. Ritchie. How vast a difference there is between heathen- ism and Christianity. T. B. Macaulay. I never doubted that God could convert the heathen since he converted me. John Newton. Heathenism disregards life, both in infancy and age; but to Christianity it is always sacred. Orme. The heathen system tends to immeasurable evil, but the Christian system to immeasurable good. H. Bingham. I believe not that all virtues of the heathens were counterfeit, and destitute of an inward principle of goodness. Tillotson. The heathen sorrows without hope ; the thought that death was the gate of life comes not to cheer the parting, or brighten the sepulchre. H. Bomar. If heathenism were an error of the understand- ing, the greater number of heathens would have forsaken it ; but being a work of the flesh, and Christianity requiring its crucifixion, they stop there. J. Swartz. Heathen nations have mistaken their own image for Deity ; their gods display human frailties and passions and Scanty virtues, projected and magni- fied upon the heavens, just as the small figures on the slide of a magic-lantern are projected, magni- fied, and illuminated upon a white sheet. E. Foster. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 367 HEAVEN. My idea of heaven is perfect rest. R. Hall. My idea of heaven is perfect love. Wilberforce. Seek heaven as your first great good. Philo. Long ago the gods parted heaven from earth. Man-yo-shiw. The ascent to heaven from this earth is not easy. Seneca. Men think the way to heaven broader than it is. T. Adams. Have we not more friends in heaven than on earth ? J. Cross. Heaven is the seat of God, and the earth is His footstool. T. Bastard. If you would be sure of reaching heaven take an early start. E. P. Day. There is but one way to heaven for the learned and unlearned. Jeremy Taylor. Resist as much as thou wilt, heaven's ways are heaven's ways. Lessing. Heaven and hell are matters of repentance and non-repentance. Riw-6. As heaven is furnished with stars, hell shall be with the damned. N. Cawssin. It is only in heaven that angels have as much ability as demons. Mine. Swetchine. He who offends against heaven, has none to whom he can pray. Confucius. No fountain is so small but that heaven may be imaged in its bosom. N. Hawthorne. Heaven is a resting-place from toil; the only port that is always calm. G. S. Bowes. The happiness of heaven consists in righteous- ness, or obedience to God's law. T. Dwight. The power of heaven is immeasurable and bound- less, accomplishing whatever it wills. Ovid. Nothing is farther than earth from heaven ; nothing is nearer to heaven than earth. J. C. Hare. Heaven is the seeing God eternally as He is ; and loving Him without ever losing Him. Bosswet. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree and endless in duration. Franklin. Heaven is a place of holiness, wide to receive many sinners, but too narrow for a single sin. J. Howell. The joys of heaven are like the stars, which by reason of our remoteness appear extremely little. R. Boyle. Heaven and hell are portable, and exist only as we carry them about with us in our consciousness. Bovee. If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long ; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life. W. Beveridge. HEAVEN. Bounded in his nature, infinite in his views, man is a fallen god, who remembers heaven, his former dwelling-place. Lamartime. Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes' palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees. D. Webster. It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rich in Providence, sterm upon the poles of truth. Lord Bacom. What encouragement can be given to goodness beyond the hopes of heaven and the assurance of an endless felicity ? Tillotson. The gate that leads to heaven is a straight gate, therefore we should fear ; it is an open gate, there- fore we should hope. J. Mason. Heaven is the dwelling place of God, where He especially manifests His glory ; it is a place of perpetual enjoyment. A. Ritchie. He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither, as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it. G. Horne. The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you, while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eye is fixed on earth alone. Dante. He is most miserable that is denied to see the sunshine ; and he is most accursed to whom God denieth the favor of heaven. O. Gregory. Though thy heart breaks, rail not at heaven's resistless will ! And when thou leavest the body, God may be gracious to thy Soul. Bürger. Heaven is the fear of glory, the habitation of angels, the resting place of the faithful, far beyond thought and glorious beyond report. A. Bethwne. We deem it hard to know the things on earth, and find the objects of our eyes with toil; but who can search the secrets of the heavens ! St. Basil. Blessed is the pilgrim who seeketh not an abiding place unto himself in this world ; but longeth to be dissolved, and be with Christ in heaven. T. & Kempis. Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heavens, and thence bring know- ledge to contemplate the everduring glory and termless joy. Sir W. Raleigh. He that studies to know duty, and labors in all things to do it, will have two heavens; one of joy, peace, and comfort on earth, and the other of glory and happiness beyond the grave. R. Potter. If thou art a believer, thou art no stranger to heaven while thou livest : and when thou diest, heaven will be no strange place to thee ; no, thou hast been there a thousand times before. J. Eliot. Every saint in heaven is as a flower in the gar- den of God, and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor that they all send forth, and with which they fill the bowers of that paradise above. J. Edwards. 368 JD A V 'S CO /, / A C O AV. EIEAVEN. The soul of man may be in heaven anywhere, even within the limits of his own proper body. ; and when it ceaseth to live in the body, it may remain in its own soul, that is, its Creator. Browne. In heaven will be found peace without molesta- tion, plenty without want, health without sickness, day without night, pleasure without pain, and life without the least mixture or dread of death. D. M. Moin'. Heaven is generally taken for that part of the world which is over our heads, a place full of di- vine residence, and that land where the faithful after this life expect their portion and inheritance. - B. Biscop. The joys of heaven are without example, above experience, and beyond imagination, for which the whole creation wants a comparison, we an ap- prehension, and even the word of God a revela- tion. J. Norris. Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn ; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower ; the inner shrine of that most glorious tem- ple to which grace forms the approach and outer Court. T. Guthrie. In heaven there is light without darkness, joy without grief, desire without punishment, love without sadness, satiety without loathing, safety without fear, health without disease, and life with- out death. Is heaven, with its pleasures for evermore, to be parted with so unconcernedly 2 Is an exceeding and eternal weight of glory too light in the balance against the hopeless death of the atheist, and utter extinction ? R. Bentley. The joys of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven and do its duties; that may begin to-day ; it is everlasting life to know God, to have His Spirit dwelling in you, yourself at one with Him. T. Parker. What, after all, is heaven but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom ; from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order ? Bulwer. The poets fabulously fancied that the giants scaled heaven by heaping mountain upon moun- tain. What was their fancy is the gospel truth. If you would get to heaven you must climb thither by putting Mount Sion upon Mount Sinai. Bishop Hopkins. Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace ; but God who made the sun and the flowers never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that. H. W. Beecher. That which makes heaven so full of joy is, that heaven is above all fear ; and that which makes hell so full of terror is, that hell is below all hope. Heaven is a day which shall never see any ap- proachings of night ; and hell is a night that shall never see any dawnings of day. R. Venºming. F. Qwarles. HEAVEN. The appearance of the heavens has under all cir- cumstances a never-ending charm for me, in the clear starlight as well as in dark nights, in the soft blue as well as in the cloudy or dark-grey sky, in which the eye loses itself, without being able to distinguish anything. Hwanboldt. How incomparably excellent is the glory of heaven, where no changes shall be, where shall be wonderful advancement, but without injustice ; abundance of glory, but without envy : infinite wealth, but without woe ; admirable beauty and felicity, but without vanity or infirmity. Bolton. If one could but look awhile through the chinks of heaven's door, and see the beauty and bliss of Paradise ; if he could but lay his ear to heaven, and hear the ravishing music of those seraphic spirits, and the anthems of praise which they sing: how would his soul be exhilarated aud transported with joy R. Watson. How should we all rejoice in the prospect, the certainty rather, of spending a blessed etermity in heaven with those whom we love on earth ; what delight will it afford to renew the sweet counsel we have taken together, to recount the toils of combat and the labor of the way, and to approach not the house, but the throne of God, in company, in order to join in the symphonies of heavenly voices, and lose ourselves amid the splendor and fruitions of the beatific vision | R. Hall. It is not for any mortal creature to make a map of that heaven which lies above ; it is to all of us who live here on the hither side of death, an un- known country and an undiscovered land. It may be that some heavenly pilgrim, who with his holy thoughts and holy desires is continually traveling thitherward, arrives sometimes near the borders of the promised land, and the suburbs of the new Jerusalem, and there has the perfect prospect of a fair country, but he cannot tell how to describe it. Bickersteth. HEEDLESSINESS. Surprises are often fatal to heedless, unguarded innocence. W. Sherlock. If a man desires to go to the devil, heedlessness is a good vice to take stock in. W. C. Hazlitt. Be not a heedless sluggard, nor a stupid blun- derer in the province of your own concerns. Rich. Some ideas which have more than once offered themselves to the senses, have yet been little taken notice of ; the mind being either heedless, as in children, or otherwise employed, as in men. Locke. Heedlessness in any relation of life is a sin; but the neglect of things pertaining to our temporal life is as nothing compared to the heedlessness of our spiritual welfare; the one leads to temporary embarrassment, the other to everlasting destruc- tion. James Ellis. We have seen a heedless youth gazing with a too curious spirit upon the sweet motions and gen- tle approaches of an inviting pleasure, till it has detained his eye, and imprisoned his feet, and swelled upon his soul, and swept him along to a Swift destruction. S. Montagwe. PA O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 369 HEIR. Many heirs make small portions. Müllmer. Every one should be his own heir. Heliogabalus. Death has not always his ears open to the vows and prayers of heirs. Molière. He that is heir to the virtues as well as fortunes of a noble family, is fittest to govern an estate. R. Boyle. The heirs to titles and large estates have a weak- ness in their eyes, and a tenderness in their consti- tutions. Swift. The man who has abundance of this world's riches and is without an heir to inherit them, is to be pitied. Memounder. The perpetual enjoyment of things is given to no one, and one heir gives place to another, as wave succeeds wave. Horace. What madness is it for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an ene- my For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him. Seneca. The heir of a great estate, while a child, thinks more of a few shillings in his pocket than of his in- heritance ; so a Christian is often more elated by some frame of heart than by his title to glory. Rev. J. Newton. He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma, ; he who sees his heir in another man's child, sees the full stop at the end of the Sentence. Bulwer. If God hath blest thee with inheritance, and children to inherit, trust not the staff of thy family to the hands of one ; make not many beggars in the building up of one great heir, lest if he miscarry through a prodigal will, the rest sink through a hard necessity. F. Quarles. An heiress remaining unmarried is a prey to all manner of extortion and imposition, and with the best intentions becomes, through a bounty, a cor- ruption to her neighborhood, and a curse to the poor ; or, if experience shall put her on her guard, she will lead a life of suspicion and resistance, to the injury of her own mind and nature. Jeremy Taylor. EHEINOUSINESS, The malignity of a lie consists in the heinousness of the Offense. Addison. As it is a most heinous, so it is a most dangerous impiety to despise Him that can destroy us. * Tillotson. To abrogate or innovate the gospel of Christ, were a most heinous and accursed sacrilege. R. Hooker. He who can treat offenses against God as jests and trifles, must have little sense of the heinous- ness of them. S. Rogers. A crime is heinous which seriously offends against the laws of men ; but a sin is heinous which se- riously offends against the will of God. G. Crabb. EHELL. Hell is truth seen too late. A. Adam. It is harder work getting to hell than heaven. Hölderlin. Hell is a universe of death, where all life dies. . Milton. In hell there is no order, but a heap and chaos of confusion. Caiws. The image of our sims represents unto us the pic- ture of hell. St. Cyril. Woe be to him that by experience knoweth there is a hell. St. Chrysostom. I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven. Bunyam. Hell is a place of punishment which God has re- served for all reprobates. Rev. T. Adam. A world where sin and truth are seen thorough- ly ; you want no other hell. T. Binney. To them that are enamored of the world, the re- membrance of hell is bitter. J. Birom. Hell, like death, is most uncertain, and a place of punishment most assured. Sir W. Hamilton. Hell is a place of horror, distress, and misery, the cell of torment, grief, and vexation. Calvin. If all mankind feared hell as they fear poverty, every one would enter the gates of Paradise. Yahya Ibn Modřd. While the wish of many individuals is to arrive at heaven, we daily behold them on the way to hell. Downey. If thy mind be not moved with the fire of hea- ven, take heed lest thy soul feel the flames of hell. St. Augustine. A person who would consign me to hell for want of faith, may find himself there for want of chari- ty. Hwme. One could not devise a more proper hell for an impure spirit than that which Plato has touched upon. Addison. The wretches in hell have an end without end, a death without death, for their death liveth con- tinually. L. Jowrdatn. Hell that is known nowhere, is everywhere ; and though now never So private, yet in the end it will be most public. J. Eachard. Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell, if they would venture their indus- try the right way. Ben Jonson. Hell is in all things contrary to heaven; it is a place of torment, misery, and desolation, where the wicked shall endure the endless judgment of pain for their offenses. T. Halybwrton. It is rather to the disadvantage of the Roman Catholics that they need two hells to keep them straight, while the Protestants manage, with some difficulty, it is true, to get along with but one. w Bovee. 24 370 J) A Y’,S CO / / A C O AV. FIELL. Do not picture hell to yourselves as consisting in those pools of fire and brimstone, in those ever- lastingly devouring flames, in that madness, de- spair, and horrible gnashing of teeth ; hell, if we understand rightly, is sin itself ; hell is the being separated from God. Bosswet. For a man to doubt whether there be any hell, and thereupon to live as if absolutely there were none, but when he dies to find himself confuted in the flames, this must be the height of woe and dis- appointment, and a bitter conviction of an irra- tional venture and absurd choice. R. South. Good men have their hell in this world, that they may know there is a heaven after death to reward the virtuous ; and wicked men escape torments in this world, because they shall find there is a judg- ment to come, wherein the wicked shall have pun- ishment according to the number of their offenses. Lactantiws. As a city or town that is sacked, razed to the ground, ploughed, and sown with salt, is unable to recover itself, or to harm the enemies that have served it so ; such a conflict and overthrow has Christ given to Satan by his death. He has gotten such a victory over all the powers of hell, that they are no more able to hurt the children of God. D. Cawdray. The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in ; I feel sometimes a hell within myself ; Lucifer keeps his court in my breast : Legion is revived in me. There are as many hells as Anaxarchus con- ceited worlds; there was more than one hell in Mag- dalene, when there were seven devils : for every devil is a hell unto himself, and needs not the misery of circumference to afflict him ; and thus a distracted conscience here, is a shadow or intro- duction unto hell hereafter. Sir T. Browne. In hell, there is no hope ; they have not even the hope of dying, the hope of being annihilated: they are forever, forever, forever lost On every chain in hell there is written “forever.” In the fires there blazes out the word “forever.” Up above their heads they read “forever.” Their eyes are galled, and their hearts are pained, with the thought that it is “forever.” Oh if I could tell you to-night that hell would one day be burned out, and that those who were lost might be saved, there would be a jubilee in hell at the very thought of it; but it cannot be; it is “forever” they are “cast into utter darkness.” C. H. Spurgeon. The locality of hell is untold, its creation and date are left in obscurity, its names are various— but all rather veils the discoveries of what seems elaborately concealed ; it is hell, the hidden or sunken place ; it is Gehenna Tophet ; it is a smoke ascending, as if to darken the universe ; it is a lake burning with fire and brimstone, but of which the interior is unseen ; it is a pit bottomless, a fire un- Quenchable, a worm undying, a death—the second and the last : it is “without,” yet not unvisited or unseen ; they shall be tormented in the presence of the Lamb and the holy angels ; they shall go forth and look on the carcases of them that are slain, whose worm dieth not. This is all, or nearly all we know of it. G. Gilfillan. HELP. Take help of many, advice of few. J. Ewald. When need is greatest, help is nearest. Heime. Help thyself and heaven will help thee. La Fontaine. One man is born to help another, as far as ability will Serve. Geoffrey of Monmouth. Unless you help when help is needed, you do not help at all. E. P. Day. To help the weak is charity, but to aid the mighty presumption. O. Gregory. When we help the poor, we build a heaven be- neath the skies. James Ellis. In a famine, help is good ; it is no merit to give when provisions are cheap. Manswr. Help those, and those only, that need help ; nor seek it for yourself, without necessity. E. Rich. Help from without is often enfeebling in its ef- fects, but help from within invariably invigorates. S. Smiles. A helping word to one in trouble, is often like a switch on a railroad track—but one inch between wreck and smooth-rolling property. H. W. Beecher. The race of mankind would perish did they cease to help each other ; all therefore that need aid, have a right to ask it from their fellow-mortals; none who hold the power of granting aid, can re- fuse it without guilt. S. W. Scott. HERALDRY. Heraldry emblazons the deeds of vice as well as of virtue. Annie E. Lancaster. It is far from my design to intimate that heral- dry can have any tendency unfriendly to the pur- est spirit of republicanism. Washington. When heraldry doth record the gallant deeds of individuals, it is called biography : when it em- blazoneth the prowess of nations and people, it is styled history. Sir S. Garth. If our heraldry is in the hammer, and the axe, and the awl, and the needle, we are to feel it a far higher honor than if in their place we could have dragons and helmets, and cross-bones and skulls. S. H. Tymg. We may talk what we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plow in a field arable, would be the most noble and ancient arms. A. Cowley. A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been dis- covered to have no real jurisdiction. Shenstone. What is the use of our genealogy being recorded, or of emblazoned arms, ensigns, and armorial bear- ings, to tell of glorious deeds performed on earth ? These are but the heraldry of the world; what will those deeds avail if they be not approved by God, and found worthy of the heraldry of heaven 3 James Ellis. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 3.71 HERESY. Reep no faith with heretics. Pope Pius V. Heretics should be excommunicated. Amastasius. Heresy is an offense against Christianity. |W. Blackstone, The liberty of heresy and unbelief is not right. O. A. Brownsom. Even with the Gospel men may become heretics. Goldomi. The surest way to destroy heresy is to destroy the heretics. Pope Martin V. I adhere to the Holy Scriptures alone ; I follow no other heresy or sect. Milton. Heresy streweth the plain and open way of truth with thorns and brambles. E. Bolton. A heretic doth corrupt the sincerity of the faith and doctrine of the apostles. St. Awgwstime. The heresy of indifference to revealed religion is the most deadly of all heresies. R. Whately. We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the rposecution of magic and heresy. Montesquiew. When a man flees from heresy to Orthodoxy, he should be received by the orthodox. Menciws. Heresies work mightily on men's brains, but pro- duce very little effect on their souls. Lord Bacon. To endeavor the conversion of a heretic, by force, is as absurd as to attempt storming a castle by logic. St. Chrysostom. If the abjuration of a heretic be sincere, it is safest to put him to death, lest he should be per- suaded to forsake the church. F. Mason. Whoever shall contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death, willingly and knowingly incurs their very guilt 3 J. Calvin. A heretic is the maintainer of heresy only for matters of faith and doctrine, but he is a schisma- tic in matters of discipline and practice. Engel. It has been observed of heretics, that the less they differed from one another, the greater hath been the antipathy and hatred between them. Higgins. The church is of necessity intolerant ; heresy she endures when and where she must, but she hates it, and directs all her emergies to its destruc- tion. * E. Budgell. Heretics, wishing to give strength to their error, endeavor to extract passages from the Scriptures, by which to pervert the minds of those who listem to them. St. Ephrem. Heresy and schism are merely religious scare- crows; they might be efficient ones formerly, but now-a-days they will scare few birds except gulls and dotterels. J. Hales. Those only should be considered as heretics who maintain what are accounted erroneous opinions, either against their real convictions or without Condescending to listen to fair and reasonable ar- gument. J. R. M’Culloch. FHERESY. There is no heresy in the long list of heresies which have invaded the church, like the heresy of negativeness, of inaction, of death ; the dead man is the great heresiarch. H. W. Beecher. They which through the dimness of their mind, and want of understanding, do contemn the true and living God, do please themselves with all man- ner of pestilent heresies. St. Ambrose. After the ascension of Christ into heaven, many persons, by the instigation of the devil, sought to seduce the people from the true faith they had em- braced, by teaching and preaching heresies. St. Justin. Heresy is a willful and obstinate opinion ground- ed in the mind, the sister of ignorance, professed enemy to all truth, presumptuously opposing itself against the principles of faith and true religion. Johann Fwmck. If we see not the clear and heavenly light which comes from God, we fall into the gulf, and sink to the bottom of that most foul and filthy puddle of all false opinions, errors, heresies, and the belief in false doctrines. M. Oviedo. There has been much heterodoxy in the Christian world at all times, and among these have been here- sies denying the plainest and most serious truths, which have been acknowledged by the great body of Christians since the apostles. G. Crabb. HERMIT. When the devil grows old he turns hermit. - Ariosto. A hermit is a deserter from the army of humani- ty. Sowthgate. A hermit is one who hopes to win heaven by neglecting the duties of earth. A. Chartier. A hermit is a living contradiction to God's de- claration, that it is not good for man to be alone. Boece. A hermit, or a monk, may live in retirement, in- sensible to friendship, and yet be not actually wicked. Voltaire. A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college, has contracted a sort of mold and rust upon his soul. I. Watts. Think alone, and all places are friendly and Sa- cred ; the hermits who have lived in cities have been hermits still. R. W. Ehmerson. To write letters of consolation to a voluntary hermit, would be like sending a prescription to a man in perfect health. Sir S. Garth. There are seasons in the life of every individual, however social he may be, in which he wishes, like a hermit, to retire to the solitude of his own bosom. G. P. Morris. It is not the life of a hermit that is enjoined upon us; it is only the life of a rational being formed for society, capable of continual improvement, and consequently of continual advancement in happi- IleSS. Mrs. Chapome. 372 AD A Y',S C O Z / A C O AV. EHERO. Every age has its heroes. G. W. Curtis. There are heroes in evil as well as good. Mothe. Worship your heroes from afar ; contact withers them. Mme. Necker. Of two heroes, he who esteems his rival the most is the greater. L. A. Beawmelle. We can all be heroes: in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives. James Ellis. Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes or patriots? Semeca. Heroes in every exalted walk of life are charac- terized by a restless, glowing, unappeasable activ- ity. Magoom. In analyzing the character of heroes, it is hardly possible to separate altogether the share of fortune from their own. H. Halloºn. The hero passeth through the multitude, as a man that neither disdains a people, nor yet is anything tickled with their vanity. Sir P. Sidney. Great men and heroes are especial gifts of God, men who He gives and upholds, who carry on their work and calling, and do great deeds. M. Lºwther. However great the advantages which nature be- stows on us, it is not she alone, but fortune in con- junction with her, which makes heroes. Rochefoucauld. Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there ; but if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry. G. W. Curtis. A hero is not composed of common materials ; his expense is hazard, his coin is blood, and out of the impossibilities of the coward he cuts a perilous harvest with the sword, Colton. The prudent sees only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both, diminishes those, makes these pre- ponderate, and conquers. Lavater. Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course ; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some persons of his own stamp. Goethe. A hero is—as though one should say—a man of high achievement, who performs famous exploits; who does things that are heroical, and in all his ac- tions and demeanor is a hero indeed. H. Brooke. It were well if there were fewer heroes ; for I scarcely ever heard of any, except Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand, and their reason with their left. J. Collier. There ought, no doubt, to be heroes in society as well as butchers ; and who knows but the necessity of butchers, inflaming and stimulating the pas- sions with animal food, might at first occasion the necessity of heroes; butchers, I believe, were prior. Shemstone. HEROISMI. Self-trust is the essence of heroism. Emerson. Heroism is that divine relation which in all times unites a great man to other men. T. Carlyle. The grandest of heroic deeds, are those which are performed within four walls, and in domestic privacy. Richter. Heroism is active genius; genius, contemplative heroism. Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action. J. C. Hare. The greatest obstacle to being heroic, is the doubt whether One may not be going to prove one's self a fool ; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt ; and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed. N. Hawthorne. There is an army of memorable sufferers, who suffer inwardly and not outwardly ; the world's battle-fields have been in the heart chiefly ; more heroism has been displayed in the household than on the most memorable battle-fields of history. - H. W. Beecher. The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness; it does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm ; the essence of greatness is the percep- tion that virtue is enough; poverty is its ornament; it does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss. R. W. Emerson, Heroism is no extempore work of transient im- pulse—a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness, by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up—but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flames: it is no sparkling epigram of action, but aluminous epic of character. E. P. Whipple. EHESITATION. We should never hesitate to do right, and always demur to things evil. Emerson Bennet. Hesitation in acts of justice have often ruined nations as well as individuals. A. Hamilton. We hesitate and waver from various motives, particularly such as affect our interests. Furness. It is not the part of an amiable disposition to make a hesitation in complying with a reasonable request. Jedahtah-Happenini-Bedraschi. What doth it account a man to believe right principles, if he declare them with hesitation and wavering 2 Tsze-Chang. He who hesitates only when the doing of good is proposed, evinces himself a worthless member of society ; he who wavers between his duty and his inclination, will seldom maintain a long or doubt- ful contest. G. Crabb. Hesitation is a sign of weakness, for inasmuch as the comparative good and evil of the different modes of action, about which we hesitate, are sel- dom equally balanced, a strong mind should per- ceive the slightest inclination of the beam, with the glance of an eagle, particularly as there are cases where the preponderance will be very mi- nute, even although there should be life in one scale, and death in another. Colton. A R O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. HISTORY. All history is a lie. Sir R. Walpole. There is no truthin history. Frederick the Great. History is a source of pleasure. Pliny. History is necessary to divines. I. Watts. History affords political wisdom. J. Kay. There is a history in all men's lives. Shakspeare. History is the compliment of poetry. J. Stephem. While we read history we make history. G. W. Curtis. What is history but a fable agreed upon ? Napoleon I. History is a compendium of uncertainties. E. P. Day. History is philosophy teaching by example. Bolingbroke. Truth is very liable to be left-handed in history. A. Dwmas. An historian should be without passion or pen- sion. D. Hwºme. There is truth in poetry, but history is generally a lie. G. D. Prentice. The world's history is the world's judgment- doom. Schiller. All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example. D. G. Croly. History is only time furnished with dates and rich with eventS. Rivarol. History makes haste to record great deeds, but often neglects good Ones. H. Ballow. That which history can give us best is the enthu- siasm which it raises in our hearts. Goethe. The uncertainty of history is chiefly to be as- cribed to the partiality of historians. J. Hintom. History is, indeed, a little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. E. Gibbon. Providence conceals itself in the details of hu- man affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generali- ties of history. Lamartime. The historian can tell of the wars of Thebes and of Troy, but is often ignorant of what is done in his own house. D. C2vittinger. Most historians take pleasure in putting into the mouths of princes what they have neither said nor ought to have said. Voltaire. A history will live, though written ever so indif- ferently ; and is generally less suspected than the rhetoric of the muses. Shemstome. History is the witness of the time, the torch of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity. Cicero. To form an opinion of human nature from a pe- rusal of history, is like judging of a fine city by its its sewers and cess-pools. Chatfield. d HISTORY. Happy the land where the history of the past is the history of the people, and not a mere flattery to kings. Rosswth. What are our pretended histories 3 Fables, jest- books, satires, apologies, anything but what they profess to be. A. H. Everett. There is no history worthy of attention but that of a free people ; the history of a people subjected to despotism is only a collection of anecdotes. - Chamfort. Characters in history move before us in basso relievo ; we see one side only, that which the artist chooses to exhibit to us ; the rest is sunk in the block. Mrs. Amma Jameson. What is public history but a register of the suc- cesses and disappointments, the vices, the follies, and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power ? Paley. History is a mighty, thundering declaration of the falsity of the sentiment that God is not a God who will let men suffer ; the history of the world is all suffering. H. W. Beecher. The more we know of history, the less shall we esteem the subjects of it ; and to despise our spe- cies is the price we must too often pay for our knowledge of it. Colton. It is when the hour of conflict is over, that his- tory comes to a right understanding of the strife, and is ready to exclaim : “Lo God is here, and we knew it not.” G. Bancroft. History consists, for the greater part, of the mise- ries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungov- erned zeal, and all of the train of disorderly appe- tites. Burke, History is the great looking-glass through which we may behold with ancestral eyes, not only the various deeds of past ages and the Odd accidents that attend time, but also discern the different humors of men J. Howell. History is replete with moral lessons; the insta- bility of human power, the tyranny of man over his brother, and the painful truth that the great are not always the good, mark almost every fea- ture of its annals. Mrs. Sigowrmey. The student is to read history actively and not passively ; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves. R. W. Emerson. They who have employed the study of history as they ought for their instruction, for the regula- tion of their private manners, and the management of public affairs, must agree with me that it is the most pleasant school of wisdom. Dryden. The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write, or who have par- ticipated in the conduct of them, or, at least, who have had the conduct of others of the same nature. Montaigne. 374 AX A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. HISTORY. History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs, privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof. T. Fuller. Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed : the facts are absorbed by the reflections, as the meat sometimes is by the fat. J. C. Hare. Various writers have undertaken to build ro- mance upon history ; but few, except those who have occupied themselves with researches into its sources, are aware how much of history itself is nothing more than legend and romance. T. Wright. History has for its object the singular results arising from the passions and caprices of men, and exhibits a succession of such strange events that in ancient times they imagined a blind and crazed divinity had the direction of the affairs of the world. Fontemelle. Geologists complain that when they want speci- mens of the common rocks of a country, they re- ceive curious spars; just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want —the every-day life of each particular time and country. R. Whately. Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may ; he carries with him, for thousands of years, a portion of his time; and indeed, if only his own effigy were there, it would be greatly more than a fragment of his country. W. S. Landor. Historians rarely descend to those details from which alone the real state of a community can be collected ; hence posterity is too often deceived by the vague hyperboles of poets and rhetoricians, who mistake the splendor of a court for the hap- piness of a people. T. B. Macaulay. We find but few historians of all ages who have been diligent enough in their search for truth ; it is their common method to take on trust what they distribute to the public, by which means, a false- hood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity. R. Sherlock. The present state of things is the consequence of the past ; and it is natural to inquire as to the sources of the good we enjoy, or the evils we suffer. If we act only for ourselves, to neglect the study of history is not prudent ; if entrusted with the care of others, it is not just. Dr. Johnson. This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them ; and, that men should feel a dread of being considered infam- ousin the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions. Tacitus. History furnishes the only proper discipline to educate and train the minds of those who wish to take part in public affairs; and the unfortunate events which it hands down for our instruction contain the wisest and most convincing lessons for enabling us to bear our own calamities with dig- nity and courage. Polybius. * HISTORY. In the histories which have been left us by men, we see nothing but the agency of man. They are men who obtain the victories, who take towns, who subdue kingdoms, who dethrone sovereigns, to ele- vate themselves to supreme power. God appears in no part, men are the Soul actors in all these things. Lord Lyttleton. A critical historian is a man who not only acts with perfect honesty and impartiality in stating all the evidence which can be procured, but who is competent to weigh the exact value of the evi- dence of every witness produced ; he must take nothing on trust, but must show accurately the source not only of his own, but of his witnesses' information. J. P. Mahaffy. To study history is to study literature. The bio- graphy of a nation embraces all its works ; no trifle is to be neglected; a mouldering medal is a letter of twenty centuries. Antiquities which have been beautifully called history defaced, compose its full- est commentary. In these wrecks of many storms, which time washes to the shore, the scholar looks patiently for treasure. R. A. Willmott. The prodigious lies which have been published in this age in matters of fact, with unblushing confi- dence, even where thousands or multitudes of eye and ear witnesses knew all to be false, doth call men to take heed what history they believe, espe- cially where power and violence affordeth that privilege to the reporter that no man dare answer him, or detect his fraud. R. Baacter. History is a sacred kind of writing, because truth is essential to it, and where truth is, there God himself is, so far as truth is concerned. His- torians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction to the present, and monitor to the future. Cervantes. In writing history you are as it were upon a lofty eminence, and the landscape beneath you most un- equally illuminated ; one point, perhaps the most distant, seen clearly through a thin, lovely mist : other portions, nearer to you, quite concealed ; SO that you can form no clear idea of the country. By-and-by, as the sun rises, the light increases: you are able to map the whole. It requires the presence of the imagination that the pictures of the past may possess something of the force of the present. H. Vaugham. History makes men wise, and in proportion as their minds are influenced by a natural love of their country, so they will always feel a desire to be- come more and more familiar with the most au- thentic accounts of its origin, progress toward civilization, and the circumstances which have led to its present importance or degradation in the scale of nations. To trace with accuracy the grad- ual advancement of a country from primitive barbarism, darkness, and idolatry, to a state of re- finement in the arts, learning, and religion, is the grateful task of the historian. Lord Bacon. P R O S E O U o 7. A 7 / O M. S. 37; 5 EHOBBY. Hobby-horses are dearer than Arabians. Fichte. Every man has his own particular hobby. - D'Anchères. A hobby generally illustrates a man's failings; seldom any of his virtues. Annie E. Lancaster. Hobbies are sigms of weakness; men who are properly poised, seldom have hobbies. James Ellis. The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at ; they then shoot their money like corn out of a sack. G. Eliot. As infancy must, in due time, be exchanged for youth and manhood, so will a hobby-horse make way for a mistress, and the pursuit of wealth, plea- Sure, and fame. B. Bragg. We all ride something ; it is folly to expect us always to be walking. The cheapest thing to ride is a hobby ; it eats no oats, it demands no groom, it breaks no traces, it requires no shoeing. T. D. Talmage. Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses; it will not do to have more than one at a time. One hob- by leads you out of extravagance ; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all ; few men are rich enough for that. Bulwer. EIOLIDAY. A feast is kept by religious worship ; a holiday is kept by idleness. G. Crabb. The body requires a holiday from labor ; but the mind should always be at work. H. Attwell. Some make pleasure the chief concern of their lives; to such a day of right hard work is really a holiday. J. Ireland. Those who thoughtlessly pass away the period of youth as one long holiday, may find old age to be a season of penury and want. J. Gale. Relaxation from business seems to be a necessity to our existence ; to take an occasional holiday, therefore, is not only justifiable but highly com- mendable. W. Wordsworth. A holiday is the elysium of our boyhood ; per- haps the only one of our life ; in this working-day country, we have neither holidays enough, nor even enough half-holidays; it might be well if some patriot would bequeath to the whole laboring com- munity, a legacy similar to that of Anaxagoras. Chatfield. It is well for us to cherish holidays of every sort, national days, festivals, and above all, the family holidays which are sacred to each home circle, and which tend to draw closer the bonds of natural affection ; they promote sociality, they afford needed relaxation, and they make the people bet- ter and happier by developing a spirit of kindness and affection; above all, they should be maintained for the children's sake, for it is a cheerless youth that knows no holidays; and none the less do we need them for ourselves. May our feast days be many and our fast days few Mary L. Booth. EHOLINESS.. Holiness is the fruit of truth. C. Hodge. The devil feareth holy water. St. Aleacander. Holiness expresses perfect righteousness. Mrs. Willoºd. In days of yore nothing was holy but the beau- tiful. Schiller. Holiness is the only means by which holiness can be diffused. A. Waloews. The more holy a man is, the more sensible will he be of his unholiness. .J. Hall. The essence of true holiness consists in confor- mity to the natnre and will of God. Dr. Lucas. Habitual preparation for the Sacrament consists in a permanent habit or principle of holiness. R. Sowth. To die happy you must live holy ; receiving in- juries without complaining, and readily forgiving them. W. B. Carpenter. Remember that the title of Christian, or follower of Christ, implies a more than ordinary degree of holiness. Mrs. Chapone. To expect to reach heaven without living holy, is to expect to move the Alps by the strength of a man's voice. Downey. The roof of sanctity is sanity ; a man must be healthy before he can be holy ; we bathe first, and then perfume. Mme. Swetchine. He who enters within the precincts of the temple full of incense ought to be holy ; holiness is to have holy thoughts. St. Clement. Without holiness there can be no such heaven as the New Testament reveals ; holiness is that with- out which no heaven could exist. Rev. J. Stoughton. Those men are truly holy, who refuse the vain and transitory pleasures of the world, and wholly set their minds on divine meditation. F. Furiws. Imperfect holiness on earth is a rose that breathes sweetly in the bud; in heaven it will be full-blown, and abide in its prime to all eternity. J. Flavel. You might as well attempt to check an earth- quake as to prevent the going-forth of the spirit of holiness from a soul washed with blood or a church refined by fire. G. C. Wells. They who are most like heaven, and appear to be travelling thither with firmest step, with a pure conscience and sincere prayer seek for holy light upon their narrow path. Magoon. Those who have never tried the experiment of a holy life, measure the laws of God, not by their intrinsical goodness, but by the reluctancy and op- position which they find in their hearts. Publius Syrus. What shall be, then, the honor of the just, who shall truly and really sit above the sun, the moon, and the firmament, crowned by the hand of God himself, and that with a crown of gold, graven with the zeal of holiness and the glory of honor ? Jeremy Taylor. 376 J) A Y'S CO Z Z A C O M. HOLINESS. If men did know the truth, and the happiness which follows true holiness, the voluptuous man there would seek his pleasures, the covetuous man his wealth, the ambitious man his glory. Abbot Gosswim. God hath taken care to anticipate every man to give piety the prepossession, before other competi- tors should be able to pretend to him ; and SO to engage him in holiness first, and then to bliss. C. Hammond. Holiness consisteth not in a cowl or in a garment of gray; when God purifies the heart by faith, the market is sacred as well as the sanctuary; neither remaineth there any work or place which is pro- fame. Luther. Christian holiness is no fabrication of man, and differs as much from ritual and conventional Sanc- tity as the temple filled with God differed from the same temple just as it was left by the builder's hand. A. Barrett. Holiness means a hallowed state, a full, entire, and impartial consecration to the service and the use of God, a definite separation and dedication to His purposes and pleasure, so as that to be other- wise employed would be a desecration—a profana- tion. T. W. Jenkyn. To be holy is to be free from sin, and conformed in our character to the requirements of God's law. The rays of the sun shine upon the dust and mud, but they are not soiled by them. So a holy Soul, while it remains holy, may mingle with the vile- mess of the world, and yet be pure in itself. A. Ritchie. Christ is the pattern, the sample, the exemplary cause of our sanctification. Holiness in us is the copy or transcript of the holiness that is in the Lord Jesus. As the wax hath line for line from the seal, the child limb for limb, feature for fea- ture, from the father, so is holiness in us from Christ. Philip Henry. Everything holy is before what is unholy ; guilt pre-supposes innocence, not the reverse ; angels, not fallen ones, were created ; hence man does not properly rise to the highest, but first sinks grad- ually down from it, and then afterwards rises again ; a child can never be considered too inno- cent and good. Richter. Holiness is in religion what taste is in the phi- losophy of mind ; it is a state of the Soul, and not an emotion of the heart ; it is not a distinct and specific virtue itself, but it makes everything which it affects and touches, virtuous; it is not itself an independent grace, but it gives the hue, and throws odor of graciousness on everything accomplished by the soul. J. Parkhwrst. Man's nature, being contrary to holiness, hathan aversion to any act of homage to God, because holiness must at least be pretended. In every duty wherein we have a communion with God, holiness is requisite ; now as men are against the truth of holiness because it is unsuitable to thern, so they are not friends to those duties which require it and for some space divert them from the thoughts of their beloved lusts. Charmock. HOLINESS. If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to consecrate what is Secular, and to re- cognize a present and presiding divinity in all things. T. Chalmers. Holiness is something of God, wherever it is ; it is an efflux from Him, and lives in Him ; as the Sunbeams, although they gild this lower world, and spread their golden wings over us, yet they are not so much here where they shine as in the sun from whence they flow. R. Cwdworth. There is a moral omnipotence in holiness ; it is truth embodied ; it is the gospel burning in the hearts, beaming from the eyes, breathing from the lips, and preaching in the lives of its votaries: no sophistry can elude it, no conscience can ward it off ; no bosom wears a mail that can brave the energy of its attack, E. Foster. HOLY SPIRIT. The grand thing the Church wants in this time is God's Holy Spirit. C. H. Spwrgeon. . The Holy Spirit was never absent from the world Or from the Church. Dean Close. The Holy Spirit supporteth and comforteth usin all our afflictions and distresses. I. Barrow. It is the office of the Holy Spirit to sanctify our corrupt nature, and to restore it to its primitive perfection and dignity. R. Nelson. What is the doctrine of the Holy Spirit It is the doctrine of the interworking of the Spirit of God upon the souls of men. H. W. Beecher. The holiness of the Spirit is the sum of all the aspects and tones which form the character of all His operations and of all His perfections. T. W. Jenkyn. The Holy Spirit is given to transform us into God’s likeness; when God takes away his Holy Spirit from the sinner, he is left to the hardness and obduracy of his own depraved nature. Rev. R. Treffry. HOMA.G.E. A wise man pays homage to worth ; a fool to wealth. Lowis Fuzelier. We cannot avoid observing the homage which the world is constrained to pay to virtue. H. Blair. We should always pay homage to truth ; for truth should always command the homage of men. James Ellis. A. king who receives constant homage can well afford to bestow homage on a bride who wears a crown but one brief hour. King Agrippa. Men do homage to the wisdom of another, when they do not venture to contradict his assertions, or call in question his opinions. G. Crabb. It always affords me satisfaction, when I find a concurrence in sentiment and practice between all conscientious men, in acknowledgments of homage to the great Governor of the universe, and in pro- fessions of support to just civil government. |Washington. A A' O S Z Q U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 377 HOME. A mother's love is home. Mary E. Morange. There is no place like home. J. H. Payme. A well-regulated home is a millennium on a small scale. Talmage. The road to home happiness lies over Small step- ping-stones. E. Jesse. Home, dear home ! however small thou art, thou art a palace. Gwicciardiºvi. Nothing in this world is more beautiful than a happy home. T. Tilton. It is a sad thing to feel that we must die away from our home. Mrs. S. J. Lippincott. Some men are at home everywhere ; others are at home nowhere. E. P. Day. He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. Goethe. The first indication of domestic happiness is the love of one's home. M. de Montlosier. The name of home is so sweet, that we cannot leave it for a trifle. J. Hall. Those who always remain at home are like the inhabitants of the tomb. Ibn Kalākis. To Adam, Paradise was home ; and among the good of his descendants home is paradise. J. C. Hare. What a charm hath home—that magic word, embodying sentiments the most holy and pure. J. W. Boºrker. What a man is at home, that he is, indeed, if not to the world, yet to his own conscience and to God. R. Philip. Some persons can be everywhere at home ; others can sit musingly at home and be every- where. G. D. Premtice. Home is the shrine of love, the heaven of life ; and however humble, it is better than gold if hal- lowed by a mother. Mrs. T. K. E. Knowles. The strength of a nation, especially of a republi- can nation, is in the intelligent and well-Ordered homes of the people. Mrs. Sigowrney. There is something in that little word “home,” which lifts the heart into the throat, and ever ex- cites intense emotion. R. Bickersteth. There is no happiness in life ; there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home. E. H. Chapin. There is a magic in that little word home ; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits. Sowthey. The sensations of joy felt on approaching the home of a beloved one, are like the twilight of morning before the sun has become visible. - Langley. Any feeling that takes a man away from his home, is a traitor to the household ; home should be the centre of joy, equatorial and tropical. H. W. Beecher. HOME. Home should be a place of repose, of peace, of cheerfulness, of comfort, where the soul can renew strength to encounter the labor and troubles of life. James Ellis. We pity the man, however prosperous his pecu- niary condition, or however great his fame, who has not a happy home. A happy home is the hea- ven of this life. R. Bommer. There is always a something about home which addresses us with a friendly air, and touches the heart, even after having just come from direct in- tercourse with objects that are great and beautiful. Hwmboldt. It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world ; and I value this delicious home- feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent could bestow. W. Irving. Our home joys are the most delightful earth af- fords ; and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity ; it makes their hearts pure and good ; it lifts men up to their Father in heaven. . Pestalozzi. How sweet a thing is love of home ; it is not ac- quired ; it is a feeling that has its origin elsewhere; it is born with us, brought from another world, to carry us on with joy in this ; it attaches to the humblest heart that ever throbbed. Boker. When hearts are filled with holy affections and home is happy, then do the young dwell in a charmed circle, which only the naturally depraved would seek to quit, and across which boundary temptations to error shine out but feebly. Sowth. Home can never be transferred, never repeated in the experience of an individual; the place con- secrated by paternal love, by the innocence and sports of childhood, and by the first acquaintance of the heart with nature, is the only true home. E. Robinson. Are you not surprised to find how independent of money peace of conscience is, and how much happiness can be condensed in the humblest home 3 A cottage will not hold the bulky furniture and sumptuous accommodations of a mansion ; but if God be there, a cottage will hold as much happi- ness as might stock a palace. Rev. C. Hamilton. In a happy home there will be no fault-finding, over-bearing spirit ; there will be no peevishness nor fretfulness : unkindness will not dwell in the heart, or be found in the tongue. O the tears, the sighs, the wasting of life, and health, and strength, and time of all that is most to be desired in a happy home, occasioned merely by unkind words ! J. Edwards. Love of home is planted deep in the nature of man. The finger of God points to home and says to us all, there is the place to find your earthly joy. Shall we appeal to the testimony of those who have sought joy elsewhere, or have tried to find happiness in the world? We have but one answer for them all, that the search has been fruitless. Phoebe Cary. 378 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AW. EIOME. There is no outward prosperity which can coun- teract indolence, extravagance, and folly at home ; no spirit can long endure bad domestic influence. Man is strong, but his heart is not adamant ; he de- lights in enterprise and action ; but to sustain him, he needs a tranquil mind and a whole heart. Grew. If I keep my son at home, he is in danger of be- coming my young master ; if I send him abroad, it is scarce possible to keep him from the reigning contagion of rudeness and vice ; he will perhaps be more innocent at home, but more ignorant of the world, and more sheepish when he comes abroad. J. Locke. The domestic relations precede, and in our pre- sent existence, are worth more than all our other so- cialties ; they give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue ; its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life. Chamming. Home ! how deep a spell that little word con- tains ! It is the circle in which our purest, best affections move and concentrate themselves, the hive in which, like the industrious bee, youth gar- ners the sweets and memories of life, for age to meditate and feed upon It is childhood's temple and manhood's shrine—the ark of the past and fu- ture. Uhland. The home is the crystal of society—the nucleus of national character ; and from that source, be it pure or tainted, issue the habits, principles, and maxims which govern public as well as private life : the nation comes from the nursery : public opinion itself is for the most part the outgrowth of the home ; and the best philanthropy comes from the fireside. S. Smiles. Home appears to us the most beautiful when we are away from it ; chilled by the indifference of the rest of the world, we long to be with her, the dear wife, or the fond mother, who prizes us at above our proper value ; annoyed by the discom- forts that attend us among strangers, we yearn to be in the loved home where they are unknown, and in the midst of the affections that sanctify it. Bovee. Genius has its triumph, fame its glories, wealth its splendor, success its bright reward, but the heart only hath its home ; home only What more needeth the heart 2 What more can it gain 3 A true home is more than the world, more than honor, and pride, and fortune. The light, the noonday sun, may not yield, and yet the tiny flame of one pure beam of love enkindleth, and sympathy makes to burn forever. A. Barrett. Is there any blessing of heaven which is more beautiful, more worthy of our warmest gratitude than the possession of a home where goodness, kindness, and joy are daily inmates; where the heart and eye may sum themselves in a world of love; where the mind is clear and elevated ; where friends, not merely by words but by actions, say to each other, “Thy gladness, thy sorrow, thy hope, thy prayer, are also mine !" Frederika Bremmer. HOME. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which all enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prose- cution. It is indeed at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity ; for smiles and em- broidery are alike Occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor and fictitious benevolence. Dr. Johnson. Home is the residence not merely of the body, but of the heart ; it is a place for the affections to unfold and develop themselves : for children to love, and learn, and play in ; for husband and wife to toil smilingly together, and make life a blessing. The object of all ambition should be to be happy at home ; if we are not happy there, we cannot be happy elsewhere ; it is the best proof of the virtues of a family circle, to see a happy fireside. Annie E. Lancaster. Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other ; it is the place of confidence ; it is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pore out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts : it is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule. F. W. Robertson. Home ! the Soldier dreams of it as he sinks to rest on the red field of slaughter, when the fierce fight is done It nerves the gallant seaman in his strife with the mad waters, when the tempest's fury dashes the seething foam around his barque, and the strained timbers crack and heave, as if life were in them ; in that fearful hour the thought of home rises like a beacon over the swollen billows of the angry deep ; its voices are borne to him upon the night wind's breath, and Sound like angels' hymns. G. A. Sala. Those of you who are best acquainted with the world or who have read most extensively the his- tories of men, will allow that, in the formation of character, the most telling influence is the early home ; it is that home which often in boyhood has formed beforehand our most famous scholars, our most celebrated heroes, our most devoted missiona- ries; and even when men have grown up reckless and reprobate, and have broken all restraints, human and Divine, the last anchor which has dragged, the last cable they have been able to snap, is the memory which moored them to a vir- tuous home. Dr. J. Hamilton. The man of high descent may love the halls and lands of his inheritance as a part of himself, as trophies of his birth and power ; the poor man's attachment to the tenement he holds, which stran- gers have held before, and may to-morrow occupy again, has a worthier root, struck deep into a purer soil : his household gods are of flesh and blood, with no alloy of silver, gold, or precious stones; he has no property but in the affections of his own heart : and when they endear bare floors and walls, despite of toil and Scanty meals, that man has his love of home from God, and his rude hut becomes a solemn place. Dickens. A R O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 379 EHOMELINESS. Homeliness is true; beauty false. Al-Bári. Homely people are generally of a pleasant dis- position. E. Brooks. It is possible, even for a woman, to habituate herself to homeliness. Mme. Viot. All women, be they ever so homely, are pleased to be praised for beauty. Cervantes. It is observed by some, that there is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. R. Sowth. Homely women that paint themselves to seem beautiful, do deface the image of their Creator. St. Ambrose. A homely woman, if chaste, is to be preferred to one that is inconstant, though famous for beauty. Attrelius. Homely persons the more they endeavor to adorn themselves, the more they expose the defects they aim to hide. Clarence. Tastes differ; a lady who would be considered pretty by One, may be rejected as plain, and even homely by another. R. Heber'. We say nothing against homely features in the abstract ; any man has an inalienable right to car- ry such a nose as he will. Talmage. Homeliness has the advantage over its enemy, beauty, that it is as difficult for an ugly woman to be calumniated, as for a pretty woman not to be. Stahl. O sacred deformity, O precious homeliness thou art the dearly beloved of charity, free from envy and scandal, and a firm rampart against amorous assaults and libidimous desires 1 Sir S. Garth. Deformity is not nature ; consequently one that endeavors to hide her homeliness, only tries to con- ceal what is unnatural ; to throw behind the scenes that which would not so well bear a public view. B. Bragg. There are no rules for beauty; what attracts one repels another ; consequently the woman most noted for her homeliness, may perchance meet with a lover, who will swear that she is an angel of perfection. - Michelet. Women of acknowledged beauty are often con- ceited, petulant, and presumptuous; whereas home- ly women frequently endeavor to render them- selves agreeable, and thus make up for those charms which nature has denied them. W. Aleacander. Homeliness in man is rather to his advantage than otherwise. Socrates, the wisest of ancient philosophers, was ill-favored ; so was Zeno, Em- pedocles, and Aristotle, while AEsop, the most ex- cellent fabulist, was in form of body, both strange and mis-shapen. Athenian Sport. When we consider the bloodshed, rapine, and misery, that has resulted in this world, either di- rectly or indirectly, from beauty, the hard-featur- ed man and the plain-faced woman, may consider themselves favored of fortune, and thank God for their homeliness. E. P. Day. HONESTY. Honesty hurts nobody. J. Mair. Honesty is the best policy. J. Awster. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Shakspeare. Nothing is good that is not honest. Lowis I. An honest man is a child in worldliness. Martial. Honest men are the gentlemen of nature. Bulwer. An honest man is the noblest work of God. Pope. Devotion is nothing without honesty. Yahya Ibn Main. The disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. Sir P. Sidney. As virtue is tempted by pleasure, so is honesty by self-interest. Samuel Avistin. The man who pauses in his honesty wants but lit- tle of the villain. H. Martyn. The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint. Dehon. Honesty, nowadays, is commended, and starves on universal praise. Juvenal. All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature. Montaigme. An honest man is believed without an oath, for his reputation swears for him. G. Grote. I like people to be saints ; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men. Mme. Swetchine. Honesty in states, as well as in individuals, will ever be found the soundest policy. Washington. The world is so corrupt that a reputation for hon- esty is acquired by not doing wrong. De Levis. An honest man you may form of windlestraws, but to make a rogue you must have grist. Schiller. Whenever you find a man who is strictly honest, you will find one that is truly courageous. H. W. Show. An honest man, even though unlearned, is worth two that are learned, but who are not honest. Peter the Great. A man's honesty is the only commodity whose true value is exactly the price at which the owner rates it. J. Gill. The best thing of all is to live like honest men, and to add something to the cause of liberality, jus- tice, and truth. Chatfield. The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty and the opinion of his wisdom. Ben Jomsom. When thou hast proved a man to be honest, lock him up in thine heart as a treasure ; regard him as a jewel of inestimable value. E. Cracroft. The man who is honest only from policy, and not for the sake of the virtue of honesty, is so only from selfish interest, the essence of meaness. L. C. Judson. 380 J) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. HONESTY. It should seem that indolence itself, would in- cline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave. Shenstone. The dishonest are accompanied and cheered by hopes that are both lying and dying ; but the eter- mal God is the buckler and patron of the honest Iſla, Il. Magoon. The safest way to secure homesty is to lay the foundation of it early in liberality, and an easiness to part with to others, whatever they have or like themselves. J. Locke. It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe, but he that is honest. Sir W. Raleigh. An upright posture is easier than a stooping one, because it is more natural, and one part is better supported by another; So it is easier to be an honest man than a knave. J. Skelton. Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty, the sum has no need to boast of its brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence. H. Ballow. The maxim that “honesty is the best policy,” is one which, perhaps, no one is ever habitually guided by in practice ; an honest man is always before it, and a knave is generally behind it. R. Whately. The best kind of glory is that which is reflected from honesty, such as was the glory of Cato and Aristides ; but it was harmful to them both, and is seldom beneficial to any man while he lives. A. Cowley. The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb ; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only “the first step toward greatness,” it is greatness itself. Bovee. When men are sailing under the favorable winds of prosperity, they boast of their strict honesty, and shudder at the dishonesty of others ; but when adversity overtakes them, their honesty too often flies away with their prosperity. James Ellis. As a man can never be truly honest unless he be religious, so on the other hand, whatever show of religion a man may make, he cannot be truly re- ligious in God's judgment unless he is honest in his conversation toward his neighbor. R. Mant. Honesty is joined with misery, dishonesty with all kind of worldly felicity ; but the misery which we suffer for honesty, shall be turned to everlast- ing comfort ; and that felicity gotten by dishon- esty, shall be changed into perpetual torment. Edward Bernard. Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character, and if any body reports you not to be an honest man, let your practice give him the lie ; and to make all sure, you should resolve to live no longer than you can live honestly ; for it is better to be nothing than a knave. Awrelius. HONESTY. Honesty obliges us to make restitution, not only of that which comes to us by our own faults, but of that which comes to us by the mistakes of oth- ers; though we get it by oversight, if we keep it when the oversight is discovered, it is kept by de- ceit. C. Goodman. It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth—those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man Can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it. Colton. A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides ; and a grain of honesty and na- tive worth is of more value than all the adventi- tious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so often turn knaves. Earl of Shaftesbury. There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest : there may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise ; but all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him. Feltham. Honesty treats with the world upon such vast disadvantage, that a pen is often as useful to de- fend you as a sword, by making writing the wit- ness of your contracts; for where profit appears, it doth commonly cancel the bands of friendship, religion, and the memory of anything that can pro- duce no other register than what is verbal. - L. Osborn. To be honest requires nothing but a knowledge of the first principles of civil Society ; an honest principle is the first and most universally applica- ble principle, which the mind forms of what is right and wrong ; and the honest man, who is so denominated on account of his having this princi- ple, is looked upon with respect, inasmuch as he possesses the foundation of all moral virtues in his dealings with others. G. Crabb. Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul, and never forget to have a penny, when all thy ex- penses are enumerated and paid ; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown ; then shalt thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds. Franklin. An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishon- est knave ; the best and the worst are only approx- imations to those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves 2 Yet honesty never contradicts itself. Who are they that always con- tradict themselves Yet knavery is mere self- contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man de- termines not the things themselves, but their pro- portions, the quantum of congruities and incon- gruities. Lavater. A R O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 381 JHONOR. - Honor is immortal. Periander. Honor is a divine good. Plato. Honor is only fictitious honesty. D. B. Tower. Nothing is good but what is honorable. Posidoniws. Honor is the moral conscience of the great. Sir W. Davemant. Better be without food than without honor. Trissino. No man despises honor but he who despairs of it. N. Fuss. No one ever lost his honor except he who had it not. Publius Syrus. Honor binds me, and I wish to give it satisfac- Corneille. It is but small honor to fight against your infe- riors. - tion. The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways. Sir P. Sidney. Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. J. C. Hare. Honor is honor; but gold and silver are not honor. Pherecydes. Honor ought to be given to virtue and not to riches. Amacharsis. Honor is a sacred place, which the soul alone in- habits. Calderom. There is that chastity of honor which feels a stain like a wound. Burke. Honor prudently declined, often comes back with increased lustre. Livy. Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as ne- cessity is to others. Pliny. What is becoming is honorable, and what is hon- orable is becoming. Tully. The faith of a knight is not limited by value, but by honor and virtue. R. Bernard. Honor, glory, and renown are to many persons more sweet than life. Cicero. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor. S. T. Coleridge. Honor makes a great part of the reward of all honorable professions. Adam Smith. Honor is the first step to disquiet, and dominion is attended with envy. Gwevara. Seek not to be honored in any way save in thine own bosom, within thyself. G. Carew. A man having honor and wanting wisdom, is 4. Calmet. Honor is the reward of virtue ; but it is gotten with labor, and held with danger. Lord Burleigh. like a fair tree without fruit. Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor is a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. Ben Jomson. Al-Muhallab. EIONOR. Honor is not love of innocence, but praise ; the fear of censure, not the Scorn of sin. A. Hill. Honor a good man that he may honor you, and a bad one that he may not dishonor you. J. Mwir. Great honors are great burdens ; and distinguish- ed conditions in life exact great servitude. Seneca. There is nothing which wounds the heart of the noble so much as to see his honor impugned. Molière. A good and honorable character is a safe provi- sion for every event and every turn of fortune. Menamder. The giving riches and honors to a wicked man, is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever. Plutarch. How loosely do honors sit upon men whenevery disease shakes them off and lays them in the dust. H. King. Honors are bequeathed, but not the good or the evil deeds, or the talents by which they were ob- tained. Marryatt. It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue. Chrysostom. The best way to live with honor, and die with praise, is to be honest in our desires, and temperate in Our tongues. J. B. Berners. Discretion and hardy valor are the twins of honor, and, nursed together, make a conqueror ; divided, but a talker. J. Fletchen'. Honor is like an island, rugged and without a landing-place ; we can nevermore re-enter when we are once outside of it. Boileau. Honor is a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs, while they hunt a shadow. Addison. |Unblemished honor is the flower of virtue—the vivifying soul! He who slights it, will leave the other a dull and lifeless dross. J. Thomson. Yonder is the hill of honor, reaching to the heavens ; but to ascend it one must first pass through the valley of humility. As-Shafi. Honor is a passion of the soul, a mighty desire, naturally coveted of all creatures, yet many times mistaken, by unacquaintance with virtue. L. C. Fabrizio. Honor with some is a sort of paper credit, with which men are obliged to trade, who are deficient in the sterling cash of morality and religion. Zimmerman. Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage ; it is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by the least flaw. Bosswet. Honor, unknown in despotic states, where they have often not a word to express it, reigns in mon- archies; there it gives life to the whole political body, to the laws, and even to virtues. Montesquiew. 382 A) A Y',S CO /, / A C O AV. EIONOR. The difference there is betwixt honor and hon- esty, seems to be chiefly the motive ; the mere hon- est man does that from duty, which the man of honor does for the sake of character. Shenstome. Honors soften fatigue ; it is easier riding in a gilded and embossed saddle ; Atlas, while he sus- tained the world upon his shoulders, was himself sus- tained by the admiration his feat excited. Bovee. No man of honor did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to regard his word, his promise, or his Oath. Swift. Real honor and real esteem are not difficult to be obtained in this world, but they are best won by ac- tual worth and merit, rather than by art and in- trigue which run a long and ruinous race, and sel- dom seize upon the prize at last. G. Hakewill. The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would ap- pear to be ; and if we observe we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen them- selves by the practice and experience of them. Socrates. Men will often adhere sacredly to their word of honor, who would break a written bond, and vio- late every civil and religious obligation ; the high- wayman will adhere to his promise thus given, who would take your life in order to rifle your pockets. J. Bartlett. To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue ; but to be ambitious of titles, of place, of ceremonial respects and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court. Sherlock. The conditions of honor are such, that she en- quireth for him she never saw, runneth after him that flies from her, honors him that esteems her not, demandeth for him that wills her not, giveth to him that requireth her not, and trusteth him whom she knoweth not. Sir W. Temple. It is fatal and delusive ambition which allures many to the pursuit of honors as such, or as accesso- ries to some greater object in view. The substance is dropped to catch the shade, and the much cov- eted distinctions, in nine cases Out of ten, prove to be mere airy phantasms and gilded mists. Geyer. How camest thou by thy honor By money; how camest thou by thy money : By extortion ; compare thy pennyworth with the price, and tell me truly, how truly honorable thou art 3 It is an ill purchase that is encumbered with a curse, and that honor will be ruinous that is built on ruins. F. Quarles. When honors come to us, rather than we to them; when they meet us, as it were, in the vestibule of life, it is well if our enemies can say no more against us, than that we are too young for Our dig- mities ; it would be much worse for us, if they could say that we are too old for them ; time will des- troy the first objection, but confirm the second. Coltom. EHONOR,. It is the chiefest part of honor for a man to join to his high office and calling, the virtue of affabil- ity, lowliness, tender compassion, and pity ; for thereby he draweth unto him, as it were by vio- lence, the hearts of the multitude. Olaus Magnus. What is honor but the height, and flower, and top of morality, and the utmost refinement of con- versation ? Virtue and honor are such inseparable Companions, that the heathens would admit no man into the temple of honor who did not pass into it through the temple of virtue. R. Sowth. Among the ancient Greeks and Romans, in their best days, honor was more sought after than wealth. Times are changed. Now, wealth is the surest passport to honor; and respectability is en- dangered by poverty. “Rome was Rome no more” when the imperial purple had become an article of traffic, and when gold could purchase with ease the honors that patriotism and valor could once secure only with difficulty. Acton. Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use to you beyond this world ; nobody will have heard a word of your honors in the other life : your glory, your shame, your ambitions, and all the treasures for which you push hard and sacrifice much, will be like wreaths of smoke ; for these things, which you mostly seek, and for which you spend your life, only tarry with you while you are on this side of the flood. H. W. Beecher. Be and continue poor, young man, while others around you grow rich by fraud and disloyalty ; be without place or power, while others beg their way upward ; bear the pain of disappointed hopes, while others gain the accomplishment of theirs by flattery ; forego the gracious pressure of the hand, for which others cringe and crawl. Wrap yourself up in your own virtue, and seek a friend and your daily bread. If you have, in such a course, grown grey with unblenched honor, bless God and die. w Heintzelman. Honor is directly opposed to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you do not resent them, you are not fit to live. Religion commands you to leave all revenge to God ; honor bids you trust your revenge to no- body but yourself, even where the law would do it for you. Religion forbids murder: honor justifies it. Religion bids you not shed blood upon any ac- count whatsoever ; honor bids you fight for the least trifle. Religion is built upon humility ; honor upon pride. Mandeville. A great man's honor, if unsullied, is a coronet on his head, to mark him a prince among men ; but this diadem is not of gold, that no rust can corrupt ; nor of jewels, that no mold can blight , borrowing its lustre solely from virtue, it can be stained by any touch of baseness. Fortunate is he who, amid the world's temptations, keeps his honor lustrous and unspotted ; wretched is he who in the battle of life, finds that some evil blow has struck from his brow the emblem of his kingliness; despicable is he who with deliberate purpose up- lifts his own hand to discrown his own head. T. Tilton. PA O S A. Q U O 7" A T / O AV S. 383 tician. bility. is good. fulfilment. better one 3 the glory of this. HOPE. Live in hope. Virgil. Hope is a lover's staff. Shakspeare. Hope is a willing slave. R. Dawes. Hope is the soul's oxygen. R. Walsh. Hope is our waking dream. Mme. de Girardin. Hope is the mainspring of life. Socrates. While there is life there is hope. Cervantes. Where is no hope is left no fear. Milton. Hope is the expectation of good. G. W. Shinn. Hope is a working man's dream. Pliny. Rely not too much on frail hope. Seneca. Hope is extravagant in its nature. Thucydides. Hope deferred may yet end in joy. Grawmamm. Hope is a bait that covers any hook. Ben Jomson. Death only is the destroyer of hope. Abw Lainá. Hope is the dream of a waking man. Solon. Hope is not a matter of merchandise. Terence. He that lives on hope will die fasting. Franklin. Hope is the last thing that dies in man. Diogenes. Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating. Balzac. Hope is brightest when it dawns from fear. Sir W. Scott. Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper. Gwicciardini. He that loses hope may part with anything. Congreve. Hope is the last ray of light the cloud covers. Miss M. J. Windle. Good hope is often deceived in its predictions. Ovid. Cherish hope ; yet hope as if thou wert mortal, Periander. God created hope when listening to repentance. Mrs. H. Ward. He that lives in hope danceth without a min- strel. G. Beccari. Hope is a great calculator, but a bad mathema- Miss Capron. Fix not thy hopes beyond the bounds of proba- Hortense. Let fiery hope sustain you in the pursuit of what Zoroaster. No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own R. W. Emerson. Hope is a blind guide, but where will you find a H. W. Show. Hope gleams from a brighter world, relieving G. W. Yapp. . HOPE. His worth shines forth the brightest who always confides in hope. Euripides. He that supposeth to thrive by hope may happen to beg in misery. Biom. The radiancy of hope sometimes shines through the tear of anxiety. Rosa Bomhewr. When we have given away everything, we still have hope left to us. Julius Coesar. Sadness is the punishment of the heart ; hope the medicine of distress. Crates. We always hope ; and in all things it is better to hope than to despair. Goethe, We speak of hope ; but is not hope only a more gentle name for fear 2 Miss L. E. Lamdom. Hope apprehendeth things unseen, and attaineth things by continuance. Plato. Hope is the beginning of victory to come, and doth presage the same. Pindoºrws. Hope is not merely desire, but it is desire accom- panied with expectation. H. Hammond. The shadow of human lifeistraced upon a golden ground of immortal hope. G. S. Hillard. A good and virtuous man ought always to hope well, and to fear nothing. J. Bodenham. Hope is a leaf-joy which may be beaten out to a great extension, like gold. Lord Bacom. The shortness of our lives forbids us to indulge too much on lengthened hope. Horace. Sweet memories and beautiful hopes are the angels in the heaven of the soul. G. D. Prentice. If love lives on hope, it dies with it ; it is a fire which goes out for want of fuel. Corneille. Hope may be deferred, but it never dies; it is a pleasure as lasting as it is great. G. Crabb. Sweet words beget hope, large protestations nourish it, and contempt kills it. Mrs. A. E. Bray. Hope is nearly as strong as despair, and greatly more pertinacious and enduring. W. S. Landor. Hope thinks nothing difficult ; despair tells us that difficulty is insurmountable. I. Watts. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches ; one for fear and sorrow, real poverty. Hwºme. We are never beneath hope, while above hell; nor above hope, while beneath heaven. Sprague. Why not comfort myself with the hope of what may be, as torment myself with the fear of it? L'Estrange. While there is hope left, let not the weakness of Sorrow make the strength of resolution languish, Sir P. Sidney. Hope is always accompanied with pleasure, and is employed upon those events which are likely to be attended with gratification to ourselves. G. F. Graham. 384 AX A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. HOPE. Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey to- ward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. S. Smiles. Hope is the only good which is common to all men ; those who have nothing more, possess hope still. Thales. Hope is like the wing of an angel Soaring up to heaven, and bears our prayers to the throne of God. Jeremy Taylor. A false hope hides corruption, covers it all over ; and the hypocrite looks clean and bright in his own eyes. J. Edwards. Hope without action is a broken staff : we should always hope for things that are possible and prob- able. James Ellis. In the treatment of nervous cases, he is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. S. T. Coleridge. Who could live surrounded by calamities, did not smiling hope cheer him with expectation of deliv- erance 3 J. Hamilton. Hope beginneth here with a trembling expecta- tion of things far removed, and as yet but only heard of. R. Hooker. Earthly hope, like fear and sleep, is confined to this dim spot on which we live, move, and have our being. N. A. Carrel. The good man's hope is laid far, far beyond the sway of tempests or the furious sweep of mortal desolation. H. K. White. It is pleasant to lengthen out a long life with con- fident hopes, making the spirits swell with bright merriment. AEschylus. Hope animates the wise, and lures the presump- tuous and indolent, who repose inconsiderately on her promises. Vawvenargues. Hope is the chief blessing of man ; and that hope only is rational of which we are sensible that it cannot deceive us. Dr. Johnson. There is perhaps no feeling which the human breast cherishes, so nearly connected with its hap- piness, as that of hope. H. Martyn. Hope is sent to the unfortunate ; fear hovers round the head of the prosperous, for the scales of fate are ever unsteady. Schiller. For present grief there is always a remedy: however much thou sufferest, hope; the greatest happiness of man is hope. L. Schefer. Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites: for she frequents the poor man's hut as well as the palace of his superior. Shenstone. Hope is the great reformer ; we must instil this into men's minds if we wish to cultivate their vir- tues or enable them to overcome their vices. Horatio Seymour. Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. Hope is not the man for your banker, though he may do for a travelling companion. J. Halibwrton. pens through hope. No husbandman would sow a EIOPE. Man is, properly Speaking, based upon hope ; he has no other possession but hope ; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. T. Carlyle. How many hopes have quivered for us in the past years—have flashed like harmless lightnings in summer nights, and died forever ! Beecher. Hope is always buoyant ; it tries everything, and stops at nothing ; it is a paradox—being strict- ly honest, yet the essence of deception. G. A. Sala. Hope is that pleasure of the mind which every one finds in himself, upon the thought of a probable future enjoyment of a thing which is apt to delight him. J. Locke. Hope is a Summer day, whose morning is imagi- nation ; noon, enthusiasm ; afternoon, disappoint- ment ; evening, memory ; and to-morrow, immor- tality. Lowisa P. Hopkins. Hope is like the cork to the net, which keeps the soul from sinking in despair ; and fear is like the lead to the met, which keeps it from floating in presumption. T. Watson. We never shed so many tears as at the age of hope ; but when we have lost hope we look on everything with dry eyes, and tranquility springs from incapacity. Rivarol. Hope builds upon nothing, floats self-supported, like the clouds, catching every flitting ray of the sun, and can raise itself to heaven even by clinging to a film or gossamer. Chatfield. Hope doth three things: it assures good things to come ; it disposes us for them : it waits for them unto the end, each of which will be of singular use to fit us for pious sufferings. E. Polhill. The riches and pleasures of heaven, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to etermity, are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes. G. Horne. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and dura- ble life, presses forward to imaginary points of bliss, and grasps at impossibilities; and conse- quently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonor. Addison. Hope is the last thing that dies in man, and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are travelling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. Rochefoucauld. There is a living hope, living in death itself ; the world dare say no more for its device than dwm spiro spero—while I breathe I hope. But the chil- dren of God can add, by virtue of this living hope, dwm eacpiro spero—whilst I expire I hope. R. Leighton. All which happens through the whole world hap- grain of corn, if he did not hope it would spring up and bring forth the ear. How much more we are helped on by hope in the way to eternal life M. Lºwther. —- HUDME, DAVID) A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 385 HOPE. It is matural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope ; we are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and ſisten to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Patrick Henry. Curtailthy hopes, that thou mayest prove happy; for the retrenchment of hope is the health of the intellect. It is wrong to consider hope always in the light of a friend ; it is sometimes an enemy that must be subdued. Ibn Al-Wardi. Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker, but his drafts are seldom honored, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die. Coltom. As an anchor thrown to the bottom of the Sea. holds the ship fast amid storms and tempests, SO the Christian's hope penetrates the waves of this troublesome world, and reaches the eternal shore, holding fast his soul amid the waves of sin. E. Foster. Hope is the ruddy morning ray of joy, recollec- tion is its golden tinge ; but the latter is wont to sink amid the dews and dusky shades of twilight : and the bright blue day which the former promi- ses, breaks indeed but in another world, and with another Sun. Richter. If God had commanded us to pray and hope Only till a certain time mentioned, and his help had failed to come within that time, we might justly despair ; but since He requires us to hope even to the end or last moment of life, this should keep us from impatience and despair. Bogatzky. Hope is the daughter of faith, but such as is a staff to her aged mother, and will produce a bold and wise profession of the truth before men, as also prayer to God. It is as the cork upon the net ; though the lead on the one side sinks it down, yet the cork on the other keeps it up. J. Trapp. Hope is a vigorous principle ; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute ; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost ; and thus by perpetually pushing and assurance, it puts a difficulty Out of countenance, and makes a seeming impossibility give way. Jeremy Collier. There is a hope that is an anchor to the soul, both sure and steadfast, that will steady our frail bark while sailing over the ocean of life, and that will enable us to outride the storms of time ; it is the hope that reaches from earth to heaven This hope is based on faith in the immaculate Redeemer, and keeps our earthly hopes from running riot into forbidden paths. L. C. Judson. True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs, and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events; such a spirit, too, rests upon itself ; it is not confined to partial views, or to one particular object ; and if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself by its own integrity and worth. Von Knebel. EHOPE. The hope of future happiness is a perpetual source of consolation to good men ; under trouble, it soothes their minds ; amidst temptation, it Sup- ports their virtues ; and in their dying moments enables them to say: “O Death, where is thy sting 2 O Grave, where is thy victory 3” Rºmoac. The promises of hope are sweeter than roses in the bud, and far more flattering to expectation ; but the threatenings of fear are a terror to the heart : nevertheless, let not hope allure, nor fear deter thee from doing that which is right ; so shalt thou be prepared to meet all events with an equal mind. R. Dodsley. The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sum ; the brightness of our life is gone, shadows of the evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection itself—a broader shadow ; we look forward into the coming lonely night ; the soul withdraws itself ; then stars arise, and the might is holy. Longfellow. To throw off the dissatisfactions of the world we should grasp some pleasing hope, ever grateful and beneficial to the mind. We are encompassed by illusions and delusions ! We need the comfort- ing promises of the heart—a steadfast faith in the good and true—and hopefulness in all things, but especially in the future; a man of hope even to the last. - Acton. There are hopes the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description ; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should be only known through the sympathy of hearts. It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flour- ished. Dickens. Hope is the most beneficial of all affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life, if it be not too often frustrated, but entertaineth the fancy with the expectation of good; therefore they which fix and propound to themselves some end as the mark and scope of their life, and continually and by degrees go forward in the same, are for the most part long-lived ; insomuch that when they are come to the top of their hope, and can go no higher therein, they commonly droop, and live not long after. 4. Lord Bacon. We are not among those who are given to over- much complaining. We have an especial antipa- thy to the whole brood of grumblers, and croakers, and murmurers. We have nothing to do with de- spair. Hope is our watchword and our rallying- cry. We love to fix our attention on the brightest sunniest spots of every picture. If, as we look around us, we see many things which offend our eyes; if, as we listen to the onward rush of passing events, we hear much which jars harshly on our ears; if, as we compare things as they are with things as we would rather have them be, we find on every side ample room for improvement ; we are bound to confess that we also see much that is encouraging, hear much which gladdens our hearts, and daily meet with fresh reasons for thankfulness and gratitude. G. A. Sala. 25 386 AD A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. HOPE. Hope is the strongest excitant of the human mind ; it is exhibited in various forms ; we hope, not only for ourselves, but for others : for commu- nities, for nations, for country, and for the world. Cloudy and tempestuous as may be the day of our pilgrimage here, yet to our longing eyes that light will remain the consolation of the past, the support of the present, and the hope of the future. E. D. Mansfield. Hope quickens all the parts of life, and keeps the mind awake in her most remiss and indolent hours; it gives habitual serenity and good humor ; it is a kind of vital heat in the soul, that cheers and glad- dens her, when she does not attend to it ; it makes pain easy, and labor pleasant. No kind of life is so happy as that which is full of hope, especially when the hope is well grounded, and when the Ob- ject of it is of an exalted kind, to make the person happy who enjoys it. Addison. Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a health- ful tonic ; intemperately indulged, as an enervat- ing opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first animated exertion, if dwelt upon too intently, will usurp the place of the stern reality ; and noble objects will be contemplated, not for their own in- herent worth, but on account of the day-dreams they engender. Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a Somnambulist, and a third a lumatic ; while it renders them all enthusiasts. Sir J. Stephen. Human life hath not a surer friend, nor many times a greater enemy, than hope ; it is the miser- able man's god, which in the hardest gripe of ca- lamity, never fails to yield him beams of comfort ; it is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him awhile in a smooth way, and then makes him break his neck on the Sudden. Hope is to man as a bladder to a learning swimmer ; it keeps him from sinking in the bosom of the waves, and by that help he may attain the exercise ; but yet it many times makes him venture beyond his height, and then if that breaks, or a storm rises, he drowns without recovery. How many would die, did not hope sustain them How many have died by hop- ing too much This wonder we find in hope, that she is both a flatterer and a true friend. Feltham. Hope is a marvelous inspiration, which every heart confesses in some season of extremest peril : it can put nerve into the languid, and fleetness into the feet of exhaustion. Let the slim and feath- ery palm-grove be dimly descried, though ever so remotely, and the caravan will on, spite of the fa- tigue of the traveller and the simoon's blinding, to where, by the fringy rootlets, the desert waters flow: let there glimmer one star through the murky waste of night, and though the spars be shattered, and the sails be riven, and the hurricane howls for its prey, the brave sailor will be lashed to the helm, and see already, through the tempest's breaking, calm waters and a spotless sky. Oh who is there, however hapless his lot or forlorn his surroundings, who is beyond the influence of this choicest of earth's comforters ; this faithful friend which sur- vives the flight of riches, and the wreck of reputa- tion, and the break of health, and even the loss of dear and cherished friends 2 W. M. Punshom. HOPE}. Hope is so very fair to look upon that we would that all Sages should behold her beauty. How bright is her eye How blooming is her cheek How elastic is her step ! Side by side of the sons and daughters of men she trips so softly, that we Only feel her presence by the gladness of heart which she inspires, and the elasticity of spirit which she produces ; alike undazzled by the sun- Shine and unchilled by the shade, she enhances the blessings of prosperity, and softens the corrections of adversity ; there is no situation so terrible as to daunt her in her enterprise of mercy, no fate so cruel as to deny to us her consolation. Hope per- forms her divine mission wherever virtue is, and purity of heart and holiness of life. J. Tyrrell. Hope is our prolonged existence ; it giveth us a double life : rushing over actual existence we an- ticipate existence every moment ; actual moments with all their dark clouds, that shade our joy, flit past us each instant like the rapid scud, signal of the approaching tempest : we fear it not, for hope loves to Spring from the storm as from her couch. The horror of death is nought but the rapid termi- nation of hope It is the dark barrier between us and hope natural. But hope, that can span infini- tude, bounds over it ; for, kindred to the Great Spirit, it will not be contained by space and time, which are the walls of our actual frame. The in- spiration of hope is the absence of fear ; the cold- ness and coyness of hope are the fetters which moral cowardice imposes. Hope 1 his roseate light is shed as universally as the light of the sun ; but it is manifested in as various ways as there are various and strange tongues, Hope natural is the food of our moral existence; it is the oil of the lamp of life : it lighteth up our path, through the darkness of the clouds, of the millions of millions of combinations that we wade through. Sir R. Maltravers. HOPELESSNESS. Be not hopeless. Perionder. Hope is the God of the hopeless. St. Bernard. Hopelessness of life hastens death. James Ellis. Let not despair make you hopeless. Horace. Hopelessness is the mark of an abject soul. Euripides. Those who have nothing are not always the most hopeless. Martial. Hopelessness of life is the most certain fore-run- ner of death. St. Awgustine. It is better to hope and be disappointed than to be entirely hopeless. Terence. He whose case is hopeless is without the prospect of effecting the end he has in view. G. Crabb. It is better to prolong our lives in sorrow, than through hopelessness and despair of life to hasten our death. . Lactantius. Hopelessness is negative ; he who despairs, once hoped, but has now lost his hope. Affairs are hopeless when their state is such as not to raise any hope of their being successful. G. F. Graham. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 387 HORROR. Horror should never be dissected. E. S. Phelps. Horror waits upon the guilty soul. Fitzgerald. The second death ! No voice echoes back its hor- I'Ol’S. S. M. Merrill. Every kind of horror exists among heathen na- tions. §: Obookiah. Our greatest horrº should be to have a just hor- ror of sin. W. Law. It is seldom that victory can compensate for the horrors of war. Henry IV, of France. The first step for penitents is to look with horror on their past life. Thais, Nothing is so horrid as not to appear fair or ar- rayed in gorgeousness of language, and decked out, as it were, in the garb of loveliness. Cicero. *: Every thing horrible ought to be avoided in a description, for no descriptiou, however lively, is safficient to overbalance the disgust raised even by the idea of such objects. Rames. The horror with which some men entertain thoughts of death, and the uncertainty of its ap- proach, fill a melancholy mind with innumerable apprehensions, and consequently dispose it to groundless prodigies and predictions. A. Keith. HORSE. If you have a horse, ride it. Wolof. The best horse may stumble. Kirriya. The horse is known by his harness. Fordyce. Never neglect to care for your horse. W. Scott. A bad horse eats as much as a good one. Mynster. Horses run after benefices, and asses get them. Rousseaw. The horse is tamed, and taught to perform his work. & Ptah Hotep. A good horse is often a man's best friend in time of danger. I. Putnam. He whose business it is to keep horses does not look after pigs. Mang-Heem. . A man ought to do as well as a horse ; I wish all men did as well. E. P. Roe. The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching. Zeno. Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neg- ligent in choosing friends. J. Mair. Horses win the race not so much by their vigor as by the impulse of their riders. Al-Hôtiml. A good rider seated on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him. Lord Herbert. A horse is an article in the sale of which you may cheat your own father without any imputa- tion upon your honesty, or filial duty. H. Smith. The feelings of that individual are little to be envied who draws a severe lash, or urges beyond his speed or strength, an animal so willing and so obedient, and whose powers have been so essential to human progress, as the horse. J. Grawmt. EHORTICULTURE. Horticulture is obedience to God. Horticulture is refined field-culture. Jethro Tull. Zoroaster. Horticulture is the true poetry of agriculture. T. Parsons. In good horticulture there is profit as well as pleasure. P. T. Quinn. The horticulturist is a lover of nature, and a true friend of art. J. de la Qwintinie. Horticulture is the science of continued progress in fruit production. Van Mons. The pleasures, the ecstacies of the horticulturist, are harmless and pure. W. Curtis. Horticulture is a divine institution; God planted the first garden in Eden. David Thomas. --- \ Horticulture is a science in whieh are combined beauty, pleasure, and profit. J. Weidennamm. Horticulture is the science of the garden, and gardening is as old as the world itself. S. Dean. Modern horticulture has restored almost every- thing that can be desired to give a paradisical rich- ness to our fruit-gardens. C. J. Downing. Horticulture is farming in miniature ; all cannot be farmers, but every one possessed even of a rood of land may have a garden. L. Rham. *- Horticulture is the more important, because it is not commenced and finished in a day, but requires constant attention for years. J. J. Thomas. It is by constant, unwearied experiments that the horticulturist can hope to secure those results which will prove beneficial to mankind. Pw vis, Children taught the science of horticulture, will be greatly improved in their moral and social at- tributes ; inasmuch as they will acquire an attach- ment to their early home that will probably last as long as life. - S. Cole. The true horticulturist keeps no secrets that will benefit mankind, but hastens to give to the world the advantages which may arise from any discov- ery he makes, receiving in return that which is of more lasting value than money—the thanks of his co-laborers. A. S. Fuller. The horticulturist is the conjurer; not in bury- ing little grains of gunpowder till they are trans- formed into turnips and cabbages, or shoe pegs till they become cucumbers and melons; but in put- ting so simple a wand as a hoe into the hands of a dyspeptic invalid, and presently changing him into a body possessed of health and vigor. J. Lewis. Horticulture in its most comprehensive sense, is emphatically the fine art of common life ; it is emi- nently a republican fine art : it distributes its pro- ductions with equal hand to the rich and poor ; its implements may be wielded by every arm, and its results appreciated by every eye ; it decorates the dwelling of the humblest laborer with undoubted originals, by the oldest masters, and places within his daily view fruit pieces such as Van Huysem never painted, and landscapes such as Poussin could only copy. R. C. Winthrop. 388 AD A Y’.S C O / / A C O AV. IHOSPITALITY. Hospitality seems to be an extinct virtue. Fanny Ferm. Hospitality I have found as universal as the face of man. J. Ledyard. Hospitality is the most important part of Divine worship. Talmud. True hospitality emanates from the heart : cere- mony from the tongue. E. P. Day. Provision is the foundation of hospitality and thrift the fuel of magnificence. G. A. Fwss. Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuse- ness, and ends in madness and folly. F. Atterbwn'y. True virtue and hospitality are spontaneous growths, which are often to be met with where we least expect them. Downey. Hospitality and benevolence are two virtues that never appear to such advantage, as when they ac- company each other. Ammie E. Lamcaster. Hospitality is a virtue among barbarians; to shut the door against any man, whether known or unknown, is a sacrilege. Tacitus. Hospitality is most rare in trading countries, while it is found in the most admirable perfection among nations of vagabonds. Montesquiew. Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth, and love, and honor, and courtesy flow in all thy deeds. R. W. Emerson. A man is required by hospitality to receive a stranger into his house, and to treat him kindly ; but not to make him the head of his family. T. Dwight. If a man be hospitable to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them. Lord Bacon. A wife should be hospitable in the true and Bible sense of the term, both because it is right and be- cause it gives her husband so much pleasure to have friends at his table. A. Mayhew. The observance of hospitality, even toward an enemy, is inculcated by a Hindoo author with great elegance : “The sandal-tree imparts its fragrance even to the axe that hews it.” Barham. There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality, which cannot be described, but is im- mediately felt, and puts the stranger at once at his ease ; breaking through the chills of ceremony and selfishness, and thawing every heart into a flow. W. Irving. I know some men who have refused hospitality to a hungry man, yes, child and woman too, when they came famishing and alone to their doors, who never refuse to place their names very conspicu- ously upon paper subscriptions, especially if those subscriptions are to be published in some news- paper or printed document ; they are like dorsife- rous plants, that bear their seeds on their leaves, instead of in a capsule. L. C. Judson. BIOSPITALITY. The pleasantest hospitality waiteth not for cu- rious costliness, when it can give cleanly sufficiency. More cometh of pride and greater friendliness to your own ostentation, than to the comfort of the guest. Sir P. Sidney. It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, like fruit in the thick of the wood ; but where men are planted sparely it blossoms and matures, like apples on a standard or an espalier. It flourishes where the inn and lodging-house cannot exist. Hugh Miller. Hospitality is the vernacular of heaven, and needs to be more widely inculcated in practical ex- emplification on earth. Gentle warmth opens the pores of our body sooner than an intense heat. The wild rose of the wilderness, and its kindred flowers more delicately nurtured in our gardens, shut them- selves up alike when the sun retires and the chill- ing damps of night approach. Magoon. If there be an exception to this gradual scale of hospitality, it must be in the case of one who is absolutely a stranger ; there is a species of affec- tion to which the stranger gives birth merely as a stranger; he is received and sheltered by our hos- pitality almost with the zeal with which our friendship delights to receive one with whom we have lived in cordial union, whose virtues we know and revere, and whose kindness has been to us no small part of the happiness of our life. T. Brown. Let the hospitable man, the man of the most generous liberality, who has mingled freely and generously with those around him, who has be- stowed the time upon others which might have been more wisely employed upon himself, reflect upon all he has done, and say how far he has profited by it. Has his life not been a series of disappointments : If so, let him not regret, for hospitality has an inherent value ; it is the choicest gift in the bounty of heaven, and is associated with countless benefits and priceless boons which heaven alone has power to bestow. James Ellis. Like many other virtues, hospitality is practised in its perfection by the poor. If the rich did their share, how would the woes of this world be light- ened How would the diffusive blessing irradiate a wider and a wider circle, until the vast confines of society would baskin the reviving ray ! If every forlorn widow whose heart bleeds over the recol- lection of past happiness made bitter by contrast with present poverty and Sorrow, found a com- fortable home in the ample establishment of her rich kinsman ; if the lovely girls, shrinking and delicate, whom we see every day toiling timidly for a mere pittance to sustain frail life and guard the sacred remnant of gentility, were taken by the hand, invited and encouraged, by ladies who pass them by with a cold nod—but where shall we stop in enumerating the cases in which true, genial hos- pitality practiced by the rich ungrudgingly, with- out a selfish drawback—in short, practiced as the poor practice it—it would prove a fountain of bles- sedness, almost an antidote to half the keener mi- series under which Society groans ! Mrs. C. M. Kirkland. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 389 EHOUR. g Hour by hour time departs. A. Inveges. The hours fly along in a circle. Maniliws. It is the strong hours that conquer us. Schiller. The hour finds the man, not man the hour. Gerrit Smith. What is there more desirable than a happy hour. Catwllºws. An hour well spent is worth a week wasted away. E. Brooks. In an hour a fortune is often lost, but seldom gained. E. P. Day. Hours are golden links; God's token reaching heaven. Adelaide Anne Procter. When a man's hour is come it is in vain to strive to elude it. Gustavus III of Sweden. He who loses an hour in the morning is looking for it all the rest of the day. Chesterfield. The most invigorating and most delightful hours of the day are commonly spent in bed. R. Sowthey. We know not what a day may bring forth, nor what distress one hour may throw us into. Mrs. Abigail Adams. It is my morning hour of prayer and meditation that gives me spirit and vigor during the labors of the day. Boerhaave. Blot out a single hour from the pages of time, and the records of heaven and earth will be thrown into confusion and disorder. Acton. Our best hours escape us, the worst are come. The purest part of our life runs first, and leaves only the dregs at the bottom. Seneca. The hours perish, and are laid to our charge ; time is the only little fragment of eternity that be- longs to man ; and like life it can never be recalled. - S. Smiles. Every hour in itself, so far as we are concerned, stands by itself; when it has once passed it has perished entirely; millions of ages will not bring it back. - Bruyère. Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty dia- mond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. FI. Mann. When we have once acquired a resolution to pass Our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations On the Subject of time misspent and business neg- lected never torture the mind. Zimmerman. The Hours were divinities whose duties were to hold the gates of heaven, which they opened to send forth the chariot of the sun in the morning, and receive it again in the evening. W. T. Brande. Thousands have had reasons to repent for the hours they have lost in their lives, for both life and nature are pregnant with examples which tend to show how much we are affected by the improve- ment or neglect of them. James Ellis. HOUR. Let each hour bring its report ; marshaled under their respective leaders, bid them pass the review of conscience. May it be found that none have slumbered at their post, none broken their ranks, none deserted to the enemy. Mrs. Sigowrmey. Observe a method in the distribution of your time ; every hour will then know its proper em- ployment, and no time will be lost ; idleness will be shut out at every avenue, and with her that numerous body of vices that make up her train. - G. Horne. The greatest loss of time that I know of is to count the hours. What good comes of it 2 Nor can there be any greater dotage in the world, than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment and dis- Cretion. Rabelais. The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it ; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts. Addison. Those who know the value of human life, know the importance of an hour ; and if well spent, amid the full enjoyment of the vital functions, of how much importance to our whole existence ; it is, therefore, an eternal and irreparable loss when it is not enjoyed as it ought to be. G. W. Von Struve. Mankind keep the run of another's life better than of their own ; truly we make altogether too little account of a history which once was ours, and which is the shell of hours that have flown away, and yet the drops of time, through which we swim, do only in the distance of memory form the rain- bow of enjoyment. Richter. How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom, in graceful succes- sion, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an Odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless; it will not be dissected, nor unravelled, nor shown. R. W. Emerson. Everything we are told has its hour, and an hour- glass offers no exception to the rule ; its period of utility is but a short one ; the sands gradually wear and file away the aperture through which they pass, at the same time that they themselves are constantly diminishing their particles by friction and collision, so that they flow faster and faster through the enlarged opening, and the machine, turn it which way you will, becomes deranged and useless. Chatfield. Many of our hours are lost in a rotation of petty Cares, in a constant recurrence of the same em- ployments; many of our provisions for ease and happiness are always exhausted by the present day; and a great part of our existence serves no other purpose than that of enabling us to enjoy the rest. Of the few moments which are left in our disposal, it may reasonably be expected that we should be so frugal as to let none of them slip from us without some equivalent. Dr. Johnsom. 390 A) A Y’,S C O /, / A C O AV. * HOUSE. EIOUSEHOLD. A man's house is his castle. Justinian. Little households increase labor. A. Brisbane. In my own house I am a king. Medina. A woman should manage her own household. A house uninhabited falls to decay. Sophocles. Fools build houses; wise men buy them. J. Rist. A ruined house requires no door keeper. Farró. He who has no house is dead without a sepul- chre. Publius Syrws. If you are not able to build a house, then erect a shed. Yoruba. He who has no house of his own is everywhere at home. Yriarte. When thy neighbor's house is on fire, beware of thine own. Caspipina. When there is room in the heart there is room in the house. F. Hammerich. He that hath a house to put his head in, has a good head piece. Shakspeare. If you would have a house when you are old, lay a brick every day. E. P. Day. No house is too small for two friends, nor too large for two enemies. Al-Khalīl. Were every one to sweep before his own house, every street would be clean. J. Kessell. A master ought not to be known by the house, but the house by the master. Featly. It is better that one's house be too small for a day, than too large for a year. Jeane Clawde. A man should first get a house, next a wife, and then implements of husbandry. Hesiod. A house is no home, unless it contain food and fuel for the mind, as well as for the body. Lewis. The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defense against injury and violence as for his repose. Sir E. Coke. Houses are built to live in, not to look On : there- fore, iet use be preferred before uniformity, ex- cept where both can be had. Bacon. A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoy- ment, unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising six weeks. R. Sowthey. Our ordinary dwelling-houses should be built to last, and also built to be lovely; they should be as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without, Ruskin. A house and gardens surrounded with pleasant fields, all in good Order, bestow greater lustre upon the owner than at first will be imagined. The beau- ties of the former are, by intimacy of connection, readily communicated to the latter. Rames. No sensible man will attempt to build his own house, and the necessity of employing architects has not only developed much ability in our own professors of this art, but has also given us the ad- ditional advantage of a great deal of foreign talent and skill. A. J. Downing. Mrs. Mary Washington. Good household management is a science well worthy of attention. Mrs. S. S. Ellis. In the household may be found that happiness unknown in public life. Bismarck. To reform our own household is a work often attended with not less difficulty than the adminis- tration of a province. Tacitws. To form her children to good habits, to manage her household properly, to have an eye on her ser- vants, to regulate her expenses with economy, ought to be a woman's study. Molière. It is no Small task to regulate the microcosm of a household, without relinguishing the cultivation of one's mind, and the study of one's own heart— without becoming a mere household drudge. Mrs. E. C. Embury. EHOUSEFCEEPING. Marriage is easy, but housekeeping costly. Cano. The kitchen is the housekeeper's workshop and study. Helen Campbell. Housekeeping does not hold man sacred ; persons are treated as things. R. W. Emerson. That mistress of a family who keeps her house in beautiful domestic order, is commended by the Other sex. Mrs. Willard. One of the best things about housekeeping is that it requires the exercise of the highest faculties of the human mind. Emma W. Babcock. The science of housekeeping affords exercise for the judgment and energy, ready recollection, and patient self-possession, that are the characteristics of a superior mind. Mrs. Sigowrmey. EHOUSEWIFE. A good wife is a good housewife. Wilson. A good housewife is the spirit of the fireside. Marchioness de Rambouillet. A good housewife is the priestess of the temple of home. Elizabeth Thomas. The foot on the cradle, and hand on the distaff, are the signs of a good housewife. Calderon. A good housewife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of Paradise. Fawcet. A woman may be beautiful, but without the en- dowments and qualifications of a good housewife, external attractions are nothing. B. Wentworth. A good housewife is the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin. Miss Mary Ferrier. No housewife can reasonably complain of inca- pability, for experience will soon teach them by what means they may best accomplish the end they have in view. Mrs. S. S. Ellis. P & O SE o 0 o 7. A 7 ſo y S. 391 EHUIMIANITY. Humanity is progress. |W. G. Simms. Humanity is the Son of God. T. Parker Humanity is one and indivisible. W. Goodell. It is difficult to put off humanity. Pyrrho. Humanity is the equity of the heart. Confucius. There is nothing on earth divine beside humani- ty. Melancthom. I am a man ; I count nothing human foreign to Illé. Teremoe. The pleasures of humanity are next to those of devotion. V. de Fyot. Humanity is the fairest flower that blooms in the human breast. James Ellis. The age of chivalry has gone ; the age of hu- manity has come. C. Swimmer. Our humanity were a poor thing but for the Di- vinity that stirs within us. Lord Bacon. When the battle is ended, and victory assured, let humanity be exercised. Cyrus the Great. The greatest wits I have conversed with are men eminent for their humanity. Mme. de Gutórim. What a vile and abject thing is man, if he do not raise himself above humanity. Seneca. The sentiment of humanity has become infused into almost all literature and speech. Whipple. Humanity crops out in various directions, and sometimes in most unexpected ways. Chatfield. Humanity toward a subdued foe is as noble as the valor displayed in encountering him. G. D. Prentice. It is the province of America to build, not palaces, but men ; to exalt, not titled stations, but general humanity. S. H. Tymg. Humanity will ever interfere and plead strongly against the sacrifice of an innocent person, for the guilt of another. Washington. I never knew a young man remarkable for heroic bravery, whose very aspect was not lighted up by gentleness and humanity. Lord Erskine. Humanity is the sum of all men taken together, and each is only so far worthy of esteem as he knows how to appreciate all. Anna C. Lynch. No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne reaches as high as that spiritual plane, upon which every human being stands by virtue of his human- ity. E. H. Chapin. Humanity, once put off, is put off for worse, as well as for better ; if we take not good heed to live angelically afterward, we must count on becoming devilish. 4. W. Hatre. A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities. Steele. EHUIMANITY. May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility. Leigh Hunt. Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatsoever. Addison. Humanity is the peculiar characteristic of great minds ; little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable offeeling the exact plea- sure of forgiving their enemies. Chesterfield. The most eloquent speaker, the most ingenious writer, and the most accomplished statesman can- not effect so much as the mere presence of the man, who tempers his wisdom and his vigor with hu- manity. Lavater. There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man ; nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done in this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body. Novalis. Humanity may be compared to an immense tem- ple ruined, but now rebuilding, the numerous com- partments of which represent the several mations of the earth. True, the different portions of the edifice present great anomalies ; but yet the foun- dation is the same. Mme. D'Awbigné. In aspiring to the throne of power, the angels transgressed and fell ; in presuming to come within the Oracle of knowledge, man transgressed and fell; but in the pursuit toward the humanity of God's goodness and love, neither man nor spirit ever have transgressed or shall transgress. Lord Bacon. We ought in humanity no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help ; were this thoroughly considered, we should no more laugh at one for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke. Pope. Humanity is a vast circle of beings on a plain, in the midst of which stands the shrine of goodness and happiness, inviting all to approach ; now the attached pairs in this circle should not be continu- ally looking on each other, but should turn their faces very often toward this central object, and as they advance they will, like radii from the circum- ference to the center, continually become closer to each other as they approximate to their mutual and ultimate object. J. Foster. Humanity is universally esteemed the finest tem- per of mind; and for that reason, the prevalence of the social affections in the progress of Society, is held to be a refinement in our nature. A savage knows little of social affection, and therefore is not qualified to compare selfish with social pleasure ; but a man, after acquiring a high relish for the lat- ter, loses not thereby a taste for the former ; he is qualified to judge, and he will give preference to social pleasures, as more sweet and refined ; in fact they maintain that character, not only in the di- rect feeling, but also when we make them the sub- ject of reflection ; the social passions are far more agreeable than the selfish, and rise much higher in Our esteem. Kames. 392 D A Y'S CO Z / A & O A. EIUIMANITY. The one idea which history exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness, is the idea of humanity ; the noble endeavor to throw down all the barriers erected between men by pre- judice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of religion, Country, and color, to treat the whole human race as one brotherhood, having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature. A. Geddes. Humanity is much more shown in our conduct toward animals, where we are irresponsible, ex- cept to heaven, than toward our fellow-creatures, where we are restrained by the laws, by public opin- ion, and by fear of retaliation. The more defence- less and humble the creature, the greater is the merit of treating it kindly, since our tenderness must spring from a high principle or a feeling heart. Show me the man that is a lover of animals, and I will answer for his philanthropy. Chatfield. The multiplied misfortunes to which all men are exposed afford ample scope for the exercise of hu- manity, which, in consequence of the unequal dis- tribution of wealth, power, and talent, is peculiar to no situation of life ; even the profession of arms does not exclude humanity from the breast of its followers ; and when we observe men's habits of thinking in various situations, we may remark that the soldier with arms by his side is commonly more humane than the partisan without arms. G. Crabb. We see humanity, not as it originally came from the hands of its Creator, but such as the events of thousands of years have made it ; we mistake habit for nature, and lose the power of distinguishing between the natural and the artifi- cial ; it is desirable to recover and to exercise this power ; to analyze man, Society ; to ascertain the original condition of the one, and trace the history of the other ; to ascertain the rights and duties of one, and the origin, objects, and legitimate powers of the other. N. Greene. Humanity is a continuous chain, one link fas- tened to another, and following it, not as having in itself wholly independent action, but as being put into motion by the link that preceded it ; it is the majestic march of the locomotive and its train along the railway of time ; carriage after carriage passes, one generation Succeeding another, but each drawn on by its last predecessor, the coupling-chain binding one to another into a continuous whole ; as is a railway train, so is humanity throughout all its generations, One. R. Brown. Before one eye at least in the universe the feeble spring and the mighty river are one : He sees it all mapped out from its source in weakness to its end in power ; we never rise high enough into the upper air of thought and humanity, to see like Him our human fellow-rivers in their feeble struggles through the rocks and stones in their path, but as they shall be hereafter, far away, perhaps a thou- sand years to come, down cataracts of death, and past long deserts of unknown worlds ; but as they shall surely be at last, each flowing on, a majestic benediction through the universe, reflecting on his ever-swelling bosom the infinite glory of God. Miss Cobbe. EHUIMANITY. True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and ac- tive endeavors to execute the actions which it sug- gestS. C. J. Foac. That humanity is not inseparable from our na- ture I allow, from some reproachful instances of Selfish tempers, which seem to take part in nothing beyond themselves ; yet I am persuaded and affirm it. So great and noble a part of our nature, that a man must do great violence to himself, and suffer many a painful conflict, before he has brought himself to a different disposition. G. V. Gravina. Humanity is, in regard to the other social affec- tions, what the first lay of colors is in respect to a picture. It is a ground on which are painted the different kinds of love, friendship, and engagement. As the ancients held those places sacred, which were blasted with lightning, we ought to pay a tender to those persons who are visited with affliction. A general civility is due to all mankind; but an ex- traordinary humanity and a peculiar delicacy of good breeding is owing to the distressed, that we may not add to their affliction by any seeming neg- lect. Ruskin. When loving each other like brothers, you mu- tually treat each other like brothers; when each One, seeking his own in the common good, is al- ways ready to devote himself for all the members of the common family, who are in turn equally ready to devote themselves for him ; then most of the evils under the weight of which the human race now groans, will disappear as the mists of morn- ing are dissipated at the rising of the sun. And thus will God's will be accomplished ; for it is His will that love, gradually, and ever more and more intimately, uniting the scattered elements of hu- manity, and organizing them in One sole body, should cause them to become one as He Himself is Ollé. Lamennais. Humanity often appears a very deformed, or a very beautiful subject, according to the different lights in which it is viewed. When we see men of inflamed passions, or of wicked designs, tearing one another to pieces by open violence, or undermining each other by secret treachery ; when we observe base and narrow ends pursued by ignominious and dishonest means ; when we observe men mixed in society as if it were for the destruction of it; we are even ashamed of Our Species, and Out of humor with our own being. But in another light, when we behold them mild, good, and benevolent, full of a generous regard for the public prosperity, compassionating each other's distresses, and reliev- ing each other's wants, we can hardly believe they are creatures of the same kind. In this view they appear gods to each other, in the exercise of the noblest power, that of doing good ; and the great- est compliment we have ever been able to make to our own being has been by calling this disposition of mind humanity. We cannot but observe a plea- sure arising in our own breast upon the seeing or hearing of a generous action, even when we are wholly disinterested in it. J. Hughes. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7 / O M. S. 393 HUMAN NATURE. - Human nature is hard to overcome. Periander. Human nature is the same in all races. Miss Olive R. Seward. Human nature is frail, and multiform in its pas- Sions. L. C. Judson. To know human nature is the climax of all know- ledge. O. S. Fowler. Human nature is very much the same all over the world. S. L. Clemens. It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another. Swift. Human nature knows naturally what is good, but naturally pursues what is evil. Sir T. Browne. Human nature is always and everywhere, in the most important points, substantially the same. R. Whately. Human nature is a rogue and a scoundrel, or why would it perpetually stand in need of laws and religion ? Dr. Cheyne. If we did not take great pains and were not at great painsto corrupt our mature, our mature would never corrupt us. Earl of Clarendom. Human nature is like a bad clock ; it might go right now and then, or be made to strike the hour, but its invard frame is to go wrong. T. Adam. The scrutiny of human nature on a small scale is one of the most dangerous of employments ; the study of it on a large scale is one of the safest and truest. Jeremy Taylor. Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their pe- rilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium. De Levis. No human being can come into this world with- out increasing or diminishing the sum total of hu- man happiness, not only of the present, but of every subsequent age of humanity. E. Bu'rritt. The condition of human nature resembles a table chequered with compartments of black and white ; potentates and people have their rise and fall ; cities and families their trines and sextiles, their qualities and oppositions. R. Burton. There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature, divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of in- genuity, which being cherished, excited, and quick- ened by good culture, do by common experience thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness. Mrs. L. M. Child. The only mode in which we can conceive it pos- sible to deduce a theory of government from the principles of human nature is this: we must find out what are the motives which, in a particular form of government, impel rulers to bad measures, and what are those which impel them to good mea- sures; we must then compare the effect of the two classes of motives; and according as we find the one or the other to prevail, we must pronounce the form of government in question good or bad. T. B. Macaulay. HUMAN NATURE. - No doubt hard work is a great police-agent ; if everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of Crimes might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature ? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things : It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a va- riety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed. A. Helps. Mankind have ever been prone to expatiate on the praise of human nature. The dignity of man is a subject that has always been the favorite theme of humanity ; they have declaimed with that OS- tentation which usually accompanies such as are sure of having a partial audience ; they have Ob- tained victories because there were none to Oppose ; yet from all I have ever read or seen, men appear more apt to err from having too high than by hav- ing too despicable an opinion of their nature ; and by attempting to exalt their original place in the creation depress their real value in society. Goldsmith. I must confess that there is nothing that more pleases me, in all that I read in books or See among. mankind, than such passages as represent human nature in its proper dignity. As man is a creature made up of different extremes, he has something in him very great and very mean. A skillful artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views. The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous side ; they cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they can to widen the partition between the virtuous and the vicious, by making the difference betwixt them as great as between gods and brutes. Addison. EHUMIBUG. The people like to be humbugged. P. T. Barnwm. He that is proof against humbug is either a cynic, skeptic, or knave. T. Green. Take the humbug out of this world, and you will not have much left to do business with. H. W. Shaw, The art of humbugging would lose half its po- tency, were it not for that innate love of the mar- vellous, which has its germ even in the most well- balanced minds. Mrs. Jackson-Winchester. Humbug is a word most easily spoken ; it is a very convenient epithet for old fogies and con- servatives, while jogging along life's turn-pike, to hurl at the cars of progress which are passing swiftly by them. E. P. Day. There are many humbugs in this humbugging world, and we must keep a bright look-out, or the fool's cap will be clapped on us. Humbugs | They smile from gay shops; they lurk beneath patents, and pounce out upon us from medicine hecatombs; they nod with plume and epaulette, sit daintily on the painted cheek of woman, and strut in stuccoed palaces and glittering equipages | Yes, humbugs are everywhere ! J. T. Headley. 394 AD A Y'.S C O Z Z A C O AV. HUMILITY. HUMILITY. Practice humility. Rabbi Ha-Levi. Humility is a beautiful centre, from which every Too much humility is pride. Hippel. other virtue radiates. Lady Mowmteashel. * * * * g tº — To the humble-minded man God revealeth the Humility is better than pride. 0. Hodge. knowledge of His truth. St. Awgwstime. Humility is a Christian grace. G. Mogridgé. We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor Humility is the dress-coat of pride. T. Elyot. Do not practice excessive humility. John Todd. Humility is the hall-mark of wisdom. J. Collier. Spare the humble, but crush the proud. Virgil. In humble fortune there is great repose. Seneca. Humility is the chiefest of all virtues. Pope Benedict III. True humility does good and is silent. James Ellis. Humility before God is man's true glory. Charles the Great. That which humbles us is always for our good. J. H. Evans. Humility and resignation are our prime virtues. - Dryden. Humbleness is always grace, and always dignity. J. R. Lowell. Humility is the solid foundation of all the vir- tues. Confucius. Our humiliations work out our most elevated joys. PH. W. Beecher. After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. Franklim. Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. Thoreant. Humility is the first of the virtues—for other people. O. W. Holmes. The best humility is the knowing that we are not humble. A. Ritchie. Humility for her excelling should be thesister of true nobility. Pontamws. Happy is that man whose calling is great, and spirit humble. Demosthenes. Humility is the fountain of heavenly faith and divine wisdom. Erwmmacher. Humility is modesty before men, and self-abase- ment before God. Rev. J. Newman. Humility is the softening shadow before the statue of excellence. Twpper. The street is full of men with all kinds of humi- liations to the proud. R. W. Emerson. Humility is the result of a deep acquaintance with our own hearts. A. Crombie. Does not the whole tenor of the divine law posi- tively require humility and meekness to all men 7 T. Sprat. Ships that are heaviest laden sail lowest ; so a mind laden with sound philosophy is most humble. T. Gale. there is humility, there is peace. too humbly of ourselves. Colton. He that gathereth virtues without humility, cast- eth dust against the wind. O. Gregory. Proud men are the greatest lovers of humility in everybody but themselves. G. D. Prentice. We can hardly learn humility and tenderness enough except by suffering. G. Eliot. We do not usually find men of humility among those of the highest fortune. Juvenal. True humility is the low, but deep and firm, foundation of all real virtue. Bwrke. There is no such thing as being proud before man and humble before God. H. W. Shaw. Humility is a slow tide, which, springing from God, will bears us on to heaven. Downey. Where there is charity, there is humility; where St. Awgustine. Modest humility is beauty's crown, for the beau- tiful is a hidden thing and shrinks from its own power. Schiller. Humility is the Christian's greatest honor ; and the higher men climb, the farther they are from heaven. H. F. Burde?". A man who is wisely humble, manifests his opin- ion of himself by universal kindness to his fellow- Cl’eatureS. J. Hamilton. Only a great pride, that is, a great and reveren- tial repose in one's own being, renders possible a noble humility. D. Wasson. To hope boldly in God is the only true humility: to be afraid and distrustful flow from the pride of self-righteousness. T. Remnell. Humility is a cuirass which turns aside the blows dealt by the enmity of man ; but that cuirass is de- fective at the heart. Mime. Swetchine. It is in vain to gather virtues without humility ; for the Spirit of God delighteth to dwell in the hearts of the humble. Erasmus. Sense shines with a double lustre when it is set in humility ; an able and yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. W. Penn. Humility is a seed-plot of virtue, especially Chris- tian, which thrives best when it is deep rooted in the humble lowly heart. C. Hammond. He who offers humility unto God and man, shall be rewarded with a reward as if he had offered all the sacrifices in the world. Talmud. Humility is the best evidence of a real religion, as arrogance, self-conceit, and pretension, are the infallible criteria of a Pharisaical devotion. Chatfield. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 3 9 5 HUMILITY. Everything may be mimicked by hypocrisy but humility and love united—the more rare, the more radiant when they meet. Lavater. The violet grows low, and covers itself with its own tears, and of all flowers yields the sweetest fragrance—such is humility. Dean French. It must be very grateful to the man who humbly estimates his own claims, that the world always heartily approves his judgment. |W. G. Simºns. The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. Saadi. Humility in man consists not in denying any gift that is in him, but a just valuation of it ; rather thinking too meanly than too highly. J. Ray. Humility is not a poverty of spirit, nor a slavish compliance with the wills of others; it is merely a consciousness of our own insufficiency. J. A. James. Humility is the first lesson we learn from reflec- tion ; and self-distrust the first proof we give of having obtained a knowledge of ourselves. Zimmerman. The casting down of our spirits in true humility is but like throwing a ball on the ground, which makes it rebound the higher toward heaven. J. Quetif. The dews and rich showers of God's grace slide on the mountains of pride, and fall on the low val- leys of humble hearts, and make them pleasant and fertile. R. Leighton. Let us be humble, for “he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.” One clear view of the cross of Christ will do more toward killing pride, than a hundred proud resolutions to be humble. G. Mogridge. Humility is a fair and fragrant flower; in its appearance modest, in its situation low and hidden; it does not flaunt its beauties to every vulgar eye, or throw its odors upon every passing gale. Caspipini. Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation : it is its very character to submit to such things. There is a consanguinity between benevolence and humanity ; they are virtues of the same stock. Burke. We are sent to the ant for industry, to the lion for valor, to the dove for innocence, to the serpent for wisdom ; but for humility unto God himself, as an attribute more peculiar to His excellence. , Feltham. Humility is a virtue all preach, and none prace tice, and yet everybody is content to bear ; the master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity. J. Selden. To put up with the world humbly is better than to control it ; this is the very acme of virtue. Re- ligion leads to it in a day ; philosophy only con- ducts to it by a lengthened life, misery, or death. - - Lamartime. EHUMILITY. The high mountains are barren but the low val- leys are covered with corn ; and accordingly the showers of God’s grace fall into lowly hearts and humble souls. J. Worthington. It is easy to be humble where humility is a con- descension ; easy to concede where we know our- selves wronged ; easy to forgive where vengeance is in our power. Mrs. Jameson. Pride perceiving humility to be honorable, de- sires ofttimes to be covered with the cloak thereof; for left appearing always in his own likeness he should be little regarded. Demosthenes. To be humble to superiors is duty : to equals, is courtesy ; to inferiors, is noblemess ; and to all, safety ; it being a virtue that, for all her lowliness, commandeth those Souls it stoops to. T. Moore. Humility is the genuine proof of Christian vir- tues ; without it we preserve all our defects, and they are only crusted over by pride, which con- ceals them from others, and often from ourselves., Rochefoucauld. Blessed is the calamity that makes us humble ; though so repugnant is our nature thereto, that after awhile it is to be feared a sharper calamity would be wanted to cure us of our pride in having become humble. F. T. Palgrave. Humility is a voluntary inclination of the mind, grounded upon a perfect knowledge of our own condition ; a virtue by which a man in the most true consideration of his inward qualities, maketh least account of himself. Biom. Every man who is sensible is more or less hum- ble ; he takes a near view of his own imperfections, undisguised by that false coloring which, while we are engaged in society, our passions are apt to throw over them. - F. L. Hawks. |Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement. Study your own characters; endeavor to learn and to supply your own deficiencies; never assume to yourselves quali- ties which you do not possess. Sir B. Brodie. The divine mind dwells with the man of humble spirit, and he who keepeth himself lowly doth as well as though he offered up all the burnt-sacrifice that ever was enjoined. The wishes of the humble man are fulfilled even before he uttereth any words of request. Rabbi Jacob. Humility is peculiarly the way of God; to show Himself to fallen creatures in a fallen world, He must abase Himself ; to do them service, He must come nearer to them ; to do them the utmost ser- vice, He must become one of them ; He must be made flesh and dwell among them. J. Pulsford. As the lark that soars the highest builds her nest the lowest ; the nightingale that sings the sweet- est sings in the shade when all things rest ; the branches that are most laden with ripe fruit bend lowest ; the valleys are fruitful in their lowliness; and the ship most laden sinks deepest in the water, so the holiest Christians are the humblest. J. Mason. 396 AD A Y’.S C O Z Z. A C O AV. IHUMILITY. Owe not thy humility unto humiliation from adversity, but look humbly down in that state where others look upwards upon thee ; think not thy own shadow longer than that of others, nor delight to take the altitude of thyself. T. Browne. Among all the other virtues, humility, the low- est, is pre-eminent ; it is the safest, because it is always at anchor ; and that man may be truly said to live the most content in his calling that strives to live within the compass of it. Richter. All the world, all that we are, and all that we have—our bodies and our souls, our actions and our sufferings, our conditions at home, our acci- dents abroad, our many sins, and our seldom vir- tues—are so many arguments to make Our Souls dwell low in the deep valley of humility. Jeremy Taylor. Humility is the truest abstinence in the world; it is abstinence from self-love and self-conceit ; the hardest and severest abstinence ; it is abstinence from vaunting our own praise and exploits, and lessening the merits of other men ; it is abstinence from ambition and avarice, the strongest propen- sities in our nature, and consequently it is the se- verest mortification and the noblest self-denial. P. Delamy. Among the many virtues which are requisite for the right governing of the passions and affections, humility may well claim a forward place. This virtue is not only excellent in itself, but useful toward the obtaining of the rest ; it is the founda- tion on which all the others must be built ; and he who hopes to gain them without this, will be like the foolish architect of old, who built his house upon the sand. W. Hayley. Religion, and that alone teaches absolute hu- mility; by which I mean a sense of our absolute no- thingness in the view of infinite greatness and ex- cellence ; that sense of inferiority which results from the comparison of men with each other is often an unwelcome sentiment forced upon the mind, which may rather embitter the temper than soften it ; that which devotion impresses is sooth- ing and delightful. R. Hall. True humility is not a cringing prostration of the soul before another man because he is rich, or great, or learned, or noble, or royal ; true humility courts not the smile, though it is thankful when it has it, of the great, and it fears not their frown ; it leans not upon the mighty, because it leans upon the Lord ; it bows itself to the dust before the least word from heaven ; it stands erect in its conscious quality before the mightiest of human kind. J. Cwmºning. There is a certain sort of crafty humility that Springs from presumption : as this, for example, that we confess our ignorance in manythings, and are so courteous as to acknowledge that there are in works of nature some qualities and conditions that are imperceptible to us, and of which our un- derstanding cannot discover the means and causes; by this homest declaration we hope to obtain that people shall also believe us of those that we say we do understand. Montaigne. HUMILITY. If thou desire the love of God and man, be hum- ble ; for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, so it is beloved of mone but by itself ; the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail nor reason. F. Quarles. Humility is not a weak and timid quality ; it must be carefully distinguished from a grovelling Spirit ; there is such a thing as an honest pride and Self-respect. We should think something of our humanity, and not cast it under men's feet; though we may be servants of all, we should be servile to IlC)1162. E. H. Chapin. The only true independence is in humility ; for the humble man exacts nothing, and cannot be mortified ; expects nothing, and cannot be disap- pointed. Humility is also a healing virtue ; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open ; but humility is not the virtue of a fool ; since it is not consequent upon any com- parison between ourselves and others, but between what we are, and what we ought to be, which no Illall eVerº Was. |W. Allstom. There is nothing more characteristic of a true Christian than humility ; it is the first lesson that he learns in the school of Christ, and is the source of contentment and solid peace of mind. If he hear that any one has reviled him, he is ready to say with the philosopher, had he known me better, he would have said worse things of me than that. The fiercest storms of adversity blow over him. Humility gives a pliancy to his mind, which saves it by yielding to the force it cannot resist ; like the weak and bending reed that weathers out the tem- pest that fells the tall and sturdy oak. C. Buck. A humble man is one who, thinking of himself neither more highly nor more lowly than he ought to think, passes a true judgment on his own cha- racter. There is no genuine self-abasement apart from a lofty conception of our own destiny, pow- ers, and responsibilities ; and one of the most ex- cellent of human virtues is but poorly expressed by an abject carriage. Torpid passions, a languid temperament, and a feeble nature, may easily pro- duce that false imitation of humility, which, how- ever, in its genuine state, will ever impart elevation to the soul and dignity to the demeanor. Jwigme. Humility is the greatest virtue, for all others fol- low where it is found, and fly away where it is not ; it is a plant that was but little known among the ancients, and first grew to perfection, violet-like, in the retired and shady hills of Judea. Without it, ambition, always aiming at great fruits, finds them, when they come to maturity, to be full of bitterness and ashes. Without it, also, learning is full of presumption, and that which is called “Glo- ry” is nothing more than inflated vanity and hol- low-hearted applause; without it, moreover, many ancient and renowned heroes of antiquity, believed themselves to be gods, and were worshiped as such, when they were little better than monsters and demons. Humility is the beauty of life, and the chief grace and perfection of the soul. Acton. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7 / o A. S. - 397 EIUIMOR. EIUNGER. Humor is wit and love. W. M. Thackeray. Hunger teaches many things. Laberius. Humor is the harmony of the heart. D. Jerrold. Hunger will accept no excuse. ' F. Alvarez. There are more faults in the humor than in the A hungry man is an angry man. T. Arwmdel. Rochefoucauld. Humor should always lie under the check of I'êa,SOIl. Addison. Whenever you find humor, you find pathos close by its side. E. P. Whipple. When you find your antagonist beginning to grow warm, put an end to the dispute by some genteel stroke of humor. Chesterfield. mind. Men of humor are in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely SO, although a man of genius may amongst other gifts possess wit. S. T. Coleridge. Humor is one of the elements of genius ; but if it predominates, it becomes a make-shift. Humor accompanies the decline of art, which it destroys and annihilates. - Goethe. It is not in the power of every one to taste hu- mor, however he may wish it ; it is the gift of God; and a true feeler always brings half the entertain- ment along with him. Sterne. The union of genuine, rich humor with deep piety, and the chastened, spontaneous use of it, under the guidance of a just judgment, are among the rarest manifestations of intellectual power. H. T. Cheeveſ'. It is not half so difficult to be witty or philosophi- cal with your friend, after you have once played the parts of a humorist or a sage, and successfully, to him ; your wit and wisdom flow out to him, after you have discovered that he is appreciative of them. Bovee. Humor is perhaps a sense of the ridiculous, soft- ened and meliorated by a mixture of human feel- ings; for there certainly are things pathetically ridiculous ; and we are hardhearted enough to smile smiles on them, much nearer to sorrow than many tears. J. C. Hare. As a taste for humor is purely natural, so is hu- mor itself; neither is it a talent confined to men of wit or learning ; for we observe it sometimes among common servants, and the meanest of the people, while the very owners are often ignorant of the gift they possess. Swift. Humor, which is the pensiveness of wit, enjoys a longer and a wider life ; after one brilliant ex- plosion, the repartee is worthless ; the shrunken firework offends the eye ; but the quiet suggestive- mess of Mr. Shandy is interesting as ever ; and the details of the great army in Flanders will last as long as the passage of Hannibal. R. A. Willmott. Humor is but a picture of particular life, as comedy is of general ; and though it represents dispositions and customs less common, yet they are not less natural than those that are more fre- quent among men ; for if humor itself be forced, it loses all the grace ; which has been indeed the fault of some of our poets most celebrated in this kind. { Sir W. Temple. The best Seasoning for food is hunger. Socrates. There is no good in preaching to the hungry. Rºwlman. Hunger and cold surrender a man to his enemy. A. Fermandez. Hunger is a spiritual exercise to the devout, but a trial to others. Ibn Moād. At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter. Franklin. A large portion of the crimes punished by law arise from hunger. Lamennais. We do not know of an emptier sound than the rumbling of a hungry stomach. G. D. Prentice. Hunger makes everything sweet except itself ; for want is the teacher of habits. Horace. A hungry man is not in the best condition to ex- hibit the good qualities of the species. A. S. Roe. Death in all shapes is hateful to unhappy man, but the most dreadful is to die and meet our fate by hunger. Homer. Extreme abstinence, even to the endurance of hunger, was considered a great virtue among the early fathers. St. Jerome. Our belly is a troublesome creditor, but it com- plaineth less from hunger than from drunkenness and gluttony. Sir S. Garth. Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger; and the quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst suitors can choose. Zimmerman. " With hunger, the necessity of eating is a sort of evil which causes another after the meal is over, by eating more than we should. St. Evremond. It is hunger that gives the poor man his health and his appetite, and the want of which often af- flicts the rich with satiety and disease. . Chatfield. It is praiseworthy for a man to be kind to his fellow-men. Shall we command him to succor the shipwrecked, to show the wanderer his road, to share his bread with the hungry 2 Seneca. What is this life but the circulation of little mean actions ? We lie down and rise again, dress and undress, feed and grow hungry, work or play, and are weary ; and then we lie down again and the circle returns. C. M. Burmett. Of all the terrors of nature, that of one day or other dying by hunger is the greatest ; and it is wisely wove into our frame to awaken man to in- dustry, and call forth his talents ; and though we seem to go on carelessly sporting with it as we do with other terrors, yet he that sees this enemy fairly, and in his most frightful shape will need no long remonstrance to make him turn out of the way to avoid him. Sterne. 39S Z) A Y',S C O / / A C O AV. HUNTING. Hunting is fit recreation for a Pope. Pope Pius V. Hunting is not a proper employment for a think- ing man. Addison. Hunting, hawking, and love, for One joy have a hundred griefs. Juliana Bermers. Hunting is a relic of the barbarous spirit that thirsted formerly for human blood, but is now content with the blood of birds and animals. Bovee. A man who can in cold blood hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compas- sion for the distresses of his own species. Frederick; the Great. Hunting is one of the most sensual of pleasures, by which the powers of the body are strongly ex- erted, but those of the mind remain unemployed. - T. Adams. A society of men who are so passionately fond of hunting as to make it their employment, will thereby contract a kind of rusticity and fierceness. Montesquiew. Hunting causeth the youth to rise early, bear heat, cold, and hunger ; it sharpeneth their courage to oppose wild beasts, and they thus become prac- ticed in throwing the javelin, shooting the bow, and in all the arts of war. Cyrus the Great. Of all recreations hunting is most proper to a commander ; by the frequency whereof he may be instructed in that necessary knowledge of situa- tion with pleasure ; which by earnest experience would be dearly purchased. The chase is a fair resemblance of a hopeful war, proposing to the pursuer a flying enemy. F. Quarles. Hunting in many cases seems to me liable to censure. Why should a man for the sake of show- ing his skill as a marksman, shoot down a poor animal, which he does not need for food? Why should not the brute that is harming no living thing be permitted to enjoy the happiness of its physical nature unmolested ? F. Wayland. Hunting might formerly have been a manly ex- ercise, when the country was overrun with boars and wolves; but to honor with the name of “man- liness” the cruel practice of pursuing timid ani- mals, to put them to death merely for amusement, is in my opinion perverting the meaning of words; if hunting be a more genteel species of butchery, it is certainly a more cruel one. Stillingfleet. HURRY. . Hurry is the penance for neglect. E. P. Day. What is done in a hurry can never be done ac- curately. G. F. Graham. Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him ; haste and hurry are very different things. Chesterfield. No two things differ more than hurry and dis- patch ; hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. - Colton. Forgive me that I, though poor, yet not useless to my generation, make haste to enjoy life : no one is in sufficient hurry to do so. Martial. EHUSBAND. A good husband makes a good wife. Farquhar. The husband should rule in all things. Memander. As the husband is, the wife is—if mated with a clown. • Tennyson. When a husband treats a woman roughly, it is better to die. Ewripides. A reserved lover, it is said, always makes a sus- picious husband. Goldsmith. Husbands must give to their wives love, main- tenance, and duty. Jeremy Taylor. A true princess requires that her husband not Only be a prince, but a sage. Nusair. The good husband keeps his wife in the whole- some ignorance of unnecessary SecretS. Steele. Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matri- mony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them. . Wilkie Collims. When a man allows his wife to assume a hus- band's prerogative, it is because she is the better husband of the two. Sir S. Garth. A husband had rather have his wife praised, than be praised himself ; it feeds his love, flatters his pride, and justifies his choice. J. Bartlett. The weak-minded woman who slanders her hus- band, is like the fool who spits in the sky, or the bird who builds her nest with thorns. Downey. The state of a husband consists of two qualities, equality and superiority ; as a companion he ought to love ; as a superior, he ought to govern. Calvin Chapin. After treating her like a goddess, the husband uses her like a woman ; what is still worse the most abject flatterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants. Addison. The silliest fellows are in general the worst of husbands, as it may be asserted as a fact, that a man of sense rarely behaves very ill to a wife who deserves very well. Fielding. A good husband never publicly reproves his wife; an open reproof puts her to do penance before all that are present ; after which, many study revenge rather than reformation. T. Fuller. It is the study of the husband to provide for the wants of the family ; and of the wife to assume the charge of the affairs of the household. His sphere of duty is without, her sphere of duty is within. - F. Wayland. The husband is the shrine for woman's love ; a woman's staff, and woman's shield, the architect of “home ;” he is the sun of the domestic system ; a human trellis, around which twine domestic honey- suckles. a Annie E. Lancaster. A good husband must be wise in words, mild in conversation, faithful in promise, circumspect in giving counsel, careful in provision for his house, diligent in ordering his goods, patient in importun- ity, and jealous in bringing up his youth. Wits’ Commonwealth. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 399 HUSBANDRY. The husbandman is always to be rich the next year. Philemon. The pleasures of a husbandman are next to those of a philosopher. Cicero. A man improveth his land to a double value by good husbandry. T. Fulle”. No government can be carried on Successfully without the practice of husbandry. Menciws. To call a man a good husbandman is the greatest praise that can be bestowed upon him. Cato. Should the number of husbandmen be excessive, it will be of the best kind ; if of mechanics and those who work for pay, of the worst. Aristotle. The life of the husbandman, of all others is the most delightful; it is honorable, it is amusing, and with judicious management, it is profitable. Washington. The pursuits of the husbandman, in the scale of usefulness, are of the highest importance and high- est rank among the pursuits of civilized communi- ties. E. Everett. The labor of the husbandman in tilling the ground, causes the fruits of the earth to spring up, and without it they would not be made to exist ; yet without them for food the farmer could not live and toil. T. Burges. . The situation of the husbandman is peculiarly favorable to purity and simplicity of moral senti- ment ; he is brought acquainted chiefly with the real and native wants of mankind; employed sole- ly in bringing food out of the earth, he is not liable to be fascinated with the fictitious pleasures, the unnatural wants, the fashionable follies, and ty- rannical vices of more busy and splendid life. Buckminster. HYMN. Sing hymns to God. Josephus. We should sing hymns to God, for music is the gift of God. g Saint Geneviève. Singing hymns to the praise of God, is the most commendable end of music. F. G. Jouffroy. Ought we not, whether we are digging or plow- ing or eating, to sing the hymn due to God? • Epictetus. We respect him who can more easily make a hymn than a joke, a grace at meat than a dinner- speech. G. D. Prentice. Our fields crowned with fruits and with corn are a hymn to the Lord ; the joy that sparkles in the eyes of the farmer is a hymn to the God of nature. Stwºrm. Most of the works of the pagan poets were either direct hymns to their deities, or tended indirectly to the celebration of their respective attributes and perfections. Addison. We sing hymnsfor the ostensible purpose of prais- ing God; but, unfortunately, the purpose is forgot- ten in Our modern churches, in the display of abili- ty to sing only. James Ellis. HYPOCRISY. Every man is a hypocrite. Frederick IV. The hypocrite is good in nothing but sight. Pen'icles. Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to vir- tue, Rochefoucauld. Hypocrisy is abhorred by God, and detested by IIla, Il. A. Knopp. Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery. - M. Henry. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy in this world. Dr. Johnson. Hypocrisy may assume the mask of vice as well as of virtue. Chatfield. Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame. N. Macdonald. Hypocrites put on the appearance of virtue to hide their vices. Abū Yusuf. Hypocrites are beings of darkness, disguised in garments of light. Annie E. Lancaster. Those who make use of devotion as a means and end, generally are hypocrites. Goethe. The lowest hell is reserved for hypocrites, who have assumed the mask of religion. Mahomet. The fawning, sneaking, and flattering hypocrite will do or be anything for his own advantage. Stillingfleet. . Sometimes men who have been partly wicked attempt to reform, and become locked-up hypo- crites. H. W. Beecher. The hypocrite would not put on the appearance of virtue, if it was not the most proper means to gain love. - Addison. Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to him the outside, and reserving the inward for his enemy. Jeremy Taylor. What hypocrites we seem to be, whenever we talk of ourselves | Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud. A. W. Hare. Hypocrisy delights in the most sublime specula- tions ; for never intending to go beyond specula- tion, it costs nothing to have it magnificent. Burke. Hypocrisy, by acquiring a foundation of credit in smaller matters, prepares for itself the oppor- tunity of deceiving with greater advantage. Livy. There is some virtue in almost every vice except hypocrisy ; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it. . Hazlitt. Beware thou seem not to be holy, to win favor in the eyes of a creature; for the guilt of the hypo- crite is deadly, and winneth thee wrath elsewhere. Twpper. The good-meaner hath two tongues, the hypo- crite a double tongue. The good man's heart speaks without his tongue, the hypocrite's tongue without his heart. A. Warwick. 400 AX A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. HYPOCRISY. Hypocrisy is folly ; for it is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man seems to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not. Lord Burleigh. Of all the forms of infidelity, hypocrisy is the form the most infidel, because the hypocrite lies both to heaven and earth, and his life is crime in perfidy, and atheism in action. R. Glove?". Hypocrisy, though it may be concealed for a time, will sooner or later discover itself ; it is of- ten with difficulty that the hypocrite can preserve his mask entire, and when detected, to what shame and disgrace is he reduced. C. Buck. He who is passionate and hasty is generally hon- est ; it is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should be aware. There is no deception in a bull-dog ; it is only the curthat Sneaks up and bites you when your back is turned. R. Bigsby. Hypocrites do not walk with God, but halt with Him ; they follow Him as a dog doth his master, till he comes by a carrion ; they will launch no further out into the main than they may be sure to return at pleasure safe to the the shore. Trapp. It is not that the hypocrite despises a good char- acter that he is not one himself, but because he thinks he can purchase it at a cheaper rate than the practice of it, and thus obtain all the applause of a good man, merely by pretending to be so. Fielding. It is the greatest madness to be a hypocrite in religion. The world will hate thee because a Chris- tian even in appearance; and God will hate thee be- cause SO Only in appearance; and thus having the hatred of both, thoushalt have no comfortin either. J. Hall. Hypocrisy is much more eligible than open in- fidelity and vice ; it wears the livery of religion, and is cautious of giving Scandal; nay, continued disguises are too great a constraint ; men would leave off their vices rather than undergo the toil of practising them in private. Swift. While every vice is hid by hypocrisy, every vir- tue is suspected to be hypocrisy ; this excuses the bad from imitating virtue, the ungenerous from re- warding it ; and the suspicion is looked upon as wisdom, as if it was not as necessary a part of wis- dom. to know what to believe as what to reject. Lady M. W. Montagwe. Hypocrisy has been styled “the homage which vice renders to virtue ; ” but if virtue herself could be consulted, she would probably think the cour- teous custom “better honored in the breach than the observance.” No man who loves truth himself can value another's professing truth which is not truth to him. R. Whately. Those are greatly mistaken who think that they can obtain permanent glory by hypocrisy, vain pretence, and disguised words and looks. True glory strikes its roots deep, and spreads them on all sides ; everything false disappears quickly, like spring flowers, nor can anything, that is untrue, be of long duration. Cicero. THYPOCRISY. Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others; he does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart. Pascal. Hypocrites place religion chiefly in externals, in the outward practices of devotion, objectless, like machines, and performed as the service of thralls to God; among other things they have the char- acteristic sign of being more alive to the religious life of others than to their own. P'ichte. If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; * they are the greatest dupes he has ; they serve him better than any others, and receive no wages; nay, what is still more extraordinary, they submit to greater mortifications to go to hell, than the sin- cerest Christian to go to heaven. Colton. There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion ; and the other are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevations ; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make righteousness of their discoveries, and of their hu- miliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them. J. Edwards. The kite is a bird which delights in the free air, and soars aloft as if it would fain approach to heaven ; all the while, however, it keeps its sharp eye continually directed to the earth, if haply it may there spy some prey to seize : and like it are hypocrites; they love to speak of heavenly and spiritual things: they go to church, and take the holy supper, they read, and pray, and sing ; but, nevertheless, their heart retains its earthly inclina- tion, and they seek that which is temporal more than that which is eternal. Gotthold. Hypocrisy thou bane of political and social life! thou God-dishonoring atheist I thou slayer of hu- man virtue, mean and coward slave | Thou comest limping after power, to give it a righteous shove —thou shriveled elf, canting, shuffling, blearing with thy swolleneye and long-drawnvisage to sanc- tify misrule ! I turn from thee with nauseous dis- gust; Ishudder at thy contracted, unseemly aspect; thou flatterest alike the worst passions of power, whether to be found in king or people ; to neither wilt thou dare to give a good direction, thou off- spring of vanity and cowardice | Sir R. Maltravers. The hypocrite and saint are like two men at sawing ; the hypocrite, like him in the pit, looks high upwards, but pulls downward ; the Saint, like him above, looks low, humbly downward, but pulls upward. The hypocrite is like a peach, which covers a ragged, craggy Stone under a velvet coat ; the saint, like the chestnut, hath a sweet kernel, though the cover be rough. The hyocrite, like Judas, kisses Christ, but betrays Him, and like ivy, he clasps about Christ, but is not united to Him ; he, again like ivy, derives not sap and nourishment from Him, but from a root of his own. The hypo- crite is like a window cushion, fairly wrought without, but stuffed with straw. R. Venning. WASHINGTON ||RVING, A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 401 I. IDEA. Ideas are pitiless. Lamartime. Ideas do not—cannot perish. J. F. Forrester. Teach the young idea, how to shoot. Thomson. Ideas are much stronger than blows. Calvert. The ideas of an age in time make the facts of that age. BOvee. Our ideas like pictures, are made up of lights and fishadows. Jowbert. Words are daughters of earth, but ideas are sons of heaven. Dr. Johnsom. Ideas are like beards; women and young men have none. Voltaire. Ideas are thoughts communicated to us by Supe- rior beings. Eusebius. The greatest difficulty in writing composition, is a lack of ideas. O. B. Peirce. To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands. Mºme. Swetchine. Our land is not more the recipient of the men of all countries than of their ideas. G. Bancroft. An idea signifies notion, conception, thought, Opinion, and even purpose or intention. Burke. A sublime idea remains the same from whatever brain or in whatever region it had its birth. - - W. Menzel. A man with one idea is not so much to be object- ed to, provided his idea is a good one, and he sticks to it, E. P. Day. An idea is notathought, but an object of thought; a something in the mind, and on which the mind is employed. - , R. Whately. An idea, like a ghost—according to the common notion of ghosts—must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. Dickens. One may develop an idea ; it is what God has taught us to do in His successive revelations; but one cannot add to it, least of all in another age. J. C. Hare. Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystalized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet. E. H. Chapin. Common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in ; and these are always ready at the mouth ; so people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty than when a crowd is at the door. Swift. Innate ideas signify those notions or impressions supposed to have been stamped upon the mind from the first instant of its existence, as contradis- tinguished from those which it afterwards gradu- ally acquires from without. A. Smee. IDEA. By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a use- less stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond 3 Mrs. H. B. Stowe. I do not mean to expose my ideas to ingenious ridicule by maintaining that everything happens to every man for the best ; but I will contend, that he who makes the best use of it, fulfills the part of a wise and good man. R. Cwmberland. We are what we are made by the objects that surround us. To expect that a man who sees other objects, and who leads a life different from mine, should have the same ideas that I have, would be to require contradictions. Helvetius. The ideas which are in the mind of man are a transcript of the world ; to this we may add, that words are the transcripts of those ideas which are in the mind of man, and that writing and printing are the transcript of words. Addison. Bred to think, as well as to speak by rote, we furnish our minds as we furnish our houses, with the fancies of others, and according to the mode and age of our country ; we pick up our ideas and motions in common conversation, as in Schools. ; Bolingbroke. The ideas, as well as children of our youth, often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching, where, though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time and the imagery molders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid on in fading colors, and if not sometimes refreshed, van- ish and disappear. J. Locke. The way in which our ideas are formed is what gives character to the mind of man. The mind which forms its ideas on realities is solid and firm : that which is satisfied with appearances is superfi- cial ; that which sees things as they exist is just ; that which appreciates them ill is a false mind ; that which invents imaginery relations, having neither reality nor appearance, is a foolish one ; that which does not compare is silly. The apti- tude, more or less great, to compare ideas and to find relations, is that which gives more or less of character to the mind of man. Rousseaw. Sometimes I hear a talk about a man with One idea. Well, I like a man to have an idea ; it is a great property is an idea. Some people seem as if they had no ideas at all ; but I like a man of One idea ; and when the one idea is, that knowledge shall be everywhere and ignorance nowhere, order everywhere and disorder nowhere, liberty every- where and slavery nowhere ; when that one idea is, that truth shall be everywhere and falsehood nowhere, love everywhere and hatred nowhere, concord everywhere and discord nowhere, Christ everywhere and Satan nowhere on the earth at all —that is a grand idea. Dr. Beaumont. 26 402 D A Y'S CO Z Z A Co A. IDEALITY. Ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never located. Mme. Sévigné. In character, in affection, the ideal is the only real. J. C. Hare. The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms Of art. Octave Feuillet. What we need most is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. F. H. Hedge. Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare and profit- less forever. Julia, W. Howe. Before we leave this world, deep affections take hold of the life to come by the hands of ideality ; it is the morning star of immortality. H. W. Beecher. Some men dream their lives away in ideal things; ideality and vivid imaginings are utterly useless, unless supported by practical common sense. James Ellis. Alas! we know that ideals can never be com- pletely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off, and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto. T. Carlyle. Great care is requisite in regulating and keeping under due control what is called ideality; by which we are led to notice, and delight in, whatever is strikingly beautiful and sublime, and to form pic- tures for such things in the mind. R. Whately. A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own. E. P. Whipple. Achievement is only the eminence whence we survey something better to be achieved. Ideality is only the avant-cowrier of the mind, and where that in a healthy and normal state goes, I hold it to be a prophecy that realization can follow. FI. Mann. There is two-fold knowledge of material things; One real, when the thing and the real impression thereof on our senses is perceived ; the other ideal, when the image or idea of a thing, absent in itself, is represented to and considered on the imagina- tion. J. Cheyne. Ideality is a strong guardian of virtue ; they who have tasted its genuine pleasures can never rest satisfied with those of mere sense; but it is possible to cultivate the taste to such a degree as to induce a fastidious refinement, when it becomes the inlet of more pain than pleasure. C. Bray. Every man has at times in his mind the ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and in- Sufficient ; yet, in all men that really seek to im- prove, it is better than the actual character. Per- haps no one is so satisfied with himself that he never wishes to be wiser, better, and more holy. T. Parker. IDENTITY. We often judge of identity, in the strict sense, from similarity. R. Whately. Let our identity be known among the good, and our life a similitude of their virtues, Blanchard. Identity is a relation between our cognition of a thing, not between things themselves. Sir W. Hamilton. Those actions must indeed be regular, where there is an identity between the rule and the fac- ulty. R. Sowth. I cannot remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction, as strong as memory can give, that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then exist. T. Reid. The identity of the same man consists in nothing but a participation of the same continued life, by constantly fleeting particles of matter in succession vitally united to the same organized body. Locke. All men are identical in form, manner, and speech ; but their identity of action is not at all similar ; hence some men are identified by their ignorance, others by their learning ; some by their vices, others by their virtues; but all men have a certain consciousness of their own personal identi- ty with pleasure or pain, good or evil, vice or vir- tue. 2 James Ellis. IIDIOT. Whoever is unable to act according to common sense is an idiot. G. Crabb. An idiot will often babble truths that will make a wise man wonder. Annie E. Lancaster. Mental idiocy and bodily deformity, are the fruits of organic sin and ignorance. Dr. Porter. / Idiocy is characterized by a more or less com- 4 plete obliteration of the moral and intellectual fa- culties. Dr. Shew. An idiot is a natural fool, or fool from his birth ; a human being in form, but destitute of reason, or the ordinary intellectual powers of man. ſ N. Webster. A person who has understanding enough to mea- sure a yard of cloth, number twenty correctly, and tell the days of the week, is not an idiot in the eye Of the law. J. Greenwood. Idiocy is a kind of prolonged infancy, when the mental powers, or some portion of them, remain, from childhood, undeveloped, and without their na- tural growth. R. Whately. Is there not idiocy of morals as well as of mind 3 A person grown to man's estate, possessing all the mental faculties, yet totally oblivious of all ideas of honor, justice, or religious obligations—what is he, in social ethics, but an idiot ? E. P. Day. Take no pleasure in the folly of an idiot, nor in the fancy of a lunatic, nor in the frenzy of a drunk- ard ; make them the object of thy pity, not of thy pastime: when thou beholdest them, behold how thou art beholding to Him that suffered thee not to be like them ; there is no difference between thee and them, but God's favor. F. Qwarles. P AE O S Z O U O 7" A Z / O M S. 403 IIDLENESS. Idleness is hunger's mother. G. Gwido. Idleness is the devil's bolster. R. Burton. Idleness is the key of beggary. J. Rae. The idle, man tempts the devil. Mahomet. Idleness is the greatest fatigue. As-Sikkit. I would rather be sick than idle. Seneca. How sweet and sacred idleness is 1 W. S. Lamdor. An idle head is Satan's workshop. P. de Smet. Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man. Anselm. Idleness is as fatiguing as repose is sweet, De Lévis. An idler is a watch that wants both hands. Cowper. A poor idle man cannot be an honest man. A. Poincelot. Idleness has no advocate, but many friends. J. Tillinghast. The idle always have a mind to do something. Vawwenargues. Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. Richter. Idleness is the sure pilot-fish of crime and shame. T. Wolsey. Idleness is the nest in which mischief lays its eggs. - G. Brown. Idleness belongs more to the mind than to the body. Rochefoucauld. Watch, for the idleness of the soul approaches death. Demophilus. Idleness in youth is scarcely healed without a Scar in age. Clemens Aleacandrinus. Idleness travels very slowly, and poverty soon overtakes her. J. Hwinter. Idleness wastes a man as insensibly as industry improves him. Angelo Pandolfimi. Troubles spring from idleness, and grievous toils from needless ease. Franklin. When you are idle, be not solitary ; and when you are solitary, be not idle. Dr. Johnson. Idleness is emptiness ; the tree in which the Sap is stagnant remains fruitless. H. Ballow. Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidi- ty is the idleness of the mind. Sewme. If you have but an hour, will you improve that hour, instead of idling it away ? Chesterfield. It is better to do the idlest thing in the world than to sit idle for half an hour. Sterne. There is nothing among all the cares and burdens of a king so laborious as idleness. Lowis IV. Idleness is the great corrupter of youth and the bane and dishonor of middle age. H. Blair. as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. IDLENESS. - He is not only idle who does nothing, but he i idle who might be better employed. Socrates. Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from indolence and idleness. Magoon. Idleness prepares us for mischief, as loose com- pany prepares us for corrupt habits. R. W. Jelf. Rich or poor, strong or weak, all idle members of society, are either knaves or fools. Abermethey. Idleness is hard work for those who are not used to it, and dull work for those who are. J. Ilive. The idle, who are neither wise for this world nor the next, are emphatically fools at large. Tillotson. I shall not allow any one to be idle who lives at my expense, though he has come from far. Homer. A thousand evils do afflict that man which hath to himself an idle and unprofitable carcass. Sallust. The bees can abide no dromes amongst them ; but Plato. Do not allow idleness to deceive you ; for, while you give him to-day, he steals to-morrow from you. A. Crowgwill. That which some would call idleness I will call the sweetest part of my life, and that is my think- ing. Feltham. Idleness in women is cured either by vanity or love, though in the sprightly it is the symptom of love. -- Bruyère. Idleness often takes the name of repose, and thinks to shield itself from the just blame that it merits. - Oacenstierm. Idleness is the hot-bed of temptation, the cradle - of disease, the waster of time, the canker-worm of felicity. C. I. Frugoni. Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the in- dustrious to be at leisure ; we must be always do- ing, or suffering. Zimmerman. Children generally hate to be idle ; all the care then is, that their busy humor should be constantly employed in something of use to them. J. Locke. The idle man lives neither to God, the world, nor himself, and indeed scarcely to the devil : he is en- gaged in tempting the devil to tempt him. A. Ritchie. Many are brought to a very ill and languishing habit of body by mere idleness: idleness is both | itself a great sin, and the cause of many more. R. Sowth. What is idleness 2 A public mint, where various kinds of mischiefs are coined, and extensively cir- culated among the most despicable of the human I’8 Ce. J. Hamilton. Count the ticking of a clock; do this for an hour, and you will be glad to pull off your coat the next, and work like a negro. “Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep ; and an idle Soul shall suffer hunger.” Lewis. 404 A) A V 'S CO Z Z. A C O AV. IDLENESS. Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. J. Collier. If idleness were banished from the land, crime and misery would soon follow in its wake, and vir- tue and happiness would receive a new impetus. i L. Minor. Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever. Burke. The worst vices springing from the worst princi- ples, the excesses of the libertine, and the outrages of the plunderer, usually take their rise from early and unsubdued idleness, S. Poºr”. Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation, and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor pro- fiteth others and ourselves. R. Baacte)’. To be idle and to be poor have always been re- proaches; and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. Dr. Johnsom. Idleness is the mother of many wanton children : they that do nothing are in the ready way to do worse than nothing ; it was not for nothing that we were called out of nothing. J. Mason. There is no more fertile source of crime, of no corrupt fountain, which wells out a more copious stream of vice and moral pollution, in all its forms and modifications, than idleness. Sir J. Davies. Beware of idleness, the listless idleness that lounges and reads without the serenity of study— the active idleness, for ever busy about matters neither very difficult nor very valuable. Beresford. How long shall we sit in our porticos praising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent # As if one were to begin the day with long-suffering, and hire a man to hoe his potatoes. Thoreaw. Idleness is criminal prodigality, because it wastes time, causes unnecessary labor, performs nothing at the proper time, is the prolific author of want and shame, and a confused workshop for the devil to tinker in. L. C. Judson. Idleness is hard work for those who are not used to it, and dull work for those who are. Idleness is a moral leprosy, which soon eats its way into our heart and corrodes our happiness, while it under- mines our health. Chatfield. A man who is able to employ himself innocently is never miserable: it is the idle who are wretched; if I wanted to inflict the greatest punishment on a fellow-creature I would shut him alone in a dark room without employment. F. Quesmay. Some kinds of employment are only apologies for idleness, or ingenious contrivances to reconcile us to that unaccountable propensity, in the same way as some descriptions of favors are only plausible atonements for ingratitude. Acton. IIDLENESS. Complete, undisturbed idleness is incompatible with man's nature, for action is a necessary part of his system ; he must be doing good, or he will be doing bad ; the nature of things is such that if we do not create we destroy. W. T. Bºwrke. Idleness is the very rust and canker of the soul : the devil's cushion, pillow, chief reposal; his very tide-time of temptation, as it were, wherein he carries with much care, and without contradiction, the current of our corrupt affections to any cursed sin. Dean Bolton. In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve ; and the wealth which breeds idleness, is only a sort of human oyster-bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet. H. Mamm. Idleness is the prolific parent of vice, the great clog to progression, and the canker worm of enjoy- ment ; though the slothful may live and breathe, yet they can effect and enjoy little, and therefore live but little in a month, or year, or lifetime, compared with those who are always doing. O. S. Fowler. In my opinion, idleness is no less the pest of so- ciety, than of solitude. Nothing contracts the mind, nothing engenders trifles, tales, backbiting, slan- der, and falsities, so much as being shut up in a room, opposite each other, and reduced to no other Occupation than the necessity of continual chatter- ing. Rowsseaw. Rather do nothing to the purpose than be idle, that the devil may find thee doing ; the bird that sits is easily shot, when flyers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea, that swallows all the vir- tues, and the Self-made sepulchre of a living man. The idle man is the devil's hireling ; whose livery is rags, whose diet and wages are famine and dis- ease. F. Quarles. Idleness is very dangerous to those that are rich, and feel no want in this life : for while they give themselves to it, voluptuousness overcomes reason, and they are snared in the deadly traps and deceits of the world, and are poisoned with carnal plea- sures and fleshly delights, which are enjoyable for a little while, but at length leave them to shame and confusion. D. Cawdray. Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment ; for lust. easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease ; for no easy, healthful idle person was chaste if he could be tempted : but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driv- ing away the devil. Jeremy Taylor. Idleness is a sad thing. What have we feet, and shall we not walk 2 Have we hands, and shall we not work 2 We have more to do than we shall ever accomplish if we are industrious. How then shall we get through it if we are idle 2 Every mag- pie building her nest, every spider weaving her web, every ant laying up for the winter, is a re- proach to an idle man. G. Mogridge. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 405 IDLENESS. Idleness is the great Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things pro- duce no good, the most noxious, no evil. , Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness ; but the moment it be- comes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle. Colton. It is no more possible for an idle man to keep to- gether a certain stock of knowledge than it is pos- sible to keep together a stock of ice exposed to the meridian sun. Every day destroys a fact, a rela- tion, or an influence ; and the only method of pre- serving the bulk and value of the pile is by con- stantly adding to it. Sidney Smith. Idleness is the badge of gentry, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of haughtiness, the step-mother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, and a great cause not only of melancholy, but of many other diseases; for the mind is naturally active, and if it be not occupied about some honest business, it rushes into mischief or sinks into melancholy. R. Burton. The idle man is a sponge upon the world, and a curse to his fellow-creatures. Every man that re- mains idle, or gets his living without work, is add- ing to the misery of the world, and is really injur- ing the morals and happiness of the human family, and should be held responsible for it. None can be happy without employment, mental and physical; the idler becomes a fit subject for the penitentiary or gallows. - Karl Blind. The idle levy a very heavy tax upon the indus- trious when, by frivolous visitations, they rob them of their time ; such persons beg their daily happi- ness from door to door, as beggars their daily bread, and like them sometimes meet with a re- buff. A mere gossip ought not to wonder if we are tired of him, seeing that we are indebted for the honor of his visit solely to the circumstance of his being tired of himself. Catherime D. Bell. I can wonder at nothing more than how a man can be idle, but of all others, a scholar, in so many improvements of reason, in such sweetness of know- ledge, in such a variety of studies, in such impor- tunity of thoughts. To find wit in poetry ; in philo- sophy, profoundness; in history, wonder of events; in oratory, sweet eloquence ; in divinity, superna- tural life and holy devotion, as so many rich metals in their proper mines—whom would it not ravish with delight 3 R. Hall. The idle man is an annoyance—a nuisance ; he is of no benefit to anybody : he is an intruder in the busy thoroughfare of every-day life: he stands in our path, and we push him contemptuously aside ; he is of no advantage to anybody ; he annoys busy men ; he makes them unhappy ; he is a unit in so- ciety. Therefore, young man, do something, in this busy, bustling, wide-awake world ! Move about for the benefit of mankind, if not for your- self. Do not be idle ; God’s law is, that by the sweat of our brow we shall earn our bread. Do not be idle ; every man and every woman, how- ever exalted or however humble, can do good in this short life ; therefore do not be idle. G. A. Sala. IDOLATERY. Worship not idols. Queen Kaahumamºt. Idols are no good ; they fool me; I throw them away. Kawmwalii. Idolatry shows man's inclination to worship Something. E. Foster. Not always willidolatry offend the heavens with its abominations. Leonard Bacon. Idol-worship is devil-worship ; for it cometh through instigation of Satan. Sir R. Barclay. Many worship an idol in their own shape, who would be ashamed to do so in any other. Chatfield. Many heathens spend more to support idolatry than Christians to sustain Christianity. J. J. Weilroacht. Idolatry is one of the most unconquerable of all the corrupt propensities of the human Soul. J. B. Walker. There is no power in idol gods; they are a vanity and a lie ; therefore let idolatry be abolished. Rannehameha II. It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them. Martial. Every act of idolatry, by the worship of any- thing that is not God, is a denial of the true God, even by those who profess to believe in the true God. A. Burgess. The act of worshipping idols or other objects be- sides the true God, is a sin to which men are ex- ceedingly prone, and is a violation of the first Commandment. A. Ritchie. Idolatry is not to be looked upon as a mere spe- culative error respecting the object of worship, of little or no practical efficacy ; its hold upon the mind of a fallen creature is most tenacious, its ope- ration most extensive. J. Hall. A strange and almost incurable propensity to idolatry has ever been evinced by the human race, obviously springing from that depravity of their nature which made them crave after deities conge- nial to their own moral taste. J. A. James. Idolatry is not only an accounting or worship- ping that which is not God, but it is also a worship- ping the true God, in a way unsuitable to His nature; and particularly by the mediation of Saints, images, and corporeal resemblances. R. South. Can an idol of wood or stone be imbued with wisdom like unto the great Mohammed, our pro- phet ; or can an image of God, made by the hands of man, be equal to the great God Himself ; Veri- ly, all idolaters should be put to the sword. Abdul Mejid. Some imagining that they can best commend themselves to the Eternal by erecting statues to that great Being, earnestly devote themselves to these, as if they were certain to obtain more re- ward from senseless idols of brass than from the conscientious performance of honorable duties. - Marcellinºws. 406 A) 4 Y',S C O / / A C O AV. IDOLATRY. IGNORANCE. Idolatry has its origin in the depravity of the Whoever is ignorant is vulgar. Cervantes, human heart ; men love sin and do not want to be e - reproved for it ; therefore they form for themselves Ignorance is preferable to error. T. Jefferson. a god that will not reprove them ; they want to Ignorance is destructive of virtue. R. Watson. sin with impunity, and do not like a holy God. J. H. Evans. We deride the Israelites as idolators for bowing down to a golden calf in the wilderness : yet how many there are among Christian and civilized na- tions of the present age, who daily stoop to wor- ship less gold than was contained in a hoof of that calf. E. P. Day. The state of idolators is two ways miserable ; first, in that which they worship they find no suc- cor ; secondly, at His hands, whom they ought to serve, there is no other thing to be looked for but the effects of most just displeasure, the withdraw- ing of grace, dereliction in this world, and in the world to come confusion. R. Hooker. Alas! when Jesus is holding out everything to allure my heart to himself, how often do I receive the gift into my soul as an idol, and instead of its increasing my love to the giver I rob him of what he had before, to lavish it on the gift. Oh, my Lord, if kindness cannot draw my heart toward Thee, drive it, compel it, to come into the ark 1 Helen Plumptre. Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry—the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, See, hear, feel, nor understand ; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. Colton. Idolatry may be a child of the imagination ; but it is a child that has forgotten its parent. Idolatry is the worship of the visible ; it mistakes forms for Substances, symbols for realities; it is bodily sight, and mental blindness—a doting on the outward, Occasioned by the want of the poetic faculty ; so that religion has suffered its most grievous injury, not from too much imagination, but from too little. J. C. Hare. IGNOMINY. Vice ends in ignominy. Dr. Johnson. A proud man often falls into the most ignomi- nious vices. Plutarch. The vain glory of the proud man usually ends in ignominy and disgrace. Sallust. What matters ignominy to an infamous charac- ter, so long as his money is safe 2 Jww.emal. The ignominy of a public punishment is increased by the wickeness of the offender. G. Crabb. To pronounce a deed ignominious, and yet leave the perpetrator free to commit it, is an absurdity. Diderot. The share of ignominy that is likely to fall to the lot of each individual in public acts, is small in- deed. Burke. There is no darkness but ignorance. Shakspeare. A wise man is not ignorant of his ignorance. Origem. There is nothing more daring than ignorance. Memomaler. There are times when ignorance is bliss indeed. Dickens. To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. Jeremy Taylor. Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure. Cleanthes. Ignorance and impudence are inseparable com- panions. Downey. Of all ignorance, that of ourselves is most la- mentable. L. C. Judson. I would as lief be a brute beast as an ignorant rich man. J. Hall. The true instrument of man's degradation is his ignorance. Lady Morgan. There is nothing more frightful than a bustling ignorance. Goethe. From ignorance of a part of the truth cometh great errors. I. Bickerstaff. Ignorance is a prolonged infancy only deprived of its charm. De Bowſflers. The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest. Dr. Johnsom. An ignorant man will usually tremble in a place of responsibility. R. Thraſill. Conviction of ignorance is the door-step to the temple of wisdom. C. H. Spwrgeon. Ignorance kneeleth to many gods; intelligence boweth to one God. J. Limen. Ignorance gives perpetuity to prejudice, and makes folly eternal. R. Hooker. Sometimes be ignorant of what you know, and see not what you see. Plautus. Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. , Confucius. Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error. R. Hall. He that is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge. R. Whately. Better be unborn, than untaught ; for ignorance is the root of misfortune. Plato. It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance as to discover knowledge. Berz. What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense. La Place. It is as great a point of wisdom to hide igno- rance, as to discover knowledge. J. Yorke. P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 407 IG-NORANCE. Ignorance is never known to be ignorance till it be matched with knowledge. A. Bernard. We have some cases of pride of learning, but a multitude of the pride of ignorance. S. W. Taylor. A person may seem to the ignorant, even though he speak with wisdom, to be foolish. Euripides. Ignorance is a dangerous but a spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun. O. Gregory. It has long been the policy of the devil to keep the masses of the world in ignorance. Simpson. Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of man is greatly perplexed. Cicero. The ignorant are not better judges of knowledge, than cowards of bravery or the blind of colors. R. L. Immermanºv. The ignorant man hath no greater foe than his own ignorance, for it destroyeth where it liveth. Lactantius. Scholars are frequently to be met with who are ignorant of nothing, saving their own ignorance. Zimmerman. If thou art wise, thou knowest thine own ignor- ance ; and thou art ignorant if thou knowest not thyself. M. Lºwther. To rule without regard, to urge without reason, and to laugh immoderately, are manifest signs of ignorance. W. Bellenden. He that does not know those things which are of use and necessity for him to know, is but an igno- rant man, whatever he may know besides. Tillotson. So long as thou art ignorant, be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities ; and when justified, the chiefest of all follies. I, Walton. Tell an ignoramus, in place and power, that he has a wit and understanding above all the world, and he will readily admit the commendation. R. Sowth. An effectual barrier is strown in the way of your improvement while you are insensible of your ig- morance, or if sensible, unwilling to expose it. J. W. Barker. Our power is often confined because of our igno- rance : because we know not how to make the most of things, and put actives and passives together. J. Collier. Ignorance is the mother of fear, as well as of ad- miration ; a man intimately acquainted with the nature of things has seldom occasion to be aston- ished. Kames. It is next to impossible to make people under- stand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it ; and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not. Jeremy Taylor. Ignorance of the law excuses no man ; not that all men know the law, but because it is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. Selden. IGNORANCE. Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as si- lence ; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. Saadi. It is better to be a beggar than an ignorant per- son ; for a beggar only wants money, but an igno- rant person wants humanity. Aristippus. Above all things we should have a care to keep the body from diseases, the soul from ignorance, and the country from sedition. Pythagoras. Place an ignorant man in an elevated situation and it only serves to make him more contemptible; a small light shines best in the corner. J. Bartlett. Ignorance is the reason why men reject the sal- vation of Christ. Being ignorant of God's righte- ousness they go about to establish a righteousness of their own. A. Ritchie. Man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance ; man's natural tendency is to egotism ; man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him. Bulwer. The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused but in a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success, Goldsmith. Ignorance, as far as learning is concerned, is no disgrace to those who have never possessed the means of improvement. It is otherwise, however, when opportunity has been neglected. W. Ellis. Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up all the va- cancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. He who dethrones the idea of law bids chaos welcome in its stead. H. Mann. There is one peculiar imperfection connected with our want of correct information, which we should particularly guard against, that of being positive in proportion to our ignorance. H. Ballow. One of the evils of ignorance is, that we often sin and suffer the punishment without being aware that we are sinning, and that it is in our power to escape the suffering by avoiding the sin. Belfrage. There is a sort of ignorance, strong and generous, that yields nothing in honor and courage to know- ledge ; and ignorance, which to conceive requires no less knowledge than knowledge itself. Montaigne. It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whether we are going, re- garding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance. Mine, de Sévigné. Man, like all finite intelligences, is subject to ignorance and error; even his imperfect know- ledge he loseth ; and as a sensible creature, he is hurried away by a thousand impetuous passions. Montesquiew. Ignorance is that defect which causeth a man to judge of evil things, to deliberate worse: not to know how to take the advantage of present good things, but to conceive ill of whatever is good in man's life. E. Bendlowes. 408 A) A Y',S C O / / A C O AV. IGFNORANCE. Ignorance does not simply deprive us of advan- tages: it leads us to work our own misery ; it is not merely a vacww.m., void of knowledge, but a plenwm of positive errors, continually productive of unhappiness. S. Bailey. Ignorance is not always to one's disgrace, since it is not always one’s fault ; the term is not, there- fore, directly reproachful : but when ignorance is coupled with self-conceit and presumption, it is a perfect deformity. G. Crabb. Ignorance and design are difficult to combat : out of these proceed illiberal sentiments, improper jealousies, and a train of evils, which oftentimes, in republican governments, must be Sorely felt, before they can be removed. Washington. No one stumbles so readily as the blind ; no one is so easily scandalized as the ignorant : Or at least as the half-knowing, as those who have just taken a bite at the apple of knowledge, and got a smat- tering of evil, without an inkling of good. J. C. Hare. The soul of man, receiving and comprehending the divine understanding, conducteth all things rightly and happily ; but if she be once joined with ignorance, she worketh clean contrary ; and the understanding is unto the soul as the sight to the body. St. Awgustime. Ages of ignorance and simplicity are thought to be ages of purity ; but the direct contrary I believe to be the case. Rude periods have that grossness of manners, which is as unfriendly to virtue as lux- ury itself ; men are less ashamed as they are less polished. J. Warton. There are two sorts of ignorance ; we philoso- phize to escape ignorance ; we start from the one, we repose in the other ; they are the goals from which and to which we tend ; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a travelling from grave to grave. Sir W. Hamilton. Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human know- ledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those im- portant things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built; time and space, life and death, matter and mind. Coltom. Thy ignorance in unrevealed mysteries is the mother of saving faith, and thy understanding in revealed truths is the mother of a sacred know- ledge; understand not, therefore, that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand ; understanding is the wages of a lively faith, and faith is the reward of an humble ignorance. F. Qwarles. And it is without all controversy, that learning doth make the mind of men gentle, generous, amia- ble, and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous: and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude, and un- learned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes. Lord Bacom. IGNOF, ANCE. There never was any party, faction, Sect, or cab- al whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent ; for a bee is not a busier ani- mal than a blockhead. However, Such instruments are necessary to politicians ; and perhaps it may be with states as with clocks, which must have some lead weight hanging at them, to help and re- gulate the motion of the finer and more useful parts. Pope. We think there is shame in doubt and ignorance, and we like better to decide at hazard, than to be conscious that we are not informed enough of things to give judgment. We are full of ignorance and errors ; and nevertheless we are at the great- est trouble in the world to draw from the lips of men this confession, so just and so comformable to their natural condition: “I am mistaken, and I know nothing.” Nicole. Talk to a blind man, he knows he wants the sense of sight, and willingly makes the proper allow- ances. But there are certain internal senses which a man may want, and yet be wholly ignorant that he wants them. It is most unpleasant to converse with such persons on subjects of taste, philosophy, or religion ; of course there is no reasoning with them, for they do not possess the facts on which the reasoning must be grounded. S. T. Coleridge. Ignorance moves our pity, and that modifies our aversion ; it is only accompanied with arrogance, ostentation, or disdain, that we act in direct op- position to it, and treat it with derision and con- tempt. An affectation of learning with the igno- rant is hypocrisy of the mind, as an assumption of virtue with the vicious is hypocrisy of the heart. If the really virtuous often endure reproach, and the truly learned know but little, where shall these two great classes of hypocrites appear 2 Acton. If the ignorance of the Jews could be pleaded in their behalf and alleged as a motive before God for the pardon of such unparalleled impieties ; how much more reason have we poor mortals, not to insist upon our resentments, but to be reconciled to each other, and to intercede with God for the forgiveness of those rash and petty offenses which we daily commit one against another through ig- norance, which all, even the wisest of us, are liable to, through passion, or prejudice, or inadvertency, or any other frailty or infirmity of our nature. - H. Soicheverel. ILL-EIUIMOR. Ill-humor often cometh with old age. Pacuvius. Nothing sharpens the edge of ridicule so much as ill-humor. W. Dodd. Indulge in humor as much as you please so that it is not ill-humor. G. D. Prentice. Ill-humor breeds pain and misery ; good-humor, ease and pleasure. The one is good for ourselves, the other is good for our enemies. . James Ellis. There are three things that must never, or rarely happen: to desert a friend in distress, to violate faith, and to leave a woman in ill-humor. N. Macdonald. P R O S E O U O 7. A 7 I O A. S. 4.09 ILL. ILL-NATURE. Cure every ill. Jacques Jasmin. Give not way to ill-nature. Samvitale. Life is full of ills. Gr. Ab Gwrgemaw. Even gods sometimes do ill. Koji-ki. The only ill in this life is sin. Viera. In this world, ills predominate. Sem-Zai-Shiw. Odious is he who defends an ill. Catwg Daloeth. Submit patiently to inevitable ills. G. C. Lewis. Things ill acquired are as badly expended. Cicero. There would be no ill language were it not ill taken. C. Yale. The heart that means well will never wish to seem ill. J. Hall. He that is ill to himself, will never be good to anybody. N. Fwrgawlt. The bent of our corrupt nature is rather to ill than good. St. Teresa. Let us always think of the ills from which we are exempt. Joubert. Better be ill spoken of by one before all, than by all before one. F. Qwesnal. As to do ill springs up as a spontaneous crop, it is easy to learn. Cervantes. The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between both. Benito Feyjoo. All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others, and even many of our diseases spring from the same origin ; remove the vices and the ills follow. Hwºne. The ill which lurks to destroy us is wont to lull its victims with sweet Songs and golden legends, while the saving messengers of heaven often give us sharp and terrifying summons. Motte Fowqwe. There is no real ill in life except severe bodily pain ; everything else is the child of imagination, and depends on Our thoughts ; all other ills find a remedy, either from time, or moderation, or strength of mind. Mme. de Sévigné. Imagined ills painted by our fears are always greater than the true. He who foolishly bodies forth by his fancy some future ill, only hastens his Own misfortune, and renders it certain when it was before doubtful. Metastasio. ILLINESS. God healeth illness. Ibn Matrúh. Illness of body or soul is a crime. G. F. Train. Illness is the herald of disease, and disease a fore- taste of death. R. Orton. Learn the real source of illness : for when this is fully known it is half cured. If it comes from God, it is man that invites it. N. Olalius. Every man must expect illness, but whatever his ailments may be he must endure them philo- Sophically, as querulousness only aggravates mis- fortunes, whilst resignation reconciles us to them. P. B. Pusey. Ill-nature wounds the heart. G. Montpelier. Ill nature never wants a tutor. Ibycus. Ill-nature often succumbs to a laugh. Nowikoff. Three things continue long mischief on a person ; ill-nature, perverseness, and greed. Moelmwol. Wheresoever you see ingratitude, you may as in- fallibly conclude that there is ill-nature. Nww.airi. No one, large or small, should be allowed to ex- hibit a peevish ill-nature, either by word or mouth. Miss Rosamond Dale Owen. It is impossible that an ill-natured man can have a public spirit ; for how should we love ten thou- sand men who never loved one Ž Pope. If any man should do wrong, merely out of ill- nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or brier, which prick and scratch, because they can do no other. Lord Bacom. Ill-nature is nothing more than an inward feel- ing of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites. Goethe. Ill-mature consists of a proneness to do ill turns, attended with a secret joy upon the sight of any mischief that befalls another, and of an utter in- sensibility of any kindness done him. R. Sowth. What is most culpable in nature is, the ill-nature which she bestows upon some people, which acts like fire upon the finer feelings, and consumes them; or, which is as different from true gentleness of disposition, as the quills of a porcupine are from the down of the dove. N. J. Ozerezkofsky. ILL-WILL. Ill-will is never easy. Franklim. Ill-will never said well. R. Hall. Be ever a stranger to ill-will. Caroline Wilson. He knows best what good-will is that has en- dured ill-will. Mahomet. I am not a doer of fraud, nor do I harbor ill-will against mankind. Thwºmmosis. Ill-will springs from a spirit of malevolence ; it exists only in those who are mean and uncharita- ble. Amºvie E. Lancaster. Such is the charity of some, that they never owe any man any ill-will, making present payment thereof. T. Fulle”. We should suffer little from ill-will, were it not for an ill-will within ourselves, that holds treason- able correspondence with the worst parts of our natures. James Ellis. Great and illustrious deeds are very apt to excite feelings of ill-will and spite, which though a native of the country, if he be supported by a host of friends and relations, may perhaps be able to get the better of, yet foreigners generally sink under such attacks, and are ruined by them. Polybius. 4 10 AX A Y’.S C O Z Z 4 C O AV. ILLUSION. The world is full of illusions. Bias. An illusion dissipated is an experience gained. Bovee. An illusion is sometimes an enemy that must be subdued. E. P. Day. Life is full of illusions ; so soon as one fades from our view, we build up another. James Ellis. Many intelligent men and women readily fall victims to the most absurd illusions. Grahame. An illusion may be considered as a waking dream ; persons affected with it fancy they hear voices, or see objects that do not exist. Dr. Rwsh. The best way to dispel an illusion is, to show that what has been regarded as supernatural can be accounted for by causes purely natural. Habits of excursive fancy, and illusive views of life, are not salutary in their influence on those whose business it is to reason, and to act ; to bear, and to forbear. Mrs. Sigowrmey. What governs the world? These three things: intrigue, stalking-horses, and illusions ; the latter being embodied generally under the form of some pompous catch-words, or enthusiastic mottoes. Actom. We behold with admiration the vivid azure of the vaulted sky, and variegated colors of the dis- tant clouds; but if we approach them on the sum- mit of some lofty mountain, we discover that the beauteous scene is all illusion, and find ourselves involved only in a dreary fog or a tempestuous whirlwind. S. Jenyms. ILLUSTRATION. Illustrations are the windows to let in light. Sydney Smith. One illustration is worth a thousand abstrac- tions. E. P. Hood. Words are the common subject of explanation ; moral truths require illustration. G. Crabb. The field of illustration is a boundless one ; and though valuable as illustrations are, they should be used sparingly and judiciously. G. S. Bowes. A freer and judicious use of illustration would tend much to enliven the dullness of many of our preachers, and to arrest the attention of many of our congregations. Sir F. Hastings. There are some things seemingly undefinable, and although we may do our best to explain them, yet we fail to bring them within the comprehen- sion of others; in such cases, a judicious illustration will serve our purpose. W. T. Burke. To illustrate signifies to make clear; it would be well if writers would keep this in mind, and still better, if preachers were to do so ; they would then feel the necessity of suiting their illustrations to their hearers ; as it is, illustrations often seem to be stuck in for the same reason as shrubs round stables and outhouses, to keep the meaning out of sight. J. C. Hare. A. C. Baird. IMAG-IINATION. Imagination rules the world. Napoleon I. Imagination is the eye of the soul. Jowbert. Most difficulties and trials are merely imagin- ary. Acton. Imagination does not yield her power as easily as memory Cowmt Strzelecki. There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. In a barbarous age the imagination exercises a despotic power. - T. B. Macawlay. An uncommon degree of imagination constitutes poetical genius. D. Stewart. Imagination too much indulged in is soon tor- tured into reality. H. W. Shaw. When the affections are moved there is no place for the imagination. Hwºme. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it. Hazlitt. He who has imagination without erudition has wings while he lacks legs. Joubert. The imagination and the feelings have each their truths, as well as the reason. J. C. Hare. The imagination acts not only by itself, but upon all the other faculties of the mind. T. Tilton. Imagination is the organ through which the Soul within us recognizes a soul without us. Hudson. Imagination has no limits, but when it is con- fined we find the shortness of the tether. Swift, The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than nature goes. Thoreaw. Without imagination a man is but a poor crea- ture ; his life is like a night without a moon to gild it. Bovee. But what is the imagination ? Only an arm or weapon of the entire energy ; only the precursor Of the reason. R. W. Emerson. A writer who attempts to live on the manufac- ture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation. E. P. Whipple. Some people are strangely overset by their ima- gination ; they lose their health with anxiety to preserve it, and kill themselves through fear of dying. J. Collier. The sound and proper exercise of the imagina- tion may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character. Abercrombie. By the imagination every man creates thoughts, which are entirely his own, and they might have never existed, had they not occurred to his indi- vidual mind. T. Cogan. The imagination has a shadow as well as the body, that keeps just a little ahead of you, or fol- lows close behind your heels; it will not do to let it frighten you. Hallibwrton. Goethe. V-1 P R O S E O U O 7. A 7" / O M. S. 411 IMAGINATION, Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession. Kames. The human imagination is an ample theatre upon which everything in human life, good or bad, great or small, laudable or base, is acted. T. Reid. Imagination is that faculty by which, from ma- terials already existing in the mind, we form com- plicated conceptions or mental images, according to our own will. F. Wayland. By imagination, a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landscapes more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole compass of nature. Addison. Imagination is the ruler of our dreams—a cir- cumstance that may account for the peculiar vi- vidness of the oppressions they produce—let reason be the ruler of our waking thoughts. W. C. Clwlow. A well-regulated exercise of the imagination, tends to elevate and refine the character; it helps to keep us from being too much engrossed with Occupations and mere sensual gratifications. R. Whately. The imaginiation magnifies small objects, so as to fill the mind with a fantastic estimate ; and with haughty insolence contracts the great to its own dwarfish measure—as, for instance, in speaking of God. Pascal. Pure imagination, of which the loveliest of wing- ed creatures is the fitting emblem, seems always to gain a vigor and grace by the tempests it encoun- ters, and in contrary winds to show the brightest plumage. B. A. Willmott. Imagination I understand to be the representa- tion of an individual thought. Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come ; joined with memory of that which is past : and of things present. Lord Bacon. Imagination is that faculty which arouses the passions by the impression of exterior objects ; it is influenced by these objects, and consequently it is in affinity with them ; it is contagious ; its fear or courage flies from imagination to imagination ; the same is love, hate, joy, or grief ; hence I conclude it to be a most subtle atmostphere. Lord J. Russell. Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own ima- ‘gination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or mitres on their heads, shifts the scene of pleasure with endless variety, bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before them, and gluts them with every change of a visionary luxury. Dr. Johnson. The influence of the imagination as an instru- ment of research has, we think, been much over- looked by those who have ventured to give laws to philosophy ; this faculty is of the greatest value in physical inquiries; if we use it as a guide, and confide in its indications, it will infallibly deceive us; but if we employ it as an auxiliary, it will af- ford the most invaluable aid. Sir D. Brewster. IMAGINATION. Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strong- est colors to our imaginations. There is nothing So grievous to be borne that pondering upon will not make heavier ; and there is no pleasure so vivid that the animation of fancy cannot enliven. Jane Porter. It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that is irrepressible, unconfinable ; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of a dungeon. W. Irving. It were much to be wished, for the sake both of our literature and of our life, that imagination would again be content to dwell with life : that we had less of poetry, and that of more strength ; and that imagination were again to to be found, as it used to be, one of the elements of life itself—a strong principle of Our nature, living in the midst of our affections and passions, blending with, kin- dling, invigorating, and exalting them all. J. Wilsom. A pure imagination is a rich, invaluable boon ; its pleasures are boundless ; it exceeds the power of the magician ; it can give to every blade of grass, to every leaf, and to every flower, an intelligible voice, that shall speak to me of great and profita- ble truths; under its magic wand the inanimate lives, space is peopled with beauteous scenes, the solitudes become vocal, the wilderness smiles, all nature becomes eloquent with truth, and all the Sounds of nature, above and around us, become sweeter than an AEolian harp. R. Roberts. The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and ar- riving at precision of judgment, just as the out- ward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, esti- mate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina. The imagination is but the faculty of glassing images; and it is with exceeding difficul- ty, and by the imperative will of the reasoning faculty resolved to mislead it, that it glasses im- ages which have no prototype in truth and nature. Bulwer. By imagination man seems to verge toward creative power ; aided by this, he can perform all the wonders of sculpture and painting. He can almost make the marble speak ; he can almost make the brook murmur down the painted land- Scape. On the pinions of imagination he soars aloft where the eye has never travelled ; where other stars glitter on the mantle of night, and a more effulgent sun lights up the blushes of morning. Flying from world to world, he gazes on all the glories of creation ; or lighting on the distant mar- gin of the universe, darts the eye of fancy over the mighty void, where power creative never yet has energized, where existence still sleeps in the wide abyss of possibility. By imagination he can travel back to the source of time, converse with the suc- cessive generations of men, and kindle into emula- tion while he surveys the monumental trophies of ancient art and glory. F. Burges. 412 Z) A Y’,S C O / / A C O AV. IMBECILITY. There is only one step from imbecility to idiocy. Dr. J. Shew. A weak and imperfect mind argueth imbecility and imperfection. R. Hooker. It is seldom that we are otherwise than by afflic- tion awakened to a sense of our imbecility. Dr. Johnson. The highest intellectual state is that of philoso- phy, the lowest condition is that of imbecility. J. Tottie. A savage, an enemy, or even a maniac may be restored by kindness ; but for an imbecile in body, mind, or mºrals, there is no cure. E. Rich. The imbecility natural to youth, both in body and mind, would make them willing to rest on the strength of their elders, if they were not too often misled by a mischievous confidence in their own strength. G. Crabb. Imbecility may be inherited or acquired ; of the two kinds the latter is the most deplorable, and the more censurable, because it is the result of abuses of body or mind for which the imbecile himself is responsible. W. Linwood. Imbecility is often traceable, directly or indirec- tly, to the self-indulgent weaknesses and follies of man, who by imprudence, intemperance, and over- tasking excesses, prematurely invite the ravages of the disease of body and decay of mind. James Ellis. We speak of the imbecility of the body or of the intellect, when either does not possess the vigor that usually belongs to men, and which is necessary to a due performance of its functions. This may be mutual, or induced by violence or disease. N. Webster. The ancients are fully rescued from all imputa- tion of imbecility, for they were denied those am- ple means of a knowledge to which we have access; and it is highly probable that some future modern will have hereafter to make the very same apology for us. Colton. The history of individuals as well as of nations, shows that when the body is more cared for than the mind—when nobler ends and aims are lost in debasing and degrading pleasures and corruptions —from that moment is to be dated the time of im- becility Acton. The imbecility of the mind is not unfrequently self-inflicted, in consequence of flagrant and deplor- able departures from the paths of integrity and virtue ; there is no condemnation so sure, no agony so acute, no punishment so severe, for it is some- times destructive, Swift, and appalling. J. Isla. I think there is no more God-forsaken being on the earth than the self-made imbecile. Generally born with fair talents, he has completely wasted them through impure excesses; and in place of a man we have a slobbering, leering, maundering animal in human form, lower than the idiot. He has so far progressed backward that his soul has lost the image of the Father. Annie E. Lancaster. IIMITATION. Imitate that which is just. Periander. Imitators are a servile race. La Fontaine. Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. Colton. The spirit of imitation is contagious. F. Ames. Imitation labors best on distant fields. S. L. Clemens. A good imitation is the most perfect originality. Voltaire. You may imitate, but you should never counter- feit. Balzac. Imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy. Rochefoucauld. It is the greatest wickedness to imitate the words of honesty. Publius Syrus. When the poor try to imitate the powerful they come to grief. Phoedrus. We should always imitate that which is deserv- ing of imitation. Annie E. Lancaster. The bulk of mankind are mere imitators of very poor originals. H. W. Shaw. Man is an imitative creature, and whoever is foremost leads the herd. Schiller. Imitation, as we call it, is often weakness, but it likewise is often sympathy. Petro?"ch. I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others. Glanvill. By the imitation of bad men or of evil examples, we are apt to contract vicious habits. H. Jessey. Man is an imitative animal, and insensibly con- forms to the models and examples before him. S. F. Bradford. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and seek to become the character we most admire. BOvee. I have no great opinion of any boy's capacity, whose whole aim is to raise a laugh by his talent of imitation. Quintilian. We should seek the best models to imitate ; and in morals and piety, it is our duty to imitate the example of our Saviour. N. Webster. Imitation is born with us; but what we ought to imitate is not so clear ; the excellent is seldom found, more seldom prized. Goethe. Even a man's exact imitation of the Song of the nightingale displeases us, when we discover that it's a mimicry, and not the nightingale. Kant. He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set ; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short. Guicciardini. Whoever is an imitator by nature, choice, or ne- cessity, has nothing stable ; the flexibility which affords this aptitude is inconsistent with strength. W. S. Landor. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 413 IMITATION. Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness to the ori- ginal. Dryden. Women imitate men in some particulars, and very often to their credit ; but men do not pattern after women, or if they do, are apt to gain the con- tempt of both parties. Actom. It is very true that precepts are useful ; but prac- tice and imitation go far beyond them ; hence the importance of watching early habits, that they may be free from what is objectionable. Knightom. It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything ; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more plea- Santly ; this forms our manners, our opinions, our lives. Burke. Do you not apprehend that imitations, if they shall have been practised and persevered in from early youth, become established in the habits and nature, in the gestures of the body, in the intellect itself 3 Plato. Imitation is natural to man from his infancy ; man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way ; besides, the delight-in it is universal. Aristotle. Be more prudent for your children than perhaps you have been for yourself ; when they, too, are parents they will imitate you, and each of you will have prepared happy generations, who will trans- mit, together with your memory, the worship of your wisdom. Le Beawme. Insist upon yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumu- lating force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half-possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. R. W. Emerson. Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious. Genius is nourished from within and without ; its food is self-grown and gathered ; like a rich-bear- ing tree, it absorbs the juices of the soil and the balm of the air, but draws from its own blood the life that swells out the trunk, and gives color and flavor to the fruit. R. A. Willmott. All imitation affords some pleasure ; not only the imitation of beautiful or great objects, by recalling the original ideas of beauty or grandeur which such objects themselves exhibited, but even ob- jects which have neither beauty nor grandeur, nay, some which are terrible or deformed, please us in a secondary or represented view. H. Blair. Every kind of imitation speaks the person that imitates inferior to him whom he imitates, as the copy is to the original ; but then to imitate that which is mean, base, and unworthy, is to do one of the lowest actions in a yet lower instance ; it is to climb downwards, to employ art and industry to learn a defect and an imperfection, which is a direct reproach to reason, and a contradiction to the methods of nature. R. Sowth. IMMORALITY. Immorality is the prison of life. Seneca. A vast many men perish because they are im- moral. Machiavelli. As virtue is the garment of honor, so is immo- rality the robe of shame. J. Bingham. The immorality of the lowly is caused by the indiscretions of the great. Solom. A woman will sooner pardon a gross immorality in a lover than a slight inconstancy. W. Alexander. He that worketh immorality by another, himself is guilty of the wickedness committed. Bias, As fire will certainly burn those who touch it, so will uncontrolled desire lead to immorality. Cyrus the Great. One act of immorality is but the forerunner of a troupe of its kindred ; for sin is the progenitor of sin. A. W. Hare. Immorality is a strong tower of mischief ; yet it hath many defenders, as anger, avarice, and lewd- IlêSS. - Diogenes. To grapple with and conquer immorality, cour- age and strength may do much, but deprivation will do more. G. Brebeuf. Not only those things which are grossly immoral are to be eschewed, but also such as have an ap- pearance of evil. St. Ambrose. When immorality, physical or mental, gains ad- mission to the home circle, then bid farewell to do- mestic happiness. - G. J. W. Melville. The growth of immorality is as that of a para- site ; when its tendrils have an object to cling to they inevitably cover and conceal it. C. L. Irby. Vice clothed in the garb of a beautiful harlot leadeth many to immorality ; while virtue who ex- horteth to purity hath but few followers. Socrates. Immorality is the bane of nations as it is of in- dividuals ; a rigorously moral people have a sensi- tive regard for political integrity and national honor. E. P. Day. While we please, instruct, and profit the young we should carefully endeavor to exclude every sen- timent that has the least semblance of irreligion or . immorality. N. Leitch. Immorality may seduce the young, and lead them astray, and some apology may be offered for it ; but it is revolting to see it confederated with the crafty experience and canting hypocrisy of the old, when they have lost all love of virtue, and all sense of shame. Acton. The accumulations of individual immoralities make up the entire sum of general corruptions; the infection spreading from one to another, from low to high, until few are wholly exempt from it ; and the effects are finally manifested in the shape of dreadful disorders and outbreaks in the social state and body politic, the crises of which resemble those of the storm, the volcano, and the earthquake. W. Holder. — 414 AD A Y '.S C O /, / A C O AW. IMIMIORTALITY. The soul aspires to immortality. Lope de Vega. The hope of immortality makes heroes of cow- ards. T. Guthrie. The mortal life which we enjoy is the hope of life immortal. St. Augustime. If we believe in immortality, we must also sup- pose that there is a God. Butler. To destroy the ideas of immortality of the soul, is to add death to death. Mime. de Souza. What is ambition, wealth, or pleasure to one who disbelieves in the soul's immortality ? W. Irving. We do not believe immortality because we have proved it, but we forever try to prove it. J. Martineaw. The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed ; believed rather than lived. O. A. Brownson. Those are raised above sense, and aspire after immortality, who believe the perpetual duration of their souls. Tillotson. When we know cogitation is the prime attribute of a spirit, we infer its immateriality, and thence its immortality. I. Watts. There is none of us but would be thought throughout the whole course of his life to aspire after immortality. F. Atterbury. Without a belief in personal immortality religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss. Maac Müller. Why should it seem a thing impossible to thee, O man of many doubts that God should wake the dead, and give this mortal immortality ? Tupper. A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an ennobled attitude. Whewell. A voice within us speaks the startling words, “Man, thou shalt never die l’” Celestial voices hymn around our souls the song of our great im- mortality. R. H. Dana. While I read, I assent ; when I have laid down the book, and have begun to meditate on the im- mortality of the soul, all this feeling of acquies- cence vanishes. Cicero. We are much better believers in immortality than we can give grounds for. The real evidence is too subtle, or is higher than we can write down in propositions. R. W. Emerson. Immortality is a state in which there is no lia- bility to death ; this state, combined with blessed enjoyment, will be the portion of the righteous A. Ritchie. If the soul be immortal, it requires to be culti- vated with attention, not only for what we call the time of life, but for that which is to follow—I mean eternity ; and the least neglect in this point may be attended with endless consequences. Socrates. throughout eternity. IMIMORTALITY. A latent distrust of our immortality lies at the base and is the cause of our ambition ; we fear to perish utterly at death, and seek a continuance of life beyond it in the thoughts of men. Bovee. Immortality speaketh not to our sensations, but to its kindred spirit, contained within our inward soul, the loftiest reach of our noblest thought, the essence of our pure intelligence, the inspiration of hope 1 Sir R. Maltravers. Not all the subtleties of metaphysics can make me doubt for a moment the immortality of the Soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath. Rowsseaw. The arguments to be derived from the light of nature in favor of the immortality of the soul, amount to a strong probability ; all the probability is on this side, and there is none on the other ; and it ought to influence our conduct. T. Dwight. We wish for immortality ; the thought of anmi- hilation is horrible ; even to conceive it is almost impossible ; the wish is a kind of argument ; it is not likely that God would have given all men such a feeling, if He had not meant to gratify it. F. W. Robertson. There may be those beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine; we know very little, but we know enough to hope for the immortality, the individual immortality, of the better part of man. Sir H. Davy. Immortality If man had it not, his soul would miss not merely the future, but the past ; for these two are correlative. Without God and ourselves, the past would be nowhere ; nothingness would be behind and before us, and memory as vain as hope. - Mme. Swetchine. The annunciation of life and immortality by the gospel, did it contain no other truth, were sufficient to cast all the discoveries of science into shade, and to reduce the highest improvements of reason to the comparative nothingness which the flight of a moment bears to eternity. R. Hall. Does this soul within me, this spirit of thought, and love, and infinite desire, dissolve as well as the body ? Has nature, who quenches our bodily thirst, who rests our weariness, and perpetually encourages us to endeavor onwards, prepared no food for this appetite of immortality? Leigh Hunt. The greater part of those who deny the im- mortality of the soul, only maintain this opinion because they wish it ; but in the height of their sinful pleasures, the truth which stares them in the face begins on earth that punishment, to the full- ness of which they are doomed forever. Rosenthal. There is nothing strictly immortal but immor- tality ; whatever hath no beginning may be confi- dent of no end, which is the peculiarity of that ne- cessary essence that cannot destroy itself, and the highest strain of omnipotency to be so powerfully constituted as not to suffer even from the power of itself. - Sir T. Browne. P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 415 IMMORTALITY. IMPATIENCE. But for the faith in the immortality of the soul, Impatience is full of misconstruction. J. Hall. unreason would reign again ; they who disbelieve in such immortality do so induced by the selfish desire to lose not one iota of the gilded phantasies of this life in preparations for the next. Hinton. There is an essence of immortality in the life of man, even in this world ; no individual in the uni- verse stands alone ; he is a component part of a system of mutual dependencies ; and by his several acts he either increases or diminishes the sum of human good now and forever. Smiles. The evergreen, which once marked the tempo- rary resting place of the illustrious dead, is an emblem of our faith in the immortality of the soul. By this we are reminded that we have an immortal part within us, that shall survive the grave, and which shall never, never, never die. Masonic Mamwal. If I err in believing men's souls to be immortal, I err willingly ; nor would I have this error in which I delight wrested from me as long as I live ; and if when dead I shall cease to feel, as some petty philosophers think, why then I need not fear lest the dead philosophers laugh at my mistake. Cicero. When the stiffened body goes down to the tomb, sad, silent, remorseless, I feel there is no death for the man ; it is then I feel immortality ; I look through the grave into heaven ; I ask no miracle, no proof, no reasoning for me ; I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality ; I am conscious of eter- nal life. T. Parke?". “Is man immortal, or is he not ?” Upon this short question depends all that is valuable in Science, in morals, and in theology ; and all that is most interesting to man as a social being, and as a rational and accountable intelligence. If he is destined to an eternal existence, an immense im- portance must attach to all his present affections, actions, and pursuits; but if his whole existence be circumscribed within the circle of a few fleeting years, man appears an enigma, an inexplicable phenomenon in the universe, human life a mystery, the world a scene of confusion, virtue a mere phan- tom, the Creator a capricious being, and His plans and arrangements an inextricable maze. T. Dick. IIMPARTIALITY. Impartiality is indispensable to an upright judge. N. Webster. Decisions, to be impartial, should be weighed in the balance of reason. Mencius. Judges should judge the cause of all persons up- rightly and impartially, and without any personal consideration. Jeremy Taylor. A good judge is true in word, honest in thought, and impartial in his acts ; without fear of any but God, without hate of any but the wicked. Saherus de Quincy. Parents should exercise a rigid impartiality in the treatment of their children ; Joseph's coat of many colors caused his slavery, produced the vio- lence and hatred of his brethren, and embittered the days of his good old father. J. Bartlett. Impatience is almost always accompanied by loss. Rev. P. B. Power. Impatience under a heavy burden makes it hea- vier. T. Bostom. Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or SOI"I’OW. E. H. Chapin. Impatience deprives man of movement and im– pels him to danger. W. Barnes. Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength. Colton. It is no merit to suffer persecutions if we only endure them with impatience. M. de Fºwnes. Impatience in sickness only makes the physician more severe in his treatment. Hippocrates. To receive afflictions with unseemly impatience is the right way to lose whatever blessings might flow from them. L. Guicciardini. Whosoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul: men must not turn bees, and kill them- selves in stinging others. Lord Bacom. The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age ; the lover is impatient till he is married. Addison. In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause. Dr. Johnson. Impatience is a quality sudden, eager, and insa- tiable, which grasps at all, and admits of no delay; scorning to wait God's leisure, and attend humbly and dutifully upon the issues of His wise and just Providence. R. Sowth. I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience ; my efforts are not absolutely use- less, yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast. Calvin. Such is our impatience, such our hatred of pro- crastination, in everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging time along by force, and not he us. W. S. Landor. He who can wait for what he desires, takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it ; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently, thinks the success, when it comes, is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it. Bruyère. Impatience is the principal cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances. I would some- times have paid a guinea to be at Some particular ball or assembly, and something has prevented my going there ; after it was over, I would not give a shilling to have been there. I would pay a crown at any time for a venison ordinary ; but after having dined on beef or mutton, I would not give a penny to have had it venison. Sterne. 416 P A Y'S CO Z Z A C O N. IMPERFECTION. Imperfect beings as we are, perfection would kill us. Constance F. Woolsom. The greatest works of the human mind are but mere imperfections. Vawvemargues. We live in a reign of human infirmity, where every one has imperfections. H. Blair. We are the only imperfect creatures in the uni- verse, the only beings that will not allow of imper- fection. Steele. Would men but look IIlore minutely into the glass of their own imperfections, we should find them less censorious. W. S. Downey. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect ; the more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others. Fémélon. I am too conscious of my own imperfections, to rake into and dilate upon the failings of other men ; and though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative. A. Marvell. Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life ; it is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be, rigidly perfect ; part of it is decaying, part nascent. The foxglove blossom—a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom—is a type of the life of this world. Ruskin. IMPERTINENCE. * There are many subtle impertinences learned in the schools. I. Watts. When bashfulness is the effect of ignorance, education changes it into impertinence. H. W. Show. We should avoid the impertinence of pedants, who affect to talk in a language not to be under- stood. Swift. An impertinence is any interference by word or conduct which is not consistent with the age or station of the person. N. Webster. Impertinent persons act toward their equals as if they were inferiors, and toward their superiors as if they were their equals. G. Crabb. Receive no satisfaction for premeditated imper- tinence ; forget it—forgive it—but we should keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it. Lavater. There is a finish, a delicacy of touch in the polite impertinence of the well-bred, which the under- bred may envy, but must never hope to attain. - Nathalie. If you light upon an impertinent talker that sticks to you like a burr, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business ; these repulses, whereby our resolution and assu- rance are exercised in matters of less moment, will accustom us to it by degrees on greater occasions. Plutarch. IMPIETY. Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. R. Sowth. It is an act of impiety for a man to make an os- tentation of more irreligion than he possesses. - R. Hall. A man cannot walk among thorns and not be pierced ; neither can he lead an impious life and die happy. W. S. Downey. The impiety of those whose lives make them re- gret a Deity, and secretly wish there were none, will greedily listem to atheistical notions. Glanvill. A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took the first steps while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender. F. Atterbury. IMPORTANCE. To importance belongeth correction, and to cor- rection, amendment. St. Berºvoºrd. Importance is what things have in themselves: they may be of more or less importance, accord- ing to the value which is set upon them. G. Crabb. Behold the vain man : he is puffed up with the vanity of his importance ; his delight is to hear and to speak of himself all the day long. R. Dodsley. The greatest difficulty in pulpit eloquence, is to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves : Some preachers reverse the thing ; they give so much importance to themselves, that they have none left for the subject. Colton. IMPOSITION. I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon. J. C. Hare. A delusion is commonly practised on one's self ; an imposition is always practised on another. G. Crabb. To be safe against imposition we must be well acquainted with the common concerns and business of life. L. C. Judson. To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon youthan by imposing upon yourself. Fielding. It generally happens that when danger attends the discovery and profession of the truth, the pru- dent are silent, the multitude believe, and impos- ters triumph. J. L. Mosheim. Many impositions gain currency from being too palpable to be much talked about ; it is thus with religious impostures: in the age in which they ori- ginate, the wise let them pass as too gross for ex- posure ; in the next age it is too late. Bovee. There are cases in which a man would have been ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which, men are more injured by their suspicions than they could be by the perfidy of others. Burke. A R O S E O U O T A 7" / O M S. 417 IIMIPOSSIBILITY. Desire not impossibilities. Chilo. Nothing is impossible to God. G. F. Graham. To the valiant heart nothing is impossible. Jacques Coewr. No one is expected to perform impossibilities. E. P. Day. Impossible ! that is the word of a fool—a mad- IIla,Il. Rowsseaw. The high in power are often desirous of impossi- bilities. Semeca. The sure way to make a thing impossible, is to think it so. Franklin. The impossible becomes possible when courage Spurs us On. Elizabeth Kulman. The word “impossible” is not in my dictionary : it is not good French. Napoleon I. Seek not after impossibilities, nor grieve that thou canst not possess all things. R. Dodsley. Consider nothing an impossibility which has ever been done, or from the nature of things it is possi- ble to do. J. Bale. Nothing is impossible ; there are ways which lead to everything ; and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. - Rochefoucauld. When we see a man of like passions and weak- ness with ourselves going before us in the paths of duty, it confutes all lazy pretences of impossi- bility. H. Rogers. The sect of impossiblists has done a great deal of harm to mankind ; a more dangerous sect does not exist ; it certainly is the most perverse one in the scientific world. Charles Fowrier. There are many things which appear impossible which are not, or are only so by defect of resolu- tion in ourselves. The truly brave, and the posi- tively strong, are generally equal to the enterprises and obstacles of life. Acton. It is idleness that creates impossibilities ; and where men care not to do a thing, they shelter themselves under a persuasion that it cannot be done. The shortest and surest way to prove a work possible, is to set about it ; and no wonder if that proves it possible that for the most part makes it so. R. Sowth. IMPOTENCE, The impotent poor should be relieved. Temple. Impotence of body weakens the mind. Bias. The strong should bear the weakness of the im- potent. R. Hooker. The impotent of mind, while they hold in their hands a treasure, know it not till it be snatched from them. Sophocles. We may be impotent of body and powerless in strength, but we can carry embodied within our minds the materials that may make us attractive and useful. James Ellis. IMPRESSION. Early impressions are lasting. J. W. Barker. Impressions are crude convictions. Jacob Abbott. A weak character takes its impressions from without ; a stronger, equally from within. Bahon. From the moral impressions of our own minds, we infer the moral attributes of Him who made llS. Abercrombie. I date my first impressions against religion from having witnessed how little its votaries were ac- tuated by true Christian charity. Byron. The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important, and of a long duration. J. Locke. If you would be well with a great mind leave him with a favorable impression of you ; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable opinion of himself. S. T. Coleridge. The greatest drawback in the life of a public man is the great number of unauthorized impressions concerning him, which pass current from mouth to mouth as facts. Bovee. Early impressions are not easily erased ; the vir- gin wax is faithful to the signet, and subsequent impressions seem rather to indent the former Ones than to eradicate them. Colton. So powerful is the effect of first impressions and habits, that though a man may succeed in freeing his mind from prejudices, they will still retain some power over his imagination and his affec- tions. D. Stewart. Some impressions possess such an elevating and ennobling character, that we are loth to relinquish them, and to descend again to the level of common and ordinary feelings ; when we experience them, we have touched the true source of the moral sub- lime. Acton. Our misfortunes, of whatever nature, may, after all, be summed up in the impression that they leave on us ; and it is precisely in the character of this impression that all merit of our own must consist, because this is the only point where it is given us to act. Mme. Swetchine. It is said that by a certain experiment you may perceive on the retina of an ox's eye, some time after death, the pictures of the objects upon which it last looked ; if this is true of the eye of the ox, what shall we say of the soul of man 2 If on the eye impressions are made which abide after death, what of the impressions made upon the conscience, the memory, and the whole retina of the immor- tal spirit 2 Surely these abide after death ! Is it possible ever to erase one 3 Do not all impressions, from the first to the last, through life, made in all ways, continue as immortal as the soul itself 2 Surely we undying ones ought to be careful upon what objects we look, from which to get impres- sions upon our Souls. The impressions made on the Soul in time will form its own picture-gallery, upon each of which it shall gaze through the boundless ages of eternity. J. Bate. 27 418 J) A Y'S CO / / A C O AW. IMPROVEMENT. Improvement is a duty. Goethe. Improvement obtains reward. J. Kay. Improve your mind and condition. Gideon Lee. The improvement of the mind improves the heart, and corrects the understanding. Agathom. The improvement of the mind can never be so effectually and easily obtained as in the period of childhood. G. Crabb. If you would properly erect the edifice of per- sonal improvement, the foundation must be laid in moral purity. J. Adamson. To show clearly what is bad is one of the best means of improvement. To know ourselves dis- eased is half the cure. ** K. Arvine. Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections. T. Fulle”. Humanity may endure the loss of everything ; all its possessions may be torn away without in- juring its true dignity, all but the possibility of improvement. Fichte. Many men's lives are pregnant with examples, which tend to show how much we are affected by self-improvement ; folly and sloth decline, industry and wisdom advance. James Ellis. By proper improvement, the mechanic may lay in a stock of useful knowledge, that will enable him to take a stand by the side of those who have grown up in the full blaze of a collegiate education. L. C. Judson. Our juvenile compositions please us, because they bring to our minds the remembrance of youth ; our later performances we are ready to esteem, be- cause we are unwilling to think that we have made no improvement. Dr. Johnson. No improvement that takes place in either of the sexes can possibly be confined to itself; each is a universal mirror to each ; and the respective re- finement of the one will always be in reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other. Colton. Where we cannot invent, we may at least im- prove ; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite. J. Arundel. Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist ; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether: so it is with our moralim- provement ; we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we as- cended into a higher moral atmosphere. A. Helps. The desire of moral improvement commends it- self to every class of society, and its object is at- tainable by all ; in proportion to its intensity and steadiness it tends to make the possessor a happier and better man, and render him the instrument of diffusing happiness and usefulness to all who come within the reach of his influence. Abercrombie. IMPROPRIETY. Some improprieties are guileless. James Ellis. Improprieties are the errors in life. Solom. Even innocence itself is liable to commit seeming improprieties. Cicero. Many gross improprieties, however authorized by practice, Ought to be discarded. Swift. A wise man will observe the rules of propriety ; yet there are cases, where it would be an impro- priety to observe them with too much exactness. Mencius. Those who practice improprieties, either do not know the rules of propriety, as practiced by the most excellent, or knowing them do not properly prize them. Chwng Yew. A gross impropriety is punished with contempt and indignation, which are vented against the offender by external expressions; nor is even the slightest impropriety suffered to pass without some . degree of contempt. Rames. IMPRUDENCE. Too great prudence is imprudence. Parsons. It is the first imprudence that ruins. Fordyce. Imprudence brings misfortune upon ourselves. Memonder. From a small imprudence oft-times spring great mischiefs. Jacques Diel Duparquet. The impetuosity of youth naturally impels them to be imprudent. G. Crabb, The imprudent man often laments his mistakes, and then repeats them. N. Webster. The ill consequences of one imprudent step will be felt in many an after step. R. Whately. The shores of time are lined with wrecks driven before the gale of imprudence. L. C. Jwdsom. He that acts imprudently before he knows the truth, ought the sooner to be forgiven. St. Cypriam. Imprudence, silly talk, foolish vanity, and vain curiosity are closely allied; they are children of one family. La Fontaine. Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue ; nor is there on earth a more powerful ad- vocate for vice than poverty. Goldsmith. Imprudence has often been the wreck of human life. Around the imprudent man dangers gather thick and fast, and soon hurry him on to destruc- tion. F. Hargrave. It is imprudent in parents to permit their chil- dren to grow up in idleness and ignorance, pursu- ing unrestrained the wild inclinations of corrupt nature. J. Berington. It is imprudent to leave a certain business, be- cause its gains are slow, and embark in another kind, to which you are an entire stranger; for it is a sure sign of imprudence to rush into wild and visionary speculations, because one out of a hun- dred may have succeeded. W. E. Boardman. P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 419 IMPUIDENCE. Impudence is nothing more than open hypocrisy. H. W. Show. The worst of all diseases among men is impu- dence. Euripides. Impudence may be said to be the effluvia of de- pravity. Downey. There is no better provision for life than impu- dence and a brazen face. Menamder. He who is impudent in asking what is unreason- able, should be met by a stout denial. Whately. A true and genuine impudence is ever the effect of ignorance, without the least sense of it. Steele. It is acting the part of impudence for one to pre- Sume to give advice on a subject of which he is ignorant. N. Bernard. Overbearing impudence renders the person in- Sufferable to the conversation of well-bred reason- able people. S. Croacall. What was said by the Latin poet of labor, that it conquers all things, is much more true when ap- plied to impudence. Fielding. Blustering impudence and foaming braggadocia, have performed astonishing feats in our country within the last few years. L. C. Judson. The way to avoid the imputation of impudence is, not to be ashamed of what we do, but never to do what we ought to be ashamed of. Impudence is no virtue, yet able to beggar them all ; being for the most part in good plight, when the rest starve, and capable of carrying her fol- lowers up to the highest preferments ; as useful in a court as armor in a camp. Sir T. Osborne. IMPULSE. Decide not by the mere impulse. E. Rich. Act upon your impulses, but pray that they may be directed by God. E. Tenment. Our natural impulses often lead us to do those things, that sometimes causes us much trouble, anxiety, and disappointment. James Ellis. Since the generality of persons act from impulse much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them. J. C. Hare. A strong impulse succeeding a weak one, makes double impression on the mind; a weak impulse succeeding a strong One, makes scarcely any im- pression. Rames. A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accidents, than that of rea- son of which we so much boast. J. F. Cooper. The Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce, are actuated by the same impulse of Savage nature, and relinquish for momentary ra- pine the long and Secure possession of the most important blessings. E. Gibbon. Cicero. IMPUNITY. No man can violate a law of the gods with im- punity. Socrates, When the lion becomes infirm, asses kick at him with impunity. Downey. The greatest excitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. Cicero. No person should be permitted to violate the laws with impunity ; it often encourages men in crime. N. Webster. Many people desire no better grounds at any time for being hurtful, than the prospect of being so with impunity. S. Croacall. Men of power in the commonwealth will employ their illgotten influence toward procuring impuni- ty, or extorting undue favors for themselves or their dependents. F. Atterbury. IMPURITY. Impurity is the parent of ignorance. W. Dodd. Suffer no impurity to enter the apartment of a child. Jww.emal. Listen not to murmuring people, nor lend thine ear to impure tongues. Bias. Approve and cherish purity ; discourage and condemn impurity of thought, word, and act. Mrs. M. Fletcher. Suffer not thine hands to do, thy tongue to speak, nor thine ear to listen to things that are impure. Hermes. Avoid, as you would a poisonous Serpent, an im- pure book: impure thoughts rise naturally in idle minds, like weeds in an uncultivated garden. Mrs. Willard. Impure and unclean are all they that study to break God's commandments ; impure hearted are all that believe not in Christ to be justified by him ; impure hearted are all who do their work for a false purpose. J. Tyndall. INABILITY. It is something to know our inability. D. B. Ross. The wise man mourns over his inability. Confucius. It is not from inability to discover what they ought to do that men err in practice. H. Blair. Inability to reciprocate favors is frequently charged to the account of parsimony, Selfishness, or ingratitude. Acton. Inability acknowledged is more honest and cour- ageous than the assertion of an ability of which there is the least doubt. L. Barton. Inability denotes the absence of ability in the most general and abstract sense ; it lies in the na- ture of the thing, and is irremediable. G. Crabb. Many, through an affectation of being thought able and experienced, undertake affairs which are too big for them, and venture out of their depth before they find their own weakness and inability. S. Croacall. 420 JJ A V 'S CO / / A C O AV. INACTION. An inactive life breeds disease. Bias. It is better to have nothing to do, than to be in- active. Atticus. The rust of inactivity is more destructive than the sweat of exertion. Adam Smith. Nature knows no pause in progress and develop- ment, and attaches her curse on all inaction. Goethe. Rotten wood cannot be carved, nor a man given to inaction attain to knowledge or usefulness. Confucius. Never be inactive. You had an hour to spare the other day—what did you do 2 You had a voice —how did you use it 2 C. H. Spurgeon. Man ought never to be idle ; inactivity frus- trates the very design of his creation ; whereas an active life is the best guardian of virtue, and the greatest preservative of health. J. Howell. A man of mild character is frequently inactive : he wants that ardor which impels perpetually to action ; he wishes for nothing with sufficient warmth to make that action agreeable; he is there- fore inactive as a natural consequence. G. Crabb. INATTENTION. Shun habits of inattention. J. W. French. Through inattention the ignorant are hindred from attaining wisdom. N. Chipman. If we indulge the frequent roving of passions, we shall procure an unsteady and inattentive habit. I. Watts. Inattention, which designates a direct want of attention, is always a fault, and belongs only to the young, or such as are thoughtless by nature. G. Crabb. In most cases our habits of inattention may be traced to a want of curiosity ; and therefore such habits are to be corrected, not by endeavoring to force the attention in particular instances, but by gradually learning to place the ideas which we wish to remember in an interesting point of view. D. Stewart. INCAPACITY. Incapacity is a misfortune, not a fault. E. P. Day. When there is incapacity then all persuasions are in vain. Socrates. Strength wanting incapacity to rule overthrows itself. Horace. It is a foolish boast whereby men manifest their own incapacity. François d'O. The inactivity of the soul is its incapacity to be moved with anything common. Arbuthnot. Where there is direct incapacity a person has no chance of making himself fit for any office or em- ployment. G. Crabb. There is a natural incapacity in children to com- prehend difficult propositions in logic or metaphy- sics, and a natural incapacity in men to compre- hend the nature of spiritual beings. N. Webster. INCLINATION. We are often constrained by inclination. Terence. Inclination is another word with which will is frequently confounded. D. Stewart, Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Fontenelle. Nothing in the world is more beautiful than in- clination, guided by reason and conscience. Goethe. He does right who follows his inclination, a thing that all men Ought to do, so long as it is done in a proper manner. Planſtºws. Inclination is always at the command of the un- derstanding ; it is our duty therefore to suppress the first risings of any inclination to extravagance, intemperance, or any irregularity. Wordsworth. Almost every one has a predominant inclina- tion, to which his other desires and affections sub- mit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, through the whole course of his life. - IHume. A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue ; but the finishing strokes are from the will, which if well disposed, will by degrees per- fect ; if ill disposed, will by the superinduction of ill habits quickly deface it. R. South. Various are the inclinations of man ; one desires to be considered noble ; another cares nothing for high birth, but wishes to be possessed of much wealth ; others long for eloquence to persuade their audience to anything, however audacious ; others, again, prefer gain to honor; so dissimilar are men. For my own part, I care for none of these, but pray for a good reputation. Euripides. INCOME}. & A wise man lives within his income. Chesterfield. Live within your income, if you almost starve. P. T. Barnwºm. He who does not live on his income is ever a slave. Horace. We should always regulate our wants by the amount of Our income. E. Hickeringill. He is rich whose income is more than his ex- penses; and he is poor whose expenses exceed his income. Bruyère. Our incomes, like our shoes, if too small, will gall and pinch us, but if too large, will cause us to stumble and to trip. Sir. R. Inglis. No one is less respected than a man who muddles away a large income nobody knows how. For all expenditure there should be something to show, and that something should have either usefulness or permanence to recommend it. Hincmar. A noble income nobly expended, is no common sight. It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to spend it like a gentleman. If we exhaust our income in schemes of ambition, we shall purchase disappointment ; if in law, vexa- tion; if in luxury, disease. What we lend, we shall most probably lose ; what we spend rationally, we shall enjoy ; what we distribute to the deserving, we shall enjoy and retain. Coltom. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 42I INCONSISTENCY. Inconsistency is too often the result of caprice. W. H. Seward, Inconsistency is the arch enemy of order and happiness. N. A. Carrel. Inconsistency contains the rank and file of all the evil passions. T. Say. Preserve consistency in all you do ; inconsistency is more blameable than error. N. Macdonald. The greatest misery of the prodigal is produced by the inconsistency of his will. Magoon. Mutability of temper and inconsistency with our- selves is the greatest weakness of human nature. Addison. A man is strictly and properly inconsistent whose opinions or practices are at any one time at vari- ance with each other. R. Whately. Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent ; we are certainly compounded of two contrary natures, impelling us, under different cir- cumstances and influences, to actions apparently irreconcilable. Chatfield. There is consistency of opinion, and consistency of principle ; but opinion is variable, and principle is uniform ; therefore, he who is consistent in opi- nion should see that his opinions are conformable to principle ; if not, he is consistent only in incon- sistencies. Acton. What an inconsistent soul that man is who lan- guishes under wounds which he has power to heal | His whole life is a contradiction to his knowledge ; and his reason serves but to sharpen his sensibili- ties, to multiply his pains, and render him more melancholy and uneasy under them. Sterne. Inconsistency is the hot-bed of human misery : the uncompromising foe of reason, wisdom, discre- tion, and prudence ; it is a rank, poisonous weed, and is taking deep root in our soil; confined to no age or country, its unholy leaven, once introduced into the mass, may suddenly pollute the whole lump, and produce fearful and rapid destruction. L. C. Judson. How frail and inconsistent is man . How differ- ently does he think and act even for himself, in different circumstances ! How strangely does the same passion of pride seek for gratification from contrary causes, from pursuing ideal good, and from giving up that which is attainable and real | One moment he strains at a gnat, and applauds himself for sagacity, in the next he does not sus- pect himself of credulity when he swallows a camel. S. Parr. There is inconsistency and something of the child's propensities still in mankind ; a piece of me- chanism, as a watch, a barometer, or a dial, will fix his attention. A man will make journeys to See an engine stamp a coin or turn a block; yet the Organs through which he has a thousand sources of enjoyment, and which are in themselves more ex- Quisite in design, and more curious both in con- trivance and in mechanism, do not enter his thoughts. Sir C. Bell. INCONSTANCY. Inconstancy, like death, admits of no degrees. Mme de Girardin. Inconstancy is always liable to be mistaken for inconsistency. W. H. Seward. An inconstant and wavering mind makes a man unfit for society. J. Hall. An inconstant woman is one who is already in love with another person. Bruyère. Nature urgeth thee to inconstancy, O man therefore guard thyself at all times against it. R. Dodsley. Although a woman may appear constant to her lover, or chaste to her husband, she may yet de- light in Secret inconstancy. K. W. F. Funck. Inconstancy once desired to have her likeness taken ; but no artist would undertake it, because her features were so changeable. E. Foster. There is an inconstancy that proceeds from the levity or weakness of the mind, which makes it give in to every man's opinions; and there is an- Other inconstancy more excusable, which arises from satiety. Rochefoucauld. Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man ap- pear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconstancy, especially when it regards religion or party ; in either of these cases, though a man perhaps does but his duty in changing his side, he not only makes himself hated by those he left, but is seldom heartily esteemed by those he COmeS OVer to. Addison. INCREDULITY. Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. J. Lowell. Incredulous minds will not be persuaded with any evidence. J. Holl. Of every species of incredulity, religious unbelief is infinitely the most irrational. Buckminster. Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom which some display by universal incredul- ity. Goldsmith. The incredulous are the most credulous; they believe the miracles of Vespasian, in order not to believe those of Moses. Pascal. Of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest; real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. Bulwer. The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ig- norance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are crimson, and his own white steeple furnishes him with a contradiction. R. A. Willmott. Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly ; it is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the consequences of these ; and it is very bad, as being accompanied with disingenu- ity, obstimacy, rudeness, uncharitableness, and the like bad dispositions; from which credulity itself, the other extreme sort of folly is exempt. I. Barrow. 422 JD A Y’,S C O L / A C O AV. INDEPENDENCE. Foster a spirit of independence. J. Madison. We may be independent if we will. Churchill. All men are created equally free and independ- ent. G. Mason. Independence, like honor, is a rocky island with- out a beach. Napoleon I. The king is the least independent man in his do- minions ; the beggar the most. A. W. Hare. There is no such thing in this world as indepen- dence, unless in a Savage state. F. Marryatt. The moral progression of a people can Scarcely begin till they are independent. J. Martineaw. To be truly and really independent, is to support. ourselves by our own exertions. Jane Porter. To secure independence, the practice of simple economy is all that is necessary. S. Smiles. That independence without wealth, is more com- mon and pure than with it, is not a paradox. A. H. Motte. The antagonist of favor is a brave and heroic mind; a noble, self-relying, and independent Spirit. H. H. Milmoºn. True independence is to be found where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his for- tunes. A. Kneeland. It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the Smallness of his wants. W. Cobbett. The greatest of all human benefits, that at least without which no other benefit can be truly en- joyed, is independence. P. Godwin. Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose Our hon- esty and our independence. Pope. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment ; independence now, and independence for ever. J. Adams. The essence of independence is hatred and jea- lousy, its home strife and warfare ; it feeds upon delusions, and is itself the greatest. J. C. Hare. The truly independent man is he who is free from obligations; the man who is obliged may call himself free, but he is actually a slave. J. Bartlett. Independency may be found in comparative, as well as absolute abundance ; I mean where a per- son contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune Shenstone. No person is truly independent who is not pos- sessed of a knowledge of some trade or business, at which he can earn a support in case he should be- come poor. R. Collyer. These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together: manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and manly self-reliance. Wordsworth. INDEPENDENCE. The word independence is united to the acces- sory ideas of dignity and virtue; the word de- pendence is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption. J. Bentham. Independence of mind, freedom from a slavish res- pect to the taste and opinion of others, next to good- mess of heart, will best insure our happiness in the conduct of life. H. Hooker. When we accept a favor we are in danger of sa- crificing our independence, unless the motives which lead to the offering of it are as justifiable as our own in receiving it. Acton. It is universally acknowledged, that the enlarged prospects of happiness, opened by the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, almost ex- ceed the power of description. Washington. Cultivate an independence of mind, deserve the good opinion of others, then run your boat in the middle channel; be neither too anxious, nor yet indifferent of what others think of you. L. C. Judson. A man sooner or later must learn that the prin- ciple of arrogant independence, is moral madness and certain destruction ; “insolence and self-con- fidence argue the heart to be nothing but a lump of proud flesh.” Magoon. The mind of the greatest man in the world is not so independent but that he may be subject to be troubled by the least jumble which is made around him ; it need not be the noise of a cannon to dis- turb his thoughts ; it need only be the noise of a weathercock or pulley. Pascal. The boast of independence is a trait of vulgarity, and sometimes of insincerity, since professors are not always performers'; in reality we are all more independent than is generally imagined, for the whole world can neither take from us what nature has given, nor give what nature has denied. Chatfield. A right independence of mind will enable us to stand alone amid the beating and breaking of storms that will bear against it—a mind that will think its own thoughts, and stand upon its own principles ; leaning entirely upon others, and bow- ing continually, is no property of an independent mind. - J. W. Barker. We are independent, very much in proportion to the preference we give to intellectual and mental pleasures and enjoyments over those that are sen- sual and corporeal ; it is unfortunate, that although affluence cannot give this kind of independence, yet that poverty should have a tendency to withhold it, not indeed altogether, but in part. Colton. I should wish to act, no doubt, in every instance as I pleased; but I reflect that the rest also of mankind would then do the same : to which state of univer- sal independence and self-direction I should meet with so many checks and obstacles to my own will, from the opposition and interference of other men's, that not only my happiness but my liberty would be less than whilst the whole community were sub- ject to the domination of equal laws. Paley. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 423 INDEX. An index is the soul of a book; it is the key to its essence of thought. James Ellis. An author who furnishes a suitable index to his book shows excellent taste and judgment. A. Baillet. If a book has no index or table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it. I. Watts. An author ought to make the index to his book, whereas the book itself may be written by any per- son else. Antonio. A book without a copious index, where an index is an essential part of the work, shows an unwise indolence of its author. H. Rogers. A full and complete index to a book is an evi- dence that the author is anxious to point out the true merits of its contents. Mrs. M. C. Ames. In the construction of a good index there is far more scope for the exercise of judgment and abili- ties than is commonly supposed. Sir F. B. Head. An index is a necessary implement to a book ; without this, a large author is but a labyrinth, without a clue to direct the reader therein. - T. Fulley". Methinks it is a pitiful piece of knowledge that can be learned from an index ; and a poor ambi- tion to be rich in the inventory of another's trea- SUITO. J. Glanvill. The compilation of an index is one of those useful labors for which the public are rarely so forward to express their gratitude as we think they ought to be. R. Holinshed. The modern device of consulting indexes, is to read books hebraically, and begin where others usually end ; and this is a compendious way of coming to an acquaintance with authors, Swift. The value of an accurate index is well known to those who have frequent occasion to consult volu- minous works in any Science, and to construct a good one requires great patience, labor, and skill. - Judge Story. So essential did I consider an index to be to every book, that I proposed to bring a bill into Parliament to deprive an author who publishes a book without an index of the privilege of copyright ; and more- over to subject him for his offense to a pecuniary penalty. Lord Campbell. I have come to regard a good book as curtailed of half its value if it has not a pretty full index : it is almost impossible, without such a guide, to reproduce on demand the most striking thoughts or facts the book may contain, whether for citation or further consideration. If I had my own way in the modification of the Copyright Law, I think I would make the duration of the privilege depend materially on its having such a directory. The best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had but a Single good thought in it, might be kept alive by it. H. Binney. INDIFFERENCE. Indifference never wrote great works. F. Jago. What is a woman's surest guardian angel ? In- difference. Mme. Delway. One would rather have the hatred than the in- difference of a wife. Bovee. . Indifference in religion commonly ends in tolera- tion of maturalism and deism. Pope Leo XII. An indifferent man is one who has not generosity enough to acquire a friend, nor courage to procure an enemy. Miss E. J. Cate. I could never prevail with myself to exchange joy and sorrow for a state of constant tasteless indifference. B. Hoadly. Indifference is not always insensibility, since we may be indifferent to one thing because we have an equal liking to another. G. Crabb. The blighting sirocco of indifference sweeps over the desert mind, increases the powers of absorp- tion, and destroys all that is cheering, amiable, and lovely. L. C. Judson. Indifference cannot but be criminal, when it is conversant about objects which are so far from being of an indifferent nature, that they are of the highest importance to ourselves and our country. Addison. A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration, than a slight resulting from indifference ; the first offense has the pleasing apology of her attractions; the last is bold and without alleviation ; but the mode in which she disposes of the two only shows that her love of admiration is stronger than her sense of propriety. Colton. Indifference 1 indifference in the place of love 2 That means nothing in the place of something. Wherefore, prattling courtier, learn from a woman that indifference is an empty word, a mere sound, expressing nothing. The soul is indifferent only toward that about which it does not think: only toward a thing which for it is nothing ; and only indifferent for a thing which is nothing—that is as much as not indifferent. Lessing. INDIGNATION. A temperate indignation at things evil serveth to increase valor. Plato. A fit of indigmation may cause you to mourn long and bitterly. I. C. Judson. An indignant manner often produces mischief, and always disturbs the harmony of a family. Fanny Andrews. Indignation from a teacher fills the child's mind with terror, and leaves no room for other impres- sions. J. Locke. We should be cautious how we indulge in the feelings even of virtuous indignation ; it is the handsome brother of anger and hatred. Coleridge. Indignation is a sentiment awakened by the un- worthy and atrocious conduct of others; as it is exempt from personality, it is not irreconcilable with the temper of a Christian. G. Crabb. 424 JD A Y',S CO / / A C O AV. { INDIGENCE. INDISCRETION. Indigence is a calamity. G. Crabb. Indiscretions cannot be recalled. Solom. Indigence is an enemy to freedom. Mackenzie. Indiscretion ruins even a good cause. B. Nadal. The rich should succor the indigent. Swift. One indiscretion hides many virtues. Plutarch. Indigence revengeth itself with tears. Gwevara. The indigent are shunned everywhere. Lucanus. Distribute wealth among the indigent. Isidorus. Seek out the indigent, and relieve them. Pawla. We all feel a dread of indigence, and are anxious to avoid it. Horace. Indigence is the daughter of waste and incon- siderate living. Protagoras. Fear not indigence, since mo man liveth so poor as he was born. Turmebws. Riches are painful to fools; but indigence is pleasant to the wise. Bias. Relieve the indigent, for charity is the eldest daughter of the Great King. St. John, the Almoner. Indigence is a species of moral ipecacuanha, and is enough to destroy any comfort. T. Carlyle. It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. Dr. Johnsom. Indigence is the way to salvation, the nurse of humility, and the root of perfection. St. Francis. To abound in all things, and not to know the right use of them, is positive indigence. W. Rance. The creation is indigent ; every creature wants somewhat even whereof it is capable ; and our own wants we cannot but feel. J. Howe. Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them ; and riches, no more than glory or health, have no more pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them. Montaigme. INDISCRIMINATION. James Ellis. Indiscrimination is an evil. Indiscrimination is the germ of folly. L. Barton. Indiscriminate charity is not benevolence. Acton. Indiscrimination is an attribute of kings, but not of the King of kings. John Paton. Indiscriminate remarks will rend the tenderest cords of the human heart. Magoon. Indiscriminate gifts and prologues are not in ac- cordance with sound national policy. T. Sedgwick. An indiscriminate punishment of a whole people for the crime of a few is the very height of injus- tice. G. Read. Praise or censure given indiscriminately to all, good and bad, is an injury to virtue and an en- couragement to vice. G. Rawlinson. From the indiscriminate distribution of misery, moralists have always derived one of their strong- est moral arguments for a future state. Johnson. To give, with indiscrimination, to every lazy mendicant who solicits our alms, is rather to be re- garded as encouraging indolence and vice, than looked upon as acts of charity. Sir S. Garth. An indiscreet soldier aids the enemy. H. Knoac. Dullness is preferable to indiscretion. Ulshoefer. An indiscreet politician may prove the ruin of his country. Frank Moore. Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins. Ninom de l'Enclos. To be indiscreet in religious matters, is to be ir- religiously religious, W. Penn. An indiscreet friend often causes more injury than an open enemy. T. Campamella. Indiscretion is a plea which can hardly be al- lowed to mature age. O. Phelps. The promises of an indiscreet man are more un- certain than the wind. J. Bartlett. Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and mal- ice produce each other. Lavater. Indiscretion ruins the best matured plans of government, as well as men. Polignac. It is a great indiscretion for a man to promise what he is not able to perform. Cassiodorus. Indiscretions are pardonable ; but it is not so with persistent, willful malice. W. E. Robinson. An indiscretion committed through not knowing the truth, ought to be forgiven. St. Cyprian. As one scabbed sheep will infect a whole flock, so one indiscretion subverts many blessings. Palmer. The worst of youthful indiscretions is, not that they destroy health so much as that they sully manhood. Smiles. An indiscreet man. will expend the early part of his life in contributing to render the latter part miserable. Bruyère. It is a sign of great indiscretion for a man to at- tempt that which, from the nature of things, is an impossibility. Aristotle. It is indiscreet to speak much and know little ; to spend much, and have little ; to presume much and to be worth little. Cervantes. If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an indiscreet defense of it by its friends. Coltom. We are past our minority, it is true, but not our indiscretions; and what is worse, we have the au- thority of seniors, and the weaknesses of children. Seneca. An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill- natured one ; the latter only attacks his enemies, the other injures indiscriminately both friends and foes. Addison. The indiscreet man bridleth not his tongue ; he speaketh at random, and as one that runneth in haste, may fall into a pit, so is the man that plung- eth suddenly into an action, before he hath con- sidered the consequence thereof. R. Dodsley. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 425 INDIVIDUALITY. It is impossible to find two persons of the Same individuality. Chatfield. The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. J. S. Mill. Individuality is everywhere to be spared and res- pected as the root of everything good. Richter. Individuality can hardly be predicated of any man ; for it is commonly said that a man is not the same as he was. Arbuthnot. Let us shun everything which might tend to ef- face the primitive lineaments of our individuality; let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God. Mme. Swetchine. A distinctive individuality, except so far as it is born with us, is derived only through a distinctive experience or distinctive habits. He who lives like other men will become like other men. BOvee. Individuality is one of the first developed and most active intellectual organs of the young ; SO that their observation should be the leading in- strumentality employed in their education. O. S. Fowler. Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men ; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal improvement. Smiles. In the very lowest link in the vast and myste- rious chain of being, there is an effort, though scarcely apparent, at individualization ; but it is almost lost in the mere nature. A little higher up, the individual is apparent and separate, but subor- dinate to anything in man. S. T. Coleridge. Not nations, not armies, have advanced the race ; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world. We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital in- dividuality enough ; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to Our passions and ap- petites. E. H. Chapin. Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many tones, all musical, sees in each person Original man- ners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face ; he perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon. Emerson. Man, in his private and individual capacity, rises into merited importance only when he begins to be conscious of his dignity, and sensible of those inalienable rights and immunities with which he is endowed by nature : it is then the conception of individual rights, which inspires him with the greatest self-respect, and with the strongest pa- triotic attachment ; he feels that he has duties to perform and rights to exercise ; he is not an idle and careless spectator, but an active and efficient co-operator in the affairs of the world, and more especially of his own country. Actorv. INDOLENCE. Indolence is the sleep of the mind. Vauvenargues. Indolence is the mother of misery. Galem. Indolence is the paralysis of the soul. Lavater. Indolence and stupidity are first cousins. Rivarol. The indolence of the soul is the decay of the body. Cato. It is the art of the indolent not to know what to do. Seneca. An indolent man draws his breath, but doth not live. Cicero. Indolence is a state in which we have no grief or pain. R. C. Trench. The indolent man values rest, but the industrious man labor. Dowmey. Indolence is the parent of languor, the grand- parent of sickness and sin,” E. P. Day. It is indolence and deficiency of spirit which produce torpor and stagnation. Acton. Nothing on earth is so hard and excruciating as the couch of perpetual indolence. Magoon. Indolence, like all the vices of which it is the chief patron, brings its own punishment. Gwizot. If a man be indolent, the best discipline to which he can be subjected is to suffer the evils of penury. F. Wayland. Indolence must be shunned, or we must be con- tent to yield up whatever we have acquired by the nobler exertions of our lives. Horace. I look upon indolonce as a sort of suicide ; for the man is efficiently destroyed, though the appe- tite of the brute may survive. Chesterfield. It would seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest : as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave. Shemstone. Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find no- thing ; they have empty heads and Seared hearts. Zimmerman. The celebrated Galen said employment was na- ture's physician ; it is indeed so important to hap- piness, that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery. Colton. Indolence is, methinks, an intermediate state be- tween pleasure and pain, and very much unbecom- ing any part of our life after we are out of the nurse's arms. Steele. Such in general is the provoking indolence of our species, that the lives of many, if impartially jour- malized, might be truly said to have consisted of a series of slumbers. G. B. Cheever. Indolence is its own punishment : we defer what we know to be necessary to the last moment, and then have to go under the pressure of an immediate necessity, which frets us and puts us out of humor. Bovee. 426 AX A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. INDOLENCE. Indolence is a delightful but distressing state ; we must be doing something to be happy ; action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. Hazlitt. When the body becomes weakened by indolence the mind usually suffers with it ; the energies be- come torpid, the intellectual powers are not cul- tivated, and the whole man becomes enervated for want of action. L. C. Judson. An hour wasted daily on trifles or in indolence would, if devoted to self-improvement, make an ignorant man wise in a few years ; and employed in good works, would make his life fruitful, and death a harvest of worthy deeds. Smiles. There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fash- ion that sweeps along Broadway, who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence ; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers. E. H. Chapin. Indolence, indeed, is never at a loss for a smooth lie or delicious sophism to justify inaction, and in our day has rationalized it into a philosophy of the mind, and idealized it into a School of poetry, and organized it into a “hospital of incapables.” It promises you the still ecstacy of a divine repose, while it lures you surely down into the vacant dullness of inglorious sloth ; it provides a primrose path to stagnant pools, to an Arcadia of thistles, and a Paradise of mud. E. P. Whipple. In the weightest concerns of life the indolent offers only vain wishes, to which nothing can cor- respond ; and before these wishes are fulfilled he lives void of care, and willingly in his rudeness gives up his soul without opposition to the impres- sion of surrounding circumstances, passes indiffer- ently in the presence of occurrences to noble deeds but full of trouble, and shows his zeal for these weighty concerns of man only thus far, that he represents to himself often, and with pleasure, a position which he would like to reach without labor ; and while he is wishing the righteous sen- tence is passed on him : “Who has nothing, from him will be taken even that which he has.” Schleiermacher. Of all passions indolence is that which is least known to ourselves ; it is the most powerful and the most baneful, though its powers be unfelt, and the loss which it causes be unseen ; if we regard with attention its power, we shall see that it makes itself at all times mistress of our feelings, interests, and pleasures ; it is the remora which has strength enough to stop large vessels, it is a stillness more dangerous to the important affairs of the world than quicksands and the most furious tempests; the calm of indolence is a secret charm of the Soul which stops suddenly the most ardent pursuits, and the most unfaltering resolutions; in short, to give the real idea of this passion, we must say that indolence is, as it were, a beatitude of the soul, which consoles it for all its losses, and which oc- cupies the place of everything by which it may profit. Rochefoucauld. INDUCTION. Induction is the counter process in scientific me- thod to deduction. Brande. The logic of induction consists in stating the facts and the inference in such a manner that evidence of the inference is manifest. Whewell. The inquisition by induction is wonderfully hard ; for the things reported are full of fables, and new experiments can hardly be made but with extreme caution. Roger Bacon. Mathematical things only are capable of clear de- monstration ; conclusions in matural philosophy are proved by induction of experiments, things moral by moral arguments, and matters of fact by credi- ble testimony. Tillotson. The inference of some general truth from all the particulars embraced under it, as legitimated by the laws of thought, and abstracted from the con- ditions of any particular matter—this may be called metaphysical induction, and should be carefully distinguished from the illations of physics. N. Webster. Although the arguing from experiments and ob- Sevations by induction be no demonstration of gen- eral conclusions, yet it is the best way of arguing which the nature of things admits of, and may be looked upon as so much the stronger by how much the induction is more general ; and if no exception occur from phenomena, the conclusion may be general. J. B. Tully. INDUCEMENT. There should never be any inducements to a breach of confidence. Hawkesworth. How can a bard write verses when the door of inducement is locked ? Al-Ghazzi. We should always bring our inducements under a faithful examination. Lord Burleigh. Actions induced are seldom of sufficient import- ance to call for repentance. G. Crabb. Our inducements in life should be to lead honest, industrious, and virtuous lives. J. Sille. , The inducements to the best actions will not al- ways bear too strict an inquiry. Swift. The love of money is an inducement to industry in good men, and to the perpetration of crimes in bad. N. Webster. Many evil inducements may lead us to those things which would benefit us in a worldly sense, but such inducements are of no value to our spirit- ual welfare. John Ballantyne. The difference there is betwixt honor and hon- esty seems to be chiefly in the inducement; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character. Shemstone. The inducements to noble ends held out to man, and the incentives to virtue and superiority are prepared and predestined for him, to put his man- hood to the proof, and to inculcate upon him strength, hardihood, and valor. James Ellis. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 427 - INDULGENCE. INDUSTRY. Inordinate indulgence always ends in discontent. "Industry need not wish. Franklin. Magoom. An indulgent mother makes a sluttish daughter. D. Eremita. By indulging the vices of your friend, you make them your own. Publiws Syrws. Men are more willing to indulge in easy vices, than to practice laborious virtues. Dr. Johnsom. Immoderate indulgence must assuredly produce Some terrible misfortune in the end. Terence. He that not only commits some act of sin, but lives indulgently in it, is never to be recounted a re- generate man. H. Hammond. How many children are ruined by indulgence Indulgence is not kindness or tenderness, but it may be the effect of one or the other. N. Webster. To live like those that have their hope in another life, implies that we indulge ourselves in the grati- fications of this life very sparingly. F. Atterbury. Nothing can be more insolent than some forms of indulgence. There are people who absolve you with the air of having the right to condemn. Mºme. Swetchime. Whatever excellence it is possible for us to attain in respect to moral worth, is won by freeing our- selves from gross indulgence and violent passions. Magoon. Indulgence in the pleasures, fashions, vices, and follies of the day, is the greatest source of self- created misfortunes, which are neither few mor light. Mrs. E. Smith. A man should inure himself to voluntary labor ; and not give up to indulgence and pleasures, as they beget no good constitution of body, nor know- ledge of the mind. Socrates. Indulgence infallibly produces selfishness and hardness of heart, and nothing but a pretty severe discipline and control can lay the foundation of a magmanimous character. J. Jeffrey. A child without simplicity, a maiden without in- nocence, a boy without truthfulness, are not more piteous sights than the man who has wasted and thrown away his youth in self-indulgence. Smiles. The indulgence of any one form of gratification, in such a manner as to destroy the power of an- other form of gratification, also in the end diminish- es, and frequently destroys, the power of deriving happiness, even from that which is indulged. F. Wayland. Spoiled by indulgence, fastidious by ease, and corrupted by pride, we frequently become more difficult to be pleased ; we wish for the pleasure without its pains, and enjoyment without its cares; We forget the homely conditions of life, that the nut has its shell, the orange its rind, the corn its husk, and the wheat its chaff. We would like to have the fruit without the peel, the rose without the thorns, the fish without the scales and bones, and wealth without its incumbrances. Acton. for the fruits of our own industry. Industry is fortune's right hand. J. Trenchard. Nothing is impossible to industry. Periander. Nothing so difficult but may be won by industry. Terence. Men have been advanced to eminence by indus- try. - Tacitus. Industry signifies the whole productive activity of man. A. Brisbane. The serenest happiness we can enjoy on earth is derived from industry. .J. Swartz. We mistake the gratuitous blessings of heaven L'Estrange. The history of the world is full of testimony to prove how much depends upon industry. Cheever. There is no lack of industry in the world ; the lack is in making a wise application of it. Bovee. Frugal and industrious men are commonly friendly to the established government. Sir W. Temple. Many are the works of human industry, which to begin and finish are hardly granted to the same Illall. Dr. Johnson. A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. R. Whately. God has so made the mind of man that a pecu- liar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry. Wilberforce. It is more desirable to distribute the fruits of one's own industry, than to reap the benefit of other people's. Biom. It is better to drink the water of industry from an earthen cup, than the wine of indolence from a silver tankard. Downey. Industry is a Christian obligation, imposed on our race to develop the noblest energies and insure the highest reward. Magoon. Industry escapeth much annoyance ; the dog in the kennel is troubled with fleas, but the dog that hunts feels them not. Al-Maidóni. In order to quicken human industry, Providence has so contrived that our daily food is not to be procured without much pain and labor. Addison. Providence would only initiate mankind into the useful knowledge of her treasures, leaving the rest to employ our industry, that we might not live like idle loiterers. Sir T. More. If you devote your time to cultivating and train- ing your reason, and to doing your duty to others, I call you industrious; for such work is alone worthy of man. Epictetus. In poor countries necessity incites industry, and cheapness of provisions invites traders and manu- facturers to reside ; this soon introduces wealth, learning, and liberty. S. Jenyms. 428 D A y's co Z Z A co w. INDUSTRY. It is well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication. T. Hood. Practical industry, wisely and vigorously ap- plied, always produces its due effects. It carries a man onward, brings out his individual character, and stimulates the action of others. Smiles. The way to wealth is as plaim as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, indus- try and frugality ; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Franklin. If you have great talents industry will improve them ; if moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-di- rected labor ; nothing is ever to be attained with- out it. Sir J. Reynolds. Industry may be considered as the purse, and frugality as its strings, which should rather be tied with a bow than a double knot, that the contents may not be too difficult of access for reasonable purposes. Agnes Maria Bennet. Everything is sold to skill and labor ; and where nature furnishes the materials, they are still rude and unfinished, till industry, ever active and intel- ligent, refines them from their brute state, and fits them for human use and convenience. Rames. Let mone fondly persuade themselves that men can live without the necessaries of life. He who will not apply himself to industry, evidently dis- covers that he means to get his bread by cheating, stealing, or begging, or else is wholly void of rea- SOI). Ischomachws. We are more industrious than our fathers, be- cause in the present time the funds destined for the maintenance of industry are much greater, in pro- portion to those likely to be employed in the main- tenance of idleness, than they were two or three centuries ago. Adam Smith. In a sense of industry there is that kind of zest and animation, satisfaction and delight, connected with so much invard approbation and conscious- ness of rectitude in a commendable pursuit, that it is the greatest source on earth of contentment and peace of mind. Acton. The servant employed in blowing and making the fire ofttimes getteth by his pains a more kindly and continuing heat than the master himself, who sitteth down by the same ; and thus persons, indus- triously occupying themselves, thrive better on a little of their own homest getting, than lazy heirs on the large revenues left unto them. T. Fuller. Industry doth not consist merely in action, for that is incessant in all persons: our mind being like a ship in the sea, if not steered to some good pur- pose by reason, yet tossed by the waves of fancy, or driven by the winds of temptation some-whi- ther ; but the direction of our mind to some good end, without roving or flinching, in a straight and steady course, drawing after it our active powers in execution thereof, doth constitute industry. I. Barrow. INDUSTRY. There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to ; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all coun- tries and by all nations. It is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers no want to break into its dwell- ing. It is the north-west passage, that brings the merchant's ships as soon to him as he can desire. In a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes for- tune itself pay contribution. Earl of Clarendon. A spirit of industry when it has once been ex- cited in the common forms of education, may be transferred to objects of more exalted dignity, and more extensive utility ; it qualifies men in all their various classes for the highest and for the lowest employments ; it gives perseverance to the Workman, enterprise to the warrior, and firmness to the statesman ; it blunts the keenest appetite for sensuality, and shuts up the first avenues to dis- honesty ; it opens a broader field for the display of every talent, and inspires us with new vigor in the performance of every social and every religious duty. J. Howman. Industry is not only the instrument of improve- ment, but the foundation of pleasure ; for nothing is so opposite to the true enjoyment of life as the relaxed and feeble state of an indolent mind. He who is a stranger to industry may possess, but he cannot enjoy ; it is labor only that gives a relish to pleasure ; it is the indispensable condition of our possessing a Sound mind in a sound body. Idleness is so inconsistent with both, that it is hard to de- termine whether it be a greater enemy to virtue, Or to health and happiness ; inactive as it is in it-- self, its effects are fatally powerful ; though it appears a slowly flowing stream, yet it undermines all that is stable and flourishing ; it is like water, which first putrefies by stagnation, aud then sends up noxious vapors, filling the atmosphere with death. H. Blair. INEQUALITY. Society could not exist without inequality. Nellie Ames. The inequalities of life are blessings in disguise. James Ellis. We must support the received doctrine of the in- equality of man. T. Bennet. The inequalities of life are real things, they can neither be explained away, nor done away. Colton. What are the inequalities of life, the removal of which would produce a better state of society 2 T. von Holmskjold. The inequalities of life are irremediably based on four pillars, which stand as firm as the perpetual hills—strength, talent, wealth, and rank. L. C. Judsom. In the human species there seem to be two kinds of inequality; the one established by nature, which consists in the qualities of mind or soul : the other, which depends on a kind of mutual agreement, and is established, by the consent of men ; this latter consists in the different privileges which some en- joy to the prejudice of others. Rowsseaw. A R O S K Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 429 INFALLIBILITY, INFAIMY. Can one who is mortal be infallible 3 Herodotus. Infamy is the goal of vice. James Ellis. We cannot be as God, infallibly knowing good and evil. G. Smalridge. Infallibility is the attribute of Him who is im- mutable, and this infallibility pervades His word. R. Ferguson. Who does not think himself infallible & Who does not think himself the only infallible person in the world 3 J. C. Hare. Infallibility is exclusively a divine attribute ; mortals who aspire to its distinction but repeat the fable of the bull and the frog. H. Friswell. When a religionist is much more prompt to fight for a dogma than to illustrate his infallibility by a noble demeanor, he would do well to search into the divinity of a faith which is so barren of hea- venly deeds. Magoon. If any power on earth could, or the Great Power above would, erect a standard of infallibility, in political Opinions, there is no being that inhabits the terrestial globe, that would resort to it with more eagerness than myself, so long as I remain a servant of the public. Washington. INF ATUATION. Passion is the infatuation of the mind. R. Sowth. The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard. J. B. Gowgh. Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart. Bartlett. An infatuated man is not, merely foolish, but wild ; he carries his folly to the most extravagant pitch. G. Crabb. All men who waste their substance in gaming, intemperance, or any other vice, are chargeable with infatuation. N. Webster. Thinking of success without persevering for it ; expecting to reap what we have neglected to sow, is an infatuation. R. F. Burton. INFERIORITY. A person gains more by obliging his inferior, than by disdaining him. R. Sowth. In general, it may said that he who acknowledges his inferiority, deserves it. E. P. Day. It is the part of the superior to instruct, assist, and encourage the inferior ; it is the part of the latter to be willing to learn, ready to obey, and prompt to execute. G. Crabb. Inferiority in others, whether of rank, fortune, or talent, never offends, because it conveys a silent homage to our-self love. This is the secret of con- descension in the great. Chatfield. Inferiority is a term which we are ever ready to apply to those beneath us in station, without con- sidering whether it should be applicable in any other sense. Many men may be our superiors with- out being our equals ; and many may be our nom- inal inferiors, to whom we are by no means equal. A. Hammond. p Infamy galleth unto death, and leaveth after death. J. O. Chowles. What is once spotted with infamy can hardly be worn out with time. Aw?'elius. The occasions and greatness of infamy are better untried than known. Bias. Infamous are a race of men who are the bane and Scourge of Society. Tacitus. Infamy is so deep a color that it will hardly be washed off with oblivion. St. Anselm. The infamous are doubly infamous when they are content with their infamy. Bovee. An honorable man shall never die ; and an in- famous man deserveth not to live. Hortensivs. To be praised of wicked men is as great infamy as to be praised for wicked doings. E. Christian. There is no greater infamy than to be lavish in promise, and slack in performance. Cwrtāws. It is infamy to dispraise him that serveth well, because he is poor ; and to commend the unworthy, because he is rich. Alcamo. Willful perpetrations of unworthy actions brand, with most indelible characters of infamy, the name and memory to posterity. King Charles II. The infamous man only is miserable ; for good men will not believe him, bad men will not obey him, no man accompany him, and few befriend him. Rev. T. Brooks. Infamy is where it is received. If thou art a mud wall, it will stick ; if marble, it will rebound ; if thou storm at it, it is thine ; if thou contemn it, it is his. F. Quarles. Infamy is bestowed by the public voice ; it does not belong to one nation or one age, but to every age ; the infamy of a base transaction will be handed down to the latest posterity. G. Crabb. It were great infamy to the person, and no small offense to the commonwealth, to behold a man base- ly toiling that deserveth to govern, and to see him govern that deserveth to go to the plow. F. Berni. Infamy is the livery of bad defects in this world, and that which for our malignities and evil doing staineth our names and our successions with a per- petual disgrace, through the report of our misdeeds and unjust attempts. M. Hammer. Infamy is the garb of sin and vice, which is never seen by day, for the strong light of truth exposes to view its coarse texture and foul condition ; it is a dank prolific weed, which only flourishes in dark corners, and is withered by a ray of sunshine. J. Sille. When a man is deemed uncertain as to his en- gagements, so much so that his disregard of every promise has become proverbial, it will not be strange if he forfeits all public confidence and speedily sinks under the infamy he has deserved. Magoon. 430 AD A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. INFANCY. The gods are the protectors of infancy. Horace. An aureole of glory surrounds the face of an in- fant. James Ellis. The helplessness of infancy is its surest protec- tion. E. P. Day. The Smiles of infants are said to be the first fruits of human reason. H. N. Hºwdsom. The beauty of the infant is not perfect beauty, but the beauty of promise. Dr. Porter. I think few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant. Harriet Martimeant. The insensible impressions on our tender infan- cies have very important and lasting consequences. J. Locke. Infancy is but a foolish simplicity, full of lamen- tations and harms; as it were, a vessel laid open to a main sea without a rudder. Dmitrijeff. Do not encourage precocity in children : a child three years of age, with a book in its infant hands, is a fearful sight. A. Blackwood. The greatest vices derive their propensity from our most tender infancy, and Our principal educa- tion depends on the nurse. Montaigme. The cradled infant wears a smile as if it heard the whisper of angels ; its glorified spirit is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime. Mrs. Sigowrmey. Infancy hath life but in effigy, or like a spark dwelling in a pile of wood ; the candle is so newly lighted, that every little shaking of the taper, and every ruder breath of air puts it out and it dies. Jeremy Taylor. Some admiring what motives to mirth infants meet with in their silent and solitary smiles, have resolved, how truly I know not, that they converse with angels ; as indeed, such cannot among mor- tals find any fitter companions. F. Fuller. The infant, like the sailor tossed on shore by the furious waves, lies naked on the ground helpless, when naturé has pushed him from the womb of his mother into the light of day, filling the air with piteous cries, a fit presage of the many ills that await him in life. - Lucretivs. One-half of human kind die in infancy ; five mil- lions of precious babes, it is said, perish annually, and are transferred to the home of the skies. Like as on all trees, there are more blossoms in spring time than ripe fruits in autumn, so there are more infants than adults that drop away from the cir- cles of earthly love. E. Davies. Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child : their other child- ren grow up to manhood and womanhood, and Suffer all the changes of mortality ; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child ; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence. Leigh Hunt. INFANCY. Three things appear to be uninjured by the fall: the song of birds, the beauty of flowers, and the smile of infancy ; for it is difficult to tell how either of these could have been more perfect had man re- mained holy. G. A. Sala. Many think the education of an infant a matter of little importance ; but we would as soon think of giving our child a bottle of vitriol to amuse her, as hiring a girl for her attendant, of whose morals we knew nothing. Mrs. Swisshelm. Many times a father has come home depressed and sorrowful in mind, occasioned by the ways of this selfish and unsympathising world, but the happy smiles and innocent little ways of his infant not a year old, have thrown a sunshine into his soul, and produced the gladness of its own little heart within his. J. Bate. Infancy is a fair page upon which you may write goodness, happiness, and heaven, or sin, misery, and hell. And the words once written, no chemi- cal art can erase them. Infancy is the Soft metal in the molder's hands ; he may shape it in the im- age of a fiend or the form of an angel ; and when finished the statue hardens into rock, which no- thing but the hammer of God's Providence can break: nothing but the fire of God's Providence can melt for remolding. Grace Agwilar. As an infant begins to discriminate between the objects around, it soon discovers one countenance that ever smiles upon it with benignity. When it wakes from its sleep, there is one watchful form ever bent over its cradle ; if startled by some un- happy dream, a guardian angel seems ever ready to soothe its fears ; if cold, that ministering spirit brings it warmth ; if happy, she caresses it ; in joy or sorrow, in weal or woe, she is the first object of its thoughts ; her presence is heaven ; the mother is the deity of infancy. J. S. C. Abbott. How helpless the Indian infant, born without shelter amidst storms and ice But fear nothing for him God has placed near him a guardian an- gel, that can trample over the severities of mature ; the sentiment of maternity is by his side, and so long as his mother breathes, he is safe ; the squaw loves her child with instinctive passion ; and if she does not manifest it by lively caresses, her tender- ness is real, wakeful, and constant ; no Savage mother ever trusted her babe to a hireling nurse ; no savage mother ever put away her own child, to suckle that of another. G. Bancroft. The morning with every flower glistening in dews, the fresh air loaded with perfumes, the hills bathed in golden light, the skies ringing with the song of larks, is beautiful; beautiful as is the morning of day, so is that of life : fallen though we are, there remains a purity, modesty, ingenu- ousness, and tendermcss of conscience about infan- cy, that looks as if the glory of Eden yet lingered over it, like the light of the day on hill-tops at even when the sun is down. The Word of God, no doubt, declares infants, as well as others, to be dead in trespasses and sins; and I do not say but there is death ; still it is like death before the body has grown stiff and cold, the color of life fled the cheek, or decay effaced its beauty. T. Gºwthrie. A R O S E O U O 7" A T / O M S. 431 : INFIDELITY. No honest man can be an infidel. Dr. Johnson. The nurse of infidelity is sensuality. Lord Bwrleigh. Infidels have always been the most Superstitious of men. . . . J. Cumming. Infidelity neither believes nor disbelieves ; infi- delity doubts. A. Kneeland. It is practice, not creed, that determines who is the infidel, and who is not. E. P. Day. Infidelity, in all its various shades, is a legiti- mate child of inconsistency. L. C. Judson. He is the bigot of infidelity, who will not believe the truth because it is the truth. A. Keith. It is infidelity that maketh men covetous, un- charitable, discontent, pusillanimous, impatient. I. Barrow. There is more real infidelity to be found among professed Christians, than among professed infi- dels. G. Lippard. General infidelity is the hardest soil which the propagators of a new religion can have to work upon. Paley. Infidelity is a rank weed ; it is nurtured by our vices, and cannot be plucked up as easily as it may be planted. T. Watson. Infidelity, spite of all its pretensions, is the worst thing, in a worldly point of view, which can pos- sibly befall a man. J. Heywood. The depreciation of Christianity by indiferent- ism, is a more insidious and a less curable evil than infidelity itself. R. Whately No matter how infidel philosophers may regard the Bible, I shall cling to it until they show me a better revelation. H. W. Beecher. When once infidelity can pursuade men that they shall die like beasts, they will soon be brought to live like beasts also. R. Sowth. Infidelity, so termed, is nothing more nor less than liberalism ; it advocates freedom of thought, homesty of purpose, and equal justice to all men. G. H. Evans. Infidels are outlaws of the constitution, not of this country only, but of the human race ; they are never, never to be supported, never to be toler- ated. Burke, The consideration of the Divine Omnipotence and infinite wisdom, and our own ignorance, are great instruments of silencing the murmurs of in- fidelity. Jeremy Taylor. There is one single fact which one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed. Hammoth More. The Owlet infidelity, sailing on obscene wings across the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and shuts them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in heaven, cries out, “Where is it 2" S. T. Coleridge. INFIDELITY. Infidelity is an enemy to bigotry, superstition, and ignorance ; but we as infidels, sceptics, or free- inquirers, hold no hatred toward any man, be he Christian, Jew, Pagan, or Mohammedan, G. Vale. The doubter, the investigator, the infidel have been the saviors of liberty ; this truth is beginning to be realized, and the truly intellectual are begin- ning to honor the brave thinkers of the past. R. G. Ingersoll. I should like to see a man sober in his habits, moderate, chaste, just in his dealings, advocate in- fidelity ; he would speak at least without inter- ested motives ; but such a man is not to be found. Bruyère. Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I be- lieve, will never be an infidel: the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature. Lord Herbert. Since I cannot understand the Old Testament, as expounded by the wisest of the Jewish Rabbis, nor the New Testament, as interpreted by the most learned Christian divines, I can do no less than proclaim myself an infidel. Ernestime L. Rose. One would fancy that infidels would be exempt from that single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervors of religion ; but so it is that - infidelity is propagated with as much fierceness and contention as if the safety of mankind de- pended upon it. Addison. If religion consists in depreciating moral virtues and depressing natural reason, if the duty of it be to hate and persecute for a different way of thinking, where the best and wisest have never agreed, then I declare myself an infidel, and to have no share in that religion. M. Timolal. Religion is an error, inasmuch as it is founded upon notions of Deity, of which when we examine ourselves, we all alike find we are infidels and know nothing ; and pretended divine revelations are the work of men, and not worthy of the least countenance; they are, without exception, gross impositions upon the credulity of mankind. R. Carlile. The persons who now set up for infidels are such as endeavor, by a little trash of words and Sophis- try, to weaken and destroy those very principles, . for the vindication of which freedom of thought at first became laudable and prolific : these apostates from reason and good sense can look at the glo- rious frame of nature without paying an adoration to Him that raised it, Steele. Infidels tell us that God has flung this world from His hand, and has left it to shift for itself, and deprived it entirely of His paternal care : God points to constant care of man, and tells them that they lie. Infidels have insinuated that if there be a God, He dwells in some far-off labora- tory of power, but that this world of His creation is now orphaned of His grace ; God points to all the creation rejoicing in its fitness and in its har- mony, and bids them listen to its song. TV. M. Punshom. 432 ZO A Y'S CO Z Z 4 C O AV. INIFIDELITY. No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied ; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it. Colton. Christians are less happy, have less real love of God, less sympathy for their fellow-men than in- fidels. The Christian has nothing that is good, no- thing that is desirable, that we have not equally as large a share in, while we are freed from the Devil, the burnings of hell, the harassing doubts and the constant uncertainties which he must inevita- bly feel if he believes what he pretends to. D. M. Bennett. Indisputably, the firm believers in the gospel have a great advantage over all others, for this simple reason, that if true, they will have their re- ward hereafter ; and if there be no hereafter, they can be but with the infidel in his eternal sleep, hav- ing had the assistance of an exalted hope through life, without subsequent disappointment, since “out of nothing, nothing can arise,” not even sor- I’OW. - Byron. Infidelity means all ways of thinking, or is insig-, nificative of any way of thinking, which is evi- dently nearer the truth. If infidelity means the rejection of religious opinions, he alone is not an infidel who admits all religions, and believes in every creed and fable ever devised by craft, or swallowed by ignorance ; if his faith be short of this, he must be an infidel to some one, or to many, or to myriads of his fellow creatures. Miss Frances Wright. Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away ; it can only exist in the shape that a diseased mind imparts to one of its coinages, a mass of base money, that will not pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks correctly. And infidels are poor, sad crea- tures ; they carry about them a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is invisi- ble. It is the fearful blindness of the soul. Chalmers. They commit a great error who regard a man as an infidel because he refuses to acknowledge the truth of certain doctrines which they believe, or fancy they believe, to be true. He only is an in- fidel who from base motives turns a deaf ear to the voice of truth ; and the infidel of infidels is he who, while professing to “believe all the articles of the Christian faith,” takes no heed to walk after the perfect law of love summed up for him by his Mas- ter. Attwell. Infidelity and faith look both through the same perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass, and there- fore sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little, diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils: faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in the distance, lost their greatness. R. Hall. INFIDELITY. Although no man can command his conviction, I have ever considered a deliberate disposition to make proselytes to infidelity as an unaccountable depravity. Whoever attempts to pluck the belief, or the prejudice on this subject, from the bosom of One man, woman, or child, commits a brutal out- rage. R. B. Sheridam. I understand that as the most dangerous, because the most attractive, form of modern infidelity, which, pretending to exalt the beneficence of the Deity, degrades it into a reckless infinitude of mercy, and blind obliteration of the work of sin : and which does this chiefly by dwelling on the manifold appearances of God's kindness on the face of creation. J. Ruskim. The infidel, who, by his cavils, would undermine the foundations of Christian hope, is like the mad- man who recklessly pushes from him the lifeboat which is his only hope of rescue from the wreck. Christianity does hold out hope ; it is a hope which has proved substantial and consolatory to thou- sands; but what has infidelity done : Its highest achievement is to produce temporary insensibility to a fate which cannot be averted, and which, when it does come, will crush the obdurate unbe- liever into perdition. A. Baacter. Hundreds of thousands of the most talented indi- viduals in civilized society are infidels in their hearts : I once regarded an infidel as a sort of lusus natwroe, and I thought with perfect horror of becoming such an one. Yet still that change took place. In spite of myself—in spite of my earnest desire to the contrary, in spite of my fears and wishes and prepossessions, the evidence against re- ligion struck on my mind with overwhelming force. I examined, and re-examined. I searched the popular works for arguments to save me from conviction ; I found mone. I stated my difficulties to my orthodox friends; they could not solve them. Through fears, prejudices, antipathies, and early feelings conviction forced her unaided way—and I became an infidel. R. D. Owen. To his anguish, no end appears ; of such an end no arguments can be furnished by his mind, no tidings have reached his ear, and no hopes can ra- tionally arise in his heart : death, with all the gloomy scenes attendant upon a dying bed, is to the infidel merely the commencement of doubt, fear, and sorrow ; the grave to him is the entrance into a world of absolute and eternal darkness ; that world hung round with fear, amazement, and de- spair, overcast with midnight melancholy, with solitude desolate of every hope of real good, Opens to him through the dreary passage of the grave : beyond this entrance he sees nothing, he knows nothing, he can conjecture nothing but what must fill his heart with alarm, and makes his death bed a couch of thorns: with a suspense Scarcely less terrible than the miseries of damnation itself, his soul lingers over the vast and desolate abyss, when compelled by an unseen and irresistible hand, it plunges into this uncertain and irreversible doom, to learn by experience what is the measure of woe destined to reward those who obey not God, and reject the salvation proffered by His Son. Timothy Dwight. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 433 INFINITY. Finite minds cannot comprehend infinity. Seed. The Infinite is the origin of all things. - Anaasimander. Infinite space requires infinite time to compre- hend it. - T. Binney. The grandest temple of the Divinity is the ex- panse of infinitude. Sir R. Maltravers. There cannot be more infinities than one, for One of them would limit all others. Sir W. Raleigh. It is only the finite that has wrought and suf- fered ; the infinite lies stretched in Smiling repose. R. W. Emerson. The Infinite has sowed His name in the heavens in burning stars, but on the earth. He has sowed his name in tender flowers. Richter. Impossible it is that God should withdraw His presence from anything, because the very sub- stance of God is infinite. R. Hooker. The infinite distance between the Creator and the noblest of all creatures can never be measured, nor exhausted by endless addition of finite degrees. R. Bentley. It is as impossible for an aggregation of finites to comprehend or exhaust one infinite, as it is for the greater number of mathematical points to amount to or constitute a body. R. Boyle. When the mind pursues the idea of infinity, it uses the ideas and repetition of numbers, which are so many distinct ideas kept beset by number from running into a confused heap, wherein the mind loses itself. J. Locke. Let us always bear about us such impressions of reverence and fear of God, that we may humble ourselves before His Almightiness, and express that infinite distance between His infiniteness and our weakness. Jeremy Taylor. The sphere of our belief is much more extensive than the sphere of our knowledge ; and therefore, when I deny that the infinite can be by us known, I am far from denying that by us it is, and ought to be, believed. Sir W. Hamilton. In vain have I heaped upon my brain all the treasures of man's thought, and when I sit down at the end, no new-born power wells up within ; not a hair's breadth is added to my height, nor am I a whit nearer the infinite. Goethe. The infinite is more sure than any other fact. The infinite of terror, of hope, of pity ; did it not at any moment disclose itself to thee, indubita- ble, unnameable 2 Came it never, like the gleam of preternatural eternal oceans, like the voice of old eternities, far-sounding through thy heart of hearts 2 T. Carlyle. Infinity is the retirement in which perfect love and wisdom only dwell with God. In infinity and etermity the sceptic sees an abyss, in which all is lost ; I see in them the residence of Almighty power, in which my reason and my wishes find equally a firm support ; here, holding by the pil- lars of heavens, I exist—I stand fast. J. Miller. INFIRMITY. A friend should bear a friend's infirmities. Pope. The infirmities of age should always have the respect of the young. Chateawbriand. There is a debt of mercy and compassion due to the infirmities of man's nature. Jeremy Taylor. We are all conscious of the infirmities of Our na- ture; we are all subject to them. J. J. Crittenden. At my age, and under my infirmities, I can have no relief but those with which religion furnishes Illê. F. Atterbury. What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. Addison. Old age is most exposed to infirmities ; but there is no age at which human beings are exempt from infirmity of some kind or another. G. Crabb. The infirmities of age creep over the strong man, until he passeth into a tottering state of Semility and is bowed down by the weight of years. J. Limen. One must needs have tried corporeal infirmity, and afterwards become reconciled thereto, if he would know on what peaceful terms one may live with humiliation, habitual suffering, and constant, inconvenience. Mme. Swetchine. As the infirmities of age creep upon us we should become younger and stronger in our spiritual life : there are no infirmities of the soul, and if it is in right order, it concerns itself very little about our physical infirmities. James Ellis. The infirmities of this stage of life would be much fewer, if we did not affect those which at- tend the more vigorous and active part of our days; but instead of studying to be wiser, or being contented with our present follies, the ambition of many of us is also to be the same sort of fools we formerly have been, Steele. INFLEXIIBILITY. - Be inflexible to ill. Addison. The superior man will first be correct, then in- flexible. , Confucius. The nature of things is inflexible, and their na- tural relations unalterable. I. Watts. An inflexible will that holds us aloof from sin will lead us to virtue and happiness. J. Butler. Having determined upon a right course, we should maintain it with an inflexibility of purpose. J. A. James. That is inflexibility of character which holds the will to one course of action, whether good or evil. JMrs. Baden. Inflexibility may be a vicious or a virtuous trait of character; if we are inflexible in our purpose that leads us to the paths of rectitude and virtue, it is a noble one ; but if inflexible in those things that lead to vice, it is a reprehensible one, and must eventually bring us to destruction. James Ellis. 28 434 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. INFLUENCE. Influence is a mother's love. M. Lemon. Influence is woman's gentle Smile. J. F. Clarke. Influence is the mind's ascendant star. Romualdo Zotti. Influence is the prerogative of great minds. J. Wesley. . Influence is a golden key to every place and po- sition. Mime. Voillez. The influence of God is in the very essence of all things. R. Hooke?". Influence is the echo of our words in the hearts of others. Miss M. R. Mitford. The burning lamp of influence and love fills many a home with light and fragrance. James Ellis. The most brutal man cannot live in constant association with a strong female influence, and not be greatly controlled by it. Mrs. H. B. Stowe. Every man, however humble his station and feeble his powers, exercises some influence on those who are about him for good or for evil. A. Sedgwick. It is important to perceive, not merely in whom we can confide, but to maintain that influence over them which secures their good faith, and defeats the unsteady purposes of a wavering and dishonest mind. Actorv. Every act we do, or word we utter, as well as every act we witness or word we hear, carries with it an influence which extends over, and gives a color, not only to the whole of our future life, but makes itself felt upon the whole frame of so- ciety. Smiles. The influence of the parental character on child- ren is not to be calculated. Everything around has an influence on us; indeed, the influence of things is So great, that by familiarity with them they insensibly urge on us principles and feelings which we before abhorred. Lord Bwrleigh. Do not say your influence is confined to a narrow sphere ; yon little taper is not a sun ; yet observe how bright it shines, how far it spreads its rays in the dark night ! Hide not then your light, what- ever it be, under a bushel; nor keep your talent, because it is a single One, wrapped up in a napkin. E. Ward. Every man is, to a great extent, the creature of the age ; it is to no purpose that he resists the in- fluence which the vastness, in which he is but an atom, must exercise on him ; he may try to be a man of the tenth century, but he cannot ; whether he will or no, he must be a man of the nineteenth century. T. B. Macawlay. Influence is the power of awakening and keeping alive a general interest : it is a talent among many which may be envied. Every richly-gifted person has received with his own rare gifts the obligation to make them effective in the widest possible circle; if he does not do so, he is hoarding up histreasure, whether it be gold or talents. Mrs. S. Mayo. INFLUENCE. Influence is that unseen power by which we in a degree form the character, and direct the con- duct of those with whom we associate, and are by them molded in turn ; hence the necessity of choos- ing the proper companions. A. Ritchie. Almost every individual, however inferior in talent, or obscure his station in life may be, has a certain portion of influence in the circle of which he may form a part, if it be but the influence of example. Bremtom, Influence and ascendency are said likewise of things as well as persons ; true religion will have an influence not only on the outward conduct of a man, but on the inward affections of his heart : and that man is truly happy in whose mind it has the ascendancy over every other principle. Crabb. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake ; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of a republican government ; but that jealousy to be useful must be impartial, else it becomes the in- strument of the very influence to be avoided, in- stead of a defense against it. Washington. Let us be careful what influence we leave behind us; we are, every one of us, doing that every day, every hour, which will survive us, and which will affect for good or for evil those who corne after us. There is nothing we are more prone to forget and disregard than our influence upon others ; yet there is nothing we should more dread, there is nothing for which we must give a more solemn account. Hetty Bowman. Our home influence is not a passing, but an abi- ding one ; and all-powerful for good or evil, for peace or strife, for happiness or misery ; each Separate Christian home has been likened to a cen- tral sun, around which revolves a happy and united band of warm, loving hearts, acting, thinking, re- joicing, and sorrowing together. Which member of the family group can say, I have no influence 3 What sorrow, or what happiness, lies in the power of each S. Davies. ING-ENUITY. What force cannot doingenuity may. Cervantes. The more ingenious men are the more apt are they to trouble themselves. Sir W. Temple. An hour of ingenuity will sometimes accomplish more than a year of severe bodily toil. Gebhardt. Some people use one-half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. G. D. Prentice. Without ingenuity all our talents would be “wrapped up in a napkin” and buried in oblivion. Carey. Ingenuity is the most important talent bestowed on the human race ; without it life would be a failure. Mrs. Baker. Ingenuity is not alone confined to man ; it is an attribute given by Divine Providence to every living creature. James Ellis. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A T / O M. S. IlêSS. s * grateful. INGRATITUDE. Ingratitude sickens benevolence. Gottlieb. Brutes leave ingratitude to man. Byron. Ingratitude is the world's reward. Schiller. Ingratitude is treason to mankind. J. Thomson. Ingratitudgizas blind as it is base. T. James. Ingratitude is the blackest of faults. Jehuda. Ingratitude is the daughter of pride. Petronius. Ingratitude is the most damnable vice. T. Elyot. Ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. Richeliev. Ingratitude is abhorred both by God and by man. L’Estrange. Ingratitude springs either from covetousness or Suspicion. Theophrastws. Ingratitude calls forth reproaches, as gratitude brings fresh kindness. Mme. de Sévigné. Perhaps there is no crime which finds fewer ad- vocates than ingratitude. Mrs E. Appleton. An extraordinary haste to discharge an obliga- tion is a sort of ingratitude. Rochefoucauld. Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither. Basile. We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. Epicurus. Ingratitude is so monstrous and so black a crime that none but devils ever practice it. J. Chedworth. Ingratitude overlooks all kindness, but it is be- cause pride makes it carry its head so high. South. If there be a crime of deeper dye than all the guilty train of human vices, it is ingratitude. H. Brooke. I hate ingratitude more in man than lying, vain- ness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice. Shakspeare. Ingratitude is the abridgment of all baseness—a fault never found unattended with other vicious- T. Fulley". Ingratitude is of all crimes what in ourselves we account the most venial, in others the most unpar- donable. Rames. Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness : I have never Seen that clever men have been un- Goethe. A repetition of favor is an additional trial of con- stancy and affection, and a further temptation to ingratitude. Acton. Ingratitude is a crime so shameful that no one has ever yet been found who would acknowledge himself guilty of it. G. Brown. Ingratitude is the vice of being insensible to fa- vors received, without any endeavor to acknow- ledge and repay them. C. Buck. INGRATITUIDE. Nothing is more a stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and de- testable one of ingratitude. Washington. Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the hu- man breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions. Fielding. We shall avoid this shameful vice of ingratitude if we esteem the benefit of another greater than it is, and think that less than it is which we give. Robert of Avesbury Ingratitude is that which maketh men impudent, so that they dare join together to hurt those which have been their best friends, and them to whom they are bound both by blood, nature, and benefits. Duke of Buckingham. I hate that ambition which enforceth ingrati- tude ; which, being the basest of vices, cannot but soil and disgrace a man graced with such honors. I am not preferred with honor if debased with in- gratitude. A. Warwick. Do we not accuse God of ingratitude when we allow it to be supposed that He does that which many, even corrupt men, are incapable, and that He suffers those to fail who have given themselves up to Him ; Mºme. Swetchine. Of all the dark spots on depraved human nature, of the vile acts of man toward man, none throw such a freezing chill over the whole body, and drive back the purple current on the aching heart, like base and damming ingratitude. L. C. Judson. Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hide- ous ingratitude of man ; I turn my head in disgust from their cowardice and selfishness ; I hold life in horror ; death is repose—repose at last. Napoleon I. As the deepest hate may spring from the most violent love, so the greatest ingratitude may arise from the largest benefits. It is said that Cicero was slain by one whom his oratory had defended when he was accused of his father's murder. J. Beaumont. We seldom do a kindness, which, if we consider it rightly, is not abundantly repaid ; and we should hear little of ingratitude, unless we were so apt to exaggerate the worth of our better deeds, and to look for a return in proportion to our own exorbi- tant estimate. A. W. Hoºre. There never was any man yet so wicked as not to approve gratitude, and detest ingratitude ; as the two things in the whole world, the one to be the most abominated, the other the most esteemed. The very story of an ungrateful action puts us out of patience and gives us a loathing for the author of it. Seneca. The general cry is against ingratitude, but sure the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity ; none but direct villains are capable of will- ful ingratitude ; but almost every body is capable of thinking he hath done more than another de- serves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves. Pope. 436 AD A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. INGRATITUDE. There be three usual causes of ingratitude upon a benefit received—envy, pride, covetousness ; en- vy, looking more at others' benefits than our own ; pride, looking more at ourselves, than the benefit ; covetousness, looking more at what we would have than what we have. R. Hall. It must be remembered that all law is for some good that may be frequently attained without the admixture of a worse inconvenience ; and there- fore many gross faults, as ingratitude and the like, which are too far within the soul to be cured by constraint of law, are left only to be wrought on by conscience and persuasion. Milton. The worst of ingratitude lies not in the Ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed. As water containing stony particles incrusts with them the ferns and mosses it drops on, so the human breast hardens under ingratitude, in proportion to its openness, and aptitude to re- ceive impressions. W. S. Landor. The man who has been once guilty of ingratitude, will not stick at any other crime of an inferior na- ture ; since there are no human laws to punish this infamous, prevailing mischief, it would be a great piece of human prudence to mark and observe this kind of criminals, in order to avoid all manner of communication with them ; and if this were strict- ly put into execution, it could be looked upon as no other than a just and proper punishment. Croacall. Nothing is in its nature so fleeting, nothing has a shorter existence than the remembrance of kind acts ; and the greater they are so much the more likely are they to be repaid by ingratitude : for he who cannot or will not cancel them by a return of kindness, often seeks to cancel them by forget- ting their existence ; and those who are ashamed of having stood in need of a kindness are indignant at having received it, so that they have a stronger feeling of hatred from the recollection of the ne- cessity into which they have fallen, than of obli- gation for the kindness which they have received. Gwicciardini. INHERITANCE. Say not you know another, until you have di- vided an inheritance with him. Lavater. An inheritance of riches often proves worthless to those who lack the inheritance of moral and in- tellectual attributes. James Ellis. Enjoy what thou hast inherited from thy sires if thou wouldst possess it ; what we employ not is an oppressive burden ; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by. Goethe. Inheritance is the possession which comes to any one, not as a gift, but in consequence of their heir- ship. The people of God being children are heirs, and heaven comes to them as their inheritance. - A. Ritchie. *-sº Men are not proprietors of what they have mere- ly for themselves, their children have a title to part of it, which comes to be wholly theirs, when death has put an end to their parents' use of it ; and this we call inheritance. J. Locke. INHUMANITY. Inhumanity provoketh retaliation. G. Catlin. Inhumanity has no feeling for the miseries of others. G. F. Graham. The gain of a victory should never induce the committal of acts of inhumanity. Sophocles. Inhumanity exists only in soulless beings; it is the trait of the brute portrayed in human form. W. Benson. Inhumanity closes its heart to all appeals for mercy or aid, and ignores the feelings of sympathy and love. C. K. True. If a man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn, what is the effect of man's inhu- manity to woman Ż Chatfield. There is often more inhumanity to be found in the fashionable belle than in the poor flower-girl, from whom she purchases the boguet to wear on her jewelled breast. Annie E. Lancaster. Inhumanity is as much an essential part of man as humanity ; some beast, some devil ; some angel, some God ; the one may be conquered by the other, but neither can be totally destroyed. James Ellis. INIQUITY. Imiquity is a robe of shame. Want of the knowledge of God is the cause of all iniquity amongst men. R. Hooker. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. Magoon. God is no respecter of persons, but he will visit upon every one the strict reward of his iniquity. F. Wayland. The wages of iniquity afford some temptations; but to commit sin without any wages, is a strange species of infatuation. W. Gilpin. Delude not thyself into iniquities from participa- tion or community, which abate the sense but not the obliquity of them. Sir T. Browne. As those diseases are the most difficult to treat where the symptoms are concealed, so in regard to iniquities, those are often the most fatal which are guarded by suppression and concealment. Acton. To be a professing Christian and a practiser of iniquity, is an abomination unto the Lord ; some would not seem evil, and yet would be so ; others would be good, and yet would not seem so ; either be what thou seemest, or else be what thou art. S. Dyer. The cries of justice, and the voice of reason, are of no effect upon a conscience hardened with ini- quity, and a mind versed in a long practice of wrong and robbery ; remonstrances, however rea- sonably urged, or movingly couched, have no more influence upon the heart of such a one, than the gentle evening breeze has upon the oak, when it whispers among its branches, or the rising surges upon the deaf rock, when they dash and break against its sides. Bishop of Egwin. S. Croacall. ſº * A R O S E O U O T A 7" / O AV S. 437 INJURY. Do injury to no man. Menander. Return not injury for injury. Socrates. Learn to bear up against injuries. Memw. Injury is to be measured by malice. W. Jabet. Thou shalt not do injuries to another. Buddha. Injure not another's business or character. Rothschild. An injury to one citizen is an injury to all. Solom. It is far better to receive than to do an injury. Cicero. The best remedies for injuries is to forget them. Publiws Syrus. The man who has injured you will never forgive you. Cervantes. Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all. T. Fuller. Associate not with him who does an injury to his neighbor. Zoroaster. Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion. H. Ballow. One should run to prevent an injury, as one does to extinguish a fire. Heraclitus. Recompense injury with justice; and recompense kindness with kindness. - Confucius. A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of our feelings. Pliny the Younger. The truly valiant dare every thing, but doing any other body an injury. Sir P. Sidney. Christianity commands us to pass by injuries ; policy, to let them pass by us. Fromklin. An injury is the most severely felt when it is re- ceived from a person we love. To receive an injury is to be wounded ; but to forgive and forget it is the cure. Downey. No man ever did a designed injury to another, without doing a greater to himself. Kames. Do good to such as injure you ; the sandal-tree sheds perfume on the ax that fells it. Rºrishna. No man cam long continue to injure him, who re- quites injury with nothing but goodness. F. Wayland. Men will forget injuries easier than contempt ; they had rather be hated than not noticed. H. W. Show. Nothing can work me damage except myself ; the injury that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault. St. Bernard. Injuries make a more lasting impression than kindnesses, and while the latter quickly are for- gotten, the former are retained with a most tena- cious memory. Seneca. C. Ness. INJURY. A willful injury was never forgiven ; show me a person who ever did it, and I will call him more than man. J. Bartlett. The greater the power of him that is injured, the more inexpiable and persevering must be the ef- forts of those who have begun to injure him. Colton. As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him ; it is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God. R. Venning. Men are not only prone to lose the remembrance of benefits and of injuries; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have grievously injured them. Rochefoucauld. The injuries of life, if rightly improved, will be to us as the strokes of the sculptor on his marble, forming us to a more beautiful shape, and making us fitter to adorn the holy temple. C. Mather. Sympathy with those we have accidentally in- jured ordinarily greatly diminishes the amount of reparation required, and sometimes even inspires as much good-will as a benefit conferred. D. M. Moir. The injurious are often the first to raise the cry of injury ; they give the provocation, and then ac- cuse others of the offense, putting the blame, not upon the encroachment, but upon the resistance to it. Actom. An injury unanswered in time grows weary of itself, and dies away in involuntary remorse ; in bad dispositions, capable of no restraint but fear, it has a different effect ; the silent digestion of one wrong provokes a second. Sterne. Men ought either to be indulged or utterly de- stroyed, for they takevengeance for small offenses, but for great ones they are unable ; so that the injury to be dome to a man ought to be such that vengeance should not be feared. Machiavelli. If a bee stings you, will you go to the hive and destroy it 2 Would not a thousand come upon you ? If you receive a trifling injury do not be anxious to avenge it ; let it drop. It is wisdom to say little respecting the injuries you have received. Fenn. If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience ; hasty words rankle the wound, soft lan- guage dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar ; it is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. J. Beaumont. Propitious conscience, thou equitable and ready judge, be never absent from me ! Tell me, con- stantly, that I cannot do the least injury to another, without receiving the counter-stroke ; that I must necessarily wound myself when I wound another. Mercier. Injuries and wrongs not only call for revenge and reparation with the voice of equity itself, but oftentimes carry their punishment along with them, and by an unforeseen train of events, are retorted at the head of the actor of them ; and not seldom, from a deep remorse, expiated upon him- self by his own hand. S. Croacall. 438 J) A Y’.S CO / / A C O AV. INJUSTICE. Injustice does not pay. D. C. Broderick. Injustice must be dome to none. Rabbi Jehuda. Injustice shall not go unavenged. St. Columbkille. It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice. - Demosthenes. It is the duty of every citizen to raise his voice against injustice. M. Jacques. Mankind are more apt to resent acts of injustice than acts of violence. Thwcydides. The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy. Mºme. Swetchine. No one dare maintain that it is better to do in- justice than to bear it. Aristotle. The man who wears injustice by his side, com- bats against high heaven. Havard. The wound caused by injustice is better healed by the hand which inflicts it. Hannah M. Rathbone. The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of injustice. Rochefoucauld. He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. Plato. One man receives crucifixion as the reward of injustice, another a regal crown. Jwvenal. If thou sustain injustice, console thyself ; the true happiness is in doing justice. Democritus. Injustice, if it be speedy, would, in certain cases of law, be more desirable than justice, if it be slow. Coltom. Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injust- ices without being discovered, or at least without being punished. Swift. It is base injustice to bear false witness against our neighbor, either by petty Scandal, open slan- der, or willful perjury. C. Reade. Deliberate injustice must be remembered, be- cause it requires deliberate precautions to be se- cured against its return. Burke. With more patience men endure the losses that befall them by mere casuality than the damages which they sustain by injustice. Sir W. Raleigh. We all award this kind of injustice to others, that if they sin toward us in one respect, we infer that they are ready to sin in all. Woodmoth. Injustice causeth a man to endure greater suffer- ings from the torments of a guilty conscience, than if his body were subjected to the pain of many Scourges. Demophilus. Injustice consists in an invasion of any of man's natural rights, or a failure of the constituted au- thorities to redress the wrongs inflicted upon him by others. R. M. Johnson. Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year; the world would foment with revolution. T. Parker. . pocket. INJUSTICE. Injustice arises either from precipitation or in- dolence, or from a mixture of both ; the rapid and the slow are seldom just ; the unjust wait either not at all or wait too long. Lavater. The greatest of all injustice is that which goes under the name of law ; and of all sorts of tyranny, the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable. L’Estrange. If thou desire rest unto thy soul, be just; he that doth no injury fears not to suffer injury; the un- just mind is always in labor ; it either practices the evil it hath projected, or projects to avoid the evil it hath deserved. F. Quarles. If a man could procure to himself as great ad- Vantage by an act of injustice, as the whole foreseen inconvenience likely to be brought upon others by it would amount to, such a piece of injustice would not be faulty or vicious at all. F. Wayland. What renders man unjust 2 Are not errors and prejudices the causes of the abuses of power ? If you really wish to prevent the commission of in- justice, you must first remove error and prejudice. Any one intrusted with power will abuse it, unless animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince or whether he be One of the people. La Fontaine. INEC Let there be gall in thy ink. Shakspeare. Ink was invented to make words living truths. W. Caacton. A drop of ink has not only saved men but na- tions. J. Baldwim Brown. Dip the pen of the tongue in the ink of the heart. Edlin. The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. Mohammed. A small drop of ink makes many men honest, who would be rogues without it. W. Unsworth. How delightful to make a few blots of ink, rep- resenting a little thought, bring money into one's Joseph G. Baldwin. INN. An inn is a traveller's home. Wergeland. He who has not been at an inn knows not what a paradise it is. Arentino. What is this world but a huge inn, and life its changing guest. Harold Browne. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good tavern Or inn. Boswell. The keeper of an inn makes haste to serve you ; but you often have to pay a double price for the things set down to your account. Folgwet de Lunel. The welcome at an inn may be compared to the welcome we receive in the world ; if we possess the golden passport, we are received with open arms ; without it, we are looked upon as an intru- der and a nuisance. Brooke Foss Westcott. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 439 INNOCENCE. Innocence is no protection. P. Lindsley. Innocence has nothing to dread. Racine. Let innocence fear fortune only. Publius Syrus. Innocence is always unsuspicious. Haliburton. Innocence is never accustomed to blush. Molière. Thou shalt not kill the innocent, nor the just. Talmud. All things which do not corrupt are innocent. H. W. Shaw. The innocent man seldom finds an uneasy pillow. Cowper. Innocence itself sometimes hath need of a mask. G. Mellem. Innocent actions carry their warrant with them. Meauchard. Innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. Bulwer. Innocence is in some sort the effect of regenera- tion. St. Bernard. Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt. Rochefoucauld. Innocence is an assured comfort, both in life and death. Lactantius. Innocence is destroyed by contact with the world. Al-Forcubi. Every innocent heart realizes it in its calm tran- quility. Metastasio. There is a heroic innocence, as well as a heroic courage. St. Evremond. Innocence and mysteriousness never dwell long together. Rowsseaw. Innocence is like a polished armor ; it adorns and it defends. R. Sowth. Innocence is a good thing which cannot be taken away by torment. Awreliws. It is not quality, but innocence, which exempts men from reproof. Addison. Innocence in man is a flower that blooms to a divine immortality. Mrs. R. Church. There can be no greater good than innocence, nor worse evil than guilt. Abbe Raynal. Innocency is built upon divine reason : religion is the soul of innocency. Eudoaciws. Riches and honor are broken pillars, but inno- cence is an unmoving column. Pliny. Innocence and prudence are two anchors, that cannot be torn up by any tempest. Quadrigarius. While man was innocent he was likely ignorant of nothing that imported him to know. Glanvill. When you teach your men to live innocent, you do at the same time make them valiant. J. Hinton. To be innocent is to be not guilty ; but to be vir- tuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. W. Penn. { INNOCENCE. He is armed without that is innocent within ; be this thy screen and this thy wall of brass. Horace. Innocence is the most profitable thing in the world, because it makes all things else profitable. E. C. Clayton. Innocence is a flower which withers when touch- ed, but blooms not again, though watered with tears. J. Hooper. Innocence is acting in perfect consonance to the law, without incurring guilt or consequent punish- ment. - C. Buck. No security of mind is so salutary as that of in- nocence ; guilt, however confident, has inexorable fears. N. Macdonald. The innocent, when oppressed by fate or by man, has two unfailing asylums, God and his own con- science. Mme. Swetchine. The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. t N. P. Willis. Innocence being stopped by the malignant, tak- eth breath and heart again, to the Overthrow of her enemies. Cicero. I do not believe in virtue, but I do believe in in- nocence ; they are very different ; innocence is ignorance. Mme. de Girardim. Innocence to God is the chiefest incense ; and a conscience without guile is a sacrifice of the sweet- est, SaVOr. St. Augustine. We have not the innocence of Eden ; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane. E. H. Chapin. The most important principle, perhaps, in life, is to have a pursuit—a useful one if possible, and at all events, an innocent One. Sir H. Davy. As continued health is vastly preferable to the happiest recovery from sickness, so is innocence superior to the truest repentance. Annie E. Clark. When a wicked man, in power, has a mind to glut his appetite in any respect, innocence, or even merit, is no protection against him. S. Croacall. Let no one flatter himself that he is innocent, if he love to meditate upon anything which he would blush to avow before men, or fear to unveil before God. F. Wayland. Beauty is a flower soon withered, health is soon altered, strength by incontinence abated, but in- nocence is divine and immortal ; it is an assured comfort, both in life and death. J. Godkin. How gladly would I lead mankind from the vain prospects of life, to prospects of innocence and ease, where every breeze breathes health, and every sound is but the echo of tranquillity. Goldsmith. While thou art most happy with innocence, thou dost Him most honor who created thee in mercy : had He not intended thee to be happy, His benefi- cence would not have called thee into existence. Damdamis. 440 AD A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. INNOCENCE. Of all sights which can soften and humanize the heart of man, there is none that ought so surely to reach it as that of innocent children enjoying the happiness which is their proper and natural por- tion. R. Sowthey. Innocence is an affection of the mind so well framed that it will hurt no man either by word or deed ; a tower of brass against slanderers, and the only balm or cure of a wounded name, strengthen- ing the conscience, by which it knows its own pu- rity. Dowmame. Innocence and ignorance are sisters; vulgar in- nocence and ignorance are mortal; they have pret- ty faces, but wholly without expression, and of a transient beauty ; the noble sisters are immortal, their lofty forms are unchangeable and their coun- tenances are still radiant with the light of para- dise. Novalis. Wisdom without innocency is knavery ; inno- cency without wisdom is foolery ; be therefore as wise as serpents, and innocent as doves ; the sub- tilty of the serpent instructs the innocency of the dove ; the innocency of the dove corrects the sub- tilty of the serpent; what God hath joined together let no man separate. F. Quarles. How many bitter thoughts does the innocent man avoid Serenity and cheerfulness are his por- tion; hope is continually pouring its balm into his soul ; his heart is at rest, whilst others are goaded and tortured by the stings of a wounded conscience, the remonstrances and the rising up of principles which they cannot forget, teased by returning temptations, and perpetually lamenting defeated resolutions. W. Paley. This man is named Godly-man, and this garment is to show the innocency of his life. Now, those that throw dirt at him are such as hate his well- . doing ; but, as you see, the dirt will not stick upon his clothes; so it shall be with him that liveth in- nocently in the world. Whoever they be that would make such men dirty, they labor all in vain; for God will cause that their innocence shall break forth as the light of noon-day. Bwmyan. It is a marvelous thing to see how a pure and innocent heart purifies all that it approaches ; the most ferocious natures are soothed and tamed by innocence ; and so with human beings, there is a delicacy so pure that vicious men in its presence become almost pure ; all of purity which is in them is brought out ; like attaches to like ; the pure heart becomes a centre of attraction, around which similar atoms gather, and from which dissimilar ones are repelled. F. W. Robertson. Innocence is the sweetest thing in the world, and there is no more of it than folks generally imagine. If you want some to transplant, do not seek it in the inclosures of cant—for it has only counterfeit ones; but go to the gardens of truth and sense. Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark, open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained, knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the Caged One, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowlers or the vul- ture. Haliburton. INNOVATION. All innovation is new life. Gracey. Not all innovation is progress ; but all progress is innovation. David Thomas. Innovation is the unanswerable objection urged against all improvement. H. Smith. Every innovation disturbs more by its novelty, than benefits by its utility. Bulstrode. The ridiculous rage for innovation, which only increases the weight of the chains it cannot break, shall never fire my blood Schiller. A stupid dread of innovation is an almost insur- mountable barrier to the amelioration of the bar- barities of criminal law in England. Sir S. Romvilly. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look back- ward to their ancestors. Burke. INQUIRY. The present is an age of inquiry. Colton. Earnest inquiry leadeth to virtue. Tsze-Hea. Inquiry, unjust and earnest, constrains one to be guilty of falsehood. W. Cabestowing. It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry, when what we search for is excellent. Cicero. The mind seems to be conducted to intricate inquiries; we endeavor to penetrate them and solve them, but in vain Senhowse. All calm inquiry, conducted among those who have their main principles of judgment in Com- mon, leads, if not to an approximation of views, yet, at least, to an increase of sympathy. Arnold. Let not the freedom of inquiry be shackled ; if it multiplies contentions among the wise and vir- tuous, it exercises the charity of those who con- tend ; if it shakes for a time the belief that is rested only upon prejudice, it finally settles it on the broader and more solid basis of conviction. White. INQUISITIVENESS. Shun the inquisitive. Horace. Inquisitiveness is at all times an unwelcome visi- tor. Sir P. Sidney. Inquisitiveness or curiosity is a kernel of the for- bidden fruit. T. Fuller. Inquisitiveness makes more mischief in the com- munity than almost any other cause. E. Capell. Nothing raises the inquisitive disposition of man- kind so much as to defer its gratification. Pliny. The man who is inquisitive into the secrets of your affairs with which he has no concern, should be an object of your caution. Fielding. Inquisitiveness is an itch for prying into other people's affairs, to the neglect of our own ; an ig- morant hankering after all such knowledge as is not worth knowing ; a curiosity to learn things that are not all curious. H. Smith. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 441 INSAINITY. All fools are insane. Tawler. Moral insanity is wickedness. Dr. F. Barker. Eccentricity is not necessarily insanity. Dr. F. D. Loring. Insanity is a mental disturbance from disease. Dr. Jasmin Strong. Mental delusion is not always a sign of insanity. Dr. Orpheus Evarts. All power of fancy over reason is a degree of in- Sanity. Dr. Johnson. Insane people easily detect the nonsense of other madmen. J. Haslam. Insanity is often the logic of an eaccurate mind overtasked. O. W. Holmes. Insanity is always the manifestation of a dis- eased brain. Dr. H. P. Stearms. Insanity is a derangement or disturbance of the mental faculties. Dr. John H. Collencier. An insane person is indeed a subject for pity and general restraint. A person who has an insane delusion is insane, even if it be a single delusion. Dr. E. C. Spitzka. Insane criminals are more egotistical, self-willed, and ignorant than other criminals. A. M. Shaw. A stroke from an insane person comes like a stroke of lightning ; it cannot be avoided. Dr. Walter Kempster. Insanity is a disease of the brain, characterized by a perversion of the intellectual faculties. Dr. Randolph Barksdale. Insanity of the heart, and not of the head, is an insanity which intensifies the guilt of the criminal. Rev. D. S. Burchard. If all sane men were marked with chalk, and the insane with charcoal, there would soon be a scar- city of chalk. FHorace. Insanity is a disease of the brain, manifesting itself in a departure from the ordinary views and conduct of life. Dr. E. A. Macdonald. Insanity is an irresistible desire to do something you cannot help doing ; when a spirit comes over you, and overpowers you, that is insanity. Charles J. Gwiteau. The majority of men are same ; insanity is the exception, and the law presumes every man to be sane, until some reason is shown to believe to the contrary. Judge Coace. Insanity consists in such false perceptions of the relations of things as lead to irrational emotions or actions. Melancholy is partial insanity, without in- digestion; mania is universal insanity. W. Cullen. The physician should never deceive the insane in anything, but more particularly with regard to their distemper; and by letting them see that he is thoroughly acquainted with their complaint he may very often gain such an ascendant over them that they will readily follow his directions. J. Monro. Mary K. Dallas. INSCRIPTION. Let there be no inscription on my tomb. Emmett. Gravestone inscriptions are seldom true. Bond. A lying inscription on a tomb is a libel on the dead. H. S. Riddell. Inscriptions have proved a great help to the de- cipherment of hieroglyphics. Champollion. A deep magic spell seems to lie on the dead world, full of ancient life, and whose pulse beats in its in- Scriptions. Henry Brugschs. The inscription over a grave is often placed there to honor pride or wealth, and when we know this mark of praise is false, how utterly worthless are all the devices of worldly pomp. C. de Ludovicus. “Died in the Lord” is the best inscription we can place over the grave of one we hold dear to us; and if the inscription be a just one, it will be a great source of comfort and consolation. Magirus. INSECT. Insects furnish food for birds. Pennant. Insects are soldiers by nature. W. Smellie. Insects fulfill the end of their existence. Southey. From an insect I learned perseverance. Timowr. Insects have their vices, virtues, passions, and prejudices. Konig. Mankind, in general, know but little of the sa- gacity of insects. Henry Smeathman. We may trace the hand of God clearly and fully in the smallest insect that crawleth. Sturm. An insect's capacity to distinguish red from blue is not accompanied by that sense of enjoyment which pure colors excite in us. A. R. Wallace. The whole winged insect tribe are intent upon their proper employment, and gratified by the offices which God has assigned to them. Paley. The dress of insects is a vesture of resplendent colors set with an arrangement of the brightest gems ; their wings are the finest expansion imagin- able, compared to which lawn is as coarse as sack- cloth. G. W. Hervey. When an insect emerges from its chrysalis state, how feeble are all its movements, how its wings hang powerless until the genial air has dried and strengthened them ; how patiently the insect tries again and again to spread them, and visit the flow- ers, till at last it enjoys the reward of its labors in the nectar and fragrance of the garden Sarah M. Grimké. Insects generally must lead a truly jovial life : think what it must be to lodge in a lily ; imagine a palace of ivory and pearl, with pillars of silver and capitals of gold, all exhaling such a perfume as never arose from a human censer; fancy, again, the fun of tucking themselves up for the night in the folds of a rose, rocked to sleep by the gentle sighs of the summer air, nothing to do when you awake but to wash yourself in a dew drop. Waldo. 442 AX A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. INSENSIBILITY. INSINCERITY. Condemn insensibility. J. F. W. Wachler. Insincerity crucifies the heart. C. C. Burr. Insensibility is a selfish feeling. W. A. Jones. Insincerity leads on to falsehood. J. Isla. Insensibility to fear often averts danger. Kobler. Insincerity detracts from learning. Confucius. We should be insensible to every evil passion. Insincerity soon wearies of its task. St. Yves. Lao Kiwn. Insensibility to things of the world is the aim of a child of God. C. T. Wolther. He who is selfish is always insensible to the cry of human suffering. Marcus Morton. We should never be insensible to the cry of dis- tress, or that of mercy. Lady M. A. Barker. To mourn without measure, is folly ; not to mourn at all, insensibility. R. Dodsley. Insensibility to hardships is commendable in those who seek their country's good. Coesar. A thorough and mature insensibility is rarely to be acquired, but by a steady perseverance in in- famy. Jwniws. A Christian should be like a statue of wood or stone, insensible to the honors or praises bestowed upon him by man. St. Francis of Assisium. There are moments when the insensibility of those we love and the petty slights of our friends, are harder to bear than even a serious injury ; men have died of the festering of a gnat-bite. Cecil Danby. INSIGNIFICANCE. There is nothing insignificant. S. T. Coleridge. Insignificance is born of poverty. J. K. Möser. Our insignificance is frequently the cause of our safety. Richard Newton. Insignificance is not always truthfully repre- sented. Cicero. Insignificance, for lack of argument, generally has recourse to abuse. W. Jabet. Why should the falcon of pride devour the spar- row of insignificance 2 Tºhºr. Insignificance becomes the more apparent when it seeks a high position. Sem-2ai-shiw. No object is so insignificant, no event so trivial, as not to carry with it a moral and religious influ- €IlC6. G. B. Cheever. As among swans, a goose makes the loudest noise, as does an insignificant person assume among superiors. Otho IV. Insignificance is essentially a creation of man's caprice ; even the gnat is not insignificant in the sight of God. Claude Mermet. We all have our positions in life, and if we fill them to the fullest extent of our ability we cannot be insignificant. W. Jay. Nothing is insignificant ; the least drop of water, the smallest atom of dust, the tiniest leaf, the most microscopical insect, our slightest act, teems with a significance which we shall only know in the hereafter. Amma Beale. It is better to have an open enemy than an insin- cere friend. Pythagoras. If a man's religion is insincere, we must expect his politics to be also. E. Wright. Men were at first upright : then came an era of insincerity, which led to vice and misery. Loo-Tsze. To know how much insincerity there is in the world, one should become proficient in flattery and compliment. A. B. Reach. Insincerity is a base coin ; we seek to produce Something valuable with that which we know to be worthless. Mrs. Ross Church. The insincerity of barbarians deserves punish- ment ; if they would receive pardon let them em- brace Christianity. Charlemagne. Insincerity is like a Dead Sea apple ; very fair to look at, but nothing but disappointment awaits those who trust to its appearance. G. Jacob. The insincere are more dangerousthan an avowed rival or foe, because we cannot guard against them as we can against the latter ; they will shake you by one hand, and stab you with the other. I. Milner. If we were not insincere ourselves, it would be difficult for others to be insincere ; there is some- thing more than the false glare, the vague presen- timents, the fugitive tones, and momentary flashes of light around us. W. Rawle. All mankind practice insincerity ; in every rela- tion of life they wear a mask to cover their designs. In the battle of life it is not so much the struggle for superiority as it is the endeavor to discover one man's design upon another. James Ellis. INSINTUATION. Insinuation is design. Confucius. Base insinuations destroy friendship. J. Müller. A base insinuation is worse than an open false- hood. Lord Naas. When we insinuate a wrong motive to another, we are often designing one ourselves. T. Reeve. He who utters a base insinuation is an assassin making a cowardly attack in the dark. Murray. An evil insinuation is a lie under a genteel cloak ; but unlike a plain lie, has no limit to the mischief it may cause. J. Pamcoast. There are very few persons in the world who, at some time or other, have not uttered insinua- tions on the conduct of those who little deserved them. M. T. Sadle?". When an insinuation that will injure another has once passed the lips—when the poinard of slander has been thrust into the heart—mercy and tenderness are lost sight of. Pawl Rabawt. P R O S E O U O 7. A 7 / O A. S. 443 INSOLENCE. Give no quarter to the insolent. Jingw. An insolent look loseth the heart. Ferdinand. Insolence is disarmed by meekness. St. Gal. Let insolence be punished by death. Isdegerdes. Insolence puts an end to friendship. E. Polhill. Check the insolence of public sinners. Twribius. I will shut up the way to the insolent. Pontiac. Insolence is pride when her mask is pulled off. Sir A. Pawlet. Conciliate insolence when you cannot subdue it. Iyeyasu. The insolent man shows a want of discretion and self-respect. G. F. Graham, Insolence may sometimes be best punished by levity and kind words. Faro. Insolence to one's superiors is not unlike a blind man, attempting to teach the way to those who can see better than himself. Bion. There is an insolence which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. Fielding. An insolent man begetteth for himself solitari- ness, in that through his audacity, folly, and im- pudency, he soon finds himself abandoned of all the world. Plato. The insolence of men arises from their own mean- ness of spirit; conscious of the tameness with which they would themselves bear an insult, they thus dare to offer one to others. J. Jamieson. INSOLVENCY. Insolvency cripples a great spirit. Emerson. Insolvency is the child of prodigality. Menas. A long negligence of accounts brings on insol- vency. Chesterfield. An insolvent mind is worse than an insolvent pocket. James Ellis. Insolvency generally springs from an inordinate thirst of gain. J. T. Irving. Lose not thine own for want of asking for it ; it will bring thee to insolvency. T. Fuller. A gentleman may die in a state of insolvency, who does not leave effects sufficient to cover all demands. G. Crabb. Instead of that general custom of modern bar- barians to bury insolvents alive, this polite and hu- mane people, the Egyptians, had a law of greater efficacy, which denied burial to them when dead. Warburton. By an act of insolvency all persons who are in too low a way of dealing to be bankrupts, or not in a mercantile state of life, are discharged from all suits and imprisonments, by delivering up all their estate and effects. Sir W. Blackstone. INSPIRATION. Await inspiration. Jacques Jasmin. Inspiration is the soul of art. A mºvie E. Lancaster. Inspiration is communion with God. St. Isidorus. Inspiration is the spring of lofty deeds. Isoews. Inspiration is the burning lamp of genius. Jolly. No man was ever great without Divine inspira- tion. Cicero. Inspiration developed the noblest fantasies of the ancients. Jules Jamim. The glow of inspiration warms us ; this holy rap- ture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man. Ovid. Whoever thoroughly accepts faith as the inspi-. ration of his labors, will be ready to work for hu- manity as if the fortunes of the world depended on his personal endeavors. G. W. Julian. Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and Our best deeds are all given to us. G. Eliot. Inspiration may be best defined, according to the representations of the Scriptures themselves, as an extraordinary Divine agency upon teachers while giving instruction, whether oral or written, by which they were taught what and how they should write or speak, G. C. Knapp. Inspiration is that divine influence which, ac- companying the sacred writers equally in all they wrote, secured the infallible truth of their writings in every part, both in idea and expression, and determined the selection and distribution of their material according to the Divine purpose. Hodge. INSTABILITY. Instability causeth jealousy. Ro-kin-Shiw. Instability decreaseth affection. M. Curtius. Instability is the nature of water. Nihongi. Instability is the fate of men and things. Itwrbide. Instability is the bane of any government. G. M. Dallas. There are many men of brilliant faculties who fail from instability of character. E. D. Mansfield. The instability of a friend is more grievous than the malicious hatred of an enemy. St. Isidorus. Instability is shown in changing deliberations once decided upon without substantial reasons. Ansalda Ceba. To be longing for this thing to-day, and for that thing to-morrow, and to change likings for loath- ings, is an evidence of instability. L’Estrange. Beware of irresolution in the extent of thy ac- tions; beware of instability in the execution ; so shalt thou triumph over two great failings of thy nature. R. Dodsley. 444 A) A Y'S CO / / A C O AW. INSTINCT. Every creature hath instinct. Jeremy Taylor. Instinct has God for its Father. Jesse A. Spencer. Goethe. Instinct is the sensitive soul of beasts. Ximenes. We are too good for pure instinct. Instinct is both the inferior and superior of rea- SOIl. C. Wintringham. We only listen to those instincts which are our La Fontaine. OWIl. That which is reason in man is instinct in ani- mals. J. C. Wolff. Men envy the beasts the instinct which guides them. St. Pierre. Animals void of reason are endowed with in- stinct. Stwºrm. An instinct is a blind tendency to Some mode of action. R. Whately. There is no instinct in nature without an object or purpose. Karoline Wolzogen. Instinct and reason are the difference between man and the brute. G. Winer. What man calls instinct in a beast is more excel- lent than reason in man. T. Zwinger. As man cultivates his intellectual faculties, he learns to mistrust his instincts. J. Fiºrst. To have but one object in view, is to be governed in a great measure by instinct. Acton. Animal instinct is the exertion of mental power without the exercise of reason. H. Smith. An instinct is a propensity prior to experience and independent of instruction. W. Paley. Reason is the judgment formed by experience ; instinct is judgment ready-made. P. Yvon. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding. Addison. An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and know- ledge. Sir W. Hamilton. Instinct is the general property of the living principle, or the law of organized life in a state of action. J. M. Good. Our instinct inspires, warns us ; our intelligence scents out what our reason does not discover, for instinct is the nose of the mind, Mme. de Girardin. Implanted instincts in brutes are in themselves highly reasonable and useful to their ends, and evincible by true reason to be such. Sir M. Hale. The active part of man consists of powerful in- stincts; some are gentle and continuous, others violent and short ; some baser, some nobler, all necessary. F. W. Newman. Ivy will not cling to a poisonous tree or other substance. What a pity that the tendrils of a man's heart have not the same wholesome and salutary instinct. G. D. Premtice. Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct ; man, the while, who pos- sesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on. R. Sowthey. tion. INSTINCT. Instinct is that power of volition or impulse pro- duced by the peculiar nature of an animal, which prompts it to do certain things independent of all instruction or experience, and without delibera- tion, where such act is immediately connected with its own individual preservation, or with that of its kind. G. Mawnder. All creatures have a natural affection to their young ones ; all young ones by a natural instinct move to, and receive, the mourishment that is pro- per for them ; some are their own physicians, as well as their own caterers, and naturally discern what preserves them in life, and what restores them when sick. S. Charmock. The meanest classes of sensitive beings are in- dued with the faculty of instinct, a sagacity which is neither derived from observation, nor waits the finish of experience ; which without a tutor teaches them all necessary skill, and enables them without a pattern to perform every needful operation ; and what is more remarkable, it never misleads them, either into erroneous principles, or pernicious prac- tices; nor ever fails them in the most nice and difficult of their undertakings. G. W. Hervey. INSTITUTION. Wise institutions elevate men.' R. Bentley. Good institutions show a nation's progress. Ellis. Public institutions are the outgrowth of civili- zation. Sir C. Wren. Political institutions are very necessary to a re- public. F. Wood. Divine institutions are indispensable to the wel- fare of man. G. Wythe. Moral institutions cannot be too much multiplied and encouraged. - Actom. Institutions may be compared to certain fruits ; when unripe, no storm disturbs them ; when ripe, a puff will blow them down. Philo. The number of evil institutions that abound in this world are like serpents in a den ; it requires a good many hands to beat them out and destroy them. A. P. Upshur. I bequeath the whole of my property to found, under the name of the “Smithsonian Institution,” an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge. J. Smithson. Institutions must be fitted to the different ages of the world's mind, just as his clothes are altered and adjusted to the different ages of an individual's body. When we have outgrown either, they should be cast aside. H. Smith. Human institutions are not like the palace of the architect, framed according to fixed rules, capable of erection in any situation, and certain in the ef- fect to be produced; they resemble the trees of the forest, susceptible of destruction. 4. Alison. TJnder the influence of free institutions, wealth will be opened to citizens, and to the country new elements of power developed, and new links forged to bind together in peaceful co-operation the exer- tions of a wide-spread and rapidly increasing popu- Prince of Wales. P R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 445 INSTRUCTION. Instruct your children. Periander. Seek for instruction cheerfully. Rabbi Iechiel. Instructors often most need instruction. William Smith. It is seldom safe to venture to instruct, even Our friends. Colton. It is allowable to derive instruction even from an enemy. Ovid. It is a great gift to be able to please and instruct at the same time. Horace. Instruction is only profitable to those who are capable of receiving it. Bamvard. Instruction by precept is tedious, by example more effectual and short. L. C. Judson. There is no more permicious error than that the whole people should be instructed alike. Griswold. Most pleasant is instruction when it comes from one who speaks wisely, and with it comes advan- tage. Sophocles. Religious instruction is as necessary to children as the air is to the life and health of the natural body. J. Ralph. The first duty of parents is to instruct their chil- dren in the principles of religion, honesty, and morality. 'N. Webster. No one can be in a more unhappy circumstance, than to have neither an ability to give nor to take instruction. Mrs. Opie. The wise are instructed by reason ; ordinary minds by experience ; the stupid by necessity, and brutes by instinct. Cicero. The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful. FI. Ballow. The disposition is molded in a happy manner by instruction, as the shapeless material assumes a beautiful form in the hands of a skillful artist. Demopholus. Instructors should not only be skillful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice. I. Watts. If in instructing a child you are vexed with it for a want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand. Boyes. No system of education should be encouraged, and no institution of learning should be patronized, which does not give a thorough course of instruc- tion in the best code of ethics ever known to man. J. S. Denman. In instruction, when the learners are of a differ- ent class from the instructor, he must by an effort of imagination put himself in their place, and con- ceive himself as ignorant and uncultivated as they are. R. Whately. INSTRUCTION. To instruct mankind in things the most excellent, and honor, and applaud those learned men who perform this service with industry and care, is a duty the performance of which must procure the love of all good men. Aemophon. So much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and So great is the influence daily exercised by parents over their children by living a life before their eyes, that per- haps the best system of parental instruction might be summed up in these two words: “Improve thy- Self.” Smiles. In giving instruction, we do not always recog- nize the good we are accomplishing. The effects of our labors may not be perceptible in their pro- gress, but Divine truth in its silent, searching ope- ration may be effecting the conversion of those under our care ; and our work, when it is finished, will produce a result which, if it does not command the gaze of an admiring world, will cause the an- gels in heaven to sing for joy. W. E. Channing. Let us consider how great a commodity of doc- trine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of human ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and feru- les, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money. If you approach them they are not asleep ; if in investigating you interrogate them, they conceal nothing ; if you mistake them they never grumble ; if you are ignorant they cannot laugh at you. Richard de Bury. INSTRUMENT. Bad men are often the instruments of ruin to others. N. Webster". Devotion is a powerful instrument in humaniz- ing the manners of men. H. Blair. Man is an instrument in the hands of God, for the fulfillment of His works. Goethe. Persecutors never pardon those who refuse to yield themselves the instruments of persecution. Magoon. From the rank of masters our enemies have des- cended to that of instruments, and we see those obeying who dream that they command. Mme. de Stotel. When we consider man as an instrument for pro- duction of happiness, we must take into the ac- count, man as a society, as well as man as an indi- vidual. F. Wayland. Individuals in high stations are often the instru- ments in bringing about great changes in nations; spies and informers are the worthless tools of gov- ernment. G. Crabb. Some would be thought to do great things, who are but tools and instruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ, when he only blew the bellows. R. Dodsley. Men, though masters of their intentions, and never losing thier responsibility, are as much the instruments of Divine Justice as inanimate and unreasoning objects. Mme. Swetchine. 446 JD A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. INSULT. INTEGRITY. Never commit an insult. Bias. Hold integrity sacred. Rothschild. A public insult must be publicly atoned for. Al-Isofaraini. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it. Washington. Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion. AEsop. An insult to one man is an insult to all, for it may be our turn next. H. W. Shaw. An insult always calls forth the worst part of a good man, and the best part of a bad one. J. Joy. The way to procure insults is to submit to them : a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. Hazlitt. He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so : and insolence, if unpunished, goes on in- creasing. Corneille. Would most men be as ready to aid the needy as they are to insult them, many would be a bless- ing and not a curse to those around them. Downey. He that is cautious of insulting the weakest, and not above obliging the lowest, will secure to him- self the good-will of all that are beneath him. Colton. Whatever be the motive of an insult it is always best to overlook it ; for folly scarcely can deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. Dr. Johnson. The greater portion of mankind are more sensi- tive to contemptuous language than unjust acts: for they can less easily bear insult than wrong. Plutarch. Injuries may be atoned for, and forgiven ; but insults admit of no compensation ; they degrade the mind in its own esteem, and force it to recover its level by revenge. Junius. The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the me plus witna of art. What insult is so keen, or so keenly felt, as the polite insult, which it is impos- sible to resent 2 Julia Kavanagh. As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of Some minds to insult and ty. ramnize over little people ; this being the means which they use to recompense themselves for their extreme servility and condescension to their supe- riors; for nothing can be more reasonable than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them which they themselves pay to all above them. Fielding. Insult not over misery, deride not infirmity, nor despise deformity ; the first shows your inhuma- nity, the second your folly, the third your pride. The same Being that made him miserable, made you happy to lament him ; He that made him weak, made you strong to support him ; He that made him deformed, gave you favor to be humble. He that is not sensible of another's unhappiness is a living stone ; but he that makes misery the ob- ject of his triumph, is an incarnate devil. J. Beawmont. Integrity is to be preferred to eloquence. AEschimes. He who retains his integrity can never be wholly miserable. E. Chambers. He that regards his integrity must second all things to his honor. G. Silveštre. Keen adversity is the best crucible in which to try men's integrity. Downey. A man of incorruptible integrity is in himself a T. Tilton. Every man should wrap himself up in the man- tle of his own integrity. Horace. treasury to a nation. Integrity in youth is almost certain to become wisdom and honor in old age. H. W. Shaw. The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in mature. Buckminster. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. Colton. Integrity comprehends the whole moral charac- ter, but has a special reference to uprightness in mutual dealings. N. Webster. |Fvery man ought to speak and act with such in- tegrity that no one would have reason to doubt his simple affirmation. Pythagoras. Those persons bring integrity into discredit who, professing to have it, are without the graces that make it attractive. Bovee. The integrity of the upright insures safety the most secure, honor the most exalted, profit the most enduring, and rewards the most enduring. Magoom. It is in misfortune that the character of the up- right man shines forth with the greatest lustre; and when all else fails, he takes stand upon his in- tegrity and his courage. Integrity in word and deed is the backbone of character. Smiles. Integrity, as an abstract principle, has innumer- able advantages over cunning and duplicity ; it requires no thought or effort to maintain it in the eyes of the world, before whom it shines brilliantly of itself, while the latter require constant accumu- lations to preserve appearances. J. R. Darley. How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a Smile or a shrug ; how many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper. Sterne. Integrity hath many advantages over all the arts of dissimulation and deceit: it is much the plainer and easier, much the safer and more secure way ; it hath less of trouble and difficulty, of en- tanglement and perplexity, of danger and hazard; it is the shortest and nearest way to our end, car- rying us thither in a straight line, and will hold out and last, when deceit and cunning, which con- tinually grow weaker and less effectual, will finally fail us. Tillotson. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 447 INTELLECT. Intellect lies behind genius. R. Castleton. The commanding intellect should have the com- mand, and be king. Schiller. Intellect is a part of the immaterial essence of the Divine Creator. Miss Bennett. It is a proof of the mediocrity of intellect to be addicted to relating stories. Bruyère. The intellect of the wise is like glass ; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. J. C. Hare. The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil. Goethe. You may admire men of intellect ; but some- thing more is necessary before you will trust them. Smiles. God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect He has given us, on this side of the grave. Lord Bacom. Superiority of intellect has always been the tar- get at which the shafts of envious and conscious mediocrity are launched. G. P. Morris. By means of our intellect, we become conscious of the relations in which we stand to the beings with whom we are connected. F. Wayland. A man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect ; when we have the lan- tern of Diogenes we must have his staff. Chamfort. Intellect is that faculty of the human mind which receives or comprehends the ideas communicated to it, otherwise called the understanding. * G. Matunder. A sincere desire to improve one's self for wide and exalted ends will illuminate even a dull intel- lect, and make the aspirant attractive to all around. Magoon. Intellectual pleasures are of a nobler kind than any others ; they belong to beings of the highest order; they are the inclinations of heaven, and the entertainment of the Deity. Milton. Many innocent and harmless people have so much intellectual cowardice, that they dare not reason about those things which they are not di- rected by their priests to believe. E. Darwin. Intellectual superiority is so far from concili- ating confidence, that it is the very spirit of a democracy ; to be the favorite of an ignorant multitude a man must descend to their level. F. Ames. Oh what a power is that of intellect From this small spark what a great fire is kindled ! How completely, by its operation, is the whole earth subjected to man, and subjected to his control J. R. Joly. It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked : it can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired places some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon. J. R. Lowell. INTELLECT. He will make the best use of his wealth who esteems his intellect as the best part of it, and who employs both under a sense of the responsibility which their possession creates. Bovee. The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion ; the mind that grows could not predict the time, the means, the mode of that spon- taneity ; God enters by a private door into every individual. R. W. Emerson. The superior man is he who develops in harmo- nious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and phy- sical nature ; this should be the end at which men of all classes should aim, and it is this only which constitutes real greatness. D. Jerrold. Let us desire no more intellect than is requisite for perfect goodness, and that is no small degree ; for goodness consists in a knowledge of all the needs of others, and all the means of supplying them which exist within ourselves. J. B. Fiemmes. The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time ; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin. R. Southey. Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm ; the mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results ; like the germ in Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes, and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for / long ages. E. H. Chapin. Intellect and industry are never incompatible ; there is more wisdom, and will be more benefit, in combining them than Scholars like to believe, or than the common world imagine ; life has time enough for both, and its happiness will be increased by the union. Turner. The intellectual powers of man are not given merely for self; they are not intended to aid his own cunning, and craft, and intrigues, and con- spiracies, and enrichment ; they will do nothing for these base purposes; the instinct of a tiger, a vulture, or a fox will do better. Sir E. Brydges. A Man's intellect has indeed great power over all outward things ; we all know but too well, every one whose life has not flowed away in listless in- anity, every one who has ever struggled against the evil within him, must have felt but too deeply that our intellectual convictions, clear and strong as they may have been, have never of themselves been able to shake the foundations of a single sin, to subdue a single vice, to root out a single habit. A. W. Hare, Intellectual pleasure is as much more noble than that of sense as an immortal spirit is more noble than a clod of earth : the pleasure of sense is drossy, feculent : the pleasure of the mind refined and pure ; that is faint and languid, this lively and vigorous ; that scant and limited, this ample and enlarged ; that temporary and fading, this durable and permanent ; that flashy, superficial, this solid and intense ; that raving and distracted, this calm and composed. J. Howe. 448 JD A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. INTELLECT, Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms ; like the moon, that, far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly dis- turb that world of waters. Colton. In these days, half our diseases come from the neglect of the body in the overwork of the brain ; in this railway age, the wear and tear of labor and intellect go on without pause or self-pity ; we live longer than our forefathers, but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares ; they fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the merves. Bulwer. The work of intellect is posterior to the work of feeling ; the latter lies at the foundation of the man ; it is his proper self, the peculiar thing that characterizes him as an individual. No two men are alike in feeling ; but conceptions of the under- standing, when distinct, are precisely similar in all ; the ascertained relations of truths are the common property of the race. A. H. Hallam. The nature of man is essentially moral, and when intellect shoots up to eminence, it depends on the moral mature whether it is a blessing or a curse to the species, a joy or a trouble to the indi- vidual ; according to the moral nature are the intellectual powers directed, and in man often wastefully, often hurtfully—as to the great ma- jority, in ways far below their capability. W. Arthur. It is not wrong that men who have intellectual powers and tastes like ours should become agree- able to us, but that those who have them not should become to us disagreeable is wrong. Every man should use his intellect, not as those who study in their libraries, when all the world is asleep, use their lamps for their own seeing only ; but as light- houses use their lanterns, that those who are far off upon the deep may see the shining and learn their way. H. W. Beechen”. There are, then, two kinds of intellects. The one penetrates keenly and deeply into the consequences of principles, and this is the just intellect ; the other embraces a great number of principles with- out confusing them, and this is the geometric in- tellect. The one is force and straight-forwardness of mind ; the other is amplitude of mind. Now the one may exist without the other ; the mind may be strong and straight-forward, and it may also be ample and weak. Vawvenargues. Man, in his lowest state, has no pleasures but those of sense, and no wants but those of appetite : afterwards, when society is divided into different ranks and some are appointed to labor for the sup- port of others, those whom their superiority sets free from labor begin to look for intellectual en- tertainments ; thus, while the shepherds were tending their flocks their masters made the first astronomical observations ; so music is said to have had its origin from a man at leisure listening to the strokes of a hammer. Sir J. Reynolds. INTELLIGENCE. Intelligence is the starlight of the brain. N. P. Willis. The test of our pure intelligence is the conviction of eternal truths. Sir R. Maltravers. Intelligence is produced through varied combi- nations of matter. Lucretius. Those matures are intellectual which, possessing intelligence, are objects of intelligence to others. Zoroaster. To be intelligent is not always to be virtuous; and to think is not always to think rightly ; intel- lect and thought are the foundations of power. - W. Swinton. The young man whose stock of knowledge is small, by talking when he should listen may miss of that intelligence which might be of great use to him. L. C. Judson. God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitwm ; light a thousand torches at One touch, the flame remains always the Sal Ilê. Jowbert. Intelligence without Christian culture is a pain- ted harlot who lives in moral night, and, decora- ted in the tinsel of art and letters, allures the weak and wicked to hell. J. B. Walker. Intelligence has its rights before those of force : force without intelligence is nothing. In barba- rous ages the man of stoutest sinews was the chief- tain ; now the general is the most intelligent of the brave. Napoleon I. To create that development of the general mind which constitutes intelligence, we must teach men, not merely the thoughts of others, but how to think themselves, and by what means thinking shall be taught. E. D. Mansfield. It is no proof of a mans understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of in- telligence. Swedenborg. People of a lofty intelligence, who look at things from a human point of view, generally make their philosophy to consist in bravely bearing the re- verses brought about by circumstance ; and their honor, in keenly resenting the pains which come to them through human agency. Mme. Swetchine. Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain ; and, knowing that error insinuates itself under the guise of truth, through the same inlets by which truth is admitted, it is ever diffident of its attain- ments, and blesses the detector of errors as a bene- factor and a friend. Lady M. W. Montagu. The first purpose of intelligence and cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self ; to render our consciousness its own light and its own mirror ; hence there is the less reason to be surprised at our inability to enter fully into the feelings and characters of others; no one who has not a complete knowledge of himself, will ever have a true understanding of another. Novalis. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A T / O AV S. 449 INTEMPERANCE. Intemperance leads to misery. Epicurus. Intemperance is the doctor's wet-nurse. Gottlieb. Intemperance is a great decayer of beauty. Junius. Intemperance is a root proper to every disease. Plato. Intemperance paralyses the arm, the brain, and the heart. W. Wirt. Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than in- temperance. . Sir W. Scott. Habits of intemperance are alike fatal to health and discipline. Washington. In our world, death deputes intemperance to do the work of age. E. Young. So long as men drink temperately, men will drink intemperately, J. G. Holland. If it were not for intemperance, judges and ju- ries would have but little to do. Judge Patterson. Intemperance quickly turneth the body of a young man into age and feeble infirmities. Amaacagoras. While you are in the habit of intemperance, you often drink up the value of an acre of land in a night. Father Matthew. In proportion as intemperance decreases, there will be a decrease in taxation, pauperism, and Crime. E. C. Delevan. It is certain that an intemperate life, as it pro- duces wild distempered dreams, makes us dream at last in Open day. Goethe. All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as intemperance. Lord Bacon. Intemperance—by that I mean the use of ardent spirits—is the swallowing of liquid fire and dis- tilled damnation. R. Hall. Intemperance is a greater evil than is by some supposed ; it is not the drinking that does the harm, but that which is drunk. Matilda Fletcher. When a man has been intemperate So long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead. G. D. Prentice. God will not take the drunkard's excuse, that he has so long accustomed himself to intemperate drinking that now he cannot leave it off. R. Sowth. Intermperance is a sort of suicide, in which men betray great cowardice ; they seem anxious to des- troy life, but want courage to be decisive. N. Macdonald. Intemperance cometh by degrees: the first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness. Anacharsis. He who is addicted to intemperance should never be placed in a state of great responsibility, or have either life, liberty, or estate depend on his decision. J. Bartlett. INTEMPERANCE. I find that in every calendar that comes before me, one unfailing source, directly or indirectly, of most of the crimes that are committed—intemper- all Ce. - Whitman. The art of causing intemperance and health to exist in the same body is as chimerical as the philo- sopher's stone, judicial astrology, and the theology of the magi. Voltaire. Drinking usages are the chief cause of intemper- ance ; and these derive their force and authority, in the first instance, wholly from those who give law to fashion. Bishop A. B. Potter. Intemperance calls off the watchmen from their towers; and then all evils that proceed from a loose heart, an untied tongue, and a dissolute spirit, we put upon its account. Jeremy Taylor. Could all the forms of evil produced in the land by intemperance come upon us in One horrid ar- ray, it would appal the nation, and put an end to the traffic in ardent spirits. L. Beecher. In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propi- tiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving pro- cession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, Intemperance 2 H. Mann. Those men who destroy healthful constitution of body by intemperance and an irregular life, do as manifestly kill themselves, as those who hang, or poison, or drown themselves. Sherlock. Wise men mingle innocent mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget them, or overcome them ; but to be intemperate, for the ease of one's mind, is to cure melancholy with madness. Grey. The depopulating pestilence that walketh at moon-day, the carnage of cruel and devastating war, can scarcely exhibit their victims in a more terrible array, than exterminating intemperance. W. Irving. Show me a profligate and intemperate represen- tative, and I will guide you to a licentious and drunken community ; it cannot be otherwise ; the one follows the other as certainly as the effect fol- lows the cause. E. A. Poe. Intemperance in eating, drinking, and other vi- cious indulgences, produces results directly opposite to what the epicure foolishly desires ; he professes to seek pleasure, but that is a boon vouchsafed to the pure only, and not to the voluptuous. Magoon. He who associates with the intemperate, and re- fuses to join in their excesses, will soon find that he is looked upon as condemning their practice, and therefore, that he has no way of continuing them his friends, but by going into the same irregularity in which they allow themselves. Dean Bolton. Intemperance is a bottomless pit in which all of honor for this world, and hope for the next, may be dropped so far down that not an echo shall give token of the fall ; and the liquor traffic is a whirl- pool that draws to destruction everything that touches the circle of its influence. Neal Dow. 29 450 AX A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. INTEMPERANCE. The habit of intemperance by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all other causes; and were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office, would be, “Does he use ardent spirits?” T. Jefferson. There is no sin which doth more deface God’s image than intemperance ; it disguiseth a person, and doth even unman him ; it makes him have the throat of a fish, the belly of a Swine, and the head of an ass; it is the shame of nature, the extinguisher of reason, the shipwreck of chastity, and the mur- derer of conscience. T. Watson. Intemperance has been so much agitated, that one runs the risk of talking in vain when remon- strating against it ; but depend upon it, there is a great work yet to be accomplished by the work- ing classes for themselves, before we may cease to speak of the wrong done to them by their too fre- quent over-indulgence. W. D. Haley. The inebriate commences his career in full view of the wrecks of intemperance strewed thick around him ; he has seen the desolations produced by rum, has followed the drunkard to the grave, perhaps to the gallows ; yet he turns a deaf ear to the warning voice of experience, and plunges into the dark abyss of destruction. L. C. Judson. No man oppresses thee, O free and independent franchiser but does not this stupid porter-pot op- press thee ? No son of Adam can bid thee come or go ; but this absurd pot of heavy wet, this can and does | Thou art the thrall, not of Cedric the Saxon, but of thy own brutal intemperance. And thou pratest of thy “liberty,’” thou entire blockhead T. Carlyle. Intemperance is excess in eating or drinking ; this is the general idea of it ; but we may observe that whatever indulgence undermines the health, impairs the senses, inflames the passions, clouds and sullies the reason, perverts the judgment, en- slaves the will, or in any way disorders or debili- tates the faculties, may be ranked under this vice. C. Buck. Let us come down to the practical question that confronts us: What are we to do about intemper- ance 2 Well, we are to deal with those who make drunkards as we should deal with men who should walk through a powder magazine with lighted pipes, or with men who should sell arsenic or any other poison to all comers who might ask for it ; some force or other should be put upon men who disregard all consideration but their own love of gain. H. W. Beecher. Intemperance seems to me a stupid, brutal vice. The understanding has a greater share in other vices, and there are some which, if a man may say it, have something generous in them. There are some in which there is a mixture of knowledge, diligence, valor, prudence, dexterity, and cunning; whereas this is altogether coporeal and terrestrial ; other vices, indeed, disturb the understanding, but this totally overthrows it, and locks up all the SenSeS. D. Hwmphreys. INTEMPERANCE. Intemperance has for a long time attracted the attention of all observers ; philosophers have praised temperance ; princes have issued laws re- specting it ; and religion has moralized upon it. Yet, alas ! not one mouthful less is eaten, and the art of eating too continues to flourish. B. Savarim. Intermperance is a dangerous companion. It throws people off their guard ; betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to dis- advantages in fortune ; makes them discover se- Crets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and Often to stagger from the tavern to the stews. J. Collier. It is the reputable Christian wine-drinkers who are the men who cause a great deal of intemper- ance, and who send forth from the high places of Society, and sometimes even from the portals of the sanctuary, an unsuspected, unrebuked, but powerful influence, which is secretly and silently doing on every side, among the young, among the aged, among even females, its work of death. Dr. E. Nott. What an irretrievable curse is the habit of in- temperance Our life, our fame, our fortune is ruined in its pursuit. How many happy homes have been made desolate by its baneful effects 3 Honor, virtue, integrity, happiness, and health, all sink, one after the other, into oblivion by its poi- sonous influence ; and the happiness and love of those who should have been dear to us, succumb to degradation, misery, poverty, and neglect. Oh, if man would only learn to enjoy the blessings of a temperate life, how many happier hours he might call his own | James Ellis. Why seek enjoyment in such a perilous and du- bious way as intemperance—a path paved with the bones of millions after millions who have fallen in pursuing it—when innocent and healthful plea- sures everywhere surround and invite you ? Lived there ever a human being who regretted at death that he had through life refrained from the use of stimulating drink? And how countless the millions who have with reason deplored such use as the primary, fatal mistake of their lives 2 Surely, from the radical heavens above us, the dust once quick- ened beneath us, comes to the attentive ear a voice which impressively admonishes: Be wise while it is called to-day. H. Greeley. The phrenzy of hereditary fever has raged in the human blood, transmitted from sire to son, and rekindled in every generation by fresh draughts of liquid flame ; when that inward fire shall be extinguished, the heat of passion cannot but grow cool, and war—the intemperance of nations—per- haps will cease ; at least there will be no war of households.; the husband and wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy—a calm bliss of temperate affec- tions—shall pass hand in hand through life, and lie down, not reluctantly, at its protracted close ; to them, the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, nor the future an eternity of such moments as fol- low the delirium of the drunkard ; their dead faces shall express what their spirits were, and are to be, by a lingering Smile of memory and hope. N. Hawthorne. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 451 INTEMPERANCE. There is no just and lawful pleasure wherein in- temperance and excess are not to be condemned ; but to speak the truth, is not man the most miser- able creature the while ! It is scarce, by his na- tural condition, in his power to taste one pleasure pure and entire; and yet must he be contriving doctrines and precepts to curtail that little he has : he is not yet wretched enough unless, by art and study, he augments his own misery. Montaigne. The fall of man is simply allegorical ; we are placed in the garden of life, free to enjoy in mod- eration all the innocent pleasures connected with our existence ; but in the midst of this paradise stands the upas-tree of intemperance, of whose fruit we are forbidden to partake, lest we die ; the rum-seller is the subtle serpent who by false hopes and specious promises, too often combined with the entreaties of our dearest social ties, tempts us to partake of the forbidden fruit ; we yield ; our eyes are opened, we behold our nakedness ; we flee, skulk, hide ourselves from God and all good ; an ignominious expulsion from happiness and home is our lot ; the thorns and thistles of disease, pau- perism, and crime spring up in Our path-way, bringing all evils of life in their train. E. P. Day. He who is intemperate is the very lowest of all slaves. Doth not intenperance rob us of reason, that chief excellence of man, and drive us on to commit the very greatest disorders ? Can he who is immersed in pleasure find time to turn his thoughts on things that are useful ? But, and if he could, his judgment is so far overborne by his ap- petites, that seeing the right path he deliberately rejects it ; neither should we expect modesty in such a character ; it being most certain that no- thing can well stand at a greater distance from this, than the whole life of the voluptuary ; but what can be so likely to obstruct either the prac- tice or the knowledge of our duty, as intemperance? What can we suppose so fatally pernicious to man, as that which depriveth him of his understanding, makes him prefer with eagerness the things which are useless, avoid or reject whatever is profitable, and act in every respect so unlike a wise man Ż Socrates. When intemperance has taken fast hold of a man, farewell industry, farewell emulation, fare- well attention to things worthy of attention, fare- well love of virtuous society, farewell decency of manners, and farewell, too, even an attention to person ; everything is sunk by this predominant and brutal appetite. In how many instances do we see men who have begun life with the brightest prospects before them, and who have closed it with- out one ray of comfort and consolation Young men with good fortunes, good talents, good tem- pers, good hearts, and Sound constitutions, only by being drawn into the vortex of the drunkard, have become by degrees the most loathsome and despi- cable of mankind. In the house of the drunkard there is no happiness for any one ; all is uncertainty and anxiety ; abstinence requires no aid to accom- plish it ; our own will is all that is requisite ; and if we have not the will to avoid contempt, disgrace, and misery, we deserve neither relief nor compas- Sion. - W. Cobbett. INTENTION. Hell is paved with good intentions. Dr. Johnson. Nothing daunts our intentions when they are just. __ Katharine Blake. It is the intention that always constitutes the guilt. J. Bartlett. God accepts not good deeds when the intention is bad. Althdhiya. The road is long from the intention to the com- pletion. - Molière. We can only decide on men's intentions from their conduct. - C. C. Bumsen. A. good intention will no more make a truth, than a fair mark will make a good shot. W. Spwrstowe. Good intentions will never justify evil actions, nor will good actions ever justify evil intentions. Empress Eugénie. “Hell is paved with good intentions.” Pluck up the stones, ye sluggards, and break the devil's head with them. A. W. Hare. If religion might be judged of, according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world. J. Hall. A man that is conscious of having honest inten- tions, is satisfied with the fruits of inward comfort and outward approbation. Magoon. One of our most common and irrational propen- sities is to seek for an offensive intention, which exposes to suffering all who come in contact with it. Mºme. Swetchime. It is an unspeakable advantage to possess Our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions, at Some lau- dable end. Addison. The consciousness of good intentions, however unsuccessful, affords a joy more real, pure, and agreeable to nature than all the other means that can be furnished, either for obtaining one's desire T. Hamilton. When our intentions are good we should not de- prive ourselves of the means to put them into prac- tice ; it should be our duty not only to think of the means and the manner of their accomplishment, but also of our resolve to carry them to a practical and beneficial result. James Ellis. or quieting the mind. Let not thy good intention flatter thee to an evil action ; what is essentially evil, no circumstance can make good ; it matters not with what mind thou didst that, which is unlawful, being done ; if the act be good, the intention crowns it ; if bad, it deposes thy intention ; no evil actions can be well done. F. Quarles. The man who is so conscious of the rectitude of his intentions as to be willing to open his bosom to the inspection of the world, is in possession of one of the strongest pillars of a decided character. The course of such a man will be firm and steady, be- cause he has nothing to fear from the world, and is sure of the approbation and support of Heaven. W. Wºn't. 452 A) A Y S C O Z Z A C O AV. `s INTEREST. INTERFERENCE. Interests determine duties. Mrs. C. H. Nichols. Interfere not in domestic broils. Bedw Nash. Interest is a strong motive power. Burleigh. Interfere to prevent interference. Kosswth. Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it. Dryden. Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others. Rochefoucauld. Interest is the only chain that binds selfish men together. Isotta Brambati. Where our interest lies, there our thoughts con- stantly fly. S. Colfaac. Public interests will outweigh those of private individuals. Ovid. The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind. Charles Macklin. Interest is the spur of the people, but glory is that of great souls. Rowsseaw. Man cannot wrong woman without jeopardizing his own liberty; our interests are one ; we rise and fall together. Esther Ann Lukens. When interest is at variance with conscience, any distinction to make them friends will serve the hollow-hearted. Rames. It is much nearer the truth to say that all men have an interest in being good, than that all men are good from interest. Colton. It is more than possible, that those who have neither character nor honor may be wounded in a very tender part, their interest. Jwniws. The clashing of great interests and high excite- ments are to be regarded rather as aids than as obstacles to intellectual progress. Griswold. How difficult a thing it is to persuade a man to reason against his own interest, though he is con- vinced that equity is against him. J. Trwsler. Interest impels us to seek our own happiness, considered in reference to a longer or shorter pe- riod ; but always beyond the present moment. F. Wayland. Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side ; for men daily leave both relations and reli- gion to follow it. W. Penn. Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted ; we promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears; virtues are ‘lost in interest, as rivers are swallowed up in the Sea. - J. Beaumont. It results from the nature of the human mind, that he who addresses the public with a view of his own private interest, is studious of rendering himself more generally agreeable than he who has no other object but the advantage of the public. Livy. Everyone would pursue his own interest if he knew what it was ; and in fact, everyone does pur- sue it, but the generality totally mistake it. No man would choose riches before happiness, power before quiet, or fame before safety, if he knew the true value of each. S. Jenyns. Interference in a righteous cause is just. Seneca. Interference that begins in vanity commonly ends in shame. A. M. Gabrini. To interfere in the concerns of others, shows a meddlesome spirit. A. G. Oehlenschlager. It is prudence not to interfere in party disputes, but from necessity. Burke. God interferes, in answer to prayer, to thwart the designs of man. Scholastica. They who voluntarily ask the interference of a tyrant or an enemy must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves. T. James. Wherever interest or power thinks fit to inter- fere, it little imports what principles the opposite parties think fit to charge upon each other. N. Webster. It is seldom wise to interfere in party disputes ; but if it become necessary to do so, our interfer- ence should be characterized by prudence and cau- tion. H. T. Colebrooke. A sort of itch for settling other people's destinies, and so gaining a title to their curses for our prag- matical and fatal interference, is the commonest of all forms of sanctioned lunacy. C. Reade. INTIMACY. |Be intimate with few. J. Mair. Seek acquaintance with the wise, intimacy with the good. 28 iphilimus. Intimacy reveals infirmities; the shoe best knows if the stocking has holes. Haytien. Be intimate only with such as you are willing to make your guide or master. Chang Yew. It is in our power to confine our friendships and our intimacies to men of virtue. S. Rogers. From the covenants of intimacy, we enjoy the treasures of real friendship, for there can be no in- timacy where there is no faith. Eliza Ryves. Without the permanent union of the sexes there can be no permanent intimacy"; the dissolution of domestic ties involve the dissolution of domestic society. R. Hall. Intimacy has been the source of the deadliest enmity, no less than of the firmest friendship; like some mighty rivers which rise on the same moun- tain but pursue a quite contrary course. Colton. Familiarity and intimacy have the same effect on the light in which some characters appear to us when viewed at a distance, which Sunshine has on those towers and buildings which we beheld and venerated, when seen by the pale moonlight. Sun- shine divests them of the awfulness and grandeur which moonlight had bestowed, and the supposed greatness and beauty of a character often disap- pear on a nearer approach to, and on a further knowledge of it. G. R. Gleig. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 453 INTOLER, ANCE. INTOXICATION. The intolerant man is the real pedant. Richter. Drink no kind of intoxicating liquors. T. Park. Intolerance has more lives than a Cat ; you Call- Never touch anything that can intoxicate. not even starve it to death. Moncrieff. E. Foster. Intolerance is the acid of a prejudiced heart, but Intoxication is the working man's greatest ene- charity is the fruit of godliness. Downey. my. Mrs. Baird. The fiend, intolerance, boasts of her godlike qual- ities, and especially of her marvelous liberty. J. G. Palfrey. We are in favor of toleration, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impos- sible to tolerate the intolerable. G. D. Prentice. The devil loves nothing better than the intole- rance of reformers, and dreads nothing so much as their charity and patience. J. R. Lowell. Intolerance is being irreligious for the sake of re- ligion, and hating our fellow-creatures out of a pretended love for their Creator. Chatfield. As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned Saints. Colton. The more fully that men discover the intolerance of their own character, the more will they see the necessity of forbearing one another in love. Bissland. The principle of intolerance makes rapid strides. When accepting it to-day, you may be a fanatic only ; to-morrow, those who follow you will be shedders of blood. M. Simon. Intolerance on the part of the philosophical and indifferent—that most illogical combination—re- minds one of the jealousy of women who do not love their husbands. Mme. Swetchine. I would require of youth, at first, intolerance ; then, after some years, tolerance ; that as the stony sour fruit of a strong young heart, this as the soft winter fruit of an older head. T. Campanella. Let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which man- kind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. T. Jefferson. It is too often the case, that the enemies of a religion become intolerant because they are not acquainted with it ; they ascribe to their opponents principles which they abhor, and tenets which never entered into their imaginations ; they propa- gate the most ridiculous calumnies against the professors of the obnoxious religion. E. Foster. It is great intolerance in those who, having mag- nified into serious evils by injudicious opposition heresies in themselves insignificant, yet appeal to the magnitude of those evils to prove that their opposition was called for, act like unskillful physi- cians, who, when by violent remedies they have aggravated a trifling disease into a dangerous one, urge the violence of the symptoms which they themselves have produced in justification of their practice. R. Whately. The thirst for intoxicating liquors is not a natu- ral One. R. D. Owen. Rum intoxicates the toper; love the amorous ; and prosperity the fool. Downey. When the intoxicating cup is drained so the bot- tom, there is always poison in the dregs. Jane Porter. One half the insanity, pauperism, and crime, are supposed to originate from the sale of intoxicating liquors. G. S. Bowes. Every apartment devoted to the circulation of the intoxicating glass, may be regarded as a tem- ple set apart for the performance of human sacri- fices. T. Beddoes. Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them ; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of One's mind is to cure melancholy by madness. Charron. The intoxicating cup is hurtful to the body. ; it kills more than the cannon ; it causes dropsies, catarrhs, apoplexies; it fills the eye with fire, and the legs with water, and turns the body into a hos- pital. T. Watson. They who deal in intoxicating liquors are the men who bring upon us a large share of our taxes, fill a large share of our court-rooms, and make many of our houses desolate ; and were we not de- moralized as we are on the subject of temperance, every one would see that our laws, which control the sale of poisons, which control the general safety of the community, should also control the sale of those destructive liquors. H. W. Beecher. If you happen to be an honest and diligent work- man, with plenty of work to do ; if you possess the respect of your master, and the good will of your fellow workmen, and have taken a fancy into your head, all at once, to get rid of your industry and your homesty, to lose the respect of your master, and the good opinion of your shopmates, I will tell you how you may manage the matter in a very little time, and with very little trouble—become a drinker of intoxicating spirits. G. Mogridge. Banish all thought of God and his judgment, forget or deny your immortality, deride the idea of restricting or qualifying your own gratification for the sake of kindred, friends, country, or race, regard yourself merely as an animal that has happened here to sport a brief summer, then ut- terly perish, and still is it not a palpable mistake to drink anything that intoxicates ? Why should it intoxicate if it be not essentially a poison ? Is there any other substance claimed to be innocent and wholesome in moderate quantities which drowns the reason if the amount taken be in- creased ? H. Greeley. 454 A) A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. INTRIGUE. Intrigue is a court distemper. Mme. Deluzy. Intrigue is a pleasing torment. ' Aristoemoetes. How slippery are the paths which lead to in- trigue ! W. H. Ainsworth. He who intrigues with a married woman has his life in pledge. Wilkie Collins. Intrigues of love occupy the younger, and those of ambition, the elder part of the great. Jefferson. There are many women who never have had one intrigue; but there are few who have had only OIle. Rochefoucauld. Intriguing in a senate is dangerous ; but not so in the people whose nature it is to act through pas- sion ; the misfortune of a republic is, when there are no more intrigues. Montesquiew. The spirit of intrigue causes in upright and hon- est minds a sort of dread, analogous to that which springs from personal dangers which may threaten us in darkness; this arises from the impossibility of our forming any exact judgment as to the na- ture of what we have to expect. Salm-Dyck. INTRODUCTION, Honesty is the best introduction. Stawin, An introduction forms a very important part of 8, Sel'Iºlon. Dean Close. An introduction has no other end than to dis- pose the mind of the hearer to listen favorably to the sequel of a discourse. Quintilian. The introduction of a sermon has been sometimes called “the preacher's cross,” being the part with which he has often most difficulty, and which he finds it hardest to do well. Professor Blaikie. The importance of an introductionin an ordinary rhetorical exercise, we readily acknowledge ; it is that by which the orator bespeaks for himself at- tention, confidence, and sympathy; it will require a good many after excellences to efface the impress- ion of a halting, ill-considered beginning. D. Moore. INTRUSION. Intrusion is not always a fault. G. P. Tomline. Intrusion is the sign of vulgarity. Effie Afton. The intrusion of some men is barefaced impu- dence. James Sibbald. To intrude upon the privacy of a friend may be an impertinence, but it oftentimes proves a bless- ing to the friend intruded upon. J. W. Richardson. There is no thinking man who does not feel the value of having some place of retirement, which is free from the intrusion of all impertinent visi- tants. G. Crabb. There are two sides to every act of intrusion ; it may be timely or otherwise. If it is not timely, it is both inconvenient and embarrassing; but there are some individuals who are so well practised in graceful demeanor, that they can at once escape from an untimely intrusion, with gracious bows and Smiles. G. Meredith. INTUITION. Intuition is knowledge unsought. J. A. Symonds. Often one perceives by intuition what another only learns by the study of years. E. Thompson. A judgment is a combination of two concepts related to one or more common objects of visible intuition. H. L. Mansell. Intuitive knowledge needs no probation, nor can it have any, this being the highest of all human certainty. J. Locke. One of the most important distinctions of our judgments, is that some of them are intuitive, Others grounded on argument. T. Hºeid. Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at Once ; it seldom belongs to man to say without pre- Sumption, “I came, I saw, I conquered.” Lavater. The knowledge of which we are not taught, but for which we were made, we received, not by edu- cation, but by intuition. Cicero. If man be really endowed with intuition, it is indeed to be regretted that he should so long have walked in the rugged road which experience points out. To what purpose has he been toiling in the search of knowledge, which was already obvious to his understanding 3 Ramt. INVASION. Invasion means aggression. L. Theobald. Besist an unlawful invasion. Almaric, The invasion of an oppressed country is an act of mercy. W. P. Urquhart. To invade upon the rights of others is downright robbery. William of Malmesbury. Women, as well as men, are ever ready to re- sist the invasion of their country, and will sacri- fice their lives in its defense. Princess Archidamia. The invasion of an enemy's country is not justi- fiable, unless it be for the trampling out of tyranny, or for the redressing of violent acts of aggression suffered by the invader. Walter Travers. INVECTIVE. Invectives are coward's excuses. P. Lerowac. Invective is almost as old as verse. Dryden. Hess. Invective proceeds from an enemy, and is inten- ded to give pain or to injure. N. Webster. An invective word rolls on like a ball. Invective is dictated by party spirit, or an in- temperate warmth of feeling in matters of opin- ion. G. Crabb. The man who uses an invective for the purpose of casting opprobrium upon another, proves that he lacks the spirit of charity, and “a man without charity is a rogue.” D. Wise, Whilst we condemn others, we may indeed be in the wrong ; and then all the invectives we make at their supposed errors, fall back with a rebound force upon our own real ones. J. Poymet. P & O S E ovo 7. A 7 / o A's. 455 INVENTION, INVESTIGATION. Invention is activity of mind. Tupper. Careful investigation reveals truth. J. Cosin. Invention is the talent of youth. Swift. Children should early be taught the habit of in- There is true pleasure in invention. R. Hooke. vestigation. E. Rich. Necessity is the mother of invention. Fºrquhar. Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment. Earl of Roscommon. It appears that improvements in the arts are properly inventions. D. Stewºrt. Important inventions and improvements in in- dustry, increase the production of wealth. Maaccy. Invention is the first conception of a thing ; it is easy to add to, or improve an invention when once made. E. P. Day. Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory. Sir J. Reynolds. A fine invention is nothing more than a fine de- viation from, or enlargement on a fine model ; imi- tation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. Bulwer. Invention is a kind of muse which, being pos- sessed of the other advantages common to her sis- ters, and being warmed by the fire of Apollo, is raised higher than the rest. Dryden. New inventions are constantly releasing im- mense numbers from a portion of the toil required for the satisfaction of physical necessities, and giving all more opportunity for intellectual pur- suits. The great inventor is one who has walked forth upon the industrial world, not from universities, but from hovels ; not as clad in silks and decked with honors, but as clad in fustian and grimed with Soot and oil. I. Taylor. Everyone who has rendered a great service to mankind by striking out inventions has had to com- plain of the neglect or coldness of his own genera- tion ; even his best friends are apt to suspect his motives and undervalue his labors. Judge Story. The introduction of noble inventions seems to hold by far the most excellent place among hurman actions ; and this was the judgment of antiquity, which attributed divine honors to inventors, since the benefits of inventors may extend to all man- kind. Lord Bacon. Inventors have set in motion some of the greatest industries of the world ; to them society owes many of its chief necessaries, comforts, and luxu- ries ; and by their genius and labor daily life has been rendered in all respects more easy as well as enjoyable. Smiles. It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of par- ticular inventions; they have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch ma- chine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models; he helps himself on each emer- gency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as the need is R. W. Emerson. Griswold. There is no boundary to human investigation, but the capacity of the human mind. S. Smith. Innocent men of spirit are ever ready to court investigation under charges that may affect their honor. George Dawson. The investigation of truth is often practised in such a method as neither agrees precisely to syn- thetic or analytic. I. Watts. Fair investigation is opposed to every species of coercion in discrimination of opinions, rejecting all theories that will not bear the test of reasona- ble examination. A. Kneeland. Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual antidotes of error ; give them full scope, and they will uphold the truth, by bringing all the spurious Offspring of ignorance, prejudice, and self-interest before their severe tribunal, and subjecting them to the test of close investigation. E. Lawrence. IRONY. Irony is the venom of speech. James Ellis. An ironical speech is evidence of hate and mal- ice. Miss J. Baillie. Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a com- pliment. E. P. Whipple. Irony is the most effective way of exposing vice and folly. W. Yule. Irony is a figure in which one extreme is signi- fied by its opposite extreme. J. B. Walker. Clap an extinguisher on your irony, if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. C. Lamb. Irony is a more delicate species of sarcasm, by which praises are bestowed where it is intended to convey the opposite sense of disapprobation. * J. Cawvin. Irony turns things into ridicule in a peculiar manner ; it consists in laughing at a man under disguise of appearing to praise or speak well of him. Rames. IRREGULARITY. An irregular man has an erratic mind. Porto. Irregularity is the intemperance of the mind. - Maria A. Königsmark. The irregularity of man makes the errors of man- kind. T. W. Robertson. It is a favorable symptom when a profligate man becomes ashamed of his irregularities. N. Webster. Irregularity is one of the unfortunate failings of men of genius ; and although possessed of brilliant talent, they are deficient in energy. Grosart. A man who is irregular in his mode of life can never be strong and lasting ; for firmness, stability, and strength, are indispensable elements in the con- stitution of character. G. W. Kendall. 456 AD A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. IRRESOLUTION. None but fools are irresolute. Catherime II. There are a thousand horrors framed in the word irresolution. H. Martym. Irresolute men either resolve not at all, or resolve and re-resolve. N. Webster. There is nothing more pitiable in the world than an irresolute man. Goethe. The man of irresolution can claim no deference or respect, because he achieves nothing, and is not guided by any exalted, practical, or praiseworthy motives. James Ellis. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pur- suing them, are the greatest causes of all our un- happiness. Addison. While the feeble and irresolute languish in inac- tion, cheated by anticipation, and effecting nothing, though expecting and within reach of all things— wealth without labor, and a life without care—the strong and energetic rush forward with active re- solution and valor. Acton. Irresolute men are to be pitied, for they lead a life of perpetual anxiety and harassing doubt ; and could they but resolve to pursue a purpose to the end, the obstacles they would meet with in its execution, would sink into insignificance when compared with the barrier met at the start—that of resolving. W. T. Burke. In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution ; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent ; to be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it ; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. Tillotson. Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark ; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irre- solution loosens all the joints of a state ; like an ague, it shakes not this or that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another, and hath no place left to rest on. He flecks from one place to another ; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions. Feltham. Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagina- tion is vigorous and excursive, because they cannot confine their thoughts within their own boundaries of action, but are continually ranging over all the scenes of human existence, and consequently are often apt to conceive that they fall upon new re- gions of pleasure, and start new possibilities of happiness; thus they are busied with a perpetual succession of schemes, and pass their lives in alter- nate elation and sorrow, for want of that calm and immovable acquiescence in their condition, by which men of slower understandings are fixed for- ever to a certain point, or led on in the plain beaten track which their fathers and grandsires have trod before them. Dr. Johnsom. family, and the isolated corporation. ISOLATION. . The great art of life is judiciously to limit and isolate one's self. Humphreys. We ought not to isolate ourselves, for we cannot remain in a state of isolation. Goethe. The basis of civilized industry is the isolated Fourier. To have no business is to be cut off from the rest of the world, and to exist in a listless isolation and exclusion. Acton. Generally, superior men are lonely men ; their Superiority isolates them ; or it is at once the effect and cause of isolation. Bovee. A man entrenched in his isolated household with few relations with the beings around him, is indif- ferent to their welfare and happiness. A. Brisbane. The first condition of life was that of isolation : the second, concussion ; the third, progression and intercommunication. The old and the new ele- ments, however, yet co-exist together ; and it will. be difficult, if not impossible, for the character of men to become so modified that the latter shall ever gain a complete triumph over the former. Acton. The evil of isolation belongs not exclusively to the One transcendant genius, or to the favored few who have gained the highest eminences of thought or labor ; those who have advanced only a little way beyond their acquaintance in literary, artis- tic, or scientific attainments, are not a little proud of their acquisitions, and sometimes set up for much greater people than they really are ; they claim privileges to which they have but a very slender title, if any, and become boastful, presump- tuous, and overbearing. Dickens. IVY. The ivy teaches a lesson to man. Mrs. Inchbald. The ivy hides the ruin it feeds upon. Cowper. The ivy is the poet's image of constancy. - Archibald Geikie. The ivy wreathing itself about the old and fur- rowed trunk, is an emblem of devotion. Hannah More. Ivy is a vegetable corruptionist, which for the purpose of its own support, attaches itself, with the greatest tenacity, to that which is the most antiquated and untenable, and the fullest of holes, flaws, and imperfections. Chatfield. Where the ivy has thrown its preserving mantle, everything is comparatively fresh and perfect ; and oftentimes the very angles of the sculptured stone are found to be almost as sharp and entire as when they first came from the hands of the builder. O. Judd. The ivy is attached to the earth by its own roots, and derives no nourishment from the substances to which it clings; the protector of ruins, it adorns the dilapidated walls which it holds together; it will not accept every kind of support, but its at- tachment ends only with its life. Mrs. Henrietta Dwmont. GAMUEL JOHNSO[N]- A R O S Z Q U O T A 7" / O AV S. 457 J. JACOBIN. Jacobinism is the soul of liberty. J. Mawvillom. The Jacobins are dangerous to law, liberty, and religion. Emperor Leopold. The light from the Jacobin clubs is destined to illumine every land, Adam Weishawpt. I know nothing more vile than an English Jaco- bin ; it is the feeblest and worst imitation of the worst of characters. B. Disraeli. I have a good opinion of the general abilities of the Jacobins ; not that I consider them better born than others, but strong passions awaken the faculties. Burke. At an early period of the French Revolution ap- peared a sect calling itself Jacobin, and teaching that all men were free and equal. It was the coalition of all the adepts of impiety, of all the adepts of rebellion, and all the adepts of anarchy that formed the Jacobin clubs. Abbé Barrevºl. JADE. Let the galled jade wince. Shakspeare. A jade eats as much as a good horse. G. Herbert. Incessant labors jade the body, but temperate exercise strengthens it. Nawdin. It is often so, that a merry, wicked jade will draw a man farther from the kingdom of heaven than five yoke of oxen. John Dwmton. There are perverse jades that fall to men's lots, with whom it requires more than common profi- ciency in philosophy to be able to live. Tickell. A jade is the meanest of the female sex; full of evil plots and devices, and the tool of designing, abandoned, and desperate spirits, who drag her down to the lowest depths of degradation. Segmeri. JAIL. © The jail was made for the unlucky. Ariosto. An honest man has no business in jail. Clark. A jail reforms the penitent, but it hardens the criminal. Stock. A jail is a temporary resting-place for martyrs and rogues. Birrell. If each would do his allotment of work, there would be no need of jails. W. J. Caldwell, A jail was made for malefactors ; but if innocent and good men be thrown therein, it must lose that appellation, and be rather anything else than a jail. S. Garth. A jail is hardly the place from which essays on righteousness and well-doing would be expected to emanate ; yet it was in a prison that through the instrumentality of Paul and Silas the jailor was converted, and within a jail John Bunyan wrote his Pilgrim's Progress. C. T. Torrey. JANGLE. Good wits will be jangling. Shakspeare. A jangler is to God abominable. Chaucer. Keep thy tongue from jangling ; for few words betoken much wisdom. Attersol. Controversial janglings are out of date ; they never did any good, and are now at length fallen into general and just contempt. Bishop Hwra. Where the judicatories of the church were near an equality of the men on both sides, there were perpetual janglings on both sides. Burnet. There are many who delight in jangling ; and as the poorer kind of wines undergo an excess of ferment, and become sour, so the weaker sort of intellects are corrupted and enfeebled by a passion for jangling. R. Payne Smith. JAR. Jars concealed are half reconciled. T. Fuller. Domestic peace can never be preserved in family jars. Fanny Fern. Family jars are conspirators against domestic happiness. S. Garth. When superior minds jar, it causeth a debate but not a wrangle. Confucius. Ajar is oftener the result of perverse humor than any real difference of opinion. Steele. Evil thoughts cause many jars between those who should esteem and love each other. Gataker. Those who can jar and oppose each other, must Sometimes be ignorant of the means conducing to happiness. Dryden. In music there are many discords, before they be framed to a diapason ; and in contracting of good-will, many jars before there be established a true and perfect friendship. Pinto. JARGON. Cease to utter jargon. R. de Vaqueiras. I detest jargon of every kind. Jane Awstem. He knows little but jargon, who knows only the language of words. King. There are some people who become so confused and unintelligible in their conversation, that what they utter is nothing but jargon. Woodward. Jargon is mere words without sense ; we derive no more benefit from it than we do from a stock of antiquated furniture which is out of use. Needler. We hear jargon everywhere ; it is commonly used by lawyers, aldermen, congressmen, and in private life ; it is heard in the streets, market- houses, and public assemblies, and it has one ad- vantage, it has not to be learned, it is intuitively acquired. Garbett. 458 A) A Y’,S CO / / A C O AV. JEALOUSY. Love expels jealousy. Thales. Jealousy indicates love. 4. Dwmas. Jealousy is a cruel thing. Mrs. Notley. Jealousy lives upon doubts, Rochefoucauld. Jealousy and love are twins. Mrs. S. Moodie. A jealous man sleeps dog sleep. Sir T. Overbury. Jealousy is a magnifier of trifles. Schiller. Who could be jealous of the dead 3 J. F. Smith. He that is not jealous is not in love. Attgustine. Jealousy is a vice of narrow minds. Biom, Jealousy is the harbinger of disdain. Landels. Jealousy dislikes the world to know it. Byron. The race of men are jealous in temper. Homer. A jealous man's horns hang in his eyes. Willet. The jealous feed on jealousy, yet never grow fat. Yoruba. Love has no power to act when curbed by jeal- ousy. A. Hill. Jealousy in a lover is the best defense of female honor. Ibn Darraj. In jealousy there is more love of self than of any one else. R. Hildreth. Jealousy is a secret avowal we make of our own inferiority. J. Xeres. Love that is married to suspicion is the mother of jealousy. Dionysius. Jealousy is a pain which eagerly seeks what Causes pain. A riosto. It is better to have a husband without love than with jealousy. Guicciardini. Love, as it is divine with loyalty, so is it hellish with jealousy. R. Wall. No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty. B. Whichcote. The demon jealousy banishes peace and love from the family. Grazzini. Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferior- ity renders to merit. Mme. de Puisiewa!. Love often re-illumines his extinguished flame at the torch of jealousy. Lady Blessington. Jealousy is a heavy and grievous enemy to the holy estate of matrimony. St. Anselm. Jealousy would cut off the hair of a beauty, to render her ugly like herself. Al-Maghribi. The jealous person is possessed with a “flne mad devil” and a dull spirit at once. Lavater. Jealousy is tormenting yourself, for fear you should be tormented by another. H. Smith. Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superior- ity ; envy our uneasiness under it. Shenstone. JEALOUS Y. Woman is prone by nature to jealousy, and brooks not a rival in the nuptial bed. Euripides. The jealous man living dies, and dying prolongs out his life and passion worse than death. Pintus. Jealousy is a seed sown but in vicious minds, prome to distrust, because it is apt to deceive. Lord Lansdowme. Jealousy is a gin which we set to catch serpents, but which, as soon as we have caught them, sting U.S. Feltham. A jealous man is jealous of a woman because he loves her, and jealous of a man because he hates him. E. P. Day. Jealousy is a disease of the mind, bred of that love which will not suffer a partner in a thing be- loved. F. Trenck. Jealousy is one of the meanest, but not the least powerful, of the unclean spirits that infest modern society. C. Middleton. Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. George Eliot. The cancer of jealousy on the breast can never wholly be cut out, if I am to believe great masters of the healing art. - Richter. Jealousy and envy are suggestions from the evil god Arimenes ; strive to diminish his power, and destroy his works. Zoroaster. He that is jealous is like him that is sick of an ague, and poureth in drink to augment the chilli- ness of his sickness. Hippocrates. All jealousy must be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth. Sir W. Davenant. We are more jealous of frivolous accomplish- ments with brilliant success, than of the most es- timable qualities without. Hazlitt. Jealousy is like a polished glass held to the lips when life is in doubt ; if there be breath, it will catch the damp and show it. Dryden. He that is pained with the restless torment of jealousy doubteth and mistrusteth himself ; always frozen with fear, and fired with suspicion. Hermes. Jealousy is a painful passion ; yet without some share of it, and agreeable affection of love has diffi- culty to subsist in its full force and violence. Hwme. Jealousy is said to be the offspring of love ; yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the pa- rent. A. W. Hare. Where jealousy is the jailor, many break the prison, it opening more ways to wickedness than it stoppeth ; so that where it findeth one, it maketh ten dishonest. T. Fulle”. It is said that jealousy is love, but I deny it; for though jealousy be procured by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame. Margaret of Navarre. A R O S E O U O Z" A 7" / O M S. 459 JEALOUSY. O jealousy thou ugliest fiend of hell ! thy dead- ly venom prays on my vitals, turns the healthful hue of my fresh cheek to haggard Sallowness, and drinks my spirit up. Hammah More, It is with jealousy as with the gout ; when such distempers are in the blood, there is never any se- curity against their breaking out, and that often when least suspected. Fielding. Jealousy may be either base or honorable, ten- der or hard, soft and gentle, or wild and ungovern- able ; it is a compound passion, regulated by char- acter and circumstances. St. Marthe. Of all the passions jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages; its service is to watch the success of our enemy ; its wages, to be sure of it. Colton. The heart being once infected with jealousy, the sleep is unbroken and dreams prove unquiet ; the night is confused thoughts and cares; the day is Woe, vexation, and misery. Matilda A. Planche. People who are jealous, or particularly careful of their own rights and dignity, always find enough of those who do not care for either, to keep them continually uncomfortable. A. Barnes. They who awaken jealousy, seldom pity it ; the suffering they thus cause flatters their self-love, and they are too selfish to attempt relieving it, though it should be as much their wisdom as duty to do so. H. Hooker. The man who really loves will be jealous of his wife's honor, and take care that it shall not be through any fault of his that she shall be tempted to make him jealous ; a meaner-souled man doubts good being in others. Lake. All the other passions condescend at times to ac- cept the inexorable logic of facts; but jealousy looks facts straight in the face, ignores them ut- terly, and says that she knows a great deal better than they can tell her. A. Helps. Jealousy has invaded all classes, from the hum- ble peasant in the hovel to the pompous king on the throne ; its paroxysms have been seen in the juvenile nursery, in the primary school, in the convivial party, in the giddy dance, the private circle, and by the domestic fireside. N. Chipman. A jealous man is suspicious, evermore judging the worst ; for if his wife be merry, he thinketh her immodest ; if sober, sullen ; if pleasant, uncon- stant ; if she laugh, it is lewdly ; if she look, it is lightly ; yea, he is still casting beyond the moon, and watcheth as the crafty cat over the silly IIl OllS6. J. Bodenham. No passion is more base, nor one which seeks to hide itself more than jealousy ; it is ashamed of itself ; if it appears, it carries its stain and disgrace on the forehead. We do not wish to acknowledge it to ourselves, it is so ignominious ; but hidden and ashamed in the character, we would be confused and disconcerted if it appeared, by which we are convinced of our bad minds and debased courage. Bosswet, JEERING. Abstain from jeering. Jeremy Taylor. Heed not jeers; they cannot hurt. W. Black. Jeerers must be content to taste of their own broth. P. M. Roget. The jeering of a fool may be considered praise rather than reproof. J. Froissart. Jeering demeanor is of great offense to others, and danger toward a man's self. Wentworth, A jeer often prevents more persons from profess- ing their belief in the Christian religion, than in- fidelity. J. Bartlett. To jeer is a sure sign of low breeding and igno- rance ; but it is generally used more in envy than in derision, for how often do we hear severe, Sar- castic reflections made upon persons who possess a stainless reputation. T. Batchelor. Jeer not others upon any occasion ; if they be foolish, God hath denied them understanding ; if they be vicious, you ought to pity, not revile them; if deformed, God framed their bodies ; will you scorn His workmanship 2 Are you wiser than your Creator 2 If poor, poverty was designed for a mo- tive to charity, not to contempt ; you cannot see what riches they have within. R. Sowth. JEHOVAH. Hear the voice of Jehovah ! S. Bradburn. Jehovah is God the Eternal: “I will be that I will be.” Talmwal, Jehovah has revealed himself to us under this name that signifies “I am that I am.” Beveridge. No man who will tread in the steps of Abraham, that is, believe God, and obey Him, will ever want a place on which to write Jehovah-jireh. J. Bate. Behold Jehovah sitteth royally upon the calmed flood, eternal Lord ; and strength unto His people giveth He, and them with peace and blessing hath restored. J. A. Herawol. Jehovah is a name of great power and efficacy; a name that hath in it three syllables, to signify the Trinity of Persons ; the eternity of God, One in Three, and Three in One ; a name of such dread and reverence among the Jews, that they tremble to name it, and, therefore, they used the name Adomai, Lord, in all their devotion. Rayment. JEOPARDY. Valiant minds scorn the word jeopardy. Owen. It is only cowards and wretched men who trem- ble when they are in jeopardy. J. J. Oosterzee. More than one-half the jeopardies we fear are from the weakness of our apprehension. Awstem. That man is indeed inexcusable, who, when his life is in jeopardy will not use the proper means to extricate himself. Cicero. As when danger bringeth the body into jeopardy, true valor is a great help, so when temptation doth jeopardize the soul, then earnest prayer is of much avail. J. C. Jones. 460 A) A Y 'S CO Z Z A C O AV. JEST. JEST. º - Jest not in earnest. Brandenburg. He who is in a hurry to laugh at his own jests, is apt to make a false start, and then has to return Jesting costs money. Favart. with downcast head to his place. J. C. Hare. Jest with your equals. Biom. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, e g - 3 & — e may be received with perfect indifference should it To lie in jest is not lying. Thespis. happen to drop in a mackerel-boat. Goldsmith. Never jest with friendship. J. F. Smith. If a habit of jesting lowers a man, it is to the A jest is a very serious thing. C. Churchill. Shakspeare. W. Oldys. A good jest pleases all but the subject. E. P. Day. Jesters do often prove prophets. Jesting lies bring Serious sorrows. The worse jests are those that are true. Lefranc. Beware of him who jests at everything. Southey. So jest that it may not turn to earnest. Hölty. Judge of a jest when you have done laughing. Charles Lloyd. A jest driven too far, brings home hate or scorn. E. Knatchbull-Huggessen. It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jest- ing. - Qween Elizabeth. Be cautious how, when, and with whom you jest. Boccaccio. Wanton jests make fools laugh, and wise men frown. J. Maine. Those who lie in jest will soon learn to lie in earnest. Solom. Many things are said in jest, but are meant in earnest. M. W. Jacobus. The jest loses its point when the wit is the first to laugh. Schiller. To jest is tolerable, but to do harm by jesting is insufferable. Bias. He that will lose his friend for a jest deserves to die a beggar. T. Fuller. If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. Plaw.tws. There be certain things which ought to be priv- ileged from jest. Lord Bacon. Jests are seldom good the first time, but the second distasteful. Nigw. Tet not thy laughter handsell thy own jest, lest others laugh at thee. Quarles. Never adopt that maxim, “Rather lose our friend than our jest.” - Quintilian. Jesting is not unlawful if it trespasseth not in quantity, quality, or season. J. Lydgate. He that relates another man's wicked jest with delight, adopts it as his own. Mme. Levert. A bitter jest when the satire comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. Tacitus. Be not affronted at a jest ; if one throw ever so much salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, un- less thou art raw and ulcerous. Jumiws. level of humanity. Wit nourishes vanity ; reason has a much stronger tincture of pride in it. Hazlitt. A pure jest is good at all times, and is never ut- tered with better grace than when it is accompa- nied with a grave and serious countenance. Cicero. Let not thy jests like mummies be made of dead men's flesh ; abuse not any that are departed ; for to wrong their memories is to rob their ghosts of their winding-sheets. J. Barr. Beware of biting jests ; the more truth they car- ry with them the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them. Lavater. A jest should be such that all shall be able to join in the laugh which it occasions ; but if it bears hard upon one of the company, like the crack of a string, it makes a stop in the music. Feltham. A good jest, well-timed, is the salt of our con- versation and sociability ; the laugh at a jest smooths the ruffled brow, and banishes spleen, which otherwise might lead to anger. J. Metz. If in company you offer something for a jest, and nobody seconds you on your own laughter, you may condemn their taste, and appeal to better judgments; but in the meantime you make a very indifferent figure. Swift. It is dangerous to jest with God, death, or the devil; for the first neither can nor will be mocked ; the second mocks all men at one time or another ; and the third puts an eternal sarcasm on those that are too familiar with him. J. Beaumont. A good jest in time of misfortune is food and drink; it is strength to the arm, digestion to the stomach, and courage to the heart. A prosperous man can afford to be melancholy ; but if the mis- erable are so, they are worse than dead; it is sure to kill them. W. Ware. Scoffs, calumnies, and jests, are frequently the causes of melancholy. It is said that “a blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword;” and certainly there are many men whose feelings are more galled by a calumny, a bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, a squib, a satire, or an epigram, than by any misfortune whatsoever. R. Burton. Jesting, when not used upon improper matter, in an unfit manner, with excessive measure, at undue season, or to evil purpose, may be allowed. When jesting is so handsomely and innocently used, so as not to defile or discompose the mind of the speaker, not to wrong or harm the hearer, not to derogate from any worthy subject of discourse, not to in- fringe decency, to disturb peace, to violate any of the grand duties incumbent on us, it cannot be con- demned. I. Barrow. P & O S E o 0 oz. A 7 y o A. S. 461 JESUITISMI. Exterminate the Jesuits. 2Cogntm. Do not out-Jesuit the Jesuits. H. A. Wise. Banish all Jesuits from the empire. Kien-Long. To destroy the Jesuits is a necessity. Choiseul. A Jesuit only is a true believer in God. Fromage. Perfect obedience is the virtue of a Jesuit. E. Swe. Jesuitism is the most vigorous of all the religious Orders among men. Swarez. The Jesuits have lengthened the creed, and short- ened the decalogue. Abbé Boileau. The end and exercises of the order of Jesuits are not suited for women. Urban VIII. Jesuitism expresses an idea for which there was in nature no prototype. S. B. I, Jarchi. Jesuitism is a doctrine whose faith is cunning, and whose truth is deceit. B. Ochino. The society of Jesuits is a sword, whose handle is at Rome, and the point everywhere. Dupin. I would every Jesuit were in the bottom of the sea, with a Jansenist hung to his neck. Voltaire. Shall the Jesuit clergy establish a human tariff for crime in opposition to the commandments of God? Lewis C. Leven. The strength of the Jesuits cannot withstand the avalanche-like advance of reason and enlighten- ment. E. Bickersteth. The Jesuitical axiom that the end justifies the means is exerted to gain Jesuitical ends at the cost of the means of others. R. Leighton. The Jesuits, or members of the society of Jesus, follow the teachings of Him who said: “Be ye wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” John Hughes. The Jesuits were wise in their generation ; they cried down worldly things, because they wanted to obtain them, and cried up spiritual things, be- because they wanted to dispose of them. Colton. A Jesuit may be shortly described as an empty suit of clothes, with another person living in them, who always acts for him, thinks for him, decides for him, whether he shall be a prince or a beggar, and moves him about wherever he pleases : obedi- ence to his superior is his only idea of virtue, and in all other respects he is a mere image. R. Southey. JEWELS. A jewel shines by its own lustre. T. C. Grattan. Jewels neglected lose their glory. Shakspeare. A jewel worn as an ornament may be a help in adversity. To mil. The Ordinary usages of society tend almost en- tirely to a display of jewelry ; how wiser it would be if they tended to a display of virtues. R. Puffer. Jewels, by their outward splendor and gaudiness, may adorn an ugly woman ; but with all their lus- tre they can never hide the deformities of a depra- ved mind. W. Marston. JEWS. The Jews were God's chosen people. Chrysostom. Labor for the conversion of the Jews. Ignativs. A Christianized Jew is not to be trusted. Russi. The Jew would rather die than labor on the Sab- bath. C. F. C. Volney. The Jews are found in all countries, and are of all colors. T. Dwight. By the oppression of kings the Jewish nation was destroyed. W. Goodell. To the Jews only, and not to the Gentiles, was a Savior promised. Elias Hicks. In most places Jews are not unlike Christians in their morals and usages. Rabbi Jehuda. There are claims which the Jew can urge, in which the Gentile cannot share. B. W. Noel. The adherence of the Jews to their religion makes their testimony unquestionable. J. Perles. Of all nations that have éver existed, the Jewish is the most singular and interesting. M. Stewart. The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth Of the Bible. Addison. There is one argument in favor of Christianity which can never be set aside, that is, the present state of the Jews. P. F. Suhm. The Jews, although scattered over the face of the earth, yet maintain a secret and indissoluble bond of union and common interest. Haacthawsen. No other people have been so widely dispersed throughout other nations as the Jews, or preserved their distinction of tribes and families. J. Jahn. However dispersed and unbelieving the Jews are at present, we have reason to believe, from the aspect of Scripture prophecy, that they shall, in due time, be converted to Christianity. C. Buck. Of all races, not one has preserved its distinctive nationality more perfectly than the Jew; dispersed and scattered amongst all nations of the world during many ages, the Jew is at once distinguished from every other. Richard Taylor. The universal dispersion of the Jews throughout the world, their unexampled sufferings, and their invariably distinguished characteristics, when com- pared with the histories of all other nations, and with the most ancient predictions of their own law- givers and prophets concerning them, would be amply sufficient to support the truths of the Chris- tian religion. Lord Erskime. The Jews exhibit one of the most striking in- stances of national formation, unaltered by the most various changes ; they have been scattered for ages over the face of the whole earth, but their peculiar religious opinions and practices have kept the race uncommonly pure ; accordingly, their color and their characteristic features are still the same under every diversity of climate and situa- tion. - E. Lawrence. 462 A) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. JOECE. He who gives, must take a joke. Stolberg. Always prevent ill-feeling from spoiling a joke. S. L. Clemens. A joke's prosperity lies in the ear of the hearer. - Shakspeare. When a joke shows malice, it ceases to be a joke. E. P. Day. He who plays a trick must be prepared to take a joke. T. James. The next best thing to a very good joke, is a very bad joke. J. C. Hare. Do not go too far after a joke : it may spoil in bringing it home. C. F. Browne. A man given to joking is generally possessed of a vulgar and shallow mind. J. Howgh. A joker is near akin to a buffoon ; and neither of them is the least related to wit. T. Hood. It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. Sidney Smith. Ill-bred persons, and proud, empty fools, are ever ready to be angry at any trifling joke. E. Varty. I look upon a pure joke with the same venera- tion that I do upon the ten commandments. - H. W. Shaw. Those who know how to joke with good-nature and discretion may contribute to the mirth of the Company. G. Crabb. It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in com- pany; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon. Chesterfield. A game of jokes is composed partly of skill, partly of chance : a man may be beat at times by one who has not the tenth part of his wit. Johnsom. A pompous man, when he smiles at a jest, takes more credit to himself for his appreciation of the joke, than he allows to the wit for uttering it. Bovee. Never risk a joke, even the least offensive in its nature and the most common, with a person who is not well-bred, and possessed of a sense to com- prehend it. Bruyère. I am convinced that jokes are often accidental ; a man in the course of conversation throws out a remark at random, and is as much surprised as any of the company, on hearing it, to find it witty. A. W. Hare. Jokes are the cayenne of conversation, and the salt of life. A joke becomes positively good from its being so intolerably bad, and is applauded, in the inverse ratio of its merit, as the greatest honors are sometimes showered upon men who have the least honor. ' Chatfield. The distinction between a delicate witticism and a low, rude joke, is very perceptible ; the former may be indulged in, if it be seasonable, and in hours of relaxation, by a virtuous man ; the latter, if indecent gestures and obscenity of language be used, is unworthy even of a human being. Cicero. JOURNALISM. Journalism is organized gossip. E. Eggleston. A journal should be neither an echo nor a pan- der. G. W. Curtis. Journalism has become prominent, if not pre- eminent, as a profession. C. F. Wingate. The province of journalism is to inform, to teach, to disseminate general knowledge. W. Hyde. Journalism is an immense power that soon threatens to supersede sermons, lectures, and books. - T. Tiltom. A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of na- tions. Napoleon I. A journal must not be good in spurts, but good every day ; neither should a journalist anticipate events, but should keep just in advance of them. F. Hwdson. The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth—truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier. H. Greeley. All the follies and shams of the world are seen through the editorial and reportorial rooms, from day to day, and I only wonder that journalists can believe anything. Talmage. When the scope of journalism and its business is properly understood, with its social, political, and moral attitude of command, the value of first-class journalists will be appreciated. Whitelaw Reid. It will be a sad day for journalism when the names and reputations of individual writers become a matter of more interest than the principles they espouse, and the opinions they express. H. J. Raymond. Imitation in journalism, as in all things else, im- plies something more than mediocrity ; it involves just that sort of insincerity which discredits the whole tenor and direction of a useful effort. H. Watterson. Journalism, properly understood and wisely de- veloped, is the reflection of events which are cre- ated almost hour by hour, of thoughts and opinions that change and take shape in the mold of these events. J. G. Bennett, Jr. The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals ; but whether he will follow this caution in regard to taste will of course depend upon his own intellectual culture. W. C. Bryant. The art of journalism lies in the expression ; the science of it may be said to include all Sciences, in- asmuch as what it now undertakes to do is to help the public at large to think correctly on every sub- ject of human interest. E. L. Godkin. The journalist who is to help conduct, to have a share in molding public opinion through a great paper, needs the best and broadest education he can get. He needs the world's experience as well as experience of the world, and to assimilate that means study. R. R. Bowker. A R O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 463 JOURNALISM. JOY. Journalism is drawing into its ranks every year Joy surfeited turns to sorrow. Alfieri. more and more of the intellectual ability of the country; clergymen leaving their pulpits, lawyers their briefs, schoolmasters their desks, and scholars their studies, to ply the pen for the daily and weekly newspaper. F. B. Samborn. The journal which has the advantage of the best theory and practice, and the wisest conception of what a journal should be, and which satisfies the popular demand with the most intelligence, is not only going to take the lead, but to practically mo- mopolize the newspaper business. D. G. Croly. The duty of a public journalist is that he should print, first of all, the news, and next that he should speak of facts without favor ; and that he should regard himself as conducting a private business, never seek office, or place himself in the position of a tool of politicians and the instrument of rings. M. Halstead. It is the proper aim of a public journalist to get and publish all news worth publicity, made intelli- gible by apt information therewith, instructive by philosophy of cause and consequence, conative by well uttered and iterated reasonings ; thus, at least, a journalist might serve his fellow-men, and for that service have sufficient reward. M. Marble. There is nothing, however good in itself, which may not be converted into “stuff,” by making a jumble of it, and interpolating trash ; and there is no journalist who may not be represented as in- consistent, no allowance being made for difference of times and circumstances, and the just and vivid impressions of particular periods and events. R. Walsh. To possess intellect, knowledge, and experience is not enough for a journalist, such as the public cul- ture and public appetite now require ; there must be a moralendowment also; independence of mind, good nature, unpurchasable honesty, freedom from every sort of meanness, and above all, a moral courage that quails before no man and no party, are all alike indispensable. C. A. Dama. Politics, international and municipal law, po- litical economy, moral and social Science, and the art of reading individual character, must be understood by the journalist, and not only under- stood, but explained ; he must have that clear insight into general principles, and that familiari- ty with details, which will enable him to speak with clearness, originality, and decision. Parke Godwin. Journalism has already come to be the first pow- er in the land ; the pulpit, the platform and the school-house, are all subordinate to it ; its respon- sibilities have grown with its power ; they appeal to it to rise above the coarseness, the personality, the wantonness, that have marked its past, and still mar its present ; they encourage it to lead the na- tion out of the toils of a corrupt government : to recognize capacity, virtue, and intelligence, in all places of trust and responsibility ; and to make the highest dreams of its people a proud realization and a permanent possession. S. Bowles. True joy is only hope put out of fear. Brooke. Joy is the greatest gossip in the world. T. Sprat. Joy makes us giddy and unable to stand. Lessing. Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors. Opitz. Joys are momentary amid an age of pains. Man-yo-shiw. The beams of joy are made hotter by reflection. T. Fuller. Profound joy has more of severity than gaiety in it. Montaigne. What is joy 2 A sunbeam between two black clouds. Mme. Delway. Since death follows thy joys, what are thy joys worth 2 Bar Kappara. Joy is like the ague ; one good day between two bad ones. G. Dudoyer de Gastels. Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery. Sir J. Suckling. How much better it were to weep at joy, than joy at weeping. Shakspeare. Of joys departed not to return, how painful is the remembrance 1 H. Blair. The memory of joy reaches far back in the an- mals of every one's life. J. Samders. He who can conceal his joys is greater than he who can hide his griefs. T. Nºtttall. |Umalloyed satisfactions are joys too heavenly to fall to many men's shares on earth. R. Boyle. In this world full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. Beecher. You may take the greatest trouble, and by turn- ing it around find joys on the other side. Talmage.’ Cares and linked chains of trouble await thee : joys abide not, but are ever on the wing. Martial. Joy descends gently upon us like the falling dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. Richter. Tranquil pleasures last the longest ; we are not fitted to bear long the burden of great joys. Bovee. There is a natural joy over spiritual things, and I pray you not to deceive your souls with it. J. H. Evans. He that to the best of his power has secured the final stake, has a perennial fountain of joy within him. Eugene Swe. Trouble is a thing that will come without our call; but true joy will not spring up without our- selves. S. Patrick. To seek supreme joy in perishable wealth, hollow display, and tyrannical power, is folly the most insane. Magoon. If we are not extremely foolish, thankless, or senseless, a great joy is more apt to cure sorrow than a great trouble. Jeremy Taylor. 464 AD A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. JOY. He that hath a secret spring of spiritual joy, and a continual feast of a good conscience within him, cannot be miserable. R. Bentley. Joy is the delight of the mind, from the consi- deration of the present, or assured approaching possession of a good. J. Locke. No man imparteth his joy to his friend, but he joyeth the more ; and no man imparteth his griefs, but he grieveth the less. G. Pinckard. Worldly joy is a sunflower, which shuts when the gleam of prosperity is over, spiritual joy is an evergreen, an unfading plant. Racine. Great joy, especially after a sudden change and revolution of circumstances, is apt to dwell rather in the heart than on the tongue. Fielding. No joys are always sweet, and flourish long, but such as have self-approbation for their root, and the Divine favor for their shelter. T. Yowng. Without joy we are a member out of joint. We can do nothing well without joy, and a good con- science, which is the ground of joy. Sibbes. The joys of the Christian are incomprehensible to those who have not tasted them, and yet they are the only real ones in the universe. A. Ritchie. Remember the wheel is always in motion, and the spoke which is uppermost will soon be under ; therefore mix trembling with all your joy. - Philip Henry. We seldom meet with joy and delight by ap- pointment, but unexpectedly they smile on us their sudden welcome round some odd corner of life. Miss Palmer. Little joys refresh us constantly, like house- bread, and never bring disgust ; and great ones, like sugar-bread, briefly, and then bring satiety. Richter. By the degree of thy joy on seeing the joy on thy fellow-creature, and that of thy pain in his suffering, thou canst be able to judge of the degree of thy goodness. - Lavater. A man who lives a virtuous life and in the pur- suit of knowledge, may have great joy with only coarse rice to eat, water to drink, and his bended arm for a pillow. Confucius. A man would have no pleasure in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might com- municate his joys. Cicero. All the joys of the earth cannot assuage our thirst for happiness, while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and Smite it with no- thingness at all points. A. de Fallowac. The very society of joy redoubles it ; so that whilst it lights upon my friend it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candle burns the more easily will it light mine. R. Sowth. Here below is not the land of happiness; I know it not ; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed. Fichte. JOY. Mortal joy is ever on the wing, and hard to bind: it can only be kept in a closed box: with silence we best guard the fickle god, and swift it vanishes if a flippant tongue haste to raise the lid. Schiller. Methinks a sovereign and reviving joy must needs rush into the bosom of him that reads or hears; and the sweet odor of the returning gospel imbathe his soul with the fragrance of heaven. Milton. Joy causeth a cheerfulness and vigor in the eyes; singing, leaping, dancing, and sometimes tears ; all these are the effects of the dilatation and com- ing forth of the spirits into the outward parts. Lord Bacom. True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out, that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind, that has for- tune under its feet. Seneca. A joy which is rooted within, which neither dis- plays itself nor hides itself, but merely suffers ob- servation, whose permanence has already some- thing of celestial immutability, bewilders men, yet Causes them to reflect. Mme Swetchine. Joy is the happiness of love; it is love exulting ; it is love aware of its own felicity, and resting in riches, which it has no fear of exhausting ; it is love taking a view of its treasures, and surrender- ing itself to bliss without foreboding. J. Hamilton. As Sunshine seems brightest after rain, and calm is most welcome after storm ; as pearls are fetched from deep waters, and gold is dug from deep mines, so joy is never so welcome as after sorrow ; the truest joy is that poured into a broken heart. G. S. Bowes. Joy is the mainspring in the whole round of ever- lasting nature ; joy moves the wheels of the great time-piece of the world ; she it is that loosens flow- ers from their buds, suns from their firmaments, rolling spheres in distant space seen not by the glass of the astronomer. Schiller. Extreme joy is not without a certain delightful pain ; by extending the heart beyond its limits, and by so forcible a holding of all the senses to any object, it confounds their mutual working—but not without a charming kind of ravishment—from the free use of their functions. Sir P. Sidney. Worldly joy is like the songs the peasants sing, full of melodies and sweet airs. Christian joy has its sweet airs too ; but they are augmented to har- monies, so that he who has it goes to heaven, not to the voice of a single flute, but to that of a whole band of instruments, discoursing wondrous music. H. W. Beecher. Our joys travel by express, our pains by parlia- mentary. Through the loveliest scenes the joy- train of our lives rushes swiftly. At the petty wayside stations, we are able but to touch hands with cherished friends, and behold ! we are off again ; but if we have grief for our engine-driver, care for the stoker, how we creep along the lines. Mrs. F. G. Trafford. * A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 465 JOY. Joy is the vivid pleasure or delight inspired by immediate reception of something peculiarly grate- ful, of something obviously productive of an es- sential advantage, or of something which promises to contribute to our present or future well-being. T. Cogan. Material objects become so entwined with the affections and the memory ; the scenes that have witnessed our joys, and whose tranquil beauties have soothed our sorrows, assume an aspect so like that of old and valued friends, that the pang of separation from them amounts to agony. C. James. The highest joy to the Christian almost always comes through suffering ; no flower can bloom in Paradise which is not transplanted from Geth- Semane ; no one can taste of the fruit of the tree of life that has not tasted of the fruits of the tree of Calvary ; the crown is after the cross. Sprat. Is the joy of heaven no perfecter in itself, but that it needs the sourness of this life to give it a taste § Is that joy, and that glory, but a compara- tive glory, and a comparative joy 3 Not such in itself, ; such in comparison of the joylessness and the ingloriousness of this world ! I know, my God, it is far, far otherwise. J. Donne. Real joy seems dissonant from the human cha- racter in its present condition ; and if it be felt, it must come from a higher region, for the world is shadowed by sorrow ; thorns array the ground ; the very clouds, while they weep fertility on our mountains, seem also to shed a tear on man's grave who departs, unlike the beauties of summer, to re- turn no more. L. Andrews. There are no joys like those which the gospel imparts; none So Solid, none so exquisite and heart- refining, none so enduring. Speak not of the false pleasures of the world, its bewildering excitement, its intoxicating gaieties, its lying vanities; these, you know full well, are a cheat upon your senses, the flashings of deception, that leave their poor, deluded votaries in deeper gloom ; it belongs to the glorious gospel alone to afford substantial and en- during joy. |W. J. Brock. There are many joys and sorrows in life, and of such universal sensations, that every language em- bodies a great variety of terms to express their different shades and gradations; thus hilarity, merriment, amusement, sport, pleasantry, for the one ; and grief, trouble, melancholy, sadness, de- spondency, gloom, dejection, tribulation, and many more for the other; and equally prevalent are the impressions which they produce—the evanescence of joy and the permanency of sorrow. Acton. He that to the best of his power has secured the final stake, has a perennial fountain of joy within him ; he is satisfied from himself ; they, his re- verse, borrow all from without. Joy wholly from without is false, precarious, and short ; from with- out it may be gathered ; but like gathered flowers, though fair and sweet for a season, it must soon Wither, and become offensive; and joy from with- in is like smelling the rose on the tree ; it is more Sweet and fair; it is lasting, and I must add, im- mortal. E. Young. JOY. Joy and grief are never far apart ; in the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadows of the dance ; a wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door ; the smiles and the sadnesses of life are the tragic-comedy of Shakspeare ; gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds. R. A. Willmott. A good man hath more sorrows than the wicked know of : his own offenses, the sins of others, the dishonor of God, the increase of Satan's kingdom, and the present misery of his near relatives. When the profane man pours out his blasphemies the good man drops a tear, and is petitioning heaven for his pardon ; but he has one joy to strengthen him against all his sorrows, viz: the truth of God's promises. J. Beaumont. The joy of the world resembles a torrent ; as upon a glut of rain, you shall have a torrent come rolling along with noise and violence, overflowing its banks, and bearing all before it ; yet it is but muddy and impure-water, and it is soon gone and dried up ; such is all the joy this world can give. It makes a great noise, it is commonly immoder- ate, and swells beyond its due bounds; yet it is but a muddy and impure joy ; it soon rolls away, and leaves nothing behind but a drought in the soul. Now, since the world's joy is but such a poor empty thing as this, it is most gross folly for us to lay out our best love upon that which cannot repay us with the best joy. Bishop E. Hopkins. Joy is one of the greatest panaceas of life; no joy is more healthful, or better calculated to pro- long life, than that which is to be found in domes- tic happiness, in the company of cheerful and good men, and in contemplating with delight the beau- ties of nature. A day spent in the country, under a serene sky, amidst a circle of agreeable friends, is certainly a more positive means of prolonging life than all the vital elixirs in the world. Laugh- ter, that external expression of joy, must not here be omitted; it is the most salutary of all the bodily movements: for it agitates both the body and the Soul at the same time, promotes digestion, circula- tion, and perspiration, and enlightens the vital power in every organ. C. W. Hufeland, Carnal joy is a flash and away : leaves the mind in more extreme and deeper darkness ; blasts the heart and affections with all spiritual deadness and desolations, with many boiling distempers, much raging wildfire, and unquenchable thirst after sen- Suality and earthliness ; and first or last, it is ever certainly followed with renting of the spirit, spirit- ual terrors, thunders, darkness, and damnation. But godly joy is like the light of the sun, which, though it may for a time be overcast with clouds of temptations, mists of troubles, persecutions, and darkness of melancholy, yet it ordinarily breaks out again with more sweetness and splendor when the storm is over ; but howsoever, it hath ever the Sun of Righteousness and fountain of all comfort, SO resident and rooted in the heart, that not all the darkness and gates of hell shall ever be able to dis- plant or distain it, no more than a mortal man can pull the sun out of his sphere, or put out his glori- ous eye. Dean Bolton. 30 466 AN A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. JUDGES. JUDGES. A just judge knows no kin. Aristides. It is better for a man to be made a judge among A liar is not fit to be a judge. Thabit. his enemies than among his friends ; for of his ene- A judge should fear nothing but God. T. Dwight. If you are a judge, search thoroughly. Seneca. A stupid judge passes a hasty sentence. Belus. Who judges unjustly condemns himself. Alfieri. Judges should not have two ears, both alike. - Kulman. Some judges commit crimes as well as criminals. G. D. Premtice. It is the duty of a judge in all trials to follow truth. - Cicero. A judge, when bribed, is ill able to probe the truth. Horace. The judge is condemned when the guilty are acquitted. Publius Syrus. The office of a judge is to be given for merit, not for affection. Sir T. P. Blowºut. He is a good judge that knoweth how and where to distribute. T. Belsham. A good judge may be called the physician of the commonwealth. Awrelius. Judges must be in number, for few will always do the will of few. Machiavelli. A judge should not judge unjustly even to the value of a single date. , Mahomet. An earthly judge may be liable to err ; but it should be always on the side of mercy. Brackenridge. The discretionary power of judges is very often little better than the caprice of a tyrant. G. P. Morris. When a judge sits in judgment over his fellow- man, he should feel as if a sword were pointed at his own heart. Talmud. A judge, under the influence of government, may be honest enough in the decision of private causes, yet a traitor to the public. Jumiws. If judges would make their decisions just, they should behold neither plaintiff, defendant, nor pleader, but only the cause itself. E. Livingston. Four things belong to a judge ; to hear cour- teously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to give judgment without partiality. Socrates. A good judge is true in word, honest in thought, and virtuous in his deeds ; without fear of any but God, without hate of any but the wicked. Hyde. If a felon trembles before an earthly judge, who is but a mere man, how will the impenitent man stand before the heavenly Judge, who is both God and man 2 } Downey. Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident ; above all things integrity is their portion and proper virtue. Lord Bacon. mies he shall make one his friend, but among his friends he shall make one his enemy. Biom. A judge sits on the judgment-seat, not to ad- minister laws by favor, but to decide with fair- ness; and he has taken an oath that he will not gratify his friends, but determine with a strict re- gard to law. Plato. The world has produced fewer instances of truly great judges than it has of great men in almost every other department of civil life; a truly great judge belongs to an age of political liberty, and of public morality. H. Binney. The best law in our days is that which continues our judges during their good behavior, without leaving them to the mercy of those who might, by an undue influence, trouble and pervert the course of justice. Addison. Where the law is known and clear, the judges must determine as the law is, without regard to its inequitableness ; but where the law is doubtful and not clear, the judges ought to interpret the law to be as is most consonant to equity. H. Vaughan. The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to di- rect the evidence ; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech ; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which has been said ; and to give the rule or sentence. Lord Campbell. The people of Judah were charged with the ex- ecution of justice between a man and his neighbor. It was their business to judge the cause of the fatherless; the law given them by Moses made it. obligatory on them to do this, by electing judges in all their gates, who should judge the people with just judgment. |W. Goodell. There is no liberty, if the power of a judge be not separated from the legislative and executive powers; were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control; for then the judge would be the legislator; were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with all the violence of an 9.SSOL”. Montesquieu. Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law ; else will it be like the authority claimed by the Church of Rome, which, under precept of exposition of Scripture, doth not stick to add and alter, and to pronounce that which they do not find, and by show of antiquity to in- troduce novelty. Lord Bacon. It is the public justice, administered by the judges, that holds the community together; the ease, therefore, and independence of the judges ought to supersede all other considerations, and they ought to be the very last to feel the necessi- ties of the state, or to be obliged either to court or to bully a minister for their right ; they ought to be as weak Solicitors on their own demands, as stren- uous asserters of the rights and liberties of others. Burke. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 467 JUDGEMENT. Many judge rashly. De Sales. Outward judgment often fails. T. Parker. Men's judgments sway on the side that fortune leans. G. Chapman. They who always labor can have no true judg- ment. Burke. Judgment is a throne of prudence ; silence is its sanctuary. S. Awstim. The judgment is never to be trusted where vani- ty is interested. F. X. Dimochowski. Do not judge of your neighbor till thou hast stood in his place. Hillel. Everything, even piety, is dangerous in a man without judgment. Stanislaws. The judgment of a great people is often wiser than the wisest men. Rosswth. The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular. Greville. Judging is balancing an account and determin- ing on which side the odds lie. J. Locke. A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another, Sir W. Hamilton. Every one complains of the badness of his mem- ory, but no one of his judgment. Rochefoucauld. Experience teaches that a strong memory is gene- rally joined to a weak judgment. Montaigme. It is with our judgments as with our watches, mone go just alike, yet each believes his own. Pope. A surface judgment is a daring one, indeed, if it presumes to be other than a pleasant one. Miss D. M. Muloch. He is much to be commended, that to his judg- ment addeth virtue, wisdom, and learning. Jago Alvarez da Paz. The three foundations of judgment are bold de- sign, frequent practice, and frequent mistakes. Catherall. In judgments between rich and poor, consider not what the poor man needs, but what is his own. Jeremy Taylor. Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with a judgment of charity. J. Mason. The judgment remains in suspense, until it is in- clined on one side or another by reasons or argu- ments, T. Reid. The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of, and that is judg- ment. H. W. Shaw, Affection blinds the judgment, and we cannot expect an equitable award where the judge is made a party. Glanville. Among those who exercise influence or authority Over others, there is but one step from a false judg- ment to the most appalling consequences. Mine. Swetchine. JUDGEMENT. Human nature is so constituted, that all See and judge better in the affairs of other men, than in their own. - Terence. The seat of knowledge is in the head ; of wisdom, in the heart ; we are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel right. Hazlitt. Judgment falls asleep upon the bench, while im- agination, like a smug, pert counselor, stands chat- tering at the bar. Cowper. As the touchstone which tries gold, but is not it- self tried by the gold, such is he, who has the standard of judgment. Epictetus. Reason ought to accompany the exercise of Our senses, whenever we would form a just judgment of things proposed to Our inquiry. I. Watts. Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works. L'Estrange. It is very questionable how far we have the right to judge others, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. H. Ballow. Rashly, nor ofttimes truly, doth man pass judg- ment on his brother ; for he seeth not the springs of the heart, nor heareth the reasons of the mind. Tupper. It is not the judgment of courts, but the moral judgment of individuals and masses of men, which is the chief wall of defense around property and life. W. E. Chamming. Judgment without vivacity of imagination is too heavy, and like a dress without fancy; and the last without the first is too gay, and but all trim- ming. Sir S. Garth. The judgment that is passed upon the achieve- ments of the mind, should not be different in prin- ciple from that which is decreed upon questions of morals. Acton. The disposition to pass judgment upon the ac- tions and motives of others, has been a moral dis- ease, preying on the vitals of Society from time immemorial. L. C. Judson. I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of ; pinion, or be angry with his judgment for nºt agreeing in that from which within a few days I might dissent myself. Sir T. Browne. While I am ready to adopt any well-grounded opinion, my inmost heart revolts against receiving the judgments of others respecting persons, and whenever I have done so, I have bitterly repented of it. Niebuhr. Fools measure actions after they are done, by the event ; wise men beforehand, by the rules of rea- son and right. The former look to the end to judge of the act ; let me look to the act, and leave the end to God. Sir M. Hale. If there might be added true art and learning, there would be as much difference in maturity of judgment between men therewith inured, and that which now men are, as between men that are now and innocents. R. Hooker. 468 AX A Y',S C O Z Z A C O AV. JUDGEMENT. We rarely meet with persons that have true judgment, which to many renders literature a very tiresome knowledge ; good judges are as rare as good authors. St. Evremond. For the motive of a man's actions, hear his friend ; for their prudence and propriety, his ene- my. In our every-day judgments we are apt to jumble the two together. J. C. Hare. The vulgar mind fancies that judgment is im- plied chiefly in the capacity to censure ; and yet there is no judgment so exquisite as that which knows properly how to approve. W. G. Simms. In forming a judgment lay your hearts void of fore-taken opinions; else whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule ; like those who have the jaundice, to whom everything ap- pears yellow. Sir P. Sidney. The judgment is like a pair of scales, and evi- dences like the weights ; but the will holds the bal- ances in its hand ; and even a slight jerk will be sufficient, in many cases, to make the lighter scale appear the heavier. R. Whately. The faculty which God has given man to supply the wants of certain knowledge, is judgment, whereby the mind takes any proposition to be true or false, without perceiving a demonstrative evi- dence in the proofs. J. Locke. The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is suffi- cient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distin- guish the smallest difference of time. Fontenelle. Calmness of judgment consists in the power of the mind to resist external disturbances, while a cool judgment results from the absence of internal disturbance, or rather from the power of the mind to control its emotions ; persons who have this coolness of judgment are likely to be successful in trade. J. Chitty. The most necessary talent in a man of conversa- tion is a good judgment; he that has this in per- fection is master of his companion, without letting him see it ; and has the same advantage over men of any other qualifications whatsoever, as one that can see would have over a blind man of ten times his strength. Steele. It behooves us always to bearin mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgment which we pass upon men must be qualified by considera- tions of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that they who are most charitable in their judgment are generally the least unjust. R. Sowthey. The common phrase, “worldly wisdom" is the name of that sort of mental short-sightedness which is produced by self-conceit on a cool judgment. But coolness of judgment is truly admirable when it results not from the want of imagination and moral sensibility, but from that strength of will which is able, whenever it is necessary, to keep all the emotions in subjection. W. Gifford. JUDGMENT. Oh, how full of error is the judgment of man- kind . They wonder at results when they are igno- rant of the reasons. They call fortune when they know not the cause, and thus worship their own ignorance changed into a deity. Metastasio. The religious are often charged with judging un- charitably of others; and perhaps the charge may at times be deserved. With our narrow, partial views, it is very difficult to feel the evil of an error strongly, and yet to think kindly of him in whom we see it. A. W. Hare. In the middle classes there is a measure of judg- ment fully equal to any demands we can make upon it—a judgment not too fastidious from vani- ty, nor too insensible from ignorance ; and he that can balance the centre, may not be fearful of the two extremes. Colton. It is wrong to judge a man by a single action, though, at the same time, all the circumstances attending it should even be known ; in a moment of enthusiasm, a false calculation, a transient error, may make the most honest man commit a censur- able action. Judgment should be deduced from the whole life. G. A. Sala. For a certain equable and continuous mode of life, we require only judgment, and we think of nothiug more, so that we no longer discern what extraordinary things each unimportant day re- quires of us, and if we do discern them, we can find a thousand excuses for not doing them. A man of understanding is of importance to his own interests, but of little value for the general whole. Goethe. A man of accurate judgment cannot have a great flow of ideas, because the slighter relations, mak- ing no figure in his mind, have no power to intro- duce ideas ; hence accurate judgment is not friend- ly to declamation or copious eloquence. This rea- soning is confirmed by experience ; for it is a noted observation, that a great or comprehensive mem- ory is seldom connected with a good judgment. Rames. The judgment must be employed to discern the truth or falsehood of assertions, by attending to the credibility and consistency of the different parts of the story; the veracity and character of witnesses in other respects: by comparing these assertions with accounts received from other wit– messes, who could not be ignorant of the facts ; and lastly, by bringing the whole to the test of a com- parison with known and admitted facts. E. D. Mansfield. To accustom a number of persons to the intelli- gent exercise of attending to, and comparing and weighing evidence, and to the moral exercise of being placed in a high and responsible situation, invested with one of God's attributes, that of judg- ment, and having to determine with authority be- tween truth and falsehood, right and wrong, is to furnish them with very high means of moral and intellectual culture ; in other words, it is providing them with one of the highest kinds of education. It may not always succeed in obtaining the great- est certainty of just legal decisions, but it educates a larger portion of the nation. T. Arnold. A R O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 469 JUDGEMENTS. The judgments of God, the further they go, the surer they are. J. Hall. The greatness of God is more seen in His mercy than in judgmentS. E. Grimestone. The judgments sent on the righteous are over- ruled for their good. A. Ritchie. By God's judgments, the humble are lifted up, and the lofty let down. Acton. There is no greater judgment than the doom of a man's own conscience. G. Holford. Many of the judgments that fall upon man, are the result of his own sins. H. K. White, The true way to understand the judgments of heaven is to submit to them. H. W. Shaw. Judgments are sent upon evil persons as punish- ments for their crimes; but afflictions befall both the evil and the good. Plato. If men were absolved from the fear of a judg- ment to come, no restraint would be strong enough to bridle the impetuous resolutions of their de- praved will. + C. Buck. God may defer His judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space of repentance ; He may stay till the iniquities of a nation be full; but sooner or later they have reason to expect His ven- geance. Tillotsom, A humor of turning every misfortune into a judgment, proceeds from wrong motions of religion, which in its own nature produces good-will toward men, and puts the mildest construction upon every action that befalls them. Steele. When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things. Shenstone. The whole design of men's preservation hath been beaten in pieces by some unforeseen circumstance, so that judgments have broken in upon them with- out control, and all their subtleties been outwitted; the strange crossing of some in their estates, though the most wise, industrious, and frugal persons, and that by strange and unexpected ways. Charnock. Who is it, that seeing the bloody havoc of these civil wars of ours, does not cry out that the machine of the world is near dissolution, and that the day of judgment is at hand, without considering that many worse revolutions have been seen, and that, in the mean time, people are very merry in a thou- sand other parts of the earth for all this? Montaigme. We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncha- ritableness than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judg- ments; it aggravates the evil to him who suffers, when he looks upon himself as the mark of Divine vengeance, and abates the compassion of those to- ward him who regards him in so dreadful a light. Addison. JURY. Let the jury judge of the facts. S. Hopkins. In suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury ought to hold sacred. J. Mason. Let the judges answer to a question of law, and the juries to the matter of fact. Browgham. A man who seeks the position of a juryman for the sake of the fees, is unfit to be a juror. David Dwdley Field, A juryman will sometimes find that he is asso- ciated with eleven very obstinate companions. E. P. Day. No man should serve as a juryman who does not hold a social position that places him above tempta- tion. James Ellis. Jurors are not bound to believe two witnesses, if the probability of the fact does reasonably encoun- ter them. Sir M. Hale. The trial by jury in our times, is a bold advance in the practice of the democratic theory, of no Small importance and value. W. Goodell. Is it not an absurdity for a court to demand of a prisoner whether he be guilty or not, when the judge and jury have assembled to determine this very fact & G. P. Morris. If a juror finds it necessary to surrender to the obstinancy of others, he will much more readily resign his Opinion on the side of mercy than of con- demnation.. John Taylor. As to jurors, their consciences are like their feet, of different sizes, some large, some small, while Other resemble gum-elastic, and are capable of be- ing very much stretched. E. D. Mansfield. A competent number of sensible and upright jurymen, chosen by lot from among those of the middle rank, will be found the best investigators of truth, and the surest guardians of public justice. Sir W. Blackstone. That twelve men should be unanimous, in order to punish an offender, and that neither fear nor corruption should have influenced an individual in the many hundred thousands who have been jury- men, is a miracle in morals and jurisprudence. W. S. Londor. The point most liable to objection in the jury system is, the power which any one or more of the twelve have to starve the rest into compliance with their opinion ; so that the verdict may possibly be given by strength of constitution, not by conviction of conscience ; and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. Lord Orrery. To expect that twelve men, taken promiscuously, should agree in their opinions upon points confess— edly dubious, and upon which oftentimes the wis- est judgments might be holden in suspense ; or to suppose that any real unanimity or change of opin- ion, in the dissenting jurors, could be procured by confining them until they all consented to the same verdict, bespeaks more of the conceit of a barbar- ous age, than of the policy which could dictate such an institution as that of juries. W. Paley. 470 AD A Y'.S C O / / A C O AW. JUSTICE. What is law without justice 3 J. Brooks. God's justice cannot sleep forever. T. Jefferson. Memw. Let a man take pleasure in justice. Where might is master, justice is servant. Armdt. Justice should resemble salt in its purity. Pythagoras. Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. W. Watson. Let justice be done, though the world perish. Ferdimand I. Justice is a virtue at once noble and renowned. Lopez de Ayala. Justice is the square root of all human virtues. -- H. W. Show. He who demands justice must administer jus- tice. Salis. Justice often leans to the side where the purse pulls. C. H. Pram. As men worship kings so should kings worship justice. - Antigonus. Sound policy is never at variance with substan- tial justice. S. Poºr. Justice is the fundamental and almost only virtue of social life. C. F. C. Volney. Justice is the bread of the nation ; it is always hungry for it. Chateaubriand. It is justice to rid the world of a monster who rules by injustice. Charlotte Corday. Justice is a virtue that gives every man his own by even portions. Bias. Administer justice to your people, for a day of judgment is at hand. Saadi. He who refuses to submit to justice must not complain of oppression. Hölty. He who goes no further than bare justice, stops at the beginning of virtue. PH. Bloº?". The highway of justice is straight, based on the Substratum of common sense. Follett. Justice is the badge of virtue, the staff of peace, and the maintenance of honor. C. J. Foac. Justice and goodness meet when the contending parties are made to agree peaceably. Talmvwd. Justice is blind ; it is the power of God on earth ; it has no regard to the ties of kindred. T. Percy. Though justice is not sold, it costs a great deal, and one must be very rich to obtain it. Stanislaws. Let justice have its free course, so that the mean- est persons might have the benefit of it. R. Lowth. Men are always' invoking justice ; it is justice which should make them tremble. Mme. Swetchine. Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. . IDiderot. JUSTICE. - Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and therefore is always represented as blind. Addison. Give me a man that buys a seat of judicature ; I dare not trust him for not selling justice. R. Hall. Justice is sometimes so severe, that a tender be- holder can Scarce discern it from cruelty. J. Hall. Had justice always ruled the world, the name of mercy would have been unknown among men. G. W. Doane. Justice is the freedom of those who are equal : injustice is the freedom of those who are unequal. Jacobi. The irregular administration of justice in the world, is indeed a very melancholy subject to think of. * S. Croacall. Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has Seldom failed in overtaking the wicked in their flight. Horace. J All are not just because they do no wrong ; but he who will not wrong me when he may, shows his sense of justice. R. Cwmberland. y Among men, valor and prudence are seldom met with, and of all human excellences justice is still ITQ01’é UlDCOIII] Thorl. Plutarch. If the law punishes one that is guilty, he should submit to justice ; if one that is innocent, he should submit to fortune. Seneca. The peace of society dependeth on justice ; the "happiness of individuals on the safe enjoyment of all their possessions. R. Dodsley. Justice upon earth has forgotten half her lesson, and repeats the other half badly; God commanded her to reward and to punish. W. Noble. J The administration of justice ought neither to be warped by favor, nor broken through by the power of the noble, nor bought by money. Cicero. I am told thou callest thyself a king ; know, if thou art one, that the poor have rights; and power, in all its pride, is less than justice. A. Hill. The only way to make the mass of mankind see the beauty of justice, is by showing them in pretty plain terms the consequence of injustice. S. Smith. Examples of justice must be made for terror to some, and examples of mercy for comfort to others; the one procures fear, and the other love. . Lord Bacon. No obligation to justice can force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence ; a just man does justice to every man, and every thing. Jeremy Taylor. Justice is Godliness, and Godliness is the know- ledge of God ; it is moreover, in respect of us, taken for an equal description of right and of laws. Sir J. Comyns. The sentiment of justice is so natural, so univer- sally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to me independent of all law, all party, all religion. Voltaire. P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 471 JUSTICE. > Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property ; to which may be added, and obedience is the premium which we pay for it. W. Penn. If strict justice be not the rudder of all our other virtues, the faster we sail, the farther we shall find ourselves from that haven where we would be. Colton. Justice is the key-note of the world, and all else is ever Out of tune ; it is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind. T. Parker. Justice is the great standing policy of evil so- ciety ; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstance, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. Burke. You know that justice advances with such lan- guid steps that crime often escapes from its slow- ness ; its tardy and doubtful course causes too many tears to be shed. Corneille. Justice is the great but simple principle, and the whole secret of success in all government ; as ab- solutely essential to the training of an infant as the control of a mighty nation. W. G. Simºns, Justice travels with a leaden heel, but strikes with an iron hand. Wait till the flood-gate is lifted, and a full head of water comes rushing on—wait, and you will see a fine grinding then. J. Black. * What is justice 3 Justice is a perfect knowledge of good and evil agreeing to natural reason ; to give every man his own ; the virtue of it consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. Aristotle. Justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunder-storm, against the organized selfishness of human nature. God gives manhood but one clew to success, utter and exact justice. W. Phillips. It is necessary, in order to do well, to join strength with justice; but with this difference that strength obeys justice as feudal dame and mistress, and does nothing in the spite of her authority, wish, or com- mand. M. L'Hoſpital. To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose be- tween these two masters; so little are we made to be free. Vawtenargues. In the early ages of national existence, sparse- ness of population, mutual fear, and universal pov- erty, have obliged men to lay the foundations of society in principles of justice, in order to secure national existence. F. Wayland. There is something so beautiful and exalted in the faithful administration of justice, and depar- ture from it is so odious and disgusting, that a per- petual monitor is raised up in the mind against the accesses of corruption. Antiquity always begets the opinion of right : and whatever disadvantageous sentiments we may entertain of mankind, they are always found to be prodigal both of blood and treasure in the main- tenance of public justice. Hume. Lord Erskine. JUSTICE. Justice is a measure which God hath ordained among men upon earth, to defend the feeble from the mighty, the truth from falsehood, and to root out the wicked from among the good. Lactantius. Justice requires us not only to avoid injuring an individual in the estimation of other men, but to exercise the same fairness in forming our own opinion of his character, without being misled or biased by passion or prejudice. J. Abercrombie. Justice is in general only a lively apprehension of being deprived of what belongs to us ; hence arises our great consideration and respect for all the interests of our neighbor, and our scrupulous care to avoid doing him an injury. Rochefoucauld. Justice is as strictly due between neighbor na- tions, as between neighbor citizens. A highway- man is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single ; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang of robbers. Franklin. Justice, as defined in the Institutes of Justinian, nearly two thousand years ago, and as it is felt and understood by all who understand human relations and human rights, is, “A constant and perpetual will to render to every one that which is his own.” J. Q. Adams. “Whatever is best administered is best,” may truly be said of a juridical system, and the due dis- tribution of justice depends much more upon the rules by which suits are to be conducted, than on the perfection of the code by which rights are de- fined. Lord Campbell. Before laws were made, there were relations of possible justice; to say that there is nothing just or unjust but what is commanded or forbidden by positive laws, is the same as saying that before the describing of a circle all the radii were not equal. Montesqview. Justice and truth are two points of such exquisite delicacy, that our coarse and blunted instruments will not touch them accurately ; if they do find out the point, so astorest upon it, they bruise and injure it, and lean at last more on the error that surrounds it than the truth itself. Sir M. A. Shee. Justice shines in smoky cottages, and honors the pious ; leaving with averted eyes the gorgeous glare of gold obtained by polluted hands, she is wont to draw nigh to holiness, not reverencing wealth when falsely stamped with praise, and as-. signing each deed its righteous doom. Æschylus. It is the most important concern of every state and throne that justice should prevail, and all men in the world should have their own ; for there where justice rules everyone enjoys his property secure, and over every house and every throne law watches with an angel's eye. Schiller. The idea of justice supposes two things: a rule of conduct, and a sentiment which sanctifies the rule; the first must be supposed common to all mankind, and intended for their good ; the other, the sentiment, is a desire that punishment may be suffered by those who infringe the rule. J. S. Mill. 472 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O A. . . ~, JUSTICE. Justice is never so slender to us as when we first practise it ; it grows in the imagination ; it is en- larged by experience ; it includes more elements; it touches things with a finer stroke ; and it de- mands more exquisite duties, every single day and year that a man lives, who lives at all right. H. W. Beecher. Justice is even more, if possible, the support of society, than truth ; inasmuch as a man may be more injurious by his actions, than by his words. It is for this reason, that the whole force of human law is bent to restrain justice ; and the happiness of every society will increase in proportion to this restraint. W. Gilpin. Justice without power is inefficient ; power with- out justice is tyranny. Justice without power is opposed, because there are always wicked men ; power without justice is soon questioned. Justice and power must therefore be brought together, SO that whatever is just may be powerful, and what- ever is powerful may be just. Pascal. If there be any place where truth ought to be honored, from which falsehood ought to be driven with peculiar severity, in which exaggerations which elsewhere would be applauded as the inno- cent sport of the fancy, or pardoned as the natural effect of excited passion, ought to be discouraged, that place is a court of justice. T. B. Macaulay. Justice, which is a virtue at once noble and re- nowned, which checks the guilty, and fills the land with people, ought to guard kings, and yet is for- gotten, though it is the most precious stone of their honored crown. Many think by cruelty to fulfill its duties, but their wisdom is nought, for justice has to dwell with pity, and to be with truth ; it always grieves to proceed to execution. Cervantes. Observe good faith and justice toward all na- tions, and cultivate peace and harmony with all ; religion and morality enjoin this conduct, and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it 3 It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous, and too novel example of a peo- ple always guided by an exalted justice and bene- volence. Washington. It must always be remembered that the actions of public men will be the subject of thought at a future period, when interest is stifled and passion is silent, when fear has ceased to agitate and dis- cord is at rest, and when conscience has resumed its sway over the human heart ; nothing but what is just, therefore, can finally be expedient, because nothing else can secure the permanent concurrence of mankind. 4. Alison. A sense of justice should be the foundation of all Our Social qualities: in our most early intercourse with the world, and even in our most youthful amusements, no unfairness should be found. That sacred rule of doing all things to others according as we wish they would do unto us, should be en- graved on our minds ; for this end we should im- press ourselves with a deep sense of the original and natural equality of man. H. Blair. JUSTIFICATION. Justification is the pardon of sin. 4. Clarke. There are sinners whose justification is nowhere, and their excuse everywhere. Mme. Swetchine. All Our justifying cometh by faith : and faith and the spirit come of God, and not of us. Tindal. Justification is for the guilty and the condemned: for those unable to pay the penalty of the law they have violated. Justification is the office of God only, and is not a thing which we render unto Him, but which we receive of Him. W. Talbot. Justification washeth away sin ; sin removed, we are clothed with the righteousness which is of God; the righteousness of God maketh us most holy. R. Hooker. Can a man be guilty and not guilty at the same time ; condemned and justified ; a sinner and yet no sinner, but righteous, and that, too, in the eyes Of God himself 2 W. Beveridge. Justification consists of these two parts: remis- Sion and acceptance. Remission of sins takes away Our liableness to death ; acceptation of our persons gives us a title unto life. Bishop Hopkins. We cannot justify disobedience or ingratitude to Our Maker. We cannot justify insult or incivility to Our fellow men ; intemperance, lewdness, pro- faneness, and dueling are in no case to be justified. N. Webster". JUSTNESS. Be just and fear not. Shakspeare. We cannot be just if we are not kind-hearted. Vawtenargues. A just man ought to be esteemed in preference to a relation. Antisthemes. He who is only just is cruel; who upon the earth could live, were all judged justly 3 Byron. To be just is to be free ; but to be strictly just, is often to be selfish and uncharitable. James Ellis. To be perfectly just is an attribute of the Divine nature ; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. Addison. The just, though they hate evil, yet give men a patient hearing ; hoping that they will show proofs that they are not evil. Sir P. Sidney. The just man is not he who does no man an in- jury, but he who, being able to inflict it, does not wish to do so; it is the man who wishes to be just, and not merely to seem so. Philemon. We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise with those who endeavor to injure us ; and this, too, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice. Hierocles. If thou desire rest unto thy soul, be just ; he that does no injury fears not to suffer injury ; the un- just mind is always in labor ; it either practices the evil it hath projected, or projects to avoid the evil it hath deserved. F. Quarles. A. Ritchie. º TV59, | Henry Home. º D - - LC) A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 473 K. REENNESS. KEY. A keen man is half a rogue. Avesani. A key confines; a key releases. Pentathlus. Few men of genius are keen ; but almost every In changing keys there is safety. man of genius is subtle. W. Rowland. Keenness is as necessary to the making of a good lawyer as religion in a minister. W. Hauff. We should treat a keen man as we would a razor, cautiously and tenderly, or we are sure to bleed. Simone Assemani. A keen man is very seldom honest, for he cuts through honesty to get to the bottom of his trans- actions. R. Cattermole. The sting of every reproachful speech is the truth of it ; and to be conscious is that which gives keen- mess to the invective. R. Sowth. ECeenness in a man is not always to be taken as a sign of capacity, for it is generally observed most in those who are selfish and over-reaching ; and his keenness generally ends in that kind of penetration into other people's interests which will tend to benefit his own. A. M. Arnowld. EEEPING. Reeping is having. C. J. Apperley. Reep what you have got. Plawtºws. To keep a friend is a harder matter than to get a friend. Ovid. Wit to get is desirable ; but wisdom to keep is more excellent. Anthony Astom. Reep thy temper, keep thy purse, and keep thy tongue, if thou wouldst be healthy, wealthy, and wise. P. M. Andrews. We have a right to keep what belongs to us, but no arguments can justify our retaining the prop- erty of another. G. F. Graham. EEEPSAECE. A keepsake is a memento of the giver. Abelin. Reepsakes are the hostages of friendship, con- stancy, and love. Lowise M. Stentom. A keepsake engraven upon the heart is better than one in the hand. Mrs. Frances Abington. Reepsakes | Mementos of the past ! How many thoughts do they not recall ? How many episodes in our lives of those we have loved, feared, hated, and regretted Eugène Lowise Adélaide. It is sometimes difficult to tell why we cherish keepsakes ; some of them tell of hopes chilled, promises broken, attachments dissolved, and all the trusting of a once fond heart vanished in ob- livion ; while others bring vivid recollections of dear departed ones, and of years of struggling against the inevitable cause of grief their presence brings; still, after all, they are our life's memo- ries, and we are loth to part with them. J. Ellis. Pelisarius. A key is the most opening thing in the world. Rabelais. A golden key unlocks every door save that of heaven. Sir Robert Ayton. Having put an opponent in the closet, turn the key upon him. W. Pulteney. A little key may open a box in which lies a bunch of keys. Roger Williams. Having locked up your valuables put the key into your own pocket. Effie Afton. The key of fate is in our own hands; we often unlock it, and then throw the key away. Anson. A man’s tongue is the key of his heart ; how few know how to guard it from being picked. Ado. There is a key that will open every lock, if we only know how to forge it ; and so with life, there is a right path for every one, if they will only search to find it. Christopher Anderson. ECILLING. It is easier to kill than cure. Isocrates. All killing is not essentially murder. H. Brisbane. Kill not, lest thou thyself be in peril of being killed. Ptah-Hotep. It is a disgrace for a red man to kill a defenseless prisoner. Tecwmseh. |Rill not a bad man, but rather persuade him to goodness. Confucius. Thou shalt not kill, even the smallest of God's Creatures. Buddha. There is no difference between killing a man with a club or a sword. Hwwy Yung. Even those who do not wish to kill a man are willing to have that power. Juvenal. When a man has no foes to kill, and all his friends desert him, let him kill himself. Nero. There may be a necessity of killing an evil man, in order to preserve the lives of good men. Brutus. Physicians, ignorant of their profession, kill while they pretend to cure ; yet they oblige men to pay them for the slaughter. Folquet de Lunel. Let those who kill without provocation be pur- sued till they find refuge in the realms below ; and even when there they are not quite free. AEschylus, Rilling is an act of caution, not of courage; it is safe, but it is not honorable ; murder for an injury ariseth only from cowardice ; he who inflicteth it feareth that the enemy may live and avenge him- self. R. Dodsley. A) A Y',S CO /, / A C O AV. ECINDINESS. Repay a kindness. Perionder. Be kind to every one. Simon Cameron. Kindness is virtue itself. Lamartime. Speak in a spirit of kindness. Pawlina W. Davis. Heaven will requite the kind. Byron. Remember a kindness received. B. H. Buactom. Kindness is the basis of religion. F. Cowdery. Rindness gives birth to kindness. Sophocles. Let not kindness outweigh justice. Aristides. Recompense kindness with kindness. Confucius. Rindness is the politeness of the heart. Rémusat. ICindness is the surest way to reach the human heart. Mrs. A. E. Bray. Confidence may not be reciprocal, but kindness should be. J. Hamiltom. The kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost. Plautus. Eindness is the best weapon with which to kill an adversary. A. Ritchie. Kindness is the best weapon with which to sub- due an enemy. Baron, Fabricus. Rindnesses misplaced are nothing but a curse and dis-service. Qwintus Ennius. Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Goethe. Kindness makes one like limpid water ; severity like the hardest rock. Mukla. If thy brother wrong thee, imitate Joseph, and return injuries with kindness. Salòh 4ddim. The streams of human kindness and mercy are scant and partial, and are sooner or later cut off. Hammah Cowley. The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. Wordsworth. To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him, and to talk of it, is little different from re- proach. Demosthemes. Be kind to your friends that you may keep them; be kind to your enemies that they may become friends. Thales. All the true believers in the Prophet are as bro- thers of our race, and should treat each other with kindness. Ahmed Bahador. It is more beautiful to overcome injury by the power of kindness than to oppose to it the obstimacy of hatred. Valerints Maaci’mws. No man has measured the power of kindness, for it is boundless ; no man has seen its death, for it is eternal. Miss Julia M. Wright. A kindness of which one is reminded is always regarded as a reproach ; I want less bravery, and more obedience. Racine. EINDINESS, Ask thyself daily to how many ill-minded per- Sons thou hast shown a kind disposition. Awrelius. There is no compensation for the loss of a kind friend, but to bestow kindness upon those whom he loved and gave in need. Sordello. There never yet was an instance in which kind ness has been fairly exercised, but it has subdued the enmity opposed to it. G. W. Montgomery. He who gives pleasure meets with it : kindness is the bond of friendship, and the hook of love ; he who sows not, reaps not. Basile. It is a very weak reason to give for our refusal of an offer of kindness, that we do it because we desire or deserve a better. S. Croacall. I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one ; not to return a benefit is the greater sin, but not to confer it is the earlier. Seneca. Violence and harshness make men disgusted and close up their hearts ; where there is long opposi- tion, a kind word easily finds entrance. Herder. If you have bestowed a kindness on your friend, do not regret that you have done so, as you should rather be ashamed of having acted otherwise. Plautus. Write your name by kindness, love, and mercy, on the hearts of the people you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgot- ten. Mrs. Anne Royall. Kindness sometimes lays us open to our enemies, and shows us to be weak and unsuspecting at the very time when we should be strong and on our guard. Acton. Secret kindnesses done to mankind are as beau- tiful as secret injuries are detestable ; to be invi- sibly good is as godlike as to be invisibly evil is diabolical. G. B. Doddington. How easy it is for one kind being to diffuse plea- sure around him ; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in his vi- cinity to freshen into smiles W. Irving. Then is the time to give proof of kindly feelings, when prosperity has fled, and misfortunes call for aid ; for to show kindness to the fortunate in no way does honor to the noble. Siliws Italicus. The grace of kindness is destroyed if we at first cautiously withhold a favor, and afterwards reluc- tantly grant it, for thereby we provoke the pride of refusal, and purchase disdain instead of grati- tude. C. D. Cleveland. Kindnesses do not always produce what we ex- pect; from a hand which we hate they are regarded as offenses ; the more we lavish on one who may hate us, the more arms we give to him who wishes to betray us. Corneille. The last, best fruit which comes to late perfec- tion, even in the kindliest soul, is the tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unfor- bearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philan- thropy toward the misanthropic. Richter. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7 ſo w S. 475 EINDINESS. Eind words being dropped incessantly, at length vivify the petrified features; the statue, so to say, begins to smile, and speaks and laughs, and then bounds across the green-sward with his children at play, metamorphosed into a happy man. J. Foster. Eindness 'infuses the greatest energy into both body and soul, and creates that spirit of self-aban- donment to the general good which annihilates selfish considerations and binds all classes in the bonds of peaceful and holy brotherhood. Lord Burleigh. Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportune- ness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circum- volutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles. A. Helps. A tender-hearted and kind disposition which in- clines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapa- ble of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable ; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest. Fielding. How beautiful is that kindness which is always thoughtful, considerate, and anticipatory ; which busies itself with contributing to the good of others, which thinks beforehand what their wants are to be, and how they may be met most pleasantly and efficiently ; which thus sows the seeds of happiness and progress along the commonest waysides of life, and sheds an influence of refreshment and peace on all the circle. Julia L. Dumont. The humanizing power of kindness may be exer- cised in every relation of life : in our intercourse with our fellow-creatures, whether in the church, in the assembling together for the promotion of a benevolent or social object, or any other link that binds men together in the chain of brotherhood; kindness should hallow our friendships, pervade our demeanor throughout the common usages of society, and influence our conduct as kinsmen, hus- bands, and fathers. James Ellis. The language of reason, unaccompanied by kind- ness, will often fail of making an impression ; it has no effect on the understanding, because it touches not the heart. The language of kindness, unassociated with reason, will frequently be un- able to persuade ; because, though it may gain upon the affections, it wants that which is neces- sary to convince the judgment ; but let reason and kindness be united in a discourse, and seldom will even pride or prejudice find it easy to resist. - T. Gisborne. What does kindness do at home 3 It makes the mother's lullaby sweeter than the song of the lark, the care-laden brows of the father and the man of business less severe in their expression, and the children joyous without being riotous. Abroad, it assists the fallen, encourages the virtuous, and looks with true charity on the extremely unfortunate— those in the broad way, who perhaps had never been taught that the narrow one was the best, or had turned from it at the solicitation of tempta- tion. A. Perkins. EINDINESS. In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hour- ly—and opportunities of doing kindnesses if sought for are ever starting up—it is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks, that affection is won and preserved. He who neglects these trifles, yet boasts that whenever a great sacrifice is called for, he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. The likelihood is, he will not make it ; and if he does it will be much rather for his own sake than for his neighbor's. G. A. Sala. Good and friendly conduct may meet with an un- worthy, with an ungrateful return ; but the ab- sence of gratitude on the part of the receiver cannot destroy the self-approbation which recompenses the giver ; and we may scatter the seeds of cour- tesy and kindness around us at so little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others; and all of them will bear fruit of happi- ness in the bosom whence they spring. Once blest are all the virtues ; twice blest sometimes, J. Bentham. The great duty of life is not to give pain ; and the most acute reasoner cannot find an excuse for one who voluntarily wounds the heart of a fellow- creature ; even for their own sakes people should show kindness and regard to their dependents. They are often better served in trifles, in propor- tion as they are rather feared than loved ; but how Small is this gain compared with the loss sustained in all the weightier affairs of life? Then the faith- ful servant shows himself at once as a friend, while One who serves from fear shows himself an enemy. Fredrika, Bremer. EINDEED. The rich never want kindred. W. M. Thackeray. Strong are the ties of kindred. AEschylus. Kindred without friends is not worth a rush. Yriarte. Let the white man's country be my country, and his kindred my kindred. Pocahontas. The ties of kindred are often irksome, and often fetter and hold us from higher advancement. Ammie E. Lancaster. A man cannot abstract himself from his kindred while he retains any spark of human feeling. G. Crabb. Remember the reiation that bindeth you to unity, and prefer not a stranger to thine own kin. R. Dodsley. Men are of the same flesh ; kinsmen, and of the same blood ; citizens of the same country ; dwell- ers in the same house—husband and wife, parents and children, masters and servants—these are mo- tives for unity A. Nicholsom. Almost all the sweet, delightful words in Our lan- guage which link our heart and its tenderest asso- ciations with home and everything that is dear in the sweet charities of social life, have the same root and family resemblance ; kin, kind, kindred, kind- IlêSS. Magoon. 476 AX A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. EING. A king is a living law. Clawdiws. No kingdom can endure two kings. Agesilaws. A king should be a king in all things. Adriam. An unlearned king is but a crowned ass. Henry I., of England. A king may die, but he should never be sick. Lowis XVII. Rings are more suspicious of good men than bad. - - Sallust. A king should prefer his country to his children. - Seneca. He is no king who fears to fight for his kingdom. Montezuma. It is better to die a king, than to live Only as a prince. Napoleon I. It becomes a king to do good, and to bear to be evil spoken Of. Lord Burleigh. Before God, a king is as great a sinner as his meanest subject. Frederick the Great. Cotton is king, and no power on earth dares make war upon it. J. H. Hammond. The king who affects to be an enthusiast for li- berty is a hypocrite. Oscar. Rings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. Bwrke. Rings and states may be lords of our bodies, but they cannot be of our Souls. Sir S. Garth. Though the king is a scarce-crow made of straw, yet he does protect the corn. A. Pope. A king is sovereign over his people, but God is king over all kings and people. Kaméhameha III. A king who institutes unjust laws, undermines the foundation of his kingdom. Saadi. The king of a country is not amenable to any form of trial known to the laws. Jwntºws. A man is a man ; but when you See a king, you see the work of many thousand men. G. Eliot. A man should either not converse with kings at all, or say what is agreeable to them. AEsop. He who reflects attentively upon the duties of a king, trembles at the sight of a crown. De Levis. Rings, chiefly in this, should imitate God: their mercy should be above all their works. W. Penn. When a king fails in honor and justice, it is enough to stagger his people in their allegiance. L’Estrange. Kings are never without flatterers to seduce them, ambition to deprave them, and desires to corrupt them. Plato. As for kings they are happy in many other things, but chiefly in this, that they can do and say whatever they please. Sophocles. EINGF. A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists; a king to the profit of all, a tyrant Only to please a few. Aristotle. That king shall best govern his realm that reign- eth over his people, as a father doth over his chil- dren. Agesilaws. Rings who are subject to the laws, should bless themselves they have not the power to oppress mankind. G. P. Morris. Of all kinds of men, God is the least beholden to kings ; for he does the most for them, and they the least for Him. J. W. French. Wise kings have generally wise counsellors, as he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. Diogenes. A people may let a king fall, yet still remain 8, people ; but if a king lets his people slip from him, he is no longer a king. Saville. Ringcraft is a profession which has produced both the most illustrious and the most contempti- ble of the human race. W. S. Landor. All precepts concerning kings are comprehended in these ; remember thou art a man ; remember thou art God's vice-gerent. Lord Bacom. Rings have it in their power to keep a majority on their side by any tolerable administration, till provoked by continual oppression. Swift. The people are fashioned according to the ex- ample of their king ; and edicts are of less power than the model which his life exhibits. Claudian. If kingly power had never been raised to a level with the attributes of the Divinity, it had probably never been sunk so low as popular acquiescence. R. Hall. Rings entertain feelings neither of enmity nor friendship toward any, but are in both guided solely by what they consider to be their interest. Polybius. The patriot king, who confers happiness upon a whole nation, must render a more acceptable ser- vice to the Deity than any other mortal can proffer. - Chatfield. A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day ; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made. Sebastian Cabot. A king ought not to fall from the throne except with the throne itself; under its lofty ruins, there alone he finds an honored death and an honored tomb. Alfieri. Rings and princes, in the earlier stages of the world, labored in arts and occupations, and were above nothing that tended to promote the conve- niences of life. Pope. The notions concerning the divine institution and right of kings have no foundation in fact or reason, but have risen from an old alliance between eccle- siastical and civil policy. Bolingbroke. P R O S E O U O T A 7" / O M S. EING. It is a double misfortune to a nation given to change, when they have a king that is prone to fall in with all the turns and veerings of the people. . Addison. When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship. Greville. It becometh a king to take good heed to his coun- selors, in noting who panders to his indulgences, and who intend the public profit ; for thereby shall he know the good from the bad. Plutarch. Kings are the supreme governors and rulers over states and monarchies; if they be virtuous they are the blessings of the realm ; if vicious, Scourges allotted for their subjects' iniquities. Mercurimo di Gattimara Arborio. It is the misfortune of kings that they scarcely ever do that good that they have a mind to ; and through surprise, and the insinuations of flatterers, they often do that mischief they never intended. Fémélom. Rings make men as they do pieces of money : they put what value they please on them, and we are compelled to receive them according to the value put on them, and not according to their true worth. Rochefoucauld. The king must not be subject to any man, but to God and the law ; for the law makes him king. Let the king, therefore, give to the law what the law gives to him, dominion and power ; for there is no king where will, and not law, bears rule. Bractom. Ičings are endued with wisdom that they may easily quell factious deeds when the people are misled by demagogues, Soothing them with soft words ; as he goes through the city all hail him as a god, with gentlest awe, and he stands conspicuous midst the assembled council. Hesiod. It is manifest that the power of kings and magis- trates is nothing else but what is only derivative, transferred and committed to them in trust from the people to the common good of them all, in whom the power yet remains fundamentally, and cannot be taken from them without a violation of their natural birthright. Milton. The king is but a man as I am ; the violet smells to him as it doth to me : the element shows to him as it doth to me ; all his senses have but human conditions ; his ceremonies laid by, in his naked- ness he appears but a man ; and though his affec- tions are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing. Shakspeare, Anyone familiar with the history of kings knows that their course has uprooted nations ; fire and sword have marked their career ; they have been raised by the whirlwind of party spirit, riding for a time on the tornado of faction ; and by the same elements often dashed to pieces. In a large ma- jority of cases, the tenure of their crowns has been a mere rope of sand, and limited in its duration. L. C. Judson. EING. If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions, until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, and the longest life too short, for the full accomplishment of So grand and so noble an ambi- tion, Colton. Kings wish to be absolute, and they are some- times told that their best way to become so is to make themselves beloved by the people. This maxim is doubtless a very admirable one, and in some respects true ; but unhappily it is laughed at in courts. Rowsseau. A king who loves and fears religion, is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes, or to the voice that appeases him ; he who fears and hates reli- gion, is like the savage beast that growls and bites the chain which prevents his flying on the passen- ger; ne who has no religion at all, is that terrible animal who perceives his liberty only when he tears to pieces, and when he devours. Montesquiew. When those who claim a Divine right to rule over their brethren, instead of enforcing their claims by fire and sword, will produce the creden- tials that Moses did, imitate his meekness, leave it for others to urge peacefully their claims, and wait for the grateful recognition of their brethren before they issue their edicts, then it will be in time for them to refer to Moses as a precedent for the “divine right of kings.” W. Goodell. An earthly king mounts his throne in glory, yet he is soon clouded with fears and dangers; some- times by the malicious envy of his subjects, and sometimes by the interposition of foreign powers: but in heaven, there each saint is a glorious king ; each king hath an incorruptible crown ; each crown a boundless, fearless, endless kingdom. Let us strive for the glory of such a kingdom only, which is a kingdom of such glory. A. Wombwell. A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake ; just as if in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat. If every man should buy, or if there were many buyers, they would never agree : one would buy what the other liked not, or what the other bought before ; so there would be a confusion ; but that charge being committed to one, he according to his discretion pleases all : if they have not what they would have one day, they shall have it the next, or something as good. Selden. They say that the goodliest cedars, which grow on the high mountain of Libanus, thrust their roots between the clefts of hard rocks, the better to bear themselves against the strong storms that blow there ; as nature has instructed those kings of trees, so hath reason taught the kings of men to root themselves in the hardy hearts of their faithful subjects ; and as those kings of trees have large tops, so have the kings of men large crowns, where- of as the first would soon be broken from their bodies, were they not underborne by many branches, so would the other easily totter, were they not fastened on their heads with the strong chains of civil justice and martial discipline. Sir W. Raleigh. 478 JD A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. KISSEs. | Kissing goes by favor. C. Hoole. A kiss is the seal of affection. J. Beaumont. Risses are the messengers of love. Opitz. How rapturous is the kiss of honest love. W. Godwin. There is much virtue in a kiss well delivered. Sydney Smith. A kiss of the mouth often toucheth not the heart. Harriet Martineaw. Many kiss the hands they would wish to see cut Off. Dubois. There is some mysterious virtue in a kiss, after all. Miss Annie C. Johnson. There is magic in a kiss that doth disarm all force. Cowley. A kiss is not the feast ; it is an invitation to the feast. J. Randolph. A kiss is the door that opens the citadel of the heart. De Levis. A simple kiss from my mother made me a painter. B. West. The strength of a kiss is generally measured by its length. Byron. Forget not that a kiss may prove a traitor in an angel's dress. Sir S. Garth. A kiss is at once the token of boldness, confidence, and affection. Niphºws. A kiss given and received is the token of love offered and accepted. J. P. Brown. A kiss is an alms which enriches him who re- ceives without impoverishing her who gives. Nimon de L'Enclos. The acme of human happiness is that we may kiss whom we please, and please whom we kiss. Miss S. Prichard. A gift returned showeth that one is displeased ; but a kiss returned betokeneth esteem for the giver. St. Basil. The kiss of a virtuous woman is sweeter than honey ; the perfumes of Arabia breathe from her lips. R. Dodsley. Good things may be used for evil purposes; the kiss of Judas was a sign for the betrayal of His Master. St. Ambrose. It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanc- tifies it. Bovee. It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the be- loved ; but never so delightful as when fresh tears are On them. W. S. Landor. In every grade of society there is kissing ; go where you will, to what country you will, you are perfectly sure to find kissing. R. Griffiths. When two hearts are surcharged with love's electricity, a kiss is the burning contact, the wild, leaping flaume of love's enthusiasm. G. D. Prentice. KISSES. Though a lover be never so great an orator, yet a kiss on the lips of his beloved is often more elo- quent than all his fine speech. J. Bodenham. Risses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near. G. Villiers. I came to feel how far above all fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood, all earthly pleasure, all imagined good, was the warm tremble of a devout - J. Keats. The Soul of a young woman is a ripe rose; as Soon as one leaf is plucked, all its mates easily fall after ; and a kiss may sometimes break out the first leaf. Mrs. John Samford. Deal gently with those who stray ; draw by love and persuasion; a kiss is worth a thousand kicks; a kind word is more valuable than a mine of gold. C. Dickens. I cannot tell you whether there is any particular etiquette to be observed in administering a kiss; the great beauty of a kiss lies in its impulsiveness, and in its impressibility. H. W. Shaw. Rissing an unwilling pair of lips is as mean a victory as robbing a bird's nest, and kissing too willing ones, is about as unfragrant a recreation as making bouquets out of dandelions. J. Brientnall. A kiss fairly electrifies you ; no language ex- presses it. A kiss is as old as creation ; Eve learned it in Paradise, and was taught its beauties, virtues, and varieties by an angel, for there is something so transcendent in it. A. Clyde. Only once in our lives is it given us to know the full, entire, ecstatic bliss of a kiss ; it is the first tender kiss of our only true love ; there can never be a second like it ; we have its remembrance ever in our soul as the taste of heaven. Elizabeth Czartoryski. There is a kiss of welcome and parting ; the long, lingering, loving, present one ; the stolen, or the mutual one ; the kiss of love, of joy, and of Sor- row ; the seal of promise, and the receipt of fulfill- ment. Is it strange, therefore, that a woman is invincible, whose armory consists of kisses, Smiles, sighs, and tears ? Haliburton. What is in a kiss 2 View it in the abstract ; look at it philosophically What is there in it 2 Millions upon millions of souls have been made happy, while millions upon millions have been plunged into mi- sery and despair by this kissing; and yet, when you look at the character of the thing, it is simply a pouting and parting of the lips. H. Cockton. What is a kiss 2 A kiss is, as it were, a seal, expressing our sincere attachment ; a pledge of future union ; a present, which, at the same time it is given, is taking from us the impression of an ivory coral press; a crimson balsam for a love- wounded heart; a sweet bite of the lip ; an affec- tionate pinching of the heart ; a delicious dish, which is eaten with scarlet spoons; a sweetmeat, which does not satisfy our hunger; a fruit, which we plant and gather at the same time. A. Locker. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7 I O W S. ENAVERY. Enavery is its own reward. Enaves and fools divide the world. R. Wymme. Terence. A knave is ever suspicious of knavery. Addison. Nourish not a serpent, nor bestow favors upon a knave. Demophilus. We ought never to sleep over the threats of the knave. Molière. There is no knave that may not be made good for something, Rowssed w. It is a bad thing to be a knave, but worse to be known for One. Guicciardini. The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. Lavater. Enaves will often thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live. Shirley, Men who are knaves individually are in the mass very honorable people. Montesquiew. A knave or a fool can do no harm, even by the most sinister and absurd choice. Bentley. When men are become accomplished knaves, they are past crying for their cake. Shaftesbury. Every knave is a thorough knave, and a tho- rough knave is a knave throughout. Berkely. A knave is like a tooth-drawer, that maintains his own teeth in constant eating by pulling out those of other men. S. Butler. With art and knavery some live through half the year; and with knavery and art they live through the other half. O. Alfieri. Knaves easily believe that others are like them- selves ; they can hardly be deceived, and do not de- ceive others for any length of time. J. Hamilton. Most men had rather brook their being reputed knaves, than for their honesty be accounted fools; knave, in the mean time, passing for a name of credit. R. Sowth. Cunning leads to knavery : it is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery : lying only makes the difference ; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. Bruyère. His knowledge of human nature must be limited indeed, and he must have mixed but little with the world, who is not aware, that a very honest man, with a very good understanding, may be deceived by a knave. Junius. It proceeds rather from revenge than malice, when we hear a man affirm, that all the world are knaves; for before a man draws this conclusion of the world, the world has usually anticipated him, and concluded all this of him who makes the ob- servation. Jeremy Taylor. A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat ; his revenge is plunder ; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of be- ings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself, and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hand in the pockets of another. Colton. EINEELING. All nations will kneel. Mahomet. Eneeling is not praying. T. Stapleton. Kneel with humility and reverence. Sozzini. Eneel ? No 1 I kneel to none but my God, and my sovereign. John Evans. A brave man will kneel only to his lady-love, his sovereign, and his God. Joseph Parker. It is not in the act of kneeling that we show rev- erence ; but it is the reverence of the heart that prompts the prostration of the body. Horton. Hypocrites often kneel in prayer to deceive men; but they forget that every time they bow the knee with a false motive, their hearts become more cal- lous in sin. A. F. Russell. It is not the least of a thousand contradictions that a man, marked to the world by the grossest violation of all ceremony and decorum, should be the first servant of a Court, in which prayers are morality and kneeling is religion. Jurvivºs. ENIGHTHOOD. A knight is dubbed, not born. Rees. A knight should ever be courteous. Montawdon. A good knight is never at a loss for a lance. J. W. A. Cuvellier de Trie. Knights errant are subject to much hunger and ill luck. Cervantes. A knight who is guilty of treason is thenceforth no knight, but a knave. Sir A. Lucy. Let the order of knighthood be bestowed as a reward for military merit. Henry II, of France. In the eyes of a true knight his lady-love is fair, although all the world may differ. Cecilia Finlay. A knight of the long robe is more honorable than a knight made in the field ; for furs are dearer than spurs. Sir T. Overbury. Enighthood, which antiquity hath reserved sa- cred, is the readiest jewel with which virtue can be presented. F. Osborne. A knight convicted of any heinous crime should be degraded without combat, as a vile and infam- ous man who hath offended against the Order of knighthood. R. Macoy. To be a man of gentleness and good-will, were esteemed as necessary to the character of a true knight in the days of chivalry, as was that of his renown in arms. E. D. Mansfield. The knights were patterns not of courage mere- ly, but of religion, generosity, courtesy, and fidel- ity ; and the heroines were no less distinguished for modesty, delicacy, and the utmost dignity of Iſla, IllſleI’S. H. Blair, The merit of a knight is to perform his exercises with skill, to conduct an army with judgment, to charge with courage, to be well-armed, to mount a horse with agility, to present himself with grace in courts, and to render himself agreeable in com- pany. Armawd de Marveil. 480 A) A Y’,S CO / / A C O AV. ENOWLEDGE. ENOWLEDGE. - Knowledge is power. Lord Bacon. The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply –-mºmºmº it : not having it. to confess your ignorance. Knowledge has its value. La Fontaine. ; noU naving 1 . COll y gnol ºwCius. ECnowledge can exalt all. Aviceſima. The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for Knowledge is never too dear. F. Walsingham. Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age. De Renti. All knowledge comes from God to the soul. Philo-Judoews. Human knowledge is the parent of human doubt. - Lord Greville. Knowledge is boundless; human capacity lim- ited. Chamfort. Diffused knowledge will always immortalize it- self. Sir J. Mackintosh. Rinowledge is like a lighthouse on a dangerous Coast. B. Quaife. Knowledge is the best attendant on riches and honor. Thomas De Lisle. True knowledge is to know how hittle can be known. Georges. Sand. Rinowledge is the daughter of experience and memory. A framius. If you have knowledge let others light their can- dles at it. T. Fuller. Rnowledge is like a guide-post, where many roads meet. G. S. Bowes. Rnowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness. Washington. All wish to possess knowledge, but few are will- ing to pay the price. Jwvenal. Knowledge is won only by a pure, devoted, and passionate love for it. Acton. Rnowledge and timber should not be much used until they are seasoned. O. W. Holmes. Rnowledge raises us above the brutes, but love erects us above ourselves. Eliza, Cook. Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer of the wise man. W. Pem?). He who holds the key of knowledge, should open it for the benefit of the human race. S. Pritchard. That knowledge is of the most importance, that leads us in the shortest road to truth. L. C. Judson. It is the kind more than the amount of know- ledge that makes well or ill-informed. Bovee. The roots of all knowledge must strike and feed in the soil of the rightly-governed will. Pestalozzi. The third great end of all knowledge, is the im- provement and exaltation of our minds. A. Alison. ECnowledge is the consequence of time, and mul- titude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. - J. Collier. The wise carry their knowledge, as they do their watches, not for display, but for their own use. J. G. Funck. riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. Sterme. One part of knowledge consists in being igno- rant of such things as are not worthy to be known. Crates. Knowledge unemployed may preserve us from vice ; but knowledge beneficially employed is vir- tue. J. Hamilton. Rnowledge, when wisdom is too weak to guide her, is like a headstrong horse that throws the rider. F. Quarles. Rnowledge is the fruit that is still yielded by the tree of life, and it is the hand of fame which plucks it. G. Dimter. Those only who know little, can be said to know anything; the greater the knowledge the greater the doubt. Goethe. The strength and sweetness of our knowledge de- pend upon the impression which it makes upon Our Own minds. B. Disraeli. Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp, without depriving ourselves of any flame. Jane Porter. Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart ; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. R. Hall. To acquire wealth is to create friends; but to gain knowledge is to acquire that power of which fame will speak. Dowmey. Enowledge is not happiness, and Science but an exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of happiness. Byron. The knowledge of things alone gives a value to our reasonings, and preference of one man's know- ledge over another's. J. Locke. A man that is rich in knowledge is rich in all things ; for without it there is nothing, and with it what can be wanting 2 Solom. Rnowledge is valuable in proportion as it is pro- lific ; in proportion as it quickens the mind to the acquisition of higher truth. Anna H. Drury. FCnowledge is the treasure of the mind, but dis- cretion is the key ; without which it lies dead in the dullness of a fruitless rest. Biom. Head-knowledge is our own, and can polish only the outside ; heart-knowledge is the spirit's work, and makes all glorious within. Thomas Adam. If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him ; an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Franklin. Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much ex- perience as to regret his follies, and then dies. - Clwlow. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. ENOWLEDGE. He who would advance in any department of knowledge, must know what others have dome before him. B. B. Edwards. It is no wonder if a great deal of knowledge, which is not capable of making a man wise, has a natural tendency to make him vain and arrogant. Addison. To know things well, we should know them in detail: but this being in a manner infinite, our knowledge must needs be superficial and imper- fect. Rochefoucauld. If you desire knowledge only to know, it is cu- riosity ; if to be known, it is vanity ; but to edify, it is charity ; or that you may be edified, it is wis- dom. Ray Palmer. He that would make a real progress in knowledge must dedicate his age as well as youth, the latter growth as well as the first fruits, at the altar of truth. - W. Guthrie. Until men find a pleasure in the exercise of the mind, great promises of much knowledge will little persuade them that know not the fruits of know- ledge. Sir P. Sidney. In order to secure the beneficial result of in- dustry and perseverance, there is nothing else ne- cessary but to develop knowledge and to polish the talents. Mutsuhito. For those who ask us what actual benefits accrue to men from knowledge, an answer is written in language that cannot err, in the whole history of the world. Dr. Comolly. Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things ; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome ; ill at ease, and out of place. Tupper. Knowledge, though limited upon earth, is silver among the poor, gold among the rich, and a jewel among princes; it directs practice, yet practice in- creases knowledge. A. Ritchie. Rnowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts with ignorance ; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles. H. Mann. The shortest and the surest way of arriving at real knowledge, is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to remount to first principles, and take nobody's word about them. Bolingbroke. The dangers of knowledge are not to be com- pared with the dangers of ignorance. Man is more likely to miss his way in darkness than in twi- light ; in twilight than in full sun. R. Whately. Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep dig- ging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you. Felton, Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world ; like a great rough dia- mond, it may be very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value. Chesterfield. FCNOWLEDGE. |Useful knowledge can have no enemies except the ignorant ; it cherishes youth, delights the aged, is an ornament in prosperity, and yields comfort in adversity. - J. O. Chowles. Men in the present day are superior in knowledge to their predecessors ; and yet we are still mere barbarians compared with the race who shall here- after fill the earth. S. Bailey. Though knowledge and truth be both of them excellent things, yet he that shall conclude the chief good to be something that transcends them both, will not be mistaken. Plato. What an unspeakable happiness would it be to a man engaged in the pursuit of knowledge, if he had but a power of stamping his best sentiments upon his memory indelibly. I. Watts. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wis- dom in minds attentive to their own. Cowper. Rnowledge that terminates in curiosity and spe- culation is inferior to that which is useful; and of all useful knowledge that is the most so which con- sists in a due care and just notion of ourselves. St. Bernard. The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory ; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need. Leibnitz. Every increase of knowledge may possibly ren- der depravity more depraved, as well as it may increase the strength of virtue; it is in itself only power ; and its value depends on its application. Sydney Smith. There is no kind of knowledge which, in the hands of the diligent and skillful, will not turn to account. Honey exudes from all flowers, the bitter not excepted ; and the bee knows how to extract it. G. Horne. Knowledge and good parts, managed by grace, are like the rod in Moses’ hand, wonder-workers; but turn to serpents when they are cast upon the ground, and employed in promoting wicked de- signs. J. Arrowsmith. The tree of knowledge is grafted upon the tree of life ; and that fruit which brought the fear of death into the world, budding on an immortal stock, becomes the fruit of the promise of immor- tality. Sir H. Davy. Early knowledge is very valuable capital with which to set forth in life: it gives one an advan- tageous start. If the possession of knowledge has a given value at fifty, it has a much greater value at twenty-five. Mrs. Burmett. He that hath no knowledge of that which he Ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of is a man among brute beasts ; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is a god among men. Pythagoras. 31 482 A) A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. ENOWLEDGE. Knowledge may not be as a courtezan for plea- sure and vanity only ; or as a bondswoman, to ac- quire and gain for her master's use; but as a spouse, for generation, fruit, and comfort. Lord Bacon. A man may do very well with a very little know- ledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company : everybody is so much more ready to produce his own than to call for a display of your acquisitions. C. Lamb. It is the property of all true knowledge, espe- cially spiritual, to enlarge the soul by filling it ; to enlarge it without swelling it : to make it more capable, and more earnest to know the more it knows. T. Sprat. Rnowledge has been deemed long enough an ar- gand-lamp to illuminate a drawing-room ; it is time it should be known as a Sun, whose beams resting upon the mountain-tops penetrate into pro- foundest valleys. J. Melton. Falling in love with the utility of knowledge as a means, men sometimes cease to pursue it as an end ; and while turning aside to pick up the golden apples of pleasure, or profit, or applause, miss the more excellent prize at the end of the course. H. N. Hwdsom. Knowledge is a treasure, and ever decorates the intellect of man, except when it is wrongly ap- plied. It is sometimes made a powerful agent of evil, it is true, but then it only proves the ability of the mind to rise superior to any of its teachings. J. W. Barker. Knowledge hath a bewildering tongue, and she will stoop and lead you to the stars, and witch you with her mysteries, till gold is a forgotten dross, and power and fame the toys of an hour, and wo— man's careless love light as the breath that breaks it. N. P. Willºs. Knowledge imparteth wisdom in the minds of all men, whereby general principles for directing of human actions are comprehended, and conclu- sions derived from them, upon which conclusions groweth, in particularity, the choice of good and evil. R. Hooker. The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth ; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing, but that it is the external design of an internal de- ficiency. Colton. Enowledge is corrupted in four manner of ways. First, by the contempt of it, in ignorance ; se- condly, by the luxuriousness and wantonness of it, in curiosity ; thirdly, by the effect and uncer- tainty of it, in opinion ; fourthly, by contradic- tion and opposition unto it, in error. Sir J. Reymolds. To an intellectual being, in a cultivated state of society, a certain amount of knowledge may be considered a necessary of life. If he does not pos- sess it, he is shut out from a vast source of enjoy- ment ; is liable to become the dupe of the design- ing, and to sink down into mere animal existence. F. Wayland. - interest, novelty, grace, attraction, and effect. ENOWLEDGE. People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am very content with know- ing, if only I could know. That is an august en- tertainment, and would suffice me a great while. To know a little would be worth the expense of this world. R. W. Emerson. There is, among young men, a prodigious and most lamentable waste of intellect. How few do justice to their native powers How few so im- prove their means and talents as to rise to that eminence which a kind Providence has placed with- in their reach ! H. Winslow. One of the most agreeable consequences of know- ledge is the respect and importance which it com- municates to old age. Men rise in character often as they increase in years ; they are venerable from what they have acquired, and pleasing from what they can impart. Sir G. Sinclair. The more we know the greater our thirst for knowledge. The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals at the first pattering of showers, and rejoices in the raindrops with a quicker sympathy than the parched shrub in the sandy desert. S. T. Coleridge. Rnowledge conquered by labor becomes a pos- Session, a property entirely our own ; a greater vividness and permanency of impression are se- cured, and facts thus acquired become registered in the mind in a way that mere imparted informa- tion can never produce. Smiles. The more widely knowledge is spread, the more will they be prized whose happy lot it is to extend its bounds by discovering new truths, to multiply its uses by inventing new modes of applying it in practice. Real knowledge never promoted either turbulance or unbelief ; but its progress is the fore- runner of liberality and enlightened toleration. Browgham. Knowledge is an excellent drug, but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corrup- tion and decay if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep. Such a one may have a sight clear and good enough, who looks asquint, and consequently sees what is good, but does not follow it, and sees knowledge, but makes no use of it. Montaigme. He that enlarges his curiosity after the works of nature demonstrably multiplies the inlets to hap- piness; therefore we should cherish ardor in the pursuit of useful knowledge, and remember that a blighted spring makes a barren year, and that the vernal flowers, however beautiful and gay, are only intended by nature as preparatives to au- tumnal fruits. Dr. Johnson. Knowledge without inspiration is the clay-like body without the aiming, life-giving Promethean spark; it has no soul, no spirit, no essence of beau- ty, no creative commanding power ; it is tedious, prolix, wearisome, and dull as a thrice-told tale, whilst inspirationis the living and quickening prin- ciple of emotion, which imparts to the mind all its Acton. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 483 KNOWLEDGE. A little knowledge leads the mind from God. TJnwise thinkers use their learning to authenticate their doubts ; while unbelief has its own dogma, more peremptory than the inquisitor's. Patient meditation brings the scholar back to humbleness; he learms that the grandest truths appear slowly. R. A. Willmott. Rnowledge may slumber in the memory, but it never dies; it is like the dormouse in the jvied tower, that sleeps while winter lasts, but wakes with the warm breath of spring ; it is like the life- germ in the seed ; it is like the sweet music of the harp-strings, that waits but the master's touch to wake it into utterance. A. L. Chapin. Knowledge, mere knowledge, as it is not an un- mixed thing, is a doubtful good—good Only as we carefully, cautiously use it ; it requires much sift- ing ; if the sulphur get into the otherwise innocent ingredients, it becomes a dangerous compound, that, coming in contact with fiery natures, may blow all the labored works of civilization to atoms. Lord Holland. When we rise in knowledge, as the prospect widens, the objects of our regard become more ob- scure ; and the unlettered peasant, whose views are only directed to the narrow sphere around him, beholds nature with a finer relish, and tastes her blessings with a keener appetite, than the philoso- pher whose mind attempts to grasp a universal system. Goldsmith. One effect of knowledge is to deaden the force of the imagination and the original energy of the whole man ; under the weight of his knowledge he cannot move so lightly as in the days of his simpli- city. The pack-horse is furnished for the journey, the war-horse is armed for war ; but the freedom of the field and the lightness of the limb are lost for both. - Ruskin. With the gain of knowledge, connects the habit of imparting it ; this increases mental wealth, by putting it in circulation ; and it enhances the value of our knowledge to ourselves, not only in its depth, confirmation, and readiness for use, but in that ac- quaintance with human nature, that self-command, and that reaction of moral training upon ourselves, which are above all price. Mrs. Sigourmey. Those who admire and love knowledge for its own sake, ought to wish to see its elements made accessible to all, were it only that they may be the more thoroughly examined into, and more effec- tually developed in their consequences, and receive that ductility and plastic quality which the pres- sure of the minds of all descriptions, constantly molding them to their purpose, can only bestow. - Sir J. Herschel. Reep your view of men and things extensive, and depend upon it that a mixed knowledge is not a superficial one ; as far as it goes, the views that it gives are true ; but he who reads deeply in one class of writers only, gets views which are almost sure to be perverted, and which are not only nar- row but false. Adjust your proposed amount of reading to your time and inclination ; this is per- fectly free to every man. Dr. T. Armold. ENOWLEDGE. It is knowledge that destroys enthusiasm and dis- pels the prejudices of admiration which people simpler minds with so many idols of enchantment. Philosophy, which has led to the exact investiga- tion of causes, has robbed the world of much of its sublimity, and by preventing us from believing much, and from wondering at anything, has taken away half our enthusiasm, and more than half our admiration. Lord Jeffrey. The first steps in knowledge have been likened to the path leading up a steep mountain ; the road, alternately rugged and pleasant to traverse, pre- sents at every step something or other to engage our thinking powers ; and when we arrive at the summit, and behold the world of beauty which is spread before us, years of study are repaid, and we rejoice to be partakers of that intelligence which knowledge bestows. - James Ellis. R nowledge is in most of those who cultivate it a species of money, which is valued greatly, but only adds to our well-being in proportion as it is communicated, and is only good in commerce. Take from the wise the pleasure of being listened to, knowledge would be nothing to them ; they only gather in the closet to scatter among the peo- ple ; they only wish to be wise in the eyes of others, and they would care nothing for studies if they had no admirers. Rowsseaw. All knowledge, however imposing in appearance, is but superficial knowledge, if it be merely the mind's furniture, and not the mind's nutriment; it must be transmuted into mind, as food into blood, in order to become wisdom and power. Many of the generals opposed to Napoleon under- stood military science as well as he did, but he beat them on every occasion where victory depended on a wise movement made at a moment's thought, because science had been transfused into his mind, while to theirs it was only attached. E. P. Whipple. There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature ; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of mature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas ; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity ; to make her See all things above and below, first and last, and between both ; it is this that furnishes us where- with to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offense. Cicero. There are in knowledge these two excellences: first, that it offers to every man the most selfish and the most exalted, his peculiar inducement to good. It says to the former, “Serve mankind, and you serve yourself :” to the latter, “In choosing your best means to secure your own happiness, you will have the sublime inducement of promoting the happiness of mankind.” The second excellence of knowledge is that even the selfish man, when he has once begun to love virtue from little motives, loses the motives as he increases the love, and at last worships the Deity, where before he only co- veted the gold upon the altar. Bulwer. 484 AX A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. ENOWLEDGE. Virtue is an angel ; but she is a blind one, and must ask of knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. Mere knowledge, on the other hand, like the Swiss mercenary, is ready to combat either in the ranks of sin or under the ban- mers of righteousness; ready to forge cannon-balls or print New Testaments; to navigate a corsair's vessel or a missionary ship. H. Mann. R nowledge is power ; so is talent, so is genius, so is virtue. Which is the greatest it might seem hard to tell ; but united, they go forth conquer- ing and to conquer. Nor is their union rare ; kindred in nature, they love to dwell together in the same “palace of the soul.” Remember Milton. But too often they are disunited ; and then, though still powers, they are but feeble, and their defeats are frequent as their triumphs. G. A. Sala. The object of the general diffusion of knowledge is not to render men discontented with their lot, to make the peasant yearn to become an artisan, or the artisan to dream of the honors and riches of a profession ; but to give the means of content to those who, for the most part, must necessarily re- main in that station which is capable of becoming not only a condition of comfort, but of enjoyment, in connection with a desire for that improvement of the understanding, which, to a large extent, is independent of rank and riches. C. Knight. Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant ; but knowledge is ecstatic in en- joyment, perennial in fame, unlimited in space, and infinite in duration. In the performance of its sacred offices, it fears no danger, spares no expense, looks into the volcano, dives into the ocean, per- forates the earth, wings its flight into the skies, explores ocean and land, contemplates the distant, examines the minute, comprehends the great, as- cends to the sublime ; no place too remote for its grasp, no height too exalted for its reach. De Witt Clinton. Enowledge, in general, expands the mind, ex- alts the faculties, refines the taste of pleasure, and opens innumerable sources of intellectual enjoy- ment. By means of it, we become less dependent for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetite ; the gross pleasures of Sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual to the material part of our nature. In- stead of being continually solicited by the influence and irritation of sensible objects, the mind can re- tire within itself, and expatiate in the cool and quiet walks of contemplation. Z. C. Uffenbach. The first step of knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. It is a great point to know our place; for want of this, a man in private life, instead of attending to the affairs of his “chest,” is ever peep- ing out, and then he becomes a philosopher He must then know everything, and presumptuously pry into the deep and secret councils of God; not considering that a man is finite, he has no faculties to comprehend and judge of the great scheme of things. We can form no other knowledge of spirit- ual things, except what God has taught us in His Word, and where He stops we must stop. Burleigh. ECORAN. The Koran is no friend to infidelity. R. Nelson. The great doctrine of the Koran is the unity of God. J. W. Barber. The Koran contains in itself ample evidence of its divine origin. Mahomet. God has allowed no book to be faultless, except His noble Koran. Ibn Khallikón. The doctrines of the Koran are firmly believed in by the Mahommedan people. J. Limen. As soon as a male slave can read the first page of the Koran, he can no longer be held in bondage. S. L. Clemens. The Koran is the work of the False Prophet ; it must be burned ; the temple also at Mecca shall be despoiled of its treasures. Abwd Hamer. The Koran is the word of God; whoever says it is created, should be invited to abandon that opi- nion ; if he does not his head should be struck off. Al-Kendi. As often as we approach the Koran, it always proves repulsive anew ; gradually however it at- tracts, it astonishes, and in the end, forces into ad- miration. Goethe. The Koran is eternal and uncreated ; its origin is of God, and it is the very essence of God; it was delivered in parcels, by Gabriel to Mahomet, the Prophet of God. Abu Beker. The Sword, the Bible, and the Cross, have been obliged to give way to the Scimeter, the Koran, and the Crescent. Like all other forms of religion, however, Islam must in time pass away ; but its influence will be felt, and it will bear fruit to future generations. D. M. Bennett. Ye Mussulmans, if God chastiseth you for vio- lating the five precepts, how hath He raised up the Franks who ridicule them 2 If He governeth the earth by the Koran, on what principles did He judge, before the days of the prophet, so many nations who drank wine, ate pork, went not to Mecca, and whom He nevertheless permitted to raise powerful empires 2 C. F. Volney. The Koran is a remarkable production ; it con- tains some excellencies and many absurdities. It is not Judaism, though it professes especial rever- ence for Abraham, Moses, David, and Solomon —the patriarchs, the law-giver, the kings, and the wise man of Israel—and claims that in the worship of Allah, true adoration is rendered to the Great I AM of the Jewish nation. It is not Christianity, though it admits the miracles of Christ, and pro- fesses to admire the character and teachings of the Son of Mary. It is not Paganism, though many of the sentiments of Menu, Christina, Buddha, Zoro- aster, and other heathen authors, are incorporated in its pages, notwithstanding its pretended mission of bringing all idolators back to the worship of the one only living and true God. It is just the book for the Mahommedan nation, and for them alone ; and were we to admit the claims of the angel Ga- briel to its authorship, we should still insist that it was produced under the immediate supervision of the Great Prophet himself. E. P. Day. º (ºyº º - sº tºº º º º sº º º º H. W. LONGFELLOW. J. R. L.O.W.E.LL. GEORGE LIPPARD. LUTHER. G. E. LESSING. JOHN LOCKE. LAMARTINE. P R O S E O U O 7" A T / O M. S. 485 L. LABOR. Labor conquers all things. Wirgil. Without labor nothing prospers. Sophocles. Do not array labor against capital. G. Lippard. Labor even is pleasant at all times. Euripides. Next to faith in God is faith in labor. Bovee. Labor has a bitter root, but a sweet taste. Halm. He who labors diligently need never despair. Menander. It is easier to lead a laborer than to drive him. W. H. Shºwpe. That man is happy who lives on his own labor. Ptah-Hotep. By persistent labor man may attain to all excel- lence. Demosthenes. It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor. Horace. As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness. Thales. Labor is the foundation of the wealth of every country. James Buchaman. The fruit derived from labor is the Sweetest of all pleasures. Wawveman'gues. Labor rids us of three great evils—poverty, vice, and ennui. Voltaire. To labor and to be content with that a man hath is a sweet life. A. Gallativ. The gods give nothing really good and beautiful without labor. Memophon. Excellence is never granted to man but as the re- ward of labor. Sir J. Reynolds. As salt savors the broth, so does labor give a re- lish to pleasure. Downey. What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all. Amne Radcliffe. Men will not labor unless the products of it be secured to them. T. Dwight. That which is acquired by labor is always re- tained the longest. Plwtorch. What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor ? - Cicero. He that labors is tempted by one devil ; he that is idle, by a thousand. Ariosto. Labor as well as wait ; time ripens the corn, but will not plow the field. J. K. Cleeve. Love labor ; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayst for physic. W. Pemºn. The only real riches are labor; everything else is but the sign or abuse of it. Thomas Parr. T.ABOR. There is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. Addison. As we are born to labor, so others are born to watch over us while we are working. Goldsmith. Free labor is the natural capital which consti- tutes the real wealth of this great country. J. C. Fremont. He who lives upon the fruits of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors. Saadi. Manual labor is the invigorator of body and mind, the promoter of health, and the friend of vir- tue. L. C. Judson. Moderate labor of the body conduces to the pre- servation of health, and cures many initial dis- €8 SeS. W. Harvey. I would have labor a blessing, as God designed it should be ; and not have it made a curse by op- pression. C. E. Lester. You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor ; it is one of the follies still extant in the world. G. P. Morris. The hardest difficulties may be overcome by la- bor, and our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. . Prior. The greatest part of mankind are given up to labor, whose lives are worn out only in the provi- sions for living. J. Locke. God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labor for us, and all is compensated. Legowvé. Labor is the primal curse, but softened into mer- cy, made the pledge of cheerful days and mights without a groan. Cowper. The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home. T. Parker. The labor of the body relieves us from the fa- tigues of the mind; and this it is which forms the happiness of the poor. Rochefowcauld. Labor, though it was at first inflicted as a curse, seems to be the gentlest of all punishments, and is fruitful of a thousand blessings. Jortin. To assert that labor is not the destiny of man, and that it cannot become for him a source of hap- piness, is to calumniate the Creator. C. Vigowrewa. What is it that I labor, sweat, and solicit for, when it is but very little that I want, and it will not be long that I shall need anything 2 Semeca. To the diligent, labor bringeth blessing ; the thought of duty sweeteneth toil; and time spent in doing hath a comfort that is not for the idle. Tupper. 486 JJ A Y "S C O L / A C O AV. LABOR. Productive labor is the sole author of wealth and of every physical improvement, either in the soli- tary or social condition of man. S. Young. Incessant labor, and coarse and scanty food, have certainly a tendency to weaken the bodies of mankind, and wear them out before their time. John Taylor. It is every man's duty to labor in his calling, and not to despond for any miscarriages or disappoint- ments that were not in his own power to prevent. L’Estrange. It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be happy ; and the two cannot be separated with im- punity. Ruskin. There is a beautiful reciprocity between labor and wealth ; if the latter is produced by the for- mer, the former is invigorated and sustained by the latter. T. Burgess. The motto marked upon our foreheads, written upon our door-posts, channelled in the earth, and wafted upon the waves, is and must be, “Labor is honorable, and idleness is dishonorable.” Colby. By labor the earth has been subdued, and man redeemed from barbarism : nor has a single step in civilization been made without it. Labor is not only a necessity and a duty, but a blessing. Smiles. The more we accomplish, the more we have to accomplish. All things are full of labor ; and therefore, the more we acquire, the more care and the more toil we have to secure our acquisitions. 4. Campbell. Labor is prior to and independent of capital ; capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed ; labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. A. Lincoln. Health of body, serenity of mind, and compe- tence of estate, are the requisites for organic hap- piness; and these severely and in the aggregate are the legitimate results and just rewards of steady, well directed, judicious labor. J. Q. Adams. The labor which perfects our intellectual facul- ties, while it develops, elevates, rectifies, and clari- fies or dilutes our ideas, is the Source of a wealth which tends to become inherent, and which posi- tively augments our individual worth. Mºme, Swetchine. Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our plea- SUIT e. James S. Mill. - Providence has decreed, that those common ac- quisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed On the indolent and unworthy ; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor. Erasm w8. LABOR. We assert that labor which is now monotonous, repugnant, and degrading, can be ennobled, ele- vated, and made honorable ; or in other words, that industry can be rendered attractive - A. Brisbane. If it were not for labor, man neither could eat So much, nor relish so pleasantly, nor sleep so Soundly, nor be so healthful, nor so useful, nor so strong, nor SO patient, nor so noble, nor so un- tempted. Jeremy Taylor. There is no rest from labor on earth ; there are always duties to perform and functions to exercise : functions which are ever enlarging and extending, in proportion to the growth of our moral and men- tal station. L. Tymmam. There is one sort of labor which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed, there is another which has no such effect ; the former, as it produces a value, may be called productive : the latter, unproductive labor. Adam Smith. Labor is not only requisite to preserve the coarser organs in a state fit for their functions, but it is equally necessary to those finer and more delicate Organs, on which, and by which, the imagination and perhaps the other mental powers act. Burke. Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth ; if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus. Wilberforce. I have faith in labor, and I see the goodness of God in placing us in a world where labor alone can keep us alive. Manual labor is a school in which men are placed to get energy of purpose and cha- racter ; a vastly more important endowment than all the learning of all other Schools. - W. E. Channing. Labor clears the forest, drains the morass, and makes the wilderness blossom as the rose. Labor drives the plow, scatters the seed, reaps the har- vest, grinds the corn, and converts it into bread. Labor, tending the pastures, as well as cultivating the soil, provides with daily sustenance the one thousand millions of the family of man. Newman Hall. A certain degree of labor and exertion seems to have been allotted us by Providence, as the condi- tion of humanity. “In the sweat of thy brow shalt, thou eat thy bread ;” this is a curse which has proved a blessing in disguise ; and those fa- vored few, who, by their rank, or their riches, are exempted from all exertion, have no reason to be thankful for the privilege. Colton. It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. La- bor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage ; that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields ; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism. M’Culloch. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 487 LABOR. Some labor with their minds, and some labor with their strength. Those who labor with their minds govern others ; those who labor with their strength are governed by others. Those who are governed by others support them ; those who gov- ern others are supported by them. Confucius. The man and woman who are above labor, and despise the laborer, show a want of common sense, and forget that every article that is used is the production of more or less labor, and that the air they breathe and the circulation of the blood in the veins, is the result of the labor of the God of na- ture. L. C. Judson. Labor is the only wealth of the poor, and the - largest hands, those of the poor, hold the least, and have the least to hold ; the poor are valuable for their thews and sinews ; they have limbs to toil and shoulders to bear burdens, but the oppressor remembers not that they have hearts to feel, or mouths to be fed, or that there is “a blood stronger Actom. Labor is the legitimate source of wealth, indivi- than steam.” dual and natural ; and labor is profitable to the individual and the nation in proportion to the in- telligence which guides and directs its operations; hence our youth should be effectually taught to labor, and their minds early imbued with that knowledge which will instruct them in the princi- ples of their business, render it honorable, and make them independent in their minds and in for- tune. E. Everett. Labor is one of the great elements of society, the great substantial interest on which we all stand ; not feudal service, or predial toil, or the irksome drudgery by one race of mankind subjected on account of their color, to another ; but labor, in- telligent, manly, independent, thinking and acting for itself, earning its own wages, accumulating those wages into capital, educating childhood, maintaining worship, claiming the right of the elective franchise, and helping to uphold the great fabric of the State. D. Webster. True education consists in bringing children up to labor with steadiness, with care, and with skill ; to show them how to do as many useful things as possible ; to teach them how to do all in the best mammer ; to set them an example of industry, so- briety, cleanliness, and neatness; to make all these habitual to them, so that they shall never be liable to fall into the contrary ; to let them always see a good living proceeding from labor, and thus re- move from them the temptation to get the goods of others by violent and fraudulent means. Cobbett. Labor is of Divine origin; the Almighty was the first laborer; in the beginning He created the earth, and framed the mechanism of the universe. The obligation of man to labor has been stamped both by precept and example upon all the works of the Creator; it has been implanted deep within the laws which control the physical, mental, and moral constitution of the human race ; and the august command, “Six days shalt thou labor,” was written by the finger of God upon tablets of stone, and proclaimed amid the thunders of Mount Sinai. E. P. Day. LACONICS. Laconics are the spirits of thought. R. W. Jelf. A laconic is a condensation of thought. R. Yate. Laconics are the extracted essences of beautiful thoughts. t Annie E. Lancaster. A great deal of wisdom is often learned from a good laconic. M. G. Lichtwer. Books are bee-hives of thought: laconics the honey taken from them. James Ellis. A laconic is the short-hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal into a little space. Johnson. Laconics, of wise and excellent men, are of great value, like the dust of gold, or least sparks of dia- monds, Tillotson. Laconics combine clearness with precision, wit with wisdom, truth with terseness, and brevity with force. E. P. Day. The laconic style is preferable to the diffuse. Why should we use three words when two will answer the purpose ? J. Howell. Laconics which give the greatest amount of wisdom in the smallest number of words, are in- structors of mankind. Richard Hole. “No, sir,” and “No, madam,” are the most valu- able laconics, if a person have the wit and decision to use, them judiciously. G. Rawlinson. Laconics are the pithy and sweet flowers of wit, compiled in a ready and deliberate brain, and ut- tered in short and elegant phrases, P. Forbes. Ancient philosophers delighted in uttering brief, pithy sentences; indeed, most of their wisdom was conveyed through the medium of what we moderns term laconics. W. Howitt. Laconics of wisdom are treasures which have been constantly accumulating, till at length they comprise brief abstracts of the wisdom of all ages and of all nations. Jerome Cardan. A laconic in language is what the essence is to the attar-rose ; a condensation containing all the beautiful essentials, and producing a higher result than the grosser whole. H. G. Hose. The hand of Providence writes often by abbre- viatures, hieroglyphics, or short characters, which like the laconism on the wall, are not to be made out but by a hint or key from that Spirit which indited them. Dr. Thomas Brown. Laconics are the select sentences of the great and good, and are ever welcome to thoughtful minds ; they are the means by which beautiful sentences are popularized, and when tellingly or forcibly expressed, give both instruction and enjoyment. H. Southgate. Laconics consist of the most brilliant sayings of the wittiest and the profoundest thoughts of the wisest of all nations, and of every age. A selection of laconics serves as an inducement to excite the desire, and awaken the curiosity of the reader to draw more copiously from the original fountains. Johm Taylor. 488 AD A Y',S C O / / A C O AV. I.A.D.Y. - g LAIMENTATION. Ladies have ladies' whims. Weisse. We lament to-day, but forget to-morrow. Chilo. To be gentle is the test of a lady. Feltham, Lamentations are the weapons of the feeble and Do not forget or neglect the ladies. Abbé de Pradt. It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady. Herder. It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lady. Ladies command more delicacy of treatment, never more politeness than men. J. Bartlett. We seek the society of the ladies with a view to be pleased, rather than to be instructed. Colton. Neither wealth nor beauty constitute the lady : virtue and goodness alone are the attributes. Kamt. Complimentary notices from of e lady to another are rare, and when sincere are to be duly prized. Famºny Ferm. If the inner life of all our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady. J. Merrick. Were the minds of Some “ladies” as rich as their jeweled fingers, we should find their lords better satisfied. Dowmey. God made women to be wives and mothers ; and that woman—in poverty or in riches—who fulfills the duties of either, in its purest sense, is a lady. James Ellis. A lady is not a thing made up of silks and laces, power and jewelry ; trailing drapery often covers a base nature. It is true politeness, gentleness, and love for humanity, that constitute a lady. Annie E. Lancaster. Beauty and virtue are the crowning attributes of a true lady ; the possession of these secures to her, universally, homage and respect from all. Without these endowments, external attractions are nothing ; but with them, their power is irre- sistible. Acton. The true lady has a great influence in society, and this influence is not due exclusively to the fas- cination of her charms, but chiefly to the strength, uniformity, and consistency of her virtues, main- tained under so many sacrifices, and with so much fortitude and heroism. Miss Emma Martin. She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. Goldsmith. A lady accomplished is like a star with five rays, which are the five virtues—devotion, modesty, chastity, discretion, and charity. Devotion form- eth the interior ; modesty makes it appear in the exterior with a requisite comeliness; chastity per- fecteth both the one and the other ; discretion ap- plieth it to the direction of others; and charity crowneth all her actions. N. Cawssin. R. Ascham. ing. helpless. F. T. Palgrave. Lamentation is the voice of grief, but it is often counterfeited. Mme. de Praslim. It is useless to utter lamentations : a keen sorrow binds its own wounds, and laments in silence. Martha Stone Hubbell. To lament is to renounce our duty ; it is the same weakness, on the other side, to exult and rejoice. Seneca. Lamentations are only for the wicked : God Soothes and comforts the good, and turns their Sorrows and lamentations into thanksgiving and prayer. James Ellis. Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of an angry man, while within the stewards are beaten, and the maid-servants tormented. - Plutarch. Lamentation may arise from simple sorrow, or even imaginary grievances ; a sensualist laments the disappointment of some expected gratification. Lamentations are sometimes allowable ; the mise- ries of others, or our own infirmities and sins, may justly be lamented. G. Crabb. It is commonly observed that among soldiers and Seamen, though there is much lºindness, there is little grief ; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves. Dr. Johnson. LAMPOON. Lampoons are the emanations of buffoons. Lee. Envy guides the pen of the contemptuous scribe who writes lampoons. James Ellis. In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons. Juvenal. A lampoon is a personal satire ; censure written not to reform, but to vex. Dr. Johnson. We are naturally displeased with a lampooner, because we are bitten in the dark. Dryden. Lampoons of the pen, as well as lampoons of the pencil, are offensive to good taste and to good feel- J. Amyot. Lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties than by printing them. R. B. Sheridan. The lampoon is of the same quality as the cari- cature ; and the mind that can write the one would probably, if it could, draw the other. James P. Holcombe. There is something very barbarous and inhuman in the ordinary scribbers of lampoons. An inno- cent young lady is exposed for an unhappy feature: a father of a family is turned to ridicule, for some domestic calamity ; a wife is made uneasy all her life for a misinterpreted word or action. Addison. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 489 LAND. The land is trustworthy. Pittacus. Land is no fit article of traffic. E. B. Childs. The land is the life of the people. Kamehameha I. There should be some limitation to the ownership of land. G. H. Evans. He who sells his land may as well commit suicide at Once. A. K. Bailey. The land, in its usufruct, should belong to those who till it. W. Leggett. He who has property in the land has the same up to the sky. G. Voet. The land of our neighbor seems more productive than our own. Ovid. It is good to lend to God and to the land ; they pay good interest. Damnh.owder. If God created a being, He also created a piece of land for him to be on. W. V. Barr. Landowners belong as well to the land they own, as the land does to them. Bovee. He who improves the lands of a country deserves the gratitude of that country. Juvenal. For the cultivators of the land, the grateful earth pours forth its richest treasures. Virgil. Every man has an inalienable right to land and home, as well as to life and liberty. J. H. Keyser. No process of law should deprive a man of land and home without his own free will. Gerrit Smith. Our land is our life ; we will defend our lands, or our bones shall be buried in them. Tecwmseh. The lord of land rules mankind by a piece of parchment, stained with blood and baptized with tears. G. Lippard. Land is one of the elements of nature, necessary to man's existence, and it is as much his birth- right as air or water. E. P. Day. Every citizen has a natural right, and should have a legal right, to pre-empt, Occupy, and culti- vate sufficient land for a home. S. A. Douglas. The land on which a good man treads is hal- lowed ; when centuries have passed his words and his deeds are still re-echoed to his children's chil- dren. Goethe. As the produce of uncultivated land is to the pro- duce of land improved by culture, so the number of savages in one country is to the number of hus- bandmen in another. Montesquiew. As soon as the land of any country has all be- come private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. Adam Smith. If we take a survey of the various classes and conditions of society, we shall find few so honora- ble, so important, so fruitful in usefulness, as those members who are the proprietors and cultivators of land. A. Alison. I, ANDSCAPE. Landscapes are nature's pictures. M. E. Lee. Beautiful landscapes tend to lead our thoughts from earth to heaven. Elizabeth F. Ellet. Beautiful landscapes furnish us with subjects that give both satisfaction and joy. A. Marvel. A fine picture of a landscape hung in a room, is like looking from the window at nature. A. Hulphers. Landscapes of hill and dale, wood and water, declare the glory of the Almighty, and proclaim His existence. G. F. C. Quinzano. The poor as well as the rich may contemplate the beautiful landscapes of nature ; they show them how great and numerous are the mighty works of God. The prettiest landscape I ever saw, was one drawn on the walls of a dark room, which stood op- posite on one side to a navigable river, and on the other side to a park. Addison. James Ellis. Nature offers to all her children, with maternal kindness, the first, the most innocent, the least ex- pensive, and most universal of all the pleasures— the contemplation of beautiful landscapes. Sturm. If we sympathize with the beautiful forms, har- monies, and expressions of a landscape—if they act upon us, so that we feel them and grasp them, and possess that fullness of them which impel them, then these impulses of nature determine us to be painters or sculptors. Acton. Nothing can be more happily accommodated to the inward constitution of man, than that mixture of uniformity with variety, which the eye discov- ers in matural objects ; and accordingly, the mind is never more highly gratified than in contempla- ting a natural landscape. Rames. The charming landscape, which I saw this morn- ing is indubitably made up of twenty or thirty farms. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet ; this is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title. R. W. Ehmerson. Landscape gardening differs from gardening in its common sense, in embracing a whole scene im- mediately about a country house ; in it we seek to embody our ideal of a rural home, by collecting and combining beautiful forms in trees, surfaces of grounds, buildings, and walks, in the landscape surrounding us ; it is, in short, the beautiful em- bodied in a home scene. A. J. Downing. The features of English landscape evince a calm and settled security, and hereditary transmission of homebred virtues and local attachments, that speak deeply touchingly for the moral character of the nation. Every antique farm-house and moss- grown cottage is a picture ; and as the roads are continually winding, and the view is shut in by groves and hedges, the eye is delighted by a suc- cession of landscapes of captivating loveliness. W. Irving. 490 AD A Y',S C O /, / A C O AV. LANGUAGE. Language is fossil poetry. Caroline H. Glover. Language is the dress of thought. Steele. Language is a mirror of the mind. J. Cornwell. Language is the vehicle of thought. G. Brown. Every age has a language of its own. J. C. Hare. Languages are the pedigrees of nations. - Dr. Johnsom. A man reacheth not to excellence with one lan- guage. R. Ascham. The best language is that which best conveys our meaning. Confucius. Elegant language may make darkness appear like light. Al-Iraki. There is a disadvantage in not having a univer- Sal language. Jules Verme. In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver. Joubert. Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. Magoom. Languages of countries are lost by transmission of colonies of a different language. Sir M. Hale. A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language. Goethe. Few languages are richer than English in ap- proximate synonyms and conjugates. G. P. Marsh. The history of every language is inseparable from that of the people by whom it is spoken. W. Mure. Speak the language of the company you are in ; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other. Chesterfield. Language is not only the vehicle of thought, but it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. Sir H. Davy. Living languages are better means of teaching boys and men to think, than even mathematics. Dickens. Our language is extremely imperfect, and in many instances it offends against every part of grammar. Swift. The best language is that which is the most re- plete with meaning, and which would express less if uttered more. Acton. Language most shows a man ; Speak that I may see thee : it springs out of the most retired and in- most parts of us. Ben Jomson. The Latin has been for many centuries a dead language, but the so-called Latin, that some folks write, never lived. G. D. Prentice. Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquest. S. T. Coleridge. In languages the tongue is more pliant to all sounds, the joints more subtle to all feats of ac- tivity in a youth than afterwards. Lord Bacon. LANGUAGE. The English language has a veritable power of expression such as, perhaps, never stood at the command of any other language of men. J. Grimm. It may be observed that very polished language, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength. Burke. Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling out through dis- UISé. H. Felton. Every Englishman, who glories in the vigor of his fatherland, ought to study the Anglo-Saxon as the immediate and copious source of the English language. J. Bosworth. Languages have one inscrutable Origin, as have” all national peculiarities, and he has but an imper- fect knowledge of a people who does not know their language. Neibuhºr. It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living. Colton. It is common to hear persons complain of a want of language, they should rather complain of a want of ideas: they forget that the tongue is sub- ordinate to the intellect. - Bovee. To clothe low-creeping matter with high-flown language is not fine fancy but flat foolery; it rather loads than raises a wren, to fasten the fea- thers of an ostrich to her wings. J. Yeates. The sole constitutional office of language being –––. to express our ideas and sentiments, it becomes more and more perfect and useful, the more effec- tually it subserves this sole end of its creation. O. S. Fowle?". Language is a living original ; it is not made, but grows. The growth of language repeats the growth of the plant ; at first it is only root, next it puts forth a stem, then leaves, and finally bloss- OII].S. W. Swintom. Language is an art, and a glorious one, whose in- fluence extends over all others, and in which all science whatever must centre ; but an art spring- ing from necessity, and originally invented by art- less men. J. H. Tooke. The English language has received contributions from the noblest ancient and modern tongues, and is, for this very reason, better calculated than any other to become more and more the language of the world. Schaff. In the progress of refinement, regard to copious- ness and harmony has enriched language with many exotics, which are merely those words in a foreign language that perfectly correspond to terms in our own. R. Hall. It has ever been the use of the conqueror to des- pise the language of the conquered, and to force him to learn his ; SO did the Romans always use, in- somuch that there is no nation but is sprinkled with their language. Herbert Spencer. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 491 LANGUAGE. Language, which is the uniting bond and very medium of communion between men, is at the same time by the great variety of tongues, the means of severing and estranging nations more than anything else. Chatfield. It is fruitless pains to learn a language which one may guess by his temper he will wholly neglect as soon as an approach to manhood, setting him free from a governor, shall put him into the hands of his own inclination. - J. Locke. All languages tend to clear themselves of syno- nyms as intellectual culture advances, the super- fluous words being taken up, and appropriated by new shades and combinations of thought evolved in the progress of society. De Qwincy. To suppose that man without language taught himself to speak, seems to me as absurd as it would be to suppose that without legs he could teach him- self to walk. Language, therefore, must have been the immediate gift of God. N. Webster. Clothe not thy language, either with obscurity, or affectation ; in the one thou discoverest too much darkness, in the other, too much lightness ; he that speaks from the understanding to the un- derstanding, is the best interpreter. F. Quarles. It is a silly conceit, that men without languages are often without understanding ; it is apparent in all ages, that some such have been even prodigies for ability ; for it is not to be believed that wisdom speaks only to her disciples in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. T. Fuller. The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further ac- quirements. Acton. If any language is ever to be universal, it is mani- fest that it must become so by its superior adapta- bility to all climates and peoples, by the superior character of the nation or nations that employ it, and through the propaganism of Science, commerce, and religion. Coates-Kinney. Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these ; yet in reality there is no internal worth in them, and men may understand a thousand languages without being the wiser. I have often wished, that as in our constitution there are several persons whose business it is to watch over our laws, our liberties, and commerce, certain men might be set apart as superintendents of our language, to hinder any words of a foreign Coin from passing amongst us. Addison. Languages are the key or entry to the sciences, and nothing more ; contempt for the one redounds on the other. The question is not whether the lan- guages be ancient or modern, dead or living ; but whether they be rude or polished, whether the books found in them show a good or a bad taste. Bruyère. E. D. Baker. & LANGUAGE. Decorum of language is the natural expression of honest manners. The decorum of language should be a law of taste, as well as a moral law ; and it is for this reason that decorum should be the most respected among a nation where corruption of manners is carried to the least excess. P. L. Roederer. Language is the amber in which a thousand pre- cious and subtle thoughts have been safely embed- ded and preserved ; it has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which unless fixed and arrested might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing as the lightning. R. C. Trench. Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The concep- tions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his style ; a man of vigorous powers makes his style bend to his conceptions ; a fact compatible enough with the acknowledgment of Dryden, that a rhyme had often helped him to an idea. W. B. Clwlow. It is usually said by grammarians that the use of language is to express Our wants and desires ; but men who know the world hold, and I think with some show of reason, that he who best knows how to keep his necessities private, is the most likely" person to have them redressed ; and the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. Goldsmith. As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry ; or all spiritual facts are represented by natural symbols. The same symbols are found to make the same original elements of all languages. It has moreover been observed, that the idioms of all languages approach each other in passages of the greatest eloquence and power. R. W. Emerson. One must not consider a language as a product dead, and formed but once ; it is an animate be- ing, and ever creative. Human thought elabo- rates itself with the progress of intelligence ; and of this thought language is a manifestation. An idiom cannot therefore remain stationary ; it walks, it develops, it grows up, it fortifies itself, it becomes old, and it reaches decrepitude. PHumboldt. The study of languages has produced a strong attachment to what is called eloquence in the large sense, good writing and good speaking ; the power of eloquence is not the result of the study of science only ; where languages are chiefly cul- tivated, the arts and graces are cherished ; and the contrary takes place where science occupies the chief place, and the ancient tongues are neglected. T. Dwight. To explore the history of any language is a task peculiarly difficult at this period of the world, in which we are so remote from the era of its con- struction. We have as yet witnessed no people in the act of forming their language, and cannot, therefore, from experience demonstrate the simple elements from which a language begins, nor the additional organization which it gradually re- ceives. S. Twºme?". 492 J) A Y’,S C O /, / A C O AV. LAUGHTER. Laugh and be wise. Martial. Laugh and grow fat. Ben Jonson. Laugh, if you are wise. Erasmus. It is wisdom to laugh often. Democritus. Laughter makes good blood. Tasso. Laughter is the hiccup of a fool. W. Gresley. The silliest thing I know of is a silly laugh. Catullus. A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any mar- ket. Charles Lamb. Though a laugh is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable. Cicero. Those who laugh at serious propensities love Se- rious trifles. Vawvenargues. A laughing fool seems born for nothing but to show his teeth. G. P. Morris. It is easier to raise a laugh than excite admira- tion for wisdom. W. C. Bennett. No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. Richter. That laughter costs too much that is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. Qwintilian. Is that not the most grateful laugh that we in- dulge against our enemies? He that laughs at me to-day will have somebody to laugh at him to-morrow. Seneca. The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth. De Quincey. Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. Leigh Hunt. Men show their character in nothing more clear- ly than by what they think laughable. Goethe. If laughter be genuine, and consequently a means of innocent enjoyment, can it be inept 2 Chatfield. He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly. Lavater. A laugh to be joyous must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness there can be no true joy. T. Carlyle. Laughter is, indeed, akin to weeping ; and true humor is as closely allied to pity, as it is abhorrent to derision. H. Giles. He is a wise man who always knows what to laugh at, and a bold man that always dare laugh at what is laughable. E. P. Day. Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh ; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face. Jeremy Taylor. I am persuaded that every time a man Smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds some- thing to this fragment of life, Sterne. distracting than so-called giddiness. Sophocles. : - LAUGHTER. Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter ; is he not also the only one that de- serves to be laughed at ? Lord Greville. The riotous tumult of a laugh, I take it, is the mob-law of the features, and propriety is the ma- gistrate who reads the riot-act. O. W. Holmes. Laughter very often shows the bright side of a man : it brings out his happier nature, and shows of what sort of stuff he is really made. Hollmann. Men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they bring with them any present dishonor. T. Hobbes. What have you to say against laughing? Can we not while laughing be very serious 2 Laughing keeps us more rational than sadness caused by vexation. Lessing. To laugh in sin and misery, and make merry so near to endless woe, is a greater shame to your understandings, than to make sport to set your house on fire. R. Baacter. It is a good thing to laugh, at any rate ; and if a. straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of hap- piness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh. Dryden. Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life ; the evil fog of gloom hovers in every distance ; sorrow is more confusing and Richter. O, glorious laughter thou man-loving spirit, that for a time doth take the burden from the weary back, that doth lay salve to the weary feet, bruised and cut by flints and shards. Dowglas Jerrold. If we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from laughter, and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life. Addison. Our comedians think there is no delight without laughter, which is very wrong ; for though laugh- ter may come with delight, as though delight should be the cause of laughter ; but well may one thing breed two together. Sir P. Sidney. Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vain; the suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. F. Quarles. It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, con- strained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them ; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world. Steele. Laughing is peculiar to man ; but all men do not laugh for the same reason. There is the Attic salt, which springs from the charm in the words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited and brilliant sally; there is the low joke, which arises from scurrility and idle conceit. Goldoni. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 493 N LAw. L.A.W. Obey the laws. Solom. | The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws Laws are powerful. Goethe. do more, they reward virtue. Goldsmith. The reason of the law is the law. Sir W. Scott. Law is a bottomless pit ; it is a cormorant, 8, harpy that devours everything. Swift. Law is one of the arts—black arts l D. Jerrold. *-*-*g Laws are sovereigns of sovereigns. Lowis XIV. Laws are the silent assorsoſ God. W. R. Alger. Misery is the attendant of lawsuits. Chilo. Strict law is ofttimes great injustice. Justinian. Laws are silent in the midst of arms. Cicero. Law makes more knaves than it hangs. S. Butler. The law was given to men, not to angels. Talmwal. Common law is nothing else but reason. Coke. Law should be like death, which spares no one. Montesquiew. Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. Goldsmith. Law that shocks equity, is the murderer of rea- SOIl. A. Hill. The reasonableness of the law is the soul of the law. Jenks. Law without justice is as a wound without a CULT6. Downey. You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law. Plautus. It doth not become a law-maker to be a law- breaker. Law is often a triumph over equity and good Jesse Hoyt. conscience. Law is anything boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. Aaron Burr. In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love. R. Nares. The best way to get a bad law repealed is to en- force it strictly. A. Lincoln. Law is anything the legislative propensity may choose to make it. Thomas Cooper. Statutes of law enacted against fundamental morality are void. J. McLeam. When the state is most corrupt then the laws are most multiplied. Tacitus. When laws cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory. H. W. Beecher. Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. Alfieri. Laws not executed are of no value, and as good not made as not practised. Baahdim. Law to a lawyer is—to do anything for his client the court will allow him to do. L. E. Riggs. Let us consider the reason of the case ; for no- thing is law that is not reason. Sir J. Powell. ... lers. Bias. | - bush. Law is the Supreme will of the people, expressed through their legislative bodies. M. Van Buren. That law is the best, which leaves as little as pos- sible to the mere discretion of the judge. Lord Bacon. Law when kept is nothing else but law ; where- as law broken is both law and executioner. Memander. A trick of law hath no less power than the wheel of fortune, to lift men up or cast them down. Sir T. More. An evil law, being for continuance never so an- cient, is mought else than the oldness of error. Lactantiws. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Anacharsis. If any refuse to obey the law, let such trans- gressors be punished according to their deserts. R. Williams. The laws are at present, both in form and es- sence, the greatest curse that Society labors under. |W. S. Landor. Those who go to law are the birds, the court the field, the judge the net, and the lawyers the fow- Pope Pius I. A law, in the making of which the people have had no share, which emanated not from them, is null. Lamennais. To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble L. W. Dilwyn. A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. Voltaire. Avoid law-suits above all things; they affect your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. Bruyère. Do not to any other what thou wouldst not have him do to you ; this is the whole law ; the rest is merely comment. Hillel. As laws are necessary that good manners be pre- served, so there is need of good manners that laws may be maintained. Machiavelli. Strict laws are like a steel bodice, good for grow- ing limbs ; but when the joints are knit they are not helps but burdens. Sir F. Fame. Law is like a sieve ; it is very easy to see through it, but a man must be considerably reduced before he can get through it. S. G. Morton. Laws are but the arrangement of men in society, and good laws are but the arrangement of men in society in their just and natural relation. G. Bancroft. 494 ZD A Y 'S' C. / / A C O AV. * LAW. I As the law dissolves all contracts without a valu . able consideration, so a valuable consideration of- ten dissolves the law. Fielding. Law is the Supreme power in the state, through its legislature, commanding what is right, and con- demning what is wrong. Calvin Townsend. The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all. V. Contsim. A good law without execution is like an unper- formed promise. As long as a law is obligatory, so long our obedience is due. Jeremy Taylor. Laws will not be obeyed, harmony in society cannot be maintained, without virtue ; virtue can- not subsist without religion. R. Hall. Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end. G. P. Morris. The law is a pretty bird, and haſ naming wings; it would be quite a bird of paradise if it did not carry such a terrible bill. D. Jerrold. When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to con- vince me that he is an unalterable fool. Chatfield. Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny ; they derive a particular malignity from the wisdom and Soundness of the rest of our institutions. Burke. The wisest are always the readiest to acknow- ledge that soundly to judge of a law is the weighti- est thing which any man can take upon him. R. Hooker. If it be found that a former decision is manifestly absurd and unjust, it is declared, not that such a sentence was bad law, but that it was not law. Thomas Littleton. How wer the law, to make it a mystery and a trade, Haay be wrapped up in terms of art, yet it is founded on reason, and obvious to common sense. Buckingham. The plaintiff and defendant in an action at law are two men ducking their heads in a bucket, and daring each other to remain longest under water. Dr. Johnson. Law is the clear, translucent stream of justice, flowing freely and smoothly between the banks of wisdom and truth, purified by mercy and equity. 4-º-º-º-º: *-*. L. C. Judson. The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully. Aristotle. Ignorance of the law excuses no man ; not that all men know the law, but because it is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. - Selden. Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them ; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the igno- rant passenger. Sir P. Sidney. L.A.W. The laws keep up their credit, not because they are all just, but because they are laws ; this is the mythical foundation of their authority, and they have no other. Montaigme. There is a law of nature writ upon the hearts of men, which will direct them to commendable ac- tions, if they will attend to the writing in their own conscience. Charnock. If any human law shall allow or require us to commit crime, we are bound to transgress that hu- man law, or else we must offend against both the natural and divine. Sir W. Blackstone. The inferior must give place to the superior, man's laws to God’s laws; if, therefore, any statute be enacted contrary to these, it ought to be consid- ered of no authority. Noyes. Laws are generally not understood by three Sorts of persons, namely, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suf- fer if they break them. Halifaa. Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right. H.-Spenser. When an act of parliament is against common right or reason, or repugnant or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it, and adjudge such act to be void. Sir E. Coke. All beings have their laws; the Deity has His laws, the material world has its laws, superior in- telligence have their laws, the beasts have their laws, and man has his laws. Montesquiew. The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket ; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it. C. Macklin. Of all injustice that is the greatest which goes under the name of law ; and of all sorts of tyran- my, the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable. L’Estrange. |Use law and physic only for necessity ; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves into weak bodies, and light purposes ; they are good reme- dies, bad businesses, and worse recreations. - F. Quarles. A loosely worded law is no law, and to whatever extent a legislature uses vague expressions, to that extent it abdicates its functions, and resigns the power of making law to the courts of justice. - T. B. Macaulay. Laws are the ligaments and sinews of a state: the strings, as it were, which being touched and animated by skillful governors, do yield that ex- cellent harmony, which is to be seen in well-con- stituted communities. Bishop Reynolds. Law is what distinguishes right and wrong, de- rived from nature herself the most ancient princi- ple of all things, to which the laws of men direct themselves, when they impose penalties on the wicked, and protect and defend the good. Cicero. P & O S E O o 7. A 7 / o A. S. L.A.W. All laws have some monuments or memorials thereof in writing, yet all of them have not their original in writing ; for some of those laws have obtained their force by immemorial usage or cus- tom. Sir M. Hale. It often happens that in suits at law, where the gentlemen of the long robe become very personal in the cause for their clients, the only decision ar- rived at may be expressed in these words: “Let him who has received the injury sustain all the loss.” Antienti. Every man of sense knows that our only safety as a government consists in our educating the mass of the people up to the standard of such excellence, that they will not only know how to make laws, but be masters of that higher knowledge which enables them to obey the law. . Simon Cameron. Law is deaf, inexorable, calculated rather for the safety and advantage of the poor than of the rich, and remits of no relaxation or indulgence, if its bounds are transgressed ; men being liable to so many mistakes, to have no other security but innocence is a hazardous situation. Livy. The law is the standard and guardian Of Our liberty; it circumscribes and defends it ; but to imagine liberty without a law, is to imagine every man with a sword in his hand to destroy him who is weaker than himself ; and that would be no pleasant prospect to those who cry out most for liberty. Earl of Clarendon. If laws had been promulgated to recompense good actions as they have been established to punish crimes, the number of the virtuous would surely have been more increased by the attraction of promised benefit, than the number of the wicked are diminished by the rigor of punishments, with which they are menaced. Lowis XIV. The law of mature being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God Himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any other ; it is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times. No human laws have any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid derive all their force, mediately or immediately, from this original. Sir J. Fortescue. No laws can be framed sufficiently comprehen- sive to embrace the infinite varieties of human action, and the labors of the lawgiver must be con- fined to the development of those principles which constitute the support and security of society ; he views man with reference to the general good, and that alone ; he legislates for man in general, and not for particular cases. There is a great deal of law-learning that is dry, dark, cold, and revolting ; but it is an old feudal castle, in perfect preservation, which the legal ar- chitect, who aspires to the first honors of his pro- fession, will delight to explore, and learn all the uses to which its various parts used to be put ; and he will the better understand, enjoy, and relish the progressive improvements of the science in modern times. - W. Wirt. Lord Erskine. • *-ºx: r _A.V. 4. To go to law, is for two persons to kindle a fire “at their own cost to warm others and singe them- 'selves to cinders ; and because they cannot agree as what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves, that others may be deco- rated with their feathers. Feltham. Whoever goes to law goes into a glass-house, where he understands little or nothing of what he is doing ; where he sees a whole matter blown up into fifty times the size of its intrinsic contents, and through which if he perceive other objects, he per- ceives them all discolored and distorted. Skelton. Law is like a country dance ; people are led up and down in it till they are fairly tired out ; it is like a book of surgery, there are a great many terrible cases in it ; it is like physic too, they that take the least of it are best off ; it is like a homely gentleman, very well to follow, and like a scold- ing wife, very bad when it follows us; it is like a new fashion, people are bewitched to get into it, and like bad weather, most people are glad to get out of it. J. Sterling. There can be no law of which the existence is a matter of indifference ; indeed, there is scarcely a greater reproach to the jurisprudence of a nation than the existence of obsolete laws; that is to say. laws that are no rule to guide our actions, because they are unknown to those upon whom they are to operate, but which may yet be used to punish us for their contravention, because they are known and remembered by those who are empowered to enforce them, whenever the malice of a prosecutor, or the ignorance, corruption, or party feeling of a judge, may induce him to draw the rusty sword from its scabbard. E. Livingston. No one appreciates more fully than myself the general importance of the study of the law ; no one places a higher value upon that science as the great instrument by which society is held together, and the cause of public justice is maintained and vindicated ; without it, neither liberty, nor pro- perty, nor life, nor that which is even dearer than life, a good reputation, is for a moment secure ; it links man to man by so many mutual ties, and du- ties, and dependencies, that, though often silent and unseen in its operations, it becomes at once the minister to his social necessities, and the guardian of his social virtues. J. Story. I, A VLESSNESS. Repress lawlessness. Charles Abbott, Unjust laws invite to lawlessness. Adalhard. It is possible for patriotism to degenerate into lawlessness. Charlotte G. O'Briem, When laws are the enemies of the people, law- lessness is apt to follow. G. A. A'Beckett. It is only the lawless who exclaim against the law, because they are disappointed in the success which it brings. Andrea Alciati. When lawlessness is triumphant merit and honor are laid low ; the weak become strong, the strong are defenceless ; the cart goes before the oxen, and Christmas comes after the New Year. W. Raimols. 13 , ºt “A 496 P A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. : L.A.WYER. Lawyers know too much of law. G. Long. Lawyers' houses are built of fool's heads. Vigée. Until hell is full no lawyer will be saved. Roy. A lawyer and a cart wheel must be greased. Möser. Lawyers are permitted to speak entirely on one side. E. Eggleston. It is a secret worth knowing, that lawyers rarely go to law. Moses Crowell. The first business of a lawyer is to understand his subject. Biante. Lawyers' gowns are lined with the willfulness of their clients. R. Porson. A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. Franklin. He who will always be his own lawyer will often have a fool for a client. J. Hunter. To succeed as a lawyer a man must work like a horse, and live like a hermit. Lord Eldom. That law is the best which leaves no opportunity for argument among lawyers. Lord Bacon. The lawyer prays for dissensions, and makes up his fortune through corruption. Seneca. The lawyer only thrives and grows rich by law- suits and the disputes of mankind. Montaigme. A lawyer is one who rescues your estate from your enemy, and keeps it himself. J. Bridaine. The more lawyers there are, the more law-suits; the more law-suits the more corruption. Plato. As to lawyers, their profession is supported by the indiscriminate defense of right and wrong. Junius. A lawyer, by the sacred duty he owes his client, knows but one person in the world—that client and no other. Browgham. The lawyer who pleads in a wrong matter, chooses rather to forget the truth than lose his client's friendship. R. Field. It is the business of a lawyer to find a hole to creep out of any law that is in his way ; and if there is no hole, to make one. Sir W. Ouseley. The lawyer who practices law as an art, is sure to entrap and ensnare ; he will hold you with one hand and rifle your pockets with the other. J. Bartlett. It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusa- tion appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny : it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men. * Lamartime. A lawyer considers it a duty to defend the guilty, provided he be not an abominable and impious wretch ; mankind desires this custom and allows it, and even humanity is willing to tolerate it. Cicero. LA WYER. Without lawyers it would be necessary that every person engaged in a law-suit should be his own advocate, which would expose him to many evils. T. Dwight. He who pleads his own cause may possibly have a fool for a client ; but its more probable that he who employs a lawyer will have a knave for an attorney. E. P. Day. Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws. Lord Bolingbroke. Let no quibbles of lawyers, no refinements of casuists, break into the plain notions of right and wrong, which every man's right reason and plain common sense suggest to him. Chesterfield. I never heard a finer satire against lawyers than that of astrologers, when they pretend by rules of art to tell when suits will end, and whether to the advantage of plaintiff or defendant. Swift. Among other amiable weaknesses, lawyers have this one, of commencing to sum up a case by telling the jury that the merits of a cause lie in a nutshell, and then going on to argue for hours to prove it. *. r Bovee, Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger, who are more or less passionate as they are paid for it, and allow their client a quantity of wrath proportionable to the fee which they receive from him. Addison. Law, like Orthodoxy in religion, is a mystery where reason ends and faith begins ;-none of the unitiated can enter even the vestibule of the tem- ..ple ; Society knows nothing about it but by means of the lawyer. Cooper. It is a mistake to suppose that a lawyer always labors for the interest of his client ; it is his own interest he seeks, and rare indeed is the occasion he will not sacrifice his client, if he can put money into his own pocket by so doing. M. Peck. It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greatest advances in the lucrative business of mystery. The lawyers, as well as the theologians, have erected another rea- Son besides natural reason ; and the result has been another justice besides natural justice. Bwrkë. The lawyer who is vehement and loud in the cause wherein he knows he has not the truth of the question on his side, is a player as to the persona- ted part, but incomparably meaner than he as to the prostitution of himself for hire ; because the pleader's falsehood introduces injustice ; the player feigns for no other end but to divert or instruct you. Steele. Lawyers who have a good reputation in other respects seem to have no moral sense when dealing with estates left by industrious and enterprising men for bereaved and unprotected families ; they are the persons spoken of in the Bible, who “de- vour widows' houses.” It seems impossible to arouse the public to a sense of the cupidity and shamelessness of the average lawyer when making out his bill. .." D. G. Croly. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 497 T.AZINESS. Discourage laziness. Gideon Lee. Lazy folks take the most pains. J. W. Monette. Laziness breeds humors of the blood. Galem. Laziness kills more people than hard work. Ray. A lazy man would have every day a holiday. Ahmed Vesik. Laziness is often engendered by too great pros- perity. - Livy. Laziness is a much greater thief than a pick- pocket. G. Brown. Laziness travelssoslowly that poverty soon over- takes him. Franklin, He that cometh to want through laziness doth not deserve pity. St. Ambrose. Laziness is the enemy of virtue, and the very train of all wickedness. Most men become tired through excess of labor, but the lazy man is tired from his birth. Althorp. The lazy man is usually an ideal man, for he lives on theory, sleeps on hope, and dies in despair. J. W. Croker. Lazy men are the most positive ; they are too lazy to inform themselves, or to change their minds. H. W. Shaw. The house of correction is the fittest hospital for those cripples whose legs are lame through their own laziness. G. F. de Levis. A wise man cannot be a lazy man ; he may in- deed be idle, at times, but it is not through distaste of labor, but for lack of employment. E. P. Day. To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition ; he aims at nothing, and gener- ally hits the mark. James Ellis. Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the de- signs of its creation ? I. Barrow. Laziness is the effect of pride ; labor a conse- quence of vanity ; all lazy nations are grave; those who do not labor regard themselves as the Sov- ereigns of those who do. Montesquiew. Laziness grows on people ; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish ; for he learns to economize his time. Sir M. Hale. The community mean to discourage idleness. I might give a lazy man a meal; but if he would not work I would not give him another. “If any man will not work, neither let him eat.” This is the law of God. T. Dwight. Lead is heavy, gold is heavier, and platinum, among the metals, is heaviest of all; but take the kingdoms of creation at large, that which has the most specific gravity to make earth groan and hea- ven weep, is a lazy man. Magoon. Patrick Fleming. LAZINESS. The cause of laziness is physiological ; it is an in- firmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other con- stitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable. Bovee. A lazy man is at once the most despicable and the most miserable of objects ; and a man willing to labor, and without occupation, is the most un- happy of mortals. Society has no right to compel men, who work faithfully, to labor so intensely for food, raiment, and shelter that the mind and heart must go naked and famishing ; of the two, however, the life of extreme toil is preferable to that of those who rise in the morning with nothing to do, and retire at night with the consciousness of having accomplished it. |W. D. Haley. Laziness is a great evil ; this truth is clearly evinced by the conduct of too many of our species. Idleness is bad enough of itself in all conscience, but when men are not satisfied with idling away their own time, and are found annoying their friends and acquaintances by frequent and lengthy visits to their places of business, it is intolerable: Young man, if you are out of employment, seek for it ; and if you do not succeed, still keep trying ; at any rate, do not weary the patience of your friends by sitting about their counting-houses and shops, yawning and wishing for that which is im- possible ; depend upon it, a life of industry is the most cheerful situation in which you can be placed. G. A. Salo. T.E.ADER. A good leader makes a good follower. Biom. A leader should join valor to discretion. Vegetius. The proper qualities of a good leader are reason and deliberation. Tacitus. It often happens that less depends upon the Valor of an army than the skill of the leader. Aristophames. Woe to the country which hath lost its leader ; woe to the ship when its captain is no more. - Talmud. Leaders and chieftains require a bold and enter- prising spirit; they have a deputed power with which they are invested, as the time and occasion require. G. Crabb. It is an instinct in our nature to follow the track pointed out by a few leaders; we are gregarious animals in a moral as well as a physical sense, and we are addicted to routine, because it is always easier to follow the opinions of others, than to rea- son and judge for ourselves. Paris. Man, like all other animals of a gregarious na- ture, is more inclined to follow than to lead. There are few who are endued with that impetus of Soul which prompts them to stand foremost as leaders in the storming of the breach, whether it be of a fortress of stone, or the more dangerous one of public opinion, when failure in the one case may precipitate them on the sword, and in the other consign them to the scaffold. F. Marryatt. 32 498 J) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. LEARNING. LEARNING. Learn of learned men. Damhowder. Learning makes the man ; the company, not . . . -ms- Aben-E books, makes the fool. Augustin Daly. Le ng is richer than gold. €70-Jiſºº?"O!. At the first it is no great matter how much you Learning is the eye of the mind. R. Traill. learn, but how well you learn it. Erasmus. Learning is preferable to beauty. Aspasia. Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense A learned man is the heir of science. Rºwrra. Learning refines and elevates the mind. Barrow. Learned fools are the greatest of all fools. Ewald. Out of too much learning cometh heresy. Pope Siactus IV. He dies not who gives his life to learning. Harown-al-Raschid. There should be no monopoly in learning. Averroës. Learning is a plant that grows in all climes. Akbar. Learning is better worth than houses or land. George Crabbe. It is learning that doth make a kingdom great. Ring Alfred. Learning makes a man fit company for himself. La Harpe. A learned man is a tank ; a wise man is a spring. W. R. Alger. To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. Jeremy Taylor. He who is ashamed of asking, is ashamed of learn- ing. Armin. The learned man has always riches within him- self. - Phoedrus. Be not ashamed to learn, even from your infe- riors. Confucius. Without learning it is better to be a beggar than a pope. Pope Aleocander V. Thou must continue to learn as long as thou art ignorant. Seneca. The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time. - J. Locke. Of all learning the most difficult department is to unlearn. Chatfield. Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both. Sir W. Temple. It is not wise to attempt to make a slave of a man of learning. Moelmwol. Learning makes a good man better, and an ill Iſlan WOI’Se. John Garth. Never be ashamed to learn, even from less men than thyself. R. Eliazar. The most learned are often the most narrow- minded men. Hazlitt. It is less pain to learn in youth, than to be igno- rant in old age. Solon. Whoever tries to make gain out of the crown of learning will perish. Höllel. without prejudice till you resolve. Lord Bacon. It is no shame for a man to learn that which he knoweth not, of what age soever he be. Isocrates. He who has no inclination to learn more, will be very apt to think that he knows enough. Sir John Powell. The three foundations of learning are seeing much, suffering much, and studying much. Catherall. A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain. G. P. Morris. Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels. Pope Pius II. Learning is wealth to the poor, an honor to the rich, an aid to the young, and a support and Com- fort to the aged. S. Colfaaz, The learning and knowledge that we have is at the most but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. Plato. Learning is the knowledge and understanding of the arts and sciences; she is also the mother of vir- tue and perfection. H. Jacob. Learning puffeth men up ; words are but wind, and learning is nothing but words; therefore learn- ing is nothing but wind. Swift. Fools deprecate learning ; but it suffers no harm from contempt ; the sun cares not that his light is not discerned by the blind. Manswr. Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with pov- erty, and serving as an ornament to riches. Cicero. Learning is like mercury, one of the most pow- erful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous. Pope. To endeavor all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend. R. Dodsley. No man is the wiser for his learning ; it may ad- minister matter to work in, or objects to work upon ; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. . Selden. He who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books. Com- prehendeth the ass whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of fagots? Saadi. Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age ; it maketh young men Sober, and comforteth old men ; it is wealth to the poor, and a treasure to the rich. Aristotle. A R O S A. Q U O Z. A 7" / O AV S. 499 LEARNINGF. - Of all evil things the least.quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it. Biom. To learn without satiety is wisdom; to teach with- out fatigue, is benevolence ; he who is benevolent and wise may be regarded as a Sage. Tsze Kwºng. A full pot of water does not shake ; a really learned man is not proud of his learning, nor a re- ally great man of his power or wealth. Singalese. The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him, and to imitate Him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue. Milton. Learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government: God keep us from both. Sir W. Berkeley. The highest and most profitable learning is the knowledge of ourselves; to have a low opinion of our own merits, and to think highly of others, is an evidence of wisdom. \. T. d. Kempis. Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin, as to be utterly void of use ; or, if sterling, may re- Quire good management to make it serve the pur- pose of sense or happiness. Shemstone. Learning is more generally and practically use- ful to the morals of men of science ; while it makes us acquainted with the language, the sentiments, and the manners of former ages. G. Crabb. Learning has its infancy, when it is almost chil- dish ; then its youth, when luxurious and juvenile; then its strength of years, when solid; and lastly its old age, when dry and exhausted. Lord Bacon. Learning Once made popular is no longer learn- ing ; it has the appearance of something which we have bestowed upon ourselves, as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes. Dr. Johnsom. As a diamond set in gold is far more brilliant than if incased in base metal, so godliness planted in learned men's breasts brings forth more excel- lent fruit than the same grace in unlearned men. Cawdray. The Chinese, whom it would be well to dispa- rage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of esti- mation. W. B. Clwlow. The time was when men would learn and study good things, not envy those that had them. Then men were had in price for learning; now letters only make men vile. He is unbraidingly called a poet, as if it were a contemptible nick-name. Ben Jonson. Learned men not only instruct and educate those who are desirous to learn, during their life, and while they are present among us, but they continue to do the same after death by the monuments of their learning which they leave behind them. Cicero. LEARNING. The learning which is got by one's own observa- tion and experience, is as far beyond that which is got by precept, as the knowledge of a traveller ex- ceeds that which is got by a map. J. Tillinghast. The light of learning should be the light of truth. It should illumine the darkness of error, and a cer- tain beacon to conduct us through the concealed, the rough, and intricate ways of the world. Acton. Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the im- perfectness of our nature, which one would think might dispose us to modesty ; for the more a man knows, the more he discovers his ignorance. J. Collier. Fully apprised of the influence which sound learning has on religion and manners, on govern- ment, liberty, and law, I shall only lament my want of abilities to make it still more extensive. Washington. Mere learning is only a compiler, and manages the pen as the compositor picks out the type; each sets up a book with the hand. Stonemasons col- lected the dome of St. Paul's, but Wren hung it in air. R. A. Willmott. He that wants good sense is unhappy in having learning, for he has thereby only more ways of ex- posing himself ; and he that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it. Steele. “A little learning is a dangerous thing,” and yet it is what all must attain before they can arrive at great learning ; it is the utmost acquisition of those who know the most, in comparison of what they do not know. R. Whately. There is in some tempers such a natural barren- ness, that like the sands of Arabia, they are never to be cultivated and improved ; and some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon. Sir T. Blownt. Learning, ye wise fathers, and good bringing up, and not blind and dangerous experience, is the read- iest way that must lead your children, first to wis- dom, and then to worthiness, if ever ye propose they shall come there. R. Ascham. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a pri- vate pocket ; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. Chesterfield. Men of learning who take to business discharge it with greater honesty than men of the world; because the former, in reading, have been used to find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized ; while the latter has seen vice triumphant and virtue dis- countenanced. Addison. Learning, if rightly applied, makes a young man thinking, attentive, industrious, confident, wary; and an old man cheerful and useful. It is an orna- ment in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, an en- tertainment at all times; it cheers in solitude, and gives moderation and wisdom in all circumstances. Frederike Helene Unger. 500 AX A Y',S C O Z Z A C O AV. LEARNING. The use of learning is to render a man more wise and virtuous, not merely to make him more learn- ed. Go on by this golden rule, and you cannot fail to become everything your generous heart prompts you to wish to be, and that mime most affection- ately wishes for you. Mrs. Henry Sandbach. I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in One place ; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at break- fast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it. W. S. Lamdor. A pretender to learning is one that would make all others more fools than himself ; for though he knows nothing, he would not have the world know so much ; he conceits nothing in learning but the opinion, which he seeks to purchase without, though he might with less labor cure his ignorance than hide it. Bishop J. Earle. He who has more learning than good deeds is like a tree with many branches but weak roots; the first great storm will throw it to the ground. He whose good works are greater than his know- ledge is like a tree with fewer branches but with strong and spreading roots, a tree which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot. Talmwal. Who can tell whether learning may not even weaken invention in a man, who has great natural advantages from nature ? Whether the weight and number of so many other men's thoughts and no- tions may suppress his own ; as heaping on wood sometimes suppresses a little spark, that would otherwise have grown into a flame 3 Sir W. Temple. Learning, though it is useful when we know how to make a right use of it, yet, considered as in our own power, and to those who trust to it without seeking a superior guidance, is usually the source of perplexity, strife, Scepticism, and infidelity. It is indeed like a sword in a madman's hands, which gives him the more opportunity of hurting himself than others. J. Newton. Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye ; and if we perceive no evident change and improvement, it would be better to leave it alone ; learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it be wielded by a feeble hand, and by One not well acquainted with its use. Montaigne. He that would thoroughly accomplish himself for the government of human affairs, should have a wisdom that can look forward into things that are present, and a learning that can look back into things that are past. Wisdom, however, and learn- ing, should go hand in hand, they are so beauti- fully qualified for mutual assistance ; but it is better to have wisdom without learning, than learning without wisdom ; just as it is better to be rich without being the possessor of a mine, than to be the possessor of a mine without being rich. Colton, LEARNING. Learning is a useless commodity, but I think we had better lay it on ignorance ; for learning being the property of but a very few, and those poor ones too, I am afraid we can get little among them ; whereas ignorance will take in most Of the great fortunes in the kingdom. Fielding. Learning may protect a man against the meaner felonies of life ; but not in any degree against its selfish vices, unless justified by sound principles and habits. Hence do we find in daily life so many in- . stances of men who are well-informed in intellect, but utterly deformed in character : filled with the learning of the schools, yet possessing little prac- tical wisdom. Smiles. If talents create distinction, it is in favor of learm- ing. A good statesman, a good warrior, may de- fend his country from invasion, and preserve it in a progressive state of peace and quiet ; a good artist or mechanic may gratify the taste and lux- uries of his fellow-creatures—but he who excels in learning and science, improves his mind, enlightens his ideas, and makes himself as useful to Society as his nature will admit of. J. Trwsler. The learned man is only useful to the learned ; the wise man is equally useful to the wise and the simple. The merely learned man has not elevated his mind above that of others; his judgments are not more penetrating, his remarks not more deli- cate, nor his actions more beautiful than those of others; he merely uses other instruments than his own ; his hands are employed in business of which the head sometimes takes little note. It is wholly different with the wise man ; he moves far above the common level, he observes everthing from a different point of view ; in his employments there is always an aim, in his views always freedom, and all with him is above the common level. Richter. LEAVES. A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor. Virgil. The fall of leaves is an emblem of the decline of life. R. Trevor. The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature. James Ellis. In the whisper of the leaves appears an inter- change of love. William Jones. As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors. Dante. There is not a single leaf which is a mere orna- ment ; all contribute to the fruitfulness of the earth, and the support of its inhabitants. Sturm. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss. Beecher. Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wa- vering, and changeable ; they even dance ; yet God has made them part of oak ; in so doing He has given us a lesson not to deny the stout-hearted- ness within, because we see the lightsomeness without. J. C. Hare. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 501 LECTURE. The best instruction is imparted through lectures. - J. Baden. A lecturer who has nothing more to say, should stop lecturing. Amma E. Dickinson. He is indeed a good lecturer who can profit by his own discourse. E. P. Day. A lecture is concentrated knowledge and Science arrayed in their holiday dress. Chatfield. Many who lecture on existing social evils, would do well to remember the text of the apostle, “Let each man bear his own cross.” J. E. Cooke. Lectures on learning and wisdom are often de- livered by those who possess little of the one, and are entirely bereft of the other. James Ellis. Public lectures have been adopted from the ear- liest ages as a convenient mode of teaching the ele- ments of every branch of human knowledge. J. Caww.im. LEGACY. A legacy gained by fraud soon vanishes. T. Kem. A legacy of wealth should always be entailed with a legacy of wisdom. Peter Bucham. Legacies are often ill-bestowed ; to a man of un- ruly passions, they serve only as fuel to consume the body and destroy the soul. James Ellis. The greatest legacy in the world to a good man are his soul and reason, by which he loveth righte- ousness, and hateth iniquity. FIwabalde. He that visits the sick, in hopes of a legacy, let him never be so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him in this to be no better than a raven, that watches upon a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes. Seneca. LEGENDS. Golden legends lull to rest. Fouqué. In legends or myths we often perceive the inte- rior man. H. R. Schoolcraft. The missing links in a country's chain of history may be found in its legends. S. H. Clagett. The legend is handed down by oral tradition, embellished with wonders, and idealized by lofty motives. J. P. Mahaffy. Let the wild legends be forgotten ; they are but exhibitions of savage life, teeming with disgusting excess and brutal passion. J. McIntosh. The ancient legends were an assemblage of histo- ries, in which truth and fiction were blended to- gether without probability. Edwin T. Freedley. Many legends are but paraphrased relics of his- tory ; and if rightly interpreted, will throw unex- pected light on old manners and customs. W. Eames. Legends are nothing else but heaps of frivolous andscandalous vanities; they have been even with disdain thrown out, the very nests which bred them abhorred them. R. Hooker. LEGISLATURE. A dishonest man cannot be trusted to legislate for a free people. T. Jarman. A legislature cannot legislate immoral actions into deeds of morality. S. Wright. A law enacted by a legislature is void, if con- trary to the constitution. E. Curtis, Class legislature is not government, any more than piracy is commerce. E. P. Day. Only by the establishment of justice, and pa- triotic legislation, can domestic welfare and tram- quility be promoted. Peter Cooper. The spirit of moderation ought to be that of the legislator; political, like moral evil, lying always between two extremes. Montesquiew. No man is ever a legislator ; it is fortune and a variety of accidents, that fall out in many ways, that are our legislators in everything. Plato. The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect, it is far more easy to point out what will do harm, than what will do good. Colton. Human legislators have, for the most part, chosen to make their own laws rather vindicatory than remuneratory, or to consist rather in punishments than in actual particular rewards. Sir W. Blackstone. Far above all heroes and politicians would be that benefactor to his species, whose wisdom should teach him to set a right value upon the life of man, and whose eloquence in legislative assembliesshould cause mercy and truth to meet each other. S. Parr. Are they fit to be legislators of a whole people who themselves know not what law, what reason, what right and wrong, what crooked and straight, what licit and illicit means—who think that all power consists in outrage, all dignity in the parade of insolence 3 Milton. The legislature of any nation should consist of men of wisdom, who are possessed of undoubted rectitude of character ; and who should, in their legislative acts, entirely ignore party, personal ag- grandisement, and selfish prejudices; and be ani- mated by one universal aim—the welfare, honor, and integrity of their country. James Ellis. How can the science of government and law be cultivated, understood, or applied to its proper ends, so long as the people are deluded with the no- tion of keeping legislators in their pay six or nine months yearly, to manufacture law for them, which they can no more do than they can manufacture the laws of gravitation and of motion? W. Goodell. It ought to be the happiness and glory of a legis- lator to live in the strictest union, the closest cor- respondence, and the most unreserved communica- tion with his constituents; their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect ; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his sat- isfaction, to theirs, and above all, ever and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. Burke. 502 - D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AW. LEISUR.E. To make good use of leisure is difficult. Chilo. The wise are never less at leisure than when at leisure. Scipio. Life is indeed more agreeable by alternate Occu- pation and leisure. Demophilus. The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care. Sir W. Temple. Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect. Ovid. We toil for leisure only to discover, when we have succeeded in our object, that leisure is a great toil. Chatfield. Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in Soli- tude. Zimmerman. Leisure is empty time ; that is, it is time in which we have no duties to perform, and which we may use to our pleasure. Cowmtess of Carberry. Leisure will always be found by persons who know how to employ their time ; those who want time are the people who do nothing. Mme. Roland. Take care of your leisure moments: do not suf- fer them to pass away in wanton idleness; you may make them seasons of great profit and gain. J. W. Barker. The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business. - Cicero. I pant beyond expression for two days of abso- lute and umbroken leisure. If it were not for my love of beautiful mature and poetry, my heart would have died within me long ago. Lord Jeffrey. Our leisure is the time the devil seizes upon to make us work for him ; and the Only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks, is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed. James Ellis. Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because the mother of thought ; both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of being weary of themselves. Sir W. Temple. He who is most industrious has really the most leisure ; for his time is marked out into distinct portions, to each of which something is assigned ; and when the thing is done, the man is at leisure. B. Tefft. Leisure is time for doing something useful : this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never ; SO that, as poor Richard says, a life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. Franklin. Perhaps every man may date the predominance of those desires that disturb his life and contami- nate his conscience, from some unhappy hour when too much leisure exposed him to their incursions; for he has lived with little observation, either on himself or others, who does not know that to be idle is to be vicious. Dr. Johnson. have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. LENDING. Lend to the needy. R. Eleazar. slend to your friend, and ask payment of your enemy. Grün. It is a great commendation in the lender to lend to those who deserve well. |W. Leeton. When a man lends money to the wicked, he justly gets pain for his interest. Aacionicus. Who lends recovers not ; or if he recovers, not much; or if much, a mortal enemy. Benito Feyjoo. Lending money to a friend often results in a two- fold loss ; both money and friend are gone forever. W. H. Milbw?”v. . He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adver- sity. Plato. The charge of a judge is often hard to stand ; that of a battalion, harder still ; that of a money-lender hardest of all. G. D. Prentice. To lend where there is a probability of being de- frauded by the borrower, is the part of a too easy and blameable credulity. S. Croacall. A money-lender—he serves you in the present tense ; he lends you in the conditional mood ; keeps you in the conjunctive ; and ruins you in the fu- ture : Addison. Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow ; and unless we lend to others how can we hope that others will lend to us. James Ellis. . To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good ; but it is ob- vious, that it is Only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law. - Montesquiew. If a friend gratify my request in lending me a book, from which I gain considerable information, and thereby saves me the expense of purchasing, it is base and ungrateful either to suffer it to be in- jured, or not to return it. C. Buck. Whatever you lend, let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and if not, you may contrive to do without it ; name once lost you cannot get again, and if you can contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born. Bulwer. If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own ; when you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness; if you begin to press still fur- ther, either you must part with that which you Plawtus. Lend not beyond thy ability, nor refuse to lend out of thy ability ; especially when it will help others more than it can hurt thee. If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise. If he prove insol- vent, do not ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose ; for thou art but a steward, and another is thy Owner, Master, and Judge. W. Penºn. —- A R O S E Q U O T A 7" / O AV S. 503 LENITY. LETTER. Lenity softens anger. Chilo. Pase should characterize a letter. G. Crabb. Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side. H. Ballow. In despotic governments, people are cruel; lenity reigns in moderate governments. Montesquiew. Lenity is a part of justice ; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice. Joubert. Lenity is a God-like attribute, the twin-sister of mercy, and sits with her on the right hand of jus- tice. Lady Cutts. Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor ; it is, therefore, my first wish to have my whole conduct distinguished by it. Washington. LESSON. Life lessons should teach us wisdom. Bias. A lesson that is sport for one is a hard task for another. Mrs. S. H. De Kroyft. The lessons taught during childhood are not easi- ly forgotten. Mrs. Mary Washington. The grand secret of life is to hear lessons, and not to teach them. FIalibwºrton. The greatest lessons of life are to learn to wait, to be faithful, to be full of hope, and to abound in charity. James Ellis. The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at the key-hole ; it is a pity for such that the pratice is dishonorable. Mme. Swetchine. If to set lessons, or hear them repeated, be mere- ly the peculiar functions of a teacher, anyone who can read can perform that office, and we need not resort to cultivated intellect and peculiar qualifica- tions for that purpose. E. D. Mansfield. LETTER.S. Letters without virtue are pearls in a dunghill. Cervantes. I never knew a man of letters ashamed of his pro- fession. W. M. Thackeray. Because thy library is full of books, dost thou think thyself a man of letters ? Awsoniws. Belles-lettres improve our sensibility for all the tender and agreeable passions. J. Cawvin. A knowledge of letters is the foundation of all knowledge, and the greatest glory of any country. Chrysolorws. Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places, and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. Cicero. All that relates to beauty, harmony, grandeur, and elegance—all that can soothe the mind, gratify the fancy, or move the affections, belong to the province of belles-lettres. H. Blair. As men of letters are the most useful and excel- lent of friends, so are they the best of subjects; as being better judges of the blessings they enjoy un- der a well-ordered government. Seneca. When dark man write a letter he become like white man. Cetywayo. An elegant letter is like a meadow enamelled with flowers. Al-Bawwób. Letters which are warmly sealed are often but coldly opened. Richter. O correspondents neglect not the sacred duty of answering letters. Theodore S. Fay. Women are especially first rate letter-writers, and we men are only bunglers. Schleiermacher. It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together. Seneca. Letters, such as are written from wise men, are of all the words of men, in my judgment, the best. Lord Bacon. Those letters only are good, which contain the natural effusions of the heart, expressed in unaf- fected language. C. Butler. Letters of friendship require no study; the com- munications they contain flow with ease, and al- lowances are expected and made. Washington. A letter is a conversation between the present and the absent ; its fate is that it cannot last, but must pass away like the sound of a voice. Humboldt. The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them ; then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence re- ceived most forcibly co-operate. Shemstome. Our thoughts as expressed in our respective let- ters are very much alike, but comparison will prove what has been so often remarked, that fe- male correspondence has a charm in it, of which that of my sex is always devoid. Earl of Eldon. Blessed be letters : They are the monitors, they are also the comforters, and they are the only true heart-talkers; your speech and their speeches are conventional ; they are molded by circumstances: they are suggested by the observation, remark, and influence of the parties to whom the speaking is addressed, or by whom it may be overheard. D. G. Mitchell. Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able, I mean with regard to language, gram- mar, and stops ; for as to the matter of it the less trouble you give yourself, the better it will be. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the person to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them. Chesterfield. Letters are the documents to which historians now resort for the materials of history ; they are also among the most pleasant and instructive modes of communion in society ; cast asunder and often separated widely for years, kindred and friends have little other mode of keeping up their intercourse and friendship ; it is a mode too much neglected. E. D. Mansfield. 504 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. LEVITY. LIAR. Levity is ignorance. Biom. No liar long escapes discovery. Memander. Avoid levity of conduct ; it discredits a man's A liar is always lavish of oaths. Corneille. character. Al-Dalikón. =smº -m-m-m-mºs . *-i-º-º-º-º-º-º: The liar shall not enter paradise. Talmud. Most people in the world are actuated by levity *-º-Eºmºmº . and humor. R. Sowth. No device can serve against a liar. Al-Kortubi. Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous. Seneca. Levity and mirth may amuse for a time, but it is seldom permanent. Al-Faiyád. Levity is often less foolish, and gravity less wise, than each of them appear. Coltom. There is always some levity, even in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, and also to stray. Jowbert. In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men, it is a shameful defect ; but in old age, a monstrous folly. Rochefoucauld. Shameless levity sacrifices the peace and reputa- tion of the absent, merely to give barbarous stings to a jocular conversation. Magoon. Human levity, far more than human malignity, is the cause of all those sinister effects which we think to explain by hatred only. Mme. Swetchine. Whatever raises a levity of mind, a trifling spirit, renders the Soul incapable of seeing, apprehending, and relishing the doctrines of piety. E. Law. I have seen so many woeful examples of the ef- fect of levity, both that which arises from temper and that which is owing to interest, that a small degree of obstinacy is a quality not very odious in my eyes, whether it be complexioned, or from principle. Burke. LEWIDNESS. The lewd man sins against his conscience. Crabb. Lewdness is a loadstone which draweth one to perdition. Pliny. Lewdness doth] injure, profane, and defile the holiness of the soul. St. Ambrose. Lewdness is accompanied by impudency, un- comeliness, and sloth. Plato. Lewdness hath three companions—blindness of mind, hardness of heart, and want of grace. Basil. A lewd woman will be much more atrocious in her vices than a man ; devils were made from an- gels, J. Bartlett. Lewd men or women are as canker-worms in any community, for their example tends to con- taminate the young and deprave the aged. James Ellis. He that trusteth to lewd tongues, is either swol- len with hate, plagued with envy, consumed with thought, endangered by revenge, or lost in hope. W. Nicolsom. As it is hard to turn rivers from the channels which they have long time maintained,’so it is dif- ficult to turn those accustomed to a life of lewdness to the path of virtue. J. D. Ingwimbert, A liar ought to have a good memory. Pliny. A liar is SOOmer caught than a cripple. Ariosto. Liars are wont to pay the penalty of their guilt. Phoedºws. Take heed of a liar, for it is time lost to be led by him. Barker. Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes of the world. Epictetus. Liars are not to be believed, even when they speak the truth. Aratus. You may shut your doors against a thief but not against a liar. Salis. Thou cannot better reward a liar, than in not be- lieving what he speaketh. Aristippus. The liar is double of heart and tongue, for he speaketh one thing and doeth another. Chilo. Liars only gain this, that albeit they speak the truth, yet shall they never be believed. Biom. This is the liar's lot : he is accounted a pest and a nuisance ; a person marked out for infamy and SCOI’ll. R. South. A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. Shenstome. Is the man a liar who says that he tell lies ; if he is, then he does not tell lies; and if he does not tell lies, is he a liar 3 Ewbulides. It is the property of a liar to put on the counte- nance of an honest man, so that by his outward habit he may with the more subtlety deceive. Bias. Liars are verbal forgers, stifiers of truth, and murderers of fact ; they will sometimes attempt to conceal their failing, by affecting a scrupulous ad- herance to veracity. Chatfield. Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end, or even deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves; it is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak the truth. Hazlitt. He who tells lies frequently, will soon become an habitual liar ; and an habitual liar will soon lose the power of readily distinguishing between the conceptions of his imagination and the recollections of his memory. F. Wayland. There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the mar- vellous; it is their usual intention to please and en- tertain, but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame. Hume. P & O S E O & O 7' 4 7/ o A. S. 5 () 5 LIBEL. The greater the truth the greater the libel. Azzo. A libel tends to render a man odious or ridicu- lous. J. Cawvin. He that libeleth his neighbor woundeth his own Soul. C. R. Pact. What shall we say of the pleasure a man takes in a defamatory libel ; is it not a heinous sin in the sight of God? Addison. The libeler who accuses another of crimes and foibles, let him examine and see if he is free from those faults he ascribes to his neighbor. J. Bartlett. Life would be a perpetual flea-hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, libels, in- sinuations, and suspicions which are uttered against him. H. W. Beecher. There is not in the world a greater error than that which fools are apt to fall into, and knaves with good reason to encourage, the mistaking a satirist for a libeler. Pope. The aspersions of libelers may be compared to fullers' earth, which, though it may seem to dirt you at first, only leaves you more pure and spotless when it is rubbed off. T. Frelinghuysen. Libelers are literary bravos, supported by illi- terate cowards. If the receiver of stolen goods be worse than the thief, so must the purchaser of li- bels be more culpable than their author. Chatfield. I cannot imagine that a man who disperses a libel, is less desirous of doing mischief than the author himself. But what shall we say of the plea- sure which a man takes in the reading of a defam- atory libel ? P. Bayle. It is a wonderful thing that libels and libelers, the most infamous of practices and of men, the most unmanly, sneaking methods and instruments of mischief, are the bane of human society, and the plague of all governments. L’Estrange. Though some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits; as take a straw and throw it up in the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone ; more solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels. J. Selden. If it were a new thing, it may be I should not be displeased with the suppression of the first libel that should abuse me ; but since there are enough of them to make a small library, I am secretly pleased to see the number increased, and take delight in raising a heap of stones that envy has cast at me without doing me any harm. Balzac. A low race of men take a secret pleasure in find- ing an eminent character levelled to their condi- tion by a report of its defects; and keep themselves in countenance, though they are excelled in a thou- sand virtues, if they believe they have in common with a great person any one fault. The libeler falls in with his humor, and gratifies the basemess of temper which is naturally an enemy to merit. Steele. LIBER ALITY. It befits a king to be liberal. Empress Zoe II. Overcome greed with liberality. Buddha. Liberality may be carried too far. Cervantes. To give with liberality is the highest pleasure of a noble mind. Al-Mawsili. The liberality of some men is but indifference clad in the garb of candor. R. Whately. Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. Brwyere, Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts. Sir P. Sidney. Liberality is the medium between avarice and prodigality in giving and taking. Ansaldo Ceba. It is equally wrong to be liberal to the undeserv- ing, or uncharitable to the worthy. Diogenes. If you wish to be great, be liberal: for unless you sow the seed there can be no increase. Saadi. Liberality is the best way to gain affection ; for we are assured of their friendship to whom we are obliged. St. Evremond. What we call liberality is seldom more than the vanity of giving ; we are fonder of the vanity than the generosity of the action. Rochefoucauld. He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather more liberal of an- other man's goods than his own. Lord Bacom. Liberality, when once she is set forward, knows not how to stop, and the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamoured we become of her charms. Pliny the Younger. In defiance of all the torture, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich ; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power are his defense, God's love and favor are his reward, and God's word is his security. I. Barrow. A truly liberal man employs all the means in his power to do all the good he can ; he does not rush in with fire and sword to abolish imperfections, which are sometimes unavoidable ; he endeavors, by continuous progress, to remove the ills of the body politic ; but he eschews violent measures, which crush one evil but to create another ; in this imperfect world of ours, he is content with the good, until times and circumstances favor him in his aspirations after the better. Goethe. Liberality does not appearin its true lustre when it is the hand of the sovereign that is liberal ; pri- vate individuals have most right to it ; for, to speak correctly, a king has nothing of his own ; he owes even himself to others; authority is not given to him for his own advantage, but for the advan- tage of his subjects; a superior is never made for his own profit, but for the profit of the inferior; and a physician for the sick, and not for himself ; every magistracy, as every art, has its end out of itself. Montaigme. 506 A) A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. LIBERTY. LIBERTY. Liberty is without price. Lofft. A dry crust with liberty is better than a king's . . H luxury with a chain. T. James. What a blessing is liberty Bruyére. & sºmsºmºsºm-mº mºmºmºmº-º-º: The tree of liberty only grows when watered by Liberty is beyond all price. Justinian II. the blood of tyrants. B. Barére, The breath of liberty is sweet. Mary J. Holmes. Give me the centralism of liberty ; give me the sºmºmºmº-e imperialism of equal rights. C. Swimmer. Let there be the liberty of right. Dupam lowp. & e — g wºm-ºmºsº As liberty is not a fruit of all climates, it is not Liberty is life; slavery is death. A. Vinet. within the reach of all people. Rousseaw. Establish liberty on a rock of brass. Robespierre. Nothing can be so sweet as liberty. Sterme. “God and liberty” is my benediction. Voltaire. Liberty and law march hand in hand. Adams. Where liberty dwells, there is my country. Amon. True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good. John Winthrop. The love of liberty should outrank the love of party. T. Tilton. It is reason and virtue alone that can bestow li- berty. Shaftesbury. Liberty is majesty, more royal even than royal- ty itself E. P. Day. O Liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name. Mme. Roland. The cause of liberty is one and the same all over the world. George Thompson. Every man derives his right to life and liberty from God. H. Bingham. I prefer the liberty of our own race to that of any other. Henry Clay. What better cause than liberty is there all over the world ! : Francillon. Liberty unregulated by law, soon degenerates into anarchy. M. Fillmore. He enjoyeth the sweetest liberty that hath a quiet conscience. St. Gregory. Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. Washington. The love of liberty is implanted by nature in the breasts of all men. Dionysius. I will fight the battle of liberty as long as there is a shot in the locker. David Pawl Jones. It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life. Towssaint L’Ouverture. Liberty is a precious boon, and we do not always appreciate it at its true worth. J. Russell Young. May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty. John Hampden. The spirit of liberty must be cherished, if we would elevate, purify, and strengthen the fibre of the nation. Arnaud de L'Ariege. If liberty were to go on a pilgrimage all over the earth, she would find a home in every house, and a welcome in every heart. William Elder. If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor. G. S. Hillard. The fruition of liberty is not so pleasing as a con- ceit of the want of it is irksome. J. Howell. Liberty and slavery are perfect antagonisms ; the one or the other must perish. J. C. Jackson. Liberty is a principle ; its community is its se- curity ; exclusiveness is its doom. Kossuth. It is owing to the great advantages of liberty, that liberty itself has been abused. Montesquiew. The human race is in the best condition, when it has the greatest amount of liberty. Dante. Personal liberty is the paramount essential to hu- man dignity and human happiness. Bulwer. Liberty should reach every individual of a peo- ple, as they all share one common nature. Addison. Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly. J.Mwir. Excessive liberty and severe slavery are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effects. 2Oroaster. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to ar- gue freely, according to conscience, above all lib- erties. Milton. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for ever. T. B. Macawlay. True liberty consists in the privilege of enjoying our own rights, not in the destruction of the rights of others. G. Pinkard. The want of liberty is witnessed in hushed voices and low whisperings ; liberty bursts into unshack- led eloquence. Miss Lucy Barton. Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the en- signs of slavery. Joseph Warren. A people long used to hardships lose by degrees the very notions of liberty ; they look upon them- selves as at mercy. Swift. The liberty of one depends not so much on the removal of all restraint from him, as on the due restraint upon the liberty of others. F. Ames. Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat ; but liberty dates from it, though Warren lay dead on the field. Phillips. Natural liberty is the right of common upon a waste ; civil liberty is the safe, exclusive, unmo- lested enjoyment of a cultivated enclosure. Paley. ...” A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 507 LIBERTY. The desires of a free people are seldom prejudi- cial to liberty, because they commonly spring from actual oppression or an apprehension of it. lMachiavelli. Power and liberty are like heat and moisture ; where they are well mixed, everything prospers ; where they are single, they are destructive. B. T. Saville. Every man's thoughts ought to have some object in sight, not always, nor eagerly, but with hope ; his right of selection is enough for his liberty. Ravigman. What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be preferred to all things. - Cicero. It is the misfortune of liberty, as it is the misfor- tune of Christianity, to suffer the deadliest injuries it receives at the hands of those who profess to be its best friends. Bovee. The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in favor of God and love of man, and made courageous in the defense of a trust, and the prosecution of a duty. |W. G. Simms. The word liberty has been falsely used by per- sons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord. Tacitus. There are two kinds of people I could anathema- tize with a better weapon than St. Peter's—those who dare deprive others of their liberty, and those who suffer others to do it. J. Ledyard. Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body ; without health no plea- sure can be tasted by man ; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. Bolingbroke. Through too much liberty all things run to ruin and confusion. Liberty in the mind is a sign of goodness; in the tongue, of foolishness; in the hand, of theft ; in our life, of want of grace. M. Parker. I confess I am in love ; the name of my sweet- heart is liberty ; and as Jacob of old served twice seven years for Rachel, so I am willing to serve that time, or even longer, to woo and win liberty to my home. F. Marion. Liberty is that freedom and happiness which bringeth the Soul to its contentment and satisfac- tion after the troublous pilgrimages, travels, and bondages of this world ; or otherwise, to live as a man list. B. Qwental. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be pur- chased at the price of chains and slavery 3 Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take , but as for me, give me liberty, or give Ime death ! Patrick Henry. We are cheered by the certain advancement and ultimate triumph of liberty. The people are be- ginning to ask their rulers for liberty ; the boon must be granted. Tyrants cannot hold their em- pire much longer over prostrate humanity. D. O'Connell. vilege and birthright of every human being 2 LIBERTY. We hold these truths to be self-evident ; that all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights ; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. - T. Jefferson. What is more becoming our social nature than well regulated government, or more valuable than liberty & How ignominious, then, must his conduct be, who turns the first into anarchy and the last into slavery ! Pliny the Yownger. When liberty is at stake, we cannot be too scru- pulous; we must burnish up every precedent ; we must parley upon a hair, for that hair may be a fibre of the eternal right upon which cling the des- tiny of millions. C. R. Weld. Liberty torn from man always seeks to return to him, and it is the same with everything that is deprived of its native freedom. On this account it is that the man who does not favor liberty must always be condemned as unjust and cruel. Sir J. Fortescue. The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an un- willingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot. W. E. Channing. The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty con- nected with order, that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them ; it inheres in all good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle. Burke. If justice, good faith, gratitude, and all the other qualities which ennoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the end of government, be the fruits of our establishments, the cause of liberty will ac- quire a dignity and a lustre which it has never yet enjoyed. J. Madison. Liberty is not idleness, it is an unconstrained use of time ; it is the choice of work and of exercise. To be free, in a word, is not to be doing nothing, it is to be one's own master as to what one ought to do or not to do. What a blessing in this sense is liberty Bruyère. Liberty, when regulated by prudence, is produc- tive of happiness both to individuals and to states; but when pushed to excess, it becomes not only obnoxious to others, but precipitates the possessors of it themselves into dangerous rashness and ex- travagance Livy. Liberty is an old fact ; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor. E. H. Chapin. Liberty is the richest inheritance which man has received from the skies | When shall its sacred fire burn in every bosom, and kindling with the thrill- ing force of inspiration, spread from heart to heart and from mind to mind, and be the common pri- Actom. 508 A) A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. LIBERTY. If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judg- ment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen. J. Locke. The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government—the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God, and of country. Cowley. Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty ; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. That nation cannot be free, where reform is a common hack, that is dismissed with a kick the moment it has brought its rider to his place. Colton. Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed upon man ; with it we can- not compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals : for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and on the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall IIlall. Cervantes. Humanity is everywhere coming forth from the deep eclipse of ages of tyranny ; and in its onward progress liberty and truth will sunder every chain that now fetters mankind. That man or govern- ment which does not advance with the progress of liberty, will be crushed beneath the weight of pub- lic opinion. C. E. Lester. What land has ever been visited with the influ- ences of liberty, that did not flourish like the spring ? What people has ever worshipped at her altars, without kindling with a loftier spirit and putting forth more noble energies 2 Where has she ever acted, that her eloquence has not been triumphant and sublime 3 H. S. Lega re. Our liberty was not so much a mountain as a sea-nymph. She was free as air ; she could swim, or she could run ; the Ocean was her cradle ; our fathers met her as she came, like the goddess of beauty, from the waves; they caught her as she was sporting on the beach ; they courted her whilst she was spreading her nets upon the rocks. J. Quincy. The day will come, when the traveller who has gazed and pondered at Marathon and Waterloo, will linger on the mount where Prescott and War- ren fell, and say: Here is the field where man has struggled in his most daring conflict ; here is the field where liberty poured out her noblest blood, and won her brightest and most enduring laurels. J. Sparks. Civil liberty, the liberty of a community, is a severe and a restrained thing ; it implies, in the very notion of it, authority, settled subordinations, subjections, and obedience ; and is altogether as much hurt by too little of this kind as by too much. The love of liberty that is not a real principal of dutiful behavior to authority, is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life. J. Butler. LIBERTY, He who knows what liberty is, and can be glad and happy when placed under a tyrant's rule and at the disposal of a tyrant's caprice, is like the man who can laugh and be in a merry mood at the grave, where he has just deposited all that should have been loveliest to his eye, and all that should have been dearest to his heart. A. Thomson. Liberty is the nurse of true genius ; it animates the spirit, and invigorates the hopes of men ; it excites honorable emulation, and a desire of ex- celling in every art ; all other qualifications you may find among those who are deprived of liberty; but never did a slave become an orator; he can Only become a pompous flatterer. Longinus. The spirit of liberty is indeed a bold and fearless Spirit ; it is a cautious, sagacious, discriminating far-seeing intelligence ; it is jealous of encroach- ment, jealous of power, jealous of man ; it de- mands checks; it seeks for guards; it insists on Securities; it entrenches itself behind strong de- fenses, and fortifies with all possible care against the assaults of ambition and passion. D. Webster. Liberty is a super-excellent thing, very much talked about, and very little understood, and gen- erally least of all by those who make the most noise about it ; indeed, I should say it is an uner- ring rule, that a noisy advocate for liberty is never a sincere one. Noise comes of ignorance, interest, or passion ; but the true love of liberty dwells only in the bosoms of the pure and reasonable. J. Walker. Land of liberty thy children have no cause to blush for thee. What though the arts have reared few monuments among us, and scarce a trace of the muse's footstep is found in the paths of our forests, or along the banks of our rivers; yet our soil has been consecrated by the blood of heroes, and by great and holy deeds of peace ; its wide extent has become one vast temple and hallowed asylum, sanctified by the prayers and blessings of the persecuted of every sect, and the wretched of all nations. G. Verplanck. The name of liberty is so alluring, that all who fight for it are sure of obtaining our secret wishes in their favor ; their cause is that of the whole human race, and becomes our own ; we avenge ourselves on our oppressors, by venting freely, at least, our hatred against foreign oppressors; at the noise of these chains that are breaking it seems to us that ours are about to become lighter ; and for a few moments we think we breathe a purer air, when we learn that the universe reckons some tyrants less. W. Raymal. Liberty is the lesson we are appointed to teach ; we are the monitors of this noble doctrine ; it is taught in our settlements, taught in our revolution, taught in our government ; and the nations of the world are resolved to learn ; it may be written in sand and effaced, but it will be written again and again, till hands now fettered in slavery shall boldly and fairly trace it, and lips that now stam- mer at the noble word, shall sound it out in the ears of their despots, and with an emphasis to waken the dead. E. Everett. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 50.9 —º LIBRARY. A good library is a great kingdom. Magliabecchi. My library is a friend of a thousand years. Eyð-Sya. A library is but the Soul's burial ground ; it is the land of shadows. H. W. Beecher. Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age. G. Bancroft. No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Dr. Johnsom. Within the Sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race. Bovee. The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity. S. Smiles. A library is a precious catacomb, wherein are embalmed and preserved imperishably the great minds of the dead who will never die. Chatfield. God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures ; to every man a proper book, him- Self being an abridgment of all others. T. Fuller. Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of Saints, full of true virtue, and that without de- lusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. Lord Bacon. What a place to be in is an old library It seems as though all the Souls of all the writers were re- posing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state. C. Lamb. Libraries are the wardrobes of our literature, whence men, properly informed, might bring some- thing for Ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use. J. Dyer. Great libraries of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats—that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners l Isaac Disraeli. A good library is an anchor to keep a young man from roving, and a helm to aid an old man to gain the greatest possible benefit from what re- mains of the breeze. W. D. Haley. In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the bind- ing ; the time is coming when they will take rank and Order according to their contents and intrinsic merits. Chamfort. Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library ; a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the re- sults of their learning. R. W. Emerson. The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-travelling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor : the ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchan- dise; odors of distant countries and times steal from the red leaves the swelling ridges of vellum, and the titles in tarnished gold. R. A. Willmott. LICENSE. A popular license is indeed the many-headed ty- rant. Sir P. Sidney. Too much license begets freedom, and too much freedom begets license. James Ellis. Excessive license leads both nations and private individuals into excessive slavery. Cicero. We have no license to sin ; doing evil that good may result from it is bad morality. J. Newton. If a law be just and equitable, it is an absurdity to license a person to violate that law. E. S. Gilbert. Where prodigality and covetuousness are, there all kinds of vices reign with all license in that soul. Theophrastus. Even a king hath no power to license men to do those things which are of themselves immoral and unjust. Plato. There is no air that men so eagerly-draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license. - Montaigme. As the careless rider, who on descending a hill endangers his life by giving slack reins to his horse, even so do some men endanger their domestic hap- piness by giving too much license to their wives. - Dowmey. LICENTIOUSINESS. Licentiousness is not enjoyment. Confucius. Waste not thy strength in licentiousness. Plutarch. Licentiousness extinguishes even love for one's self. - Ansaldo Ceba. Law is the god of wise men ; licentiousness is the god of fools. Plato. Laxity of discipline is quickly followed by licen- tiousness of manners. G. Crabb. Though man's mind hath some sparks of divinity in it, yet is his body prone to licentiousness. Cicero. The licentious never love ; and when even levity preponderates, there is seldom any pure and ar- dent passion. L. A. Dmºwszewski. Licentiousness never appears in Outward con- duct until the mind has become defiled by impure imaginations. F. Wayland. A licentious woman is a fierce beast, an enemy to the commonwealth ; for she hath much power to do great harm. Ewripides. In the onward progress of events, it is noticeable that licentiousness as well as ignorance, is becom- ing banished from the precincts of the throne. Acton. A wise man should not indulge in licentious pleasure ; it destroyeth the body, it weakeneth the judgment, and taketh away the understanding. Aristotle. Among all the conflicts of a Christian soul, none is more hard than the wars which a chaste mind hath to overcome the licentious desires of the na- tural heart ; the fight is continual, and the victory I’are. St. Cyprian. 5 || 0 A) A Y',S C O / / A C O AV. LIFE. LIFE. Life is a sleep. A. de Musset. Do not sacrifice for life the only things worth Live and let live. Schiller. living for. *mº-rººm-º: E. Eggleston. Life is changeable. Plawtwis. We should live as though our life would be long *º-º-º-º-º-º- and short. Bias. Life is short, yet sweet. Henry V of Germany. - *º-º-m-sº *-*m-sº Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon, nor What a short life is this. Lucretius. live too long. George Logan. Talmud. ——T Life is what we make it. Life is a passing shadow. Live, that you may have life. Empress Irene. How transitory is human life. W. P. Fessendem. Life is a continuity of misery. Acosta. The life of man is ever changing. Diphilus. Life is sweet, and death is bitter. A. Kingston. Mortals have a short span of life. Homer. It is not how long, but how well we live. Delille. Life should meyer be preferred to honor. Chales. Life is a dream and death an awakening. / Beaumelle. Do every act of this life as if it were the last. Y- A wrelius. Before we are ready to enjoy life, life is gone. Ar-Rwmi. Life to a wise man is a matter of indifference. Chrysippus, O life long to the miserable, short to the happy. Publius Syrus. Life is half spent before one knows what life is. Bonnard. The secret of prolonging life is not to abridge it. H. Giles. The happiest hour of life is the departure from it. $ Colamws. He that lives to live forever, doth never fear to die. W. Penn. All die who have lived ; all have not lived who die Zimmerman. Every man is the painter and sculptor of his own life. St. Gregory. It is better not to live than not to know how to live. Sallwst. While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone. Hwme. To lead a dissipated life may be called a kind of death. Ovid. Learn to live for your own sake and the service of God. E. Law. They only have lived long who have lived vir- tuously. R. B. Sheridan. Life appears to me too short to be spent in nurs- ing animosity or registering wrongs. Charlotte Bromté. Lady R. Russell. The life of man is Summed up in birthdays and in Sepulchres. H. K. White, No man is so old but thinketh he may yet live another year. Hierome. The woof of life is dark, but it is shot with a warp of gold. F. W. Robertson. Life is not given for a lasting possession, but merely for use. Lucretius. Life is a conundrum ; every one tries to solve it, then gives it up. Françoise Margwerite Joncowac. The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire. |W. R. Alger. An honorable life is the best legacy a father can give his children. W. F. Forror. If you begin life with disappointment, it is apt to end in despair. Haliburton. He lives long that lives well; time misspent is not lived, but lost. T. Fuller. Life to a wretched man is long ; but to him that is happy, very short. Mwsoniws. Life is a comedy to him who thinks, and a trage- dy to him who feels. H. Walpole. Every one can make his own destiny—every one employ his life nobly. A. Thierry. Life without some necessity for exertion must ever lack real interest. D. M. Moir. Life is the raiment, of which death will disolve us, and leave us naked. As-Suhrawardi. I doubt if any one would accept life if he knew what it would cost him. Seneca. There is nothing of which men are so fond, and withal so careless, as life. Bruyère. It is to live twice when you can enjoy the recol- lection of your former life. Martial. The lives of most men are misspent for want of a certain end of their actions. R. Hall. Life is like wine ; he who would drink it pure must not drain it to the dregs. Sir W. Temple. The Great Spirit gave life, and the Great Spirit determines when life shall end. Tecumseh. What a serious matter our life is; how unworthy and stupid it is to trifle it away ! Sir W. Hamilton. Life, like the water of the seas, freshens only when it ascends toward heaven. Richter. + A fool is always meditating how he shall begin his life ; a wise man how he shall end it. N. Macdonald. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 511 w LIFE. Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. R. Southey. We all complain of the shortness of life; yet waste more time than we can use. H. W. Shaw. God proves us in this life, that He may the more plenteously reward us in the next. W. Wake. Life has a two-fold origin ; what is pure is of heaven ; what is impure is of earth. Crantor. Men can neither enlarge their lives as they de- sire, nor shun that death they abhor. Menander. After all, life has something serious in it ; it can- not be all a comic history of humanity. D. Jerrold. Fools, when they hate their life, will yet desire to live for the fear they have of death. Crates. We always live prospectively, never retrospec- tively, and there is no abiding moment. F. H. Jacobi. He who increaseth the endearments of life, in- creases at the same time the terrors of life. T. Yowng. Let our lives be as pure as the snow-fields, where our footsteps leave a mark, but not a stain. Mme. Swetchine. The present life is but a toy and plaything ; but the future mansion of paradise is life indeed. Roran. The color of our whole life is generally such as the three or four first years of our life make it. Cowper. He alone is happy, who can say, welcome life whatever it brings ; welcome death whatever it is. Lord Bolingbroke. We never think of the main business of life tilla vain repentance reminds us of it at the wrong end. L’Estrange. Think not the longest life the happiest ; that which is best employed doth man the most honor. R. Dodsley. The vanity of human life is like a river, con- stantly passing away, and yet constantly coming O]]. Pope. Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a Casual passenger, So much I felt the awfulness of life. Wordsworth. No prudent man lays his designs only for a day, without any prospect to the remaining part of his life. Tillotson. Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, com- plaining of the present, and trembling for the fu- ture. Rivarol. Life is a warfare of conflicting duties and Oppo- sing principles—a choice of evils or a choice of goods. N. Macdonald. The vide of one's life after it once turneth and de- clineth, ever runneth with a perpetual ebb and failing stream, but never floweth again. Sir W. Raleigh. virtue has placed within it. LIFE. A man may, for many reasons, be disgusted with life ; but he can have no reason for contemning death. Rochefoucauld. Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours ; it is a palliation ; death is the re- medy. Chamfort. The man who lives in vain, lives worse than in vain ; he who lives to no purpose, lives to a bad purpose. W. Nevins. We live and act as if we were perfectly secure of the final events of things, however we may behave ourselves. F. Atterbury. A well-spent life will cheer the valley of death, and open to our view unfading pleasures beyond the grave. J. Bartlett. How pleasant is life if you live with those with whom you think you should live, and not merely for yourself Menander. Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints ; while it spinneth there is light: stop it, all is darkness. Twpper. Human life is a vapor gilded by a sunbeam, the reflection of heaven in the waters of earth, an echo between two worlds. Acton. Life is rather the state of embryo, a preparation for life ; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death. Franklin. Life is given to us for use ; it has been given to us as a loan without interest, and not to be paid back on any fixed day. Ovid. To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. Stanislaws. In God’s universe there is no such thing as death, but in its place only a transition from one life or state of life to another. G. Lippard. The great error is, placing such an estimate on this life as if our being depended upon it, and we were nothing after death. Rousseaw. Life is a casket not precious in itself, but valua- ble in proportion to what fortune, or industry, or W. S. Landor. We hold our existence at the mercy of the ele- ments ; the life of man is a state of continual vigi- lance against their warfare. W. C. Bryant. We paint our lives in fresco; the soft and fusile plaster of the moment hardens under every stroke of the brush into eternal rock. J. Sterling. The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it, to realize it to the full, to be a profound and inscrutable mystery. Bovee. Human life is a mystery in its origin, its organ- ization, and its end. In man and out of man, in nature, everything is mysterious. Napoleon I. The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which he is be-set. T. Jefferson. 512 AX A Y’,S CO Z Z A C O AV. LIFE. Life has a prize for everyone who will open his heart to receive it, though it may be a very differ- ent one from the spirit of his early dreams. H. Taylor. Life, to youth, is a fairy tale just opened ; to old age, a tale read through, ending in death. Be wise in time, that you may be happy in eternity. & L. C. Judson. Our life has great resemblance to wine ; when little of it remains, it becomes vinegar ; for all hu- man ills proceed to old age as to a workshop. Antiphanes. A life of the most absolute devotedness to God is the only righteous way of living ; no man lives a righteous life that doth not live a devoted life. . J. Howe. The end of life is to be like unto God ; and the soul following God will be like unto Him ; He be- ing the beginning, middle, and end of all things. Socrates. The blessings of life are not equal to its ills, though the number of the two may be equal ; nor can any pleasure compensate for the least pain. Pliny the Elder. They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are those who have lived to no purpose, who have rather breathed than lived. Earl of Clarendom. Life to man is his all ; on it everything is sus- pended which a man can call his own—his enjoy- ments, his hopes, his usefulness, and his Salvation. Timothy Dwight. We sleep, but the loom of life never stops ; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down, is weaving when it comes up to-morrow. H. W. Beecher. Life is a gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the wave of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passion. Miss L. E. Landon. This life is like a game played with dice—the same figures do not always turn up ; SO, too, life has not always the same shape, but is ever chang- ing. Aleacis. Life is a momentary convulsion between two tranquil etermities; an avenue to death, as death is the gate that opens to a new and more enduring life. Chatfield. This span of life was lent for lofty duties, not for selfishness; not to be wiled away for aimless dreams, but to improve ourselves, and serve man- kind. Sir A. de Vere. When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep ; and then the care is over. Miss Lucy Barton. Life is short, if it merits that name only when it is agreeable; since, if we reckoned together all our happy years, we should with difficulty make a life of some months out of a great number of years. Diderot. LIFE. It is their life of labor that has inspired the wretched with genius, and it is their bad fortune that has forced man to exertion by depressing him. Manilius. It is useful to observe, in our progress through life, the chain of duties, trials, and blessings which imperceptibly conduct us from one period to an- Other. Mrs. King. My life is a frail life, a corruptible life, a life which the more it increaseth, the more it decreas- eth ; the farther it goeth the nearer it cometh to death. St. Augustine. Life has been compared to a race ; but the allu- Sion still improves by observing that the most Swift are ever the most apt to stray from the COUll-Sè. Goldsmith. Life is a ball-room, whose guests are constantly pouring in at the front door, and out at the back door, without apparent diminution of the number within. Dr. J. W. Dawson. There exist moments in the life of man when he is nearer to the Spirit of the world than is usual, and possesses freely the power of questioning his destiny. Schöller. It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently, honorably, and justly ; or to live pru- dently, honorably, and justly without living plea- Surably. Epicurus. If we begin to die when we live, and long life be but a prolongation of death, our life is a sad composition ; we live with death, and die not in a moment. Sir T. Browne. - This life is a scene of vanity, that soon passes away, and affords no solid satisfaction but in the consciousness of doing well, and in the hopes of another life. J. Locke. So much are men enamored of their miserable lives, that there is no condition so wretched to which they are not willing to submit, provided they may live. Montaigme. It is pleasant to lead an idle life ; it is a happy and delightful life if it be with other idle people ; with beasts and apes one ought to be an ape. O the misery of life Apollodorus. Man's life, when compared with eternity, is but like the passing breath breathed by the dying: with it the spirit flees, and streameth on to eterni- ty, endless Soaring. Rºrwmmacher. As it is the chief concern of wise men to retrench the evils of life by the reasonings of philosophy, it is the employment of fools to multiply them by the sentiments of superstition. Addison. Life vanishes in a moment ; it is nothing in it- self; its value consists in its use ; the good we have done is the only thing which abides, and this it is which renders life of any account. Tryphiodorus. Measure not life by the hopes and enjoyments of this world, but by the preparation it makes for another; looking forward to what you shall be, , rather than backward to what you have been. Edward Smedley. P AE O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 513 T.IFE. Let us remember that while we are here, we work for a long hereafter ; that we think, and speak, and act, with regard to an etermal state, and that in time we live for eternity. I. Watts. We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs ; he most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. P. J. Bailey. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening ; it is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. Thorect w. Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainments, our experience, our cha- racter ; the conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here 3 E. H. Chapin. Life has an ideal and spiritual character, which, while it loses nothing of the definiteness of reality, is forever suggesting thoughts, taking new rela- tions, and peopling and giving action to the imagi- nation. R. H. Dama. All conditions of life are full of complaints, from him that travels on his clouted shoe, to him who can scarce mention the mannel's Or the fortunes of the multitude without some expression of contume- ly and disdain. R. Lucas. Life should be our great and only regard ; for the first office of wisdom is to give things their due valuation, to estimate aright how much they are worth ; and the second is to treat them according to their worthiness. L. H. Grimdom. Life's evening, we may rest assured, will take its character from the day which has preceded it ; and if we would close our career in the comfort of reli- gious hope, we must prepare for it by early and continuous religious habit. Shuttleworth. It is not perhaps much thought of, but it is cer- tainly a very important lesson, to learn how to enjoy ordinary life, and to be able to relish your being without the transport of some passion, or gratification of some appetite. Steele. There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well. Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough , measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough : measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long. - Zimmerman. Our life is nothing but, as it were, a web woven with interminglings of wants and favors, crosses and blessings, standings and failings, combat and victory ; therefore, there should be a perpetual intercourse of praying and praising in our hearts. R. Sibbes. A life well spent, a character uprightly sus- tained, is no slight legacy to one's children, and to the world : for it is the most eloquent lesson of , virtue and the severest reproof of vice, while it continues an enduring source of the best kind of riches. Smiles. LIFE. Life should be an alternation of enjoyments, SO diversified as to call the whole man into action. That system of labor which saps the health, and shortens life, and famishes intellect, needs and must receive great modification. C. E. Lester. Those who know the value of human life know the importance of another year, a day, and even an hour ; and these when spent amid the full enjoy- ment of the mental functions, of how much im- portance to our whole existence. Struve. Life, when hospitably taken, is a simple affair : very little suffices to enrich us; being a fountain and fireside, a web of cloth, a garden, a few friends, and good books, a chosen task, health, and peace of mind; these are a competent estate, embracing all we need. Lowisa M. Alcott. How mysterious is this human life, with all its diversities of contrast and compensation; this webb of checkered destines ; this sphere of manifold al- lotment, where man lives in his greatness and groSS- | mess, a little lower than the angels, a little higher than the brutes. H. Giles. As the rose-tree is composed of the Sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast, alternately tempestuous and serene, so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joy and Sorrows, with plea- sure and with pains. - F. Burton. Every man is conscious that he leads two lives— the one trivial and ordinary, the other sacred and recluse ; one which he carries to Society and the dinner table, the other in which his youth and as- piration survive for him, and which is a confidence between himself and God. J. R. Lowell. Show me what thou truly lovest, show me what thou seekest and strivest for with thy whole heart, when thou hopest to attain to true enjoyment, and thou hast hereby shown me thy life. What thou lovest, is that thou livest ; this very love is thy life, the root, the seat, the central point of thy being. Fichte. Let us make haste to live, since every day to a wise man is a new life : for he has done his busi- ness the day before, and so prepared himself for the next, that if it be not his last, he knows yet that it might have been so. No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is willing and ready to quit it. - Seneca. Life may be compared to one of the golden gob- lets that flash at our banquets upon the stage ; it looks very splendid, and you fancy it is full of the most intoxicating draughts ; but put it to your lips, and you will find there is nothing in it—no- thing but hollowness, mockery, and disappoint- ment. D. Garrick. The flowers of life are only visionary ! How many disappear without leaving a trace behind them . How few bear fruit, and when they do, how seldom does the fruit ripen And yet there are flowers enough : and yet, my friend, how is it that we should allow the little that does ripen, to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed. Goethe. 33 514 A) A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AW. LIFE. There is no fooling with life, if it is once turned beyond forty ; the seeking of a fortune then is but a desperate after-game ; it is a hundred to One if a man flings two sixes, and recover all ; especially if his hand be no luckier than mine. Cowley. To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels, or enliven by our presence, is to lament the loss of that which we possess, and is just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands. FitzOsborne. All the events of our life are materials, out of which we may make what we will. He who has much spirit makes most of his life. Every piece of knowledge, every occurrence, might be for the truly spiritual the first part of an infinite series, the commencement of an endless romance. Novalis. There is an invisible pen always writing over our heads, and making an exact register of all the tran- sactions of our life. Not our public conduct only, and what we reckon the momentous parts of our life, but the indulgence of our private pleasures, the amusement of our secret thoughts, and idle hours, shall be brought into account. H. Blair. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide ; and the fisherman dripping all day over a cold pond, the switchman at the railway intersection, the farmer in the field, the negro in the rice-swamp, the fop in the street, the hunter in the woods, the barrister with the jury, the belle at the ball, all ascribe a certain plea- sure to their enjoyment, which they themselves give it. R. W. Emerson. Lost wealth may be regained by industry, the wreck of wealth repaired by temperance, and for- gotten knowledge restored by study, and even for- feited reputation won back by penitence and virtue : but who ever again looked upon his van- ished hours, recalled his slighted years, and stamp- ed them with wisdom, or effected from Heaven's record the fearful blot of a wasted life 2 Mrs. Sigowrmey. In the ocean of life how many there are who are drifting to an unknown destination—that undistin- guished multitude, who are only “toiling to live, and living only to die”—who drag on through a weary life, with their eyes half open : lacking prin- ciple, moral independence, stirring decision, gene- rous resolves, or even the slightest ambition; whose lives are purposeless, aimless, defenceless ; and who live more from mere indolence than from calcula- tion. James Ellis. The things that make life happy are these : wealth, not gained by the Sweat of our brow, but by inheritance; lands that make a good return ; a fireside always comfortable; no need of lawyers; no dress for business ; a mind at ease ; a vigorous frame ; a healthy constitution ; prudence without cunning ; friends equal both in years and fame ; pleasant social intercourse ; a table without pre- tense ; mights not drunken, but free from care ; a bed not without connubial pleasures ; sleep which makes the darkness seem short ; to be what you are, and no wish for change ; and neither to fear death nor seek it. Martial. LIFE. We talk of human life as a journey, but how va- riously is that journey performed ! There are those who come forth girt, and shod, and mantled, to walk on velvet lawns and smooth terraces, where every gale is arrested and every beam is tempered. There are others who walk on the Alpine paths of life, against driving misery, and through stormy Sorrows, Over sharp afflictions; walk with bare feet and naked breast, jaded, mangled, and chilled. Sidney Smith. Remember for what purpose you were born, and through the whole of life look at its end ; and con- sider when that comes, in what will you put your trust 2 Not in the bubble of worldly vanity ; it will be broken; not in worldly pleasures; they will be gone ; not in great connections ; they cannot serve you; not in wealth; you cannot carry it with you ; not in rank ; in the grave there is no distinc- tion ; not in the recollection of a life spent in a giddy conformity to the silly fashions of a thought- less and wicked world; but in that of a life spent SOberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. J. Wilson. What will it be if we run over the miseries of all the ages and states of this life? How full of igno- rance is childhood ; how light-headed is boyhood ; how rash is youth, and how cross is old age ' What is a child but a brute animal in the form of a hu- man being : What is youth but a steed with the bit in his mouth and without reins 2 What the old man, weighed down by years, but a bundle of infirmities and pains ? The greatest desire that men have is to reach this age, where man is only more subject to necessities than in the other parts of his life, and even less assisted. This is the goal on which human felicity and the ambition of life fixes its eyes. Luis de Granada. It cannot be that our life is cast up by the ocean of eternity to float a moment upon its waves and then sink into nothingness | Else why is it that the glorious aspirations which leap like angels from the temple of our heart, are forever wandering about unsatisfied ? Why is it that the rainbow and the clouds come over with a beauty that is not of earth, and then pass off, and leave us to muse upon their favored loveliness? We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth ; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever. Bulwer. The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, and drink, and sleep, to be exposed to darkness and the light, to pace round in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an implement of trade—this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, good- ness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechan- ism of existence. The life of mirth that vibrates through the heart ; the tears that freshen the dry wastes within ; the music that brings childhood back ; the prayer that calls the future near ; the doubt which makes us meditate ; the death which startles us with mystery; the hardship which forces us to struggle ; the anxiety that ends in trust, are the true nourishment of our natural being. J. Martineau. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. LIGHT. Light is God's first law. Veda. Every light is not the sun. Alexander. Light is a fluid of sunbeams. At-Twnikhi. Light is the symbol of truth. J. R. Lowell. After darkness comes the light. Nepos, Let Heaven's light be our guide. Prince Albert. Light is light, though the blind man see it not. Salis. Where there is much light the shade is deepest. - Goethe. Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades. Winfield Scott. A single light answers as well for a hundred men as for One. Talmud. The best way to see Divine light, is to put out thine own candle. F. Quarles. Light is no less favorable to merit than unfavor- able to imposture. Kames. The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body. Aristotle. To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet. Ewripides. Light is the queen of the eyes; the light of learn- ing is the day of the mind. St. Augustime. Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning. Copernicus. Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity. T. Carlyle. The light in the world comes principally from two sources, the sun and the student's lamp. Bovee. The tapers in a church are but emblems of a de- sire for the light of God's presence therein. St. Zosimºws. All human souls, never sobedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous. - Mrs. R. Chºwrch. Of all the marvelous creations of nature, none is more wonderful or more widely diffused than light. Acton. Our moments of light are moments of happiness ; in the mind, when it is clear weather it is fine weather. Jowbert. Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them. G. D. Prentice. If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless. H. W. Beecher. Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but Sometimes con- firm. Colton. LIGHT. Children always turn toward the light. O that grown-up people in this would become like little children J. C. Hare. When the light we beg for shines in upon us, there be those who envy and Oppose, if it comes not first in their casements. Milton. O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven All beings live from light, each fair created thing ; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light. Schiller. If we prefer darkness better than light, we must be suffered long to dwell in darkness ; if we would hasten the time, we must take the light and diffuse it ; the light which the few have must be made common to the many. E. D. Mansfield. I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so to retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning. H. Taylor. As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that in- tense light will not make beautiful; and the stimu- lous it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay. R. W. Emerson. The cloud is a thing of darkness, yet God chooses it for the place where He bends the arch of light ! Such is the way of our God ; He knows that we need the cloud, and that a bright sky without a speck of shadow would not suit us in our passage to the kingdom. H. Bonair. The salutary and enlivening effects of light upon the heavens and the earth, upon all Substances of nature, and upon every order of beings throughout the visible creation, do certainly afford a lively illustration of the infinite knowledge, power, and goodness of God. J. Baseley. Light, like circulating blood, which returns to the heart, is supposed to return to the sun, after having performed the functions for which it was emitted from that body ; even so will the soul, our intellectual light, return to its Divine Source, when released from the body, to whose earthly purpose it has administered. - Chatfield. Light that makes things seen makes some things invisible. Were it not for darkness, and the shadow of the earth, the noblest part of creation had re- mained unseen, and the stars in heaven as invisi- ble as on the fourth day, when they were created above the horrizon'with the sun, and there was not an eye to behold them. Sir T. Browne. Let the light of the morning cease and return no more ; let the hour of morning come, and bring with it no dawn ; the outcries of a horror-stricken world fill the air, and make, as it were, the dark- ness audible. The beasts go wild and frantic at the loss of the sum : the vegetable growths turn pale and die; a chill chreeps on, and frosty winds be- gin to howl across the freezing earth. Colder, yet colder is the night ; the vital blood, at length, of creatures, stops congealed. H: Bushnell. 516 J) A Y’,S C O Z / A. C. O AV. LIGHT-HEARTEDNIESS. A light heart lives long. Shakspeare. A light heart is the best antidote for every mis- fortune. Lawra Bridgman. Light-heartedness is the blessed privilege of pure innocence. Amne Radcliffe. He goes through the world the best who goes through it with a light heart. Mrs. A. L. Barbauld. They pass best over the world who trip over it with a light heart ; for it is but a bog—if we stop, we sink. Queen Elizabeth. Light-heartedness should be the garb of youth, suavity and kindness that of manhood, graveness and wisdom that of age. Lizzie B. Comims. The light-heartedness of the young has in it something great and noble ; it is the conquest of nature over circumstances, the triumph of truth over hypocrisy and imposition. St. Foiac, LIGHTNING. - Lightning rendeth the rocks. Owain. The lightning is in God's hands. A. S. Roe. Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place. Daniel Boone. The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears. Avicemna. In the dark clouds the sharp flashes of impulsive lightning are born. Elis Wym. The lightning comes on a mission of mercy, bear- ing healing in its train. Miss J. Trwºmbwill. Lightning and truth are two things that cannot be arrested in their onward course. J. Elizabeth Jones. The lightning flashing in the heavens is like the fire of musketry from a hostile army. Cora Agnew. Lightning has been tamed and made to do the bidding of man, and is constantly driven in deli- Cate traces. Ellen Martin. Lightning will wreck its displeasure not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free. Seneca. Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bolt should in its flash kill his cow % Gen. B. F. Butler. LIMIT. There is a limit to the endurance of man. Parton. There is no limit between the cradle and the grave. H. J. von Collin. There is a limit to sin, but there is no limit to eternal punishment. M. Chemnitz. Whatsoever a man accounts his treasure, an- swers all his capacities of pleasure ; it is the ut- most limit of enjoyment. R. Sowth. There is no limit to the boundless works of God | How glorious the starry sky How great our Cre- ator Millions of worlds declare His glory, and the intelligent beings which they contain acknow- ledge and adore their Maker. Sturm. LIPS, Lips, however rosy, must be fed. Ovid. There is life in the lips of true lovers. Owain. Sweet is the discourse that cometh from pretty lips. D. ab Edmvwmt. Lip-honor costs nothing, yet it may bring in much. When the lips are opened, we behold the images of a soul. Sir Thomas Higgons. The lips of those we love are sweet to us in life, and sacred in death. Maria L. Charlesworth. Vermilion lips, well shaped, a smiling mouth, beautiful white teeth, an elastic step and plump cheeks, charm at eighteen. Diderot. Lips moulded in love are tremulously full of the glowing softness they borrow from the heart, and electrically obedient to its impulses. Greenwood. Saith the lover of his mistress: The rose is dis- graced by the redness of her cheeks, and the juice of the grape desireth to resemble the moisture of her lips. Ibn Matrúh. How much the lips express all can tell; they are curled by pride or anger, drawn thin by cunning, smoothed by benevolence, and made placid by effeminacy ; fine lips indicate exquisite suscepti- bilities. Dr. Porte?". LISTENING. Listen, if you would learn. Myrddin. Listen not to evil speaking. Hamilton, Aide. Listen not to the words of a fool. Ptah Hotep. Listen, when you can gain by listening. Engel. Listeners never hear good of themselves. Ray. To be agreeable you must learn to be a good lis- tener. H. Stephens. Were we as eloquent as angels, we should please some more by listening than by talking. Colton. A polite man is one who listens attentively to things he knows all about, when told by a person who knows nothing about them. Cyril Towrmewr. Listening is an intensive degree of hearing ; we hear involuntarily, we listen with intention ; thus we may hear persons talking without listening to what they say. G. F. Graham. LISTLESSINESS. Listlessness is a sort of madness. Yahya Manda. Listlessness often ends in insanity. Dorethea Diac. The soul is indisposed by listlessness. J. Taylor. Both intemperance and sensuality clog men's spirits, making them listless and inactive. Tillotson. Listless ignorance, and the animated silence of sparkling intelligence, are two things as distinct as the wisdom and the folly of the tongue. C. Butler. Listlessness is one of the vices of indolence, and its torments are precursors of the still more excrucia- ting pangs which are destined to crown and confirm the eternal ruin of both body and soul. Magoom. i Benvenwto Cellini. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 5 17 T.ITERATURE. Literature is the tongue of the world. T. Paine. Literature is the immortality of speech. R. A. Willmott. Literature is a great staff, but a very Sorry crutch. Sir W. Scott, It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Bulwer. Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. Horace. The great standard of literature, as to purity and exactness of style, is the Bible. H. Blair. Literature is the grindstone to sharpen the coul- ters, and to whet their natural faculties. H. Hammond. The epoch of a literature of the world is at hand, and every one ought to labor to hasten it. J. P. Eckerman. The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts is proportioned to that of the public pros- perity. T. B. Macawlay. Let literature be an honorable augmentation to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the es- cutcheon. S. T. Coleridge. The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation ; the two keep pace in their downward tendency. Goethe. Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors and of wealth. W. Hornberg. The literature of other countries has been fre- quently adopted by a young nation with a sort of famatical admiration. .J. Sismondi. There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats. * I. Disraeli. The advantage in literature, as in life, is of keep- ing the best society, reading the best books, and wisely admiring and imitating the best things. - Smiles. Literature and art is a necessity to a people's glory and happiness; history with all her voices joins in one universal judgment upon this subject. Griswold. Literature as a field for glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily found than laurels; as a means of support it is the very chance of chances. H. Giles. Literature is a mere step to knowledge ; and the error often lies in our identifying one with the other. Literature may, perhaps, make us vain ; true knowledge must make us humble. - Mrs. John Sanford. A country which has no national literature, or a literature too insignificant to force its way abroad, must always be, to its neighbors at least, in every important spiritual respect, an unestima- ted country. T. Carlyle. LITERATURE. Nothing lives in literature but that which has in it the vitality of the creative art ; and it would be safe advice to the young to read nothing but what is old. E. P. Whipple. There never was a literary age whose dominant taste was not sickly ; the success of excellent au- thors consists in making wholesome works agree- able to morbid tastes. Joubert. In literary performances, as in Gothic architec- ture, the taste of age is largely in favor of the pointed styles: our churches and our books must bristle over with points. Bovee. Literature has now become a game, in which the booksellers are the kings ; the critics the knaves; the public the pack; and the poor author the mere table, or thing played upon. Colton. A beautiful literature springs from the depth and fullness of intellectual and moral life, from an energy of thought and feeling, to which nothing, as we believe, ministers so largely as enlightened religion. W. E. Channing. The study of literature nourishes youth, enter- tains old age, adorns prosperity, solaces adversity, is delightful at home, unobtrusive abroad, deserts us not by day or by night, in journeying nor in retirement. Cicero. Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow ; how powerfully intellec- tual pursuits can help in keeping the head from crazing, and the head from breaking. T. Hood. Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions. FIwºme. A progress in literature and science must be ac- companied by progressive changes in our social and political institutions; that they have not ar- rived at perfection, the slightest glance at the misery around us is all that is requisite to prove. John Taylor. The mass of mankind are now so enlightened, that food for the mind is as necessary to their hap- piness as food for the body is conducive to their health ; hence it is that literary men require no patrons; the only patronage they seek for is in an enlightened and free public. Miss Lucy Bartom. If we consider how much literature enlarges the mind, and how much it multiplies, adjusts, recti- ſies, and arranges the ideas, it may well be reck- oned equivalent to an additional sense ; it affords pleasure which wealth cannot procure, and which poverty cannot entirely take away. F. X. Holl. The artificer must work at night and strain his arms to fill his belly ; the embalmer has his fingers filthy, and his clothes defiled ; the shoemaker is bad at walking ; the dyers, that carry on their labors in a pool, are neighbors to the crocodile ; but the products of literature are eternal as the rocks. Amenemha I. X X 518 A) A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. I,ITERATURE. In literary concerns few things are done well that do not emanate spontaneously from the wri- ter's fancy ; to act on the advice or views of others, is almost a certain presage of failure. Where there is not genius or inclination to devise there is seldom ability or patience to execute. W. B. Clwlow. Literature is the garden of wisdom ; if we wish to gather its choicest flowers, we must enter its divine precincts through the gate of learning ; it is here we can partake of the golden fruits of know- ledge, drink deep draughts at the Pierian spring, and enjoy the “feast of reason and the flow of soul.” James Ellis. It never happens that literature and the art of reasoning become general in a nation, that we do not see immediately in philosophy and in the fine arts the same thing that is remarked in popular governments, where there is no kind of puerilities and silly fancies that do not start up and find sup- porters. Vawven argues. The present age has been called an age of literary luxury : nor let it blush at the appellation. The love of letters is attended with the sweetest satis- faction ; and the indulgence of it tends to silence the importunity of many other propensities, which as they are less innocent, can seldom be gratified without consequent misery. T. K. Hervey. Literati may be divided into two classes, those who live to study, and those who study to live : the former tending to elevate literature, and the latter to degrade it ; the first generally survive their own death ; the last often die and are for- gotten in their lifetime, for that which is written for the day must expire with it. Chatfield. In literature I am fond of confining myself to the best company, which consists chiefly of my old acquaintance, with whom I am desirous of be- Coming more intimate ; and I suspect that nine times out of ten it is more profitable, if not more agreeable, to read an old book over again, than to read a new one for the first time. T. Dudley. The increased attractions and novelties of litera- ture divert and amuse for awhile, until entailing upon us the usual penalties of unprofitable pastime, if we regard our intellectual interests, we shall be glad to relinquish these agreeable recreations in favor of what is less captivating and seductive, but more salutary and profitable. J. Astley. In the cultivation of literature is found that common link which, among the higher and mid- dling departments of life, unites the jarring sects and subdivisions in one interest ; which supplies common topics and kindles common feelings, un- mixed with those narrow prejudices with which all professions are more or less infected. Copleston. Some of the best and most cultivated.minds of modern times, which have directed the current of literature, have done the least for the actual bene- fit of mankind; they have been influenced by con- siderations of self-advancement and literary celeb- rity, and have sought less to instruct than to amuse, and to gain admiration rather than to win gratitude. Acton. LITERATURE. Literary dissipation is no less destructive of Sympathy with the living world, than sensual dis- sipation ; mere intellect is as hard-hearted and as heart-rending as mere sense ; and the union of the two when uncontrolled by the conscience, and without the softening, purifying influences of the moral affections, is all that is requisite to produce the diabolical ideal of Our nature. J. Woolman. Literature is SO common a luxury, that the age has grown fastidious ; the moralist is expected to allure men to virtue by his beautiful rhetoric : philosophy must be illustrated by charming meta- phors of captivating fiction ; and history, casting aside the tedious garb of formal narrative, is re- Quired to assume a scenic costume, and teem with the connected interest of a fascinating tale. H. T. Thickerman. Literature is the voice of the age and the state ; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptions of its great minds ; they are organs of the time ; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts : but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society in- spires. E. Everett. It is no exaggeration to declare that he who pro- poses to abolish classical studies, proposes to render in a great measure inert and unedifying the mass of English literature for three centuries ; to robus of the glories of the past, and much of the instruc- tion of future ages; to blind us to excellencies which few may hope to surpass ; to annihilate as- sociations which are interwoven with our best sentiments, and give to distant times and countries a presence and reality as if they were in fact his OWI1. J. Story. Literature is the expression of the thoughts of society. Books are specimens of the conversations of an age, preserved in the spirit of taste and of genius. Just as the great elements of Society re- main the same, and the component parts of modern civilization are peculiar to all its ages, the histori- cal characteristics of a literature are not to be found by studying epochs, centuries, or chronólo- gies. The influences of different ancient civiliza- tions and races, and great thinkers, can alone ex- hibit the sources and nature of historical litera- ture and its characteristics. Professor Hwacley. No difference is so easily perceived as that which a knowledge or an ignorance of ancient literature creates in the manner, the look, the voice, and the language of men, who attempt upon any occasion to utter their opinions in public ; and this even when nature may not have been liberal in the gift of eloquence. Under the influence of the former there is a lucid order, a chastity of sentiment, and a language of appropriate manliness and harmony. The manner will be composed and independent, the tones of the voice firm, and adapted to the occa- sion. In short, such a man shall say but very few words, before you are thoroughly convinced, that he has formed an intimate acquaintance with those great characters, who have justly obtained an im- mortal name. Sir W. Blackstone. A R O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 519 LITTLENESS. Say little, and do much. Talmud. A little thing comforts us, because a little thing afflicts us. Pascal. To be great in little things is a characteristic of a small mind. E. P. Day. He who heeds not little things will be troubled about lesser ones. Opitz. It is the fixed law of the universe that little things are but part of the great. T. Edwards. The weak man who whines over his own neglect, gives the sign of his own littleness. Adah Isaacs Memken. Do not slight the little things that crowd around life : many are deceived and led astray by neglect- ing little things. E. Wilton. If thou addest little to little, and doest SO often, soon it will become a great heap to him who gath- ers, and he will thus keep off keen hunger. Hesiod. Were littleness and lowness of place agreeable, greatness and elevation could not be so; were lit- tleness and lowness of place disagreeable, they would occasion perpetual uneasiness. Kames. Do not despise little things; the widow's mite was as precious in the eyes of the Lord as the rich man's gift ; so should little acts of kindness be ap- preciated when emanating from a poor and gener- ous heart. James Ellis. Those islands which so beautifully adorn the Pacific were reared up from the bed of the ocean by the little coral insect, which, deposits one grain of sand at a time ; so with human exertion ; the greatest results of the mind are produced by small but continued exertions. O. F. Müller. Little things Life and death, prosperity and ruin, happiness and misery, hang upon little things; they are like the linch-pin to the wheel, on which depends the safety of the vehicle ; they are like the rudder to the vast mass which it guides; like the slender nerves to the bulky muscles. G. A. Sala. Life is made up of little things, and he that scorns them despises his own real interest. There is an old and true saying, “Take care of the min- utes, and the hours will take care of themselves.” This may be rendered, take care of the little things, and the more mighty matters will be likely to be well done. J. W. Barker. I confess, I love littleness almost in all things; a little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a very little feast, and if I were ever to fall in love again, which is a great passion, and therefore I hope I have done with it, it would be, I think, with prettiness, rather than with majestical beauty. Cowley. The influences of little things are as real and as Constantly about us as the air we breathe or the light by which we see ; these are the small—the often invisible—the almost unthought-of strands, which are inweaving and twisting by millions, to bind us to character, to good or evil here, and to heaven or hell hereafter. E. Hollebeeck. LOGIC. Pure logic is a science of form of thinking. W. Thomson. Logic is the armory of reason, furnished with all the offensive and defensive weapons. T. Fuller. The knowledge of the theory of logic has no ten- dency whatever to make men good reasoners. T. B. Macawlay. Logic is the essence of truth, and truth is the most powerful tyrant ; and tyrants hate the truth. I. I. Kozlof. If a man can play the true logician, and have judgment as well as invention, he may do great matters. Lord Bacon. Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their Own nature. I. Watts. Logic is the art of thinking well ; the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way. Kames. Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought—that is, of the necessary conditions to which thought, considered in itself, is subject. Sir W. Hamilton. If ideas and words were distinctly weighed and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with. J. Locke. Logic is the art of convincing us of Some truth ; and eloquence a gift of the mind, which makes us master of the heart and spirit of others ; which en- ables us to inspire them with, or persuade them of whatever we please. Bruyère. Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are Superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. Colton. Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause. Many of its conclusions, more ingenious than sound, are like the recommenda- tions of a people to keep full bottles, because a good many have been found dead with empty ones by them. Bovee. As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conduct- ed; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be de- rived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions. Some are disposed to view logic as a peculiar method of reasoning, and not as it is, a method of unfolding and analysing our rea- son. They have, in short, considered logic as an art of reasoning. The logician's object being, not to lay down principles by which one may reason, but by which all must reason, even though they are not distinctly aware of them—to lay down rules not which may be followed with advantage, but which cannot possibly be deviated from in sound reasoning. R. Whately. 520 A) A Y',S C O Z, Z. A C O ZV. LONELINESS. LOQUACITY. Labor in loneliness is irksome. S. L. Clemens. Let not loquacity be confounded with wisdom. Loneliness was the first thing which God's eye saw that was not good. Milton, Loneliness, the most bitter, the most terrible, is that of a tender woman exiled from the hearts of her friends and home. Mrs. O. Andress. The surest sign of age is loneliness; while one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he can- not be old, whatever his years may be. W. A. Alcott. None suffer loneliness so much as those who have troublous thoughts; the recollection of a good life, or even one good deed, is ever a pleasant compa- nion. R. G. Ha2O rol. The higher we rise in the sphere of ideas, the more lonely we get in our intellectual affinities, and the more difficult does it become to find congenial companions. Bovee. How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness : for there is as it were music at his heart, and he talketh within him as with friends. Tupper. When I once more saw the green hills of my na- tive country a thrilling of joy went to my heart, which made me forget all the loneliness of my wanderings in other lands. C. E. Lester. LONGEVITY. Longevity is lengthened misery. Hegesias. Longevity comes of truth and levity. Costa'ing. Longevity is a tower whose foundation is under- mined. Lord Bacon. Longevity is like a flower without root, which the first, blast lays low. Mrs. E. L. Lintom. Longevity is bad for the face, but good for the head ; every face has its scores, and is a map of life. Salvator Rosa. Longevity presents itself with many acquired de- formities; outwardly, by the dilapidations of time; inwardly, by the vexations of life. Lord Lyttleton. It is only sheer neglect to practice the laws of God and nature, which prevents us from maintain- ing a state of health, activity, and prolonged longe- vity. Dr. Porter. Longevity ought to be highly valued by men of piety and parts, as it will enable them to be much more useful to mankind, and especially to their own country. As to others, it is no great matter, since they are a disgrace to mankind, and their death is rather a service to the public. L. Cornaro. Whilst we are tottering with the infirmities of longevity, many familiar objects around us seem to be also touched by the finger of decay; with the old, all things appear to grow old ; the man- sions in which we dwell begin to look weakly and dilapidated ; the walls crumble and settle down ; the painted colors wear off ; the cushioned seats become obraded ; and the furniture and mantels put on an ancient and time-worn aspect. Acton. Mencius. I prefer the wisdom of the unlearned to the folly of the loguacious. Cicero. Loquacity is common to numbers, and generally attends impudence. Pliny the Younger. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind, ever run- ning, and almost incurable. H. Spencer. Every absurdity has a champion to defend it : for error is always loguacious. Goldsmith. Loquacity is a sign of vanity ; for he that is lavish in words is a niggardin deed. Sir W. Raleigh. The loquacity of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. Socrates. A loguacious fellow may be compared to an un- braced drum, which beats a wise man out of his wits. Feltham. Those who have few affairs to attend to are mostly loquacious ; the less men think the more they talk. Montesquiew. LOSS. A loss you know not is no loss. John de Barros. He who has lost everything but his learning, has met no loss. Stilpo. The loss of wealth is a greater misfortune than its possession was a blessing. Croesws. Losses are comparative, and imagination only makes them of any moment. Pascal. The losses of the rich are not to be compared, in point of effect, to the mortifications of the poor; but they are more exaggerated. N. Hooke. Pecuniary losses are like depletions of the human system ; if moderate, they arrest a state of plethora and prove salutary ; if carried too far vitality is endangered. Acton. A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it ; and this I suppose is the reason why losses—vanishings away of things— are among the teachings of this world of shadows. Orville Dewey. We should lament in moderation the loss of our friends, for they are not dead, but have gone be- fore the same road which we must all necessarily pass; then we also will hereafter come to the same place with them, spending eternity in their com- pany. Antiphames. As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain ; if thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it ; if thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy ; if sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride. Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great ; he loses little or nothing, that reserves himself. F. Quarles. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 521. LOVE. Love is eternal. Horace. Love each other. Zoroaster. Love is a dream. A. de Musset. Love has no law. A. Ferreira. Love begets love. Ovid. Love is an injury. Laberius. Love is a disorder. Eraststratus. Love ties the tongue. Yahya Aktham. Love is soon learned. Dante. When we love, we live. W. Congreve. Love conquers all things. Virgil. Love is a sweet tyranny. Niphus. Love laughs at locksmiths. Shakspeare. Love is an egotism of two. Antoine de la Salle. Love is not easily expelled. Catullus. Love is a paradise on earth. Amphis. Love is the fever of the soul. Love is the loadstone of love. Nimon de l'Enclos. J. Gay. - In love we are all fools alike. Love is the virtue of woman. God giveth love to all beings. Love makes fools of the wise. Wm. of Poictiers. Love is sure to discover itself. N. Macdonald. The soul is the fountain of love. Amliews. Love is only satisfied with love. Pythagoras. The Soul of woman lives in love. Mrs. Sigowrmey. Love burns when passion sleeps. Love with conditions is not love. Love is apt to be a selfish passion. Talbot Gwynn. Love is woman’s whole existence. Jane Awstem. Love is the best of all the virtues. To love is everything ; love is God. Léon Gozlam, T. Parker. Love is the piety of the affections. Love is heaven, and heaven is love. Sir W. Scott. Love cannot be mingled with fear. Love mocks all sorrows but its own. Lady Dacre. Love is more pleasing than marriage. Chamfort. Love is fit business for an idle person. Diogenes. Plato. It is love that causes peace among men. Love is an art in which all are teachers. The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. Bret. Salm-Dyck. Mme. Dwdevant. Thewrgis. Langhorne. E. P. Day. Biom. Seneca. at the second. Zeno. LOVE. Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea. Mme. de Girardim. To love is in our power, but not to lay it aside. Publius Syrus. If nobody loves you, be sure it is your own fault. P. Doddridge. True love can hope where reason would despair. Lord Lyttleton. Love has no age, as it is always renewing itself. Pascal. The science of love is the philosophy of the heart. Cicero. Love condones all sins except those against love. E. Eggleston. Love, they tell us, is of all things the most blind- ing. Frances Wright. Let no man shut the door if love should come to call. Rodrigo Cota. Love is the greatest gift which God has given to Illall. Ammie E. Lancaster. Love is a method of protracting our greatest plea- SUll’ê. Goldsmith. Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. Bulwer. Love knows nothing of the ceremony of mar- riage. - Love is never lasting which flames before it burns. Feltham. Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's. Richter. Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely. - Basta. Love when forced must soon become mortal hatred. Downey. The love of one is true love ; the love of many is not love. - Eulaliws. We never know how much we love until we try to unlove. Mrs. Stowe. Three things excite love : a present, a courtship, and a kiss. Moelmud. A man of sense may love like a madman, but not. Rochefoucauld. It is the beautiful necessity of our nature to love Something. D. Jerrold. Love is the proper business for such as have no- thing to do. Propertius. Love at two-and-twenty is a terrible intoxica- ting draught. Ruffini. Love can neither be bought nor sold ; its only price is love. t Wemeroni. like a fool. He who loves at first sight will usually be cured • J. Bartlett. Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well? Miss M. E. Braddon. A love potion works more by the strength of charm than nature. J. Collier. * P. Abelard. . 522 ZX A Y 'S CO / / A C O AV. LOVE. When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. Bussy-Rabwtim. Love is wholly in him who loves; the beloved is only a pretext. A. Karn'. Love is a passion in which soul and body hold a divided empire. W. Godwim. Thwarted love is more romantic than even that which is blessed. R. H. Dama. Love is a reality which is born in the fairy re- gion of romance. Talleyrand. True love is never idle, but worketh to serve him whom he loveth. St. Augustime. Love is the master-key that opens every ward of the heart of man. J. H. Evans. Solid love, whose root is virtue, can no more die than virtue itself. Erasmus. Honest men love women ; those who deceive them adore them. Beaumarchaſis. No, no its spring is Ludwig Tieck. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Wictor Hugo. True love fears no winter. and ever remains. Love is a fire self-fed, and does not need hope to preserve the flame. R. L. Shiel. The only true love is sincerity before marriage and fidelity after it. W. Gowans. Amidst the natural passions of man love is the fountain of all other. Sallust. Love is a superstition that doth fear the idol which itself has made. Sir T. Overbury. To reveal its complacence by gifts is one of the native dialects of love. Mrs. Sigowrmey. Love is that body vivified and glorified by a beau- tiful and angelic spirit. Mrs. E. B. Duffey. To love is to be useful to yourself; to cause love is to be useful to others. Beranger. Ah the spendthrift, love ; it gives all and every- thing with the first sigh. Mme. de Genlis. What a miserable world ! trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love. Count de Maistre. Love is a worm, which commonly lives in the eye, and dies in the heart. St. Ambrose. Suits in love should not, like suits in law, be racked from term to term. J. Shirley. Love before marriage is like a too short preface before a book without end. Petit-Semm. A youth's love is the more passionate ; virgin love is the more idolatrous. J. C. Hare. If love and reason could be friends, and beauty wed with prudence, all would be well. Miss S. Prichard. True love is ever simple, and thinks itself unseen of the world, because it is itself so blind. Mme. de Puisiewa!. LOVE. Love has power to give in a moment what toil can Scarcely reach in an age. Goethe. It is a miserable thing to love where one hates; and yet it is not inconsistent. Shemstome. Where love has once obtained influence, any sea- Soning, I believe, will please. Plautus. Love is the great central light of the soul, about which all the virtues revolve. Matilda Fletcher. Love is a local anguish ; I am fifty miles distant, and am not half so miserable. S. T. Coleridge. In love, all men are fools alike, just as in a dark room they are all of one color. G. D. Prentice. If we take away the pleasures of love from life, there is nothing left but to die. Antiphames. His vows are broke, even R. F. Halleck. What is man's love & while his parting kiss is warm. Love as if you should hereafter hate ; and hate as if you should hereafter love. Chilo. The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love. Mme. Swetchine. O love 1 when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-bye to prudence. La Fontaine. If my worst fault is being in love, I would not exchange it for the best virtue. Orlando Lassws. Love is checked by hunger; if not, time will cure it ; if both fail, choose a halter. Crates. There are two powers; love the creative power, and hate the destructive power. Empedocles. Love blinds all men, both those who act reasona- bly and those who act foolishly. Mendmaier. If love lives on hope, it dies with it ; it is a fire which goes out for want of fuel. Corneille. Love may wither by little and little, but the root will not be removed on a sudden. Origen. The punishment of those who have loved women too much, is to love them always. Jowbert. Love, which is only an episode in the life of man, is the entire histºry of woman’s life. Mme. de Stael. Love covereth a multitude of sinful offences; loy- alty covereth a world of infirmities. John Kidd. Nothing in this world is so sweet as love, and next to love, the sweetest thing is hate. Longfellow. As love without esteem is volatile and capricious, esteem without love is languid and cold. Johnson. All the women who pine or die for want of love, do so for want of something better to do. i Mrs. Jame Swisshelm. To be loved we should merit but little esteem ; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. Helvetius. A R O S E O U O 7" A T / O M S. 5 2 3 LOVE. It is not decided that women love more than men, but it is indisputable that they love better. Samial-Dubay. Love is a contagion, caught alike from those worthy of being loved, and those unworthy. - G. Farquhar. What is love without truth, or truth without love? They purify and ennoble each other. G. W. Climton. Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making. R. Boyle. How delightful it would be to love, if one loved always; but alas ! there are no eternal loves. Mme. Scuderi. No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind SO fast, as love can do with only a single thread. • R. Burton. Love is an affection of union, whereby we desire to enjoy perpetual union with the thing loved. M. Luther. Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception. Mme. Necker. Every poet has written of love, every minstrel has sung of it, and every maid has dreamed of it. G. P. Morris. There is, in human nature, an essential though somewhat mysterious connection of love with fear. H. Taylor. Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amuse- ment of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sover- eign. Napoleon I. True love can no more be diminished by falling showers of evil, than flowers are marred by timely rain. Sir P. Sidney. Those who have loved have little relish for friend- ship ; the devotee of strong drink finds wine in- sipid. A. Dwmas. Love cannot be genuine if it hesitates to sacrifice every selfish gratification to the happiness of its object. Mrs. W. McLehose. Let us not love those things much which we are not sure to live long to love, nor to have long if we should. T. Fuller. We look upon the object of our love, until the very plainness with which it is endowed grows into beauty. Mrs. S. C. Hall. Love is the summary, the life, the inspiration of everything good, the source and substance of eter- nal joy. Magoon. Love is but another name for that inscrutable presence by which the soul is connected with hu- manity. W. G. Simms. Love is of the nature of a burning glass, which kept still in one place, fireth; changed often, it doth nothing. Sir J. Suckling. Love and enmity, aversation and fear, are nota- ble whetters and quickeners of the spirit of life in all animals. Sir T. More. LOVE. Nothing is difficult to love ; it will make a man cross his own inclinations to pleasure them whom he loves. - Tillotson. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love per- fecteth it ; but wanton love corrupteth and em- baseth it. Lord Bacon. If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel's visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is hu- man love. N. P. Willis. As love will often make a wise man act like a fool, so will interest often make a fool act like a wise man. Lord Greville. It is an observation founded on much experience, that all persons are doomed to be in love once in their lives. Fielding. The comparison of love to fire holds good in one respect, that the fiercer it burns the sooner it is ex- tinguished. Kames. The beginning and end of love are marked by the embarrassment, felt when the parties are left to themselves. Bruyère. I say to you truly, the heart of him who loves, is a paradise on earth ; he hath God in himself, for God is love. Lamennais. It is in vain to try to conceal one's self; the most discreet love allows its secret to escape by some slight token. Racine. Where there exists the most ardent and true love, it is often better to be united in death than sepa- rated in life. Valerints Maaci’mws. What can be more beautiful than the passion of love | What a fountain of delight placed in the soul of man A. Brisbane. It is possible that a man can be so changed by love, that one could not recognize him to be the same person. Terence. Love is a science, rather than a sentiment ; it is taught and learned ; one is never master of it at the first step. Mme. Deluzy. The poet's heart is an unlighted torch, which gives no help to his footsteps till love has touched it with flame. J. R. Lowell. Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion. H. Mann. Love vanquisheth tyrants, conquereth the malice of the envious, and reconcileth mortal foes unto per- fect friendship. Diderot. Love is a thing most nice, and must be fed to such a height, but never surfeited ; what is beyond the mean is ever ill. R. Herrick. Love, be it never so faithful, is but a chaos of care and fancy : though never so fortunate, is but a mass of misery. -- Chilo. A woman cannot love a man she feels to be her inferior ; love without veneration and enthusiasm is only friendship. Mme. Dudevant. Hot love is soon cold, and faith plighted with an adulterous vow is tried without conscience, and broken without care. Mrs. M. Pwllan. 524 JO A Y',S C O Z / A C O AV. LOVE. Love is the fountain of pleasure, the passion which gives everything we do or enjoy its relish and agreeableness. F. Atterbury. When there is love in the heart there are rain- bows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues. H. W. Beecher. We can sometimes love what we do not under- stand, but it is impossible to completely understand what we do not love. Mrs. Jameson. The height of heights is love; the philosopher dries into a skeleton like that he investigates, un- less love teaches him. T. W. Higginson. Love is peculiar to no station ; it is to be found equally among the high and the low, the learned and the unlearned. G. Crabb. Love never reasons, but profusely gives like a thoughtless prodigal, its all ; and trembles then lest it has done too little. Hanºvoſh More. Love is one of the strongest affections of our na- ture, and one which exerts a larger control over our actions than any other. A. Ritchie. Love sees what no eye sees ; love hears what no earhears; and what never rose in the heart of man love prepares for its object. Lavater. We endow those whom we love, in our fond, pas- sionate blindness, with power upon our souls too ab- solute to be a mortal’s trust. Mrs. Hemams. The sign of those who are tormented by love's passion, is tears; above all, of that lover who finds none to sympathize with him. J. P. Brown. Nothing is so fierce but love will soften, nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters, but it throws a mist before the eyes on it. L’Estrange. Love is a bad tenant for one's bosom ; for when compelled to quit, he always leaves the mansion more or less out of repair. C. F. Hoffman. To love in order to be loved in return, is man ; but to love for the pure sake of loving, is almost the characteristic of an angel. Lamartime. Of all the joys we can experience in the present, or hope for in the life to come, love is the only one worth our care and solicitude. |W. Aleacander. Love and friendship exclude each other ; love be- gins by love, and the strongest friendship could only give birth to a feeble love. Dw Coeur. All brave men love ; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily bat- tle of life or in physical contests. N. Hawthorne. There is no permanant love but that which has duty for its eldest brother; so that if one sleeps the other watches, and honor is safe. Stahl. He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed. Seneca. When love is well timed, it is not a fault to love; the strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise sink in the soft captivity together. Addison. LOVE. Ladies, lovers, lawyers, loafers, draymen, and drunken men are equally interested in the solution of the little word of one syllable—love. R. D. Owen. In love we never think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones; temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. Hazlitt. Love is like what is called the Milky Way in hea- ven, a brilliant mass formed by thousands of little stars, of which each perhaps is nebulous. H. Beyle. We can receive anything from love, for that is the way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. R. W. Emerson. However dull a woman may be, she will under- stand all there is in love ; however intelligent a man may be, he will never know but half of it. • Mºme. Fée. Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism : if the former predominate, it is a passion exalted and refined ; but if the latter, gross and sensual. Colton. As long as love prevails in the house, space of the breadth of a sword is satisfactory ; as soon as it disappears sixty hand-breadths are not sufficient. Talmud. Love is like a charming romance which is read with avidity, and often with such impatience that many pages are skipped to reach the denouement SOO1162]”. S. Marechal. Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. I call it rather a dis- cerning of the infinite in the finite—of the ideal made real. T. Carlyle. Love is a strength outlasting human weakness, a fire that burns after the flesh has fallen to ashes, a life that conquers death and crowns itself with im- mortality T. Tilton. That love which is based on the mutual esteem of pure hearts, refracting and reflecting the rays of good qualities on each other, is alone productive of earthly joy. L. C. Judson. Love what a volume in a word l an Ocean in a tear ! A seventh heaven in a glance a whirlwind in a sigh . The lightning in a touch—a millennium in a moment l Tupper. It is not love that steals the heart from love ; it is the hard world and its perplexing cares, its pe- trifying selfishness, its pride, its low ambition, and its paltry aims. C. Bowles. Love makes the hovel to be a golden palace, scat- ters dancing and play over the wilderness, uncovers to us the light traces of the divinity, gives us a fore- taste of heaven Hölty. Love breaketh the brain, but never bruiseth the brow ; consumeth the heart, but never toucheth the skin ; and maketh a deep scar to be seen before any wound be felt. Mrs. Crowe. O love thy essence is thy purity Breathe one unhallowed breath upon thy flame, and it is gone forever, and but leaves a Sullied vase, its pure light lost in shame. Miss L. E. Landon. A A' O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 525 LOVE. So great a happiness do I esteem it to be loved, that I really fancy every blessing both from gods and men, ready to descend spontaneously upon him who is loved. Memophon. Although love may be divided, and subdivided into devotional, musical, literary, pecuniary, or other, yet the strongest, Original, and purest, is the love of the sexes. Dr. Porter. True love is eternal, infinite, and aiways like it- self ; it is equal and pure, without violent demon- strations; it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. JBalzac. The love which God planted in the human heart, though outraged for a time by worldly prudence Or ambition, will return to the proudest bosom in the day of adversity. Thomas Awbrey de Vere. Love delights in paradoxes; saddest when it has most reason to be gay ; sighs are the signs of its deepest joy ; and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness. Bovee. Love is exactly like war in this—that a soldier, though he has escaped three weeks complete on Sat- urday night, may nevertheless be shot through his heart on Sunday morning. Sterne. Love teaches cunning even to innocence ; and when he gets possession his first work is to dig deep within a heart, and there lie hid, and like a miser in the dark to feast alone. A happiness that is quite undisturbed becomes tiresome ; we must have ups and downs; the dif- ficulties which are mingled with love awaken pas- sion and increase pleasure. Molière. The judicial character is not captivating in fe- males; a woman fascinates a man quite as often by what she overlooks as by what she sees ; love prefers twilight to daylight. O. W. Holmes. Love is commonly the result of accident or ca- price, rarely of any intellectual merit ; the hope to win it by celebrity, though frequently indulged, is among the vainest of illusions. R. H. Wilde. Love is hard to kill ; you may strike down at its heart, and kill all the blossoms, and yet but a few drops of remorse from the watering pan of memo- ry will suffice to make them bloom again. Bartley Campbell. To give, that is, to love ; to receive, that is, to learn and love ; in delicate souls, that is to love already and much. The happiness of giving and receiving is the Secret and life of the moral world. J. M. de Gerando. Love must always center in a single object, be- cause that thorough coincidence of interest and participation of pleasures necessary to render it perfect, cannot obtain between more than two persons. B. Tucker. They that cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear; love opens the heart, fear shuts it ; that encourages, this com- pels; and victory meets encouragement, but flees Compulsion. F. Quarles. Dryden. - LOVE. * Love is a cruel impression of that wonderful pas- sion, which to be defined is impossible, because no words reach to the strong nature of it, and only they know it who inwardly do feel it. Aurelius. Tell a man passionately in love that he is jilted, bring a score of witnesses of the falsehood of his mistress, and it is ten to one but three kind words of hers shall invalidate all their testimonies. Locke. Love is a flame which burns in heaven, and whose soft reflections radiate to us ; two words are opened, two lives given to it ; it is by love that we double our being ; it is by love that we ap- proach God. Aimé-Martin. Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is pro- phetic of eternal good. Petrarch. Love makes itself understood by the simplest beings; it bears with it a charm which moves the indifferent, and the eyes of two young lovers have a language whose sweetness penetrates even those who have never loved. Mme. Desbordes Valmore. Almost everybody some time in their life has been in love, and if they think it is an easy Sensa- tion to describe, let them sit down and describe it, and see if the person who listens to the description will be satisfied with it. H. W. Shaw. Love is like the spirit in Ezekiel's wheels, that made them move so swiftly ; SO that dullness, sluggishness, and wearisomeness is quickly dis- pelled by heavenly love, as the ice is presently dis- solved by the sunbeams. A. Burgess. Love is indeed heaven upon earth ; since heaven above would not be heaven without it ; for where there is not love, there is fear ; but “Perfect love casteth out fear.” And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most love. W. Penn. Love is of two sorts, of friendship and desire ; the one betwixt friends, the other betwixt lovers ; the one a rational, the other a sensitive love ; SO our love of God consists of two parts, as esteeming of God, and desiring of Him. H. Hammond. O, love can take what shape he pleases, and when once begun his fiery inroad in the Soul, how vain the after-knowledge which his presence gives | We weep or rave, but still he lives, and lives mas- ter and lord, amidst pride, and tears, and pain. B. W. Procter. A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes, and hearts, and ears; bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, killed by dissembling, buried by ingratitude ; and this is love. J. Lyly. The man who has never felt the influence of love is like one who lives ever in gloomy winter, or he resembles a brook that never gives forth a pleasant murmur, a dumb bird that never sings, or a with- ered tree whose boughs never unfold a blossom to the sun. Gessner. 526 A) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. LOVE, Beneath the odorous shade of the boundless for- ests of Chili the native youth repeats the story of love as sincerely as it was ever chanted in the valley of Vaucluse. The affections of family are not the growth of civilization. G. Bancroft. The platform or the altar of love may be ana- lyzed and explained ; it is constructed of virtue, beauty, and affection. Such is the pyre, such is the offering ; but the ethereal Spark must come from heaven, that lights the Sacrifice. Jane Porter. The love of a delicate female is always shy and silent ; even when fortunate she hardly breathes it to herself ; but when otherwise, she buries it in the recess of her bosom, and there lets it cower and brood among the ruins of her peace. W. Irving. Love is a secondary passion in those who love most, a prima in those who love least ; he who is inspired by it in a high degree, is inspired by honor in a highel it never reaches its plenitude of growth and perfu tion but in the most exalted minds. W. S. Landor. Love is the great instrument of nature, the bond and cement of society, the spirit and spring of the universe. Love is such an affection as cannot so properly be said to be in the soul, as the soul to be in that ; it is the whole man wrapped up into one desire. R. Sowth. Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poig- nant and harrowing ; that which for the time an- millilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one larcerated, mangled heart, is the conviction that we have been deceived where we place all the trust of love. Bulwer. True love is disinterested ; it rests on virtue and looks to it ; it springs and fires what is good and noble within us, and is ever drawing us to its like- ness ; it is no romance, and has no death in it as that has ; it is life, full, sweet life, ever holding on its upward way. R. Hooker'. By love's delightful influence the attack of ill- humor is resisted, the violence of our passions abated, the bitter cup of afflictions sweetened, all the injuries of the world alleviated, and the sweet- est flowers plentifully strewed along the most thorny paths of life. Zimmerman. Love, it has been said, flows downward; the love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their pa- rents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us? A. W. Hare. Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such a woman from the husband Of her choice—never ! S. Knowles. The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word “love ;” it is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life: to each and every one of us it gives the power of working miracles if we will. Mrs. L. M. Child. LOVE, Oh! must the cup that holds the sweetest vintage of the vine of life taste bitter at the dregs 2 Is there no story, no legend, no love passage, which shall end even as the bow that God hath bent in heaven, over the sad waste of mortal histories, pro- mising respite to the rain of tears? M. Arnold. Love has been laughed at till it scarcely finds a resting-place on earth ; but go where it still dwells; go, if it be to the laborer's hearth and its holy hap- piness be but there, and say if there be such joy, Such heavenly peace and happiness in the proudest palace of earth, where love is not Miss M. Hays. A man may be a miser of his wealth ; he may tie up his talent in a napkin ; he may hug himself in his reputation ; but he is always generous in his love. Love cannot stay at home ; a man cannot keep it to himself ; like light it is constantly tra- velling ; a man must spend it, must give it away. N. Macleod. O love resistless in thy might, thou who tri- umphest even over gold, making thy couch. On youth's soft cheek, who roamest over the deep and in the rural cots—thee none of the immortals shall escape, nor any of men, the creatures of a day, but all who feel thee feel madness in their hearts. Sophocles. Providence has so ordair it, that only two women have a true interest happiness of man—his own mother, and the mother of his children; besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion. Octave Feuillet. Love informs us as the sun doth colors ; and as the sun, reflecting his warm beams against the earth, begets all fruits and flowers, so love, fair shining in the inward man, brings forth in him the honorable fruits of valor, wit, virtue, and haughty thoughts, brave resolutions, and divine discourse. H. C. Chapman. A world of love is the best world ; a being of love is the best being ; the art of love is the best art ; the Science of love is the best Science ; the philoso- phy of love is the best philosophy : the poetry of love is the best poetry ; the government of love is the best government ; the religion of love is the best religion. Stockton. How great is love in woman She wishes for the love of one only ; but it must be a real love— an eager, restless passion, which like a flame burns on, and must burn on ; she never pardons the chosen possessor who examines so little into the value of his treasure as to stupidly think the day after the wedding that he has no more to discover. Michelet. Love gives bitters enough to create disgust ; love shuns the bustle of the bar, drives off relations, and drives himself away from his own contemplation. There is no man who would woo him as his friend ; in a thousand ways is love to be held a stranger, to be kept at a distance, and wholly abstained from. For he who plunges into love perishes more dread- fully than if he leapt from a rock. Plaw.tws. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 527 LOVE. Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a crea- tion of his own imagination ; still, it is a great ad- vance for a man to be profoundly loving, even in his imaginations. A. Helps. Genuine love, however rated as the chief passion of the human heart, is but a poor dependant, a re- tainer upon other passions, admiration, gratitude, respect, esteem, pride in the object. Divest the boasted sensation of these, and it is no more than the impression of a twelvemonth, by courtesy or vulgar error termed love. Mrs. Inchbald. Oh human love, imperfect as it is, is a beauti- ful thing. These ties, after all, are “Life.” Hus- band ' wife child ! God pity those who, looking on them, go sobbing away in the darkness, while memory mocks them with a warm touch of lips long since dust, and the music of a voice whose loving tones are forever silenced. Fanny Ferm. Do anything but love ; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship ; never let him know how dear he is ; flit like a bird before him ; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower ; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected anºerish in forgetfulness. 13 ºf Miss L. E. Landom. O, how beautiful it is to love . Even thou that sneerest and laughest in cold indifference or scorn if others are near thee—thou, too, must acknow- ledge its truth when thou art alone, and confess that a foolish world is prone to laugh in public at what in private it reveres as one of the highest impulses of our nature ; namely, to love and be loved. Longfellow. Mere passion never brings happiness; it is of the earth, earthy, and bears the elements of corruption in itself. The love that does not come from hea- ven, that does not look to heaven for its perfection, cannot raise, cannot purify the heart ; it is a rest- less wind that stirs the troubled soul, and will not let it be at peace ; it is unquiet and ingenious as Self-torture. Dickens. Amid all the troubles of this world, the sorrows, griefs, disappointments, and misfortunes, there is one gleam of Sunshine that irradiates all hearts, high and low, rich and poor—the sunshine of love It is the cry of the human soul : the note to which every heart responds ; the band which shall bind us all together in that other world, where mourners shall be comforted and love shall reign forever ! James Ellis. The passion of love generally appears to every- body but the man who feels it entirely dispropor- tionate to the value of the object: and though love is pardoned in a certain age, because we know it is natural, having violently seized the imagination, yet it is always laughed at, because we cannot en- ter into it ; and all serious and strong expressions of it appear ridiculous to a third person ; and though a lover is good company to his mistress, he is so to nobody else. Adam Smith. LOVE. Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion, or with coarseness as a mere impulse, or with fear as a mere disease, or with shame as a mere weakness, or with levity as a mere accident : Whereas it is a great mystery and a great neces- sity, lying at the foundation of human existence, morality, and happiness—mysterious, universal, inevitable as death. Harriet Martineaw. Love is the purification of the heart from itself; it strengthens and ennobles the character, gives a higher motive and a nobler aim to every action of life, and makes both man and woman strong, no- ble, and courageous ; and the power to love truly and devotedly is the noblest gift with which a hu- man being can be endowed ; but it is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols. Miss Jewsbury. There is no calamity in life that falls heavier upon human nature than a disappoin. ...ment in love ; especially when it happens betweqā; two persons whose hearts are mutually engag d to each other. It is this distress which has gives: occasion to some of the finest tragedies that were ever written ; and daily fills the world with melancholy, discontent, frenzy, sickness, despair, and death. Steele. Celestial love, with the affections of good and truth, and the perceptions thence derived, and at the same time with the delights of these affections, and the thoughts thence derived, may be compared to a tree with beautiful branches, leaves, and fruits; the life's love is that tree ; the branches, with the leaves, are the affections of good and truth, with their perceptions ; and the fruits are the delights of the affections with their thoughts. - Swedenborg. When God formed the rose He said, “Thou shalt flourish and spread thy perfume.” When He com- manded the sun to emerge from chaos, He added, “Thou shalt enlighten and warm the world.” When He gave life to the lark, He enjoined upon it to soar and sing in the air. Finally He created man, and told him to love. And seeing the Sun shine, perceiving the rose scattering its Odors, hearing the lark warble in the air, how can man help loving 2 - Grün. To love, in one sense is little more than an ani- mal necessity ; but to love nobly, profoundly—to love “at once with the mind and with the heart,” to dedicate to another mature sympathies, is the noblest function of a human being ; the fever pas- sion, the ignoble motives, the casual impulses which belong to our nature, blend, it is true, with the exercise of all affection, but love, in its deepest and genuine import, is the highest and most profound interest of existenee. H. T. Tuckerman. “Love covers a multitude of sins.” When a scar cannot be taken away, the next kind office is to hide it. Love is never so blind as when it is to spy faults : . it is like the painter, who in drawing the picture of a friend having a blemish in one eye, would picture only the other side of his face. It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and to excuse the failings of a friend ; to draw a curtain before his stains, and display his perfec- tions ; to bury his weaknesses in silence, but to proclaim his virtues upon the house-top. R. Sowth. 528 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AW. ſ LOVE. To love deeply, and to believe our love returned, and yet to be sensible that we should not make our love known, is one of the hardest trials a man can undergo ; it asks the more of us, because the passion is the most Secret in our natures; all Sym- pathy is distasteful except that of one being ; but the man that loves is unhappy, starts at a soothing voice as if he were betrayed; eyes turned in affec- tionate regard upon him, seem to search his heart : his way is not in the path of other men, and his suffering must be borne unseen and alone. R. H. Dama. To embrace the whole creation with love sounds beautiful; but we must begin with the individual, with the nearest ; and he who cannot love that deeply, intensely, entirely, how should he be able to love that which is remote, and which throws but feeble rays upon him from a foreign star 2 How should he be able to love with any feeling which deserves the name of love 3 The greatest cosmopolites are generally the neediest beggars ; and they who embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing but their nar- row self. - J. G. Herder. When a virtuous, true woman loves, it enters into her whole being ; her love is divine, and casts a halo around the object of her affections, and he is god of her soul ; she trusts him entirely, confides fully in his faith, yields up her own will to his blindly, and believes his soul in unison with her own. Love in the breast of a good woman has an influence that makes or mars her whole after ex- istence ; if it is faithfully returned her marriedlife is filled with joy, benevolence, love, and charity. All who come within the radiance of her sun, will feel its beauty, learn its virtue, and know that the altar of mutual love and fidelity is firm on its pe- destal. Jame M. Jackson. All that has been written in song or told in story of love and its effects, falls far short of its reality ; its evils and its blessings, its impotence and its power, its sin and its holiness, its weakness and its strength, will continue the theme of nature and of art, until the great pulse of the universe is stilled. Arising from the depths of misery, descending from heaven the most direct and evident manifes- tation of a divine and self-sacrificing spirit, it is at Once the tyrant and the slave ; happier as the lat- ter than as the former, for the perfection of love is obedience ; the power of obeying what we love is, at all events, the perfection of a woman's hap- piness. N. Grimbold. Oh, the love of woman, the love of woman How high will it not rise, and to what lowly depths will it not stoop ! How many injuries will it not forgive What obstacles will it not overcome, and what sacrifices will it not make, rather than give up the being upon which it has been once wholly and truthfully fixed Perennial of life, which grows up under every climate, how small would the sum of man's happiness be without thee . No coldness, no neglect, no harshness, no cruelty can extinguish thee . Like the fabled lamp in the se- pulchre, thou sheddest thy pure light in the human heart, when everything around thee there is dead forever ! William Carleton. LOVE. “Love is strong as death ; many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.” And never is this master-principle more gloriously triumphant than when it is exerted to reclaim, restore, and purify the wandering spirit ; for wherever there is a heart to be won, it will be won by kindness ; and wherever there is a spark of vir- tuous sensibility, it will be cherished and enkindled by the breath of mild consideration. S. Jebb. Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow ; future interest he meets with present pleasure : but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand ; that soft, Subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant ; there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love. Tupper. We love to love, we live to love ; it is the heart's food and nourishment, and the soul's highest hap- piness and bliss ; some other being must be blended with our own, else our existence is objectless, our natures unavailing ; no human power or ingenuity can invent or suggest any lasting means of satis- faction without this elixir of life, which sweetens, sustains, and perpetuates it ; the bosom which does not feel it is cold ; the mind which does not con- ceive it is dull ; the philosophy which rejects it is false ; and the only true religion in the world has pure, reciprocal, and undying love for its basis. Acton. In love we idolize the object, and, placing him apart and selecting him from his fellows, look on him as superior in nature to all others. We do so : but even as we idolize the object of our affections, do weidolize ourselves; if we separate him from his fellow-mortals, so do we separate ourselves, and glorying in belonging to him alone, feel lifted above all other sensations, all other joys and griefs, to one hallowed circle from which all but his idea is banished ; we walk as if a mist, or some more po- tent charm, divided us from all but him ; a sancti- fied victim, which none but the priest set apart for that office could touch and not pollute, enshrined in a cloud of glory, made glorious through beau- ties not our Own. Mrs. M. W. Shelley. What is love 2 It is that powerful attraction to- ward all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awa- ken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves. If we reason, we would be understood ; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's ; if we feel, we would that an- other's herves should vibrate to our own ; that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is love. This is the bond and the sanction which con- nects not only man with man, but with everything which exists. We are born into the world, and there is something within us which, from the in- stant that we live, more and more thirsts after its likeness. Robert Shelley. A R O S E O U O T A 7" / O AW S. 529 LOVER. Lovers are flatterers. Aristotle. Lovers remember everything. Ovid. A lover is nearer than a relative. Al-Mwmajjim. For a lover, love is the best magic. Apuleius. The passionate lover is ever wakeful. Jaafar. —Quarrels of lovers but renew their love. Terence. The wrath of lovers lasts only a short time. Menamder.’ Death separates lovers, but again unites them. Cleopatra. A lover is blind to all blemishes of his beloved. Horace. A lover receives darts from his mistress' dower. Jwvenal. The true lover does not express love, but feels it. Marsilio Ficinºws. Let those censure lovers who have never been in love. Al-Hariri. Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold. Plautus. The soul of a lover lives in the body of his mis- tress. Cato. Pen and paper enables separated lovers to meet again. Az-Zahsiri. You should force a lover to be angry, if you wish her to love. Publius Syrus. A lover going to see his beloved never feels lone- ly on the road. Yahya Ibn Moād. The mind of a lover is not where he liveth, but where he loveth. Philo. The success of lovers is oftener owing to passion than conveniency. N. Macdonald. There is no sweetness in lovers' quarrels that compensates the sting. Bulwer. Lovers care not for places ; it matters little to them where they love. R. W. Jelf. Lovers do not see the faults of their mistresses till the enchantment is over. Rochefoucauld. ` A lover is like a hunter, if the game be got with too much ease he cares not for it. R. Mead. Lovers ofttimes proceed in their suits as crabs, whose paces are always backward. St. Basil. The lover knoweth what he doth desire, but he knoweth not what he should desire. Solom. A woman often thinks she is regretting the lover, when she is only regretting the love. Mme. d'Arconville. When the lover parts from his beloved, let him leave behind him a Sure pledge—his heart. Jahza Al-Barmaki. A lover is the very fool of nature, made sick by his own wantonness of thought, his fevered fancy. J. Thomson. LOVER. Lovers' oaths are like fetters made of glass, that glisten fair, but couple no restraint. Zeno. Well-mated lovers are like the two wings of a dove, bearing one heart between them and always moving harmoniously. Amma, Maricº Porter. A lover sees his sweetheart in everything he looks at, just as a man, bitten by a mad dog, sees dogs in his meat, dogs in his drink, dogs all around him. G. D. Prentice. Lovers are in rapture at the name of their idol : they lavish out all their incense upon that shrine, and cannot bear the thought of admitting a blemish therein. - I, Watts. The lover calleth his mistress' eyes the bright twin-stars of evening, her breast the milky way, and her mouth a rivulet flowing through a garden of lilies. Al-Hajjaj. So long as men are only lovers, the women are Sovereigns, and till the moment of victory they treat them as queens ; but after marriage, they are kings and rulers. Corneille, The winds carry the perjuries of lovers without effect over land and sea ; the father of the gods himself has denied effect to what foolish lovers in their eagerness have sworn. Tibullus, A lover pays court where his heart is attached ; he wishes to gain the favor of all there ; and that nothing may be opposed to his affections, he even tries to stand well with the pet-dog of the house. Molière. The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden in her acceptance of him ; she was heaven whilst he pursued her as a star—she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he. R. W. Emerson. A generous and constant passion in an agreeable lover, where there is not too great a disparity in other circumstances, is the greatest blessing that can befall the person beloved ; and if overlooked in one, may never be found in another. Steele. No man or woman was ever cured of love by dis- covering the falseness of his or her lover. The liv- ing together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed. A. Helps. There are two classes of disappointed lovers— those who are disappointed before marriage, and those who are disappointed after it. Let the sigh- ing Swain, therefore, who has not prospered in his suit, console himself with this assurance—that by his present disappointment he has perhaps escaped another much more serious. Bovee. Love Scenes, if genuine, are indescribable ; for to those who have enacted them, the most elabo- rate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone. So ro- mancers had better let imagination paint for them that which is above all art, and leave lovers to themselves during the happiest minutes of their lives. Lowisa M. Alcott. 34 530 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O A. LOVER. The truth of lovers is likened to the Arabian Phoenix ; every one says that there is such a bird, but where none can tell. If thou knowest where it dies, and rises again from its ashes, point out to me the spot, and I promise to preserve a steadfast love to thee. Metastasio. A lover's hope resembles the bean in the nursery tale ; let it once take root, and it will grow SO rap- idly, that in the course of a few hours, the giant imagination builds a castle on the top, and by-and- by comes disappointment with the curtal axe, and hews down both the plant and the superstructure. Sir W. Scott. Hair-dressers and tailors may be considered as Graces in league with Cupid ; for all lovers are anxious to trick themselves out ; to be spruce in their apparel ; to have their locks neatly combed and curiously curled ; to adorn their shoes with elegant ties, their points with becoming gaieties; to be point device in all their accoutrements, to appear, as it were, in print ; in short, to walk in print, to eat in print, to drink in print, and to be mad in print. R. Burton. Lovers are seldom tired of one another's society, because they are always speaking of themselves. Let us not, however, disparage this fond infatua- tion, for all its tendencies are elevating. He who has passed through life without ever being in love, has had no spring-time, no summer in his exist- ence ; his heart is as a flowering-plant which has never blown, never developed itself, never put forth its beauty and its perfume, never given or received pleasure. Chatfield. T.OWLINESS. - Lowliness is young ambition's ladder. Shakspeare, There is many a lowly, wounded heart without a contrite spirit. T. Middleton. Lowliness of spirit qualifies us for friendly com- munion with God. T. Bostom. Lowliness of spirit leads us from what is frivo- lous and vain, and acts as an antidote for all the cares and calamities of this life. James Ellis. True dignity abides with him alone who, in the silent hour of inward thought, can still suspect and still respect himself, in lowliness of heart. Wordsworth. Lowliness should form part of our temper, as it is opposed to an aspiring and lofty mind; it is most consistent with the temper of our Savior, who was meek and lowly of mind. G. Crabb. Lowliness is usually accepted as the mark of an abject spirit ; it therefore sits gracefully only upon the few whose recognized worth and position place them above such a misconception, Bovee. Lowliness is the loveliest, sweetest flower that ever bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil; it is so frail, so delicate a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself ; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not. Elizabeth Fry. LOYALTY. Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable, than loyalty. Cicero. Loyalty that is bought with money, may be over- come by money. Seneca. National loyalty and enthusiasm are the great nursery of genius. H. T. Tuckerman. That man who is loyal to his domestic ties will be loyal to his country. S. Cobb, Jr.' The loyalty of a wise man to his country is, in truth, his greatest liberty. St. Awgustime. That man is the most loyal who aims at the no- blest motive, and that motive the public good. Virgil. Until a man feels that he appreciates a sover- eign's government, he cannot be considered truly loyal. Downey. There is always safety in obedience to God, and loyalty to a ruler ; to one as our Creator, and to the other as our superior. St. Bernard. To be loyal to our country is the duty of every man ; to be loyal to ourselves is the first trust of manhood ; but the most essential of all loyalty is to be loyal to Him who created us. E. P. Day. Loyalty is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclama- tion ; but it burns very dimly and low when car- ried into “the valley of the shadow of death.” W. Mowntford. There are certain duties and loyalties toward our native land common to every citizen, and edu- cation must have such a direction as to enable every citizen to fulfill his duty toward his father- land. Rosswth. The most inviolable attachments to the laws of our country is everywhere acknowledged a capital virtue ; and where the people are not so happy as to have any legislature but a single person, the strictest loyalty is, in that case, the truest patriot- ism. Hume. True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to “gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool,” but in no- ble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life. James Ellis. That man is most loyal who loathes war, and will do everything in his power to avert it, but who will, in the last extremity, encounter its perils, from love of country and of .home, and who is willing to sacrifice himself and all that is dear to him in life, to promote the well-being of his fellow- IIlêIl. J. S. C. Abbott. Loyalty to the state is a public virtue. There is a loyalty that springs from the affection that we bear to our native soil : but it is not the soil alone, nor yet the soil beneath our feet and the skies over our heads, that constitute our country ; it is its freedom, equality, justice, greatness, and glory. Who among us is so low as to be insensible of an interest in them ? W. H. Seward. A R O S E Q U O T A 7" / O M S. 531 LUCK. Luck makes friends. Ovid. Fools have the best luck. Hugh Moore. Luck cannot change birth. Horace. Luck has no need to boast of ancestry. Lucanus. A man never has good luck who has a bad wife. H. W. Beecher. If lucky be not proud ; if unlucky, do not des- pond. Attsoniws. A lucky chance is constant in nothing but incon- stancy. Awrelius. The gift of luck should always be below the care Of a wise man. Dr. Johnson. The public man needs but one patron, namely the lucky moment. Bulwer. Luck is deceitful to some men, to good men un- stable, and to all uncertain. James Heath. Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders. Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfor- tune. James Ellis. A valiant man never loseth his reputation be- cause luck faileth him, but because courage dieth in him. Howel the Good. Lucky gifts are transitory, and tied to no time ; but the gifts of heaven are permanent, and endure forever. Ammie E. Lancaster. I never knew anyone to get stung by hornets, who kept away from where they were ; it is just so with bad luck. PI. W. Shaw. When the ass is given thee, run and take him by the halter ; and when good luck knocks at the door, let him in, and keep him there. Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause. Dryden. The best men are not those who have waited for lucky chances, but who have taken them—besieged them, conquered them, and made them their servi- tor. E. H. Chapin. There are no chances so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn to their own disadvantage. Rochefoucauld. It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been trans- mitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people. Voltaire. I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck; a good cha- racter, good habits, and iron industry are impreg- nable to the assaults of all the ill-luck that fools ever dreamed of. Addison. Juvenal. Cervantes. ' LUCK. There is no man whom luck or fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. Cardinal Imperiali. Good and bad luck is but a synonym, in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment. The prudent, the considerate, the circumspect, or the industrious seldom complain of their ill-luck; it is only the grumbler, the idler, and the gambler who protest against the ills of misfortune. Chatfield. Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up ; labor, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him the news of a legacy ; labor turns out at six o'clock, and with busy pen and ringing hammer lays the foundation of a com- petence. Luck whines ; labor whistles. Luck re- lies on chance ; labor on character. R. Cobden. Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without error; but if it means, as it generally does, an event which has no cause at all, a mere chance, it is a bad word, a heathen term ; drop it from your vocabulary ; trust no- thing to luck, nor expect anything from it ; avoid all practical use or dependence upon this or its kindred words, fate, chance, fortune. J. A. James. Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circum- stances; it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and an- other day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect ; the man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of this deed, and by looking narrowly you shall see there was no luck in the matter, but it was all a problem in arithmetic, or an experi- ment in chemistry. R. W. Emerson. Some lucky individuals have the talents and ad- dress to conceal their defects and disqualifications until they have profited largely by the honors and favors of the world ; their friends then appeal to those very acts of promotion and preference to prove that they really deserved all that they ob- tained ; and if reverses happen, it is because they have become the objects of detraction and perse- cution. So, on the contrary, some men of positive merit have not been promoted or rewarded, and the want of reward or promotion is urged to show that they never possessed any real merit. Acton. There are men who, supposing Providence to have an implacable spite against them, bemoan in the poverty of a wretched old age, the misfortunes of their lives. Luck forever ran against them, and for others ; one, with a good profession, lost his luck in the river, where he idled away his time a-fishing, when he should have been in the office; another, with a good trade, perpetually burnt up his luck by his hot temper, which provoked all his employers to leave him ; another, with a lucrative business, lost his luck by amazing diligence to everything but his business; and another, who steadily followed his trade, as steadily followed his bottle. H. W. Beecher, 532 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. LUST. * LUST. Lusts must be mortified. A. G. Hall. Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a sº te tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best ener- Wickedness is nourished by lust. 4ristotle. gies and vitality. J. Usher. Lust weakens both body and mind. Pythagoras. Consume not thy life in pursuits of lust. Al-Kattáa. God hath commanded us to rule our lusts. J. Mair. In youth the wise man guards against lust. Confucius. Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only. * St. Anselm. Turn thy sight from any object that tendeth to lust. Saint Ephrem. Beware of lust ; it corrupteth both the body and the mind. 201'oaster. Lust doth injure, profane, and defile the holiness of the soul. Cicero. Lust Sullies every age of man, but quite extin- guishes old age. Pope Pius II. Nature is content with little ; grace with less ; lust with nothing. Mathew Henry. All sins, all passions, have power to infatuate a man, but lust most of all. J. Hall. As pomp renews ambition, a beauteous object sets on fire a burning lust. Actorv. Lust in age is loathsome, in youth excess; how- ever, it is the fruit of idleness. Manwel Holobolus. Whoever restraineth his soul from unlawful lust, verily Paradise shall be his abode. As-Sammók. Lust enförceth us to covet beyond our power, to act beyond our nature, and to die before our time. Dionysius. So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loath- some to God. Colton. Lusts are the cords with which Satan binds men ; our fiery trials are God's messengers sent to loose these bands. A. Ritchie. Any enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. Saadi. Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing. Diogenes. Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow. Demomaac. Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others ; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows. B. Holyday. Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding ; the second, hardness of heart ; the third, want of grace. St. Basil. Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troub- ling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness. Flato. He is worthy to be called a moderate person, who firmly governeth and bridleth the vice of lust, and all other gross affections of the mind, Awrelius. Lust is a desire against reason, a furious and un- bridled appetite, which killeth all good notions in man's mind, and leaveth no place for virtue. Thomas Jevon. Lust maketh a man to have neither care of his own good name, nor consideration of the shame which his posterity shall possess by his evil living. J. A. Hwie. A Satyr, which is half man and half beast, is the emblem of lust ; to show that its followers prosti- tute the reason of man to gratify the appetites of a beast. J. N. Funck. Lust is a captivity of the reason and an en- raging of the passions ; it hinders business and distracts counsel; it sins against the body and weakens the soul. Jeremy Taylor. Lust is never Satisfied, any more than fire is sat- isfied with fuel, or the main ocean with receiving the rivers, or the empire of death with the dying of men and animals. W. Alexander. Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease ; and Some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such Quick returns as others. H. Spencer. Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal lust is meanly selfish ; when resisted, cruel; and like the blast of pestilential winds, taints the sweet bloom of mature's fairest forms. Milton. Lust is of all frailties of our nature what most we ought to fear ; the headstrong beast rushes along, impatient of the course, nor hears the ri- der's call, nor feels the rein. N. Rowe. As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is no sooner hatched but remorse is at hand, ready to supplant her. D. Cawdray. Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body. Pliny. The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection ; the object thou burnest for nau- seates with Satiety, and no sooner hadst thou pos- sessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence. - R. Dodsley. The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance. Seneca. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 533 LUST. LUXUF, Y. Lust is a vice sooner condemned than banished ; Luxury is artificial poverty. Addison. easily spoke against, but yet it will fawn as smoothly on our flesh as Circe on the Grecian tra- vellers, when she detained them in the shape of beasts. W. Mason. It is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory ; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them with- in the bounds of reason and religion, because that is empire. W. Bent. How blind to consequences is the love of vicious indulgence 2 The future is disregarded; the present allures us to a short-lived enjoyment, and lust, for- getful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path. Clawdian. It is the difference betwixt lust and love, that this is fixed, that volatile ; love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment ; and the reason is, that one springs from a union of souls, and the other springs from a union of sense. W. Pemºn. The will rebelling against the empire of reason, and lending its voice to the clamors of lust, becomes so feeble and corrupt, as not only to leave no place for the virtues, but it can hardly save him from plunging into vice. Ansaldo Ceba. Lust is a monstrous sin which altereth, marreth, and drieth the body, weakening all the joints and members, making the face bubbled and yellow, shortening life, diminishing memory, understand- ing, and the very heart. C. Hopkins. I know the very difference that lies betwixt hal- lowed love and base, unholy lust : I know the one is as a golden spur, urging the spirit to all noble aims ; the other but a foul and miry pit, overthrow- ing it in the midst of its career. Miss Frances Anne Kemble. It is the grand battle of life to teach lust the limit of Divine law. to break it in to the taste of the bread of heaven, and make it understand that man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that cometh out of the mouth of God. J. B. Brown. Lust is the most depraved of the Senses ; it de- bases all who come within its influenee, for it is lost to love, honor, reason, or common sense—an all-compelling fury that flings men from the height of a happy life, to the low, fearful state of cowar- dice and shame. James Ellis. Oh the extreme loathsomeness of fleshly lust, which not only effeminates the mind, but ener- vates the body ; which not only distaineth the soul, but disguiseth the person It is ushered with fury and wantonness; it is accompanied with fil- thiness and uncleanness; and it is followed with grief and repentance. F. Quarles. A Christian hath no such enemies without him as unruly and undisciplined lusts and passions within him ; and it is a vain thing to think of overcoming the world without us, until this world within us be brought into subjection ; for without the lusts and corruptions within, the world, and the evil men of the world, and the evil one of the world, could not hurt us. Sir M. Hale. Luxury in this world makes us forget another. Bishop Bartholomew. All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste. Jowbert. Luxuriousness is destructive of a vigorous popu- lation. Dr. Porter. Luxury is a tumor or inflammation caused by riches. Plutarch. It is a great luxury to know how to dispense with luxury. Q. Tubero. On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired. T. Young. Republics end with luxury ; monarchies with poverty. Montesquiew. If you wish to destroy avarice, you must destroy luxury, which is its mother. Cicero. Luxury is more perilous to youth than storms and quicksands, poverty or chains. Hammah More. Avarice and luxury are pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state. Livy. It is the sign of an ill-governed country when the rulers are luxurious and the people poor, Comfwciws. Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor. Rames. While we are poor, the necessaries of life are the luxuries ; after we get rich, the luxuries are the necessaries. H. W. Shaw. Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury, and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. G. Bancroft. We read on the forehead of those who are sur- rounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give La Fontaine. Many luxuries for which we lavish our substance can well be dispensed with, while the necessaries of life are mostly to be had within ourselves. Washington. Luxury is the conqueror of conquerors, the con- sumption of states, the dry-rot of the constitution, the avenger of the defeated and the oppressed. Chatfield. We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the an- cient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as the vice got footing among them. Addison. Luxury makes a man so soft that it is hard to please him, and easy to trouble him ; so that his pleasures at last become his burden. Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased. Sir G. Mackenzie. Luxury and excessive refinement in states are the sure presage of their downfall, because every in- dividual being given up to the pursuit of his own selfish interests, the public good is neglected. Rochefoucauld. 534 D 4 y's co Z / A co w. LUX URY. If the rich enjoy luxuries from which the poor are debarred, they suffer many diseases and dis- quietudes from which those are fortunately ex- empted. S. Jenyms. Luxury is ruinous to health ; nature has her fixed laws, and when those governing the human System are violated, the penalty follows close on the heels of the offender. * L. C. Judson. By luxury we condemn ourselves to greater tor- ments than have yet been invented by anger or revenge, or inflicted by the greatest tyrants upon the worst of men. Sir W. Temple. That individual luxury, even when pushed to a faulty excess, is a public advantage, cannot be maintained ; for nothing that is injurious to One, can be good for many. Mamdeville. The refinements of luxury enable the individual to expend the whole of his income, however vast, upon himself ; and hospitality immediately yields to parsimony, and magnificence to meanness. Colton. Luxury is an alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's . Cup. Claudian. By living a life of humility and self-denial, and showing our contempt for the luxuries of this world, the soul, like an eagle, soars above all tran- sitory things, and tramples on the backs of lions and dragons. St. Syncletica. Luxury among the great is probably rather a moral than a political evil. But vices, no more than diseases, will stop with them ; for bad habits are as infectious by example, as the plague itself is by contact. Fielding. Pampered with luxury, and softened by sloth, strength shall forsake thy limbs, and health thy constitution ; thy days shall be few, and those in- glorious ; thy griefs shall be many, yet meet with no compassion. R. Dodsley. You cannot spend money in luxury without do- ing good to the poor ; nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, because you make them exert industry, whereas, by giving it, you keep them idle. Dr. Johnson. Most of the trades, professions, and ways of liv- ing among mankind, take their original either from the love of pleasure, or the fear of want : the form- er, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice. Steele. God bestows riches upon some, not that they may possess the means of debasing themselves by luxu- ry, while others around them are pinched with hunger and want, but that they may have where- with to give to them that have need. T. Young. Luxury steals upon us by degrees: first it shows itself in a more than ordinary care of our bodies, it slips next into the furniture of our houses, and it gets then into the fabric, curiosity, and expense of the house itself ; it appears, lastly, in the fantasti- cal excesses of our tables. Seneca. LUXURY. The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure ; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxu- ry, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness. Goldsmith. Luxuriants have but false appetites; like those gluttons, that by sauce force them, where they have no stomach, and sacrifice to their palate, not their health ; which cannot be without great van- ity, nor that without some sin. W. Penn. The luxurious man opposes that nature which should be the foundation of his joy, and by false reasoning, he is made by this vice to believe, that because some ease and aliments are pleasant, there- fore the more he takes of them the more he will be pleased. Dr. Ferguson. There be they that make their glory to feed high, and fare deliciously every day, and to main- tain their bodies elementary, search the elements, the earth, the Sea, and air, to maintain the fire of their appetites ; they that thus make their bellies their gods do make their gods their shame. A. Warwick. What is plenty to the luxurious ! His wanton- ness increases with his income ; and always needy, he is always dependent. Hence no sense of his birth or education, of honor or conscience, is any check upon him ; he is the mean drudge, the aban- doned tool of his feeder, of whoever will be at the charge of gratifying his palate. Dean, Bolton. If thou scorn not to serve luxury in thy youth, chastity will scorn thy service in thy age ; and that the will in thy green years thought mo vice in the acting, the necessity of thy gray hairs makes no virtue in the foreboding ; where there is no conflict, there can be no conquest ; where there is no conquest, there is no crown. F. Quarles. I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is plea- sant to have all the pleasures and luxuries of civil- ization ; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower ; and whoever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly? H. W. Beecher. Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be es- teemed vicious. A gratification is only when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no abili- ty for such acts of duty and generosity as are re- quired by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months. Hume. The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no en- joyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry. Zimmerman. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 535 LYING. Thou shalt not lie. Buddha. Lying pays no tax. F. M. Pimto. Lying is a most slavish vice. Pope Pius II. Lie not for any consideration. Rothschild. The essence of a lie is the intention to deceive. M. Prideawac. Lying is contrary to nature when aided by rea- SO]]. Plotin/ws. The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies. Tecumseh. A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit. Cicero. One ought to have a good memory after One has told a lie. Corneille. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. O. W. Holmes. After all, what is a lie 2. It is but the truth in Byrom. masquerade. A lie is the more hateful because it hath a simi- litude of truth. Qwintiliam. A lie is like a snow-ball ; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is. Lwther. One lie must be thatched with another, or it will soon rain through. R. D. Owen. A man who wishes me to lie, is a greater enemy to me than a murderer. T. Dwight. As the snow before the sun, even so is a polished lie before the naked truth. Downey. A lie, though it be killed and dead, can sting sometimes like a dead wasp. Mrs. Jameson. We all know that a lie needs no other grounds than the invention of the liar. Jame Porter. A lie is like a wizard, that may cover the face, in- deed, but can never become it. R. Sowth. Though I never scruple a lie to serve a friend, it hurts one's conscience to be found out ! R. B. Sheridan. The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth. Sir W. Raleigh. Every lie, great or small, is the brink of a preci- pice, the depth of which nothing but Omniscience can fathom. C. Reade. Half the vices in the world rise out of cowardice, and one who is afraid of lying is usually afraid of nothing else. J. A. Froude. Lying is a member of injustice, turning topsy- turvy all human Society, and the amity due unto our neighbor. St. Augustine. There is not so great a lie to be found in any poet as the vulgar conceit of men, that lying is essential to good poetry. Cowley. It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much false- hood in the world. Dr. Johnsom. LYING. A lie has no legs, and cannot stand ; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide. W. Warbwrton. He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. Montaigme. All kinds of wickedness proceed from lying, as all goodness doth proceed from truth. Chilo. Do not tell lies to one another, for truth is neces- sary to all societies; nor can the society of hell subsist without it. Sir T. Browne. Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright. Magoon. When thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth ; for equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying is the whole way to hell. W. Penn. Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie ; for lies breed like Surinam toads: you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back. W. Allstom. It is willful deceit that makes a lie ; a man may act a lie, as by pointing his finger in a wrong di- rection when a traveller inquires of him his road. W. Paley. Lying is the stating for a truth what we know to be false ; it is an abomination in the sight, and regarded by all good men as one of the meanest of crimes. A. Ritchie. Continued lying occasions so much baseness of mind, that persons can scarcely tell the truth, or avoid lying, even when there is no color of neces- sity for it. Sir Mathew Hale. Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one ; beat and speak to- gether, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie. G. Herbert. A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling, and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you ; you have only to keep still and it will die of itself. G. Crabb. Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible ; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions. J. Bartlett. Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him. Swift. A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found ; I am for fumigating the atmos- phere when I suspect that falsehood, like pesti- lence, breathes around me. T. Carlyle. The wickedness of lying consists in its perverting one of the greatest blessings of God, the use of speech ; in making that a mischief to mankind which was intended for a benefit. W. Gilpin. If words be a lie without reservation, they are so with it ; for this does not alter the words then- selves : nor the meaning of the words ; nor the purpose of him who delivers them. Jeremy Taylor. 536 AJ A Y',S C O Z Z A C O AW. LYING. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. Pope. The practice of lying is so prevalent in the world, and appears under so many forms, that a firm ad- herence to truth in everything is considered as a disagreeable singularity by many. C. Buck. Though people may have no interest in what they say, we must not, therefore, conclude abso- lutely that they are not telling a lie ; for there are people who lie simply for the sake of lying. Pascal. All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference ; to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones. F. Marryatt. A lie always needs a truth for a handleto it, else the hand would cut itself which sought to drive it home upon another. The worst lies, therefore, are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. H. W. Beecher. It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been motoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth ; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people. G. D. Prentice. Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason ; it is a monstrous and wicked evil, that filthily depraved and defileth the tongue of man. John Jones. When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and lo! the next day it is as healthy as ever. Bulwer. One of the wonders of the world is the quantity of idle, purposeless untruth, the lies which nobody believes, yet everybody tells, as it were from the mere love of lying, or as though the bright form and features of truth could not be duly brought out, except on a dark ground of falsehood. Hare. Political lying can conquer kingdoms without fighting, and sometimes with the loss of a battle : it gives and resumes employments; can suit a mountain to a molehill, and raise a molehill to a mountain ; hath presided for many years at com- mittees and elections ; can wash a black-a-moor white ; can make a Saint of an atheist, and a pat- riot of a profligate ; can furnish foreign ministers with intelligence ; and raise or let fall the credit of the nation. Swift. One of the fathers has carried the point of lying so high as to declare that he would not tell a lie though he were sure to gain heaven by it. How- ever extravagant such a protestation may appear, everyone will own that a man may say, very rea- sonably, he would not tell a lie if he were sure to gain hell by it ; or, if you have a mind to soften the expression, that he would not tell a lie to gain any temporal reward by it, when he should run the hazard of losing much more than it was possi- ble for him to gain. Addison. LYING. Lies, which are told out of arrogance and Osten- tation, a man should detect in his own defence, because he should not be triumphed over ; lies which are told out of malice he should expose, both for his own sake and that of the rest of mankind, because every man should rise against a common enemy ; but the officious liar, many have argued, is to be excused, because it does some man good, and no man hurt. Steele. -º-, -- I really know nothing more criminal than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity ; and generally misses its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later. If I tell a malicious lie, in order to affect any man's character, I may indeed injure him ; but I shall be sure to be the greatest sufferer my- Self at last : for as soon as ever I am detected I am blasted for the infamous attempt. Chesterfield. Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth as readily as the truth. That is; as soon as he can suspect that it will be to his advantage ; and the dread that he afterward has of telling a lie is acquired principally by his being threatened, punished, and terrified by those who detect him in it, till at length, a number of painful impressions are annexed to the telling of an untruth, and he comes even to shudder at the thought of it. J. Priestley. What constitutes lying 2 I answer the intention to deceive. If this be a correct definition, there must be passive as well as active lying ; and those who withhold the truth, or do not tell the whole truth, with an intention to deceive, are guilty of lying, as well as those who tell a direct or positive falsehood. Lies are many, and various in their nature and in their tendency, and may be arranged under their different names, thus: Lies of vamity, of flattery, of convenience, of interest, of fear, of first-rate malignity, of Second-rate malignity, and lies, falsely called lies of benevolence, lies of real benevolence, and lies of mere wantonness, pro- ceeding from a depraved love of lying, or con- tempt for truth. Mrs. Amelia Opie. Lying is a hateful and accursed vice ; it is words alone that distinguish us from the brute creation, and knit us to each other ; if we did but feel pro- per horror for it, and the fearful consequences that spring from such a habit, we would pursue it with fire and sword, and with far more justice than other crimes. I observe that parents take pleasure in correcting their children for slight faults, which make little impression on the character, and are of no real consequence; whereas lying, in my opinion, and obstinacy, though in a less degree, are vices— the rise and progress of which ought to be par- ticularly watched, and counteracted—these grow with their growth, and when once the tongue has got a wrong set, it is impossible to put it straight again. Whence we see men, otherwise of honorable natures, slaves to this vice. If falsehood had, like truth, only one face, we should be on more equal terms with it, for we should consider the contrary to what the liar said as certain ; but the reverse of truth has a hundred thousand forms, and is a field of boundless extent. Montaigne. - ！ |×- №. №. №. |- （~~~~ T. E. MAC (AULAY, A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 537 M O IMACHINERY. IMADNESS, The inventions of machinery press labor to the Every madman thinks all other men mad. dust. G. Lippard. Publius Syrus. Machinery has been the pioneer of the world's There is no great genius without a spice of mad- progress. James Ellis. I mess. Aristotle. Those machines which are designed to abridge Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make art, are not always useful. Montesquiew. mad. Horace. It is among educated workmen that the most useful machinery has been contrived. A. Bush. Machinery not only diffuses knowledge and dis- tributes labor, but incites men to greater achieve- ments. A. H. Clough. Improvements in machinery have taken from women their work, “to guide the spindle and di- rect the loom.” Mrs. Emma Willard. You cannot abridge human labor by the intro- duction of machinery, without depriving a great many persons of their subsistence. T. Dwight. Where labor is scarce and products greatly in demand, labor-saving machines prove a Source of wealth and happiness to communities. J. K. Polk. Machinery is an essential aid to human effort, and to it we are indebted for manifold comforts and blessings, which hand labor could not have be- stowed. J. Pumfret. There is this immense benefit in machinery, that it carries on those operations which debase the mind and injure the faculties. A man, by con- stantly performing the same operations, becomes unfit for any other. Machinery requires attention, intellectual exertion, and bodily labor of various kinds. Sir H. Davy. Machinery is a realization of the Briareus of an- cient mythology ; were its hundred hands used to benefit mankind it would indeed be deserving of all praise ; but if, like the fabled giant, its immense power be perverted to waging an impious warfare against heaven, by crushing, brutalizing, and im- poverishing God’s creatures, it were a thousand times better the monster had never been born. E. P. Day. The advantages of machinery are numerous ; by its aid we can apply force to much better purpose than by our unassisted hands, and a man can per- form work to which he would be wholly incompe- tent without it ; it often enables men to exert their whole force, where without it they could exert only a small part of it ; it enables us to employ animals in the execution of many kinds of work which must otherwise be performed by man him- self; it enables us to employ several inanimate motive powers, such as water, steam, wind, heat, and electricity. Many manufacturing operations are performed with much greater facility and ex- actness than they could be by hand; and it saves a considerable part of the materials used in the manufacture of many fabrics. M. M. Rodgers. The world calls me mad, when they are all mad together. Plawtus. The madness of the wise is better than the so- briety of fools. Burke. All men are mad ; it is only the degree of its in- tensity in some men. James Ellis. A madman is one who draws a just inference from false principles. Dr. Johnson. When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad : a madman is properly so defined. S. T. Coleridge. Madness has been placed exclusively in the mind; but the mind is incapable of Operations indepen- dent of impressions communicated to it through the body. Dr. Rush. Temporary madness may perhaps be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind ; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humors of the body. J. C. Hare. The consummation of madness is, to do what, at the time of doing it, we intend to be afterwards sorry for ; the deliberate and intentional making of work for repentance. W. Nevins. Ever, as before, does madness remain a myste- rious, terrific, altogether infernal boiling up of the nether chaotic deep, through this fair-painted vi- sion of creation, which swims thereon, which we name the real. T. Carlyle. In the actions of mad men we see Low infinitely madness resembles the most vigorous operations of the soul. Who does not know how indiscernible the difference is betwixt folly and the elevations of a spritely soul, and the effects of a supreme and extraordinary virtue 2 Montaigme. Madness is one of those words which mean almost everything and nothing. At first it was, I imagine, applied to the transports of rage ; and when men were civilized enough to be capable of insanity, there insanity, I presume, must have been of the frantic sort; because, in the untutored, intense feel- ings seem regularly to carry a boisterous expres- Sion. T. Beddoes. Madness is consistent ; which is more than can be said for poor reason. Whatever may be the rul- ing passion at the time continues equally so through- out the whole delirium, though it should last for life. Madmen are always constantly in love, which no man in his senses ever was. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy : but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. Sterme. 5 3 8 A) A Y'S CO / Z A C O AV. MAGIC. Magic is a handmaid of philosophy. Apollonius. By learning and magic a Saint may outwit the devil. Pope Sylvester II. When magic creates man it may aspire to con- trol him. R. Castleton. It is a strange paradox that a magician pretends to control the destinies of men, but cannot control his own. James Ellis. An eclipse of the sun denotes that it will be dark while it lasts, that astrologers tell many lies, and that fools believe in magic. G. P. Morris. From evil spirits proceedeth magic, whereby the slavish practicers of that damnable art by many false miracles, deceive the simple, and confound themselves. f John Scott. A magician differs from a witch in this ; a witch derives her power from a compact with the devil, whereas a magician, through his skill in the art of magic, doth command infermal spirits, and they obey him. Mackintosh. By supposing a power in magic to arm all hell, people look upon a man whom they call a magician as the fittest person in the world to trouble and sub- vert Society, and of course they are disposed to pun- ish him with the utmost severity. Montesquiew. IMAGISTRATE. Fear the magistrate. Periander. A magistrate is a speaking law. M. 4 wVergne. A wise magistrate is neither cruel nor ungentle. G. Trevor. No magistrate can be just who is not impartial Themistocles. One bad magistrate makes a great many bad IIle]]. T. Dwight. Wise magistrates and good laws are the best peace-makers. James Ellis. * Every magistrate should understand that there is a debt of ºxercy and compassion due to the in- firmities of man's nature. W. Tuke. Passing the gentlest sentence is a duty that a magistrate owes to every person who offends the law, and he that does not is unjust. Jeremy Taylor. The dispensation of justice belongs to the civil magistrate ; and let it ever be our pride and our glory, to leave the sacred deposit there inviolate. Washington. A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as ex- tensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatso- ever that relate to this life. F. Atterbury. If thou hast the place of a magistrate, deserve it by thy justice, and dignify it with thy mercy: be not too severe, lest thou be hated, nor too remiss, lest thou be slighted ; so execute justice that thou mayest be loved ; so execute mercy that thou may- est be feared ; he that puts on a public gown, must put off a private person. F. Quarles. IMAGENANIMITY. Magnanimity becomes a great fortune. Publius Syrus. . Confidence in one's-self is the chief nurse of mag- nanimity. Sir P. Sidney. He who diffuses the most happiness is the most magnanimous. ..James Ellis. True magnanimity is the essence of wisdom, and is closely allied to mercy. Mrs. M. Crosland. Magnanimity springs almost spontaneously from the possession of the other virtues. Ansaldo Ceba. A magnanimous mind identifies itself with all around ; but a spiteful one identifies all things with self. H. Jeanes. Magnanimity is above circumstance ; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitu- tion than of principle. Jane Porter. There is an indissoluble union between a mag- nanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity. Washington. He who, being master of the fittest moment to crush his enemy, magnanimously neglects it, is born to be a conqueror. Lavater. Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who wil- lingly acknowledges it in another. Hazlitt. Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its own name ; yet we may say of magnanimity, that it is the good sense of pride, and the noblest way of ac- quiring applause. Rochefoucauld. Let us not look for magnanimity in despotic gov- ernments ; the prince cannot impart a grandeur which he has not himself ; with him there is no such thing as glory. Montesquiew. Magnanimity is as often littleness as greatness of mind. There is a cheap species which prompts us to feel complacently toward our enemy when he has enabled us to make a happy repartee. Chatfield. Magnanimity is incompatible with a very pro- found respect for the opinions of others, on any occasion, and more particularly where they hap- pen to stand between us and the truth. Colton. If you desire to be magnanimous, undertake no- thing rashly, and fear nothing thou undertakest : fear nothing but infamy ; dare anything but in- jury ; the measure of magnanimity is neither to be rash nor timorous. F. Quarles. Never did any soul do good, but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment ; and never was magnanimity practiced, but with in- creasing joy, which made the practicer still more in love with the fair act. Shaftesbury. Magnanimity is that elevation or dignity of Soul, which encounters danger and trouble with tran- quility and firmness ; which raises the possessor above revenge, and makes him delight in acts of benevolence; which makes him disdain injustice and meanness, and prompts him to sacrifice per- sonal ease, interest, and safety, for the accomplish- ment of useful and noble objects. N. Webster. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 539 IMAIDEN. Poor maids have more lovers than husbands. John Webster. The blush of a maid is like the fresh bloom of a I’OSé. James Ellis. A loving maiden often grows unconsciously more bold. Richter. If a minister marry, it should be to mone but a maid. Saint Hilarius. Maids want husbands first, then they want every- thing. Olaws Gerhard Tyschen. The pearl is the image of purity, but the maid is purer than the peal’l. Aimée Bowrdom. A virtuous maiden should be entirely under the direction of her parents. Elizabeth Woodville. Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maindenhood and moss-roses. N. P. Willºs. A virtuous mind in a fair maid is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no won- der that it surrounds her with charms. Addison. A fair maid when she errs needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes ; she is confounded at her own presence, and covered with confusion of face. Jame Porter. A fair and beautiful maid is the perfect work- manship of God, the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of the earth, and the soul wonder of the world. Hermes. A maiden is like a half-blown damask rose, fair as a dream and full of the sweet fragrance of the purity of dawning womanhood. Treat her as a thing too sacred for this world ; watch over her with gentle, loving tenderness : for evil associa- tions, like slugs and mildew, will canker and blight her life. Annie E. Lancaster. IMAJORITY. The majority is to govern. A. Jackson. God and one make a majority. F. Dowglass. The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. Schiller. Majority is applied to number, and superiority to power. Dr. Johnsom. It is better to be wrong with the majority than right with the minority. De Mirando Saa. We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the same must go to the hospital. BI. Mann. A better principle than this, that “the majority shall rule,” is this other, that justice shall rule. Bovee. In a state this rule ought always to be observed, that the majority should not have the predominant power. + Cicero. A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is mul- titudimous above all populations of the earth. H. W. Beecher. MALICE. Abstain from malice. Periander. Malice is ever a boon companion to a narrow mind. James Ellis. Malice drinketh up the greatest part of its own poison. Socrates. Malice is a subtle and deceitful engine to work mischief. Cicero. Deadly malice lurks under fair compliments, and kills while it flatters. J. Hall. Malice is more easily disarmed by indifference than by conflict or retaliation. Mrs. Sigourmey. When a malicious man puts on a kind and agree- able manner, it is a mere trap set for his neighbor. Memander. There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women concoct a subtle poison from ordinary tri- fles. N. Hawthorne. Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed ; while malice denies that it is ever at the full. J. C. Hare. When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish. Plutarch. Is it to be believed or told that there is such malice in men as to rejoice in misfortunes, and from another's woes to draw delight 2 Terence. If it is true that there can be calumny without malice, it is equally so that there can be no malice without some desirable quality to excite it. W. S. Landor. Even in the midst of compassion, we feel within I know not what tart-sweet titilation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling. Montaigne. Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexa- tious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy ; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind. Tillotson. We explain all things by malevolence ; but to measure this malevolence by the magnitude of the evil we endure, is another of the illusions caused by our pre-occupation with self. Mme. Swetchine. Wit loses its respect with the good, when seen in company with malice ; and to smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to be- come a principal in the mischief. R. B. Sheridan. But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers would it possess Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim. Simms. When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth s bravely, and displays that reason in all its lustre. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant. Pascal. 540 JD A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. MALICE. IMALIGNITY. Whenever malevolence has taken possession of Malignity is properly the love of evil for evil's the heart, all the sources of good-will are dried up; €. G. Crabb. a stream of evil runs through the whole frame, and contaminates every moral feeling. G. Crabb. Malice is a filthy slime of the soul, and a perpe- tual torment to him in whom it abideth ; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver, which consumeth the flesh, and drieth up the marrow of the bones. Socrates. Malice is the devil's picture ; Iust makes all men brutish, and malice makes them devilish. Malice is mental murder ; you may kill a man and never touch him ; “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.” T. Watson. Those that have nothing else to say must tell sto- ries; fools over Burgundy, and ladies overtea, must have something that is sharp to relish their liquor ; malice is the piquant sauce of such conversation, and without it their entertainment would prove mighty insipid. G. Farquhar. Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion ; so mingles truths with falsehood, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocencc nor confess guilt. Sir P. Sidney. As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of others, the use we are to make of this knowledge is, to afford no handle for reproach ; for bad as the world is, it seldom falls on anyone who hath not given some slight cause for censure. Fielding. There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will ; a word, a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and like a shaft flying with the wind pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at. Sterne. Malevolence is misery ; it is the mind of Satan ; he is the great enemy, an outcast from all joy, and opponent of all goodness and all blessedness ; his mind is enmity against God ; enmity against an- gels, fallen and unfallen ; enmity against man both redeemed and reprobate ; and because thus hateful and hating, utterly unhappy ; and the car- mal mind is so far Satanic because it is enmity against God ; just as the misanthrope is so far Sa- tanic because he is enmity against his fellows. J. Hamilton. There is no benefit so large but malice will still lessen it, none so narrow which a good interpreta- tion will not enlarge. No man can ever be grate- ful that views a benefit on the wrong side, or takes a good office by the wrong handle. The avaricious man is ungrateful, for he never thinks he has enough; but without considering what he has, only minds what he covets. Some pretend want of power to make a competent return, and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one. - Seneca. Never, probably, were excessive conceit and ex- cessive vanity unaccompanied by malignity. Sir T. Twiss. From the instant of our birth we experience the benignity of Heaven, and the malignity of corrupt nature. J. Thrusler. Malignant tempers, whatever kind of life they are engaged in, will discover their natural tincture of mind. - Addison. The lighter sort of malignity turneth but to a crossness or aptness to oppose ; but the deeper sort to envy or mere mischief. Iord Bacom. When a malignant man strikes at the great bene- factors of his race, he deserves, like the Indian who madly fired his arrow at the sun, to be smitten with the curse of blindness. G. D. Prentice. Malignity is the speech intended to mortify one's self-love, or wound our tenderest affections; it is temper under this garb that is most hateful and most permicious ; when inflicting a series of petty injuries, with a mild and placid face, then is tem- per the most hideous and disgusting. S. Paterson. IMAMMON. Mammon signifies wealth, riches, worldly pro- perty. H. Binmey. Mammon has enriched his thousands, and has damned his ten thousands. R. Sowth. Do not believe in mammon ; his golden moun- tains are but the ocean's foam ; his paradises de- ceptive phantoms. Meawchard. A mammon-seeker is a wretch who, under the mask of frugality, scarce ever has a penny ready for the poor, though never without his hundreds and his thousands of pounds ready for a purchase. R. Sowth. Mammon has two properties ; it makes usSecure, first, when it goes well with us, and then we live without fear of God at all ; secondly, when it goes ill with us, then we tempt God, fly from Him, and seek after another god. M. Lºwther. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Alas, we profess to serve both ; and few can doubt that we do indeed serve one of the two, as zealously and assiduously as he himself can wish. But how must it be with our service to the other ? J. C. Hare. If the wealth of Croesus were offered to anyone not a mammonist, upon condition of conforming himself to it, by becoming utterly mean and mer- cenary, and binding down his own feelings within the close limits of a despicable selfishness, he would be quite right in rejecting such an offer; for com- petency, and even poverty, with free and generous sentiments, and an appreciation of things noble and great, would be far better than the amplest trea- sures under such circumstances, which would ren- der us unfit for happiness within ourselves, and disqualify us to appreciate the happiness of others. Acton. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 541 IMAN. Man is either a god or a brute. Aristotle. Man is a volume, if you know how to read him. W. E. Channing. Man is nothing but a shadow, and his life a dream. Mirza. A man who only eats, drinks, and sleeps, is not 8, Iſla Il. Mencints. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, pom- pous in the grave. Sir T. Browne. The days of man form two sums ; one increasing, the other diminishing. Abi Usrún. Man—living, feeling man—is the easy sport of the overmastering present. Schiller. Man is the merriest species of the creatures; all above and below him are serious. Addison. Many wonderful things appear in nature, but nothing more wonderful than man. Sophocles. Man is a jewel of God, who has created this ma- terial world to keep His treasure in. T. Parker. Is not man the only automaton upon earth ? The things usually called so are in fact heteromatons. J. C. Hare. By divine right, man is the king of nature, and all that the world produces was created for his |UIS6. Savarim. Bounded in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who has a recollection of hea- V6I1. Lamartime. Man is no better than a leaf driven by the wind until he has completely mastered his great, lonely duties. J. Zachos. What a singular compound is man | What strange contradictory ingredients enter into his composition. M. Faraday. Man is the animal that makes bargains ; no other animal does this ; one dog does not change a bone with another. Adam Smith. Man is only a machine ; the only difference be- ...tween a man and a mill is, one is carried by blood and the other by water. Horace Mamm. What is man 3 A social animal ; a weak and frail body. What is man 3 Only an earthen vessel, and easily broken by the slightest movement. Seneca. Man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor im- moveable, but heavenly ; whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned toward hea- Verl. Plutarch. Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness. Colton. “Let us make man in our image.” Such is man's height, and depth, and breadth, and mystery. He has not come from one principle or distinction of the Divine Nature, but out of all principles. J. Pulsford. IM.A.N. Man is the end toward which all the animal creation has tended from the first appearance of the first Palaeozoic fishes. Agassiz. Man was formed with an understanding for the attainment of knowledge ; and happy is he who is employed in the pursuit of it. G. Horne. Man should be ever better than he seems, and shape his acts, and discipline his mind, to walk adorning earth, with hope of heaven. Sir A. de Vere. Man is too near all kinds of beasts, ; a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious Vulture. Cowley. As there is much beast and some devil in man, so there is some angel and some God in him ; the beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never wholly destroyed. S. T. Coleridge. Man, who is truly but a mote in the wide ex- panse, believeth the whole earth and heaven crea- ted for him ; he thinketh the whole frame of nature hath interest in his well-being. R. Dodsley. Man, considered in his present state, seems only sent into the world to propagate his kind ; he pro- vides himself with a successor, and immediately quits his post to make room for him. Sir W. Temple. Man as a rational agent, and as a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of. Whately. Man hath received from God not only an excel- lent fabric and composure of body, but if you consider it, the very matter of which the body is composed is far more excellent than dust or earth. Rev. J. Caryl. Man creeps into childhood, bounds into youth, sobers into manhood, softens into age, totters into second childhood, and slumbers into the cradle prepared for him, thence to be watched and cared for. Henry Giles. Happy that man, who, unembarassed by vulgar cares, master of himself, his time, and fortune, spends his time in making himself wiser, and his fortune in making others, and therefore himself, happier. J. Seed. Man may be considered in two views as a rea- sonable, and as a sociable being, capable of becom- ing himself either happy or miserable, and of con- tributing to the happiness or misery of his fellow- Creatures. H. Grove. Man as a physical being is, like other bodies, governed by invariable laws; as an intelligent being, he incessantly transgresses the laws estab- lished by God, and changes those which he himself has established. Montesquiew. In the external conformation of man, we imme- diately remark his upright stature, that majestic attitude, which announces his superiority over all the other inhabitants of the globe ; he is the only being adapted by his organization to go erect. E. Lawrence. 542 A) A Y'S CO L / A C O AV. MAN. Man is like a bee ; in search of sweets he roams in various regions, and ransacks every inviting Tflower ; whatever displays a beautiful appearance solicits his notice, and conciliates his favor if not his affection. V. Knoac. Man is by nature weak ; he is born in and to a state of dependence ; he therefore naturally seeks and looks about for help, and where he observes the greatest power, it is there that he applies and prays for protection. H. Brooke. Man is an animal formed for and delighting in society ; for in this state alone his various talents can be exerted, his numberless necessities relieved, the dangers he is exposed to can be avoided, and many of the pleasures he eagerly affects enjoyed. Fielding. Man is the noblest terrestrial work of God.; the most complex and perfect in mechanism and fumc- tion ; the most beautiful in form and majestic in mien ; the most powerful to accomplish, and ex- alted in enjoyment and constitution—the veritable “Lord of Creation l’’ O. S. Fowley". Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature: the burden of history is what man has been ; of law, what he does ; of physiol- ogy, what he is ; of ethics, what he ought to be ; of revelation, what he shall be. George Finlayson. A man that is temperate, generous, valiant, chaste, faithful, and honest, may at the same time have wit, humor, mirth, good-breeding, and gal- lantry ; while he exerts these latter qualities, twenty occasions might be invented to show he is master of the other noble virtues. Steele. What is man 2 A moral being endowed with conscience and free will ; an intellectual being, able to know, to think, to reason, and to judge ; an emotional and religious being, capable of every kind of feeling and affection, and susceptible to every influence of benevolence and love. Emmanuel Antonio Cicogna. Man is not a purely spiritual being ; he has a body which is to his spirit now an obstacle, now an instrument—always an inseparable companion. The senses are not the Soul's prison, but much rather are they a window opening upon nature, by which the soul holds communion with the universe. Victor Cowsin. What a piece of work is man . How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and mov- ing, how express and admirable ! In action, how like an angel ; in apprehension, how like a God ; the beauty of the world—the paragon of animals | And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust 2 Shakspeare. Man was not framed or created without design nor by chance, but there has been truly some cer- tain power, which had in view the happiness of mankind ; neither producing nor maintaining a being, which when it had completed all its labors, should then sink into the eternal misery of death ; rather let us think that there is a heaven and re- fuge prepared for us. Cicero. MAN. How radically bad is the nature of man for otherwise he would stand in need of no laws to re- strain him. Dost thou think that he differs in any respect from other animals 3 In nothing, certain- ly, but in figure. Other animals are bent ; but man is a wild beast upright in form. Philemon. What a chimera is man What a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a bundle of contra- dictions, what a prodigy Judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth, depositary of all truth, and yet a mere huddle of uncertainty and error; the glory and scandal of the earth ! Pascal. Man can construct exquisite machines, can call in vast powers, can form extensive combinations, in order to bring about results which he has in view ; but in all this he is only taking advantage of laws of nature which already exist ; he is ap- plying to his use qualities which matter already possesses. Professor Whewell. There is in every man a spark of God-like na- ture, which can never be blotted out ; no matter how low he sinks, morally, it still remains, a gol- dem chain that binds him to eternity ; but with this superiority over animals, comes the responsi- bility of making himself what he wills, be that angel or devil. Tenney. Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force : the world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered ; realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed, a Co- lumbus of the skies. E. H. Chapin. A man, like a book, must have an index; he is divided into chapters, sections, pages, preface, and appendix; in size, quarto, Octavo, or duodecimo, and bound in cloth, morocco antique, or half calf : the dress, the gait, the behavior, are an index to the contents of this strange book, and give you the number of the page. Talmage. O God what is man 2 Even a thing of nought —a poor, infirm, miserable, short-lived creature, that passes away like a shadow, and is hastening off the stage where the theatrical titles and dis- tinctions, and the whole mask of pride which he has worn for a day will fall off, and leave him naked as a neglected slave. Sterne. Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature ; and the foolish- est misunderstanding of him possible is, that he should have no animal nature : for his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual—coherently and ir- revocably so ; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other. Ruskim. Man is an image of the Deity ; the only creature which, knowing its mortality and immortality, lives as if it were never to die, and too often dies as if it were never to live—the soul being gifted with reason, the only one that acts irrational—the nothing of yesterday ; the dust of to-morrow ; he is a fleeting paradox, which the fulness of time alone can explain ; a living enigma, of which the solution will be found in death. Chatfield. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 543 IMAN. Man perfected by society is the best of all ani- mals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice ; if he finds him- self an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own re- sources, do not consider him as a member of hu- manity. Aristotle. Man is an individual animal with narrow facul- ties, but infinite desires, which he is anxious to concentrate in some one object within the grasp of his imagination, and where, if he cannot be...all that he wishes himself, he may at least contem- plate his own pride, vanity, and passions, displayed in their most extravagant dimensions in a being no bigger and no better than himself. Hazlitt. Man is made of two parts—the physical and the moral. The former he has in common with the brute creation ; man in his moral nature becomes, in his progress through life, a creature of prejudice, a creature of opinion, a creature of habits, and of sentiments growing out of them. These form our second nature, as inhabitants of the country, and members of the Society in which Providence has placed us. Burke. Man is a creature designed for two different states of being, or rather for two different lives; his first life is short and transient, his second per- manent and lasting. The question we are all con- cerned in is this, in which of these two lives is it our chief interest to make ourselves happy 2 We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. Addison. O rich and various man thou palace of sight and sound, carrying in thy senses the morning and the night, and the unfathomable galaxy ; in thy brain the geometry of the city of God; in thy heart, the power of love and the realms of right and wrong. An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen ; he is strong, not to do, but to live ; not in his arms, but in his heart : not as an agent, but as a fact. R. W. Emerson. The man deserving the name is one whose thoughts and exertions are for others, rather than himself ; whose high purpose is adopted on just principles, and never abandoned while heaven or earth affords means of accomplishing it ; he is one who will neither seek an indirect advantage by a specious word, nor take an evil path to secure a real good purpose ; such a man were one for whom a woman's heart should beat constant while he breathes, and break when he dies. Sir W. Scott. Man is the epitome of the world, contains in himself the substance of all natures, and the full- ness of the whole universe; not only in regard of the universalness of his knowledge, whereby he comprehends the reasons of many things; but as all the perfections of the several natures of the world are gathered and united in man, for the per- fection of his own, in a smaller volume ; in his Soul he partakes of heaven, in his body of the earth ; there is the life of plants, the sense of beasts, and the intellectual mature of angels. Charnock. and serenity. M.A.N. There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich ; in pomp, show, and Opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life ; they enjoy the same earth, and air, and hea- vens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table ; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more plea- sant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich. R. Sherlock. Man is the greatest piece of God's mechanism, and stands in the closest personal relation to the Divine Creator, for he possesses, in his corporeal Organization, the power to reach the highest per- fection of his earthly capacity ; thus it is the duty Of every man to preserve and develop, to full ma- turity, the symmetry of those powers whereby the intellectual, emotional, and moral part of his nature may become enlarged, to minister in full measure to the noblest well-being of his fellow- creatures, and thereby enhance his own happiness James Ellis. Man is an animal formidable both from his pas- Sions and his reason, his passions often urging him to great evils, and his reason furnishing means to achieve them. To train this animal, and make him amenable to order, to inure him to a sense of jus- tice and mercy, to withhold him from ill courses by fear, and encourage him to his duty by hopes; in short, to fashion and model him for society, hath been the aim of civil and religious institutions; and in all times the endeavor of good and wise men. The aptest method for attaining this end hath been always judged a proper education. G. Berkeley. Man's twofold nature is reflected in history ; “he is of earth,” but his thoughts are with the stars; mean and petty his wants and desires, yet they serve a soul exalted with grand, glorious aims, with immortal longings, with thoughts which sweep the heavens, and “wander through eternity;” a pigmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest. History is a reflex of this double life ; every epoch has two aspects; one calm, broad, and solemn— looking towardeternity ; the other agitated, petty, vehement, and confused—looking toward time. T. Carlyle. Can it be possible that man, a human form, to whom homage is paid both by animal and vege- table, the focus of ingenuity, the wonderful ex- position of cause and effect, the living poem of perfect measure, the mechanical wonder of the world, was born and created to grow ; and hav- ing done his best to injure or benefit mankind, he, a perfect score in the plan of creation, shall cease to exist when the body sinks ; and the soul stained with sin shall meet with no just punishment, when laws against sin govern this world 2 Or, if he has raised the lowly, forgiven the erring, and relieved the suffering and needy relative, is he to be blotted out, even as a worm is trodden down, and reap the benefit of no approving and happy conscience 3 John Wakefield Francis. 544 D A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. IMANIEIND. Men have a certain respect for the follies of man- kind. Sir G. Mackenzie. A knowledge of mankind is only learned from experience. James Ellis. It is the talent of mankind to run from one ex- treme to the other. Swift. The general good of mankind is the rule or mea- sure of moral truth. G. Berkeley. Mankind are of as much importance in the world as an Ox Or a sheep. F. Dowglass. In the performance of duty there are no distinc- tions among mankind. Confucius. Mankind are like one great family, dividing among each other the gifts of a common parent. Mrs. Sigourmey. Mankind secluded from the company of women, become the most rude and uncultivated of animals. W. Aleacander. The great difference in the motions of mankind, is from the different use they put their faculties to.. J. Locke. Mankind at large always resemble frivolous chil- dren ; they are impatient of thought, and wish to be amused. R. W. Emerson. He who knows mankind humors them ; he who has not that knowledge thwarts them ; it is wise to humor and not thwart mankind. G. Scudéri. Countless are the various species of mankind, and the shades that separate mind from mind ; each has his will, and each pursues his own. Persius. The common origin of mankind is among the first historical records of the Bible—one of the foundation facts of the Christian religion. W. Goodell. He who rejects the doctrine that all mankind are descended from one pair, must be called on for his arguments to prove his position ; his objections are nothing. T. Dwight. Mankind are divided into two parts, the busy and the idle ; the busy world may be divided into the virtuous and vicious ; the vicious again into the covetous, the ambitious, and the sensual. Steele. Delusive ideas are the motives of the greatest part of mankind, and a heated imagination the power by which their actions are incited; the world in the eye of a philosopher may be said to be a large madhouse. Mackintosh. There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confi- dence necessary to human intercourse, and without which mankind are often more injured by their own suspicions, than they could be by the perfidy of others. Burke. Mankind constitute one vast body, to the support of which every member contributes his share ; and by all of them together, as by so many greater and lesser wheels in a machine, the business of the pub- lic is carried on, its necessities are served, and its very existence is upheld. |Wycherley. IMANIKINID. Mankind in general are so little in the habit of looking steadily at their own meaning, or of weigh- ing the words by which they express it, that the writer who is careful to do both, will sometimes mislead his readers through the very excellence which qualifies him to be their instructor. S. T. Coleridge. Mankind may be enumerated under three classes. They who do what is right from principle ; they who act from appearances ; and they who act from impulses in defiance of law, custom, and reason ; constituting the upright and conscientious, the time-Serving and servile, the reckless and corrupt orders of mem. Acton. Mankind may be divided into the merry and the serious, who, both of them, make a very good figure in the species, so long as they keep their respective humors from degenerating into the neighboring ex- treme ; there being a natural tendency in the one to a melancholy moroseness, and in the other to a fantastic levity. Addison. The generality of mankind may be said to be only an assembly of circumstances. Some judge ill only because they have frequented the company of men who have an erroneous cast of thinking ; others have a sound understanding, only because they have had the good luck to read a work that struck them and gave them principles. Thomas of Malmesbury. There is no way but one to reform mankind, and that is to render them happier. It is good and easy to enfeeble vice by bringing men nearer to each other, and by rendering them thus more happy. All the sciences, indeed, are still in a state of in- fancy ; but that of rendering men happy has not so much as seen the light yet, even in Christen- dom St. Pierre. Mankind are more what they are made by man- kind than what they are made by their Creator. The wolf is ferocious because hunted from a whelp; the snake turns upon you, because you disturb and pursue it ; the child grows surly, because unjustly coerced. But above all, man becomes unjust and cruel, because pursued with cruelty and injustice by his brother man. J. Tweddell. Gods ! that the nature of mankind should be such that they have more wisdom, and determine bet- ter, in the affairs of others than in their own Does this superior wisdom arise because, where our own interest is concerned, we are prevented from judging properly either by excessive joy or grief ? How much more wisely does my neighbor here think for me than I do for myself. Terence. In order to love mankind, expect but little from phem; in order to view their faults without bitter- ness, we must accustom ourselves to pardon them, and to perceive that indulgence is a justice which frail humanity has a right to demand from wis- dom. Now, nothing tends more to dispose us to indulgence, to close our hearts against hatred, to open them to the principles of a humane and soft morality, than a profound knowledge of the hu- man heart ; accordingly, the wisest men have al- ways been the most indulgent. Bulwer. A R O S F O U O T A 7" / O AV S. 545 —r— IMANNERS. Observe good manners. Rothschild. Manners make the man. William of Wykeham. Manners are tell-tales of men. T. Tilton, Manners often make fortunes. Vega. Manners are stronger than laws. A. Carlisle, Manners are the shadows of virtues. S. Smith. Good manners set off a lowly garb. Plautus. Striking manners are bad manners. R. Hall. Manners shape every man's fortune. C. Nepos. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. W. A. Alcott. Observe other's manners, and correct thy own. Conrad II. Air and manners are more expressive than words. S. Richardson. There is a certain nobility in the world of man- IlêI’S. Schiller. In our manners, tranquillity is the supreme Mme. de Maintenon. power. Manners very easily and rapidly mature into morals. H. Mann. It is never too late to learn the way to good Iºla,IIIlêI’S. Seneca. A man's own manner and character is what best becomes him. Cicero. Virtue itself offends when coupled with forbid- ding manners. T. Middleton. Good manners are a part of good morals and kind courtesy. R. Whately. Ladies will Sooner pardon want of sense than want of manners. Veneroni. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. Shakspeare. Art polishes man, and manners distinguish him from the brute creation. Ovid. Fine manners are intelligible to all mankind, and a passport in every country. Mrs. Sigowrmey. Gracefulness of manners is more engaging inwo- men than mere beauty of person. Epictetus. Good men ought to let the world see that their manners are more firm than an oath. Socrates. Many a worthy man sacrifices his peace to for- malities of compliments and good manners. L’Estrange. Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing. H. Blair. If refinement does not lead directly to purity of manners, it obviates at least their greatest deprava- tion. Sir J. Reynolds. Graceful manners are the outward form of re- finement in the mind, and good affections in the heart. Longfellow. MANNERS. It is not enough to have reason ; it is spoilt, it is dishonored, by sustaining a brusque and haughty Iſla.In 1161”. Fémélon. One of the most important rules of the science of manners is an almost absolute silence in regard to yourself. Balzac. Truth, justice, and reason lose all their force and all their lustre when they are not accompanied with agreeable manners. J. Thomson. We ought always to conform to the manners of the great number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. lMolière. There is a probity in manners, as well as of con- science, and a true Christian will regard in a de- gree the conventionalities of society. De Bowſfiewrs. As a man's solution, so is the total of his charac- ter; in nothing do we lay ourselves SO open as in our manner of meeting and salutation. Lavater. Manners differ with climates ; the northern na- tions are distinguished for etiquette, the eastern for ceremony, and the southern for courtesy. Acton. Manners are the ornament of action ; and there is a way of speaking a kind word, or of doing a kind thing, which greatly enhances their value. S. Smiles. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse ; whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred man in com- pany. Swift. Parents are commonly more careful to bestow wit on their children than virtue, the art of speak- ing well than doing well; but their manners ought to be the great concern. T. Fulley”. There is a policy in manners : I have heard one not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success. H. T. Twckerman. What a rare gift, by-the-by, is that of manners How difficult to define, bow much more difficult to impart l Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talents; they will more than supply all. - Bulwer. Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial life : returns are equally expected for both : and people will no more ad- vance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt, Chesterfield. Impure manners prepare the heart for unclean spirits, and give them the opportunity they desire. We have heard of certain arts to call up the devil, but a man need only live like a swine, and he will be sure to have his company. W. Jones of Nayland. It is easier to polish the manners than to reform the heart, to disguise a fault than to conquer it. He who can venture to appear as he is, must be what he ought to be—a difficult and arduous task, which often requires the sacrifice of many a dar- ling inclination and the exertion of many a pain- ful effort. T. Bowdler. 35 546 JD A Y’ S CO / / A C O AV. MANNERS. MARRIA.G.E. Manners are the happy ways of doing things ; Marriage is consent. Michelet. each one astroke of genius or of love, now repeated - tº and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich Marriage is honorable. Seneca. varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, ~~~~ and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so In marriage choose an equal. Cleobwlºws. are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the Marriage is good for the good. Menedemws. morning Imeadows. R. W. Emerson. What better school for manners than the com- pany of virtuous women, where the mutual en- deavor td please must insensibly polish the mind, where the example of the female softness and mo- desty must communicate itself to their admirers, and where the delicacy of the sex puts everyone on his guard lest he give offence 2 Hwºme. Kindness and cordiality of manner are scarcely less pleasing to the feelings than expressed compli- ment, and they are the more safe for both parties, since they afford no foundation for the building up of expectations; a species of architecture sufficient- ly notorious for the weakness of the foundations that support an enormous superstructure. W. C. Taylor. Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them entirely; they weaken these gifts of heaven, so rare and fragile, by affected manners and an awkward imitation. Their tones and their gait are barrowed ; they study their attitudes before the glass until they have lost all trace of natural manner, and with all their pains they please but little, Bruyère. Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in ; they give their whole form and colors to our lives ; according to their quality they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them. Burke. Always suspect a man who affects great softness of manner, an unruffled evenness of temper, and an enunciation studied, slow, and deliberate ; these things are all unnatural, and bespeak a degree of mental discpline into which he that has no purpose Of craft or design to answer cannot submit to drill himself the most successful knaves are usuaily of this description, as Smooth as razors dipped in oil, and as sharp ; they affect the innocence of the dove, which they have not, in order to hide the cunning of the Serpent, which they have. Colton. IMIANAGEMENT. Management is everything. Miss S. Holbrook. Many things, difficult in their nature, are made easy by good management. Livy. He who manages his own life badly, how is he likely to take proper care of what is external to himself? Euphron. A little management may often evade resistance, which a vast force might vainly strive to over- COInê. J. C. Hare. Marriage does not excuse love. Father André. Most marriages are repented of. Publius Syrus. Marriage should be celebrated in public. St. Soter. Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. Shakspeare. He who marries for wealth sells his liberty. T. Yalden. Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all. Guicciardini. To marry, and not to marry, is equally an evil. Swsario. The married man must turn his staff into a stake. Santob. If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal. Ovid. Marriage is better for the clergy than single life. Pope Pius II. Do not marry until you are able to support a wife. S. Allyn. Marriage puts the whole world in their proper rank. Bruyère. Marriage is both a necessity and a pleasure of mature. Sir S. Goºrth. There are good marriages, but there are no de- lightful ones. Rochefoucauld. Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. G. Eliot. A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. Lord Bacon. Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. W. Penn. True love cannot exist between those who are married to each other. Queen Eleanor. Who marries for love without money hath good nights and sorry days. Goldoni. Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. Colton. Moses curseth the barrenness of marriage, how much more a single life. R. Burton. If a man is happily married, his “rib” is worth all the other bones of his body. G. D. Prentice. It is in vain for a man to be born fortunate, if he be unfortunate in his marriage. Dacia. He who marries a beauty excites pity ; he who marries an heiress excites envy. E. P. Day. Marriage may qualify the fury of passion ; but it very rarely mends a man's manners. W. Congreve. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 547 \ IMARRIA.G.E. Many an enamored pair have courted in poetry, and after marriage lived in prose. J. Foster. Men should keep their eyes wide Open before marriage, and half-shut afterward. Mme. Scuderi. Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife ; go up when thou choosest a friend. Bem, 42&i. Strong are the instincts with which God has guarded the sacredness of marriage. Maria J. MacIntosh. Not one in twenty marries their first love ; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt. Sir W. Scott. Those who marry give hostages to the public, that they will not attempt the ruin or disturb the peace of it. F. Atterbury. Only so far as a man is happily married to him- self, is he fit for married life and family life gene- rally. Novalis. Marriage is the comfort of the considerate and prudent, but the torment of the inconsiderate and Self-willed. Downey. Marriage is the metempsychosis of women; it turns them into different creatures from what they were before. Mrs. Annie Lee Furmess Wistor. In marriage, if you possess anything very good, it makes you eager to get everything else good of the same sort. R. B. Sheridan. Not whom you marry, but how much you mar- ry, is the real question among the Hon. Tom Shuf- fletons of every age. E. P. Whipple. The more married men you have, the fewer crimes there will be; marriage renders a man more virtuous and more wise. Voltaire. T-The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. Swift. Marriage is the best state for man in general ; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married State. Dr. Johnson. To make the married state happy, the same at- tention toward each other should exist after mar- riage, as in the days of courtship. J. Bartlett. What do I think of marriage 2 Itake it, as those that deny purgatory ; it locally contains heaven or bell; there is no third place in it. D. Webster. Such a large, sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in, and then a long winter to mellow and season it. T. Parker. Ride not post for your marriage; if you do, you may in the period of your journey take sorrow for your inn, and make repentance your host. G. Whetstone. A latent discontent is the secret spur of most of our enterprises; marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising. - º Bovee. IMARRIAGE. Married men, especially if they have posterity, are deeper sharers in that state wherein they live, which engageth their affections to the greater loy- alty. T. Fuller. Men and women in marrying, make a vow of loving one another. Would it not be better for their happiness if they made a vow of pleasing each Other ? Stanislaws. Marry in thy youth ; this world is but a passage; it is necessary that thy son should succeed to thee, and that the chain of being should be possessed un- broken. - Zoroaster. Men that marry women very much superior to themselves, are not so truly husbands to their wives, as they are unawares made slaves to their portions. Plutarch. The land of marriage has this peculiarity, that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence. Montaigme. God has set the type of marriage everywhere throughout the creation ; each creature seeks its perfection in another ; the very heavens and earth picture it to us. Lºwther. Marriage is the state to which the poor look for- ward ; it is more necessary to them than the rich ; the laborer wants a helpmate ; his home is miser- able without one. John Home. Marriage was ordained by God, and existed un- der different modifications in the early infancy of mankind, without which they could never have emerged from barbarism. R. Hall. Marriage is a precious, benevolent, and sacred Ordinance of heaven, and it cannot be despised, Or voluntárily neglected, nor can its sacred obliga- tions be violated, without vast damage and sin. E. Rich. Remember, if thou marry for beauty thou bind- est thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year ; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all. Sir W. Raleigh. In the opinion of the world marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the reverse ; it begins all. So they say of death, “It is the end of all things;” yes, just as much as marriage. Mme. Swetchine. For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is a usurped power ; for how can nature give another the power to direct those affections which she has not enabled even ourselves to govern ? Fielding. ~Young ladies are ready in imagining that mar- riage is all cake and kisses; but very few of them are housewives long, before they discover that the winous fermentation may be followed too soon by the acetous. W. S. Landor. That the marriage of so many gifted women have been singularly unfortunate may be traced to the simple fact that the masculine for their feminine was not discovered, or perhaps easily discoverable. Miss Cobbe. 548 A) A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. MARRIA.G.E. Married couples resemble a pair of shears, SO joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any- one who comes between them. Sidney Smith. To enter safely into the married state, the con- tracting parties should understand human nature, and above all, their own dispositions, and then compare them frankly and candidly. L. C. Judson. Marriage is a desperate thing ; the frogs in AESOp were extremely wise ; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again. Selden. The marriage relation forbids all conduct in married persons of which the tendency would be to diminish their affection for those to whom they are united in marriage, or of which the tendency would be to give pain to the other party. Wayland. It does not appear essential that, in forming matrimonial alliances, there should be on each side a parity of wealth ; but that, in disposition and manners, they should be alike ; chastity and mo- desty form the best dowry a parent can bestow. Terence. Marriage is a state of which it is unnecessary to describe the great happiness, for two reasons— first, because it would be superfluous to those who are in the enjoyment of its blessings ; and Secondly, because it would be impossible to those who are not. Chatfield. It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness; it is also a bond of Service ; it is the most ancient form of that Social ministra- tion which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of na- ture. E. H. Chapin. Marrying is almost a crime in my eyes; the highest degree of virtue is to abstain from aug- menting the number of unhappy beings ; if people reflected they would never marry, because they en- tail misery upon themselves when they bring chil- dren into the world. Mme. Patterson-Bonaparte. Married life appears to me a sort of philosophi- cal discipline, training persons to honorable duties, worthy of the good and wise. Few unmarried people are affected as they ought to be toward the public good, and perceive what are really the most important objects in life. Melancthom. Up to twenty-one, I hold a father to have power over his children as to marriage ; after that age, authority and influence only. Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited cir- cumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes. S. T. Coleridge. Many a marriage has commenced like the morn- ing, red, and perished like a mushroom. Where- fore ? Because the married pair neglected to be as agreeable to each other after their union as they were before it. Seek always to please each other ; lavish not your love to-day, remember that mar- riage has a morrow, and again a morrow. Frederika Bremer. little selfishnesses. M.A.R.R.I.A.G.E. I cannot fitlier compare marriage than to a lot- tery ; for in both he that ventures may succeed or may miss ; and if he draw a prize he hath a rich return of his revenue : but in both lotteries there is a pretty store of blanks for every prize. Boyle. Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the marriage state ; look not therein for con- tentment greater than God will give, or a greature in this world can receive, namely, to be free from all inconveniences. Marriage is not, like the hill of Olympus, wholly clear without clouds. Fuller. Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant ; a mar- riage of interest, easy ; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed all the sweets of life. Addison. The happiness of a married life depends on a power of making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness. Few persons are ever called upon to make great sacrifices or to confer great favors : but affection is kept alive, and happiness secured, by keeping up a constant warfare against J. H. Perkins. Marriage is not an arbitrary institution ; it is the physical and moral union of one man and one woman, who thus become one person ; and all in- jury offered to marriage, to its unity, its holiness, is a violation of natural law, a senseless rebellion against the Creator, a source of miseries and dis- orders almost innumerable. T. R. Hazord. The best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, who both in affection and in means have married, and endowed the public; yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times, unto which they know they must transmit their dearest pledges. Lord Bacon. A married man falling into misfortune is more apt to retrieve his situation in the world than a single one, chiefly because his spirits are soothed and retrieved by domestic endearments, and his self-respect kept alive by finding that although all abroad be darkness and humiliation, yet there is a little world of love at home over which he is mo– narch. John Taylor. A well-assorted marriage is the epitome of eter- mal rewards; it may place such beings as may flow from it in such a happy direction, that eternal happiness may be the consequence. An ill-assorted marriage visits its original sin upon generation and generation, madness and a thousand loath- some diseases, which are the latent causes of the most frightful vices. Sir R. Maltravers. We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages; we live amid hallucinations, and this especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last : but the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage Some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys. R. W. Emerson. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 549 * MARRIAGE. IMARTYR. When a couple are now to be married, mutual The devil has his martyrs among men. Varro. love, or union of minds, is the last and most trifling consideration. If their goods and chattels can be brought to unite, their sympathetic souls are ever ready to guarantee the treaty ; the gentleman's mortgaged lawn becomes enamored of the lady's marriageable grove ; the match is struck up, and both parties are piously in love—according to Act of Parliament. Goldsmith. Marriage is an institution calculated for a con- stant scene of as much delight as Our being is capa- ble of. Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species, with désign to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment, have in that action bound themselves to be good-humored, affa- ble, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives. Steele. Marriage has in it less of beauty, but more of safety, than the single man's life ; it hath not more ease, but less danger ; it is more merry and more sad ; it is fuller of sorrows and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but is supported by all the strength of love and charity ; and those bur- dens are delightful. Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities, churches, and heaven itself. Jeremy Taylor. Marry not too young ; and when thou art too old, marry not, lest thou be fond in the one, or thou dote in the other, and repent for both ; let thy liking ripen before thou-love ; let thy love ad- vise before thou choose, and let thy choice be fixed before thou marry ; remember that the whole : happiness or unhappiness of thy life depends upon one act ; remember nothing but death can dissolve this knot. He that weds in haste, repents ofttimes by leisure; and he that repents him of his own act, either is or was a fool by confession. F. Quarles. A great proportion of the wretchedness which has so often embittered married life has originated in negligence of trifles. Connubial happiness is a thing of too fine a texture to be handled roughly. It is a sensitive plant, which will not bear even the touch of unkindness; a delicate flower, which in- difference will chill, and suspicion blast. It must be watered by the showers of tender affection, ex- panded by the cheering glow of kindness, and guarded by the impregnable barrier of unshaken confidence. Thus matured, it will bloom with fra- grance in every season of life, and sweeten with the loneliness of declining years. Eliza S. Sproat. If we consider carefully the condition of a mar- ried man and that of an old bachelor, we shall see how little reason the latter has to congratulate him- self that he has never been “caught.” The married man has some one to think of all his little com- forts; to sympathize alike in his adversity and in his prosperity ; to soothe his ill-humor when he is annoyed ; to amuse him when he is dull, and to nurse him when he is ill. But who cares for an old bachelor—unless, indeed, he should chance to be rich ; and then he is surrounded by courtiers, all eager to please him ; but with what hope—only they may benefit by his death ? Gabriel Telle2, jubilations of triumph. For some not to be martyred is a martyrdom. J. Donne. It is glorious to die a martyr to law and religion. *mºm- Charles I. Martyrs of truth should have an honored burial. Eutychianus. It is true glory to be a martyr for Christ and His gospel. St. Alban. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. St. Siactus. It is the cause and not the pain that makes the martyr. St. Ambrose. Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. E. H. Chapin. He is a fool who suffers martytdom, that people may stare at and admire him. Martial. Faith has furnished the Christian martyr with motives to sustain him at the stake. Schoolcraft. It is more difficult, and calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. H. Mann. When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. Hannah More. The tyrant may murder the martyr, but after ages will venerate the martyr, and execrate the tyrant. F. Wayland. Those who completely sacrifice themselves are praised and admired; that is the sort of martyr- dom that men like to find in others. Rahel. He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool: since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom produces. Colton. The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. The torments are illusory ; the first suffering is the last suffering, the latter hurts, being lost on insensibility. Emerson. The world will be blind, indeed, if it does not reckon among its great ones, such martyrs as miss the palm and not the pains of martyrdom, heroes without the laurels, and conquerors without the J. H. Friswell. The firm endurance of suffering by the martyrs . of conscience, if it be rightly contemplated, is the most consolatory spectacle in the clouded life of man—far more ennobling and Sublime than the outward victories of virtue. Sir J. Mackintosh. To die for truth is not to die for one's country, but to die for the world. Truth will pass down to posterity, and collect aud recompense them into a goddess. Then thy temple, O Eternal Truth ! that now stands half below the earth made hollow by the sepulchre of its witnessess, will raise itself in the total majesty of its proportions, and will stand in monumental granite ; and every pillar on which it rests will be fixed in the grave of a martyr. Richter. 550 A) A Y 'S CO Z Z A C O AV. MASQUERADE. False friends always wear a mask. G. Crabb. A discovered masquerader plays a pitiful part. Goethe. When the mask is torn off then the reality is See Iſl. Lucretius. Masquerade is a synonym for life and civilized Society. • J. Sanders. The plainest and sincerest truths court us in mas- querade. H. Felton. The most dangerous sort of cheats are but mas- queraders under the vizor of friends. L'Estronge. Many masqueraders on the stage of real life, be- tray themselves by overacting their part. R. Wynne. Hypocrites generally hide their defects by mas- querade, and the only way to discover their real character is to read them backwards, and thus un- mask them. T. Jordam. We are so much in the habit of wearing a mask before others, that at last we do it before our- selves ; even our virtues are most frequently only vices under a mask. Rochefoucauld. The whole world is a masquerade ; and a man of tolerable talents for observation may entertain himself as well in the mixed assemblies he meets with in life, as the most magnificent and expensive revels provided and ordered for that purpose. S. Croacall. There are two sorts of masquerade ; simulation, or pretending to be what you are not, and dissimu- lation, or concealing what you are ; and we are all mummers under one or the other of these catago– ries, excepting a few performers at the two ex- tremes of life, those who are above, and those who are beneath all regard for appearances. Chatfield. MASS.A.C.R.E. Causeless massacre never escapes long without revenge. Hiao- Wen-Ti. The gain of a conquest should not induce cruelty, nor give encouragement to wanton massacre. Sophocles. Downright massacre, though perhaps worse for the individual, is better for the race, than their de- gradation to perpetual slavery. S. Mowmt. If a soldier kills an enemy after he has surren- dered, it is massacre, a killing without necessity, contrary to the usages of nations. N. Webster. Man's blood is shed in wantonness; and death is made a spectacle for the glory and entertainment of rulers of nations; but massacres of men for earthly glory will insure eternal damnation to the perpetrators in the world to come. James Ellis. A massacre is the consequence of Secret and per- Sonal resentment between bodies of people ; it is always a stain upon the nation by whom it is prac- ticed, as it cannot be effected without a violent breach of confidence, and a direct act of treachery. G. Crabb. IMASTER. Curse not thy master before God. Ptah Hotep. The presence of the master is most salutary to the land. Columella. The master who dreads his servants is lower than a Servant. Publius Syrus. He is not always master of others, that hath others under him. Sir S. Garth. The 'master makes the house to be respected, not the house the master. Seneca. No man can be said to be great or powerful, who is not master of himself. J. Mair. Wisdom and virtue are the proper qualifications in the master of a house. Dr. Johnson. If thou art a master, be sometimes blind ; if a servant, sometimes deaf. T. Fuller. The measure of a master is his success in bring- ing all men round to his opinion twenty years later. R. W. Emerson. He who should be the master, sometimes takes the place of the slave ; he who should be the slave, becomes the master. Cicero. The eye of a master will do more work than both of his hands ; not to oversee the workmen is to leave your purse open. Franklin. Thou who art a master, be just to thy servant, if thou expectest from him fidelity ; be reasonable in thy commands, if thou expectest a ready obe- dience. R. Dodsley. Being our own master means that we are at li- berty to be the slave of our own follies, caprices, and passions. Generally speaking, a man cannot have a worse or more tyrannical master than him- self. Chatfield. Masters must correct their servants with gentle- ness, prudence, and mercy not with upbraiding and disgraceful language, but with such only as may express and reprove the fault and amend the person. Jeremy Taylor. It is not only paying wages, and giving Com- mands, that constitutes a master of a family ; but prudence, equal behavior, with a readiness to pro- tect and cherish them, is what entitles a man to that character in their very hearts and Sentiments. Steele. A man who preserves a respect founded on his benevolence to his dependents, lives like a prince rather than a master in his family ; his Orders are received as favors rather than duties ; and the dis- tiction of approaching him is part of the reward for executing what is commanded by him. Addison. It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant can- not become a praiseworthy master ; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, toward the laws, for in this way we are servants of the gods, and next, toward Our elders. Plato. A R O S F O U O 7. A 7" / O AV S. MATERIALISM, Materialism is dogmatism verified. James Ellis. Let the materialist fall by his own doom. J. C. Hare. Materialism sees nothing but matter and its forces. Dr. S. T. Spear. That the soul is not a spiritual substance is the doctrine of materialists. N. Webster. In the present material system in which we live, how many things occur that are mysterious and unaccountable. H. Blain". Materialism rests on the assumption that all that is real in nature consists in the minute particles from the juxtaposition of which all sensible objects arise. T. Galloway. The doctrine of the materialists was always, even in my youth, a cold, heavy, dull, and insup- portable doctrine to me, and necessarily tending to atheism. Sir H. Davy. It is utterly inconceivable that inanimate brute matter, without the mediation of some immaterial being, should operate upon other matter without mutual contact. R. Bentley. The material man says, “I believe in nothing which I cannot see,” and so he goes about collecting facts from observation. But what does he do with them 2 He sublimes them into a principle, and that is invisible. H. W. Beecher. While the objects of the material world are made to attract our infant eyes, there are latent ties by which they reach our hearts ; and wherever they afford us delight they are always the signs or expressions of higher qualities, by which our moral sensibilities are called forth. Hugh Miller. It is a curious circumstance that the generality of mankind are decided materialists, though with- Out knowing it. If, indeed, you ask any persons whether they hold the soul to be material, most of them will answer no ; and many would probably give the same answer if you asked them whether it is a substance ; for by material, or substantial, the common people understand something tangible. R. Whately. Materialism teaches in defiance of all reason that matter is capable of producing mind. But let us for a moment inquire how. Matter has one set of properties, mind another ; they are so entirely different as to have nothing in common between them. To mind we cannot ascribe the properties of Solidity, extension, figure, color. Of matter we cannot predicate understanding, will, affections. How then is matter to produce mind 2 Billington. Materialism, the philosophy of all expiring epochs and peoples in decay, is historically speak- ing, an old phenomenon, inseparable from the death of a religious dogma, ; it is the reaction of those superficial intellects, which, incapable of taking a comprehensive view of the life of huma- nity, and tracing and deducing its essential cha- racteristics from tradition, deny the religious ideal itself, instead of simply affirming the death of one Of its incarnations. Mazzini. IMA THEMIATICS. Mathematics is the mind's recreation. Averoni. Mathematics are a ballast for the soul. T. Fuller. Mathematics has not a foot to stand on which is not purely metaphysical. De Quincey. A mathematician is a practical man, estimating things by their real utility. W. H. Prescott. There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges. Lord Bacon. The whole body of the pure mathematics is ab- solutely useless to ninety-nine out of every hundred who study them. T. S. Grimké. Mathematics does not exercise the judgment, and if too exclusively pursued, may leave the student very ill qualified for moral reasoning. R. Whately. In destroying the predisposition to anger, science of all kinds is usefnl; but the mathematics possess the property in the most eminent degree. Dr. Rwsh. God has made an unerring law for His whole creation, upon principles which, so far as we now know, can never he understood without the aid of mathematics. E. D. Mansfield. Mathematics is the science which investigates the consequences which are logically deducible from any given or admitted relations between magni- tudes or numbers. T. Galloway. He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents. Colton. The mathematics are friends to religion, inas- much as they charm the passions, restrain the im- petuosity or imagination, and purge the mind from error and prejudice. Arbuthnot. I consider the study of mathematics the basis of the soundest mode of reasoning, the foundation of metaphysical deductions; it contains eternal truths, concluded by pure intelligence. Sir R. Maltravers. The study of the mathematics is like climbing up a steep and craggy mountain ; when once you reach the top, it fully recompenses your trouble, by opening a fine, clear, and extensive prospect. Jeremiah Day. I have mentioned mathematics as a way to set- tle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely, and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they have occa- Sion. J. Locke. The study of the mathematics cultivates the rea- Son ; that of the languages at the same time the reason and the taste. The former gives power to the mind; the latter, both power and flexibility. The former, by itself, would prepare us for a state of certainties, which nowhere exists: the latter, for a state of probabilities, which is that of com- mon life. T. Godfrey. 552 A) A Y'.S C O / / A C O AV. IMIATRIMONY. IMATTER. The chief end of woman is matrimony. Origem. Matter is indestructible. Telesio. Matrimony is the state, the condition, of wedded life. - - Actom. The first wife is matrimony ; the second, com- pany. Dr. Johnson. Courtship is a pastime, but matrimony is a Se- rious affair. Steele. There is nothing delightsome without Society ; no society so sweet as matrimony. R. Burton. Matrimony has something in it of nature, some- thing in it of civility, something of divinity. J. Hall. As love generally produces matrimony, so it often happens that matrimony produces love. - Addison. If idleness be the root of all evil, then matrimony is good for something, for it sets many a poor wo- man to work. Sir H. Vanbrugh. There is not any medium in the matrimonial State ; you have either the happiness of angels, or the misery of fiends. J. Bartlett. Matrimony is one of those natural kind of acci- dents that must happen, just as birds fly out of the nest, when they have feathers enough, without being able to tell why. H. W. Show. Every effort is made in forming matrimony al- liances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispo- sitions, or to the accordance of hearts. Massillon. The design of matrimony is not solely to render life more easy and pleasant to the wedded pair : its principal end is to perpetuate the great human family by the reproduction of individuals. Lamennais. Fashionable circles, gay life, and wealth, or an appearance of wealth, often cheat the young into matrimony, without any love in the pot, and with- out the aid of parental authority, the very circum- stance that should induce it. L. C. Judson. It is an ancient and laudable institution, that the rites of matrimony should not want a solemn celebration. When are feasts in season, if not at this main change of our estate, wherein the joy of obtaining meets with the hope of further comforts 3 R. Hall. Matrimony is an engagement which must last the life of one of the parties, and there is no retract- ing, vestigia mulla retrorswºm, therefore, to avoid all horror of a repentance that comes too late, men should thoroughly know the real causes that in- duces them to take so important a step, before they venture upon it. Colton. As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles, it would be wise in every young married man to enter into an agreement with his wife, that in all disputes of this kind the party who was most convinced they were right should always surrender the victory ; by which means both would be more forward to give up the CaliSe. Fielding. God was originally matter. David Dimant. Matter has no real existence. G. Berkeley. Matter is both matter and mind. Acosta. Matter contains the material to effect its own destruction. L. C. Judsom. Matter is eternal, but its forms and combinations are transitory. Baron D'Holbach. Matter, like an etermal river, still rolls on with- out diminution. Rowchen'. No atom of matter in the whole vastness of the universe is lost. Rabbi Ishmael. Matter is everything ; life is active matter, inert matter is death. Zemo. Matter is sublime and beautiful only as it is sig- nificant of mind. A. Alison. The body is matter ; the soul is also matter, of a different kind ; each depend upon the other for existence. Lºwcretius. Matter neither organizes itself, nor is organized by any cause but one, namely, a pre-existing Or- ganization. A. Ure. Matter, abstractly and absolutely considered, cannot have borne an infinite duration now past and expired. J. Holman. By the association of matter with the undying soul, human power and activity have been circum- scribed on every side. Mme. Swetchine. As matter exists, and as nothing can never be- come something, therefore matter must always have had an existence. Delazom Smith. Matter in the physical application is taken for all that composes the sensible world, in distinction from that which is spiritual or discernible only by the thinking faculty ; hence matter is always Op- posed to mind. G. Crabb. Some have dimensions of length, breadth, and depth, and have also a power of resistance, or ex- clude everything of the same kind from being in the same place ; this is the proper character of matter or body. I. Woºtts. Our reason can pursue a particle of matter through an infinite variety of divisions; but the fancy soon loses sight of it, and feels in itself a kind of chasm, that wants to be filled with matter of a more sensible bulk. Addison. It seems probable to me that God in the begin- ning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impene- trable, moveable particles, of such sizes and fig- ures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that those primi- tive particles, being solids, are incomparably har- der than any porous bodies compounded of them : even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces: no ordinary power being able to divide what God Himself made one in the first creation. Sir I. Newton. A R O S E O (7 O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 553 IMAXIMIS. The maxims of men reveal their character. Rochefoucauld. Few maxims are true from every point of view. - Vawvemargwes. Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. Sir J. Mackintosh. He that useth many maxims is not easily de- ceived. J. Wycliffe. A good maxim should be deeply imprinted on the mind. - S. Awstim. Maxims are the verdicts of wisdom on the re- ports of experience. W. Bent. Maxims of wisdom ought to be delivered with examples of prudence. N. Macdonald. Maxims freighted with wit and wisdom awake and revive the judgment. J. Ovington. The maxims of Christian people are very good, but their lives are very bad. Red Jacket. Maxims are often used by those who stand in more need of their application. James Ellis. A good maxim enliveneth the understanding, quickeneth the wit, and tickleth the ear. Mrs. Margaret Oliphant. A maxim, or precept, founded in wisdom, hath more weight than a law founded in error. Erik, Oacenstein. Many specious maxims have obtained general credence in the world which are in reality false. Magoon. A maxim is a proposition which all men confess to be true without proof, argument, or discourse. - Sir E. Coke. Some maxim for doing or for bearing, every student would do well to engrave on his memory. Sir W. Scott. It is a maxim of state, that countries newly and not settled, are matters of burden, rather than of strength. - Lord Bacon. Maxims to be good should be as sharp as vine- gar, as short as pie crust, and as true as a pair of steelyards. H. W. Shaw. Never introduce maxims, whether ancient or modern, whose point and bearing you are not able to explain. Modeste Vinot. Maxims are of great weight ; and a few useful ones at hand, do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find. Seneca. Maxims are often precepts, inasmuch as they are communicated to us by our parents; they are rules, inasmuch as they serve as a rule for our conduct : they are laws, inasmuch as they have the sanction of conscience. G. Crabb. It is hard to form a maxim against which an ex- ception is not ready to start up ; So where the min- ister grows rich, the public is proportionably poor; as in a private family the steward always thrives the fastest when the lord is running out. Swift. IMAXIMIS. In maxims, as in form and feature, age cannot give beauty to deformity ; or youth, strength to constituted weakness or infirmity. O. B. Peirce. To appreciate and use correctly a valuable max- im requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely allied to that which first created it. W. R. Alger. A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative ; a prin- ciple carries knowledge within itself, and is pro- spective. S. T. Coleridge. As a malicious censure craftily worded and pro- nounced with assurance, is apt to pass with man- kind for shrewd wit, so a virulent maxim in bold ex- pressions, though without any justness of thought, is readily received for true philosophy. Shaftesbury. That the temper, the sentiments, the morality of men, is influenced by the example and disposition of those they converse with, is a reflection which has long since passed into proverbs, and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wis- dom. S. Rogers. The value of a maxim depends on four things: its intrinsic excellence, or the comparative correct- ness of the principle it embodies ; the subject to which it relates ; the extent of its application ; and the comparative ease with which it may be applied in practice. - A. A. Hodge. If speculative maxims have not an active uni- versal assent from all mankind, practical principles come short of a universal reception. He that will improve every matter of fact into a maxim will abound in contrary observations, that can be of no other use but to perplex and pudder him. J. Locke. All people of broad strong sense have an instinc- tive repugnance to the men of maxims, because such people early discern that the mysterious complex- ity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims, and that to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort, is to repress all the divine promptings and inspira- tions that spring from growing insight and sym- pathy. G. Eliot. The man of maxims is the popular representative of the minds that are guided in their moral judg- ments solely by general rules, thinking that these will lead them to justice by a ready-made patent method, without the trouble of exerting patience, discrimination, impartiality—without any care to assure themselves whether they have the insight that comes from a hardly earned estimate of temptation. Mme. Levert. Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim. If it be very moral and very true, it may serve for a copy to a charity-boy ; if it be sparkling and whimsical, it may make an excellent motto for an essay. Maxims may frequently be of real use in regulat- ing conduct, not so much because they are more just or more profound than those which might be culled from other authors, as because they can be more readily applied to the problems of real life. T. B. Macawlay. 554 A) A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. IMEANINESS. MECHANICS. Avoid meanness. Chilo. The mechanical arts should have their place as ll li *8.1. st - ºl g Mean men admire wealth. C. L. Irby. well as the liberal €62te A selfish temper engenders meanness. G. Crabb. A mean man studies no one's happiness but his OWI1. Pope. A mean spirit boweth down the back, and the bowing fostereth meanness. Twpper. Meanness defileth the whole man ; its character- istics are the essences of selfishness. R. M. Bird. Always to think the worst, I have ever found to be the mark of a mean spirit and a base Soul. Bolingbroke. A mean and selfish man should live in a desert : there only he might be allowed to think of none but himself. F. R. Gwerin du Rocher. The mean man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom meanness withholds some im- portant benefit. R. W. Emerson. Poverty is not always meanness; it may be con- nected with it, but men of dignified minds and manners are often poor. N. Webster. Meanness of condition exposes the wisest to scorn, it being natural for men to place their es- teem rather upon things great than good. South. Superior men, and yet not always virtuous, there have been ; but alas ! there never has been a mean man, and at the same time virtuous. Confucius. Meanness produces selfishness, and increases with every hour of indulgence; and what is left undone, because it is difficult to-day, will be doubly difficult to-morrow. L. Holberg. Meanness doth contract and narrow our benevo- lence, and cause us, like Serpents, to infold our- selves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to all the world besides. Sir W. Scott. I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent Saint ; a mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man. - H. W. Beecher. Is it not some reproach on the economy of Pro- vidence that a mean, dirty fellow should have amassed wealth enough to buy half a nation ? Not in the least. He made himself a mean, dirty fel- low for that very end ; he has paid his health, his conscience, his liberty for it ; and will you envy him his bargain 3 Mrs. A. L. Barbauld. I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty ; under dishonesty, ingratitude ; under ingratitude, irreligion ; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature. Sterne. Every mechanic has such a shop to work in as best suits his business. Tsze-hea. Poor mechanics are wont to be God’s great am- bassadors to mankind. |W. Penn. The mechanic who wishes to do his work well, must first sharpen his tools. Confucius. A mechanic may give us his tools, but he cannot give us the skill to use them. Memcints. Mechanism affords the best exercise for the de- velopment of ingenuity and skill. J. Tufts. All reforms in the social structure of the work- ing-man, must be through the intelligence of the mechanic. James Ellis. Uneducated labor is comparatively unprofitable. The mechanic sees this, when he compares a stupid mind with an awakened one. H. Manſm. The mechanic who gives his art as an inherit- ance to his children, has left them a fortune which is multiplied in proportion to their number. Montesquiew. Skill in mechanics is a faculty wholly distinct from taste in the fine arts ; where the latter exists, or lies dormant, or retrogrades, the other may ad- vance, still making great and rapid strides. Hope. Restrict the intellectual faculties to established rules and precepts, and call in the aid of manual labor to accomplish them, with the implements of Some kinds of handicraft—then we are mechanics. Acton. There should be no antagonism between the agri- cultural and mechanical interests ; both are neces- sary for our country’s welfare. Agriculture pro- duces the crop ; mechanism harvests it, and brings it to utility. E. P. Day. Those occupations that require mechanical labor are the surest, most healthy, and most independ- ent ; surest, because they are more expansive ; healthiest, because they give exercise to the physi- cal powers ; most independent, because less ex- posed to the whims and caprice of public opinion. L. C. Judson. The training of the mechanic, by the exercise it gives to his observant faculties, from his daily dealing with things actual and practical, and the close experience of life which he acquires, better fits him for picking his way along the journey of life, and is more favorable to his growth as a man, than the training afforded by any other condition. Hugh Miller. By shunning the mechanic we exert an influence derogatory to honest labor, and make it unfashion- able for young men to learn trades or labor for Support. Did our young women realize that for all they or their parents possess, they are indebted to the mechanic, it would be their desire to en- courage his visits to their society, while they would treat with scorn the lazy, the fashionable, the well- dressed pauper. John Neal. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 555 IMEDICINE. IMEDIOCRITY. Doctors seldom take medicine. M. Crowell. Mediocrity is best in every thing. Cleobulws. Faith cures more than medicine. Paracelsus. Mediocrity only of enjoyment is allowed to man. H. Blair. R. Zotti. Medicines are not meant to live on. Take not medicine when you are well. Varro. Nine-day wonders are more common in medicine than in anything else. Peter Verri. Medicine and chemistry are the right and left hand of the healing art. Sir T. Wyat. Medicines are for bodily infirmities and disor- ders, and not for cares and vexations of the mind. Mrs. Sarah K. Trimmer. Medicine sometimes destroys, sometimes gives health : it shows the herb that assists and that which hurts. Ovid. The poets did well to conjoin music and medi- cine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the harp of man's body. Lord Bacom. Medicine is justly distributed into prophylac- tic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it. I. Watts. All men ought to be acquainted with the me- dical art ; for knowledge of medicine is the sister and companion of wisdom. Hippocrates. In the actual condition of medical Science, the physician mostly plays but the part of simple spec- tator of the sad episodes which his profession fur- nishes him. R. D. Naa. The disease and its medicine are like two fac- tions in a besieged town ; they tear One another to pieces, but both nmite against their common ene- my, nature. Lord Jeffrey. Medicine is the study of nature in reference to the physical and physiological, and even some of the moral conditions of man. It is a great field, where some reap that do not Sow. Actom. Medicine has been defined to be the art or science of amusing a sick man with frivolous speculations about his disorder, and of tampering ingeniously, till nature either kills or cures him. D. Drake. As it is doubtful whether medicines, from the in- judicious use of them, do not kill almost as many as they cure, so it is questionable whether our in- genuity, through our perverse exercise of it, is not as often exerted to our injury as our good. Bovee. Medicine is but a temporary expedient, and the more we take, the more we require. It may miti- gate, assuage, or allay ; it may afford relief when we are actually ill ; it cannot prevent disease; still less can it save us from death, though it may be the means indeed of prolonging life. Horace Smith. The advice and medicine which the poorest la- borer can now obtain, in disease or after an acci- dent, is very far superior to what Henry the Eighth could have commanded; the improvement of medicine has far more than kept pace with the increase of disease during the last three centuries. T. B. Macawlay. Mediocrity can talk ; but it is for genius to ob- Sel’Ve. B. Disraeli. Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men. Horace. Mediocrity not unfrequently wins the honors and emoluments that talent often aspires to in vain. Acton. Mediocrity in external circumstances is exempt from all the evils which attend either poverty or riches. G. Crabb. Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of mediocre capacity when once raised to power. Baron Wessenberg. The art of putting well into play mediocre quali- ties often begets more reputation than true merit achieves. Rochefoucauld. Perservering mediocrity is much more respecta- ble, and unspeakably more useful than talented in- constancy. * Dr. James Hamilton. Mediocrity, both intellectual and physical, is the best shield, and the surest protection against envy and detraction. Pev. G. Swimmock. The emotion most profoundly experienced by ambitious mediocrity is envy at the success of in- dustrious merit. Magoon. There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, paint- ing, public Speaking. Bruyère. The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but walking orderly ; its grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity. Montaigme. Mediocrity has more interpreters and sympa- thizers than genius; for that which the many call genius has not the merit of being a decent imitation Of it. H. Hooker. How many minds are there to whom scarcely any good can be done ! They have no excitability. You must leave them as you find them, in perma- nent mediocrity. J. Foster. As it is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any. Pliny the Younger. The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly ap- proved but mediocrity ; the majority has estab- lished this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. Pascal. Mediocrity has long been considered a universal principle, extended through the whole compass of life and nature ; the experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however speciousand alluring, is pur- sued with propriety, or enjoyed with safety, be- yond certain limits. Dr. Johnsom. 556 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. IMEDITATION. Meditation is partly a passive, and partly an ac- tive state. F. W. Robertson. Labor, but slight not meditation ; meditate, but slight not labor. Confucius. Meditation gives strength to our purposes, and and stirs up reason into action. H. G. Salter. Meditation is the womb of our actions ; action the midwife of our meditations. A. Warwick. Meditation upon goodness will soon become ef- fete, unless it be strengthened by good works. F. Wayland. The man of meditation is happy not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of his years. - Isaac Taylor. It is easier to go six miles to hear a sermon, than to spend one quarter of an hour in meditating on it when I come home. Philip Henry. It is not he that reads most but he that meditates most on divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, and strongest Christian. R. Hall. Meditation is to the sermon what the harrow is to the seed—it covers those truths which else might have been picked up or washed away. Rev. C. T. Jackson. Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation that must form our judgment. I. Watts. There is scarce anything that nature has made, or that men do suffer, whence the devout reflector cannot take an Occasion of an aspiring meditation. R. Boyle. Meditation is the tongue of the soul, and the lan- guage of our spirit ; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty. Jeremy Taylor. Meditation is that act of the mind, by which it seeks within, either the law of the phenomena which it has contemplated without, or semblances, symbols, and analogies corresponsive to the same. S. T. Coleridge. Meditation is the life of the soul; action is the soul of meditation ; honor is the reward of action ; so meditate that thou mayest do ; so do that thou mayest purchase honor—for which purchase give God the glory. F. Quarles. It is not, I suppose, a more bold than profitable labor, after the endeavors of so many contempla- tive men to teach the art of meditation ; a heaven- ly business as any belongeth either to man or Christian, and such as whereby the soul doth un- speakably benefit itself. J. Hall. Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, where- by, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer hand. I persuade no man to make it his whole life's business. We have bodies as well as souls; and even this world, while we are in it, ought somewhat to be cared for. Feltham. MEDITATION. It is a fault in life as great as obvious, that we see not or heed not, how principles that we honor and profess to obey, may be, and are, applied or violated in our common conduct. He who medi- tates will be able to see this, and show it. Theophilus Trinal. Without meditation we do but talk one after an- other like parrots, and take up things by mere hear- say, and repeat them by rote, without affection and life, or discerning the worth and excellency of what we speak. It is meditation that maketh truth always ready and present to us. T. Mamton. Meditation is often confounded with something which only partially resembles it. Sometimes we sit in a kind of day-dream, the mind expatiating far away into vacancy, while minutes and hours slip by almost unmarked in mere vacuity. This is not meditation, but reverie, a state to which the soul resigns itself in mere passivity. When the soul is absent and dreaming let no man think that that is spiritual. F. W. Robertsom. MEEKNESS. Meekness is better than sacrifice. Rabbi Ashi. There is nothing lost by meekness and yielding. J. Trapp. Meekness is the chief grace and perfection of the Soul. Acton. Meekness is a temper opposite to irritable ; it is a grace commended by the Savior. A. Ritchie. As lowliness of heart maketh a man highly in fa- vor with God, so meekness of words maketh him to sink into the hearts of men. T. Lushington. Meekness is a grace which Jesus alone inculcated, and which no ancient philosopher seems to have understood or recommended. J. S. Buckminster. A meek man enjoys almost a perpetual Sabbath. Meekness not only gives great peace of mind, but often adds a lustre to the countenance. Philip Henry. Reason will be better spoken, and a righteous cause better pleaded, with meekness, than with passion ; hard arguments do best with soft words. Magoon. Meekness is imperfect, if it be not active and pas- sive—if it will not enable us to subdue our own passions and resentments, as well as qualify us to bear the passions and resentments of others. Rev. W. Lee. Meekness is a Christian virtue forcibly recom- mended to our practice by the example and pre- cepts of our blessed Savior; it consists not only in an unresisting, but a forgiving temper, a temper that is unruffled by injuries and provocations. G. Crabb. Meekness, love, prudence, and discretion, with other talents below mediocrity, will effect more in correcting error, reforming the vicious, and ad- vancing pure and undefiled religion, than the tal- ents of an angel could accomplish without them. L. C. Judson. P R O S E O U O 7. A 7" I O M. S. 55 7 IMIELANCHOLY. Melancholy is born with us. M. Lºwther. Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. Shakspeare. The devil is best able to work on melancholy per- SO11S. R. Burton. Melancholy attends on the best joys of a merely ideal life. Margaret Fuller. Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. Aristotle. In our moments of melancholy, we covet Con- tentment and peace. Acton. Things that men call the cause of their melan- choly are often the effects of it. Sir W. Fordyce. Melancholy is often the offspring of a bad diges- tion. Dyspeptics are melancholy Dr. Rush. What kind of philosophy is it to extol melan- choly, the most detestable thing in nature. Cicero. Melancholy is not only ingratitude to heaven, but shows a lack of confidence in Ourselves. Ammie E. Lamcaster. Melancholy is the protest of a mind naturally earnest, against a way of life unnaturally frivo- lous. Mrs. C. H. W. Esling. Those persons who are given to melancholy are the most capable of discipline, and the most excel- lent. Plato. Melancholy is a kind of demon that haunts our island, and often conveys herself to us in an east- erly wind. earth, like envy between man and man, in an ever- lasting mist. If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now. - Leigh Hunt. Melancholy sees the worst of things—things as they may be, and not as they are ; it looks upon a beautiful face, and sees nothing but a grinning skull. Bovee. Melancholy is an instrument of the devil, by which he accomplishes his wicked purposes ; the deeper a person is plunged into that state, the more power the devil hath over him. M. Lºwther. Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy, sad soul; he will be sure to aggravate thy adversity, and lessen thy prosperity. He always goes heavy loaded ; and thou must bear half. Fémélon. Melancholy, or low spirits, is that hysterical pas- sion which forces unbidden sighs and tears; it falls upon a contented life, like a drop of ink on white paper, which is not the less a stain that it carries no meaning with it. Sir W. Scott. We should not sadden the harmless mirth of others by suffering our own melancholy to be seen ; and this species of exertion is, like virtue, its own reward ; for the good spirits which are at first simulated become at length real. T. Scott. Addison. Melancholy spreads itself betwixt heaven and Byron. IMELANCHOLY. Whatever is highest and holiest is tinged with melancholy. The eye of genius has always a plain- tive expression, and its natural language is pathos. A prophet is sadder than other men ; and He who was greater than all prophets was “a man of sor- rows and acquainted with grief.” Mrs. L. M. Child. Scoffs, calumnies, and jests, are frequently the causes of melancholy. It is said that “a blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword ;” and certainly there are many men whose feelings are more galled by a calumny, a bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, a Squib, a satire, Or an epigram, than by any misfortune whatsoever. R. Burton. The melancholy man is one that keeps the worst company in the world, that is, his own; and though he be always falling out and quarrelling with him- self, yet he has not the power to endure any other conversation ; his head is haunted like a house, with evil spirits and apparitions, that terrify and fright him out of himself, until he stands empty and forsaken. S. Butler. Philosophers have divested themselves of their matural apathy, and poets have risen above them- selves in descanting on the pleasures of melancholy. There is no mind so gross, no understanding so un- cultivated, as to be incapable, at certain moments, and amid certain combinations, of feeling that sublime influence upon the spirits which steals the . soul from the petty anxieties of the world, “and fits it to hold converse with the gods.” H. K. White. Why should the soul be cast down with melan- choly % Why should the earth-spirit call us back from the emotions of life's pleasures, and make us seek the retreat of some quiet and unnoticed cor- ner; or to seek shelter in the shade of some lonely and secluded hill, until the life instinct which is around us appears only a part of Our own souls— the mortal a triumph over chaos, and the immor- tal a scintillation from some everlasting and eter- nal Sun ? James Ellis. Take care how you too much indulge gloomy and melancholy thoughts. Some are disposed to see everything in the worst light ; a black cloud hangs hovering over their minds, which when it falls in showers through their eyes, is dispersed, and all within is serene again. This is often purely me- chanical, and owing either to some fault in the bodily constitution, or some accidental disorder in the animal frame ; however, one that consults the peace of his own mind, will be upon his guard against this, which often robs him of it. J. Mason. Never give way to melancholy ; resist it steadi- ly, for the habit will encroach. I once gave a lady two-and-twenty receipts against melancholy : one was a bright fire ; another, to remember all the pleasant things said to her ; another, to keep a box of sugar-plums on the chimney-piece and a kettle simmering on the hob. I thought this mere trifling at the moment, but have in after-life dis- covered how true it is that these little pleasures often banish melancholy better than higher and more exalted objects ; and that no means ought to be thought too trifling which can oppose it either in ourselves or in others. Sydney Smith. 558 A) A Y S CO / / A C O AV. IMIELODY. Melody is the mother of love. R. Hyrtlesham. Music is not music without melody. W. Herbert. Melody relieves a despondent heart. Raab. A pure heart makes the best melody. Biom. There may be melody without harmony. Crabb. Nothing is so dainty, and nothing so sweet, as melody. S. Fletcher. The melody of the sirens leadeth the listeners to destruction. Flaminio Odi. Melody is a recreation of the soul, and the delight of the body. A. W. C. Saal. A lamentable tune is the sweetest melody to a woeful heart. Sir P. Sidney. The melody of birds is the purest and sweetest of all melodies. O. G. W. Wach. The melody of birds fills our hearts with a sweet and innocent delight. Sturm. True melody consisteth in certain properties and modulations of the voice. Bemoiste. Warriors consider the sounds of drums and trum- pets as the melody of martial music. Bias. There is something deep and good in melody, for body and soul go strangely together. T. Carlyle. Melody is indispensable to music, for music with- out melody is only a hindrance to delight. Giry. Ah what can equal the melody of the running waters, combined with the songs of blue-birds and Other favorites ? C. J. Peterson. A sweet and touching melody will carry the soul into a higher region, and make a man feel kindred with the immortals. J. Twlloch. Melody, both vocal and instrumental, is for the raising up of men's hearts, and the sweetening their affections toward God. R. Hooker. All nature is tuneful ; the ear takes infinite plea- sure and delight in drinking in the reverberating melodies and entrancing harmonies of the sublime and beautiful world around us. Acton. What tongue can tell the unutterable energies that exist in these three engines: church music, national airs, and fireside melodies, as means of informing and enlarging the mighty heart of a free people ! A. Potter. All times and passages are full of melody, if we would but hear it ; as in tumultuous floods and rushing falls of water every drop is as obedient to the laws of nature as if it lay in the bosom of the tranquil lake. H. W. Beecher. Melody is thoroughly moral, and consequently free ; it is the heart's utterance, and follows and renders its emotions faithfully ; when brilliant, it recalls our joys ; when sweet and lingering, it portrays our rare and delicious intervals of repose; it sighs for our disquietudes, and sways beneath Our sorrows, like a friend who shares them. Mme. Swetchine. be the acme of human happiness. MEMORY. Exercise the memory. Pythagoras. Memory is a historian. V. Ximenes. Memory delights old age. Biom. Memory is the staff of age. Jean Owdraadt. Memory is the soul's treasury. Twº"retiºn?. Memory comes by cultivation. Averoni. Memory shows us buried hopes. Berz. Memory is a source of pleasure. Sydney Smith. Memory is the hours of the past. Mrs. A. Marsh. Memory is the mother of wisdom. " Bias. Memory is the bane of the wicked. Pericles. Memory is the daughter of attention. Chilo. Memory is the mind's magnetic telegraph. Mrs. L. N. Ramyard. Memory obeys the commands of the heart. Rivarol. Our memories are the keynotes to our happi- IléSS. John Taaf. A land without memories is a land without lib- erty. Father Ryan. Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. Cicero. Memory is the prolonged impression of outward objects. Sir R. Maltravers. A strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment. Montaigme. O memory, thou bitter-sweet—both of joy and a scourge Mme. de Stael. Memory is active in bringing back to us the joys of the past. Grace Greenwood. Memory is an enemy to rest, and the chronicle of our misfortunes. Attrelius. The leaves of memory seem to make a mournful rustling in the dark. Longfellow. Memory is like a purse, if it be overfull that it cannot shut, all will drop out. T. Fuller. Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes. Lady Blessington. Every man complains of his memory, but no man complains of his judgment. Rochefoucauld. I believe a good memory and plenty of books to Magliabecchi. Memory is the golden thread linking all the men- tal gifts and excellencies together. E. P. Hood. Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. Lactantius. Memory is the moonlight of the mind, touching the ruins of the past with a softened light. Elizabeth Joceline. Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true. Prentice. P R O S F O U O T A T / O AV S. 559 IMEMORY. Memory is like moonlight, the reflection of brighter rays from an object no longer seen. - G. P. R. James. The memory of man is like a met, which holdeth great things, and letteth the small come through. Solom. There is a divine memory given of God, in which casket the jewels of wisdom and science are locked. St. Augustime. Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation. Dr. Johnson. There are are bitter memories which haunt the minds of some men ; they are the ghosts of their evil deeds. Annie E. Lancaster. Great memories, which retain all indifferently, are the mistresses of an inn, and not the mistresses of a house. Mme. Necker. There is nothing steadfast in life, but Our memo- ries; we are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost. Mme. Swetchine. Memory often knocks at the heart of the wicked, and awakens many dreadful thoughts that are sleeping within. J. D. Michael. A memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure, an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment. Charlotte Bronté. Application is the currency in the realm of learn- ing ; and memory is the mint where this coinage receives its impression. Mrs. Sigourney. In the man whose childhood has known caresses, there is always a fibre of memory which can be touched to gentle issues. G. Eliot. An active and faithful memory doubles life ; for it brings a man again upon its stage with all those who have made their exits. J. Johnston. Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the trea- sury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council-chamber of thought. St. Basil. Memory is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away ; indeed Our first parents were not to be deprived of it. Richter. Many have large but unsanctified memories, which serve only to gather knowledge whereby to aggravate their condemnation. Rev. T. Boston. Memory can glean, but can never renew ; it bring us joys, faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the Summer that is gone. H. W. Beecher. Memory is like a picture-gallery of past days; the fairest and most pleasant of the pictures are those which immortalize the days of useful indus- try. Mrs. Sarah Mayo. Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world ! Yet more blessed and more the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world ! - Mrs. Jameson. IMEMORY. Memory is not wisdom ; idiots can rote volumes : yet what is wisdom without memory 2 A babe that is strangled in its birth. Tupper. How are such an infinite number of things placed with such order in the memory, notwithstanding the tumults, marches, and countermarches of the animal spirits 3 - J. Collier. The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful ; but it soon fades away. The memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever. Haliburton. Memory, like books that remain a long time shut up in the dust, needs to be opened from time to time; it is necessary, so to speak, to open its leaves, that it may be ready in time of need. Semeca. The memory ought to be a store-room ; many turn theirs rather into a lumber-room ; nay, even stores grow moldy and spoil, unless aired and used betimes; and then they, too, become lumber. J. C. Hare. Memory is a recurrence of sensations, which existed formerly, produced by the operations of Some internal changes, after the causes by which the first sensations were excited have ceased to exist. H. Welby, The heart's broken utterance of reflections of past kindness, and the tears of grateful memory shed upon the grave, are more valuable in my estimation than the most costly cenotaph ever reared. G. Sharp. Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, mel- ancholy memories, sweet thoughts, and charming reveries. Alphonse Karr, Memory is that which preserveth understanding, and keepeth fast those things heard and learned ; is the mother of the muses, the treasure of know- ledge, the hearing of deaf things, and the sight of the blind. J. Buacton. There is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song ; there is a remembrance of the dead, to which we turn even from the charms of the living ; these we would not exchange for the pleasure or the bursts of revelry. W. Irving. Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention ; there are many books that owe their success to two things—the good memory of those who write them, and the bad, memory of those who read them. Colton. The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us; it is like those repositories in animals that are filled with stores of food, on which they may ruminate when their present pasture fails. Addison. If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious in mature age ; if childhood has sometimes the memory of words, old age has that of things which impress themselves according to the clearness of the conception of the thought which we wish to retain. De Bonstetten. 560 A) A V 'S CO /, / A C O AV. IMEMORY. The powers of memory are two-fold; they con- sist of the actual reminiscence or recollection of past events, and in the power of retaining what we have learned, in such a manner, that it can be called into remembrance as Occasions present themselves, or circumstances may require. Cogan. By reading continually with great attention, and never passing a passage without understanding and considering well, the memory will be stored with knowledge, and things will occur at times when we want them, though we can never recol- lect the passages or from whence we draw our ideas. J. Trusler. Memory and understanding are also fast friends, and the light which one gains will be reflected upon the other ; to facilitate the management of memory, it is well to keep in view that her office is threefold: her first effort is to receive know- ledge ; her second is to retain it : her last, to bring it forth when it is needed. Mrs. Sigowrivey. Many are saved by the deficiency of their me- mory, from being spoiled by their education ; for those who have no extraordinary memory are driven to supply its defects by thinking ; if they do not remember a mathematical demonstration, they are driven to devise one, and thus their fa- culties are invigorated by exercise. R. Whately. Memory, united with judgment, perception, and penetration, constitutes a good mind, well adapted to the ordinary purposes of life : add to these ha- bits of persevering application and industry, and you have an example of a superior man ; but if you conjoin with them the elements of enthusiasm and inspiration, you have an extraordinary man, or one who is gifted with genius. Acton. The memory of some men is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive : so that if they be not sometimes renewed by re- peated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kind of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen. J. Locke. It is an old saying, that we forget nothing, as people in fever begin suddenly to talk the language of their infancy ; we are stricken by memory some- times, and old affections rush back on us as vivid as in the time when they were our daily talk; when their presence gladdened our eyes; when their accents thrilled in our ears ; when, with pas- sionate tears and grief, we flung ourselves upon their hopeless corpses. W. M. Thackeray. As a clear judgment and a fine genius are every way valuable, so a good memory is of considerable importance ; it is the storehouse of the soul, and the repository of intellectual wealth ; it is the li- brary of the mind, which we carry about with us; it is, indeed, to be lamented that it often retains useless lumber and insignificant ideas, but it will be the business of a wise man to lay up in it those treasures which, in due time, he can lay out with utility. C. Buck. IMEMORY. Memory enables us to re-enjoy the pleasures and re-suffer the pains of life over and over thousands of times; how a single wrong act which leaves a moral stain upon the disc of memory, pierces us with new pangs every time it flashes across our minds, while every recollection of the good and the pleasurable in word and deed sheds on us a bright beam of happiness well nigh equal to that experienced in the act itself—thus enabling us to redouble our pleasures illimitably O. S. Fowler. It is a benevolent provision of nature, that in old age the memory enjoys a second spring—a second childhood, and that while we forget all passing occurrences, many of which are but concomitants of old age, we have a vivid and delightful recollec- tion of all the pleasures of youth. Many a gray- beard, who seems to be lost in vacancy, as he sits silently twiddling his thumbs, is in fact chewing the mental cud of past happiness, and enjoying a tranquil gratification, which youngsters might well envy. Chatfield. We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures; indeed, al- most all that we can be said to enjoy is past or fu- ture; the present is in perpetual motion, leaves us as soon as it arrives, ceases to be present before its presence is well perceived, and is only known to have existed by the effects which it leaves behind. The greatest part of our ideas arises, therefore, from the view before or behind us, and we are happy or miserable, according as we are affected by the survey of our life, or our prospect of future existence. - Dr. Johnsom. How sweet is memory ! It is the soul's looking- glass, where the mind can see reflected back the years that have passed. Boyhood's hopes come floating by, fresh as the summer's flowers; youth's ambition again rears its lofty head, and again we feel the glow it once inspired ; a mother's gentle, loving face, with an approving Smile, is once more hovering over us—but alas ! the tear falls upon the cheek and the reverie is broken ; the cold hand of the world is again upon us, and we feel that those hopes are not fulfilled, and the ladder of our ambition is but a shapeless mass ; but the memory of that loving face, of those hopes, and of that ambition, is “a part of our souls, and will be eter- mal.” James Ellis. It is a fact well attested by experience, that the memory may be seriously injured by pressing upon it too hardly and continuously in early life. What- ever theory we hold as to this great function of our nature, it is certain that its powers are only gradually developed ; and that, if forced into pre- mature exercise, they are impaired by the effort. This is a maxim, indeed, of general import, apply- ing to the condition and culture of every faculty of body and mind, but singularly to the one we are now considering, which forms, in One Sense, the foundation of intellectual life : a regulated exercise, short of fatigue, is improving to it but we are bound to refrain from goading it by Con- stant and laborious efforts in early life, and before the instrument is strengthened to its work, or it decays under our hands. Sir H. Holland. A R O S A. Q J O 7" A 7" / O M S. IMIEN. Men are rare. Floriam. Be a friend to all men. Hillel. ' Men are but great children. Napoleon I. Good men are heaven's peculiar care. Ovid. Men must sail while the wind serveth. Haller. Men are not to be measured by inches. Taunton. All are not men that wear the human form. J. S. Knowles. It is far easier to know men than to know man. Rochefowcauld. The earth does not want new continents, but new IIlê11. Jules Verne. We put too much faith in systems, and look too little to men, - B. Disraeli. Men are born crying ; live complaining, and die disappointed. * T. Boston. We do not commonly find men of superior sense among those of the highest fortune. Juvenal. Men are the sport of circumstances, when the circumstances seem the sport of men. Byron. Men are but children too, though they have grey hairs; they are indeed of a larger size. Semeca. There are but three classes of men : the retro- grade, the stationary, and the progressive. Lavater. Men are like weathercocks, which are never con- stant or fixed, but when they are worn out or rusty. Rousseaw. All men in reality converse either with God or with the devil, and walk in the confines either of heaven or of hell. John Smith. In all our reasonings concerning men, we must lay it down as a maxim, that the greater part are molded by circumstances. . R. Hall. How frail and inconsistent are men . How dif- ferently they think and act, even for themselves, in different circumstances ! S. Pay"). Men are but children of a larger growth; our appetites are apt to change as theirs, and full as craving too, and full as vain. Dryden. Many men resemble glass—smooth, and slippery, and flat, so long as one does not break them, but then cursedly cutting, and every splinter stings. Richter. The difference of men is very great ; you would Scarce think them to be of the same species; and yet it consistS more in the affections than the in- tellect. J. Selden. A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceeding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time. Giraudiere. Men are, in the state, what musical instruments are in an orchestra ; they render the sounds more or less agreeable according as they are well or badly touched. Beawmelle. IMIEN, The fancies of men are so immediately diversi- fied by the individual crasis that every man owns something wherein mone is like him. Glanvill. Men are too much occupied with themselves to have leisure to know others thoroughly, or to dis- cern their real character ; hence it happens that with a great merit and a greater modesty, one may be a long time lost sight of. Bruyère. Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and in cities, improve their talents, but impair their virtues, and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the other. Colton. Men generally dread dangers that are near, and set a higher value on present things than they ought, paying too little regard to those that are in the distance, because they feel that many reme- dies may intervene from accidental circumstances and from time. Gwicciardini. God has made men, springing from the ground, tall and upright, that, with eyes looking to heaven, they might acquire a knowledge of the Divine Be- ing ; for men are not to consider themselves as mere dwellers on earth, but as it were placed there to gaze on the heavens and heavenly bodies, which is the privilege of no other animated creature. Cicero. All men of good disposition feel that, with in- creasing cultivation, they have a double part to play in the world—a real and an ideal—and in this feeling we have to search for everything noble. The real part that has been assigned us we feel only too strongly ; in respect to the second, we can sel- dom come to a clear understanding about it. Goethe. Whoever compares past things with present will find that men in all ages have had the same ten- dencies and desires as now ; so that it is easy by consulting what is passed to foresee what will fol- low in every commonwealth, and to employ the same remedies as the ancients have used ; and if there be no such precedents, to invent new reme- dies from the similarity of the occurrences. Machiavelli. Some men are rough, uncouth, growling, grum- bling, like the bear ; others are lion-like, or tiger- like, or wolfish, or fox-like. Some are timid as the deer, or gentle as the lamb, or possessed of the strength, beauty, and alertness of the leopard ; others are morose and surly like the mastiff, or ar- rogant and overbearing like the bull-dog, or snar- ling and snapping like the cur, for ever barking, but never having the courage to bite. Rev. H. Read. You cannot know men by the clothes they wear ; these may express the smallest features of their characters. To know men you must lookinto their faces : you must hear their words ; you must ob- serve their actions. And after you have done this, how much of them is left behind—the unopened pages of the book of the heart, its motives, thoughts, desires, intents—the unrevealed doings of darkness in hours, places, and ways, which only the judg- ment will disclose. John Bate. 36 562 AD A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV, IMERCHANT. A merchant is a prince. Merchants' goods are ebb and flood. D. A. Azwni. Arnim. The merchant of to-day may be the beggar of to-morrow. Sturz. There are not more useful members in a com- monwealth than merchants. Addison. A merchant is one who benefits two parties once, that he may benefit himself twice. E. P. Day. Merchants possess not a single idea beyond their counting-houses ; commerce may fill the purse, but it clogs the brain. Mme. P. Bonaparte. Some kind of mercantile life is not only an in- dispensable necessity, but an irresistible desire in the heart of man. W. Hooper. A strong, active mind, and good, practical com- mon Sense, are the essential qualifications to make a Successful merchant. James Ellis. The Phoenicians, of whose exceeding merchan- dising we read so much in ancient histories, were Canaanites, whose very name signifies merchants. E. Brerewood. It is the very life of merchandise to buy cheap and sell dear. The merchant ought to make his outset as cheap as possible, that he may find the greater profit upon his return. E. Budgell. I have known merchants with the sentiments and the abilities of great statesmen, and I have seen persons in the rank of statesmen with the concep- tions and characters of peddlers. Bwrke. The American merchant is a type of a restless adventurous, onward-going people. He sends his merchandise all over the earth ; he stocks every market, and makes wants, that he may supply them. W. H. C. Hosmer. Merchants are of great benefit to the public. They knit mankind together in a mutual inter- course of good offices; they distribute the gifts of nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great. Steele. Many of our most excellent merchants are proud to acknowledge with gratitude the obligations they owe for the means of their first introduction into life, and for the benefits of counsel and counte- nance in the early stages of their career. Smiles. . There is no class in society who can so ill afford to undermine the conscience of the community, or to set it loose from its moorings in the eternal sphere, as merchants, who live upon confidence and credit: anything which weakens or paralyzes this, is taking beams from the foundations of the mer- chant's warehouse. H. W. Beecher. A mercantile life disposes men to peace, and es- tablishes in every state an order of citizens bound by their interest to be the guardians of public tran- quility. As soon as the commercial spirit acquires vigor, and begins to gain an ascendant in any So- ciety, we discern a new genius in its policy, its alliances, its wars, and its negotiations. F. W. Robertson. IMEF.CHANT. A Christian merchant should so act that his cus- tomers shall see and know that he is a Christian ; not merely that he conducts his business on great maxims of honesty, but that business itself is su- bordinate and instrumental to the great purposes of life. C. J. Ingersoll. It requires an unusual aptitude of mind to con- duct mercantile business ; like school-teaching, mercantile business is overcrowded with competi- tors, for there are too many men attempt to be merchants, who, instead, ought to follow some other occupation. T. Tilton. The grand enterprises of merchants are always necessarily connected with the affairs of the pub- lic ; but in monarchies, these public affairs give as much distrust to the merchants, as in free states they appear to give safety. Great enterprises therefore in commerce are not for monarchial, but for republican governments. Montesquiew. For a skillful diplomat give me a successful mer- chant ; having been accustomed all his life to buy when things are cheap, and sell when they are dear, or in other words to observe the state of the mark- et, and act accordingly, he would understand the wants of the country he represents, and conclude a treaty, neither too soon nor too late, but just at the right time, and one which would be most advanta- geous to the interests of the whole people. Jones. The experience of life demonstrates that a regu- lar, systematic, mercantile business is essential to the health, happiness, contentment, and usefulness of man ; without it, he is uneasy, unsettled, mise- rable and wretched ; his desires have no fixed aim, his ambition no high and noble ends ; he is the sport of visionary dreams and idle fancies—a look- er-on where all are busy ; a drone in the hive of industry ; a moper in the field of enterprise and labor. Actom. The merchant, above all, is extensive, considera- ble, and respectable by his occupation. It is he who furnishes every comfort, convenience, and elegance of life; who carries off every redundance, who fills up every want ; who ties country to coun- try, and clime to clime, and brings the remotest regions to neighborhood and converse ; who makes man to be literally the lord of creation, and gives him an interest in whatever is done upon earth ; who furnishes to each the products of all lands, and the labors of all nations ; and thus knits into one family, weaves into one web, the affinity and brotherhood of all mankind. H. Brooke. I am wonderfully delighted to see such a body of merchants thriving in their own private fortunes: and at the same time promoting the public stock; or in other words, raising estates for their own families by bringing into their country whatever is wanting, and carrying out of it everything that is superfluous. Nature seems to have taken a par- ticular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to this mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the natives of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another, and be united together by their common interest. Addison. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 563 IMERCY. If you are strong, be merciful. Chilo. Mercy is often shown in inflicting death. Seneca. A little mercy cannot pardon the least sin. G. S. Bowes. The greatest attribute of Divine Providence is mercy. * S. Fletcher. The depths of misery are never below the depths of mercy. Gibbes. Rats and conquerors must expect no mercy in misfortune. Colton. The actions of faith and mercy are sure to repay the merciful. Magoon. The soul closes against hate when dove-eyed mercy pleads. C. Sprague. We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. G. Eliot. Great minds erect their never-failing trophies on • the firm base of mercy. Massinger. If the end of one mercy were not the beginning of another, we were undone. Philip Henry. Mercy is that disposition of the mind which prompts us to pity those in trouble. Ann Flaacman. We believe that God's power is without limit : why should we not believe the same of His mercy 3 Bovee. Envied are the people in whose councils wisdom and mercy preside, like lovely and benignant sis- ters. J. F. Cooper. The most perfect would be the most exacting and severe ; but fortunately, mercy is one of the attri- butes of perfection. J. F. Boyes. Mercy is the spring of God's long-suffering ; for- giveness is the activity of this mercy ; and long- suffering is its quiet flow. J. H. Evans. The column is an emblem of faith, it springs from earth to heaven ; the arch symbolizes mercy, it descends from heaven to earth. Cowret. The mercies of God are not styled the swift, but the sure mercies of David ; and therefore a gra- cious soul patiently waits for them. A. Ritchie. God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it ; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous. Edward Reynolds. Mercy is like a rainbow ; we must never look for it after night ; it shines not in the other world; if we refuse mercy here, we must have justice to eternity. S. Squire. It is not for female delicacy to extenuate the crimes of drunkenness and bloodshed, even when performing the appropriate office of raising the Soul-subduing voice of mercy. J. Q. Adams. We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes, but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God, but we may forgive like Him. Sterne. IMERCY. God puts consolation only where He has first put pain, and causes His mercies to abound nowhere, save in the furrow traced by penitence and labo- rious effort. Mme. Swetchine. There is no better rule to try a doctrine by, than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life. H. Ballow. Were there but a single mercy apportioned to each moment of our lives, the sum would rise very high; but our arithmetic is confounded when every minute has more than we can distinctly number. N. Rowe. There is no one quality of the mind that requires more resolution, and receives a less reward, than that prospective but ultimately merciful severity, which strikes the individual for the good of the community. Colton. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy, on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year ; you will never be forgotten. No 1 your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind you, as the stars on the brow of evening. T. Chalmers. To discountenance mercy, which has struck off the chains of the slave, which has mitigated the horrors of war, which has raised women from ser- vants and playthings into companions and friends, is to commit high treason against humanity and civilization. T. B. Macawlay. The sun is the eye of the world ; and he is indif- ferent to the negro or the cold Russian ; to them that dwell under the line, and them that stand near the tropics—the scalded Indian, or the poor boy that shakes at the foot of the Riphean hills: so is the mercy of God. Jeremy Taylor. As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun pours forth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity ; heaven bestows the dew equal- ly on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without re- serve ; but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells. Schiller. When a man cares not what sufferings he causes others, and espesially if he delights in other men's sufferings and makes them his sport, this is cruelty; and not to be affected with the sufferings of other people, though they proceed not from us, but from others, or from causes in which we are not con- cerned, is unmercifulness ; mercy and humanity are the reverse of these. * Wollastom. The mercy-seat was the covering of the ark of the covenant in which the tables of the law were deposited ; it was of gold, and at its two ends were fixed the two cherubims, of the same metal, which with their wings extended forwards, seemed to form a throne for the majesty of God, who in scripture is represented as sitting between the che- rubims, and the ark was His foot-stool; it was hence that God gave His oracles to Moses, or to the high- priest that consulted Him. Calmet. 564 ZD A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. IMIEFIT. Success always attends merit. Livy. Merit seldom meets with its reward. Rowsseau. We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. Plawtus, Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it. Lord Nelson. The eyes of all men naturally turn toward me- rit. Al-Faiyád. Merit is born with men ; happy those with whom it dies. Queen Christina. Where merit appears, do justice to it without scruple. G. Spring. Charms always strike the sight ; but merit wins the soul. Pope. Merit in appearance is oftener rewarded than merit itself. Rochefoucauld. True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. Lord Halifaac. True merit often finds its gold not distinguished from base metal. H. Hookar. A man without ceremony hath need of great merit in its place. R. Dodsley. The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. St. Awgustime. It never occurs to fools that merit and good for- tune are closely united. Goethe. The man of merit hath too often to bend his back before men of vulgar souls. Berachjaha-Nakdam. All merit ceases the moment we perform an act for the sake of its consequences. W. Von Hwmboldt. Merit hid from the public gaze has little advan- tage over sloth laid in the grave. Horace. It is happy to have so much merit that our birth is the least thing respected in us. 4. B. de Senece. —T- The best evidence of merit is a cordial recogni- tion of it whenever and wherever found. Bovee. If you wish that your own merit should be re- cognized, recognize the merit of others. G. P. Morris. If we would honor merit, we must not judge by appearances; a vizored villain may seem fair. G. Brown. True merit, like the light of the glowworm, shines conspicuous to all except the object which emits it. Mrs. E. Ricord. Persons of the least intrinsic merit are usually the most vain, and the most easily inflated with hollow praise. Magoon. Men may have merit without rising to eminence, but no one has ever reached eminence without some degree of merit. Rochefoucauld. What numbers hive to the age of fifty or sixty, yet if estimated by their merit, are not worth the price of a chick the moment it is hatched Shenstone. IMERIT. Merit does not consist in extensiveness of know- ledge, but in doing the best according to the lights afforded. - J. T. Tucken'. Is not the merit of any creation determined pri- marily by the close and exact correspondence be- tween the idea and its incarnation ? Mme. Swetchine. People should examine and weigh the real weight and merit of the person, and not be imposed upon by false colors and pretenses. S. Croacall. A person may not merit favor, as that is only the claim of man, but can never demerit charity, for that is the command of God. Sterne. The next thing to having merit ourselves, is to take care that the meritorious profit by us; for he that rewards the deserving, makes himself one of the number. Coltom. I am told so many ill things of a man, and I See so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others. Brwyere. Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent ; there is usually some base- ness before there is any elevation. W. S. Landor. Real merit requires as much labor to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an un- worthy eminence ; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal. F. A. Durivage. Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward ; and merit without modesty, insolent ; but modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and gene- rally meets with as many patrons as beholders. J. Hughes. It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command. W. B. Clºtlow. Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed ; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it, but a man's exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought, but it will always be known. Chesterfield. Merit and good works are the end of man's mo- tion; and conscience of that same is the accomplish- ment of God's rest ; for if a man can be partaker in God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker in God's rest. Lord Bacon. It is by inborn merit that a man acquires pre- eminence ; whereas he who acts by precepts is a man of naught, swaying from this side to that, never setting down a firm, well-directed foot ; he attempts much, but to little purpose. Pindarus. Merit is often an obstacle to fortune, because it is always productive of two bad effects, envy and fear; envy in those who cannot rise to the same degree of perfection, and fear in those who are es- tablished, and who dread that by advancing a man of more merit than themselves, they may be Sup- planted. P. Qwarll. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 565 IMERIT. IMETAPHOR. I know not why we should delay our tokens of The metaphor gives light and strength to descrip- respect to those who merit them, until the heart | tion. J. Bent. that our sympathy could have gladdened has ceased to beat. As men cannot read the epitaphs in- scribed upon the marble that covers them, so the tombs that we erect to virtue often Only prove Our repentance that we neglected it when with us. Bulwer. Did you ever scratch the end of a piece of tim- ber, slightly elevated, with a pin 3 Though scarcely heard at one end, it was distinctly heard at the other. Just so it is with any merit, excellence, or good work: it will be sooner heard of, and ap- plauded, and rewarded on the other side of the globe, than by your immediate acquaintances. Rhoda Browghton. Where an eminent merit is robbed by artifice Or detraction, it does but increase by such endeavors of its enemies; the important pains which are taken to sully it, or diffuse it among a crowd to the in- jury of a single person, will naturally produce the contrary effect ; the fire will blaze out, and burn up all that attempt to smother what they cannot extinguish. Steele. Though every man who possesses merit is not necessarily a great man, yet every great man must possess it in a very superior degree, whether he be a poet, a philosopher, a statesman, or a general; for every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philo- sophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And with- out method there is no organization or construction. Bulwer. IMETALS. The precious metals are the only true basis for a circulating medium. I. S. Smith. In war, steel is a better metai than gold; in life, wisdom excels wealth. Socrates. By universal consent of mankind, the precious metals are the standards of value. S. Yowng. Metals are considered as indecomposable sub- stances; yet those that are inflammable must evi- dently contain hydrogen. W. C. Redfield. Some men have more affection for a piece of metal, if it only represents money, than they have for their nearest ties of kindred. James Ellis. Gold and silver are produced from the earth by labor ; and the man who has earned a portion of these metals by honest labor, harms no One by Sel- ling them for labor to others. J. H. Hunt. There are two metals, one of which is compo- ment in the cabinet, and the other in the camp—gold and iron ; he that knows how to apply them both, may indeed attain the highest station, but he must know something more to keep it. Colton, Metal, as money, is used as a sign which repre- sents the value of all merchandise ; it is taken for this sign as being durable, because it consumes but little by use ; and because, without being destroy- ed, it is capable of many divisions. Montesquiew. A metaphor is a simile without the sign of a comparison. S. Barrett. Metaphors abound in all writings; from scrip- ture they might be produced in great variety. E. Gibbon. An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature en- nobles art ; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. Dr. Johnsom. Those metaphors are best which generally con- duce most to energy or vivacity of style, and illus- trate an intellectual by a sensible object. R. Whately. Figured and metaphorical expressions do well to illustrate more abstruse and familiar ideas, which the mind is not yet thoroughly accustomed to. J. Locke. The use of metaphors is not only to convey the thought in a more pleasing manner, but to give it a stronger impression, and enforce it on the mind. - H. Felton. METAPHYSICS. Metaphysics is the anatomy of the soul of man. De Bowſflers. Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic and mutation. Sterne. When he to whom we speak and he who speaks does not understand, that is metaphysics. Voltaire. Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a Science or complement of sciences ex- clusively occupied with mind. Sir W. Hamilton. Metaphysics is the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being, and the laws of being, a priori. S. T. Coleridge. Metaphysicians have been learning their lesson for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Colton. Metaphysical inquiry attempts to trace things to the very first stage in which they can, even to the most penetrating intelligences, be the subjects of a thought, a doubt, or a proposition. J. Foster. Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thorough-bred metaphysician ; it comes nearer to the cold malignity of a wicked spirit, than to the frailty and passion of a man. Burke. When the metaphysician has rolled aside some huge difficulty which lay in his path, he will find beneath it a passage to the bright subtleties of his nature, through which he may range at will, and gather immortal fruit. Sir T. N. Talfowrd. If we take in hand any volume of metaphysics, let us ask does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Does it con- tain any experimental reasoning Concerning mat- ter of fact and existence 2 No. Commit it then to the flames ; for it can contain nothing but sophis- try and illusion. Hwme. 566 AD A Y’,S CO Z Z A C O AV. IMIETEIOD. There is no talent like method. R. F. Trowbridge. The man of method lives in time, not time in him. Ben Syra. No undertaking can be successfully carried on without method. Franklin. Method is everything in any pursuit, especially in acquiring a new language. N. Adams. Make the most of time, it flies away so fast ; yet method will teach you to win time. Goethe. Method, in the business and economy of active or domestic life, is of vast importance. Sir J. E. Temment. Method is the hinge of business, and there is no method without order and punctuality. Hannah More. All business requires method ; and without me- thod little can be done to any good purpose. G. Crabb. Method is essential, and enables a larger amount of work to be got through with satisfaction. S. Smiles. Method is like packing things in a box ; a good packer will get in half as much again as a bad one. The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. Lord Burleigh. Method goes far to prevent trouble in business ; for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those who have business depending what to do and what to hope. W. Penn. Method is simply an adaptation to the fact ; the sculptor discovers what form of tool will hollow the knee-joint, and he saves time for the face ; philosophers and theologians grow stiff in that joint because they refuse to walk in nature's way. John Weiss. Irregularity and want of method are only sup- portable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. Addison. Method means primarily a way or path of tran- sit ; from this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course ; if in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progreSS. L. Shattock. The man of methodical industry and honorable pursuits realizes its ideal divisions, and gives a character and individuality to its moments ; if the idle are described as killing time, he may be justly said to call it into life and moral being, while he makes it the distinct object not only of the con- sciousness but of the conscience ; he organizes the hours and gives them a soul; and that, the very essence of which is to fleet away, and evermore to have been, he takes up into his own permanence, and communicates it to the imperishableness of a spiritual nature. S. T. Coleridge. IMIDINIGHT. There is something beautiful and sublime in the hush of midnight. F. Cocquard. At midnight, when all is silent, the complaints of the afflicted are heard. Bruno. Midnight is that strange hour when the veil be- tween the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. Mrs. Stowe. Midnight is the hour when the soul of man takes into account, and passes judgment on, the past events of his own life ; it is then he feels the stings of conscience if that life has been mis-spent and thrown away. James Ellis. The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her ; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad. T. Carlyle. MIGHT. Might is not right. Rowsseaw. Might makes right. Seneca. Might is better than learning. Alaric I. Might ever strives to encroach upon the weak under some form or other of oppression. James Ellis. He who lives by a mighty principle within, which the world about him neither sees nor under- stands, only ought to pass for godly. R. Sowth. Right not might is the natural basis of power, and where this does not exist, oppositions, discon- tents, and outbreaks are liable to Occur. Acton. Might is power unlimited by any consideration or circumstance ; a giant is called mighty in the physical sense, and genius is said to be mighty which takes every thing within its grasp ; the Su- preme Being is entitled either Omnipotent or Al- mighty ; but the latter term seems to convey the idea of boundless extent more forcibly than the former. G. Crabb. IMILDNESS. - Mildness governs more than anger. Syrus. Mildness teaches us to adore Him as a mild and merciful Being. S. Rogers. Mildness of manner when coupled with virtue, is a lovely trait in Woman. Helen. Evelyn Day. Mildness of temper, when it used to veil churlish- ness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown. Sir W. Scott. Mild manners are peculiarly becoming in supe- riors, whereby they win the love and esteem of those who are in inferior stations. G. Crabb. When we are in a condition to overthrow false- hood and error, we ought not to do it with vehe- mence nor insultingly, and with an air of Con- tempt, but to lay open the truth, and with answers full of mildness, to refute the falsehood. Camille Gwerin. A A' O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 567 IMILLENNIUM. The millenium will be one of triumph for the church of God. Dean Stanhope. During the millennium, as some believe, Christ will reign on earth in person. N. Webster. The millennium is foretold as a time of peace ; and the prophet enters into it with rapture: “I will extend peace to her as a river.” T. Dwight. The millennium is that period of years used to denote the time of rest and glory which the church will enjoy when Satan is bound a thousand years. A. Ritchie. The world is preparing day by day for the mil- lennium, but we do not see it ; every season is at work in the world, but it is unseen by us, and so “the kingdom of God cometh not with observa- tion.” H. W. Beecher. IMILITARY. In all cases, the military should be subordinate to the civil power. George Mason. The goodness of the cause is one of the special motives to military valor. Lafayette. The whole of the military system is much in- debted for its support to that prevailing passion of nature—pride. V. Knoac. A military commander is one that accounts learning the nourishment of military virtue, and lays that as his first foundation. Sir T. Overbury. In military affairs, and all others of the like ac- tive nature, the study of Science does more to sof- ten and untemper the courage of men than any way to fortify and incite them. Montaigme. The leading idea of military discipline is to re- duce the common men, in many respects, to the nature of machines; that they may have no voli- tion of their own, but be actuated solely by that of their Officers. T. Moore. In a republic the military should be constantly allied with that of the citizen, and even sometimes of the magistrate, to the end that these qualities may be a pledge for their country, which should never be forgotten. Montesquiew. I have felt myself greatly embarrassed, with re- spect to a vigorous exercise of military power, and have been well aware of the present jealousy of military power ; and that this has been considered as an evil much to be apprehended, even by the best and most sensible among us. Under this idea I have been cautious, and wished to avoid as much as possible any act that might increase it. |Washington. A military life is one of the best schools in the world to receive a general notion of mankind in, and a certain freedom of behavior, which is not so easily acquired in any other place ; at the same time there are some military airs which are very extraordinary, and a man who goes into the army a coxcomb, will come out of it a sort of public nui- Sance ; but a man of sense, or one who before had not been sufficiently used to a mixed conversation, generally takes the true turn. Addison. IMINID. Mind is from God. Zoroaster. The mind is the man. Tyrtaeus. The mind only is true wealth. Adolph of Nassaw. We live not in body but in mind. Speusippus. A good mind is a kingdom in itself. R. Leighton. A vacant mind is an invitation to vice. B. Gilpin. The march of the human mind is slow. Biom. A great mind becomes a great fortune. Seneca. It is the mind that ennobles, not the blood. Vega. The best empire is the empire of the mind. Julian. A fair skin very often covers a crooked mind. Olaws Von Dalim. Judge not the mind by the shape of the body. Antoinette Bowrigmon. It is through the mind the man knoweth God. Thewrgis. The mind to the soul is as the eye to the body. Bias. As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul. Sophocles. The beauty of the mind is more lovely than that of the body. Socrates. Wise men are chiefly captivated with the charms of the mind. S. Croacall. Men of strong minds are generally men of infi- del principles. A. Kneeland. He that doubts the existence of mind, by doubt- ing, proves it. Coltom. A man may know his own mind, and still not know a great deal. E. P. Day. The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt. Rowsseaw. The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master. Mºme. Swetchine. The sufferings of the mind are more Severe than the pains of the body. Cicero. In a firm mind there is always found an un- changed countenance for good and evil. Calderon. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. Milton. Great minds lower, instead of elevate, those who do not know how to support them. Rochefoucauld. We in vain summon the mind to intense applica- tion, when the body is in a languid state. Cornelius Gallºws. Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity, and alone is excited by the prospect of distant good. Schiller. The mind does not know what diet it can feed on until it has been brought to the starvation point. O. W. Holmes. 568 A) A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. IMIND. The common mind is the true Parian marble, fit to be wrought into likeness to a god. G. Bancroft. We measure minds by their stature ; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty. Joubert. The mind is nothing less than a garden of inesti- mable value which man should strive to cultivate. Dowmey. A mind, by knowing itself, and its own proper powers and virtues, becomes free and independent. S. Deane. Old minds are like old horses : you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. John Adams. As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor. Dr. Johnson. The mind and memory are more sharply exer- cised in comprehending another man's things than Oll].” OWI). Ben Jomson. Mind is the brightness of the body—lights it, when strength, its proper, but less subtle fire, be- gins to fail. J. S. Knowles. The mind alone cannot be sent into exile ; the mind conquers everything ; it gives even strength to the body. Ovid. The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of His wisdom who made it. Burke. In the mind, as in a field, some things may be sown and carefully brought up, yet what springs maturally is most pleasing. Tacitus. There are some cloudy days for the mind as well as for the world ; and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds. Beaumelle. To a vacant mind, company may afford tempo- rary relief : but when forced to return to itself, it will be so much more oppressed and languid. H. Blain". A mind too vigorous and active serves only to consume the body to which it is joined, as the rich- est jewels are soonest found to wear their settings. Goldsmith. The mind is not always in the same state ; being at times cheerful, melancholy, severe, peevish ; these different states may not improperly be called tones. Kames. It is they only who are elevated in mind, charac- ter, and position, who can lift us up ; while the ignoble, degraded, and debased, only drag us down. Acton. Different minds incline to different objects: one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild : another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty. Akemside. Apply your mind to objects of wholesome food to yourselves as well as of good to others, and de- pend upon it that is the true mode of getting repose in old age. - Lord Brougham. *- IMIND. Our minds are like our stomachs ; they are whet- ted by the change of their food, and variety sup- plies both with fresh appetite. Quintilian. The mind is chameleon-like in One respect, it re- ceives hues from without ; but it is unlike it in another respect, for it retains them. B. St. John. He that procures his child a good mind, makes a better purchase for him than if he laid out the money for an addition to his former acres. Locke. A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity ; a strong mind has two highest tides : when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon. J. C. Hare. The blessings of fortune are the lowest ; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health ; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind. L’Estrange. The greatest thoughts seem degraded in their passage through little minds ; even the winds of heaven make but mean music when whistling through a keyhole. G. D. Premtice. The mind is but a barren soil : a soil which is soon exhausted and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. Sir J. Reynolds. Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the ope- rations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but jour- neymen, set it to work. Fielding. The great business of a man is to improve his mind and govern his manners ; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements. Pliny the Younger. The human mind cannot create anything ; it produces nothing until, after having been fertilized by experience and meditation, its acquisitions are the germs of its productions. Buffon. Sublime is the dominion of the mind Over the body, that for a time can make nerve and flesh. impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become mighty. Mrs. H. B. Stowe. The best way to prove the clearness of our mind is by showing its faults ; as when a stream dis- covers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water. Pope. There are those who prefer the language of the mind to that of the soul ; they are very like those who are indifferent to the sight of a starry might, and who run to an exhibition of fireworks. Richter. If the minds of all men were laid Open, we should See but little difference between that of the wise and that of the fool ; there are infinite reveries and numberless extravagances that pass through both. Addison. In the mind is the true seat of inequality ; if the mental resources of one man be abundant, and of his neighbor be scanty, of Small avail is it that their purses are of equal length ; mind commands, and ever has commanded, both wealth and power. - R. D. Owen. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 5 6 9 IMIND. A restless mind, like a rolling stone, gathers no- thing but dirt and mire ; little or no good will cleave to it ; and it is sure to leave peace and quietness behind it. Balgwy. The mind, like the body, acquires strength by exertion ; the art of reasoning, like other arts, is learned by practice; mathematical studies are pe- culiarly fitted for this discipline of mind. J. Day. There is nothing so elastic as the human mind ; like imprisoned steam, the more it is pressed, the more it rises to resist the pressure ; the more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accom- plish. T. Edwards. Man's mind is originally illuminated by virtue ; but in the pursuit of his selfish inclinations it be- comes dim, and the brilliancy of his original virtue becomes obscured, morbid, and ignorant, though not lost. Riw-o. The mind of man is too light to bear much cer- tainly among the ruffling winds of passion and opinion ; and if the luggage be prized equally with the jewels, none will be lost out till all be ship- wrecked. Glanvill. No barriers, no masses of matter however enor- mous, can withstand the powers of the mind ; the remotest corners yield to them ; all things suc- cumb to their influence—the very heaven itself is laid open. Mamilius. The mind of man is able to discern universal propositions by its native force, without any pre- vious notion or applied reasoning, which method of attaining truth is by a peculiar name styled in- tellection. I. Barrow. There is a charm in a cultivated mind, that is all-powerful with the female heart ; it throws a drapery of its own fancy's weaving about the whole person, and clothes even forbidding features with beauty. A. S. Roe. The mind of man hath two parts ; the one al- ways frequented by the entrance of manifold va- rieties; the other desolate and overgrown with grass, by which enter our charitable thoughts and divine contemplations. Sir W. Raleigh. The mind, no more than a child, should be trus- ted out of leading-strings ; with judgment to guide, and discretion to guard, if it does not attain happi- ness and distinction, it will at least avoid misery and disgrace, to which an unrestricted imagination will too often lead. J. Cardam. Unreflective minds possess thoughts only as a jug does water, by containing them. In a disci- plined mind, knowledge exists like a vital force in the physical frame, ready to be directed to tongue or hand, or foot, hither, thither, anywhere, and for any use desired. S. Coley. The mind is the leader and director of mankind ; when it aims at glory by a virtuous life, it is suffi- ciently powerful, efficient, and noble ; it stands in need of the assistance of fortune, since it can neither give nor take away integrity, industry, nor other praiseworthy qualities. Sallust. IMIND. In the mind is the true seat of inequality ; if the mental resources of one man be abundant and of his neighbor be scanty, of small avail is it that their purses are of equal length. Mind commands both wealth and power. R. D. Owen. Men carry their minds as, for the most part, they carry their watches ; content to be ignorant of the constitution and action within, and atten- tive only to the exterior circle of things to which the passions, like indices, are pointing. Reeves. How many minds—almost all the great ones— were formed insecrecy and solitude, without know- ing whether they should ever make a figure or not ? All they knew was that they liked what they were about, and gave their whole Souls to it. M. Arnold. The age of a cultivated mind is more complacent than in youth ; it is the reward of the due use of the endowments bestowed by mature ; while they who in youth have made no provision for age, are left, like an unsheltered tree, shaking and wither- ing before the cold blasts of winter. R. Southey. If we consider the mind merely with the view of observing and generalizing the various pheno- mena, it reveals, that is, of analyzing them into capacities or faculties, we have one mental science, or one department of mental Science ; and this we may call the phenomenology of mind. Hamilton. As islands stand in grand solitude in the midst of swelling seas, so great minds dwell alone amid the crowds of little souls which fill the circles of life. A great mind, like a great ship, cannot move in shallow water ; give it sea-room, and it shall bear cargoes to serve the nations. Dr. Thomas. It is mind which does the work of the world ; so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished A man, in proportion as he is intelligent, makes a given force accomplish a greater task, makes skill take the place of muscles, and with less labor gives a better product. Smith. It is only they who are elevated in mind, charac- ter, and position, who can lift us up ; while the ignoble, degraded, and debased only drag us down. The elevation of the mind in its maturity is valua- ble, most especially from the discriminative retro- spect it commands over the fairy scenes of child- hood. C. Mordaunt, There is no science so interesting as the science of the mind ; not in the earth, with all the decorations of its surface or the treasure of its mines ; not in the ocean, with all the mighty monsters of its depths profound ; nor in the stars, with all the wonders of their movements, can the philosopher discover fields of knowledge so valuable and yet so extensive as in the mind of man. A. M. Wiggins. Some minds are originally gifted with one faculty in large, and another in small dimensions; some are surprisingly precocious, and others very late in development ; some are quick and others slow in movement ; some are phlegmatic, and others mercurial in constitutional temperament ; yet all may become specimens of mental excellence—orna- ments, more or less brilliant. Dr. Skinner. 570 A) A Y'S CO Z Z. A C O AV. IMIND. The failure of the mind in old age is often less the result of natural decay than of disuse. Ambi- tion has ceased to operate ; contentment brings in- dolence ; indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intel- lectual vacancy. Sin' B. Brodie. The sovereign good of man is a mind that sub- jects all things to itself, and is itself subject to no- thing ; such a man's pleasures are modest and re- served, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him ; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him. Seneca. Every mind has a right to make itself heard ; if its thoughts are evil, let them be denounced and forgotten ; if good, known and remembered. The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition is, that it not only employs itself, but is almost sure to be the means of giving whole- some employment to others. James Ellis. A perfectly just and sound mind is a rare and invaluable gift ; but it is still more unusual to see such a mind unbiassed in all its actings; God has given this soundness of mind but to few ; and a very small number of these few escape the bias of some predilection perhaps habitually operating ; and none are at all times perfectly free. Lord Burleigh. To understand fully the philosophy of the human mind, is an acquisition as rare as it is difficult and interesting ; many who have undertaken to fathom its depths and mark its soundings, have found themselves with field-notes, involving problems they could not solve or demonstrate, surrounded by mysteries they could not comprehend or unfold. L. C. Judson. The strength of man's mind may be seen imper- fectly in his words, but it is made evident in his actions ; it is mind, after all, that does the work of the world ; so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished. The mind may be overburdened ; like the body, it is strength- ened more by the warmth of exercise than of clothes. Stefanos Xenos. The powers of the mind are like the stars, they do not always shine equally brilliant and striking ; sometimes clouds may cover them for a time alto- gether ; at other times intermittent clouds may pass over them ; a heavy atmosphere at other times may affect them : seldom, in this climate, do they shine in their full glory. But shine or no shine, the stars are still there. - John Bate. There are minds that lead, and minds that must be led ; minds that creep, and minds that soar ; minds that plunge into the dark and carry their own light with them, and minds that can flourish only in the light of others; all sorts of minds ; and none so low or small that is not filling some nook or corner, or chink, or crevice in the great world of thought and activity ; and none so high and comprehensive that it does not find a field of action fitted to its scope and magnitude, and which is not subserving the great ends of humanity. H. Read. IMIND. Pleasures of the mind are more at command than those of the body ; a man may think of a handsome performance, or of a notion that pleases him, at his leisure; this entertainment is ready with little warning or expense ; a short recollec- tion brings it upon the stage, brightens the idea, and makes it shine as much as when it was first stamped upon the memory. J. Collier. The commonest and coarsest clocks mark the hours; it is only those which are made with the greatest art which mark the minutes; so ordinary minds feel the difference between a simple proba- bility and an entire certainty ; but it is only the delicate minds which feel the greater or less cer- tainty Or probability, and who mark, that is to say, the minutes by their feelings. Fontenelle. Consider if that mind which is in your body does Order and dispose it every way it pleases, why should not that wisdom which is in the universe be able to Order all things therein also, as seemeth best to it 3 And if your eye can discern things several miles distant from it, why should it be thought impossible for the eye of God to behold all things at once 2 If your soul can mind things both here and in Egypt and in Sicily, why may not the great mind or wisdom of God be able to take care of all things in all places ! Socrates. Great minds are as rare in the history of man- kind as great monarchs, and the reason is the same; the greater tyrannize over the less, and when once subdued, hold them in subjection ; this intellectual supremacy is habitually exercised to the prejudice of those who possess not the bravery nor the spirit to assert and maintain their own individuality and independence, and hence become more familiar with submission than accustomed to authority. Seldom is a great and good mind seen that is not at the same time overbearing or monopolizing. Acton. The mind is that living spark from the inner shrine of God's own temple, and presents a subject vast, profound, and unfathomable. Men of migh- tiest intellect have taxed all their energies to com- pass the solution of this abstruse problem ; they have simplified its operations, and accounted for its phenomena, yet it is still shrouded in mystery : they have classified its elements, and named its faculties, but failed to grasp its substance ; they have given a table of contents, but are unable to produce the volume. J. R. Trumbull. A man's mind may be compared to a book, of which the body is the binding ; sometimes in calf, but gilt ; sometimes in plain boards. The title- page is the face; the epistle dedicatory, the pro- fession; the table of contents, the characteristics and principles; the correct passages are the vir- tues; the errata, the faults—and owing to a bad impression, these occupy the larger portion ; SO much depends upon the “getting-up”—the educa- tion—for the final success of the work, that we often see productions of first-rate talent spoiled by inferior finish ; and others not worth reading, uni- versally admired for the excellence of the paper and the beauty of the type. F. Hutcheson. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. MIND. There are some minds which have only surface without depth ; there are some which have depth without surface ; there are others, finally, which have both advantages. The first deceive the world and even themselves: the world deceives itself in the second, by not taking them for what they really are ; but they do not deceive themselves. It is only the last who deceive neither the world nor themselves. Nicole. When we consider whether the mind of man be immortal, or, rather, whether life always belongs to it, or whether it can live in a separate state from the body, we are certain that as it is a substance entirely distinct from the body, it stands not in need of the body to subsist, and that it always lives ; first, because it cannot tend to its own de- struction ; secondly, as it thinks, it cannot be con- ceived without life ; therefore it must be immortal. J. Hinton. The universal mind ' What a grand conception —what an overwhelming idea That mind, that is generated by the universal soul—that soul which is universal life, the essence of actuality . In this universal soul we have our being ; we have it really and objectively. But is this sufficient to Satisfy the craving appetite of that hungry and all-grasping being which agitates our individual frame 3 Confined to our tether, twitched and pulled back at every turn, casting our longing eyes around, panting and gasping to break away, we should sicken and die, had we not another being in hope, which makes us even run and seek—aye, and even encounter with—grim death ! Sir R. Maltravers. Less terrible is it to find the body wasted, the features sharp with the great life-struggle, than to look on the face from which the mind is gone— the eyes in which there is no recognition ; the form itself is still perhaps little altered ; but that lip which Smiles no welcome, that eye which wanders over us as strangers, that ear which distinguishes no more our voices—the friend we sought is not there ! Even our own love is chilled back—grows a kind of vague, superstitious terror. Yes! it was not the matter, still present to us, which had con- ciliated all those nameless sentiments which are classed and fused in the word affection—it was the airy, intangible, electric something—the absence of which now appalls us. Bulwer. What a magnificent spectacle is the mind orna- mented with gems of science and wisdom ; it ex- ceeds all else in the magnificence of God's universe. The stars glitter in the sky, the sun and moon are placed in the heavens, to scatter light upon this shadowy earth : the flowers entwine their wreaths of beauty around the brow of spring and summer ; ten thousand beauties appear through nature and through art, yet the mind, adorned properly, out- shines them all ; it is a crown embellished with the richest jewels, to decorate all the rest of God’s works. The mind destitute of any embellishments from the hand of culture—how sad, unlovely a thing it is ; it reflects mone of the brightness and glory of its great Creator. That mind is brightest ornamented that reflects most of the beauty and excellence of God. J. W. Barker. IMINISTER. A minister is God's ambassador. Miles Smith. A holy minister is God personified. F. Trig. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God. M'Cheyne. The minister's brain is often the “poor-box” of the church. E. P. Whipple. Some ministers make a motto instead of a theme for their texts. H. Ballow. A good minister and a good father may well agree together. T. Fuller. The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions. J. Newton. The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit, to know what they mean when in it. Lord Burleigh. Where there is idolatrous worship of ministers, Christ always occupies a low place. J. H. Evans. Christian ministers, as shepherds, have devolving upon them the care of Christ's flock. Dr. Burns. How hardly can any people miscarry, that have faithful ministers to sue for their safety J. Hall. I would not have ministerstorment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching. M. Lºwther. The sacred functions of a minister can never be hurt by their sayings, if not first reproached by their doings. F. Atterbwry. Ministers are seldom honored with success un- less they are gontinually aiming at the conver- Sion of sinners. Dr. J. Owen. A minister without learning is a mere cypher which fills up a place, and increaseth the number, but signifies nothing. T. Adams. The profession of a minister is a holy profession, because it is a ministration in holy things, an at- tendance at the altar. E. Law. God never made ministers as false glasses to make bad faces look fair ; such make themselves guilty of other men's sins. T. Watson. A minister ought to calculate his sermon as an astrologer does his almanac, to the meridian of the place and people where he lives. Palmer. The children of ministers are generally objects of sympathy ; they occupy that narrow selvage of land between gentility and want. M. H. Smith. The grand aim of the Gospel ministry is, to de- liver the jeopardized from the snares of the devil, who taketh men captive at his will. Magoom. As one candle cannot light another unless itself be lighted, no more can a minister inflame others with the love of God if he be void of it. - D. Cawdray. If a minister magnify his office, his office will magnify him ; they who begin by effect without labor, will end by labor without effect. Lord Jeffrey. 572 AX A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. IMINISTER. What a service has Christianity rendered to hu- manity; what a power it would still have, did its ministers comprehend their mission Napoleon I. It is beautiful to see a minister stand and speak of spiritual things to men ; it is among the most beautiful, and most touching objects on earth. T. Carlyle. Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Rev. B. W. Noel. I have listened with my utmost attention for half an hour to a minister, without being able to carry away one single sentence out of a whole ser– 111011. Swift. A minister may go into almost any village in the country without the least fear of molestation, and would find the people ready and willing to receive him. Philemon. The life of a pious minister is visible rhetoric. Evil ministers of good things are as torches ; a light to others, a waste to mone but themselves only. R. Hooker. The ministers of God have always from time to time walked among men, and made their commis- sion felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer. R. W. Emerson. Itinerant ministers have an advantage Over those who are stationary, as the latter cannot well im- prove their delivery of a sermon by so many re- hearsals. Franklin. It would be well for some that have taken upon themselves the ministry of the Gospel, that they would first preach to themselves, and afterwards to others. Cardinal Pole. It is a proper business of a minister to state cases Of conscience, and to remonstrate against any growing corruption in practice, and especially in principles. - D. Waterland. Genuine ministerial prudence keeps back no im- portant truth, listems to no compromise with sin, connives at no fashionable vice, cringes before no lordly worldling. . H. Humphrey. Let the minister be low, his interest inconsider- able, the Word will suffer for His sake : the mes- sage will still find reception according to the dig- nity of the messenger. R. South. The difference between the humble minister of Jesus and the fashionable popular preacher is this: the former studies the pasturage for his flock; the latter the transferability of their wool. Downey. A minister is like a Kahikatea tree, full of fruit, which causes a grove to grow up around it ; so that if the parent tree be cut down, its place is more than supplied by those which proceed from it. W. Toºtºr. A minister's character is the lock of his strength, and if once this is sacrificed, he is, like Samson Shorn of his hair, a poor, feeble, faltering creature, the pity of his friends, and the derision of his ene- mies. J. A. James. IMINISTER. A minister without boldness is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun ; if men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove. W. Gºwrmall. I would have every minister of the Gospel ad- dress his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exu- berant affection of a mother. Fémélom. The day that witnesses the conversion of our ministers into political and philosophical specula- tors or scientific lecturers, will witness the final decay of clerical weight and influence. Bayne. God ordained a general minister to preside over worldly glory, who should change at the proper moment transient blessings from realm to realm, from race to race, beyond the possibility of man preventing it. Dante. Ministers of the church are at present divided into three sections ; an immense body who are ig- morant ; a small proportion who know and are si- lent ; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge. . Professor Hwæley. It is the business of the Christian minister to ad- dress all the ranks of mankind, and persuade them to pursue and persevere in virtue in regard to themselves, in justice and goodness with regard to their neighbors, and piety toward God. I. Watts. Ministers who are, by office, the special standard- bearers in the army of Christ, are bound to “con- tend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints,” whether their efforts are likely to be ac- counted the greatest or the least in the annals of human achievement. E. Hopkins. The minister should preach as if he felt that al- though the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him ; his soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary ; the terms are by no means equal. E. H. Chapin. Ministers should be good men, for the people will never be better than the standard held up to them, either in their conduct or in their doctrines. Minis- ters must be men who deserve respect for their lives and for their intelligence ; otherwise they do much evil in society, and bring dishonor on reli- gion. T. Dwight. A house-going minister wins for himself a church- going people; the bland and benignant influences of his friendly converse, of his private and particular affection, are enlisted on the side of their piety; nor can we imagine a position of greater effective- ness than his, whence to bear on the hearts and habits of a surrounding population. T. Chalmers. Reasons are the pillars of the fabric of a sermon, but similitudes are the windows which give the best light. The faithful minister avoids such sto- ries whose mention would suggest bad thoughts to the auditors, and will not use a light comparison to make thereof a grave application, for fear lest his poison go further than his antidote. T. Fuller A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 573 IMINISTER. The grand aim of a minister must be the exhibi- tion of gospel truth. Statesmen may make the greatest blunders in the world, but that is not his affair ; like a king's messenger, he must not stop to take care of a person fallen down ; if he can render any kindness consistently with his duty, he will do it; if not, he will prefer his office. Lord Burleigh. Recollect for your encouragement the reward that awaits the faithful minister. Such is the mys- terious condescension of Divine Grace, that though it reserves to itself the exclusive honor of being the fountain of all, yet by the employment of human agency in the completion of its designs, it contrives to multiply its gifts, and to lay a foundation for eternal rewards. J. Hall. The minister cannot be always preaching ; two Or three hours maybe in a week he spends among his people in the pulpit, holding the glass of the gospel before their faces ; but the lives of profes- sors, these preach all the week long ; if they were but holy and exemplary, they would be as a repe- tition of the preacher's to their families and neigh- bors among whom they converse, and keep the Sound of his doctrine continually ringing in their €8.I’S. James Fordyce. Ministers of the gospel in this quarter of the globe resemble the commanders of an army stationed in a conquered country, whose inhabitants overawed and subdued, yield a partial obedience ; they have sufficient employment in attempting to conciliate the affections of the natives, and in carrying into execution the Orders and regulations of their prince, since there is much latent disaffection, though no open rebellion, a strong partiality to their former rulers, with few attempts to erect the standard of revolt. R. Hall. Let not ministers think their work is done, while they can preach another Sermon, or speak another word. He who is desirous of doing good, and for that end, preaches, explains, and enforces the truth, will find no Small degree of uneasiness, if he do not find his labors attended with some degree of suc- cess ; it is not sufficient that he prays, studies, and labors, but his benevolent mind will be anxious to hear of Some good effect. Let none, however, en- gaged in the Sacred work, despair. Who can know the extent of his usefulness while in the present state 3 Let not any suppose he is useless, because he himself has not evidence of it. C. Buck. There are but few talents requisite to become a popular minister; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the Orator to please them ; the meanest qualifications will work this effect if the minister sincerely sets about it. Perhaps little, indeed very little more is required than sincerity and assurance ; and a becoming sin- cerity is always certain of producing a becoming assurance. Our Christian ministers, with the most faulty bashfulness, seem impressed rather with an awe of their audience, than with a just respect for the truths they are about to deliver ; they, of all professions, seem the most bashful, who have the greatest right to glory in their commission. Goldsmith. IMINISTER, STATE. A minister in our times need not to be firm or to be merciful. T. B. Macawlay. Let princes choose ministers such as love business rather upon conscience than upon bravery. Bacom. Every wise minister at some time falls under temporary reproach and unjust suspicion. W. H. Seward. The change or caprice of a single minister, is capable of altering the whole system of Europe. Washington. It is difficult to decide who are more ungrateful to the ministry of a government, the prince or the people. Machiavelli. There are ministers who seek the tranquility of the State, and find their pleasure in Securing that tranquility. Memcius. What is called a great minister is one who serves his prince according to what is right, and when he finds he cannot do so, retires. Confucius. The ministers of a monarchial government have a far greater capacity and are better versed in af- fairs than the ministers of a despotic government. Montesquiew. A minister of foreign affairs should have a genius quick, lively, penetrating ; should write on all oc- casions with clearness and perspicuity ; be capable of expressing his sentiments with dignity, and con- veying strong sense and argument in easy and agreeable diction ; his temper mild, cool, and pla- cid ; festive, insinuating, and pliant, yet Obstinate; communicative, and yet reserved ; he should know the human face and heart, and the connections between them ; should be versed in the laws of nature and nations, and not ignorant of the civil and municipal law. Governew'r Morris. MINORITY. Minorities have their rights as well as majori- ties. Parsons. A president elected by a minority cannot enjoy the confidence necessary to the Successful discharge of his duties. A. Jackson. The power is not always with the majority ; Samson was in the minority, yet he overthrew the hosts of the Philistines. E. P. Day. It would be an entertaining change in human affairs to determine everything by minorities; they are always in the right. Chatfield. A minority in the right, associated by convictions of right, are pretty sure in the end to triumph ; they are so many missionaries of truth. Bovee. Men have natural rights superior to any conven- tional, chartered, or constitutional rights, and these a minority should never suffer to be invaded with impunity. G. Vale. Majorities change; the bulwark which alone can protect minorities from the usurping tendency of a general government, is a strict construction of delegated powers, and a fair observance of the re- served rights of the states and of the people. Jefferson Davis. 574 JD A V 'S CO / / A C O AV. º IMIRACLE. IMIRTH. Miracles are past. Shakspeare. Mirth is sometimes wisdom. Demetriws. Miracles are proofs of religion. Abw Beker. Live a life of love and mirth. Horace. A miracle is the pet child of faith. Goethe. Mirth and motion prolong life. POy. The whole world is full of miracles. M. Luther. With lovers of mirth be mirthful. Cicero. There never was a miracle performed. T. Chubb. Miracles are evidences of Christianity. Paley. Man worketh miracles through God's help. Leo. Miracles belong only to God and His children. St. Boniface. Miracles can be wrought only by an almighty power. N. Webster. Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ himself. Bovee. A miracle is medicinal, but never Surgical ; in- visible in its action and known only in its results. Mme. Swetchine. . A miracle is a suspension of the laws of nature ; such a thing never did, and never can take place. Voltaire. A miracle is a work exceeding the power of any created agent, consequently being an effect of the Divine Omnipotence. R. Sowth. Is it not extravagant to expect a miracle 2 Not at all ; I believe we are assisted with many more miracles than we are aware of. J. Collier. He that looketh for a miracle is a miracle him- self ; for if the death of Christ work not faith, all the miracles in the world will not do it. St. Awgustine. A miracle I take to be a sensible operation, which being above the comprehension of the spec- tator, and in his opinion contrary to the established course of nature, is taken by him to be divine. J. Locke. We are not to expect that God will produce by miracles what men ought to do and can do ; of course we are to presume that this object is to be accomplished by human exertions, and by means calculated to the end. T. Dwight. The miracles which prove the Christian religion are attested by men who have no interest in de- ceiving us; when we take the prophecies which have been so exactly fulfilled, we have most satis- factory evidence. Dr. Johnson. Miracles have been well compared to the tolling of the bell, to summon people to church ; so mira- cles were designed to call attention to the voice of God, speaking on some unusually Solemn occasion ;. as at the opening of a new dispensation. Bowes. The miracles of our Lord are peculiarly eminent above the lying wonders of demons, in that they were not made out of vain ostentation of power, and to raise unprofitable amazement ; but for the real benefit and advantage of men, by feeding the hungry, healing all sort of diseases, ejecting of de- vils, and reviving the dead, R. Bentley. Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast. Shakspeare. The greatest fools and the wisest men indulge in mirth. E. P. Day. Mirth is to the heart what a holiday is to inces- sant labor. H. Hallam. There is nothing pleasant in life without love and mirth. Mimmermvws. Mirth is the best physician for man's toils, when brought to a close. Pindarws. Mirth and cheerfulness are but the due reward of innocence of life. Sin" T. More, Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. - Steele. A single burst of mirth is worth a whole season full of cries, with melancholy. T. Hood. Mirth gives you a forcible hug, and shakes laugh- ter out of you, whether you will or no. D. Garrick. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a mo- ment. Miklos Josika. Youth will never live to age unless they keep themselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with mirth. Sir P. Sidney. The highest gratification we receive here from company is mirth, which at the best is but a flut- tering, unquiet motion. Pope. Most of the appearing mirth in the world is not mirth, but art ; the wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise. R. Sowth. Mirth should be the embroidery of the conversa- tion, not the web ; and wit the Ormament of the mind, not the furniture. Victor Cherbºtlie2. He who is absorbed in his private distresses is ill prepared to partake of the mirth with which he is surrounded at the festive board. G. Crabb. Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us honor him with mirth and cheer- fulmess of heart while he is passing. Goethe. Let not mirth be thy profession, lest thou become a make-sport ; he that hath but gained the title of a jester, let him assure himself the fool is not far Off. F. Quarles. Harmless mirth is the best cordial against the consumption of the spirit ; wherefore jesting is not unlawful, if it trespasseth not in quantity, quality, OI* SeaSOI). T. Fuller. Who cannot make one in the circle of harmless merriment without a secret cause of grief or seri- ousness, may be suspected of hypocrisy, pride, or formality. Lavater. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 5 5 IMIRTH. Mirth and a light heart, in all virtue and deco- rum, are the best medicine for the young, or rather for all. are deadly to all, but above all, to the young. Sir T. N. Talfowrd. Mirth at a funeral is scarce more indecent Or un- natural than a perpetual flight of gaiety and burst of exultation in a world like this ; a world which may seem a paradise to fools, but is a hospital with the wise. T. Young. Ah, me ! how difficult it is to imitate false mirth, how difficult to mimic cheerfulness with a sad heart ; a smile suits not well a countenance that belies it ; nor do drunken words sound well from an anxious mind. Tibullws. I have observed that in comedy the best actor plays the part of the droll, while some Scrub rogue is made the hero, or fine gentleman, So in this farce of life, wise men pass their time in mirth, whilst fools only are serious. Bolingbroke. We cannot at all times be really merry, Or at a moment's notice ; but the endeavor always to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils. Leigh Hunt. Man is the merriest species of the creation ; all above and below him are serious ; he sees things in a different light from other beings, and finds his mirth arising from objects that perhaps cause SOme- thing like pity or displeasure in higher natures. Addison. Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb ; they are disproportioned to the ex- citability of the mind, and instead of elevating never fail to increase its depression, or to irritate it. Dr. Rush. Mirthfulness cannot be forced, and man has not much more power over the clouds that overshadow his mind than over those that darken the sky : meanwhile man ought not to be altogether inactive, but must labor at his daily duties, and be watchful Over himself. Elwºmboldt. There is nothing like mirth, is there ? I have none myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it ! We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made sunny spots in the heart ; why should we exclude the light from them ż Haliburton. If, by word or action, we happen to raise the laughter of those about us, we cannot stifle it sooner or better, than by a brisk presence of mind to join in mirth with the company, and if possible to anticipate the jest which another is ready to throw out upon the occasion. S. Croacall. Religion is not at variance with occasional mirth; in the same character, the solemn thought and the sublime emotions of the improved Christian may be joined with the unanxious freedom, buoyancy, and gaiety of early years ; this union of mirth and virtue belongs to an advanced stage of the charac- ter. W. E. Channing. Solitude and melancholy are poison ; they the permanency of sorrow. IMIRTH. Let not thy mirth be so extravagant as to intoxi- cate thy mind; nor thy sorrow so heavy as to depress thy heart ; this world affordeth no good so transporting, nor inflicteth any evil so severe, as should raise thee far above, or sink thee much beneath, the balance of moderation. R. Dodsley. Between levity and mirth there is a wide distinc- tion ; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness. It has been remarked that transports of intemperate mirth are often no more than flashes from the dark cloud ; and that in proportion to the violence of the efful- gence is the Succeeding gloom. H. Blair. Plato allowed mirth and wine to old men, but forbade them both to young ones. To be merry and wise, might have been a proverb deduced from this law. But Plato's reason was truly philoso- phic, that while our natural cheerfulness and spirits remain, we should never use incitements ; to Spur a free horse soon makes a jade of him. Sterne. Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out ; it is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door; it is just as good, in its place, as Con- science or veneration. Praying can no more be made a subtitute for smiling, than Smiling can for praying. J. Paym. Mirth is God's medicine ; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety—all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery : every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs. H. W. Beecher. There is a large class of people who deem the business of life far too weighty and momentous to be made light of, who would leave merriment to children, and laughter to idiots, and who hold that a joke would be as much out of place on their lips as on a gravestone or in a ledger. Surely it cannot be requisite to a man's being in earnest that he should wear a perpetual frown. H. Cockton. I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning ; or men who cannot well bear it, to repent of the money they spend when they be warmed with drink ; and take this for a rule, you may pick Out such times and such companies, that you may make yourself merrier for a little than for a great deal of money : for it is the company, and not the charge, that makes the feast.” I. Walton. Pleasure and sorrow are such universal sensa- tions, that every language embodies a great va- riety of terms to express their different shades and gradations; thus, joy, hilarity, merriment, amuse- ment, sport, pleasantry, for the One ; and grief, trouble, melancholy, sadness, despondency, gloom, dejection, tribulation, and many more for the other ; and equally prevalent are the impressions which they produce—the evanescence of mirth, and Lope de Vega. 5 76 Z) A Y 'S CO Z / A C O AV. IMISANTHROPY. Misanthropy is the child of insanity. Isoews. The world cures alike optimist and the misan- thrope. Bulwer. In the heart of the misanthrope will be found be- nevolence. Mrs. Amelia Opie. A misanthrope is one who lives with the curse of God in his heart. Mrs. Gore. A misanthrope is generally more disgusted with himself than with mankind. Mrs. Hoey. Misanthropy more often proceeds from Selfishness toward mankind than hatred of it. James Ellis. The advising a misanthrope to be cheerful is like bidding a coward be courageous, or a dwarf be taller. Wollaston. There is always some dark spot in the life of a misanthrope and from which dates his hatred of the world. L. W. M. Lockhart. The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all. Bovee. The afflictions of the misanthrope are salutary wounds. His sufferings should be our instructions: his lashes our lessons, his scourges our schoolmas- ters. Edward Allen. There are some people who think that they should be misanthropical, and feel a disgust for those amusements to which they are obliged to sub- mit. Fénélon. Whatever dark thoughts some misanthropes may sit brooding on, it can never reasonably be con- ceived that that Being, who is most self-sufficient and self-happy, should harbor any despiteful de- signs toward His creatures. Cwdworth. Misanthropy often requires little real soil or sub- stance to flourish in ; it is the dark pine which takes root in, and frowns over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and is chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapor of fancy. - J. F. Boyes. Misanthropy is always traceable to some vicious experience or imperception—to some false reading in the lore of right and wrong, or it proceeds from positive defects in ourselves, from a departure from things simple and pure, whereby we forfeit happiness without losing the sense of the proper basis on which it rests; yet even thus perverted by the prejudices of the world, we still find a sooth- ing pleasure in contemplating that happiness which belongs to simplicity and virtue. Acton. Misanthropy arises from a man trusting another without having a sufficient knowledge of his cha- racter, and thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honorable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless ; and then he meets with another of the same character: when a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them. biped. Plato. | IMISCHIEF. Mischief comes soon enough. Salis. Repair mischief before repining. W. Penn. Men, by doing nothing, Soon learn to do mischief. Cato. He who wishes to do mischief is never without a TěaSOIl. Publius Syrus. Few men are so clever as to know all the mischief they do. Rochefoucauld. To the greatest men the greatest mischiefs are incident. Saint Anthony. Mischiefs come by the pound, and go away by the Ounce. Alfieri. He who does a mischief for a recompense is the vilest of mankind. Basile. Ingenuous simplicity condemns the bright cun- ning that aims at mischief. ECrºwmºmacher. Provide your children with enough employment, if you would keep them out of mischief. Bovee. It shocks me to think how much mischief almost every man may do, who will but resolve to do all he can. Sterne. To know exactly how much mischief may be ventured upon with impunity, is knowledge suffi- cient for a little great man. Colton. In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief—enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best. Bulwer. Physicians without practice, are quiet and harm- less ; but lawyers without it, are restless, and doubly armed to do mischief. Acton. Let not the quietness of any man's temper, much less the confidence he has in thy honesty and good- ness, tempt thee to contrive any mischief against him. S. Patrick. Man is a mischievous animal, own cousin to the monkey, and strongly imbued with the experimen- tal proclivities which distinguish that long-tailed Mrs. G. W. Wyllys. How many casualties and difficulties are there that we dread as insupportable mischiefs, which upon farther thoughts, we find to be mercies and benefits 3 Seneca. There are many people who do mischief for mis- chief's sake; and at the same time are never so well pleased as when they do it to the innocent and undeserving ; they love themselves too well to offer an injury to one of their own malicious principles, for fear of a suitable return. S. Croacall. There are some people who go through this world with the idea that the more mischief they can do to others, it will redound with good to themselves; the means they use for this purpose are hypocrisy, deceit, slander, and lying, and many of them ac- complish a vast amount of mischief in their life- time ; but—fortunately for the lovers of truth— they invariably end their lives miserable and friendless. James Ellis. MONTESQUIEU, A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 5 7 7 IMIISER, A miser has no friend. Al-Mawsili. The miser's bag is never full. Schefer. A miser is a mán to be avoided. Al-Muhallab. The birds of the air despise a miser. Talmwol. The miser and the pig are of no use till dead. La Mothe. The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs him- self. Bruyère. The miser never pleases any one except by his death. Pope Pius II. The curse of heaven rests upon the wealth of a miser. H. Mayhew. A miser may be rich, but he cannot also be bene- volent. Yang Ho. A miser is an enemy to God, and a suicide of his own happiness. Miss Amme Thackeray. A miser knows no pleasure but in piling up his glittering gold. J. Foster. A man must lose his sense of shame before he can be a successful miser. Radir Munshi. The life of a miser is a play of which we applaud only the closing scene. S. Dwbay. History tells us of illustrious villains, but there never was an illustrious miser. St. Evremond. The miser is a tyrant, and imprisons gold ; the generous man sets it at liberty. Ibn Dimar Malik. The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not. Publius Syrus. Misers mistake gold for their good ; whereas it is only the means of obtaining it. Rochefoucauld. A miser is the most indigent of all men; he feasts on gold, and starves in the midst of plenty. - .J. Bartlett. The force of selfishness in a miser is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. G. S. Hillard. As death approaches, misers are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him. Shenstone. The miser who hoards his money is not half so bad as the stingy man who gives with ostentation. A. Maria Aguado. Misers are the greatest spendthrifts; and spend- thrifts often end in becoming the greatest misers. J. C. Hare. The miser is a riddle ; what he possesses he has not, and what he leaves behind him, he never had. H. W. Shaw. The miserly man renders himself, and those within his power, miserable, by making too much of money. I. T. Hopper. The difference between the philanthropist and miser is this—the former lives to give, but the lat- ter dies to give. Downey. IMIISER,. The generality of misers are very good people ; they do not cease to amass wealth for others that wish their death. M. de Martigmac. Misers, who never use what they have, may justly be compared to toads that have numberless “stools,” and never sit on them. G. D. Prentice. Misers worship no God but money : they will deny even the very faith they profess, rather than fail in Schemes to augment their treasures. 4msaldo Cebct. Misers are generally characterized as men with- out honor or humanity, who live only to accumu- late, and to this passion sacrifice every other hap- piness. B. L. Farjeom. I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as a whale; he plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful. Shakspeare. The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor, and naked, and miserable. T. Parker. A miser of sixty years old refuses himself neces- saries, that he might not want them when he is a hundred. Almost all of us make ourselves unhap- py by too much forecast. Stanislaws. A thorough miser must possess considerable strength of character, to bear the self-denial im- T}osed by his penuriousness ; equal sacrifices, en- dured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a Saint or a martyr. W. B. Clotlow. Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart ; and even the cleverness of a miser is but the cunning of imbecility. Bulwer. A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty ; and he is not content to keep want from the door Or at arm's Tength, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance. C. Lamb. It is worthy of observation, that the Latin word for miserable has been applied to designate an in- dividual who possesses, but cannot enjoy; and well may he be called a miser, for of all men he is the most mean, abject, and comfortless. Mary Howitt. When a miser contents himself with giving no- thing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no injustice, he is perhaps, of all bad men the least injurious to society ; the evil he does is properly nothing more than the omission of the good he might do. Helvetiws. Avarice has been observed to be the only passion that defies caricature in a miser; comedy cannot exaggerate it : ridicule cannot repress it ; sermons are thrown away upon it; public scorn might as well sneer at the winds; and nothing but the grave can extinguish it, for it follows to the very verge of the grave. H. Greville. 37 A) A Y'S CO / / A C O AW. IMIISER, As the miser descends to the grave, whither his riches cannot follow, his desires acquire an in- creased intensity, and he clings to his bags of gold with a fearful tenacious grasp—vainly deluding himself with the cheat that he can thereby solace his soul in the dread hour of dissolving nature. C. G. Low. Why does any man, who deserves not to be poor, live in deep distress, whilst thou art wallowing in riches : Why are the ancient temples of the gods falling to ruins? Why, thou wretched miser, dost thou not spare something of that treasure for thy dear country 3 Thinkest thou that thou alone shalt always bask in the sunshine of prosperity ? Thou future laughing-stock to thy deadly foe Horace. A miser is one who, though he loves himself bet- ter than all the world, uses himself worse : for he lives like a pauper, in order that he may enrich his heirs, whom he naturally hates, because he knows that they hate him, and sigh for his death. In this respect, misers have been compared to leeches, which, when they get sick and die, disgorge, in a minute, the blood they have been so long sucking up. Chatfield. Had misers, as the fable goes of Briareus, each of them one hundred hands, they would all of them be employed in grasping and gathering, and hard- ly one in giving or laying out, but all in receiving and none in restoring ; a thing SO monstrous that nothing in nature besides is like it, except it be death and the grave, the only things I know which are always carrying off the spoils of the world and never making restitution. Dryden. The avaricious man and the miser are one and the same character, with this exception, that the miser carries his passion for money to a still greater excess. An avaricious man shows his love of money in his ordinary dealings ; but the miser lives upon it, and suffers every deprivation rather than part with it. The avaricious man may some- times be indulgent to himself, and generous to others; but the miser is dead to every thing but the treasure he has amassed. G. Crabb. The miser is his own and the poor man's enemy ; money is the tomb of all his passions and desires; he covets the wealth of others, revels in extortion, stops at nothing to gratify his ruling passion, that will not endanger his dear idol; and he passes to the grave without tasting the sweets of friendship, or the delights of secial intercourse. The first vol- untary expenditure upon his body, during his man- hood, and the first welcome visit of his neighbors, both passive on his part, are at his funeral. Jones. Misers have been described as madmen, who in the midst of abundance banish every pleasure, and make from imaginary wants real necessities. But few, very few, correspond to this exaggerated picture; and perhaps there is not one in whom all these circumstances are found united. Instead of this, we find the sober and the industrious branded by the vain and the idle with the odious appella- tion—men who by frugality and labor raise them- selves above their equals, and contribute their share of industry to the common stock. Goldsmith. IMIISER. The miser starves himself, knowing that those who wish him dead will fatten. On his hoarded gains ; he submits to more torture to lose heaven, than the martyr does to gain it; he serves the worst of tyrannical masters ; he worships this world, but repudiates all its pleasures, and endures all the miseries of poverty through life, that he may die in the midst of wealth. He is the mere turnkey of his own riches—a poorly fed and badly clothed slave, refusing proffered, unconditional freedom. L. C. Judson. Misers are sordid souls, incrusted with mud and dirt, in love with gain and filthy lucre, as noble spirits are with glory and virtue ; capable of en- joying One single pleasure, that of acquiring money and grasping it ; in search of, and greedy after, ten per cent., thinking of nothing but their debt- ors, always uneasy about the fall in the funds, or abatement in the value of money, plunged deep and as it were sunk in the abyss of contracts, ti- tles, and parchments ; such people are neither re- lations, friends to any one, citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps human beings; they have riches. Bruyère. The rich miser has a heart that will serve him to hear a thousand lectures about charity without the least damage to his pocket. As for the pleasure of doing good, he understands it not ; he has no no- tion of the matter ; nor will the spectacles with which he tells his money help him to see Jesus Christ in a poor man. As for being rewarded in another world, and lending to God to be hereafter repaid with interest, he is not for this spiritual sort of usury, but looks upon what is lent to God as little better than a desperate debt. The plain truth of it is, he does not like his security, but thinks a mortgage is better. J. Norris. The miser is the most mercenary of all beings, yet he serves the worst master more faithfully than some Christians do the best, and will take no- thing for it. He falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities, nor its pleasures, for his trouble ; he be- gins to accumulate treasure as a means to happi- ness, and by a common but morbid association, he continues to accumulate it as an end. He lives poor, to die rich ; and is the mere jailor of his house, and the turnkey of his wealth. Impoverished by his gold, he slaves harder to imprison it in his chest, than his brother slave to liberate it from the mine. Coltom. Through every stage and revolution of life, the miser remains invariably the same : Or if any dif- ference, it is only this, that as he advances into the shade of a long evening, he clings closer and closer to the object of his idolatry ; and while every other passion lies dead and blasted in his heart, his desire for more pelf increases with renewed eagerness, and he holds by a sinking world with an agonizing grasp, till he drops into the earth with the in- creased curses of wretchedness on his head, with- out the tribute of a tear from child or parent, Or any inscription on his memory but that he lived to counteract the distributive justice of Providence, and died without hope or title to a blessed immor- tality. |W. B. Kirwan. A R O S A. Q U O Z. A 7" / O M. S. MISERY. Misery tries brave men. Semecq, Mock not any man's misery. Pittacws. Every misery I miss is a new blessing. I. Walton. Misery travels free through the whole earth ! Schiller. Misery is a constant companion of wickedness. J. S. Ersch. Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself SO. Sammazaro. We become innocent when we become misera- ble. La Fontaine. Twins even from their birth, are misery and IllêIl. Homer. Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fel- lows. Shakspeare. The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight. Cicero. Miseries have power over man, not man over miseries. Eademws. Misery can never be so bitter as eternal felicity is pleasant. Erasmus. Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. J. Pym. He who is in misery should be considered a sa- cred object. Ovid. There is nothing more miserable than a man that hath nothing to do. Chrysostom. Poverty and human miseries are evils ; but the bad only resent them. Confucius. It costs us more to be miserable, than it would to make us perfectly happy. Seneca. A. great part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable. W. Bent. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance Soon yields to perfidious counsels. D. Twºmer. Perhaps it may be found more easy to forget those tempers we learnt in misery. E. Law. No misery is unlooked for by men, for we find good fortune lasting only for a day. Diphilus. Misery is a veil through which the world can see our errors, but seldom discover our virtues. W. Occaſm. A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. i. Addison. Misery is a heaven-sent messenger, whose errand is to keep alive man's sympathy toward his fel- lows. Pierre Gwerin dw Rocher. Miserable men commiserate not themselves: bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels. Sir T. Browne. To struggle in misery and with misery at the Same time, appears to be the acme of human suf- ferance. T. Adam. IMIISERY. It is easy in adversity to define death ; but he has true fortitude who has the courage to endure misery. Martial. Misery is as really the fruit of vice reigning in the heart, as tares are the produce of tares sown in the field. J. Lathrop. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of Splendor, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations. Herodotus. When we are in misery then springs up a rever- ence of the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the sacred altar. Siliws Italicus. Misery is caused, for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrusion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and un- dermine security. Steele. Never visit the sick and afflicted, and never give a farthing to the poor ; grind the faces and hearts of the poor and unfortunate, and you will be su- premely miserable. J. D. Carlyle. The bad man must needs be at all times misera- ble, whether he have, or whether he want, the materials of external fortune ; for if he have them he will employ them ill. Archytas. Misery assails riches, as lightning does the high- est towers ; or as a tree that is heavy laden with fruit breaks its own boughs, so do riches destroy the virtues of their possessor. R. Burton, Our own share of miseries is sufficient ; why en- ter then as volunteers into those of another ? Is there so little gall poured into our cup, that we must need help to drink that of our neighbor ? T. Jefferson. Nothing is a misery, unless our weakness appre- hend it so : we cannot be more faithful to ourselves in anything that is manly, than to make ill fortune as contemptible to us as it makes us to others. F. Beaumont. Man abuses that heavenly wisdom which was given for his comfort and his joy, and thus brings into the world misery and bloodshed ; but to the wise and peaceable on the earth, it remains a tree Of life. Erwmmacher. Can any one justly retain a poor human being in misery, deprivation, and abasement, when his efforts for escape are hurtful to none, or hurtful to those only who found their well-being on iniquity by founding it on the misfortune of others? - Lamenºva.is. There is no period of life exempt from misery. We enter it in tears; we pass through it in Sweat and toil, and many afflictions; we end it always in sorrow. Great and little, rich and poor, not one in the whole world can plead immunity from this condition. J. Hintom. Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon-ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. Colton. Af 580 AD A Y',S C O / / A C O AV. IMIISERY. MISFORTUNE. Notwithstanding the sight of all those miseries . Misfortunes make us wise. Vezim. which wring us, and threaten our destruction, we º - have still an instinct that we cannot repress, which Misfortune proves the man. Zabáda. elevates us above Our Sorrows. Pascal. Whenever a course of conduct produces indivi- dual, it also produces social misery ; and whenever a course of conduct violates the Social laws of our being, it of necessity produces individual misery. F. Wayland. As a mother that weans her child layeth worm- wood, or some other bitter thing, on her breast, to make the child loathe the milk, so God makes us often feel the miseries and crosses of this life, that our love and liking might be turned from this world, and fixed in heaven. D. Cawdray. Thou art not born to misery ; the Almighty never called any of His creatures into existence to render them unhappy : yet man may be wretched from his own follies and vices ; his reason may yield to the wild impulses of tumultuous passion ; then man is wretched, and every seeming good is perverted to misery. Gessner. Men are too often ingenious in making them- selves miserable, by aggravating to their own fancy, beyond bounds, all the evils which they endure ; they compare themselves with none but those whom they imagine to be more happy ; and complain that upon them alone has fallen the whole load of human sorrows. W. Allem. If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced ; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied ; and if of vice, not to be insulted ; because it is perhaps it- self a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced. The humanity of that man can deserve no panegyric, who is capable of reproach- ing a criminal in the hands of the executioner. Dr. Johnson. There are a great many miseries to which no- thing but death can give relief. Death puts an end to the sorrows of the afflicted and oppressed; it sets the prisonérs at liberty ; it dries up the tears of the widows and fatherless ; it eases the com- plaints of the hungry and naked; it tames the proudest tyrants, and puts an end to all our labors. J. Mair. If all the misery which many people suffer in this world could be traced to the source from which it springs, it would be found that the greater por- tion of it emanates from their own errors and mis- takes in life; but unfortunately for the good of mankind, this is never known, for each one—whose misery is made apparent to the world—conceals the real cause of it within his own breast. James Ellis. The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals: one year the death of a child ; years after, a failure in trade ; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married un- happily ; in all but the singular unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered. S. T. Coleridge. Misfortunes seldom come alone. Sir Bayle Roche. No one is secure from misfortune. Jaafar. Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. Rabbi Wise. Upbraid no man with his misfortune. Isocrates. . Misfortune continually hovers over man. Al-Buwaiti. Never take delight in another's misfortune. - Krishna. It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our fate. Rufus. When misfortune has reached its height deliver- ance is near. As-Sikkit. The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune. Bios. Do not sharpen the thorns of a tree, nor add misery to misfortune. Singalese. I praise God that I am overtaken with misfor- tune, and not with sin, Saadi. It is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes, than to do great things. Stanislaws. The less we parade our misfortunes, the more sympathy we command. O. Dewey. Who hath not known misfortune never knew himself, or his own virtue. P. H. Mallet. When exempt from real misfortunes, men create to themselves imaginary ones. Bwlwer. When a man is assailed by misfortune even his religion is accounted heterodox. P. Abelard. Misfortunes are the lot of all men, whenever it may please heaven to inflict them. Demosthenes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfor- tune; but great minds rise above it. W. Irving. It is much better to endeavor to forget one's mis- fortunes, than to speak often of them. J. Hamilton. By struggling with misfortunes we are sure to receive some wounds in the conflict. Goldsmith. Misfortune makes of certain Souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God. Balzac. Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. - Colton. Laws, as far as possible, should prevent one man from profiting by the misfortunes of another. A. Bascom. Misfortune discovers to youth the nothingness of life ; it reveals to age the happiness of heaven. Mºme. Swetchine. We dread very often misfortunes which lose that name by the change of our thoughts and inclina- tions. Sévigné. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 5SI IMISIFORTUNE. I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. Burke. Misfortune is never mournful to the Soul that ac- cepts it ; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. St. Jerome. The effect of supreme and irrevocable misfor- tune is to elevate those souls which it does not de- prive of all virtue. Gwizot. Misfortune has in it at least this good, that it corrects all those little passions which agitate the idle and corrupted. Mme. d'Alembert. If misfortune assail thee, put on the helmet of patience, and draw the sabre of resolution ; then shall it flee before thee. Ar-Rashid. We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. Melmoth. The hardships or misfortunes we lie under, are more easy to us than those of any other person would be, in case we could change conditions with him. Horace. To reflect on the misfortunes to which mankind in general are exposed, greatly contributes to alle- viate the weight of those which we ourselves en- dure. Cicero. It is often better to have a great deal of misfor- tune happen to one ; a great deal may arouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure. Lord Greville. Misfortunes usually draw closer to each other the children of grief ; in the softening of the heart, its bursting griefs seek relief in association with kindred spirits. Watson. One of the causes that lead us to misfortune is, that we live according to the example of others, and are unwilling to submit to reason, but are led astray by custom. Semeca. If all men would bring their misfortunes to- gether in one place, most would be glad to take his own home again, rather than to take a proportion out of the common stock. Solom. Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the head of the woman, and brings forth germs of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession. Mrs. Mowatt. Foresee misfortunes, that thou mayest strive to prevent them ; but, whenever they happen, bear them with magnanimity ; it is the very height of calamity not to be able to support it. Zoroaster. When the strong influences of the stars pour down misfortunes upon us, they fall from on high with such violence and fury that no human force can stop them nor human address prevent them. Cervantes. If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. Socrates, IMISIFORTUNE. Misfortune is next door to stupidity; and it will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill-luck are only reaping the con- sequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, improvidence, or want of application. S. Smiles. Misfortune is but another word for the follies, blunders, and vices, which, with a greater blind- mess, we attribute to the blind goddess, to the fates, to the stars, to any one, in short, but ourselves : our own head and heart are the heaven and earth which we accuse, and make responsible for all our calalmities. Chatfield. A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, in- capable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable ; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest. Fielding. It is true that misfortune—real misfortune, not imaginary, which we create for ourselves—is the Surest touchstone of human excellence, and that equanimity and strength of mind belong specially to it, to work without constraint on the world, when fate cuts off all our springs of enjoyment, and even binds our hands in working. G. Forster. The idea we form of a misfortune is ever SOme- what different from the misfortune itself, when it appears in all its frightful certainty. We must trust in nothing so little, and must labor for no- thing SO unceasingly, as for the strengthening of our soul and for self-government, both of which are the sure foundations of happiness. Hwmboldt. There is, in regard to great misfortunes, a mo- ment which causes even more pain than the mis- fortune itself—it is that in which we can no longer doubt of its existence ; one of the greatest misfor- tunes in life is that of being compelled to live with those who, by the very character of their own minds, are prevented Or incapacitated from ap- preciating Ours. Princess de Salm-Dyck. If misfortunes have befallen you by your own misconduct, live, and be wiser for the future ; if they have befallen you by the fault of others, live, you have nothing wherewith to reproach yourself; if your character be unjustly attacked, live, time will remove the aspersion ; if you have spiteful enemies, live, and disappoint their malevolence; if you have kind and faithful friends and kindred, live, to bless and protect them ; if you hope for immortality, live, and prepare to enjoy it. John Herries. The humor of turning every misfortune into a judgment, proceeds from wrong motions of reli- gion, which, in its own nature, produces good-will toward men, and puts the mildest construction upon every accident that befalls them. In this case, therefore, it is not religion that sours a man's temper, but it is his temper that sours his religion. People of gloomy, uncheerful imaginations, or of envious, malignant tempers, whatever kind of life they are engaged in, will discover their natural tincture of mind in all their thoughts and actions. Addison. 582 A) A V 'S CO / / A C O AV. IMISSIONARY. Eindly protect the missionaries. Kaahumamw. Missions are nowhere impracticable. Wisner. Missionaries come to our land, and do good. John. Ii. Fortitude becometh a Christian missionary. J. Amchieta. Missionaries walk by faith, rather than by sight. G. S. Comstock. Christian missions, after all, are only foreign charities. Olive R. Seward. The genuine Christian missionary has a self-sac- rificing spirit. C. C. Bennett. The missionary hears the still Small voice of God, and follows it. M. B. Coac. The object of the missionary enterprise embraces every child of Adam. F. Wayland. The missionary has one thing to live for, and only one—the glory of God Mrs. Jane I. White. Of missionary life, the trials and deprivations often dwindle on approach to them. Mrs. Simpson. Missionaries are the true representatives of the apostles of old, speaking with cloven tongues. J. Williams. Armies expose themselves to kill and to destroy ; but the missionary does it to comfort and to save. P. Church. A missionary should live near to God, dwell in love, and be willing to wear out in the service of Christ. Ç Pliny Fisk. The call is imperious upon every follower of Christ, to do all in his power to promote the work of missions. H. W. Pierson. The missionary has but one desire and One pur- pose, namely, to become a herald of Salvation to the heathem. S. Munson. How glorious the thought, that one missionary may be the means of grace to hundreds of poor unlettered heathen. J. M. Wainwright. Missionaries are men, and not angels ; they need the intercessions of the Great High Priest that their faith and courage fail not. J. J. Freeman. God's way is always in the deep, and his paths are not known ; but how entirely inscrutable to us is the early death of a useful missionary. M. S. Hwttom. The missionary goes forth, in the calm glow of apostolic zeal, to labor and to die in barbarous lands for the extension of Christ's empire. Leonard Bacon. The mission field is vast even to immensity ; it is ripe for the harvest, and is perishing on the ground for want of laborers to gather it in. J. Arwmdel. Having entered on the work of the mission, I have never regretted leaving my native land, to do what I can for the heathen, and I hope God will accept me. Mrs. Harriet A. Newell. IMISSIONARY. Missionaries have a firm belief the heathen will be saved, and on this account undergo fatigue, tor- ture, and death itself. De Foe. It is the love of Christ that impels the missionary to go ; it is this that makes him willing to suffer the loss of all things in His service. Williams. Why can a missionary be happy : Because God fulfills his promise, “Lo / I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” I was never more happy. H. Lyman. Missionaries are enthusiasts, the world would say. Well, call them so ; I honor an enthusiast of this stamp : such men are required to pioneer any great enterprise. C. E. Lester. A missionary laborer, or a missionary church, ought to possess a degree of consecration far higher, and to practice self-denial, far greater than ordi- marily appears in the churches. H. Bingham. The missionary might feel very unhappy at being separated so far from his dearest friends, were it not for the sustaining consciousness that he has left father and mother for Christ's sake. D. Abeel. The employment of a humble and faithful mis- sionary, who is engaged in actually preaching the gospel among the heathen, is the most noble, the most important, and the most desirable employ- ment on earth. James Richards. The missionary enterprise has brought to light many noble and beautiful traits, particularly of female character, which, apart from this agency, might have been deemed the conceptions of poets rather than realities. S. F. Smith. What momentary deed of reckless valor can compare with the life-long self-devotion of the missionary in some far cluster of Indian lodges, or Tartar huts, cut off from society, from sympathy, and from earthly hope 3 H. Greeley. How sweet the thought that from far distant parts of the globe, the Savior's ransomedones shall greet the faithful missionary on the shores of life, and converted souls from various climes shall be crowns of his rejoicing in that day! T. E. Vermilye. The missionary who goes out to labor amid the moral wastes of our land, encounters comparatively few of those hardships and dangers which beset the daily path of him who goes to labor among the benighted heathen ; still the home missionary has his trials, and he has his seasons of joy, too—pure. holy, uninterrupted joy J. A. Clarke. Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not ; he may be a blot, radiating his dark influ- ence outward to the very circumferance of Society; or he may be a blessing, spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world ; but a blank he cannot be ; there are no moral blanks : there are no neutral characters; we are either the sower that sows and corrupts, or the light that splendidly illuminates, and the salt that silently operates; but being dead or alive, every man speaks. T. Chalmers. PA O S F O U O T A 7" / O M S. IMISTAIKE. All men are liable to mistakes. Piłs. There are few, very few, that will own them- selves in a mistake. ‘. Swift. Any man may commit a mistake, but none but a fool will continue in it. Cicero. Unhappy is he who mistakes the branch for the tree, the shadow for the substance. Rabbi Simon. However temperate we may be, we shall be sure to make mistakes enough in the World, and bring upon ourselves enough of trouble. H. Humphrey. Countless mistakes hang about the minds of men ; and it is a difficult thing to discover what now, and also in the end, is best to happen to a IIlall. Pindanºws. The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness; and the old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wis- dom. - Colton. The world is an old woman, that mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin ; whereby, being often cheated, she will henceforth trust nothing but the common Copper. T. Carlyle. Man undertakes nothing in which he is not more or less puzzled ; he must try numberless experi- ments before he can bring his undertakings to any- thing like perfection ; and these experiments imply a succession of mistakes. Jane Taylor. If you would convince a person of his mistake, accost him not upon that subject when his spirit is ruffled or discomposed with any occurrences of life; and especially when he has heated his passions in the defense of a contrary Opinion. I. Watts. The mistakes and errors of youth are Seldom eradicated, and never forgotten in Old age. When youth is lost to everything but the delusive tones of sin, then farewell the holy power of virtue, for their future life is full of mistakes ; integrity, joy, rest, and happiness are lost forever. James Ellis Exemption from mistake is not the privilege of mortals; but when our mistakes are involuntary, we owe each other every candid consideration ; and the man who on discovering his errors acknow- ledges and corrects them, is scarcely less entitled to our esteem than if he had not erred. Pye Smith. How many adorned with all the rarities of intel- lect, have made a mistake on the entrance into life, and have made a wrong choice on the very thing which was to determine their course forever ! This is among the reasons, and perhaps is the principal one, why the wise and the happy are two distinct classes of men. W. S. Landor. We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do by finding out what will not do ; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Horne Tooke used to say of his studies in intellec- tual philosophy, that he had become all the better acquainted with the country through having had the good luck sometime to lose his way. S. Smiles. IMOB. Mobs are multiplied ignorance. Sir W. Jones. The mob are more restless than the waves of the Sea. Seneca. The vile mob generally are vicious, worthless, and unprincipled. Cervantes. It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains. Rivarol. The mob have neither judgment nor principle, ready to bawl at night for the reverse of what they desired in the morning. Tacitus. I am always ill at ease when tumults arise among the mob-people who have nothing to lose ; they use as a pretext that to which we also appeal, and bring misery on the land. Goethe. The mob is a blind, unwieldy monster, which at first rattles its heavy bones, threatening to swallow high and low, the near and distant, with gaping jaws, and at last stumbles Over a thread. Schiller. Mobs are highly dangerous to us; for though the government cannot, if disposed, greatly injure our liberty, mobs can ; in mobs I have seen mild, orderly, sober men converted into fiends. Dwight. Let there be an entire abstinence from intoxicat- ing drinks throughout this country during the pe- riod of a single generation, and a mob would be as impossible as combustion without oxygen. Mamm. The mob is a sort of bear ; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel ; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. Jane Porter. It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them ; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger. Colton. A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereav- ing themselves of reason and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily descending to the na- ture of the beast ; its fit hour of activity is night ; its actions are insane, like its whole constitution. - R. W. Emerson. A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city ; where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell ; assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various Sources as the sea itself ; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable and cruel. . Dickens. I hate all mobs and tumultuary assemblies on one side or the other ; they are the senseless instru- ments of party, the clumsy machinery by which imperfect government is carried on or opposed by imperfect politicians; they are in their very na- ture unlawful and unconstitutional, directly at variance with our free institutions, which are as much opposed to anarchy as to despotism ; they are alternately encouraged from interest, or toler- ated from fear. D. M. Moºr. 584 AD A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV . '--— exist in the same subject. MODERATION. IMODERATION. e Moderation is a great and important Christi wº & J Taulor. § D all Let our life be moderate. eremy 1 aylor virtue, very different from that bad quality of the Moderation makes a throne stand sure. Seneca. | mind under which it is often misrepresented and --- disguised, namely, lukewarmness and indifference Moderation is an attendant of wisdom. about the truth. G. Mason. Chung-Ne. Do good in moderation ; do evil not at all. Radir Mwnshi. Moderation in prosperity argues a great mind. Cyrus Yale. Moderation is a virtue in private and in public life. W. H. Seward. Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved. Joubert. In religious matters, moderation has its own criminals. Mºme. Swetchine. Only action gives life strength ; only moderation gives it a charm. Richter. Everything that exceeds the bounds of modera- tion has an unstable foundation. Seneca. Moderation is the silken string which runs through the pearl-chain of all virtues. T. Fuller. Assume in adversity the countenance of pros- perity, and in prosperity moderate the temper. Livy. Whoever thou art that hast become rich from great poverty, use thy good fortune with modera- tion. AwSonints. The boundary of man is moderation ; when once we pass that pale Our guardian angel quits his charge of us. Feltham. Moderation is the inseparable companion of wis- dom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. Coltom. The moderate are often called cold by men, who think themselves more warm than other men, be- cause a transient glow comes over them. Goethe. It is the part of a wise man to practice modera- tion in passion ; there is a protection in the very name of moderation, and to enjoy it is far the best for man. Euripides. Virtue with moderation, which times and situa- tions will clearly distinguish from the counterfeits of pusillanimity and indecision, is the virtue only of superior minds. Burke. A zeal in things pertaining to God, according to knowledge, and yet duly tempered with candor and prudence, is the true notion of that much talked of, most misunderstood, virtue, moderation. F. Atterbury. Moderation must not claim the merit of combat- ing and conquering ambition : for they can never Moderation is the lan- guor and sloth of the soul: ambition its activity and ardor. Rochefoucauld. To the man who aspires to supreme power, it is the wisest policy to show himself enamored of moderation, and to speak of nothing but the plea- Sure of quiet retirement ; rest is often assumed by the restless. * Seneca. Moderation in our desires and appetites, which fits us for doing our duty, contributes at the same time the most to happiness ; even social passions, when moderate, are more pleasant than when they swell beyond proper bounds. Rames. Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-pro- portioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance. Chatham. To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to out- rage humanity ; the greatness of the human Soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds ; so far from greatness consisting in going beyond its limits, it really consists in keeping within it. Pascal. We are born with our temptations; nature some- times presses us to evil, sometimes provokes us unto good ; if therefore thou givest her more than her due, thou nourishest an enemy ; if less than is sufficient, thou destroyest a friend ; moderation will prevent both. F. Quarles. Moderation is in itself a power—peaceable, regu- lar, constant, and invincible—a power destined to restrain the energy and activity of the soul within the confines which answer, on one side, to the reach of our faculties, and on the other, to the objects which are assigned them. Magoon. Moderate desires constitute a charactef fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield ; he is prepared, in whatever situation he is, there- with to be content ; has learned the science of be- ing happy, and possesses the alchemic stone which will change every metal into gold. T. Dwight. Moderation is the center wherein all, both divine and moral philosophy meet ; the rule of life, the governess of manners, “the silken string that runs through the pearl-chain of all virtues,” the very ecliptic line under which reason and religion move without any deviation, and therefore most worthy of our best thoughts, of our most careful obser- WallC62. J. Hall. Remember to comport thyself in life as at a banquet ; if a plate is offered thee, extend thy hand and take it moderately ; if it be withdrawn, do not detain it ; if it come not to thy side, make not thy desire loudly known, but wait patiently till it be offered thee; use the same moderation toward thy wife and thy children, toward honors and riches. Epictetus. Moderation protects a man equally from injus- tice on the one hand, and imposition on the other : he who is moderate makes others so ; for every One finds his advantage in keeping within those bounds which are as convenient to himself as to his neigh- bor; the world will always do this homage to real goodness, that they will admire it if they cannot practice it, and they will practice it to the utmost extent that their passions will allow them. Crabb. P A O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 585 IMODESTY. Forget not modesty. Rabbi Eliezer. A gentleman is modest. G. W. Dodme, Modesty is of the color of virtue. Diogenes. True modesty is a discerning grace. Cowper. The noblest of all ornaments is modesty. Rabbi Eleazer. Modesty is the true citadel of beauty and virtue. Demades. No art can repair modesty when it is once dam- aged. Montesquiew. Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind. * B. Whichcote. Modesty in woman veils in some measure home- liness. Downey. Modesty is almost always inseparable from true merit. Stanislaws. Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return. Seneca. Modesty is more especially becoming to supe- riority. Mme. Swetchine. Modesty is agreeable ; extreme bashfulness is ridiculous. J. Ferridºr. Modesty never assumes a spirit of dictation, but of inquiry. J. W. Barke?". Modesty is one of the leading characteristics of great minds. Mrs. Henry Sandbach. Modesty is the flower with which youth should be decorated. Plawtus. Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. Addison. A man without modesty is lost to all sense of honor and virtue. L. Byrn: Modesty is a sweet song-bird no open cage-door can tempt to flight. Hafiz. I dislike those who because they want modesty, think they are valorous. TSze-Kwng. He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. Cicero. Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with noble virtues. Goldsmith. It is proper to leave abundance of modesty, rather than gold to children. Plato. It does not suit all persons to be modest; none but great men ought to be so. Zhena.g. Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius. E. H. Chapin. When man has lost his modesty he hath lost his majesty, and his image of nobility. R. Cushman. Modesty in your discourse will give a lustre to truth, and an excuse to your error. J. A. Weisse. Modesty is to merit what shade is to figures in a picture, giving it strength and relief. Bruyére. IMODESTY. A seeming modesty is a surer evidence of vanity than a moderate degree of assurance. Andrew Ure. When any one remains modest, not after praise but after censure, then he is really so. Richter. Those that have once passed the bounds of mo- desty soon grow shameless in their sins. J. Hall. I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant. Harriet Martineaw. Modesty is becoming to every one ; but we must know how to overcome it without ever losing it. H. Attwell. Mankind yield to the modest, but succumb to the bold; for modesty conciliates and subdues opposi- tion. Acton. Modesty is that virtue which moderates our pur- suit after honor, and renders us humble in our own eyes. P. Limborch. Nothing can atone for the want of modesty, without which beauty is ungraceful and wit de- testable. Steele. Modesty is the appendage of sobriety, and is to chastity, to temperance, and to humility as fringes are to a garment. Jeremy Taylor. Modesty, that becomes all men, is especially be- coming in one who has great merit, in that he has everything to excuse pride. Bovee. From the time of the flood to the present period, not one man ever derived any benefit from modes- ty, and not one woman any harm from it. Mme. Auguste von Paalzow. Modesty is essential ; it is always, and justly, supposed to be a concomitant of merit ; and every appearance of it is winning and prepossessing. Baldwin. The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes. Napoleon I. Be simple and modest in your deportment, and treat with indifference whatever lies between vir- tue and vice ; love the human race ; obey God. Awrelints. A simple and modest man lives unknown until a moment, which he could not have foreseen, reveals his estimable qualities and his generous actions. A. P. Stanley. By the same reason that shades are necessary in a piece of painting, modesty ought constantly to accompany merit ; it gives it more force and relief. John Barr. Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives the persons who labor under it by the preju- dice it affords every worthy person in their favor. Shenstone. A man truly modest is as much so when he is alone as in company, and as subject to a blush in the closet as when the eyes of multitudes are upon him. E. Budgell. 586 J) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. IMODESTY. True modesty is quite compatible with a due es- timate of one's own merits, and does not demand the abnegation of all merit. Smiles. True modesty gives an enduring grace to the character of man ; it sits as a crown of excellence, over all the other graces of the soul. J. W. Barker. Modesty is silent when it would not be improper to speak ; the humble, without being called upon, never recollect to say anything of themselves. Lavater. The first of all virtues is innocence, the next is modesty ; if we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue there is in it. J. Main’. If there were no other reason for modesty, this were enough with an idle man, that to pretend to little will save him the labor of hiding his defi- ciency. R. Hooker. The false modesty of the insignificance of such a being as man, has always encouraged modern un- believers to call in question the moral government of God. W. Warburton. The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose ; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy. Rivarol. Modesty is a kind of shame or bashfulness pro- ceeding from the sense a man has of his own de- fects, compared with the perfections of him whom he comes before. R. Sowth. God intended for women two preventives against sin, modesty and remorse ; in confession to a mor- tal priest the former is removed by his absolution, the latter is taken away. Piedmont. A just and reasonable modesty does not only re- commend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of ; it heightens all the virtues which it accompanies. Addison. Modesty in a man is never to be allowed as a good quality, but a weakness, if it suppresses his virtue, and hides it from the world, when he has at the same time a mind to exert himself. Dr. Johnson. It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause. Machiavelli. Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand, it is wrought into the mechanism of the body ; it is likewise proportioned to the occasion of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too. J. Collier. It is remarked that the modest deportment of really wise men, when contrasted to the assuming air of the young and ignorant, may be compared to the differences of wheat, which while its ear is empty holds up its head proudly, but as soon as it is filled with grain bends modestly down, and with- draws from observation. F. Beaumont. MODESTY. True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them ; modesty then is only another name for self-knowledge ; that is, for the absence of ignorance on the one subject which we ought to understand the best, as well from its vast importance to us, as from our continual opportunities of studying it ; and yet it is a virtue. J. C. Hare. Modesty always sits gracefully upon youth ; it Covers a multitude of faults, and doubles the lustre of every virtue which it seems to hide ; the per- fections of men being like those flowers which ap- pear more beautiful when their leaves are a little contracted and folded up, than when they are full blown, and display themselves without any re- serve to the view. J. Seed. Modesty is the bridemaid of concord ; she not Only hangs her garland on the door of the nuptial chamber, but she bestrews with refreshing herbs the whole apartment, every day of life. Without her where is harmony, or what is beauty With- out her, the sight of returning spring has bitter pangs in it ; without her, the songs of love in the woodland, and the symbols of mated innocence on the tree apart, afflict the bosom, sensitive no longer but to reminiscences and wrath. W. S. Landor. You little know what you have done, when you have first broken the bonds of modesty ; yon have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, re- present the same sinful pleasure to you anew ; he hath no access to your fancy to stir up lustful thoughts and desires, so that when you should think of your calling, or of your God, or of your soul, your thoughts will be worse than swinish, upon the filth that is not fit to be named. If the devil here get in a foot, he will not easily be got Out. R. Baacter. Modesty shields a man from mortifications and disappointments, which assail the self-conceited man in every direction ; a modest man conciliates the esteem even of an enemy and a rival ; he dis- arms the resentments of those who feel themselves most injured by his superiority ; he makes all pleased with him by making them at ease with themselves ; the self-conceited man, on the con- trary, sets the whole world against himself, be- cause he sets himself against every body : every one is out of humor with him, because he makes them ill at ease while in his company. G. Crabb. Modesty adorns virtue, as bashfulness ornaments beauty ; it harmonizes with a just sense of char- acter, as moderation harmonizes with justice ; it heightens dignity of character, as simplicity en- hances greatness ; it adds to merit the same charms which candor adds to greatness of heart. What is modesty ? Is it not a sense of excellence so deep and true that the observance of duty appears a na- tural thing 2 Is it not so sincere a desire for what is excellent, that what is wanting is much more per- ceptible than what is already obtained ? Is it not So pure a love for what is good, that it forgets the reward reserved for merit, in the approbation of others? Mrs. Lwcy Hutchinson. P R O S Z Q U O T A T / O M S. - 587 IMOHAIMIMITED ANISMI. O Mohammed ! of a truth thou art the Prophet of God | Roram. It is through the merit of Mohammed we attain the favor of God. Ar-Rumi. The writings of Mohammed prove him an enthu- siast and an impostor. James Ellis. Verily, the Mohammedan is a comfortable doc- trine for the stronger sex. Olive R. Seward. We should regard Mohammedanism, not as a rival, but as a spurious imitation of Christianity. Rev. Charles Foster. It was not Mahomet that the Prophet taught his followers to worship, but the God of Mahomet. Abu Beker. Mohammedanism is a faith without mysteries, a prophet without miracles, and a religion without morality. Schlegel. They are but infidels who affirm that Jesus, the son of Mary, is equal in power and goodness to the prophet Mahomet. Ibn Kalúkis. Mohammed is the most excellent of the prophets, the most noble of the saints : it is he who inviteth to walk in the white path. Ibn Khallikam. If success is a proof of excellence and truth, the Mahometan religion is superior and more under divine patronage than the Christian. D. M. Bennett. Mohammedanism is already falling into decay, and its gigantic frame crumbling with the corrup- ted mass whose emergies it has confined. Guizot. If we take the Koran as the teacher of the vir– tues of Mohammedanism, notwithstanding the flattering encomiums passed upon it as being a fine specimen of literary composition, we shall find it is only calculated to engage the attention of an imaginative and credulous mind. Acton. True believers will ever be grateful to Mahomet, who confirmed the true mission of all the prophets, from the creation of the world to his time, who brought all revealed religions of the earth to per- fection, and threw open to his faithful followers the everlasting gates of eternal and ineffable light. Ahmed Bahador. From the characters of the Christian and Mo- hammedan religions, we ought, without any fur- ther examination, to embrace the One and reject the other ; for it is much easier to prove that re- ligion ought to humanize the manners of men, than that any particular religion is true ; the Moham- med religion, which speaks only by the sword, acts still upon men with that destructive spirit with which it was founded. Montesquiew. The gospel had no competitor, till the great and successful impostor, Mohammed, arose ; he pre- tended a commission to all the world, and found means sufficiently to publish his pretenses; he as- serts his authority upon the strength of revelation, and endeavors to transfer the advantages of the gospel evidence to himself, having that pattern before him to copy after ; it can be no very dis- tracting study to determine our choice. Sherlock. IMION ARCIGIY. Monarchy is often a refuge from anarchy. Ray. Absolute monarchy is a fair field, but it has no Outlet. Solom. The cause of the ruin of monarchies is the in- fraction of good laws. C. Swlly. Monarchs seldom hear truth until too late to de- rive profit from its knowledge. A. Thomason. A monarchy where there is no nobility at all is ever a pure and absolute tyranny. Lord Bacon. New monarchies are demolished by their ene- mies; restored ones by their friends. Lamartime. The farce of monarchy and aristocracy, in all countries, is following that of chivalry. T. Paine. The monarch holds his crown from the people, and not the people their liberties from the crown. Bulwer. Everything prospers in a monarchy where the interest of the state are as one with those of the prince. Bruyère. Free states ought to have a wholesome dread of absolute monarchies, especially if they are situated in their immediate neighborhood. Demosthemes. The state of a beggar is more delightful than an envied monarchy; awake, they see no conspirators; asleep, they dream of no assassins. Hyder-Ali. A monarchy is a thing perfectly susceptible of a balance of power, and when reformed and bal- anced, for a great country it is the best of all gov- ernments. - Burke. In countries of freedom, monarchs are bound to protect their subjects in liberty, property, and re- ligion, to receive their petitions, and redress their grievances. Swift. Monarchs who live under the fundamental laws of their country, are far happier than despotic princes, who have nothing to regulate either their own or their subjects' hearts. Montesquiew. The thrones of mighty monarchs have been taken from them, to be transferred to plowmen and fish- ermen ; the heads which were encircled with dia- dems, have been made to roll upon the scaffold. Acton. The mischiefs of monarchy are tyranny, expense, exaction, military domination, unnecessary wars waged to gratify the passions of an individual, a want of constancy and uniformity in the rules of government, and proceeding from thence, insecu- rity of person and property. Paley. However perfect the monarchial form may ap- pear to some politicians, it owes all its perfections to the republican ; nor is it possible that a pure despotism, established among a barbarous people, can ever, by its native force and energy, refine and polish itself. It must borrow its laws, its methods, and its institution, and consequently its stability and order, from free governments; these advan- tages are the sole growth of republics. Hwme. 588 AX A V 'S CO /, / A C O AV. IMION ARCHY. Every monarch is a sovereign whose extent of dominion and number of subjects rises above the ordinary level ; although we know that princes are but men, yet in estimating their characters we are apt to expect more of them than what is human : it is the great concern of every monarch who wishes for the welfare of his subjects to choose good counsellors. G. Crabb. Monarchy and aristocracy, valuable and as use- ful as I think them, are still valuable and useful as means, and not as ends. The end of government is the happiness of the people ; and I do not con- ceive that, in a country like this, the happiness of the people can be promoted by a form of govern- ment in which the middle classes place no confi- dence, and which exists only because the middle classes have no organ by which to make their sen- timent known. T. B. Macawlay. The monarchial form of government is natural to men, as it is to bees, ants, migrating cranes, wandering elephants, wolves in predatory expedi- tions, and other animals, who all appoint one to conduct their expeditions; every expedition, too, of man attended by danger, every march of an army, every ship, must obey its leader ; above all there must be a leading mind; it seems thus that the organization of animal nature is monarchial ; the brain alone is the leader and director; if the heart, lungs, and stomach contribute greatly to the maintenance of the system, they can neither direct nor guide ; this is the act of the brain alone, and must issue from one point ; even the planetary system is monarchical. Schopenhaw.fer. IMIONASTERY. A monastery is a school of Christ. Bernardine. In the gloom of the monastery many a useful life has been lost to the world. W. Coleman. A monastery may protect the sinner, but it can- not always make him a saint. Sir R. Hingham. In the midnight of the monkish ages, liberal arts slumbered in the profound darkness of the cloister. J. Q. Adams. In a monastery your devotions cannot carry you so far toward the next world, as to make this lose the sight of you. - Pope. There are some solitary creatures who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only to meet the devil in the privacy of a monastery. J. Isla. In the gloom, melancholy, and horror of a mon- astery there can be no religion; real religion should clothe the face with cheerfulness, and fill the heart with gladness. J. Bartlett. A monastery is a house of ill-fame, where men are seduced from their public duties, and fall ma- turally into guilt, from attempting to preserve an unnatural innocence. Chatfield. Many a pure spirit, through heavenly-minded- ness, and an ardent though mistaken zeal, has fled from the temptations of the world, to seek in the Solitude of a monastery, a closer walk with God. Longfellow. IMOMENT. Moments are related to years. E. Budgell. Every moment lost gives an opportunity for mis- fortune. Napoleon I. As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time. G. Mason. How many moments are past ! Ah who thinks of those that are past 3 Lessing. Seize the present moment, and trust as little as possible to the morrow. Horace. A moment in misery seems an hour; but an hour in joy seems only a moment. J. Locke. In the course of our lives we may miss only a moment, and months and years are lost. Tieck. The moments of our lives silently pass away, and the moment which is lost never returns, and is lost for ever. Mrs. C. A. Sowle. A moment may seem to be a thing of little mo- ment, taken of itself, but a great many moments make up the sum of eternity. J. Timbs. That man is wise who devotes each moment of time to its own peculiar duties ; to hasten is often an injury, while to delay is ruin. Ovid. Moments make the year, and each passing one is the scene of a little deed, all of which togetherform the character and destiny of man Viola. Moments are like grains of golden sand, only far more precious ; for the Sand makes solid, lasting earth, while the moments, the sands of time are forever disappearing. James Ellis. A single moment causes such changes in the lot of man, that in this high fortune which I have reached I fear some great reverse ; every moment of life is a step toward death. Corneille. A moment has been the making or marring of many a life ; we are often in a quandary as to which course to pursue, when the difference of a mere moment will turn the scale for good or evil. Grace Darling. The value of moments when cast up are immense, if well employed ; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable. Every moment may be put to some use, and that with much more pleasure than if un- employed. Chesterfield. God never gives us two moments together, nor grants us a second, till He has withdrawn the first, still keeping the third in His own hands, so that we are in a perfect uncertainty whether we shall have it or not. The true manner of preparing for the last moment is to spend all the others well, and ever to expect that. Fénélon. There are happy moments which visit us like angels' whispers, breathing into our hearts a sense of better and higher things : if we listen to them and obey them, we shall find them to be the com- munings of the soul with its high destinies; these auspicious moments are like the favorable temper- ature and showers which make the seeds grow, and the flowers bloom. Acton. A R O S A. Q & O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 589 War. IMONEY. Money is power. 2emo. Money begets money. Franklin. Money rules the world. Justin. Money proves the man. Terence. Money will get anything. Didius Julianus. Wish for no man's money. F. Hunt. Rabbi Eleazer. Money is a king without a title. Anna F. Camfield. F. Galiani. St. Dumstan. Be never too eager for money. Pay not too dearly for money. Money is the staff of the church. Money is the measure of all things. D. A. Azwni. Money is a picklock that never fails. Massinger. Money is but a means for doing good. Marivantac. Some have more money than brains. Vesik, It is rare for money to lack a master. Bias. Money is life to us wretched mortals. Hesiod. Money is wise ; it knows its own way. Somerset. Money is often lost for want of money. Z. Pratt. Money is the creator of many pleasures. Cicero. The money you cannot get is hard enough. Aacs. The best use of money is to do good with it. Andrada. If money be not thy servant, it will be thy mas- ter. Charrom. Money is a necessity of state, both in peace and |William the Conqueror. Money is well, if gotten well, and expended well. Emperor Vespasian. Honor, without money, is but a pitiful, sickly plant. Racine. Money is powerful, yet it cannot command all things. Goethe. No man shall ever play the gentleman upon my money. Stephen Girard. Money is a very good servant, but a dangerous master. Dominique Bowhowrs. Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. O. W. Holmes. In giving money, ask the blessing of God upon the gift. Rowland Hill. Money makes not so many true friends as real enemies. Erasmus. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Thoreaw. He that hoardeth up money taketh pains for other men. Erik Pontoppidan. Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. Lord Bacon. man, but it does not take but little virtue. IMONEY. Every one has his own method of putting money in his purse. H. M. Gallaher. If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. Fielding. A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. Swift. If you would get rid of a disagreeable person, lend him money. Accursivs. Money is the sinews of war, and the keys to un- lock hidden secrets. John Fletcher. If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask for it again. Thales. The love of money increases as much as the money itself increases. Juvenal. White man sell anything for money; white man sell himself for money. Cetywayo. Money is oftentimes the only patent of nobility, beside lofty pretensions. Zimmerman. All love has something of blindness in it, but the love of money especially. R. Sowth. He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends. Shakspeare. Love of money is the disease which renders us most pitiful and grovelling. Menander. Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making monéy. Dr. Johnsom. Money is shaped like a wheel; it rolls to some, from others; but seldom is at rest. E. P. Day. Those who declaim loudest against money-get- ting are often the most avaricious. L. Byrn. There is one god whom Christians, Jews, and Gentiles alike adore—that is money. Hierocles. Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, con- science, and truth may be drowned. Kozlof. Some people are capable of doing anything for money—even committing a good deed. Rivarol. The philosophy which affects to teach us a con- tempt of money does not run very deep. H. Taylor. Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it ; a mistress, if thou knowest not. Horace. With money you would not know yourself; without money no one would know you. Cervantes. It takes a great deal of money to make a rich Shaw. Put money in thy purse, honestly if thou canst, if not, at any rate put money in thy purse. Pye. The coinage of metal into money is robbery : minting laws are crimes against humanity. Selly. Those who think money will do anything, may be suspected of doing anything for money. A. Thayer. 590 A) A Y’.S. C. O Z Z A C O AV. IMONEY. There is no subject on which so much arrant nonsense has been written as on that of money. De Wolf. Where there is no money, there is no devil, where there is plenty of money, there are many devils. T. Parsons. Covetous men need money least, yet do most affect it and prodigals, who need it most, do least regard it. Theodore Parker, History shows that few greater grievances can befall a people than a deranged coinage and money of account. S. Colwell. Use money, but banish the love of it, and let it no longer defile, degrade, and cripple the noblest powers of man. J. X. B. Gwerim. Money is only thus far a standard of value ; that which it can measure is perishable ; that which it cannot is immortal. Bovee. The love of money prompts men to villamous practices, allures them to wickedness, and entices maids to dishonesty. J. Mair. To be successful in any enterprise, employ a messenger who is deaf, dumb, and blind ; such a messenger is money. At-Tortushi. By doing good with his money, a man as it were stamps the image of God upon it, and makes both pass current in the merchandise of heaven. - Rev. E. Rutledge. Money does all things; for it gives and it takes away, it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers, and so to the end of the chapter. L’Estrange. Money ! What is money So many dirty bits of coin, stamped with this head or that, good just for the quantity of sweet stuff it will bring you. Mrs. Amºvie Edwards. When one voluntarily expends his money for superfluities, he is not far from being compelled to part with the commodities most necessary for his support. Magoon. It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most intimate contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the plea- sures it procures. Shenstone. O money ! thou art the fruitful source of cares: thou leadest us to a premature grave ; thou afford- est support to the vices of men ; the seeds of evil spring up from thee! Publius Syrws. Money is a greater torment in the possession, than it is in the pursuit : the fear of losing it is a great trouble, the loss of it a greater, and it is made a greater yet by opinion. Semeca. When the love of money, which has been long considered the root of evil, pervades a community, all that is noble, generous, and that adorns human nature, is blinded as by a sirocco. L. C. Judson. Money is a terrible blab ; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her ; his virtues will creep out in her whisper, his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue. Bulwer. IMONEY. When you send a person on important business, send an agent that requires no prompting, and let that agent be—money. Ibn Faris. A sordid love of money is certainly a very sense- less thing, for the mind much occupied with it is blind to everything else. Diphilus. Many people take no care of their money till they have come nearly to the end of it, and others do the same with their time. Goethe. Money nowadays is in high repute ; money con- fers offices of state, money procures friendship ; everywhere the poor man is despised. Ovid. O money money ! how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused Thou art health, and liberty, and strength, and he that has thee may rattle defiance at the foul fiend. Lamb. A man will do his children no good by leaving them money ; he will do them far more good by giving it to an institution in which they may be educated, and the useful influence of which they may enjoy. T. Dwight. Let children know something of the worth of money by earning it ; over-pay them if you will, but let them get some idea of equivalents; if they get distorted motions of values at the start, they will never be righted. Talmage. Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honor ; honor is both the child and slave of potent money ; the credit which honor has lost, money hath found. When honor grew mercenary, money grew honorable. F. Quarles. Certainly man's wicked angel is in money ; I often catch myself with something bold as a lion bouncing from my heart, when the shilling rattles, and the lion, as small as any weasel, slinks back again when the shilling is gone. D. Jerrold. To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best ; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst. Colton. When money represents manythings, not to love it would be to love nearly nothing. To forget true deeds can only be a feeble moderation ; but to know the value of money and to sacrifice always, maybe to duty, maybe even to delicacy—that is real virtue. De Semancowr. Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it ; there is nothing in its nature to produce hap- piness; the more a man has the more he wants: instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one ; if it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. Franklin. The cry of the scarcity of money is generally putting the effect for the cause ; no business can be done, say some, because money is scarce. It may be said with more truth, money is scarce be- cause little business is done ; yet their influence like that of many other causes and effects is reci- procal. J. Witherspoon. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 591 IMONEY. Never did such evil institution as money Spring up to mortals; it lays waste cities, it drives men far from their homes to roam ; it seduces and COr- rupts the honest mind, turning its virtuous thoughts to deeds of baseness : it has taught men villainy and how to perform all impious works. Sophocles. Every man has the same attachment to money, and loves it equally as well ; they differ only in the application. The father who sends a favorite son to travel, and the parent who keeps him at home, under his own eye, have affections equally as strong and irresistible ; they are only directed differently. J. Bartlett. The value of money is to buy just things ; a dol- lar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a uni- versity is worth more than a dollar in a jail : in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community, than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and R. W. Emerson. How' a man uses money—makes it, saves it, and spends it—is perhaps one of the best tests of prac- tical wisdom. Although money ought by no means to be regarded as a chief end of man's life, neither is it a trifling matter to be held in philosophic con- tempt, representing as it does to so large an extent, the means of physical comfort and social well-be- ing, S. Smiles. As money is the sign and representative of a thing, everything is a sign and representative of money ; and the state is in a prosperous condition, when on the one hand, money perfectly represents all things; and on the other, all things perfectly represent money, and are reciprocally the sign of each other; that is, they have such a relative value, that we may have the One as soon as have the Other. Montesquiew. Money has no intrinsic value, but is an order and emblem for all intrinsic value. Notes have been used for money ; and as notes are intrinsically valueless without redemption, the delusion has arisen that real money must have intrinsic value. People confound money with capital, the absurdity of which is shown by the fact that seldom more than two per cent of a nation's property is in money. E. M. Boynton. This is a money-digging world of ours; and there are more ways than one of digging for money ; in some way or other, this seems to be the universal occupation of the sons of Adam. Show me the man who does not spend half of his life in digging for money, and I will show you an anomaly in the human species ; love of money will compass earth and sea, and even brave heaven and hell, in pur- suit of its object. Seba Smith. Very few men acquire money in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it : just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it : but when they begin to look around, and think of set- tling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them ; they have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasures, which stand at the end, like the pyramids in the desert Sands, holding only the dust of kings. Beecher. IMONEY. Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use ; to set himself free from these encumbrances, one travels over Europe ; another pulls down his house, and calls architects about him ; another buys a seat in the country, and follows his hounds over hedges and through rivers ; one makes collections of shells : and another searches the world for tulips and carnations. Addison. Money does not constitute riches ; he who has all he wants, is rich without money. A man who can live within his income, however circumscribed that income is, may be an independent man, in the sense I understand it, that of being his own master, and obliged to no one ; whereas, if he succeeds his in- come, and encumbers himself with debts, he must, at times, be in a very servile situation; when it is in the power of any one of his tradesmen to lock him up, and abridge him of his liberty ; if they forbear, he owes them obligations. Tºwsler. Men work for money, fight for it, beg for it, steal for it, starve for it, lie for it, and die for it. And all the while, from the cradle to the grave, nature and God are thundering in our ears the solemn question : “What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul ?” This madness for money is the strongest and lowest of the passions ; it is the insatiate Moloch of the hu- man heart, before whose remorseless altar all the finer attributes of humanity are sacrificed. It makes merchandise of all that is sacred in human affections ; and even traffics in the awful solemni- ties of the eternal world. J. H. Jesse. Money is useful or pernicious, a blasting or be- nignant power, according to the moral relation of an individual to it. The influence and operation of money on a man will be according to the man's state of mind—according to the condition of his heart and affections, his estimate and plan of life : where these are low and worldly or are suffered to become so, where the nature is inherently gross, sensual, sordid, or where it is weak, sensitive, im- pressible, and alive to questionable influences, or where the man ceases to watch and pray, to keep up the tone and attend to the culture of his inner life—in these and all similar cases, money may act like a canker and a curse. H. Binney. MIONOMIANIA. Monomania is a species of insanity. R. Owen. The greatest part of mankind possess a monoma- nia. Fielding. To like or dislike unreasonably is to become a monomaniac. K. Bymkershöeck. The man with a monomania is sure to exagger- ate, and thus he loses his equilibrium. A. Hill. A man may be sound in all respects, and yet be a monomaniac on some trivial matter which it is not always easy to detect. Dr. Shew. The commonest form of monomania is money- mania ; the moneymaniac is fond of money be- cause he owes his importance to it ; he is nothing without his money, and very little with it. Bovee. 592 J) A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. MONOPOLY. Frown down all monopolies. J. W. Vethake. Monopolies impede progress. W. T. Brande. Monopolies are the cankers of all trading. Bacon. The worst and most tyrannical of all monopolies is the monopoly of love. John H. Noyes. The monopolies which characterise this epoch, are a war upon industry. A. Brisbane. It is better to prohibit monopolies in all cases, than to permit them in any. T. Jefferson. All monopolies by legislation are a violation of the equal rights of the people. M. Jacques. A mation has a perfect right to monopolize its own trade, if it enhances the prosperity of its peo- ple. James Ellis. It is hard to make one who has a valuable mono- poly believe that monopolies are injurious to the interest of the community. Bovee. If a manufacturer can use a discriminating power in the sale of his wares, a nation should have a mo- nopoly of its own commerce, if it benefits the body- politic. H. Greeley. Perpetuities and monopolies are offensive to free- dom, contrary to the genius and spirit of a free state and the principles o' commerce, and ought to be abolished. W. Leggett. If there be any kind of business which for the safety of the people need legal restraint or legisla- tion, let the laws upon the subject of monopolies be general in their application, so that all who conform to their requisition, may enjoy their pro- tection and their benefits. E. Cwrtis. IMONSTER. A monster is a violation of nature. James Ellis. A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species. Adamson. A father or a mother who has no desire that their children should walk in the way of wisdom, is a monster in nature. Mrs. Willard. We often read of monstrous births ; but we see a greater monstrosity in education, when a father begets a son, and trains him up into a beast. R. Sowth. Monsters are such from wanting or having too much of what is natural or proper. Savage's mother was a monster from being destitute of na- tural affection and the maternal instinct. Bovee, It ought to be determined whether monsters be really a distinct species; we find that some of these monstrous productions have none of those qualities that accompany the essence of that species from whence they derive. J. Locke. A monster, which hath not the shape of man- kind, but in any part evidently bears the resem- blance of the brute creation, hath no inheritable blood, and cannot be heir to any blood, albeit it be brought forth in marriage. Sir W. Blackstone. IMONUMENTS. Tyrants have their monuments. St. Anterws. The best monument is a good name. T. Fuller. A sumptuous monument is a petrified fortune. Anacharsis. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one. N. Hawthorne. A man must first make a name, and the monu- ment will follow. º Plato. } *m- Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. Joubert. If a man wants a monument to perpetuate his memory, he does wisely to build it himself. Olive R. Seward. Monuments remain for a time after their foun- . ders, then ruin bids them follow them into oblivion. Al-Majmūn. It is not until society teaches a high state of civ- ilization that it learns the ability of sepulchral lmOnuments. W. H. Seward. The erection of a monument is useless ; the re- membrance of us will last, if we have deserved it by our lives. Pliny the Younger. When we look at the monuments of human great- ness, what are they 2 On these are founded the pride, glory, dignity of man. Rev. H. T. Cheever. If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument ; if not, no mo- nument can preserve my memory. Agesilaws. Those only deserve a monument who do not need one, that is, who have raised themselves a monu- ment in the minds and memories of men. Hazlitt. The monument of the greatest man should be only a bust and a name ; if the name is insuffi- cient to illustrate the bust, let them both perish. W. S. Landor. To be a dutiful son, a true husband, a tender father, and an honest man, is the best monument a man can leave in the memories of his fellow-mem. James Ellis. Noble monuments are despoiled of their former grandeur by the rude hand of time ; and the still more ruthless hand of man have well nigh achieved their ruin. Ely Moore. While we feel that the mightiest must yield to the stern law of necessity, we know that the very monuments which record the decay of their out- ward frame, are so many proofs and symbols that they shall never really expire. Sir T. N. Talfowrd. If thou wishest to know what thou art, look at the monuments of the dead as thou passest along the road ; there thou wilt find the bones and light dust of kings, and tyrants, and wise men, and of those who prided themselves on their blood and riches, on their glorious deeds, and the beauty of their person ; but none of these things could resist the power of time ; all men have a common grave ; looking at these things, thou mayest understand what thou art. - Menander. P & O S E O U O Z. A 7 / O A. S. 593 IMOON. The moon is the sweet regent of the sky. Mickle. The moon witnesses the scenes of true love, but discloses them not. Yemon. The moon’s calm radiance in a Serene night, fills our heart with pleasure. Gessner. When the clear, bright moon, climbs up full in view, the silvery forms of bygone ages hover up and soften the delight of contemplation. Goethe. I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a Sea of bright azure. W. G. Simms. The moon at its rising and setting appears much larger than when high up in the sky. This is, how- ever, a mere erroneous judgment ; for when we come to measure its diameter, so far from finding our conclusion borne out by fact, we actually find it to measure materially less. G. P. Morris. The moon, a softer but not less beautiful object than the sun, returns and communicates to man- kind the light of the Sun, in a gentle and delightful manner, exactly suited to the strength of the hu- man eye ; an illustrious and most beautiful em- blem, in this and several other respects, of the Divine Redeemer of mankind. T. Dwight. There is something peculiarly pleasing to the imagination in contemplating the moon, the queen of the night, when she is wading, among the vapors which she has not power to dispel, and which on their side, are unable entirely to quench her lustre ; it is the striking image of patient virtue calmly pur- suing her path through good report and bad report, having that excellence in herself which ought to command all admiration, but bedimmed in the eyes of the world, by suffering, by misfortune, by calumny. Sir W. Scott. IMOONLIGHT. Moonlight has deceived more than one traveller. Al-Hariri, There is always something lonesome in the moon- light. Alice Cary. Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize to- gether wonderfully. Ninom de l'Enclos. Why is everything so lovely when the moonlight plays round us in the forest gloom ? Goethe. The magic of the moonlight is a vanity and a fraud ; whoso putteth his trust in it shall suffer sorrow and disappointment. S. L. Clemens. Moonlight is a great beautifier, and especially of all that has been touched by the finger of decay, from a palace to—a woman. S. Olim. Moonlight softens what is harsh, renders fairer what is fair, and disposes the mind to a tender melancholy in harmony with all around. D. Page. When the moon shines brightly we are apt to say, “How beautiful is this moonlight !” but in the daytime, “How beautiful are the trees, the field, the mountains !”—and in short, all the objects that are illuminated—we never speak of the sun that makes them so. R. Whately. IMORALITY. Loose morality is not morality. St. Ephrem. What can laws do without morals 3 Franklin. Instruction should tend to morality. W. Mapes. Morality is simply a negative quality. • A. C. L. Arnold. Morality is whatever benefits mankind. J. Fellows. Public virtue falls with private morality. D. Webster. The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time. Lavater. By the very constitution of our nature, moral evil is its own cure. T. Chalmers. The health of a community is an almost unfail- ing index of its morals. James Martimeow. By an observance of good morals we become good members of Society. G. Crabb. Moral writers and thinkers cannot be too much multiplied and encouraged. I Acton. The morality of some people is in remnants— never enough to make a coat. Joubert. Morality does not make a Christian, yet no man can be a Christian without it. Bishop Wilson. We must not set up a standard of morality for ourselves; it is already fixed. T. Dwight. There is silent eloquence in the morality of a whole life, which is irresistible. AEneas Sage. Moral character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed. Aristotle. Where there is a moral right on the one hand, no secondary right can discharge it. L’Estrange. The best practical moral rule is never to do what at any time we should be ashamed of. N. W. Senior. Morality depends upon belief in the living God, and upon the distinction between right and wrong. Rev. Julius H. Ward. To take away rewards and punishments, is only pleasing to a man who resolves not to live morally. Dryden. Man's moral nature leads him to know, that there must be a righteous God and a future retribution. Mrs. Willard. Instructors should take pains to instill into the minds of scholars the purest principles of mo- rality. Stephen Girard. Men have always flattered themselves with the hope that they could violate moral law, and escape the consequences which God has established. F. Wayland. The moral of the steed is in the spur of his rider; of the slave, in the eye of his master ; of the wo- man, in the sense of her weakness and dependence. W. G. Simºms. 38 594 D A Y'S CO Z Z A Co A. IMORALITY. There is in every moral being a faculty or sense by which he is enabled to distinguish right from wrong. G. Sharswood. In moral actions divine law helpeth exceedingly the law of reason to guide life, but in Supernatural it alone guideth. R. Hooker. To give a man a full knowledge of a true moral- ity, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament. J. Locke. All sects are different, because they come from men ; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. Voltaire. It is found by experience, those men who set up for morality without regard to religion are gene- rally but virtuous in part. Swift. In moral reflections there must be heat, as well as dry reason, to inspire this cold clod of clay which we carry about with us. T. Burmet. Moral virtues are so many sweet flowers strewed Over a dead corpse, which hide the loathsOmeness of it, but inspire not life into it. J. Flcuvel. The moral feelings of mankind are so organized, that men must feel toward us accordingly to the moral qualities which we possess. Mary Astell. There is no morality without religion, and there is no religion without morality. Morality is reli- gion in practice ; religion is morality in principle. R. W. Emerson. It has been remarked, with great justice, that morality in individuals is grander, in proportion as they are able to sacrifice the present to the fu- ture. Mme. Swetchine. Look through the whole of life and the whole system of duties. Much the strongest moral obli- gations are such as were never the results of our option. - Burke, A sentiment of doubtful morality, carelessly ut- tered, may sow in some youthful mind the seed which, when fully ripened, will produce the fruit of infamy. J. R. Trumbull. Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like Sailors at Sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm. H. W. Beecher. Let the moral and religious tone of the commu- nity be pure and healthy; pauperism, poverty, vice, misery, and wretchedness will recede, as surely as does the morning fog before the rising sun. . L. C. Judson. Integrity is the first moral virtue, benevolence the second, and prudence the third ; without the first the two latter cannot exist, and without the two former the latter would be often useless. Miss Cynthia Taggart. Nothing seems important to me but so far as it is connected with morals. If the mind cannot feel and treat mathematics and music, and everything else as a trifle, it has been seduced and enslaved. Lord Burleigh. IMORALITY. Morality is keeping up appearances in this world, or becoming suddenly devout when we imagine that we may be shortly summoned to appear in the next. Chatfield. The moral sensibility improves by our progress in virtue ; it is rendered callous by the repetition of crimes; it recovers its quick susceptibility by permanent reformation. T. Cogam. - The moral law is written on the tablets of eter- mity ; for every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last. J. A. Froude. Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head ; nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science. T. Jefferson. Moral order is the harmony of intelligent beings in respect to one another, and to their Creator, and is founded upon those relations in which they res- pectively stand to each other. Dr. Dick. I think I restrict myself within bounds in saying that, so far as I have observed in this life, ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect. H. Mamm. In afflictions men generally draw their consola- tions out of books of morality, which indeed are of great use to fortify and strengthen the mind against the impressions of Sorrow. Addison. A moral agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty. J. Edwards. In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say, is there any harm in doing this ? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking our- selves another ; is there any harm in letting it alone Ž Colton, Morality without religion, is only a kind of dead reckoning—an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have to . run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. Longfellow. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Rea- son and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of reli- gious principle. Washington. The regard to the general rules of morality is what is generally called a sense of duty ; a princi- ple of the greatest consequence in human life, and the only principle by which the bulk of mankind are capable of directing their actions. Adam Smith. The moral elements of the world prevail no less universally than the natural : every heart that beats may be called upon to bleed. The fruits of life are mixed: the good and the bad go together; if we cull them, we must pay the higher price, but at last the best are only earthly fruits. Bissland. A Me O S Z O (7 O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 595 IMORALITY. The morality of an action is founded in the free- dom of that principle by virtue of which it is in the agent's power, having all things ready and re- quisite to the performance of an action, either to perform or not to perform it. R. South. If we are told a man is religious, we still ask what are his morals 3 But if we hear at first that he has honest morals, and is a man of natural jus- tice and good temper, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious and devout. Shaftesbury. The morality which is divorced from godliness, however specious and captivating to the eye, is su- perficial and deceptive ; the only morality that is clear in its source, pure in its precepts, and effica- cious in its influence, is the morality of the gospel. Stebbing Shaw. Discourses on morality and reflections on human nature, are the best means we can make use of to improve our minds and gain a true knowledge of ourselves, and recover our souls out of the vice, ignorance, and prejudice which naturally cleave to them. Addison. The morality of action depends upon the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with the intention of breaking his head, and he picks it up and buys victuals with it, the physi- cal effect is good ; but with respect to me, the ac- tion is very wrong. Dr. Johnson. We are come too late by severalthousand years, to say anything new in morality ; the finest and most beautiful thoughts concerning manners have been carried away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients, and the most ingenious of the moderns. Bruyère. Unhappy it would be for us did not uniformity prevail in morals ; that our actions should uni- formly be directed to what is good and against what is ill, is the greatest blessing in society ; and in Order to uniformity of action, uniformity of Opinion and sentiment is indispensable. Rames. Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist, but by ascending a little, you may often overlook it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement ; we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we as- cended into a higher moral atmosphere. A. Helps. There is in the very taste and feeling of moral Qualities a pleasure or a pain ; and the argument is greatly strengthened by the adaptation to that constitution of external nature, more especially as exemplified in the reciprocal influences which take place between mind and mind in society. G. Chalmers. They that cry down moral honesty, cry down that which is a great part of my religion, my duty toward God, and my duty toward man. What Care I to see a man run after a sermon, if he cozens and cheats as soon as he comes home 2 On the other side, morality must not be without religion ; for if So, it may change, as I see convenience ; religion must govern it. J. Selden. IMIORALITY. When boys compete at school, the effort is not who shall cast the largest circle—for some have larger slates and others smaller—but who shall describe one most accurately ; so is it in morals, he excels who most exactly completes the circle of commanded duty, in that particular station or re- lation, or those peculiar circumstances, in which the Lord has placed him. W. Anderson. The truths of morality, like all other truths, are discovered only by trials and experiments ; the principles of moral conduct would be totally insig- nificant if they did not lead to some ends ; and if a certain manner of acting had not been found, by repeated experiments, to have made us happy, and a different manner to have made us unhappy, we should never have had any principles or morals. R. Williams, As in walking through a wood you will often see some of the finest trees afflicted with warts and carbuncles, unseemly to the eye, and injurious to the tree ; so in moving among men, you will often find some of the most physically and intellectually noble and strong deformed with moral defects in temper or life, which are blemishes upon their character, and grievous to their well-wishing friends. Johm Bate. Every age and every nation has certain charac- teristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their hats and coaches, take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors. T. B. Macawlay. As a healthy tree gathers every moment a some- thing from the external system, transmutes it into its own mature, and makes it part of itself, so every moment we incorporate into our own moral being everything that passes over our consciousness. Our moral stock is greater to-day than yesterday, and to-morrow will be greater still, and thus on forever, our whole life is a treasuring up ; moral accumulation is the great law of our being. Dr. Thomas. Morality is distinguished from religion thus: religion is a studious conformity of our actions to the relations in which we stand to each other in civil society ; morality comprehends only a part of religion, but religion comprehends the whole of morality ; morality finds all her motives here be- low, religion fetches all her motives from above ; the highest principle in morals is a just regard to the rights of men, the first principle in religion is the love of God. C. Buck. Moral virtues are durable, and therefore pre- cious, only as far as they are derived from religious belief, and are the consequence of it. Without that all morals are built on a sandy foundation, and are liable to be swept away by the flood of strong temptation. Morality cannot stand long without the aid of religion, and the mere moralist in the time of affliction may learn to know that the only refuge in sorrow and in trial is the Rock of Ages and the promises of the gospel. D. Forbes. 596 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O M. IMORNING. Morning summons us to action. Tscherming. The morning is friendly to the muses. J. Mair. The morning hour has gold in its mouth. Chilo. A bright morning may bring a dark night. Leonhard Fuchs. The morning bringeth light by striking down darkness. Veda. Morning is the proper time for work, and the evening for rest. Mrs. Matilda Fletcher. Morning is the night of the stars, when they close their eye-lids in sleep. Ibn Darraj. Spill not the morning, the quintessence of the day, in recreation ; for sleep itself is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauces. T. Fuller. When we rise fresh and vigorous in the morning, the world seems fresh too, and we think we shall never be tired of business or pleasure. G. Horne. I see the spectacle of morning from the hill-top Over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. R. W. Emerson. With the first light of the morning say to your waking heart : “Behold another day, to be divided between the Giver, your own improvement, and the good of those with whom you are associated.” Mrs. Sigourmey. I know the morning ; I am acquainted with it, and I love it ; I love it fresh and sweet as it is—a daily new creation, breaking forth and calling all that have life, and breath, and being, to new ador- ation, new enjoyments, and new gratitude. D. Webster. IMOROSENESS. - Moroseness is the evening of turbulence and vio- lence. W. S. Landor. Take care that no sourness or moroseness mingle with a serious frame of mind R. Nelsom. Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason ; abate Some degrees of pride and morose- IleSS. I. Watts. Moroseness degenerates man into a cynic, and woman into a coquette ; the man grows sullen, and the woman impertinent. Addison. Moroseness makes wives unhappy, alienates hus- bands, spoils children, and deranges all harmony in social and domestic life. James Ellis. Men possessing minds which are morose, Solemn, and inflexible, enjoy, in general, a greater share of dignity than of happiness. Lord Bacon. Moroseness is a harsh feeling, that is not con- tented with exacting obedience unless it inflicts pain ; a morose man is an unpleasant companion. 4 G. Crabb. While passionateness is the mark of a weak and silly mind in the daily intercourse of private life, so also there is nothing so out of place as to exhibit moroseness of temper in high command. Cicero. IMORTALITY. Remember thou art mortal. Philip of Macedon. - We all forget our mortal state. Bion. Our bodies are mortal, Our Souls are immortal. Pericles. All men think that all men are mortal but them- selves. John Parsons. Believe that it is not thou but thy body that is mortal. Cicero. Frightful is the mortality which followeth a famine. Abdal-Atiph. Though every sin of itself be mortal, yet all are not equally mortal. J. H. Perkins. I am a mortal; this very thing is the greatest cause of sorrow in life. Diphilus. We surely all forget our mortal state—how brief the life allotted us by fate. Callimachºws. The mortality of the human race resembles the withering foliage of a wide forest. J. Foster. You may see your own mortality in other men's deaths, and your own frailty in their sins. Heris. Mounted on the steeds of mortality, we rush, as if with emulation, toward the goal of death. Abi Usrúm. It becometh not man, who is mortal, to make himself equal to the gods, who are immortal. Callisthemes. The lot that has fallen to men is mortal; mor- tality occurs, may often occurs to our thought, and all men struggle against death in vain. J. Mair. To Smell a fresh turf of earth is wholesome for the body ; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul. “Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.” T. Fuller. All things under the sun are mortal ; cities, em- pires; and the time will come when it shall be a question where they are, and perchance whether they had a being or no. Mirza. When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are sub- ject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever. Johnson. It is a great comfort that we are only condemned to the same fate with the universe ; the heavens themselves are mortal as well as our bodies; na- ture has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot ; while we are in the flesh, every man has his chain and his clog, and he is more at ease that takes it up and carries it, than he that drags it. Seneca. The mattock, the coffin, and the melancholy grave, admonish us of our mortality, and that sooner or later, these frail bodies must moulder in their parent dust. It is passing strange, that not- withstanding the daily mementoes of mortality that cross our path ; notwithstanding the funeral bell so often tolls in our ears, and the “mournful procession” goes about our streets, that we will not seriously consider our fate. Masonic Manual. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 597 IMORTIFICATION. Mortify thy learned lust. M. Prior. This world is full of mortifications for man; yet man is mortified by sin alone. S. Martin. The promises of God to us are greater helps in mortifying sin than our promises to God. - Philip Henry. It is a great mortification to a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit. L’Estrange. The mortification of our lust has something in it that is troublesome, yet nothing that is unreasona- ble. Tillotson. We should escape much mortification if we could have a little patience ; time takes away as much as it gives. Mme. de Sévigné. How often is the ambitious man mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought ! Addison. You see no real mortification, no profound hu- mility, no true contempt of the world, no sincere zeal, or eminent piety, in the common lives of Christians. W. Law. To attempt to mortify sin by outward reforma- tion, is altogether as incongruous as if a man should lay a plaster upon his clothes to cure a wound in his body. E. Hopkins. The mortification of the body by fasting has been the practice of almost all nations, and the mortifi- cation of the appetites and passions by self-denial is always a Christian duty. N. Webster. A man may help his spirit in meditation of his mortality, by beholding a dead man's scalp cast in his way, by God's providence ; but if he should set apart a death's head, or take it up as enjoined to him by others, never to meditate or confer with others about his mortality and estate of another life, but in the sight and use of the death's head such a soul shall find but a dead heart, and a dead devotion from such a means of mortification. - John Cottom. Mortification is a strong degree of vexation, which arises from particular circumstances acting on particular passions; the loss of a day's pleasure is a vexation to one who is eager for pleasure ; the loss of a prize, or the circumstance of coming into disgrace, where we expected honor, is a mortifica- tion to an ambitious person. Vexation arises prin- cipally from our wishes and views being crossed ; mortification, from our pride and self-importance being hurt. G. Crabb. Men do not always take the right way ; for they often think they have totally taken leave of all business, when they have only exchanged one em- ployment for another. There is little less trouble in forming a private family than a whole kingdom; wherever the mind is perplexed, it is an entire dis- order, and domestic employments are not less troublesome for being less important ; moreover, for having shaken off the court and public employ- ment, we have not taken leave of the principal nortifications of life. Montaigme. IMIOSS. Mosses will grow even on tomb-stones. Day. Mosses make gay the Solitary places of the earth. J. Hedwig. Mosses add fresh beauties even to the loveliest spots. C. Limnoews. No spot is too desolate, none too sterile, for mos- ses to inhabit and enliven. J. B. Frozer. Mosses, like love, make even the ugliest objects beautiful, for they hide all defects with their own loveliness. Helen Evelyn Day. The mosses give a look of youth and freshness to the fields, at the moment when the flowers have gone to their graves. Rowsseaw. Mosses will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love-token ; but the wild bird will make of them its nest, and the wearied child his pillow. Rwskim. Moss is selected to be the emblem of maternal love, because like that love, it gladsthe heart when the winter of adversity overtakes us, and when summer friends have deserted us. Mrs. H. Dwmont. The growth of mosses is ever a sign of decay, for like rust on steel, they eat up even adamant ; but from the crumbling fragments of rock or tree, plants and flowers of wonderful beauty spring, in their turn to give place to “new monarchs of the forest.” James Ellis. The moss, like a fond mother's affection for her child, clings to the spot where it has once taken root, long after all other plants have deserted it, and tender in its nature, delicate in structure though it be, shows wonderful power in resisting influences, which are generally fatal to the vege- table creation. Hufeland. Mosses are nearly the lowest of the vegetable creation, yet among the most useful, for they are the Soil-makers. A tree falls ; a few moons and you See an emerald mantle softer than velvet thrown all over it, like a pall; a little longer, and you gather anemones and violets, from the dust of the old dead tree. Annie E. Lancaster. IMOTE. The gay motes people the sunbeams. Milton. Observe the mote in your own eye before you point out one in the eye of another. Horace. We are not able to see the mote in our own eye : when others transgress we are lynx-eyed to see the mote in theirs. Phoedrus. Motes may enter where beams cannot ; and small offences find admittance where great and clamorous crimes fright the soul to a standing upon its guard, to prevent the invasion. R. Sowth. Man by nature is ever prone to scan closely the errors and defects of his fellow-man—ever ready to rail at the mote in his brother's eye, without considering the beam that is in his own. This should not be ; we all have our motes or beams; we are all frail; perfection is the attribute of none. A. H. Stephens. 5 9 8 A) A Y',S C O / / A C O AV. IMOTHER. The mother is the first teacher. E. D. Mansfield. A mother's love is ever in its spring. Chénier. The folly of a mother is a heavy burden. Racine. Mother is one of the sweetest names on earth. A. Ritchie. Let not bitterness enter the heart of a mother. Ptah-Hotep. There is no mother like the mother that bore us. Yi'icºrte. The mother in her office holds the key of the Soul. Dibdin, “My mother,” is an expression of music and me- lody. Mine. Clairon. There is no mother so bad but she desires to have good children. Ververomi. The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. Napoleon I. At first babes feed on the mother's breast, but always on her heart. H. W. Beecher. Inever hear of a great man, that I do not inquire who was his mother. ./. Adams. It is the mother who makes the domestic hearth the nursery of heroes. D. Webster". A mother's duty to her children is second only to her duty to her Creator. Mrs. Sarah D. Comstock. If you would take a peep at Sunshine, look in the face of a young mother. Fanny Ferm. If there beaught surpassing human deed or word or thought, it is a mother's love. Mme, de Spadara. I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother. Lacretelle. A mother's tenderness and a father's care are nature's gifts for man's advantage. L. Mwrray. An affectionate mother wishes that her offspring may be wiser and better than herself. Horace. Those mothers are wise who seek to prepare their daughters for their probable destination. Solom. Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable. Agnesi. No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child. - Manilints. Happy is the man who reverences all women because he first learned to worship his mother. Richter. Obey the voice of your mother, O my children and remember the teachings of the Most High. Rabbi Judah. If angels ever condescend to walk on this earth of ours, it is when clad in the form of good mothers. - W. T. Burke. The future of girls depends altogether upon the knowledge, courage, and prudence of good mo- thers. Dr. Porter. IMOTHER.. If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam. Lord Langdale. What a volume could be written on the word “mother ; ” what a history of forbearance, of kind- ness, and of love. James Ellis. A halo of glory surrounds all true, pure mothers, showing their worthiness to sit upon the steps of the heavenly throne. Mrs. E. B. Duffey. Cherish every sentiment of respect for your mother; she merits your warmest gratitude, esteem, and veneration. Percival. There is in all this cold and hollow world no fount of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within a mother's heart. Mrs. Hemans. A faithful mother can do more in one quarter in the education of her child, than a schoolmaster can accomplish in years. J. W. Boºrker. The mother forms the first rudiments of the in- fant mind; and instills into the infant bosom the first principles of virtuous action. J. Iredell. No tongue can tell the joy of a pious mother, when her child is converted or turned from the way of folly to that of true wisdom. Mrs. Willard. I have thought that in all women's deepest loves, be they ever so full of reverence, there enters some- times much of the motherly element. Miss Muloch. I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall occasionally be visited on their children, as well as the sims of fathers. Dickens. Stories first heard at a mother's knee are never wholly forgotten—a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years. Ruffini. It is a general rule, one at least to which I know no exceptions, that all superior men inherit the elements of their superiority from their mothers. Michelet. It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are derived from their mothers T. Hook. Mother | The holy thoughts and chastened me- mories that cluster around this name, can never be so well expressed as in the calm utterance of the name itself. H. W. Shaw. Mothers endeavor to educate your daughters; train them up to be faithful, grateful, dutiful daughters, and they will not fail to be excellent wives and mothers. Mrs. A. G. Whittelsey. Mothers are more fond of their children than fathers are ; for the bringing them forth is more painful, and they have a more certain knowledge that they are their own. Aristotle. How much more mothers love their children than their husbands; the latter are often selfish and cruel; but children cannot separate their mother's from their affection. Mme. Paterson Bonaparte. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 599 IMOTHER. Men are what their mothers made them : you may as well ask a loom which weaves huckaback, why it does not make cashmere, as expect poetry from this engineer, or a chemical discovery from that jobber. R. W. Emerson. I should have been a French atheist were it not for the recollection of the time when my departed mother used to take my little hand in hers, and make me say, on my bended knees, “Our Father who art in heaven l’” John Randolph. The examples of maternal influences are count- less : Solomon himself records the words of wis- dom that fell from a mother's lips, and Timothy was taught the Scriptures from a child by his grandmother and his mother. 24. Ritchie. The name of a mother what a long history does it bring with it of smiles and words of mildness, of tears shed by night and of sighings at the morning dawn, of love unrequited, of cares for which there can be no recompense on earth. Prof. Park. Almost every great soul that has led forward, or lifted up the race, has been furnished for each nobler deed, and inspired with each patriotic and holy aspiration, by the retiring fortitude of some Spartan—some Christian mother. C. J. White. O mothers reflect upon the power that your Ma- ker has placed in your hands ; there is no earthly influence to be compared with yours ; there is no combination of causes so powerful in promoting the happiness or misery of our race, as the instruc- tions of home ! J. S. C. Abbott. Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought—the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven. Longfellow. No language can express the power and beauty, and heroism and majesty of a mother's love ; it shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over the wastes of worldly fortune sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star in heaven. E. H. Chapin. Ask men of genius how much they owe to their mothers, and you will find that they attribute al- most all to them and their influence ; and if we could only guage the mental capacity of the wives of great men, we might perhaps learn why genius is so seldom hereditary. Lord Kames. In my opinion mothers ought to bring up and suckle their own children : for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them ; but the love of a nurse is spurious and counterfeit, as loving them only for hire. - Plutarch. As the health and strength or weakness of our bodies is very much owing to their methods of treating us when we were young, so the soundness or folly of our minds is not less owing to those first tempers and ways of thinking which we eagerly received from the love, tenderness, authority, and constant conversation of our mothers. E. Law. IMOTHER. The instructions received at the mother's knee and the maternal lessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside, are never ef- faced entirely from the soul. Lamennais. The prayers of a mother do not die when she dies, and the real heart and its sinless sympathies are never buried in the tomb : her love is purer and warmer now, for it comes from the sainted spirit shore. A. W. Mangwºm. A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age ; and he is still but a child, how- ever time may have furrowed his cheek or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God ever gives us. Bovee. Let every mother consider herself as an instru- ment in the hands of Providence—let her reflect on the immense importance the proper education of one single family may eventually prove ; and that, while the fruit of her labors may descend to gene- rations yet unborn, she will herself reap a glorious reward. Miss Hamilton. The mother begins her process of training with the infant in her arms. It is she who directs, so to speak, its first mental and spiritual pulsations ; she conducts it along the impressible years of child- hood and youth, and hopes to deliver it to the rough contests and tumultuous scenes of life, armed by those good principles which her child has re- ceived from maternal care and love. D. Webster. Never ! never has one forgotten his pure, right- educated mother. On the blue mountains of our dim childhood, toward which we ever turn and look, stand the mothers, who marked out to us from thence our life ; the most blessed age must be forgotten ere we can forget the warmest heart. You wish, O women to be ardently loved, and for- ever, even till death ! Be, them, the mothers of your children. Richter. See a fond mother encircled by her children ; with pious tenderness she looks around, and her soul even melts with maternal love. One she kisses on its cheeks, and clasps another to her bo- som ; one she sets upon her knee, and finds a seat upon her foot for another. And while, by their actions, by their lisping words, and asking eyes, she understands their numberless little wishes, to these she dispenses a look, and a word to those ; and whether she grants or refuses, whether she smiles or frowns, it is all in tender love. Krwºn macher. The loss of a mother is always severely felt ; even though her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family, still she is a sweet rallying-point, around which affection and obedience, and a thousand tender en- deavors to please concentrate ; and dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn . It is like that lonely star before us ; neither its heat nor light are anything to us in themselves ; yet the shepherd would feel his heart sad if he missed it, when he lifts his eye to the brow of the mountain over which it rises when the sun descends, Lamartime. 600 J) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. IMOTHER. Who can fathom the depth of a mother's love 1 No friendship so pure, so devoted ; the wild storm of adversity and the bright Sunshine of prosperity are all alike to her ; however unworthy we may be of that affection, a mother never ceases to love her erring child. Often, when alone, as we gaze up to the starry heaven, can we in imagination catch a glimpse of the angels around the “great white throne,” and among the brightest and fairest of them all is our sweet mother, ever beckoning us onward and upward to her celestial home. R. Smith. What is more pleasing than the sight of the af- fectionate mother, watching with untiring devo- tion over her helpless child & Who can contemplate her devotion to the object of her love, enduring his waywardness, forgiving his faults, relieving his pains, and enjoying his pleasures ; pouring inces- santly into his opening soul the mature wisdom of her counsels, and following him with her untiring prayers, as he finally goes forth to battle with the temptations and trials of life, without feeling that the true mother's heart is the noblest of heaven's gifts 2 H. Winslow. The first being that rushes to the recollection of a soldier or a sailor, in his heart's difficulty, is his mother ; she clings to his memory and affection in the midst of all the forgetfulness and hardihood in- duced by a roving life ; the last message he leaves is for her : his last whisper breathes her name. The mother, as she instills the lessons of piety and filial obligation into the heart of her infant son, should always feel that her labor is not in vain. She may drop into the grave, but she has left behind her influences that will work for her. The bow is broken, but the arrow is sped, and will do its office. A. H. Motte. The love of a mother is never exhausted ; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may be- come inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands ; but a mother's love endures through all ; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent ; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth ; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. W. Irving. With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his emergies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and in- tenser love to a kind-hearted mother ; the same emotion follows him through life ; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remem- brance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccom- panied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him ; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. Mogridge. MOTHER.. The mother, under whose sole influence the child is for years, from whom it acquires its tastes and character, should not only be educated, but edu- cated in the most thorough manner, and have her mind stored with varied learning, so that she may be able to answer the multitude of questions that will be put to her by her inquisitive child on art, science, literature, and religion, and thus to stimu- late his curiosity, and awaken his mind. E. B. Ramsay. Throughout the pages of history we are struck with the fact that our remarkable men possessed mothers of uncommon talents for good or bad, and great energy of character ; it would almost seem from this circumstance, that the impress of the mother is more frequently stamped on the boy, and that of the father upon the girl—we mean the mental intellectual impress, in distinction from the physical ones. Mothers will do well to remember that their impress is often stamped upon their Sons. Helen Mar. If we wish to know the political and moral con- dition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it ; their influence embraces the whole of life : a wife —a mother —two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity ; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, al- ways a reign a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live ; and the ideas which he has re- ceived from her become principles stronger even than his passions. Aimé Martim. If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent : remember her nine month’s burden, and her tenth month's travel ; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast ; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou camest into the world ; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world ; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights ; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. F. Quarles. Mother . How many delightful associations clus- ter around that word ' The innocent smiles of in- fancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life ; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises ; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side ; if I sing, it is to her ear ; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I re- ceive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path SO flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. Bishop Thomson. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 601 IMOTION. IMOTIVE. Motion is change. A. J. Davis. Mark a man's motives. Confucius. Motion is the life of all things. Great interests make great motives. Nigw. Duchess of Newcastle. — - © s - t - Deeds are seen, but motives are concealed. Bodies in motion are always preferred to those Avicenna. in rest. Pascal. Motion embellishes mature largely, because it is an emblem, and characteristic of life. Grimdom. Motions of the mind, ascribed to the invisible agency of the Supreme Being, are called good mo- tions. N. Webster. In nature there are two sublimities—One of rest, another of motion—the Alps and the Falls of Nia- gara. R. Cobden. Matter of itself is dead ; it cannot originate mo- tion ; but all matter, taken in great masses, is in motion. Mrs. Willard. Let a good man obey every motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God. R. South. The first causes of motion are not in matter ; it receives motion and communicates it, but it does not produce it. Rousseaw. It is not easy to a mind accustomed to the inroads of troublesome thoughts to expel them immediately by putting better images into motion. Johnsom. It is only gentle motion that belongs to the beau- tiful; for when it is very swift, or very forcible, such as that of a torrent, it partakes of the sub- lime. H. Blair. God has given man the power of setting all things in motion for useful ends, and in the humble but diligent exercise of this prerogative consists our chiefest joy. Magoon. All motion hath its beginning ; if it were other- wise, we must say the number of heavenly revolu- tions of days and nights, which are past to this in- stant, is actually infinite, which cannot be in na- ture. Charnock. Life is one and universal ; its forms many and individual. Throughout this beautiful and won- derful creation there is never-ceasing motion, with- out rest by night or day, ever weaving to and fro; swifter than a weaver's shuttle it flies from birth to death, from death to birth ; from the beginning seeks the end and finds it not, for the seeming end is only a dim beginning of a new out-going and endeavor after the end. Longfellow. Motion is the only property we can affirm with certainty to be inseparable at all times from all matter, and consciousness from all minds; it may also be asked, as to whether there be any motion going on in the component parts of the diamond 3 We may be assured there is ; but a motion com- pared to our finite faculties, almost infinitely slow, but to which it must gradually yield, and cease to be a diamond, as certainly, but not as quickly, as this table I am writing on will cease to be a table. It is curious, that of the two brightest things we know, the one should have the quickest motion and the other the slowest—lightning and the diamond. Colton. What society want is a new motive, not a new Cant. T. B. Macawlay. Christianity is a religion of motives to good ac- tions. Hannah More. A good motive is all that makes a good action estimable and lovely. Rºrwmanacher. Every principle that is a motive to good actions Ought to be encouraged. Addison. To review our motives would seem little short of a mental martyrdom. H. Giles. Motives are like harlequins ; there is always a Second dress beneath the first. J. V. Artevela. To bring motives under faithful examination is a high state of religious character. Lord Burleigh. It is motive alone that gives real value to the ac- tions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it. Brwyere. Prudent men lock up their motives, letting fami- liars have the key to their hearts, as to their gar- den. - Shenstone. We should often be ashamed of our best actions, if the world were witness to the motives which impelled us. Rochefoucauld. Tricks, artful contrivances, dodges, fraud, and illusive practices, cannot be without a motive at the bottom of them. Cicero. If we could see the secret motives that prompt even the good actions of men, we should see more to reprove than admire. H. W. Shaw. It is very easy to discern flattery in most peo- ple, but to discern its motives requires an uncom- mon depth of penetration. N. Macdonald. Interested motives are the rails on which the carriages of society run smoothly and Securely, without coming in collision or injuring each other. A. G. Gwerim d’Estriche. Attribute not the good actions of another to bad motives: thou canst not know his heart ; but the world will know by this, that thine is full of envy. R. Dodsley. The motive of human actions are 'feelings, or passions, or habits. Without feeling we cannot act at all ; and without passion we cannot act greatly. P. Godwin. Every motive will not be accompanied with its corresponding action, for every man will not act who has a motive for acting, nor act in the man- ner in which his motives ought to dictate. Crabb. Our active propensities are the motives which induce us to exert our intellectual powers, and Our intellectual powers are the instruments by which we attain the ends recommended to us by our ac- tive propensities. H. Winslow. (302 AX A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. IMOTIVE. We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves. - Colton. If we would read to the spiritual profit of our souls, our motive must be a sincere desire of im- proving ourselves in divine love, humility, meek- ness, and other virtues. Albany. Butler. In weighing one's acts, motives are specially to be looked at ; if it is necessary to impugn the mo- tives and disown the acts of a commanding officer in the field, I bow to the mandate of “state neces- sity” without a murmur. B. F. Butler. We are surrounded by motives to piety and de- votion, if we but mind them. The poor are de- signed to excite our liberality ; the miserable, our pity ; the sick, Our assistance ; the ignorant, our instruction ; those that are fallen, our helping hand. Bishop Wilson. There is no offense by which we are excited to a livelier or more just indignation, than by the mis- interpretation of our own motives. This quick sen- sitiveness in ourselves should admonish us of the guilt which we incur, when we traduce the mo- tives of others. F. Wayland. The purest motive of human action is the love of God ; there may be motives stronger and more general, but none so pure ; the religion, the vir- tue, which owes its birth in the soul to this motive is always genuine religion—always true virtue—it teaches every action, it includes every duty. Paley. The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self- love of others is wholly employed in pleasing them- selves. Swift. Nothing is so rare as a single motive—almost all Our motives are compound ones ; and if we ex- amine Our own hearts and actions with that ac- curacy and diffidence which become us as finite and responsible beings, we shall find that, of our motives to bad actions, temper is often a principal ingredient, and that it is not unfrequently one in- citement to a good one. E. Newberry. IMOTTO. A good life is the best motto. Bishop Pac. Prideaſºtoc. Middletom. A motto sums up excellencies. Let my motto be my safe-guard. A good motto often incites to noble deeds. Xacca. When you have selected a good motto as a rule of life, live up to it. Ubaldini. A good motto is useless unless what we do bene- fits mankind ; and foolish is the pride we assume in consequence of our achievements. Pachomius. A motto engraved on the escutcheon, may em- blazon forth a particular idea of its owner on the Scroll of heraldry ; but unless it will bear an in- ward scrutiny, it is only a painted glory and stands for nothing. Jean Pagés. IMOUNTAIN. Men meet, mountains stand still. Lewis Cass. The mountain's top is holy ground. J. G. Eccard. Mountains were loved by Our Lord. Adamnam. On the mountain-tops there is freedom. Knowles. Mountains are the excrescences of nature. Blake. From the mountains flow pellucid streams. Gr. ab. Arthwr. There is an awful sublimity in a burning moun- tain. Count Strzelecki. Mountains were often reverenced by the an- cients. J. A. Ligmatc. Mountains have a grand, stupid, lovable tran- quility. O. W. Holmes. A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful. George Eliot. The mountaineer excels in size the inhabitant of the plain. Richard Taylor. The mountains are a refuge to those who suffer from persecution. St. Mary. Mountaineers are always frugal and brave, as well as lovers of freedom. Olive R. Seward. A mountain at a distance appears Smooth ; as we approach, it seems rugged. Tamil. Whoever has not ascended mountains, knows little of the beauties of nature. W. Howitt. Deserts and mountains, where all is barrenness and solitude, raise in the mind emotions of sublim- ity. L. Frisbie. The tops of the highest mountains are said to be holy ; these are the places chosen for sacrifices to GOd. Herodotus. Mountains are mature's testimonials of anguish ; they are the sharp cry of a groaning and travail- ling creation. Mrs. H. B. Stowe. These mighty granite peaks, hewn and pinacled into gothic towers, these rugged mountain walls and buttresses—what a cathedral H. T. Cheever. The volcanic blaze breaks through the loftiest mountain peaks, and so the deep discontent of the humble millions breaks through the mountain minds of their great leaders. C. C. Burleigh. Mountains : ye are glorious. Ye stretch your granite arms away toward the vales of the undis- covered; ye have alonging for immortality. Moun- tains I who was your builder ? E. M. Morse. We breathe a freer, purer atmosphere among the mountains than do the dwellers of cities ; have more independence, are less subject to the despot- ism of fashion, and are less absorbed with dress and amusements. Mrs. Emily Collins. Mountains are the bulwarks of nature, to shelter countries against the fury of seas and storms; and like ramparts and natural fortifications, they pro- tect several states from the invasion of enemies, and the ambition of conquerors. Sturm. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 603 IMIOURNING. Mourning is a complaint to God. Al-Hafi He is a true mourner who mourns without a witness. Martial. He who loves mourning will always find some- thing to mourn over. Armdt. When one has mourned sufficiently, his grief should come to an end. Tsze–Hect. He who mourns more than he needs, mourns be- cause he loves mourning. Jonathan Parsons. Sorrow turns the stars into mourners, and every wind of heaven into a dirge. Rev. J. Hannay. If a person mourns excessively for a lost rela- tive, his grief becomes a murmur. Rabbi Judah. In the ceremonies of mourning, it is better that there be a deep Sorrow than a minute attention to observances. Confucius. Mourn for those who are left ; mourn not for the one taken by God from earth ; he has entered into the eternal rest, while we are bowed with SOrl’OW. Talmud. The true way to mourn the dead, is to take care of the living who belong to them ; these are the pictures and statues of departed friends which we Ought to cultivate, and not such as can be had for a few guineas from a vulgar artist. Bwrke. IMOUTH. Reep your mouth shut and your eyes open. º Cervantes. It is through the mouth cometh condemnation. Henry IV of France. The mouth should not quarrel with the hand that feeds it. E. P. Day. The mouth often utters what the head must answer for. Mrs. Frances Trollope. The mouth is the beautiful organ by which man reigns supreme on earth. W. Jackson. A man's mouth was made to talk and eat ; yet he often hurts himself by talking, and kills himself by eating. G. D. Prentice. A mouth is a useless instrument to some people, in its capacity, by the organs of speech, of render- ing ideas audible ; but of special service to them in its other capacity of rendering victuals invisible. Chatfield. A well-cut, delicate mouth is perhaps the best recommendation in life, for as we find the portal to be, so we expect will also be the guest that steps forth from it, the word coming from the heart and the soul. J. G. Herder. What is that palace which even the poorest pos- Sess, and the richest can no further adorn ? Its portals are hung with crimson curtains of won- drous fabrics ; they fall upon gates of whitest ivory, carved with subtle cunning, firm and fast as the mountains, and yet opening and shutting With lightning speed. Within are hid man's cost- liest jewels, and from the depths of that palace Cometh forth a voice that ruleth the world 3 It is the mouth of man. Twrcumdot. tion. IMULTITUDE. Please the multitude. Chilo. The multitude is always wrong. Roscom/mon. A multitude is incapable of framing Orders. Sir W. Temple. How little of truth there is in the multitude. - Sir T. Browne. It is better for one to perish than a multitude. Emperor Otho. The multitude prize only the reflection of worth. Goethe. A multitude can accomplish what a few cannot. Wakatawki. All go unpunished when the multitude commit Offenses. Lucamºus. It is the multitude that generally gives birth to tyranny. Dionysius. The multitude have no habit of self reliance or original action. R. W. Emerson. It is a proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the multitude. Bias. The honors of the statesman depend upon the fickle breath of the multitude. Mrs. E. C. Embway. The multitude unawed is insolent ; once seized with fear, contemptible and vain. Mallet. It is the duty of men of high rank to oppose the fickle disposition of the multitude. Cicero. It is the practice of the multitude to bark at emi- ment men, as little dogs do at strangers. Seneca. The multitude cannot do without clever people, and the clever are ever a burden to them. Goethe. Every multitude, like the sea, is incapable of moving itself ; the winds and gales put it in mo- Livy. Let not a ruler take offense at a multitude of his people at once, lest that multitude become his ene- mies. Cyrus the Great. When the multitude fare well they applaud themselves; when ill, they repine against their governors. J. Hall. When the multitude applaud you, seriously ask yourself what evil you have done; when they cen- sure you what good. Colton. I have observed that the loudest huzza given to a great man in triumph, proceeds not from his friends, but the multitude. Pope. As a goose is not alarmed by hissing, nor a sheep by bleating ; so neither be you terrified by the voice of a senseless multitude. Maacimºws. If the multitude approve and applaud a man's actions, he should immediately examine himself, to find out wherein he has erred. Phocion. The multitude which is not brought to act as unity is confusion ; that unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. Pascal. 604 AN A Y 'S CO / / A C O AV. IMULTITUDE. As weak individuals in a state of intoxication are exactly the opposite of themselves, so there is a sort of intoxication of the multitude by multi- tude. Richter. There is a large collective wisdom in a multi- tude ; though individually their judgment may be of little weight, united it becomes of great import- a DC62, Pliny the Younger. Seek not the favor of the multitude ; it is sel- dom got by honest and lawful means ; but seek the testimony of few, and number not voices, but weigh them. Kamt. The sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause—disguise no good—but are put on and off as the wind blows and a news- paper directs. W. Hutton, The multitude, in all countries, are patient to a certain point ; ill usage may rouse their indigma- tion, and hurry them into excesses; but the Origi- mal fault is in government. Junius. The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing ! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow 2 Sir P. Sidney. In a free and republican government, you can- not restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes. Washington. The multitude judge almost constantly wrong on all subjects that lie in the least out of the com- mon way. They follow one another, like a flock of sheep, and not only go wrong themselves, but make those who are wiser ashamed to go right. J. Burgh. Reputation with the multitude depends upon chance, unless they are guided by those above them. They are but the keepers, as it were, of the lottery which fortune sets up for renown ; upon which fame is bound to attend with her trumpet, and sound when men draw the prizes. J. Dennis. I pity them who mistake the shouts of a multi- tude for the trumpet of fame ; experience might inform them that many who have been saluted with the huzzas of a crowd one day, have received its execrations the next ; and many who, by the fools of their own times, have been held up as spot- less patriots, have nevertheless appeared on the historian's page, when truth has triumphed over delusion, the assassins of liberty. Lord Mansfield. The multitude is easily led astray, is moved in every direction by the smallest force, so that the agitations of the mob and the sea have a wonder- ful resemblance to each other ; for as the latter is in its nature calm, and exhibits no appearance of danger to the eye till some violent hurricane agi- tates its surface, when it becomes fierce as the winds themselves; in the same way the multitude is swayed and guided in its actions according to the temper and character of its leaders and advi- Sel’S. Polybius. IMULTITUDE. Think not that the foolish multitude is the abso- lute master of a well-earned reputation ; its tumul- tuous voice makes moise enough, but a moment raises it, and the next destroys it ; and what it contributes to our renown vanishes in smoke in less than the twinkling of an eye. Corneille. Follow not the multitude in the evil of sin, lest thou share with the multitude in the evil of pun- ishment ; the number of offenders diminisheth not the quality of the offence ; as the multitude of suitors draws more favor to the suit, so the multi- tude of sinners draws more punishment on the sin: the number of the faggots multiplies the fury of the fire. F. Quarles. The nature of the multitude is no more to be found fault with than the nature of princes, for all err alike when they are without check. And it is not without reason that the voice of the people is likened to the voice of God ; for a universal opinion is seen to produce extraordinary effects by its prognostications ; so that it seems to have a secret power to foretell its own weal and woe. While many monarchies, as well as republics, have lasted long, both have need of being regulated by fixed laws ; for a prince that can do what he will is mad, a people that can do what it will is not wise. Machiavelli. IMUNIFICIENCE. Munificence comes from the will. James Ellis. Munificence is not quantity, but quality. Pascal. Munificence dwelleth not far from vanity. T. Cavallo. Munificence is a pleasure wealth can purchase. Elizabeth Bland. Let those give munificently to whom God has been munificent. Lady Hwntingdom. By munificence to the church, seek to obtain the favor of Heaven. St. Simplicius. A state of poverty obscures all the virtues of li- berality and munificence. Addison. The best property in a king is to let no man ex- cel him in deeds of munificence. Agesilaws. Munificence in a noblemind is excellent, although it exceed in the term of measure. Arthur Jackson. To constitute munificence, the act of conferring must be free, and proceed from generous motives. N. Webster. The proofs of true munificence must be drawn from the uses to which a man of wealth applies his fortune. Jwniws. Munificence may spring either from Ostentation or a becoming sense of dignity, and is confined sim- ply to giving; but we may be generous in assisting, liberal in rewarding. G. Crabb. Munificence is not always charity; for a rich man who gives liberally, but with Ostentatious pride, sectarian bias, or party prejudice, is far less charitable than he who, though possessed of little, generously shares that little with his less fortunate neighbor. E. P. Day. P R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. IMURDER. All people detest a murderer. Ke-Amg. Death is payment for murder. Rangihaeata. Murder is a revenge of the wicked and weak. Pope Clement XIV. Death is the only sufficient atonement for a mur- der. J. Strºwthers. A murdered man's blood will not cry to heaven in vain. T. James. Murder is no crime if committed in behalf of human rights. Jean Paul Mwrat. Upon murderers mankind have heaped curses without bounds. Timothy Dwight. Even Soldiers should remember, God takes no thanks for murder. Winfield Scott. As for a murderer, hanging should come first, and pardon afterward. W. Besamt. It is unlawful for one to live who confesses that he has murdered a man. Cicero. Do no murder; no, not to any man's person, for no murderer hath eternal life. Bwmyam. He is a murderer who punishes another with death, without legal proof of guilt. Ibn Dwwád. Though a murderer escapes man's power, there is no fleeing from the hand of God. Rangi Iraham. Let those guilty of murder without provocation be pursued till they find refuge in the realms be- low. AEschylus. To commit murder, or any other crime, is to sa- crifice others to passion, avarice, or exclusive indi- vidual interest. Lamennais. Murder for an injury ariseth only from cowar- dice; he who inflicteth it, feareth that the enemy may live and avenge himself. R. Dodsley. Treachery which would be hateful in any other man, is considered perfectly legitimate in the man employed to hunt out a murderer. Miss Braddon. Ah they are weak beings, who think that the deep stains of a murderer can be washed out by the multitudimous waters of the ocean. Ovid. It is a hard case, that the laws should not have made any distinction between murdering an hon- est man and executing a scoundrel. Sterne. The real evil of murder—the robbing a man of his most precious possession, his life—lies in the principles and feelings from which it springs, and in its recklessness as to the consequences, especially the future and everlasting consequences of the act. Gilfillan. The secret which the murderer possesses soon comes to possess him ; he feels it beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclo- sure. He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It must be confessed, it will be confessed ; there is no refuge from confession but suicide ; and suicide is confes- Sion. D. Webster. IMURMIUIR. A wise man never murmurs. O. A. Bromson. Murmur not at the inevitable. Publius Syrus. A wise man will not murmur at being dismissed from office. Hwuy of Lew-Hea. No matter how dark our life-path, we should IlêVel' Iſllll’Inul”. E. S. Walters. A wise man murmurs neither against heaven nor against men. Confucius. Murmur not because the world goes well with the powerful and wicked. Rabbi Eleazar. Dreadful are the murmurs of the people if they be accompanied with hate. AEschylus. Murmur at nothing : if our ills are reparable, it is ungrateful; if remediless, it is vain. Shakspeare. Christ is never more wounded in the house of His friends, than when they murmur. Lady Powerscourt. Murmuring persons think everything done by themselves too much, and everything done for them too little. Sir E. Dyer. Make it a rule never to utter any unnecessary complaint or murmurs, but in patience to possess your souls. Mrs. Cameron. As the fluttering of the snared bird holdeth her faster than before, so murmuring against God in our afflictions availeth us nothing. D. Cawdray. To murmur at the present, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind. Burke. He who murmurs against his condition, does not understand it ; but he who accepts of it in peace, will soon learn to comprehend it. What one has experienced and learned in this respect, is always a stage he has made on his way to heaven. - C. Spragwe. We live unthankfully in this world, and we go struggling and murmuring out of it, dissatisfied with our lot ; whereas we should be grateful for the blessings we have enjoyed, and account that sufficient which Providence has appointed for us. Seneca. Consider that murmuring is a mercy-embitter- ing sin, a mercy-souring sin. As the sweetest things put in a sour vessel sours them, or put into a bitter vessel embitters them, so murmuring puts gall and wormwood into overy cup of mercy that God gives into our hands. J. Bate. Every murmurer is his own executioner; mur- muring vexes the heart, it wears and tears the heart, it enrages and inflames the heart, it wounds and stabs the heart. Every murmurer is his own martyr; no man is so inwardly miserable as the murmurer ; no man hath such inward gripes and griefs as he, such inward bitterness and heaviness as he. Every murmurer is his own tormentor ; murmuring is a fire within that will burn up all ; it is an earthquake within that will overturn all; it is a disease within that will infect all : it is poison within that will prey upon all. T. Brooks. 606 AD A Y’.S. C. O Z Z A C O AV. IMUSIC. IMUSIC. - Love teacheth music. Plato. Music is a prophecy of what life is to be, the \ - rainbow of promise translated out of seeing into Music is the soul of art. J. B. Brown. hearing. . Mrs. L. M. Child. Music is one of God's gifts. Al-Misri. Almost all my tragedies were sketched in my Music is the child of praise. Thomas Ken. Melancthom. R. Erskine. Music is the child of prayer. There is a divinity in music. Music is the harmony of the soul. Swinburne. Music is the highest of all science. J. S. Bach. Even wolves are charmed by music. Rwtimi. Music is like the spirit ; it never dies. W. Shield. Music lends to piety wings to heaven. B. Gilpin. Music is a harbinger of eternal melody. Mozart. Music and love are the wings of the Soul. Berlioz. Music loosens a heart that care has bound. Byrd. Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. Sir A. Hwnt. Music is best enjoyed in the company of others. Hwuy Yung. Music is always very good diversion for a king. Frederick; the Great. Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music. Mirabeaw. Music is good or bad as the end to which it ten- deth. Feltham. Music is both sunshine and irrigation to the mind. W. S. Landor. Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion. Chateaubriand. The acquirement of music should be made sim- ple and easy. Gwy Aretin. Music is a pleasing accomplishment ; let the fair learn to sing. Ovid. It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love. Ricard. Much is set to music that is not even worthy of being spoken. Beawmarchais. Music washes away from the soul the dust of every-day life. Awerbach. God save me from a poor fiddler who knows nothing of music. F. Geminiani. Music is a natural sentiment, not a merely arti- ficial acquirement. O. S. Fowler. Music is a gift of the Author of Nature to the whole human race. Hogarth. Music and painting both add a spirit to devotion, and elevate the ardor. Sterme. Music must begin in harmony, continue in har- mony, and end in harmony. Confucius. There is something in the shape of harps as though they had been made by music. P. J. Bailey. hours after. music. mind, either in the act of hearing music or a few Alfieri. I ever held this sentence of the poet as a canon of my creed, “that whom God loveth not, they love not music.” T. Morley. Lord, what music hast thou provided for thy Saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music On earth ! Izaak Walton. The effect of good music is not caused by its no- velty. On the contrary, it strikes us more the more we are familiar with it. Goethe, Music would not be unexpedient after meat to assist and cherish nature in her first concoction, and send their minds back to study in good tune. Milton. Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest in- fluence over the passions, and is that to which the legislator Ought to give the greatest encourage- ment. Napoleon I. Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effec- tive voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing E. Burritt. A table without music is little better than a manger ; for music at meals is like a carbuncle set in gold, or the signet of an emerald highly bur- nished. Epictetus. Music is a source of surpassing delight to many minds. From its power to soothe the feelings and modify the passions, it seems desirable to under- stand it. Mrs. Sigowrmey. As music has been the tardiest of arts to make its way through the great world, so it is peculiarly the tardiest of arts to make its way into a new country. T. Tilton. No one has found out how to soothe with music and sweet symphony those bitter pangs by which death and sad misfortunes destroy families; and yet to assuage such griefs by music were wisdom. Euripides. Young voices around the domestic altar, breath- ing sacred music at the hour of morning and eve- ning devotion, are a sweet and touching accompa- niment. R. Arvine. Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitation of the Soul: it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. M. Lºwther. The lines of poetry, the periods of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recol- lected and quoted, are those which are felt to be pre-eminently musical. Shenstone. A good ear for music, and a good taste for music, are two very different things which are often con- founded ; and so is comprehending and enjoying every object of sense and sentiment. Lord Greville. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. IMIUSIC. Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. Addison. Mušic is the medicine of an afflicted mind ; a sweet, saſi measure is the balm of a wounded spirit, and joy is heigh.engd by exultant strains. H. Giles. Who is there that in logical words can express the effect that, lusic has upon us? A kind of un- fatholºble speech, which leads us to the edge of the intinite, ‘ºnd lets us for Imoments gaze into that. T. Carlyle. I am ersuaded that music is designed to prepare for heaven, to educate for the choral enjoyment of Paradise, to form the mind to virtue and devo- tion, and to charm away evil and sanctify the heart 1 God. Legh Richmond. Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians. Considering I have no ear, nor even thought of music, the preference seems odd, and yet it is embraced on frequent re- flection. H. Walpole. In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps ; the tones are com- panions of his dreams—they are the world in which he lives. Bettina von Arnim. I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ab- lution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine. R. W. Emerson. I am constitutionally susceptible of noises ; a car- penter's hammer, in a warm summer noon, will fret me into more than midsummer madness ; but those unconnected, unset sounds are nothing to the measured malice of music. C. Lamb. TMusic moves us, and we know not why ; we feel the tears, and cannot trace the source. Is it the language of some other state, born of its memory Ż For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of another world, like music 3 Miss L. E. Landom. Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life ; although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist. Beethoven. If you love music, hear it ; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you. But I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself; it puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light : brings him into a great deal of bad com- pany, and takes up a great deal of time which might be much better employed. Chesterfield. There are two things which help to make music —melody and harmony. Now, as most of you know, there is melody in music when the different sounds of the same tune follow each other so as to give us pleasure ; there is harmony in music when different sounds, instead of following each other, come at the same time so as to give us pleasure. C. Kingsley. IMUSIC. Music once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies ; it wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air. Bulwer. Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune ; such is the extensiveness thereof, that it stoopeth So low as brute beasts, yet mounteth as high as angels ; horses will do more for a whistle than for a whip, and by hearing their bells, jingle away their weariness. T. Fuller. That which I have found the best recreation both to my mind and body, whensoever either of them stands in need of it, is music, which exercises at Once both body and Soul ; especially when I play myself ; for then, methinks, the same motion that my hands make upon the instrument, the instru- ment makes upon my heart. J. Beveridge. Music has certainly a powerful influence on the passions, and produces happy effects upon the hu- man heart and mind when cultivated moderately ; but when it becomes the general prevailing passion of a nation, Or, as it were, gets dominion over them, it unquestionably produces not effeminacy merely, but a hateful depravity of manners. S. F. Bradford. Under the influence of music we are all deluded in some way ; we imagine that the performers must dwell in the regions to which they lift their hearers ; we are reluctant to admit that a man may blow the most soul-animating strains from his trumpet and yet be a coward ; or melt an au- dience to tears with his violin, and yet be a heart- less profligate. H. W. Hillard. The powers of music are felt or known by all men, and are allowed to work strangely upon the mind and the body, the passions and the blood ; to raise joy and grief; to give pleasure and pain; to cure diseases, and the mortal sting of the tarantu- la ; to give motions to the feet as well as the beart : to compose disturbed thoughts; to assist and heighten devotion itself. Sir W. Temple. Music may be classed into natural, social, sacred, and martial ; it is the twin sister of poetry, and like it has the power to sway the feelings and com- mand the mind ; in devotion it breathes the pure spirit of inspiration and love ; in martial scenes it rouses the Soul to ſearless deeds of daring and va- lor, while it alleviates the cares, and enhances the innocent and cheerful enjoyments of domestic life. - Acton. The province of music is rather to express the passions and feelings of the human heart than the actions of men, or the operations of nature. When employed in the former capacity, it becomes an eloquent language ; when in the latter, a mere mimic—an imitator, and a very miserable one—or rather a buffoon, caricaturing what it cannot imi- tate ; the idea of the different stages of a battle, or the progress of a tempest being represented to the eye or the ear, or even the imagination, by the quavering of a fiddler's elbow, or the squeaking of catgut, is preposterous. G. P. Morris. 608 A) A Y’.S. C. O Z Z. A C O AV. IMIUTABILITY. Time is the father of mutability. Solom. Things subject to mutability are every moment growing old. Dr. Winter. Mutability is of this world ; in that which is to come there is no change. St. Ambrose. The change of seasons pleaseth nature, and the mutability of riches delighteth fortune. Boetius. Upon all this history of man, mutability, appa- rently the most wayward and destructive, is writ- ten with a pen of iron. E. D. Mansfield. In human life there is a constant mutability ; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate ; life itself decays, and all things are daily changing. Plutarch. We have often thought it strange that moralists should have written and spoken of the mutability of human life as if it were a thing to be dreaded and mourned over ; to our mind, mutability is the soul of poetry, and the source of nearly all the most delightful and sacred pleasures of life. Stubbs. Mutability is the badge of infirmity ; it is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike ; now he is for marrying, and now a mistress is preferred to a wife ; now he is ambitious and aspiring, presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he this hour he squanders his money away, the next he turns mi- ser; sometimes he is frugal and serious, at other times profuse, airy, and gay. Charrom. MYSTERY. There is a profound charm in mystery. Chatfield. What is secrecy with able men is mystery with fools. N. Macdonald. All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery. E. G. Holland. A religion without its mysteries is a temple with- out a God. R. Hall. It is the dim haze of mystery that adds emchant- ment to pursuit. Rivarol. Secrecy and mystery drive the unitiated into suspicion and distrust. W. S. Landor. Be satisfied with what is revealed of the myste- ries of the Divine Nature. R. Winthrop. Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed that there must also be evil. Byron. Take the mystery out of things and they lose two-thirds of their attraction. H. W. Shaw. Mystery hovers over everything here below, and solemnizes all things to the eyes and heart. Lamartime. The mysteries of nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of phi- losophic skill. Sir T. N. Talfowrd. All human life has seemed to me a vast and mysterious cathedral, amid whose solitary aisles, and under whose sublime roof, mystic tones and melodies perpetually roll. Dr. Cwmming. MYSTERY. Sinful man, saved in Christ, always was and al- ways will be a mystery, a wonder. T. Adams. A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men ; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and Cunning Ones. - Chesterfield. We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason ; could they be explained, they would cease to be mrysteries, Coltom. Mystery is a truth revealed by God above the comprehension of men ; just as we find mysteries in nature, we may expect to find them in revela- tion, as the God of nature is the God of revelation. A. Ritchie. To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery—into something that no mortal eye has yet seen, no intelligence has yet declared. E. H. Chapin. A Christian life is full of mysteries; poor, and yet rich ; base, and yet exalted ; shut out of the world, and yet admitted into the company of Saints and angels ; the world's dirt, and God's jewels. T. Mantom. Be not Over curious in prying into mysteries: lest by Seeking things which are needless, thou omittest things which are necessary; it is more safe to doubt of uncertain matters, than to dispute of undiscovered mysteries. F. Quarles. MYTHOLOGY. Mythology is not religion. J. C. Hare. Mythology is the romance of ancient writers. L. Echard. The worship of the sun lies at the foundation of all ancient mythology. H. R. Schoolcraft. Ancient mythology abounds in metaphor and every species of allegory. D. Irving. Absurd as was the mythology of ancient Greece, it was nevertheless a hopeful religious system. Olive R. Seward. The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true ; it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. Whately. The modesty of mythology deserves to be com- mended; the scenes there are laid at a distance ; it is once upon a time, in the days of yore, and in the land of Utopia. R. Bentley. Mythology, in ceasing to be an object of frivo- lous curiosity only, has become an important branch of the science of antiquity, and now fully deserves the deepest attention of the divine, the philosopher, and the historian. J. Hermann. Mythology is the natural measure of the unen- lightened mind ; it contains the aspirings of the soul after higher objects, which are beyond its reach, and its efforts to realize the dim images faintly formed in the mind, as the man wandering in darkness strives to give shape to the objects in- distinctly seen to connect them together. R. Taylor. |- \\ CN), NAPOLE A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 609 N. NAME}. What's in a name 3 Shakspeare. A good name keeps its lustre in the dark. I. Ray. Good advice may be given, but not a good name. Ahmed Vesek. A good life is the readiest way to secure a good Ila,IIlê. Awrelius. No monument gives such glory as an unsullied Iłą,11162. Rabbi Eleazam". Sully not a fair name by bestowal of unmerited honors. A. Fabert. A good name once lost is seldom, if ever, re- gained. - J. Foster. It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Amthony Trollope. What a heavy burden is a name that has become too soon famous ! Voltaire. He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones. R. Sowth. A good name like good-will is got by many ac- tions, and lost by One. Lord Jeffrey. Next to the dread of annihilation, we dread the extinction of our names when we die. A. Barmes. Great names ought to bear us up and carry us through, but never run away with us. Landor. An homest and good name, to whomsoever it be- longs, possesses a worth excelling life. Euripides. There are three crowns: of the law, priesthood, and kingship ; but the crown of a good name is greater than all. Talmud. Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves; and perhaps that is the reason of it. W. Penn, A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away ; for the Odors of Ointments are more durable than those of flowers. Lord Bacon. A name that has become public property is a name to be bandied about, coupled with foul epi- thets, criticised, contemned, or to be made the sub- ject of extravagant laudation—more humiliating, if less maddening. J. G. Holland. If opinion hath cried thy name up, let thy mo- desty cry thy heart down, lest thou deceive it, or it thee; there is no less danger in a great name than a bad ; and no less honor in deserving of praise, than in the enduring it. F. Quarles. The enjoyment of a fair name among one's fel- low-citizens, we class among the good things of fortune; it consists in being thought endowed with that virtue, and possessed of those good things which all men, or at least the best men, desire to possess. Ansaldo Ceba. INAME}. * A good name is the richest possession we have while living, and the best legacy we leave behind us when dead ; it survives when we are no more ; it endures when our bodies, and the marble which covers them, have crumbled into dust. Acton. One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to en- gage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus to fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in prac- tice. Pascal. Who shall pretend to calculate the value of the inheritance of a good name 2 Many instances might be enumerated of persons who have laid the found- ations of the very highest fortunes upon no other ground than that which this goodly inheritance has supplied. Otter. A man's name is not like a mantle, which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting gar- ment, which, like the skin, has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself. Goethe. A name truly good is the aroma from virtuous character ; it is of unspeakable service to all who are capable of feeling its inspiration ; there is no better heritage than a good name that a father can bequeath to his children ; nor is there in a family any richer heir-loom than the memory of a noble anceStor. J. Hamilton. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy, on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year ; you will never be forgotten. No 1 your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind you as the stars on the brow of evening ; good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven. T. Chalmers. NARRATIVE. A truthful narrative of a good man is a useful lesson to the young. S. Ireland. The best instructions are introduced in the midst of the plainest narratives. Broome. The connected incidents of a man’s life should form a narrative of virtue and honor. Mme. Dufrenoy. A life has rarely passed, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. Dr. Johnson. When narrative is introduced in a discourse it should be simple and comprehensive, and the lan- guage plain, precise, and without ornament. J. Walker. The talent of narrators is one which enlivens the circle of society, and is the true source of joy and pleasure; authentic narratives are instructive, and at the same time, more or less curious ; their moral application will be seen by every one. J. P. Brown. 39 6] () J) A Y’.S CO / / A C O AV. beautiful budding again takes place. * NATION. Nations as well as individuals are mortal. Olive R. Seward. National enthusiasm is the great nursery of ge- nius. H. T. Tuckerman. National progress is the sum of individual indus- try, energy, and uprightness. Smiles. Worthless is the nation that does not with plea- sure venture its all for honor. Schillen'. Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation. Kosswth. When we read the history of nations, what do we read but the crimes and follies of men : Blair. A nation cannot be affected by any vice or weak- ness without expressing it legibly and forever. Ruskin. Nations are changed by time ; they flourish and decay ; by turns command, and in their turns obey. Ovid. Nations, like individuals, are powerful in the de- gree that they command the sympathies of their neighbors, Bovee. Every nation stands by its own strength ; other powers will respect it so long as it exhibits its ability to defend and save itself. W. H. Seward. Nations blossom and fade; in a nation that has ceased to blossom, no young, much less a more Herder. All nations, great and small, having any distinc- tive character of their own, may be said to hate one another, not with a deadly, but a lively hatred. J. Bah’rett. In every nation there is a nobility and people of lower rank, and the question arises in whose hands the power of the nation may be most safely de- posited. Machiavelli. It is with nations as with individuals; nothing is so strong a tie of amity between nation and nation as correspondence in laws, customs, manners, and habits of life. Burke. A generous nation is grateful even for the pre- servation of its rights, and willingly extends the respect due to the office of a good prince into an affection for his person. Junius. That is always the most happy condition of a na- tion, and that nation is most accurately obeying the laws of our constitution, in which the number of the human race is most rapidly increasing. F. Wayland. One nation rises to supreme power in the world, while another declines, and in a brief space of time the sovereign people change, transmitting, like racers, the lamp of life to some other that is to succeed them. Lºwcretius. National friendship never existed ; interest is the basis of all their connections. So long as any na- tion's glory and resources are aided and advanced by another kingdom, so long and no longer will they be in amity. J. Bartlett. INATION. It is with nations as with the different races of men, some are honored and favored, and others foredoomed to misfortune and contumely. Albo. Nations, like individuals, interest us in their birth and early growth ; every motion, however irregular, seems to us natural, graceful, and an in- dication of vigor or intelligence. W. S. Lando?". A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance ; they awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people. H. Clay. In One sense, the providence of God is shown more clearly in nations than in individuals; retri- bution can follow individuals into another state ; but not SO with nations; they have all their re- wards and punishments in time. De Custine. The greater number of nations, as of men, are Only impressible in their youth ; they become in- corrigible as they grow old. When once customs have been established and prejudices taken root, it is both dangerous and futile to try to reform them. RowsSeaw. Time immemorial, some nation or other has as- pired to maintain dynastic ascendency in the world, and all eager for the world's dominion and mas- tery ; but the arts of peace are now governing the world, and awarding its supremacy. Intelligence and refinement, equal laws and equal rights are in vogue, and the greatest nation is that which pos- sesses all these in the greatest Security and perfec- tion. Acton. As nations that have degenerated seldom per- form great actions, as we have never seen them establish lasting confederations, found cities, or give laws, and as on the contrary, those who were simple and stern in character have generally been successful in their transactions, to remind men of the early maxims of their forefathers is generally the best method to awaken in them the principles Of virtue. Montesquiew. In estimating the worth of nations, justice re- quires that, while their vices are put into one scale, their virtues should as conscientiously be poised in the other. Individuals and nations are equally stung with a sense of wrong, when their crimes are acrimoniously recapitulated, and then great and good actions are all forgotten ; this fatal forget- fulness is the origin of that rancour which has so long desolated the earth ; it distracts private fami- lies, confounds public principles, and turns even patriotism into poison. T. Holcroft. The true greatness of a nation cannot be maintain- ed by triumphs of the intellect alone. Literature and art may widen the sphere of its influence; they may adorn it, but they are in their nature but acces- sories. The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened, and decorated by the intellect of man. The truest tokens of this grandeur in a state, are the diffusion of the great- est happiness among the greatest number, and that passionless, Godlike justice, which controls the re- lations of the state to other states, and to all the people who are committed to its charge. C. Swmmer. A R O S A. Q O O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 611 INATIVE LAND. It is sweet to die for our native land. T. Abbt. How dear is our native land to all noble hearts. Woltaire. Let our last sleep be in the graves of Our native land. Osceola. Next to the gods we should revere our native land. Agis IV. Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers. Schiller. Men almost universally prefer their native land before every other. J. Carter. The love for our native land strengthens Our in- dividual and national character. A. Hamilton. Our native land belongs to our fathers; we can- not sell them ; we must keep them for our children. Rangihaeata, I fancy the proper means of increasing the love we bear our native land, is to reside some time in a foreign One. Shenstone. Show me a man who has no love for his native land, and I will show you in that same person one who loves nothing but himself. Lady Pomsomby. We love our native land, our homes, and the homes of our fathers; these are our hunting- grounds, and we feel grieved to leave them. Tash-we-be-Shig. A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expressions, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his fathers' graves. E. H. Chapin. Every one loves his native land ; the places where his fathers lived, the trees, flowers, and ani- mals ; and I think with pleasure now, even upon the dreadful smakes, because they belong to my country. J. Riland. In all the trials and vicissitudes of life, and when age longs for a resting place, our thoughts wander back to our native land, where the star of our first love has shed its beams ; where the smiles and tears of affection have been spent ; where some fond eye met our own—some endearing hand was clasped in ours. This love of our native land is deep-seated feeling of the heart, which cannot be subdued or destroyed. James Ellis. Whence does this love of our native land, this universal passion proceed ? Why does the eye ever dwell with fondness upon the scenes of infant life 2 Why do we breathe with greater joy the breath of our youth ? Why are not other soils as grateful, and other heavens as gay ? Why does the soul of man ever cling to that earth where it first knew pleasure and pain, and under the rough discipline of the passions was roused to the dignity of moral life 2 Is it only that our native land contains our kindred and our friends & And is it nothing but a name for our social affections? It cannot be this ; the most friendless of human beings has a country which he admires and extols, and which he would in the same circumstances prefer to all others under heaven. Sydney Smith. there is a God. NATURE. Study nature. William Hague. Nature is mighty. J. C. Hare. Nature defies burlesque. R. C. Sands. Nature is the best teacher. Strato. All things come by nature. George Foac. Nature is the chart of God. Tupper. Nature does not make fools. Linnaeus. Live in harmony with nature. Zeno. Nature is the mother of all life. C. De Geer. Nature returns to nature again. Clawdian. Nature is full of unknown things. D. B. Tower. It is a joy to be alone with nature. Fanny Fern. Nature requires little, fancy much. Rist, The Divine Mind presides overnature. Cleanthes. Nature shows the nothingness of man. Strzlecki. Nature is commanded by obeying her. Bacon. Nature is ever at harmony with herself. Telesio. Nature refuses to be otherwise than as it is. As-Suhrawardi. Nature is the great mirror of the Almighty. Mme. Gwyon. The laws of nature are the thoughts of God. Heinrich Zschokke. Obey nature, and nature will ever obey thee. G. D. Fahrenheit. Nature was made for man, not man for nature. - *-*- |W. H. Seward. Nature is to the mind what heaven is to the soul. Plawtws. That which comes by nature is in all cases the best. Pindarus. Nature is the work of a mightier power than IIla, Il. A. W. Hare. Nature is often the greatest in her smallest crea- tions. M. S. Devere. Nature has established laws; our part is to obey them. - Volney. Nature is like quicksilver, and will never be killed. L’Estrange. Nature operates alike in small things as in great things. Charles Reade. Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day. T. Poºker. Nature and wisdom are never at enmity with each other. Juvenal. Drive away what springs from nature, it returns at a gallop. Destowches. Nature teaches even the meanest capacity that Fémélon. 612 AJ A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. INATURE. Man may alter the face of nature, but he cannot alter her laws. S. G. Hermelin. Our bosoms feel the joys of life and the blessings of kind nature. F. Holderlin. Nature resists the efforts of him who would change its ways. Ibn Al-Kàbisi. How few people seem to contemplate nature with their own eyes. Mary Wollstonecraft. Nature is our best guide, whom if we follow, we shall never go astray. Aristotle. INature will be reported ; all things are engaged in writing its history. Hugh Miller. Nature takes as much pains in the forming of a beggar as an emperor. F. A. Messmen". Nature is the mode only whereby God makes His providence visible. Sir R. Maltravers. By nature men are nearly alike ; by practice they get to be wide apart. Confucius. Nature set us naked and helpless on the shore of this great ocean—the world. Schiller. By the light of nature man is instructed in the knowledge of God, and all things. Jaaphor. Nature, working by some great law unknown, brings noble harmonies out of chaos. Anne Isabella Thackeray. Nature does nothing in vain, but is simple, and delights not in superfluous causes of things. Sir I. Newton. Into the interior of nature no created spirit pene- trates, too happy if he knows the outer shell. Saint Ildefonso. Nature is a wise instructress; she teaches us in a thousand ways, if we would but listen to her. Mrs. St. Simon. Nature is an arrant democrat, and bestows her gifts impartially upon peasants and peeresses. Mrs. C. G. Gore. Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. W. Hugo. Nature has no need of a First Cause ; she is ca- pable of producing all the phenomena, she exhibits. Delazon. Smith. God's will is so clearly and fully manifested in the book of nature, that he who runs may read it. M. Timolal. Nature has made nothing in vain ; wherever she has prepared a habitation, she immediately peoples it. St. Pierre. Those who have obtained the farthest insight into nature, have been in all ages firm believers in God. W. Whewell. Nature never deceives you ; the rocks, the moun- tains, the streams, always speak the same lan- guage. Sir H. Davy. Nature makes us guess at about one-half we know, and then laughs at us because we do not get it right. H. W. Shaw. INATURE. The book of nature as well as the book of Re- velation is the book of God. Dr. E. Nott. Mighty nature I when we see and love thee, we love our fellow-men more warmly. Richter. Nature is an AEolian harp, a musical instrument, whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings with- in us. Novalis. Nature herself is an educator ; the rudest savage is in her School, and has received some of her teaching. H. Winslow. Nature is prior to art, and exists without it ; yet art helps to reveal the beauties and the grandeur of nature. A. Lewwenhoeck. Nature goes forward in her never-ending course, and cares nothing for the race of man that is ever passing before her. Humboldt. Nothing surely can be better adapted to turn man's thoughts off his own self-sufficiency than the works of nature. Mawmd. Nature cries aloud to the most powerful as well as to the most abject of men, that they are all members of the same body. Stanislants. Read nature ; nature is a friend to truth : na- ture is Christian, preaches to mankind, and bids dead matter aid us in our creed. T. Young. O, nature, thou art full of beautiful and wonder- ful works, scattered lavishly all around, all within us! Yet how few know they exist. O. S. Fowler. Nature is that world of substance whose laws are cause and effect, and whose events transpire in orderly succession under those laws. H. Bushnell. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throughout is unmixed life, which, concealed be- hind the old, begins again and develops itself. Fichte. The Author of mature has not given laws to the universe which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruc- tion. J. Playfair. The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live ; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his exis- tence. Hufeland. The wisdom of nature is better than of books : prudence being a wise election of those things which never remain after one and the self-same Iſla III 161°. Sir W. Raleigh. There is not a manufacture that can be men- tioned in which nature does not give her assist- ance to man, and give it, too, generously and gra- tuitously. - Ricardo. Men have learned that there is only One Source for their knowledge, which is nature, however much they may differ in their interpretation of nature's facts. Agassiz. It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions either for beauty or value. Hwme. A R O S E O U O T A 7" / O M S. 6.13 INATURE. The power and majesty on the nature of things fail to receive credit at all times, if we merely look at its parts and do not embrace the vast whole in our conceptions. Pliny the Elder. Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world ; she never wastes anything ; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation ; the essence remains, the matter is etermal. T. Bimney. Perhaps if we could penetrate nature's secrets, we should find that what we call weeds are more essential to the well-being of the world than the most precious fruit or grain. N. Hawthorne. Surely there is nothing in the world, short of the most undivided reciprocal attachment, that has such power over the workings of the human heart as the mild sweetness of nature. Miss Porter. Nature has within her hands a certain dough, which is always the same, which she turns this way and that way in a thousand different ways, and out of which she makes men, animals, and plants. Fontenelle. Nature shows her richness in a kind of prodi- gality, which, while some parts pay the tribute of evanescences, preserves it uninjured by unnum- bered new generations in the circle of her complete whole. E. Kamt. By studying nature in the spirit of meek devo- tion and solemn love, a good man may indeed “walk up and down the world as in a garden of spices, and draw a divine sweetness out of every flower.” J. Keble. Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts ; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above, seems to impart a quiet to the mind. T. Edwards. Nature always springs to the surface, and man- ages to show what she is ; it is vain to stop or try to drive her back; she breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way. Boileau. The wheels of nature are not made to roll back- wards ; everything presses toward eternity ; from the birth of time an impetuous current has set in, which bears all the sons of men toward that in- terminable ocean. R. Hall. Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own ; and from morning to night, as from the Cradle to the grave, is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. C. Dickens. There is a universal balance throughout nature, and everything finds its level. There is order where there appears disorder, and no stream runs in One direction, without a counter stream to re- store the equilibrium. F. Marryatt. Nature, that tender, amiable, and loving parent, has strewed her pleasures with a bounteous hand, and while she fills us with delights, she prepares us for future satisfactions of a more exquisite kind than those delights themselves. Montesquiew. INATURE. In surveying the works of nature, in admiring their beauty, their order, their seasons, and the thousand attractions they possess, I sometimes think that the Divine Author of our religion viewed them with corresponding feelings. E. Jesse. How sublime to look down into the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, Snow, rain, thun- der, all fabricate at our feet ; and the glorious sun when rising as if out of a distant water, just gild- ing the tops of the mountains, and giving life to all nature T. Jefferson. Nature my mother nature as the infant in the harsh slavery of schools pines for home, I yearn within the dark walls of cities and amid the hum of unfamiliar men, for thy sweet embrace and thy bosom whereon to lay my head, and weep wild tears at my will ! Bulwer. It were happy if we study nature more in na- tural things ; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable. Let us begin where she begins, go her pace, and close always where she ends, and we cannot miss of be- ing good naturalists. W. Penn. In nature, all is managed for the best with per- fect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all ; never employing on One thing more than enough, but with exact economy re- trenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principle in everything. Shaftesbury. The study of nature requires two qualifications of the mind, which at first sight appear to be op- posed to each other—the comprehensive view of a bold genius that embraces the whole, and the minute and careful inspection of an unwearied in- dustry that lives upon the smallest objects. Buffon. Nature has her mute language and her symboli- cal writing ; but she requires a discerning intellect to gain the key to her secrets, to unravel her pro- found enigmas, and, piercing through her myste- ries, to interpret the hidden sense of her word, and thus reveal the fullness of her glory. Schlegel. Nature wears not the pale livery which inspires meditation or solemn joy; her face seems wreathed in a perpetual smile. The landscape breathes, in- deed, of intoxicating delight ; it invites to present joy ; but it leads to no tender reminiscences of the past, nor gives solemn indications of the future. Sir T. N. Talfowrd. Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she would drop at the feet of Newton, is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars. E. P. Whipple. Nature was before science ; science comes out of nature; there would never have been any of the sciences in minds and books, if they had not previously existed in nature. Man's mind is not the cause, but the occasion or medium through which science flows from nature into the intellec- tual world. J. Bate. 614 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. NATURE. Nothing can be more ungrateful than to pass over the works of God without consideration ; to study them is among the highest gratifications the human mind can enjoy, provided the study is con- ducted upon religious principles. The book of na- ture is open to all. “On every leaf, “Creator, God,” is written.” Mrs. Sarah K. Trimmer. When storms lower, and wintry winds oppress thee, nature, dear goddess, is beautiful, always beautiful Every little flake of snow is such a perfect crystal, and they fall together so graceful- ly, as if fairies of the air caught waterdrops and made them into artificial flowers to garland the wings of the wind. Mrs. L. M. Child. Sweet, holy mature, let me ever follow thee, guide me with thy hand as in leading-strings a child ! And when weary, then will I on thy bosom lie, breathing the sweet joys of heaven, clinging to a mother's breast. Ah how sweet it is to dwell with thee I Ever will I love thee well; let me ever follow thee, holy mature, sweet and free Stolberg. The effects of nature are the works of God, whose hand and instrument she only is ; and there- fore to ascribe His actions unto her, is to devolve the honor of the principal agent upon the instru- ment ; which if with reason we may do, then let Our hammers rise up and boast they have built Our houses, and our pens receive the honor of our writing. The Author of nature appears very deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His na- tural ends by slow, successive steps ; and there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into operation, making one thing subservient to another. J. Butler. The more we explore the mysteries of nature, the more are we humbled with the reflection, that to our finite view only a small part of her works are comprehensible ; and when, after years of pa- tient toil, we fancy we have learned most of her laws, we still find the great Author has only op- ened to our view new vistas to more extensive and unexplored fields of knowledge. M. M. Rodgers. Nature never meant man to be a low, grovelling creature ; but placing him in the world, as in a wide and crowded theatre, intended that he should be the spectator of her mighty works, giving him an eager desire for every honorable pursuit ; from the first moment of his birth, she implanted in his soul an inextinguishable love for all that is good and noble, and a constant longing to approach nearer to the Divine nature. Longinus. God has placed nature by the side of man as a friend who remains always near to guide and con- sole him in life ; as a protecting genius who con- ducts him, as well as all species, to a harmonious unity with himself. The earth is the maternal bosom which bears all the races : nature arouses man from the sleep in which he would remain without thought of himself, inspires him, and pre- serves thus in humanity, activity, and life. Ritter. Sir T. Browne. INATUF.E. Nature appears to me a vast body of water, which forever encroaches on its own icy shores, and melts them away ; on them are seen the mil- lion shapes of individual existence, from the leaf and grain of Sand to man, each in turn devoured and lost in the advancing waves of that ocean, which they all swell with the same substance as its OW R1. J. Stirling. When we contemplate the wonderful works of nature, and gaze upon this theatre of the world, considering the glorious splendor and uniform mo- tion of the heavens, the pleasant fertility of the earth, the fragrant sweetness of plants, the exqui- site frame of animals, and all other amazing mira- cles of nature, then should our lips break forth in praise. I. Barrow. In every aspect of nature there is joy ; whether it be in the purity of virgin morning, or the Som- bre gray of a day of clouds, or the solemn pomp and majesty of night ; whether it be the chaste lines of the crystal, or the waving outline of dis- tant hills, tremulously visible through dim vapors ; the minute petals of the fringed daisy, or the over- hanging form of mysterious forests. Robertson. The beauties of nature should be cherished in young persons ; it engages them to contemplate the Creator in His wonderful work ; it purifies and harmonizes the soul, and prepares it for moral and intellectual discipline ; it leads the heart by an easy transition from the one to the other, and thus recommends virtue for its transcendent loveliness, and makes vice appear the object of contempt and abomination. J. Beattie. It is particularly worth observation, that the more we magnify by the assistance of glasses, the works of nature, the more regular and beautiful they appear ; while it is quite different in respect to those of art ; for when they are examined through a microscope, we are astonished to find them so coarse, so rough, and uneven, although they have been done with all imaginable care by the best workmen : thus God has impressed even on the smallest atom an image of His infinity. Sturm. NAVY. The navy is our wooden walls. Alfred the Great. Provide and maintain a navy. J. Q. Adams. A navy shows the power of a nation. Jwon Y. Santicillia. Enlarge the navy, and fight the enemy before they reach the strand. J. Randolph. To an active external commerce, the protection of a naval force is indispensable. Washington. It is the naval power of country that gives it authority in the most distant nations of the earth. Lord Bacon. The naval administration is one of the most im- portant branches of our government in the time of Wall". G. Crabb. The experience of all nations, particularly the British and our own, proves that the navy is the best defence of a country. T. Dwight. A R O S A. O U O 7' 4 7" / O AV S. 615 NAVIGATION. - NECESSITY. Navigation adds new worlds to the old. S. Cabot. Necessity becomes will. Ariosto. By navigation new worlds are made known. Necessity knows no law. Constance. J. G. Zarco. -º-º: Necessity is a good school. Al-Anabari. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. E. Gibbon. The first want of any maritime tribe, or people, is commerce by navigation. Olive R. Seward. The gods know all countries; by navigation we equal the gods in knowledge. Pharaoh Neclues. He is indeed a bold navigator who fearlessly ventures upon unknown seas. E. P. Day. In navigation, it is the business of the master of a vessel to see that no wind be lost, misemployed, or taken from the ship. Lord Bacon. The art of navigation is one of the greatest achievements of human genius ; man with its aid obtains a knowledge of the globe he inhabits, opens Communications with, and extends his field of operations to all its parts. A. Brisbane. NEATNESS. Study meatness. L. Murray. Neatness is always commendable. A. O. Hall. We are charmed by neatness of person; let not thy hair be out of order. Ovid. Neatness is an inheritance to which the poor can lay claim equally with the rich. H. Greenough. Cultivate habits of neatness, and let your attire be simple, modest, and becoming. Mrs. Willard. Neatness, and its reverse, among the poor, are almost a certain test of their moral character. Dr. Whitaker. We must be neat in our person, though not over particular; and let us shun boorish and ungenteel slovenliness. Cicero. We must avoid fastidiousness ; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue ; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind. Fémélon. Two things should always be aimed at in our apparel—neatness and decency ; but we should avoid an effeminate spruceness, as much as a fan- tastic disorder. J. Beawmont. Among the minor virtues, cleanliness ought to be conspicuously ranked ; and in the common to- pics of praise we generally arrange some commen- dation of neatness. J. Dennie. A young woman should regard that propriety of attire which insures the strictest neatness, and modestly conform to those unobjectionable points which are the freaks of custom. It is a beautiful self-denial for the affluent to set an example of neatness, plainness, and simplicity. Such an influence is peculiarly salutary in our state of Society, where the large class of young females, who earn a subsistance by labor, are so addicted to the love of finery. Mrs. Sigowrmey. C. Butler. A. L. Lavoisier. Milton. Necessity sharpens industry. Necessity is the tyrant's plea. A deed of necessity is not sinful. C. C. Gaetner. Necessity is stronger far than art. AEschylus. Nothing is stronger than necessity. Euripides. Necessity can make even cowards valiant. J. Hall. Laws are powerful, mecessity still more so. Goethe. Necessity is ever stronger than human law. Dionysius. Necessity seeks bread where it is to be found. - Salis. It is necessity and not pleasure that compels me. Dante. Even the gods are unable to contend against me- cessity. Simonides. Necessity imposes law, but does not herself re- ceive it. Publiws Syrus. Necessity is the last and the strongest of all Weapons. Livy. The power of necessity is greater than that of affection. Seneca. A grand necessity elevates man ; a small one de- grades him. L. J. Nivermais. Necessity makes the weak strong and the cow- ard valiant. J. Ray. Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the Creed of slaves. |W. Pitt. Necessity rouses from sloth, and despair is often the cause of hope. Rufus. Necessity is a sore penance ; and extremity is as hard to bear as death. Cantacuzenus. Necessity may be a hard schoolmistress, but she is generally found the best. Smiles. Necessity may be the mother of lucrative, but is the death of poetical invention. Shenstone. The inventions dictated by necessity are of the earlier date than those of pleasure. Cicero. Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for hu- man frailty, breaks through all law. Pascal. The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed. Zimmerman. Whatever sorrows may be thy doom, bear them with patience, if necessity entail them. Homer. Necessity, thou art the best of peacemakers, as well as the surest prompter of invention. Scott. 616 A) A Y',S CO / / A C O AV. NECESSITY. NECESSITY. Fear is the underminer of all determinations : and necessity the victorious rebel of all laws. Sir P. Sidney. Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us. S. Bailey. Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of for- tune. F. Quarles. Constant and exclusive devotion to mere phy- sical necessities, degrades man to the rank of an animal. Lamennais. We must endure our doom as easily as may be, knowing as we do, that the power of necessity is irresistible. AEschylus. Stern is the on-look of necessity. Not without a shudder may the hand of man grasp the mysterious urn of destiny. Schiller. We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could. W. S. Landor. When poverty and sickness come upon us, with no prospect of succor or relief, then we feel the pangs of Our necessity. Gerard Gwerin. There is one penny saved in four, between buy- ing in thy necessity, and when the markets and seasons are fittest for it. Lord Bwrleigh. Nature makes us poor only when we want ne- cessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. Dr. Johnson. Necessity is a strong rider with sharp spurs, who maketh the sorry jade do that which the strongest horse sometimes will not do. Calamws. Inexorable necessity has power over man ; it has no dread of the immortals, who have houses in Olympus away from sad grief. Stoboews. The uniformity which history exhibits in the conduct of man in all ages and climes, is alone compatible with the system of necessity. Sir T. C. Morgan. Necessity is a bad recommendation to favors of any kind, which as seldom fall to those who really want them, as to those who really deserve them. Fielding. A man can no more justly make use of another's necessity, than he that has more strength can seize upon a weaker, master him to his obedience, and with a dagger at his throat, offer him death or slavery. J. Locke. When God will educate a man, he compels him to learn bitter lessons; He sends him to school to the necessities rather than to the graces, that by knowing all suffering he may know also the eter- mal consolations. Celia Burleigh. By necessaries I understand not only the com- modities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to appear without. Adam Smith. mands. I would have no man discouraged with that kind of life or series of actions in which the choice of others, or his own necessities, may have engaged him. Addison. If there be no true liberty, but all things come to pass by inevitable necessity, then what are all interrogations, and objurgations, and reprehen- sions and expostulations ? Bishop Bramhall. No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which by many ex- periments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc. R. W. Emerson. There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must. L’Estrange. The stimulus of a painful necessity urges man to accomplish more than his necessities require, and the world is filled with monuments and memorials of his industry, his zeal, his patient labor, his mas- terly spirit, and his indomitable perseverance. Acton. If necessity is the mother of invention, it is no less the mother of crime ; eternal justice is One thing, etermal love of bread and butter and other good things another ; where it is a necessity of Our nature to have, it is a weakness of Our being to get. Bovee. The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit ; in deep silence it rules the un- counselled sister of eternal fate ; whatever she lay upon thee, endure ; perform whatever she com- - Goethe. A people never fairly begins to prosper till ne- cessity is treading on its heels ; the growing want of room is one of the sources of civilization ; popu- lation is power, but it must be a population that, in growing, is made daily apprehensive of the In 10I’l’OW. W. G. Simºns. The diligent pupil in the school of stern necessity is often the most successful competitor in the race of life, and as he runs most enjoys “the Sober cer- tainty of waking bliss.” They become seasonably acquainted with realities, and are skillful in as- signing to each object its relative worth. Magoon. Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perSeve- rance, and energy, will rarely fail : viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing—the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals, and civilization in nations. Smiles. In all the affairs of this world, and more parti- cularly in war, we must often allow our plans to yield to necessity ; and not from an over-anxiety to secure what is too difficult or even impossible, expose the whole to a most evident risk ; nor is it less the duty of a bold commander to listen to the advice of the cautious than of the daring. * Guicciardini. . NEVºlſ (ON. Gºº G G|R. A /& O S / O ( O 7' 4 7" / O A. S. INEG-LECT. Avoid neglect. Pericunder'. Negligence is a crime. Shakspect re. Neglect is the death of friendship. F. S. Osgood. Neglect alone will destroy wealth. Pontamws. Neglect gives inspiration to the lover. Ar-Rumi. Neglect will drive a noble mind to depart for another land. Ibn Munér. Often has a small spark through neglect raised a great conflagration. IRufus. Oh it is deplorable to behold neglect aiding in the triumph of decay. J. Linem. The weak man who whines of neglect gives the sign of his own weakness. Acla Iscuates Menken. Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. Polycarpus. Negligence and inattention to minute actions will, ultimately, be prejudicial to a man's virtue. J. Hamvilton. The cold iron of neglect is sharper to a child's sensitive nature than any alteration of harshness and affection. Mrs. Alivnie Edwards. Every man has something to do which he neg- lects ; every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat. Dr. Johnson. Neglect will banish love, kill a lie, and silence slander ; yet it will feed a malady, nourish hatred, and fill a garden with weeds. E. P. Day. Where men or nations have broken down, it will almost invariably be found that neglect of little things was the rock on which they split. Smiles. The best ground, untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds ; a man of knowledge that is either negligent or uncorrected cannot but grow wild and godless, Bishop Hall. They who neglect the opportunity of reaping a small advantage in hopes they shall obtain a bet- ter, are far from acting on a reasonable and well- advised foundation. S. CroacCull. Neglect is enough to ruin a man ; a man who is in business need not commit forgery or robbery to ruin himself ; he has only to neglect his business, and his ruin is certain 21. Barnes. When men neglect God, they neglect their own safety ; they procure their own ruin ; they fly from their own happiness ; they pursue their own misery, and make haste to be undone. J. Mair. The want of interest renders a person negligent : servants are commonly negligent in what concerns their master's interest. Negligence is therefore the fault of persons of all descriptions, but particularly those in low condition. G. Crcubb. A man may kill a tender and delicate wife by cold neglect, and ruin himself and her too by de- bauchery ; but if he keeps within his own dwell- ings and does not disturb his neighbors, the law would be slow to move against him. A. S. Roe. NEGT,ECT. A little neglect may breed great mischief ; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of the shoe the horse was lost ; for want of the horse the rider was lost—being Overtaken and slain by an enemy—all for the want of care about a horse-shoe mail. Franklin. The young man may applaud the negligent and pusillanimous instructor ; but when that man, no longer young, suffers the result of that neglect and pusillaninnity, it is well if a better spirit had taught him to mention the name of that instructor with- Out bitter execration. F. Wayland. There is the same difference between diligence and neglect, that there is between a garden curi- ously kept and the sluggard’s field when it was all overgrown with nettles and thorns : the one is clothed with beauty and the gracious amiableness of content and cheering loveliness ; while the other hath nothing but either little smarting pungencies or else such transpiercings as rankle the flesh with- in. Feltham. NEG-ROES. Negroes are men, and have Souls. D. Diaz. The negro is God's image cut in ebony. T. Fuller. Though we are negroes, we are men, and have Souls. Manmcikºw. The negro is naturally more peaceable than either Saxon or Celt. T. Tilton. The heart of a nation cannot be right toward God, until it is right toward the negro. H. J. Raymond. The negro in his more natural state is the lowest of the human race in the scale of intelligence. Dr. Cutter. The negro race have furnished slaves to its more powerful neighbors, from a remote period of anti- quity. J. I'. McCulloch. The negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich, and fanciful. Mrs. H. B. Stowe. I have often felt yearnings of tenderness toward some of these negro faces, or rather masks, that have looked out kindly upon one in casual encoun- ters in the streets and highways. C. Lamb. The light falls on the skin of the Anglo-Saxon, and the rays are reflected, and he is white. The same light falls on the skin of the negro, and the rays are absorbed, and he is black. H. W. Beecher. It is impossible for a negro to become white, or a white man to become black, by change of food or climate ; and the few instances of albinos that are known can only be regarded as monstrosities. Crawfurd. When the negro is lifted from a level with the beast of the field, when he has been allowed to take his stand amongst the human race, he will then feel himself of the same flesh and blood as his fellow-mortals, and bear himself proudly as a man. G. Camming. 6 1S A) A V 'S CO /, / A C O AV. INEIGHBOR. Cultivate love for your neighbor. Krishna. Be as a companion to thy neighbor. Ptah-Hotep. Lift not up thine hand against thy neighbor. Rabbi Iechiel. He who does right will have good neighbors. Confucius. A bad neighbor brings bad fortune with him. Plautus. No man shall suffer for the sins of his neighbor. Roran. IEndeavor to live at peace among thy neighbors. 4. Yarrantom. Every one loves himself more than his neighbor. Euripides. A good neighbor is better than a brother far off. Gleimu. Let man love himself not more than his neigh- bor. Cicero. We must love our neighbor if we wish to sustain society. Plutarch. Reep well with your neighbors, whether right or wrong. Sturz. Do not judge thy neighbor till thou hast stood in his place. Hillel. What you would have your neighbor be to you, be ye to him. Seactus. Do not to your neighbor what you would take as ill from him. Pittachts. A bad neighbor is a great misfortune as a good one is a blessing. Hesioſl. The envy of a bad neighbor is worse than the sting of a Serpent, F. Foscari. He that prays harm for his neighbor, begs a curse upon himself. T. James. The love of neighbors is the strongest pillar to support the commonwealth. Pericles. It concerns us materially, that our neighbors should be as wise as ourselves. Zimmerman. Whatsoever duties we perform in kindness to- ward our neighbors, we perform unto God. W. Lenthall. Neighbors are those in whom we find toward us the greatest bonds of charity, and not them that live near about us. Thomas Morton. A kind neighbor is not one who does half a dozen great favors in as many years ; but the doer of lit- tle every-day kindnesses. M. W. Jacobws. The ill will of a single neighbor is an immense drawback upon the happiness of life, and therefore their good will cannot be purchased too dear. T. Jefferson. It would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor. Quintilian. NEIGHBOR. We often become injurious to our neighbors, kindred, or friends, and we bring sin and misery upon ourselves ; for we are accountable to God, our judge, for every part of our irregular and mis- taken conduct. I. Watts. This wholly affection of the heart causeth us to delight in God for His goodness sake, and in our neighbor for God's sake. This is Christian love ; a fruit and sign of a justified person : but it is not our justice before God. Mrs. Jane C. Simpson. We should learn to be careful of offending our neighbors, when in so slight a cause such great results may originate ; he who causes his neighbor to blush through an insult, should be compared to the one who sheds blood. H. Polano. Every man is my neighbor, who although he hath dome me some wrong, or hurt me by any manner of way, yet notwithstanding, he hath not put off the nature of man, or ceased to be flesh and blood, and the creature of God most like unto myself. Lºwther. It is well not to know one's neighbors ; but it is ill not to observe them. Friends and associates are chosen in a great town upon higher grounds than the mere accident of the position of a house ; and if there be no perfectly distinct reason for a personal acquaintance, it is best not to know so much as the names of those persons who live within sight of one's windows. Dickens. Our love, if it be without hypocrisy, doth com- municate itself unto God in things in which He will be loved of us ; namely, in the person of our neighbor, and especially of the poor. For God will have our neighbor in respect of love to be in His room and stead : and in the love of our neighbor with whom we converse will He be loved of us. Hence it is that St. Paul saith, “That the love of our neighbor is the fulfilling of the whole law.” W. Perkims. INERVOUSINESS. To the nervous man the smallest shadow excites alarm. Ovid. Those whose nervous system is well developed, have modesty and dignity united. Dr. Poºter. In the treatment of nervous complaints, he is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. Dr. J. Wolcott. The nervous structure of man is so delicate, that the damage to a single fibre destroys the unity of the whole. Andrew Comstock. A nervous man is not unlike a candle in a hot candlestick, which burns off at One end and melts down at the other. H. W. Beecher. Brave men as well as cowards are subject to nervous agitation ; with this difference, that the one sinks under it, like the vine under the hailstorm, and the other collects his energies to shake it off. Sir W. Scott. The nervous system is like a grand orchestra, in which One instrument alone out of time Or tune, disturbs the harmony of the rest, and the finest musical composition in the world is entirely spoiled by its discord. N. L. Zinzendorf. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7 ſo A. S. 619 NEUTRALITY. Neutrality is selfishness. Margaret Coace. A person may be impartial without being neu- tral. Pope. Be independent in everything ; be neutral in nothing. M. Walsh. Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. Rosswth. It is policy for a nation to be neutral when other mations are at war. N. Webster. A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both, as his honest interest leads him. |W. Penn. The heart cannot possibly remain neutral, but takes part one way or the other. Shaftesbury. Men who remain neutral in times of public dan- ger are enemies to their country. Addison. He who remains neutral in a contest should lose his effects, whichever party wins. Awlus Gelliws. Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror. F. Quarles. Neutrality should never be observed by a nation, when the honor and interest of its people are at stake. James Ellis. The neutrality of a nation may be in the interest of humanity, but it should never be upheld by the sacrifice of honor. Viewssewa;. All pretences to neutrality are justly exploded, Only intending the safety and ease of a few indi- viduals, while the public is embroiled. Swift. Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear So in our actions. Colton. The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred without anything more, from the obliga- tion which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to main- tain inviolate the relations of peace and amity toward other nations. Washington. There is in some a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us ; it must indeed be granted that these men can only nega- tively offend ; but then it should also be remem- bered that they cannot positively please. Greville. Neutrality in the wars of others is praiseworthy, and enables you to escape many troubles and ex- penses, when your forces are not so weak that you need dread the victory of either of the parties; be- cause then it brings you safety, and very often by their exhaustion, the opportunity of increasing your dominions. Gwicciardini. Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial ; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an un- just cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself. R. Hall. NEWS. - News benefiteth the world. D. R. Wilde. News is the manna of a day. M. Green. Bad news always comes too soon. Rist. Good news walks ; bad news flies. Guevari. The news is the truth, and the truth is profitable to all men. M. Halsted. News is like fish, it should be made use of before it becomes stale. Annie E. Lancaster. It is seldom safe to repeat news when our ene- mies are auditors. Sallust. . A piece of news loses its flavor when it hath been an hour in the air. Steele. By the news of a country we can view the genius and morals of its inhabitants. Goldsmith. Bad news always travels faster than good news; it suits the public taste better. La Fontaine. When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself. Zimmerman. The hasty divulgers of news, often give them- selves the trouble of contradicting it. Fielding. A newsmonger, an eaves-dropper, and a slan- derer, are the three great plagues of large cities, and the Scourge of small villages, J. Bartlett. News should be given with careful attention as to its accuracy, and an equal careful avoidance of indecent details, and attacks on private character, and intrusions into private life. W. C. Bryant. Do not awake me when you have any good news to communicate ; with that there is no hur- ry ; but when you bring bad news, rouse me in- stantly, for then there is not a moment to be lost. Napoleon I. Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the great- est part of what thou believest to be the least part of what is true. Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies will not easily be excluded. F. Quarles. News is an impalpable thing—an airy abstrac- tion ; to make it a ponderable, merchantable com- modity, somebody has to collect it, condense it, and clothe it in language ; and its quality depends upon the character of the men employed in doing this. E. L. Godkin. News differs in quality ; there is news of fact and news of opinion, news of incident and of event, and news of policies and of the administration of public affairs, news of men and of personal char- acter, and news of society, and of SOcial move- ments and life. S. Bowles. A newsmonger is a retailer of rumor, that takes up upon trust, and sells as cheap as he buys. He deals in a commodity that will not keep ; for if it be not fresh, it lies upon his hands, and will yield nothing. He tells news, as men do money, with his fingers; for he assures them it comes from very good hands. The whole business of his life is like that of a spaniel, to fetch and carry news. Butler. 620 JD A Y'S CO Z Z. A C O AV. INEWSPAPER. Newspapers are the world's mirrors. James Ellis. The primal object of the newspaper is to give the news. S. Bowles. Even the correspondent of a newspaper has oc- casional scruples. J. Russell Young. A daily newspaper should be an accurate reflec- tion of the world as it is. H. J. Raymond. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. Napoleon I. Newspapers which undertake to lead public sen- timent generally fall into a ditch. D. G. Croly. I have an especial admiration for a truly and thoroughly independent newspaper. M. Halsted. There is more information to be got in an Ordin- ary three cent newspaper than in a dozen lec- tureS. C. F. Browne. The newspaper is the portrait of our imperfec- tions, as well as the chronicler of our advance- ment. J. Hamilton. Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature —there will be nothing else published but news- papers. Lamartime. An editor who goes through life without having started a daily newspaper, misses much valuable experience. J. M. Bailey. Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit, or what is enacted in Congress. - W. Phillips. The careful reader of a few good newspapers can learn more in a year than most scholars do in their great libraries. F. B. Samborn. The legal responsibility of newspapers is a re- ality, but their moral responsibility is, after all, greater and more important. C. A. Dana. The newspaper is typical of the community in which it is encouraged and circulates ; it tells its character, as well as its condition. Thackeray. The newspaper is the map whereon are traced out tendencies and destinies ; the chart to direct the traveller and the settler to safe and pleasant harborage. Edmund Yates. The office of a newspaper is first to give the his- tory of its time, and afterward to deduce such theories or truths from it as will be of universal application. H. Greely. Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or news- papers without a government, I should not hesi- tate to prefer the latter. Thomas Jefferson. The newspaper should become a fountain of truth and moral influence, and should take its stand upon some high and good principle, and assert it boldly in the face of all opposition. P. Godwin. The result of every newspaper enterprise de- pends upon the character of the man who engages in it, his capacity to discern correctly and to adapt his paper to the wants and needs of the audience it is meant to serve. H. Watterson. NEWSPAPER. If the newspaper is the school of the people, and if upon popular education and intelligence the suc- cess and prosperity of popular government depend, there is no function in society which requires more conscience, as well as ability. G. W. Curtis. There is but one grand distinction between jour- mals ; some are newspapers, Some are Organs. An organ is simply a daily pamphlet published in the interest of Some party, or persons, or some agita- tion. The news is the truth for a newspaper ; its contents are a transcript of facts, a simple record of daily actualities. J. G. Bennett, Jr. Every great newspaper represents an intellec- tual, a moral, and a material growth ; the accre- tion of successful efforts from year to year until it has become an institution and a power ; it is the voice of the power that ten, twenty, or thirty years of honest dealing with the public, and just discus- sion of current questions have given. W. Reid. A newspaper is the history of the world for one day—it is the history of that world in which we live ; and with it we are consequently more con- cerned than with those which have passed away, and exist only in remembrance ; though, to check us in our too fond love of it, we may consider like- wise, that the present will soon be floating fancies or fashions. G. Horne. A complete newspaper should be a chronicle of the news of the day, local, commercial, general, political, legal, literary, and artistic, accompanied by editorial comments, discussion, and criticism, with opportunity for the public to communicate their views through its reading columns, and their business wants and requirements, through its ad- vertising columns. H. White. Few persons who peruse the morning papers, at the breakfast table, winter and summer, in sun- shine and storm, think of the amount of capital invested, the labor involved, and the care and anx– iety incident to the preparation of the sheet which is so regularly served at all seasons of the year. Even in the newspaper world, surrounded as we are by all the appliances of business, we sometimes ignore that which makes the daily journal a suc- cess, and overlook the steady progress made and still making in improving the machinery and gen- eral organization of a first class newspaper estab- lishment. George W. Childs. INICENAME. A nickname lasts forever. Zimmerman. Many a man has been undone by a ridiculous nickname. J. H. Moore. Give not wantonly a dishonorable nickname to thy neighbor, Rabbi Eliazar. A nickname is the heaviest stone the devil can throw at a man. S. Butler. Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridicu- lous are the most adhesive. Haliburton. There are many people who would give all their wealth to be dispossessed of the nicknames they have, or to stamp some new imprimatur upon them. Actom. P & O S E o 0 o 7' 4 7/ o A. S. 621 NIGHT. NOBILITY. Night is virtue's friend. E. Yowng. Noblest minds are easiest bent. Homer. The night is no man's friend. Baron Grimſºn. Night is a masquerade of day. J. Montgomery. Night is the clever man's day. Al-Barmaki. Night is the gala-day of lovers. Yemon. Night is the astronomer's daytime. Belws. Night is the sunshine of a contented mind. Hws. Night followeth day, as a shadow followeth a body. Aristotle. How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night ! Longfellow. He who makes an attack in the night, steals a victory. Aleoconder the Great. Night is the benefit of nature, and made for man's rest. Livy. No night is so dark that our Father's smile can- not cheer it. Mrs. S. H. De Kroyft. Night or darkness is the time of rest and peace after labors. W. Molymewa. Were it not for the black of night, the dawn would not rise. Shedad. Night is the cloak to cover sin, and the armor of the unjust man. Theophrastws. As night succeeds the day, so do joy and grief succeed each other. Sophocles. The night appears long to those who are over- whelmed with sorrow and grief. Apollodorus. Night comes, that another morning, with all its glory and freshness, may dawn upon the earth. Fanny Fern. In the silent night, weary mortals lull to rest their cares, and their hearts become forgetful of toil. Virgil. Night is the astronomer's accepted time ; he goes to his delightful labors when the busy world goes to its rest. - E. Everett. Night bringeth sleep, and spreadeth itself over the crowds of weary men, and giveth rest to the whole earth. Apollonius Rhodius. The night is made for tenderness; so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music ; and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs, and on the lip made holy. . N. P. Willis. Night steals on ; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minster's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves. Percival. \ The contemplation of night should lead to elevat- ing, rather than depressing, ideas. Who can fix his mind on transitory and earthly things, in pre- sence of those glittering myriads of worlds; and who can dread death or solitude in the midst of this brilliant, animated universe ? Richter. At-Taniikhi. True nobility should be without a stain. Lord Gormanston. The noble are always generous. Nobility is often plagued by the low-born. Yahya-Aktham. The man that is noble is only an image of God. Tieck. It is virtue, not ancestry, that makes men truly noble. Ehmperor Claudiws. Nobility without virtue is a fine setting without a gem. Jane Porter. To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. Goethe. Nobility resideth not in the soul, nor is there true honor except in virtue. R. Dodsley. True nobility scorns to trample upon a worm, Or sneak to an emperor. Saadi. If a man be endued with a generous mind, that is the best kind of nobility. Plato. Noble blood is an accident of fortune: noble actions characterize the great. Goldovi. A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate. Sir P. Sidney. Nature makes all the noblemen ; wealth, educa- tion, or pedigree, never made one yet. Shaw. He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being. Sir E. Brydges. What is highest and noblest in man conceals it- self, and is without use for the practical world. Richter. To come of noble parentage, and not to be en- dowed with noble qualities, is rather a defamation than a glory. W. Conter. Nobility does not consist in magnificence of dress or eminence of rank. Art thou virtuous 2 Thou art sufficiently noble. Cao-Tsow. Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction ; to these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Miss Sedgwick. Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current directly into the great Pacific ocean of time ; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source than at its termination. Colton. Noble persons have the best capacities; for whether they give themselves to goodness or un- graciousness, they do in either excel, as none of the common sort of people can come anything nigh them. Cicero. Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil or- der; it is the Corinthian capital of polished society; it is indeed one sign of a liberal and benevolent mind to incline to it with some sort of partial pro- pensity. Burke, 622 A) A Y'.S C O / / A C O AV. INOBILITY. INOBODY. Nobly born, and honoring the throne of modesty, hating vaunting language—such a one is wont to be slow at base deeds, and no coward. AEschylus. Whoever wishes to perform something noble, if he would produce some great work, collects quietly and perseveringly the mightiest powers into the smallest Space. Schillen'. Nobility does not consist in dignity and ancient lineage, nor great revenues, lands, or possessions : but in wisdom, knowledge, and virtue, which in man is true nobility, and this mobility bringeth man to dignity. Amacharsis. Nobility and worth are to be found only among the few, but their opposite annong the many ; for there is not one man of merit and high spirit in a hundred, while there are many destitute of both to be found everywhere. Aristotle. Let states that aim at greatness take heed how their nobility and gentry do multiply too fast : for that maketh the common subject grow to be a pea- sant and base swain, driven out of heart, and in effect but a gentleman's laborer. Lord Bacom. Those grades of rank, which are announced by the voice of nature and the precept of God, demand our reverence ; they constitute orders of nobility, even in a republic ; and those who pay them due honor, reflect honor upon themselves. Mrs. Sigowrmey. Nature's noblemen are everywhere—in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich ând poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman. N. P. Willis. The advantage of noble birth is this, that it en- ables a man at the age of eighteen or twenty to claim the honors of the state with as much confi- dence as another might do at fifty, after a life-time of meritorious labor ; here then are thirty years gained without exertion. Pascal. There is no outward mark to note the noble, for the inward qualities of the man are never clearly to be distinguished. I have often seen a man of no worth spring from a noble sire, and worthy chil- dren arise from vile parents, meanness grovelling in the rich man's mind and generous feelings in the poor. Ewripides. A gentleman who leads a base life is a monster in nature ; virtue is the first title of nobility. I pay less attention to the name which a man signs, than to the way in which he acts; and I would feel more respect for the son of a street porter if he be an honest man, than for the Son of a monarch who lives a vicious life. Molière. There appear from time to time on the earth men of rare abilities, noble natures, who are noted for their virtues, and whose eminent qualities throw a halo around them ; like those extraordi- nary stars of the origin of which we are ignorant, and of which we know still less what they become after they have vanished from our eyes, they have neither ancestors nor descendants; they them- Selves constitute their whole race. Bruyère. Nobody is a very mysterious person. T. Hood.. A nobody is just the person to find fault with everybody. E. P. Day. Nobody does all the mischief, and nobody is al- ways to blame. W. L. Parsons. There are plenty of nobodies in the world; we stumble over them at every step. T. Dwight, Jr. Who is nobody ? The man who lives for self, who has no affection for his own kin, and who lives a living lie and knows it. James Ellis. It is difficult for the mind to span the career of nobody : the sphere of action opened to this won- derful person so enlarges every day that the limi. ted faculties of anybody are too weak to compass it. Dickens. NOISE. Empty casks make the most noise. Am.07. Noise is not the strength of machinery. M. Macdonald. A small coin in a large jar makes a big noise. Talmud. A wicked conscience is frightened at the least noise. Stwºrm. It is the worst wheel of the wagon that makes the most noise. AEsop. We whose eyes are closed have but two divisions of time—a night of noise and one of quiet. Mrs. S. H. De Kroyft. There is many an irksome noise listened to as music—a proud, sweet satire on the meanness of our lives. Thorea'w. When we only wish to make a noise in the world, the most prudent and judicious conduct is not the most wise. Fontenvelle. The noisy patriot, and the violent enthusiast in religion, seldom have any real love for their country or their God. J. Bartlett. It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow- necked bottles—the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. Pope. INONSENSE. Nonsense is an attribute of all men. Le Famw. Nonsense bids fair to blow unpuffed sense wholly out of the field. Colton. The privilege of talking and publishing nonsense is necessary in a free state; but the more sparingly we make use of it the better. S. T. Coleridge. There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of School divinity. Addison. Nonsense is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar ad- vantage over all other writings, that it is incapa- ble of being answered or contradicted. W. Yule. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 623 INOSE. INOTORIETY. A handsome nose is always admired. De Moy. The man of notoriety assumes the appearance of - virtue. Confucius. A long nose never spoiled a pretty face. Delille. Nothing is more rare than a perfectly formed In OSé. Dr. Porter. It is natural for the nose to desire fragrant odors. Mencius. He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it. R. Dodsley. We are not offended with a dog for having a better nose than his master. Collier. The most beautiful form of nose in woman is the Greek ; it is essentially a feminine nose, and it is in its higher indications that women generally excel. Edem Warwick. We protest against a nose that looks as if in- tended to be thrust into everybody else's business, Or to be stuck up in scorn, or to blossom with dissi- pations, or to Snuff at the cause of virtue. Talmage. INOTHING. Nothing can be made of nothing. Sir J. Reynolds. Nothing is what the world stands on. Premtice. What costs nothing is worth nothing. Halm. To do nothing is the happiness of the miserable. Publius Syrus. We know nothing ; we do not even know that we know nothing. Pyrrho. God reserved for Himself the power of making something out of nothing. Bathori. A hundred sentences might be written to express multiplication of nothings. Pope. All things come from nothing, and all things at last will return to nothing. Buddha. Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. Rist, Anything cannot spring from nothing, nor can anything be charged to nothing. Epicurus. Those who have done nothing in the world are the very ones who imagine they can do everything. Miss Rossini M. Zornlin. P --> Positively, the best thing a man can have to do is nothing, and next to that, perhaps, good works. C. Lamb. If things come forth from nothing, every kind of thing might be produced from all things ; no- thing would require seed. Lucretius. There is a great deal in nothing when it is ap- plied to humanity, if we consider that the whole human family now existing will pass into nothing- IlêSS. James Ellis. When they say nothing from nothing, they must understand it as excluding all causes. In which sense it is most evidently true ; being equivalent to this proposition, that nothing can make itself, or, nothing cannot bring its mo-Self out of nonen- tity into something. J. Bentley. A motorious character should be universally shunned. G. Crabb. Those that seek notoriety in evil pursuits shall sink in vanity. Crates. We should rather endeavor to be notably distin- guished for our virtues, than to be notorious for Our vices. James Ellis. Men often mistake motoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices, or follies than not be noticed at all. T. James. Notoriety can be obtained in several ways, but not one of its paths leads to distinction ; the paths to notoriety are vicious, but the way to distinction is only found through the gate of virtue. J. Hamilton. NOVELTY. There is pleasure in novelty. . Abwlaimá. Man is by nature fond of novelty. Pliny, Elder. Any novelty is greedily swallowed. W. Allston. Without novelty there is no progress. Dr. Sault. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. Sowth. Novelty is the foundation of the love of know- ledge. Sydney Smith. All wonder is but the effect of novelty upon ig- In OI’8.In Cé. Dr. Johnsom. We must have novelty, were there to be no more in the world. La Fontaine. The mass of men are fond of novelty in matters of recreation. R. Whately. Men wish for novelty, and all things considered, they are not wrong. Prof. Vinet. Those things which engage us merely by their novelty cannot attach us for any length of time. Burke. It is not old and early impressions only that de- ceive us ; the charms of novelty have the same power, Pascal. Novelty in everything is most pleasing ; and gratitude is refused to a kindness which is slow in coming. Ovid. Novelty makes a more forcible impression on the mind, than can be made by the representation of what we have often seen before. Sir J. Reynolds. In science, as in common life, we frequently see that a novelty in system or in practice, cannot be duly appreciated till time has sobered the enthu- siasm of its advocates. Mawd. Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand ; the most valuable things if they have for a long while appeared among us, do not make any impression as they are good, but give us a dis- taste as they are old ; but when the influence of this fantasical humor is over, the same men or things will come to be admitted again by a happy return of our good taste. W. M. Thackeray. A) A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. INOVELS. The novelist rears castles in the air. Mansfield. Habitual novel reading cannot but be injurious to the human mind. S. T. Coleridge. Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after hap- piness that never existed. Goldsmith. Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin. Zimmel’man). As a general rule, novels weaken the passive emotions, without strengthening the active princi- ple. S. Bowles. Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are “sermons in stones,” in healthy books, and “good in everything.” Colton. A novelist of genius, who has closely observed human nature, is able to assume mentally the characteristics of the leading varieties of mankind. Dickens. The habit of novel reading must inevitably ener- vate manhood, and dwarf the mind, and give a disrelish for the great, grand, and true in the world of thought. R. Roberts. Most novels are either the flimsy productions of those who write for bread; or the offspring of vanity in the idle and illiterate ; or poor imitations of some few which are really good. R. G. Parken'. The very name of novel was held in horror among religious people. In decent families, which did not profess extraordinary sanctity, there was a strong feeling against all such works. Macaulay. I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero ; a wicked monster, his opposite ; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. W. M. Thackeray. Novels, which string a number of incidents, and a few commonplace pasteboard characters, around a love-story, teaching people to fancy that the main business of life is to make love and to be made love to, and that when it is made, all is over, are almost purely mischievous. J. C. Hare. A novel aspires to embrace most of the interests or the passions that agitate mankind—to gener- alize, as it were, the details of life that come home . to us all ; hence a novelist should be a comfortable, garrulous, communicative, gossiping fortune-tel- ler; not a grim, laconical, oracular sibyl. Bulwer. Girls learn from novels to think coarsely and boldly about lovers and marrying ; their early modesty is effaced by the craving for admiration ; their warm affections are silenced by the desire for selfish triumph : they lose the fresh and honest feelings of youth while they are yet scarcely de- veloped. Mrs. C. J. Newby. Writers of novels and romances in general bring a double loss on their readers; they rob them both of their time and money—representing men, man- 11ers, and things, that never have been, nor are likely to be ; either confounding or perverting his- tory and truth, inflating the mind, or committing violence upon the understanding. Lady Montague. INUIS ANCE. A nuisance is a public evil. 4. Comstock. Nuisances are as necessary to be swept away, as dirt out of the street. J. Kettlewell. The liar is accounted a pest and a nuisance ; a person marked out for scorn. R. South. That which in one century is right and neces- Sary, in another becomes an intolerable nuisance. Sir Henry Halford. A common nuisance to society, like an obstruc- tion to public progress, should be swept away by the voice of public opinion. James Ellis. A wise man who does not assist with his coun- Sels, a rich man with his charity, and a poor man with his labor, are perfect nuisances in a common- wealth. Swift. NUIN. A pure nun is an enemy to nature. Eugene Sue. The nun bids farewell to love and liberty. Bomar. A nun, like a suicide, is a reproach to Christi- anity. G. H. Calvert. A nun is a flower worked in black crape—a silver crest on a funeral pile. Rev. J. Hannay. The objection to a nunnery is—that those who change their mind cannot change their situation. Sydney Smith. Among nuns, as among monks, there are vari- ous orders ; some abandoming themselves entirely to contemplation and spiritual exercises, but many others to the more active duties of private and public charity. J. Cantvier. However well nunneries might be disposed to be when viewed in theory, in fact they are unnatural and impious. It was surely far from the intention of Divine Providence, to seclude youth and beauty in a cloister, or to deny them the innocent enjoy- ment of their years and sex. C. Buck. NUPTIALS. The nuptial vow is easily spoken. J. G. Saace. The nuptial tie should be encircled with the band of mutual faith. Lord Stowell. The nuptial ceremony is an institution of earth, even though marriages are made in heaven. Lyère. Fortune rules in nuptials; for some I see to be a source of joy to mortals, others turn out badly. Ewripides. People very seldom court in their every-day clothes, but they must put thern on after their nup- tials. L. C. Judson. The history of the nuptual joys and scuffles of matrimony, would be curious and not uninstruc- tive ; it would reveal to us how much there is to enjoy and endure. Acton. If it does not fall to our lot to participate in the delights of nuptial joys, we should remember that there is great satisfaction and many positive ad- vantages in being alone. We may win a heart, but we may not find happiness. James Ellis. - º- º º º º º --- E- - º º º º º - * º * º º º - º º - º - º º º BQ4 º º º º ---------------- º º - Nº. º º º º - º º º . º º º º ºº º --- º º & º y § *º MSS. L. ELIZA. COOK. E. LANDON. LADY BLESSINGTON, HANNAH MORE. MRS. AMELLA. OPLE. FANNY FERN. LADY MONTAG.U. A R O S A. O' U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. O. OAK. Venerate the sacred oak. Drwis. A fine oak is one of the most picturesque of all trees, J. C. Lowdon. The Oak has been for centuries the bulwark of England's greatmeSS. Arbuthnot. A lofty oak is an agreeable object that invari- ably produces a pleasant emotion. Kames. The oak is the emblem of honor ; its leaves are Often used to form a wreath for the victor's brow. James Ellis. The oak is confessedly the most picturesque tree in itself, and the most accommodating in composi- tion. W. Gilpin. The oak that now spreadeth its branches toward the heavens, was once but an acorn in the bowels of the earth. R. Dodsley. They stood like oaks that raise their high heads on the mountain side, which many a day have borne the wind and rain, firm rifted by their strong, far- extending roots. Homer. A miserable two-foot oak is like a miserable two- foot Christian | I turn from it to think of God's oak in the open pasture, a hundred feet high, wide- boughed, and braving the storm. H. W. Beecher. No tree beareth so many bastard fruits as the oak ; for besides the acorns, it beareth galls, Oak apples, oak nuts, and oak berries, proving that there is nothing noble on earth but what contains some corruption. Lord Bacom. The Arcadians believe the oak to have been the first created of all trees ; and when we consider its great and surpassing utility and beauty, we are fully disposed to concede it the first rank among the denizens of the forest. A. J. Downing. The sturdy oak, accustomed to the storms of a hundred winters, despises the fury of the winds ; and if it fall at last to the ground, it spreads its sail on the waves, and impelled by that very wind, goes stemming through the deep. Metastasio. The slow growing oak affords the hardest and strongest wood, which the carpenter, joiner, and carver work into a variety of useful forms, so durable as to seem to defy time ; and the industry of man has taught him to polish, shape, turn, carve, and form it into a multitude of things elegant and solid. Sturm. The form of the oak tree is the true embodiment of nobility, for when grown fairly and naturally it is a perfect emblem of its qualities, so firm set, so massive, and strong ; you may always know it instantly, whether as a wintry skeleton form, bare, and gnarled, and angular, or in its summer garb of rich and finely massed foliage, always the mon- arch of the woods. Miss Henrietta Dumont. OATH. Refrain from an oath. Periander. Let no oath pass thy lips. Rabbi Eliezer. He that imposes an oath makes it. S. Butler. He who sells his oath forfeits heaven. Kutaiba. Oaths do not only require justice, but judgment. J. Hall. Let no one violate what is ratified by oath by wanton violence. Homer. Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, very fre- quently produce guilt. Dr. Johnson. The wise ought not to trust the oaths of men, but always their deeds. Alexis. Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love. Nimon de l'Encloš. An oath is a persuasion or calling of God to wit- ness that our assertions are true. Evagorets, Oaths respect either the past or the future, that is, are either assertory or promissory. F. Waylamº. Where faith is taken from oath, justice is ruine iſ love wounded, and society confounds. Niphºws. Oaths are not the cause why a man is believed, but the character of the man is the cause why the oath is believed. AEschylus. Oaths are required on SO many occasions, and so carelessly administered, as to have lost almost all their use and efficacy. R. Price. If men's violated oaths were turned into devils, they might storm heaven itself, and lead away the angels of light as prisoners. Schiller. He who first devised the oath of abjuration, pro- fligately boasted that he had framed a test which should “damn one-half of the nation, and starve the other.” Chatfield. An oath ! why, it is the traffic of the soul, it is law within a man ; the seal of faith, the bond of every conscience ; unto whom we set our thoughts like hands. T. Decker. Whoever considers the number of absurd and ri- diculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into any Society . or profession whatever, will be less surprised to find prevarication still prevailing, where perjury has led the way. Abbe Raymal. An honest man's word is as good as his oath ; and so is a rogue's too ; for he that will cheat and lie, why should he scruple to forswear himself? Is the latter more criminal than either of the former ? An honest man needs no oath to oblige him ; and a rogue only deceives you the more certainly by it, because you think you have tied him up, and he is sure you have not. S. Croocall. 40 626 JD A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. OBEDIENCE. OBEDIENCE. - Teach thy son obedience. St. Iremoews. He praiseth God best that serveth and obeyeth g * — Him most ; the life of thankfulness consists in the Obedience is a womanly virtue. Damo. thankfulness of the life. W. Burkitt. Obedience is a disciple's first duty. I. Loyala. Obedience is not truly performed by the body of º e * him whose heart is dissatisfied ; the shell without Obedience is the mother of success. AEschylus. a kermal is not fit for store. Saadi. I hourly learn a doctrine of *... O620.7°62 True obedience to God is the obedience of faith --- } and good works; that is, he is truly obedient to Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love. God who trusts Him and does what He commands. Aristotle. - M. Luther. The obedience of the heart is the heart of Obe- Obedience acts upon the mind like an inspira- dience. T. Adams. tion ; the very airs of heaven play around the Treason hath no place where obedience holds principality. Plato. When you obey your superiors, you instruct your inferiors. R. Dodsley. Nothing can be love to God which does not shape itself into obedience. F. W. Robertson. By nature some command and Some obey, that all may enjoy safety. Aristotle. A pacified conscience and loving heart is the best teacher of all obedience. J. H. Evans. The virtue of Paganism was strength ; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. J. C. Hare. Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt. T. Fuller. It is the duty of children to obey their parents ; for wives to obey their husbands. Zoroaster. Obedience, which is a proof of love, must be cheer- ful, for love obeyeth with delight. J. R. Doolittle. To obey God in some things of religion, and not in others, shows an unsound heart. J. T. Watson. No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience. H. Giles. A man sincerely obedient will not pick and choose what commands to obey, and what to reject. * T. Brooks. He who obeys with modesty, appears worthy of some day or other being allowed to command. Cicero. Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice. Metastasio. Obedience is the soul resting on the bosom of God—the law of harmony—the voice of God to a moral mind. T. Binney. Obedience to the divine law is the surest mode for securing every species of happiness attainable in this state of existence. C. E. Beecher. obedience is the child of faith : the happy life, that height of hope, the knowledge of all good ; this is the pleasure of obedience. Tupper. Filial obedience is the obeying of my father, be- cause he is my father ; and it is filial obedience, only in so far as it proceeds from this motive. F. Wayland. senses of One whose heart is fresh from communion with its God. A. S. Roe. Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the laws of Society, and the laws of nature and of na- ture's God, should commence at the cradle, and end only at the tomb. H. Ballow. A blind obedience in some cases doth well ; but it doth far better when it is led with the eyes of discretion ; otherwise we may more offend in plea- sing than in disobeying. J. Hall. The farmer must obey God's natural laws of the seasons, if he would win a harvest ; and we must all obey God's spiritual laws if we would reap hap- piness here and hereafter. J. Foster. To say a blind custom of obedience should be a surer obligation than duty taught and understood, is to say a blind man may tread surer with a guide, than a seeing man with a light. Lord Bacon. Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience ; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obe- dience neither procrastinates nor questions. F. Quarles. If holy obedience be made the condition of the promise, of pardon and life, as well as faith, as we see it is, then none but an obedient faith can be a performance of the condition of the promise. Bishop Brownrigg. It is foolish to strive with what we cannot avoid ; we are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty; he who does this shall be free, safe, and quiet ; all his actions shall succeed to his wishes. Seneca. If obedience to the will of God be necessary to happiness, and knowledge of His will necessary to obedience, I know not how he that withholds this knowledge, or delays it, can be said to love his neighbor as himself. Dr. Johnson. Some persons think of obedience as if it were no- thing else than slavery and servitude ; and so it is, if obedience be constrained. The man who obeys by compulsion and through fear, wears a chain that must gall and fret his spirit. G. S. Bowes. One very common error misleads the opinion of mankind, that universally, authority is pleasant, submission painful. In the general course of hu- man affairs, the very reverse of this is nearer to the truth ; command is anxiety ; obedience is ease. W. Paley. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 627 OBEDIENCE. Obedience is our universal duty and destiny, wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that “would,” in this world of ours, is a mere zero to “should,” and for the most part as the smallest of fractions even to “shall.” T. Carlyle. It is respectful obedience arising from fore- thought, on which the merit and success of men depend ; but it sometimes happens, in an incompre- hensible way, that a cloud of forgetfulness comes over the mind, and causes the right way of doing things to be unattended to, and to pass from the memory. Pindarus. Obedience is due to parents, whose admonitions are always to their children's good. How often do they meet with disasters through not attending to their salutary advice. Many a son, for want of being dutiful, has become a disgrace to his parents; and many a daughter, through inattention to their precepts, has brought their gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. S. Croacoll. The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience ; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to in- quire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging. a heavenly superior and benefactor; from obe- dience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion. Monfaigme. OBJECT. Great objects form great minds. R. W. Emerson. Life is valueless without an object. A. Layard. If our aim in life be a true one, we are sure to reach the object. James Ellis. To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it. Colton. An object in possession seldom retains the same charms which it had when it was longed for. Pliny the Younger. All our knowledge of objects is a knowledge of ideas ; objects and ideas are the same ; ergo, no- thing exists but what is perceived. Berkeley. He who has a noble object in view, aims at a high mark and a glorious end ; and claims from men a loftier and rarer success than praises or re- wards. Bruyère. However accurately objects may be discrimin- ated, the definition of them may be rendered in- accurate by the inaccuracy of the conditions in which they are observed. J. Madison. Objects have absolutely no worth or value in themselves; they derive their worth merely from their passion ; if that be strong, steady, and suc- cessful, the person is happy. Hume. There cannot be a more glorious object in all creation than a human being, replete with bene- volence, meditating in what manner he might ren- der himself most acceptable to his Creator, by doing most good to His creatures. Fielding. OBLIGATION. Show readiness to oblige. Periander. Obligations cannot exist among friends. Aiken. To accept an obligation is to sell one's liberty. Publius Syrws. Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is ever hateful. Hobbes. A conscientious man never loses sight of his ob- ligations. G. Crabb. We are solemnly obliged to the children of those who have loved us. Achilles Poincelot. An extraordinary haste to discharge an obliga- tion is a sort of ingratitude. R. Zotti. Where there are means there is an obligation to apply them to beneficial ends. Bovee. It is a Species of agreeable servitude, to be under an obligation to those we esteem. Qween Christina. To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a hap- piness, and can be no disparagement. Charrom. Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to. Otway. The moment you make a man feel the weight of an obligation, he will become your enemy. J. Bartlett. There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty. W. R. Alger. To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. W. G. Simms. We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged, than those who have obliged us. Rochefoucauld. We must oblige everybody as much as we can : we have often need of the assistance of those infe- rior to ourselves. La Fontaine. Trifling obligations are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed, but important ones are most rarely remembered. Ruffini. Every citizen is under an obligation to obey the laws of the state. Moral obligation binds men without promise or contract. N. Webster. It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an insupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel. S. Bailey. No man can be under an obligation to believe any thing, who hath not sufficient means whereby he may be assured that such a thing is true. Tillotson. It is a secret, well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies. Fielding. What obligation do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends 3 Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought to ask himself often. Lavater. 628 A) A Y’,S CO / / A C O AV. OBLIGATION. The millions of mankind, as One vast fraternity, should feel obligated by a sense of duty and the impulse of affection, to realize the equal rights, and to subserve their best interests of each other. A. M. Prowdfit. Some pretend want of power to make a compe- tent return ; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received One. Seneca. Religious obligations took hold of us when we were born. They waited for us as the air did ; they have their sources back of volition, back of consciousness, just as attraction has. Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations. H. W. Beecher. Obligations have a peculiar significance in the world we live in ; if we place ourselves under an obligation, or other people are under an obligation to us, we are equally in danger of making enemies; in the world's estimation, the very word obligation has an odious Sound. James Ellis. There are some men who confer an obligation So clumsily, that they please us less by the measure, than they disgust us by the manner of a kindness; as puzzling to our feelings, as the politeness of One, who, if we had dropped our handkerchief, should present it unto us with a pair of tongs. Colton, It is by each soldier feeling his obligation in do- ing his part, that the army conquers ; it is by each bee doing its work that the hive is stored with honey ; it is by each insect putting forth all its might, that the coral reef becomes an island, and cities rise upon the bosom of the mighty main. J. Cwmming. An obligation is as binding between individuals and society, on both parts, and upon Societies and societies, as it is between individuals. There is no more excuse for a society, when it violates its obli- gations to an individual, or for an individual when he violates his obligations to a society, than in any Other case of deliberate falsehood. F. Wayland. Obligation is that by which we are bound to the performance of any action. Rational obligation is that which arises from reason, abstractedly taken, to do or forbear certain actions; authorita- tive obligation is that which arises from the com- mands of a superior, or one who has a right or authority to prescribe rule to others; moral obli- gation is that by which we are bound to perform that which is right, and to avoid that which is wrong. C. Buck. Every one owes especial obligations to the world, not only for the good he receives, but even for the evils which befall him, and the rebuffs and back- handed favors which are his portion of life's patri- mony. There is a natural and indispensable con- fraternity and communism in the world—an asso- ciation of toil and talent, mind and means, more effectual, perhaps, than any others that might be devised, without those powers of attrition and col- lision which rub off the incrustations, and brighten the opacities of human nature. Acton. OBLIVION. Oblivion is the cure of injuries. Publius Syrus. Oblivion should follow true pardon. Gower. For evils incurable oblivion is happiness. Frederick III of Austria. Oblivion is the remedy for those that love. Theocritus. Oblivion is the rule, and fame the exception of humanity. Rivarol. Though we sometimes bury the past in oblivion, yet it is not forgotten. G. Crabb. Oblivion is a second death, which great minds dread more than the first. De Boufflers. Oblivion is not to be hired ; the greatest part must be content to be as though they had not been. Sir T. Browne. There is oblivion in all things, for the time is at hand when thou wilt forget and be forgotten by all. Awrelius. In looking back at the various stages of our life, let us cast into oblivion those parts that have caused us anxiety and grief. James Ellis. Can we wonder that men perish and are forgot- ten when their noblest and most enduring works decay ? Death comes even to monumental struc- tures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious 118, IlléS. Awsonvivºs. Unmerited oblivion may be styled only another name for the ignorance of the many of the virtues and perfections of the few. There are some, no doubt, who are elected, but whose misfortune is, nevertheless, to be neglected. Maria Edgeworth. There are some men who are well known to-day, and are buried in oblivion to-morrow. To what does the posthumous existence amount ? At most it is but a question of one small link in the chain of eternity—it is but the suicide of time—a scroll of fame scribbled upon the sand, to be washed away by the way of oblivion. Chatfield. It is only when we cast into oblivion our sensual delusions, and look to the moral and mental na- ture of man, that our feelings and judgments are chastened and elevated, and finally receive their proper direction, so as to enable us correctly and justly to make up our judgments not by outward manifestations, but by inward excellencies; not by the external adjustments of bodily form, but by the internal perfection, beauty, harmony, and superiority of the soul. Acton. Who has not known the value of oblivion, when- ever some newly past or close-impending evil has flung its giant shadows athwart the morning twi- light of the soul? Who has not felt a vehement desire to retreat into insensibility ; a clinging to unconsciousness: a recoiling from perception ; a sickly aversion from the sun's brightness; a care- less contempt for the great things of the world ; a debility, a lassitude, a strengthlessness of spirit 3 Another day is before us to get through as best we may ; we must go forth to meet our fate ; we have come out of a land of pleasantness and peace, to en- gage in strife, and toil, and warfare. Mme. Pfeiffer. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. OBSCURITY. Virtue is often obscured by envy. James Ellis. Often the greatest talents are buried in obscu- rity. Plawtws. Obscurity in argument is worse than a defect in grammar. W. S. Landor. An obscure life is preferable to One spent in a high station. Seneca. In the dwelling of a writer, let not obscurity be- come a guest. Ibn Munir. The obscurity of a writer is generally in propor- tion to his incapacity. Quintilian. He that is contented with obscurity, if he acquire no fame will suffer no persecution. Colton. Though we are poor, if we are able to serve our country by our talents, obscurity of birth is no obstacle. Thweydides. In all untutored minds—and in some others— there is a tendency to consider everything as pro- found that is obscure. Bovee. Obscurity and innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world. Chamfort. How many people make themselves obscure to appear profound ! The greatest part of abstract terms are shadows that hide a vacuum. Jowbert. There is no defense against reproach but obscu- rity ; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. Addison. No man possesses so commanding a genius as to be able at Once to merge from obscurity, unless some subject present itself and an opportunity when he can display his talents, with a friend to promote his advancement. Pliny the Younger. There are divers things knowable by the bare light of nature, which we are so uneasy to be satis- factorily understood by our imperfect intellects, that let them be delivered in the clearest expres- sions, the notions themselves will yet appear ob- SCULI'ê. R. Boyle. OBSEQUIES. Our obsequies are the penalties of life. J. Ray. The funeral of a virtuous man requires no formal obsequies to increase his fame. J. W. Chadwick. A man's fame is increased as it passes from mouth to mouth after his obsequies. Propertius. The care of the funeral, the place of burial, and the pomp of obsequies, are consolations to the liv- ing, but of no advantage to the dead. Awgustws. Obsequies which are performed over the remains of the great, attract our notice from the pomp and grandeur with which they are conducted. Crabb. We celebrate nobler obsequies to those we love by drying the tears of others, than by shedding Our Own ; and the fairest funeral wreath we can hang on their tomb is not so fair as a fruit-offering of good deeds. Henrietta Lee Palmer. OBSERVATION. Observation is natural. O. S. Fowler, Critical observations must be avoided. J. Clawde. He only is an acute observer who can observe minutely without being observed. Lavater. Quick and unobserved observation is of infinite advantage in life, and is to be acquired with care. - Chesterfield. Perhaps there is no property in which men are more strikingly distinguished from each other than observation. W. Wºrt. A long course of careful observations, conducted for a length of time, brings with it an incredible accuracy of knowledge. Cicero. It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in life. Smiles. By observation men take their first apprehension of things ; for no man can have a fixed judgment unless he is a close observer. James Ellis. Acquire habits of observation ; we live in a world of wonders ; and a thousand objects appeal to our observation, and will repay it. J. Stowghton. Observation may trip now and then without throwing you, for her gait is a walk ; but infer- ence always gallops, and if she stumbles you are gone. O. W. Holmes. Observation widens the sphere of thought, and enables us to examine and judge of things for our- selves, and is a source of beneficial instruction not to be undervalued. R. H. Digby. Outward observances, indispensable as they are, are not religion ; they are its ailment, but not its life; the fuel, but not the flame; the scaffolding, but not the edifice. H. More. Observation made in the cloister or in the desert, will generally be as obscure as the one and as bar- ren as the other ; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over fear- ful of a little dust. Colton. General observations are the jewels of know- ledge, comprehending great store in a little room ; but they are to be made with great care and cau- tion, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss be the greater when our stock comes to a severe Scrutiny. J. Locke. Some go dreaming through the world half asleep, and never get fully awake more than twice during their whole pilgrimage. Your powers of observa- tion were never given you to lie idle. While there are so many objects of interest swarming upon your attention, can you for a moment shut your eyes in careless indifference 2 J. W. Barker. An observant man, in all his intercourse with society and the world, carries a pencil constantly in his hand, and, unperceived, marks on every person and thing the figure expressive of its value, and therefore instantly on meeting that person or thing again knows what kind and degree of atten- tion to give it ; this is to make something of expe- rience. J. Foster. 630 A) A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. OBSERVATION. Observers may be considered as formed of two classes—the gazers and the gapers—of those who look with an intelligent eye upon things around them, and of those who merely stare at them with listless curiosity or indifference; if all life is a schooling, as has been said, then these gapers come into and go out of the college of the world without taking any degrees. Bovee. It is far more difficult to observe correctly than most men imagine ; to behold is not necessarily to observe, and the power of comparing and combin- ing is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools ; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy, which prevails. Humboldt. The honest and just bounds of observation by One person upon another extend no further but to understand him sufficiently, whereby not to give him offense, or whereby to be able to give him faithful counsel, or whereby to stand upon reason- able guard and caution in respect of a man's self ; but to be speculative into another man to the end to know how to work him, or wind him, or govern him, proceedeth from a heart that is double, and cloven, and not entire and ingenuous. Lord Bacom. It is owing to observation that our mind is fur- nished with the first simple and complex ideas; it is this lays the ground-work and foundation of all knowledge, and makes us capable of using any of the other methods for improving the mind ; for if we did not attain a variety of sensible and intel- lectual ideas by the sensations of outward objects, by the consciousness of our own appetites and pas- sions, pleasures and pains, and by inward experi- ence of the actings of our own spirits, it would be impossible either for men or books to teach us any- thing ; it is observation that must give us our first idea of things, as it includes in it sense and con- Sciousness. I. Watts, OBST ACLE}. There is no obstacle which may not be overcome. by patient investigation. Terence. Obstacles to a man of courage are like adverse winds to the mariner, aids if they are used to ad- Vantage. Sir H. Davy. The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping- stone in the pathway of the strong. T. Carlyle. Life is beset with obstacles, and it is the duty of every man to leap over them ; they may be diffi- cult to surmount, but a firm resolve will remove every impediment. James Ellis. The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it ; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which Set Off Virtue. Molićre. Persecute and oppress a man of genius and of merit, it will have the same effect on his mind, as a pressure on a palm leaf ; it would cause it to rise Superior to every obstacle, and make the possessor more estimated, and approved. J. Bartlett. OBSTINACY. Be not obstinate and self-willed. Rabbi Iechiel. Obstinate people are the lawyer's delight. G. P. R. James. An obstimate patient makes a cruel physician. Publius Syrus. Obstinacy ariseth from firmness without learn- ing. Confucius. Obstinacy is unfavorable to the discovery of truth. G. Brown. Obstimacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. Mme. Necker, Obstimacy is the mule among the passions—a mistake of nature. P. S. Dwpont de Nemowrs. The child who hath been obstimate in his youth, will suffer in his old age. Awreliws. Obstimacy and vehemency in opinion are the Surest proofs of stupidity. Miss Lucy Barton. Obstimacy in a man that is not gifted with wis- dom, is worth less than nothing. AEschylus. The obstinate keep the opinions which they have once embraced in spite of all proof. G. Crabb. It is easier to make a glass tube pliable than to convince an obstinate woman she is in fault. Dowmey. Obstimacy in opinion holds the dogmatist in the chain of error, without hope of emancipation. J. Glanvill. Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obsti- nacy ; we do not easily believe beyond what we See. Rochefoucauld. Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in and best becoming a mean and illiterate Soul. Montaigne. An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him ; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty. S. Butler. Obstimacy is the strength of the weak: firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obsti- macy of Sages. Ilavater. Contumacious as men are, the obstimacy that is offered to good advice proceeds less frequently from love of perversion, than desire of being thought competent for choice of conduct. N. Macdonald. The excess of obstinacy, sometimes necessarily results from stability, but the rule of circum- stances, as with the other virtues, is that which widely distinguishes one habit from the other. Ansaldo Ceba. Obstimacy is an affection immovable, fixed to will, abandoning reason, which is engendered of pride ; that is to say, when a man esteemeth so much himself above any other that he reputeth his own wit only to be in perfection, and contemneth all other counsel. Sir T. Elyot. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 631 OBSTINACY. OCCUPATION. An obstinate resolution gets the better of every Occupation is the scythe of time. Napoleon I. impediment, and shows there is no difficulty to him who has resolved to be patient. Seneca. There are two kinds of obstimacy—obstimacy in the right, and obstimacy in the wrong—one is the strength of a great mind, and the other is the strength of a little one. PI. W. Shaw. I believe that obstimacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from Self-willed- mess, as from a conscious defect of voluntary power ; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity. Hartley Coleridge. The obstinate are generally ignorant; they would rather walk blindly than submit to the conduct of minds. An angel’s leading, though a guardian One, is resisted, something as blocks resist Our Course, because they are blocks, and have blockheads. H. Hooker. Firmness in resisting evil is always noble ; ob- stimacy is a sort of counterfeit of this virtue ; it is a mulish and dogged feeling, defying reason and argument, and set on having its own way ; the obstinate man lacks delicacy and refinement of temper; he is a churl. H. Winslow. There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion ; whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure ; but ob- stimacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal. Dr. Johnson. Obstimacy, sir, is certainly a great vice ; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is fre- quently the cause of great mischief. It happens, however, very unfortunately, that almost the whole line of the great and masculine virtues—con- stancy, gravity, magnanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness—are closely allied to this disagreeable quality, of which you have so just an abhorrence ; and in their excess all these virtues very easily fall into it. Burke. OCCUPANCY. When right gives right, an occupancy gives title. Sir E. Coke. Mere occupancy does not give either right or title. Montesquiew. Of things natural, property in the first is gained by occupancy. Warburton. We occupy either by force or right ; we possess only by a right. G. Crabb. If the title of occupiers be good in a land unpeo- pled, why should it be bad in a country peopled thinly 3 Sir W. Raleigh. Of beasts and birds, property passeth with pos- session, and goeth to the occupant ; but of civil people it is not so. Lord Bacon. As occupancy gave the right to the temporary use of the soil, so it is agreed to all hands, that oc- cupancy gave also the original right to the perma- nent property in the substance of the earth, itself. Sir W. Blackstone. tulip. Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoy- ment. Leigh Hunt. No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. Miss L. E. Landom. Nothing is more tedious than the pursuit of plea- sure as an Occupation. Bovee. Occupation cures one-half of life's troubles, and tends to mitigate the remainder. G. Mogridge. Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other. Sir P. Sidney. Occupation was one of the pleasures of Paradise, and we cannot be happy without it. Mrs. Jameson. Occupation teaches us the realities of life ; lei- Sure, its romance and its frivolities. Bwlwer. Occupation, if it does not make the hours less, makes their flight appear the shorter. Calderon. Nature has made occupation a necessity to us; society makes it a duty ; habit may make it a pleasure. E. Capell. Occupation without excitement or personal in- terest is mere drudgery, and resembles the labor of brutes. Actorv. Useful occupations ought not to be discouraged by the contempt of those who are not obliged to pursue them for a livelihood. Mrs. Sigourney. The common sense of the world is in favor of the diligent pursuit of some regular Occupation, as a principal element of happiness. A. H. Everett. The man who has no occupation is in a bad plight : if he is poor, want is ever and anon pinching him ; if he is rich, ennui is a more relentless tormentor than want. L. C. Judson. Occupation, action of any kind, is as opposed to sentimentality as fire to water; and a few years of labor or study will bring a young head into the right track. Sir W. Petty. Indolence is a delightful but distressing state ; we must be doing something to be happy : Occupa- tion is no less necessary than thought to the in- stinctive tendencies of the human frame. J. Hazlitt. We protract the career of time by employment, we lengthen the duration of our lives by wise thoughts and useful occupations. Life to him who wishes not to have lived in vain is thought and ac- tion. Zimmerman. Any occupation which is innocent is better than none ; as the writing of a book, the building of a house, the laying out of a garden, the digging of a fish pond—even the raising of a cucumber, or a W. Paley. To be occupied is to be possessed as by a tenant, whereas to be idle is to be empty; and when the doors of the imagination are opened, temptation finds a ready access, and evil thoughts come troop- ing in. Smiles. 632 JD A Y'S CO / / A C O AW. & OCCUPATION. The great secret of human happiness is occupa- tion ; never suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of “too many irons in the fire,” conveys an untruth ; you cannot have too many—poker, tongs, and all—keep them all going. A. Clarke. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing ; it leads a man forth among scenes of nature's grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. W. Irving. Let none fondly persuade themselves that men can live without the necessaries of life. He who will not occupy himself by business, evidently dis- covers that he means to get his bread by cheating, stealing, or begging, or else is wholly void of rea- SOIl. Ischomachws. You see men of the most delicate frames occupied in active and professional pursuits who really have no time for illness. Let them but become idle, let them take care of themselves, let them think of their health, and they die : The rust rots the seed which use preserves. Bulwen'. Occupation is a necessity to the young ; they love to be busy about something, however trifling ; and if not directed to some useful employment, will soon engage in something that is evil, thus verifying the old proverb, that “Idleness is the mother of mischief.” Robert Wodrow. It is an undoubted truth that the less one has to do the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, One procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore, one seldom does it at all ; whereas, those who are always occupied must buckle to it : and then they always find time enough to do it in. Chesterfield. The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully occupied. To the community sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. What- ever body and whatever society wastes more than it acquires must gradually decay; and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labor, takes away something from the public stock. Dr. Johnson. The want of occupation is no less the plague of Society than of solitude. Nothing is so apt to nar- row the mind ; nothing produces more trifling, Silly stories, mischief-making, lies; when every- body is occupied, we only speak when we have something to say: but when we are doing nothing, we are compelled to be always talking ; and of all torments that is the most annoying, and the most dangerous. Rowsseaw. Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and all the gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it ; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his pre- sent lot will not bear him up. He will turn neces- Sarily to gloomy anticipations of the future ; and except, therefore, his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched. Pascal. OCEAN. The ocean is the navigator's world. W. Baffin. Oceans are made up of single drops. Mrs. Wood. Every ocean has its glittering gems. H. Tuttle. The Ocean sustains all its myriads of inhabitants. L. C. Judson. There is something magnificent and imposing in the changelessness of the ocean. Lady Blessington. How numberless are the blessings we owe to the Ocean, the father and sustainer of all organic life. G. Hartwig. Of all objects which I have ever seen, there is none which effects my imagination so much as the OCéall. Addison. Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart, who first trusted a frail vessel to the merci- less Ocean. Horace. The ocean is the throbbing heart of the universe, and its every wave a mound over those who have no graves. Miss C. Talbott. If we look at the ocean in a calm, there is some- thing imposing in its aspect ; stretched out in its sleeping tranquility, but looking fearfully deep, and its silence seems like that of the lion when crouching for its prey. Jenny M. Parker. The great depths of the ocean are entirely un- known to us; soundings cannot reach them. What fanes in those remote depths, what beings live twelve or fifteen miles beneath the surface of the waters, what is the Organization of the animals we can scarcely conjecture ? Jules Verme. The solemn, wonderful, majestic Ocean ' It ex- alts, but only to crush me under a sense of its gran- deur—boundless, everlasting, pitiless of my insig- nificance. Wherein does it differ from me ! In immensity of breadth and depth. What does it give me ! A sense of infinity, and of the abyss which divides me from it. Mme. Swetchine. In the whole range of nature there is not a gran- der or more magnificent scene than the Ocean in a storm, when deep calls unto deep; and its liquid mountains roll and break against each other, when it dashes to pieces, in the wantonness of its power, the strongest structures which man can rear for the purpose of floating over its billows ; then it is that the proudest and bravest tremble and quail at the roaring and thunder of its waters. Mark Lemon. Hail, thou multitudinous ocean Thy fluctuating waters wash the varied shores of the world, and while they disjoin nations whom a nearer connec- tion would involve in eternal war, they circulate their arts and their labors, and give health and plenty to mankind. And yet mighty deep ! it is thy surface alone we view ; who can penetrate the secrets of thy wide domain ; what eye can visit thy immense rocks and caverns, that teem with life and vegetation ; or search out the myriads of objects, whose beauties lie scattered over thy dread abyss % Sturm. A R O S A. Q O O 7" A 7" / O M S. 633 ODID-FELLOW. The essence of Odd-Fellowship is virtue. Foster. Odd-Fellowship triumphs in the exercise of its lovely charities. J. L. Pitts, A genuine Odd-Fellow will be a good man, a kind husband, father, and friend. A. B. Chapin. Odd-Fellowship has made itself, as it were, a candlestick from which the light of truth may radiate. C. E. Toothaker. Odd-Fellowship never was, and never can be hostile to Christianity, for it is founded on its great law of love. B. J. Lossing. The institution of Odd-Fellowship embraces within its circle the rich, the poor, the learned. the illiterate ; these have met on one common level. J. Eames. Society needs an ideal of a higher state to which it may aspire ; Odd-Fellowship reveals that ideal, and gives it an actual being in its own particular form. A. C. L. Arnold. While man is to be found with man, enlivened with the principles of benevolence and charity, so long will the radiating smiles of Odd-Fellowship bless the world. J. L. Enos. The end and aim of Odd-Fellowship is to elevate the moral standard in the public mind, to sweeten the cup of life, to ease the bed of death, to make the bad good, and the good better. Percival. Odd-Fellows, acting out of the spirit of their principles, dare to be “odd,” because they dare to do good, even in opposition to that cold, calculat- ing charity, which would withhold all assistance lest it might sometimes be bestowed on an un- worthy object. John Jones. The usefulness of Odd-Fellowship may be illus- trated by the thousand acts of justice, benevolence, and charity witnessed in every enlightened and Christian community ; it is useful in fitting man for every station in life, from the humble farmer or mechanic, to the illustrious statesman. Dicks. The principles of Odd-Fellowship are calculated to elevate the moral and social character of man, not only against vice and crime, but the means which conduce to such ends ; the nobler sentiments of the heart are cherished and cultivated, and he who is a faithful Odd-Fellow, governed by its laws, and cherishing its principles, cannot fail to be a faithful lover, a devoted husband, a kind and affectionate parent, and a valuable and worthy citizen. John Browgh. Odd-Fellowship arose in the necessities of man : it was formed to deal with substantial life, to minis- ter to real wants; a more practical benevolence was wanted in the world, to seek out distress, bind up wounds, assuage griefs, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the prisoner, educate the orphan, protect the widow, comfort the dying, and bury the dead; man needed a closer acquaintance with man, the world over ; for these hallowed purposes Our Order sprang into life, and its course has been cheered by the sunny smiles of gratitude, by the consciousness of duty, and by the blessing of God. C. E. Lester. OFFENSE. The first offense deserves pardon. Pontamws. It is pleasant to ignore an offense. Bovee. Take not offense at words uttered in anger. Menſw. When the offender is ashamed forgive him. Publius Syrws. Who fears to offend takes the first step to please. Cibber. Offenses generally outweigh merits with great In 611. Thales. Who offends writes on sand ; who is offended on marble. Emilio Castelar. We should avoid all small Offenses as well as great Ones. E. Rich. He who is too ready to forgive offenses only in- vites them. Corneille. We are so desirous of vengeance that people often offendus by not giving offense. Mine. Deluzy. Since small offenses deserve death, there is no greater penalty for the most heinous. Draco. When any one has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot raise it. Descartes. Offenses ought to be pardoned, for few offend willingly, but as they are compelled by some affec- tion. Hegesippus. If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind. Buddha. Mankind delight in remembering offenses, and practice the ceremonial forms of granting pardon a thousand times, to the bestowal of free forgive- IlêSS OllCé. - Acton. Nothing is more unpleasing than to find that offense has been received where none was intended, and that pain has been given to those who were not guilty of any provocation. Dr. Johnson. When once you have offended a man, do not pre- sume that a hundred benefits will secure you from revenge ; an arrow may be drawn out of a wound but an injury is never forgotten. Saadi. Inasmuch as the bitter seeds of offense are some- times sown without producing revenge, their pro- per harvest, so we also are not to wonder if at other times the harvest should spring up, even where no seed has been sown. Colton. A very small offense may be a just cause for great resentment ; it is often much less the parti- cular instance which is obnoxious to us, than the proof it carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung. Greville. Private offenses, it must be borne in mind, are always to be corrected in private. Whoever checks a private misdeed in public, will be thought more desirous of dragging it to light than of preventing its repetition—of deepening the offender's mortifi- cation, than of effecting his amendment. Hervey. 634 A) A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. OFFICE. Office without pay makes thieves. Heimsivts. The office should seek the man, not man the Office. Silas Wright. Wise men sue for office, and blockheads get them. Damhowder. Where God bestows an office, He provides brains to fill it. Tscherming. Dismiss not an old official from office without a good cause. Chow-Kwmg. Office is strengthened by zeal, and zeal makes opinion invincible. Andrew Camt. No office of magistrate, of legislator, or of judge, should be descendible. George Mason. When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it. Colbert. Some few have a natural talent for Office-hold- ing ; very many for office-seeking. James Ellis. He is only fit to rule and bear office, who comes to it by constraint and against his will. Aurelius. Those who are out of office are of necessity hom- est ; for if they would steal, they cannot. Sibley. There is a great difference between holding a high office, or having a high office hold us. Shaw. It is not the office which makes the person hon- orable, but the person that makes the office so. Agesilaws. High office is like a pyramid ; only two kinds of animals reach the summit—reptiles and eagles. - D'Alembert. Five things are requisite to a good officer—abil- ity, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impar- tiality. W. Penn. Our distinctions do not lie in the office which we occupy, but in the grace and dignity with which we fill it. W. G. Simºns. A man in office has no more friends when he loses his post ; it was not therefore him, but his office that had friends. Stanislaws. They which sell offices, sell the most sacred things in the world ; even justice itself, the common- wealth, subjects, and the laws. Cratippus. If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained 2 Those by death are few ; by resignation, none. T. Jefferson. Office-seeking has become a game of cards, in which the applicants are the pack, the demagogues the players, aud the people the table played upon. L. C. Judson. If ever this free people, if this government it- self is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this human wriggle and struggle for office—that is, a way to live without work. A. Lincoln. Office of itself does much to equalize politicians; it by no means brings all characters to a level ; but it does bring high characters down, and low characters up, toward a common standard. T. B. Macawlay. OFFICE. He whom the grandeur of office elevates over others will soon find that the first hour of his new dignity is the last of his independence. Aguesseaw. It is impossible to discern the secret thoughts, quality, and judgment of man till he is put to proof by high office and administration of the laws. Sophocles. In general, it is not very difficult for little minds to attain splendid situations ; it is much more dif- ficult for great minds to attain the office to which their merit fully entitles them. De Grimm. All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office : to me, there is nothing in it beyond the lustre, which may be reflected from its connection with the pow- er of promoting all human felicity. Washington. Office and power may and do become objects of cupidity, not to be spontaneously conferred by the people on their wisest and best, but to be sought and compassed by the ambitious and cunning through party management and Organization. Burmap. I have no desire for office, not even the highest : the most exalted is but a prison, in which the in- carcerated incumbent daily receives his cold, heart- less visitants, marks his weary hours, and is cut off from the practical enjoyment of all the blessings of genuine freedom. H. Clay. There is a kind of elevation to office which does not depend on fortune ; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set on ourselves. By this quality we usurp the deference of other men ; and it puts us, in general, more above them than birth, dignity, or even merit it- self. Rochefoucauld. In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people, no One man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another ; offices were not established to give support to par- ticular men at the public expense ; no individual wrong is therefore done by removal, since neither appointment to, nor continuance in, office is mat- ter of right. Andrew Jackson. There are three qualifications which ought to be possessed by a man who aspires to fill the high offices of state : first, he must be well disposed, and prepared to support the established constitu- tion of his country ; next, he ought to have a spe- cial aptitude for the office which he fills; and third- ly, he should have the kind of virtue and love of justice which suits the particular state in which he lives. Aristotle. Some persons of great promise when raised to high office, either are puffed up with self-sufficien- cy, or in some way or other disappoint expecta- tion ; and others again show talents and Courage, and other qualifications, when these are called forth by high office, beyond what any one gave them credit for before, and beyond what they sus- pected to be in themselves. It is unhappily very difficult to judge how a man will conduct himself in a high office, till the trial has been made. R. Whately. A R O S E Q U O T A 7" / O M S. OLD A.G.E. Honor old age. Chilo. Old age is honorable. Biom. In old age, be prudent. Socrates. Old age is dark and unlovely. Ossian. Old age is the twilight of death. Mme. Swetchine. Quiet old age is better than rich old age. Day. Old men for counsel, young men for war. Tzetzi. Beware of old age, for it cometh not alone. Euripides. Old age, though despised, is coveted by all. Petrarch. It is hard to catch an old bird, or instruct an old Iſla Il. Heraclides. Men are as old as they feel, and women as they look. Ariosto. Old age enjoyeth all things, and wanteth all things. Democritws. One must have become old to be satisfied how short life is. Schopenhaufer. He who lives to be old must suffer the afflictions Of existence. Ibn Al-Kàbisi. Every man desires to live long ; but no man would be old. Swift. Old men are more meet to give counsel, than fit to follow wars. Bias. When we are old we must do more than when we were young. Goethe. In youth we know not what life is ; in old age we understand it. Al-Maghribi. Old age is a disease medicine will not cure ; it is a bore to grow old. Mme. Patterson Bonaparte. Old age is the altar of ills ; we may see them all taking refuge in it. Antiphanes. If an ignorant man does not learn in old age, when will he learn ? Lacydes. Wisdom resides with old age, and understand- ing in length of days. Talmud. A healthy old fellow that is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. Steele. What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes cease. Richter. Old age is a tyrant, which forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death. Rochefoucauld. Wasting old age will place its hands on beauty, advancing with noiseless step. Ovid. An old man has lost his youth, and he goes stoop- ing to the earth in search of it. Antar. Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. Mrs. Child. Old age has deformities enough of its own ; do not add to it the deformity of vice. Cato. OLD A.G.E. Old age is melancholy less from the loss of joys than from the absence of hope. Alrahman Jami. Growing old is one of those blessings that always comes to him that waits long enough. W. S. Gilbert. We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age ; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die. Bruyère. A virtuous and enlightened old man is the no- blest object to be contemplated on earth. Magoon. Few qualifications are either more desirable or more rare than the qualification to be old. Rev. J. Heckewelder. The failure of the mind in old age is often less the result of natural decay than of disease. Sin' B. Brodie. Do not despise the habits of the old, to which if thou reachest old age, thou wilt be subject. Apollodorus. Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality. Pindarus. When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leav- ings. Swift. When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not the decline that it reveals, but the first days of im- mortality. Mine. de Stael. Old men who have loved young company, and been conversant continually with them, have been of long life. Lord Bacom. An old stump of an oak, with a few young shoots on its almost bare top, are like youthful follies growing On old age. J. Foster. Old age is the gift of heaven, is the long expense of many years, the exchange of sundry fortunes, and the school of experience. Urbain, Chevreaw. That which is usually called dotage, is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity. Cicero. It would be well if old age diminished our per- ceptibilities to pain in the same proportion that it does our sensibilities to pleasure. Colton. Sickness and old age are the two crutches where- on life walketh to death, arresting every one to pay the debt which they owe unto nature. Theopompus. The tendency of old age, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant, to meet with an old man whose opinions are not Ossified. J. F. Boyse. Old age is never honored among us, but only in- dulged, as childhood is ; and old men lose one of the precious rights of man—that of being judged by their peers. Goethe. The world seems to the old to have gone back- ward, because they have gone forward ; this is a mistake ; nothing in nature can retrograde, all must go forward. F. Aarsens. 636 A) A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. OLD A.G.E. Old men by reason of their age and weakness of their strength, are subject to sundry imperfections, and molested with many diseases. Pacww.iws. There is nothing more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to produce as a proof that he has lived long except his years. Seneca. It is a characteristic of old age to find that time passes on with accelerated pace ; the less one ac- complishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear. Hwmboldt. O old age 1 in what hopes of pleasure thou in- dulgest ? Every man wishes to reach thee : and having made trial repents; as there is nothing worse in mortal life. Juvenal. We love an old man if he appears to recollect the days of his youth : such a man acquires the respect of the aged, the confidence of manhood, and the admiration of youth. J. Bartlett. O old age how burdensome and grievous every- where art thou ! only not in one thing ; for when we fail in strength and power, thou teachest us to use our understanding with wisdom. Pherecrates. Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and mistaking the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the prudence of the winter time for a fit wisdom of midsummer days. Kossuth. If we see a man in his old age grow more in love with the things of this world, and less in love with the things of God, it is not through the weakness of nature, but through the strength of sin. Dr. J. Owen. A comfortable old age is the reward of a well- spent youth : therefore, instead of introducing dis- mal and melancholy prospects of decay, it should give us hope of eternal youth in a better world. R. Palmer. To the intelligent and virtuous, old age presents a scene of tranquil enjoyments, of obedient appe- tite, of well-regulated affections, of maturity in knowledge, and of calm preparation for immortal- ity. J. G. Percival. The mind of an old man is not mutable ; his fan- cies are fixed, and his affections not fleeting ; he chooses without intention to change, and never forsakes his choice till death makes challenge of his life. Florent Carton Dancowrt. He who would pass the declining years of his life with honor and comfort, should when young, consider that he may one day become old, and re- member when he is old that he has once been young. Addison. Winter, which strips the leaves from around us, makes us see the distant regions they formerly concealed ; so does old age rob us of our enjoy- ments, only to enlarge the prospect of eternity be- fore us. Richter. O, old age how desired thou art by all, how happy thou art thought to be ; then, when thou comest, how sad, how full of sorrow ; no one speaks well of thee, every one ill of thee, if he speaks with wisdom. Antiphames. OLD AGE. No man lives too long who lives to do with spirit, and suffer with resignation what Providence pleases to command or inflict ; but indeed, there are sharp commodities which beset old age. Burke. Life, as well as other things, hath its bounds as- signed by nature ; and its conclusions, like the last act of a play, is old age ; the fatigue of which we ought to shun, especially when our appetites are fully satisfied. W. Winstanley. As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth ; he that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. Cicero. I venerate old age ; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding. Longfellow. Old age need not necessarily be felt in the mind, as in the body ; time's current may wear wrinkles in the face that shall not reach the heart ; there is no inevitable decrepitude or semility of the spirit, when its tegument feels the touches of decay. Chatfield. Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particu- lar favor, and it may be, to one only in the space of two or three ages ; and then with a pass to carry him through all the traverses and the difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career. Montaigme. No desert without limits extends before the Old man ; he walks beside a river whose banks are seen to approach ; a diminishing stream separates them each day less and less ; and on the opposite bank stand wife and son, with arms outstretched to meet him. Mme. de Gasparin. In old age we ought to make more readiness to die than provision to live ; for the steel being spent, the knife cannot cut ; the Sun being set, the day cannot tarry ; the flower being fallen, there is no hope of fruit ; and old age being Once come, life cannot long endure. Awrelius. Though years bring with them wisdom, yet there is one lesson the aged seldom learn, namely, the management of youthful feelings: age is all head, youth all heart ; age reasons, youth feels; age acts under the influence of disappointment, youth un- der the dominion of hope. Sir W. Herschel. I think that to have known one good old man— one man who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace— helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons. G. W. Curtis. Though every old man has been young, and every young one hopes to be old, there seems to be a most unnatural misunderstanding between those two stages of life ; this unhappy want of commerce arises from the insolent arrogance or exultation in youth, and the irrational despondence of self-pity in age. Steele. P & O S E O U O 7. A 7 / O M. S. 637 *. *— OLD A.G.E. When sorrow, or sickness, or old age comes upon us, then it is that the superiority of the pleasures of religion is established over those of dissipation and vanity, which are ever apt to fly from us when we are most in want of their aid. Wilber-force. An old man who has lived in the exercise of vir- tue, looking back without a blush on his past days, and pointing to that better state where alone he can be perfectly rewarded, is a figure the most venerable that can well be imagined. H. Mackenzie. Old age is a courtier ; he knocks again and again at the window and at the door, and makes us everywhere conscious of his presence. Woe to the man who becomes old without becoming wise ; woe to him if this world shuts the door without the future having opened its portals to hirn. Tholuck. But few men die of old age ; almost all die of disappointments, passionate, mental, or bodily toil or accident ; the passions kill men sometimes even suddenly ; the common expression, “choked with passion,” has little exaggeration in it ; for even though not suddenly fatal, the strong passions shorten life. A. Blackwood. The first consciousness we have of growing old comes to us with a pang ; there seems to be some- thing unnatural in it ; we feel the soul within us expanding, and know that its vision is clearer, its power greater, and its capacity for happiness diviner, yet the body in which this soul lives shows signs of decay. J. G. Holland. Old age is not the heaviest of burdens, as thou thinkest ; but whoever bears it unwisely, he is the party who makes it so ; if he bears it without grumbling, he sometimes in this way lulls it asleep, dexterously changing its character, taking away pain and substituting pleasure, but making it pain if he is peevish. When we grow old, we are struck with the fleet- ness of time ; our lives seem to be compressed into one brief period, and we suddenly find that pur- suits we have followed are closed, and we are con- fronted with the question, not what we have gained, nor what positions we have held, but what we are in Ourselves. Horatio Seymour. Old age makes a man wretched in every way: `it is labor to him either to stand or sit ; his eyes become dim, his ears dull, his nose is closed, his mouth speaks no more, his heart remembers not yesterday ; his bones ache, good is changed to evil, every taste vanishes. To become old is a shudder- ing, extreme evil, the last curse, a second child- hood. Ptah Hotep. The complaints of the aged should meet with tenderness, rather than censure ; the burden under which they labor ought to be viewed with sympa- thy by those who must bear it in their turn, and who, perhaps, hereafter, may complain of it as bitterly ; at the same time, the old should consider that all the seasons of life have their several trials allotted to them ; and that to bear the infirmities of age with becoming patience is as much their duty, as it is that of the young to resist the temp- tations of youthful pleasure. H. Bloºr. Amaacandrides. - OLD A.G.E. In one important step the advantage is with the old. A state of ease is, generally speaking, more attainable than a state of pleasure ; a constitution, therefore, which can enjoy ease, is preferable to that which can taste only pleasure ; this same perception of ease oftentimes renders old age a condition of great comfort, especially when riding at its anchor after a busy or tempestuous life. W. Paley. It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth ; if we never cared for lit- tle children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches; the grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, care-worn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild ; it is the old who plant young trees ; it is the old who are most sad- dened by the autumn, and feel most delight in the returning spring. Bulwey. Bow low the head, boy, do reverence to the old man, once like you ; the vicissitudes of life have sil- vered his hair, and changed the round, merry face to the worn visage before you ; once that manly form stalked promptly through the gay scenes of pleasure, the beau ideal of grace ; now the hand of time that withers the flowers of yesterday, has bent that figure and destroyed that noble carriage ; Once, at your age, he possessed the thousand thoughts that pass through your brain, now wish- ing to accomplish deeds equal to a nook in fame. But he has lived the dream very nearly through : his eye never kindles at old deeds of daring, and the hand takes a firmer grasp of the staff. Bow low the head, boy, as you would in your old age be reverenced. Elihu Burritt. OLIGFARCHY. Oligarchy is the weakest and the most stable of governments. T. B. Macaulay. An oligarchy is not only a tyranny but an out- growth of an imbecile people. James Ellis. To be desirous of an oligarchy when we are liv- ing in a republic is folly and wickedness. Montaigme. The worst kind of oligarchy is when men are governed indeed by a few, and yet are not taught to know what those few be whom they should obey. Sir P. Sidney. An oligarchy compels the great mass of the peo- ple to share in the danger of the state, while it not only monopolizes most of the advantages, but ac- tually takes to itself everything on which it can lay its hands. Thucydides. The most perfect community is that which is administered by the middle classes; but where some possess too much, and others nothing at all, the government must be either an extreme demo- cracy, or else a pure oligarchy. Aristotle. There are three different forms of government established in the world—monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy ; in the two former the govern- ment is conducted at the will of the ruling powers, while in the latter it proceeds according to estab- lished laws. AEschimes. 638 A) A Y 'S CO / / A C O AV. OMEN. OMNIPOTENCEi. Auspicious Omens cheer us. T. Ewing. Deny not God's omnipotence. Sir T. More. No omen can be bad to those whose designs are good. Christopher Columbus. How shall man learn the will of heaven, unless he recognize the omens of Sacrifice 3 Confucius. Put no faith in the omens of lying soothsayers, who fill the ears of others that they may fill their own homes with gold. Attius. When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens ; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky OIIlêIłS. Tsze-Sze. Those who are not unmindful of the gods when in happy circumstances, commonly receive propi- tious omens in answer to their sacrifices when in distress. Cyrus the Great. OMISSION. Omission of good is positive ill. E. P. Day. Omissions, no less than commissions, are often- times branches of injustice. Awrelius. Life abounds with omissions of duty : few per- sons live entirely without them. James Ellis. Sins of commission are usual punishments for sins of omission ; he that leaves a duty may fear to be left to commit a crime. Rev. W. Gºwrmall. What may be done at all times with equal pro- priety is deferred from day to day, till the mind is gradually reconciled to the Omission. Dr. Johnson. Our Savior tells us that men shall not only be proceeded against for sins of commission, but for the bare omission and neglect of their duty, espe- cially in the works of mercy and charity. Tillotson. OMNISCIENCE. The omniscience of God is a great check to sin, and motive to virtue. J. Foster. The omniscience of God is a Source of pleasing reflection to a good man. James Ellis. The omniscient eye reads all secrets, and the omnipotent hand will One day rend all masks. - E. Foster. The relation existing between the Deity and us, is that of dependence upon a Being, absolutely and essentially independent and Omniscient. Wayland. As God Almighty cannot but perceive and know everything in which he resides, infinite space gives room to infinite knowledge, and is, as it were, an organ to omniscience. Addison. How often do we trace God's omniscience exem- plified in the detection of sin which the sinners thought concealed, the approbation of modest vir- tue, and the notice of secret sorrow. G. S. Bowes. God's omniscience is yours, to eye you in every situation, adverse or prosperous ; to foresee all the attacks your adversaries intend to make upon you, and to provide for your present and everlasting Security. W. Nicholson. The works of creation demonstrate the omnipo- tence of God. N. Webster. The Christians have only one God, absolute mas- ter of all, whose will is omnipotent. Cormeille. If omnipotence is pledged to support you, it matters not how heavy your burden be. Biddulph. It certainly is not possible for us to be in a posi- tion where Omnipotence cannot assist us. - C. H. Spurgeon. Reverence the majesty of the omnipotent, and tempt not His anger, lest thou be destroyed. R. Dodsley. The Divinity is so great, and of such a character, that He both sees and hears all things, is omnipo- tent, and attends to all things at once. Xenophon. God's omnipotence is yours, to guard and protect you in the hour of danger, to support you in every conflicting scene, and to preserve you unto his heavenly kingdom. W. Nicholsom. We are upheld in being by the continued act of omnipotence ; not only we, ourselves, but every faculty which we and which all creatures enjoy, was created, and is continually upheld, by the same Creator. F. Wayland. OMNIPRESENCE. God's omnipresence is man's safety. St. Linus. Omnipresence is one main ground of religious worship due to God. Henry More. TInless God were omnipresent He could not be omniscient, mor yet omnipotent. N. Grew. God is omnipresent in our minds, and comes into the midst of our thoughts. Comes, do I Say?—as if He were ever absent Semeca. From the consideration of God's being Omnipre- sent, it follows that His power, as well as know- ledge, is unlimited ; to be everywhere relied on by good men, and to be feared by bad. Clarke. Every atom in this magnificent immensity, whe- ther sinking in its depths or aspiring in its heights, whether resting on its axis, or whirling on its verge, is watched by the intense and eternal scru- tiny of the omnipresent God. Flamline. Wherever I turm my eye, thou omnipresent God, I behold Thee ; I see Thee in Thy works, I meet Thee in my heart. The earth, the ocean, the sky, speak of the wonders of Thy hand; Thou art every- where ; we live, and move, and have our being in Thee. Metastasio. If we consider God in His omnipresence, His being passes through, actuates, and supports the whole frame of nature ; His creation and every part of it, is full of Him ; there is nothing He has made that is either so distant, so little, or so incon- siderable, which he does not essentially inhabit ; in short, to speak of Him in the language of the old philosopher, He is a Being whose centre is everywhere, and His circumference nowhere. Addison. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 639 OPINION. Everything is mere opinion. Awrelius. There is a happiness in Opinion. Croesws. Opinion is the true king of a nation. Sir T. More. All opinions begin and end in vanity. Momimus. Opinion, that great fool, makes fools of all. N. Field. Change of opinion is increase of knowledge. Uriel Acosta. A wise man is not governed by Opinions merely. Aristotle. Hate not one another because you differ in opi- nion. Zoroaster. He is a strong man who can hold down his opi- nion. R. W. Emerson. Treat courteously those who hold adverse opi- nions. Themistints. False opinions cannot be corrected by fire or the sword. Emperor Julian. Every word a man utters, calls forth an opposite Opinion. Goethe. Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. T. Jefferson. Men will die for an opinion as SOOn as for any thing else. *-ºs- Hazlitt. Opinion is a medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato. Opinion is more often the cause of discontent than nature. Epicurus. He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any. W. R. Alger. The world is governed much more by opinion than by laws. W. E. Channing. A man should change his opinion as often as he finds it wrong. R. Cary. Race and temperament go for much in influ- encing opinion. Lady Morgan. The masses procure their opinions ready-made in Open market. - Colton. People of good sense are those whose opinions agree with ours. H. W. Shaw. All power, even the most despotic, rests ulti- mately on opinion. Hume. Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions. L’Estrange. We think very few people sensible except those who are of our opinion. Rochefoucauld. Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others. Jeremy Taylor. Inquire not what are the opinions of any one : but inquire what is truth. J. Calvin. An inert and dead opinion is one thing, and a living doctrine is another. J. Limen. General opinion is no proof of truth, for the gene- rality of men are ignorant. R. Dodsley. OPINION. He that never changed any of his opinions, never corrected any of his mistakes. Whichcote. Predominant opinions are generally opinions of the generation that is vanishing. B. Disraeli. Neither accept an opinion nor except against it, merely on the score of its novelty. Zimmerman. A difference of opinion on religious matters should not interfere with civil rights. L. Calvert. It is a most toilsome task to run the wild goose chase after a well-breathed opinionist. N. Ward. No person ought to be harmed in his body, name, or goods, for mere speculative opinion. Franklin. The truth is many more men pay regard to the opinion of the world than to conscience. Pliny. We must always think our opinions are right, but not think our opinions are always right. R. Whately. Men do not care so much for the opinions they hold, as for what they hold by their opinions. R. Wenming. Opinion is a capricious tyrant to which many a freeborn man willingly binds himself a slave. Chatfield. He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the Opinion and taste of others, is a slave. Rlopstock. The variety of opinions among the learned, be- gets both doubtfulness and fear in the ignorant. Theophrastws. The difference between opinions and convictions is this, men hold opinions, convictions hold men. Rev. T. R. Slice?", In all things reason must prevail; it is quite an- other thing to be stiff, than steady in an opinion. W. Penn, The posthumous verdict of public opinion alone, shows the life of the dead to historians and poets. Pindarus. No liberal man would impute a charge of un- steadiness to another for having changed his opi- nion. Cicero. Correct opinions, well established on any subject, are the best preservative, against the seductions of €I*I'Ol". Mant. All classes of persons are ever ready to give their opinions ; the lawyers must be excepted, they sell theirs. G. D. Prentice. Opinion 1 O opinion How many men of slight- est worth hast thou uplifted high in life's proud ranks 3 Euripides. Public opinion is a capricious sea ; whoever at- tempts to navigate it is liable to be tossed about by storms. W. H. Seward. If an opinion be erroneous, it requires discussion, that its errors may be exposed ; if it be true, it . will gain adherents in proportion as it is examined. Dr. T. Cooper. 64() AD A Y’.S C O Z Z. A C O AV. OPINION. Opinion is the blind goddess of fools, the foe to the virtuous, and the only friend to undeserving persons. G. Chapmam. No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them. W. G. Simms. Opinion is one of the greatest pillars which up- hold commonwealths, and the greatest mischief to Overthrow them. Pomtativus. The reception of opinions opposed to the most venerable convictions of mankind is necessarily and justifiably slow. G. Bush. The greater part of men have no opinion, still fewer an opinion of their own, well reflected and founded upon reason. J. G. Sewme. Opinion is the main thing which does good or harm in the world ; it is our false opinions of things which ruin us. Awreliws. We should never wed an opinion for better or for worse; what we take upon good grounds, we should lay down upon better. Swift. We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Jowbert. Examine with judgment each opinion ; if it seems true, embrace it ; if false, gird up the loins of thy mind to withstand it. Lºwcretivs. There is nothing in the world so easy as giving an Opinion ; consequently, in general, there are few things so utterly valueless. C. W. Day. Men of wealth, especially self-made men, have as much pride about their opinions as the haughti- est aristocrat has about his pedigree. J. Campbell. A statesman should follow public opinion, doubt- less, as a coachman follows his horses ; having firm hold on the reins, and guiding them. J. C. Hare. Do not despise the opinion of the world ; you might as well say that you care not for the light Of the sun because you can use a candle. L. Gozloºm. An originator of an opinion precedes the time ; you cannot both precede and reflect it ; what ten years ago was philosophy is now opinion. Bulwer. Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection ; the purity of gold cannot be ascertained by a single specimen. Herodotus. Opinion is a bold bastard gotten between a strong fancy and a weak judgment ; it is less dishonorable to beingenuously doubtful than rashly opinionated. F. Qwarles. Opinion builds our church, chooseth our preach- er, formeth our discipline, frameth our gesture, Imeasureth our prayers, and methodizeth our ser- Iſl(OIRS. Rev. A. Farimdon. I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing in that from which within a few days I might dissent myself. Sir T. Browne. ( OPINION. Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people, as rain unto the sea. Colton. Popular opinion is the old fable of the lion's great Supper ; the delicacies of the forest were spread before the guests, but the swine asked, “Have you no grains ?” R. A. Willmott. Common opinions often conflict common sense for reason in most minds is no match for prejudi- ces, a hydra whose heads grow faster than they can be cut off. E. Wigglesworth. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion ; what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather in- dicates his fate. Thorea'w. I have often wondered how every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others. Apollodorus. Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing, settled in the imagination, but never ar- riving at the understanding, there to obtain the tincture of reason. Ben Jomson. In the mass of human affairs there is nothing so vain and transitory as the fancied pre-eminence which depends on popular opinion without a solid foundation to support it. Tacitus. Let opinion be free as mountain air, and not be confined by demagogues or priests, by metaphy- sicians or dogmatists, by kings or popes, but based On reason and revelation. L. C. Judson. v Nothing is more impertinent than for people to be giving their opinion and advice in cases in which, were they to be their own, themselves would be as much at a loss what to do. S. Croacall. Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you ; it would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. H. Mann. How fiercely we pounce upon our best friends when their opinions are the opposites of our own How little we tolerate liberty of thought in others, though claiming it passionately for ourselves. T. Tilton. That queen of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not deceive always; she would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood. Pascal. Let all differences of opinion touching errors, or supposed errors, of the head or heart on the part of any in the past, growing out of these matters, be at once and forever in the deep ocean of obli- vion buried. A. H. Stephens. Among the best men are diversities of opinions : which are no more, in true reason, to breed hatred, than one that loves black should be angry with him that is clothed in white ; for thoughts are the very apparel of the mind. Sir P. Sidney. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 641 OPINION. When we know that the opinions of even the greatest multitudes are the standard of rectitude, I shall think myself obliged to make those opinions the masters of my conscience. Burke. The strength of false opinion is of such force that it overthroweth the love betwixt man and wife, betwixt father and child, betwixt friend and friend, and betwixt master and servant. Demosthemes. If all mankind minus one were of One Opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing the world. J. S. Mill. While I am ready to adopt any well-grounded opinion, my inmost soul revolts against receiving the judgment of others respecting persons; and whenever I have done so I have bitterly repented of it. Niebuhr. A difference of opinion on political points, is not to be imputed to freemen as a fault ; it is to be presumed that they are all actuated by an equally laudable and sacred regard for the liberties of their country. Washington. It is the business of government to control men's actions, not their opinions ; and those are recorded as the happiest times, in which the most uncon- trolled freedom was allowed to the declaration of Opinions. Dr. J. Moore. Statutes are milestones, telling how far yester- day's thought had travelled ; and the talk of the side-walk to-day is the law of the land. With us law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, public, living opinion. W. Phillips. The opinions of those with whom you are most conversant will insensibly but indelibly stamp some impression upon your own. They will enter into the sanctuary of the soul, and hang up in its secret shrine their own images. Mrs. Sigowrmey. We are too much inclined to underrate the power of moral influence, and the influence of public opi- nion, and the influence of the principles to which great men—the lights of the world and of the pre- sent age—have given their sanction. D. Webster. As for the differences of opinion upon speculative questions, if we wait until they are reconciled, the action of human affairs must be suspended for ever; but neither are we to look for perfection in any one man nor for agreement among many. - Junius. We are not satisfied with our own opinions, whatever we may pretend, till they are ratified and confirmed by suffrage of the rest of mankind. We dispute and wrangle forever ; we endeavor to get men to come to us when we do not go to them. Sir J. Reynolds. There is nothing which men in general seem to desire more than the good opinion of others; the hatred and contempt of the public are generally felt to be intolerable. It is probable that our re- gard for the sentiments of our fellow-creatures springs, by association, from a sense of their ability to hurt or to serve us. T. B. Macaulay. OPINION. Provided that we look to our consciences, no matter for opinion ; let me deserve well though I bear ill. The common people take stomach and audacity for the marks of magnanimity and honor; and if a man be soft and modest, they look upon him as an easy fop. Seneca. Public opinion is no reformer ; it has never corrected the errors, the follies, nor the vices of the human family. Public opinion is a conservative aristocrat, retaining its grasp upon the present, and subjecting the free inquirer after truth to obloquy and reproach. C. E. Toothaker. An ambitious desire of being distinguished from the crowd leads men sometimes to combat, in theo- ry, received opinions ; while a timorous self-love, that dreads all new and dangerous attempts, through the apprehension of miscarrying, obliges them to follow those very opinions in practice. D'Alembert. In many matters of opinion, our first and last coincide, though on different grounds; it is the middle stage which is the farthest from the truth. Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble fin- gers, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain, and which it is the pride of utmost age to recover. e J. Ruskin. Social opinion is like a sharp knife: there are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it ; there are more foolish people who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains ; and there are wise people, who grasp it dis- creetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes. Mrs. Jameson. Those who halt between two opinions in the matter of religion, are like travellers who halt in indecision at cross-roads, with tempest and the night hurrying up behind them ; like a railway pointsman who hesitates which way to move the points whilst a train is rapidly approaching ; like a pilot who doubts what to do with the helm when the ship is driving before the wind through a dan- gerous channel. Worthington Hooker. It is opinion that has exalted the appearance of virtue above virtue itself ; hence the good opi- luion of men becomes not only useful but necessary to every one, to prevent him sinking below the common level. The ambitious man grasps at it as being necessary to his designs; the vain man sues for it as a testimony of his merit ; the honest man demands it as his due ; and most men consider it as necessary to their existence. J. B. Beccario. There is no greater vassalage than that of being enslaved to opinions. The dogmatist is pent up in his prison, and sees no light but what comes in at those grates; he hath no liberty of thoughts, no prospect of various objects ; while the considerate and modest enquirer hath a large sphere of motion, and the satisfaction of more open light, he sees far, and enjoys the pleasure of surveying the divers images of the mind. But the opiniator hath a poor, shrivelled soul, that will but just hold his little set of thoughts. His appetite after knowledge is satis- fied with his few mushrooms. J. Glanvill. 41 642 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O A7. OPPORTUNITY. OPPORTUNITY. Watch your opportunity. Perionder. It is in vain to think of what might have been e — - done at such and such a time, when the opportu- Opportunity makes desire. F. Lieber. nity is lost forever. R. Whately. Opportunity makes the thief. W. Jerdam. Many do with opportunities as children do at the e = - --- seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, Opportunities neglected are lost. * and then let the grains fall through, one by one, Opportunity is the cream of time. R. Farmer. | *** * T. Jones. A wise man waits for opportunities. Al-Kirriya. Little opportunities should be improved. Fénélon. No wise man ever undervalues opportunities. Bishop D. Wilson. Oft does the mind wish for lost opportunities. Petroniws. Opportunities neglected are manifest tokens of folly. T. Erpeniws. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Lord Bacon. A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost. Publius Syrws. Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him. Bayard Taylor. To let slip a favorable opportunity is the great- est proof of imbecility. Pittacws. To be a great man it is necessary to turn to ac- count all opportunities. Rochefoucauld. Can a man be wise who wishes to do good, yet neglects the opportunity ? Yang-Ho. Opportunity possessing the power over all things, acquires much in its course. Sophocles. Noble conduct has an opportunity of display when surrounded by misfortunes. Ovid. The taking or neglecting of an opportunity is the gaining or losing of great fortune. Lord Burleigh. When a thief has no opportunity for stealing, he considers himself an honest man. Talmud. If we do not watch, we lose our opportunities; if we do not make haste, we are left behind. Seneca. Opportunity and fortune often supply deficiency of ability in people of ordinary capacity. N. Macdonald. Opportunity to a statesman is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work. Sir John Swckling. The opportunity to do mischief is found a hun- dred times a day, and that of doing good once a year. Voltaire. Opportunity is to take advantage of times and Seasons; the mill cannot grind with the water that is lost. A. Ritchie. Opportunity leads even moderate men astray from the path of duty by the hope of self-aggran- disement. • Sallust. Opportunities are importunities; they are like flowers that fade at night; seize them, therefore, while they last. G. S. Bowes. If we have abused or neglected to improve our Opportunities, the world will laugh at our folly, and upbraid us with those very deficiencies which itself has caused. Acton. A genius and great abilities are often wanting, Sometimes only opportunities ; some deserve praise for what they have done, and others for what they would have done. Bruyère. No man possesses a genius so commanding, that he can attain eminence, unless a subject suited to his talents should present itself, and an opportunity occurs for this develepment. Pliny the Younger. Opportunity is in respect to time, in some sense, as time is in respect to eternity ; it is the small moment, the exact point, the critical minute, on which every good work so much depends. Sprat. Remember how easy it is to lose opportunities, and how difficult it is to regain them ; therefore, when they present themselves it is the more neces- sary to make every effort to retain them. Gwicciardimi. Opportunity has all her hair on her forehead, but when she has passed, you cannot call her back. She has no tuft whereby you can lay hold on her, for she is bald on the back part of her head, and never returns. Rabelais. He who has opportunities to inspect the sacred moments of elevated minds, and seizes none, is a son of dulness ; but he who turns those moments into ridicule, will betray with a kiss, and in em- bracing murder. Lavater. It is common to overlook what is near, by keep- ing the eye fixed on something remote ; in the same manner present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good slighted by minds busied in extensive ranges, and intent upon future advan- tages. Dr. Johnson. There is need of a sprightly and vigilant soul to discern and to lay hold on favorable junctures; a man must look before him, descry opportunities at a distance, keep his eye constantly upon them, ob- serve all the motions they make toward him, make himself ready for their approach, and when he sees his time, lay fast hold, and not let go again, till he has done his business. Charron. You do well to improve your opportunity ; to speak in the rural phrase, this is your sowing time, and the sheaves you look for can never be yours unless you make that use of it. The color of our whole life is generally such as the three or four first years in which we are our own masters make it ; then it is that we may be said to shape our own destiny, and to treasure up for ourselves a series of future successes or disappointments. Cowper. A R O S A. Q U O T A 7" / O AV S. 643 OPPOSITION. OPPRESSION. Habitual opposition is senseless. G. Crabb. Oppression causeth rebellion. Terence. Opposition is sometimes a virtue. James Ellis. Oppress not the weak and poor. W. Bradford. Even virtue itself withers away if it has no op- Afford a home to the oppressed. T. Mathew. position. Seneca. Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. Schiller. \ Neither side is guiltless, if its opposing party is appointed judge. Lucanºws. He that wrestles with us strengthens Our nerves, and sharpens our skill ; our opponent is our helper. Burke. A fierce, turbulent opposition, like the north wind, only serves to make a man wrap his motions more closely about him. S. Croacall. The source of all opposition is resentment, or in- terest, a resolution to pull down those who have offended us, without considering consequences. G. B. Doddington. In all waters there are some fish that love to swim against the stream ; and in every communi- ty persons are to be found who delight in being opposed to everybody else. Magoom. It is not ease, but effort—not facility, but oppo- sition—that make men. There is no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of suc- cess can be achieved. Smiles. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of oppo- sition. J. Neal. If any man will oppose or contradict the most evident truths, it will not be easy to find arguments wherewith to convince him ; and yet this, notwith- standing, ought neither to be imputed to any ina- bility in the teacher, nor to any strength of wit in the denier, but only to a certain dead insensibility in him. Fpictetus. Such is the nature of the human mind, that it always lays hold on every mind that approaches it ; and as it is wonderfully fortified by an unani- mity of sentiments, so is it shocked and disturbed by any contrariety. Hence the eagerness, which most people discover in a dispute, and hence their impatience of opposition, even in the speculative and indifferent opinions. Hwºme. OPULENCE. How few can secure opulence from want! Yowng. Real opulence consists in the wisdom of being content with little. Ben Omar Ibraham. If opulence increases our gratifications, it in- creases, in the same proportion, Our desires and demands. - L. Murray. A decayed family can never recover its loss of rank in the world, until the members of it leave off talking and dwelling upon its former opulence. John Randolph. Oppression will make a wise man mad. J. Usher. The female heart ever scorns oppression. Marie Adriam. Oppression worketh out its own destruction. J. Linem. Oppression is much more easily borne than an insult. Jwnints. The earth is shamefully wronged by man's op- pression. Mrs. Mary Cowden Clark. The church shields the oppressed, where tyranny prevails. Pope Leo XIII. It is not under oppression that we learn how to use freedom. - T. B. Macawlay. A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. - Tacitus. Oppress not the poor, and defraud not of his hire the laboring man. R. Dodsley. The sternness of justice is but one step removed from the severity of oppression. Sir A. Alison. In all the nations of the earth, oppression has produced a forcible reaction, and this reaction has given birth to revolution. F. Pages. How unbecoming it is for a man to entertain thoughts of oppression, or to put forth the blade of an all-mourmful harvest of woe. AEschylus. There is no station or influence, however power- ful, that can protect the oppressor in the end from the vengeance of the oppressed. T. James. The poorest being that crawls the earth, contend- ing to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man. Burke. There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him ; for the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven. Pestalozzi. If thou stand guilty of oppression, or wrongfully possessed of another's right, see thou make restitu- tion before thougivest an alms; if otherwise, what art thou but a thief ? F. Quarles. My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feel- ings, and my best wishes are irresistibly attracted, whensoever in any country I See an oppressed ma- tion unfurl the banners of freedom. Washington. Oppression under the color of justice is always more formidable from the arts which are used to disguise its malignity ; it leaves men of almost every condition helpless and hopeless ; it accustoms them to look upon their best securities as perverted into instruments for the worst purposes; it com- pels them to exchange love for hatred, confidence for distrust, and submission for resistance. Ashe. 644 JJ A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. ORATORY. A true orator is an enthusiast. Rev. J. Turnbull. All mankind are natural orators. O. S. Fowler. In oratory the greatest art is to hide art. Swift. Oratory has no fellowship with affectation. Earl of Eldon. Sound is soul ; it is the orator's prerogative. E. P. Hood. A natural orator is born with honey in his mouth. St. Ambrose. The poet is the nearest borderer upon the Orator. Ben Jomson. Oratory is like music ; it must have tone and time. G. Grote, What orators want in depth they give you in length. Montesqview. An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle. Theophrastus. No man can be a complete orator unless he is a good man. Qwintillian. Oratory and poetry are of little value unless they reach the highest perfection. Pliny. In oratory, as in the street, whenever a great noise is made, it should be about something that justifies it. - Bovee. Orators are the most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men can get on horseback when they cannot walk. Cicero. Sound logic is the sinews of eloquence; without Solid argument, oratory is empty noise, and the Orator is a declaimer or a sophist. J. Wilkins. The true orator is one who feels what he utters, and who, abandoning all art and artifice, gives unrestrained expression to what he feels. P. Reeves. It is the first rule in oratory that a man must ap- pear such as he would persuade others to be ; and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life. Swift. Orators and stage coachmen, when the one wants argument and the other a coat of arms, adorn their cause and their coaches with rhetoric and flower- pots. Shemstone. We have a hundred speakers, but where is the orator? Where shall we find one from whose soul pours eloquence as naturally as poetry from the poet's lips. E. Hildreth. The orator pleases some, displeases others, and agrees with all in one thing, that as he does not seek to make them better, they too do not think of becoming so. Bruyère. Oratory is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and like medi- cine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state. Montaigme. In Oratory, affectation must be avoided ; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn. Lord Herbert. ORATORY, The art of oratory is designed to instruct people, express their passions, and reform their manners; to support the laws, direct public counsels, and to make men good and happy. Fémélom. The really great orator shines like the sun, mak- ing you think much of the things he is speaking of ; the Second-best shines like the moon, making you think much of him and his eloquence. R. Whately. The passions are the only orators that always Succeed ; they are, as it were, nature's art of elo- quence, fraught with infallible rules. Simplicity, with the aid of the passions, persuades more than the eloquence without it. Rochefoucauld. There is no power like that of oratory ; Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by captivating their affections and swaying their pas- sions; the influence of the one perished with its author, that of the other continues to this day. H. Clay. The Orator whose eye flashes instantaneous fire, and whose lips pour out a flood of noble thoughts, startling by their unexpectedness and elevating by their wisdom and truth, has learmed his secret by patient repetition, and after many disappoint- ments. Smiles. So strongly does the speech and the tone of the orator ring in my ears, that scarcely in the third and fourth day do I recollect myself, and perceive where on the earth I am ; and for a while I am willing to believe myself living in the isles of the blessed. Plato. Attention to style, to composition, and all the arts of speech, can only assist an Orator in setting off to advantage the stock of materials which he possesses; but the stock, the materials themselves, must be brought from other quarters than from rhetoric. H. Blair. As thought supplies material for discourse, so discourse gives precision to thought, as well as often assists its evolutions. The best Orators owe half their inspiration to the music of their own voice; yet profundity of ideas is commonly an impediment to fluency of words. Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and matured opinions. Oratory is a danger- ous talent, and few men are fit to be trusted with it, for few are able to resist the temptations to use it for their own ends. True Orators are more scarce than is generally imagined. Chatfield. Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature ; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning. Burritt. Oratory is the huffing and blustering spoiled child of a semi-barbarous age. The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason ; and the art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and readers wise enough to read. Colton. W. B. Clwlow. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 645 ORATORY. Extenmporaneous speaking is the groundwork of the orator's art ; preparation is the last finish, and the most difficult of all his accomplishments ; to learn by heart as a school boy, or to prepare as an orator, are two things not only essentially differ- ent but essentially antagonistic to each other. Bulwer. He is an orator who, on every question, can speak finely and ornately, and in a manner fit for persuading ; but in these times of ours, neither sufficient pains is bestowed in reading authors, nor in searching into antiquity, nor upon the know- ledge either of things, or of men, or of the times. J. Mair. Oratory, which consists more in the dexterous structure of periods, and in the powers of harmony of delivery, than in the extraordinary vigor of the understanding, may be compared to a human body, not so much surpassing the dimensions of ordinary nature, as remarkable for the symmetry and beauty of its parts. Lord Erskine. There have been grandiloquent orators, impres- sive and sonorous in their language, vehement, versatile, and copious ; well trained and prepared to excite and turn the minds of their audience ; while the same effect has been produced by others, by a rude, rough, unpolished mode of address, with- out finish or delicacy ; others, again, have effected the same by smooth, well-turned periods. Cicero. Oratory admits of many different forms; and nothing can be more foolish than to inquire by which of them an orator is to regulate his compo- sition, since every form which is in itself just has its own place and use ; the Orator, according as circumstances require, will employ them all, suit- ing them not only to the cause or subject of which he treats, but to the different parts of that subject. Qwintilian. The matchless eloquence of oratory is applicable everywhere, in all classes of life ; the rich and the poor experience the effects of its magic influence; it excites the soldier to the charge, and animates him to the conflict ; the guilty are living monu- ments of its exertion, and the innocent hail it as the vindicator of their violated rights and the pre- server of their sacred reputation. How often in the courts of justice does the criminal behold his arms unshackled, his character freed from sus- picion, and his future left open before him with all its hopes of honors, station, and dignity. Melvill. The beginning of the art of oratory is to acquire a habit of easy speaking ; the next step is the grand one—to convert this style of easy speaking into chaste eloquence. Though speaking, with writing beforehand, is very well until the habit of easy speech is acquired, yet after that one can never write too much ; it is laborious, no doubt, and it is more difficult, beyond comparison, than speaking offhand; but it is necessary to perfect oratory, and at any rate it is necessary to acquire the habit of correct diction. But I go further, and Say, even to the end of a man's life he must pre- pare, word for word, most of his finer passages. Browgham. ORATORY. The public orator who presents in a clear, con- cise, and forcible manner the strong points of his case, whose every sentence strikes home, who says just all that is necessary, and there stops, is always listened to with a marked attention, unknown to those who indulge in flights of Oratory, plucking flowers from the regions of fancy, drawing more largely upon imagination than upon sound logic and plain common sense. L. C. Judson. The orator must never bore ; he must never be obscure ; he must never seem hesitating in his as- sertions ; he must not be minutely refining, nor metaphysically subtle, in his philosophical deduc- tions; all the knowledge he thinks fit to press into his service he must seek to render clear to the com- monest understanding / all his imagination must be employed not in creating new worlds of thought, but in bringing thoughts the most generally admit- ted as sound into brilliant light./ S. A. Allibone. Oratory is to be estimated on principles different from those which are applied to other productions. Truth is the object of philosophy and history. Truth is the object even of those works which are peculiarly called works of fiction, but which, in fact, bear the same relation to history which alge- bra bears to arithmetic. The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion ; but the criterion of eloquence is different. A speaker who exhausts the whole philosophy of a question, who displays every grace of style, yet produces no effect on his audience, may be a great essayest, a great states- man, a great master of composition, but he is not an Orator. T. B. Macawlay. The business of oratory is to persuade people ; and you easily feel that to please people is a great step toward persuading them : you must then, Con- sequently, be sensible how advantageous it is for a man who speaks in public to please his hearers so much as to gain their attention, in which he can never do without the help of oratory ; it is not enough to speak the language he speaks in its ut- most purity, and according to the rules of gram- mar, but he must speak it elegantly—that is, he must choose the best and most expressive words, and put them in the best order; he should likewise adorm what he says by proper metaphors, similes, and other figures of rhetoric ; and he should en- liven it, if he can, by quick and sprightly turns of wit. Chesterfield. ORACLE. Do not consult useless oracles. Voltaire. Discern and follow the Oracles. Lysander. The only oracle of man is reason. Ethan Allen. In the sanctity of their own self-emitted light, repose the heavenly oracles. J. A. Hillhouse. Inquire of the oracles, if you would learn of any matter of which you are ignorant. Boecharis. What can be more absurd than the practice of those credulous fools, who, having faith enough to believe the veracity of oracles, had the impudence or stupidity to try to defeat them afterwards 2 S. Croacall. 646 AD A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AW. ORDER. ORDINANCE. - Order is heaven's first law. Pope. Ordinances without God are like wells without — e water. Dr. Davies. Order renders all things easy. Martial. Order is the first law of nature. Sir I. Newton. When I leave this world, I hope to enter a world of order. R. Hooker. Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions. John G. Saace. All are born to observe good order, but few are born to establish it. Joubert. God in loving Himself essentially loves order, because He is Order. Cyrus the Great. Better trust a horse without a bridle, than a dis- course without order. Theophrastws. Order and punctuality are indispensable to those who would well govern a family. Mrs. Sigourmey. The Order of the Eternal manifests itself in the Sun which rises and the heavens which fall. Jens Baggesem. He who has no taste for Order will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions. Lavater. Order in a house ought to be like the machines in an opera, whose effect produces a great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid. Mºme. Necker. Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state ; as the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things. R. Southey. . If there be any beauty and comeliness in order, where should we more expect to find it than in Divine government, and in the conduct and man- agement of the affairs of the Supreme and celestial kingdom. J. Howe. There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order— that is, according to their motions of the matter— and hide things, lest they should be lost, where neither the owner nor anybody else can find them. Hazlitt. Creation is the production of order ; what a simple, but at the same time comprehensive and pregnant principle is here ! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading sig- nificance. Order is the law of all intelligible exis- tence. F. Blakie. Order is a lovely nymph, the child of beauty and wisdom ; her attendants are comfort, neatness, and activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, disorder. Dr. Johnson. In human doings and human productions, we see everywhere manifestions of order; well-ordered Social regulations make a constitution and a po- lice ; well-ordered words make good writing ; well-ordered facts make science. Disorder, on the Other hand, makes nothing at all, but unmakes everything ; an ill-ordered social condition is de- cline, revolution, or anarchy. E. Foster. A wise man stands in awe of the ordinances of heaven. Confucius. It is a dangerous thing to be too bold with the ordinances of God. J. Hall. God has tied us to ordinances, but He has not tied Himself to them. G. S. Bowes. Live not so much upon the ordinances of God as upon the God of ordinances. Calvin. Attend diligently on ordinances; yet beware of putting ordinances in God's stead. W. Gw?”vall. Without ordinances there can be no divine wealth or prosperity in the church. H. G. Salter. It was necessary for the patriarchs to fix their residence near a well ; and it is necessary for be- lievers to fix their residence near ordinances. A. Fuller. As ships ride a long time in the roadstead, and take the first opportunity that shall be offered for their intended voyage, so do thou ride in the road of God's ordinances, waiting for the gales of the spirit. G. Swinnock. A formal person goes from ordinance to ordi- nance, and is satisfied with the work ; but a godly man looks to take in rich lading, that he may go away, and take with him some of the spiritual wealth of the sanctuary. J. Spencer. The Divine Being has been so condescending as to represent his ordinances as So many places of interview for his people, where they may draw near to Him, appear before Him, and carry on a spiritual intercourse with Him. W. Nicholsom. When a man goes thirsty to the well, his thirst is not allayed by merely going there ; it is by what he draws out of the well that his thirst is satisfied ; it is by tasting of Jesus in the Ordinances, whose flesh is meat indeed, and his blood drink indeed. Rev. R. M. M'Cheyne. ORGANIZATION. Every man's senses differ much from others in their organization. J. Glanvill. The organized matter in man could never pro- duce those nobler faculties of the mind. J. Ray. The soul doth organize the body, and gives unto every member that substance, quantity, and shape which nature seeth most expedient. R. Hooker. Organizations are for weak men, who are no- thing individually, but collectively of some impor- tance; strong men have less need of them, except to rule or use them. Bovee. We have to learn how much depends on Our Or- ganization, and how our weal and woe, our inmost feelings of joy or grief, arise from the activity of our brain and nerves. G. Forster. The organized identity of man consists in a par- .ticipation of the same continued life, by constantly fleeting particles in succession vitally united to the same Organized body. J. Locke. P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 647 ORIGINALITY. Originality provokes originality. Goethe. No man knows himself as an original. Chilo. Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. Voltaire. We are more in want of originality the less we are conscious of the want. J. W. Davidson. Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes; if you want to astonish the world, tell the simple truth. T. W. Higginson. An original mind is rarely understood until it has been reflected from some half dozen congenial with it. W. Allston. Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself. Lord Burleigh. Those who are ambitious of originality, and aim at it, are necessarily led by others, since they seek to be different from them. R. Whately. Original and useful minds are always in advance of the unreflecting mass of men, though not above their sympathy and comprehension. Magoom. The more wit one has, the more originality one finds among men. The common run of people see but little difference between one man and another. Pascal. Men demand something that is altogether new and original, and condemn resemblances and imi- tation. Do they ever recall to mind that there is nothing very new in itself : Acton. All we can possibly say of the most original au- thors nowadays is, not that they say anything new, but only that they are capable of saying such and such things themselves, if they had never been said before them. Sterme. It is not surprising that there are comparatively so few men of original views in the world ; the generality of us spend so much time in acquiring the opinions of others, that we have no time left to acquire ideas of our own. Bovee. I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts. W. B. Clwlow. Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of, and the first service which originality has to render them, is that of opening their eyes; which being once fully done, they would have a chance of being themselves ori- ginal. J. S. Mill. Originality what do they mean by it? The ac- tion of the world upon us commences with the hour of our birth, and ends only with our death ; it is here, and there, and everywhere. There is nothing we can claim as our own but energy, strength, and volition ; very little of me would be left, if I could but say what I owe to my great predecessors and contemporaries. Goethe. ORNAMENT. Ornaments were invented by modesty. Joubert. Too much ornament is an evil; too little, also. W. C. Preston. - Ill conduct Soils the finest ornaments worse than dirt. Plawtws. The true ornament of matrons is virtue, not ap- parel. Justin. Silence and modesty are the best ornaments of of a woman. Ewripides. Among all nations women ornament themselves more than men. J. Ledyard. When we are beautiful, we are most beautiful without ornament. Lessing. A profusion of ornament is neither necessary nor graceful to the young. Mrs. Sigourmey. Think not about decking thy body with orna- ments, but thy heart with pure thoughts and habits. - Antiphames. Be not deceived by ornament ; it is the temper of the steel that proves the sword, not the outward adornings of the scabbard. Al-Faiyád. When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for. Julia Ward Howe. What would you think of a man who paints and ornaments his dwelling with all that is beautiful, and starves himself, his wife, and his children ? Do all you will in adorning the body, you are but adorning dust. - T. Jones. Nature is the true guide in our application of or- nament; she delights in it, but ever in subserviency to use. Men genenally pursue an opposite course, and adorn only to encumber ; with the refined few, simplicity is the feature of greatest merit in orna- ment. The trifling, the vulgar-minded, and the ignorant, prize only what is striking and costly ; something showy in contrast, and difficult to be obtained. D. M. Moir. ORPHAN. Orphan is a sacred name. Fanny Ferm. The orphan's claim is before all others. Alfred the Great. For orphans many are sorry, but few give them bread. Ahmed Vesik. Depend not on the power and influence of an Orphan. Wakatawki. An orphan, a female orphan, demands the sacred . sympathy of all ; no father screens her with his jealous eye, no mother listens to the tale of all her little feelings, nor teaches her what woman wants to make her happy. A. S. Roe. What comfort would there be for the helpless orphan were it not for the memory of a father's or a mother's voice, which early spoke to them of love, of duty, and of heaven, and which now often reaches them and consoles them in their sorrow. Acton. 648 AN A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. ORTHODOXY. Ridicule not another's orthodoxy. R. Hurd. There is no progress in Orthodoxy. S. M. Landis. Positive orthodoxy is positive ignorance. Thorild. Resist all false orthodoxy, but call no man here- tic. A. Knooc. Orthodoxy without practice is a body without a soul. J. Haslam. I can endure every kind of religion except the Orthodox. Emperor Valens. Orthodoxy, of itself, is not sufficient to any man's salvation. Rev. J. Flavel. Orthodoxy is my doxy ; heterodoxy is some other man's doxy. |W. Warburton. The path of orthodoxy is narrow ; but it is straight and safe. H. Potter". There is no subject that so much disturbs the mind as Orthodoxy. Hammah Adams. Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of thought ; it learns not, neither can it forget. Prof. Hwacley. Orthodoxy, or a belief in the genuine doctrines taught in the Scriptures, is of more value than the wealth of a thousand worlds. N. Webster. An orthodox faith can never bring us to heaven without a holy life , but so neither can a holy life do it, without an orthodox faith. W. Beveridge. Eternal bliss is not immediately superstructed on the most orthodox beliefs ; but as our Savior sayeth, “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them ;” the doing must be first superstructed on the knowing or believing, before any happiness can be built on it. H. Hammond. OSTENTATION. Avoid all Ostentation. Peter Vidal. Ostentation accords not with piety. Wilberforce. Ostentation is the child of ignorance. Seneca. Ostentation is a mark of vulgar minds. Hakewell. Whatever is done without Ostentation is most praiseworthy. Cicero. Deeds of lowly virtue fade before the glare of lofty Ostentation. Klopstock. The ostentation of a good action often eclipses the glory it would otherwise deserve. Mrs. Bruce. Hearts may be attracted by ostentation, but the affections are not to be fixed but by those which are real. De Moy. As you see a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be chari- table words without works. R. Hall. Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. The Charlatan is verbose and assumptive ; the Pharisee is Ostentatious because he is a hypocrite. Pride is the master sin of the devil ; and the devil is the father of lies. E. H. Chapin. OSTRACISM. Ostracise those who are too popular. Ephorus. Ostracism is a great preventive of merit. Plato. Religious Ostracism paves the way for political Ostracism. W. E. Robinsom. We often Ostracise merit because we cannot com- prehend it. Lady Mary Armyme. Ostracism to a man of refined thought is more of a blessing than a punishment. James Ellis. A sort of ostracism is continually going on against the best, both of men and measures. Hare. Public envy is as an Ostracism, that eclipseth men when they grow too great ; and therefore it is a bridle to keep them within bounds. Bacom. It is better that an innocent person should some- times suffer by ostracism, than that the whole State run the chance of suffering from an ambi- tious one. C. Nepos. OTHERS. Others are often a cypher to ourselves. L. Stein. He that is too good to himself is seldom good to others. Emperor Tacitus. What measure I mete to others, I expect from them again. Rev. W. Chillingworth. What you would not have done to yourselves, never do to others. Alexander Severws. We should conduct ourselves towards others as we would have them act toward us. Aristotle. Do not to others what ye would not have another do to you ; this is the whole law, the rest is but commentary. Hillel. We are always comparing ourselves with others, and making our happiness or misery depend on the objects that surround us. Goethe. Occupy as large a portion of your time as you can in acting for others, and especially for those who have no helper | Study benevolence, in refer- ence to your equals, as well as your inferiors. Mrs. Maria Jame Jewsbury. OWNER. What is not your own let that alone. Opitz. An owner claims his own ; blame him not. Wolof. God is the sovereign owner of all earthly pro- perty. H. Winslow. When every man gets his own the devil gets nothing. Rist. Every one can claim his own wherever it may be found. T. Sedgwick. Victory should not make us insolent, nor should we take advantage to gain anything beyond the honor of restoring every one's right to its just OWIlêl". F. Atterbury. The ownership of things depends on their rela- tion to us. The warmth of another man's fire is as much mine as his while we are mutually enjoy- ing it, and much more mine than his while he is freezing at a distance from it. BOvee. º º - º Fº - º - º º º º - º º º' -- º º º . ſ S- #, º LADY MARY RUSSELL. MRS. SIGOURNEY. JANE PORTER, QUEEN VICTORIA. MRS. EMMA will-LARD. MADAME DE STA-L. MRS. H. B. STOWE. A R O S E O U O T A 7" / O AV S. 649 P. PAG-ANISM. PAIN. Reform paganism. Emperor Julian. Pain past is pleasure. C. Kent. Paganism worships creation instead of Creator. Pain is an outcry of sin. R. South. W. Cave, Paganism attributes the creation of the world to a blind chance. R. Baacter. If a nation would renounce paganism, it must also renounce the vices of paganism. E. P. Day. Even the principles of paganism may be reduced to an intelligible system of theology. A. Ramsay. Pagans can teach us how unsafe it is to walk in the ways of religion without a guide. J. Hall. In paganism, light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error. L. Murray. Paganism robs man of his assurance of another life, and thereby despoils him of patience, humili- ty, and charity. T. Watson. When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, it is either absorbed in it, conver- ted, or exterminated. J. R. Bartlett. Men instructed from their infancy in the princi- ples and duties of Christianity, never sink to the degradation of paganism. G. Spring. The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand, but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexpiable. Montesquiew. The paganism of the ancient world produced abominable gods, who on earth would have been shunned or punished as monsters; and who offered, as a picture of Supreme happiness, only crimes to commit, or passions to satiate. F. Wayland. In its origin paganism as a system was simple. A few great divinities were placed in heaven to guide the affairs of the visible and invisible worlds ; by degrees each great planet, each law of nature, each region and city, may each river, fountain, and wood, had its tutelary divinity. C. Merivale. The matural religion of the pagan philosophers was mixed with fancies and dreams ; there was not a single philosopher who did not adopt some absurdity and communicate it to his disciples. One taught that every being was animated with a particular soul, and on this absurd hypothesis he pretended to account for all the phenomena of na- ture. - Sawrim. The poetic legend, the gleaming marble, the pil- lared temple, the speaking statue, the symbolic procession, the bearded pontiff, the mighty orator, the crowned monarch, the visioned sage—the charm of the scenery, the clearness of the atmos- phere, the beauty of the climate, the imagination of the multitude, even to our times, constitute the ancient paganism and marvel of all that was at- tractive and magnificent. R. W. Hamilton. Pain is the best cure for error. H. Zschökke. Pains are the wages of ill pleasures. Rev. J. Foace. Other men's pains are easily borne. Cervantes. Pain is forgotten where gain comes. R. Lander. If we had no nerves, we would have no pain. R. Flecknoe. He that never tasted pain is no judge of pleasure. J. Bodenham. Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its sha- dow. Colton. There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach. Cicero. Do nothing that will cause pain to yourself or others. Cleanthes. The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. Publius Syrws. Physical pain is necessary to the progress of the human race. J. Priestley. Pain addeth zest unto pleasure, and teacheth the luxury of health. Thupper. Esteem not that pain which is the end of trouble, and beginning of joy. J. Knoac. But for pain, bodies would be broken to pieces on the slightest shock. St, Pierre. There is no real ill in life except severe bodily pain ; they rack both soul and body. Mme. Sévigné. The pain felt for the crime that has been com- mitted separates the good from the bad. Alfieri. The alleviation of pain is a certain symptom of the development of that liberty dear to the people. Montesquiew. There are many pains which are inflicted in con- sequence of actions of which we were forewarned by conscience. F. Wayland. The most effectual means of being secure against pain, is to retire within ourselves, and to suffice for our own happiness. T. Jefferson. Pain is the deepest thing we have in our nature, and union through pain has always seemed more real and holy than any other. H. Hallaſm. That is true nobility, true elevation of soul, when man can rise superior to any suffering and every pain, by the indwelling power given to him. t G. Forster. By pleasure and pain we regulate our actions ; pain, especially the pain of hunger, is our chief in- centive to action, and in activity consists our chief animal enjoyment. T. Ragg. 650 AD A Y'S CO Z Z. A C O AV. we should see that they do not merit the bitterness PAIN. PAINTING. Often pains too long retained increase even to Painting is silent poetry. Simonides. he breaki f the heart ; if th haled . — - the breaking of the heart ; if they could be exhale Thank God, I too, am a painter. Correggio. which they have caused. Fémélon. As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight, so pain grows proud to see us truckle under it ; she will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against us. Montaigne. Pain is, in many respects, a useful index in dis- ease ; it enables us not only to ascertain the true nature of a malady, but also to point out the best and most effectual means of curing it. Dr. J. Shew. Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, suc- ceed each other ; and he only that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can wisely extract the good from the evil, knows how to live. Sterne. If thou take pain in what is good, the pains van- ish, the good remains ; if thou take pleasure in what is evil, the evil remains, and the pleasure vanishes. What art thou the worse for pains, or the better for pleasure when both are past 3 F. Quarles. Pain itself is not without its alleviations ; it may be violent and frequent, but it is seldom both vio- lent and long-continued ; and its pauses and inter- missions become positive pleasures. It has the power of shedding a satisfaction over intervals of ease, of which few enjoyments exceed. Paley. Pain has been the means of increasing our know- ledge, our skill, and our comforts. Look to the dis- coveries made in Science, in botany, in chemistry, in anatomy ; what a knowledge have we gained of the structure and uses of plants, while we were seeking some herb to soothe pain or cure disease. G. Sharpe. Nature has placed mankind under the govern- ment of two sovereign masters—pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do ; on the one hand the standard of right and wrong ; on the other, the chain of causes and effects are fas- tened to their throne. J. Bentham. The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently, en- dure as much pain when their body is hurt ; but in their case the cruelty of torment is much greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme of pain, their happiness consisting entirely in present enjoyment. T. Chalmers. When a man lets pain get the mastery over him, when he is anxious to avoid it on all occasions, and is ever moaning over what is unavoidable, then he becomes an object of contempt rather than pity. It is not so in the case of a woman ; in woman it, is becoming enough, and seems natural that she lean upon another being. The man ought certainly to possess the power of indurance ; but if he fail, it must be regarded as a want or weakness. Humboldt. A bad painter caricatures himself. Wowvermans. A good painting elevates the Soul. G. Lairesse. The mind paints before the brush. James Ellis. Expression is the life of a painting. G. B. Gauli. Painted pictures are dead speakers. H. Fuseli. The painter reflects the image of life. E. P. Day. Painters and poets have liberty to lie. R. Burns. - Painters and poets are born not made. W. Hauff. Painting is an art that can immortalize. U. said. Painting is thought conveyed to canvas. Apelles. Painting expresses the lineaments of thought. A. J. Carstems. He that paints a flower cannot give it perfume. C. Maratti. The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many. W. Allstom. Painting is the intermediate something between thought and a thing. S. T. Coleridge. Painters see many things in the shade and the height which we do not see. Cicero. Old paintings derive a value from the master by whom they were executed. G. Crabb. True painting can only be learned in one school, and that is kept by Nature. Hogarth. Painters and poets have always had the privilege to attempt whatever they pleased. Horace. A man is not a painter simply because he has a pot of colors; he must also know how to lay them Oll. J. P. Curran. What a vanity is painting, which attracts ad- miration by the resemblance of things, that in the original we do not admire. Pascal. Memories of the past have furnished painters with their richest themes, and have filled picture galleries with their choicest gems. G. W. Samson. Ah would that we could at once paint with the eyes | In the long way, from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost Lessing. Trifling painters or sculptors bestow infinite pains upon the most insignificant parts of a figure, till they sink the grandeur of the whole. Pope. When men paint from the heart they are potent; the old masters succeeded not in depicting what they thought so well as in what they felt. Talmage. Most painters have painted themselves ; so have most poets; not so palpably indeed and confessed- ly, but still more assiduously: Some have done no- thing else. A. W. Hare. A R O S Z O J O Z' A 7" / O AV S. —w PAINTING. The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic ; but as to his conception, his spirit, and design, he is hardly below even the poet in llberal art. Steele. A painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music, and not by rule. Lord Bacom. Softness of manner seems to be in painting what smoothness of syllables is in language, affecting the sense of sight or hearing, previous to any cor- respondent passion. Shenstone. The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature—a general prepara- tion for whatever species of the art the student may afterward choose for his more particular ap- plication. Sir J. Reynolds. Painting, when we have allowed for the pleasure of imitation, can only affect simply by the images it presents ; and even in painting, a judicious Ob- scurity in some things contributes to the effect of the picture. Burke. The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them ; they could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so ; it was a fine efflorescence of fine powers. R. W. Emerson. If a picture is daubed with many glaring colors, the vulgar eye admires it ; whereas he judges very contemptuously of some admirable design sketched out only with a black pencil, though by the hand of Raphael. - I. Watts, A painter that would draw a rose, though he may flourish some likeness of it in figure and color, yet he can never paint the scent and fragrancy ; or if he would draw a flame, he cannot put a con- stant heat into his colors. R. Cudworth. It is a very common error to term the ancient paintings found on church walls frescoes, but there is scarcely an instance of genuine fresco among them. They are distemper paintings on plaster, and quite distinct in their style, durability, and mode of manipulation. F. W. Fairholt. Style in painting is the same as in writing—a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed ; and from ideas conceived in the understanding, and images framed by the imagination, the artist must select his subjects. James Ellis. No painter sits down to make a collection of his art by his own pencil at once ; it is done piecemeal, and subject by subject ; and when a large number of pieces are completed in an approved manner, the whole is then exhibited for profit, instruction, admiration, and delight. Acton. The painter who is content with the praise of the world in respect to what does not satisfy himself is not an artist, but an artisan ; for though his re- ward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic for his time, and not for his art. He that seeks popularity in art, closes the door on his own ge- nius ; as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own. W. Allston. PAINTING. Painting is almost palpably a deception, and re- quires the utmost skill in selecting a vicinity of probable ideas, to give it the air of reality and na- ture ; for this reason nothing strange, wonderful, or shocking to credulity, ought to be admitted in paintings that are designed after real life. J. Usher. Painting, by degrees, will perceive her advan- tages over sculpture, but if there are paces between Sculpture and painting, there are parasangs be- tween painting and poetry ; the difference is that of a lake confined by mountains, and a river run- ning on through all the varieties of scenery, per- petual and unimpeded. Sculpture and painting are moments of life ; poetry is life itself, and everything around it, and above it. W. S. Landor. One of the principal requisites for the successful practice of painting is anatomy ; it is obvious that to represent successfully the humar form, its con- struction in the skeleton, and the tendons and muscles by which the bones of the skeleton are connected and move, is knowledge that must be acquired, inasmuch as they appear more or less through the integuments with which they are covered ; without this knowledge the living model becomes useless to him. J. Gwilt. No painter, however great his genius or inven- tive power may be, will neglect the study of living Subjects, and content himself with poring over the phantoms of his imagination, or the puppets of his theory ; any more than a poet will turn away from the world of history and of actual life. The paint- er's business is not to produce a new creature of his own, but to reproduce that which nature pro- duces now and then in her happiest moments, to give permanence to the rapture of transient inspi- ration, and unity and entireness to what in real life is always more or less disturbed by marks of earthly frailty, and by the intrusion of extraneous, if not uncongenial and contradictory elements. J. C. Hare. PANIC. Panics are the ulcers of a dishonest commercial basis. John Read. A person in a panic fears that he does not fear enough. E. P. Day. There ought to be no such thing as a panic in business. H. Greeley. A sudden panic is most commonly the forerun- ner of certain death. St. Awgustine. A panic is usually a sudden and groundless alarm, and often promulgated for the purpose of deceiv- ing the unwary. T. W. Dwight. The panic-stricken soldier throws down his arms when he most needs them, and loses his life through fear he may not be able to save it. T. Parsons. A commercial panic is often the loop-hole by which many dishonest men escape—the salvation to rascality that otherwise would have been ex- posed and punished. James Ellis. A panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy, of our imagination ; all is then lost, for we have then not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well. Bovee. 652 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. PARABLE. PARADISE. Christ taught by parables. O. S. Fowler. Seek paradise. Zoroaster. Parables are more ancient than arguments. A good conscience is paradise. Arminius. Lord Bacom. A parable is the simplest vehicle for conveying information to the immature mind. S. L. Clemens. Precepts are the more easily comprehended and retained in the memory, when clothed in parables. G. P. Morris. Parables furnish a fund of instruction for the young, in a garb that can scarcely fail to attract their attention. G. B. Mille)'. In the parable of the talents, our Savior plainly teacheth us, that men are rewarded according to the improvements they make. R. Nelsom. The multitude of Christ's parables is not so won- derful as their variety, their beauty, their brevity, and the sweet or fearful pictures which they paint at once and forever upon the soul. G. Gilfillan. Parables are a medium through which the poet not only searches and illustrates moral truth, but raises his disciples to his own elevated station, and to a view of the intellectual world. Krwmmacher. PANTHEISMI. Pantheism confounds God with nature. Dr. S. T. Spear. Pantheism and atheism are not far apart. W. A. Butler. Pantheism supposes God and nature to be one universal being. & Waterland. Pantheism assumes at times a materialistic and idealistic complexion. The atheist says that there is no God; the pantheist that everything is God. A. A. Hodge. Pantheism answers to ochlocracy, and leads to it ; pure monotheism, to a despotic monarchy. If a type of trinitarianism is to be found in the politi- cal world, it must be a government by three es- tates, tria juncta in wino. J. C. Hare. No doubt the imagination is often deceived by the gay drapery in which the objects set forth to Our contemplation by pantheism is decked, and the intellect, dizzied by the many turnings of sophistry through which it has been carried before the vision is disclosed, is the less capable of detecting the de- ception. McCosh. IPAPACY. Papacy is in its dotage. John Dowling. Papacy is not Christianity ; it is not the religion Of the New Testament. E. S. James. There is many a one that liveth a Papist, yet dieth at heart a Protestant. Calvin. If papacy be founded in divine right, it is supe- rior to whatever is founded only in human right. O. A. Brownson. I believe that many have been saved under the Papacy, although they never heard the gospel as now, thank God, it is preached and taught. Luther. deaths daily. Paradise is where the love of God is. G. Burmet. Paradise was happiness till woman entered. Giovanni Greppi. The inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise. James Ellis. Man and woman left paradise together ; if they Would return, let it be in the same manner. E. P. Day. In looking for the keys of paradise, a pope may stoop a little ; having found them he should rise again. Pope Siactus V. There are two qualifications for entering para- dise ; one is to be an archangel, the other to be a Serpent. T. Tilton. Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away ; indeed, our first pa- rents were not to be deprived of it. Richter. The joys of Paradise and the rapturous delight felt in meeting the radiance of God’s countenance will send into oblivion all the anguish of the earthly life. Rabbi Jehuda. What is paradise ? We can say, in answer to this question, that with this heavenly paradise into which the redeemed at death do enter, the ancient, the earthly paradise is not fit to be compared. Rev. W. Hanna. Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden; and even then there are holy hours when this angel sleeps, and man comes back, and with the innocent eyes of a child looks into his lost paradise again—into the broad gates and rural solitudes of nature. Longfellow. PARADOX. A paradox is a pleasant and bold enigma. Garth. It is an unnatural paradox that evil should pro- ceed from goodness. B. Holyday. There is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old. James Ellis. I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves pointed at. H. Walpole. It is not possible for any man in his wits, though never so much addicted to paradoxes, to believe otherwise, but that the whole is greater than the part ; that contradictions cannot be both true; that three and three make six ; that four is more than three. J. Wilkins. Paradoxes lie all through the New Testament, and one may walk on them like stepping-stones, from side to side ; sorrow is joy ; death is life ; down is up ; weakness is strength ; loss is gain ; defeat is victory ; the world's mightiest men, the very monarchs of its joy, were they who died H. W. Beecher. A R O S Z O Ú O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 653 PARDON. PARENT. A patriot asks no pardon. Samwel Adams. Honor thy parents. Rabbi Eleazar. The offender never pardons. G. Herbert. Next to God thy parents. W. Laud. Pardon is the noblest revenge. J. Howell. Parents love ; others talk of love. Miss Yonge. Pardon is an attribute of the Deity. J. C. Eustace. Pardon others often, thyself never. P. Syrws. Pardon is the most glorious revenge. Buckle. Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. Tomline. Pardon, if too much used, becomes injustice. R. W. Evans. The man who pardons too easily often invites injury. Corneille. It is a glorious victory to pardon those who have injured us. Tillotson. I can pardon those who have tried to injure me, but not those who injure others. JKolotl. Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. Saadi. It would tire the hands of an angel to write down all the pardons God bestows upon true, peni- tent believers. Pardon is the act of forgiving an offender, or removing the guilt of sin, that the punishment due to it may not be inflicted. C. Buck. Bath any wronged thee? Be bravely revenged ; slight it, and the work is begun ; pardon it, and it is finished ; he is below himself that is not above an injury. F. Quarles. God never pardons one sin, but He pardons all ; and we dishonor Him more by not trusting in Him for complete forgiveness, than we did by sinning against Him. A. Adam. The pardon of sin obliterates that which is past, and restores the sinner to the Divine favor ; it is promised throughout Scripture to all men on the condition of faith and repentance. G. Crabb. The highest of characters, in my estimation, is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind, as if he were every day guilty of some himself ; and at the same time as cautious of Com- mitting a fault as if he never forgave one. Pliny. A man may be safe as to his condition, but, in the meantime, dark and doubtful as to his appre- hensions ; secure in his pardon, but miserable in the ignorance of it ; and so passing all his days in the disconsolate, uneasy vicissitudes of hopes and fears, at length go out of the world, not knowing whither he goes. R. Sowth. Go to the prisoner in his cell under sentence of death ; show him his pardon, properly signed and sealed ; knock off his galling fetters ; open his prison doors, and introduce him once more to the forfeited sunshine of heaven. What transports of rapture would thrill through his heart, when, in consciousness of pardon, he rejoiced in the light of liberty W. J. Brock. J. Bates. - Other. Respect the counsel of your parents. Rothschild. Parents are kind, but God is kinder. A. Aacel. He who honors his parents honors God. Talmud. Unhappy parents have unhappy children. Awde. A suspicious parent makes an artful child. Haliburton. Our first duty in society is to obey our parents. Napoleon I. Respect of parents curbs the spirit and restrains vices. Seneca. The brightest smiles and bitterest tears spring from parents' hearts. G. S. Bowes. The hearts of parents are overcome by their love for their children. Ishida. One parent better maintains ten children than ten children one parent. V. Acidaliws. A son who is dutiful to his parents is generally respectful to his teacher. Yew Jo. You must love a parent that does his duty, and bear with one who does not. Publius Syrus. By becoming a parent, a service has been ren- dered to God and the country. Zoroaster. How few daughters are fully aware of the sacri- fices made for them by their parents. - Lowisa C. Thuthill. If parents were really faithful to their children there would be very few unconverted adults. R. Baacter. Parents stand in the awfully responsible place of God's representatives to their young children. Mrs. Willard. Parents are worthy of reproof, who are unwill- ing to do good to their children by severe disci- pline. Petronius. Parents who are ignorant of their duty, will be taught by the misconduct of their children what they ought to have done. L. Byrn. The chief requisites that should constitute the fundamental parts of a system of parental author- ity, are obedience and truth. L. Aime Martin. As the reward to those who honor their parents is great, so is the punishment equally great for those who neglect the precept. Simon. From the first dawn of consciousness, it was a parent's love that beamed upon our hearts, and awakened all their best and holiest sympathies. Mary Ferrier. None but sensible parents can bring up a child well ; nine-tenths of the children in the world are either neglected or mismanaged in some way or JRev. Dr. Davies. 654 D A Y’.S CO / / A C O AV. PARENT. In most cases bad parents beget bad children ; if parents have no scruples about false coin and false weights, the sons are apt to commit the same Crimes. Rabbi Jehwda. The hand of our parents traces on our feeble hearts those first characters to which example and time give firmness, and which perhaps God alone can efface. Voltaire. The behavior of parents toward their children gives sufficient evidence even to those who never had children, that the parental affection is com- mon to mankind. T. Reid. What will parents be able to say to God at the day of judgment, for all their neglect of their chil- dren, in matter of instruction and example, and restraint from evil. Tillotsom, How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes, how many anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child. S. G. Goodrich. Honor your parents in your hearts; bear them not only awe and respect, but kindness and affec- tion ; love their persons, and fear to do anything that may justly provoke them. Rev. W. Cradock. The last duty of parents to their children is that of giving them an education Suitable to their sta- tion in life : a duty pointed out by reason, and far the greatest importance of any. Blackstone. What parents are wise enough to consider the passions of youth in the same point of view as the sports of childhood, and who are willing to re- nounce all participation equally in the one as in the Other ? Mme. de Stael. It does not, however, appear that in things so in- timately connected with the happiness of life as marriage and the choice of an employment, parents have any right to force the inclinations of their children. J. Beattie. If parents are civil and kind to one another, if children never hear from them profane or coarse language, they will as naturally grow up well- behaved as that candle took the form of the mold it was run in. Miss Catharine M. Sedgwick. There is scarcely any one who cannot trace back his present religious character to some impression in early life—from one or other of his parents—a tone, a look, a word, a habit, or even it may be, a bitter, miserable exclamation of remorse. F. W. Robertson. The parents are the first patterns which a child copies after. If they are lazy and worthless, the children are poor and destitute ; if careless, they are Slovenly ; if ignorant, they are so likewise ; if windy and pompous, they are conceited and vain. T. Dibdin, Unless parents set a good example to their chil- dren, they will furnish a plain reason to be used by them against themselves ; and this is to be feared, that if they have not lived an honorable life, their sons will despise them and abandon them in their old age. Aristotle. PARENT. Parents, to do them justice, are seldom sparing of lessons of virtue and religion ; in admonitions which cost little and which profit less ; whilst their example exhibits a continual Contradiction of what they teach. W. Paley. The parent who sedulously endeavors to form the heart and enlarge the understanding of his child, has given that dignity to the discharge of a duty, common to the whole animal world, that Only reason can give. T. Kirk. The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter ; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. Lord Bacon. Those parents act most wisely who have fore- sight enough to provide not only for the youth, but for the age of their offspring ; who teach them usefulness, and not to expect too much from the world ; to become betimes familiarized with stern and actual realities of life. Acton. I suppose it never occurs to parents that to throw vilely educated young people on the world is, in- dependently of the injury to the young people themselves, a positive crime, and of very great magnitude ; as great, for instance, as burning their neighbor's house, or poisoning the water in his well. J. Foster. Through the whole course of life it is right to hold, and to have held in a pre-eminent degree, the kindest language toward our parents, because there is the heaviest punishment for light and winged words; for Nemesis, the messenger of Justice, has been appointed to look after all men in such mat- ters. Plato. Parents of an unnoticed family, who in their se- clusion awaken the mind of one child to the idea and love of goodness, who awaken in him a strength of will to repel temptation, and who send him out prepared to profit by the conflicts of life, surpass in influence a Napoleon breaking the world to his sway. W. E. Channing. God hath wisely and kindly implanted in the breasts of parents a most ardent principle of affec- tion toward their children ; and, indeed, the va- rious trials and difficulties of a family require more than ordinary regard to conduct it with propriety; to bear with patience whatever transpires, and to watch with constancy against every evil to which children are exposed. C. Buck. Few parents realize how much their children may be taught at home by devoting a few minutes to their instruction every day. Let a parent make a companion of his child, converse with him fami- liarly, put to him questions, answer inquiries, com- municate facts—the result of his reading or Observ- ation—awaken his curiosity, explain difficulties, the meaning of things, and the reason of things: and all this in an easy, playful manner, without seeming to impose a task, and he himself will be astonished at the progress which will be made. The experiment is so simple that none need hesi- tate about its performance. B. F. Tefft. * A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 65 5 PARSIMONY. - Parsimony hoards itself poor. J. Ogilby. Parsimony leads to meanness. Confucius. Parsimony is culpable in a man, but disgraceful in a sovereign. Firdowsee, Parsimony makes a man wealthy from the small- est beginnings. Swift. When we have reached the end of our property, it is too late to become parsimonious. Seneca. The parsimony of princes is usually attended by a sacred regard to the property of others. Guicciardini. The ways to enrich are many ; parsimony is one of the best, and yet is not innocent, for it with- holdeth men from works of liberality. Lord Bacon. A man is sometimes rendered parsimonious by circumstances; he who first saves from necessity but too often ends with saving from inclination. G. Crabb. War and economy are things not easy recon- ciled, and the attempt of leaning toward parsi- mony in such a state may be the worse economy in the world. Burke. The niggardly and parsimonious thrive only in One sense, that is, by gain, Sordid and selfish gain ; if they fail there, all is lost, for they have no claims to partiality and esteem. Acton. Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old, otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire ; and when they had the pru- dence to acquire, had no longer the power to en- JOy. Colton. PARTIALITY. Partiality often defeats justice. James Ellis. It is important to justice that a judge should not be partial. N. Webster. A partiality to opinions is apt to mislead the un- derstanding. J. Locke. Partiality is judging according to the will and affections, and not according to truth. R. South. Partiality in a parent is commonly unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools by too much partiality. L’Estrange. Parents often injure their children by adopting a favorite, and cherishing an improper partiality toward some one of them. J. Bartlett. The teacher should be particularly cautioned against partiality ; there should be no favoritism ; these things are not merely bad in themselves; they destroy the whole moral influence of the teacher. G. B. Emerson. Partiality to ourselves is seen in a variety of in- stances ; the liberality of the press is a blessing, when we are inclined to write against others; and a calamity, when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants. Dr. Johnson. PARTING. Parting is such sweet sorrow. Shakspeare. Partings give joy to meetings. Bowrrienne. At lovers' partings sorrow is present. Atsutada. Parting is worse than death ; it is the death of love. Dryden, Bitter is the parting time when a friend bids us farewell. Man-yo-shiw. Every parting is a form of death, as every re- union is a type of heaven. T. Edwards. To die and part is a less evil ; but to part and live—there, there, is the torment. Lansdowne. A good man is not to be parted with, unless he ceases to be that for which he was chosen. Jeremy Taylor. Men seldom appear so humane, or in a position so advantageous to their humanity, as when they part. Jean Ingelow. Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new SOITOW. Sir J. Suckling. There is always a feeling of regret when we are called to part with familiar objects for the last time, however humble or unimportant they may be. A. Wood. Let our parting be full as charitable as our meet- ing was ; that the pale, envious world, glad of the food of others’ miseries, civil dissensions, and nup- tual strifes, may not feed fat with ours. T. Middleton. Most of us have experienced, when parting from those we love best, the dull, apathetic, interval between the last outpouring of the heart's sadness and the actual arrival of the minute that shall com- plete the separation. Clawde Cowrtépée. At length this joy, these dreams, this parting dis- solved themselves into that mameless melancholy in which the overflowing of happiness covers the borders of pain, because our breasts are ever more easily overflowed than filled. Richter. We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our angels go ; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. We are idola- tors of the old ; we do not believe in the richness of the Soul, in its proper eternity and omnipre- SeHCé. R. W. Emerson. Parting and forgetting ! What faithful heart can do these ? Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us; Surely they cannot separate from our consciousness, shall fol- low it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal. W. M. Thackeray. A chord, stronger or weaker, is Snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practised in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may. Will it be again in the same way, with the same sympathies, with the same Sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream 3 Rarely, rarely. Bulwer. 656 AD A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. PARTY. Let party feeling give way to union. S. Bolivar. Avoid all ill-feeling among your parties. U. S. Grant. A national party must have a national issue. T. Tilton. Party is the loss of many for the gain of few. Lord Derby. He who serves his country best serves his party best. R. B. Hayes. Those only are regarded who are true to their party. Sir W. Temple. Political partizanship is begotten of intellectual darkness. R. M. Lºwsher. As a cancer is to a man's body, so is party zeal to his soul. Downey. A man should serve his party when his party serves him. Benjamin F. Butler. Party standards are shadows in which patriot- ism is buried. St. Pierre. In the violence of party strife men listen, think, and read, who never thought before. Burmap A man must not be an oak, but a willow, if he would hold office under every party. W. Paulet. Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it. Lord Burleigh. Parties have no other prudence than factious qualifications, and no other moral principle than their passions. Lamartime. He that aspires to be the head of a party, will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. Colton. However sound and loyal one may be, it is ex- tremely hard always to side with the party in the midst of which one lives. Mime. Swetchine. A party cannot exist except by the force of com- mon principles ; it is truth, and truth only, that of itself rallies men together. G. Bancroft. The effect of violent animosities between parties has always been an indifference to the general wel- fare and honor of the state. T. B. Macawlay. The reign of an intolerant spirit of party among a free people, seldom fails to result in a dangerous accession to the executive power. W. H. Harrison. If a man leaves our party for the opposite party, he is a traitor; if he leaves the opposite party for ours, he exhibits a manly independence of char- acter | E. P. Day. What is it that occasions parties, but the ambi- tious or avaricious spirit of men in eminent sta- tions, who want to engross all power in their own hands. S. Croacoll. Many a public man will be found, by those im- mediately around him, neither so detestable nor so admirable as perhaps he is thought by opposite parties. R. Whately. IPARTY. The truly independent course is to act as if party had no existence ; to follow that which is wisest and best in itself, irrespective of the side which makes the loudest claim to the monopoly of good- IlêSS. W. C. Taylor. To what a state does party spirit reduce us . To have every man trying to conquer his fellows, without trying to conquer the truth ; to see all striving for victory, and forgetful of the public good. T. Dwight. It is of no consequence what the principles of any party, or what their pretensions are; the spirit which actuates all parties is the same ; the spirit of ambition, of self-interest, of oppression, and of treachery. Burke. The worst effect of party is its tendency to gene- rate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence. W. T. Brande. I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state ; let me now take a more com- prehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally. Washington. The most violent party men are such as, as in the conduct of their lives, have discovered least sense of religion or morality, and when such are laid aside as shall be found incorrigible, it will be no difficulty to reconcile the rest. Swift. There is nothing that more tends to deprave the moral sense than party, because it supplies that sympathy for which man has a natural craving. To any one unconnected with party, the tempta- tions of personal interest or gratification are in some degree checked by the disapprobation of those around him. R. Whately. Observe in how many relations, political, reli- gious, and social, a man is liable to find bondage instead of freedom. If he wants office, he must attach himself to a party, and then his eyes must be sealed in blindness, and his lips in silence, toward all the faults of his party. He may have his eyes open, and he may see much to condemn, but he must say nothing. O. Dewey. I have frequently wondered to see men of pro- bity, who would scorn to utter a falsehood for their own particular advantage, give so readily into a lie when it is become the voice of their faction, notwithstanding they are thoroughly sensible of it as such. How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party ? Addison. It is with reluctance that a man of real worth and modest merit enters the political arena, or consents to encounter the pestiferous atmosphere of party spirit, now hanging, like an incubus, Over our beloved country. Nor is merit a necessary qualification with the demagogue. Available, is the omnipotent word, the grand counter-sign, the magic passport to a nomination ; and when nomi- nated, the candidate must be voted for, although destitute of capacity, moral virtue, and the requi- sites of a statesman. L. C. Judson. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 657 PASSION. PASSION. Govern your passions. Mencius. Nature has bestowed two passions On man, as a e — source of happiness or misery. St. Pierre. Our passions never die. Longfellow. - IPassion is the enemy of truth. sº M. Madan. Passion maketh a man a beast L. E. Dupin. Passion does not pause to reflect. Riw-ó. Passion is the inheritance of fools. R. Eleazar. Passionate people lay up no malice. W. Dodd. Passion and reason are ever at war. It. Bage. Watch carefully over your passions. Rothschild. Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. R. south. Human passions never come to an end. Sévigné. We may refute errors, but never passions. Vinet. A man without passion is a statue, not a man. Phryme. Who is strong 3 He who subdues his passions. Hillel. Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion. Shakspeare. He whom passion rules is bent to meet his death. Sir Philip Sidney. One who gives way to passion is as bad as an idolater. Rabbi Simon. The passions are the only orators that always persuade. G. Abbot. Passions are as easily evaded as impossible to moderate. Montaigme. Passion costs me too much to bestow it upon every trifle. T. Adams. Govern your passions or otherwise they will govern you. . Horace. The wise man governs his passions, but the fool obeys them. Krishna. A fit of passion may cause you to mourn long and bitterly. L. C. Judson. Steel assassinates; the passions kill. Where is the difference 2 Mme. Delway. Some passions cannot be regulated, but must be entirely cut off. Seneca. He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. Cicero. Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God. Confucius. He who never gets in a passion is ready for hea- ven before his time. J. Leclerc. The worst of slaves are those that are constantly serving their passions. Diogenes. Our passions are the keys of our frame, played upon by external objects. Sir R. Maltravers. Great passions are incurable diseases; the very remedies make them worse. Goethe. He whose passions are inflamed looks at nothing beyond the present gratification. F. Wayland. We condemn generally the passions of others by other passions either like or unlike. Quesnel. To be in a passion is to punish one's self for the faults and impertinences of another. Stanislaws. We are all mad when we are in a passion ; for it is a difficult task to restrain anger. Philemon. Passion transforms us into a kind of savages, and makes us brutal and sanguinary. W. Broome. Passions directed to their right end may fail in their manner, but not in their measure. Feltham. If we control our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength. Rochefoucauld. Strong passions work wonders when there is a greater strength of reason to curb them. Josiah Tweker. Passion may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. W. Penn. Passionate persons are like men who stand upon their heads ; they see all things the wrong way. Plato. Passion is universal humanity ; without it reli- gion, history, romance, and art would be useless. Balzac. He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. Lavater. If you have vanquished your passion, and not been vanquished by it, you have reason to rejoice. Plaw.tws. Passions, new-born, at first are in our power; but when the tide runs strong they sweep resolves. - A. Hill. Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. Colton. Passion often makes a fool of the most ingenious man, and often makes the greatest blockheads in- genious. J. Thomson. The only praiseworthy indifference is an ac- quired one ; we must feel as well as control our passions. Richter. Alas ! in strong natures, if resistance to tempta- tion is of granite, so the passions that they admit are of fire. e Bulwer. A man can always conquer his passions if he pleases ; but he cannot always please to conquer his passion. D. Booth. The passions of the men of society differ as much from the passions of the natural man as the fruits of a grafted tree from those of a wild one. De Bowfiers. 42 – 658 AX A Y’.S CO / / A C O AV. - PASSION. Passions, like fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters and sub-minister to the best and worst purposes. L’Estrange. Violent passions are formed in solitude : in the bustle of the world no object has time to make a deep impression. Rames. Give not reins to your inflamed passions; take time and grant a little delay : impetuosity man- ages affairs badly. Statius. If we subdue our unruly and disorderly passions within ourselves, we should live more easily and quietly with others. Stillingfleet. Were it not for the existence of the passions no one would build a house, marry a wife, beget chil- dren, or do any work. Talmvwol. All the precepts of Christianity command us to moderate our passions, to temper our affections to- ward all things below. Sir W. Temple. Our passions are like convulsive fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after. Pope. The various passions and motives by which men are influenced, are concomitants of fallibility, and ingrafted into our nature. Washington. The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to their moral nature. H. W. Beecher. Unruly passions drag us down, and place us in a labyrinth where disquiet, anguish, misery, and re- morse lie in wait to seize us. S. Gessner. More of true enjoyment is lost by the violence of passion, than by the want of those things which give occasion to that passion. H. Blair. If we look closely, we shall see that it is not so much interest and passion that governs men ; and that passion almost holds its own. Mme. Swetchine. The way to conquer men is by their passions : catch but the ruling foible of their hearts, and all their boasted virtues sink before you. P. Tolstoi. Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion ; this doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools, which are SO. J. Hall. Consider daily the passions which are bred in your heart, as a fisherman beholds the fishes swim- ming in the water, on purpose to catch them. N. Cawssim. The passions are to society, what wheels and springs are to a machine : we must know the uses and applications of the first to construct the latter. A. Brisbane. Men will always act according to their passions ; therefore, the best government is that which in- spires the nobler passions and destroys the meaner. Jacobi. * That man approaches the gods who is guided by reason and not by passion, and who weighing the facts can proportion the punishment with discre- tion. Clawdian. PASSION. Men spend their lives in the service of their pas- sions, instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives, e Steele. Men will believe their passions quicker than they will their consciences, and yet their passions are generally wrong, and their consciences always right. H. W. Shaw. It is the strong passions which, rescuing us from sloth, can alone impart to us that continuous and earnest attention necessary to great intellectual effort. Helvetius. The blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flow- ers, are brighter and fuller of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly. Longfellow. Passion is the great stimulus of intellect ; it rouses the mind from the dead stagnation of indif- ference, and from the stupefying routine of inces- sant toil. G. W. Burmap. The pleasure of being master of one's self, and of one's passions, should be balanced with that of con- tenting them ; it will rise above, if we know what is liberty. Bosswet. Were it not for the salutary agitation of the pas- sions, the waters of life would become dull, stag- nant, and as unfit for all vital purposes as those of the Dead Sea. Chatfield. The passions act as winds to propel our vessel; our reason is the pilot that steers her ; without the winds she would not move ; without the pilot she would lost. F. Schwltz. I do not mean to say that principle is not a finer thing than passion ; but passions existed before principles; they came into the world with us; principles are superinduced. Mrs. Jameson. Those passionate persons who carry their heart in their mouth, are rather to be pitied than feared ; their threatenings serving no other purpose than to forearm him that is threatened. T. Fuller. Passion is the great mover and Spring of the Soul. When men's passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages. T. Sprat. God gives to human passions, even when they seem to decide everything, only what is necessary for becoming the instrument of His designs; thus man works, but it is God who directs. Fémélon. In all disputes, so much as there is of passion so much there is of nothing to the purpose ; for then reason, like a bad hound, spends upon a false Scent, and forsakes the question first started. Browne. Many persons in reasoning on the passions, make a continual appeal to common sense ; but passion is without common sense, and we must frequently discard the one in speaking of the other. Hazlitt. We may always accomplish much more than we conceive, provided passion fans the flame which the imagination has lighted ; for life is insupport- able when unanimated by the Soft affections of the heart. Zimmerman. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 659 PASSION. There are generous passions in the soul of man, which frequently lie dormant until some exciting cause serves to awake their susceptibilities, and to give impulse to their native direction. S. Adams. To rule one's self and subdue Our passion is SO much the more praiseworthy as few know how to do so, and in proportion as the causes that excite our indignation and desires are more just. Guicciardini. People have a custom of excusing the enormities of their conduct by talking of their passions, as if they were under the control of a blind necessity, and sinned because they could not help it. R. Cumberland. Passion is power ; it is a certain amount of rude native feral force, which in many minds where it is paramount has no intellectual outlet or res- traint, but which whenever it finds this moves the world. G. Gilfillam. To eradicate our passions, to annihilate the strong perceptions of pleasure and pain, and to preserve apathy under severe afflictions, would be impossi- ble, if it were desired, and not to be desired, if it. were possible. Mrs. Sigourmey. The passions and desires, like the two twists of a rope, mutually mix one with the other, and twine inextricably round the heart ; producing good if moderately indulged, but certain destruction if suffered to become inordinate. R. Burton. The most commonplace people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion ; whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds—efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon. A. Helps. Happy is he who is engaged in controversy with his own passions, and comes off superior ; who makes it his endeavor that his follies and weak- nesses may die before himself, and who daily me- ditates on morality and immorality. Jortin. A man is by nothing so much himself, as by his temper and the character of his passions and affec- tions; if he loses what is manly and worthy in these, he is as much lost to himself, as when he loses his memory and understanding. Shaftesbury. It is the passions which do and undo everything ; if reason ruled, nothing would get on. It is said that pilots fear beyond everything those halcyon seas where the vessel obeys not the helm, and that they prefer wind at the risk of storms. Fontenelle. Nature gives us passions and desires in conform- ity with our present state ; it is not nature, but the bugbears that we ourselves call up, that torment us, because they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not. Pascal. The passions are the winds that fill the sails of the vessel, and sink it at times ; but without them it would be impossible to make way. Bile makes man passionate and sick ; but without bile man could not live. Everything is dangerous here be- low, but everything is necessary. Voltaire. PASSION. Let another's passion be a lecture to thy reason, and let the shipwreck of his understanding be a seamark to thy passion ; SO shalt thou gain strength out of his weakness, Safety out of his danger, and raise thyself a building Out of his ruins. Quarles. The passions should be purged ; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred may be a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions purer makes them stronger, more durable and more enjoyable. Jowbert. The passions are at once tempters and chastisers ; as tempters, they come with garlands of flowers on brows of youth ; as chastisers, they appear with wreaths of snakes on the forehead of deformity. They are angels of light in their delusion ; they are fiends of torment in their inflictions. H. Giles. Strong passions are the life of manly virtues. But they need not necessarily be evil because they are passions, and because they are strong. The passions may be likened to blood horses, that need training and the curb only, to enable them whom they carry to achieve the most glorious triumphs. W. G. Simms. As rivers when they overflow, drown those grounds and ruin those husbandmen—which while they flowed calmly betwixt their banks, they fer- tilized and enriched—so our passions when they grow exorbitant and unruly, destroy those virtues to which they may be very serviceable while they keep within their bounds. R. Boyle. Strong passion under the direction of a feeble reason feeds a low fever, which serves only to des- troy the body that entertains it. But vehement passion does not always indicate an infirm judg- ment ; it often accompanies and actuates, and is even auxillary to a powerful understanding ; and when they both conspire and act harmoniously, their force is great to destroy disorder within and to repel injury from abroad. Burke. The passions are unruly cattle, and therefore you must keep them chained up, and under the government of religion, reason, and prudence ; if you thus keep them under discipline, they are use- ful servants; but if you let them loose, and give them head, they will be your masters, and unruly masters, and carry you like wild and unbridled horses into a thousand mischiefs and inconve- niences, besides the great disturbance, disorder, and discomposure they will occasion in your own mind. Sir M. Hale. To be without passion is worse than a beast ; to be without reason is to be less than a man. Since I can be without neither, I am blessed in that I have both ; for if it be not against reason to be passionate, I will not be passionate against reason ; I will both grieve and joy if I have reason for it, but no joy nor grief above reason ; I will so joy at my good as not to take evil by my joy, so grieve at any evil as not to increase my evil by my grief; for it is not a folly to have passions, but to want reason ; I would be neither senseless nor beastly. A. Warwick, 660 ZD A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. PAST. PAST. The past is beyond recall. Surr-Durr. Many classes are always praising the past : for it Study the past if you would divine the future. - Confucius. Revere the past ; but remember that we cannot live in it. J. F. Daniell. Of time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling. Aristotle. The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions and our actions. Bovee. What is past, however it may be blamed, can- not be retrieved. Livy. Age and sorrow have the gift of reading the fu- ture by the sad past. Dr. Far", ar. No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed. Lord Byron. Our reverence for the past is just in proportion to our ignorance of it. T. Parker. The past is the great depository of facts ; the future, of uncertainties. Acton. In the great inconstancy and crowd of events, nothing is certain except the past. Seneca. The earth, with its scarred face, is the symbol of the past ; the air and heaven of futurity. S. T. Coleridge. The past and future are veiled ; but the past wears the widow's veil, the future the virgin's. Richter. Philosophy finds no difficulty in triumphing over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over her. Rochefoucauld. There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism, and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race. O. W. Holmes. The past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it, and like the flash of the lightning, at Once exists and expires. Colton. If the past calls up no regrets, our lives will be happy in the present, and our hopes bright in the future. We mourn too much over the past and let the present fly from us. James Ellis. It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last reached. Goethe. It is the past only which we really enjoy as soon as we become sensible of duration ; each bygone instant of delight becomes rapidly present to us, and “bears a glass which shows us many more.” Sir T. N. Talfowrd. What is past is set in endless night, to live only in our fleeting recollections, to glimmer in our de- caying and treacherous memories, that varnish past scenes with such illusive art, that we hang even upon our past follies with delight. Sir R. Maltravers. is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth ; the weak, the era of their strength ; the sick, the season of their vigor ; and the disap- pointed, the springtide of their hopes | Bingham. Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of past actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck, and gone down. E. H. Chapin. It is necessary to look forward as well as back- ward, as some think it always necessary to regu- late their conduct by things that have been done of old times ; but that past which is so presump- tuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on an alteration of some past that went before it. Mime. de Stael. Tell us not that the past, examined by cold phi- losophy, was no better and no loftier than the present ; it is not thus seen by pure and generous eyes. Let the past perish, when it ceases to reflect on the magic mirror the beautiful romance which is its noblest reality, though perchance but the shadow of delusion. Bulwer. The past, in truth, still lives to us, and connected by the slightest ligament of the present moment, is all that really does ; the future does not live as yet. The past is the region, properly speaking, of fact—pleasing or painful—of aspect benign or frowning, chiefly as we ourselves have made it ; over it imagination has little power. H. Rogers. The past and the remembrance of it have a never-ending power, and if painful longings arise to give ourselves up to it, it has yet an inexpressi- ble charm ; we can shut ourselves up in thought with those whom we have loved and lost ; we can turn away in peace and freedom from all that is external, and though still active and beneficent, for ourselves we ask nothing, for everything that the heart has the power to enjoy is within our breast. Hwmboldt. The past is dead, and hās no resurrection ; but the future is endowed with such a life that it lives to us even in anticipation. The past is, in many things, the foe of mankind ; the future is, in all things, our friend. For the past is no hope ; the future is both hope and fruition. The past is the text-book of tyrants; the future the bible of the free. Those who are solely governed by the past stand, like Lot's wife, crystalized in the act of look- ing backward, and forever incapable of looking forward. H. K. White. You may converse with any man, however dis- tinguished for attainments or habits of application, or power of using what he knows, and he will sigh over the remembrances of the past, and tell you that there have been many fragments of time which he has wasted, and many opportunities which he has lost forever ; if he had only seized upon the fleeting advantages, and gathered up the fragments of time, he might have pushed his re- searches out into new fields, and amassed vast stores of knowledge. J. Todd. PA O S A. Q J O T A 7" / O M. S. 661 PASTIME. Every nation has its pastimes. J. Strutt. Make a serious study of pastime. Alex, the Great. Pastime to a wise man is wisdom relaxing her bow. Arlotto. Choose such pastimes as recreate much, and cost little. - T. Fuller. Pastime is the mind's relief guard from the cares Of life. Princess Amelia. Pastime is throwing the bridle on the neck of thought. C. Alston. Pastime, so acceptable to the young, is almost indispensable to the old. SilveStre. The pastimes of childhood, and the harmless di- versions of innocence and mirth, prolong the hopes Of life. St. Evremond. Pastime is the amusement of the leisure hour ; it may be alternately a diversion, a sport, or a simple amusement, as circumstances require. G. Crabb. Pastime is a word that should never be used but in a bad sense ; it is vile to say such a thing is agreeable because it helps to pass the time away. Shenstone. Pastime is the mind's half holiday or picnic in the groves and bowers of pleasure, where we can ramble in the meandering paths of joy, and inhale some of the sweet ether that occupies the heavenly Space. James Ellis. Let the world have their May-games, wakes, whetsunales, their dancings and concerts; their puppet-shows, hobby-horses, tabors, bagpipes, balls, barley-breaks, and whatever pastimes please them best, provided they be followed with discre- tion. R. Burton. Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity : animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their pastimes, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded. H. Greeley. PATHOS. Pathos is an attribute of the soul. C. Babbage. No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic. - E. Porter. More pathos in men's lives would be a benefit to mankind. Heaven in its mercy has placed the fountain of pathos in the hidden and concealed depths of the J. M. Von Babo. soul. Pathos and sorrow are blended together, and are as closely and inseparably united as ignorance and folly, and for reasons equally as Salutary and just. Acton. A few words of simple pathos will penetrate the soul to the quick, when a hundred lines of decla- mation shall assail it as feebly and ineffectually as a gentle gale the mountain of Plinlimmon. Knox. James Ellis. ' PASTOR. The pastor is the deputy of Christ. G. Herbert. A godless pastor is an angel of darkness. Bayne. A good pastor will shear his flock, but not flay them. Emperor Tiberius. Good pastors will give the people religious in- struction. St. Eleutherius. We should lose sight of a pastor's infirmities in his virtues. - F. Lugo. God never made pastors as false glasses, to make bad faces look fair. T. Watson. A minister that is a mere hireling is not the true pastor of God's people. Roger Williams. There are pastors so holy that their very charac- ter is sufficient to persuade. Bruyère, We should neither expect to see a pastor perfect, nor hunt after his imperfections. J. Amerbach. A pastor should act with the dignity of a man who acts by the authority of God. T. Wilsom. The dignity of a pastor is the condition of a ser- vant ; it obliges a man to devote himself entirely to Christ and His church. Quesnel. As the physician, having tried many remedies in vain, does not abandon his patient so long as he lives, no more should the pastor the incorrigible sinner. D. Cawdray. A pastor's character is the lock of his strength ; and if once this is sacrificed, he is, like Samson shorn of his hair, a poor, feeble, faltering creature, the pity of his friends, and the derision of his ene- mies. J. A. James. The pastor should visit his people frequently ; but not to report in one place what he saw in an- other ; and he should visit them in their adversity rather than in their prosperity, and not go often to their feasts. St. Jerome. It is the duty of a faithful pastor to visit the whole of the flock committed by heaven to his charge, without respect to any circumstantial po- sition they may occupy : if he is found oftener in the houses of the rich than in the cottages of the poor, he will be pronounced the minister of a par- ty, and not the pastor of a parish. Dr. Davies. To sick folks the true pastor comes sometimes before he is sent for, counting his vocation a suf- ficient calling ; he is careful in the discreet order- ing of his own family ; he is sociable and willing to do any courtesy : lying on his death-bed, he be- queaths to each of his charge his precepts and ex- amples for a legacy, and they in requital erect a monument for him in their hearts. T. Fuller. Every flock should have its own pastor, and every pastor his own flock; as every troop or Com- pany in a regiment of soldiers, must have its own captain and other officers, and every soldier know his own commander and colors ; so it is the will of God that every church should have its own pastor, and that all Christ's disciples “should know the teachers that are over them in the Lord 3" Baacter. |- 662 A) A Y 'S CO / / A C O AV. PATIENCE. PATIENCE. Patience wins. L. A. de Bast. Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either g g her sister or her daughter. Aristotle. Patience is power. Ahmed Vesik. ---------- & ge & Patience is one of the few virtues that can only Patience is genius. Buffon. be manifested in this world. J. R. Macduff. C. Churchill. N. Hartsoeker. Patience is sorrow's salve. Patience surpasses learning. Patience is the art of hoping. Vauvenargues. Patience is the virtue of asses. J. A. de Luc. Patience is the key of content. Mahomet. Patience is the key to paradise. Al-Fóróbi. The greatest prayer is patience. Buddha. Patience discovers a man's merit. As-Sakali. Patience is a plaister for all sores. J. Lesley. Beware the fury of a patient man. Dryden. Patience and gentleness are power. Leigh Hunt. Patience is an even sea in all winds. Lockyer. Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet. Rowsseau. Patience is the best remedy for all evils. Theodosius III. Patience with poverty is all a poor man's remedy. P. Dames. Patience is a flower that grows not in every gar- den. B. Duppa. Patience and time do more than strength or pas- Sion. La Fontaine. He that can have patience can have whatever he will. Franklin. Patience, money, and time, bring all things to pass. Margaret de Lussam. Nothing does so much honor to a woman as her patience. Joubert. With time and patience the mulberry-leaf be- comes satin. Al-Kendi. To be patient is sometimes better than to have much wealth. Talmud. It eases me when I bear with patience the yoke upon my neck. Pindarus. Let those who have deserved it suffer punish- ment with patience. Ovid. The remedy of injuries is by continual patience to learn to forget them. Socrates. Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it 2 Shenstone. Bear with patience whatever sorrow, time, or fortune brings upon you. Calderon. Patience being oft provoked with injuries, break- eth forth at last into fury. F. A. Alcuin. The best moral argument to patience is the ad- vantage of patience itself. Tillotson. The gods have given unyielding patience as a medicine for incurable evils. Archilochus. Patience is the virtue of an ass, that trots be- neath his burden and is quiet. Lamsdowme. Patience is a light or guide to help the Soul per- ceive the insignificance of trials. Mrs. M. Fletcher. Patience is even more rarely manifested in the intellect than it is in the temper. A. Helps. Patience makes that more tolerable which it is impossible to prevent or remove. Horace. Man without patience is the lamp without oil; pride in a rage is a bad counsellor. A. de Musset. God is a God of patience ; but though God's pa- tience be lasting, it is not everlasting. M. Adams. The conflict of patience is such that the van- quished is better than the vanquisher. Euripides. It is proper for us, miserable mortals as we are, to bear patiently whatever is inflicted on us by the gods. Sophocles. People often fail in patience under small trials, because they look only to secondary motives for Support. Mrs. Cameron. A patient and humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish, and overlooked by the aspiring. E. H. Chapin. Patience is a virtue that never rusts from disuse, so long as man is blessed with a single specimen of womanhood. Earl of Harndon. Be patient and long-suffering toward sinners: the Lord waits with patience upon sinners, and well may you. Flavel. It is in patience that we possess our Souls—pa- tience, a delicious fruit when gathered ripe, whose root only is bitter. Mme. Swetchine. No school is more necessary to children than pa- tience, because either the will must be broken in childhood, or the heart in old age. Richter. Patience is the finest and worthiest part of for- titude, and the rarest, too ; it lies at the root of all pleasures, as well as of all powers. Rwskim. He who wanteth patience is like a man who standeth trembling in the field without his armor, because everyone can strike him, and he can strike IlOIlê. Horace Smith. I compare patience to a most precious jewel ; though no ray of light comes near it, it is radiant with imperishable beauty ; its brightness remains even in the deep night. Rrummacher. There is no road too long to the man who ad- vances deliberately and without undue haste ; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. Bruyère. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 663 PATIENCE. We increase our losses ourselves, and club with fortune to undo us, when with them we lose Our patience, too ; as infants that, being robbed of some of their baubles, throw away the rest in chil- dish anger. W. Wycherley. If I were asked what single qualification was ne- cessary for one who has the care of children, I should say patience—patience with their tempers, patience with their understandings, patience with their progress. Richard Cecil. All that I have accomplished, or expect or hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plod- ding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant-heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact. E. Burritt. I will labor not to be like a young colt first set to plow, who more tires himself out with his own untowardness—whipping himself with his misspent mettle—than with the weight of what he draws : and will labor to bear patiently what is imposed upon me. A. Fuller. Patience why, it is the soul of peace ; of all the virtues, it is nearest kin to heaven ; it makes men look like gods. The best of men that ever wore earth about him was a sufferer—a soft, meek, pa- tient, humble, tranquil spirit ; the first true gen- tleman that ever breathed. T. Decker. Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms; and he that will venture out without this to make him sail even and steady, will certainly make ship- wreck and drown himself, first in the cares and sorrows of this world, and then in perdition. Bishop E. Hopkins. If thou intendest to vanquish the greatest, the most abominable, and wickedest enemy, who is able to do thee mischief both in body and soul, and against whom thou preparest all sorts of weapons, but cannot overcome, then know that there is a sweet and loving physical herb to serve thee, named Patientia. Lºwther. A phlegmatic insensibility is as different from pa- tience as a pool from a harbor ; into the one, in- dolence naturally sinks us ; but if we arrive at the other, it is by encountering many an adverse wind and rough wave, with a more skillful pilot at the helm than self, and a company under better com- mand than the passions. L. W. Dilwyn. Patience sweetens the temper, stifles anger, ex- tinguishes envy, subdues pride ; she bridles the tongue, refrains the hand, tramples upon tempta- tions, endures persecutions; patience produces harmony in families and societies ; she comforts the poor and moderates the rich ; she makes us humble in prosperity, cheerful in adversity, un- moved by calumny and reproach ; she teaches us to forgive those who have injured us, and to be the first in asking forgiveness of those whom we have injured ; she adorns the woman, and approves the man ; is loved in a child, praised in a young man, admired in an old man ; she is beautiful in either sex and every age. G. Horne. PATRIOTISM. Nothing will satisfy a patriot but a place. Jwnius. Patriotism loves country better than self. H. G. J. Adam. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Dr. Johnson. A warm patriot is seldom a model of candor. T. Beddoes. All true patriots will meet in the next world. Charlotte Corday. A true patriot is known by his interest in educa- tion. James Ellis. No government is rich enough to purchase a true patriot. Dr. John Buckenhowt. The factious man is apt to mistake himself for a patriot. Marquis d’Argensen. National enthusiasm is the great nursery of genius and patriotism. H. T. Tuckerman. Patriotism consists in faithful thoughts, words, and deeds toward our country. Mrs. M. Fletcher. The love of country produces good manners, and good manners produce patriotism. Montesquiew. Patriotism requires that every effort in our power be made for the good of our country. - Mrs. Sigourmey. Patriotism is nothing more than the sentiment of our welfare, and the dread of seeing it dis- turbed. Stanislaws. Patriotism is no virtue ; it is not our duty to sacrifice our life for the ignorant mob which com- pose the state. Theodorºws. No nation can expect to prosper and become great without ardent and devoted patriotism ; it is irresistible, unconquerable, universal. Acton. Patriotism is usually truer and more intense in small than in large countries, and in countries rough and barren than in those smoother and more fertile. - H. Winslow. Patriotism is a blind and irrational impulse un- less it is founded on a knowledge of the blessings we are called to secure, and the privileges we pro- pose to defend. R. Hall. When virtue and genuine patriotism predomi- nate, officers will seek good and competent men, who should answer the call as a matter of duty, not of pleasure or profit. L. C. Jwdson. In peace, patriotism really consists only in this, that every one sweeps before his door, minds his own business, also learns his own lesson, that it may be well with him in his own house. Goethe. Patriotism is love of one's country ; the passion which aims to serve one's country, either in de- fending it from invasion, or protecting its rights, and maintaining its laws and institutions in vigor and purity ; it is the characteristic of a good citi- zen, the noblest passion that animates a man in the character of a citizen. N. Webster. 664 A) A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. PATRIOTISM. Our benevolence when directed to our country- men at large, constitutes patriotism ; and its exer- cise is as much controlled by the laws of morality as when confined to our neighbors or our families. W. Jay. Patriotism, or love of country, is a sentiment which pervades almost every human breast, and induces each individual to prefer the land of his birth, not because it is better than another country, but merely because it is his country. Goodrich. In former times patriots prided themselves on two things, their own poverty and the riches of the state ; but poor as these men were, there were kings not rich enough to purchase them, nor pow- erful enough to intimidate them. In modern times it would be easier to find a patriot rich enough to buy a king. Colton. Is he not in reality the truest patriot who fills up his station in private life well ; he who loves and promotes peace both public and private, who, knowing that his country's prosperity depends much more on its virtues than its arms, resolves that his individual endeavors shall not be wanting to promote this desirable end ? Jeremy Taylor. Patriotism in our day is made to be an argument for all public wrong, and all private meanness ; for the sake of country a man is told to yield everything that makes the land honorable ; for the sake of country a man must submit to every ignominy that will lead to the ruin of the state through disgrace of the citizen. H. W. Beecher. It matters not with what principle the newborn patriot is animated, if the measures he supports are beneficial to the community ; the nation is in- terested in his conduct ; his motives are his own. The properties of a patriot are perishable in the individual ; but there is a quick succession of sub- jects, and the breed is worth preserving. Jumiws. It is but justice to assign great merit to the tem- per of those citizens whose personal services were rendered without restraint, and the derangement of their affairs submitted to without dissatisfac- tion ; it was the triumph of patriotism over per- Sonal considerations; and our present enjoyments of peace and freedom reward the sacrifice. Washington. Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national charac- ter. Our home, our birth place, our native land ; think for awhile what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism. R. Sowthey. What happy fireside our patriots left for the cheerless camp ; with what pacific habits they dared the perils of the field ; there is no mystery, no romance, no madness, under the name of chi- valry about them ; it is all resolute, manly resis- tance—for conscience and liberty's sake —not merely of an overwhelming power, but of all the force of long-rooted habits, and the native love of Order and peace. E. Everett. PATRONA.G.E. Mere praise is not patronage. G. Fagiwoli. Patronage is distasteful to a man of indepen- dence. James Ellis. Political patronage is seldom given to those who deserve it. I, R. Allen. He who acquits himself well, will always have enough of patrons. Plautus. Commonly a patron is a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery. Dr. Johnson. The likeness of those who take other patrons be- sides God, is as the likeness of the spider, which maketh herself a house ; but the weakest of all houses surely is the house of the spider. Koran. Patronage becomes the hardest servitude, and we grow weary of eating that bread, which is the bread of mourners, and which is earned by the tears of the eyes, and not by the sweat of the brow, - * Acton. PAUPER. Every man is born a pauper. Sallust. Pauperism dishonors a free state. Robespierre. A pauper is produced through misdirection of talent. W. J. Colwell. A proud pauper and a rich miser are contempti- ble beings, Ariosto. When paupers evince any consciousness of neg- lect they are instantly spurned. Zimmerman. If all would work who are able, and make a ju- dicious use of their earnings, we should have but few paupers. L. C. Judson. The innumerable paupers whose life is supported by the State, owe their pauperism, directly or re- motely, in three cases out of four, to sensuality— to strong drink, licentiousness, or some form of extravagance that proceeded from a devotion to sensual pleasure. J. G. Holland. PAYMENT. No man envieth the payment of a debt. Bacon. In life, payment is required for all benefits of every kind conferred upon us. E. Foster. Fear not to confide in a man's word, who is punctual in his money payments. Terence. We ought to pay what we owe without delay: to make one wait for his due is the essence of in- justice. Bruyère. To re-pay by a return equivalent is not in every one's power; but thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest. R. Sowth. Pay not before thy work be done ; if thou dost, it will never be well done ; and thou wilt have but a pennyworth for two-pence. Fronklin. It is very possible for a man that lives by cheat- ing, to be very punctual in paying for what he buys ; but then every one is assured that he does not do so out of any principle of true honesty. E. Law. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 665 PEACE. Love peace. Thales. Live ye in peace. W. Bradford. Let us have peace. U. S. Grant. Let me die in peace. Voltaire. Be a friend to peace. Talmud. Labor to promote peace. Höllel. Peace is better than war. St. Martin. Peace is holding the tongue. Ahmed Vesik, How pleasant is a life of peace. Udaijin. After war, let us welcome peace. Constantine. Peace flourishes where reason rules. L. Barrey. Better keep peace than make peace. N. Kaas. Peace is the greatest of all blessings. Polybius. May mankind enjoy universal peace, Chin Lwn. Peace hath her victories as well as war. Milton. Let us do whatever we can to restore peace. Hill. In time of peace cultivate the arts of peace. Alfred the Great. A great chief can make peace as well as war. Te Hewhew. For my country I rejoice in the beams of peace. Logan. A little with peace is better than much with war. * Bishop Bartholomew. If fortune give thee not peace, wage war against her. Al-Yamani. An unjust peace is to be preferred before a just Wal”. S. Butler. Peace feeds, war wastes ; peace breeds, war con- SUIIIleS. Damhowder. It is no time to talk of peace when the sword is drawn. - Tasso. Peace is always good for one party ; generally for both, 8 Ychoaley. Peace would be universal, if there were neither mine nor thine. W. P. Balfern. May the bamboo tube-mail bags—always bring tidings of peace. Shen Tagen. Peace becometh a king who is a follower of the Prince of Peace. James I of England. Blessedness is promised to the peace-maker, not to the conqueror. F. Quarles. It is peace that brings plenty ; plenty is the fos- ter-child of peace. Ovid. In time of peace re-build your walls; thus be in readiness for war. Osarsiph. A realm gaineth more by one year's peace, than by ten year's war. Lord Burleigh. Peace is love reposing ; it is love on the green pastures ; it is love beside the still waters. . J. Hamilton. PEACE. Dear and unprofitable is the peace that is bought with guiltless blood. Rev. A. Booth. Let us smoke the pipe of peace ; let us brighten the chains of friendship. Pontiac. Peace is like a beautiful city at rest, calmly sleeping upon the waters. A. Bradford. Peace is greater than all other treasures, but no philosophy can bestow it. Erwºm/macher. Peace from the mouth of a tyrant is oftener promised than performed. Plato. Peace is the happy, natural state of man ; war his corruption, his disgrace. J. Thomson. It is a point of godly wisdom, to be at peace with men, and at war with vices. H. C. Chapman. It is better to sleep in peace on the bare ground, than to lie unquiet on a soft bed. Phocion. Peace flourisheth where peace ruleth, and joy reigneth where modesty directeth, M. A. Delhio. The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defences of war. J. Q. Adams. They justly deserve the sword of war, which willfully refuse the conditions of peace. De Lolme. Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart. Colton. When one party fight enough, and the other party fight enongh, then let there be peace. Kawiti. Peace is a public blessing, without which no man is safe in his fortunes, his liberty, or his life. Sir W. Temple. All desire rest, peace, and pleasure; but nowhere shall we find it but in yielding ourselves unto God. Jane T. L. Worthington. It is beyond all controversy that no peace for a while, is better than a false peace without inter- ruption. Rev. T. Cruso. Keep peace both within the city and without, for it goes well with all those who are counselors of peace. Rabbi Eleazar. No people trained in the principles of liberty will ever accept of any peace that is not founded on liberty. L. Stephens. Peace mangles no bodies; it desolates no fields; it burns no towns; it sends up no wail from fields of carnage. T. G. C. Davis. There is nothing which will so soon produce a Speedy and honorable peace, as a state of prepara- tion for war. Washington. When Christ came into the world, peace was sung ; and when, He went Out of the world, peace was bequeathed. Henry VII. Peace gives food to the husbandman, even in the midst of rocks: war brings misery to him, even in the most fertile plains. Menander. I am a man of peace ; God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace. Kosswth. 666 AX A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. PEACE. We should honor and cultivate peace in indivi- duals, society, state, and nation, and despise and discourage war, quarrelling, and discord of all kinds. Mrs. M. Fletcher. To rob, to ravage, and to murder, in their impos- ing language, are the arts of civil policy , when they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace. Tacitus. Peace is the best time for improvement and pre- parations of every kind ; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid. - James Monroe. Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us, namely, avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; and if these enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. Petrarch. If peace is not to be found at home, is it not ma- tural to expect that we should look for it abroad 2 The parents and husbands who know not this, may have to repent of their ignorance. Zimmerman. That peace is an evil peace that doth shut truth out of doors. If peace and truth cannot go to- gether, truth is to be preferred, and rather to be chosen for a companion than peace. J. Tillinghast. Peace is the best thing known to mortals: peace brings greater honor than innumerable triumphs— peace that is able to keep the common safety, and to make all citizens equal to each other. Italicus. There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul—to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God. E. H. Chapin. We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity ; but not peace at any price. There is a peace more des- tructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body ; chains are worse than bayonets. D. Jerrold. Those who make peace serve their fellow-men ; the Divine benediction is pronounced upon peace- makers. But then peace to be of value must be permanent ; and to be permanent it must be founded on sound principles. C. A. Dama. Living peaceably implies not merely some few transitory performances, proceeding from casual humor, or the like: but a constant, stable, and well-settled condition of being, a continual cessa- tion from injury, and promptitude to do good offices. I. Barrow. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul ; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remain firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acqui- essence even in disagreeable things, not in an ex- emption from suffering. Fénélon. There can be no peace where pride reigns ; the peaceable man, therefore, must have a mind clear of all lusts and inordinate affections, but especially of pride, the devil'ssin, which made war in heaven, and does the like on earth, and will forever foment the discord, and fill up the misery of hell. D. Waterland. PEACE}. Peace is the opposite of passion, and of labor, toil, and effort. Peace is that state in which there are no desires madly demanding an impossible gratification ; that state in which there is no mise- ry, no remorse, no sting. F. W. Robertson. No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or agreement : no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin–Victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts. Ruskim. Peace is delightful, and in every way an object of desire ; but between peace and slavery there is a vast difference. Peace is liberty calmly enjoyed: slavery is the most pernicious of all evils—to be re- sisted not only by war, but even by death. Cicero. He that has peace with God is armed cap-a-pie; he is covered from head to foot in a panoply. The arrow may fly against it, but it cannot pierce it : for peace with God is a mail so strong, that the broad sword of Satan itself may be broken in twain ere it can pierce the flesh. C. H. Spurgeon. Peace is lovely a beauteous boy, he lies couched by the tranquil brook, where the skipping lamb- kins feed joyfully around him in the sunny mea- dow ! His flute discourses sweet music, waking up the echoes of the hills, or else the murmurs of the streamlet lull him to sleep in the sunset's ruddy sheen. Schiller. Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light : it springs up amid tears and clouds ; it is a reflection of the eternal sum ; it is an assur- ance of calm ; it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man ; it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light. Colton. It was auspicious peace that first instructed the oxen to draw the crooked plow ; it was peace that planted the vines and gave juice to the grapes, that the paternal jar may furnish wine to cheer the son ; in piping times of peace the rake and the plow ply with diligence, while rust eats into the gloomy arms of the fierce soldiers in darkness. Tibullws. Peace is to be desired, and is blessed when it se- cures us from the suspicion of our neighbors, does not add to our danger, when it leads men to rest in quiet and lessens their expenses : but when the very opposite of all this takes place, it is then, un- der the treacherous name of peace, nothing else but destructive war ; it is under the name of healthful medicine deadly poison. Gwicciardini. Peace is the natural tone of a well-regulated mind at one with itself. External circumstances may assume a threatening aspect, and unhinge for a time the most stoical disposition, but a truly noble soul yields not ; and there are even women who unite such firmness with the greatest and liveliest activity of mind and vigor of imagination. This we may admire, though we must not expect often to find it in them ; but in man it is an im- perative duty, and he loses in the eyes of the right- thinking all title to respect when he shows a defi- ciency in this quality. Hwºmboldt. P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 667 PEDANTRY. A pedant is a precocious old man. De Bowſflers. Pedantry and tastë are as inconsistent as gayety and melancholy. Lavater. A pedant is a learned fool, and pedantry is a lit- tle knowledge on parade. H. W. Shaw. Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. S. T. Coleridge. The vacant skull of a pedant generally furnishes out a throne and temple for vanity. Shenstone. A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. J. P. Senn. Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out Our brains to make room for it. Colton. Striking at the root of pedantry and opinionative assurance would be no hindrance to the world's improvement. Glanvill. Pedantry is properly the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to ; and if that kind of knowledge be a trifle in itself, the pedantry is the greater. Swift. A pedant boasts of his learning ; but his learning only consists in boasting of it. He is looked upon as a wise man among fools, but only as a fool among wise men. James Ellis. Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd Ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books, and a total igno- rance of men. H. Mackenzie. Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age ; and the world however it may be taught, will not be tutored. Shaftesbury. A man who has been brought up among books, and is able to talk of nothing else, is a very indif- ferent man, and what we call a pedant ; but we should enlarge the title, and give it to every one that does not know how to think out of his profes- sion and particular way of life. Addison. A pedant treads in a rule, while one hand scans verses, and the other holds his sceptre ; he dares not think a thought, that the nominative case gov- erns not the verb, and he never had meaning in his life, for he travelled only forwards ; he values phrases, and elects them by the sound, and the eight parts of speech are his servants. Overbury. The last maim given to learning, has been by the scorn of pedantry, which the shallow, the su- perficial, and the sufficient among scholars first drew upon themselves, and very justly, by pre- tending to more than they had, or to more esteem than what they could deserve: by broaching it in all places, at all times, upon all occasions, and by living so much among themselves, or in their clo- Sets and cells, as to make them unfit for all other business, and ridiculous in all other conversations. Sir W. Temple. PEDANTRY. Pedantry proceeds from much reading and little understanding. A pedant among men of learning and sense, is like an ignorant servant giving an account of a polite conversation : you may find he has brought with him more than could have en- tered into his head without being there, but still that he is not a bit wiser than if he had not been there at all. Steele. We only toil and labor to stuff the memory, and in the meantime leave the conscience and under- standing unfurnished and void ; and as old birds who fly abroad to forage for grain bring it home in their beak to feed their young without tasting it themselves, so our pedants go picking knowledge here and there out of several authors, and hold it at their tongues' end only to distribute it among their pupils. Montaigne. If a strong attachment to a particular subject, a total ignorance of every other, an eagerness to introduce that subject upon all occasions, and a confirmed habit of declaiming upon it without either wit or discretion, be the marks of a pedantic character, as they certainly are, it belongs to the illiterate as well as to the learned ; and St. James's itself may boast of producing as arrant pedants as ever were sent forth from a college. B. Thornton. PEDIG.R.E.E. Pearls have no pedigree. Radir Munshi. The glory of a noble pedigree sheds a light around posterity. Sallwst. An honorable pedigree is in all nations greatly esteemed. Aristotle. Alterations of surnames have obscured the truth of our pedigrees. W. Camden. It is of no consequence what a man's pedigree is so that he be a man of merit. Horace. Pedigree is all very well for horses and cattle, but it won't do for human beings. D. Thompson. I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. Sir P. Sidney. Philosophy regardeth not pedigree, but rather seeketh to elevate genius to a loftier position than a throne. J. Linem. It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble pedigree, and not to deserve it by his Own virtue. St. Chrysostom. What are the wondrous merits of a pedigree ? What boots it to be accounted of an ancient line, and to display the painted faces of your ancestors? Juvenal. It is intolerable that a silly fool with nothing but pedigree to boast of, should in his insolence array himself in the merits of others, and vaunt an honor which does not belong to him. Boileau. No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable dis- position ; they who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees are, properly speak- ing, rather to be called moted or notorious than noble persons. Seneca. 668 A) A Y'S CO / W. A. C. O AV. PEEVISEINESS. PEN. The old are more peevish than the young. The pen has shaken nations. Tupper. sm-mº-sºmsºmºmºm. Hermes. The pen and sword govern all. V. A. Ozeroff. IPeevishness is often one of the faults of old age. --- A. C. Baird. The pen is the tongue of the mind. Cervantes. Peevishness is worse in second childhood than in the first. G. D. Prentice. Peevishness covers with its dark fog even the most distant horizon. Richter. Those deserve to be doubly laughed at that are peevish and angry for nothing to no purpose. L’Estrange. Peevishness and fretfulness are the result of a naturally hasty temper, or of a sudden irritability. G. Crabb. We must strive against peevishness while we are young, or else what will become of us when we are old 3 C. Buck. When the mind becomes peevish and querulous it receives impression, and is wounded by the least OCCUll"I'ê11Ce. Plutarch. Peevish displeasure and suspicions of mankind are apt to persecute those who withdraw them- selves altogether from the haunts of men. Blair. A man of talent and reputation, if he be of a peewish and morose disposition, frightens the young, causing them to have a false opinion of virtue. Bruyère. Peevishness may be considered the canker of life that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement : that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume. Dr. Johnson. Silence is the most effectual cure for peevishness. A man who is peevish is like a cloudy day that cannot rain : in a little while it will clear off. So a man that is peevish may look ugly, but if he holds his mouth tight, and gives no expression to it, after a while it will clear up. E. Foster. A peevish fellow is one who has some reason in himself for being out of humor, or has a natural incapacity for delight, and therefore disturbs all who are happier than himself with pishes and pshaws, or other well-bred interjections, at every- thing that is said or done in his presence. Steele. He that flings the colorings of a peevish temper on things around him, will overlay with it the most blessed sunshine that ever fell on terrestrial objects, and make them reflect the hues of his own heart ; whereas he whose soul flings out of itself the sunshine of a benevolent disposition, will make it gild the darkest places with a heavenly light. º - G. Atwood. Peevishness is generally the vice of narrow minds; and except when it is the effect of anguish and disease, by which the resolution is broken and the mind made too feeble to bear the lightest addi- tion to its miseries, proceeds from an unreasonable regard of the importance of trifles; the proper remedy against it is to consider the dignity of hu- man nature, and the folly of suffering perturbation and uneasiness from causes unworthy of our no- tice. Samuel Awstim. The pen is both a rod and a sceptre. P. Aretino. The chisel is the pen of the sculptor. Pius IX. Pen and parchment govern the world. J. Howell. The pen is more artistic than the brush. P. Bales. The pen is the lever that moves the world. Talmage. The pen is a tree whose fruit is expression. Ali Imam. The pen does not give inspiration, but records it. Al-Hariri. The pen is a faithful companion to a great mind. Mary Amm, Hammer Dodd. The pen oftenest preaches to the head : the tongue to the heart. T. Tilton. I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen. Sir T. Browne. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. Bulwer. The pen instructs more than the tongue, and rules more than the sceptre. Abul Fazel. There is power in the sword and the lance ; but more powerful are paper and pen. Al-Mutanabbi. How much do we owe to the pen 1 Music, poetry, literature, and history are evidences of its useful- IlêSS. W. Awstim. Paradise is as much for him who has rightly used the pen, as for him who has fallen by the sword. Harown-al-Raschid. The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people. G. D. Prentice. There are only two powers in the world, the sabre and the pen ; and in the end the former is always conquered by the latter. Napoleon I. A pen in the infirm hand of an old man is to ap- pearance but a sorry source of advice and comfort ;. and yet before now such a thing has been made mighty in reproof in strengthening weak hands and confirming feeble knees. G. Mogridge. That writer who aspires to immortality, should imitate the sculptor if he would make the labors of the pen as durable as those of the chisel ; like the sculptor he should arrive at ultimate perfec- tion not by what he adds, but by what he takes away. - Colton. The pen is the master of the sword, before which all necks are humbled, and to whose edge all nations are obedient : death also follows words traced by the pen ; so God hath decreed from the time pens were first made, that words should be servants to the pen. Ibn Mukla. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 669 PENALTY. Penalty is the reward of error. James Ellis. We suffer the penalty of sin in the misery of our lives. Annie E. Lancaster. Penalties are often so long delayed, that men think they shall escape them ; but some time they are certain to follow. H. W. Beecher. If human society cannot be carried on without actions at law, it is impossible that it should exist without the infliction of penalties. Aristotle. It may seem strange to us that there are men who try to persuade us that there is a universe without a law, or a law without a penalty. Charles Shrimpton. While the propriety of establishing penalties for opinions sincerely entertained, however erroneous, is in all liberal communities denied as between men and men, it is affirmed by numerous sects as be- tween God and men. Bovee. PENANCE. Penance is expiation of sin. C. Richardson. If God is good, can your penances please Him ? Volmey. This life is a life of penance ; enjoyment is for the next. J. Andreas. Penances are often punishments imposed upon us by nature ; we do penance in old age for the follies of youth. James Ellis. Penance is only the punishment inflicted ; a man comes not to do penance because he repents of his sin, but because he is compelled to it. T. Brooks. Penances ought to be joined with the idea of labor, not with that of idleness; with the idea of good, not with that of super-eminence ; with the idea of frugality, not with that of avarice. Montesquiew. PENITENCE. He who is penitent is almost innocent. Seneca. Let him that is penitent for his old sinful life show it by beginning a new life. St. Ambrose. Wherever there is a penitent heart, there will be, there must be, the feeling of Sorrow for sin. W. M. PunShon. True penitence subdues and sweetens the tem- per, and renders us keen to discern and quick to feel the distinction between right and wrong. H. Winslow. There is no note on the harp of Gabriel more welcome to Jehovah, than the cry of a penitent for mercy, or the supplication of a child for grace. R. Philip. A sick man is not more desirous to be rid of all his diseases, nor a prisoner to be freed from all his bolts and chains, than the true penitent is desirous to be rid of all his sins. T. Brooks. Penitence is a feeling resulting from a conviction of violated obligation, and is to be cultivated, not merely by considering the character of God, but also our conduct toward Him. F. Wayland. PENETRATION. Penetration is the ethics of foresight. M. Carey. A man of penetration is not to be deceived by any artifice. - G. Crabb. Penetration seems a kind of inspiration ; it gives me an idea of prophecy. Iord Greville. The greatest fault in penetration is not its fall- ing short, but going beyond the mark. W. Arthur. Penetration has an air of divination ; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind. Rochefoucauld. Of how many people it may be said that their penetration is never quite subordinated to their sense of justice, save when it can promise them the pleasure of disapproval. Mme. Swetchine. When penetration is guided by malevolence and hate, it sees only that which is superficial ; but when benevolence and love direct, it fathoms men and things, and may hope to attain unto the most elevated mysteries. W. I. Knapp. PENSION. The Divine pension to a good life is an immortal Soul. W. Talbot. A pension is an allowance made to anyone with- out an equivalent. Dr. Johnson. We may receive a pension as a reward for worldly services ; but worldly things will not give us a pension in the world to come. Mrs. A. E. Bray. A charity bestowed on the education of a na- tion's young subjects, has more merit than a thou- sand pensions to those of higher fortune. Addison. A pension, given as a reward for services to the state, is surely as good a ground of property as any security for money advanced to the state. It is a better; for money is paid, and well paid, to obtain that service. Burke. PENURY. Penury is a curse to mankind. W. Channing. To abound in all things, and not to know the right use of them, is positive penury. M. Barker. He who is most proud and contemptuous toward the poor, is he who has just been raised above ab- ject penury himself. Magoon. Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair. Bethmont. If penury assail, fight against him stoutly, the grim foe ; the curse of Cain is on his brow, toiling vainly ; he creepeth with the worm by day, to raven with the wolf by night ; diseases battle by his side, and crime followeth his footsteps. Tupper. Disputes, jealousy, and heart-burnings are a state of things which generally take place, not only in great empires, but among private indivi- duals, when they are depressed by penury, and are without the means of carrying their designs into effect. Polybius. 670 AD A Y’.S. C. O L / A C O AV. PEOPLE. The people govern. A. Hamilton. N. Biddle. J. J. Crittenden. Never flatter the people. The people are the rulers. - All power belongs to the people. C. C. Pinckney. The will of the people is the best law. Grant. The people are descended from the gods. Koji-ki. The voice of the people is the voice of God. Amon. The people are the fountain of all power. E. Pendleton. The people are the only sovereigns of any coun- try. R. D. Owen. Let the safety of the people be the supreme law. Cicero. What people can obey, if tasked above their force 3 J. C. Royow. The people are the most important element in a nation. - Rufus King. The people are the primary source of all sove- reignty. - A. C. L. Arnold. Since the people will be deceived, let them be deceived. Cardinal Cavazza. The people will never be enslaved with their eyes Open. John Hancock. The people are too much alive to be beguiled or corrupted. Thurlow Weed. It becomes a ruler to promote the happiness of his people. Charlemagne. Not himself, but the people should be the care of the ruler. Emperor Adrian. The good of the people should be the first care of government. L. M. Lepelletier. The character of the common people changes in a single day. Voltaire. The people alone have the right to decide their own destiny. James K. Polk. No party should fear to go before the people for their decision. Robert Yates. I will do everything for the people, but nothing by the people. Dom Pedro I. The people may model a government whenever they think proper. J. Iredell. The happiness of the people is the end and object of all government. David Ramsay. No sayings among the people are ever quite des- titute of foundation. Muscews. The people will never consent to the destruction of a free government. Preston King. No one has a right to command the people of any land against their will. Schopenhaufer. The people in every country are the rightful source of all authority. Napoleon III. I fear the curses of my people, more than the weapons of my enemies. Henry of Castile. PEOPLE. The second sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient. M. Wam Bwrem. The power of the people forms an adequate Se- curity against every danger. J. Dickinson. The fountain of error does not exist in the peo- ple, but in their selfish leaders. Erwºmmacher. It is optional with the people to establish any form of government they please. R. Sherman. The people are not the blind, ignorant herd which some gentlemen take them to be. R. G. Harper. All power is originally invested in, and conse- quently derived from, the people. George Clinton. Love the people ; protect the fortunes of the rich; relieve the necessities of the poor. Justimus II. Where the sovereign and the people have only one interest, there the people rule. Rowsseaw. Where the love of the people is assured, the de- signs of the seditious are thwarted. Bias. By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained ; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost. Confucius. The people are the foundation of the empire ; to assist the people, is to give peace to the empire. Iyesada. In all stages, from colonial dependence to full- orbed nationality, the people have been omnipo- tent. - J. A. Garfield. Since evils have their origin with the people, our only hope of removing them is in promoting the intelligence of the people. Mrs. M. Gove-Nichols. By holding the representative responsible only to the people, we elevate the character of his con- stituents, and quicken his sense of responsibility to his country. Z. Taylor. The great body of the people should have free- dom given to them to employ their industry to the best advantage, and security in the enjoyment of what their industry has acquired. T. B. Macawlay. It is impossible for me to look without great con- cern upon events affecting the welfare of a people purely allied to my subjects by descent, and closely connected with them by the most intimate and friendly relations. Queen Victoria. The greatest scholars, poets, Orators, philoso- phers, warriors, statesmen, inventors, and improv- ers of the arts, arose from the lowest of the people; if we had waited till courtiers had invented the art of printing, clock-making, navigation, and a thousand other things, we should probably have continued in darkness to this hour. J. A. Knoac. Can authority be more amiable and respectable when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity, than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgment of an homest and enlightened people 2. It is the people only that are represented ; it is their power and majesty that is reflected, and only for their good, in every legitimate government, under whatever form it may appear. J. Adams. A R O S A. Q U O Z' A 7" / O AV S. 671 PERCEPTION. Perception is the eye of the mind. James Ellis. As perception is to man's mind, so is the grace of God to his soul. Dowmey. It is not enough to have the perception of truth : one must also have the feeling of it. A. C. L. Arnold. Perception is that act of the mind, or rather a passion or impression, whereby the mind becomes conscious of anything. I. Watts, Apprehension, in logic, is that act or condition of the mind in which it receives the notion Of any objects, and which is analogous to the perception of the senses. R. Whately. The man without perception of form despises all grace in eloquence as corruption, all elegance in conversation as hypocrisy, all delicacy and lofti- ness of demeanor as exaggeration and affectation. Schiller. Perception is only a special kind of knowledge, and sensation a special kind of feeling ; know- ledge and feeling, perception and sensation, though always co-existent, are always in the inverse ratio of each other. J. Locke. The merit of some people is principally in the clearness of their perceptions, while the worth of others is mainly in the strength of their feelings ; the former appreciate without loving, the latter love without appreciating. Bovee. eme sº- * 4 sº- A true moral perception is never an irrational perception ; indeed, strictly speaking, the mere power or act of perception is never itself moral, and we justly term it so only in a figurative sense, when directed to moral ends ; as we say that a sword is valiant, when it is valiantly used. H. Winslow, PERIDITION. Is perdition annihilation ? T. Polime. If we reject the truth, we seal our own perdi- tion. J. M. Mason. Perdition awaits those who live a life of ungod- liness. Cicero. Perdition overtakes the villain proceeding on his course of wickedness. Horace. Every man keeps a private and select perdition for the objects of his wrath. E. Egglestom. One man is sent to perdition as a reward of his villany, and another ascends a throne. Juvenal. Eternal perdition is everlasting annihilation to those who live without the fear of God in their hearts. W. Talbot. Men once fallen away from undoubted truth, do after wander forevermore in vices unknown, and daily travel toward their eternal perdition. Sir W. Raleigh. As life and death, mercy and wrath, are mat- ters of knowledge, all men's salvation and some men's endless perdition are things so opposite, that whoever doth affirm the one, must necessarily deny the other. R. Hooker. PERFECTION. God only is perfection. T. Amory. All perfection is melancholy. Mrs. Oliphant. Perfection is the attribute of none. Stephens. Christian perfection is a direct command of Jesus Christ himself. Rev. Asa Maham. No one is so perfect that he does not need the charity of his fellows. J. G. Holland. Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she re- quires the hand of time. Voltaire. Perfection is immutable ; for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. Feltham. True virtue being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. Milton. It is difficult to find perfection ; something is al- ways wanting even in the best and the greatest of Illell. Maacimus Tyrints. Let no man measure by a scale of perfection the meagre product of reality in this poor world of OUITS. Schiller. A man may perform very difficult things and yet not attain perfection, either in knowledge or virtue. Tsze-Hea. The Divine nature is perfection, and to be near- est to the Divine nature, is to be nearest to per- fection. Menophon. We count those things perfect which want no- thing requisite for the end whereto they were in- stituted. R. Hooker. Virtue, though she in some measure receives her beginning from nature, yet it is learning that gives perfection. Qwintilian. If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. H. W. Show. Christian perfection does not consist in doing ex- traordinary things; but in doing common things after a Christian manner. R. Hall. Christian perfection is made up of perfect re- pentance, perfect humility, perfect resignation, perfect hope, and perfect charity. A. Fletcher. No human understanding being absolutely se- cured from mistake by the perfection of its own nature, it follows that no man can be infallible but by supernatural assistance. Tillotson. If perfection were ever once beheld, we should be so fully convinced of the impossibility of equal- ing it, as to give up all attempts at imitation. J. Bachman. The surest token we can have that any perfec- tions ought to be pursued, is that they may be attained if we have the endeavor and ability to acquire them. G. Bailey. If we would go on to perfection we must take care not to refer back to external causes our faults and deviations from duty, even those which may be called accidental. Mme. Swetchine. 672 A) A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. PERFECTION. PERFIDY. To arrive at perfection a man should have very Repent thy perfidy. Tamerlane. sincere friends or inveterate enemies, because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censure of the one or the admonitions of the other. Diogenes. In art there is a point of perfection, as of good- ness or maturity in nature ; he who is able to per- ceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste ; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste. Bruyère. Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. Chesterfield. All men have a rational soul and moral perfecti- bility ; it is these qualities which make the poorest peasant sacred and valued by me. Moral perfec- tibility is our destiny, and here are opened up to the historian a boundless field and a rich harvest. - G. Forster. Every true specimen of perfection, or even ex- cellence, of whatever kind it may be, from the moral down to the physical, elevates every instance of an inferior degree of excellence that we meet with, and sheds over it a portion of its own per- fection. F. Lieber. Perfection is the denying of our own will ; the acknowledgment of our own vileness, constant re- signation to the will of God, and unwearied love for our neighbor ; in a word, it is that love which thinks of nothing, seeks nothing, desires nothing but God. J. Arnolt. Man doth seek a triple perfection ; first a sen- sual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth, either as necessary supplements, Or as ornaments thereof; then an intellectual, con- sisting in those things which none underneath man is capable of ; lastly, a spiritual and divine, con- sisting in those things whereby we tend by super- natural means here, but cannot here attain. Samwel Parker. The stoic philosophy insults human nature, and discourages all our attempts, by enjoining and promising a perfection in this life, of which we feel ourselves incapable. The Christian religion shows compassion to our weakness, by prescribing to us only the practical task of aiming continually at further improvements, and animates our en- deavors by the promise of divine aid equal to our trial. Epictetus. IPERFUIME}. Perfumes are utterly detestable. Lowis XIV. Perfumes are the heaven of earth. Williams. He smells not well, whose smell is all perfume. Martial. Even poisons may be distinguished by means of perfumes. E. Feydeaw. Perfumes add to the advantage of beauty ; the care which certain women take to perfume them- selves, is a proof that voluptuous ideas are united to flowers and perfumes. A. Cazenave. Perfidy is a violation of faith. N. Webster. Trust not him that restrains his anger through perfidy. Ibn Sabin’. Error may be forgiven, but perfidy is eternal disgrace. Plato. Alluring to betray is an act of perfidy that mer- its death. Cicero. There are no greater exactors of faith than the perfidious. Sir R. Atkyms. The holiest men in show often prove most per- fidious in heart. Plotimus. Some things have a natural deformity in them ; as perfidiousness and ingratitude. Tillotson. The most promising youth are often the first to fall into the clutches of the perfidious. Magoon. When a friend is turned into an enemy, the world is just enough to accuse the perfidiousness of the friend, rather than the indiscretion of the person who confided in him. Addison. The same punishment which the gods inflict on the perjured, is prepared for the liar ; for it is not the form of words in which the oath is wrapped up, but the perfidy and malice of the act that ex- cite the wrath and anger of the immortal gods against men. Cicero. PER JURY. Perjury is the offspring of vice. G. H. Calvert. Perjury can only emanate from the atheist. John J. Cairnes. Perjury, even for the good of the church, pro- motes not piety. M. Prideawac. There are no greater persecutors of falsehood than the perjured. R. Anderson. Perjury is the taking of an oath, in order to tell or confirm a falsehood. Anthony Armold. The furies wreak vengeance beneath the earth on souls of perjured men. FIommer. Dreadful are the effects of perjury in this world, and that which is to come. A. Pellat. The crime of perjury is punished by heaven with perdition, and by man with disgrace. N. F. Gwerin. The man who has once deviated from the truth, is usually led on by no greater scruples to commit perjury than to tell a lie. Cicero. Ferjury is a very heinous crime ; it has always been esteemed a very detestable thing, and those who have been proved guilty of it, have been looked upon as the pests of society. C. Buck. Perjury, or false swearing, is certainly one of the highest acts of impiety, and the greatest dis- honor we can possibly show to the name of God; it is in effect either denying our belief in a God, or His power to punish, and is daring the Almighty to His face. B. Gilpin. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. PERSECTUTION. Persecution is a fine art. Talmage. Persecution waters the church. Dr. G. Benson. Persecution shows a small mind. Zinzendorf. Persecution is refined barbarism. E. P. Day. Give an asylum to the persecuted. T. Mathew. Persecution is better than injustice. Bias. Persecution may weaken the church, but cannot destroy it. St. Caliactus. Persecution cannot force a child of God to re- nounce his faith. P. Waldo. The Christians even offer up prayers for those who persecute them. Corneille. Rather be of them that are persecuted, than of them that persecute. Talmud. The way of this world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. N. Howe. Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel ; but it is cruel because it is wrong. R. Whately. Persecution to persons of high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. De fetz. The severest persecutor turned from persecution often becomes the warmest friend. Abu Maasher. Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side. Bishop Latimer. Amid the dark glooms of persecution, there blazed forth the burning and shining lights of the world, Williaſm, Holden. Persecution often does in this life what the last day will do completely—separate the wheat from the chaff. Rev. John Milner. Persecution is disobeying the most Solemn in- junctions of Christianity, under the sham plea of upholding it. Chatfield. Persecution for cause of conscience is most evi- dently and lamentably contrary to the doctrine of Christ Jesus, the Prince of Peace. R. Williams. Persecution is the infliction of pain, punishment, or death upon others, unjustly, more especially for adhering to a religious creed or mode of worship. G. Mawnder. Persecutions are beneficial to the righteous; they are a hail of precious stones which, it is true, rob the vine of her leaves, but give her possessor a more precious treasure instead. J. Gossner. For three hundred years Christianity was a per- secuted religion in the Roman empire, and during this period all who assumed the public profession of it, did so at the hazard of their lives. T. Jackson. Let Mussulmen be warned against persecution by the evil example of Christians, who imprison, behead, and burn at the stake, or otherwise des- troy those who differ from them in belief. Ahmed Bahador. PERSECTUTION. Persecution appears in many shapes ; we have it at home and abroad ; sometimes it addresses us with a voice of mildness, or imperious command ; at other times it comes from relatives, friends, or suitors. Zimmerman. IPersecution under whatever disguises, for what- ever purposes, at all times, and under all circum- stances is a gross violation of the rights of con- science, and utterly inconsistent with the spirit of Christianity. J. Story. Persecution, for conscience sake, is every way inconsistent ; it is so far from being required or encouraged by the gospel, that it is most directly contrary to many of its precepts, and indeed to the whole of it. Rev. P. Doddridge. Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be cer- tain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity, that we are seeking victory rather than truth, and are beginning to feel more for ourselves, than for our master. Colton. Persecution and intolerance are words at which my soul recoils, words which call up the most un- pleasant ideas, which make me tremble when I consider the inexpressible depravity of the human mind, and how far it has been extended and mani- fested among mankind. C. Buck. Persecution has always fixed and riveted those opinions which it was intended to dispel; and some discerning men have attributed the quick growth of Christianity in a great measure, to the rough and barbarous reception which its first teachers met with in the world. S. Croacall. There is nothing certainly more unreasonable, more inconsistent with the rights of human nature, more contrary to the spirit and precepts of the Christian religion, more iniquitous and unjust, more impolitic than persecution ; it is against na- tural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy. Lord Mansfield. It is an inherent and inseparable inconvenience in persecution that it knows not where to stop ; it only aims at first to crush the obnoxious sect ; it then punishes the supposed crime of obstinacy, till at length the original magnitude of the error is little thought of in the solicitude to maintain the rights of authority. R. Hall. Religious persecution is the bane of all religion ; and the friends of persecution are the worst ene- mies religion has ; and of all persecutions, that of calumny is the most intolerable ; any other kind of persecution can affect our outward circum- stances only, our properties, our lives; but this may affect our characters forever. Hazlitt. In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, besides the embittering their minds with hatred, indignation, and all the vehe- mence of resentment, and ensnaring them to pro- fess what they do not believe, we cut them off from the pleasures and advantages of society, afflict their bodies, distress their fortunes, hurt their re- putations, ruin their families, and make their lives painful, or put an end to them. Addison. 43 674 A) A Y'.S. C. O Z Z. 4 C O AV. PERSEVER, ANCE. PERSEVER, ANCE. Persevere and be firm. Horace. Perseverance is failing nineteen times, and suc- ... — ceeding the twentieth ; but when you do succeed, Perseverance built a house. Tacquet. Perseverance is irresistible. Sertorius. Perseverance kills the game. Gorlaeus. Perseverance brings success. Gowjet. Perseverance catcheth the fish. Wokotawki. Perseverance subdues difficulties. J. Kay. Perseverance is continued firmness. Bias. Whoever perseveres will be crowned. Herder. Perseverance will accomplish everything. 4. Crºwden. Perseverance and audacity generally win. - Mme. Delwzy. Perseverance will Overcome a diffident manner. P. Holla?vd. Nothing is impossible to perseverance and exer- tion. Mrs. Opie. Perseverance accomplishes more than precipi- tation. Saadi. The god Indra giveth wealth to him who per- SeVel’éS. - Vasishtha. Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages, Washington. Victory belongs to him who has the most per- SëVera.In Ce. Napoleon I. To the persevering mortals the blessed immor- tals are swift. Zoroaster. It is the spirit of indomitable perseverance that crowns all worthy heroes. I. Barrow. Perseverance has been the radical principle of every truly great character. J. A. Langford. * Perseverance is the continuance in any design, state, opinion, or course of action. C. Buck. Let the perseverance of you all be great : be ye strong to labor for this land of darkness. Paalwa. It is not calculable what may be accomplished in everything in life by moderate beginnings and judicious perseverance. Robert Anderson. The greater part of mankind, in aiming at a cer- tain end, are more capable of one great effort than of continued perseverance. Bruyère. Perseverance is a Roman virtue, that wins each godlike act, and plucks success even from the spear- proof crest of rugged danger. Havard. Patience is very good, but perseverance is much better ; while the former stands as a stoic under difficulties, the latter whips them out of the ring. Elizabeth Appleton. Perseverance merits neither blame nor praise ; it is only the duration of our inclinations and sen- timents, which we can neither create nor extin- guish. Rochefoucauld. how the applause does follow you. Dr. J. Andrews, The difference between perseverance and obsti- macy is that One often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. H. Bunting. I hold a doctrine to which I owe not much, in- deed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with Ordinary talent and extraordinary persever- ance all things are attainable. Sir T. F. Buactom. Perseverance will overcome difficulties, which at first appear insuperable ; and it is amazing to Con- sider how great and numerous obstacles may be removed by a continual attention to any particu- lar point. Addison. The extraordinary results effected by dint of sheer industry and perseverance, have led many distinguished men to doubt whether the gift of genius be so exceptional an endowment as it is usually supposed to be. Smiles. Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth ; it spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and bids the choicest fruits and flowers spring up and flourish in the de- sert abode of thorns and briars. S. G. Goodrich. That policy that can strike only while the iron is hot, will be overcome by that perseverance which, like Cromwell's, can make the iron hot by striking ; and he that can only rule the storm, must yield to him who can both raise and rule it. Colton. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. Yonder palace was raised by sin- gle stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigor three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the cir- cumference of the globe. Steele. It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the hands of a clock, whilst they make hourly ap- proaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation. Sir J. Reynolds. Perseverance is all-powerful ; by it time, in its advances, undermines and is able to destroy the strongest things on earth ; it is the best friend and ally to those who use properly the opportunities that it presents, and the worst enemy to those who are rushing into action before it summons them. Plutarch. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance ; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. Dr. Johnson. J2 A: O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 675 PERSPICUITY. Perspicuity is the framework of profound thought. Vawvemargwes. Perspicuity ought never to be sacrificed in lan- guage or in argument. Rames. Whenever men think clearly and are thoroughly interested, they express themselves with perspi- cuity and force. F. W. Robertson. The three canons of perspicuity are, the word that is necessary, the quantity that is necessary, and the manner that is necessary. Catherall. Perspicuity consists in the using of proper terms for the thoughts which a man would have pass from his own mind into that of another's. Locke. Perspicuity is the fundamental quality of style ; a quality so essential in every kind of writing, that for the want of it nothing can atone ; without this the richest Ormaments of style only glimmer through the dark, and puzzle instead of please the reader. H. Blair'. PERSUASION. Persuasion is better than force. Bias. Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion. Goethe. We ought to lead our child to the right path, not by severity, but by persuasion. Menander. Persuasion is a virtue when used to restore the fallen to the paths of virtue, and to the sober duties of life. James Ellis. We are more easily persuaded by the reasons we ourselves discover, than by those which have been suggested to us by others. F. Sylburg. Men should seriously persuade themselves that they have here no abiding place, but are only in their passage to the heavenly Jerusalem. W. Wake. Bitter words and hard usage freeze the heart into a kind of obduracy, which mild persuasion and gentle language can only dissolve and soften. S. Croacall. There is little reason in remonstrance when, from the character of the individual to whom it is ad- dressed, it is not likely to have any effect ; in such a case the language of persuasion may be well sub- stituted for the language of authority. Bovee. PETITION. Petitions should be to right wrongs. James Ellis. A petitioner at court that spares his purse, an- gles without a bait. Gouffier. A short petition to a great man is not only a suit to him for his favor, but also a panegyric upon his parts. R. Sowth. Petitions that are not sweetened with gold are unsavory, and often refused ; or if received, are pocketed, not read. Massinger. The right of petition belongs to all ; and so far from refusing to present a petition because it might come from those low in the estimation of the world, it would be an additional incentive, if such incen- tive were wanting. J. Q. Adams. - * *- PERVERSENESS. Perverseness is more the result of ignorance than of temper. James Ellis. All things can lead astray those whose minds are inclined to perverseness. Ovid. Perversity of disposition may occasionally lead individuals to oppose or even to hate the upright and the good. H. Blair. So remarkably perverse is the nature of man, that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him. Thucydides. Perversity is too commonly the result of a vicious habit, which embitters the happiness of all who have the misfortune of coming in collision with it. G. Crabb. Perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart ; one of the indivisible primary faculties or sentiments which give direction to the character of man. E. A. Poe. Perverseness corrupts the understanding as well as the manners, and utterly disqualifies a man for the satisfactions and duties of life : but men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them nor ourselves better by flying from or quarrelling with them. Burke. PHILANTHEOPY. The true philanthropist is a friend to all. Brown. Philanthropy oft projects what selfishness ends. J. Gambold. Acts of philanthropy should forever dwell in let- ters of living fire. Mrs. M. E. P. Bowligny. What word sums up the highest Christian virtue, if not philanthropy. T. W. Higginson. Philanthropy is often not the love of mam, but love of being thought to love him. Mrs. Yelverton. A philanthropist is a busybody, who is always meddling in the affairs of other people and neglect- ing his own. G. P. Morris. This is true pure philanthropy, that buries not its gold in ostentatious charity, but builds its hos- pital in the human heart. G. D. Harley. Philanthropy is like charity, it must begin at home ; from this centre our sympathies may ex- tend in an ever-widening circle. C. Lamb. Philanthropy is an affectionate sympathy that regards all men and women as brothers and sisters, to whom they are bound by a tie that cannot be broken. Mrs. M. Fletcher. Philanthropy is never so powerless as when she leans on the strong arm of the law for support— never so mighty as when she seeks to achieve her lofty ends by means in harmony with her own spirit. - C. Caldwell. A philanthropist should live with the world as a citizen of the world; he may have a preference for the particular quarter or square, or even alley, in which he lives, but he should have a generous feel- ing for the welfare of the whole. R. Cwmberland. 676 A) A Y'S CO / L. A. C. O AV. PHILOSOPHY. Philosophy curbs ambition. J. P. Crowsaz. Philosophy is the law of life. Tycho Brahe. Philosophy is religion's twin sister. Aben-Ezra. Philosophy is preferable to royalty. Christina. How charming is divine philosophy Milton. Philosophy is the handmaid of science. Jovellamos. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. Reats. Nature yields her secrets to philosophy. Aagard. Philosophy makes the mind invincible. Devere. Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul. W. G. Simms. Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean. Sir W. Hamilton. Beware of the ignis fatwws of false philosophy. - H. K. White. Philosophy should make one humble, not proud. e Hypatia. To understand a philosopher requires a philoso- pher. H. Bushnell. A philosopher is but a man, and has the passions of a man. Lais. All philosophy lies in two words, “sustain’” and “abstain.” Epictetus. Virtue adorns beauty ; philosophy is an orna- ment to both. AEdesivts. To ridicule philosophy is really to act the part of a philosopher. Pascal. The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature. J. C. Hare. To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die. Cicero. Philosophy enlightens the dark and intricate paths of nature. James Ellis. Be a philosopher ; but amidst all your philoso- phy still be a man. Hwºme. The business of philosophy is to know the proper time for everything. Arcestlaws. A true philosopher is married to wisdom ; he needs no other bride. Proclus. Every good citizen should have some knowledge of natural philosophy. Ansaldo Ceba. Philosophy is a good horse in a stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. Goldsmith. What is philosophy ? It is something that light- ens up, that makes bright. V. Cowsin. Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism. Diderot. The utmost that philosophy can pretend to is words only and empty sounds. Dean Stanhope. What is that which is able to conduct a man 2 One thing, and only one, philosophy. Awrelius. PHILOSOPHY. Philcsophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt ; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. Lord Bacom. Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over philosophy. Amsom, Blake. Philosophy is the drawing off of the mind from bodily things to the contemplation of truth and virtue. G. Borrow. A small inkling of philosophy leads man to des- pise learning ; much philosophy leads man to es- teem it. Chamfort. A philosopher's mind should always be awake to devotional feeling ; in becoming wiser, he will be- come better. Sir H. Davy. The character of the true philosopher is to hope all things not impossible, and to believe all things not unreasonable. Sir J. F. W. Herschel. The discovery of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy. Voltaire. Philosophy is the science of divine and human things ; it is a desire of the highest knowledge, and a pursuit of divine truth. R. M. Bird. A mind rightly instituted in the school of philo- sophy, acquires at once the stability of the oak and the flexibility of the Osier. J. Caius. It is a high point of philosophy and virtue for a man to be so present to himself as to be always provided against all accidents. L’Estrange. |He who philosophizes for himself meets at every step with difficulties, of which he who philoso- phizes for a school experiences nothing. Jacobi. Divine philosophy weeds from our breast by de- grees full many a vice and every kind of error ; she is the first to teach us what is right. Juvenal. Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and like good marksmen to hit the white at any distance. Semeca. Philosophy is a modest profession ; it is all re- ality and plain dealing ; I hate solemnity and pre- tence, with nothing but pride at the bottom. Pliny. Philosophy is the science of first principles, that investigates the primary grounds, and determines the fundamental certainty of human knowledge generally. J. D. Morell. A philosopher is one who disengages himself from all former prejudices, masters his passions, and learns to think, speak, and act, according to rule and order. Lord Cairns. There are many things which philosophy cannot teach in advance, but which are settled by the subsequent experience of life , and this is after all the great teacher. T. Burbridge. In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fills up the interspace ; but the first is the wonder-offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration. S. T. Coleridge. A R O S Z O U O T A 7" / O M S. 6 7 7 PHILOSOPHY. Philosophy may expand our ideas of creation ; but it neither inspires a love to the moral charac- ter of the Creator, nor a well-grounded hope of eternal life. A. Fuller. True philosophy is that which renders us to our- selves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm, and more ready for all decent and pure en- joyment. Lavater. Philosophy can merely resolve what is given to her ; giving is not the act of analysis, but of ge- mius, which carries on its combinations according to objective laws, under the dim but sure guidance of the pure reason. Schiller. The modern skeptic philosophy consists in be- lieving everything but the truth, and exactly in proportion to the want of evidence, or to use the words of the poet, in making windows that shut out the light, and passages that lead to nothing. C. Nisbet. The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion, but determined to judge for himself. Truth should be his primary object. If to these qualities he adds industry, he may indeed hope to walk within the veil of the temple of na- ture. M. Faraday. Philosophy is a bully that talks very loud when the danger is at a distance ; but the moment she is hard pressed by the enemy she is not to be found at her post, but leaves the brunt of the battle to be borne by her humbler but steadier comrade, religion. Colton. Philosophy or rather its object, the divine order of the universe, is the intellectual guide which the religious sentiment needs ; it establishes law by ascertaining its terms ; it guides the spirit to see its way to the amelioration of life and increase of happiness. R. W. Mackay. Philosophy is often mistaken for austerity ; it does not consist in denying Ourselves the natural enjoyments which pleasurably occupy some mo- ments of our lifetime, and which should be re- garded as an equivalent for the troubles with which our path is strewed. Aristippus. When philosophy has gone as far as she is able, she arrives at almightiness, and in that labyrinth is lost ; where, not knowing the way, she goes on by guess, and cannot tell whether she is right or wrong, and like a petty river is swallowed up in the boundless ocean of omnipotency. Feltham. Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey’s end ; philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires; in this journey it is safe neither to loiter nor to rest, till thou hast attained thy journey's end; he that sits down a philosopher rises up an atheist. Quarles. The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypothe- sis, and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not me- chanical ; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like questions. Sir I. Newton. PHILOSOPHY. In my opinion there is an essential distinction between the speculative and practical philosopher ; for, while the former gives his thoughts to scien- tific and metaphysical subjects, without reference to what is material, the latter devotes the noble qualities of his mind to the improvement of man- kind, and to attain this object he finds riches not only an excellent assistant, but really necessary. Plutarch. Philosophy, when it is employed in promoting good morals, in cultivating liberal arts, in strength- ening social union, in contemplating the works of creation, and thus leading man to acknowledge and adore the Supreme Being, is a noble science ; it is noble, because true ; and true, because consis- tent and corresponding with the nature of man and with the relations he bears to his fellow-crea- tures and to his Maker, G. I. Hwntingford. The boast of the ancient philosophers was that, their doctrine formed the minds of men to a high degree of wisdom and virtue ; if they had effected this, they would have deserved far higher praise than if they had discovered the most salutary medicines, or constructed the most powerful ma- chines; but the truth is they promised what was impracticable, they despised what was practicable; they filled the world with long words and long beards, and they left it as wicked and as ignorant as they found it. T. B. Macawlay. Philosophy is of two kinds; that which relates to conduct, and that which relates to knowledge ; the first teaches us to value all things at their real worth, to be contented with little, modest in pros- perity, patient in trouble, equal minded at all times; it teaches us our duty to our neighbor and ourselves ; but it is he who possesses both that is the true philosopher ; the more he knows the more he is desirous of knowing ; and yet the farther he advances in knowledge the better he understands how little he can attain, and the more deeply he feels that God alone can satisfy the infinite desires of an immortal soul ; to understand this is the height and perfection of philosophy. R. Southey. PHOTOGRAPHY. A photograph revives the memory. Morea'w. Photography is a triumph over death. Inman. Photography and writing comfort the absent. E. P. Day. A photograph is a portrait painted by the Sun. C. F. Dupwis. Photography is the art of immortalizing the dead. Saromy. A photograph gives relief to the banished and absent lover. James Iredell. A photograph is a prisoned reflection of an ob- ject ; it is a shadow which remains after the sub- stance has passed away. Annie E. Lancaster. When we reflect that an eye which once beamed upon us, but is now closed in death, is in a great measure still preserved, through the art of photo- graphy we experience a feeling of respect for the inventor almost amounting to reverence. Bowdet. 678 J) A Y’.S C O / / A C O AV. PEIYSICIAN. PHYSICIAIN. Judge a physician by his cures. Paracelsus. A sickly infirm look is as disadvantageous to the --- ~~< …; rake i ºr " * Physicians rarely take medicine. J. Hull. physician, as that of a rake in a clel sºi. Physicians use severe remedies for their patients. Amtisthemes. Honor the physician before thou hast need of him. Ben Syra. A prattling physician is another disease to a sick IIla, Il. F. Alcuin. Keep the physician from your door as long as you can. Flavius Valens. A physician is nothing else than a Satisfaction to the mind. Petromius. Every physician ought to know learning, and then practice. Aven2007”. The physician should cure his patients : for dead men pay no bills. Dr. T. Demºman. When the soul quarrels with the body, a good physician will effect a reconciliation. Kuy'rct. If you need a physician, employ these three : a cheerful mind, rest, and a temperate diet. Fortio. It is best to leave mature to her course, who is the sovereign physician in most diseases. Sir W. Temple. We do not always inquire who is the most skill- ful physician, but who is the most fashionable. J. Abernethy. That physician will hardly be thought very care- ful of the health of others, who neglects his own. Rabelais. It is not the part of a skillful physician to scream a mystic charm when the Sore requires the knife. Sophocles. A fresh wound shrinks from the hand of the physician, then gradually submits to, and even calls for it. Pliny. Physicians and politicians resemble one another in this respect, that some defend the constitution, and others destroy it. Acton. It is not always in the power of the physician to relieve the patient ; sometimes the disease is be- yond the reach of art. Ovid. The best physicians are deserving of punishment : in the pursuit of knowledge they experiment on their patients, and often with fatal results. Rabbi Judah. A murder-loving devil has taken possession of the medical chairs ; for none but a devil would recom- mend to physicians blood-letting as a necessary IT162a,InS. Vom Helmont. The physician's interest consists in the amount of organic violation that occurs, and in the abun- dance of distress and physical wretchedness that are found. A. J. Davis. The able physician, before he attempts to give medicine to his patient, makes himself acquainted not only with the disease which he wishes to cure, but with the habits and constitution of the sick Iſla,IT. Cicero. sheepish look in a soldier. Physicians are some of them so pleasing and con- formable to the humor of the patient, as they press mot the true cure of the disease. Lord Bacon. The physician should know something of the con- stitution of his patient, as well as of the symptoms of disease, ere he can safely assume the responsi- bility of his cure. Mrs. Sigourmey. Physicians are happy men, because the sun makes manifest what good success soever happen- eth in their cures, and the earth burieth what fault soever they commit. Nicocles. I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only person with whom one dares to talk continually of one's self, without interruption, contradiction, or censure. Mrs. H. More. The rich patient cures the poor physician much more often than the poor physician the rich pa- tient ; and it is rather paradoxical, that the rapid recovery of the one usually depends upon the pro- crastinated disorder of the other. Colton. I admire the habits of a physician ; he sees the weakness of our nature ; he is generally just and conscientious, though somewhat selfish, from the contempt which his profession must give him of mankind ; his mind is rather accurate than ex- alted. Sin' R. Maltravers. No man can ever deserve the title of a physician, but he who is both a philosopher or naturalist, and a healer ; he ought to be a good philosopher, and of sound judgment, to compare things with things, and thence to draw rational inferences to be ap- plied to different constitutions and diseases. L. Hyneman. Wise physicians, when the remedies applied to heal the ailments of the other parts of the body take effect upon the head and heart, laying aside all thoughts of the slightest diseases, which only require time for their recovery, direct their whole attention to that which is most important and ne- cessary for their patients. Guicciardimi. Wonderful is the skill of the physician ; for a rich man he prescribeth various admixtures and compounds, by which the patient is brought to health in many days, at an expense of fifty pounds ; while for a poor man for the same disease he giv- eth a more common name, and prescribeth a dose of oil, which worketh a cure in a single night, charging four pence therefor. J. Townley. To choose a physician well, one should be half a physician one's self; but as this is not the case with many, the best plan which a mother of a family can adopt is to select a man whose education has been suitable to his profession ; whose habits of life are such as to prove that he continues to ac- quire both theoretical and practical knowledge ; who is neither a bigot in Old Opinions nor an en- thusiast in new ; and for many reasons, not the fashionable doctor of the day. Lady Mownteashel. P A O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. PHYSIC. All seasons are not proper for physic. Davenant. Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise or temperance. Addison. Physic is a continual fountain or spring of know- ledge by which we maintain long life. Chrysantes. Experience is properly upon its own dunghill in the subject of physic, where reason wholly gives it place. Montaigme. They that be sound in themselves are more ready in counsel than skillful in knowledge to prescribe rules of physic to the sick. Bias. Physic is that natural philosophy which tendeth to the knowledge of man, those causes which con- cern the health and good state of his body. Bussy. Physic is of little use to a temperate person, for a man’s own observation on what he finds does him good, and what hurts him, is the best physic to preserve health. Lord Bacon. After thirty years practice, I am fully convinced that two-thirds of all my patients would have re- covered without the use of physic, or the attend- ance of a physician. Dr. Hufeland. Whoever has lived twenty years ought to be responsible to himself for all things that were hurt- ful or wholesome to him, and know how to order himself without physic. Tiberius. Were it my business to understand physic, would not the safer way be to consult nature in the his- tory of diseases and their cures, than espouse the principles of the dogmatists, methodists, or che- mists. J. Locke. Of all the liberal sciences physic is one which as it giveth place to none whatsoever in beauty, in outward show, and in pleasure or delight, so it alloweth a great reward and salary unto those that love it, even as much as their life and health comes to. P. Holland. No men despise physic So much as physicians, because no men so thoroughly understand how little it cam perform ; they have been tinkering the human constitution four thousand years, in order to cure about as many disorders ; it is true that each disorder has a thousand prescriptions, but not a single remedy - Colton. In ancient times, and in all countries, the pro- fession of physic was annexed to the priesthood. Men imagined that all their diseases were inflicted by the immediate displeasure of the Deity, and therefore concluded that the remedy would most probable proceed from those who were particu- larly employed in His service. Burke. Physic has lost much of its mystery ; people are becoming their own physicians more and more. In the early history of our race, we read of neither lawyers nor doctors, a strong hint that none were needed then ; if the number of the former was now reduced three-fourths, and that of the other 'One-half, and the young flood damned up for ten years, it would greatly increase individual happi- mess and prosperity of our country. L. C. Judson. actions, expectations, fears, and hopes. PHYSIOGENOMY. Physiognomy furnishes a key to men. W. Talbot. Pickpockets and beggars are the best practical physiognomists. Colton. There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken 8-9 3 in connection with manner. Dickens. An extraordinary physiognomy is sometimes supposed to be an indication of a knave. Martial. Physiognomy is not a rule given to us to judge of the character of men ; it may enable us to make a conjecture. Bruyère. In all physiognomy, the lineaments of the body will discover those natural inclinations of the mind which dissimulation will conceal, or discipline will Suppress. Lord Bacon. Physiognomy is the language of the face ; it is very comprehensive ; no laconism can reach it ; it is the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room. Jeremy Collier. The distinguishing characters of the face, and the lineaments of the body, grow more plain and visi- ble with time and age ; but the peculiar physiog- nomy of the mind is most discernible in children. J. Locke. All men estimate all things whatever by their physiognomy , and physiognomy whether under- stood in its most extensive or confined significa- tion, is the origin of all human decisions, efforts, Lavater. Physiognomy is a study which can only be in- teresting as a puzzle, never valuable for its results : besides the difficulty of noting the motions of the soul through a substance little transparent as the flesh, not one in ten of the faces we meet can be said to be of nature's moulding. Bovee. Physiognomy is reading the handwriting of ma- ture upon the human countenance. If a man's face, as it is pretended, be like that of a watch, which reveals without what it conceals within, silence itself is no security for Our thoughts, for a dial tells the hour as well as a clock. Chatfield. It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed, and assume their shape from the fre- quent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the coun- tenance ; nothing is more certain than this ; and when they turn into habits they must leave On it durable impressions. Rousseau. The physiognomy has a considerable share in beauty, especially in that of our own species. The manners give a certain determination to the coun- tenance, which being observed to correspond pret- ty regularly with them, is capable of joining the effects of certain agreeable qualities of the mind to those of the body. ; so that to form a finished hu- man beauty, and to give it its full influence, the face must be expressive of such gentle and amiable qualities, as correspond with the softness, Smooth- ness, and delicacy of the outward form. Burke. 680 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. PHYSIOLOGY. PICTURES. - Physiology is self-knowledge. James Ellis. A picture is a poem without words. Horace. Next to the Bible, there is no study more im- portant than physiology. J. B. Jamess. It is philosophical ignorance, not physiological knowledge, that is injurious to the human race. R. D. Owen. Physiology is the science of life ; the great laws of health cannot be understood, nor can their im- portance be appreciated without this knowledge. - - C. A. Lee. Physiology may be looked upon as a chemical laboratory, in which exactly the same kind of changes are carried on as they are produced by the working chemists in his shop, and by means of similar instruments. E. L. Yowmans. Physiology treats of the laws of the human body, and in some measure, consequently, of those of the mind ; for so intimately are they connected, that the health and growth of the one depend, in a great degree, on the health of the other. G. B. Emerson. Physiology constitutes the most interesting sub- ject of study among the sciences. The human sys- tem how complicated and wonderful In its structure we behold a concentration of all that is harmonious and beautiful in the kingdom of ma- ture. A. P. Dwtcher. PIANO. The piano is the musical charm of our social life. Annie E. Lamcaster. The piano is the greatest love-maker in the world. - J. Jahm. The social circle would be a dreary solitude with- out the piano. James Ellis. A piano manufactory may be compared to life : the perfect instrument and the music will be here- after. H. W. Beecher'. To the piano we are indebted for one of the best and purest pleasures of this world ; without it, there would be less refinement, less sympathy, and less delightful intercourse in society. Acton. Let us hope the time is not far distant when the case of a piano will be looked upon as a work of art, and so designed as to be an elegant and appro- priate ornament to a tastefully decorated apart- ment. G. Chapman. Who cares for a combination of art and beauty in the external case of a piano 2 Very few, it is to be feared; they are treated as mere music-boxes on a large scale ; as mere cases to cover an inge- niously contrived combination of hammers and wires. A. Mullmer. A lady who plays well on the pianoforte, and desires to make this accomplishment a source of pleasure and not of annoyance to her friends, should be careful to adapt the style of her per- formance to the circumstances in which it is called for, and should remember that a gay, mixed com- pany would be tired to death with one of those elaborate pieces which would delight the learned ears of a party of cognosenti. Broadwood. tary effects from them. Pictures educate children into living heroes. H. Holley. From every picture we can learn something. W. M. Hunt. It spoils an artist's brush to look on a bad pic- ture. Sir Peter Lely. Beautiful pictures are the entertainments of pure minds. Steele. A single picture often conveys more than vol- UlDiléS. O. S. Fowler. The eyes are charmed by pictures, the ears by music. Cicero. Every good picture is the best of sermons and lectures. Sydney Smith. A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. Sir J. Reymolds. How many an eye and heart have been fasci- nated by an enchanting picture. G. P. Putnam. There are pictures so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp. G. S. Hillard. The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind ; and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involun- H. W. Beeche)'. Pictures are the chickweed to the gilded cage, and make up for the want of many other enjoy- ments to those whose life is mostly passed amid the smoke and din, the bustle and noise of an over- crowded city. Ugo Foscolo. Never attempt to enjoy every picture in a great collection, unless you have a year to bestow upon it ; study the choice pieces in each collection ; look upon none else, and you will afterwards find them hanging up in your memory. W. Allston. Many an eye has been surprised into moisture by pictured woe or heroism ; and we are mistaken if the glow of pleasure has not lighted in some hearts the flame of high resolve, or warmed into life the seeds of honorable ambition. Pandolfini. Pictures are consolers of loneliness ; they are a sweet flattery to the soul ; they are a relief to the jaded mind ; they are windows to the imprisoned thought ; they are books; they are histories and sermons, which we can read without the trouble of turning over the leaves. John Gilbert. A picture is an intermediate something between a thought and a thing ; the thing and thought stand respectively for the outer world of matter and the inner world of mind: the thing or object is received and taken from visible nature into the inner mind of the artist, and there being elabo- rated and combined with his individual idiosyn- crasy of thought and feeling, comes forth a second time into actual existence under the new and crea- tive form of art ; the primary element—the raw material—is nature : the forming power is mind, and the ultimate product art. S. T. Coleridge. P R O S E O U O 7. A 7" / O M S. 681 PIETY. Cultivate piety. CEcolampadius. Live not near a pious fool. Talmud. Piety is the root of benevolence. Yew-Jo. It is easier to profess piety than practice it. Marsilius Ficinws. Piety should be the first profession with man. C. Bray. There is no force, no strength can equal piety. . Rabbi Eleazar. Piety is perfectly consistent with cheerfulness. - Sir D. Brewster. Piety gives to its possessor a twofold immor- tality. J. G. Hughes. Piety dies not with man ; live they or die they, it perishes not. Sophocles. Piety stretched beyond a certain point is the pa- rent of impiety. Sydney Smith. No end of people wish to be pious ; but nobody wishes to be humble. Rochefoucauld. We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious. Mme. Swetchine. Where piety and policy go hand in hand, there war shall be just, and peace honorable. F. Quarles. No happiness or solid comfort can be found in this vale of tears, like living a pious life. W. Mompesson. Piety is a silver chain hanged up aloft, which ties heaven and earth, spiritual and temporal, God and man together. N. Cawssin. Piety is the fruit of the spirit, which is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. M. M. Brewster. Piety toward God, as well as sobriety and vir- tue, are necessary qualifications to make a truly wise and judicious man. I. Watts. True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained ; it enlarges the heart ; it is simple, free, and attractive. Fémélon. Piety is the necessary Christian virtue propor- tioned adequately to the omniscience and spirit- uality of that infinite Deity. H. Hammond. A mind full of piety and knowledge is always rich ; it is a bank that never fails; it yields a per- petual dividend of happiness. J. G. Brooks. The spirit of piety invariably leads man to speak with truth and sincerity ; while envy and hatred resort to falsehood and calumny. Pascal. Practical piety may be defined as living not ac- cording to self-will, impulse, passion, or tempta- tion, but it is living according to God's rules. J. Stoughton. As the absence of piety imperils all moralities, and tends to their utter undoing, so true piety pro- tects them all, and tends to their ultimate perfec- tion. H. Winslow. PIETY. Biety is a kind of modesty ; it makes us cast down our thoughts, just as modesty makes us cast down our eyes in presence of whatever is forbid- den. Jowbert. Let piety to God and justice to man be enshrined within the heart, the Soul's inmost cell free from pollution, and a bosom imbued with generous honor. Persivs. Genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind ; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death ; the same cannot be said of hypocrisy Bruyére. True piety is like the vestal fire, which was in- tended to burn day and night, and never to go out, and which never did go out so long as they re- membered to replenish it day by day. R. W. Hamilton. It is no unusual thing for men of the most aban- doned character to be struck with profound awe, and restrained from their vile purposes, by the presence of an eminently pious person. Miss Jame Robinsom. Piety includes faith, devotion, resignation, and that love and gratitude to God, which stimulates us to inquire His will, and perform it so far as the weakness and imperfection of our nature permit. T. James. The gods know what sort of a person every one really is ; they take motice with what feelings and with what piety he attends to his religious duties, and are sure to make a distinction between the good and the wicked. Cicero. He is a pious man who, contemplating all things with a serene and quiet soul, conceiveth a right of God, and worshippeth Him in his mind ; not in- duced thereto by hope or reward, but for His su- preme nature and excellent majesty. Epicurus. Riety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or the ear ; there is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust beauty out of the meeting house, and slammed the door in her face. Lowell. Happy is that country where patriotism is sus- tained and sanctified by piety ; where authority respects and guards freedom, and freedom reveres and loves legitimate authority ; where truth and mercy meet together, righteousness and peace em- brace each other. Mrs. C. A. Sowle. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man ; he that grows old without reli- gious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper. Dr. Johnson. Growth in piety will be more manifest in more usefulness and less noise ; more tenderness of con- science, and less scrupulosity ; in more steadfast- ness, peace, humility ; more resigmation under God's chastisements, and more patience under man's injuries. When the corn is full in the ear, it bends down because it is full. Cardinal Pole. 682 AD A Y',S C O Z Z. A C O AV. PIETY. Shall we make no distinction between hypocrisy and genuine piety ? We often apply the same lan- guage to both, pay equal respect to the mask as to the face, place dissimulation on the same footing as sincerity, confound appearance with reality, look upon a phantom as if it were a body, and value bad money as much as good. Molière. The pleasures of piety are infinitely more ex- quisite than those of fashion and of sensual pursuits. They consist in one even tenor of mind, a light- ness of heart and sober cheerfulness which none but those who have experienced can conceive ; but they leave no sting behind them ; they give plea- sure on reflection, and will soothe the mind in the And who can say this of the H. K. White. distant prospect. world or its enjoyments 2 We are surrounded by motives to piety and de- votion, if we would but mind them. The poor are designed to excite our liberality ; the miserable our pity, the sick our assistance, the ignorant Our instruction, those that are fallen our helping hand ; in those who are vain, we see the vanity of the world ; in those who are wicked, our own frailty. When we see good men rewarded, it con- firms our hope ; and when evil men are punished, it excites our fear. John Wilson. Piety raises and fortifies the mind for trying oc- casions and painful events. When our country is threatened by dangers and pressed by difficulties, who are the best bulwarks of its defence 2 Not the Sons of dissipation and folly, not the smooth- tongued sycophants of a court, nor skeptics, and blasphemers, from the school of infidelity ; but the man whose moral conduct is animated and sus- tained by the doctrines and consolations of religion. These are the friends of order, of peace, of modera- tion, of equity. Rev. W. L. Thornton. PILOT. A bad pilot is like a blind man leading the blind. Marcus Clarke. A good pilot and a fair wind are the requisites for a prosperous voyage. Demophilus. Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive ad- vice from the passengers in tempestuous weather. Cicero. As the pilot-boats cruise far out, watching for every whitening sail, so should we watch off the gate of Salvation for all the souls, tempest-tossed. H. W. Beecher. Life is a sea ; the Soul the threatened ship ; sin, Satan, and hell the dangers to be met ; and Christ the great pilot, who will bring the soul into the heavenly harbor. J. Foster. The good pilot knows the whereabouts of every sunken rock in the harbor ; how much of joy there would be in the world if all men knew the sunken rocks in the harbor of life. Catherine A. Arnowld. As the cautious pilot steers the ship clear of the breakers, and brings the vessel safe to port, so should we steer our life-ship clear of the rocks and shoals of sin to the port of everlasting life. James Ellis. PILGRIMI. God is the pilgrim's companion. Peter the Hermit. God knows who is a good pilgrim. T. Campbell. Fulco. Rist. Pilgrims seldom come home saints. Fools and madmen go on pilgrimages. Let pilgrinus abstain from all fleshly desires. J. Wycliffe. The journey of human life is only a pilgrimage. 4. Butler. After life's wretched pilgrimage come rest and glory. John Dwrie. A pilgrimage is a useless expenditure of time and money. B. J. Feyjoo. Does the pilgrim count the miles when he travels to some distant shrine of hope 2 Schiller. The ark of the covenant went a pilgrimage of nearly a thousand years before it was settled ; what a memorial of sunshine and cloud. Bowes. How often pilgrims, on their way toward heaven, whose souls are like and made for each other, ap- proach, yet miss, till at length in heaven they greet each other. Rlopstock. God is taking us His children as pilgrims and strangers homeward; but we desire to build here, and must be often overthrown before we can learn to seek “the city that hath foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God.” H. W. Beecher. Cheer up ! wayfaring pilgrim, and listen to the voice of thy Lord, “When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee : and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee : when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.” G. Mogridge. If men have been termed pilgrims, and life a journey, then we may add that the Christian pil- grimage far surpasses all others in the following important particulars; in the goodness of the road, in the beauty of the prospects, in the excellence of the company, and in the vast superiority of the accommodation provided for the Christian travel- ler when he has finished his course. Colton. We may have to go through trial and affliction, the pilgrimage may be a tiresome One, but it is safe ; we cannot trace the river upon which we are sailing, but we know it ends in floods of bliss at last ; we cannot track the roads, but we know that they all meet in the great metropolis of hea- ven, in the centre of God's universe. God help us to pursue the true pilgrimage of a pious life. C. H. Spwrgeon. The pilgrim who knocks at the door of the hu- man heart with gloved hands and attire borrowed for the occasion, will meet with tardy welcome and sorry entertainment ; but he who comes with shoes worn and dusty with the walk upon life's highway, with face bronzed by fierce suns and muscles knit by conflict with the evils of the pas- sage, will find abundant entrance and hospitable service. J. G. Holland. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 683 PITY. Pity is akin to love. T. Southerm. Periander. Mrs. M. Hays. Show pity to the suppliant. Pity is a short road to love. Pity is love when grown into excess. Howard. All feel pity for those like themselves. Clawdian. Pity is a compound of love and grief. Sheridam. Pity sometimes opens the gate of love. Al-Mulk. Pity is a native plant in a noble heart. Hwnter. It is easy to condemn ; it is better to pity. J. S. C. Abbott. He that pitieth another remembereth himself. Rabbi Santob. Pity often relieves a heart stricken by sorrow. A. Brewer’. Wherever there is misery there should be pity. Rupert I of Germany. God's pity is not simply pity ; it is a father's pity. H. W. Beechen”. Though a judge condemn a criminal, he may yet pity him. Tsang. In extreme danger fear turns a deaf ear to every feeling of pity. Catullws. Of all the paths that lead to a woman's love, pity is the straightest. Sir J. Beawmont. Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction. Virgil. Pity those whom nature abuses, but never those who abuse nature. J. Vanbrugh. We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced. Rowssectu. The world will pity you for what you lose, but never for what you lack. Mme. Swetchine. Be pitiful even to thy cattle, and give them food even before thou thyself eatest. Rabbi Eliazar. The desire of being pitied or admired is com- monly the reason of our confiding things to others. J. F. Clarke. We pity others because we are better off our- selves ; the unfortunate do not pity the unfortu- nate. H. W. Shaw. For one man who sincerely pities our misfor- tunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our SUlOCēSS. Colton. Grief for the calamity of another is pity, and ariseth from the imagination that the like calamity may befall himself. T. Hobbes. How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the Ostentatious appear- ance which is called pity. Jame Porter. Pity and compassion are the fruits of sympathy; they are amiable feelings which lead to the relief of the unfortunate sufferer who excites them. Mrs. Willard. PITY. Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison. J. F. Boyes. To pity is sometimes more than to give ; for money is external to a man's self, but he who be- stows compassion communicates his own soul. Rev. W. Mowntford. God's pity is not as some sweet cordial poured in dainty drops from some golden phial ; it is wide as the whole scope of heaven ; it is abundant as all the air. S. F. Jarvis. Pity and friendship are passions incompatible with each other ; and it is impossible that both can reside in any breast, for the smallest space, with- out impairing each other. Goldsmith. Let us pity the wicked man ; for it is very sad to seek happiness where it does not exist ; let Our compassion express itself in efforts to bring him gently back to sacred principle, and if he persist, let us pity him the more for a blindness so fatal to himself. De Charmage. Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man ; it is a sort of foresight of the dis- asters which may befall ourselves ; we assist others in order that they may assist us on like Oc- casions ; so that the services we offer to the unfor- tunate are in reality so many anticipated kind- messes to ourselves. Rochefoucauld. Pity is to many of the unhappy a source of com- fort in hopeless distresses, as it contributes to re- commend them to themselves, by proving that they have not lost the regard of others; and Hea- ven seems to indicate the duty of even barren compassion, by inclining us to weep for evils which we cannot remedy. Dr. Johnsom. In benevolent natures the impulse of pity is so sudden that, like instruments of music which obey the touch, the objects which are fitter to excite such impressions, work so instantaneous an effect, that you would think the will was scarce concerned, and that the mind was altogether passive in the sympathy which her own goodness has excited. Sterme. Pity, and forbearance, and long-sufferance, and fair interpretation, and excusing our brother, and taking in the best sense, and passing the gentlest sentence, are as certainly our duty, and Owing to every person that does offend and can repent, as calling to account can be owing to the law, and are first to be paid ; and he that does not so is an unjust person. Jeremy Taylor. Pity is a mode, or particular development, of benevolence ; it is sympathy for persons on account of weakness or suffering ; it is not mere compas- sion, but is mingled with a desire to aid and re- lieve. Pity and compassion are the antithesis of those affections by which we take hold of men who are good and lovely, desirable for their grace of nobleness and purity ; or of those who are pros- perous, strong, and happy : for such, to be sure, we have a lively sympathy, but it is of a different sort. God has gladness for those who are glad, and pity for those who are sad. H. W. Beecher. 684 JO A Y’.S C O Z Z. A C O AV. PLACE. PLAGIARISM. It is the place that shows the man. J. Bale. Plagiarism is its own accuser. W. Tudo?". Put the right man in the right place. Schiller. Plagiarism is vanity joined to dishonesty. Rist. A place at court is a continual bribe. Zaba. Plagiarists at least have the merit of preserva- Always be good in your place, and you will hold it the longer. G. Whetstome. A king may bestow a place of importance upon a man, but he cannot bestow the ability to fill it. Montesquiew. Let there be a place for everything and every thing in its place ; also a time for everything and everything at its proper time. J. S. Denmam. A ruler who appoints any man to a place, when there is in his dominions another man better quali- fied for it, sins against God and against the state. Rorain. Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so that they have no freedom neither in their persons mor in their times. Bacon. Be not too punctual in taking place; if he be thy superior, it is his due ; if thy inferior, it is his dis- honor ; it is thou must honor thy place ; thy place, not thee; it is a poor reward of worth that consists in a right hand, or a brick-wall. F. Quarles. IPLAINNESS. Let your preaching be plain. Philip Henry. Plain men want handsome wives. Worro. Plain and neat is better than finery. Bacon. Plain dealing is a jewel, but he who uses it will die a beggar. O. T. Zonce. Plainness often has a charm which mere beauty can never give. Ammie E. Lancaster. Let a woman be ever so plain, some man will be eager to carry her off. Wakatawki. In the drama of real life, plain people really play the most important parts. John Taylor. Plainness is a sort of half-way stage between beauty on the one hand, and ugliness on the other. J. Hamilton. Mere perfection of form is not half so attractive as modest plainness beaming with purity and good- IlêSS. Eliza Cook. The plain man is like the man who is “passing rich,” whose wealth does not suffice to give him a false importance, and is yet too great to suffer him to fear the grinding hardship and the withering degradation of poverty. G. B. Miller. Plainness is to perfect loveliness what the mild summer of the temperate zone is to the burning heat of the tropics, and to hideousness what the genial, bracing healthfulness of an English winter is to the frigid cold of the arctic circle. Its pos- sessor is unassailed by the lofty and yet contempti- ble vanity which beauty so often fosters, and is free from the dark shade of misanthropy which the Satire and scorn of the world so often casts around the ugly. L. E. Martym. from. tion. I. Disraeli. Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen S. T. Coleridge. A writer who will commit an act of willful pla- giarism, will pick a pocket. Annie E. Lancaster. Plagiarists are purloiners who filch the fruit that others have gathered, and then throw away the basket. Chatfield. There are many writers who plagiarize one-half of their ideas, and use authors as they do tailors and shoemakers. James Ellis. No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and sim- ple ; he will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself. H. Kingsley. Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to im- prove, but impudently pilfer the honey ready pre- pared from the hive. Colton. Honest thinkers are always stealing from each other ; our minds are full of waifs and estrays which we think are our own ; innocent plagiarism turns up everywhere. O. W. Holmes. As the painted woman receives her beauty from embellishment, even so does the plagiarist receive his popularity from the chemical combinations or the genius of others. The one is the ignis fatwws which but deceives; the other the rainbow span- ning the beauty spread out to the delighted gaze. Downey. Genius often plagiarizes to advantage ; for it is one thing to purloin finely-tempered steel, and an- other to take a pound of literary old iron, and convert it in the furnace of one's mind into a hun- dred watch-springs, worth each a thousand times as much as the iron ; when genius borrows it bor- rows grandly, giving to the borrowed matter a life and beauty it lacked before. Lavater. As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value by their own impres- sion; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiarists, who cannot be said to steal but from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again ; and may more properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leav- ing it heir to their own fame. Sterne. Touching plagiarism in general, it is to be re- membered that all men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped ; they are taught by every person whom they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest is he who has been oftenest aided ; and if the at- tainments of all human minds could be traced to their real sources, it would be found that the world . had been laid most under contribution by the men of most original power. Rwskim. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 685 PLANT. PLAN. IPlants oft removed never thrive. Lichtºwer. Lay your plans with wisdom. Bengel. A plant must’sprout before it climbs. Mwnshi. Before proceeding upon any plan, we should Noble plants suit not a stubborn soil. Withering. Plants require care, weeds never die. E. P. Day. Remove plants only while they sleep. A. Haller. All plants are built of innumerable little cells, SaCS, or cavities. J. J. Thomas. The earth produces wholesome and unwholesome plants. Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell. Of plants, some belong to the good, some to the evil spirit. Hermippus. The study of a single plant is sufficient to occupy a whole lifetime. Linnaeus. The organism of a plant is as wonderful and mysterious as that of a man. H. W. Sargent. Earth, air, sun, and rain nourish every plant that grows on the surface of the globe. W. Armot. The same plant which in certain circumstances is regarded as poisonous, in others is highly useful and salutary. Sturm. The plant receives most of its nourishment through the root, which is therefore analogous to the mouth of an animal. J. L. Blake. What vitality there is in plants It is surpris- ing what efforts plants, or parts of plants, will make to save their lives when accident or disease befall them. Muhlenberg. Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant. When judiciously introduced, nothing can so easily give a spirited or graceful air to a fine or even an ordinary scene, as the various plants which compose the vegetable kingdom. Downing. Must man in planting only think of the shade of the tree and of himself Is this the advice of na- ture ? He who has planted but yesterday, finds in the plant itself his employment and his joy. Krwm macher. Though the nature of a species cannot be so far altered as to fit an inhabitant of a very hot climate for a very cold one, yet some plants of warm cli- mates are found to adapt themselves much more readily than others. J. C. Lowdon. When a plant is approaching a state of perfec- tion, when its organs of nourishment are complete- ly developed, and its vegetation is most luxuriant, then arrives the time of flowering, which has been aptly termed, “the joy of plants.” Mrs. Dwmont. Plants satisfy the common necessities of man and beast ; they nourish man's body in health, they restore him in sickness; they give him the clothing that covers him, the varied hues that delight his eye, and odors which refresh his senses. James Macdonald. Goethe. carefully weigh it. S. Merrill. Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for another. Confucius. An ill-judged plan is not only profitless, but also leads men to destruction. Phoedrus. A plan is to be estimated according to its relative value, or fitness for the design. G. Crabb. People who are etermally prating about their plans, very rarely accomplish them. Bovee. Form some common plan for promoting the per- fection and happiness of your fellow-creatures. Miss Margaret Mercer. He who bridles the fury of the billows, knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked. Racine. Plans that are wise and prudent in themselves, are rendered vain when the execution of them is carried on negligently and with imprudence. Gwicciardini. God acts on more enlarged plans than the bigoted and ignorant have any conception of, and adapts His instrument to the work He wishes to accom- plish. J. T. Headley. A well-devised plan is very often filched away, if the place for speaking be not chosen with care and caution; for if the enemy learn your plans, they can tie your tongue and bind your hands with your own counsel, and do the same to you that you in- tended to do to them. Plawtus. PLAY. Be brisk at play. Lyman Cobb. It is better to play than do nothing. Confucius. Play, women, and wine, undo men laughing. R. Chartier. Play with an ass and he will whisk his tail in your face. Lope de Vega. People go to a play not to be instructed, but to be amused. Hammah More. Play with a fool at home and he will play with you abroad. Rodrigo Cota. Play not with a man till you hurt him, nor jest till you shame him. R. Yearwood. A short season of play has a tendency to relax the mind, and enables us to turn to study again with more vigor. Phoedrus. The idle man who has no work can have no play. How can he be relaxed, who never is bent ; how can play refresh him who is never exhausted with business 2 Jones of Nayland. A player knows the right use of the world, wherein he comes to play a part and so away : his life is not idle, for it is all action, and no man need be more wary in his doings, for the eyes of all men are upon him. Bishop Earle. 686 JD A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. PLEASING. PLEASING-. Please all men. Periander. People are never so much unguarded as when - they are pleased. A very pleasant fellow shall Study to please. **P* | turn your good name to a jest, make your charac. Pleasant hou ove fast. Perdiccas. ter contemptible, debauch your wife or daughter, OUITS IIl ve last. and yet be received by the rest of the world with She who pleases is always fair. 2 enophilus. welcome wherever he appears. Steele. To be pleasing argues discretion. Feltham. He that pleases himself, without injuring his If you mean to profit, learn to please. Churchill. Pleasant company makes life tolerable. A. Cleeve. Nothing is so difficult to please as man. Tyrius. A pleasant thing never comes too soon. Salis. We that live to please, must please to live. Dr. Johnson. Whatever pleases is handsome enough to please. - Mime. Fonseca. In company we please, because we try to please. E. W. H. Kenealy. Whatever is best to do will be found most pleas- ing. Albert I of Austria. He had need rise betimes that would please every- body. A. B. Meek. Do what contenteth the few ; pleasing the many is bad. Schiller. Pleasing things are delightful, and hardships glorious. Severws. He that only pleases himself, does himself no kindness. T. Lyman. Please the people, if you would instruct and benefit them. St. Aldhelm. Whoever can do what he pleases, commands when he entreats. Crebillom. We are often pleased with others only because we are so ourselves. Baron Wessenberg. The more generally persons are pleasing, the less profoundly do they please. H. Beyle. When we know the ruling passion of an indivi- dual, we are sure to please him. Pascal. It is, as it were, born in maidens that they should wish to please everything that has eyes. J. W. L. Gleim. It may be that an action displeases us, which would please us if we knew its true aim and whole extent. Mme. Klopstock. The hopeless attempt to please all parties usually ends by pleasing mone, for time-servers neither serve themselves nor any one else. Chatfield. Most men had rather please than admire you, and seek less to be instructed, nay, diverted, than approved and applauded ; the most delicate of pleasures is to please another. H. G. Otis. People who make a point of pleasing everybody, seldom have a heart for any one ; the love of self is the secret of their desire to please, and their temper is generally fickle and insincere. R. L. Edgeworth. neighbor, is quite as likely to please half the world, as he who vainly strives to please the whole of it ; he also stands a far better chance of a majority in his favor, since upon all equal divisions, he will be fairly entitled to his own easting vote. Colton. If thou hope to please all, thy hopes are vain : if thou fear to displease some, thy fears are idle ; the way to please thyself is not to displease the best : and the way to displease the best is to please the most ; if thou cannot fashion thyself to please all, thou shalt displease Him that is all in all. F. Quarles. There is a certain artificial polish, a common- place pleasantry, acquired by perpetually ming- ling in the beaw monde, which in the commerce of the world, supply the place of natural Suavity and good humor ; but it is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character and Conscience. Irving. The expectation of being pleased, which prevails so much in young persons, is one great source of their enjoyments ; all are felt beforehand, and their hopes are not easily given up ; the conviction that they shall be pleased makes a strong impres- sion on the imagination, which often lasts long enough to make them really so, when otherwise they would have found little reason for it.. T. Bowdler. People are not aware of the very great force which pleasantry in company has upon all those with whom a man of that talent converses. His faults are generally overlooked by all his acquaint- ance ; and a certain carelessness, that constantly attends all his actions, carries him on with greater success than diligence and assiduity does others who have no share in this extraordinary endow- ment. Addison. The happy gift of being agreeable seems to con- sist not in one, but in an assemblage of talents tend- ing to communicate delight ; and how many are there, who, by easy manners, sweetness of temper, and a variety of other undefinable qualities, pos- sess the power of pleasing without any visible ef- fort, without the aids of wit, wisdom, or learning, may, as it should seem, in their defiance ; and this without appearing even to know that they possess it. R. Cwmberland. The superior man is easy to serve and difficult to please ; if you try to please him in any way which is not accordant with right, he will not be pleased ; but in his employment of men, he uses them according to their capacity. The mean man is difficult to serve, and easy to please ; if you try to please him, though it be in a way which is not accordant with right, he may be pleased ; but in his employment of men, he wishes them to be equal to everything. Confucius. PA O S E O U o 7. A 7 ſo A. S. 687 PLEASUR.E. Love not pleasure. T. Carlyle. Pleasures are transitory. A. Holmes. Pleasure is the chief good. Spewsippus. Fleasure is the devil's bait. Musculws. Learn to restrain pleasure. Pittacus, Avoid false pleasure's snare. Mrs. A. K. Ware. Pleasures steal away the mind. Weisse. Pleasure is a species of madness. Constantime II. Pleasure belongs only to this life. Sardanapalus. Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave. Dugamme. The fool's pleasure costs him dear. Aemocles. Pleasure should ever yield to duty. Agis IV. Never pleasure without repentance. D. Heinsivs. Fly pleasure, and it will follow thee. Shakspeare. The cheapest pleasures are the best. Tupper. Pleasure and sorrow are born sisters. Z. Isham. We love pleasure by fearing to lose it. Zellar. Fly the pleasure that will bite to-morrow. Xemarchws. Let not thy heart turn aside after pleasure. Ptah Hotep. A wise prince finds pleasure in good things. Hwuy Yung. Short pleasure often brings long repentance. Damhowder. Pleasure gives law to fools, God to wise men. Rev. T. Binney. Voluptuous pleasures bring tormenting pains. Lowis de Granada. It is the rarest pleasure which especially delights l1S. Valerius Maacimºws. Pleasure can undo a man at any time, if yielded to. Feltham. That is a cursed pleasure that makes a man a fool. W. Yarrell. The greatest pleasure is to have conquered plea- SUll’0. Cyprian. The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor. B. Gilpin. Pleasures become bitter as soon as they become abused. Deshowlières. When pleasure exceeds its limits, it becomes a torture, Ivan I. Kozlof. In a man's pleasures we often find a reflex of his character. W. S. Martin. Love of pleasure is that which remders us most despicable. Longinus. It is well to possess pleasure, but not to be pos- sessed by it. Aristippus. PLEASUR.E. The sweetest pleasures are those which do not exhaust hope. De Levis. Pleasure should be intermediate between frugal- ity and festivity. E. Jarvis. There is no pleasure of life but there is some pain closely joined to it. Memonder. All worldly pleasure is correspondent to a like measure of anxiety. F. Osborne. Pleasure soon exhausts us and itself also ; but endeavor never does. Richter. He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity. Lavater. Pleasure blinds the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. Cicero. It is only forbidden pleasures that are the most diligently sought after. Sallwst. Pleasure can be supported by illusion, but hap- piness rests upon truth. Chamfort. The man of pleasure should more properly be termed the man of pain. Coltom. There are some pleasures that recede from us as we advance toward them. Eliza Leslie. Nothing can be true pleasure which brings re- pentance or end in misery. Sterling. How often we gain some deep experience by los- ing some expected pleasure. J. M. Mason. In diving to the bottom of pleasures, we bring up more gravel than pearls. Balzac. Pleasure never comes sincere to man ; but lent by heaven upon hard usury. Dryden. Cultivate not only the cornfields of your mind, but the pleasure-grounds also. R. Whately. Pleasure is like a cordial ; a little of it is not in- jurious, but too much destroys. W. Talbot. The shadow of our pleasures is the pain that seems so surely to follow them. Dudevant. He that would have the perfection of pleasure, must be moderate in the use of it. Whichcote. Home pleasures are the purest and the most satisfactory that this world affords. Mrs. H. F. Lee. Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal ; no one feels, who does not at the same time give it. Chesterfield. Pleasure may be called the short cut to the tomb, as it shortens time, which is the way. D. Jerrold. Do not make thyself a slave to pleasure ; that is the act of a lewd woman, not of a mari, - Amaacandrides. What is life without pleasure ? If any one would destroy pleasure let himself be destroyed. Ala Addin, Venture not to the utmost bounds of even lawful pleasures; the limits of good and evil join. A. Fuller. © º e * * eee e o e sº • * © Q O • sº e sº Ar © © © … O © º O e O º gº © & © e © º te e 688 JD A Y’.S CO / / A C O AV. PLEASURE. No one enjoys pure, unalloyed pleasure ; there is always some bitter mingled with the sweet. Ovid. Put this restriction on your pleasures: be cau- tious that they injure no being which has life. Zimmerman. Think not that a pleasmre which God has threat- ened, nor that a blessing which God has cursed. F. Qwarles. The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good ac- tion by stealth, and have it found out by accident. C. Lamb. The most delicate, the most sensible of all plea- sures consists in promoting the pleasures of others. Bruyère. It is but just that we should purchase our plea- Sures, but the moment when we pay is a hard one. Mme. Swetchine. Pleasure must first have the warrant that it is without sin; then, the measure, that it is without €XCéSS. H. G. Adams. The pleasure of sense will surfeit, and not satis. fy ; the pleasures of religion will satisfy, but not surfeit. M. Henry. Indulging in dangerous pleasures is like licking honey from a knife, and cutting the tongue with the edge. Buddha. The man of pleasure little knows the perfect joy he loses for the disappointing gratifications which he pursues. Addison. Pleasures of high flavor, like pineapples, have the misfortune that like pineapples they make the gums bleed. Richter. The pleasures of innocence can never bring re- pentance ; they Smile amid roses when death draweth nigh. Schefer. All our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals ; love is a method of protracting our greatest pleasure. Goldsmith. Intellectual pleasure is as much more noble than that of sense, as an immortal spirit is more noble than a clod of earth. Rev. J. Howe. Though a taste of pleasure may quicken the re- lish of life, an unrestrained indulgence leads to in- evitable destruction. R. Dodsley. Every man should study his pleasures while they are in hand ; they afford important themes of re- flection and retrospection in after time. Simpson. All pleasures are brief, the most active the soon- est sped ; the longest pleasure with which we are familiar is of a passive kind, namely, sleep. P. J. Burette. Punish not thyself with pleasure ; glut not thy sense with palative delights, nor revenge the con- tempt of temperance by the penalty of satiety. Sir T. Browne. Pleasures, like the rose, are sweet but prickly ; the honey doth not countervail the sting ; all the world's delights are vanity, and end in vexation. PLEASURE. - Pleasure loves the garden and the flowers; labor loves the fields and the grain ; devotion loves the mountains and the skies. James Blair. The streams of small pleasures fill the lake of happiness, and the deepest wretchedness of life is continuance of petty pains. Fielding. True pleasure consists in clear thoughts, sedate affections, sweet reflections, a mind even and true to its God, and true to itself. Rev. E. Hopkins, When pleasures have exhausted us, we imagine that we have exhausted pleasures, and we say no- thing can fill the heart of man. W. Hilton. No pleasure is intrinsically bad ; but the efficient causes of some pleasures bring with them a great many perturbations of pleasure. Epicurus. Whenever we drink too deeply of pleasure we find a sediment at the bottom, which pollutes and embitters that we relished at first. E. S. Barrett. No state can be more destitute than that of a person who, when the delights of sense forsake him, has no pleasures of the mind. J. Burgh. Most men pursue the pleasures, as they call them, of their natures, which begin in sin, are carried on with danger, and end in bitterness. W. Wake. There are pleasures for keeping as enjoying, for using delicately, the zest lasting long, the more af- fluent when tasted with moderation. W. A. Alcott. All fits of pleasure are balanced on an equal de- gree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue. Swift. In the common actions and diversions of our lives, the pleasure lies almost entirely in the pur- suit, and very little in the attainment. J. Twcker. The keenest pleasures of an unlawful nature are poisoned by a lurking self-reproach, ever rising to hiss at us, like a Snake amid the flowers. Chatfield. If I give way to pleasure, I must also yield to grief, poverty, labor, ambition, anger, until I am torn to pieces by my misfortunes and lust. Seneca. Constant application to pleasure takes away from the enjoyment, or rather turns it into the nature of a very burdensome and laborious busi- IłęSS. Burke. The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continu- 8.I1C0. J. Collier. Those which depend on ourselves are the only pleasures a wise man will count on ; for nothing is ours, which another may deprive us of ; hence the inestimable value of intellectual pleasures. T. Jefferson. What contributes chiefly to the happiness of the great is, that they are surrounded by many who assist them to drive dull care away, and that their fortune enables them to lead a life of pleasure. Bishop Henshaw. Pascal. WILLIACM) PENN, A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 689 PLEASUR.E. - - These natural pleasures, indeed, are really with- out price, both because they are below all price in their attainment, and above it in their enjoyment. Hume. The love of pleasure is natural to the human heart ; and the best preservative against criminal pleasures is a proper indulgence of such as are in- nocent. Erskine Mason. It is only those pleasures which are of rare Oc- currence that are really prized by men ; neither the young or old can set a value on blessings which they taste every day. Goethe. The mirage has lured many to ruin by present- ing false pictures of trees and streams in the desert, but the pleasures of the world have lured many by visions of false happiness. Mrs. E. Fry. When the idea of any pleasure strikes your ima- gination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance which is most likely to follow. Epictetus. We loiter in the retreats of pleasure loth to aban- don them, and wait for disappointment, persecu- tion, and affliction to beckon us away into more secluded and less enticing roads. Mrs. R. Church. Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower ; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it re- freshes, and it improves ; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. P. Fagiws. Pleasure disappoints itself ; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it, though it leaves the sense of our inability for that we wish, with a disrelish of everything else. Steele. Our pleasures resemble those fabulous trees de- scribed by St. Oderic ; the fruits which they bring forth are no sooner ripened into maturity, than they are transformed into birds, and fly away. Ingulphus. All pleasure must be bought at the price of pain. The difference between false pleasure and true pleasure is put thus: for the true, the price is paid before you enjoy it ; for the false, after you enjoy it. J. Foster. The pleasures of the world are deceitful ; they promise more than they give ; they trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possess- ing them, and they make us despair in losing them. Mme. de Lambert. Pleasures are not of such a solid nature that we can dive into them ; we must merely skim over them; they resemble those boggy lands over which we must run lightly, without stopping to put down Our feet. Fontenelle. As alchymists spend that small modicum they have to get gold, and never find it, so we lose and neglect eternity for a little momentary pleasure which we cannot enjoy, nor shall we ever attain to in this life. R. Burton. If the indulgent and pleasure-loving had but a little more forethought and consideration, they would become self-denying, out of mere selfishness, from a conviction that round about is the nearest way to happiness. Jane Taylor. PLEASUR.E. There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things— books, pictures, and the face of nature. What is the world but a heap of ruined friendships—but the grave of love : Hazlitt. No man ever took the road of pleasure, but he apprehended he could easily leave it ; had he con- sidered his whole life likely to be passed in its wind- ings, the preference of the ways of virtue would have been indisputable. Dean, Bolton. The laying in a soft down bed is easy, and com- fortable, and delightful ; but if one were con- demned to this for forty years together, and never to come out, it would be a torment ; it is so with all the pleasures of this world. G. Burroughs. The man of pleasure, as the phrase is, is the most ridiculous of all beings; he travels, indeed, with his riband, plume, and bells—his dress and his music —but through a toilsome and beaten road ; and every day nauseously repeats the same tract. E. Young. Pleasures, riches, honor, and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity, and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain ; no joy without sorrow. O, the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world ! Gotthold. A man that knows how to mix pleasure with business, is never entirely possessed by them ; he either quits or resumes them at his will ; and in the use he makes of them, he rather finds a relaxation of mind, than a dangerous charm that might cor- rupt him. St. Evremond. No enjoyment, however inconsiderable, is con- fined to the present moment. A man is the happier for life from having made once an agreeable tour, or lived for any length of time with pleasant peo- ple, or enjoyed any considerable interval of inno- cent pleasure. Sydney Smith. The pleasure of the religious man is an easy and portable pleasure, such a One as he carries about in his bosom, without alarming either the eye or envy of the world. A man putting all his plea- sures into this one is like a traveller putting all his goods into one jewel. R. Sowth. Even in the moments of intensest enjoyment our pleasures are multiplied by the quick-revolving images of thought ; we feel the past and future in each fragment of the instant, even as the flavor of every drop of some delicious liquid is heightened and prolonged on the lips. Sir T. N. Talfowrd. Beware of pleasure should be the perpetual les- son inculcated upon youth ; this it is which cor- rupts, enfeebles, and destroys the mind as well as the body. It is the parent of vice, and the pro- moter of exhaustion and premature decay—tritons of the wave, and insects of an hour ! Sir E. Leigh. Centres, or wooden frames, are put under the arches of a bridge, to remain no longer than till the latter are consolidated Even so pleasures are the devil's scaffolding to build a håbit upon ; that formed and steady, the pleasures are sent for fire- wood, and the hell begins in this life. Coleridge. 44 690 AX A Y'S CO Z / A C O AV. PLEASURE. Corporeal pleasure is low ; and when indulged to excess is mean. Pleasures of the eye and eaf, having no organic feeling, and being free from any sense of meanness, are indulged without shame, and even rise to a certain degree of dig- nity when their objects are grand or elevated. Kames. Often and often to me, and instinctively, has an innocent pleasure felt like a foretaste of infimite delight, an ante-repast of heaven. Nor can I be- lieve otherwise than that pure happiness is of a purifying effect ; like Jewish bread from heaven, no doubt it is meant to invigorate as well as gra- tify. Rev., W. Mountford. Pleasure is but like a wooden frame set under an arch till it be strong enough of its own weight to stand alone ; so when, by any means, the devil hath a man sure, he takes no longer care to cozen him with pleasures, but is content that he should begin an early hell, and be tormented before the time. Jeremy Taylor. None has more frequent conversations with dis- agreeable self than the man of pleasure ; his en- thusiasms are but few and transient ; his appetites like angry creditors continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay , and the greater his former pleasures the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. Goldsmith. Pleasure is one of those commodities which are sold at a thousand shops, and bought by a thousand customers, but of which nobody ever fairly finds possession ; either they know not well how to use, or the commodity will not keep, for no one has ever yet appeared to be satisfied with his bargain ; it is too subtle for transition, though sufficiently solid for sale. W. G. Simms. Would you judge of the lawfulness or unlawful- ness of pleasures, take this rule : whatever weak- ens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things—in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself. R. Sowthey. Pleasure and pain, beauty and deformity, good and ill, seemed to me everywhere interwoven ; and one with another made, I thought, a pretty mixture, agreeable enough in the main ; it was the same, I fancied, as in some of those rich stuffs, where the flowers and ground were oddly put to- gether with such irregular work and contrary colors as looked ill in the pattern, but natural and well in the piece. Shaftesbury. Let your pleasures be intellectual and spiritual, rather than sensual ; individual and private, rather than social and public ; economical, rather than expensive ; an occasional recreation, and not an habitual pursuit, and such as shall rather fit than disqualify you for the business of life. No man will less enjoy pleasure than he who lives for and upon it ; and paradoxical as it may appear, it is true, the way to enjoy pleasure is not to love it to a passionate excess, but to partake of it ever in moderation. J. A. James. PLEASUR.E. People should be guarded against temptation to unlawful pleasures by furnishing them the means of innocent ones ; in every community there must be pleasures, relaxations, and means of agreeable excitement ; and if imnocent are not furnished, resort will be had to criminal ; man was made to enjoy as well as labor, and the state of society should be adapted to this principle of human na- ture. W. E. Channing. The pleasure which is generally esteemed as such is in fact the antagonist of all positive pleasure, and is nothing else than misery and wretchedness in the alluring disguise of temptation and folly : it dissipates time and opportunity, and debauches talents; and the heroic self-denial and determined resolution which resist its influences and entice- ments, are the guarantees which can be given in favor of virtue and discretion in youth, and of judgment and wisdom in old age. Acton. There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of Our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to the destruction of all ; for pleasures are very voracious, too apt to worry one another, and each. like Aaron's serpent, is prone to swallow up the rest : thus, drinking will soon destroy the power, gaming the means, and sensuality the taste, for other pleasures less seductive, but far more salu- brious and permanent, as they are pure. Colton. Pleasure is a flower which grows indeed of itself, but only in fruitful gardens and well-cultivated fields ; not that we should labor in our mind to gain it ; but yet he, who has not labored for it, with him it will not grow ; whoever has not brought in his own character something profitable and praiseworthy, it is vain for him to sow ; even he who understands it best can do nothing better for the pleasure of another than that he should communicate to him what is the foundation of his OWI). Schleiermacher. It is an error to imagine that devotion enjoins a total contempt of all the pleasures and amuse- ments of human society. It checks, indeed, that spirit of dissipation which is too prevalent ; it not only prohibits pleasures which are unlawful, but likewise that unlawful degree of attachment to pleasures in themselves innocent, which withdraws the attention of man from what is serious and im- portant. But it brings amusement under due lim- itation, without extirpating it ; it forbids it as the business, but permits it as the relaxation of life. H. Blair. I have sat upon the shore, and waited for the gradual approach of the sea, and have seen its dancing waves and white surf, and admired that He who measured it with His hand had given to it such life and motion ; and I have lingered till its gentle waters grew into billows, and had well nigh swept me from my firmest footing. So have I seen a heedless youth gazing with a too curious spirit upon the sweet motions and gentle ap- proaches of an inviting pleasure, till it has de- tained his eye and imprisoned his feet, and swelled upon his soul, and swept him to a swift destruc- tion. Lady M. Monfaante. A R O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 691 PLEDGE. Beware of a pledge that eats. A. Albuquerque. Let your pledged word be sacred. P. T. Barnwm. A pledge is the security for a promise. R. Izard. A pledge should be given with caution and kept with care. W. Hornberg. When a man pledges his honor, it is a mortgage on his character. G. J. W. Melville. He that layeth his faith in pledge, bindeth his honor and his soul also. Qwintilian. He who gives one pledge of honor, and violates it, can never give another. E. P. Day. A pledge is often used as an ambush, behind which a weak man takes refuge. G. E. Shirley. When we make a pledge to do anything, it is the offspring of intuition, and should be nurtured by recollection. Burke. We should always value a man's pledges as a money-lender values pieces of jewelry, at about one-third of their value. James Ellis. Those who are willing on all occasions to pledge themselves on the instant, have very little difficulty in violating their engagement with correspondent thoughtlessness. F. Wayland. There is no necessity for breaking your word; never pledge yourself to do anything unless you know it to be in your power to fulfill it ; by so do- ing, you will gain and enjoy the confidence of those around you. Baron de Stassait. In matters of private concernment, we can only excuse a broken pledge when we have pledged our- Selves to do something unlawful and wicked in itself, for the rights of virtue ought to take prece- dence of any private obligation of ours. Montaigne. PLOW. Plow or not plow, you must pay therent. Hippel. Plow deep and you will have plenty of corn. Ewald. The plow goes not well if the plowman holds it not. Grün. The plow that worketh shines, but still water stinks. Rºwlman. He who plows with young oxen makes crooked furrows. Halm. Take care of your plow, and your plow will take care of you. Dinter. Men sometimes plow and obtain no food ; yet they should not cease to plow again. Confucius. The plow is the most valuable, and probably the most ancient of all agricultural implements; there are traces of it in the earliest written authorities. J. L. Blake. If to supply a sufficient quantity of manure is the first requisite of good farming, to plow frequently and to plow deep, is the second, so far as good farming depends on the management of the soil. Salma Hale. PLENTY. . Plenty makes daintiness. La Nowe. Plenty has made me poor. Ovid. Plenty is nature's bank dividends. Haliburton. Plenty begetteth want ; for he that hath much needs much. Bahom. Why should poverty and want be found side by side with plenty 2 Lamennais. Plenty carries its own destruction with it; it breeds ease, laziness, and quarrelling, and finally war and famine. Hercule Awdiffret. That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of Providence ; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches. W. Penºn. Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them ; and riches, no more than glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure, than their possession is pleased to lend then. Montaigne. The tempests of oppressing power meddle not with the contemptible men of want, but shake up the men of plenty by the very roots, that their blasted fortunes may be fit timber for their own building. - T. Adams. PLIANCY. We should be pliant to reason. Ovid. We should be pliable to acts of virtue, but in- flexible to those of vice. James Ellis. Pliancy of disposition is the result of virtuous counsels; but obstinacy that of vicious. R. South. Pliancy is very commendable in youth, when it leads them to yield to the councils of the aged and experienced. G. Crabb. It is an unhappy reflection that they who have uncommon pliability of disposition, have seldom very noble and nice sensations of soul. Greville. There are a vast number of easy, pliable, good- natured human expletives in the world, who are just what the world chooses to make them. They glitter without pride, and are affable without hu- mility : they sin without enjoyment, and pray without devotion. - Colton. PLUMPINESS. Plumpness is nature satisfied. W. Jay. The greatest enemy to plumpness is the spirit of envy. L. E. Martyn. Plumpness is the fruit which grows on the tree of contentment. W. Raymal. Plumpness comes not from roast beef, but from a good heart and a cheerful disposition. J. Barrett. Plumpness is not detrimental to beauty, for it never destroys harmony of proportions. Zendrini. Plumpness is not for the grumbler ; for it is as difficult for a grudging man to raise a double chin, as it is for a bankrupt to raise a sum of money on loan. Annie Cleaves. 692 AX A Y’,S C O Z / A C O AW. POET. POET. Study the best poets. Isocrates. Poets view nature as a book, in which they read A poet is the smallest part of himself. Ovid. A poet heeds not the reverse of fortune. Camõens. Modern poets put a great deal of water in their ink. Goethe. There is pleasure in poetic pains which only poets know. Cowper. That man is a true poet who knows much by in- herent genius. Pindarus. A poet should never demean his talent by writ- ing for a reward. Al-Mutamabbi. A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world. R. W. Griswold. None ever was a great poet that applied himself much to anything else. Sir W. Temple. True poets are lovers of the poor; they are knight- errants of the down-trodden. T. Tilton. The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been. Cervantes. Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves. Swift. Poets ought to be the high priests of nature, and the sworn foes of injurious artificiality. Eliza Cook. The poet is the inheritor of the imaginative trea- Sures of all Creeds which reason has now exploded. Sir T. N. Talfourd. Our poets excel in grandity and gravity, in Smoothness and property, in quickness and brief- 1162.SS. • W. Camden. A poet derives his power from nature, the quali- ties of his mind are given to him by Divine inspi- ration. Cicero. As nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, so poets live upon the living light of nature and of beauty. P. J. Bailey. All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Colton. Poets are allowed the same liberty in their des- criptions and comparisons as painters in their dra- peries and ornaments. M. Prior. Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers, and the ancients made use of them as preceptors in music and morality. W. Broome. A poet's mind should be clear and unsullied ; and the muses being virgins, their performances should agree with their condition. J. Collier. In the writings of our great poets we find a sat- isfying stimulus for the intellect and the heart, and for fancy in her deepest or most sportive moods. Strauss. Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure- houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palinge- nesis. De Quincey. a language unknown to common minds, as astrono- mers regard the heavens, and therein discover ob- jects that escape the vulgar ken. J. A. James. The poet deserves not the name when he only speaks out those few feelings that are his as an in- dividual; only when he can appropriate and tell the story of the world is he a poet. Anne C. Lymch. In all ages poets have been in special reputation, and methinks not without great cause ; for besides their sweet inventions, and most witty lays, they have always used to set forth the praises of the good and virtuous. E. Spenser. The poet often speaks with a language more than human, and wields so magical a power in his rep- resentations, it is nearly impossible to withhold our conviction from the doctrines he inculcates, or the opinions he maintains. Ansaldo Cebo. A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket ; let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the ima- gination than the memory. S. T. Coleridge. Let the rules of art become a second nature to the poet ; let him succeed in applying them as moral laws are naturally applied by a well-edu- cated man, and then imagination will recover all its power and all its freedom. Schiller. As far as it is possible, the poet should enter into the spirit of the subject while he is composing ; for those who are roused by passions, are most likely to express those passions with force ; he who is re- ally angry upbraids most naturally. Aristotle. The poets strew the rough paths of virtue so full of flowers, that we are not sensible of the uneasi- mess of them, and imagine ourselves in the midst of pleasures, and the most bewitching allurements, at the time we are making progress in the severest duties of life. Steele. There are poets who never write a line ; there is nothing in nature to which their imagination does not give a poetic hue ; but the power to make others see these objects in the same poetic light is wanting. Still they must be men of fine powers and feelings ; for next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one. J. Randolph. In dim outshadowing, earth's first poets, from the loveliness of etermal nature, evoked beautiful spiritualizations. To them the sturdy forest teemed with aerial beings ; the gushing springs rejoiced in fantastic sprites ; the leaping cataracts gleamed with translucent shades ; the cavernous hills were the abodes of genii; and the earth-girdling ocean was guarded by mysterious forms. R. Humt. Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his . . own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transport- ing his own life into the lives of others. Bulwer. P R O S E O U o 7. A 7 y o A. S. 693 POETRY. Poetry is word-painting. J. R. Trwºmbull. Poetry is the child of nature. Duchess Newcastle. Adore poetry for its own sake. Grace Greenwood. T. Campbell. V. V. Ense. Poetry is the eloquence of truth. Poetry is the child of enthusiam. Poetry is the art of lying beautifully. Hamerton. That poetry is golden that wins gold. Oppian. Poetry is more philosophical than history. Aristotle, Poetry is the morning dream of great minds. Lamartime. The excellence of poetry is ruined by impiety. Al-Hajjaj. Poetry is the expression of the beautiful by words. J. Brown. A man may play the fool in everything else but in poetry. Montaigme. Poetry is the naked expression of power and eloquence. J. Neal. Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. Shenstone. Poetry is the beauty of ideas distinct from the beauty of things. M. V. Lomonosof. You arrive at truth through poetry, and I arrive at poetry through truth. Joubert. Poetry should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thought. J. A. Langford. Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought. Balzac. Poetry is the art of substituting shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Burke. Poetry is the attempt which man makes to ren- der his existence harmonious. T. Carlyle. Those feel poetry most, and write it best, who forget that it is a work of art. T. B. Macawlay. A poem must be either music or sense ; if it is neither, it possesses no interest. Viviani. Poetry is the frolic of invention, the dance of words, and the harmony of Sounds. F. Reynolds. Poetry has peculiar laws, and ought not to be written by persons ignorant of them. G. Morley. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. Shelley. The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. Volta. Poetry is the utterance of truth—deep, heartfelt truth ; the true poet is very near the oracle. E. H. Chapin. Not one in many thousands of those who write verses have the first inspiration of true poetry. O. S. Fowler. POETRY. Poems are like pictures ; some charm the nearer ‘ thou standest, others the farther thou art distant. Horace. Poesy is of So subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. Sir J. Denham. Virtue sinks deepest into the heart of man when it comes recommended by the powerful charms of poety. Viewssewag. Poetry is the natural language of excited feel- ing, and a work of imagination wrought into form by art. F. W. Robertson. That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry ; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power. W. S. Landor. The three intentions of poetry are increase of good, increase of understanding, and increase of happiness. S. Catherall. Poetry seems to be raised altogether from a noble foundation, which makes much for the dignity of man's nature. Lord Bacon. I have met with most poetry on trunks ; so that I am apt to consider the trunkmaker as the sexton of authorship. Byron. The world is full of poetry ; the air is living with its spirit, and the waves dance to the music of its melodies. J. G. Percival, Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whetherit be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage. J. Sterling. A drainless renown of light is poesy ; it is the supreme of power, the might half slumbering On its own right arm. Reats. Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest white light of truth. O. W. Holmes. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all know- ledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all Science. Wordsworth. Poetry is the offspring of rarest beauty, begot by imagination upon thought, and clad by taste and fancy in habiliments of grace. W. G. Simms. Poetry is music in words, and music is poetry in Sound ; both excellent sauce, but they have lived and died poor that made them their meat. T. Fulley". He who finds elevated and lofty pleasures in the feeling of poetry is a true poet, though he has never composed a line of verse in his entire lifetime. Mme. Dwdevant. O, divine and mighty powe. of poesy Thou rescuest all things from the grasp of death, and biddest the mortal hero securely live to all time. Lucanus. The end of poetry is to please ; and the name, we think, is strictly applicable to every metrical composition from which we derive pleasure with- out any laborious exercise of the understanding. Lord Jeffrey. 694 JD A Y’,S C O Z / A C O AV. POETRY. Poetry is a blossom of very delicate growth ; it requires the maturing influence of vernal suns, and every encouragement of culture and attention, to bring it to its natural perfection. H. K. White. A heroic poem should be more fitted to the com- mon actions and passions of human life, and more like a glass of nature, figuring a more practicable virtue to us than was done by the ancients. Dryden. Poetry reveals the darker doings of mankind, opens up the terrible passions of mankind, shows human nature as it too often is, thoroughly regard- less of the pure, and the beautiful, and the good. Beeton. Poetry should be an alterative ; modern play- wrights have converted it into a sedative, which they administer in such unseasonable quantities, that, like an overdose of opium, it makes one sick. J. C. Hare. Over all life broods poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face ; she is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long pre- Vail. J. R. Lowell. If poetry is the spirit of God within us, that spirit must be a poor one ; if it is the strongest and most earnest expression of generous enthusiasm, it must be allied with the noblest feelings of human nature. - G. Bancroft. The three excellencies of poetry are, simplicity of language, simplicity of subject, and simplicity of invention ; the three indispensable purities of poetry are, pure truth, pure language, and pure IIla, IlllêTS. J. Hamilton. Half or more of the beauties of poetry depend on metaphor or allusion, neither of which, by a mind uncultivated, can be applied to their proper coun- terparts ; their beauty, of consequence, is like a picture to a blind man. Shemstome. Poetry is the most delightful department of lite- rature, but it is like a region of roses, that tempts us to forsake awhile the path of more necessary study, and leaves us afterwards to repent the time which we have lost in exploring it. W. Hilton. The very source of true poetry is love ; a divine glow and vision, conscious of the radiant glories belonging to all surrounding things in God's crea- tion, whether in the heavens above or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. J. A. St. John. True poetry is not a mechanical art, but a life taking the form and measure it does because no others are natural to it ; what there is comely in it, is a mystery coming forth like the blossom of a flower, and is the more beautiful the more nature there is in it. H. Hooker. Poetry has been to me “its own exceeding great reward ; ” it has soothed my afflictions ; it has mul- tiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared Solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. S. T. Coleridge. POETRY. As the falcon launched trustingly heavenward is lost to view, the course of the higher poetry often soars beyond the ken of the multitude ; and as the humble birds carol blithely round our dwellings, so the meeker lays of the muse linger tunefully about the heart. H. T. Tuckerman. Good poetry is in every way the choicest ar- rangement of words : it demands, therefore, and rewards the micest elocution. Poetry preserves, upholds, and improves language ; it chooses the most clear, vivid, and exact forms of speech, and Supports the purest methods of pronunciation. J. W. Simons. Try a good poem as you would sound a pipkin ; and if it rings well upon the knuckle, be sure there is no flaw in it. Verse without rhyme is a body without a soul, for “the chief lie consisteth in the rhyme,” or a bell without a clapper ; which, in strictness, is no bell, as being neither of use nor de- light. Swift. There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like an- gels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was in- vented, which receives into its limbus all these in- corporeal spirits, and the perfume of all these flowers. Richter. Poesy is a beauteons young lady, chaste, honor- able, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of the strictest discretion ; she is the friend of solitude, fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her ; and in short, she gives plea- sure and instruction to all with whom she com- municates. Cervantes. Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest Offspring of literature, and the fairest ; it is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flow- er, and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Per- sia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz : in England, the many blossomed tree of Shakspeare. Willmott. Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions helps faith to lay hold on the future life. Chamming. We have more poets than judges and interpre- ters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art ; but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason ; and whoever discerns the beauty of it, with the most assured and most steady sight, sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning. Montaigme. A R O S E O U O Z. A 7" / O M. S. 695 POLICY. - All violent policy defeats itself. A. Hamilton. True policy says nothing; it acts. Campanella. I’olicy goes beyond strength ; it may be virtuous as well as vicious. J. Howell. Incidents ought not to govern policy ; but policy should govern incidents. Napoleon I. Policy often compasseth what power cannot con- quer, nor gold purchase. Aristippus. The best rule of policy is to prefer the doing of justice before all enjoyments. Charles I. The policy of all laws has made some forms ne- cessary in the wording of last wills and testaments. Sir W. Blackstone. There is an indissoluble union between a mag- manimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity. Washington. It is greater to understand the art whereby the Almighty governs the motions of the great au- tomaton, than to have learned the intrigues of policy. J. Glanvill. It is confessed to be unfortunate when any gov- ernment has occasion to reverse its policy in any material respect, especially a policy of friendship or of hostility toward foreign nations. Seward. Low, grovelling souls, who are utterly incapable of elevating themselves to the higher and nobler duties of patriotism, are ever ready to yield to the dictates of a cold, calculating, and prudential policy. H. Clay. He only is an honest man who does that which is right because it is right, and not from motives of policy; and then he is rewarded by finding afterwards that the homest course he has pursued was in reality the most politic. R. Whately. I have heard some of the first judges of whist say that it was not those who played best by the true laws of the game that would win most, but those who played best to the false play of others ; and I am sure it is true of the policy of the world. Lord Greville, All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all govern- ments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves ; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and hu- manity itself to the reigning interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state ; it is a reason which I own I cannot pene- trate. Burke. It is a melancholy thing to see a man clothed in Soft raiment, lodged in a public palace, endowed with a rich portion of the product of other men's industry, using all the influence of his splendid situation, however conscientiously, to deepen the ignorance and inflame the fury of his fellow-crea- tures; these are the miserable results of that policy which has been so frequently pursued for these fifty years past, of placing men of mean, or mid- dling abilities, in high stations. Chatfield. POLITENESS. Be polite. John Todd. Politeness is lost by anger. Al-Busti. Politeness makes others at ease. Desaguliers. Politeness is natural good nature. Eratosthemes. Politeness is a point of education. G. Vale. Politeness gives more ease than pleasure. Dutens. A man never loses anything by politeness. Venºm. Politeness is not always a mark of wisdom. W. S. Landor. Politeness is the outward garment of goodwill. - J. C. Hare. Politeness is to goodness what words are to thoughts. Joubert. He who is polite is so according to the rules of politeness. G. Crabb. Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things. T. B. Macaulay. True politeness is a virtue of the understanding and of the heart. J. Evelyn. True politeness requires humility, good sense, and benevolence. Mrs. Sigourmey. Politeness may be regarded as the zero of friend- ship's thermometer. De Boufflers. Politeness is usually the inmate of an honest, Social, benevolent heart. Mrs. M. Holford. The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure. Dr. Johnson. They who set about to be polite are mostly too polite, or to be rude are too rude. Acton. As charity covers a multitude of things before God, so does politeness before men. Greville. There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness, and none more profitable. Shaw. True politeness is but another name for kindness; it is the natural influence of the kind heart, J. W. Barker. Politeness is real kindness kindly expressed ; this is the sum and substance of all true politeness. J. Witherspoon. Politeness is a mixture of discretion, complai- sance, and circumspection, spread over all we do and Say. St. Evremond. Politeness is too often but a perfidious generosity, which leaves the heart cold, and the prejudices untouched. O. Heywood. It is easy for a loving nature to be polite and gentle toward all, as it will despise a lack of har- mony in manner, as well as in feeling. Mrs. M. Fletcher. Politeness has been defined to be artificial good- nature ; but we may affirm with much greater propriety that good-nature is natural politeness. Stanislaws. 696 A) A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. POLITENESS. Politeness is like an air-cushion ; there may be nothing solid in it, but it eases the jolts of the world wonderfully. Vezim. True politeness is perfect ease and freedom ; it simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. B. H. Smart. In the great world malevolence and disdain never appear in any other garb than that of cold and ceremonious politeness. Lathy. All politeness is owing to liberty ; we polish one another, and rub off our corners and rough sides by a sort of amicable collision. Shaftesbury. Politeness does much in business ; an impudent clerk can do more injury in a store than its own- er's neglect to advertise his goods. Lord Leigh. There is no policy like politeness ; and a good manner is the best thing in the world, either to get a good name or supply the want of it. Bulwer. True politeness is modest, unpretending, and ge- merous ; it appears as little as may be ; but when it does a favor would willingly conceal it. Hurd. I consider that the spirit of politeness is a certain desire to bring it about, that by our words and manners others may be pleased with us and with themselves. Montesquiew. Politeness is nothing more than an elegant and concealed species of flattery, tending to put the person to whom it is addressed in good humor and respect with himself. R. Cumberland. Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude : it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly as he should be within. Bruyère. Do not press your young children into book learning ; but teach them politeness, including the whole circle of charities which spring from the consciousness of what is due to their fellow-beings. Spwrzheim. It is because gold is rare that gilding has been invented, which without having its solidity has all its brilliancy ; thus to replace the kindness we lack, we have devised politeness which has all its appearance. De Levis. Perhaps if we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality, we should find no people so rude as to be without any rules of po- liteness ; nor any SO polite as not to have some remains of rudeness. Franklin. Politeness is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse. Fielding. Polite behavior must not be deemed altogether artificial ; men who, inured to the sweets of so- ciety, cultivate humanity, find an elegant pleasure in preferring others and making them happy, of which the proud, the selfish, scarcely have a con- ception. Kames. POLITENESS. Politeness is the produce of nature's soil; it was never taught, never acquired from instruction ; we find it as often in the lowly cottage as in the most magnificent palace. J. Bartlett. The only true source of politeness is considera- tion, that vigilant, moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, the sensibilities of others; this is the one quality over all others ne- Cessary to make a gentleman. W. G. Simms. To the acquisition of the rare quality of polite- mess, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider every book in every science, which tends to make us wiser, and Of course better men, as a treatise on a more enlarged system of politeness. Dr. A. Monro. Among polite people a mutual deference is af- fected, contempt of others is disguised, authority concealed, attention given to each in his turn, and an easy stream of conversation maintained with- out vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of Su- periority. Hwºme. The inbred politeness which springs from right- heartedness and kindly feelings, is of no exclusive rank or station ; the mechanic who works at the bench may possess it, as well as the clergyman or the peer ; it is by no means a necessary condition of labor that it should, in any respect, be either rough or coarse. Smiles. Politeness of the person exhibits itself in elegance of manners, and a strict adherence to the conven- tional forms and courtesies of polished life. Polite- ness of the heart consists in a habitual benevolence, and an absence of selfishness in our intercourse with Society of all classes; each of these may exist without the other. Chatfield. In politeness, as in many other things connected with the formation of character, people in general begin outside, when they should begin inside ; in- stead of beginning with the heart, and trusting that to form the manners, they begin with the manners, and trust the heart to chance influences. The golden rule contains the very life and soul of politeness. Mrs. L. M. Child. The politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and presumptuous at a proper dis- tance, will generally succeed ; but it sometimes happens, that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves, that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescen- sion of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves. Colton. Politeness is said to spring from an inmate desire to make those who are around us happy : yet there are many kind and humane persons who are en- tirely deficient in the great art of rendering people at ease with themselves, thus proving that polite- ness like every other qualification requires judi- cious fostering and training, lest it should remain dormant in the mind or degenerate into hypocrisy ; for the proverb tells us “our virtues often tread upon the heels of vice.” S. Richardson. P AE O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 697 POLITICS. Let the church eschew politics. B. Hoadley. Politics is the science of exigencies. T. Parker. Political life is a tissue of absurdities. R. Cobden. In politics, what can laws do without morals 3 Franklin. In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. Lord Bacom. In questions merely political an honest man may stand neuter. T. Chalmer's. The danger of modern politics is not oppression, but corruption. J. Campbell. Men may become politicians who can never be- come statesmen. N. Biddle. Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities. W. S. Landor. The politician, like the chameleon, can change his color to suit his interest, W. Mason. As there is craft in law, even so is there fallacy in politics and envy in indigence. Downey. People who declare that they belong to Ino party certainly do not belong to ours. J. P. Semm. Political corruption is in no respect the less wicked because it is so common. F. Wayland. A great many political speeches are literally paricides; they kill their fathers. G. D. Prentice. Politics is a science which no one believes those who differ with him to understand. A. Holbrook. There is an infinity of political errors which, be- ing once adopted, become principles. Abbe Raynal. Political power is the right of making laws for regulating and preserving property. J. Locke. If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn. H. W. Shaw. The thorough-paced politician must laugh at the squeamishness of his conscience, and read it an- other lecture. R. Sowth. All passing political movements are mere preli- minaries or adjuncts to more important events in the future. John Brown. As logicians sometimes prove too much by an argument, so politicians often overreach them- selves in their schemes. Fielding. There are a few things which are found to have a worse influence upon the character than to em- bark in partizan politics. G. W. Burmap. A few drops of oil will set the political machine at work, when a ton of vinegar would only cor- rode the wheels and canker the movements. Colton. Political prejudices and the asperities of reli- gious controversy, sometimes fetter the operations of men and obstruct their access to the mind. Mrs. Sigourmey. POLITICS. Politics resembles religion ; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. Goldsmith. There can be no political happiness without li- berty ; there can be no liberty without morality ; and there can be no morality without religion. A. M. Ramsay. I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people. Goethe. Whilst politicians are disputing about monar- chies, aristocracies, and republics, Christianity is alike applicable, useful, and friendly to them all. W. Paley. Responsibility educates, and politics is but an- other name for God's way of teaching the masses ethics, under the responsibility of great present in- Wendell Phillips. The study of politics, as a science, may make a man a clever statesman ; but it may not always enable him to discern true policy in his private COIlCél’I].S. ‘G. Crabb. The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way ; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed. R. Nelson. The science of politics is not fixed and unchange- able, like a system of abstract truth, but is pro- gressive of civilization, and fluctuating with the exigencies of society. W. Scholefield. There is scarcely anything more harmless than political or party malice ; it is best to leave it to itself ; opposition and contradiction are the only means of giving it life or duration. J. Witherspoon. terests. The violation of party faith is of itself too com- mon to excite surprise or indignation. Political friendships are so well understood that we can hardly pity the simplicity they deceive. Juniqus. No authors draw upon themselves more displea- sure than those who deal in political matters, which is justly incurred, considering that spirit of ramcor and virulence with which works of this na- ture abound. Addison. A politician thinks of the next election ; a states- man of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party ; a statesman for that of the country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift. A. Clarke. The amelioration of the condition of mankind, and the increase of human happiness ought to be the leading objects of every political institution, and the aim of every individual, according to the measure of his power in the situation he occupies. A. Hamilton. It is not prudence to make politics a profession ; the business is overstocked, the field is overrun with weeds; if you enter the arena, take a pick- axe and pruning-hook with you. The Augean stable needs cleansing ; if you are a Hercules, go ahead. W. Cobbett. 698 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. POLITICS. Were all the angels in heaven to combine their wisdom to form a political system and impose it upon the nations, it would not of itself avail to make them contented and happy. H. Winslow. He that enjoyed crowns, and knew their worth, excepted them not out of the charge of universal vanity ; and yet the politician is not discouraged at the inconstancy of human affairs, and the lu- bricity of his subject. J. Glanvill. To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in ; and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and to dis- pose of their possessions and persons. J. Locke. Politicians find it expedient to flatter the people grossly, in order to lead them ; and the people while glorying in their collective liberty exhibit too often the sad spectacle of being as individuals. overawed by public opinion or enslaved by faction. A. Potter. If our religion had had more to do with our poli- tics, if in the pride of our citizenship, we had not forgotten our Christianity, if we had prayed more and wrangled less about the affairs of our country, it would have been infinitely better for us at this day. J. M. Mason. The lowest of politicians is the demagogue—the man who seeks to gratify an invariable selfishness by pretending to seek the public good—for a pro- fitable popularity he accommodates himself to all opinions, to all dispositions, to every side, and to each prejudice. H. W. Beecher. Politicians think that by stopping up the chim- ney they can stop its smoking. They try the ex- periment, they drive the smoke back, and there is more smoke than ever ; but they do not see that their want of common-sense has increased the evil they would have prevented. W. Borne. It would be but charitable to sympathize with those who are ignorant of the political machinery of party politics, and have been led there by the . promise of some member for whom they voted—a promise, probably made to scores of others, for the purpose of obtaining their votes. L. C. Judson. The first principle of political life is in the sovereign authority. The legislative power is the heart of the state ; the executive power is its brain, which gives movement to all its parts ; the brain may be paralyzed, and the individual still live ; a man remains imbecile and lives ; but so soon as the heart has ceased its functions, the animal is dead. Rousseaw. Constitutions are in politics what paper money is in commerce ; they afford great facilities and conveniences : but we must not attribute to them that value which really belongs to what they re- present ; they are not power, but symbols of pow- er, and will, in an emergency, prove altogether useless unless the power for which they stand be forthcoming. The real power by which the com- munity is governed, is made up of all the means which all its members possess of giving pain or pleasure to each other. T. B. Macawlay. FOLITICS. It is a sad truth that many of our best citizens in all parts of the country live in the constant neg- lect of their political duties: they are eloquent upon the evils of mis-government, and yet forget that they are accountable for a large share of the mischiefs by which they suffer in common with the whole country. C. D. Cleveland. When too idle and worthless to succeed in any other occupation, our American patriots turn their attention, as a last resort, to politics, confident that laziness and unworthiness will constitute no bar to their success as office-seekers ; these worthies are the old class of courtiers, under changed circum- stances, and a new name. Bovee. The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred ; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny ? and those writers who have faithfully unveiled the mysteries of state-free- masonry have ever been held in general detesta- tion, for even knowing so perfectly a theory so de- testable. Burke. A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugna- ciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion to a man's tongue, make him the repre- sentative of that opinion ; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing. E. P. Whipple. From the notion that political society precludes an appeal to natural rights, the greatest absurdi- ties must ensue ; if that idea be just, it is impro- per to say of any administration that it is despotic or oppressive, unless it has receded from its first form or model. Civil power can never exceed its limits until it deviates into a new track ; for if every portion of natural freedom be given up by yielding to civil authority, we can never claim any other liberties than those precise ones which were ascertained in its first formation. R. Hall. All political institutions will probably, from whatever cause, tend to become worse by time. If a system were now formed that should meet all the philosopher's and the philanthropist's wishes it would still have the same tendency : only I do hope that henceforward to the end of time, men's minds will be extensively awake to the nature and operation of their institutions; so that after a new era shall commence, governments shall not slide into depravity without being keenly watched, nor be watched without the spirit to arrest their dete- rioration. J. Foster. Whoever wishes to see an emblem of political unions and enmities, should walk, when the Sun shines, in a shrubbery ; so long as the air is quite still, the shadows combine to form a pretty trellice- work, which looks as if it would be lasting ; but the wind is perverse enough to blow, and then to pieces goes the trellice-work in an instant ; and the shadows which before were so quiet and dis- tinct, cross and interminable confusedly ; it seems impossible they should ever re-unite ; yet the mo- ment the wind subsides, they dovetail into each other as closely as before. J. C. Hare. A R O S E Q U O T A 7" / O AV S. 699 POLYG-AMIY. Women suffer by polygamy. Mrs. Niacom. Let polygamy be condemned. Rabbi Gerschom. Christianity puts an end to polygamy. Miss H. Martineaw. Polygamy is a part of the laws of nature. Lord Bolingbroke, Polygamy is the state of having more wives than One at Once. C. Buck. Polygamy was countenanced by God among his ancient people. Heber C. Kimball. . If polygamy is a blessing, the quicker we all find it out the better. H. W. Shaw. Polygamy always pre-supposes women to be in a state of slavery. W. Aleacander. Is there any country in which polygamy is more frequent than in England 8 J. C. Hare. They who condemn polygamy, must condemn the old Testament Scriptures. Orson Pratt. Polygamy is antagonistic to, and incompatible with the existence of the family. Olive R. Seward. Polygamy was but an accident of climate : mo- s nogomy was the almost universal Jewish rule. Dr. Joseph Perles. Polygamy leads to that passion which nature dis- allows; one depravation always draws on another. Annie E. Lancaster. If polygamy be immoral to the physical, it is still more so to the moral and mental developments of the children. P. W. Forchhammer. The system of polygamy, although in practice confined chiefly to the rich, degrades the social con- dition of women. E. D. Mansfield. Polygamy was a patriarchial institution ; it was approved by the holiest and best of God's ancient people, and practised by the wisest man that ever lived. Brigham Young. All polygamy is clearly forbidden in these words, wherein our Lord expressly declares that for any woman who has a husband alive to marry again is adultery. J. Wesley. God gave me his covenant, on the twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty- eight : a special revelation authorizing the practice Of polygamy. Joseph Smith. Christian religion, prohibiting polygamy, is more agreeable to the law of nature, that is, the law of God, than Mohammedanism that allows it ; for One man having many wives by law, signifies no- thing, unless they were many women to one man man in nature also. E. Grawmt. Polygamy was not recommended by the Pro- phet, but simply allowed as a privilege to those who need it : it was not prohibited in Judaism, nor Christianity ; it was practised by the pat- riarchs, and the kings of Israel, and has been de- fended by many modern Christian writers. Ahmed Bahador. .tinue. POLYG-AMY. Polygamy is not of the least service to mankind, nor to either of the two sexes, whether it be that which abuses, or that which is abused ; a father cannot love twenty children with the same ten- derness as a mother can love two. Montesquiew. The sin of polygamy dries up the fountains of human sensibility, and crushes every better im- pulse of feeling—annihilating even the hope of po- litical liberty, and leaving the wisest legislative reformer, at best, but a happy accident, if not an anomaly and a discord. Lady Morgan. Polygamy is anti-scriptural, anti-natural, and irrational ; it is anti-scriptural, for Adam was created pure and holy, and God bestowed on him One wife ; it is anti-natural, because for one man to take more than one woman is a robbery inflicted On the rest of manknö ; it is irrational, for reason is the faculty that adapts the means to the end, and is founded on experience ; for universal po- lygamy pre-supposes a plurality of females, when the real fact evinces a plurality of males. Politi- cal Science repeats the command of revelation : “Let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.” Elder John Hyde. POLY THEISMI. Polytheists worship unknown gods. Stackhouse. Polytheism is more ancient than the prophetic Oracles. J. Limen. Polytheism is at variance with the will of God, and the principles of truth and virtue. H. Bingham. The gods of all polytheists are no better than the elves or fairies of our ancestors, and merit as little any pious worship or veneration. Hume. The most probable theory of polytheism seems to be, that hero-worship superseded former modes of belief—that gods were actually heroes, who had gradually absorbed the honors formerly paid to demons, and the host of heaven. C. Merivale. POMIP. Pomp in the sight of God is folly. Zender. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye. Shakspeare. Pomp is only befitting the conditions of wealth and power. Plawtus. Some authors mistake pomp for dignity ; lan- guage may be too pompous, as well as too mean. - D. Irving. The person of a king is surrounded with pomp, in order to express his authority and power among St. Ambrose. The pomp of the world, and the favor of the peo- ple, are but smoke suddenly vanishing, which if they commonly please commonly bring repen- tance ; and for a moment of joy, they bring an age of Sorrow. sº S. Andrus. IT16211. The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large re- No wonder then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them. Horace. 700 J) A Y',S C O Z / A C O AV. POOR. Think kindly of the poor. J. C. Symmons. The poor are God's children. M. Amyrawlt. How expensive it is to be poor. Fammy Ferm. Poor with content is rich enough. Shakspeare. A poor clergy make a pure clergy. Miss Ferrier. Let me open my hands wide to the wants of the poor. Elizabeth Rowe. The gods and avenging furies are the protectors of the poor. Homer. He is not poor that hath little, but he that de- sireth much. Bias. To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain me- thod never to rise. Goldsmith. To live poorly and homestly is better than to live richly and wickedly. Saint Swithin. The poor receive at our hands the rights and dues belonging unto God. J. Wilson. There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. Seneca. There is no one more happy than the poor man ; he expects no change for the worse. Diphilus. Be favorable unto the poor, which may be little ; if thou will be aided of God against them that be mighty. Sir T. Smith. The poor man who travels with a pack on his back, is generally far better than the black-leg who travels with a pack in his pocket. G. D. Prentice. No man is poor who does not think himself so : but if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his yants and his beggarly con- dition. Jeremy Taylor. The vices of the poor sometimes astound us here, but when the secrets of all hearts shall be made known, their virtues will astound us in far greater degree. Mrs. Gaskill. The poor man is full of fears, and imagines him- self despised by all mankind ; the man who enjoys only a moderate fortune is apt to look on the dark side of life. Memonder. It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented, could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, Or the misery that it entails. Zimmerman. That man is to be accounted poor, of whatever rank he be, and suffers the pain of poverty, whose expenses exceed his resources ; and no man is, properly speaking, poor but he. W. Paley. The poor are more sure of finding enjoyments in their substantial comforts and necessaries, than the rich are of obtaining pleasures from their re- fined luxuries and superfluities. Acton. What thou givest to the poor thou securest from the thief, but what thou withholdest from his ne- cessity a thief possesses. God's exchequer is the poor man's box ; when thou strikest a tally, he becomes thy debtor. F. Quarles. hind me. ... whom Inow restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, POOR. The poor who gain their livelihood by the sweat of their brow, are more willing to give the services of their body in defense of their country, than to give from their contracted means. Thucydides. Be bountiful of the goods that God shall give you, to the poor and needy ; for to give for His honor's sake never made any man poor ; , and the alms that you shall dispense will greatly profit both your body and soul. Mrs. Bayard. The question whether the rich support the poor, or the poor the rich, has been frequently agitated by those who are not aware that while each does his duty in his station, each is, reciprocally, a sup- port and a blessing to the other. Sir T. Bernard. The poor man is a kind of money that is not cur- rent, the subject of every idle housewife's chat, the off-scum of the people, the dust of the street, first trampled under foot and then thrown on the dunghill ; in conclusion, the poor man is the rich man’s ass. Alfarache. I thank Thee, O God, that Thou hast made me a poor and indigent man upon the earth ! I have neither house, nor land, nor money, to leave be- Thou hast given me wife and children, and protect them as Thou hast me ! Luther. The nets which we use against the poor are just those worldly embarrassments which either their ignorance or their improvidence are almost certain at some time or other to bring them into ; then, just at the time when we ought to hasten to help them, and teach them how to manage better in fu- ture, we rush foward to pillage them, and force all we can out of them in their adversity. Ruskin. If we would really raise and improve the moral condition of the poor, nay, even the apparently depraved, those in the classes above them, those better instructed than they, must treat them as brethren and sisters ; only let the poor feel that we consider them as children of the same great Father in Heaven, not in word, but in deed, and we shall gain undoubted influence over them. Mary Howitt. There have been times upon times when I have envied the poor ; they have hospitals to go to ; they are not ashamed to ask for a little wine from those who have it : they can beg when they are in want of a morsel of bread ; it is natural ; it is right —they feel it to be right. But oh for those who are better born and educated to habits of thought, want is indeed like an armed man when he comes into their dwellings. Mrs. Annie Marsh. There is not such a mighty difference as Some men imagine between the poor and the rich ; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life: they enjoy the same earth, and air, and hea- vens ; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the va- rieties which cover the rich man's table ; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too than the ease and softness of the rich. R. Sherlock. A R O S E Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 7 OI POPERY. Popery is not Christianity. John Dowling. The pope is Christ's vicar on earth. Benedict II. IPopery and slavery are twin demons. Clarke. A pope should own no temporal estate. Arnold. The pope should abdicate temporal power. Mme. La Browse. * The history of popery is a history of error. Hospinian. Banish the power of popery from the land. Qween Elizabeth. The most unhappy life is the life of a pope. - Pope Clement VII. Let the Supremacy of the pope be again restored. Queen Mary. Let the church be purged of popish superstition. Edward VI of England. Popery is not the religion of the New Testament. W. Chillingworth. No life on earth is more wretched than that of a pOpe. Pope Adrian IV. The pope is a sovereign over all kings and king- doms. Boniface VIII. Our allegiance is due to the pope, as the vicar of Christ. John III of Sweden. The pope is the tutor as well as defender of the church. Pope Aleacander IV. The pope's commands are equal to those of the apostles. Agathon I. All kings must acknowledge the pope as their landlord. Pope Alexander III. As a bishop I was rich, as a cardinal poor, as a pope, a beggar. Pope Aleaxander V. Fortune, which favors whom she pleases, hath chosen me pope. Pope Julius III. A pope may vacate the chair, if he finds himself not able to fill it. Pope Celestine V. The pope hath the power to make and unmake all other potentates. Pope Celestine III. A king should not admit the authority of the pope to be supreme. Edward I of England. The pope may punish refractious kings, and be- stow offices at pleasure. Pope Clement VI. Distant nations looked on the pope as the vice- gerent of the Almighty. T. B. Macawlay. Salvation made easy is the true secret and theory of the morals of popery. Bishop Villiers. Popery chains down the human mind wherever it gains an ascendant influence. Rev. W. Woºt. The pope dependeth not on kings or emperors for support, but on the King of kings. Gregory VII. In the theory, traditions, and controversial pub- lications of our enemies, the pope is everything that is bad. Cardinal Newman. POPERY. Men think a pope has plenitude of power; they are much mistaken ; his hands are greatly tied in many things. Pope Pius VII. All who encourage popery, I shall regard as enemes to me, to my counselors, to my chiefs, to my people, and to my kingdom. Kamehameha III. No pope, no matter how enlightened or how powerful, has ever done or ever will do anything against the unanimous teachings of the Catholic school. Pope Gregory XVI. The popish ritual is posture and imposture, flec- tions and genuflections, bowing to the right, cour- tesying to the left, and an immense amount of man- millinery. Sir T. Smith. . The atrocities of popery are on a par with its arrogance ; in every age it has been ready with the fire and fagot ; and every one who dared to dissent from its opinions was put to death with the cruellest brutality. W. Howitt. Popery ! the very name, like the spell of some potent magician, awakens in the mind of every enlightened Protestant an idea of all that is de- structive to the natural rights of man, and to his most sacred and eternal interests. Sir W. Wymme. All power is in the Pope ; he is the supreme judge ; if oppressed the people must look to him for redress ; they have no inherent and inalienable rights, and the doctrines of the Declaration of In- dependence are all dangerous falsehoods ! O. A. Brownson. Where the devil is resident, and hath his plow going, then away with books, and up with candles; away with Bibles, and up with beads ; away with the light of the gospel, and up with the light of candles—yea, at noon-day. Such is popery and its mummeries Latimer. Popery knows that no worship is so easy or SO agreeable as the idolatry which creates a divine being out of a stock or a stone ; combining at Once the pleasure of bowing down before a superior power, and that of feeling at the same time our own superiority to it. T. Tickell. Popery is a heap of unmeaning ceremonies, adap- ted to fascinate the imagination, and engage the senses; implicit faith in human authority, com- bined with the utter neglect of Divine teaching ; ignorance the most profound, joined to dogmatism the most presumptuous. Sydney Smith. Popery has been called the “masterpiece of Sa- tan ;” it appeals to all the senses, calls in the aid of all the arts, suits itself to all the tastes of men ; it provides indulgences for the sensual, brilliant pageants for the gay, gloomy retirements for the morose, princely honors for the ambitious, promi- ses of heaven for the generous devotee ; it meets man at all the most tender and interesting periods of his history—at his cradle, at his marriage, in sickness, at death, at the grave when weeping Over the remains of friends; and for all these circum- stances it has plausible and appropriate promises; the man who despises it is equally ignorant of Scripture, of history, and of the human heart. - Rev. James Begg. 702 AX A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AW. rº- POPULACE. I court not the favor of the populace. Horace. The populace change between breakfast and tea. Swift. Nothing is so uncertain as the minds of the popu- lace. Earl of Malmesbury. All praise coming from the populace must be set down for naught. Addison. Do not pipe to the populace, for it anyhow de- lights in running mad. Lºwther. Seek not the favor of the populace : it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. Ramt. The vulgar populace estimate friends by the ad- vantage to be derived from them. Ovid. A usurping populace is its own dupe, a mere un- derworker and a purchaser in trust for some sin- gle tyrant. Swift. The populace know neither truth nor falsehood, and are indifferent about both, paying their tribute of flattery with noise and uproar. Tacitus. There is no sagacity, no penetration, no powers of discrimination, no perseverance in the populace; the wise have always regarded their acts rather to be endured than to be praised. Cicero. The proverbial wisdom of the populace at gates, on roads, and in markets, instructs the attentive ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules Ostentatiously arranged. Lavater. The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded ; their indiscriminate violence pros- trates, for the time, all public authority ; and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible. - Washington. The charge which may with justice be brought against the populace is, not that they are incon- stant, but that they almost invariably choose their favorite so ill that their constancy is a vice and not a virtue. T. B. Macawlay. When roused to rage, the maddening populace storms ; their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable ; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will. Euripides. Such is the nature of the populace ; they are either abject slaves or tyrannic masters. Liberty, which consists in a mean between these, they either undervalue or know not how to enjoy with mod- eration ; and in general there are not wanting agents disposed to foment their passions, who, working on minds which delight in cruelty, and know no restraint in the practice of it, exasperate them to acts of blood and slaughter. Livy. It is humiliating for us who form the mass of mankind, that the populace furnish the most de- testable examples of wickedness and frenzy in the tyrannic abuse of power, and that persons of royal birth and place, who in their prosperity were patterns of gentleness, moderation, and be- nignity, in their adversity furnish the world with the most glorious examples of fortitide, and supply our annals with martyrs and heroes. Burke. about it. POPULARITY. Popularity is power. T. B. Macawlay. The popular voice has much potency. AEschylus. Popular applause veers with the wind. J. Bright. To be popular is to be encored to-day, forgotten to-morrow. Ada Isaacs Memkin. Avoid popularity ; it has many snares, and no real benefit. W. Pennºn. Neither neglect altogether, nor seek too much to obtain popularity. Lord Burleigh. It is popularities and circumstances which sway the ordinary judgment. Lord Bacon. The popularity of the bad man is as little to be depended on as he is himself. Willet. If a man would have popularity he must pay for it—sometimes at a fearful price. H. M. Gallaher. The only popularity worth aspiring after, is a peaceful popularity—the popularity of the heart. T. Chalmers. Love of popularity may create an artificial good- ness, and stir up hypocrisy to adorn a whited Se- pulchre. Mrs. Sigourney. The shortest and most direct road to popularity is for a man to be the same that he wishes to be taken for. Socrates. Popularity is like the brightness of a falling star, the fleeting splendor of a rainbow, the bubble that is sure to burst by its very inflation. Chatfield. I wish popularity ; but it is that popularity which sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means. Lord Mansfield. Popularity is best estimated by its quality and character; it is far better to conquer than to court it ; to be indifferent to it than to be concerned Acton. Though I prize as I ought the good opinion of my fellow-citizens, yet, if I know myself, I would not seek or retain popularity, at the expense of one social duty or moral virtue. Washington. The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved ; and is only blameable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in the end pernicious and destructive. Shenstone. Be as far from desiring the popular love as fear- ful to deserve the popular hate ; ruin dwells in both ; the one will hug thee to death ; the other will crush thee to destruction ; to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not sedi- tious. F. Quarles. Though popularity, in some respects, is a desira- ble thing, yet it is not always a criterion of real ability ; nor is it to be sought after with that avi- dity as if it were the foundation of happiness. It has been the occasion of ruin to many, and of dis- tress to more ; those who have aimed at it have been generally left to disappointment and confu- sion. C. Buck. P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 703 PORTRAIT. A portrait is nothing but a flat lie. Hogarth. Do not make a statue of a portrait. Gaulli. A portrait of one we love soothes the loss it can- not repair. E. P. Day. A portrait is the shadow of the original mate- rialized and imprisoned. G. Crwikshank. The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. T. B. Macawlay. A portrait is a faithful recorder of domestic bliss, perpetuator of youth and beauty, and the vanquisher of time. W. S. Lando)'. In portraits, the grace, and we may add the like- ness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature. Sir J. Reynolds. A portrait has one advantage over its original, it is unconscious, and so you may admire without insulting it ; I have seen portraits which have Iſløl'é. J. C. Hare. Of what advantage is it for a person to boast of the virtues of his ancestors, and exhibit their por- traits, unless his virtues and likeness correspond with theirs ? Jwvemal. Portraits are valuable according to the power of the artist to paint the feelings, the passions, the Soul of the subject ; it is this which in a few cases has caused men and women to literally falk in love with a bit of canvass. James Ellis. POSITIVENESS. Consider well, then decide positively. Rothschild. IPositiveness is a fault of ignorance and folly. W. B. Carpenter. He that is of too positive a nature may lose an honor for a humor. Cwrtius. He is very positive in his opinion whom neither reason nor experience can persuade. Chilo. Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject. . Hwºme. We should never be positive ; forget not that we are mortal, and always liable to err. James Ellis. Positiveness is a most absurd foible ; if you are in the right it lessens your triumph ; if in the wrong it adds shame to your defeat. Sterne. The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy —their own self-love. Pope. What is positive excludes all question ; a posi- tive mode of speech depends upon the uncontrol- lable authority of the speaker: a positive answer can be given only by one who has positive infor- mation. G. Crabb. Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and Orators, because whoever would obtrude his thoughts and reasons upon a multitude will con- vince others the more as he appears convinced himself. Swift. POSITION. Position is everything. H. W. Shaw. Position should rest on industry, virtue, and me- rit. T. W. Show. No one is more harsh than a low man raised to a high position. Clawdian. Unless ranks are observed, the highest position is safe to no one. Quintilian. Our relative position in life is more the result of accident than fortune. James Ellis. It is the misfortune of some men to be thrown into positions above their capacity. Bovee. A high position makes our virtues and vices to stand out, as objects are brought into view by the light. Rochefoucauld. Bosition and courtly influence form an intoxicat- ing draught, even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint. Sir J. Stephen. Position is something, but not everything ; the eyes are in the rear of the nose, but can see much further than it can smell. G. D. Prentice. A great many men, some comparatively small men now, if put in the right position would be Luthers and Columbuses. E. H. Chapin. If every man could read the heart of his neigh- bor, more would wish to come down from a high position in life than rise to it. Rousseaw. Men have so completely exhausted their industry in canvassing for positions as to have none left for the performance of their duties. Chatfield. All such positions as tend to set the Orders of the state at a distance from each other, are equally subversive of liberty and concord. Livy. People of some position in the world keep them- selves coldly aloof from the lower orders, as if they thought that they would lose their importance by a closer approach. Goethe. Whatever our place alloted to us by Providence, that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it. J. Edwards. It is when a man has lost his position in the world, or great wealth, that the silliness of his character, which was overlaid, is made apparent, and which was there though no one perceived it. Bruyère. How much does the reputation of human actions depend upon the position of those who perform them For the very same acts, according as they proceed from a person of high or low rank, are either much extolled or left unnoticed. Pliny. High position considered by itself is not a posi- tive good—a source of happiness to the souls plan- ted upon it ; there is no good reason to be found why the coachman should not be as happy as the dainty ladies whom he serves ; there is no reason why the hod carrier may not be as happy as the brick-layer, and the brick-layer as happy as the architect. J. G. Holland. – 704 J) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. POSSESSION. POSTERITY. No wise man will boast the multitude of his pos- Posterity gives to every man his true value and sessions. G. Crabb. proper honor. Tacitus. One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession. G. D. Premtice. What we know not, that we are anxious to pos- Sess, and cannot use what we know. Gaethe. Whoever thou art, who thinkest that any pos- session is lasting, thou art much mistaken. Antiphames. He that sets not his heart on what he possesses, forsaketh all things, though he keep his possessions. F. Qwarles. O fool it is not with ease that one can get with- out exertion the possessions of those who exert themselves. Pindarws. The desire of great possessions generally expands with the gradual acquisition and the full attain- ment of them. L. Mw,"ray. Possession gives a right, so far as man is con- cerned, to unmolested enjoyment, unless some one else can establish a better title. F. Wayland. When the grave shall have swallowed me up, when darkness and silence come upon me, what will then remain of my earthly possessions ? Sturm. No possessions are good, but by the good use we make of them ; without which, wealth, power, friends, and servants, do but help to make our lives more unhappy. Sir W. Temple. If you wish to be like to the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden ; in appearance it may glisten to the eye, but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity. Schiller. POSSIBILITIES. Consider possibilities ; if desirable, act on them. Gideon Lee. To him nothing is possible, who is always dream- ing of his past possibilities. T. Carlyle. A bare possibility that a thing may be or not be, is no just cause of doubting whether a thing be or not. Tillotson. There are many things possible which cannot be called practicable ; but what is practicable must, in its nature, be possible. G. Crabb. Within the limits of man's strength and ability everything is possible ; it is only the weak-hearted that believe in impossibilities. James Ellis. There is nothing so unwise as to trouble ourselves about possibilities. We may lay a thousand plans, waste time in revolving consequent events, and after all, the occasion for them never occurs, and our plans are swept away like chaff before the wind. W. N. St. Leger. In order to effect the utmost possible, we must be careful not to throw away our strength in straining after the impossible and the unattainable, lest we exemplify the fable of the dog and the shadow. “Search not into the things above thy strength.” Chatfield. Let us endeavor to leave to posterity our virtues, but none of our vices. James Ellis. The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from of envy and malevolence. Cicero. Time will unveil all things to posterity ; it is a chatterer, and speaks to those who do not question it. Euripides. We are too careless of posterity ; not consider- ing that as they are, so the next generation will be. W. Pemºn. If we would amend the world we should mend ourselves ; and teach our posterity to be, not what we are, but what they should be. 2enodotus. Will books infallibly preserve to a remote pos- terity all that we may desire should be hereafter known of ourselves and of our discoveries, or all that posterity would wish to know Ż Herschel. With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight or influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times. Coltom. It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. “Future ages shall talk of this ; they shall be famous to all posterity ;” whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now. , Swift. Of many things our ancestors complained, we ourselves do so, and our posterity will equally la- ment, because goodness has vanished, evil habits prevail, while human affairs grow worse and worse, sinking into an abyss of wickedness. Seneca. POST-OFFICE. The post-office is one blessing of life. Vingut. The post-office is properly a mercantile project. I Adam Smith. What a dead-lock there would be without a post- Office. E. P. Day. Let your letter stay for the post, not the post for the letter. Franklin. The post-office is a wonderful piece of mental mechanism. Mrs. Zergenhert. The intercourse between the distant parts of the country should be facilitated by a due attention to the post-office and post-roads. Washington. Lêt any one make a mental calculation how many communications—letters, newspapers, and parcels—are posted in a single day, and they can form some idea of the amount of business done in the post-office. James Ellis. It is indispensable to the satisfactory working of the post-office, that it should be conducted with the greatest regularity and preclsion, and that all the departments should be made subservient to each other, and conducted on the same plan. J. R. M’Culloch. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 7 () 5 POWERTY. In poverty there is safety. Phoedrºws. No contumely attends poverty. Publius Syrus. Grieve not too much at poverty. Mme. Gonzaga. Poverty never sped well in love. Halm. Poverty is the reward of idleness. Engel. Poverty is the greatest misery to an old man. Diogenes. Poverty is no sin, but it is a branch of roguery. Calderon. Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety. Sctadi. Poverty is no disgrace, but a very great incon- venience. E. P. Day. Poverty does not destroy virtue, nor does wealth bestow it. Yriarte. Poverty, like a lamp, shows everything bad and annoying. - Aristophon. No two things differ more than abstract and actual poverty. Mary Ferrier. Poverty makes men satirical ; soberly, sadly, H. Friswell. Poverty possesses this disease : through want, it teaches a man evil. Ewripides. bitterly satirical. If poverty has its inconveniences, it has also its independence and security. Ovid. Poverty united to bad conduct utterly destroys and upturns the life of man. Diphilus. We think poverty to be infinitely desirable be- fore the torments of covetousness. Jeremy Taylor. It is fróm the poverty of the mass in our large cities that the greatest abuses take place. Brisbane. He travels safely and not unpleasantly, who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. - Sir P. Sidney. To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward. * e Aristotle. Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair. Addison. We want fewer things to live in poverty with satisfaction, than to live magnificently with riches. St. Evremond, Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue ; it is hard for an empty bag to stand up- right. Franklin. Poverty sometimes forces many to do, contrary to their natural disposition, things unworthy of them. Timocles. Those that with diligence fight against poverty, though neither conquer till death, make it a drawn battle. A. Fuller. One solitary philosopher may be great, virtuous, and happy in the depth of poverty, but not a whole people. Isaak Iselin. POVERTY. - Cheerless poverty has no greater evil than that it makes man the contempt and laughter of his fellows. - Jwvenal. An avowal of poverty is a disgrace to no man ; to make no effort to escape from it is indeed dis- graceful. Thwcydides. Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it arises from idleness, intemperance, ex- travagance, or folly. Plutarch. No man can acquire the doubtful good of ex- treme wealth, without subjecting others to the undoubted evil of poverty. J. H. Hunt. It is the usual plea of poverty to blame misfor- tune, when the ill-finished cause of complaint is a work of their own forging. Warwick. Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo, from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate it. A. Smith. Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue ; nor is there on earth a more powerful ad- vocate for vice than poverty. Goldsmith. It is very easy to find many who use their riches well, but difficult to find one who can support poverty with greatness of soul. Aristides. There is no shame in poverty or in slavery, if we neither make ourselves poor by our improvi- dence nor slaves by our venality. AEsop. Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet. Pericles. It requires a great deal of poetry to gild the pill of poverty, and then it will pass current only in theory; the reality is a dead failure. Mme. Delwzy. Have compassion on poverty ; but a hundred times more on impoverishment ; only the former, not the latter, makes nations and individuals bet- ter. Richten'. The real wants of nature are the measure of en- joyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty. St. Clement. It is impossible to diminish poverty by the mul- tiplication of goods : for, manage as we may, mis- ery and suffering will always cleave to the border of superfluity. Jacobi. There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads upon the heels of great and unexpected riches. Bruyère. Poverty will always be opposed to riches; for as wealth creates wants, and is able to satisfy them, so poverty feels the deprivation of those wants and craves for their fulfillment. W. Talbot. Poverty, looked on as a great disgrace, urges us both to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and leads us away from the path of vir- tue, that directs us to heaven. Horace. 45 706 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. POWERTY. Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public. C. Lamb. If necessity be the mother of invention, poverty is the father of industry : and the child of such parents has a much better prospect of achieving honors and distinction than the rich man's son. Chatfield. If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth ; but if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty ; we shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas than one hole in our coat. Colton. Poverty must make a match, or make an assig- nation, or make Some bargain scandalous to the man who drives it ; more shillings conceded to the making of a shirt, would double the religion of mankind. John Weiss. A man born in a state of poverty never feels its keenest pangs ; but he who has fallen from a life of luxury, feels them with all their bitterness, and the iron of regret enters with a far deeper wound into his soul. James Ellis. That poverty which is not the daughter of the spirit is but the mother of shame and reproach ; it is a disreputation that drowns all the other good parts that are in man ; it is a disposition to all kind of evil; it is a man's greatest foe. Alfarache. When we have only a little we should be satis- fied ; for this reason, that those best enjoy abun- dance who are contented with the least, and so that the pains of poverty are removed, simple fare can give a relish equal to the most expensive luxu- ries. Epicurus. Poverty is the univeral slavery of the world, the yoke everywhere imposed upon the greater part of all mations, and the hardest to be borne by those least accustomed to oppression, and who enjoy a comparative exemption from all other evils but this. Acton. Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very in- digent and ragged. R. W. Emerson. Few things in this world trouble people more than poverty, or the fear of poverty ; and indeed it is a sore affliction ; but like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable re- medy ; the judicious application of industry, pru- dence, and temperance is a certain cure. H. Ballow. Poverty is not always of the nature of an afflic- tion or judgment, but is rather merely a state of life appointed by God for the proper trial and ex- ercise of the virtues of contentment, patience, and resignation ; and for one man to murmur against God because he possesses not those riches he has given to another, is “the wrath that killeth the foolish man, and the envy that slayeth the silly One.” J. Burgh. POWERTY. It is not poverty so much as pretence that haras- ses a ruined man, the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse, the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end ; have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting. Mrs. Jameson. Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty, the shame of being thought poor, is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country from the fashion of the times themselves. W. Cobbett. Great distresses are silent ; penury depresses the Spirits, as it emaciates the body. The modesty of fearful poverty is unwilling to accuse, and who Can Say what numbers have sunk in uncomplaiming silence to the grave 2. Often have I seen the elo- quent tear stand trembling in the eye of injured indigence, whilst the tongue made no complaint, and a smile of content has forced itself on the pla- Cid Countenance. Potter. He who is poor is destitute of every good thing ; he endures poverty in all its parts, sometimes in hunger and cold, and sometimes in nakedness, and sometimes in all these together ; but notwithstand- ing all this it is not so great but that still he eats, though somewhat later than usual, or of the rich man's scraps and leavings, or which is the scholar's greatest misery, by what is called among them going a sopping. Cervantes. We pity the man who has spent his fortune gen- erously, and has been reduced to poverty in his old age ; considering his lot as far harder than that of him who had never any fortune to lose. Why so 2 The latter has been in the gripe of poverty for threescore-years-and-tem—only exchanging it then for the gripe of death ; while the former after some sixty years of enjoyment is suffered to escape with ten of misery. Surely in this instance our pity is on the wrong side. Leitch Ritchie. O poverty, or what is called a reverse of fortune Among the many bitter ingredients that thou hast in thy most bitter cup, thou hast not one so insup- portably bitter as that which brings us in close and hourly contact with the earthenware and huckaback beings of the nether world; even the vulgarity of inanimate things it requires time to get accustomed to ; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any com- fort. T. Carlyle. Poverty is a great evil in any state of life ; but poverty is never felt so severely as by those who have, to use a common phrase, “seen better days.” The poverty of the poor is misery, but it is endur- able misery ; it can bear the sight of men. The poverty of the formerly affluent is unendurable; it avoids the light of the day, and shuns the Sym- pathy of those who would relieve it ; it preys upon the heart, and corrodes the mind; it screws up every nerve to such an extremity of tension that one cool look, the averted eye even of a casual acquaintance known in prosperity, snaps the chord at once, and leaves the self-despised object of it a mere wreck of man. H. Owgan. P’R O S E O U O 7: A Z Z o A. S. 7 O 7 POWER. Limit power. J. R. Tucker. Yield to power. Perionder. Power is compulsory. Mme. Swetchine. Pittacws. G. Hakewell. Power proves the man. All power proceeds from God. Supreme power is in the ruler. Emperor Decius. Power often goes before talent. Hippel. Power is superior to mere literature. Gregory I. All power is derived from the people. G. Mason. The people are the source of all power. S. Adams. Power safely defied touches its downfall. T. B. Macawlay. Goodness and Supreme power do not agree to- gether. Lucanus. The desire of power is stronger than all other feelings. Tacitus. Give me power but for a single day, and it is mine forever. Semiramis. The love of power is a dominant passion of the human breast. W. H. Haft-rison. Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four. Napoleon I. Power, which many so assiduously court, is in its mature precarious. Herodotus. He who has great desire should have great power; if not, woe be to him. William of Poitiers. Power unsubjected to the control of virtue is a poor guardian of civil liberty. J. P. Zenger. It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power wears itself out. Herder. Love of power resides in the breast of every man, and is well regulated and discreet in few. I. Walton. Wherever men have been intrusted with an un- limited power, they have never failed to abuse it. Thomas Day. There is an inconsistency in placing power whère there can be no certainty of the judgment to use it. Thomas Paine. We have more power than will ; and it is often by way of excuse to ourselves that we fancy things are impossible. Rochefoucauld. Power and courtly influence form an intoxicat- ing draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint. Sir J. Stephem. Power is so charácteristically calm that calm- mess in itself has the aspect of power; and forbear- ance implies strength." Bulwer. TJnlimited power should not be trusted in the hands of any one who is not endued with a per- fection more than human. J. Veitch. POWER. The power of man to do mischief to his species, is superior to that of doing good. S. Young. Power founded on contract can descend only to him who has right by that contract. J. Locke. What unknown power governs men ; on what feeble causes do their destinies hinge Voltaire. There are many kinds of power in the world, but the most potent of them is the money-power, because it controls the world. G. Zoega. Power is ever stealing from the many to the few : the manna of popular liberty must be ga- thered each day, or it is rotten. Wendell Phillips. Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at . bottom is the true character of any man. Burke. A power may be conferred for the public good ; but this by no means authorizes a man to use it for the gratification of individual love or hatred. F. Wayland. …” Power is more firmly secured by treating our . equals with justice, than if, elated by present pros- perity, we attempt to enlarge it at every risk. Thweydides. He only is a man of power who can elevate his friend, though a simple soldier, to the priesthood, and send his enemy, though a vizier, to the gibbet. Dwwód. The man is very much mistaken who fancies that that power which is founded on force, is more firm and stable than that which is built on friend- ship. Terence. . * : - -º- - No reasonahle man would be eager to possess himself of the invidious power of inflicting punish- ment, if he were not pre-determined to make use of it. Junius. The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue ; none ought to govern who is not better that the gov- erned. Publius Syrus. Power arising from strength is always in those who are governed, who are many ; but authority arising from opinion is in those who govern, who are few. Sir W. Temple. We never ought to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, un- disputed rights. Polybius. Power in itself is an abstraction ; we can never see it, we cannot hear it, we cannot feel it, we can- not taste it, we cannot smell it ; we witness its re- sults everywhere. J. Hughes. Arbitrary power is the natural object of tempta- tion to a prince—as wine or women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age, or vanity to a woman. Swift. The desire of power may exist in many, but its gratification is limited to a few ; he who fails may become a discontented misanthrope ; and he who succeeds may be a scourge. Abercrombie. 708 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AW." , POWER. Power is always the more immoderate and the more jealous when it rises out of usurpation ; but those who contend for liberty of any kind should, in no instance, be its abettors. W. S. Landor. Beware of dissipating your powers; strive con- stantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay. Goethe. Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it ; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it 2 Virtue even has need of it. Montesquiew. Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer ; it dignifies meanness ; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority ; to what is low, exaltation. Colton. Power is a word which we may use both in an active and in a passive signification ; and in psy- chology we may apply it both to the active faculty and to the passive capacity of the mind. Sir W. Hamilton. It is an observation no less just than common, that there is no stronger test of a man's real char- acter than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice. Plutarch. Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham in a large sense is never success- ful; in the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the state, pretension is no- thing and power is everything. E. P. Whipple. I will tell you where there is power ; where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plants ; where the sunshine pours steadily, where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power. E. H. Chapin. Power and liberty are like heat and moisture ; where they are well mixed, every thing prospers; where they are single, they are destructive ; arbi- trary power is like most other things that are very hard, they are also very apt to break. Halifaac. The constitutional desire of power is in itself in- nocent, and subserves important uses ; but let it be wrongly directed, or become a ruling passion, overriding justice and benevolence, and it is highly criminal. It is the main motive of demagogues and tyrants. H. Winslow. Power cannot be supported by injustice ; it is not possible to found a lasting power upon injus- tice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourish appearance. But time be- trays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. Demosthenes. Power, however pursued and obtained, is the coveted possession of man, and the cherished and aspiring object of his ambition, for the powerless are without influence or regard, and have no weight or voice in the world's affairs; but there is always a place reserved in the world for him who is in possession of power. Acton. PRACTICE. Practice makes perfect. Salis. Practice is the better half of precept. Iriarte. Practice is of greatest importance in every art. Colwmella. A poor speaker who practices by himself has a dull audience. Demomaac. There are two functions of the soul—contempla- tion and practice. R. Sowth. A practice may be adopted by a number of per- sons without reference to each other. G. Crabb. Practice is the exercise of an art, or the applica- tion of a science in life, which application is itself an art. Sir W. Hamiltom. Nature without learning is like a blind man : learning without nature is like the maimed ; prac- tice without both these is incomplete. Plutarch. It is doubtless a privilege to be favored with op- portunities of hearing the word ; but yet of how little avail is it, unless we practice what we hear. C. Buck. The sacred office of minister of the Gospel, should not be approached by those who have no higher object than to practice some industrious occupa- tion, for the mere purpose of getting a livelihood. Mrs. Willard. Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time, because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than great- IlêSS, Tillotson. PRAIRIE, The prairie is primeval nature. Chadbourme. There is an air of refinement on a prairie that wins the heart. James Hall. Let me live far from the white man's home : let me live on the rich prairie forever. Prairie Wolf. The prairies are the gardens of the desert, the unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful. Bryant. There is sweetness in the prairie airl There is a richness of health, and an elasticity of spirit. C. Gayarre. The prospect from the high grounds that often surround the prairies, is as fine as can be conceived of anywhere. Stewart. The almost endless variety of flowers which fairly illuminate the prairies, would cause one to ima- gine himself an inhabitant of some fairy land. J. L. Enos. I have seen the prairie by moonlight and star- light, and in storm ; it strikes me as the most mag- nificent, stern, and terribly grand scene on earth. Albert Pike. To one unaccustomed to it there is something in- expressibly lonely in the solitude of a prairie ; we have the consciousness of being far, far beyond the bounds of habitation ; we feel as if moving in the midst of a desert world. W. Irving. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 709 PRAISE. Praise is the world's goal. Kulman. Just praise is only a debt. G. Berkeley. Praise is the hire of virtue. Cicero. Praise is grateful to human nature. J. Mair. The sweetest of all sounds is praise. Xenophon. Tieck. Ráfür. Praise paves the way to friendship. Praise is falsehood mixed with truth. Be not too solicitous about praise or blame. ECrishna. It is not he who searches for praise who finds it. Rivarol. The humble and lowly-born often receive true praise. Semeca. Praise borrowed from ancestors is but sorry praise. Fichte, Admonish your friends secretly, praise them openly. Publius Syrus. Those that praise themselves have nothing else to praise. Theomantiws. The praises of men are with a “but,” and an exception. Venning. Of those who praise, some are sincere, and some are flatterers. Al-Ahnaf. Those who are greedy of praise, prove that they are poor in merit. Plutarch. It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praiseworthy. Sir P. Sidney. Praise bestowed on an unworthy person is a manifest sign of flattery. Pope Gregory VI. Those who are excited by a desire of fame, are fond of praise and flattery. Pliny the Yownger. It is better to be praised by the few wise than mocked by a multitude of fools. Cervantes. Praise is the reflection of virtue ; but it is glass or body which gives the reflection. Lord Bacon. There are two difficulties in the way of bestow- ing praise ; it excites vanity or envy. Rafinesque. Our continual desire for praise ought to satisfy us of our mortality, if nothing else will. Shaw. He who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have. Manuel. It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise. Zubly. A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others. Miss L. E. Landom. Praise is so pleasing to the eye of man, that it is the Original motive of almost all our actions. Dr. Johnson. The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be. J. C. Hare. PRAISE. True praise is frequently the lot of the humble; false praise is always confined to the great. Kames. I know no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an excep- tion. Steele. Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give. Hannah More. That praise which is run after is worth very little, while that which follows is alone worth en- joying. J. W. Barker. An excessive love of praise never fails to under- mine the regard due to conscience, and to corrupt the heart. H. Blair. Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole. Joanna Baillie. A line of praises is worth a leaf of prayer ; and an hour of praise is worth a day of fasting and mourning. J. Livingston. We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise One. Colton. Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language. Sir J. Mackintosh. Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then. J. R. Lowell. It is a bad practice to praise any one too highly for doing that which every virtuously disposed mind ought to do continually. B, Ibbot. Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extolus for those qualities in which we chiefly excel. Hwme. The praise or dishonor of men is an air-bubble to those who are bound to an unerring tribunal, where “every thought is made manifest.” Mrs. Sigowrmey. Men are very niggardly of their approbation ; they mingle gall with their praise, and wherever it can be in any way done, turn it into blame. Goethe. This is the highest advantage to be derived by a monarch, that his people are obliged not only to submit to, but to praise the deeds of their monarch. Seneca. Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with ; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy. P'eltham. Simple praise does not put a man at his ease ; there must be something solid mixed with it ; and the best way of praising is to praise with the hands. Molière. Praise is more acceptable to the heart than pro- fitable to the mind, and he is in a negative state who is unworthy of praise and unreproved by blame. Acton. 710 JD 4 Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. PRAISE. We praise all good thoughts, all good words, all good deeds, which are and will be, and we likewise keep clean and pure all that is good. Zoroaster. Every one that has been long dead has a due proportion of praise allotted him, in which, while he lived, his friends were too profuse and his ene- mies too sparing. Addison. They are the most frivolous and superficial of mankind, who can be much delighted with that praise which they themselves know to be alto- gether unmerited. Adam Smith. It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neigh- bor, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves. Demosthemes. Genuine praise, like all other species of truth, is known by its bearing full investigation ; it is what the giver is happy that he can justly bestow, and the receiver conscious that he may accept. Crabb. It is not possible that I should praise or dispraise the life of man, whatever be its state ; for fortune ever raises and casts down the happy and unhap- py, and no man can divine the fates to come. Sophocles. We praise the things we hear with much more willingness than those we see : because we envy the present, and reverence the past ; thinking our- selves instructed by the one, and over-laid by the other. Ben Jomson. Men are offended if we bestow on them praises, which show that we quite understand the extent of their abilities; few people are modest enough to endure without annoyance that their depth should be fathomed. Wawvemargwes. Praise was originally a pension paid by the world; but the moderns, finding the trouble and charge too great in collecting it, have lately bought out the fee-simple ; since which time the right of presenta- tion is wholly in ourselves. Swift. Praise not people to their faces, to the end that they may pay thee in the same coin ; this is so thin a cobweb, that it may with little difficulty be seen through ; it is rarely strong enough to catch flies of any considerable magnitude. T. Fuller. Warm passions, and a lively imagination, dis- pose men to panegyric and to satire ; but mimiwm mec law.dare, mec loedere, that is, neither to deify, nor to dumcify, seems to be no bad rule for those who would act consistently and live quietly. Jortin. To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to part with ap- plause ; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sin- cerity or love of truth, getting the better of our Self-love. Hazlitt. Praise no man too liberally before his face, nor censure him too lavishly behind his back; the One savors of flattery, the other of malice, and both are reprehensible ; the true way to advance an- other's virtue, is to follow it ; and the true way to cry down another's vice, is to decline it. F. Quarles. PRAISE. Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kind- mess and affection ; judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Bovee. The mind is offended by hearing the constant praise of an individual; and the gossip of the citi- zens gives secret pain to the mind chiefly when the merit of others is the theme. Pindarws. Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough, and we receive it as a favor ; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. Goldsmith. It is a fault against politeness to praise immo- derately, in the presence of those who are singing or playing to you upon an instrument, some other person who has these same talents; as before those who read you their verses, another poet. Bruyère. Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged, and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and ana- mated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy. Qwintilian. Praise is to an old man an empty sound ; he has neither mother to be delighted with the repu- tation of her son, nor wife to partake the honors of her husband ; he has outlived his friends and his rivals ; nothing is now of much importance, for he cannot extend his interest beyond himself. Izzen-Chollach. We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the re- ceiver ; the one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment. Rochefoucauld. Allow no man to be so familiar with you as to praise you to your face ; your vanity by this means will want its food ; at the same time your passion for esteem will be more fully gratified: men will praise you in their actions; where you now receive one compliment, you will then receive twenty civilities. Steele. Praise is that which costs us nothing, and which we are, nevertheless, the most unwilling to bestow upon others, even where it is most due, though we sometimes claim it the more for Ourselves the less we deserve it ; not reflecting that the breath of Self- eulogy soils the face of the speaker, even as the censer is dimmed by the smoke of his own per- fume. Hugh Miller. Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praises are not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend ; it produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up : it is the coin of genius, and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy. Sydney Smith. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. PRAYER. Pray with fervor. J. F. Oberlin. Pray with the heart. Fenuapeho Be frequent in prayer. H. Bullinger. We go to God by prayer. Bishop Andrews. Prayer is the voice of faith. G. Horne. Continue constant in prayer. L. Sanders. Prayer is a cure for revenge. Abū Hamifa. Prayer sanctifies all our actions. Feltham. Prayer is the life of a Christian. A. Cruden. Prayer is no part of man's duty. C. Blownt. Prayer prevails against temptation. Sturz. An earnest prayer is balm to the soul. Swrr-Dwrr. There is a sovereign balm in prayer. E. Young. Do not say “amen” to a bad prayer. Vesik. Prayer is for the benefit of man, not God. Kamt. The fewer the words the better the prayer. Gellert. Pray ye to God for all those who do us evil. Jochebed Kinaw. Prayer, like Jacob's ladder, leads to heaven. Hofmannswaldaw. Prayer purifies ; it is a self-preached sermon. - Richter. Prayer without sincerity is a waste of words. Wieland. A good man's prayer brings the blessing down. Möser. Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe. Gºwrmall. Prayer is the spiritual pulse of the renewed soul. O. Winslow. Prayer is the key that opens the gate of heaven. Frederika, Bremmer. Some never begin to pray till God has ceased to hear. Nevins. The only prayer that amounts to anything is effort. T. Parke?". Prayer is of no use unless you have truth in your heart. Kiw-ó. Prayer is the reasonable request of man to his Maker. Dr. G. Bensom. A whole lifetime is not too long to spend in prayer. J. Andreas. Let none give over praying, but he that wants nothing. R. Venning. Prayer is the pillar of religion and the key of Paradise. Mahomet. Prayer, like faith, is a thing perfectly simple in idea, but exceedingly difficult of execution. E. M. Gowlburn. PRAYER. Prayer is the chief thing that man may present unto God. Hermes. Prayer is a creature's strength, his very breath and being. Tupper. Prayer renders affliction less sorrowful, and joy more pure. Lamennais. Prayer is the wish of the heart—the expression of the soul. Rev. R. Dear. What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can alter it. A. Lincoln. A man may pray in every language, and in every place. - AElfric. We never need prayer so much as when we are indisposed for it. Mrs. Cameron. More things are wrought by prayer than the world dreams of. Tennyson. In prayer, the words should speak the senti- ments of the heart. W. Secker. In every part of the world prayer is offered to the Great Creator. Justin Martyr. God listens to every prayer wafted to him from the lowliest bosom. D. Livingstone. The door of heaven is always open for the pray- ers of God's people. T. Watson. Prayer is a living heart that speaks in a living ear, the living God. J. Hamilton. Let prayer be the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. M. Henry. All our prayers are but ciphers, till Christ's in- tercession be added. C. Love. A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. Lessing. Prayers should be addressed to the spirits of the upper and lower world. Tsze-Loo. Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan. Bvtnyam. When thou prayest, keep all thought other than prayer far from thy soul. Rabbi Moses. Prayer is the first breath of Divine life ; it is the pulse of the believing soul. T. Scott, Prayer is a weapon that has been tried success- fully in a thousand battles. Talmud. Prayer without study is presumption, and study without prayer is infidelity. I. Watts. When we cannot pray words, we can pray thoughts, and God hears us. John. Ii. Prayer cannot alter the will of God; therefore it is not man's duty to pray. T. Chubb. We are not to conclude that prayers are lost and useless because unsuccessful. S. Ogden. A Christian will find his parenthesis for prayer, even through his busiest hours. Lord Burleigh. I desire no other evidence of the truth of Chris- tianity than the Lord's prayer. Mme. de Stael. 712 D A Y's co Z Z A co A. PRAYER, Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philoso- phy; to pray is to make religion. Novalis. Prayer is the rope up in the belfry ; we pull it, and it rings the bell up in heaven. C. Evans. Pray to God that he would bless our friends, and turn our enemies into friends. Abū Hamifa. The prayer of faith, whether with or without a form, shall never go forth in vain. Rev. C. Simeon. It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. G. Bensom. If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray ! St. Cypriam. Prayer without watching is hypocrisy ; watch- ing without prayer is presumption. W. Jay. Prayer is to be offered to our Father in the name and through the mediation of Christ. Cwmming. As it is our duty to pray, so it is our duty to pray with the most fervent importunity. Charnock. They that spend their days in faith and prayer, shallend their days in peace and comfort. J. Mason. There is no such a thing in the long history of God’s kingdom as an unanswered prayer. Macleod. We pray to God that He Himself would give us good things, and deliver us from evil things. Rev. C. S. Smariws. Prayer is to the penitent heart a sweet source of consolation, long even before the answer comes. J. S. Knoac. Mental prayer, when our spirits wander, is like a watch standing still because the spring is down. Jeremy Taylor. The gift of prayer may have praise with men, but it is the grace of prayer that has power with God. Sydney Dyer. Prayer is the wing where with the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye where with we see God. St. Ambrose. Prayer is our speech to God; when we read, God speaks to us; when we pray, we speak to God. St. Augustine. Prayer flies where the eagle never flew, and rises on wings broader and stronger than an an- gel's. T. Guthrie. A good man's prayers will from the deepest dun- geon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down. Joanna Baillie. Were our ill-judged prayers to be always grant- ed, how many would be ruined at their own re- quest. " J. A. James. What a strong wall and fortification to the Church, and what a weapon for Christians is prayer Luther. Prayer is the bow, the promise is the arrow ; faith is the hand which draws the bow, and sends the arrow with the heart's message to heaven. H. G. Salter. PRAYER. Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buck- ets in a well ; while the one ascends, the other descends. E. Hopkins. Prayer was not invented: it was born with the first sigh, the first joy, the first sorrow of the hu- man heart. Lamartime. Prayer is knowing work, believing work, thank- ing work, and nothing worth if heart and hand do not join in it. Rev. T. Adam. Good prayers never come creeping home ; I am sure I shall receive either what I ask or what I should ask for. Joseph Hall. Pray in thy heart unto God at the beginning of all thy works, that thou mayest bring them to a good conclusion. Socrates. Prayer offered up in the name of Jesus Christ, is like Jacob's ladder, on which the soul ascends from earth to heaven. J. Arndt. Praying frequently helps to praying fervently ; be assured, it is better to wander in prayer than to wander from it. Bishop Wilson. Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer. H. Ballow. The quiet prayer of the heart is acceptable to the All-Merciful : He hears and graciously receives it from the moving lip. Talmud. Let those who wish to excel in praying with the understanding, read the prayers of Jesus, imbibe his Spirit, and copy his example. J. Edmondsom. When many just and godly men do make their supplications unto God with one accord, we may be sure that their prayers are heard. Crammer. Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite 3 No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. Emerson. Poor persons who have but one apartment, may enter into the spirit of the Savior’s direction by praying wherever they can be retired. Bickersteth. Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but compunction of Soul. Hannah More. The best and Sweetest flowers of Paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven, or key to let us into Paradise. T. Brooks. Without prayer there is no such thing as reli- gion ; all that is so called will melt away into nothingness if it be not concentrated and shaped into prayer. Rev. Ray Palmer. Did we perfectly know the state of our own con- dition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers, not heard, if not answered. W. Walce. Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray ; but prayer to God doth not change Him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for. Stillingfleet. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7 / o A. S. 713 PRAYER. Prayer has bridled and chained the raging pas- sions of man, and routed and destroyed vast ar- mies of proud, daring, blustering atheists. Ryland. Leave not off praying to God; for either pray- ing will make thee leave off sinning, or continuing in sin will make thee desist from praying. Fuller. Oh, how dear to our hearts should be the term prayer | What should we do in this land, this wilderness of sin and sorrow, without prayer ? G. T. Noel. There is an electric chain passing from heart to heart through the throne of the Eternal ; and we may keep its links all brightly burnished by the breath of prayer. Emily C. Judson. If we pray continually we shall thrive and flour- ish more and more ; and the meaner and lower we are in our own eyes, the more shall we be exalted and enriched by God. R. Lºwcas. We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect every- thing from themselves. Colton. If there is any helpfulness in prayer even to the mind itself, that helpfulness can only be preserved by showing that the belief on which this virtue depends is a rational belief. Duke of Argyll. What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may natu- rally lead us to such an end ? L’Estrange. The most eminent effusions of the spirit we read of in Scripture were not only afforded to prayer, but appear to have taken place at the very time that exercise was performed. Rev. R. Treffry. We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessing ; and we are not ashamed, many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor. Seneca. Night is the time of prayer ; then the ear of heaven is nearer bent, and the full sad heart, by faith, breathes a freer air, and leaping upward, gets new and clearer glimpses of the Christian's better life. Mrs. S. H. De Kroyft. Prayer winds up the soul from the earth, raises it above those things which intemperance feeds on, acquaints it with the transcending sweetness of Divine comforts and the love and loveliness of Jesus Christ. - R. Leighton. For the most part, we should pray rather in as- piration than petition, rather by hoping than re- questing ; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it. Leigh Hunt. Pray for others in such forms, with such length, importunity, and earnestness, as you use for your- self ; and you will find all little, ill-natured passions die away, your heart grow great and generous, delighting in the common happiness of others, as you used only to delight in your own. E. Law. PRAYER. Each time thou wishest to decide upon perform- ing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project ; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work. Schefer. Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against temp- tation, and against all cruel assaults of infernal spirits, against the delights of this lingering life, and against the motions of the flesh. St. Bernard. They pray in vain to have sin pardoned, which seek not also to prevent sin by prayer, even every particular sin, by prayer against all sin ; except men can name some transgression where with we ought to have truce. R. Hooker. Prayer consists in the expression of our adora- tion, the acknowledgment of our obligations, the offering up of Our thanksgivings, the confession of our sins, and in supplication for the favors, as well tempol al as spiritual, which we need, F. Wayland. Let Secret prayer by yourself alone be constantly performed, before the work of the day be under- taken. It is much better to go from prayer to business than from business to prayer, in regard of the mind's freedom from distracting thoughts. W. Batºkitt. Perfect prayer without a spot or blemish, though not one word be spoken, and no phrases known to mankind be tampered with, always pluck the heart out of the earth and move it softly, like a censer, to and fro beneath the face of heaven. J. Weiss. God is not subject to the sudden passions and emotions we feel, nor to any change of his mea- sures and conduct by their influence ; he is not wrought upon and changed by our prayers, for “with Him there is no variableness or shadow of turning.” Rev. W. Leechman. Children's prayers cannot be too simple ; but it is not wise to inquire carefully whether the little ones understand every word they lisp ; one thing they will not fail to understand, or better feel, that there is One to whom every knee must bow, and every true heart turn. H. Attwell. Prayer is called pouring out the heart before God. Is the heart full of sins ? Pour them out in penitent confessions. Full of sorrows 2 Pour them out in humble complaints. Full of desires 2 Pour them out in earnest petitions. Full of joys 2 Pour them out in rapturous praises. W. L. Thornton. The Being that made the world governs it by the laws that are inflexible, because they are the best ; and to imagine that He can be moved by prayers, oblations, or sacrifices to vary His plan of government, is an impious thought—degrading the Deity to a level with ourselves. Eames. Prayer is like a man in a small boat laying hold of a large ship ; and who, if he does not move the large vessel, at least moves the small vessel toward the large one ; so, though prayer could not directly move God toward the suppliant, it will move the suppliant toward God, and bring the two parties nearer to each other. McCosh. * 714 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. PRAYER. Prayer is as much the instinct of my nature as a Christian, as it is a duty enjoined by the command of God. It is my language of worship, as a man ; of dependence, as a creature ; of submission, as a subject ; of confession, as a sinner; of thankful- ness, as the recipient of mercies ; of supplication, as a needy being. T. Edwards. Prayer is a haven to the shipwrecked mariner, an anchor to them that are sinking in the waves, a staff to the limbs that totter, a mine of jewels to the poor, a security to the rich, a healer of diseases and a guardian of health. Prayer at once Secures the continuance of our blessings, and dissipates the cloud of our calamities. St. Chrysostom. Prayer is this: to look into the Bible and see what God has promised, to look into Our Own hearts and ask ourselves what we want, and to look up to God to give us what we want ; and He has promised, as the purchase of Christ's blood, expecting that though we are most unworthy, yet He will be as good as His word. Rev. T. Scott. To say that prayer was no good because some prayed hypocritically and derived no blessing, it may be as well pretended, that because the sun shining on a dunghill doth occasion offensive and noisome steams, therefore all that is pretended of its influence on spices and flowers, causing them to give out their fragrancy, is utterly false. J. Owen. Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formula ; he pours himself forth: much more naturally in self-chosen and connected thoughts before God, and scarcely requires words at all. Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feel- ings. Humboldt. Not many of us pray more than a few times in our lives. Do not start, strict formulists, who at the appointed season never fail to go through your form of prayer. How often do you, do any of us, lift our thoughts so high that we consciously feel them in God's presence 3 How often are our thoughts pure enough to wing their way So far. above sin and sense ? Arle. When we pray for any virtue, we should culti- vate the virtue as well as pray for it ; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life ; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a short method of duty and salvation only, but as a perpetual moni- tion of duty, by what we require of God we see what He requires of us. Jeremy Taylor. When a pump is frequently used, the water pours out at the first stroke because it is high : but if the pump has not been used for a long time, the water. gets low, and when you want it you must pump a long while ; and the water comes only after great efforts. It is so with prayer; if we are instant in prayer, every little circumstance awakens the disposition to pray, and desire and words are al- ways ready ; but if we neglect prayer, it is difficult for us to pray, for the water in the well gets low. & Feliac Neff. PREACHER. Judge not the preacher. G. Herbert. He who lives well is the best preacher. Cervantes. A preacher should be faithful in preaching the truth. Berengarius. A preacher should be more desirous of winning souls than applause. D. Fordyce. If any work ever demanded the whole of one's mind, it is that of a preacher of God's Word. T. H. Skimmer. Much reading and thinking may make a popular preacher ; but much secret prayer must make a powerful preacher. J. Berridge. A good preacher is one who preaches both with experience and unction, who speaks right out from the heart to the heart. J. B. Heard. The preacher has just to press the grapes and give the cup into the hearer's hand ; he has not to dictate ; he has not even primarily to inform ; but he has to arouse, to impel, to awaken. C. I. Yorke. If we had more painful preachers in the old sense of the word, that is, who took pains themselves, we should have fewer painful ones in the modern sense, who cause pain to their hearers. Trench. It would be a great curiosity to discover a preacher, however wretched, tiresome, and insipid he may be, who has not found a few pious souls to bestow on him the alms of a small compliment, or a small lie.' Abbé Matllois. I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own, who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain-glory ; he best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts to promote truth and virtue. Massillon. No preacher was ever made by rules ; you may have a bag full of excellent tools, but if your fin- gers be unskilled your instruments are of little use. Does the spade make the gardener ; does the easel make the painter ? A man may read guide-boards and finger-posts all the days of his life, and yet never take a walk. Dr. Joel Parker. A vapid preacher may entertain for the hour ; a smooth preacher may amuse : a denunciatory preacher may produce a transient excitement ; but such is the power of God and the wants of men, that though their hearts naturally hate God's truth, they will crowd the sanctuaries where it is in- structively and fearlessly urged. G. Spring. The defects of a preacher are soon spied. Let a preacher be endued with ten virtues, and have but one fault, that one fault will eclipse and darken all his virtues and gifts, so evil is the world in these times. A good preacher should be able to teach plainly and in order; he should have a good head, a good power of speech, a good voice, a good me- mory, and should know when to stop ; he should be sure what he means to say, and should study diligently ; he should be ready to stake body and life, goods, and glory, on its truth ; and he must suffer himself to be vexed and criticised by every- body. Lºwther. P R O S E O U o 7. A 7" / O M. S. 715 PREACHING. Preach the Gospel to the poor. Mme. Krudener. Shrink not from preaching God's truth. Rowland Taylor. There is nothing like simplicity in preaching. C. Buck, If the heathen are wicked preach the gospel to them. Manihera. Preaching and practice should concur, like paral- lel lines. Sacheverell. Preaching God's word should be an exhibition of gospel truth. . Rev. G. Bull. Wonders are wrought by preaching the life and death of Jesus. W. A. Butler. How can a man preach unless he has been edu- cated for preaching 2 Rev. Miles P. Squier. An entire life time seems too short to be spent in preaching the Gospel. F. Asbury. Preach for the poor, and your preaching will always serve for the rich. Father T. Mathew. Enowledge of good and evil cometh by hearing the word of God preached. St. Basil. Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written. Selden. Public preaching, indeed, is the gift of the Spirit, working as best seems to His secret will. Milton. We know that God does work miracles of grace through the weakness of our preaching. W. Wilberforce. Our blessed Savior's preaching, who spake as never man spake, was ineffectual to many. - Stillingfleet. Evangelical preaching is preaching which pre- sents Christ in everything, and everything in Christ. T. H. Skinner. The man who does not practice what he preaches, is no better than the rattlesnake, who warns, and then strikes. There must be the labor of study before preach- ing, and always the labor of prayer to crown the whole with success. Gºwrmall. Preaching experimentally is the life and soul of preaching ; men love sermons that come to their business and homes. Rev. Job Orton. A woman's preaching is like a dog standing on his hinder legs ; it is not done well, but you won- der to see it done at all. Dr. Johnsom. True popular preaching is not that which is ad- dressed exclusively to the lower orders, but that which is addressed and understood by all. Mullois. I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe ; I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality. E. H. Chapin. The two principal branches of preaching are, to tell the people what is their duty, and then to con- vince them that it is so ; the topics for both are brought from Scripture and reason. Swift. to do ; to these we must come down. H. W. Shaw. PREACHING. Preaching is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ig- norance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth. H. Ballow. Were I but assured that by my preaching I had converted but one soul unto God, I should take therein more spiritual joy and comfort than in all the honors and offices which have been bestowed OII IIlê. Archbishop Williams. Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives ; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that ac- cepts it. Montaigne. The object of preaching is constantly to remind mankind of what mankind are constantly forget- ting ; not to supply the defects of human intelli- gence, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. Sir Sydney Smith. Children, men-servants, and maid-servants at- tend our churches ; to these we must preach ; these need our preaching, not the learned ; it is the poor young people and the simple with whom we have Luther. Formerly, it was the fashion to preach the na- tural ; now, it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible ; that, in a beautiful work of imagination, the natural should be the ideal, and the ideal the natural. Schlegel. The best preaching is that which sends people to the Word of God, which assists but does not super- sede the closet study of God's Word, and which points out to the people how they are to roll away the stone and lay open the pure spring of heavenly truth. J. B. Heard. Good is not always advanced by preaching ; pearls are easily thrown aside when good doctrine is preached to deaf ears. I begin to be strongly convinced that it is not everything that is said and taught that conduces to the improvement of the world. G. Forster. All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel ? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun ; it is a secret emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the Snow of winter overtakes in the fields. R. W. Emerson. The curse of the age is fine preaching ; it is mor- bid and pestilential. To attempt to say fine things in the pulpit is a solemn sin ; and fine sermons, like all other finery, are very evanescent in their influence. Let the fine sermon system die out as soon as possible, useless as it is to God and man. E. P. Hood. When I compare the clamorous preaching and passionate declamation too common in the Chris- tian world with the composed dignity, the deli- berate wisdom, the freedom from all extravagance, which characterized Jesus, I can imagine no greater contrast ; and I am sure that the fiery zea- lot is no representative of Christianity. Channing. 716 J) A Y’.S C O / / A C O AV. PRECAUTION. Precaution needs no after-warning. Phaedrus. Excessive precaution is the boast of the coward. Publius Syrus. Use every precaution against a sudden friend and a slow enemy. Rames. If a man use no precaution about what is distant, he will soon find sorrow near at hand. Confucius. People are apt to put off taking precautions against some danger, till the evil has actually hap- pened. R. Whately. Those persons who have had but little experience of the world should take every precaution against its evils and temptations. G. I. Hwntingford. We should not undertake any action of impor- tance without considering what the event of it is likely to prove ; without precaution our projects will often terminate in ruin. S. Croacall. Though life's sufferings should teach us charity, its vanities humility, its hopes resignation, its ne- cessities prudence, yet above all these its difficul- ties should teach us precaution. Acton. IPRECEIDENT. Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent. Cicero. Men who cannot reason resort to precedents, as if there were not more bad precedents than good OłłęS. G. P. Morris. The measure which is now defended by exam- ples will, at a future day, become another prece- dent. Tacitus. We cannot look for precedents in all cases ; nor should we be bound to them when not founded in justice. Tschirme?'. A precedent acquires its sanction from time and common consent ; we are led by the example ; or we are guided or governed by the precedent. G. Crabb. There is superstition in politics as there is super- stition in religion, and any undue veneration for the precedents of any nation may just be one de- velopment of that superstition. J. Campbell. Precedents are the bane and disgrace of legisla- ture ; they are not wanted to justify right mea- sures, and are absolutely insufficient to excuse wrong ones ; they can only be useful to heralds, dancing-masters, and gentleman-ushers. Sterne. Men are foolish enough, ir, their desire for ven- geance, to make precedents against themselves by infringing those laws which are the common pro- tection of mankind, and from which alone they can expect aid if they fall into difficulties. Thucydides. One precedent creates another ; they soon accu- mulate, and constitute law ; what yesterday was law, to-day is doctrine. Examples are supposed to justify the most dangerous measures ; and where they do not suit exactly, the defect is supplied by analogy. Junius. PRECEPT. The road by precepts is tedious. Ausonius. Let your precepts be clear and succinct. Horace. Precepts may lead, but examples draw. Varro. The precepts of youth will never be forgotten. J. W. Barker. Precept is a rule given by a superior ; a direc- tion or command. C. Buck. The precepts of a good education have often re- Curred in the time of need. Hugh Murray. Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them. Horace. Be equally conscientious in small as in great pre- cepts, for ye know not their individual rewards. Mishmah. Most men in these days will have precepts to be ruled by their life, and not their life to be governed by precepts. Swetomiws. A few precepts that can be often made useful, are better than many precepts that are seldom called into practice. Demetriws of Corinth. The Christian is under the supreme authority of his Divine Master, and is therefore called to ex- emplify His precepts. J. Thornton. He who refuses to teach a precept to his pupil is guilty of theft, just as one who steals from the in- heritance of his father. Judah. Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts for the regulation of human conduct. Warburton. It is the common custom of the world to follow example rather than precept ; but it would be the safer course to learn by precept rather than exam- ple. H. Ireton. If thou be too brief in thy precepts, thou shalt not be well understood ; if too long, thou shalt be troublesome to the hearer, and not well borne in mind. Protagorus. The goshawk is not less worth because it is hatched in an humble nest ; nor do moral precepts lose their value because they come from the mouth of a Jew. Rabbi Santob. Most precepts that are given are so general that they cannot be applied, except by an exercise of just as much discretion as would be sufficient to frame them. R. Whately. Precepts are rules or methods which by instruc- tion lead us either to good conversion or happi- ness of life, being grounded upon the grace of God, and by His word. Gottfried Arnold. Human laws made to direct the will, ought to give precepts and not counsels; religion made to influence the heart, ought to give many counsels and few precepts. Montesquiew. Precept and example, like the blades of a pair of scissors, are admirably adapted to their end when conjoined ; separated, they lose the greater portion of their utility. G. E. Jewsbury. P A O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 717 PRECEPT A precept without example, is like a waterman who looks one way and rows another ; what avails the knowledge of good and evil, if we do what we ought to avoid, and avoid what we ought to do 2 Chatfield. Wheresoever the sun doth shine, wheresover the wind doth blow, wheresoever there is an ear to hear, and a mind to conceive, there let the pre- cepts of life be made known, let the maxims of truth be honored and obeyed. R. Dodsley. Example works more cures than precept ; for words without practice are but councils without effect ; when we do as we say, it is a confirmation of the rule ; but when our lives and doctrines do not agree, it looks as if the lesson were too hard for us, or the advice not worth following. Mrs. H. Wentwºm. A system of precepts, though exquisitely com- pacted, is in comparison but a skeleton, a dry, meagre, lifeless bulk, exhibiting nothing of person, place, time, manner, degree, wherein chiefly the flesh and blood, the colors and graces, the life and soul of things do consist ; whereby they please, affect, and move us; but example imparts thereto a goodly corpulency, a life, a motion ; renders it conspicuous, specious, and active, transforming its notional universality into the reality of singular Subsistence. I. Barrow. Precepts are the rules by which we ought to Square our lives ; when they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections ; whereas ad- monition is only blowing of the coal. Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good ; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected. He that lays down precepts for the government of our lives and mo- derating our passions, obliges human nature not only in the present but in all succeeding genera- tions. Seneca. PRECIPITANCY. There is danger in precipitancy. W. Somerville. Precipitancy is the forerunner of trouble. Precipitancy of understanding is an occasion of e]"I’OI’. J. Glamºvill. Precipitancy is the faithful but unhappy parent of misfortune. T. Fulley". Precipitancy of speech confounds all articula- tion and all meaning. S. Putnam. Precipitance of judgment, and hastiness to be- lieve Something on one side or the other, plunges us into many errors. I. Watts. Never be too precipitate in your decisions ; but previously to pronouncing them, maturely con- sider both sides of the question. Downey. Nothing is more unreasonable than precipitancy, Or to entangle our spirits in wildness and amaze- ment ; like a partridge fluttering in a net, which she breaks not, though she breaks her wings. e Jeremy Collier. Ure. PRECISION. Precision leads to elegance. Rousseaw. Precision in the use of words is a prime excel- lence in discourse. N. Webster. A precise man will take much pains only to ren- der himself ridiculous. G. Crabb. A definition is the only way whereby the precise meaning of moral words can be known. J. Locke. Precision is the perfection of morality, for with- Out it there cannot be truth and righteousness. James Ellis. The use and importance of precision may be de- duced from the nature of the human mind ; it never can view, clearly and distinctly, above one object at a time. H. Blair. PRECOCITY. Precocity is generally its own destroyer. L. Rae. Precocious genius rarely enjoys a long career. V. Govtchard. There is more precociousness in vice than in vir- tue. T. Parsons. Precociousness in children is often the harbinger of dulness and imbecility. W. Talbot. Precocious boys that are philosophers at six years of age, are generally blockheads at One-and- twenty. E. Jenkins. The great objection to precocious children is, that when they commence having whiskers, they leave off having brains. R. P. Knight. Precocious children, whose early intellectual de- velopment is often the harbinger of a premature decay, may be compared to Pliny’s Amygdala, or almond tree, of which the early buds and imma- ture fruits were cut off by the frosts of spring. Chatfield. PREF ACE. A good book needs no preface. R. Tyas. A secret in a preface is safer than elsewhere. Mary J. Holmes. A preface must be short, if its author aspires to have it read. Mrs. Opie. As large gates to small edifices, so are long pre- faces to little books. E. Johnson. The preface in the beginning makes the whole book the better to be conceived. Tryphiodorus. The preface of a book contains the excuses and exposes the motives for the author's undertaking. Ibn Khallikan. A preface is intended to inform the hearer or reader of the main design, or, in general, of what- ever is necessary to the understanding of the dis- course, book, or essay. J. Milton. It is lamentable to behold with what lazy scorn many of the yawning readers in our age now-a- days travel over forty or fifty pages of preface and dedication, which is the usual modern stint, as if it were so much Latin. Swift. 7 l S J) A Y’.S C O / / A C O AW. PREDESTINATION. Predestination is the decree of God. Ordericws. Predestination is a word without meaning. Napoleon I. God hath predestinated some men unto life, cer- tain he hath reprobated. J. Calvim. Was it not an infinite mercy that God should predestimate all mankind to salvation by Jesus Christ, 2 Jeremy Taylor. What is predestination ? God is more powerful and wiser than we are : therefore He does with us according to His will. Goethe. Predestination is a part of the unchangeable plan of the Divine government, the unchangeable purpose of an unchangeable God. N. Webster'. If we never act rightly, we were never predes- timated to salvation, and whatever good we might have done would have been to no purpose. Milton. Everything advances by an unchangeable law through the etermal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predes- tinated. Rufus. Nothing has ever happened which has not been predestimated, and in the same way nothing will ever occur, the predisposing causes for which may not be found in nature. Cicero. Predestination is destructive to all that is estab- lished among men, to all that is most precious to human nature, to the two faculties that denomin- ate us men, understanding and will. C. Hammond. Why does the predestinarian so adventurously climb into heaven, to ransack the celestial archives, read God’s hidden decrees, when with less labor he may secure an authentic transcript within him- Self Ż C. Jeacocke. Whatever may happen to thee has been predes- tined for thee from all eternity ; and the concate- nation of causes was from eternity, spinning the thread of thy being and of that which is incident to it. Awrelius. What shall I say of predestination ? If it was inevitably decreed from all etermity that a deter- minate part of mankind should be saved, and none beside them, a vast majority of the world were only born to eternal death, without so much as a possibility to avoid it. J. Wesley. The doctrine of predestination, in the opinion of many people, tends to make those who hold it ut- terly immoral ; and certainly it would seem that a man who believes his eternal destiny to be irre- vocably fixed is likely to indulge his passions with- out restraint, and to neglect his religious duties. T. B. Macawlay. Predestination to life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby, before the foundations of the world were laid, He hath constantly decreed by his counsel, secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom He hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation. C. Merivale. w PREJ UDICE. Prejudice is the child of envy. S. M. Landis. Prejudice is the child of ignorance. Hazlitt. Prejudice should be indulged in toward none. A. H. Stephens. Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks. Duchess d'Abramtes. He who never leaves his country is full of preju- dices. Goldoni. Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to deter- mine the heart. Zimmen’mdºv. Remember, when the judgment is weak, the prejudice is strong. kame O'Hara. When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue. Mºme. de Stael. Drive prejudices out by the door, and they will re-enter by the window. Frederick the Great. National prejudices and hatreds seldom extend beyond neighboring mations. Adam Smith. Opinions founded on prejudice are always sus- tained with the greatest violence. Lord Jeffrey. The common rabble estimate a few things ac- cording to the prejudices of their minds. Cicero. To persons who have taken a prejudice, every word is misunderstood, every look offends. Miss Anne Isabella Thackeray. Persons often from some cause or other are under the influence of prejudice without even knowing it. J. Hughes. Prejudice like the spider, makes everywhere its home, and lives where there seems nothing to live Ołł. T. Paine, The prejudices of youth pass away with it ; those of old age last only because there is no other age to be hoped for. Stanislaws. Care is to be taken not to shock too violently at the beginning prejudices which we hope to over- come in the end. T. Tilton, If a man will look at most of his prejudices, he will find that they arise from his field of view being necessarily narrow. Lord Burleigh. Prejudice, and whatever else hinders our seeing things exactly as they are, injures the understand- ing, and destroys sound judgment. Mrs. Wallace. The prejudiced are apt to converse with but one sort of men, to read but One sort of books, to come in hearing of but one sort of motions. I. Barrow. Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; who ever saw old age that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times? Montaigne. To lay aside all prejudice is to lay aside all prin- ciples; he who is destitute of principles is governed theoretically and practically by whims. Jacobi. Removing prejudices is, alas ! too often remov- ing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. Greville. A /& O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 719 *— PREJUDICE. The prejudices of ignorance are more easily re- moved than the prejudices of interest : the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully pre- ferred. ” - G. Bancroft. Prejudice is a mist, which in Our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on Our way. Shaftesbury. Erom the nature of things, I am morally certain that a mind free from passion and prejudice is more fit to pass a true judgment than one biassed by affection and interest. J. Wilkins. There is nothing stronger than human prejudice ; a crazy sentimentalism like that of Peter the Her- mit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms. C. Phillips. Prejudice is an equivocal term, and may as well mean right opinions taken upon trust and deeply rooted in the mind, as false and absurd opinions so derived and grown into it. R. Hurd. It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths as to root out old errors ; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old. Colton. Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education ; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks. Charlotte Bromté. There is no such thing as prejudice against color. Who objects to a horse, a cow, a sheep, or a hen— a coat, a hat, a necktie, or a pair of gloves—because they are black 3 Position, not color, is the object of prejudice. F. Dowglass. We are involved so early in the prejudices of so many whose interest is concerned to communicate them to us, that it becomes extremely difficult to distinguish through the rest of life what is natural to us and what is artificial. St. Pierre. Prejudices may be somewhat rectified by age, and by converse with the world, but they flourish in full vigour in youthful minds, reared in seclusion and privacy, and undisciplined by intercourse with various classes of mankind. C. B. Brown. Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow ; it exhausts the reasoner, with- out visibly affecting the prejudice; argument can- not do the work of instruction any more than blows can take the place of sunlight. W. Mildmay. Prejudice has always a neutralizing power; in whatever mind it dwells it acts in relation to truth as alkali in relation to acids, neutralizing its very power ; arguments the most cogent, discourses the most powerful, can be neutralized at once by some prejudice in the mind. R. Thomas. The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life ; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor On in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out. Bolingbroke. PEEJUDICE. Prejudice may be considered as a continual false medium of viewing things; for prejudiced persons not only never speak well but also never think well, of those whom they dislike, and the whole character and conduct is considered with an eye to that particular thing which offends them, Butler. Every one is forward to complain of the preju- dices that misled other men and parties, as if he were free, and had none of his own ; this being objected to on all sides, it is agreed that it is a fault and a hindrance to knowledge. What now is the cure ? No other but this, that every man should let alone others' prejudices and examine his own. J. Locke. Some of the darkest and most dangerous preju- dices of man arise from the most honorable princi- ples of the mind. When prejudices are caught up from bad passions, the worst of men feel intervals of remorse, to soften and disperse them ; but when they arise from a generous though mistaken source, they are hugged closer to the bosom, and the kind- est and most compassionate matures feel a pleasure in fostering a blind and unjust resentment. Lord Erskine. Prejudice is decision neither founded upon mor consistent with reason, and the error of ignorance, weakness, or idleness ; it is the enemy of all truth, knowledge, and improvement ; and is the blind- ness of the mind, rendering its power useless and mischievous. Innumerable are the prejudices we imbibe in our youth ; we are accustomed to be- lieve without reflection, and to receive opinions from others without examining the grounds by which they can be supported. G. Mawnder. Many of our men of speculation, instead of ex- ploding general prejudices, employ their sagacity to discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency ; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of deci- Sion, Sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not a series of unconnected acts; through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his mature. Burke, PREPAIRATION. He who is well prepared has half won the bat- tle. Andrada. Our mission on earth is to prepare for death and eternity. A. Hormeck. Where the heart dare speak, it requires no pre- paration. Lessing. He who is not prepared to-day, will be less so to-morrow. Ovid. The thoughtful man thinks of dying, but the wise man prepares for the change. Downey. A soldier who makes too much preparation for defeat, is half defeated before the action. Admiral Farragut. Neglecting to prepare for eternity is like the traveller across the desert, or through a hostile wilderness, who provides nothing for his journey. E. Foster. 720 I A Y'S CO Z Z A CO AV. PRESENT. The present is our only life. Abi Usrin. The present is big with the future. Leibnitz. The present moment is a powerful deity. Goethe. Indifference to present things, makes it easy to part with them. C. Buck. Enjoy the present, whatsoever it be, and be not Solicitous about the future. Jeremy Taylor. Every man's life lies within the present ; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is un- Certain. Awreliws. Let us attend to the present, and as to the future, we shall know how to manage when the Occasion arrives. Corneille. From the maliciousness of human nature, we are always praising what has passed away, and depre- ciating the present. Tacitws. The present is a beautiful medium to knit every bond closer, and to make every dear remembrance still more precious. Schleiermacher. It is decreed by Providence, that nothing truly valuable shall be obtained in our present state, but with difficulty and danger. L. Murray. Look upon every day, O youth, as the whole of life, not merely as a section, and enjoy the present without wishing through haste to spring on to an- other | Richter. Let us act as though there were no past, only so far as it aids and cheers the present ; and no fu- ture, excepting such as we make it by the best use of the present. Martha Martell. Never let the anticipation of a coming pleasure cause you to waste present moments ; many lose half their lives by neglecting the present in regrets for the past, or vain anticipations for the future. Tschirnhausen. Let any man examine his thoughts, and he will find them ever occupied with the past or the future. The present is never our object ; the past and the present we use as means ; the future only is our end. Pascal. He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has ; as the arrow passes through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming, so shall his life be taken away before he knows he has it. R. Dodsley. Abridge your hopes in proportion to the short- ness of the span of human life ; for, while we con- verse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away. Enjoy therefore the present time ; trust not too much what to-morrow may produce. Horace. There is no moment like the present ; not only so, but moreover, there is no moment at all, that is, no instant force and energy, but in the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him, can have no hope from them afterward ; they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and skurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. Miss Edgeworth. PRESENT. The great source of calamity lies in regret or anticipation ; he therefore is most wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or fu- ture. This is impossible to a man of pleasure, it is difficult to the man of business, and is in some de- gree attainable by the philosopher; happy were we all born philosophers, all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind. Goldsmith. Men spend their lives in anticipations, in deter- mining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other, it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, the future has not Come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine ; but if we defer tast- ing them too long, we shall find that both are Soured by age. Colton. In order to enjoy the present, it is necessary to be intent on the present ; to be doing one thing and thinking of another is a very unsatisfactory mode of spending life. Some people are always wishing themselves somewhere but where they are, or thinking of something else than what they are do- ing, or of somebody else than to whom they are speaking ; this is the way to enjoy nothing well, and to please nobody. It is better to be interested with inferior persons and inferior things, than to be indifferent with the best. G. Mogridge. PRESENTS. Presents keep friendship warm. Valentimion, A good man should blush to receive presents from a villain. Plato. When a man receives a present, his friends must share it with him. Mohammed. Never make a present of your works to great men ; if they do not think them worth purchasing, they will not think them worth reading. Freneaw. A true lover of his country does not look for, nor will he accept of valuable presents, from govern- ment or individuals, for simply doing his duty. Simon Bolivar. When thou makest presents, let them be of such things as will last long ; to the end they may be in some sort immortal, and may frequently refresh the memory of the receiver. T. Fuller. PRESENCE. What are letters to presence 3 Mine. Klopstock. The presence of God is not limited to any place. N. Webster. The presence of goodness and virtue in man will always show itself. James Ellis. Virtue is best in a body that hath rather dignity of presence than beauty of aspect. Lord Bacon. Do not wait till you go to heaven to realize God's presence, but feel that he is with you always. Hannah F. Lee. A graceful presence bespeaks acceptance, gives a force to language and helps to convince by look and posture. J. Collier. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 721 PRESS. The liberty of the press is a blessing. Johnson. The war of journalism vitalizes the press. Frederic Hudson. The freedom of the press should be inviolate. J. Q. Adams. The strength of the daily press is in the tele- graph. J. C. Goldsmith. The liberty of the press is essential to a free gov- ernment. Sir W. Blackstone. The people should be masters of the press, not its servants. Henry Watterson. The press is the royal seat on which knowledge is sovereign. J. H. Hammond. The press is to-day the most potent agency for good or JVil. C. F. Wingate. No law shall be enacted to restrain the liberty of speech or of the press. Ramehameha V. The liberty of the press is the highest safeguard to all free government. E. D. Baker. The emancipation of the press has produced a great and Salutary change. T. B. Macawlay. The press should be the representative of the strictest accuracy and honor. Parke Godwin. The press reflects, leads, and enforces the growth of freedom and independence. S. Bowles. A republic without a press is an impossibility, almost a contradiction in terms. E. L. Gadkin. The press is an excellent means to scatter know- ledge, were it not so often abused. T. Mantom. The newspaper press of the country has grown up as part of the machinery of politics. H. White. Absolute unbounded freedom of the press is a dangerous, audacious, execrable doctrine. Pope Gregory XVI. Let us guard the liberty of the press as watch- fully as the dragon did the Hesperian fruit. Lord Lowghborough. The Reformation was cradled in the printing- press, and established by no other instrument. Agnes Strickland. The relation between the press and the people should be a reciprocal one, for each acts on the other. Whitelaw Reid. The press is the exclusive literature of the masses; to the millions it is literature, church, and college. Wendell Phillips. One advantage of a free press is, that if a person be free to abuse us, we also are free to abuse him in return. E. P. Day. The independence of the press comes from the independence of its conductors in character and circumstances. C. A. Dana. The freedom of the press is one of the bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by des- potic governments. G. Mason. PFESS. The press secures that publicity to the adminis- tration of the law, which is the main source of its purity and wisdom. E. D. Mansfield. The press is power, and power may be abused ; it may, on the contrary, be directed wholly to good and useful purposes. T. Dwight. The press should be the voice of the people, not of party ; it should be the monitor of the people, and not a minion to partizanship. James Ellis. When the press is the echo of sages and reform- ers, it works well ; when it is the echo of turbulent cynics, it merely feeds political excitement. Lamartine. Let every sheet issued from the press be a bright and shining light, to guide us in the path of wis- dom and virtue, which is the only path of Safety. L. C. Judson. The power of a free press by its broad dissemi- nation of political intelligence, secures in advance to the side of justice the judgment of the civilized world. J. C. Fremont. The country must look mainly to the press for the reform of evils, the correction of abuses, and the preservation, in an endurable shape, of free institutions. H. J. Raymond. Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled in your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights. Jwnius. There is no class of men whose responsibility is greater, nor any who seem to feel their responsi- bility less, than the directors of the periodical press in a free country. R. D. Owen. An enslaved press is doubly fatal ; it not only takes away the true light, for in that case we might stand still, but it sets up a false one that de- coys us to our destruction. Coltom. What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind ; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge. C. Phillips. The liberty of the press is attended with so many inconveniences, that it may be claimed as the com- mon right of mankind, and Ought to be indulged them in almost every government. Hume. There are no privileges of the press that are not the privileges of the people ; any citizen has the right to tell the truth, speak it, or write it, for his own advantage, and the general welfare. M. Halstead. The press is forfeiting its influence by its falsity. At bottom, men and women love the truth. The press, with half the wealth it now has, and twice the sincerity, would more than double its influence. T. Tilton. Take away the liberty of the press, and we are, all at once, stripped of the use of our noblest facul- ties; our souls themselves are imprisoned in a dark dungeon ; we may breathe, but we cannot be said to live. J. Thomson. 46 722 AN A Y’.S C O L / A C O AV. PRESS. It is to discussion, and consequently to the liberty of the press, that the science of physics owes its improvements ; had this liberty never subsisted, how many errors, consecrated by time, would be cited as incontestable axioms. Helvetius. Those who wield the power of the press, possess the ability to lead the minds of the people in their search after truth, or bid them grovel in the depths of licentiousness and crime ; their aim should be to elevate rather than depress. J. R. Trumbull. The licentiousness of the press produces the same effect which the restraint of the press was intended to do ; if the restraint prevent things from being told, the licentiousness of the press prevents things from being believed when they are told. Jefferson. Upon public abuses, the press turns the collected flames of its sun-glass, and scorches them to cinders. Against the countless wrongs, the injustice and oppressions of individuals, it wages perpetual war, and is a better guurantee against their permanence than any institutions could be. Mantom Marble. The control of the public mind over the conduct of ministers, exerted through the medium of the press, has been regarded by the best writers both in our country and on the continent as the main support of our liberties; while this remains, we cannot be enslaved ; when it is impaired or dimin- ished, we shall soon cease to be free. R. Hall. The paramount duty of the literary press is pu- rity ; of the political press, honesty. While we boast of the tremendous power of the press, let us remember that the foundations of its power as a truly civilizing influence are, first purity, then honesty, then Sagacity and industry ; it may some- times seem otherwise, but it is an illusion. G. W. Curtis. Much has been accomplished ; more than people are aware, so gradual has been the advance. How noiseless is the growth of corn 1 Watch it night and day for a week, and you will never see it growing ; but return after two months, and you will find it all whitening for the harvest ; such, and so imperceptible in the stages of their motion, are the victories of the press. De Quincey. In former days various superstitious rites were used to exorcise evil spirits, but in our times the same object is attained, and beyond comparison more effectually, by the press; before this talis- man, ghosts, vampires, witches, and all their kin- dred tribes are driven from the land, never to re- turn again ; the touch of holy water is not so in- tolerable to them as the smell of printing ink. J. Bentham. The press is the steam-engine of moral power, which, directed by the spirit of the age, will even- tually crush imposture, superstition, and tyranny. The liberty of the press is the true measure of all other liberty, for all freedom without this must be merely nominal ; to stifle the nascent thought is a moral infanticide, a treason against human nature. What can a man call his own, if his thought does not belong to him 3 Chatfield. PRESS. It is the mission of the newspaper press, aided by that mighty lever, public opinion, to move po- litical worlds, make and unmake statesmen, cause crowns and dynasties to tremble, reveal and lay bare corruption in high places, and inspire enthu- siasm in religious communities. J. G. Bemmett, Jr. The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as Snowflakes, but potent as thunder; it is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his first argument or grievance, to millions in a day. E. H. Chapin. The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper ; fill the hop- per with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread. W. C. Bryant. The great secular press is held together in bonds by chiefly political influences, but party feeling runs high for brief periods; nor has it been found able to hold together, even in the same side, jour- mals in such a way as that they should be fraternal or brotherly, for so soon as two journals come into such relations with each other that the profits are affected, the one by the other, the power of party is not strong enough to hold them in affinity, and they go into antagonism. H. W. Beecher. If by liberty of the press we understand merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political Opinions, let us have as much of it as you please ; but if it means the liberty of effronting, calumniating, and defaming one an- other, I for my part own myself willing to part with my share of it whenever our legislators shall please to alter the law ; and shall cheerfully con- sent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself. Franklin. Doubts have been cast upon the ultimate success of the press itself ; it may be, it is said, the vehicle of truth, and it may be the engine of misrepresen- tation. Grant that the press Sometimes misleads the people, and betrays them to misjudge their true interest ; it leads them at least to exercise their judgment, even if it lead them to judge wrong ; that misjudgment is but a slight loss in comparison with the immense boon of having led them to use their judgments and their minds at all. G. W. Burmap. We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press; it is, however, the prostituted com- panion of liberty, and somehow or other, we know not how, its efficient auxiliary ; it follows the sub- stance like its shade ; but while a man walks erect, he may observe that his shadow is almost always in the dirt ; it corrupts, it deceives, it inflames; it strips virtue of her honors, and lends to faction its wildfire and its poisoned arms, and in the end is its own enemy and the usurper's ally ; it would be easy to enlarge on its evils ; it is a precious pest and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it. Fisher Ames. A R O S A. Q U O T A T / O M S. 723 PRESUMPTION. Presumption is folly. Al-Busti. Be clever without presumption. Savarin. Presumption has ruined multitudes. R. Dodsley. Presumption comes from ignorance. Stoughton. Presumption is our natural and original disease. Montaigne. Presumption begins in ignorance and ends in T. James. ruin. - There is more presumption among the ignoble than the noble. Emperor Awreliamws. He that presumes on that he knows not may lose an honor for a humor. Curtius. Hope lures the presumptuous, who rely incon- siderately on its promises. Vawvenargues. We may recover out of the darkness of igno- rance, but never out of that of presumption. Stanislaws. The moth that plays around the flame and is burnt, is the emblem of presumptuous and unwary youth. Thomas Agwinas. Presumption is the mother of all vices, and is like unto a great fire, which maketh every one to retire back. St. Augustine. Presumption never stops in its first attempt ; he that wades so far as to wet and foul himself, cares not how much he trashes farther. R. Sowth. Whatever presumption has done, it has done as the first-born of pride ; and whatever tyranny has done, it has done as the favored offspring of the same parent. - H. Vaugham. How unbecoming it is for one that is mortal to entertain proud, aspiring thoughts ; for presump- tion, when it has put forth the blade, is wont to produce for fruit an all-mournful harvest of woe. AEschylus. We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known by all the earth, and even by people who will live when we shall be no more ; and so vain, that the esteem of five or six persons around amuses and satisfies us. The man that presumes to be wise, let him not contend with him that is inflamed with wrath ; for if he fail to follow counsel herein he shall either have his head broken by the furious, or his heart galled by the detractor. T. Johnson. Presumption is a violent passion of the will, and an utter foe to prudence ; it is that affection which thrusteth and exposeth the body to dangers, pre- suming only upon vain hope and imagination, without ground or reason. George Wishart. Presumption is a fire-work made up of pride and fool-hardiness ; it is indeed like a heavy house built upon slender crutches ; like dust, when men throw against the wind, it flies back in their face, and makes them blind. Wisemen presume nothing, but hope the best ; presumption is hope out of her wits. g T. Adams. Pascal. PRETENSION. Honor pretension by silence. An-Nashi. False pretensions are sure of detection. Croacall. We are only vulnerable and ridiculous through Our pretensions. Mme. de Girardin. Where there is much, much has been borrowed ; nature never pretends. Lavater. Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. H. Ballow. The higher the rank the less pretense, because there is less to pretend to. Bulwer. There is more danger from a pretended friend than from an open enemy. T. James. True glory strikes root, and even extends itself ; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any- thing feigned be lasting. Cicero. It is often charged upon writers, that with all their pretensions to genius and discoveries, they do little more than copy one another. Dr. Johnson. Many nations have advanced pretensions to the highest antiquity, without allowances being made for the prior claims of the children of the woods. Acton. It is no disgrace not to be able to everything ; but to undertake or pretend to do what you are not made for, is not only shameful but extremely troublesome and vexatious. Plutarch. I have known a man lower his reputation for piety by pretending to devotion beyond those of his own rank in life. I like men who are temper- ate and moderate in everything. Montaigne. Heaven must scorn the humility which we tele- graph thither by genuflection ; it must prefer the manliness that stands by all created gifts, and looks itself in the face without pretence of worship. J. Weiss. Those who make a pretension to the greatest learning are commonly men of shallow informa- tion ; those who have the most substantial claims to the gratitude and respect of mankind, are com- monly found to be men of the fewest pretensions. G. Crabb. A man may make pretensions to rights which he cannot maintain ; he may make pretensions to skill which he does not possess ; and he may make pretensions to skill or acquirements which he real- ly possesses, but which he is not known to possess. N. Webster. It is far more safe to lower any pretensions that a woman may aspire to on the score of her virtue, than those dearer ones which she may foster on the side of her vanity. Tell her that she is not in the exact road to gain the approbation of the an- gels, and she may not only hear you with pa- tience, but may even follow your advice; but should you venture to her, that she is equally un- successful in all her methods to gain the approba- tion of men, she will pursue not the advice, but the adviser, certainly with scorn, probably with ven- geance. Colton. 724 A) A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. PREVENTION. PRIDE. Prevention is the best bridle. Feltham. Pride will not beg. Al-Bóri. It is often easier to prevent evils than to remedy Pride loves no man. Phociom. them. N. Webster. * — - - Pride is self-idolatry. Talmud. Meet with preventive skill the disease coming to - attack you. Persiws. Let false pride perish. J. C. L. Allendorf. Prevention of sin is one of the greatest mercies Pride will have a fan. Lycurgws. God can vouchsafe. R. Sowth. -*- It is wiser to prevent a quarrel beforehand, than Pride is excess of self-respect. Rev. Dr. Newman. to revenge it afterward. F. B. Zincke. Pride is the president of hell. Defoe. He who does not prevent a crime, when it is in Pride destroys social endearments. J. Kay. his power, encourages it. Seneca. -*- - Pride is the sworn enemy of content. Psellus. The safest way to prevent injury from an enemy is to strike hard yourself. Admiral Farragwt. Laws act after crimes have been committed ; prevention goes before both. Zimmerman. There is a volume of instruction in the word pre- vention when applied to the human passions ; we can prevent both, if not all the evils of the body. ; “prevention is better than cure.” James Ellis. It is much easier to keep ourselves void of re- sentment, than to restrain it from excess when it Has gained admission. To use the illustration of an excellent author, we can prevent the beginnings of some things, whose progress afterward we can- not hinder. J. G. Holland. PRETTINESS. Pretty maids often make sorry wives. Calcine. Prettiness is like the rose, it dies quickly. Goethe. Every woman prefers prettiness to goodness. Acidaliws. Prettiness in a woman pre-supposes neatness and delicacy. Zeisberger. A woman who has never been pretty has never been young. Mme. Swetchine. Men marry women who are rich, and love those who are pretty. Mine. Virginie Ancelot. A pretty woman is never so pretty as when her eyes sparkle with gratified vanity. Bovee. That which is little can be but pretty, and by claiming dignity becomes ridiculous. Dr. Johnson. There is a prettiness of the mind as well as of the face; the latter is worthless without the former. Annie E. Lancaster. All pretty things, women not excepted, have permission to be useless in proportion to their beauty. Bayard Taylor. Prettiness is always coupled with simplicity ; it is incompatible with that which is large ; a tall woman with masculine features cannot be pretty. G. Crabb. There is always great demand for pretty women and wise men ; the former abound more than the latter, and as beauty engenders a certain amount of idleness and folly, the world will continue to en- courage vanity more than it courts wisdom. Acton. Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. Franklin. The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. Voltaire. The proud man thinketh no man can be humble. St. Chrysostom. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. T. Jefferson. Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all. St. Anselm. If pride were an art, there would be many teach- €I’S. Veneroni. There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich. Mothe. The best manners are stained by the addition of pride. Clawdiws. The glory of the proud man is soon turned to in- famy. Sallwst. To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. Massillon. Pride did first spring from too much abundance of wealth. Antisthemes. Satan is subtle ; he will make a man proud that is not proud. S. Brooks. A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil. Lord Greville. Dignity and pride are of too near a relationship for intermarriage. Mme. Delway. Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that blossoms but to die. H. K. White. If we had no pride ourselves, we would not com- plain of that of others. Rochefoucauld. In prosperity, let us particularly avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. Cicero. Pride is like a vapor which ascendeth high, and presently vanisheth away. Plwtarch. Pride is a corruption that seems almost Origin- ally ingrafted in our nature. Dr. Johnson. Pride brake the angels in heaven, and spoils all heads we find cracked here. Osborn. When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely. Louis XI. P R O S E O U O T A 7 I O W. S. 725 PRIDE. He who hardens his heart with pride, softens his brains with the same. Ashi. Pride is increased by ignorance ; those assume the most who know the least. J. Gay. Pride constitutes nothing advantageous to the perfection of human character. Acton. Pride and weakness are Siamese twins, knit to- gether by an indissoluble hyphen. J. R. Lowell. When a proud man thinks best of himself, then God and man think worst of him. Horace Smith. All that the wisdom of the proud can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortune, Goldsmith. Human pride and ambition will never permit a universal acquiescence in any conclusion. Griswold. Three sparks—pride, envy, and avarice—are those that have been kindled in all hearts. Damte. If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time. Swift. There are persons who would lie prostrate on the ground, if their pride did not hold them up. J. Foster. The developments of pride are numerous and often unsuspected as to their real character. S. H. Platt. He whose pride oppresses the humble, may per- haps be humbled, but will never be humble. Lavater. There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty. - Richter. There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it. W. S. Lamolor. There is this paradox in pride, it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becom- ing so. \ Colton. When a beautiful woman yields to temptation, let her consult her pride, though she forget her virtue. Junius. Some censure pride in the devotees of fashion, and are themselves just as proud, in being Out of fashion. L. C. Judson. Pride is observed to defeat its own end, by bring- ing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. Bolingbroke. A proud man is compared to a ship without a pilot, tossed up and down upon the seas by winds and tempest. St. Awgustime. If we add to our pride what we cut off from less favorite faults, we are merely taking our errors Out of one pocket to put them into another. Chatfield. If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. Sterme. thyself before men. PRIDE. Pride is not the beritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection. Sydney Smith. Pride should of young men be carefully avoided, of old men utterly disdained, and of all men sus- pected and feared. Socrates. Pride, though it cannot prevent the holy affec- tions of nature from being felt, may prevent them from being shown. Jeremy Taylor. Beware of that pride which makes a parade of being humble, and avoid all occasions of showing T. Hook. There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, false- hood and impudence. Lavater. Of all human actions, pride seldom obtains its end ; for aiming at honor and reputation, it reaps contempt and derision. S. Walke?". Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul. Thupper. Pride seems to be equally distributed ; the man who owns the carriage, and the man who drives it, seem to have it just alike. FI. W. Show. It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offences as if we had never offended. H. Blair. Men of fine parts, they say, are often proud: I answer, dull people are seldom so, and both act upon an appearance of reason. Shenstone. It is the most nonsensical thing in the world, for a man to be proud, since it is in the meanest wretch's power to mortify him. Sir T. Browne. Of all the roots of bitterness in human nature, from which moral evil grows, there is none more luxuriant and prolific than pride. Victor Schoelcher. Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object—self; but unlike the magnet, it has no at- tractive pole, but at all points repels, Colton. Great gifts are beautiful as Rachel ; but pride makes them also barren like her. Either we must lay self aside, or God will lay us aside. W. Gºwrmall. There are some who feel more pride in sealing a letter with the head of Homer, than even that blind old bard did in reciting his Iliad. Hazlitt. You who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob ; as are you who boast of your pedigree, or are proud of your wealth. W. M. Thackeray. The proud man is forsaken of God; being for- saken, he groweth resolute in impiety, and after purchaseth a just punishment for his presuming sin. Plotto, Pride, as opposed to vanity, seems to consist in a man entertaining a high opinion of himself, while he is indifferent to the opinions of others; thus we speak of a man who is too proud to be vain. Abercrombie. 726 P A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. PRIDE. Pride is never more offensive than when it con- descends to be civil ; whereas vanity, whenever it forgets itself, naturally assumes good-humor. R. Cwmberland. The pride of the heart is the attribute of honest men ; pride of manners is that of fools ; the pride of birth and rank is often the pride of dupes. Dwclos. The dis-esteem and contempt of others is insepa- rable from pride ; it is hardly possible to over- value ourselves but by undervaluing our neighbors. Clarendon. Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement. Mrs. E. Carter. There are four kinds of pride of which we should beware—race pride, pride in our ancestors ; face pride, pride in our beauty ; place pride, pride in Our position ; grace pride, pride in our religion. Bolton. Pride is a very unaccountable vice ; many peo- ple fall into it unawares, and are often led into it by motives which, if they considered things rightly, would make them abhor the very thoughts of it. S. Croacoll. Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over ; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-tra- vellers. Captain F. Marryatt. To acknowledge our thoughts when we are blamed, is modesty ; to discover them to one's friends, in ingenuousness, is confidence ; but to preach them to the world, if Qne does not take care, is pride. Joanna Southcott. The demon of pride was born with us, and it will not die one hour before us ; it is so woven into the very warp and woof of our nature, that till we are wrapped in our winding sheets, we shall never hear the last of it. C. H. Spurgeon. The sordid meal of the cynics contributed neither to their tranquility nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub ; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander, the haughtiest of all men. Kames. Personal pride and affectation, a delight in beau- ty, and fondness of finery, are tempers that must either kill all religion in the soul, or be themselves killed by it ; they can no more thrive together than health and sickness. E. Law. There is scarce any one thing whereof men and women are more proud than apparel; though, in- deed, there is no one thing that we have more cause to be ashamed of than our apparel, for they tell us that we are sinners. R. Venning. It seems rather extraordinary that pride, which is constantly struggling, and often imposing on it- Self, to gain some little pre-eminence, should so Seldom hint to us the only certain, as well as lau- dable way of setting ourselves above another man, and that is, by becoming his benefactor. Fielding. ºt. in pride. PRIDE. Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure ; it has such a thorough possession of us, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may be talked of. Pascal. Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity ; in gluttons there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking ; it is not the eating, nor it is not the drinking, that is to be blamed, but the excess; so Selden. Pride is so unsociable a vice, and does all things with so ill a grace, that there is no closing with it. A proud man will be sure to challenge more than belongs to him ; you must expect him stiff in his conversation; fulsome in commanding himself, and bitter in his reproofs. J. Collier. Pride signifies such an exalted idea of ourselves as leads to self-esteem, and to contempt of others; it is self-admiration—self-doating. It differs from Vanity thus: pride causes us to value ourselves ; vanity makes us anxious for applause. Pride ren- ders a man odious, vanity makes him ridiculous. J. A. James. In beginning the world, if you do not wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock aud key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin. Even kings do not wear the dal- maticum except at a coronation. Bulwer. Pride often meets with a downfall; let us be- ware how we look with contempt on those below us, lest while we are carrying ourselves loftily, our circumstances may be changed, and we be placed as low in the world as we well can be. We that have rich friends to-day may have poor ones to- morrow ; for such changes happen to many. Rev. I. Cobbin. There is no one passion which all mankind so na- turally give in to as pride, nor any other passion which appears in such different disguises; it is to be found in all habits and all complexions. Is it not a question whether it does more harm or good in the world ; and if there be not such a thing as what we may call a virtuous and laudable pride 3 Steele. Pride is the ape of charity, in show not much un- like, but somewhat fuller of action ; in seeking the one, take heed thou light not upon the other. They are two parallels, never but asunder; charity feeds the poor, so does pride ; charity builds a hos- pital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from Iſla, Il. - F. Qwarles. There is a pride which belongs to every rightly- constituted mind, though it is scarcely to be called pride, but rather a proper estimate of self ; it is, properly speaking, the elevation of mind which arises when we feel that we have mastered some noble idea and made it our own ; man is proud of the idea only so far as he feels that it has become part of himself. Humboldt. A R O S E O U O 7" A T / O M S. 727 PRIEST. PRINCE}. Priests bless themselves first. Niphºws. Put not your trust in princes. Shakspeare. Priests and women never forget. Aleasis. All the world falls in love with a good prince. It is as lawful for a priest to marry as a layman. Pope Pius II. An immoral people indicate a corrupt priest- hood. Geiler. The people who have no priests are commonly barbarians. Montesquiew. The priest heads the procession, and the multi- tude follow. Wakatawki. It is folly to deny the marriage rite to a priest of the church. Paphºwtiws. A priest should preach liberty and equality, for this is the true gospel. Mme. La Browse. The priesthood is a celestial honor, not an earthly but a heavenly possession. Philo, The only aim of priests is to fatten on the super- stition of the grossly ignorant. Talleyrand. A priest should set a good example, and live a life of temperance and frugality. Pope Innocent VI. As those that are sick seek a physician, So do those who are unholy look for a priest. Origem. To be a priest in the service of God is greater honor than an emperor in the service of Satan. N. Alphery. Mankind came out of the savage state by means of the priests; priests are the first civilizers of the I’a,Cé. O. A. Brownson. There are two things in which the priests of every country unite—in praying for us, and in preying upon us. Bovee. A priest is the consolation of the afflicted, the protector of the helpless, support of the widow, father to the orphan, and the repairer of the evils of our own passions and errors. Lamennais. The priest must be fortified as though by ada- mantine armor, and must watch on every side with constant zeal and perpetual vigilance in re- spect to this life, lest any one should find some naked and unguarded spot, and inflict a fatal wound. St. Chrysostom. To expect to gather wholesome fruits from poi- sonous plants, is not more vain than to expect to gather faithful instruction in the duties of Chris- tian husbands and fathers, from those men calling , themselves priests, who, having foresworn the functions of manhood, cannot honorably be either husbands or fathers themselves. G. Mogridge. The priest should be careful not to act the re- verse of the physician, and in two most important points; the physician renders the most nauseous prescriptions palatable, by the elegance of its pre- paration, and the winning suavity with which it is recommended ; whereas the priest may possibly render a most refreshing cordial disgusting, by the injudicious addition of his own compounds, and the ungracious manner with which they are ad- ministered. Colton. Emperor Titus. He who instructs a prince governs the next gene- ration. M. N. Mowravieff. A prince of talent will recognize the talent of Others. Machiavelli. Miserable is the prince for whom truth is con- cealed. Emperor Gordianus. Serve a prince if you would know what it is to be vexed. Albuquerque. It is a prince's highest duty to be acquainted with his own subjects. Martial. A subject should not resist a lawful prince, even though he be a tyrant. W. Chillingworth. How can a prince wear a crown of gold, when his Savior wore a crown of thorns ? T. Godfrey. The prince who has never shed tears for the woes of others, can never make a good king. Lowis XV. A prince that goes to the top of his power, is like him that shall go to the bottom of his treasure. A. Marvell. It is not sufficient merely that a prince be just in his dealings, if his ministers be not diligent and virtuous. Gwicciardini. A prince has it in his power to secure the love of his subjects ; it is, therefore, his own fault if he is not esteemed. Philip of Macedon. As the sun disdains not to give light to the small- est worm, so a virtuous prince protects the life of his meanest subject. Sir P. Sidney. When a prince loves what the people love, and hates what the people hate, them is he what is called the parent of the people. Confucius. A wise prince studies the character and talents of those whom he employs, and entrusts them with the care of many affairs, according to their capa- city. Tai-tsong. A prince who would command the affections and purses of the nation, must not study to stretch his his prerogative, or be uneasy under the restraints Of law. G. Burmet. Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of His inscruta- ble purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of kings. Colton. The merciful prince is safe in love, not in fear ; he needs no emissaries, spies, intelligencers, to en- trap true subjects; he fears no libels, no treasons ; his people speak what they think, and talk openly what they do in secret. Ben Jonson. The manners of the prince conduce as much to liberty as the laws ; he is able, as they are, to make men beasts, and of beasts to make men. If he loves nobility of soul, he will have subjects ; if he loves the low and contemptible, he will have slaves. Montesquiew. 728 A) A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. PRINCIPLES. PRINCIPLES. Principles cannot die. Wade Hampton. Men pursue some few principles which they have s º - - — 3. chanced upon, and care not to innovate, which IPrinciple is a passion for truth. * | draws unknown inconveniences Lord Bacom. Sacrifice money rather than principle. Rothschild. Men are nothing, principles everything. Brown. Principles are of slower growth than passions. - W. S. Landor. Genius cannot sanctify impurity or want of prim- ciple. L. Frisbie. If a principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to. Franklin, It is well to have good principles, better to put them into practice. Rev. T. Gisborne. He who knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. Confucius. A good principle not rightly understood, may prove as hurtful as a bad. Milton. The principle gives birth to the rule; the motive may justify the exception. A. W. Hare. The change we personally experience from time to time, we deny to our principles. Zimmerman. Just principles conceive just notions, and perform good actions in consequence of them. H. Blair'. Establish untothyself principles of action, and see that thou ever act according to them. R. Dodsley. Dangerous principles impose upon our under- standings, emasculate Our Spirits, and spoil our temper. Jeremy Collier. Principles early sown in the mind, are the seeds which produce fruit and harvest in the ripe state of manhood. J. Shebbeare. Men of principle, from acting independently of instinct, when they do wrong are likely to do great wrong. J. C. Hare. The man who acts from principle, who pursues the path of truth, moderation, and justice, will attain influence. Washington. Let us cling to our principles, as the mariner clings to his last plank when night and tempest close around him. Adam Wooléver. He that submits his principles to the influence and caprices of opposite parties will end in having no principles at all. T. James. A man with honest principles and a good con- science, is invulnerable against the attacks of trea- chery and deception. James Ellis. The best dowry a wise man can receive with his wife is good principles ; for this is the dowry alone which preserves a family. Horace, The principles which all mankind allow for true are inmate ; those that men of right reason admit, are the principles allowed by all mankind. J. Locke. Feelings come and go like light troops following the victory of the present ; but principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed, and stand fast. Richter. He acts upon the surest and most prudential grounds who, whether the principles which he acts upon prove true or false, yet secures a happy issue in his actions. R. Sowth. Where the principle is right, God excludes no- thing and sacrifices nothing ; not the humblest vir- tue to the loftiest, not the smallest truth to the most sublime. Mme. Swetchine. The few men who think in common with us are much more necessary to us than the whole of the rest of mankind ; they give strength and tone to our principles. G. Forster. I have all reverence for principles which grow out of Sentiment ; but as to sentiments which grow out of principles, you shall scarcely build a house of cards thereon. Jacobi. I knew a man who was governed by no one prin- ciple in the world but fear ; he had no manner of objection to going to church, but “lest the devil might take it ill.” Sterne. Many men do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every mow and then, as children do flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing. 2 Longfellow. If a man is not under the controlling influence of right principle, whatever may be the state or ex- ercises of his several mental elements, he is not a morally upright man. H. Winslow, Happy is it for men that they are in a situation, in which, though their passions prompt them to be wicked, it is, however, for their interest to be hu- mane and virtuous in principle. Montesquiew. We acknowledge readily enough as a matter of perception the excellence of certain principles, but feel that it would be attended with too much in- convenience to adopt them—to stand by, live by, and die by them. Bovee. As principles are paramount to practise, inas- much as they abide always, while the practise of them may be only occasionally manifested—so do they reveal the predominance of stability over change, and of truth over error. Acton. If I have any one principle firmly fixed in my . mind, it is never to shun present inconvenience where it will produce permanent satisfaction. As for the applause of the world, I have often ex- pressed my contempt of it in itself. T. Young. Principles, however correct, may sometimes be wrongly, and however true, may sometimes be falsely applied ; and none are so likely to be so, as those that from having been found capable of ef- fecting so much, are expected to form all. Colton. There is no security in a good disposition, if the Support of good principles be wanting ; it may be soured by misfortunes, it may be corrupted by wealth, it may be blighted by neediness, it may lose all its original brightness, if destitute of that Support. R. Southey. A R O S E Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 729 PRINTING. Souls dwell in printers' types. Joseph Ames. Ink is the blood of the printing-press. Milton. Printing is the materialization of thought. Day. Beauty is as commendable in printing as in painting. R. Ackermann. By the device of printing a Bible can be sold for sixty crowns. John Faust. Printing unfolds the thoughts of men and im- mortalizes them. R. Aitken. The art of printing was discovered at a moment when it was most wanted. Sismondi. Printing as an art gains a reputation to a peo- ple among whom it flourishes. Addison. It is a question whether the invention of print- ing hath done more harm than good. J. Prideawa. The invention of printing has not, perhaps, mul- tiplied books, but only the copies of them. Temple. Printing, which is the preserver of all arts, is worthy of the attention of the learned and the Curious. Isaiah Thomas. It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge, by a judicious intermingling of black with white. F. Dowglass. O printing, how thou hast disturbed the peace of mankind That lead, when molded into bullets, is not so mortal as when founded into letters : A. Marvell. Printing is summum et postremum donum through which God sends forth the gospel: it is the last flicker of the flame before the extinguish- ing of the world. Luther. As the Sun develops the tree, the plant, and flower, so does the printing press develop the minds of men, and uplifts them above ignorance, super- stition, and error. W. Baldwin. By the magic charm of printing, the intelligence of one that hath been years—long, laborious, and painful years—in collecting, becomes in a few days, the intelligence of the many. A. C. Baird. The art of printing was once a great innovation: but what a glorious morn was that when Gutten- burg in his Smoky, dusty shop said, by the power of moveable types: “Let there be light !” and light was. E. Webster. If God hath ever made a revelation, or presented a gift, to enable His creatures to separate and dis- tinguish them from the grovelling herds of brutes, it is the divine art of printing, whereby our intel- ligence is perpetuated. Sir R. Maltravers. One of the first effects of printing was to make proud men look upon learning as disgraced, by be- ing thus brought within the reach of the common people ; till that time, learning, such as it was, had been confined to courts and convents, the low birth of the clergy being overlooked, because they were privileged by their order. C. Knight. ERINTING. Printing has placed the means of instruction within the reach of the great mass of the people, and has made them substantially the only order in almost every civilized community, they having become the first, the second, and the third estate in every land in which the press is free. Hazewell. Before the art of printing all education was of necessity mainly oral ; the scholar had to hang on the lips of his masters for whatever knowledge he expected to acquire in the college, academy, or parish school ; his only hope beside this was the rare privilege of looking at a manuscript in some collegiate or monastic library. Smarius. The invention of printing added a new element of power to the race ; from that hour, in a most especial sense, the brain and not the arm, the thinker and not the soldier, books and not kings, were to rule the world ; and weapons, forged in the mind, keen-edged and brighter than the sun- beam, were to supplant the sword and the battle- 8, Xe. E. P. Whipple. With the day that gave birth to the invention of printing, dawned the brightest era the world ever saw ; it broke upon the midnight darkness of the fifteenth century, like morning from a densely clouded sky ; its course was onward, destined like the sun to irradiate in its progress the whole habit- able globe ; year by year it increased ; and now it is the mightiest agent for weal or woe in exis- tence. J. R. Trwºmbwll. PFISON. No prison can shut out God. J. F. La Harpe. A prison harms not a brave man. Al-Jahm. A prison proves the value of liberty. Alberoni. Even in chains and prisons we are free. Forster. There is often but one step from a throne to a prison. Achmet IV. It is better to die at once by the sword than lan- guish in a prison. Queen Clothilde. The worst prisons are not of stone ; they are of throbbing hearts, outraged by an infamous life. H. W. Beecher. A prisoner for debt is an impatient patient, lin- gering under the rough hands of a cruel physician. Peter Coste. The man who has once been incarcerated in a prison is regarded as an outcast, and is shunned by all classes as a moral leper. Maria Maacwell. A prisoner is troubled that he cannot go whither he would ; and he that is at large is troubled that he does not know whither to go. L’Estrange. Prisons of stone and iron may hold the body for long and painful years in darkness, but they can- not shut out the light of truth from the truth-lov- ing Soul, H. Winslow. A prison is a grave to bury men alive, and a place wherein a man for half a year's experience may learn more law than he can at Westminster for a hundred pounds. Mymshul. 730 A) A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. PRIVACY. PROBABILITY. Private life favoreth happiness. See-Ma-Koang. Probability is the very guide of life. J. Butler. A private life is the most honorable. Galba. The post of honoris the private station. Jefferson. Private interests must yield to public good. Rist. You should not live one way in private and an- other in public. Publiws Syrus. There is a self-imposed privacy less easily in- vaded than convent walls. H. T. Twekerman. A private life is not only more pleasant, but more happy than any princely state. Rev. R. Baird. There is a privacy in every man's conduct that policy should teach him to retain. N. Macdonald. He has not spent his life badly who has passed it from his birth to his burial in privacy. Horace. Excessive privacy and constant retirement are apt to make men out of humor with others, and too fond of themselves. Rev. J. Caird. Those who enjoyed everything generally sup- posed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy. Dr. Johnson. Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street ; if thy public actions have a hun- dred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. The multitude looks but upon thy actions; thy con- Science looks into them ; the multitude may chance to excuse thee, if not acquit thee; thy conscience will accuse thee, if not condemn thee. F. Quarles. PRIVILEGE. A privilege is a private law. Pieter Aa. Greater privileges call us but to more important Cal’éS. Dean Bolton. Privileges should not be used to the prejudice of those who concede them. Bovee. People would much rather hear about their pri- vileges than their duties. Magoon. As the aged depart from dignity, so they forfeit the privileges of gray hairs. H. Blair. A nation despicable by its weakness forfeits even the privilege of being neutral. A. Hamilton. If we require duties from the lower orders and will grant them no privileges, we must pay them well. Goethe. A privilege may be a particular right granted by law or held by custom, or it may be an exemp- tion from some burden to which others are subject. N. Webster. Privileges rest upon certain laws or customs, which are made for the benefit of certain indivi- duals ; but in the restricted sense, privilege is used only for the subordinate parts of society. G. Crabb. Some ministers speak so sparingly and coldly of the gospel privileges of the saints, that one would imagine they thought themselves no more than Scarecrows, set up on purpose to frighten God's people from the corn. E. Foster. A thousand probabilities cannot make one truth. John Thurloe. Fix not thy hopes beyond the bounds of proba- bility. R. Dodsley. The wise build their religious doctrines upon a basis of probabilities. Bovee. A prudent man ought to be guided by a demon- strated probability not less than by a demonstrated certainty. R. Walsh. As for probabilities, what thing was there ever Set down SO agreeable with sound reason but some probable show against it might be made 3 Hooker. I wonder extremely that the ancient poets were so scrupulous to preserve probability in actions purely human, and violated it after so abominable a manner when they come to recount the actions of the gods. Colton. PROB ATION. There is no probation in eternity. Downey. Our hours of probation are short ; let them be spent in reading, meditation, and prayer. Bergerus. Considered as a state of probation, our present condition loses all its inherent meanness. R. Hall. Youth is the period of probation for old age, and old age the period of probation for eternity. Sir Thomas More. Our mortal life is a season of probation wherein it becometh us to prepare for the life that is im- mortal. St. Augustine. Of all views under which human life has ever been considered, the most reasonable, in my judg- ment, is that which regards it as a state of proba- tion. - W. Paley. The assurance that this is a state of probation, should give vigor to virtue, and solemnity to truth; every hour assumes a fearful responsibility when we view it as the culturer of an immortal harvest. Mrs. Sigowrmey. PROBITY. Probity is the chiefest of all good. Plato. Probity of mind is best evinced by probity of conduct. N. Webster. No men are so despicable as men of rank with- out probity. Montesquiew. A character of probity in yourself is a good guide to veracity in others. N. Macdonald. Probity respects the rights of every man, and seeks to render to every one his due. G. Crabb. The most dangerous men are those who have a reputation for probity ; to quarrel with such is to have all the world against you. Bovee. Can you fear to trust the word of a man whose probity you have experienced in pecuniary affairs ? There is no touchstone of a man's good faith be- yond his punctuality in money matters. Terence. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 731 PROCF, ASTINATION. Procrastination is the thief of time. E. Young. Procrastination is a faith in to-morrow. Cheever. Procrastination is the lazy man's apology. L. E. de Vergme Tressan. Procrastination is a ring on every man's finger. Caius Vibius Trebonianus Gallwg. True wisdom advises no delay ; true interest will not procrastinate. C. Hammond. The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly false too. Lavater. In the management of most things slowness and procrastination are hateful. Cicero. Away with delay ; it hath always injured those who are inclined to procrastinate. Lucanus. Procrastination of a good deed has often brought repentance ; to work while it is called to-day is my advice. Gleim. How dangerous to procrastinate those momen- tous reformations which conscience is solemnly preaching to the heart. J. Foster. He who procrastinates his repentance and amend- ment with his eyes open, abridges the time allot- ted for the most important work he has to perform. J. Butler. A procrastinator is one who is born merely to consume the fruits of the earth; a miserable wretch; a useless being, acknowledging that he has been brought up in vain. Menamder. Procrastination has been called a thief, the thief of time ; I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer ; and that which it kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul. Nevins. Beware of the thief of time, procrastination ; this day is as convenient as to-morrow ; this day is yours, to-morrow is not ; this day is a day of mer- cy, to-morrow may be a day of doom. E. Irving. We should never procrastinate, for there is no moment like the present, not only so, but more- over, there is no moment at all, that is, no instant force or energy, but in the present. Maria Edgeworth. Some persons appear to have been born half an hour too late, and chase that half hour through life, and are finally distanced in the race; for by procrastinating, they are always behind hand in everything. L. C. Judson. They who procrastinate and defer the business of life, in things in which it is in their power to effect, sink into stupid and abject slavery, and show them- selves unworthy of the talents with which human nature is dignified. S. Croacoll. Almost all indolence and fickleness spring from procrastination ; while thinking about what we shall do, and doubting whether we can do it or not, we allow the opportunity of action to slip through our hands. What thou doest, do quickly, is the maxim of human as well as of divine wisdom. G. Gilfillam. ' pay mature only what they owe her. PRODIG-ALITY, Prodigality saves to spend. Ulpian. Prodigality is liberality run mad. Lady Wood. No wealth can enrich a vicious prodigal. AEschimes. Prodigality is a special sign of incontinency. Awrelius. Prodigality is born to wonder, and dies a beggar. Memos. Prodigality exceeds in giving, and lacks in tak- ing. Ansaldo Ceba. Prodigality is a desolution, or too much losing of virtue. Zemo. Prodigality is the curse of all mankind ; no one is exempt from it. James Ellis. How many prodigals are there, who, by dying, Stanislaws. No kind admonition of friends, nor fear of pov- erty, can make a prodigal man thrifty. O. Gregory. The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he that will not economize will have to agonize. Confucius. Where prodigality and covetousness are, there all kinds of vices reign with all license in that Soul. Theophrastws. I would rather my courtiers should laugh at my parsimony than my people weep at my prodi- gality. Lowis XII. The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs him- self ; the middle way is, justice to ourselves and Others. Bruyère. Fire consumeth fuel without maintenance ; and prodigality soon emptieth a weak purse, without it be supplied. Aristotle. The prodigal-minded man neither observeth time nor maketh end of riot, until both himself and his patrimony be consumed. Pericles. That plenty should produce either covetuousness or prodigality is a perversion of Providence ; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches. W. Penºn. Prodigality is the excess of liberality, which coming to extremity proves most vicious, wasting virtues faster than substance, and substance faster than any virtue can get it. Qwevedo y Villegas. Prodigality is indeed a vice of a weak nature, as . avarice is of a strong one ; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money. H. Taylor. The prodigal is ruined rather by what he fanci- fully desires, than by what he really needs; he goes on buying what he does not want, and very soon wants what he cannot buy. Magoom. Though moral certainty be sometimes taken for a high degree of probability, which can only pro- duce a doubtful assent, yet it is also frequently used for a firm assent to a thing upon such grounds as fully satisfy a prudent man. Tillotson. 732 AD A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. PRODIG-ALITY. Prodigality is called the fire of the mind, which is impatient in heat, that it ceaseth not, while any matter combustible is present, to burn necessary things into dust and cinders. Pliny the Yownger. Prodigality stirreth up evil wars and seditious injuries, to the end that her humor may be fed ; fishing in all troubled waters, that she may have wherewith to maintain her prodigal expenses. Hakkadosh Judah. It is not uncommon to see the prodigal betake himself for refuge from the load of humiliation and despair, to poison, the pistol, or the halter. Among those who become suicides, in the possession of their reason, a more numerous list is nowhere found than that which is composed of ruined prodigals. T. Ingmethorpe. Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old ; otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire ; and when they had the pru- dence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy. Colton. Prodigality and dissipation at last bring a man to the want of the necessaries of life ; he falls into poverty, misery, and abject disgrace ; so that even his acquaintance, fearful of being obliged to restore to him what he has squandered with them or upon him, fly from him as a debtor from his creditors, and he is left abandoned by all the world. Volney. PRODUCTION. Production is the fruit of industry. A. Jenowr. The laws of production are among the hidden secrets of nature. James Ellis. Large trees are not the most productive; neither are wealthy men the most liberal. Downey. A supernatural effect is that which is above any natural power that we know of to produce. Tillotson. Your parents did not produce you much into the world whereby you avoided many wrong steps. Swift. Somewhat is produced of nothing ; for lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. Lord Bacon. All things, both in the moral and intellectual world, are linked together upon the simple princi- ple of cause and effect, by which one thing is the producer and the other the thing produced. Crabb. A man's right to the products of his own labor may in some instances be disputed ; if he makes noxious articles which the interests of the commu- nity require should be prohibited, his right to such things might be questioned by the community. H. Bingham. Our productions are our intellectual progeny, and he who is engaged in providing that those immor- tal children of his mind shall inherit fame, is far more nobly occupied than he who is industrious in order that the perishable children of his body should inherit wealth. Colton. PROFANITY. From profane discourses deliver me. Vaugham. Profane swearing is unbecoming a man of honor. Quintilian. The profane swearer is compared to a fish who bites at the naked hook. J. Foster. Nothing save death may atone for the one who profanes the name of God. Ishmael. Profaneness in men is vulgar and odious : in fe- males is shocking and detestable. Lady Gethim. Profanity is said to be a tribute which the ser- vants of the devil pay to their master in token of allegiance. Emperor Pertinaae. The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he catches without any reward. H. Mann. The foolish and wicked practice of profane curs- ing and swearing is a vice so mean and low, that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. Washington. Profane swearing has always seemed to be a most voluntary sin. Most erring people when they do wrong, count upon some good to be derived from their conduct ; but for profanity there is no excuse. H. Ballow. It is the way of attaining to heaven that makes profane swearers so willing to let go the expecta- tion of it. It is not the article of the creed, but the duty to God and their neighbor, that is such an in- consistent, incredible legend. R. Bentley. The man who is profane in private life, should never be trusted with public confidence, little re- garded as a witness, for his dread of falsely testi- fying is lessened by habitual profaneness, and he has not “the fear of God before his eyes.” Bartlett. If there are hypocrites in religion, there are also men who make an ostentation of more irreligion than they possess ; an Ostentation of this nature, the most irrational in the records of human folly, seems to lie at the root of profane swearing. Hall. Of all the dark catalogue of sins, there is not one more vile and execrable than profaneness ; it commonly does, and loves to cluster with other sins; and he who can look up and insult his Maker to His face, needs but little improvement to make him a finished devil. S. H. Coac. Profaneness is a brutal vice ; he who indulges in it is no gentleman ; I care not what his stamp may be in society ; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts; despite all his refinement, the light and habitual taking of God's name, be- trays a coarse nature and a brutal will. Chapin. Some sins are productive of temporary profit or pleasure ; but profaneness is productive of nothing, unless it be shame on earth, and damnation in hell; it is the most gratuitous of all kinds of wickedness, a sort of pepper-corn acknowledgment of the sov- ereignty of the devil over those who indulge in it. J. Edwards. A R O S Z Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 733 PROFESSION. All professions are not honorable. J. Rae. Every man is a debtor to his profession. Bacon. Let a man practice the profession which he best knows. Cicero. No man will excel in his profession if he thinks himself above it. W. Falconer. Test a man's professions by his practice ; physi- cian, healthyself. T. James. Every man should endeavor to grace his profes- sion, not to disgrace it. Lord Bacom. Painted fire needs no fuel ; a dead, formal pro- fession is easily kept up. T. Mamton. Religious profession was at first a conflict—a sacrifice ; now it is become a trade. Rev. R. Cecil. A plausible profession may wear the look of in- nocence, and conceal from human eyes the foulest heart's corruption. G. S. Bowes. All professions, it is said, have their mysteries : these are precisely the points in which consists their weakness or knavery. Judge Coleridge. My feelings will not permit me to make profes- sions of friendships to the man I deem my enemy, and whose system of conduct forbids it. Washington. A professional agent must use his own intellect and skill in the exercise of his own profession, and in the use of it he is to be interfered with by no OI 18. F. Wetyland. The nominal professions of religion with which many persons content themselves, seem to fit them for little else than to disgrace Christianity by their practice. J. Milmer. The lazy ox wishes for the horse's trappings ; the horse wishes to plow. In my opinion, each should follow with cheerfulness the profession which he best understands. Horace. The world is never contented with the learned professions, and is constantly exclaiming : “Let us have less medicine and more cures; less cant and more piety ; less law and more justice.” Acton. The religious profession of some people is like the ashes on a rusty altar, which show that there once were warmth, and light, and flame, but which also show that it is long since they worshipped there. J. Hamilton. Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession, have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it ; they have kept one object in view amidst all the vicis- situdes of time and fortune. V. Knoac. He that abuses his own profession will not pa- tiently bear with any one else that does so ; and this is one of our most subtile operations of self- love ; for when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the CàSe. Coltom. PROFIT. Anticipate not uncertain profits. Dr. Johnson. Do nothing but what is profitable. Phoedrus. It is necessary that he who looks for profit should incur expense. Plowtwis. No profit in common life can be made without previous risk and expenditure. A. T. Stewart. The mind of the Sordid man is conversant only with what shall be for his profit. Confucius. The revenue derived from labor is called wages; that derived from stock, by the person who man- ages or employs it, is called profit. Adam Smith. Profit is the premium on accumulation ; were there no profit, there would be little or no motive to Save and amass ; and all the vast advantages that Society derives from the formation and em- ployment of capital would be unknown. J. R. McCulloch. Profit concerneth all men. The king asketh, what shall profit my kingdom ? The officers say, what shall profit our families 2 The common peo- ple cry out what shall profit our persons 2 When Superious and inferiors try to snatch profit from each other, then is the kingdom endangered. Menciws, PROFLIGATE. Profligacy is a disease. L. Echard. A profligate life is a living death. Biom. The profligate man is the greatest enemy to so- ciety. G. Crabb. Truly woeful is the profligate who cannot but know that his guilt is his alone. Ishmael. It is better never to have been a parent, than the father of a profligate daughter. Awgustus Coesar. Extreme profligacy destroys the appetite and works an unwilling reformation. S. Jenyms. It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal. Addison. A nation is degraded by a monarch's profligacy, and is made, in some sort, contemptible by his meanness, and immoral by his depravation. Coltom. Most men are preparing how to live, but, alas ! not how to die ; let such bear in mind that all who are profligate of their means in summer must per- ish in winter. - Downey. I have heard a profligate offer much stronger arguments against paying his debts, than ever he was known to do against Christianity ; because he happened to be closer pressed by the bailiff than the parson. Swift. What can be a surer indication of future proffi- gacy and ruin, than that turbulent impatience of restraint, which leads a youth to follow the head- long impulses of passion, in preference to the coun- sels of age and experience, even when conveyed in the language of tender and disinterested affection. F. Wayland. 734 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AW. PROFUSENESS. PROGRESS. Profuseness is the heir of avarice. Sallust. Progress is the stride of God | Victor Hugo. Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuse- Progress is the child of doubt. Carmeades. IleSS. F. Atterbury. — e *-i-º-º-º-º- Step by step progress is made. Commodws. All things in profusion have an unstable founda- *E=º-º-º-º: tion. Seneca. It is a golden rule of life, that too much profu- sion is bad. - Terence. Profuseness of doing good is an unextinguishable desire of doing more. Dryden. A man's friends are generally too profuse of praise, and his enemies too sparing. N. Webster. Profusion restores to the public the wealth which avarice has detained from it for a time. S. Jenyms. Profuseness in meats breeds surfeit ; in drink, drunkenness; in discourse, ignorance ; in gifts, poverty. Jean Domat. Profuse ornament in painting, architecture, or gardening, as well as in dress or in language, shows a mean or corrupted taste. Kames. In everything we must consider how far we ought to go, for though everything has its proper medium, yet profusion is more offensive than fall- ing short. Cicero. Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon that gradually involves her followers independence and debts; that is, fetters them with “irons that enter into their souls.” Dr. Johnsom. He who, with a promiscuous undistinguishing profuseness, does not so much dispense as throw away what he has, proclaims himself a fool to all the intelligent world about him. R. Sowth. PROGENITOR. - Adam was the progenitor of the human race. N. Webster. Revere thy parents, and keep honorable the line of thy progenitors. Tai-tsong. Our progenitors have transmitted to us many of the present evils of our lives. Voltaire. Men are proud of a long line of progenitors, and boast of deeds which they themselves have not per- formed. Ovid. Our progenitors may leave us all those things which are in their power to leave—riches, images, and the noble recollections of themselves—but they cannot leave us their virtues. Sallust. Suppose a gentleman, full of his illustrious fami- ly, should see the whole line of his progenitors pass in review before him ; with how many varying passions would he behold shepherds, soldiers, princes, and beggars, walk in the procession of five thousand years ? Addison. Happy he who remembers his progenitors with pride, who relates with pleasure to the listener the story of their greatness, of their deeds, and silently rejoicing, sees himself linked to the end of this goodly chain For the same house produces not a demigod and monster ; a line of either good or bad brings terror or joy to the world. Goethe, approach toward it. Observe the progress of dullness. J. Trwmbwll. Progression is nature's ordinance. O. S. Fowler. The wheels of progress do not stop. Holland. Progress is the law of life ; man is not man as yet. R. Browning. Some people are like a boy's rocking-horse ; full of motion, but no progress. Rowland Hill. Every grade of society bears its distinctive and emphatic marks of progress. D. Moore. I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. Margaret Fuller. There are three great elements of progress, the steam-engine, the printing-press, and the ballot- box. E. Christian. Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. Wendell Phillips. Man is a progressive being, and every enterprise in which he engages should be carried forward in obedience to this law of his nature. J. L. Enos. All progress of the best kind is slow ; but to him who works faithfully and zealously the reward will doubtless be vouchsafed in good time. Smiles. Society moves slowly toward civilization, but when we compare effochs half a century apart, we perceive many signs that progress is made. Mrs. L. M. Child. The true law of the race is progress and develop- ment ; whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthown by the barbarian. Jonatham Stwrges. It often happens that the great and heroic mind, buried in the profoundest obscurity, works out the grandest problems of human progress. J. H. Hammond. If virtue promises happiness, prosperity, and peace, then progress in virtue is certainly progress in each of these ; for to whatever point the perfec- tion of anything brings us, progress is always an Epictetus. We have made great progress during the last century in arts and sciences, which have all been pushed to a high point of refinement, and even the salvation of men has been reduced to rule and me- thod, and embelished by all that the spirit of men could invent that is most beautiful and sublime. Bruyère. Our race has hitherto been almost constantly ad- vancing in knowledge, and not seeing any reason to believe that, precisely at the point of time at which we came into the world, a change took place in the faculties of the human mind or in the mode of discovering truth, we are reformers ; we are on the side of progress. T. B. Macawlay. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 735 PROGRESS. The diffusion of Christian virtues and of know- ledge ensures the progressive advancement of man in those high moral and intellectual qualities that constitute his true dignity. Mary Somerville. The law of man's bodily progress is also the law, of his mental progress; both must be gradual. No grand idea can be realized except by successive steps and stages, which the mind must use as land- ing places in its ascent. E. M. Gowlbwºrm. The progress from infancy to boyhood is imper- ceptible ; in that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, One by One, little distinguishable from each other ; but when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and Sorrow. B. W. Procter. Not only each individual is making daily ad- vances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older ; so that the whole human race, during the course of So many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn. Pascal. Two principles govern the moral and intellectual world ; one is perpetual progress, the other the necessary limitations to that progress. If the former alone prevailed, there would be nothing steadfast and durable on earth, and the whole of social life would be the sport of winds and waves. If the latter had exclusive sway, or even if it ob- tained a mischievous preponderancy, everything would petrify or rot. Gemz. We can trace back our existence almost to a point. Former time presents us with trains of thoughts gradually diminishing to nothing ; but our ideas of futurity are perpetually expanding ; our desires and our hopes, even when modified by our fears, seem to grasp at immensity. This alone would be sufficient to prove the progressiveness of our nature, and that this little earth is but a point from which we start toward a perfection of being. Sir H. Davy. In our progress from infancy to manhood, how much do our sentiments of beauty change with our years ; how often, in the course of this progress, do we look back with contempt, or at least with wonder, upon the tastes of Our earlier days, and the objects that gratified them ; and how uniform- erly, in all this progress, do our opinions of beauty coincide with the prevalent emotions of our hearts, and with that change of sensibility which the pro- gress of life occasions. Sir A. Alison. Man's destiny is illimitable progress; humanity has but to-day, as it were, risen to self-conscious- ness, to a perception of its own capacity, to a glimpse of its inconceivably grand and holy des- tiny; it has advanced, but not designedly, not with foresight ; it has done it instinctively. Without knowing what it did, it has condemned progress while it was progressing ; but the time has now come for humanity to understand itself, to accept the law imposed upon it for its own good, to foresee its end, and march with intention steadily toward it—its future religion of progress. O. A. Brownson. PROHIBITION. Prohibition is sometimes salvation. Sir R. Peel. Fear prohibits endeavors by infusing despair of SUICC0SS. Dr. Johnsom. That which is illegal, is prohibited by the laws of man. E. Cracroft. The moral law prohibits what is wrong, and commands what is right. N. Webster. Make as few prohibitory laws as possible, but when once made keep to them. Miss Muloch, The law of God in the ten commandments con- sists mostly of prohibitions—“Thou shalt not do such a thing.” Tillotson. We are ever wishing for that which is prohibi- ted, and covet what is refused us ; thus it is that the dropsical long for the water they must not touch. Ovid. It is the policy of every government to prohibit the importation and exportation of such commodi- ties as are likely to affect the internal trade of the country. J. Trusler. As no one is prohibited from writing that which can tend to the improvement of mankind, so on the other hand he should be prohibited from pub- lishing that which is injurious. G. Crabb. PROJECTOR. Every man should have a project. C. P. Krawth. Manhood is led on from project to project. Dr. Johnsom. All our projects of happiness are liable to be frustrated. N. Webster. Projects of great importance are frequently frus- trated by envy and fear. - Tacitws. The most noble projects have emanated from men of humble origin. James Ellis. Ambitious monarchs are full of projects for in- creasing their dominions. G. Crabb. Many who were thought eccentric have risen to pre-eminence by the marvelous success of their projects. C. J. K. Bwnsen, The most deadly project is often draped in the fairest religious habiliments, because the worse the intent is, the better appearance it desires to make. Magoon. In any project it is advisable that the projector should not at first present himself to the public as the sole mover in the affair ; his neighbors will not like his egotism if he be at all ambitious, nor will they willingly co-operate in any thing that may place an equal a single step above their own heads. Colton. Projectors in a state are generally rewarded above their deserts, projectors in the republic of letters never ; if wrong, every inferior dunce thinks himself entitled to laugh at their disappoint- ment ; if right, men of superior talents think their honor engaged to oppose, since every new discovery is a tacit diminution of their own pre-eminence. Goldsmith. 736 J) A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. PROMISE. A promise is a debt. J. J. Engel. Any one can be rich in promises. Ovid. Perform what thou hast promised. Periander. Promise nothing you cannot perform. Vesik. Nothing weighs lighter than a promise. BaggeSen. He who makes a promise runs in debt. Talmud. To promise much means to give but little. Albuquergwe. Though promising is not giving, it satisfies fools. F. M. Pinto. There is no virtue in a promise unless it be kept. P. S. Ballanche. Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. T. Parker. Expect nothing from him who promises a great deal. Veneroni. Put the hand of fulfillment upon the bell of pro- mise. Ibn Hassam, Akbah. It is easy to promise ; and alas ! how easy it is to forget ! Alfred de Musset. An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise. J. Howell. I had rather do and not promise, than promise and not do. A. Warwick. The man who is most slow in promising is most sure to keep his word. Rousseau. We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. Rochefoucauld. The slowest in promising are usually the most faithful in performing. Rammohwn. We should never promise more than we have a moral certainty of performing. Washington. A promise is binding in the sense in which the promiser supposed the promisee to receive it. W. Paley. Some persons spend so much time in making promises, that they have no time left to fulfill them. E. P. Day. A promise against law or duty is void in its own nature ; if it be just, I promised it ; if unjust, I only said it. - Agesilaws. Legal deeds have been invented to remind men of their promises, or to convict them of having broken them. Bruyère. Perform thy promise as justly as thou wouldst pay thy debts; for a man ought to be more faith- ful than his oath. Awrelius. Thou oughtest to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them. T. Fuller. The principle of the fulfillment of promises pro- ceeds from a holy personal sensibility and gracious nature ; for a promise is obligatory to a good man. Koran. PROMISE. Some men promise to avoid and pass over an unpleasant emergency without an intention of performing ; they often make promises they know they cannot perform. L. C. Judson. He that keeps his promise only to his own ad- vantage is scarce more bound than if he had pro- mised nothing ; every promise of interest vanishes as soon as the interest ceases. Stanislaws. Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment. Zimmerman. Promises are the ready money that was first coined and made current by the law of nature, to support that Society and commerce that was neces- sary for the comfort and security of mankind. Clarendom. It is a mistake in the great to think that they can harmlessly scatter words and promises with- out intention to fulfill them ; men are stung to the quick that they should be deprived of what they have in a certain degree made their own by hope ; they cannot be long deceived as to their interests, and they hate nothing so much as to feel themselves dupes. Vawvenargues. The man who is wantonly profuse of his pro- mises ought to sink his credit as much as a trades- man would by uttering a great number of promis- sary notes payable at a distant day; the truest. conclusion in both cases is that neither intend or will be able to pay ; and as the latter most proba- bly intends to cheat you of your money, so the former at least designs to cheat you of your thanks. Fielding. A promise is a child of the understanding and the will ; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth ; he that performs delivers the mother ; he that breaks it, murders the child ; if he be begotten in the absence of the understanding, it is a bastard, but the child must be kept ; if thou mistrust thy understanding, promise not ; if thou hast promised, break it not ; it is better to main- tain a bastard than to murder a child. F. Quarles. PROMIPTNESS. Be prompt in all things. Rothschild. Promptness is the nurse of time. Cowmt Pecchio. He is prompt who works with spirit. G. Crabb. Too great promptness leads us to error. Molière. We should be prompt in all things that tend to the good of mankind. James Ellis. Promptitude in action may be stimulated by a due consideration of the value of time. Smiles. It may be questioned whether promptitude in execution is sufficiently urged as essential to effi- ciency. P. C. Hay. See that you lose nothing by inattention and delay ; bevery deliberate and sure in forming your plans, and prompt and efficient in their execution. - E. Rich. A R O S A. Q U O T A 7" / O M S. 7 3 7 PROPERTY. Get property honestly. Chilo. Property is the retaining fee of a nation. Irving. Property is ever ruined by bad management. Al-Kirriya. Exclusiveness in property is a theft in nature. Brissot, Use your property so as not to injure another's property. E. P. Day. The best property is what can be carried ever with you. Lowis of Bavaria. All community of property is the grave of indi- vidual liberty. A. Deam. I question whether a parent ought to leave pro- perty to his son. C. Falcomer. God hath endowed all men with the right of ac- quiring, possessing, and protecting property. Kamehameha V. Is not the separate property of a thing the great cause of its endearment amongst all mankind 3 R. Sowth. The best property is that which a man can carry with him if shipwrecked, and compelled to swim ashore. Amtisthemes. The labor of inventing, making, or producing any thing, constitutes one of the highest and most indefeasible titles to property. Mrs. Willard. Behonest and skillful, temperate and industrious, in acquiring property ; benevolent and discreet, just and faithful in its disposal. E. Rich. By doing good with his property, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven. Andrew Wynter. No property has a lasting tenure, and heir comes upon heir, as wave on wave ; what real benefit is there in landed property and ever-increasing hoards Ż Horace. Property is a fundamental right in one sense, be- cause in the beginning of the world there was none; so that property itself was an innovation intro- duced by laws. Earl of Halifaac. Any man who holds property injurious to the peace of that society of which he is a member, thereby violates the condition upon the observance of which his right to the property is alone guaran- tied. C. J. Fowlkner. A law against property is a law against indus- try ; the latter having always the former, and nothing else for its object. A great object is always answered, whenever any property is transferred from hands that are not fit for that property, to those that are. Burke. There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of man- kind, as the right of property ; of that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and ex- ercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. Sir W. Blackstone. PROPERTY. Property communicates a charm to whatever is the object of it. It is the first of our abstract ideas ; it cleaves to us the closest and the longest ; it en- dears to the child its plaything, to the peasant his cottage, to the landholder his estate ; it supplies the place of prospect and scenery ; instead of COV- eting the beauty of distant situations, it teaches every man to find it in his own ; it gives boldness and grandeur to plains and fens, tinge and coloring to clay and fallows. W. Paley. Property ought to have its influence, and sweet indeed might be the uses of that influence in bind- ing up the broken-hearted, in visiting the widow and the fatherless ; these are the influences which in some measure might atone to mankind for the evils which property as now recognized inflicts upon them ; but if property will pervert its influ- ence to effect the moral degradation and political enthrallment of those to whom it owes its value— if it will accumulate only to corrupt and crush, let it beware lest its rights and influence be deemed incompatible with the anterior rights of man. F. Hopkinson. It is not necessary for me in this place to go through the arguments which prove beyond dis- pute that on the security of property civilization depends ; that where property is insecure, no cli- mate however delicious, no soil however fertile, no Conveniences for trade and navigation, no natural endowments of body or of mind, can prevent a nation from sinking into barbarism ; that where, On the other hand, men are protected in the enjoy- ment of what has been created by their industry and laid up by their self-denial, society will ad- vance in arts and in wealth, notwithstanding the sterility of the earth and the inclemency of the air, notwithstanding heavy taxes and destructive WarS. T. B. Macaulay. PROOE'. Things manifest need no proof. Proof lies with him who affirms. J. Mazarin. Greenleaf. Proofs are either written or parole. Blackstone, Proofs leave no room for doubt or opposition. Hume. A judge should decide on proof not assertions. Dyer. When proofs are established, do not multiply words. Emperor Fohi. Proofs should be made consistent, clear, and easily to be understood. Sir E. Coke. Proof is positive ; it is always external, and pro- duces satisfaction to the senses. G. Crabb. The best faith is to believe whatever can be proved true, and disbelieve whatever is proved false. G. Vale. Those intervening ideas which serve to show the agreement of any two others, are called proofs; and where the agreement or disagreement is by this means plainly and clearly perceived, it is called demonstration, it being shown to the understand- ing, and the mind made to see that it is so. J. Locke. 47 738 JO A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. PROPEIECY. Prophecy is the gift of the gods. Epimenides. Prophecy awaits the child of time. T. Campbell. Those who trust in God may have the gift of prophecy. Mme. Krºwdemer. Prophecy was not addressed to the reason, but to the imagination. H. W. Beecher". Prophecy resideth not but in a man who is great in wisdom and virtue. Maimonides. What a beautiful sermon or essay might be writ- ten on the growth of prophecy. S. T. Coleridge. Prophecy is history anticipated and contracted : while history is prophecy accomplished and dila- ted, Bishop Newton. To utter true prophecy must acquire, for a world like this, infinite wisdom no less than know- ledge. H. Rogers. The literal fulfillment of prophecy affords the strongest evidences of the truth of the Christian religion. A. Keith. In general it may be said that the so-called pro- phecies are little more thau allegorical fables, too feeble for human credence. A. Collins. Every single text of prophecy is to be considered as a part of an entire system, and to be interpre- ted in that sense which may best connect it with the whole. S. Horsley. If the prophecies are not fulfilled in Jesus, it is impossible to know when a prophecy is fulfilled, and when not, which would utterly evacuate the use of them. R. South. Divine prophecies being of the nature of their Author, with whom a thousand years are but as one day, are not therefore fulfilled punctually at once, but have springing and germinant accom- plishment, though the heightfulness of them may refer to some one age. Lord Bacon. Interpreters of prophecy during the last few centuries have been, most of them, childish and nonsensical ; the fact is, when fancy is their guide men wander as in a maze ; they see, like children gazing into the fire, not what is really before them, but what is in their own heads. C. H. Spurgeon. The sacred writers, besides abounding in histo- ry, doctrine, and morality, have dealt largely in prophecy. The dispute, therefore, between be- lievers and unbelievers is reduced to a short issue. If Scripture prophecy be divinely inspired, it will be accomplished ; but if it be imposture, it will , not. 4. Fuller. Prophecy is the philosophy of history ; it is the key that admits us into the arena of Providence; it places us in the midst of great verities; it places us behind the scenes, and shows us these verities in their origin, in their order, and in their progres- sion ; it permits man, whose short lifetime makes him the witness of only a small portion of the ac- tual drama, to behold under the veil of symbol the whole series, from the first incipient act which eludes his eye, to the great crowning event which fills a world, and fixes the gaze of nations. Wylie. PROPEIET. The wisest man is the best prophet. Memander. God dawns upon the souls of prophets. Gilfillan. Discernment and prudence are the best of pro- phets. Euripides. The best guesser is always called the most saga- cious prophet. Cicero. We may take the prophets as our teachers; but we must not bow down to their idol notions. T. Parker. Prophets are men who speak from a divine im- pulse, rather than from their own thought or wis- dom. Dr. Pulsford. The prophets reveal God in all His fulness and variety of being ; they speak in human ears the strains of heaven. E. Irving. There is no consolation in the ambiguous lan- guage of the prophets ; it leads the mind into con- fusion, darkness, and doubt. James Ellis. The prophets were taught to know the will of God, and thereby instruct the people, and enabled to prophecy as a testimony of their being sent by heaven. Sir W. Temple. Great truths are in the prophets and in the pre- cious book of Revelation, but your fanciful theolo- gians turn these sublimities of truth into the toys of children, when they give their imagination li- cense to act as an expositor. C. H. Spwrgeon. When prophets wrote of future events, they were impressed with the words which they wrote: they were moved, also, with power to write the words impressed on their minds. Prophetic inspi- ration is a clear sight of events which will occur. H. Hammond. False prophets come in sheep's clothing, borrow a garb of truth to conceal their ultimate design, and render their falsehoods palatable, knowing that if they were to appear in their true character they would be repelled ; but when fully entered among the flock, dreadful ravages ensue ; for “in- wardly they are ravening wolves.” A. Cameron. Many deluded and misguided persons imagine, that in order to be prophets, nothing more is re- quired than that they should be rejected by their own people ; but the chief condition is, that they should be accepted by some other people. He is a very poor prophet, indeed, who is banded about the world from place to place, received and ap- plauded by none, but derided and denounced by all, and who believes in himself, but in whom no- body else believes. Acton. You may observe the beauty and sublimity of the style and diction of the prophets even from quotations which have been made from their writings ; indeed, they are very well worthy of our serious perusal and meditation, not Only considered as prophets, but considered even as authors, for their noble images and descriptions, their bold tropes and figures, their instructive pre- cepts, their pathetical exhortations, and other ex- cellencies, which would have been admired in any ancient writers whatever. Bishop Newton. A R O S E O U O 7" A T / O AV S. 739 IPEOPRIETY. Propriety often runs into prudery. Mrs. Dana. There can be no permanent happiness where there is a departure from propriety. J. T. Austin. Propriety of conduct is universally respected, and its possessor every where appraised and hon- ored. Acton. We call nothing propriety but that congruity or suitableness, which ought to subsist between sensible beings and their thoughts, words, and ac- tions. Rames. Propriety of conduct, in a moral sense, consists in its conformity to the moral law ; of behavior, to the established rules of decorum ; and in lan- guage, is correctness in the use of words and phrases. N. Webste?". PROSE}. Prose is the natural language of man. Willson. There should be harmony in prose as well as in poetry. J. Walker. Prose and verse are not essentially different kinds of writing. W. Wordsworth. A poet hurts himself by writing prose, as a race- horse hurts his motions by condescending to draw in a team. Shemstome. A poet lets you into the knowledge of a device better than a prose writer, as his descriptions are often more diffuse. Addison. Among the writers of luxuriant and florid prose, however rich and fanciful, there never was one who wrote good poetry. W. S. Landor. Prose will do for common people, or for all the common Occasions of life, even with uncommon people ; we cannot drive a better bargain or make a better argument in poetry than in prose. J. Neal. Things are heard more negligently and affect less when they are expressed in prose ; but when they are sung in verse and given forth in certain cadences, the very same idea darts out like an ar- row from a strong arm. Beawmarchais. PROSECUTION. Prosecute your plans with diligence. Guzman. That which is morally good is to be desired and prosecuted. It is the duty of every man to prosecute what- ever is deemed worthy. G. Crabb. We should prosecute our plans and purposes in life until we reach the topmost round of success. James Ellis. We should prosecute every undertaking with a continuous will, until we are assured of success. Sir R. Baker. Prosecute all things with firmness; we should never essay a work unless we mean to continue it to the end. J. F. W. Jerusalem. There will be some study which every man more seriously prosecutes, some darling subject on which he is principally pleased to converse. Dr. Johnson. J. Wilkins. . city. PROSELYTE. There are more proselytes than believers. Bogle. The spirit of proselytism is co-existent with the love of truth. J. Foster. False teachers commonly make use of temporal considerations to gain proselytes. Tillotson. The zeal of making proselytes may often be at- tributed to a vanity of possessing a direction and ascendancy over the minds of men. O. Gregory. The desire to proselytize is one of the strongest passions of the many that stir up our quiet ma- chinery, and make the wheels go round too fast. Justin H. M’Carthy. Proselyte is a distinguished term when applied to the proselytes to righteousness; to renounce sin, and believe in and worship God, observing the precepts of our Savior, is the duty of every human being. James Ellis. The proselytising spirit is inseparable from the love of truth, inasmuch as it is striving to win over others to our way of thinking. From savages to the Grand Inquisitor, from the pious enthusiast to the philosopher, we are all proselytizers. G. Forster. Men on all hands almost keep their own prose- lytes by affrighting them with the fearful sermons of damnation ; but in the meantime here is no se- curity to them that are not able to judge for them- Selves, and no peace for them that are. J. Taylor. To strive to win others to the same religious be- lief and the same mode of worship, cannot be blameable in itself ; but when improper means are employed, and the feeling of proselytism is ex- hibited in a fanatical degree, such efforts become exceedingly offensive and censurable. Davies. I know not how it comes to pass, but notorious it is, that men of depraved principles and practice are much more active and solicitous to make pro- selytes, and to corrupt others, than pious and wise men are to seduce and convert ; as if the devil's talent were more operative and productive than that which God entrusts in the hands of his chil- dren, which seems to be wrapped up in a napkin without being employed. Earl of Clarendon. PROSPECT. Our surest prospect in life is death. Comdro. The good man enjoys the prospect of future feli- N. Webster. He who forms erroneous views of a future state, has but a wretched prospect beyond the grave. - G. Crabb. The man whose worldly prospects are his chief concern, clings to a rope that will Surely fail him. Al-Khil&i. Is he a prudent man, as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any pros- pect to, or provision for the remaining part of his life 2 Tillotson. To him who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, the measures of good and evil are mightily changed. J. Locke. 740 J) A Y’,S C O / / A C O AV. PROSPERITY. Prosperity is a feeble reed. D'Amchères. Prosperity engenders sloth. Livy. God determines prosperity. Abdal Atiph. Be not haughty in prosperity. Cleobwlws. In prosperity think of adversity. Gleim. Prosperity is followed by trouble. As-Saffār. Prosperity is the beginning of adversity. Emperor Gallienws. Prosperity unhinges the minds of the wise. Sallust. The mind is more injured by prosperity than ad- versity. Archytas. Prosperity sets up merit as a mark for envy to shoot at. J. L. M. de Beaumont. To rejoice in the prosperity of another is to par- take of it. W. Avtstim. Prosperity gathers smiles, while adversity scat- ters them. Downey. Prosperity inspires most men with pride and insolence. Gobryas. He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity. Colton. Meekness in prosperity will secure for us respect in adversity. S. F. Baird. Prosperity doth prove a thing dangerous to the souls of men. R. Hooker. Prosperity has a natural tendency to generate folly and vice. L. Murray. The prosperous can with difficulty form a right idea of misery. Quintilian. In prosperity, prepare for a change ; in adversi- ty, hope for one. J. Burgh. Earthly prosperity should be estimated by its influence on the soul. Mrs. Sigowrmey. While a man enjoys prosperity, he knows not whether he is beloved. Lwcamws. Prosperity asks for fidelity, but adversity im- peratively demands it. Seneca. He knoweth the value of prosperity who hath encountered adversity. Real prosperity is not to be estimated by large estates or great wealth. 3. R. T. Jeffrey. Everything in the world may be endured, ex- cept continued prosperity. Goethe. Prosperities can only be enjoyed by those who fear not at all to lose them. Jeremy Taylor. Prosperity seems to be hardly safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. H. Ballow. Prosperity is often an equivocal word, denoting merely affluence of possession. H. Blair. Be the same to your friends when they are pros- perous, as when they are unfortunate. Periander. C. Knight. PROSPERITY. - Prosperity makes us suspicious of each other, while adversity makes us trust in each other. H. W. Shaw. Take care to be an economist in prosperity : there is no fear of your being one in adversity. Zimmerman. Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure adverse fortune. L. W. Dilwyn. Prosperity is not without many fears and dis- tastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Lord Bacom. We should not envy the man who seems pros- perous, ere we see his death, as fortune is but for a day. Euripides. Whilst you are prosperous you can numbermany friends ; but when the storm comes you are left alone. Ovid. Any one that is prosperous may before eve- ning, by the turn of fortune's wheel, become most wretched. Awsonius. As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool ; but nobody could find it out in his prosperity. * Bruyère. Prosperity makes a man virtuous in the estima- tion of the world ; it is a fortress which mankind dare not assail. Rev. J. Zippel. Prosperity is more hurtful than adversity, in that the one may be more easily borne than the other forgotten. H. Domeaw. The three things that will insure prosperity are, appropriate exertion, feasible exertion, and un- common exertion. Catherall. The mind of man is ignorant of fate and future destiny, and of keeping within due bounds when elated by prosperity. Virgil. Real friends are wont to visit us in our pros- perity only when invited; but in adversity to come of their own accord. Demetriws. Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue ; for it is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. Tacitus. The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base. Epicurus. Prosperity is able to change the nature of man, and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of high fortune. Rufus. We must distinguish between felicity and pros- perity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment. W. S. Landor. The increase of a great number of citizens in prosperity, is a necessary element to the security and even the existence of a civilized people. Burette. The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening. Demosthemes. P & O S E Q & O 7' 4 7 / o A. S. 741 PROSPERITY. Prosperity gains a thousand intimates, adversity often shows us that not one of them is a real friend ; sunshine friends are the green flies of Society. L. C. Judson. It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex, instead of a fountain ; SO that instead of throwing out he learns to draw in. H. W. Beecher. Many are not able to suffer and endure prosper- ity; it is like the light of the sun to a weak eye, glorious indeed in itself, but not proportioned to such an instrument. t Jeremy Taylor. In prosperity a man has many friends, who offer him their hands and tender him their purses; in adversity they fall like leaves in autumn, and leave him exposed to the chill blasts of poverty. Bartlett. Honor and justice, reason and equity, go a very great way in securing prosperity to those who use them ; and in case of failure, they secure the best retreat, and the most honorable consolation. E. D. Ingraham. He that has never enjoyed the summit of pros- perity is equally ignorant how far the iniquity of others can go ; for our adversity will excite temp- tations in ourselves, our prosperity in others. Colton. The enjoyment of prosperity is what is first to be desired ; to be well spoken is the next best thing in life ; but he who has enjoyed both, and really felt them, has received the highest crown of all. Pindarus. Prosperity too often has the same effects on a Christian that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mari- ner ; who frequently, it is said, in those circum- stances ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep. Horne. So use prosperity that adversity may not abuse thee; if in the one security admits no fears, in the other despair will afford no hopes ; he that in pros- perity can foretell a danger can in adversity fore- See deliverance. F. Qwarles. There is ever a certain languor attending the fullness of prosperity ; when the heart has no more to wish, it yawns over its possessions, and the en- ergy of the soul goes out like a flame that has no more to devour. Yowng. If the winds of prosperity did not blow some portion of the time, how could we feel sure that Our virtue was not a thing of chance, and that our hearts were really purified of the leaven that puff- eth up, and all the pride of life 2 Mme. Swetchine. It is in the expansion of prosperity, it is in the dilation of the heart, and of the influence of its softening into festivity and pleasure that the real character of men is discerned ; if there be any good in them it appears then or never. Burke. To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or at all events a moderate amount of it, is required ; just as sun- shine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots. Aleacander Smith. PROSPEFITY. A weak mind sinks under prosperity as well as under adversity ; a strong and deep one has two highest tides—when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon. J. C. Hare. The temptations of prosperity insinuate them- selves after a gentle but very powerful manner ; so that we are but little aware of them, and less able to withstand them. F. Atterbury. Prosperity bears the three grapes of drunken- ness, pleasure, and Sorrow ; and happy is it if the last can cure the mischief which the former work. When afflictions fail to have their due effect the case is desperate. Lord Bolingbroke. During our prosperity and while things flow agreeably to our desire, we ought with great care to avoid pride and arrogance ; for as it discovers weakness not to bear adversity with equanimity, so also with prosperity. Equanimity in every Condition of life is a noble attribute. Cicero. Prosperity inspires an elevation of mind even in the mean-spirited, so that they show a certain de- gree of high-mindedness and chivalry in the lofty position in which fortune has placed them ; but the man who possesses real fortitude and magna- nimity, will show it by the dignity of his behavior under losses, and in the most adverse fortune. Plutarch. Prosperity, like a fair gale upon a strong cur- rent, carries a man in a trice out of the very sight of peace and quiet ; and if it be not tempered and regulated, it is so far from aiding us, that it proves an Oppression to us; a busy, and a fortunate man in the world calls many men his friends, that are at most but his guests; and if people flock to him, it is but as they do to a fountain which they both ex- haust and trouble. Seneca. PROTECTION. We are secure under God's protection. Fletcher. * God will protect those whose sword protects His religion. An-Nashi. Protection from wild beasts is easy, but not from evil men. Al-Khattábi. It is safer to be attacked by some men than to be protected by them. Colton. The protection of God cannot without sacrilege be invoked but in behalf of justice and right. Kosswth. They who protected the weakness of our infancy are entitled to our protection in their old age. - - G. Crabb. If the weak might find protection from the mighty, they could not with justice lament their Condition. - Swift. If any government cannot protect the lives and property of its citizens, I prophecy it will soon be Overthrown. Joseph Smith. The first and supreme law, that of nature her- self, is for those who wish to be protected to as- sume as governor him who is most able to protect them. Plutarch. 742 * AX A Y’.S C O Z Z. A C O AV. PROVERBS. There is wit in using a proverb. S. T. Coleridge. No man of fashion uses a proverb. Chesterfield. Proverbs are abridgments of wisdom. Joubert. A proverb is a wise saying often repeated. F. Nunez. A proverb is a wise saying without an author. John Gregg. A proverb should possess truth, wit, and brevity. Cadog. Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. Rist. A proverb should have shortness, sense, and salt. J. B. Jeter. A proverb is much matter decocted into few words. Dr. Fuller. A proverb is a wise saying, old yet radiant with novelty. Erasmus. A proverb is the wit of one man, and the wisdom of many. Earl Russell. The wisest men of all ages have been writers of proverbs. T. Cartwright. Proverbs are short sentences drawn from a long experience. Cervantes. Proverbs are like arrows ; they fly not only fast but straight. H. W. Shaw. If you would know the minds of the people, study the nation's proverbs. Bishop Andrews. The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are dis- covered in its proverbs. Lord Bacon. A proverb should be like a bee ; have a small body, honey, and a sting. Martial. Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the dia- mond districts of the mind. W. R. Alger. Proverbs embody the current and practical phi- losophy of an age or nation. W. Fleming. Proverbs are maxims of the vulgar, and max- ims are proverbs of the genteel. D. Bowhowrs. Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct. W. T. Brande. Proverbs are the sententious speeches of authen- tic authors, or the usual phrases begot by custom. Wits' Commonwealth. The useful notions which many ill-worded pro- verbs do import, compensate for their homely terms. J. Ray. Great preachers, such as have found the way to the universal heart of their fellows, have been ever the great employers of proverbs. Archbishop Trench. Those pithy sentences, which as proverbs, apo- thegms, and axioms, have descended to us from remote antiquity, may be regarded as extracts from the unwritten wisdom of accumulated ages. Jeremy Taylor. PFOVERBS. My notion of a proverb in brief is this ; a short sentence or phrase in common use, containing some trope, figure, homonymy, rhyme, or other movity of expression. H. G. Bohm. Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification ; like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions. R. W. Emerson. When several wise men have drawn some con- clusion from experience and observation, a man of wit condenses it into a short pithy saying, which obtains currency as a proverb. R. Whately. Proverbs serve not only for ornament and de- light, but also for active and civil use ; as being the edge-tools of speech, which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs. Lord Bacon. Proverbs are the happier foundlings of a nation's wit, which like other foundlings could give no ac- count of themselves, but which the collective na- tion has refused to let perish, and taken up and adopted as its own. R. C. Trench. The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy : collect and learn them ; they are notable measures and directions for hu- man life : you have much in little ; they save time in speaking ; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answers. W. Pennºn. The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men ; and they are his proverbs that prove him so. The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. R. Sowth. We are not generally to expect any connection, either of sense or sentences, in the book of Pro- verbs. Other parts of Scripture are like a rich mine, where the precious ore runs along in one continued vein ; but this is like a heap of pearls, which, because they are loose and unstrung, are not therefore the less excellent and valuable. Bishop Hopkins. Considering how great a place proverbs hold in human language—how, great a part they act in human life—it was to be expected that the Holy Spirit would use that instrument among others, in conveying the mind of God to men. Proverbs, like hymns and histories, are both in human life and in the Bible—in the Bible, because they are in human life. Rev. W. Arnot. Proverbs existed before books ; they embrace the wide sphere of human existence, they take all the colors of life, they are often exquisite strokes of genius, they delight by their airy Sarcasm or their caustic satire, the luxuriance of their humor, the playfulness of their turn, and even by the ele- gance of their imagery, and the tenderness of their sentiment ; they give a deep insight into domestic life, and open for us the heart of man, in all the various states which he may occupy ; a frequent review of proverbs should enter into our readings; and although they are no longer the ornaments of conversation, they have not ceased to be the trea- suries of thought. I. Disraeli. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 743 PROVIDENCE. Learn to wait on Providence. W. Bradford. Providence is to be trusted, not tempted. Bowes. Trust in Providence, and—“keep your powder dry.” Cromwell. The providence of God is the true Christian's hope. Salvianws. God's providence is the surest and best inheri- tance. J. F. Ducis. Men fight, but it is Providence that giveth the victory. Gigot Elbee. There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Shakspeare. We ought never to distrust the providence of the Almighty. T. Chalkley. Whatever you do, trust in Providence, and also in yourself. Rev. Dr. Mellor. It is vain for man to contend with the will of Providence. Herodotus. We must wait with patience the workings of an overruling Providence. T. Jefferson. He that will watch Providence shall never want a Providence to watch. J. Flavel. In vain do poor, purblind mortals speculate of the doings of Providence. C. Shrimpton. All providences to a gracious heart are but so many fulfillments of promises. J. Beadle. What we call the course of nature should often be termed the way of Providence. M. Henry. God’s providences sometimes hide Him from us, and yet. He works in wisdom and goodness. Keach. They be right infidels that care not for their own families, nor have a providence for to-morrow. W. Wood. All God's providences are but His touch of the strings of the great instrument of the world. S. Charnock. We shall never go wrong if we follow the provi- dence before us, and take the promise with us. Rev. C. Buck. It is to Divine Providence that I stand indebted, and I am content to trust my life to His protecting hand. Alexander II of Russia. Rather than impute our miscarriages to our own corruption, we do not stick to arraign Providence itself. L’Estrange. The man who throws his plans into the current of Divine Providence, will never want room to float his hull. H. W. Beecher. Learn not to dispute the methods of God's provi- dence; and humbly and implicitly to acquiesce in and adore them. F. Atterbury. The Divine Providence singles out particular na- tions, and perhaps even individual men, to carry on the slow and mysterious system of the world. Dord Erskine. PROVIDENCE. God's providences, like a stick in the water, may look crooked to us here, but we will see in heaven that they were straight. A. Ritchie. The events of Providence appear to us very much like the letters thrown into a post-bag, and then sent forth on its destination. McCosh. Over-shadowing Providence blinds the sharpest and most admired counsels of the wise, that they cannot discern their nakedness. Hermes. Providence certainly does not attend merely to the interests of individuals, but the profound wis- dom of its counsels extends to the right ordering and betterment of all. Humboldt. The promiscuous and undistinguishing distribu- tion of good and evil which was necessary for car- rying on the designs of Providence in this life, will be rectified in another. Addison. The hand of Providence writes often by abbre- viation, hieroglyphics or short characters, which, like the laconism on the wall, are not to be made out but by a hint or key from that spirit which in- dited them. Sir W. Browne. It must be owned that we are not able to account for the method of Divine Providence in many in- stances ; and whosoever is not abandoned of all modesty, must readily acknowledge that it is rea- sonable it should be so. Rev. J. Bradford. Providence is an intellectual knowledge, both foreseeing, caring for, and Ordering all things, and doth not only behold all past, all present, and all to come, but is the cause of their being so provided, which prescience is not. Sir W. Raleigh. Particular providence is that Divine interference and control which is required by the exigencies of moral government ; this theory maintains that God is directly or indirectly, actively or permis- sively, concerned in every event. C. G. Finney. Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in the clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity. R. W. Emerson. Providence is a wind which never whirls about. The breath of God's Spirit, and the strength of God’s purpose are steadily wafting our world, and all the worlds, in one mighty convoy toward God's appointed haven in the distant future. J. Hamilton. Our views of Providence are now partial and superficial ; we judge too much by the appearance and present effect of things: but in the future life we shall enjoy a clearer understanding of them, and see more into the reasons and connections of them. J. Bate. Divine Providence tempers His blessings to se- cure their better effect : He keeps our joys and our fears on an even balance, that we may neither presume nor despair ; by such composition, God is pleased to make both our crosses more tolerable and enjoyments more wholesome and safe. William Wogan. 744 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AW. PROVIDENCE. It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand ; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth. Seneca. If there be not a God of Providence who minis- ters to my daily individual wants, and prescribes for me the discipline of my life—a God who hears me when I cry to Him, and holds immediate rela- tions with every moment of my life, so far as I am concerned, there is no God at all. J. G. Holland. The decrees of Providence are inscrutable ; in spite of every man's short-sighted endeavors to dis- pose of events according to his own wishes and his own purposes, there is an intelligence beyond his reason, which holds the scale of justice and pro- motes his well-being, in spite of his puny efforts. J. Morier. What a strange providence that a mother should be taken in the midst of life from her children | Was it Providence 2 No 1 Providence had assigned her three score years and ten—a term long enough to rear her children ; but she did not obey the laws on which life depends, and of course, she lost it. Miss Sedgwick. Providence hath with a bountiful hand prepared a variety of pleasures for the various stages of life. It behooves us not to be wanting to ourselves in forwarding the intention of nature, by the culture Of Our minds, and a due preparation of each faculty for the enjoyment of those objects it is capable of being affected with. Dr. Johnson. The providence, or government of the Lord, which is veiled in the present and the future that it may not interfere with free-will, but is clearly discernable in the past, extends to every period of man's life ; and in all appointments and permis- sions has for its end the salvation and everlasting happiness of his soul. W. Rogers. Divine Providence is remarkable in ordering that a fog and a tempest never did nor can meet together in nature ; for as soon as a fog is fixed the tempest is allayed ; and as soon as a tempest doth arise the fog is dispersed. This is a great mercy : for otherwise such small boats and barges, which want the conduct of the card and compass, would irrecoverably be lost. T. Fuller. To make our reliance upon Providence both pious and rational, we should, in every great en- terprise we take in hand, prepare all things with that care, diligence, and activity, as if there were no such thing as Providence for us to depend upon: and again, when we have done all this, we should as wholly and humbly rely upon it, as if we had made no preparations at all. R. Sowth. We are too apt to forget our actual dependence on Providence for the circumstance of every in- stant. The most trivial events may determine our state in the world ; turning up one street instead of another, may bring us in company with a per- son whom we should not otherwise have met ; and this may lead to a train of other events which may determine the happiness or misery of our lives. Rev. R. Cecil. PROVIDENCE. As the great Author of the universe created no- thing in vain, Surely he must be an unconscious observer of nature that does not discover in every walk, and everywhere, the goodness of An all-Wise Providence, in clothing the fields with verdure, and the earth with beauties innumerable, for the support of animated nature, all tending to the ad- vancement of our thoughts to that Being who created them. Ashford. Some dispensations and turns of Divine Provi- dence may be compared to the main-spring or capital wheels of a watch, which have a more visi- ble, sensible, and determining influence upon the whole tenor of our lives ; but the more ordinary occurrences of every day, are at least pins and pivots, adjusted, timed, and suited with equal ac- curacy, by the hand of the same great Artist who planned and executes the whole. Sir I. Newton. Each one of us has a stewardship somewhere in the great social system, and some gift qualifying him for it : and if he will but consult faithfully the intimations of God's providence, he will not be long before he discovers what it is ; it may be that we are called to very humble duties—duties very low down in the social scale ; still even they are held from God, and constitute a stewardship ; and the one talent which qualifies us for them will have to be accounted for as much as if it were ten tal- ents. Rev. E. M. Goulburn. The general providence of God can be nothing more than the aggregate of His special or particu- lar providence ; hence, to disbelieve in special providences, is to disbelieve in the general provi- dence of God. To disbelieve in the latter, is to de- ny the attributes of God, and consequently to deny Him, which is atheism. The converse of the propo- sition is equally true, namely, to believe in special Providence is to believe in general providence, and so in God; the logic is incontrovertible, the con- clusions must be accepted. R. Montgomery. Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of what might be—a psychological ro- mance of possibilities and things that do not hap- pen ; by going out a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend at a corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning down this street instead of the other, we may let slip some great occasion of good, or avoid some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution to the dark enigma but the one word “Providence.” Longfellow. By the providence of God, generally speaking, is meant His care for every object of nature ; so that His power is uninterruptedly exercised in up- holding, controlling, and directing every person and everything, rendering all subservient to His glory, and the accomplishment of His wise, holy, gracious, merciful, and righteous purposes; as He is everywhere present in all the perfection of His nature, nothing escapes the observation of His eye, and nothing takes place but by His agency, His appointment, or His permission for every crea- ture is at His disposal. T. Jackson. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 745 PRUDENCE. Prudence is a good doctor. A. W. Iſland. Prudence conduces to safety. J. Kay. A prudent man is always safe. + Niptaivaih. Prudent pauses, forward business. A. Liguori. Prudence considers self, charity others. H. Immes. Prudence is a cold word to give to the poor. Rev. C. Isham. I love prudence very little, if it be not moral. Jowbert. You conquer better by prudence than by pas- sion. Publiws Syrus. Prudence is but craft that commands an unfaith- ful silence. Hannah More. How completely blessed is prudence in a good disposition. - Diphilus. Prudence knows how to subdue misfortune, how- ever heavy. Calderon. Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and to be avoided. Cicero. An over-stock of prudence is always fatal to the cause of benevolence. Acton. The mature, but laborious fruits of prudence are always slowly produced. Vawven argues. A prudent man will not attack a tiger unarmed, or cross a river without a boat. Confucius. Prudence is as much superior to the other vir- tues as sight is to the other senses. Biom. Prudence is an ability of judging what is best in the choice both of ends and means. H. Grove. No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence. Juvenal. Prudence is the safest fortification; for it can neither fall to pieces nor be betrayed. Antisthenes. The prudence which should attend gray hairs, does not necessarily come with them. Bolton. Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers. Fleming. Prudence and love are inconsistent ; in propor- tion as the last increases the other decreases. Rochefoucauld. Prudence consists in living honestly ; in keeping the laws, and in maintaining a proper decorum. Goldomi. Without a prudent determination in matters be- fore us, we shall be plunged into perpetual errors. I. Watts. Prudence and forethought are the origin of much that is good, if they be applied to a proper object. Memonder. Experience has shown that whoever first uttered the proverb was right when he said, “Fortune is the constant attendant on the wise and prudent.” Euripides. | PRUDENCE. Prudence enables us to see what is proper, use- ful, discreet, and necessary, in regard to all things. Matilda Fletcher. Prudent men lock up their motives, letting fa- miliars have a key to their hearts, as to their gar- den. Shemstone. The man who speakš with prudence, do not think him to be tedious, though he speaks much and long. Philemom. Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the vir- tues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. Jeremy Collier. Prudence and good breeding are in all stations necessary ; and most young men suffer in the want of them. J. Locke. Prudence is a virtue of the soul, nay, the very soul of virtue, the mistress to guide the life in goodness. T. Adams. Expect not even from prudence infallible suc- cess ; for the day knoweth not what the night may bring forth. S. Austin. Almost all difficulties may be got the better of by prudent thought, revolving and pondering much in the mind. Marcellinºws. Men, when misfortunes threaten, are very apt to lose that prudence by which they might have been averted. Gwicciardini. Happy is he who learns prudence from the dan- ger of others ; as he does not purchase it by per- sonal suffering. - Plautus. Prudence is principally in reference to actions to be done, and due means, Order, reason, and method of doing and not doing. Sir M. Hale. The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and ac- clamation cannot exhilarate. Dr. Johnsom. Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue ; nor is there on earth a more powerful ad- vocate for vice than poverty. Goldsmith. Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done under the various cir- cumstances of time and place. Milton. Prudent and active men, who know their strength, and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world. Goethe. Prudence supposes the value of the end to be as- sumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means ; it is the relation of right means for given ends. Whewell. If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts. Bwrke. The rules of prudence in general, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibi- tive : “thou shalt not,” is their characteristic for- mula ; and it is an especial part of Christian pru- dence that it should be so. S. T. Coleridge. —— 746 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. PRUDENCE. PSALMS. The richest endowments of the mind are temper- ance, prudence, and fortitude; prudence is a uni- versal virtue, which enters into the composition of all the rest ; and where she is not, fortitude loses its name and nature. Voitwire. Superior prudence gives an additional stimulus to courage; and the man who is in difficulties trusts less to hopes, which may deceive him, than to a wise judgment, the foresight of which enables him to guard against disappointments. Thucydides. One grain of prudence is of more value than a cranium crowded with unbridled genius, or a flow- ing stream of vain wit ; it is the real ballast of human life ; without it dangers gather thick and fast around the frail bark of man, and hurry him on to destruction. L. C. Judson. Prudence is a conformity to the rules of reason, truth, and decency, at all times and in all circum- stances ; it differs from wisdom only in degree : wisdom being nothing but a more consummate habit of prudence, and prudence a lower degree or weaker habit of wisdom. J. Mason. Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neg- lect it, we are not to wonder if the world is defi- cient in discharging their duty to us; for when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others too often are apt to build upon it. Fielding. Prudence has always in it a great mixture of caution, hinders a man from being so fortunate as he might possibly have been without it. A person who only aims at what is likely to succeed, and follows closely the dictates of human prudence, never meets with those great and unforeseen suc- cesses, which are often the effect of a more san- guine temper or a more happy rashness. Addison. PRUDERY. Prudery is ignorance. Goldsmith. |Prudery is better than shamelessness. Seneca. Prudery proceeds either from vanity or hypo- crisy. Pawl H. Hayme. Prudery is often immodestly modest : its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fort- ress is less threatened. G. D. Prentice. Prudery affects false character, in order to pur- chase applause, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues. Fielding. Prudes generally possess mild voices and pleasing looks, and appear like saints or angels ; and some affect to undervalue and condemn the very things which they most highly estimate and desire to possess. Acton. Prudery is the innocence of the vicious—external sanctimony, assumed as a cover for internal laxity. Whenever we smell musk or other pungent per- fumes, we may fairly suspect that the wearer must have some strong effluvium to conquer and where we observe a Pharisaical display of prudery and piety, we shall seldom err in pronouncing that it is the disguise of some wolf in sheep's clothing. Chatfield. adapted to the purposes of devotion. Sing psalms to the glory of God. St. Damasus. What is there necessary for man to know which the Psalms are not able to teach 3 R. Hooker. It is better to sing the psalms of God's people than chant the bloody Songs of war. J. Nakmosoo. The Book of Psalms is an epitome of the Bible, G. Horne. The Psalms are the singing groves, the tinkling rills, the pastures green of the Bible. J. Hamilton. The first Psalm conveys the blessing of God to man ; the last psalm conveys the blessing of man to God. Dr. Davies. The Book of Psalms is a common shop of reme- dies, a compendium of all divinity, a storehouse of excellent doctrine for all persons and in all condi- tions. St. Basil. O marvellous wonder many who have made but little progress in literature, nay, who have scarcely mastered its first principles, have the Psalter by heart. St. Chrysostom. In the Psalms we find the thrilling language of religious emotion—language which has rendered the human heart this book the everlasting psalm- ody of mankind Dr. Adler. The Psalms are the manna of the church; as manna tasted to every man like that he liked best, so do the Psalms minister instruction and Satisfac- tion to every man, in every emergency and Occa- Sion. J. Domme. The psalmody of the Church is her purest obla- tion of gratitude to her God and King, an oblation that was presented under the ancient dispensation, and that has survived all its other sacrifices—the fruit of the lips, by which we give thanks to His Ila,I\le. Rev. J. Ker. The Psalms of David translated into rude verse, but full of fire and spirit, formed the war songs of the Reformation, aud gave to poetry, which had hitherto been considered only as an inferior pastime for the leisure of the castle and the court, somewhat of an enthusiastic and serious tone. A. F. Villemain. The singing of psalms and hymns is in strict con- formity with primitive custom, as this was founded on our Lord's example, who sung a hymn with His apostles, previous to their going out to the Mount of Olives. The apostles followed the same practice; and St. James advises all believers when- ever they are merry to sing psalms. Prwen. God speaks still. Listen There are the psalms; you have heaved these very sighs; this horror of self, you too have experienced it ; these doubts of the truth, this dread of the grave, this ignorance of God's ways, this insane condemning of His acts —all this is indeed yours. Here, now, are hymns of triumph ; faith has returned, grace is once more possessed, joy descends in floods; this is equally familiar to you, and this is of God; it is still the eternal encounter of the heart of man with the heart of the Father Always light will break forth, always joy will spring from such a contact as this. Mme. de Gasparin. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 747 PUBLIC. PULPIT. Let the public decide a question of merit. Rubens. The pulpit is the minister's joy. G. Herbert. Public men are servants of many masters. Hull. The public is wiser than the wisest of critics. G. Bamoroft. The public good is to be preferred to private ad- vantage. J. Ilive. Public sentiment signifies the common march of good men's thoughts. H. W. Beecher. The public the public how many fools are re- quired to make up a public Chamfort. The will of the public is of so great authority that it needs no reason for the validity of its acts. Pope Pius IX. To stick at nothing for the public interest is re- presented as the refined part of Venetian wisdom. Addison. He who serves the public is a poor animal : he worries himself to death, and no one thanks him for it. * Goethe. * The public is a body very much like that which assembles round a dinner table, and the wise host will cater for all. Bettina vom Arnim, In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. Washington. Public opinion may be defined, the certainty which every one feels of finding his own sentiment the sentiment of all—the mutual support which minds that are dubious, so long as they are isolated, imbibe from a contiguity of ideas. T. Baldwim. It is more serviceable to the public to speak elo- quently, provided it is with prudence, than to think ever so accurately, if it be destitute of elo- quence ; for thought terminates in itself, whereas eloquence embraces all those with whom we are united in the society of life. Cicero. In common life, we may observe that the cir- cumstance of utility is always appealed to ; nor is it supposed that a greater eulogy can be given to any man than to display his usefulness to the pub- lic, and to enumerate the services which he has performed to mankind and to Society. Hwme. The interest of the public ought always to super- sede every private consideration, as what is eternal is to be preferred to what is mortal ; and a man of true generosity will study in what manner to ren- der his benefaction most advantageous, rather than how he may bestow it with least expense. Pliny the Yownger. It is to be feared, indeed, that society would fare but ill if none did service to the public except in proportion as they possessed the rare moral and intellectual endowment of enlightened public spi- rit ; for such a spirit, whether in the form of pat- riotism or that of philanthropy, implies not merely benevolent feelings stronger than, in fact, we com- monly meet with, but also powers of abstraction beyond what the mass of mankind can possess. R. Whately. The pulpit is certainly not a place for contro- versy, but for instruction. S. T. Coleridge. The pulpit is a clergyman's parade ; the parish is his field of active service. R. Southey. That is the best pulpit, whatever it be made of, that holds the most faithful minister. Cumming. It is shocking to fall into hell from under the pulpit ; how much more so from out of the pulpit ! Gºwrmall. The pulpit is to the congregation as a great ar- mory, and the congregation themselves as soldiers. J. S. Knoac. The pulpit is the Thermopylae of Protestantism, the tower of the flock, the palladium of the Church of God. C. H. Spwrgeon. O for a stalwart pulpit ! a pulpit muscular with the strength of strong men, a pulpit to shake the land, and be itself unshaken. T. Tilton. Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking to reading ; a practice of itself sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence. Sidney Smith. The pulpit is a place worthy of the highest talent and the holiest piety ; it is a place fit even for an angel's intellect and a seraph's fire. Dr. Gwthrie. The continual droppings from the pulpit make an impression, for good or evil, in the hearts of the millions that come under them. T. Pearson. The pulpit, although abused and villified, pos- sesses immense power, because it is honored, and influenced, and swayed by the Almighty. Rev. J. M. Douglas. In pulpit eloquence the grand difficulty lies here —to give the subject all the dignity it so fully de- serves, without attaching any importance to our- selves. Colton. Dignity of expression the pulpit requires in a high degree : nothing that is mean or grovelling, no low or vulgar phrases ought on any account to be admitted. H. Blair. Genius of the highest order, fresh, untramelled, and free, seldom finds its way into the pulpit, and not unfrequently looks out of place when it gets there ; it is always out of place when it gets there when the place is only a subservient one. Hood. I study and prepare for the pulpit as if there were no Holy Ghost to help me there, and when I enter upon my public work, I cast my prepara- tion at the feet of Jesus Christ, depending upon divine influence as much as if I had not premedi- tated. Rev. J. Longden. Men sacrifice the best part of themselves for what is called the dignity of the pulpit ; they are afraid to speak of common things—to introduce home matters; things of which men think and speak, and in which every day a part of their lives consist, are thought not to be of enough dignity for the pulpit. H. W. Beecher. 748 A) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. PULPIT. The pulpit indeed has lost somewhat of its su- premacy since the printing-press has become so active ; the printing-press addresses far greater congregations than the preacher; and if the latter, like Saul, has slain its thousands, the former, like David, may be said to have slain its tens of thou- Sands. . J. A. James. The time is happily gone by when the preacher used to enter the pulpit with great formality, a flushed countenance, and hair most carefully got up ; then place by his side a fine white handker- chief, sometimes of costly silk, which ever and anon he methodically passed over his face ; these airs no longer suit the times; the preacher now-a-days must not be engrossed with self, with his handker- chief, or his hair, or his surplice ; neither must he cause others to be taken up with such trifles ; in the pulpit the man should disappear, and the apos- tle alone be seen. Abbé Mullois. From the pulpit there should now and ever flow a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal ; hear- ers should be distinctly taught our grand verities— the Father's eternal love, the terms of the unfail- ing Covenant, the Son's perfect and finished work, the Spirit's indwelling, the beauty and simplicity and purport of our sacraments, the evidence of faith, the might of prayer, the delight of praise, the labor of love, the patience of hope, the loveli- ness of purity, the high walk of uprightness, the solemnity of worship, the happiness of godly life ; where such faithful teaching abounds there is no room for fear. Dean Law. PUN. - Punning is a low species of wit. N. Webster. He who would make a pun would pick a pocket. Dr. Johnsom. Those only despise the pun who cannot make OI)62. Talmage. . A pun can no more be engraven than it can be translated. Steele. A pun seldom regards meaning, being chiefly confined to sound. J. Harris. A pun, to be perfect in its kind, should contain two distinct meanings ; the one common and ob- vious, the other more remote. Sydney Smith. People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks ; they amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. F. O. W. Holmes. The seeds of punning are in the minds of all men ; and though they may be subdued by reason, reflection, and good sense, they will be very apt to shoot up in the greatest genius that is not broken and cultivated by the rules of art. Addison. Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears and falling upon the diaphragma, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart. J. Cardam. Q PUNCTUALITY. Punctuality is the soul of business. Franklin. Punctuality is the politeness of kings. Lowis XIV. If you desire to enjoy life avoid unpunctual peo- ple. D. M. Moir. Punctuality strengthens confidence and secures respect. Dowmey. Punctuality and perseverance are great helps in the way of business. Seba Smith. The trading part of mankind suffer by the want of punctuality in the dealings of persons above them. Steele. Some mechanics, excellent workmen and kind- hearted men, lose all their custom for want of punctuality. L. C. Judson. I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was never punctual to his appointments. N. Emmons. Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insig- nificant character. J. F. Boyes. If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality ; I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. Lord Burleigh. Method and punctuality are so little natural to man that where they exist they are commonly the effect of education or discipline. W. B. Clwlow. Nothing begets confidence in a man sooner than the practice of punctuality, and nothing shakes confidence sooner than the want of it. R. Trevor. Punctuality is one of the modes by which we testify our personal respect for those whom we are called upon to meet in the business of life. Smiles. I give it as my deliberate and solemn conviction that the individual who is not punctual in meeting an appointment, will never be respected or success- ful in life. Rev. W. Fisk. We should be prompt to the minute, no matter how unimportant the object, that we may acquire the excellent habit of punctuality, and do justice to those with whom we deal. Matilda Fletcher. Every child should be taught to pay all his debts, and to fulfill all his contracts, exactly in manner, completely in value, punctually at the time; every- thing he has borrowed, he should be obliged to return uninjured at the time specified, and every- thing belonging to others which he has lost, he should be required to replace. T. Dwight. Punctuality and exactness are always taken in a good sense ; they designate an attention to that which cannot be dispensed with ; they form a part of one's duty. Early habits of method and regu- larity will make a man very exact in the perform- ance of all his duties, and particularly punctual in his payments. Exactness has respect to our con- duct or what we do ; punctuality to the time and season of doing it. In our accounts, we should have exactness; in observing the hour or the day fixed upon, or the promise given, we should show punc- tuality. G. Crabb. , A A' O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 749 PUINISHIMIENT. Punishment restrains crime. Rev. J. Armstrong. Punish according to the crime. Emperor Adrian. Punishment should follow crime. Horace. Punishment is lame, but it comes. Erasmus. Punishment is the reward of crime. Bruyère. Who does not punish evil invites it. J. R. Quaim. Who punishes one threatens a hundred. Ramws. The fear of punishment makes virtue mercenary. Lord Shaftesbury. The time that precedes punishment is the severest part of it. - - Seneca. It is vain to punish the wicked unless you seek to reclaim them. John. Howard. Punishment, though slow in coming, is sure to come eventually. Tibullus. The state should endeavor to lessen the pain of capital punishment. J. I. Gwillotin. The seeds of our punishment are sown at the same time we commit sin. Hesiod. There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to One's self. P. Quesnel. Punishment is not only for those who do wrong, but for those who intend wrong. Periander. To show mercy when punishment ought to be in- flicted, is not charity but infirmity. St. Augustine. The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it. Cato. Frequency of punishment is always a sign of weakness or Supineness in a government. Rowsseaw. We call that punishment cruel which visits us without our doing an injury which deserves it. Henrietta Dwmont. The ends of punishment are three : to redress the injured, to reform the offender, and to deter others. Dr. Robert Hooper. Punishment is the recoil of crime, and the strength of the back-stroke is in proportion to the original blow. R. C. Tremch. The certainty of a small punishment will make a stronger impression than the fear of one more severe, if attended with the hopes of escaping. Beccaria. Experience has taught us that in countries where punishments are mild, the character of the citizen is affected by it, as it is elsewhere by severity. Montesquiew. Faults of the head are punished in this world, - those of the heart in another ; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment. Colton. If punishments are invented for the benefit of Society, they should be useful to society ; but a man is not good for anything after he is hanged. Voltaire. PUINISHMENT. Punishments are not intended to torment the guilty, but to prevent crime through the fear of incurring them. M. Robespierre. . It is for the general good of all that punishment should overtake the wicked, and that the virtuous should enjoy happiness. Euripides. All modes of punishment which treat men as we treat brutes, are as unphilosophical as they are thoughtless, cruel, and vindictive. A. Collins. Even legal punishments lose all appearance of justice, when too strictly inflicted on men com- pelled by the last extremity of distress to incur them. - Junius. The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne ; and that every one that has lost a toe-nail has suffered WOl'Sé. W. S. Landor. If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame. Confucius. Every example of punishment has in it some tincture of injustice, but the sufferings of indivi- duals are compensated by the promotion of the public good. Tacitus. There is one punishment of evil doers which is seldom considered ; it is the misery of being left to suppose others possessed of the same evil disposi- tions as themselves. H. Hooker. We must take care that crimes are not more severely punished than they deserve, and that one should not be punished for a fault, respecting which another is not even called in question. Cicero. When the anger of the gods inflicts punishment on any one, they first deprive him of every right feeling, and divert his mind into a wrong channel, so that he has no longer any idea of the crimes that he has committed. * Lycurgus. There is within the human breast, a moral sense, a feeling that there is a right and wrong in human actions, and that all are under obligations to do the right, and under penalty of deserved punishment, to refrain from the wrong. Mrs. Willard. We will not punish a man because he hath of fended, but that he may offend no more ; nor does punishment ever look to the past, but to the future; for it is not the result of passion, but that the same thing may be guarded against in time to come. Seneca. There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves ; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it. T. Moore. Respecting punishment, we may surely say that which the case warrants; in grief and misery, death is a reprieve from the sorrows of life, not a punishment ; it puts a termination to all the ills of mankind ; beyond the grave there is room for neither care nor joy. Sallust. 750 JD A Y'S CO Z / A C O AV. PUNISHMENT. A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility ; and from humility springs that bene- volence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime. Jane Porter. I am by no means for punishing boys who are learning ; in the first place, because the practice is unseemly and slavish ; and in the next place if the boy's genius is so dull as to be proof against re- proach, he will, like a worthless slave, become in- sensible to blows likewise. Qwintiliam. Disproportionate punishments are attended with five evils: they deter prosecutors from coming for- ward ; they draw attention to the crime ; awaken pity for the criminal ; excite hatred of the law ; and occasion the magnitude of the temptation to the offense to be measured by the magnitude of the punishment. Chatfield. God punishes, not on every occasion as a mortal man, who is quick in temper; whoever commits transgression is not altogether forgotten, but in every case is found out at last. He punishes one immediately, another at a later period ; if they escape an approaching fate does not come hastily upon them, it comes in every case at last : either their children or their distant posterity suffer for their deeds, though themselves be guiltless. Solom. Man need not plunge into the kingdom of darkness for etermal punishments and rewards ; he finds enough of them in his own planet. Man need not speculate upon other worlds as the abode of the Deity ; he finds Him in his own. Let him consult his experience in his search into nature ; there he may listen to His advice. His expectation of other worlds belongs to his pure intelligence, exemplified in hope, in his conviction of the etermal principles of justice. Sir R. Maltravers. PURGATORY. There is a purgatory. Smariws. We know there is a purgatory from the Holy Scripture, and from the tradition of the Church. J. Deharbe. All that I know of purgatory is, that souls are there in a state of suffering, and may be relieved by our works and prayers. Lwther. Purgatory is one of the few inventions of priest- craft that almost deserves to be true ; for a me- dium was wanting between the two extremes of perdition and salvation. Chatfield. Purgatory is inhabited by suicides, extravagant lovers, and ambitious warriors—in a word, by all those who had indulged the violence of their pas- sions, which made them rather wretched than wicked. W. Warburton. All souls that have not made satisfaction for their sins while they lived, though all those sins were remitted, so that they never shall go to hell, but at last shall go to heaven, yet they shall in the other state undergo a grievous punishment in a certain kind of prison which they call purgatory, for so long time till they be perfectly purged of their sins. J. Sharp. PURITANISM. The political Puritans maintained the highest principles of civil liberty. Hume. The Puritans planted in their hearts the undying principles of democratic liberty. G. Bancroft. The Puritans were rather more than perpendicu- lar in their gravity and moral uprightness. Seba Smith. The Puritans bore away with them all England had ever known of political or religious freedom. C. E. Lester. The Puritans were men whose minds had de- rived a peculiar character from the daily contem- plation of superior beings and eternal interests. T. B. Macawlay. Wherever virtue resists temptation, wherever men meet death for religion's sake, wherever the gilded baseness of the world stands abashed before conscientious principle, there will be the spirit of the Puritans. E. P. Whipple. It is not to be regretted that the austerity and gloom which pervaded the character of the Puri- tans has entirely disappeared ; but it is to be re- gretted that so much which was truly religious should have fled along with it. G. B. Cheever, Out of darkness sprung the beauty of light : Out of chaos came forth order ; out of corruption arose purity ; and amid the troubles and persecutions of a bigoted age, the Nonconformists had their ori- gin, and were known as the Puritans. J. Linem. We may censure Puritanism as we please ; and no one of us, I suppose, but would find it a very rough, defective thing. But we, and all men, may understand that it was a genuine thing ; for na- ture has adopted it, and it has grown, and grows. T. Carlyle. Deride not him whom the looser world calls Pu- ritan, lest thou offend a little one ; if he be a hypo- crite, God that knows him will reward him ; if zealous, that God that loves him will revenge him ; if he be good, he is good to God's glory ; if evil, let him be evil at his own charges; he that judges shall be judged. F. Quarles. The Puritan ideas were not seen to be of much value when they were first made known; they were like lands left by a father to infant children, which, when the children are of age, have become so valuable as to enrich them all. When the Puri- tan died, the property had not appreciated ; but since then it has risen in value so that we have built this nation with it ; and still it has not run out, at least in the northern part of the country. H. W. Beecher. Much of that humor which transported the last century with merriment is lost to us, who do not know the sour solemnity, the sullen superstition, the gloomy moroseness, and the stubborn scruples of the ancient Puritans; or if we know them, derive our information only from books or from tradition, and cannot understand the lines in which they are satirized. Our grandfathers knew the picture from the life ; we judge of the life by contemplating the picture. Dr. Johnsom. A A' O S E Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 7 5 I PURITY. Persevere in purity. CEcolampadius. Purity is true holiness. S. Hopkins. Purity of mind alone is virtue. Gautama. God looks to pure and not to full hands. Publius Syrus. We taste nothing in its purity in this world. RowsSeaw. Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. J. C. Hare. Purity is as necessary to the mind as breath to the body. Horace Greeley. Unless the vessel be pure, whatever you put into it will turn sour. Horace. A woman with her husband is pure always, with another man, never. Theamo. Declare not that pure which is impure, nor that impure which is pure. Talmvwal. Avoid all companionship with those whose con- versation lacks purity. Mrs. Willard. |Unnecessarily to deny ourselves of things lawful is not purity but prudery. Memcints. Resemble the waters of the ocean, and become purer by your own action. W. Wirt. God has not a more fitting abode upon earth than a pure and unblemished mind. Demophilus. Would we keep our hearts pure, the very ap- pearance of evil must be shunned. P. C. Baker. Providence allows only such creatures as are pure, long to remain among mankind. St. Bernard. How difficult is purity to the pure | A little pollen is enough to rob the lily of its whiteness. Swetchine. When purity has marked from the outset the progress of an old man's life, the greatest glory will crown its end. Magoon. The really pure are they who, in strong trial and temptation, have overcome evil—evil that may have stained the life. T. S. Arthwºr. Pure gold does not object to being tested ; it is the impure that considers such proceedings useless or derogatory to its character. E. P. Day. Truth hath become so mingled with error, that microscopic observation can scarcely discover even the remains of original purity. James Limen. If a single act of purity deserves our regard, with what awe should we adore the holiness of Him, in whose sight the heavens are unclean Wayland. Purity has its seat in the heart, but extends its influence over so much of the outward conduct, as to form a great and material part of the charac- ter. L. Mwrray. Of all the things pure, purity in the acquisition of riches is the best. He who preserves his purity in becoming rich, is really pure and not he who is purified with earth and water. Memw. PURITY. Storm and tempest purify the atmosphere ; pen- ury and disappointment purify the moral atmos- phere of the soul. Dowmey. Purity of life, which refuseth the corrupt plea- sures of the flesh, is only possessed of those who keep their body pure and undefiled. T. Ittig. Purity of mind and habit is essential to vigor of body, manliness of soul, the greatest force of thought, and the longest duration of life. De Vere. Purity is the freedom of anything from foreign admixture ; but more particular it signifies the temper directly opposite to criminal sensualities, or the ascendancy of irregular passions. C. Buck. See that each hour's feelings and thoughts and actions are pure and true ; then will your life be such. The wide pasture is but separate spears of grass ; the sheeted bloom of the prairies but iso- lated flowers. Celestia Colby. Whether man has ever been in a state of perfect purity has also been questioned. Poets have sung of a golden age, a purer state, from which we have degenerated ; but even this conception seems to have been remotely due to revelation. H. Winslow. Purity of heart is a trait of character which God's Spirit can alone produce ; it enables us to live without offending God, so as to maintain for us the permanent undiminished fullness of the divine approbation. When the heart is clean, the eye is clear. Dr. Whedon. God is for that man, and that man is for God, who carries about with him a pure heart ; heart purity makes a man the darling of heaven. Many affect pure language, pure houses, pure habits, pure hands, pure air, pure meat, pure drink, pure ges- tures, who yet, for want of purity of heart, shall never see the face of God in glory; heart purity speaks a man eternally happy. H. Brooke. All the influence which women enjoy in society —their right to the exercise of that maternal care which forms the first and most indelible species of education, the wholesome restraint which they possess over the passions of mankind, their power of protecting us when young, and cheering us when old—depend so entirely upon their personal purity, and the charm which it casts around them, that to insinuate a doubt of its real value is willfully to remove the broadest corner-stone on which civil society rests, with all its benefits and all its comforts. C. F. von Ammon. Live in purity, my child, through this fair life, pure from every vice and evil knowledge, as the lily lives in silent innocence, as the turtle-dove amid the branches, that thou, when the Father downward gazes, mayest be His beloved object on earth, as the eye of the unconscious wanderer gazes on the lovely star of even ; that thou, when the sun dissolves thee, mayest show thyself a pearl of purest whiteness, that thy thoughts may be like roses' perfume, that thy love may be like a glow- ing sunbeam, and thy life like shepherd's song of evening, like the tones his flute pours forth so softly. Schiller. 7 52 JJ A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. PUIRFOSE. Every man should have a purpose in life. Bias. To speak to a purpose, one must speak with a purpose. Bovee. The man without a purpose lives On, but he en- J. H. Friswell. The loftiest purposes have been effectually sub- served by temporal goods. Mime. Swetchine. joys not life. It is not eminent talent that is required to insure pursuit, so much as purpose. Smiles. Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our death-bed. J. Hall. Purpose is the edge and point of character ; it is the superscription on the letter of talent. Varro. The man who lives in vain lives worse than in vain ; he who lives to no purpose lives to a bad purpose. W. Nevins. Does life offer us, in regard to our ideal hopes and purposes, anything but a prosaic, unrhymed, unmetrical translation ? Richte?". To commit the execution of a purpose to one who disapproves of the plan of it, is to employ but one third of the man ; his heart and his head are against you, you have commanded only his hands. Colton. A man's purpose of life should be like a river, which was born of a thousand little rills in the mountains ; and when at last it has reached its manhood in the plain, all its mighty current flows changeless to the sea. H. W. Beecher. The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men—between the feeble and powerful, the great and insignificant—is ener- gy, invincible determination, a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory ! Sir T. F. Bulacton. The first great maxim of human conduct—that which it is all-important to impress on the under- Standings of young men and recommend to their hearty adoption—is, above all things, in all cir- cumstances, and under every emergency, to pre- Serve a clean heart and an honest purpose. Gaston. |PURSE}. Purse-pride is quarrelsome. J. Hall. He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it. J. Ray. The man with an empty purse can sing before the robber. Juvenal. That is but an empty purse that is full of other men's money. Al-Anabari. What is so hateful to a poor man as the purse- proud arrogance of a rich one Ž Steele. I can get no remedy against the consumption of the purse ; borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. Shakspeare. “A wrinkled purse brings a wrinkled face.” When our money bag is nearly empty, and full of wrinkles, care is apt to bring wrinkles in the face. R. Whately. PURSUIT. Give up a vain pursuit. Tsze-Yw. P. T. Barmwºm. In many pursuits we embark with pleasure, and land sorrowfully. L. Murray. The pursuit even of the best of things ought to be calm and tranquil. Horace. Pursue one thing at a time. In the pursuit of glory and honor, even bodily torture, death, and banishment are of little ac- COunt. Cicero. It is impossible for those who are engaged in low and groveling pursuits to entertain noble and gene- rous sentiments. Demosthemes. He only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being, who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action or useful art. Sallust. Let each follow his own pursuit without inter- ruption with others ; the sun and the moon, and stars pursue their separate course without collision with one another. Chwmg-Ne. There is but one pursuit in life, which is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that per- severes, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory ; and this is the pur- suit of virtue. Colton. Most persons relinquish their pursuit at the very moment when they are most bound to persevere ; they are already near the mouth of the cave, and if they would only press on a little further they would soon see daylight ; remember that it is the last blow that fells the tree. Magoon. PYRAIMID. The pyramids are memorialsofrudeart. Samson. The pyramids of Egypt may have been erected to the sun. N. Webster. The pyramids attest the divine revelation of the Scriptures. Wilkinson. The pyramids, doting with age, have forgotten their founders. T. Fuller. In building the pyramids the aim seems to have been to express grandeur rather than beauty. J. J. Winckelmann. Those colossal structures, the pyramids, that neither time nor men have been able to destroy, give an idea of the perfection to which the ancient Egyptians carried the arts. . R. Macoy. The pyramids were esteemed by the ancients as one of the seven wonders of the world, and most deservedly ; for it is impossible to look at these stupendous structures without being overwhelmed with a sense of their sublimity. J. R. M’Culloch. The pyramid is everything ; like a great mind, it overpowers all in its vicinity ; even the Nile be- comes insignificant ; as the mountains attract the clouds, so does the pyramid attract the thoughts, and make them revolve perpetually round it ; it is a wonderful sight when man gets up his creations in a kind of rivalship with eternity, as this old Cheops has done. Cowmtess of Hahn-Hahn. FRANCIS QUARLEG, P A O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 7 5 3 Q. QUACKERY. Quackery hath many slaves. Dr. Rush, Quackery calls its rivals quacks. C. Clayton. The only homest quack is a duck. E. P. Day. Quackery has no friend like gullibility. T. Immes. Were there no fools quacks would starve. Darley. Quacks do not practice among the poor alone. Sir J. Clarke. Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own. Cicero. We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison ; let the vendor prove it to be sanitive. T. B. Macawlay. Quacks abound like locusts, and too many have recommended themselves to a full practice and profitable subsistence. William Smith. Why are there no laws against quackery 2 Shall property be protected by innumerable statutes, and life and death be left at the mercy of every quack 3 Piomingo. It is better to have recourse to a quack, if he can cure our disorder, although he cannot explain it, than to a physician, if he can explain our disease, but cannot cure it. Colton. A student may devour countless volumes on ana- tomy, he may have learned his “materia medica” by heart, and yet be as dangerous a quack as the one who tries to practice what he has never learned. J. W. Barke?". Ordinary quacks and charlatans are thoroughly sensible how necessary it is to support themselves by collateral assistances, and therefore always lay claim to some supernumerary accomplishments which are wholly foreign to their profession. Dr. Johnson. A quack is one who professes to possess more knowledge than he really has, and promises more than he can perform ; but he who knows how to cure one particular disease, and actually does cure it, who promises and attempts no more, is no quack. L. F. Byrn. A quack physician puts you to death ; a quack lawyer puts the neighborhood by the ears; he ex- amines and pries into private concerns, and excites jealousy and suspicion, and stimulates to contro- versies, that he may find business and make gain. - T. Dwight. Heroes have gone out ; quacks have come in ; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century; the sceptre is held with a firmer grasp ; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another; in- deed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other. T. Carlyle. QUACKERY. He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises, is a puffer ; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary, is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants, is an impostOr. - Lavater. Those who have little or mo faith in the abilities of a quack, will apply themselves to him, either because he is willing to sell health at a reasonable profit, or because the patient, like a drowning man, catches at every twig, and hopes for relief from the most ignorant, when the most able physicians give him none. Z. Pearce. Fine horses and flunkeys in attendance give pro- fessional visits an air of importance, which with fools produces the desired effect ; some people think that there must be great skill and talent when blood-steeds bear the doctor in haste to the door of the patient ; this is the reason why brainless quacks frequently make fortunes, while the educated gen- tleman with all his scientific knowledge and expe- rience, can barely make a living. Quacks ought not to be allowed to practice medicine; they are merely the aiders and abettors of death. J. Linen. QUAKERISM. Quakerism is simple honesty. C. Love. Quakerism is not Christianity. S. H. Coac. Quakers seldom write books, never poetry. Oade. Quakers are a reproach to the church and the state. Roger Williams. Quakerism is beautiful : it is perfect, if it can endure. Frederick of Prussia. How happy must be a community instituted on the principles of the Quakers. Peter the Great, The Quakers are a people whom I cannot win with gifts, honors, offices, or places. O. Cromwell. If the spiritual pretensions of the Quakers have abated, at least they make few pretenses; hypo- . crites they certainly are not in their preaching. C. Lamb. The rise of the people called Quakers is one of the memorable events in the history of man ; it marks the moment when intellectual freedom was claimed unconditionally by the people as an in- alienable birthright. G. Bancroft. The Quakers first called themselves Seekers, from their seeking the truth ; but afterwards assumed the appellation of Friends ; the term Quakers was an epithet of reproach, given them by their ene- mies. Their “benevolence, moral rectitude, and commercial punctuality, have excited and long secured to them very general esteem ; and it has been observed that in the multitudes that compose the legion of vagrants and street beggars, not a single Quaker can be found.” J. W. Barber. 48 754 A) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. QUALITY. Quality without virtue is elevated filth. Droz. Quality without quantity is little thought Of. Sir T. Hope. All good qualities are not united in One person. Ar-Rabi. Our good qualities often expose us to hatred and persecutions. H. H. Wilson. Men, like plants, have secret qualities which are left to time and circumstances to discover. Liguori. Who can give qualities to men, when they have not brought the germ with them into the world 2 G. Forster. To be of noble parentage, and not to be endowed with noble qualities, is rather a defamation than a glory. R. Dodsley. Hearts may be attracted by assumed qualities, but the affections are only to be fixed by those which are real. De Moy. It is right to love all the virtues and noble quali- ties that can belong to us, but it is wrong to be- lieve them good simply because they are our own. Magoon. Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities. - Colton. The qualities destined to subserve the happiness of others, remain too often idle, and self-centred, like charming letters, which have never been sent. Mme. Swetchine. Men are less esteemed for frivolous talents and attainments, than for essential qualities; and of this kind there are but two, riches and personal merit. Montesquiew. It is rare that the good qualities in man are fairly recompensed, although the possession of them im- plies the favor of heaven, but in this world they often mean the reproach of earth. James Ellis. In low life, our good and bad qualities are known to few : to those only who are related to us, who converse with, or live near us. In high station they are exposed to the notice of a kingdom. Bolton. Such is the general disguise men wear, that their good qualities commonly appear at first, and their bad ones are discovered by degrees; and this gradual discovery of their failings and weaknesses, must necessarily lessen our opinion of them ; and there is no observation more generally true than that our esteem of a person seldom rises in propor- tion to our intimacy with him. R. G. Parker. We must not judge of a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them. The harm which we do to others does not excite so much persecution and hatred as our good quali- ties. It is not enough to have great qualities; we must also have the management of them. It is with some good qualities, as it is with the senses; they are incomprehensible and inconceivable to such as have them not. Rochefoucauld. QUALITY. Men are more ambitious to display the abilities of the head than to cultivate the good qualities of the heart ; though the latter are in everybody's power, the former few have any title to. J. Seed. Some people are all quality ; you would think they were made up of nothing but title and ge- nealogy : the stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity, and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness, that they reckon it below them either to exercise good-nature or good manners. L’Estrange. Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own im- portance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity ; they might be happy among their equals, but those are despised for company where they are despised in turn. Goldsmith. QUALIFICATIONS. Superior qualifications are rare. W. Burton. The world judges unfavorably of great qualifi- cations. Tacitus. We qualify for the world, but forget to qualify for heaven. At-Tahámi. Those who have the best qualifications for posi- tion and place, are often the last to Seek it. Irving. To make piety and virtue become the fashion, make them necessary qualifications for preferment. Swift. The companion of an evening, and the compa- nion for life, require very different qualifications. Dr. Johnson. Good qualifications of mind enable a magistrate to perform his duty, and tend to create a public es- teem of him. F. Atterbury. If all men were placed in positions according to their qualifications, there would be a great change in the economy of life. James Ellis. . The probability that any particular person shall ever be qualified for the employments to which he is educated is very different in different Occupa- tions. Adam Smith. Great qualifications in man are mostly discovered by accident, and rewarded by destiny. Reward is an uncertain estimate of them, for great rewards frequently follow after small claims, and fly away from great ones. Acton. The state should place in office the best qualified men; in a monarchial government this duty rests with the sovereign ; but in a republic it devolves upon all voters ; both they who refrain from vot- ing, and they who vote from mere party or selfish motives, are false to their responsible trust ; if all refrain from voting, there can be no organized government, and of course anarchy is the alterna- tive ; if all vote from mere party spirit, regardless of the qualifications of their candidates, incompe- tent rulers will be chosen, and thus government will be badly administered. H. Winslow. A R O S E Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 7 5 5 QUARRELS. Never quarrel. H. Stephens. Breed not quarrels. Rabbi Jehudah. Guard against quarrelsomeness. Confucius. John Brooks. R. Femmell. Avoid quarrels; settle disputes. Quarrel not on politics or religion. Anger and quarrels must be put away. Cicero. When one will not, two cannot quarrel. Loutrel. When two quarrel both are in the wrong. G. W. Burmap. Let us quarrel with faults, not with friends. Otho II. Quarrels would soon end but for the tongue. - Dr. Fowst. Quarrelling neighbors are lawyers' legacies. F. Duppa. Have a care of the first quarrel, as you tender your happiness. Steele. The world is too narrow for two quarrelsome fools to live in it. G. P. Morris. Quarrels would never last long if the fault was only on one side. Rochefoucauld. It is the reply rather than the statement that makes the quarrel. E. P. Day. The quarrels of professors are often the reproach of their profession. M. Henry. We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them. Vawvemargwes. Lawyers' quarrels should not outlast the suit in which they are engaged. L. E. Riggs. Do not seek the quarrel, or the Suit, which there is an opportunity of escaping. T. Leland. The world at large has less interest in your per- Somal quarrels than you imagine. T. Baker. Quarrels are very lamentable when they take place between members of the same family. G. Crabb. Nothing annoys me more than to see men waste their few short days in quarrelling and disputes. Goethe. A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by the One party ; there is no battle unless there be two. Semeca. Make people happy, and there will not be half the quarrelling or a tenth part of the wickedness there is. Mrs. L. M. Child. There needs no more to the setting of the whole world in a flame, than a quarrelsome plaintiff and defendant. L’Estrange. When quarrels arise between loving souls, if they are reconciled, they are doubly friends that they were before. Plaw.tws. …” He that blows the coals in quarrels he has no- thing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. Franklin. QUARRELS. If the true history of quarrels, public and pri- vate, were honestly written, it would be silenced with an uproar of derision. E. Jesse. We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves ; it is a civil war, and in all such conten- tions triumphs are defeats. R. O. Cambridge. To quarrel with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness. J. Hall. I consider your very testy and quarrelsome peo- ple in the same light as I do a loaded gun, which may by accident go off and kill one. Shenstone. When worthy men quarrel, only one of them may be faulty at the first ; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty. T. Fuller. Death endeth the quarrel, but it restoreth not the reputation. Killing is an act of caution, not of courage ; it is safe, but it is not honorable. R. Dodsley. To say of a man who is choleric, quarrelsome, and surly, that it is his humor, is not to excuse him, but to confess that these two great faults are irremediable. Brwyère. Be not ready to quarrel ; avoid oaths and pas- sionate adjurations, excess of laughter and out- bursts of wrath ; they disturb and confound the reason of a man. Rabbi Iechiel. We should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and quarrel with no men needlessly ; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous. I. Barrow. How lamentable is it, when Christians agree in the grand and essential points, they should dispute and quarrel so much with each other about things of minor imoportance. C. Buck. The masters of the world quarrel among each other, and then order their servants, who have, and perhaps feel, no interest in their quarrels, to slash and slay each other. Bovee. A quarrel is not without its uses, as a means of knowledge ; through a quarrel you have learned that your antagonist is by no means perfect, and he has learned the same of you. A. Campbell. Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a rea- son sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. Goldsmith. Many are the instances among friends where a momentary quarrel has only served to consolidate the subsequent attachment, as the broken bone that is well set, usually becomes stronger than it was before. Chatfield. The little eddies of wind that set the dust in commotion, are precursors of a thunder storm in hot weather, and of a strong wind always; so quarrels often precede a thundering time where two high-tempered persons are concerned. L. C. Judson. 756 JD A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. QUARRELS. TJnsociable tempers are contracted in solitude, which will in the end not fail of corrupting the un- derstanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and du- ties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them nor ourselves better by fly- ing from or quarrelling with them. Burke. In most quarrels, there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which Cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow. Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels ; first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about. Colton. Among the plagues of the world quarrelsome people surely occupy a prominent position ; they are the mosquitoes of society ; some seem to have a genius for quarrelling, and the slightest thing furnishes them a pretext for indulging this spirit : yet if they deserve our severe censure, they should in Some measure command our pity, for they are at war with themselves as well as with others ; if they jar the peace of others, they destroy their own felicity ; and if to society they are a pest, the spirit that moves them proves to them to be a mill- Stone. W. T. Burke. QUEEN. - Every virtuous woman is a queen. G. Fooc. A queen should be the goddess of virtue. Vezin. A queen should be an example to her sex. Juliana Marie Jessen. The influence of a queen should have the same effect as the nursing mother to her children. Zaba. As the clouds refresh the earth with their boun- teous showers, so a good queen reigns over her peo- ple with a gentle, loving authority. F. C. Fulda. Queens should be noted for their virtues ; their governments should be founded on love—love of justice, love of truth, and the love of equal rights. James Ellis. Queens have excelled kings in their adminis- tration of civil government, not from superior powers of reason, but from a clearer moral sense. Mrs. S. J. Hale. Free thought, free speech, a free press, and the general march of improvement have demonstrated that a queen can rule a people with more advan- tage than a king ; she has a juster knowledge of the people, while the people on their part are bet- ter qualified to judge her acts and motives, and decide upon her qualifications and merits. Pond. Whether beloved or not, the influence of the wife and companion of the sovereign must always be considerable; and for the honor of womankind, be it remembered that it has, generally speaking, been exerted for worthy purposes. Our queens have been instruments in the hands of God, for the ad- vancement of civilization and the exercise of a moral and religious influence. Agnes Strickland. GUESTION. Abstain from asking questions. Abū Yusuf. Ask not a foolish question in public. Stilpo. Never answer disagreeable questions. Trench. A wise question is partial knowledge. Bacom. To a rough question, give a gentle reply. Zoroaster. A man becomes learned by asking questions. Ahmed Vesik. Ask me no questions, and I will tell you no fibs. Goldsmith. To a man full of questions make no answer at all. Plato. The most simple questions are generally the most lucid. J. Bowvier. Where the question is a jest the fittest answer is a scoff. Archiºmedes. The best answer to a question is putting the foot into the stirrup. Antar. Fools may ask questions, but it takes wise men to answer them. G. D. Prentice, Questions are always cheaply asked, but some- times dearly answered. Bovee. Ask questions, if you would learn : philosophic, philanthropic, political. L. A. Tarascom. An able man is not ashamed to put questions both to the humble and the wise. Tshang. The ignorant start guestions which have been already answered thousands of years ago by the wise. Goethe. Let a man be never ashamed to put a question to a teacher when something is not well under- stood. Rabbi Eliozar. Men certainly have a way of keeping women in suspense, and an unwillingness to answer questions even when we ask them. Eliza Leslie. There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no an- swer. Why do you and I exist 3 Why was this world created ? And since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner ? Dr. Johnson. Hunting after arguments to make good One side of a question, and wholly to neglect those which favor the other, is wilfully to misguide the under- standing ; and is so far from giving truth its due value, it wholly debases it. J. Locke. He that questioneth much shall learn much, es- pecially if he apply his questions to the skill of the persons whom he asketh ; but let his questions not be troublesome, for that is fit for a poser ; and let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak. Lord Bacom. One object of life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity. We now ask the sage, the genius, the philosopher, and the divine : none can tell ; but we will open our series to other respondents—we will ask angels, God! . J. Foster. — A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 757 QUICKNESS. What comes quick, goes quick. Constantine III. Quickness sometimes exceeds power. E. P. Day. Let a thing be done quickly, if it be also done well. Augustus Coesar. It is seldom that men are either quickly rich or quickly good. Laberias. He confers a kindness twice on a poor man who gives quickly. Publius Syrus. Quick movements of the mind often break Out either for great good or great evil. Homer. Impatience of labor seizes those who are most distinguished for quickness of apprehension. Dr. Johnsom. To accomplish our ends quickly is often as im- portant as to accomplish them with little labor and expense. S㺠J. F. W. Herschel. When you have formed your plans, be quick to execute them ; one will catch his fish before an- other shall have baited his hook. E. Rich. Be quick Annihilate time ! has been shouted so vehemently and continuously by the whole civili- ized world, that quickness has become necessary and indispensable. Catherine Philips. Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination. Swift. Quickness is among the least of the mind's pro- perties, and belongs to her in almost her lowest state ; nay, it doth not abandon her when she is driven from her home, when she is wandering and insane ; the mad often retain it ; the liar has it, the cheat has it ; we find it on the race-course and at the card-table ; education does not give it, and reflection takes away from it. W. S. Londor. QUILL. . The quill hath a good tongue. Yriarte. A quill has proved the noblest gift to man. Byron. How potent is thy power, O quill, when thou art formed into a pen James Ellis. A quill from a goose when made into a pen, has often made a goose of the man who used it. Ammie E. Lancaster. A witty writer is like a porcupine ; his quill makes no distinction between a friend and a foe. H. W. Show. Quills are things that are sometimes taken from the pinions of one goose to spread the opinions of another. Chatfield. One state was saved by the cackling of geese, and many states have been saved by quills from their wings. E. P. Day. The fangs of a bear and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose(ſuill sometimes ; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet, and the bones crack. J. Howell. QUIETNESS. Be quiet, heart and tongue. Apollonius. Quiet minds are generally the most happy. Dr. C. Burney. Quietness increases the yam, but decreases the iron. Radir Manshi. The quiet of nations cannot be maintained with- Out arms. Tacitus. With woman, her sphere of quiet duty requires quiet training. Mrs. Sigowrmey. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Sir J. Suckling. The really substantial happy people in the world are always calm and quiet. J. R. Boyd. Let every man live quietly at home ; peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. Schiller. True quietness of heart is got by resisting our passions, not by obeying them. G. S. Camp. The mind of man is too active and restless ever to settle on the true point of quiet. Burke, Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. Amatacagoras. To live in quiet, we should undertake nothing difficult ; but presumption makes all things to be thought easy. Stanislaws. Quietness and peace flourish where reason and justice govern ; and true joy reigneth where mod- esty directeth. J. D. Baldwim. I have often said that all the misfortunes of men spring from their not knowing how to live quietly at home in their own rooms. Pascal. The child of God should live above the world, moving through it, as some quiet star moves through the blue sky, clear, and serene, and still. Hetty Bowman. A moderate fortune, with a quiet retirement in the country, is preferable to the greatest affluence which is attended with care and the perplexity of business, and inseparable from the noise and hurry Of the town. S. Croacoll. The still and quiet soul is like a ship that lies quiet in the harbor ; you may take in what goods you please whilst the ship lies still ; so, when the soul lies quiet under the hand of God, it is most fitted to take in much of God, of Christ, of heaven, of the promises, and of ordinances; but when Souls are unquiet, they are like a ship in a storm, they can take in nothing, - Rev. T. Brooks. Reader, would'st thou know what true peace and quiet mean ; would'st thou find a refuge from the noises and the clamors of the multitude ; would'st thou enjoy at once solitude and society ; would'st thou possess the depth of thy own spirit in stillness, without being shut out from the consolatory faces of thy species; would'st thou be alone, and yet ac- companied ; solitary, yet not desolate ; singular, yet not without some to keep thee in countenance ; a unit in aggregate ; a simple in composite 3 Come with me into a Quaker's meeting. C. Lamb. * 758 D A Y’s co Z Z A co w. QUOTATION, A fair quotation is not piracy. Ellenborough. Why read a book you cannot quote : R. Bentley. Good quotations, like good thoughts, are true wealth. Annie E. Lancaster. How easy is it for a man to fill a book with quotations. D. Waterland. Extensive quotation argues barrenness of origi- nal thought. G. Campbell. Classic quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. Dr. Johnson. Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted. Swift. Even the devil himself can quote Scripture when it serves his own purpose. F. W. Trevamiom. Nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others. Franklin. He that has ever so little examined the citations of writers, cannot doubt how little credit the quot- ations deserve where the originals are wanting. J. Locke. Quotation mars the beauty and unity of style, especially when it invades it from a foreign tongue; A quoter is either ostentatious of his acquirements, or doubtful of his cause. W. S. Landor. Luminous quotations atone, by their interest, for the dullness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they ſend to its style and treatment. Bovee. I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation. Although quotation may, no doubt, be carried to excess, yet there is frequently as much ability n making a happy application of a thought of an- other writer as in its first conception. C. T. Ramage. You will find professed quotations from authors, of the correctness of which you will not be satis- fied; and how important is it to be able to satisfy yourself by examining the originals. T. Dwight. A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind ; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor. James Ellis. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good ; when he quotes, he fills with his own voice and humor, and the whole cyclopaedia of his table talk is presently believed to be his own. R. W. Emerson. Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author ; perhaps the next highest is when a writer of any kind is so considerable that you go to the labor and pains of endeavoring to refute him be- fore the public, the very doing of which is an inci- dental admission of his talent and power. Ampère. Addison. QUOTATION. Quotations are jewels of eloquence when intro- duced into a sermon in a fitting place ; not only do they reveal their own superlative beauties, but they impart not a little of them to the material in which they are set. Dr. Davies. Nothing adorns a composition or a speech - )re than appropriate quotations—endorsing, as it were Our Own Sentiments with the sanction of other minds—unless the habit of quoting is too often in- dulged, when it degenerates into pedantry, and becomes unpleasing. J. T. Watson. The man whose book is filled with quotations, has been said to creep along the shore of authors, as if he were afraid to trust himself to the free compass of reasoning ; I would rather defend such authors by a different allusion, and ask whether honey is the worse for being gathered from many flowers. J. P. F. Amcillon. The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see no- thing more in a quotation than an extract ; when we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize. I. Disraeli. Indiscreet scribblers among their laborious no- things, quote whole paragraphs from ancient au- thors, with a design, by that means, to illustrate their own writings, but it does quite the contrary : for this infinite dissimilitude of ornaments renders the complexions of their own compositions so pale, sallow, and deformed, that they lose much more than they get. Montaigme. It is almost impossible, after all, for any person who reads much and reflects a good deal, to be able on every occasion to determine whether a thought was another's or his own ; nay, I declare that I have several times quoted sentences out of my own writings, in aid of my own arguments in conversation, thinking that I was supporting them by some better authority. Sterne. Whatever we may say against such collections which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole Scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a di- rect reference to ourselves Young people espe- cially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant quotations. Goethe. We may quote Scriptures to those senses which they can well serve in a question, and in which they are used by learned men, though we suppose the principal intention be of a different thing, so it be not contrary ; for all learned men know that in Scripture many sayings are full of potential significations besides what are on the face of the words, or in the heart of the design ; and, there- fore, although we may not allege Scripture in a sense contrary to what we believe it meant, yet to anything besides its first meaning we may, if the analogy will bear it. Jeremy Taylor. H. C. [Rºſ Eſ. Vºſ. TER --- ºnſº A R O S E O U O T A 7" / O M S. 7.59 R. RABBLE. The rabble is a timid animal. The rabble are worse than brutes. P. Aarsens. Ariosto. The rabble are wont to vent their räge in words. Goethe. Nothing is so uncertain as the minds of the rab- ble. Livy. Prefer not the plaudits of the rabble to the ap- probation of God. W. Bent. Death is often the fate of one who becomes Ob- noxious to the rabble. Jww.emal. The rabble may pursue a course of action right or wrong, and yet not understand why. Confucius. To let the senseless rabble rule the state, is very like making the soul subject to the body. Dionysius. The rabble are found in all ranks, and are not to be distinguished by the dress they wear. Seneca. The best country is where the ignorant rabble obey the law through fear, and the wise through love. Plato. The rabble may stir themselves as they please ; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarse- IleSS. Jowbert. As the sea is turned up by the fury of the winds, so are the rabble roused by the language of dema- gogues. - Cicero. The profane, atheistical, epicurean rabble, whom the whole nation so rings of, are not the wisest men in the world. R. South. There is no difference between beasts and the ignorant rabble, except that the rabble exceed the beasts in beastliness. Hermes. The rabble have neither judgment nor principle ; they shout in the evening for the reverse of what they desired in the morning. Tacitus. When the rabble—the ignorant and the poor— are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl, it needs the habits of magnanimity and religion to treat it, godlike, as a trifle of no concernment. Sir. W. Hooke?". There is a rabble among the gentry, as well as the commonalty ; a sort of plebeian heads, whose fancy moves in the same wheel with the others : men in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do somewhat gild their infirmities, and their purses compound for their follies. Browne. When the excited rabble is in full fury, it is as difficult to control them as it is to extinguish a rolling flame : but if we yield to their violence as it is spreading, watching our opportunity, they per- haps exhaust their rage, and as their fury abates, thou may then turn them as thou pleasest. Euripides. RACE. Seek the welfare of the human race. Tarascon.” Every race has God for their Father. A. Benezet. The human race, for ought we know, is continu- ous on earth. Olive R. Seward. A race is springing up that think not as their fathers thought before. - Schiller. God has given certain gifts to the whole human race, from which nobody is excluded. Semeca. What is wanting in one race will be supplied by the characteristic energies of the others. Bethwme. In the races of mankind and families of the world, there remains not to one above the least pre- tense to have the right of inheritance. J. Locke. Very singular is that chain which binds the hu- man race together, and forms connexioms between them, which it afterwards becomes a duty to res- pect. Emily Carlem. The rulers of the earth finding the human race abased by indigence and ignorance, fit tools for their purposes, have made use of them as instru- ments of carnage or as machines of labor. A. Brisbane. As in the race of leaves, such is man ; the wind scatters some on the ground, others the wood bud- ding puts forth, and the season of spring brings out ; so also the race of men, one generation flour- ishes, another decays. Homer. The human race is interlinked with all time, which follows, and will follow it to the end, being in this way immortal ; inasmuch as leaving chil- dren's children, and being one and the same by generation, it partakes of immortality. Plato. Human races are evanescent ; only the human race remains. Looking at the present dominant clans of the world, what are their constituent parts? They are the remains of former races; every great nation was married into its greatness by a union of many stocks. T. Tiltom. We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology, that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener; and we look to find in the son every mental and moral property that existed in the ancestor. Emerson. The gods of heathenism, and the worship of them, is naturally connected with the artificial division of mankind into distinct races—the sub- jugation of the weaker by the stronger—and the pretensions of Some races and families to a more exalted Origin and a more noble blood than their less opulent, less powerful, or less refined neigh- bors. W. Goodell. 760 JD A Y',S C O Z Z. A C O AV. R.A.G.E. Rage is mental imbecility. H. Ballow. Rage avails less than courage. P. Nye. Violent rage is short in duration. R. Nares. Rage assists hands, however feeble. Ovid. Deep remorseless rage hears no leader. Schiller. Rage is not abated but by death ; the dead feel no grief. - Sophocles. Rage is a vehement ebullition of anger ; and fury is an excess of rage. G. Crabb. A sanguinary rage extends to the hazard and destruction of human Society. Semeca. Flee from the furious in his rage ; and trust not to the fair tongue of thine enemy. J. Bodenham. Excessive rage renders men impotent to execute the mischiefs which they threaten. S. Jenyms. The frenzy of rage, when not controlled by the voice of conscience, hurries us on to madness and destruction. Lucanus. If you thump a goad with your fist, your hands are hurt the most ; to vent your rage against one who does not care a straw is folly. Plauttws. When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves up to the same passion. Plutarch. Rage is essentially vulgar, and never more so than when it proceeds from mortified pride, disap- pointed ambition, or thwarted willfulness. S. T. Coleridge. Rage or anger, if it be but a short time deferred, the force thereof will be greatly assuaged ; but if it be suffered to continue, it increaseth more and more in mischief, until by revenge it be fully satis- fied. q=ººm. S. Ockley. Rage is a short fury—the inflammation of the blood, and alteration of the heart : it is desire of revenge, or regardless care of friend, an enemy of all reason, and as uneasy to be guided by another as a furious tyrant. George Monk. To rage and be furious about trifles is mean and childish, and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent or suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. I. Watts. Inefficient rage is almost always ridiculous; and an old man, with a broken down body and a mind falling in pieces from the violence of its uncon- trolled passions, is in constant danger of exciting along with our pity a feeling of contempt. R. H. Dama. If rage reaches its climax, its ascendancy, if pos- sible, is then complete, its power over us supreme ; when the highest point of elevation has been se- cured, the extreme of excitement terminates in the quickened ebullition of feeling, and that law of chemical action is brought into exercise, which decides that the fermentative process should cease when that of boiling begins. Acton. RAILLERY. Let raillery be without malice. Ben Jomson. Raillery, like Salt, should be used sparingly. Demophilus. Raillery is a discourse in favor of one's wit against One's good nature. Montesquiew. Where wit hath any mixture of raillery, it is but calling it banter, and the work is done. Swift. Raillery is the sauce of civil entertainment; and without some such tincture of urbanity good hu- mor falters. L’Estrange. Let not the raillery of bad men frighten you out of your duty ; for why should the censures of fools hinder you from being wise. E. Varty. Raillery is more insupportable than wrong ; be- cause we have a right to resent injuries, but it is ridiculous to be angry at a jest. Rochefoucauld. Avoid raillery; it offends him who is the object of it ; he that indulges this humor is the scourge of society, and all fear and avoid him. Nabi Effendi. Raillery has been compared to a light which dazzles, but does not burn ; this however depends on the skill with which it is managed ; for many a man, without extracting its brilliance, may burn his fingers in playing with this dangerous pyro- technic. Chatfield. As nothing is more provoking to some tempers than raillery, a prudent person will not always be satirically witty where he can, but only where he may without-offense ; for he will consider that the finest stroke of raillery is but a witticism, and that there is hardly any person so mean whose good-will is not preferable to the pleasure of a horse-laugh. J. Burgh. The raillery which is consistent with good-breed- ing is a gentle animadversion on Some foible, which while it raises the laugh in the rest of the com- pany, doth not put the person rallied out of coun- tenance, or expose him to shame or contempt ; on the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions. Fielding. FAILROAD. Railroad traveling is a delightful improvement of human life. Sydney Smith. It is hard to make rail-roading pleasant in any country ; it is too tedious. S. L. Clemens. Railroads greatly injure our dwellings; but they * add to our comfort, and diversify the pleasures of travelling. Mrs. Mary Allington. Railroads are like the human race, they have their stopping places and their termini ; but unlike the human race they can make a return journey. E. P. Day. A railroad must be clear of obstructions so that the train can move safely along ; and so in tra- velling through life, our consciences must be clear if we wish to move along in happiness and peace. James Ellis. A R O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 761 RAIN. How beautiful is the rain : Longfellow. Rain is a boon to a thirsty soldier. Amtomimus. Rain may fall as gently as mercy. R. G. White. If there be one righteous person the rain falls for his sake. Gawtama. As tears soften the heart, so does rain soften the earth, that good may come. Annie E. Lancaster. Neither was a law able to be imposed on the falling rain, that they should not water and over- flow the fields of the wicked and unjust. Seneca. The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully On the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passes with delicate change. N. P. Willis. The way that a drop of rain comes to sing in the leaf that rustles in the top of the tree all summer long, is by going down to the roots first, and from thence ascending to the bough. H. W. Beecher. Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beau- tiful fertility ; remember that each glorious tree, and herb, and shrub, and flower, owes to those drops its life, its freshness, and its beauty. Lewis. In the truest sense of the word rain deserves to be called a present from heaven. The blessings which our Heavenly Father pours upon us by this means are equally abundant and necessary for us. As the consequences of a continued drought would be fatal to us, so the advantages are equally pre- cious which the refreshing showers afford. Sturm. FAINBOW. The rainbow is the art of nature. W. Wycherly. The rainbow is the sign of the covenant of mer- cy. G. S. Bowes. The rainbow is the promise of God never to drown the world. J. Brown. The rainbow, beautiful as it is, depends upon the dark cloud to make it conspicuous. Wakatawki. The rainbow in the clouds sends forth a thousand varied colors from the reflection of the sun's rays. Virgil. When there is love in the heart, there are rain- bows in the eyes which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues. H. W. Beecher. As the rainbow never appears except where it rains in the sunshine, so in all the troubles of life, there is a rainbow of light before us if we only look in the right direction. James Ellis. To consider a rainbow merely as a phenomenon of nature, it is one of the finest sights imaginable : it is a picture the most beautifully colored of any which the Creator has exposed to our sight. Sturm. The rainbow is a token of the covenant of preser- Vation made with Noah, and with all the creatures of the earth ; it is fixed and sure ; it may be con- sidered also as an emblem of the covenant of grace. Bogatzky. F.A.NEC. Rank is a great beautifier. Bulwer. It is better to sacrifice rank than liberty. Ypsilanti. Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still they are chains. Ruffini. The preposterous distinctions of rank, render civilization a Curse. Joamma Webb. To be vain of one's rank or place is to disclose that one is below it. Stanislaws. Birth, rank, and fortune, are in not incompatible with genius and taste. Goethe. Rank may confer influence, but it will not me- cessarily produce virtue. L. Murray. Rank may give a man a high position, but it cannot make him a gentleman. S. Purchas. The worship of title and rank is one of the weak points of the English character. Eliza Cook. Whenever men of rank are ill-disposed, their evil disposition stains that rank. Pliny. He who weds a wife of higher rank and nobler blood sinks into nothing, lost in her superior splen- dor. Ewripides. There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Shenstone. Rightly do those teach who admonish us that we should be the more humble in proportion to our high rank. "a Cicero. It is not rank or dignity of position that makes men ; true rank, is that excellence of character that shows itself in actions of probity and virtue. James Ellis. The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance. Montaigme. Among the lower rankº where great passions only speak at intervals, the feelings of nature are oftener experienced. In the more elevated ranks they are completely stifled, and under the mask of natural feelings it is only interest or vanity that speaks. Rowssed w. I cannot forbear adding another caution to my praise and recommending it to you, to conduct yourself in such a manner as to preserve the pro- per distinction of rank and dignity ; to level and confound the different orders of society is far from producing an equality among us; it is, in fact, the most unequal thing imaginable. Pliny. We possess a form of government of such excel- lence, that it gives us no reason to envy the laws of our neighbors. It is called a popular govern- ment, because its object is not to favor the inter- ests of the few, but of the greater number. In private disputes, we are all equal in the eye of the law ; and in regard to the honors of the state, we rise according to merit, and not because we belong to a particular rank. Thucydides. 762 AX A Y'S CO Z Z 4 C O AV. RAPTUF.E. Rapture is a dream. Byron. Sip of rapture while you may. Longepierre. True rapture is only produced by the blessings of God. Wentworth. That is true rapture which is begotton by virtue and admiration. Addison. How feeble is the rapture we feel even in the rarest pleasures of this world, compared to those heavenly raptures in the world that is to come. J. A. James. Rapture often invigorates the powers, and calls them into action ; it is applicable to persons with superior minds, and to circumstances of peculiar importance. G. Crobb. PARITY. Excellent things are rare. Juvenal. It is the rarity of a thing, not so much the use- fulness thereof, that giveth it value. D. Almagro. It is a strong proof of a weak judgment when men estimate things by their rarity. Montaigme. After a spirit of discernment the next rarest things in the world are diamonds and pearls. Bruyère. In every art, Science, and we may say even in virtue itself, the best is most rarely to be found. j Cicero. The best of every thing is in its nature rare; there will never be a superfluity of such things; there are curious plants, or particular animals, which, owing to circumstances, are always rare. G. Crabb. Rarity gives a charm ; thus early faults are most esteemed; thus winter roses obtain a higher price ; thus coyness sets off an extravagant mis- tress; a door ever open attracts no young suitor. Martial. RASCALITY. A rascal aspires to beta villain. W. Orton. It does not become a man of honor to contest with mean rascals. L’Estrange. Rascality thrives under the fostering care of a corrupt government. J. Limen. It takes more ingenuity to become a first-class rascal, than an honest man. James Ellis. Rascals are sometimes considered honest because they are the dupes of greater rascals. E. P. Day. Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world. T. Carlyle. If it were possible to separate the rascals from those who are strictly honest, we should find that virtue would be at a discount. Annie E. Lancaster. It is highly important, when a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, that he should examine himself closely, and see if he is not better con- structed for a fool. H. W. Shaw. RASHINESS. Do nothing rashly. B. de la Restif. Rashness is dangerous. Periander. Let nothing be done rashly. Jenks. Rashness is not always fortunate. Livy. Rashness is the property of youth. J. Mair. The failure of enterprises is often owing to rash- IlêSS. M. Webster. None are rash when they are not seen by any- body. Stanislaws. Rashness brings luck to a few, misfortune to many. Plawtus. Blind fortune treads on the steps of inconsiderate rashness. La Fontaine. Those who are rash and precipitate seldom en- joy the favor of the gods. Herodotus. It is well known that rash persons are soonest made afraid by false rumors. Goldinge. It is a truth well known, that rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age. Cicero. To be rash, is to be bold without shame and without skill; full of words without wit. Ascham. He that doth anything rashly, must do it wil- lingly ; for he was free to deliberate or not. L’Estrange. We offend by rashness, which is an affirming or denying before we have sufficiently informed our- selves. R. Sowth. Rashness is a fault, yet a noble fault ; for time and experience will usually correct that error, and tame it into well-weighed courage. Dryden. The rash man ventures for want of thought : courage and boldness become foolhardiness when they lead a person to run a fruitless risk. Crabb. Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business ; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the haven. T. Fuller. To engage in rash and desperate enterprises is most frequently the way to reduce men eventually to utter helplessness, and an inability to make re- sistance. Polybius. Rashness borrows the name of courage, but it is. of another race, and nothing allied to that virtue ; the one descends in a direct line from prudence, the other from folly and presumption. Jeaurat. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age ; manhood is the isthmus between the two ex- tremes—the ripe, the fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute. Colton. Each successive generation plunges into the abyss of passion, without the slightest regard to the fatal effect which such conduct has produced upon their predecessors; and lament, when too late, the rash- ness with which they slighted the advice of expe- rience, and stifled the voice of reason. Steele. A R O S A. Q J O 7" A T / O AV S. 763 READING. Read good books. John Todd. Reading enriches the memory. Teissier. Reading is the perfection of pleasure. A. Magliabechi. Learn to read the Bible and other good books. King Kaumwalii. A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. R. A. Willmott. People read everything nowadays, except books. Mme. Swetchine. To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Burke. We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation. Qween Christina of Sweden. Reading may become an inveterate habit, not easy to be broken. Bahon. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. Lady M. W. Montague. A proper and judicious system of reading is of the highest importance. R. Blakey. To read merely for reading's sake, is almost as unprofitable as not reading at all. L. H. Grimdon. He who reads with discernment and choice will acquire less learning, but more knowledge. Bolingbroke. Multifarious reading weakens the mind like smoking, and is an excuse for its lying dormant. F. W. Robertson. By reading a man does, as it were, antidate his life, and makes himself contemporary with past ageS. J. Collier. As concerns the quantity of what is to be read, there is a single rule: read much, but not many works. Sir W. Hamilton. Love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours of life which come to every one, for hours of delight. - Montesquiew. Fine reading is an accomplishment where the inherent music, both of the voice and of the intel- lect may be uttered. Mrs. Sigowrmey. What blockheads are those wise persons who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads. R. Sowthey. We may read, and read, and read again, and still find something new, something to please, and something to instruct. J. Hurdis. Sound and healthy reading will develop and en- kindle the soul, enlighten the mind, and vivify and direct the imagination. Lowise Swantom Belloc. What we read leaves its imprint upon our minds, and therefore much care should be exercised in the Selection of reading matter. A. Ritchie. It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading. Sir P. Sidney. FEADING. We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read, rather than to read them ; such an art is practicable. I. Disraeli. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to be- lieve and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. Lord Bacon. To read with propriety is a pleasing and im- portant attainment, productiye of improvement both to the understanding and the heart. Murray. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think ; books think for me. I have no repugnances. C. Lamb. If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all. Fémélon. Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence ; if you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. H. Mann. Too much reading and too much meditation may produce the effect of a lamp inverted, which is ex- tinguished by the excess of the oil, whose office it is to feed it. G. S. Bowes. Every reader reads himself out of the book that he reads; nay, has he a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with the author’s. Goethe. As much company as I have kept, and as much as I love it, Ilove reading better, and would rather be employed in reading than in the most agreeable conversation. Pope. The danger of reading too much is, that we shall have only the thoughts of others. The danger of reading too little or none at all, that we shall have none but our own. Acton. Much reading, like a too great repletion, stops up, through a course of diverse sometimes contrary opinions, the access of a nearer, newer, and quicker invention of your own. L. Osborn. I think that a person may as well be asleep, for they can be only said to dream who read anything but with a view of improving their morals or re- gulating their conduct. Sterne. When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted. Colton. A man of ability, for the chief of his reading, should select such works as he feels are beyond his own power to have produced ; what can other books do for him, but waste his time or augment his vanity ? J. Foster. Read, and refine your appetite ; learn to live upon instruction ; feast your mind, and mortify your flesh ; read, and take your nourishment in at your eyes, shut up your mouth, and chew the cud of understanding. W. Congreve. 764 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. READING, Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. As by the one health is preserved, strength- ened, and invigorated ; by the other, virtue, which is the health of the mind, is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. Steele. To learn how to read is no easy acquisition ; I refer, not to the pronunciation of the words, or the inflections of the voice, but to the quick and true apprehension of the meaning, and a susceptibility to the beauties of style. S. P. Newman. Think as well as read, and when you read, yield not your minds to the passive impressions which others may please to make upon them. Hear what they have to say: but examine it, weigh it, and judge for yourselves. T. Edwards. Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught ; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice. L’Estrange. When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect ; the satisfaction is not les- Sened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face, compare notes and chat the hour away. Hazlitt. Reading is to proceed by analysis to the investi- gation of thought, and its discovery is often the last part of the process; but in thinking, the mind works synthetically, and the subject, in all its combinations, as a perfect whole, in the result. John Taylor. There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coer- cion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and conduct, which is not the less effectual because it works in- sensibly, and because it is really the last thing he dreams of. Sir John Herschel. A person who cannot read is something like a blind man walking through a pleasant meadow, where there are flowers and fruit trees : there are many pleasing things and many wise and good things printed in books, but we cannot get them unless we can read. T. Dwight. By reading we acquaint ourselves in a very ex- tensive manner with the affairs, actions, and thoughts of the living and the dead, in the most remote nations and in the most distant ages; and that with as much ease as though they lived in our own age and nation. T. Kirk. Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself ; if thou find anything ques- tionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flat- terer ; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than deceitful sweetness. F. Quarles. Reading without purpose is sauntering, not ex- ercise ; more is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage ſlower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden mone to the butterfly. Bulwer. READING. By reading, the mind is often refreshed, the pow- ers exerted and enlightened, and the judgment in- formed ; men of sense aud of religion have always delighted in it, and even amidst the bustle of the gay world, and in the brilliant career of heroism, men have retained a taste for reading. C. Buck. Desultory reading is indeed very mischievous, by fostering habits of loose, discontinuous thought, by turning the memory into a common sewer for rubbish of all sorts to flow through, and by relax- ing the power of attention, which of all our facul- ties needs most care, and is improved by it. J. C. Hare. Men and women who read a great many light and superficial works will have a mere mass of crude and worthless knowledge, unless they also read books filled with stern, strong, hard thoughts. The birds have to pick up pebble-stones to aid the digestion of the softer contents of their craws. G. D. Prentice. Let us read with method, and propose to our- selves an end to which all our studies may point ; through neglect of this rule, gross ignorance often disgraces great readers, who by skipping hastily and irregularly from one subject to another, ren- der themselves incapable of combining their ideas. E. Gibbon. Get a habit, a passion for reading ; not flying from book to book, with the squeamish caprice of a literary epicure ; but read systematically, close- ly, thoughtfully, analyzing every subject as you go along, and laying it up carefully and Safely in your memory. It is only by this mode that your information will be at the same time extensive, accurate, and useful. |W. Wirt. The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy, may with a book in his hand forget all historments under the friend- ly shade of every tree, and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as com- patible with every public duty as they are con- tributory to private happiness. Zimmerman. Who is he that is now wholly overcome with idleness, or otherwise involved in a labyrinth of worldly care, troubles, and discontents, that will not be much lightened in his mind by reading of some enticing story, true or feigned, where, as in a glass, he shall observe what our forefathers have done ; the beginnings, ruins, falls, periods of com- monwealths, private men's actions, displayed to the life. R. Burton. There are four kinds of readers: the first is like the hour-glass, and their reading being as the sand, it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind ; a second is like the sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier ; a third is like a jelly-bag, allowing all that is pure to pass away, and retain- ing only the refuse and dregs ; and the fourth is like the slaves in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, retain only pure gems. S. T. Coleridge. A R O S E Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. READING. Adjust your proposed amount of reading to your time and inclination—this is perfectly free to every man ; but whether that amount be large or Small, let it be varied in its kind, and widely varied. If I have a confident opinion on any one point Con- nected with the improvement of the human mind, it is on this. Dr. T. Arnold. They that have read about everything are thought to understand everything too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what we read ours ; we are of the ru- minating kind, and it is not enough to cram our- selves with a great load of collections, we must chew them over again. W. E. Channing. Some men read authors as gentlemen use flow- ers, only for delight and smell, to please their fancy, and refine their taste ; others, like the bee, extract only the honey, the wholesome precepts, leaving the rest as of little value ; in reading we should care for both, though for the last the most ; the one serves to instruct the mind, the other fits her to tell what she hath learned. J. Beaumont. The tendency is always to too great a degree of rapidity in reading, and Our natural impulsiveness and haste lead us rushing blindly over the beauties and treasures of literature, skipping whole chap- ters of good thought, because they seem to a casual glance to be “dry,” and leaping over pages and Sentences in an impetuous desire to see how it ends ; indeed, our reading public are generally too much like a mob at a public execution, crowding and jostling, hasting and fuming, to witness the catas- trophe. W. D. Haley. FEALITY. Realities are above theories. Bias. Romance fades before reality. Margaret Lwssam. It is better to be good in reality, than to seem so. Sallust. He who dreads vain fears, deserves those that are real. Seneca. Reality and sham will no more mix together than oil and water. Mrs. Annie Edwards. There are in the world few things, the best reali- ties that are worth having. Acton. Reality ever teams with disappointment for him whose sources of enjoyment spring in the elysium of fancy. François Vidal. The world of reality has its limits ; the world of imagination is boundless. Not being able to enlarge the one, let us contract the other. Rousseaw. The realities of life have pampered the public palate with a diet so stimulating, that vapidity has now become as insipid as water to a dram-drinker, or Sober sense to a fanatic. Colton. The best accounts of the appearances of nature, in any single instance that human penetration can reach, come infinitely short of its reality and in- ternal constitution ; for who can search out the Almighty's works to perfection ? G. Cheyne. FEASON. Exercise reason. Balzac. Reason binds the man. Bishop Olahus. Live according to reason. 2emo. Reason is the light of the soul. Pierre. Reason is the only true Oracle. Ethan Allen. Reason is a ray of divine light. R. R. Howison. Adore God by your own reason. Voltaire. Reason is the key of knowledge. Bulwer. Reason is the light of the world. T. Paine, Reason should be subject to faith. A. Bowrignon. Nothing against reason is lawful. Sir E. Coke. Strong reasons make strong actions. Shakspeare. Reason does not come before years. Rist, Reason is not confined to any place. J. Joyce. Reason is not an attribute of woman. Acidaliws. In all things let reason be your guide. Solom. Without reason there can be no religion. A. Aleacander. It is better to follow reason than fortune. Hannibal. Reason gains all men by compelling none. Aaron Hill. The laws of reason are the voice of Deity. Zschokke. Reason was not given us to deny its Giver. Bishop Tencin. Reason can generally do more than blind force. Cornelius Gallws. Reason is a historian, but the passions are actors. Rivarol. We love without reason, and without reason we hate. Regnard. He whom reason rules may with safety rule others. W. V. Ba?”. Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear I’ea,SOIl. Fielding. Reason without revelation is as a ship without a rudder. Dowmey. It is by reasoning that we arrive at the reason of things. Littleton. The shrewdest reasoners are often the most un- reasonable. G. D. Prentice. Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. W. Warburton. Follow the dictates of reason if you would not fall into error. Demophilus. There are cases where a thing which is only rea- sonable, ceases to be so for that very reason. Mme. Swetchime. 766 D A Y'S CO L / A co N. REASON. If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles. Franklin. He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels. Claudian. Reason is the handmaid of Science, and the bul- wark of literature. J. R. Trumbull. An idle reason lessons the weight of the good ones you gave before. Swift. The total loss of reason is less deplorable than the total deprivation of it. Cowley. There is no opposing brutal force to the strata- gems of human reason. L’Estrange. Perfect reason avoids extremes, and wills us to be wise with discretion. Molière. Whoever is not persuaded by reason, will not be convinced by authority. Benito Feyjoo. Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans. Herodotus. Of all sophists, our own reason is almost always that which abuses us least. Rowsseaw. Reasoning implies doubt and uncertainty ; and therefore God does not reason. A. Wyntown. Reason is the principle by which our belief and opinions ought to be regulated. Mayne Reid. When God is contriving misfortunes for man, He first deprives him of his reason. Ewripides. Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes, his usefulness takes the place of beauty. Jowbert. It is to no manner of purpose that we have rea- son on our side, when the laugh is against us. R. Bolton. There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency. J. Collier. When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. Sir W. Scott. Reason shows us our duty ; he who can make us love our duty is more powerfnl than reason itself. Stanislaws. We give judgment according to reason ; if there be no reason in the law, so much the worse for the law. Sir E. Anderson. Reason how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, may blind, thou art in preventing them. Sir P. Sidney. Pure reason or intuition holds a similar relation to the understanding that perception holds to sen- sation. Sir C. Morell. Never reason from what you do not know; if you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason. J. Ramsay. He that will not reason is a bigot ; he that can- not reason is a fool ; and he that dares not reason is a slave. Sir W. Drummond. FEASON. Human reason is like a drunken man on horse- back; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other. Luther. Reasons are the pillars of the fabric of a sermon, but similitudes are the windows which give the best light. T. Fullen'. Reason is always striving and always at a loss, while it is exercised about that which is not its pro- per object. Dryden. The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it. Pascal. The eyes of reason are the eyes of nature, and the eyes of nature cannot see into that which is beyond or above nature. J. Pulsford. The way to subject all things to thyself, is to sub- ject thyself to reason ; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. F. Quarles. Reason is my only means of knowing and pre- dicting the future ; by it I have divined and ac- quired my knowledge. Ovid. The proper work of man, the grand drift of hu- man life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kin- dled in us from heaven. I. Barrow. Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence. Goethe. There are some things that reason, by its own light, cannot discover ; and others that when pro- posed it cannot comprehend. R. Boyle. Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts in this lower world. I. Watts. Every sect as far as reason will help them, gladly use it ; when it fails them, they cry out it is a mat- ter of faith, and above reason. J. Locke. Reason is the director of man's will, discovering in action what is good ; for the laws of well-doing are the dictates of right reason. R. Hooker. Your own reason is the only Oracle given you by heaven ; and you are answerable, not for the rightness, but uprightness of the decision. T. Jefferson. Providence has gifted man with reason, there- fore, is left the choice of his food and drink, and not to instinct, as among the lower animals. Fother Prout. The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incan- tations: these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in Souls. * Socrates. Reason is to the soul in the intellectual world, what the body is to it in the material world; they both follow the impulse of that central power. A. Brisbane. He is not a reasonable man who by chance stum- bles upon reason ; but he who derives it from knowledge, from discernment, and from taste. Rochefoucauld. A R O S / O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 767 REASON. s There is no way to deal with this man of reason, this rigid exacter of strict demonstration for things which are not capable of it. Tillotson. Reason is said to be one faculty, and imagination another ; but there cannot be a grosser mistake : they are one and indivisible. E. C. Clayton. Reason requires culture to expand it ; it resem- bles the fire concealed in the flint, which only shows itself when struck with the steel. G. S. Gerdil. Wise men are instructed by reason ; men of less understanding, by experience ; the most ignorant, by mecessity ; and beasts, by mature. Cicero. Reason is progressive ; instinct, stationary. Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, northe house of the beaver. Colton. Reason, as it exists in man, is only our intellec- tual eye, and that, like the eye, to see it needs light; to see clearly and far, it needs the light of heaven. J. C. Hare. Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason ; it is our part, by reli- gion and reason joined, to counteract them all we CàIl. J. Wesley. As reason is a rebel unto faith, so is passion unto reason ; as the propositions of faith seem absurd unto reason, so do the theories of reason unto pas- Sion. Sir T. Browne. Reason is that faculty by which, from the use of the knowledge obtained by the other faculties, we are enabled to proceed to other and original know- ledge. F. Wayland. There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done ; as if reason had her eyes behind, and could only see back- wards. - Fielding. It is by reason, founded on observation and ex- perience that we acquire a conviction that certain dispositions or actions will prove beneficial or in- jurious. T. Cogam. Polished steel will not shine in the dark : no more can reason, however refined, shine efficaciously, but as it reflects the light of Divine Truth, shed from heaven. John Foster. We ought not to attempt to draw down or sub- mit the mysteries of God to our reason ; but on the contrary, to raise and advance our reason to the Divine Truth. - Lord Bacon. If it is dangerous to be convinced, it is dangerous to listen ; for our reason is so much of a machine, that it will not always be able to resist when the ear is perpetually assailed. H. Mackenzie. Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wise- ly, to speak prudently, and to behave ourselves worthily upon all occasions. Confucius. Men should be taught and persuaded by reason, not by blows, invectives, and corporal punish- ments; we should rather pity than hate those who in the most important concerns act ill. - Emperor Julian. FEASON. - Though reason is not to be relied upon as univer- sally sufficient to direct us what to do, yet it is generally to be relied upon and obeyed where it tells us what we ought not to do. R. Sowth. Reason is like the Sun, of which the light is con- stant, uniform, and lasting ; fancy, a meteor of bright, but transitory lustre, irregular in its mo- tion, and delusive in its direction. Dr. Johnson. A chain of reasoning Ought to have an adequate number of links, a hook for the nose of the auditor, a grapple for the subject, and a swivel to every pair of propositions to relieve the kinks. L. Dow. He that speaketh against his own reason, speaks against his own conscience ; and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good con- science, who serves Him against his reason. Jeremy Taylor. There is a trite error which youth always falls into ; they suppose that reason presides over the transactions of the world ; their disappointment strongly induces them to believe that it ought. Zimmerman. A single step on the wrong course might prove the destruction of us all ; it is seldom danger is so pressing that there is not time enough for reason to do its work ; therefore, let us await its biddings. J. F. Cooper. The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination ; since inclina- tion will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination. Addison. Reason is our arbiter and guide, by the institu- tion and law of nature, in civil and natural affairs; it is the beam and standard at which we weigh them ; it is a home-born judge and king in the Soul. J. Flavel. Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame. - W. G. Simms. Reason is not a competent judge of the wisdom and fitness of what is revealed ; what God reveals must be consistent with rectitude and fitness ; and reason has thenceforth nothing to do but to believe and obey. Bishop Van Mildert. Motives that address themselves to Our reason are fittest to be employed upon reasonable Crea- tures; it is no ways congruous that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth. F. Atterbury. Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feel- ings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence ; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen. Bulwer. He that follows the advice of reason has a mind that is elevated above the reach of injury ; that sits above the clouds, in a calm and quiet ether, and with a brave indifferency hears the rolling thun- ders grumble and burst under his feet. Sir W. Scott. 768 AX A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. REASON. Reason can no more influence the will, and ope- rate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him to move from place to place, or that a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind. R. Whately. . His reason being created after the image of God, man has to use it to discover the laws by which the Almighty governs His creation, and by making these laws his standard of action, to conquer nature to use himself as a Divine instrument. Prince Albert. The province of reason as to matters of religion, is the same as that of the eye in reference to the external world ; not to create objects, nor to sit in judgment on the propriety of their existence, but simply to discern them just as they are. Berkeley. Without reason, as on a tempestuous sea, we are the sport of every wind and wave, and know not, till the event hath determined it, how the next billow will dispose of us ; whether it will dash us against a rock or drive us into a quiet harbor. R. Lucas. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason ; because we sus- pect that his stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ageS. - Burke. How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives; reason it- self is true, and just, but the reason of every par- ticular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices. No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the object of revelation to make known ; still it places the existence and personal attributes of the Deity on such grounds as to render doubts absurd and atheism ridiculous. Sir John Herschel. When I reflect that God has given to inferior animals no instincts nor faculties that are not im- mediately subservient to the ends and purposes of their beings, I cannot but conclude that the reason and faculties of man were bestowed upon the same principle, and are connected with his superior na- ture. Lord Erskine. It is good sense, reason that produces everything; virtue, genius, wit, talent, and taste. What is vir- tue? Reason in practice. Talent? Reason enveloped in glory. Wit? Reason which is chastely expressed. Taste is nothing else than good sense delicately put in force, and genius is reason in its most sublime form. Clawde-Mermet. Every man hath a kingdom within himself ; rea- son, as the princess, dwells in the highest and in- wardest room ; the senses are the guard and at- tendants on the court, without whose aid nothing is admitted into the presence ; the Supreme faculties, as will, memory, etc., are the peers ; the outward parts and inward affections are the commons; vio- lent passions are rebels, to disturb the common peace. J. Hall. Swift. FEASON. Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert that abstruse philoso- phy and metaphysical jargon, which being mixed up with popular superstition, renders it in a man- ner impenetrable to careless reasoners, and gives it the air of Science and wisdom. Hwme. Understanding is discursive, and in all its judg- ments refers to some other faculty as its ultimate authority ; it is the faculty of reflection. Reason is fixed, and in all its decisions appeals to itself as the ground and substance of their truth ; it is the faculty of contemplation ; it is indeed far nearer to sense than to understanding. S. T. Coleridge. The privilege of reason, which renders man far more excellent than the inferior ranks of creatures, does also render him capable of giving an account of his actions ; and as it is natural to conclude that he is the work of an All-Wise Being, so it is reason- able to expect that he will be called to answer for the discharge or abuse of his great trust. T. Newlin. It would truly be a fine thing if men suffered themselves to be guided by reason, that they should acquiesce in the true remonstrances addressed to them by the writings of the learned and the advice of friends; but the greater part are so disposed that the words which enter by one ear do inconti- nently go out of the other, and begin again by following the custom ; the best teacher one can have is necessity. R. H. Stoddard. The language of reason, unaccompanied by kind- ness, will often fail of making an impression ; it has no effect on the understanding, because it touches not the heart. The language of kindness, unasso- ciated with reason, will frequently be unable to persuade ; because, though it may gain upon the affections, it wants that which is necessary to con- vince the judgment. But let reason and kindness be united in a discourse, and seldom will even pride or prejudice find it easy to resist. T. Gisborne. Guided by reason, man has travelled through the abstruse regions of the philosophic world ; he has originated rules by which he can direct the ship through the pathless ocean, and measure the comet's flight over fields of unlimited space ; he has established Society and government ; he can aggregate the profusions of every climate, and every season ; he can meliorate the severity and remedy the imperfections, of nature herself ; all these things he can perform by the assistance of TeaSOIl. F. Burges. Our redemption means the recovery of our rea- son. Reason, innocent as the dove, and resplen- dent from the orient heavens, hovers over us; her graceful wings expanded, she sprinkles us with the holy spirit of truth; and sin and fear, which have been let loose by ignorance, are again chained up, and virtue reassumes her empire ; in Our reason we discover God ; in our reason we work Out Our redemption ; in our reason we find eternal happi- ness; by the use of our reason we are on a level with more perfect ideal existences, and separate man from brutish beasts. Why should we then look at God through a microscope. Maltravers. P R O S E Q U O T A 7" / O M S. 769 FEBELLION. Rebellion breeds rebellion. Lowis XI. Quell rebellion before it spreads. Vespasian. A rebellion put down strengthens a government. - R. Whately, A rebel, like a bell, was made on purpose to be hanged. S. Butler. It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and human- ity is cruelty. Charles IX. Rebellion is justifiable only when laws are op- pressive and the wicked reign. J. Linem. Rebellion . The very word is a confession of tyranny, outrage, and oppression. J. P. Benjamin. No sooner is the standard of rebellion displayed, than men of dangerous principles resort to it. . Fisher Ames. General rebellions and revolts of a whole people mever were encouraged ; they are always pro- voked. Burke. When rulers most greedily do prosecute vices, then their enemies are busy in weaving some web of deadly rebellion. Olaus Magmws. There is no rebellion possible except against the true sovereign, the people ; and how can the peo- ple be rebels against themselves 3 Lamennais. God never goes about to rule any by fear, but those that have first trampled upon love, and are no longer subjects, but professed rebels. Culverwell. Although a man has been righteous in his youth and vigor, yet if he rebels against the will of God in his old age, the merit of his former goodness shall be lost to him. Talmud. There can be no treaty of peace till we can lay down these weapons of rebellion with which we fight against heaven ; nor can we expect to have our distempers cured, if our daily food be poison. H. Scougal. REBUEE}. Impropriety of behavior demands rebuke. Crabb. Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments. Isoews. Rebukes ought not to have a grain more of salt than of Sugar. C. L. Irby. The rebukes to children should be in grave and dispassionate words. J. Locke. In vain do we rebuke those sins abroad which we tolerate at home. J. Hall. When thy master rebuketh thee, answer not again ; the silence of thy resignation shall not be forgotten. R. Dodsley. With all the infirmities of his disciples, Christ calmly bore; and his rebukes were mild when their provocations were great. H. Blair. Open rebukes are for magistrates and courts of justice ; private rebukes are for friends, where all the witnesses of the offender's blushes are blind, and deaf, and dumb. Feltham. FECAPITULATION, A judge recapitulates evidence to a jury. Bacom. A minister should always recapitulate the lead- ing points in his sermon. G. Crabb. Recapitulation is bringing the several lines to- gether, as rays are collected in the focus of a burn- ing-glass, to inflame the hearts of the auditors. B. Keckerman. If a recapitulation be coupled with strong and appropriate comments on a general subject, it will form one of the most powerful methods of conclud- ing. Dr. Sturtevant. Recapitulation is very important to gain the at- tention ; and it is equally important to fix on the memory the things heard, lest at any time they slip therefrom, and consequently no practical use can possibly be made of the knowledge communi- cated. R. G. Pardee. RECEPTION. A cold reception always displeases. N. Webster. We accord a kind reception to a man for what he represents, and not what he really deserves. w Annie E. Lancaster. We receive a stranger according to his appear- ance, but part with him according to his merits. S. Boyse. In the intercourse of men, the reception of each other will be polite or cold, according to the senti- ments entertained toward the individual. G. Crabb. At public receptions we can observe the different grades of politeness; the wealthy and influential are received with obsequiousness, while the less fortunate are coolly noticed by a quiet nod of re- cognition. James Ellis. RECIPROCITY. Reciprocity brings good to all. J. Nicoll. There must be reciprocity, or there can be no union. Washington. Life cannot subsist in Society but by reciprocal concessions. Dr. Johnson. In reciprocal duties, the failure on one side jus- tifies not a failure on the other. Earl of Carlisle. Reciprocity merely prohibits the infliction of any injury upon the character of another. F. Wayland. True reciprocity consists in not doing to others what you do not want done to yourself. Confucius. The services of the poor, and the protection of the rich, become reciprocally necessary. H. Blair. Where there is no hope of a reciprocal aid, there can be no reason for the mutual obligation ; in re- ciprocity there are no favors. L’Estrange. Reciprocity of religious feeling and principle is the best groundwork for enduring friendship ; and reciprocity of intellectual taste gives a genial soil for friendship ; hence it so frequently takes root during the progress of education ; the fruits of knowledge are easily engrafted upon so generous a stock. Mrs. Sigourmey. 49 77() AX A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. FEECLUSE. Recluses are enemies to progress. R. Bacom. A man may embrace the life of a recluse from the basest as well as the noblest of motives. Biom. A man does not always become a recluse from choice ; there may be such a thing as compulsory seclusion. E. P. Day. The recluse who does not easily assimilate with the rest of mankind, is not likely to have many real friends ; his enjoyments must be solitary, and melancholy. H. K. White. Hermits are not those alone who live in caves and Solitary places. There are hermits whose abodes are in populous cities—aliens to the social affections, neither asking for nor yielding sympa- thy—these people live the lives of recluses under the name of exclusives. Bovee. RECOLLECTION. Recollection is the life of religion. Burleigh. We delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality. W. Irving. Recollection exercises the memory, and affords us the purest of enjoyments. T. Fuller. After inflicting misfortune upon us, time still tor- ments us with the recollection of it. Jaafar. Our recollection of what we have been, constitute our anticipation of what we wish to be hereafter. a Acton. We either can or cannot recollect what we do not at once remember ; we cannot recollect amiss, unless it be that we recollect the facts, but not in their proper order. R. G. White. Let us take care that we sleep not without such a recollection of the actions of the day as may repre- sent anything that is remarkable, as matter of sor- row or thanksgiving. Jeremy Taylor, It is not when a villainous act has just been com- mitted that it torments us ; it is when we recall it to our recollection a long time afterwards, for the remembrance of it lasts forever. Rowsseaw. FECOMIMENDATION. All recommendations should be just. R. Lulle. If wealth is no recommendation to a man, neither is poverty. Sallo. Be neither too hasty to recommend nor too for- ward to discommend any. Amaacagorus. An upright minister asks what recommends a man ; a corrupt minister, who 3 Colton. It is no recommendation to a man for being like a woman, nor a woman for resembling a man. Quadratus. Never recommend a man till thou knowest him thoroughly, what he is in passion, temper, and man- IlêTS. Theognis. Consider again and again the character of the man whom thou recommendest, lest the faults of another should, by and by, bring a blush to thy cheek. Horace. IRECOMPENSE. God recompenses the deserving. Rivuccini. Never seek a recompense to thyself for the deeds of another. Awrelius. God recompenses those who have no other source of recompense. J. Oglethorpe. There is a sufficient recompense in the very con- sciousness of a noble deed. Cicero. Honor is the recompense of those who do right without seeking recompense. Eutropius. God recompenses according to the measure where with ye withstand the evil in your heart. Rabbi Eleazar. Those who overrate their services will, in all pro- bability, be disappointed in the recompense they receive. Dr. R. Heathcote. If we recompense evil with good, with what will we recompense good 2 Recompense evil with jus- tice, and good with good. Confucius. Recompense is co-operative ; we must all pull in the traces that keep the world moving, and as we receive, so we ought to impart ; the greatest credit belonging to him who does the most and best. James Ellis. FECONCILIATION. Reconciliation is better than enmity. Siactus III. Reconciled friendship is a wound ill salved. Gwicciardiºvi. Let thy reconciliation be both easy and un- doubted. Seneca. Reconciliation, to be real, requires some common ground of amity. - G. S. Bowes. When a state has many causes for hatred, reli- gion ought to produce reconciliation. Montesquiew. Reconciliation with enemies is owing to a desire of bettering our condition—the fatigue of war, and an apprehension of some untoward event. Rochefowcauld. The best way to reconcile two disagreeing fami- lies or kingdoms, is to make a marriage between them : for the uniting of bloods ends all quarrels. T. Adams. It has been a maxim with me to admit of an easy reconciliation with a person, whose offense pro- ceeded from no depravity of heart ; but where I was convinced it did so, to forego, for my own sake, all opportunities of revenge. Shenstone. When a friend is angry with his friend, and wishes for a reconciliation, let him meet him face to face, and fix his eyes on his friend's eyes, re- membering only the object for which he is come, and forgetting all former grievances. Euripides. To be a finite being is no crime, and to be the In- finite is not to be the creditor. As man was not consulted, he does not find himself a party in a bar- gain, but a child in the household of love. Recon- ciliation, therefore, is not the consequence of paying a debt, or procuring atonement for an injury, but an organic process of human life. J. Weiss. A /& O S / O U O 7' 4 7" / O AV. S. 7 7 l RECREATION. Recreation is not laziness. O. S. Fowley'. Recreation is a Second creatio To?"Cth. Recreation is good after long fighting. J. A. Paez. Recreation restores both mind and body. Sesscu. Change of work is the healthiest and best recrea- tion. Emperor William of Germany. Physical recreation is a restorative to the mind of a student. G. Abbot, Recreation is necessary to relieve our minds and bodies from too constant labor. Steele, Recreation is an artist's necessity ; and no work should be done on “blue Monday.” Actrfgem. In your recreations let the riches of knowledge be carried on the stream of delight. Sir P. Sidney. The bow cannot possibly stand always bent, mor can human nature or human frailty subsist with- Out Some lawful recreation. Cervantes. A man needs recreation, repose at home, not a perpetual encounter of wit, nor the continual gra- vity and sobriety of wisdom. Martha Martell. Let not recreation be lavish spenders of your time, but choose such as are healthful, recreative, and apt to refresh you ; but at no hand dwell upon them. Jeremy Taylor. He that spends his time in sports, and calls it re- ereation, is like him whose garment is all made of fringes, and his meat nothing but sauces : they are healthless, changeable, and useless. Telesphorus. Some recreation must be given to our minds; rest makes them better and more active. As we must not overwork our fertile fields, for in that way we shall soon exhaust them, so uninterrupted labor destroys the power of men's minds. Seneca. Let thy recreation be manly, moderate, season- able, lawful ; if thy life be sedentary, more tending to the exercise of thy body ; if active, more to the refreshing of thy mind ; the use of recreation is to strengthen thy labor, and sweeten thy rest. - F. Quarles. Men cannot labor on always; they must have in- tervals of recreation ; they cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recrea- tion ; and if they have not recreation from health- ful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. O. Dewey. Recreations are the most properly applied to ease and relieve those who are oppressed, by being too much employed ; those that are idle have no need of them, and yet they, above all others, give them- selves up to them. To unbend our thoughts when they are too much stretched by our cares, is not more natural than it is necessary ; but to turn our whole life into a holiday is not only ridiculous, but destroyeth pleasure instead of promoting it. Sir H. Saville. RECTITUDE. Rectitude of conduct is man's chief good. Plato. Rectitude of conduct is the beauty of knowledge. J. Melton. Moral rectitude is the substratum of human feli- city. L. C. Judson. Rectitude of character maketh men on the earth famous, in their graves glorious, and in heaven immortal. Chilo. Tectitude does not consist in extensiveness of knowledge, but in doing the best according to the lights afforded. A. Tucker. There is a sublimity in conscious rectitude ; in Comparison with which the treasures of earth are lmot worth naming. J. Hawes. Rectitude is merely metaphorical, and that as a right line describes the shortest passage from point to point, so a right action effects a good design by the fewest means. Dr. Johnson. Perfect rectitude belongs only to the Supreme Being ; and the more nearly the rectitude of men approaches to the standard of the divine law, the more exalted and dignified is their character. N. P. ebster'. Rectitude of character, nobleness and generosity of disposition, lowness of mind and illiberality, modesty and intelligence, insolence and stupidity, are shown both in the countenance and gestures of men, whether they are standing or moving. Aemophon. Rectitude is the first law of the gentleman; when he says “yes,” it is a law ; and he dares to say the valiant “no" at the fitting season. The man of rectitude will not be bribed, it is only the low- minded and unprincipled that will sell themselves. Smiles. REDRESS. Redress a wrong without compulsion. Lambin. There is no sufficient redress for an unjust of fense. J. Bodenham. There is occasion for redress when the cry is uni- versal. J. Davenant. The right of private redress for injuries to pro- perty or person, is subversive of all government. T. Dwight. The man who for every trifling injury applies to a lawyer for redress, will soon be obliged to apply to the town for support. J. Hartlett. What we suffer through the oppression and wick- edness of others, can be redressed only by those who have the power of dispensing justice. Crabb. Every citizen, as an individual, is bound to sur- render the right of redressing his wrongs wholly to society ; aggression and injury in no case justify retaliation. F. Wayland. We may redress an injury done to another, and that reparation may seem satisfactory to the in- jured, yet the consciousness of having been injured still remains, and but a little friction suffices to ignite anew the old fire. W. T. Batrke. 7 72 AD A Y’.S C O / / A C O AV. REDEMIPTION. REFINEMENT. John Rogers. Talmud. Christ is our only Redeemer. Death is a redemption for all sin. Deliverance from Satan's dominion is a redemp- tion. D. Wilson. The redemption of the world was too great a work for any mere man. IP. Hill. The redemption of Christ reaches in its merciful contrivances and purposes to all mankind. W. Hanna. The whole structure of man and of the world, is moulded to be the theatre of the redemption of the sinner. J. B. Brown. The earliest Christian lesson which Our church bids us teach our children is, that God the Son hath redeemed us. C. Summer. We do not behold the beauty of God merely in his work of creation, but more so in the stupendous one of redemption. Downey. Though our Saviour had conquered death by the resurrection, he had not yet been able to overcome sin by the redemption. J. Ogilvie. Redemption is the consummation of love ; other gifts are only as mites from the Divine Treasury : but redemption opens all the stores of indulgence and grace. G. W. Hervey. Redemption is the payment of a price, in order to liberate a captive ; this idea attaches to the sacrifice of Christ ; the redemption is two-fold— virtual and actual. W. Watson. By revelation we see how God's justice and mer- cy, His holiness and truth, are each distinct attri- butes of the Godhead ; by redemption we behold and wonder at their gracious union. G. S. Bowes. It should raise wonder in us when we consider God’s power and goodness in the work of creation : but when we consider the work of redemption, it should raise our wonder to an ecstacy. E. Hopkins. We are not said to be redeemed by His incarnation —by His birth, by His miracles, by His doctrine, not even by His agony in the garden, though all these were necessary to the ransom—but by His blood. D. Wilson. Is it not an amazing thing that men shall attempt to investigate the mystery of the redemption, when, at the same time that it is propounded to us as an article of faith solely, we are told that “the very angels have desired to pry into it in vain 3’ Sterne. Thou didst nothing toward thy own creation, for thou wert created for thy Creator's glory : thou must do something toward thy own redemp- tion, for thou wert redeemed for thy own good : He that made thee without thee, will not save thee without thee. F. Quarles. The single fact of redemption, in its double as- pect of love and power, gives us a deeper insight into justice, fitness, merit, and the real meaning of absolute submission, than all human inductions, all prudent calculations, and all the abstract demon- strations of a hollow theosophy. Mme. Swetchine. Refinement is superior to beauty. Lascaris. To refine and polish is a part of our work in this world. J. T. Headley. The delights and refinements of life spring from elevated sources. S. Chapuzeau. Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. Rochefoucauld. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow- men is not God’s refinement. H. W. Beecher'. It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage. Dr. Johnson. That only can with propriety be styled refine- ment which, by strengthening the intellect, puri- fies the manners. S. T. Coleridge. Refinement creates beauty everywhere ; it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object. Hazlitt. The refinement which distinguishes all classes of the people in many continental countries, show that those qualities might become ours too, with- Out sacrificing any of Our more genuine qualities as 1}}{2]]. S. Smiles. If refined sense and exalted sense be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects make some compen- sation, and render them the admiration of man- kind. Hume. Ages of ignoranee and simplicity are thought to be ages of refinement ; but the direct contrary I believe to be the case. Rude periods have that grossness of manners which is as unfriendly to vir- tue as luxury itself ; men are less ashamed as they are less polished. J. Warton. In its refinements, its elegancies, its graces, and adornments, are seen the glory and perfection of life. It is the highest honor to be equal to them and capable of sustaining them ; and the greatest happiness to appreciate them properly and to en- joy them rationally. Acton. All nations that have reached the highest point of civilization, may from that hour assume “to seem rather than to be.” These are the signs of the times which he that runs may read, and which will enable the philosopher to date the commence- ment of national decay, from the consummation of national refinement. Colton. Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement ; it is not, like beauty, a gift of nature, and can only be acquired by cul- tivation and practice. Intelligence, when blended with virtue, is always respected and universally esteemed, and it is to those elements of culture that refinement of character obtains. James Ellis. It is a doubt whether the refinements of modern times have or have not been a drawback upon our happiness ; for plainness and simplicity of man- ners have given way to etiquette, formality, and deceit, whilst the ancient hospitality has now al- most entirely deserted our land ; and what we ap- pear to have gained in head, we seem to have lost in heart. L. Blanchard. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 773 º REFLECTION. - FEFORM. He who reflects obtains ample joy. Buddha. Fear not to reform. Confucius. Reflection to a lover but augments desire. Change is not reform. J. Randolph. Ibn Al-Khaiyat. *-ºms- — . e He who reforms, God assists. Cervantes. They only babble who practise not reflection. --- R. B. Sheridan. Reform should begin at home. Marmontel. There is one art of which every man should be master—the art of reflection. S. T. Coleridge. The reflections on a day well spent, furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand tri- umphs. T. d. Kempis. Reflection is indeed an angel, when she points out the errors of the past and gives us courage to avoid them in the future. Mrs. S. H. DeKroft. Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out a wholesome fragrance; but reverie is the same flow- er, when rank and running to seed. Tupper. Men reflect little, read negligently, judge with precipitation, and receive opinions exactly as they do money, because they are current. R. Femmell. The custom of frequent reflection will keep our minds from running adrift, and call our thoughts home from useless unattentive roving. J. Locke. Reflection is, in its principle, nothing but sensa- tion itself, because it is less a source of ideas than a canal through which they flow from sense. Comdillac. Reflection upon death is not a gloomy and sad thought of resigning everything that he delights in, but it is a short night followed by an endless day. Steele. Reflection has to do with things past and the ideas of them ; attention may employ the organs of the body ; reflection is purely a mental opera- tion. T. Reid. Reflection is the business of man ; a sense of his state is his first duty ; but who remembereth him- self in joy 2 Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us? - R. Dodsley. If we would only give ourselves half an hour's serious reflection at the close of every day, we should preach to ourselves seven of the best ser- mons that could be uttered every week. Kant. The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be for- gotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into student. R. A. Willmott. Reflection makes men cowards; there is no ob- ject that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the mo- ment. Hazlitt. In the most insensible or childish minds there is Some train of reflection, which art can seldom lead or skill assist, but which will reveal itself, as great truths have done by chance, and when the discov- erer has the plainest and simplest end in view. Dickens. Reform is as good for the state, as well as for the people. Emperor William of Germany. Reform, to be useful and durable, must be gra- dual and cautious. Chatfield. Whatever you dislike in another person, take care to reform in yourself. T. Sprat. Reform lets in light through the dark curtain of ignorance and superstition. H. S. Jacobs. The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves. H. W. Shaw. Neither fire, sword, nor banishment can retard reform, but it rather hastens it forward. Thwanws. All great reforms, like the Christian religion, are based on broad, generous, self-sacrificing principles. John Brown. Public reformers had need first practice on their own hearts that which they propose to try on others. Ring Charles I. He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, im- potent patriots. Lavater. One reason why the world is not reformed, is because every man would have others make a be- ginning, and never thinks of himself. T. Adam. Famatical reformers do great harm to a cause ; over-zeal is worse to a cause than downright op- position ; the work of reform must advance with- out hot-bed aid. Helene Mario, Weber. All reforms are matters of the moment ; fruit of any kind plucked and eaten before ripe is sure to have unpleasant effects on all sorts of stomachs, political as well as physical. B. M. Walsh. Reform has usually been the work of reason slowly awakening from the lethargy of ignorance, gradually acquiring confidence in her own strength, and ultimately triumphing over the dominion of prejudice and custom. S. Parº'. ' Reform, like charity, must begin at home ; once well at home, how it will radiate outwards, irre- pressible, into all that we touch and handle, speak and work, kindling ever new light by incalculable contagion ; spreading, in geometric ratio, far and wide ; doing good only, wherever it spreads, and not evil. T. Carlyle. Reform is a good, replete with paradox: it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our me- dical, recommend to others, but will not take them- selves ; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can ; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come. Colton. 774 J) A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. REFORMATION. Reformation is an act of the mind. Polemno. The Reformation opened the sluice-gates of scep- ticism. Pope Leo XIII. Reformation is good for the political, physical, and moral body. Dr. J. Jebb. The greatest hinderers of reformation have been among libertines and politicians. Milton. The greatest reformation should be among those who have been the greatest sinners. Addison. One reason why the work of reformation goes on so slowly is because we all begin with our neighbors, and never reach ourselves. It. Bommer. To make others wealthy we must possess gold : even so to accomplish a reformation in Our fellow- men, we must first be reformed ourselves. Downey. What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will W. Mathews. Reformation consists in restoring it to its primi- tive beauty ; to be perfect, we must reascend to the point from which we have fallen. Let us obey Heaven. Confucius. Mere reformation differs as much from regene- ration, as whitewashing an old rotten house dif- fers from taking it down and building a new one in its room. A. M. Toplady. The ethical systems of philosophers not unfre- quently presented sublime and pure conceptions of Deity; but as instruments of moral reformation, they were clearly inoperative. F. Wayland. It is well-known what strange work there has been in the world under the name and pretense of reformation ; how often it has turned out to be, in reality, deformation; or at best, a tinkering sort of business, where while one hole has been mended two have been made. G. Horne. Reformation is a work of time ; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once ; we must yield a little to the pre- possession which has taken hold on the mind, and we may then bring people to adopt what would offend them if endeavored to be introduced by vio- lence. Sir J. Reynolds. Honest and zealous friends of truth ardently longed for the reformation of religion, they were earnestly desirous to see philosophy restored to its former purity ; and their bold attempts to subdue religious errors and prejudice, indirectly contri- buted to the correction of philosophy and the ad- vancement of learning. W. Enfield. How dangerous to defer those momentous re- formations, which the conscience is solemnly preaching to the heart ; if they are neglected, the difficulty and indisposition are increasing every month : the mind is receding, degree after degree, from the warm and hopeful zone, till at last it will enter the arctic circle, and become fixed in relent- less and eternal ice. J. Foster. REFUSAIL. In a refusal be polite. Min-Tsze-Keen. Ten refusals are better than one lie. Ghilāni. A gracious refusal is often better than an ungra- cious gift. Elewtheriws. It is kindness to refuse at once what you do not intend to grant. Publius Syrus. Service and interest are often offered in confi- dence of refusal. N. Macdonald. A refusal may sometimes be signified by actions or looks as well as words. G. Crabb. A neglect to perform an obligation may be con- Strued, in Some cases, as a refusal. J. Bowvier. After many refusals, the true benefactor may perhaps be found at last, and generally it is one who was least relied upon. N. Paulze. We should never refuse anything that is in our power to grant ; we must also be careful that what we grant is not misapplied. .James Ellis. Be not mealy-mouthed in refusing him that you are satisfied has a pique against you ; and let it be no inducement to trust him because he has confided in you. g Plutarch. A polite manner of refusing to comply with the solicitations of a company, is very necessary to be learned ; for a young man who seems to have no will of his own, but does everything that is asked of him, may be a very good-natured fellow, but he is a very silly one. J. H. Moore. Great is the disappointment, frequently, when only small requests are refused, therefore they are not to be rejected in a dogmatical manner ; but if we intend to use the blunt monosyllable, then “he is less deceived that is soon denied,” and very obliging if he spares us his after-commentaries upon our acts. Acton. REFUTATION. Refute with truths. Pelagius I. Error is its own refutation. Vergerius. We should refute with consistency, strictly ad- hering to truth. Willard Phillips. Refutation must be borne out by proofs—ocular proofs, not words alone. Lord Campbell. Before we attempt to refute anything we should be confident of our proofs. R. Bentley. Remember that in attempting to refute your opponent's argument, mildness of manner adds strength to the refutation. Terence. To endeavor to refute without tangible proof, denotes weakness of judgment and obstimacy of mind ; and to refute with a wrong or mistaken motive is an evidence of ignorance. James Ellis. When an assertion is proved to be false, it is re- futed ; a confuted proposition is reduced to an absurdity ; when a charge is refuted, the refuta- tion remains triumphant, but does not alter the character of the charge. G. F. Graham. Z' A' O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 775 IREGENERATION. REGRET. Regeneration has no meaning. A. J. Davis. It is useless to regret. Ivanoff. Regeneration is a supernatural change. Varchi. Regeneration is absolutely necessary to qualify you for heaven. Rev. T. Bostom. Regeneration is clothing the body, when washed, with new garments. G. S. Bowes. There is no union to Christ without regeneration, and consequently no salvation without it. Ritchie. The only certain proof of regeneration is victory; he that is born of God overcometh the world. J. Wilson. Regeneration is that mighty change whereby a natural man is made a spiritual or a new man. Rev. J. Fletcher. Regeneration is neither more nor less than what I may call elementary or incipient sanctification. R. Wardlaw. In the creation of man God began at the outside; but in the work of regeneration He first begins within—at the heart. Bwyvyan. Regeneration is the ransacking of the soul, the turning of a man out of himself, the crumbling to pieces of the old man, and the new moulding of it into another shape. E. Hopkins. Everything in religion from the beginning to the end of time, is only for the sake of it ; nothing does us any good, but either as it helps forward our regeneration, or as it is a true fruit or effect of it. W. Law. A child as soon as born is a perfect man as to parts, though they are not yet at their full growth and size ; so the new man, or gracious principle, infused in regeneration, is a perfect new man as to parts, though as yet not arrived to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. J. Gill. The doctrine of regeneration by the power of Divine grace is a thing of too irrefragable proof to admit of denial ; when we see a persecuting Saul changed to a humble and self-denying apostle of Christ ; when we see the apparently abandoned John Newton brought to be the pure-minded, holy, heavenly minister of the gospel—and such instances multiplied by ten of thousands—it is in vain to jeer at the doctrine of regeneration as mere supposi- tion and fanaticism. L. W. Billington. IREGARD. Everyman should regard his own interest. Ceba. A new acquaintance excites our regard, and en- joys much courtesy. Acton. Regard springs from the heart as well as the head ; it is affection blended with esteem. Crabb. An assurance of regard is a promise of affection ; to present one's regards is only an amenity. Mme. Swetchine. We should always have a regard for the virtu- ous, and a hatred for those who are vile ; goodness and virtue will always command the true regard of those who are good. Borghini. Hopes and regrets are the Sweetest links of exist- €llC62. Miss L. E. Landon. There are little things that leave no little re- grets. W. S. Landor. Regrets for past actions should chasten our fu- ture life. James Ellis. Regret is useful and virtuous when it tends to the amendment of life. Dr. Johnson. Something will be gathered from the tablet of the most faultless day for regret. Mrs. Sigowrmey. Regret is frequently tender, and always moder- ate ; hence it is allowable to mortals who are en- compassed with troubles to indulge in regret. º G. Crabb. The best evidence of regret for wrong actions in the past, is right ones in the future ; it is the best apology we can give to the world and to ourselves. T. Edwards. Regrets, toward the evening of life, will occur nearly to all, even the happiest ; we mourn the departure of the luminary, though his setting be glorious. ..Sir J. Hill. A wrong act, followed by just regret, and thoughtful caution to avoid like errors, makes a man better than he should have been, if he had never fallen. Horatio Seymour. We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would in all probability have done for us. Life too often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. Colton, REG-ULARITY. Regularity is the life of business. N. Webster. Regularity is the beauty of nature and the virtue of man. Elisha Coles. We should regulate our lives according to our social standing. G. Gruber. Regularity is unity, unity is god-like ; only the devil is changeable. Richter. We should endeavor to be regular in all things; for he who observes regularity never goes beyond the bounds of moderation. T. Coram. When the supreme faculties of the will and un- derstanding move regularly, a serenity arises upon the whole soul, infinitely beyond the greatest bodily pleasures. R. South. Since regularity of personal and business habits is so indispensable in adults, its early formation in children is equally important ; that child who has been trained up to regularity is richer than Solo- mon and Croesus together. O. S. Fowler. The regularity and polish even of a turnpike-road has some influence upon the low people in the neighborhood; they become fond of regularity and neatness, which is displayed first upon their yards and little inclosures, and next within doors: a taste for regularity and neatness thus acquired is extended by degrees to dress, and even to behavior and manners. Kames. 776 A) A Y',S C O Z Z A C O AV. REJOICING-. Rejoice in little. Damhowder. Rejoice with a rejoicing universe. Mammingham. Rejoice in the truth, and maintain it. E. Mallet. Rejoice to-day, for to-morrow you will be ashes. J. Lightfoot. There is nothing more to be rejoiced at than a good and quiet conscience. Justinian. Rejoice in the welfare of your neighbor ; rejoice with him whose eye is beaming with affection for those who are nearest and dearest to him. J. Holt. Rejoice with the second youth of the heaven- born soul, as the revelations of a second birth pour in upon it, and the glories of a new world amaze it. - J. Hamilton. The calendar of the sinner has only a few days in the year marked as festival days ; but every day of the Christian's calendar is marked by the hand of God as a day of rejoicing. E. Foster. B.ELAXATION. Relaxation renews exertion. Bonaventure. Continued relaxation soon becomes indolence. W. T. Burke. A person accustomed to a life of activity longs for a relaxation. Mrs. Mary Sewell. I can find relaxation in everything, from tossing a cricket-ball to negotiating a treaty with the em- peror of China. Sir J. Malcolm. Relaxation is at times allowable ; but we must enjoy it as we do sleep and other kinds of repose, when we have performed the weighty and impor- tant affairs of business. Cicero. The pleasure of relaxation is known to those only who have regular and interesting employment. Continued relaxation soon becomes a weariness ; and on this ground we may safely assert that the greatest degree of real enjoyment belongs, not to the luxurious man of wealth, or the listless votary of fashion, but to the middle classes of society. Abercrombie. RELIEE'. In adversity rich men should give relief. Basil. Let us do all in our power for the relief of those in distress. Duchess of Marlborough. An unfortunate person looks for relief to the compassionate and kind. G. Crabb, Sympathy excited by a tale of sorrow ought to be followed by some efforts for the relief of the sufferer. Abercrombie. We should give relief as we would receive— cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation ; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fin- gers. Seneca. I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure ; if I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind. Niebuhr. FELATIONS. Relations make poor friends. A. Bedford. A virtuous prince does not neglect his relations. Chow-Kwmg. The rich man has more relations than he knows. Ariosto. It is not flesh and blood, it is the heart that makes us relatives. Schiller. How dreadful is the enmity of relations, and how difficult a reconciliation. Euripides. Nature herself has produced friendship with re- lations, but it is never very stable. Cicero. Never will he be respected by others who makes himself despised by his own relatives. Plawłºws. Distant relatives imagine they have a claim to rob you if you are rich, and to insult you if you are poor. Strigelius. Relations in particular should always live apart, if they desire peace and contentment to preside in the domestic circle. J. Linen. If you fall out with a relative, discuss your dif- ferences with him privately, reason with him kind- ly, and conciliate him. Ptah Hotep. It is difficult to discover the relations of a poor man, for no one likes to acknowledge his relation- ship with one who is in want, lest he should be asked for assistance. Memounder. A cynical man insists that the fewer relations or friends we have the happier we are ; in poverty they never help you, in your prosperity they al- ways help themselves. G. D. Prentice. Mutual benevolence must be kept up between relations as well as friends ; for without this ce- ment, whatever you please to call the building, it is only a castle in the air—a thing to be talked of, without the least reality. S. Croacall. How negligent and careless we often are of our friends and relations, so long as they enjoy with us this earthly abode, and how we only then re- pent of our insensibility, when the pleasant union, at least on this side of time, has been severed. Goethe. Relations take the greatest liberties and give the least assistance. If a stranger cannot help us with his purse, he will not insult us with his comments; but with relations it mostly happens that they are the veriest misers with regard to their property, but perfect prodigals in the article of advice. Colton. A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in na- ture—a piece of impertinent correspondency—an odious approximation—a haunting conscience—a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of prosperity—an unwelcome remembrancer—a perpetually recurring mortification — a drain on your purse—a rebuke to your rising—a triumph to your enemy—an apology to your friends—the one thing not needful—the hail in harvest—a draw- back on success—a dun upon your pride, and the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet. C. Lamb. P R O S A. Q O O Z" A 7" / O AV S. 77 7 FELIGION. Religion is instruction. J. F. Osterwald. Beware of false religion. John Bradford. To do good is my religion. T. Paine, Religion is older than sect. L. Bayley. Religion diffuses happiness. J. Kay. Religion changes with fashion. Julia Pardoe. What is a state without religion ? S. Gardiner. Religion on earth is joy in heaven. Downey. Exterminate the Christian religion. Hunneric. |Unless religion is free it is not religion. J. Arndt. No man's religion survives his morals. R. Sowth. Religion and practise seldom go together. Young. Religion can make a whole nation happy. Oromo. Religion is absolutely necessary in a state. Frederick the Great. Religion prompts to all kinds of excellence. C. Hodge. Of religion, profess little but practise much. Duke of Berwick. Nature is the first original object of religion. Fuerbach. Religious contentions are the devil's harvest. La Fontaine. Religion itself is but a state of the affections, H. T. Tuckerman. Religion is a foe to sadness, a friend to good hu- II].OT. St. Aldhelm. Religion should not be merely a creature of the State. John Glass. Godliness and religion unite God and man to- gether. Rev. G. Swimmock. A man devoid of religion is like a horse without a bridle. J. Abbadie. Take away God and religion, and men live to mo purpose. Tillotson. All mankind have had very absurd notions about religion. Matthew Tim Clal. The first thing that a man ought to think of is religion. Nabi-Effendi. Religion is in its essence an inward and spiritual holiness. R. Lucas. Religion is not in want of art ; it rests on its own majesty. Goethe. Religion is a solace in banishment, prison, or per- secution. St. A macletus. A pure religion is the only secure basis for civil freedom. J. L. M. Curry. Religion that invites is better than religion that threatens. Viretws. It is a woeful thing to have a misled conscience in religion. A. Burgess. RELIGION. Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worst cloak. Bunyan. Religion is the great ornament and glory of hu- man nature. S. Clarke. Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion. Lord Cockburn. The only sure and permanent foundation of vir- tue is religion. Mrs. Abagail Adams. Nothing can be hostile to religion which is agree- able to justice. W. E. Gladstone. Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures. - Stanislaws. An empty name of religion is but a poor and pitiful business. Earl of Dwrham. Religion is lovely ; her voice is melodious, her aspect cheerful. V. Knoaº. Religion decides the character of a nation as well as an individual. Rev. T. Gisborne. Men are prone to have a religion that may be called their own. R. Baacter. I am sorry to see how small a piece of religion will make a cloak. Sir W. Walley". If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it 2 Fromklim. My religion has only one commandment: Be good and be happy. T. Thorºld. Wherever society is established, there it is neces- sary to have religion. Lingwet. Educate men without religion and you make them but clever devils. Duke of Wellington. Religion that is of God does not require the sup- port of the civil power. M. d’Aubigne. Religion deserves a candid examination, and it demands nothing more. Dr. Keith. Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having. W. Penºn. The Christian religion is clandestine ; it creeps up and down in corners. Celsus. How could woman endure existence anywhere on earth without religion ? Olive R. Seward. Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. Lady Blessington. It is religion which gives dignity to man and im- portance to human pursuits. Whitefoord Smith. A ruler should adopt whatever religion will im- prove and benefit the people. Queen Zinga. Nothing is more apt to deceive by specious ap- pearances than false religion. Livy. The only religion we ought to profess is to adore God, and act like honest men. Voltaire. A religion that never suffices to govern a man, will never suffice to save him. J. Howe. In religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere. R. B. Sheridan. 778 D A y's co I. I. A co w. RELIGION. Every nation has a popular religion with which to amuse and dupe the Vulgar. G. Vale. Science may raise thee to eminence ; but religion alone can guide thee to felicity. J. Aikim. The upshot of all religion is, to please God in order to make ourselves happy. T. Sherlock. True religion abhors all violence; she owns no ar- guments but those of persuasion. St. Athamasius. No society can be upheld in happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion. La Place. The religion of Jesus is as divine in its origin as it is pure and perfect in its essence. Religion is too often cut as the clothes are : according to the prevailing fashion. H. W. Shaw. It is religion that has formed the Bible, and not the Bible which has formed religion. L. C. Levin. The religion that renders good men gloomy and unhappy, can scarcely be a true one. Chatfield. Religion is not a phrase, but a living power; it is often felt where it is least displayed. J. Cwmming. He who thinks to save anything by his religion be- sides his soul, will be a loser in the end. J. Barlow. Since God suffers all religions to exist, it doth not become man to prescribe or persecute any. Theodoric. Can a country long continue in thinking ill of a religion, and thinking well of the believers in it 3 Cardinal Newman. Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. - Epictetus. Religion is not true because the evangelists and apostles taught it ; but they taught it because it is true, Lessing. Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their reli- gion. A. Helps. I believe in religion against the religious ; in the pitifulness of Orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer. Victor Hugo. Those who change their religion through selfish motives, are generally such as have no religion to change. Rowland Hill. All man-made religion looks infinitely little and contemptible beside the manifestation of God's religion. T. Aleacander. Give your utmost diligence to promote religion, and the power of godliness, in your respective families. J. Flavel. Real religion ought to pervade every action of our lives; it is not a thing only for Sunday, or for our closet. Queen Victoria. Religion is a cheerful thing ; so far from being always at cuffs with good-humor, it is inseparably united to it. Sir H. Saville. Warburton. RELIGION. Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it ; anything but—live for it. Colton. We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Swift. If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it ! We never quarrel about religion. Red Jacket. It is rare to see a rich man religious ; for reli- gion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to un- licensed freedom. Feltham. A want of due respect for the mysterious doc- trines of religion seldom fails to enter into a total disbelief of them. C. Dawbeny. Religion is the messenger of glad tidings to man ; it is the minister of comfort to the afflicted chil- dren of mortality. T. Remmell. Over all the movements of life, religion scatters her favors, but reserves her choicest, her divine blessing, for the last hour. J. Logan. Religion is implanted in the very nature of man; the Christian religion has come down from above by the special will of God. Humboldt. True religion is the poetry of the heart ; it has enchantments useful to our manners; it gives us both happiness and virtue. Jowbert. Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and hard-hearted- ness of the professors of it. M. Henry. True religion is the foundation of society; when that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable and lasting. Burke. Religion is the mortar that binds Society to- gether, the granite pedestal of liberty, the strong backbone of the social system. Guthrie. Religion finds the love of happiness and the prin- ciples of duty separated in us; and its missions, its masterpiece is to reunite them. Vinet. Religion is a science, and it is an art ; in other words, it is a system of doctrines to be believed, and a system of duties to be done. Dr. Caird. Like an old precious metal, the ancient religion after the rust of ages has been removed, will come out in all its purity and brightness. Maac Muller. Religion is equally the basis of private virtue and public faith, of the happiness of the indivi- dual and the prosperity of the nation. W. Barrow. . A city may as well be built in the air, as a com- monwealth or kingdom be either constituted or pre- served without the support of religion. Plutarch. The religion of a people is in a great measure its history: it gives an insight into the mental de- velopment, as well as the state of society attained. Richard Taylor. Without religion there can be no democratic so- ciety : religion is the common source of all the benevolent ideas that exercise influence on man- kind. Pierre Powssin. A R O S Z Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 7 7 9 F.ELIGION. They who go to church out of vanity and curios- ity, and not for pure devotion, should not value themselves for their religion, for it is not worth a Straw. S. Croacall. Religion is a necessary, an indispensable element in any great human character; it is the tie that connects man to his Creator, and holds him to His throne. D. Websten'. My principles in respect of religious interest are two : one is, that the church shall not meddle with politics, and the government shall not meddle with religion. Kosswth. The nominal professions of religion with which many persons content themselves, seem to fit them for little else than to disgrace Christianity by their practise. J. Milmer. Religion, if it be true, is central truth ; and all knowledge which is not gathered around it, and quickened and illuminated by it, is hardly worthy the name. W. E. Channing. There are two things in the truths of our holy religion : a divine beauty which renders them lovely, and a holy majesty which makes them venerable. -- Pascal. How inestimable, how delightful, how fruitful in all good is the religious instruction conveyed to the infant mind under maternal care and from ma- ternal lips 1 R. Mant. Religion is so far from barring men any innocent pleasure, or comfort of human life, that it purifies the pleasures of it, and renders them more grateful and generous. G. E. Shirley. Without religion, the highest endowments of in- tellect can only render the possessor more danger- ous, if he be ill-disposed ; if well-disposed, only more unhappy. R. Sowthey. The only impregnable citadel of virtue is reli- gion ; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not Overtop or under- mine, and destroy. - Jame Porter. The greatest actions, when they are not ani- mated by religion, have no other principle than pride ; and consequently, they are poisoned by the root which produces them. Earl of Halifaac. There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear. Dowglas Jerrold. If we are told a man is religious, we still ask what are his morals 2 But if we hear at first that he has honest morals, and is a man of natural jus- tice and good temper, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious and devout. Shaftesbury. Religion is not confined to cells and closets, nor restrained to sullen retirement. Remember that the greatest honor you can pay to the Author of your being, is by such a cheerful behavior as dis- covers a mind satisfied with His dispensations. Elizabeth Carter. RELIGION. Inward religion without an outward show of it, is like a tree without fruit—useless ; and outward show of religion without inward sincerity, is like a tree without heart—lifeless. R. Venning. Humility and love, whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, constitute the essence of true religion ; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love. Lavater. The principles of the Christian religion are beau- tiful, its consequences natural, and its origin an- cient ; it enlightens the mind, comforts the hearts, and establishes the welfare of society. C. Ramsay. At bottom, every religion is anti-Christian which makes the form the thing, the letter the substance. Such a materialistic religion, in order to be at all consistent, ought to maintain a material infallibil- ity. Jacobi. Religion is “Paradise Regained,” or heaven upon earth ; indeed, there is no true and lasting happi- mess separate from it ; he who possesses its beati- tude may well regard thrones and empires with indifference. Dr. Davies. If the missionary can show the poor materialist that religion is allied with substantial benefits and improvement of his condition, the task to which he is about to devote himself will be rendered com- paratively easy. H. M. Stanley. There are no principles but those of religion to be depended on in cases of real distress, and these are able to encounter the worst emergencies, and to bear us up, under all the changes and chances to which our life is subject. Sterme. Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic They are, of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and thost inex- plicable ; they are of instinct and not of reason. Lamartime. He who possesses religion finds a providence not more truly in the history of the world than in his own family history ; the rainbow, which hangs a glistering circle in the heights of heaven, is also formed by the same sun in the dew-drop of a lowly flower. Richter. The Christian religion is one that diffuses among the people, a pure, benevolent, and universal sys- tem of ethics, adapted to every condition of life, and recommended as the will and reason of the Supreme Deity, and enforced by sanctions of eter- nal punishment. E. Gibbon. Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper ; or rather it is a temper leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its founda- tion is faith ; its action, works; its temper, holi- ness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self and benevolence to men. T. Edwards. The religion of the many must necessarily be more incorrect than that of the refined and reflec- tive few, not so much in its essence as in its forms, not so much in the spiritual idea which lies latent at the bottom of it, as in the symbols and dogmas in which that idea is embodied. W. R. Greg. 780 J) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. RELIGION. When in our days religion is made a political engine, she exposes herself to having her sacred character forgotten ; the most tolerant become in- tolerant toward her ; believers, who believe Some- thing else besides what she teaches, retaliate by attacking her in the very sanctuary itself. Beranger. Religion has been sometimes descried as the pas- sion of weak men, women, and children ; woman may blush for the association which the ridicule involves, but she has no reason to be ashamed of her propensity ; may it ever be her distinction ; it is the heart which adorns as well as enriches. Mrs. John Sanford. See how powerful religion is ; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality comes with a pruning knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances ; but religion lays the ax to the root of the tree ; morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair, but religion searcheth to the very core. N. Cutlverwell. The religion of some people is constrained ; they are like people who use the cold bath, not for plea- sure, but necessity and their health ; they go in with reluctance, and are glad when they get out ; but religion to a true believer is like water to a fish ; it is his element, he lives in it, and he could not live out of it. J. Newton. Herein consists the excellency and very essence of religion ; in exalting the Soul, in drawing it back from mixing with the creature, and in bring- ing it into subjection under God, the first and only good ; in uniting it to its proper object in making that which was the breath of God breathe nothing but God into the soul. - A. Farimdon. I believe in the proverb that any religion is better than no religion, because every man's con- ception of goodness and duty is an advance of his character ; and when this conception is embodied in an object of worship, it becomes an elevating power upon his life that makes him capable of a certain degree of civilization. J. G. Holland. Too many persons seem to use their religion as a diver does his bell, to venture down into the depths of worldliness with safety, and there grope for pearls, with so much of heaven's air as will lceep them from suffocating, and no more ; and some, alas ! as at times is the case with the diver, are suffocated in the experiment. G. B. Cheever. It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe ; and it is true. You may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and fearing Him, to restrain themselves, which is the root and essence of all good-breeding. Kingsley. If our religion is really a thing of the heart ; if we move about day by day as seeing One invisible ; if the love of Christ is really warming the springs of our inner life; then, however inadequately this is shown in matter or in manner, it will be sure to be known and thoroughly appreciated by those who are ever living their lives around us. Alford. RELIGION. Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion ; the one cannot exist without the other ; a reasoning being would lose his reason, in at- tempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to: and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine Oł16. * Washington. He is a bad citizen who undermines the religious faith of his country ; all may not, perhaps, be sub- stantially good, but certain it is, that all come in aid of the goverment power, and are essential to the basis of morality ; in the absence of religion, I can discover no inducement to be virtuous ; I desire to live and die in mine ; nothing is more painful to me than the hideous spectacle of an old man dying like a dog. Napoleon I. It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion ; in the voyage of life they profess to be in search of heaven, but take care not to venture so far in their approximation to it as entirely to lose sight of the earth ; and should their frail vessel be in danger of shipwreck, they will gladly throw their darling vices over- board, as other mariners their treasures, only to fish them up again when the storm is over. Colton. Were men to presume so far as to invent a test by which the divine origin of a religion should be tried, I can imagine none more unexceptionable than its tendency to overcome what is acknow- ledged to be evil in human nature, and to raise in an immeasurable degree the standard of happiness. I can imagine no eulogy more complete than this: that if all men lived up to the spirit of the Gospel, few sources of misery would remain in the world, and even that remainder would receive the utmost alleviation. J. B. Swimmer. Teligion does not consist in marble pillars, nor in costly vestments; it is not found in elegant churches or prettily bound books ; robbing your neighbor six days in the week, and going to church On the seventh is not religion ; devoting a lifetime to gathering pennies is not religion. Religion is that confidence in God which impels us always to trust in Hinn ; marriage is religion ; the love of husband and wife is religion ; the affection of brother and sister is religion ; the love of father and son, of mother and daughter, of mother and son—all these are religion. G. Lippard. Religion, whether natural or revealed, has al- ways the same beneficial influence on the mind; in youth, in health and prosperity, it awakens feelings of gratitude and sublime love, and purifies at the same time that it exalts ; but it is in mis- fortune, in sickness, in age, that its effects are most truly and beneficially felt—when submission in faith and humble trust in the Divine will, from duties become pleasures, underlying sources of consolation. Its influence outlives all earthly en- joyments, and becomes stronger as the organs de- cay and the frame dissolves; it appears as that evening star of light in the horizon of life, which we are sure is to become in another season a morn- ing star; and it throws its radiance through the gloom and shadow of death. Sir H. Davy. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7" ſo A S. 781 REMEDY. An evil calls for a remedy. U. Tracy. Nature's remedies are best. George Copway. Every poison has its remedy. P. Apono. Prevention is better than remedy. A. Kendall. The remedy for sin is repentance. St. Theodore. There is no evil without a remedy. Sannazaro. If we have a remedy, let us use it. Y-Yºn. Whatever is without a remedy is valid. Bacon. There is a remedy for all things but death. Vesik. There is a remedy for every invasion of right. J. Bowvier. No remedy will avail, unless it be blessed of God. St. Roch. The best remedy for an evil is to abolish that evil. Samvwel J. May. When we cannot apply a remedy, to seek it is vain. Tsew-Se. Of what avail is a remedy, unless we make use Of it 2 Fredegisus. A remedy for everything is a remedy for no- thing. Fabrizio. God is a remedy for all diseases, both of body and mind. Hippolytus. The true remedy against our falling is to lean on the cross. - St. Teresa. It is the remedy, not the disease, that kills the doctor's child. Tamil. When a remedy has been discovered, let no time be lost in applying it. W. C. Noyes. What is a remedy that comes after the malady shall have ceased to exist Ž Gragalia. A tree, whose leaves are a remedy for sickness, may be called the tree of life. Olaws Rwdbeck. Every great evil should be discussed under two heads—the mischief and the remedy. John Cook. To find fault is easy, and in every man's power ; but to point out the proper remedy is the proof of a wise counsellor. Demosthemes. The remedial part of law is so necessary a con- sequence of the declaratory and directory, that laws without it must be very vague and imperfect. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. Chronic diseases of the body thou canst not cure except by harsh and violent remedies; the heart, too, sick to the very core with vice, corrupted and corrupting, requires an antidote as strong as the poison that inflames our passions. Tacitus. We should neither oppose remedies for evil, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; they stay less with those who let them alone. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way ; she better understands her own affairs than us. Montaigne. REMEMBER.A.N.C.E. Remember Charles I, of England. |Forgive, but remember. Helen Campbell. Bury sad remembrances. Gwalchmai. It is sweet to remember joys. Viera. Pecuniary remembrances are best. F. H. Day. Joyful remembrances thrill the heart. Baldwen. Remembrance is confused by surfeits. Galem. Remembrance is the father of wisdom. Doloeth. Remembrance is a grievous burden to some. Amanda M. Douglas. What is remembered, dies ; what is written, lives. Yo-ching. There is true pleasure in kind remembrances of friends. J. W. French. The remembrance of the nurse's prattle torments the man. Mrs. E. Ricord. Thou wilt do well to remember what thou hast promised. Acme. There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate. Cervantes. What was hard to bear, is sometimes sweet to remember. F. M. Pinto. Remember, never remember more than you do remember. W. M. Hunt. One cannot easily forget where he has nothing to remember. F. Sacchetti. A Christian should not remember injuries, out forgive them. Fulgentius. Even the remembrance of past afflictions is fraught with pain. S. Newell. The remembrance of an evil life, though repen- ted of, makes one tremble. St. Mary, of Egypt. We ought to remember kindnesses received, and forget those we have done. Chilo. Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away. Richter. The painful remembrance of a fault embitters one's most glorious moments. Jolibois. In youth we remember more easily, and longer retain what we have learned. Islay Burns. There is no greater grief than in misery to call to remembrance happier times. Dante. The remembrance of past good actions yields an unspeakable comfort to the soul. Cicero. The usual way with men is not to remember the man whose favor is worth nothing. Hildebert. I will remember the goodness of my friends long and gratefully—remembertill memory decays, and my heart ceases to throb. Adelaide Ristori. What man should learn is, to reject all that is use- less in remembrance, and retain with cheerfulness all that can profit and amend. Forget not thy sins, that thou mayest sorrow and repent ; remember death, that thou mayest sin no more. Petrarch. 782 ZO A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. REMORSE. Remorse is the fruit of crime. Juvenal. Remorse conquers royalty itself. Lowis XI. Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. Bulwer. There is the slow devouring fire of remorse. Rice. Remorse is the worm of death that never dies. H. Hooker. Where there is remorse there may be penitence. T. Bimºney. Remorse is the spectre that visits the tombs of guilt. Mrs. Mercy Warren. To consume an honest soul with remorse is the greatest of all crimes. Mlle. Clairon. Remorse is virtue's root ; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. W. C. Bryant. Evil deeds, even when successful, are followed by remorse and fear of punishment. Qwintilian. I have an inward bashfulness, and a sharp re- morse, if sometimes a lie escape me. Montaigne. Though remorse sometimes sleeps during pros- perity, it will surely awake in adversity. Murray. Remorse goes to sleep when we are in the enjoy- ment of prosperity, and makes itself felt in adver- sity. Rowsseaw. A man's first care should be to avoid the remorse of his own heart ; his next to escape the censures Of the world. Addison. when remorse is blended with the fear of pun- ishment, and arises to despair, it constitutes the supreme wretchedness of the mind. T. Cogan. Remorse not only turns God and His creation against us, but turns us against Ourselves ; makes the soul act like the serpent, which stings itself to death. T. D. Thomas. Remorse of conscience is like an old wound ; a man is in no condition to fight under such circum- stances; the pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention. J. Collier. Since remorse of conscience follows guilt, it proves that man knows by nature that he is a free agent ; and he therefore feels that he is accounta- ble to God for his conduct. Mrs. Willard. He who has the liveliest sense of Divine good- mess will feel keen remorse whenever he reflects on anything that he has done, by which he fears to have forfeited the favor of So good a Being. Crabb. Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin, why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late Why, O boding cries, that Scream so close to me, why do I listen to you now, and never heard you before ? Metastasio. There is no heart without remorse ; no life with- out some misfortune. There is no one but what is something stained with sin, and it is with remorse that we commune with ourselves, and look back on events that might have been averted. James Ellis. FEMIORSE. There is a difference between remorse and peni- tence. Remorse is the consciousness of wrong- doing with no sense of love; penitence is that same consciousness, with the feeling of tenderness and gratefulness added. F. W. Robertson. I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses. We grieve at being found out, and at the idea of shame or punishment, but the mere sense of wrong makes very few people un- happy in Vanity Fair. W. M. Thackeray. Remorse is a man's dread prerogative, and is the natural accompaniment of his constitution as a knowing, voluntary agent, left in trust with his own welfare and that of others. Remorse, if we exclude the notion of responsibility, is an enigma never to be explained. Isaac Taylor. If remorse cannot be soothed by time, nor si- lenced by the bribe of wealth, nor suppressed by the dictates of arbitrary power, has not scepticism Some rare and valuable secret able to charm it away ? Let the death-bed horrors of many noted infidels serve for a sufficient answer. Trollope. The moral sense may for a time be blunted, but it will recover its keenness, and pierce the soul with tenfold force : a peculiar conjuncture of cir- cumstances restores in a moment the half-oblitera- ted records of memory, and wakes up to fresh life and vigor the slumbering feelings of remorse. Vincent Kodlubek. Sin and hedgehogs are born without spikes ; but how they prick and wound after their birth we all know. The most unhappy being is he who feels remorse before the sinful deed, and brings forth a sin already furnished with teeth in its birth, the bite of which is soon an incurable wound of the Conscience. Richter. IRENEG-ADE. Renegades are not worthy of life. Witsiws. There is no malice like the malice of the Perle- gade. T. B. Macaulay. A renegade may be used, but should not be trusted. - Livy. A renegade is a convert whose religion exists only in his turban. F. Marryatt. The man who cares no more for one country than another, is a renegade. R. Southey. Beware of the renegade ; you have no hold on a human being who has no affection for his country, or love for his kindred. Naorgorgews. It is not the benefit of a renegade that is looked at by the man who bribes him, nor after he has ob- tained what he bargained for, is he ever after- wards taken into confidence ; if it were so, no one would be happier than a traitor. Demosthemes. For any one to desert the interest of his country and turn renegade, either out of fear or any pros- pect of advantage, is so notoriously vile and low, that it is no wonder if the man who is detected in it is forever ashamed to see the sun, and to show himself in the eyes of those whose cause he has be- trayed. s S. Croacall. A At O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 783 RENOWN. Virtue alone is worthy of renown. Sallust. Renown is often dearly purchased. Bucchius. Poverty obstructs the way to renown. Juvenal. True renown only awaits the truly good. Lucan. If renown is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it. Martial. A man becomes renowned because he has thene- cessary stuff in him. Dickens. Seek not renown that lasts but for a day, but that which will last forever. Agesilaws. A commander gaineth renown not only for him- self, but for those who fight with him. Cambyses. What a mighty thing it is to gain renown with- out knowledge, and to lose it on reaching experi- ence 1 Yridºte. The thirst of renown is violent ; the desire of honor is powerful ; and He who gave them to us, gave them for great purposes. R. Dodsley. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain ; a person may by skillful conduct make a sort of name for himself, but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day. Bishop Chandler. They who have been most distinguished for tal- ents and learning, have looked upon their attain- ments, which might give them just claims to re- nown, as worthless, compared with those things which it is desirable but impossible to know. Acton. That merit which gives greatness and renown, diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast : it is placed at a dis- tance from common spectators, and shines like One of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat. Dr. Johnson. REPAIRTEE. Repartee is the soul of conversation. Dryden. A talent for repartee is one that increases with practise. Motley. The impromptu repartee is precisely the touch- stone of the man of wit. Molière. Repartee and quickness of parts are seldom joined with great solidity of character; the most rapid rivers are never deep. Shenstone. Those repartees are the best which turn your ad- versary's weapons against himself, as David killed Goliah with his own sword. Chatfield. Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. Repartee is the highest order of wit, as it bespeaks the coolest yet quickest exer- cise of genius at a moment when the passions are roused. Colton. The vivacity of discourse is sometimes greatly enhanced by the quick repartee of those who take part in it ; the talent is altogether a natural en- dowment, which does not depend in any degree upon the will of the individual. G. Crabb. FEPENTANCE. Repentance may avert evil. Belesis. Repentance is accepted remorse. Mme. Swetchine. Repentance is the heart's sorrow. Callisthemes. Lardner. Talmud. Repentance never comes too late. Repent one day before thy death. True repentance is to cease from sin. St. Ambrose. Defer not thy repentance tillto-morrow. Quarles. Let repentance be followed by amendment. St. Marcellinus. Repentance ends the suit which passion begun. C. A. Baader. Repentance for mis-spent time ever comes too late. Lycom. Repentance of error is the first step to forgive- IlêSS. . Marcion. Endeavor to do those things that need no repent- all Cé. Perionder. The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to at One. Miss M. E. Braddon. It is foolish to lay out money in a purchase of re- pentance. Franklin. Debts may be discharged by money, crimes by repentance. Shakspeare. A death-bed repentance is poor amends for the errors of a life-time. T. James. Repentance is a goddess, and the preserver of those who have erred. Julian. Let idolators repent, and on repentance be re- ceived into the church. St. Cornelius, Late repentance is seldom true, but true repent- ance is seldom too late. R. Venning. Every one goes astray, and the least imprudent is he who repents the soonest. Voltaire. You cannot repent too soon, because you know not how soon it may be too late. T. Fuller. When a wicked man repents and becomes good, his brightness is as the rising moon. Riw-6. He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future. Bºwl wer. Repentance without amendment is like continual pumping in a ship without stopping the leaks. L. W. Dilwyn. The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age and pain. Colton. Repentance toward God and man, does not always bring exemption from punishment in this life. - Martha Martell. There is no going to the fair haven of glory with- out sailing through the narrow strait of repent- a.I1C0. S. Dyer. False repentance will lead a man to obey God only so far as he may without persecution or re- proach. H. Venn. 784 A) A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. FEPENTANCE. Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death- bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all upon. Sterne. True repentance has a double aspect ; it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. R. Sowth. Many persons who appear to repent, are like sailors who throw their goods overboard in a storm, and wish for them again in a calm. Mead. Repentance so altereth and changeth a man through the mercy of God, be he never so defiled, that it maketh him pure and clean. J. Whitgift. In repentance itself, arising from a timely dis- covery of our guilt and danger, there is no ground for pain, but much for gratitude and Satisfaction. H. Bunting. The severest punishment of any injury is the consciousness of having dome it ; and no one but the guilty knows the withering pains of repent- all Ce. H. Ballow. He that repents every day for the sins of every day, when he comes to die will have the sins but of one day to repent of ; short reckonings make long friends. Philip Henry. Whatever we may be there are voices which call us to repentance ; nature as well as our whole life is full of them, only our ears are heavy and will not hear. Krummatcher. Repentance is for pale faces: they killed Christ, the good man ; if Christ had come to red men, we would not have killed Him. Red men need no re- pentance. Red Jacket. He that waits for repentance waits for that which cannot be had as long as it is waited for ; it is ab- surd for a man to wait for that which he himself has to do. W. Nevins. Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God ; not some one bare act of change, but a lasting, durable state of new life, which is called regeneration. H. Hammond. He that will not repent brings himself to ruin ; nor is he truly penitent that is not progressive in the motion of aspiring goodness; a man should well be aware of the step which he has already stumbled on. Feltham. There is a repentance unto death ; the regret for having sinned, springing from no other cause than horror of sin's punishment, is many a time felt very dreadfully on the bed of death by the ungodly who are dying in their sins. R. Wardlaw. Repentance is a magistrate that exacts the strict- est duty and humility, because the reward it gives is inestimable and everlasting ; and the pain and punishment it redeems men from, is of the same continuance and yet intolerable. Clarendom. Reason gets the better of all other griefs and sor- rows, but it begets that of repentance, which is much the more painful ; repentance is nothing else but a renunciation of our will, and controlling of our fancies, which lead us which way they please. Montaigme. IREPENTANCIE. Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord himself—who alone can say, “I am with you’—can, when we have sinned, release us, un- less we bring repentance with us. St. Ambrose. For the cure of this disease an humble, serious, hearty repentance is the only physic ; not to ex- patiate the guilt of it, but to qualify us to partake of the benefit of Christ's atonement. J. Ray. True repentance consists in the heart being bro- ken for sin and being broken from sin. Some often repent, yet never reform ; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops but never turns back. J. Thornton. Repentance is faith's usher, and dews all her way with tears. Hepentance reads the law and weeps ; faith reads the Gospel and comforts. Repentance looks on the rigorous brow of Moses ; faith beholds the sweet countenance of Christ Jesus. T. Adams. As it is never too soon to do good, so it is never too late to repent ; I will, therefore, neither neglect the time present, nor despair of the time past. If I had been sooner good, I might perhaps have been better ; if I am longer bad, I shall, I am sure, be WOI’Se. A. Warwick. The repentance of those who learn wisdom late, though it be an inferior quality to that of those who are gifted with forethought, yet if we look at it in another light, it is seen to be not less valuable from causing the original error to disappearby pre- venting its consequences. Dionysius. Repentance does not of itself remove the evil of misdoing, but there can be no remedy without it. In the mere light of morality, it is an eternal loss to have done wrong ; but having dome so, the best possible thing that remains is, to strive to regain by timely repentance the path of duty. Winslow. Repentance is that sorrow of mind which arises from a sense of sins committed, and of a vicious habit contracted by customary sinning, as also from a conviction of guilt and fear of punishment ; and which produces a desire of deliverance, a se- rious endeavor after a better change of life, and an observance to all the Divine commandments. P. Limboreh. It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and most concerns dying men ; indeed, what is necessary every hour of our life, is necessary in the hour of death too, and as long as he lives he will have need of repentance, and therefore it is necessary in the hour of death too. Dr. Johnson. You might pound a lump of ice with a pestle into a thousand fragments, but it would still con- tinue ice : but bring it in beside your own bright and blazing fire, and soon, in that genial glow, the living waters flow. A man may try to make him- self contrite ; he may search out his sins, and dwell on their enormity, and still feel no true repentance ; but come to Jesus with his words of grace and truth—let that flinty, frozen spirit bask in the beams of the sun of righteousness, then will it melt. J. Hamilton. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 7 S5 REPETITION. Time is the repeater of all things. Cygme. It is repetition that wears out the schoolmaster's life. Juvenal. There can be nothing so plainly repeated but it may be mistaken. Terence. Every repetition of an action adds a new link to the chain of habit. M. Young. He that maketh repetition of his deceits, deserves to be entangled by deceits. J. Ralph. Walls are said to have ears, when needless repe- tition hath too much tongue. F. A. Zaccaria. It is more commendation for a man to be silent, than to make repetition of his good deeds per- formed. Awrelius. Often to repeat one thing is wearisome to the hearer, and troublesome to the teller ; vain repeti- tion is an accusation of dullness. Sir R. Phillips. Remember that the constant repetition, day after day, from one point and another of an assertion, almost in time makes it absolutely impossible for the human mind to reject it. Wendell Phillips. The repetition of a virtuous act produces a ten- dency to continued repetition ; the force of oppos- ing motives is lessened ; the power of the will over passion is more decided ; and the act is accom- plished with less moral effect. F. Wayland. Repetition is the mother, not only of study, but also of education. Like the fresco-painter, the teacher lays colors on the wet plaster which ever fade away, and which he must ever renew until they remain and brightly shine. Richter. FEPORTER. Reporters are ubiquitous. Earl of Argyll. Reporters are spies for the public press. Hyde. Reporters should have the eyes of Argus. Day. Reporters require large ideality and eventuality. O. S. Fowler. Reporters for the press hold reputations on the point of a pen. J. A. Langford. It should be the chief aim of the reporter to en- trance the reader's attention by seizing and making lucid the essential facts of a case. Whitelaw Reid. There are few reporters of the press who seem to feel the high responsibility resting upon them ; their whole aim should be to report nothing that should lead to erroneous conclusions. L. C. Judson. Reporters for the press should be purveyors of truth and disseminators of pure morality ; their writings should be free from personal invectives and animadversions on private character. Smalley. Reporters for the press have the advantage of gathering news from a thousand different persons, and from a thousand different things; the wise and the foolish, the learned and the ignorant, each in their turn furnish an item of news for the daily press. James Ellis. REPORT. Reports are half lies. Tersteegem. Reports are food for the incredulous. Smee. Abate two-thirds of all the reports you hear. L. G. Clark, Report makes the wolf bigger than what he is. Argyropylus. Report is a quick traveler, but an unsafe guide. A. M. Burdett, Men have a natural desire to propagate reports. Nepos. Every report may have something of truth in it. Caius Vibius Trebonianws Gallus. A good report shineth most clearly in the deepest darkness. H. Reed. In all reports falsehood comes to the front and truth follows in the rear. Bishop Oacenden. Reports are polypuses; wounding and mutilat- ing only multiplies them. Miss Julia M. Wright. It is a part of good fortune to be well reported of, and to have a good name. Plotimus. A good report lingers on its way, but an ill one flies straight to where it can do the most harm. tº Abbé Lacordaire. An evil report is light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to bear, and still more difficult to get rid of. Hesiod. Report seldom adheres to the truth—favorable to the man who deserves the worst, and unfavorable to the good. Serveca. A report serves to communicate information of events ; it may be more or less correct according to the veracity of the reporter. G. Crabb. There is no kind of mishap more infamous than for a man to lose his good name, and to be ill re- ported of among all men for his bad dealing. H. S. Randall. Many men take liberties in imputing words to others which were never spoken, thereby circulat- ing reports which have no foundation in fact. James Ellis. The mind of that man must be weak, which can be acted upon by the reports of others ; we should ever judge of others by their actions, not as we hear from the world. J. Bartlett. The mind, conscious of innocence, laughs to scorn false reports that throw suspicion on our fame; but we are all of us too ready to lend an ear to scandal about our neighbors. Ovid. Common report is the only liar that deserveth to have some respect ; though she telleth many an untruth, she often hits right, and most especially when she speaketh ill of men. Sir H. Saville. Report, though often originating in fact, soon be- comes incorrect, and is seldom deserving of credit. When we have no evidence but popular report, it is prudent to suspend our opinions in regard to the facts. N. Webster. 50 786 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. REPOSE. Ardor profits by repose. Acton. Let the weary enjoy repose. . Semeca. After labor we all need repose. W. L. Stone. The sweetest repose is after toil. An-Nashi. Genius and goodness are only fostered by repose. Tacitats. He who has no repose at home is in the world's hell. Ahmed Vesik. Repose is jealous of a maid in love, and visits her not. Yemom, There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose. Pascal. Repose without stagnation is the state most fa- vorable to happiness. Bovee. When a man finds not repose in himself, it is in vain for him to seek it elsewhere. D'Amchères. There is no mortal truly wise and restless at Once ; wisdom is the repose of minds. Lavate”. In life to gain repose at night we may change our bed, but on the night of the grave we cannot change. Al-Maghribi. Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman—repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm ; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect. Emerson. In repose life steals away , we try to reach it by battling with difficulties, and when we have got the better of them it becomes unbearable ; for either our thoughts dwell on the miseries which we endure, or on those which threaten. Pascal. As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite—variety, so repose demands for its expression the implied ca- pability of its opposite—energy ; it is the most um- failing test of beauty ; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not. Ruskin. REPREHENSION. Vice is reprehensible. R. Cwdworth. Those things should always be reprehended that tend to immorality. To a heart fully resolute counsel is tedious, but reprehension is loathsome. Lord Bacom. Reprehensions may suppress passions when they are weak, but do but incense them whilst they are raging. When a man feels the reprehension of a friend, seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment. Dr. Johnson. People of all ages and stations, whose conduct is exposed to the investigation of others, are liable to reprehension. G. Crabb. We should endeavor to shun the company of those whose conduct is ever open to reprehension : the contaminating influence of such persons will ultimately have its effects upon all who come in contact with them. J. S. Van Ringelberg. Theodoret. R. Boyle.” REPROACH. Live above reproach. E. Eggleston. There is no defense against reproach. Addison. Reproach is infinite, and knows no end. Homer. Use no reproachful language against any one. Washington. Reproaches are honey mixed with wormwood. Al-Bóri. We can reproach individuals, but not all man- kind. Duwäd. No reproach is like that we clothe in a Smile, and present with a bow. Bulwer. There are reproaches which give praise ; and there are praises which reproach. J. Gwy. We must abstain from words of reproach ; espe- cially when we are not free from the crimes for which we reproach others. H. G. Bohm. When reproaches are opposed they do grow ; as hair, the more it is cut the more it grows, when they are despised they will vanish away. Burroughes. Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every mail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken ; such is man's good name once tainted with reproach. J. Hall. The way in which some are praised who are dis- tinguished for good faith, disinterestedness, and noble conduct, is not so much a eulogium pro- nounced on them as a reproach to the whole human I’a Cé. Bruyère. Too much reproach “o'erleaps itself, and falls on t'other side.” Pricked up too sharply, the delin- quent, like a goaded bull, grows sullen and savage, and the prosecution continuing ends in rushing madly on the spear that wounds him. Bovee. If reproached as a dissembler, study to be the more bland, candid, ingenuous, and sincere ; if re- proached for covetuousness, labor to manifest a larger measure of beneficence, generosity, and Christian charity ; if reproached for pride, cultiv- ate more assiduously the mind of Christ in its self- renunciation and genuine humility. J. Bate. The most difficult province in friendship is the letting a man see his faults and errors; which should, if possible, be so contrived that he may per- ceive our advice is given him not so much to please ourselves as for his own advantage. The re- proaches, therefore, of a friend should always be strictly just, and not too frequent. E. Budgell. Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill- natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detract- ing 3 Consider with thyself whether his reproaches are true : if they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches ; if his re- proaches are true, and if thou art the envious, ill- natured man he takes thee for, give thyself another turn, and become mild, affable, and obliging, and his reproaches of thee will naturally cease ; or if they continue, thou art no longer the person whom he reproaches. Epictetus. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 787 FEPROOF. Mock not at reproof. Cleobulus. In reproof, be mild yet firm. Walloevts. Give not reproof when angry. Plato. Something in us reproves our faults. Shakspeare. Reprove others, but correct thyself. Bigmom. Reproof never does a wise man harm. Grécowrt. Beware of reproofs that lead to alienation. Mencius. Lend thine ear to remonstrance and reproof. Rabbi Eleazar. A good man cares not for the reproofs of ill men. Democritus. Iłeprove thy friend privately ; commend him publicly. Solom. It is not sharp reproof but flattery that causeth mischief. Emperor Valerian. Few things are more difficult than to administer reproof properly. C. Buck. Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant. Confucius. There is an oblique way of reproof, which takes off the sharpness of it. w Steele. None take reproof so well as those who most de- serve to be commended. C. F. Orme. Heedless persons take reproof as they drink in water, without thought. Fiji. He that heareth his own faults with patience shall reprove another with boldness. R. Dodsley. A wise man ought often to admonish his wife, to reprove her seldom, but never to lay his hands upon her. Awrelius. Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must above all take care that thou art not thyself guilty of. o Cicero. Reproof must be administered with all the kind- mess and tenderness we use, when we only attempt to persuade. J. Rowe. We must pay a regard to the source of either re- proof or praise, before we suffer ourselves to be effected by it. Agesilaws. Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium ; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm in- stead of good. H. Mann. The vicious cannot bear the presence of the good, whose very looks reprove them, and whose life is a severe, though silent admonition. N. Webster. Reproof, especially as it relates to children, ad- ministered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offense. H. Ballow. Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place; then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning. J. C. Hare. REPROOF. It is no easy matter to bear a reproof well, if never so well tempered ; next to the not deserving a reproof, is the well taking of it. J. Hall. To reprove Small faults with undue vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great ham- mer because he saw a fly on his friend's forehead. J. Foster. Aversion from reproof is not wise ; it is the mark of a little mind. A great man can afford to lose ; a little, insignificant fellow is afraid of being snuf- . fed out. Lord Bwrleigh. Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings ; let it watch diligently against the incur- 'sions of vice, and leave foppery and futility to die of themselves. S. Amolrus. Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false ; but forthwith examine yourself, and con- sider what you have said or done that may admin- ister a just occasion of reproof. Plutarch. Wish rather to be reproved by the wise, than to be applauded by him who hath no understanding ; when they tell thee of a fault, they suppose thou canst improve ; the other, when he praiseth thee, thinketh thee like unto himself. Dandamis. Before thou reprove another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to repre- hend. He that cleanses a blot with blurred fingers makes a greater blot. Even the candle-snuffers of the sanctuary were of pure gold. F. Quarles. When reproof is accompanied with passion, we often betray one fault, and perhaps a greater, in the punishment of another ; it also makes reproof look like revenge and hatred, which usually does not persuade and reform, but provokes and exas- perates. J. Hunter. To reprove a brother is like as, when he has fall- en, to help him up again ; when he is wounded, to help to cure him ; when he hath broken a bone, to help to set it ; when he is out of the way, to put him into it; when he is fallen into the fire, to pluck him out : when he hath contracted defilement, to cleanse him. Philip Henry. The friend who holds up before me the mirror, conceals not my smallest faults, warns me kindly, reproves me affectionately, when I have not per- formed my duty, he is my friend, however little he may appear so. Again, if a man flattering, praises and lauds me, never proves me, Overlooks my faults and forgives them before I have repented, he is my enemy, however much he may appear my friend. Von Hippel. Reprove mildly and sweetly, in the calmest manner, in the gentlest terms; not in a haughty or imperious way, not hastily, or fiercely, not with sour looks, or in bitter language, for these ways do beget all the evil, and hinder the best effects of reproof. If reproof doth not savor of humanity, it signifieth nothing ; it must be like a bitter pill wrapped in gold and tempered with sugar, other- wise it will not go down, or work effectually. 1. Barrow. 788 AD A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. REPUBLIC. REPUBLIC ANISM. Republics are ungrateful. Amon. A rude democracy is not republicanism. Beza. Republics come to an end by corruption. Bulwer. A true republic favors neither anarchy nor des- potism. S. Bolivar. Republics have but little fear from foreign in- trigues. Bovee. The republic is not for the ruler, but the ruler for the republic. Seneca. Substitute the virtues of a republic for the vices and fopperies of a monarchy. Robespierre. In a republic the cause of every single citizen should be that of the whole ; and the cause of the whole that of every single citizen. R. Walsh. A well governed republic is the best political state in the world, and consequently the condition of a good republican citizen, is better than that of a good prince. Ansaldo Ceba. The idea of a republic is the idea of a people gov- erming themselves ; this includes, also, the idea of a people possessed of that intelligence and virtue which is essential to self-government. Mansfield. In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude; every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly, without thinking, and consequently, will judge of effects without attending to their causes. Washington. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens ; they fall when the wise are banished from the public councils be- cause they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded because they flatter the people in order to betray them. º J. Story. Republics where high birth gives no right to the government of the state, are in that respect the most happy : for the people have less reason to envy an authority which they confer on whom they will, and which they can again take away when they choose. Montesquiew. In republics the advantages are liberty, equal laws, regulations adapted to the wants and cir- cumstances of the people, public spirit, frugality, averseness to war, and the exciting thereby and calling forth to the service of the commonwealth, the faculties of its best citizens. W. Paley. When the government is in the hands of one in- dividual, we call such a man a king, and the state a kingdom ; when it is in the hands of a select body, that form of government is aristocratic ; but that state is a republic, so they call it, when every- thing is dependent on the people. Cicero. In republics the sovereign power, or the power over which there is no control, and which controls all others, remains where nature placed it—in the people. In a country under a despotic form of government, the sovereign is the only free man in it. In a republic, the people retaining the sover- eignty themselves, naturally and necessarily retain freedom with it ; for wheresoever the sovereignty is, there must the freedom be ; the one cannot be in one place, and the other in another. John Taylor. That country is republican where honesty and merit are recognized and rewarded. James Ellis. In vain will either an ignorant or corrupted peo- ple seek to acquire or maintain republican institu- tions. E. D. Mansfield. If man can govern himself individually, men can govern themselves collectively ; and this is re- publicanism. - E. P. Day. The republican system is as unnatural to man as to the higher spiritual life, therefore it is unfa- vorable to art and sciences. Schopenhaufer. In a republican form of government the people are the nobility, and amongst these must be inclu- ded the profane, seditious, ignorant, idle, vile, and debauched. Machiavelli. Particular events may occur to overthrow any government, but the general and ultimately inevi- table tendency of things is not the less to establish and perpetuate the republican form. Bovee. No men occupy so splendid a place in history as those who have founded monarchies on the ruins of republican institutions. Their glory, if not of the purest, is assuredly of the most seductive and dazzling kind. T. B. Macawlay. Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination ; on the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effec- tually dispensed to mankind. Washington. A republican government is like everything else ; to preserve it we must love it. Has it ever been heard that kings were not fond Of monarchy, or that despotic princes hated arbitrary power ? Everything, therefore, depends on establishing this love in a republic. Montesquiew. Every man in the world would be a republican, if he did not hope from fortune and favor more than from industry and desert ; in short, if he did not expect to carry off, sooner or later, from under another system, what never could belong to him rightfully, and what cannot, he thinks, accrue to him from this. W. S. Landor. The advantages of a republican form of govern- ment are liberty ; equal, cautious, and salutary laws, public spirit, frugality, peace, opportunities of exciting and producing the abilities of the best citizens ; its disadvantages are dissensions, the dis- closure of public counsels, the imbecility of public measures, retarded by the necessity of a numerous Consent. J. Wilson. It is contended by many, that it is the safety of a republican form of government to have two poli- tical parties, that one may watch and detect the corrupt designs of the other; the argument would be sound, if either party would banish all dema- gogues from its ranks, become purely patriotic, be guided entirely by love of country, charity toward others, the fear of God, prudence, sound discretion, and rigid justice to all ; as they are now constitu- ted, for one to correct the faults of the other, would be like Satan rebuking sin. L. C. Judson. A R O S E Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. IREPUTATION. Reputation is life itself. C. F. Zehwartz. Reputation hangs a man. Arias. Injure not another's reputation. Rothschild. Reputation is a great inheritance Seneca. I pity those who have no reputation. Al-Tihámi. Reputation is a poor thing to live on. Edlim. Reputation is one of the attributes of virtue. James Ellis. A good reputation is better than a golden belt. A. Fabert. Reputation is like a feather, easily blown away. J. N. Lockyer. A great reputation is as dangerous as a bad One. Tacitus. Reputation is commonmly measured by the acre. Cambaceres, Reputation is, or should be, the result of charac- ter. R. G. White. A wise man values reputation more than life it- self. J. Mair. Reputation serves to virtue as light does to a pic- ture. Fortiguerra. He who attacks another's reputation abandons his own. Al-Jahim. There is no reputation so clear, but a slanderer may stain it. P. Larivey. A good reputation is like a meadow enamelled with flowers. Ibn Al-Bawwab. The loss of reputation in a man may be regained, in a woman, never. Rev. T. Lessey. Time never fails to bring every exalted reputa- tion to a strict scrutiny. Fisher Ames. He that is respectless in his courses, oft sells his reputation at cheap market. Ben Jomson. How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance I Petro.ºrch. A good reputation is like the cypress; once cut, it never puts forth leaf again. Guicciardini. Men are generally more pleased with a wide- spread than a great reputation. Pliny. A shadow-reputation is a very cumbrous thing, and very dangerous to honesty. R. D. Owen, The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Socrates. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputa- tion is in reality so much power. Tillotson, The gaining of reputation is but the revealing of our virtue and worth to the best advantage. Joseph Haydn Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. T. Poine. REPUTATION. He whom the good praise and wicked hate Ought to be satisfied with his reputation. H. W. Shaw. How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made 1 O. W. Holmes. The gain which is made at the expense of repu- tation should be set down as a loss. Publiws Syrus. The people are always attentive to seize upon the weak side of a great reputation. Weir. He that sets no value upon a good repute, is as careless of the actions that produce it. W. Cobbett. A man's reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him. Addison. The gain which is made at the expense of repu- tation should rather be set down as a loss. Varro. The best reputation is that which is established within the immediate sphere of one's duty. Bovee. Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which seems best when brought from a distance. R. Whately. Whatever disgrace we have merited, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our reputation. Rochefoucauld. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. Shakspeare. He alone can enjoy life who seeks a reputation by good deeds and right exercise of useful talents. Sallust. The reputation which has been fifty years in building, may be thrown down by one blast of calumny. Saadi. The loss of reputation and the esteem of man- kind are of importance beyond what can be esti- mated. Livy. Open your mouth and purse cautiously ; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. Zimmerman. Many of the actions which increase our reputa- tion are done upon motivas which, if known, would materially diminish it. Rev. Deam M’Niele. A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others; cal- umny requires no proof. Hazlitt. He who has a reputation to maintain has a wild beast in his house, which he must constantly feed, or it will feed upon him. Chatfield. He that does not secure himself of a stock of re- putation, in his greatness shall most certainly fall unpitied in his adversity. L’Estrange. Reputation, as it is got and lost nowadays, may be reckoned among the gifts of fortune, of which fools have often a bigger share than deserving per- SOIlS. Lord Granville. Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue; we have seen a thousand people esteemed, either for the merit they had not attained, or for that they no longer possessed. St. Evremond. 790 A) A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV REPUTATION. The reputation of a man is like a shadow ; gigan- tic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its propor- tions when it follows. Talleyrand. The shortest way to attain reputation is that of merit ; if industry be founded on merit, it is the true way of obtaining it. S. Andrus. There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation ; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation Stanislaws. Nothing is so uncertain as general reputation : a man injures me from humor, passion, or interest : hates me because he has injured me ; and speaks ill of me because he hates me. Rames. A fair reputation is a plant, delicate in its na- ture, and by no means rapid in its growth ; it will not shoot up in a night like the gourd of a prophet ; but like that gourd, it may perish in a night. - Jeremy Taylor. In order to depend on the influence of your char- acter, it is not sufficient to confide in your own re- port ; you must also weigh its estimation among Others; reputation is as capricious as judgment. N. Macdonald. The good opinion of honest men, friends to free- dom, and well-wishers to mankind, wherever they may be born or happen to reside, is the only kind of reputation a wise man would ever desire. Washington. Nothing lowers a great man so much, as not seiz- ing the decisive moment of raising his reputation ; this is seldom neglected, but with a view to for- tune ; by which mistake, it is not unusual to miss both. De Retz. There are two modes of establishing our reputa- tion ; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues; it is best, however, to secure the former, because it will be invariably accompanied by the latter. Coltom. An honest reputation is within the reach of all men ; they obtain it by social virtues, and by do- ing their duty. This kind of reputation, it is true, is neither brilliant nor startling, but it is often the most useful for happiness. Dwclos. Justice enjoins a regard to the reputation of others ; this consists in avoiding everything that could be injurious to their good name, either by direct evil-speaking, or such insinuations as might give rise to suspicion or prejudice against them. Abercrombie. Reputation with the people depends upon chance, unless they are guided by those above them. They are but the keepers, as it were, of the lottery'which fortune sets up for renown ; upon which fame is bound to attend with her trumpet, and sound when men draw the prizes. Dennis. How commonly are characters dissected, with apparently the only object of displaying the power of malignant acumen possessed by the operator, as though another's reputation were made for no Other purpose than the gratification of the meanest and most unlovely attributes of the human heart F. Wayland. REPUTATION. A man's reputation has been very aptly com- pared to a sheet of white paper ; if it be once blotted, it can hardly ever be made to look as white as before. Apologists of youthful immo- ralities should think of this. Richard de Bury. Reputation is nice and precious ; like coin, it is kept bright by use ; and yet, too much use wears it away ; when worn, its value is lessened ; when tarnished, its lustre is with difficulty restored : very brilliant reputations always lose a portion of their brilliancy. G. Melzi. Reputation, which is the portion of every man who would live with the elegant and knowing part of mankind, is as stable as glory, if it be as well founded ; and the common cause of human society is thought concerned when we hear of a man of good behavior culminated. Steele. Reputation is in no man's keeping ; we cannot determine what other men shall think of us and say about us ; we can only determine what they ought to think of us and say about us ; and we can only do this by acting squarely up to our convic- tions of duty, without the slightest reference to its effect upon ourselves. J. G. Holland. The pretended contempt for reputation, and sa- crifice said to be made of it to fortune and reflec- tion, is always inspired by the despair of rendering Ourselves illustrious ; we boast of what we have, and despise what we have not ; this is the neces- sary effect of pride, and we should rebel against it, were we not its dupes. Helvetius. Success in war depends in a great measure on reputation which, when it declines, the bravery of the soldiers sinks with it, the fidelity of the sub- ject people wavers, the funds for the support of the war disappear; while on the other hand, the cour- age of the enemy is doubled, the doubtful are alienated, and every difficulty is infinitely in- creased. Gwicciardini. Be studious to preserve your reputation ; if that be once lost, you are like a cancelled writing, of no value, and at best you do but survive your own funeral ; for reputation is like a glass, which being once cracked, will never be made whole again ; it will bring you into contempt, like the planet Sat- urn, which had first an evil aspect, and then a des- troying influence. Aristotle. Such is the prevailing tendency in Society to prey on the reputations of others, especially of those who are at all distinguished, either in public or private life, such the propensity to impute bad motives to good actions, so common the fiend-like pleasure of finding or imagining blemishes in be- ings on whom even a motive judging world in general gazes with respectful admiration and be- stows the sacred tribute of well-earned praise, that I am convinced there are many persons worn both in mind and body by the consciousness of being the objects of calumnies and suspicions which they have it not in their power to combat, who steal broken-hearted to their graves, thankful for the summons of death, and hoping to find refuge from the injustice of their fellow creatures in the bosom of their God and Savior. Mrs. Opie. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 7.91 RESENTIMIENT. Avoid resentment. Perionder. Forbear resenting injuries, Franklin. Subdue resentment by love. Euclid. Feel no resentment against your enemy. Molière. Resentment is a union of sorrow and malignity. Dr. Johnson. Resentment is temporary, but forgiveness is eternal. Abū Hamifa. A good man does not cherish resentment against his brother. Memoints. The resentment of a good man is the hardest thing to bear. Publius Syrus. Beware how you indulge the first emotions of your resentment. Junius. Men are wont to lay aside their resentment when their adversaries suffer. J. Walker. No man will so speedily and violently resent a supposed wrong, as he who is most accustomed to inflict injuries upon his associates. Magoon. Resentment seems to have been given to us by nature for defense, and for defense only ; it is the safeguard of justice, and the security of innocence. Adam Smith. The temperately revengeful have leisure to weigh the merits of the cause, and thereby either to Smother their secret resentments, or to seek ade- quate reparations for the damages they have sus- tained. Steele. Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, pain- ful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable ; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable. Kames. Strong and sharp as our wit may be, it is not so strong as the memory of fools, nor so keen as their resentment ; he that has not strength of mind to forgive is by no means weak enough to forget ; and it is much more easy to do a cruel thing than to say a severe one. Colton. Resentment is a brooding sentiment altogether arising from a sense of personal injury ; it is asso- ciated with a dislike of the offender, as much as the offense, and is diminished only by the infliction of pain in return ; in its rise, progress, and effects, it is alike opposed to the Christian spirit. Crabb. The reflection calculated above all others to allay resentment is that which the Gospel proposes; namely, that we ourselves are, or shortly shall be, suppliants for mercy and pardon at the judgment- seat of God. Imagine our secret sins all disclosed and brought to light ; imagine us thus humbled and exposed, trembling under the hand of God, casting ourselves on His compassion, crying out for mercy ; imagine such a creature to talk of satisfaction and revenge, refusing to be entreated, disdaining to forgive, extreme to mark and to re- sent what is done amiss ; imagine, I say, this, and you can hardly form to yourself an instance of more impious and unnatural arrogance. W. Paley. RESERVE. Reserve is wisdom. Guculter'. Reserve often accomplishes more than bluster. Gerdil. Mental reservations are the refuge of hypocrites. Mrs. Norton. He who reserves his love is often prodigal of his hate. - James Ellis. A reserved lover, it is said, always makes a sus- picious husband. Goldsmith. No locks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden so well as her own reserve. Cervantes. The advice of our friends must be attended to with a judicious reserve. Charron. Reserve is the truest expression of respect toward those who are its objects. De Quincey. Reserve may be pride fortified in ice ; dignity is worth reposing on truth. W. R. Alger. There is a prudent reserve which every man Ought to keep in his discourse with a stranger. G. Crabb. He who advises you to be reserved to your friends, wishes to betray you without witnesses. J. A. Manwel. A man may guard himself by that silence and reservedness which one may innocently practise. R. Sowth. Conceal your esteem and love in your own breast, and reserve your kind looks and language for pri- vate hours. Swift. There is nothing more allied to the barbarous and Savage character than sullenness, concealment, and reserve. P. Godwin. Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature. Arthwr Anderson. Persons extremely reserved are like old enamel- led watches, which had painted covers that hin- dered your seeing what o'clock it was. Walpole. There are three degrees of hiding and wailing a man's self: first, reservation and secrecy ; second, dissimulation in the negative ; and the third, simu- lation. Lord Bacom. Merit confidence by frankness, at the same time guard with fidelity whatever secret may be in- trusted to you. “Reserve wounds friendship, and distrust destroys.” Mrs. Sigourney. There are thoughts which most men reserve even from their friends, not because they are selfish, or knavish, or childish, or in any other grave sense base and discreditable, but because they may be chided as profitless, or derided as fantastic. Lady Powerscourt. There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve, if the world were honest : yet, even then, it would prove inexpedient : for in order to at- tain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accom- plishments than you discover. Shenstone. 792 AD A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. RESIGNATION. RESIGNATION. Be resigned to sorrow. Silvanus de Prierio. Resignation lives on reverence and on trust ; but º - - — it has also a keen and loving glance, by virtue of Resignation is a daily Suicide. * which the adorable stratagems which a pitying •orº ri - God employs to reconcile men to His purposes, are Be resigned to the will of God. Al-Hāji. rendered clear to its eyes. Sallust. Resignation to God is only happiness. • * — º - * * * * * Princess Elizabeth. a'. ..". wº . º: with . º - — • e conndence that unchangeable goodness wi Resignation to the will of God is the wº * I make even the disappointment of our hopes and piety. -ms * the contradictions of life conducive to some bene- That resignation is but mock, where the burden | fit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the pros- is not felt. Thupper. pect of even a toilsonne and troubled life. When tyranny is too strong, the church enjoins resignation. Pope Leo XIII. The best sauce for a dish of adversity, is Chris- tian resignation. Downey. It is resignation that is best calculated to lead us safely through life. Hofmannswaldaw. What is resignation ? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief. Cowmt de Fallowac. Resignation to the will of God is the duty of all who love and trust in Him. Maria L. Pizzoli. Resignation is the universal balm, since it soothes and calms even the evils which it cannot cure. Charlotte Elliott. Nothing more strongly inculcates resignation, than the experience of our own inability to guide Ourselves. L. Murray. Misfortunes cannot be avoided ; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by resignation. Seneca. We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can be resigned to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could. W. S. Landor. It seems to me to be a proof of great wisdom to submit with resignation to the storm, and enjoy the calm when it pleases Him to give it us again. Mme. de Sévigné. There is a kind of sluggish resignation, as well as poorness and degeneracy of spirit, in a state of slavery, that very few will remove themselves out Of it. Addison. Suffering becomes beautiful when any one bears great calamities with resignation, not through in- Sensibility to them, but through our greatness of mind. Aristotle. However dark and mysterious the dispensations of Divine Providence may appear to us, it becomes us to resign ourselves to the sovereign pleasure of . Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will. C. Buck. Resignation is to some extent spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common sense ; I should like just a little more of the Supernatural in the practise of my favorite virtue. Mme. Swetchine. Patience applies only to the evils that actually hang over us; but there is a resignation connected with a firm trust in Providence which extends its views to futurity, and prepares us for the worse that may happen. G. Crabb. Humboldt. If it is equally true that submission, under the conditions which make it a virtue, springs neither from a fatalism which stereotypes God and the world, nor from a quietism which volatilizes all the truth it grasps, are we not forced to conclude that resignation, as we conceive it, depends on re- vealed truth : Justin Martyr. How many are ignorant of the value of resigna- tion, or confound it with weakness . The courage of resignation is, perhaps, the most high and rare Of all the forms of that virtue. Man received the gift directly from the Author of his being ; his de- sires, inquietudes, misguided opinions, the fruits of an ambitious and incongruous education, have weakened its force in the soul. Dion. Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources; it is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks; it is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of Light, and to live humbly and with a confiding resignation. Goethe. It was a philosophical maxim, that a wise moral man could not be injured, could not be miserable. But sure it is much more true of him who has di- vine wisdom of Christian resignation, that twines and enwraps all his choices with God's ; and is neither at the pains nor the hazards of his own election, but is secure unless Omniscience can be Omnipotence defeated, that he shall have what is really best for him. R. Palmer. RESISTANCE}. It is right to resist oppression. Sir W. Blackstone. We should always resist vice. Mrs. M. Warren. All men are rebels who resist God's ordinance and men's piety. G. Foac. Resistance is justifiable when the well-being of a nation is in danger. W. Secker. There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure. C. J. Foac. Resist is always an act of more or less force when applied to persons; it is mostly a culpable action, as when men resist lawful authority ; re- sistance is in fact always bad, unless in case of actual self-defense. G. Crabb. P & O S E O U O Z. A 7 I O A. S. 793 RESOLUTION. Resolution is the mother of Security. J. Hall. A good resolution will make any port. Horace. Let not the sword of resolution be blunted. Al-Malik. Age strips us of everything ; even of resolution. J. S. Buckminster. When a resolution is once formed, half the diffi- culty is over. D. Fontana. A heroic resolution never permits life to pass away in trifles. Acton. A statue stands firm on its base, a virtuous man On firm resolutions. Socrates. Resolves perish into vacancy, that, if executed, might have been noble works. H. Giles. We spend our days in deliberating, and end them without coming to any resolution. L’Estrange. In cases of difficulty, and when hopes are small, the most resolute counsels are the safest. Livy. Fortune, though a frowning fortress, Smiles at those whose resolution forces open her gates. Ibn Al-Kàbisi. The resolution to perform an action can have no other character than that of the action itself. F. Wayland. Resolutions taken without thought bring disas- ters without remedy ; he who behaves like a fool repents like a wise man. Basile. Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather. J. C. Hare. Lay your designs with wisdom, carry them on with resolution, and let the result be what it may, you will have discharged your duty. E. Yale, A good resolution is the most fortifying armor a good man can wear ; that can defend him against all the unwelcome shuffles that the poor, rude world can put upon him. J. Beawmont, If we have the resolution to hold fast in our hour of trial, from this very firmness itself serenity soon returns to the mind, which always feels Satisfaction in acting conformably to duty. Hwmboldt. Resolution is necessary to guard us against de- jection ; for the world will beat that man whom fortune buffets; and unless by this he can ward off the blows, he will be sure to feel the greatest burden in his own mind. A wise man makes trouble less by fortitude ; but to a fool it becomes heavier by stooping to it. R. Jenkin. Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful cus- tom ; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation ; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear Or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens ; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads; fell the tree, and the branches are Soon cut off. F. Quarles. RESPECT. Respect the aged. Rev. W. Shelton. Respect a man and he will do more. T. Hyde. Respect a man and he will serve you. E. Taylor. He who respects others is constantly respected by them. Mencius. Respect for self governs morality ; respect for others governs our behavior. F. Abowzit. We often respect where we cannot love, and often love without respecting. J. Bartlett. When about to commit a base deed, respect thy- self if thou hast no other witness. AwSoniws. Respect is a serious thing for him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling. Mme. Swetchine, Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy ; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use. Downey. It is by habitual ingenuousness, an erect and honorable demeanor, that one maintains respect for himself and wins the esteem of others. Magoon. Whenever we can bring a man to have a proper respect for himself, that moment we have secured him against the commission of any heinous crime. S. A. Halliday. Nothing sits so gracefully upon children, and makes them so lovely, as habitual respect and du- tiful deportment toward their parents and their superiors. J. E. Reade. Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it ; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money. Shenstone. RESPECTABILITY. Respectability is society's passport. Dr. Kitto. Respectability is the deportment of a true gen- tleman. J. N. Lockyer. Having the courage to live within one’s means is respectability. B. Disraeli. Few people are so far assured of their respecta- bility as not to make a parade of their claims to it. Bovee. Far more respectable is the good poor man than the bad rich man ; a well-balanced and well-stored mind, a life full of useful purpose, is of far greater importance than worldly respectability. Smiles. Respectability is not a purchasable article ; nor does a fine wardrobe, a well-furnished mansion, and a large bank account make the gentleman ; these are often found to make a gilt frame only to a very bad picture. James Ellis. When a decent man lowers his standard of re- spectability’so far that he can consort with a foe to society and morality, he damages himself be- yond cure, in most instances ; a respectable man who comes to look with a degree of complacency upon one who has no title to respectability, is mo- rally damaged. J. G. Holland. 794 AD A Y 'S CO Z / A C O AV. RESPONSIBILITY. Every child is a responsibility. Frances Wright. He who weighs his own responsibilities can bear them. - Nepos. To be morally responsible a man must be a free, rational, moral agent. A. A. Hodge. Every man and woman ought to feel their own individual responsibilities. T. Guthrie. The most important thought I ever had, was my individual responsibility to God. D. Webster. Let us not shrink from the responsibility which comes down upon the age in which we live. O. M. Mitchell. In the moral and social duties of life there are responsibilities resting upon us which, if neglected, become so great a burden that we fail under their Oppressiveness. Annie E. Lamcaster. Everything which the real welfare of society requires, but which without tyranny could not be regulated by government, remains a responsibility on the conscience and honor of individuals. Brooks. RESTLESSINESS A restless mind, a fickle heart. Mabillom. A restless spirit is ever searching for a something it has lost. Ammie E. Lancaster. A restless man will run after visionary friends, forgetting that he has left his real friends at his own fireside. James Ellis. A restless mind, like a rolling stone, gathers nothing but dirt and mire, and it is sure to leave peace and quietness behind it. T. Balgwy. Tell me, my soul, why art thou restless % Why dost thou look forward to the future with such strong desire ? The present is thine—and the past ; and the future shall be Longfellow. A restless man may be compared to a ship hav- ing a compass but no rudder, and who goes floun- dering in every direction, but cannot steer to any given point of usefulness. Nowrrisson. An anxious, restless temper that runs to meet care on its way, that regrets lost opportunities too much, and that is over-painstaking in contrivances for happiness, is foolish, and should not be in- dulged. T. Sharpe. RESTRAINT. Restrain thy wrath. Aeraces. A favor that is given under restraint is no more a favor. Margaret Lambrwn. Restraints must be borne by those who have to govern others. Schiller. The evil passions should ever be kept under re- straint ; but never the freedom of the mind. Pusey. No man can possibly improve in any company, for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint. Chesterfield. Restraints laid by a people on itselfare sacrifices made to liberty ; and it often shows the greatest wisdom in imposing them. R. Walsh. REST. To die is rest. Periander. We shall have alleternity to rest in. A. Armawld. The word rest is not in my vocabulary. Greeley. There is time enough to restin our graves. F. Neff. A pure mind can always find the soothing influ- ence of rest. Nyssem. We are like the ocean which ebbs and flows, but is never at rest. Rottw. What is more pleasant, after long labor, or ex- tended travel, than to rest our weary limbs upon our bed 3 Catullus. We cannot remain at rest When we think of enjoying ourselves a foe is sent us to try our valor, a friend to try our patience. Goethe. If thou desire much rest, desire not too much ; there is no less trouble in the preservation, than in the acquisition of abundance ; Diogenes found more rest in his tub, than Alexander on his throne. F. Quarles. If it be a law of nature that we must labor in order to live, it is equally ordained that we must rest ; perpetual, unremitting toil would soon wear us out, and nature would defeat her own ends, if she disqualified us for what she designed us to do. - Acton. Rest is a very fine medicine ; let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, ye wearied and worried men of business ; rest your limbs, ye children of toil. You cannot ? Cut off all super- fluities of appetite and fashion, and see if you can- not. T. Carlyle. Rest how sweet the sound ! it is melody to my ears it lies as a reviving cordial at my heart, and from thence sends forth lively spirits, which beat through all the pulses of my soul : rest, not as the stone that rests on the earth, nor as this flesh shall rest in the grave, nor such a rest as the carnal world desires. O, blessed rest R. Baacter. O rest I thou soft word autumnal flower of Eden Moonlight of the spirit ! Rest of the soul, when wilt thou hold our head that it may cease beating 2 Ah ere the one grows pale ar.d the other stiff, thou comest often and goest often, and only down below with sleep and with death thou abidest ; whereas above, men with the greatest wings, like birds of paradise, are whirled about most of all by the storms. Richter. Rest unto our souls l it is all we want—the end of all our wishes and pursuits give us a prospect of this, we take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth to have it in possession ; we seek for it in titles, in riches, and pleasures; climb up after it by ambition ; come down again, and stoop for it by avarice—try all extremaes; still we are gone out of the way ; nor is it till after many miserable experiments that we are convinced at last, we have been seeking everywhere for it, but where there is a prospect of finding it, and that is within ourselves, in a meek and lowly disposition of heart. Sterne. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 7 9 5 RESTULT. Evil is not evil if good result from it. Corday. Let us do our duty and leave the result to God. Corneille. Often what is given is small, yet the result from it is great. Semeca. That which turns out with good results is better than any law. Menamder. Great results cannot be achieved at Once ; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. Smiles. Men usually judge of the prudence of a plan by the result, and are very apt to say that the success- ful man has had much forethought, and the unsuc- cessful shown great want of it. Cicero. Men generally look to the result, praising or blaming according as it has turned out fortunate or the reverse, and always attributing to wisdom what has often been caused by fortune. Guicciardini. The contemplation of results and consequences, which are the counteractions of our actions, good or bad, and in the ordinary course of things, with- out providential intervention, as certain as ma- thematical demonstration, is an advantageous em- ployment. Jan de Ruysbröek. If men, before they did evil, would only remem- ber its inevitable results : if all the wide-extended Sufferings, the Sorrows, the pains, the tears, inevi- tably following upon wrong, were but present to the wrong-doer at the moment of his crime, it is Scarcely possible that heart of flesh could resist the piteous picture. Mrs. Amne Marsh. RETALIATION. Retaliation is the act of a weak mind. Smee. Men are more willing to retaliate an injury than to.requite an obligation. Tacitus. The tendency of retaliation is to increase, foster, and multiply the wrongs absolutely without end. - F. Wayland. Retaliation generally succeeds, and the most powerful are frequently annoyed for their acts of injustice. S. Croacall. Retaliation renders neither party better, but al- ways renders both parties worse ; the offended party who retaliates, does a mean action when he might have done a noble one. Lady R. Bulwer. Retaliation is certainly just, and sometimes ne- cessary, even where attended with the severest penalties; but when the evils which may and must result from it, exceed those intended to be re- dressed, prudence and policy require that it should be avoided. Washington. The use of the law of retaliation is very frequent in despotic countries, where they are fond of sim- ple laws. Moderate governments admit of it some- times; but with this difference, that the former exercise it in full rigor, and among the latter it always receives some kind of limitation. Montesquiew. RESURFECTION. God grant me a joyful resurrection. J. Philpot. From the grave there is no resurrection. Sadoc. The resurrection from the dead is a glorious con- templation. Lady Rachel Russell. We should pray that God hide our sins on the day of resurrection. Yahya Ibn Moād. I have never for a moment doubted of the resur- rection of the dead. Mme. de Gasparim. What a blessed change will the resurrection make upon our dead bodies. M. Byles. The resurrection body starts from the grave ages after all signs of life are gone. F. W. Thomas. Cannot God who first gave life to matter, give resurrection to a body from which life hath de- parted 3 Athemagoras. The resurrection is the silver liming to the dark clouds of death, and we know the sun is shining beyond. J. Walton. It is alleged that the resurrection of bodies re- solved to dust and ashes is against common sense and reason. . W. Perkins. Our Lord has written the promise of the resur- rection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. M. Luther. The morning comes after the night : so the re- surrection will come after the night of this world is past away. B. Keach. We hope and believe in a resurrection, as a tra- veller in a dark night hopes and believes in the rising of the morning Sun. J. Curoews. The body of the resurrection will be as strictly identical with the body of death, as the body of death is with the body of birth. A. A. Hodge. It is resurrection-life that is the truest as well as the highest form of life ; the surest as well as the most glorious immortality ; it admits of no rever- sal and no decay. H. Bomar. The manifestation of Himself was full and clear, and for this end He stayed forty days on the earth after His resurrection ; His body was now become spiritual, and could appear when and to whom. G. Lawsom. I see no greater difficulty in believing the resur- rection of the dead or the conception of the Virgin, than the creation of the world. Is it less easy to reproduce a human body than it was to produce it at first 3 Pascal. Besides the principals of which we consist, and the actions which flow from us, the consideration of the things without us, and the natural course of variations in the creature, will render the resurrec- tion yet more highly probable. J. Pedrson. As a cripple would rejoice to hear that his limbs should be restored perfect, or the beggar that he should be clad in silk and gold, so much more ought Christians to rejoice to hear of the restora- tion of the integrity and innocency of the body in the resurrection. D. Cawdray. 796 AX A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. RETIREMENT. Retirement is pleasure to Sorrow. Al-Farábí. Retirement is often a welcome destiny. Tomes. In our retirements everything disposes us to be serious. Addison. It is well to retire from this world, to reflect on another. Charles V of Germany. In retirement a man may have the company of the gods. Epimenides. Retirement without study is death, and the grave of a living man. Seneca. There is more happiness in retirement than in ruling an empire. Diocletian. Without literature, friendship, and religion, re- tirement is a blank. Sir B. Brodie, He that lives retired, lives quiet ; he fears no- body, and of him nobody is afraid. V. Filicaija. Retirement is the prison and punishment of the fool, the paradise of the wise and good. R. Lucas. He whom God hath gifted with the love of re- tirement, possesses, as it were, an extra sense. Bulwer. Happy the man, who unknown to the world, lives content with himself in some retired nook Boilea w. Retirement from the cares and pleasures of the world, has often been recommended as useful to re- pentance. Dr. Johnson. I prefer peaceful repose, and resigned to the ob- scurity of humble life, shall enjoy the pleasures of retirement, Washington. Washington and Cincinnatus in their retirement, were greater than Caesar or Bonaparte in the zenith of their power. Colton. Our love of retirement and seclusion is equaled Only by our former extravagant passion for osten- tation and display. J. Miller. Retirement is the happy place where vices die, and virtues live, and where men learn what it is to arrive to perfection. A. Horneck. My retirement had now become solitude ; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst. Hannah More. A foundation of good sense, and a cultivation of learning, are required to give a seasoning to retire- ment, and make us taste the blessing. Dryden. A person accustomed to a life of activity longs for ease and retirement ; and when he has accom- plished his purpose, finds himself wretched. Abercrombie. There are some evils to which a life of retire- ment is exposed, the principal of which are idle- ness, humor, conceit, incivility, churlishness, and misanthropy. E. G. Bates. Every country house should have retiring nooks and Solitary haunts, where one so disposed can put himself out of sight, and yet be within reach of the sounds of the house or the barn. H. W. Beecher. RETIREMENT. We prefer to avoid men, and to shun the world, in order that we may seek in retirement, the only peace that is possessing, the only happiness which is left us to enjoy. Actom. Retirement is assuredly favorable to the ad- vancement of the best ends of our being ; there the soul has freer means of examining into its own state and its dependence upon God. C. Buck. When the evening of life is spent in retirement, consecrated and improved, a mild lustre usually gilds its close, and the memory of departed excel- lence is cherished by survivors with sentiments of profound veneration and high esteem. D. Forbes. Retirement from business is a mistake in those who have not an occupation to retire to, as well as from ; such men are never so well or so happily employed, as when they are following the avoca- tion which use has made a second nature to them. Chatfield. Before you think of retiring from the world, be sure you are fit for retirement ; in order to do which, it is necessary that you have a mind so composed by prudence, reason, and religion, that it may bear being looked into ; a turn to rural life, and a love for study. J. Burgh. It has been said that he who retires to solitude, is either a beast or an angel ; the censure is too severe, and the praise unmerited. The discontented being, who retires from society, is generally some good-natured man, who has begun life without ex- perience, and knew not how to gain it in his inter- course with mankind. Goldsmith. He who comes into assemblies only to gratify his curiosity, and not to make a figure, enjoys the pleasures of retirement in a more exquisite degree than he possibly could in his closet ; the lover, the ambitious, and the miser, are followed thither by a worse crowd than any they can withdraw from. To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. Steele. RETRIEAT. Retreat is the valor of weakness. Brunehawt. Retreat is death to a commander. Sww.arrow. Retreat is better than certain destruction. Philip III of Germany. Retreat is only honorable when it can be done without disgrace. Wellington. How certain is our ruin unless we sometimes re- treat from this pestilential region—the world of pleasure. H. Blair. When an army must retreat, let the retreat be managed in the safest manner, and not in the quickest. Cyrus the Great. Honorable retreats are in no ways inferior to brave charges ; as having less of fortune, more of discipline, and as much of valor. Lord Bacom. We retreat from the position we have taken in order to escape danger ; whoever can advance can recede ; but in general, those only retreat whose advance is not free. G. Crabb. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 7 9 7 PETRIBUTION. Retribution belongs to God. Bishop Heber. Future retribution is certain. Lord Herbert, The offender feareth retribution, but the inno- cent feareth fortune. Boetius. Retribution is not always dealt out to every man according to his deeds. G. Crabb. We have the assurance of entering at death upon an eternal state of retribution, according to the moral character in this life. G. Bush. It is a strong argument for a state of retribution hereafter, that in this world the virtuous are very often unfortunate, and the vicious are prosperous. Addison. Unjust offenses may escape for a time without danger, but never without retribution ; yet to punish many for the Offense of one is an unjust retribution. Rodriguez. Retribution at length overtakes the guilty man : perhaps the civil arm arrests him, and places him in circumstances to reflect upon his ways ; his feelings are at first mostly those of neglect and chagrin. H. Winslow, Retribution is one of the grand principles in the Divine Administration of human affairs; a requital is imperceptible only to the wilfully unobservant. There is everywhere the working of the everlast- ing law of requital ; man always gets as he gives. J. Foster. Retribution is the avenger of the impious, and the rewarder of the righteous ; it is a certain su- blime law of the Almighty placed over the acts of man, that throws down the lofty from his seat, and lifts the upright from the lowest bottom to the pin- nacle of fortune. Marcellinºws. There is a retributive justice in all things; and if we are to believe that heaven often regulates effects by their causes, retribution is the shadow that fol- lows all men through their lives, and will even- tually punish the wicked for their evil deeds, and reward the virtuous. As a misspent life secures its own retribution by Sorrows and pain, so will a good life be rewarded by consolation and happiness. *- James Ellis. RETROSPECTION. Retrospection is the looking-glass of life. Babek. It is to live twice, when you can enjoy a retros- pection of your former life. G. Lillo. How many thousands repent when they take a retrospective view of their lives? Acton. Every man can profitably employ his leisure time by the retrospection of his life. G. B. de Mably. We take a retrospect of our past life in order to draw salutary reflections from all that we have done and suffered. G. Crowbb. The retrospect of life is seldom wholly unatten- ded by uneasiness and shame : it too much resem- bles the review which a traveller takes from some eminence of a barren country. FI. Blair. FEVELATION. All revelation is uncertain. Lord Herbert. T. Baker. G. Vale. Revelation is a necessity for man. Revelation is not worthy of belief. Every age hath its book of revelation. Koran. God makes no revelation to man, except through His works. T. Chºwbb. Irradiating is the light of revelation when it dawns upon the soul. T. Ragg. The religion of nature is so plain that any further revelation is unnecessary. Dr. Timdal. Every part of a revelation from God will be con- sistent with every other part. H. Melvill. Many writers divide too much the law of nature from the precepts of revelation. W. Paley. Revelation claims to be the voice of God ; and our obligation to attend to His voice issurely moral in all cases. J. Butler. No man's sight is so strong that he can read in the dark ; neither can reason without revelation guide us to heaven. Downey. Divine revelation ought to overrule all our opi- nions, prejudices, and interests, and hath a right to be received with full assent. J. Locke. To expound the Book of Revelations a man must not only be endowed with learning and ability, but also with a gift of prophecy. Cardinal Caietan. Some things which could not otherwise be read in the book of nature, are legible enough when the lamp of revelation is held up to it. W. Nevins. The revelations of modern times fall immeasur- ably short of the incomprehensible wonders that happened more than three thousand years ago. J. Limen. As the Gospel appears, in respect of the law, to be a clearer revelation of the mystical part, so it is a far more benign dispensation of the practical part. T. Sprat. It is a historical fact which has not been suffi- ciently noticed, that human nature is always be- low revelation; this fact indicates the Divine origin of revelation. J. B. Walke?". The principles of Christian revelation deeply engraven in the heart, would be infinitely more powerful than the false honor of monarchies, the human virtues of republics, or the servile fears of despotic states. Montesquiew. If we wish to behold revelation personified in its most lovely form, we shall see it presented on that occasion when Jesus knelt upon a hill-side in the midst of Palestine, with His twelve disciples kneel- ing around Him. Dr. Cwmming. Beautiful is the star-light of nature to man, clear is the moonlight of reason, and brilliant is the me- teor-light of genius; but more beautiful, more clear, and more brilliant than all these is the sun- light of Divine Revelation. E. P. Day. 798 JD A V 'S CO / W. A. C. O AV. $3 FEVELATION. As revelation is a communication from an in- finite mind to a finite capacity, it may be expected to mingle a shadow with its splendor ; for what finite comprehension can grasp infinity Leslie. The free cultivation of letters, the unbounded ex- tension of commerce, the progressive refinement of manuers, the growing liberality of sentiment, and above all, the pure and benign light of revelation, have had a meliorating influence on mankind, and increased the blessings of Society. Washington. A revelation having nothing to reveal beyond the scope of man's knowledge and science, would cease to be a Divine Revelation ; its mysteries are to me witnesses of its divinity, and I should cease to believe in revelation were the mysteries not there ; they have, as in the great book of nature, a clear and a dark page. Frederick III. A revelation, that may be supposed to be really of the institution of God, must also be supposed to be perfectly consistent or uniform, and to be able to stand the test of truth ; therefore such pretended revelations, as are tendered to us as the contriv- ance of heaven, which do not bear that test, we may be morally certain, was either originally a deception, or has since by adulteration become spurious. E. Allen. Every thoughtful individual must allow that it is possible for the Almighty to reveal His will to the world, if He thinks proper so to do ; He will further grant that some revelation is desirable to allay the fears and confirm the hopes of men. If, then, such a revelation should ever be made, what stronger evidence could be produced of its coming from God than that with which the present Sacred Writings are attended ? D. Simpson. What was the form and nature of the revelation by which the pre-Adamic history of the earth and heavens was originally conveyed to man Ž It must have been either a revelation in words or ideas, or a revelation of scenes and events pictorially ex- hibited ; failing, however, to record its own his- tory, it leaves the student equally at liberty, so far as external evidence is concerned, to take up either view ; while, so far as internal evidence goes, the presumption seems all in favor of revela- tion by vision. H. Miller. REVELF.Y. Revelry wars with old age. Gorgias. Frequent revelries lead to an early grave. Qwintilian. Indulgence in youthful revelry brings on decre- pid old age. Juvenal. Some men ruin the fabric of their bodies by in- cessant revels. Steele. Revelry causeth innumerable maladies, and shorteneth man’s life. Horace. He who delighteth in revelry is a slave to the pleasure of his mouth and belly. Sallwst. Beware of revelries, should be the perpetual les- son inculcated upon youth ; they tend to corrupt, enfeeble, and destroy the mind as well as the body. Acton. REVENGE. Be slow to revenge. Henry I of Germany. Revenge is no valor. Mrs. Mary Cowden Clark. Matthias Claudiws. H. Weber. Revenge is sweet to man. Revenge is a torment of the heart. Never do anything out of revenge. J. Edwards. Revenge will always find weapons. Abw Abbad. Revenge is sweet ; so are some poisons. Yarker. The best revenge is to reform our crimes. C. Middleton. Revenge is just the spirit the devil commends. R. Fooc, Revenge is sure, though sometimes slowly paced. Dryden. Revenge only makes you equal with your enemy. Swsam A. S. T. Vom Weiss. It is better to dissemble an injury than revenge it. A. Severws. Why revenge an enemy when you can out-wit him : Xolotl. Revenge is like a cooling cordial to the burning mind. Erwºmmacher. He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green. Lord Bacom. Wait for revenge ; for it is never well done in a hurry. A. Tassomi. To obtain revenge on an enemy, it is good to fast ten days. Keokuk, Revenge cures the pain we have received from an enemy. Te Rauparaha. Revenge considers not safety, but it is governed by passion. Gadatas. The best sort of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury. Attrelius. Revenge is always the pleasure of a little, weak, and narrow mind. Juvenal. The indulging of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. Rames. He who cannot revenge himself is weak, he who will not is contemptible. Gwicciardini. No revenge is more heroic than that which tor- ments envy by doing good. AEneas Sage. The King of France does not revenge injuries done to the Duke of Orleans. Lowis XII. The noblest revenge we can take upon our ene- mies is to do them a kindness. G. Withers. Opportunity of revenging ourselves on a detested enemy is the most pleasant thing in the world. Thucydides. Revenge is the inflicting of pain upon the person who has injured or offended us, further than the just ends of punishment or reparation require. W. Paley. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 799 REVENGE. - Revenge is an act of passion, vengeance of jus- tice ; injuries are revenged, crimes are avenged. Dr. Johnson. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my ene- my ; but I will remember, and this I owe to my- self. Colton. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more Ought law to weed it out. Lady Gethin. Revenge is barren of itself; itself is the dreadful food it feeds on ; its delight is murder, and its Sa- tiety despair. Schiller. What is revenge, but courage to call in our hon- or's debts, and wisdom to convert other's self-love into our own protection ? T. Yowng. Revenge is sweet, though cruel and inhuman, and though it thirsts sometimes even for food, yet may be glutted and satiated. S. Croacall. Revenge is a cruel word ; manhood, some call it; but it is rather doghood ; the manlier any man is, the milder and more merciful. J. Trapp. We are pleased by some implicit kind of re- venge, to see him taken down and humbled in his reputation who had so far raised himself above us. Addison. Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly pos- sessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his inven- tion. Swift. The man who permits revenge to reign triumph- ant in his bosom, is in as miserable, and in a more dangerous situation than one who has the hydro- phobia. L. C. Judson. It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves ; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and not revenge ourselves. Bruyère. Revenge is that disposition which prompts us to inflict pain upon another, for the sake of alleviat- ing the feeling of personal degradation consequent upon an injury. F. Wayland. Revenge is a momentary triumph, of which the satisfaction dies at once, and is succeeded by re- morse ; whereas, forgiveness, which is the noblest of all revenges, entails a perpetual pleasure. Chatfield. We can more easily avenge an injury than re- quite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good. Cicero. To forgive our enemies is a charming way of re- venge, and a short Cæsarean conquest, overcom- ing without a blow, laying our enemies at our feet, under sorrow, shame, and repentance. Browne. A spirit of revenge is one of those evil passions to which our nature is most prone, and with res- pect to which we should therefore most anxiously guard against the influences of example and of habit. Mrs. Lydia M. Child. REVENGE. Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after. J. Hall. Revenge when improved into habit and inclina- tion, is the temper of a tyrant ; it is a strong com- position of pride and cruelty, impatient of the least provocation and unconcerned at the mischiefs of a I'êtill I’ll. Jeremy Collier. If you are affronted, it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge ; if you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defendants. T. Newton. The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us ; and it is hardly possible for one man to be more unlike an- other than he, that forbears to avenge himself of wrong, is to him who did the wrong. Jane Porter. If revenge was general, and allowed to man, the evil would never end ; if the angry wife shall kill her husband, the son will revenge his father's death, the rother will kill his mother's murderer, and he will also meet with an avenger for slaying his brother. Euripides. Revenge is a common passion ; it is the sin of the uninstructed ; the Savage deems it noble, but Christ's religion, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because reli- gion ever seeks to ennoble man ; and nothing so debases him as revenge. Bulwer. Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love ; and this paradox naturally suggests another : that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it. Coltom. Banish all malignant and revengeful thoughts. A spirit of revenge is the very spirit of the devil; than which nothing makes a man more like him, and nothing can be more opposite to the temper which Christianity was designed to promote. If your revenge be not satisfied, it will give you tor- ment now ; if it be, it will give you greater here- after. None is a greater self-tormentor than a malicious and revengeful man, who turns the poison of his own temper in upon himself. Mason. A pure and simple revenge does in no way res- tore man toward the felicity which the injury did interrupt ; for revenge is but doing a simple evil, and does not, in its formality, imply reparation ; for the mere repeating of our own right is permit- ted to them that will do it by charitable instru- ments. All the ends of human felicity are secured without revenge, for without it we are permitted to restore ourselves ; and therefore it is against na- tural reason to do an evil that no way co-operates the proper and perfective end of human nature ; and he is a miserable person, whose good is the evil of his neighbor; and he that revenges in many cases does worse than he that did the injury : in all cases as bad. Jeremy Taylor. -* 80ſ) AX A Y'S CO Z L A C O AV. IREVERENCE. REVER.I.E. Reverence the good. Jane Taylor. The human mind is a continuous reverie. S. Dach. Reverence thy parents. Solom. Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without Above all things, reverence thyself. Pythagoras. Treat old age with great reverence and tender- IłęSS. Zoroaster. Without reverence what will distinguish a man from a beast 2 Confucius. In youth, impress your minds with reverence for all that is sacred. H. Blair. When you speak of God, or His attributes, let it be seriously, in reverence. Washington. God is the supreme object of the reverence both of unfallen angels and redeemed men. Charnock. That foundation-stone of the Great Infinite of piety is the reverence of the child for its parent. Mrs. Anne Marsh. When we are in misery then springs up a rever- ence of the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the sacred altar. Silius Italicus. I would be like a little bird, which the wind rocks on a branch beneath the mild rays of the sun, and whose voice reverently ascends unceas- ingly to the blue heaven. L. J. Rwckert. He who possesses no reverence for the Divine Being, who, while he believes in His existence, violates His laws, and despises His authority, shows at once the depravity of his heart and the weak- ness of his reason. C. Buck. Reverence is an ennobling sentiment ; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by ele- vating itself into an antagonist of what is above it ; he that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. W. Allstom. I have seen men whose reverence for religion was so morbid that they could hardly lift up their eyes to heaven, but who made it up by the way they looked down on their fellow-men— men who yielded to no master here, who were touched by no name of friend or brother ; but the moment the name of God was pronounced, they collapsed. H. W. Beecher. The spirit conscious of an emotion of reverence for some unseen subject of its own apprehension, desires to substantiate and fix its deity, and to bring the senses into the same adoring attitude: and this can be done only by setting before them a material representation of the divine ; this is illustrated in the universal and inveterate tendency of early nations to idolatry. H. B. Wallace. The expression of reverence has been universally the same in every period of life, in all stages of society, and in every clime ; on first consideration it seems merely natural that, when pious thoughts prevail, man's countenance should be turned from things earthly to the purer objects above ; but there is a link in this relation every way worthy of attention : the eye is raised—whether the ca- nopy over us be shrouded in darkness, or display all the splendor of noon. Sir C. Bell. regard of the understanding. J. Locke. Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle sea-shore of the mind. Longfellow. To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy or very unhappy : revery is the child of extreme. Rivarol. That thou mayest prove happy, fall not into rev- erie ; for the retrenchment of hope is the health of the intellect. Ibn Al-Wa'rdi. Reverie, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier. Victor Hugo. If the minds of men were laid open, we should See but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool; there are reveries and ex- travagances which pass through the minds of wise men, as well as fools. Addison. One half of the life of man is passed in reveries; he muses and meditates over wild and extravagant Conceits of the imagination, until he loses that re- gular train of thought which leads him into the practical and beneficial paths of life. James Ellis. Do anything innocent rather than give yourself up to reverie ; I can speak on this point from experience, for at one period of my life I was a dreamer and castle-builder ; I spent hours in rev- erie ; the body suffered as much as the mind ; the imagination threatened to inflame the passions, and I found if I meant to be virtuous I must dis- miss my musings. W. E. Channing. REVIEW. Review to-day, read to-morrow. W. H. Coleridge. Reviewers often write through caprice. C. Lloyd. Reviewers often write to display themselves. M. B. Smedley. Any one can play the critic ; only men of talent can review. E. P. Day. The review of a book is the work of the critic, for the purpose of estimating its value. G. Crabb. Reviewers are forever telling authors, they can't understand them ; the author might often reply, “Is that my fault 2." J. C. Hare. He whose first emotion on the review of an ex- cellent production is to undervalue it will never have one of his own to show. J. Aiken. Review is a work that overlooks the productions it professes to look over, and judges of books by their authors, not of authors by their books. Chatfield. The most venomous animals are reptiles ; the most spiteful among human beings rise no higher. Reviewers should bear this in mind ; for the tribe are fond of thinking that their special business is to be as galling and malicious as they can. A. W. Hare. P & O S A Q J O 7. A 7 ſo y S. S()] FEVIVAL. Revivals prove a lack of faith. H. Marston. True religion needs no revivals. Bickersteth. Revivals are like the showers that water the earth. T. H. Skimmer. Revivals open men's hearts, and devise liberal things. J. A. James. We do not desire to see the revival spirit droop among uS. C. H. Spurgeon. The violent awakening of a religious revival has a sharp polarity ; it has sent many a man headlong to the devil. E. Eggleston. The great use of a revival seems to be that it cuts off the escape of many who would flee from the presence of God. J. B. Heard. A revival is the spring of religion, the renova- tion of life and gladness ; it is the season in which young converts burst into existence and beautiful activity. J. T. Jenkyn. God often uses feeble instrumentalities to pro- duce revivals ; sometimes a stray tract, a prayer by some sick invalid, or a sermon unintentionally preached by some pastor. A. Ritchie. Some revivals resemble underground rivers, running unknown to everybody till they discover themselves ; most revivals of God’s work I have thought begin in this secret way. J. Cawghey. The joy awakened by a revival is inexpressible; when we remember that souls are then being born again—Souls worth more than worlds, and ran- 'somed by the blood of Jehovah's Fellow. E. Davies. A revival of Christianity must take its rise with the ministers of Christianity ; the work must begin in our own bosoms before it can animate our ser- mons, and make us patterms to our flocks. e Bishop Wilson. Great patience and caution are needed in a re- vival, inasmuch as it is exceedingly difficult to provoke religious excitement, and oftentimes as difficult when it is provoked, to guide it to saving and sanctifying issues. Dr. Davies. There are many Christians who like, about once in twelve months, to have a good revival in their hearts; they think that like the year they can make up for freezing and snowing all winter by a period of intense heat in the summer. Beecher. Genuine revivals of the work of God are best promoted by a proper use of the means of His own appointing, till it shall have accomplished the ob- ject of its mission—the spread of Scriptural holiness over all lands ; may the Lord hasten it in His time. Bishop Morris. All our clergy constantly need a revival of ge- nuine life ; it would be felt in every home like the breath of spring, experienced beside every sick-bed like a touch of healing, and be heard in every ser- mon like a voice from heaven Oh, what a hea- venly gift to himself and others would this be, and what a time of refreshing from the Lord Dr. Macleod, FEVOLUTION. Revolutions go not backwards. F. N. Babeuf. Revolutions produce great minds. Palmerston. Revolutions do not always establish freedom. Millard Fillmore. A man may joyfully revolt from an unjust ruler. Abradatus. They who favor revolutions only dig a tomb for themselves. Robespierre. Our revolution was mainly directed against the mere theory of tyranny. Henry Clay. Revolutions use one to seeing in the vanquished of to-day the victor of to-morrow. Mme. Swetchine. The gods favor those who engage in a judicious revolt against a tyrannical government. Arsaces I. Stimulants do not give strength, comets do not give heat, and revolutions do not give liberty. Philan'ete Chasles. Revolutions are like the most noxious dung- heaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables. Napoleon I. Revolutions are not made ; they come. A revo- lution is as natural a growth as an oak ; it comes out of the past ; its foundations are laid far back. Wendell Phillips. We deplore the outrages which accompany revo- lutions; but the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was neces- sary. T. B. Macawlay. The period of the American revolution is rounded with epic exactness, having a beginning, a middle, and an end ; a time for causes to operate, for the stir of action, and for the final results. J. Sparks. If a government cannot prevent revolt, it has no right to attempt to govern the revolters ; for it has not succeeded in attaining the only just end of government, namely, the comfort of the governed. Leigh Hwnt. The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as waves are to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh : ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blos- SOIYAS. Herde?". God does not grant to those great men who have laid the foundations of their greatness amidst dis- order and revolution, the power of regulating at their pleasure, and for succeeding ages, the govern- ment of nations. Guizot. Those who give the first shock to a state are na- turally the first to be overwhelmed in its ruin ; the fruits of revolution are seldom enjoyed by the man who was the first to set it a going ; he only troubles the water for another's net. Montaigme. It is far more easy to pull down than to build up, and to destroy than to preserve : revolutions have on this account been falsely supposed to be fertile of great talent ; as the dregs rise to the top during a fermentation, and the lightest things are carried by the whirlwind. Colton. 51 – SO2 J) A Y'S CO Z / A C O AW. REWARD. Use rewards sparingly. E. Eggleston. Merit does not always receive its reward. Abbt. Every kind of merit should have its reward. Lowis XIV. Rewards are for those who fulfill their duty. G. Brown. The ill-placing of rewards is a double injury to merit. W. M. Baker. Fortune hath given every reward to the con- querors. Sallust. God will reward every man in accordance with his works. 4. Ritchie. The hope of a good reward is a great encourage- ment to labor. W. M. Clark. The reward of good works is like dates, sweet and ripening late. Talmuwol. Let industry have its reward, or idleness will have the advantage. Wakatanuki. Do good for its own sake, and expect not your reward for it on earth. Krishna. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice. Washington. Labor is the ornament of the citizen ; the reward of toil is when you confer blessing on others. Schiller. There was nothing which men would not under- take, if for great attempts great rewards were pro- posed. Livy. As the working man is paid after his work is done, so the Christian is rewarded when life is ended. J. Foster. Reward is the spur of virtue in all good arts, all laudable attempts ; and emulation, which is the other spur, will never be wanting when particular rewards are proposed. Dryden. He that accuses another merely for the sake of the promised reward, or with any other such mer- cenary view, whatever he gets by the bargain, is sure to lose his reputation. S. Croacall. Rewards and punishments do always pre-suppose something done willingly wellor ill; without which respect, though we may sometimes receive good, yet then it is only a benefit and not a reward. R. Hooke?". It is the wise dispensing of rewards and punish- ments, which keeps the world in good order; they never had their business well done who, through an excess of goodness, reward mean services too highly, or punish great miscarriages too lightly. G. Bush. Fear debilitates and lowers, but hope animates and revives ; therefore rulers and magistrates should attempt to operate on the minds of their res- pective subjects, if possible, by reward rather than punishment. And this principle will be strength- ened by another consideration : he that is punished or rewarded, while he falls or rises in the estima- tion of others, cannot fail to do so likewise in his OWIl. a Colton. RHETORIC. Rhetoric is the creature of art. H. Holley. Rhetoric is the quackery of eloquence. Colton. Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed, and argument put in order. J. Collier. Rhetoric is very good, or stark naught ; there is no medium in rhetoric. Selden. Rhetoric adorns and enlarges a thing with words, but is of no value without logic. Lºwther. There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric ; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. W. Penn. The two best rules of a system of rhetoric are: first, have something to say ; and next, say it. Ehmmons. By reasoning we satisfy ourselves: by rhetoric we satisfy others. Most modern orators and rhe- toricians content themselves with fulfilling the first part of this proposition. P. B. Randolph. Flowers of rhetoric, in sermons or serious dis- courses, are like the red and blue flowers in corn ; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. Swift. In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punish- ment ; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not Over-wise. Euripides. Without attempting a formal definition of the word, I am inclined to consider rhetoric, when re- duced to a system in books, as a body of rules de- rived from experience and observation, extending to all communications by language, and designed to make it efficient. W. E. Channing. Rhetoric is appealing to the passions instead of the reason of your auditors, and claiming that value for the workmanship which ought to be mea- sured by the ore alone. An Orator is one who can stamp such a value upon counterfeit coin as shall make it pass for genuine. Chatfield. R.HYME}. He tames grief that fetters it in rhyme. Donne. Rhyme without melody and sense is an abortion of the muse. Iscanws. There are rhymes which speak to the eye, and not to the ear. J. Cawvin. The fetters of rhyme are no more than a brace- let to the true poet. Hans Sachs. The passion of love makes almost every man a rhymer, though not a poet. Dryden. We say a thing is without rhyme or reason when it has neither number nor sense. Dr. Johnson. Rhyme is the elementary art of the poet ; but at the same time he must possess that vehement pas- sion for melody that buoys his speech into song, his footsteps into tune, and makes his life move in a melodious rhythm. Bentivoglio. A R O S E Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. 803 RICHES. Seek not riches. Sir W. Jones. Riches need not spoil a man. Miss M. E. Mitford. Make the best of a rich fool. Narcissus. Riches test a man’s character. Antiphames. The rich are trustees for the poor. F. Dowce. He only is rich who enjoys wealth. Rabbi Meir. Riches cannot purchase mental gifts. F. L. Holt. Riches are well, if gotten well, and spent well. Vespasian. Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance. Addison. Riches well got and well used are a great bless- ing. Mme. Tencin. Riches give a tongue even to the most timid of IſlēI]. Al-Ahnaf, The rich and ignorant are sheep with golden wool. Episcopius. The rich, of all things, are the richest in their wantS. E. P. Day. Riches are the incentives to every kind of wick- edness. - Ovid, Who is there of men but wishes for riches and honor 3 Ke-swim. A rich man is either a robber or the heir of a robber. St. Jerome. It is hard to separate great riches from great wrongs. R. Leighton. Riches are a disgrace to him who hath kinsman in want. Al-Mahdi. Gold, however abundant, cannot render a person truly rich. Henrietta, Dwmont. If a man wishes to become rich, he must appear to be rich. Goldsmith. He hath riches sufficient who hath enough to be charitable. Sir T. Browne. I am filled with riches when I know how to do without them. Vigée. Riches are blind, and render men blind who set their affections upon them. Menander. Take heed that thou seek not riches basely, nor attain them by evil means. Sir W. Raleigh. Riches are good, when the party that possesseth them can tell how to use them. H. B. Zeigler. Rich men without wisdom and learning, are called sheep with golden fleeces. Solom. Riches are servants to the wise ; but they are tyrants over the soul of the fool. R. Dodsley. The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat, fit only for the shambles. Confucius. He who seeks to be rich will not be benevolent ; he who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich. Yang Hoo. FICHES. Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches. Horace. Great abundance of riches cannot of any man be both gathered and kept without sin. Erasmus. Riches are like muck, which stink in a heap, but spread abroad, make the earth fruitful. J. C. Blum. Nothing isso hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want. Swift. It is best that the people be neither rich nor poor ; for riches bring luxury, and luxury tyranny. - W. Penn. The rich who are ignorant desire learning, as much as the wise who are poor covet wealth. A. Morellet. Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. • O. Gregory. It is not right to call the man who possesses much riches happy, but the man who is not in grief. Apollodorus. Riches are deservedly despised by a man of hon- or, because a well stored chest intercepts the truth. Phoedºws. Riches amassed in haste will diminish ; but those collected by hand, and little by little will multiply. Goethe. The god of this world is riches, pleasures, and pride, wherewith it abuses all the creatures and gifts of God. M. Lºwther. Riches without charity are nothing worth ; they are a blessing only to him who makes them a bless- ing to others. Fielding. Labor not to be rich, for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle to- ward heaven. Mrs. M. M. Pullan. Many speak the truth, when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men. Colton. Some have been so wedded to their riches, that they have used all the means they could to take them with them. Mrs. W. Grey. If rich, be not too joyful in having, too solicit- ous in keeping, too anxious in increasing, nor too sorrowful in losing. D. Dentom. There is no limit to riches among men ; for those of us who have most, strive after twice as much ; riches become folly. Theognis. The more that a miserable man increaseth in riches, the more he diminisheth in friends, and augmenteth his enemies. Amcºacagoras. Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy: we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use. S. Bailey. Riches rightly used breed delight, pleasure, pro- fit, and praise ; but to him that abuseth them they procure envy, hatred, dishonor, and contempt. Plautus. 804 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. FICEIES. The good of a state, as of a man, consisteth not in riches, but in the use of riches; not in its com- mercial, but in its moral worth. Richter. Let not the covetous desire of growing rich in- duce you to ruin your reputation, but rather satis- fy yourself with a moderate fortune. Dryden. Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into Our possession, but not into our affections. P. Charron. Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them ; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows One. Feltham. Worldly riches are like nuts; many clothes are torn in getting them, many a tooth broke in crack- ing them, but never a belly filled with eating them. R. Vemºving. When the poor rise to destroy the rich, they act as wisely for their own purposes as when they burn mills, and throw corn into the river, to make bread cheap. Burke. If there were none of these hateful rich people, who would build hospitals and provide asylums for orphans, and for the deaf and dumb, and the blind 2 Catherine M. Sedgwick. Riches, honors, and pleasures are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for its heavenly food ; poverty, disgrace, and pain are the bitters which destroy it. G. Horne. O riches thou art the fruitful source of cares; thou leadest us to a premature grave ; thou afford- est support to the vices of men ; the seeds of evil spring up from thee. Propertiws. Misery assails riches as lightning does the high- est towers; or as a tree that is heavy laden with fruit breaks its own boughs, so do riches destroy the virtue of their possessor. R. Burton. The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice ; the rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom ven- ture to return the compliment. A. Helps. Regard riches as the last of the good things of this life, for they are the least certain of the things we possess ; other things remain with those who possess them in a moderate degree. Aleacis. Wouldst thou multiply thy riches 2 Diminish them wisely ; or wouldst thou make thy estate en- tire ? Divide it charitably. Seeds that are scat- tered increase ; but hoarded up, they perish. F. Qwarles. Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because mother of thought ; both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of being weary of themselves. Sir W. Temple. The riches of the world, and the gratifications they afford, are too apt, when their evil tendency is not opposed by a principle of religion, to beget that friendship for the world which is enmity to God. S. Horsley. RICHES. There is a burden of care in getting riches ; fear in keeping them ; temptation in using them ; guilt in abusing them ; Sorrow in losing them ; and a burden of account at last to be given up concern- ing them. M. Henry. The rich and poor should not be separate ; but there should be a mixture, that the country may prosper ; for the rich supply what the poor have not ; and what we rich men do not possess, we can obtain by employing the poor. Euripides. If riches have been your idol, hoarded up in your coffers, or lavished out upon yourselves, they will, when the day of reckoning comes, be like the gar- ment of pitch and brimstone which is put on the criminal condemned to the flames. G. W. Hervey. If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune, or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy conversation ; condescend to men of low estate, support the distressed, and patronize the neglected ; be great. Sterme. There are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them ; the cares, which are the keys of riches, hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they clog him with weary days and restless nights, when others sleep quietly. Isaac Walton. How often are worldly riches like hangmen ; they hide men's faces with a covering, that they may see their own end, and then they hang them ; and if they do not hang you, they will shortly leave you ; they make themselves wings and flee away. J. Brooks. There is one way whereby we may secure our riches and make sure friends to ourselves of them, by laying them out in charity ; by this means, we may send them before us, and consign them over to another world, to make way for our reception there. Tillotson. We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures when we envy the happiness of rich and great men ; we know not the inward can- ker that eats out all their joy and and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than our- selves. R. Hall. Every man who achieves riches by great specu- lations, by sharp practices, by trade which involves operations not altogether honorable, has his own method of maintaining self-complacency, or self- toleration ; but his efforts usually take the form of charity. J. G. Holland. You want to double your riches, and without gambling or stock-jobbing 2 Share it ; whether it be material or intellectual, its rapid increase will amaze you. What would the sun have been had . he folded himself up in darkness 2 Surely he would have gone out. J. C. Hare. Man was born to be rich, or inevitably grows rich by the use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production ; the game requires coolness, right rea- Soning, promptness, and patience, in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor. Emerson. P AE O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. S O 5 IRICHES. He that will give himself to all manner of ways to get money, may be rich , so he that lets fly all he knows or thinks, may by chance be satirically witty. Honesty sometimes keeps a man from grow- ing rich, and civility from being witty. Selden. Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, “Who is fortunate and who is unfor- tunate 3’” He replied: “He was fortunate who ate and sowed, and he was unfortunate who died without having enjoyed.” Saadi. Providence has decreed that those common ac- quisitions—money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion—should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor. Erasmus. A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandal- ously and miserably ; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness ; therefore it is pre- cept and principle, not an estate, that make a man good for something. Awreliws. Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire ; nor can any- thing restrain or regulate the love of money but a sense of honor and virtue, which, if it be not nearly equal at all times, will naturally abound most in ages of knowledge and refinement. Hwme. We are all of us richer than we think we are : but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than our own. Man can in nothing fix and con- form himself to his mere necessity ; of pleasure, wealth, and power, he grasps at more than he can hold ; his greediness is incapable of moderation. Montaigme. I take him to be the only rich man that lives upon what he has, owes nothing, and is contented ; for there is no determinate sum of money, nor Quantity of estate, that can denote a man rich, since no man is truly rich that has not so much as perfectly satiates his desire of having more ; for the desire of more is want, and want is poverty. Sir W. Howe. Can any man say that the wild fowl in his grounds are his, which suddenly take their wings and fly away, and for awhile make a stay in an- other man's field, and thereby give a like property to the second as they did to the first 3 No more can any man call riches truly his, which like winged birds shift their owners, and haste from one to another. W. Spurstowe. I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, “impediment- ta:” for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit. Lord Bacon. IRICHES. We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the low- est place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mine than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them 2 And yet they defile our minds more than our bo- dies, and make the possessor fouler than the arti- ficer of them; rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves. Seneca. A man hath riches : whence came they, and whither go they 2 For this is the way to form a judgment of the esteem which they and their pos- sessor deserve ; if they have been acquired by fraud or violence, if they make him proud and vain, if they minister to luxury and intemperance, if they are avariciously hoarded up and applied to mo proper use, the possessor becomes odious and contemptible. Jortin. Such riches are deceitful shadows, which cover an apparent good under an undoubted evil; they are hands that take their master by the throat; ; they are poignards with a golden haft, which de- light the eyes with vain seemings, and pierce the heart with mortal wounds; they are precipices furnished with precious jewels; they are heights which are not measured but by their falls; they are deadly poisons steeped in a golden cup. N. Cawssim. Riches have wings : yes, bright and golden wings; wings of joy, of pleasure, and of peace. We can mount upon them and fly away whither- soever we please ; we can soar, as if on the glorious wings of the morning, and dwell, if we choose, in the uttermost parts of the earth or sea, free from the cares and vexations which embitter our peace, and corrode into the very core of life ; whitherso- ever we shall go, under the talismanic influence of wealth we shall find love and service freely offered at our disposal; we shall encountertroops of friends among every people, and in every land shall we be able to sit under our own vine and fig-tree. Acton. FIDIDLES. Life is a riddle. Addison. He who knows not how to riddle, knows not how to live. C. T. Walther. Many men can solve the most difficult riddle, but few can solve the way to success in life. J. Neild. Many men's lives are riddles, if we take the am- biguousness of their acts, and endeavor to solve them. James Ellis. The solving of riddles is an art which affords the easiest and shortest method of conveying some of the most useful principles of logic. FitzOsborne. Time spent in solving an ingenious riddle is by no means entirely wasted ; many faculties of the mind are brought into exercise ; we are taught to look at a thing in varied phases: that riddles, like the ways of life, are often deceptive, that not only probabilities but possibilities, even the remotest, are to be considered ; and above all, that study, patience, perseverance, and untiring industry are requisite to the solution of life's most difficult enigmas. E. P. Day. 806 A) A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. R.IDICULE. Ridicule not another's worship. O. Maillard. G. Farel. Ridicule will not stop God's work. Ridicule is a severe but effective weapon if used judiciously. R. O. Cambridge. What is most offensive in ridicule is the shame it occasions. N. Macdonald. Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. |W. Warburtom. Ridicule is a weak weapon when levelled at a strong mind. L. Hamsard. Ridicule is the scoffer's logic, the scum from a shallow mind. Arthwr Mwrphy. Never allow ridicule to repress the utterance of your homest convictions. J. Von Müller. Ridicule is the best test of truth ; it will not stick where it is not just. Chesterfield. He who misrepresents what he ridicules does not ridicule what he misrepresents. W. Hodgson. Ridicule chastises folly and imprudence, and keeps men in their proper sphere. T. Hood. The man who laughs at his own foibles ever does it to prevent the ridicule of others. G. Twelce)'. Ridicule is a sauce that makes game of every- thing ; it is the foam on the tips of envy. D'Urfe. Ridicule is a pebble thrown in the stream of a clear conscience, to check its course and corrupt its purity. Maria Eliza Weir. How comes it to pass, that we appear such cow- ards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule 3 Shaftesbury. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking every- thing praiseworthy in human life. Addison. Ridicule is a monster engendered between an ape and a hyena ; it inherits the antic wiles of the former with the fellness of the latter. W. Mavor. The highest and most just reputation may suf- fer from ridicule, which may bring into contempt what is entitled to the greatest esteem and honor. R. Bolton. We can learn to read and write, but we cannot learn ridicule ; that must be a particular gift of nature ; and I esteem him happy who does not wish to acquire it. Oacenstierm. Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a sel- fish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined. Kames. Bad writers are not ridiculed because ridicule ought to be a pleasure, but to undeceive and vin- dicate the honest and unpretending part of man- kind from imposition. Pope. Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity ; man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem. Horace. RIDICULE. Ridiculing what, for aught you know, may be true, is neither acting as a wise man with regard to your own interests, nor as a good man with re- gard to that of your country. G. Berkeley. When ridicule gets to be so common that it takes the place of philosophy among sensible people, and even is encouraged among fools, it is a sure sign that morality is trying to go down hill. Shaw. He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt ; the most spark- ling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary. W. S. Landor. It is with ridicule as with compassion, we do not like to be the solitary objects of either ; and whe- ther we are laughed at or pitied, we have no ob- jection to sharers, and fancy we can lessen the weight by dividing the load. Colton. What would the nightingale care if the toad despised her singing 2 She would still sing on, and leave the cold toad to his dank shadow. And what care I for the ridicule of men who grovel upon earth ? I will still sing on the ear and bosom of God. H. W. Beecher. Ridicule is a weak weapon when levelled at a strong mind ; but common men are cowards, and dread an empty laugh ; but betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee ; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet. Tupper. Ridicule is the itch of our age and climate ; and has over-run both the court and the stage ; and I have known in my lifetime more than one or two ministers of state, that would rather have said a witty thing than have done a wise one, and made the company laugh, rather than the kingdom re- joice. Sir W. Temple. It is said that ridicule is the test of truth ; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves ; when, if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take re- fuge in doubt. Miss L. E. Landom. I know of no principle which it is of more im- portance to fix in the minds of young people, than that of the most determined resistance to the en- croachments of ridicule ; give not up to the world, nor to the ridicule with which the world enforces its dominions over every trifling question of man- ner and appearance ; learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridi- cule. Sydney Smith. The fatal fondness for indulging in a spirit of ridicule, and the injurious and irreparable conse- quences which sometimes attend the too severe reply, can never be condemned with more asperity, than it deserves. Not to offend is the first step to- ward pleasing ; to give pain is as much an offense against humanity as against good-breeding, and surely it is as well to abstain from an action be- cause it is sinful, as because it is unpolite. H. Blair. PA O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 8 O 7 R.IDICULOUSINESS. Whatever is false, is ridiculous. Qween Christina. From the sublime to the ridiculous there is only One step. Napoleon I. No man is ridiculous for being what he is, but simply for affecting to be what he is not. Potocki. There are people who, by striving to pass for reasonable, make themselves more ridiculous. • Stanislaws. Vain men succumb to the ridiculous, which the whimsical man defies ; and the former hate, the latter seek their likenesses. Richter, A turn for the ridiculous, the lowest and last species of wit, is a thing to be shunned, for it often terminates in grossness and brutality. Goodrich. The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain or by fatal consequences ; thus an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain. Aristotle. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule. Chesterfield. One ought only to laugh at what is ridiculous, yet we see people who laugh equally at what is ridicu- lous, and at what is not so. If you are silly and muddle-headed, and some nonsense escape you, they laugh ; if you are shrewd, and speak ration- ally, in a tone with which no fault can be found, they laugh all the same. Bruyère. FIDING-. Riding on horseback is the best way of travel- ling. T. Dwight. Riding is a pleasure as well as an accomplish- ment. Beardsworth. A man, by learning to ride, feels as though he is a centaur, or flying man. Chrysantes. We never unlearn anything of our skill as foot- men by learning to ride. Cyrus the Great. No doubt can exist as to the utility of riding as a means of health, and its elegance and grace as an accomplishment. Sir J. Astley. The exercise of riding is a great physical service ; and in hunting, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly beneficial. Earl of Hardwicke. To persons in the enjoyment of perfect health, riding is the most exhilarating and delightful of recreations, and one of the best means of renovat- ing the tone of the body and spirits in a weakened and impaired constitution. G. P. Morris. The sons of rich men and kings learn nothing so well as riding ; for their masters flatter them, and if they contend, willingly yield to them ; but a horse never considers if a prince or a poor man be On his back, and if you cannot manage him, he will throw his rider. Carmectales. RIGHT. Whatever is, is right. Pope. Right wrongs no one. Bishop Godeau. Jame Porter. Matthew Molé. R. E. Lee. Defend the cause of right. Do right, come what may. The question is, is it right 2 God giveth success to the right. Ben Zohair Caab. Do what is right without a bribe. R. Dodsley. Man's rights are founded in nature. S. Puffendorf. Through God and my right, I rule. Richard I. Put the right man in the right place. Palmerston. Dare to do right ; fear to do wrong. Rothschild. Right and fraud go not well together. J. Moeser. Reep in the way of doing what is right. Oberlin. I would rather be right than President. H. Clay. First, be sure you are right, then go ahead. David Crocket. To know the law and do right are two things. Vicente Gil. God bless the right, let the wrong look out for itself. Rev. Josiah Bull. They who do right shall receive a most excellent reward. Roram. Be not weary in performing those things that are right. Kung-ming Kea. It is by doing right that we arrive at just prin- ciples of action. Mme. Swetchine. The right to take ten pounds implies a right to take a thousand. James Otis. When the law gives a right, it gives the right to obtain that right. - F. Accorsius. If we are right, then let us stand by the right, for the sake of the right. R. Q. Mills. Let us ask nothing but what is right, and submit to nothing that is wrong. A. Jackson. The difference between right and wrong in some petty cases, is almost evanescent. W. H. Wollaston. A good judge will decide according to justice and right, in preference to strict law. T. Littleton. Government is bound to protect just rights, not august ones—just rights in distinction from mere legal rights. W. H. Seward. As it was when there was no judge in Israel, so at the present day, every man thinks he does just about right. Rev. W. Hogarth. The confounding of all right and wrong in the wild fury of war, has averted from us the gracious smile of heaven. Catullus. A right is an incorporeal, rightful possession, and consequently something of value, which we strive to get and to keep. R. G. White. 808 JD A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AW. RIGHT. RIGHTEOUSINESS. The propitious smiles of heaven can never be ex- Righteousness is our safety. B. Zeigenbalg. ected on a nation that disregards the etermal rules sºmºmº-º-º-º-º: . order and right, which #. itself has or- Plant trees of righteousness. Cottom Mather. dained. Washington. A righteous man never dies. Rashi. Some men make a great flourish about always doing what they believe to be right, but always manage to believe that is right which is for their own interest. G. Leti. The consciousness that you are right will make you happy even when all the world thinks you wrong, and the consciousness that you are wrong will make you miserable even when all the world thinks you right. C. A. Hardenberg. A man is right and invincible, virtuous, and on the road toward sure conquest, precisely while he joins himself to the great deep law of the world, in spite of all superficial laws, temporary appear- ances, profit-and-loss calculation. T. Carlyle. We all love to be in the right ; we like exceed- ingly to have right on our side, but are not always particularly anxious about being on the side of right ; we like to be in the right, when we are so ; but we do not like it, when we are in the wrong ; at least it seldom happens that anybody, after emerging from childhood, is very thankful to those who are kind enough to take trouble for the sake of guiding him from the wrong to the right. J. C. Hare. It is much easier to think right without doing right, than to do right without thinking right. Just thoughts may, and woefully often do fail of producing just deeds ; but just deeds are sure to beget just thoughts ; for when the heart is pure and straight, there is hardly anything which can mislead the understanding in matters of immedi- ate personal concernment ; but the clearest under- standing can do little in purifying an impure heart, the strongest little in straightening a crooked one. A. W. Hare. RIGHTS. Rights never die. Prudentivs. Rights do not arise from wrong acts. Bingham. When God's rights are allowed, man's very soon follow. J. L. M. Cwrry. Laws and rights descend like an inveterate here- ditary disease. Goethe. It is better to be ignorant of our rights, than to know them, and yet to lack the courage to assert and maintain them. Acton. The well-defined rights of individuals are the province of the pleader, but the enlarged and un- determined claims of communities are the arena of the statesman. Colton. Rights are inherent in the people, but kings and princes have none. The people stand in need of neither charters nor precedents to prove theirs, nor professional men to interpret them ; they exist with every man, in every country, and in all coun- tries alike, the despotic as well as the free ; though they may not be equally easy to be recovered in all. Lord Lansdowme. When a righteous man dies, it is the earth that loses. Talmwal. Righteousness is God's first requirement and our first need. Rev. W. Armot. Righteousness is the doing of right, and refrain- ing from wrong. Mrs. Willard. The righteous “shall shine as the sun” in the kingdom of their Father. Rev. Dr. Thomas. Christ is the righteousness of sinners to God, and the righteousness of God to sinners. R. Venning. How can a man trust in his own righteousness? It is like seeking shelter under one's own shadow. W. H. Medhºrst. Desire of righteouness is preceded by repentance, accompanied by humility, and followed by works of mercy. Gaultier. The death of the righteous is like the descending of ripe and wholesome fruits from a pleasant and florid tree. Jeremy Taylor. A hunger for the incorruptible bread of righte- ousness is an evidence that the new life in Christ is awakened in man. J. Pulsford. It is an act of God's free grace, whereby He par- doneth all our sins, and accepts us as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Christ, im- puted to us, and received by faith. Robert Watson. By our righteousness, we give nothing to God; He reaps no advantage from it to himself. If we sow in righteousness, we sow to ourselves, and the harvest of this righteousness we ourselves reap. Rev. G. Bull. Righteousness is the foundation of Christianity, that if thou hast performed all the works of right- eousness, thou shouldst not pause to take rest or complacency in them, nor conceive confidence from them. St. Macarius. If a man perfectly righteous should come upon earth, he would find so much opposition that he would be imprisoned, reviled, Scourged, and in fine crucified by such, who, though they were extremely wicked, would yet pass for righteous men. Leland. If the imputed righteousness is the only passport which will procure us admission into the celestial mansions, the imparted righteousness of Sanctifica- tion, again, is the only garment in which we shall be found welcome guests at the marriage supper of the Lamb. T. Hull. Some harbors have bars of sand which lie across the entrance and prohibit the access of ships at low water ; Christ's righteousness is the high water that carries the believing sinner over this bar, and tran- Smits him safe to the land of eternal rest : our own righteousness is the low water which will fail us in our greatest need, and will ever leave us short of the heavenly Canaan. Rev. H. G. Salter. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 809 BIGFOR. Rigor turns love to hate. Manzoni. Rigor and severity may create fear, but cannot command love. R. Dodsley. Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, how- ever good, as the bow Snaps that is bent too stiffly. Schiller. An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it, and at length to relax into a Supine neglect. Bwrke. Toward enormous offenders, or on particular occasions where an example is requisite, rigor may be adopted, but otherwise it marks a cruel temper. G. Crabb. A sovereign who exercises extreme rigor toward his people, taxing and oppressing them to the ut- most, is in danger of being slain, and his kingdom will perish. Mencints. True religion has never perhaps suffered so much from the violence of its persecutors, as from the folly and insincerity of those who represent it as a frightful phantom by its rigor. Stanislaws. RING. It is better to lose a ring than a finger. E. Jesse. There is a symbolism in rings worthy of study and attention. Lawra Jewry. A parson and a ring would make many a poor outcast a lord. S. Lover. Oh how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. Colley Cibber. There is no monarch's signet ring that is typical of as much duty as the wedding-ring is. J. Powell. A ring is a circle of vanity, worn on the finger to show off your wealth, and excite the envy of your neighbor. E. P. Day. Gifts of rings by lovers have always been com- mon ; but how pleasant when the husband can look to the past, to the present, to the future, with feel- ings of love, honor, and duty, and not as is often the case with repentance. Miss L. E. Landom. RISES. | He who risks nothing, gains nothing. W. Jwacon. He who risks a battle does it often from neces- sity. G. Crabb. How little people know of the risks of life in battle. - Admiral Farragwt. If the adventurer risks honor, he risks more than the knight. Hawkesworth. An innocent man ought not to run an equal risk with a guilty one. Dr. Johnson. Our success in life generally bears a direct pro- portion to the risks we make ; if we risk nothing, we shall certainly achieve nothing. Actom. The risks and dangers that all men nave to en- counter through life, illustrates how difficult it is to possess sufficient resolution and determined effort, to extricate ourselves with honor and success. James Ellis. FITUAL. Ritual is an acted metaphor. Professor Vinet. There is nothing ritual but it is always joined by something moral. C. Bridges. The Christian ritual is only the external show ; the heart is the true worshipper. Mrs. Bray. The simplicity of the Christian ritual is the ex- ponent of an advanced, and not of a retrograde, condition of the church. Professor Caird. Without the soul, divinely quickened and in- spired, the observances of the grandest ritualism are as worthless as the motions of a galvanized corpse. E. Davies. The church possesses a ritual in which the so- lemnities of religion are performed with modest splendor, with unassuming state, with mild ma- jesty, and sober pomp. Burke, In those rituals which are ministries of grace no man must interpose anything that can alter any part of the institution, or make a change or variety in that which is of divine appointment. J. Taylor. The Jewish ritual, in a sensuous age, had its sculptured cherubim, its pictorial and artistic wealth of representation, its gorgeous priestly vestments, its incense, and its chants ; but they never became, so far as we know, the objects of idolatrous veneration. Mrs. H. B. Stowe. The ritual of England breathes a divine calm ; you think of people walking through ripening fields on a mild day to their church door ; it is the work of a nation sitting in peace, possessing their land ; it is the work of a wealthy nation that, by dedicating a part of its wealth, consecrates the remainder—that acknowledges the fountain from which all flows. T. Carlyle. Principles, to show themselves, must always have forms, and forms ever the most graceful and ap- propriate. Science is the ritual of the philosophic, art is the ritual of the aesthetic, tuneful verse is the ritual of poetry, nature is theritual of God; through its countless forms of life and beauty His invisible things reveal themselves ; but ritualism, in connec- tion with the religion of man, must be the effect, the expression, and the medium of inner righteous- ness. Ritualism, at its best, has only a circumstan- tial, local, and temporary worth ; but the value of spiritual excellence is absolutely universal and eter- nal. Dr. Thomas. The Jewish ritual has been well compared to a watchmaker's board ; there lie chains, and springs, and pivots, and wheels, and cylinders, and cases, and dial-plates, and hands; all separate for sepa- rate examination, but all made so as to fit and co-operate one with another, and when brought together and adjusted, to exhibit a combined move- ment according to the purpose originally existing. in the skill of the ingenious maker ; the everlast- ing gospel, in its connection with the ceremonial law, resembles the watch completed, and present- ing, in combination, the marvellous wisdom of God, who knows the end from the beginning, and calleth things that are not as though they were. Dean M’Neile. 810 IX A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. RIVAL. RIVER,. Silence a rival with death. Caracalla. A river is a public highway. J. Barr. Conceal your grief from a rival. As-Swwóda. The deepest rivers have the least sound. Rufus. Love will not patiently bear a rival. N. Webster. We are never very just toward a rival. L. Pulci. With patience bear a rival in thy love. Ovid. Women do not disapprove their rivals ; they hate them. J. Partom. A rival is not bound by any principle ; he seeks to supplant by whatever means seem to promise SulcCôSS. º G. Crabb. To speak evil of a woman's rivals, is a sure way of praising her. How many men are women in this respect Stanislaws. Envy is felt toward living rivals: that which does not stand in our way, is honored with a feel- ing of love without the slightest repugnance. Thucydides. In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals; the prize our Own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. Bovee. To be no man's rival in love, or competitor in business, is a character which, if it does not recom- mend you as it ought to benevolence among those whom you live with, yet has it certainly this effect, that you do not stand so much in need of their ap- probation as if you aimed at more. Steele. FIVALRY. True rivalry means progression. Hamom. Rivalry generally ends in envy or hatred. Ratw. The rivalry of the powerful is the ruin of the weak. Bovee. Where rivalry would be presumptuous, imitation may be pardonable. W. O. Bow?"me. There is as great a rivalry in a ring of wrestlers as in any other more refined competition for supe- riority. J. Hughes. It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry, divided a whole age. Addison. Rivalry may consist of a continued wishing for, and aiming at the same general end without neces- sarily comprehending the idea of close action. G. Crabb. Rivalship and emulation render excellency, even in mean professions, an object of ambition, and frequently occasion the very greatest exertions. Adam Smith. It is good for the poor to look upward to the rich with a feeling of rivalry, that the desire of wealth may spur on the one, and the high fortune of the other may fear a sad change. Euripides. There are men who aspire to all that is truly great and good, who are single-eyed, far-reaching, industrious, earnest, to the extent of their ability, who have no fellowship with the motive of rivalry. - H. Winslow. Rivers are the arteries of the earth's body. Read. Rivers run to the Ocean as life runs to eternity. E. Qwilliman. The river thirsts for the clouds, the desert for the river. Michelet. Rivers bless mankind ; Egypt itself is the gift of the Nile. Herodotus. Rivers serve us both for recreation, plenty, and COIll]]]621°Cé. Semeca. Rivers are roads which move, and carry us whither we wish to go. Pascal. A full and clear river is, in my opinion, the most poetical object in nature. Sir H. Davy. The waters of the river flow, wave upon wave ; the stream is always there, though the waters change. Metastasio. The rivers hastem to mingle their waters with the sea ; and monarchies lose themselves in des- potic power. Montesquiew. The river is small at its source, but gains strength as it advances, and wherever it passes receives many streamlets. Ovid. No One has ever been twice on the same river ; for water flows continually, and different waters Occupy the same space. Heraclitus. The ancients attributed many fictitious properties to rivers ; some were said to make thieves blind, to injure the memory, to cause fruitfulness, and to cure barrenness. C. Bucke. The little rill hastens onward to the broader stream, cheering the flowers on its margin, and singing to the pebbles in their bed ; the river rushes to the sea, dispensing on a broader scale, fertility and beauty. Mrs. Sigowrmey. The beginnings of a river are insignificant, and its infancy is frivolous ; it plays among the flowers of a meadow ; it waters a garden, or turns a little mill. Gathering strength in its youth, it becomes wild and impetuous ; increased by numerous alli- ances, and advanced in its course, it becomes grave and stately in its motions, and in majestic silence rolls on its mighty waters till it is laid to rest in the vast abyss. Pliny. How beautifulan object, how great an ornament to nature, is a river ! Whether we stop to reflect upon its motion, its utility, or its origin and Sup- plies. The beauty of its course charms us, the mul- titude of blessings it affords fills us with gratitude, and the obscurity of its source raises our admira- tion. It is at first but a little stream trickling down a hill, and which the smallest pebble is enough to divert from its course ; but soon, the overflowing of lakes, the melting of snow, the fall- ing of floods, enlarge it. It enriches the fisherman's hut, and the laborer's dwelling ; and after having been the ornament and delight of the country, it flows with majesty toward the cities, where it con- veys plenty, by means of the ships it bears. Sturm. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 811 ROBBERY. No laws can make it right to rob. Owen Lovejoy. It is better to rob than to be robbed. Tiberius. The robber is his own enemy, and the enemy of all mankind. - A. Caro. There are worse robbers than those found upon the highways. J. D. Mansi. The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the presence of a robber. Juvenal. He who receives a gift from a robber is as vile as the robber himself. Re-Ang. Robbery is always committed from a thirst for gain ; depredations are often committed for the indulgence of private animosity. G. Crabb. A robber must run, ride, and use all the desper- ate ways of escape he can find ; and probably, after all, his crime betrays him to the gaol, and from thence advances him to the gibbet. R. Sowth. The robbers of the globe, when the land fails, they scour the sea. Is the enemy rich They are avaricious. Is he poor ? They are ambitious. The east and the west are unable to satiate their de- sires ; wealth and poverty are alike coveted by their rapacity ; to carry off, massacre, seize on false pretenses, they call empire. Galgacus. ROCK. Rocks show the lapse of ages. J. D. Dama. The sea ebbs and flows, but the rock remains firm. S. Rutherford. Rocks constitute the solid basis and principal bulk of the globe. Sir C. Lyell. A general knowledge of rocks is of great value to the agriculturist. M. M. Rodgers. A solid rock is not shaken by the wind, nor a wise man moved by praise and blame. Buddha. The different degrees of entireness in which the geologist finds his organic remains, depend much less on their age than on the nature of the rock in which they occur. Hugh Miller. The gradual transitions of one kind of rock into others, their occasional resemblance and frequent dissimilarities, are circumstances which will lead the unprejudiced observer to receive all geological hypotheses with the utmost circumspection. - W. T. Brande. See you not this rock suspended, so that it ap- pears with difficulty kept up 2 And still it hangs as it has hung for unnumbered ages; for it is a gag which checks and interferes with the breath that escapes from the cave, wherewith the melancholy mountain yawns. Calderon. To the casual observer rocks have the appearance of being lifted up, shattered, and overturned ; but it is only the geologist who knows the vast extent of this disturbance ; and when we consider how necessary they are to civilized society, who will doubt that it was a striking act of benevolence which thus introduced disturbance, dislocation, and apparent ruin into the earth's crust 2 E. Hitchcock. ROGUE. One rogue leads another. Homer. A rogue is a roundabout fool. W. T. Adam. No rogue like the godly rogue. W. W. Keen. Great rogues hang the little ones. Mazarim. A rogue in spirits is a rogue in grain. "R. Heath. Gratuitous roguery legalizes a return in kind. C. W. Day. We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue. . Deshowlierés. Rogues and lawyers learn much from each other. P. Airault. Nothing is more like an honest man than a rogue. Lewcippus. There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. R. W. Emerson. Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles. L. Dolce. After long experience of the world, I affirm be- fore God, I never knew a rogue who was not un- happy. Jwniws. Rogues are always found out in Some way. Whoever is a wolf will act as a wolf ; that is the most certain of all things. La Fontaine. The rogue has everywhere the advantage ; in the dock, he makes a fool of the judge ; on the bench he takes pleasure in convicting the accused. Goethe. If you get money by a rogue, there is danger that you will feel disposed to apologize for his rogueries; and when you have once become an apologist for roguery, you will probably, on the first temptation, become a rogue yourself. Abbé Pradt. There is great significance in the word rogue, and it often bears a greater mark on some men than the word implies; to some it is an inherent vice, to others a science ; the latter makes the greater scoundrel, for he delights in cheating and defraud- ing all those who have any mutual dealings with him. - James Ellis. If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rat- tle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slip- pery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o'-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker- up of hashes: they call me all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not. Aristophanes. Nothing contributes so much to the increase of roguery, as when the undertakings of a rogue are attended with success. If it were not for fear of punishment, a great part of mankind, who now make a shift to keep themselves honest, would ap- pear great villains ; but if criminals, instead of meeting with punishments, were, by having been such, to attain honor and preferment, our natural inclinations to mischief would be improved, and we should be wicked out of emulation. S. Croacall. 812 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. ROMANCE. ROSES. Romance is the child of reality. J. Ewing. The rose grows among thorns. Talmud. Romance is the offspring of love. Disraeli. Roses fall, but the thorn remains. Darw. In the meanest hut is a romance, if you knew the The rose is a token of joy and love. Percival. hearts there. Varmhagen von Ense. Romance writers, though comparatively deco- rous, are public poisoners. Nicole. There will always be romance in the world, so long as there are young hearts in it. Bovee, In this commonplace world, every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does OL162. Pope. The first romances were composed in metre, and sung to the harp by the poets of Provence at festi- val solemnities. T. Warton. Plays and romances sell as well as books of de- votion, but with this difference—more people read the former than the latter, and more buy the lat- ter than read them. J. Hughes. Romance writers need the hand of no satirist to restrain them, for they will ultimately restrain themselves, by exhausting the subjects of fiction, and by surfeiting the public appetite with a super- fluity of light and imaginative works. Acton. Fiction may be more instructive than real his- tory ; but the vast rout of romances and novels, as they are, do incalculable mischief. I wish we could collect all together, and make one vast fire of them ; I should exult to see the smoke of them as- cend, like that of Sodom and Gomorrah ; the judg- ment would be as just. J. Foster. Romance is the truth of imagination and boy- hood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect. The Oriental tale is not too vast. Pearls dropping from trees are only falling leaves in autumn. The palace that grew up in a night, merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the commonplaces of five. R. A. Willmott. Of all the causes which have injured the health of women, the principal has been the prodigious multiplication of romances within the last century. The most tender romances hinder marriages, in- stead of promoting them. A woman, while her heart is warmed by the languor of love, does not seek a husband ; a hero must lay his laurels at her feet. The fire of love does not warm her heart, it Only inflames her imagination. Tissot. Romance is the charm of female character; with- out it no woman can be interesting ; and though its excess is a weakness, and one which receives but little indulgence, there is nothing truly gener- ous or disinterested which does not imply its exis- tence ; it is that poetry of sentiment which imparts to character or incident something of the beautiful or sublime ; which elevates us to a higher sphere: which gives an ardor to affection, and a life to thought, and a glow to imagination ; and which lends so warm and Sunny a hue to the portraiture of life, that it ceases to appear the vulgar, and Cold, and dull, and monotonous reality, which common sense alone would make it. Mrs. Sanford. Roses and maidens soon lose their bloom. Amak. The rose is found often next to the nettle. Ovid. Roses without thorns are the growth of paradise alone. L. Mwrray. Gather roses while they blossom ; to-morrow is not to-day. Gleim. Though the rose grows on a thorn, it does not thereby lose its perfume. Rabbi Santob. Even in death the rose is sweet, passing sweet, and sweetens every place where it lies. Philolaws. The rose does not bloom without thorns. True ; but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose. Richter. The rose has been called the queen of all the flowers ; its beauty and fragrance make it a ge- neral favorite. Eliza Robbins. The perfume of a thousand roses soon dies, but the pain caused by one of their thorns remains long after ; a saddened remembrance in the midst of mirth is like that thorn among the roses. J. Betts. Roses are the true emblems of the best and Sweet- est creature-enjoyments in the world ; which, be- ing moderately and cautiously used and enjoyed, may for a long time yield sweetness to the posses- sor of them. Flavel. The rose is the emblem of all ages, the interpreter of all our feelings ; it mingles with our festivities, our joys, and our griefs. Its fragrance is as de- lightful as its hues ; and no truer emblem of love and beauty could have been chosen. Miss Dwmont. ROYALTY. Is royal blood too pure to shed ? J. Fowché. Royalty should consist in virtue, not pomp. J. Marston. It behooves an emperor to die as becometh roy- alty. Emperor Vespasian. Under a good king, royalty is not unfavorable to liberty. Claudian. Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues. Agesilaws. A king dethroned lays aside the habiliments of royalty. Alfred the Great. Royalty should be silent and thoughtful, and bold in battle. Hoºvandil. Laws and honesty, and the sacred pledge of wed- lock, fly from royal courts. Semeca. Royalty by birth was the sweetest way of ma- jesty ; a king and a father compounded into one. Holyday. I can imagine no more honorable group than a royal father among his sons, earnestly instilling into them the high laws of the kingly office which he himself religiously observed. Richter. A R O S F O U O T A 7" / O M. S. 813 FUDENESS. Never be rude. H. Stephens. Rudeness to men and irreverence to the gods are best cured by affliction. Sophocles. Straightforwardness, without the rules of pro- priety, becomes rudeness. Confucius. Shun all such as are not modest, and because they are rude, think they are valorous. Tsze-Kwmg. A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another, than to knock him down. Dr. Johnson. Society is infected with rude, cynical, and rest- less persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach. R. W. Ehnerson. Let us not take offense at men because of their rudeness and forgetfulness of others; they are so formed, and such is their nature ; to be annoyed with them is the same as to exclaim against a stone falling, or a fire burning. Bruyère. Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some peo- ple take in “speaking their minds.” A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of Saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as in- nocent, might have preserved his friends, or made his fortune. Steele, You can gain the affection of no man by insult- ing him ; you impress no idea of your superiority by rudeness. Frowns are the arguments, and threats are the persuasives of bullies; the brave despise, and the wise ridicule them ; they are in- Variable symptoms of surrender and defeat. W. Crafts. IRUINS. Follow not the road to ruin. Gawtotºnd. A ruined character is as picturesque as a ruined castle. Longfellow. Ruins in some countries indicate prosperity ; in others, decay. R. Anderson. More have been ruined by their servants than by their masters. Colton. The ruins of a house may be repaired ; why can- not those of the face 2 La Fontaine. The things that have grown up without founda- tion, are ready to sink in ruin. Seneca. A land without ruins is a land without memo- ries ; a land without memories is a land without liberty. Father Ryan. When fortune is determined upon the ruin of a people, she can so blind them as to render them in- sensible to danger even of the greatest magnitude. Livy. Many ruin themselves by a heedless choice of their friends and companions ; connect yourselves only with those who walk in the right path, whose conduct is without reproach ; others than these will soon corrupt you by their conversation and example; they will blight in you the delicate flower of innocence, which diffuses itself around youth as a sweet perfume. Lamennais. PULEER. New rulers enact new laws. D. Acciaioli. What is a ruler without money 8 Justimus II. A man should rule his own house. Talmwd. When rulers err the people suffer. Horace. He who rules a ruler is himself the ruler. Alvaro. The position of a ruler is a fearful trust. Ching-Tang. Where many rule there can be no peace. Rabbi Jochanam. The king cannot always rule as he wishes. A. B. Reach. God will sustain a ruler who rules with equity. Tayvre. He is unfit to rule others, who cannot rule him- self. Plato. They who would rule safely must rule with love, not arms. 4. Ingram. When God wills a man to be free, no ruler can prevent it, Ar-Zāhsiri. As the ruler is, so is it natural that his subjects should be also. Antigonus. You cannot have the same man both as a ruler and as a slave. Phocion. When God punishes a nation, He deprives its rulers of wisdom. Montalvan. A ruler may employ cunning where falsehood would be disgraceful. Hanifa. If the ruler be a tyrant, the people feel the loss, if he be an ass they feel the shame. E. P. Day. When the ruler, as a father, a son, and a brother, is a model, then the people imitate him. Tsang. A wise ruler will advance the good, teach the ignorant, care for the poor, and punish the bad. Confucius. A ruler is like the source of a river, and his of ficers like the stream flowing from it ; if the source is pure the river is also. Tai-Tsong. Without rulers and directors nothing honorable or useful can be accomplished, to sum up in one word, anywhere ; but chiefly of all in the affairs of war. 2 enophon. The malicious, the designing, the envious, the more respectful they are in appearance, are only the more watchful of every movement of the ruling power. Alfieri. We do not allow man to rule, but reason ; be- cause man rules for himself, and becomes a tyrant ; a ruler is the protector of the just, and if of the just, then also of what is equitable to all. Aristotle. There are good, bad, and indifferent rulers, of each of these opposite dispositions; and each man should guard against the fault he is most prome to ; perhaps, on the whole, and as a general rule, those make the best governors who have little or no de- light in governing, but exercise power merely on principle, for the public good. R. Whately. 814 A) A Y'.S C O Z / A C O AV. FULE. IRUIMOR. The exception proves the rule. Lowth. Rumor often tells false tales. L. Murray. There is no rule without an exception. Anon. Rumor acquires strength as it goes. Virgil. You cannot make a general rule of anything. Josiah Warren. The best rule is that which has fewest excep- tions. N. Macdonald. A rule is like a mold ; you pour in the wax, and when it is pressed, it comes out, and the mold is left behind. H. W. Beecher They who, in the lesser transactions of life, are totally negligent of rule, will be in hazard of ex- tending that negligence, by degrees, to such affairs and duties as will render them criminal. H. Blair. It is a great mistake to follow the exception, in- stead of the rule ; we must show ourselves strict, and opposed to the exception ; yet, as there are exceptions to every rule, we must decide with strictness, though with justice. Pascal. A general rule may be deduced, which seldom or never fails, that whoever is the cause of another's advancement is the occasion of his own ruin ; for that advancement is founded either upon the con- duct of the power of the donor, and both of these become an object of suspicion to the man who has been advanced. Machiavelli. To say there is no rule without an exception is, to utter an absurdity ; a rule asserts a fact—an exception denies that fact. Twice the measure of a twelve inch rule makes twenty-four inches; if it were sometimes to make twenty-five it would not be a rule ; a rule with an exception does not prove a rule—it contradicts it. E. P. Day. RURAL LIFE}. Rural life possesses pleasures. Memonder. We always associate leisure, innocence, and peace with rural life. A. S. Heath. Fondness for rural life conduces to health, hap- piness, and morals. E. Everett. A pleasant rural home is one of the most essen- tial means of moral, social, and intellectual im- provement. J. Tufts. In a nation, where a vast proportion of the peo- ple must be employed in husbandry, the affections of children ought to be won early toward rural life. A. Potter'. No situation in life is so favorable to established habits of virtue, and to powerful sentiments of de- votion, as a residence in the country, and rural occupations. J. S. Buckminster. The man of refinement finds mothing revolting in an intercourse with the lower orders in rural life, as he does when he casually mingles with the lower orders of cities. W. Irving. I am now come to speak of the pleasures of a rural life, with which I am infinitely delighted. To these old age is never an obstruction ; it is the life of nature, and appears to me the precise course which a wise man ought to follow. Cicero. Many a good name has been lost by a false ru- II].OI". C. Hutton. A rumor which is raised of nothing soon van- isheth. Erasmus. When a man is in trouble any rumor is sufficient to complete his ruin. G. W. Clintom. Rumors are nuisances, which it is wise not to mo- lest, as they will die of their own stench. Chatfield. Every One, by his fears, gives increased strength to rumors, and though there be no real cause for alarm, they fear fancied ills. Lucanus. The mind which is conscious of right, rectitude, undeviating integrity, despises, laughs at, treats with contempt, the lies of rumor. Ovid. Rumor is a spark at first, then a fire, then a con- flagration, and then ashes ; it is like a swarm of bees, the more you fight them the less you get rid of them. H. W. Shaw. How violently do rumors blow the sails of popu- lar judgments. How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance Sir P. Sidney. Rumor is a pipe blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures; and of so easy and so plain a stop, that the blunt monster with unaccounted heads, the still discordant wavering multitude, can play upon it. Shakspeare. Rumor is a certain kind of report widely spread, and untraceable to, unfixable on, any distinct au- thor, originating in malignity, and constantly receiving accessions of strength from the credulity of the world of mankind. Qwintilian. He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with which some de- vourers of character and happiness fix upon the sides of the innocent and unfortunate. Jame Porter. The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making , there is usually some truth, which I call the wire ; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed. J. Newton. False rumors are sparks, which if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves; they have, perhaps, been better compared to volcanic explo- sions, of which the lighter portions are dispersed by the winds, while the heavier fall back into the mouth whence they were ejected. Boerhaave. The opinions of men depend very much on ru- mors ; and they have a greater dread of an enemy who proclaims himself ready to begin the attack, than of one who merely professes his intention to defend himself against assaults, as they think that there will be then only an equality of danger. Thucydides. - º º º º - - º Rºº- º º º | º ºº ººº ſ º s º º º º * - N SCHILLER. SIR RICHARD STEELE, H. W. S.H.A.W. LAURENCE STERN.E. Sir PHILIP SIDNEY. w. G. SLMMS, DEAN SWIFT. A R O S E Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 815 S. SABBATH. - Keep sacred the Sabbath. T. Scott. The Sabbath is God's own day. J. G. Bevan. The Sabbath is the pearl of days. W. Hamilton. The Sabbath should begin the evening before. J. Cotton. It is not lawful for us to journey on the Sabbath- day. Josephus. My Sabbath is every pathetic and blessed mo- ment. * T. Thorild. The Sabbath is a gift from Heaven to the labor- ing man. Rev. D. King. The Sabbath-day is the savings'-bank of human existence. F. Sawmders. Sabbath is not a day to feast our bodies, but to feed our souls. Empress Josephine. The Sabbath day is holy; the people must not dance on that day. Ramehameha II. He that would prepare for heaven must honor the Sabbath on earth. D. Wilsom. The Sabbath is the golden clasp that binds to- gether the volume of the week. Longfellow. I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year. S. T. Coleridge. The best way to keep sacred the Sabbath is to use it as a day of rest, recreation, and amusement. - Mrs. Lucretia Mott, He that observes His Sabbaths is sure he is in the right way, and that he loves God, because he uses the means. W. Wogan. The Sabbath is the link between the Paradise which has passed away and the Paradise which is yet to come. - Dr. Wylie. The Sabbath is a most merciful institution for the laboring poor, and for beasts of burden—how- ever it may be regarded by people of fashion. H. Walpole. Sabbath is the green oasis, the little grassy mea- dow in the wilderness, where, after the week-days' journey, the pilgrim halts for refreshment and re- pose. Rev. Dr. Reade. Sabbaths are costly things ; fling them not away. You may judge of your state pretty well by ask- ing yourself this question, How do I value the Sabbath day ? G. Mogridge. He that remembers not to keep the Christian Sabbath at the beginning of the week will be in danger to forget before the end of the week, that he is a Christian. Sir E. Twºrner. The happiness of heaven is the constant keeping of the Sabbath. Heaven is called a Sabbath, to make those who love Sabbaths long for heaven, and those who long for heaven love Sabbaths. Philip Henry. SABBATH. A seventh part of our time is all spent in heaven, when we are duly zealous for, and zealous on the Sabbath of God. J. Eliot. It is not too much to say, that without the Sab- bath, the Church of Christ could not, as a visible society, exist on earth. Dr. Macleod. Where there is no Christian Sabbath there is no Christian morality ; and without this, free institu- tions cannot long be sustained. McLean. The doctrine of the Sabbath is one combined with the moral history of the world, and is dovetailed into the religious, the physical, the social, and the prospective life of man. G. Steward. I have found, by strict and diligent observation, that a due observance of the duties of the Sabbath . hath ever brought with it a blessing on the rest of my time, and the week so begun hath been pros- perous unto me. Sir M. Hale. If there be any person in a country enlightened with the Gospel, who would banish the blessing of the Sabbath from the world, he must be a stranger to the feelings of humanity, as well as to all the principles of religion and piety. Sir W. Jones, The Christian Sabbath is an inestimable privilege to the Church of Christ ; it is a pledge of God's dis- tinguishing love ; it is a happy mean of building us up in the knowledge of establishing us in faith, and preparing us for our everlasting rest. G. W. Hervey. Life and blessing will attend the man who ob- serves the Sabbath. The Sabbath of rest is a con- tinued lesson to him to turn his eye from all created objects, and look to that heavenly rest into which God is entered, and which is promised to man. J. Milmer. The Sabbath has been created for man, not man for the Sabbath ; the Puritanical and Calvanistic conception of the Sabbath as a day of mortifica- tion and penance is entirely foreign to the feeling as well as the taste of the German people. Emperor William of Germany. The Sabbath is to the rest of the week in spirit- uals, what summer is to the rest of the year in temporals ; it is the chief time for gathering know- ledge to last you through the following week, just as summer is the chief season for gathering food to last you through the following twelvemonth. - A. W. Hare. The Sabbath dawns not on ourselves alone, but also on the millions of our favored land, inviting all to forget the six days in which they have la- bored and done their work, and to remember this and keep it holy. Alas ! to multitudes how vain the summons ! It is melancholy to reflect on the thousands who welcome it only as a day of indul- gence, idleness, or amusement. Jame Taylor. 816 A) A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. SABBATH. In former days, the kiss of heavenly love came over me in the Sabbath's stilly hour; then the deep- toned bell sounded so full of solemn power, and a yearning prayer was undefined enjoyment ; a holy longing, indescribably sweet, drove me to wander through wood and plain ; and amidst a thousand warm tears, I felt a world revealed within me. Goethe. If we do not love the Sabbath for its holiness; if we do not love it out of love to Him who died for us, and rose again ; if we do not love it as a pledge and antepast of heaven ; if we do not love it as bringing to us first fruits from the land of promise, grapes from the Eden of God ; if we do not per- sonally and individually thus love the Sabbath ; as a nation, the day may profit us, but as individuals, it will only enhance our guilt and deepen our eter- mal doom. H. Stowell. The temporary suspension of labor on the Sab- bath, the refreshment and relief from incessant toil, is most graciously allowed even to the brute creation by the great Governor of the universe, whose mercy extends over all His works; it is the boon of heaven ; it is a small drop of comfort thrown into their cup of misery ; and to wrest from them this only privilege, this sweetest conso- lation of their wretched existence, is a degree of inhumanity for which there wants a name, and of which few people, I am persuaded, if they could be brought to reflect seriously upon it, would ever be guilty. Bishop Portews. SACR, AIMIENT. The sacrament I that is all ! J. H. Hobart. The sacrament is the cord that binds the Church to Christ. CEcolampadius. The sacrament is the communion wherein we commune with Christ. G. S. Bowes. The sacrament should be so managed that the weak may not be discouraged, and yet the ordi- mance be not profaned. Philip Henry. Let us love and adore the abyss of Divine Wis- dom and goodness, and entertain the Sacrament with just and holy receptions. Jeremy Taylor. The sacrament is the great means appointed by our blessed Savior, whereby to communicate Him- self and all the merits of His death and passion to U.S. W. Beveridge. The Lord's Supper is called a sacrament, that is, a sign and an oath ; an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace ; an oath, by which we bind our souls with a bond unto the Lord. C. Buck. Let us receive the sacraments for the gracious purposes for which our Lord enjoined them, with gratitude and with reverence ; but let us not lay a greater stress upon them than our Lord intended. W. Gilpin. Is thy mind polluted 4 Make haste, then, unto this sacrament, which is the means of purity. Art thou ill-disposed ? It is a sovereign remedy, an approved antidote against all the diseases of the mind. Dreacelivs. SACRIFICE. Sacrifice to God, not man. Emperor Claudiws I. Faith is best realized in Sacrifice. Mme. Swetchine. Through sacrifice cometh deliverance. A. Gair. The greatest of all sacrifices is the sacrifice of time. Antiphon. Let not fear make a Christian sacrifice to hea- then gods. St. Simwessa. Christianity demands of us the sacrifice of body and soul to God. D. Wilson. Fear not to sacrifice the sacred animals of Egypt; they are not holy. Osarsiph. Strange sacrifices and unlawful rites causeth dis- tresses in a nation. Diodorus Siculws. Let sacrifices be offered unto God, and to COm- memorate the martyrs of His Church. St. Foeliac. No one can make sacrifice for another, without establishing a new bond of interest between them. . J. Foster. A sacrifice should be willingly offered ; God doth not accept an offering made through compulsion of another. Theodoric. We must make mutual sacrifices, but such only as are right and necessary, and which we would be justified in making, as well as in receiving. Acton. Subject not thyself to ills, where there are in re- turn no advantages ; neither sacrifice thou the means of good unto that which is in itself an evil. R. Dodsley. Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them ; it is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacri- fice. Vawvenargues. In addition to the fact that life is daily sacrificed for the sustentation of life, the belief of a higher sacrifice would seem to be one of man's most un- conquerable instincts. T. Ragg. God is not to be worshipped with sacrifices and blood—for what pleasure can He have in the slaugh- ter of the innocent—but with a pure mind, a good and honest purpose. Temples are not to be built for Him with stones piled on high ; God is to be con- secrated in the breast of each. Seneca. How difficult it is to get men to balance a present sacrifice with a future advantage 1 How hard to induce them to wish an end, and not hesitate at the means ! How many mingle together means and ends, rejoicing in the first without having the other before their eyes. We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. Goethe. We indeed may not be called upon to make any very difficult sacrifices on account of our religion, or to undergo any extremity of labor, or to incur any signal dangers in that behalf ; yet the faith- ful Christian will always find occasions in which he may testify his fidelity to Christ, by laboring to instruct the ignorant, and by administering assist- ance and comfort to his afflicted brethren. R. Mamt. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 817 SADNESS. Sadness and gladness succeed each other. Sowza. Sadness is not incompatible with sorrow for sin. Amma S. Stephens. Our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness. Corneille. A ruler should not dismiss a suppliant with a sad Countenance. Emperor Titus. Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the ori- gin of hysterics. Sévigné. Seek to do that which if it brings not joy will not bring sadness. Yahya Ibn Moād. Sadness is against nature, for it troubleth her motions ; lo l it rendereth distasteful whatsoever she hath made amiable. R. Dodsley. When the joyful mingled with the sad leaves us in doubt, the uncertain mind, when it desires to know, is overwhelmed with fear. Semeca. Though a man can run from many hours of his sadness, yet he must return to it again, and when he sits among his neighbors he remembers the ob- jection that lies in his bosom, and he sighs deeply. Jeremy Taylor. Keep aloof from sadness, for sadness is a sickness of the soul ; life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. Mrs. Sigourmey. SAFETY. The public safety is the supreme law. Bacon. The way to be safe is never to be secure. F. Quarles. Safety is not ałºwºs tº be purchased by wealth. - * ...’, Jaafar. The only safety for the vanquished is to expect no safety. There is the greatest safety in those things that are the most honorable. Livy. In a bad conscience some things may make a man safe, but nothing Secure. Seneca. It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any other path of safety except that of duty. W. Nevins. A safety built upon successful vengeance, and established not upon our love but upon our fear, often contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Colton. It is sweet, when the seas are roughened by vio- lent winds, to view on land the toils of others ; not that there is pleasure in seeing others in distress, but because man is glad to know himself safe. Lwcretius. We should not, in our attempts to elevate our- selves, lose sight of safety ; he who stands upon a tall man’s shoulders can look over the heads of those around him, but his footing is much less secure than theirs. G. D. Prentice. Virgil. S.A.G.A.CITY. A sage teaches a hundred generations. Mencius. Animals in general are sagacious, in proportion as they cultivate society. Goldsmith. The criticisms of one sagacious enemy is worth more than a score of admirers. G. Mogridge. It requires too great a sagacity for vulgar minds to draw the line nicely between virtue and vice. R. Sowth. Sagacity finds out the intermediate ideas, to dis- cover what connection there is in each link of the chain, whereby the extremes are held together. J. Locke. Sagacity in business is a quality always to be commended ; but with this faculty of discernment we should ever distinguish the readiness to recog- nize truth from falsehood. James Ellis. A grave face, a formal manner, measured and parsimonious speech, and an observance of the petty proprieties of life, give many a man a repu- tation for sagacity which he could never acquire by acting or conversing maturally. Bovee. SAILOR. Sailors are almost all believers. R. H. Dama. Experience is necessary to a sailor. Capt. John Smith. The sailor can predict the weather of the ap- proaching night. Propertiws. The cautious sailor sees long before the approach of the southwest wind. Clawdian. Sailors of all classes endure the most prolonged and terrible privations. A. Brisbane. Many a gallant sailor has been around the world who has never been in it. - B. Robins. Sailors have always been submissive to laws, and the guardians of liberty. T. Dwight. The sailor considers it but in line of duty to risk his life for the defense of his country. F. Marryatt. Among many ancient nations, sailors were con- sidered but another name for pirates. Gwalter. A fair complexion is unbecoming a sailor; he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the Sun. Ovid. The sailor has long been the favorite with the public, and his wild manners are viewed with a forbearance which is not favorable, and should always be deprecated. C. Dibdin. You can no more make a sailor of a land-lubber by dressing him up in sea-toggery, and putting a commission into his hands, than you can make a shoemaker of him by filling him with sherry-cob- blers. + Admiral Farragwt. There is much in the character of the sailor, which leads us to make great allowance for his irregularities; his frankness, his good-nature, his courage, his attachment to his country, all enlist us in his favor. G. Mogridge. 52 818 JO A Y’.S C O Z Z. A C O AV. SAINT. Saints shall reign with Christ. H. Usher. Saints are all brethren in Christ. St. Cornelius. Hold sacred the memory of saints. Pope John VI. Saints can do but little unless God pleases. S. Purchas. The largest churches have the smallest Saints. J. G. Herder. Recall the acts of the Saints, and imitate them. St. Anterws. Saints should regard the customs, rules, and tra- ditions of the church. St. Victor. It is right and available to salvation to honor and to invoke the Saints. Father Deharbe. I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first, and superlatively, homest men. Swetchine. The greatest saints have their time of faintness, when others are stronger than they. Lºwther. Each of God's saints is sent into the world to prove some part of the Divine character. C. H. Spwrgeon. The spiritual riches of the poorest saints, infin- itely transcend the temporal riches of all the wicked in the world. G. S. Bowes. It is better to be a saint than a scholar ; and in- deed the only way to be a true scholar is to be striving to be a true saint. J. Whitecross. Some rivers, as historians tell us, pass through others without mingling with them ; just so should a saint pass through this world. R. Venning. As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. Colton. A true Saint is a divine landscape or picture, where all the rare beauties of Christ are lively por- trayed and drawn forth ; he hath the same spirit, the same judgment, the same will, with Jesus Christ. T. Watson. Is there no danger of idolatry in honoring and invoking the saints 3 Does such practice not re- semble that of the heathen, who called upon num- berless inferior deities, from whom they expect- ed benefits and favors? C. F. Smariws. Saints have no corrupt affections, or evil passions, to turn away their minds from God; they find Him such an object of superlative excellence that nothing can cool their affection to Him ; hence they find such strong and deep joy as invigorates their spirits in His service. J. Crawford. The saints are God's jewels; they are highly esteemed by Him, and are dear to Him ; they are comely with the comeliness that He puts upon them, and He is pleased to glory in them ; they are a royal diadem in His hand; He looks upon them as His own proper goods, His choice goods, His treasure laid up in His cabinet, and the furniture of His closet ; the rest of the world is but lumber in comparison with them. M. Henry. SALVATION. Salvation cannot be purchased. Tatian. Preach salvation to a lost world. J. H. Hobart. Put on the whole armor of Salvation. Becom. What a glory it is to labor for the salvation of Souls. C. F. Swartz. A firm hope of salvation is better than all mere worldly honor. Clotzius. Our salvation is in Christ and with Him, but not apart from Him. |W. E. Boardman. The salvation of a soul is worth more than the conquest of an empire. Champlaim. In the salvation of man, God was undoubtedly moved by love to man. Guthrie. Salvation is the happiness of the disembodied spirit, which we call death. M’Neile. The true object of man's life was to obtain the one necessary thing—salvation. Ibn Al-Kattáa. The salvation of the Gospel implies deliverance from the ills and calamities of life. A. Thomson. Eternal salvation is the great end of life ; get what you will, if you lose this, you have lost the purpose of existence. J. A. James. Have a care of the eternal salvation of your soul, which you ought to prefer before mortal things or worldly blessings. Catharine of Arragon. The rock of salvation is solidity itself ; it cannot be shaken either by the doubts of the sceptic or the sarcasm of the blasphemer. Professor Haller. Salvation is a complete, an absolutely perfect work, yea, the greatest work of God; because all the rest come from it, and lead to it. Romaine. Salvation not only includes deliverance from the power and the curse of sin, but admission into the favor and the friendship of God ; nay, freedom from all evil and the possession of all good, both in this world and that which is to come. E. Davies. Salvation is the confluence of every attribute in Deity, extinguishing by contrast whatever else was splendid, while God Himself effused the sparkles of heaven upon the question of despair, and dissolved the darkness of human destiny in a flood of ever- lasting light. L. Andrews. Salvation | What music is there in that word, music that never tires, but is always new, that al- ways rouses, yet always rests us ! It holds in itself all that our hearts would say. It is sweet vigor to us in the morning, and in the evening it is con- tented peace. It is a song that is always singing it- self deep down in the delighted soul. F. W. Faber. It is the completeness of salvation which gives it its greatness. Salvation is colossal, towering till lost in the inaccessible majesty of its Author, be- cause containing whatever is required for the transformation of man from the child of wrath to the child of God, from death to life, from the shat- tered corruptible, and condemned, to the glorious, imperishable, and approved. H. Melvill. A R O S E O U O 7" A T / O AV S. 819 SAINCTIFICATION. . Aim at entire sanctification. A. Maham. The broad seal of our sanctification must witness to the privy seal of our adoption. W. Burkitt. It is wonderful to see how the little events of our daily life tend to our sanctification. Dr. Hewgh. Sanctification is an entire resignation of one's own will to the will of God, and the comformity of our character to Christ. J. Usher. From the moment we are justified there may be a gradual sanctification, or a growing in grace, a daily advance in the knowledge and love of God.' J. Wesley. Sanctifying is the same with consecrating, that is, setting apart from common and profane to holy and spiritual uses; as persons, places, vessels, times, were under the Old Testament. Philip Henry. Sanctification and holiness of life do not consti- tute any part of our title to the heavenly inherit- ance, any more than mere animal life entitles a man of fortune to the estate he enjoys. Salter. The light of sanctification must begin in the un- derstanding, and from thence be transfused to the affections, the inferior parts of the soul, and from thence break forth and shine into action. R. Leighton. You cannot attend better to your sanctification than by reflecting how you may immerse your- selves ever deeper into the love of God, and bathe more continually in the waves of His grace. Rºrwmmacher. S.A.R.C.A.S.M. Sarcasm poisons reproof. E. Wigglesworth. While sarcasm may amend a fault, it may also make a bitter enemy. Kate Montgomerie. Sarcasm is a quality of great offense to others, and danger toward a man's self. W. Wentworth. He that employs sarcasm in his reproofs com- monly hath more wit than wisdom. J. Bolsec. Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil ; for which reason I have long since as good as denounced it. T. Carlyle. The character of sarcasm is dangerous; although this quality makes those laugh whom it does not wound, it nevertheless never procures esteem. Oacemstierm. When an angry master says to his servant, it is bravely done, it is one way of giving a severe re- proach ; for the words are spoken by way of sar- casm or irony. I. Watts, At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of sword-play of the mind. You pink your adversary and he is forthwith dead : and then you deserve to be hung for it. Bovee. Nothing to me is more disgusting than that air of mildness and benevolence with which some sly sarcasm, designed to obscure the brightest part of another's character, is usually introduced in con- versation. Hester Chapome. SATAN. Satan laughs at hypocrites. Nemesivts. Satan is in the body, but God is in the soul. . Dr. H. Hunter. Satan gilds the present, but hides the future. H. Farmer. Satan is the concrete of abstract intelligence, divorced from conscience. J. G. Bevan. Satan as a master is bad, his work much worse, and his wages worst of all. T. Fulley". Satan is a great preacher of the pride of faith, and the humility of unbelief. J. H. Evans. Satan walketh about surveying all the powers of our souls, where he may most probably lay his temptations. H. Spencer. Satan, the great enemy of mankind, notwith- standing his wit and angelic features, is the most odious being in the whole creation. Blackmore. If Satan fetter us, it is indifferent to him whether it be by a cable or a hair; may, perhaps the small- est sins are his greatest stratagems. J. Acontiws. Satan gives us pleasant entrances into his ways, and preserves the bitterness for the end ; God in- ures us to our worst at first, and sweetens our conclusion with pleasure. J. Hall. The kingdom of Satan, in small and great, is ever stirred into a fiercer activity by the coming near of the kingdom of Christ ; Satan hath great wrath when his time is short. R. C. Trench. The raven croaks and flaps his wings above cor- ruption, and riots in luxury on the carcasses of the dead ; so Satan feeds his infernal appetite upon the corrupt and dead souls of mankind. Guthrie. Satan will not desist ; he will contest every ar- ticle of the faith in our hearts ere we depart this life, so bitterly opposed is he to the faith, which he well knows is the power and victory wherewith we overcome the world. M. Lºwther. Satan is the author of evil, the fountain of wick- edness, the adversary of the truth, the corrupter of the world, man's perpetual enemy ; he planteth snares, goadeth Souls, suggesteth thoughts, expo- seth virtues to hatred, maketh vices beloved, sow- eth error, and nourisheth contention. F. Quarles. Satan promises great things to people in pursuit of their lusts, but he puts them off with great mis- chief. The promised crown turns to a halter ; the promised comfort to a torment ; the promised honor into shame ; the promised consolation into desolation ; and the promised heaven turns into a hell. J. Whitecross. The prince of darkness hath set up his usurped power, and is become the prince of the world, and sets up strongholds in our hearts, and mans them with principalities, and powers, and spiritual wick- edness ; but Thou hast infinite power, even by a poor despised Gospel to pull down these strongholds, and to set up Thy throne and Thy kingdom, even where Satan's seat is. - Sir M. Hale. 820 A) A Y’,S C O Z Z A C O AV. SATIR.E. Undeserved merit is satire. S. S. Coac. Satire is a double-edge sword. A. Le Gras. The end of satire is reformation. D. Defoe. _<- Satire rarely corrects the evil it aims at. Ricius. Satire makes more enemies than friends. Tahir. Laughing satire bids the fairest for success. E. Yowmg. Satire is a greater enemy to friendship than an- ger. H. Attwell. Satire is the best revenge againts the meanness of the powerful. Firdowsee. A single satire will sometimes effect more good than a hundred sermons. P. A retin. Satire that is seasonable and just, is often more effectual than law or gospel. H. W. Shaw. You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words. Roscommon. Satire often proceeds less from ill-nature than from the desire of displaying wit. Blessington. The feathered arrow of Satire has often been wet with the heart's blood of its victims. I. Disraeli. Satire lies respecting literary men during their life, and eulogy does so after their death. Voltaire. We smile at the satire expended upon the follies of others, but we forget to weep at our own. Mme. Necker. The true aim of satire should be, like that of our guns, making a good report, but wounding no one. *— W. Jabet. He that hath a satirical vein, as maketh others afraid of his wit, so he need be afraid of others' memory. Lord Bacon. Of a bitter satirist it might be said that the per- son or thing on which his satire fell shrivelled up as if the devil had spit on it. N. Hawthorne. Satire is a discourse, or poem, in which wicked- ness or folly is exposed with severity ; it is general; and its object is the reformatlon of what it ex- poses. M. Willson. A satire should expose nothing but what is cor- rigible, and should make a due discrimination be- tween those that are, and those that are not the proper objects of it. Addison. Satire is a composition of salt and mercury ; and it depends upon the different mixture and prepara- tion of these ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine or a rank poison. F. Jeffrey. A satirist of true genius, who is warmed by a generous indignation of vice, and whose censures are conducted by candor and truth, merits the ap- plause of every friend to virtue. Crowsaz. The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction ; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies. Dryden. SATIR.E. Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders gene- rally discover everybody's face but their own ; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. Swift. A moral being of the highest and purest cast will forfeit none of his dignity by occasionally forging the shafts of satire ; but he will be studious to in- crease the polish of his weapon in exact proportion to the keenness of its point and the velocity of its flight. Magoon. Viewed in its happiest form, as a work of art, Satire has one defect which seems to be incurable, its uniformity of censure. Bitterness scarcely ad- mits those fine transitions which make the har- mony of a composition. Aquafortis bites a plate all over alike ; the satirist is met by the difficulty of the etcher. R. A. Willmott. Satirical writers and talkers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. It is much easier for an ill-natured than for a good-natured man to be witty ; but the most gifted men that I have known, have been the least addicted to depreciate either friends or foes. - T. Sharp. But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist ; though he may be considered by some few as a useful member of society, yet he is only ranked with the hang-man, whom we tole- rate because he executes the judgment we abhor to do ourselves, and avoid with a natural detesta- tion of his office ; the pen of the one and the cord of the other are inseparable in our minds. - Miss Jane Porter. SATIETY. Satiety comes of riches. Phamwel Bacon. Satiety is always attended with disgust. Crabb. The wholesomest meats that are will breed sa- tiety. Sir John Harrington. Let him who seeks human blood have a satiety of blood. Qween Tomyris. In everything, satiety is closest on the greatest pleasures. Cicero. In all pleasures, there is satiety ; and after they be used, their verdure departeth. G. Hakewill. Some are cursed with the fulness of satiety ; and how can they bear the ills of life, when its very pleasures fatigue them ż Colton. With everything men are sated ; sleep, love, sweet singing, and the joyous dance—of all these man gets sooner tired than of war. Homer. Satiety comes of a too often repetition ; and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty, can never find true pleasure in drinking. Montaigme. The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse; the core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered. Miss Jame Porter. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 82I SATISF ACTION. SAVIOR. He is well paid that is well satisfied. Shakspeare. He is my King and Savior Keopwolami. Who is rich 2 He who is satisfied with his lot. Talmud. There is a satisfaction in the thought of having done what we know to be right. N. Tindal. Just thoughts and modest expectations are easily satisfied; if we do not overrate our pretensions all will be well. J. Collier. It is a wretched satisfaction a revengeful man takes, even in losing his life, provided his enemy go for company. L’Estrange. Let a man be never so ungrateful, or inhuman, he shall never destroy the satisfaction of my hav- ing done a good office. Seneca. The mind having a power to suspend the execu- tion and satisfaction of any of its desires, is at liberty to consider the objects of them. J. Locke. Run over the circle of earthly pleasures, and had not God Secured a man a solid pleasure from his own actions, he would be forced to complain that his pleasure was not satisfaction. R. Sowth. SAVAG.E. Let savages be exterminated. J. G. Sepwlveda. The savages are clothed in the skins of wild beasts. Hammo. I am happy with the English ; I do not wish to return to the savage life. Pocahontas. The domestic organization and warfare of the savage are rude and simple. T. Sheridan. What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized life without Christianity ? E. D. Griffin. The most, savage people are also the ugliest : their countenance is deformed by violent unsub- dued passions, anxiety, and suffering. Mary Somerville. Man is neither by birth nor by disposition a sav- age, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature. Plutarch. The savages of America, when uncorrupted by the vices of civilized men, are remarkable for their hospitality to strangers, and for their truth, fideli- ty, and gratitude to their friends, but implacably cruel and revengeful toward their enemies. N. Webster. Now man is a tame, domesticated animal ; for when he receives a proper education, and happens to possess a good natural disposition, he usually be- comes an animal most divine and tame ; but when he is not sufficiently nor properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the earth. Plato. The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry. To the horde belong in common fields, forests, and streams; hunting and fishing form the two sources from which it draws their subsistence, and each of its members takes as a right the spontaneous produc- tions of nature, wherever he finds them. Brisbane. Imitate the Savior in all things. St. Zephyrinus. The love of the Savior is the life of religion. Bishop Jackson. From what abyss of corruption can the Savior not save 3 J. H. M. D'Awbigné. If we trust in our Savior Satan can never pluck us out of His hand. J. Bergerws. The Savior is a source of all good, the fountain of every excellency. J. Coac. There is one God, uncreated and without begin- ning, and One Savior, the only begotten Son of God. Eunomius. Christ will either be a whole Savior, or no Sa- vior ; He will either save alone, or not save at all. Bishop Fisher. The Son of God is our Savior ; He is the noblest of God's creatures, yet. He is not co-eternal with God. Ariws. The Savior is in a pre-eminent sense the consola- tion of His people, because He is the basis of all their comfort. - J. H. Evans. He is not a temporal Savior: He is not a Savior from mere temporal calamity ; He saves us from spiritual darkness by His word. J. Beawmont. The Savior is a rare jewel, but men know not His value ; a sun which ever shines, but men per- ceive not His brightness, nor walk in His light. W. P. Balfern. The Savior's love not deterred by our unworthi- ness, not offended by our slights, comes down to teach and bless the meanest and the lowliest life. C. Stamford. Those who have minutely studied the character of the Savior, will find it difficult to determine whether there is most to admire or to imitate in it, there is so much of both. Dr. J. Brown. Dost thou roar under the torments of a tyrant 3 Weigh them with the sufferance of thy Savior, and they are no plague. Dost thou rage under the bondage of a raving conscience 2 Compare it to thy Savior's passion, and it is no pain. Have the tortures of hell taken hold of thy despairing soul ? Compare it to thy Savior's torments, and it is no punishment. F. Quarles. SAVING. Saving is getting. J. Eckiw.s. Save when you are young, to spend when you are old. Stephen Allen. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. Franklin. Teach the art of saving to the poor, and soon there will be no poor. Mrs. P. Wakefield. No gain is so certain as that which is saved from the economical use of what we have. Seneca. Those who save from an honest competency, eventually rise to successful prosperity, and often to luxury and ease. Acton. i 822 A) A Y',S C O /, / A C O AV. H SCANDAL. Scandal often stings itself. Bishop Leslie. - Scandal flies on eagle's wings. Ella L. Hervey. Scandal, like dirt, will rub out when dry. Sir T. Bernard. Scandal-mongers are the spiders of Society. Miss L. E. Landom. Scandal is a never failing vehicle for dullness. John Hughes. Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. Fielding. Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection. Byron. We are all of us too ready to lend a listening ear to scandal. Ovid. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal 2 - G. Bancroft. Scandal, like a reptile crawling over a bright grass, leaves a trail and a stain. A. Cunningham. Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise. W. B. Clwlow. Scandal breeds hatred ; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin. F. Quarles. Scandal is what one-half of the world takes a pleasure in inventing, and the other half in believ- ing. Chatfield. Scandal is the offspring of envy and malice, nursed by Society, and cultivated by disappoint- ment. Lady Blessington. Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, and coiners of scandal. F. Sydenham. How mortified one ought to feel at being told a tale of scandal ; because it proves that the relator believes one able of enjoying it, and certainly it is an enjoyment of a very diabolical nature. J. Jebb. The cultivation of good nature, and speaking of others as we would have them speak of us, accord- ing to the spirit of the golden rule, would very soon cure the moral disease of scandal in all who are cursed with it. J. Bote. Malice may empty her quiver but cannot wound ; the dirt will not stick ; the jests will not take ; a Scandal doth not go deep ; it is only a slight stroke upon the injured party, and returneth with the greater force upon those that gave it. J. F. Saville. A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions; but there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes. R. B. Sheridan. It is a melancholy reflection upon human nature, to see how small a matter will put the ball of scan- dal in motion ; a mere hint, a significant look, a mysterious countenance, directing attention to a particular person, often gives an impetus to this ignis fatww.s. L. C. Judson. SCANDAL. No one loves to tell a tale of scandal, but to him that loves to hear it. Learn then to rebuke and silence the detracting tongue, by refusing to hear ; never make your ear the grave of another's good Ila,Iſles G. Berkeley. The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it in- creases the Scandal; so that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he be- lieved some things because they were absurd and impossible. Sterne. Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating ; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and all milk on the other, the scandal-monger hies from house to house, pouring balm on the wounds it in- flicts with its stabbing tongue. E. P. Whipple. In every scandal there is the warp and the woof; it is seldom that some ground cannot be had to work upon. The woof may be a fact wholly per- verted, but upon it the liar may weave his warp, his figure of detraction and scandal ; and it comes Out all in one piece, and no man can say that there is not some truth in it, though if the truth were picked out, the lie would stand by itself, a clean and absolute lie. G. B. Cheever. A man who takes delight in hearing the faults of others, shows sufficiently that he has a true relish of scandal, and consequently the seeds of this vice within him. If his mind is gratified with hearing the reproaches which are cast on others, he will find the same pleasure in relating them, and be the more apt to do it, as he will naturally imagine every one he converses with is delighted in the same manner with himself. Addison. A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equip- ped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of a single individual, or even of a sin- gle coterie. It sees the light in one ; is rocked and nurtured in another ; is petted, developed, and at- tains its growth in a third ; and receives its finish- ing touches only after passing through a multitude of hands. It is a child that can count a host of fathers, all ready to disown it. Mme. Swetchine. SCAR.S. The soldier is proud of his scars. N. Webster. A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor. Shakspeare. There are scars of the mind as well as of the body. Annie E. Lamcaster. Never notice a scar or other peculiarity on the person of another. E. P. Day. The scars of the body—what are they, compared to the scars of the heart 3 Mme. de Maintenon. As scars make the Soldier fearless and brave, so shonld the scars of affliction make us patient and resigned. James Ellis. Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life 2 Like the Scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated. Nimon de l'Enclos. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. S2:3 SCENERY. At all seasons and for all hearts, forest scenery has a charm. G. P. Morris. Nature affords plenty of beautiful scenes, that no man need complain. T. Rymer. I could spend whole days, and moonlight mights, in feeding upon a lovely Scene. Cowper. Purer pleasures I never felt than in gazing upon the wild scenery of nature, in all her grandeur and beauty. J. J. Awdwbon. Contemplate the great scenes of nature, and accustom yourselves to connect them with the per- fections of God. Miss Susannah Moodie. Who in the midst of Alpine scenery can listen to the voice of the leaping thunder, and not start with strong emotion ? S. P. Newman. To contemplate scenery, exerts a highly purify- ing, elevating, and even religious influence over the mind, and weans from vice to virtue. O. S. Fowler. A magnificent scene of verdure in which the tints of color are infinitely varied, blended insensi- bly, are always in perfect harmony and splendor. Sturm. Admiration for scenery appears to me to be a refining sentiment, which, though it may some- times unfit us for the rough angles of the real world, amply repays us by the charm of the ideal. Elizabeth Bogart. A beautiful scene uplifts the spirit within us un- til it is strong enough to overlook the shadows of our place of probation ; it breaks link after link, the chain that binds us to materiality ; and opens to our imagination a world of spiritual beauty and holiness. Ruskin. Who can contemplate without emotion the mag- nificent spectacle of nature when, arrayed in ver- nal hues, she renews the Scenery of the world 2 Can rational, sensitive man remain unmoved by the surrounding presence 2 Where else than in the country can he behold, where else can he feel this jubilee of nature, this universal joy 2 Mac Nevin. How many are there to whom the lustre of the rising or setting sun, the sparkling concave of the midnight sky, the mountain forest tossing and roaring to the storm, or warbling with all the me- lodies of a summer evening ; the sweet interchange of hill and dale, shade and Sunshine, grove, lawn, and water, which an extensive landscape scene or the scenery of the ocean—so lovely, so majestic, and so tremendous—offers to the view. Beattie. The most ruffled temper, when emerging from the town, will subside into a calm at the sight of beautiful scenery in the twilight of a fine evening ; it is then that the spirit of peace settles upon the heart, unfetters the thoughts, and elevates the soul to the Creator ; it is then that we behold the parent of the universe in His works: we see His grandeur in earth, sea, sky ; we feel His affection in the emotions which they raise, and half-mortal, half- etherialized, forget where we are in the anticipation of what that world must be, of which this lovely earth is merely the shadow. Miss Jane Porter. SCEPTICISMI. Sceptics always stumble at truth. P. Bizot. Scepticism generally ends in atheism. P. Dames. Scepticism is the true wisdom of man. Hwme. Sceptics, like dolphins, change when dying. Lady Blessington. All sceptics have corrupt and depraved disposi- tions. Bishop Gibson. I hate a sceptic With my whole heart I detest a sceptic. Lord Hermand. A sceptic is one who has no faith, but doubts everything. D. M. Bennett. Suffer not your faith to be shaken by the sophis- tries of sceptics. S. Clarke. - The prejudices of sceptics are surpassed only by their ignorance. S. T. Coleridge. A sceptic is one who knows too much for a fool, and too little for a wise man. H. W. Shaw. Sceptics are apt to be superstitious ; the moral restlessness of perpetual doubt often superinduces nervous timidity. G. Bancroft. Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is only sufficiently improbable ; it is at matters of fact that such people stumble. Von Knebel. Professedly sceptical works are never in much demand, even among sceptics, and the tendency at large is rather to believe too much than too lit- tle. Bovee. Scepticism has never founded empires, estab- lished principles, or changed the world's heart : the great doers in history have always been men of faith, E. H. Chapin. Much of the scepticism that we meet with is ne- cessarily affectation or conceit, for it is as likely . that the ignorant, weak, and indolent should be- come mathematicians as reasoning unbelievers. G. Sharpe. The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the ship- wreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss. Colton. Inquisitive and restless spirits frequently take refuge from their own scepticism in the bosom of a church which pretends to infallibility, and after questioning the existence of a Deity, bring them- selves to worship a wafer. T. B. Macaulay. Absolute infidelity or settled scepticism is no proof of want of understanding, or a vicious dispo- sition, but is certainly a very strong presumption of the want of imagination and sensibility of heart, and of a perverted understanding. O. Gregory. I conceive the sceptical writers to be a set of men whose business it is to pick holes in the fabric of knowledge wherever it is weak and faulty ; and when these places are properly repaired, the whole building becomes more firm and solid than it was formerly. T. Reid. — 824 A) A Y',S CO /, / A C O AV. SCHEMING. A subtle schemer perverteth truth. W. Hay. Adventurous men are always forming schemes for gaining money. G. Crabb. The stoical scheme of Supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Swift. Passionate and adventurous schemes, however flattering at first views, prove difficult in the exe- cution, and disastrous in the issue. Livy. Why should speculation and scheming ride so jauntily in their carriages, splashing honest work as it trudges humbly and wearily by on foot ? H. Greeley. We shall never be able to give ourselves a satis- factory account of the Divine conduct, without forming such a scheme of things as shall take in time and eternity. F. Atterbury. A Scheming man is always artful and intriguing : he generally manoeuvres with such adroitness, that he often contrives to carry out his schemes with the funds or the brains of those who seldom par- ticipate in their success. James Ellis. SCHISM. Prevent schism. M. M. Noah. Avoid schisms in all business. L. Elzevir. Schism is an evil and an alien to holiness. Mant. Schism is the separation of error from truth. Rev. J. H. Hobart. Set bounds to our passions by reason, to our er- rors by truth, and to our schisms by charity. Charles I. Schisms do not arise so much from an ardent love of religion, as from the various passions of IIlêI]. Spinoza. Schism is a thing that can only be exercised by a man feeling that the means of grace are actually denied to him where he is. J. Wesley. Schism is opposed to the spirit of the Gospel, in- jurious to the prosperity of the church, and indul- gent to the selfish principles of the corrupt heart. Rev. C. Bridges. The schisms in the church of Christ are deeply to be lamented, on many accounts, by those who have any regard for all that is valuable and worth preserving amongst men. Colton. Schism can have no place but among the mem- bers of Christ ; schism among the people of God is, when being divided in their judgments, and alien- ated in their affections, they are separated from each other, and divided into parties. J. Beawmont. The word schism is made frightful by misappli- Cation ; a schismatic is a man of a bad, turbuleut spirit, to whatever party—respecting things indif- ferent—he may belong ; but if we allow that little shades of difference may exist, we still ought to love as brethren : and where Christian candor and love reign, the odious sin of schism, according to its genuine interpretation, can never exist. R. Hill. SCHOLAR. A scholar has no ennui. Richter. A true scholar never ceases to learn. W. Hogarth. The greatest scholars are not the wisest men. Rochefoucauld. Certainly the greatest scholars are not always the wisest. Regnier. A man may be a great Scholar, and yet be a great sinner. Archbishop Secker. He who would excel as a scholar must renounce wine and women. Apollonius. To the scholars, rather than the rulers, are en- trusted the glory of a country. W. Camden. Scholars are frequently to be met with who are ignorant of nothing, saving their own ignorance. Zimmerman. The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its greatest Scholars been great IſlēI]. O. W. Holmes. A good scholar is known by his obedience to the rules of the school, and to the directions of his teacher. T. May. It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship im- pregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. T. Chalmers. No man is truly a scholar till his heart is turned from the vanities of time to the overwhelming in- terests of eternity. B. F. Tefft. There are many scholar mountebanks, mere pre- tenders to learning, who would make all others greater fools than themselves. J. Earle. Rings may create majors, knights, barons, and other officers, but cannot make scholars, philoso- phers, artists, orators, and poets. R. Burton. Scholastic education, like a trade, does so fix a man in a particular way, that he is not fit to judge of anything that lies out of that way. G. Burmet. A scholar is poor when he has much in his head and nothing in his purse ; but he is a poor scholar when he has much in his purse and nothing in his head. E. P. Day. Scholars are men of peace ; they bear no arms, but their tongues are sharper than Actius's razor, their pens carry further, and give a louder report than thunder. Sir T. Browne. The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds ; it is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised even by rude encounters, than hang forever rusting on the walls. Longfellow. The true genuine way to make a substantial scholar, is to begin with those general principles of reasoning, upon which all science depends, and which give a light to every part of literature, to make gradual advances, a slow but sure process ; to travel gently, with proper guides to direct us, through the most beautiful and fruitful regions of knowledge in general, before we fix ourselves in, and confine ourselves to any particular province Of it. Seed. | | P R O S E O U O 7. A 7 J O N S. S25 SCHOOL. SCHOOLIMASTER. When schools flourish, all flourishes. Lºwther. The schoolmaster's joy is to flog. Swift. School-houses are the republican line of fortifica- The cares of a schoolmaster are as heavy as those tions. H. Mann. of a king. Dionysius. The common schools are the very sources of a The schoolmaster's chair is the throne of a repub- nation's intelligence. J. Orville Taylor. lican government. Twnis G. Bergen, Jr. The School-house and the church—these are the The more backward the school, the better should hopes of the republic. G. W. Burmap. be the schoolmaster. C. P. Cobwºrm. It is sufficient praise for our ancestors that they He is the best schoolmaster who can create a zest established free schools. D. P. Page. Why support public schools, if they do not offer advantages superior to private schools 2 T. Dwight. Has not the state as much right to send a boy to school as to send a man to the gallows 2 W. C. Johnson. A school should embrace physical and moral education, as well as education of the mind. E. Fellenberg. At home, a boy can learn only what is taught him ; but in school he can learn what is taught to Others. Quintilicum. I thank God there are no free schools nor print- ing-presses here in Virginia ; I hope we shall not have them these hundred years. Sir W. Berkeley. Schools have always been in the train of civili- zation, as the only means by which her blessings could be preserved and perpetuated. Alonzo Potter. Every school contains some inquiring minds ; it is not the village church-yard, but the village school-house, which contains “hearts pregnant with celestial fire.” - E. D. Mansfield. A school ought to be a noble asylum, to which children will come, and in which they will remain with pleasure ; to which their parents will send them with good-will. V. Cowsim. Schools of learning educate the mind, but not the soul ; the world's School develops physical en- ergies, sharpens the Senses, enlightens the under- standing, incites the passions, but does not purify the heart. Mrs. S. J. Hale. No wonder boys go unwillingly to school. Schools are not made delightful places, but beget lassitude, weariness, and decrepitude of body, through long confinement in badly ventilated apart- ments, and disgust of knowledge from long appli- cation. Dr. Porter. The school-house is the great fountain of national character, and sends forth sweet or bitter waters through all the streams of the nation's thought ; it must be in the hands of either religious or irreli- gious men ; let it fall into the latter, and Cataline is at the gate of our Rome. Rev. E. Thomson. A great school is very trying ; it never can pre- sent images of rest and peace ; and when the spring and activity of youth are altogether unsanctified by anything pure and elevated in its desires, it be- comes a spectacle that is dizzying and almost more morally distressing than the shouts and gambols of a set of lunatics; it is very startling to see so much of sin combined with so little of sorrow. T. Arnold. for learning in the minds of his pupils. Calkins. A good schoolmaster is worth to a town more than the best house, the best farm, or the most valuable estate in it. T. Dwight, Jr. A skillful schoolmaster, who has a child placed under his care, must begin by sounding well the cha- racter of his genius and matural parts. Quintilian. Able schoolmasters who are faithful in their vo- cation, should be encouraged by promotion, and even on particular occasions, by extraordinary re- wards. W. Cowsin. Mothers and schoolmasters plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exist in our world ; its reformation must therefore be begun in nurseries and in schools. Dr. Rush. A schoolmaster is a dealer in boys and birch ; often an academical tyrant, who, in his utter ig- morance of proper management, renders his victims intractable by maltreatment, and then treats them worse for being intractable. Chatfield. All other provisions would be of no effect, if we took no pains to procure for the public school an able schoolmaster, and one worthy of the high vo- cation ; it cannot be too often repeated, that it is the schoolmaster that makes the school. Gwizot. I fear not the soldier ; his day is gone by ; an- other has taken his place ; the schoolmaster is abroad ; and let them be placed in opposition ; the One with the A B C in his hand, and the other with his weapons of war, and I pledge my life that the schoolmaster will have the victory. Browgham. A schoolmaster who likes his vocation feels toward the boys who deserve his favor something like a thrifty and thriving father toward the chil- dren for whom he is scraping together wealth ; he is contented that his humble and patient industry should produce fruit, not for himself, but for them, and looks with pride to a result in which it is im- possible for him to partake, and which in all like- lihood he may never live to see. T. Hood. The schoolmaster's occupation is laborious and ungrateful; its rewards are scanty and precarious; he may indeed be, and he ought to be animated by the consciousness of doing good, that least of all consolations, that noblest of all motives ; but that, too, must be often clouded by doubt and uncer- tainty. Obscure and inglorious as his daily occu- pation may appear to learned pride or worldly am- bition, yet to be truly successful and happy, he must be animated by the spirit of the same great principles which inspired the most illustrious bene- factors of mankind. Verplanck. AD A Y 'S CO / / A C O AW. SCIENCE. Science is ever self-corrective. Laplace. Science is divine, but law is craft. J. P. Marini. Science is the glory of a free state. Richeliew. Science denies not God, its Author. C. K. H. Aa. Science unfolds the wisdom of God. J. Pineda. Science admires and bows to nature. Strzelecki. Science is the natural ally of religion. T. Parker. The man of science lives after his death. As-Sid. Eminence in science is the highest of honors. Harown-al-Raschid. Every science owns kin with its sister science. Hypatia. Science does not reveal anything beyond this life. Pierre Forestier. Science strengthens and enlarges the minds of IIlêll. Murray. When one science is mastered, others become easy. Al-Farrá. Science is profitable in this world, perhaps in the next. Abw Yusuf. Science is the head to conceive, art is the arm to execute. D. L. Waterbury. By science man may learn the mysteries of the spirit world. J. Dee. Learning is the dictionary, but sense the gram- mar of science. Sterne. Science, when well digested, is nothing but good sense and reason. Stanislaws. Science ever has been and ever will be the safe- guard of religion. Sir D. Brewster. Human laws change, but science is divine, and its laws are eternal. Alphonso X. Consecrate the morning of your reason to the study of the sciences. Nabi Effendi. Science is the kin of literature, and love and pleasure their handmaid. J. J. Casanova. Science advances by experiments which are un- dertaken by scientific men. R. G. White. The sciences are all alike ; one is distinguished from another only in name. U. Olbrecht. When the student has well learned one science, another becomes less difficult. P. La Hire. As sight receives light from the surrounding air, So the souí receives light from science. Aristotle. When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds. W. R. Alger. The real and legitimate goal of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new commodi- ties. Lord Bacon. Let science, by cultivating man's intellect, ele- vate him to nobler and more spiritual views of God's wisdom and power. Sir A. Cooke. SCIENCE. Science confounds everything ; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite and takes away from even the plants their chastity. Jowbent. Say not the possessors of science have passed away, and are forgotten ; every one who has walked in the path of science has reached the goal. t Abulala. Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate ; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their vir- tues. Burke. The sciences are said, and they are truly said- to have a mutual connection, that any one of them may be the better understood for an insight into the rest. S. Horsley. Science—in other words, knowledge—is not the enemy of religion ; for if so, then religion would mean ignorance ; but it is often the antagonist of school-divinity. O. W. Holmes. Human sciences are like gaslights in the streets ; they serve our purpose only while the heavens are dark; the brighter the sky, the more dim and use- less they become. Dr. Thomas. True science, so far from being an enemy to re- ligious truth, will always stand as the mediator in the ever-pending conflict between religious faith and human reason. C. S. West. The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not imme- diately concerned ; as their effects are discernable where we least expect to find them. Pliny. Science has been well defined to be knowledge reduced to order ; that is, knowledge so classified and arranged, as to be easily remembered, readily referred to, and advantageously applied. C. Davies. Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile cate- chisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it dis- closes. R. W. Emerson. The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other ; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts. Sir W. Blackstone. Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other ; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively ; strive to get clear no- tions about all; give up no science entirely, for science is but one. Seneca. That which is perfect in science, is most com- monly the elaborate result of successive improve- ments, and of various judgments exercised on the rejection of what was wrong, no less than in the adoption of what was right. Colton. Science is knowledge certain and evident in it- self, or by the principles from which it is certainly connected ; it is subjective, as existing in the mind; objective, as embodied in truth ; speculative, as leading to do something, as in practical science. TW. Fleming. A A2 O S /> 2 7 Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 82° SCIENCE, Science may scan the starry heavens with mathe- matical accuracy, and understand the character of revolving planets in their respective orbits, but she cannot draw aside the impervious curtain which hides the mysterious future from human know- ledge. J. Linen. Science is, I believe, nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a raw recruit ; and its methods differ from those of common sense only so far as the guards- man's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club. Professor Hwacley. Science, the partisan of no country, but the be- nevolent patroness of all, has liberally opened a temple where all may meet ; the philosopher of one country sees not an enemy in the philosopher of another ; he takes his seat in the temple of sci- ence, and asks not who sits beside him. T. Paine. It is certain that a serious attention to the sci- ences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist ; it rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him. Hume. In entering upon any scientific pursuit, one of the student's first endeavors should be to prepare his mind for the reception of truth, by dismissing, or at least loosening his hold on all such crude and hastily adopted motions respecting the objects and relations he is about to examine, as may tend to embarrass or mislead him. Sir J. Herschel. To me there never has been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advance in science ; I have not possessed enough of the eagle in my character to make a direct flight to the loftiest altitudes in the social world; and I certainly never endeavored to reach those heights by using the creeping powers of the reptile, who, in ascending, generally chooses the dirtiest path, because it is the easiest. Sir H. Davy. To arrange and classify the universe of know- ledge, becomes the first and perhaps the most im- portant object and duty of science ; it is only when brought into a system, by Separating the incon- gruous, and combining those elements in which we have been enabled to discover the internal connection which the Almighty has implanted in them, that we can hope to grapple with the bound- lessness of His creation, and with the laws which govern both mind and matter. Prince Albert. To the man who studies to gain an insight into science, books and study are merely the steps of the ladder by which he climbs to the summit ; as Soon as a step has been advanced, he leaves it be- hind ; the majority of mankind, however, who study to fill their memory with facts, do not make use of the steps of the ladder to mount upwards, but take them off and lay them on their shoulders, in Order that they may take them along, delighting in the weight of the burden they are carrying; they remain ever below, as they carry what they should cause to carry them. Schopenhaufer. SCOFFING. Scoffing is the poverty of wit. Bruyère. To play the scoffing fool well is a sign of some wit, but no wisdom P. Séguier. Answer thou their laughter with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet. Tupper. Scoffing is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. - F. Jeffrey. To scoff at religion and sacred things is evidence of extreme weakness and folly, as well as of wick- edness. N. Webster. He that makes an ordinary use of scoffing shall never be well thought of in his life, nor find hap- piness at his death. R. H. Home. Scoffs are depraving from the actions of other men ; they are the overflowings of wit, and the su- perfluous scums of conceit. Immermann. Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. Oh it is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches. T. Fuller. There is not a more evident testimony of a cor- rupt and depraved disposition than to scoff at things Sacred, a contempt of anything that carries On it a divine impression, or an obstinate neglect of any of those ordinances which the wisdom of God has appointed to support and preserve His religion in the world. T. Gibson. SCORN. Scorn dwelleth not with friendship. J. Argoli. Scorn marks the sentiment of a little, vain mind. G. Crabb. Scorn toward your equals is extreme foolish- 116SS. Al-Busti. A disdainful act should always be treated with SCOI’Il. J. Bowden. Scorn is more grievous to bear than the pains of death. Rames. Scorn is the offal of pride, and an awfully dis- gusting propensity. Mrs. L. M. Putnam. We never yet knew a man disposed to scorn the humble, who was not himself a fair object of scorn to the humblest. M. Clarke. He that cometh to seek after knowledge with a mind to scorn and censure, shall be sure to find matter for his humor, but none for his instruction. Lord Bacon. Scorn rouses all the bitter feelings of the scorned, and converts them into the most implacable ene- mies; no time will obliterate the look of disdain, the contemptuous airs of the scornful. L. C. Judson. If you madly waste life in the frivolous pursuits of him who dealeth in proud wrath, then the hour will suddenly arrive when you can no more avert the scorner's awful doom, than with your dead hand you can arrest the undertaker who screws the coffin-lid closely down upon your marble brow and heart concealed. Magoon. 828 D A Y's co Z Z A co N. SCRIPTURE. SCRIPTUF.E. Study well the Scriptures. Musculus. The discoveries made to us in Scripture can only — e be cleared to us by reference to the Scriptures The Scriptures abound in errors. Arcadłus. themselves. St. Iremoews. The Scriptures are God's messages. Ulphilus. The Holy Scriptures are the bright sun of God, & e-ºm-º-º-mºmº g which bring light unto our ways, comfort to all The Scriptures are of no authority. * | our life, and salvation to our souls. J. Jewell. The Scriptures are the word of God. A. Keith. The Scriptures are letters from God. P. Waldo. The Scriptures are the power of God. Zeller. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. Shakspeare. I confess the majesty of the Scriptures astonishes II].62. Rowsseaw. The Scriptures are a constant source of pure de- light. St. Awgustine. Preserve the authentic Scriptures, but eschew the false. St. Gelasius. The Scriptures are full of incredibilities and ab- surdities. T. Woolston. The Scriptures are obscure, and only fit to per- plex mankind. Dr. Tindal. Let the Scriptures be read standing reverently in the churches. St. Anastativs. There is no pleasure comparable to reading the Holy Scriptures. Valens. Reading the Scriptures is study, labor, and re- creation combined. Lady Olympia F. Morata. Do not misquote the Scriptures, nor refer to them irreverently. A. Bedford. The Scriptures have a figurative as well as a literal signification. J. Cocceius. The Scriptures are a declaration of the fountain, and not the fountain itself. Robert Barclay. The Holy Scriptures contain many things that are contradictory to each other. Hierocles. The tyrant who burneth the Scriptures in this world, him will God burn in the next. Marcellinºws. It is of vital importance that all errors that have crept into the Holy Scriptures be corrected. L. Capellus. A woman Ought to read and meditate on the Scriptures, and regulate her conduct by them. - Mme. Dacier. The Scripture is suited to every capacity ; it is a ford wherein a lamb may wade and an elephant swim. E. Hopkins. The Scriptures are the swaddling bands of the holy child, Jesus; unroll them and you find your Savior. C. H. Spwrgeon. As the waters of the Ganges purify the body, so does a Brahmin purify his mind by studying the Holy Scriptures of Veda. Menu. When it is said that Scripture is divinely in- spired, it is not to be understood that God suggested every word, or dictated every expression. Bishop Tomline. I am inclined to believe that the intention of the Sacred Scriptures is to give to mankind the infor- mation necessary for their salvation. Galileo. We account the Scriptures of God to be the most Sublime philosophy : I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane his- tory whatever. Sir I. Newton. If any part of the Scripture account of the re- demption of the world by Christ can be shown to be really contrary to it, let the Scripture, in the name of God, be given up. J. Butler. The Scriptures carry in themselves independent and convincing evidence of the truth, validity, and sufficiency of all the narratives, doctrines, promises, and threatenings they contain. Bengel. The Scripture may have more senses besides the literal ; because God understands all things at once ; but a man's writing has but one true sense which is that which the author meant when he wrote it. Selden. All find in Scripture a helper toward the dis- covery of truth and the attainment of happiness; a guide to the understanding, a corrector and sup- porter of the imagination, a comforter of the heart, a teacher of wisdom, a rule of faith, a source of joy. H. Hunter. How marvellous is the adaptation of Scripture for the race for whom it was revealed ! In its pages every conceivable condition of human expe- rience is reflected as in a mirror ; in its words, every struggle of the heart can find appropriate and forceful expression. W. M. Pwnshom. The rhetorical and poetical beauties of Scripture are not merely incidental; its authors wrote not for glory or display, not to astonish nor amaze their brethren, but to instruct them, and make them better ; they wrote for God's glory, not their own ; they wrote for the world's advantage, not to aggrandize themselves. J. Hamilton. Let others dread and shun the Scriptures in their darkness; I shall wish I may deserve to be reck- oned among those who admire and dwell upon them for their clearness ; there are no SOngS COm- parable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach. Milton, The Scripture is the sun, the church is the clock, whose hand points us to, and whose sound tells us the hours of the day ; the sun we know to be sure, and regularly constant in his motion ; the clock, as it may fall out, may go too fast or too slow ; we are wont to look at and listen to the clock, to know the time of day ; but where we find the variation Sensible, we believe the sun against the clock, not the clock against the Sun. J. Hall. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 829 SCULPTURE. Sculpture is a letter to posterity. E. P. Day. Sculpture lives in lifeless marble. Bowchardom. Sculpture breaks the marble's sleep. J. T. Sergel. Sculpture and painting are twin sisters of art. J. L. Bermini. Sculpture is the art of discarding superfluities. A. Canova. The work of the sculptor often surpasses the beauty of the model. Ovid. Sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry. R. W. Emerson. Sculpture and painting are moments of life : poetry is life itself, and everything around it and above it. W. S. Londor, Aided by imagination, man can almost make the marble speak, and perform all the wonders of sculpture. Francis Burgess. In Sculpture and in poetry, two sciences where they had the means, our forefathers have fully equalled, perhaps exceeded their children. Colton. Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment. Dryden. The only kind of sublimity which a sculptor should aim at, is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that dignity of mind, and vigor, and activity of body, which ena- bles men to conceive and execute great actions. Burke. A taste for sculpture belongs to the best, purest, and noblest of our enjoyments ; and we feel most reluctant to be separated from those forms, from which, however often we contemplate them, we derive renewed, and indeed heightened pleasure. - PHumboldt. The summit charms us, the steps to it do not ; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught ; but the sculptor and the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong ; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks Seldom or late. Goethe. Sculpture is the noble art of making an imperish- able portrait in marble or bronze. There are va- rious ways of contemplating these exquisite pro- ductions of genius. We may be delighted by the beauty of a statue, amazed by the triumph of man- nual dexterity which it exhibits, or we may be in- terested in its associations with the past or the future. Chatfield. The origin of sculpture is so remote, that at this period there neither exists the probability of any authentic account of it being satisfactorily deduced, nor even the indication of that nation in which it first appeared ; though idolatry may have favored its early advances, and rendered it powerful assist- ance, we are not indebted to religion alone for its invention. W. T. Brande. – SEA. The sea is open to all. J. G. Zarco. The sea is treacherous. Pittacws. The sea is the voyager's home. Sir J. Chardin. The sea is the heaving bosom of the world. Fell. O sweet sea air How bland and refreshing art thou ! W. S. Landor. Keep close to the shore, let others launch into the deep sea. Virgil. The sea is the highway of nations; it should be free to all. Grotius. To be master of the sea, is an abridgment of a monarchy. Lord Bacom. The sea is everything ; the sea is the vast reser- voir of nature. Jwles Verme. The sea is the world's depot for lost and unre- claimed luggage. N. Lardner. He who gains the command of the sea must ob- tain supreme power. Cicero. Happy the man who has escaped the tempests of the sea, and reached the port. Ewripides. He who goes to sea with the keen appreciation of the ludicrous, will not be able to keep his gravity. T. D. Talmage. Happy the man who passes along the shore with a safe breeze, and fearful to trust his bark to the sea, hugs the shore. Seneca. The sea ebbs and flows independent of man ; the tide rises, disobedient to the commands of royalty itself How futile then is human power. Camwte. There goes to sea many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true pic- ture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. R. Williams. Whosoever commands the Sea commands the trade of the world; whosoever commands the trade of the world, commands the riches of the world and consequently the world itself. Sir W. Raleigh. What a wonder is the sea l How wide it stretches out its arms, clasping islands and continents in its embrace How mysterious are its depths, still more mysterious its hoarded and hidden treasures! John Pierpont. The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all ; and a particular nation cannot pre- tend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage. Qween Elizabeth. Must it not be a skillful, a divine hand, that has set to the sea its unmoveable boundary, which it has kept through a series of so many ages, and said to its proud waves, hitherto shall you come, and no farther ? Sturm. To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation ; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes. W. Irving. AD A Y',S C O Z / A C O AV. SEA. When seas are white and storms rage, when the heavens lighten and thunder, the pilot who aban- dons the helm must look for shipwreck. All surges alike are dangerous to such as lose hope and cour- age; the danger is often surmounted by those who nobly dare. Metastasio. If mere beauty of appearance is in question, the waters need not yield the palm of loveliness to the land. The sea has its butterflies as well as the air. Fire-flies flit through its billows, as their terrestrial representatives damce and gleam amidst the foliage of a tropical forest. A. Blackwood. Harmonious in their action, the air and sea are obedient to law, and subject to order in all their movements ; when we consult them in the perfor- mance of their offices, they teach us lessons con- cerning the wonders of the deep, the mysteries of the sky, the greatness, and the wisdom, and good- ness of the Creator, t M. F. Mawry. A poor man may go to sea, because he stands a chance to come home rich ; but a man who has money in hand and in prospect, if he goes to sea, he is a fool. If being sent to sea has been pro- nounced by the officers and men to be transporta- tion, being captain of the ship, may truly be de- signated as solitary confinement. F. Marryatt. Of what immense service is the sea to mankind It is every instant receiving from the rivers that flow into it a supply of water, which it is continu- ally restoring by the vapors that are raised from it. These vapors fertilize the earth, by their de- scent in dews and in showers ; and again swell the rivers from which they originally proceeded. W. Melpoynt. The sea in its sublime uniformity, calls up a va- riety of thoughts, and ever brings manifold images before the soul ; it has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher power. Humboldt. Is it upon the seashore that the student of nature walks 2 Each rippling wave lays at his feet some tribute from the deep, and tells of wonders inde- scribable; brings corrallines and painted shells, and thousands of grotesque beings, samples left to show that in the Sea, through all its special realms, life still is found; that creatures there exist more nume- rously than on the earth itself, all perfect in their construction, and alike subservient to the general welfare. . Professor R. Jones. To be at sea, withdrawn out of the reach of in- numerable temptations, with opportunity and a turn of mind disposed to observe the wonders of God in the great deep, and with the two noblest ob- jects of sight—the expanded heavens and the ex- panded ocean—continually in view, and where evident interpositions of Divine Providence in an- swer to prayer occur almost every day ; these are helps to quicken and confirm the life of faith, which in a greater measure, supply to a religious sailor the want of those advantages which can only be enjoyed upon the shore. J. Newton. SEASON S. The seasons, like life, have four epochs. Ovid. The seasons have their own laws, and have their order arranged by heaven. Seneca. The beautiful arrangement of the seasons, di- vided into years and months, prove that there is a God. Plotto. By nothing does God bless his creatures more, than by the steadiness of the order of nature, and the regularity of the seasons. W. Jay. The peculiar charm of a country life in the so- ciety of nature consists in this, that we see the dif- ferent seasons of the year roll past our eyes. Humboldt. The rapid succession and wonderful changes of the seasons afford us much instruction, and stand ever before us as our faithful and indispensable monitors. J. G. Dimºnitt. There is, in the revolution of time, a kind of warning voice, which summons us to thought and reflection ; and every season, as it arises, speaks to us of the analagous character which we ought to maintain. A. Alison. The succession and contrast of the Seasons give scope to that care and foresight, diligence and in- dustry, which are essential to the dignity and en- joyments of human beings, whose happiness is con- nected with the exertion of their faculties. M. Severance. The alternations of the seasons, the joyous spring decked in her bright, fresh garniture green, the gaudy multiflora of summer, the luxuriant fruits of the gorgeous autumn, and the cold beauty of winter, have each their peculiar charms, to fas- cinate the eye and affect the heart. F. Sawmders. There is a beauty, and marked benevolence of design, in the alternations of the seasons. If man's years were all summer, all sunshine, all flowers, his mind would become languid and enervate, and the energies which spring from its nobler passions, would no longer set him apart as the lord of crea- tion. G. P. Morris. If the variations of the seasons did not awaken our recollection of the flight of time, we should, probably, not observe the succession of its different parts; but spend our days, and months, and years thoughtlessly of the past, and careless of the future. The gradual and elegantly varied change of sea- sons is, therefore, a proof of the goodness of God, and may be a means of our own happiness. Sturm. The seasons, like everything else, have their vi- cissitudes—their beginnings, their progress, and their end ; the age of man begins from the cradle, pleasing childhood succeeds, then active youth : afterwards manhood, firm, severe, and intent upon self-preservation; lastly old age creeps on, debili- tates, and at length totally destroys our tottering bodies. The seasons of the year proceed in the same way; thus the spring, the morning, and youth, are proper for generation ; the summer, noon, and manhood are proper for preservation : and Autumn, evening, and old age, are not unfitly likened to destruction. Stillingfleet. A /ø O S A. 831 Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. SECESSION. It is treason to Secede. Spencer Roane. N. P. Tallmadge. G. Junkim. Secession means dissolution. Secession is a political fallacy. I favor compromise, not secession. Crittenden. Secession is wholly without apology. Etheridge. I cannot recognize the right of Secession. J. M. Harris. If secession be right, then is our constitution wrong. 4. Lincoln. Secession is an unquestionable right, belonging to every state. Jefferson Davis. TJnless we can live in peace within the Union, we shall secede from it. L. T. Wigfall. Peace is the very last thing which secession, if recognized, will give us. E. Everett. The people of each state have a right to secede from the confederated Union. J. Q. Adams. Your eyes and mine are D. Webster. Peaceable secession 1 - not destined to see that miracle. The secession of a state from the Union depends entirely upon the will of the people of such state. William Rawle. The right of secession is inherent and inaliena- ble ; it is absolutely essential to, and identical with, freedom. C. P. Centz. Secession, whether from a church or common- wealth, doth break the bond of unity, and causeth many evils. J. Rushworth. Peaceable secession l No ; secede when you will, and you will have war with all its horrors ; there is no escape Joseph Segar. Secession is a proceeding which begins by tear- ing in pieces the whole fabric of government, both social and political. Dr. Breckinridge. If we must have secession, let it be like that of Abraham and Lot, when they “separated them- selves one from the other.” Hon. S. Moore. The pretext of a constitutional right to secession is a fallacy and a falsehood ; secession is rebellion, and rebellion must be met by force. C. D. Drake. Secession, either peaceable or violent, if crowned with complete success, can furnish no remedy for sectional grievances, real or imaginary. Dickinson. Changes of government, alterations in laws, and secessions of provinces, result from the vanity of human opinions, and the perversity of mankind. B. Colman. Once establish the right of secession, and you not only destroy this union, but you destroy the living principle itself, without which no union can ex- ist. James. Humphrey. If a majority of the people of any state, after a full and free discussion, should sincerely and de- liberately vote to secede from the Union, I am willing they should do so. Horace Greeley. SECESSION. I predict that the Ordinance of secession, framed by South Carolina, on the twentieth of December, eighteen hundred and sixty, will prove the down- fall of slavery in the United States. C. Shaffer. I desire to raise my voice against being driven into secession. Trust not, my countrymen, to the delusive argument of the Secessionists that this government, once dissolved, can ever be recon- structed. T. R. Nelson. I cannot recognize nor countenance the right of Secession ; what a brilliant achievement it would be to purchase Cuba from Spain for three hundred millions, admit the island as a State, and then ac- knowledge her right to secede the next day, and re-annex herself to Spain. S. A. Douglas. Under the influence of the fatal doctrine of se- cession, not only will states secede from states, but counties will secede from states also, and towns and cities from counties, until universal anarchy will be consummated in each individual who can make good their position by force of arms—claim- ing the right to defy the power of the govern- ment. J. Holt. SECLUSION. Seclusion is pleasing. D. ab Gwilym. In seclusion there is safety. Llefoed. Seclusion generates thought. James Ellis. Seclusion is medicine for disease. Beauchéne. Unhappily, they only whose life is secluded, seek retirement. Mme. Swetchine. The most vicious among the animals are those who live secluded. H. W. Shaw, Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet, or their cloister, rays of intellectual light. Janet H. Hadermann. Were I in search of the most miserable, and at the same time the most happy men, I would look for both in the seclusion of a cloister. F. Wharton. Ask the man who feels the pangs of disappointed ambition, why he retires into the silent walks of seclusion, and he will tell you he derives a pleasure therefrom, which nothing else can impart. White. Asiatic women, instead of murmuring at their seclusion, pride themselves on it ; and are aston- ished at the effrontery of those who receive visits from male acquaintances, and are seen unveiled in the streets. J. D. Cattell, They only are justifiable in seclusion who make that very seclusion the means of serving and en- lightening their race, who, from their retreats send forth their oracles of wisdom, and make the desert which surrounds them eloquent with the voice of truth. - C. B. Norton. Seclusion from popular tumult, occasional retire- ment to the study, a sensibility that feels every- thing, and a humility that arrogates nothing, are necessary qualifications for a writer ; but their very opposites would perhaps be preferred by an Orator. - Colton. 832 J) A Y',S C O Z / A C O AV. SECRECY. SECRECY. Never divulge Secrets. Periander. As the spider is not seen in his web, so are the se- V. Filicaija. Shaw. A secret imparted is no secret. Secrets are a mortgage on friendships. Keep your own secrets, if you have any. S. Allyn. Nothing circulates so rapidly as a secret. Gentz. Never trust a woman with a secret, if you love her. Cotto. Three may keep a secret—if two of them are dead. Franklin. Secrecy is best taught by commencing with our- selves. G. M. Baker. A secret, if useful to mankind, should not be a Secret. Spewsippus. Let not thy ear teach thy tongue any secret of a friend. Mammati. When you leave your secret you surrender your liberty. L. Dupont. Tell your secret to a friend, and your enemy will know it. Ahmed Vesik. To know how to keep a secret is the greatest of all secrets. Twpac Amaru. Secrets of guilt are never safe from detection, even by men. D. Webster. The only secret that has ever been kept is—well that is a secret. E. P. Day. We confide our secrets in friendship, but they escape us in love. º De Coeur. The truly wise man should have no keeper of his secret but himself. Guizot. He that publisheth his friend's secrets, doth pub- lish his own shame. T. Watson. A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three. J. Howell. Secrecy and despatch may prove the soul of suc- cess to an enterprise. Washington. He who trusts a secret to his servant, makes his own man his master. Dryden. I am the sole depository of my own secret, and it shall perish with me. Junius. To keep your secret is wisdom ; but to expect others to keep it is folly. O. W. Holmes. If the hair of my head knew my secret, I would cut it off, or burn it off. Andrew Jackson. When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who has entrusted it. Brwyere. Keep your secrets; if you have rice hide it under your unhusked corn. kadir Munshi. He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. Richter. Concealing secrets is sometimes not less advan- tageous to a man than eloquence. C. Nepos. Trust not him with your secrets, who, when left alone in vour room, turns over your papers. Lavater. know exactly where it is. crets of a man concealed in his heart. Waukata.uki. What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love ; but the secret of my friend is not mine. Sir P. Sidney. Whoso discovereth secrets loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind. Lord Bacom. He that improperly reveals a secret, injures both himself and those to whom he tells it. G. Brown. A Secret in his mouth is like a wild bird put into a cage, whose door no sooner opens than it is out. Ben Jomson. Among people used to affairs of moment, secrecy is much less uncommon than is generally believed. Cardinal De Retz. I have played the fool, the gross fool, to believe the bosom of a friend would hold a secret mine own could not contain. Massinger. Trust not man, not even your best friend, with a Secret ; you will never find a more faithful guar- dian of the trust than yourself. Saadi. We must regard every matter as an entrusted secret, which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Leigh Hunt. None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them ; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift does money, for the purpose of circu- lation. Colton. He or she who admits the possession of a secret, has already half revealed it ; certainly, it is a great deal gained toward the acquisition of treasure, to W. G. Simms. What hath been uttered in thy presence, even though not told as a secret, let it not pass from thee to others ; and if one tell thee a tale, say not that thou hast heard it all before. Rabbi Iechiel. Secrecy is a faithful humor, which, strengthened by virtue, concealeth in despite of fortune, those things which one knoweth may either profit his enemy, or prejudice his friend or country. Biom. You should be careful not to entrust another un- necessarily with a secret which it may be a hard matter for him to keep ; there is as much responsi- bility in imparting your own secrets, as in keeping those of your neighbor. J. R. Darley. If a fool knows a secret, he tells it because he is a fool; if a knave knows one, he tells it whenever it is his interest to tell it ; but women and young men are very apt to tell whatever Secrets they know, from the vanityof having been trusted. Chesterfield. There are many ways of telling a secret, by which a man exempts himself from the reproaches of his conscience, and gratifies his pride without suffering himself to believe that he impairs his virtue. He tells the private affairs of his patron, or his friend, only to those from whom he would not conceal his own ; he tells them to those who have no tempta- tion to betray their trust, or with a denunciation of a certain forfeiture of his friendship, if he dis- covers that they become public. J. H. Moore. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 8.33 SECTARIANISM. Avoid sectarian disputes. Rev. A. Abbot. All sects agree in worshipping God. Themistius. Banish sectarianism, and be one in Christ. Jablonski. The only way to destroy a sect is never to at- tempt to prevent their rise. J. Bartlett. Sectarian jealousy, and contests, are the curse which blasts the efforts of the church. A. S. Roe. No one should ask the government that the laws be altered to favor any particular sect. Ramehameha III. When each sect points out a different road to heaven, how can I know which one to take 2 Te Hewhew. A clergyman influenced by the contracted views and principles of sect, contracts his own intellect. Charles Shrimpton. It is a great fault that men will call the several sects of Christians by the names of several reli- gions. Jeremy Taylor. All sects are different, because they come from men ; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. Voltaire. A sectarian spirit bewilders the judgment and good taste of men whom the church would make broad, but whom a sect keeps narrow. T. Tilton. He who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke: he who adheres to a sect has something of its cant ; the college-air pursues the student, and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary ped- ants. Lavater. It is of more consequence to a sectarian to defend a prejudice than to rejoice over a recovered man. The Pharisees hated Christ, and what good can a hated man do 2 They hesitated not to trace a good effect to a bad cause. Dr. Parker. I have been shocked to see those who ministered at the altar, desecrating the sanctuary of God by the violence of sectarian feeling, and by thunder- ing forth, from amid sacred things, war and wrath upon their Christian brethren who differed from them in some minor and unessential points. Clark. Sectarianism has been the bane of the church ; multiplied divisions have weakened her energies; a vast amount of zeal and power which should have been brought to bear on the conversion of the world, has been expended in assailing and de- fending the Several points on which the Christian community has been split into fragments. Pearson. The number of our sects is our shame, for the Christian Church was intended to be one : they have each their great society and their favorite Schemes, upon which they talk until they have ham- pered within the pinfold of their sect that spirit which ought to have been expanded into the full form of orthodox truth, and ripened into the full- ness of catholic love, which ought to find its kin- dred and communion everywhere in the Christian Church. - E. Irving. SECURITY. Security prevents loss. G. Crabb. There is no security without caution. Taine. Security regards the future as well as the pre- Sent. G. F. Graham. Security in person and property is a fundamen- tal principle of our constitution. L. C. Judson. A humble lot in security is better than the dan- gers that encompass the high and haughty. James. Better to be despised for too anxious apprehen- sions, than ruined by too confident security. Burke. No man can rationally account himself secure unless he can command all the chances of the world. R. Sowth. Marvellous security is always dangerous, when men will not believe any bees to be in a hive, until they have a sharp sense of their stings. Hayward. If the providence of God be taken away, what security have we against those innumerable dan- gers to which human nature is continually ex- posed ? Tillotson. The satisfaction I have, in any successes that at- tend us, even in the alleviation of misfortunes, is always allayed by a fear that it will lull it into security. Washington. Security of person and property succeed the growth of capital; physical, moral, and intellec- tual improvement are a necessary consequence of such growth, and with every step in his material or moral advancement, man becomes more con- scious of the existence of political rights, and more able to maintain them. R. W. Griswold. SEDITION. Preserve the state from sedition. Pythagoras. In all seditious assemblies, the bold and desper- ate take the lead. Tacitus. Sedition among any people will always impede the public counsels. J. A. Froude. A city does not prosper that shakes with sedition and is rent by evil counsels. Euripides. Sedition is common to all forms of government, but flourishes most in republics, since there it can scarcely be regarded as an offense. G. Crabb. The surest way to prevent seditions is to take away the matter of them : for if there be fuel pre- pared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. Lord Bacon, Sedition is the progeny of assembly ; even where grievances may be real, if there is no contact, and no discussion, there will be no insubordination ; but imaginary grievances, canvassed and discussed in assembly, swell into disaffection and mutiny. F. Marryatt. Seditions have proved, and will ever continue to . prove, a more deadly cause of downfall to most states than either foreign wars, or famine, or pes- tilence, or any other of those evils, which men are apt to consider as the severest of public calamities and the effects of Divine vengeance. Livy. 53 834 J) A Y'S CO / / A C O ZV. SEDUCTION. Seduce not the wife of any man. Zoroaster. A seducer's life consists of melancholy and mad- 116SS. Silvio Pellico. Should the vices meet and choose a leader, a seducer would be elected. Charles Clarke. The man who can seduce any one from the path of virtue can have no rival on earth, no equal ex- cept in hell. J. Bartlett. It is woman's nature to cause the seduction of man ; therefore will the wise man be guarded in the presence of females. Menu. There never was a seduction of innocence, with- out the blackest perfidy, and a violation of every moral and divine principle. B. S. Ingemann. A moral seducer, if he be a practised villain, cor- rupts the principles of his victim before he attempts to influence his or her practice. F. Wayland. O ! if hell has a pit hotter and more intolerable than all the rest, a just God must surely reserve it for the lurking foe, the seducer damned Magoon. If the essence of all vices by chemical process could be extracted, and compose one great heap of human depravity, the appropriate name would be seduction. J. Jeffrey. He that seeketh by a plausible shadow of flattery to seduce a mind from chastity to adultery, sinneth against the law of nature, in defrauding a man of his due, his honor, and his reputation. Lactantius. A woman who is above flattery is least liable to seduction ; but the best safeguard is principle, the love of purity and holiness, the fear of God, and reverence for His commands. The seducer of a female is little less criminal than the murderer. N. Webster. I will give my hand freely to a galley-slave, and speak to the highway-robber as to an honest man ; but there is one character with whom I desire to exchange neither word nor greeting, the cold- hearted, deliberate, practised, and calculating se- ducer | R. D. Owen. The unprincipled seducer is usually a low-minded personage, whose success in his intrigues is more attributable to his base instinct leading him into the Society of women equally base, and well af- fected to his purposes, than to his possessing any of the higher accomplishments. Bovee. If a legislator were to transport the robbed, but to encourage and reward the robber, ought we to wonder if felonies were frequent 3 And in like manner, when women send the seduced to Coven- try, but countenance and even court the seducer, ought we not to wonder if seductions were scarce 3 - Colton. The seduction of a poor and innocent girl is a deed altogether as criminal as deliberate murder; it is worse than the murder of the body, for it is the assassination of the soul. If the murderer de- serves death by the gallows, then the assassin of chastity and maidenhood is worthy of death by the hands of any man, and in any place. G. Lippard. SEEING. We can see anything with eyes of faith. Reman. Trust what you see until you learn more. Az-Zāhsiri. He who sees with the eye believes with the heart. Ariosto. We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see. Herodotus. What can saying make those believe, whom See- ing cannot persuade 3 Sir P. Sidney. We often see ourselves best by looking at others, and sometimes see them best by looking at our- Selves. Mark Frank. Things are not always what they are seen to be ; the first appearance, glance, view, deceives or im- poses On 1many. Phoedrus. Impressions made on the mind by seeing, are more important and lasting than those made by any other of the senses. S. Barrett. One eye-witness weighs more than ten hearsays; those who hear speak of what they have heard; those who see, know beyond mistake. Ploºtws. Men often perform the physical part of seeing without the mental—often direct their eyes at per- sons and things without exercising individuality in connection. O. S. Fowler. What one sees, another may not see: but the one who sees not, never should control the one who sees ; he never can control the fact seen, and it is not wisdom to allow him. C. Hammond. He only sees well who sees the whole in the parts, and the parts in the whole. I know but three classes of men : those who see the whole, those who see but a part, and those who see both together. Lavater. If one concentrates reflection too much on one's self, one ends by no longer seeing anything, or see- ing only what one wishes. By the very act, as it were, of capturing one's self, the personage we be- lieve we have seized, escapes—disappears. - Degerando. SELECTION. We do not always select when we choose. Crabb. Careful selection improves the breed of all do- mestic animals. - R. Bakewell. Improvement of the species is the result of na- tural selection. Darwin. Woman's negative position renders the selection of a companion limited. Dr. Porter. We choose a fair day by the gray morning, but we have not the selection of our pleasures, if they yield no use. Bodirus. The chief advantage which fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not to invent, yet to select objects. Dr. Johnson. In the selection of companions and pleasures, we should imitate the lapidaries, who measure not the stone by the outward hue, but by the inward vir- tue. ". Qween Artemisia. A A' O S A. Q U O Z. A 7" / O M S. 835 SELF. . Judge for yourself. George III of England. Self is a severe master. Magoon. Self becomes the One Divinity. Mrs. Gore. Regard for self is the essence of sin. S. Hopkins. Man's empire is greatest over himself. Jane Porter. I study myself more than any other subject. Montaigne. Man must live in himself, not out of himself. Zschökke. Above all other subjects, study thine own self. - St. Bernard. Believe not in thyself until the day of thy death. Höllel. Most powerful is he who has himself in his power. Seneca. The highest virtue of all is victory over our- selves. Smiles. We should never speak of ourselves, either good Or evil. Queen Christina of Sweden. The most precious of all possessions is power over Ourselves. Mary Ann Radcliffe. No conflict is so severe as his who labors to sub- due himself. Thomas & Kempis. The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie. Zimmerman. He deserves small trust who is not privy coun- sellor to himself. Forde. A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world. Pope. Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. G. E. Lessing. Be your own natural, simple self, without affec- tation or mimicry. E. Rich. Thou must be emptied of self before thou canst be filled with the spirit. B. Thornton. The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest. - Emmons. Retire into thyself, and thou wilt blush to find how poor a stock is there. Persiws. All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self. Pascal. If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. Franklin. We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm con- Science without possessing virtue. E. T. Taylor. We erect the idol self, and not only expect others to worship, but worship it ourselves. Burleigh. We must calculate, not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. Simms. Every one, if he would look into himself, would find some defect of his particular genius. J. Locke. SELF. - - * Observe thyself as thy greatest enemy would do: so shalt thou be thy greatest friend. - Jeremy Taylor. A generous mind identifies itself with all around; but a selfish one identifies all things with self. Lady Blessington. How great is the ease and pleasure which we feel in being delivered from that soul-wasting monster self. J. Howe. Look well into thyself ; there is a Source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there. Awrelius. O that you could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks, and make but an interior sur- vey of your good selves. Shakspeare. It is not truth, justice, liberty, which men seek; they seek only themselves; and O that they knew how to seek themselves aright ! Jacobi. If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee. F. Qworles. He that fancies himself very enlightened because he sees the deficiencies of others may be very ig- norant, because he has not studied his own. Bulwer. In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others ; for injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad. W. Allston. As it is in himself alone that man can find true and enduring happiness, so in himself alone can he find true and efficient consolation in misfortune. Babo. The essence of true nobility is neglect of self; let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower. J. A. Frowde. Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself ; Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face. R. Whately. He who thinks he can find within himself the means of doing without others is much mistaken ; but he who thinks that others cannot do without him is still more mistaken. Rochefoucauld. Flesh is the anagram of self ; and in Scripture it is all one to walk after the flesh and to seek one's self; if, then, men walk after the flesh, they shall die ; for every man's perdition is of himself. R. Venning. It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppit can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts. Schiller. It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected—who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his ges- tures, of every part of his play—who can work upon others at his pleasure. Diderot. 836 AD A Y’,S C O Z / A C O AV. SELF. - Be always displeased with what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not ; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest ; but if thou Sayest I have enough, thou perishest ; al- ways add, always walk, always proceed ; neither stand still, nor go back, nor deviate. St. Augustine. If we would sometimes bestow a little considera- tion upon ourselves, and employ the time we spend in prying into other men's actions, and discovering things without us, in examining our own abilities, we should soon perceive of how infirm and decay- ing materials this fabric of ours is composed. Montaigme. The man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, On whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge: such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily ; this is the man of moderation, this is the man of manly character and of wisdom. Plato. We are very apt to be full of ourselves, instead of Him that made what we so much value, and but for whom we can have no reason to value our- selves; for we have nothing that we can call our own, no, not ourselves ; for we are all but tenants, and at will too, of the great lord of ourselves, and the rest of this great farm, the world that we live upon. W. Pemºn. When that idle self is no longer maintained with- in us at the dear expense of our peace, comfort, Safety, and eternal hope—an idol that engrossed the whole substance of our souls, that exhausted and devoured the strength and vigor of our spirits when this monstrous idol is destroyed and trodden down, what a jubilee doth it make what songs of triumph and praise doth it furnish and supply to the poor soul, now delivered and redeemed from death and bondage. J. Howe. SELF-AIR ASEMENT. Self-abasement becometh a pope. Clement XIV. Godly self-abasement is consistent with true dignity. A. Yates. Unfeigned self-abasement before God is thesister of true nobility. Pontamws. He that glories in vice shows self-abasement without humility. J. Perry. Self-abasement and penitence are for the closet, when the door is shut. Martha, Martell. He who knows himself well abases himself, nor is tickled by human flatteries. J. Mason. Self-abasement proceedeth from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame. I. Milner. To abase one's self and exalt God, are the first and last things of the Christian religion. St. Augustine. Even among good men there are many mistakes concerning self-abasement ; clearly as the Scrip- tures have spoken upon it, we should not so culti- vate this grace as to nullify every other. Inchofer. from continued adoration of one's self. SELF-ACCUSATION. Noman need accuse himself unless to God. Le Bas. A guilty person often finds self his secret ac- Cl1Se]". E. J. Morris. Who would not accuse himself to be acquitted Of God 2 J. Hall. He that accuseth himself rather than another is a just man. Chrysostom. Watch over yourself; be your own accuser, then your judge. Seneca. He that accuseth himself, and afterward answer- eth not, tempteth God. St. Augustine. The most difficult of all things is for a man to See his own faults, and inwardly to accuse himself. Confucius. Self-accusation is the voice that speaks within our own souls: it is a voice that never deceives, and its warnings should check us from going astray. James Ellis. Persons of frivolous character often accuse them- selves in the bitterest terms, even when they are wholly destitute of strength of mind to turn back from the road, along which the irresistible ten- dency of their nature is dragging them. Goethe. SELF-ACQUAINTANCE, Self-acquaintance is a mockery. Foiac. Self-acquaintance is the first step toward repen- tance. Seneca. A self-acquaintance will teach us what part in life we ought to act. G. Mason. Become acquainted with thyself, and thou wilt blush to learn how little of good is within thee. Persiws. An honest man hath special need of charity and prudences; of a deep and humbling self-acquaint- all Ce. Tupper. Self-acquaintance shows a man the particular sins he is exposed and addicted to ; and discovers not only what is ridiculous, but what is criminal in his conduct and temper. J. Mason. SELF-AIDORATION. Self-adoration is the child of egotism. C. Love. Self-adoration is the stock-in-trade of a fool. Neff. Self-adoration ruins the highest intellect. Al-Kirriya. Among all mankind self is an object of adora- tion. - Terence. He that adores himself hath a poor subject for his idolatry. E. P. Day. A fool never adores himself so much as when he has committed some great folly. S. Jebb. Nearly all the blunders committed by man arise Plato. Esteeming others merely for their agreements with us in religion, opinion, and manner of living, is only a less offensive kind of self-adoration. T. Adams. A R O S F O U O 7" A T / O M. S. 837 SELF-COMMAND. No man is free who cannot command himself. Pythagoras. Those who can command themselves command others. Hazlitt. It is folly for him who cannot command himself to think to command others. Laberius. The command of one's self is the greatest empire a man can aspire unto, and consequently to be sub- ject to our passions the most grievous slavery. Dreacelius. What grace, what noble propriety do we not feel in the conduct of those who exert that recol- lection and self-command which constitute the dignity of every passion 1 Sir J. Powell. The man who could withstand, with his fellow- men in single file, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminis- cence unknown to the observing bystander. Helps. SELF-CONCEIT. A self-conceited man lies to himself. Harvifa. Self-conceit is the enemy of progress. Biom. The self-conceited man hastens to his enemy, to be eaten. Wakatawki. Self-conceit is the very bird-call for all devils, and the broad road which leads to death. C. Kingsley. Self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults ; and it is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty. T. Sharp. Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will some- times bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it ; it magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage. Jeremy Collier. When men who are enabled to array themselves in clothes of gold, wander with melancholy and dejected humility, outwardly clothed in a sheep's russet, they may be fairly suspected of being in- wardly swollen with arrogance and self-conceit. R. Burton. SELF-CONDEMINATION. He who condemns himself is tried by a well-in- formed judge. Martha Day. Self-condemnation is the quickened conviction of a mis-spent life. Magoon. We many times condemn others, and therein pass sentence against Ourselves. R. Venning. Sound not the vain trumpet of self-condemna- tion, but forget not to remember your own imper- fections. R. W. Clark. Self-condemnation should be one of our prayers of the closet, and never declaimed in the public Street. James Ellis. Condemn thyself when you detect your faults, and amend to the best of thy ability ; make good resolves for your future guidance, and keep them. Sir H. Ellis. SELF-CONFIDENCE. Self-confidence often ends in egotism. Larroque. Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of mag- nanimity. Sir P. Sidney. Self-confidence is of more importance in conver- sation than ability. Rochefoucauld. Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of self-confidence. Fémélon. Have not too low thoughts of thyself ; the con- fidence a man has of his being pleasant in his de- meanor, is a means whereby he infallibly cometh to be such. R. Burton, Self-confidence is the badge of ignorance, and the curse of fools; it is the humble privilege of the wise alone to doubt ; and they who know the most are always the most sensible how little the most enlightened know. T. Burmet. SELF-CONQUEST. They conquer self who believe they can. Herle. He who conquers self overcomes the greatest difficulty of life. Annie E. Lancaster. The greatest hero is not he who subdues nations, but he who conquers himself. J. Jeffrey. Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror is naught but the first slave. E. Thomson. It is much more laborious to conquer one's self than an enemy ; but the more difficult anything the more honorable it is. J. Mair. A man that is born a conqueror over his own corruptions and over himself, is greater than ever was the greatest conqueror. M. Day. Conquer thyself ; till thou hast done that thou art a slave ; for it is almost as well for thee to be in subjection to another's appetite as thy own. R. Burton. SELF-CONTROL. Ever control thyself. JMaacimilian I. Self-control lies at the bottom of all government. E. Eggleston. Would you control others ? Learn first to control yourself. P. C. Baker. There are many things that we may win with violence ; others can only become ours by modera- tion and self-control. Goethe. We may be able to control the events of our life, but we should possess the power to have its tempta- tions under our self-control. James Ellis. For the want of early education and discipline in the province of self-control, multitudes come upon the stage of life slaves of ungoverned temper, propensity, and passion. • JE. Rich. Self-control and self-discipline are the beginnings of practical wisdom ; and these must have their root in self-respect. Hope springs from it—hope, which is the companion of power, and the mother of success ; for whoso hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. Smiles. 838 AD A Y’.S C O /, / A C O AV. SELF-CULTURE. The great secret of success in life is self-culture. A. B. Miller. Self-culture calls forth power and cultivates strength. Sir J. A. Park. Self-culture in youth accomplishes wonderful things in manhood. H. Zowch. Self-culture stimulates the student to acquire knowledge by the active exercise of his own facul- ties. A. Ramkem. How can the laboring man find time for self- culture ? An earnest purpose finds time, or makes time ; it seizes on spare moments, and turns frag- ments to golden account. W. E. Chamming. If there be one thing on earth which is truly ad- mirable, it is to see God's wisdom blessing an infe- riority of natural powers, when they have been homestly, truly, and zealously self-cultivated. Dr. Armold. Self-culture, in its broadest sense, carries with it many blessings ; it tempers the body, elevates the mind, and lifts the soul into realms of refined thought ; it creates a world of happiness of which the ignorant have no conception. James Ellis. Many are apt to feel despondent and become dis- couraged in the work of self-culture, because they do not get on in the world so fast as they deserve to do ; having planted their acorn, they expect to See it grow into an oak at once. Smiles. SELF-IDECEIT. Do not deceive yourself. Brwyðre. Who has deceived thee so often as thyself Ż Franklin. No man can deceive himself if he looks into his conscience. J. A. James. No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. Lord Greville. False rules of judgment are a sure and common way to self-deception. G. Mason. Wouldest thou not be thought a fool in another's conceit, be not wise in thy own. F. Quarles. The first and worst of all frauds is to deceive oneself ; all sin is easy after that. S. Bailey. To be deceived by our enemies, or betrayed by our friends is insupportable ; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated. Rochefoucauld. Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self ; for what we wish, we readily believe ; but such ex- pectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things. Demosthemes. If no mortal can fully know the heart, still it must be granted to be right and necessary that every practicable means should be used to avoid self-deception. C. Wellbeloved. Happy is the man who neither deceives his fel- low-men nor himself; who discerns and approves the things that are excellent ; who continues sin- cere and without offense till the day of Christ. Samuel Wilberforce. SELF-IDENIAL. Self-denial is the best riches. Seneca. Self-denial is a momkish virtue. Hwºme. Self-denial is the philanthropist's life. Wei?". Self-denial is the hardest lesson in life. Nyssen. Self-denial is the most exalted pleasure. Austem. With a noble object in view, self-denial is sweet. C. Billings Smith. The more a man denies himself the more he shall obtain from God. Horace. Pure self-denial is our good angel's hand bar- ring the gates of sin. Abbé Mullois. Self-denial enlightens and blesses the soul by freeing it from selfishness. Matilda Fletcher. Life is no more to be passed in a constant self- denial, than in a round of sensual enjoyments. R. Bolton. Self-denial is that which gives the martyr a crown of glory, and exalts the beggar above the dignity of a king. Witsiws. The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches you everything else, and not that. J. Sterling. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God ; and by making you His partner, interests you in all His happiness. Boyle. Self-denial is a virtue of the highest quality, and he who has it not, and does not strive to acquire it, will never excel in anything. Bishop Conybeare. Self-denial, however distressing for the present, will eventually produce more lasting pleasure than unwise, unworthy, and criminal gratifications. E. Rich. Every act of self-denial will bring its own re- ward with it, and make the next step in duty and in virtue easier and more pleasant than the former. Mrs. Martha L. Ramsay. It is much easier to decline the practice of self- denial, than to keep it within bounds and measures; that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent. Charron. If self-denial be the greatest part of godliness, the great letter in the alphabet of religion, self- love is the great letter in the alphabet of practical atheism. Charmock. Teach self-denial, and make its practice pleasur- able, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. Sir W. Scott. Self-denial does not belong to religion as charac- teristic of it ; it belongs to human life ; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere. H. W. Beecher. Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity in all in- stances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another. Colton. Z’ A’ O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 839 SELF-DISTRUST. SELF-EXAMINATION. Distrust of self is the parent of safety. C. Ives. Self-examination is a part of our duty. Hare. Trust not thyself until the day of thy death. Talmud. Meekness and self-distrust are allied to all-suffi- ciency. J. Pulsford. Never distrust yourself ; always keep your dis- trust of others out of sight. E. G. Holland. The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust ; nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge except by a like process. W. Huskissom. Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures: in the assurance of strength there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. Bovee. SELF-EDUCATION. Self-education is best. E. A. Holyoke. The best part of every man's education is that which he gives to himself. Sir W. Scott. Every man must educate himself ; his books and teachers are but helps; the work is his. D. Webster. Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself. E. Gibbon. Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teachings : for he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master. Ben Jomson. The best culture is not obtained from teachers when at school or college, so much as by our own diligent self-education when we have become men. Smiles. Self-education does not receive the assistance from the press and the pulpit, and from Society, which it ought to receive ; but, notwithstanding this, there are men who rise above these additional and improper barriers to their culture, and become masters in the departments to which they devote themselves. W. D. Haley. SELF-ESTEEM. He that knoweth himself the most doth esteem himself the least. Macrobius, Self-esteem is not vanity ; it is consciousness of having lived right. Emma, Tuttle. If thou would estimate thyself, put away wealth, land, honors; scrutinize thyself within. Seneca. As many faults come from our not esteeming ourselves enough, as from esteeming ourselves too much. Montesquiew. Self-estimation is a flatterer too readily entitling us unto knowledge and abilities, which others soli- citously labor after, and doubtfully attain. Sir T. Browne. One of the best springs of generous and worthy actions, is having generous and worthy thoughts of ourselves ; whoever has a mean opinion of the dignity of his nature will act in no higher a rank than he has allotted himself in his own estimation. J. Hughes. Have courage enough to examine thyself. Faber. Every man should examine into his own life. Seneca. If the people praise us, we should examine our- selves the more. Phocion. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination. Mencius. A man should examine himself not only as to what he has done, but also as to what he has not done. Confucius. While self-examination is a duty, yet there is such a thing as looking to self until despair fills the heart. A. Ritchie. To examine ourselves in a suitable manner, we must have a correct understanding by which to judge. J. Loring. Remember that the time you have for self-ex- amination is, after all, very short ; soon thou wilt know the great secret. C. H. Spwrgeon. First examine how you examine yourself. When a tradesman is about to weigh his goods, he must first of all adjust the scales. G. S. Bowes. Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou hast thrice examined the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude 2 What have I been doing 2 What have I left undone, which I ought to have done 2 Begin thus from the first act, and proceed ; and in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good. Pythagoras. SELF-G-OVERNMENT. Self-government is the highest virtue. Milton. He only is fit to govern others that can govern himself. Solom. That is the best government which teaches us to govern ourselves. Goethe. Self-government is a much more difficult task for the irritable, the passionate, the sanguine, than for the naturally amiable. Louisa C. Tuthill. A man must first govern himself, ere he be fit to govern a family ; and his family, ere he be fit to bear the government in the commonwealth. Sir W. Raleigh. The great principle of self-government consists in calling ourselves to account, both for what we know, and what we do, and for the discipline which we exercise over the processes of our minds. Abercrombie. If a person mounts a high-spirited horse, it is important that he should be able to control him ; otherwise he may be dashed in pieces; if an en- gineer undertakes to conduct a locomotive, it is necessary that he should be able to guide or check the panting engine at his pleasure, else his own life and the life of others may be sacrificed ; but it is still more indispensable that an individual who is intrusted with the care of himself should be able to govern himself. S. G. Goodrich. 840 AD A Y',S CO /, / A C O AV. SELF-HELP. Self-help is true independence. J. S. Mill. Help yourself, and Heaven will help you. La Fontaine. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self- helping man. R. W. Ehnerson. I have ever held it as a maxim, never to do that through another, which it was possible for me to execute myself. Montesquiew. The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual ; and constitutes the true source of national vigor and strength. Smiles. Help yourself, and heaven will help you, should be the motto of every man who would make him- self useful in the world, or carve his way to riches or honor. W. Mathews. SELF-IGNORANCE. Ignorance of self is man's weakness at heart. - Twpper. Self-ignorance, when well understood, is the first step to knowledge. J. Cottom. Self-ignorance is the parent of vice; for who would do evil if he truly knew the consequence 2 R. Mudie. Some men are so full of self-ignorance that they resemble pictures more fit for a corner than a full light. Seneca. As ignorance of the price of pearls makes the idiot slight them, so self-ignorance makes the pea- sant despise learning, and laugh at it. A. Horneck. It is certainly a sign of great self-ignorance, for a man to venture out of his depth, Or attempt any thing he wants opportunity or capacity to accom- plish. G. Mason. SELF-INTEREST. Self-interest is a ruling passion. S. Pepys. Self-interest is the bane of all true affection. Tacitus. The virtues are lost in self-interest, as rivers are in the Sea. Rochefoucauld. Self-interest is the mainspring of all our actions, and utility is the test of their value. Colton. We are interested only about self, or about those who form a part of our self-interest. J. Foster. As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship. Tupper. Self interest, spurring to action by hopes and fears, caused all those disorders among men which require the remedy of civil society. W. Warburton. Self-interest, that leprosy of the age, attacks us from infancy, and we are startled to observe little heads calculate before knowing how to reflect. t Mome. de Girardin. Self-interest, even when calculated upon with the reckoning of eternity, is not strong enough at all times to raise a man above the dominion of his own inclinations. Mrs. M. G. Sleeper. SELF-ENOWLEDGE. Enow thyself. Chilo. Self-knowledge is the hardest to acquire. Picken. Self-knowledge is an important end of study. - J. Todd. Many know much who do not know themselves. Henry IV of Germany. He that knows himself knows all things in him- self. Zoroaster. The most difficult thing in life is to know your- self. Thales. Self-knowledge is the first step to the knowledge of God. Lao-Kiwn. There is one knowledge which it is every man's duty, and interest to acquire, namely, self-know- ledge. S. T. Coleridge. He that knows most of himself, knows least of his knowledge, and the exercised understanding is conscious of disability. J. Glanvill. He that knows himself knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very pro- found lecture on other men's heads. Colton, The precept, “Enow thyself,” was not solely in- tended to obviate the pride of mankind ; but like- wise that we might understand our own worth. Cicero. If it was a thing obvious and easy for every man to know himself, possibly that saying, “Know thyself,” had not passed for a divine Oracle. - Plutarch. The highest and most profitable learning is the knowledge of ourselves; to have a low opinion of our own merits, and to think highly of others, is an evidence of wisdom. T. & Kempis. It is by self-knowledge that we prevent the seeds of evil from arising in our minds, and making that a wilderness of weeds which might have become a garden of precious flowers. Lady Blessington. Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a know- ledge of himself ; a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement. Zimmerman. If self-knowledge be a path to virtue, virtue is a much better one to self-knowledge ; the more pure the soul becomes, it will, like precious stones that are sensible to the contact of poison, shrink from the fetid vapors of evil impressions. Richter. The imperfection of self-knowledge must often expose us to the danger of self-delusion, the only remedy for which is self-distrust ; this evinces the necessity of self-denial ; and our general security, with divine assistance, must be in self-command. |W. Danby. Above all subjects study thine own self ; for no knowledge that terminates in curiosity, or specu- lation is comparable to that which is of use ; and of all useful knowledge, that is most so which con- sists in the due care and just notions of ourselves. St. Bernard. P & O S A. Q & O 7. A 7 ſo M. S. 841 SELF-LOVE. Love thyself last. Shakspeare. R. Cushman. Villefre. Self-love slayeth its thousands, Self-love has blinded the wiseSt. Offended self-love never forgives. Vigee. Love of self is love thrown away. J. M. Austin. All love is extinguished by Self-love. Self-love is the ground of much mischief. Magnus. Self-love sees everything as it bears on self. Dr. Pusey. Of all mankind, each loves himself the best. Terence. Self-love makes as many tyrants, perhaps, as love. Imbert, Self-love and partiality cast a mist before the eyes. : Mrs. A. Adams. Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. Goethe. Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus, with thy hand. Buddha. Our Self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. La Harpe. The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Bruyère. There are wounds of self-love which one does not Confess to one's dearest friends. J. P. Semm. Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity. Jane Porter. Self-love is not, in its own nature, either a good or an evil, a virtuous or a vicious principle. Cogan. Self-love is better than any gilding, to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties. Sir P. Sidney. It is falling in love with our own mistaken ideas that makes fools and beggars of half mankind. E. Yowng. So long as self-love does not degenerate into self- ishness, it is quite compatible with true benevo- lence. W. Fleming. It is the nature of extreme self-lovers that they will set a house on fire, if it were but to roast their eggs. Lord Bacon. A man who loves only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from prin- ciple. - Vawvenargues. Self-love is the parent of presumption ; we are never so bad or so old but self-love may keep us in favor with ourselves. H. Hooker. Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disprove at one time what We approve at another. Rochefoucauld. Self-love is an instrument useful, but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and Seldom does good without doing harm. Rousseau. Lamdor. SELF-LOVE. It is unreasonable for men to be judges in their own cases; self-love will make men partial to themselves and their friends. J. Locke. If the god of this world did not blind their eyes, it would be impossible, SO long as men love them- selves, to keep them from being religious. Tillotson. The undue love of self, with the postponing of the interests of all others to our own, had for a long time no word to express it in English. Trench. I have sacrificed much of my own self-love in preventing not only many mean things from see- ing the light, but many which I thought tolerable. Pope. Self-love, as long as confined within just bounds, is a passion both pleasant and agreeable ; in excess it is disagreeable, though it continues to be still pleasant. Rames. Self-love and morosity breed in us long and fre- quent fits of anger ; which, by little and little, are gathered together into our souls like a swarm of bees and wasps. Plutarch. Self-love, in its primary feeling, is manifested in self-defense ; includes in it every principle of ac- tion, from the appeal to law, justifiable war, homi- cide, to foul murder. - Sir R. Maltravers. The principle of self-love is neither an object of approbation nor of blame is sufficiently obvious ; it is inseparable from the nature of man as a ra– tional and a sensitive being. D. Stewart. Self-love is no such ill principle if it were but well and truly directed, for it is impossible that any man should love himself to any purpose, who with- draws his assistance from his friends S. Croacall. Nothing is more unmanly than to reflect on any man's profession, or natural infirmity ; he who stirs up against himself another's self-love, pro- vokes the strongest passion in human nature, J. Burgh. Such is the infatuation of self-love, that though in the general doctrine of the vanity of the world all men agree, yet almost every one flatters him- self that his own case is to be an exception from the common rule. H. Blair. The secret of our self-love is just the same as that of our liberality and candor ; we prefer ourselves to others, only because we have a more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's. Hazlitt. Those who have affirmed self-love to be the basis of all our sentiments and all our actions are much in the right. There is no occasion to demonstrate that men have a face ; as little need is there of proving to them that they are actuated by self-love. Voltaire. Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over- weight that they are incredulous of a man's habi- tual preference of the general good to his own ; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration. R. W. Emerson. 842 A) A Y'.S C O Z Z A C O AV. SELF-LOVE. By a happy contradiction, no system of philoso- phy gives such a base view of human nature as that which is founded on self-love ; so sure is self-love to degrade whatever it touches. J. C. Hare. Every man, like Narcissus, becomes enamored of the reflection of himself, only choosing a substance instead of a shadow ; his love for any particular woman is self-love at second-hand, vanity reflected, compound egotism. H. Smith. The phrenologists are right in putting the organ of self-love in the back part of the head ; it being there that a vain man carries his light ; the conse- Quence is that every object he approaches becomes obscure by his own shadow. W. Allston. Self is the great anti-Christ and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all that is called God ; self-love is the captain of that black band ; it sits in the temple of God, and would be adored as God. Self-love begins ; but denying the power of godliness which is the same as denying the rul- ing power of God, ends the list. Charmock. The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own ; she calls herself patriotism, when at the same *śriging at just as much cala- mity to the law, we Jºy as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals. Colton. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves ; this makes the great distinction between virtue and vice. Swift. It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensi- tive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter ; they are great, but our insensibility increases them ; the true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God. Fémélon. The self-love of most men consists in pleasing themselves, but there are some cases where it dis- plays itself in pleasing others; in neither is it alto- gether to be condemned, for our sensibilities may be too weak, as well as too strong, and they who feel little for themselves, will feel little or not at all for others. Chatfield. Self-love is a principle in human nature of such extensive energy, and the interest of each indivi- dual is, in general, so closely connected with that of the community, that those philosophers were excusable, who fancied that all our concern for the public might be resolved into a concern for our own happiness and preservation. Hwºme. The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love ; for the lover is blinded by the object loved ; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good, and beauti- ful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth ; for he who intends to be a great man ought to love nei- ther himself nor his own things, but only what is just. Plato. SELF-OPINION. Self-opinion is an inward flatterer. F. Meres. Self-opinion is the blind goddess of fools. Chilo. Self-Opinon, if native to the speaker, is sweet and refreshing. R. W. Emerson. The self-opinionated manis the most insufferable Of all animals. J. Bartlett. Self-opinion never judgeth rightly of anything as it is indeed, but only as it seemeth to be. Philo. He who in the opinion of himself is wise and learned, is generally ignorant in the eyes of God and man. Confucius. The self-opinion of men betrays their real cha- racter in life, and illustrates their education and understanding. James Ellis. Our opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections. Thomas à Kempis. Weigh not thyself in the scales of thy own opin- ion, but let the judgment of the judicious be the standard of thy merit. Sir T. Browne. Time wears out the fictions of self-opinion, and doth by degrees discover and unmask that fallacy of ungrounded persuasions. J. Wilkins. Self-opinion is the torment of the mind, and the destruction of the body, vainly promising the rest which could never be enjoyed. Solom. I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others as what I am in my own ; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing. Montaigme. Confidence, as opposed to modesty, and distin- guished from decent assurance, proceeds from self- opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance or flattery. rº J. Collier. If we would register all our self-opinions upon love, politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last ! Swift. SELF-IMIURDER. Self-murder is cowardice. Amphis. Self-murder is treason to the Soul. Proclus. Self-murder is not a painful death. Arria. He is not valiant that commits self-murder. Massinger. Self-murder is the fool's hope, and the madman's folly. James Ellis. For blasphemy and self-murder there is no re- pentance. Eutropius. Self-murder is not the act of a brave man, but of a coward. Aristotle. The self-murderer ends his days in an act of abominable iniquity which he can never repent of. Mary Ann Whitaker. Some men are born with a tendency to self- murder, which exhibits itself at intervals from an early period of life, even before it can be the result of feeling or reflection. Sir C. Morgan. A R O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 843 SELF-FOSSESSION. SELF-PRESERVATION. Self-possession is a rare virtue. Brwyere. Self-preservation is a duty. L. Euler. Self-possession is one great effect and advantage of knowledge. J. Mason. Preserve self-possession, and do not be talked out of a conviction. C. Middleton. Self-possession may be acquired by constant watching and prayer. Herman Boerhaave. Self-possession is the first step toward the attain- ment of other possessions. Trueba. With self-possession even a rogue may have ad- vantage over an honest man. F. Vincent. In whatever situation or company a man may be placed, he should be especially careful to retain Chesterfield. Self-possession is a virtue when it is on the side of rectitude ; but men are often self-possessed when callous by crime. Ammie E. Lancaster. his self-possession. He who opposes a calm self-possession to the violent harangue of his opponent, has already ob- tained more than half a victory. Mrs. Southey. To be self-possessed in all the walks of life we must possess the power of self-command ; he who is able to do this, will lead a life of happiness, serenity, and virtue. James Ellis. Self-possession in the presence of others, or in conversation, generally depends upon the hope that we are favorably regarded by them, or that we will be ; while self-possession in time of danger depends upon the prompt action of hope that a way of escape is possible. Matilda Fletcher. SELF-FRAISE. Self-praise depreciates. Cervantes. Self-praise is sometimes no fault. W. Broome. Self-praise is the surest dispraise of one's self. W. Rowley. Praise not thyself, for it shall bring contempt upon thee. R. Dodsley. A man's praises have very musical and charming accents in another's mouth ; but very flat and un- tuneable in his own. Aemophon. Self-praise proceeds from ignorance: and he who is guilty of it, demonstrates that egotism is one of the characteristics of his understanding. R. Qwain. Self-praise occasionally succeeds with ignorant and credulous persons; very seldom with those who have much knowledge of the world. Hervey. When a man is found to be adept at praising himself, others seem willing to allow him a mono- poly in the business, and accordingly cease to praise him. Sir J. Powell. It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neigh- bor, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves. Demosthenes. To praise a man's self cannot be decent, except it be in rare cases; but to praise a man's office or profession, he may do it with good grace, and with a kind of magnanimity. Lord Bacon. } No evangelical precept justles out of that of a lawful self-preservation. R. Sowth. Fear provides for self-preservation by flying from harm ; anger by repelling it. kames. We have this principal desire implanted in us by nature, that our first wish is to preserve ourselves. Cicero. Self-preservation is the first law of nature, but too many in the world act as though it were the only one. J. Hyatt. Desire of existence is a natural affection of the soul: it is self-preservation in the highest and tru- est meaning. R. Bentley. The right to self-preservation, or the right to live, implies a right to all that is indispensable to the maintenance of life. Lamennais. Self-preservation seems to be an inherent princi- ple in animals; a dread of pain and suffering, and a consciousness of death, which consciousness must be of the highest order in some animals, since they fain that death is the last remaining struggle for self-preservation, when all other hopes have failed. W. Thompson. SELF-FELIANCE. Be Self-reliant. J. Todd. With self-reliance let us labor. Emperor Severus. Rely upon yourself; depend not too much on others. P. T. Barnſwºm. Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self- reliance. J. Neil. Self-reliance is the best weapon to fight the bat- tle of life. James Ellis. Self-reliance strengthens and fits us for life's trials and duties, and keeps us from imposing on others. - Matilda Fletcher. Of all the elements of success none is more vital than self-reliance ; a determination to be one's own helper, and not to look to others for support. W. Mathews. Self-reliance is a noble and manly quality of the character ; and he who exercises it in small mat- ters, schools himself by that discipline for its ex- ercise in matters of more momentous importance. W. Rathbone. Biographies of good men are instructive and use- ful as helps, guides, and incentives to others ; they furnish valuable examples of the power of self- reliance, and eloquently illustrate its efficacy in enabling men of even the humblest rank, to work out for themselves an honorable competency and a solid reputation. Smiles. Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength ; of the former they believe greater things than they should ; of the latter much less. Self-reliance and self-denial will teach a man to drink out of his own cistern, and eat his own Sweet bread, and to learn and labor truly to get his liv- ing, and carefully to expend the good things com- mitted to his trust. Lord Bacom. 844 AX A Y’.S CO / / A C O AV. SELF-FESPECT. Cherish self-respect. J. M. Awstin. Lose not thy self-respect. Al-Tabari. Be not wanting in self-respect. Mencius. Self-respect is the armor of virtue. Maltravers. Self-respect is the corner-stone of all virtue. Sir J. Herschel. Self-respect is, next to religion, the chiefest bri- dle of all vices. Lord Bacon. We lose our self-respect by asking favors of a person who has no self-respect. Al-Bºri. To have a respect for ourselves guides our mo- rals ; and to have a deference for others governs OUll" ||Ylä, Ill le]"S. . Sterne. There is a moral pauperism in the man who is dependent upon others for that support of moral life—self-respect. Rev. T. Randolph. Self-respect facilitates our prosperity, develop- ment, and happiness, and establishes us in the love and respect of others. Matilda Fletcher. Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in pro- portion to our indifference. Mºme. Swetchine. Self-respect is the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired ; it confers a grace upon the lowliest as well as the highest. L. Rae. It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character. J. Tuckerman. A consideration for the feelings of others, for his inferiors and dependants as well as his equals, and respect for their self-respect, will pervade the true . gentleman's whole conduct. A. Helps. The man who is poor, who has lost all, but still retains his self-respect, is still rich ; for such a man the world is held in trust ; his spirit dominating over its grosser cares, he can still walk erect, a true gentleman. J. Potter. There is an important distinction between self- respect and self-esteem : the latter partakes of vanity, the former implies that we do not dishonor ourselves, nor allow others to do so; but no man can secure the respect of others, unless he respects himself. H. Winslow. Self-respect wells up in the heart of him whose energies, under the control of his will, are directed to worthy ends ; maintain your self-respect ; keep a spotless conscience ; and do good to all around you with supreme reference to Him in whom you live, and your character will grow healthfully, without a thought given to it. J. G. Holland. The gentleman is eminently distinguished for his self-respect ; he values his character, not so much of it only as can be seen of others, but as he sees it himself, having regard for the approval of his in- ward monitor ; and as he respects himself, so by the same law does he respect others. Humanity is sacred in his eyes ; and thence proceed politeness and forbearance, kindness and charity. Smiles. SELF-FEPROACH. Self-reproach is no reproach. Diogenes. Self-reproach is a gnawing punishment. Kirk. There is no bitterness like Self-reproach. Landon. Self-reproach often comes too late to make amends. James Ellis. What availeth self-reproach without repentance, Or repentance without amendment 2 W. Penn. The self-reproaches of a prodigal come too late when his fortune hath been squandered. Garth. He who loads himself with reproaches, does SO with a secret wish that you will believe him guilty of uttering falsehoods. W. Spence. Self-reproach is but another name for self-praise; since to criticise one's self is intended to be con- strued as commendation rather than a censure. Mrs. Gordon Smythies. Vain are the reproaches of one's self for evils committed, unless earnest desire for amendment doth follow ; for he who is foremost to reproach himself would take offense were another to Say of him what he says of himself. Haggai. SELF-FIGHTEOUSINESS. Self-righteousness is no righteousness. Hare. Self-righteousness is the Devil's masterpiece to think well of ourselves. Rev. T. Adam. Self-righteousness is like bad debts, the more a man has the worse he is off. Seba Smith. Many who have escaped the rocks of gross sins, have been cast away on the sands of Self-righteous- IleSS. W. Dyer. There is a pride of virtue, which is the fruit of self-righteousness, and the most remote from true moral worth. Magoon. Self-righteousness is like seeking shelter under our own shadow: we may stoop to the very ground, and the lower we bend we still find that our shadow is beneath us. W. H. Medhurst. Self-righteousness is the feeling that our charac- ter is such that we deserve well at the hands of God—a feeling common to all unconverted men ; sinners wonder why they should be lost, but Saints why they should be saved. A. Ritchie. While a man rests in any degree on his own merits for acceptance with God, it is of little con- sequence whether he be a pagan idolator or a proud ignorant pharisee; both go about to establish their own righteousness ; neither submits to the right- eousness of God ; and I know not which of the two is more distant from the kingdom of God. Milner. You waste precious time in attempting, inde- pendently of the blood of God's Son and the aid of his spirit, to change your heart, and save your soul: turn your back on all such self-righteousness, go seek the blood that cleanseth from all sin ; the white linen that robes the saint, the raiment meet for thy soul, and approved of God, was woven for thee upon the cross. T. Gºwthrie. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 845 SELF-SUFFICIENCY, SELFISHNESS. Self-sufficiency grows only on bad soil. J. Noir. Selfishness is justly blamed. Aristotle. Self-sufficiency proceeds from inexperience. Addison. Pride and self-sufficiency are a miserable insuf- ficiency. J. Pulsford. A self-sufficient person refuses the assistance of every one in whatever he is called upon to do. G. Crabb. You will see the unreasonableness of Self-suffi- ciency when you observe how much you are sur- passed by others in knowledge and goodness. G. Mason. Neglect of friends can never be proved rational, till we prove the person using it omnipotent and Self-sufficient, and such as can never need any mortal assistance. R. Sowth. An obstimate, ungovernable self-sufficiency plain- ly points out to us that state of imperfect maturity at which the graceful levity of youth is lost, and the solidity of experience not yet acquired. Jwnius. Self-sufficiency is a bad trait in a man's charac- ter; it is always apparent in the man who shows himself too well pleased with himself, and who is Seldom pleased with others ; but fortunately, he has the mortification of knowing that other people are seldom pleased with him. James Ellis. SELF-WILL. - Self-will is the offspring of self-indulgence. Yapp. Self-will is so ardent and active, that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. - Lord Burleigh. A self-willed person thinks nothing of right or wrong ; whatever the impulse of the moment sug- gests is the motive to action. G. Crabb. Men who are self-willed are in their demeanor perverse and froward, stiff and stubborn, with much inconvenience to others, and commonly with more to themselves. I. Barrow. To worship a graven image is not a worse idola- try than it is for a man to set up self-will, to de- vote himself to the serving of it, and to give up himself to a compliance with his own will, as con- trary to the Divine and Eternal Will. John Smith. Every man stamps his value on himself ; the price we challenge for ourselves is given us ; there does not live on earth the man, be his station what it may, that I despise myself compared with him ; man is made great or little by his own will. Schiller. I meet sometimes with men whose crazed brains Seemed soldered with quicksilver ; whose actions’ strains run only in odd crotchets ; whose judg- ments, being hood-winked with their own opinion and passion, admit of nought for reason but what their unreasonable self-will dictates to them ; and then what they will do, they will do ; and do it they will with that torrent of violence that over- turns all obstacles of counsel which cross their COUIT’SeS. A. Warwick. God is an intensely selfish Being. Lorenzo Snow. Selfishness is the sin of depravity. Mrs. Hale. . Excessive selfishness is the bane of our existence. D. M. Bennett. Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant. Mme. Roland. The truest evil in the world is cold, creeping egotism, heartless selfishness. Miss Robinson. The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation, Hillard. The weakness of the social affections and the strength of the private desires constitute selfish- 116SS. J. Mackintosh. Those who are most disinterested, and have the least of selfishness, have best materials for being happy. Mrs. Sigourney. Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself. H. W. Beecher, Take the selfishness out of this world, and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with. H. W. Shaw. Where selfishness wholly rules the mind, we do not recognize the noblest and most perfect model of human nature. Mrs. Willa?’d. . Such is the suicidal selfishness of mankind, that things so desirable are seldom pursued, things SO accessible seldom attained. Colton. A selfish man performs an act of goodness by painful and strenuous effort, and merely to escape the reproaches of conscience. F. Wayland. The ant is a type of selfishness in that it works purely for itself ; the bee is a type of beneficence, because it works for the good of others. J. Bate. How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls ; a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich. T. W. Higginson. Avoid selfishness, cultivate benevolence, then your hearts will be light, aud your consciences peaceful, and you will never regret having heard these observations. G. Mogridge. He who by his sober studies only feeds his sel- fishness or his pride of knowledge, may be more to blame than the pedant or the coxcomb in litera- . ture, though not so ridiculous. J. S. Buckminster. The selfishness of man has no time to occupy it- self with the sufferings of others, if he himself is a prey to pains whose weight oppresses his breast, and checks the full flow of his blood. Emily Carlem. . Every act of a selfish man has in view his own gratification and happiness. A selfish man was never beloved or respected ; he never had a tear for the miserable, or a farthing for the distressed. J. BCurtlett. 846 D A Y'S CO Z Z A CoA. SELFISHINESS. The selfish man in business consults his own gains, regardless of the losses he may bring upon others; the selfish politician consults his ambitious schemes, regardless of the public good ; hence Self- fish desire is always wrong. H. Winslow. Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and therefore by the senses it commonly works ; and these are the doors and the windows by which iniquity entereth into the soul. R. Baacter. The mother who is so unselfish that she surren- ders all her time and pleasure to her child, fills that child’s mind with an exaggerated idea of its own importance, and makes it selfish, though that is the last thing the unselfish mother would desire. G. S. Bowes. Selfishness will always exist under one form or another ; were not the sacred interests of entire humanity placed above the minor interests of per- sons and of nations, progress, arrested in every direction, could not be even imagined for want of some ultimate object. Lamennais. The selfish man believes that by closing his heart against his fellows, and centering in self every thought and feeling, he escapes much suffering ; but his egotistical calculations are invariably de- feated ; for his contracted sympathies being all directed to one focus, he so aggravates the ills he endures, that he expends on self alone more pain- ful pity than the most enthusiastic philanthropist devotes to mankind. Lady Blessington. No selfish spirit can escape the torment of base envy ; such a man pardons in others wealth, rank, and honor, for he argues in this way : these thou hast thyself ; these thou hast if thou wilt, if thou persevere, if fortune favors thee; but that which nature alone bestows, which always remains in- accessible to every pain and effort, which can be procured neither by gold, sword, forethought, nor perseverance, that he will never forgive. Goethe. The man who is a slave to selfishness, could look calmly on the wreck of nature, and the crush of worlds, if it would add one item to his wealth. Haggard poverty he spurns from his door ; the fa- vors of fortune he receives as obligations paid. He is tormented with envy, withered with covetuous- ness, and pained with jealousy ; he renders himself miserable, knows nothing of the sweets of social enjoyment, incurs the scorn and contempt of those around him ; and is worse than a blank in the community. L. C. Judson. Selfishness is the chief spring of injustice, for, from hence it is that oftentimes men regard not what courses they take, what means they use, how unjust, how base soever they be, toward the com- passing their designs; they trample upon right, violate all laws of conscience ; they falsify their trust, betray their friends, supplant their neigh- bor, detract from the virtue and worth of any man, forge and vent odious slanders, and commit any sort of wrong and outrage; without regard or remorse, they do anything which seemeth to further their design. I. Barrow. SENSATION. Sensation is the name of life's drama. J. Limen. The chief good is a gentle motion tending to sen- sation. - AEschines. The happiest have stronger sensations of pain than pleasure. S. Rogers. Our sensations may continue alive for years, to torment ; after they have been dead for years, to transport. - - Colton. When we are asleep, joy and sorrow give us more vigorous sensations of pain or pleasure than at any Other time. Addison. Innumerable facts serve to convince us that the mind cannot attend to two or more sensations at the same time. O. Gregory. When we describe our sensations of another's sorrows in condolence, the customs of the world scarcely admit of rigid veracity. Dr. Johnson. The too frequent use of authority impairs it ; if thunder were continued, it would excite no more sensation than the noise of a mill. M. M. Noah. Those ideas to which an agreeable sensation is annexed are easily excited, as leaving behind them the most strong and permanent impressions. W. Somerville. The line that divides the regions of Sensation and sentiment is a very important one. Is not dignity all on that side of it, which is the region of senti- ment 3 - J. Foster. We receive our first knowledge from our sensa- tions, and our memory is no more than a continued sensation ; a man born without any of his five senses, would, could he live, be totally void of any ideas. - Voltaire. The highest pleasure of sensation comes through the eye; she ranks above all the rest of the senses in dignity. He whose eye is so refined by disci- pline that he can repose with pleasure upon the se- rene outline of a beautiful form, has reached the purest of the sensational raptures. F. W. Robertson. The enjoyment of ever so transient a sensation of intellectual happiness, would deserve Our grati- tude ; how much more that of a permanent consti- tution, which was a source of perpetual intellectual happiness, and specially a constitution involving a great variety of forms of intellectual happiness. F. Wayland. Sensation properly signifies that internal act by which we are made conscious of pleasure or pain felt at the organ of sense ; thus we have a sensa- tion of the pleasure arising from warmth, from a fragrant smell, from a sweet taste ; and of the pain arising from a wound, from a fetid Smell, from a disagreeable taste. Rames. We may go on heaping proof upon proof, and experiment upon experiment, to establish, as we suppose, the reality of matter, and after we have done all this, I know not of one satisfactory answer we could give, to those who choose to affirm that with all our pains, we have only established the re- ality, not of matter, but of Sensation. Colton. A R O S E Q U O T A 7" / O AV S. 847 SENSE. Sense discerns vice from virtue. R. Boyle. It is a sure indication of good sense to be diffi- dent of it. Seed. He who loses not his senses in certain things has no senses to lose. Lessing. Sense must be very good indeed, to be as good as good monSense. J. C. Hare. It is owing to our senses that we have even our metaphysical motions. Voltaire. Between good sense and good taste, there is the difference between cause and effect. Bruyère. How many people there are that are desperate by too quick a sense of a constant infelicity Jeremy Taylor. The senses of men are usually blunted and dead- ened, when fate lays a heavy hand upon them. Marcellinºis. Men have the brains as a kind of citadel to the senses; here is what guides the thinking principle. Pliny. I do not see how the testimony of sense can be alleged as a proof of anything which is not per- ceived by sense. G. Berkeley. What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? With what else can we more surely dis- tinguish the true and the false ? Lºwcretius. By good sense, a man is enabled to discern, as it were, intuitively that which requires another of less sense to ponder over and study. G. Crabb. In my opinion, there is the greatest truth in the senses, if they are sound and strong, and if all things are removed which oppose and impede them. Cicero, Carnal sense is a glass to wicked men, it makes heavenly things which are beautiful to appear de- formed, and earthly things which are deformed to appear beautiful. R. Venning. We have senseful, full of sense ; sensitive, that can feel ; and sensible, that may be felt ; and yet we talk of a sensible man, who is very sensible of the cold, and of any sensible change in the weather. J. H. Tooke. All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature, and art, and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind, to extend and increase the pleasures of sense. Elihºw, Burritt. Thou shalt understand therefore that the Scrip- ture hath but one sense, which is the literal sense ; and that literal sense is the root and ground of all, and the anchor that never faileth, whereunto if thou cleave, thou canst never err, or go out of the way. W. Timolall. However excellent men of sense are as husbands, they make very indifferent beaus; they are so dreadfully in earnest in what they say or do, and Overpower you so with their sense, that it is a posi- tive relief to turn to one of these more amusing triflers. - Bovee. SENSE. The nervous filaments of the senses arefiner than a spider's thread ; yet they are the avenues of communications between the world without and the world within. H. Mann. Let the delights of sense have their season, but let them stand confined to it ; the same absurdity follows the excess on either side, our never using, and our never quitving them. R. Bolton. Of the five senses, two are usually and most pro- perly called the senses of learning, as being most capable of receiving communication of thought and motions by selected signs; and these are hearing and seeing. H. Holden. All our senses are worthy of admiration, but there are advantages peculiar to each ; they ren- der us conversant with the phenomenal world, with our fellow-men, and with the various creatures that tenant the earth ; but more especially with the signs of God's existence and wonderful Providence. M'Cormac. There is no sense that has not a mighty domin- ion, and that does not by its power introduce an infinite number of knowledges. We have formed a truth by the consultation and concurrence of our five senses, but peradventure we should have the consent and contribution of eight or ten to make a certain discovery of our own being. Montaigme. I have long thought that the different abilities of men, which we call wisdom or prudence for the conduct of public affairs or private life, grow di- rectly out of that little grain of intellect or good sense which they bring with them into the world ; and that the effect of it in men comes from some want in their conception or birth. Sir W. Temple. The senses are the cinque-ports by which sin is let out and taken in. The ingress and egress of sin is by the senses, and much of our danger lieth there, partly because there are so many objects that suit with our distempers, that do by them in- sinuate themselves into the Soul, and therefore things long since seemingly dead will soon revive again and recover life and strength. T. Mantom. Good sense and good nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason, which, of necessity, will give allowance to the failings of others, by considering that there is nothing perfect in mankind ; and by distinguishing that which comes nearest to excellency, though not absolutely free from faults, will certainly produce a candor in the judge. Dryden. We are, as it were, plunged into the universe, tremblingly alive all over, and rendered capable of receiving impressions, pleasant or unpleasant, from every object that addresses our senses; from every- thing we perceive, and from everything of which we can form an idea. Nothing in this vast uni- verse can, at all seasons, be totally indifferent to every person in it ; nothing so inert as to be inca- pable of exerting some influence in one connection or other, and of calling forth a corresponding pas- ion or affection. T. Cogan. 848 D A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. SENSIBILITY. Sensibility is nature's celestial spring. Scott, I do not blame sensibility ; I condemn the excess of it. A. Reed. Quick sensibility is inseparable from a ready un- derstanding. Addison. Mere sensibility is not true taste, but sensibility to real excellence is. Hazlitt. True sensibility leads us to overcome our own feelings for the good of others. W. Y. Ottley. Too much sensibility creates unhappiness, as too much insensibility creates crime. Tally rand. It appears to me that strong sense and acute sen- sibility together constitute genius. G. P. Morris. In life's journey without sensibility, we should be the most wretched of all beings. J. Bartlett. By long habit in carrying a burden we lose in great part our Sensibility of its weight. Johnson. The mind that is not provident and reflective, and of deep sensibilities, is not capable of the true condition of natural life. Mrs. Dora Qwilliman. Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand ; with her right, she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain. Coltom. Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility ; one is wind- power, and the other water-power, that is all. - O. W. Holmes. All extremes find their home in a woman of sensibility. Behind her smiles, what tears And from graces that enchant, how readily she passes to Shams and whims that as effectually disenchant. Bovee. By reason man attaineth unto the knowledge of things that are and are not sensible ; it resteth, therefore, that we search how man attaineth unto the knowledge of such things insensible as are to be known. R. Hooker. Fine sensibilities are like woodbines, delightful luxuries of beauty to twine round a solid, upright stem of understanding ; but very poor things if, unsustained by strength, they are left to creep along the ground. J. Foster. An ardent sensibility to the impression of great virtues and abilities, accompanied with a generous oblivion of the little imperfections with which they are joined, is one of the surest indications of a su- perior character. H. Hooker. There is a shyness, the offspring of refined sensi- bility, which is often mistaken for pride; and there is a forward and designing familiarity, which fre- quently wins the applause of those who become its destined victims. P. Jwriew. An exquisite sensibility is not a desirable gift : it creates an infinite disproportion of pain. Feeling and sensibility are here taken as moral properties, which are awakened as much by the operations of the mind within itself as by external objects. G. Crabb. and cold. SENSIBILITY. Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue ; on certain occasions, it may almost be said to become virtue ; but sensi- bilities and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction. Coleridge. Some ladies of fashion affect extreme sensibility by their looks, manners, and tones of voice ; and are so tender-hearted as to weep over high-life scenes of fiction portrayed in a novel, but can view, with a stoic indifference, the vulgar poor, objects of real distress, that have legitimate claims on their charity. L. C. Judson. Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application ; under the in- fluence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs ; ill-directed or uncontrolled it is a snare, and the source of every temptation : besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to des- cant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend peo- ple to have black eyes or fair complexion. - Hannah More. When a kind mother closses the eyes of her ex- piring babe, she is thrown into a flood of sensibili- ty, and soothing to her heart are the sympathy and prayers of an attending minister ; when a gather- ing neighborhood assemble to the funeral of an acquaintance, one pervading sense of regret and tenderness sits on the faces of the company and the deep silence broken only by the Solemn utter- ance of the man of God, carries a kind of pleasing religiousness along with it. T. Chalmers. SENSITIVENESS. Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism. Botee. How beautiful is the sensitiveness of virtue! Kay. The sensitive faculty may have a sensitive love of some sensitive objectS. H. Hammond. As the flowers are sensitive to cold, So should the heart be sensitive to sin. Miss S. H. Palfrey. To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable, is to invite a blow. Mine. Swetchine. Those creatures live more alone whose food, and therefore prey, is upon other sensitive creatures. Sir W. Temple. The sensitive man often laughs when there is no- thing to laugh at ; whatever affects him, his inner nature comes to the surface. Goethe. A great deal of discomfort arises from over-sen- sitiveness about what people may say of you or your actions; this requires to be blunted. W. Noy. Querulousness is never manly, and rarely Ser- viceable ; but sensitiveness is common where firm, conscious honor and high moral courage are united. R. Walsh. Men's feelings are always the most sensitive in the hour of meeting and of farewell ; like the gla- ciers, which are transparent and rosy-hued only at sunrise and sunset, but throughout the day gray - Richter. PA O S E O U o 7. A Z I O W.S. 849 SENSUALITY. Madness is better than sensuality. Antisthemes. Sensuality is a part of every pleasure. AEschines. Sensuality ruins the better faculties of the mind. I. Watts. The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. Bovee. By the neglect of prayer the thoughts al’é SenSUl- alized. T. H. Skinner. A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over a worn-out body to age. Cicero. Sensual pleasures enervate the soul, make fools of the wise, and cowards of the brave. E. Zeller. No Small part of virtue consists in abstaining from that in which sensual men place their felicity. F. Atterbury. When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs. Jane Porter. We are so incorporated to the desires of sensual objects, that we feel no relish or gust of the spiri- tual. Jeremy Taylor. Men in general are too partial in favor of a sen- sual appetite to take notice of truth when they have found it. L'Estrange. If sensuality were happiness beasts were hap- pier than men ; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh. Seneca. A man should guard in his youth against sen- suality, in manhood against faction, and in his old age against covetousness. H. Peters. If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter guide to such happiness than reason. Colton. Impure and brutal sensuality was too much con- firmed by the religion of those countries, where even Venus and Bacchus had their temples. R. Bentley. Let the sensualist satisfy himself as he is able : he will find that there is a certain living spark within, which all the drink he can pour in will never be able to quench. R. Sowth. Our Sensual and rational parts are almost in con- tinual opposition ; we add to the power of the former, by a thoughtless, idle, voluptuous life; and to that of the latter, by reflection, industry, continence. R. Bolton. Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and therefore by the senses it commonly works, and these are the doors and windows by which ini- quity entereth into the soul. R. Baacter. The libertine or sensualist is one of the lowest character; to obtain his ends he must become a liar, a reprobate, and in short a villain, that often breaks all the commands of God, before he can ruin the object he is in pursuit of ; he does not rush to destruction alone, but like his great original drags others along with him to perdition. W. Dodd. SENSUALITY. All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one ; it is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually ; they are but one appetite, and we Only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is. Thoreaw. Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dread- ful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, cor- rupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly wherefore dost thou linger ? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thoughts turn to the accursed evil for a moment 1 Fémélon. If any sensual weakness arise, we are to yield all our sound forces to the overthrowing of so un- natural a rebellion ; wherein, how can we want courage, since we are to deal against so feeble an adversary, that in itself is nothing but weakness? Nay, we are to resolve that if reason direct it, we must do it ; and if we must do it, we will do it ; for to say “I cannot ” is childish, and “I will not.” is womanish. Sir P. Sidney. Sensuality rises into the position of the grand scourge of mankind ; it is the mother of disease, the nurse of crime, the burden of taxation, and the destroyer of souls. Oh, if the world could rise out of this swamp of sensuality, rank with weeds and dank with deadly vapors—full of vipers, thick with pitfalls, and lurid with deceptive lights—and stand upon the secure heights of virtue where God's sun shines, and the winds of heaven breathe blandly and healthfully, how would human life become blessed and beautiful J. G. Holland. SENTENCES. Ltter no sentences but what are pure. Biom. Affairs may be ruined by a single sentence. Confucius. Many times heavenly matter is hid in mean sen- tences. T. Chalkley. A sentence may be defined a moral instruction couched in a few words. W. Broome. Long sentences, in a short composition, are like large rooms in a little house. Shenstone. Terse sentences, briefly expressed, have great weight in leading to a happy life. Cicero. Like unto trees of gold arranged in beds of silver, are wise sentences uttered in season. R. Dodsley. Never crowd into one sentence, things which have so little connection, that they could bear to be divided into two or three sentences. H. Blair. He may justly be numbered among the benefac- tors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be im- pressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind. r Dr. Johnson. I pluck up the goodlisome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by mus- ing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory, by gathering them together ; and so, having tasted their sweetness, I may the less per- ceive the bitterness of life. Queen Elizabeth. 54 850 A) A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. SENTIMIENT. Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fancy. Delwzy. A sentimental air is the most powerful of all woman's charms. Nimon de l'Enclos. A woman should not paint sentiment till she has ceased to inspire it. Lady Blessington. How much the Sentiments impressed on a people's mind conduce to their grandeur. C. Colden. Who can explain the operation of that sentiment which strips the object of our late passion of all its adventitious charms, and reduces it to the ordinary level ? G. P. Morris. We always fancy there is something ridiculous about those Sentiments which we ourselves have never felt, still more about those which we have ceased to feel. Princess de Salm-Dyck. Sentiment has a kind of divine alchemy, render- ing grief itself the source of tenderest thoughts and far-reaching desires, which the sufferer cherishes as sacred treasures. Sir T. N. Talfowrd. All sentiment is sight ; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real wherever a man is conscious of it ; but all de- terminations of the understanding are not right. Hwºme. The man of sentiment may have his sensibilities called forth by a tale of suffering, which the sober man of feeling listens to with cold indifference, because he knows the distress to be the result of indolence or vice. G. S. Hillard. Sentiment and principle are often mistaken for each other, though in fact they widely differ; sen- timent is the virtue of ideas, and principle the virtue of action ; sentiment has its seat in the head, principle in the heart. H. Blair. Many gain a false credit for liberality of senti- ment in religious matters, not from any tenderness they may have to the opinions or consciences of other men, but because they happen to have no opinion or conscience of their own. Colton. What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true, not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them ; things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel. F. W. Robertson. I have heard higher sentiment from the lips of poor uneducated men and women, when exerting the spirit of severe, yet gentle heroism under diffi- culties and afflictions, or speaking their simple thoughts as to circumstances in the lot of friends and neighbors, than I ever yet met with, except in the pages of the Bible. Sir W. Scott. The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul : these laws execute themselves; they are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance ; thus in the soul of man there is a justice whose retributions are instant and entire : he who does a good deed is instantly ennobled himself ; he who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted. R. W. Emerson. of passions, and able to subdue them. SEPARATION. Endure separation with fortitude. Az-Zabaidi. Separation is sometimes caused by the dread of separation. Saif Ad-Dawlat. It is sometimes better to be united in death, than be separated in life. Valerius Maaci’mws. Man should not cause a separation, where God hath allowed a union. Chilperie I. Never separate from the whole army a force smaller than that of the enemy. Cyrus the Great. The separation of church and state would argue nothing of good, either to religion or sovereigns. Pope Gregory XVI. Why should a woman who has lived happily with her husband be separated from him at death 3 Priscianus. A true wife will prefer to endure captivity with her husband, rather than suffer the horrors of sepa- ration. Mme. La Fayette. Time, which deadens hatred, strengthens love ; and in the hour of separation its growth is mani- fested at once in radiant brightness. Richter. When loving hearts are separated, not the one which is exhaled to heaven, but the survivor it is which tastes the sting of death. Mme. de Praslin. When ye separate in the world, remember the relation that bindeth you to love and unity ; pre- fer not a stranger before thine own blood. R. Dodsley. Since the brain and the heart are only about a foot and a half apart, I know not why there should be such effort to separate the intellectual from the spiritual. T. D. Talmage. SERENITY. Serenity is the repose of the soul. Jwliws II. A serene mind is never shaken by life's misfor- tuneS. Niphºws. Nothing contributes so much to Serenity of mind as a pervading sense of God's good providence. G. Crabb. Coolness, and absence of heat and haste, indi- cates fine qualities; a gentleman makes no noise, a lady is serene. R. W. Emerson. Serenity is no sign of security ; a stream is never so smooth, equable, and silvery, as at the instant before it becomes a cataract. W. S. Landor. Serenity of mind is nothing worth unless it has been earned ; a man should be at once susceptible J. Scott. When the supreme faculties move regularly, the inferior affections following, there arises a Serenity and complacency upon the whole soul. R. South. A serene brow, a calm voice, and a manner free from perturbation, amid impending dangers, are high attainments in woman, and often aid to in- spire the stronger sex with courage, amid their more exposed stations of hazard and of toil. Mrs. Sigowrmey. A R O S F O U O T A 7" / O M S. 851 SERMION. - A good sermon is spiritual food. CEcolampadius. A true sermon is a living creation. Dr. Lord. There is pleasure in listening to an eloquent Ser- IllOIl. Louis XIV. A sermon, like a tool, may be polished till it has no edge. Orton. Steep your sermons in your heart before you preach them. Felton. It is better that the audience wish the sermon longer than shorter. Viretals. Never forget that the end of a sermon is the sal- vation of the people. M'Cheyne. Sermons are the utterance of angels from the mouths of good men. J. F. Gaab. That is the best sermon that is most full of Christ, not of art and language. J. Flavel. He is a slave who is under the necessity of writ- ing two sermons every week. Rev. A. Abbot. One sermon preached from a brief, is worth three sermons read from a manuscript. T. Tilton. Ten years of a lifetime should be comprised in a sermon of thirty minutes' duration. Abbé Mwllois. It is a sad thing when a sermon shall have that one thing—the Spirit of God—wanting in it. Rev. J. Eliot. It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon as what is. Lord Burleigh. Meditation to the sermon is what the harrow is to the seed ; it covers those truths that else might be washed away. W. Gºwrmall, If ministers would speak the truth in funeral sermons, the demand for such discourses would materially decrease. Bishop Bedell. A divine ought to calculate his sermon as an as- trologer does his almanac—to the meridian of the place and people where he lives. J. Hughes. —r- - Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated. Lºwther. First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric ; rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root. Selden. There are some sermons that would have been sermons upon everything, if the preachers had only touched upon religion in their variety. Colton. No matter how methodical, philosophic, exqui- site in illustration, or faultless in style, that is a little Sermon that has no power to deliver men from evil and exalt them in goodness. H. W. Beecher. That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and prais- ing the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone. T. Burmet. SERMON. Sermons are beams proceeding from that true sun which doth not only illuminate the understand- ing, but also kindleth the fire of zeal in men's hearts. St. Ambrose. It is impossible to close a sermon well, that is, warmly, unless the train of thought has been so conducted as to bring the heart into a glow, which increases to the end. Dr. J. W. Aleacander. Our sermons fall from too great a height, are too loud and too far between ; they are like storms, when the rain strikes the ground as it falls, and glides over the service. Dr. Cowlin. The nearer sermons are to the possibility of rendering through the medium of the press, the further they are from that indescribable but all- captivating and enchaining charm which defies translation to paper. E. P. Hood. The Sermon on the Mount is ever for us as a mount among sermons; it is on the altitudes of such a divine discourse as that, that the preacher can still breathe air which shall make him robust enough even to face a world. T. T. Lynch. Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character, and stands before a Sermon is the worst-complexioned ; such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mer- cenary, and disables the discourse from doing ser- vice. Jeremy Collier. He who should embody and manifest the virtues taught in Christ's sermon on the Mount, would, though he had never seen a drawing-room, nor even heard of the artificial usages of Society, com- mend himself to all nations, the most refined as well as the most simple. Catharine M. Sedgwick. The famous sermon, as preached on the Mount, is worth more than all the priestly homilies in the world : did ministers only preach and practise the doctrines contained therein, their example and in- fluence would convert this world of sorrow and tears into a paradise of joy. J. Limen. The best sermon is marked with strong images, bold figurative language, and affecting addresses to the heart ; the whole energy of the preacher’s mind is poured out in it ; but the preacher is in a great measure forgotten, both by himself and his hearers, while the subject is alone prominent. T. Dwight. Reasons are the pillars of the fabric of a sermon, but similitudes are the windows which give the best light : the faithful minister avoids such stories whose mention may suggest bad thoughts to the auditors, and will not use a light comparison to make thereof a grave application, for fear lest his poison go further than his antidote. T. Fuller. Every sermon of a true minister has an influence for good or evil, and that for eternity ; every word tells for the everlasting rise or fall, weal or woe, life or death, of souls ; in every sentence we touch chords that shall send their vibrations through the endless future, that shall peal in the thunders of a guilty conscience, or resound in the music of a purified spirit ! Dr. Thomas. 852 A) A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. SERVANT. A good servant makes a good master. Ariosto. Servants must be obedient to their masters. Plato. Make it not thy sport to deceive thy servants. Ptah Hotep. A servant is best known in the master's absence. E. P. Day. He who fears his servant is less than a servant. Socrates. He who is weary of a servant finds faults where no fault exists. Saif Ad-Dawlat. The master who dreads his servants is lower than a servant. Publius Syrws. He who makes himself a servant is expected to remain a servant. Yriarte. I have been my own servant, and can be my Own servant again. Lowis Philippe. Servants ought with patience to bear the correc- tions of their masters. Chilo. The more servants a man keeps the more spies he has upon his actions. M. L. Byrn. If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. Franklin. When one has got an attached servant, there is no nobler possession on earth. Memander. We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us. Sir P. Sidney. In a family we are often served worse when we have many servants than a few. Aristotle. The honor of a servant is his fidelity; his highest virtues are submission and obedience. R. Dodsley. Be not too familiar with thy servants; at first it may beget love, but in the end it will breed con- tempt. T. Fuller. Nothing shows a person's ill-breeding more plainly than a harsh, imperious manner toward Servants. Lowisa C. Tuthill. Servants are good for nothing unless they have an opinion of the person's understanding who has the direction of them. Addison. A servant once made malapert and saucy will always after kick at his duty, and scorn the con- trolment of his master. St. Augustine. There ought to be in a servant double silence ; the one in not replying, or contradicting, the other in not revealing abroad what his master doth at home. S. Tuke. Honest and gentle masters have commonly proud and stubborn servants; whereas a master sturdy and fierce is able with a little wink to command more duty than the other shall with many words. Attrelius. Be not served with kinsmen, or friends, or men intreated to stay ; for they expect much, and do little ; nor will such as are amorous, for their heads are intoxicated ; and keep rather too few, than One too many. Lord Burleigh. SERVANT. + Always be specific in your orders to servants ; do not say let somebody bring water ; let some- body cleave the wood | Somebody means nobody. Cyrus the Great. Servants should not only have liberty of atten- dance on public worship, but should be invited to encircle with master and mistress, parents and off- spring, the family altar. D. King. If thou wouldst have a good servant, let thy ser- vant find a good master; be not angry with him too long, lest he think thee malicious ; nor too soon lest he conceive thee rash ; rior too often, lest he count thee humorous. F. Quarles. Let thy servants be such as thou mayest com- mand, and entertain none about thee but yeomen, to whom thou givest wages ; for those that will serve thee without thy hire, will cost thee treble as much as those that know thy fare. Raleigh. I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend ; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude gene- rally bears a contrary tendency : people's charac- ters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life. Shenstone. Servants are liveried deputies, upon whose tag- rag-and-bobtail shoulders we wear our own pride and Ostentation ; household sinecurists, who inva- riably do the less, the less they have to do ; domes- tic drones, who are often the plagues, and not sel- dom the masters of their masters. Chatfield. The first duty in a servant is willingness to learn whatsoever is necessary ; the second faithfulness, in performing truly whatsoever belongeth to his duty ; the third carefulness, in seeking all honest means to profit his master ; the fourth, silence in tongue, in not replying against his master's speeches. Zacharias Ursinus. Servants in quite many families, are not sup- posed to have any opinions of their own, or any sense of delicacy that can be shocked by anything they may see or hear ; instead of being regarded as “unfortunate friends, equals by birth, and infe- riors only by fortune,” they are made to preserve a preposterous distance. Bovee, A good servant considers himself bound by the laws of God, as well as of man, to be strictly hon- est, just, and faithful, with regard to everything committed to his charge ; he will not content him- self with eye service, but is as careful of his mas- ter's property as if it were his own, and that equally as much in his absence as when his master is present with him. L. M. Stretch. Sobriety, activity, fidelity, submission, patience, punctuality, sincerity, and obedience to their mas- ters, are required of servants ; but it is religion which will make them shine ; this will enable them not to fill up, but to adorn their stations : this will sweeten all their toils, produce content- ment in the place which Providence hath allotted them, and teach them to look forward to that hap- py period, when they shall be elevated to those honors which are immortal, and those glories which shall never fade. C. Buck. P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 853 SERVICE. SEEVILITY. - God requires no man's service upon hard and un- Scorn cometh close upon Servility. Tupper. reasonable terms. .Tillotson. - - - — -> Servility to wealth is a social curse. J. S. Mill. Serving justly is a seal of obedience, and a testi- mony of an upright conscience. St. Chrysostom. Whoever entereth into the service of God never found his reason rise in rebellion against Him. J. Bate. The only fruit of service is love and reward ; and the pleasure thereof is humility and obedi- €11C0. Thomas Stanley. As the fire never went out on the altar of burnt offering, so Christians ought to be continually en- gaged in the service of God. Cawdray. Well fare their hearts who will not only wear out their shoes, but also their feet in God's service, and yet gain not a shoe-latchet thereby. T. Fuller. Religious services are of such importance for keeping up religion among the masses, that they alone often do, in that respect, what truth would not so certainly do. Professor Vinet. The order of human society cannot be preserved, nor the services requisite to the support of it be supplied, without a distinction of stations, and a long subordination of offices. S. Rogers. If stations of power and trust were constantly made the rewards of virtue, men of great abilities would endeavor to excel in the duties of a religious life, in order to qualify themselves for public Service. Swift. Some men are kind to others but for their own ends; they will serve you for their needs ; and when you have served their needs, you shall ob- serve that they will neither serve nor observe you any longer. R. Venning. Services are sometimes a source of dissatisfaction and disappointment when they do not meet with the remuneration or return which they are sup- posed to deserve ; it is a great service for a soldier to serve the life of his commander, or for a friend to open the eyes of another to his danger. G. Crabb. The homeliest services that we do in an honest calling, though it be but to plow, or dig, if done in obedience, and conscious of God's commandments, is crowned with an ample reward ; whereas, the best works for their kind, if without respect of God's injunction and glory, are loaded with curses. J. Hall. Voluntary service is sometimes unjust and cruel, while involuntary Service is sometimes just and merciful ; under the former we include all the in- stances of consent to serve obtained by wrong mo- tives, or for bad ends; under the latter we include all cases of service exacted which is reasonably due. - H. Winslow. Poor and inadequate indeed are the best services we can render in comparison with the mercies we have received, and the glory revealed to us; our best deeds are tainted with earthly motives ; and when we have accomplished our best, upon the best and purest principles, we can only say: “we are unprofitable servants.” . Bishop Otter. Servility is almost always worse than insubor- dination. Mme. Swetchine. Servility blazes that with praise which they have cause to blaspheme with curses. Philip Stubbes. Servility is like a golden pill, which outwardly giveth pleasure, but inwardly is full of bitterness. Nahwim Tate. Servility makes men abjectly miserable ; they are slaves of a relentless master, who demands of them increasing homage. A. H. Beauchesne. It is better to fall among a sort of ravens than among servile companions; for the ravens never eat a man until he is dead, but servile flatterers will not spare to devour him while he is alive. Plutarch. The most servile flattery is lodged the most easily in the grossest capacity ; for their ordinary conceit draweth a yielding to their greaters, and then have they not wit to discern the right degrees of duty. Sir P. Sidney. There is nothing to me so irksome as to hear weak and Servile people repeat with admiration every silly speech that falls from a person of mere rank and fortune ; the nonsense grows more nau- Seous through the medium of their admiration, and shows the venality of vulgar tempers, which can consider fortune as the goddess of wit. Shenstone. SERVITUDE. Servitude is the bane of woman. H. W. Wye. Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her. Seneca. He who serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages. E. P. Day. It is fit and necessary that some persons in the world should be in love with a splendid servitude. R. Sowth. No condition passes for servitude that is accom- panied with great riches, with honors, and with the service of many inferiors. 4. Cowley. Serving or servitude is a certain slavish bond of constraint, by which either for commodity or love men bind themselves to the will of others, making themselves subject to controlment. Thomas Walsingham. The mild influence of Christianity has corrected men's notions with regard to their rights, as well as their duties, and established servitude on the just principle of a mutual compact, without any infraction on that most precious of all human gifts, personal liberty. G. Crabb. Servitude is divided into real or predial, mixed and personal ; the first being the subjection of an inheritable thing to certain duties or services to- ward another inheritable thing ; the second, that of an inheritable thing toward a person ; the third, that of a person toward a person or thing, whether by dependence on a person or on the soil. Cawvin. S54 AD A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. SEVERITY. SHAME. Severity follows justice. Publiws Syrus. Shame is a part of original sin. J. H. Noyes. Severity is allowable where gentleness has no He who hath shame seldom sins. Talmwal. t. ille. effec Corneille Shame lasts longer than poverty. Ewald. Severity, if it be too frequently used, loses its authority, which is its chief use. Semeca. The utmost that severity can do is to make men hypocrites; it can never make them converts. J. Moore. Distrust, bolts, and iron grating do not produce virtue in women and girls ; it is honor which must keep them to their duty, and not severity. Molière. Severity carried to the highest pitch breaks the mind ; and then in the place of a disorderly young fellow you have a low-spirited, moped creature. J. Locke. We should always manifest our disinclination to any undue severities toward those whom the for- tunes of war may chance to throw into our hands. Washington. Severity debases : kindness elevates ; severity crushes every noble emotion, and brings man to the level of brutes, while kindness refines and civ- ilizes. W. Goodwin. Severities are not to be dealt out all at once, so that feeling them less they may give less offense : benefits ought to be distilled drop by drop, in order that they may be relished the more. Machiavelli. Great severities do often work an effect quite contrary to that which was intended ; and many times those who were bred up in a very severe school, hate learning ever after for the sake of the cruelty that was used to force it upon them. Tillotson. We should never be severe or unreasonably strict in our conduct toward those who have in- jured us ; “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth” was the teaching of a semi-enlightened age, and we should cultivate the finer sensibility—the new law of charity—to return good for evil. James Ellis. SHADOW. Even a hair casts a shadow. Publius Syrus. Shadow owes its birth to light. J. Gay. Shadows highten the bright tints of life's picture. - Samwel Werenfels. We lose what is certain while we are seeking shadows. H. T. Riley. Preserved for grief alone, I remain the shadow of a great name. Seneca. Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof. J. C. Hare. In landscape, noonday short shadows give the impression of languor, the morning and evening long shadows of delightful repose, while the me- dium shadows of midforenoon and afternoon furn- ish the strong contrasts of light and shade essential to the highest relief and action. G. W. Samson. Shame is a great concealer of tears. Altahiya. Where there is shame there is virtue. Rist. A man without shame stops at no vice. Procopius. Glory tarnished makes shame more evident. Boiledw. Where there is no shame, there is no honor. Opitz. It is better to be buried than to live in shame. Panthea. They who do evil shall be covered with shame. Koran. Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind. Homer. Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. - Seneca. I regard that man as lost who has lost his sense of shame. Plaw.tws. It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame. Corneille. Of all evils to the generous, shame is the most deadly pang. E. Thomson. It is the false shame of fools alone that hides ulcered sores. Horace. We should only feel shame for doing what is in itself shameful. Justin. In shame there is no comfort, but to be beyond all bounds of shame. Sir P. Sidney. Of all kinds of shame, the worst is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. Miss F. S. Parker. The feeling of shame at what is wrong is the commencement of virtue. Kiw-6. Whoever blushes is already guilty ; true inno- cence is ashamed of nothing. Rowsseaw. Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect. Bulwer. I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. Swift. The glory or shame of a day may brighten or stain the current of a thousand years of continu- ous national being. Rufus Choate. Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked ; and therefore, shame can never disturb an inno- cent and virtuous mind. R. Sherlock. The only real misfortune that can befall man is to find himself in fault, and to have done something of which he need be ashamed. Bruyère. Put no one to open shame ; misuse not thy power against any one ; who can tell whether thou wilt not some day be powerless thyself. Rabbi Iechiel. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. S55 SHAME}. S.H.A.R.PNESS. Whilst shame keeps watch, virtue is not wholly Sharpness is the chief tool of rascality. Rodd. extinguished from the heart, nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the mind of tyrants. Burke. Be assured that when once a woman begins to be ashamed of what she ought not to be ashamed of, she will not be ashamed of what she ought. Livy. Shame is a painful sensation occasioned by the quick apprehension that reputation and character are in danger, or by the perception that they are lost. T. Cogan. A man is never lessened by feeling ashamed of committing any improper act in society ; it dis- covers a mind open to conviction, and willing to repair every fault. B. Martin. Shame ever sticks close to the ribs of honor ; great men are never sound men after it ; it leaves Some ache or other in their names still, which their posterity feels at every weather. T. Middleton. Who would envy a man who could not feel shame 2 Who would associate with a man who glories in his shame? In either case he evinces a heart depraved, a mind demoralized. J. Bartlett. He who can feel shame will not readily do wrong; there is a great difference between one who can feel ashamed before his own soul, and one who is Only ashamed before his fellow-man. Rabbi Samwel. Do but increase a man's pride, and his fear of shame will ever be proportioned to it ; for the greater value a man sets upon himself, the more pains he will take, and the greater hardships he will undergo to avoid shame. Mandeville. It is not well for false shame to accompany the needy, shame that both injures greatly and aids mankind ; false shame leads to poverty, but confi- dence to wealth ; wealth should not be got by plunder; what is given by God is far better. Hesiod. Shame is a feeling of profanation. Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy ; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence ; many things are too delicate to be thought, many more, to be spoken. Novalis. SHAMELESSINESS. Shamelessness is devoid of all shame, G. Crabb. There is no animal more bold than shameless- IlêSS. Diphilus. When one is ashamed of having been shameless, he will afterwards not have occasion for shame. Mencius. He that blushes not at his crime, but adds shame- lessness to shame, has nothing left to restore him to virtue. Jeremy Taylor. Lesser vices do not banish all shame and mo- desty ; but great and abominable crimes harden men's foreheads, and make them shameless ; when men have the heart to do a very bad thing, they seldom want the face to bear it out. Tillotson. The abuse of wealth may hereafter sharpen the sting of conscience. N. Webster. Sharpness is the acuteness of intellect, and the ingenuity of the rogue. Lord Bacom. To be sharpened by study does not commonly bring the greatest learning. R. Ascham. There is nothing makes men sharper, and sets their hands and wits more at work, than want. Addison. The mind and memory are more sharply exer- cised in comprehending another man's things than OUII O WI]. Ben Jomson. How often may we meet with those who are one while courteous, but within a small time are so sharp that they become the very sores and burdens of society. R. Sowth. There is a sharpness in vinegar, and there is a sharpness in pain, in sorrow, and in reproach ; there is a sharp eye, a sharp wit, and a sharp sword; but there is not one of these several sharp- nesses the same as another of them ; and a sharp east wind is different from them all. I. Watts. SHIP. Don't give up the ship. Captain J. Lawrence. Two captains will sink a ship. Ahmed Vesik. . The noblest ships are stranded in a single mo- ment. Mrs. M. E. P. Bowligny. A ship is a glorious monument of human inven- tion. W. Qwane. Ships are moved with rapidity by art, sails, and O8,1’S. Ovid. Do not expect the ship to return loaded with pre- cious treasures, without being exposed to the hor- rors of the stormy deep. Metastasio. To whom the world is obliged for the invention of ships, is, like everything of great antiquity, un- certain ; there are divers persons who seem to have an equal claim to this honor. Lord Bacon. The man who wants to be fully employed, should procure a woman and a ship—for no two things produce more trouble—if, perchance, you begin to rig them, they can never be rigged enough. Planttws. Is anything more fair to the sight than to see a ship softly gliding, dividing the azure field, like a fish within the yielding air, or a bird upon the waves when it runs swiftly, making a slight fur- row, and flies over the waves and swims through the wind 3 Calderon. Into the building of a ship, man has put as much of his human patience, common-sense, forethought, experimental philosophy, self-control, habits of or- der and obedience, thoroughly wrought hand-work, defiance of brute elements, careless courage, care- ful patriotism, and calm expectation of the judg- ment of God, as can well be put into a space of three hundred feet long, by eighty broad. Ruskin. H 856 ZD A Y 'S CO / / A C O AV. |^and who not. SICESINESS. SICENESS. Visit the sick. D. Andrews. In sickness the soul begins to dress herself for * * — immortality ; and first she unties the strings of Sickness is a great instructor. * | vanity that made her upper garments cleave to the Sickness is every man's master. L. C. Swlla. world and sit uneasy. Jeremy Taylor. Blessed is a sickness that.saves from sin. Armdt. Sickness of body may prove health to the soul. Orosius. If sickness has its trials, it also has its blessings. Mrs. Massingberd. Disease is a unity ; one remedy cures all sick- IlêSS. J. Ailhowd. When sickness is fashionable physicians grow rich. Dr. J. Armstrong. The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devo- tion. Siactus I. Man is sometimes free from sickness; woman Iſle Vel”. AEgimeta. Sickness often gives us a view of our eternal home. M. Vesembech. Sickness is the best doctor of divinity in all the world. C. H. Spwrgeon. We can all, when we are well, give good counsel to the sick. Terence. _-Fall sick, and you will see who is your friend, Cervantes. The sickness of the body sometimes improves the health of the soul. T. Beza. The sick man acts a foolish part who makes his physician his heir. Publius Syrus. In sickness man recollects there are gods, and that he himself is but a man. Pliny. Sickness is a sort of early old age ; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state. Pope. Sickness, disease, and death are but preparations for the heavenly feast in God's kingdom. S. Munster. To the sick, some gleam of hope flows from a clear knowledge beforehand of the result of their pains. AEschylus. Few spirits are made better by the pain and lan- guor of sickness ; as few great pilgrims become eminent Saints. T. & Kempis. How calm would our sick beds be if we had nothing else to do than to cast our burdens on Him who has promised to sustain them. G. Mogridge. Sickness teaches us not only the uncertain ten- ure, but the utter vanity and unsatisfactoriness of the dearest objects of human pursuit. Buckminster. There is nothing which so effectually subdues wrathful feelings, and obliterates the recollection of past unkindness, as the touch of sickness. Mrs. E. C. Embury. He is a moral dunce—one who has lost the great- est lesson in life—who has skipped the finest lecture in that great school of humanity, the sick-chamber. T. Hood. Where the body is affected with pain or sickness we are forward enough to look out for remedies, to listen to every one that suggests them, and im- mediately to apply them. F. Atterbury. Sicknesses, particularly if they are of long Com- tinuance, are years of apprenticeship for the art of living, and the forming of the mind ; we must endeavor to make use of them by daily observa- tions. Novalis. Sickness, without reference to the religious im- pressions it is calculated to awaken, is well worth enduring now and then, not only for the pleasure of convalescence, but that we may learn a due and grateful sense of the blessing of health. Chatfield. It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are de- pendent one upon another for our comfort, and even necessities ; thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing. Ballow. Let the sick not forget that the reverence, ado- ration, and love, thus excited, are as the elixir of life to their often-wearied, and overtaxed nurses ; quickening them to exertion by the sweetest of in- influences, instead of exhausting them with the struggle to perform an ungrateful duty. Mrs. Marsh. It is a strange and awful sensation, when, after having enjoyed to the full the powers and energies of manhood, we find ourselves suddenly reduced by the unnerving hand of sickness to the feeble- ness of infancy—when giant strength lies prostrate, and busy activity is chained to the weary bed. G. P. R. James. If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there ! What caprices he acts without control How king-like he sways his pil- low, tumbling and tossing, shifting and lowering, and thumping, flatting, and molding it, to the ever- varying requisitions of his throbbing temples C. Lamb. Sickness and disease are in weak minds the sources of melancholy, but that which is painful to the body, may also be profitable to the Soul. Sickness, the mother of modesty, puts us in mind of our mortality, and while we drive on heedlessly in the full career of worldly pomp and jollity, kindly pulls us by the ear, and brings us to a pro- per sense of our duty. R. Burton. Sickness is called on earth an evil. Ah ! how often art thou a good, a healing balsam, under whose benign influence the soul rests after its hard struggles and its wild storms are still ! The terri- ble, the bitter words which destroy the heart aro by degrees obliterated during the feverish dreams of illness ; the terrors which lately seemed so near us are drawn away into the distance ; and when at last we arise with exhausted strength from the sickbed, our souls often awake as out of a long night into a new morning. Frederiko, Bremmer. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 857 SIGHT. Out of sight, out of mind. Lord Brooke. Hearing is the preparation of the sight. Bernard. Let not the eyes look upon a bad sight. Pi-He. For departed sight memory is the best friend. - G. Lairesse. Blindness itself commends the excellency of sight. St. Awgustine. The sense of sight is one of the most trustworthy of the Senses. Az-Zāhsiri. He that cannot contract the sight of his mind, as well as disperse and dilate it, wanteth a great faculty. Lord Bacom. The sense of sight is our sole and undisputed teacher in respect to colors ; from its decisions there is no appeal. H. Winslow. The sight is the chiefest sense, and the first mis- tress that provokes men forward to the study and searching of knowledge and wisdom. T. Woºd. Of more validity is the sight of one eye than the attention of ten ears ; for in that a man Seeth is an assurance, and that he heareth may be an error. George Turberville. Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses ; it fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in ac- tion without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. Addison. Sight is much the noblest of the senses; we re- ceive our notices from the other four through the organs of sensation only ; we hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch ; but sight rises infinitely higher ; it is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit. Sterne. The importance of sight is so great that all the superior and most of the inferior animals have been provided with it ; a large proportion of our ideas owe their origin to this sense ; works of ge- nius and the records of knowledge are addressed to it, and without it could neither have existence nor utility. M’Cormac. Let an understanding man imagine human na- ture originally produced without the sense of sight, and consider what ignorance and trouble such a defect would bring upon him, what a darkness and blindness in the soul; he will then see by that of how great importance to the knowledge of truth would be the privation of such another sense, or of two or three, should we be so deprived. Montaigne. Sight is the most spiritual of the senses ; through sight, the structure of the world is revealed : through it the perception of identity, growths, processes, vistas; hence the breadth of the signifi- cance of this sense is the momenclature of science. If sight carries with it the architecture of the world, sound brings the universal solvent which whirls back to primal ether ; in melody, nature whispers to man the secret confessions of her plan. W. Swimton. SILENCE. Silence gives consent. Goldsmith. He who is silent confesses. Ariosto. The silent are most trusted. Damhowder. There is pleasure in silence. Cleanthes. Silence injures not a fair face. T. Thaarup. Sometimes silence is treachery. Witherspoon. Speech is silver ; silence is gold. T. Carlyle. Silence is a necessary art to learn. Zoroaster. Silence is the ornament of woman. Sophocles. Silence is the fence around wisdom. Talmud. Silence never yet betrayed any one. Rivarol. Silence was an answer to a wise man. Ewripides. Silence often answers for an answer. An-Nashi. Silence is sometimes sufficient praise. Terence. Silence does not always mark wisdom. Coleridge. Nothing is more powerful than silence. Amphis. It is wisdom to know when to be silent. Persiws. Concealment is one thing, silence another. Lee. Silence is a true friend which never betrays. Confucius. The temple of our purest thoughts is—silence Mrs. Sarah J. Hale. If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two. Rabbi Ben Azai. There is not only an art, but an eloquence in silence. Cicero. Silence is like nightfall ; objects are lost in it in- sensibly. • Mme. Swetchine. He that knows how to speak, knows also when to be silent. Archimedes. Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. R. W. Emerson. Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding. Bowhow.rs. He that knows not when to be silent, knows not when to speak. Frederick I. I regret often that I have spoken, never that I have been silent. Publius Syrus. By silence I hear other men's imperfections, and conceal my own. Zemo. There are too many who cannot comprehend the dignity of silence. M. Molinos. Be silent, where reason is not regarded, and truth is distasteful. T. Fuller. It is only reason that teaches silence ; the heart teaches us to speak. Richter. Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself. Rochefoucauld. S58 AD A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. SILENCE. Silence is the understanding of fools, and one of . the virtues of the wise. Bernard de Bonnard. A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity. De Sales. He who knows nothing, knows enough if he knows when to be silent. Gwicciardini. Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe. T. Poºrker, It requires a great deal of mind to be silent at the right time and place. Mary Ferrier. Not every one who has the gift of speech under- stands the value of silence. Lavater. As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence. Franklin. With the wicked, as with a bad dog, silence is more formidable than noise. Demophilus. Silence is the wisdom of man, the ornament of woman, the refuge of a fool. E. P. Day. He approaches nearest the gods who knows how to be silent, even though in the right. Cato. A deep silence portends some dread event ; and a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound. Sophocles. We must make a difference between speaking to deceive and being silent to be impenetrable. Voltaire. Some men are silent for want of matter or assur- ance ; and Some again are talkative for want of Ser1S62. G. Berkeley. It is but a slight excellence to be silent, but it is a grievous fault to speak of things that ought to be concealed. Ovid. Silence is a trick when it imposes; pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in si- lent pride. Zimmerman. Reep thy tongue, and keep thy friend ; for few words cover much wisdom, and a fool being silent is thought wise. Socrates. Silence is the solemn temple, with its roof high as the heavens, for the human soul to retire into, unknown to anybody. J. Lockman. It is better to be silent on points we understand, than put to shame by being questioned upon things of which we are ignorant. Saadi. - By silence men avoid the excitement of a quar- rel, and therefore the excuses that put them in the power of their adversaries. Ptah Hotep. Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom ; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered. H. W. Show. If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts. Burke. SILENCE. It is a strange and fanciful idea to imagine we may, by mere silence, destroy for ourselves and others what has actually happened. Goethe. A person that would secure to himself great de- ference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say. Shenstone. The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure ; so often the elements that move and mold society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mo- ther's prayer. E. H. Chapin. The deepest waters are the most silent ; empty vessels make the greatest sound, and tinkling cym- bals the worst music ; they who think least com- monly speak most. Dr. Johnson. I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent ; that be- comes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered. Diderot. Most men speak when they do not know how to be silent ; seldom do you see any one silent, when to speak is of no profit ; he is wise who knows when to hold his peace. St. Ambrose. True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment ; it is a great virtue ; it covers folly, keeps secrets, avoids disputes, and prevents sin. W. Penºn. It is better either to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence ; Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word ; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. - Pythagoras. There is a silence, the child of life, which ex- presses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do ; there are move- ments that are involuntary proofs of what the Soul feels. Alfieri. The more a man, desirous to pass at a value above his worth, can contrast by dignified silence the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess. Bulwer. Silence is one of the great arts of conversation ; a well-bred woman may easily and effectually pro- mote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word ; the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. - H. Blair. When a woman has the gift of silence she pos- sesses a quality above the vulgar ; it is a gift hea- ven seldom bestows; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished ; and nature suffers vio- lence when heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence. Cormeille. Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world, words with little meaning, actions with little worth, one loves to reflect on the great empire of silence. The noble, silent men, scattered here and there each in his department ; silently thinking, silently working; whom no morning newspaper makes mention of ! T. Carlyle. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 859 SILENCE. Silence is the highest wisdom of a fool; if thou art a fool, thy silence is wisdom ; if a wise man, too long silence is folly. As too many words from a fool's mouth give a wise man no leave to speak, so too long silence in a wise man gives a fool the opportunity of speaking, and makes thee guilty of his folly. F. Quarles. Some men envelop themselves in such an impen- etrable cloak of silence, that the tongue will afford us no symptoms of the temperament of the mind ; such taciturnity, indeed, is wise if they are fools, but foolish if they are wise ; and the only method to form a judgment of these mutes, is narrowly to observe when, where, and how they smile. Colton. There are three kinds of silence : silence from words is good, because inordinate speaking tends to evil ; silence or rest from desires and passions is still better, because it promotes quickness of spirit : but the best of all is silence from unnecessary and wandering thoughts, because that is essential to internal recollection, and because it lays a founda- tion for a proper regulation and silence in other respects. Mime. Gwyom. Let us carefully consider the place, occasion, hu- mor, in which those persons are who are listening to us; for if there be a deal of good sense in know- ing when to speak, there is not less in knowing when to be silent ; there is an eloquent silence which approves or condemns ; there is a silence of discretion and respect ; in short, there are tones, looks, and manners which convey what is agreea- ble or disagreeable, courteous or rude, in conver- sation. Rochefoucauld. There are as many kinds of silence as there are of conversation, or any other sort of noise mak- ing ; sometimes it is lively and respectful, atten- tive and kind ; sometimes blank and vacant, care- less and unmeaning ; then, again, it is ambiguous, eloquent, or expressive of a great deal of meaning in an indirect and covert way ; is frowning and forbidding, sullen and moody, discouraging and terrifying, and a thorough damper and restraint upon all sociability and converse. Actom. The grandest operations, both in nature and in grace, are the most silent and imperceptible. The shallow brook babbles in its passage, and is heard by every one ; but the coming on of the seasons is silent and unseen. The storm rages and alarms, but its fury is soon exhausted, and its effects are partial and soon remedied ; but the dew, though gentle and unheard, is immense in quantity, and the very life of large portions of the earth ; and these are pictures of the operations of grace in the church and in the soul. Lord Bwrleigh. Think not silence the wisdom of fools, but if rightly timed, the honor of wise men who have not the infirmity but the virtue of taciturnity ; and speak not of the abundance but the well-weighed thoughts of their hearts ; such silence may be elo- quence, and speak thy worth above the power of words; make such a one thy friend, in whom princes may be happy, and great counsels success- ful ; let him have the key of thy heart who hath the lock of his own, which no temptation can open; where thy secrets may lastingly lie. Sir T. Browne. SILLINESS. All men live within the circle of silliness. Isla. There is nothing I know of sillier than a silly laugh. Martial. There is no one that does not once in his life do a silly act. Goethe. There are old fools who commit more silly acts than young ones. Dickens. The silliness of the person does not derogate from the dignity of his character. L’Estrange. A silly person, with comely features, resembleth a fine house with an evil host harbored therein. Diogenes. The behavior of a person may be silly who, from any excess of feeling, loses his sense of propriety. G. Crabb. Whoever wishes to be the author of Some witti- cisms has only to give forth a great number of silly Sayings. Rowssed w. The same thing is often in the mouth of a man of sense, a lively or witty saying ; and in that of the ass a silliness. Bruyère. There are people fated to be silly ; they not only perform silly acts by choice, but are even con- strained to do so by fortune. Rochefowcawld. SIMILE. A good simile is the sunshine of wisdom. Ballow. A good simile is as concise as a king's declaration of love. - Sterme. A simile is no better than the shadow of an ar- gument. Pope. Swords have not keener edges, nor flash brighter lights, than sudden similes drawn by a poet's hand. T. Tilton. Similes, drawn from odd circumstances and ef- fects strangely accidental, bear a near relation to false wit. Shenstone. Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude. Sir W. Raleigh. As it added deformity to an ape to be so like a man, so the similitude of superstition to religion makes it the more deformed. Lord Bacon. Though similes may be good in explaining our thoughts to others, it is by no means a right me- thod to settle true notions of anything in ourselves. J. Locke. If we compare the picture of a man drawn at the years of seventeen, with that of the same per- son at the years of three-score, hardly the least trace or similitude of one face can be found in the other. R. South. Every simile is more or less a comparison, but every comparison is not a simile ; the latter com- pares things only as far as they are alike but the former extends to those things which are differ- ent : in this manner there may be a comparison between large things and small, although there can be no good simile. G. Crabb. 860 JJ A Y',S CO Z / A C O ZV. SIMPLICITY. There is a holy simplicity John Huss. Simplicity is favorable to law. J. A. Spencer. We ought to pray in simplicity. Awrelius. Simplicity has an abiding charm. W. Hague. Simplicity is the virtue of nature. Mrs. Opie. Simplicity is a jewel rarely found. Ovid. The expression of truth is simplicity. Seneca. Simplicity is the perfection of neatness. Horace. The affectation of simplicity is a subtle decep- tion. Rochefoucauld. Simplicity, of all things, is the hardest to be co- pied. Steele. Simplicity and grace seem to be the elements to charm. Mrs. Sigowrmey. I prefer the honestly simple to the ingeniously wicked. W. Penn. The beautiful does not obtrude, but appears in simplicity. Krumvonacher. Simplicity is often the cloak of evil as well as the robe of virtue. Lewis Morris. The greatest truths are the simplest ; and so are the greatest mem. J. C. Hare. Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. Hazlitt. Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and ce- menting principle. Burke. Without simplicity no human performance can arrive to perfection. Swift. Simplicity of manners and taste is the most de- sirable thing in the world. Mrs. Dimºvies. Nothing is more simple than greatness ; indeed, to be simple is to be great. R. W. Emerson. There is a majesty in simplicity which is far above the quaintness of wit. Pope. There are certain occasions when, in art, simpli- city is an audacious originality. Achilles Poincelot. Singleness of heart is that species of simplicity which is altogether to be admired. G. Crabb A childlike mind, in its simplicity, practices that science of good to which the wise may be blind. Schiller. Simplicity in behavior of manners has an en- chanting effect, and never fails to gain our affec- tion. Kames. Native simplicity has an influence on the mind, that art or knowledge of the world can never boast. T. Ingmethorpe. When a thought is too weak to be with simpli- city expressed, it is a proof that it should be re- jected. Vauvenargues. Be simple, be unaffected, be honest in your speaking and writing ; never use a long word where a short one will do. Alford. SIMPLICITY. Live with simplicity, if you would live well; bread with hunger makes a feast. Epicurus. In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. Longfellow. Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness. I. Barrow. Simplicity should be a leading object in every attempt to impress the youthful mind; the simplest is always most grand and sublime. J. W. Barker. • Great men unite their actions with simplicity, because they receive more glory from facts than from words. Montesquiew. Simplicity is the great friend to nature ; and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance. Sterne. Men are so simple and yield so much to necessity, that he who will deceive will always find him who will lend himself to be deceived. Machiavelli. Simplicity of style and directness of language, when united in the narrative form, present the strongest attractions to the expanding minds. Putnam. What a happy simplicity prevailed in ancient times when it was the custom for ladies, though of the greatest distinction, to employ themselves in useful and laborious works. C. Buck, There is a certain majesty in simplicity ; as the . proclamation of a prince never frisks it in tropes or fine conceits, in numerous and well turned pe— riods, but commands in sober natural expressions. R. Sowth. Why are the simplicity of youth, the caresses of infants, and the plainness of the rustic pleasing 3 They are unhackeneyed in vice, devoid of art, and there whole soul beams in their faces, and sparkles in their eyes. J. Bartlett. I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely ; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial. Thoreaw. He alone is a man who can resist the genius of the age, the tone of fashion, with vigorous simpli. city and modest courage ; the true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form. Lavater. All the works of God are characterized by great and even amazing simplicity, when we contemplate their extent ; and the wonder is, not that the ori- ginal ideas in reference to which they are consti- tuted are so many, but that they are so few. H. Winslow. The character of being simple is as dangerous to reputation as that of being cunning ; if cunning excites distrust, simplicity ruins confidence; if cun- ning causes dread, simplicity creates contempt ; nor is the difference very excessive betwixt a per- son that betrays sincerity, and one that cannot pre- serve it. N. Macdonald. A R O S E Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. . 861 SIMPLICITY. The simplest ideas are sometimes the most incom- municable. Mankind are so prone to mystery that they create it, and expect to find it where it does not exist ; moreover, simplicity is the first thing that is lost, and the last that is regained. Acton. Happy are those who have retained throughout life their infantine simplicity, which nurses a trac- table idol in an unsuspicious bosom, is assured it knows and heeds the voice addressing it, and shuts it up again with a throb of joy, and keeps it warm. W. S. Lamdon’. Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn ; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives a charm even to a plain person, being to the body what amiability is to the mind. Longfellow. Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses itself any reaction with regard to it- self or its deeds ; this virtue differs from and sur- passes sincerity. We see many people who are sincere without being simple ; they do not wish to be taken for other than what they are ; but they are always fearing lest they should be taken for what they are not. Fénélon. The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an op- pressive greatness—one who loves life, and under- stands the use of it ; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper, and steadfast as an anchor ; for such an one, we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the pro- foundest thinker, and the brightest scholar. Lessing. Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all tempo- rary nature ; simplicity is in the intention, purity in the affection ; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys Him. If thou hadst simpli- city and purity thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven but hell. T. d. Kempis. There is a great mistake made on the subject of simplicity ; there is one simplicity of circum- stances, another simplicity of heart ; there is many a man who sits down to a meal of bread and milk on a wooden table, whose heart is as proud as the proudest whose birth is royal ; there is many a one whose voice is heard in the public meeting loudly descanting on regal tyranny and aristocra- tic insolence, who in his own narrow circle, is as much a tyrant as any oppressor. F. W. Robertson. The more I see of the world, the more I am sat- isfied that simplicity is inseparably the companion of true greatness; I never yet knew a true great man, a man who overtopped his fellow-man, who did not possess a certain playful, almost infantile, simplicity; true greatness never struts on the stilts, or plays the king on the stage ; conscious of its ele- vation, and knowledge in what elevation consists, it is happy to act its part as other men in the com- mon amusement and business of mankind ; it is not afraid of being undervalued. T. Gale. – SIN. Abstain from all sin. Gawtama. Sin produces misery. Lowisa C. Twthill. Sin is the greatest folly. Gwthrie. Every day repent of sin. Lydia Namahama. Sin does not really exist. A. J. Davis. Sin is error and ignorance. J. M. Peebles. Sin is man's natural element. R. Hill. Most men have their besetting sins. J. T. Awstin. Sin is essentially a departure from God. Lºwther. The blood of Christ alone can wash away our sins. B. Zeizenbalg. Suffer anything from men rather than sin against God. - Sir Henry Vane. It is the greatest of all sins always to continue in sim. A. Warwick. Sin is universal, from the monarch down to the beggar. E. Davies. Nature has given a besetting sin to everything : created. Propertius. Providence punishes national sins by national calamities. G. Mason. You that sin for your profits, will never profit by your sins. - S. Dyer. He that sins does not what he would, but what he would not. Epictetus. To bodies darkened by sin, the realms of heaven are forbidden. Swhºrawardi. How immense appear to us the sins that we have not committed | Mme. Necker. Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own behind our back. Semeca. As death came in by sin, so also shall sin itself be destroyed by death. E. Hopkins. He who has cleansed himself from all sin is well guarded in all virtues. Buddha. He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God. Dr. J. Owen. God is holy, just, and good ; He cannot there- fore be the author of sin. Collwth ws. One who has a new heart loves God, and does not love sin or sinful ways. Puadiki. It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins. St. Cyril. Is it not better to sin with the elect than to be righteous with the reprobate 3 R. G. White. Neither man nor god can expiate by punishment the sins committed by another. Hypatia. If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep, Hannah Adams. Sins of the mind have less infamy than those of the body, but not less malignity. B. Whichcote. 862 AD A ) '.S C O Z / A C O AV. SIN. Never sin went unpunished ; and the end of all sin, if it be not repentance, is hell. Henshaw. Sins are like circles in the water when a stone is thrown into it—one produces another. M. Henry. Commit no sin, saying to thyself that thou wilt repent and make atonement at a later time. Rabbi Eleazar. Sin is of a contagious and spreading nature, and the human heart is but too susceptible of the infec- tion. J. Witherspoon. If hell were on one side, and sin on the other, I would rather leap into hell than willingly sin against my God. St. Anslem. Having once sinned, we must sin no more, and having to suffer in consequence of sin, we must bear it patiently. Mary Howitt. Our love of God will inspire us with a detesta- tion for sin, as what is of all things most contrary to His divine nature. Swift. As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that went before it. Sir T. Browne. When we think of death, a thousand sins we have trod as worms beneath our feet, rise up against us like flaming SerpentS. Sir W. Scott. Sin is an obstruction in the heart ; an inability to feel and comprehend all that is noble, true, and great, and to take part in the good. Rabbi Ishmael. No man taketh away sins — which the law, though holy, just, and good, could not take away —but He in whom there is no sin. George Eliot. Sin is never at a stay ; if we do not retract from it, we shall advance in it ; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back. I. Barrow. It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown ; the sin lessens as the guilt increases. Schiller. To suppose an agent created, and placed beyond all liability to sin, is to suppose it to be what it is, and not what it is, at one and the same time. A. Bledsoe. Do not think there is no better way of showing your detestation of sin than by reproach orvituper- ation of the fellow-being who has fallen into it. Miss Harriet Farley. Sin is like fire in that it will never die out while it is supplied with suitable fuel ; unpardoned by grace, it will be its own fuel, and burn forever. J. Bate. It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction ; it has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail. H. Ballow. There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities; to such the world would be lenient, as doubtless, heaven is forgiving. Massillom. SIN. The Lord remaineth alone, for no man can be partner with God in forgiving sins ; this office be- longs solely to Christ, who taketh away the sins of the world. St. Ambrose. The first sin robbed heaven of some of its bright- est ornaments, built the great state prison of hell, kindled its first fires, and awakened groans that never end. J. Beawmont. Sin, by its deadly infusions into the soul of man, wastes and eats out the inmate vigor of the Soul, and casts it into such a deep lethargy, as that it is not able to recover itself. J. Smith. All crimes are indeed sins, but not all sins crimes; a sin may be in the thought or secret purpose of a man, of which neither a judge, nor a witness, nor any man, can take notice. T. Hobbes. Sin first is pleasing, then frequent, then habi- tual, then confirmed ; then the man is impenitent, then he is obstinate, then he is resolved never to repent, and then he is ruined. R. Leighton. He that falls into sin is a man, that grieves at it is a saint, that boasteth of it is a devil ; yet some glory in that shame, counting the stains of sin the best complexion of their Souls. T. Fuller. The worst effect of sin is within, and is manifest not in poverty and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit. E. H. Chapin. Many mourn at the death of, and for the death of their children, who never mourn for the sins of their children ; but truly noble was that queen's speech, who said, I had rather see my son die than sin. R. Vemming. The only disturber of men, of families, cities, kingdoms, worlds, is sin ; there is no such trouble, no such traitor to any state, as the willfully wicked man ; no such enemy to the public as the enemy of God. W. Wogan. There is nothing so hard to die as sin ; an atom may kill a giant, a word may break the peace of a nation, a spark burn up a city, but it requires earnest and protracted struggles to destroy sin in the soul. F. W. Thomos. Every act of willful sin tends to deface the moral image of God in the soul, and ruin the best part of his workmanship ; it warps the mind aside from its chief good, and turns the heart away from God and all that is holy. I. Watts. Follow sin by the fruits of it, as by the bloody footsteps, and see what havoc it makes in every place wherever it comes : go to the prisons and see so many malefactors in irons, so many witches in the dungeon ; these are the fruits of sin. T. Hooker. Some voluntary castaways there will always be whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction ; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong. R. Sowthey. & - A A' O S E O U O T A 7" / O AV S. 863 SIN. Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom ; if the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her ; if she sees thy soul, un- seen, or seen too late, with her poison she kills thee; since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation. F. Qwarles. Sin does not only drive us into calamity, but it makes us also impatient, and embitters our spirit in the sufferance ; it cries aloud for vengeance, and so torments men before the time even with such fearful outcries and horrid alarms, that their hell begins before the fire is kindled. Jeremy Taylor. . Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden ; and even then there are holy hours when this angel sleeps, and man comes back and with the innocent eyes of a child looks into his lost paradise again, into the broad gates and rural solitudes of nature. Longfellow. The sins of our youth hastens us to the sins of our age ; and the sins of our age look back upon the follies of our youth ; pride feathers my ambi- tion, and ambition swells my pride ; gluttony is a pander to my lust, and my lust a steward to my gluttony ; sins seldom end where they begin, but run on till they be infinite and innumerable. A. Farimdom. Use sin as it will use you ; spare it not, for it will not spare you ; it is your murderer and the murderer of the whole world : use it therefore as a murderer should be used ; kill it before it kills you ; and though it bring you to the grave, as it did your head, it shall not be able to keep you there. You love not death ; love not the cause of death. R. Baacter. We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell ; the backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins ; there are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has exis- ted in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent ; and all the evil now is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin. J. Howell. There are two classes of sins ; there are some sins by which man crushes, wounds, malevolently injures his brother—those sins which speak of a bad, tyrannical, and selfish heart ; there are other sins by which a man injures himself ; there is a life of reckless indulgence ; there is a career of yielding to ungovernable propensities, which most surely conducts to wretchedness and ruin, but makes a man an object of compassion, rather than of condemnation. F. W. Robertson. Sins of commission may not, perhaps, shock the retrospect of conscience ; we have confessed, mourned, repented, possibly atoned them. Sins of omission, so veiled amidst our hourly emotions — blent, confused, unseen, in the conventional routine of existence—Alas! could these suddenly emerge from their shadow, group together in ser- ried mass and accusing order—alas ! alas ! would not the best of us then start in dismay, and would not the proudest humble himself at the throne of mercy Bulwer. SINNER. Christ is the sinner's refuge. D. Stwart, How sad is the lot of a sinner. J. C. Grot, All men are by nature sinners. St. Augustine, Christ rebukes sin, but invites sinners to come to Him. Thomas Allen. By one man's disobedience many were made sin- IleI’S. J. Wesley. Every one of us is a sinner ; we are men, not gods. Petronius. Sinners shall drink to the dregs the cup of God's wrath. N. Ward. While we hate sin we should try to bring sinners to Christ. J. Knoac. The curse of God is ever terrifying thunder in a sinner's ears. Haweis. A ruler who does not strive to prevent sin among his people, is himself a sinner. Emperor Yao. What abundant glory is brought to God when one sinner turns from the error of his ways Rev. J. Hintom. As a needle in a compass trembles till it settles in the north point, so the heart of a sinner can have no rest but in Christ. Dingley. If you wish to know what a sinner is, he is a young devil; and if you wish to know what a devil is, he is an old sinner. Lorenzo Dow. Every sinner who would know in his own soul Christ's ability to save, must come to Him ; of course not actually, but spiritually. Eyre. We are all sinners one way or another before God ; He knows what our temptations have been, and what strength we have had to resist them. Mary Howitt. There are two sorts of secure sinners ; those who vaunt, it in the confidence of their own righteous- ness, and those who are secure through an insensi- bility of their own wickedness. Bishop E. Hopkins. Christianity instructs us that our first parents became sinners by transgressing the divine com- mand, and that the transgression thus commenced has been perpetuated by their descendants. - H. Winslow. God hates nothing for its own sake but sin ; and for the sake of that “he hates all workers of in- iquity.” Every willful sinner, who adds impeni- tency to his sin, commits “the sin unto death ;” because there is no other condition of pardon al- lowed by the Gospel without true repentance. Stillingfleet. Sinners are like idle swimmers, that go carelessly floating down the stream, rather than exert them- selves to swim against the current and gain the bank : they must reach the sea at last, and when they hear the breakers, and see the foaming crests of the waves, they become alarmed, but it is too late : the stream is now too strong for them, their limbs are benumbed and enervated from want of exertion ; and unfitted and unprepared, they are hurried into the ocean of etermity. D. Williams. 864 D A Y',S CO / / A C O AV. SINCERITY. SINCERITY. Sincerity creates confidence. J. Dwns. One who is very variable cannot be very sincere; º * * * - º to-day's truth is to-morrow's falsehood ; or at least Sincerity is the way to heaven. * it is but a momentary sincerity. Mme. Swetchine. We owe sincerity to friendship. Confucius. We need expect little sincerity or trustworthy & * * * t • aid from him who is convinced that double-dealing Sincerity is the parent of truth. Goldsmith. and deceit are the principles that guide all men in Be sincere in all thy transactions. Tamerlane. their conduct through life. Gwicciardini. Without sincerity praise is but satire. Stanislaws. Perfect sincerity comports only with virtue. - Richter. Sincerity and pure truth in every age still pass Current. Montaigme. Sincerity is the face of the soul, as dissimulation is the mask. Samial-Dwbay. Sincerity is quite as valuable as knowledge, and €Ven. In Ore SO. L. Murray. A habit of sincerity in acknowledging faults is a guard against committing them. G. Brown. Frank sincerity, though no invited guest, is free to all, and brings his welcome with him. Havard. The tongue of the sincere is rooted in his heart ; hypocrisy and deceit have no place in his words. R. Dodsley. Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all con- scientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion. Ramt. I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. T. Carlyle. Where there is the greatest sincerity, there is the greatest humility ; and where the least truth, there is the greatest pride. 4. Nicholson. He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for truth being always consistent with it- Self, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions. J. Beawmont. An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment ; but where the one is want- ing, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other. Sterne. People that are sincere in their errors may be set right : but I know of no means of convincing those who only affect to be wrong, except giving them offices. G. P. Morris. Sincerity is an openness of heart ; it is found in a very few people, and that which we see com- monly is not it, but a subtle dissimulation, to gain the confidence of others. Rochefowcawld. The sincerity of a true religious principle cannot be better known than by the readiness with which the thoughts advert to God, and the pleasure with which they are employed in devout exercises. t J. Mason. Sincerity and plain dealing are conducive to the interest of mankind at large, because they afford that ground of confidence and reasonable expecta- tion which are essential to wisdom and virtue. W. Godwin. The more sincere you are, the better it will fare with you at the great day of account ; in the mean- while give us leave to be sincere too in condemning heartily what we heartily disapprove. Waterland. Nothing can be more offensive to one of a sincere heart, than he that blows with a different breath from the same mouth ; who flatters a man to his face, and reviles him behind his back. S. Croacall. Sincerity should be the pruning-knife of friend- ship, and not the monster Scythe of an unfeeling rudeness, which for one weed that it eradicates, mows down a dozen of those tender flowers which bloom only on our affections. C. W. Day. The sincerity of a true man so pervades his whole spirit and beautifies his language, that his society is the most attractive ; his speech the most forci- ble ; and his influence the most benign ; let us de- velop and enforce these three points. Magoon. Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom, and an excellent instrument for the speedy dispatch of business; it creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words; it is like travelling in a plain beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's ends than bye- ways, in which men often lose themselves. Tillotson. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy mature, and live but one man. To single hearts doubling is dis- cruciating ; such tempers must sweat to dissemble, and prove but hypocritical hypocrites. Simulation must be short ; men do not easily continue a coun- terfeiting life, or dissemble unto death ; and there- fore, since sincerity is thy temper, let veracity be thy virtue, in words, manners, and actions. Sir T. Browne. Sincerity and honesty carries one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through : for nothing doth a man more real mischief in the world than to be sus- pected of too much craft ; because every one stands upon his guard against him, and suspects plots and designs where there are none intended ; insomuch that though he speaks with all the sincerity that is possible, yet nothing he saith can be believed. Stillingfleet. Sincerity is an inspirer of genius, a sanctifier of its actions; it enables one to look out so calmly upon the storm as if eyes of love looked at us through the black cloud : as if some lips of heaven kissed off the tears from our cheeks, and the hand of God lay quiet on our breast to soothe the chafed and injured heart. There is something so sweet in sincerity I wish all men had it : I wish all men to succeed, and there can be no success without sincerity. C. C. Burr. SDR Vºl TER SGOT, A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. S65 SINGING. Singing is the music of heaven. T. Wells. It is beautiful that I can sing so. Jenny Lind. Singing is all we know they do above. E. Waller. Singing is one preparation for heaven. Bevan. Singing to God is a direct act of worship. A. Barmes. The voice of man is no less adapted to singing than it is to speaking. Acton. Singing on earth is an accomplishment we can carry with us to heaven. Maria L. Pizzoli. The power of singing has not been sufficiently considered as one of the Creator's gifts to His crea- tures, intended to be used to His glory. Melvill. Young voices around the domestic altar, singing sacred music at the hour of morning and evening devotion, are a sweet and touching accompani- ment. R. Irvine. Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will take all the rest of the day. O. S. Fowler. In proportion as men become civilized their sing- ing advances to perfection, and that which was at first an accent of passion, only becomes at length the result of art. Fetis. There is something exceedingly thrilling in the voices of children singing ; though their music be unskillful, yet it finds its way to the heart with wonderful alacrity. Longfellow. The use of simple and plain singing is very great in churches ; for this stirs up the mind with a cer- tain pleasure unto an ardent desire of that which is celebrated in the song, and appeases the desires and affections of the flesh. Justin Martyr. Some of the early legislators wrote their laws in verse, and sang them in public places ; and many of the earliest sketches of primitive history are in the measures of lyric poetry. In this manner the memory was aided in retaining the facts; the ear was invited to attend to them ; imagination threw around them the drapery of beauty, dignity, or power. J. B. Walker. When the Almighty endowed the human voice with sweetness, compass, flexibility, and power to sing, and made it capable of giving expression to every emotion of the heart, uniting all in beaute- ous harmony, can we doubt that by cultivating the powers thus bestowed, we are not only best consult- ing our own happiness, but rendering to their Giver the acceptable tribute of obedience 3 Taylor. Unless you have singing in the family and sing- ing in the house, singing everywhere, until it be- comes a habit, you never can have congregational singing ; it will be the cold drops, half water, half ice, which drip in March from some cleft of a rock, One drop here and another drop there ; whereas it should be like the August shower, which comes ten million drops at once, and roars on the roof. H. W. Beecher. SINGUI.A.RITY. Singularity may be either good or bad. Crabb. It is very commendable to be singular in any excellency. Tillotson. He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affection. Feltham. Let those who would affect singularity with suc- cess first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular. Coltom. Every man of sense will agree with me, that sin- gularity is laudable when, in contradiction to a multitude, it adheres to the dictates of conscience, morality, and honor. Addison. The love of singularity proceeds from a restless mind, possessing some portion of genius and a large portion of vanity , it prefers novelties to truths, and aims at being distinguished for its talent rather than its deserts. º J. Logan. SISTER. A sister's virtue is a brother's honor. Addison. What is so disinterested as a sister's love 2 Goethe, The sister refines and softens the harsher II].8,Y]- ners and feelings of the brother. J. Iredell. Have you a sister ? Then love and cherish her with all that pure and holy friendship which ren- ders a brother so worthy and noble. Mrs. S. S. Ellis. He who has never known a sister's kind minis- tration, nor felt his heart warming beneath her endearing smile and love-beaming eye, has been unfortunate indeed. Dickens. What more pleasing than to see the elder sister extending an almost maternal care over her young brothers; or the brother tenderly watchful of the happiness of his sisters ? BI. Winslow. How strong, how sweet, how sacred is the tie that binds an only sister to an only brother, when they have been permitted to grow up together, untrammelled by the heartless forms of fashion, unrivalled by alien claimants in their confiding affection, undivided in study, in sport, and in in- terest. Charlotte Elizabeth Tomma. SITUATION. A man makes his own situation. J. Reid. The man who has a character of his own is little changed by varying his situation. Mrs. Montaigne. Whatever situation in life you wish for yourself, acquire a clear idea of its inconveniences. C. Ilsley. There is no situation, however humble, the which to fill to perfection does not argue superiority of character. W. N. St. Leger. Situations are like skeins of thread or silk : to make the most of them, we need only to take them by the right end. Mme. Swetchine. A man should scrupulously avoid placing himself in contemptible or ridiculous situations ; however wise and judicious his eccentricity of choice may seem to himself, a decent respect to the wisdom of others must be regarded. N. Macdonald. 55 866 AD A Y’.S CO /, / A C O AV. SKILL. - SLANDER. Skill proves the man. Dr. C. Knowlton. Slander gains no love. Mukla. Skill can imitate mature. Oliver of Malmesbury. A true believer never slanders. Al-Ahmaf. Let skill be wedded to patience. W. Kempelem. He who lacks strength must attain his purpose by skill. Sir W. Scott. In works of skill the most skillful should have preference. S. W. Fullom. He who professes skill yet wants skill, is liable for injuries. J. Bowvier. Skill is cleverness improved by practice, and ex- tended by knowledge. G. Crabb. It is not the profession that honoreth man, but the skill with which he practiseth it. Arnulphus. Our skill is not shown in winning the game with good cards, but to make the best of whatever cards are placed in our hands. G. Forstem". To accomplish some lofty object, skill and judg- ment may lend their aid ; but skill and judgment are both vain, if heaven be not our friend. Metastasio. Omnipotent skill is stamped on the infinitely small, as on the infinitely great ; it is a moral stenography like this which we need in daily life. T. S. King. By far the most valuable possession of all to all men for life is skill ; both war and the chances of fortune destroy other things, but skill is preserved. Hipparchws. The most skillful and discreet are subject to as great oversights as the simpler and less wise, only more plausible excuses and palliations are assigned for them by themselves and others. Acton. The woodman is superior by knowledge of his art rather than by strength ; the pilot guides the swift ship in the dark-blue Sea by skill, when it is tempest-tossed ; the charioteer is superior to his rival by his skill. Homer. SEY The sky is the shadow of eternity. J. Eliot. The sky is full of tokens which speak to the in- telligent. Hugh Miller. The sky will not fall, nor a single star be shaken from its sphere. Robert Winthrop. What finer object can be presented to our sight than a clear and serene sky Stwºrm. If the frame of the heavenly sky erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself, what would become of man Ż The tradesman comes out of the din and craft of the street, and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again ; in their eternal calm he finds himself. R. W. Emerson. Glorious temple ! Pillared upon the perpetual hills and mountains, and canopied by the lustrous and enduring skies . The trees and verdure are thy stately and graceful devices and ornaments. and the clouds the vapory and shifting mosaics of thy over-arching dome. Acton. R. Hooker. Slander will not stick on honesty. Publius Syrws. Slander is the solace of malignity. Jowbert. A willful slanderer deserves no pardon. Cyrus. Slander expires at a good woman's door. Ewald. A Brahmin should abstain from slander. Menu. There is no cure against a slanderer's bite. Salis. Slander I slander some of it always sticks. Dw Lorens. Though all the world do not believe slander, a part of it will. Rabbi Eleazar. If slander be a snake, it is a winged one ; it flies as well as creeps. D. Jerrold. Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimu- lation his defense. Dr. Johnson. Where it concerns itself, who is angry at a slan- der makes it true. - Ben Jonson. If men speak ill of you, so live that no one will believe their slanders. Chrysippus. We far more often slander our neighbor from vanity than from malice. Rochefoucauld. They that slander the dead are like envious dogs that bark and bite at bones. Zemo. Slanderers in ancient times have been marked in the forehead with a hot iron. Samuel Wesley. If you resist temptation, do not assure yourself that you shall escape slander. Saadi. The slander of some people is as great a recom- mendation as the praise of others. Fielding. Slanderers are like flies, that leap over all a man's good parts to light only upon his sores. Tillotson. Slander meets no regard from noble minds ; only the base believe what the base only utter. J. Bellers. Every one bears a ready evil tongue against a stranger, and to speak slander is an easy thing. AEschylus. A slanderer is like a hornet : if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, you better not strike at it. H. W. Shaw. The proper way to check slander is to despise it : attempt to overtake and refute it, and it will out- run you. A. Dwmas. Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, both in the slanderer and in the person who listens to it. St. Bernard. Slander soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive. Confucius. I never found a slanderer, who dared to meet face to face, the person whom he abused and vili- fied when absent. J. Bartlett. A R O S / O U O Z' A 7" / O M S. 867 SLANDER. Slanders issuing from red and beautiful lips, are like foul and ugly spiders crawling from the blush- ing heart of a rose. G. D. Prentice. A slanderer cannot succeed if he has not gained a reputation for abhorring slander, as a crime of which he is incapable. Pascal. Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow, wounding both him that commits and him against whom it is committed. Sawrim. When the tongue of slander stings thee, let this be thy comfort—they are not the worst fruits on which the wasps alight. Bürger. Slander, like the pestilence, which rages at noon- day, sweeps all before it, levelling without distinc- tion the good and the bad. Sterme. Believe no slander but on good authority ; nor re- port what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to another to conceal it. W. Pemºn, Whoever lends a greedy ear to a slanderous re- port, is either himself of a radically bad disposi- tion, or a mere child in sense. Memonder. Slander is a secret propensity of the mind to think ill of men, and afterwards to utter such sen- timents in Scandalous expressions. Theophrastws. The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as we usually find that to be the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at. Swift. The slanderer does harm to three persons at once; to him of whom he says the ill, to him to whom he says it, and most of all to himself in saying it. - St. Basil. Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slan- der, by my good will, should all be hanged—the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears. Plawtºws. We should no less hate to tell, than to hear slam- ders; if we cannot stop others' mouths, let us stop our own ears ; the receiver is as bad as the thief. Henshaw. Mem and women propagate slander under the cover of secrecy, supposing that, by uttering it un- der this injunction, the guilt is of course removed. F. Wayland. We ought not to be dejected by the slanders and calumnies of bad men ; because our integrity will be declared by Him who cannot err in judgment. R. Nelson. There is no protection against slander ; let us pay no attention to these foolish prattlers ; let us try to live in innocence, and allow the world to talk. Molière. Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good will ; but as he dis- covereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn. Socrates. In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured par- ties should have a right to come on any of the in- dorsers. R. B. Sheridan. SLANDER. What indulgence does the world extend to those evil-speakers who, under the mask of friendship, stab indiscriminately with the keen, though rusty blade of slander | Mme. Roland. To be continually subject to the breath of slam- der will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant ex- posure to the atmosphere will obscure the bright- ness of the finest gold ; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same. Coltom. Slanderers are at all events economical, for they make a little scandal go a great way, and rarely open their mouths, except at the expense of Other people ; we must allow that they have good excuse for being defamatory, if it be their object to bring down others to their level. Chatfield. A tendency to slander destroys innocent cheer- fulness, and marks even the countenance with mal- evolence ; the satisfaction which it brings is mor- bid, and betokens internal disease ; to imagine more evil than meets the eye betrays affinity for it, and to delight to deepen that which forces itself on our observation, marks a fearful degree of moral disease. Mrs. Sigourmey. In the drop of venom which distils from the sting of the smallest insect, or the spikes of the nettle-leaf, there is concentrated the quintessence of a poison so subtile that the microscope cannot distinguish it, and yet so virulent that it can in- flame the blood, irritate the whole constitution and convert day and night into restless misery ; so it is with the words of the slanderer. F. W. Robertson. The tongue of the slanderer is a devouring fire, which tarnishes whatever it touches ; which exer- cises its fury on the good grain, equally as on the chaff; on the profane, as on the sacred ; which, wherever it passes, leaves only desolation and ruin ; digs even into the bowels of the earth, and fixes itself on things the most hidden ; turns into vile ashes, what only a moment before, had ap- peared to us so precious and brilliant ; acts with more violence and danger than ever, in the time when it was apparently smothered up and almost extinct ; which blackens what it cannot consume, and sometimes sparkles and delights before it des- troys. Massillon. SLAUGHTER,. Slaughter is the policy of a tyrant. J. Bright. A small slaughter may prevent a great One. Tiberiws. A true soldier never bends his sword to cruel slaughter. Lord Raglan. The slaughter of mankind amounts to upwards of seventy times the number of Souls this day on the globe. - Burke. Death is not punishment enough for a prince who sends his subjects to slaughter, when there is no occasion for war. Confucius. If violent measures, slaughter, and bloodshed are necessary to maintain my greatness, I will resign the Protectorate, which is but a burden to me. Let not one drop of blood be shed. R. Cromwell. 868 JD A Y’.S CO / / A C O AV. SLAVERY. SLAVERY, A slave is but half a mam. Aristophanes. Not only does the Christian religion, but mature , — - herself, cry out against the state of slavery. Slavery or liberty must die. O. Lovejoy. Pope Leo X. Nature made no man a slave. Alcidamas. Slavery impairs our strength as a community, *-*ms- and poisons our morals at the fountain head. Slavery is a system of outrage. Socrates. W. Gastom. Stop the inhuman traffic in slaves. H. M. Stanley. Slavery is the sum of all villanies. J. Wesley. We love freedom, we hate slavery. H. R. Helper. I hate slavery, though the chains be of gold. Mºme, Fonseca. Slavery is detrimental to virtue and industry. Beattie. Slavery is a system of the most complete injus- tice. Plato. What are blessings in freedom are curses in sla- very. J. A. James. Slavery is an atrocious debasement of human nature. Franklin. No country is wretched until it consents to its slavery. Jane Porter. Slavery and mental bondage make men base and cowardly. Rºrwmºmacher. Slavery is the bane of man and the abomination of heaven. N. P. Tallmadge. Slavery is bad for the slave, but far worse for the master. F. Granger. It is injustice to permit slavery to remain for a single hour. W. Pitt. Slavery is contrary to the fundamental law of all societies. Montesqview. It is a horrible crime to sell persons of free con- dition as slaves. Abdal-Atiph. Slavery cannot exist where there is no positive law to uphold it. Greene C. Bronson. Slavery is a continual and permanent violation of human rights. D. Webster. Whenever a slave shall enter Hawaiian terri- tory, he shall be free. Kamehameha V. He that is brought up a slave, will be a tyrant when he has the power. F. Marryatt. It is a dire calamity to have a slave ; it is an in- expiable curse to be one. W. S. Landor. Slavery is so odious that nothing can be sufficient to support it but positive law. E. D. Mansfield. Whenever a slave becomes a true believer in Ma- homet he is at once declared free. Ahmed Bahador. No one is a greater slave than the man who con- siders himself free without being so. Goethe. The unavoidable tendency of slavery every- where is to render labor disreputable. T. Ewbank. Slavery brutalizes man ; it makes a brute not merely of the slave, but of the slave-holder. C. L. Remond. The right of the Caucasian to hold in slavery an inferior race, bears the signet of Divine authority. J. T. Morgan. I envy neither the heart nor the head of that man who rises here to defend slavery from princi- ple. J. Ramdolph. A people who have been enslaved and oppressed for Some years, are most grateful to their libera- tors. Lord Macawlay. Slavery and the slave-trade ought to be abol- ished, because they are inconsistent with the will of God. Bishop T. Burgess. Slavery, in all its forms, in all its degrees, is a violation of Divine law, and a degradation of human nature. Brissot. There is an alacrity in a consciousness of free- dom, and a gloomy, Sullen insolence, in a conscious- ness of slavery. Feltham. It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion, to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery. Patrick Henry. God pardon the man who, in this year of grace, should think that a project to defend slavery could be crowned with success. R. Cobden. One thing brings shame to slaves—the name : in everything else the slave is nothing worse than the free-born, if he be virtuous. Euripides. Slavery is not only opposed to all the principles of morality, but is pregnant with appalling and inevitable danger to the republic. Hwºn boldt. It perverts human reason, and induces men en- dowed with logical powers to maintain that slavery is sanctioned by the Christian religion. J. Q. Adams. Any man claiming to be a Christian, and yet dares to hold his fellow-man in slavery, is recreamt to all the principles and obligations of Christianity. W. L. Garrison. When the entire abolition of slavery takes place, it will be an event which must be pleasing to every generous mind, and every friend of human nature. J. Iredell. Though a man be a slave, he is the same flesh as thyself; for no one has ever been born a slave by nature ; but fortune subjected his body to servi- tude. Philemon. The law which supports slavery and opposes liberty must necessarily be condemned as cruel; for every feeling of human nature advocates li- berty. Sir J. Fortescue. Slavery is inconsistent with the genius of repub- licanism ; it lessens the sense of the equal rights of mankind, and habituates us to tyranny and op- pression. Lºwther. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 869 SLAVERY. I regard slavery as a great moral, social, and religious blessing—a blessing to the slave, a bless- ing to his master. Albert G. Brown. Slavery is the natural, the proper condition of the African—one that is advantageous to his mas- ter, and a great blessing to him. Featherston. I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to See a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery. Washington. Slavery is in reality a political institution, essen- tial to the peace, safety, and prosperity of those states of the Union in which it exists. Calhown. The abolition of domestic slavery is the greatest object of desire in these colonies, where it was un- happily introduced in their infant state. Jefferson. The foundations of the government are laid and rest on the rights of property in slaves, and the whole structure must fall by disturbing the corner Stone. Judge Baldwim. Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king ; no more power to institute or establish slavery than to institute or establish a monarchy. Buffalo Platform. Slavery, however easy may be its chains, cannot be altogether divested of its bitterness, and can only be regarded as the prison of the soul, and a public dungeon. Longinus. To inflict slavery and taxation upon those who are to come after us, is an exhibition of fraud, in- humanity, and cowardice, at which every honor- able feeling revolts. S. Young. A people used to labor moderately for their liv- ing, training up their children in frugality and business, have a happier life than those who live on the labor of slaves. J. Woolman. It is not easy to find noble sentiments in a state where all are slaves; thought freely expressed is not always free, and sometimes even baseness clothes itself in feigned boldness. Alfieri. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery ! still thou art a bitter draught ; and though thousands in all ages have been made to drink of thee, thou art no less bitter on that account. Sterne, Slavery is an infringement of two laws—of Di- vine law which proclaims the equality of human nature before God, and of human law which de- clares an equality of political rights. A. Brisbane. The Christian religion is opposed to slavery in its spirit and in its principle ; it classes men stealers among murderers of fathers and of mothers, and the most profane criminals upon earth. Portews. I care not what caste, creed, or color slavery may assume, whether it may be personal or politi- cal, mental or corporal, intellectual or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total, abolition. D. O'Connell. There is nothing more painful than dishonor, nothing more vile than slavery ; we have been born for the enjoyment of honor and liberty ; let us either retain these or die with dignity. Cicero. ST, AVERY. The history of nations, doomed to perpetual sla- very, in consequence of yielding up to tyrants their natural-born liberties, I read with a sort of philo- Sophical horror. Ethan Allam. Looking through the pages of that sacred book from Genesis to Apocalypse, I find an exhortation to every virtue, and a rebuke for every sin ; but I nowhere find a condemnation of the slaveholder. Bocock. That domestic slavery neither enfeebles nor de- teriorates our race, that it is not inconsistent with the highest advancement of man and Society, is the lesson taught by all ancient and modern his- tory. Robert Toombs. African slavery is an adjustment of the social and political relations of the races, consistent with the purest justice, commended by the highest ex- pediency, and sanctioned by a comprehensive and enlightened humanity. James P. Holcombe. A state of slavery, with whatever seeming gran- deur and happiness it may be attended, is yet so precarious a thing, that he must want Sense, honor, courage, and all manner of virtue, who can endure to prefer it in his choice. S. Croacall. Death is natural to a man, but slavery unna- tural ; and the moment you strip a man of his liberty, you strip him of all his virtues ; you con- vert his heart into a dark hole, in which all the vices conspire against you. Burke. If slavery be a man's fate, great is the advantage of having masters of long-established opulence ; for they who have reaped a rich harvest unex- pectedly are harsh to their slaves in all things, and go beyond the line of right. AEschylus. There are some people whose sympathies have been excited upon the subject of slavery, who, if they can only be satisfied that the slaves have enough to eat, think it all very well, and that nothing more is to be said or dome. R. Hildreth. It is not by the debasement of an enslaved people that we ought to judge of the natural dispositions of man for or against slavery, but by the prodi- gious efforts that all free people have made to secure themselves from oppression. RowsSeaw. Slavery and freedom, if immoderate, are each of them an evil ; if moderate, they are altogether a good ; moderate is the slavery to a god, but im- moderate, to men ; God is a law to the men of sense, but pleasure is a law to a fool. Plato, God, who made earth’s iron, would create no slave; therefore he gave the sword and the spear for man's right hand; He imbued him with cour- age, and lent accents of wrath to freedom's voice, that he might maintain the feud till death. Arndt. A slave-holding Christianity is a forgery and falsehood, a corruption of religion, a defiance of the living God, a libel upon the gospel, and a per- version of it for the sanction and protection of some of the worst forms of human wickedness and misery. G. B. Cheever. 87 () JD A Y 'S CO Z, Z 4 C O AV. SLAVER.Y. SLEEP. No matter with what solemnities he may have He who sleeps, dines. 4. Dwmas. been devoted upon the altar of slavery, the mo- . . --- ment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar Death is the master of sleep. Talmud. and the god sink together in the dust, and he stands tº e ſº redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the Sleep is the twin brother of death. Tegner. irresistible genius of universal emancipation. The more we sleep the less we live. Feyjoo. J. P. Cwm'ram. Slavery discourages arts and manufactures ; the poor despise labor when performed by slaves; they prevent the emigration of whites who really enrich and strengthen a country ; they produce the most pernicious effect on manners. Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant ; they bring the judg- ment of Heaven on a country. G. Mason. The weight of chains, number of stripes, hard- ness of labor, and other effects of a master's cruel- ty, may make one servitude more miserable than another ; but he is a slave who serves the best and gentlest man in the world, as well as he who serves the worst ; and he does serve him if he must obey his commands, and depend upon his will. A. Sidney. What can the utmost humanity of the master do for the slave 3 He may feed him well, clothe him well, work him moderately ; but nothing that the master can do for his slave, short of manumis- sion, can reinstate him in the condition of man : without this, he is not in the condition of man, he is nothing better than a well-kept horse. Horsley. Domestic slavery proceeds upon the principle that the master has a right to control the actions, physical and intellectual, of the slave, for his own, that is the master's, individual benefit ; and of course that the happiness of the master, when it comes in competition with the happiness of the slave, extinguishes in the latter the right to pursue it. F. Wayland. Independence is the birth-right of man, and that which each of us ought to cherish beyond all earthly possessions ; I will tell you what a slave is: a slave is he who watches with abject spirit the eye of an- other ; he waits timidly till another man shall have told him whether he is to be happy or miser- able to-day ; his comforts and his peace depend on the breath of another's mouth. W. Godwin. Do you ask me whether I would help a slave to gain his freedom ? I answer, I would help him with heart, and hand, and voice : I would do for him what I shall wish I had done, when, having lost his dusky skin and blossomed into the light of eternity, he and I shall stand before our Master, who will say, Inasmuch as ye did it unto him, slave as he was, ye did it unto me. H. W. Beecher. There is no power out of the church that could sustain slavery an hour if it were not sustained in it ; not a blow need be struck, not an unkind word need be uttered ; no man's motive need be im- pugned, no man's proper rights invaded ; all that is needful is, for each Christian man, and for every Christian church, to stand up in the sacred majesty of such a solemn testimony, to free themselves from all connection with the evil, and utter a calm and deliberate voice to the world, and the work will be done. A. Barnes. Some must sleep while others watch. Wakatawki. There will be sleep enough in the grave. Franklin. Sleep often flees from a monarch's eyes. Charles XI of Sweden. To sleep too much is as bad as not to sleep enough. Cazenave. Too much sleep degradeth the mind of the wise. Al-Hajjaj. A sleeping beggar is just as happy as a sleeping king. J. Limen. Deep is the sleep of the dead, low their pillow of dust. Ossian. One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after. Fielding. In sleep come dreams by which the prophet fore- sees the future. Achmet. We wake, rise, dress, and go out ; dine, Sup, go to bed, and sleep. A. de Piis. Excess of sorrow is forgotten in sleep, that balmy blessing of nature. Goethe. God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed. Saadi. Sleep is life's nurse, sent from heaven to create us anew day by day. C. Reade. The soul in sleep, above all other times, gives proofs of its Divine nature. Cicero. Sleep dispels our chargrin more gently and more infallibly than a book of morals. St. Pierre. Refreshing sleep seals up our eyelids in calm re- pose, and ministers to real enjoyment. M. M. Noah. Sleep has its good and bad habits, like the active life of which it is the counterpart and repose. Acton. In sleep we dream ; the lawyer pleads, makes laws; the soldier fights his battles over again. Lºwcretivs. Rind sleep affords the only boon the wretched mind can feel ; a momentary respite from despair. A. Murphy. When the wicked cannot sleep from the stings of conscience, it is because the furies pursue them. Rufus. Sleep is death's youngest brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers. Sir T. Browne. When we are asleep, joy and sorrow give us more vigorous sensations of pain or pleasure than at any Other time. Addison. In a sound sleep, the soul goes home to recruit her strength, which could not less endure the wear and tear of life. Rahel. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. S 7 I SLEEP. Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest coun- try cottages. A. Cowley. The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wound ; sleep is the half of time which heals us. Richter. Sleep brings dreams ; and dreams are often most vivid and fantastical, before we have yet been wholly lost in slumber. R. M. Bird. It is a shame when the church itself is a cemete- rium, wherein the living sleep above the ground as the dead do beneath. T. Fuller. Sleep, the type of death, is also like that which typifies, restricted to the earth ; it flies from hell, and is excluded from heaven. Colton. Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep. Tupper. If our sense of hearing was exalted, we should have no quiet or sleep in the silentest nights, and we must inevitably be stricken deaf or dead with a clap of thunder. R. Bentley. There is a kind of sleep which steals upon us some- times, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enables it to ramble as it pleases. Dickens. Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eyes to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle ; since the head during that laziness is commonly a cage for unclean thoughts. F. Osborn. Even sleep is characteristic. How charming are children in their lovely innocence . How angel- like their blooming hue ! How painful and anxi- Ous is the sleep and expression in the countenance of the guilty Hwmboldt. Some noises help sleep, as the blowing of the wind, and the trickling of water; they move a gentle attention ; and whatsoever moveth atten- tion, without too much labor, stilleth the natural and discursive motion of the spirits. Lord Bacon. Sleep, when it is profound, sometimes rocks even dreams themselves asleep, but our awaking is never so spritely that it does rightly, and as it should, purge and dissipate those ravings and whimsies which are waking dreams, and worse than dreams. Montaigne. There are many ways of inducing sleep—the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckon- ing of numbers ; droppings from a wet sponge, fixed over a brass pan, etc.; but temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these suc- cedaneums. Sterne. What is the difference between the rich and poor during the hours of sleep 3 Whatever inequalities there may be in the wakeful hours, in the hours of slumber they are alike ; if, however, there is a difference, it is mostly in favor of the poor, their sleep being sounder and sweeter than the rich ; and how much of human life passes away in sleep. J. Bate. SLEEP. Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command ; for there cometh the day to all when “neither the voice of the lute nor the birds” shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews. Bulwer. Sleep is so like death that Idare not trust myself to it without prayer ; and their resemblance is, in- deed, striking and apparent ; they both, when they seize the body, leave the soul at liberty ; and wise is he that remembers of both, that they can be made safe and happy only by virtue. Temple. What sleep is to the individual, death is to the will as a thing in itself. Man could not continue for an etermity the same bustling habits and anx- ious scenes, without any gain from them, if his memory and individuality continued to exist; he throws them behind him, and refreshed by this death-sleep, and endued with another intellect, he steps out a new being ; “a new day calls him to new shores.” Schopenhaufer. One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feel- ings are delusions ; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep—as a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another. Pascal. Blessings light on Him that first invented sleep ! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak ; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot ; in short, money that buys everything, balance and weights that make the shepherd equal to the mon- arch, and the fool to the wise ; there is only one evil in sleep, as I have heard, and it is that it re- sembleth death, since between a dead and sleeping man there is but little difference. Cervantes. To sleep—there is a drowsy mellifluence in the very word that would almost serve to interpret its meaning—to shut up the senses and hoodwink the soul : to dismiss the world ; to escape from one's self ; to be in ignorance of our own existence ; to stagnate upon the earth, just breathing out the hours, not living them,-‘‘doing no mischief, only dreaming of it ;” neither merry nor melancholy, something betwen both, and better than either; best friend of frail humanity, and like all other friends, it is best estimated in its loss. Longfellow. It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past: the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful ; the labor of the day is gone. A gentle failure of the percep- tions creeps over you ; the spirit of consciousness disengages itself once more, and with a slow and hushing degrees, like a mother detaching her hand from that of a sleeping child, the mind seems to have a balmy lid closing over it, like the eye—it is closed—the mysterious spirit has gone to take its airy rounds. Leigh Hunt. 872 AD A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. SLOTH. SLOVENLINESS. Be not slothful. Pittacws. Slovenliness is a token of a bad nature. Bias. Give not way to sloth. Ptah-Hotep. Slovenliness and indelicacy of character com- - ... — - monly go hand in hand. L. Murray. Sloth is the devil's cushion. Origem. -*- --- Some married people have a natural tendency Sloth is the key to poverty. La Nove. to slovenliness, which for this reason is all the more inst. Bovee. Sloth is the rust of the soul. M. Feyjoo. carefully to be guarded against * –– Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a Sloth is the beginning of vice. Mothe. man's own person, whereby he becomes So Sordid Sloth is but a step-mother of wisdom. Amacharsis. Sloth is a corrupter of human nature. Queen Mary. A slothful man begins to work when others have finished. Wakatawki. Sloth has prevented as many vices in some minds, as virtue in others. Colton. Sloth or unsteadiness causes men to lose the fruit of the best beginnings. Bruyère. Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties, the sluggard is a living insensible. Zimmerman. Glory is never the reward of sloth ; great deeds are only achieved by great exertions. H. Cortez. Most worthless is the man that is slothful ; most detestably do I hate that kind of man. Plaw.tws. So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cool indifference, that we seldom overcome so much as One evil habit. T. d. Kempis. As sloth seldom bringeth actions to good birth : SO hasty rashness always makes them abortive ere well-formed. A. Warwick. Sloth loseth time, dullethunderstanding, nourish- eth humors, choketh the brain, hinders thrift, and displeaseth God. Galem. Sloth is a perfect deadness of the soul ; if there is any happiness in it, it is purely of a negative, tor- pid, sensual kind. Acton. The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is to- tally given up to his senses. L'Estrange. Sloth is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness ; people that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. J. Collier. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy ; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. Franklin. Sloth is a most pernicious mistress; she smiles, soothes, seduces, and caresses; but finally destroys every one who yields to her blandishments. F. Marryatt. The slothful man is a burden to himself ; his hours hang heavy on his hands ; he would eat of the almond, but hateth the trouble of breaking the shell. R. Dodsley. No One has become immortal by sloth, nor has any parent prayed that their children should live forever ; but rather that they should lead an hon- orable and upright life. Sallwst. as to be offensive to those about him. Theophrastus. Slovenliness is the worst sign of a hard student, and civility the best exercise of the remiss; yet it is best not to be exact in the phrase of compli- ment, or gestures of courtesy. Sir H. Wottom. SLYINESS. Slyness is the froth of wit. E. P. Day. The fox is sly, yet he is caught. Pope Celestine V. Envy works in a sly, imperceptible manner. I. Watts. Slyness is useful to get power, boldness to main- tain it. Pope Boniface VIII. Sly knavery is sometimes too hard for honest wisdom. Sir J. Mackintosh. Slyness is a vulgar kind of cunning ; the sly man goes cautiously and silently to work. G. Crabb. If a man may gain some advantage slily or with- out danger to himself, though with infinite detri- ment to all the world beside, he will act wisely to embrace it. C. Richardson. SIMIETILING. Sweet is the smell of a dead enemy. Vitelius. We hate a bad smell ; we love what is beautiful. Confucius. I would rather smell of nothing than of scents. Martial. The sense of smelling is not one for pleasure, but profit. Pierre d’Ortigwe. The daintiest smells of flowers are out of those plants whose leaves Smell not. Lord Bacon. Smelling often makes us miserable, but only by way of warning ; what the nose detests the feet should flee from. Mary K. Dallas. Smelling, though highly useful to man, could probably be dispensed with, more easily than any Other of the five senses. R. Bolton. Among mankind the sense of smell is less perfect than among most animals, for with them it is some- times their principal instinctive organ. Cazenave. There is a great varity of smells, though we have but a few names for them ; the smell of a violet and of music, both sweet, are as distinct as any two smells. J. Locke. There is scarcely any sense the degree of perfec- tion of which varies so much in different indivi- duals as that of smell, some being painfully alive to those odorous influences which are not even per- ceived by others. W. T. Brande. P & O S E O & O 7' 4 7/ o A. S. SMILE. Nothing on earth can smile but man Beecher. A smile is the advertisement of a laugh. Amstey. One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. Shakspeare. Smiles are much more becoming than frowns. J. Collier, The smiles of beauty are the tears of the purse. Ruffini. If laughter is the daylight of the soul, a smile is its twilight. B. Brandreth. A cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm. Mrs. Sigowrmey. The smiles of infants are said to be the first fruits of human reason. H. N. Hudson. A man of parts and fashion is only seen to Smile, but never heard to laugh. Chesterfield. There are hours in life when a smile pains us more than a thousand tears and reproaches would have done. Emily Carlem. There cannot be a pleasant smile upon the lips of the hopeless ; the blow that crushes the life will shatter the smile. - A. Reed. Nothing is so beautiful as the smile of a counte- mance habitually melancholy ; like a gloomy day, it is irradiated by a sudden burst of sunshine. G. P. Morris. A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without its dew 2 The tear is rendered by the smile pre- cious above the Smile itself. W. S. Landor. What a sight there is in the word “smile !” It changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an af- fected smile ; but above all, a Smile of love. Halibwºrton. Smiles are powerful orators, and may convey, though in silence, matters of great signification to the heart ; but they may also lead a lover into a fool's paradise ; for there are many who, if they do but see a fair maid laugh, or show a pleasant countenance, immediately fancy it a favor, be- stowed peculiarly on themselves. R. Burton. There are many kinds of Smiles, each having a distinct character ; some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride ; some soften the countenance by their lan- guishing tenderness, others brighten by their spirit- ual vivacity. A beautiful Smile is to the female countenance what the Sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly OIlê. Lavater. Which will you do—smile, and make others hap- py, or be crabbed, and make every one around you miserable % The amount of happiness you can pro- duce is incalculable if you show a smiling face, and Speak pleasant words: there is no joy like that which springs from a kind act or pleasant deed, and you may feel it at night when you rest, and at morning when you rise, and through all the day when about your business. Marie d'Agow.lt. as by the practice of vicious habits. SMOECING. Do not smoke. Rev. J. Todd. Learn to smoke slow. Punch. Smoking disposes to idleness. Dr. Rush. Smoking is a waste of money. Matilda Fletcher. Smoking is a loathsome vanity. J. Sylvester. Smoking dries and damages the brain. W. Bent. Also beware J. Hope. Beware of a villian who smokes | of a villiam who does not smoke There is a certain relish in the smoking of to- bacco, which only smokers can know. Robertson. Smoking injures health, impairs memory, and often leads to intemperance and poverty. I. Reed. Smoking renders the nerves of the throat and stomach convulsive, and throws the whole nervous mechanism into disorder. Gwido. A man that marries a widow is bound to give up smoking and chewing ; if she gives up her weeds for him, he should give up the weed for her. G. D. Prentice. There is a certain indefinable link between smok- ing and philosophy; there is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe ; the savage warriors of North America enjoyed the blessing before we did ; and to the pipe is to be ascribed the wisdom of their councils, and the la- conic delivery of their sentiments. F. Marryatt. Blessings on the first smoker ; if he were a North American, and I could find his grave, I would erect a monument over him, regali situ pyramidwm. altiws, and inscribe it with a grateful legend ; you may prate if you will of the vile weed and un- cleanly habit, you who prefer to breathe into your lungs the foul breath of every feverish throat, rather than the same purified by fragrant smoke ; you may abuse the luxury, who know nothing of the delicate and delicious kief, that indescribable calm, that perfect content and comfort that the chibouk inspires. W. C. Prime. SNARE. Snares are traps for the unwary. J. B. Gowgh. To avoid snares, enter not a field in which they are laid. E. P. Day. I fear not force, for that I can repel; but I must guard against the snares of wealth and tempta- tions of place. J. C. Fabricius. A man never appears So ridiculous and unde- serving of pity as when he falls into Snares which he laid for others. N. Macdonald. We fall into the snares of the devil as readily by harboring noxious principles and vain thoughts, Magoom. He who devises evil for another falls at last into his own snare, and the most cunning finds himself caught by what he had prepared for another. - Metastasio. AD A Y '.S C O Z / A C O AV. SNEER. Who can refute a sneer ? Paley. The man who sneers at another is generally en- . vious of him. Valmiki. It is better to have an open enemy than a Smeer- ing friend. D. Wilmot. It is good to hold an ass by the bridle, and a sneering fool at his wit’s ends. P. C. Hooft. An idle sneer, or a look of incredulity, has been the death of many a good resolve. Maria D. Young. A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity. A habit of sneering marks the egotist, or the fool, or the knave, or all three. Lavater. What would the nightingale care if the toad des- pised her singing She would still sing on, and leave the cold toad to its dark shadows. And what care Ifor the Smeers of men who grovel upon earth 2 I will still sing on in the ear and bosom of God. H. W. Beecher. The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others : they are safe from reprisals, and have no hope of rising in their own esteem but by lowering their neighbors; the severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition. Hazlitt. SNOW. Snow descends in beautiful flakes. W. Mavor. There are certain eyes which, seeing objects at a distance, take snow for Sunshine. W. S. Landor. God gives to the silent snow a voice, and clothes its innocence and weakness with a power like His OWI). Caroline Lucretia. Herschel. The snow falls to the earth with such noiseless gentleness, that the wings of ten million times ten million make no Sound in the air, and the footfall of thrice as many makes no noise. H. W. Beecher. In rugged and uncultivated countries the snow lies longer on the ground ; in the same way anger affects our breasts ; it fixes itself on the unedu- cated, but in the minds that have been under cul- tivation it quickly subsides. Petronius. What is snow 2 Is it that the angels are shedding. their feathers on the earth ; or is the sky shower- ing its blossoms on the grave of the departed year 2 In it we see that if the earth is to be arrayed in this vesture of purity, her raiment must descend on her from above. Alas, too ! we see in it how soon that pure garment becomes spotted and sul- lied, how soon it mostly passes away. J. C. Hare. Snow affords us a very useful reflection ; it re- minds us of our weakness. What could all the industry and strength of men do, should they un- dertake to remove the ice and snow 2 And it is not without design that these images of the frailty of worldly things are presented to our view ; they are intended to teach us the uncertainty of earthly things: and we may learn from them that our present pleasures are like Snow, which dazzles the eye, but soon melts and disappears. Sturm. SOBRIETY. Public sobriety is a relative duty. Blackstone. I will be Šober, because I love sobriety. Cibber. Sobriety of mind suits the present state of man. L. Murray. Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind ; temperance and chastity are the sobriety of the body. - B. Whichcote. Sobriety ought to be highly esteemed among the lower orders, where the abstinence from vice is to be regarded as positive virtue. J. Hwttom. Sobriety is that virtue which keeps a medium in the pleasures that arise from eating and drinking, with respect both to the quantity and quality there- of. Limborch. He who has reined in and curbed his pleasures by sobriety and temperance, has procured for him- self much greater honor and a greater victory than when he conquers an enemy. Livy. All the sobriety which religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces ; tears and sorrows are not needful to sobriety ; smiles and cheerfulness are as much its elements. Beecher. Sobriety of mind will not only produce modera- tion and temperance, but extend its influence to the whole conduct of a man in every relation and circumstance to his internal sentiments and his ex- ternal behavior. G. Crabb. By a sober life I understand a moderate use of meat and drink, such as accords with the temper- ate and actual dispositions of the body, and with the functions of the mind. A sober life is a life of order, of rule, and of temperance. Lessivts. A sober life implies moderation in all things ; it consists in moderate eating, in moderate drinking, and in a moderate enjoyment of all the pleasures of life ; in keeping the mind moderately, but con- stantly employed, in cultivating the affections moderately, in avoiding extremes of heat and cold, and in shunning excessive excitement either of body or mind. Lwigi Cornaro. SOCIAEILITY. Sociability is the oil of life. James Ellis. The social virtues are a religion. Amma Camfield. Social intercourse is the teacher of all things to mortals. Euripides. We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect. Bruyère. The two main properties of man are contempla- tion and sociableness, or love of converse. More. The social affections are and may be made the truest channels for our pleasures and comforts to flow through. Abigail Adams. The brightest, purest happiness consists in social intercourse, in love which is felt for others, and makes the well-being and joy of others as its own. G. Forster. A /& O S /2 O U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. SOCIETY. Reject the society of the vicious. Gresley. Society is the work of nature, not man. Jeffrey. Society is no comfort to one not sociable. Shakspeare. Society is the true sphere of human virtue. Elizabeth Carter. Man is a social animal formed to please in Society. Montesqview. Society is a great household, of which God is the Master. J. Stowghton. Nature will have her yearnings for society and friendship. Sterne. In society men protect themselves by protecting One another. Emperor Fohi. We obey the laws of society because they are the laws of virtue. F. Amnes. We mingle in society, not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves. H. W. Shaw. Men would not live long in society if they were not the dupes of each other. Rochefowcawld. He that has no society is in a state but one de- gree removed from insanity. W. Godwin. Without some portion of moral virtues not even thieves can maintain Society. J. Harris. Society does not materially differ, although we may differ in our estimation of it. Henry Wikoff. The pleasantest Society is that where the mem- bers feel a warm respect for each other. Society is like air ; very high up, it is sublima- ted—too low down, a perfect choke-damp. Prwen. Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. Miss L. E. Landon. It has been said that Society is for the happy, the rich ; we should rather say the happy have no need of it. Mme. de Girardim. Show a man that you court his society, and it is a signal for him to treat you with neglect and con- tumely. H. K. White. Leave the bustle and tumult o! society to those who have not talents to occupy themselves with- out them. T. Jefferson. Society is divided into two classes—the shearers and the shorn; we should always be with the form- er against the latter. Napoleon I. The upper current of society presents no certain Criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows. T. B. Macawlay. The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children ; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common. Cicero. We cannot new model society, nor new mold or purify the public heart, but we can begin amelio- ration by a firm and wise government of our own. Sir E. Thºrner. Goethe. SOCIETY. . In society, that capricious mother of genius, there are many who fail because they have never been kissed, applauded, encouraged. Michelet. Society is composed of two great classes—those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. Chamfort. Man is a social being, and needs Society and laws regulating social intercourse between states, tribes, and nations, as much as between individuals. Olive R. Seward. A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horse-back for two hours. Ramt. Man, in society, is like a flower blown in its na- tive bud; it is there alone his faculties expanded in full bloom shine out, there only they reach their proper use. W. Cowper. A commonwealth is called a society or common doing of a multitude of free men, collected together and united by common accord and covenant among themselves. Adam Smith. Society is the master, and man is the servant : and it is entirely according as society proves a good or bad master, whether he turns out a bad or a good servant. G. A. Sala. The most obvious division of society is into rich and poor ; and it is no less obvious that the num- ber of the former bear a great disproportion to those of the latter. Burke. Society should be organized upon a less selfish basis ; for while material interests gain something by the deification of pure selfishness, men and wo- men lose much by it. John Brown. Were it not for some small remainders of piety and virtue which are yet left scattered among man- kind, human society would in a short space disband and run into confusion, and the earth would grow wild and become a forest. Tillotson. Those who suffer their happiness to depend on the futile pleasures of society, instead of the re- sources of their own minds, resemble birds, who, with the power of soaring into the pure regions of the sky, descend, and loiter amid the dust of the earth, at the risk of being Snared or destroyed by every vagrant urchin. Lady Blessington. Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicating, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface. He, however, who would study nature in its wildness and variety must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torent, and dare the precipice. W. Irving. Society is a long series of uprising ridges which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose ; wherever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world. Bulwer. S76 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. SOCIETY. - SOLDIER. The history of any private family, however hum- Beware of hireling soldiers. Louis II of France. ble, could it be fully related for five or six genera- tions, would illustrate the state and progress of so- ciety better than the most elaborate dissertation. Southey. It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at set times; the like may be said of society, which, if good, is a better refiner of the spirits than or— dinary books. F. Osborn. Man becomes so accustomed to the society in which he has passed his life, that its institutions, laws, and customs grow upon him until they be- come a second nature ; his feelings, views, and pre- judices are so interwoven with its whole mechan- ism, that he looks upon it as natural, unchangeable, and perfect. A. Brisbane. There is no security in evil society, where the good are often made worse, the bad seldom better, for it is the peevish industry of wickedness to find or make a fellow ; it is like they will be birds of a feather that used to flock together; for such com- monly doth their conversation make us as they are with whom we use to converse. A. Warwick, Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better security of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is con- formity ; Self-reliance is its aversion. Emerson. Society is the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theatre, the spur and the crown of ambition, and the tribu- nal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit. Wendell Phillips. SOIL. Cultivate the soil. Zoroaster. Improve the soil and the mind. H. Colman. He who owns the soil owns up to the sky. Dallas. Whatever is built on the soil belongs to the soil. C. Pelletier. Different soils require different treatment, to dispose them to production. J. R. Lawton. A rich soil has an intrinsic value for hungry human beings that appertains neither to gold nor any other precious metal. Isaac Hill. The first cause of kingdom's thriving is the fruit- fulness of the soil, to produce the necessaries and conveniences of life, not only for the inhabitants, but for exportation. Swift. The soil affords a place for vegetable life, by en- abling the seed and plant to receive nourishment ; the aliment required for this nourishment is in the Soil, to be imparted to the plant as wanted. J. L. Blake. A soldier prefers honor to life. Tordenskiold. Soldiers 1 follow your general. R. Montgomery. Soldiers are martyrs to ambition. T. B. Shaw. After victory the soldier is forgotten. Romanzof, The soldier is paid for doing mischief. Ariosto. A soldier should fight for honor, not pay. Galba. Pay well, and hang well, makes a good soldier. Oliver Cromwell. A cowardly soldiery rob the commander of vic- tory. Abassa. The fidelity of soldiers is much oftener owing to duty. N. Macdonald. A true soldier loves peace, but is always ready for war. Yehoalay. A soldier should be brave and loyal, but not an assassin. Cussay. Soldiers in time of peace are like chimnies in SUIII liſh le]". Lord Burleigh. Soldiers should not be quartered on the people in time of peace. Samuel Adams. A soldier should not use his hands in marching, nor his feet in fighting. Cato. A soldier should not only do his duty, but do it promptly and cheerfully. John Brooks. A soldier should not exchange the worship of Mars for that of Bacchus. Ewripides. A soldier in battle should act as though the vic- tory depended on him alone. Anthony Wayme. It is necessary for a soldier to go into battle, but it is not necessary for him to return. Coeditws. Soldiers that carry their lives in their hands, should carry the grace of God in their hearts. Dale. Soldiers there are the enemy They must be beat, or to-night Mollie Stark sleeps a widow. John Stark. The worse the man, the better the Soldier ; if sol- diers be not corrupt, they ought to be made so. Napoleon I. A soldier is a being hired to kill in cool blood, as many of his own species as possible, who have never offended him. Swift. The soldiers of the pale faces fight for their great father's gold; the red man fights for his home and his hunting-grounds. Osceola. A soldier should not engage in agriculture, mer- chandise, mechanical employments, or anything that will tend to divert him from the profession of 8.I’IſlS. Grotius. A soldier's vow to his country is, that he will die for the guardianship of her domestic virtue, of her righteous laws, and of her in any way challenged or endangered honor. Ruskim. PA O S A Q J O Z. A Z / O A. S. SOLDIER,. The whole scope of a soldier's thoughts should be to win glory and amplify renown ; loathing to be a plague or Scourge of affliction; seeking by con- quest to erect, not by victory to confound. Caesar. The cautious soldier, though he see himself vic- torious, does not throw down his sword, and feel entire confidence ; lest while he is gathering the spoil, he forego his advantage, and fortune should change her side. Metastasio. When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen ; to make this name honorable, and to preserve the liberty of our country, ought to be our only emulation ; and he will be the best sol- dier and the best patriot, who contributes most to this glorious work. Washington. Choose not thy serviceable soldier out of soft ap- parel, lest he prove effeminate, nor out of a full purse, lest he grow timorous; they are more fit for action that are fiery to gain a fortune abroad, than they that have fortunes to lose at home; expecta- tion breeds spirit, fruition brings fear. F. Qwarles. A soldier is a man-machine so thoroughly de- prived of its human portion, that at the breath of another man-machine, it will blindly inflict or suf- fer destruction ; divested of his trappings and the glitter of the false glory, it is difficult to imagine anything more humiliating than the condition of a soldier. Chatfield. My observation has often led me to remark amongst soldiers, that those whose birth might rea- sonably have made them fastidious under hardship and toil, have generally borne their miseries with- out a murmur ; whilst those whose previous life, one would have thought, might have better pre- pared them for the toils of war, have been the first to Cry Out and complain of their hard fate. Harris. SOLICITUDE. Be not solicitous for the future. J. Butler. Can your solicitude alter the course, or unravel the intricacy of human events 2 H. Blair. Men are often more solicitous to obtain the favor of the people than of their Maker. N. Webster. No man is solicitous about the event of that which he has in his power to dispose of. R. Sowth. How certainly are many people rendered inca- pable of all virtue by a solicitous temper. W. Law. He who solicitously inquires what is said of him, will certainly hear something which will render him uneasy. J. Knoac. If men would provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care that they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven. Tillotson. The solicitude of doing well, and a certain striv- ing and contending of a mind too far strained and Overbent upon its undertaking, breaks, and hinders itself, like water that by force of its own pressing violence and abundance, cannot find a ready issue through the neck of a bottle, or a narrow sluice. Montaigme. SOLITUDE. Solitude is the nurse of woe. Parmell. Solitude is an enemy to vice. T. Dwight. Solitude relieves a weary heart. J. F. Hollings. Solitude should teach us how to die. Byron. To the wise there is pleasure in solitude. Polemo. Solitude is the audience-chamber of God. Anne C. Lynch. Continued solitude stints and dwarfs the mind. Mayo. Solitude is the home of the strong ; silence, their prayer. Ravignon. Solitude cherishes great virtues, and destroys little ones. Sidney Smith. But little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extends. Lord Bacom. Happy is the man who betimes acquires a relish for holy solitude. G. Horne. All weighty things are done in solitude, that is, without society. Richter. Solitude is a sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing. Sir P. Sidney. He that is pleased with solitude must be either a wild beast or a god. Aristotle. In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself. Sterne. Solitude can be well applied, and sit right, upon but very few persons. A. Cowley. Solitude shows us what we should be ; society shows us what we are. Lord Burleigh. In the world, a man lives in his own age ; in solitude, in all the ages. W. Mathews. The contemplation that tends to solitude is but a specious title to idleness. Cato. Reflect in solitude on everything that bears rela- tion to God and His religion. T. Gibson. Solitude either develops the mental powers, or renders men dull and vicious. W. Hugo. Solitude is only beneficial to the wise and the good ; it is terrible to the bad. Foscolo. I love to be alone ; I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. Thoreaw. In society we learn to know others, but in soli- tude we acquire a knowledge of self. Lady Blessington. A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind. Novalis, Sages and fools are the only two kinds of people that the world can afford to have live in solitude. H. W. Shaw. Talents are best nurtured in solitude ; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. º Goethe. 878 AD A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. SOLITUDE. Solitude, though favorable to the development of genius, is not favorable to the growth of charac- tel'. G. S. Hillard. 'The silent virtues of a good man in Solitude are more amiable, than all the moisy honors of active life. Miss Mary Ferrier. Solitude relieves us when we are sick of compa- my, and conversation when we are weary of being alone.. H. B. Fearom. In solitude, if we escape the example of bad men, we likewise want the conversation and counsel of the good. Dr. Johnson. How very dreary and unwelcome are hours of solitude to the sensualist, the libertine, and igno- rant person. J. W. Barker. An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror. Burke. The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the indepen- dence of solitude. R. W. Emerson. Are there no solitudes out of the cave and the desert ; or cannot the heart in the midst of crowds feel frightfully alone 2 C. Lamb. There is no solitude so cheerless and forsaken, so wearisome and hopeless, so desolate and forlorn, as that of the human heart. Acton. In solitude we are oftener troubled with imper- timent and unprofitable thoughts, than entertained with agreeable and useful ones. J. Mason. The man with a taste for solitude is generally a great reader, and has an imaginative sympathy with alien circumstances of life. H. L. Sage. What would a man do if he were compelled to live always in the Sultry heat of society, and could never better himself in cool solitude. N. Hawthorne. What a sanctuary is solitude for the expression of all those feelings which, even at home, can only be breathed in general and gentle terms C. Evans. Accepting, then, the years of Solitude as perfectly inevitable, one must consider how to pass them, how to keep one's self occupied and amused. Dickens. Solitude bears the same relation to the mind, that sleep does to the body ; it affords it the ne- cessary opportunity for repose and recovery. W. G. Simms. Solitude and anxiety, as habits of the mind, are irreconcileable with the faith of a Christian, which teaches him to take no thought for the morrow. G. Crabb. It is only in solitude that the genius of eminent men has been formed ; solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. ' I. Disraeli. Such only can enjoy the country who are capa- ble of thinking when they are there ; then they are prepared for solitude, and in that case solitude is prepared for them. Dryden. SOLITUDE. Solitude holds a cup sparkling with bliss in her right hand, a raging dagger in her left ; to the blest she offers her goblet, but stretches toward the wretch the ruthless steel ! Klopstock. If solitude deprives us of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery; but the absence of others' applause is generally sup- plied by the flattery of one's own breast. Clulow. Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because mother of thought; both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of being weary of themselves. Sir W. Temple. When we withdraw from human intercourse into solitude, we are more peculiarly committed in the presence of the divinity ; yet some men retire into solitude to devise or to perpetrate crimes. J. Foster. That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man, happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes Society for soli- tude : the brambles grow up in his desert heart. Rivarol. Solitude is a good school, but the world is the best theatre ; the institution is the best there, but the practice here ; the wilderness hath the advan- tage of discipline, and society opportunities of per- fection. Jeremy Taylor. Solitude is one of the highest enjoyments of which our nature is susceptible ; Solitude is also, when too long continued, capable of being made the most severe, indescribable, unendurable source of anguish. John Lowis De Lolme. He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company. Be able to be alone; lose not the advantage of solitude, and the Society of thyself; nor be only content, but delight to be alone and single with Omnipotency. Sir T. Browne. One may make a solitude in the depths of his own heart, in the midst of a dissipated and worldly life; he may also, when his isolation becomes oppres- sive, people that solitude with beings after his own heart, and adapted solely to his purposes. Mme. Swetchine. Ask the unfortunate why he seeks the still shades of solitude ; or the man who feels the pangs of dis- appointed ambition, why he retires into the silent walks of seclusion, and he will tell you that he de- rives a pleasure therefrom which nothing else can impart. H. K. White. When genius shuts itself up from the world, and breathes an atmosphere in which the mass never mingle, it is left to the inspiration of Solitude, to its own lofty self-communings : it is only in such solitude that the mind attains its loftiest and most Original character. C. E. Lester. It is in solitude that great principles are first un- derstood and adopted; and the habit of contem- plating them will afterwards give the habit of ad- hering to them; for in proportion as men are social, it is, as with gregarious animals, they lose much of their original force Sir R. Maltravers. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. S'79 SOLITUDE. - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the indepen- dence of solitude. Caroline Bowles. Solitude powerfully assists general impressions ; when a man finds himself alone, his imagination becomes filled with a conflux of ideas concerning what is likely to become of himself, and of the su- perlative importance of providing for the happi- ness of his future existence. Paley. Solitude which we fly to as a rest, and can ex- change at will for society which we love, is a widely different thing from that solitude which is either the consequence of bereavement or the pun- ishment of crime ; that solitude from which we cannot escape, and which perhaps is associated with bitter or remorseful recollections. Vaughan. Solitude with nature is often the most congenial feeling to the human mind ; but in the once-crowd- ed dwelling of household mirth and happiness— amid the vacant apartments, the echoing stairs, the extinguished hearths, what heart but must sink be- neath the pressure of a solitude so unnatural, so haunted by the phantoms of departed joys. Mrs. L. R. Comfort. How happy he may be called who is encompassed by the delights of solitude, and lives away from care, and far from being embarrassed with the anxieties which disturb and annoy the mind He sees not the crowds of the streets, nor the proud portals of the noble senators, nor the flatterers whom hunger excites ; he is not forced to beg, to lie, to fear, and complain. G. De La Vega. The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence ; but to acquire the advantages which solitude is ca- pable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste for the idle pleasures of the world," a ra- tional contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties. - Zimmerman. How sweet is solitude when the heart is pure from the defilement of the world ; but how bitter when it is weighed down with the regrets of a mis-spent life : in the one case we can look back through the vista of the past with pleasant recol- lections, and to the future with hope and trust ; in the other our past life passes before us with all its bitterness, and the future hangs like a dark cloud—a Nemesis—ready to burst upon us with all its fury. - James Ellis. Do not go into solitude only that you may pre- sently come into public. Such solitude denies itself; is public and stale. The public can always get public experience, but they wish the scholar to re- late to them those private, sincere, divine expe- riences, of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street. It is the noble, man-like, just thought, which is the superiority demanded of you, and not crowds, but solitude, confers this elevation. - R. W. Emerson. SON. A good son is a good citizen. Stoboews. A mother's best jewels are her sons. Cormelia. Every man is the son of his own works. - Cervantes. He who hath but one son makes him a fool. Guicciardini. If a son do wrong, let his father reprove him. - Cem-Cw. If the father be spotted, the son will be speckled. Kadir Munshi. The happiest mother of daughters is she who has Only sons. Memoints. Every one calls his son his son, whether he have talents or not. Confucius. Happy a parent having a son that submits to a just punishment. Henry IV of England. It may be often said that among sons, the father's favorite is a fool, the mother's a prodigal. N. Macdonald. Let a son ever imagine himself in his father's presence, and do nothing unworthy his name. Boleslaws IV of Poland. A wicked son is a reproach to his father ; but he that doeth right is an honor to his gray hairs. R. Dodsley. A son cannot be co-existent with the father : nor can Christ, the Son of God be co-eternal with God. Ariws. Few sons are equal to their sires; most of them are less worthy ; only a few are superior to their father. Homer. That son cannot but prosper in all his affairs, which honoreth his parents with the reverence due unto them. W. Wyntershylle. It is the duty of a father to accustom his son to what is right, more from his own choice than from any outward fear. Terence. I know not anything about which a man of sense ought to feel more anxious than how his son may become the very best of men. Plato. He that letteth his son run at his own liberty, shall find him more stubborn than any headstrong colt when he conneth to be broken. Bias. Bring up thy son to fear God ; if he obey thee show him favor. Yet thy foolish son is thine own offspring ; admonish him, but estrange not thy heart from him. Ptah-Hotep. How great, how sweet, to live through endless ages immortal in the virtues of a son How sweet to plant what a son shall reap, to gather what will increase his store, anticipating how high his thanks will one day rise ! Schiller. It is the most beautiful object the eyes of man can behold to see a man of worth and his son live in an entire, unreserved correspondence ; the mu- tual kindness and affection between them, give an inexpressible satisfaction to all who know them : it is a sublime pleasure which increases by the participation. Steele. 880 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. SONG. Good songs are scarce. T. Dwight. . Song is the tone of feeling. J. C. Hare. A song should be without vulgarity. H. Carey. Angels were the first beings to sing songs. J. Gill. A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. H. Giles. National songs inspire the soul with love of home and country. O. S. Fowler. Support the yielding fight with song ; for Song enlivens war. Ossian. What is a song without humor, or a bard with- out pleasantry : Moelmwol. Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart to joy. Euripides. The songs of musicians are able to change the feelings and conditions of a state. Cicero. The three intentions of song are, to aid the un- derstanding, improve the heart, and soothe the mind. Catherall. Every man, when at work, even by himself, has his own song, however rude it may be, that softens his labors. Quintilian. Among the monuments remaining of the ancient state of nations, few are more valuable than their poems or Songs. H. Blair. The songs of a country are characteristic of its manners ; every country has its love songs, its war songs, and its patriotic songs. N. Webste?". The design of song is to scare away all idle thoughts, to wake the dormant spirit, and to uplift man to the platform occupied by angels. Davies. It is the meed due to the brave to be praised by beautiful songs; for that only which is celebrated in Song approaches the glory of the immortals. Horace. Mirth is the best physician for man's toils, when brought to a close ; but songs, the wise daughter of the muses, soothe him by their gentle approach. Pindarws. Our writers generally crowd into one song ma- terials enough for several ; and so they starve every thought, by endeavoring to nurse up more than one at a time. Steele. It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart de- clares itself in song ; the affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues. W. G. Simms. Next to theology, I give to song the highest place and honor; and we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song. Lºwther. A well-composed song strikes the mind and soft- ens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits. Napoleon I. SOPHISTRY. Sophistry is counterfeit wisdom. J. Wilson. Sophistry is the chaff, truth the wheat. F. Osius. Sophistry may deceive by diffusiveness. Hales. Some men weave their sophistry till their own reason is entangled. Dr. Johnson. I know not what the sophists are good for ; I only know they are the very worst instructors. - W. S. Landor. Sophistication is the act of counterfeiting or adul- terating anything with what is not so good, for the sake of unlawful gain. J. Quincy. When the state of a controversy is well under- stood, the difficulty will not be great in giving an- swers to all sophistical cavils. Stillingfleet. Little tricks of sophistry, by sliding in or leaving out such words as entirely change the question, should be abandoned by all fair disputants. Watts. The juggle of sophistry consists for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the pre- mises, and in another sense in the conclusion. S. T. Coleridge. Genius may dazzle, eloquence may persuade, reason may convince ; but to render popular cold and comfortless sophistry, unaided by these pow- ers, is a hopeless attempt. J. Hall. Men have obscured and confounded the nature of things by their false principles and wretched sophistry, though an act be ever so sinful, they will strip it of its guilt. R. Sowth. Gross sophistry has scarce ever had any influ- ence upon the opinions of mankind, except in mat- ters of philosophy and speculation ; and in these it has frequently had the greatest. Adam Smith. If the passions of the mind be strong, they easily sophisticate the understanding, they make it apt to believe upon every slender warrant, and to im- agine infallible truth, where scarce any probable show appeareth. R. Hooker. Sophistry, like poison, is at Once detected and nauseated when presented to us in a concentrated form ; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world if diluted in a quarto vol- 111][10. R. Whately. Of all human forms and characters, none is less improveable, none more intolerable and oppressive than the race of sophists; they are intolerable against all nature and demonstrated truth: they attempt to demolish the most solid and magnificent fabric with a grain of Sand, picked off from its Stones. Lavater. A sophist originally signified a person of talent and accomplishments; it was afterwards restric- ted to a bad sense ; it has hence come to be the general designation of all such as cultivate any branch of science or philosophy with a view to out- ward advantages, careless of the truth of what they advance, except in so far as it may contribute to those purposes. T. Galloway. |× |- \，\! will LANT SHAKSPEARE- A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. SORROW. Great sorrows speak not. C. Marot. Strive to remove SOrrow. St. David. Sorrows are the spurs of life. H. Neele. A sorrow cannot always live. T. Crammer. Sorrow is an evil with many feet. Posidippus. Sorrow's best cure is employment. W. Lilly. He has great gain who loses Sorrow. Acostcl. It is good to grow wise under sorrow. AEschylus. A sorrowful mouth sometimes laughs. Egil. It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing. Homer. Time is the physician of every sorrow. Euphron. Sorrow that weeps is counterfeit sorrow. Rumi. The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue hath it. Talmwol. The sorrow of an enemy is often the cure for our OWIl. - Publiws Syrws. He who has most of heart, knows most of sor- I’OW. P. J. Bailey. Alas! sorrows are oft evolved from good for- tune. Goethe. Suspect that sorrow which is anxious to show itself. Ruzzik. Time will do much for sorrow ; pride, perhaps, II].OI’e. J. T. Hoffman. Sorrow wrings the sad Soul, and bends it down to earth. Horace. Sorrow is one of the gifts which folly has earned for itself. C. F. D. Schubart. Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is ca- pable of good. Mrs. H. B. Stowe. Fools are delivered from Sorrow by time ; wise men by reason. Miss E. Carter. Worldly sorrow breaks hearts, but godly sor- row heals broken Ones. J. Culbert. Sorrow turns the stars into mourners, and every wind of heaven into a dirge. D. Hannay. Not to sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine. W. G. Simms. Even sorrows, when once they are vanished, quicken the soul as rain the valley. Schefer. Sorrow consumes the heart when we have no One to whom we can open our mind. Sturluson. He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes. W. Scott. Fruitless is sorrow for having done amiss, if it issue not in a resolution to do so no more. Horne. Beauty, riches, and honors, are what men most desire : yet all these cannot remove sorrow. Emperor Shwn. SORROW. Sorrow is knowledge ; they who know most must mourn the 'deepest over the fatal truth. Byron. Sorrows bring heaven down close ; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying. Beecher. It is wise and well to look on the cloud of sorrow as though we expected it turn into a rainbow. Mºme. Gwizot. Thou canst not tell how rich a dowry sorrow gives the soul, how firm a faith and eagle sight of God. H. Alford. It is in seasons of sorrow that love more espe- cially roots itself, as trees are best grafted in cloudy days. Lady Belcher. Sorrow is a burden hanging heavily upon the lonely, but easily sustained by two sympathizing Souls. H. P. Curtis. Our sorrows are like thunder-clouds, which seem black in the distance, but grow lighter as they ap- proach. Richter. Is it not worth while to know sorrow, if only to experience the joy felt when that sorrow is re- moved ? J. De Mille. The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it pro- duce amendment, and the greatest is insufficient, if it do not. Colton. The sorrow of the world is made up of as many different kinds as that carpet of green which covers the earth. W. Arnot. How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence It makes felicity in others seem deformed. Sir W. Davenant. The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart. PHwmboldt. There are more sorrows of women than of men, just as in heaven there are more eclipses of the moon than of the Sun. J. Frith. We all live that we may die in sorrow ; we de- vote our thoughts, and only win the things of this world to part with them in sorrow. Schiller. How swift time flies 1 and yet how slow when we are overwhelmed with sorrow, how tardy then do the hours depart and pass away. Tieck, The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal ; being like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by with- standing. Sir P. Sidney. We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression ; the heart of a wise man should resem- ble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any. Confucius. There is comfort, real and deep, in thinking that the path of sorrow we tread has been beaten smooth and wide by the feet of the best that ever trod this world. R. Boyd. It has pleased heaven that sorrow should tread on the heels of pleasure, and be her companion ; for if ought of good befall us, more of trouble and ill forthwith attend us. Plawtºws. 56 882 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. SORROW. SOUL. The capacity of sorrow belongs to our grandeur ; The soul is immortal. Pythagoras. and the loftiest of our race are those who have had — the profoundest grief, because thay have had the How great the soul is T. Deacter. profoundest sympathies, H. Giles. The soul shall never die. Montgomery. The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our The Soul knows no persons. R. W. Emerson. hearts the best wine ; afterwards, the constant -*mms. weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and The human Soul has no sex. E. D. Mansfield. stain from the lees of the vat. Longfellow. We all weep over the wrongs and sorrows of loving hearts; the dweller of the palace, and the peasant, each and all are alive to the same senti- ment, and suffer the same griefs. Mrs. E. O. Smith. There is something most affecting in the natural sorrows of poor men, as after a few days wrest- ling with affliction, they appear again at their usual work, melancholy, but not miserable. J. Wilson. Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails; to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear their sorrows as well. Leigh Hunt. Sorrow sets her seal on the brows of those she has stricken; and, like freemasons, they know each other by a sign, unintelligible to the uninitiated, even when pleasure spreads her fascinations around them. Lady Blessington. Sorrows and disturbances, in some minds, pro- duce the effects of fermentation, leaving that which is wholesome, Sound and clear; in others, those of effervescence, resulting in flatness, vapidity, and imanition. J. F. Boyse. There would be far fewer sorrows among man- kind, if men—God knows why they are so formed —made less use of their imaginations in recalling the memory of past Sorrow, than in bearing pa- tiently their present lot. Goethe. One can never be the judge of another's grief. That which is a sorrow to one, to another is joy. Let us not dispute with any one concerning the re- ality of his sufferings; it is with sorrows as with countries, each man has his own. Chateawbriand. If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart ; the loss of goods, of health, of coronets and mitres, is only evil as they occa- sion sorrow ; take that out, the rest is fancy, and dwelleth only in the head of man. Sterme. Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of heaven. E. H. Chapin. When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania—when you think, because heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank, then diet yourself well on biography—the biography of good and great men ; see how little a space one sorrow really makes in . life. Bulwer. What is a body without a soul? Constantime IV. The Soul is the breathing of God. St. Ambrose. The body is a shell, the soul a pearl. Ar-Rumi. The Soul cannot exist without a body. Zemo. Every human soul is a volume in itself. Engel. Our Souls are at variance with our bodies. Ar-Razi. The soul is the natural perfection of the body. Awrelius. The loss of the soul ranks next to the loss of its God. E. Davies. The soul of the just man is the seat of true wis- dom. St. Augustime. The body—that is dust; the soul—it is a bud of eternity. N. Culverwell. The soul may rejoice even while the body is in torment. Joachim Curaeus. The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken. Napoleon I. The soul breathes by spirit ; spirit breathes by inspiration. Bettina Wom Arnim. The soul began with the body, and it will end with the body. C. Blownt. The soul is our guest, for it is here to-day, and away to-morrow. Hillel. Let the soul which is immortal, guide our bodies which are mortal. Zoroaster. Men possessing small Souls are generally the au- thors of great evils. Goethe. In the scenes of moral life, the soul is at once actor and spectator. Degerando. A single soul cannot be a good One and a bad one at the same time. Tasso. Every soul is either the spouse of Christ, or the adulteress of the devil. St. Chrysostom. The eyes of our souls only begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing. W. Law. All the felicity of man, as well present as to come, dependeth on the Soul. A. Clemens. The soul of man is part of the Divinity, if there be any part of man really so. 2Cenophon. Until the soul is set free it works within the body, obscured by vapors and clay. Aretoews. There is no such thing as a ghost Or Soul ; the hope in immortality must die. W. Reade. A R O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 883 SOUL. I believe in God and in another life, and I feel that I have an immortal Soul. M. Ney. All arguments adduced to prove the immortality of the soul are unsatisfactory. T. Chubb. The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable. Montaigme. The Soul of man can never more be recalled when the spark of life has passed his lips. Homer. The body is our dwelling-place, and the soul the immortal guest which lodges there. Memcius. The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel ; its poverty, by how little. W. R. Alger. There is some infinite being that can only give a contentment to the soul, and this is God. Charmock. Feeble souls are like those tracks of land which have neither depth nor richness of soul. Thomas. Alas ! how seldom is it that the soul is so still that it can hear when God speaks to it ! Fénélon. All men's souls are immortal, but those of the righteous are both immortal and divine. Socrates. Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of the world. Mrs. Browning. Is there a doubt that a God dwells in our breast, and that souls return to heaven and reach it 2 Manilius. If thy soul be good, the stroke of death cannot hurt thee, for thy spirit shall live blessedly in hea- Vell. St. Basil. I could never believe that the soul lived only whilst in a mortal body, and died when separated from it. Cyrus the Great. Some men have a Sunday soul, which they screw on in due time, and take off again every Monday morning. J. Hall. The soul of man is an incorruptible substance, apt to receive either joy or pain, both here and elsewhere. Solom. Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God Himself beautified with the title of His own image and similitude. Sir W. Raleigh. As wine Savors of the cask wherein it is kept, so the soul receives a tincture from the body through which it works. R. Burton. It seems to me as if not only the form, but the Soul of man was made to “walk erect, and look upon the stars.” Bulwer. Whoever saw his own soul? No man. Yet what is there more present, or what to each man nearer, than his own soul ? Edward VI. So natural is the knowledge of the soul's immor- tality, that we find some trace or other of it in the most barbarous nations. P. Heylyn. The soul is the connecting link between God and man, and between the spirit and the flesh, and has its earthly abode in the blood or life. V. B. Wyckoff. SOUL. The soul has, living apart from its corporeal en- velope, a profound habitual meditation which pre- pares it for a future life. Hippel. Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it. St. Jerome. Look how much the soul is better than the body : so much more grievous are the diseases of the Soul than the griefs of the body. Diogenes. To find a noble human soul is gain ; it is nobler to keep it ; and the noblest and most difficult is to save that which is already lost. Herder. A man's possessions are just as large as his own soul : if his title-deeds cover more, the surplus acres own him, not he the acres, R. F. Hallock. The soul of man is a building of God; He hath laid out the treasures of His wisdom, power, and goodness, in this noble structure. Flavel. I am positive I have a soul : nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary. Sterne. The soul is the origin of all thoughts, desires, and reasoning ; and when the fountain of life ceases to 8-5 ) play, it returneth to God who gave it. J. Limen. The soul being perfected by love of that infinite good, shall be also perfected with those superma- tural passions of joy, peace, and delight. R. Hooker. Those who have searched into human nature ob- serve that nothing so much shows the nobleness of the soul as that its felicity consists in action. E. Budgell. We all dread a body paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it, but none of us are troubled about a paralysis of the Soul. Epictetws. The soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts and contemplations. - Seneca. The body is a prison, from which the soul must be released before it can arrive at the knowledge of those things which are real and immutable. Plato. Our soul is in our body, as the bird is in the shell, which soon breaks, and the bird flies out ; the shell of the body breaking, the soul flies into eternity. T. Watson. The soul is an emination from God ; it enters the body as co-parner until it is able to do without it, then takes its leave for a higher sphere of exist- €11Ce. W. J. Colwell. They who prink and pamper the body, and neg- lect the soul, are like one who, having a nightin- gale in the house, is more found of the cage than the bird. J. Howell. His last day places man in the same state as he was before he was born ; nor after death has the body or soul any more feeling than they had be- fore birth. Pliny. 884 A) A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. SOUL. In its highest sense sympathy can exist only be- tween soul and soul; the human Soul is of dual unity, incomplete, and maimed otherwise. Ellen Martin. It is the soul, not the body, that constitutes the man ; the body is the bag containing the Soul ; you may beat the bag, but you cannot beat Anaxar- chus. Amaacarchºws. The soul is the thing that thinks and carries about the body. ; the soul that lives now, and will live hereafter, is the one thing immaterial and eternal. J. M. Peebles. The human Soul is like a bird that is born in a cage ; nothing can deprive it of its natural long- ings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage. E. Sargent. The annihilation of the soul is a catastrophe too big for human imagination to conceive, too horrible for the human mind to look to ; the fact is, it is an utter impossibility. Dr. Cumming. The worth of a single soul immeasurably trans- scends in importance all that material greatness and splendor of which the wildest ambition could frame a conception. F. A 7-mold. Some believe the soul made by God, some by angels, and some by the generant ; whether it be immediately created or traduced, has been the great ball of contention. Glanvvill. Whether the human soul is to come to an end or not is to us a more important question than whether the visible universe, with its matter and energy, is to be absorbed in an invisible ether. J. Fiske. The arguments to be derived from the light of nature in favor of the immortality of the soul, amount to a strong probability; all the probability is on this side, and none on the other. T. Dwight. In desperate emergencies our souls grow calm, and a power is given to them to gaze, as dying men will sometimes, upon the shoreless void before them with preternatural composure. J. Neal. The body is a casket containing a precious gem —the soul | Both were not necessarily created to- gether, nor is there any reason why the gem should perish at the same time the casket is destroyed. G. W. Heacock. I hardly know a sight that raises one's indigna- tion more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune ; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an en- larged fortune. Lord Greville. The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to en- counter ; not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be over- borne by a combination of vices. Goldsmith. When I see nothing annihilated, and not a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls, or believe that He will suffer the daily waste of millions of minds ready made that now exist, and put Himself to the continual trouble of making new ones. Franklin. SOUL. The soul that lives, ascends frequently, and runs familiarly through the streets of the heavenly Jerusalem, visiting the patriarchs and prophets, saluting the apostles, and admiring the army of martyrs; so do thou lead on thy heart, and bring it to the palace of the Great King. R. Baacter. If man has an immortal soul, capable of living without a body, there is no necessity that God should come to raise and reconstruct the physical organisms; if men go to their respective rewards as soon as they stop breathing, Christ has no need to come in the capacity of a judge. A. A. Phelps. There is an active principle in the human soul, that will ever be exerting its faculties to the ut- most stretch, in whatever employment, by the accidents of time and place, the general plan of education, or the customs and manners of the age and Country, it may happen to find itself engaged. Sir W. Blackstone. If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human Soul is immortal, I willingly err ; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me , and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the rail- lery of those pretended philosophers when they a.I'ê IlC). In Ol'é. Cicero. SOUND. Sounds represent ideas. W. F. Phelps. Listen not to a bad sound. Pi—He. Sound helps to estimate distance. J. Napier. If all were deaf there would be no such thing as Sound. Carmed des. Sound is only a sensation excited in the auditory Organ. T. Galloway. We take our ideas from sounds which folly has invented. H. Mackenzie. All harmonious sounds are advanced by a silent darkness. J. Hall. Each letter should be represented by its own dis- tinctive sound. Isaac Pitman. Sounds may be alike in quantity and pitch, yet differ in quality. C. W. Sanders, A sound alone betrays the flowing of the eternal fountain invisible to man. Longfellow. The sound of the last trumpet will be a joyful sound to all having on Christ's righteousness. Donald Cargill. A smooth, gliding sound is agreeable, by calming the mind, and lulling it to rest ; a rough, bold sound on the contrary, animates the mind. Rames. A primary and indispensable condition of the rise of speech is, that the thought be expressed in a sound that shall be identified with the thought in the minds of both hearer and speaker. H. N. Day Sounds have a great power in most passions; the noise of vast cataracts, raging storms, thunder, or artillery, awake a great and awful sensation in the mind, though we can observe no nicety or ar- tifice in those sorts of music. Burke. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AWS 885 SPACE. All matter exists in Space. Tycho Brahe, Space is the statue of God. Madam. Space is a place to put things. D. G. Eaton, Space divides friends, not friendship. No space is too narrow for two friends, nor too wide for two enemies. Al-Yazidi. Space is the palace of the Eternal, whereof our sun is but a porch-lamp. T. Carlyle. The greatest of all things is space, because it con- tains all things that have been created. Thales. No space is unoccupied ; the exposed surface of the rock is incrusted with myriads of living Sub- stances. S. Elliott. The idea of space suggests that of place ; for when two objects are considered, each has its po- sition in relation to the other. G. W. Samson. Who will dare make the assertion that the space, which they call too vast and useless, between Sa- turn and the fixed stars is void of other bodies be- longing to the universe ? Galileo. We have no more a positive distinct notion of infinite space than a mariner has of the depth of the sea, where, having let down a large portion of his sounding-line, he reaches no bottom. J. Locke. Space and motion can never be actually infinite; they have a power only and a capacity of being increased without end ; so that no space can be as- signed so vast, but still a larger may be imagined. R. Bentley. SOVEREIGN. Each individual is a sovereign. S. P. Andrews. The best sovereignty is the mind. Nerva. Sovereignty vests only in a king. Lord Erskine. States are independent sovereignties. J. Wilson. Sovereign power belongs to the states. Yancey. Asovereign should never lack courage. Cham-chi. The desire of a loyal man is toward his sover- eign. Emperor Shºwn. The people should be subservient to their sover- eign. Posthwmows. When sovereignty is divided, it is very easily destroyed. Lomonosoff. It is never too late to restore a lawful sovereign to his throne. T. Dalziel. Sovereignty in a democratic government vests in the people. - G. M. Dallas. A good people deserve to have a good sovereign set over them. E. Raban. Our government was instituted by a number of Sovereign states. R. Sherman. There should be some limit to the powers of every sovereign. J. Qwiroga. A sovereign that is feared by many, must of ne- cessity fear many. Rabamws. Nicolai. SOVEREIGN. - Popular sovereignty, when truly understood, is a fountain of power. C. Summer. Heaven does not speak ; how then can it bestow sovereignty on man Ż Wan Chang. There are not two suns in one sky, nor two sov- ereigns over One people. Confucius. Sovereignty is the very thing which distin- guishes a state from a country or province. Sentz. The sovereign that listens to the councils of evil men, doth thereby greatly endanger his sovereign- ty. C. G. Rehmskjöld. Assovereigns become tyrants for want of riches, so they become vicious through abundance of trea- Slire. Plutarch. To rebel against a lawful earthly sovereign is the first step toward rebellion against our Heavenly Sovereign. R. Allestry. If the sovereign be benevolent, all will be be- nevolent ; if the sovereign be righteous, all will be righteous. Mencius. Sovereigns are never without flatterers to seduce them, ambition to deprave them, and desires to corrupt them. Plato. A sovereign that knoweth not how to defend his kingdom, may lose his possession before he learns who hath offended him. Regulus. The first choice of a sovereign should be by the people ; and the sovereign should be a teacher and example to those over whom he rules. Lao-Kiwn. If it be an honor to represent an earthly sover- eign, how much greater the honor to represent the Sovereign of sovereigns; the Christian minister does this—he is the ambassador of God. E. Phelps. The alleged right of a sovereign to reign over a people who have a right to freedom and indepen- dence, and who claim it accordingly, is a mere imaginary right, and has no existence in reality. J. D. Lang. The high-minded and independent, although they will be the first to perceive, and the fittest to ap- preciate the sterling qualities of a sovereign, will be the last to applaud them, while he fills a throne. Colton. To give laws unto a people, to institute magis- trates and officers over them, to punish and pardon malefactors, to have the sole authority of making war and peace, are the true marks of sovereignty. F. Davies. So great is the person and dignity of a sovereign, that in using his power and authority as he ought, he being here among men upon earth, representeth the glorious estate and high majesty of God in heaven. St. Ambrose. No man can alienate his sovereignty, because he cannot abdicate his nature or cease to be a man : and from the sovereignty of each individual in society arises the collective sovereignty of all, or the sovereignty of the people, which is equally in- alienable. Lamenmais. S 86 A) A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. SPEAKING. Speak less than thou knowest. Speak when it is time to speak. Kung-ming Kea. Speak less than you intend to do. V. Borgia. It is wisdom to know when to speak. Persius. Speaking little and well gains repute. E. P. Day. He who speaks too much says nothing. Bret. When facts speak, words are unnecessary. Hyrcaniam. Speaking silence is better than senseless speech. - Hölty. It is often in speaking badly that a man speaks well. Montesquiew. If you are wise, you will speak less than you know. Saadi. He that knows how to speak, knows when to speak. Archidamidas. Most men speak when they do not know how to be silent. St. Ambrose. Speak but little and well, if you would be es- teemed as a man of merit. R. Trench. Speak what you believe, and believe what you speak ; this is true eloquence. D'Afer. Great speakers resemble those musicians who in their airs prefer noise to harmony. Stanislaws. º Speaking much is a sign of vanity:; for he that is ſavish in words is a niggard in deed. Raleigh. Yes and no are very easy to speak, but before they are said one should think a long time. Gracian. When a wise man chooses a fit subject for his discourse, there is no difficulty in speaking well. Euripides. Think before you speak, think before whom you speak, think why you speak, think what you speak. Eliza Cook. Let us speak what we feel, let us feel what we speak, let our conversation be in accordance with our life. Seneca. To speak ill upon knowledge shows a want of charity ; to speak ill upon suspicion shows a want of honesty. Warwick. Even those who most admire the fluency of an exclusive speaker, will condemn the injustice of the monopoly. Mrs. Sigowrmey. The savage and the civilized man have the same powers of utterance ; both speak naturally, and are equally understood. E. Lawrence. It is more serviceable te speak eloquently, pro- vided it is with prudence, than to think ever so accurately, if it be destitute of eloquence. Cicero. Three points should be prominent in the aim of a speaker : to say what Ought to be said, to say nothing else, and to say cwerything in its proper place. Dr. Skimmer. Shakspeare. SPEAKING. When we are understood, it is a proof that we speak well, and all your learned gabble is mere IłOllSéIlS62. Molière. People who are in a hurry to speak have seldom anything to say ; thought and ideas pre-suppose an intellectual effort. Mme. Swetchine. There are some who speak well, and who do not write well; it is the place, the audience that put life into them, and this is not felt without such excitement. Pascal. There are people whose whole merit consists in speaking and acting absurdly, though with good results, and who would spoil all if they changed their conduct. Rochefoucauld. We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much ; a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows, but which all the world does not practice. Bruyère. Be always less willing to speak than to hear: what thou hearest, thou receivest : what thou speakest, thou givest : it is more glorious to give, more profitable to receive. F. Quarles. Speaking is nothing else than a sensible expres- sion of the notions of the mind, by several discri- minations of utterance of voice, used as signs, having by consent several determinate significan- CéS. H. Holder. When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face ; other gestures betray- ing want of breeding, confidence, or honesty ; de- jected eyes confessing, to most judgments, guilt or folly. F. Osborn. To speak ungrammatically is not sinful, nor de- grading ; it is not like speaking profanely, or un- kindly, or falsely ; yet how many would blush at the one, and pass over the others without the least emotion of shame. Martha Martell. Common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in ; and these are always ready at the mouth ; so people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door. Swift. SPECTACLES. * When spectacles come, lasses depart. AmOn. Men see things differently ; some wear gold spec- tacles, some blue, and some plain. W. Lawrence. The first spectacle maker did not think that he was leading the way to the discovery of new pla- netS. N. Grew. Our eyes, though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable, only the cheap assistance of Spectacles, which could not much impair our finances. Franklin. A man never looks more dignified than when he takes a spectacle-case from his pocket, opens it, unfolds a lens, sets it astride his nose, and looks you in the eye. - Talmage. No one would come with spectacles on nose into a private confidential assembly, if he knew that at once the women lose all pleasure in looking at him, or listening to what he has to Say. Goethe. A A' O S A. Q U O Z' A 7" / O AV S. 887 SPECULATION. SPEECH. Speculation is the sheet anchor of trade. Crocker. Speech is the shadow of action. Democritus. Speculations which originate in guilt, must end Speech is the index of the mind. Seneca. R. Hall. Speculation is a word that sometimes begins with the second letter. Chatfield. Speculators develop the resources of a state ; economists husband them. Bovee. in ruin. A successfull speculator is caressed and courted ; an unfortunate one, despised and avoided. Mayhew. A good subject is frequently made a matter of speculation and serves rather to prejudice than improve the youthful mind. J. W. Barker. An unfortunate man in the power of a specula- tor is situated as a lamb in the possession of a wolf —never escapes without losing his fleece. Dolben. Hypocrisy delights in the most sublime specula- tions; for, never intending to go beyond specula- tion, it costs nothing to have it magnificent. Burke. Abstruse speculations, whatever they may have at the bottom of Solidity and truth, suit not the capacities of the many, and influence the hearts of IlOIle. S. Horsley. A real speculator is a legal plunderer ; he lives on distress, riots on misery, and preys on the un- suspicious and unfortunate ; such a man may be rich, but he can never be honest or benevolent. - Sir Pawl Rica wt. What are all our most sublime speculations of the Deity, that are not impregnated with true goodness, but insipid things that have no taste nor life in them, that do but swell like empty froth in the souls of men 2 Sydney Smith. If a speculator succeeds and enriches himself, the man is courted, called enterprising and fortu- nate; should he fail in his views he is branded with the harsh epithet of speculating knave, visionary schemer, justly deserving his misfortunes. Kyrle, When I see men run into wild and visionary speculations, working on the high pressure princi- ple, make or break, they open the wrong valve, may break a shaft, and make themselves out of boat and home, and leave their passengers to ma- nage the wreck in their own way. L. C. Judson. Search through the world, visit every clime, examine every nation, and you will never find a speculator esteemed or beloved ; they may com- mand outward respect and fear, never a spark of friendship, or affectionate attachment ; they are human sharks, and happy are the smaller fish, if they can keep out of their devouring grasp. J. Bartlett. Nearly all the popular modes and means of specu- lation are modes and means of legal gambling ; not a dollar is produced in the world that is not either taken from the ground, or pulled from the sea by Somebody; and it is a shameful fact, that the popu- lar means of winning wealth contemplate its ac- quisition without a particle of labor bestowed upon its production. - J. G. Holland. . & Nothing is so indelible as speech. G. Bancroft. Speech is the harvest of thought. Twpper. Speech is the picture of the mind. N. Franco. Speech is oft repented, silence seldom. Stwrz. Let a man keep his speech in subjection. Memw. There is a mighty power in great speech. - E. P. Whipple. Speech is the gift of many, thought of few. J. A. Nollet. Smooth speech often proves a sweet poison. Anastasius. Speech made only to please is a halter made of honey. Diogenes. Speech is a faculty given to man to conceal his thoughts. Talleyrand. The fair speeches of the wicked are full of treachery. Phoedºrws All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom. Cato. A superior man is modest in his speech, but ex- ceeds in his actions. Confucius. Speech is met with speech ; angry speeches are returned for angry speeches. Mamakw. The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them. Goldsmith. Freedom of speech produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius. P. L. Gordon. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. Feltham. He who indulges in liberty of speech will hear things in return which he will not like. Terence. Speeches cannot be made long enough for the speakers, nor short enough for the hearers. Perry. The speech of the tongue is best known to men ; God best understands the language of the heart. Warwick. Trust not a maiden's words, nor a woman's speech, for their hearts are found upon rolling wheels. Havømcil. Speech is indeed the rudder that steereth human affairs, the spring that setteth the wheels of action on going. I. Barrow. Speech is the nourishment of the soul, which only becomes odious and corrupt by the wicked- ness of men. Isocrates. Speech is the perfect expression of the senses; words are but the representations of the disinte- grated body of man. Oken. Speech is a revealer of nationality, of provincial origin, of intelligence, of creed, of moral character, of religious condition. J. C. Gray. 888 A) A Y',S C O Z Z A C O AV. SPEECH. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a Scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words. Swift. God has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. Qwintilian. Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of thought, whither it flows back again. J. Sterling. To find fault with a speech is not difficult, nay, it is very easy ; but to put anything better in its place is a work of great labor. Plutarch. Dost thou know that freedom of speech is the arms of poverty ? If any one lose that he has thrown away the shield of life. Nicostratws. There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken—the manner, the place, and the time. R. Southey. Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal. T. Carlyle. As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not ; so men are proved by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish. Demosthemes. Speech is like tapestry unfolded, where the im- agery appears distinct ; but thoughts are like ta- pestry in the bale, where the figures are rolled up together. Themistocles. The object of speech is to convey truth ; and if it is ever used to deceive, it is a wicked abuse of One of the best blessings, and most distinguishing faculties allotted to man. Mrs. King. Great menought to be considerate in their speech, - and to be eloquent in sententious words, of another phrase than that of the vulgar sort ; or else to be silent, wanting the virtue of eloquence. Gwevara. When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever. - James Martineaw. Speech is a curious and wonderful contrivance, by which the fleeting breath becomes the index of the soul, the divulger and interpreter of the invisi- ble thought, and the great bond and medium of social intercouse. A. Yowng. Speech is a great instrument by which man be- comes beneficial to man ; and it is to the inter- course and transmission of thought, by means of speech, that we are chiefly indebted for the im- provement of thought itself. H. Blair. The chief purposes for which the faculty of speech was given to man, is plainly, that we might communicate our thoughts to each other, in order to carry on the affairs of the world ; for business, for improvement in knowledge and learning. J. Butler. vicious pleasure. SPEECH. Do you imagine that I can find materials for my daily speeches on such a variety of subjects, if I did not improve my mind by literary pursuits; or that I could bear up against such a strain, if I did not relieve it occasionally by philosophical inquiries 3 Cicero. It is a wise provision of Providence, that brutes and inferior animals have not the gift of speech ; it would provoke opposition and resistance to man, and destroy that patient obedience and submission which are necessary for their station in the syste- matic Order of the world. Acton. The most noble and profitable invention of all others was that of speech ; whereby men declare their thoughts one to another for mutual utility and conversation, without which there had been among men neither commonwealth nor Society, no more than among lions, bears, and wolves. - Chūjier. Internal speech maketh a man always agree with himself, it causeth him never to complain, never to repent : it maketh him full of peace, full of love and contentation in his own virtue, it healeth him of every rebellious passion which is disobe- dient to reason, and of all contentions between wit and will. Andrew Wissowatze. There are in all languages modes of speech, by which men signify their judgment or give their testimony, by which they accept or refuse, by which they ask information or advice, by which they command, or threaten, or supplicate, by which they plight their faith in promises or con- tracts ; if such operations were not common to mankind, we should not find in all languages forms of speech, by which they are expressed. T. Reid. SPENDTHRIFT. A spendthrift defrauds posterity. E. A. Howat. Never spend your money before you have it. T. Jefferson. Spend freely, give judiciously, but waste not. W. Kirwan. The spendthrift and fool gives away what he despises and hates. Horace. Spendthrifts economize in what they give ; the charitable in what they spend. Bovee. The son, bred in sloth, becomes a spendthrift, a profligate, and goes out of the world a beggar. Swift. The mansion of the spendthrift, however gor- geous, is destined to be invaded by remorse and consigned to contempt. Magoon. Avarice generally produces a reaction in those who witness its effects: the son of a miser Com- monly ends in being a spendthrift. Mrs. Moodie. The spendthrift, by not placing a sufficiently high estimate on money, to induce him to use it prudently, makes it the means of his speedy ruin, by wasting it in extravagant and foolish expendi- tures, perhaps in the indulgence of sensual and vi- L. C. Judson. A R O S E O U O 7" A T / O M S. S89 SPIRIT. Of spirit we know nothing. Lord Bolingbroke. We shall soon be in the world of spirits. Bradley. Mortals may learn to commune with spirits. John Dee. Some powerful spirit has the guardianship of my days. Ahasistari. He has a poor spirit who is not planted above petty wrongs. Feltham. There is an evil spirit continually active and in- tent to seduce. R. Sowth. The true philosophic spirit is more valuable than any limited attainments. Dr. Brown. An impatient and untutored spirit regrets and hates words of instruction. Ovid. A great and sacred spirit talks indeed within us, but cleaves to its divine original. Seneca. A noble spirit, whom virtue directs, accepts no advantage at the expense of honor. Cormeille. If the Spirit of God come not to our aid, our eyes may fail with looking for these much valued bless- ings. Rev. W. Lewis. Such as deny spirits subsistent without bodies, will with difficulty affirm the separate existence of their own. Sir T. Browne. He that loseth wealth, loseth much ; he that loseth friends, loseth more ; but he that loseth his spirits, loseth all. Cervantes. Wicked spirits may by their cunning carry far- ther in a seeming confederacy or subserviency to the designs of a good angel. Dryden. A noble spirit cannot develop his mental powers within a contracted circle ; his fatherland and the world must work on his mind. Goethe. A disdainful and haughty spirit in society has the very opposite effect that we wish, if it is to make ourselves esteemed and loved. Bruyère. Every man hath two spirits, evil and good ; when our good spirit prevails, we do noble things; when our evil spirit prevails, we do what is vile. Tasso. He alone will deserve the character of a man, who suffers not his spirit to be elated by the favor- able gales of fortune, nor to be broken by its ad- verse blasts. Livy. Those mercurial spirits, which were only lent the earth to show men their folly in admiring it, pos- sess delights of a nobler make and nature, which antedate immortality. Glanvill. No man that owns the existence of an infinite spirit can doubt of the possibility of a finite spirit : that is, such a thing as is immaterial, and does not contain any principle of corruption. Tillotson. There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom. Schiller. SPIRIT. In the work of creation, and in the work of the new creation, there is no motion until the Spirit of God moves ; if you cannot find this in your own heart, or in the world, it is worth observing how this truth runs through the Bible. Romaine. Anguish is so alien to man's spirit, that nothing is more difficult to will than contrition ; therefore God is good enough to afflict us, that our hearts, being brought low enough to feed on Sorrow, may the more easily sorrow for sin unto repentance. J. C. Hare. If these powers of cogitation, volition, and sen- sation, are neither inherent in matter as such, nor acquirable to matter by any motion and modifica- tion of it, it necessarily follows that they proceed from Some cogitative substance, some incorporeal inhabitant within us, which we call spirit. Bentley. High spirit in man is like a sword, which, though worn to annoy his enemies, yet is often troubled Some in a less degree to his friends ; he can hardly wear it so inoffensively, but it is apt to incommode One or other of the company ; it is more properly a loaded pistol, which accident alone may fire and kill one. Shenstone. SPIRITUALITY. There is no spiritual life without growth in grace. Gowlborn. How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them Confucius. God generally gives spiritual blessings and deli- verances as He does temporal. R. Sowth. Spiritual high water mark is seldom if ever at- tained except by a gradual rise in the tide of prin- ciple. - Bovee. The seas are not still while the winds blow ; neither can a man be spiritually alive while his affections are upon the earth. Downey. It is most conducive to spiritual health, to be im- pressed and affected, and to have old and known truths reduced to experience and practice. Sir M. Hale. It would be a false spirituality, indeed, which should lead us to consider in the light of an imper- fection, a recourse to prayer in the case of those preferences which pertain to the world of sense. Mime. Swetchine. SPITE. Spite shows emptiness of mind. Bernia. Spite is of no sex, and is common to both equally. Isabella Teotoki Albrizzi. When spite and impotence meet, nothing is more clamorous and extravagant. Mme. Clairon. Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language. Dickens. The petty spite of a faded beauty would gladly, if she dared, tear out the eyes of a younger rival, because she feels their lustre eclipses that of her OWI). Magoom. 890 AD A Y'S CO Z / A C O AW. SPORT. Life without sport is not life. Mary Breese. Sport is a preserver of health. Crates. What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse. Opitz. Sports are as necessary to divert the mind as the body. V. D. Phildréte. After serious matters, let us indulge in a season of sport. Horace. Sports are often resorted to, with good effect, to relieve anguish of mind. Dr. Rush. Sports are a most excellent device with which to test a man's character. Olaws Magnus. After a season of sport the mind is prepared to resume its studies with increased vigor. Phoedrus. It is never safe to sport with our own character, but to disappoint the mirth of those that wantonly seek to ridicule it. N. Macdonald. My chief regret for the advance of life is, that the infirmities of age compel me to renounce the enjoyment of field sports. Sir R. Walpole. Some of the old sports would be incompatible with the refinement of the present day, but others are of a nature less objectionable, and the memory of which is worthy of preservation. Dw Chaillow. A revival of some of the old sports and pastimes would probably be an improvement in national manners; and the modern attractions be benefi- cially exchanged for the more healthy recreations of former ages. Worse practises within doors it is to be feared, have succeeded the more open pas- times of the older time. John Stow. SPY. I am a soldier, not a spy. Major Andre. A domestic spy is the worst of evils. Thackeray. A true patriot can never act the part of a spy. J. How. I will not have mercy on a spy Hangman do your duty. W. Aleacander. Spies are the most infernal vermin that God hath ever permitted to crawl on the face of the earth, to poison civil Society. Sir R. Maltravers. The soldier who dies in the bloody onset of a for- lorn hope dies in honor ; but the man who is taken as a spy swings on the gibbet, an object of loathing and scorn. - G. Lippard. At Sparta the trade of a spy was not so vile as it has been generally esteemed ; it was considered as a self-devotion for the public good, and formed a part of their education. G. Crabb. A spy is a person sent into an enemy’s camp to inspect their works, ascertain their strength and their intentions, to watch their movements, and secretly communicate intelligence to the proper officer; by the laws of war among all civilized na- tions, a spy is subjected to capital punishment. N. Webster. SPRING. - Spring is the season of hope. Lady Blessington. Spring is the boyhood of the year. Tennyson. Spring is a beautiful piece of work. N. P. Willis. When spring arrives nature awakes. Geer. Spring is literally the season of growth. Rev. Richard Taylor. It is the swallow which announces the spring. Philemon. Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees. Cowper. Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. * Heber. Spring is the resurrection of Nature, after its winter of death. Mrs. C. V. Hamilton. Sweet spring is full of sweet days and roses; it is a box of variegated sweets. G. Herbert. Under the gay and renovating influence of spring, nature renews her charter to her sons. J. Demºvie. Spring, the jovial, playful infancy of all living creatures, represents childhood and youth. - Stillingfleet. The sparkling spring draws every day new col- ors, new insects, new flowers, out of the earth. Richter. What blooms so sweetly in spring often fades before autumn : there is one time for the blossom, another for the tomb. Rºwlanam. The angel of spring has rolled off the polar man- tle from the air and the earth, and is again breath- ing the kindling spirit of vitality into man and nature. Eliza A. Dupwy. Spring is a welcome transition from coldness to genial warmth ; it is a change from the barreness and tameness of the earth, to beauty and variety in the aspect of mature. Mrs. Burbwry. Spring is that season of preparation, renewed growth, and activity which tells of the commence- ment of mature's year, and speaks the newly-uttered blessing of Nature's God. F. W. P. Greenwood. Delightful is the return of spring ; happy the eyes that look on her in her beauteous drapery : happy the ears that hear her joyous sounds ; beau- tiful is earth, reviving is the air, pleasant is the light. Larrabee. When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun ; the germs which perish to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day. - Schiller. What man is there over whose mind a bright spring morning does not exercise a magic influence, carrying him back to the days of his childish sports, and conjuring up before him the old green field with its gently-waving trees, where the birds sang as he has never heard them since. Dickens. P R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 891 SPRING. It is inspiring and animating to witness the first awakening of spring ; to feel its warm breath stealing over the Senses ; to see the moist mellow earth beginning to put forth the green sprout and the tender blade : and the trees and shrubs, in their reviving tints and bursting buds, giving the pro- mise of returning foliage and flower. W. Irving. It is not the varigated colors, the cheerful sounds, and the warm breezes, which enliven us so much in spring ; it is the quiet prophetic spirit of endless hopes, a presentiment of many joyful days, of the happy existence of such manifold natures, the an- ticipation of higher everlasting blossoms and fruits, and the Secret sympathy with the world that is developing itself. Novalis. What if there was a spring time of blossoming but once or twice in a hundred years . How would men look forward to it, and old men, who had be- held its wonders, tell the story to their children, how Once all the homely trees became beautiful, and earth was covered with freshness and new growth ! How would young men hope to become old, that they might see so glad a sight ! T. Parkey'. A thousand welcomes to spring, though she can- not bring back, with all her flowers, the flower of our youth ; though she cannot, with all her poe- try, bring back the poetry of early love ; though she cannot repaint the rose on cheeks that are pil- lowed beneath the yew ; nor enable us to offer the first-gathered violets to the dear souls who are in heaven; yet she brings joy to the earth still. W. Howitt. If spring came but once in a century, instead of Once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change | But now the silent succes- Sion suggests nothing but necessity. To most men Only the cessation of the miracle would be mira- culous, and the perpetual exercise of God's power seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be. Longfellow. STABILITY. In life there is no stability. Cattho. There is no stability in this world of change. Swift. The wicked have no stability, for they do not re- main true to themselves. Aristotle. A thorough knowledge of the world will convince any man that stability as regards social life is un- known. Holyoke. Stability of character is essential for those who are to command, for how can they govern others who cannot govern their own thoughts 3 G. Crabb. In the region of chance and vanity, there is no- thing stable, nothing equal ; for that which we possess to-day, to-morrow may deprive us of. S. Rogers. With God there is no variableness, with man there is no stability ; virtue and vice divide the empire of his mind, and wisdom and folly alter- nately rule him. H. Blair. STAGE. Reform the stage. Rev. A. Bedford. Charlotte Clarke. W. Woodfall. J. Brinkley. A stage life is a life of folly. The stage is a school of manners. Stage plays unfit one for business. Let not the stage dishonor the state. Swmorokow. The stage is a school of immorality. J. Collier. By the stage the people learn history. Noeviws. - The stage represents fiction as if it were fact. Betterton. The life of a stage dancer is a poor thing at best. Miss M. E. Braddom. On the stage you see vice in its natural deform- ity. º T. Dwight. I never knew a lawful stage-play, comedy, or tragedy. R. Baacter. The stage is the field of the orator as well as the comedian. Roscius. No profane or indecent expression should be tol- erated on the stage. Dibdim. If a play is not fit for the stage, the audience will soon find it out. Fielding. The stage shows virtue her own feature, and scorn her own image. Shakspeare. The stage is more powerful than the platform, the press, or the pulpit. Anna E. Dickinson. The stage professes to show vice and folly their deformities as in a mirror. W. Dunlap. I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may se- cond the precepts. Dryden. The stage might be made a perpetual source of the most noble and useful entertainment, were it under proper regulations. Addison. Let us not attribute to the stage the power of changing opinions or manners, when it has only that of following and heightening them. Rousseaw. Wherever the stage is found corrupt with bad morals, it may be taken for granted that the na- tion has been corrupted before it ; when it labors under the evils of a bad taste, it may safely be con- cluded that that of the public has been previously vitiated. S. F. Bradford. The stage, when it was trodden by the members of the royal household, and on great occasions, by the graduates of universities and the students of inns of courts, was justly held the model of pro- nunciation ; but that golden age of dramatic lite- rature and dramatic life has long since passed away. |W. Russell. Where virtue obtains those rewards which hea- ven will bestow, and poetic justice should never withhold ; and where vice Smarts for its crimes, and is not rendered alluring by the attraction of pleasing qualities; then the stage may be consi- dered as an auxiliary to the pulpit—for morality and religion must ever be united. W. Mavor. S92 AD A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. STAR. There is no veil over a star. Awrelius. The stars are teachers of wisdom. Alphonso X. The stars are beneficial to mariners. J. Mair. The gods placed the stars in heaven. Aratus. An almanac is the voice of the stars. Moore. Through the stars cometh knowledge. Belws. New stars are constantly coming to light. Jean Dominique Cassini. Stars are best viewed from a mountain top. Aristarchws. Those who study the stars have Deity for their teacher. Tycho Brahe. The Infinite has sowed His name in the heavens in burning stars. Richter. The stars foreshadow not only the destiny of rulers, but of nations and all mankind. Ptolomy. Every mortal, at his birth, has a particular star, that presideth over his life and destiny. Mametho. To our eyes the stars seem small; but the little- ness is not the fault of the stars, but of our eyes. - Al-Ma'arri. The stars which light up the Milky Way seem like gray hairs upon the head of gloomy night. Ibn Darraj. The ignorant man takes counsel of the stars ; but the wise man takes counsel of God who made the stars. Jaafar. So shift the stars of heaven ; when one sets an- other appears, followed by others; their glory illu- minates the night. Abw Al-Kaimi. Man has a star in himself, which will raise him, though he has fallen, above the sun and the plan- ets that move in heaven. Erwºmmacher. These stars say something very significant to all of us, and each man has the whole hemisphere of them, if he will look up, to counsel and befriend him. Sir I. Newton. Induction warrants the opinion that the planets and the stars are tenanted, or are to be tenanted, by inhabitants endowed with reason ; for though man is but a new comer upon earth, the lower ani- mals had appeared through unnumbered ages, like a long twilight before the day. G. Bancroft. When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man ; thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. T. Carlyle. Among the countless multitude of such stars, visible in telescopes, there must be many whose light has taken at least a thousand years to reach us; and that when we observe their places, and note their changes, we are, in fact, reading only their history of a thousand years' date, thus won- derfully recorded. J. Herschel. STAR. How admirable is the symmetry of the stars; how grand and beautiful. Everything moves in sublime harmony in the government of God; not so with us poor creatures ; if one star is more bril- liant than others, it is continually shooting in Some erratic way into space. L. Kimemes. If the stars should appear one night in a thou- Sand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which have been shown But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. R. W. Emerson. All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to Our view, they never affect our minds, so natural is it for us to admire new, rather than grand objects. Therefore, the vast multitude of stars which diver- Sify the beauty of this immense body does not call the people together ; but when any change hap- pens therein, the eyes of all are fixed upon the hea- VellS. St. Basil. Though beautiful, their brightness passes swiftly away, for if the life of flowers is but one day, in one short might the brightest star expires, but still we ask from this fleeting spring-tide of the sky now our good, now our ill ; it is the register of our fate, whether the sun die or live. Oh what duration is there that men should hope 2 What change can be hoped from a star, that every night is born again and dies? Calderon. It is a truly sublime spectacle when the stars rise and set, and as it were divide existence into two portions; the one belonging to the earthly, whilst the other alone comes forth in sublimity, pomp, and majesty. Viewed in this light, the starry heavens truly exercise a moral influence over us ; and who can readily stray into the paths of immorality if he has been accustomed to live amidst such thoughts and feelings, and frequently to dwell upon them 2 Hwmboldt, STARVATION. Let not poor Nell starve. Charles II of England. Prefer starvation to begging. L. D'Boissy. It is a bad thing that people should starve. Lord Dwmraven. When a patriarch suffers starvation, he will steal like any other man. G. A. Potemken. The man who starves is looked upon by the world with contempt, as one lacking nerve, cour- age, and firmness. |W. Lawd. Oh it is terrible, that in this beautiful world, which the good God has given us, and in which there is plenty for us all, men should die of starva- tion. S. S. Prentiss. Starvation cannot be argued with : the gaunt spectre cannot be laid by speeches and resolutions. We must share our abundance of bread with the hungry. We are a great brotherhood, children of Him who our ancestors called the All-Father, and it is not for us to ask the old question of Cain, “Am I my brother's keeper ?” J. G. Whittier. A R O S E Q U O Z. A 7" / O M S. 893 STATE. The state | That is myself. Lowis XIV. The small states imitate the large. Mencius. Agrippa. Let not matters of state interfere with pleasure. Galliemºws. Through dissensions a state perishes. He who lives by the state should serve the state. G. A. Potemken. When the state cares for me, then I care for the State. Fra Diavolo. A state where right principles prevail needs no change. Tsze-Loo. A state without liberty is like a ship without a rudder. Acton. A state grows in power as its citizens become en- lightened. R. S. Storrs. The state belongs to no man, but every man be- longs to the state. Cincinnatus. The true glory of a state is prosperity at home and respect abroad. John De Witt. The principal foundation of all states are good laws and good arms. Machiavelli. A state at home is known by its statesmen, abroad by its ambassadors. F. Aarsens. The greatness of a state does not depend upon the number of its square miles. W. Ellery. A state should not be jealous of wise, good, and great men, but employ them. Duke of Tsin. A state has power to add to itself, but no power to dismember a part of itself. Gamesvort Melville. The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. J. Stuart Mill." A state would be happy if philosophers were kings, or kings were philosophers. Plato. No state can possibly preserve itself free, unless it be a match for neighboring powers. Thucydides. That state is best ordered, where the wicked have no command and the good have. Ryder. The State is to its citizens the rule of right, the very embodiment of inviolable justice. Puryear. The ruin of a state is generally preceded by a universal degeneracy of manners, and contempt of religion. Swift. When changes and innovations are proposed in a state, it is not so much the things as the time that is to be considered. Bruyère. Whatever rights belong to each state separately, before they were united, will afterwards be the rights of the collective state. Grotius. In a free country there is much clamor with lit- tle suffering ; in a despotic state, there is little complaint, but much suffering. Carmot, The multiplying of nobility brings a state to ne- cessity ; and in like manner when more are bred scholars than preferments can take off. Bacon. STATE. The only stable state is that where every one possesses an equality in the eye of the law, accord- ing to his merit, and enjoys his own unmolested. Aristotle. In every state there must be, somewhere, an ab- solute and irresistible power over the people ; but this is to be rightly understood, or it will lead to mistakes. J. Burgh. It is no impossible thing for states, by an over- sight in some one act or treaty between them and their potent opposites, utterly to cast away them- selves forever. R. Hooker. I would not make any one ruler of a state or general of an army on account of his wealth ; the leader should have wisdom ; every man sage in counsel is a leader. Euripides. Revolutions of states, many times, make way for new institutions and forms; and often determine in either setting up some tyranny at home, or bringing in some conquest from abroad. - -- Sir W. Temple. Luxury and excessive refinement in states are the sure presage of their downfall, because every individual being given up to the pursuit of his own selfish interests, the public good is neglected. + Rochefoucauld. No great state can remain long at rest ; if it has no enemies abroad, it finds them at home ; as over- grown bodies seem safe from external injuries, but suffer grievous inconveniences from their own strength. Livy. The first duty of a state is to provide for its own conservatism ; until that point is secured, it can preserve and protect nothing else ; but if possible, it has greater interest in acting according to strict law than even the subject himself. Burke. A state may alter two different ways, either by the amendment or by the corruption of the consti- tution ; if it has preserved its principles and the constitution changes, it is owing to its amendment ; if upon changing the constitution its principles are lost, it is because it has been corrupted. Montesquiew. The condition of the state or kingdom is always the test of the wisdom and the justice of the gov- ernors ; and that country which is governed with the most consistency of political justice will be the most tranquil, and consequently the most flourish- ing ; for private people will then have leisure to attend to their private affairs. Sir R. Maltravers. All countries cannot be happy at once ; for, be- cause the glory of one state depends upon the ruin of another, there is a revolution and vicissitude of their greatness; and they must obey the swing of that wheel, not moved by intelligences; but by the hand of God, whereby all estates arise to their zenith and vertical points, according to their pre- destined periods; for the lives, not only of men, but of commonwealths, and the whole world, run not upon a helix that still enlargeth, but on a cir- cle, where arriving to their meridian, they decline in obscurity, and fall under the horizon again. Sir T. Browne. 894 A) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. STATESM.A.N. Great statesmen are few in any country. Tilton. It is not right for a statesman to sleep to whom nations, and the public weal are intrusted. Homer. True statesmanship is the art of changing a na- tion from what it is into what it ought to be. W. R. Alger. He can never be a good statesman, who respect- eth not the public more than his own private in- terest. Lord Bwrleigh. He that seeks safety in a stateman's pity, may as well run a ship upon sharp rocks, and hope a harbor. Howard. The politician should be merged and forever lost in the Christian statesman, and not the Christian in the politician. W. Archer Cocke. A statesman who begins to displease is ever walking on a precipice, and is no longer able to take a step which shall be of any importance. Sturz. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them. T. Moore. I look upon an able statesman out of business like a huge whale, that will endeavor to overturn the ship unless he has an empty cask to play with. Steele. The honest and upright statesman pays no re- gård to the popular voice except with this view, that the confidence it procures him may facilitate his designs, and crown them with success. Plutarch. Everything that regards statesmanship and the interest of the world, is in all outward respects of the greatest importance ; it creates and destroys in a moment the happiness, even the very exist- ence, of thousands. Humboldt. A statesman may do much for commerce, most by leaving it alone. A river never flows so smooth- ly, as when it follows its own course, without either aid or check ; let it make its own bed ; it will do so better than you can. J. C. Hare. He alone deserves the name of a great statesman, whose principle it is to extend the power of the peo- ple in proportion to the extent of their knowledge, and to give them every facility for obtaining such a degree of knowledge as may render it safe to trust them with absolute power. T. B. Macawlay. A statesman who is ignorant of the way in which events have originated, and who cannot tell from what circumstances they have arisen, may be com- pared to a physician who fails to make himself ac- quainted with the causes of those diseases which he is called in to cure ; they are both equally useless and worthless. Polybius. It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do ; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say: hence they have one code of maxims for profession, and an- other for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use. Colton. STATES MAN. In affairs of state, the man who looks only at forms of laws, and at the daily routine of govern- ment, is but a politician ; while he who compre- hends those great, stately principles which walk, known or disguised, through all things, and who looks forth with clear vision to see the bearing of the present upon the future, is a statesman. H. W. Beecher. The mathematical statesman individualizes man; the metaphysical statesman generalizes him, and decides my proposition, that the human mind is the channel for the operation of great principles. The first lives in time, seems impatient of its mo- mentary loss ; the latter dwells without time, and calculates the great results of the operation of prin- ciples. Sir R. Maltravers. A statesman stands on a hill ; he looks farther in all directions than the people standing at the base can see : when he points out the course they ought to take for safety they are suspicious that he is misleading them ; when they have at last viewed the summit from which he pointed their way, they then correct their misjudgment ; but although this may be sufficient for them, it comes too late for the statesman. Wan Siang. It is generally true in respect to great statesmen that they owe their celebrity almost entirely to their public and official career ; they promote the welfare of mankind by directing legislation, found- ing institutions, negotiating treaties of peace or of commerce between rival states, and guiding, in various other ways, the course of public and na- tional affairs, while their individual and personal influence attracts very little regard. Jacob Abbott. The true genius of a statesman that conducts a state is he who, doing nothing himself, causes every- thing to be done ; he contrives, he invents, he fore- sees the future, he reflects on what is past, he distri- butes and proportions things ; he makes early pre- parations, he incessantly arms himself to struggle against fortune, as a swimmer against a rapid stream of water ; he is attentive night and day, that he may leave nothing to chance. Telemachws. If a statesman will consider the true interest of his country ; if he will engage his country in nei- ther alliances nor quarrels; if he will raise no money but what is wanted ; nor employ any civil or military officers but what are useful ; and place in those employments men of the greatest abilities, and employ some few of his hours to advance our trade ; if a minister would do this, he will either have no opposition to baffle, or he will baffle it by a fair appeal to his conduct. Fielding. The true statesman is inviolably constant to his principles of virtue and religious prudence ; his ends are noble, and the means he uses innocent ; he hath a single eye on the public good ; and if the ship of state miscarry, he had rather perish in the wreck than preserve himself upon the plank of an inglorious subterfuge. His worth hath led him to the helm ; the rudder he uses is an honest and vi- gorous wisdom ; the star he looks to for direction is in heaven, and the port he aims at is the joint welfare of prince and people. G. Bancroft. A A' O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. STATION. A high station bringeth envy. Gwevard. Virtue and goodness are confined to no station. W. Dodd. A great station requires great labor and great abilities. Emperor Maaciminus Throac. A low station with safety is better than a high one with danger. Damocles. The higher the station, the greater will be the danger of falling. Arcadius. No one has arrived at a high station, without undergoing some hazard. Publius Syrws. The rarest virtues often are found in persons of the lowest stations in life. Withwng. Station is no criterion of wisdom; Diogenes lived in a tub, Seneca in a palace. E. P. Day. He is the noblest who has raised himself by his own merit to a higher station. Cicero. In a high station the wise man is not proud ; in a low station he is not insubordinate. Tsze-Sze. To live above our station shows a proud heart ; and to live under it discovers a narrow soul. G. G. Vincent. Act as becometh thee in thy present station ; and in a more exalted one thou shalt not be ashamed. R. Dodsley. No person has a claim to respectability in a pub- lic station, that is infamous or disgraceful in pri- vate capacity. N. Macdonald. When the man of high station is well instructed, he loves men ; when the man of low station is well instructed, he is easily ruled. Confucius. Can you fit yourself for usefulness on earth, or happiness in heaven, in any other way than doing your duty in the station in which God has placed you ? Mrs. Martha L. Ramsey. How happy the station which every minute fur- nishes opportunities of doing good to thousands ! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injury of millions ! Bruyère. Those who pass their lives sunk in obscurity, if they have committed any offense through the im- pulse of passion, few know of it ; their reputation and fortune are alike ; those who are in great command and in an exalted station, have their deeds known to all men. Sallust. Low station is no obstacle to God's favor ; St. John was the Son of a fisherman : recommended to Our Savior neither by refinement of education nor by honorable employment, he was diligently en- gaged in the labors of an humble occupation when chosen to accompany his Lord. Mant. The difference of station between the rich and the poor seems to consist in this, that the one lives in the parlor, and the other in the kitchen ; and the want of harmony between them arises from One party not being always able to understand its true position in regard to the other. Acton. STATUES. Venerate the statues. Julian. Public statues are memorials of glory. Ramage. A statue seldom comes up to the idea of him who designs it. Thorwaldsen. The motionless statue, which has been carved in stone, ever keeps the same unalterable mien. Schiller. It is better that people should inquire why a man has not a statue erected to his memory, than why he has. Cato. Neither the higher arts nor the civic virtues can flourish extensively without the statues of illustri- OUIS IllèIl. W. S. Landor. Men and statues that are admired in an elevated situation, have a very different effect upon us when we approach them ; the first appear less, the last bigger. Lord Greville. The erection of statuary at the public expense is chiefly confined to the representation of men cele- brated for their learning and talents, and who have rendered important service to the state. J. Gwilt. If our grief is alleviated by gazing on the pic- tures of departed friends in our houses, how much more pleasure is there in viewing those public sta- tues of them, which are memorials not only of their air and countenance, but of the honor and esteem with which they were regarded by their fellow-citizens. Pliny. STATUTE. God's statutes are in the Bible. Acton. A statute | What is a statute 3 Words: mere words. Lord Hermand. The statutes of a people should be the bulwark of their liberties. James Ellis. The language of written statutes shall be con- strued, as far as possible, in accordance with na- tural law. Lord A. Hervey. If precedents, authorities, or even statutes, are allowed any further force than as subordinate helps to ascertain justice, they become traps and nets rather than guides or defences. W. Goodell. Such is the imperfection of language and want of technical skill in the makers of law, that statutes often give occasion to the most perplexing and dis- tressing doubts and discussions, arising from the ambiguity that attends them. Kent. As useless statutes debilitate such as are neces- sary, so those that may be easily eluded, weaken the legislation. Every statute ought to have its effect, and no one should be ever suffered to devi- ate from it by a particular convention. Montesquiew. Statutes are distinguished from common laws; the latter owes its binding force to the principles of justice, to long use, and the consent of a nation : the former owe their binding force to a positive command or declaration of the Supreme power. N. Webster. 896 AN A Y'S CO Z Z A CO W. STEADFASTNESS. A wise man is steadfast as the Sun. W. Jewel. Steadfastness is a point of prudence as well as of courage. L'Estrange. Steadfastness of purpose will remove the obsta- cles that obstruct the path of renown. J. Linem. Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness. Swartz. There is nothing steadfast in life but our memo- ries; we are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost. Mme. Swetchine. It does not matter a feather whether a man be Supported by patron or client, if he himself wants steadfastness and courage. Plawtws. STEAT, ING. Do not steal. John Todd. To steal is disgraceful. Gawtoma. Stealing is inimical to man. Castro. Stealing is the taking from another what is his, without his knowledge or allowance. J. Locke. The hands and fingers have a good deal to do with stealing ; and the history of many a man's life is written by his ten fingers. Cervantes. To constitute stealing or theft, the taking must be felonious, that is, with an intent to take what belongs to another, and without his consent. Sir W. Blackstone. STEAMI. Steam is the wings of civilization. W. Mason. Steam does for navigation what printing accom- plishes for literature. Acton. Steam-engines furnish the means not only of their support, but of their multiplication. J. Weiss. In its present perfect state the steam-engine ap- pears a thing almost endowed with intelligence. Armott. The application of steam to shipping deserves to be ranked among the greatest discoveries ever made. Rev. R. Robbins. When building my first steamboat, the project was viewed by the public either with indifference or contempt, as a visionary Scheme. R. Fwlton. There is a power in steam that might cleave the solid earth in twain, and yet so gentle that it may be governed, and applied, and set to perform its stupendous miracles by a child. Chatfield. The temperature and pressure of steam produced by immediate evaporation, when it has received no heat save that which it takes from the water, have a fixed relation one to the other. T. Galloway. Steam-engines, by the cheapness and steadiness of their action, fabricate cheap goods, and procure in their exchange a liberal supply of the necessa- ries and comforts of life, produced in foreign lands. Ure. Call. STOICISM. It is the doctrine of the stoics that a wise man should be impassionate. J. Hall. The stoics taught that happiness was only to be found in the practise of virtue. Savage. The duties that depend upon the affections would be but feebly performed were a system of stoicism established. Mrs. Sigowrmey. The stoics' universal recipe for the cure of af- fliction was to change their opinions of them, and esteem them not real evils. O. Buck. Reason recognizes as little the romantic and unearthly reveries of stoicism, as she does the doctrines of health-destroying and mind-debasing debauchery. R. D. Owen. The stoics looked upon all passions as sinful de- fects and irregularities, as so many deviations from right reason ; making passion to be only another name for perturbation. R. Sowth. While the stoics looked upon riches, human gram- deur, grief, disquietude, and pleasure, as vanity, they were entirely employed in laboring for the happiness of mankind, and in exercising the duties of society. Montesquiew. The stoics removed pain, poverty, loss of friends, exile, and violent death, from the catalogue of evils; and passed, in their haughty style, a kind of irreversible decree, by which they forbade them to be counted any longer among the objects of ter- ror or anxiety, or to give disturbance to the tram- quility of a wise man. Dr. Johnson. STOMA.C.H. The stomach is the epicure's deity. Chatfield. The stomach is the seat of thought. Buffon. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Fanny Ferm. It is good sense not to give the stomach all it A. Cazenave. CI’a, VeS. A stomach that is seldom empty despises com- mon food. Horace. When the stomach doth strive with wit, the match is not equal. R. Hooker. It is not courage but stomach that makes people break rather than bend. L’Estrange. The stomach is the master of all art, and the bounteous giver of all genius. Persiv.s. A man who employs people to work for him, should not be more careful to feed his stomach than his hands. G. D. Premtice. Divine Providence has given to all creatures that wonderful faculty of the stomach to dissolve all the several sorts of food appropriated to their spe- cies. Derham. The stomach listens to no precepts ; it begs and clamors; and yet it is not an obdurate creditor; it is dismissed with a small payment, if only you give it what you owe, and not as much as you Semeca. A A' O S A. Q U O Z. A 7" / O AW S. 897 STORMI, Sudden storms are short. Shakspeare. The storm will have its way. Damhouder. In calm weather look out for a storm. J. Cririe. Compared to some storms death is but a calm. J. Donne. As a storm purifies the air, so does misfortune sweeten life. Percival. Summer storms are soft and fertilizing : winter storms are bleak and destructive. G. S. Bowes. It is in the torrid zone that storms display the greatest violence, and rage with most destructive fury. H. Raper. In a storm at sea no one on board can wish the ship to sink ; and yet not unfrequently all go down together, because no single mind can be allowed to control. 4. Lincoln. Storms sweeten the air ; the blessings of heaven come out of dark clouds; sorrows and conflicts appear to the son of earth, that he may produce in himself the fruit of improvement. Krwmmacher. What can be more magnificent than a snow- storm, where ten thousand flakes are whirled in circling eddies, and drifts are formed that might almost bury an army in their bosom. W. Godwin. As storm following storm, and wave succeeding wave, give additional hardness to the shell that encloses the pearl, so do the storms and waves of life add force to the character of man. Blessington. The awful scenes of storms and tempest, thunder and lightning, are sometimes presented to our eyes to teach us the majesty and greatness of the Crea- tor; but in these, as well as in more pleasing and cheerful scenes, God appears as the friend and benefactor of mankind. Sturm. STRANGER. Mock not the stranger. Havørnøl. Stranger is a holy name. Sir W. Scott. It is the practice of little dogs to bark at stran- gers. Seneca. To build up a city, let it be proclaimed an asylum for strangers. Romwlws. When friends desert us let us invite strangers to be our friends. Psammitichºws. The stranger to us may not be so to God ; and he may claim Him for his Father. E. P. Day. A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman. Pythagoras. The laws of hospitality require us to treat stran- gers with more ceremony than we do members of the same family, or very intimate friends. Crabb. Few things are more perplexing, than that re- straint with which we first meet a stranger ; we do not know whether it is best to advance or to re- treat ; to smile, or to look grave. Acton." STORY. Never tell long stories. H. Stephens. Tell stories to the children. Frederika Bremer. A story is another mame for a lie. De Quincey. A story is old from the first time it is told. G. W. Quinby. It is not children only that one amuses with sto- ries. Lessing. There must be some ground for the imagination of story-tellers. Jules Verne. Let not mothers frighten their children by tell- ing them foolish stories. Plato. A story will hold a child by the ear for hours together, and men are but grown children. R. Cecil. The very opposite of the stories which circulate respecting affairs and persons is often the truth. Bruyère. Stories from life, however striking and wonder- ful, will seldom impress so powerfully as those which are drawn from the world of spirits. Crabb. Surprise is so much the life of stories, that every One aims at it who endeavors to please by telling them ; there is a set of men who outrage truth, in- stead of affecting us with a manner in telling it. Addison. Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable de- fects, frequent repetition and being soon exhaus- ted ; so that whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company. Swift. The repetition of an old story is just the fairest charm of domestic discourse ; if we can often re- peat to ourselves sweet thoughts without ennºni, why should not another be suffered to awaken them within us still oftener ? Richter. Stories that are very common are generally irk- some ; but may be aptly introduced provided they be only hinted at, and mentioned by way of allu- sion ; those that are altogether new should never be ushered in without a short and pertinent cha- racter of the chief persons concerned, because by that means you may make the company acquainted with them. Steele. STRATAG-EMI. Stratagem is an art. Seneca. Stratagems are allowed in love and war. Day. Life is a stratagem, for all live to deceive one another. James Ellis. A stratagem is no stratagem if it be not artfully planned. Planttus. Stratagem is a display of art in plotting and contriving—a disguised mode of obtaining an end. R. Rapin. Stratagems are allowable not in war only, but the writer of a novel or a play may sometimes adopt a successful stratagem to cause the reader a surprise. G. Crabb. 57 S98 D A Y’.S CO / Z A C O AV. STFENGTH. - We live by our strength. Galem. Strength commands respect. Olive R. Seward. Strength avails not a coward. Rabelais. Strength is the glory of a sovereign. Commodus. Man is a singular compound of strength and weakness. J. De Mille. The strength even of weak men when united avails much. Homer. Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself. Horace. Why should man boast of his strength ; is not the horse stronger than he 3 Confucius. Strength is born in the deep silence of long- suffering hearts, not amidst joy. Mrs. Hemans. A man of strength will not let weeds cover his farm, nor enemies overcome him. Wakatantki. Strength is desirable, yet not a matter for boast- ing ; for in this bulls and wild animals are superior to us. - Dionysius. Samson, like many other heroes, showed his strength among men, and his weakness among WOII len. J. Linem. The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength ; it is the maximum of the savage. Novalis. The exhibition of real strength is never gro- tesque ; distortion is the agony of weakness; it is the dislocated mind whose movements are spas- modic. R. A. Willmott. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been des- troyed by a false appreciation of their own strength. Colton. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength ; it is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. Swift. By relying on our own resources, we acquire mental strength ; but when we lean on others for support, we are like an invalid who having accus- tomed himself to a crutch, finds it difficult to walk without one. Lady Blessington. Strength alone knows conflict; weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished : the decline of our bodily strength necessarily retards our steps; but it draws its principle from the soul and its in- stincts, and its aims remained unchanged. Mme. Swetchime. When a man goes in the fullness of his strength upon any enterprise, how do his blood and spirits triumph beforehand l No motion of hand or foot is without a sensible delight. The strength of a man's spirit is unmistakably more than that of the outward man : its faculties and powers more re- fined and raised ; and hence are rational or intel- lectual exercises and operations much more delight- ful than corporal ones can be. J. Howe. STRIFE. Enter into strife with no man. Rabbi Eleazar. How pleasant to pass life peacefully, far removed from strife. Udaijim. He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it. T. James. Strife may be carried on between students or be- tween mechanics. N. Webster. The common principles of politeness forbid strife among persons of good breeding. G. Crabb. A solid and substantial greatness of Soul places a man above the strife of tongues. Addison. As we see one coal kindle another, and wood to be apt matter to make a fire, so those that are dis- posed to contention and brawling are apt to kindle strife. Cawdray. I have always found that to strive with a supe- rior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base ; with any, full of un- Quietness. J. Hall. Would that strife were far removed from gods and mem—and anger, which impels even the wisest to violence, which mounts in the breast of man like smoke, and is sweeter to the taste than honey. Homer. Oceans of ink, reams of paper, and disputes in- finite, might have been spared, if wranglers had avoided lighting the torch of strife at the wrong end ; since a tenth part of the pains expended in attempting to prove the why, the where, and the when, certain events have happened, would have been more than sufficient to prove that they never happened at all. Colton. STUBEORNINESS. Stubborness knows not its own defeat. E. P. Day. It is better to be stubborn than weak. Shaw. I stubborn and you stubborn, who is to carry the load 3 Cervantes. Stubbornness is usually the companion of igno- rance and pride. Mrs. L. N. Ramyard. A stubborn man is one who will not yield to an- other equally stubborn. * A. Bell. Stubbornness and an obstinate disobedience must be mastered with blows. J. Locke. A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to hap- piness. R. Southey. Stubbornness is mostly inherent in a person's na- ture ; stubborn children are troublesome subjects of education, and will baffle the utmost skill and patience. G. Crabb. Stubbornness denotes weakness of judgment and obstinacy of mind; and they who assume credit for consistency, even in adhering to errors, doc- trines, and opinions, which have long become ex- ploded, and which were originally adopted from delusive views or wrong and mistaken motives, have no right to expect others to be as stubborn as themselves. James Ellis. Z2 A: O S E Q U O 7" A T / O AV S. 899 © STUDENT. STUDY. A student prefers honor to fame. Cicero. Study is no trifle. Plato. Student is a title which even a modest man may Study is creative power. Lilienthal. claim. P. J. Bailey. --- --- Study adorns all stations. R. Amaseo. Before one can become a student he must learn --- how to study. E. Rich. Employ your leisure in study. J. Stwºm. The student having completed his learning, should apply himself to become a man. Tsze-hea. One very useful precept for students is, never to remain long puzzling out any difficulty. Whately. Speculative studies are useful to prepare the way for other kinds of learning, by sharpening the ingenuity of the student. Vives. A single hour in the day steadily given to the study of some interesting subject brings accumu- lations of knowledge to the student. Channing. The indolent student and the diligent minister, the diligent student and the indolent minister, are seldom found in the same person. R. W. Hamilton. A few books well studied, and thoroughly di- gested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use. F. Osborn. The most successful students seldom study over six hours in a day ; in this I include nothing of recitations, of desultory, half-formed impulses of the mind; but I mean real, hard, study. Dr. Todd. The great mistake of those who are ardent stu- dents is to trust too much to their books, and not to draw from their own resources, not recollecting that of all sophists our own reason is almost always that which abuses us least. Rousseau. The greater part of students are not born with abilities to construct systems, or advance know- ledge ; nor can they have any hope beyond that of becoming intelligent hearers in the Schools of art, of being able to comprehend what others discover, and to remember what others teach. Dr. Johnson. There is a reason why students prefer the night to the day for their labors. Through the day their thoughts are diverted into a thousand streams ; but at night they settle into pools, which, deep and undisturbed, reflect the stars; but night labor, in time will destroy the student ; for it is marrow from his own bones with which he fills his lamp. H. W. Beecher, The closer the student keeps to the qualities of the author he is reading the more he will be im- proved ; he will be furnished, perhaps, with an Opening to his own faults in speaking, and those points of excellence which he should endeavor to imitate ; his taste will improve, his imagination become more vigorous, his judgment more correct ; the student who obtains this accurate knowledge of books will resemble a merchant on 'change, who knows very nearly the value of every one on his walk; if his library be small, it will be select ; it will contain no literary rubbish, or, if he should have any such commodities, they will be known by the dust that covers them, or by the remote place they occupy. Dr. Sturtevant. Study mankind as well of books. Lord Crewe. Study should be made attractive. L. Gawltier. To the studious study is happiness. Tychsen. Study is best pursued in retirement. Ma-Koang. Study opens the treasures of antiquity. Ashmole. Study is the bridal-chamber of the mind. Richter. Study raises disputes and reconciles them. Apono. The better we pray, the better we study. Dr. Doddridge. It is more necessary to study men than books. Rochefoucauld. Study, and what you do not know you will learn. Myconiws. There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. Cicero. It is not study alone that produces a writer—it is intensity. Cowmtess d’Arbomwille. Prayer without study is presumption ; and study without prayer atheism. Bishop Sanderson. Every man should pursue such studies as are best suited to his wit and genius. J. Huarte. As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies, a dull brain. Longfellow. I can ill afford to leave my studies, and waste valuable time in making money. Agassiz. I will not be hindered from prosecuting my stu- dies by all the gold in the world. Erasmus. There is no study that is not capable of delight- ing us after a little application to it. Pope. He who studies cannot follow a commercial life: neither can the merchant devote his time to study. Talmud. As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies. Melmoth. Study gives strength to the mind, conversation grace ; the first is apt to give stiffness, the other Suppleness. Sir W. Temple. We must be careful that our studies draw us to the Bible, instead of merely drawing the Bible to our studies. C. Bridges. Study is the bane of boyhood, the aliment of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the resto- rative of age. W. S. Londor. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men ; it is study that teaches him his genuine worth. Goethe. 900 A) A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. STUDY. It is a great evil that a crowd of studies be un- dertaken at one time, all carried on together, and all alike neglected. N. A. Calkins. He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be ; and he that studies men, will know how things are. Colton. Study detains the mind by a perpetual occur- rence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination. I. Watts. All who would study with advantage, in any art, ought to betake themselves to the reading of some sure and certain books. R. Whately. If our painful peregrinations in studies be desti- tute of a supreme light, it is nothing else but a miserable kind of wandering. Scaliger. There are many youths, and some men, who most earnestly devote themselves to solitary stu- dies, from the mere love of the pursuit. Percival. Study is the delight of old age, the support of youth, the ornament of prosperity, the solace and refuge of adversity, and the comfort of domestic life. R. I. Wilberforce. If a man really loves study, has an eager attach- ment to the acquisition of knowledge, nothing but misfortune will prevent him being a successful Student. Dr. Stuart. A little study is oftentimes injurious : it leads us away from the natural and the true, gives us dis- torted views of things, and fills us with conceit and pedantry. E. Davies. There is no business, no vocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclina- tion, to give a little time every day to the studies of his youth. Wyttenbach. Much study drieth up the sweetest moisture in the body, whether blood or marrow ; consumeth the cheerful spirits, and so breedeth morosity and harshness. Rev. J. Cotton. The object of all studies should be, neither celeb- rity, advantage, nor knowledge for its own sake, but furniture to enable you to serve God in your generation. T. Scott. The accuracy of study is of far greater import- ance than its extent ; a little, well-digested in a good, serious mind, will go a great way, and will lay in materials for a whole life. Bishop Burnet. Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind. Montaigme. There are three gradations in the modes of study —hearing, teaching, writing ; it is a good and easy method to hear, it is a better and easier to teach, and the best and easiest of all to write. Ringelberg. Study has something cloudy and melancholy in it, which spoils that natural cheerfulness and de- prives a man of that readiness of wit and free- dom of fancy, which are required toward a polite conversation. St. Evremond. STUDY. There is no royal road to any study, to achieve- ment or success anywhere ; it is by the old plebian path of rugged toil that men reach the heights of attainment and the temple of fame. E. Foster. If you would study astronomy, study geometry; if you would study anatomy, study mechanics ; and if you would study the effect of any or all education upon human conduct, study history. E. D. Mansfield. You are to come to your study as to the table, with a sharp appetite, whereby that which you read may the better digest ; he that has no stom- ach to his book will very hardily thrive upon it. Bedford. There is no impediment but may be wrought out by fit study, where every defect of the mind has its proper remedy : those that have the excellent faculty of using all they know can never know too much. Lady Gethim. A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually ad- hering to it, he may enjoy a ready access to such other fields of knowledge as are most nearly re- lated to it. Sir J. Stephem. How our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the ap- plication which we bestow upon it ! Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an en- tertainment. Addison. As in a man's life, so in his studies, I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness. Pliny. If you devote your time to study, you will avoid all the irksomeness of this life : nor will you long for the approach of night, being tired of the day ; nor will you be a burden to yourself, nor your so- ciety insupportable to others. Seneca. Whatever study tends neither directly nor indi- rectly to make us better men and citizens, is at best a specious and ingenious sort of idleness, and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind of ignorance—nothing more. Bolingbroke. Let thy studies be free as thy thoughts and con- templations; but fly not only upon the wing of imagination; join sense unto reason, and experi- ment unto speculation, and so give life unto em- bryon thoughts and verities yet in their chaos. Sir T. Browne. All study is not reading, any more than all read- ing is study: the young, it is often said, has gen- ius enough, if he would only study : now the truth is, that genius will study ; it is that in the mind which does study ; that is the very nature of it. O. Dewey. The ancient practice of allowing land to remain fallow for a season is now exploded, and a succes- sion of different crops found preferable ; the case is similar with regard to the understanding, which is more relieved by change of study than by total inactivity. W. B. Clwlow. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 901 STUDY. He who studies the works of nature, learns to be wise; if we study only the works of men, we take the copy instead of the original ; and if the copy be imperfect, our impressions of an imperfect copy are still further removed from truth, and are often nothing more than shadows of shades. Actom. It is not the quantity of study that one gets through, or the amount of reading, that makes a wise man ; but the appositeness of the study to the purpose for which it is pursued ; the concentration of the mind, for the time being, on the subject un- der consideration ; and the habitual discipline by which the whole system of mental application is regulated. Smiles. There are certain faces for certain painters, as well as certain subjects for certain poets. This is as true in the choice of studies ; and no one will ever relish an author thoroughly well who would not have been fit company for that author, had they lived at the same time ; all others are me- chanics in learning, and take the sentiments of writers like waiting-servants, who report what passed at their master's table, but debase every thought and expression, for want of the air with which they were uttered. Steele. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability; their chief use for delight is in solitude and retirement ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of busi- ness; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but general counsels and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ormament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar ; they per- fect nature and are perfected by experience. Bacon. STUPIDITY. Stupidity is strong, most strong. T. Carlyle. Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain. - Schiller; A stupid story will sometimes make one laugh more than wit. Walpole. A stupid butt is only fit for the conversation of ordinary people. - - Addison. It shows much more stupidity to be grave at a good thing, than to be merry at a bad one. Colton. Stupidity belongs to no station in life : it is as often found beneath silks and broadcloth as calico and homespun. E. P. Day. It is difficult to decide which is most entitled to pity, he who is innoculated with stupidity, or he who has come by it in the natural way. Prentice. Nothing is more difficult than to distinguish in children real stupidity from that apparent and de- ceitful stupidity, which is the precursor of great IIle11. Rowsseaw. We do not believe in great stupidity as a com- mon natural gift ; doubtless, it sometimes is so ; but as seen among grown-up people, it is often ar- tificial. Dickens. STYLE. A man's style is the man himself. Buffon. Style is the physiognomy of the mind. Schopenhaufer. Style in writing is like style in dress, a good fit. H. W. Shaw. Style may be defined as proper words in proper places. Swift. Style cannot be taught, and can hardly be ac- quired. R. G. White. A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. H. Ballow. A pure style in writing results from the rejec- tion of everything superfluous. Mme. Necker. Let your style be clear—a plain, honest, English style, with point and pith in it. A. Raleigh. We ought, above all things, to aim at clearness of expression ; an obscure style is a bad style. W. C. Bryant. There is nothing in words and styles but suita- bleness that makes them acceptable and effective. Glanvill. The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Qwincey. Submit your sentiments with diffidence; a dic- tatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust. Washington. When we meet with a natural style, we are sur- prised and delighted, for we expected to find an author, and we have found a man. Pascal. Style is everything, the substance of what is com- municated little or nothing, after we have come to possess a certain measure of intelligence. Bovee. A great writer possesses, so to speak, an indivi- dual and unchangeable style, which does not per- mit him easily to preserve the anonymous. Voltaire. I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular ; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an equality. Shenstone. Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together; obscurity and af- fectation are the two greatest faults of style. T. B. Macaulay. Style in painting is the same as in writing, a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed. Sir J. Reynolds. A concise comprehensive style is a great orna- ment in narration ; and a superfluity of unneces- sary words, no less than circumstances, a great nuisance. Rames. Words are most effective when arranged in that order which is called style ; the great secret of a good style, we are told, is to have proper words in proper places. E. P. Whipple. 2-2. 902 A) A Y',S C O Z Z A C O AV. STYLE. * With many readers brilliancy of styles passes for affluence of thought : they mistake butter-cups in the grass for immeasurable mines of gold under ground. Longfellow. Justness of thought and style, refinement in manners, good-breeding and politeness of every kind, can come only from the trial and experience of what is best. Duncan. The man who preaches from the heart to the heart can hardly help preaching so that there shall be a naturalness in his style, and that will be the best style for him. H. W. Beecher. Let the style be pure, simple, perspicuous, and open ; full of weight and seriousness ; neither af- fecting elegance on the one hand, nor despising gracefulness on the other. St. Ambrose. It is not easy to give a precise idea of what is meant by style ; the best definition I can give of it is, the peculiar manner in which a man expresses his conceptions by means of language. H. Blair. Let the man who despises style, and says that he attends to the matter, recollect that if the lace is Sold at a higher price than the noble metal, it owes its chief value to its elegance, and not to its mate- rial. Yriarte. To have a good style in writing you should have none ; as perfect beauty of face consists in the ab- Sence of any predominant feature. Mannerism, whether in writing or painting, can never be a merit. Chatfield. Whatever is pure is also simple; it does not keep the eye on itself; the observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays ; a fine style gives the view of fancy—its figures, its trees, or its palaces —without a spot. R. A. Willmott. Generally speaking, an author's style is a faith- ful copy of his mind; if you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind ; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character. Goethe. To praise the style of an author more than his thoughts, is like commending a woman for her dress more than for her person; style, like dress, should be appropriate, and not detract attention from what it was meant to adorn. Blessington. Style is only the frame to hold our thoughts; it is like the sash of a window ; a heavy sash will obscure the light ; the object is to have as little sash as will hold the lights, that we may not think of the frame, but have the most light. N. Emmons. Style is the dress of thoughts: and let them be ever So just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill-received, as your person, though ever So well-proportioned, would be, if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. Chesterfield. To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in com- mon conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pe- dantic and oratorical flourishes. Hazlitt. STYLE. A just intermixture of sentences of brief energy, in which the idea is, as it were, darted at the read- er, and those in which it is more deliberately con- veyed, the medium of thought being converted into a separate, independent source of pleasure, forms the most pleasing style. Hoorn. Style is the physiognomy of the mind ; it is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask: however beautiful it may be, it is through its life- lessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging. Schopenhaufer. Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes; for they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win themselves a kind of gracelike newness ; but the eldest of the present and the newest of the past language is the best. Ben Jomson. The style of some writers is as weak as water ; that of others, as sparkling as wine. Style, in gen- eral, presents the various forms of debility and vigor, beauty and deformity, care and neglect, in- tricacy and obscurity, or simplicity and grandeur. With some, it is penetrating, and cuts like a two- edged sword ; with others, it possesses both grace and strength, like carved marble, or shafts of pol- ished steel; and with a few, it is like furbished and finely wrought silver and gold, ornamental, weigh- ty, and valuable. Acton. Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure One ; SOme can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason ; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light : and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us Only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are dif- ficult ; with familiarity, of things that are novel ; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound. Colton. SUAVITY. Natural suavity is to be prized. Yew Jo. Suavity is the despotism of rhetorical mildness. Brown. Suavity will collect more bills than a dozen law- Moses Brown. suits. Suavity is to the mind what sweetness is to the tongue. N. Webster. The man of suavity has sugar-cane planted upon his lips. - Kadir Manshi. By the suavity of our manners, we gain the love of those around us. G. Crabb. Persuasion is better than force : and suavity will often purchase what neither violence or money Can obtain. G. Psalmamazan'. When a man at first interview puts on great suavity of manners, and professes great attach- ment to you, be certain he has a design upon your person, family, or estate. J. Bartlett. A R O S A. Q U O T A 7" / O M S. 90.3 SUBJECT. As is the king so is the subject. Emperor Trajan. The love of subjects is an invincible protection. Seneca. Let my subjects hate me, if they also but fear Iſle. Caius Caligula. To enlighten his subjects is the true province of a ruler. Peter the Great. Subjects should never wage war against a law- ful sovereign. D. Digges. It is proper that we should protect the subjects of other lands. Kekauluohi. The wickedest subject in a kingdom may not be the wickedest man. Sir A. Cooper. No one is fit to govern who is not supposed to be greater than his subjects. Stanislaws. It is lawful for a ruler to take the money of his subjects—when they offer it. L. Andrews. Subjects follow the example of their princes, as certain flowers turn to the sun. Horace. The subject must obey his prince, because God commands it, and human laws require it. Swift. The preservation of one subject is better than the destruction of a hundred enemies. Emperor Publius Scipio. A prince ought to live with his subjects in such a way that neither good nor bad fortune should be able to produce a change in him. Machiavelli. Men in free governments are subjects as well as citizens; as citizens, they enjoy rights and fran- chises ; as subjects, they are bound to obey the laws. IV. Webster. SUBJECTION. Death is the surest subjection. D. Almagro. Subjection is the child of poverty. J. Hunter. He is the most subjected, the most enslaved, who is so in his understanding. J. Locke. People that have been under subjection a long time to the authority of masters, find it difficult to shake themselves free. Rousseaw. Our appetites and passions should be in subjec- tion to our reason, and our will should be in entire subjection to the laws of God. N. Webster. When the heart is raw, and smarting from re- cent bereavement, let there be the deepest and most reverential subjection to the Highest Will. F. W. Robertson. In every form of human society the strong rule the weak, although different means are used by different individuals for bringing men into subjec- tion. E. P. Day. A citizen should consider his family as in subjec- tion to the city, the city as in subjection to the state, the state as in subjection to the world, and the world as in subjection to God. Pope Pius II. SUBLIMITY. Sublimity is self-conquest. Hester Chapone. Sublimity is the throne of genius. Favart. Sublimity is nature in some of her wildest dresses. Mrs. E. L. Linton. From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step. E. J. Siegyés. The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble subjects. Brwyere. The sublime is often nothing but the echo or image of magnanimity. Longinus. How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mo- hammed, God is God. W. R. Alger. When you are sure that you are sublime, take good heed to the next step. G. West. Our destiny even in this world is sublime, if we will but serve God and not Mammon. Grindon. The sublimest thoughts are conceived by the in- tellect, when it is excited by pious emotion. Nevins. Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant. Burke. Sublimity is a height to which the feeble may look up, but only the strong of wing may hope to SO8.T. J. Liddon. Sublime subjects ought to be adorned with the sublimest, and with the most figurative expres- sions. Dryden. The sublime rises from the nobleness of thought ; . the perfect sublime from the magnificence of the words. Addison. The sublime rejects mean, low, or trivial expres- sions; but it is equally an enemy to such as are turgid. H. Blair. The origin of the sublime is one of the most cu. rious and interesting subjects of inquiry that can occupy the attention of a critic. T. B. Macaulay. Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reach- ed it, which is always a source of pleasure to sen- sible people. Wieland. The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately ; one step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again. - T. Paine. There is a sublime in nature, as in the Ocean or the thunder ; in moral action, as in deeds of dar- ing and self-denial ; and in art, as in statuary and painting, by which what is sublime in nature and in moral character is represented and idealized. P. Flemming. The sublime is the temple stone of religion, as the stars are of immeasurable space. When what is mighty appears in mature—a storm, thunder, the starry firmament, death — then utter the word “God” before the child. A great misfortune, a great blessing, a great crime, a noble action, are building sites for a child's church. Richter. 904 A) A Y',S CO /, / A C O AV. SUBIMISSION. SUBORDINATION. Bitter is submission. Al-Ghazzi. Man's passions should ever be kept in subordina- s - tion to his reason. Sarah W. Morlin. Submit to what you cannot change. Syrus. The best we can do is to submit to the decrees of Providence. Washington. We ought to suspect a trick when a man submits too quickly. Corneille. I submit to my fate ; bear witness that I die like a brave man. Major André. Submission to Providence is our duty in every station of life. C. Dibdin. Let us learn to cultivate a spirit of submission to the will of God. C. Buck. I would sooner suffer death than submit to dic- tation by a mob. Dom Pedro I. There is one alleviation in misfortunes to endure and to submit to necessity. Seneca. Submission by force is not submission ; submis- sion through virtue is true submission. Mencius. Any fool knows how to resist, but it is the prov- ince of a wise man to know how and when to sub- mit. N. Macdonald. We must submit ourselves unto the mighty hand of God, acknowledge our offences, call to Him for mercy. F. Burton. The hero lifteth his sword against the enemy that resisteth ; but no sooner does he submit than he is satisfied. R. Dodsley. Submission to God implies that we justify Him in everything that He does; that we approve all that God does ; that we cleave to God in the midst of all. Beaumont. According to the Greek historians, grass was made the symbol of submission, because the an- cient nations gathered grass and presented it to the conqueror, to show that they confessed themselves OVer’COIſle. The usual way men adopt to appease the wrath of those whom they have offended, when at their mercy, is humble submission ; whereas a firm and resolute bearing, means the very opposite, have been at times equally successful. Montaigme. The first degree of submission is reverent acqui- escence in the divine will ; that submission which God seems to require for His own sake, He in real- ity desires for Ours; it is wholly for our interest, and answers our most pressing need. Swetchine. The doctrine of absolute submission, in all cases, is an absurd, dogmatical precept, with nothing but ignorance and Superstition to support it ; but upon particular occasions, and where it is impossible for us to overcome, to submit patiently is one of the most reasonable maxims in life. S. Croacall. Accustom yourself to submission on all and every Occasion, on the most minute no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good ; this will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat, and honor from repulse. Colton. Henrietta, Dwmont. Subordination is the beauty of life, and the chief grace and perfection of the soul. Acton. All who would live a virtuous and religious life, must hold themselves subordinate to the will of God. James Ellis. Subordination is a great virtue ; for all others follow where this is found, and fly away where it is not. A. Pitts. The most glorious military achievement would be a calamity and a curse, if purchased at the ex- pense of habits of subordination and love of order. J. Evarts. I am a friend to subordination, as most condu- cive to the happiness of society ; there is a reci- procal pleasure in governing and being governed. Dr. Johnson. The good order of society cannot be rightly main- tained unless there be some to act in a subordinate capacity ; it is the part of the exalted to treat the subordinate with indulgence. G. Crabb. SUBSISTENCE. It is an indispensable duty for man to subsist by his own labor. T. Carlyle. We should constantly bear in mind that nine- tenths of us are born to subsist by the Sweat of the brow. W. Cobbett. In those countries where the greatest amount of labor is requisite to obtain subsistence, we find the most vigorous, healthy, and athletic inhabitants. L. C. Judson. A small people with a large territory may sub- sist on the productions of nature, with no other labor than that of gathering the vegetables and catching the animals. Franklin. When man becomes attached to the soil, and commences its cultivation, he looks to his own in- dustry for subsistence, and does not trust to the precarious mode of existence of the savage. A. Brisbane. SUBTLETY. Subtlety wins, but wisdom holds. F. Aretin. Subtlety is the craft of philosophy. Biom. Subtlety may deceive you ; integrity never will. Oliver Cromwell. It is better to be ignorant than a slave to the subtleties of philosophy. Garth. The great subtlety is false delicacy ; and true delicacy is solid subtlety. Rochefoucauld. Fraud is the fitliest answered with subtlety ; even innocency is allowed a lawful craft. J. Hall. The crafty and subtle man have both a remote object to conceal: but the former is more so as to the end, and the latter as to the means. G. Crabb. Subtlety will sometimes give safety no less than strength ; and minuteness has sometimes escaped where magnitude would have been crushed. Colton. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 905 SUCCESS. Success is a lottery. S. Drew. Success discovers the man. CEhlenschlaeger. To be successful is pleasant. Thales. Success is the child of courage. Sapor II. Nothing succeeds so well as success. Talleyrand. Success overpowers envy at last. O. R. Seward. Expect success only according to labor. Lwólovicus II. Success often costs more than it is worth. E. Wigglesworth. Be not too much elated by temporary successes. F. Hopkinson. Success makes success, as money makes money. Chamfort. Success is generally the result of many failures. H. W. Shaw. Success 1 to thee, as to God, men bend the knee. - - AEschylus. Success gilds some crimes with an honorable ti- tle. Semeca. Success is no success if it makes not a happy mind. E. M. Gowlbwºrn. The success of the wicked is a temptation to many. Phoedºws. The glory that attends success gives strength for the labor. Propertius. What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind. T. Parker. All other things being equal, success is the crite- rion of excellence. Flamin'ws. Success gives force to, and increases the physical and moral energies. J. F. Cooper. In everything the ends well defined are the se- cret of durable success. V. Cowsin. Who shall tax successful villiamy, or call the ris- ing traitor to account ? Havard. The earnest desire of succeeding is almost always a prognostic of success. Stanislaws. The secret of success lies in embracing every op- portunity of being useful. Wellington. There is a glare about worldly success, which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. J. C. Hare. Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men. Demosthenes. The success of the greater part of things depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed. Montesquiew. From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed. F. Atterbury. Success serves men as a pedestal ; it makes them look larger, if reflection does not measure them. Joubert. SUCCESS. The reason why more success does not attend the preaching of the Gospel is simply, success is not ex- pected. T. Fuller, The world estimates men by their success in life, and by general consent success is evidence of supe- riority. E. Everett. No abilities, however splendid, can command success without intense labor and persevering ap- plication. A. T. Stewart. Success is full of promise till men get it ; and then it is a last year's nest, from which the bird has flown. H. W. Beecher. Very few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and pru- dent forethought. Thucydides. Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise ; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event. Ewripides. Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success. Rochefoucauld. Moral success is worldly success ; it is easier to make a permanent fortune in honorable ways than by dishonorable conduct. Talmage. Success produces confidence, confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins that reputation which accuracy had raised. Dr. Johnson. To conduct a great business with permanent suc- cess, requires adequate, and even remarkable men- tal and physical qualifications. Rhell. It is the usual custom of the world to pronounce an action to be either right or wrong, as it is at- tended with good or ill success. Pliny. At least nine-tenths of those most successful in business, start in life without any reliance except upon their own heads and hands. J. Freadley. Success at first doth many times undo men at last ; many men say that they had never been un- happy, if they had never been happy. R. Venning. Good success lifts up the heart with too much confidence ; and while it dissuades men from doing their best, ofttimes disappoints them. J. Hall. Only men of prudent energy, who know their own powers, and use them with moderation and discretion, will be successful in the world's affairs. Goethe. The fool is not always unfortunate, nor the wise man always successful ; yet never had a fool a thorough enjoyment, never was a wise man wholly unhappy. R. Dodsley. If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counsel- lor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Addison. There is a fashion in the world of honoring what has a fair outside ; success is made the test of me- rit ; that if a man have a crown rained down on him, it would be said he was princely born. PH. Hooker. 906 A) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. SUCCESS. An opinion in the success of a work, is as neces- sary to found a purpose of undertaking it, as the authority of commands or the persuasiveness of promises. - H. Hammond. Had I miscarried, I had been a villain ; for men judge actions always by events ; but when we manage by a just foresight, success is prudence, and possession right. B. Higgoms. If you would revenge yourself on those who have slighted you, be successful ; it is a bitter satire on their want of judgment, for it proves that you can do without them. C. W. Day. Constant success shows us but one side of the world ; for as it surrounds us with friends, who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those ene- mies from whom alone we can learn our defects. Colton. The human heart is often the victim of the sen- sations of the moment ; success intoxicates it to presumption, and the want of success plunges it into disappointment and dejection, and sometimes even terrifies it. Volney. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame : if it comes at all, it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. Longfellow. If a man succeeds in any attempt, though under- took with never so much rashness, his success shall vouch him a politician, and good luck shall pass for deep contrivance ; for give any one fortune, and he shall be thought a wise man. R. Sowth. Security is the bane of Success; it is no contem- ning of a foiled enemy ; the shame of a former disgrace and miscarriage whets his valor and sharpens it to revenge : no power is so dreadful as that which is collected from an overthrow. J. Hall. It is lesson after lesson with the scholar, blow after blow with the laborer, crop after crop with the farmer, picture after picture with the painter, step after step, and mile after mile, with the tra- veller that secures what all desire, success. Foster. In war, people judge for the most part by the suc- cess, whatever is the opinion of the wiser sort. Let a man show all the good conduct that is possible, if the event does not answer, ill-fortune passes for a fault, and is justified by a very few persons. St. Evremond. The great highroad of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing ; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the tru- est spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort. - S. Smiles. Mere success is certainly one of the worst argu- ments in the world of a good cause, and the most improper, to satisfy conscience; and yet we find by experience, that in the issue it is the most suc- cessful of all other arguments, and does in a very odd but effectual way satisfy the consciences of a great many men, by showing them their interest. Tillotson. SUCCESS. If we were to consult the annals of commercial life, we should find that, in most instances, the men who have been distinguished for success in business are of the same stamp as those who have been emi- ment in the walks of literature and science. Acton. He that would relish success to a good purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low ; and then it is possible that his fortune might exceed his fancy ; for an advantage always rises by surprise, and is almost always doubled by be- ing unlooked for. Jeremy Collier. The surest hindrance to success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the pub- lic ; he who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do any- thing at all either to please himself or others. , Hazlitt. Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success ; suc- cessful crimes are praised very much like virtue it- self, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which Suc- cess would not be able to justify. Bruyère. The men whom I have seen succeed best in life, have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business with a smile on their faces, and took the changes and chances of their mortal life like men facing rough and Smooth alike as it came, and so found the truth of the old pro- verb, that “good times, and bad times, and all times pass over.” C. Kingsley. There is nothing so sure of succeeding as not to be over brilliant, as to be entirely wrapped up in one's self, and endowed with a perseverance which, in spite of all the rebuffs it may meet with, never relaxes in the pursuit of its object. It is incredible what may be done by dint of importunity alone ; and where shall we find the man of talent who knows how to be importunate enough ' De Grimm. Let the tradesman who wishes to be permanent- ly successful remember how God has declared that “divers weights and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.” All the cheats of underhanded trickery and sharp dealing, the use of unfair measures and evasion of legal duties, taking advantage of the ignorant and unwary, or any other deviations from uprightness, are sure in the end to be exposed and to invest their vile dupe with infinite contempt. “Be ye sure your sin will find you out.” Magoon. / I confess that increasing years bring with them an increasing respect for men who do not succeed in life, as those words are commonly used. Ill success sometimes arises from a conscience too sen- sitive, a taste too fastidious, a self-forgetfulness too romantic, a modesty too retiring. I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men ; but there are forms of greatness, or at least of excellence, which “die and make no sign :” there are martyrs that miss the palm, but not the stake; heroes without the laurel, and conquerors without the triumph. Sala. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 907 SUFFERING. He who acts must suffer. Rev. A. Abbot. Suffer, and abstain from evil. Epictetus. Let one suffer to relieve many. Otho. Suffering strengthens patience. Keckerman. We glory in suffering for Christ. Arethwsius. Suffering is the monitor of fools. Opitz. Christ suffered to relieve suffering. J. Norton. Continued life is continued suffering. Sadaihe. Suffering for Our Master is true glory. Andrada. To suffer for a good cause lessens pain. AEmelian. He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. Gwyon. Suffering for a friend is double friendship. Smee. He who suffers in a good cause overcomes. Lee. Suffering is simply another word for experience. E. P. Day. By suffering one may glory in being like our Master. Zephyrinus. The just man often suffers most for his brightest virtues. G. Bancroft. Even suffering may be made a cause for joy and gladness. G. Faj'el. Our greatest sufferings are often our richest blessings. St. Chrysostom. A man may not suffer, and yet find it difficult to continue to live. Fontenelle. There are sufferings to be endured in the world that have no name. Alice Carey. Each man must suffer for his own sins, and for his own guilt alone. Rabbi Meir. Suffering is the very life of woman ; she can suf- fer better than man. Michelet. We see at all times that the little have suffered for the follies of the great. La Fontaine. The greatest saints are sometimes made the most remarkable instances of suffering. F. Atterbury. Since Christ suffered death for us, those who love Him hold it an honor to suffer for His cause. St. Alban. Men feel more sensibly the weight of present suf- ferings than of such as exist only in apprehension. Livy. It has been the universal opinion of mankind that personal experience of suffering harmonizes the heart. H. Blair. A great many men often suffer from fullness of the stomach, who will never suffer from fullness of the head or heart. G. D. Premtice. Even in the midst of compassion, we feel within I know not what tart-sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer ; children have the Same feeling. Montaigme. SUFFERING. Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages ; they have learned to understand and be understood by all. Swetchine. By striving to disenthrall others from abject suf- fering, by means of what we deduct from our own luxurious ease, we win the highest freedom and purest joy to ourselves. Magoon. There is very little difference between the suf- fering and fearing a danger, except this much, in- deed, that there are some bounds to feeling, but none to the apprehending of it. Pliny. It belongs to the Church of God to suffer blows —not to strike them : but at the same time, let it be remembered, that the Church is an anvil which has worn out many a hammer. Beza. Suffering, in this world, is both remedial and penal ; when it is rightly received it is remedial; when it is resisted, it becomes penal to him who re- sists, and admonitory to the spectator. Beecher. Suffering comes to us through and from our whole nature ; it cannot be winked out of sight: it cannot be thrust into a subordinate place in the picture of human life ; it is the chief burden of his- tory. W. E. Channing. The noble power of suffering bravely is as far above that of enterprising greatly, as an unblem- ished conscience and inflexible resolution are above an accidental flow of spirits, or a sudden tide of blood. Pope. When the life of the oyster suffers it is turned to a precious pearl : so with the Christian ; through much suffering and tribulation he enters the king- dom of heaven, to become a precious jewel in the crown of the Saviour. C. Nordhoff. There is as much difference between the suffer- ings of the saints and those of the ungodly, as be- tween the cords with which an executioner pinions a condemned malefactor, and the bandages where- with a tender surgeon binds his patients. Rev. J. Arrowsmith. Suffering in the cause of right has a manifest tendency to induce the injurious to review their conduct under all the most favorable circumstances for conviction : it disarms pride and malevolence, and enlists sympathy in favor of the sufferer. F. Wayland. Were we to strip our sufferings of all the aggra- vations which our over-busy imagination heap upon them, of all that our impatience and willful- ness embitters in them, of all that a morbid crav- ing for sympathy induces us to display to others, they would shrink to less than half their bulk ; and what remained would be comparatively easy to support. A. W. Hare. None can aspire to act greatly but those who are of force greatly to suffer ; they who make their arrangements in the first run of misadventure, and in a temper of mind the common fruit of disap- pointment and dismay, put a seal on the calami- ties. To their power they take a security against any favors which they might hope from the usual inconstancy of fortune. Burke. 908 A) A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. & SUICIDE. SUMMER. Suicide is confession. D. Webster. Summer is the sunshine of life. J. Isla. The suicide dies twice. Publius Syrus. Summer is the season of sunshine. R. Taylor. Suicide is a theft on mankind. Publiws Lentulus. Hegesias. Plato, Suicide is a preventative of evil. To avoid infamy, suicide is allowable. Suicide is better than continual misery. Acosta. Age and misery are a justification of suicide. Sesostris. Even suicide may be justifiable as a remedy for greater evils. Spewsippus. Suicide is preferable to waging war against one's own country. Themistocles. That divine principle that rules within us, for- bids us to commit suicide. Cicero. When we have lost everything, when we have no more hope, then life is a disgrace, and suicide a duty. Voltaire. What poetical suicides and sublime despair might have been prevented by a timely dose of blue pill, or the offer of a loge awa, Italiens! Sir C. Morgan. Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always ; for cowardice sometimes prevents it : since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live. Colton. Suicides pay the world a bad compliment ; in- deed, it may so happen that the world has been be- forehand with them in incivility. Granted ; even then the retaliation is at their own expense. Zimmerman. Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom and faith which are scattered so plentifully along its paths; and lacking which, no Soul can come again from beyond the grave to gather. Mowntford. Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life ; it is a brave act of valor to contemn death ; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live ; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scaevola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job. Sir T. Browne. Suicide is a perversion of human nature, peculiar to the highest organism of life, and has only been. imagined on insufficient pretexts as a zoological fact, by naturalists seeking great reputations and astonishing discoveries, by the easy guesses of the imaginative instead of the severe experiments of the inductive method of scientific investigation. Lady M. W. Montague. Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feel- ings: nor does any reason suggest itself to our un- derstanding by which it can be justified ; it cer- tainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery : for what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being supe- rior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat. Napoleon I. Summer is the noontide of nature. W. G. Clark. Summer is the year's early manhood. Planche. Summer is unclothed, and bears a wheaten gar- land. Ovid. He who plants not in summer will go hungry in winter. Wakatawki. The kindness of summer produceth in perfection the bounties of harvest. R. Dodsley. Summer is the season in which the Creator pours forth the treasures of His blessings in the greatest abundance. Sturm. Summer's morning wakes with a ring of birds, and everything is as distinctly cut as if it stood in heaven and not on earth. H. W. Beecher. Every shady grove in summer is to a man a holy temple, where his God moves nearer to him ; every green sod an altar, where he kneels before the Lofty One. Hölty. How delightful to recline on a summer's day, under some aged oak, on the matted grass ; and as the brook glides along, the birds singing above Our head, we are rocked to sleep by the purling waters from the murmuring fountains. Horace. How beautiful is summer ' Who does not, at this period, admire all nature teeming with life and replete with energy 2 At this time the richest wealth to earth is given, and the Soul, as if in uni- son with the beneficence of its genial glow, offers up a prayer to the Source of all this beauty and splendor. - - James Ellis. SUMPTUOUSINESS. Sumptuousness is not always prodigality. Meta. A sumptuous life invariably ends in a misera- ble death. F. Saunders. A life of sumptuous ease can scarcely be indulged in without sin. Erasmus. We are too magnificent and Sumptuous in Our tables and attendance. - F. Atterbury. I will not fall out with those that can reconcile sumptuousness and charity. R. Boyle. Riches spent with lavish sumptuousness breed grief to our hearts, sorrow to our friends, and mis- ery to our heirs. Lucius Arrºw?vtiws. He that is superfluous in his diet, and sumptuous in apparel, is a cook's hope, a tailor's thrift, and the son of repentance. Wit's Commonwealth. Sumptuousness does not bring happiness or com- fort ; where magnificence reigns the sins of the flesh are the harbingers of misery. James Ellis. A man may be a good Christian, and yet wear rich cloth, and fare sumptuously, and have a great retinue, and receive the respects, and keep the dis- tances that are due to the post he maintains in the world. G. Sharp. A A' O S Z Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 909 SUN. Worship the sun. Emperor Heliogabalus. The sun is the giver of life. Rameses II. The Sun is the God of heaven. Rhemestes. Sunbeams are the essence of light. At-Twmikhi. The sun shines even on the wicked. Seneca. The sun is the mother of the world. R. Alb. Make use of the sun while it shines. Rist. Suns are sunflowers of a higher light. Richter. . Where the sun never comes the doctor must. Veneroni. The sun is the deity which gives light and heat to mankind. Mamco Capac. One sun warms and enlightens the world, two Suns would destroy it. As-Swhºrawardi. The sun is the centre of fire ; whatever is heated must proceed from him. Andacagoras. You may shut the light from your dwelling, but you cannot harm the Sun. Tsze-kwng. The sun which dazzles us with its splendor, is it- self often obscured by a cloud. A. Kotzebue. The sun does not shine for a few trees and flow- ers, but for the wide world's joy. H. W. Beecher. The sun does not follow its appointed course without having been so ordained. Statius. What were all the realms of this world but a dun- geon of darkness without the beams of the sun ? G. W. Hervey. The sun sheddeth color and grace over nature, and all that is beautiful laughs with renewed youth. Gessner. The sun, though it light a palace, does not dis- dain to fall with its golden woof on the straw- thatched cottage roof. Calderon. The light and heat of the sun benefits all, and are enjoyed by all ; the spots on its surface are dis- coverable only to the few. Colton. The sunshines in all countries, all over the earth ; he is the most beautiful and glorious object that can be seen in the whole world. A. Picket. Though the sun scorches us sometimes, and gives us the head-ache, we do not refuse to acknowledge that we stand in need of his warmth. De Mornay. The fabled wonders of Aladdin's lamp are as nothing when compared with the real wonders of the great lamp of nature, the all-beholding sun. A. T. Bledsoe. The sun, which produces the branches of the vine, and beams its splendor upon them, when it shines on mud, generates nothing but poisonous vapor. Erwmmacher. The Sun, if he could avoid it, would not shine upon a dunghill ; but his rays are so pure and ce- lestial, I never heard that they were polluted by it. Sterme. SUN. We worship the king-sum, immortal, brilliant : when he burns with his rays, the heavenly spirits rise by thousands to spread his splendor and send it to earth. Zoroaster. The sun, which is as the great soul of the uni- verse, and produces all the necessaries of life, has a particular influence in cheering the mind of man, and making the heart glad. Addison. The same sun that warmeth vegetable matter into life, and robeth the face of nature with beau- ty, shineth as brightly as it did before the foot- prints of man could be seen in the garden of Eden. J. Limen. The Sun is the most excellent and most glorious thing that we see in the world ; it is the next cause, under God, of all the light that is in the air, and of all the life that any creature lives upon the earth. Bishop Beveridge. The Sun is not God, though His noblest image ; he enlighteneth the world with his brightness; his warmth giveth life to the products of the earth ; admire him as the creature, the instrument of God, but worship him not. R. Dodsley. We must be satisfied with the light transmitted to us by the rays of the sun ; and he who lifts up his eye to take in a larger quantity, must not be surprised if, as a reward for his presumption, he should lose his eyesight. Montaigme. The sun kindleth the divine spark of intelligence, here and there scattered among the human race. Much hath it solaced my afflicted mind; much hath it compensated me for the shuddering reflection on the tyrant's frown and the malignant grin of envy or detraction. Sir R. Maltravers. The sun comes forth from his chambers to scat- ter the shades of night, inviting you to the renewal of your labors, adorning the face of nature, and as he advances to his meridian brightness, cherishing every herb and every flower that springeth from the bosom of the earth. Mrs. S. Moodie. The savage worships the sun as the god of this lower world ; the astronomer, from a contempla- tion of his effects, rises to the source of all ; the great mass of mankind, whether Christians, Jews, Mahommedans, or Pagans, enjoy his splendor and his warmth, without troubling themselves about the substance of which he is composed. J. Mavor. The glorious sun is the center and soul of our system, the lamp that lights it, the fire that heats it, the magnet that guides and controls it, the fountain of color which gives its azure to the sky, its verdure to the fields, its rainbow hues to the gay world of flowers, and the purple light of love to the marble cheek of youth and beauty. Brewster. There are days on which the sun makes the clouds his chariot, and travels on curtained behind them ; weary of shining before a drowsy, thankless world, he covers the glory of his face, but will not quite take away the blessing of his light ; and now and then, as it were in pity, he withdraws the veil for a moment and looks forth, to assure the earth that her best friend is still watching over her in the heavens. J. C. Hare. 910 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z 4 C O AV. SUNRISE. Sunrise never failed us yet. Wendt, We worship the rising Sun. Montezuma II. The rising sun hides the stars. J. Berry. More worship the rising than the setting sun. Pompey. The sun rises fair to many an eye that never sees its setting. Fanny Ferm. The rising sun is a free exhibition, open only to early risers. Sir T. Twiss. The sun doth rise, and shuts the lids of all hea- ven’s lesser eyes. M. Poole. The sun rises to its meridian, then declines ; so it is with human life. Wakatawki. Every sunrise is a new creation by Him who first said, “Let there be light.” Bishop Jewne. The rising sun is an example to mankind ; al- ways smiling, even upon angry clouds. Mrs. Kinzie. The rising sun is heaven's time-piece, warning the slumbering world to be up and doing. Jermin. The rising sum is a leader of an orchestra, at whose bidding all nature joins in one harmonious SOng. Draper. At sunrise, the “clouds assume their gayest live- ries,” and shed diffusive showers of radiance over the darkened earth. James Ellis. Thou, O sun-rise, shine for us with thy best rays, who prolongeth our life, who giveth us food, who giveth us wealth in cows, horses, and chariots. Sônna Veda. The earth at early dawn seems a dreary waste, an undistinguishable chaos, till the glowing sun- rise unbars the gates of light, and lets forth the II]. Ol’Il. J. C. Adams. The rising sun is an emblem of the grandeur re- vealed to the view of a departing spirit as it ascends to a world of glory, and realizes the first glimpse of heaven. Lady Charlotte Bwry. The rising sun reminds us of the mind emerging from the dark night of ignorance, and with its clear rays of truth dispelling the clouds of preju- dice and superstition. Ray Palmer. The immense arch of the heavens, the splendor of the sun in his meridian brightness, or the beauty of his rising hours, are scenes which mock every rival attempt of human skill or labor. H. Blair. The rising sun teaches us that time is ; that we should regulate it, and perform our duties punc- tually ; and that we should prepare for that glo- rious existence when time shall be no more. C. J. White. Have you ever been a witness of the superb phe- nomenon which the rising sun each day affords 2 There is no phenomenon in nature more beautiful and splendid : the richest dress that human art can invent, the finest decorations, the most pompous equipage, the most Superb ornaments in the palaces of kings, vanish and sink to mothing when com- pared to this beauty of nature. Sturm. SUNSET. The sun will set without thy assistance. Talmud. The sun being set, the day cannot long tarry. Awrelius. One may be as enthusiastic as one likes about a Sunset. Miss M. E. Braddom. Sunset approaches, and after sunset silence soon follows. H. M. Stanley. The rich sunset makes the most sterile landscape enchanting. Eliza Cook. The sun sets that night may come, and men may again rejoice over a new dawn. Herder. When the sun is setting it will soon be dark ; when an old man is sick there is little hope. Wakatawki. The beauty of sunset in a fine autumnal evening, seems almost incapable of addition from any cir- Cumstance. A. Alison. When the sun sets it will rise again ; Black Hawk is like the sun, but when he sets he rises no more. Farewell | Black Hawk. Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises ; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory. G. S. Hillo.ºrd. The setting sun stretched his celestial rods of light across the level landscape, and like the Hebrew in Egypt smote the rivers, and the brooks, and the ponds, and they became as blood. Longfellow. The sun colors the sky most deeply and most dif- fusely when he hath sunk below the horizon ; and they who never said “how beneficently he shines!” say at last, “how brightly he set !” W. S. Landor. More joyful eyes look at the setting than at the rising sun ; burdens are laid down by the poor, whom the sun consoles more than the rich. No star and no moon announce the rising Sun ; and does not the setting sun, like a lover, leave behind his image in the moon ? I yearn toward him when he sets, not when he rises. Richter. SUNSHINE. God's sunshine is immortal light. James Ellis. By clouds we are taught to estimate sunshine. Caroline Pichler. I like the idea of going out of dullness into Sun- shine, Miss M. E. Braddon. Who has not felt the benignant influence of sun- shine. G. B. Emerson. He is most miserable that is denied to see the sunshine. O. Gregory. Sunshine either in the world or in mankind is an invaluable gift of heaven. E. P. Day. Heaven's sunshine shall one day shine more brightly than ever upon us, when we enter the world of eternal joy. Camom, Ryle. Let God's sunshine shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, as warm and Serene and golden as on a bankside in Summer. Thoreau. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 911 SUNDAY. Sunday is not a day in law. Sir W. Blackstome. Sunday must continue Sunday. Strawss. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. Addison. Sunday is a golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week. Longfellow. Government is as necessary on Sunday as on any other day of the week. R. M. Johnson. None but the active, truly pious duly appreciate, and properly keep Sunday. L. C. Judson. Sunday implies quietude and rest ; there are no Sundays in revolutionary times. D. Webster. Measure not men by Sundays, without regard- ing what they do all the week after. T. Fuller. Sunday is a day of rest to the poor and the toil- worn, of weariness to the rich and the idle. Mary Ferrier. Sunday is the Lord's day, and Christians should observe it rather than the Jewish Sabbath. St. Sylvester. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. H. W. Beecher. We all meet together on the day called Sunday, on which day Jesus Christ our Savior rose from the dead. Justin Martyr. It is not too much to say—that without the Sun- day the Church of Christ could not as a visible so- ciety exist on earth. Dr. Macleod. Sunday as a day of rest is a humane institution, and a public convenience; but as a religious dogma should be discountenanced. T. Hertrell. Sunday is that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful repose, of calmness and strength, for the earnest and heavenly-minded. Maria J. M'Intosh. Every work which is a heavenly work, every work which is done in the service of the kingdom of God, belongs especially to a Sunday. Canon Hoare. The observance of the Sunday is a public pro- fession of our Christian faith, and consequently, that by its profanation we bring disgrace on our religion, and give great Scandal to our fellow Chris- tians. J. Fander. So diseased are the appetites of those who live in what is called the fashionable world, that they mostly account Sunday a very dull day : yet of all days it is the one on which our highest faculties ought to be employed the most vigorously, and to find the deepest, most absorbing interest. Hare. O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business, like the Divine path of the Israelites through Jordan There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable. Wilberforce. SUNDAY-SCHOOL. Sunday-school teaching is Divine Truth. Smee. A Sunday-school is an easy, cheap, and unmixed good. Bishop Law. The Sunday-school is the nursery of the Chris- tian church. P. Hastings. The Sunday-school is indeed and of a truth a nursery for the Church. Dr. Gwthrie. The work of the Sunday-school is to rescue mil- lions of children who are drifting to ruin. Foster. The Sunday-school must be founded on and sus- tained by a strong faith in its usefulness, its worth, its importance. W. E. Chamming. The great design of the Sunday-school organiza- tion, is to turn the faces of the little children to- ward heaven, and prepare their spirits for immor- tal glory. Biblical Treasury. A well-ordered Sunday-school will always be subject to regulations by which punctuality, clean- liness, order, and obedience are insured on the part of the children. Lord Hatherley. If we would have right impressions made on the minds of our citizens, we must make them in their childhood ; and outside of the family, in the Sun- day-school class is the best place to make them. - A. Ritchie. The reason why Sunday-schools have such a claim upon our patronage and support is, that the kind of knowledge which they communicate is staple knowledge—the knowledge of God, and of Christ, and of things Divine, to which we have just now been referring. A. Beaumont. It seems to me that every Sunday-school teacher has a right to put “Reverend” before his name as much as I have ; he teaches his congregation, and preaches to his class : I may preach to more, and he to less ; but still he is doing the same work, though in a smaller sphere. C. H. Spurgeon. SUPERIORITY. Yield to thy superiors. Emamuel Saa. Superiority belongs to thousands. A. Hamilton. Superiority of condition confers superiority of right. F. Wayland. The superiority of some men is merely local ; they are great, because their associates are little. Dr. Johnsom. It is a common law of nature which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their infe- riors. Dionysius. To excel others is a proof of talent : but to know when to conceal that superiority is a greater proof of prudence. Colton. If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privi- leged themselves remember it. Mme. Swetchine. The desire of superiority may be placed among the elementary desires, since it is seen to exist as an instinct in many of the bolder animals, mani- festing itself in the exertions which they make in their conflicts with one another. |Whewell. 912 AD A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. SUPERFLUITY. SUPERSTITION. Lay aside all superfluity. Cottom. Mather. Superstition is not religion. J. Wycliffe. Give thy superfluities to the poor. Confucius. Superstition is an endless thing. M. Henry. Superfluity dwelleth not with nature. Aristotle. Superstition vanishes before truth. Armobius. The superfluous is a thing that is highly neces- Superstition yields to true religion. E. Loomis. sary. Voltaire. & 4 º' º *-*-º-º-º: Superstition is better than atheism. J. Leland. God intends your superfluities for those who need them. Al-Bassami. Wisdom provides things necessary, not super- fluous. - Solom. There are a thousand ways to waste Superfluous wealth. J. Armstrong. We may have a superfluity of wealth, but never a superfluity of wisdom. Annie E. Lancaster. Riches consist in that which sufficeth, and not in that which is superfluous. Morris. Among the superfluities of life, we seldom num- ber the abundance of money. N. Webster. Everything that is superfluous flows out of the mind, like a liquid out of a full vessel. Horace. He that too much indulges in the superfluities of life shall live to lament the want of its necessaries. Habbakkuk. He who possesses the superfluities of wealth, should never allow distress to be within his reach without alleviating it. James Ellis. If it be a curse to be forced to toil for the neces- sary support of life, how does he heighten the curse who toils for superfluities : R. Sowth. Superfluity creates necessity ; and necessity, su- perfluity. Take care to be an economist in pros- perity ; there is no fear of your being one in ad- versity. Zimmerman. It is impossible to diminish poverty by the mul- tiplication of effects, for manage as we may, mis- ery and suffering will always cleave to the border of superfluity. Jacobi. Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax on benevolence, there would be more almshouses than poor, Schools than schol- ars, and enough to spare for government besides. W. Penn. Our superfluities should give way to our brother's conveniences ; and our conveniences to our bro- ther's necessities, yea, even our necessities should give way to their extremity for the supplying of them. R. Venning. Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose. Franklin. What man in his right senses, that has where- withal to live free, would rflake himself a slave for superfluities 2 What does that man want who has enough 2 Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied ? L’Estrange. Superstition is the parent of atheism. A. Howard. Superstition is but the fear of belief. Theodoret. Superstition is the ape of true devotion. J. Hall. Superstition is the daughter of ignorance. Mme. Deshowlières. Superstition is sure evidence of a weak mind. Mme Zorlim. To combat superstition one must be a believer. Mme. Swetchine. A man should be religious, but not superstitious. Awlus Gelliws. The most infallible mark of ignorance is super- stition. Stanislaws. All men are superstitious ; they only differ in degree. J. Toland. The world's hope is centered on men devoid of superstition. A. Kneeland. Superstition sprung from the deep disquiet of man's passion. H. Brooke. Superstition is but the fear of belief ; religion is the confidence. Lady Blessington. Superstition renders a man a fool, and scepticism makes him mad. Fielding. There are proselytes from atheism ; but none from superstition. Junius. Religion worships God, while superstition pro- fanes that worship. Semeca. Superstition is a senseless fear of God, religion the pious worship of God. Cicero. Every inordination of religion that is not in de- fect is properly called superstition. Jeremy Taylor. Superstition is the poesy of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious. Goethe. What crime has not superstition perpetrated against the virtue of the human race. Olive R. Seward. The beginning of superstition was the subtilty of Satan : the beginning of true religion, the service of God. Gemmadints. Superstition, the mother of those hideous twins, fear and faith, from her throne of skulls, still rules the world. R. G. Ingersoll. Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanata- cism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. La Harpe. It is hard to say which is the worse, the super- stition of the native savages, or the tyrannical cruelty of the Christian invaders. B. de Las Casas. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 913 SUPERSTITION. So true it is that though disbelief in religion and contempt of things divine be a great evil, yet Su- perstition is a still greater. Plutarch. Superstition always inspires littleness, religion, grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. Lavater. The greatest burden in the world is superstition not only of ceremonies in the church, but of ima- ginary and scarecrow sins at home. Milton. Those terrors are not to be charged upon reli- gion, which proceed either from the want of reli- gion, or superstitious mistakes about it. R. Bentley. Superstition is the disease of nations, enthusiasm that of individuals ; the former grows more inve- terate by time, the latter is cured by it. R. Hall. As darkness encourages the growth of reptiles, so in an inverse manner, do the creatures of Super- stition promote the growth of darkness. Lady Blessington. Pure religion and undefiled softens the manners by enlightening the mind, while superstition by making it blind, inspires every kind of madness. Voltaire. They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black. Selden. I think we cannot too strongly attack supersti- tion, which is the disturber of society ; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the sup- port of it. Rowsseaw. I would rather dwell in the dim fog of supersti- tion than in air rarefied to nothing by the air- pump of unbelief, in which the panting breast ex- pires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath. Richter. Nothing has more power over the multitude than superstition; in other respects powerless, ferocious, fickle, when it is once captivated by superstitious motions, it obeys its priests better than its leaders. Rufus. Every country has its superstitions, and will con- tinue to have them so long as men are blessed with lively imaginations, and while any portion of man- kind remain ignorant of the causes of natural phe- 11OIT16I18. - James Hall. By supertitions, I mean all those hypocritical arts of appeasing God and procuring favor without obeying His laws, or reforming our sins; infinite such superstitions have been invented by heathens, by Jews, by Christians themselves, especially by the church of Rome, which abounds with them. Sherlock. Superstition usually springs either from servile fear, which makes people believe that God is al- ways wrathful, and invents means to please Him ; or from a natural inclination we all have to idola- try, which makes men think they see some ray of the Divinity in extraordinary creatures, and on this account worship them. Rev. J. Claude. SUPERSTITION. Let not the falling of a salt, or a crossing of a hare, or the crying of a cricket, trouble thee; they portend no evil, but what thou fearest ; he is ill acquainted with himself that knows not his own fortunes more than they ; if evil follow it, it is the punishment of thy superstition, not the fulfilling of their portent ; all things are lucky to thee if thou wilt; nothing but is ominous to the Supersti- tious. F. Quarles. In mountainous countries we find the greatest number of superstitious beliefs ; because in these the powers of nature are most frequently mani- fested in the most varied forms ; and the supersti- tions of one mountainous country aiso differ from those of another, according to the peculiar charac- acter of its scenery and productions, the latitude in which it lies, and its proximity to, or distance from the Sea. D. Conway. And what, O superstition, have been thy cruel triumphs . Thou hast selected thy victims from among the excellent of the earth ; it is thy peculiar character to have reversed all the laws of nature, and of God ; to have inflicted on men of the sub- limest virtue, the tortures of the foulest villainy ; to have rendered purity unsullied, and piety sweeter and more celestial than thou couldst comprehend, the certain prey of misery and death ; thou hast fashioned to thyself a God stern and sullen, retir- ing in awful gloom from His creation not to be appeased but by blood Thy worship has been worthy of thy idol ; the dungeon has been thy chosen temple, instruments of torture thy means of instruction, the stake thy eloquence, and thy piety the abolition of all human sympathy. Sowthwood Smith. SUPPER. Light Suppers make long life. Damhowder. Suppers kill more than doctors cure. Abernethy. Supper is soon served in a plentiful house. Jay. A supper is a receipt for indigestion and a sleep- less might. Chatfield. Supper, that favorite repast of our fathers, should be universally abolished. A. Cazenave. A little in the morning is enough ; enough at dinner is but little ; but a little at supper is too much. - The Cid. They who favor the eating of supper, overlook the wisdom of the salutary and restricting laws of nature. James Ellis. He who would have an appetite to his dinner, must rise early and take a walk ; but if he is desi- rous of making a dolicious supper, he must eat moderately at dinner. Leonidas. Suppers are not bad, if we have not dined ; but restless nights naturally follow hearty suppers, after full dinners ; indeed, as there is a difference in constitutions, some rest well after these meals; it costs them only a frightful dream and an apo- plexy, after which they sleep till doomsday; no- thing is more common than instances of people, who after eating a hearty supper, are found dead a-bed in the morning. Franklin. 58 914 J) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. SURETY. He suffers who gives surety to the unjust. Homer. He who issurety for another pays for him, Dinter. No man is more willing to become surety for another than he that is in want. Bowrdalowe. Beware of suretyship for thy best friend ; he that payeth another man's debt Seeketh his own decay. Sir Joseph Jekyll. If there is any person more to be pitied than a spendthrift, it is he who willingly becomes the Surety of a spendthrift. St. Athanasius. Never become surety for another ; rather lend thy money thyself upon good bonds, although thou borrow it ; so shalt thou secure thyself, and plea- sure thy friend. Lord Bwrleigh. Before you sign a bond with your right hand, you would do well to put your left in your pocket, to see whether you have the amount for which you are to become surety. Lord Browgham. If I am to become surety for another, who insists that I shall never suffer loss therefor, is it unrea- sonable for me in turn to ask security that his as- severations shall be made good? E. P. Day. If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare ; if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all ; for friend- ship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it : if thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool ; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim. Sir W. Raleigh. Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends, leave so little to themselves as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others ; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbow- room enough, that by suretyship have expired in --- a dungeon. F. Osborn. SURFEIT. With much we surfeit. M. Drayton. Surfeit breedeth insolence. Solom. Surfeit vaults over pleasure. Derzhavin. Surfeits confound the memory. Galem. Surfeiting is a sacrifice of self, to please friends and spite nature. Richard de Bwry. To live well and frugally is to live temperately, and shun surfeiting. Plato. They are as sick that surfeit with too mnch, as they that starve with nothing. Shakspeare. Surfeiting is the readiest means to procure sick- ness, and sickness is the chastisement of intemper- ate diet. - Le Brum. To eat or drink till a man is surfeited is going beyond the natural desire in quantity ; for the ob- ject of desire is the satisfying our wants. Aristotle. Suffice nature, but surfeit not ; supply the body's needs, but offend not ; for moderate diet is the wise man's cognizance, but surfeiting is a fool's chiefest glory. St. Ephraim. SURGEOIN. Tender surgeons make foul wounds. Halm. Call not a surgeon before you are wounded. Jay. A surgeon should have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand. Sir P. Sidney. Surgery is a noble art ; he who practices it has many difficulties to encounter. Dr. Shew. Must not the disease be dangerous, when a ten- der-hearted surgeon cuts deep into the flesh Ż B. F. Teft. It is very evil surgery to cut off every unsound part of the body, which might afterward do good service. Herbert Spencer. As geography and chronology are the eyes of history, so are the surgeon and chemist the right and left hand of the healing art. Acton. SURPRISE. It is wisdom to be surprised at nothing. Fawst. A surprise of joy has a thousand extravagances in it. De Foe. Even the bravest men are not proof against a surprise. Tacitus. He who would have his commands certainly car- ried out, must take men by Surprise. Goethe. Surprise takes us unawares; we are surprised if that does not happen which we calculate upon, or we are surprised if that happens which we did not calculate upon. G. Crabb. Not to be surprised by anything that appears, is of all means the best to make and keep us happy : there are some men so little under the influence of this feeling that they can look unmoved at yon sun in the firmament, the stars, and the ever vary- ing changes of the seasons that take place at fixed periods. Horace. SUSPENSE. While in suspense we do nothing. Martial. It is a miserable thing to live in suspense ; it is the life of the spider. Swift. We must drive away the mists of suspense by the sunbeams of hope. F. Marryatt. Those are the least exposed to the unpleasant feeling of suspense who confine their wishes to the present. G. Crabb. The torment of suspense is very great ; and as soon as the wavering, perplexed mind begins to determine, be the determination which way SO- ever, it will find itself at ease. R. Sowth. A man's mind is in suspense when it is balancing the weight of different arguments or considera- tions, or when it is uncertain respecting facts un- known, or events not in his own power. Webster. Of all the conditions to which the heart is sub- ject, suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame ; one little month of that suspense, when it involves death, is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five-and-twenty. Bulwer. Z2 A: O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 915 SUSPICION. Banish suspicion. Cleobwlws. Beware of suspicion. Chilo. He who suspects is seldom at fault. Regnier. Suspicion follows close on mistrust. Lessing. Suspicion is the virtue of a coward. G. Herbert. Suspicion is the mother of jealousy. Dionysius. Suspicion is the poison of friendship. Augustime. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. Shakspeare. Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side. Publius Syrus. Our enemies cause the suspicion of our friends. Mammati. Suspicion very rarely occupies the bosom of in- IłOCellC6. J. Bartlett. Few men are above suspicion ; a great many are below it. G. D. Prentice, Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it is a great One. Mme. de Stael. Suspicion is a virtue where a man holds his ene- my in his bosom. E. Howard. The suspected man and the really guilty seem to differ but slightly. Attsonius. That man that is feared of man hath cause like- wise to suspect many. Socrates. Suspiciousness is as great an enemy to wisdom as too much credulity. T. Fuller. It is as hard for the good to suspect evil as it is for the bad to suspect good. Cicero. The more honest our intentions are the less sus- picious are we of other's designs. N. Macdonald. Banish from thy heart unworthy suspicion, for it polluteth the excellency of the soul. Brogmi. Suspicion is a heavy armor, and with its own weight impedes more than it protects. Byron. If there be a serpent that can poison the inno- cence of its inmates, that Serpent is suspicion. R. D. Owen. A dull head thinks of no better way to show him- Self wise, than by suspecting everything in his way. Sir P. Sidney. It becomes all good men and women to be on their guard, and keep even the suspicion of guilt away. Planttus. Suspicion engendereth curiosity, backbiting, un- quietness, factions, jealousy, and many other mis- chiefs. Josue Maaler. It is hard to blind suspicion with a false color, especially when conceit standeth at the door of an enemy. A wrelius. They that know how to suspect, without expos- ing or hurting themselves, till honesty comes to be more in fashion, can never suspect too much. S. Croacall. SUSEPICION. - Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious ; and no man can love the per- son he suspects. R. Sowth. It is hardly possible to suspect another, without having in one's self the seeds of the baseness the party is accused of. Stanislaws. Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just ; it is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. H. Ballow. How difficult it is for a woman to steer entirely clear of suspicion, unless there exists between her and her husband a frank and cordial understand- ing. Lady Dacre. Suspicion among thoughts are like bats among birds—they ever fly to twilight : they are to be repressed, or at least well guarded, for they cloud the mind. Lord Bacom. Better is the mass of men, suspicion, than thy fears ; purer than thy judgments, ascetic tongue of censure ; in all things worthier to love, if not also wiser to esteem Thupper. Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. Dr. Johnson. The most pure and delicate, those who have la- bored most earnestly to deserve the best reputa- tion, are apt to be tremulously alive to every kind Of obloquy and injurious suspicion. R. Walsh. He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the life of a sentinel—of a sentinel never relieved, whose business it is to look out for and expect an enemy, which is an evil not very far short of perishing by him. - T. Young. All whose fortunes are less prosperous, are the more suspicious ; they take everything as if insult were intended ; on account of their peculiar state of indigence, they always think themselves to be slighted. Terence. Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom ; surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed. Zimmerman. Never put much confidence in such as put no con- fidence in others ; a man prome to 'suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself ; as to the pure, all things are pure ; even so to the impure, all things are impure. J. C. Hare. As there are dimmed-sighted persons who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head, nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicion. R. Whately. Always suspect a man who affects great softness of manner, an unruffled evenness of temper, and an enunciation studied, slow, and deliberate ; these things are unnatural, and bespeak a degree of men- tal discipline into which he that hath no purpose of craft or design to answer, cannot submit to drill himself. Colton. 916 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. SWEARING. Swearing is earnestness run to seed. J. Owen. Swearing is neither brave, polite, nor wise. W. A. Hallock. The swearer's mouth is blackened by the soot of hell. E. Hopkins. He who swears tells us that his bare word is not to be credited. C. C. Felton. Is there a God to swear by, and is there none in whom to believe, none to whom to pray ? Prierio. To swear and forswear is a vice so hateful, that slaves themselves judge it worthy of punishment. Periander. Others serve the devil for pay, but cursers and swearers are volunteers who get nothing for their pay. Rev. T. Boston. Profit or pleasure there is none in swearing, nor anything in men's natural tempers to incite them to it. N. A. Calkins. I have, both by threats and persuasive means, endeavored to discountenance profane cursing and swearing. Washington. From a common custom of swearing, men easily slide into perjury ; therefore, if thou wouldst not be perjured, do not use to swear. Hierocles. There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talk- ing and swearing any other than braying 3 L’Estrange. Of all men, a philosopher should be no swearer; for an oath, which is the end of controversies in law, cannot determine any here, where reason only must induce. Sir T. Browne. Swearing is properly a superfluity of naughti- ness, and can only be considered as a sort of pep- per-corn rent, in acknowledgment of the Devil's right of Superiority. R. Hall. He that makes no conscience of swearing vainly, will soon make but little of swearing falsely ; for he that in a lower degree so voluntarily breaks God's commandment for nothing, may soon be drawn to break it in a little higher degree for his profit. - R. Boyle. Swearing is, of all the vices, the most inexcusa- ble ; it has neither the apology of mental or sen- sual gratification ; and that man who tosses irre- verently the name of the Almighty from histongue, deserves the censure of every good man, and merits the just indignation of heaven. J. Bartlett. Trust not to the promise of a common swearer, for he that dare sin against his God, for neither profit nor pleasure, will trespass against thee for his own advantage ; he that dare break the pre- cepts of his Father, will easily be persuaded to violate the promise unto his brother. F. Qwarles. There is nothing so low, vulgar, and wicked as swearing, and it is surprising that men, who wish to be considered as wise and polite, should befound so much in the habit of it ; it is not, however, pe- culiar to the inferior circles of life, but prevails among the great and honorable, so called. C. Buck. SWEARING. Common swearing, if it have any serious mean- ing at all, argues in man a perpetual distrust of his own reputation, and is an acknowledgment that he thinks his bare word not to be worthy of credit: and it is so far from adorning and filling a man's discourse, that it makes it look swollen and bloated, and more bold and blustering than becomes per- Sons of genteel and good breeding. Tillotson. Swearing is a sin that hath no more malignancy in it against God, by how much the less is the temptation to it. I verily believe that if God had never made the third commandment, there would never have been so many oaths in the world ; but it springs from a mere malignancy of spirit in man against God because He has forbidden it, for no profit can arise from the practice. J. Burroughes. Swearing is an unmanly and silly vice ; it cer- tainly is not a grace in conversation, as it adds no strength to it. There is no organic symmetry in the narrative which is ingrained with Oaths; and the blasphemy which bolsters an opinion does not make it any more correct ; nay, the use of pro- fane oaths argues a limited range of ideas, and a consciousness of being on the wrong side ; and if we can find no other phrases through which to vent our choking passion, we had better repress that passion. E. H. Chapin. SWEETNESS. Where there is sweet, bitter will follow. Lothariws. That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. C. Irvine. Trees whose fruit is acid last longer than those whose fruit is sweet. Lord Bacon. Those who are sated with sweetness in this world shall be drenched with bitterness in the next. As-Sammak. The godly man, like the bee, sucks in the sweets of religion ; the ungodly man, like the spider, drinks in the poison of pleasure, Downey. Sweet expresses the pleasant perceptions of al- most every sense ; sugar is sweet, but it hath not the same sweetness as music ; nor hath music the sweetness of a rose, and a sweet prospect differs from them all ; nor yet have any of these the same sweetness as discourse, counsel, or meditation hath. - I. Watts. SWIMIMING.. Swimmers find ease in deep water. Lord Bacon. Never throw away your corkstill time has given you strength and experience enough to swim with- out them. S. Croacoll. Swimming is a pleasing exercise, because its movements are regular, and assist the develop- ment of the chest. A. Cazenave. Swimming may save a man in case of necessity ; though it loseth many when practised in wanton- ness, by increasing their confidence ; therefore, for pleasure tread not your depth ; and in seeking to save another, beware of drowning yourself. F. Osborn. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 917 SWORD. All safety lies in the sword. Caracalla. The sword is his who girds it on. Ahmed Vesik. The Sword is the protection of all. Semeca. Give not a sword to an angry man. Syrus. Danger flies from the uplifted Sword. Ossian. A good swordsman is not quarrelsome. Fielding. The sword keeps the peace of the land. Ewald. A shortsword can reach an enemy's heart. AEgis. What is a sword without an arm to wield it 2 Al-Faiyad. The sword itself oft incites to deeds of violence. Homer. Even a good sword may have an infamous han- dle. Diogenes. Let piety put the sword into the hands of jus- tice. Charles IX of France. The sword has proved a costly weapon to the world. Rwskin. A sword in the hands of a coward is his own danger. Demophilus. Is a sword dishonored by being confined in a Scabbard 3 Al-Jahm. What we gain by the sword is seldom a lasting possession. Rufus. He who has the longest sword is always thought to be in the right. Cervantes. After victory the sword returneth to its scab- bard well pleased. Al-Akawwak. The sword is but a hideous flash in the darkness; right is an eternal ray. V. Hugo. The rusty sword and empty purse plead per- formance of covenants. Sir C. Hatton. It is the duty of a sword to preserve tranquility. by punishing the wicked and protecting the good. A. B. Mitford. The sword was never intended for murder, but defence ; neither was the tongue intended for slander, but prayers and praises. Downey. Both the robber and the weary traveller gird themselves with the sword ; the one carries it for the purpose of crime, and the latter as his means of defence. Ovid. The Sword has had great power ; it has influ- enced many ; it has banished kings from their thrones, and raised in their stead, beggars from the dunghill ; and it has also spread woe, and terror, and desolation through the land. J. M. Douglas. When you draw the sword be well assured of the justice of the cause in which you are engaged : be- ing thus assured press forward with undaunted fortitude ; and having subdued your foe, regard him as no longer your enemy, but extend to him that glorious attribute of the Deity—mercy. Masonic Mamwal. SYCOPHANT. No sycophant can be a true friend. Gallws. A sycophant is the worst of all wild beasts. Diogenes. Sycophancy is catering manhood for place. - Melancthon. From false sycophants, Sweet angel, deliver me. W. Vawgham. The sycophant soothes to destroy, and praises to entrap. W. Jowett. The tongue of a sycophant is the king's greatest plague. Pope Pius II. Sycophants often possess the cunning of the fox, and always his meanness. C. Jenkinsom. Sycophants are always the first ones to be sacri- ficed when disasters come. H. W. Show. Flattering sycophants swarm around a throne, as thick as bees that buzz around their hive. J. Limen. Sycophancy is the weapon of the designing and artful, usually employed against the weak, the vain, and the ignorant. J. Bartlett. By a revolution in the state, the fawning syco- phant of yesterday is converted into the austere critic of the present hour. Burke. The sycophant seldom thinks it necessary to adopt the good qualities of his patron, but employs all his art on his weaknesses and follies. J. Hinton. Sycophants are shrewd adventurers, who in or- der to possess what they desire, speak what they do not believe, and often obtain what substantial merit and sound reason would never procure. Magoon. The flatterer is one who flatters by words ; the sycophant is, therefore, always a flatterer, and something more, for the sycophant adopts every mean artifice by which he can ingratiate himself. G. Crabb. A sycophant is said to be a beast that biteth smiling ; but it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations ; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a sycophant a friend. Sir W. Raleigh. Sycophants have only to be known to be des- pised, they have only to be talked with to be known ; and when known and despised, are shun- ned, and often change their course, and become the vilest slanderers, the jackalls and hyenas of society. L. C. Judson. In the intercourse of society and life, in conver- sation and the affairs of the world, some men ap- pear to be sycophants, who praise everything for the sake of giving pleasure, and never contradict an opinion, but think that they ought to give no opinion with those they happen to be ; others, the very opposite characters to these, who oppose everything, and are altogether regardless of the feelings of their neighbor, are called cross-grained and quarrelsome. Aristotle. 91S AN A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. SYMEOL. Symbols instruct the ignorant. Plutarch. Earth is the symbol of humanity. P. J. Bailey. The white stone is a symbol of purity. Maspero. Symbols are to be found in every country and in all religions. A. G. Mackey. A ring is the symbol of eternity ; it hath no be- ginning nor ending. Giovanni Battista Spagnuoli. There are a good many symbols that are more expressive than words. O. W. Holmes. The hieroglyphical symbols of Scripture are oft- times racked beyond their symbolizations. Brown. A symbol is the sign or representation of any moral thing by the images or properties of natural things. N. Webster. There is no food for soul or body which God has not symbolized ; He is light for the eye, Sound for the ear, bread for food, wine for weariness, peace for trouble. H. W. Beecher. The symbol is that species of emblem which is converted into a constituted sign among men ; thus the olive and laurel are the symbols of peace, and have been recognized as such among barbarious as well as enlightened nations. G. Crabb. There are no symbols to compare with those of the Lord's supper, either for solemnity or appro- priateness; for the consecrated bread actually symbolizes the broken body, and the consecrated wine the shed blood of Jesus, “the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world.” Davies. A symbol is ever, to him who hath eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the Godlike. Through all there glimmers something of a Divine idea ; may, the highest ensign that men ever met, and embraced under the cross itself, had no mean- ing, save an accidental intrinsic one. T. Carlyle, SYMMETRY Symmetry is a great requisite of beauty. F. Ximines. Symmetry in all animate or inanimate objects excites our admiration. W. C. Redfield. Symmetry, equality, and correspondence of parts, is the discernment of reason, not the object of sense. Sir T. More. Symmetry is a due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other ; or the union and conformity of the members of a work to the whole. w N. Webster. Symmetry of features, without intelligence strongly marked on the countenance, is insipid, lifeless, uninspiring ; like an extended plain, you are weary at examination, and turn to the va- riegated scenes of nature. J. Bartlett. Symmetry and beauty glide before us like an en- trancing vision ; the disembodied conception al- ready had a dwelling-place in the unveiled reces- ses of the soul, but here it comes forth in a tangi- ble, glowing, and palpable shape, the perfection of a thought and the glory of a dream. Acton. organic impression. SYMPATHY. Sympathy exists in all minds. Bulwer. Be generous in your sympathies. Horace Smith. Let your sympathy be practical. J. B. Gough. Sorrow is lessened by sympathy. Andrada. Let us sympathize with the lowly. A. Benezet. Too much sympathy defeats itself. Phavorinus. A friend giveth sympathy in trouble. Tasso. Pretended sympathy is bitter to the heart. Nutka. The key to unlock a great mind is sympathy. * C. W. Day. Even prisoners have a claim upon our sympa- thy. Scipio Africanus. Man has a natural instinctive sympathy with IIlall. Mrs. Willard. Sympathy soothes us in sorrow, and gives a zest to our joy. S. H. Platt. A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. W. R. Alger. Sympathy is produced through the medium of N. Chipman. The audience always sympathizes with him who speaks pathetically. Horace. Sympathy is the golden key which unlocks the treasures of wisdom. H. T. Tw.ckerman. I value myself upon sympathy : I hate and des- pise myself for envy. Rames. Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life. E. H. Chapin. By sympathy our joys are increased, and our sorrows are diminished. Charecrates. It is gratifying to be able to count upon the sympathies of good men. Alea’aºwder II of Russia. Affectionate sympathy is the surest key to un- lock every human heart. Martha, Martell. Sympathy is a sensibility, of which its objects are sometimes insensible. Chatfield. It is the province of sympathy to render us alive to evils of those around us.. Prof. Smyth. Sympathy between two or more persons must have some common object. G. S. Bowes. It is not suffering that is an evil, but the want of sympathy in our suffering. Al-Khattábi. Sympathy is the balm of friendship, and the strongest bond of the best Souls. Magoon. There is a sacred sweetness in the tear that flows in sympathy for others' woes. J. W. Bank. All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. S. T. Coleridge. There is naught in this bad world like sympa- thy; it is so becoming to the soul and face. Byron. A A' O S Z O U O Z. A 7" / O AV S. 919 SYMPATHY. The craving for sympathy is the common boun- dary-line between joy and Sorrow. J. C. Hare. We are governed by sympathy ; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sen- sibility. º Hazlitt. The man who melts with social sympathy, though not allied in blood, is worth more than a thousand kinsmen. Ewripides. To weep and lament over misfortunes, when it draws the sympathizing tear, brings no light re- compense. AEschylus. Sympathy is a fellow-feeling with any in trouble; it can only be fully developed where like expe- rience exists. * A. Ritchie. The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy. P. Godwin. One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined, ever entered into with sympathy. Miss L. E. Landon. The world has no sympathy with any but posi- tive griefs ; it will pity you for what you lose ; never for what you lack. Mºme. Swetchine. The power of sympathy on children is wonder- ful ; no one can do anything with them who does not know how to awaken it. J. C. Jeaff reson. The mind will sympathize so much with the an- guish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation. Buckminster. We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beau- tiful because it lies beyond their sympathies. Goethe. The tear of sympathy never falls in vain ; it waters and fertilizes the soil of the most sterile heart, and causes it to flourish with the beautiful flowers of gratitude and love. Lady E. Hewey. Sympathy is as lightning ; it is quick as thought ; it waits not to make its selections ; it is irrespec- tive of considerations, and of partialities, and of tastes, and of cold prudence. I. Taylor. It is said that the wounded deer sheds tears ; but it belongs to man only, to “weep with them that weep,” and by sympathy to divide another's sor- rows, and double another's joys. Gwthrie. There are sympathies by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach them- selves to each other, and are affected by, I know not what, which cannot be explained. Corneille. When men are brought together by sympathy, and become associated on the principle of mutual aid and common labor, upon whom does this asso- ciation depend, if not solely upon itself? Lamennais. Sympathy wanting, all is wanting ; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us in human commu- nion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves. W. A. Alcott. SYIMPATHY. The capacity of sorrow belongs to our grandeur, and the loftiest of our race are those who have had the profoundest sympathies, because they have had the profoundest sorrows. H. Giles. A sympathizing heart is a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountainside ; ever pure and sweet in itself, it carries gladness and joy on every ripple of its sparkling current. R. A. Ingraºn. He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness, and he that is warned by all the folly of others, has perhaps attained the soundest wisdom. Colton. Like the sea-anemone, which feels the first re- turning wave upon the rock, and throws out all its tendrils, so the tender nature of some individuals will give forth all its sympathies at the slightest intimations of woe. J. Everett, It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magne- tism exists in all metals ; but a certain tempera- ture is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind. Bulwer. The mystery of sympathy links us with kindred minds, and bids us feel long before the lights and shadows of character can be distinguished, that we have met with the rich blessing of a heart which can understand us, and on which our own can lean. - Mrs. J. M. Parker. Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having sympathies in either ; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction least ; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for tell- ing of it, and our grief insupportable but for par- ticipation. W. Wycherley. There is a first model of beauty and agreeable- ness, which consists in a certain relation between our own nature and the thing with which we are in sympathy : whatever is formed on this model interests and delights us ; whatever differs from it is always displeasing. Pascal. The making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart, is reward enough for a life : for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful, the human Soul. J. R. Lowell. There are eyes which need only to look up, to touch every chord of a breast choked by the stif- ling atmosphere of stiff and stagnant society, and to call forth tones which might become the accom- panying music of a life; this gentle tranfusion of mind into mind is the secret of sympathy. Richter. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe : we should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment ; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human life, of the solitary cottage, the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the mean- est insect with wanton cruelty. H. Blair. 920 A) A Y’,S C O Z / A C O AV. SYIMPATHY. SYSTEM. Sympathy is the first great lesson which man We put too much faith in systems, and look too should learn ; it will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther ; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet ; but unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing nobler or grand. Sir T. N. Talfowrd. How beautiful is sympathy | What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sor- row, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting : G. Eliot. It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men cam do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort af substitu- tion, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is af- fected. Burke. Let us cherish sympathy, by attention and ex- ercise it may be improved in every man ; it pre- pares the mind for receiving the impressions of virtue ; and without it there can be no true polite- ness. Nothing is more odious than that insensibility which wraps a man up in himself and his own concerns, and prevents his being moved with either the joys or the sorrows of another. J. Beattie. There is a kind of sympathy in souls, that fits them for each other ; and we may be assured when we see two persons engaged in the warmths of a mutual affection, that there are certain qualities in both their minds which bear a resemblance to one another. A generous and constant passion in an agreeable lover, where there is not too great a dis- parity in other circumstances, is the greatest bless- ing that can befall the person beloved, and if over- looked in One may perhaps never be found in another. Steele. SYNONY.M. A word having the same signification as another is its synonym. N. Webster. The study of synonyms, rightly pursued, will do much in leading us to stand in awe of this divine gift of words. R. C. Trench. Synonyms form an important object of philo- logical study, demanding, on the part of the en- quirer, great knowledge of the principles of lan- guage. J. Cawvin. Words termed synonymous, are called synony- mous because they agree in expressing one princi- pal idea ; but for the most part, if not always, they express it with some diversity in the circum- stances. H. Blair. If no words are synonymous except those which are identical in use and meaning, so that the one can in all cases be substituted for the other, we have scarcely ten such words in our language ; but we have numerous words which may, in many cases or connections, be used interchangeably, and these are properly called synonyms. Goodrich. complete and harmonious systems. little to men. B. Disraeli. It is only through system that enterprises of any extent can be made successful. T. Flatman. Every blade of grass in the field is measured ; even the storms have their laws and systems. F. Blaikie. More persons have been made bankrupt by the want of system and punctuality, than by the want of capital. James Ellis. Systemize your work; the Most High is a being of order, and you should cultivate this same in all your affairs. E. Rich. If you reduce your efforts to a system, you will find the acquisition of science less difficult, more pleasant, and of enduring value. Le Roy C. Cooley. The best way to learn any science is to begin with a regular system, or a short and plain Scheme of that science well drawn up into a narrow COm- paSS. I. Watts. Every profession implies system ; there can be no efficiency and no advance without it ; the mean- est trade demands it, and would run to waste without something of it. J. Tulloch, System keeps every man cool and safe in the dark, like the healthy child who goes up the dim winding staircase to its slumber, having gone up so often in the noontime, that the night shineth like the day. John Weiss. We must believe in spite of scientific prejudices, that there exists for man a pre-established system for the regulation of his social relations, based upon a divine theory, existing prior to the crea- tion of our globe. A. Brisbane. The beautiful system of sun, planets, and Comets could have its origin in no other way than by the purpose and command of an intelligent and power- ful Being ; He governs all things, not as the Soul of the world, but as the Lord of the universe. Sir I. Newton. Have a system for everything, and do every- thing in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying, as if in vain at- tempting to overtake time that had been lost. Sir J. G. Wilkinsom. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and reflect the dawn ; but soon the light which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and pene- trates to the deepest valley ; first come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then R. Whately. System facilitates dispatch and doubles the work done; whereas disorder wastes time and substance, and is ruinous in its very mature. Order reigns supreme in the worlds on high and in the earth be- low ; it has reduced perfect chaos to the most de- lightful system imaginable ; it has arranged a place for every organ of the human body, and puts them all in their exact places, so that they can the better perform their respective functions. Fowler. W. M., THACKERAY. A ſº O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 921 T. TABLE. A table friend is changeable. M. Neville. A good table makes a bad will. Bartholomew, Leave the table with room for more. Cazenave. If in need, borrow from thine own table. Plato. Spread the table, and contention will cease. Syra. Woe to the children banished from their father's table. Talmud. Let not thy table exceed the fourth part of thy I'êVenlle. F. Quarles. who depends upon another man's table often dines late. Gwicciardini. The table is as good a place to give instruction as a school-room. Calvisius Tawrws. The liberty of a common table is a tacit invita- tion to all intruders. L’Estrange. There is no place where one's behavior is more observed than at the dinner-table. H. Stephens. Rather spread a moderate table for many poor, than a luxurious table for few rich. Cimon. The table of manly companionship reserves its place of honor for the wife and mother. Michelet. He who would most perfectly enjoy the pleasures of the table, such as they are, must look for them within the rules of temperance. W. Gilpin. Jupiter placed two tables in the world for every station ; the cunning, the vigilant, and the strong are seated at the first, while the silly and weak eat their scraps at the second. La Fontaine. TACITURNITY. Taciturnity is an intensive silence. G.F. Graham. Taciturnity is by no means amiable or justifi- able. W. Bent. Taciturnity is more to be commended than habi- tual vain boasting. A. M. Graziana. Taciturnity is the first lesson to teach a pupil entire docility of manners. Pythagoras. One learns taciturnity best from people who have none, and loquacity from the taciturn. Richter. Taciturnity is often used by some men to cover their ignorance, in others their selfishness or wick- edness. Annie E. Lancaster. The indolent man does nothing, the taciturn man Says nothing ; and both generally succeed in ac- complishing nothing. E. P. Day. A man of sense always prefers passing even for Stupid, by his taciturnity, to the infamous talent of Shining at the expense of religion, of the laws, of men of genius, and of his neighbors, to divert those who are falsely named great wits, or rejoice the hearts of men who want judgment. C. Buck. TACT. Tact is practical wisdom. J. H. Morrison, Tact is the oil that lubricates Society. C. W. Day. Tact is doing the right thing at the right time. C. P. Dwclos. Tact is quickness of perception united to promp- titude of action. Acton. Tact is common sense well trained ; it is the high- est manifestation of instinct. Ammie E. Lancaster. Tact refutes without contradicting, puzzles the profound without profundity, and without wit outwits the wise. J. Hemming. No man can be successful in life without tact ; it is the possession of a nice perception and a peculiar skill that will enable us to fight our way through the world. James Ellis. Without tact, the shrewdest merchant will find his goods lying in unsold piles upon his shelves: the acute theologian will live and die in an obscure village, and the subtlest legal acumen will never adorn the bench. W. Mathews. Many a woman, endowed with noble attributes, and rich in sterling virtues, has passed through life little beloved, little appreciated, and seldom sought after, because she was lamentably deficient in this one conciliating, harmonizing quality of tact. Anna Cora Ritchie. Talent is something, but tact is everything. Tal- ent is serious, sober, grave, and respectable ; tact is all that, and more too; it is not a seventh sense, but it is the life of all the five; it is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch : it is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties. W. P. Scargill. TALE-BEARER. Expel a tale-bearer from thy house. Werenſels. Look to the punishment of tale-bearers. Burnet. I know not which is the worse, the bearer of tales or the receiver. F. Page. The tale-bearer incurs the penalty of no one trusting him with a secret, except for publication. o J. B. Owen. Tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world, than the poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger. Schiller. One false, paltry tale-bearer, by carrying stories one to another, often inflames the minds, and dis- composes the quiet of a whole family. L. Barrey. Tale-bearers were reputed the worst sort of men ; but some there are who spread vices. The speech of these sort of men is productive of much mischief; for although it hurts not instantly, yet it leaves some seeds in the mind, and it follows us even when we have left them, likely hereafter to enkindle in us a new evil. Seneca. 922 A) A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. TALENT. TALENT. A wise ruler honors talent. Tsze-chang. Talent, lying in the understanding, is often in- Talent rul ith - Joeli herited ; genius, being the action of reason or ima- alent rules without a sceptre. Coelius. gination, rarely or never. S. T. Coleridge. Talent is always queer-tempered. Miss Braddon. Talent is a cistern ; genius, a fountain. Whipple. With the talents of an angel, a man may be a fool. Dr. Young. Great talents have some admirers, but few friends. Niebuh?". The true eye for talent pre-supposes the true re- werence for it. T. Carlyle. We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment. Rochefoucauld. Distinguished talents are not necessarily connec- ted with discretion. Jumiws. The best way to get more talents is to improve the talents we have. E. Bickersteth. A wise prince does not seek in one man talents for every employment. Chwm-kwºng. Talent like beauty, to be pardoned, must be ob- Scure and unostentatious. Lady Blessington. Great and decided talent is a tower of strength which cannot be subverted. Mrs. J. B. Webb. Between genius and talent there is the propor- tion of the whole to its part. Bruyère. Talent is some one faculty unusually developed : genius commands all the faculties. F. H. Hedge. It is a great talent for a ruler to use the talents of men as though he possessed them. Duke of Tsin. All who write or speak are not equal in talent : the hen has feathers, but cannot fly. Ad-Dahháir. Talents are best nurtured in solitude ; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world, Goethe. Talent is a gift which God has presented to us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. Montesquiew. Without integrity, the finest talent can never gain the respect of the truly valuable part of man- kind. Washington. It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit. Cicero. Talent is an eye-Sore to tyranny : in weakness, tyranny fears it like a power; in power, it hates it as a liberty. Rev. E. Walford. Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated : rays, powerless while they are scat- tered, burn in a point. R. A. Willmott. Talents of the highest order, and such as are cal- culated to command universal admiration, may exist apart from wisdom. R. Hall. Talents are distributed by nature without the slightest regard, or respect, to genealogies, pedi- grees, ancestry, and all that kind of thing. Frederick the Great. Talent is substance ; genius is show ; talent is a primary quality of things, like weight ; genius the secondary quality, like color. J. Neale. It is an uncontroverted truth that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. Swift. Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry, and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary. Hazlitt. When your camels find no more nourishment, remove to a more fertile spot ; and when your tal- ents are not appreciated, seek another country. Ibn Munir. Talent, for talent's sake, is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a bene- factor. R. W. Ehrmerson. Well-matured and well-disciplined talent is al- ways sure of a market, provided it exerts itself; but it must not cower at home and expect to be sought for. W. Irving. We must despise no sort of talents: they all have their separate duties and uses, all the happiness of man for their object ; they all improve, exalt, and gladden life. Sydney Smith. Who in the same given time can produce more than any others, has vigor ; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. Lavater. A man of great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him. Addison. Talents give a man a superiority far more agree- able than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external ; they constitute our very essence. C. Rollin. It is probable that a greater proportion of talent is destroyed, or rendered valueless, by riches than by poverty; and the rapid mutations of society, I think, demonstrate this to be the fact, F. Wayland. God gives not noble talents to all men, neither nature's charms, nor intellect, nor eloquence ; for one man is inferior in outward form, while God makes up for this defect by eloquence, and thus he is admired by all. Homer. As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us; they rise where they are least expected ; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth. Burke. The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms; very often it does not know what to do with genius. Talent is a docile creature ; it bows its head meekly while the world slips the col- lar over it it backs into the shafts like a lamb. O. W. Holmes. - P R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 923 TALENT. No common error is attended with worse conse- quences to the children of genius than the practice of dragging precocious talent into early notice ; of encouraging its growth in the hot-bed of paren- tal approbation, and of endeavoring to give the dawning intellect the precocious maturity of that fruit which ripens and rots almost simultaneously. - - John Ihºre. Rare talents may sometimes be prerogatives without being advantages ; and though a needless ostentation of one's excellences may be more glo- rious, a modest concealment of them is usually more safe ; and an unseasonable disclosure of flashes of wit may sometimes do a man no other service than to direct his adversaries how they may do him a mischief. R. Boyle. The peculiar superiority of talent over riches may be best discovered from hence—that the in- fluence of talent will always be the greatest in that government which is the most pure, while the in- fluence of riches will always be the greatest in that government which is the most corrupt ; so that from the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigor of the common- wealth ; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration. Colton. Parents need not be in too great haste to see their children's talents forced into bloom ; let them watch and wait patiently, letting good example and quiet training do their work, and leave the rest to Providence; let them see to it that the youth is provided, by free exercise of his bodily powers, with a full stock of physical health : set him fairly on the road of self-culture ; carefully train his habits of application and perseverance ; and as he grows older, if the right stuff be in him, he will be enabled vigorously and effectively to cultivate himself. Smiles. TALES. An honest tale speeds best. Shakspeare. Every man's life is a fairy-tale. H. C. Andersen. Many a tale is spoiled in telling. Terence. Tales are the romance of childhood. Addison. The dead tell no tales ; Oh, if they did, how would they be listened to Acton. The tale of calumny, which has no foundation in truth, cannot long retain its power to injure. Opie. Stories are made for children ; but the tale is formed by men of understanding, and adopted for persons of mature years. G. Crabb. In countries where education and learning abound, legendary and miraculous tales lose ground ; exciting but little interest and less belief, and at last almost becoming a dead letter. Blakie. I will be silent and barren of discourse when I chance to hear a tale, rather than go with child therewith, till another's ears be my midwife, to de- liver me of such deformed monster; I may hear a tale of delight, and perhaps smile at an innocent jest : I will not jest nor joy at a tale disgracing an innocent person. A. Warwick, TALKING-. Talkers are no good doers. Shakspeare. Let thy talk be little, honest, true. Rev. H. Peters. A great talker ought to be affable. J. C. Hare. Those who talk much say nothing. Boileau. All good talkers are good listeners. H. W. Shaw. Talking for talk's sake is always hard. Eggleston. A wise man can talk to himself when alone. Antisthenes. Talk to please others; act to please yourself. Pope Alexander VI. He who talks much cannot always talk well. Goldoni. Good talkers are plentiful ; good listeners are I’a,I'ê. E. P. Day. He talks too much who never ceases his vain flow of words. Hövamál. Constant talking is as troublesome as continual dropping of rain. Wakatawki. A Brahmin should not marry a girl given to im- moderate talking. Memw. Always look at those you are talking to, never at those you are talking of. Colton. It is very seldom that a great talker hath either discretion or good manners. Cown't Mole. The more talk is seasoned with fine phrases, the less it savoreth of true meaning. G. Fichet. There is no better type of a great talker, than a very long and cold winter might. G. P. Morris. What a pity it is that some animals cannot talk; a greater pity that some men can G. D. Prentice. People who have not got anything to say, can always find the most to talk about. H. W. Shaw. Talking much is a sign of vanity ; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deed. Raleigh. Talkative persons are like barrels : the less there is in them, the more noise they make. Milligen. Talking and eloquence are not the same ; to speak, and to speak well are two things. B. Jonson. There is such a torture, happily unknown to an- cient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Sterne. It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourses. Collier. A single talk across the table with a wise manis better than ten years' mere study of books. - Confucius. Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers : the less men think, the more they talk. Montesquiew. As men of sense say a great deal in few words, so the half-witted have a talent of talking much and saying nothing. C. Love. 924 AX A Y’,S C O Z Z. A C O AV. TALKING. People who have the least knowledge, and the least merit, are apt to be great talkers and boast- €I’S. R. Whately. A talkative person runs himself upon great in- conveniences, by blabbing out his own or other's SecretS. J. Ray. Great talkers not only do the least, but generally say the least, if their words be weighed, instead of reckoned. Chatfield. Great talkers show that they desire only to be thought eminent ; whereas the deepest waters are least heard. J. Hall. They commit an impropriety who talk much of subjects pertaining to their profession, business or amusements. G. W. Hervey. A great talker will always speak, though nobody minds him ; nor does he mind anybody when they speak to him. T. Randolph. Talking is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books. W. Mathews. Talkative men seldom read ; this is among the few truths which appear the more strange the more Aristotle. A talkative man is a nuisance to society ; the ear is sick of his babbling, the torrent of his words overwhelmeth conversation. R. Dodsley. What hypocrites we seem to be, whenever we talk of ourselves | Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud. H. Attwell. we reflect upon them. Pleasant talk promotes digestion and prevents the mind from dwelling on the grinding of the di- gestive mill that is going on within us. W. Jerdam. They who are great talkers in company, have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen. Shaftesbwry. There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses; for what's loud and senseless talk- ing and swearing, any other than braying ? L’Estrange. There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation. Hazlitt. Those who would please others, should never talk for display ; the vanity of shining in conver- sation is usually subversive of its own desires. Mrs. Sigourmey. Nothing is more contemptible than a man who makes a business of talking, who does with his words what a mountebank does with his nostrums. - Gowjet. The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking ; and the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear no- thing. Cautiously avoid talking of the domestic affairs either of yourself or other people. Ours are no- thing to them but tedious gossip; theirs are nothing to you. Chesterfield. Plutarch. TALKING. A great talker tells all he knows, and all he knows not ; he is neither capable of secrecy nor of busi- ness; he is a sieve that can hold nothing. Corson. Talk without truth is like the hollow brass ; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars. Mrs. Jameson. Young men often make a mistake by talking in- stead of listening ; some old men would talk you into the middle of next year, if you would waste time in hearing them. L. C. Judson. To be listened to with attention, and to acquire the reputation of a good talker, never speak of yourself, but always in implied praise of those you address, or in pungent satire of their contempora- ries. Lady Blessington. There are some who have such a manner of talk- ing always, that one may say they have need of two tongues; and they hearken so little to what others say, that one ear would be sufficient for them. Moore. The man who talks everlastingly and promiscu- ously, who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently con- ceals them. W. Irving. Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle ; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it ; but talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine ; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you cannot help hitting it. O. W. Holmes. Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers; there is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communi- cate. If you are civil to the voluble, they will abuse your patience ; if brusque, your character. Swift. Talkers and futile persons are commonly vain and credulous withal, for he that talketh what he knoweth will also talk what he knoweth not ; therefore set it down that a habit of Secrecy is both politic and moral ; and in this part it is good, that a man's face gives his tongue leave to speak. Lord Bacon. It has been said in praise of some men, that they could talk whole hours together upon anything ; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex, that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore disser- tation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric. Addison. Talkativeness, in some men, proceeds from what is extremely amiable, I mean an open, communi- cative temper: nor is it a universal rule, that who- ever talks much, must say a great deal not worth hearing. I have known men who talked freely, because they had a great deal to say, and delighted in communicating for their own advantage and that of the company : and I have known others who commonly sat dumb, because they could find nothing to Say. J. Burgh. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 9.25 TARDINESS. TASTE, If tardiness ever be a virtue it is in the pursuit A gentleman defines his taste. G. W. Doane. Of evil. A. Woodbury. - º —. There is no disputing about taste. Opitz. Tardiness of execution ariseth from dread of -*- danger. Pappus. Every one is led by his own taste. Virgil. In the busy walks of life there is no room for a tardy man. Lord Vawac. We cannot be too tardy in performing acts of selfishness, nor too hasty in performing those of kindness. James Ellis. Men lose many things, not because they cannot attain them, but because of their tardiness in at- tempting them. Pythagoras. Tardiness in business brings on defeat, and then poverty Steals a march upon us and overwhelms us with Shame and remorse. Acton. TARIFF'. Abolish the tariff entirely. C. Heinsen. I believe in a tariff for revenue only. J. K. Polk. The protective policy of the tariff should be abandoned. W. W. Boyce. A tariff is an ingenious method of taxing us, not Only without our consent, but generally without our knowledge. E. P. Day. The thorough development of the resources of any Country can never be attained, nor its me- chanical skill brought to perfection, unless the tariff on foreign imports gives protection from a ruinous competition. James Ellis. According to the Hebrew idea of law and of legislative power, so laboriously and skillfully taught them both in their early training and in their institutions, no such thing as a tariff of duties on imported merchandize could by any possibility be legislated or decreed into valid law. W. Goodell. T.A.S.E. What one does willingly is no task. A. B. Reach. I have done my task; iet others do theirs. Charlotte Corday. Impose not a task on others which you cannot do yourself. Laberius. That duty is a task which we have no inclination to perform Annie E. Lancaster. We may attempt a difficult task, but there is no- thing noble that is not arduous. Ovid. When a man looks upon the performance of a duty as a task, he becomes a slave. J. T. Twcker. To have a daily appointed task, of even common drudgery to do, makes the rest of life feel all the Sweeter. I. Milner. Let any task be undertaken as a thing not possi- ble to be evaded, and it will soon come to be per- formed with alacrity and cheerfulness. Smiles. In life's duties, there are no tasks ; in a good man's vocabulary there is no such word ; for in whatever position of life we are placed, there are positive duties to be performed, which should be looked upon as labors of love. James Ellis. Good taste is the flower of good sense. Poincelot. False taste is a proper subject of ridicule. R. O. Cambridge. Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of judgment. Rowsseau. Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion. Shenstome. Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes. Rochefoucauld. Taste, like genius, is indigenous—born with a be- ing who possesses it. W. Pºewiesky. Mistaking taste for genius is the rock on which thousands have split. J. T. Headley. A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with an excellency of heart. Fielding. The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives. Stanislaws. Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the Soul. Sir J. Reynolds. A cultivated taste increases sensibility to all the tender and humane passions, by giving them fre- quent exercise. D. Irving. Taste gives an impression of pleasure or pain, so constitutes happiness or misery, and becomes a motive of action. Abercrombie. It is genius that brings into being, and it is taste that preserves ; without taste, genius is naught but sublime folly. Chateawbriand. There is more uniformity than is generally im- agined in the taste of individuals; there is more uniformity in their tastes than in their actions. W. Whiston. A fastidious taste is like a Squeamish appetite ; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach. R. Sowthey. Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and en- joy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature Or art. Sir A. Alison. Every taste may be corrupted by habit ; a man may get so accustomed to an offensive atmosphere that he will stop his nose in passing a garden of jessamines and violets. G. D. Prentice. Taste is not stationary ; it grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion ; in its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. R. A. Willºmott. A column without a base is disagreeable, because it seems in a tottering condition ; yet a tree with- out a base is agreeable ; and the reason is, that we know it to be firmly rooted; this observation shows how much taste is influenced by reflection. Rames. 926 J) A Y'S CO Z Z. A C O AW. TASTE. TATTLING. May not taste be compared to that exquisite Never tattle. H. Stephens. b hich i e * --- sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and ex Tattling is the folly of light minds. T. Irving. tracts the quintessence of every flower, and disre- gards all the rest of it { Lord Greville. The taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth be- cause it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy. Rwskim. A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men. Hume. We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions; other vir- tues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with. R. W. Emerson. Taste and eloquence, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulation of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue ; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure. Bwrke. Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connois- seurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness; a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence, all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever and in whatsoever forms and accomplishments they are to be seen. Carlyle. A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit ; a just taste discriminates the degree. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellencies. A good taste is often uncon- scious ; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt ; a just taste can Only go on refining more and more. Mrs. Jameson. We may say in a few words that whatever in- jures the body, the morals, or the mind, will lessen or vitiate taste ; thus disorders of the body and violent passions of the mind will do this, so will also excessive care or covetuousness ; but above all, a habit of intemperance and keeping low com- pany will greatly deprave that which was once a good taste. Sir T. Osborne. Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary : but knowledge is of perpetual growth, and has in- finite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited ; knowledge navigates the Ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery. I. Disraeli. True purity of taste is a quality of the mind ; it is a feeling which can with little difficulty be ac- quired by the refinement of intelligence ; whereas purity of manners is the result of wise habits, in which all the interests of the soul are mingled and in harmony with the progress of intelligence : that is why the harmony of good taste and of good manners is more common than the existence of taste without manners, or of manners without taste. Roederer. A tattler tells what he knows of others, but never what he knows of himself. Miss E. Martin. Tattlers are the canker and rust of idleness, and idleness is the rust of time. Jeremy Taylor. To cease listening to a tattler is the surest way to make him hold his tongue. Stanislaws. Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruc- tion in comparison with the tattler. Steele. A tattler's brain is like a beggar's pack; it con- tains little but what has been given to him. Ellis. Never spread thy table to tattlers or flatterers, nor listen with thine ears to murmuring people. Bias. If tattlers would imitate the bee, and extract the sweets and goodness of men's actions and circulate them, they would then become blessings instead of Scourges to Society. Annie E. Lancaster. Tattlers should be taught above all thing to gov- ern the tongue ; a most important precept when wisdom is to be imparted, or prudence and discre- tion are to be practised. Actor. TAVER.N. Haunt, not ale-houses or taverns. St. Zosimºws. A tavern is the resort of drunkards. J.A.James. Taverns are places where madness is sold by the bottle. Swift. A tavern is a house kept for those who are not housekeepers. Chatfield. A tavern is an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humor of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint. Sir W. Scott. A tavern is the busy man's recreation, the idle man's business, the melancholy man's Sanctuary, the stranger's welcome, the inns-of-court's man's entertainment, the scholar's kindness, and the citi- zen's Courtesy. J. Earle. The only temple of true liberty in this world is the bar-room of a country tavern ; there you may pull off your formality with your boots, roll up your trousers with your cares, and puff away at your troubles with a pipe, without any fear that a broomstick will draw your attention to the Carpet, or dark complexioned frowns remind you of the injurious effects of tobacco-juice on the stove- hearth. W. Irving. A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity ; as soon as I enter the door of a taverm. I experience an oblivion of care, and a freedom from Solicitude: when I am seated, I find the master courteous, and the servants obsequious to my call ; anxious to know, and ready to supply my wants ; wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation, and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love ; I dogmatise, and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight. IDr. Johnsom. A A' O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 92.7 TAXATION. Taxes are the sinews of the state. Cicero. Taxes are what a nation pays for glory. Chatfield. Nothing is so sure as death—except taxes. Mme. Patterson-Bonaparte. A just ruler will aim to lessen as much as possi- ble the people's taxes. Lowis XII. Taxes on income or property should not be in- troduced, except as a dermier resort. Sismondi. No taxes could be devised, which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant. Washington. The stream of taxation is perpetual, and it is a stream against which the community cannot be protected by a levee. G. D. Prentice. The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced except by taxes. Tacitus. The burden of direct taxation is obvious ; it ad- mits of no species of concealment but makes every one fully sensible of the exact amount of income taken from him. J. Cawvim. Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the peo- ple as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. Adam Smith. The general rule always holds good that in con- stitutional states liberty is a compensation for the heaviness of taxation ; in despotic states the equi- valent for liberty is the lightness of taxation. Montesquiew. If the taxes are taken off knowledge, it is said a great deficiency in the revenue will be the conse- quence; but this would easily be made up if the tax that is taken off knowledge could be put on ignorance. John Taylor. Taxing is an easy business; any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old ; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them ż Burke. The taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly ; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. Franklin. How many people are so senseless as to think it hard that there should be any taxes in the nation : whereas, were there to be none indeed, those very people would be undone immediately ; that little property they have would be presently plundered by foreign or domestic enemies; and then they would be glad to contribute their quota, even without an act of parliament ; the charges of sup- porting a government are necessary things, and easily supplied by a due and well-proportioned contribution. - S. Croacall. TEACHING. Teach well, live well. A teacher should be apt to teach. Every teacher should be a Christian. E. D. Jones. Dr. Plummer. Juvenal. The young look up to their teachers. Seneca. On good teachers depends a nation's safety. Hoyt. The world's teachers must first be God’s learners. T. Tilton. To teach without being tired is true benevo- lence. Tsze-Kwºng. The teacher should be a living lesson to the Scholar. Wyse. There is no office higher than that of a teacher of youth. W. E. Channing. The profession of the teacher is the noblest of all professions. L. Agassiz. It is the teacher who decides the character of the next generation. A. J. Pickett, The teacher is like a candle which lights others in consuming itself. Ruffini. The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. Aristotle. I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Aleacander the Great. I command that no one shall set himself up as a teacher until he is fitted for it. Emperor Julian. No person can estimate the power for good exer- cises by the teachers of a country. Dr. C. Agnew. God wery often gives light to the teacher for the sake of the humility of the hearer. P. Quesnel. The teaching of children is a profession where we must lose time in order to gain it. Rousseaw. There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know. Goethe. Every first-rate teacher rejoices in the number of his pupils, and thinks himself worthy of a larger audience. Quintilian. If I were not a preacher, I know of no profession On earth of which I should be fonder than that of a teacher. Lºwther. As a gardener sorts his plants, so should a teacher arrange his scholars, according to their habits and capacities. Tsze-hea. The teacher is a power in proportion to the in- telligence, skill, and fidelity with which the pupil is educated. J. W. Bulkley. What nobler employment, or more advantageous to the state, than that of the man who teaches the rising generation ? Cicero. It is one of the commonest of mistakes to esti- mate the influence of a public teacher by the num- ber of his followers. T. Wells. Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher ; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses. Milton. 928 AX A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. TEACHING. The teacher's vocation is the most widely ex- tended survey of the actual advancement of the human race in general, and the steadfast promo- tion of that advancement. Fichte. Put a man into a factory, as ignorant how to prepare fabrics as some teachers are to watch the growth of juvenile minds, and what havoc would be made of the raw material H. Mamm. It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because of the malignity of the times, that this good finally can be done by another more loved in heaven. Machiavelli. The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incom- parably the best ; since, not contented with Serv- ing up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew. Burke. Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, and a scarred or crooked oak will tell of the act for centuries to come ; SO it is with the teachings of youth, which make impres- sions on the mind and heart, that are to last for ever ! W. Wilkie. Let the teacher remember the glory of his pro- fession ; nor let him suppose that men are unwill- ing to learn ; the history of the world is against such a supposition ; wherever there have been found men willing to teach, there have been pupils willing to learn. E. D. Mansfield. The teacher is like a switchman, who holds the key to the switches on the railroad; if he does his duty faithfully, the train will reach its destina- tion ; if he neglects it, disaster and ruin follow. A misplaced switch or a wrong signal may send hun- dreds into eternity unprepared. E. Foster. Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime ; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pres- sure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation. . Mrs. Sigowrmey. The best teachers have been the readiest to re- cognize the importance of self-culture, and of stim- ulating the student to aequire knowledge by the active exercise of his own faculties; they have re- lied more upon training than upon telling, and sought to make their pupils themselves active par- ties to the work in which they were engaged—thus making teaching something far higher than the mere passive reception of the scraps and details of knowledge. Smiles. Teaching is a laborious, self-sacrificing life, but it is not, as has been too often said, a thankless one ; if you go into it rightly, if you make it your passion, if you blind your mind from day to day to what may be called the drudgery of the profes- sion, suffering not your energies to flag, shrinking not from toil, you will most assuredly find your task a becoming delight : you will reap your re- ward, not the least of which will be that you will keep your own feelings ever fresh, ever young, and happy. Rate Montgomerie. TEACHING. The teacher who wishes to teach well, must know thoroughly whatever he attempts to teach, and the best way of doing it ; he must not be satisfied with superficial attainments, or with any way to do it ; he must be familiar in matters of general knowledge, and in the method of communicating what he knows. J. Hwrty. Teachers ought to be sought who are of blame- less lives, not liable to be found fault with, and distinguished for learning ; for the source and root of a virtuous and honorable life is to be found in good training ; and as husbandmen underprop plants, so good teachers by their precepts and train- ing, support the young, that their morals may spring up in a right and proper way. Plutarch. Teaching is a duty which God devolves more or less on all ; whenever a mind is visited by the light of truth, it ought to hold that truth as a trust for the benefit of others, as well as for its own good. As parents we are not only called to teach, but also to govern and influence ; and in many rela- tions of life, we have occasion to employ a skill nearly allied to that which a teacher needs in the management of a school ; it would seem then that more regard ought to be paid to this fact, in Our systems of education. A. Potter. There is something more sprightly, more delight- ful and entertaining in the living discourse of a wise, learned, and well-qualified teacher, than there is in the silent and sedentary practice of read- ing ; the very turn of voice, the good pronuncia- tion, and the polite and alluring manner which some teachers have attained, will engage the at- tention, keep the soul fixed, and convey and in- sinuate into the mind the ideas of things in a more lively and forcible way, than the mere reading of books in the silence and retirement of the closet. - I. Watts. TEA. Tea cheers, but does not inebriate. Cowper. I hate a man who is not fond of tea. Braddon. Tea is a refreshing cordial after any fatigue. J. Hintom. Tea, as the morning beverage—provided it be not too strong—is much to be recommended. Izzi. Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or re- freshes the body and cleans the perceptive facul- ties. Confucius. Tea thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid; thou female tongue, running, smile-smooth- ing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate. Cibber. The most perfect way of using tea is where tea- leaves, after being exhausted by infusion, are handed round the company upon a silver Salver, and partaken of by each guest in succession ; the exhilarating effects of the hot liquid are in this practice followed by the nutritive effects of the solid leaf. A. K. Johnstom. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. TEARS. Bottled tears are useless. Mrs. C. V. Hamilton. Tears ease the grieved heart. Plutarch. Tears are sometimes a blessing. Sarah S. Jacobs. Tears are the badges of sorrow. Archimedes. Tears are due to human misery. Virgil. Tears are no proofs of cowardice. Sterne. A woman's tears are silent orators. R. Crashaw. Az-Zahi. © Tears are an exposure of the mind. It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury. T. Moore. Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal. T. Paime. If you would draw tears from others, show your OWI). Horace. Age-dimmed eyes are made dimmer by the gath- ering of tears. Emily C. Judson. A light heart in the morning may yet bring tears; before evening. Anne Isabella Thackésay.” Tears crave compassion, and submission deserv- eth forgiveness. O. Gregory. Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous, springs up a pearl. M. Henry. There never was a mask so gay, but some tears were shed behind it. Miss L. E. Landon. I shed tears not for myself but for the misfor- tunes of my country. Charlotte Corday. After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear. LCtmartime. When the mind of man is enfeebled by misfor- tune, he bursts into tears. Tacitus. We often shed tears which deceive ourselves af- ter having deceived others. Rochefoucauld. Tears are the safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on. Albert Smith. O, banish the tears of children | Continual rains upon the blossoms are hurtful. Richter. All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears. G. Massey. Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart. Sir W. Scott. Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure ; it is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy. W. G. Simºns. As dews of the night are diamonds of the morn, so the tears we weep here may be pearls in hea- Ven. Mrs. S. H. De Kroyft. Nature proclaims that she has given mankind feeling hearts by giving us tears; this is the great- est boon that she has bestowed upon us. Juvenal. Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is na- with a tear upon it. ture's mark to know an honest heart by. A. Hill. TEARS. Of all the portions of life, it is the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency ; like the dew at dawn and eve. Alger. Tears, except as a private demonstration, are an ill-disguised expression of self-consciousness and vanity, which is inadmissible in good society. O. W. Holmes. Hide thy tears—I do not bid thee not to shed them—it were easier to stop the Euphrates at its source than one tear of a true and tender heart. Byron. The tear of sensibility on a cheek of a beautiful woman, like the dew-drop of heaven on its favorite rose, sheds new sweetness where all was sweet be- fore. E. Morris. When heaven has taken from us some object of our love, how sweet it is to have a bosom whereon to recline our heads, and into which we may pour the torrent of our tears T. Jefferson. A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful What is the dawn without its dew 2 The tear is rendered by the smile pre- cious above the smile itself. W. S. Londo?". Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation ; hu- mility, those of grief; the one is indignant that we should suffer ; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else. Mme. Swetchine. The tears of woman seem the pure dew of hea- ven, which glitters on the flowers; but the tears of man resemble the precious gum of Araby, con- cealed in the heart of the tree, seldom flowing freely. A. Grün. Heaven and Godare best discerned through tears; scarcely pèrhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with the hour of bereavement and the scenes of death suffice to show this. James Martineaw. The good widow’s sorrow is no storm, but a still rain ; commonly it comes to pass that that grief is quickly emptied that streameth out at so large a vent, whilst their tears that but drop will hold running a long time. T. Fullen'. There is a sacredness in tears; they are not the mark of weakness, but of power ; they speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues; they are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep con- trition, and of unspeakable love. W. Irving. God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes ; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness ; and laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. Leigh Hunt. Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pick- pocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to which the heart never mounts in dew Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be se- cret. Tears are alrin to prayer ; Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears. Bulwer. - 59 930 J) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. TEETEI. TEMPER. Teeth were not made to be extracted. Dr. Shew. Never lose temper. H. Stephens. How can there be beauty without good teeth 2 Temper is everything. Philiscus. Zemobia. L to rul temper. Calli h - * * * 1". º Our best friends often desert us as we grow old; earn to rule your temper. O!!!????010/22/S our teeth and hair for example. G. D. Prentice. Fight against a hasty temper. Chilo. Nothing is more pleasing than clean, white teeth; nothing more disagreeable than yellow, dingy, or black ones. Dr. Porter. Diseases of the teeth are unnatural ; the aborigi- nes of our country were total strangers to pain of these organs. Dr. Rush. We never meet white, clean, well-arranged teeth except in good, acute, honest, candid, and faithful men. Lavater. Fine and clean teeth are among the first recom- mendations to be met with in the common inter- course of society. I,. P. Me)"edith. The teeth are the finest ornaments of the human countenance, and that is the theatre on which the soul exhibits itself; their regularity and whiteness constitute its chief attraction ; as are the teeth of man so is his taste. W. S. Brown. TELEGRAPH. The telegraph has conquered time. S. F. B. Morse. The telegraph is the triumph and marvel of our day. H. W. Beecher. The telegraph as a conveyancer is commercially invaluable. H. Watterson. How can there be telegraphs or railroads with- out progress and civilization. Olive R. Seward. A telegram might be worth a thousand pounds to-day and not a thousand farthings to-morrow. G. W. Smalley. By means of the magnetic telegraph the people of our country are holding a continuous mass-meet- ing. Wendell Phillips. The use of the telegraph has become so universal among daily newspapers that its utility can no longer be deemed a debatable question. H. White. In the success of ocean telegraphy, I have prayed that I might not taste of death till this work was accomplished ; that prayer is answered. Cyrus W. Field. The Atlantic telegraph is a great commercial boon, and a triumph over obstacles hitherto deemed insurmountable ; its successful attainment reflects much credit not only on the projector, but also upon the handicraft of the mechanic, and the skill and capacity of the sailor. 4. A. Low. It is the advantage of the telegraph that it gives the news before circumstances have had time to alter it. The press is enabled to lay it fresh and fresh before the reader ; it comes to him like a steak hot from a gridiron, instead of being cooled and rendered flavorless by a slow journey from a distant kitchen. I am afraid that the columns of the daily newspapers would now seem flat, dull, and stale to the reader were it not for the commu- nications of the telegraph. W. C. Bryant. An even temper is commended by all. Al-Ahnaf, Temper is nine-tenths of Christianity. J. Taylor. Rule your temper, and temper your tongue. Jay. A sunny temper gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud. Gwthrie. The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. Rochefoucauld. Good temper is like a sunny day ; it sheds its brightness on everything. W. G. Wills. If religion has done nothing for your temper, it as done nothing for your Soul. R. Clayton. bo has overcome one evil temper, has ac- moral force to overcome another. Wayland. difficult part of a good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. Empson. A free spirit, a sweet, and even temper, a coun- tenance of content, express order without and peace within. Mme. Swetchine. He is happy whose circumstances suit his tem- per ; but he is more happy who can suit his temper to any circumstances. D. Hwºme. Nothing shows a greater abjectness of spirit, than an overbearing temper appearing in a per- Son's behavior to inferiors. J. Burgh. Courtesy of temper, when it is used to veil the churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown. Sir W. Scott. There is no obstacle to advancement, or happi- ness so great as an undisciplined temper—a temper subject to pique or uncertainty. D. Moir. Inviolable fidelity, good-humor, and complacen- cy of temper, outlive all the charms of a fine face, and make the decays of it invisible. Steele. There are some who are so satisfied with the suavity of their own temper, that they would quar- rel with their dearest benefactor, only for doubt- ing it. Colton. Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely misera- ble, let his outward circumstances be ever so for- tunate. Shaftesbwry. A captious temper, like a little leaven, Sours a whole lump of virtues, and makes us disrelish that which might otherwise be the most grateful con- versation. S. Croacall. Sweetness of temper is not an acquired, but a natural excellence; and therefore to recommend it to those who have it not may be deemed rather an insult than advice. EHawkesworth. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 931 TEMPER. TEMPERANCE. It is an unhappy, and yet I fear a true reflection, Regard temperance. Buddha. that they who have uncommon easiness and soft- ness of temper have seldom very noble and nice sensations of soul. Lord Greville. Every human creature is sensible of the propen- sities to some infirmity of temper, which it should be his care to correct and subdue, particularly in the early period of life. H. Blair. The most smiling and placid countenance often- times masks the most dangerous temper ; the most terrible thunderbolt we ever saw was shot from a cloud arched by a beautiful rainbow. Prentice. A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured ; it will lighten sickness, poverty, and affliction, convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. Addison. If a man has a quarrelsome temper, let him alone; the world will soon find him employment ; he wi soon meet with some one stronger than hi who will repay him better than you can ; a may fight duels all his life, if he is dispos quarrel. Lord Burled Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not ' If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to ? J. A. James. A man of hasty temper is his own worst enemy ; he betrays himself to the mercy of his antagonist. Many have thus not only lost their character and influence, but even their lives. In a fit of passion they have done that which, in all after life, they have been condemned to weep over with unavail- ing tears. H. Winslow. Bad temper is oftener the result of unhappy cir- cumstances than of an unhappy organization; it frequently, however, has a physical cause, and a peewish child often needs dieting more than correct- ing. Some children are more prone to show tem- per than others, and sometimes on account of qualities which are valuable in themselves. Bray. Only the nation which invented comfort was ca- pable of conceiving good temper; for good temper is to the moral what comfort is to the physical man. It is the most contented, the most comforta- ble state of the Soul: the greatest happiness both for those who possess it, and for those who feel its influence. With gentleness in his own character, comfort in his house, and good temper in his wife, , the earthly felicity of man is complete. Empson. Of all self-tormenters, the man who possesses a bad temper is the most disagreeable, and yet the most to pitied ; for whilst he proves a perpetual cause of disquietude to others, none feel the effects of his malevolence so severely as himself. A bad temper is a never-failing source of discontent, for it makes us displeased with ourselves ; and when that is the case, we are generally infected with a sort of yellow jaundice, which taints every object we look upon. Sarah Wesley. Be temperate in diet. Eugene of Savoy. Exercise temperance. Chilo. Temperance is the best physic. Confucius. Temperance is a bridle of gold. R. Burton. Temperance leads to happiness. J. Kay. Temperance restoreth to health. L. Cornaro. Temperance is a help to the soul. Mrs. Fletcher. Temperance is the best physician. Sir J. Mason. Maintain the strictest temperance J. Edwards. Temperance is heaven's noblest gift. Euripides. Temperance is strength of the mind. Zoroaster. Be temperate, and you will be healthy. Franklin. Temperance does not run a man in debt. Tsang. Temperance does not ruin the character. Rodd. Temperance is the greatest of all virtues. Cato. Temperance does not destroy the appetite. Bias. Temperance does not impoverish a man's family. J. B. Gowgh. In temperance there is ever cleanliness and ele- gance. Jowbert. Men should be temperate in eating as well as in drinking. Dr. Brandreth. Temperance is the parent of health, cheerfulness, and old age. G. Mogridge. Let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes. H. Mann. Make temperance thy companion ; so shall health sit on thy brow. R. Dodsley. Nothing contributes more to the preservation of life than temperance. R. Bolton. Temperance is the moderating of one's desires in obedience to reason. Cicero. Temperance calleth a man back from gross affec- tions and greedy appetites. Solom. It is good to exchange an intemperate life for one of temperance and sobriety. Polemo. Temperance is corporeal piety ; it is the preser- vation of divine order in the body. T. Poºrker. The cause of temperance is emphatically the cause of virtue, patriotism, and morality. Mathew. Temperance gives nature her full play, and en- ables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. Addison. It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness. Humboldt. 932 AD A Y’.S C O / / A C O AV. TEMPERANCE. Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bri- dle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue. Jeremy Taylor. Temperance and exercise how little soever they may be regarded, are the best means of preserving health. L. Murray. Temperance is so called, because it keepeth a mean in all those things which belong to the de- lighting of the body. Aristotle. Temperance, when effectually realized, is full of loveliness and joy, and virtue and purity are the elements in which it lives. Actom. Temperance is health ; intemperance is rather a disease than a crime ; but the world excuseth it not, and only dogs and angels pity. S. P. Chase. Temperance is the preservation of the dominion of Soul over sense, of reason over passion ; the want of it destroys health, fortune, and conscience. W. Dodd. Temperance and labor are the two best physi- cians of man ; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents him from indulging to ex- CeSS. Rowsseaw. º Temperance chiefly consists in restraining that concupiscence which the external senses, when any object grateful to them is offered, are apt to excite in us. Limborch. Temperance in pleasure is essentially necessary to be observed, particularly by youth, that they may beware of that rock on which thousands con- tinually split. H. Blair. Trim not the house with tables and pictures, but paint and gild it with temperance ; the one vainly feedeth the eyes, the other is an eternal ornament which cannot be defaced. Epictetws. O temperance, thou fortune without envy ; thou universal medicine of life, that clears the head and cleanses the blood, eases the stomach, strengthens the nerves, and perfects digestion | Sir W. Temple. Temperance in eating, as well as in drinking, is a cardinal virtue ; the great majority of mankind saturate their own death-warrants with their cups, and dig their graves with their teeth. Magoon. Our physical well-being, our moral worth, our social happiness, our political tranquility, all de- pend on that control of all our appetites and pas- sions, which the ancients designed by the cardinal virtue of temperance. Bwrke. Temperance has been called the best physic; it is certainly conducive to health, and not only so, but to cheerfulness likewise ; as intemperance clogs the body, wastes the property, and stupifies the mind, so temperance is fruitful of a variety of blessings unknown to the voluptuous. C. Buck. If temperance is good for the white man, it is good for the red man ; when I visited the white man's country, I saw where fire-water was made ; it passed through a coiling pipe they called a worm ; it then gets a habit of turning so much, that it turns the head of those who drink it. Prairie Wolf. TEMPERANCE. There is no difference between knowledge and temperance ; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate : but they who know very well what ought to be done, and yet do quite other- wise, are ignorant and stupid. Socrates. Temperance keeps the senses clear and unem- barassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction ; it appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person ; it gives you the command of your head, secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for busi- IlêSS. J. Collier. Temperance is that light which driveth away round about her the darkness and obscurity of pas- sions; she is of all the virtues most wholesome ; for she preserveth both publicly and privately hu- man society ; she lifteth up the soul miserably thrown down in vice, and restoreth her again into her place. Politeuphuia. , , Temperance is love taking exercise, love endur- º fig hardness, love seeking to become healthful and thletic, love striving for the mastery in all things, * tidºbringing the body under ; it is superiority to sénsual delights, and it is the power of applying resolutely to irksome duties for the master's sake ; it is self-denial and self-control. J. Hamilton. Temperance is a virtue which casts the truest lustre upon the person it is lodged in, and has the most general influence upon all other particular virtues of any that the soul of man is capable of ; indeed so general that there is hardly any noble quality or endowment of the mind but must own temperance either for its parent or its nurse ; it is the greatest strengthener and clearer of reason, and the best preparer of it for religion, the sister of prudence, and the handmaid to devotion. Sowth. TEMPEST. A tempest gives warning of its approach. Bettima Von Arnim. Man is but tributary to the howling storm, the sullen sky, and the raging tempest. J. Demºvie. , No tempests are of long continuance ; the more strength storms have the less time they last. Seneca. The tossing of a tempest does not discompose him, who is sure it will bring him to a joyful har- bor. Addison. Does not God express his anger in the tempest ? No, He displays his benevolence even in the tem- pest. Erwºmmacher. The causes of those violent commotions of the atmosphere to which we give the name of tem- pests, is involved in great obscurity, chiefly from the difficulty of obtaining a precise knowledge of the various circumstances with which they are ac- companied. H. Raper. The awful scenes of storm and tempest, thunder and lightning, are sometimes presented to our eyes to teach us the majesty and greatness of the Crea- tor; but in these, as well as in more pleasing and cheerful scenes, God appears as the friend and benefactor of mankind. Sturm. A R O S E Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 933 TEMPLE. Purify the temples. Boccords. My temple is nature. Thorild. Let us again rebuild the temple. Alypius. A temple always gives protection. Ibn Sabir. Let heathen temples be overturned. Archippus. Approach the temples with sanctity. Julian. It is piety to keep God's temples in repair. Pope Sisimmiws. The temple of the gods are venerable even in her ruins. Lord Bolingbroke. Where God hath a temple the devil will have a chapel. R. Burton. Erect a temple to Xam-ti, the good and greatest of the gods. Emperor Xi-Hoam-Ti. Let the temples erected to the worship of idols be at once destroyed. Theodosius Magnus. When the temple is destroyed the wise and good are covered with shame. Talmud. There can be no surer sign of the ruin of a king- dom than contempt of the temples of God. Aidan. The whole universe is but a temple, with God for its deity, and the redeemed man for its wor- shipper. J. McClintock. Since God is omnipresent, it is evident that every church must be a temple, though every temple is not a church. G. F. Graham. Let the temple of Isis, who dwelleth in the Sun, be rebuilt ; for a temple is the dwelling place of the Most High God. Ramesses I. Let man enter God's temple with uncovered head, for this in him is reverence ; but let woman enter with head covered, for this in her is modesty. St. Linus. Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the authority of God, enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer. J. S. Buckminster. If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools, and theatres ; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayers, and the like, no OI16 €.V61 Sa, W. Plutarch. Roofs arched with gold, and palaces adorned with marble, are vile in comparison with that house which the Lord has chosen to be His temple; illumine this house with the light of righteousness; its Ornaments shall never fade ; and it shall dwell hereafter in spotless beauty and eternal majesty. St. Cyprian. Almost all civilized nations dwell in houses; hence arose the idea of building a house for God, in which they might adore and seek Him amidst all their hopes and fears ; those who had no houses for themselves were never known to build temples; people who have no temples have but a small at- tachment to their own religion. Montesquiew. to overthrow us. TEMPTATION. Temptations should end in victory. J. Newton. Temptation snatcheth wisdom from the wise. Menu. The Devil suits his temptation to every sinner. Rowland Hill. Temptations easily seduce man from the right path. M. Claudiws. Be present with me O God l in my hour of temp- tation. Mrs. E. Rowe. Men conquer temptation the easiest by flying from it. Zschokke. Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. T. Boston. He that tempted Christ will not be expected to spare men. St. Bernard. Justice weighs the actions; mercy considers the temptations. Miss M. H. Cornell. Avoid temptation, through fear you may not withstand it. Stephen Allen. We have no right to place ourselves in the way of temptation. Rev. Asa Mahan. Avoid temptation ; turn your head away, if you cannot your heart. Fanny Fern. Every temptation is an opportunity of our get- ting nearer to God. J. Q. Adams. Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of self-confidence. Fémélon. We like slipping, but not falling ; our real de- sire is to be tempted enough. A. W. Hare. There is no skill or cleverness to be compared to that which avoids temptation. Rabbi Eleazar. The devil tempted Eve to all sin when he tempt- ed her to resist the will of God. Lºwther. God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. W. Penn. If we take temptation into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor 3 Thackeray. If Satan's temptations be not entertained by us, then they are Satan's sins only, and but our trials. Bishop Brownrig. Our nature tempts us perpetually ; criminal de- sire is often excited ; but sin is not completed till reason consents. Pascal. While God upholds us, no temptation can move us; when He leaves us, no temptation is too weak J. Hall. A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection ; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. Colton. The devil tempts us by suggestion of fancies: the world tempts us by allurement of objects; the flesh tempts us by inclination of will. Sir R. Baker. I do not believe there is a human being on the face of the earth, nor an angel in heaven, who is positively proof against temptation. H. W. Shaw, 934 AD A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. TEMPTATION. TENDERINESS. True Christians under temptation are like foun- Tenderness is the infancy of life. Rivarol. tains which, if the mud be stirred, will make all - - - speed to clear and cleanse themselves again. Tenderness is the repose of passion. Jowbert. G. Mogridge. A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to en- ter and take up their abode in its desolate apart- mentS. G. S. Hillard. The temptation is not here, where you are read- ing about it or praying about it : it is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper. E. H. Chapin. Satan tempts the ambitious man with a crown, the sanguine man with beauty, the covetous man with a wedge of gold ; he provides savory meat, such as the sinner loves. T. Watson. The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation. J. C. Hare. To attempt to resist temptation, to abandon our bad habits, and to control our dominant passions in our own unaided strength, is like attempting to check by a spider's thread the progress of a ship of the first rate, borne along before wind and tide. E. Waugh. No place, no company, no age, no person is temp- tation-free : let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be too high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant where- in he boasteth that he was never tempted at all. H. Spencer. To resist temptation once is not a sufficient proof of honesty ; humanly speaking, there is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any vir- tue ; now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury ; and if he is over- come you share his guilt. Dr. Johnson. Bearing up against temptations and prevailing over them, is the very thing wherein the whole life of religion consists ; it is the trial which God puts upon us in this world, by which we are to make evidence of our love and obedience to Him, and of our fitness to be made members of His king- dom. S. Clarke. Temptation flies from the earnest and contented laborer, and preys upon the brain and heart of the idler ; and the man who loves and seeks the ex- citement of temptation, shows that he is restrained from sin by fear, and not by principle—that while his life is on the side of virtue, his affections lean to vice. J. G. Holland. All mortals are at times accessible to temptation ; but when we are not exposed to it, we dwell with complacency on our means of resisting it; but as the life-boat has been known to fail when the vessel was tost on a tempestuous ocean, so those who may successfully oppose temptation when the tempest of the passions is not awakened within their bo- soms, may sometimes be overwhelmed by its power when it meets them in all its awful energy and un- expected violence. Mrs. Opie. anointed eyes of wife, husband, or lover. Native tenderness is inmate politeness. A. S. Roe. Tenderness betrayeth a man's weakness. Lycom. A wise man will treat the young with tender- IleSS. Confucius. If thou approach women with tenderness, thou winnest them with a word. Goethe. The less tenderness a man has in his nature the more he requires from others. C. Rahel. A mother's tenderness and a father's care are na- ture's gifts for man's advantage. L. Murray. There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son, that it transcends all the other affections of the heart. J. Wilson. Without woman's tenderness, our infancy would be without succor, our youth without pleasure, and our age without consolation. Clarke. Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance. Goldsmith. Tenderness must spring from a high principle or a feeling heart ; the more defenceless and humble the creature, the greater is the merit of treating it kindly. Chatfield. Goodness is creation, it is fruitfulness ; the fact that woman is so fruitful, I attribute to her trea- sures of tenderness, to that ocean of goodness which permeates her heart. Michelet. If the loving closed heart of a good woman should open before a man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and dumb virtues would he see reposing therein Richter. There is in most natures a deep well of tender- ness, whose depth and purity are seldom more than partially seen into, and then only by the love- Bovee. Tenderness is frequently little better than an amiable weakness, when directed to a wrong end, and fixed on an improper object ; the false tender- ness of parents have often been the ruin of chil- dren. G. Crabb. Without tenderness of heart, the soul cannot be attuned to friendship or social intercourse ; desti- tute of this emanation of Deity, a created being would be unequal to the endearing titles of lover or of friend. J. Bartlett. I never was fit to say a word to a sinner except when I was subdued and melted into tenderness, and felt as though I had just received pardon to my soul, and when my heart was full of tender- ness and pity. E. Payson. Some seem to eschew feelings of tenderness as unbecoming a man ; such should leave a civilized life for a residence among savages, where, as tra- vellers inform us, a young brave gives proof of his manhood by beating his mother E. P. Day. A R O S F O U O T A 7" / O M S. - 935 TERROR. Our terrors are real evils. R. Dodsley. Despots govern by terror. Burke. The most terrible of all things is terror. Alger. Two sorts of men do not reflect, the terrified and the rash man. Stanislants. Fear and terror are but slender bonds of attach- ment ; as fear ceases, terror begins. Tacitus. Terror is the proper guard of a kingdom ; he who dreads hatred too much, knows not how to reign. Semeca. The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger, it is in vain to exhort ; terror closes the ears of the mind. Sallust. Most terrors are but spectral illusions; only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it. A. Helps. Ill can terror command veneration, and far more efficacious is the affection in obtaining one's pur- poses than fear ; for terror operates no longer than its object is present, but love produces its effects when the object is at a distance, and as absence changes the former into hatred, it raises the latter into respect. Pliny. It is the terror that arises from his own dishonest and evil life that chiefly torments a man : his wickedness drives him to and fro, racking him to madness ; the consciousness of bad thoughts and worse deeds terrifies him ; these are the never-dy- ing furies that inwardly gnaw his life away; which day and night call for punishment on wicked chil- dren for their behavior to their parents. Cicero. TEXT. Some texts are golden. J. Hamilton. A good text deserves a fair margent. N. Ward. Texts should be neither too short nor too long. - Dr. Sturtevant. The choice of a text is no slight difficulty to a beginner. Deam Close. In the plainest text there is a world of holiness and spirituality. Rev. J. Caryl. As a diamond can be best cut by another dia- mond, so will one text resolve and explain another. Dr. Cumming. A little child which He takes from its mother's side, and holds up blushing in His arms before the astonished audience, is the text for a sermon on humility. Dr. Gwthrie. The right text is the one which comes of itself during reading and meditation ; which accompa- nies you in walks, goes to bed with you, and rises with you ; on such a text thoughts swarm and cluster like bees upon a branch. J. W. Aleacander. The preacher of the present day must select some Bible text in perfect accordance with the moral condition or spiritual need of his hearers, and his discourse must be based upon it, or he will let slip many golden opportunities for usefulness. Davies. TESTAMENT. Study the Old and New Testaments. A. Calmet. Read critically the Old and New Testament. V. Alberti. Hundreds of errors abound in both the Old and New Testaments. Lewis Capellws. The Old Testament is the primer, the grammar, the syntax of Christianity. Dean M'Neile. The Old Testament is the prophet of the New ; the New is the fulfillment of the old. C. Redding. Whether we look at the Old Or New Testament, the same richness and variety of form reveal them- Selves. R. C. Trench. The New Testament is a forgery of the councils of Nice and Laodocia, and the faith founded there- on a delusion and falsehood. T. Paine. Christianity would have lost nothing by the pe- rishing of the Old Testament ; it must therefore now be taken for what it is worth. T. Parker. The characters, figures, prophecies, types, and wonders of the Old Testament are a constant fore- shadowing of the events of the New. Daisenberger. We learn to treasure what is above this earth, we long for revelation, which no where burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Tes- tament. Goethe. The Old Testament hath, by the general consent of learned men, all the marks of purest antiquity ; all the other most ancient monuments coming short of it by many ages. J. Wilkins. All the genius and learning of the heathen world, all the penetration of Pythagoras, Socrates, and Aristotle, had never been able to produce such a system of moral duty, and so rational an account of Providence and of man, as is to be found in the New Testament. J. Beattie. If I could not send a man among the mountains, or through the valleys, or by the side of streams, I would shut him up in the resounding recesses of the Old Testament ; there is more loving descrip- tion of nature in the Psalms alone, than in all Greek and Roman literature. H. W. Beecher. Our Lord declared the Old Testament, as the Jews possessed it in His time, to be the Word of God ; He adopted the three-fold division of it into “the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms; ” and though He frequently charged the Jews with ma- king the Word of God of none effect by their tra- ditions, He never accused them of corrupting the text. Nicholls. Christ doth not only speak of a Testament, but he calleth it a “New Testament,” which words never met together before ; as though the Law were for the old man to mortify him, and the Gos- pel for the new man to comfort him again ; or as if the Old Testament had so washed her face, and changed her apparel, at Christ's second coming, that one would not think it the same, but a New Testament, because even now she was shadowed with a thousand ceremonies, and now they are gone from her like a mist at the sunrise. H. Smith. 936 J) A Y'.S CO / / A C O A. . TESTIMONY. Testimony should be weighed. Ulpian. Testimony should be founded upon truth. Coke. The testimony of greatness should be contained in that of goodness. N. Macdonald. The proof of everything must be by the testi- mony of such as the parties produce. J. A. Spencer. Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow; the force of it depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. Lord Bacom. The law is compelled to make use of an eye that sometimes sees too little, and sometimes too much ; this eye is testimony. Coltom. Evidence is said to arise from testimony, when we depend upon the credit and relation of others for the truth or falsehood of anything. J. Wilkins. If you give imperfect testimony, and assert a fact which you have not seen, you shall suffer pain like a man who eats fish, and swallows sharp bones. Memw. The solid reason of one man with unprejudicate apprehensions, begets as firm a belief as the au- thority or aggregate testimony of many hundreds. Sir T. Browne. The two men who were most interested in find- ing Christ guilty, both bore their testimony to his innocence, one saying, “I have betrayed innocent blood ;” and the other, “I find no fault in him.” J. Edwards. Hearsay is a testimony weakened by its removal from the first source ; it is liable from its very nature to important objections which generally diminish its authority ; very few persons impose on themselves such strict laws of veracity, that every word which drops from them in conversa- tion can be regarded as a judicial testimony. Lord Mansfield. THANKS. Be thankful for what you have. Democritus. Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. Ovid. We have many days for thanksgiving in our pilgrimage. J. Eliot. To be overthankful for one favor is in effect to lay out for another. R. Cwmberland. A thankful heart to God for all His blessings is the greatest blessing of all. R. Lucas. I thank God that I was born a man and not a beast ; that I was born a Grecian and not a barba- rian. Plato. Thanksgiving makes our prayers bold and strong and sweet : feeds and enkindles them as with coals of fire. Luther. The private blessings—the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity—which we enjoy, deserve the thankfulness of a whole life. J. Collier. At opening your eyes, enter upon the day with thanksgiving for the preservation of you the last night, with the glorification of God for the works of creation. Jeremy Taylor. THANKS. Our thankfulness is measured by the number of our words; our gratitude is measured by the na- ture of our actions; a person appears very thank- ful at the time, who afterwards proves very un- grateful. G. Crabb. There is this difference between a thankful and an unthankful man ; the one is always pleased in the good he has done, and the other only in what he has received ; but there are some men who are never thankful. A. Momod. As physicians judge of the condition of men's hearts by the pulse which beats in their arms, and not by the words which proceed from their mouths, so we may judge the thankfulness of men by their lives rather than their professions, E. Foster, Inasmuch as we are sinners, and have forfeited the blessings which we daily receive, what can be more suitable than that we should humbly thank that Almighty power from whom comes such an inexhaustible supply of goodness to us so utterly undeserving. F. Wayland. Concerning the blessings of God, whether they tend unto this life or the life to come, there is great cause why we should delight more in giving thanks than in making requests for them, inasmuch as the one hath pensiveness and fear, the other always joy annexed. R. Hooker. As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving ; and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower perfumed with the heart's gratitude. H. W. Beecher. Unspeakable is the advantage that the soul raises to itself by the continual exercise of thanksgiving ; for the grateful acknowledgment of favors is the way to more ; even amongst men whose hands are short and strait, this is the means to pull on fur- ther beneficence ; how much more from the God of all consolation, whose largest bounty diminish- eth nothing of His store. J. Hall. Our whole life should speak forth our thankful- ness: every condition and place we are in should be a witness of our thankfulness ; this will make the time and places we live in the better for us; when we ourselves are monuments of God's mercy, it is fit we should be patterns of His praises, and leave monuments to others ; we should think life is given to us to do something better than to live in ; we live not to live ; our life is not the end of itself, but the praise of the Giver. R. Sibbes. Christians thank God that He hath created them after His own image ; that he hath called them out of the common crowd of this world, and made them Christians: that amongst those that bear the name of Christ, He hath made them faithful ones, like a few quick-sighted men among a company of blind ones, like the light in Goshen, when all Egypt was dark besides, or like Gideon's fleece, only watered with the dew of heaven, while the rest of the earth was dry and destitute of His favor; great cause of thankfulness indeed. H. Spencer. A R O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 9 3 7 THEATRE. The theatre is a mirror of life. Sophocles. The theatre is a school of vice. J. Collier. The theatre is a school for adults. T. Betterton. The theatre is a chastener of vice. Euripides. A theatre is the devil's own territory. E. Alleym. He who sends his child to the theatre risks his soul. T. Dwight. One does not go to a theatre to be lulled to sleep. Chesterfield. A theatrical play ought to be a just image of human nature. - Dryden. The real object of theatrical representations is the exhibition of human character. T. B. Macaulay. As a place of recreation and instruction, a well conducted theatre offers many advantages. Gelli. The theatre has often been resorted to, to remove fits of low spirits ; and it a singular fact that a tragedy oftener dissipates them than a comedy. Dr. Rush. If a stranger would learn the true character of any nation—its vices and virtues, its glories, follies, tastes, foibles, manners, and customs—let him visit its theatres. E. P. Day. While the theatre is permitted to be a mere shop for gain, there is no other way to discriminate be- tween the pure and the base, than through the experiences of others. Edwim Booth. Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, scene- shifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain. J. C. Hare. The metropolitan theatre can only be recruited from the best samples which the provincial thea- tres will afford, and this is a market abundant as to quantity, but extremely deficient as to quality. Colton. The theatre has often been at variance with the pulpit ; they ought not to quarrel; how much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds. Goethe. A Christian had better go to the theatre than to go home whining because he cannot go ; if it is worth while to do anything for Christ, it is worth while to do it with your head up, and with your whole heart. H. W. Beecher. There are ladies who frequently attend the thea- tre, who, if they were but once entertained with the same images in a private family with which they are often represented there, would rise with indignation, and reckon their reputation ruined if ever they should return. Rev. Dr. Duff. A theatre is nothing more than a hive, where every bee has a sting ready, not for an intruder, but for its fellow-bee ; it is painful to know how actors of similar style and manner mar each other's points, and count the calls and claps which each receives above the other. Amma Maria Hall. THEATRE. It is said that the theatre teaches morality, and that the stage is the mirror of human life : these assertions are mere declamations, and have no foundation in truth and experience. J. Hawkins. The amusements of the theatre are capable of the greatest benefit when rationally applied ; but of the most pernicious consequence when its pro- ductions tend so manifestly to promote infidelity and licentiousness. Photiws. It is amazing to think that women who pretend to decency and reputation, whose brightest orna- ment ought to be modesty, should continue to abet, by their presence, so much unchastity as is to be found in the theatre. J. Witherspoon. From the spot where you are seated in the opera, you do not see the theatre quite as it is ; the deco- rations and machinery are placed so as to produce a good effect from a distance, and they conceal from your sight those wheels and counter-weights which cause the movements. Fontemelle, Theatrical representations have two objects: the first is to amuse, to entertain, and relax the mind after the fatigues and cares of business; but the second is a much more noble one ; they are intended to cultivate and refine the heart, and to expand and enlighten the understanding. S. F. Bradford. Those who build and manage theatres do so with the view of a good investment and profitable em- ployment ; they know the taste of their customers; they must either conform to these tastes, or lose money by opposing them ; a theatre conducted on such principles as would make it safe to the morals of youth, would not pay its proprietor. W. Arnot. The excitement at a theatre is generally a bad one ; the gallery controls the house, and the influ- ence exerted by it is commonly a vicious one ; and it is from the love of an unnatural and injurious excitement that the theatre is frequented ; people go on account of the scenery, the company, the hour of the night, the splendid dresses of the per- formers, the brilliancy of the scene, and the mul- titudes assembled. T. Dwight. The theatre is one of the broadest avenues that lead to destruction ; fascinating no doubt it is, but on that account the more delusive and the more dangerous; let a young man once acquire a taste for this species of entertainment, and he is in great danger of becoming a lost character, rushing upon his ruin ; all the evils that can corrupt his morals, impair his health, embitter his life, and destroy his soul, lurk in the purlieus of a theatre. Hannah More. How often is the theatre disgraced by monstrous distortions of human nature, and still more dis- graced by profaneness, coarseness, indelicacy, low wit, such as no woman worthy of the name can hear without a blush, and no man can take plea- sure in without self-degradation. Is it possible that a Christian and a refined people can resort to theatres, where exhibitions of dancing are given fit only for brothels, and where the most licentious class in the community throng unsealed to tempt and destroy ? W. E. Channing. 938 D A Y'S CO Z Z A C O M. THEOLOGY. THEOLOGY. - Theology divides mankind. H. Bathurst. A theology at war with the laws of physical na- Theology alone is not religion. Bishop Gregg. Emanuel Saa. J. Battely. Theology is knowledge of God. Theology is an apple of discord. Theology is the first of all sciences. Dangeaw. Theology is no enemy to philosophy. J. Pineda. Theology is the most sublime of all studies, Cassiodorws. Theology sustains creeds, doctrines, and sects. Bawdier. Theology, what is it but the science of things divine 2 H. Hooker. Theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge. Jeremy Taylor. Theology is objective religion ; and religion is subjective theology. R. Wardlaw. Between dogmatic theology and astronomy there is a long standing feud. R. A. Proctor. If theology remain with us merely as a science it will do us no spiritual service. Dr. Thomas. Some theologians defile places erected only for religion by defending oppressions. J. Hayward. Instead of theo-logians make men anthropo-logi- ans—man-lovers instead of God-lovers. Fewrbach. Those persons who have the highest notions in theology, often have the lowest and contracted feelings. Magoon. The study of theology conduces to the preacher's eloquence, because it conduces to his greatest vigor of mind and heart. Prof. Park. Theology would truly enlarge the mind were it studied with that freedom and that sacred charity which it teaches; let this, therefore, always stand chief. I. Watts. In theology the babe and the sage of hoary hairs are alike learners from one book, of that love to God and man on which rest both the law and the prophets. Mrs. Sigourmey. Forced terms of art did much puzzle sacred theo- logy with distinctions, cavils, and quiddities; and so transformed her to a mere kind of sophistry and logomachy. J. Howell. Theology is the comprehension of all other know- ledge, directed to its true end, that is, the honor and veneration of the Creator, and the happiness of mankind. J. Locke. Manuals of theology are ladders by which we ascend to the lofty heights of divine truth, and therefore they are infinitely more valuable than the diadems of kings. E. Davies. Theology consists of two branches, natural and revealed ; natural theology is the knowledge we have of God from His works, by the light of na- ture and reason ; revealed theology is that which is to be learned only from revelation. Tillotson. ture would be a battle of no doubtful issue ; the laws of our spiritual nature give still less chance of success to the system which would thwart or stay them. W. E. Channing. Theology clings to old words and phrases after their life has departed. Theology is arrogant, sel- fish, and proud ; it excludes from the table of the Lord those whom He has accepted ; it denies fel- lowship and communion to those whom love ex- pects to meet in heaven. J. G. Holland. Theology and philosophy have been entirely se- parated by most divines, and some have attempted an awkward association of them; they joined them without producing unity or union. All the emana- tions of both ought to converge to one focus ; and thence, combined and identified, dart forward, a living beam of light ad infinitwm. J. Foster. The way to begin a Christian life is not to study theology. Piety before theology; right living will produce right thinking; yet many men, when their consciences are aroused, run for catechisms, and commentaries, and systems. They do not mean to be shallow Christians ; they intend to be thorough, if they enter upon the Christian life at all. Now, theologies are well in their place ; but repentance and love must come before all other experiences; first a cure for your sin-sick soul, and then theolo- gies. H. W. Beecher. There is a danger of theology's proving a great hindrance to the profitable study of Scripture ; for so strong an association is apt to be established in the mind between certain expressions, and the technical sense to which they have been confined in some theological system, that when the student meets with them in Scripture, he at Once under- stands them in that sense, in passages where per- haps an unbiassed examination of the context would plainly show that such was not the author's meaning. R. Whately. Theology is the empress of the world : mysteries are her privy council : religion is her clergy : the arts her nobility ; philosophy her secretary : the graces her maids of honor; the moral virtues, the ladies of her bedchamber; peace is her chamber- Iain ; true joy and endless pleasures are her cour- tiers; plenty her treasurer ; poverty her exche- quer; the temple is her court; if thou desire access to this great majesty, the way is by her courtiers: if thou hast no power there, the common way to the sovereign is the secretary. F. Quarles. A pure system of natural theology is deism—the belief in God as a superintending Providence, which seems to require as a corollary the idea of a future *etribution. Those who can discover no design in the constitution of the word—no trace of God's hand therein—are atheists, or deniers of a Deity. The most common form of religion deduced by the heathens from their researches in natural theology, is the supposition of numerous gods, each mani- festing himself to us in the various functions and qualities of the animate and inanimate world, and sometimes, according to ancient legends and tradi- tions, by direct communication in various ways. C. Merivale. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 939 THEORY. Theory is the fruit of reflection. G. Crabb, If a theory be good put it into practice. Napier. A new theory sometimes clears up old doubts. W. Amontons. Theories often excite more interest than real discoveries. R. A. Proctor. Theoretical education consists in mere know- ledge, without the skill of application. Barker, Theoretical constitutions are not worth a rush ; they had better be given to boys to make kites of. - T. Dwight. To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says. - Fontenelle. We can do nothing without a theory, not even the most trivial act ; all our actions are the result of forethought—that is, we theorize about them before we do them. D. G. Croly. The theory of our astronomers explains effects but not causes ; it explains the laws according to which God regulates the movement of matter, but remains silent on everything relating to causes. A. Brisbane. The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persists in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and of detail, is the one that must rule all observation. - John Weiss. It is with theories as with wells ; you may see to the bottom of the deepest if there be any water there, while another shall pass for wondrous pro- found when it is merely shallow, dark, and empty. Swift. A theorist in government is as dangerous as a theorist in medicine, or in agriculture, and for pre- cisely the same reason—the subjects are too com- plicated and too obscure for simple and decisive experiments. - H. S. Legare. Physicians will lecture their patients most elo- quently on the benefits of abstinence ; then, if they are themselves overtaken by disease, do the very same things which they would not allow their pa- to do | Theory and practice are very different. - Philemon. There is such a thing as the love of simplicity and system, an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences—a painful reluc- tance to the admission of facts which, however weak, break in upon the majestic simplicity which we would fain ascribe to the laws and operations of the universe. G. Chalmers. Professors in every branch of the sciences prefer their own theories to truth ; the reason is, that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock. Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must ef- fect this without contradicting itself ; therefore the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory rather than the theory to the facts. Coltom. THIEF. Set a thief to catch a thief. Jonathan Wilde. Theft is the brother of want. A. Heinsives. Thieves practice deceit on the wise. H. R. Helper. There are more thieves than are hanged. Gºwrmey. Society first makes thieves, then punishes them, - Sir T. More. If there be a God, why does He allow a thief to go unpunished ? Diagoras. Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest. R. South. The man who takes a dollar is a thief, but if he steals a million he is a genius. H. W. Show. Both are thieves, the receiver and the thief ; the receiver is as bad as the thief. Phocylides. Theft is an unlawful felonious taking away of another man's goods against the owner's know- ledge or will. J. Cowell. Nothing is more common than for great thieves to ride in triumph when small ones are punished. But let wickedness escape as it may, at the law it never fails of doing itself justice ; for every guilty person is his own hangman. Seneca. What thou has taken unlawfully, restore speedi- ly, for the sin in taking it is repeated every minute thou keepest it : if thou canst, restore it in kind, if not in value ; if it may be, restore it to the party, if not to God ; the poor are God's receivers. F. Quarles. THING. Excellent things are rare. Plato. Things ill got have bad success. Elstob. Things that we wish most never come. Bruyère. If you desire manythings, the possession of many things will seem but little. Democritus. There are more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in our philosophy. Shakspeare. It would not be without advantage to examine those things, slight indeed in appearance, but which are often the secret springs of the most important eventS. Tacitus. The things of this life have a kind of reality; riches are in some sort riches, and, beauty is in some sort beauty, and nobility is in some sort no- bility, and so possessions are in some sort posses- sions. R. Sibbes. There are in the world three kinds of things, the valuable, the non-valuable, and the invaluable, and it is a long time before we decide in our minds which of them we have been endeavoring to ob- tain. Acton. It would be most lamentable if the good things of this world were rendered either more valuable or more lasting ; for despicable as they already are, too many are found eager to purchase them even at the price of their souls. Colton. 940 A) A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. THINEING. THINEING.. Think for yourselves. J. F. Danviell. Those who have finished by making all others W. A. Alcott. Sir P. Sidney. Thinking makes the man. Thinking nurseth thinking. Thinking is the parent of reform. S. P. Andrews. Those that think much govern those that toil. - Goldsmith. There are very few original thinkers in the world. D. Stewart. He is a fool who thinks that another does not think. Beawliew. Man is a thinking being, whether he will or know. Sir W. Temple. Think before you act ; think twice, but not thrice. Confucius. Who thinks before he does, thriveth before he thinks. Politeuphºwia. Thinking may be said to be the living principle of wisdom. Degerando. Legitimate reasoning is impossible without se- vere thinking. S. T. Coleridge. It is well to keep in practice the power of think- ing for one's-self. Bulwer. A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have. T. Carlyle. Man has been born for two things—thinking and acting ; to think is to live. Cicero. It is the pert superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. Sir H. Davy. I cannot conceive man without the thinking prin- ciple ; that would be a stone or a brute. Pascal. The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking. Cowper. Thinking makes the great distinction between the mind of the philosopher and that of the fool. Rev. E. Thompson. It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self-examiner. Shaftesbury. The three properties of just thinking are, what is possible, what is commendable, and what ought to be. Catherall. To little minds those productions are highly agreeable that entertain without reducing them to the necessity of thinking. Zimmerman. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him, but it is impossible to get his think- ing done for him by another. Smiles. Liberty of thinking and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power and to those pious fraudson which it is commonly founded. Hwºme. The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter—clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and where possible from above. Schlegel. think with them, have usually been those who be- gan by daring to think with themselves. Colton. It is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence, is not in the power of every OIlê. Schopenhaufer. Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, pursues it unin- terruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a dia- mond of enormous size. Lavater. The man who has learned to think well and rightly never need be alone ; for he can people Solitude, and cheer the dreariness of might with bright and pure thoughts. R. Roberts. Truth gains more by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think. J. S. Mill. He who can think, and loves to think, will be- come, if he has a few good books, a wise man ; he who knows not how to. think, or who hates the toil of doing it, will remain imbecile, though his mind be crowded with the contents of a library. A. Potter. The power which thinks and works within us, is, according to its nature, a power as never-dying as that which holds together suns and stars ; its nature is eternal as the Divine Mind, and the Sup- ports of my being—not of my corporeal form— are as firm as the pillars of the universe ! Herder. Thinking leads man to knowledge; he may see and hear, and read and learn, as much as he please, he will never know any of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind. Take away thought from man's life, and what remains ? Pestalozzi. The habit of thinking gives an inner life, which all that we see animates and 'embellishes; in this disposition of the soul everything becomes an ob- ject of thought ; if the young botanist trembles with joy at the sight of a new plant, the moral botanist joys no less to see germinate around him truths with a much superior prize to that of an un- known flower. Bomstetten. THIRST. Drink only to satisfy thirst. Cyrus the Great. The thirsty think any water sweet. Mencius. A man dies much sooner of thirst than he does of hunger. Jean de Brébeuf. If a man drank nothing but water, he could never have been accused of drinking without being thirsty. B. Savarim. Habitual thirst is often acquired by indulgence in drinking ; in these cases indulgence in beer, ci- der, wine, or spirits and water, invariably induces febrile reaction, and should therefore be generally avoided. R. Owen. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 941 THOUGHT. - Thoughts are free. Phocion. Thought means life. W. A. Alcott. Old thoughts never die. Dr. Mackay. Second thoughts are best. Blwmawer. Good thoughts are not lost. Publius Syrus. Thought runs before action. Shakespeare. Thought is the gift of but few. D. Cato. Thought is deeper than speech. Cranch, A man cannot help his thoughts. Miss Braddon. Refresh me with a great thought. E. P. Herder. Thought is the magic of the mind. Byron. Our thoughts are heard in heaven. E. Young. Thought and action should be one. Blwcher. Thoughts are blossoms of the mind. Hermes. Let thoughts be governed by reason. Cem-Cw. The key to every man is his thought. Emerson. Thoughts are the apparel of the mind. Sidney. First thoughts are not always the best. Alfieri. Great thoughts proceed from the heart. Vawvemargues. Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions. Portews. Thought, in its true sense, is an energy of intel- lect. W. E. Channing. It is good to respect old thoughts in the newest books. Richter. The discovery of thought is one of the mysteries of life. J. G. Holland. The man of thought strikes deepest, and strikes safely. Savage. Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. Rivorol. A great thought is best dressed in the simplest language. - C. Nordhoff. Good thoughts spring up like grass, but are soon cut down. Second thoughts are the adopted children of experience. Annie E. Lancaster. Every point of thought is the centre of an intel- lectual world. Sachs Homs. Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. J. C. Hare. To have thought far too little, we shall find in the review of life, among our capital faults. J. Foster. Man has thoughts that last merely for a day, and are no more real than the shadow of smoke. AEschylus. Wakatawki. - THOUGHT. A wise chief may give words, but he keeps his thoughts to himself. Te Rauparaha. Beware of producing crude thoughts: study till thy words are matured. Ptah Hotep. A thought embodied and embraced in fit words walks the earth a living being. E. P. Whipple. There is more strength in true thought than in the whirlwind or the lightning. C. B. Smith. The effect or the influence of thoughts may be imagined, but never calculated. J. G. Hewlett. Nurture your mind with great thoughts ; to be- lieve in the heroic makes heroes. I. Disraeli. Thought is twin-sister of existence ; they were born together, and will die together. Parmenides. Learning without thought is labor lost ; and thought without learning is perilous. Confucius. Receive your thoughts like guests, to be enter- tained according to their importance. Al-Maidóni. My thoughts are my own possession ; my acts may be limited by my country's laws. G. Forster. Thought weaves, from unnoticed moments, a new link to the chain that unites the ages. Bulwer. Be not satisfied with the statement of facts alone, but carefully study the relation of thoughts. Le Roy C. Cooley. Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought ; it learns not, neither can it forget. Prof. Hwacley. In matters of conscience first thoughts are best ; in matters of prudence last thoughts are best. R. Hall. We ought to slip over many thoughts that pass through our minds, and pretend not to see them. Mme. de Sévigné. In the union of noble thoughts and fair phrases the sons of God still marry the daughters of men. - Chatfield. The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts; it is the nature of thought to find its way into ac- tion. - Bovee. Thought should be free, and not bought or sold ; a new thought belongs to the world, and is no man's patent. H. Tuttle. All that we are is the result of thought ; it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. Buddha. Only those thoughts which the most profound earnestness has produced and perfected take a cheerful form. Jacobi. Ideas are the seeds of thought, but they do not produce flowers unless the soil where they are sown is fertile. Lady Blessington. Alas! we make a ladder of our thoughts, where angels step, but sleep ourselves at the foot ; our high resolves look down upon our slumbering acts. Miss L. E. Landon. 942 A) A Y '.S. C. O / / A C O AV. THOUGHT. Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind ; for the soul is dyed by thy thoughts. Awrelius. There are few who have at once thought and ca- pacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows. Goethe. Evil thoughts are dangerous enemies, and should be repulsed ; fill the head with good thoughts, that there be no room for bad ones. L. C. Judson. Our thoughts are free and contemplate whatever they choose, in a way that we really discern those things which we think that we see. Cicero. The train of our thought, and motion of Soul, de- pend on custom ; therefore good habits are highly necessary to produce good thoughts. Stanislaws. The man in whose bosom thought on thought awakes, is always disappointed in his object ; for the strength of the one weakens the other. Dante. A thought is often original, though you have ut- tered it a hundred times ; it has come to you over a new route, by a new and express train of asso- ciation. O. W. Holmes. Good thoughts and carefully gathered experience take up no room, and may be carried about as Our companions everywhere, without cost or incum- brance. Smiles. The same thoughts by a different arrangement form quite a different work, so also the same words by the difference of their arrangement form other thoughts. Pascal. It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy; and the two cannot be separated with impunity. Rwskim. It is curious to note the old sea-margins of hu- man thought ! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery ; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. Longfellow. Great minds keep their brightest thoughts for the pen ; they speak to us through it from a dis- tance, and send forth their prismatic gems of learm- ing and genius from the depths of solitude or retire- ment. James Ellis. It is a grand thing when, in the stillness of the soul, thought bursts into flame, and the intuitive vision comes like inspiration ; when breathing thoughts clothe themselves in burning words, winged as it were with lightning. F. W. Robertson. Our thoughts, like the water of the sea, when exhaled toward heaven, will lose all their bitter- ness and saltness, and sweeten into an amiable hu- manity, until they descend in gentle showers of love and kindness upon our fellow men. Colton. Nothing is comparable to the pleasure of an ac- tive and prevailing thought—a thought prevailing over the difficulty and obscurity of the object, and refreshing the soul with new discoveries and im- ages of things ; and thereby extending the bounds of apprehension, and as it were enlarging the ter- ritories of reason. R. South. THOUGHT. It is thought—the genuine thought of deep, rude, earnest minds fairly opened to the things about them ; a face-to-face and heart-to-heart inspection of the things—the first characteristic of all good thought in all times. T. Carlyle. It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers ; those whose expression is sim- ple, carry their seed in them ; those that are dou- ble by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing. Joubert. A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thoughts of the mo- ment ; those that come unsought for are Com- monly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return. Lord Bacon. Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, un- til you have written a page : you cannot fathom your mind ; there is a well of thought there which has no bottom ; the more you draw from it, the more fruitful it will be. G. A. Sala. The thoughts of a man's heart, what millions are there of them in a day ! The twinkling of the eye is not so sudden a thing as the thinking of a thought; yet those thousands and thousands of thoughts which pass from thee that thou canst not reckon, they are all known to God. A. Burgess. We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which should be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various times, and amidst all the shifting of circum- stances, we might be sure of drawing Some com- fort, guidance, and sympathy. A. Helps. Thought is a fountain from which flows all good and evil intentions; a mental fluid, electrical in the force and rapidity of its movements, silently flowing unseen within its own secret avenue ; yet it is the controlling power of all animated matter, and the chiéf mainspring of our actions. Calkins. One of the besetting evils of the present day is the indulgence in trifling, useless, vain, and vola- tile thoughts; these must be distinguished from thoughts that are positively vicious, polluted, and impious ; they are nevertheless very injurious, and when habitually indulged in, exert a baneful in- fluence on the character. R. Roberts. It is impossible for those who have low, mean, and grovelling thoughts, and who have spent their lives in mercenary employments, to produce any- thing worthy of admiration, or to be a possession for all times. Grand and dignified expressions must be looked for from those, and those alone, whose thoughts are ever employed on glorious and noble objects. Longinus. I look upon every true thought as a valuable ac- quisition to society, which cannot possibly hurt or obstruct the good effect of any other truth whatso- ever ; for they all partake of one common essence, and necessarily coincide with each other ; and like the drops of rain which fall separately into the river, mix themselves at once with the stream, and strengthen the general current. C. Middleton. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 943 THREATS. Threats do not kill. Bowrvalais. Love never threatens. Theopomputs. Threatened folks live long. Iscanws. He who threatens is afraid. Evagoras. Heed not the threats of man. Polycarp. Threats are woman's weapons. Chilo. None but a coward ever threatens. Fanny Fern. He threatens many who injures one. Syrus. It is an act of mercy in God to threaten. Nicholls. What is done through threats is not done. Hale. He who threateneth, hunteth after a revenge. Moreto y Cabana. Many a one threatens while he quakes with fear. Batthyami. He who fears not death cares nothing for threats. Corneille. He who dies of threats will have the burial of a. In a SS. Frederick II. He who threatens for the purpose of terrifying is a coward. S. Dyer. To the free and independent, the threats of any man are perfectly impotent. Cicero. God threatens the finally impenitent with ever- lasting banishment from His presence. N. Webster. Words and threats, if they are not accompanied by action, appear vain and contemptible. Demosthenes. The man who threatens the world is always ri- diculous ; for the world can easily go on without him, and in a short time, will cease to miss him. Dr. Johnson. God utters threats, it is true, just as a tender mother calls out threateningly to her little child when she sees it thrusting its little hand into the fire. Miss Maria M. Mattsdotter. How impossible it would be for a master, that thus interceded with God for his servants, to use any unkind threatenings toward them, to damn and curse them as dogs and Scoundrels, and treat them only as the dregs of the creation. E. Law. I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous ex- pressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself. Machiavelli. Those that are the loudest in their threats, are the weakest in the execution of them : in springing a mine, that which has done the most extensive mischief makes the smallest report ; and again, if we consider the effect of lightning, it is probable that he that is killed by it, hears no noise ; but the thunderclap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. Colton. THRIFT. Thrift is a good revenue. J. C. Egg. Thrift is better than an annuity. J. M. Elwes. Thrift is the best means of thriving. J. C. Hare. It is a great virtue to be thrifty with little. Horace. If thou live with thriftiness, thou shall never be p00r. Stoboews. Men do not know how great a revenue there is in thriftiness. Cicero. He who is thrifty adds the desire of getting to that of Saving. G. Crabb. Out of sparing and untimely thrift there grow- eth many inconveniences. Sir W. Raleigh. As riches are the mother of pleasure and delight, So untimely thrift is the nurse of sorrow and cala- mities. Isocrates. There need no great thriftiness in preserving their own, who assume more liberty in exacting from others. Sir H. Wottom. In all estates a mean must be observed ; to live thriftily increaseth treasure, but to live wastefully causeth poverty. Protagoras. If men live according to reason's rules, they would find the greatest riches to be to live thrifty and content with little ; for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. Lucretius. THRONIE. The throne is for men, not women. Werembert. The quietest throne is full of cares. J. Hall. How can heaven give the throne to any man 3 Heaven doth not speak. Mencius. Since the people support the throne the throne should protect the people. Sir W. Beckford. To make his throne secure a king may change his manners, and even his religion. Henry IV, France. As the occupant of a throne would have you stand in awe of him, so should we stand in awe of heaven. Confucius. No one shall ever sit upon the Hawaiian throne who has been convicted of an infamous crime, or is insane, Or an idiot. Ramehameha V. A common arm-chair is a more comfortable seat than a throne, and a soft beaver hat a lighter piece of head-gear than a crown. W. H. Ireland. The charter of man's liberty is in his soul, not his estate ; no piled up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity. J. Martyn. He who is accustomed to rule, who has held daily the fate of thousands in his hands, descends from a throne as into a grave ; but this is better than to linger a spectre among the living, and with hol- low aspect try to maintain a position which an- other has inherited, and now possesses and enjoys. Goethe. 944 A) A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. THUINDER. Thunders stun the ear. J. M. Austim. Thunder engendereth fear. Caius Caligwla. Thunder is the herald's wrath. Beauchamp. The thunder-clap hath but its clap. Ciampiri. Thunder executes the mission of heaven. J. R. C. Quoy. One thunder-clap deadens the effect of another. Amma Maria Hall. It does not thunder till the lightning has struck. Ahmed Vesik. It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow. Voltaire. Every thunder-storm has its compensating at- mospheric purity. H. Tuttle. When the lightning's flash is past, the thunder is as harmless as the sound of a Cannon. Juarez. If we cannot conquer the fear of thunder, let us try to keep a conscience void of offense. Mably. Thinkest thou that God hath forgiven thee, be- cause, when He thunders, the holm-oak is rather riven with His sacred bolt than thou and thy house 3 Persives. Spread out the thunder into its single tones, and it becomes a lullaby for children ; pour it forth together in one quick peal, and the royal sound shall move the heavens. Schiller. Thunder is the herald, earth-accredited, of hea- ven, which when men hear they think upon hea- ven's King, and run the items over of the account to which He is sure to call them. S. Knowles. The thunderbolts of heaven lay prostrate the mightiest animals, while they pass over the weak and insignificant ; the most splendid palaces and the loftiest tree fall before these weapons of the gods. Herodotus. The fear of thunder is, perhaps, chiefly owing to an opinion that it is the effect of the wrath of heaven, the minister of the Almighty's vengeance; but if we considered how much these storms con- tributed to purify the air, and rendered the earth fruitful, we should regard them as blessings more formed to inspire gratitude than terror. Sturm. The loud pealing thunder, the forked lightning, the pouring rain, driving hail, and snow, are di- rectly calculated to inspire the soul with awe and adoration of that Infinite Being who created all things. Who can contemplate these manifesta- tions of power and infinitude without bowing “be- fore Jehovah's awful throne,” in devout homage 2 O. S. Fowler. What mind is unawed, what limbs do not trem- ble, when the parched earth shakes with the fear- ful peals of thunder, and the whole heaven re- echoes with the noise ? Do not people and nations stand horror-struck, and proud kings tremble at their approaching doom, lest the hour of vengeance should have arrived for their wicked deeds and vaunting words? Lucretivs. TILLAGE. Tillage proves the land. J. G. Wallerius. Good tillage roots out the parahia weed. * Wakata.uki. No man should own more land than he is capa- ble of tilling. R. C. Winthrop. Whoso chooseth the tillage of this world we shall give the fruit thereof. Koran. The merest gravel beds, by skillful tilling, are changed into fruitful fields. E. D. Samborn. Those who first taught the tillage of the soil are worthy of worship and sacrifices. Sanchomiathom. The husbandman, in tilling the ground, causes the fruits of the earth to spring up. T. Burges. The first and the most requisite step toward a civil settlement, is tillage of the soil. D. Hume. Tillage of the earth is the principal, as it was the first occupation of man, and no employment is more honorable. N. Webster". Trade increases the wealth and glory of a coun- try ; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the tillers of the soil. Chatham. Every man who follows farming as a vocation should study the tillage of the soil, the formation of crops, the improvement of cultivated earth as a science. Isaac Hill. The husbandman tilleth the ground, is employed in an honest business that is necessary in life, and very capable of being made an acceptable service unto God. E. Law. It is human talent, industry, wisdom, and skill, under the favoring blessings of heaven, that tills the land with success, and gathers in the harvest of the earth. S. H. Tymg. Tillage driveth out demons; whoever cultivates barley exercises righteousness; when the grain grows, the demons hiss : when it is thrashed they whine ; when it is ground they roar; when the flour comes they flee. Zoroaster. The tillers of the soil are perhaps more fixed to one spot; many of them hardly ever go out of sight of their own cottages, and such a thing as a re- moval from one part of the land to another, would in vast multitudes of cases, be deemed utterly im- practicable, and almost impossible. Rev. I. N. Tarboaº. If instead of tilling the earth, still greater num- bers devote their labors to manufactures, the pro- ducts of agriculture will not be sufficient for the wants and comforts of the people, and the advanced price of necessary articles of living will prove op- pressive to those who are obliged to purchase them. A. Bradford. He who has from childhood tilled his paternal acres in ignorance of the true principles of his art, scorning the more timid efforts of his thoughtful neighbor, delves on through life, a wretched and unsuccessful farmer, and in time leaves the world no better, so far as his own labors were concerned, than he found it. L. F. Allen. P R O S E O U O Z. A 7" / O M. S. TIME. How short is time ! Eugene of Savoy. Time is a great master. Cormeille. Time is a great corrective. J. Buchamam. Time is the herald of truth. Cicero, I value time next to etermity. Mme. Swetchine. Time is the ally of destruction. Sertorius. Time is the father of mutability. Solom. Time is the chrysalis of etermity. Richter. Great are the vicissitudes of time. Ar-Rabi. Time is opportunity to do things. D. C. Eaton. Let everything have its proper time. Ludovicus. If you have time do not wait for time. Franklin. Time is a judge exempt from all blame. Al-Mashtwb. Time is but the ante-chamber to eternity. Mrs. Moodie. Time is a better comforter than reflection. Mime. R. G. Michiel. Time is the messenger with wings at his feet. Mme. de Gasparim. They that drive away time spur a free horse. - R. Mason. Time is what we want most, but we use worst. W. Penn. Time alone can blunt the keen edge of afflictions. Washington. What will not length of time be able to change 3 Claudian. The happier our time is the shorter while it last- eth. Pliny. Time is the greatest conqueror ; none can resist him. Joachim Du Bellay. Miserable is he who spends his time in senseless- 116SS. Kadjimna. One sand-grain of time is worth a mountain of gold. R. Williams. There is nothing more difficult to please than time. Nicostratws. Time is the cradle of life, and the grave of exis- tence. Rev. J. C. French. Time is the wisest of things, for it finds out every- thing. Thales. All that time is lost which might be better em- ployed. Rowsseaw. I would exchange my kingdom for another year of time. Queen Elizabeth. Think with terror on the slow, the quiet power of time. Schiller. Make use of time, which if thou losest, is lost forever. Jeremy Taylor. Time is the vehicle that carries everything into nothing. Chatfield. TIME. Man seems to be deficient in nothing so much as he is in time. Zeno. Time cannot be infinite, and therefore the world is not eternal. Charnock. Time is the black and narrow isthmus between two etermities. Colton. As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time. J. Mason. The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time. Lavater. Nothing is more precious than time, yet nothing less esteemed of. St. Bernard. It is only necessary to give to each thing the time which it craves. Pandolfini. If thou takest time into thy affairs, it will allay and arrange all things. Apollodorus. Time pushes everything before it, and may as well bring evil as good. Machiavelli. Time antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things. Sir T. Browne. Your time is not your own ; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind. J. S. Buckminster. Red men will have all the time that passes; white men can have no more. Red Jacket. Conceal nothing ; for time, that sees and hears all things, discovers everything. Sophocles. Dost thou love life 2 Then waste not time, for time is the stuff life is made of. R. Whately. Time which has passed has gone for ever, and that which is to come exists not. Abi Usmºn. Make the most of time, it flies away so fast : yet method will teach you to win time. Goethe. Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe: it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend. C. Wilcoac. The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back. Seneca. Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity. Massillom. Time travels like a ship in the wide ocean, which hath no bounding shore to mark its progress. Joanna Baillie. Time hath its revolutions; there must be a period and an end to all temporal things—finis rerum. Lord Crewe. Nothing is more precious than time, and those who misspend it are the greatest of all prodigals. Theophrastws. Time will discover everything to posterity ; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put. Euripides. Imitate time ; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench. Jowbert. 60 946 A) A Y',S C O Z /. A C O AV. TIME. Time ! Time past is a bitter memory ; time present a constant struggle ; time to come a fearful blank. R. E. Raspe. Who shall contend with time—unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors, and lord of de- solation ? H. K. White. We ought to reckon time by our good actions, and place the rest to the account of our not hav- ing lived. Stanislaws. Time is to us the impression left on the memory by a series of events, the existence of which we are sure was successive. Laplace. Those who understand the value of time treat it as prudent people do their money : they make a little go a great way. D. Hamway. Time will bring to light whatever is hidden ; it will conceal and cover up what is now shining with the greatest splendor. Horace. Time is the greatest of all tyrants; as we go on toward age, he taxes our health, limbs, faculties, strength, and features. J. Foster. I know of no ideas or motions that have a better claim to be accounted simple and original, than those of space and time. - T. Reid. How truly call they time and fortune twins, since both, on one wheel and two wings for good or evil, ever move and never stop Calderon. Make use of time while it is present with you ; it depends upon your will, and not upon the num- ber of days, to have a sufficient length of life. Montaigme. As nothing truly valuable can be attained with- Out industry, so there can be no persevering indus- try without a deep sense of the value of time. Mrs. Sigowrmey. No preacher is listened to but time ; which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have tried in vain to put into our heads. Swift. Time itself, under the dreadful shade of whose wings all things whither, hath wasted that lively virtue of nature in man, and beasts, and plants. Sir W. Raleigh. There are no fragments so precious as those of time, and none are so heedlessly lost by people who cannot make a moment, and yet can waste years. - Montgomery. Be not prodigal of your time on earth, which is so little in your power ; because you are not to ex- pect much, make the best use you can of your lit- tle. Sir W. Howe. Those who employ their time ill are the first to complain of its shortness ; those, on the contrary, who make the best use of it have plenty and to spare. Bruyère. Time is like a river, made up of the things which happen, and a torrent ; for as soon as a thing has been seen, then it is carried off and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away also. Awreliws. TIME}. In time, the ignorant may become learned, the foolish may be made wise, and the wildest wanton may be brought to a modest matron. Bias. A year ! A life What are they 3 The telling of a tale, the passing of a meteor, a dim speck seen for a moment on time's horizon dropping into eter- nity. Thomason. Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out. Rivarol. Timesheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smooth- ness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach. W. B. Clwlow. Time, which consisteth of parts, can be no part of infinite duration or of etermity ; for then there would be an infinite time past to-day, which to- morrow would be more than infinite. N. Grew. Time passes on, and the fashions of the mind, as well as of the body, change ; but the mind and the body remain the same in all ages, and are subject to same accidents of disease and error. R. Sowthey. Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of ; spend it in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing, if death should surprise you in the act. R. Baacter. Time should not be allowed to pass without yielding fruits, in the form of something learned worthy of being known, some good principle culti- vated, or some good habit strengthened. Smiles. Time is like a ship which never anchors ; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore. Feltham. Be avaricious of time ; do not give any moment without receiving it in value ; the use of time is a debt we contract from birth, and it should only be paid with the interest that our life has accumu- lated. Letow?"new". God, who is liberal in all His other gifts, shows us by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments to- gether. Fémélon. A man's time, when well husbanded, is like a cultivated field, of which a few acres produces more of what is useful to life, than extensive provinces, even of the richest soil, when overrun with weeds and brambles. Hwme. There is no such a thing as time—it is but space occupied by incident ; it is the same to eternity as matter is to infinite space—a portion out of the immense occupied by something within the sphere of mortal sense. Legh Richmond. Time, the patient destroyer of all things, un- builds empires, rots the institutions, disintegrates the nation itself—recomposing its elements until its former identity is lost, and a new stock takes the place of the old. T. Tilton. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 947 TIME. Time is a stream in which there is no mooring the barks of life, because there is no casting anchor in it ; it is the true Lethe, in which is engulphed the recollection of our sorrows. Lady Blessington. There is no saying shocks me so much as that which I hear very often, “that a man does not know how to pass his time.” It would have been but ill-spoken by Methusaleh in the nine hundred and sixty-ninth year of his life. Cowley. Time is never more misspent than while we de- claim against the want of it ; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness; the yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good humor, and in the shades of rural retire- ment. Zimmerman. If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half the world, but yet not a full one ; for even this would be such an economy as the liv- ing on a principal sum, without making it purchase interest. Sterme. What is time 3 The shadow on the dial, the strik- ing of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, Summer and winter, months, years, centu- ries ; these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of time, not time itself. Time is the life of the Soul ; if not this, then tell me what is time 2 Longfellow. If thou desire the time should not pass too fast, use not too much pastime ; thy life in jollity blazes like a taper in the wind ; the blast of honor wastes it, the heat of pleasure melts it ; if thou labor in a painful calling, thou shalt be less sensible of the flux of time, and sweetlier satisfied at the time of death. F. Qwarles. Many a poor man would be happy to redeem, at the close of life, the sums which in his youth he has thrown away : and many an ignorant man in the decay of his strength has still more reason to lament the time which he once neglected, when he might have learned to become “wise unto sal- Vation.” J. B. Swinner. One of the commonest errors is to regard time as an agent ; but in reality time does nothing and is nothing ; we use it as a compendious expression for all those causes which operate slowly and im- perceptibly ; but unless some positive cause is in action, no change takes place in the lapse of a thou- sand years. E. Copleston. Time past, how transient ; time present, how evanescent : time to come, with many how uncer- tain ; how different in the lessons it teaches, and the impressions it makes ; the child wastes it in play, and knoweth not its worth ; the anxious youth would hasten its course, and the aged put a drag upon its wheels. Dr. T. Dick. As we ought to be more frugal of our time than our money, the one being infinitely more valuable than the other, so ought we to be particularly watchful of opportunities ; there are times and seasons proper for every purpose of life ; and a very material part of prudence it is to judge rightly of them, and make the best of them. J. Burgh. TIME. What I do and ever shall regret is the time which, while young, I lost in mere idleness, and in doing nothing ; this is the common effect of the in- consideracy of youth, against which I beg you will be most carefully upon your guard. Chesterfield. Time is the most precious thing in the world; when God give us a moment, he does not promise another, as if to teach us highly to value and dili- gently to improve it, by the consideration, for aught we know, it may be the last. J. A. James. Time is but a stream I go a fishing in ; I drink at it ; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom, and detect how shallow it is ; its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. Thoreaw. Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, Our bounties for our dependents, our riches for our children and relatives, our praises for those who appear worthy of them, our time we give all to the world ; we expose it, I may say, a prey to all mankind. Massillon. We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with ; our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do ; we are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. Seneca. Time is the wheel track in which we roll on toward eternity, conducting us to the Incompre- hensible ; in its progress there is a ripening power, and it ripens us the more and the more powerfully when we duly estimate it, listen to its voice, do not waste it, but regard it as the highest finite good, in which all finite things are resolved. Humboldt, The time which passes over our heads so imper- ceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners, and character, as in personal appearance; at the revolution of every five years we find our- selves another and yet the same ; there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we re- gard them ; a change of motives as well as of ac- tion. Sir W. Scott. Time and eternity touch me, for I am both : time assaults me for the dust which I have, and insists that I give back to the dust every atom which I have derived therefrom ; eternity appeals to me for the spirit which I have ; owing to these two claimants the partnership will soon have to be dis- solved between my soul and body, that earth may take its own, and eternity its own. J. Pwlsford. I think very differently from most men of the time we have to pass, and the business we have to do, in this world ; I think we have more of one, and less of the other, than is commonly supposed ; we are all arrant spendthrifts; some of us dissi- pate our estates on the trifles, some on the super- fluities, and then we all complain that we want the necessaries of life ; the much greatest part never reclaim, but die bankrupts to God and man. Lord Bolingbroke, 948 A) A Y’,S CO Z / A C O AV. TIMIDITY. TITLE. Timidity has many eyes. Cervantes. I weigh the man, not his title. Ovid. Timidity is no lasting teacher of duty. Cicero. Titles are no passports to honor. Colomna. Timidity is no excuse for not engaging in a good work. Theodore Cuyler. In softness and timidity consists half of woman's charms. W. Aleacander. A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. Bulwer. The dastardly spirit of a timorous man betrayeth him to shame. R. Dodsley. I confess that I am exceedingly timorous, for I dare not do an evil thing. Xenophames. Timidity in a young man is better than cool im- pudence ; it is a pity the ladies will not think so. G. D. Prentice. Timidity in one person may be a good trait of character, while in another it is a deep reproach. N. Webster. - A timid man is qualified for no important office, no high calling, no responsible station among men, Magoon. Presumption will be easily corrected ; but timi- dity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal. Dr. Johnson. If timidity in seasons of danger should be resis- ted, the indulgence of imaginary fears is still less to be tolerated. Mrs. Sigowrmey. Timidity sometimes adds wings to the heels, and Sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving. Montaigme. Timidity shuts many a door of usefulness, and loses many a precious opportunity; it wins no friends, while it strengthens every enemy. Bomar. Timidity, a certain tardiness of decision, and reluctance to act in public situations, are not con- sidered as defects in a woman's character. Miss Maria Edgeworth. A timorous man never thinks so well of any man's opinion as he doth of his own conceit ; and yet he will be ready to ask counsel upon every trifling cause. Wittichiws. Courage and timidity in action are both the re- Sults of opposite tendencies of thought, or modes of viewing the same subjects; the brave think only of the blows they shall strike, the timid of those they may receive. Bovee. Timidity is generally the fruit of selfishness: Some men are so circumspect, so sensitive of dan- ger, of things that may harm them they know not how, that they never give advice, or say a gener- ous word for another, without trembling. Hooker. Nothing sinks a young man into low company, both of women and men, so surely as timidity and diffidence of himself ; if he thinks that he shall not please, he may depend upon it he will not ; but with proper endeavors to please, and a degree of persuasion that he shall, it is almost certain that he will. Chesterfield. It is not titles that reflect honor on men, but men On their titles. Machiavelli. Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is him- Self an honor to his title. J. Ford. Title and ancestry render a good man more illus- trious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison. Titles, indeed, may be purchased ; but virtue is the only coin that makes the bargain valid. Burton. If men were to consider their own dignity as men, they would spurn at titles, and look on them as nick-names. T. Paine. Titles of honor are like the impressions on coin, which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current. Sterme. Titles are of no value to posterity ; the name of a man who has achieved great deeds imposes more respect than any or all epithets. Voltaire. Titles won by the sweat of the brain and persis- tent study, may be worn not only without a blush, but with an honest and sinless pride. Dr. Davies. I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the most en- viable of all titles, the character of an honest man. Washington. Titles and orders are harmless things, but they produce a kind of foppery in the human character that degrades it ; talking about its blue ribbon, like a girl, and showing its new garter, like a child. J. Trwsler. After personal merit, it must be confessed that high stations and pompous titles are the principal and the most splendid marks of distinction ; and he who cannot be an Erasmus must think of being a bishop. Bruyère. Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king ; the wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real import- ance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title. Goldsmith. Some people are all quality ; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealo- gy ; the stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity, and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good Iſla, Illſler’S. L’Estrange. There are a set of men who assume, from their infancy, a pre-eminence independent of their moral character ; the attention paid them, from the mo– ment of their birth, gives them the idea that they are formed for command ; they soon learn to dis- tinguish themselves as a distinct species, and being secure of a certain title and rank, take no pains to make themselves worthy of it ; to this institution we owe so many indifferent ministers, ignorant magistrates, and bad generals. Abbe Raymal. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 949 TOBACCO. Tobacco helps the memory. Magliabecchi. Beware of spirits and tobacco. H. Stephens. In the smoking of tobacco there is a goodly plea- SUIP6. John Hope. Let those who persist in the use of tobacco be excommunicated. Pope Urban VIII. Take no physic but tobacco, which is a cure for almost all distempers. De Foe. What a glorious creature was he who first dis- covered the use of tobacco Fielding. There are two sins that are unpardonable—poly- theism and the use of tobacco. Kereem. The use of tobacco is not only a waste of money, but of health, life, and happiness. Mrs. M. Fletcher. Some things are much better eschewed than chewed ; tobacco is one of them. G. D. Prentice. Make the most of your will; drop tobacco and resolve never to use it in any form. M. Trask. The sinfulness of the use of tobacco is confirmed by visible and appalling judgments. F. Palgrave. There is virtue in the using of tobacco ; it sub- dueth anger, and encourageth the Christian graces. H. Aldrich. The practise of using tobacco in any form soon conquers distaste, and forms a relish for it that is strong and almost unconquerable. N. Webster. I believe that the moral powers are debilitated, their sense blunted, and the very conscience injured and corrosive by the use of tobacco. S. H. Coac. The appetite for tobacco is wholly artificial ; no person was ever born with a relish for it ; and its use is necessarily connected with the neglect of cleanliness. Dr. B. Rush. What evils and what virtues have not been im- puted to tobacco If we could believe its advo- cates, it combines within itself the origin of good ; and if its opponents, of all evil. J. S. Gehler. To tobacco is to be ascribed the stoical firmness of those American warriors who, satisfied with the pipe in their mouths, submit with perfect indiffer- ence to the torture of their enemies. F. Marryatt. I know of men who are fierce enthusiasts upon the temperance question, and yet these philan- thropic hobby-riders are themselves guilty of the worst form of intemperance, in the excessive use of tobacco. W. D. Haley. All experienced people will tell you that the habit of using tobacco in any shape will soon ren- der you emaciated and consumptive, your nerves shattered, your spirits low and moody, your throat dry, and demanding stimulating drinks. J. Todd. Blessings on the man who invented smoking to- bacco / I laugh to hear men talk against tobacco ; they might as well preach to me not to love the odor of roses or the fragrant mignionette, as not to grow quiet on the perfume of Tombak, or sleep- ily happy on glorious Latakea. W. C. Prime. TO-DAY. One to-day is worth two to-morrows. Franklin. To-day is the best time for a good deed. Mellem. To-day must borrow nothing of to-morrow. Jay. To-day's egg is better than to-morrow's hen. Ahmed Vesik. To-day ought to be the disciple of yesterday. Publius Syrus. The struggle of to-day is not altogether for to- day—it is for a vast future also. A. Lincoln. To-day is the opportunity for enjoyment and work. Knowest thou where thou wilt be to-mor- row 2 Time flies swiftly away. Gleim. To-day is my business ; who knows what to- morrow may bring forth ? While, therefore, it is still fair weather, drink, play, and offer libations to Bacchus. Anacreon. Every day is a gift I receive from heaven ; let us enjoy to-day that which it bestows on me ; it belongs not more to the young than to me, and to- morrow belongs to no one. Mawcroiae. Are we to-day that which we were yesterday, or shall be to-morrow 2 Have we not cause to make singular observations upon ourselves daily 3 Do we not present a curious spectacle to ourselves? Karr. To-day is given us by Him to whom belong days; we have the power to use it as we please ; we are responsible for its proper use ; how important that we do the proper work of to-day in the sphere of to-day. J. Bate. Let me simply do this day the work which is this day due ; and though long and impenetrable months may lie between me and its results, I must trust Him whom the sparrows trust ; saying cheer- fully, “The Lord will provide l’” W. Arthwºr. TOIL. Toil is its own pleasure. Ring. To the dead, and to the dead alone, there are no toils. Sophocles. There is a perennial nobleness and even sacred- ness in toil. - T. Carlyle. Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connec- tion. Livy. Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others ; this man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes. Bulwer. Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other ; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively , strive to get clear notions about all ; give up no science entirely, for Science is but one. Seneca. Nature is just toward men ; it recompenses them for their sufferings; it renders them laborious, be- cause to their greatest toils it attaches the greatest rewards; but if arbitrary power take away the rewards of nature, man resumes his disgust for toil, and inactivity appears to be the only good. - Montesquiew. 95() A) A Y’.S. C. O L. J. A. C. O AV. TOLERATION. Toleration befits fallible beings. A. O'Leary. I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn. Chesterfield. Religious toleration cannot be injurious to a State. Henry IV of France. It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tol- erated. N. Macdonald. What do the persecuted ask of their oppressors ? Toleration. R. M. Johnsom. The perfection of tolerance is in the toleration of intolerance. Bovee. Toleration of religious opinion is an absurdity, and dangerous to salvation. Pope Leo XII. Toleration is being wise enough to have no dif- ference with those who differ from us. Chatfield. Many persons are intolerant according to their respective tempers, and not according to their principles. R. Whately. We all like that school or church best which tol- erates our misdeeds, and does not interfere with our prejudices. E. P. Day. We tolerate everybody, because we doubt every- thing ; or else we tolerate nobody, because we be- lieve something. T. Tilton. Toleration is odious to the intolerant, freedom to oppressors, property to robbers, and all kinds and degrees of prosperity to the envious. Burke. There should exist a mutual toleration in Chris- tians in their different professions of religion ; it is the chief characteristic of the true church. Locke. God, who is the Father of spirits, is the most tolerant ; man, who is the first of animals, is the most oppressive ; yet he calls himself the shadow of the Almighty. W. Jerdam. They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves; a walrus might as well pride it- self on its endurance of cold. J. C. Hare. If the pecularities of our feelings and faculties be the effect of variety of excitement through a diversity of organization, it should tend to pro- duce in us mutual forbearance and toleration. J. Abermethy. The tolerance of all religions is a law of nature stamped on the hearts of all men ; for by what right should a created being compel another being to think as he does 3 But when a people has be- come an associated body, when religion has become a law of the state, we must submit to that law. Voltaire. Toleration is in itself the essence of Christianity, and the very point which the founder of it most peculiarly enjoined. I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind ; I would let men enter their own churches with the same free- dom as their own houses ; and I would do it with- out a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration. W. S. Landor. TOMB. A tomb makes death familiar. Philostratus. How can a tomb benefit the dead? Chrysippus. A tomb availeth not the body that lies molder- ing in it. Al-Akawwak. A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds. St. Pierre. A tomb shows the poverty of wealth and the littleness of greatness. E. P. Day. The devil has special delight in tombs, because he loves the mischief done in them. Constein. Too much cannot be expended in erecting a tomb to the memory of a lost and loving husband. Artemisia MauSolus. I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. Burke. Tombs are the clothes of the dead ; a grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one em- broidered. S. Rogers. On the tombstones of the truly great it is certainly right that an inscription should be written consis- tent with their dignity. V. Knoac. Many pass through life whose most intimate ac- quaintances would never suspect of any virtue, if they did not at last find it on their tombstones, º Basta. How many are so entombed by the riches, the honors, the pleasures, and the sins of the world, as only to be taken out of them to be buried in the earth. Mrs. Anne Marsh. * -- The great, the brave, the learned, soon as the hand of death has closed their eyes, in hollow tombs sleep a right long and endless slumber, to wake no more. Moschws. Tomb is a house built for a skeleton ; a dwelling of sculptured marble, provided for dust and cor- ruption ; a monument set up to perpetuate the memory of—the forgotten. Chatfield. As men cannot read the epitaphs inscribed upon the marble that covers them, so the tombs that we erect to virtue often only prove our repentance that we neglected it when with us. Bulwer. We provide for our living bodies, and no less, also, for our mouldering bones; as we would not live herded indiscriminately with others, so we disdain still more, if possible, the idea of being en- tombed with a promiscuous crowd. Acton. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epi- taphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I con- sider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow ; when Iread the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries and make our appearance together. Addison. A R O S F O U O 7' 4 7" / O AW. S. 951 TO-MORROW. TONGUE. Provide for to-morrow. Saadi. To rule the tongue is difficult. Chilo. No one has seem to-morrow. M. B. de Garcia. A foul tongue is a vile malady. Al-Ahnaf, Letto-morrow take care of itself. M. E. Braddon. The tongue is not steel, but it cuts. Erasmus. Who knows what will come to-morrow. Lehmws. It is doubtful what shall be on the morrow. Lºwcretius. What may happen to-morrow no man can tell. Sotem Merswatef. Nothing resembles to-day so much as to-morrow. Bruyère. To-morrow will soon become another yesterday. 1Y. Dodsley. It is unlawful for men to know what may be to- IſlCI’I’OW. Stativs. To-morrow is a satire on to-day, and shows its weakness. E. Young. Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. T. Jefferson. To-morrow we shall be older ; to-morrow, in- deed, death may fix his seal forever on our charac- terS. J. S. Buckminster. Examine each individual, and consider the whole world, and you will find that there is no man's life that is not aiming at to-morrow. Seneca. When another day has dawned, we have already spent yesterday's to-morrow ; another to-morrow wears away our years, and will always be a little beyond thee. - Persiws. Being mortal, thou canst not tell what will be to- morrow, nor when thou Seest a man happy, how long he will be so, for not so swift is the flight of the wide-winged fly. Simonides. There is a great power of flattery, insinuation, hope, and deception in to-morrow ; it has robbed the world of many noble deeds, the church of many precious gifts, and the Redeemer of millions of pre- cious souls. J. Bate. To-morrow is a myth, invented by the evil one, to cast mortals into the depths of misery ; for he who postpones until to-morrow the good he should do to-day, will find that he incurs a debt impossi- for him to liquidate. A. H. Forrester. *-- There is not one who knows whether he shall see the coming morrow ; for what depends on fortune is uncertain how it will turn out, and is not to be learned, neither is it to be caught by art ; having, therefore, heard and learned these things from me, be merry, drink, and regard the life granted to thee day by day as thine own, but the rest to be fortune's. Euripides. To-morrow may never come to us ; we do not live in to-morrow ; we cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the Sea, does not own a single minute of to-morrow. To-morrow ! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born ; it lies under the seal of midnight, behind the veil of glit- tering constellations. E. H. Chapin. tongue is in his heart. Let honeyed words attend thy tongue. Theognis. Reep thy tongue, and keep thy friend. Socrates. Let not thy tongue run before thy wit. Pittacws. The tongue kills more than the sword. Vesik. The first virtue is to restrain the tongue. Cato. Punishment is inflicted on a petulant tongue. º AEschylws. A prattling tongue ruins important business. Emperor Charles II. An unbridled tongue is the worst of diseases. Euripides. The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. Jww.emal. Let your mind always agree with your tongue. Phocylides. Tet the tongue speak the language of the heart. Elizabeth Rowe. Deny not to woman the proper use of her tongue. King Arthwr. If itching ears are bad, itchingtongues are worse. A. Mylne. We rule our tongue until we use it ; then it rules US. E. P. Day. Give your tongue more holidays than your hands or eyes. Rabbi Ben-Azai. A man with a woman's tongue—who can help fearing ? Charles Reade. Woman's tongue is her sword, which she never lets rust. Mme Necker. Those who have a sharp tongue generally have a dull sword. Al-Isfaraini. He who has a tongue in his head can go the world Over. J. F. Gemelli. It is pleasing for one to be able to master his Own tongue. S. Foote. When the tongue is sanctified only is it the glory of the frame. M. Cope. It is sweet revenge to pierce the tongue that has spoken against us. Fulvia. The heart and the tongue are the best and the worst parts of man. J. Lockman. It is better to bite off the tongue than suffer it to become a traitor. Leama. The tongue is the instrument on which human thoughts are played. G. S. Bowes. A fool's heart is in his tongue ; but a wise man's F. Quarles. The tongue is small, but it ruins families and overthrows kingdoms. Confucius. 952 A) A Y’.S CO /, / A C O AV. TONGUE}. The flippant tongue, unless it be checked, often runs itself into mischief. Høvamdºl. Keep your tongue within your teeth ; the tongue brings men into disgrace. Saadi. Never carry a sword in your tongue to wound the reputation of any man. T. Kirke. What the tongue hath spoken cannot be brought back by a chariot and four horses. Tsze-kwºng. Every man is like the apostle Peter in one re- spect, that his tongue bewrays him. R. G. White. Slay not a traitor with a sword ; but rather marry him to a woman with a vile tongue. Jaafar. The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which in a wise man wisdom hath in keeping. Socrates. The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue. Swift. A slip of the tongue may cost one his head ; a slip of the feet is easily cured by a short repose. As-Sikkit. Many a sweetly fashioned mouth has been dis- figured and made hideous by the fiery tongue with- in it. G. D. Premtice. Infants are sometimes tongue-tied, but what a pity it is that adults could not often become so likewise. Acton. The best treasure among men is a frugal tongue, and that which moves measurably is hung with most grace. Homer. The tongue is the mysterious membrane that turns thoughts into Sound ; drink is its oil—eating its drag-chain. Chatfield, A fellow whose tongue is his sole merit, and with- out it, like a flute, all there is of him besides, were good for nothing. AEschines. Tie your tongue lest it be wanton and luxuriate; keep it within the banks ; a rapidly flowing river soon collects mud. St. Ambrose. Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others ? Franklin. By examining the tongue of a patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. Justin. A tart temper never mellows with age ; and a sharp tongue is the only edge-tool that grows keener with constant use. W. Irving. There are words that kill ; watch therefore over your tongue, and never allow it to be soiled by calumny and evil-speaking. La Mennais. The word that once escapes the tongue cannot be recalled ; the arrow cannot be detained which has once sped from the bow. Metastasio. A wound from a tongue is worse than a wound from the sword ; the latter affects only the body. ; the former, the spirit, the soul. Pythagoras. TONG-UE. There are some human tongues which have two sides, like those of certain quadrupeds ; One smooth, the other very rough. R. Walsh. There is a little incendiary called the tongue, which is more venomous than a poisoned arrow, and more killing than a two-edged sword. Croacall. The tongue is, at the same time, the best part of man and his worst ; with good government, none is more useful, and without it, none is more mis- chievous. Amacharsis. It is observed in the course of worldly things that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues ; and more men's for- tunes overthrown thereby than by vices. Raleigh. If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment to bridle his tongue, he is much mis- taken ; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires and better than to speak, though never So well. Plutarch. It has been well observed that the tongue dis- covers the state of the mind no less than that of the body. ; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth. Colton. The tongue blessing God without the heart is but a tinkling cymbal; the heart blessing God without the tongue is sweet but still music : both in concert make their harmony, which fills and delights heaven and earth. R. Venning. The activity of the tongue is truly astonishing —the rapid flash of the eye cannot be compared with it ; the hand, the foot, the eye, and the ear become wearied by continual action, and require rest to recover their exhausted energies ; but the tongue never falters or faints from the longest ex- ertion. F. Junius. A few rash words will set a family, a neighbor- hood, a nation by the ears ; they often have done so ; half the law-suits and half the wars have been brought about by the tongue: husband and wife have separated forever, children have forsaken their homes, bosom friends have become bitter foes—all on account of fiery arrows shot by this powerful little member. R. Bolton. The cure of an evil tongue must be done at the heart ; the weights and wheels are there, and the clock strikes according to their motion ; a guileful heart makes a guileful tongue and lips; it is the workhouse where is the forge of deceits and slan- ders; and the tongue is only the outer shop where they are vended, and the door of it ; such ware as is made within, such, and no other, can come Out. Leighton. What excels the tongue 2 It is the great channel of learning and philosophy : by this noble organ addresses, commerce, contracts, eulogies, and mar- riages, are completely established; on this move life itself ; and of course nothing is equal to the tongue. And what is worse than the tongue 2 Is it not frequently the ruin of empires, cities, and private connections ? Is it not the conveyance of calumnies and lies 2 In short, is it not the grand disturber of civil society AEsop. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 95.3 TORMENT. He who torments others does not sleep well. - M. Paris. Nothing doth more torment a man than forsak- ing hope. Quintiliam. All torments are not alike , neither in this world nor in the world to come. St. Augustine. He who fears death for his conscience sake, suf- fers the worst of torments. James Ellis. Torment may be permanent ; a guilty conscience may torment a man all his life. G. Crobb. We in general place idleness among the beati- tudes of heaven ; it should rather be put amidst the torments of hell. Montesqview. Some things torment us more than they ought ; some things torment us before they ought ; some things torment us when they ought not to do it at all. Seneca. It is impossible for any one to live in good humor and enjoy his present existence, who is apprehen- sive either of torment or of annihilation ; of being miserable or of not being at all. Addison. What an eternity of torment is that man pre- paring for himself, as welI as for others, who is ruining the souls of his fellow creatures by solicit- ing them to sin. How will those victims of his wiles avenge themselves upon him by their execra- tions in the world of woe. J. A. James. TORTURE. Put an end to torture. Old Knife. Torture is a poor support for any theology. J. Fellows, Fear not torture of the body ; but of the Soul. Anne Askew. Let torture of its professors exterminate Chris- tianity. Decints. The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. Calvin. Barbarians consider endurance of torture an evi- dence of superiority. E. P. Day. Inflict torture upon a prisoner the better to de- pict the expression in a painting. Parrhasius, Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and tortures the wicked with what they have de- served. Corneille. Cowards fear torture ; Black-Hawk is no cow- ard ; Black-Hawk is a prisoner, but he fears no torture. Black–Hawk. Burning fagots may torture the nerves and re- duce flesh and bones to ashes, but they cannot dis- turb the good man's inward repose, nor arrest his sublime progress to honor, and glory, and immor- tality. H. Winslow. Engendered in intellectual, and carried on in artificial darkness, torture is a trial, not of guilt, but of nerve : not of innocence, but of endurance; it perverts the whole order of things, for it com- pels the weak to affirm that which is false, and de- termines the strong to deny that which is true. Colton. TRADE. Trade is civilization. C. Jenkinson. Trade will regulate itself. F. Granger. Trade is the mother of money. Alfieri. Trade increases the wealth and glory of a na- tion. Earl of Chatham. He who has a trade may travel through the world. R. Zontch. Those who trade on borrowed capital ought to break. Andrew Jackson. He who cannot speak well of his trade does not understand it. C. Vallancey. A man of any honest trade may make himself respectable if he will. George III. It is well to add a trade to your studies if you would remain free from sin. Talm wol. More vice exists among tradesmen than in any other department of Society. A. J. Davis. No soldier entering a breach adventures more for honor, than the trader does for wealth to his country. Steele. He that hath a trade hath an estate ; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor ; a plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. Franklin, Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade ; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and con- sequently the world itself. Sir W. Raleigh. There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade ; this is that alma mater, at whose plen- tiful breast all mankind are nourished. Fielding. Most of the trades, professions, and ways of liv- ing among mankind, take their original either from the love of pleasure, or the fear of want ; the former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice. Addison. All nations almost are wisely applying them- selves to trade, and it behooves those who are in possession of it to take the greatest care that they do not lose it : it is a plant of tender growth : it requires sun, and soil, and fine seasons to make it thrive and flourish ; it will not grow like the palm- tree, which with the more weight and pressure, rises the more ; liberty is a friend to that, as that is a friend to liberty. J. Newton. TOUCH. Cicero. Touch is the keenest of all senses. Touch is but a surface impression, whether min- istering to utility or pleasure. G. W. Samson. By touch we perceive not one quality only, but many, and those of very different kinds. Dr. Reid. The sense of touch is the discriminating test by which plants and animals are separated one from the other: its most perfect development being found in man. Aristotle. 954 JO 4 Y 'S CO Z / A C O AV. TRADITION. Traditions may be good or bad. Heed the traditions of the apostles. Telesphorus. N. Webster. Tradition is often an aid to history. G. Zoega. Tradition is often ruined by falsehood. Al-Kirriya. Tradition is the companion of Scripture law. Hillel. We have tradition that so we believe, because both we from our predecessors, and they from theirs, have so received. R. Hooker. Even the social virtues of good men, though un- recorded, will be transmitted by the tongue of tra- dition from one generation to another. J. Linen. -- The doctrines and dogmas of ecclesiastical tradi- tion are absolute commands, and cannot be vio- lated unless found contrary to laws of God and the church. Pope Gregory XVI. What an enormous “camera-obscura” magnifier is tradition worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it : and in the darkness, in the entire ignorance, without date or document, no book, no Arundel marble, only here and there Some dull monumental cairn T. Carlyle. TRAGEDY. Tragedy purifies the passions. Phelps. In tragedy the mind finds pleasing agitation. G. V. Brooke. Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply. Aemocrates. It is the design of tragedy to purge our passions by means of pity and terror. Aristotle. Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. Chamfort. It is difficult to write tragedy that will excite sympathy, and not depart from nature. Cramtor. There is as much difference between tragedy and comedy as between the heavens and the clouds. W. S. Landor. Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes ; in this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Cor- neille. Napoleon I. The pleasure arising from an extraordinary agitation of the mind is frequently so great as to stifle humanity; hence arises the entertainment of the common people at executions, and of the better sort at tragedies. T L’Abbe du Bois. It is odd to observe the progress of bad taste : for mixed passion being universally proscribed in: the regions of tragedy, it has taken refuge and shelter in comedy, where it seems firmly establish- ed, though no reason can be assigned why we may not laugh in the one as well as weep in the other. Burke. How a thing grows in the human, memory, in the human imagination, when lové, l }. the traitor. TRAITOR. A traitor is the vilest of men. Theophrastus. A traitor is always a coward. Ahmed Vesik. Let books and traitors be burned. Omar I. The traitor sells his country for gold. Virgil. A true knight scorns the pity of a traitor. Chevalier Bayard. Traitors are the growth of every country. Washington. No wise man at any time will trust a traitor. Tully. He who is once a traitor should never after be trusted. Lycurgus. It is better to die an honorable man than to live a traitor. - Chales. A traitor is generally the first to accuse others of treason. Garcia. Many men love the treason, though they hate A. Sadler. No wise man ever thought that a traitor ought to be trusted. Cicero. Traitors are hateful even to those who gain by their treason. Tacitus. The conflict with traitors is more dangerous than open enemies. Livy. A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty. H. W. Beecher. Where the people's affection is assured, the trai- tor's purpose is prevented. Bias. A traitor to his country betrays it to his enemy, or is false to its best interest. Matilda Fletcher. The trait in a person's character I most detest, is that which has “or” attached to it. Clemens. Traitors leave no practice undone, not because they will not, but because they dare not. Magnus. There is no traitor like him whose domestic trea- son plants the poinard within the breast which trusted to his truth. Byron. Traitors have continual fear for their bedfellow, care for their companion, and the sting of con- science for their torment. Memander. Those traitors, who know that they have sinned beyond forgiveness, have not the courage to be true to those, whom they presume are perfectly acquainted with the full extent of their treachery. Colton. As no country can ever become great which owes its fortunes to an act of treason, so no traitor can ever become famous by a successful act of treach- ery ; some hidden curse follows both in history. James Ellis. Traitors are like moths, which eat the cloth in which they were bred ; like vipers, that gnaw the bowels where they were born ; like worms, which consume the wood in which they were engendered. Agesilaws. A Me O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 955 TRANQUILLITY. Tranquillity is a good thing. Periander. Tranquillity is the foremost of civic duties. Rist. There is a majestic grandeur in tranquillity. W. Irving. Thou wilt enjoy tranquillity if thy heart con- demn thee not. T. d. Kempis. The fountain of tranquillity is in ourselves ; let us keep it pure. Phocion. As credulity is the sister of innocence, even so is concealment the enemy to tranquillity. Downey. Tranquil pleasures last the longest ; we are not fitted to bear long the burden of great joys. Bovee, As the rose breatheth sweetness from its own na- ture, so the heart of a benevolent man produceth good works, and enjoys the ease and tranquillity of his own breast. R. Dodsley, It will be said that a despot insures his subjects tranquillity in the state. Be it so ; what is gained if this very tranquillity be one of the miseries of their state 2 One may live tranquilly in a dun- geon. Does life consist in living quietly Rousseau. There is but one way to tranquillity of mind and happiness; let this, therefore, be always ready at hand with thee, both when thou wakest early in the morning, and all the day long, and when thou goest late to sleep, to account no external things thine own, but to commit all these to God. Epictetus, TRANSGRESSION. He who repents not is a transgressor. Taylor. Where there is no law there can be no trans- gression. Peter Act. The absence of punishment is no pardon of trans- gressions. J. Ingram. Transgression is a species of moral as well as po- litical evil. G. Crabb, Transgression ariseth from the corruption of man's nature. Hrafnkel. Sin is the transgression of the law of God, or want of conformity to it. A. Ritchie. The acknowledgment of our transgressions must precede the forgiveness of them. L. Mwrray. Man is the only being which deliberately seeks to transgress the laws of his being. Dr. Porter. The first and severest punishment of the trans- gressor is the feeling of having sinned. Seneca. Transgressions of the divine law constitute not merely the sin and Sorrow of the individual, but the sin and sorrow of nations. Mine. Swetchine. Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men, but when they do, they go greater lengths ; for with reason somewhat weaker, they have to contend with passions somewhat stronger; besides, a female by one transgression forfeits her place in society for ever; if once she falls it is the fall of Lucifer. Colton. TRANSLATION. Translators are traitors. St. Jerome. Translations abound in errors. C. Ashtom. Very few translations deserve praise. Denham. Sometimes terms cannot be literally translated. H. R. Schoolcraft. The great pest of speech is frequency of transla- tion. Dr. Johnsom. A translation is often a preservation of litera- ture. Adelard. A faithful interpreter gives a translation word for word. Horace. Translators are infinite ; those qualified for tran- slating are few. J. Harris. Let the whole Bible be correctly translated into the English language. James I of England. A translator thinks with a two-fold mind, and Speaks with a cloven tongue. Ben Asher Aaron. A translator who is familiar with different tongues, lives several lives at once. Ali Berg. The style of translation depends hmuch upon the language into which a work is translated. - Don Luis I of Portugal. By means of translation many are enabled to read the Scriptures in their mother tongue. Wycliffe. No better service can be rendered a nation than translating the Scriptures and other good books into its own language. Ulphilas. One is under no more obligation to extol every- thing he finds in the author he translates, than a painter to make every face that sits to him hand- SOIIlê. Sir S. Garth. The first qualification of a good translator is an exact understanding. an absolute mastery of the language he translateth from, and the language he translateth to. Felton. Let the four Evangelists, now inprisoned in a foreign dialect—Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John —have their liberty, by being translated into the English language. Queen Elizabeth. Whosoever wishes to translate a work faithfully, must avoid rendering it literally, and must not be tied down by the too anxious study to adhere to the precise wording of the original. Maimonides. A literal translation is better than a loose one ; just as a cast from a fine statue is better than an imitation of it ; for copies, whether of words or things, must be valuable in proportion to their exactness. J. C. Hare. The translation of the Bible is the most remark- able and interesting event in the history of trans- lations; it is an illustrious monument of the age, the nation, the language ; it is, properly speaking, less a translation than an original, having most of the merit of the former as to style, and all the me- rit of the latter as to thought ; it is the noblest, best, most finished classic of the English tongue. T. S. Grimké. 956 AD A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. TRAVEL. TRAVEL. Travel, if you are able. O. S. Fowler. The gay and dashing class of travellers are de- -º-º- e pendent chiefly upon showmen, bankers, bakers, Travel, to learn character. Miss Pardoe. cooks, and coachmen. S. Butler. Travel is fatal to prejudice. S. L. Clemens. Travel and intercourse tend to bind nations to- J. Beauchamp. R. W. Emerson. As-Sikkit. Travelling brings knowledge. Travelling is a fool's paradise. Travelling for riches is no fatigue. Travel not too fast, if you would learn. Ramus. Those who travel live more than one life. Mrs. P. Wakefield. Never travel by sea when you can go by land. Cato. A wise traveller never despises his own country. Goldoni. An emperor travelling as a man has the rights of a, Illall. Dom Pedro II. A traveller without observation is a bird with- out wings. Saadi. A traveller goes from place to place to see and be amused. H. Spencer. A gentleman ought to travel abroad, but to dwell at home. Sir C. G. Young. Travel often opens the door for important com: mercial enterprises. Emanuel of Portugal. Travellers should correct the vice of one country by the virtue of another. De Foe. The Christian traveller feels that God is with him as a Friend and Guide. D. Livingstone. People travel to learn ; most of them before they start should learn to travel. H. W. Shaw. Let thy travel appear rather in thy discourse, than in thy apparel or gesture. Lord Bacom. Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. Mme. Swetchine. He travels safe, and not unpleasantly, who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. Sidney. I think it not fit that every man should travel ; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. Feltham. Travel, if you would wish to acquire real worth : it is by travelling the crescent becomes a full II?OOIl. Ibn Kalökis. Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in com- pany is a young traveller just returned from abroad. Swift. The benefit of travelling is, that we lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves. Bovee. Travels are made for amusement or information: it is a part of polite education for young men of fortune to travel. G. Crabb. The reason why there are so many narrow- minded people in the world, is because there is so little travelling in it. A. Sparrman. gether, promote liberal views, and a charitable feeling one towards another. Rev. R. Robbins. Travellers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home. T. W. Higginson. How can a man travel who is too lame to walk, too poor to buy an ass, too proud to hire one, and too independent to borrow % Abwlaimó. Receive kindly travellers who seek thy house ; supply their needs when there ; lead them on their way with kind, good words. Rabbi Iechtel. It is not uncommon to meet with travellers who are ignorant of many things in their own country, with which they might be acquainted without dif- ficulty. H. Kett. A man not enlightened by travel or reflection, grows as fond of arbitrary power, to which he hath been used, as of barren countries, in which he has been born and bred. Addison. All travel has its advantages; if the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own ; and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy his own. Dr. Johnsom. They, and they only, advantage themselves by travel, who, well fraught by the experience of what their own country affords, carry ever with them large and thriving talents. F. Osborne. In travelling by land, there is a continuity of scene, and a connected succession of persons and incidents, that carry on the story of life, and lessen the effect of absence and separation. W. Irving. A good traveller is something at the latter end of a dinner ; but one that lies three-thirds, and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard, and thrice beaten. Shakspeare. It is but to be able to say that they have been to such a place, or have seen such a thing, that, more than any real taste for it, induces the majority of the world to incur the trouble and fatigue of tra- velling. F. Marryatt, To be a good traveller argues one no Ordinary philosopher: a sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and an interesting ruin charm away the remembrance of a hard bed. H. T. Twckerman. Travelling is a pleasant and easy way of ridding oneself of superfluous gold, and of regular system- atic business; it is the pursuit of pleasure and excitement under the tempting mask of novelty and variety. W. Baldwim. We love old travellers ; we love to hear them prate, drivel, and lie ; we love them for their asi- nine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity. S. L. Clemens. P & O S E O U o 7. A 7 I O W.S. TRAVEL. The mass of travellers are asses; a little know- ledge is a dangerous thing ; and especially the very little knowledge of a country and people at- tainable by a few months' residence. Chatfield. The use of travelling is to widen the sphere of Observation, and to enable us to examine and judge of things for ourselves: a species of inde- pendence and autonomy, and a source of beneficial instruction not to be undervalued. W. Reading. To be perpetually rambling about, travelling and making love, brings us many acquaintances, but few friends; occasional pleasures, but frequent discomforts ; many residences, but no settled home. “He that is everywhere is nowhere.” Acton. A man who has travelled and seen the world, brings all countries to his fireside, sees mankind as they are, not as he could wish to have them, can calculate correctly on all he sees and hears, and seldom suffers severely by misfortune. G. Redford. Peregrination charms our senses with such un- speakable and sweet variety, that some count him unhappy that never travelled, a kind of prisoner, and pity his case ; that from his cradle to his old age, he beholds the same still—still, still, the same, the same. R. Burton, Many a man, who has gone but a few miles from home, understands human nature better, detects motives and weighs character more sagaciously, than another who has travelled over the known world, and made a name by his reports of differ- ent countries. W. E. Channing. Those who visit foreign nations, but who asso- ciate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs ; they see new meridians, but the same men ; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with travel- led bodies, but untravelled minds. Colton. Travelling enlarges our views, gives us a know- ledge of men and manners, causes us to embrace the human race, as one great family, and call every child of misfortune our brother. The man who fell among thieves would have died of his wounds had not the good Samaritan been a traveller. J. Bartlett. Few modes of spending time are more agreeable than that of travelling, but many are more useful ; it may be useful, but it is occasionally irksome to remain continually at home. Travelling is an ex- cellent means of living in idleness; we acquire by it a kind of knowledge which is not always bene- ficial, and estrange ourselves from our daily avo- cations to partake liberally of the vices and plea- sures of other people. Sir T. Smith. There are two things necessary for a traveller to bring him to the end of his journey ; a knowledge of his way, a perseverance in his walk. If he walk in a wrong way, the faster he goes the farther he is from home ; if he sit still in the right way, he may know his home, but never come to it ; discreet stays make speedy journeys. I will first then know my way, ere I begin my walk; the knowledge of my way is a good part of my journey. A. Warwick. TREACHERY. Treachery banisheth trust. Politeuphuia. Shame is the end of treachery. T. Churchyard. Treachery is the basest of all things. Ledsham. It is easier to bear oppression than treachery. Al-Aziz. Treachery and falsehood are the vices of cowar- dice. G. Bancroft. A ruler may resort to treachery in order to save the state. Charles IX of France. Men are oftener treacherous through weakness than design. Rochefoucauld. Treachery ought not to be concealed, and friends have no privilege to be false. Jaspar Heywood. Repeated treacheries make men unable to de- ceive, because none will trust them. S. Jervyns. In general, treachery, though at first sufficiently cautious, yet in the end betrays itself. Livy. Even a good suggestion coming from a person noted for treachery should be a warning against it. G. Mazzini. Of all the vices to which human nature is sub- ject, treachery is the most infamous and detesta- ble, being compounded of fraud, cowardice, and revenge. L. M. Stretch. Nothing is more detestable than treachery; treachery to a friend, or treachery to a party, is an act of moral turpitude inferior only in degree to treason to one's country. C. A. Dama. If a friend's heart be secretly untrue, and a treacherous heart be within him, this is the falsest thing that God has made for man, and this is hard- est of all to discover. Theognis. Deliberate treachery entails punishment upon the traitor ; there is no possibility of escaping it, even in the highest rank to which the consent of society can exalt the meanest and worst of men. Junius. Treachery has something so wicked and worthy of punishment in its nature, that it deserves to meet with a return of its own kind ; an open re- venge would be too liberal for it, and nothing matches it but itself. S. Croacoll. If I place all men and women at arm's length, in fear that one of them will be treacherous to me, I place myself beyond the desert of good treatment at their hands—beyond the reach of their sympa- thies and their good will—in short, I insult them, and voluntarily institute an antagonism which na- ture breeds mischief in them toward me. J. G. Holland. Treachery is the violation of allegiance, or of faith and confidence. The man who betrays his country in any manner, violates his allegiance, and is guilty of treachery ; this is treason. The man who violates his faith pledged to his friend, or be- trays a trust in which a promise of fidelity is im- plied, is guilty of treachery; the disclosure of a secret committed to one in confidence is treachery. N. Webster. 958 A) A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. TREASON. Treason is ever odious. J. Hall. Treason doth never prosper. Sir J. Harrington. Prosperous treason is revolution. J. Berry. In every treason felony is implied. C. Colbert. Treason seldom dwells with courage. W. Scott. Treason always operates, if possible, by surprise. W. H. Seward. Revolution is the name given to successful trea- SOIl. H. T. Riley. Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confi- dence. Bw)'ke. They are deceived that look for any reward for treason. Rufus, Treason must, from the nature of it, be the crime of many. W. L. Mackenzie. In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place. Sir P. Sidney. Treason is like diamonds ; there is nothing to be made by the small trader. D. Jem'rold. Corporations cannot commit treason nor be out- lawed, for they have no souls. Sir E. Coke. Treason is the highest crime, of a civil nature, of which a man can be made guilty. N. Webster. More men are guilty of treason through weak- mess than any studied design to betray. Rochefoucauld. Treason is one of the greatest crimes possible : public safety demands an extreme punishment for it. - T. Dwight. Desperate men sow the seeds of treason, and tens of thousands go when it ripens to reap the harvest of death. J. Limen. Caesar had his Brutus, Charles I. his Cromwell, and George III.-may profit by their example ; if this be treason, make the most of it. P. Henry. However it may be convenient for us to like the treason, yet we must be very destitute of honor not to hate and abominate the traitor. S. Croacall. An ignorant populace has always been the in- strument by which ambition and treason have accomplished their unhallowed purposes. - A. H. Stuart. Treason is that damned vice hated of God and man, wherewith perjured persons being bewitched fear not to betray themselves, so they may either betray others or their country ; it is the breach of faith and loyalty with God, their governors, and country. Fyroz Shah III. A state should prohibit all treasonable conduct : she must do so, not because such conduct is dis- pleasing to God, for she has nothing to do with that consideration, but because it is injurious to herself; for this reason she must have laws against treason, with suitable penalties, and magistrates to enforce them. H. Winslow. TREASUR.E. Our treasures should be in the mind. Bias. All human treasures are contained in a virtuous life. Stoboews. Gold is treasure as well as silver, because not de- caying, and never sinking much in value. Locke. It is unhappy abundance where real enjoyment attends not all the treasures which we hoard. F. Hagedorm. The impotent of mind, while they hold in their hands a treasure, know it not till it be snatched from them. Sophocles. The Christian whose piety is deep-toned, and whose spiritual conceptions are clear, looks over the world, and exclaims, “How much there is here that I do not want 1 I have what is far better; my treasure is in heaven.” S. H. Tyng. The most worthless of all family treasures are indolent females ; if a wife knows nothing of do- mestic duties beyond the parlor or the boudoir, she is not a helpmeet for man, but an incumbrance upon his exertions. Mrs. Sigourney. If thou hide thy treasure upon earth, how canst thou expect to find it in heaven 2 Canst thou hope to be a sharer where thou hast reposed no stock 8 What thou givest to God's glory, and thy soul's health, is laid up in heaven, and is only thine ; that alone which thou exchangest or hidest upon earth is lost. F. Qwarles. TREATY. A treaty should be faithfully kept. T. Weed. The treaty-making power is lodged in the execu- tive government. N. Webster. Treaties which are not built upon reciprocal benefits are not likely to be of long duration. Washington. Treaties of commerce are entered into by all civilized countries, in order to obviate misunder- standings, and enable them to preserve an amica- ble intercourse. G. Crabb. It is no disparagement for the greater persons to begin treaties of peace ; God never suffers any man to lose by an humble remission of his right, in a desire for peace. J. Hall. The treaty of William Penn with the Indians was the only one ever concluded between Savages and Christians that was not ratified by an oath— and the only one that never was broken. Voltaire. National friendship never existed ; interest is the basis of all their connections; so long as any nation's glory and resources are aided and ad- vanced by another kingdom, so long, and no longer, will they be in amity by treaties. J. Bartlett. In order to enable a public minister or other dip- lomatic agent to conclude and sign a treaty, he must be furnished with a full power ; and when so concluded the treaty is binding on the state, in the same manner as an agent is bound by the act of his principal. J. R. M’Culloch. A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. TREES. Cause not a tree to die. King of Siam. Trees are sold with the land. J. de la Quintinie. Rest under the shade of trees. Stonewall Jackson. Plant and protect good trees. W. Forsyth. A tree in a desert is still a tree. Talmwo. Plant trees for ornament and use. T. Tusser. A tree is the gift of heaven to man. Yw-ta. Trees shade us, but they know it not. Ben Jomson. Remove an old tree, and it will die. J. C. Blum. A good man will plant useful trees. Zoroaster. It is a poor country that has no trees. P. Kalm. Great trees give more shade than fruit. Hedwig. Every tree produces its own specific fruit. Kwpened. He that plants trees loves others besides himself. Sir Hams Sloane. Deciduous trees are more common than ever- greens. Maria Maacwell. He that plants the trees does not always gather the fruit. C. P. Thumberg. A tree is often a good shelter from the fury of an enemy. Mothelwtw. Those are the best trees that combine use with Ornament. John Evelyn. It is a pleasure to gather fruit from the trees of one's own planting. Wilberforce. Trees are an index of the soil and climate of the country in which they were produced. M. Catesby. The industrious husbandman plants trees, of which he himself may never See a berry. Cicero. The fruit is fine, very fine, yet I am not satisfied; I want to see the trees on which it grew. E. Nott. We need the shade of the trees and the play of healthful breezes to refresh our heated brow. Susam F. Cooper. If the tree did not lose its leaves in winter, it would bear no blossoms in the spring, nor fruits in autumn. G. P. Morris. A bad tree produces bad fruit, and even though it be washed in the river Ganges, the fruit will not become good. Gautama. The trees that bend by the wintry torrents pre- serve their boughs, while those that resist the blast fall uprooted. Sophocles. Trees shoot out in expressions of kindness, and bend beneath their own precious load, to the hand of the gatherer. H. Grove. We wonder not that trees have been the admi- ration of men in all periods and nations of the world. What is the richest country without trees; what barrem and monotonous spot can they not convert into paradise ? W. Howitt. TREES. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us when, like the willow, the higher soar their sum- mits, the lowlier droop their boughs. Bulwer. Thou canst not hope to see the trees thou art planting come to perfection ; true, but since others have planted that we might eat, it is right that we should plant for the benefit of others. A. Bradford. Thou causest the tree to take root, and it pros- pers; a quickening sap circulates through its trunk, and gives it force to branch out with leaves and blossoms; while the abundance of fruit, under which the boughs bend, proves the pleasure which Thou hast in doing good. Sturm. It is pleasant to look upon a tree in summer time covered with green leaves, decked with blossoms, or laden with fruit, and casting a pleasant shade ; but to consider how this tree sprang from a little seed, how mature shaped and fed it till it came to this greatness, is a more rational pleasure. G. T. Buº'nett. The trees that spring out of the earth are moral- ists; they are emblems of the life of man ; they grow up ; they put on the garments of freshness and beauty ; yet these continue but for a time ; decay seizes upon the root and the trunk, and they gradually go back to their original elements. J. Sparks. A tree undoubtedly is one of the most beautiful objects in nature ; airy and delicate in its youth, luxuriant and majestic in its prime, venerable and picturesque in its old age, it constitutes in its va- rious forms, sizes, and developments, the greatest charm and beauty of the earth in all countries. A. J. Downing. Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, are witnesses of all the changes that take place around them ; and as some reach a great age, they become, as it were, historical monuments, and like ourselves they have a life, growing and passing away. Hwmboldt, Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command ; rivers leave their beds, run into cities, and traverse mountains for it ; obelisks and arches, palaces and temples, am- phitheatres and pyramids, rise up like exhalations at its bidding ; even the free spirit of man, the only great thing on earth, crouches and cowers in its presence ; it passes away before venerable trees. |W. S. Lamdor. We look upon our trees as our offspring ; and no- thing of inanimate nature can be more gratifying than to see them grow and prosper under our care and attention ; nothing more interesting than to examine their progress, and mark their several peculiarities. In their progress from plants to trees, they every year unfold new and characteristic marks of their ultimate beauty, which not only compensate for past cares and troubles, but like the returns of gratitude, raise a most delightful train of Sensations in the mind, so innocent and rational, that they may justly rank with the most exquisite of human enjoyments. J. C. Lowdom. 960 JD A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. TRIAL. TRIAL. Our life is full of trials. Lady Jane Grey. Trials are the moral ballast, that often prevents º — & our capsizing. Where we have much to carry, Endure trials patiently. Rothschild. | God rarely fails to fit the back to the burden; Trials are the lot of man. L. Murray. Thank God who sends us trials. Tawbmannws. Trials often prove our best good. Weissenborn. -º-º- D’Awbigné. S. Dyer. Endure your trials with patience. Fiery trials make golden Christians. Present trials foreshadow future bliss. F. Burgardws. Reckon any matter of trial to thee among thy gains. T. Adam. Adam had his trials, so has every one of his de- Scendants. Al-Aziz. If trial makes usinpatient, then the devil laughs and is glad. Lºwther. When trials come rejoice if thou art guiltless; if guilty, amend. Cosmo Pazzi. A day of trial may come, when all present glory may fade away. Mme. Letitia Bonaparte. To live happily we should endure small trials, and face great ones. Li-Chi-Mim. The severe trials and hazardous enterprises of life call into exercise the latent faculties of the soul of man. Acton. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all for him to bear. H. Bomar. Perhaps human nature meets few more sweetly relishing and cleanly joys than those that derive from successful trials. Glanvill. Whatever trial is permitted to befall a just man, whether poverty or sickness, shall either in life or death conduce to his good. Plato. We should ever remember that this is our trial state, and that trials, more powerfully than plea- Sures, ripen the fruits of righteousness. Sigowrmey. Trials wisely improved train the character, and teach self-help ; thus hardship itself may often' prove the wholesomest discipline for us, though we recognize it not. Smiles. Our whole endeavor is to get rid of our present trials, as the first necessary condition to happiness; nothing as we passionately think can equal the un- easiness that sits so heavy upon us. J. Locke. Fire, and hammer, and file, are necessary to give the metal form ; and it must have many a grind, and many a rub, ere it will shine ; so in trial, character is shaped, beautified, and brightened. S. Coley. Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes, because we need them ; and He proportions the frequency and the weight of them to what the case requires; let us trust in His skill, and thank Him for His prescription. J. Newton. where we have nothing to bear, we can seldom bear ourselves. The burdened vessel may be slow in reaching the destined port ; but the vessel with- out ballast becomes so completely the sport of the winds and waves, that there is danger of her not reaching it at all. Chatfield. I cannot praise a fugitive or cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world—we bring impurity much rather ; and that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, is but a blank virtue, not a pure O]]{2. Milton. Great trials demand and are generally met by courage, for we summon all our energies to sup- port them ; but it is the every day minor cares of life that weary the temper and irritate the health ; because singly and in detail, they do not appear sufficiently important to induce us to rally our force to encounter them—as the sailor, who hav- ing plowed the ocean in its fiercest moods, returns to perish in the stream that wantons before his cottage home, so many a mind that has withstood the most severe trials, has been broken down by a succession of ignoble vexations. Lady Blessington. TRIBUT, ATION. Be patient in tribulation. L. Sawmders. A long life hath many tribulations. Johnston. Excess in youth bringeth tribulation in old age. George Ezengansti. In tribulations we should be manly and of a good heart. Luther. When men err, heaven sendeth tribulations that they may reform. Mencius, The tribulations of the mind make up the ro- mance of our lives. James Ellis. Tribulation being present causeth Sorrow, and being imminent breedeth fear. R. Hooker. There are two antidotes against tribulation and temptation—prayer and patience ; the one quick- ening, the other quenching. Annie E. Lancaster. If with the trials and tribulations we endure here below we were immortal, we should be the most miserable of all beings. Starvislaws. Tribulation will not hurt you unless it does— what, alas ! it too often does—unless it hardens you, and makes you sour, and narrow, and Scep- tical. E. H. Chapin. It is very inhuman to deny succor and comfort to people in tribulation ; but to insult them and add to the weight of their misfortunes, is superla- tively brutish and cruel. S. Croacall. A A' O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. TRIFLE. Life is no trifle. C. Whitefoord. Men are led by trifles. Napoleon I. Be not vexed at trifles. Periander. Trifles make up existence. Magoon. Do not wrangle about trifles. Horace. Trifles captivate weak minds. Ovid. Be not disturbed about trifles. Franklin. Trifles often lead to serious results. J. Burmett. What trifles produce domestic misery! T. Raffles. Even trifles become great to a great mind. Day. It is silly to bestow too much labor on trifles. - Martial. Trifles may be so bestowed as to cease to be tri- fles. Colton. Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling vic- tory. Sir P. Sidney. The merest trifles will often affect the female mind. Livy. Air-blown trifles are fit only to give weight to smoke. Persivs. Trifles make perfection, but perfection itself is no trifle. Michael Angelo. Trifles insisted on make generally the widest breaches. Mrs. Cushing. The current of your happiness is often choked up by trifles. Talmage. Never unnecessarily wrong thyself or others about trifles. Elizabeth Fry. It is but the littleness of man that seethnogreat- ness in trifles. Willard Phillips. In the Divine rule and government are no acci- dents and no trifles. E. Y. Robbins. Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the build- ing up of character. Tupper. Gods do not employ themselves about trifles, though goddesses may. Fiji. There are some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed. - Chamfort. Our anger is oftener excited by trifles than by any act of consequence. J. Bartlett. The most important events are often determined by very trivial influences. Cicero. It is not good to elaborate trifles; the result should be worthy of the labor. Bovee. Few things discover a man's imbecility of mind sooner than his love for trifles. N. Macdonald. Some are greatly moved by trifles who bear heavy calamities with fortitude. Rev. J. P. Dwrbin. As it would be a great folly to shoe horses with gold, so it is to spend time in trifles. J. Mason. TRIFLE. Be not angry or unkind to any one for trifles, lest thou make thyself enemies unnecessarily. - Rabbi Iechiel. Those who bestow too much application on tri- fling things, become generally incapable of great OrléS. Rochefoucauld. Though life has its venial trifles, they cease to be innocent when they encroach upon its impor- tant Concerns. A. S. Mackenzie. Tell our gay triflers there is no such thing as a trifle upon earth. Can anything be a trifle which has an effect eternal 2 E. Young. The infinitely greatest confessed good is meg- lected, to satisfy the successive uneasiness of our desires pursuing trifles. J. Locke. Things of trifling appearance are often pregnant with high import ; a prudent man neglects no cir- cumstance however trifling. Sophocles. Be not disturbed for trifles: by the practice of this rule we should come in time to think most things too trifling to disturb us. T. Adam. Trifles we should not let plague us only, but also gratify us; we should seize not their poison-bags only, but their honey-bags also. Richter. He who neglects trifles, yet boasts that when- ever a great sacrifice is called for he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. G. A. Sala. When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings. Julia Ward Howe. Exploding many things under the name of tri- fles, is a very small proof either of wisdom or mag- nanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame. Swift. There is a vigilance and judgment about trifles which men only get by living in a crowd : and those are the trifles of detail, on which the success of execution depends. F. Horney". He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher. W. Empson. Human life is made up of comparative trifles: it is the repetition of little acts which constitutes not only the sum of human character, but which determines the character of nations. Smiles. Great merit, or great failings, will make you re- spected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Chesterfield. Trifles discover a character more than actions of importance ; in regard to the former, a person is off his guard, and thinks it not material to use dis- guise. It is, to me, no imperfect hint toward the discovery of a man's character, to say he looks as though you might be certain of finding a pin upon his sleeve. Shenstone. 61 962 AX A Y’.S CO Z Z. A C O AV. TRIFILE. To pursue trifles is the lot of humanity; and whether we bustle in a pantomime or strut at a coronation, whether we shout at a bonfire or harangue a senate-house ; whatever object we fol- low, it will at last surely conduct us to futility and disappointment. Goldsmith. Trifles may be not only tolerated but admired when we respect the trifler. Little things, it has been said, are only valued when coming from him who can do great things. It has been affirmed that trifles are often more absorbing than matters of importance ; but this can only be true when said of a trifler. Chatfield. Man shows his character best in small trifles, where he is not on his guard, and it is in insignifi- cant matters and the simplest habits, that we may often be able to note the boundless egotism which pays not the slightest regard to the feelings of others, and which denies itself nothing in great things, though he may contrive to conceal it. Schopenhaufer. In mortals there is a care for trifles which pro- ceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy ; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble ; and a gravity proceeding from dullness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base. Ruskin. The bullet that sent death to President Lincoln was a trifling affair, yet it sent mourning into every civilized nation on the globe ; a broken rail is insignificant, yet close by it sits death in greedy anticipation of a bloody feast ; a word, a look, an act, a single neglect may make a life, mar a for- tune, ruin a good name, kindle war, or overthrow an empire. E. Foster. It is curious to observe the triumph of slight in- cidents over the mind; and what incredible weight they have in forming and governing our opinions, both of men and things, that trifles light as air shall waft a belief into the soul, and plant it so im- movable within it, that Euclid's demonstrations, could they be brought to batter it in breach, should not all have power to overthrow it ! Sterne. It has been urged as a reproach to our sex, that we were prone to be discomposed by trifles. Our business is among trifles; household occupations, to men engrossed by the sublime sciences, seem a tissue of trifles ; yet, as “trifles make the sum of human things,” so the comfort of a family is af- fected by the touching, or not touching, many minute springs, which like “a wheel within a wheel,” are of secret operation, but essential im- portance. Mrs. Sigowrmey. All the relations of llfe are interwoven with tri- fles, and unless the shuttle is plied with a skillful hand, the texture of the web will be full of knots, and of many discordant colors. Let all duly ap- preciate trifles; look at them closely, but let them be reflected by the sunbeams of charity, arranged and woven together by sound discretion, that an even and beautiful fabric may be presented before the gazing millions, at the great day of final ex- amination. L. C. Judson. TRINITY. The Trinity is purely an object of faith. Bowes. The doctrine of the Trinity is above reason. Gay. I hold the picture of the Trinity as blasphemous and utterly umlawful. H. Peacham. The Trinity signifies the divine essence and beau- titude of God in a Trinity of persons. St. Denis. The great fact of the Trinity in unity remains true and certain, though all men should deny it. Bishop Corrie. Trinity signifies the death, burial, and resurrec- tion of our blessed Savior, together with His being three days in the grave. St. Athanasius. The Trinity, as stated in the Scriptures and re- iterated by the Church, however above and beyond, is not contrary to human reason. Dean M’Neile. The whole Trinity concern themselves in man's recovery ; the Father contrives it, the Son lays the foundation of it in His blood, the Spirit prepareth the soul for the participation of it. Charnock. We cannot fail to determine that the doctrine of the Trinity was originally revealed to the hu- man race ; and has almost everywhere been con- veyed down both in their worship and their sacred traditions. T. Dwight. If the Trinitarian be urged to show in what way divine equality exists, or what degrees of supe- riority or inferiority, he answers with St. Paul, that God was manifest in the flesh ; but that with- Out controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. W. Gilpin. TRIUMPH. Triumph not over the weak. St. Jerome. The noblest of all triumphs is the victory of one's self. Plato. The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. T. Paine. What is the conqueror's triumph 2 A sea of tears for every drop of blood. Tasso. In ancient times the triumphs of the generals from victories were things able to inflame all men's Courage. Lord Bacon. Our glory is not yet revealed ; we are like war- riors fighting for the victory ; we share not as yet in the shout of them that triumph : even up in heaven, they have not their full reward. Spurgeon. We most readily forgive that attack, which af- fords us an opportunity of reaping a splendid tri- umph ; a wise man will not sally forth from his doors to cudgel a fool, who is in the act of breaking his windows by pelting them with guineas. Colton. Triumph is the finest thing in the world ; the “long live the king !” the hats in the air at the point of the bayonets ; the compliments of the master to his warriors : the visits of the intrenchments, the villages, and redoubts ; the joy, the glory, the ten- derness. But the foundation of all that is human blood and shreds of human flesh. Argenson. A R O S Z Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 963 TROUBLES. TROUBLES. Troubles cover the world. Kabūs. Men's happiness springs mainiy from moderate Every man has his turn of trouble. R. Hall. Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing. Lady Holland. To trouble a troubled man, is to re-double his pain. Thomas Fyens. He that would avoid trouble must avoid the world. Eusebius. If any one longs for trouble let him trouble others. Teofilo Folemgo. All our troubles proceed from their being unex- pected. Plutarch. Troubles are but so many instructors to teach men wit. St. Augustine. Anticipated troubles are harder to bear than real ones. E. Payson. Trifling troubles find utterance, deeply-felt pangs are silent. Seneca. When heaven sends down troubles, it bids us es- cape them. - Tae-Kea. Seek not useless trouble ; carry not a stone for want of a pack. Radir Mamshi. It is to God alone we can look for consolation in time of trouble. Abdal-Atiph. The true way of softening one's troubles is to solace those of others. Mme. de Maintenon. When the cock crows in the morning trouble is about to happen to the house. Tzchang-Shºwn-Chi. He must be very wise that can forbear being troubled at things very troublesome. Tillotson. An emperor's life may have more honor than that of a shepherd, but it has a thousand-fold more troubles. Constantime the Great. When our troubles arise from our foolish and in- discreet conduct, the blame can be imputed only to ourselves. Polybius. Men are born to trouble at first, and exercised in it all their days; there is a cry at the beginning of life, and a groan at its close. W. Arnot. There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. H. W. Shaw. O happy man being mortal, know that thou art born to trouble, in order that thou mayst suffer only in what is necessary, and not add to it by thy folly. Diphilus. Troubles spring from idleness, and grievous toils from needless ease, many without labor would live by their own wits only ; but they break for want of stock. Franklin. It is a distrust of God to be troubled about what is to come ; impatience against God to be troubled with what is present ; and anger at God to be trou- bled for what is past. Bishop S. Patrick. pointed, too self-evident. troubles, which afford the mind a healthful stimu- lus, and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits. E. Wigglesworth. Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the Oakfaster ; whilst an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it. H. More. Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that Smooth the road to a good man's fortune, of which he little dreams ; and many a man knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger. Basil. Were there a common bank made of all men's troubles, most men would choose rather to take those they brought than venture on a new dividend, and think it best to sit down with their own. Socrates. He who is constantly watching for troubles will find them stretching off into gloomy wildernesses, while he who is watching for blessings will find them hither and thither extending in harvests of luxuriance. Talmage. If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave : they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again, like the stone of Sisyphus. C. H. Spurgeon. We are born to trouble ; and we may depend upon it whilst we live in this world we shall have it, though with intermissions ; and therefore the true way to contentment is to know how to receive these certain vicissitudes of life. Sterne. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble car- ried them on its surface, as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom, as founder- ing ships sink; some have run away from their Own thoughts; some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference ; some have braved the trouble and defied it ; some have carried it, as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can over- grow and cover the old gash. H. W. Beecher. TRUISMI. Every trite observation is not a truism. C. Lamb. A truism misapplied is the worst of sophisms. J. C. Hare. Truisms are not always palatable ; they are too James Ellis. Truisms, of all things the plainest and sincerest, are forced to gain admittance in disguise and court us in masquerade. Felton. Half the noblest passages in poetry are truisms; but these truisms are the great truths of human- ity ; and he is the true poet who draws them from their fountains in elemental purity, and gives us to drink. Miss E. L. Landom. Little truisms often give the clue to long, deep, intricate, undismayed trains of thought, which have been going on in silence and secrecy for a long time before the commonplace result in which most meditations end, is expressed. H. W. Inwood. 964 JD A Y',S C O / / A C O AV. TRUST. Trust not till after trial. P. Aretin, Love all ; trust but a few. Shakspeare. To violate a trust is impious. Artabazws. There is blessedness in single trust. Powerscowrt. No one is deceived but he that trusts. Franklin. Whom can you trust, if not your wife? Braddom. Sudden trust brings sudden repentance. Jestym. If you are sincere people will repose trust in you. Confucius. Those who accept of a trust are responsible to honor. Micithws. He that trusteth to the world is sure to be de- ceived. St. Macariws. Trust, like the soul, never returns when it has once gone. Publius Syrws. Men do not covet trust solely to prove themselves trustworthy. Maria Maacwell. Trust not the praise of a friend, nor the contempt of an enemy. Veneroni. He who trusts to another to bring him food, will often go hungry. Wakatawki. The trust which we put in ourselves, causes us to feel trust in others. Rochefowcawla. He who trusts everybody is a fool ; he who trusts nobody is a bigger one. Pope Pius II. The soul and spirit that animates and keeps up society, is mutual trust. R. Sowth. Trust oftentimes engages fidelity, but fear and diffidence invite injuries. Anthony Holbrook. To trust is to rely with confidence in the pro- mises made to us by any One. A. Ritchie. When young we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Colton. If there is no mutual trust among men, there is an end of all intercourse and dealing. B. Gilpin. We should trust when we have a right to trust ; we should only fear when fear is a virtue. Rev. Dr. Hwebsch. A breach of trust evinces a want of that common principle which keeps human Society together. G. Crabb. Trust no man before thou hast tried him : yet mistrust not without reason ; it is uncharitable. R. Dodsley. Men are better known than trusted ; but if we knew some men more, we should trust them less. Rev. J. Caryl. Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all. Lavater. I can forgive a foe, but not a mistress or a friend ; treason is there in its most horrid shape, where trust is greatest | Dryden. TRUST. Every man's talents and advantages are a trust committed to him by his Maker, and for the use or employment of which he is accountable. Webster. If I refuse to trust the word of an honest man, I may reasonably expect that with me, at least, he will break faith at the earliest opportunity. J. G. Holland. I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do ; we may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. Thoreov. Unhappy the man who trusts a woman ; the best of them is at all times full of mischief ; they are a sex made for the destruction of the world. Molière. Trust men, and they will be true to you ; trust them greatly, and they will show themselves great, though they make an exception in your favor to all their rules of trade. J. F. Zacharia. Trust not any man with thy life, credit, or es- tate ; for it is mere folly for a man to enthrall him. self to his friend, as though, occasion being offered, he should not dare to become an enemy. Burleigh. Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust ; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause a consumption sooner in your poor estate, than that which is nearest your OWI). F. Osborne. Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate ; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond- slave to him that thou trusteth, and leave thyself always to his mercy. Sir W. Raleigh. All trust is dangerous, if it is not entire ; we ought on all occasions to speak all, or conceal all ; we have already too much disclosed our secrets to a man, from whom we think any one single cir- cumstance is to be concealed. Bruyère. A man that only translates, shall never be a poet : nor a painter that only copies ; nor a swim- mer that swims always with bladders ; SO people that trust wholly to others' charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor. Temple. Trust always gives pleasure to the man in whom it placed ; it is a tribute which we pay to his me- rit ; it is a treasure which we entrust to his honor : it is a pledge which gives him a right over us, and a kind of dependence to which we subject ourselves voluntarily. Rochefoucauld. It is not easy to determine whether it is more stupid and ridiculous for a community to trust it- self first into the hands of those who are more powerful than themselves, or to wonder after- wards that their confidence and credulity are abused, and their properties invaded. S. Croacall. We generally most covet that particular trust which we are least likely to keep. He that tho- roughly knows his friends, might perhaps with safety confide his wife to the care of one, his purse to another, and his secrets to a third ; when to per- mit them to make their own choice, would be his ruin. Colton. A R O S A. Q U O T A 7" / O M S. 965 TRUTH. TRUTH, Cultivate truth. Pittacus. He who seeks the truth should be of no country. Voltaire. Declare the truth. Memw. *-* OLLO!??”62 Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. Stand by the truth. R. M. T. Hwnter. ple, req £ hº Keep close to truth. Periander. The dignity of truth is lost with much protest- Truth is always plain. As-Shaft. ing. — Ben Jonson. Truth never perisheth. Seneca. st* like roses, º blossoms upon a º: Always speak the truth. Stephem. Allen. It takes many shovelsful of earth to bury the Truth is the edict of God. H. W. Shaw. truth. A. Vom Haller. Sir J. Reynolds. J. B. Scarella. One truth teacheth another. Truth is the child of heaven. Truth makes all things plain. Shakspeare. Truth is the daughter of God. J. Huarte. Truth lies in a small compass. Zimmerman. TO speak the truth is wisdom. Lokman. Endless is the search of truth. Sterne. Overcome falsehood by truth. Buddha. Nothing is so strange as truth. W. M. Hunt. I offer up my life for the truth. J. Hooper. Truth shall fear no open shame. Anne Boleyn, The language of truth is simple. Euripides. Nothing is so immutable as truth. Mrs. Macawlay. Truth is always straightforward. Sophocles. To die for the truth is true glory. J. Molliws. Great is truth, and it shall prevail. Cicero. Truth should embrace the universe. Napoleon I. It is truth that makes a man angry. Ariosto. Truth is the greatest bond of society. M. Willson. Truth blushes at nothing but secrecy. Tertulliam. It is truth that gives force to criticism. Edwards. Truth and oil will come to the surface. Acosta. Let truth come, and falsehood disappear. Mahomet. Truth enjoys serenely her own immortality. G. Bancroft. Heaven will not let the cause of truth perish. Confucius. Receiving a new truth is adding a new sense. Liebig. The greatest truths are commonly the simplest. Malesherbes. There is more truth than falsehood in the world. J. Elphinston. Some in opposing the truth are slain by the truth. Vergeriws. One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. Bulwer. Nothing is so old as truth ; nothing is so new as truth. Rev. J. F. Forester. Nature has completely hid truth in the bottom of a well. Democritus. The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. Marcellimws. The truth is not to be learned of every man's mouth. Sir T. More. Truth shines more brightly the more widely it is diffused. Wycliffe. The pursuit of truth can only cease when man is I10 IIlCI’e. Millengen. Truth alone can form the character and mould the mind. James Dowglas. Never accept anything as true, but what is evi- dently so. Descartes. Truth is discovered by discussion, study, and conference. G. Farel. One truth a man lives is worth a thousand he only utters. Epicharmws. We owe the greatest gratitude to those who tell us the truth. Moses Hemmenway. We should be willing to lose our lives in defense Of the truth, T. Cranmer. Truth is a pillar erected by God, and upholdeth the universe. J. Linen. There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult. Segwr. Truth is a mighty instrument, whatsoever hand. may wield it. Rev. J. Caird. Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely. Boileav. Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice. G. Lillo. I love truth, and wish to have it alwas spoken to me ; I hate a liar. Plautus. Truth is too precious a commodity to be wasted upon mere idolators. H. Cortez. Truly, I see he that will but stand to the truth, it will carry him out. G. Foac. Truth irritates those only whom it enlightens, but does not convert. Pasquier Quesnel. It is commonly said that truth is often eclipsed, but never extinguished. Livy. 966 Z) A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. TRUTH. Nature loves truth so well that it hardly ever admits of flourishing. ' Pope. Truth is the nurse of happiness; without her our ailments are incurable. Earl of Hardwicke. Truth, like the sun, can wait for the clouds of calumny to pass away. R. Barclay. Plead not for your mistress, the queen, but for your mistress, the truth. Queen Elizabeth. Truth, the mother of virtue, is painted in gar- ments as white as snow. A. Tooke. What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice. Demosthemes. Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all society. Casawbon. Truth stands sublime in its own immutability, like the everlasting rocks. Mrs. Willcù-cl. It is dangerous to follow truth too near, lest she should kick out our teeth. Sir W. Raleigh. Truth sometimes tastes like medicine, but that is an evidence that we are ill. J. Metz. Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any out- ward touch as the sunbeam. Milton. Truth does not do as much good in the world as its counterfeit does mischief. Rochefoucauld. When the truth is a sword, God's mercy some- times commands it sheathed. T. Tilton. No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. Lord Bacon. He that speaks the truth will find himself in suf- ficiently dramatic situations. J. Wilson. It is strange, but true; for truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Byron. Truth has a ladder and a hole ; it can ascend to heaven, or penetrate the earth. Abw-Ishak. Truth is only developed in the hour of need : time, and not man, discovers it. Bomalol. Supreme truths are the foundation on which re- pose the state of human society. Pope Leo XIII. Truth is born with us ; and we must do violence to nature, to shake off our veracity. St. Evremond. Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. Tillotson. Truth may be expressed without art or affecta- tion ; but a lie stands in need of both. N. Grew. Above all things, always speak the truth : your word must be your bond through life. Haliburton. Shuffling may serve for a time, but truth will most certainly carry it at the long run. L’Estrange. Truth, though it always lies between two ex- tremes, does not always lie in the middle. Niebuhr. TRUTH. Truth would be more popular with us if it pro- posed only to correct the faults of others. E. Bickersteth. Truth will be uppermost one time or another, like cork, though kept down in the water. Sir W. Temple. Truth is the offspring of unbroken meditations, and of thoughts often revised and corrected. W. Wollastom. To speak the truth is always the best policy : this I maintain to be the safest course in life. Memander. The man who loves truth with his whole heart, will love still more him who suffers for truth. Lavater. The usefullest truths are plainest : and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high. W. Penn. Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay : falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty. Tacitus. When truth offends no one, it ought to pass out of the mouth as naturally as the air we breathe. Stanislaws. Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God. Bosswet. If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense rather than the truth be concealed. St. Jerome. Speak the whole truth ; since for a freeman to be called a liar is a disgraceful stain on his charac- ter. Sophocles. In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing. Mme. de Sévigné. If new-got gold is said to burn the pockets till it be cast forth into circulation, much more may new truth. T. Carlyle. Truth may be presented in a repulsive form, and falsehood rendered pleasing if clothed in gilded terms. Al-Iraki. Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above . water. Cervantes. General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind ; it is the eye of TeaSOE). Rowsseaw. Truth is not always the best thing to show its face ; silence is often the wisest thing for man to Observe. - Pindarws. You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know all ; but let all you tell be truth. º H. Mann. The face of truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her. Shaftesbury. One great reason why truth is stranger than fic- tion is, because there is not half as much of it in the world. Northcote. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 96. 7 TRUTH. I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles, that could be trusted in matters of im- portance. Paley. Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomo- tive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. Amon. Truth is a torch, but a terrific one ; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched. Goethe. Those who imagine truth in untruth, and see untruth in truth, never arrive at truth, but follow vain desires. Dhammapada. Truth and physic, two unpalatable things, are never well received, though administered with a good intention. Lady Blessington. Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human Society. G. W. Thornbury. Truth is brought to light by time and reflection, while falsehood gathers strength from precipita- tion and bustle. Tacitus. Truths hang together in a chain of mutual de- pendence ; you cannot draw one link without at- tracting others. Glanvill. The greatest friend of truth is time ; her great- est enemy is prejudice, and her constant compa- nion is humility. J. Vermon. Truth is the firm basis of honor, and of every fundamental principle of morality ; it is the be- ginning of virtue. Miss Woodland. Truth is a good dog : but beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. S. T. Coleridge. Truth and reason are common to every one, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after. Montaigme. Truth pleases less when it is naked ; and is the only virgin in this vast universe whom one likes to See a little clothed. Boufflers. Truth is truth, if it fall from Satan's lips; and error ought to be rejected, though preached by an angel from heaven. R. D. Owen. I will be mindful of the truth, so long as I shall be able ; mayest thou grant me the truth ; tell me the best to be done. Zoroaster, According to the belief of the ancients, truth was the mother of virtue, the daughter of time, and queen of the world. Miss Henrietta, Dumont. Some modern zealots appear to have no better knowledge of truth, nor better manner of judging it, than by counting noses. Swift. Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render Himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul. Pythagoras. There is an invard state of heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated ; it is credi- ble to some men because of what they are. F. W. Robertson. TRUTH, The best thing in a law-suit is truth ; the next best thing is a lie boldly asserted, plausibly argued, and persistently adhered to. Aaron, Bwrr. The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away. N. P. Willis. Have patience awhile ; slanders are not long- lived. Truth is the child of time ; ere long she shall appear and vindicate thee. Kant. A strict adherence to truth, on little as well as on great occasions, is, though one of the most im- portant, the rarest of all virtues. Mrs Opie. Truth should be strenuous and bold : but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic. E. H. Chapin. Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faith- ful souls to make sure of their election. Julia Ward Howe. Those who pursue the stream of truth to its sources have much climbing to do, much fatigue to encounter ; but they see great sights. Eliza Cook. He that has truth on his side is a fool, as well as a coward, if he is afraid to own it because of the currency or multitude of other men's opinions. - De Foe. A valuable truth can never want the meretri- cious dress of wit to set it off ; this dress is a strong presumption of the falsehood of what it covers. Egerton Brydges. Truth is tough ; it will not break, like a bubble, at a touch ; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at eve- ning. O. W. Holmes. Truth comes home to the mind so naturally that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our me- mory. Fontenelle. Of all the duties, the love of truth, with faith and constancy in it, ranks first and highest. Truth is God ; to love God and to love truth are one and the same. Silvio Pellico. A truth which one has never heard causes the soul surprise at first, which touches it keenly ; but when it is accustomed to it, it becomes very insen- sible there. Nicole. Weigh not so much what men say, as what they prove ; remembering that truth is simple and naked, and needs not invective to apparel her comeliness. Sir P. Sidney. Truth is said to be eternal ; it is well it should be, for error so far outstrides its stately steps that we might therein fear whether truth would finally overtake it. Jefferson Davis. Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower. T. Poºrke?". 968 A) A Y',S C O / / A C O AV. TRUTH. Truth is serious and has few friends ; therefore love its simple and pleasing dress, because it gains both friends and disciples. Erwmmacher. Truthfulness is a corner-stone in character ; and if it is not firmly laid in youth, there will ever af- ter be a weak spot in the foundation. C. Mather. The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence whether they will or no. Cwdworth. Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will ; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil. Dryden. A man has no more right to utter untruths to his own disparagement than to his own praise. Truth is absolute; it is obligatory under all circumstances, and in all relations. Dr. Kitto. Some men are more beholden to their bitterest enemies than to friends who appear to be sweet- ness itself ; the former frequently tell the truth, but the latter never. Cato. Truth is a prevailing and conquering thing, and would quickly overcome the world, did not the earthiness of our dispositions and the darkness of our false hearts hinder it. Cudworth. The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul, when arranged in this their natural and fit attire. W. E. Channing. Men naturally speak the truth, when there is no counteracting motive to prevent it ; and unless Some such motive be supposed to supervene, they expect the truth to be spoken. F. Wayland. The triumphs of truth are the most glorious, chiefly because they are the most bloodless of all victories, deriving their highest lustre from the number of the saved, not of the slain. J. Fleming. Truth is not only a man's ornament, but his in- strument ; it is the great man's glory and the poor man's stock ; a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit. W. Menzel. Truth shudders in her palace of light as she be- holds men attempting to promote her interests by the employment of material forces. Truth sits not On a throne that is bristling with bayonets. - J. Parker. If we would but pledge ourselves to truth as heartily as we do to a real or imaginary mistress, and think life too short only because it abridges our time of Service, what a new world we should have l J. R. Lowell. Truth is so important, and of so delicate a nature, that every possible precaution should be employed to exterminate its violation, although the sacrifice be made to duties which supersede its obligation. J. G. Percival. The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so of- ten to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommen- ded as a virtue. Mrs. Elizabeth Fry. TRUTH. The grand, and indeed the only character of truth, is its capability of enduring the test of uni- versal experience, and coming unchanged out of every possible form of fair discussion. Herschel. Truth is the band of union and the basis of hu- man happiness ; without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friend- ship, no security in promises and oaths. J. Collier. The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble con- versation ; this is the love of all the charities ; the tree which springs from it may have a thousand branches, but they will all bear a golden and gen- erous fruitage. O. Dewey. In the discovery of truth, in the development of man's mental powers and privileges, each genera- tion has its assigned part ; and it is for us to en- deavor to perform our portion of this perpetual task of our species. Prof. Whewell. Though men may impose upon themselves what they please, by their corrupt imaginations, truth will ever keep its station ; and as glory is nothing else but the shadow of virtue, it will certainly dis- appear at the departure of virtue. Steele. Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever ; but as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth ; it is a sort of tem- perance, by which a man speaks truth with mea- sure, that he may speak it the longer. Burke. A writer who builds his arguments upon facts is not easily to be confuted ; he is not to be answered by general assertions or general reproaches; he may want eloquence to amuse and persuade, but speaking truth he must always convince. Junius. The torch of truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see : in a face dimpled with smiles, it has often discovered malevolence and envy, and detected under jewels and brocade the frightful forms of poverty and distress. Mulso. Truth commingled with wisdom, is an observa- ble union, as these qualities consort but rarely to- gether ; for he hath no wisdom who tells the plain truth, and he hath no need to tell the plain truth who hath wisdom enough to do without it. - W. S. Gilbert. Truth is the source of every good to gods and men ; he who expects to be blessed and fortunate in this world, should be a partaker of it from the earliest moment of his life, that he may live as long as possible a person of truth ; for such a man is trustworthy. Plato. The philosopher knows the value of truth — searches for it, meditates upon it, or communicates it to others; the wise man exhibits it in his life and actions. Truth, wisdom, reason, virtue, na- ture, are terms which equally designate what is useful to mankind. Dw Marsais. The study of truth is perpetually joined with the love of virtue : for there is no virtue which derives not its original from truth ; as on the contrary there is no vice which has not its beginning in a lie. Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies. Casawbon. P A O S Z Q Z/ O 7" A 7" / O M S. 969 TRUTH. - Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order ; far from us be the dangerous maxim that it is sometimes useful to mislead, to enslave, and to deceive mankind, to insure their happiness; experience has proved this a false truism. Laplace. Truth was the message which all great men had to communicate to the human race ; truth, the re- lation of things to one another and to us; they discharged properly their commission, and gave us truth, the jewel of the wise, the Sword in the fool's hand. G. Forster. Argument may be overcome by stronger argu- ment, and force by greater force ; but truth and force have no relation—nothing in common, no- thing by which the one can act upon the other ; they dwell apart, and will continue to do so till the end of time. Pascal. Every man is not a proper champion for truth, nor fit to take up the gauntlet in the cause of ver- ity ; many from the ignorance of these maxims, and an inconsiderate zeal for truth, have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. Sir T. Browne, Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation, because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves ; they will not advance their minds to the standard, therefore they lower the standard to their minds. Coltom. It is not the truth that a man possesses, or be- lieves he possesses, but the honest pains he has taken to get at truth, which makes a man's worth ; for it is not by the possession of truth, but by the search after it, that his powers are extended, in which alone his perfection consists. Lessing. As for all other things they are mortal and tran- sient : but truth alone is unchangeable and ever- lasting ; the benefits we receive from it are subject to no variations or vicissitudes of time and for- tune , in her judgment is no unrighteousness, and she is the strength, wisdom, power, and majesty of all ages. Masonic Marewal. Truth in conversation is a necessary point ; but is it for the sake of truth ? By no means. Truth is requisite only because a person habituated to veracity has an air of boldness and freedom ; in fact, a man of this stamp seems to lay a stress only on the things themselves, and not on the manner in which they are received. Montesquiew. A truth that is merely acquired from others only clings to us, much in the same way as a limb that is added to our body, a false tooth, a wax nose, or at most a nose that is made up of the flesh of an- other; a truth which we have acquired by our own mental exertions is like our natural limbs; they alone really belong to us. Schopenhaufer. We want such an access of truth that the general mind can be fed with a worthier conception of God, which will make every thought of Him in- spiring as the dawn of the morning, and will banish the superstition that this life is the final stage of probation as an insult to His plan of eternal edu- cation and a chimera of a barbarous age. King. TRUTH. Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance ; the appear- ance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so, upon some probable grounds. Shaftesbury. Each truth sparkles with a light of its own, yet it always reflects some light upon another; a truth, while lighting another, springs from One, in order to penetrate another. The first truth is an abun- dant sense, from which all others are colored, and each particular truth, in its turn, resembles a great river that divides into an infinite number of rivu- lets. Schewchzer. Truth has never manifested itself to me in such a broad stream of light as seems to be poured upon some minds ; truth has appeared to my mental eye like a vivid yet small and trembling star in a storm, now appearing for a moment with a beauty that enraptured, now lost in such clouds as, had I less faith, might make me suspect that the previous sight had been a delusion. • B. White. God is the Author of truth, the devil the father of lies; if the telling of a truth shall endanger thy life, the Author of truth will protect thee from the danger, or reward thee for thy damage ; if the telling a lie may secure thy life, the father of lies will beguile thee of thy gains, or traduce the Secu- rity; better by losing a life to save it, than by saving of a life to lose it ; however, better thou perish than the truth. F. Quarles. If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spi- ders, weave about each other But the contest between truth and falsehood is now pretty well balanced ; were it not so, and had the latter the mastery, even language would soon become ex- tinct from its very uselessness. W. Allston. Let the law which inculcates truth be supposed to be universally violated among every class of rational beings, and instantly all improvement in wisdom and knowledge would cease; nothing could be depended upon as fact but what was obvious to the senses of every individual ; Social compacts would be dissolved ; a mutual repulsion would en- sue, and every social affection and enjoyment would be unhinged and destroyed, and every ves- tige of virtue lost. T. Dick. I belive that nature herself has constituted truth as the Supreme Deity, which is to be adored by mankind, and that she has given it greater force than any of the rest ; for being opposed as she is on all sides, and appearances of truth so often pass- ing for the thing itself in behalf of plausible false- hoods, yet by her wonderful operation she insinu- ates herself into the minds of men ; sometimes ex- erting her strength immediately, and sometimes lying hid in darkness for a length of time; but at last she struggles through it and appears triumph- ant. Over falsehood. Polybius. 970 A) A Y'S CO Z Z. A C O AV. TRYING. I will try. Col. Miller. Trying is doing. W. J. Tenney. Do not think, but try. J. Hunter. Try ! I thank Heaven for that word ' R. Raikes. He who tries has already more than half suc- ceeded. Mrs. M. S. B. Dama. Trying to be what we cannot often prevents us from being what we ought. J. G. M. Ramsey. Try you may not succeed, it is true; but if you do not try you cannot succed. Clarke. It is more disgraceful never to try to speak in public, than to try it and fail : as it is more dis- graceful not to fight, than to fight and be beaten. Dr. Johnsom. Try to be something in the world, and you will be something ; aim at excellence, and excellence will be attained. This is the great secret of suc- cess and eminence. “I cannot do it,” never ac- complished anything : “I will try,” has wrought wonders. Hawes. TUITION. Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils. L’Estrange. No science is speedily learned by the noblest ge- nius without tuition. I. Watts. In the education of children, we should begin early the course of tuition, while the mind is pliant, and the age is flexible. Virgil. For parents to hope everything from the good tuition they bestow on their children, is an excess of confidence, and it is an equally great mistake to expect nothing, and to neglect it. Brwyere. Nature, if left to herself, is ever prone to run wild, and since there are hurtful and pernicious elements around us, as well as nourishing and sal- utary, pruning and sheltering, correcting and pro- tecting are also amoug the principal offices of tuition. J. C. Hare. A tutor should not be continually thundering in- struction into the ears of his pupil ; but after hav- ing put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open ; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accom- modate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil. Montaigme. Be very circumspect to whose tuition thou com- mittest thy child; every good scholar is not a good master. He must be a man of invincible patience and singular observation ; he must study children, and reason must rule him ; he must not take ad- vantage of an ignorant father, nor give too much ear to an indulgent grandmother ; the common good must outweigh his private gains, and his cre- dit must out-bid gratuities; he must be diligent and sober ; just without fierceness, and merciful, without fondness. F. Quarles. | TUMULT. Most of the giddy vulgar hate the tumult they COme to See. Seneca. By raising tumults among the people, dema- gogues ruin the state. Solom. A tumult is often improved into rebellion, and a government overturned by it. L'Estrange. In seasons of tumult and public distraction, the bold and desperate take the lead. Tacitus. It is the part of a just man, in the midst of a tumult, to conciliate the people, and punish the guilty. . . . Cicero. It is as difficult to control an excited populace in the midst of a tumult, as to extinguish a rolling flame. Euripides. As a small spark kindleth a flame, which in- creaseth in fierceness till great damage be done, so oftentimes a little discontent among the people pro- voketh a tumult, which ripeneth into sedition and bloodshed. Alfonso Ezquerra. Cool reason, which can alone establish a perma- ment and equal government, is as little to be ex- pected in the tumults of popular commotion, as an attention to the liberties of the people is to be found in the dark divan of a despotic tyrant. Washington. In a mighty crowd. when a tumult has arisen, and a shouting valetry rage, firebrands and stones fly, their fury supplies them with arms; then if it chances that they see some man of great influence by his piety and merits, they are silent and stand with listening ears ; he directs them by his words, and soothes their angry mood. Virgil. TWILIGHT. Imperfect is the twilight that precedes repose. G. Sandys. Nature hath appointed the twilight as a bridge to pass us out of night into day. T. Fuller. A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world A. Smith. Twilight is like death ; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morn- ing of immortality. James Ellis. In the calm twilight, when the world is half- veiled with the golden mirror of evening, the heart is soothed by the memory of those we love, and the soul is filled with adoration at nature's glorious work Annie E. Lancaster. Twilight is the time that wakes desire, and melts the heart of voyagers, when they have that day bid farewell to their dear friends, and that thrills the pilgrim newly on his way with love, if he from afar hears the vesper-bell, that seems to mourn the dying day. Damte. What heart has not acknowledged the influence of this hour, the sweet and soothing hour of twi- light, the hour of love, the hour of adoration, the hour of rest, when we think of those we love only to regret that we have not loved them more dear- ly, when we remember our enemies only to forgive them. Longfellow. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. TYPE. A type is a species of prophecy. Dr. Edersheim. A printer can make types glorify God. Adler. Types and figures best illustrate the character of Jesus Christ. G. R. Deisenberger. All the remarkable events under the law were types of Christ. H. Blair. Lead in the form of type is far more puissant than in the form of bullets. G. H. Calvert. A type is no longer a type when the thing typi- fied comes to be actually exhibited. R. Sowth. God Himself prescribes our sacred types, and will, in time, disclose their purport. Klopstock. The type is that species of emblem by which one object is made to represent another mystically. G. Crabb. A type is not only a resemblance of some future thing, but it was designed to resemble it in its ori- ginal constitution. Bishop Marsh. The resurrection of Christ hath the power of a pattern to us, and is so typified in baptism, as an engagement to rise to newness of life. Hammond. A type in the theological sense is well defined by systematic writers, to be a sign or example pre- pared and designed by God to prefigure some fu- ture thing. R. Watson. Our Savior was typified indeed by the goat that was slain ; at the effusion of whose blood, not only the hard hearts of his enemies relented, but the stony rocks and vail of the temple were shattered. Dr. J. Brown. A type is an action or occurrence in which one event, person, or circumstance, is intended to re- present another, similar to it in certain respects, but of more importance, and generally future ; the Scriptures describe a type as “a shadow of good things to come.” Nicholls. I like the click of the type in the composing stick of the compositor better than the click of the mus- ket in the hands of the soldier ; it bears a leaden messenger of deadlier power, of sublimer force, and of a surer aim, which will hit its mark, though it is a thousand years ahead '' E. H. Chapin. A type is a fact precedent to some other greater than itself, designed to prepare the way for it, and to be a voucher for it as pre-ordained and brought to pass by the Divine wisdom and power; it is the shadow of a coming truth projected far before it, showing its figure rather than its substance, its image, not its properties. G. Steward. The great importance of types is—that we can look back upon a regular connected series of reve- lations, originating at the creation of the world, and delivered in sundry ways, and by divers in- struments, and at various times, so that it was impossible to suppose any human concert, and yet all uniting to prefigure the advent and work of that great and glorious Savior in whom we trust. Beausobre. à TYRANNY. Tyranny is an exuberance of pride. Carneades. Tyranny often defeats its own aims. Gemovesi. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered. T. Paine. Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder. - J. Bentham. Tyranny has had a mighty sway over the desti- nies of men. J. M. Dowglas. There is this disease in tyranny, not to put con- fidence in friends. AEschylus. The worst kind of tyranny is that which inter- feres with liberty of conscience. J. Limen. A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags ; the rest is entirely out of fashion. Bwrke. While we trust in the mercy of God through Christ Jesus, fear will not be able to tyrannize OVel' Uls. R. Hooker. Tyranny is natural to man ; even the feeble de- sire to exercise it, not only over the feebler, but over those who are more powerful than themselves. Acton. Man, who dares enslave the world, when he knows that he can enjoy his tyranny but for a moment, what would he not aim at, were he im- mortal 2 R. Dodsley. Tyranny, in a word, is a farce got up for the en- tertainment of poor human nature ; and it might pass very well if it did not so often turn, into a tragedy. Hazlitt. Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practised by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny. Sir W. Blackstone. Power, unless managed with gentleness and dis- cretion, does but make a man the more hated ; no intervals of good-humor, no starts of bounty, will atone for tyranny and oppression. J. Collier. There is a natural and necessary progression, from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny ; and arbitrary power is most easily es- tablished on the ruins of liberty abused to licen- tiousness. Washington. It is strange to see the unmanlike cruelty of man- kind, who not content with their tyrannous ambi- tion to have brought the others' virtuous patience under them, think their masterhood nothing with- out doing injury to them. Sir P. Sidney. The barbarian by his stupid tyranny cuts him- self off from the varied charms and enjoyments, which grow out of the freedom of female society —and the absence of its elevating character ban- ishes refinement from his existence. A. Brisbane. The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wan- ton abuse of power is perceived ; the tyranny first exercised in the nursery is exhibited in various shapes and degrees in every stage of Our existence. Zimmerman. AD A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AW. TYRANT. Be no tyrant. Ptah Hotep. Tyrants are never safe. Sir Martin A. Shee. C. Cassius. J. Pym. A man may fear, but he cannot love a tyrant. Stockton. There is a dagger for every tyrant. Let a tyrant die that people may live. It is better to have one king than many tyrants. Cecile Remard. Is there no tyrant except he that wears a crown 2 Chenier. The tyrant, it has been said, is but a slave turned inside out. Smiles. Never forget that rebellion to tyrants is obe- dience to God. J. Bradshaw. The bodies of tyrants are generally embalmed in their own blood. Saadi. The world should not permit a republic to be op- pressed by a tyrant. Lowis Kosswth. Every tyrant is an enemy to freedom, and an Opposer of equal laws. Demosthemes. The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power. L’Estrange. It is easier to repress the advances of tyranny at first, than to destroy it when once established. Solom. It is in tyrants the greatest tyranny, that they of themselves will not live according to reason and justice. Fyroz Shah II. It is right to destroy a tyrant, and sacrifice self, if it saves the country and rids the world of a monster. Charlotte Corday. Tyrants, when living, are the terror of mankind; when dead, they are the objects of general con- tempt and scorn. J. Bate. A tyrant is but like a king upon a stage, a man in a vizor, and acting the part of a king in a play : he is not really a king. Milton. Clever tyrants are never punished ; they have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. Voltaire. Tyrants can sentence their victims to death, but how much more dreadful would be their power could they sentence them to life Colton. It is better to have one tyrant than a hundred ; one may demand two-thirds of all you possess; the hundred will pick you to the bone. T. Dwight. O Mighty Father of the gods ! vouchsafe to pun- ish cruel tyrants in no other way than this, that they see virtue and pine away at having forsaken her. - Persivs. There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny ; you may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. John Goodwin. TYRANT. He that by harshness of nature and arbitrariness of commands uses his children like servants, is what they mean by a tyrant. Sir W. Temple. Tyrants are rebels against the first laws of hea- ven and Society ; to oppose their ravages is an in- stinct of nature, the inspiration of God in the heart of man. J. Quincy. It is evident to all that a tyrant springs from a flatterer of the people, and that the shortest way for those who desire to enslave their country is to acquire power by the lowest demagogues. Dionysius. Consider those grand agents and lieutenants of the devil, by whom he scourges and plagues the world under him, to-wit, tyrants; and was there ever any tyrant who was not also false and perfi- dious? Dryden. The great designs that have been digested and matured, and the great literary works that have been begun and finished in prisons, fully prove that tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. Colton. The justest and more righteous men have ever held that a foreign enemy and a domestic tyrant in mowise differ ; that if it be lawful to set upon and repel the inroads of the one, it is also lawful to destroy the other. Sir R. Maltravers. Who can be happy : who can be blessed, drag- ging on a life full of terrors, and every moment in dread of violence 3 I would rather live happy in humble life than be a tyrant, forced to choose my friends from the wicked, and hating the good from fear of death. Euripides. So true is the saying of the great philosopher, the Oracle of ancient wisdom, that if the minds of tyrants were laid open to our view, we should see them gmashed and mangled with the whips and stings of horror and remorse. By blows and stripes the flesh is made to quiver; and in like manner, cruelty and inordinate passions, malice and evil deeds, become internal executioners, and with in- creasing torture and lacerate the heart. Tacitus. I have heard politicians and coffee-house wise- acrestalking over the newspaper, and railing at the tyranny of the emperor, and wondered how these, who are monarchs too in their way, govern their own dominions at home, where each man rules ab- solute. When the annals of each little reign are shown the Supreme Master under whom we hold sovereignty, histories will be laid bare of house- hold tyrants cruel as Amurath, Savage as Nero, and reckless and dissolute as Charles. Thackeray. If we should look under the skirt of the prosper- ous and prevailing tyrant, we should find, even in the days of his joys, such allays and abatements of his pleasure, as may serve to represent him mise- rable, even in the hour of his prosperity, and inde- pendent of his final infelicities; and although all tyrants may not have such accusing and fantastic consciences, yet all tyrants shall die and come to judgment ; and though such a man may be feared, he is not at all to be envied. “Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.” C. Buck. UGººº- n HOP EJ& A R O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 973 U. UBIQUITY. Ubiquity unto man, human nature admitteth not. R. Hooker. All things are essential to the vast ubiquity of God. Twpper. The ubiquity of God is not disputed by those who admit His existence. - R. Sowth. If you wish to behold the ubiquity of God, you may see Him in every object around. Metastasio. The science of mature proves ubiquity of God ; His knowledge is infinite ; He sees the end from the beginning. - S. Young. The ubiquity of God affordeth continual comfort and security, and this is the affliction of hell, to whom it affordeth despair and remediless calam- ity. Sir T. Browne. There are some men who are so ubiquitous in their conduct, that they wish to have a hand in everything, and be everywhere at the same time; they always appear busy about something, but ever end in doing nothing. James Ellis. |Ubiquity is an attribute of the Almighty alone ; man has a locality upon this earth, and he can oc- cupy Only one place at a time ; condemned spirits have their prison-house, whence there is no egress; but God is omniscient and omnipresent ; He sees, hears, and knows everything that is done by every- body, everywhere, and at all times. E. P. Day. TJGLINESS. Nobody's sweetheart is ugly. Wade. How expensive it is to be ugly Fanny Ferm. Some men's ugliness is hard to beat. Prentice. An ugly face spoils not a merry heart. J. J. Heidegger. Ugliness is a good preventive of jealousy. Jamál al Mulk. Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness. Mirabeaw. She who loves an ugly man thinks him hand- SOD162. Rucellai. Any woman who is not so ugly as to frighten one is handsome enough. E. P. Day. Ugliness makes a bad wife appear worse, but disappears in a good One. Moelmwo. Ugliness without tact is horrible ; it ought to be lawful to extirpate such wretches. N. Hawthorne. A good thing may come from an ugly person ; sweet juice exudes from the crooked sugar-cane. Kadir Manshi. There is nothing ugly for those who know the virtues and beauties of all the things which God has made. G. Ensor. TJG-LINESS. The ugliest face I ever saw, was that of a woman whom the world calls beautiful. Through its “sil- ver veil,” the evil and ungentle passions looked out hideous and hateful. J. G. Whittier. It has been generally my choice to mix with cheerful ugly creatures, rather than beauties who have charms enough to do and say what would be disobliging in anybody but themselves. Steele, An ugly face and the want of exterior generally increases the interior beauty ; we should do well to judge of women as of the impressions on medals, and pronounce those the most valuable which are the plainest. Chatfield. It is better to have an ugly face than an ugly mind ; mild manners and a pretty face are worth- less if we have a demon in the heart ; ugliness should never reach the soul ; a bodily disfigure- ment often covers the most gentle mind. James Ellis. Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty ; but degrees of it, more or less distinct, are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with whatever has the nature of virtue and of life. Ruskin. Ugliness is want of beauty ; but the outward ap- pearance of a man should have nothing to do with the edifice he constructs to live in ; this edifice con- sists in education. In the external show of dwell- ings there may be grace, beauty, and grandeur; but the richest furniture is all within. Rellogg. Both beauty and ugliness are equally to be dreaded, the one as a dangerous gift, the other as a melancholy affliction ; the one as the burning sun which scorches up immature fruits, the other as the cloudy, cold, bleak atmosphere which for- bids the buds and blossoms of the heart to open into ripeness and beauty. Eliza Cook. Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness ; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness to any uses. Ugliness I imagine likewise to be consistent enough with an idea of the sublime ; but I would by no means insinuate that ugliness of itself is a sublime idea, unless united with such qualities as excite a strong terror. Burke. Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person ; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it ; if her figure is de- formed, her face, she thinks, counterbalances it ; if they are both bad, she comforts herself that she has graces; a certain manner—a je ne sais quoi— still more engaging than beauty ; this truth is evi- dent from the studied dress of the ugliest woman in the world. Chesterfield. 974 D A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. TJNBELIEF. An unbeliever is one of Satan's courtiers. J. Hill. Unbelief differs specifically from superstition. Rev. C. F. Smarius. |Unbelief stops the current of God's mercy from running. T. Watson. |Unbelief does an inevitable service to the faith which it attacks. Camom, Liddom. Unbelievers are cut off from all claims to the benefits of Christ's death. C. Buck. There is no sin like unbelief ; all the poison of all the sins in the world are in it. Romaine. Unbelief takes place only on earth ; there is no such thing either in heaven or hell. Maclawrim. Modern unbelievers are deists in theory, pagans in inclination, and atheists in practice. A. Fatller. Unbelief is the occasion of all sin, and the very bond of iniquity ; it does nothing but darken and destroy. Fºrwmmacher. Unbelief of Divine Truth is a destitution of the only efficient principles by which the moral and spiritual life can be sustained. Shepherd. Unbelief not only blinds the eyes to the purity of the law, but deafens the ears to the music of the Gospel, and deadens the affections to the glories of heaven. W. Secker. As a child brought up in a dungeon cannot be- lieve when told of the beauties of the sun and the outside world, no more can the natural man the doctrines of religion. E. Foster. No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so ; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ. Charnock. The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the un- believer, who will not recognize God whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe. Hugh Miller. I would rather dwell in the dim fog of supersti- tion than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief; in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath. Richter. Men always grow vicious before they become un- believers; but if you would once convince profli- gates by topics drawn from the view of their own quiet, reputation, and health, their infideliy would soon drop off. Swift. The worst of unbelief is that which regrets the goodness of our Heavenly Father, and from which there springs in us a desire of breaking what we cannot bend, and of twisting wire after wire, and tying knot after knot, in his scourge. W. S. Landor. Unbelief among sins is as the plague among dis- eases, the most dangerous ; but when it riseth to despair, then it is as the plague, with the tokens appearing that bring the certain message of death with them. Unbelief is despair in the bud; des- pair is unbelief at its full growth. T. Wilson. TJNBELIEE'. How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts, when we are surprised to find our prayers answered, instead of feeling sure that they will be so, if they are only offered up in faith, and accord with the will of God A. W. Hare. There is but one thing without honor, Smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be— insincerity, unbelief. He who believes nothing, who believes only the show of things, is not in re- lation with nature and fact at all. T. Carlyle. There are various ramifications of the subtle spirit of unbelief ; these, with all their off-shoots and dependencies, grouped under the generic style of Infidelity, have girt themselves for the combat, and are asserting and endeavoring to establish their empire over the intellects and consciences of II].6]]. W. M. Pumshom. Train the understanding ; take care that the mind has a stout and straight stem. Leave the flowers of wit and fancy to come of themselves ; sticking them on will not make them grow ; you can only engraft them, by grafting that which will produce them. J. C. Hare. Unbelief does not of itself convey any reproach- ful meaning ; it depends upon the thing disbe- lieved. The Jews are unbelievers in the mission of our Savior; the Turks are infidels, inasmuch as they do not believe in the Bible ; Deists and Athe- ists are likewise infidels, inasmuch as they set themselves up against Divine revelation. G. Crabb. Unbelievers have not always been honest enough thus to express their real feelings; but this we know concerning them, that when they have re- nounced their birthright of hope, they have not been able to divest themselves of fear ; from the nature of the human mind this might be presumed, and in fact it is so ; they may deaden the heart and stupefy the conscience, but they cannot des- troy the imaginative faculty. R. Southey. It is a mistake to suppose an unbeliever has no belief. Examine the unbeliever's tenets, and it will be found that the creed of those who have no creed is somewhat as follows: I believe there is but one God ; I believe there are many gods; I be- lieve there is no God. I believe not in creation ; I believe in evolution ; the world was not created ; it was created by chance ; it was created by a con- course of atoms ; it always existed ; it created itself. I believe man has no soul ; man is a beast ; a beast has a soul; the soul dies with the body ; everything dies; nothing dies ; death is a blessing ; death is an evil. I believe not in religion : natural religion is the only true religion ; all religion is unnatural. I believe not in revelation ; I believe in tradition ; I believe in mythology ; I believe in spirit-rappings. I believe not in Moses, Isaiah, or Christ ; I believe in Osiris, Menu, Kristna, Ormusd, Buddha, Zeus, Jupiter; also in Zoroaster, Sanchoniathon, Confu- cius, Pythagoras, Mahomet, Swedenborg, Joanna Southcote, and Joseph Smith. I believe not in the Bible; I believe in the Shaster, the Vedas, Talmud, Zend Avesta, Koran, Age of Reason, Davis's Reve- lations, and the Book of Mormon. In short, I am orthodox in every kind of heterodoxy, and a firm believer in all unbelief. E. P. Day. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. TJNCERTAINTY. |Uncertainty is miserable slavery. Piozzi. Life is full of desperate uncertainties. Braddon. When law is uncertain, there is no law. Littleton. There is an uncertainty in all human affairs. J. Adams. All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain. Seneca. Uncertainty fell demon of our fears The hu- man soul that can support despair, supports not thee. D. Mallet. Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life; security is an insipid thing ; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. W. Congreve. As everything in the world is exposed to change, and all that is future is entirely above our control, we must naturally expect to find everything un- certain, but what we see passing before us. Crabb. Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles, and in im- portant things the contrary ; trifles make up exist- ence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action. C. M. Von Weber. TJINDERSTANDING}. Before you decide, understand. J. Maine. What we do not understand, we do not possess. Goethe. Understanding distinguishes man from the brute creation. Dionysius. He is the best diviner of dreams who is taught by his understanding. Cicero. The light of the understanding, humility kin- dleth and pride covereth. F. Qwarles. The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties. Glanvill. The will and understanding are the two enno- bling faculties of the soul. Seed. Understanding is seeing with eyes, and hearing with the ears, of the mind. M. Ficinºws. Common understandings, like cits in gardening, allow no shades to their picture. Shenstone. Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding. - Rochefoucauld. The pleasures of the understanding are prefera- ble to those of the imagination, or of sense. L. Murray. Recollect every day the things seen, heard, or read, which make any addition to your under- standing. I. Watts. We often understand ill what we think that we understand, and find ourselves led astray by ex- cessive ardor. Molière. TJNDERSTANDING." He who meditates on understanding as a Brah- man, reaches the world when there is understand- ing and knowledge. Chhāndogya Upanishad. I know no evil under the sun so great as the abuse of the understanding, and yet there is no one vice more Common. Steele. The man of understanding reasons only accord- ing to what he has learned ; but the man of genius according to himself. Lorraine. That understanding which we have of our Crea- tor, and of His works, and of our own selves, is the storehouse of all wisdom. A. Bzowski. The light which shows what is wrong and what is right, comes from the understanding ; this, in many cases, works as rapidly as an instinctive SëIłS6. Mrs. Willard. The improvement of the understanding is for two ends ; first, our own increase of knowledge ; Secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others. J. Locke. Men stand very much upon the reputation of their understandings, and of all things hate to be accounted fools ; the best way to avoid this impu- tation is to be religious. Tillotson. When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood ; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended. Lady Blessington. Cease to lean on your own understanding, for the wisdom of man is nothing else but the dictates of chance, whether that be considered Divine in- spiration or pure intellect. Menander. It is the same with understanding as with eyes; to a certain size and make, just so much light is necessary, and no more ; whatever is beyond brings darkness and confusion. Shaftesbury. The understanding, that should be eyes to the blind faculty of the will, is blind itself ; and so brings all the inconveniences that attend a blind follower under the conduct of a blind guide. Sowth. The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the sense ; for as you may see great objects through small cranies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instan- CéS. Lord Bacom. He who calls in the aid of an equal understand- ing doubles his own ; and he who profits of a supe- rior understanding, raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he unites with. Bwrke. By understanding, I mean that faculty whereby we are enabled to apprehend the objects of know- ledge, generals as well as particulars, absent things as well as present, and to judge of their truth or falsehood, good or evil. J. Wilkins. As in geometry the oblique must be known as well as the right, and in arithmetic the odd as well as the even, so in actions of life whoever seeth not the filthiness of evil, wanteth a great understand- ing to perceive the beauty of virtue. Sir P. Sidney. 97.6 AD A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. TJNDERSTANDING. TJNEASINESS. I use the term understanding, not for the noetic The greatest enemy to benevolence is uneasiness faculty, intellect proper, or place of principles, but of any kind. . J. Hinton. for the diamoetic or discursive faculty in its widest signification, for the faculty of relations or com- parisons; and thus in the meaning in which “Ver- stand” is now employed by the Germans. Sir W. Hamilton. In its wider acceptation, understanding is the entire power of perceiving and conceiving, exclu- sive of the sensibility ; the power of dealing with . the impressions of sense, and composing them into wholes, according to a law of unity ; and in its most comprehensive meaning it includes even sim- ple apprehension. S. T. Coleridge. Everythinker, writer, and speaker, ought to be apprised that understanding is the basis of all men- tal excellence, and that none of the faculties pro- jecting beyond this basis can be either firm or graceful ; a mind may have great dignity and power whose basis of judgment, to carry on the figure, is broader than the other faculties that form the superstructure. J. Foster. It is not proper to understand the intelligible with vehemence, but if you incline your mind, you will apprehend it ; not too earnestly, but bringing a pure and inquiring eye ; you will not understand it as when understanding some particular thing, but with the flower of the mind; things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things, but only the light-armed arrive at the sum- mit. Zoroaster. The several degrees of understanding which men possess, and its strength, are owing to their strength of constitution ; for if the least indisposition or ill- ness is sufficient to render the generality of men incapable of continued attention, and it is this con- tinued attention that increases the understanding, it must be evident that it is some insensible malady that creates incapacity, and that it does not arise from any other cause: nature gives an equal ca- pacity to all, and if one man have less than an- Other, it is owing to the disorder of our frame. Helvetius. TJNIDERTAIKING. What we undertake we should perform. Philo. It is easier to undertake than to retract, especially in momentous affairs. Zimmerman. He who does not succeed in his attempt, may yet fail in a glorious undertaking. Ovid. Undertakings, if begun without adequate means of bringing them to a conclusion, too frequently bring ruin by their failure on those who are con- cerned in them. G. Crabb. To commit no blunders in the execution of mighty undertakings is beyond the power of man ; but the wise and good learn from their errors and indis- cretion wisdom for the future. Plutarch. Before the undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh the danger, it is cowardice to neglect it: if the danger exceed the glory, it is rashness to attempt it ; if the balances stand poised, let thy own genius cast them. F. Quarles. The chief, if not only, spur to human industry and action is uneasiness. J. Locke. You hardly see a man who is not uneasy in pro- portion to his advancement in life. Steele. We may be said to live like those who have their hope in another life, if we bear the uneasiness that befall us here with constancy. F. Atterbwry. Men are dissatisfied with their station, and create to themselves all the uneasiness of want ; they fancy themselves poor, and under this persuasion feel all the pangs of poverty. S. Rogers. TJNFAITHFULNESS. Unfaithfulness is agonizing to truth. Bulwer. TJnfaithfulness is a fire-brand to innocent love. James Ellis. Unfaithful usages rob a man of the honor of his soul. Jeremy Taylor. The unfaithful woman, if she is known for such by the person concerned, is only unfaithful ; if she is thought faithful, she is perfidious. Bruyère. It will be found that all men who are unfaithful, tend to the decay of that which they are devised to support. The maxim that “honesty is the best policy,” is one which no one is ever habitually guided by in practice. R. Whately. He who acts unfaithfully acts against his pro- mises and engagements, and therefore denies and sins against truth: does what it can never be for the good of the world should it become a universal practice, does what he would not have done to himself, and wrongs the man who depends upon him of what he justly might expect. Wollastom. TJNFORTUNA TENESS. o Deride not the unfortunate. N. A. Calkins. Pretended friends shun the unfortunate. Seneca. The fool is not always unfortunate, nor the wise man always successful. Sawster. The least fault a man in distress commitS is a sufficient pretense for the rich to refuse him all assistance ; they would have the unfortunate en- tirely perfect. J. Pierpont. Those who think that they have great merit, take a pride in being unfortunate, that they may persuade others and themselves that they deserve to be the butt of fortune. Rochefoucauld. It is not becoming to turn from friends in adver- sity, but then it is for those who have basked in the sunshine of their prosperity to adhere to them. No one was ever so foolish as to select the unfor- tunate for a friend. Lucanus. Some are so unfortunate as to be ever running into troubles and difficulties ; their ill luck seems to ride them through a series of misfortunes, and in the meantime, like stumbling horses, the oftener they are spurred, the more they flounce along in the dirt, and the more trips they make. S. Croacall. A R O S A. Q U O Z' A T / O M S. 9 7 7 UNGODLINESS. To the ungodly there is no peace. R. Baacter. The life of an ungodly man is a continual death. Isfendiyār, A good sentence proceeding from an ungodly man's mouth loseth its grace. Herewald. The ungodly man is tainted in his sonl, while the man of an opposite character is pure. Plato. Ungodliness is the serpent of the soul, which spoileth men of their ornaments and heavenly ap- parel. Martin Azpilcueta. It is a praise to the godly to be dispraised of the ungodly ; and it is likewise a dispraise to be praised of them. St. Chrysostom. Let us stop the progress of ungodliness in Our soul at the first stage, for the farther it goes the faster it will increase. A. Fuller. I will never trust an ungodly man with an im- portant position ; for he that is false to God, can scarcely be true to man. Rev. R. Cecil. The ways to ungodliness are many and plain ; but to godliness there is but one; and that same is hard to find, because it is little trodden. B. Mayer. Should an ungodly and infatuated wretch, who cares for neither God nor man, be glutted with wealth, while the good are destroyed, ground down by pinching poverty ? Theognis. Of all the ingenious mistakes into which the un- godly have fallen, perhaps none have been so perni- cious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy. . . H. Ballow. *-* The difference between the godly and the un- godly is this: the one launches his bark in a place of broad rivers and streams, where the sure mer- cies of God strengthen his mast and full his sail : but the other plunges into the turbid waters of pleasure and dissipation. Dowmey. How can a man have the true faith, the sure trust and confidence in God—that by the merits of Christ his sins be forgiven, and he reconciled to the favor of God and to be partaker of the king- dom of heaven by Christ—when he liveth ungodi- ly, and denieth Christ in his deeds 3 Surely no such ungodly man can have this faith and trust in God | For as they know Christ to be the only Savior of the world, so they know also that wicked men shall not enjoy the kingdom of heaven. Cranmer. If thou dost persist and continue in ungodliness, it will finally sink and oppress thee under the un- supportable weight of His wrath, and make thee so weary of thyself that thou shalt wish a thou- sand times thou hadst never been ; and will render thee so perfectly miserable that thou wouldst es. teem it a great happiness to change thy condition with the most wretched and forlorn person that ever lived upon the earth, to be perpetually upon a rack, and to lie down for ever under the rage of all the most violent diseases and pains that ever afflicted mankind. - Tillotson. TJINGRATEFULINESS. Be not ungrateful to an old friend. Ben Syra. Ungratefulness shuts its own door. Bodirus. Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood. Sir P. Sidney. A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. Saadi. Men may be ungrateful, but the human race is In Ot SO. De Boufflers. One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are wretched. Publius Syrus. The earth produces nothing worse than an un- grateful man. Awsonius. To do good to an ungrateful person is to sow corn on the sand. John Banks. No man can be unjust or ungrateful without suf- fering for his crime. - Socrates. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable. La Fontaine. All the obligations you lay upon an ungrateful person are thrown away. S. Croacall. Among the many ways of being grateful there is one—not to be ungrateful. N. Macdonald. Ungrateful persons begin by underrating the benefits bestowed upon them. G. P. Morris. The ungrateful are neither fit to serve the gods, their country, nor their friends. 2&emophon. He that calls a man ungrateful, sums up all the evil that a man can be guilty of. Swift. To be ungrateful is to be unnatural; the head may be thus guilty, not the heart. Rivarol. It is no great misfortune to oblige the ungrate- ful ; but it is an unbearable one to be under an obligation to a knave. Rochefoucauld. TJngratefulness springs from a selfish mind ; self- interest and candor are seldom united together ; yet doubtless there are times when even the small- est favors are gratefully received. Acton. Nothing, in my opinion, is more base than an ungrateful man ; it is better to be extravagant than to be called ungrateful : good men will praise that, while even bad men will condemn the latter. Plautus. He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him ; he is ungrateful who conceals it ; he is ungrateful who makes mo return for it ; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. Seneca. There neither is, nor ever was, any person re- markably ungrateful who was not also insuffera- bly proud ; nor any one proud who was not equal- ly ungrateful. Friendship consists properly in mu- tual offices, and a generous strife in alternate acts of kindness ; but he who does a kindness to an un- grateful person sets his seal to a flint, and sows his seed upon the Sand ; upon the former he makes no impression, and from the latter he finds no produc- tion. R. South. — 62 978 A) A Y '.S CO /, / A C O AV. TJNHLAPPINESS. Unhappiness is only mortal. Unhappiness is one of the ills of life. Lady R. Russell. Biom. We are never so happy or unhappy as we ima- gine. Rochefoucauld. The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so. Kames. Why fly from the unhappy : Their state makes us more sensible of the value of the happiness we possess. Stanislaws. Happiness lies properly in the mind; we may be unhappy from slight circumstances, or from those which are important. G. Crabb. A perverse temper and fretful disposition will, wherever they prevail, render any state of life whatsoever unhappy. Cicero. Envious people are very unhappy, because the happiness of others torments them, as much as their own unhappiness. Agis. Man's unhappiness comes of his greatness; it is because there is an infinite in him, which with all his cunning, he cannot quite bury under the finite. T. Carlyle. They who have never known prosperity can hardly be said to be unhappy: it is from the re- membrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed. A. S. Mackenzie. Let us think sometimes upon unhappiness as we think of the character of persons with whom we find ourselves obliged to associate for a day. Re- flection gives an anticipated experience ; it gives unhappiness the air of novelty which renders it appalling. Droz. When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so ; and when some cala- mity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it ; nevertheless, both arrive ; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods. Epictetws. TJNIFORMITY. Uniformity is one of the laws of God. Darwin. Uniformity of manners make uniformity of mind. Amdie E. Lancaster. In uniformity there is not simple utility but economy. J. W. Bulkley. As a ship having a sure anchor may lie safe in any place, so the mind that is ruled by perfect rea- son is uniform in conduct. Enniws. There are certain ideas of uniformity which sometimes strike great geniuses, but infallibly make an impression on little Souls. Montesquiew. Uniformity in religion is not desirable ; it is by no means desirable, even if you could obtain it ; for one thing, it is very unbeautiful. T. Jones. As uniformity is one of the laws of the universe, regulating with unerring exactness its beautiful system of rotation, so should men's lives be uniform in goodness and virtue. James Ellis. TJINION. In union there is strength. Otho III. The union never wronged us. Hill. By union small things become great. L. Elzevir. In union is the essence of all goodness. Ricci. The force of powerful union conquers all. Homer. Union is sometimes better than learning. Emperor Matthias of Germany. Union gives firmness and solidity to the humblest aids. Laberiws. The union of benevolent minds is the nearest kindred. Publiws Syrus. Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable. D. Webster. A third something is produced by the union of two opposite forces. Pythagoras. Let the key-stone save the arch ; let the state rally to save the union. A. G. Cwrtin. By union the smallest states thrive and flourish; by discord the greatest are wasted and destroyed– come to the dogs. Sallust. In the glorious bond of union let us bind our- selves together, alike to one another and to Our Heavenly Father. St. Chrysostom. It is union that we want, not of a party for the sake of that party, but a union of the whole country, for the sake of the whole country. W. H. Harrison. There is no more strength in union than in num- ber ; witness the people that in all ages have been scurvily used, because they could so seldom agree to do themselves right. Halifaac. Union does everything when it is perfect ; it satisfies desire, it simplifies needs, it foresees the wishes of the imagination ; it is an aisle always open, and becomes a constant fortune. Senancowr. The union of Christians to Christ, their common head, and by means of the influence which they derive from Him, one to another, may be illustra- ted by the loadstone; it not only attracts the par- ticles of iron to itself by the magnetic virtue, but by this virtue it unites them one among another. , Rev. R. Cecil. An enchanting halo surrounds the word union, a harmonious euphony vibrates from its Sound ; it is the most mellow word in our language ; it was the watchword in heaven before this mighty globe was spoken into existence ; its melody still echoes there, and will through the rolling ages of eternity. L. C. Judson. Union is power; the most attenuated thread, when sufficiently multiplied, will form the strong- est cable. A single drop of water is a weak and powerless thing ; but an infinite number of drops united by the force of attraction will form a stream, and many streams combined will form a river; till rivers pour their water into the mighty Oceans, whose proud waves, defying the power of man, mone can stay but He who formed them. Salter. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 979 TJINION. Union was the arch on which they raised the strong tower of a nation's independence ; let the arm be palsied that would loosen one stone in the basis of this fair structure, or mar its beauty : the tongue mute that would dishonor their names, by calculating the value of that which they deemed without price. J. Sparks. How beautiful is the sight of the union of great minds, diversified though they may be in many points, and that diversity even obvious to obser- vers; but the union in high and noble sentiments is sd'strong and close, that the differences Only ap- pear as the back ground to a fine picture, giving greater prominence of expression to the leading characteristic of the scene. J. Bate. Let Christians make union their watchword, in the conflict with the man of sin ; let the members of every church cultivate it ; let every society, formed for the amelioration of man, cultivate it : let the students in our seminaries cultivate it ; let. its importance be impressed on the pupils in our primary schools ; and let parents teach it to their children by precept and example. G. Mogridge. Aaron and the vast multitude that surrounded him were united in the worship of the golden calf ; were they, therefore, right 2 The ten tribes that met at Bethel, were united as much as the two that met at Jerusalem. Satan and his angels are just as united as the angels in heaven are ; only, the union of the angels in glory is the concord of the holy, while the union of Satan and his host is the conspiracy of the damned. J. Cumming. Let us live in the constant enjoyment of union with the great Jehovah, and be prepared to enter into that heavenly union, where songs of eupho- mious symphony shall melt upon the soul, and “ Union | Union | Union l’” shall burst from the lips of countless millions, who commenced their union with God and the Lamb, before they left their tenements of clay ; mothers, teach your babes to lisp it ; it is the first word they should speak. J. L. A. de Quatrefages de Bréaw. Separate the atoms which make the hammer and each would fall on the stone as a snow flake ; but welded into one, and wielded by the firm arm of the quarryman, it will break the massive rocks asunder. Divide the waters of Niagara into distinct and individual drops, and they would be no more than the falling rain, but in their united body they would quench the fires of Vesuvius and have some to spare for the volcanoes of other mountains. Gwthrie. God is united to us and we are united to Him, not by any form of matter, not by physical con- junction or contiguity, but by the intersphering of soul-life ; it is that which knits us to Him ; our thoughts reach out and thread themselves to His thoughts, and thus bring us toward Him ; hence, God's union with men is not a shadow, is not a figure, is not a dream ; it is the statement of a fact as literal as any law in nature ; the union of sun- light with vegetables is not more real ; the flow of nourishing sap in fruits is not more literal than the interfusion and soul union of God's soul with men's. H. W. Beecher. UNITY. Unity preserves the state. Menenius Agrippa. Unity is the bond of comity. Panizzi. A breach of unity is a breach of peace. J. Bate. Unite in peace for happiness ; in war, for de- fense. St. Tammany. Take unity out of the world, and it dissolves into a chaos. * B. Holyday. The unity of God is a true and real, not figura- tive, unity. A. Clarke. Unity of feelings and affections is the strongest relationship. Publiws Syrus. Unity is the strength, and division the ruin of any body politic. Lord Bwrleigh. Divide and command is a wise maxim ; unite and guide a better. Goethe. Nothing is more pleasing to the gods than to see brethren dwell together in unity. Socrates. Let there be unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in all things. Melancthom. The number two hath by the heathen been ac- counted accursed ; because it was the first depart- ure from unity. J. Trapp. He who holds not unity holds not the law of God, holds not the faith of Father and Son, holds not the truth unto salvation. St. Cypriam. The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion ; the unity which does not de- pend upon the multitude is tyranny. Pascal. Unity of opinion, abstractly considered, is neither desirable nor a good ; although considered not in itself, but with reference to something else, it may be both. Colton. I think I am correct when I say that one of the most common laws of God's works is this—unity in variety ; unity of principle, but variety and manifoldness of manifestation and expression. T. Jones. Mark the unity in God, and then the associated peace ; look at the unity of His works, and then the peace which pervades them ; note the peace of a nation when united, the peace of a church when dwelling in harmony. J. Bate. The reason why the world lacks unity is, that man is disunited himself ; a life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understand her text, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause. R. W. Emerson. I know that there is one God in heaven, the Father of all humanity, and heaven is therefore one ; I know that there is one sun in the sky, which gives light to all the world. As there is unity in God, and unity in the light, so is there unity in the principles of freedom ; wherever it is broken, wherever a shadow is cast upon the sunny rays of the sun of liberty, there is always danger to free principles everywhere in the world. L. Kossuth. 980 AD A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. TJNIVERSE}. The universe is the essence of Deity. Xenophames. The universe is infinite and eternal. Metrodorus. The universe was evolved from chaos. H. Tuttle. The universe is the only Supreme Power. Evans. Our mind cannot comprehend the universe. L. Ocellus. This whole universe is one city—one common- wealth. Epictetus. Perchance, the universe would die, were not all things as they are. Tupper. The universe expands when Brahma wakes, and contracts when he sleeps. Memw. The universe is a book, and we have only read the first page if we have not been out of our own country. Clara Reeve. The great and mighty problem of the universe has been given to the whole human family for its solution. O. M. Mitchell. The universe, with its millions of worlds, proves the mighty power of God, and fills the human mind with awe and admiration. James Ellis. Pause for a while ye travellers on the earth, to contemplate the universe in which you dwell, and the glory of Him who created it. Mrs. S. Moodie. The power that extends over everything has ar- ranged the whole universe, compelling the most opposite matures to harmonize, and by these ensur- ing safety to all. Aristotle. Some say that the universe sprang from a “for- tuitous concourse of eternal atoms,” which having exhausted in infinite ages, infinite combinations, at last most opportunely fell into the present form. H. Rogers. This great universe, always more amazing in proportion as it is better known, raises in us so great an idea of its Maker, that we find our mind overwhelmed with feelings of wonder and adora- tion. Fontenelle. All this vast universe of azure and light, drawn from the bosom of nothing, and formed without matter, rounded without a compass, and turning without a pivot, have scarcely cost the expense of a word. Lemoine. Never was a human machine produced without many trials and many failures ; whereas the uni- verse, in all its endless complications, was perfect at its productions, perfected in the idea of its great Author, even from etermity. J. Maccwlloch. Is not God's universe a symbol of the God-like : is not immensity a temple ; is not man's history, and men's history, a perpetual evangel? Listen, and for organ-music thou wilt ever, as of old, hear the morning stars sing together. T. Carlyle. He that will consider the immensity of the uni- verse, and the great variety that is to be found in this considerable part of it which he has to do with, may think that in other mansions of it, there may be other and different intelligent beings. J. Locke. TJNIVERSE. Is it not a firmer foundation for tranquility to believe that all things were created, and are or- dered for the best, than that the whole universe is mere bungling and blundering—nothing effected for any purpose or design, but all ill-favoredly cobbled and jumbled together by the unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter ? R. Bentley. He who arranges and holds together the whole universe, in which are all things beautiful and good, and who preserves it always unimpaired, un- disordered, and undecaying, obeying His will swifter than thought, and without irregularity, is Himself manifested only in the performance of His mighty works, but is invisible to us while He is regulating them. Memophom. Men of even no extreme ardor of fancy, when once instructed as to the vastness of our universe, have yearned to know of the life and intelligence that animate and guide those distant regions of creation which science has so abundantly and so wonderfully revealed ; and have dared to dream of the communications that might subsist, and that may yet in another state of existence subsist, with the beings of such spheres. W. A. Butler. Innumerable strata of radiant stars, sparkling in parallel rows, and lost in immensity, seem to in- vest the universe like so many blazing zones, and to whatever point of the spacious arch our visual powers are directed, we are dazzled and over- whelmed by a series of successive and endless splendors ; we cannot even cast our eyes above us without feeling our minds expanded with admira- tion, and our hearts warmed with devotion. Basely. The universe, with all its splendors and magni- tudes, ascertained, conjectured, or possible, may be regarded, not as a vehicle, not as an inhabited form, or a comprehending sphere, of the Sovereign Spirit, but as a type which signifies, though by a faint, inadequate correspondence after all, that as great as the universe is in the material attributes of extension and splendor, so great is the Divine Being in the infinitely transcendent nature of spiritual existence. J. Foster. How numerous are the works of God . How glorious the starry sky How great our Creator | Millions of worlds declare His glory, and the intel- ligent beings which they contain acknowledge and adore their Maker. In what splendor will the di- vine perfections appear, the power of which ex- tends over a multitude of worlds, while Some falsely imagine it reaches only to the little globe which we inhabit ! What endless subjects for glorifying the Creator and Ruler of the universe. Sturm. All this visible universe is only an imperceptible point in the vast bosom of nature ; the mind of man cannot grasp it ; it is vain that we try to stretch our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we bring before the mind's eye merely atoms in comparison with the reality of things; it is an infinite sphere, of which the center is every- where, the circumference nowhere ; in short, the strongest proof of the almighty power of God is that our imagination loses itself in its conception. Pascal. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 981 TJNEINDINESS. |Unkindness has no remedy at law. Trajan. Even animals shun an unkind master. Bakewell. Unkindness cuts deeper than the sword. Rist. Leave not your home with unkind words. Valpy. As “unkindness has no remedy at law,” let its avoidance with you be a point of honor. H. Ballow. Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness ; that is, suffering in the bosom of others. J. Bentham. Not to requite one good turn for another is Counted a detestable unkindness, even among the heathen and the publicans. N. Udal. More hearts pine away in secret anguish for unkindness from those who should be their com- forters, than for any other calamity in life. Young. A cold, unkind word checks and withers the blossom of the dearest love, as the most delicate rings of the vine are troubled by the faintest breeze. E. Jesse. An unkind word from one beloved often draws blood from a heart, which would defy the battle- axe of hatred, or the keenest edge of vindictive satire. Miss Cynthia Taggart. He is unkind who denyeth to have received any benefit that indeed he hath received, he is unkind that dissimuleth, he is unkind that recompenseth not ; but he is most unkind that forgetteth. Sir T. Elyot. He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been for- ever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the low- est measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust. Ruskin. TJNLUCKINESS. By destiny, I am unlucky. Duke of Nerbia. It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Voltaire. He is indeed an unlucky person who never had any ill-luck. W. Stith. It is some comfort in ill-luck to know the worst of Our mishaps. Sir P. Sidney. An unlucky man heeds no counsel ; the lucky man needs none. Zoilus. The best account an unlucky event can be turned to, is for the sufferer to visit a person who has been more unlucky than himself. Kellogg. Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or unlucky man ; I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet ; I never act with them ; their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me ! Rothschild. TJNRIGHTEOUSINESS. Unrighteousness is the banner of Satan. Colemso. Every transgression of the law is unrighteous- IlêSS. R. Hall. Nothing is profitable to man that is founded in unrighteousness. . A. A. Phelps. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are as a floating cloud. Confucius. Unrighteous gains give short-lived pleasures, but afterwards lengthened griefs. Antiphanes. Though an unrighteous man die, the memory of his evil deeds shall live after him. Plato. He that is disposed to unrighteousness will never want occasions for committing evil. J. G. Jacobi. No one that is unrighteous has ever prospered, but hopes of safety never forsake the just. - Euripides. If you know a thing is unrighteous, use all dis- patch in putting an end to it. Why wait till next year 3 Mencius. |Unrighteousness may consist of a single unjust act, but more generally when applied to persons it denotes an habitual course of wickedness. N. Webster. The hope of the unrighteous vanishes in a mo- ment, like froth in tempest blown, or smoke before the wind; but the hope of the just remains un- changed; for God himself is their strength and hope. Metastasio. TJNTRUTHFUT,INESS. The friend of untruth is a bitter enemy. Acton. Above all things tell no untruth, no, not even in trifles. Sir H. Sidney. To discover truth is sometimes very difficult ; an untruth will discover itself. Cicero. A man may utter many untruths, yet the truth itself shall not be harmed thereby. C. Hammond. Our aversion to untruth is often but an imper- ceptible ambition to make our testimony consider- able, and to give our words a religious weight. Rochefoucauld. Untruth of itself reflects no disgrace on the agent; it may be unintentional or not. Children are apt to speak untruths for want of understanding the value of words. G. Crabb. TJNWILLING-TNESS, Unwillingness is the road to defeat. Voitwre. Services rendered with unwillingness are enti- tled to no thanks. A. Judson. Unwillingness to forgive indicates a disposition to revenge, which is restrained only by some im- perceptible inconvenience. Sir G. C. Lewis. If thou intendest to do a kind act do it quickly, and then thou mayest expect gratitude : a favor unwillingly conferred will ever cause ingratitude. Awsoniws. 982 AX A Y’.S. C. O Z Z A C O AV. TJPRIGHTNESS. TJSEFULINESS. Uprightness is better than creeds. J. Udall. Educate women for usefulness. Mrs. I. Graham. Upright and do right make all right. R. Walm. Usefulness is man's great duty. W. Chappel. The upright never get rich in a hurry. Marston. Usefulness is the truest wisdom. James Watt. Conscience rewards upright conduct with plea- SUII*e. J. M. Mason. The truly upright man is inflexible in his upright- IleSS. F. Atterbury. The upright man who commits mo crime requires no law. Antiphames. Man is born for uprightness ; if a man lose his uprightness, and yet lives, his escape from death is the effect of mere good fortune. Confucius. |Upright minds are like straight roads, which seem to the eye scarce half so long as those which wind artfully about ; but their true iength is found by nearer examination. Richter. Uprightness and innocency become every man well, but most public persons ; the throne and the pulpit, of all places, call for holiness, no more for example of good, than for liberty of controlling evil. J. Hall. He is upright who does not repent of his probity; he who seeks only self-gratification is not the up- right man, nor is he really honest ; the man who thinks but meanly of himself, shows that there is a just and honest nature in him. Plawtus. In the mind of an upright man thou wilt find nothing foul, inpure, or any sore skinned over ; nor will fate ever overtake him in a state of being that is imperfect, just as one may say of a tragic actor who leaves the stage before he has finished his part. Awreliws. Who lives as he wishes but the man who leads an upright life ; who rejoices in the performance of his duty: who has considered well and thought- fully the path of life he ought to pursue ; who does not submit to the laws from fear, but pays respect and Obedience to them because he considers that this is the most proper course ? Cicero. TJ REANITY. Urbanity is consistent with religion. Brown. Urbanity is acquired by associating with well- bred people. N. Webster. Without some tincture of urbanity, good humor falters. - L’Estrange. By the urbanity of our manners we render our- selves agreeable companions. G. Crabb. Urbanity itself, like the fair sex, has so many charms, it goes against the heart to say it can do ill. Sterne, The virtue called urbanity by the moralists, or a courtly behavior, consists in a desire to please the company. Pope. Poor wine at the table of a rich host is an insult without an apology; urbanity ushers in water that needs no apology, and gives a zest to the worst vintage. Zimmerman. Be useful if you would be respected. R. C. Coburn. Usefulness is opposed to selfishness. Berz, To outlive one's usefulness is a calamity. Tilton. Be always employed in something useful. Franklin. Unless what we do be useful, vain is our glory. Phoedrus. A life without usefulness is only an early death. Goethe. We are looking to the time when the useful shall be honorable. R. G. Ingersoll. How delightful to reflect on a useful life, when it is drawing to a close. Sir T. Gresham. Let us make happy the circle around us ; be use- ful as much as we may. Schefer. Since I am no longer useful on the earth, I Ought not to regret leaving it. Confucius. If a thing be good it should be known ; useful- ness consists in publicity. Dr. J. Gregory. Learn some useful art that you may be indepen- dent of the caprice of fortune. Cato. A wise legislator may gain himself attention and respect by the usefulness of his laws. Fémélom. Pursue what is useful to mankind ; you will thus satisfy them, and what is better satisfy yourself. G. H. A. Ewald. To separate the useful from the honest is impru- dent ; as if anything were really useful that is not honest. Socrates. Combine usefulness with agreeableness; what is useful must be mixed with the agreeable, and they must never be separated. Horace. To be truly useful, we must correct our own hearts, and keep our own garden free from weeds; without good examples, our precepts will be pow- erless. L. C. Judson. Usefulness is confined to no station, and it is astonishing how much good may be done, and what may be effected by limited means, united with benevolence of heart and activity of mind. Mrs. H. Cameron. How often do we sigh for opportunities of use- fulness, whilst we neglect the openings of Provi- dence in little things which would frequently lead to the accomplishment of most important useful- ness | G. Crabb. Whoever sincerely endeavors to be useful, and tries to do all the good he can, will probably do much more than he imagines, or will ever know, until the day of judgment, when the secrets of all hearts shall be made manifest. Miss Bowdler. A R O S / O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 983 TJSEFULINESS. TJSUIRPATION. Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness; Usurpers have no rights. Nero. it binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to —- º them ; it tends to the improvement of your own Accept not a usurper's gift. W. Aird. character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow. Sir B. Brodie. The usefulness of a man is not to be estimated by the length of time during which he is employed, but by the character of the resources, powers, qualifications, which he combines, and puts vigor- ously in operation, while he is engaged in any un- dertaking ; some men will be more useful in an hour than others will in a year. Anna H. Drury. Thousands of men breathe, move, and live, pass off the stage of life, and are heard of no more. Why Ž They did not a particle of usefulness in the world; and none were blest by them, none could point to them as the instrument of their redemp- tion ; not a line they wrote, not a word they spoke could be recalled, and so they perished ; their light went out in darkness, and they were not remem- bered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die, O man, immortal 2 Live for Something. Chalmers. See how men pervert the use of everything. Philosophy is, indeed, in herself a noble possession, and might be a very useful helpmate ; but as she might be troublesome if she meddled with the business of life, and nestled in their bosoms to bridle their passions, they have banished her to the far-distant heaven, there to employ herself in set- ting in order the planets, and counting their times and movements ; or rather, they trot her out to walk over the earth, that she may examine all that may be seen there ; in short, they employ her al- ways on things as far as possible from themselves. JFontenelle. TJSE. - A used key is always bright. Franklin. A little use soon reconciles us. W. Byrd. What is of no use is too dear at a gift. T. Yeates. Use can almost change the stamp of nature. Shakspeare. Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech. Roscommon. Money is made for use, not to put away in a chest. C. Vanderbilt. “What is the use of it 2" is the first question asked by almost everybody about almost every- thing. J. C. Hare. We should use everything in its proper place ; life, for instance, was given to us to use for the benefit of mankind, and it is our duty to make a faithful use of it according to our advantages and opportunities. James Ellis. I care for nothing ; I am of no use in the world. Philosopher of a day ! knowest thou not, thou canst not move a step on this earth without finding some duty to be done, and that every man is use- ful to his kind, by the very fact of his existence 2 T. Carlyle. A usurper is always distrustful of every one. Alfieri. The Savior was crucified in revenge for his re- proof of sacerdotal usurpation. W. Goodell. The usurpers of thrones inaugurate their acces- sion to power by acts of cruelty; they fear all and strike at all. James Ellis. When the people become ignorant and corrupt, then usurpation is an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found. James Monroe. Usurpation mostly takes place in a disorganized state of society ; and when the strongest prevail, the most artful and the most vicious individual invests himself with the supreme authority. - G. Crabb. None of those who gaze at the height of a suc- cessful usurper, are more astonished at his sudden elevation, than he himself who has attained it : but even he was led to it by degrees, since no man aspires to that which is entirely beyond his reach. Colton. Let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of . good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed ; the precedent must always greatly overbalance, in permanent evil, any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield. Washington. TJSURY. Let usury be punished. St. Damasus. Usury is wages without work. Rowssed wi Usury is the manifest sign of extreme impu- dence. St. Chrysostom. By usury, money is brought forth before it is be- gotten. Politewphºwia. High usury and bad security generally go to- gether. T. B. Macaulay. Usury changeth those that are free-born into bond-slaves. Publiws Syrus. It is the borrower not the lender that declaims against usury. E. P. Day. Usury is the nurse of idleness, and idleness the mother of evils. Jean Ursins. Usury taketh away the title of gentry, because it delighteth in ignobility. Sir W. Killigrew. A usurer is more dangerous than a thief ; to be a usurer is to be a man-slayer. Cato. The usurer is the great sabbath breaker, because his plow goeth every Sunday. J. Horroac. Money borrowed upon usury bringeth misery, although for a time it seem pleasant. Psellºws. Societies, like individuals, are on the road to ruin when they run in debt, and have recourse to the usurer. A. Brisbane. AD A Y'.S C O / Z A C O A . ------------ ----- The usurer lives upon the labor of the indus- trious ; he eats his bread in the sweat of another man's brow. J. Collier. No kind of people in the world are so notorious livers, nor use so much to falsify their faith in all practices, as usurers. Plutarch. Inordinate desire of wealth is the spring of usury ; and usury subverteth credit, good name, and all other virtues. Jamblicws. Borrowing money on usury is like burning your house to warm yourself by the fire; it is effective for a time, but ruinous in the end. L. S. Ives. A usurer serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood , keeps you in the sub- junctive ; and ruins you in the future Addison. The usurer would be very well satisfied to have all the time annihilated that lies between the pre- sent moment and the next quarter-day. Steele. Usury bringeth the treasury of a realm into few hands ; for the usurer being at uncertainties, at the end, most of the money will be in the box. Lord Bacon. Poverty and the precariousness of property ren- der usury natural, each person raising the value of his money in proportion to the danger he sees in lending it. - Montesquiew. The law of usury is punishing a man for making as much as he can of his money, although he is freely allowed to make as much money as he can ; usury is rent for money, as rent is usury for land. Chatfield. |Usury is an unlawful gain got by an unlawful mean ; it doth not only gnaw the debtor to the bones, but also sucketh out all the blood and mar- row from him, engendering money of money, contrary to the intent for which money was first made. Tertullian. Do not go to a usurer with any request too soon in the morning, before he has taken in that day's prey ; for his covetousness is up before him, and he before thee, and he is in ill-humor ; but stay till the afternoon, till he be satiated upon some borrower. T. Fuller. The men of most credit in our time are the usur- ers, for they credit most men ; and though their greatest study be security, yet it is usually their fortune to be fullest of care ; time is precious to them : for they think a day broke to them is worth a brokerage to their creditor. A. Warwick. Probably the best mode of completely destroy- ing the curse of usury would be simply to let credit alone ; to leave each man's credit to stand solely on its own bottom, without any attempt by legis- lation to strengthen or weaken it : and to perpetu- ally prohibit the law from ever interfering in any shape with any contract of debt, either to enforce or to annul it : this would make all debts what all debts should be, debts of honor; it would prevent the man of doubtful ‘honesty, whatever might be his wealth, from obtaining very extensive credit: and it would enable the honest man, however poor, to obtain as much credit as he ought. J. H. Hwnt. . UTILITY. Be, in morals, a utilitarian. A. J. Boyer. Utilizing crime savors of civilization. Clemens. Utility is the truest test of excellence. Solom. Man was created to utilize everything. Dumas. Nothing is more useful to man than those arts which have no utility. Ovid. Things should be estimated by their utility, and persons by their usefulness. J. Ivimey. Persons purchase articles for their utility, and retain them when they are found serviceable. G. Crabb. Friendship is certainly productive of utility, yet utility is not the primary motive of friendship. W. Melmoth. No rank, station, dignity of birth, or any posses- sions, exempt men from contributing their share to public utility. L. Murray. Utility should be considered in all our expenses : even the very amusements of a man of fortune should be founded in it. B. Gilpin. Utility is in everything the truest of principles, though more intelligence and liberality than be- long to a low state of civilization are necessary to its just appreciation. R. W. Griswold. With respect to utility, we shall find on a minute inquiry, that the primary object of all who seek it is safety ; with regard to pleasure, love is entitled to the first place ; and as to honor, no one will hesitate is assigning the same pre-eminence to vir- tue. Acton. Utility is the watchword of modern times, the ruling spirit which insinuates itself into the heart of public and private deeds ; destructive of taste, offensive to pride, inimical to privilege, the utili- tarian influence is uncompromising, but not always unjust. W. Flagg. Utility is now the world's god, and the many worship at its modern shrine. Beauty is one form of truth, utility, another ; and though they now seem inconsistent with each other, they must agree, though the mind has not yet appeared, in our day, able to reconcile nature with society, ideality with reality, and make usefulness redolent of beauty and goodness. G. Mogridge. TJXORIOUSINESS, Uxoriousness should be better understood. Rae. An uxorious husband deserves a wife well toch- ered. - Goethe. An uxorious husband makes a scolding wife ; and an over-fond parent a spoiled child. Dowmey. An uxorious husband If there ever was such a human on this earth, he must have left it immedi- ately after the honeymoon. Fanny Ferm. There would be a large number of uxorious hus- bands if there were women to be found with com- mon sense enough to appreciate them. Lancaster. VOLTAIRE, A R O S F O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 4 * V. "VACATION. Welcome, vacation. J. N. McElligott. Why should not conscience have vacation ? Rae. Esteem not vacations as periods of leisure mere- ly, for which there are no duties. J. W. Barker. A student often acquires more useful knowledge in vacation than during term time. D. B. Ross. Vacations from study are no less important to the scholar, than periods of rest to the laborer and mechanic. J. Spencer. The institution of Sabbaths, holidays, and festi- vals, among all nations of the earth, goes to prove that vacations, or periods of rest from bodily or mental toil, are among the very necessities of our being. F. W. Fairholt. If thou art wearied with wrestling on the broad arena of science, leave awhile thy friendly foe, half vanquished in the dust, refresh thy jaded limbs, return with vigor to the strife ; thou shalt easier find thyself his master, for the vacant interval of leisure. Tupper. Blessed be the man who invented vacations ! Deeply as I am interested in education, much as I am attached to the young men whom Providence places under my instruction, and much as I find of interest in the sciences which it falls to my lot to teach, yet the annual return of the Summer vaca- tion is always expected with pleasure and hailed with welcome. L. Larrabee. V.A.G.R.A.N.T. . A vagrant is everywhere at home. Martial. An honest man is seldom a vagrant. Cato. The true vagrant is the only king above all com- parison. Lessing. The earth produces in numbers, vagrants, so artful to deceive, as to elude detection. Homer. Vagrants, beggars, rogues, and brigands, are per- sons in open rebellion against industry, laws, morals, and customs. A. Brisbane. To make sturdy vagrants relieve themselves, to hinder idle hands from being mischievous, are things of evident use. F. Atterbury. Beware of those vagrants who are homeless by choice ; you have no hold on a human being whose affections are without a top-root. R. Sowthey. Vagrancy cannot easily be suppressed ; I have often been imposed upon by beggars; but I have made it a rule never to withhold charity when I cannot discover a cheat. T. Dwight. Vagrancy is the result of idleness, for there are more vagrants from choice than from necessity ; if the benevolent would close up every avenue for their relief, they would be compelled to return to the legitimate paths of industry. James Grant. TVAIN-G LORY. Eschew vain-glory. Antoninws Piws. Do not struggle vain-gloriously. Rabbi Iechiel. Vain-glory is a flower that never comes to fruit. Anthony Mwnday. The vain-glorious man wears his fortunes upon his back. R. Sowth. The vain-glory of the proud man is soon turned to infamy. Sallust. A vain-glorious man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself. Brwyère. The vain-glorious boaster faileth most in per- formance ; for deeds are silent. T. Killigrew. From a vain-glorious doctor, and a contentious pastor, the Lord deliver His church. Lºwther. There are persons who would lie prostrate on the ground, if their vain-glory did not hold them up. Philip Doddridge. Expose every blast of vain-glory, every idle thought, to be chastened by the rod of spiritual discipline. Jeremy Taylor. The vain-glorious man doth feign things to be which are not, or maketh them to appear greater than they are. Aristotle. The vain-glory of this world is a deceitful sweet- ness, a fruitless labor, a perpetual fear, a danger- ous honor: her beginning is without Providence, and her end not without repentance. F. Quarles. Some intermixture of vain-glorious tempers puts life into business, and makes a fit composition in grand enterprises and hazardous undertakings: for men of solid and sober natures have more of the ballast than the sail. Lord Bacon. That tumor of a man, the vain-glorious Alexan- der, was used to make his boast that never any man went beyond him in benefits ; and yet he lived to see a poor fellow in a tub, to whom there was nothing that he could give, and from whom there was nothing that he could take away. Seneca. "VALET. A valet is a servant who rules his master. Willis. He is the best served who can act as his own valet. Lowis Phillippe. No great man ever appeared great in the eyes of his valet. V. Knoac. A valet lives well, without the least uneasiness; he sleeps undisturbed by any thought of butcher or baker; the condition of a valet is a perfect sine- CUII*ē. A. R. Le Sage. The valet is bound to his master in mind and body; his mind, like his clothes, is not his own, and his services are used in the most degrading offices. Barbara Hofland. 986 A) A Y’.S. C. O Z Z A C O AV. VALOR. VALOR. |United valor must succeed. Otho III. Valor is the best reward ; it is valor assuredly º — that surpasses all things else ; our liberty, safety, Valor and might win at last. R. Bruce. life, estate, parents, country, and children are by Valor doth become an emperor. Cham-Chi. this preserved and defended : valor comprises Valor that parleys is near yielding. I. Yarrow. Valor is the first virtue of a general. Omosander. Valor can do little without discretion. Quitman. Valoris the contempt of death and pain. Tacitus. We commend valor, even in an enemy. Quesne. Valor leads to victory, and victory to glory. Agnes Sorel. Valor wins a crown, and valor must protect it. Zingis-Khan. A valorous heart prays to the gods for noble WB.I’. Man-yo-shiw. True valor braves danger without neglecting re- SOUll"CeS. Stanislaws. True valor protects the feeble, and humbles the oppressor. L. Murray. Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice. Agesilaws. ** True valor is like honesty, it enters into all that a man sees or does. H. W. Shaw. A worthy woman loveth that her husband should perform deeds of valor. Panthea. The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness. Cervantes. The valiant, with the point of his spear, wins stately castles for his brides. Ibn Al-Kóbisi. Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor : if they be done to us, to suffer them is valor too. Ben Jonsom. True valor is not shown by fighting against weak persons, but in being able to overcome the most hardy. Antipater. All the means of mortal valor comes from the gods; they make men to be wise, mighty in deeds, and eloquent in language. Pindoºrws. I love the man that is modestly valiant, that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose ; a con- tinued patience I commend not. Feltham. True valor should not hesitate to draw the Sword on all honorable occasions, armed with fair hopes of success, and whatever may be the result, to bear with resignation the will of Providence. Demosthemes. Valor gives awe, and promises protection to those that want heart or strength to defend themselves; this makes the authority of men among women, and that of a master-buck in a numerous herd. Sir W. Temple. The love of glory, the fear of shame, the design of making a fortune, the desire of rendering life easy and agreeable, and the humor of pulling down other people, are often the causes of that valor so celebrated among men. Rochefoucauld. everything in itself ; all blessings await the man who is possessed of valor. Plautus. If thou desire to be truly valiant, fear to do any injury ; he that fears not to do evil, is always afraid to suffer evil : he that never fears is desper- ate ; and he that fears always is a coward ; he is the true valiant man that dares nothing but what he may, and fears nothing but what he ought. F. Quarles. Valor hath its bounds, as well as other virtues, which once transgressed, the next step is into the territories of vice, so that, by having too large a proportion of this heroic virtue, unless a man be very perfect in its limits, which upon the confines are very hard to discern, he may unawares run into temerity, obstinacy, and folly. Montaigne. When a man is brought up honorably he feels ashamed to act basely ; every one trained to noble deeds blushes to be found recreant ; valor may be taught, as we teach a child to speak, to hear those things which he knows not ; such love as the child learns he retains with fondness to old age—strong incitements to train your children well. Euripides. "V.A.T.T.J.E. Value ! T. Carlyle. What is value 3 Value is an accidental property. G. F. Graham. He who values his gold more than his God is ac- cursed. James Ellis. The value of a thing is to be estimated by what it is worth in money. J. Bowvier. We seldom place a proper value upon anything only when it is lost to us. Annie E. Lancaster. A mind valuing his reputation at the due price, will repute all dishonest gain much inferior there- unto. Carew. Let nothing in the world be of any value with you, but that which you can turn into a service to God, and a means of your future happiness. Law. The value of a thing is estimated from the ad- vantages supposed to be derived from it, and depends very much upon time, place, and circum- stances. E. P. Day. The value of a thing is as variable as the humors and circumstances of men ; it may be nothing or something very great in the same object, at the same time, in the eyes of different men. G. Crabb. Rings make men as they do pieces of money ; they put what value they please on them, and we are compelled to receive them according to the value put on them, and not according to their true worth. Rochefoucauld. When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it, as if it were a real defect ; to be elated or vain upon it is show- ing your money before people in want. C. Cibber. A R O S A. Q. U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 98.7 VANITY. Follow not after vanity. Dhammapada. Do not make a parade of your vanity. Diogenes. Vanity has no greater foe than vanity. Recorde. Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. Mme. Swetchine. To be vain is rather a mark of humility than pride. Swift. O, how true it is, there can be no tete-a-tete where vanity reigns ! Mme. de Girardin. Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. Pope. Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. Mrs. Jameson. Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. Steele. Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. Montesquiew. Guard against that vanity which courts a com- pliment, or is fed by it. G. Chalmers. To be a man's own fool is bad enough ; but the vain man is everybody's. W. Penn. When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it. L’Estrange. There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity. Washington. Vanity indeed is a venial error; for it usually carries its own punishment with it. Jwnints. To feel vanity on account of anything, is prov- ing that we are not accustomed to it. Boiste. The most violent passions have their intermis- sions ; vanity alone gives us no respite. - Rochefoucauld. Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs and chuck us over. F. Marryatt. Take from mankind their vanity and ambition, and where would be the heroes and patriots 2 Seneca. It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity, be- cause impossible to divest one's self of self-love. H. Walpole. Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret. F. Quarles. Vanity is the foundation of the most ridiculous and contemptible vices—the vices of affectation and common lying ! Adam Smith. There is no limit to the vanity of this world, each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it. H. W. Shaw. Vanity does not always ruin a man ; John Adams was vain, yet he was a patriot, a scholar, and a great and good man. E. P. Day. VANITY. Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man ; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him. Sir P. Sidney. If most married women possessed as much pru- pence as they do vanity, we should find many hus- bands far happier. J. Belknap. A vain man can never be altogether rude ; de- sirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others. Goethe. Alas for human nature, that the wounds of vanity should smart and bleed so much longer than the wounds of affection 1 T. B. Macawlay. Never expect justice from a vain man ; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect. W. Allston. Vanity is the fruit of ignorance ; it thrives most in subterranean places, never reached by the air of heaven and the light of the Sun. J. W. Ross. As well try to fill the yawning chasm with a few grains of sand, as satisfy the gulf of the Soul's desires with the vanities of an empty world. Rev. J. R. Macduff. Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity ; even the toad thinks himself good-look- ing ; “rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye l’” J. Wilson. There are some vain persons, that whatsoever goeth alone, or moveth upon greater means, if they have never so little hand in it, they think it is they that carry it. Lord Bacon. Vanity is a strong temptation to lying ; it makes people magnify their merit, over-flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance. J. Collier. Lies of vanity are undoubtedly the most com- mon lies ; because vanity is one of the most power- ful springs of human action, and is usually the be- setting sin of every one. Mrs. Amelia Opie. If vanity have power to stir up our liberality in order to be seen of men, how shall faith encour- age our bounty, in knowing we are seen of our Savior, and accepted by Him. J. Hall. Vanity lives on the commendations of others, but pride is supported by self-respect ; hence the vain pine in solitude, while the proud retain their self-reverence and are satisfied. Lady Blessington. Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world. Lord Greville. Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous ; but why do we need her instructions ? Ask the comedian who is taught a part which he does not feel. Sterne. There is not a folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid of except vanity ; of this no- thing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it. - Rousseaw. 988 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. VANITY. Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a cowp de main, the cita- del of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart. Colton. Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it. Addison. It is in general the natural refuge of mortified vanity, to persuade itself that it retorts contempt upon those that show it, and to pass off upon itself the anger it feels, for the more dignified passion of SCOTI). G. Mogridge. Let us thank God for imparting unto us poor weak mortals the inestimable blessing of vanity ; how many half-witted votaries of the arts—poets, painters, actors, musicians—live upon this food, and scarcely any other. W. M. Thackeray. Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others ; what a virtue we should distill from frail- ty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs. Bulwer. Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb ; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of a huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as he goes. W. G. Simms. Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions for their own sake, that these passions are more capable of mixture than any other kinds of affection ; and it is almost impossible to have the latter without some degree of the former. Hwme. He has not observed on the nature of vanity who does not know that it is omnivorous—that it has no choice in its food—that it is fond to talk even of its own faults and vices, as what will excite surprise and draw attention, and what will pass at worst for openness and candor. Burke. This life is a scene of vanity that soon passes away, and affords no solid satisfaction but in the consciousness of doing well, and in the hopes of another life ; this is what I can say upon experi- ence, and what you will find to be true when you come to make up the account. J. Whitecross. How much I regret to see so generally abandoned to the weeds of vanity, that fertile and vigorous space of life in which might be planted the oaks and fruit trees of enlightened principle and virtu- ous habit, which growing up would yield to old age an enjoyment, a glory, and a shade. J. Foster. Vanity is the weakest and most vulnerable point of human nature, and well does Satan know it, and most deeply should we deplore it ; it was the wicket gate of Eden, through which the arch ene- my entered, and took mother Eve's citadel of in- nocence ; he tried the same plan with our Savior, but was foiled in his base attempt to snatch the last ray of hope from our race. L. C. Judson. VANITY. When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more ac- complished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation ; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those be- neath you, that you may learn contentment. J. Moore. I give vanity fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity, among the other com- forts of life. Franklin. O vanity how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises 1 Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity : some- times of generosity ; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue. Fielding. Charms which, like flowers, lie on the surface and always glitter, easily produce vanity ; hence women, wits, players, soldiers, are vain, owing to their presence, figure, and dress ; on the contrary, other excellences which lie down like gold, and are discovered with difficulty—such as strength, pro- foundness of intellect, virtue, and morality—leave their possessors modest and proud. Richter. Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, sutler, cook, street porter, vapor and wish to have their admirers; and philosophers even wish the same ; and those who write against it wish to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it wish to have the glory of having read well ; and I who write this have perhaps this de- sire ; and perhaps those who will read this. Pascal. False modesty is the last refinement of vanity ; it causes a vain man not to appear so, and makes him be esteemed for the virtue, the very opposite of the vice, which is the basis of his character ; it is a lie. False glory is the rock on which vanity is wrecked ; it leads us to wish to be esteemed for things which are really found in us, but which are frivolous and unworthy of being noticed ; it is a mistake. Bruyère. VARIANCE. A mere variance may become a war. Garafalo. * Shameful is the variance betwixt man and man. J. Thomson. Without a spirit of condescension, there will be an everlasting variance. N. Webster. Let no unhappy variance arise from trifling dif- ferences of opinion among the followers of Christ, J. A. Clark. Set not any one doctrine of the Gospel at vari- ance with others, which are all admirably and truthfully consistent. T. Sprat. If the learned would not sometimes submit to the ignorant, the old to the weaknesses of the young, there would be nothing but everlasting va- riance in the world. Swift. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 989 VARIETY. Variety is the source of joy. J. Gay. Variety is the very spice of life. Cowper. There is a grace in wild variety. W. Mason. Variety is an enemy to monotony. J. Paaston. Nothing is agreeable that lacks variety. P. Syrus. Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. - R. Sowth. Nothing is more remarkable in nature than its variety. H. Blair. In the several parts of nature there is an infinite variety. Burke. The eye is pleased with the beautiful varieties of nature. Virgil. Beriodical variety is the want of the soul as well as of the body. C. Fowrier. Variety is pleasing to all persons, but to none so much as the young and the fickle. G. Crabb. As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies. Pliny. There is a variety in the tempers of good men, with relation to the different impressions they re- ceive from different objects of charity. Atterbury. Man differs from man ; generation from genera- tion : nation from nation ; education, station, Sex, age, accidental associations, produce infinite shades of variety. T. B. Macaulay. How nature delights and amuses us by varying even the character of insects; the ill-nature of the wasp, the sluggishness of the drone, the volatility of the butterfly, the slyness of the bug S. Smith. In the works of nature, rich and magnificent, variety prevails ; and in works of art that are con- trived to imitate nature, the great art is to hide every appearance of art ; which is done by avoid- ing regularity, and indulging variety. Rames. The heart has often been compared to the needle for its constancy ; has it ever been so for its varia- tions 2 Yet were any man to keep minutes of his feelings from youth to age, what a table of varia- tions would they present how numerous ! how diverse ! and how strange A. W. Hare. Variety has been called the spice of life, that gives it all its flavor ; hence many people use so much spice that everything becomes artificial, and nature no longer borrows blessings from variety, which must be governed by discretion, and made subservient to the wants of nature ; not those of a vitiated taste and pampered appetite. L. C. Judson. If order in objects is necessary, variety is so also: without this the soul grows languid, for objects which resemble each other appear to it to be the same ; thus histories please us by the variety of relations, romances by the variety of prodigies, theatrical pieces by the variety of passions ; and they who properly instruct us vary as much as they can their form of instruction. J. Hinton. VEG-ETATION. Vegetation is the life of nature. A. C. Fraser. Vegetables have neither intellectual nor sensitive faculties. Montesqview. Vegetables administer to our pleasure as a re- ward for what we do for them. S. T. Gºmelin. Vegetation may exist without animal life, but the existence of animals depends on the life and growth of plants. J. L. Blake. Vegetable food tends to preserve a delicacy of feeling, a liveliness of imagination, and acuteness of judgment seldom enjoyed by those who live principally on meat. Graham. When I consider the great number and variety of vegetables, I discover in this circumstance, as in everything else, the beneficent views of my Creator. What indeed could He propose by cover- ing the earth with so many different herbs, plants, and fruits, but the advantage and happiness of His Creatures 2 Sturm. Every green thing loves to die in bright colors: the vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph, and not a sadness ; it is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms. H. W. Beecher. The earth is a machine which yields almost gra- tuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil : in the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth on all the rolling main ; the plant is all suction-pipe, imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might. R. W. Emerson. TVENERATION. We should always venerate the aged. Aristotle. A good preacher venerates the gospel that he teaches. R. H. Garnham. We ought to venerate all truly good men while living, and to revere their memories when they are dead. G. Crabb. We find a secret awe and veneration for one who moves about us in a regular and illustrious course of virtue. Addison. The places where saints have suffered for the testimony of Christ, are rendered venerable by their death. R. Hooker. It seems to me remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred of the bad. Dr. Johnson. Men will have the same veneration for a person who suffers adversity without dejection, as they will for demolished temples, the very ruins of which are reverenced and adored. W Rathbone. Veneration is the highest degree of respect and reverence ; respect mingled with some degree of awe ; a feeling or sentiment excited by the dig- nity and superiority of a person, or by the sacred- ness of his character, and with regard to place, by its consecration to sacred services. N. Webster. 990 A) 4 ) 'S CO Z / A C O AW. VENGEANCE. VER, ACITY. Vengeance has no foresight. Napoleon I. Question not a friend's veracity. Rothschild. Vengeance is true happiness. Fulvia. It mortifies a man to doubt his veracity. Kane. Vengeance is the coward's weapon. Cyaacares. The truth of the story is admitted upon the ve- The noblest vengeance is to forgive. J. Howell. racity of the narrator. G. Crabb. Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. Alfieri. Vengeance comes not openly, but steals silently and imperceptibly. M. L. Weems. Neither reason nor force can hinder a woman from vengeance, when she is impelled thereto by love. Margaret Lambrºwn. Vengeance, though with halting foot, seldom fails to overtake the villain proceeding on his course of wickedness. Horace. Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for the wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day ? Robespierre. Vengeance advances slowly and with languid steps; but though tardy and halting in its course, it is bound to reach its object with an iron grasp. James Ellis. The bright eye of vengeance sees and punishes the wicked ; if you have committed iniquity you must expect to suffer ; for vengeance with its sa- cred light shines upon us. Sophocles. Whoever thinks he can go on committing sin without the knowledge of the gods, acts foolishly ; he will be overtaken, when vengeance finds leisure, and will suffer for all his former misdeeds. Euripides. Vengeance advancing boldly will not strike you —be not afraid—in front, nor any other wicked man ; but creeping silently and with slow low foot, will grasp the scoundrels when she falls in with them. - Jw'vemal. I am acquainted with the ways of fate ; it may be inconsistent ; a secret may come forth from the silence of night ; and sometimes the long patience of the gods makes vengeance descend upon us, though with slow steps. Voltaire. Vengeance does not necessarily follow because a man has sustained an injury ; nor is power sure of its end because it is full of Sanguine expectations. Fortune hangs up, in general, her unsteady bal- ances, which, while little dependence can be placed upon it, yet gives us most useful hints; for, as we have thus a wholesome dread of each other, wead- vance to the contest with thoughtful premedita- tion. Thwcydides. It is not the act of a wise man to bring his affairs into danger for the mere purpose of gratifying his vengeance ; there is no shame in waiting patiently for contingencies and accidental circumstances to obtain it : nay, it is highly censurable to allow our- selves to be carried away by our indignant feelings before a proper opportunity offers ; and in affairs of state it is particularly disgraceful when loss is caused by the imprudence of our conduct. Guicciardini. Veracity is the correspondence between a pro- position and a man's belief ; truth is the corres- pondence of the proposition with fact. Robertson. Artists have too much facility of invention to be altogether reliable in matters of veracity, and even if they resist the temptation to invent, it is unrea- sonable to expect them to refrain from coloring. Bovee, A man who has gained a reputation for veracity will not be discredited, although he should utter that which is false ; but he that would make use of a reputation for veracity to establish a lie, would set fire to the temple of truth with a fagot stolen from her altar. Colton. TVERSIFICATION. The warm soul delights in verse. Szigligeti. There is pleasufe in versification. E. Fairfaac. Verse is the true field of romance. R. Green. True verse is the soul's thought placed in rhythm. James Ellis. Versification is in poetry what color is in paint- ing, a beautiful ornament. J. Glamºvill. Many writers of verse seem to think that the art of poetry consists in pinning butterflies on blotting- paper. Kames. There seems to be no peculiar adaptation of the rhythm or verse to the subject, whether grave or gay, which custom and association may not con- quer. Chatfield. WEXATION. Vexation craves death. Sww.arrow. A wise man will bear with vexations. Kirriya. The high and the low have the same vexations. Pascal. We bear with more ease what we are ashamed of than what we are vexed at. Plawtus. Certain people keep themselves all day long full of vexation beforehand, for Some coming event or other. Richter. There is no vexation to which there will not be one day an end ; no situation in life which does not give place to another. Confucius. Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations; the smallest and most incon- siderable annoyances are the most piercing ; as small letters weary the eye most, so also the Small- est affairs disturb us most. Montaigme. . The poor man seeth not the vexations and anx- ieties of the rich : he feeleth not the difficulties and perplexities of power ; neither knoweth he the wearisomeness of leisure ; and therefore it is that he repineth at his own lot. R. Dodsley. P R O S E Q U O T A T / O AV S. 991 VICE. VICE. Eschew vice. Cleobw:ws. Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. Colton. Abstain from vice. Thales. sº- g If vice cannot solely be eradicated, it ought to be Vices are seldom single. R. Hall. Swift. Vice consorts with folly. R. Green. A vice is a spoiled virtue. Erigena. Vice is a fit object of satire. Eupolis. Ever strive to suppress vice. Emperor Ven-Vam. Vice is but a nurse of agonies. Sir P. Sidney. Every vice has its punishment. Beccaria. Discourage vice in every shape. Washington. Refrain not from exposing vice. As-Sawdda. Private vices are public benefits. Mandeville. Vice is the true object of hatred. Abbé Mulois. He that spares vice wrongs virtue. G. B. Mably. The vices of some men are magnificent. C. Lamb. Vices are oftener habits than passions. Rivarol. Vice is learned without a schoolmaster. R. Qwiz. There will be vices as long as there are men. Tacitus. Vices are as contrary to themselves as to virtue. A. Fuller. Vice and virtue meet and pass every hour of the day. J. T. Headley. Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to ex- CéSS. Dickens. A few vices are sufficient to darken many vir- tueS. Pluto'rch. No one ever reached the climax of vice at one leap. Jwvenal. Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its gross- IlêSS. Burke. Vice is a plant that bears pain and misery as its fruit. Cornwell. When vice is united to fortune she changes her I18, IOle. Thomas Naorgorgws. I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue. Molière. What maintains one vice would bring up two children. Franklin. Vice is fed and gathers strength by its very con- cealment. Virgil. When our vices have left us we fancy we have left them. Rochefoucauld. Be at war with men's vices, but at peace with their persons. Erishna. Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend. Publius Syrus. Vices and virtues are blended in the breasts of all the sons of men. Hövamdºl. confined to particular objects. It has been my constant aim in all my writings to lash vice, but to spare persons. Martial. Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild. J. C. Hare. Vice should be discountenanced and reproved, whetherit be among the priests or laity. John Bale. No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least. Horace. If I want to get at the true character of a man, I study his vices more than I do his virtues. H. W. Show. Vice is a course of action or habit of life which is harmful to the actor, or wrongful to others. R. G. White. Vice is never the offspring of just knowledge; and they who say it is, slander their own nature. R. D. Owen. The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors; and those of the poor and lowly for crimes. Lady Blessington. Vices are about us, not to lure us away, or make us morose, but to remind us of our frailty and keep down our pride. R. H. Dana. No wisdom can remove the natural vices of the body or mind; what is infixed or inbred may be allayed by art, not subdued. Seneca. A single vice, thrown aside only because it was worm out, is often considered a valid set-off against all those that we still retain. Chatfield. Long careers of vice, that prosper even in their epitaphs, make cemeteries seem ridiculous, and death anything but a leveller. J. Weiss. A love of vice as such, a delighting in sin for its own sake, is an imitation, or rather an exemplifi- cation of the malice of the devil. R. Sowth. The vices operate like age ; bring on disease be- fore its time, and in the prime of youth, leave the character broken and exhausted. Juinius. It is a secret cowardice which induces us to com- pliment the vices of our superiors, to applaud the libertime, and laugh with the profane. L. Murray. There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches. Pascal. Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies; if each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on. R. Whately. We cannot use others as ministers to our vices, without rendering the corrupt, and frequently in- flicting an incurable wound upon their moral na- ture. F. Wayland. 992 Al A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AW. VICE. The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number ; so blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved. Colton. Vice or virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world : sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world. I. Watts. Vices have their place in nature, and are em- . ployed to make up the warp in our piercing, as poisons are useful for the preservation of our health. Montaigme. People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off ; it is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself. Hazlitt. © The vices are never so well employed as in com- bating one another ; tyranny and servility are to be dealt with after their own fashion, or they will triumph over those who spare them. Anne C. Lynch. There will be nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits ; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires; every vice has reached its zenith. Juvenal. When I see children growing up in vice, drinking in corruption like water, I conclude they are under the direction of a bad engineer ; the wrong valve is opened ; they are in danger of ultimate ruin. Wolfgang Kempelen. Say everything for vice which you can say, magnify any pleasure as much as you please, but do not believe you have any secret for sending on quicker the sluggish blood, and for refreshing the faded nerve. Sidney Smith. A full mind is the true pantheism, plena jovis. It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door, be able to say, “No room for your ladyship, pass on.” Bwlwer. What we call vice in our neighbor may be no- thing less than a crude virtue ; to him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a dia- mond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone. W. G. Simms. He who spares vice or apologizes for it in the places of the world, wrongs virtue in every place; he helps the good to look upon it leniently, and thus to lower the tone of morality within them- selves; he assists the bad to make it respectable, and thus to give them warrant and license in its imitation, and evenin its emulation. J. G. Holland. If people had no vices but their own, few would have so many as they have. For my own part, I would sooner wear other people's clothes than their vice ; and they would sit upon me just as well. I hope you will have none ; but if ever you have, I beg at least, they may be all your own : vices of adoption are, of all others, the most disgraceful and unpardonable. - Chesterfield. VICE. I know that the path of virtue is straight and marrow, and the road of vice broad and spacious. I know also that their ends and resting-places are different ; for those of vice, large and open, end in death ; and those of virtue, marrow and intricate, end in life, and not in life that has an end, but in that which is eternal. Cervantes. Bid early defiance unto those vices which are of thine inward family, and having a root in thy temper plead a right and propriety in thee; raise timely barriers against those strongholds built upon the rock of nature, and makes this a great part of the militia of thy life ; delude not thyself into imiquities from participation or community, which abate the sense but not obliquity of them. Sir T. Browne. As when you see an asp in a golden casket, you do not esteem that asp happy, because it is enclosed in materials so costly and so magnificent, but des- pise and would shun it, on account of its venom ; so when you see vice lodged in the midst of wealth and the swelling pride of fortune, be not struck with the splendor of the materials with which it is surrounded, but despise the gross alloy of its man- ners and sentiments. Epictetus. Vice is truly an offense against taste, as well as against morality ; whatever is morally wrong is in bad taste. All decent men admit this of low vices; they justly esteem them vulgar. The same is strictly true of all immoralities; they are all in bad taste ; had this fact been universally regarded, the world would have been spared many of those vices which have disgraced the fine arts ; but let us not despair of the time, when a thoroughly cor- rect and chastening taste will unite with conscience in the condemnation of vice. H. Winslow. Generally, virtue is imagined to be all asperity, vice all delight : virtue to be placed amidst thorns, vice to be reclining on a bed of flowers. Yet, if we were able to look into the hearts of men, immersed in vicious indulgence, our doubts would speedily vanish. Only look at those unhappy beings, and it will be found that nothing can equal the agita- tion of their countenance, the frenzy of their ac- tions, and the inconsistency of their speech ; many are the torments that disturb the enjoyment of their pleasures; their own conscience, a domestic enemy, an unavoidable guest, though ungrateful, is always there, mingling with the nectar which they are drinking, Benito Feyjoo. Vice has its sinks and shallows, as well as its riv- ulets and mighty streams: sometimes it insinuates itself gently, like fine rain, into our very feelings and principles; and then again it sweeps every- thing before it like a surging and overwhelming tide; few persons are unacquainted with occasional vices; but to see those vices reduced into a system —framed into a regular code of practice, and Con- stituted into a rule and method of daily life, to be the means, and the only means, of furnishing sus- tenance and apparel—of procuring a livelihood, or of opening the way to luxury and affluence—when vice is thus systematized and rendered doubly powerful, no spectacle can be more atrocious, de- grading, and abominable. Acton. | i A A' O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. WICIOUSINESS. When we become vicious we are lost. Vega. Man can receive instruction even from the vi- cious. Erwmmacher. The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their masters. Diogenes. The hatred of the vicious will do you less harm than their conversation. R. Bentley. Reject the society of the vicious ; shun the agree- able infidel and the accomplished profligate. W. Gresley. It is more difficult to convince the vicious that virtue exists, than to persuade the good that it is I’8.I’e. Lady Blessington. Rings ought to shun the company of the vicious, for the evil they commit in his company is ac- counted his. Plato. The vicious man lives at random, and acts by chance ; for he that walks by no rule can carry on no settled or steady design. Tillotson. Whoever, allured by riches or high rank, mar- ries a vicious woman, is a fool; for an humble yet modest partner is better in our house than a noble Olle. Ewripides. A man must either imitate the vicious, or hate them ; both are dangerous ; either to resemble them because they are many, or to hate many because they are unresembling. Montaigne. He who is vicious not only acts contrary to his nature, but contrary to the highest impulse of his nature ; that is, he acts as much in opposition to his nature as it is possible for us to conceive. F. Wayland. In the present enlightened state of society it is impossible for mankind to be thoroughly vicious; for wisdom and virtue are very often convertible terms, and they invariably assist and strengthen each other. Colton. How blind to consequences is the love of vicious indulgence . The future is disregarded ; the pre- sent allures us to a short-lived enjoyment, and lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path. Clawdian. If, besides the accomplishments of being witty and ill-natured, a man is vicious into the bargain, he is one of the most mischievous creatures that can enter into a civil society. Though a man can- not abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious. Addison. Vicious habits are so great a stain to human na- ture, and so odious in themselves, that every per- son actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he was sure they would be concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them. Cicero. We outlive most of our pleasures, and very often most of our friendships; but it would be fortunate for us if we could outlive our viciousness, which too often remains, or does not abandon us so readi- ly or so abruptly as more precious things, which we would prefer to retain. Acton. t i VICISSITUDES. The life of man is full of vicissitiºqes. Diphilus. Strange, indeed, are the vicissitudes of human life. C. Buck. Time sets its vicissitudes before us, for our in- struction. Ruzzik. If we had no vicissitudes of fortune we could not appreciate happiness. James Ellis. The fashions of human affairs are full of vicissi- tudes, and fortune never remains long indulgent to men. Rufus. The joys of earth must be spiced with harsh vi- cissitude for their preservation and improvement : a proof of their temporal nature. Krummacher. Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune ; he who has endured such vicis- Situdes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. Seneca. Nature appears ever young under many chang- ing features ; SO amid the vicissitudes of life the wise man stays unmoved, is never thrown down, never yields. Herder. Such is the changeful condition of mankind, that adversity arises from prosperity, and prosperity from adversity. God hides in obscurity the causes of both, and frequently the reasons of all the vicis- Situdes that befall man lie concealed under both. Pliny. Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other. Such are the changes that keep the mind in action : we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated ; we desire something else, and begin a new pursuit. Dr. Johnson. Vicissitudes of life suffer us not to be elated by any present good fortune, or to admire that felicity which is liable to change ; futurity carries for every man many various and uncertain events in its bosom ; he therefore whom heaven blesses with success to the last, is in our estimation the happy man ; but the happiness of him who still lives, and has the dangers of life to encounter, appears to us no better than that of a champion before the com- bat is determined, and while the crown is uncer- tain. Solom. VICTIM. - The innocent victim expiates sin. Rim wecini. All men and all nations are victims to time. Eutropius. A victim of wrong who suffers with patience is a promoter of virtue. Constantine. How many persons have fallen victims to jeal- Ousy, to lust, to ambition. N. Webster. It is not for the victim, but for him who offers the victim, that atonement is to be made. M. Prideawa. There are few things which are plausible, that do not some time or other deceive ; or tempting, that do not make us their victim. Acton. 63 994 AD A Y’.S CO /, / A C O AV. VICTORY. The smile of God is victory. Whittie?". God is the author of victories. Heraclitus. To the victors belong the spoils. W. L. Marcy. Victory does not always bring glory. Philip II. Welcome death when it brings victory. Codrus. There is no honor in a stolen victory. * Aleacander the Great. How beautiful is victory, but how dear ! - De Bowfiers. Victory is by nature insolent and haughty. Cicero. Men are easily elated or depressed by victory. Admiral Farragwt. Are there no victories save on the battle-field 3 - Fanny Fenºm. Intrepid courage is the commencement of vic- tory. Plutarch. Victory follows me, and everything follows vic- tory. Mme. de Sévigné. | º º - º - ` He conquers twice, who conquers himself in vic- tory. Publiws Syrws. Victories repeated will at length subdue the world. Tamerlane. Through the power of God and my right cometh victory. Richard Coew'r de Lion. The best victories are those obtained without bloodshed. - Pittacws. Victory, with advantage, is rather robbed than purchased. Sir P. Sidney. It is indeed a victory to be victorious over the victor of all. Diane de Poitiers. Victory belongs to him who is constant in faith and courage. Ctesiphon. God from afar looks graciously on him that is mild in victory. AEschylus. The decision of victory is placed in the hands of the immortal gods. Homer. After victory the booty should be divided among all who aided in obtaining it. Sir Francis Drake. After victory we should offer up praise and thanksgiving to the God of battles. Lord Duncan. Never was a victory obtained which did not re- quire previous efforts of preparation to accomplish it. - Acton. Victories that are cheap are cheap ; those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. H. W. Beecher. The nerve which never relaxes, the eye which never blanches, the thought which never wanders —these are the masters of victory. L. Byrn. Some victories are momentary, others lasting ; the effect of little triumphs soon perishes, but the consequences of great ones may last forever. Eleutherints. VICTORY. Pursue not a victory too far ; he hath conquered well who hath made his enemy fly ; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee. G. Herbert. The most brilliant victory is only the light of a conflagration, which the tears of suffering huma- nity slake into a smoke, the faithful emblem of its mis-called glory. Franz Joseph Albini. It is a proof of greater wisdom, and requires more skill, to make a good use of victory : for many know how to conquer; few are able to use their conquest aright. Polybius. A victory may be both gained and won ; gained, as concerns the endeavors of the victors; won, as far as it was a question of chance which fortune decided in their favor. G. F. Graham. The advantage of having conquered arises from knowing how to make a good use of victory; and when we are not able to do this, we are more dis- graced than if we were beaten. Gwicciardini. It is the contest that delights us, not the victory; we are pleased with the combat of animals, but not with the victor tearing the vanquished. What is sought for but the crisis of victory : And the mo- ment it comes, it brings satiety. Pascal. For a man to conquer himself is the first and no- blest of all victories, whereas to be vanquished by himself is the basest and most shameful of all things; for such expressions show that there is a war in each of us against ourselves. Plato. It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him ; victory deprives him of his power, but reconciliation of his will ; and there is less dan- ger in a will which will not hurt than in a power which cannot ; the power is not so apt to tempt the will as the will is studious to find out means. Jerome Magiws. If it be worth thy while to strive and fight breast to breast on the road to fortune and to fame, where strength and valor are found, and where the cars with whirling thunder roll along the dusty plain, courage alone can here secure the prize which bec- kons you on toward the winning-post ; in life, vic- tory only crowns the strong, while the feeble sink in the struggle. Schiller. VIGILANCE. Be vigilant in conduct. Eugene of Savoy. Let the eye of vigilance never be closed. T. Jefferson. Vigilance is a virtue of prime importance in a general. N. Webster, It behooveth that we vigilantly note and prevent by all means those evils whereby the hearts of men are lost. J. Hall. The vigilant man is like a wolf that sleeps with one eye, and guards against danger with the other; at once waking and sleeping. Al-Aórðbi. If we watch vigilantly over every political mea- sure, and communicate an alarm through the land with a speed almost equal to the shock of electri- city, there will be no danger of despotism. Knoac. A R O S A. Q J O 7" A 7" / O AV S. TVILLAIN.Y. A villain is the accursed of God. Nicolas Lyra. No man becomes openly a villain. F. Wayland. A prosperous villain is a disgrace to our laws. G. D. Prentice. He who profits by the villainy, is the author of it. Seneca. A villain is the more dangerous the less he ap- pears so. Publiws Syrws. Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber on her post. Colton. Villainy, when once discovered, is irretrievable ; the stains which it leaves behind, no time will wash away. Fielding. It is not when a villainous act has just been com- mitted that it torments us, it is when we recall it to our recollection a long time afterwards; for the remembrance of it lasts forever. Roºtssectºl. The number of villains is large in this world : and they are more successful in acquiring a name for adroitness than their dupes are for goodness; the latter cannot refrain from blushing, the former rejoice in the iniquities. Thucydides. Good men never make anything by treating vil- lains as equals ; a conscious villain who is treated as an equal by an honest man who is conscious of his villainy, recognizes the man at once as a cow- ard, and treats him accordingly. J. G. Holland. When men avail themselves of the assistance of villains, they regard them with the same feelings as they do venomous creatures which they employ for their poison and gall; for while they make use of them, they show affection, but when their pur- pose is accomplished, they detest their rascality. Plutarch. VINE. A vine signifieth delight. Strabo. The vine is an emblem of fruitfulness. Pierce. He who drinks the milk of the vine is an erring IIlà.I.T. At-Tabari. Vine culture has been a constant attendant upon civilization. A. S. Fuller. Every fruitful vine has a strong elm to which it clings; every strong elm supports a fruitful vine. - W. Armot, The vine bringeth forth three grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, the third of Sorrow. Amacharsis. The history of the vine is almost as old as that of man ; its luscious fruit, and the unrivalled bev- erage which its fermented juice affords, recom- mended it to the especial care of the patriarchal tillers of the soil. A. J. Downing. The grape-vine has been one of the most esteemed and essential fruits from the most remote periods of antiquity ; its cultivation has followed the mi- grations of civilized man into all climes suitable to its prosperity, and since the erection of glass-houses, has been adopted into many countries where it otherwise could not succeed. W. Chorlton. WIOLENCE. Abstain from violence. Antonin/ws Pius. Return not violence for violence. Abū Hanifa. - Violence is no part of government. J. A. Rowcher. Marlowe. J. Moody. Nothing violent can be permanent. Violence becometh not a Christian. Violence sometimes puts on the mask of law. J. Bowvier. Everything in the universe is ruled by violence. Vawvenargues. No one has long maintained power, if exercised with violence. Seneca. Violence in the voice is often the death rattle of reason in the throat. Philelphus. Violence and harshness make men disgusted and close up their hearts. Herder. The violence done to us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves. - Rochefoucauld. Power will accomplish more by gentle than by violent means, and calmness will best enforce the imperial mandates. Claudian. Whole communities may become so accustomed to deeds of violence, as not merely to lose all the milder sympathies of their nature, but also to take pleasure in exhibitions of the revolting ferocity. F. Wayland. Violence always defeats its own ends; where you cannot drive you can always persuade ; a gen- tle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny ; you may order and drive an indivi- dual, but you cannot make him respect you, Hazlitt. VIRGIN. The virgin has her image in the rose. Ariosto. Marry a virgin, that thou mayest teach her dis- creet manners. Hesiod. A married woman may please, but nothing is so charming as a young virgin. Al-Faiyád. It is the virgins, the daughters of our country, the rose-buds, the birds of song, who make our homes so beautiful. Mrs. Sigowrney. As a virgin will blush and shrink from an act of immodesty, so a woman who has lost her chastity will shrink from no crime. Tacitus. Let the words of a virgin, though in a good cause, and to as good purpose, be neither violent, many, nor first, nor last ; it is less shame for a vir- gin to be lost in a blushing silence than to be found in a bold eloquence. F. Quarles. A wisely and purely educated virgin is so poetic a flower of this dull world, that the sight of this glorious blossom hanging some years after the honeymoon, with yellow, faded leaves, in unwa- tered beds, must grieve any man who beholds it with a poet's eye. Richter. 996 D A Y'S CO Z / A C O AW. VIRTUE. WIRTUE. Seek virtue. Cleobwlws. What is learning, beauty, or talent, without vir- º tue 2 Mlle. Scala. Commend virtue. Solom. Money is not virtue. Maria Maacwell. Virtue is a true guide. Cymaethws. Virtue goes not by birth. A. Gwevara. Virtue is its own reward. Iveteawat. Virtue survives the grave. Rollidasa. Virtue is its own rewarder. Amadews IX. Virtue is the supreme good. Aristo. Virtue alone is true nobility. A. Gifford. Virtue is an impregnable castle. Awreliws. Virtue is the end of good things. Kadjirwma. Virtue is health, vice is sickness. Petrarch. Virtue consists in universal love. J. Edwards. Virtue is only the love of ourselves. Bolingbroke, Most virtues lie between two vices. Horace. Be mindful of every kind of virtue. Homer. Of all things virtue is the most lovely. Eustathiws. He who believes in virtue has virtue. Zschökke. Virtue like brass grows brighter by use. Plutarch. Virtue by calculation isthe virtue of vice. Joubert. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Shakspeare. Our virtues are commonly disguised vices. Rochefoucauld. It is better to conquer by virtue than arms. Allwciws. Even the light minded must venerate virtue. Krummacher. Virtue has many teachers, but few martyrs. Helvetius. The heart of a virtuous man never grows old. - J. F. Marmontel. He who dies for virtue's sake, does not perish. Plaw.tws. To be a friend to the virtuous is a help to virtue. Tsze-kwng. Only a lover of virtue can be a lover of mankind. Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Virtue is happiness; heaven is with her always. G. Bancroft. Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. Boileau. Virtue is like a rich stone ; it is best when plain Set. Lord Bacon. Be not in too great haste to doubt another's vir- tue. J. Elphinston. True virtue advances upwards through difficul- ties. Siliws Italicus. No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. I. Barrow. Human virtue should be equal to human cala- mity. R. E. Lee. Virtue commands respect even in a beggar's garb. Schillem'. To be sincerely true is the beginning of a great virtue. Pindarus. What is virtue but a medicine, and vice but a wound 3 R. Hooker. Virtuous and noble deeds are better than high descent. Euripides. Virtue is and should be the first principle of gov- ernment. Amacharsis Clootz. When you see virtue in another, be not slow to imitate it. -- - - Ven. Votºm. True virtue is to judge of others by what is in Ourselves. Confucius. Virtue loses not its worth by being slighted by the world. Scraggs. It is pleasing to discover virtue among the poor and lowly. Joseph II of Germany. Virtue is everything that tends to preserve and perfect man. Wolney. Some virtues are only seen in affliction, and some in prosperity. Addison. Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edged rock of poverty. Eugene Sue. Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too long. Lady Rachel Russell. In the truly great virtue governs with the scep- tre of knowledge. Sir P. Sidney. It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better. H. W. Show. Virtue is more persecuted by the wicked than loved by the good. Cervantes. Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admi- rers than followers. Lady Blessington. The most substantial glory of a country is in its virtuous great men. Fisher Ames. Virtue consisteth of three parts: temperance, fortitude, and justice. Epicurus. If you can be well without health you can be happy without virtue. Bwrke. Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings. Schleiermacher. The four cardinal virtues are prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice. Paley. If you would not have your faults criticised, exchange them for virtues. E. P. Day. Virtue is certainly the most noble and secure possession a man can have. R. Savage. P R O S E O U O 7. A 7 y O AV S. 997 VIRTUE. True virtue is derived from deeds and qualities, not from power or titles. Colonºva. If human virtues are put up at too high a price, no one will bid for them. J. Sanderson. Parley and surrender signify the same thing where virtue is concerned. Mme. de Maintenom. Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices. Bias. Virtue alone is true nobility ; therefore the most virtuous are the most noble. Antisthemes. Virtue wraps a nation in moral grandeur, which no despotism can overthrow. J. Linem. There are some persons on whom virtue sits al- most as ungraciously as vice. D. Bowhow.rs. The virtuous man is happy in this world, and he will be happy in the next. Buddha. The hypocrite who would fain imitate virtue, can only copy it in water colors. Stanislaws. True greatmess is sovereign wisdom ; we are never deceived by our virtues. Laºmartime. The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other. W. S. Landor. Recommend to your children virtue ; that alone can make them happy—not gold. Beethoven. Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. RowsSeaw. Virtue, accompanied with a clear conscience, will follow whither the fates lead. Lwcalvus. It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves. Cicero. There is no man, however wicked, or however vulgar, but naturally loves virtue. Mme de Genlis. Virtue alone outbids the pyramids; her monu- ments shall last, when Egypt's fall. E. Young. As a good tree produces good fruit, even so does virtuous soul produce pure thoughts. Aphra Behn. The degree of striving after perfection and vir- tue determines the value of the man. G. Forster. Happy are they who lay up in store for the rest of their life, virtue, health, and peace. J. Tottie. One seldom speaks of the virtues which one has ; but much oftener of that which fails us. J. Lessing. All systems of virtue are reducible or comprised in propriety, prudence, or benevolence. A. Smith. Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in their graves illustrious, in the heavens immortal. Chilo. Virtue, though in rags, may challenge more than vice, set off with all the trim of greatness. Massinger. Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor is a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. Ben Jonson. WIRTUE. Virtue is everywhere the same, because it comes from God, while everything else is of men. Voltaire. All virtue lies in a power of denying our own desires where reason does not authorize them. J. Locke. Virtue is that which must tip the preacher's tongue and the ruler's Sceptre with authority. R. Sowth. Virtue is doing justice, loving mercy, and en- deavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. T. Polime. There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor. Tacitus. The most virtuous of all men is he that contents himself being virtuous without seeking to appear SO. Plato. It is only virtue which no one can misuse ; be- cause it would not be virtue if a bad use were made of it. Bosswet. Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good ; the second, of pain or else of pemi- tence. R. Venºving. Virtue is an effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone. St. Pie,"re. The whole of human virtue may be reduced to speaking the truth always, and doing good to Others. AEliam. The advantage to be derived from virtue is so evident, that the wicked practice it from interested motives. Vawvenargues. When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. Swift. Virtue, the more it is exposed, like purest linen, laid in open air, will bleach the more, and whitem to the view. Dryden. The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every- day conduct. Pascal. All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self-determination ; the best books have most beauty. W. E. Channing. The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance: and it is the same of virtues in the lottery of life. Sterne. To lead a virtuous life is pleasant, and to die is by no means bitter to those who look forward to immortal fame. Arrian/ws. It is along the paths of virtue that we soar up- wards to the blessed state of those pure spirits who dwell in paradise. Gessner. The virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. Plutarch. The beginning of all virtue is consultation and deliberation, and the end and perfection of it, fidelity and constancy. Demosthenes. 998 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. VIRTUE. Virtues go ever in troops ; they go so thick that sometimes some are hid in the crowd, which yet are, but appear not. J. Hall. Determine with yourself to employ a certain stated time, in order to acquire the virtue to which you are least disposed. Richter. In every occasion in which virtue is exercised, if something is not added to happiness, something is taken away from anxiety. J. Bentham. There are some virtues that may exist in the worst hearts, even as there are some kinds of fire that will burn under water. G. D. Prentice. The more the virtues that we practice are con- trary to our natural disposition, the more resplen- dent and excellent are they. G. J. Zollikofer. Virtue is the dictate of reason, or the remains of the divine light, by which men are made beneficent and beneficial to each other. A. Sidney. Virtue and true goodness, righteousness and equity, are things truly noble and excellent, lovely and venerable in themselves. S. Clarke. Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine : an irregular course of life demoralizes them. N. Hawthorne. The highest virtue implies the highest intellect : just as the greatest sacrifices demand the greatest force of character to make them. Bovee. As they suspect a man in the city who is osten- tatious of his riches, so should the woman be who makes the most noise of her virtue. H. Fielding. Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant by being crushed ; for prosperity best discovers vice, but adversity best discovers virtue. Ebn Tophail Jaapham. I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it ; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me. Shaftesbury. No virtue fades out of mankind ; not over-hope- ful by imborn temperament, cautious by long ex- perience, I yet never despair of human virtue. T. Paºke”. There is no community or commonwealth of virtue ; every man must study his own economy, and erect these rules unto the figure of himself. Sir T. Browne. Some men affect to attest their virtue by a ready confession of guilt ; this shows they know what virtue requires, but care only for the credit of it. H. Hooker. - The virtues of others often render us sensible of the want of them in ourselves, as the riches of our acquaintance make us more conscious of our pov- erty. Lady Blessington. True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes ; she is confounded at her own presence, and covered with confusion of face. Jane Porter, ... most difficult to cure. VIRTUE. Virtue without talent is a coat of mail without a sword ; it may indeed defend the wearer, but will not enable him to protect his friend. Colton. Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm ; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good. Butler. They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon. Hare. Virtue seems to be nothing more than a motion consonant to the system of things ; were a planet, to ſly from its orbit, it would represent a vicious IIla, Il. Shenstone. I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue ; she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she Springs. Niebuhr. Virtue needs no outward pomp ; her very coun- tenance is so full of majesty, that the proudest pay her respect, and the profanest are awed by her presence. Abow Joseph. The nature of virtue is such, that could it be demonstrated that insatiate malice, instead of God, reigned supreme in heaven, virtue would remain unchanged. Rev. T. R. Slicer. Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them ; these vir- tue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce. Chesterfield. That virtue and vice tend to make those men happy or miserable who severally practice them, is a proposition of undoubted, and by me, undis- puted truth. F. Atterbury. Virtue and real excellence will rise to view, though they be not mounted on the wings of am- bition, which by soaring too high procures but a more fatal fall. J. Mason. Such as have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensi- ble of the music. Diogenes. Virtue is more to man than either water or fire; I have seem men die from treading On water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. Confucius. We derive from mature no fault that may not became a virtue, no virtue that may not degene- rate into a fault ; faults of the latter kind are the Goethe. Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance ; if her service make thee poor, blush not ; thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee. F. Quarles. The very nature and essence of virtue doth con- sist in the most difficult and painful efforts of Soul; in the extirpating rooted prejudices and notions from our understanding. Magoom. It is the edge and temper of the blade that makes a good sword, not the richness of the scabbard, and so it is not money or possessions that Imake men considerable, but virtue. Seneca. A R O S A. O U O 7' 4 7" / O AW S. 999 VIRTUE. God makes no virtue obligatory upon man, which does not greatly subserve his temporal welfare ; virtue has its degrees, and as far as man is con- cerned, its hierarchy also. Mme. Swetchine. Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellow-men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation. Sir W. 4!earander. Virtue implies opposition and struggle : in man, the struggle is between reason and passion, between right and wrong ; to hold by the former is virtue, to yield to the latter is vice. W. Fleming. Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind. Washington. There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue. E. H. Chapin. Virtue desires no foreign aid, cares not for praise, is full of life by her own resources, not to be moved by any of the chances of life, looks down On the affairs of mortals from her seat aloft. Claudian. Virtue, in whomsoever it is found, is a great dowry ; and where it meets with a heart that knows how to value it, is accounted greater riches than all that is hid in the bowels of the earth. Hall. God in His goodness has ordained that virtue should make its own enjoyment, and that wherever a vice or frailty is rooted out, something should spring up to be a beauty and delight in its stead. R. H. Dana. Virtue may be said to steal like a guilty thing into the secret haunts of vice and infamy ; it clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away ; nothing can destroy the human heart. Hazlitt. Every man has actually within him the seeds of every virtue and every vice ; and the proportion in which they thrive and ripen, depends in general upon the situations in which he has been, and is placed. D. Hartley. No virtue can be real that has not been tried : the gold in the crucible alone is perfect ; the load- stone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace. Calderon, Virtue is so much for the interest of mankind that there can never be a general agreement to deny all manner of applause to the practice of it : such numbers are made sufferers by a departure from its rules. R. Bolton. Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general, for one link being wanting the chain is defective ; perhaps thou art rather innocent than virtuous, and owest more to thy constitution than to thy religion. W. Penwyl. VIRTUE. Virtue is the universal charm ; even its shadow is courted, when the substance is wanting. Virtue must be formed and supported, not by unfrequent acts, but by daily and repeated exertions. Blair. A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired the more he is fined ; the more he is opposed the more he is approved ; wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but can- not imprint in him any false stamp. Richelčevº. That man which prizeth virtue for itself, and cannot endure to hoise and strike his sails as the divers nature of calms and storms require, must cut his sails of mean length and breadth, and Con- tent himself with a slow and sure navigation. Sir W. Raleigh. Many who have tasted all the pleasures of sin, have forsaken it, and come over to virtue : but there are few instances of any who, having tried the sweets of virtue, could ever be drawn off from it, or find in their hearts to fall back to their former COURTSé. F. Jeffrey. Virtue, according to my idea, is the habitual sense of right, and the habitual courage to act up to that sense of right, combined with benevolent sympathies, the charity which thinketh no evil. The union of the highest conscience and the high- est sympathy fulfils my notion of virtue. Mrs. Jameson. Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not ; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world’s unkindly weather. I. Barrow. The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise ; so far from difficulty, that boys as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtile, may make it their own ; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired. Montaigne. If we will look over the names of those on whom all past time has united in conferring the tribute of praise-worthiness, we shall find them to be the mames of those who, although they might differ in other respects, yet were similar in this, that they shone resplendent in the lustre of unsullied virtue. F. Wayland. Custom which renders vice less a deformity, ren- ders virtue more lovely ; good examples have a force beyond instruction, and warm us into emu- lation beyond precept ; while the countenance and conversation of virtuous men encourage, and draw out into action every kindred disposition of our hearts. B. Gilpin. Virtue is so delightful whenever it is perceived, that men have found it their interest to cultivate manners, which are, in fact, the appearances of certain virtues ; and now we are come to love the sign better than the thing signified, and indubita- bly to prefer manners without virtue, to virtue without manners. Sydney Smith. 1000 JD A Y’.S. C. O Z Z A C O AV. VIRTUE. It is not by black or white robes the grace of God is to be obtained ; but by virtue. None ought to be esteemed except such as use every effort to become as virtuous as possible ; for every person ought to be valued according to the riches of his mind. William, of Montagmogowt. Every virtue gives man a degree of felicity in some kind ; honesty gives a man a good report : justice, estimation ; prudence, respect ; courtesy and liberality, affection ; temperance gives health, fortitude a quick mind, not to be moved by ad- versity. Walsingham. Virtue has resources buried in itself we know not of till the invading hour calls them from their retreat ; whatever be its sect, from whatever seg- ment of the globe its orisons rise, virtue is God's empire, and from His throne of thrones He will defend it. Bulwer. What we take for virtues is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry know how to arrange ; and it is not always from valor and from chastity that men are valiant, and that women are chaste. Rochefoucauld. Many dogmas have been proclaimed by the var- ious religious teachers, from age to age, to control mankind ; but I know of none more daring or fas- cinating than this which came to Sãkya Muni, as he sat under his tree—that man by virtue and ho- liness may make himself God. J. Russell Young. How true it is that if men were perfect they might respect each other more, but would love each other less ; we love our friend more for his weaknesses and failings, which we must overlook and forgive, than for his rigid virtues, which de- mand our admiration more than our affection. John W. Forney. Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be applied as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art ; it would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, pain- ters, and musicians. Schopenhaufer. What we ought to understand by the term virtue is the complete assemblage of every virtuous qua- lification ; for as a royal diadem admits only in the circle of Ornaments that compose it, diamonds and the most precious stones, so the word virtue im- plies the union of all that is virtuous; take away a single attribute, and you destroy the whole ; it is no longer virtue that remains. St. Ephraim. The lofty mountain of virtue is of quite a con- trary make to all other mountains ; in the moun- tains of the earth the skirts are pleasant, but the tops rough ; whereas the skirt of the mountain of virtue is harsh, but the top delicious ; he who studies to come at it, meets in his first step nothing but stones, briars, and thistles ; but the roughness of the way diminishes as he proceeds in his journey, and the pleasure of it increases, until at length on the top he finds nothing but beautiful flowers, choice plants, and crystal fountains. Tillotson. VIETUE. The principles of virtue, like the elements of nature, are ever identical in essence but changeful in form. New generations of life are but old ele- ments in new forms ; and new righteous theories and institutions are but the old principles of Virtue entering into new combinations. David Thomas. It must be remembered that there are some things greater than merely to amass wealth and to obtain material prosperity ; the cultivation of wholesome virtues, and the promulgation of sound principles are above riches. The true principles that make the good citizen are more to be desired than the possession of colossal fortunes or the build- ing of lordly palaces. Sir Henry Parkes. Virtue is the nursing mother of all human plea- sures, who in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent ; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite ; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she aliows ; and like a kind and libe- ral mother, abundantly allows all that nature re- Quires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude. Socrates. Virtue is certainly the most noble and secure possession a man can have. Beauty is worn out by time or impaired by sickness. Riches lead youth rather to destruction than welfare, and without prudence are soon lavished away ; while virtue alone, the only good that is ever durable, always remains with the person that has attained her : she is preferable both to wealth and a noble ex- traction. Richard Savage. We must not love virtue for the bare sake of re- putation and human esteem ; to do good purely to be gazed at, and talked of and applauded, was the character of the Pharisees, whose vices were real, and whose virtues were imaginary : but had their virtues been as real as their vices, this poor view and narrow purpose would have spoiled them all ; and they could only expect their reward where they sought it, that is, from mem. Jortin. TVISA.G.E. A visage is beautified by gentleness. Adelais. The visage of the devil is horrible, and dreadful to behold. Sir John Mandeville. The human visage is the type and emblem of the infinite and supreme good. P. Abercrombie. The mean man who starves his body through avarice, is betrayed by his own visage. Syntipas. I hold that man a fool, who is fond of a woman's painted visage who has lost her beauty, for it at once proves she has also lost her purity. Siactus II. The visage often speaks volumes for or against its owner ; it attracts and repels, it charms and dis- gusts, according as the soul within imprints itself upon the outward contour. Lowise M. Stenton. The visage of a virtuous woman is like an en- trancing vision of bliss: the most beautiful and accomplished women are indebted to their face for the perfection and embellishments of their charms and graces. Thomas Archer. A / O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 1001 VISION. - VISITS. º A vision comes from God. Joan d'Arc. Visit the sick and suffering. Rabbi Eliezer. A vision sometimes foretells death. T. Littleton. In visions the gifted foresee the future. Drabicius. A vision may happen to a waking man. Johnson. Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Swift. Let hope predominate, but be not visionary. P. T. Barnſwºm. There is nothing so visionary as what the world esteems real ; nothing so baseless, nothing so un- true. W. S. Landor. Vision in the next life is the perfecting of faith in this ; or faith here is turned into vision there, as hope into enjoyment. H. Hammond. Vision is a figure which is never employed, but when the composition is highly impassioned, and the writer becomes a species of actor. J. Walker. The vision of a person whose sight is defective will frequently be fallacious ; he will see some things double which are single, long which are short, and the like. G. Crabb. Our whole life is made up of visions and visionary objects ; in youth our imagination is full of visions of the future, and in manhood one-half our time is dreamed away in impracticable schemes. James Ellis. VIVACITY. Vivacity is life's sunshine. Foscolo. Vivacity, when it increases with age, is not far short of frenzy. Rochefowcawld. Vivacity, in youth, is often mistaken for genius, and solidity for dullness. Colton. Vivacity and wit make a man shine in compa- my ; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon. Chesterfield. Vivacity seldom fails to give some pain; the hearers either strain their faculties to accompany its towerings, or are left behind in envy and de- spair. A. P. Plavilschtschikof. A man of vivacious temper diffuses his vivacity into all his words and actions; a man of spirit suits his measures to the exigency of his circum- StanceS. G. Crabb. I do not dislike extreme vivacity in children ; but would see enough of it to make an animated character, when the violence of animal spirits shall subside by time ; it is easier to restrain excess than to quicken stupidity. Hannah More. Vivacity leads astray the hearts of ordinary women in the choice of their lovers and the treat- ment of their husbands; it operates with the same pernicious influence toward their children, who are taught to accomplish themselves in all those sub- lime perfections that appear captivating in the eye of their mother ; she admires in her son what she loved in her gallant, and by that means contributes all she can to perpetuate herself in worthless pro- geny. Addison. Fish and visitors smell in three days. Franklin. Visits unite the hearts which coolness hath parted. As-Swli. Short visits, like short accounts, make long friends. V. J. Dwival. He who visits the sick and poor has God for Company. Bishop Belswnce, What is the use of visiting when people have . nothing to talk about. S. L. Clemens. Among the grievances of modern days is the mat- ter of receiving and paying visitS. G. Horne. Visits are unsatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. Cowper. We may flatter ourselves that our visits are well- timed, but nevertheless they may be indifferently received. Gawltier. Visits are for the most part neither more nor less than inventions for discharging upon our neighbors somewhat of our own unendurable weight. Nicole. Visiting produces nothing useful ; all we gain by it is that we may repeat the stupid form such a one “said.” Visit therefore but seldom. Al-Hwmaidi. The business of receiving senseless visits, whose continuance, if otherwise unavoidable, is capable, in my opinion, to justify the retiredness of a her- mit. - R. Boyle. Let your visits be rare ; if frequent they lead to mutual dislike ; rain falling without intermission, is an affliction ; if withheld it is prayed for with uplifted arms. Makki. The sweetest minutes of a visit are those which once more postpone its close ; the sweetest of all, those in which one already has cane or fan in hand, and yet does not go. Richter. Visits made or received are for the most part an intolerable consumption of time, unless prudently ordered ; and they are for the most part spent in vain and impertinent discourses. Sir M. Hale. Some will undertake to prescribe to you rules for visiting ; will dictate the laws of privilege and etiquette ; will form for you, in short, a regular tariff of ad valorem duties—an arbitrary system of taxation without consent ; the feeble and the suppliant only will acquiesce in these restrictions, whilst the firm and independent will demand those conditions that are fair and equal. J. O. Zillwood. Let any one recall to mind what his experience has taught him in his social intercourse with the world ; or tell us the difference between the sensa- tions created by the first and the last visit, when he expected much, although he received but little, and ultimately renounced everything, and cast aside a long cherished friendship—an old and cul- tivated acquaintance—like a thread-bare garment, or a worn-out shoe, as something worthless, and no longer deserving of attention and regard. Acton. I ()02 AJ A Y’.S. C. O Z Z A C O AV. VOCATION. Every man has a vocation. W. Trail. Let every man be diligent in his vocation. Oakes, If your vocation be an honest one, never be ashamed of it. When a man does what he likes, and gets paid for it, he has found his vocation. D. D. T. Moore. Every one must himself feel what is his particu- lar vocation, and what is his strength. G. Forster He who learns thoroughly his vocation, practices it with ease ; so it is with him who will understand virtue. Confucius. That great men may not be ashamed of homest vocations, the greatest that ever were have been Content to take up with mean trades. R. Hall. Christianity does not put a stop to, but only re- gulates Our common vocations, by teaching us to pursue them in such a manner as most conduces to the glory of God. G. Whitefield. Vocation is of two kinds ; either it is divine, comes from above, or from those who have the right to command ; and then it is a vocation of faith ; or it is a vocation of love, and comes from Our equals. Lºwther. VOICE. The voice is the flower of beauty. Zemo. The voice is the warder of the mind. Rowsseaw. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. - Shakspeare. To repress anger, learn to speak without varia- tion of voice. Polemo. Answer every man's call with not too raised a voice, but quiet. Rabbi Moses. In the voice there is no deception ; it is to many the index of the mind. C. Mordawnt. The human voice is the natural first instrument for producing musical sounds. G. W. Samson. There is in the voice of a menaced man who calls you, something imperious, which subdues and commands. M. de Martignac. There is not less eloquence displayed in the tone of voice, the eyes, and the gestures, than in the choice of words. Rochefoucauld. A lovely countenance is the fairest of all Sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love. Bruyère. It is inconceivable what a power God has given to the human voice, when rightly employed, and poured forth in a simple and sustained flow. Goethe. Heaven did not give women a voice so soft that they might rail ; it did not give them features so delicate that they might disfigure them by rage. Rowsseau. Enowledge may be power, but the human voice, trained by art, is the lever by which this power must be applied to move the great living masses. D. B. Tower. E. P. Day. VOICE. The voice ought to be clearly written on the fore- head ; according as a man's character is, he shows it forthwith in his eyes, just as he who is beloved reads everything in the eyes of the lover. Awrelius. Wonderful, indeed, is the power of the voice, which, though consisting of but three sounds— the base, treble, and tenor—yet possesses great strength, and a Sweet variety, as is shown in songs. Cicero. To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singu- larly affecting ; its depth seems to be allied to feel- ing ; at least, the contralto notes alone give an adequate sense of pathos; they are born near the heart. H. T. Tuckerman. How wonderful is the human voice It is indeed the organ of the soul . The intellect of man sits enthroned visibly upon his forehead and in his eye; and the heart of man is written upon his counte- 118.]]Cé. Longfellow. We are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what you read in books may be more pointed, yet there is something in the voice, the look, the carriage, and even the gesture of the speaker, that makes a deeper impression upon the mind. Pliny. Were the variety of tones in the human voice peculiar to each person to cease, and the hand- writing of all men to become perfectly uniform, a multitude of distressing deceptions and perplexi- ties would be produced in the domestic, civil, and commercial transactions of mankind. T. Dick. The human voice, of all the voices in creation, takes the first rank, because it is the primary organ of the soul. Who has not witnessed its mighty influence upon the feelings of a large assembly There is no power like that of the human voice for electrifying and influencing the multitude. Davies. How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones ren- der her positively attractive In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady : in the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband. C. Lamb. VOLATILITY. Volatility is shallow sense. Dr. Johnson. Volatility of words is carelessness in actions; words are the wings of actions. Lavater. Extreme volatile and sprightly tempers seem in- consistent with any great enjoyment. Shenstone. If we see people dancing, even in wooden shoes, and a fiddle always at their heels, we are soon convinced of the volatile spirits of those merry slaves. Mary Somerville. When the spirits are of a buoyant nature, and the thoughts fly from one object to another, with- out resting on any, this lightness becomes vola- tility ; a light-minded person sets care at a dis- tance ; a volatile person catches pleasure from every passing object. G. Crabb. A A' O S / Q U O 7" A Z / O M S. 1003 ---, $ VOLCANO. Volcanoes are the frailties of nature. Behring. By volcanoes cities are often destroyed. Tacitus. A volcano is an awfully grand spectacle in a dark night. . James Ridley. There can be little doubt as to the unity of cause in volcanoes and earthquakes. W. T. Brande. The seat of volcanoes has, without exception, been found to be the highest part of the countries in which they are found. Capt. J. Cook. Science will never tire of the study of nature ; imagination can find a vast field for fanciful spe- culation on the origin, duration, and probable results of the continued operation of a frightful, gigantic volcano. Cown't Strzelecki. VOLITION. Volition is the motor of life. Taliacotius. Volition is the actual exercise of the power of the mind. J. Locke. Volition always signifies the act of willing, and nothing else. - T. Reid. It is necessary to form a distinct notion of what is meant by the word volition, in order to under- stand the import of the word will. D. Stewart. There is as much difference between the appro- bation of the judgment, and the actual volitions of the will, as between a man's viewing a desirable thing with his eye, and reaching after it with his hand. R. Sowth. A man with a half-volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road ; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little wisdom in it. T. Carlyle. VOLUPTUOUSINESS. Voluptuousness destroys the mind. Demonaw. Voluptuous pleasures bring tormenting pains. Erasistratus. Avoid the allurements of voluptuousness, and fly from her temptations. S. Awstem. Voluptuous habits speedily bind all the powers of the soul in loathsome vassalage. Magoon. Voluptousness, like justice, is blind ; but that is the only resemblance between them. Pascal. The voluptuary studies his pleasures so as to make them the most valuable to himself. G. Crabb. Voluptuaries can never hold out long among many noble women, tormented as they are by their many-sided, sharp observations, although they can more easily with one, because they hope to ensnare her. Richter, All voluptuous enjoyments arise from the same motives, love of ease and love of pleasure ; we ex- perience more satisfaction in the pursuit than in possession of them ; the happiness they afford is momentary, it dies with fruition. J. Bartlett. VOTE. Votes count, and ballots think. J. W. Formey. My vote is for principles, not men. Washington. Votes, not money, should elevate a soldier to command. Galba. Our people are able to do their own fighting and their own voting. Gen. W. H. Harrison. A vote is a link in a chain that may bind a peo- ple or hang a tyrant. E. P. Day. So long as woman is denied a vote, there is no such a thing as universal suffrage. Susan B. Anthony. Votes will have the most power in a state where they go by number, not by weight. Guicciardini. A vote is the test of virtue ; it shows who are the enemies, as well as the friends of justice. Thaddeus Stevens. A poor man has a much better right to vote than a rich man, on the mere account of contributing to the state. G. Ensor. An unintelligent vote, or a vote obtained by mis- representation, is not a vote in the spirit of a free government. G. W. Burmap. When one of the candidates is the devil, and the other one of his imps, I cannot consider a vote of very great importance. Rev. L. Haines. Votes should be weighed, not counted ; that state must sooner or later go to wreck where num- bers sway and ignorance decides. Schiller. Every man and woman should prove themselves patriotic by voting and using their influence for good men and good measures, and against bad OIlêS. Mrs. M. Fletcher. In a republican state, every private individual shares regal power by means of the laws and his vote ; but when he surrenders these to another, he annuls his own sovereignty. AEschylus. The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it ; and to solicit a vote appears to me as un- worthy an action as to solicit a place in a will ; it it is not ours, and might have been another's. W. S. Landor. An honest vote is the most rational and the most dignified, for it seeks for the election of the repre- sentative of its own opinions, and at the same time commands respect ; it is always wise in principle, and discreet in practice. James Ellis. The powerful ought rather to have been deprived of their power of influencing votes for bad pur- poses, than that the ballot should have been con- ferred on the people, whereby corrupt votes are concealed, virtuous citizens being left in the dark as to the sentiments of each. Cicero. Votes go by numbers and not weight, nor can it be otherwise in such public assemblies where no- thing is more unequal than that equality which pre- vails in them : for though every individual has the same right of suffrage, every individual has not the same strength of judgment to direct it. Pliny. 1004 A) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. WOWS. Pay thy vows. G. T. Bedell. Nothing is more sacred than a vow. Cleobwlws. A king should never forget his vows. Phenom. Vows made in a storm are forgotten in a calm. J. Lesley. Let us pay to God the vows we have made to Him. Duppa. Reep a vow until the waves overleap the highest mountains. Sadaihe. Make no vows to perform this or that ; it shows no great strength, and makes thee ride behind thy- self. A. Fuller. When we vow what we cannot, or what we Ought not to do, we mock God instead of honor Him. R. Hall. The vows that woman makes to her fond lover, are only fit to be written on air, or on the swiftly passing stream. Catwillws. When a solemn promise is made, or a vow taken to do a certain act, it ought to be the duty of every One to perform it. A. Ritchie. A vow is a promise made to God of a thing which we believe to be agreeable to Him, and which we are not on other grounds obliged to render to Him. J. Cawvim. In a moral and religious sense, vows are promises to God, as they appeal to God to witness their sin- cerity, and the violation of them is a most heinous offense. N. Webster. TVOYAGE. In voyages we have romance realized. Campbell. New voyages lead to new discoveries. Behaim. By voyage, all nations have interknowledge of one another. Lord Bacom. Of all voyages a voyage of discovery affords the most pleasure. S. Champlaim. It is through voyages that the treasures of science are unfolded to the world. Sir Joseph Banks. There is happiness even in a rough voyage, if undertaken for the service of God. P. Egede. The analogy between a voyage and man's life has often been beautifully noticed. Hamelin. A long voyage at Sea not only brings out all the mean traits a man has, but even creates new ones. S. L. Clemens. No voyage is entirely useless if it be a means of contributing anything to the world's stock of knowledge. Capt. E. W. Parry. To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of los- ing himself in reveries, a sea voyage is full of sub- jects for meditation. W. Irving. In voyages you may see too much and learn too little ; the winds and waves throw about you their mutability and their turbulence ; when we lose sight of home, we lose something else than that which Schoolboys weep for. W. S. Lamdor. VULGARITY. Avoid all vulgarity. William of Poictiers. A vulgar man is seldom virtuous. Confucius. Words sweetened with honey please the vulgar. J. Linem. Vulgarity is setting store by the things which 8.1°6. See Il. Lady Morgan. Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent. Colton. The foolish vulgar are always accustomed to value equally the good and the bad. Yriarte. Vulgarity of manners may co-exist with a pol- ished mind, and urbanity with a vulgar one. Chatfield. To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a I’8,2OI’. Pope. Confide not in the vulgar, as they are always changeable. The vulgar, like water and fire, are generally uumanageable. Phocylides. Flourishing vulgarity is more unconscious than wicked ; a destitute refinement is a great deal more capable of bearing malice. J. Weiss. Vulgarity is not natural but conventional coarse- ness, learned from others without an entire con- formity of natural power, as fashion is the affec- tation of what is elegant and refined. A. C. Lymch. Vulgarity is not found in uncivilized life, because in that state there is little difference of rank, and less of manners ; nor is it in a civilized country a deficiency of politeness or refinement, as compared with the most polished classes; for a peasant may be a gentleman, and a peer a vulgarian. Haafner. A vulgar man is captious and jealous ; eager and impetuous about trifles; he suspects himself to be slighted, thinks everything that is said meant at him ; if the company happens to laugh, he is per- suaded they laugh at him ; he grows angry and testy, says something very impertinent, and draws himself into a scrape, by showing what he calls a proper spirit, and asserting himself. Chesterfield. Men are called low when they lack neatness or acquaintance with the elegant forms of Society ; but looking to their proper humanity they are never so low as when they indulge wrangling or sensual passions ; as when they are bent on the gratification of merely animal appetites, which brings them nearer to a level with beasts than the grossest forms of what is generally accounted vul- gar. H. Hooker. No expression can become a vulgarism which has not a broad foundation ; the language of the vulgar hath its source in physics—in known, com- prehended, and operative things : the language of those who are just above the vulgar is less pure, as flowing from what they do not in general com- prehend—hence the profusion of broken and ill- assorted metaphors, which we find in the conver- sation of almost all who stand in the intermediate space between the lettered and the lowest. Landor. GEORGE WASHINGTON]- A /& O S A. 1005 Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. W. W.A.G. Wags are seldom rich. H. Mackenzie. I never yet knew a wag who was not a dunce. - Swift. When one wag contends with another, the en- counter proves fatal or witty. M. P. Ajala. The wit by which a wag excites laughter seldom adds dignity to the possessor. N. Timdal. A wag is always careless and inattentive whom he offends, and rather than lose a happy expres- sion, he would hazard the feelings of his best friend. J. Bartlett. A wag is one that never in its life saw a beauti- ful object ; but sees what it does see in the most low and most inconsiderable light it can be placed. John Hughes. A wag is the last order even of pretenders to wit and good humor; he has generally his mind pre- pared to receive some occasion of merriment, but is of himself too empty to draw any out of his own set of thoughts ; and therefore laughs at the next thing he meets, not because it is ridiculous, but because he is under a necessity of laughing. Steele. Wags are lamps that exhaust themselves in giv- ing light to others; their gibes, their gambols, their songs, their flashes of merriment, their puns, and bon-rmots, and bright and sharp and pointed say- ings, are but so many swords, which, the oftener they are drawn forth, do but the sooner wear out the scabbard. Chatfield. TVW.A.G.E.S. Give the workman his wages. Phocylides. Are the wages of sin preferable to those of vir- tue 2 W. Wogan. The best criterion of a nation's prosperity is the rate of wages paid the laboring classes. E. P. Day. Ancient slavery, middle-aged feudalism, and modern wages' servitude, are each and all essen- tially the same. A. Brisbane. Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and Odium of being slave-holders. O. A. Brownson. Rates of wages depend very much on the ease or difficulty of learning the different occupations, as well as the safety or danger attending them, and the constancy or inconstancy of such enmploy- ments. Adam Smith. Detain not the wages from the poor man that hath earned it, lest God withhold thy wages from thee ; if he complain to thee, hear him, lest he com- plain to heaven, where he will be heard ; if he hunger for thy sake, thou shalt not prosper for his sake. - F. Quarles. W.A.T.E ING. Walking is the simplest of exercises. Cazenave. Walking, especially among rural scenery, is highly salubrious. Mrs. Sigowrmey. A good walk each day will prolong life, and multiply the pleasures of living. J. R. Bowdler. Riding habits are pretty for ladies, but walking habits are better for their health. G. D. Premtice. The more ladies practice walking the more grace. ful they become in their movements. J. W. Howe. Walking is a nice art ; children learn it only by long practice ; and a man would not know how to walk better than a young child if he had never learned. - T. Dwight. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking—hale fellows close upon eighty or ninety, but brick as boys. Dickens. The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession. H. T. Thickerman. The pleasure we might take from walking is much impaired, not by the fatigue we suffer from it, but by the fear of getting fatigued. Children, especially ; should be made to walk long distances, and to despise short ones. Walking is a better and cheaper exercise than riding, and it has the addi- tional advantage of training to endurance. Bovee. TVW ANDERER. Mock not the wanderer. Haivoſmoil. Give protection to the wanderer. J. Davenport. The wanderer lives on vain hopes. James Ellis. The fool wanders, the wise man travels. Quarles. A wandering maid is of very doubtful reputa- tion. Goethe. There is nothing worse for mortals than a wan- dering life. Homer. The wanderer without a house to dwell in, is like a corpse without a grave to rest in. A. Oviedo. A wandering spirit draws many evils in its train; thou shalt drag out a life of bitterness if thou wan- der from thy fatherland. Euripides. Persons sometimes wander because they have no home and are wretched, and sometimes because they have no occupation. N. Webster. When thou seest the naked wanderer of the street shivering with cold, and destitute of habitation, let bounty open thine heart; let the wings of charity shelter him from death, that thine own soul may live. R. Dodsley. 1006 A) A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. W.A.N.T. How few are our real wants Silvamws Prierio. The desire of more is want, and want is poverty. N. Howe. The fewer our wants the nearer we resemble the gods. Socrates. Man has wants as boundless as his own immor- tality. A. Potter. He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur. Lavater. Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. Cowley. Constantly choose rather to want less than to have more. T. d. Kempis. Human life is a constant want, and Ought to be a constant prayer. S. Osgood. It is a disgrace to any country to allow a citizen to beg or die of want. Isocrates. If you can live free from want care for no more ; the rest is but vanity. John Oldmiacom. The mind has its wants, and perhaps as numer- ous as those of the body. Fontenelle. The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want. R. Whately. If we create imaginary wants, why do we not create imaginary satisfaction ? Sir R. Bulstrode. Great wants proceed from great wealth, and make riches almost equal to poverty. Stanislaws. It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. Fielding. There is no harder lesson to a generous mind, than either to bear want, or to prevent it. Hall. It matters not whether a man wants one thing, everything, or nothing ; each thinks himself mis- erable. Harown Al-Raschid. Wants awaken intellect ; to gratify them disci- plimes intellect ; the keener the want the lustier the growth. Wendell Phillips. Want of employment is the most irksome of all wants, and is often more penal and severe than any labor. Acton. Great wants proceed from great wealth ; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty. Rames. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Swift, As there is a misery in want so there is a dan- ger in excess; I would therefore desire neither more nor less than enough. A. Warwick. Every one is the poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only what he has not. Maniliws. Man's bodily wants have been the great stimulus to all the arts, sciences, and discoveries, which have elevated him to his present civilization. Chatfield. W.A.N.T. Our actual wants have definite conditions and limits; our factitious ones obey no interior law, but run wild, without rule or measure. Mme. Swetchine. Want always struggles against idleness; but want herself is often overcome, and every hour shows the careful observer those who had rather live in ease than plenty. Dr. Johnson. It is not possible for the hungry belly to conceal her wants, causing unnumbered woes to mortals, for which well-benched galleys are equipped for the barren sea, bearing ills to the enemy. Homer. Nature has provided for the exigency of priva- tion, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants: Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack. Bovee. I do not understand those to be poor and in want which are vagabonds and beggars, but those that labor to live, such as are old and cannot travel, such poor widows and fatherless children as are ordered to be relieved. Sir W. Raleigh. Dost thou want things necessary ? Grumble not : perchance it was a necessary thing thou shouldst want; endeavor lawfully to supply it; if God bless not thy endeavor, bless Him that knoweth what is fittest for thee. Thou art God's patient, prescribe not thy Physician. F. Quarles. We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do ; therefore, never go abroad in search of your wants ; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you ; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. Colton. A great number of our wants are simply special wants of the imagination ; we want them simply because we think that we want them ; they give us no enjoyment when we obtain them ; the want of them is only known by a disagreeable feeling when we are without them.' Fichte. WANTONNESS. Spend not thy days in wantonness. Ptah Hotep. A wanton eye is a messenger of au unchaste heart. - St. Augustine. We are suicides, if wantonness and luxury be our gradual destruction. R. Baldwin. Wantonness, liberty, youth, and riches, are al- ways enemies to honesty. Solom. A Brahmin should not embrace, or look after women with wantonness. Memw. The wanton prefers the enjoyment of forbidden pleasure rather than return to virtue. Horace. Beware, young man, beware of the allurements of wantonness: and let not the harlot tempt thee to her delights. R. Dodsley. Most passions decrease as we advance in life : but wantonness and the love of women increase with our years and strengthen with our age. "J. Bartlett. A R O S Z O Ú O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 1007 WAR. War begets heroes. Dyctys. War is death's harvest. Leti. Prosecute war with vigor. Mwynvavr. Let it be, war to the knife. Maid of Saragossa. War makes brave men rise. Blacasset. War is pleasing to the gods. Tanoa. War is a rough, violent trade. Schiller. War is the sink of all injustice. Fielding. Necessity makes war to be just. Bias. War is often a judgment of God. P. Folger. To espouse war costs many lives. As-Swlaihi. War is among the miseries of life. Orosius. The seat of war is always miserable. F. Quarles. War is sometimes the way to peace. N. Greene. Nothing ought to be despised in war. Nepos. Let those who love war perish in war. Tomyris. War brings no glory to the effeminate. De Born. The fear of war is worse than war itself. Seneca. There never was a good war or a bad peace. Franklin. A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war. Lºwther. In time of war the devil makes more room in hell. - Egred. No man is permitted to make a mistake twice in Wal’. Lamachºws. Cruelty in war buyeth conquest at the dearest price. Sir P. Sidney. War is righteous when it is waged in a right Call Se. - Baldwin I. What madness is it to summon gloomy death by wars? Agostini. An error committed in war may prove irreme- diable. Lord Bacon. War is just when it is carried on to promote justice. J. A. Andrew. War is that mad game which the world so loves to play. Swift. When war has begun the fiends of hell are un- chained. J. Florio. War ought to be deliberately begun, but speed- ily ended. Phillippe Quinaw.lt. He who has made no mistakes in war, has never made war. . Twrenne. War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never. Colton. In a civil war, whichever party wins, the coun- try must suffer. Otho. WAR. Success in war, like charity in religion, covers a multitude of sins. Napier. To lead an uninstructed people to war is to throw them away. Confucius. War is the curse, and peace is the blessing of God upon a nation. Lord Burleigh. If Christian nations were nations of Christians, there would be no wars. S. Jenyms. War is neither to be timidly shunned, nor is it to be unjustly provoked. Pliny. War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings should not play at. Cowper. Peace is the happy, natural state of man ; war his corruption, his disgrace. J. Thomson. War is the Pharo table of governments, and na- tions the dupes of the game. T. Paine. Nothing else but the body and its desires cause war, seditions, and fightings. Plato. No success in war can be expected unless soldiers are taught the tactics of war. Paron Stewben. Nations may be great aside from war, but war is Sometimes the Salvation of a nation. S. F. Hwnt. The king who makes war on his enemies tender- ly, distresses his subjects most cruelly. Dr. Johnson. The existence of war always implies injustice in one at least, of the parties concerned. R. Hall. In time of war we must be speedy in execution, and advance to honor through the path of danger. | Siliws Italicus. —t— Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be in view except the acquisition of €a,Cé. sº Cicero. p \--~ The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war. A. Helps. That man is not bound by no social, religious, or domestic tie who would court civil war with all its horrors. Homer. It is the right of war for conquerers to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure. Coesar, If the cause and end of war be justifiable, all the means that appear mecessary to the end are justi- fiable also. Paley. War is the trade of barbarians, and the art of bringing the greatest physical force to bear on a single point. Napoleon I. War is but an organized barbarism, and an in- heritance of the savage state, however disguised or ornamented. Napoleon III. war spreads over continents the glooms of the world of woe, while peace illumines them with the radiance of heaven. J. S. C. Abbott. Among arms, said the Roman author, laws are silent ; among arms, we may add, the temples of prayer are voiceless. Bartol. 1008 J) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. "WAR. A great war leaves a country with three great armies—an army of mourners, an army of cripples, and an army of thieves. Michael Jermin. The necessity of war, which among human ac- tions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law. Sir W. Raleigh. War has always the same effect upon nations as upon individuals; it always destroys the feeble and strengthens the strong. Sin' S. W. Baker. War breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhap- py. He who has given up both victory and defeat, he, the contented, is happy. Dhammapada. War is pleasant to those who have no experience of it, but any one who knows it from the heart, greatly dreads its approach. Horace. War is national madness, an irrational act con- fined to rational beings, the pastime of kings and statesmen, the curse of subjects. Chatfield. No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all interchange of courtesy between the combatants impossible. T. B. Macawlay. War is apt to confound good and evil, thus—rash- ness is called bravery ; prudent delay, cowardice ; modesty, unmanliness; prodigality, generosity. Thweydides. In time of war we must employ arms to restore peace ; but when war is ended and tranquility res- tored, we should not forget those who served us. Tai-Tsong. When will the time come that the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, and men shall learn war no more ? Hasten, O Lord, this golden age C. Buck. War lessens the fear of death by making it so common, but at the same time, and for the same reason, it destroys the feeling of the sacredness of life. Bovee. The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to the enemy with the least harm to our- selves; and this, of course, is to be effected by stra- tagem. W. Irving. The life of a state is like that of men ; the latter have the right of killing in self-defence; the former have the right to make wars for their own pre- servation. Montesquiew. That men should kill one another for want of something else to do, which is the case of all vol- unteers in war, seems to be so horrible to human- ity that there needs no divinity to control it. Lord Clarendon. In war, the skill of a commander is shown in drawing an enemy into an engagement when they are weak, or placed at a disadvantage, and in ability to avoid a battle when they are the strong- €T. Plutarch. Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem, is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force. Machiavelli. W.A.R. In ancient times war was made for conquest : to these have succeeded wars for religion ; the next pretext was for commerce, and lastly, for politi- cal opinions. C. J. Foac. Kings play at war unfairly with republics ; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves. W. S. Landor. War suspends the rules of moral obligation, and what is long suspended is in danger of being total- ly abrogated ; civil wars strike deepest of all into the manners of the people. Burke. What a fine-looking thing is war ! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it— what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform. D. Jerrold. War, though it may be undertaken, according to popular opinions and popular language, with jus- tice, and prosecuted with success, is a most awful calamity ; it generally finds men sinners, or makes them such. S. Paſ?”. The success of war is not so much dependent On arms, as on the possession of money, by means of which arms are rendered serviceable, and more particularly so when a military power is fighting with a naval. Thucydides. I abominate war as unchristian ; I hold it the greatest of human crimes; I deem it to involve all others—violence, blood, rapine, fraud ; everything that can deform the character, alter the nature, and debase the name of man. Lord Browgham. All know that there is nothing more unhappy than a civil war, in which the conquered are un- fortunate, and the conquerors are culpable, and in which the former are destroyed by, and the latter destroy, their dearest friends. Dionysius. War is that miserable desolation that finds a land before it like Eden, and leaves it behind like Sodom and Gomorrah, a desolate and forsaken wilderness; let it be sowed with the seed of man and beast, as a field with wheat, war will eat it up. T. Adams. In war people judge, for the most part, by the success, whatever is the opinion of the wiser sort ; let a man show all the good conduct that is possi- ble, if the event does not answer, ill fortune passes for a fault, and is justified but by a very few per- SODS. St. Evremond. Many delight in war, not for its carnage and woes, but for its valor and apparent magnanimi- ty; for the self-command of the hero; the fortitude which despises suffering ; the resolution which courts danger: the superiority of the mind to the body, to sensation, to fear. W. E. Channing. The violent destruction of life and property in- cident to war, the continual effort and alarm at- tendant on a state of continued danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. A. Hamiltom. cº-º A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 1009 W.A.R. Prejudice alone blinds us to the absurdity and the horror of those systematic murders which go by the name of wars, where man falls on man, brother slaughters brother, and where the cry of the widow and the orphan rise up to heaven long after the thunder of the fight and the clang of arms have ceased. H. K. White. War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is neverthe- less so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it. R. Sowthey. Of all the evils to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the genius of every other. War is the parent of armies ; from these proceed debt and taxes ; armies, and debts, and taxes, are the known instruments for bringing the many under the do- minion of the few. J. Madison. War never leaves where it found a nation ; it is never to be entered into without a mature deliber- ation—not a deliberation lengthened out into a per- plexing indecision, but a deliberation leading to a sure and fixed judgment. When so taken up, it is not to be abandoned without reason as valid, as fully and as extensively considered. Burke. War mends but few, and spoils multitudes ; it legitimates rapine, and authorizes murder; and these crimes must be ministered to by their lesser relatives, by covetousness and anger, and pride and revenge, and heats of blood, and wilder liberty, and all the evil that can be supposed to come from or run to such cursed causes of mischief. Jeremy Taylor. The friends of humanity will deprecate war wheresoever it may appear. My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amuse- ments, than in preparing implements, and exer- cising them for the destruction of mankind. Washington. We punish murders and massacres committed among private persons. What do we respecting the wars, and the glorious crime of murdering whole nations? Here avarice and cruelty know no bounds; barbarities are authorized by decrees of the senate and votes of the people ; and enormities, forbidden in private persons, are ordered and sanctioned by legislators; things which if a man had done in his private capacity, they would have paid for with their lives. Seneca. Wars have hitherto been waged for territorial or commercial advantages, to preserve the bal- ance of power, to gratify ambition, to support family compacts between allied sovereigns; but seldom for the noble objects of promoting civil and religious liberty. The world is now approach- ing another era ; the conflict will be neither for territory, nor treasure, nor navigation, nor for- tresses, but in one awful phrase, for principle ; for freedom, self-government, and independence, will be the portentous prizes at stake. John Taylor. "WAR. - The gospel has but a forced alliance with war; its doctrine of universal brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks ; the bellow- ing speech of cannon and baptism of blood mock its liturgies and Sacraments ; its gentle beatitudes would hardly serve as mottoes for defiant banners, nor its list of graces as names for ships-of-the-line. E. H. Chapin. War at best is a Savage thing, and wades to its object through a sea of violence and injustice ; yet there are certain laws connected with it with which men of honor will adhere ; mor must we be so bent upon victory as to try to gain it by acts of villainy and baseness; for a great general ought to make use of his own skill and bravery, and not depend on the knavery of others. Camillws. Before thou undertake a war, let thine eye num- ber thy forces, and let thy judgment weigh them ; if thou hast a rich enemy, no matter how poor thy soldiers be, if courageous and faithful; trust not too much to the power of thy treasure, for it will de- ceive thee, being more apt to expose thee for a prey, than to defend thee; gold is not able to find good soldiers, but good soldiers are able to find out gold. F. Qwarles. If we attend to the consequences of war, what a wide field of misery opens upon us! Oh that the great ones of the earth were but a little more inclined to the reflection | What conquest was ever worth the useful lives lost to accomplish it 2 What battle was ever fought that did not hurry thousands of trembling and unprepared Souls into the presence of their Offended Redeemer? O God 1 when thou makest disquisition for blood, upon whom wilt thou lay the guilt of those torrents of blood that have been shed for no earthly purpose whatever, but to gratify the detestable and insolent ambition of a few poor puny creatures like ourselves. T. Kirk. The laws of war force us to appropriate to our- selves what belongs to our enemy, to destroy their forts and cities, their ships and harbors, the fruits of their country, with the inhabitants, for the pur- pose of weakening them, and adding strength to ourselves ; yet when men proceed to wreck their fury on senseless objects, whose destruction will neither be of advantage to themselves, nor in the slightest degree disable their opponent from carry- ing on the war, what else can we say of such pro- ceedings, except that they are the acts of men devoid of all feelings of propriety, and infected by frenzy. Polybius. Wars of opinion, as they have been the most de- structive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts; being appeals from right to might, and from argu- ment to artillery ; the fomenters of them have con- sidered the raw material, man, to have been formed for no worthier purposes than to fill up gazettes at home with their names, and ditches abroad with their bodies; let us hope that true philosophy, the joint offspring of a religion that is pure, and of a reason that is enlightened, will gradually prepare a better order of things, when mankind will no longer be insulted, by seeing bad pens mended by good swords, and weak heads exalted by strong hands. Colton. 64 1010 J) A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. WARNING. After warnings turn unto the Lord. R. Barclay. The young require frequent admonitions ; the ignorant and self-deluded solemn warnings. G. Crabb. It is good to take warnings by other's harms, and by the sight of their death, to look after our own life. R. Vemming. How many there are who take pains to hush or remove the voice of warning coming forth from the point of danger, who, as soon as the warning ceases, founder upon the rock of temptation, and are lost forever. Prof. McCosh. Warning not taken is a certain presage of de- struction ; when lesser warnings will not serve, God looks into His quiver for deadly arrows; wicked men are even ambitious of destruction ; judgments need not go to find them out ; they run to meet their bane. R. Hall. Warn the boatman before he enters the current ; and then, if he is swept down the rapids, he des- troys himself ; and so, let us warn you before you depart this life : let us preach to you while as yet your bones are full of marrow, and the sinews of your joints are not loosed. C. H. Spurgeon. WARRIOR. The warrior ignores law. Schah Abas. The warrior who cultivates his mind polishes his 8,1"ITRS. De Boufflers. The laurels of the warrior are only achieved on the field of blood. Mrs. E. C. Embwry. Warriors should not fight with the scabbard in- stead of the blade. H. Bomar. The true warrior receiveth his enemy as the dry dust receiveth the first drops of rain. Antar. The chance of arms is ever changing ; no pru- dent warrior holds his foe in derision. Goethe, The warrior distinguished in fight must, above all, stand undaunted, wounded, or wounding. - Homer. The greater warrior has usually his darker lines of character, necessary to constitute his greatness. W. S. Londor. Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are prin- cipally remembered for the mischief they have done. Bovee. Every warrior may be said to be a soldier of fortune, and the best commanders to have a lot- tery for their work. R. Sowth. The barbarities of war are almost wholly covered up by the burning desire of the youthful warrior to attain a glorious name which shall be remembered in history. T. Chalmers. There exists a higher than the warrior's excel- lence : in war itself war is the end that is aimed at ; the vast and sudden deeds of violence, the striking wonders of the moment, these are not they that generate the calm, the blissful, and the endur- ing mighty. Schiller. WASTEFULNESS. Wastefulness is a crime. E. P. Day. Man wasteth time, then time wasteth him. Shakspeare. If we waste little to-day, we shall have more for the morrow. Acton. Wastefulness begets want, want begets sickness, and sickness death. Memander. Those riches are to be despised that are lost through wastefulness and vice. Philip of Macedon. Little wastes in great establishments, constantly Occurring, may defeat the energies of a mighty capital. L. Beecher. Rich men through wastefulness, idleness, and delicious pleasures, are more gross in conceit than poorer persons. Symesivts. Life requires the most rigid economy ; if we waste our years, we shall live to want hours, and never to regain what we have foolishly wasted. J. Boºtlett. We should never waste those things that will bring us comfort and happiness; and he who squanders in some foolish manner the earnings of his labor, will in his old age suffer for his prodi- gality and wastefulness. James Ellis. Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is ; economy on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to main- tain a man genteely, and waste on the other, by which on the same income another man lives shab- bily, cannot be defined ; it is a very nice thing ; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than an- other, we cannot tell how. Dr. Johnson. WATCHFULNESS. Faith keeps us watchful. Cardinal Wiseman. Without perpetual watchfulness and diligence, holiness can never be attained. N. Howe. He who remembers what has fallen out, will be watchful against what may happen. JR. Sowth. Watchfulness is the readiness and preparation with which the believer always waits for his being called out of this world. Romaine. As the sentinel watches for the coming foe, SO should the Christian watch for the approach of his enemies, and be prepared for conflict and victory. J. Bate. A single neglect of watchfulness will soon render passion fatally imordinate ; perpetual watchfulness is the only guarantee of the present purity and eternal joy. Magoom. One spot causeth a whole garment to be washed ; so watching one sin makes us watch all ; when the householder sees the rain come in in one place, he sets to looking through the whole roof. W. Gwrmall. Watchfulness keeps the heart free from sin ; if once we let go the bridle, it will run out so far, that it will be long ere we can bring it back to goodness; it will be so loose and idle, that it will be long ere we can work in again into true devo- tion. Dyke. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW. S. IOII WATER, Water is nature's carrier. M. F. Mawry. Water is the best of all things. Pindarws. Pure water is a good medicine. John Actuarius. The Great Spirit created the waters. Massasoit. Every state should provide pure water for its people. Aristotle. A good man is like a running water, which fills many vessels. Sagamore Chief. Water tastes better out of a wooden bucket than out of a golden goblet. H. W. Shaw. Water while it runs has good qualities ; when it settles it becomes corrupt. Ibn Kalākis. Water rises to heaven to seek blessings, and bring them down again to earth. Tsze-Sze. The waters are not weary; they run without ceasing night and morning alike. Sekesa. When thou art thoroughly accustomed to drink- ing water, thou wilt perceive its excellence. Sage. If water were so scarce as to command a high price, men would esteem it the greatest of luxu- ries. G. D. Premtice. If you wish for a clear mind, strong muscles, and quiet nerves, and long life and power prolonged into old age, avoid all drinks but water, and mild infusions of that fluid. Sillinnam. Water is the fittest drink for all persons, of all ages and temperaments ; of all the productions of nature or art, it comes the nearest to that univer- sal remedy so much searched after by mankind, but never discovered. C. F. Hoffman. Water, soft, pure, graceful water there is no shape into which you can throw her that she does not seem lovelier than before. Earth has no jewels So brilliant as her own spray ; fire has no rubies like what she steals from the sunset ; air has no robes like the grace of her ever-changing drapery of silver. N. P. Willis. wAVEs. None can control the waves. Mary Anne Browne. A breaking wave is most beautiful in the moment of its dissolution. T. E. Newhof. The ocean waves chase one another down like the generations of men. G. Keate. If the wave could speak in any other language than that of its own harsh thunder, how many tales of agony and suffering might it unfold. Selkirk. The deep mellow voice of the waves of the mighty deep is full of mystery and awe ; and the ocean moaning over the dead it holds in its bosom, lulls them to unbroken slumbers in the chambers of its unfathomable depths. Haliburton. The common cause of waves is the friction of the wind upon the surface of the water ; little ridges or elevations first appear, which by continuance of the force gradually increase until they become the rolling mountains seen where the wind sweeps over a great extent of water. F. Marryatt. WEAKNESS. The weakest goes to the wall. Shakspeare. Every man has his weak side. J. T. Headley. The best men have their weaknesses. R. Hall. The greatest people have their weak points. Lowisa M. Alcott. A weak body is the assassin of a strong mind. T. Tilton. A weak man is often so good that he is good for nothing. E. P. Day. A general should make weakness appear strength to his enemy. Fabints. The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness. Zimmerman. I am satisfied there is more weakness among men than malice. H. W. Shaw. Nothing is so strong but may be endangered even by the weakest. Rufus. Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise 1 Lavater. Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters ; but our strength is the forced fruit. Lady Blessington. Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel, that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy. Voltaire. Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education ; it is a question which of the two give us most trouble. Goethe. The more weakness the more falsehood ; strength goes straight : every cannon-ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked ; weaklings must lie. w Richter. Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength ; there is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage. Hazlitt. In public affairs, we may usually infer the weak- mess of the cause by the excessive price that minis- ters have freely paid to those whose eloquence, or whose sophistry, has enabled them to make that weakness triumph. Colton. Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred, or awk- ward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. Chesterfield. Weakness can never be beautiful, either morally or physically ; and though the feminine type may possess greater softness and more feeling, it must be active, firm, and healthy, or it cannot be beau- tiful : the weak mind, distracted by alternations of feeling, and constant craving for help and sym- pathy from others, cannot at the same time possess that tenderness and unselfish devotion which is the loveliest trait of the female character. M. Martell. 1012 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AW. "WEALTH. WEALTH. Wealth is the bane of a fool. Demophilus. Much learning shows how little mortals know : e *-mºmºmº- #º much wealth, how little worldings can enjoy. Wealth is not always fortune. Eudocia. E. Yowng. Desire not the wealth of others. Gawtama. The accumulation of wealth is followed by an -mºs-tº-º-º-º: & incre f d b tite for *ē. Wealth is often a curse to man. kaar, increase or care, and by an appeate to "ºrace. Worldly wealth is the devil's bait. Burton. There is no society, however free and democra- Wealth opens every well-barred door. As-Shafi. Great wealth does not prevent avarice. Al-Rumi. He who covets wealth disdains to wait. Juvenal. Wealth is seldom the result of learning. Porson. It is not good to obtain wealth too rapidly. Publius Syrus. Wealth is an excellent thing for doing good. Sir T. Gresham. To obtain wealth, keep thy poverty a secret. Al-Tabari. Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. R. W. Emerson. All a man's wealth or poverty is within himself. R. Hall. What is wealth in one country is poverty in an- other. J. Partom. Employ the surplus wealth of the church in acts of charity. Bishop Acacius. Lawful wealth hath legs; unlawful wealth, legs and wings. Yahya Ibn Main. A man of wealth is but a steward for the good of mankind. Peter Cooper. The million covet wealth, but how few dream of its perils | E. Neale. He who has acquired his wealth unjustly cannot enjoy it long. Hesiod. Wealth is like the glance of the eye ; it is a most unstable friend. Høvamcil. Wealth and learning are blessings if devoted to the service of God. Ambrosius. Nobody makes money in this world ; wealth is merely money saved. E. Owldhall. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. Epicurus. Less coin, less care ; to know how to dispense with wealth is to possess it. C. Reynard. Those to whom nature sends wealth she saddles with lawsuits and dyspepsia. T. Gainsborough. The possession of great wealth conceals both low birth and a knavish character. Memonder. Wealth legitimately acquired is valuable, and it is only valuable when thus acquired. J. G. Holland. The acquisition of wealth is a work of labor : its possession a source of continual fear. P. Le Coq. A man who possesses wealth possesses power; but it is power to do evil as well as good. A. S. Roe. tic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy. Bulwer. True wealth does not consist in the possession of gold and silver, but in the judicious use made of them. Napoleon I. A wealthy man who obtains his wealth honestly and uses it rightly, is a great blessing to the com- munity. H. Winslow. To acquire wealth is difficult ; to preserve it, more difficult ; but to spend it wisely, most diffi- cult of all. E. P. Day. Seek not proud wealth : but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. Lord Bacom. Wealth is to be used only as the instrument of action ; not as the representative of civil honors and moral excellence. Jane Porter. If you pass. your life in wealth, adopt such a mode of life as will not cause you discontent if re- duced to an inferior position. Az-Zahsiri. Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty ; as where the sun is brightest the shade is deepest. W. S. Landor. Wealth is like a bird ; it hops all day from man to man, as that doth from tree to tree and none can say where it will roost at night. T. Adams. Many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, but have lost as they ran those apples of gold—the mind and the power to enjoy it. Twpper. Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot Sup- port a man ; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest. Pythagoras. People who are arrogant on account of their wealth are about equal to Our Laplanders, who measure a man's worth by the number of his rein- deer. Frederika Bremer. The way to wealth is as plain as the road to market ; it depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality ; it is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. Franklin. Wealth, after which you run with so much ar- dor, is like the shadow that walks about you ; if you run after it, it flies you ; if you fly from it, it follows you. Robert Morris. True wealth consists in health, vigor, and cour- age, domestic quiet, concord, public liberty, plenty of all that is necessary and contempt of all that is superfluous. Fémélon. Let the poor no more be their own persecutors; no longer pay homage to wealth, and instantane- ously the whole idolatrous worship will cease—the idol will be broken. Mrs. E. Inchbald. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. I 0.13 TVWEALTH. The wealthy are composed of those who have inherited property from others, those who have acquired it accidentally, and those who have real- ized it for themselves. Ballerini. He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants; in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, it creates more wants than it supplies. Mme. Chatelet. The consideration of the small addition often made by wealth to the happiness of the possessor, may check this desire, and prevent that insatia- bility which sometimes attends it. Malebranche. It is their wealth that gives men their influence, when they have received it from fortune combined with disinterested virtue, and take it to their house as an attendant that finds him many friends. Pinda ruts. Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent ; for wealth, al- though it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible. Colton. Banish all inordinate desires after wealth ; if you gain an abundance, be discreetly liberal, judi- ciously benevolent, and if your children have ar- rived at their majority, die your own executor. L. C. Judson. That wealth consists in money, or in gold and silver, is a popular motion which naturally arises from the double function of money, as the instru- ment of commerce, and as the measure of value. Adam Smith. What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness; those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously, not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make. .. E. P. Whipple. Many men want wealth, not a competence alone, but a five-story competence ; everything subserves this ; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath. H. W. Beecher. If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine ; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it ; if oppres- sion found it, let repentance restore it ; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it ; so shall thy honor be safer, better, and cheaper. F. Quarles. Wealth is not acquired as many persons suppose, by fortunate speculations and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice of industry, frugality, and economy : he who relies upon these means will rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other, will generally become bankrupt. F. Wayland. Guard wealth by entails and settlements as we will, the most affluent plenty may be stripped, and find all its worldly comforts like so many withered leaves drooping from us; the crowns of princes may be shaken, and the greatest that ever awed the world, have looked back and moralized upon the turn of the wheel. Sterne. "WEALTH, |But is it not some reproach on the economy of Providence that such a one who is a mean, dirty, fellow, should have amassed wealth enough to buy half a nation ? Not in the least ; he made himself a mean, dirty fellow for that end ; he has paid his health, his conscience, and his liberty for it ; and will you envy him his bargain? Mrs. Barbauld. There be three causes that chiefly move men's minds to desire worldly wealth : the one is the love of riches, ease, mirth, and pleasure ; another is the desire of worship, honor, and glory ; the third is the doubtfulness and mistrust of wicked and faith- less men, who are too much careful for their own living here in the world, and think all they can get too little to suffice them. Solom. A too great disproportion of wealth among citi- zens weakens any state ; every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labor, in a full pos- session of all the necessaries and many of the con- veniences of life ; no one can doubt but such an equality is more suitable to human nature, and diminishes much less from the happiness of the rich than it adds to that of the poor. Hºwme. . Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches, will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of volup- tuOusmeSS. Dr. Johnson. What boots the gold hid within doors in untold heaps ? Not so the truly wise employ their wealth : some give part to their own enjoyment, some to the bard should be assigned, part should be em- ployed to do good to our kinsmen and others of mankind, and even to offer sacrifices to the gods ; not to be a bad host, guests should be welcome to come and go whenever they choose, but chiefly to honor the sacred interpreters of the muses, that you may live to fame when life is done. Theocritus. If wealth is the obedient and laborious slave of virtue and of public honor, then wealth is in its place and has its use ; but if this order is changed, and honor is to be sacrificed to the conservation of riches, riches—which have neither eyes nor hands, nor anything truly vital in them—cannot long sur- vive the being of their vivifying powers, their legitimate masters, and their potent protectors. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free ; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. Burke. Excessive wealth is neither glory nor happiness ; the cold and sordid wretch who thinks only of him- self: who draws his head within his shell, and never puts it out but for the purpose of lucre and ostentation ; who looks upon his fellow-creatures, not only without sympathy, but with arrogance and insolence, as if they were made to be his vassals, and he to be their lord ; as if they were made for no other purpose than to pamper his avarice ; such a man may be rich, but trust me, he can never be happy, nor virtuous, nor great. W. Wirt. 1014 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z. A C O AV. "WE ARINESS. Weariness follows success. W. Cown'tem. We must expect to be weary in this life. L. Rae. All pleasures that affect the body must needs weary. R. Sowth. Weariness is often caused by ill-timed questions of strangers. Rosa Bonheur. We are all never weary of receiving, soon weary of attending. R. Hall. The reason why lovers are never weary of one another is this—they are always talking of them- selves. Rochefoucauld. Though some men are sheltered from the storms of life, they are not free from weariness of spirit, which of its own accord comes over them. James Ellis. There is nothing so insupportable to man as to pe without passion, occupation, or amusement ; then it is that he feels his own nothingness, and his soul is full of weariness. Pascal. A wicked man reduced to hardships and misfor- tune, is truly in a miserable case ; he has lost all the enjoyments his heart was formerly set upon ; and having no relish for those of another kind, is left altogether dead to any sense of pleasure, and must of course languish and sink under the weight of a joyless and wearisome being. G. Hugues. WEATHER.. Weather and women change often. Cwdworth. The weather is the spirit of nature. Egede. The winds and the weather are the most uncer- tain of all things. Cicero. Fair weather is prognosticated by a ruddy sun- ny sunset, and a grey and misty morning at Sun- rise. G. Gruber. The weather may be studied with profit, and predicted with accuracy for weeks, if not seasons beforehand ; animals do this ; then why should not man Ż O. S. Fowler. A man that is weather-wise, though he find an abatement of the storm, yet will not stir from under his shelter, while he sees it thick in the wind. R. Hall. When the swallows fly high, fine weather is to be expected or continued ; but when they fly low, and close to the ground, rain is almost surely ap- proaching. Sir H. Davy. The weather is a stern democrat ; it knows no difference between the rich and the poor ; but deals out rain, hail, Sunshine, and storm, without par- tiality to all. Emma M. Connelly. In all ages of the world, man has attempted to explain and prognosticate the changes of the weather ; but such is the complication of the subject, and the vast number of circumstances to be taken account of, that no theory can furnish rules for determining the order in which they suc- ceed each other, or for predicting the state of the weather at a future time, with any approach to certainty. H. Raper. TVWEDLOCK. Wedlock is for a man's good. Flaacman. Humble wedlock is far better than proud vir- ginity. St. Awgustine. That is happy wedlock when neither party sur- vives each other. Eponima. Wedlock is always an insipid, a vexatious, or a happy condition. Addison. Wedlock is honorable, not only for laity, but for bishops and clergy. Paphnwtius. Wedlock is two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. F. Halm. He that joineth himself in wedlock to a fair face, ties himself oftentimes to a foul bargain. JBias. Women are an evil ; but yet we cannot conduct our household affairs without this evil ; for towed and not to wed is equally an evil. Susarion. Thrice happy and more are those who are bound in wedlock by an unbroken chain of love, and un- ruffled by a querulous temper live affectionately till their latest hour, Horace. I maintain that those entirely free from wed- lock, and who claim no title to a father's name, surpass in happiness those who have families ; those who are childless are relieved of much mi- sery. Ewripides. The most smart pangs which we meet with are in the beginning of wedlock, which proceed from ignorance of each other's humor, and want of pru- dence to make allowances for a change from the most careful respect, to the most unbounded fami- liarity. Steele. We see many people so fortunate in wedlock that we might say that their life gave some idea or re- presentation of the joys of Paradise ; others again are so unluckily matched, that those devils who tempt the hermits that dwell in the deserts of Thebias and Montserrat, are not so wretched as they. Rabelais. If thou desire to be chaste in wedlock, keep thy- self chaste before thou weddest ; he that hath known pleasure unlawfully will hardly be res- trained from unlawful pleasure. One woman was created for one man ; he that strays beyond the limits of liberty is brought into the verge of sla- very ; where one is enough, two is too many, and three is too few. F. Quarles. "WEEDS. Rich soils are often to be weeded. Lord Bacon. The more weeds resemble corn, the more dan- gerous they are. Confucius. A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. R. W. Emerson. Wise fathers are not as well aware in weeding from their children ill things, as they were before in grafting in them learning. R. Ascham. Leave out all taste in our gardens, and let nature have full sway, and we shall find nothing but weeds; so with man, leave out all culture and his mind is a chaos. James Ellis. A R O S E O U O T A 7" / O AV S. I () 15 WEEPING.. TVWICKEDNESS. Weep not for shadows of evil. Jaafar. Hate wickedness. Solom. Never let us sit down and laugh beside those Wickedness violates all law. Demophilus. who weep. Theognis. - -* Abstain from all wickedness. Gawtama. Weep for love, but not for anger ; a cold rain will never bring flowers. Grace Greenwood. Man comes weeping into the world, and weep- ing mourners watch his departing breath. J. Limen. The eye that cannot glisten at the tale of dis- tress, and weep at suffering humanity, has a heart encased in marble, and feelings that would disgrace a stoic. J. Bartlett. Weeping, when called forth by other's sorrows, is an infirmity which no man would wish to be without ; as an expression of generous sympathy, it affords essential relief to the sufferer. G. Crabb. WELL-DOING. Well-doing is never lost. Ahmed Vesik. Well-doing is its own reward. Francis II. The well-doing of anything carries its blessing with it. Hyperides. You cannot learn well-doing from the wicked ; the wolf practices not the tanner's art. Sactoli. Patient continuance in well-doing always wins: for even if success is not reached, the mind is stronger and the character nobler. H. L. Boltwood. Whatever we attempt to do, let it be done well: it is the well-doing of an act, however trivial, that carries with it the heart's willingness. James Ellis. As the sun never leaves off shining, though clouds sometimes obscure its light, so we must never cease to do well, even to our enemies and persecutors. D. Cawdray. God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns: it is not so much the matter that is done, but the matter how it is done, that God minds; not how much, but how well ! It is the well-doing that meets with the well-done ; let us therefore serve God, not nominally and verbally, but adverbially. R. Venning. WHIM. An habitual whim is no whim at all. Zschökke. The young are apt to have their freaks, and the old to indulge in whims. N. Webster. Men often indulge in whims which are in their nature strange and often laughable. F. M. Eden. Whims are harder to remove than sorrows; for time instead of weakening, strengthens them. Love. That man is whimsical who falls upon unaccoun- table modes and imagines unaccountable things. G. Crabb. We must yield something even to the whims of people ; especially if we would have our own in- dulged. Bovee. The whims of some people are not unlike the freaks of a young colt, and the same measures should be adopted to eradicate them—stern treat- ment and strict discipline. James Ellis. Wickedness fits one to govern. Philippus Arabs. Wickedness dims the understanding. Deharbe. Overcome wickedness with goodness. Bwddha. Be not a companion of a wicked man. Hotep. He that helps the wicked hurts the good. Crates. No man is so wicked that he has not some good in him. Hatvamcil. When the church is lukewarm wickedness great- ly abounds. J. V. Andrea. The swift-footed vengeance of heaven cuts short the wicked. Sophocles. The sure way to wickedness is always through wickedness. Seneca. Oftentimes the wickedness of a few brings cala- mity on all. Publius Syrws. It is a wickedness to shelter a wicked man from punishment. Phocylides. As holiness is pure benevolence, so wickedness is pure selfishness. S. Hopkins. Wickedness is an art in which princes excel the common people. Machiavelli. A good heart would rather lie in the dust than rise by wickedness. R. Hall. To see and listen to the wicked is already the be- ginning of wickedness. Confucius. It is easier to hate a wicked man than to keep ourselves from wickedness. E. P. Day. Wicked men cannot be friends, either among themselves or with the good. Socrates. No one kind of true peace is consistent with any sort of prevailing wickedness. Stillingfleet. He that works wickedness by another is guilty of the act committed by himself. Bias. I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. Swift. The wicked generally take pleasure in false pleasures, but the good in the true. Plato. It is safer that a wicked man should never be accused than that he should be acquitted. Livy. When I was wicked my countrymen called me good ; now I am good they call me wicked. Yehoalay. It is easy for thee to get associates in wickedness; the road is smooth, and the dwellers are all around thee. Hesiod. Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but at the long run he that sets all knaves at work will pay them. L’Estrange. 1016 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. WICEEDNESS. Dost thou not know what punishment awaits the wicked after this life, and in what happiness the good live : Lucian. If the wicked flourish, and thou suffer, be not discouraged ; they are fatted for destruction, thou art dieted for health. T. Fuller. The life of a wicked or worldly man is a very drudgery infinitely more toilsome, vexatious, and unpleasant than a godly life is. R. Sanderson. We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. Dryden. It is supposable that, in the eyes of the angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness. R. A. Willmott. Wickedness is very easily overtaken ; for al- ways looking to gain only, it goes forward fool- ishly, and is hastely induced to come to a decision. * Demetriws. Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience, from the secret dread of Divine displeasure, and of the vengeance of an- Other world 2 Tillotson. The triumph of the wicked is always short ; when they feel themselves secure from evil, and begin to boast of their triumph, then judgment overwhelms them. E. Foster. How short is the triumph of the wicked ' When they begin to crow, God stoppeth their breath ; and judgment seizes upon them, when they think no danger near them. H. Smith. Wickedness may well be compared to a bottom- less pit, into which it is easier to keep one's self from falling, than being fallen to give one's self any stay from falling infinitely. Sir. P. Sidney. Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious prin- ciples afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other. Dr. Johnson. Nature has formed us with honest inclinations, and when we are so inclined, it is so very easy to be virtuous, that if we seriously reflect, nothing is more astonishing than to see so many wicked. Quintilian. It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and barefaced assurance, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and the firebrands, of the wicked. Cicero. A society composed of none but the wicked, could not exist ; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity. Colton. God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness ; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad, are never capable of being in the highest degree wick- ed; the human faculties and reason are in such cases deranged. Bºtrke. WICE-EDINESS. The mature of the wicked is in general fickle and variable ; while they are engaged in their evil deeds, they have resolution, and more than enough; when they have accomplished their foul acts, then it is that they begin to feel the difference between right and wrong. Juvenal. Wicked men after having spent a life in pros- perous guilt, and without being in trouble like other men, are frequently without any assignable cause, tormented with all the agonies of remorse ; so that the mere consciousness of guilt has become absolutely intolerable, and they have perished by derangement, or by suicide. F. Wayland. Wicked men are most narrow and confined spirits ; they are so contracted by the pinching particularities of earthly and created beings, so imprisoned in a dark dungeon of sensuality and selfishness, so straitened through their carnal de- signs and ends, that they cannot stretch them- selves, nor look beyond the horizon of time and Se]].S62. J. Smith. In the wicked there are not materials to form a great man. Dilate upon the wisdom of his views and designs, admire his conduct, exaggerate as you may his ability to find the most fit and direct means to reach the ends at which he aims ; if these ends be base, forethought can have no part in them; and when forethought is wanting, find greatness if you can. Bruyère. WIDOW. Widowhood is true freedom. Mme. Jardins. The bride of to-day may be to-morrow a widow. Jaafar. A widow mourns for one who mourns no more. Isabella Graham. The rich widow cries with one eye, and rejoices with the other. Cervantes. The widows of God's servants should be provided for by the people of God. W. Assheton. A widow ! that name is always suggestive of de- solation, want, and Sorrow. Famºny Fern. He that marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown in his dish. Yriarte. A rich widow is the only kind of second-hand goods that will always sell at prime cost. Franklin. He that impoverisheth his children to enrich his widow, destroys a quick hedge to make a dead Oſle. T. Fuller. Why is the widow generally prettier than the young girl? Because love has passed over her; because love still abides with her ; we see in herits beautifying traces: in cultivating such a flower time has not been wasted. Michelet. A widow ought to be more nice in her behavior than either a wife or a maid; the state she has passed through should make her observe a greater decorum, since she ought to resume the modesty and innocence of a maid, with the knowledge of a wife. J. Hintom. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 1017 WIFE. He that takes a wife takes care. Franklin. Obedience is the first duty of a wife. G. M. Baker. Only a wife can know a wife's trials. Xantippe. Caesar's wife must be above suspicion. Coesar. The first duty of a wife is to love her husband. The Duchess. Painting is my wife ; my works are my children. Michael Angelo. To marry a wife is an evil, but it is a necessary evil. Memonder. Love thy wife as thyself ; honor her more than thyself. Rabbi Simon. Take not a second wife ; even though the first be dead. º - Montamws. I have but one wife, and she is more than I can manage. George IV, of England. No one knows a wife's faults better than her husband. Pawlºws Æhmeliws. A good wife is a fortune to a man, especially if she is poor. Michelet. To the wife should be given the keys of the hus- band's house. P. J. Bailey. A perfect wife is the divinest gift ever vouch- Safed to man. Walter Besant. No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife. Richter. He that hath a wife and child hath given host- ages to fortune. Lord Bacon. A wife that dishonoreth her husband most dis- honoreth herself. Arria. Happy is the man who possesses a virtuous wife : his life is doubled. Goethe, A wife is under obligation to love, honor, and obey her husband. Sir J. Gower. Young wives seek to conquer by coquetting, old wives by worrying. Al-Hafiz. There is nothing better than a good wife, and nothing worse than a bad one. Hesiod. The wife is the shoe, the husband the foot ; the shoe should turn with the foot. Wife of Phocion. Men do not know their wives well ; but wives know their husbands perfectly. O. Few illet. A wise man should have a useful and good wife in his house, or not marry at all. Euripides. We cannot live happily with our wives, yet we cannot live happily without them. Metwllºws. A man's wives should all go with him to the next world, when death calls him there. Tanoa. No condition is hopeless where the wife possess- es firmness, decision, and economy. Burleigh. Deal not roughly with thy wife whose strength is less than thine ; but be thou a protection unto her. Amenemha I. WIFE. I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. Goldsmith. Thy wife is a constellation of virtues ; she is the moon, and thou art the man in the moon. Congreve. Since the wife is the better half of a man, why should he desire longer to live after that she be dead? Sir Samuel Romilly. A man should not take a wife merely that she may serve him ; yet many marry solely on this ac- COunt. Mencius. A wife full of truth, innocence, and love, is the prettiest flower that a man can wear next to his heart. Childs. A wife must have a hard heart, if a devoted husband who will anticipate every wish, cannot win it. Sarah Claacton. The theory of the law is, that the husband and wife are one, and that one the husband. Are there any wives 3 Prof. Walker. Nothing flatters a man so much as the happiness of his wife ; he is always proud of himself as the Source of it. Justus Moser. Does not every husband wish to have the best of wives, and does not every wife wish to have the best of husbands 2 Aspasia. There is a great deal to enjoy in the life of a minister's wife ; true, it has its peculiar cares and trials, but it has its comforts also. Mrs. E. S. Phelps. A good wife must be grave abroad, wise at home, patient to suffer, constant to love, friendly to all, and provident for her household. Theophrastus. Love thy wife, and cherish her as long as thou livest ; flattery is better than roughness, and will make her contented and diligent. Ptah Hotep. You may wish to marry a wife without a fail- ing ; but what if the lady, after you find her, hap- pens to be in want of a husband of the same char- acter 3 G. D. Prentice. No man knows what the wife of his bosom is— no man knows what a ministering angel she is— until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world. W. Irving. No man shall have save it be one wife ; and of concubines he shall have none. Thou shalt love thy wife with all thy heart, and cleave unto her, and none else. - Joseph Smith. A good wife must smile among a thousand per- plexities, and clear her voice to tones of cheerful- ness, when her frame is drooping with disease, or else languish alone. Caroline Gilman. The wife who commits herself to the flames with her husband's corpse, enters into celestial felicity with him, lauded by the heavenly choirs, and shall enjoy the delights of heaven while fourteen Incas reign. The Purama. The best time to choose a wife is early in the , morning ; if a young lady is at all inclined to sulks and slatternness, it is just before breakfast. As a general thing, a woman does not get on her tem- per, till after ten o'clock in the morning. Chisholm. 101S A) A Y’.S C O Z / A C O AV. WIFE. It is better to have a wife who cheapens every- thing, and buys nothing, than to be impoverished by one whose vanity will purchase everything, but whose pride will cheapen nothing. Colton. If a man go on a journey, his wife shall not di- vert herself by play, nor laugh, nor hear music, but shall fasten well the door, and remain private ; she shall never amuse herself during the absence of her husband. The Shaster. The diamond shows not its greatest lustre on a cloth of gold, but from a fabric of black gleam forth the brightest sparkles ; so do the virtues of a good wife—not from the costly drawing-room of the luxurious mansion, but from the garret-room of the sick husband do they scintillate. G. Herbert. The wife is the honor of the family, she who pre- sents the children ; the wife is the man's vital spirit, is the man’s half, is his best friend, and the source of his best felicity. The wife with her en- dearing discourse is the friend in solitude, the mother to the oppressed, and a refreshment on the journey in the wilderness of life. Mahābhārata. A good wife makes the cares of the world sit easy, and adds a sweetness to its pleasures ; she is a man's best companion in prosperity, and his only friend in adversity ; the most careful preserver of his health, and the kindest attendant on his sick- ness; a faithful adviser in distress, a comforter in affliction, and a discreet manager of all his domes- tic affairs. L. M. Stretch. The good wife is none of our dainty dames who love to appear in a variety of suits every day new, as if a good gown, like a stratagem in war, were to be used but once ; but our good wife sets up according to the keel of her husband's estate ; and if of high parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth that she forgets what she is by match. - T. Fuller. It is not for the fresh cheek, the full lip, the fair forehead, the parted sweeps of sunny hair, and the girlish charm of form and features, that we love the wives we have walked hand in hand with us for years, but for new graces, opening each mor- ning like flowers in the parterre, their predeces- sors having accomplished their beautiful mission and gone to seed. J. G. Holland. The prudent and discreet wife will very proper- ly regard the behavior of her husband as the pat- tern which she ought to follow and the law of her life, invested with a divine sanction from the mar- riage tie ; for if she can induce herself to submit patiently to her husband's mode of life, she will have no difficulty to manage her household affairs; but if not, she will not find it so easy. Aristotle. The man who can be contented to live with a pretty useful companion, without a mind, has lost in voluptuous gratifications a taste for more refined enjoyments; he has never felt the calm satisfac- tion that refreshes the parched heart like the silent dew of heaven—of being beloved by one who can understand him : in the society of his wife he is still alone, unless when the man is sunk in the brute. Mary Wolstonecraft. WIFE. A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice his sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety, her industry his surest wealth, her economy his safest steward, her lips his faith- ful counsellors, her bosom the softest pillow of his cares, and her prayers, the ablest advocates of Heaven's blessings on his head. Jeremy Taylor. The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion ; henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes, falls upon the old widow- er's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield them from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand was withered ; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every move- ment that he made brought him to the ground. Lamartime. There is much good sense and truth in the re- mark that no man ever prospered in the world without the co-operation of his wife : if she unites in mutual endeavors, or rewards his labor with an endearing smile, with what confidence will he re- sort to his merchandise or his farm, fly over lands, sail upon the seas, meet difficulty, or encounter danger, if he knows he is not spending his strength in vain, but that his labor will be rewarded by the sweets of home. J. Davies. A good wife should be like three things, which three things she should not be like ; first, she should be like a snail, to keep within her own house, but she should not be like the snail, to carry all she has upon her back ; secondly, she should be like an echo, to speak when spoken to, but she should not be like an echo, always to have the last word ; thirdly, she should be like a town-clock, always to keep time and regularity ; but she should not, like a town-clock, speak so loud that all the town may hear her. Shakspeare. The wife of a poor husband should practise in- dustry, frugality, and economy, with untiring vi- gilance; but if her husband is rich, she may have more regard to adornment ; to render home ele- gant and attractive, to make it an abode of hospi- tality, and to abound in deeds of personal kind- ness and charity to the poor will then enter more largely into the sphere of her duties; the wives of rich men may thus impart true value to wealth, and make it an ornament to their possessors and a blessing to the world. PH. Winslow. If thy fancy and judgment have agreed in the choice of a fit wife, be not too fond, lest she surfeit, nor too peevish, lest she languish : love so that thou mayest be feared ; be not too diffident, lest thou teach her to deceive thee, nor too suspicious, lest thou teach her to abuse thee : if thou See a fault, let thy love hide it : reprove her not openly, lest she grow bold; proclaim not her beauty, lest she grow proud ; show her not thy imperfections, lest she disdain thee : profane not her ears with loose communication, lest thou defile the sanctuary of her modesty ; an understanding husband makes a discreet wife ; and she, a happy husband. F. Qwarles. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. 1019 TVWILL. Will is power. Roger Bacom. Take the will for the deed. Lucius Hortensivs. Our will should yield to God's will. Taubmawnws, Great men will ; feeble ones wish. Juda. No one is a slave whose will is free. Maximus. To him that wills nothing is impossible. Kossuth. Power without will is not worth a rush. Kenyon. Nothing is impossible to a willing mind. Kenrick. People do not lack strength ; they lack will. V. Hugo, Where the will is ready, the feet are light. N. Le Fevre. Death is near one who follows his own will. Radir Mwnshi. National will is the supreme law of the republic. M. Van Burem. When God wills to come, all bolts and bars must yield. Callimachws. He who is firm in his will molds the world to himself. Goethe. Will without power is like children playing at Soldiers. Casimir. To one that wills there is a way ; if not, there is a way to a way. Harriet H. Day. All theory is against the freedom of the will ; all experience for it. Dr. Johnson, If the will be set on virtue there will be no prac- tice of wickedness. Confucius. It is easier to convince a man against his senses than against his will. T. James. Govern your will and affections by the will and word of your Creator. Sir P. Sidney. To those who err in judgment, not in will, we should be gentle in our anger. Sophocles. A man can do what he ought to do ; and when he says he cannot, he will not. Fichte. The will is the ruler of the human being, subject by nature only to the will of God. Mrs. Willard. Inanimate bodies only act by movement, and there is no true action without will. There is nothing so easy in itself but grows diffi- cult when performed against one's will. Terence. Sacrifice thy will for others, that they may be disposed to sacrifice their wills for thee. Talmud. Everything follows the will of the lordly great ; the human race lives at the beck of a few. Lucanus. The will is not a bare appetitive power, as that of the sensual appetite ; but it is a rational appe- tite. Sir M. Hale. Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reason- able. T. Jefferson. Rousseaw. the conscience is deceived by the will. WILL. No action will be considered as blameless unless the will was so ; for by the will the act was dic- tated. Seneca. The saddest failures of life are those that come from the not putting forth of power and will to succeed. E. P. Whipple. When a man strives against the Divine will with one beloved of heaven, a bitter doom comes quickly upon him. Homer. The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy ; its despotism in de- sires is called passion. Rivarol. It is only when the will is left free to direct the faculties that we can derive full gratification from our consciousness of power. Mrs. E. C. Embury. Prescribe no positive law to thy will ; for thou mayest be forced to-morrow to drink the same water thou despisest to-day. T. Fuller. Every man is conscious of a power to determine in things which he conceives to depend upon his determination ; this power is will. T. Reid. It is a mistaken maxim too generally advanced, that a man’s will is a kind of mirror wherein One may clearly discern his genuine character. Pliny. Will is better than mind ; for when a man wills, then he thinks in his mind, then he sends forth speech, and he sends it forth in a name. Chhángogya Upanishad. Whatever the will commands the whole man must do ; the empire of the will over all the facul- ties being absolutely overruling and despotic. R. Sowth. God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it ; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will. R. Baacter. When may the will be taken for the deed ? When the will is the obedience of the whole man; when the will is in fact the deed, that is, all the deed in our power. S. T. Coleridge. Power is not always proportionate to the will ; one should be consulted before the other ; but the generality of men begin by willing, and act after- wards as they can. Stanislaws. We have more power than will ; and it is only to exculpate ourselves that we often say things that are impracticable ; if we have sufficient will we have sufficient means. Rochefoucauld. In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it ; man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others. Humboldt. Men are misguided by a perverted will acting upon the conscience ; they follow what course the conscience directs, and are led into moral bondage : McCosh. Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur; the vul- gar, far from hiding their will, blab their wishes: a single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire. Lavater. 1020 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AW. WILL. The will differeth greatly from inferior natural desire which we call appetite; the object of appe- tite is whatsoever sensible good may be wished for ; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek. R. Hooker. In every moment of our life conscience is pro- claiming that our will is free ; it is the only thing that is wholly ours, and it rests solely with our- selves individually, whether we give it the right or the wrong direction. Smiles. An involuntary act, as it has no claim to merit, so neither can it induce any guilt ; the concurrence of the will, when it has its choice to do or to avoid the fact in question, being the only thing that ren- ders human actions either praiseworthy or culpa- ble. Sir W. Blackstone. If the will, which is the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understand- ing, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a Spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers; it would be conscious madness—a horrid thought. Milton. We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will ; on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man. Montaigne. The will, which acts only as far as it sees—and which sees clearer and farther in proportion to its activity—cannot be enlightened without having its strength doubled by the enlargement of its com- prehension ; it surmounts all obstacles, and frees itself from all shackles successively and finally ; as the last term of its efforts, it is delivered from itself. Mme. Swetchine. The question is not whether a man be a free agent, that is to say, whether he can write or for- bear, speak or be silent, according to his will ; but whether the will to write, and the will to forbear, come upon him according to his will, or according to anything else in his own power. I acknowledge this liberty, that I can do if I will ; but to say I can will if I will, I take to be an absurd speech. Hobbes. It is easy for a man to do a thing if he will, but the very willing is the doing ; when once he has willed, the thing is performed ; therefore, to ascribe a non-performance to the want of power or abil- ity, is not just, because the thing wanting is not a being able, but a being willing. There are facul- ties of mind, and capacity of nature, and every- thing but a disposition ; nothing is wanting but a will. - J. Edwards. There can be no doubt that many a man has been saved from an attack of mental disease by the resolute determination of his will not to yield to his morbid tendencies ; but if he should give way to them and dwell upon his morbid ideas, in- stead of resisting them, they come at last to ac- quire a complete mastery over him ; his will, his common sense, and his moral sense at length suc- cumb to their domination. R. Surtees. WILLS. Wills imply freedom of choice. J. Chitty. Men make wills, courts unmake them. E. P. Day. Will what thou hast, and be thine own execu- tor. Bishop Epiphanius. The last will of a testator is to be performed ac- cording to his true intention. T. Littleton. What you will at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs. L. Osborn. What a man spends on the poor when he is in full health, is gold; when sick, silver; what he pro- vides for them in his last will, copper. Tosafot, There are two things in which men in other things wise enough, do usually miscarry ; in put- ting off the making of their wills and their repen- tance till it be too late. Tillotson. Making a will, you may say, is an important thing, and requires much reflection ; you have a friend to consult ; you quite agree that it is neces- sary, and indeed you have been thinking of it for some time ; it is really your intention to be in earnest about the matter; but all this is very like shuffling ; these lame attempts to excuse the non- performance of an imperative duty will not parry my home-thrust—Have you made your will? G. Mogridge. WIND. Wind is air in motion. J. L. Comstock, The wind what is it 3 Sekesa. It is an ill-wind that blows nobody good. Twsser. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Sterne. Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. Shakspeare. The salutary use of the winds is felt over every part of the earth. - Sturm. Behold man in his real character ; the least puff of wind wheels him round. Boilea w. Make no alliance with the straws blown by the wind, but rather with the wind that blows them. E. P. Day. The caprices of the wind are the hourly and pro- verbially subject of remark, and not seldom of thoughtless complaint. Macculloch. Notwithstanding all that has been written on the subject of the winds, their theory is still involved in considerable obscurity ; the subject is exceed- ingly complicated; and no attempt that has yet been made to derive a general law from the Ob- servations has been attended with much success. Raper. To pass by other considerations, whereby I might demonstrate the winds to be the infinite Creator's work, I shall insist only upon their great useful- ness to the world ; and so great is their use, and of such absolute necessity are they to the salubrity of the atmosphere, that all the world would be poi- soned without those agitations. W. Derham. A R O S A. O U O 7" A 7" / O M. S. 1021 WINE. Wine dispels fear. Talmud. There is truth in wine. Smollett. Wine is an abomination. Ptah Hotep. Wine is a gift of the gods. Asclepiades. Wine is a delightful poison. Jemsheed. With wine let us make merry. T. Morton. Wine openeth the heart of man. Trébuttien. Wine drowns more than the sea. Publius Syrws. Old wine and old friends are best. Alphonsus. Wine is the matural milk of old men. Le Sage. Wine invents mothing ; it only tattles. Schiller. Wine maketh the soldier to fight manfully. A leacander the Great. Wine serves as a medicine to the cold and weary. Hippocrates. Wine maketh a man act like an ass in a rich pas- ture. Zahir Ad-dim. Drinking of winemaketh men to actlike so many furies. N. Morton. Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bit- termeSS. Lady Rachel Rwssell. Wine bestows an appetite on the tasteless stomach. Oribasiws. Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used. Shakspeare. Wine is good when courage is more desirable than reason. Cyrus. Wine beyond the measure vents the most in- ward secrets. Montaigme. The gods have made wine for mortals to dissi- pate their cares. Nestor. Bronze is the mirror to reflect the face, wine to reflect the mind. AEschylus. The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage. Hall. Wine makes a poor man rich in imagination, a rich man poor in reality. E. P. Day. Where there is not wine love fails, and every- thing else pleasant to man. Euripides. This is the great fault in wine ; it first trips up the feet ; it is a cunning wrestler. Plaw.tws. When I have enjoyed my wine, I care not for the anxieties of mind-racking poverty. Theognis. Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to en- ervate the mind, and make men less brave in bat- tle. Coesar. Wine, though it possesses good qualities, was forbidden by the Prophet, because it attacked l’ea SOIl. Hais-Bais. Wine induces sleep ; in sleep cometh dreams and visions, through which the Deity maketh His will known to man. Erdaviraph. WINE. Wine and youth are fire upon fire ; it is a turn- coat, first a friend, and then an enemy. Fielding. Wine is a noble, generous liquor, and we should be humbly thankful for it ; but as I remember, water was made before it. J. Eliot. Wine leads to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent. Homer. Wine maketh the hand quivering, the eye wat- ery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things. Pliny. Poor wine at the table of a rich host is an insult without an apology : urbanity ushers in water that needs no apology, and gives a 2Est to the worst vintage. Zimmerman. Unmeasured drinking of wine brings poverty, shame, quarrels ; leads to Calumnious talk, inchas- tity, murder, to the loss of freedom, of honor, of understanding. Tosafot. Dost thou dare to find fault with wine as merely giving birth to ideas & Why, canst thou point out anything more fully engaged in the practical af- fairs of life 2 Consider for a moment ; when men drink, then they are rich, they traffic, are success- ful in lawsuits, are happy, give aid to their friends. Aristophanes. What can wine not effect 3 It brings to light the hidden secrets of the Soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward fight, drives dull care away, teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes. Whom have the soul-inspiring cups not made eloquent ? Even in the depth of poverty, whom has it not relieved ? Horace. Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they pro- ceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth ? Plato. Take special care that thou delight not in wine ; for there never was any man that came to honor or preferment that loved it ; for it transformeth a man into a beast, decayeth health, poisoneth the breath, destroyeth natural heat, brings a man’s stomach to an artificial heat, deformeth the face, rotteth the teeth, and to conclude, maketh a man contemptible, soon old, and despised of all wise and worthy men; hated in thy servants, in thyself, and companions; for it is a bewitching and infectious vice. Sir W. Raleigh. O ye princes and rulers, how exceeding strong is wine ! It causeth all men to err that drink it ; it maketh the mind of the king and the beggar to be all one, of the bondman and the freeman, of the poor man and of the rich ; it turneth also every thought into jollity and mirth, so that a man re- membereth neither sorrow nor debt; it changeth and elevateth the spirits, and enliveneth the heavy hearts of the miserable ; it maketh a man forget his brethren, and draw his sword against his best friends. Masonic Manual. 1022 J) A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. WINTER. Winter is nature's sleep. Rev. H. S. Jacobs. Every winter has its spring. H. Tuttle. Winter is the death of the year. J. C. Hare. Winter finds out what summer lays up. Coryate. Winter never comestill the ponds are full. J. Ray. He that passeth a winter's day, escapeth an ene- my. - Crebillon. & -mºmº-º-º- In winter we behold the charms of Solemn ma- jesty and naked grandeur. James Ellis. Winter points out the time when life shall cease, with its hopes and pleasures. Dr. Johnsom. There is a grandeur in winter, stern and wild it may be, but a grandeur which speaks to the soul. C. J. Peterson. I have myselfin winter felt hostile to those whom I could smile upon in May, and clasp to my bosom in June. J. Demmie. Winter, so far from being prejudicial to the fruit- fulness of the earth, is very favorable to it ; this is the season of rest so necessary to nature. Sturm. On a thin coating of ice winter conducts their steps, a deep pool is beneath ; such is the slight surface of your pleasures ; glide on, mortals, do not halt. Stern Winter comes, and drives us back into our towns and houses, and there we must sit down, and learn and teach with serious application of the mind, and by the prompting of duty. F. W. P. Greenwood. When winter reigns, a bright day often shines over the snow-clad mountains after gloomy weath- er, and clouds and darkness vanish, the icy plains and lofty leafless woods slowly emerge and sparkle brightly. . Klopstock. The winter is like a withered heart, whose life has been spent in the bright sunshine of Summer, but is now left unprotected ; no music gladdens the grove, nor verdure clothes the plain ; the trees are divested of their leaves, and the bowels of nature seem bound up or dead. A. Picket. When the winter puts on its sullen aspect, and brings stillness and repose, affording a respite from the labors of the preceding months, inviting us to reflection, and compensating for the want of at- tractions abroad by fire-side delights and home- felt joys ; in all this interchange and variety, we find reason to acknowledge the wise and benevo- lent care of the God of seasons. M. Severance. In winter the earth is frost bound, and incrusted with ice and snow ; but soon the voice of Spring will call, and everywhere there shall be life, and growth, and beauty ; so it is with man, his winter has been long and dark ; but the sun of God's love shall shine, and the crusts of tyranny and the frosts of oppression shall melt away beneath its rays, and the humbliest as well as the loftiest crea- ture shall yet stand in the light and liberty of the sons of God. * H. W. Beecher. He is wise that is wise to himself. J. D. Roy. WISDOMI. Gain wisdom, and use it. Chilo. No man is wise at all times. Pliny. In wisdom there is true delight. G. Tucker. - Wisdom is the best aid to power. Edward I. Wisdom is of God; folly is of men. H. Hammond. Euripides. There is no solid wisdom but in piety. Evelyn. The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser. T. Brahe. Bewisely worldly, but not worldly wise. Quarles. Wisdom was born and will die with me. Paloemon. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile. Shakspeare. Whosoever is not more than wise is wise enough. C. Nepos. Give tribute, but not oblation to human wis- dom. Sir P. Sidney. There is no wisdom equal unto the belief in God. Imawm Ali Zade. The end of wisdom is consultation and delibera- tion. Demosthemes. The wisdom of the heart is worth all other wis- dom. R. Southey. Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body. Rochefoucauld. Wisdom provides things necessary, not super- fluous. 'Solom. A man should always become wise at his own expense. Montaigne. It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it. Plautus. Wisdom adorneth riches, and casteth a shadow over poverty. Socrates. A man's wisdom is his best friend ; folly, his worst enemy. Sir W. Temple. The word of a wise man is like a seed planted in a fruitful soil. Krwmmacher. We must attain wisdom as we go up stairs, one step at a time. Tsze-kwng. Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. Wordsworth. Wisdom no more consists in science than happi- ness in wealth. De Boufflers. The wisest man is generally he who thinks him- self the least so. Boileau. Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome travelling pack. W. Camden. Many things imperfect by nature are made per- fect by wisdom. Niccolo Uzzano. Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. Varro. A R O S Z O U O 7' 4 7 / O M S. ] ()23 WISDOM. - The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past. Sophocles. Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives. Aristophames. Wisdom is a general virtue, the princess and guide of all virtues. Fulvius Ursin ws. To be happy is to be wise ; but to be wise is not always to be happy. Brownley. How poor is the wisdom of men, and how un- certain their forecast ! St. Theresa. It is of the highest advantage for one that is wise not to seem to be wise. AEschylus. Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools. Lavater. Wisdom is not an art which can be learned ; wis- dom comes from above. Flemming. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. S. T. Coleridge. It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance, as to discover knowledge. Berceo. Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous plea- sures at the cheapest rate. Fielding. The wise man sometimes flies from society from fear of being tired to death. Bruyère. Look about, my son, and see how little wisdom it takes to govern the world. Owenstiern. All wisdom consists in this, not to think that we know what we do not know. Houng-Wow. Wisdom without innocence is knavery ; inno- cence without wisdom is folly. Veneroni. The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies. Gresset. Wisdom is not learning merely ; it is learning with ability and disposition to use it. E. P. Day. It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom ; some have an old head on young shoulders. Menander. That is the truest wisdom of a man which doth most conduce to the happiness of life. Stillingfleet. Our chief wisdom consists in knowing our follies and faults, that we may correct them. Colwmella. The wise are known by their actions ; fame and immortality are ever their attendants. Salis. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Cowper. Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Colton. A wise man always walks with his scale to mea- sure, and his balances to weigh, in his hand. Burke. Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is sel- dom the immediate agent in human affairs. Sir J. Stephem. WISDOM. The first point of wisdom is to discern what is . false; the second, to know what is true. Lactantius. What a man has to do is to teach his children wisdom, after he has finished the lot of man. Radjimna. True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. G. Mogridge. Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy, by consulting the Oracular dead. J. C. Hare. The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us ; but wisdom must be sought. T. Yowng. In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary charac- ter. Addison. Be wise ; for in gaining wisdom you also gain an eminence from which no shaft of malice can hurl. G. Herbert. Envied are the people in whose councils wisdom and mercy preside, like lovely and benignant sis- ters | J. F. Cooper. Were wisdom to be sold she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature. Kames. Wisdom is the olive that springeth from a heart, bloometh on the tongue, and beareth fruit in the actions. Grymestone. Wisdom consists, not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass. Terence. Wisdom is an acquisition purchased in propor- tion to the failures which our own frailties have entailed upon us. Bulwer. Wisdom descended from heaven upon the brains of the Greeks, the hands of the Chinese, and the tongues of the Arabs. Nusair. That superior wisdom which corrects, reproves, and informs man against his own inclination, can be no part of himself. Fénélon. It is usually seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the mext. T. Gibson. The wise man is but a clever infant spelling let- ters from a hierographical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in etermity. T. Carlyle. Who is wise? He that learns from every one. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich 3 He that is content. Lwis de Granada. He who learns the rules of wisdom, without con- forming to them in his life, is like a man who la- bored in his fields, but did not sow. Saadi. No man is the wiser for his learning ; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon ; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. Selden. 1024 AD A Y’.S C O Z Z. A C O AV. WISDOM. The fool is willing to pay for anything but wis- dom. ; no man buys that of which he supposes him- self to have an abundance already. W. G. Simms. Wise men are instructed by reason ; men of less understanding, by experience ; the most ignorant, by necessity ; and beasts, by nature. Cicero. The perfection of wisdom and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our posses- sions, our ambitions to our capacities. SilveStre. Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and select- ing, and reorganizing its own materials. J. Story. Even the slow man, if possessed of wisdom, has overtaken the swift in the pursuit, with the aid of the straightforward justice of the immortal gods. Theognis. Wisdom consists in rating everything at its just value, and always grasping the greater good, though it may not be the nearer, or first to be en- joyed. Mrs. Willard. The wisdom of nature is better than of books : prudence being a wise election of those things which never remain after one and the self-same IOla, Illher. Sir W. Raleigh. A wise man, in truth, is the maker of his own fortune, and unless he be a bungling workman, lit- tle can befall him which he would wish to have changed. Plawtws. Precocious wisdom is not desirable for youth, lest, like the rash blossom which ventures forth too early, it should be nipped ere it has strength to re- sist adversity. Lady Blessington. Wisdom is that which makes men judge what are the best ends, and what the best means to at- tain them, and gives a man advantage of counsel and direction. Sir W. Temple. Wisdom consisteth not in knowing manythings, nor even in choosing and in following what con- duces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory. W. S. Landor. Wisdom and morality are no ants’ colonies of Separate, co-operating workmen, but organic par- ents of the mental future, which only require ani- mating nourishment. Richter. . As whole caravans may light their lamps from one candle without exhausting it, so myriads of tribes may gain wisdom from the great Book with- out impoverishing it. Rabbi Ben-Azai. The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused but in a very marrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor and uniformity. Goldsmith. Wisdom is the right use or exercise of know- ledge, and differs from knowledge as the use which is made of a power or faculty differs from the power of faculty itself. W. Fleming. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom ; he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so : but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. Coltom. WISDOM. True wisdom is less presuming than folly ; the wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstimate, and doubteth not ; he know- eth all things but his own ignorance. R. Dodsley. The wise seek wisdom—no empty word, but God's living power—nutritious food ; and if he finds it where the world does not deem it worthy of up- lifting, there is no end of joy in his soul. G. Forster. The proverbial wisdom of the populace at gates, on roads, and in markets, instructs the attentive ear of him who studies man, more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged. Lavater. Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life ; in a firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk ; and to make our words and actions all of a color. Semeca. Wisdom makes all the troubles, griefs, and pains incident to life, whether casual adversities or na- tural afflictions, easy and supportable, by rightly valuing the importance and moderating the infiu- ence of them. I. Barrow. I could write down twenty cases, wherein I wished God had done otherwise than He did ; but which I now see, had I my own will, would have led to extensive mischief ; the life of a Christian is a life of paradoxes. Lord Burleigh. There is not a man in the world but desires to be, or to be thought to be, a wise man ; and yet, if he considered how little he contributes himself there- unto, he might wonder to find himself in any tole- rable degree of understanding. Lord Clarendom. True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary : happy are they that have it , and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and im- perfections, and know that they have it not. Tillotson. Man falls much more short of perfect wisdom, and even of his own ideas of perfect wisdom, than animals do of man ; yet the latter difference is so considerable, that nothing but a comparison with the former can make it appear of little moment. Hwºme. Wisdom is that perfection of an intelligent agent by which he is enabled to select and employ the most proper means in order accomplish a good and important end ; it includes the idea of knowledge or intelligence, but may be distinguished from it. T. Dick. All men are not wise, may, very few are so ; and those who have to form conjectures about the re- solutions of others take into consideration not so much what a wise man would do, as what is the ability and disposition of the person who has to de- cide. Gwicciardini. The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning ; whereas, the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom ; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than any stock of the former. Smiles. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AW S. I ()25 WISDOM. Wisdom penetrates the length, the breadth, the height, and depth, more than knowledge. Know- ledge is, so to speak, sight ; wisdom is sight coupled with taste. Knowledge relates to things that are to be done ; wisdom to things eternal. Bengel. Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of dan- ger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquillity and peace. C. D. Yonge. There is this difference between a wise man and a fool; the wise man expects future things, but does not depend upon them, and in the mean time en- joys the present, remembering the past with de- light ; but the life of the fool is wholly carried on to the future. Epicurus. Every moment instructs, and every object ; for wisdom is infused into every form ; it has been poured into us as blood ; it convulsed us as pain ; it slid into us as pleasure ; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor ; we did not guess its essence until after long time, R. W. Emerson. Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffi- dent of himself, and upon that account is willing to “hearken unto counsel ; ” whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of him- self, and Swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason, because it is his own. Balgwy. He who teaches men the principles and precepts of spiritual wisdom, before their minds are called off from foreign objects, and turned inward upon themselves, might as well write his instructions, as the Sybil wrote her prophecies, on the loose leaves of trees, and commit them to the mercy of the inconstant winds. R. Leighton. In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom ; but he who reflects not, never reaps ; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age, without the wages of experience ; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And what has age, if it has not esteem ? It has nothing. E. Yowng. The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box ; but it is Quite another matter whether he ever opens the box or not ; and he is as likely to poison as to cure himself, if without guidance, he swallows the first drug that comes to hand. Prof. Hwacley. If thou desire to be wiser yet, think not thyself yet wise enough ; and if thou desire to improve knowledge in thyself, despise not the instructions of another; he that instructs him that thinks him- self wise enough, hath a fool to his scholar; he that thinks himself wise enough to instruct himself, hath a fool to his master; he is truly wise, and shall appear So, that hath folly enough to be thought worldly wise, or wisdom enough to see his own folly. F. Quarles. WISDOM. Aged wisdom when joined with acknowledged virtue, exerts an authority over the human mind greater even than that which arises from power and station ; it can check the most forward, abash the most profligate, and strike with awe the most giddy and unthinking. E. W. Montague. Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing ; it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall ; it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger who digged and made room for him ; it is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. Lord Bacom. If the wisdom of our ancestors had not taught them to recognize newly discovered truths, and to discard those errors to which ignorance had given birth, we should not have been indebted to them for the improvements, which, however well they may have served their purpose for a time, are des- timed to be superseded by still more important dis- coveries. Sir C. Morgan. Lessons of wisdom have never such power over us as when they are wrought into the heart through the groundwork of a story which engages the pas- sions ; is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon ; or is the heart so in love with deceit that where a true re- port will not reach it, we must cheat it with a fa- ble, in order to come at the truth ? Sterme. If the mountains were pearl, if every sand of the sea were a diamond, it were not comparable to wisdom ; without wisdom a person is like a ship without a pilot, in danger to split upon rocks; the price of wisdom is above rubies ; the ruby is a precious stone, transparent, of a red, fiery color ; it is reported of one of the kings of India, he wore a ruby of that bigness and splendor that he might be seen by it in the dark ; but wisdom casts a more sparkling color than the ruby, it makes us shine as angels. T. Watson. Wisdom is a fox, who after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out ; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homelier, and the coarser coat ; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack-posset, wherein the deeper you go, you will find the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cack- ling we must value and consider, because it is at- tended with an egg ; but lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. Swift. The strong barriers which confined the stores of wisdom have been thrown down, and a flood over- spreads the earth, old establisments are rising, the inferior schools are introducing improved systems of instruction, and good books are rendering every man's fireside a school. From all these causes there is growing up an enlightened public opinion, which quickens and directs the progress of every art and science, and through the medium of a free press, although overlooked by many, is now rapidly be- coming the governing influence of all the affairs. Neil Armott. 65 1026 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. TVISEI. Good wishes deserve welcome. Shakspeare. We cannot wish for what we know not. Voltaire. We must wish for good and endure evil. Severus. What ardently we wish we soon believe. Young. Fools are always wishing for something. Shaw. Man knows not what to wish, so transitory are all things. Publius Syrws. Wishes avail nothing ; it is the best archer who gains the prize. Al-Faiyéd. Wishes are but the idle blossoms of human life ; they seldom bear fruit. N. A. Calkins. Things we hope not for oftener come to pass than things we wish for. Pławtwis. He who sees and expects only what he wishes is a foolish judge of what is true. Menomole?”. Wishes run over in loguacious impotence ; will presses on with laconic energy. Lavater. Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and powers. Goethe. We always wish to have the verythings we have not, and whatsoever we have ceases to please us. Monvel. - If we were all to perish who did not succeed in obtaining what we wished, all mankind would die. Philemon. It is a fearful mistake to believe that because our wishes are not accomplished, they can do no harm. Gertrude. That which leads us so readily to believe in the faults of others, is our readiness to believe what we wish. Rochefoucauld. Man's heart knows neither what it wishes nor what it does not wish ; what it one day detests, the next it desires. Boileave. It is a folly to waste one's time and thoughts in framing wishes ; it is the best to set about doing the best you can. R. Whately. When men are doubtful of the true state of things, their wishes lead them to believe in what is most agreeable. Arrianſws. We are poor, indeed, when we have no half- wishes left us; the heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone. Landor. By attaining all we wish, and gaining all we want, we have only reached a pinnacle, where we have nothing to hope, but everything to fear. Colton. Were a man of pleasure to arrive at the full ex- tent of his several wishes, he must immediately feel himself miserable ; it is one species of despair to have no room to hope for any addition to one's happiness ; his following wish must then be to wish he had some fresh object for his wishes; a strong argument that our minds and bodies were both meant to be forever active. Shenstone. WIT. Great wits jump. Sterme. Wit spares no one. Jerome Ustariz. Coelius. S. Croacall. Wit appreciates wit. Bought wit is the best. Wit is zigzag lightning. Talmage. What silly people wits are. Beawmarchais. Wit is the offspring of gayety. Acton. Wit is the lightning of the mind. C. T. Kaeuffer. Flashes of wit are intellectual bubbles. Rist. Wit does not take the place of knowledge. Vawvemargwes. Wit becometh a woman more than beauty. Semiramis. The wit of woman is keener than that of man. Chaves. Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things. J. C. Hare. Wit should be wit, but it should never be satire. Mme. La Rocheñaquelein. Wit is folly, unless a wise man has the keeping of it. Sir G. Etherege. Sharpness of wit is a spark that soon inflameth desire. Chilo. Wit without learning is like a tree which bears no fruit. Aristippus. Wit is the flower of imagination ; judgment is its fruit. - Livy. Well-timed wit is gratifying ; ill-timed wit, offensive. Phoedrus. A good wit ill employed is dangerous in a com- monwealth. Demosthemes. Witticisms never are agreeable which are inju- rious to others. Attsonius. Sharp wits, like sharp knives, do often cut their owner's fingers. Arrowsmith. He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit. Plato. The wit of man is apt to all goodness, if it be ap- plied thereunto. Diogenes. The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit. Molière. Do not put too fine a point to your wit, for fear it should get blunted. Cervantes. Wit is of the true Pierian spring, that can make anything of anything. Chapman. It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous. Chamfort. It is but an unhappy wit which stirs up enemies against the owners of it. Feltham. The wittiest man is one who says a good thing, and appears not to know it. John Van Bwrem. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 102.7 WIT. Wit gives confidence less than confidence gives wit. Ray Palmer. One has never so much need of his wit, as when he has to do with a fool. R. C. Trench. Wit looses its respect with the good when seen in company with malice. I. M. B. Gawtier. It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it. Mme. Necker. Men of wit have not always the clearest judg- ment or the deepest reason. R. Walsh. In cheerful souls there is no wit ; wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise. Novalis. Wit, without wisdom, is like a song without sense, it does not please long. H. W. Show. The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose. St. Foiac. To place wit before good sense, is to place the superfluous before the necessary. M. de Montlosier. Wit is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs. W. Irving. It is having in some measure a sort of wit, to know how to use the wit of others. Stanislaws. Wit and wisdom differ ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends. Selden. Wit is an unruly engine, wildly striking some- times a friend, sometimes the engineer. G. Herbert. Wit resembles a coquette ; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored. Chemier. Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. - Goldsmith. Every witticism is an inexact thought ; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty. W. S. Landor. As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom. Pythagoras. Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the posses- sor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. Montaigme. There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad. Jowbert. Wit, written, is that which is well defined the happy result of thought, or product of imagina- tion. Dryden. - *ms Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting. R. Southey. It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct ; the perfection is not speed but uniformity. Vawvenargues. Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart ; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a single wrinkle on the cheek. Lord Lyttelton. WIT. Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated. Hazlitt. We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said. J. Petit. Wit consists chiefly in joining things by distant and fanciful relations, which surprise us because they are unexpected. Kames. It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed upon as when they have lost their edge. Swift. Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk, and truth the root. Colton. Superiority in wit is more frequently the cause of vanity than superiority of judgment; as the per- son that wears a useful one. Shemstone. * Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing ; nothing less than admiration will content them. Seed. It is a certain rule that wit and passion are en- tirely incompatible. When the affections are mo- ved, there is no place for the imagination. Hwme. Less judgment than wit, is more sail than bal- last : yet it must be confessed, that wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely. Penn. Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food. Fielding. Wit is brushwood ; judgment, timber ; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat ; and both meeting make the best fire. Sir T. Overbwry. If a man would be truly witty, he must know the world, and be remarkably quick in suiting the smallest word or turn of an expression to the sub- ject. Dr. W. C. Bennett. If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstration, if a man's wit be carried away never so little, he must begin again. Lord Bacon. Many species of wit are quite mechanical ; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies. Zimmerman. Wit is a mere human bauble ; it is to our mental faculties what bells are to horses; not expected to draw the load, but to please and amuse while the horses draw. H. W. Beecher. Some wits, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success ; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an impostor, they are the last of a wit. E. Yowng. Wit should exalt an appetite, not provoke dis- gust ; wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat ; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to. G. Horne. 1028 A) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. WIT. The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb. Bruyère. Wit loses its respect with the good when seen in company with malice ; and to smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to be- come a principal in the mischief. Sheridan. Wit in women is a jewel which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than be- stows it ; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty. Colton. Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sun- shine, and reflection the moonlight ; for as the bright orb of the night owes its lustre to the sun, so does reflection owe its existence to reason. Lady Blessington. Wit, as it implies a certain uncommon reach and vivacity of thought, is an excellent talent, very fit to be employed in the search of truth, and very capable of assisting to discern and embrace it. G. Burmet. That which we call wit consists much in quick- ness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an homest man. James I. I give you full credit for your elegant diction, well-turned periods, and Attic wit: but wit is oftentimes false, though it may appear brilliant: which is exactly the case of your whole perform- a,Il Ce. Junius. There is just the same sort of difference between the flow of false wit and of true as between buffo music, like that of Mozart and Rossini, and the melancholy merriment of a fiddle-scraper in the Street. Leigh Hwmt. Wit consists in assembling, and putting together with quickness, ideas in which can be found re- semblance and congruity, by which to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. J. Locke. Witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping off a broken string ; but a word of kind- ness is seldom spoken in vain ; it is a seed which, even when dropped by chance springs up into a flower. Mrs. Sigowrmey. Comic wit is the general acceptation of wit, and is of the easiest kind; for it is much more easy to raise a laugh than to excite admiration by quick wisdom. “It is a quick conception and an easy delivery.” Monboddo. As there is a folly in wit, so there is a wisdom in ignorance ; I would not be ignorant in a neces- sary knowledge, nor wise above wisdom ; if I know enough, I am wise enough ; if I seek more, I am foolish. Warwick. I admire wit as I do the wind ; when it shakes the trees, it is fine ; when it cools the wave, it is refreshing ; when it steals over the flowers, it is enchanting : but when it whistles through the key- hole, it is unpleasant. Bret. WIT. Be rather wise than witty ; for much wit hath commonly much froth, and it is hard to jest, and not sometimes jeer too ; which many times sinks deeper than was intended or expected ; and what was designed for mirth ends in sadness. Caleb Trenchild. I have seen many so prone to quip and gird that they would rather lose their friend than their jest; and if perchance their boiling brain yield a quaint scoff, they will travail to be delivered of it, as a woman with child ; these nimble fancies are but the froth of wit. Lord Burleigh. Though wit be very useful, yet unless a wise man has the keeping of it, that knows when, where, and how to apply it, it is like wild-fire, that flies at rovers, runs hissing about, and blows up every- thing that comes in its way, without any respect or discrimination. e Sir W. Scott. Let your wit rather serve you for a buckler to defend yourself, by a handsome reply, than the sword to wound others, though with ever so face- tious reproach ; remembering that a word cuts deeper than a sharper weapon, and the wound it makes is longer curing. F. Osborne. Pleasure is a branch of happiness; wit is a flower of wisdom ; but when these petty subalterns set up for themselves, and counteract their principals, one makes a greater wretch, and the other a grosser fool, than could exist without them ; pleasure then calls for our compassion, and wit for Our con- tempt ; of how many might the names have slept in safety, had not their unlucky parts awakened a just clamor against them. E. Yowng. Wit gives to life one of its best flavors; common- sense leads to immediate action, and gives society its daily motion ; large and comprehensive views, its annual rotation ; ridicule chastises folly and imprudence, and keeps men in their proper sphere; subtlety seizes hold of the fine threads of truth ; analogy darts away in the most sublime discov- eries ; feeling paints all the exquisite passions of man's soul, and rewards him by a thousand inward visitations for the sorrows that come from with- Out. Sydney Smith. WITNESS. An eye witness outweighs others. Roger Clap. No one is a good witness in his own cause. Wats. God requires His people to witness for His truth. A. Ritchie. That witness is the best who speaks the truth with coolness and prudence. Acton. One eye witness weighs more than ten hearsays: seeing is believing all the world over. Plawtus. A witness corroborates the word of another, and is a security in all dealings or matters of question between man and man. G. Crabb. Witnesses are disqualified by reason of want of understanding, want of religious principle, or con- viction of an infamous crime, and judgment there- upon. - H. Merivale. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 1029 WITCHCR.A.F.T. Witchcraft is a delusion. R. Calef. The witches are all hung. H. D. Thorea'w. Use reason against witchcraft. S. Willard. Religious fanaticism is the offspring of witch- craft. . Gérard. Witchcraft is the most infamous high treason against the Majesty on high. Cottom. Mather. Witchcraft is nothing but the power which a strong mind exercises over the weak. D'Amcre. The female sex seems from the earliest times to have been most implicated in the public horror of witchcraft. J. Cawvin. There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft ; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it. Lord Coke. When I consider whether there are such persons as witches, my mind is divided ; I believe in gene- ral that there is such a thing as witchcraft, but can give no credit to any particular instance of it. Addison. Wise judges have prescribed that men may not rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor the evidence against them ; for the witches themselves are imaginative ; and people are credulous, and ready to impute accidents to witchcraft. Bacon. Many members of the most influential and re- spectable families have been arraigned as witches or wizards ; those most closely related to them by ties of consanguinity being frequently among the foremost of their accusers, and in one instance an unhappy man was convicted and brought to exe- cution upon the testimony of his own wife and daughter. Rev. E. Thºrell. There is little doubt that many of the supposed assemblies of witches and devil-worshippers which terrified the imaginations of the chroniclers and historians of saints in the early part of the dark ages, originated in the secret meetings of the pro- scribed worshippers-of Pagan deities, who endea- vored to secure their privacy by terrifying their orthodox neighbors. W. T. Broºmde. A witch is supposed to derive her power from a peculiar compact with evil spirits; and this spe- cies of witchcraft is of course posterior to the rise of Christianity, although the belief.in demoniacal possession was common from the first ages of the Christian church, and a particular class of the clergy was early set apart for the purpose of con- juring devils, with the name of exorcists. J. R. McCulloch. The charge of witchcraft has been flippantly made against the Puritan fathers ; but what are the facts 2 A belief in witchcraft, at that period, existed in all parts of the world ; but New England kept faithful records, which other mations did not. When witchcraft manifested itself in Salem, it was credited at first, for all nations believed in it ; but investigation speedily followed, enlightened reason dispelled this baneful superstition, and the vile imp was strangled in the cradle. E. P. Day. WOE. - Woe to thee thou hast done evil Sekesa. Silent woes are the most dangerous. Racine. The woes of mortality affect the heart. Virgil. There is no woe which time does not lessen and soften. Cicero. Who knows what slumbering woes the future may have in store ? Schöller. In a common woe no one thinks himself unfor- tunate, though he be so. Seneca. Companionship in woes gives alleviation, even though it be that of an enemy. Calderon. Time cures all our woes, because we change, and are no longer the same persons. Pascal. In our world, the theatre of mercy, there is no place found for everlasting woe. Klopstock. Suppressed woe suffocates the raging within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. Ovid. There is often found an avarice in grief ; the eye of sorrow loves to gaze upon its secret hoard of treasured woes. J. Mason. As in a picture which receives greater life by the darkness of shadows than by glittering colors, so the shape of loveliness is perceived more perfect in woe than in joyfulness. Sir P. Sidney. So many great, illustrious spirits have conversed with woe, have in her school been taught, as are enough to consecrate distress, and make ambition even wish the frown beyond the smile of fortune. - J. Thomson. As a fresh wound shrinks from the hand of the surgeon, then gradually submits to and even calls for it, so a mind under the first impression of a woe, shuns and rejects all comfort, but at length, if touched with tenderness, calmly and willingly resigns itself. Pliny. We are sometimes bowed down with woe which is not of the world, its malice, its injustice, or its persecutions, but which comes from the hidden secrets of the heart ; and it is only by communing with ourselves and with God, and by subdued hu- mility and unalloyed resignation, that we find pa- tience, comfort, and relief. F. Godwin. We cannot escape all of the varied woes and misfortunes of life, and when they come upon us with their remorseless power, we must bear them with patience and resignation ; tears and heart- throbbings tend to cleanse the spirit—“regret is the purgatory of grief”—and the memory of them will assist us to appreciate the blessings they brought with them. James Ellis. That grief which a man's friendly eye can dis- cover, a soft hand alleviate, is but small ; but the woe which a friend must not see, because he can- not take it away—that woe which sometimes rises into our eye in the midst of blessedness, in the form of sudden trickle, which the averted face smothers —this hangs in secret more and more heavily on the heart, and at last breaks it, and goes down with it under the healing sod. Richter. 1030 A) A Y’,S C O /, / A C O AV. "WOMAN. Women are my deities. Amacreon. Women are tender and pitiful. W. Besant. Women are naturally unstable. Boccaccio. Women are the superiors of men, Lucretia Mott. Woman cannot live without man. Michelet. A woman's noblest station is retreat. Lyttelton. I honor a woman that can honor herself. N. Ward. Hwe. Women in mischief are wiser than men. Men govern women, but wives govern us. Cato. Women are stronger and weaker than men. Ray. A true woman is a fountain of goodness. Trismegistws. Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. Shakspeare. Woman is a joint creation of God and Satan. Andronicus. A woman should rule men, and worship love. Semiramis. Nature meant to make woman its masterpiece. Lessing. Whether women have souls is a matter of doubt. Acedoliws. There is ever a desire in woman to go meat and fine. Bwyvyan. Women, like children, are impotent and weak of soul. Terence. They govern the world—these sweet-lipped wo- II16I1. O. W. Holmes. A woman's cunning often saves us from pain and SOI’l'OW. Burger. The safety of a state depends on the virtue of WOIIla, Il. Montesqview. Woman may be permitted to lead in works of charity. Miss A. B. Cowtts. Woman, once made equal to man, becometh his superior. Socrates. The society of women is the element of good IſlannerS. Goethe. What is woman 2 One of nature's agreeable blunders. Cowley. Woman was not born to be the slave of man, but his equal. Swsam B. Anthony. Women have more heart and more imagination than men. Lamartime. Woman's honor is mice as ermine ; it will not bear a soil. Dryden. It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes. Sir P. Sidney. In quickness of understanding woman is supe- rior to man. Z. Lucitannes. A woman is wise at first, but a fool on reflection ; a man is a fool at first, but wise on reflection. Burckhardt. WOMAN. Nothing differs from a woman so much as an- other woman. A. Dwmas. Woman is a flower that breathes its perfume in the shade only. Lamennais. A beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse. Veneroni. All the reasonings of men are not worth one sen- timent of women. Voltaire. He who trusts women plows the wind, and sows on the barren sea. Flemming. If a man would live strictly pure and holy, let him avoid women. St. Ephrem. I am a woman, and know what barriers oppose all womanly efforts. Horriet G. Hosmer. The pearl is the image of purity, but woman is purer than the pearl. Aimée Bowrdom. It was woman that was last at the cross, and earliest at the grave. E. S. Barrett. The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of women. W. S. Landor. Most men like in woman what is most Opposite their own characters. Fielding. Women are more virtuous, courageous, and bet- ter managers than men. Lucretia Marinella. There is no fouler and viler fiend than woman, when her mind is bent to ill. Homer. Woman cannot stand alone, for any time, in whatever position she may be. Lord Melbowrme. A woman needs a stronger head than is her own for counsel ; she should marry. Calderon. Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. Mme. du Deffand. I would not enter heaven if I thought the woman I adored on earth was not there. De Prades. That woman alone is faithful and pure who burns herself with her husband's corpse. The Purana. Honor women the pathway of our terrestrial life. They strew celestial roses on Boiste. Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest. R. Whately. If a diplomatist would ensure success, he should cultivate the acquaintance of women. H. Wikoff To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman. Balzac. A woman too often reasons from her heart ; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles. Bulwer. Most of their faults women owe to us, whilst we are indebted to them for most of our better quali- ties. Charles Lemesle. Woman knows that the better she obeys the surer she is to rule ; she objects to men who abdi- cate too much. & Michelet. Z2 A: O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. I ()31 WOMAN. The best woman is she of whom the least can be . said, either in the way of good or harm. Thwoydides. If there is any good thing at any time in this world, woman is at one end or the other of it. A. S. Roe. A woman may be ugly, ill-shaped, wicked, ig- norant, silly, and stupid, but hardly ever ridicu- lous. Lowis Desnoyers. Women are engaged to men by the favors they grant them ; men are disengaged by the same fa- VOI’S. Bruyère. When women are respected the gods are content : but when they are dishonored all acts of piety are barren. Memw. Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men ; but when they do, they go greater lengths. Colton. The Creator may have repented the creation of man, but He has no reason to repent having made WOII] all. Malherbe. A true man loves woman ; he who as a boy loved his mother, in youth his sister, will as a man love his wife. Mme. Zoe Gatti de Gamond. We, the women, pretend not to govern the re- public, nor is it our ambition to share its honors and dignities. Hortensia. All a woman has to do in this world is contained within the duties of a daughter, a sister, a wife, and a mother. Steele. A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor anything that is worse than a bad one. Simonides. He plows the waves, sows the Sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of woman. Sannazaro. Talk not to me of the wisdom of woman : I know my sex well ; the wisest of us all are but little less foolish than the rest. Qween Mary. Nothing does so much honor to a woman as her patience, and nothing does her so little as the pa- tience of her husband. Jowbert. Woman is naturally difficult to rein in ; unres- trainable, unguidable, intractable, undrawable, unleadable, and harsh. Menander. Woman was taken from the side of man ; it is for the mutual happiness of both that she is ever fond of her birth-place. F. M. Finch. Good and bad women either sweeten or poison the cup of life, so great is their power of doing much good or much evil. G. G. Scraggs. Women have more strength in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power by their tears than we have by our arguments. Sir H. Saville. There is no sadder sight than that of an aged woman, stripped of the consideration and respect that belong to the dignity of a serious life. Mºme. Swetchine. "WOMAN. Wherever found women are the same kind, civil, Obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay, cheerful, timorous, and modest. J. Ledyard. A woman, if she is bent on ill, never goes beg- ging for material ; she has a stock of her own for all mischievous contrivances. Plawtws. The empire of woman is an empire of sweetness, address, and complaisance ; her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. Rabelais. The world is the book of women ; whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly ac- quired by observation than reading. Rowsseaw. A noble-minded woman insensibly elevates the character of her husband, while one of a grovel- ling nature as certainly tends to degrade it. De Tocqueville. One thing only I believe in a woman, that she will not come to life again after she is dead; in everything else I distrust her till she is dead. Antiphanes. Tenderness, delicacy, and gentleness are the ap- propriate qualities of a woman ; but they are more the means of virtue than virtues themselves. Mrs. King. One reason why women are forbidden to preach the gospel is, that they would persuade without argument, and reprove without giving offense. agº J. Newton. Woman is a treasure of which the profligate and the unmarried can never appreciate the full value, for he who possesses many does not possess one. Chatfield. A woman must have no other god on earth but her husband ; she must keep her eyes on her mas- ter, and ever be ready to receive his commands. The Shaster. Let men say what they will ; according to the experience I have learned, I require in married women the economical virtue above all other vir– tues. T. Fuller. A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world. Hermes. To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly. Diderot. A woman is most ingenious in providing money; and when she is at the head of a house can never be deceived, for they themselves are accustomed to deceive. Aristophanes. Women never truly command till they have given their promise to obey ; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet. G. Farquhar. O, if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before a man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and dumb virtues would he see reposing therein Richter. 1032 P A Y's co / / A co A. WOMAN. There is nothing by which I have through life more profited than by the just observations, the good opinions, and the sincere and gentle encour- agement of amiable and sensible women. Romvilly. From the liberty of woman that of nations has flowed, accompanied with the proscription of many inhuman usages diffused over all the other parts of the world. St. Pierre. Women are the poetry of the world, in the same sense as the stars are the poetry of heaven ; clear, light-giving, harmonious, they are the terrestrial planets that rule the destinies of mankind. F. Hargrave. A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy; the smile that accepts the lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first- born baby, and assures him of a mother's love. Haliburton. Among the characteristics of woman is that sweet motherly love with which nature has gifted her ; it is almost independent of cold reason, and wholly removed from all selfish hope of reward. Herder. Whatever littleness and vanity is to be observed in the minds of women, it is, like the cruelty of butchers, a temper that is wrought into them by that life which they are taught and accustomed to lead. E. Law. She certainly is no true woman for whom every man may not find it in his heart to have a certain gracious, and holy, and honorable love ; she is not a woman who returns no love, and asks no protec- tion. C. A. Bartol. Women are not easily kept in the path of duty by harshness; distrusts, bolts, and iron grating do not produce virtue in women and girls ; it is honor which must keep them to their duty, and not sev- erity. Molière. Nothing is so hard to women as a long, steady struggle ; in matters physical, this is the thing the muscles of the fair cannot stand : in matters intel- lectual and moral, the long strain it is that beats them dead. C. Reade. Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety, old crotchets, and most sweet closes ; it shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all and all in one. J. Marston. Women will find their place, and it will neither be that in which they have been held, nor that to which some of them aspire. Nature's old Salic law will not be repealed, and no change of dynas- ty will be effected. Prof. Huacley. Women, so amiable in themselves, are never so amiable as when they are useful ; and as for beau- ty, though men may fall in love with girls at play, there is nothing to make them stand to their love like seeing them at work. TW. Cobbett. Women will suggest a thousand excuses to them- selves for the folly of those they like : besides, it requires a penetrating eye, in the generality of woman, to discern a fool through the disguises of gayety and good breeding. Fielding. WOMAN. There is something to me very softening in the presence of woman ; Some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them ; I always feel in better humor with myself and everything else, if there is a woman within ken. Byron. I have ofttimes noted, when women receive the doctrine of the Gospel, they are far more fervent in faith, they hold to it more stiff and fast than men do: as we see in the loving Magdalen, who was more hearty and bold than Peter. Luther. Nature has given woman two painful but hea- venly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature—compassion and en- thusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm, they exalt themselves. Lamartime. Women govern us ; let us render them perfect ; the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men ; it is by wo- men that nature writes on the hearts of men. Sheridan. There is beauty in the helplessness of woman ; the clinging trust which searches for extraneous support is graceful and touching ; timidity is the attribute of her sex ; but to herself it is not with- out its dangers, its inconveniences, and its suffer- ings. Bethmont. Woman has been ordained to perform a most important part in the moral government of the world ; in youth there can scarcely be found a more efficient corrective of vicious propensities than the society of virtuous and enlightened wo- Ille]]. J. Iredell. Even the most refined and polished of men sel- dom conceal any of the sacrifices they make, or what it costs to make them ; this is reserved for women, and is one of the many proofs they give of their superiority in all matters of affection and delicacy. R. A. Willmott. O woman lovely woman l Nature made thee to temper man ; we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair, to look like you ; there is in you all that we believe of heaven—amazing brightness, purity and truth, eternal joy, and ever- lasting love Otway. Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good ; all will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's ; and can we think God would put a worse Soul into a better body ? Feltham. On great occasions it is almost always women who have given the strongest proofs of virtue and devotion : the reason is, that with men good and bad qualities are in general the result of calcula- tion, whilst in woman they are impulses springing from the heart. Count Montholom. Honor to women they twine and weave the róses of heaven into the life of man ; it is they that unite us in the fascinating bonds of love ; and concealed in the modest veil of the graces, they cherish carefully the external fire of delicate feel- ing with holy hands. Schiller. P R O S E O U O T A 7" I O W, S. I033 WOMAN. Woman is God's appointed agent of morality, the teacher and inspirer of those feelings and sen- timents which are termed the virtues of humanity; and that the progress of these virtues, and the per- manent improvement of Our race, depend on the manner in which her mission is treated by man. Mrs. Sarah J. Hale. To a man who is uncorrupt and properly con- stituted, woman remains always something of a mystery and a romance ; he never interprets her quite literally ; she, on her part, is always striv- ing to remain a poem, and is never weary of bring- ing out new editions of herself in novel bindings. J. Parton. The woman is not the servant of the man, much less his slave ; she is his companion, his assistant, bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh ; in propor- tion as the moral sense becomes developed among a people, she increases in dignity and in liberty ; in that sort of liberty that is not exemption from duty and order, but enfranchisement from all ser- vile dependence. Lamennais. Woman is the beacon light of every man's am- bition; his aspirations, emergies, and courage, are all drawn forth by the holy influence of her love ; his well-being, social and domestic, is derived from her fostering care ; as from the cradle he learns to lisp and love the name of mother, so through life he learns to look up to woman as something higher, holier, and more lovely than his own rougher na- ture. g James Ellis. O princes and rulers the force of wine is not to be denied ; meither is that of kings, that unite so many men in one common bond of allegiance ; but the supereminency of woman is yet above all this; for kings are but the gifts of women, and they are also the mothers of those that cultivate our vine- yards ; women have the power to make us aban- dom our very country and relations, and many times to forget the best friends we have in the world, and forsaking all other comforts, to live and die with them. Masonic Manwal. I am frequently sorry to see women contest with the opposite sex privileges so ill-suited to them : there is not one even down to the title of author, in however slight a degree it may be, that does not appear to me ridiculous in them ; however truly we may speak of their facility in some points, it is never for the public that they should possess-tal- ents or acquirements ; I can imagine no state more glorious for a woman than to form the happiness of one, and the bond of union of many, by all the charms of friendship and decepcy. Mme. Roland. Woman will be pure if man will be true. Young men, this great result abides with you ; if you could but see how beautiful a flower grows upon the thorny stalk of self-denial, you would give the plant the honor it deserves; if it seem hard and homely, despise it not, for in it sleeps the beauty of heaven and the breath of angels; if you do not witness the glory of its blossoming during the day of life, its petals will open when the night of death comes, and gladden your closing eyes with their marvelous loveliness, and fill your soul with their grateful perfume. J. G. Holland. WOMAN. They little understand the true interest of women who would lift her from the important duties of her allotted station, to fill with fantastic dignity a better but less appropriate niche : nor do they un- derstand her true happiness, who seek to annihilate distinctions from which she derives advantages, and to attempt innovations which would depre- ciate her real value. Hannah More. Women are much more like each other than men ; they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love ; these are their universal characteristics; he who flatters them most pleases them best ; and they are most in love with him who they think is the most in love with them ; no adulation is too strong for them, no assiduity too great, no simula- tion of passion too gross ; as on the other hand, the least word or action that can possibly be construed into a slight or contempt is unpardonable, and never forgotten. Chesterfield. There is one in the world who feels for him who is sad a keener pang than he feels for himself; there is one to whom reflected joy is better than that which comes direct ; there is one who rejoices in another's honor more than in any which is one's own ; there is one on whom another's transcendent excellence sheds no beam but that of delight ; there is one who hides another's infirmities more faith- fully than one's own ; there is one who loses all Sense of Self in the sentiment of kindness, tender- ness, and devotion—that one is woman. Irving. Women, with their bright imaginations, tender hearts, and pure minds, create for themselves idols, on which they lavish their worship, making their hearts temples, in which the false god is adored. But, alas ! the object of their best and fondest feel- ings generally too soon proves to be of base clay, instead of pure gold ; and though pity would fain intervene to veil its defects, or even to cherish it in despite of them, virtue, reason, and justice com- bine finally to destroy it ; but, in the deed, too often injure the fame in which it was enshrined. Lady Blessington. The Lord considered from what part of the man he should form woman ; not from the head, lest she should be proud ; not from the eyes, lest she should wish to see everything ; not from the mouth, lest she might be talkative ; nor from the ear, lest she should wish to hear everything ; nor from the heart, lest she should be jealous ; nor from the hand, lest she should wish to find out everything ; nor from the feet, in order that she might not be a wanderer ; only from the most hidden place, that is covered even when a man is naked ; namely, the rib. Rabbi Levi. , A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven ; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate , bloom of beauty. Sweet and beautiful The fair- est and the most spotless Is it not a pity to see them bowed down or devoured by grief inexora- ble, wasting in disease, pining with long pain, or cut off by sudden fate in their prime 2 We may de- serve grief, but why should these be unhappy 2 Ex- cept that we know that heaven chastensthose whom it loves best ; being pleased, by repeated trials, to make these pure spirits more pure. Thackeray. 1034 JO A Y’.S CO Z / A C O AV. WONDER. WOODS. Wonder at nothing. A. Rivet. Woods are the abode of Deity. Hwalcopo. C. Hammond. W. Bartram. Wonders everywhere exist. The world is full of wonders. No wise man should wonder at anything. Cicero. They are too wise who are not content sometimes to wonder. T. May. Many are the wonders of both the visible and the invisible world. R. Calef. If we are in quest of wonders we need not go far to find them. J. Pierpont. Wonder ceases to be wonder when it is thor- oughly understood. Mrs. Mariet. Of some wonders it is difficult to find fitting words for description. Cowmt Strzelecki. It was through the feeling of wonder that men. began to philosophize. Aristotle. A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open. Fielding. How wonderful a thing is the love of wondering and of raising wonder | Shaftesbury. The man who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye. Carlyle. Wonder is a pause of reason, which lasts only while the understanding is fixed upon some single idea. Steele. wonder is very much the affection of a philoso- pher ; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this. Plato. Mankind have arrived at that prodigious extent of knowledge which renders them the wonder and glory of the civilized world. I. Watts. Wonder causeth astonishment, or an immovable posture of the body ; for in wonder the spirits fly not as in fear, but only settle. Lord Bacon. Wonder is the life of the sage ; it is man's hom- age on beholding the works of the Omnipotent— the involuntary homage from the finite to the In- finite. Catherine B. Smith. Some people have an obvious habit of wondering at almost everything they say and hear ; the most common-place tale, the veriest small talk, the things that are palpably plain at the first view, excite wonder. J. Bate. Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and dis- covery, and it is a principle even of piety ; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot. S. Horsley. Numbers of people are always standing with open mouths in a silly wonderment, enveloped in an obscurity, to which they bow with respect ; they admire nature only because they believe it to be a kind of magic, which nobody understands; and we may be sure that a thing loses its value in their eyes assoon as it can be explained. Fontenelle. How sweet is the quiet of friendly woods, free from the cares and anxieties of city life / Penn. All kinds of wood burn silently except the thorn ; this cackles and cries: “I, too, am wood l’’ Talmud. There is no mode of life more independent than that which, abandoning cities, loves the wood- lands. Semeca. The shady woods are to man a holy temple ; where his God waves nearer to him ; every green sod an altar, where he kneels before the lofty One. Holty. I love the silence of the shady wood, the solitude and retirement of the lonely mountain ; the ver- dant grass, the cool wind, the pale lily, and blush- ing rose, and sweet spring. De La Vega. In the woods, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life is always a child; in the woods is perpetual youth ; in the woods we return to reason and faith. R. W. Emerson. How delightful is a beautiful woodland scene when it is diversified with trees of every varied growth ; here we can recline under the shade of some lofty oak, and philosophize on the past, and dream of the future. James Ellis. Let those who have passed their whole lives in a richly wooded country, whose daily visions are deep leafy glens, forest clad hills, and plains luxu- riantly shaded, transport themselves for a moment to the desert, where but a few stunted bushes raise their heads above the earth, where the sun strikes down with parching heat, or the wind sweeps over with unbroken fury, and they may perhaps esti- mate by contrast their beauty and value. A. J. Downing. Divine wisdom has dispersed woods and forests in more or less abundance all over the earth ; in some countries they are at great distances ; in others they take up several leagues, and raise their majestic heads to the clouds; neither the constant use made of it so lavishly by mankind, nor the ravages of accidental fires, nor severe winters have yet exhausted these rich gifts of nature ; for even a few scattered trees, and humble copse, produce a forest in the short space of twenty years. Sturm. WOOING. Wooing is not always winning. Heine. We should esteem those we woo, and not strive to debauch their virtue. Dryden. The wooer is only a species of term lover, who wooes or solicits the kind regard of a female. G. Crabb. Men whose intentions are honorable, woo girls at their homes, not by stealth and in out-of-the- way places. C. Cruttwell. I am glad this parcel of wooers are so reasona- ble, for there is not one of them but I dote on his very absence. Shakspeare. A R O S Z Q J O 7. A 7" / O M. S. 1035 WORDS. Words represent ideas. E. H. Hazen. A good word costs nothing. J. Kyrle, Waste words addle questions. Bishop Andrews. Always keep sacred your word. Lokman. Words are the wings of actions. Lavater. Words are daughters of the mind. N. A. Calkins. Words are the voice of the heart. Confucius. Words are the soul's ambassadors. J. Howell. Words are women ; deeds are men. T. Bodley. Words give immortality to thoughts. Al-Hajjaj. A word often betrays a great design. Racine. Words are but pictures of our thoughts. Dryden. Let not words detain us too long from action. Edward IV of England. Words may be said to be the echoes of the heart. H. Ballow. Utter only what is right, then make your words good. Yew-Jo. To a people of few words a few laws are suffi- cient. A. A. Charisius. Words make truth to spangle, and its rays to shine. Bunyam. He who is scared by mere words has no heart for deeds. Olaws Von Dalim. Nothing is more beautiful than a word fitly spoken. A. Maham. Many persons use words without knowing their meaning. E. Loomis. Where many words are spoken truth is held in suspicion. Stoboews. Death, when brought near, puts an end to vaun- ting words. Seneca. Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its ex- act meaning. E. P. Whipple. Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. T. Hobbes. When the case demands action it should not be delayed by words. J. A. Andrew. Words are the daughters of earth, but things are the sons of heaven. Dr. Johnson. Words are sometimes signs of ideas, and some- times of the want of them. Chatfield. The man that comforts a desponding friend with words alone, does nothing. Plaw.tws. The law must be defined by words, and agree- ments must be made by words. J. Morier. The most ignorant person, when his passions are sufficiently roused, has words at will. Qwintilian. There is a relation to be observed between the words and the mouth which pronounces them. Bruyère. WORDS. There are some who only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. Voltaire. The unspoken word never does harm ; but what is once uttered can never be recalled. Rossuth. Words becomes luminous when the finger of the poet touches them with his phosphorus, Joubert. Words are but lackeys to sense, and will dance attendance without wages or compulsion. Swift. We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing ill. Cicero. There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. Mme. Swetchine. It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word Once spoken. Memonder. A good word is an easy obligation ; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. Tillotson. Manly spirit and genius plays not tricks with words, nor frolics with the caprice of a frothy ima- gination. J. Glanvill. Words should be employed as the means, not as the end ; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. Sir J. Reynolds. Words are often everywhere as the minute hand of the soui, more important than even the hour- hands of action. Richter. It is with a word as with an arrow : the arrow once loosed does not return to the bow, nor a word to the lips. Abd-el-Kader. Scholars are close and frugal of their words, and not willing to let any go for ornament, if they will not serve for use. Felton. A mere word or a simple nod from the good and virtuous, possesses more weight than the prepared speeches of other men. Plutarch. The word that once escapes the tongue cannot be recalled ; the arrow cannot be detained which has once sped from the bow. Metastasio. Without words to write in, we could not know what our forefathers did ; we could not let our children after us know what we do. C. Kingsley. Such as the words are, such will thy affections be esteemed ; and such will thy deeds as thy affec- tions, and such thy life as thy deeds. Socrates. Men suppose that their reason has command over their words : still it happens that words, in return, exercise authority on reason. Lord Bacom. The words which have universal power are those that have been keyed and chorded in the great Orchestral chamber of the human heart. T. Tilton. A man coins not a new word without some peril and less fruit ; for if it happens to be received, the praise is but moderate ; if refused, the scorn is as- sured. Ben Jonson. 1036 ZD A Y',S C O Z Z A C O /W. WORDS. Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear motions to the reader. A. Clarke. In their intercourse with the world people should not take words as so much genuine coin of stan- dard metal, but merely as counters that people play with. D. Jerrold. Among the sources of those innumerable calami- ties which from age to age have overwhelmed mankind, may be reckoned as one of the principal -—the abuse of words. G. Horne. Beware how you allow words to pass for more than they are worth, and bear in mind what al- teration is sometimes produced in their current value by the course of time. R. Sowthey. Words must be fitted to a man's mouth : it was well said of the fellow that was to make a speech for my Lord Mayor, when he desired to take mea- sure of his lordship's mouth. Selden. I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth ; I hate to see a load of band-boxes go along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them. Hazlitt. Why certain words die, and others live on, why certain meanings of words become prominent, SO as to cause the absorption of all the other mean- ings, we have no chance to explain. Maac Muller. God preserves us from the destructive power of words ! There are words which can separate hearts sooner than sharp swords; there are words whose sting can remain through a whole life M. Howitt. Words are not the natural companions of ideas: a man may be replete with good ideas, and still bear a poor comparison with another, who has fewer ideas but an abundance of words. Denmam. Often in words contemplated singly there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination, laid up—lessons of infinite worth which we may derive from them, if only attention is awakened to their existence. R. C. Trench. Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportune- ness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful fire-fly whose happy circum- volutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles. A. Helps. Words, “those fickle daughters of the earth,” are the creation of a being that is finite, and when applied to explain that which is infinite, they fail; for that which is made surpasses not the maker; nor can that which is immeasurable by our thoughts be measured by our tongues. Colton. Words have not their import from the natural power of particular combinations of characters, or from the real efficacy of certain sounds, but from the consent of those who use them, and arbitrarily annex certain ideas to them, which might have been signified with equal propriety by any other. Oliver Cromwell. WORDS. Where a foreign word is more euphonious than a native word of the very same signification, its adoption may add to the pleasure of sound, which is by no means to be disregarded in language. Sir John Stodard. If thy words be too luxuriant confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much ; a full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted. F. Quarles. A word is an utterance of the human voice which in any community expresses a thought or a thing. The right use of words is not a matter to be left to pedants and pedagogues; it belongs to the daily life of every man. R. G. White, A winged word has struck ineradicably in a mil- lion hearts, and envenomed every hour throughout their hard pulsation. On a winged word hath hung the destiny of nations : on a winged word hath human wisdom been willing to cast the im- mortal soul, and to leave it dependent for all its future happiness. W. S. Landor. As we know men at first only by their words, we must trust them till their deeds belie their words ; we sometimes find that people whom we have suspected to be enemies are not in reality SO : we are then very much ashamed of our mistake ; it is sufficient to be prepared to hate when we have proper grounds for it. Mme. de Sévigné. Words ought to carry their sense and gratifica- tion, and they ought never to be obscure. Word is a habit which we give imagination, in order to clothe thought, and make it better known by the color by which it is painted ; but it is a cloak which ought not to conceal it ; it is a head-dress, not a mask; it ought to set it off, and serve as an adornment, and not hide it from the eyes and en- velope it in disguise. La Pretiewse. By words we have it in our power to make such combinations as we cannot possibly do otherwise ; by this power of combining we are able, by the addition of well-chosen circumstances, to give a new life and force to the simple object ; in paint- ing we may represent any fine figure we please ; but we can never give it those enlivening touches which it may receive from words. To represent an angel in a picture, you can only draw a beauti- ful young man winged; but what painting can furnish out anything so grand as the addition of one word, “The angel of the Lord?” Burke. Words when well chosen have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of themselves; the reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colors, and painted more to the life in his imagination, by the help of words, than by an actual survey of the scene which they describe ; in this case the poet seems to get the better of nature ; he takes, in- deed, the landscape after her, but gives it more vigorous touches, heightens its beauty, and so en- livens the whole piece, that the images which flow from the objects themselves appear weak and faint in comparison to those that come from the expres- sions. Addison. A R O S E O U O T A 7" / O M S. 1037 WORK. A man is seen in his works. C. Metezeau. Work to-day ; rest to-morrow. J. Dwrie. The work praises the workman. Roger Payne. Good works produce good fruit. Erishna. Work done may claim its wages. Tupper. A work well begun is half ended. Plato. A change of work is my recreation. P. Bayle. Work is no disgrace, but idleness is. Hesiod. Work, if you would attain to eminence. Asgill. Work is the best thing to make us love life. Ernest Remon. In performing my one work I desire to do it well. - D. Livingstone. It is not work that kills; but no work and over- work. A. Manuzio. By work you get money, by talk you get know- ledge. Halibwrton. When master and workmen unite the work is Soon done. Wakatawki. Get work | Be sure it is better than what you work to get. Mrs. E. B. Browning. If there were no use in working, why should people work 2 Josiah Warrem. There is work almost everywhere for him who can and will do it. Horace Greeley. Work never killed or hurt any man who knew how to go about it. L. W. Grindon. It is the hands that work, and the eye that judges of the work. M. Angelo. Work is the weapon of honor; he who lacks the weapon will never triumph. D. G. Mitchell. Work to a craftsman leads to competence, work to a scholar leads to eminence. N. Amherst. Glory, begotten of labor, is a debt owed by the gods to the man who works laboriously. AEschylus. We enjoy ourselves only in our work, our doing ; and our best doing is our best enjoyment, Jacobi. Work while it is called to-day, for you know not how much you may be hindered to-morrow. - Franklin. Hard work cheerfully done is easy work, while light work unwillingly done is mere drudgery. E. P. Day. If every man should work at that for which nature fitted him, the cows would be well tended. Florian. There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field. Ada Isaacs Menken. Give moderate work and plenty of wages, and you will thus promote the moral improvement, as well as the temporal comfort of your workmen. 4. Rev. David King. WORK. To do our work well, or to be careless in doing it, is as as much different, as working hard is from being idle. Ischomachus. If a work be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends. Colton. He who would do his own work aright will dis- cover that his first lesson is to know himself and what is his duty ; and he who rightly understands himself will never mistake another man's work for his own. Montaigne. Experience teaches that a greater number of children delicately brought up die than others; provided that we do not make them work beyond their strength, we risk less by employing than by sparing them. Rowsseaw. It is not work that kills men ; it is worry. Work is healthy : you can hardly put more upon a person than he can bear ; worry is rust upon the blade; it is not the revolution that destroys the machine- ry, but the friction. Chatfield. I protest against the unfair distribution of the world's work, which can only be well done when every man and woman is fitted to work, left free to choose the field in which to work, and con- demned by public opinion if they refuse to work. Celia Burleigh. Mem do not work for nothing; they work for pay ; and when I see one who seems particularly desirous of depreciating others; I know it is only for the purpose of bringing them down to the mean standard which he is conscious measures his own life. J. G. Holland. Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing which to a sensible man can be called work, still imagine that they are doing Something ; the world possesses not a man who is an idler in his own eyes. Humboldt. All the world is perpetually at work, only that our poor mortal lives should pass the happier for that little time we possess them, or else end the better when we lose them ; upon this occasion riches came to be coveted, honors esteemed, friend- ship pursued, and virtues admired. Sir W. Temple. If thou workest at that which is before thee wig- orously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract thee ; if thou holdest to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy pre- sent activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word thou utterest, thou wilt live happy ; and there is no man who is able to prevent this. Awrelius. There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacred- ness, in work ; were he never so benighted, forget- ful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works; in idleness alone there is perpetual despair. Work, never so mean, is in communication with nature ; the real desire to get work done will itself lead one more and more to truth, to nature's appointments and regulations, which are truth ; the latest gospel in the world is, know thy work, and do it. T. Carlyle. 1038 J) A Y 'S CO / / A C O AV. WORLD. The world does move. Galileo. How little is the world. Primce Eugene, The world is my country. T. Paine. Do justice to all the world. George I of England. The world is an infidel's paradise Ahmed Vesik. Man lives only in the present world. Bolingbroke. There is another and a better world. Kotzebue. The world is maintained by intercourse. Sowth. O, how full of briers is this working-day world ! Shakspeare. The sleep of death reveals to us another world. - . Rev. W. Tennent. When I am dead let the world return to chaos. Emperor Nero. This world is nothing unless it tend to another. T. Comber. If the world had a beginning it must have an end. R. Alb. The present world is not the world of fifty years ago. Grant Thorbwºrm. The world is wide enough to hold both me and thee. Sterne. We must take the world as it is, not as it ought to be. J. B. Labat. The world is composed of innumerable particles, Or at Oms. Moschws. The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune. Sir P. Sidney. The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves. Buckingham. The world is my country ; all mankind are my countrymen. William Lloyd Garrison. The way of the world is, to make laws, but fol- low customs. Montaigne. The world judges more by what it sees, than by what it knows. Mrs. Ashton Yates. This is a grand old world if you would only let us see it as it is. Talmage. The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. J. Locke. The best thing in the world is to be able to live above the world. J. Radcliffe. The world has more sunshine than storms, more smiles than tears. Mrs. S. H. DeKroyft. The world is like a great stair-case, some go up and others go down. Hippomaac. The world is the field; in every part should the Gospel seed be sown. P. Egede. He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and its father. La Fontaine. As Antonius, Rome is my city ; but as a man the world is my country. Antomiws. WORLD. The world is the most beautiful of all things, for it is the work of God. Thales. When all the world are in the wrong, all the world are in the right. Chawssee. To enter the world there is but one way ; to de- part from it a thousand. Pliny. The world with its hundred thousand tricks is a particularly great fool. Goethe. Everybody in this world wants watching, but none more than ourselves. H. W. Shaw. This world is but the pleasure of an hour, and the sorrows of many days. Plato. The world is to us what we are to it ; we are creaters of our own world. Zschökke. The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. Goldomi. No man that loveth the world can keep a good conscience long uncorrupted. R. Edwards. The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular. Lord Greville. This world loses its charms for those who earn- estly look forward to another. Lady O. F. Morata. The duration of the world depends upon three things: justice, truth, and peace. Talmwol. A man seldom affects to despise the world, un- less the world is regardless of him. J. Bartlett. Man is an epitome of the world, and if he would know it, he has but to read himself. W. Penn. The world is bigger than you think it is, and you are smaller than you think you are. Helena Wells. The great proportion of us live for this world alone and think very little of the next. Mrs. Crowe. The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page. Awgustine. If a man wish to make his way in the world, he must bestir himself and work his brains. Schiller. The world, is a conventional phrase, which being interpreted, signifies all the rascality in it. Dickens. The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. Sir W. Raleigh. Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together with a reasonable good understand- ing. Swift. Living always in the world makes one as unfit for living out of it, as always living out of it does for living in it. Walpole. There are many arguments that go to prove that the world is not solid, but hollow ; and that the in- terior is habitable. Capt. J. C. Symmes. The world is deceitful : her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible and her judgment is intolerable. F. Qwarles. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 1039 WORLD. - Most persons do not seem to know why they were born into the world until they are ready to leave it. Sir T. Smith, The things of this world, like Absalom's mule, run away and leave us when we have most need of them. R. Venning. He who would enjoy and live happy in the world, should be deaf, dumb, and blind to the follies and vices of it. Fitz Adam. Those skilled in astronomy tell us there are many worlds; and yet I have not been able to subdue One of them. Aleacander the Great. In this world men thrive by villainy ; and lying and deceiving are accounted just, and to be rich is to be wise. Jeremy Taylor. If men would live as religion requires, the world would be a most lovely and desirable place in com- parison of what now it is. Tillotson. Quit not the world out of any hypocrisy, sullen- ness, or Superstition, but out of a sincere love of true knowledge and virtue. Sir T. More. This world is so mysterious that there is not one of its commonest ways but is, perhaps, sublimer to walk on than we at all think. Mowntford. When I hear a woman speak with contempt of the opinion of the world, it argues in her neither good feeling, cleverness, nor true courage. Lady Dacre. He that seeketh pleasures from the world follow- eth a shadow, which, when he thinketh he is surest of, it vanisheth away and turneth to nothing. Socrates. He that fixeth his mind wholly upon the world, loseth his soul ; but he that desireth the safety of his soul, little or nothing regardeth the world. Thomas Elmham. I am more and more convinced of this world's tastelessness and treachery ; that it is with God alone that any satisfying converse is to be had. T. Chalmers. The history of this world is an awful tragedy. ; take what nation you may, the record of its career is but a narrative of wars, pestilence, and woe. J. S. C. Abbott. The construction of the world is not to be sought after by reasoning, but to be perceived by sense, and to be ascertained from the things themselves. Telesio. Those persons who are constantly in the world should ever remain ignorant of it, since it is the only kind of knowledge which they pretend to pos- SeSS. S. T. Coleridge. A great many people have some knowledge of the world, although the world has no knowledge whatever of them, and no particular desire to ac- quire any. Acton. The world is the ocean, under whose smiling and and deceitful surface are concealed the rocks and quicksands, on which the unskilful mariner strikes and is lost. G. S. Bowes. WORLD. º The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description ; one Imust travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. Chesterfield. When men have more to do with the world than they can well manage, they shall have more to do with Satan than they can well withstand. Owen. The world is one great mirror ; as we are who look into it or on it, so is it to us; it gives us back ourselves; it speaks to us the language of our own hearts. Dr. Pusey. As no single man is born with a right of control- ling the opinions of all the rest, so the world has no title to demand the whole time of any particular person. Pope. The knowledge of the world that enables us to escape from errors, can only be acquired by an experience which costs us many of our most cher- ished illusions. Lady Blessington. Be not a friend of the world ; look upon the world as a bubble, look upon it as a mirage ; the king of death does not see him who thus looks down upon the world. Dhammapada. A due consideration of the vanities of the world will naturally bring us to the contempt of it and the contempt of the world will as certainly bring us home to ourselves. L’Estrange. The world is a glass wherein we may contem- plate the eternal power and majesty of God; it is that great book of so large a character that a man may run and read it. Purchas. He that will often place this world and the next before him, and look steadfastly at both, will find the latter constantly growing greater, and the former less to his view. G. Berkeley. Though our passage through this world would be rough and troublesome, yet the trouble will be but short, and the rest and contentment at the end will be an ample recompense. F. Atterbury. Christianity allows us to use the world, provided we do not abuse it ; it does not spread before us a delicious banquet, and then come with a “Touch not, taste not, handle not.” Portews. He that is enamoured of this world is like one. that entereth into the sea ; for if he escape perils, men will say he is fortunate ; but if he perish, they will say he is wilfully deceived. St. Ambrose. The world was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man ; it is the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the hom- age we pay for not being beasts. Sir T. Browne. Those people who turn up their noses at the world might do well to reflect that it is as good a world as they were ever in, and a much better one than they are likely ever to get into again. G. D. Prentice. Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world. Vawvenargues. 1040 ZD A Y 'S CO Z Z. A C O AV. TVWORLD. Do not fear the power of the world ; when a blind man runs against you in the street, you are not angry with him ; you say, “He is blind, poor mam, or he would not have hurt you.” McCheyne. The great see the world at one end by flattery, the little at the other by neglect ; the meanness which both discover is the same ; but how differ- ent, alas ! are the mediums through which it is Seen Lord Greville. The world will be blind if it does not reckon amongst its great ones such martyrs as miss the palm but not the pains of martyrdom, heroes with- out the laurels, and conquerors without the jubila- tion of triumph. J. H. Friswell. He who thinks that he can find within his own breast that which may enable him to dispense with the whole world is much mistaken ; but he who thinks that the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken. Rochefoucauld. The world is a great inn, kept in a perpetual bustle by arrivals and departures ; by the going away of those who have just paid their bills—the debt of nature—and the coming of those who soon have a similar account to settle. Chatfield. The world is a mongrel, half spaniel, half wolf ; lash it often, and when you require it, a whistle will bring it to your feet ; show but the slightest symptom of fear, and it will turn round upon, and worry you, even unto the death. C. W. Day. The world is his who can see through its preten- sion ; what deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance, by your sufferance ; see it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow. R. W. Emerson. The world is a history of human miseries ; it is replete with earthquakes, floods, and conflagra- tions; thunders, lightnings, and shipwrecks; wars, plagues, and famines ; sickness, pain, and death. Oh I it is a store-house of calamity and suffering. Pawl Orosius. He that yieldeth himself to the world, ought to dispose himself to three things which he cannot avoid : first, to poverty, for he shall never attain to the riches that he desireth ; secondly, to suffer great pain and trouble ; thirdly, to much business without expedition. Solom. There are two worlds ; one where we live a short time, and which we leave never to return ; the other, which we must soon enter, never to leave. Influence, power, friends, high fame, great wealth, are of use in the first world ; the contempt of all these things is for the latter; we must choose be- tween these two. Bruyère. We may be pretty certain that persons whom all the world treat ill, entirely deserve the treat- ment they get. The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face ; frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you ; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion ; and so let all young persons take their choice. W. M. Thackeray. WORLD. We did not make the world, but we may mend it, and must live in it ; we shall find that it abounds with fools who are too dull to be employed, and knaves who are too sharp. The compound charac- ter is most common, and is that with which we have the most to do. Colton. I am convinced that the world has been always the same, and that there is always as much good fortune as bad in it, but that it passes from pro- Vince to province, as may be seen in those ancient kingdoms whose fates have changed while the world has remained the same. Machiavelli. This world is a dream within a dream ; and as we grow older, each step is an awakening ; the youth awakes, as he thinks, from childhood ; the full-grown man despises the pursuits of youth as visionary ; and the old man looks on manhood as a feverish dream. Death the last sleep? No! it is the last and final awakening ! Sir W. Scott. They take very unprofitable pains who endeavor to persuade men that they are obliged wholly to despise this world, and all that is in it, even whilst they themselves live here ; God hath not taken all that pains in forming, framing, furnishing, and adorning this world, that they who were made by Him to live in it, should despise it ; it will be well enough if they do not love it so immoderately, to prefer it before Him who made it. Clarendon. We live in a world extremely corrupt, of which may be said, it is a monster whose understanding is a pit of darkness ; his reason a shop of malice ; his will a hell, where thousands of passions outra- geously infest him ; his eyes are two conduit-pipes of fire, out of which fly sparks of concupiscence ; his tongue, an instrument of cursing ; his face, a painted hypocrisy ; his body, a sponge full of froth ; his hands, harpies' talons ; and to conclude, he owes no faith but infidelity, no Lord but his passions, no God but his belly. N. Cawssin. If a man's conduct shows that he thinks more of treasure on earth than of treasure in heaven ; and if, when he has got the world, or some part of it, he hugs it close, and appears exceedingly re- luctant to let even a little of it go for pious and charitable uses, though God promises him a thou- sand-fold more in heaven for it, he gives not the least evidence of his being weaned from the world, or that he prefers heavenly things to the things of this world ; judging by his practice, there is sad reason to believe that his profession is in vain. J. Edwards. Ah, this beautiful world ! I know not what to think of it ; sometimes it is all sunshine and glad- ness, and heaven itself lies not far off ; and then it suddenly changes, and is dark and sorrowful, and the clouds shut out the day. In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days, like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms; then come gloomy hours, when the fire will not burn on our hearths, and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not ; and ofttimes we call a man cold when he is only sad. Longfellow. A R O S A. O U O 7. A 7'ſ O M S. 1041 WORLDLINESS. Rebuke a spirit of worldliness. J. Witherspoon. Worldly hearts are penny-wise and pound-fool- ish. Hall. Worldliness is the attractive power of something present in opposition to something to come. Parr. The beauty of all worldly things is but as a fair picture drawn upon the ice, that melts away with it. J. Burrowghs. As the love of heaven makes one heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly. Sir P. Sidney. Worldlings maintain always a uniform demean- or, because they never shape it after other people's merits, but according to their own designs. Richter. Worldly riches are like nuts; many clothes are torn in getting them, many a tooth broke in crack- ing them, but never a belly filled with eating them. R. Venning. As there is a worldliness, or the too-much of this life, so there is another worldliness, or rather other worldliness, equally hateful and selfish with this worldliness. S. T. Coleridge. There is one's trade and one's family, and be- yond it seems as if the great demon of worldly- mindedness would hardly allow one to bestow a thought or care. Arnold. The predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life, make men addicted to worldly gain and enjoyment ; in fact, we are all world- hardened ; we love more or less all worldly things. James Ellis. After hypocrites, the greatest dupes the devil has, are those worldly-minded men who exhaust an anxious existence in the disappointments and vexations of business, and live miserably and meanly, only to die magnificently and rich. John Taylor. Worldliness is the spirit of childhood carried on into manhood ; the child lives in the present hour —to-day to him is everything ; the holiday prom- ised at a distant interval is no holiday at all—it must be either now or never ; natural in the child, and therefore pardonable, this spirit when carried on into manhood, of course, is worldliness. J. Bate. It is not the “flesh,” nor the “eye,” nor the “life,” which are forbidden, but it is the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eye, and the pride of life; it is not this earth, nor the men who inhabit it, nor the sphere of our legitimate activity, that we may not love ; but the way in which that love is given, which constitutes.worldliness. Robertson. It has been well said that there is a sin of other worldliness no less than a sin of worldliness, and Christendom has had a large measure of the former sin as well as of the latter. People have been taught so much about preparing for heaven that they have sometimes become very indifferent workers on earth, and in anticipating the joys of the future world, have overlooked the infinite possibilities for good in the world that now is. W. J. Potter. WORSHIP. Worship God. Solom. God-worship is idolatry. W. Reade. Worship God by fasting. J. B. Zamzalws. Worship the Great I Am. Maimonides. Good people worship God. Kawmitalii. Worship benefits the state. Bishop Gardiner. Worship the immortal gods. Pythagoras. Worship and revere the gods. Plºtta?'ch. Worship is not for God but man. J. More. Worship Jehovah the living God. Rabbi Kimchi. Worship the living and true God. St. Clement, All worship of gods is mere folly. Marwllws. Worship makes man better to man. Hermes. Do not worship devils or bad spirits. Gawtoºma. Worship assisteth in prayer and praise. J. Cotton. Worship becometh a just government. Madoac. Even savages shall learn to worship God. - E. Winslow. Worship should be internal, not external. Antoinette Bowrignon. No worship can be displeasing to the gods. Themistius. Only those worship God who truly love Him. Lady D. Masham. Worship of the Creator is man's noblest duty. Mary Fisher. Trinitarians worship one God in three persons. S. Johnson. A true believer may worship God everywhere. Algeriws. The worship of the beautiful is the religion of art. M. E. Braddon. Worship God, for this is man's reasonable ser- vice. Benson. Worship God, but be not ostentatious of your worship. Duke of Berwick. We should not hurry when we leave a place of worship. Rabbi Chelboh. Worship not Jesus, a mere man ; worship the true God. Symmachus. Worship God, ever praying with your face tow- ard Jerusalem. Elacoews. Let every one worship the deities of the country in which he lives. Eusebius. The true worship of God does not consist in words, but in deeds. Asso/m. The glory of divine worship consists in its free- dom, its simplicity, and its spirituality. Hamilton. Just as spring is the outburst of summer, so wor- ship is the outburst of divine life in man. Davies. 66 1042 A) A Y’,S CO Z Z A C O AV. TVWORSHIP. If my soul is not engaged in worship, it is even as though I worshipped not. Confucius. It is better that God be worshipped imperfectly than not be worshipped at all. A. Severus. You worship a God who died on a tree ; we wor- ship the sun, which never dies. Atahualpa. Before we ask what a man worships we have to ask whether he worships at all. Ruskin. Once our property was all consumed in the wor- ship of lying gods, but now it is our own. Tamatoa. *- Worship not false gods ; neither hold in venera- tion the Sacred animals of the Egyptians. Osarsiph. Man ceases to be a worshipper of God only be- cause he has become a worshipper of himself. W. Goodell. If we do not endeavor to imitate Him whom we worship, we do not worship Him in sincerity. Hannah More. That worship which is directed by divine pre- cept is performed without the desire of reward. Buddha. Divine worship is one of the chiefest jewels of God's crown, which he will by no means part with. Rev. G. Swimmock. Let the virgin Mary indeed be honored, but let only the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit be wor- shipped. Epiphaniws. To worship God in spirit is the service and hom- age of the heart, and implies fear of God and trust in Him. Lºwther. Let us worship Reason as our Divinity, instead of the God which is worshipped by both Catholics and Protestants. Anacharsis Clootz. The oldest and wisest of human communities Show most respect to the gods, and are most care- ful of their worship. Aenophon. *Worship is man's highest end, for it is the em- ployment of his highest faculties and affections on the sublimest object. W. E. Channing. Diversity of worship has divided mankind into Seventy-two nations: from all their dogmas I have Selected but one—divine love. Omar Khayyam. O unbelievers I will not worship that which ye worship ; nor will ye worship that which I wor- ship ; ye have your religion, and I have my reli- gion. Mahomet. Men have consecrated productions of the earth, and worshipped them : to these have they made libations and sacrifices, and worshipped them in accordance with the narrowness of their souls. Sanchoniathon. Oh must it not be a sight at which angels re- joice—to see crowds of worshippers pressing into the courts of the Lord 2 Rank is, or ought to be, forgotten : disagreements are laid aside: the world thrust back for a season ; we meet as brethren, to pray together, to pray for each other, to kindle the flame of devotion in one another's hearts. Bishop Oxenden. WORSHIP. So long as the word God endures in a language will it direct the eyes of men to worship ; it is with the Eternal as with the Sun, which, if but its small- est part can shine uneclipsed, prolongs the day, and gives its rounded image in the dark chamber. - Richter. Believe that there is a God, worship Him, but do not enquire too curiously into His essence ; for thou wilt have nothing for thy trouble except the labor of inquiry ; do not care to know whether He exists or not ; worship Him as if He existed, and were present. Philemon. The dullest observer must be sensible of the order and serenity prevalent in those households where the occasional exercise of a beautiful form of wor- ship in the morning gives, as it were, the key-note to every temper for the day, and atunes every spirit to harmony. W. Irving. Our worship is spiritual when the door of the heart is shut against all intruders, as our Savior commands in closet-duties ; it was not His mean- ing to command the shutting of the closet-door, and leave the heart-door open for every thought that would be apt to haunt us. Charmock. Man naturally craves a God to worship ; with- out this natural craving, he would not be capable of religion ; but when left to nature without reve- lation, this craving leads to gross idolatry, as ex- treme hunger leads to eating base food, so that man sometimes makes to himself idol-gods of wood and stone ; sometimes he adores the sun, and some- times he even worships a venomous reptile. Mrs. Willard. God is to be worshipped with the body as with the mind ; for He made both, redeemed both, and will glorify both ; but there are amongst us those who have banished the worship of the body out of our churches; to bow their knees, or to stand up- right in some of the more solemn acts of worship, is thought superstitious ; and they measure the purity of religion by its rusticities and indecencies. James Monroe. Since God hath appointed government among men, it is plain that His intention was that some kind of worship should be given from some to others ; for where there is a power to punish and reward, there is a foundation of worship in those who are under that power ; which worship lies in expressing a due regard to that power, by a care not to provoke, and an endeavor to obtain the fa- vor of it, which among mankind is called civil worship. Stillingfleet. The act of worship is among all creation indi- genous and peculiar to man. As he alone stands erect and raises his front without effort toward heaven, so he bends the knee in reasoning adora- tion, nor cowering down with his head in the dust, nor grovelling on his belly, like other creatures, in abject fear ; but wanton, unstable, and extrava- gant even in his noblest aspirations, this viceroy of earth has been ever prone to waver in his alle- giance, eager to amplify his worship of the One true God into a thousand false religions, more or less beautiful, poetical, and absurd. Melville. A R O S A. Q U O Z' A 7" / O AV S. 1043 WORTH. * Strive not to put down exalted worth. Hais Bais. Ability, and not riches, constitute worth. Saadi. The worth of man has its season as well as fruit. Rochefoucauld. Worth without wealth is a servant out of place. Cowntess of Pembroke. The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it, f Franklin. I set little value on the esteem of a man without worth. Plaw.tws. I leave my kingdom to the person of greatest worth. Aleacander the Great. Worth begets in base minds envy ; in great souls emulation. Fielding. A man of real worth fears not to utter his real Sentiments. Terence. Who can judge of the worth of a man better than himself. Pope Gregory VII. Real worth requires no interpreter; its every day deeds form its blazonry. Chamfort. You will not be thought to have worth, if you have not a distinguished worth. R. Bolton. Every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. Awrelius. There is no readier way of bringing your own worth into question than by detracting from the worth of others. N. Vincent. I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness. Stanislaws. He who possesses worth and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear. Dhammapada. Real worth is generally discovered by accident, and rewarded when it is beyond the reach of enjoy- ment ; if it is true, honor flies from it: if meretri- cious, it frequently follows after it. James Ellis. True worth is as inevitably descovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there ; the human face is nature's tablet, the truth is written thereon. Lavater. We should often refresh our minds with the thought of Him, and annihilate ourselves before Him, in the contemplation of our own worthless- ness, and of His transcendent excellency and per- fection. Addison, My definition of worth is short : Truth and hu- manity respecting our fellow-creatures; reverence and humility in the presence of that Being, my creator and preserver, and who I have every rea- son to believe will one day be my judge. The first part of my definition is the creature of unbiassed instinct ; the last is the child of after reflection. Where I found these two essentials, I would gently note and slightly mention any attendant flaws— flaws, the marks and consequences of human na- ture. Burns. WOUND. The private wound is deepest. Shakspeare. A bodily wound does not reach the soul. Judah. After a wound is healed the scar remains. Syrus. Wounds, unless they are touched and handled, cannot be cured. Livy. Better are wounds from a pointed lance than an unwilling mistress. Al-Ghazzi. In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal. Mme. Swetchine. A wound in the leg may spoil my dancing, but not my taste for fighting. Admiral Keppel. A citizen wounded in defense of the public should be supported by the public. Pisistratus. Wound no man unnecessarily ; there are thorns enough in the path of human life. Saadi. There are patriotic soldiers who have rendered themselves forever beautiful by wounds and great unseemly scars. Annic E. Dickinson. When length of time has assuaged the wounds of the mind, he who reminds us of them unseason- ably brings them up afresh. Ovid. A wound is not cured by the unbending of a bow ; to express sorrow when one has injured an- other, is not sufficient satisfaction. Veneroni. A man who has suffered a wound either in body or mind should not give way to excessive sorrow, nor permit his grief to pass the bounds of pro- priety. Juvenal. The severest and most painful wounds are ex- perienced by few. What burning agony of the soul, what direful convulsions of the brain attend them, when every throb of the heart is a death- stroke , when the fibre of every nerve is charged with piercing, searching, and writhing torture, while the intensity of life is upon us, and the mind wrestles with despair. Acton. "WBANGLING.. Avoid wrangling. J. Egerton. Wrangle not with evil men. Rabbi Eleazar. Wranglers never want words. Hoeschelius. A wise man does not wrangle. Confucius. Wrangling destroyeth true piety. L. Bayley. Wranglers are never in the wrong. Cotolendi. Wranglers never want words, though they often want matter. H. G. Bohm. The captious turn of an habitual wrangler dead- ens the understanding, 'Soul's the temper, and hard- ens the heart. J. Beattie. One year of love would do more toward setting us mutually right, when we are wrong, than a millennium of wrangling. J. Mason. Amongst unthinking men, who examine not scrupulously ideas, but confound them with words, there must be endless wrangling. J. Locke. 1044 A) A Y’,S C O /, / A C O AV. "WFATH. WRETCHEDNESS. o Control thy wrath. Horace. Relieve the wretched. Saadi. Guard against wrath. Rabbi Moses. Never mock the wretched. La Fontaine. Wrath is a species of insanity. Peter the Great. Who can dare to be wretched ? Martial. The bow of God’s wrath is bent. G. Fawlkner. The only wretched are the wise Prior Abused patience turns to w rath. F. Quarles. Prudence often forsakes the wretched. Ovid. Plutarch. Wrath is an evil habit in the soul. Wrath and rigor lead shame in a lease. Isocrates. We may lay up wrath for our posterity. R. Hall. In time of calamity search out the causes of God's wrath. W. Smith. Men often make up in wrath what they want in Tea,SOIl. W. R. Alger. He who curbs his wrath, his sins shall be for- given him. Talmud. Grief never leaves a wrathful man without a weapon. A. Dwolith. Wrath should be overcome, not by wrath, but by wisdom. Sir W. Gascoigme. God giveth his wrath by weight, and mercy without measure. Erasmus. Wrath proceedeth from the feebleness of cour- age, and lack of discretion. Clisthemes. Wrath is a desire to be revenged, seeking a time or opportunity for the same. Lactantiws. Whilst thou art yet in thy senses, let the wrath of another be a lesson to thyself. R. Dodsley. He that lets the sun go down upon his wrath, and goes angry to bed, is like to have the devil for his bedfellow. V. Borghini. Wrath and revenge take from man the mercy of God, and destroy and quench the grace that God had given him. Hesychiws. Wrath is the sentiment of a superior toward an inferior, and when provoked by personal injuries discovers itself by haughtiness and a vindictive temper. G. Crabb. Where wrath, animosity, strife, and revenge predominate, the sober dictates of reason, and the mild suggestions of benevolence are drowned and lost in the storm which shakes and agitates the Soul. F. Wrangham. There is something formidable in the mere sight of wrath, even when it is incapable of inflicting any chastisement upon its provoker ; wrath may aggravate, but was never known to diminish our annoyance. H. Smith. As green wood, which is long in kindling, con- tinueth longer hot than the dry if it hath once taken fire, so the man seldom moved to wrath is more hard to be pacified in his anger, than he that is quickly vexed. M. M. Brewster. The wrath of God is like great waters that are damned for the present ; they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is given ; and the higher the stream is stopped, the more rapid and mighty is its course, when once it is let loose. J. Edwards. Ths wretched hasten to hear of their own mise- ries. Seneca, Sometimes food is a better cure for wretchedness than physic. Dr. Garth. He who is wretched has some serious cause to make him so. G. CrCubb. There is no man in so wretched a condition but he hopeth to grow better. Isocrates. There is a state of wretchedness so complete as to be insensible to malice. Diana de Poitiers. A true physician will relieve the wretchedness of the poor as well as the rich. Dr. M. Bowdom. Wretched indeed are they who live but to la- ment their beauty and splendor. Jane Shore. A life of wretchedness in this world ensures a life of happiness in the world to come. S. Stylites. We attempt a great many things to make us happy, and failing therein, only become more and more wretched. Acton. Wretched is the man who is in search of some thing to eat, and finds that with difficulty ; but more wretched is he who both seeks with difficulty and finds nothing at all. Plowtºws. WRESTLING. O, for a wrestling spirit of prayer | S. L. Smith. Wrestle with sin, thy greatest adversary. Zola. If you wrestle with a collier, you will surely get a blotch. J. F. Wurm. An old wrestler loves to look on, and to be near the lists, though feebleness will not let him offer at the prize. R. Sowth. It is by the wrestlers's art a person is enabled to throw down his superior in strength. Wrestling differs from boxing ; for the wrestler does not give blows, nor a boxer throw his antagonist. Potter. WRINET,ES. Wrinkles are the tell-tales of time. Saint Foiac. There is a history in each wrinkle of the face. C. de Valois. Let us respect the wrinkles of the face, especially OUll” OWI). Du, Voºri. It matters not how wrinkled the face may be, so long it is not wrinkled by selfishness. 2Orrilla. The face is often wrinkled by our own wishes for the future: we ask too much, and we gain a wrinkle by each disappointment. E. Souvestºre. The wrinkles of our face may show our friends that we are getting old; but they cannot divulge the cause of their premature birth. Mme. de Rémusat. A R O S A. Q U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 1045 SK tural, without being obvious. WRITING. Writing is immortal. A. Murphy. A wicked writer deserveth death. Philadelphus. Think much, say little, write less. Calmet. Style in writing is a lawful magic. Al-Bawwéb. Memory is good, but writing better. Abul Fazel. Without writing where would be history Astle. Elegant writing is a high accomplishment. W. Enfield. Irreligious writings should be discountenanced. - C. J. Mathon. The value of writings consist in their accuracy. Demophilus. If a writing be good multiply the good by print- ing. A. J. Panckowcke. How base is it to write one thing and think an- other. Seneca. We live and commune with the dead in their writings. Norton. Writing gives way to printing, and printing to stereotyping. W. Ged. Writing admits of more condensation than pub- lic speaking. Acton. In writing there is something more permanent than in words. Montaigne. Of all things avoid the fault of good authors who write too long. Le Sage. If a writer would be eminent let him not use foreign words. Goethe. Writing, when one gets used to it, is as easy as talking or walking. P. Bales. It is a pleasure to write, even though we do not print what we write. William Baker. Some who are restrained from preaching may yet instruct by writing. St. Marcelius. Brevity of expression is a distinguishing merit in all sententious writing. N. Macdonald. It is the merit of some men to write well ; and of others not to write at all. Bruyère. Writings may be compared to wine ; sense is the strength, but wit the flavor. Sterme. Fine writing consists of sentiments which are na- Addison. It is very difficult to write like a madman, but very easy to write like a fool. N. Lee. An eminent writer confers glory upon some by dedicating his writings to them. Apion. Ignorant clowns admire their own writings, and are ever most happy in repeating them to others. Catwillws, It is somewhat difficult to write to one we have never seen ; it seems like addressing an abstract idea. D. Livingstone. curable propensity to become authors. WFITING. Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Rowssed w. A writer who would gain literary fame should confine himself to his own language. Victor Hugo. All kinds and varieties of writings are good, ex- cept what is tedious and wearisome. Voltaire. Many have an incurable itch for writing, an in- Jwvenal. Get the way of writing correctly and justly, and time and use will teach you to write readily after- wards. Atterbury. A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. Dr. Johnson. Writing is painting invisible words, giving sub- stance and color to immaterial thought, enabling the dumb to talk to the deaf. Chatfield. When a writer is praised above his merits in his own time, he is certain of being estimated below them in the times succeeding. W. S. Landor. A great writer benefits us in two ways—by re- vealing to us the mysteries of our own souls, and the wonders of the external world. Anne E. Lynch. Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. Wordsworth. A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well. Montesquiew. It seems very strange that chameleons can live on air ; it seems a great deal stranger that some writers manage to live by their wits. Prentice. If thy writings please not the critics, it is no doubt an evil sign ; but when they are lauded to the skies by fools, it is time to blot them out. Gellert. Writings are improved by time, but something else is required to give immortality to them ; a book that is destined to live must have genius. Martial. Brevity is in writing what charity is to all the other virtues ; righteousness is worth nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other. Sydney Smith. What is written often survives the lapse of years; they generally begin to please from the moment of a man's death, for spite assails the living, and carps at him with unjust tooth. Ovid. A man may be concise and utter much at the Same time, especially in writing ; for in conversa- tion a great talker and a sayer of nothing dogen- erally signify but one and the same thing. Coste. Writing grows a habit, like a woman's gallantry; “there are women who have had no intrigue, but few have had but one only ;” so there are millions of men who have never written a book, but few who have written only one. Byron. 1046 A) A Y’.S CO Z Z A C O AV. F- WRITING. Writing is an invention of the pale faces; it gives birth to errors and contentions ; the Great Spirit talks—we hear His voice in the winds, the waters, and the thunders—but the Great Spirit never writes. Corm Cobb. We are ashamed to have it seen that we write slowly and with much labor, but most good writ- ers do this ; words are cheap, and to be had in abundance, it is true, but not the “words that breathe and thoughts that burn.” Bovee. Some write because they are the merriest crickets that chirp ; others, lest they should be drowned in their own gall, did they not periodically vent their spleen ; some write from mere repletion of learn- ing ; others from doubts whether they possess any. D. Hoffman. It may happen that a man may think rightly, yet cannot express elegantly what he thinks ; but that any one should commit his thoughts to writ- ing who can neither arrange nor explain them, nor amuse the reader, is the part of a man unreason- ably abusing both his leisure and learning. Cicero. The difference between a witty writer and a writer of taste is chiefly this: the former is negli- gent what ideas he introduces, so he joins them surprisingly ; the latter is principally careful what images he introduces, and studies simplicity rather than Surprise in his manner of introduction. Shemstone. A tedious writer is not one who uses too many words, but one who uses many words to little pur- pose ; where the sense keeps pace with the words, + though these be numerous, or drawn out into long periods, I am not tired with an author ; but when his expression goes on while the sense stands still, I am out of patience with him. R. Hurd. Accuracy is first to be desired in writing, and is worthy of careful cultivation ; for generally inac- curate writing is an outward sign of inaccurate Tº thinking ; but when men have shown that their thought is important, it is ungracious and super- fluous to hunt down their ifs and ands, and arraign their pronouns and prepositions. R. G. White. The habit of committing Our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions ; it is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker; no one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject. R. Blakey. Inferior poets are charmed with their own writ- ings; and, happy in the extreme, liberally bestow upon them those praises which you refuse. Every poet at the moment of writing fancies he performs wonders; but when the ardor of imagination has gone by, a good poet will examine his work in cool blood, and will find it sink greatly in his own es- teem ; on the other hand, the more a bad poet reads his productions over, the more he is charmed with them. Horace. WRITING. Among all the productions and inventions of human wit, none is more admirable and useful than writing, by means whereof a man may copy out his very thoughts, utter his mind without open- ing his mouth, and signify his pleasure at a thou- sand miles' distance. E. Palmer. An experiment very frequent among modern authors, is to write upon nothing ; when the sub- ject is utterly exhausted, to let the pen still move on ; by some called the ghost of wit, delighting to walk after the death of its body ; and to say the truth, there seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands, than that of discerning when to have done. Swift. It may be regarded as one of the greatest dan- gers to which our literature is exposed, indeed, that so many are mistaken as to what should dis- tinguish it ; some writers, by no means destitute of abilities, in their anxiety to be national have merely ceased to be natural ; their works may be original, but the men and manners they have drawn have no existence. R. W. Griswold. The small reckoning I have seen made, especially in their lifetime, of excellent wits, bids me advise that if you find any delight in writing, to go on ; but in hope to please or satisfy others, I would not black the end of a quill. Long experience has taught me that builders always, and writers for the most part, spend their money and time in the purchase of reproof and censure from envious con- temporaries or self-conceited posterity. Osborne. If you would write to any purpose, you must be perfectly free from within ; give yourself the natu- ral rein ; think on no pattern, no patron, no paper, no press, no public ; think on nothing, but follow your impulses; give yourself as you are, what you are, and how you see it ; every man sees with his own eyes, or does not see at all ; this is incontro- vertibly true. Bring out what you have ; if you have nothing, be an homest beggar, rather than a respectable thief. R. W. Emerson. Next to speech writing is beyond doubt the most useful art which men possess ; it is plainly an im- provement upon speech, and therefore must have been posterior to it in order of time. At first, men thought of nothing more than communicating their thoughts to one another, when present, by means of words, or sounds, which they uttered ; after- wards, they devised this further method of mutual communication with one another, when absent, by means of marks or characters presented to the eye, which we call writing. H. Blair. If an author write better than his contempora- ries, they will call him a plagiarist ; if as well, a pretender ; but if worse, he may stand some chance of commendation as a genius of some promise, from whom much may be expected by a due attention to their good counsel and advice. When a dull author has arrived at this point, the best thing he can do for his fame is to die before he can follow it : and in this case his brother dullards will club their efforts to confer upon him one year of im- mortality, a boon which few of them could realize for themselves. - Coltom. P R O S A. Q J O 7. A 7" / O M. S. 104.7 WRONG. Rebuke wrong. E. S. Gºlbert. Wrong makes wrong. G. Eliot. One wrong begets another. Franklin Pierce. The world is full of wrong. St. Radegonde. Wrongs should be redressed. Clovis. Overcome wrong with right. J. Kyrle. A wrong is not to be presumed. Littleton. Wrong consists in the intention. H. Denio. Rebuke wrong wherever found, Joel Barlow. Two wrongs do not make a right. Hyder-Mirza. No man is wronged but by himself. Diogenes. We cannot stop to right every wrong. Ayscow gh. Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. Landor. Disobedience to wrong is obedience to right. Amma E. Dickinsom. I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer OY10. R. Hall. We should never venture on the threshold of wrong. Rothschild. It is far better to be wronged than to commit a wrong. Cicero. We must first discern a wrong, then remedy it, if We Call. Lord Kenyon. Never do wrong either to make a friend, or to keep one. Robert E. Lee. If a man is in the wrong enlighten him, but per- secute not. A. Ellys. It is far easier to do wrong than to justify it afterward. Papinianws. Wrong is twice wrong against those who never wronged us. Shakspeare. It is wrong, not merely to do wrong, but to think wrong. Thales. He who does not repel a wrong, when able to do so, Occasions it. F. Accursivs. He who refuses to remedy a wrong is guilty of a second wrong. Mencius. To flatter what is wrong is the property of a hypocritical soul. Democritus. A little wrong done to another is a great wrong done to ourselves. Lowisa P. Hopkins. He who wrongs any member of the human family wrongs me. E. P. Day. Never complain of wrongs; with the many, it is a crime to be wronged. H. Hooker. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. W. Mwre. Forgiveness of wrongs is the most difficult of all the attributes exercised by man. Puisiewa!. TVWRONG: - - - He that acts as he believes, though he may act wrong, is not conscious of wrong. T. Paine. If it be right to comply with the wrong, then it is not right to comply with right. Lesley. He who suffers wrongfully in a man's opinion, resolves to give him reason for his suspicion. Steele. There are an infinite number of wrongs to right before society will be what it should be. John Brown. There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. Rochefoucauld. It is vain to trust in wrong ; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history. T. Parker, No man is always wrong ; a clock which does not go at all is right twice in the twenty-four hours. J. A. Langford. He who can willfully wrong his neighbor, or his friend, his heart must be the seat of every diaboli- cal vice. - J. Bartlett. There are three things to which we should never do a wrong—our prince, our conscience, and Our children. Sir A. Cooke. As often as we find our actions or opinions to be in the wrong, we must change if we would be in the right. Peter Alcyoniws. A man who does me a wrong injures himself; what then, shall I do myself a further wrong by injuring him ? Epictetws. How few are tired with acting wrong ; how very few carry it out, if they have commenced to do anything aright. Plautus, The least that a man ought to be satisfied with, when he has done wrong, is to repair the wrong as soon as it is possible. B. Rich. Few men are less pleased with themselves for having done wrong, than they are with others for informing them of it. N. Macdonald. When we are suffering under the sense of being wronged, we can give a sharper point to the ex- pression of our feelings. Pliny. He who commits a wrong will himself inevita- bly see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty. Thipper. We wrong a man when we defraud him, and when we trespass on his property, or when we neglect to pay him his due. N. Webster. He who does wrong, does wrong against him- self; he who acts unjustly, acts unjustly to him- self, by making himself bad. Awrelius. We cannot do a wrong to another without re- ceiving the counter-stroke ; we always wound our- selves when we wound another. Mercier. As a Christian should do no wrong to others, SO should he forgive the wrongs that others do to him ; it is to be like God, and a sin-forgiving God. R. Venning. 104 S ZD A Y'.S CO / / A C O AV. TVIRONG. Wrong is wrong ; no fallacy can hide it, no sub- terfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-See- ing One will discover and punish it. Rivarol. Wrong may be aggravated without any increase of evil doing, as good may be diminished without any abatement of actual beneficence. Chatfield. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yester- day. Pope. Accept not a friendship with him who hath in- jured thee ; he who suffereth the wrong may for- give it : but he who doeth it never will be well with him. R. Dodsley. It requires more magnanimity to give up what is wrong, than to maintain that which is right ; for our pride is wounded by the one effort, and flattered by the other. Colton. The power to do wrong, as well as to do right, is included in the very idea of a moral and account- able agent , and no such agent can possibly exist without being invested with such a power. A. T. Bledsoe. To revenge a wrong is easy, usual, and natural, and as the world thinks, savors of nobleness of mind ; but religion teaches the contrary, and tells us it is better to neglect than to requite it. T. Firmin. Men are more mindful of wrongs than of bene- fits, and it is but just that it should be so ; as he who restores a deposit deserves no commendation; but he who detains it, blame and punishment. - Democritus. A wrong umanswered in time grows weary of itself ; and dies away in a voluntary remorse. In bad dispositions capable of no restraint but fear, it has a different effort ; the silent digestion of one wrong provokes a second. Sterne. When we are under compulsion from adverse circumstances, we have no opportunity to commit a wrong, and the good we do is of no advantage to us, since it is looked upon as the result of necessity, and then no thanks are thought due for it. Machiavelli. Be not ashamed to confess you have been in the wrong ; it is but owning what you need not be ashamed of, that you now have more sense than you had before, to see your error, more humility to acknowledge it, and more grace to correct it. - Seed. Joyful remembrances of wrong actions are their half repetitions, as repentant of good ones are their half abolishment. In law, the intention, not the act, constitute the crime ; and in the moral law, virtue should be measured by the same standard. Richter. In this bad world we are constantly meeting with the wretched men who have been “cradled into poverty by wrong :” great tenderness should characterize our treatment of such especially, since their low estate is their misfortune and not their crime. Magoon. therhood. TVWRONG. He that hath wronged so in daily trade that he knows not in what measure he hath dome it, must redeem his fault by alms, according to the value of his wrongful dealing. Jeremy Taylor. The wrongs which we do to ourselves are often more censured than those we do to others ; we may cheat and overreach others, but to be cheated and overreached, that is the thing that shall not be so soon forgotten. E. Colston. Familiarity with a wrong diminishes our abhor- rence of it : the contemplation of it in others fos- ters the spirit of envy and uncharitableness, and leads us in the end to exult in, rather than Sorrow over the faults of others. F. Wayland. Wrongs concern all ; it is the business of all, or should be, to overcome them ; it is the business of all, because all are affected by the operation of the law ; all are interested in what affects all ; what- ever, therefore, wrongs a brother wrongs a bro- C. Hammond. We make ourselves more injuries than are of- fered to us ; they many times pass for wrongs in our own thoughts, that were never meant so by the heart of him that speaketh ; the apprehension of wrong hurts more than the sharpest part of the wrong dome. Feltham. If thou hast wronged thy brother in thought, reconcile thee to him in thought ; if thou hast offended him in words, let thy reconciliation be in words; if thou hast trespassed against him in deeds, by deeds be reconciled to him ; that recon- ciliation is most kindly which is most in kind. F. Quarles. As it is said that ferocious animals are disarmed by the eye of man, and will dare no violence if he but steadily look at them, so it is when right looks upon wrong ; resist the devil, and he will flee from you ; offer him a bold front, and he runs away : he goes, it may be, uttering threats of rage ; but yet he goes. Bushnell. The greatest punishment of a wrong is the con- viction of having done it ; and no man suffers more than he that is turned over to the pain of repen- tance ; a great man having wronged a philosopher, sent his servant to entreat him not to write against him, by whom he returned the answer, that he was not at leasure to think of him. J. Beaumont. If we can forgive when we have been deeply wronged; if we can act with gentleness and meek- ness when pursued with rancor and injustice, ma- lignity, and hate ; if we can forbear retaliation, and desire only to do good when we are assailed by others with all the evil artillery in their power, our virtue must be of a heavenly kind. Acton. Whenever we deviate from the line of moral rectitude, we must inevitably do a wrong to our- selves or others ; justice, which ever leans on the side of mercy, will teach us the right paths in life to walk in, and if we follow its teachings we shall always be on the side of right. He who commits a wrong knowingly and willfully, ostracises him- self from the society of the virtuous and the good. James Ellis. | |- | |- EDWARD YOUNG. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O AV S. 1049 - * Y. YAWNING, Yawning proves an idle mind. Ysabeaw. The yawning man catches the flies. T. Muncer. Yawning in company is the mark of one who is vulgar. T. Willis. He who yawns while he is fishing, will catch nothing. Wakatawki. The yawner is waiting for a good opportunity to do nothing. Abbé Yvon. One person yawning in company will produce a spontaneous yawn in all present. N. Chipman. The man who yawns his life away, misfortunes follow in his footsteps as the reward of his sloth- fulness. Homer. We yawn, because as we become weary, the nervous impulses which direct the respiratory movements are enfeebled. J. Hughes. We yawn when we are weary, we yawn when we are sleepy, and we yawn when we are bored ; but we more often yawn from our own slothful- IlêSS. Mme. Marguerite de Lussam. Yawning is opening the mouth when you are sleepy, and want to shut your eyes ; an infectious sensation very prevalent during the delivery of a tedious sermon, or the perusal of a dull novel, but never experienced when reading a work like the present. H. Smith. YEARNING. Yearnings for good profit the soul. W. Sewall. Yearnings avail nothing in this life. James Ellis. Yearnings are the pulses of the soul. T. Manton. Yearning for riches produces discontent. Postel. In yearning after worldly glory we forget the spiritual. Seed. There is no other time a soul so much yearns for sympathy as when it is crushed and bruised by grief. J. A. Zalwski. The yearnings of a virtuous mind will attain if moderately indulged, but certain destruction if suffered to become immoderate. R. Burton. We yearn for wealth and all the temporal ad- vantages this world is capable of giving ; but how few of us yearn for the immortality of our own Souls. M. Zimmermann. Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle ; when wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep—we are on the death-bed. Bulwer. Life abounds with yearnings; few persons live without them ; and frequently they are proper and indispensable ; but to be continually yearning after impossibilities, evinces a feeble judgment and defective character. Martha W. Robinson. YEARS. Years are fingers of Time. D. L. Wundt. The years do not wait for us. Confucius. Years are the best preachers. A. Varillas. Years teach more than books. J. Zeno. How have we spent our years ? Valeriano. Years are the recorders of time. Sosigenes.. Years conquer when force fails. E. P. Day. Years cannot restore lost honor. Vinde0c. The mere lapse of years is not life. Martineaw. A year is nothing to a slothful man. M. Yvan. Years are a great discoverer of merit. Van Dale. Speak not ill of the year until it is past. K. Zell. Our years are but the moments of Time. Zach. Years and sins are always more than are owned to. Veneroni. How the years race by when we are growing old. A. Young. Years do not make sages; they only make old II].6]]. Mme. Swetchine. Years are worn away by the inaudible file of time. Vergennes. Every period of years is short in comparison with eternity. Hwmboldt. . Men have years according to feeling, women according to looks. Vavassewr. No one will restore the years gone past : no one will return thee to thyself. Seneca. We spend our years with sighing; life is a valley of tears ; but death is the funeral of all our sor- I’OWS. R. Watson. To make a good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years; and in old age the vigor of youth. Stanislaws. The consummation of the old year, and the open- ing of the new, brings with it a fine significance, and a pleasurable importance. L. H. Grindon. When young our years are ages ; in mature life they are three hundred and sixty-five days; in old age they have dwindled to a few weeks. Gasparin. Years do not always agree with years, nor months with months, and even one day will be in Search of itself, and one hour is not similar to an- other. Maniliws. Whilst we are tottering with the infirmities of increasing years, many familiar objects around us seem to be also touched by the destructive fingers of decay. Acton. 1050 A) A Y '.S C O / / A C O AV. YEARS. Most men in years, as they are generally dis- couragers of youth, are like old trees which, being past bearing themselves, will suffer no young plants to flourish beneath them. Pope. The world is very bad as it is—so bad that good men scarce know how to spend fifty or three-score years in it ; but consider how bad it would proba- bly be were the life of man extended to six, seven, or eight hundred years. W. Sherlock. If we might for a moment personify the dying year in his last days, we should picture him a little shrivelled old man—shrivelled as one of his grand- sire's Winter pippins—piping in the shrill treble of extreme age, and uttering an experience strongly resembling that of human life. H. Rogers. The year is dying away like the sound of bells : the wind passes over the stubble, and finds nothing to move ; only the red berries of that slender tree seem as if they would fain remind us of something cheerful ; and the measured beat of the thrasher's flail calls up the thought that in the dry and fallen year lies much of the nourishment of life. Goethe. The feet of years fall noiseless: we heed, we note them not, till tracking the same course we passed long since, we are startled to find how deep the im- pressions they leave behind ; to revisit the scenes of our youth is to commune with the ghost of our- selves, and with those who have departed on that eventful voyage, and from which there is no re- turn. M. Wigglesworth. The years—how they have passed They are gone as clouds go on a summer day ; they came, they grew, they rolled full-orbed ; they waned, they died, and their story is told. Years that wrought upon us in thought and deed with the force and power of eternity—years whose marks we shall carry forever — were dissolved like the dew, and their work is finished. H. W. Beecher. The soul experiences a marvellous relief as the old year rolls, with its massive burden, into the past, and the new year advances with its sunny smiles and hopes ; the fact is—a multitude of stains have blistered the page upon which the hand of Time is now writing “Finis,” which the soul would fain bury in infinite forgetfulness : but the new year has a fair, clean page ; and faith and hope have concerted that, by the blessing from on high, it shall bear only what angels will admire and God himself will commend. Dr. Davies. We spend our years as a tale that is told, but the tale varies in a hundred different ways, varies be- tween man and man, beween year and year, be- tween youth and age, Sorrow and joy, laughter and tears. How different the story of the child's year from the man's ; how much longer it seems : how far apart seem the vacations, and the Christ- mases, and the New Years But let the child be- come a man, and he will find that he can tell full fast enough these stories of a year ; that if he is disposed to make good use of them he has no hours to wish away ; the plot develops very rapidly, and the conclusion gallops on the very heels of that first chapter which records the birth of a new year. J. W. Chadwick. YEOMAN. A yeoman is a commoner. Verstegam. The yeoman has ever been the bulwark of a free country. A. Collins. A yeoman on his legs is higher than a prince on his knees. M. Wren. The yeoman is a gentleman in embryo — the capable wax waiting only for the prince to stamp it. - S. Butler. The sturdy yeomanry of England still plow the same fields and kneel at the same altars as their forefathers. W. Irving. We maintain that it is for the welfare of society that the land should be cultivated by an indepen- dent yeomanry. E. Everett. The honest yeomanry of our country will not consent that the products of their toil shall come in competition with those obtained through the blighting curse of slave labor. B. F. Wade. A yeoman is he that hath free land of forty shillings by the year; who was anciently thereby qualified to serve on juries, vote for knight of the shire, and do any other act, where the law requires one that is probws et legalis homo. Blackstone. The good yeoman wears russet clothes, but makes golden payment, having time in his buttons, but silver in his pocket ; if he chance to appear in clothes above his rank, it is to grace Some great man with his service, and then he blusheth at his own bravery. T. Fulle”. YESTERIDAY. Yesterday comes too late. T. Weaver. Yesterday cannot be recalled. Jeremy Taylor. Yesterday's grief is but a spasm. G. Zame. From yesterday there is no appeal. Witzleben. Wills. Ten thousand yesterdays are not worth one to- day. S. Woodworth. Eew know what they were yesterday; still fewer what they will be to-morrow. Zschökke. Thy yesterday was thy past ; thy to-day thy future; thy to-morrow is a secret. Rabbi Simon. O for the power to bring back yesterday ! There is a certain sadness in the thought that each yesterday shortens our term of life, and brings us nearer the grave. W. T. Burke. Thousands have had reason to repent that yes- terday they were too rapid and impetuous in their career; few that they were too deliberate and cau- tious. Acton. Yesterday for contemplation, to-day for action, to-morrow for anticipation ; let us be mindful that our contemplation of yesterday have no regrets or repentance. James Burgh. The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us; we put off till to-morrow what we should have done to-day, and necessarily make sacrifices that we ultimately regret. How many there are who cry out in their agony of spirit—“O, if I had only known, yesterday, how different it would have been l’” James Ellis. A R O S Z O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 1051 YIELDING. Yielding stays War. Clitomachws. Yield always to reason. Sir C. H. Williams. Yield not to fanaticism. Villani. Never yield to the unjust. D. F. Zea-Bermudez. Yield everything but liberty. Demophilus. Give mercy to those who yield. Yielding to necessity is no disgrace. Gothofredws. Jingw. It is sometimes a pleasure to yield. Jardins. The most prudent yield to strength. Woodeson. Ovid. Yielding is sometimes the surest way of succeed- ing. Gwicciardini. By yielding you may obtain a victory. In society it is the man of sound sense that yields first. Bruyère. Even a brave man will often yield to the inevit- able. A. Ximenes. Yielding to-day is sometimes a victory for to- In 101*I‘OW. Qween Brwmehawt. How much better it is to have gracious denials than angry yieldings. J. Hall. Yield to friends in small matters, that they may yield to you in large ones. Yoritomo. When exhorting a person to do right, continue to urge until he yields to your persuasions. Masillon. Women often displease by yielding, and lose the object beloved by the very excess of their devoted- dess. Mme. de Stael. In pecuniary affairs it is better to yield than dis- pute ; in spiritual affairs it is better to suffer than yield. E. Burgardws. Let us at all times, and on all occasions, with all patience, meekness, contentedness, and resignation of spirit, yield to the Divine will. John Norris. We should yield nothing of our principles of right, to advance our own interest, the interest of party, or to meet the demands of any state or sec- tion of our country. H. Wilson. YORKE. Put not another under the yoke. Vikramorwasi. Let the oppressor's yoke be broken. Woltmann. Rescue from the yoke of despotism. Zagoskin. He is a fool who makes his own yoke. L. Valla. The banished must pass under the yoke. Zolwski. Welcome death rather than the yoke of ruthless invaders. Ulrich Zwingle. It is folly to revolt from a light yoke, only to bear a greater one. B. Ventadow”. Christ's yoke is not hard to bear ; the yoke of Satan is a grievous burden. W. Smith. He who weakly shrinks under the yoke of ty- ranny, can neither fill his own vocation, nor con- tribute aught to the welfare of mankind. Yepez. If thou art called upon to bear the yoke of op- pression, be not dismayed, nor give thyself up to despondency, but boldly endeavor to throw it off, even if death is the result of that endeavor. Zech. YOUTH, Youth is glorious. Ann Maria, Ursins. Fortune loves youth. C. F. A. Würtemberg. Youth is the fire of life. Wydsa. Youth is not responsible. Count Walewski. Beware of a praying youth. A. Wilson. Youth is a garland of roses. Talmwol. Youth is no bar to knowledge. J. P. Baratier. For youth everything is sport. Vinci. Giddy youth makes Sober age. R. Yngworth. Youth's follies are soon forgot. |Wallenstein. Young men should be learners. Zamoyski. In youth prepare for manhood. L. Murray. Young men think old men fools. L. Uhlich. What medicine can restore youth. Uchanski. Youth holds no society with grief. Ewripides. Youth decreases while it increases. Y-Yº, He whom the gods love dies young. Memander. A. youth, like a tree, needs pruning. Wiggins. A youth's education forms the man. M. Walsh. Youth without beauty is half a prize. G. White. Reep true to the dreams of thy youth. Schiller. The sport of youth is the terror of age. Zorzi. The law makes due allowance for youth. J. Read. Our youth is what our parents make it. Xawpi. Youth learns follies; age repents of them. Zerola. Youth and health are fortunes in themselves. U2. Youth looks at the possible, but age at the proba- ble. J. Logan. Youth is taught by example sooner than pre- cept. J. Yeregui. It is the folly of youth to be too eager for man- hood. Von Vizim. Our youth is a state of preparation for man- hood. A. M. Wiggins. He who has youth and health can attain to any- thing. Agathocles. Youth, dyed in vanity, very rarely takes other color. Woronicz. He is most perfect which adorneth youth with virtues. Hermes. The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth. Richter. When beautiful youth is gone, not much of life remains. Dr. G. Ulthorn. A prudent youth is superior to an imprudent old man. R. Vaugham. When youth is well instructed then age is well disposed. P. F. Arpe. Youth is a continual intoxication ; it is the fever of reason. Rochefoucauld. Youth is the season for imnrovement, manhood for research. Schliemann. 1052 AD A Y',S C O Z / A C O AV. YoUTH. YOUTH, A youth thinks that all things are good which It is not easy to surround life with any circum- please him. H. Ulrici. stances in which youth will not be delightful. Steele. So)tutor youth that the sins of age be not im- Young men are apt to think themselves wise puted to thee. Pythagoras. enough, as drunken men are to think themselves A filial youth will pray for the happiness of his deceased father. Yoshitowné. Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time. Theocritus. Youth is an emblem of heaven ; there alone its bloom is eternal. F. Valentyn. ‘A youth perceives not poverty, nor does a fool discern misfortune. Vaissette. Youth is a flower that soon withereth ; a blos- som that quickly falls off. T. Boston. Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme. R. Hall. Bright youth passes as quickly as thought, nor is the speed of coursers fleeter. Theognis. The follies that men commit in their youth are causes of repentance in old age. H. Hody. Young men are more like the age they live in than they are like their fathers. Al-Raschid. Where vice is embraced in youth, there com- monly virtue is neglected in age. Cicero. If you would have a youth respect you in old age, teach him obedience in his youth. P. Ximines. He that in life guideth his life by reason, shall in age find the ready footpath from ruin. Theopompus. Youth is the season of hope, enterprise, and en- ergy, to a nation as well as an individual. Williams. The self-conceit of the young is the great source of those dangers to which they are exposed. Blair. “When I am a man,” is the poetry of childhood; “when I was young,” is the poetry of old age. i- Camille Flammariom. It is very requisite that youth should be brought up in that part of learning which is called humili- ty. ... • - Lactantius. To the young, if you give any tolerable quar- ter, you indulge them in your idleness, and ruin them. J. Collier Almost everything that is great has been done by youth. The history of heroes is the history of youth. B. Disraeli. Educate the youth of a heathen race, and the next generation will be brought to embrace Chris- tianity. M. Whitman. It is with youth as with plants; from the first fruits they bear we learn what may be expected in future. Demophilus. He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age. J. Hawes. Treasures are not for youth ; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved. Mme. de Grardim. The destiny of any nation at any given time de- pends on the opinion of its young men under five- and-twenty. Goethe. Sober enough. Chesterfield. In their youth let girls be trained to the practice of piety, that they may be presented spotless vir- gins to Christ. St. Ursula. Young men look rather to the past age than the present, and therefore the future may have Some hopes of them. Swift. The future welfare of a youth is not in his own power ; his parents mould the die from which his manhood is cast. L. Westenrieder. The best services man has done in his youth are frequently repaid with neglect, when he is more advanced in years. Phoed rºws. Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experi- ence of riper years. Mrs. Sigowrmey. Youth that is so highly prized passes quickly like a dream : sad and wrinkled old age forthwith im- pends over our head. Mimºmermvws. All of us who are worth anything spend our man- hood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. Shelley. Youth is the golden period of life, and every well-spent moment will be like good-seed planted in an auspicious season. Mrs. C. G. Gore. Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness, are like the days of spring ; instead of complaining of their brevity try to enjoy them. Ruckert. It must be an industrious youth that provides against age ; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other. L’Estrange. The magnet does not more surely and powerfully attract the needle, than youth by some electric sympathy of soul is attracted by youth. Judson. As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. Cicero. Youth is beautiful ; its friendship is precious ; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life. Willis. The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth. Magoom. Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation. Burke. The young should be spared from sorrow as much as possible; never dim the sunshine of hope and joy, so as to leave them without even the memory of its glory. - J. Inskip. Youth is the gay and pleasant spring of life, when joy is stirring in the dancing blood, and na- ture calls us with a thousand Songs to share her general feast. Ridgway. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. 1053 YOUTH. Hard are life's early steps ; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair. Landom. Many brave young minds have oftentimes, through hearing the praises and famous eulogies of worthy men, been stirred up to effect the like commendations. E. Spenser. Youth is not like a new garment which we can keep fresh and fair by wearing sparingly ; youth, while we have it, we must wear daily, and it will fast wear away. J. Foster. The ship of youth crowds sail ; but if the wind forsakes it, the canvass hangs motionless, awaiting a friendly breath ; and too often illusions are sum- moned to its aid. Mme. Swetchime. Youth is ever confiding ; and we can almost for- give its disinclinations to follow the counsels of age, for the sake of the generous disdain with which it rejects suspicion. W. H. Harrison. Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii ? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth—the careless sport, the pleasure and pas- sion, the darling joy. W. M. Thackeray. The proper education of youth is best secured by the harmonious and simultaneous development and discipline of the physical, intellectual, and moral faculties and powers. J. S. Denman. The fairest flower in the garden of creation is a young maid, offering and unfolding itself to the influence of divine wisdom, as the heliotrope turns its sweet blossoms to the sun. Sir J. E. Smith. Childhood does sometimes pay a second visit to man—youth never; how responsible are we for the use of a period so precious in itself, which will soon pass away, and never return. Mrs. Jameson. Youth is not rich in time ; it may be poor ; part with it, as with money, sparing ; pay no moment but in purchase of its worth ; and what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell. E. Young. The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others' that deserve it. Sir W. Temple. There is no study for youth more interesting than that of medicine ; but there must be no con- tracted views, and no part of it must be esteemed greater than all the parts together. Ziemssen. When thou art young, then when thy blood flows quickly is the time to lay up wealth ; at length, when thou art old, enjoy thyself whilst thou may, that thou livest is then sufficient gain. Plawtus. Readers who are in the flower of their youth should labor at hose accomplishments which may set off their persons when their bloom is gone, and to lay in timely provisions for manhood and old age. Addison. If the Spring put forth no blossoms, in Summer there will be no beauty, and in Autumn no fruit : So if youth be trifled away without improvement, riper years will be contemptible, and old age mis- erable. Mrs. E. Kinney. YOUTH, - - Youth is pliant and elastic ; if it receives impres- sions easily, they are as easily effaced ; but matu- rity is rigid, and admitting them slowly retains them with a proportionate tenacity. Blessington. When at home a youth should be filial, when abroad respectful to his elders ; he should be earn- est and truthful ; he should overflow in love to all, and cultivate the friendship of the good. Confucius. In the species with which we are best acquainted, namely, our own, I am far, even as an observer of human life, from thinking that youth is its hap- piest season, much less the only happy one. Paley. The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory ; glory is due to those only who dare to as- sociate with pain, and have trampled pleasure un- der their feet. Fénélon. Our youth is like the dream of the hunter on the hill of health ; he sleeps in the mild beams of the sun ; but he awakes amidst a storm ; he looks back with joy on the days of the Sun, and the pleasant dreams of his rest | Ossian. People place youth and age opposite to each other, as the light and shade in the day of life; but has not every day, every age its own youth, its own new attractive life, if one only sets about rightly to enjoy them ? Mary Howitt. Sad, indeed, is the spectacle of the youth idling away the spring-time of his existence, and not only losing the sweet benefit of time, but wasting, in the formation of evil habits, those hours in which he might clothe himself with angel-like perfection. Mrs. Dorothy Madison. Let youth cherish the happiest of earthly boons while yet it is at its command ; for there cometh a day to all “when neither the voice of the lute nor the birds” shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fall on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews. Bulwer. There is no usurer whose profits can be compared for one moment with the results you dºmay reap, if you have the wisdom and grace, in the time of boyhood and youth to extract from your hours, days, and years the first they are capable of yield- ing. - W. E. Gladstone. Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business ; for the ex- perience of age, in things that fall within the com- pass of it, directeth them ; but in new things abus- eth them. Lord Bacon. Youth is like Adam's early walk in the garden ; the dew lies upon the grass, no smoke of busy life has darkened or stained the morning of our day : the pure light shines about us ; if any little mist happens to rise, the sunbeam of hope catches and paints it. R. A. Willmott. How charming the young would be to talk to, with their freshness, fearlessness, and truthfulness, if only—to take a metaphor from painting—they would make more use of grays and other neutral tints, instead of dabbing on Soruthlessly the strong- est positives in color A. Helps. 1054 A) A Y'S CO / / A. C. O AV. YOUTH. Youth is not the age of pleasure ; we then ex- pect too much, and we are therefore exposed to daily disappointments and mortifications ; when we are a little older and have brought down our wishes to our experience, then we become calm and begin to enjoy ourselves. Lord Liverpool. Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers ; but youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared ; it is during this season that the character assumes its permanent shape and color, and the young are wont to take their course for time and for eternity. J. Hawes. He who lives happy through the short rose-days of his youth, and strives to be good, still enjoys the days of his youth when the winter of life ap- proaches, and contentment and virtue scatter flow- ers along his path ; without fear and without anxiety he can look before and behind. Gleim. He who is tinctured with good principles while he is young, when he is grown old will not be des- titute of virtue ; if a man be destitute of know- ledge, prudence, and virtue, his door-keeper may say, nobody is at home. Give advice where you ought ; then if it be not regarded, the fault is not yours. 4 Saadi. Youth is the Spring of life ; and by this will be determined the glory of Summer, the abundance of Autumn, the provision of Winter ; it is the morning of life; and if the sun of righteousness does not dispel the moral mists and fogs before noon, the whole day generally remains overspread and gloomy. W. Jay. The young, when they have left their youthful school, flatter themselves that they have escaped forever from tasks and tasking-schoolmasters. Alas ! they know not that the world is a perpetual school of bitter tasks, and harder stripes—yea, of stripes that reach even to the heart—and tasks whose letters are tears. G. P. Morris. There is no moral object so beautiful to me as a conscientious young man ' I watch him as I do a star in the heavens; clouds may be before him, but we know that his light is behind them, and will beam again ; the blaze of others' prosperity may outshine him, but we know that, though un- seen, he illumines his true sphere. Caroline Gilman. There is no giddiness in looking down the preci- pices of youth ; it is the rapidity and heat of its course that brings the giddiness ; when we are near its termination a chilly thrill comes overus, whether we look before or behind ; yet there is something like enchantment in the very sound of the word youth, and the calmest heart, at every season of life, beats in double time to it. W. S. Landor. Young men, seriously consider the dangers that characterize the age in which you live, dangers by which you are surrounded—the danger arising from the ardor of passion, the pruriency of imagi- nation, the influence of example, the love of com- panionship, the temptations to sensuality, to in- temperance, to dishonesty, and to extravagance, which beset the young man's path at all times. J. A. James. YOUTH. Youth will never live to age without they keep themselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness ; too much thinking doth consume the spirits; and oft it falls out that while one thinks too much of doing, he leaves to do the effect of his thinking. Sir P. Sidney. At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word ; like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very Sober aspect after washing day. Hawthorne. Let not youth imagine that there is a line which divides innocence from guilt, to which we may safely approach, provided we step not over it. Who sports upon the edge of a precipice may fall from it, in One moment of giddiness, and be irre- trievably lost ; the youth whose heart is pure, and whose manners are yet unsullied, will start with horror at the mere shadow of guilt. R. Lwmley. As the first impression made on the minds of youth is the most lasting, great care should be taken to furnish them with such seeds of reason and philosophy, as may rectify and sweeten every part of their future lives, by marking out a proper behavior both with respect to themselves and others, and exhibiting every virtue to the view which claims their attention, and every vice which they ought to avoid. J. H. Moore. A young person, of proper intellectual and moral culture, will always manifest a proper regard for those of riper years ; not only will he maintain a becoming respect for parental advice, but will al- ways treat the aged, in whatever condition, with kindness and esteem ; nothing is more odious in the youthful character than disrespect to the ad- vice and wisdom of age ; many a vain and con- ceited youth hath been plunged into ruin by being guilty of this folly. J. W. Barker. A well-spent youth is the only sure foundation of a happy age ; those who have in the earlier part of life neglected to furnish their minds with ideas, to fortify them by contemplation and regu- late them by reflection, seeing the season of youth and vigor irrecoverably past, its pleasing scenes annihilated, and its brilliant prospects left far be-, hind, without the possibility of return, and feeling, at the same time, the irresistible encroachments of age, with its disagreeable appendages, become peevish and uneasy, troublesome to others, and burdensome to themselves. J. Bigland. The calmness and courage of youth partly arise from this, that we are climbing up, and see not death, because he lies on the other side of the mountain ; but when we have passed over the summit, then we find death, of which we have only hitherto heard speak, stares us in the face, when our bodily strength begins to ebb and our courage to sink: then a sad earnestness takes the place of our youthful courage, and even impresses itself- upon our countenance ; from the standpoint of youth, life seems to be a never-ending long future; from the standpoint of age, a short past. Schopenhaufer. J. G. Zºº'ſ][M][ERMANN- P & O S Z O U O 7" A TI O W S. 1055 Z. ZEAL. Zeal is fire. Al-Wākidi. zeal is but human. Saint Yves de Ker-Martin. Zeal is commendable. Epée. Zeal is an enchantment. Zamoyski. Too much zeal spoils all. Diocletian. Zeal is fire from heaven. Yen-Hoei. Zeal is light to the mind. Sir R. Williams. Zeal in charity is a virtue. Hakkadosh Juda. We should govern our zeal. Wachsmuth. Zeal in a good cause is just. O. P. Villiers. Zeal is the fire of the Spirit. H. Smith. Zeal is twin-brother to faith. A. C. Urcews. Zeal is the zealot's happiness. Epaphroditus. Zeal goes further than talent. C. Reade. Zeal is the essence of religion. Lady Krudener. True zeal is a heavenly flame. W. Yotes, Zeal in right-doing is holiness. C. Wordsworth. Zeal should not yield to anger. A. Zalwski. Zeal without knowledge is folly. J. Wilkes. Blindfold zeal can only do harm. Lichtºwer. Passion is often mistaken for zeal. A. Yepez. Zeal must be yoked with humility. W. Cave. Zeal is a good companion to genius. Loyola. Zeal should not outweigh discretion. P. Jarrige. Zealin unbelief is the devil's blessing. O. Worm. True zeal overcomes every difficulty. A. Young. Talent woos success, but zeal wins her. Vallisney'i. Zeal without wisdom is a sister of folly. Galvani. Blind zealisa swordina madman's hand. Flavel. Zeal in the cause of truth is commendable. Zara. A man's zeal should be always on the wing. Yver. Zeal should borrow the hands of prudence. Yu. God will abundantly reward the zeal of his child- I'êIl. Clovis. Without zeal there is no pleasure in study or la- bor. H. S. Woodfall. Perform with zeal whatever duties devolve upon you. G. H. Thomas. Our zeal should always be tempered with discre- tion. Zhookofsky. Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true sol- dier. Wallace. Zeal in the cause of God is the only true happi- IlêSS. St. Dominic, Zeal should be accompanied by charity and meek- IleSS. St. Cuthbert, ZEAL. Old zeal is only to be cozened by young hypoc- risy. G. Farquhar. Zeal stimulates to the performance of every duty. - C. Yorke. Zeal without knowledge is like a fire without light. F'wretière. Zeal should ever look through the eye of discern- ment. F. A. Zea. It is glorious to suffer for zeal in the cause of truth. F. C. Spinola. Zeal for liberty has sometimes produced an- archy. Z. Vance. Every blemish is charged to him who is destitute of zeal. Llywarch Hen. What is zeal without patience, humility, and prayer. Kentigern. Zeal is best shown in deeds of beneficence and charity. St. John the Almoner. Zeal and charity are necessary virtues in all persons. Alban, Bwtler. Let the zeal of our sisters in good works quicken OUll” OWI). Angelina Grimké. Zeal should be the first and indispensable quality of a scholar. C. W. Webber. Zeal is only fit for wise men, but is found mostly among fools. Tillotson. Without zeal no man can properly serve the cause of God. Simon Zelotes, Zeal is the golden thread in poetry—the fire that feeds its passion. Yazikof. Zeal is rather to be considered a test of faith than knowledge. C. W. Qwick. Increase your zeal by penance, devotion, and deeds of charity. St. Publius. We do that in our zeal our calmer moments are afraid to answer. sº?" W. Scott. A task will sooner or later be accomplished by zeal and learning. Mac Guckin de Slane. True zeal is a soft and gentle flame that will not Scorch anyone's hand. Cudworth. Zeal is a necessity of a disciple of Christ : so is charity and devotion. St. Peter Gonzales. Party zeal is honorable, when we are convinced it is used in the right direction. Vallandigham. Truth should always be charitable, for bitter zeal does harm instead of good. E. Yale. Protestants, as well as Catholics, have their re- ligious zeal without knowledge. H. A. Wise. The zeal of the vicious should be overcome by the greater zeal of righteous men. St. Swibert. When thou laborest for others, do it with the same zeal as if it were for thyself. Theodosius I. Zeal to obtain a heavenly kingdom is far better than zeal for mere earthly honors. St. Cloud, A) A Y 'S CO / / A C O AV. ZEAL. Zeal without humility is like a ship without a rud- der, liable to be stranded at any moment. Feltham. Never let your zeal outrun your charity ; the former is but human, the latter is divine. Ballow. violent zeal for truth has a hundred to one odds to be either petulancy, ambition, or pride. Swift. The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must con- clude in treachery ; at first it deceives, at last it betrays. Lord Bacon. There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion ; by persuading others, we convince Ourselves. Jwniws. Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to reli- gion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal. I. Barrow. Discretion without zeal is slow-paced, and zeal without discretion is strong-headed ; let therefore our zeal spur on discretion, and our discretion rein in zeal. St. Bernard. An excessive zeal for that which is good, though it may not be offensive to me, at all events raises my wonder, and leaves me in a difficulty how I should call it. John of Salisbury. Any zeal is proper for religion but the zeal of the sword and the zeal of anger ; this is the bitterness of zeal, and it is a certain temptation to every man against his duty. Jeremy Taylor. No great movement in human affairs can be made without zeal, energy, and perseverance ; it must be animated by a strong will, and tempered by a benevolent purpose. C. F. Adams. Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost ; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. Buddha. I want to see all in a flame of fire. You know what kind of fire I mean. I desire that none of my wild fire may be mixed with the pure fire of holy zeal coming from God's altar. Whitefield. We have no right to kill ourselves and call it zeal; and, perhaps, if we were to get at the root of the evil in such a case, we should find it not in public spirit, but in personal ambition. W. Taylor. It is admirably remarked by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself, than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current. Fielding. Zeal in the service of God is no miraculous gift, no extraordinary prerogative of some peculiar favorite of heaven, but the natural and insepar- able property of a well-confirmed habit of holi- IleSS. R. Lºwcas. Be not righteous over-much is applicable to those who, out of an excess of zeal, practice mortifica- tions, whereby they macerate their bodies : or to those who voluntarily reduce themselves to a poor and mendicant state. Fiddles. Zeal for uniformity attests the latent distrusts, not the firm convictions of the zealot ; in propor- tion to the strength of our self-reliance is our in- difference to the multiplication of suffrages in favor of our own judgment. Sir J. Stephem. ZE.A.L. Zeal ever follows an appearance of truth, and the assured are too apt to be warm ; but it is their weak side in argument ; zeal being better shown against sin than persons, or their mistakes. Penn. Zeal is an ardor of mind ; it is a vehement affec- tion for Some person, or Some thing, or some cause ; it is usually accompanied by a feeling of indigna- tion against everything supposed to be injurious or disparaging to its object. Deam M’Neile. Whoever regards the early history of Christian- ity will perceive how necessary to its triumph was that fierce spirit of zeal which, fearing no danger, accepting no compromise, inspired its champions and sustained its martyrs. Bulwer. A false zeal in religion is always, in some respect or other, a misdirected zeal, or a zeal not according to knowledge—a zeal seeking some false end, or while proposing to itself a good end, seeking its promotion in some unauthorized way. H. Bomar. Our zeal performs wonders when it seconds our inclinations to hatred, cruelty, ambition, avarice, detraction, and rebellion ; but when it moves against the hair toward bounty, benignity, and temperance, unless by miracle some rare and vir- tuous disposition prompts us to it, we stir neither hand nor foot. Montaigne. Zeal without knowledge is like fire without a grate to contain it, like a sword without a hilt to wield it by, like a high bred horse without a bridle to guide him ; zeal without knowledge speaks without thinking, acts without planning, seeks to accomplish a good end without the adoption of be- coming means ; it goes about seeking to establish its own righteousness, not having submitted to the righteousness of God. J. Bate. Zeal may be defined as the heat or fervor of the mind, prompting its vehemence of indignation against anything which it conceives to be evil, prompting its vehemence of desire toward any- thing which it imagines to be good ; in itself it has no moral character at all ; it is the simple instinct of energetic nature, never wholly divested of a sort of rude nobility, and never destitute of influ- ence upon the lives and upon the characters of others. W. M. Pwnshom. ZEALOUSINESS. * Zealousness is an active virtue. Sir E. Wottom. We should be zealous for salvation. J. C. Young. Have a zealous eye for the public good. Ricord. Zealousness in good works should emanate from a spirit of faith and purity. Zemobiws. A just cause and a zealous defender make an im- perious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions. Sir P. Sidney. Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. W. Shenstone. Perfectly truthful men of very vivid imagina- tion and great force of sentiment often feel so Zeal- ous, and express themselves so strongly, as to give to what they say and write a disagreeable air of exaggeration, and almost of falsehood. J. F. Boyes. A R O S E O U O 7" A 7" / O M S. ZEALOT. Every creed has its zealots. Zosimus. Be zealous, but be not a zealot. Henry II. Be a zealot in a righteous cause. Nellie Graham. Be zealots in the cause of Christ. J. Williams. Satan has his zealots as well as Christ. J. Quick. Zealots are very often the victims of self-decep- tion. Hali-Beigh. The zealot by doing too much often does too little. .J. H. Webb. There are zealots in atheism as well as in Chris- tianity. Wiszmiewski. Zealots are blind to all interests except it helps their own. Zenobius. There are zealots for slavery, as well as zealots for freedom. W. H. Burleigh. The fury of zealots was one cause of the destruc- tion of Jerusalem. King Charles I. Accusations made by zealots should beg looked upon with suspicion. Muratori. Is it rebellious to be a zealot in the cause of in- dependence and liberty ? W. Whipple. To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by example. Al-Kendi. A zealot should have no higher end in view than the cause he is battling for. G. Avares. A zealot is often unprincipled in his judgment, or over-zealous in his cause. C. H. Wiley. Zealots of every cause are more hurtful to its best interests than open enemies. Albert Pike. Are not those men too often the greatest zealots who are most notoriously ignorant 2 T. Sprat. A furious zealot may think he does God service by persecuting one of a different sect. W. Gilpin. Zealots widen the breach between the different denominations of professing Christians. Nevin, It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temples to the true. Dobell. Be sure when you claim to be a zealot in the cause of Christ, that you are not a fanatic. Gray. The misguided zealot may destroy in a day liter- ary treasures, like the Alexandrian library, which centuries cannot replace. H. Schleimann. To a zealot every one of his own sect is a Saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition. Eames. Some modern Zealots appear to have no better knowledge of truth, nor better manner of judging it, than by counting noses. Shaftesbury. Zealots of the Jews did well in afflicting the apostles and disciples of Jesus, because they did it ignorantly, and by the dictates of an erring con- Science. Jeremy Taylor. There are many zealots for novel creeds, but it is only the highest minds that are adapted to the reception of religious truths; with them the supe- rior truths will always rise above the inferior in their spiritual convictions. J. Valdes. ZENITH. At its zenith the sun begins to decline. J. Muller. The zenith of a man's fame is often the time of his downfall. Yacowb. The sun at its zenith, like true friendship, is the acne of heavenly glory. Lucian Toacaire. As a full-blown rose suddenly fadeth, so doth an empire in the zenith of its spring. Selman. The Zenith of a good man's life is when he rises to the perpendicular line of truth. R. Young. The zenith of a nation's glory is when the people are moral, educated, and fully employed. Moyle. The soul of a righteous man's rises at his death to its zenith in the celestial heavens of God's glory and happiness. H. Zypoews. The zenith is that point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator, and from which a direct perpendicular line passing through the spectator, and extended, would pro- ceed to the center of the earth. N. Websten". ZEPHYR. Zephyrs sweetly blow. G. Sandys. Zephyrs are the breath of heaven. T. L. Peacock. The zephyr cools and refreshes us. Sturm. Zephyrs relieve the gloom of night. Al-Hajjaj. A zephyr differs from a cyclone only in degree. Wurzelbow. It is God's bounty that causes the zephyrs to blow. Tºhºir. A zephyr is a fleet courier to bear perfumes through the land. As-Sinjari. Zephyrs are the breathings of the Three Omnipo- tent Immortalities. Lao-Kiwn. Zephyrs are pleasant ; so is a lover's promise ; boti, are inconstant. Tim-i-Shiu. The smooth stream, the serene atmosphere, the mild Zephyr, are the proper elements of a gentle temper and a peaceful life. R. G. Parker. How beautiful are the gentle zephyrs, as their whispering voice breathes through the lovely and shady groves, and over the peaceful valleys, in praise of the Creator Klopstock. ZEST. There is a zest in everything. G. Ballard. It is zest that gives pleasure to zest. Worcester. Grim stories of disaster only add zest to a sea- voyage. J. Russell Young. We can accomplish almost anything if we will only give a zest to it. D. Fordyce. Be not ignorant of that which should constitute the true Zest of human life. W. Godwin. What some pursue with zest, others look upon with weariness and contempt. Capacelli. The highest zest is given to our social intercourse when it is blended with liberality of disposition and suavity of demeanor. Zwenigorodski. Neither the naked hand, nor the understanding, if left to itself, can do much : the work is always accomplished by the zest which we feel in the doing of it. Lord Bacom. 67 1058 AX A Y'S CO Z Z A C O AV. ZION. - Help the cause of Zion. John Nevay. Zion is the church of the living God. Strigeliws. Christ will come to raise up saviors in Mount Zion. John Nisbet. We should count it a joy to die for the cause of Zion. John Kid. In the court of Zion the devils of avarice are to be cast Out. E. Wheelock. Let Jews and Gentiles pray that God will bring gladness upon Zion. Joseph Wolff. What objects of beauty are to be found within the holy precincts of Zion | J. A. Clarke. By the prayer of faith has the mountain of Zion been removed to our own heathen land, in the midst of the sea. Tamatoa. There is still another Zion far greater than the earthly one, whose towers are more glorious, and which shall never be overthrown. R. Zocho. The temporal Zion is now in dust, but the true one is rising and shaking herself from it, and put- ting on her Easter robes to welcome her King when He comes to reign over the whole earth. Thomson. The most celebrated place, and the most impor- tant in all Judea, was Mount Zion ; it was the su- per-eminent part of the famous city of Jerusalem : but that which stamps a far higher value upon it, is that Jehovah chose this spot. Sturtevant. ZODIA.C. The zodiac hath good and sad aspects. Zadkiel. Through the signs of the zodiac future events are revealed to man. P. Zaan. Zodiacal representations were borrowed from the Greeks, and were unknown to the ancient Egyptians. P. Le Page Renow.f. To paint the zodiac is beyond the artist's skill ; the hand cannot depict an imaginary band upon a piece of canvas. J. Vaart. The zodiac with its twelve appropriate symbols, may be favorably compared to some men's ideas, existing only in imagination. N. R. Ursus. The Zodiac, its history and its so-called constel- lations, has ever been a fruitful theme of discussion among astronomers: yet there is evident proof that it was a stranger in Egypt until after that country passed through the hands of the Greeks. Letromne. The Zodiac, from 20-on an animal, is a large cir- cle embracing the orbits of the planets and moon ; the twelve signs correspond to the twelve months of the year ; astrology has invested them with the power of directing some of the natural laws of the animal kingdom in each Season. C. W. Roback. ZONE. Every zone has its inconveniences. Marco Polo. Zones are the belts of Madame Earth. Napier. In the torrid zone the sun makes the land a des- ert. Hiempsal. Water is principally evaporated from the torrid ZOIA6. Mawry. Zones are belts, or girdles, which encircle the globe ; there are five zones, two temperate, two frigid, and one torrid. W. Olney. Of the five zones, there are two—one on each side of the equator—that have a good temperature, two that have an excess of cold, and the remaining One having an excess of heat. Talieson. There are two zones on the sun's surface, corres- ponding to the temperate zones of the earth ; and though it would be easy to account for one such zone by the comet theory, the existence of the two is not so readily accounted for. R. A. Proctor. ZOOLOGY. Zoology shows design. Elias Loomis. What wonders zoology reveals | Swammerdam. Zoology proves the wisdom of God. Agassiz. Zoology is a very important chapter in the Bible of Nature. F. O. Morris. Zoology is a pleasing study for a gentleman of education, leisure, and fortune. F. Willowghby. Zoology is a pleasurable study ; by it we learn the laws which govern animal life. T. Garnett. The zoologist, in the formation of a natural sys- tem, has to be governed at every step by the idea of difference as well as by that of likeness. R. Owen. Nothing can show more forcibly the nature and uses of the animal kingdom, than the study of zo- ology : in the classification of their various kinds, we behold the wonderful power of the Divine Creator. Morrem. Zoology is the noblest part of natural history, as it comprehends all sensitive beings, from reason- able man, through every species of animal life, till it descends to that point where sense is wholly ex- tinct, and vegetation commences. T. Pem?vant. The study of zoology is no work for one that loves his chair or his bed ; speculation may be pursued on a soft couch, but Nature must be ob- served in the open air. I have collected materials with indefatigable pertinacity ; I have gathered glow-worms in the evening and Snails in the morn- ing ; I have seen the daisy close and open ; I have heard the owl shriek at midnight, and hunted in- sects in the heat of noon. Dr. Johnsom. Wo: NES "Sſh LIOW.L LSſ TTYS "SET-H.L ºf CN¥1-3- *S*HO9 WHLAd SEQ dºn- 'O.LWT d ºf ſº ſlapaanaſſuº "Tºº LA "A MIT ºf SE/O Sºllinſ Sn. TE ºn ºf Sno-ºw "SE-Lº-COS "NOTIOS "SEN=9 Old "E.T.L.O.LS13 ºf "LW-89 EHL 83CNYXETV Lºpaunºsua Lºdoſ)] "O AO "Nº Tillninº Bowdo- "ONE 2 NOH-ONEx ‘Snºing OETO OTHO '83 WOH ºf saurº waſ ſº pauſºr BIOGEAPHICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS AND EMINENT PERSONS QUOTED IN THIS WORK, WITH A LIST OF EXTRACTS TAKEN FROM THElB WRITINGS AND SAYINGS, “A man must first make a name and the monument will follow.”—PLATO. A A, VAN DER, CHRISTIAN KAREL HENDRIK, born at Zwolle, Netherlands, 1718; a Dutch scholar, diving, and writer on natural science; died, 1793. Quotation : Sci- €11CC. AA, VAN DER, PIETER, born at Louvain, Belgium, the date of his birth is unknown; a Dutch writer and law- yer; died, 1594. Quotations: Privilege—Transgression. AACS, MICHAEL, born at Raab, 1672, a theolo- gian ; died, 1711. Quotation : Money. AAGAARD, NIELs, born at Viborg, Finland, 1613; a Danish poet and essayist; died, 1657. Quotation : Phi- losophy. e - AAGESEN, SvFND, flourished in the latter part of twelfth century: one of the earliest historians of Den- mark. Quotation : Abstinence. AAL, JACOB, a celebrated Swedish proprietor of mines, who was devoted to literature; he Was a friend. Of Frederika Bremer. Quotation : Eloquence—Fame. AARABI, IBN AL, born at Küfa, August, 767; an Arabian philologer; died at Sarra, April 16, 846. Quota- tion : Vigilance. AARON, BEN AsFIER, a Jewish rabbi of the elev- enth century. Quotattion : Translation. AARSENS, FRANCISCUS, born at the Hague, Neth- erlands, 1572; a distinguished Dutch diplomatist; died, 1641. . Quotations : Old Age—State. AARSENS, PLETER, born at Amsterdam, 1519; a celebrated painter; died, 1585. Quotation : Rabble. AARTGENS, ARTHUS CLAESSOON, born at Ley- den, Holland, 1498; a Dutch painter; died, 1564. Quota- tion : Recreation. ABAS, SCHAH, surnamed the Great, King of Per- sia, born 1557; died, 1627. Quotation : Warrior. ABAUZIT, FIRMIN, born at Uzes, France, 1679; a justly celebrated philosopher and mathematician ; died at Geneva, 1767. Q/totation : Iłespect. ABBAD, AMRíº ABū, born 1016 : the Second Sul- tan of Seville; was well versed in learning and Science; died, 1069. Quotation : Revenge. ABBADIE, JACQUEs, born in Béarn, France, 1658; a distinguished Protestant divine and author; died in Lon- don, 1727. Quotattion . Religion. ABBASSAH, flourished about 1600 : a Turkish officer who rebelled against Murăd IV., and was executed 1634. Quotation : Soldier. ABBEY, HORATIO G., born about 1816; an Ameri- can educator. Quotation : Ballad, ABBEY, RICHARD, D.D., an American writer and the author of a work entitled “The City of God" (New York, 1872). Quotations : Christ—Church. ABBOT, ABIEL, born at Andover, Mass., 1770; an American divine and, writer; died, 1828. Quotations : Sectarianism—Sermon–Suffering. ABBOT, EZR.A., LL.D., born 1819; an American writer on theology. Quotation : Election. ABBOT, GEORGE, Archbishop of Canterbury, born at Guildford, Surrey, 1562; an eminent Fnglish divine; died at Croydon, 1633. Quotations : Passion—Itecreation. 5 I’ll fl, - PCI, Ç ABBOT, ROBERT, bo t Guildford, England, 1560; an eminent and learned divine; died, 1617. Quota- tion : Exception. ABBOTT, CHARLES (LORD TENTERDEN), born in Canterbury, 1762 : an English author; died, November, 1832. Quotation : Lawlessness. ABBOTT, REV. JACOB, born at Hallowell, Maine, 1803; a popular American author. Quotations: Ability— Debt—Impression—Statesman. ABBOTT, JOHN STEPHENS CABOT, born at Bruns- Wick, Maine, 1803; a popular author and historian ; died in Connect, t, 1877. {totations : Infancy—Loyalty—Mother —Pity—War—World. ABBT, THOMAS, born at Ulm, Würtemburg, 1738; an eminent German writer; died at Bückeburg, 1766. Quo. tations. Native-Land—Reward. ABDAL-ATTPH, YUSEF BIN MUHAMMED, born at Bagdad, 1162; an Arabian physician, theologian, and Scholar; died, 1231. Quotations: Mortality—Prosperity— Slavery—Trouble. ABDALLAH, IBNUL-FARADHí, born at Córdova, Spain, 962; a Mohammedan historian; killed, 1013. Quota- tion?." I)eath. ABDALLAH, IBN-SA’D, an Arabian scholar, em- ployed by Mahomet as amanuensis in writing the Koran. Quotation. Creator. ABDALRAHMAN, CALIPH, born 888; the first Caliph of , Córdova, Spain; a distinguished warrior and patron of learning and the arts. Quotation : Happiness. ABD-ICL-RADER, IBN-MEHI-ED-DEEN, born at Mascara, Algeria, 1807; Emir of time Arab tribes, a brave warrior, and a man.9f wonderful literary attainments. Quotations: Death—Words. ABDULLAH, IBN-ABD-IL-MOOTALIB, the father of Mohammed; died about 570 A.D. Quotation : Dalliance. A’BECKETT, GILBERT ABBOT, born in London, 1810; a popular dramatist and humorous writer; died, 1856. Quotation : Lawlessness. ABEEL, DAVID, born at New Brunswick, N.J., 1804; an American divine and missionary; died, 1846. Quo- tattvo/v. Missional’y. ABELARD, PIERRE, born at Palais, near Nantes, France, 1079; a celebrated French philosopher and logician; his brilliant talents were marred by his unfortunate amour with Heloise ; died near Chalons, 1142. Quotations : Atone- lment—Love—Misfortune. ABELIN, JOHANN PHILIPP, born at Strasburg, Al- sace-Lorraine, about 1575; a German historian; died about 1646. Quotation : Keepsake. ABEN-EZRA, born at Toledo, Spain, 1119 : bibli- ographer and commentator, and eminent in almost every branch of science ; died at Ithodes, 1194. Quotations : Learning—Philosophy. ABENPACE, ABú-BEKR-MOHAMMED-IBN-YAHYA born at Saragossa, about 1010: a celebrated Arabian phi- losopher and poet ; died at Fez, 1130. Q totattion : Deceit. ABERCROMBIE, JOHN, born at Aberdeen, 1781 ; an eminent Scottish physician and author; died, Novem- ber, 1844. Qºſotations : Ambition—Benevolence—Candor— Conscience—Control —Existence — Imagination — Impres- sion—Improvement—Justice—Power—Pride — Relaxation —Reputation—Retirement—Self-Government—Taste. ABERCROMBIE, PATRICK, born at Forfar, Scot- land, 1656; historian and author; died, 1720. Quotation : Visage. ABERNETHY, John, born at Coleraine, Ireland, 1680: an eminent dissenting minister; died in Dublin, 1740. Q7zotations: Idleness—Toleration. ABERNETHY, JOHN, born in London, England, 1764; an eminent surgeon and physiologist; died at Enfield, April 1831. Quotations: Physician—Supper. 1060 ZD A Y 'S CO / / A C O A. . ABINGER, LORD (JAMES SCARLETT), born in Ja- maica, 1769: an English lawyer and a most unrivalled plea- der; died, 1844. Quotation : Conversation. ABINGTON, MRs. FRANCES, born, 1731 ; a popu- lar English actress; died, 1815. Quotation : i\eepsake. ABOUT, EDMOND FRANÇOIS WALENTIN, born at I)euze, France, February 14, 1828; a French littérateur. Quotation : Faithfulness. ABRADATAS, a king of Susa, who was attached to Cyrus the Great, king of Persia. Quotation : Itevolu- tion. ABRAHAM, BEN-CHOILA, born 1250 : a Spanish Jew who predicted, by astrological signs, the coming of the Messiah in 1356. Quotation : Astrology. ABRANTES, DUCHESSE D', born in Montpelier, France, 1784; a celebrated authoress; died, 1838. Quota- tion! : Prejudice. ABULAINA, born at Ahwāz, 806 ; a blind Mus- sulman doctor, celebrated for his wit ; died at Basra, 896. Quotations: Novelty—Travel. ABULALA, born fin Syria, 970 ; a famous Ara- bian poet; died, 1037. Quot (ttion . Science. ABULFARAGIUS, GREGORIUs, born in the city of Malatia, Armenia, 1326; an eminent Arabian physician, astronomer, and historian ; died, 1286. Quotation : Astro- In Olny. ACACIUS, a bishop of Caesarea, who succeeded Eusebius in 339; died, 366. (Jºlotation : Age—Wealth. ACCLAIOLI, DoNATO, born at Florence, 142S : #, lºſinguished Italian Scholar; died, 1478. Q notation : *U11 (21°. ACCRA. A country in west Africa, under Eng- lish rule, having little or no literature, except proverbs, or common sayings in use by the people, annong which are those here given. Quotations: Buying — Child — Food — Ghosts. ACCURSIUS, FRANCESCO, born near Florence, 1182; an Italian lawyer and writer; died, 1260. Quotations: Money—Right—Wróng. ACESIUS, a bishop of Constantinople, who flour- ished in the early part of the fourth century; Quotation : Baptism. ACHARD, EMILE, a modern French authoress of fiction. Quotations: Deceit—Effect—Horse. ACHELEY, THOMAS, an English author who liv- cd in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Quotation : I)iscontent. ACHMET IV., born 1725; a Sultan of Turkey : died, 1789. Quotations: Prison—Sleep. ACIDALIUS, VALENs, born at Wittstock, Bran- denburg, 1567; a German classical scholar and writer; died, 1595. Quotations : Parent—Prettiness—Reason—Woman. ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH, born in Saxony, 1764; a German artist and dealer in prints; died, 1834. Quota- tion : Printing. ACME, a Jewess, maid-servant of Julia, Caesar’s wife, whom she accused to Herod. Quotation : Remem- brance. ACONTIUS, JAMES, born at Trent, in the six- teenth century; a famous philosopher, civilian, divine, and Writer. (Jº Otation. ... Satan. ACOSTA, URIEL, a Portuguese writer, a native of Oporto, educated in the Ikomish religion; he embraced Judaism ; died by suicide, 1640. Quotations : Life—Matter —Opinion—SOrrow—Suicide—Sympathy—Truth, ACROPOLITA, GEORGE, born at Constantinople, 1220; an eminent historian ; died, 1282. Quotation : Ambi- tion. ACTON, the psewolonym of a contemporaneous writer and traveller, and the author of a very excellent little work entitled “Acton; or, The Circle of Life,” from which the following, extracts are taken. Quotations : Ability—Adversity—Affability — Affectation —Affection— Attainment—Attempt — Blame – Body-Books—Brains— Bravery—Circumstance—Contention—Contentment—Con- tumely—Conversation —Credit – Crime–Critic–I)eclara- tion—Delusion — Desire – Despair—IJespotism—Dignity— Eating — Editor—Encouragement—Enemy—Equivocation —Estrangement—Evil — Extravagance—Extremes—Fable —Fate—Faults—Favor – Flattery — Folly—Fool—Fop — Friendship—Gain—Gold—Good — Good-Humor— Govern- ment — Grandeur —Grave—Hair — Happiness — Honesty— Honor—Hope —Hour — Humility — Idleness — Ignorance— Illusion — Imagination—Imbecility—Imitation—Immoral- ºn.ºr Impression—Inability—Inconsistency —Independence — Indiscrimination — Individuality—Indo- lence—Indulgence — Industry — Influence — Ingratitude— Iniquity — Injury — Instinct — Institution —II'resolution — Isolation — Joy — Judgment — Judgments — Rindness — Rnowledge—Labor—Lady—Landscape–-Language—Learn- ing—Liberty—Licentiousness—Life — Light—Literature— Longevity–-Loss—Love—Luck—Ilust—Manninon--Mankind —Manners--Matrimony--Mechanics--Medicine--Mediocrity —Meekness—Melancholy —Melody—Memory—Merchant— Might—Mind—Misanthropy—M ischief —Modesty—Mohan 1- medanism —Monarchy–Moment—Morality—Music—Name -Nation—Necessity–Nickname — Nuptials—Obligation— Oblivion-Qecupation—Offense-Opportunity—Originality —Orphan–Painting – Parent—Parsimony—Past—Pathos— Patriotism—Patronage—Physician – Piano—Pleasure—Po- liteness – Poor— Popularity — Poverty— Power — Praise — Pregaution—Pretension - Prettiness – Pride–Principles— Profession – Prophet-Propriety — Prudence – Prudery— Qualification—Rage—Reading—Reality—Recollection-ire- finement—Irefusal – Regard – Renown – Repose—Resolu- tion-Rest—Retirement—Ivetrospection —Hevelry Riches -Rights–Risks-Ikomance—Sacrifice—Saving—Silence– Simplicity–Singing-Skill–Sky—Sleep—Sloth-Solitude— Speech-State-Station—Statute—Steam—Stranger—Study $tyle - Subordination – Success — Surgeon —Symmetry — Tact-Tales—Tardiness—Tattling—Temperance–Thing— TQImb-Tongue—Trayel–Trial—Tyranny—Ungratefulness TUntruthfulness – Utility-Vice-Viciousness—Victim— Yictory -Visits –Want –Wastefulness — Wit–Witness— World-Wound –Wretchedness —Writing-- Wrong—Years —Yesterday. ACTUARIUS, JOHN, flourished about the end of the thirteenth century; a Greek physician and medical Writer. Quotation : Water. - ADA, BAR-AHABA, born at Babylon, 183, A.D.: an eminent rabbi and astronomer; died, 353. Quotation : Cookery. ADAIR, SIR ROBERT, born in London, 1763 : a dis- tinguished diplomatist, poet, and author; died, 1855. Quo- {(ſtion : Faults. ADALBERT, a French bishop of much learning, Who lived in the eight century. Quotation : Ambition. ADALHARD, born, 753 : a French abbot and an eminent preacher, belonging to the court of Charlemagne : died, 826. Qutott (tio, , ; Lawlessness. ADAM, ALEXANDER, born in Murrayshire, Scot- land, 1741; an eminent teacher and grammatian ; died, 1809. (Juotations : Hell—Pardon. ADAM, FITZ. Quotation : World. ADAM, H. G. J. Quotation : Patriotism. ADAM, ROBERT, born at Udney, Scotland, 1770 ; a miscellanous writer; died, 1826. Quotation : Etiquette. ADAM, SCOTUS, a monk of Melrose ; died, 1180. Qazołózłiozz. Eulogy. ADAM, REV. THOMAS, born at Leeds, England, 1701; died, 1784. Quotations. Conscience – Conviction— Hell-–Human-Nature – Knowledge – Misery— Prayer—Re- form—Self-Righteousness—Trial—Trifle. ADAMINAN, SAINT, born 624 : an English abbot; died, September 23, 704. Qtotations : Lightning—Mountain. ADAMS, MRS. ..ABIGAIL, born at Weymouth, Mass., 1744; the wife of President John Adams; died, 1818. Quotations: Hour—Religion—Self-Love—Sociability. ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, son of John Quincy Adams, born in PostOn, Massachusetts, August, 18, 1807; an eminent. Almerican diplomatist. Quotations : Condition —FXception—Fraud—Zeal. ADAMS, HANNAH, born at Medford, Mass., 1755: one of the first of American female writers, and a woman of high excellence and purity of character; died, 1832. Quotations: Orthodoxy—Sin. ADAMS, H. G., an English compiler and author. (London, 1855.) (Jºtolation : Pleasure. ADAMS, JOHN, born at Braintree, Mass., October 19, 1735; the second President of the United States; died at Quincy, July 4, 1826. (J ºtol (ttions : Constitution—ijefence – Election – Freedom – Independence—Mind — Mother — People—Uncertainty. ADAMS, JOHN COUCH, born in Cornwall, 1817; an English astronomer. Quotation : Sunrise. ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY, born at Braintree. Mass., July 16, 1767; the sixth President of the United States; an able statesman, oratºr, and diplomatist; died, February 23, 1848. Quotations : Bible—Constitution—Fame—Justice— Labor-Liberty—Merey–Monastery— Navy—Peace—Peti- tion—Press—Secession—Slavery—Temptation. ADAMS, MATTHEw: died in Boston, Mass., 1753. Quotations : Dying—Patience. ADAMS, NEHEMIAH. D.D., born at Salem, Mass., 1806; an American divine. Q7(otations : Conscience—Dam- nation—Method. ADAMS, SAMUEL, born in Boston, Mass., Septem- ber 27, 1722; second cousin of President John Adams; an eminent patriot and orator; died in Boston, October 2, 1803. Qºſţiºgº : Conscience—Federalism—Pardon—Passion— Power—Soldier. ADAMS, SARA FLOWER, an English authoress: died, 1848. Quotation : Error. ADAMS, REV. THOMAS ; an English dissenting minister; died, 1670. Quotations : Affliction—Contention —Covetousness—Eye—Grace—Heaven—Hunting—Minister —Mystery—Obedience. ADAMS, WILLIAM, born 1814; an English divine and author; died, 1848. Quotation : Estate. A / O Gº A' A' A' Aſ / C A / / /V /O AE A . I 061 ADAMS, WILLIAM, D.D., born in Connecticut, 1807; an American theologian and divine; died, August 31, 1880. Quotation : Effort. ADAMS, WILLIAM T. (Oliver Optic), born in Med- way, Mass., 1822; the most prolific aſid best Writer of story- books for boys. Quotation : Rogue. ADAMSON, HENRY, a Scottish poet ; died, 1639. Quotation : Discovery. ADAMSON, JOHN, born, 1787; an English author; died, 1855. Quotations : Improvement—Monster. ADAMSON, PATRICK, born at Perth, Scotland, 1536; a prelate and writer; died, in poverty, 1592. Quota- tions: Amendment—Approval. ADDISON, LANCELOT, born in Westmoreland, 1622; an English divine and author, the father of Joseph Addison; died, April 20, 1703. Quotation : Fortune-Telling. ADDISON, JOSEPH, born at Milston, near Ames- bury, Wiltshire, England, May 1, 1672; was the SQin of Lance- lot Addison, rector of Milston; he was placed at a classi- cal school, from which he entered Queen's College, Oxford. At an early age his writings attracted attention; he Visited the continent, and his letters and essays from abroad gained for him much celebrity. He was elected to Parliament in 1708. He contributed to the Tattler,” and in March, 1811, commenced the “Spectator.” As a writer he stands pre- eminent; died at Holland House, Kensingston, June 17, 1719. Qºţotations: Ability—Absenge—Abstinence—Absur- dity–Accident—Admiration—Adultery–Advantage ---Ad- vertisement—Advice—Affection —Affront—Agreeableness —Allegory—Ambition—Amusement—Atonement-Anato- my—Ancients—Animals—Animosity—Anticipation—Anti- jºi...". ###"; —Author— eau–Beauty—-Behavior—Betrayal—Bigotry--Books—Bra- very—Brother—Brute—Burlesque—Cavil–Celebrity–Cen- surè—Character—Chastity– Cheapness — Cheerfulness— Cleanliness – Clemency—Commerce—Compassion—Com- placency—Conjecture—Consequence—Consistency—Con- spiracy – Constancy — Contemplation — Contemporary– Contentment—Contradiction—Controversy–Contumely— Conversation—-Coquetry —- Country—-Courage —-Court- Courtship—Critic – Daughter—Defamation—Deference— Degeneration—Deity — Delay–Dependence—Depreciation —Desire—Despotism—Discretion-Disease–Disguise—Dis- like—Disorder—Dispatch—Diversion —Divination—Doctor – Duelling—Dutifuſness—Ease – Education—Effrontery— Eloquence — Eminence - Enemy – Envy—Epigram—Eter- nity—Evil—Exactness—Exaggeration-Examination—EX- ercise—Expiation—Extravagance — Expression—Eye–Fa- ble—Face-Facts—Faction - Fame - Familiarity—Fanc —Fascination—Fashion—Felicity—Fickleness —Forgetful- ness—Forgiveness—Fortitude—Friendship—Games–Gar- den—Genius—Glory—Gold –Good-Breeding--Good-Nature —Government —Grandeur — Gratitude — Greatness—Grief —Hair—Handsomeness — Happiness — Hard-Heartedness— Harmony—Heinousness — Hell–Honor—Hope-Hour–Hu- manity—Human-Nature —Humor— Hunting—Husband— Hymn—Hypogrisy—Idea — Imagination – Impatience—In- consistency—Inconstancy—Indifferenge—Indiscretion—In dustry--Infidelity--Infirmity–Inflexibility--Innocence—-In- stinct—Intention—Irresolution—Jews—Judges--Judgment —Justice—Justness—Ring—KnaVery-Knowledge—Labor —Lampoon—Landscape – Language—Laughter-Lawyer— Learning –Lending — Libel-Liberty—Life—Loyº–Lück– Luxury – Lying—Maiden—Malignity – Man – Mankind— Marriage—Master—Matrimony—Matter–Melancholy—Mc- mory-Merchant—Method—Military-Mind–Mirth–Misery —Misfortune–Modesty—Money–Morality — Moroseness —Mortification-Motive—Munificence – Music—Necessity —Neutrality—Nonsense — Obscurity – Ocean—Old Age— Omniscience —Omnipresence—Party—Pedantry-Pension –Perfidy—Persecution—Perseverance–Physig–Pleasing— Pleasuré–Politics–Populace– Poverty–Praise–Printing —Profligate—Progenitor—Prose—Providence—Prudence— Public–Pun—Quotation —Rapture—Ireason—Reformation Remorse–Tºeproach – Reputation – Resignation – Retire- ment—IRetribution—Revenge—Reverie—Riches—Riddles— Ridicule—Riyalry—Satire—Scandal—Self-Sufficiency—Sen- sation—Sensibility—Servant-- Sharpness—Sight—Singular- ity—Sister—Sleep—Stage—Story—Strife—Study—Stupidity —Sublimity—Success—Sun–Sunday--Talent—Tales—Talk- ing—Temper—Temperance—Tempest—Title—Tomb —Tor- ment—Trade—Travel -- Usury—Vanity-Veneration-Vi- ciousness —Vivacity —Wedlock — Wife—Wisdom — Witch- craft—Words—Worth—Writing—Youth. ADELAIDE, EUGENE LOUISE, born in Paris, 1777; a French princess and sister to King Louis Philippe ; she had much influence with her brother, and it was she who urged her brother to accept the crown in 1830; died, 1847. Quotation : Keepsake. ADELAIS OF LOUVAIN, styled “The Fair Maid of Brabant,” born, 1103; the second queen of Henry the First of England; died, 1151. Quotation : Visage. ADELARD OF BATH, lived in the twelfth century; a student of natural science. Quotations : Absence — Translation. ADE.LUNG, JOHANN CHRISTOPH, born near Ank- lem, Pomerania, August 8, 1732; an eminent, philologist and lexicographer ; died in Dresden, September 10, 1806. Quotation : Conviviality. ADHERBAL, a Carthagenian commander ; died, about 220 B.C. Quotation : Eugitive. ADLER, GEORG CHRISTIAN, born in Silesia, 1674; a theological Writer and eminent teacher; died 1741. Quo- tations: Psalms—Type. ADO, SAINT, born about 800 in Gâtinois, France ; %celebrated archbishop and writer; died,875. Quotation : ey. ADOLPH OF NASSAU, was elected in 1292, succes- SO1 to *H emperor of Germany; slain in battle, 1298. Quotation : Mind ADOLPHUS, JoHN, born 1770; an English histo- rian ; died, 1845. Qatotation : Disease. ADON, Archbishop of Vienna, died 875. Quotation: Bereavement. ADORNI, CATERINA FIESCHI, born at Genoa, i. ; an Italian poetess; died, 1510. Quotation : Benevo- ČIl Ce. ADRIAN, or HADRIAN, PUBLIUs AELIUS, born at Rome, 76 A.D.; a RQ1man emperor, whose reign was peace- ful; he was the author of many works, both in prose and yerse; died at Baiae, July, 139. , Quotations : Emperor — God-King—People`Punishment ADRIAN, MARIE. Quotation: Oppression. ADRIAN IV, POPE (NICHOLAs, BREAKSPERE), born near St. Albans, England, about thc end of the elev. enth century; he was a man of acknowledged talents, and was the only Englishman raised to the papal chair; died, 1159. Quotation : Popery. AEDESIUS, a native of Cappadocia, lived in the time of. Constantine the Great; he was a new Platonist, and many of the great men of the subsequent age were taught by him. Quotations: Future—Philosophy. AEGINETA, PAULUS, lived in the seventh cen- tury; a celebrated Greek medical writer. Quotation : Sick- I) CSS. AELFRIC, flourished in the latter half of the tenth century, and became archbishop of Canterbury, in 995; he was a celebrated writer. Quotations: Doubt—Prayer. AELIAN, CLAUDIUS, lived in the early part of the third century, and was born at Praeneste, #ak One of the purest of Greek writers. Quotations: Ear—Virtue. AEMELIANUS, MARCUS JULIUS, born in Mauri- tania, Africa, about 208 A.D.; killed by his soldiers, at Spo- letum, 254. Qztotation : Suffering. AEMILIUS, PAULUS, born at Verona, and removed to Paris, 1495; an Italian historian ; died, 1529. Quota- tions: Daintiness—Wife. - AESCHINES, born at Athens 389 B.C.; one of the most celebrated of the Athenian Orators; was the son of Tromes, the slave of a schoolmaster; he was the opponent of Demosthenes, and it was to him that we owe the fa- mous Speech of DemoSthenes On the Crown, which is con- sidered one of the finest bursts of eloquence the world has ever produced; the three great speeches of Æschines, which are still extant, were called by the ancients the Graces; they are distinguished by great felicity of diction, and wonderful boldness and vigor of description; it is generally allowed that he was only second to Demosthenes as an Orator; died 314, B.C. , Quotations: Ambassador— Amnesty—Boasting—Defeat-Integrity—Oligarchy—Pro- digality—Sensation—Sensuality—Tongue. AESCHYIUS, born at Eleusis, in Attica, 525 B.C.; the father Of the Athenian drama : he was considered the greatest of the three tragic poets of Greece; he gained his first victory as a competitor for the prize of tragedy; there is a power in the language, a sublimity in the imag: ery, with which the poet bodies forth the master spirit of the world; died, 456 B.C., Quotations: Actor—Death—De- ceit—Education—Enyy—Evil—-Exile—Fellowship—Food— Hope—Justige - Killing-Kindred —Murder–Murmur— Necessity–Nobility—Qath—Obedience--Obstinacy--Op- pression–Popularity— Presumption — Sickness—Slander— Slavery—Sorrow—Success—Sympathy—Thought—Tongue —Tyranny—Victory—Vote—Wine–Wisdom—Work. AESOP, a native of Phrygia, born 619 B.C.; a cel- ebrated fabulist; he was a slave in his youth at Athens; his fables have never been surpassed for point and brevity as well as good sense; but many fables extant, which are ascribed to him, are spurious; died, 564 B.C. Quotations: Abuse—Acquaintance--Anarchy—-Eagerness—Insult—King —Noise—Poverty—Tongue. AETIUS, born at Amida, a town of Mesopotamia, ; the first Christian medical writer. Quotation : Arti- CC. AFER, DOMITIUs, born at Nîmes, in Gaul, 15 B.C.; a distinguished Roman Orator; died, 60 A.D. Öuotation .." Speaking. AFRANIUS, LUCIUS : a Roman comic poet, flour- ished about 100 B.C. Quotation : Knowledge. AFTON, EFFIE, the pseudonym of the author of “Eventide.” Quotations: Exemption—Intrusion—Key. AGAPET, lived in the sixth century ; he was a deacon of the principal church of Constantinople. and the author of many excellent moral and religious precepts. Quotation : Association. 1062 A) A Y 'S CO / / A C O AV. AGASSIZ, Louis JEAN RodolPH, born at Mottier, near the lake of Neufchâtel, Canton of Freyburg, Switzer- land, 1807; he was an eminent geologist, ichthyologist, and natural historian; settled in America, 1847; he wrote and pººl a large number of valuable scientific treatises in rench and English; his most important work, “The Na- tural History of the United; States,” ten volumes, was in course of publication at the time of his death; died in the United States, 1873. Quotations : Geology—Man—Nature —Study—Teaching—Zoology. AGATHOCLES, lived about 150 B.C.; a Greek historian. Quotation : Youth. AGATHON, born at Athens, 450 B.C. : an emi- ment Greek tragic poet ; died, 400 B.C. Quotation: Im- provement. AGATHON I., a native of Sicily, became Pope in 679; died, 681. Quotation : Popery. AGELASTUS, an ancient Roman philosopher. Quotation : Fox. AGESILAUS II, born about 442 B.C. : the son of Archidamus, and one of the most distinguished of the Spartan kings; died about 361 B.C. Quotations: Army— Conspiracy—Frugality—King–Monument—Munificence— Office—Promise— Renown—Reproof–Royalty—Traitor— Valor. AGIS II., a Spartan king, who reigned twenty- eight years; he succeeded to the throne 427 B.C.; died, 399 B.C. Quotation : Sword. AGIS, IV., a Spartan king, began to reign 244 B.C.; he was condemned to death in 240 B.C., by the Ephori, for attempting to restore the ancient Spartan discipline. Quotations: Native Land—Pleasure. AGNESI, MARIA GAETANA, born at Milan, 1718 ; an Italian authoress; died, 1799. Quotation : Mother. AGNEW, CORA, a popular authoress and novelist. Quotation S. Girl—Lightning. AGNEW, DR. C. Quotation : Teaching. AGOSTINI, GIov ANNI, born at Venice, 1700 ; a learned Italian monk; died, 1755. Quotation : War. AGOULT, MARIE DE FLAVIGNY, COUNTESS, born at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, Prussia, 1800; a French author- ess, who wrote under the name of Daniel Stern ; died about 1862. Quotation : Smile. e AGRICOLA, CNAEUs JULIUS, born at Forum Julii (Frésjus), a IRoman colony in Gaul, 37 A.D.; a Roman general, and the first governor of Britain; there he con- ciliated the natives, encouraging them to embrace the RO- man customs, and to instruct their children in the Latin language; died, 93 A.D. Quotation : Christian AGRIPPA, HENRY CORNELIUS, born at Cologne, 1486; a German astrologer, theologian, and philosopher; died º: Grenoble, 1535. Quotations : Constancy—Homage —Slºbºe. AGRIPPA, MENENIUS, lived about 540 B.C.; he was a Roman consul who gained a Victory over the Sabines. Quotation : Unity. AGUADO, A. MARIA, born at Seville, Spain, 1784; a financier and millionaire ; died, 1842. Quotation : Miser. AGUESSEAU, HENRI FRANÇois D', born at Le- moges, France, November 27, 1668; an eminent orator, Statesman, and lawyer, and the Originator of the forensic style in the art of eloquence; died in Paris, February, 1751. Quotations : Advice—Office. AGUILAR, GRACE, born at Hackney, near Lon- don, 1816; a Jewess authoress; died at Frankfort, Ger- many, 1847. Quotations: Bliss—Infancy. AHABANUK, lived about 2800 B.C.; an ancient Egyptian high-priest; in his tomb was found a papyrus mummy-scroll, containing a copy of the book of prayers of the ancient Egyptians; the hieroglyphics were deciphered and translated into English by modern Egyptologists, and from which is given a condensed extract under the head of “God.” This scroll is probably the oldest writing extant. Quotation : God. AHASISTARI. Quotation : Spirit. AHNAF, IBN KAIS AL, born, 616; an Arabian chief, who early embraced the doctrines of Mahomet, and subdued certain infidel tribes, that refused to acknowledge the Prophet; he was club-footed, hence his name; died at ufa, 687. )wotations: Company—I)eceit—Equivocation —Excess—Praise—Riches—Slander—Temper—Tongue. AIDAN, SAINT, a benevolent prelate of Northum- berland; died, 651. Quotation : Temple. AIDE, HAMILTON, an English novelist and poet. (London, 1872). Quotations : Guest—Listening. AIKIN, JOHN, born at Kibworth Harcourt, Lei- cestershire, England, 1747; a distinguished miscellaneous writer; died, 1822. Quotations: Excellence—Heart—Obli- gation—Religion—Review. AIKIN, LUCY, daughter of the preceding, and the authoress of several historical and other works. Qºţota- tion : Employment. AIKMAN, WILLIAM, born in Aberdeenshire, 1682; an eminent painter; died, 1731. Quotation : Death. AILHAUD, JOHN, a French surgeon, who acquired celebrity and fortune by selling a powder, which he de- clared would cure all diseases; died, 1756. Quotation : Sickness. AILRED, flourished about the middle of the twelfth century; a religious and historical writer. Quo- tation : Estate. AINSWORTH, ROBERT, born near Manchester, England, 1660; an English author and educator; died, 1743. Quotations : Absence—Efficiency. AINSWORTH, HENRY, an eminent commentator; poisoned, 1622. Quotation : Discernment. AINSWORTH, WILLIAM FRANCIS, M.D., born at Exeter, 1807; an eminent physician, geologist, and travel- ler. Quotation : Earth. AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON, a cousin of the H. born at Manchester, February 4, 1805; an English novelist; died, January 2, 1882. Quotations: Call- ing—Future—Intrigue. AIRAULT, PIERRE, born at Angers, France, 1536; a French jurist and writer; died, 1601. Quotation: Rogue. AIRD, THOMAs, born in Roxburghshire, Scotland, 1802; a poet and writer; died, 1876. Quotation : Eloquence. AIRD, W. Quotation : Usurpation. AITREN, ROBERT, born in Great Britain, 1734; a printer and publisher of Philadelphia; died in Philadel- phia, 1802. Quotation : Printing. AJALA, MARTIN PEREZ DE, born 1504; a Spanish prelate ; died, 1566. Quotation : Wag. AKAWWAK, AL, born at Bagdad, 776 ; an Ara- bian poet; executed, 828. Quotations: Sword—Tomb. AKBAH, IBN HASSAN. Quotation : Promise. AKBAR, MoHAMMED, born at Amerkote, in the valley of the Indus, October 14, 1542; one of the best of the Mogul emperors; he was universally distinguished for his courage and magnanimity; died, 1605. Quotation : Learn- 1I].g. AKENSIDE, MARK, the son of a butcher, born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, November 9, 1721; a didactic }. and author of considerable celebrity; died in London, une 23, 1770. Quotations : Bounty—Mind. AKIBA, BEN JOSEPH, born in the first year of the Christian era; a famous Jewish rabbi; put to death by the Romans, 120 A.D. Quotation : Abstinence. AKTHAM, YAHYA IBN, born 774 ; a literary Ara- bian of great note ; died at Ar-Rabada, April 14, 857. Qºto- tations : Fortune—FOOl—LOve. ALABASTER, WILLIAM, born in Suffolk, En- land, 1567; an educational writer; died, 1640. Quotation : Alphabet. ALADI)IN, a distinguished statesman of the four- teenth century, and a younger Son Of OSman. the founder of the Ottoman empire. Quotation : Pleasure. ALARDUS, AEmstrelredamus, born at Amster- dam, in the fifteenth century; scholar and rhetorician ; died, 1541. Quotation : Blood. ALARIC I., born 350 A.D. ; a famous conqueror, king of the Visigoths; died at Cosenza, 410 A.D. Quota- tion : Might. ALB, R. Quotations: Sun—World. ALBAN, SAINT, the first person put to death in England for embracing the Christian faith; the town of the same name in England was named after him ; he suf- fered martyrdom in the time of Diocletian, about 285 A.D. Quotations: Creator—Gods—Martyr—Suffering. ALBERGATI, CAPACELLI D’, born 1728; an Ital- ian marquis and dramatic author and actor; died, 1804. Quotation : Dissipation. ALBERONI, GIULIO, born near Piacenza, 1664; an Italian cardinal ; died, 1752. Quotation : Amendinent. ALBERTI., Duke of Austria, born 1248; emperor of Germany; he was distinguished by his cruelty, avarice, and ambition; he was killed by his nephew; died, May 1, 1308. Quotation : Pleasing. ALBERT II., Margrave of Brandenberg ; suc- ceeded his brother, Otho II., in 1206; died, 1221. Quotation : friendship. ALBERTI, VALENTIN, born in Silesia, 1635: a Ger- man theologian: died, 1697. Quotation : Testament. ALBERT, PRINCE FRANCIS AUGUSTUS CHARLES Emmanpiel (Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha), born near Co- burg, August 26, 1819; consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, and Empress of India; he acquired great influence in England by the interest he displayed in the internal welfare of England, but more especially in promoting the arts and sciences; he was honored and loved by the people, and his death was mourned as an irreparable loss to the nation ; died, December 14, 1861. Quotations : Beggar— Death—Light—Reason—Science. A / O G A2 A P // / C A / / /V /O AE X. 1063 ALBERTUS, MAGNUS, born at Laningen, in Ba- varia, about 1200; a celebrated philosopher, and one of the greatest of the middle ages; died, 1280. Quotation : Dancing. - - ALBINI, FRANz Joseph, born at Saint Goar, in Rhenish Prussia, 1748; an eminent lawyer and politician; died, 1816. Quotation : Victory. ALBO, José, born at Soria, Spain ; a popular Spa- nish rabbi and writer: died. 1428. Qutotation. Nation. ALBRIZZI, ISABELLA TEOTOKI, born at Corfil, in the Ionian Islands, 1770; an authoress. Who Was distin- guished for her learning and domestic Virtues; died, 1835. Quotation : Spite. ALBUQUERQUE, ALFONSO D’, surnamed the “Portuguese Mars,” born at Alhandra, near Lisbon, 1452: a famous Portuguese commander; died, 1580. Quotations: Covetousness—Dishonor—Pledge-Prince—Promise. ALBURONI, GIULIo, Cardinal, born near Pia- ceuza, May 31, 1664; died, January 26, 1752. Quotation : Prison. ALCAEUS, born in Mitylene, in Lesbos, flourished about 600 B.C.; an eminent Greek lyric poet, and the in- Yºr of the metre called Alsaic. Quotations : Acting— jity. ALCAMO, CIULLO D', born in the early part of the twelfth century; one of the earliest of Italian Writers and poets; died, 1190. Quotation : Infamy. ALCIATI, ANDREA, born 1492; a distinguished Ita- lian lawyer and writer; died at Pavia, 1550. Quotation : LaWleSSnéSS. ALCIBIADES, born 450 B.C.; a celebrated Athe- nian, possessing an intellect of remarkable strength and versatility; died, 404 B.C. Quotation : Absence. ALCIDAMAS : a Greek historian who lived about 450 B.C. Quotations : Freedom—Slavery. ALCIPHRON, lived about 200 A.D.: an elegant epistolatory writer; died, 284. Quotation : Health. ALCMCEON, born at Sardis, a Lydian slave, flour- ished about 650 B.C.: the chief lyric poet of Sparta. Quo- tations : Brains. ALCOTT, AMOS BRONSON, born at Walcott, Conn., November 29, 1799; an American ideal philosopher; he has §§ great reputation as an educator. Quotation : ll Cà,51OIl. ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY, daughter of the preced- ing, born in Germantown, Pa., 1882: an American novelist, and author of Some very interesting works. Quotations : Girl—Life—LOver—Weakness. ALCOTT, WILLIAM ALExANDER, M. D., born in Wolcott, Conn., August 6, 1798; a voluminous writer on º hygiene, and practical education ; died, March 9, 1859. Quotations : Bashfulness—Chastity–Country— Creed—Drinking—Equanimity—Eye-Field–Good-Humor —Loneliness—Manners—Pleasure—Sympathy—Thinking— Thought. ALCUIN, FLACCUs ALBINUs, born at York, 735: an English prelate, and One of the most learned men of his age; died, May 19, 804. Quotations: Patience — Physi- C13.It. ALCYONIUS, PETRUs, born at Venice, 1490; a distinguished Italian Scholar: died in Rome, 1527. Qwo- tation. Wrong. -- ALDEN, JOSEPH, D.D., LL.D., born at Cairo, N. Y., J * 4, 1807: principal of the State Normal school ºny, and a writer on educational topics. Quotation : U1862. ALDERETE, BERNARDO DE, born at Malaga, Spain, 1550; a learned Writer. Quotation : Absence. ALDERSON, JUDGE. Quotation : Drunkenness. ALDHELM, SAINT, born about the middle of the seventh century; a distinguished Saxon ecclesiastic; died, 709. Quotations : Pleasing—Religion. ALDRICH, JAMES, born in Suffolk county, New York, 1810; poet and journalist; died, 1856. Quotation : Effort. ALDRICH, HENRY, D.D., born at Westminster, 1647; an eminent English scholar and divine; died, 1710. Quotation : Tobacco. ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY, born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1836; poet and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Energy. ALDROVANDUS, ULYSSEs, born at Bologna, 1524; an eminent Italian naturalist; died at Bologna, 1607. Quotation : Blindness. ALEMBERT, CLAIRE FRANÇOISE JULIA JEANE Elénore Espinasse de l', born, 1732; wife of d'Alembert; a lady remarkable for her talents and sensibility; died. 1776. Quotations : Gaming—Misfortune. ALEMBERT, JEAN LE ROND D', born in Paris, November 16, 1717; an eminent French philosopher; died in Paris, October 29, 1783. Quotations: Conversation— Office—Opinion. ALEOTTI, GIAMBATTISTA born near Ferrara, Italy, 1546; engineer and architect; died, 1636. Quotation : I)istinction. ALEXANDER THE GREAT, born at Pella, 356 B.C.; of the four great commanders of whom history makes mention, Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and Napo- leon, he takes the first rank; he possessed a mighty spirit and an immoderate ambition, which was the means of inak- ing him the Scourge of mankind and the pest of the world • died at Babylon, 323 B.C. .. Quotations. Light—Night—Pas- time—Teaching—Wine—World—Worth. ALEXANDER I, SAINT (Pope) : a Roman by birth; became bishop of Rome in 108 A. D., died, 117. Q?totation : Holiness. ALEXANDER II, Emperor of Russia, born, April 29, 1818; the only event in this monarch's reign worthy of note, was the emancipation of the serfs in 1861: he was killed by the Nihilists; died, March 14, 1881. Quotation : Providence—Sympathy. ALEXANDER III, (CARDINAL ROLANDO RANUC- çio Bandinelli); became Pope, 1151; he was distinguished for his learning and great abilities; died, 1181. Quota- tion. POpery. ALEXANDER IV, (RINALDO DE ANAGNI) ; be- came Pope in 1254; died, 1261. Quotation. Popery. ALEXANDER. V. (PIETRO FILARGO) ; became Pope in 679; died, 681. Quotation : Popery. ALEXANDERVI, (RopRIGO LENGUOLIBORGIA), born at Valencia, Spain, 1430; he became Pope in 1492; died, August, 1503. Quotation : Taiking. ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD, D.D., born near Lex- ington, Rockbridge county, Va., April 17, 1772; an eminent divine, and the author of many religious works: died, October 22, 1851. Quotations: Bible—Reason. ALEXANDER, MRs. CECIL FRANCEs, wife of W. L. Alexander. Quotation : Child. ALEXANDER, JAMES WADDELL, D.D., born near Gordonsville, in Louisa county, Va., March 13, 1804; he was the author of many works of practical utility, which ren- dered them highly popular; died at Virginia Springs, July 31, 1859. Quotations: Sermon—Text. ALEXANDER OF HALES, an English theologian ; died, 1245. Quotation : Exile. ALEXANDER, SAINT ENPIDE, archbishop of Al- # who lived in the fourteenth century, Q7zotation : Olli léSS. ALEXANDER, THOMAS, Earl of Selkirk : a Brit- ish writer on politics; he founded a colony in Canada; died, 1820. Quotations : Emigration—Religion. ALEXANDER, Dr. WILLIAM, a British medical writer, who practiced in London; died, 1783. Quotations: Bath—Beard—Covenant—Lust. ALEXANDER, WILLIAM, born in New York, 1726; he was known in American history as Lord Stirling, and was a general in the Revolutionary army under Wash: ington; he was also distinguished as an astronomer and mathematician ; died at Albany, January 16, 1783. Quota- tions : Spy—Virtue. ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY, D.D., born at Leith, Scotland, 1808; a Scottish writer on theology. Quotations: Diversion-Homeliness—Immortality—Love —Mankind—Polygamy—Timidity. ALEXIS, a native of Thurii, in Italy, and uncle of Menander, flourished 356 B.C.; he was a Greek comic poet, and one of the principal writers of the middle come- dy; he wrote two hundred and forty-five plays, and lived to be upwards of one hundred years old. Quotations: Life —Oath—Priest—Riches. ALEYN, CHARLEs, born 1590; an English poet of considerable reputation; died, 1640. Quotation : Eye-Wit- 1163SS. ALFARACHE. Quotations: Poor—Poverty. ALFIERI, VITTORIO, Count, born at Asti, in Pied- mont, Italy, January 17, 1749; the most popular poet of his time, and the most eminent in tragic verse ; died at Flo- rence, Qctober 8, 1803. Quotations : . Affection — Crime— Friendship—Guilt-Heart-Joy–Judges-King—Knavery —Law—Mischief—Music — Pain—IRuler–Silence—Slavery —Thought—Trade—Usurpation—Vengeance. ALFORD, HENRY, D. D., born in London, 1810; an English poet and divine; he was the author of many sermons and other works; died, August 13, 1871. Quota- tions : Conversation—Religion—Simplicity—Sorrow. ALFRED THE GREAT, born at Wantage, Berk- shire, England, 849 A. D.; he was king Of the west Saxons in England, and One of the most exemplary and perfect characters to be found in the page of history: he came to the throne when learning was at a very low ebb in England, but by his example and encouragement he used his utmost endeavor to excite a love of letters among his subjects; he himself was a Scholar, and had he not been illustrious as a king, would have been famous as an author; he died universally lamented, October 28, 901. Qrtotations : God— Learning—Navy—Orphan—Peace—Royalty. ALGER, OF LIEGE, an ecclesiastical writer ; died in the twelfth century. Quotation: Communism. 1064 A) A Y’,S C O Z / A C O AV. ALGER, WILLIAM ROUNSEVALE, born at Free- town, Mass., December 11, 1823; an American divine and author. Quotations : Advice—Aphorisms – Castles-in-the Air–Common-Sense — Cunning — Eloquence-Eye-Fancy —Fate—Happiness—Law—Learning—Life—Maxims—Obli- ations—Opinion—Proverbs — Reserve — Science–Soul— tatesman—Sublimity—Sympathy—Tears—Terror--Wrath. ALGERIUS, a gentleman of Padua, Italy ; he suf- fered martyrdom at Rome, about 1540. Quotation: Worship. ALISON, ARCHIBALD, born in Edinburgh, Novem- ber 13, 1757; the father of Sir Archibald Alison, the histo- rian ; died, May 17, 1839. Quotation : Controversy. ALISON, SIR ARCHIBALD, Bart., D.C.L., born at Kenley, Shropshire, England, Deçember 29, 1792; the son of the preceding; he was an eminent historian, and the author of many works, among which are “Essays, Political and Historicaſ; ", died near Glasgow, May 23, 1867. Quota- tions: Action—Amazement -Association-Autumn-Cri- ticism—Devotion—Disaster—Enjoyment—Evening—Insti- tution—Justice—Knowledge-Iland–Matter—Oppression —Progress—Seasons—Simplicity—Taste. ALKMAR, HINREK vAN, a Low-German poet ; died, 1503. Quotations: Baseness—Burden—Devotion. ALLEINE, JOSEPH, born in Devizes, Cornwall, England, 1633; an English nonconformist minister, and lº died, December 22, 1668. Quotation : Affability— €Cú. ALLEN, EDWARD, an English theologian and au- thor; died, 1559. Quotation. : Misanthropy. ALLEN, ETHAN, born in Litchfield, Conn., 1739 : an officer of the Hevolutionary war; died, February 13, 1789. Quotation s : Oracle—Reason—Revelation—Slavery. ALLEN, G. H. Quotation : Dispatch. ALLEN, IRA. R. Quotation : Patronage. ALLEN, LEWIS F., of Buffalo, New York : a cele- brated writer on Agriculture. Quotations : Faculties — Farmer–Tillage. ALLEN, STEPHEN, born in New York city, July, 1767: became mayor in 1821: he was one of the persons who originated the enterprise of supplying the city with Croton water; he perished in the burning of the steamer Henry Clay, in July, 1852. Quotations: Saving—Tempta- tion—Truth. ALLEN, THOMAS, born, 1572; an English divine ; died, 1636. Quotation : Sinner. ALLEN, WILLIAM, born in London, August 1770 : an eminent chemist and philanthropist; died at Lindfield, 1843. Quotation : Misery. ALLENDORF, J. C. L. Quotations: Grace—Pride. ALLESTRY, RICHARD, born in Shropshire, 1619; an eminent, English divine and Writer; he was chaplain to Charles II; died, 1681. Quotation : Sovereign. ALLEY, WILLIAM, born at Great Wycombe, 1512; an English bishop, the author of “The Pôor Man's Library;” died, 1571. Quotation : Earnestness. ALLEYN, EDWARD, born in London, 1566 ; a cele- brated actor and philanthropist, and the founder of the Dulwich College, London; died, 1626. Quotation : Theatre. ALLIBONE, SAMUEL AUSTIN, LL.D., born in Philadelphia, April 17, 1816; the author and compiler of the celebrated “Dictionary of Authors.” Quotation: Oratory. ALLINGTON, MRs. MARY, born in Richmond, New York, February 7, 1820. Quotation : IRailroad. ALLIX, PIERRE, born at Alençon, France, 1641 ; a distinguished Protestant theologian and scholar; died, 1717. Quotation : Fool. ALLON, HENRY, D.D., born at Welton, near Hull, Yorkshire, October 13, 1818; a Congregational minister. Quotations : Commendation—Gentile—Harm. ALLSTON, WASHINGTON, born at Waccamaw, in South Carolina, November 5, 1779; an American artist, and author of a number of poetical and prose composi- tions; died at Cambridge, Mass., July 9, 1843. Quotations: Atheism–Benevolence–Critic—Detraction—Humility— Lying—Novelty—Originality – Painting—Pictures—Iteve- rence—Self—Self-Love—Truth—Vanity. ALLUCIUS. Quotation : Virtue. ALLYN, STEPHEN, born, 1790; a successful New York merchant, and the author of “Business Maxims; ” died, 1850. Quotations : Marriage—Secrecy. ALMAGRO DE DIEGO : a foundling of the city of that name, born in 1468; the principal associate of Pizzaro in the conquest of Peru; died, April, 1538. Quotations: Rarity—Subjection. ALMARIC. Quotation : Invasion. ALMEIDA, NICOLAO ToIENTINo DE, born at Lis- bon, Portugal, 1745; a satirical poet and author; died 1811. Quotation : Alone. ALOYSIUS, JEAN BAPTISTE, flourished in the time of Theodoric the Great; a celebrated Roman archi- tect. Quotation : Garden. ALPHA. : an Italian medical writer of Salerno ; lived between 1550 and 1600. Quotation : Habit. ALPHANUS, FRANCESCO, a medical writer of Salerno, Italy, who lived about 1550. Quotation : Habit. ALPHERY, NICEPHORUS ; a Russian who emi- grated to England, and became a minister in the Anglican church; he died in the latter part of the seventeenth cen- tury. Quotation : Priest. ALPHONSO X, surnamed “The Wise,” born, 1226; king of Leon and Castile; it is to him that Europe is indebted for those valuable astronomical tables called “Alphonsine;” died, April 4, 1284. Quotations : Action— Eating—Gluttony—Science—Star. ALPHONSUS, ABULENSIs, born in New Castile, Spain, 1400; a distinguished theologian; died, 1445. Quo- tations: Dancing—Fashion—Wine. ALPHONSUS, King of Naples, born, 1885; a man of learning, and a ſuberal §§ of literature and Science; died, 1458. Quotations: Amnesty—Clemency. ALSOP, RICHARD, born at Middletown, Conn., January 23, 1761; an American poet and journalist; died, August 21, 1815. Quotations: Action—Consideration. ALSTON, CHARLEs, born at Eddlewood, Scot- land; 1683; a distinguished botanist and physician ; died, 1760. Quotation : Pastime—Physician. ALTANESI, GLAMFRANCESCA, an Italian novelist, flourished about the middle of the seventeenth century. Quotation : Calamity. ALTHORP, LORD JOHN CHARLEs SPENCER (EARL Spencer), born, May, 1782; a liberal statesman and scholar; died, 1845. Quotation : Laziness. ALTMAN, MORRIs, born in the city of New York, of Jewish parents, 1837; a writer on the principles of free- thought and liberal reform; died in New York, July 12, 1876. Quotation : Failing. ALVAREZ, FRANCISCO, born at Coimbra, in the province of Beira, Portugal, a Portuguese priest who went to Abyssinia in 1515; died, about 1540. Quotation . Hunger. ALVARO, DON DE LUNA, a Spanish courtier and poet, the favorite of John II of Castile; executed, 1453. Quotation : Benefits. ALVARO, GIov ANNI, flourished in the eighteenth century; a Neapolitan painter. Quotation : IRuler. ALYPIUS. born at Alexandria in the fourth cen- tury: a distinguished Greek sophist. Quotation : Temple. AMADEUS IX., born at Thomon, 1435 ; son of Louis, Duke of Savoy; died, 1465. Quotations: Benevo- lence—Virtue. AMARU, TUPAC (Josſ; GABRIEL CONDORCANQUI), born about 1740; a Spanish Peruvian, whose mother was the daughter of Tupac Amaru, the last of the Incas; he made a noble struggle to throw off the Spanish yoke, but was finally defeated, and cruelly H. to death. On the tenth of September, 1780. Quotations : Determination—Secrecy. AMASEO, ROMOLO, born in Udine,Venetia, Italy, 1489; a celebrated Italian scholar and orator; died, 1552. Quotation : Study. AMBERLY, LORD, the son of Lord John Russell; he was the author of a work entitled “An Analysis of Re- ligous belief; ” died, 1878. Quotation : Fallacy. AMIBROSE, SAINT, born at Arles, France, 340 A.D.; one of the most celebrated of the ancient fathers of the church, and the author of the celebrated hymn “Te Denºn. Laudamus ; ” died at Milan, 397 A.D. Quotations : Adoration—Approval—Conspiracy – Contemplation—Con- tentment—ſ)amination — Deeds – Envy — Heresy–Homeli- ness—Immortality—Kisses — Laziness—Lewdness—Love— Martyr—Mutability—Oratory — Penitence—Pomp—Prayer —IRepentance—Sermon — Silence—Sin—Soul—SoVereign— Speaking—Style—Tongue—World. AMBROSIUS, CATHARINUS Politus, archbishop of Compsa, Naples; died, 1552. Quotation : Wealth. AMAK, BokHAREE, lived in the eleventh century; a Persian poet. Quotation : Roses. AMELIA, PRINCESS, born, 1783 : the daughter of George the Third of England; a lady possessed of much learning and many virtues; died, 1810. Quotation : Pastime. AMELIUS, GENTILIANUS, born in Italy, and flourished in the third century; an eclectic philosopher. Quotation : Love. AMENEMHA I, an ancient Egyptian scholar. Quotations: Literature—Wife. - AMENOPHIS III, a famous king of Egypt. tattion : GOdS. AMENORIUS, A. Quotation. Dissimulation. AMERBACH., JOHN, born in Suabia, Germany ; eminent German printer; died, 1520. Quotation : Pastor. AMES, CHARLES G. Quotation: Equality. Quo- – A / O G. At A P H / C A Z / M /O E X. 1()65 AMES, FISHER, born in Dedham, Mass., April 9, 1758; orator and Statesman ; died, July 4, 1808. Quotaſtions : Aggression—Democracy — Eloquence — Enthusiasm – EX- altation—Faction—Faith—Greatness-Imitation—Intellect —Liberty--Press-Itebellion—Reputation—Society—-Virtue. AMES, JOSEPH, born at Yarmouth, England, 1680; an English antiquary; died, 1759. Quotation : Print- IIlg. AMES, MRS. M. C., an American novelist ; the au- thoress of “Eirene; or, a Woman's Right,” and Other works. Quotation : Index. AMES, NELLIE (Eleanor Kirk), an American au- thoress. Qrtotation : Inequality. AMES, WILLIAM, D.D., born in Norfolk, England, 1576: an English Puritan divine ; died at Rotterdam, 1633. Q?totation : Exaggeration. AMHURST, NICHOLAs, born at Marden, Kent, 1702; a political and satirical writer; died at Twickenham, April 27, 1742. Quotation : Work. AMICONI, GIACOMI, born in Venice ; an historical painter; died, 1752. Quotation : Color. AMMENHAUSEN, a monk of the fourteenth cen- tury; died, 1337. Qºtotation : Chess. AMMIAN, a Greek poet who lived about 115 A.D. Quotation : Truth. AMMIANUS, MARCELLINUs. See MARCELLINUs Ammianus. AMMON, CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH voN, born at Baireuth, Bavaria, 1766; a Protestant theologian aud popu- lar divine; died, 1820. Quotation : Purity. AMONTONS, GUILLAUME, born in Paris, 1663 ; a French philosopher and mechanician; died, 1705. Quota- tion : Theory. AMORY, THOMAS, born, 1691 : an English Uni- tarian, Writer, and publisher; died, 1788. Qxtotation : Ex- CellencC. AMORY, THOMAS, D.D., born at Taunton, Eng- land, 1700; a Presbyterian divine and author; died, 1774 Quotations : Futurity—Perfection. AMPERE, JEAN JACQUES, born at Lyons, France, August, 1800; a celebrated French littérateur; died, 1864. Quotation : Quotation. AMPHIS, flourished about 332 B.C. : an Athenian comic poet; his works are not extant. Quotations : Art— iove-Seif-Murder-Silence. AMYOT, JACQUEs, born at Melun, France 1513; an eminent writer and translator; died at Auxierre, 1593. Quotation : Lampoon. AMYRANT, MOSES, born at Bourgneil, France, 1596; a Protestant divine and writer; died, 1664. Quota- tion : POOl'. ANACHARSIS, born, 592 B.C.; was the son of Gnurus, the brother of Caduides, King of the Scythians; an illustrious philosopher, and a friend and disciple of So- lon; he was the only barbarian admitted to the citizenship of Athens, and was considered One of the Seven Wise Meil of Greece; he returned to his native country, and was shot, while hunting, by his brother, the king of Scythia. Quto- tations : Argument — Beauty — Drinking —Drunkenness— Honor —Internperance — Law — Monuments — Nobility— Sloth—Tongue–Vine. ANACLETUS, SAINT, THE ANTIPOPE, a native of Athens; the third bishop of Rome; died, 100 A.D. Quota- tºo??.S.: Čorruption-Religion. ANACREON, born at Teos, in Ionia, 525 B.C. : one of the most celebrated of the Greek lyric poets, and no poet has ever equalled him in sweetness and elegance of his style; he was choked to death while drinking, 440 B.C. Quotations: Beauty—Gold—To-Day—Woman. ANASTASIUS, SAINT, born 954; “The apostle of Hungary;” died, 1044. .. Quotations: Error—Force—Gos- pel—Heresy—Scripture—Speech. ANAXAGORAS, born at Clazomenae, near Smyr- na, 500 B.C.; a celebrated Greek philosopher, and the father of modern Science; died at Lampsacus, in Asia Minor, 428 B.C., Qºtotations : Death—Excitement — Intermperance— Quietness—Recommendation—Riches—Sun. ANAXANDRIDES, a native of the city of Cami- . rus, in Rhodes; flourished 376 B.C.; a Greek comic poet. Quotations : Old Age—Pleasure. ANAXARCHUS, born in Abdera, Greece ; a dis- tinguished philosopher, and an intimate friend of Alexan- der the Great; he was put to death by the tyrant Nico- Creon by being poundcd in a large mortar. Quotations : Friendship—Soul. ANAXILAUS, born in Larissa, Turkey, lived in Rome, in the time of Augustus; a Pythagorean philoso- pher. Q totation, . Art. ANAXIMANDER, born in Miletus, Asia Minor, 610 B.C.: an eminent, Greek philosopher, and the inventor Of the Sun dial ; he also taught that the earth is a sphere, that the sun is a globe of fire as large as the earth, and that there is an infinite number of worlds; died, 546 B.C. Quo- tations : Astrology—Infinity. ANAXIMENES, born at Miletus, and flourished about 500 B.C.; a Grecian philosopher. Quotation : Air. ANBARI, IBN, AL, born, August, 1119 : one of the most distinguished of the Arabian grammarians; died, December, 1181. Quotations: Necessity—Purse. ANCELOT, JACQUES ARSENE FRANÇors Poly- carpe, born at Havre, France, 1794; an eminent dramatic author ; died, 1850. Quotation : Excess. ANCELOT, MADAME, (MARGUERITTE VIRGINIE, Chardon), born at Dijon, France, 1792; a painter and au. thoress; died, 1848. Quotation : Prettiness. ANCHERES, DANIEL D', born near Verdun, France, 1586; a French poet, who was patronized by James I. of England. Quotations : Hobby – Prosperity— {epose. - ANCHIETA, JOSE DE, born at Laguna, in Tene- riffe, Portugal, 1:33: a distinguished Jesuit and missionary; he was called “The Apostle of Brazil; " died near Espiritu, Santo, 1597. Quotation : Death—Face—Faith. ' ANCILLON, JOHANN PETER FRIEDRICH, born in Berlin, 1766; a distinguished writer and politician; died, 1837. Quotation : Quotation. ANCRE, CONCINO CONCINI, Baron de Lussigney, Le Maréchal d', born in Florence ; went to Paris in 1600; an Italian courtier; died, 1617. Qºtotation : Witchcraft. ANCRUM, EARL OF, (ROBERT KERR), born, 1578; an English author ; died, 1654. Quotation : Exaltation. ANDERSON, ARTHUR, M. P., born in Shetland, Scotland, 1792; a gentleman noted for his public spirit and enterprise; died, 1864. Quotation : Reserve. ANDERSON, CHRISTOPHER, born in Edinburgh, §: a Baptist divine and writer; died, 1852. Quotation : &Cy. ANDERSON, SIR EDMOND, born at Broughton, England, 1530; an English judge, noted for his learning; died, 1605. Quotation: Reason. ANDERSON, HANS CHRISTIAN, born at Odense, in the Island of Fünen, April 2, 1805; one of the most gifted writers of the present age, whose works have been trans- #! into most modern languages; died, 1875. Quotation : 'ales. ANDERSON, JAMEs, born near Edinburgh, 1739; a writer on agriculture and political economy ; died, 1808. Quotations : Commerce. ANDERSON, JAMES, an English army surgeon ; died, 1810. Quotation : Climate. ANDERSON, M. W. Quotation: Friendship. ANDERSON, ROBERT, M.D., born in Lanarkshire, 1750; a Scottish critic and biographer; died, 1830. Quota. tions: Perjury—Perseverance—I’uins. ANDERSON, ROBERT, born near Louisville, Ken- tucky, 1805; an American general ; died at Nice, France, 1871. Quotation. Flag. ANDERSON, WALTER, a historical and critical writer; died, 1800. Quotation : Morality. ANDERSON, W. T. Quotation : Freemasonry. ANDRADA, JACINTO DE, born at Beja, Portugal, 1597; an elegant, writer; died, 1657. Quotations: Envy— Good—Money—Preparation—Suffering—Sympathy. ANDRE, JOHN, born in London, 1751 ; an adju- tant-general in the British army at the time of the Airlerican Revolution; he was executed as a spy, October 2, 1780. Quotations: Death—Spy—Submission. ANDRE, Yves MARIE, born in Brittany, 1675: a French Jesuit writer; died, 1764. Quotations: Beauty— Marriage. ANDREA, JOHANN VALENTIN, born at Herrin- berg, in Würtemberg, August, 1586; a German Satirical writer ; died, 1654. Quotation : Wickedness. ANDREAS, JoHN, lived in the latter part of the thirteenth century; a learned German chronicler. Quota- tions: Penance—Prayer. ANDRESS, J. Quotation : Adornment. ANDRESS, MRs. ORPHA, born, 1845.; an Ameri- can writer. Quotations: Farewell–Loncliness. ANDREW, JOHN ALBION, born at Windham, Maine, May, 1818; an American statesman ; died, October, 1867. Quotations; War—Word. ANDREWS, FANNY, an English authoress and novelist. Quotation : Indignation. - ANDREWS, JoHN, D.D., born in Cecil county, Maryland, 1746; an American Episcopalian clergyman; died, 1813. Quotation : Perseverance. ANDREWS, LAUNCELOT (Bishop of Chichester), born in London, 1555; an English divine of great learning: died, 1626. Quotations : Christ—Fallibility—Joy—Prayer— Proverbs—Sälvation—Sickness—Subject—Words. ANDREWS, MILES PETER, M.P., born about 1740; an English dramatist and writer; died, 1814. Quotation : Keeping. I ()66 P A Y's co / / A co v. ANDREWS, STEPHEN PEARL, born in Massachu- setts, 1812; an American lawyer and writer. Quotations: Sovereignty—Thinking. ANDRONICUS, RHODIUS, a Peripatetic philos- º who it is said invented the term Metaphysics; died, about 60 B.C. Quotation : Woman. ANDRUS, S. Quotations: Pomp—Reproof–Reputation. ANGELO, MICHAEL BUONAROTTI, born in the Cas- tle of Caprese, Tuscany, March 6 1474, an eminent Italian painter, sculptor, and architect ; it is considered doubtful whether any of his oil paintings are extant; died in Rome, February, 1563. Quotations: Art—Trifle—Wife—Work. ANGELUS, CHRISTOPHER, a Greek scholar who went to England in 1608; died, 1638. Quotation : Belle- Lettres. ANGUILLARA, GIov ANNI ANDREA DELL’, born at Sutri, Italy, 1517; an Italian writer and poet; died at Rome, 1565. Quotation : Contentment. ANKARSTROM, JoHAN JACOB, born, 1759; a Swedish nobleman who assassinated Gustavus III., of Swe- den ; he was executed, 1792. Quotation : Assassination. ANSELM, SAINT, (Archbishop of Canterbury), born at Acosta, in Piedmont, Sardinia, 1034; a distinguished and learned prelate; died, 1109. Quotations : Adultery — Death—Disaster—Garden—Idleness — Infamy—Jealousy— Lust—Pride—Sin. ANSON, GEORGE, LORD, born in Staffordshire, England, 1697; a distinguished naval commander, traveller, and writer; died, 1762. Quotation : Key. ANSPACH, ELIZABETH BERKELEY, MARGRAviNE of, born, 1750; a lady of great versatility of genius, and the authoress of a number of dramas; died at Naples, 1828. Quotation : Deference. ANSTEY, CHRISTOPHER, born in Cambridgeshire, § i an English satirical poet; died, 1805. Quotation : Smile. ANTAR, or ANTARAH, IBN - SHEDDAD, lived about the middle of the sixth century; a celebrated Ara- bian warrior and poet. Quotations: Old Age—Question— Warrior. ANTERUS, SAINT. Quotations: Monuments—Saint. ANTHON, CHARLEs, LL.D., born in the city of New York, 1797; an American classical scholar; died, 1867. Quotation : Conversation—Failings—God. ANTHONY, C. H., born in Albany, New York, 1814 an American educator. Quotation : Fallacy. ANTHONY, SAINT, born in Heraclea, Upper Egypt, 251 A.D.; one of the Christian fathers, and the foun- der of monasteries; died, 356 A.D. Quotation. : Mischief. ANTHONY, SUSAN B., born at the foot of the Green Mountains, South Adams, Massachusetts, February 15, 1820; a celebrated lecturer and advocate of women's rights. Quotations: Equality—Vote—Women. ANTIGONUS, CARYSTIUs, born, 285 B.C.; a § philosopher; died, 247 B.C. Quotations : Justice— U1 (21°. ANTIPATER, a pupil of Aristotle ; he was ap- §§ regent of Macedonia by Alexander the Great ; ied, 319 B.C. Quotation : Valor. ANTIPHANES, born about 404 B.C.; the most esteemed writer of the middle comedy. ; died, 330 B.C. Quotation?S : Adversary—-Fasting—Gain—Grief—Life—Loss —Love—Old Age — Ornament — POSsession — Riches—Un- righteousness—Uprightness—Woman. ANTIPHON, born at Rhamnus, in Attica, Greece, 479 B.C.; one of the Ten Attic Orators; he was put to death for treason, about 411 B.C. Quotation : Sacrifice. ANTISTHENES, born at Athens, about 423 B.C.; a distinguished cynic philosopher, and the founder of the cynic school; the eccentric Diogenes was one of his pupils; he was a friend of Socrates, and he is said to have been an enemy of Plato; died, 370 B.C. Quotations: Beauty—Bra- Very—Brother—Citizen— Contradiction — Discourse —Dis- 623,862. . ANTONINUS, LIBERALIS, lived about 150 A.D.; a Greek writer. Quotation : Rain. ANTOINETTE, MARIE. See MARIE ANTOINETTE. ANTONINUS, PIUS, born at Lanuvium, 86 A.D. : an excellent Roman emperor; died, 161 A.D. Quotations: Benignity—Wain-Glory—Violence. ANTONIO, NICOLAs, born at Seville, Spain, 1617; a distinguished bibliographer and critic; died, 1684. Quo. tation, Index. ANTONIUS, MARCUS, THE ORATOR, born 140 B.C ; one of the most eloquent of the Roman Orators and lawyers; died, 87 B.C. Quotation: World. APELLES, born in the island of Cos, flourished in the time Of Alexander the Great ; the most celebrated painter of antiquity. Quotation : Painting. APICIUS, MARCUS GABIUS, lived in Rome at the fºe of Augustus; a renowned epicure. Quotation : Eat- £5. APION, surnamed PLISTONICEs, born in Oasis, Egypt; abºut 15 A.D.; an eminent Greek historian. Quota. tion : Writing. APOLLODORUS, a native of Gela, in Sicily, flourished between 300 and 260 B.C.; he was a celebrated poet, of Whose poetry Some fragments have been preserved. Quotations: , Despair—Fortune–Life—Night—tyid Age- Opinion—Riches—Time. APOLLONIUS, RHODIUS, born at Alexandria ; about 335 B.Q. ; a celebrated Greek epic poet and rhetori. Šišić the time of his death is unknown. Tºuotation: lū. APQLLONIUS, TYANAEUs, born at Tyana, in Cap- padoğia;, a Pythagorean philosopher, who lived about the middle of the first century, and who pretended to divine attributes; although he was an impostor, his doctrines and morals were nevertheless pure ; the time of his death is unknown. Quotations: Covetousness—Magic—Quietness —Scholar. APONO, PETRUS DE, or ABANO PIETRO DI, born at Abano, near Padua, Italy, 1250; a learned physician and astrologer; died, 1316, Qviotations : Remedy—Study. APPERLEY, CHARLEs JAMEs, born in Denbigh- Shire, 1777; a well-known writer on sporting; died, 1843. Q?!otation : Keeping. APPIAS, APPIAN, or APPLANUs, born at Alexan- dria, and remoyed to Rome in the time of Trajan; a Greek historian ; died about 161, A.D. Quotations : Conscience— Consideration—Contentment—Countenance—Courage. APPLETON, ELIZABETH, Mrs. an English gov- erness and writer. (London, 1815.) Quotations: Ingrati- tude—Perseverance. APPLETON, NATHAN, born near Ipswich, New Hampshire, October 6, 1779; the author of several pam- phlets on banking ; died, 1861. Quotation : Gold. APPLETON, NATHANIEL, D.D., born, 1693 : an American divine and writer on theology; died, 1784. Quo- tation : Doubt. APULEIUS, CELSUs, lived in the second century; an Epicurean philosopher. Quotation : Lover. AQUINAS, THOMAS, SAINT, born at Aquino, in Naples, 1225; an eminent teacher and writer; died, March 7, 1274. Quotations: Denial—Presumption. ARABS, PHILIPPUS, Quotation: Wickedness. ARAGO, DOMINIQUE FRANÇOIS, born at Estagel, near Perpignan, France, February 26, 1786; astronomer and natural philosopher; died, October 2, 1853. Quotation : Contemplation. ARAGO, ETIENNE, brother of the preceding, born at Estagel, 1803; a dramatic writer, journalist, and politi- cian. Quotattion : Economy. ARATUS, flourished 270 B.C.; a Greek poet of Soli, in Cilicia; he was gotemporary with Theocritus; died, 213 B.C. Quotations: Benevolence—Liar—Star. ARBER, EDWARD. Quotation : Adversity. ARBLAY, MADAME D (FRANCES BURNEY), born at Lynn-Regis, 1752; an English authoress; died at Bath, 1840. Quotation : Action. ARBON VILLE, COUNTESS D', born about the lat- ler part of the eighteenth century; a celebrated French authoress; died 1850. Quotation : Study. ARBORIO, D1 GATTINARA, MERCURINO, COUNT, born at Vercelli, in Piedmont, 1465; a distinguished Italian diplomatist ; died at Innsprück, 1550. Quotation : King. ARBUTHNOT, ALExANDBR, born, 1538; a Scot- tish divine, poet, and author; died, 1583. Quotation : Ease. ARBUTHNOT, JOHN, born at Arbuthnot, near Montrose, Scotland, 1675; author, Satirist, and physician; died, 1735. Quotations: Army—Bargain-Bread–Farmer– Friendship—Frugality—Incapacity—Individuality–-Mathe- matics—Oak. ARC, JoAN OF. See JOAN OF ARC. ARCADIUS, born in Spain, 383 ; an Eastern em- peror; died, 408. Quotation : Station. ARCADIUS, PETER, born at Corfü, 1570; a Ro- man Catholic priest and author. Quotation : Scripture. ARCESILAUS, born at Pitana, in AEolia, 316 B.C.; a Greek philosopher; died, 241 B.C. Quotations: Business —Death—Philosophy. ARCHER, E. M., an American novelist ; the au- thor of “Christina North,” and “Under the Limes.” Qwo- tations : Disappointment—Ghosts—Good-Nature. ARCHER, THOMAS, an English novelist (London 1870). Quotation : Visage. ARCHIAS, AULUs LICINIUS, flourished about 130 #; an accomplished Greek epigrammatist. Quotation : &Iſle. ARCHIDAMIA, the daughter of a king of Sparta, about 287 B.C.; she was famed for her patriotism and cour- age. Quotation : Invasion. ARCHIDAMIDAS. Quotation : Speaking. A / O G. A. A. P. Aſ / C A /, / AV /O AE X. 1067 ARCHILOCHUS, born in the island of Paros, and flourished about 680; a celebrated Greek lyric poet; killed in battle. Quotation : Patience. ARCHIMEDES, born in the state of Syracuse, Italy, 212 B.C.; the greatest geometer of antiquity; as a mathematician he had few rivals, and as a mechanician he had none; he was killed at the capture of Syracuse, 212 B.C. Quotations: Adornment—Consideration—Contentment— Courage-Covetousness—Deceit—Doubt—Favor--Question —Silence—Teal'S. ARCHIPPUS, flourished about 400 B.C.; an Athe- nian comic poet. Quotation : Temple. - ARCHYTAS, born at Tarentum, about 350 B.C.; a Pythagorean philosopher and, mathematician; , lie Was shipwrecked on the coast of Apulia. Quotation : Deceit— Good—Misery—Prosperity. ARCO, NICCOLO, COUNT D', born at Arco, in the Tyrol, 1479; a Latin poet; died, 1546. Quotations : Free- Thinking—Funeral. ARCON VILLE, MARIE D', born, 1720 ; a learned French authoress; died, 1805. Quotation: Lover. ARETIN, GUY, lived in the eleventh century ; a Benedictine monk, and the inventor of the six notes in music. Quotation: Music. ARETIN, or ARETINO, PIETRO, born in Arezzo, Italy, 1492; an author famous for his satirical Writings; died at Venice, 1557. Quotations: Inn—Pen—Satire—Trust. ARETINO, FRANCESCO, or ACCOLTI, born at Arezzo, 1418; an Italian lawyer of great learning ; died, 1485. Quotation : Subtlety. ARETCEUS, a famous physician of Cappadocia, who flourished in the latter half of the first century. Quo- tation : Soul. ARFAN, TRAITH BONEDD AC, a Welch poet and prose writer. Quotation : Condition. ARGENSON, RENí LOUIS VOYER, MARQUIs D', born, 1696; a French diplomatist and author; died, 1757. Quotations : Patriotism—Triumph. ARGOLI, TAGLIACOZZO, born, 1610; an Italian g; and miscellaneous Writer; died, 1657. Quotation : $COl'n. ARGYLE, MARQUIS OF (ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL), born 1598; a patriotic Scottish peer; executed, 1661. Quo- tation : Christian. ARGYLL, (GEORGE DOUGLAS CAMPBELL,) HIS Grace, Duke of, IX.T., born at Arden caple Castle, Dumbar- tonshire, Scotland, 1823; a British statesman and writer. Quotations: Prayer—Reporter. ARGYROPYLUS, JOHANNES, born at Constanti- nople, and emigrated to Italy, 1434; a distinguished Greek scholar; died, 1490. Quotation : Ikeport. ARIAS, MonTANUs BENEDICTUS, born at Frexen- al, Estremadura, 1527; a distinguished Spanish bibliogra- pher; died at Seville, 1598. Quotation : Reputation. ARIENTI, or ARGENTI, AGOSTINI, lived about 1510; an Italian poet ; died, 1576. Quotation : Ending. ARIENTI, SABADINO CECCO DEGLI, born at Bo- logna, 1418; an Italian physician and author; died, 1508. Quotation : Law. ARIOSTO, LODOVICO, born at Reggio, near Mo- dena, Lombardy, September 8, 1474; One of the most illus- trious poets of Italy; his famous “Orlando Furioso,” has been translated into all the European languages; his im- aginative powers, sublime fancy, and elegance of Style have never been surpassed ; died at Ferrara, June 6, 1533. Qto- tations : Confession—Death—Diligence—Heart—Hermit— Jail–Labor—Liar—Necessity—Qld Age—Pauper—Rabble —Relations—Seeing — Servant — Silence—Soldier—Truth— Virgin, ARIPHRON, lived about 450 B.C.; a Greek poet of Sicyon. Quotation : Health. ARISTAENETUS, a native of Nicaea, in Bithynia ; an ancient Greek writer, to whom are ascribed certain epis- tles on the subject of love and gallantry; he was killed by an earthquake, 358. Quotation : Intrigue. - ARISTARCHUS, flourished about 260 B.C.; a Greek philosopher, was supposed to be the first who main- tained that the earth, turned upon its centre, describing a circle yearly round the Sun. atolation : Star. ARISTARCHUS, born in Samothrace, 160 B.C.; an eminent Greek critic and grammarian ; died at Cyprus, 99 B.C. Quotation : Anger. ARISTIDES, AELIUS, born at Hadriani, in Bithy- nia, about 117 A.D.; a distinguished Greek sophist. Quota- tion : Poverty. ARISTIDES, THE JUST, born in Alopeke, in At- tica, 520 B.C.; an Athenian statesman, and one of the most Virtuous public men of any age ; died, about 460 B.C. Quo- tation : Judges—Kindness. ARISTIPPUS, born at Cyrene, Africa, 425 B.C.; a celebrated Greek Pºgºń and the founder of the Cy- renaic school; died about 360 B.C. Quotations: Ability— Boys—Citizen—Commonwealth –Contentment—Counsel— Covetousness—Extravagance — Ignorance—Liar—Philoso- phy—Pleasure—Policy—Wit. ë ARISTO, an eminent Roman jurist, and a friend of Pliny the younger. Quotation: Virtue. ARISTOBOLUS, lived about 330 B.C.; a Greek historian. Quotation : Battle. ARISTON THE BALD, a native of Chios, surnamed the Scion, lived in the time of Zeno. Quotation : Good. ARISTOPHANES, born at Athens, 444 B.C.; an Athenian poet and dramatist; his style has always been admired for its Attic elegance, his wit for its poignancy, and his delineation of manners for its perfect fidelity ; died about 380 B.C. Quotations : Actor—Adversary—Blindness –Qountry-Demagogue—Drinking—Enemy—Fox—Leader —Rogue—Slavery–Wine—Wisdom—Woman. ARISTOPHON, a Greek comic poet, who is sup- osed to have belonged to the middle comedy, but nothing is known of his life or age. Quotations : Fame—Poverty. ARISTOTLE, born at Stageira, a seaport town in the district of Chalcidice, 384 #6. an illustrious Grecial, Pºp." and the most learned inan of antiquity; he ecame S0 famous for his intellectual attainments that Philip of Macedon appointed himn tutor to his son Alexander the Great, and in this occupation he spent eight years; the young Prince became 80 strongly attached to him that he valued his instructor above his own father. Aristotle was yersed in every science then known, and he illustrated them in his writings with all the resources of a mighty mind; died at Chalcis, in Euboea, 322 B.C. Quotations : Ability— Absence—Anger—Aristocracy—Bashfulness—Beginning— Belly—Blessedness — Bravery — Change—Citizen—Comedy —Constancy—Covetousness—Custom—Death–Decay—De- Imagogue—Democracy — Descendant — Dignity—Disease— Education—Emulation—Ending—Estrangement—Extrava- gance—Eye — Face — Flattery–Friendship —God—Gods— Husbandry—Imitation—Indiscretion—Injustice—Justice— King—Law — Learning — Licentiousness — Light—Loyer— Lust—Madness —Man — Melancholy — Morality.— Mother— Nature—Night—Nobility—Obedience—Office—Oligarchy— Opinion—Others—Parent—Past—Patience—Pedigree—Pe- nalty—Poet—Poetry—Poverty—Prodigality—Reputation— Resignation—Ridiculousness—Ruler—-Science—Self-murder Selfishness—Servant—Solitude — Stability—State—Super- fluity—Surfeit—Scycophant—Talking—Teaching--Temper- ance--Touch—Tragedy--Universe—-Vain-Glory--Veneration —Water—Wife—Wonder. ARIUS, born at Cyrene, in Lybia, Africa, about the middle of the third century; the celebrated founder of Agºnism: died at Constantinople, 336. Quotations: Savior —SOI). ARLE, an English divine. Quotation : Prayer. ARLOTTO, MAINARDI, (IL.PIOVANNO), born at Florence, 1396; a celebrated Italian wit; died, 1483. Quo- tation : Čoyness fastime. ARMINIUS, JACOBUS, born at Oudewater, South Holland, 1560; a distinguished theologian, and the founder of Arminianism ; died, 1609. Quotations : Conscience— GentleneSS—GOd—Paradise. g ARMSTRONG., JOHN, born at Castleton, Rox- burghshire, Scotland, 1709; an eminent poet and plıysician ; died, 1779. Quotations: Faults—Punishment—Sickness— Superfluity. ARMSTRONG, JoHN, born near Sunderland, in the county of Durham, England, 1784; a distinguished med- ical writer; died, 1829. Quotation : Exertion. ARMYNE, LADY MARY, born about 1600; a daugh- ter of the fourth earl of Shrewsbury; she was a lady of considerable learning, and benevolent to the poor; died, 1675. Quotation : Ostracism. ARNAUD, DE L'ARIEGE; a French author. tion : Liberty. ARNAUD, DANIEL, born in Perigord, France, in the twelfth century; a Provençal poet. Quotation : Ex- CCSS. ARNAUD, FRANÇOIS, THOMAS MARIE BACULARD d’, born in Paris, 1718; a French novelist and dramatist; died, 1805. Quotation : Apology. ARNAUD, DE MARSAN ; a Provençal troubadour. Quotation : Chivalry. ARNAULD, ANTOINE, born in Paris, Februrary 6, 1616; a celebrated theologian ; died at Brussels, 1698. Quotation : Rest. ARNAULD, CATHERINE AGNES, born about 1600; an Abbess of Port-Royal-Des-Champs, a Cistercian gon- vent; she was the author of two religious books ; died, 1671. Quotation : Pilot. ARNDT, ERNEST MORITZ, born at Schoritz, in the island of Rügen, Prussia, December 26, 1769;...poet and po- litical writer; died, January 29, 1860. Quotations : Justice —Mourning—Sickness—Slavery. ARNDT, JoHANN GOTTFRIED, born at Halle, 1713; a German historian; died 1767. ðuotations : Perfection— Prayer—Religion. ARNETT, HANNAH, born, 1750; an American pa- triot: died. 1816. Quotations: Desert-Despondency-Gloom. ARNIM, BETTINA VON, born at Frankfort-on-the- Main, 1785; a celebrated authoress, and a friend of GCethe ; died in Berlin, January 1859. Quotations: Fate—Music- IPublic—Soul—Tempest. Quota- 1068 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. ARNIM, LUDw1G ACHIM voN, born in Berlin, 1781; poet and critic, and the husband of the preceding; died, 1839. Quotations : Learning—Merchant. ARNOBIUS THE ELDER, a native of Sicca, in Nu- midia ; flourished about the end of the third century; a pagan idolator, and teacher of rhetoric; little is known of hi. life. Quotations : Controversy—Experience—Supersti- 1Oll. ARNOLD, A. C. L. Quotations: Freemasonry—Moral- ity—Odd-Fellows—People—Perception. ARNOLD, ANTHONY. Quotation: Perjury. ARNOLD, ARTHUR, born, 1833; an English au- thor and journalist. Quotation : Equality. ARNOLD, BENEDICT, born at Norwich, Connecti- cut, January 3, 1740; an American general, Who made him: self infamous by his attempt to betray his country; died in London, June, 1801. Quotation : Alien. ARNOLD, EDw1N, born, June 10, 1832 : an English poet and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Blood. ARNOLD, FRANz, a priest of Cologne, who vio- lently opposed the doctrines of Luther. Quotation : Soul. ARNOLD, GOTTFRIED, born at Annaberg, Sax- ony, 1666; a distinguished German Protestant theologian and an eminent author; died, 1714. Quotation : Precept. ARNOLD, MATTHEw, a son of Dr. Thomas Arnold of Rugby, was born at Laleham, near Staines, Middlesex, December 24, 1822; an English poet, and Writer... Quota- tions : Admiration—Inquiry—Love—Mind–Worldliness. ARNOLD, THOMAS, born 1742; an English physi- cian ; died, 1816. Quotation : Affability. ARNOLD, THOMAS, D.D., born at Cowes, Isle of Wight, June 13, 1795; an eminent teacher at Rugby School; died at Rugby, June, 1842. , Qatotations: Fanaticism—Hap: piness—Judgment—Knowledge — Pope—Reading—School —Self-Culture. ARNOLD, WILLIAM DELAFIELD, born 1828 ; son of Thomas Arnold of Rugby ; an English Officer and au- thor. Quotation : Efficiency. ARNOT, HUGO, born 1749; an English historical writer; died, 1786. Quotation : Exaggeration. ARNOT, WILLIAM, born in Glasgow, about 1772; a Scottish divine; died, 1850. Quotations: Falling–Plant— Proverbs—-Righteousness--Sorrow--Theatre-Trouble-Vine. ARNOTT, NEIL, M.D., born at Arbroath, Scotland, 1788; a distinguished physician and natural philosopher; died in London, March 2, 1874. Quotations: Heat—Steam —Wisdom. ARNOULD, AMBROISE MARIE, born at Dijon, France, 1750; a political economist and author; died, 1812. Quotation : Keenness. ARNULPHUS, or ARNULF, Emperor of Ger- many; he captured Rome, 896, and was crowned by the pope : died at Ratisbon, 899. Quotations: Devil—Skill. ARPE, PETER FRIEDRICH, born at Kiel, in Hol- Stein, Denmark: 1682; an eminent professor Of law, and a learned writer; died, 1745. Quotation : Youth. ARRAGON, CATHERINE OF, (Queen of England). See Catherine of Arragon. - ARRIA, a Roman matron who lived in the first century. Quotations: Self-Murder—Wife. ARRIANUS, FLAVIUS, born at Nicomedia, in Bi- thynia, about 100 A.D. : a Greek historian, and a pupil of Epictetus, the stoic philosopher ; the date of his death is not known. Quotations: Age—Fortune—Virtue—Wish. ARROWSMITH, JOHN, A.M., born near New- castle-upon-Tyne, 1602; an eminent divine; died, 1659. Quo- tattºo?!8 : 'Affliction. Conscience—Creation-Eléctººknow- ledge—Suffering—Wit. ARRUNTIUS, LUCIUs, flourished about 22 B.C.: a Roman consul wh9 was eminent for his wealth and integ- rity; committed Suicide, 37 A.D. Quotation : Sumptuous- Ił0SS. ARSACES I, King of Armenia in 35 A.D. : assas- sinated by his own officers. Quotation : Revolution. ARSTER, JoHN, LL.D., born 1792; an Irish poet and essayist; died, 1845. Quotation : Expectation. ARTABAZUS, lived about 390 B.C.; a Russian satrap; died, 320 B.C. Quotation : Trust. ARTAXERXES I, an eminent Persian king, who succeeded to the throne, 465 B.C.; died, 425 B.C. Quotation : DaintineSS. ARTEMISIA, flourished about 480 B.C.; queen of Halicarnassus. Quotation : Selection. ARTEMISIA, queen of Caria, flourished about 350 B.C.; the wife of Mausolus, and celebrated for the magnificient mausoleum which she caused to be erected to her husband's memory. Quotation : Tomb. ARTEVELD, JACOB VAN, born at Ghent, 1302; a demagogue; killed, 1345. Quotation : Motive. ARTHUR, king of a tribe of ancient Britons, flour- ished about the sixth century. Quotation : Tongue. ARTHUR, GR. AB, a Welch poet and prose wri- ter. Quotation : Mountain. ARTHUR, CHESTER ALLEN, born in Vermont, 1830; elected Vice-President of the United States 1880, and suggeeded to the º On the death of President Gar- field, (q.v.) Quotations: I)estiny—Health. ARTHUR, THOMAS, born at Arundel castle, Sus- Sex, 1353; he Was archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Richard If and Henry IV; he prohibited the translation of the Scriptures into English, and persecuted the disciples of Wickliffe ; died, February 20, 1413. Quotation : Hunger. ARTHUR, TIMOTHY SHAY, born near Newburg, Orange CQunty, New York, 1809; a popular story-writer; he has Written a great number of moraſ and domestic tales and Sketches. Quotations: Carelessness — Contention— Courtesy–Custom—Purity. ARTHUR, WILLIAM, born in Ireland, 1819; a çlergyman; author, and missionary in India. Quotations: Intellect—Penetration—To-day. ARUNDEL, J. (Sermons, London, 1813). tions : Improvement—Missionary. ARVINE, KAZLITT, M.A., an American divine § author, (Boston, 1853). Quotations : Improvement— Muš1C, ASBURY, FRANCIS, born in Staffordshire, Eng- land, 1745; the first Methodist bishop in the United States; died in Virginia, 1816. Quotation : Preaching. - ASCHAM, MARGARET, the wife of Roger Ascham; she was the preceptor of queen Elizabeth. Quotation : Flirtation. ASCHAM ROGER, born at Kirby Wiske, near Northallerton, Yorkshire, England, 1515; a distinguished writer and classical scholar; died, 1568. Quotations: Ex- perience—Lady—Language —Learning—Hashness—Sharp- neSS—Weeds. ASCLEPIADES, Bithymus, born in Prusa, Bithy- nia, in the second century B.C.; an eminent Greek physi- cian ; died, 60 B.C. Quotation : Wine. ASGILL, SIR CHARLES a man who rose from an obscure position in life, to become lord mayor of London; died, September 15, 1788. Quotation : Work. ASGILL, JOHN, born, 1646; an English lawyer and pamphleteer; died, 1738. Quotation : Equality. ASHBURNE, THOMAS DE, born about 1350; an English friar. Quotation. Disease. ASHBY, GEORGE, A.M., born, 1724; an English antiquary; died, 1808. Quotation : Disguise. ASHE, SIMEON, born in London, about 1600; a Pu- ritan minister; died, 1662. Quotation : Oppression. ASHFOR.D. Quotation : Providence. ASHI, RABBI, born 353 A.D. ; a celebrated Baby- lonian rabbi, and the original author of the Talmud; died, 427 A.D. Quotations : Meekness—Pride. ASHMOLE, ELIAs, born in Lichfield, England, 1617; an antiquary; died, 1692. Quotation : Study. ASHTON, CHARLEs, born at Broadway, Denbigh- shire, Wales, 1655; a classical critic; died, 1752. Quotation : Translation. ASHWELL, JoHN, lived about 1500; Prior of Newnham. Quotatºon : Drunkenness. ASKEW, ANNE, born in Lincolnshire, 1521; one of the first martyrs of the Reformation; burned at the stake, 1546. Quotation : Torture. ASKEW, ANTHONY, F.R.S., born at Kendall, Eng- land, 1722; a noted physician and Greek Scholar; died, 1774. Quotation : Animals. ASPASIA, the daughter of Axiochus, was born in Miletus about 420 B.C.; a Grecian woman celebrated for her beauty, talents, and political influence. She lived with Perićles as his wife. Quotations: Learning–Wife. ASPINWALL, WILLIAM, born at Brookline, Mas- sachusetts, 1743; an American physician. Quotation : CleanlineSS. ASSAM. Quotation : Worship. ASSEMANI, SIMONE, born at Tripoli, 1752 ; an Orientalist of great learning; died, 1821. wotation : Keen- 1162.SS. ASSHETON, WILLIAM, born in Lancashire, 1641; an English clergyman; died, 1711. Quotation: Widow. ASTELL, MARY, born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1668; an English authoress; died, 1731. Quotations. Ab- Stinence—Morality. - ASTLE, THOMAs, F.R.S., born in Staffordshire, 1734; an eminent English antiquary ; died, 1803. Q?totation : Writing. - ASTLEY., JOHN, lived in the reign of Queen Eliza- beth; he was a member of the Queen's household, ar. 1 a man of culture. Quotation : Literature. Quotat- A / O G /ø A P AE/ / C A / / /V ZD E X. 1069 ASTLEY, SIR JACOB, an English royalist general, § fought at the battle of Naseby; died, 1651. Quotation: iding. ASTLEY, SIR JOHN, an English baronet, and a great patron of athletic sports. Quotation : Celerity. ASTLEY, PHILIP, born in Newcastle-under-Line, 1742; the father of Sir John Astley. Quotations: Eye- Service. ASTON, ANTHONY, born about 1680; an English dramatist, lawyer, poet, and actor; died about 1750. Quo- tation : Keeping. ATAHIYA,'LABÖ, born at Ain-at-Tamr,747 A. D.; an Arabian poet; died at Bagdad, 826 A.D. Quotationts: Affliction—Intention—Shame. ATAHUALPA, born about 1525; the last of the Incas of Peru; strangled by Pizarro, 1533. Qºtolations: Gods—Worship. ATHANASIUS, SAINT, born at Alexandria, 296 : an illustrious father of the Greek church, died, 878. Quo- tations: Religion—Surety—Trinity. ATHENAGORUS, lived in the second century ; a Greek philosopher. Quotation : Resurrection. ATHENIAN SPORT, a periodical published in the sixteenth century. Quotation : Homeliness. ATKINSON, EDWARD, a native of Boston. tation : Capital. ATKINSON, JOSEPH, lived about 1750; an Irish dramatist. Quotation : Epitaph. ATKINSON, THOMAs, lived about 1560; an Eng- lish clergyman ; died, 1639. Quotation : Evil. ATKYNS, Rich ARD, born, 1615; an English his- torian; died, 1677. Quotation : Exaltation. ATKYNS, SIR ROBERT, born in Gloucestershire, England, 1621; an eminent English lawyer and judge; died, 1709. Quotation: Perſidy. ATSUTADA, CHIff-NAGON, Japanese poet ; died about 961. Quotation : Parting. ATTERBURY, FRANCIS, born at Milton Keynes, near Newport Pagnall, Buckinghamshire, March 6, 1662; he was Bishop of Rochester, and an eminent writer, pulpit orator, and politician; died in Paris, February, 1732. Quo- tations : Absurdity—Affability — Affliction -Authority — Benefactor—Character—Confidence—Death-Bed—Decency Deeds—Discipline — Distraction – Education -Evidence— Exemption—Extenuation – Faults – Fancy—Friendship— Fright—God–Gospel—Government —Hospitality—Innor- tality—Impiety—Impunity—Indulgence—Infirmity–Life— Lové—Magistrate — Marriage – Minister–Moderation — Owner—Profuseness –Prosperity—Providence—Qualifica- tion—Reason—Scheming –Sensuality—Sickness—Success –Suffering — Sumptuousness—Uneasiness—Uprightness— Vagrant—Variety—Wirtue—World—Writing. ATTERLEY, JOSEPH. Quotation : Energy. ATTERSOL ; an English divine, lived about 1618. Quotation Jangle. ATTICUS, TITUs PoMPONIUS, born, 109 B.C., a Roman philosopher and scholar; died, 32 B.C. Quotation : Inaction. ATTIUS, LUCIUs, or ACCIUS, born, 170 B.C.; a celebrated IRoman tragic poet: the date of his death is un- known. Quotations: Ear—Omen. ATTWELL, HENRY : an English compiler of “A Book of Golden Thoughts,” (London, 1870). Quotations: Bººs-Holiday- nfidelity—Modesty—-Prayer—-Satire —Takking. ATWOOD, GEORGE, born 1745 ; an English mathe- matician and lecturer on natural philosophy; died, 1807. Quotation : Peevishness. AUBEUF, R. A. VERTOT d'; a French writer. Quotation; Chivalry. AUBIGNE, MADAME D’, the mother of Madame de Maintenon. Qºtotation : Humanity. AUBIGNE, JEAN HENRY MERLE D', born near Geneva, Switzerland, August 16, 1794; a distinguished di- vine and historian ; died at Geneva, October 20, 1872. Quo- tations : Church—Religion—Savior—Trial. AUBREY, JOHN, born at Easton-Piers, Wiltshire, England, March, 1626; a distinguished antiquary ; died, 1697. Quotation : Doubt. AUBREY, WILLIAM, born in the county of Bre- con, Wales, 1529: a man distinguished for wisdom and learning; died, 1595. Quotation : Faults. . AUDE, JEAN, born at Apt, France, 1755 ; the au- thor of several dramas; died, 1841. Quotation : Parent. AUDELAY, JoBN, lived about 1413 ; an English monk. Quotation : Economy. AUDIFFRET, HERCULE, born at Carpentras France, 1603; a theologian and eloquent writer; died, 1659. Quotation : Plenty. Quo- AUDUBON, JOHN JAMEs, born in Louisiana, May 4, 1780; an American ornithologist of great eminence; died in New York, January, 1851. Quotation : Scenery. AUERBACH, BERTHOLD, born of Jewish parents, at Nordstetten, Würtemberg, February 28, 1812; a German author; died at Cannes, France, February 8, 1882. Quota- tion : Music. - AUGUSTINA, or AGOSTINA, “MAID OF SARA- gossa,” a native of Saragossa ; Spanish heroine who was immortalized by Byron, in “Childe Harold.". For her in- trepid Conduct at the Seige of Saragossa, by the French in 1809, she was presented by the government with numerous decorations; died, 1857. Quotation : War. AUGUSTINE, SAINT AURELIUs, born at Tagaste, in Numidia, Africa, November 13,354 A.D.; the greatest and most illustrious of the Latin fathers of the church, and one Wh9še mind exerted a great influence on Christianity; died at Hippo, August 28, 430 A.D. Quotations : Ayariče—Ab- Stinence--Apocrapha-Apostle—Baptism—Child—Company —Contentment—Covetousness — Creation—Darkness-Dé- Spair—Desperation — Devil — Discord–Disease—Drunken- ness-Eagerness-Earth- Eating—Effeminacy—Eulogy— Existence—Eye—Fiend—Habit—Hell–Heresy–Hopeless- ness –Humility — Ignorance — Immortality—Innocence— Jealousy-Life—Light–Love—Loyalty—Lying-Memory— Merit—Miracle--Panic-Prayer—Presumption-Pride--Pro- bation-Punishment—Self–Self-Abasement—Self-Accusa- tion—Servant—Sight—Sinner — Soul—Suspicion—Torment —Trouble—Wantonness—Wedlock—World. AUGUSTUS, FREDERICK, King of Poland, born at Dresden, 1670; he was a man endowed with superior tal- ents; died, Februrary, 1743. Quotation : Obsequies. AURELIANUS, or AURELIUS, CLAUDIUS DOMI- tius, born in obscurity at Sirmium, Pannonia, 212 A.D.; a Hºan emperor; assassinated, 275. Quotation : Presump- Oll. AURELIUS, ANTONINUs, or MARCUS AURE- LIUS, “The Philosopher,” born, April, 121 A.D.; the six- teenth Emperor of Rome; he was a philosopher from his earliest years, and though in after life his time was taken up with state affairs, his greatest pleasure was derived from hilosophy and literature; the greatest blot on his memory is the severity with which he treated the Christians; died in Sirmium, now Vienna, March, 180 A.D. Quotations: Accident—Action—Alone–Anger—Avarice–Benefit—Bet- ting— Bribery–Bride—Ceremony—Change— ‘...."5. Christian— Contentlment — Covetousness — Darkness—De- feat—Difference—Disposition — Doubt —Envy—Error—Ex- ultation—Favor—Flattery—Gifts – Gluttony — Handsome- ness—Happiness—Homeliness—Honesty—Infamy—Inno- cence—Judges—Life—Love — Luck— Luist—Memory—Mo- desty —Name — Oblivion — Obstimacy — Office — Old Age — Omission—Opinion—Philosophy—Predestination—Present —Prodigality — Promise— Recompense — Repetition — Ire- proof– Revenge — Riches — Self–Servant- impli. y — Soul—Star—Sunset—Suspicion—Thought—Time—Upright- ness—Virtue—Voice—Work—Worth—Wrong. AUSONIUS, DECIMUS MAGNUs, born at Burdi- gala, (Bordeaux), 310 A.D.; a Latin poet and grammalian, and the author of many works ; died, 394 A.D. Q2totattiO24s: Forgiveness—Fortune–Letters—Luck—Moderation—Ob- livion — Precept — Prosperity — Respect — Suspicion — Un- gratefulness—Unwillingness—Wit. AUSTEN, JANE, born at Steventon, Hampshire, England, December, 16, 1775; an eminent English novelist; died at Winchester, July 24, 1817. Quotations: Beauty— Jargon—Love—Self-Denial. AUSTEN, JOHN, born in the county of Norfolk. England, 1613; an English writer; died, 1669. Quotation : Honesty—Jeopardy. - AUSTIN, ALFRED, born in Devonshire, 1834; an English poet, critic, and novelist. Quotations. Drama – Exaggeration. AUSTIN, JAMES TRECOTHIC, born in Boston, 1784; an American lawyer and writer. Quotations: Prosperity —SlT1. AUSTIN, JOHN, born 1797; an English royalist ; died, 1860. Quotation Exaltation. AUSTIN, JOHN MATHER, M.A., born in New York, 1805; an American divine and author. Quotations: Action—Habit—Self-Love—Self-Respect—Thunder. AUSTIN, MRS. SARAH, born in Norwich, Eng- land, 1793; a distinguished authoress and translator; died at Weybridge, August 8, 1867. Quotation : Blushing. AUSTIN, SAMUEL, D.D., born at New Haven, Conecticut, 1760; Congregational clergyman, and president of the University of Vermont, died, 1830. Quotations: Faith—Favor—Foresight—Fortitude—Honesty–-Judgment —Maxims—Peevishness—Prudence—Voluptuousness. AUSTIN, WILLIAM, born 1778 : an American writer; died, 1841. Quotations: Pen—Prosperity. AUVERGNE, DAUPHIN D’,flourished in the twelfth century; a famous troubadour who is spoken of in the life of Richard the First of England; died, 1234. Quotation : Excess. AUVERGNE, MARTINo, D'born in Paris, France, 1440; an eminent lawyer and poet; died, 1508. Qztotation : Magistrate. 1070 D A Y S C O / / A C O A". AUVERGNE, PIERRE, D', flourished about the twelfth century: a famous troubadour of Clermont-Fer- rand, France; died, 1215. Quotation : Excellence. AVEIRO, DON JOSE MASCARENHAS, DE, DUKE OF, born in Lisbon, 1710; a Portuguese nobleman of a doubtful reputation; broken on the wheel, 1758. Quotation: Con- Splvacy. AVELLANEDA, GERTRUDIs GOMEs, born in the island of Cuba, 1816; a Spanish poetess, the daughter of a naval commander. She married Don Sabator, a member of Congress, 1846, and after his death retired to a convent at Madrid; she was the authoress of numerous poems, dra- mas, and Works of fiction. Quotations: Courtesy–Destiny. AVENDANO, A. A. Quotation: Commendation. AVENZOAR, born near Seville, Spain, 1075; a cel- ebrated Arabian physician; died, 1130. Quotation: Physi- C18, Il. AVERANCHES, HENRY D', lived about 1240 ; a celebrated Anglo-French poet and writer at the court of Henry the Third. Quotation : Epicure. AVERROES, born 1120; the most celebrated of all the Arabian philosophers and physicians; died, 1198. Quo- tºttions : Gifts—Learning. AVERONI, VALENTINO, born at Florence, be- tween 1550 and 1600; an Italian theologian. Quotations : Mathematics—Memory. AVESANI, GIVACHINo, born at Verona, Italy, 1741; an eminent poet and professor of rhetoric ; died, 1818. Quotation : Keenness. AVICENNA, ABö ALI, or IBN SINA, born at Bokhāra, 980; an Arabian poet, scholar, and physician of great talent and eminence, “to whom," as Ibn Khallikan, his biographer.informs us, God opened all the gates of knowledge;” died at Hamadān, 1037. Quotations: Astron- omy--Caution—Concealment—Doctor—Knowledge--Light- ning—Motive. AxEL, ABSALON, born in Iceland, 1128 ; a de- scendent of Slagus, and one of the greatest men of that age; died, 1201. Quotation : Parent. Alº IONICUS, lived about 380 B.C. : an Athenian poet of the middle comedy. Quotation : Lending. AYALA, PEDRO LOPEZ D', born in Murcia, Spain, 1332; the most popular of the early Spanish writers and historians; died, 1407. Quotation. Justice. AYLETT, ROBERT, LL.D., born about 1580; an English lawyer and poet. Quotation : Dishonesty. AYLIFFE, JOHN, lived in the eighteenth century : a learned English jurist. Quotations: Answer—Defamation —Degradation—Expostulation. AYLMER, JOHN, born at Tilney, Norfolk, Eng- land, 1521: an English bishop, and the tutor of Lady Jane Grey; died, 1594. Quotations: Death—Effect. AYRES, PHILIP, flourished about 1650; an Eng- lish writer. Quotation : Exercise. AYSCOUGH, GEORGE EDwARD, lived about 1700; an English Writer; died, 1779. Quotation : Expectation. AYSCOUGH, FRANCIS, born about 1690; an English clergyman, and preceptor to George the Third, of England; died, 1766. Quotation : Wrong. AYSCOUGH, SAMUEL, born, 1745; an English- man noted as a maker of indices, and an assistant librarian in the British museum; died, 1804. Quotation : Index. AYTON, SIR ROBERT, born at Kimaldie, Fifeshire, §land. 1570; poet and author; died, 1638. Quotation : S.C.V. AYTOUN, WILLIAM EDMONDSTOUNE, born in Fifeshire, Scotland, 1813; an eminent critic and poet; died, August 4, 1865. Quotation : Ability. AZAI, RABBI BEN:... Quotations: Despising—Marriage —Silence—Tongue—Wisdom. AZIZ, OBAIDI, AL; born at al-Mahdiya, May 11, 965: a sovereign of Egypt, who was noted for his virtues; died at Bilbais, October 14, 996. Quotations: Feasting : Folly—Grief—Treachery—Trial. AZPILCUETA, MARTIN, born near Pampeluna, a fortified city of Spain, about 1490; a distinguished profes- i. of canon law; died at Rome, 1586. Quotation : 8. II, CSS. AZUNI, DQMENICO ALBERTO, born at Sassari, in the island of Sardinia, 1749; a distinguished jurist and anti- Quary; died at Cagliari, 1127. Quotations: Merchant — Money. AZZO, PORTIUS, flourished about the end of the tWelfth century; an Italian jurist and law-writer: execu- ted, 1220. Quotations : Calumniator—Libel. AZZONI, AVOGARI DEGLI, RAMBALDO, born at Treviso, Italy, 1719 ; an Italian antiquary and historian: he was the author of several works; died, 1790. Quotation : Destruction. AZZOOBEY DEE, born at Seville, Spain, 927; a Moslem philologist, grammarian, and poet; died, 990. Quotation : Development. AADER, CLEMENS ALOIs, born at Munich, Ba- varia, 1762; a German lawyer and writer; died, 1838. Quotation : Repentance. BAADER, FRANZ XAVER, born at Munich, Bava- ria, 1765; a German writer and professor of speculative philosophy; died, 1841. Quotation : Epistle. BAAHDIN, MAHOMET GIBET AMALI, lived in the seventeenth century; a learned Persian, author of a sum- mary of civil and canon law, which was enforced through Persia, by command of Abbas the Great. Quotation : Law. BAALEN, J. Quotation : Craft. BAB, JOHN ; an Armenian theologian ; died about the end of the ninth century. Quotation : Epistle. BABA ; flourished about 1240 ; a Turkish impos- tor; he announced himself as a messenger of God; was overpowered by the Turks, and his sect dispersed. Quota- tion : Eternity. BABACOUSCHI: a mufti of Caffa, Africa : au- thor of several political treatises; died, 733 of the hegira (1387). Quotation : Famine. BABBAGE, CHARLEs, F.R.S., born, December 26, 1792; an English philosophical Writer and mathematician : died, October 18, 1871. Q7zotation : Pathos. BABCOCK, EMMA. WHITCOMB. Quotation : House- keeping. BABEK, KHORREMEE, “the Sensualist:” a famous Persian impostor: he was put to death by the caliph Mo- tassem, 837 A.D. Q7zotation. Fetrospection. BABEUF, FRANÇors NoíL, born at St. Quentin, France, 1764; a political agitator and theorist; executed, 1797. Quotation : Revolution. BABINET, JACQUES, born at Lusignan, France, § A natural philosopher and astronomer. Quotation : OIIl Cº. BABINGTON, GERVASE, born in Nottingham- shire, 1550; an eminent English divine, who was alternately bishop of Llandaff and Worcester; died, May 17, 1610. Qwo- tation : Disagreement. BABO, JOSEPH MARIA, born in Ehrenbreitstein, in Rhenish Prussia, 1756: a German writer and dramatist, and the author of the best tragedies in his country's language: ied, 1822. Quotation : Pathos—Self. BACELLAR, A. B. Quotation: Company. BACH., JOHANN SEBASTIAN, born at Eisenach, Saxe Weimer, Germany, March 21, 1685; an eminent musi- §ºnd organist ; died at Leipsic, July, 1750. Quotation : |UIS1C. BACHMAN, JOHN, D.D. L.L.D., born in Dutchess county, New York, 1690; an American Lutheran minister and naturalist ; he was an associate of Audubon ; died, 1874. Quotation : Perfection. BACON, ANNE, the mother of Lord Bacon, born, 1528; a lady distinguished for her piety, virtue, and learn- ing; died at Gorhambury, near St. Albans, 1600. Quota- tion : Experience. BACON, DELIA, born, 1811 : an American author- ess, who published in 1857. “The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspeare. Unfolded,” in which she endeavors to prove that Lord Bacon was the author of the plays; died, 1859. Quotation : Extravagance. BACON, FRANCIS, LORD, (VISCOUNT ST. ALBANs, and Lord Verulam,) High Chancellor of England, born in London, January 22, 1561; one of the greatest intellectual geniuses the world has ever produced. As a philosopher he stands superior to all who went before, and to all who have followed him ; and as a statesman, a lawyer, a public speaker, a man of business: a wit, a courtier, a companion, an author, he is justly the object of the world's admiration. With all his wisdom and learning, he died so poor that he scarce left money to bury, him ; died at. Highgate, near London, April 19, 1626, and lies, buried in St. Michael's church, St. Albans. Quotations: Ability—Admiration—Ad- vancement—Adversity—Advice–Ambition—Anger—Anni- hilation — Antiquity — Aphorisms – ApOthegns — Army— Atheism –Authority— Beauty—Bees — Behavior—Bible— Birth—Bluntness—Blushing–Boldness—Books—Building —Celerity–Cheerfulness—Clock—Comparison–Conduct— Confession – Contempt—Covetousness—Craft—Crowd— Cunning—Custom — Damage – Danger-Decay–Desire- Discourse—Discretion—Disease —Dispatch—Doubt—Dissi- mulation—Duelling–Dullness—Envy–Essay–Ethics—Ex- ample—Excess–Exercise — Expense—Face—Faction—Fa- cility—Faith—Falsehood — Fame – Fascination – Fear- Flowers—Fool—Formality — Fortitude—Fortune–Frank- ness–Friendship—Frugality—Fullness—Gaming-Garden —Gentility—God — Good-Năture—Government-Greatness — Hand — Happiness —- Hard-Heartedness — Harmony — Heaven—Herésy — History – Hope — Hospitality—House— Humanity—Ignorance — Ill-Natüre — Imagination—Impa- tience—Intellect—Intemperance — Invention—Jest—Joy– Judges — Justice—King – Knowledge – Language-Law —Lawyer—Learning — Letter—Liberality—Library—Logic —Longevity—Love — Malignity—Marriage—Mathematics —Maxims — Medicine — Merit — Minister-State–Monarchy —Money—Monopoly-Moroseness-Name—Nature—Navy —Navigation—Nobility—Oak — Obedienee — Observation —Occupancy—Old Age — º, — Ostracism—Paint- ing—Parable—Parent — Parsimony—Payment—Philosophy A / O G /ø A P // / C A / / /V /) A \ . 1 ()7 | –Physician–Physic— Physiognomy – Place — Plainness- Poetry — Politics — Popularity — Praise — Presence- Prin- ciples – Production — Profession – Prophecy-Prosperity –Proverbs—Question—Reading – Iteason-Recapitulation —iremedy–Réprehension – Reserve – Retreat-levenge– IRiches—Safety–Satire — Science – Scorn—Sea-Secrecy— Sedition—Self-Love—Self-Praise — Self-Reliance-Self-lie- spect—Sharpness—Ship—Sight- Simile—Sleep–Šmelling- Solitude–State—Study-Suspicion-Sweetness-SWinºnii) § –Talking--Testimony--Thought—Trance-Triumph:Truth —Understanding—Usury –Vain-Glory—Vanity-Virillº- Voyage—War—Wealth –Weeds— Wife –Wisdom –Wit— Witchcraft—Wonder—Words—Youth–Zeal–Zest. BACON, LEONARD, D.D., LL D., born in Detroit, Michigan, February 19, 1802; an American Congregational minister and writer; he was noted for liberality and great breadth of thought; died, suddenly of heart disease, De- cember 24, 1881. Quotations: Christianity —Goodness— Idolatry—Missionary. BACON, SIR NICHOLAs, the father of Lord Bacon, born at Chiselhurst, Kent, England, 1510; a distinguished statesman and a man of great probity; died, 1579. Qºtobºt- tion : Immorality. BACON, PHANUEL, M.A., born, 1700; an English Episcopalian divine and humorous writer; he possessed an exquisite fund of humor, and was a famous punster; died at 13alden, January 2, 1783. Q/totattºor, Satiety. BACON, ROGER, born at Ilchester, Somersetshire, 1214: a monk of the order of St. Francis, surnamed “The Admirable Doctor;” he was not only a philosopher, but a wonderful scientist. and it has been said of him that his mind was strangely compounded of almost prophetic gleams of the futnre course of science ; died at Oxford, 1292. Quotations: Alchemy—Induction—I:ecluse—Will. BACON, W. T. Quotation : Action. BADDELEY, ROBERT, born, 1732; a celebrated English comedian, noted for his benevolence; died, 1794. Quotation : Drama. BADEN, MRS. F. H.; novelist and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Inflexibility. BADEN, JAKOB, born at Vordenborg, Denmark, 1735; a Danish philologist; died, 1804. Quotation : Lec- ture. BADOUN, COUNT, Quotation : Crusades. BAFFIN, WILLIAM, born, 1580; a distinguished English navigator; died in battle, 1622. Quotation : Ocean. BAGE, ROBERT, born at Derby, England, 1728; a popular novelist and miscellaneous Writer; died, 1801. Q/totation : Passion. BAGEHOT, WALTER, born, February 3, 1826 : an English journalist and miscellaneous writer; died, March 24, 1877. Quotation : Extravagance. BAGGESEN, JENS IMMANUEL, born at Körsor, in Zeeland, Netherlands, February 15, 1764; a highly gifted Danish poet, possessing a weak character and restless spir- it ; died in Hamburg, October 3, 1826. Quotations : Order —Promise. BAHADOR, AHMED, a modern Arabian writer ; author of the life of Mahonet, (London, 1870). Quotat- tions : IXindness.--Mohammedanism—Persecution—Polyg- amy-Slavery. BAHAR, AL HEFDH, ABū OTHMAN IBN AMRö ; an Arabian author; died in the year of the hegira, 255, (859). Quotation : Difficulty. BAHON. Quotations: Fortune—Impression—Reading. BAILEY, ARTHUR K., born in New York, 1823, Quotations : Convention—Election–Law. BAILEY, GAMALIEL, M.D., born at Mount Holly, New Jersey, December 3, 1807 : an American journalist ; died, June 5, 1859. Quotattions Free-Thinking— Gold— Perfection. BAILEY, NATHAN : an English philologist and educational writer; died, 1728. Quotattion : Extravagance. BAILEY, PHILLIP JAMES, born at Basford, in the county of Nottingham, England, April 22, 1816 : a distin guished poet and author of the celebrated poem “Festus." Quotations. Blood–Cause— Death — Forgiveness— Life— Music—Poet—Sorrow—Student—Symbol. BAILEY, SAMUEL, born at Sheffield, England, 1787; a writer on political economy, mental philosophy, and Other. Iniscellaneous subjects ; died. January 18, 1870, leav- ing ninety thousand pounds as a bequest to his native to W11. , () tº Ottºtions : Advice—Books—Error—Ignorance— §}} Wledge—Necessity—Obligation—Riches—Self-Deceit— liſt?. BAILLET, ADRIAN, born near Beauvais, France, 1619; a writer and scholar ; died, 1706. Quotation : Index. BAILLIE, JOHANNA, born at Bothwell, Lanark- shire, Scotland, 1762; one of the most distinguished of Brit- ish female poets ; died, at Hempstead, England, February 33, 1851. Prayer. BAILLIE, JOHN, born at Inverness, Scotland, 1770; a British Orientalist and author ; died, 1833. Quotation : Christ—Futurity. w Quotations: Eye-Service—Grief—Irony—Praise— BAILLIE, ROBERT, born at Glasgow, Scotland, 1599; an eminent Presbyterian divine and theologian ; died, 1662. Quotation. Face. BAIN, ALEXANDER, LL.D., born in Aberdeen, Scotland, 1818; an eminent miscellaneous writer. Quota- tion : Celebrity. BAIN, D. A. Quotation: Grammar. BAIRD, A. C. Quotations: Illusion—Peevishness—Print- Illg. BAIRD, MRS. Quotation: Intoxication. BAIRD, RoberT, D.D., born in Fayette county Pennsylvania, October 6, 1798; an American theologian an author; died at Yonkers. New York, March 15, 1863. Quo- tation : Privacy. BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON, LL.D., born in Reading, Pennsylvania, February, 3, 1823; a distinguished naturalist. Quotation : Prosperity. BAKER, EDWARD DICKINSON, Colonel, born in London, England, February 24, 1811 ; an American Senator; killed at the battle of Iłall's I3]uff, October 21, 1861. Quo. tations. Constitution—Duty—Language—Prose. BAKER, GEORGE M., born in Portland, Maine, 1832; an American writer and dramatist. Quotations : Se- crets—Wife. BAKER, MRs. HARRIETTE NEWEL WooDs, (Ma- deline. Leslie), born in Andover, Massachusetts, 1815; an American writer of Sunday-school story-books. Quota- tion : Ingenuity. BAKER, P. C. Quotations: Purity—Self-Control. BAKER, SIR RICHARD, born in Kent, 1568, an English historian and author of the “Chronicles of the Kings of England; ” he spent twenty years in the Fleet prison for debt, where he died in great poverty, 1645. Quo- tations : Eloquence—Prosecution—Temptation. BAKER, SIR SAMUEL WHITE, K.C.B., M.A., born at Thorngrove, Worcestershire, England, 1821; an African explorer, traveller, and author; he was Knighted Novem. ber, 1866. Quotation : War. BAKER, THOMAS, born near Durham, England, 1656; an antiquary and writer; died, 1740. Quotations: Grammar—Quarrels—IRevelation. BAKER, WILLIAM, born 1742; an English prin- ter. Quotation. Writing. BAKER, WILLIAM MUMFORD, born in Washing- ton, D.C., 1825: an American Presbyterian minister and au- thor. Quotation : Reward. BAKEWELL, ROBERT, born in Leicestershire, England, 1726; a writer on agriculture; died, 1795. Quota- tions: Selection—Unkindness. BALCHERS. BALDWEN, F. Quotations: Betrothal—Remembrance. BALDWIN, HENRY, LL.D., born at New Haven, Connecticut, 1779; an American jurist and judge of the su- preme court of the United States; died, April 21, 1844. Quotation : Slavery. BALDWIN, I., (COUNT OF EDESSA), King of Jeru- salem; he fought against the Infidels, and gained impor- tant victories over the Saracens; died, 1118. Quotattion : War. BALDWIN, JOHN DENNISON, A.M., born in North Stonington, Connecticut, 1809; a self-educated man; he be- came an eminent journalist and member of Congress. Quo- tation : Quietness. BALDWIN, Joseph G. Quotation: Ink. BALDWIN, R., an English divine and writer. Quotation Wantonness. BALDWIN, THOMAS, D.D., born at Norwich, Con- necticut, December 23, 1753: a Baptist minister and writer; died, August 29, 1825. Quotation : Public. BALDWIN, WILLIAM, born about 1495; an Eng- lish divine and moralist; died, 1564. Quotations : Modesty —-Printing—Travel. BALE, JOHN, born at Cove, Suffolk, England, November 21. 1495 : a learned prelate tº nd biographical wri- ter: , died, November, 1563. Quotations: Apostasy—Im- possibility—Jehovah—Vice. BALES, PETER, born in London, 1547 : a celebra- ted English calligrapher; died, 1610. Quotation. Pen— Writing. BALFERN, W. P. Quotations : Christ—Peace—Savior. BALFOUR, ALExANDER, born in Forfarshire, Scotland, 1767; a Scottish novelist and poet; died, 1829. Quotation : Fortitude. BALFOUR. JAMES, born at Pilrig, near Edin- ºh, 1703; a philosophical Writer; died, 1795. Quotation : Fire. BALFOUR, John HUTTON, F.R.S., born in Edin- burgh, 1808; an eminent professor of Inedicine and botany. Quotation : Heart. Quotation : Disaster. 1072 /) A Y'S CO Z Z. A C O AV. BALFOUR, MRS. Quotation: Fashion. BALGUY, John, born at Sheffield, England, 1686; an English divine and philosopher; died, 1748. Quotations: Desire—Example. BALGUY, THOMAS, son of the preceding, born, 1716; an English divine and author; died, 1795. Quotation : Contentment--Mind—RestleSSneSS—Wisdom. BALL, JoHN, born near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, 1585; a Calvinistic minister and author; died, #. Quotations: Catechism – Chastisement—Consecra- 10}l. BALLANCHE, PIERRE SIMON, born at Lyons, France, August 4, 1776; a philosopher and writer on social reform; died, June 12, 1847. Quotations: Dispute—Pro- IIllSC. BALLANTYNE, REv. JoHN, born, 1778; a Scot- tish givine and author; died, 1830. Quotation : Induce- IºleIlt. BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL, a celebrated English writer for the young. Q2totation : FOOl. BALLARD, GEORGE, born at Campden, Glouces- tershire, England; a literary tailor, who devoted his leisure hours to study and writing ; died, 1755. Q2totation : Zest. BALLARINI, IPPOLITO, born at Novara, Italy ; º lºan ecclesiastic and writer; died, 1558. Quotation : €3,10]]. BALLOU, HOSEA, born in Richmond, New Hamp- shire, April 30, 1771; an eminent Universalist preacher and controversalist ; died, June 7, 1852. Quotations : Caution —Doubt—Education—Envy—Equivocation—Exaggeration Example—Eye — Faith — Falsehood — Gratitude — Habit— Happiness—Hate—History—Honesty—Idleness--Ignorance —Injury—Instruction— Judgment—Lenity—Mercy–Minis- ter—Obedience—Poverty—Prayer—Preaching—Pretension —Profanity—Prosperity– Rage – Repentange—Reproof– Sickness—Simile—Sim — Style — Suspicion— Ungodliness — TInkindness—WOrds—Zeal. BALQUANQUAL ; a learned divine and author. Quotation, Coyness. BALZAC, HONORÉ DE, born in Tours, France, May 16, 1799; a popular novelist; died in Paris, August 19, 1850. Quotation : Estrangement. BALZAC, JEAN LOUIS GUEZ DE, SEIGNEUR, born at Angoulême, Charente, France, 1594; a French littéra- teur who settled at Paris, and devoted the Whole of his life to literary pursuits: he was a member of the French Acad- amy, and a friend of Richelieu. His principal works are “Aristippe,” “Le Prince.” Le Sociate Chretien.” “Le Bar- bon,” “Familiar Letters,” on which his fame chiefly rests; died in Paris, February 18, 1655. Quotations : Adversity— Amusement —Anticipation – Art – Cruelty–Detraction— Eccentricity—Emulation — Envy-Evasion—Experience— Eye—Glory—Hate—Hope—Imitation – Libel–Loye—Man- nérs— Misfortune — Passion—Pleasure—Poetry— Reason— Resignation—WOman. BAMFYLDE, FRANCIS: an English divine and author; died, 1684. Quotation : Frugality. BANCROFT, GEORGE, Ph.D., LL.D., D.C.L., born at Worcester, Massachusetts, October 3, 1800; an eminent historian and distinguished diplomatist. Quotattion. Beau- ty—Charity–Chivalry—Conscience – Ennui-Falsehood– armer—Genius–Hair—History – Idea—Infancy— Law– Library—Love—Luxury—Mind—Party—Poetry—Prejudice —Public—Puritanism—Quakerism—Scandal—Scepticism– Rºº- Star—Statesman—Suffering—Treachery—Truth— Firtue. BANCROFT, RICHARD, born near Manchester, England, 1545; an English prelate and author; died at Lam- beth, London, 1610. Quotattion. Extortion. BANDELLO, MATTEO, born at Castelnuovo, in Peidmont, 1480; an Italian novelist and Dominican monk; died at Agen, 1561. Quotations : Charity—Coquetry. BANIM, JoHN, born at Kilkenny, Ireland, 1798: poet, novelist, and dramatist; died, 1842. Quotation : For- tline. BANKS, JOHN, born about 1640 : an English dram- atist ; died about 1710. Quotation : Ungratefulness. BANKS, SIR. Joseph, born in London, January 4, 1743; a distinguished naturalist and author; died in LOn- - don, 1820. Quotation : Voyage. BANK. J. W. Quotation : Sympathy. BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS, born at Waltham, Massachusetts, January 30, 1816; an American Statesman and soldier. Quotation : Biography. BANNATYNE, GEORGE, born in Scotland, 1545; a historical writer; died, 1609. Quotation : Extravagance. BANVARD, Joseph, D.D. born in New York city, 1810; a Baptist minister and author. Quotation : Instruc- tion. BARATIER, JoHANN PHILIPP, born near Nurem- berg, Bavaria, 1721; a German youth of French extraction, celebrated for precocity of intellect ; died, 1740. Quotation : Youth. - BARBAULD, ANNA LOETITIA, born in Leicester- shire, England. June 20, 1743; a celebrated Writer and poet- eSS ; died, March 9, 1825. Quotatious : Bargain--Light-Heart- edness—Meanness—Wealth. BARBER, JOHN WARNER, born in Windsor, Con- necticut, 1798; an American historical writer. Quotations: ROran–Quakerism. BARBOUR, JoHN, born at Aberdeen, 1320: the most eminent of the early Scottish poets and writers; died, 1378. Qºtotºttions: Dawn—Ease. BARCKLEY, SIR RICHARD, lived about 1550 ; an English baronet and writer. Quotation : Idolatry. BARCLAY, JEAN, born at Pont-à-Mousson, 1582: a distinguished French writer of Scotch extraction ; died at Rome, 1621. Quotation : Facetiousness. BARCLAY, ROBERT, born at Gordonstown, Mo- rayshire, Scotland, December 23, 1648; an eminent reformer and religious writer; died at Ury, Scotland, Obtober 13, 1690. Quotations : Scripture—Truth—Warning. BARDDAS, a Welch poet and prose writer ; the author of many of the celebrated Welch Triads. Quota- tions: Destiny—Epistle–Eulogy—Fire—Health. BAREBONES, PRAISE-GoD, a London tanner and famatical member of the parliament of 1653, which became known by his name. Quotation : Drama. BARERE, DE VIEUZAC, BERTRAND, born at Tarbes, in Gascony, France, 1755; a Jacobin demagogue; died, 1841. Quotation : Liberty. BARGAGLI, SCIPIONE, born at Sienna, in the six- teenth century; an eminent Italian writer; died, 1612. Quo- tattiO), . Girl. BARHAM, RICHARD HARRIS, born at Canterbury, England, 1788; an Episcopalian divine and author of “In- goldsby Legends; ” died, 1845. Quotation. Hospitality. BARI, ABū ABD ALLAH AL HUSAIN, AL, born at Bagdad, 1051; a learned grammarian and philologist and a writer of some eminence; died. April, 1130. Quotations: Homeliness—Pride—Reproach—Self-Respect. BARING-GOULD, SABINE, M.A., born at Exeter, 1834; an English novelist and miscellaneous writer. Quo- tattion : Distortion. BARKER, DR. FORDYCE : an eminent New York physician. Qºtot(ttiO), . Insanity. BARKER, J. W., of Buffalo, New York ; an Amer- ican educator. }\totations : Aspiration— ASSOCiation— Crime—Decision—Diffidence— Education—Eminence—Ex- cellence—Existence—Fashion—Habit—Home—-Ignorance— Impression—Independence— Knowledge–Leisure—Little- ness—Mind—Modesty— Mother — Observation—Politeness —Praise—Precept— Quackery— Simplicity—Solitude—Spe- culation—Theory—Vacation—Youth. BARKER, MATTHEw, born, 1674 : an English writer on theology. Quotations: Duty—Penury. BARKER, MATTHEw HENRY, born, 1790; an Eng- glish novelist; died, 1846. Quotation. : Liar. BARKER, JOHN, D.D. : an English divine and author of “History and confession of a man as put forth by himself" (London, 1846.) Quotation : Happiness. BARKER, LADY M.A. : an English miscellaneous writer. Q?totation : Insensibility. BARKSDALE, CLEMENT, born in Gloucestershire, England, 1609: divine and writer; died, 1687. Quotation : Fairies. BARKSDALE, DR. RANDOLPH superintendant of Asylum for the Insane, near Richmond, Virginia. Quo- tation : Insanity. BARLOW, JoEL, born at Reading, Connecticut, March 24, 1755; an American poet and patriot; died near Cracow, Austrian Poland, December 22, 1812. Quotations: Government—Religion—Wrong. BARLOW, PETER, F.R.S., born at Norwich, Eng- land, 1776: an eminent mathematician and author; died, 1862. Quotation : Feudalism. BARLOW, THOMAS, born in Westmoreland, Eng- land, 1607: an English divine and theologian ; died, 1691. Quotation: Greatness. BARMAKI, AL, ABū AL-FADL, born in February, 765; an Arabian poet; died in prison, at Ar-Rakka, Novem- ber, 808. Quotation : Night. BARMAKI, JAHZAT, AL, surnamed JAHZA, the Cup-Companion, born at Bagdad, 839; a man of talent and master of various accomplishments; died at Wasit, 937. Quotations: Dreams—Lover. BARNARD, FREDERICKAUGUSTU's PORTER, D.D., LLIO., S.T.D., L.H.D., born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, May 5, 1809; an American teacher, mathematician, and educa- tional writer. Quotation : Carol. BARNARD, HENRY, LL.D., born at Hartford, Connecticut, January 24, 1811 : an eminent American edu- cator and writer. Quotation : Dew. A / O G. A 4 /? Aſ / C A /, / AV /) / X. 1()73 |BARNES, ALBERT, born at Rome, New York, I)ecember 1, 1798; an American divine : died, December 24, 1870. Quotations: Apostle—Excellence—Name—Neglect— Singing. BARNES, THOMAS, born, 1786.: editor and pro- rietor of the “London Times; ” died, 1841. Quotation : ury. - BARNES, WILLIAM, born in Dorsetshire, England, 1810; a clergyman, philologist, and poet. Quotation : In- patience. BARNUM, PHINEAs TAYLOR, born in Bethel, Con- necticut, July 5, 1810; an American editor, trader, public showman, and speculator. Quotations : Advertisement— Assistance— Drinking—Humbug – Income— Pledge– Pur- suit—Self-Reliance—Vision. BARR, John, a Scottish writer and author of “The Scripture Student's Assistant,” (Glasgow, 1829). Quotat- tions : Jest—Modesty—River. BARR, WILLIAM W., born in New York, 1824; lec- turer on labor reform. Quotations: Convention — Law— Reason. BARRETT, EATON STANNARD, born 1785 ; an Irish writer of satire and fiction; died, 1820. Quotations: Pleasure—WOman. BARRETT, John, born in Ireland, 1750; an emi- nent classical scholar; died, 1821. Quotation : Nation. BARRETT, Joseph ; and English divine and au- thor of Sermons (London, 1795). Quotattions : Affectation —Plumpness. BARRETT, SERENUS ; an English divine and au- thor of sermons, (London, 1715). Quotations : Bible. |BARRETT, SOLOMON, born in Boston ; an Ameri- can philologist and author of “Barrett's Grammar ’’ and Other educational WorkS. Quotations. Grammar — Meta- phor—Seeing. BARRETT or BARRET, STEPHEN, born in Eng- land, 1718; a classical teacher, poet, and miscellaneous wri- ter; died, 1801. Quotation : Home. BARRETT, WILLIAM, of Bristol, England ; an English antiquary and Surgeon; died, 1789. Quotation : Adornment. BARREUL, ABBī, DE ; a French writer and au- thor of “Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism,” (Paris, 1798.) Quotation : Jacobin. BARREY, LUDOWICK, lived in the time of James the First ; a dramatic Writer. Quotations: Peace—Tale- Bearer. , BARRIERE, THEODORE, born in Paris, 1823 a French dramatist; died, 1876. Quotation : Dancing. BARRINGTON, SIR JOHN SHUTE, born in Hert- fordshire, 1678; an English Writer and Statesman ; died, 1734. Quotation : Dress. BARRON, WILLIAM, the author of several works on belles-lettres and logic. (London, 1770.) Quotation : Belles-Lettres. BARROS, JOAO DE, born at Visen, Portugal, 1496; One of the most distinguished Of the Portuguese histo- rians; died, 1570. Quotation : LOSs. BARROW, ISAAC, D.D., F.R.S., (Prebendary of Šalisbury,) born in London, Qctober, 1680; an eminent Eng- lish mathematician, and a distinguished divine and pulpit orator; he was the author of many works in mathematics; as a theologian, his fame rests on his Sermons, which have never been equalled for strength and fertility of thought. His personal character was of the noblest and best; died in london, May 4, 1677. Quotations: Ancestry–Appetite —Chance—Defamation—Detraction—Example—Facetious- ness—Good—Goodliness—Greediness —Holy-Spirit—Incre- dulity—Industry—Infidelity — Jest — Laziness—Learning— Liberality—Miñd —Nature — Peace — Perseverance—Pre- gept—Prejudice—Quarrels—Reason-Reproof–Self-Will— jºhness- Simplicity — Sin—Speech—Virtue—Wisdom— €al. º BARROW, SIR John, BART, F.R.S., born in Lan- cashire, June 19, 1764; an £nglish traveller and writer; died, November 23, 1848. Quotation: Charity. BARROW, WILLIAM, born, 1754; an eminent teacher, and author of the “Bampton Lectures;” died, 1836. Qtdotation : Religion. BARRY, EDWARD, born at Bristol, England, 1759; an English divine; died, 1822. Quotation : Fellowship. BARRY, GEORGE, born in Berwickshire, Scotland, 1747; an eminent divine; died, 1804. Quotation : Fasting. BARTHOLIN, RICARDO, born in Perugia, Italy, ; the fºnth century; an eminent littérateur. Quota- £0??... E500KS. BARTHOLIN, THOMAs, born in Copenhagen, 1659; a Danish jurist and bibliograpier; died, 1690. 7&Otation : Absurdity. - BARTHOLOMEW, BISHOP, born, 1514; a Portu- guese prelate; died, 1590. Quotations : Luxury—Peace. BARTHOLOMEW, SAINT, a native of Galilee, supposed to be the one spoken of in the New Testament; noiſe of his Writings are extant. Quotations: Contentinent —EXCuSe—Table. BARTLETT, JOSEPH, born in Plymouth, Massa- chusetts, June 10, 1763; an American satirist, and poet of a doubtful reputation, and of many vicissitudes of fortune; an edition of his poem on physiognomy was published in 1823, together with a number of aphorisms on various sub- jects; died, October 20, 1827. Quotations: Adversity—Ad- vice–Affection — Ambition—Anger—Apprehension–Aris- tocracy—Beauty—Brains—Bravery—Buily—Calumniator— Ceremony – Confidence – Conspiracy—Cóntempt—Convi- Viality-Country—Cowardice—Credit—Criticism—Custom –Deceit–Deity–Demagogue — Depravity — Dignity—Dis- treSS-Drunkenness —Economy — Ellemy—Engagement— Envy—Evil — Excellence — Exertion — Expatriation — Ex- travagance – Face—Falsehood — Fondness — Fortitude— Friendship — §"#. Genius — Gracefulness — Great- neSS-Grief— Habit — Happiness — Harshness—Holy Spirit —Honor—Husband — Ignorance — Impartiality — Indepen- dence –Indiscretion — Injury—Intemperance – Intention —Jeer—Jest--Lady-Lawyer—Lewdness—Libel--Life--Love —Lying—-Marriage—Matrimony—Miser—-Monastery--Money —Nation—News—Noise-Obligation-Obstacle—Old Age– —£aganism; artiality.Politeness-Profanity;Prospºrity -Redress—Report— Respect–Sectarianism–Seduction– Self-Opinion—Selfishness—Sensibility—Shame—Simplicity —Slander—Speculation — Suavity — Suspicion—Swearing— Sycophant—Symmetry--Tenderness--Travel—-Treaty--Trifle —Voluptuousness —Wag — Wantonness—Wastefulness — Weeping—World—Wrong. BARTLETT, WILLIAM HENRY, born in London, 1809; artist, traveler, and author; died at sea, in 1854. Quo- tation : Infatuation. BARTOL, CYRUs AUGUSTINE, born at Freeport, Maine, April 13. 1813; an American Congregational minis- ter. Quotations : War—Woman. BARTON, BERNARD, (“The Quaker Poet,”) born, in London, 1784; an English poet and miscellaneous writer ied, 1849. Quotation, ... Dirt. BARTON, LUCY, born in the vicinity of London, England, the daughter of Bernard Barton, (1784–1849), the great poet ; she has written many scriptural works, princi- ally, intended, for the young. Quotations: Friendship— nability— Indiscrimination—Liberty—Life—Literature— Obstinacy. BARTRAM, WILLIAM, born near Philadelphia, February 9, 1739; an American botanist and traveller; died, July 22, 1823. Quotation : Wonder. BAS, LE. See LEBAs. BASCOM, ANSEL. Quotations : Misfortune, BASIL, SAINT, surnamed the Great, born at Cae- Sarea, in Cappadocia, Asia, 329 A.I.).; one of the most em- inent of the Christian fathers. His writings show him to have been a man of fervent piety.;, died, January 1, 379. wotations: Adversity—Angling — Blasphemy—Command onfession—Contradiction—Country—Creator—Distress— Earnestness – Eternity – Exemption – Famine — Good— Goodness—Heaven — Kisses — Lewdness — Lover—Lust— Memory—-Preaching—PSalms—Belief—Slander—Soul--Star —Troubles. BASILE, GIAMBATTISTA, born, 1580; an Italian poet; died, 1637. Quotations: Ingratitude—Kindness—Mis- chief—Resolution. BASSAMI, AL, ABū’L HASAN ALI, IBN BASSAM, The Poet, born, 844; an Arabian poet of great celebrity; died at Bagdad, 914, Quotation : Superfluity. BASSOMPIERRE, FRANÇors, BARON OF, (MAR- quis d’Harouel), born at Harouel, in Lorraine, France, 1579: a distinguished general and author ; died, October 12, 1646. Quotation : Fox. BAST, LOUIS AMEDłł, DE, born in Paris, 1795; a French novelist. Quotation : £atience. BASTA, GIUSEPPE, born, 1743; an Italian jurist and writer; died, 1819. Quotations: Love—Tomb. BASTARD, THOMAs, born at Blandford, Dorset- shire, England, 1533; a clergyman, poet, and epigrammatist; he was a person of great natural endowments, a célèbrated poet, and an excellent preacher; he was confined in prison for debt, where he died, April 19, 1618. Quotation. Heaven. BASTINGIUS. Quotation : Care. BASTON, ROBERT, born near Nottingham, Eng- land, about 1245; a writer and poet in the time of Edward the First ; died at Nottingham, 1812. Quotation : Harmony. BATCHELOR, THOMAS, born in Bedfordshire, England, about 1775; an English writer; died, 1845. Quota- tion ; Jeering. BATE, JoHN, born, 1850; an English scholar and theologian ; died, 1429. Quotations: Absence—Affliction —Companion—Confession—Earth—Exclusiveness—God— Godliness—Grace—Greatness—Impression—Infancy—Men —Mind— Morality—Murmur—Nature— Place—Providence — Reproach— Scandal—Selfishness—Service—Sin—Slee To-Day – To-Morrow — Tyrant—Union — Watchfulness — Wondér–Worldliness—Zeal. 68 1074 J) A Y '.S. C. O /, / A C O A. . BATES, EDWARD, born at Belmont, Goochland county, Virginia, September 4, 1793; an American lawyer and politician; died, March 25, 1869. Quotation : Candor. BATES, E. G. Quotation : Retirement. BATES, Joshu A, D.D., born at Cohasset, Massa- chusetts, March 20, 1776; a Congregational divine; died, January 14, 1854. Quotation : Pardon. BATES, WILLIAM, D.D., born, 1625; one of the most eminent of the English Nonconformist divines, and of great learning and superior talent; died at Hackney, near London, July 14, 1690. Quotation : Condition—Family. BATH, EARL OF, (WILLIAM PULTENEY,) born, 1682: an English statesman and Orator; died, 1764. Qºtotº- tion : Dexterity. BATHKEEL. Quotation; Echo. BATHORI, LADISLAS, born, 1490; a Hungarian monk and commentator; died about 1560. Quotation : Nothing. BATHURST, HENRY Apsley), born, 1714; an #nglish judge ; died, 1794. tion : Theology. - - BATMAN, STEPHEN, born, 1537 ; an English di- Vine and author ; died, 1587. Quotattion : Dishonesty. BATON, lived about 300 B.C.; a Greek comic poet. Quotation : Exile. BATTELY, John, born at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, 1647; a learned divine; died, 1708. Quotation : Theology. BATTEUX, CHARLEs, born near Vouziers, Ar- dennes, France, 1713; a French littérateur; died, 1780. Quotation. Alone. - BATTHYANYI, Louis, Count, born at Presburg, Hungary, 1809; a patriot and political agitator; Shot, Octo- ber 6, 1849. Quotation : Threats. BAUDIER, MICHEL, born in Languedoc, France, 1590; a French historiali; died, 1645. Quotation : Theology. BAUER, KAROLINE, (Karl Detlef,) born in Lon- don: an English popular novelist. Quotation : Affection. BAUMGARTEN, MARTIN A., born, 1473; a Ger- man traveller and writer; died, 1535. Qºotation : Ambition. BAUR, FERDINAND CHRISTIAN, born at Schnei- den, Germany, June, 1792; a Protestant theologian and writer: died, 1861. Quotation : Apostle. BAWWAB, IBN AL, ABū HASAN ALI IBN HILAL, a celebrated katib, possessing a skill in penmanship to Which no person ever attained in ancient Or modern times; died at Bagdad, April, 1032. Quotations: Handwriting—Letters —Reputation—Writing. BAXTER, ANDREw, born at Aberdeen, Scotland, 1686; º” and metaphysician; died, 1750. Quota- tion : Infidelity. BAXTER, RICHARD, born at Rowdon, Shropshire, England, November 12, 1615; an eminent and pious Non- conformist divine and writer: died, December 8, 1691. Quotations : Catechism—Contemplation—Damnation-Ex- pectation—Faith—History—Idleness—Laughter- Modesty —Paganism—Parent—Pastor— Religion—Rest—Selfishness —Sensuality—Sin—Soul—Stage—Time—Ungodliness—Will. BAY ARD, MRs. ELISE JUSTINE, wife of Fulton Cutting, born in New York; an American poetess and mis- cellaneous writer; died in New York. Quotation : Poor. BAY ARD, PIERRE DU TERRAIL, born at Castle Bayard, near Grenoble, France, 1474; he was called the knight without fear and without reproach, and was noted for his generosity and virtue; died, fī24. Quotation : Trai- |OR". BAYLE, PIERRE, born at Carlat, in Ariège, France, November 18, 1647; an eminent French philosopher and critic ; died at Rotterdam, December 28, 1706. Qºotſt- tions : Libel—WOrk. BAYLEY, JAMES MONTGOMERY, (The Dambury New8 Man), born in Albany, New York, September 25, 1841 ; a well-known humorist and editor. Quotations : Corrup- tion—Newspaper. - BAYLY, LEWIS, (Bishop of Bangor), chaplain to James the First, and author of that memorable book, “The Practice of Piety;” died, 1634. Quotations: Religion — Wrangling. BAYLY, THOMAS HAYNES, born near Bath, 1797: poet, novelist, dramatist, and miscellaneous writer; died, 1839. Quotation : Absence. BAYNE, JAMES, born, 1710; a Scottish dissenting divine and eloquent preacher; died, 1790. Quotations: Minister—Pastor. BAYNE, PETER, D.D., born, 1829; a Scottish theo- logian and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Disobedience. BEADLE, JOHN ; the author of “The Diary of a ſºul Christian” (London, 1656.) Quotation : Provi- €Il (26. BEALE, ANNA, born in England ; an English no- velist. Qºtotation : Insignificance. (EARL BATHURST and LORD Quota- BEARDSWORTH, WILLIAM, born in Birming- ham, England, 1808: a professor of riding; died, 1864. Quo- tation : Riding. BEATRIX, a daughter of Renaud, Count of Bur- gundy. ; died, 1185. tºotation : Bashfulness. BEATTIE, JAMEs, born in the county of Kincar- dine, Scotland, October 25, 1735; a moral philosopher, poet, and author; died, August 18, 1803. Quotations : Answer— Årrogance-Bandit-Common-sense — Education—Experi- ence—Face—Fitness—Gospel—Nature—Parent—Scenery— Slavery—Sympathy—Testāment—Wrangling. BEATTIE, WILLIAM, M.D., born in Scotland about 1793; poet, miscellaneous writer, and physician; died, 1875. Quotation : Hearth. BEAUCHAMP, JosłPH, born at Vesoul, France, 742; astronomer and author; died, 1801. Quotations : Thunder—Travel. BEAUCHENE, EDME PIERRE CHANvot, DE, born at Ville-Franche, near Joigny, France, 1748; a distinguished physician and writer; died, 1824. Quotation : Seclusion. BEAUCHESNE, ALCIDE. HYACINTHE DU BoIS DE, born, March 31, 1804; a French historian ; died, December, 1873. Quotation : Servility. BEAUFORT, HENRY, CARDINAL, born, 1370 ; an English prelate; died, 1447. Quotation : Death. BEAULIEU, CLAUDE FRANÇois, born at Riom, France, 1754; a French littérateur; died, 1827. Quotation : Thinking. BEAUMARCHAIS, PIERRE AUGUST CARON, DE, born in Paris, 1732; dramatist and versatile writer; died, - * * 1799. Qºtotations: Love—Music—Prose—Wit BEAUMELLE, LAURENT ANGLIVIEL, DE LA, born at Valleraugue, France, 1726; a French satirical writer; died, 1773. Quotations : Hero—Life—Men—Mind. BEAUMES, or BELMEIS, RICHARD, DE : Bishop of London in 1108; died, 1127. Quotation : Imitation. BEAUMONT, FRANCIS, born in Leicestershire, England, 1586; a dramatic poet, associated, with John Fletcher (q.v.); died, 1615. Quotation: Calamity–Corrup- tion—Misery—Modesty. BEAUMONT, JEAN LOUIS MOREAU, DE, born in Paris, 1715; a ‘French magistrate and Writer; died, 1785. Quotation : Prosperity. BEAUMONT, SIR John, born, 1582; brother of the dramatist ; died, 1628. Quotation : Pity. BEAUMONT, Joseph, D.D., born in Suffolk, Eng- land, 1615; a divine; died, 1699. Quotations: Affectation— Censure — Chastity — Consolation – Costume — Courtesy— Cowardice—Emulation — Enemy — Extremes—Faith—For- tune—Gain—Gifts—Grace—Idea—Ingratitude—Injury—In- Sult—Interest—Jest — Joy–Kisses — Neatness—Reading— Hesolution—Savior—Sin—Sincerity—Submission—Wrong. BEAUMONT, REv. DR.: an English divine. Quo. tºttions : Fasting—Sunday-School. BEAUSOBRE, ISAAC, DE, born at Niðrt, France, March 8, 1659; an eminent French Protestant theologian ; died at Berlin, June 6, 1738. Quotation : Type. BEAUVOIR, AIMéE LÉOCADIE DOZE, DE, born, 1823; a French dramatic authoress. Quotations: AWe. BEBBINGTON, W. Quotation : Atheism. BECANUS, born about 1610 : a Dutch Jesuit riest, who wrote idyls and elegies; died, 1683. Quotation : arkness. BECCARIA, GIov ANNI BATTISTA, born at Mon- dovi, Italy, 1716; a natural philosopher and littérateur; died, 1781. Quotations: Fanaticism—Hope—Opinion—Pun- ishment—Vice. BECK, LEWIS C., born at Schenectady, New York, 1798; an American naturalist; died, 1853. Quotation : Ang- ling. BECKFORD, WILLIAM, born, 1760 ; a celebrated English writer; died, 1844. Quotation : Throne. BECON, THOMAS, born in Kent, 1512 : an eminent English divine; died, 1570. Quotation : Salvation. BEDDOES, THOMAs, born at Shiffnal, Shropshire, England, 1760; a distinguished physician and chemist; died, Pººr, 1808. Quotations: "Intoxication—Madness—Pa- triotism. BEDDORNE. Quotation : Conscience. BEDE, THE VENERABLE, born in the county of Durham, England, 672; an English monk and ecclesiastical writer; died, 735. Quotation : Beginning. BEDELL, GREGORY TOWNSEND, born on Staten Island, New York, 1793; , an gº; clergyman and au- thor; died in Philadelphia, 1834. Quotation: Vows. BEDELL. WILLIAM, born in Essex, England, 1570; an entinent prelate and author; died, 1642. Quotation : Sel'Inon. A / O G A' A P Aſ / C A /, / AV /) A, X. 1075 BED FORD, ARTHUR, born in Gloucestershire, 1668; an English divine, who wrote a number of treatises against the stage; died, 1745. Quotations : Relations—Scrip- ture—Stage—Study. BEECHER, HENRY WARD, born in Litchfield, Connecticut, June 24, 1813; a popular minister, lecturer, and author, and as a reformer he stands in the first rank. Quotations: Adversity—Affection—Affliction—Ambition —Attainment--Anger--Architecture--Babe-Beauty—Birds —Blessing—Body— Books—Bread—Building—Character— City–Commentator—Comparison –Competency—Conceit —Confession—Consideration—Consistency—Contentment —Covetousness—Credit — Curse — Cynicism — Defeat-De- magogue—Despair—Discord —Doctor–DOCtrine—Duelling =Editor – Events — Family — Farmer – Fear-Flowers— Forgetfulness—l'orgiveness–Freedom – Garden—Genius — Gifts — Grace — Grandeur — Gratitude — Grave — Great- ness—Greeting—Grief—Happiness —Hate—Health-Heart -Heaven—Help — Heresy – Heroism – History – Home– Honor—Hope—Humility—Hypocrisy – Ideality—Infidelity —Intellect—Intemperance—Intoxigation- Joy–Justice- Law—Learning—Libel—Library--Life—Light–Love—Luck —Luxury—Lying—Majority—Materialism–Meanness—Mel- ody— Mémory-Merchant—Millennium —Mirth—Money— Mörality—Mother—Negroes-Nervousness —Qak—Obliga- tion—Passion—Patriotism—Penalty—Piano—Pictures—Pi- lot—Pilgrim- Pity–Politics—Press-Prison-Prophecy— Prosperity—Providence — Public — Pulpit – Puritanism — Purpose—Rain—Rainbow— Refinement – Retirement—Re- Verence—Revival—Hidicule— Rule — Self-Denial — Selfish- ness—Sermon — Singing—Slavery—Smile–Sneer—Snow.— Sobriety—Sorrow—Statesman — Student—Style—Success— Suffering — Summer—Sun—Sunday—Symbol—Telegraph— Testament—Thanks—Theatre —Theology—Traitor–Trou- blº. Union —Vegetation —Victory—Wealth—Winter—Wit — Y e?..]”.S. BEECHER, LYMAN, D.D., born at New Haven, Connecticut, October 12, 1775; a distinguished minister and theologian ; died, January, 1863, Quotations : Intemper- ance—WaStefullness. BEECHER, CATHERINE ESTHER, daughter of Ly- man Beecher, born at East Hampton, Long Island, Septem- ber 6, 1800; an American authoress; died, May 12, 1872. Quotattion : Obedience. BEETHOVEN, LUDw1G, v AN, born at Bonn, Prus- sia, December 17, 1770; an eminent composer; died at Vi- enna, March 26, 1827. Quotations: Music—Virtue. BEETON. Quotation: Poetry. BEG, ALI, or BERG, a native of Poland, who was sold in slavery to a Turk; he became dragoman to the sul- tan, and translated the Bible into the Turkish language. Quotations: Distinction—Translation—Zealots. BEGG, REV. JAMES A.; an English divine and theological writer, (London, 1831.) Quotation : Popery. BEHAIM, MARTIN, born at Nuremberg, Bavaria, 1436; an eminent navigator and geographer; died, 1506. Quotation : Voyage. BEHN, MRS. APHRA, born, 1642 ; an English au- thoress; died, 1689. Quotation : Virtue. BEHPING, VITUs, born in Jutland, Denmark, 1680; a celebrated Danish navigator, and discoverer of the Strait which bears his name ; died, 1741. Quotation : Volcano. BEKIR, ABÖ (ABD EL FCAABA,) born, 571; one of the tribe of Koreish, who suggeeded Mahomet; died, 634. Quotations : Guest—Koran—Miracle—Mahommedanism. BEKKER, BALTHASAR, born in Friesland, in the N etherlands, 1634: a Dutch theologian ; died, 1698. Quota- tions : Devil—FlowerS. BEKKER, IMMANUEL, born in Berlin, 1785 : an eminent philologist ; died, June, 1871. Quotation: Dark- In 62SS. BELCHER, LADY. Quotation : Sorrow. BELESIS, flourished about 826 B.C. ; a priest and governor of Babylon. Quotation : Repentance. BELFRAGE, HENRY, I).D., born, 1774; a Scottish secession minister and author; died, 1835. Quotation : Ig- I101’8,Il Cé. BELISARIUS, born at Germania, in Illyria, 505 A.D.; a Byzantine general ; died, 565 A.D. Quotation : Army—Assassination—Key. BELKNAP, JEREMY, born in Boston, Massachu- setts; an American Congregational minister, and founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1791 ; died, 1798. Quotation : Vanity. BELL, ANDREW, born at St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland, 1752; the founder of the monatorial system of teaching; died, 1832. Quotation : Stubbornness. BELL, CATHERINE D., (Cowsin Kate ;) an Ameri- can authoress. Quotation: Idleness. BELL, SIR CHARLEs, born in Edinburgh, 1774; a distinguished physologist and anatomist; died, April, 1842. Quotations : Expression—Inconsistency—Reverence. BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD ; editor, poet, and prose writer; died, 1874. Quotation : Equanimity. BELLARMINE, ROBERTO, born at Montepuciano, Italy, October 4, 1542; a distinguished cardinal and author; died, 1781. Quotation : Assurance—Church. BELLAMY, JOSEPH, born in Connecticut, 1719 ; an eminent American theologian ; died, 1790. Quotation : Absence. BELLAY, JOACHIM, DU, (“The French Ovid,”) born at Angers, France, 1524; an eminent poet and author; died, 1560. Quotation : Time. BELLEFOREST, FRANÇ9Is, DE, born at Sarzan, France, 1530; a French littérateur; died in Paris, 1583. Quotation : Benignity. BELLENDEN, JOHN (Archdeacon of Moray,) born in Scotland; a Scottish poet, and favorite of James the ; of Scotland; died in Rome, 1550. Quotation : Fana- 1C1SIIl. BELLENDEN, WILLIAM, (GULIELMUS BELENDE- nus,) born in the sixteenth century; a Scottish poet and miscellaneous writer: died about 1630. Quotation : Igno- I’āIlC6. BELLERS, JoHN, lived about the latter part of the Seyenteenth century; a political economist. T Quota- tion : Slander. BELLEW, JoHN CHIPPENDALL MONTESQUIEU, born, 1823; an English novelist; died, 1874. Quotation : Fiction. BELLINGHAM, RICHARD, born in England, 1592; an English lawyer who emigrated to America, 1634; died, December 7, 1672. Quotation : Fraternity. BELLOE, LOUISE SwanTON, MADAME, born at La Rochelle, France, 1799; a French writer. Quotation : Reading. BELLOWS, HENRY WHITNEy, born in Boston, Massachusetts, June 10, 1814; an eminent Unitarian divine; died, January 30, 1882. Quotation : Equality. BELLOWS, REv. MARTIN LUTHER, born at Sen- eca Falls, New York, 1818; an American divine. Quota- tion : Fallibility. BELOE, WILLIAM, born in Norwich, England, 1756: a divine and miscellaneous writer; died, 1817. Quo. tºtion, ; Fire. BELSHAM, THOMAs, born in Bedford, England, April, 1750; a Unitarian divine; died, 1829. Quotation : Judges. - BELSHAM, WILLIAM, born, 1752; an English his- torian and political writer; died, 1827. Quotation : Arbi- tration. BELSUNCE, DE, CASTEL-MORON, DE, HENRI Francois Xavier, (Bishop of Marseilles,) born, 1671 ; an able French Jesuit; died, 1755. Quotation : Visits. BELUS, or BEL: one of the first kings of Baby- lon, the father of Ninus. Quotations: Astronomy—Judges —Night—Star. BEM, JOSEPH, born in Tarnow, in Gallicia, 1795; a distinguished Polish general; died, 1850. Quotation : Cause. BENARD, CHARLES. Quotation: Free-Thinking. BENDLOWES, EDwARD, born in Essex, England, 1602; poet and dramatist; died, 1676. Quotation : Igno- I’8,IlC62. BENEDICT, FRANCIS L. Quotation : Conquest. BENEDICT II; a native of Rome who succeeded Leo II as pope, 684. Quotation : Popery. BENEDICT III; a pope of Rome, who was dis- tinguished for his piety; died, 858. Quotation : Humility. BENEZET, ANTHONY, born at Saint Quentin, France, 1713; an eminent philanthropist; died, 1784, Qwo- tottions : Race—Sympathy. BENGEL, or BENGELIUS, Joh ANN ALBRECHT, born at Winenden, Würtemburg, 1687 ; a distinguished Lu- theran theologian ; died, 1752. Quotations. Care—College —Plan—Scripture—Wisdom. BENGER, MISS ELIZABETH OGILVY, born at Wells, Somersetshire, England, 1778; an English authoress, died, 1827. Quotation : Burlesque. BENJAMIN, JUDAH PETER, born in Hayti, 1812; #. American lawyer and statesman. Quotation : Rebel- 1OIl. BENJAMIN, PARK, born at Demerara, Guiana, 1809; an American poet, and journalist; died, 1864. Quota- tion : Effrontery. BENNET, AGNES MARIA, born in England, about 1750; an English novelist; died, 1805. Quotation : Industry. BENNET, EMERSON, born, 1822; an American novelist. Quotation : Hesitation. BENNET, THOMAs, born in Salisbury, England, 1673; divine and controversial writer; died, 1728. Quota- tion : Inequality. 1076 JD A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. BENNETT, C. C.; author of “Sandwich Islands Sketches.” Quotation : Missionary. BENNETT, D. M., born at Springfield, New York, December 23, 1818; a religious sceptic and miscellaneous writer. Quotations : Atheism — Infidelity — is oran — Mo- hammedanism—Scepticism—Selfishness. BENNETT, JAMES GoRDON, born at Keith, Banff- shire, Scotland, of Catholic parents, September 1, 1795; an American journalist, and the founder of the New York Herald ; died, June 1, 1872. Quotation : Editor. BENNETT, JAMES GORDON, JR., son of the pre- ceding. Quotations : Journalism—Newspaper—Press. BENNETT, MISS MARTHA 1 [.B.; an English nov- elist and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Intellect. BENNETT, WILLIAM Cox, LL.D., born in Green- wich, England, 1820; anFnglish poet and littérateur. Quo- tations : Laughter—Wi BENNETT, WILLIAM JAMES EARLY, born, 1805; an English theologian. Quotation : Creation. BENOIST, or BENEDICT, of Saint-Maure, a trou- badour in the reign of Henry the Second of England. Quo- tation : Melody. BENSON, GEORGE, born in Cumberland, Eng- land, 1699; a dissenting divine; died, 1763. Quotations: Persecution—Prayer. BENSON, MARTIN, (Bishop of Gloucester,) born, 1689; an English prelate; died, 1752. Quotation: Worship. BENSON, WILLIAM, (AUDITOR BENSON,) born, 1682; an English politician and miscellaneous Writer; died, 1754. Quotation: Inhumanity. BENT, J.; an English author, (London, 1693.) Quo- tation : Metaphor. BENT, WILLIAM, lived about 1750; an English Writer and publisher (London, 1799.) Quotations: Anarchy —Brute—Ease—Envy-Greatness—Lust— Maxims—Misery —Rabble—Smoking—Taciturnity. BENTHAM, EDWARD, born at Ely, England, 1708; an English divine; died, 1776. Quotation : Affection. BENTHAM, JEREMY, born in London, February 15, 1748; an eminent English jurist and utilitarian philoso- pher; died at Westminster, June 6, 1832. MOtation.S. Ab- sence—Habit—independence—Rindness— aim—Press—Ty- ranny—Unkindness—Virtue. BENTHAM, THOMAs, born in Yorkshire, 1513; an English divine, who was appointed by Queen Elizabeth, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry; died, 1578. Quotation : Contradiction. BENTIVOGLIO, ERCOLE, born, 1519; an Italian poet; died, 1573. Quotation : Rhyme. BENTLEY, JOHN ; an English writer on theology, (London, 1803–12.) Quotation: Nothing. BENTLEY, RICHARD, born at Oulton, Yorkshire, England, January 27, 1662; an eminent critic and scholar; died, July, 1742. Quotations : Affliction—Alphabet—Athe- ism—Chance—Chastisement--Conscience—-Contention—De- Spondency–Ethics—Fortune--Harmony—Heaven—Infinity Institution—Joy–Knavery–Materialism —Miracle—My- thology—Profanity—Quotation— Reputation—Self-Preser- Vation—Sensuality— Sleep—Space—Spirit—Superstition— Universe—Viciousness. BENTON, THOMAS HART, born at Hillsborough, North Carolina, March 14, 1782; an American Senator and Statesman; died, April 10, 1858. Quolation : Common- Wealth. BERANGER, PIERRE JEAN, DE, born in Paris, France, August 19, 1780; a famous lyric poet; died, July 16, 1857. Quotations : Love—Religion. BERCEO, GONZALQ, DE, flourished about 1230 ; a Secular priest and author. Quotation : Wisdom. BERENCIUS, or BERENICIUS, born in Holland, about 1600; a man wonderful for his retentive memory. Quotation : Abundance. BERENGARIUS, (BéRENGER DE Tours,) born at Tours, France, 998; a celebrated ecclesiastic ; died, 1088. Quotation : Preacher. BERENGER, LAURENT PIERRE, born at Riez, France, 1749; a French littérateur; died, 1822. Quotation : Affliction. BERESFORD, JAMEs, born, 1764; an English Writer; died, 1840. Quotation : Idleness. BERGEN, TUNIs G., born in New Utrecht, Long Island, October 6, 1806; a celebrated democratic politician and Statesman ; died in New Utrecht, April 24, 1881. Quo- tation : Art. BERGEN, TUNIs G., JR., born in Brooklyn, May, 1847; lawyer. Quotation : Schoolmaster. BERGERAC, SAVINIENCYRANo, DE, born in Pé- rigord, France, 1620; a French dramatist; died in Paris, 1655. Quotation : Argument. EERGERUS. Quotations : Probation—Savior. BERGH, HENRY, born in the city of New York, 1823; an American writer and philanthropist, and the foun. der of the “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- Imals.” (Jºtotation . Animals. BERINGTON, JOSEPH, born in Shropshire, 1743; lºan Catholic writer; died, 1827. Quotation : Impru. (10H10.0. BERKELEY, EVERARD, mom de plume of TRYON Edwards, who published a völume of quotations (“World's Laconics.") Quotation: Adversity. BERKELEY, GEORGE, born at Kilcrin, near Tho- mastºwn, Ireland, March 12, 1684; an English bishop and metaphysical philosopher; died in Oxford, January, 1753. Q19tatiojºs. Doubt — Knavery–Man-Mankind–Mätter- Qbject-Praise—Quotation – Reason —Hidicule—Scandal— Sense—Silence—World. BERKELEY, SIR WILLIAM, born near London ; §ppointed governor of Virginia, 1641; died in England, 1677. Quotations: Learning—School. BERLIQZ, HECTOR, born in the department of Isère, France, December 11, 1803; a celebrated French com- DOSel'; died, March 9, 1869. Quotation : Music. BERNANDINO, SAINT, born at Massa di Carrara, Italy, 1380; an eloquent ecclesiastic; died, 1444. Quotation : Monastery. BERNARD, ANDREW, born at Toulouse, France, about the latter part of the fifteenth century; a French monk and poet; died, 1522. Quotation: Ignorance. BERN ARD, EDWARD, born near Towcester, Nor- thamptonshire, Eng land, 1638; an English mathematician, lºomer, and philologist; died, 1697. Quotation : Ho: neSty. BERNARD, NICOLAs, born, 1628; an English di- Vine; died, 1661. Quotation : Impudence. BERNARD, RICHARD, born, 1566 : an English Pu- Titan divine; died, 1641. Quotation: Honor. BERNARD, SIR. THQMAs, born at Lincoln, Eng- land, 1750; a wealthy philanthropist and author; died, 1818. Qzzotºtions. Poor—Scandal. BERNARD, SAINT, born near Dijon, Burgundy, 1091 : an eminent ecclésiastic; died, 1153. Qutotatiojºs - Ado. ration-Alms–Amendment – Charity– Chastity–Confes- Šion-Constançy-Coy etousness — Despair—I)esperation– Devil-Discord–Doubt—Ear-God-Hopelessness-impor- tance-Injury—Innocence — Knowledge—Loyalty—Prayer IPurity-Self–Self-Knowledge—Sight—slander-Tempta. tion—Time—Zeal. BERNERS, or BARNES, JULIANA, born, 1388 ; a prioress of Sopewell nunnery, near St. Albans, and emi- ment for her accomplishments and piety; died, 1486. Quo- tation : Hunting. w BERNERS, LORD (JOHN BOURCHIER,) born, 1474; an English Statesman; died, 1532. Quotation : Honor. BERNI, FRANCESCO, born , at Lamporecchio, in Tuscany, 1490; a famous Italian burlesque poet; died, 1536. Quotation : Infamy—Spite. BERNI, FRANCESCO, born at Ferrara, Italy, 1610; #. ºlian jurist and dramatist; died, 1673. Quotation : Čal’U. BERNINI, GIOVANNI LORENzo, born at Naples, December, 1598; an eminent sculptor and architect; died at IRome, 1680. Quotation : Sculpture. BERRIDGE, JOHN, born, 1716; an English divine and author of “The Christian. World Unmasked; ” died, 1793. Quotations : Bible—Communion—Preacher. BERRY, J., A.M.; an American writer, Principal of Swan Street Grammar School, Buffalo, New York, and author of “Analysis and Parsing Book,” (Buffalo, iS73.) Quotations: Sunrise—Treason. BERRY, or BERRI, DE, JEAN, DUC, born, 1340 ; the third son of John the Second, King of France; died, 1416. Quotation. Disgrace. BERTHOLD, ARNOLD ADOLF, born at Soest, in Westphalia, 1803; a German littérateur; died, 1861. Quo- tation : Fasting. BERWICK, JAMES FITZ-JAMES, DUKE OF, born, 1660; a natural son of James the Second ºf England; killed in battle, 1734. Quotations: Religion—Worship. BERZ. Quotations : Denial-Disinterestedness—Economy --Exaggeration—Exertion--Experience--Falsehood-Father —Faults-Fear—Flowers— Ignorance — Memory—Useful- Il CSS. gº BESANÇON, ETIENNE MODESTE, born at Beaune, in the department Côte d'Or, France, 1730; a French eccle- siastic, poet, and littérateur; died, 1816. Quotation : Ac- Cusation. º BESANT, WALTER : an English Protestant cler- an, and an able writer. Quotations : Murder—Wife— OIIla, Il. BESLEY, or BESLY, JEAN, born at Coulonges- les-Royaux, in Poitou, France, 1572; an eminent jurist and historical writer; died, 1644. Quotation: Fee. A / O G. R A P // / C A / / AV ZD E X. 1077 BESSIER, EUGENE. Quotation: Foulness. BETHMONT, EUGENE, born in Paris, 1804; a French lawyer. Quotation : Penury—Woman. BETHUNE, ALEXANDER, born in Fifeshire, Scot- land, 1804; a miscellaneous writer; died, 1841. Quotation : Heaven. e BETHUNE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, D.D., born in the city of New York, May 18, 1805; an American divine, scholai, and poet; died, April 27, 1862. Quotations: Faith —Race. BETTERTON, THOMAS, born in Westminster, London, 1635; an English dramatist; died, 1710. Quota- tions : Stage—Theatre. BETTS, John, born at Winchester, England, 1620; an eminent physician and writer; Quotation : Roses. BEVAN, JOSEPH GURNEY, born in London, 1753; a member of the Society of Friends; died, 1814. Quota- tions : Sabbath—Satan—Singing. BEVERIDGE, JOHN, born in Scotland, about 1718; a professor of languages in the college and academy of Philadelphia. Quotations : Harmony—Music. BEVERIDGE, WILLIAM, D. D., (Bishop of St. Asaph,) born in Barrow, Leicestershire, England, 1637; a learned prelate and Orientalist ; died, 1708. Qºţotations: Hºn-d ehovah—Justification — Orthodoxy–Sacrament —SUll] . BEYLE, MARIE HENRI, born at Grenoble, France, 1783; a popular French littérateur ; died in Paris, 1842. Quotations: Love—Pleasing. BEZA, THEODORE, born at Vezelay, Burgundy, June 24, 1519; a Calvanistic theologian and reformer; died, October 13, 1605. Quotations: Church – Republicanism— Sickness—Suffering. BIANTE. Quotation : Lawyer. BIAS, surnamed “The Prince of Wise Men,” born at Priene, in Caria, Asia Minor, 570 B.C.; one of the Seven wise men of Greece; he was noted for his liberality to the poor, his wisdom, and love of justice; the date of his death is unknown. Quotations: Absenge–Acting—Adaptation— Affluence—Age—Boasting—Condition—Conspiracy-Coun- sel—Courage- Deformity— Desire–Disgrace—Doubt-Es- trangement—Expectation — Extravagance — Friendship— Grief—Illusion—Immorality—Impotence—Impurity–Inac- tion— Indigence— Infamy— Insult— Jest— Justice— Law– Lesson–Liar—Life—Melody—Memory—Mind–Misfortune —Money—Multitude—Old-Age—People—Persecution-Per- severance—Persuasion—Physic—Poor—Purpose--Reality— Slovenliness—Son—Tattling—Temperance—Time—Traitor —Treasure—Virtue—War—Wedlock—Wickedness. BICKERSTAFF, ISAAC, born 1735 ; an Irish dra- matist; died, 1787. Quotation : Health—Ignorance. BICKERSTETH, EDwARD, born at Kirby-Lons- lonsdale, Westmoreland, March 19, 1786; an English divine and theological writer; died, February 24, 1850. Quotat- tions : Error—Jesuitism—Talent—Truth. BICKERSTETH, EDwARD, D.D., (Dean of Lich- field,) born at Acton, Suffolk, 131ſ, an English divine and theological writer. Quotation : Prayer—Revival. BICKERSTETH, EDwARD HENRY, M.A., born at Islington, near London, January 25, 1825; an English Pro- testant clergyman and poet. Qºtotettion : Heaven. BICKERSTETH, ROBERT, D.D., F.R.S., (Bishop of Ripon,) born at Acton, Suffolk, August 24, 1816; an Eng- lish Protestant clergyman. Quotation. : HOme. BIDDLE, NICHOLAs, born in Philadelphia, Sep- tember 10, 1750; an American naval officer; killed in battle, March 7, 1778. Quotations: Country—Despondency–Ene- my. BIDDLE, NICHOLAS, a nephew of the preceding, born in Philadelphia, January 8, 1786; an American finan- cier; died, February 27, 1844. Quotations: Cunning—Peo- ple—Politics. BIDDULPH, THOMAS TREGENNA, born in Worces- tershire, England, 1763; an English divine and writer. Quotation : Omnipotence. BIELEFIELD, JAKOB FRIEDRICH, BARON, VON, born, at Hamburg, 1712; a German publicist; died, 1770. Quotation : Error. BIELSKI, MARTIN, born, 1495; a Polish chroni- cler; died, 1576. Quotation : Geometry. BIG ELK. See MAHA CHIEF. BIGELOW, HoseA ; a nom de plwme of a modern writer. Quotation : Epistle. BIGELOW, JACOB, M.D., LL.D., born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, 1787; an eminent physician. Quotations: Business—Calling. BIGELOW, John, M.D., LL.D., born in Malden, New York, November 25, 1817; an author and diplomatist. Quotations : Future—Giant. BIGLAND, John, born at Skirlaugh, in Holder- ness; a schoolmaster and author; died, 1832. Quotations : Disappointment—Youth. BIGNON, JEAN PAUL, born in Paris, 1662 : preach- er and royal librarian to Louis the fourteenth of France; died, 1743. Quotation. Reproof. BIGSBY, ROBERT, born at Nottingham, England, 1806; an English antiquary ; died, September 27, 1873. Quo- totion... Hypocrisy. BILLINGTON, LINUs W., D.D., born in New Jer- sey, 1802; a Presbyterian clergyman at Scottsville, New Yörk, and author of the “Review of Davis's Revelations.” Quotations: Discrimination—Materialism—Regeneration. BILSON, THOMAs, (Bishop of Worcester and Win- chester,) born at Winchester, England, 1536; a learned pre- late; died, 1816. Quotation : Fiend. BINGHAM, CALEB, born in Boston, Massachu- setts, 1757: a school teacher and publisher of Boston; died, 1817; Quotations : Past—Rights. BiNGHAM, HIRAM, D.D., born at Bennington, Vermont, 1790; a Congregational divine and missionary to the Sandwich Islands; died at New Haven, Connecticut, November 11, 1869. Quotations : Heathen—Liberty—Mis- Sionary—Polytheism—Production. BINGHAM, Joseph, born in Yorkshire, 1668 ; an eminent English scholar and divine; died, 1723. Quota- tion : Immorality. BINGHAM, KINSLEY S., born at Camillus, Onon- daga county, New York, December 16, 1808; an American jurist and politician; died at Green Oak, Liyingston coun- ty, Michigan, October 5, 1861. Quotation : Constitution. BINNEY, HoRACE, born in Philadelphia, 1780; an eminent American lawyer; died, 1847. Quotations: Gloom—Index—Judges—Mammon—MOney. BINNEY, THOMAs, born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1798; an eloquent Non-conformist minister; died, February 24, 1874. Quotations : Acting—Animals—Bible—Children— Error—Hell—Infinity—Nature—Obedience— Pleasure—Re- In OPS6. BION, born at Phlossae, on the river Meles, near Smyrna, and flourished about 280 B.C.; a bucolic poet; died Of poison. § : Age—Arrogance—Avarice–Dis- aragement—Dissolution--Excellence--Experience—Faith- lessness—Family--Father—Feeling—Gloom--Hope-Humil- ity—Industry--Insolence—Jealousy--Jest--Judges-Knowl- edge—Leader—Learning— Levity—Liar— Love—Melody— Memory— Mind — Mortality— Old Age—Profligate—Pru- dence—Recluse—Secrecy—Self-Conceit— Sentences—Sub- tlety—Unhappiness. BIRD, ROBERT MonTGOMERY, M.D., born at New- Castle, Delaware, 1803; an American author; died, Janu- ary 22, 1854. Quotations: Meanness—Philosophy—Sleep. BIRNEY, JAMEs G., born at Danville, Kentucky, February 4, 1792; a distinguished "pºt of Slavery: died, November 24, 1857. Quotations: Daring—Firmness. BIROM, JoHN, born at Manchester, England, 1691; an English writer and poet ; died, 1763. Quotation: Hell. BIRRELL, ANDREw, born in England ; an Eng- lish dramatic writer, (London, 1802). Quotation : Jail. BISACCIONI, MAJOLINO, COUNT, born at Ferrara, Italy, 1582; a distinguished soldier, diplomatist, and writer; died, 1663. Quotation : Courage. BISCOP, BENEDICT, born, 654; an English author; died, 690. Quotation : Heaven. BISHOP, JoEL, P., born at Volney, Oswego coun- ty, New York, 1814; an American jurist and author. Quo- tation : Borrowing. BISHOP, John, born in England, about 1510; a miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Equality. BISMARCK, SCHöENHAUSEN, OTTO EDUARDIEO- pold. Prince von, born at Brandenburg, April 1, 1813; a celebrated Prussian statesman and diplomatist. Quota- tion : Defamation—Household. BISSLAND. Quotations: Bigotry—Intolerance—Moral- ity. BIZOT, PIERRE, born, 1630; a French antiquary; died, 1696. Quotation : Scepticism. BJORNSON, B.JöRNSTJERNE, born at Quikne, (CEs- terdal,) December 8, 1832; a Norwegian novelist and dra- matic poet. Quotation : Consequence. BLACASSET ; a chivalric poet of the eleventh century. Quotation : War. BLACHE, ANTOINE, born at Grenoble, France, 1635; a French ecclesiastic; died, 1714. Q2totation : For- bearance. - - BLACK HAWK, born, 1716; an American Indian chief of the Sac tribe; he waged war against the United States in 1832, for the recovery of lands which certain chiefs of the Sacs and Foxes had ceded to the Whites; died, Octo- ber 3, 1838. Quotations: God—Sunset—Torture. BLACK, JEREMIAH. S., born in Somerset county Pennsylvania, January 10, 1810; an American jurist ahá democratic pólitician. Quotations: Household–Justice. BLACK, John, D.D., horn in England, about 1770; an English divine and author; died about 1845. Quotation : Argument. A) 4 Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. BLACK, WILLIAM, born at Glasgow, 1841; a Scottish artist, and a popular journalist, novelist, and mag- azine Writer. Quotations : Blood–Cheating—Conscious- ness—Jeering. BLACKBURN, HENRY, born at Portsmouth, Feb- ruary 15, 1830; an English journalist, lecturer, and Iniscel- laneons writer. Quotation : Flirtation. BLACKBURNE, FRANCIS, born in Yorkshire, England, 1703; an English divine, theological writer, and controversialist; died, 1787. Quotation : Affection. BLACKLOCK, THOMAS, D.D., born at Annan, iºd, 1721; a Scottish divine: died, 1791. Quotation : Ollbt. BLACKMORE, RICHARD DODDRIDGE, born at Longworth, Berkshire, 1825; an English novelist. Quota- tions : Barbarian—Business—Satan. BLACKMORE, SIR RICHARD, born at Wiltshire, England, 1650; an English writer and physician; died, 1729. Quotattion : Blockhead. BLACKSTONE, SIR WILLIAM, born in London, July 10, 1723; a celebrated jurist, and author of “Commen- taries on the Laws of England;” died, Februrary 14, 1780. Quotations : Agriculture—Commonwealth—Creature-De- mocracy—Disability—Equity—Executive — Government— Heresy—Insolvency—Jury—Law—Legislature—Literature —Monopoly—Occupancy--Parent–Policy--Press--Property -Proof– Remedy-Resistance—Science—Sobriety—Soul— Sovereignty—Stealing—Sunday—Tyranny—Will—Yeoman. BLACKWELL, MRS, ELIZABETH, the wife of Alexander Blackwell; an English writer on botany, (Lon- don, 1787.) Quotation : Plant. BLACKWELL, ELIZABETH, M.D., born in Bris- tol, England, 1821; the first woman who obtained the degree of Mij in the inited States. Quotation : Health. BLACKWELL, LUCY STONE, born at West Brook- field, Massachusetts, 1818; a distinguished advocate of “Women's Rights.” Quotations: Blushing—Equality. BLACKWOOD, ADAM, born at Dunfermline, 1539; a Scottish writer; died, 1613. Quotations : Art—Cos- tume-Doubt—Fireside—Infancy—Old Age—Sea. BLAIKIE, FRANCIS. Quotations: Eye—Introduction —Order—System—Tales. BLAIR, HUGH, D.D., born in Edinburgh, April 7, 1718; an eminent Scottish divine; his lectures still remain a standard work; died, December 27, 1800. Quotations: Ability—Activity–Advantage—Affectation — Affliction— Age–Allegory—Amusement–Anxiety—Application—Ap- reciation—Belles-Lettres—Compassion—Composition – ritic— Criticism— Cruelty—Debate— Declamation — Dis- Cernment—Disorder—Earnestness—Eloquence—Equivoca- tion—Excess—Exercise — Expression—Extreme—Fable— Failings—Faithlessness—Freedom—Friendship—Gesture— Grammar—Guide—Guilt—Happiness—Hard-Heartedness— Harshness—Homage--Hypocrisy-Idleness--Imitation—Im- Kºjº-ji, ustry--Instrument—Joy--Justice nighth99d—Letters—Life—Literature— Manners—Mater- ialism—Mediocrity—Mind–Mirth—Motion —Nation —Old Age—Oratory—Pâssion – Peevishness—Perspicuity—Per- verseness—Pleasure—Praise—Precision—Pride—Principle —Privilege—Prosperity—Pulpit – Rebuke—Reciprocity— Retreat—Retrospéction—Reverence--Ridicule—Rule—Sélf- Love-Sentences—Sentiment—Silence—Solicitude—Song— Speech—Stability—Style — Sublimity–Suffering — Sunrise -Sympathy—Synonym—Temper–Temperance — Type— Variety—Virtue—Writing—Youth. BLAIR, JAMEs, lived in the reign of Charles the Second; an English Episcopal minister, and the first pres- ident of William and Mary College, Virginia; died, 1743. Quotation : Pleasure. BLAKE, ANSON. Quotations: Mountain—Philosophy. BLAKE, JOHN LAURIs, D.D., born at Northwood, New Hampshire, December 21, 1788; an American compiler, biographer, and writer on agriculture; died, July, 1857. Quotations: Plant—Plow—Soil—Vegetation. BLAKE, KATHARINE, wife of William Blake, the artist, and an exemplary woman; died about 1835. Quota- tion : Intention. BLAKEY, RoberT, Ph. D., born at Morpeth, Eng- land, 1795; an English tºpher: died, October 26, 1878. Quotations : Reading—Writing. BLANC, JEAN JOSEPH LOUIs, born in Madrid, ; of French extraction, October 28, 1813; a celebrated rench Socialist, historian, and journalist. Quotation : Fraternity. Died in Cannes, France, December 6, 1882. BLANCHARD, EDWARD LEMAN, born, December 11, 1820; an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Identity. BLANCHARD, LAMAN, born at Great Yarmouth, England, 1803; a journalist and miscellaneous writer; died, 1865. Quotation : Refinement. BLAND, ELIZABETH, born in London, 1660: an English authoress: died, 1744. Quotation : Munificence. BLEDSOE, ALBERT TAYLOR, LL.D., born in Ken- tucky, 1809; an American officer and teacher; died, Decem- ber 1, 1877. Quotation: Sin–Sun–Wrong. BLESSINGTON, MARGARET, GARDINER, Count- ess of, born in Tipperary County, Ireland, September 1, 1789; a miscellaneous writer, and a lady celebrated for her beauty, accomplishments, and social qualities; died in Par- is, June 4, 1849, Quotations : Admiration — Character — Courtier–Despair—Flowers—Genius — Head–Jealousy— Memory-Ocean—Religion—Satire—Scandal—Scepticism— Self—Self-IXnowledge-Selfishness—Sentiment—Society— Solitude–Sorrow—Spring—Storm—Strength—Style—Su- perstition—Talent--Talking—Thought--Time–Trial--Truth -Understanding—Vanity-Vice-Viciousness—Virtue— Weakness—Wisdom—Wit—Woman—World—Youth. BLIND, KARL, born at Maunheim, Rhenish Prus- sia, September 4, 1826; a celebrated German reformer and Writer on philosophy and political economy. Quotation : Idleness. BLOMFIELD, CHARLEs JAMEs, (Bishop of Lon- q9n,) born in Suffolk, 1786; a distinguished philanthropist; died, 1857. Quotation: Curiosity. BLOOMER, MRS. AMELIA : an American writer and editress of the “Lily,” published at Seneca Falls, New York. Quotations: Expédiency-Health. BLOOMEFIELD, MILEs, born in England, 1525; an English divine; died about 1595. Quotation : Fiend. BLOUNT, CHARLEs, born at Upper Holloway, 1654; an English writer; committed suicide, 1693. Quoia- tions. Prayer—Soul. BLOUNT, CHARLEs, (LORD MOUNTJoy and EARL of Devonshire,) born 1563; an English courtier and diplom- atist ; died, 1605. Quotation : Exile. BLOUNT, SIR. THOMAs PopF, born, 1649; a dis- tinguished English author; died, 1697. Quotations: Con- templation–Dreams—Judges—Learning. BLUCHER, GEBHARD LEBRECHT, voN, born at Rostock, 1742; a celebrated Prussian field-marshai; died, 1819. Quotation : Thought. BLUEMAUER, ALOYs, born at Stayer, Austria, 1755: a German poet and writer; died, 1708. Quotation : Thought. BLUM, JOACHIM, CHRISTIAN, born at Rathenau, 11; a German littérateur; died, 1790. Quotations: Riches —I l'662S. BLUNDEVILLE, THOMAs, born, 1570; an Eng- lish mathematician; died about 1630. Quotation : Face. BLUNT, EDWARD. Quotation: Calumniator. BLUNT, JoHN HENRY, M.A., F.S.A., born at Chelsea, 1823; an English Episcopal divine and author. Quotation : Falsehood. BOARDMAN, HENRY AUGUSTUs, D.D., born at Troy, New York, January 9, 1808; an eloquent American divine. Quotation : Government. BOARDMAN, W. E. Quotations: Imprudence—Salva. tation. BOCCACCIO, DI CERTALDO, GIOVANNI, born in Paris, 1313; one of the most celebrated of the Italian nove- lists; died, 1375. Quotations: Jest—Woman. BOCOCK, THOMAS S., born in Virginia; an Amer- ican politician and a member of Congress. Quotation : Slavery. BOCCORIS ; a king of Egypt, who is said to have driven the Jews from his dominions, to Cure himself Of the leprosy, according to an Oracle. Quotation : Temple. BODENHAM, John, lived about the end of the sixteenth century; one of the compliers of Politeuphuia ; or Wits' Commonwealth, (London, 1669.) Quotations: Aid—Contentment—Credit — Discretion—Doubt—Expecta- tion—Fool—Hope—Kisses—Rage—Redress. BODIRUS. Quotations: Dignity—Selection—Ungateful- IlêSS. BODLEY, SIR THOMAs, born at Exeter, 1544; the founder of the library at Oxford, England, and called by his name; died, 1612. Quotation : Words. BOECE, HECTOR, born 1470; a Scottish historian ; died, 1550. Quotation ; Hermit. BOECHARIS. Quotation: Oracle. BOERHAAVE, HERMAN, born at Voorhout, near Leyden, Holland, December 31, 1668; a Dutch physician and philosopher; died, September 23, 1788. Quotations: Calum- hy—Hour—Rumor—Self-Possession. BOETHIUS, ANIGIUs MANLIUS TORQUATUS SEV- erinus, born, 475; a Roman philosopher and statesman; executed, 525. Q7totations : Consolation–Diligence—Goo —Happiness—Mütability—Petribution. BOGART, ELIZABETH, (Estelle,) born in, New York about 1800; an American poetess and miscellaneous writer. Quotations: Disappointment—Scenery. BOGATZKY, KARL HEINRICH, voN, born in Si- lesia, in Prussia, 1690: a German theological writer; died, 1774. Quotations : Godliness—Hope—Rainbow. BOGDANOVITCH. HIPPOLYTUS FEDOROVITCH, born in Little Russia, 1743; an eminent Russian lyric poet and miscellaneous writer; died, 1803. Quotation : Care. A / O G A' A P // / C 4 /, / AV /) / X. I ()7 9 |- BOGLE. Quotation: Proselyte. BOGUE, DAVID, born in Berwickshire, Scotland, 1750; a Scottish divine, and one of the founders of the Lon- don Missionary Society ; died. 1825. Quotation : Deism. BOHN, HENRY GEORGE, the son of a London bookseller, of German extraction, born, January 4, 1796: a distinguished publisher and author of several valuable works. Quotations : Proverbs—Ireproach—Wrangling. BOIS, DU, PHILIPPE GOIBAUD. See DUBOIs. BOISTE, PIERRE CLAUDE VICTOIRE, born in Paris, 1765; a French lexicographer and author; died, 1824. Quo- tations : City–Confidence—Greatness–Vanity—Woman. BOILEAU, or BOILEAU-DESPREAUX, NICO- las, born near Paris, November 1, 1636; an eminent French poét, satirist, and miscellaneous writer; died Paris, March 13, 1711. Quotations: Admiration—Ady ice—Bigotry-Cal- umny—Courtesy—Coxcomb - Dinner—Evil— Expression— Fool—Honor— Nature— Pedigree— Retirement — Sharne— Talking—Truth—Virtue—Wind—Wisdom—Wish. BOILEAU, CHARLEs, (Abbot of Beawliew,) born, 1630; a celebrated French court preacher, theologian, aca- demician, and author ; died, 1704. Quotation : Jesuitism. BOISSY, LOUIs, DE, born at Vic, France, 1694; a French littérateur; died, 1758. Quotation : Starvation. BOKER, GEORGE HENRY, born in Philadelphia, 1824; an American poet and miscellaneous writer. Quota- tion : Home. BOLESLAS, or BOLESLAUS II, born, 1042; King of Poland; died, 1090. Quotation : Conjecture. BOLESLAUS, IV, surnamed CRISPUs, King of Poland; died, 1173. Quotation : Son. BOLEYN; ANNE, born, 1507; the wife of Henry the Eighth of England; beheaded, May, 1536, Quotations: Accusation—Truth. BOLIVAR, SIMON, born at Caraccas, South Ame- rica, July, 1783; the liberator of South America. ; died at San Pedro, December, 1830. Quotation : Presents. BOLINGBROKE, VISCOUNT, (HENRY SAINT JOHN) born at Battersea, Surrey, October 1, 1678; an English Statesman, Orator, and author; died, December 15, 1751. Qtdotation2S.: Acquaintance–Analysis—Banishment — Cun- ning—Deity—Eloquence—Future—History — Idea —King— Knowledge—Lawyer—Liberty — Life — Meanness—Mirth— Polygamy--Prejudice—Pride–Prosperity—Reading—Spirit —Study—Temple—Time—Virtue—World. BOLSEC, JéRÖME HERMEs, born in Paris, about 1510; a French physician and writer; died, 1585. Quotation : Sarcasm. BOLTON, or BOULTON, EDMUND, an English antiquarian writer. Quotation : Heresy. BOLTON, Robert, (Dean of Carlisle,) born, 1697; a celebrated English divine and writer on morals; died, 1763. Quotations: Appetite-Apprehension—A #ºn — Companion—Deformity—Eating — Gluttony — Heaven— Idleness—Intermperance—Joy–Luxury—Pleasure—Pride— —Privilege—Prudence—Quality-Reason — Ridicule—Self- Denial — Sense — Sensuality — Smelling — Temperance — Tongue —Virtue—Worth. BOLTWOOD, HENRY L., born in Maine, 1830 ; an American educator. Quotation : Well-Doing. BONA, GIOVANNI, born at Mondovi, Piedmont, Italy, October 10, 1609; an Italian cardinal and author; died at Rome, October 25, 1674. Quotation : Charity. BONAIR, or BONAR, HORATIUS, D.D., born in Edinburgh, 1808: a Scottish Presbyterian Iminister and mis- cellaneous writer. Quotations: Gospel – Heathen–Light —Nun—Resurrection—Timidity—Trial—Warrior—Zeal. BONALD, LOUIS GABRIEL AMBROISE, born near Milhau-en-Rouergue, France, 1754; an eminent statesman and journalist ; died, 1840. Quotations. Bores—Truth. BONAPARTE, MADAME LETITIA RAMOLINA, born in Corsica, 1750; the mother of Napoleon the First ; died, 1839. Quotation : Trial. BONAPARTE, MADAM PATTERSON, (ELIZABETH Patterson,) born in Baltimore, 1795; the wife of Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Emperor Napoleon I; she was dis- tinguished for her personal beauty and culture; died in Baltimore, 1879. Quotations: Marriage—Merchant—Mother —Old Age—Taxation. - BONAVENTURE, or BONAVENTURA, SAINT, (Giovanni di Fidenza;) born at Bagnarea, Italy, 1221 ; an eminent theologian ; died, 1274. Quotation : Relaxation. BOND, THOMAS EMERSON, born in Baltimore, Maryland, February, 1782; an American physician and Methodist minister; died, 1856. Quotation : Inscription. BONHEUR, MADEMOISELLE, ROSALIE, called RO- Sa, born at Bordeaux, France, March 22, 1822; an eminent French painter of animals. Quotations: Hope—Weariness. BONIFACE, SAINT, WINFRED, born in Devon- shire, England, 680; the apostle of Germany; assassinated, 755. Quotation : Miracle. BONIFACE VIII, (CARDINAL BENEDETTO GAE- tani,) born at Anagui, Italy, 1228; Pope of Rome; died, 1303. Quotations: Popery—Slyness. BONNARD, BERNARD, DE, born at Semur-en- Auxois, France, 1744; a French poet and littérateur; died, 1748. Quotattions: Etiquette—Life—Silence. BONNER, JOHN, born at Quebec, 1828; an Eng- lish historian and Iniscellaneous writer. Quotation. Brains. BONNER, ROBERT, born near Londonderry, Ire- land, April 28, 1824, and emigrated to the United States, 1831; printer and journalist, and proprietor of the “New York Ledgel'.” Quotations: Home—liteformation. BONSTETTIN, CHARLEs, VICTOR, DE, born at Berne, Switzerland, 1745; a Swiss philosopher and author; died at Geneva, 1832. Quotations : Memory—Thinking. BQONE, DANIEL, COLONEL, born in Bucks county, Virginia, February 11, 1735; a famous pioneer and hunter; died, September 20, 1820. Quotations: Fire—Lightning. BOOTH, ABRAHAM, born, 1734; an English Bap- tist divine; died, 1806. Quotations: Happiness—Peace. BOOTH, DAVID, born, 1756; a self-educated Eng- lish Writer; died, 1846. Quotation : Passion. BOOTH, EDWIN, born near Baltimore, Maryland, November 15, 1833; a celebrated American actor. Quota- tions: Drama—Theatre. BOOTH, MARY L., born at Yaphank, New York, April 19, 1831 : an American translator and magazine edi- tress. Quotations: Editor—Holiday. BORDE, ANDREw, M.D., born, 1500 : an English physician and author; died, 1549. Quotation: Hate. BORGHINI, RAFAELLO, born about 1510; an Ita- lian littérateur; died, 1576. ‘Quotation : Regard. BORGHINI, VINCENzo, born at Florence, Italy, 1515; a learned Italian ecclesiastic and antiquarian ; died, 1580. Quotation : Wrath. BORGIA, CESARE, DUC DE VALENTINOIs ; an illegitimate son of Alexander VI; killed in battle, 1507. Quotation : Speaking. BORLASE, WILLIAM, born at Pendeen, in Corn- Wall, England, February 2, 1696; an English divine and an- tiquary; died, August 31, 1772. Quotation : Family. BORN, BERTRAND, DE, born in Perigord, France, about 1150; a French troubadour and soldier; died about 1220. Qºtotations : Crusades–War. BORNE, WILLIAM. Quotation : Politics. BORNEIL, GIRAUD, DE, born, 1150 ; a French troubadour. Quotation : Crusades. BORNOU, a country in Africa, between Cassina and Nubia, having no literature except a few proverbs of unknown origin. Quotation : Future. BORROW, GEORGE, born at East Dereham, Nor- folk, England, 1803: a miscellaneous writer; died, July 30, 1881. Qztotations. Debate—Philosophy. BOSISIO, FRANCESCO, an Italian miscellaneous Writer. Quotation : Disability. BOSSUET, JACQUES BáNIGNE, (Bishop of Meaux,) born at Dijon, France, September 27, 1627; an eloquent preacher and author; died, April 12, 1704. Quotations: Adoration—Charity— Heaven — Hell — Honor—Jealousy— Passion—Truth—Virtue. BOST, D. Quotation : Fossils. BOSTON, THOMAs, born in Dunse, in Berwick- shire, Scotland, 1676; a Presbyterian divine ; died, 1732. Quotations: Conscience — Elegt—Eternity—Faith-Impa- tience—Lowliness—Memory—Men —Regeneration—Swear- ing —Temptation—Youth. BOSWELL, JAMES, born at Edinburgh, 1740: a Scottish lawyer, and the biographer of Dr. Johnson ; died, 1795. Qutotations. Applause—Inn. BOSWORTH, Joseph, D.D., born in Derbyshire, 1790; an eminent English philologist and divine; died, May 27, 1876. Q2totation : Language. BOTELER. Quotation : Fruit. BOTELLO, or BORTELHC), NUNA. ALVAREZ, born about 1555; a Portuguese navigator: died, 1630. Quo- tation : Courage. BOTTARI, GIOVANNI GAETANO. born in Florence, Italy, 1689; a distinguished ecclesiastic and scholar; died, 1775. Quotation : Courtier. p BOUCHARDON, EDME, born at Chaumont-en- Bassigny, France, 1698; an eminent French sculptor; died, 1762. Quotation : Sculpture. BOUCICAULT, DION, born in Dublin, December 26, 1822; a popular dramatic writer and actor. Quotation : Drama. BOUDET, CHARLEs ERNEST, born, 1813: a French medical writer; died, 1849. Quotation : Photography. BOUDON, DR. M. Quotation: Wretchedness. BOUFLERS, or BOUFFLERS, STANISLAUs, MAR- º de, born at Luneville, 1737; a French writer; died, 1815. Quotations : Attachment—Glory— Ignorance — Manners— Metaphysics — Oblivion — Passion — Pedantry — Politeness —Truth—Ungratefulness—Victory—Warrior—Wisdom. 1080 A) Al Y 'S CO / / A C O AW. BOUHOURS, DOMINIQUE, born in Paris, France, 1628; a French Jesuit and littérateur ; died, ſite. Qttotot- tions : Arrogance—Flattery—Money—Proverbs—Silênce— Virtue. BOUILLY, JEAN NICOLAs, born at Indre-et-Loire, France, 1763; a French dramatist and miscellaneous writer; died, 1842. Quotation : Condemnation. BOULDING, J. W. Quotation: Features. BºulºgNY, MRS. M. E. P. Quotations: Philanthro- py—Ship. BOULTER, HUGH, (Archbishop of Armagh,) born in London, 1671 ; an eminent advocate of education and a philanthropist; died, 1742. Quotation : Apparel. BOURDALOUE, LOUIs, born at Bourges, France, August 20, 1632; an eminent pulpit Orator and Jesuit ; died. 1701. Quotations : Action—Surety. BOURDON, AIMEE, born at Cambray, France, 1638; a French physician and author; died, 1706. Quota- tions : Maiden—Woman. BOURIGNON, ANTOINETTE, born at Lille, France, 1616; a French visionary and founder of a sect called by º name; died, 1680. Quotations: Mind — Reason—Wor- Snip. BOURNE, WILLIAM OLAND ; an American pro- fessor in Free Academy, New York, and author of “Gems from Fable Land,” (New York, 1854.) Quotations : At- tempt—Condition—Gentleness—Rivalry. BOURRIENNE, FAUVELET, born at Sens, France, July, 1769; a French diplomatist and biographer; died at Caen, 1834. Quotation : Parting. BOURSAULT, EDME, born at Mucit-l'Evêgue, Burgundy, 1638; a French dramatist; died, 1701. Quota- tion : Atheism. BOURVALAIS, PAUL POIsson, born in France, about 1645; a French financier under Louis the Fourteenth ; died, 1719. Quotation : Threats. BOUTERWEK, FRIEDRICH, born near Goslar, in Hanover, 1766; a celebrated German philosopher and critic; died at Göttingen, 1828. Quotation, ; Fancy. BOUVIER, JOHN, born at Codognan, France, 1787; emigrated to the United States, 1802; a jurist and le- gal writer; died, November 18, 1851, Quotations : Ambas- sºul-Question—Refusal—Remedy-skin-value- 1016>IlC6. BOVEE, C. NESTELLE, born in New York, April 22, 1829; a lawyer, journalist, and miscellaneous writer. Quotations : Advantage—Adventure—Affectation—Affec- tion—Agriculture—Animosity–Arbitration—Argument— Beauty--Benefits--Biggraphy--Blessing--Books--Bores--Boys —Brains—Brother—Censure—Character—Circuinstances— Civility—Companion – Contentment –Controversy— Con- yersation —Courage—Courtesy-Credit-Creed—Crime— Critic—Crowd—Custom—Degradation—Delay—Delusion— Democracy—Depravity—Desire—Difference--Dignity--Dis- content—Discretion—Discrimination--Discussion—ijisease —Dishonesty— Dispatch — Display— Disposition— Doubt— Dress–Dullness-- Earnestness—Eccentricity—Economy— Enemy—Enterprise—Enthusiasm—Envy—Error—Eternity —Events—Evil—Exaggeration--Example—Excellence—Ex- istence — Experience — Expression — Extravagance — Ex- tremes—Eye-Face—Fact-Faith—Fame - Fanaticism— Fancy—Fashion—Favor—Fear—Flattery—Flowers—Folly Friendship—Games-Garden-Generosity—Good—Grace. fulness—Gratitude—Grave-Gravity—Greatness—Habit— Happiness-Haste-Hate—Heart—Heaven–Hell–Home— Honesty–-HQnor—Humor--Hunting—Idea—Illusion—Imag- ination–Imitation—Immortality—Imposition—Impression --Indifference-Individuality--Indolence--Industry--Infamy -Integrity—Intellect – Isolation — Joke — Joy – Kisses— Knowledge-Labor–Land – Language—Lawyer—Laziness – Liberty – Library – Life—Light — Literature – Logic— Loneliness—Love—Lover—Lowliness—Majority–-Marriage —Medicine-Melancholy—Mergy—Merit—Minority—Mira- cle—Misanthropy-Mischief-Modesty—Money–Monoma- ;Pºº - Mother–Nation—Necessity— Obligation--Obscurity–Observation—Occupation—Offense —Qratory—Organization—Originality—Owner—Panic–Pa. radox–Past—Penalty—Perception — Persuasion—Physiog- *º-ººseºn; riest -Principle — Privilege— ºilº. Probity—Purpose— Quarrels-Question-- Quotation— Recluse – Repose – Re- proach—Republic-Republicanism – Reputation—Respec- tability-Rival-Rivalry-Romance —Sagacity—Sarcasm— §ceptigism–Seduction-Self-Distrust—Sense-Sensibility- Sensitiveness-Sensuality–Servant—Sickness—Slovenli- ness—Spegulation—Spendthrift—Spirituality–Style—Ten- derness-Thought—Timidity-Tolération—Trifles—Tran- quility—Trayeſ-Veracity—Virtue —Walking—Want—War —Warrior—Whim—Writing. BOWDEN, JOHN, D.D., born, 1752 : an American rofessor of moral philosophy; died, 1817. Quotations : ible—Fruitfulness—Scorn. BOWT)LER, MISS HANNAH, born about 1780 : an English authoress; died, 1830. Quotation : Usefulness. BOWDLER, J.R. Quotation : walking. BOWDLER, THOMAs, born, 1782; an English di- vine; died, 1857. Quotations: Custom —Good—Manners— Pleasing. BOW DOIN, JAMEs, born in Boston, 1727 ; an American patriotic governor; died, 1790. Quotation : Fed- eralism. BOWES, REv. G. S., B.A., born in England : a Protestant clergyman, and author of “Illustrative Gather- ings.” Quotations: Bereavement — Blindness—Courage— Covetousness—Doctrine—Example—Forbearance--Form— Heaven-Illustration - Intoxication — Joy–Knowledge— Mercy–Miracle–Obedience—Omniscience—Opportunity— Ordinance—Parent — Pilgrim — Profession — §I Rainbow—Reading — Heconciliation – Redemption—Rege- neration—Sacrament — Saint — Self-Examination—Selfish- ness—Storm—Sympathy–Tongue—Trinity—World. BOWKER, R. R.; an American journalist and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Journalism. BOWLANDS, D. Quotation : Boasting. BOWLES, CAROLINE ANNE, (MRS. ROBERT Sou- they,) born at Buckland, Hampshire, England, 1787; the authoress of several works in prose and verse; died, 1854. Quotattions : Freedom—Love—Solitude. BOWLES, SAMUEL, born in Springfield, Massa- chusetts, February 9, 1826; an American journalist; died, at Springfield, January 16, 1878. Quotations: Editor—Jour- malism—News—Newspaper—Press. BOWLES, WILLIAM LISLE, born, 1764; an Eng- lish clergyman, poet, and writer; died, 1850. Quotation : Charity. BOWMAN, HETTY. Quotations: Influence—Quietness. BOWNE, WALTER, of Rochester, New York ; an American political speaker. Quotation : Bank. BOWRING, SIR JOHN, K.C.B., LL.D., born in Exeter, England, Qctober 17, 1792; an English statesman, diplomatist, traveller, and linguist; died, November 23, 1872. Quotation : Garden. BOY CE, W. W. Quotation : Tariff. BOYD, ANDREw KENNEDY HUTCHINSoN, D.D., born, 1825; an English Presbyterian minister. Quotation : Consequence. BOYD, JAMEs R., D.D., born in Hunter, Greene county, New York, 1804; an American professor of moral philosophy. Quotation : Quietness—Sorrow. BOYER, A. J. Quotation: Utility. BOYER., JEAN FRANÇors, (Bishop of Mirepoix,) born in Paris, 1675; a French theologian: died, 1755. Qwo- tatio?? : Change. - BOYLE, AUGUSTUs F.; an American journalist, and publisher of several works on phonography. Quota- tion : Alphabet. BOYLE, ROBERT, born at Lismore, Ireland, Jan- uary 25, 1626; a celebrated chemist and experimental phi- losopher; died, December 30, 1691. Quotations: Affliction —Argument—Bluntness—Discrimination--Eternity—Felic- ity—Heaven—Heir—Infinity—Joy—Love—Marriage—Medi- tation—Obscurity—Passion —Beason—Reprehension—Self- Denial—Sense—Sumptuousness--Swearing--Talent—Visits. BOYLE, ROGER, (BARON BROGHILL,) born, 1621 ; #. English dramatist and poet; died, 1679. Quotation : 8,162. BOYM, MICHAEL, born about 1785 ; a Polish Jes- uit and missionary ; died, 1659. Qºtotation : Cheating. BOYNTON, EDwARD C., born in Vermont, 1826 : graduated at West Point, 1846; an American professor of chemistry and author. Quotation : Electricity—Geology. BOYNTON, E. M. Quotation : Money. BOYS, or BOYSE, JoHN, born in Suffolk, Eng- land, 1560; an English scholar and author; died, 1643. Qºto- tation : Commandments. BOYSE, J. F. Quotations: Benefits—Criticism—Echo- Future—Instruction—Mercy--Misanthropy--Old Age—Pity —Punctuality—Sorrow—Zeal. - BOYSE, SAMUEL, born in Dublin, 1708; an Eng- lish miscellaneous writer and poet ; died, 1749. Quotation : Reception. BRACKENRIDGE, HUGH HENRY, born near Campbelton, Scotland. 1748; a Writer and politician; died, 1816. Quotation : Harm. - BRACKENRIDGE, HENRY M., born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, May 11, 1786; an American judge and writer; died, January 18, 1871. Quotation: Judges, BRACTON, HENRY, DE, lived about 1250 ; an emi- nent English jurist: Quotation : Ring. BRADBURN, SAMUEL, born at Gibraltar, Octo- ber 5, 1751; a local Wesleyan preacher; died, July 24, 1816. Q?totations: Deism—God—Jehovah. BRADDON, MISS MARY ELIZABETH, born in Soho Square, London, 1837; a popular novelist. Quotations: Amiability— Anguish–Grief— Hate — Love—Murder—Re- entance—Stage—Sunset – Sunshine – Talent —Tea—TO- Morrow—Thought—Trust—Uncertainty—Worship. BRADEN. Quotation: Blockhead. .. I ()SI A / O G /ø A /? A/ / C A / / /V /O AE X. BRAMHALL, JoHN BRADENBURG, FREDERICK WILHELM, COUNT of, born at Berlin, 1792; a German diplomatist and Soldier; died, 1850. Quotation : Jest. - BRADFORD, ALDEN, LL.D., born at Duxbury, Massachusetts, November 19, 1765; an American divine and author; died, October 26, 1843. Quotations: Peace-Til- lage—Trees. BRADFORD, John, born at Manchester, England, about 1500; an English Protestant divine; died, 1555. Quo- tations : Providence—Religion. e wº BRADFORD, SAMUEL F., of Philadelphia ; editor and publisher of “Dramatic Censor,' (Philadelphia, 1810.) Quotations: Amusement—Author-Ayalice. Biography– Čriticism – Cynicism — Drama — Entertainment – Farce— Imitation—Music—Stage--Theatre. BRADFORD, WILLIAM, born in Yorkshire, Eng- land, March, 1590; one of the Pilgrim Fathers; he emigra- ted to New England in the Mayflower in 1620; died, May 9, 1657. Quotations : Oppression—Peace—Providence. - BRADLEY, EDwARD, (Cuthbert Bede,) born, 1827; a popular English author. Quotation : Spirit. BRADSTREET, ANNE, born in Northampton, England, 1613; an English poetess and Writer; died, 1672. Quotation : Gratitude. BRADSHAW, HENRY, born about 1445; an Eng- lish Benedictine monk; died, 1513. Quotattion. Grandeur. BRADSHAW, JOHN, born, 1586: an English judge ; died, November, 1659. Quotations: Anarchy— Guilt—Tyrant. BRADWARDINE, THOMAs, (Archbishop of Can- terbury,) Sussex, 1290; an eminent English prelate; died, 1349. Quotation : Grief. IBRAGG, BRAxTon, born in Warren County, North Carolina, 1815. Quotations: Hobby—Homeliness. BRAHE, TYCHO, born at Knudsthorpe, in Scania, Sweden, December, 1545; a celebrated astronomer; died at Prague, October 13, 1601. Quotations : Philosophy– Space—Star—Wisdom. BRAINARD, DAVID, born at Haddam, Conecti- cut, 1718; an American divine ; died, 1747. Quotation : Combination—Hate. BRAMBATI, Isott A, born in Bergamo, Italy, 1535; an Italian poetess and writer; died, 1586. Qilotation : Interest. , D.D., born in Yorkshire, England, 1593; an English divine; died, 1663. Qttotation : Necessity. BBAMIERI. Quotation: Blood. BRANDE, WILLIAM THOMAS, F.R.S., born in Lon- don, 1788; an eminent English chemist; died, 1866. Quota- tions : Alchemy—Fairies—Farce—Gold—Hour—Induction —Monopoly—Party—Proverbs—Sculpture—Smelling—Vol- cano—Witchcraft. BRANDI, GIACINTO, born in the Roman States, 1623 ; an Italian painter; died, 1691 : Q?totation : Artist. BRANDRETH, DR. BENJAMIN, born in England; a physician of some repute: died at Sing Sing, 1880. Quo- tations : Smile—Temperance. BRAY, CHARLEs, born in London, about 1800; an English writer. Quotations: Ideality—Piety—Temper. BRAY, MRs. ELIZA KEMPE STOTHARD, born in Surrey, England, 1800; a popular English authoress and novelist. Quotations: Art–Hope—Kindness—Pension— Ritual. BREBEUF, JEAN, DE, born 1593; a French mis- sionary; killed by savages, 1649. Quotation : Thirst. BREBEUF, GUILLAUME, DE, born in Thorigny, France, 1618; a poet and miscellaneous writer; died, 1661. Quotation : Immorality. BRECKENRIDGE, ROBERT JEFFERSON, D.D., LL.D., born at Cabell's Dale, Kentucky, March 8, 1800; a Presbyterian divine; died at Danville, Kentucky, Decem- ber 27, 1871. Quotation: Secession. BREEN, HENRY HEGART, F.S.A., born in Kerry, Ireland, 1805; an English author. Quotation : Gossip. BREESE, MARY. Quotation : Sport. BREMER, FREDERIKA, born at Abo, Finland, August 17, 1802; a popular Swedish novelist; died, De- cember 31, 1866. Quotations: Friendship —Gentleness— Heart–Home— Kindness—Marriage—Prayer— Sickness— Story—Wealth. BRENTON, EDwARD PELHAM, born, 1774; an English naval officer; died, 1844. Quotation : Influence. BRENTZ, or BRENTZEN, JOHANN, born at Weil, Suabia, 1439. a German Protestant theologian ; died, 1570. Quotation : Court. * BREREWOOD, EDWARD, born in Chester, Eng- land, 1565; an English mathematician and antiquary ; died, 1613. Quotation: Merchant. BRET. ANTOINE, born at Dijon, France, 1717: a French littérateur: died, 1792. Quotations: Love—Speak- ing—Wit. BRETON, NICHOLAs, born, 1555; an English poet and prose writer; died, 1624. Quotation : Constancy. BREVINT, DANIEL, (Dean of Lincoln,) born in the island of Jersey, 1610; a Protestant theologian; died, 1695. Q?totattion : Communion. BREWER, ANTHONY, born in England, about #. an English dramatist; died about 1645. Quotation : 1ty. - BREWER, E. COBHAM, D.D., LL.D., born in Lon- don about 1810; an English writer. Quotation : Cant. BREWSTER, SIR DAVID, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., born at Jedburgh, Scotland, December 11, 1781; an eminent optician, ex erimental philosopher and writer; died, Feb- ruary 10, 1868. Quotations: Alchemy — Future— Imagina- tion—Piety—Science—Sun. BREWSTER, M. M. Quotations: Piety—wrath. BRICONNET, GUILLAUME, (Bishop of Meaux,) born, 1470; a learned divine and moralist; died, 1533. Quotation ; Conduct. BRIDAINE, or BRYDAINE, JACQUES, born at Çhuslan, Gard, France; an eminent preacher; died near Avignon, 1767. Quotations : Eternity—Lawyer. BRIENTNALL, J. Quotation: Kissing. BRIDGE, WILLIAM, born, 1600 : an English Puri- tan and Independent minister; died, 1670. Quotation : Faith—Fullness. BRIDGES, CHARLEs, D.D., born in England ; an English divine and author, (London, 1838.) Quotations: Belief—Confirmation—Ritual—Schism—Study. BRIGGS, CHARLES FREDERICK, born in the island of Nantucket, Rhode Island; an American writer (New York, 1839–44.) Quotation : Electricity. BRIGHT, JOHN, born at Greenbank, near Roch- dale, Yorkshire, England, November 16, 1811; an eminent English orator, statesman, and liberal reformer. Quota- tions. Ballot—Popularity—Slaughter. BRIDGMAN, LAURA, born at Hanover, New Hampshire, 1829; a blind deaf-Inute, who furnishes a re- markable illustration of intelligence under her calamity. Quotation : Light-Heartedness. BRIMLEY, GEORGE, born, 1819; an English essay- est and critic; died, 1857. Quotation : Genius. BRINKLEY, John, born, 1763; an English divine and astronomer; died. 1835. Quotation : Stage. BRISBANE, ALBERT, born in Batavia, New York, about 1808; an American lecturer and writér on Social Te- form. Quotations: Aristocracy—Association--Bank—Bar- barism – Correction — Destiny— Exchange — Feudalism — Household—Industry—Isolation—Labor—Love—Monopoly —Navigation—Passion—Poyerty—Race—Reason—Sailor— Savage—Slavery—Society—Subsistence — System—Theory —Tyranny—Usury—Vagrant—Wages. BRISBANE, H. Quotation : Killing. BRISSOT DE WARVILLE, JEAN PIERRE, born at Chartres, France, January 14, 1754; an eminent political writer; died by the guillotine, in Paris, October 31, 1793. Quotations: Anarchy—Property—Slavery. BRITTON, JOHN, ; born in Wiltshire, England, 1771; a celebrated antiquary; died, 1857. Quotation : Grief. BRITTON, THOMAS, born in Northamptonshire, England, 1650; an English coal-dealer, who was celebrated for his proficiency in music: died, 1714. Quotation : Har- ImOny. BROADWOOD, WILLIAM ; a celebrated English piano manufacturer. Quotation : Piano. BROCK, REV. W. J. Quotations: Joy–Pardon. BRODERICK, DAVID Col.BRETH, born in Wash- ington, District of Columbia, 1818; an American senator; killed in a duel, September 21, 1859. Quotation : Injustice. BRODIE, SIR BENJAMIN COLLINs, D.C.L., F.R.S., born in Wiltshire, England, June 9, 1783; an eminent Eng- lish physician ; died, October 21, 1862. Quotations : Atten- tion — Decay—Humility— Mind – Old Age— Retirement— |Usefulness, BRODZINSKI, CASIMER, born at Krolowko, Po- land, 1791; a celebrated poet and critic; died, 1835. Quota- tion : Blushing. BROGNI, CARDINAL OF, (GIOVANNI ALLARMET,) born, 1342; an eminent Italian ecclesiastic; died, 1426. Quotation : Suspicion. BRONGNIART, ADOLPHE THéOPHILE, born in Paris, 1801; a French botanist and writer on fossils. Quo- tation : Fossils. BRONSON, PROFESSOR. C. P. Quotations: Elocu- tion—Emotion—Free-thinking. BRONSON, GREEN C.; a distinguished American jurist. Quotation: Slavery. BRONTE, ANNE, (Acton Bell,) a sister of Char- lotte Bronté, born in Yorkshire, 1820; an English novelist - died, May, 1849. Quotation : Chastisement. 1082 A) A Y S C O /, / A C O AV. BRONTE, CHARLOTTE, (Currer Bell,) born at Thornton, in Yorkshire, England, April 21, 1816; a popular novelist: died at Haworth, March 31, 1855. Quotattions. Custom—Disappointment—Friendship—Happiness—Life— Memory-Prejudice. BRONTE, EMILY, (Ellis Bell,) a sister of Charlotte Bronté, born in Yorkshire, 1819; a poetess and novelist; died, December, 1848. Quotation : Fame. BROOKE, MRS. CHARLOTTE, born in Ireland ; a # authoress, (London, 1788;) died, 1793. Quotation : utifulness. BROOKE, GUSTAVUs WAUGHAN, born in Dublin, Ireland, 1818; an eminent tragedian; drowned, January 11, 1866. Quotation : Tragedy. BROOKE, HENRY, born at Rantavan, Ireland, 1706; a political and miscellaneous writer; died, 1783. , Quo- tations: Books— Fear—Hero— Ingratitude— Joy–Män— Merchant—Purity—Superstition. BROOKE, LORD. See FULKE GREVILLE. BROOKE, STAFFORD AUGUSTUs, born in Dublin, 1832; clergyman and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Countenance. BROOKS, CHARLEs SHIRLEY, born, 1815; an English journalist, lecturer, dramatist, and novelist ; died, February 23, 1874. Quotation : Pride. BROOKS, CHARLEs TIMOTHY, born in Salem, Massachusetts, June 20, 1813; an American Unitarian di- Vine and poet. Quotation : Responsibility. BROOKS, ERASTUS, born at Portland, Maine, January 31, 1815; an American journalist, and editor of “New York Express.” Quotations: Business—Fate—Hap- piness—Homeliness-—Hour. BROOKS, MRS, FRANCEs, born about 1720 ; an #lish authoress and dramatist; died, 1789. Quotation : a te. - BROOKS, JAMES, (Bishop of Gloucester;) an Eng- lish divine and author, (London, 1553.) Quotations: Cloud —Fame—Justice—Riches. BROOKS, JAMES GORDON, born at Claverack, New York, 1801; an American poet and prose writer; died, 1841. Quotation : Piety. BROOKS, JoHN, M.D., LL.D., born at Medford, Massachusetts, May 31, 1752; an American soldier and phy- sician; died, March 1, 1825. Quotations: Quarrels—Soldier. BROOKS, PHILLIPs, born in Boston, December 13, 1835; an American clergyman. Quotations: Absence — Future. + BROOKS, REV. THOMAS ; an English divine and author, (London, 1670.) Quotations. Ambition—Christian -Comfort-Tööntentment- Delay—Grage—Infamy—Mur- mur—-Obedience—Penance—Penitence—-Prayer--Quietness. BROOME, WILLIAM, born in Cheshire, England ; 8,1] English poet and divine; died, 1745. Quotations. Beg- gar—Exigency–Narrative – Passion — Poet—Self-Praise— Sentences. BROUGH, JoBN, born in Marietta, Ohio, Septem- ber 17, 1811 ; an American printer and journalist; died at • Cleveland, Ohio, August 29, 1865. Qºzotoztáozz. Odd-Fellow. BROUGHAM, HENRY, IORD, born in Edinburgh, September 19, 1779; an eminent British Statesman, orator, lawyer, and author; died at Cannes, France, May 9, 1868 Quotations: Advocate—Genius-Greatness—Habit—Jury —Knowledge—Lawyer—Mind — Oratory—Schoolmaster— Surety—War. BROUGHTON, RHODA, born in England ; a pop- ular novelist. Quotation : Merit. BROUSSE, LA. See LABROUSSE. BROUSSON, CLAUDE, born at Nîmes, France, 1647; a French Protestant theologian and writer; he was executed for treason, 1698. Quotation : Jesuitism. BROWN, ALBERT G., born in Chester, South Car- olina, May 31, 1813; an American senator who advocated secession in 1861. Quotation : Slavery. " BROWN, ANTOINETTE L., (MRS. BLACKWELL,) born in Henrietta, Monroe county, New York, May 20, 1825; 3. gººgational female minister. Quotation 8: Equality –83,11111'6". BROWN, CHADD, born about 1595 ; an American Baptist divine ; died, 1665. Quotation : Suavity. BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN, born in Philadel- gº; January 17, 1771 iº Fºr novelist; died, February 22, Jll 1810. Quotation : ice. BROWN, DAVID PAUL, born in Philadelphia, 1795; an American lawyer and writer; died, July 11, 1872. Quo- tation : Accusation—Dirt. BROWN, GOOLD, born in Providence, Rhode Is- land, March 7, 1791; an American grammarian and teacher; died, at L , Massachusetts, March 31, 1857. , Quotations: Accent—Conversation—Disguise—Equivocation—Favor— Grammar—Gratitude—Greatness—Idleness—Ingratitude— Language—Laziness—Merit—Obstinacy—Reward--Secrecy Sincerity. BROWN, REV. I. B. Quotation: Compassion. BROWN, JAMES BALDw1N, D.D., born in the In- ner Temple, London, §uº. 19, 1820; an Independent di- vine. Quotations: Ink—Music—Redemption—Urbanity. BROWN, JOHN, (of Assawatomie,) born at Tor- rington, Connecticut, Mây 9, 1800; an extraordinary fanatic on the question of slavery; his enthusiasm cost him his life ; he was hung at Charleston, Virginia, December 2, 1859. Quotations: Politics—Principles–Reform—Society —Star—Wrong. BROWN, JOHN, D.D., born, 1715; an eminent English clergyman and miscellaneous writer; died by sui- cide, 1766. Quotations : Affliction —Benefactor—Poetry— Rainbow—Symbol. BROWN, JOHN, (of Haddington,) born in Perth- shire, Scotland, 1722; a Scottish religious writer and lin- guist, and author of a “Dictionary of the Bible,” and “The Self-interpreting Bible;" died, June 19, 1787. Quotations : Commerce—Depravity—Savior—Spirit—Type. BROWN, JOHN P.; an American diplomatist and translator. Quotations: Kisses—Love —Narrative —Phi- lanthropy. BROWN, JOHN W., born at Schenectady, New York, 1814; an American author; died, 1849. Quotation : Freemasonry. BROWN, MOSES, born at Providence, Rhode Isl- and, 1738; an American merchant; died, 1836. Quotation : Suavity. BROWN, ROBERT, born, 1550; an English theolo- logian and founder of the sect called “Independents;” died, 1630. Quotation : Humanity. BROWN-SEQUARD, EDwARD, born in the island of Mauritius, 1818; an eminent physician, physiologist, and author, Quotation : Brains. BROWN, THOMAS, born at Kirkmabreck, near Dumfries, Scotland, 1778; a British metaphysician, moral philosopher, and poet; died, 1820. Quotations: Hospitality —LaCOmics. BROWN, T. L., M.D., an American sceptic and materialist. Quotations: Difference—Free-Thinking. BROWN, WILLIAM, born at Ballymena, Ireland, 1784; an eminent merehant and philanthropist ; died, 1864. Quotation : Amendment. BROWNE, CHARLES FARRAR, (Artemws Ward,) born in Waterford, Maine, April 26, 1834; a humorous wri- ter, printer, lecturer, and journalist; died at Southampton, England, March 6, 1867. Quotations: Advertisement—Joke —Newspaper. BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD, D.D., (Bishop of Ely and Winchester,) born, 1811; an eminent prelate and writer. Quotation : Inn. BROWNE, MIss, FRANCEs, born at Stranolar, county Donegal, Ireland, January 16, 1816; a blind poetess and novelist. Quotation : Contempt. BROWNE, John Ross, born 1817; an American traveller and writer; died, 1875. Quotation : Distance. BROWNE, MARY ANNE, born in Berkshire, 1812; * English poetess and writer; died, 1846. Quotation : 3.VCŞ. BROWNE, SIR THOMAS, M.D., born in London, November 19, 1605; an º physician, philosopher, and an eminent writer; died, November 19,1682. Quotations : Agreeableness—Antiquity —Art —Avarice—Controversy— Covetousness—Detraction—Dreams - Envy—Error—Eter- nity—Eyil–Face--Forgiveness-Gentile--Geometry—Great- ness-Happiness—Harmony—Health– Heaven—Hell—Hu- man Nature—Humility—Immortality–-Iniquity—Judgment -Life—Light–Lying-Man—Misery-Multitude—Nature— Oblivion—Opinion—Passion—Pen—Pleasure—Pride—Rea- son—Revenge—Riches— Scholar-Self-Esteem—Self-Opin- ion—Silence — Sin—Sincerity — Sleep — Solitude — Spirit— State — Study – Suicide–Swearing—Testimony —Time— Truth—Ubiquity—Vice—Virtue—World. BROWNE, SIR WILLIAM, born in Norfolk, Eng- land, 1692; an English physician and writer; died, 1774. Quotation : Providence. BROWNE, WILLIAM, born at Tavistock, England, 1590; an English poet and prose writer; died, 1645. Quota- tion. Flattery. BROWNE, or BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE, born at Utrecht, Netherlands, 1755: an eminent theologian; died, 1830. Quotation : Eternity. BROWNLEY. Quotation: wisdom. BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT, born in Led- bury, Herefordshire, about 1807; one of England's most gifted female poets; died at Florence, Italy, June 29, 1861. Quotations : Faith—Soul—Work. BROWNING, ROBERT, husband of the preceding, born in Camberwell, London, 1812; an eminent English poet. Quotation : Progress. BROWNRIG, RALPH, (Bishop of Exeter,) born at Ipswich, England, 1592; a celebrated English prelate; died, 1659. Quotations: Obedience—Temptation. A / O G. A. A P Aſ J C A /, / AV /O AE X. 1083 BROWNSON, ORESTEs AUGUSTUs, LL.D., born at Stockbridge, Vermont, September 16, 1803; an American theologian and writer; died, April 16, 1876. , Quotations : Democracy—Future—Heresy—Immortality—Murmur—Pa- pacy—Popery—Priest—Progress—Wages. BROWNSWERD, JoHN, born about 1510 ; an English Latin poet and writer; died, 1589. Quotation : Change. ERUCE, MRS. E. M.; an English novelist. Quota- tions: Happiness—Ostentation. BRUCE, ROBERT, King of Scotland, born, March 21, 1274; one of Scotland's noblest men; died, 1829. Quota- tions : Adversity—Valor. BRUCKER, JoHANN JAKOB, born at Augsburg, 1696; a Protestant divine and historian ; died, 1770. Quo- tation : Blustering. BRUGSCH, HEINRICH ICARL, PH. D., born at Ber- lin, February 18, 1827; a distinguished German Egyptolo- gist and writer. Quotation : Inscription. BRUMMEL, GEORGE BRYAN, (“BEAU BRUMMEL,”) born in London, 1778; an English fop, and for many years the leader of fashion; died at Caen, France, March 29, 1840. Quotation : Etiquette. BRUN, FRIEDRIKE SOPHIE CHRISTIANE MüNTER, born at Gotha, 1765; a German authoress; died, 1835. Quo- tation : Courage. BRUN, LE, PIERRE. See LEBRUN. BRUNEHAUT, the daughter of Athanagildus, King of Spain, born, 548; she was distinguished for her beauty and talents; she was killed by being tied to the tail of a wild horse, 613. Quotations: Retreat—Yielding. BRUNNE, ROBERT DE, or ROBERT MANNING, born, 1270; an English author and poet ; died about 1345. Quotation : Famine. BRUNO of ASTE, (Abbot of Monte Cassino,) born at Aste, in Liguria, Italy, about 1057; a zealous reformer of the church, and an eloquent preacher; died, 1123. Quo- tation : Gentile. BRUNO, GIORDANO, born at Nola, in the kingdom of Naples, about the middle of the sixteenth century; an eminent philosopher, burned at Rome for heresy and apos- tacy, 1600. Quotation : Midnight. BRUNSON, REV. A. Quotation : Death. BRUNTON, MARY BALFOUR, born in one of the Orkney Islands, 1778; a popular English novelist; died, 1818. Quotation : Deceit. BRUTEL, LARIVIERE, DE, born at Montpelier, France, 1667; a learned Protestant theologian ; died, 1742. Quotation : Conduct—Fallibility. BRUTUS, LUCIUS, JUNIUS, lived about 550 B.C. : a distinguished Roman, who avenged the wrongs of Lucre- tia, and the founder of the Roman republic; died, 507 B.C. Quotation : Earth. \ BRUTUS, MARCUs JUNIUS, born, 88 B.C., a noted Roman; one of the conspirators who assisted in the assas: Sination of Julius Caesar; died by suicide at the battle of Philippi, 36 B.C. Quotation: Killing. BRUYERE, JEAN, DE LA, born at Dourdan, in Normandy, 1646; a celebrated French author and moralist; died, 1696. Quotations: Ability—Affectation—Ambition— Ancestry—Appreciation—Arrogance-ASSociation –Athe- ism—Author—Birth—Blockhead—Blushing—Books—Ca- price—Charms—City–Conjecture – Consciousness —Con- versation—Coquetry – Country – Costume-Court—Cour- tier—Coxcomb–Craft—Crime – Criticism—Day—Death— Deceit–Desire–Difficulty—Discipline —Discretion—Disin- terestedness— Dogmatism — Dupes— Education—Egotism —Eloquence—Eminence — Emulation—Envy—Excellence —Experience—Extremes–Fame—Father—Favor—Fool— Forgiveness—Fortune — Freedom — Future—Gaming—Ge- nius—God—Good—Government—Greatness—Hate—Hour— Idleness--Impatience—Income—Inconstancy--Indiscretion —Infidelity—Intellect—Joke—Rinavery—Language—Law— Liberality—Liberty—Life—Logic — Love—Manners—Mar- riage—-Médiocrity--Men.--Merit--Miser—-Modesty—-Monarchy –Morality—Motive – Nobility— Object—Old Age–Oppor- tunity—Orator—Pastor—Patience—Payment—Peevishness —Perfection—Perseverance—Physiognom {#;": ure—Politeness—Position— jºu.” igality— Progress—Promise— Prosperity—Punishment—Quarrels— Rarity—Reproach—Revenge—Ridiculousness—Rudeness— Scoffing—Secrecy-Self-Deceit—Self-Love-Self-Possession -Sense-Shame–Silliness—Sloth-Sociability—Speaking— Spirit—State—Station—Story—Sublimity—Suggess—Talent ling-Time--Title–To-Morrow—Trust—Tuition— Un- faithfulness–Vain-Glory—Vanity—Voice–Wickedness— Wisdom—Wit—Woman—Words—World—Writing—Yield- I Ing. BRYAN, GEORGE, born in Dublin, Ireland, 1730; emigrated to America, and became a patriot of the Hevo- lution; died, 1791. Quotation : Freedom. BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN, born at Cumming- ton, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, November 23, 1794; an eminent American poet, miscellaneous writer, and jour- nalist; died, June 12, 1878. Quotations: Editor—Journalism —Life—News—Prairie—Préss—Remorse—Style—Telegraph BRYSON, T. Quotations: Abuse—Beatitude. BRYDGES, SIR SAMUEL EGERTON, born at Woot- ton Court, Kent, England, 1762; an English critic, novelist, and poet; died near Geneva, 1837. Qutotations : Author— Genſus-înteitect-N obility—Truth. BUCCHIUS. Quotation : Renown. BUCHAN, PETER, born about 1780; a Scottish an- tiquary ; died, 1854. Quotation. Legacy. BUCHAN, WILLIAM, M.D., born at Ancrum, Scotland, 1729; an sº and author of “Do- mestic Medicine ; ” died. 1805. Quotation : Bluntness. BUCHANAN, FRANCIS, M.D., born in Stirling- shire, Scotland, 1762; a Scottish physician and writer; died, 1829. Quotation : Conversation. BUCHANAN, GEORGE, born at Killearn, in the county of Stirling, Scotland, 1506; a celebrated historian and author; died at Edinburgh, 1582. Quotation : Despot- 1SIIl. BUCHANAN, JAMES, born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1791; the fifteenth President of the United States; died, June 1, 1868. Quotations: Diplomacy —Labor—Time BUCHEZ, PHILIPPE JOSEPH BENJAMIN, born at Matagne, Ardennes, France, 1796; an able philosophical writer; died, 1865. Quotation : Genius. BUCK, CHARLES, D.D., born, 1771; an exemplary English clergyrhan and author; died, 1815. Quotations: Avarice–Blasphemy—Books—Candor—Catechism—Ceme- tery—Chance—-Compassion—Consciousness—-Controversy— Covenant—Cruelty-Diffidence—Disobedience--Disposition —Doctrine— Early Rising—Emulation – Encouragement— Equity—Eternity—Example—Fashion—Fortitude—Friend- ship—Gluttony—Grave—Hardship—Humility—Ingratitude —Innocence—Intermperance—Jews—Judgments –Lending —Lying—Memory— Minister— Morality—Nun—Obligation Pardon—Parent—Peevishness—-Perjury-–Persecution—Per- Severance—Polygamy—Popularity—Practice—Preaching— Precept—Present—Providence—-Purity–-Quarrels-Reading —Reproof —Resignation—Retirement—Reverence—Sacra- ment—Servant–Simplicity--Stoicism--Submission—Swear- ing—Taciturnity—-Temperance —Tyrant—Unbelief—Vicig- Situde—War. BUCKE, CHARLES, born in Suffolk, England, 1781; an English writer; died, 1847. Quotation : River. BUCKENHOUT, DR. JOHN. Quotation : Patriotism. BUCKINCK, ARNOLD, lived in the fifteenth cen- tury; a German engrayer of maps, and writer on architec- ture. Quotation : Building. - BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE OF, (GEORGE VIL- liers,) born in Leicestershire, August 20, 1592; an English courtier, and favorite of James the First ; he was assassi- nated by John Felton, August 23, 1628. Quotations : Gov- ernment—Heart—World. BUCKINGHAM, SECOND DUKE OF, (GEORGE VIL- liers,) Son of the º born 1627; a profligate courtier; died at Kirby Moorside, Yorkshire, April 16, 1688. Quota. tion : Ingratitude. BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK, born at Flushing, near Falmouth, Cornwall, England, 1786; an English trav- eiler, journalist, and popular lecturer; died, June 30, 1855. . Quotation : Greeting. BUCKINGHAM, Joseph TINKER, born at Wind- ham, Connecticut, December 21, 1779; an American jour- malist; died, April 11, 1861. Quotation : Law. BUCKLE, HENRY THOMAS, born at Lee, in Kent, England, November 24, 1822; a popular author; died at Da- mascus, May 29, 1862. Quotations. Belief–Pardon. BUCKLEY, THEODORE WILLIAM ALOIs, born. 1825; a popular writer; died, 1856. Quotation : Fool. BUCKMINSTER, Joseph, born at Rutland, Mas- sachusetts, October, 1751; an Orthodox divine ; died, June 12, 1812. Quotation : Accident. BUCKMINSTER, JosłPH STEVENs, born in Ports- Imouth, New Hampshire, May 26, 1784; an eloquent Unita- rian minister; died, 1861. Quotations : Charity—Condem- nation—Disease—Excellence—Husbandry-Incredulity— Integrity—Meekness—Resolution—Rural Life—Selfishness —Sickness—Sympathy—Temple—Time—To-morrow. BUCKNER, MRS. H. Quotation: Faithlessness. BUDDHA, or GAUTAMA BUDDHA, or BOOD- DHA, called also Sákya Muni and Sãkya Sinha, born, 624 B.C.; a celebrated Hindoo reformer, C9mmonly sºpº to have been the founder of B90ddhism; died,524 B.C. Quotations : Adultery—Good-Hate-Injury—Killing—Li- berality—Lying—Nothing—Offense- Patience—Pleasure— Reflection—Rock—Self-Love—Sin–Temperance–Thought —Truth—Virtue–Wickedness—Worship—Zeal. **----- BUDDICOM, ROBERT PEDDER, born, 1770; an English Protestant divine and theological writer; died, 1846. Quotation : Benevolence. BUDGELL, EUSTACE, born near Exeter, England, 1685; an English essayist and contributor to the “Specta- tor:” died by suicide, May 4, 1736. Quotations : Advice — Assurance—Argument–Beard – Controversy–Decency— Delay—Dispute–Etiquette—Friendship—Good-Breeding— Hardihood–Heresy— Merchant—Modesty—Moment—He- proach–Soul. 1084 J) A V 'S CO /, / A C O AV. BUEL, JESSE, born at Coventry, Connecticut, Jan- uary 4, 1778; an Americas journalist; died, October 6, 1839. Q?totation : Agriculture. BUFFALO PLATFORM. Quotation : Slavery. BUFFON, GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE, born at Montbard, Burgundy, September 7, 1707; an eminent French, philosopher and naturalist; died, April 16, 1788. agºons : Genius—Mind—Nature—Patience—Stomach —Style. BUGGE, THOMAS, born at Copenhagen, 1740; an eminent Danish astronomer and Writer; died, 1815. Quo- tation : GOd. BULKLEY, J. W., born, 1815; an American edu- cator, first president of New York State Teachers' Asso- ciation ; died, 1880. Quotation : Teaching—Uniformity. BULL, GEORGE, D.D., born at Wells, Somerset, England, 1634; a learned English ecclesiastic ; died, 1710. Quotations : Preaching—Righteousness. BULL, JosLAH, D.D., born, 1745; an English Pro- fººt divine and Writer, (LOndon, 1805.) Quotattion, . ight. BULLINGER, HEINRICH, born at Aargan, Swit- zerland, 1504; a Protestant reformer; died, 1575. Quota- tion : Church—Prayer. BULLIONS, PETER, born in Perthshire, Scotland, 1791; an eminent educational Writer; died, 1864. Quota- tion : Grammar. BULSTRODE, EDwARD, born, 1588; an English jurist and author; died, 1659. Quotation : Innovation. BULSTRODE, SIR. RICHARD, lived in the seven- teenth century ; an English author. Quotation : Want. BULWER, BARON LYTTON, (EDwARD GEORGE Earle º born at Heydon Hall, in Norfolk, England, May, 1805; a distinguished novelist, poet, dramatist, mis- cellaneous Writer, and Statesman; died, 1873. 740tóttiO77S : Affection—Ambition—Angling—Apocrapha-Aristocracy —Art—Author —AVersion – Birth — Books — Caricature— Castles-in-the-Air—Ceremony—Character—Cheerfulness— Christianity — City — Common-Sense — Conscience — Con- stangy—Contentment—Control—Country—Critic—Curse— Dandy—Debt—Deceit—Desire–Despair—Destiny-Devo- tion—Dinner–Disappointment—Disease—Dress—Dupes— Emulation— Enthusiasm—Ethics—Evening—Excellence— —Extremes—Failure—Faith—Fame—Farewell–Fashion— Favor—Fear—Fortune—Friendship—Frugality— Futurity —Gentleman—Genius — Good-Nature — Gratitude — Great- ness—Grief—Happiness-Harlot—Heart—Heaven— Heir— Honesty—Ignorance — Imagination – Incredulity—Inno- cence—Intellect—Invention—Knowledge—Lending—Lib- erty—Life—Literature—Love—LOVer—Luck—Lying—Man- kind–Manners—Merit— Mind—Misanthropy—Mischief— Miser—Misfortune–Monarchy–Money—Music—Nature— Novels—Qccupation—Old Age—Qpinion—Oratory—Part- ing—Passion—Past—Pen-Poet—Politeness–Power—Pre- tension—Pride— Rank—Reading— Reason—Remorse—Re- pentance—Reproach—Republic—Retirement—Revenge— Self--Shame—Silence--Sin–Sleep--Society—-Sorrow—Soul— Suspense—Sympathy—Tears— Thinking—Timidity—Toil— Tomb-Trees—Truth—Unfaithfulness–Vanity-Vice-Vir- tue—Wealth—Wisdom—Woman—Yearning—Youth–Zeal. BULWER, ROSINA WHEELER, (LADY BULWER Lytton,) the wife of Bulwer the novelist; born in Ireland, 1807; the authoress of several works of fiction. Quota. tion : Retaliation. BUNGENER, L. T.; an English novelist. Quota- tion : BellS. BUNSEN, CHRISTIAN KARL JOSIAs, CHEVALIER yon, born at Korbagh, Westphalia, August 25, 1791; an em- inent Fº diplomatist, and theologian ; died at Heidelberg, 1860. Quotations. Intention—Projector. BUNTING, HENRY, born in England, about 1550 ; an English theologian and author of several religious works, (London, 1629.) Quotations : Perseverance– Re- pentance. BUNY AN, JOHN, the son of a tinker, born at Els- tow, near Bedford, England, 1628; the literary wonder of the Seyenteenth century, and the celebrated author of “Pilgrim's Progress;” died, August 31, 1683. Quotations: Christian— Commandments—Heart — Hell — Innocence — Murder — Prayer — Regeneration — Religion — Woman — WOrdS. BUONAROTTI, FILIPPo, born at Pisa, Italy, 1761; an Italian republican and revolutionist; died, 1837. Quotation : Gentile. BURBAGE, RICHARD, born, 1566 : an eminent English actor; died, 1619. Quotation : Drama. BURBRIDGE, THOMAS. Quotations: Eye–Faith— Philosophy. BURBURY, MRS. born in England, about 1800; an eminent Énglish novelist, (London. 1851.) Quotation : Spring. BURCHARD, REV. D. S. Quotation: Insanity. BURCKHARDT, JOHANN LUDWIG, born at Lau- suane, 1784; a celebrated Swiss traveller and author; died, 1817. Quotation : Woman. BURDER, HENRY FORSTER, D.D., born in Eng- land about 1775; and English clergyman, lecturer, and all- thor, (London, 1822.) Quotations : Affliction--Bereavement —Humility. BURDER, SAMUEL, born in Cambridge, England, about 1730; an English Orientalist and author. Quotation: Conversation. BURDETT, ARTHUR M. Quotation: Report. BURDETT, CHARLEs, born, 1815; a New York journalist and author. Quotation : Congratulation. BURDETT, MARY GROVER, born in London ; an English novelist. Quotation : Audacity. BURDON, WILLIAM, born, 1764; an English wri- ter on politics and ethics: died, 1818. Quotation : Example. BUREN, VAN, MARTIN. See VAN BUREN. BURETTE, JEAN, born, 1665; an eminent French physician; died, 1747. Quotations: Pleasure—Prosperity. BURGARDUS, or BURCHARD, (Bishop of Worms,) born in Hesse, Germany; an eminent theologian ; died, 1026. Quotations: Trial—Yielding. BURGER, GoTFRIED AUGUSTUs, born at Wolmers- Wende, near Halberstadt, Prussian Saxony, 1748; a celebra- ted German poet and prose writer; died, June 8, 1794. Qºto- %. : Cunning—I)eath—Emperor—Heaven—Slander— OIIla. Il. BURGES, FRANCIS, born about the latter part of the seventeenth century; an American Writer, and author Of “Some Observations on the Use and Origin of the Noble Art of Printing,” (Norwich, 1701.) Quotations: Bliss—De- fect—Imagination—Reason—Sculpture. BURGES, TRISTAM, LL.D., born at Rochester Massachusetts, February 26, 1770; an American orator and Statesman ; died, October 13, 1853. Quotations: Husbandry —Labor—Tillage. º BURGESS, ANTHONY, lived about 1600; an Eng- lish Non-conformist minister. Quotations : Good—Idola- try—Love—Religion—Thought, BURGESS, DANIEL, born at Staines, near Wind- SOr, England, 1645; an Énglish dissenting divine ; died, 1713. Quotation : Doctrine. BURGESS, E. Quotations: Creation—Date—Dynasty. BURGESS, THOMAS, (Bishop of Salisbury,) born in Odiham, Hampshire, England, 1756; an English theolo- gian and writer; died, 1837. Quotation : Slavery. BURGH, JAMEs, born in Perthshire, Scotland, 1714; a moral and political writer; died, 1775. Quotations: Affliction-Biography-Business—Multitude–Pleasure— Poverty—Prosperity—Raillery – Retirement—Self-Love— State—Talking—Temper—Time—Yesterday. BURGON, JOHN WILLIAM, B.D., born in London, 1819; an English poet, biographer, and miscellaneous Wri- ter. Quotation : Common-Sense. BURKE, EDMUND, born in Dublin, January 1 1730; a distinguished Orator, Statesman, philanthropist, an writer; as an Orator he ranks among the first of modern times, and as a writer there are few who equal, and none who transcend him ; died, July 9, 1797. Quotations : Abuse -Admiration—Adulation—Adversity—Agriculture--Ambi- tion—Apocrapha –Apprehension—Aristocracy-Artist— Association—Bigotry–Calumny – Character–Chivalry— Confidence-Conscience—Constitution—Contempt—Con- versation—Cowardice—Crime-Defence—Delicacy—Delu- sion--Democracy—Depravity–Desire-Despairº-Despotism —Discretion—Disorder—Distrust—Divorce—Doom--Duty Dynasty—Ease—Economy—Education—Eminence—Enter- rise— #sºft- Evil—Example — Existence—Expense— act—Fanaticism—Fear—Freedom—Futurity—Gentleman —Glory—Good-Government—Gracefulness-Grandeur— Grave-Haughtiness—History—Honor—Humility—Human- ity—Hypocrisy—Idea—Idleness— Ignominy—Imitation— Imposition–Infidelity—Injustice—Innovation—Interfer- ence—Jacobin—Judges—Judgment—Justice-King–Labor —Language—Law—Lawyer—Legislature-Levity—Liberty — Madness—Man —Mankind–Manners—Merchant—Meta- hysics — Mind — Misfortune–Moderation-Monarchy— *śy ºrnºśir —Nation—Nobility—Novel- ty—Obstinacy—Old Age—Qpinion--Opposition--Oppression —Painting— flºonſ. Party–Passion—Pension-Per- verseness — Physic — Physiognomy— Pleasure — Pledge— Poetry—Policy— Politics—Populace—Powers—Prejudice —Property –Prosperity — Prudence—Quarrels-Quietness —Reason—Reading—Rebellion—Religión-Riches-Rigor — Ritual—Science–Sculpture—Security—Shame-Silence –Simplicity—Slaughter–Slavery — Society - Solitude— Sonnd—Speculation—State — iºniº —Suffering—Syco- phant — §ºº. Talent—Taste —Taxation—Teaching – Temperanče —Terror — Thought—Toleration—Tomb– Tragedy–Treason-Truth – Tyranny—Ugliness. Under- standing—Vanity-Variety—Vice-Virtue—War—Wealth— Wickedness—Wisdom —WordS—Youth. BURKE, WILLIAM TALBOT, born at Memphis, Tennessee, February 9, 1860; an American printer, journal- ist, dramatic critic, and writer. Quotations; Advantage— Ambition—Consequence—Curse – Deformity–Degenera- tion—Demagogue–Diligence—Drinking—Etiquette-Eu- logy — Fortitude — Idleness — Illustration – Irresolution— Mother—Quarrels—Redress—Relaxation—Yesterday. A / O G AC A P // / C A /, / AV /O AE X. I ()85 BURKITT, WILLIAM, born at Hitcham, North- amptonshire, England, 1650; an eminent theologian and Writer; died, 1703. Quotations: Charity—Gifts—Obedience —Prayer—Sanctification. BURLEIGH, CECELIA, born in Massachusetts ; an American lecturer on Social reform. Quotations: Neces- sity—Work. BURLEIGH, CHARLES C, ; an American clergy- man and advocate of Women's Rights. Quotations. Con- dition—Mountain. BURLEIGH, Lord (WILLIAM CECIL,) born at Bourne, Lincolnshire, 1520; an eminent statesman, and moral philosopher; died, 1598. Quotattions: Contemplation —Daughter—Eloquence– Example—Extremes—Greatness —Honor—Hypocrisy-Inducement.T. Infidelity- Influence —Kindness—King — Knowledge—Method—Mind–Minister —Morality—Motive—Necessity —Opportunity —Originality —Party—Peace — Popularity – Prejudice–Prayer-Pune- tuality— Recollection—Reproof–Self—Self-Will—Sermon —Servant—Silence—Soldier—Solitude—Statesman—Surety —Temper—Trust—Unity—War—Wife—Wisdom—Wit. BURLEIGH, WILLIAM HENRY, born at Wood- stock, Connecticut, February 2, 1812: an American poet, journalist, and an opponent of slavery; died, March 18, 1871. Quotations: Decay—Interest—Zealot. BURN, ANDREw, born in Scotland, about 1750; an English soldier and author, (London, 1806;) died, 1814. Quotation : Friendship. BURNAP, GEORGE WASHINGTON, D.D., born in Merrimack, New Hampshire, November 20, 1802; an Amer- ican Unitarian divine, and author of several theological works ; died at Philadelphia, September 8, 1859. Qºtota- tions: Decision – Education - Farmer- Party—Passion— Politics—Press—Quarrels–School—Vote. BURNAP, JACOB, father of the preceding, born at Reading, Massachusetts, 1748; an American Unitarian divine; died, 1821. Quotattion : Office. BURNET, ELIZABETH, the wife of Bishop Burnet, born, 1661; an English writer on religious subjects; died, 1709. Quotation : Contention. BURNET, GILBERT, (Bishop of Salisbury,) born in Edinburgh, September 18, 1643; a Scottish historian ; dº. Quotations: Éaradise Prince-scholar-study W IU. BURNET, JACOB, LL.D., born in Newark, New Jersey, February 22, 1770; an American jurist and writer; died, April 27, 1853. Quotations: Conscience—Jangle. BURNET, JAMES, (LORD MONBODDO,) born in Kincardineshire, Scotland, 1714; a learned Scottish jurist and an eccentric writer ; died, 1799. Quotation : Trifles. BURNET, THOMAs, D.D., (Prebendary of Sarum,) born about 1680; an English theologian and author of sev- i. works; died, 1750. Quotations : Morality—Self-Confl- €11Cé. ‘. BURNET, THOMAs, born at Croft, Yorkshire, 1635: an English divine and an eloquent writer; died, 1715. Quotations: Death—Sermon. BURNET, SIR THQMAs, son of Bishop Bnrnet, born about 1685; an English judge and political writer; died, 1753. Quotations: Disgrace—Tale-Bearer. BURNETT, CHARLEs M., born about 1800; an English natural philosopher and Writer; (London, 1848.) Quotations: Animals—Hunger. BURNETT, MRs. FRANCEs. HoDGSON, born at Manchester, England, November 24, 1849; a popular novel- ist. Quotation : Rnowledge. - BURNETT, GILBERT THOMAS, born in London, 1800; an English naturalist and writer; died, 1835. Quotat- tions: Earth—Trees. BURNEY, CHARLEs, born at Shrewsbury, 1726; an English musical composer and doctor of music ; died, 1814. Quotation : Quietness. BURNS, ISLAY : an American writer, (New York, 1870.) Quotation : Remembrance. BURNS, JABEZ, D.D., born at Oldham, Lanca- Shire, England, 1805; an eminent Methodist minister, and writer on religious and moral subjects. Quotation : Lady. BURNS, JoHN, born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1775; ; eminent medical writer; died, 1850. Quotation : Min- StęI”. BURNS, ROBERT, born at Ayr, January 25, 1759; a celebrated Scottish poet; died, July 21, 1796. Quotations: Atheism—Complaint—Credit—Painting—Worth. BURR, AARON, born at Newark, New Jersey, February 6, 1756; an American politician and Vice-Presi- dent of the United States; died, September 14, 1836. Quo- tations: Law—Truth. BURR, REV. CHAUNCEY C.: an American jour- malist, and writer on social reform. Quotations: Insincer- ity—Sincerity. BURRITT, ELIHU, “The Learned Blacksmith,” born in New Britain, Connecticut, December 8, 1811; a re- former and linguist ; died, 1879. Quotations : Boys—Child- ren—Conquest—Gentleness—Human Nature—Music—Old Age—Oratory—Patience—Sense. BURROUGHES, JEREMIAH, born, 1599; an Eng- lish Puritan minister: died, 1646. Quotations : Reproach —SWearing—Worldliness. BURROUGHS, GEORGE, graduated at Harvard College, 1670; a New England divine and a victim of the Witchcraft delusion; executed, August 19, 1692. Quota- tion : Pleasure. BURTON, HENRY, born in Yorkshire, England, 1579; an English, theologian and dissenter; died, 1648. Quotation. Ambition. BURTON, RICHARD FRANCIS, CAPTAIN, born, ; an English traveller and author. Quotation : Infatu. at 1 OIl. BURTON, ROBERT, born at Lindley, Leicester- shire, February 8, 1576; an º philosopher, humorist, and an Original writer; died, January, 1640. Quotations : Adversity—Affliction—Ambition—Beatitude—-Birth—Body —Care--Chess--Company--Conceit—Conscience—Contempt –Contentment—Covetousness — Desire — Dislike—Dress— Drinking-Employment – Envy - Eye — Fear — Felicity— Friendship—Games – Gaming – Gluttony — Grace—Happi- ness—Human Nature—Idleness—Jest—Life—Love—Lover -Marriage-Matrimony—Melancholy — Misery—Passion— Pastime-Pleasure—Reading — Richés—Scholar—Self-Con- ceit—Self-Confidence—Sickness—Smile–Soul—Submission —Temperance–Title—Travel—Wealth—Yearning. BURTON, WILLIAM, born, 1609; an English scho- lar and author: died, 1657. Quotation : Qualifications. BURY, LADY CHARLOTTE CAMPBELL, sister of the Marquis of Lorne, born, 1775; a British novelist ; died, 1861. Quotations: Difficulty—Sunrise. BURY, RICHARD DE. See RICHARD DE BURY. BUSBY, DR. RICHARD, born in Lincoln, England, 1606; a Celebrated teacher and Inaster Of Westminster School ; died, 1695, Quotation : Boys. BüSCHING, ANTON FRIEDRICH, born in Schaum- burg-Lippe, Westphalia, 1724; an eminent German theolo- gian and author; died, 1793. Quotation : Blame. BUSH, ABRAHAM, born in New York, about 1826; an American architect and builder. Quotation: Machinery. BUSH, GEORGE, born at Norwich, Vermont, June 12, 1796; an American theologian and biblical scholar; died, September 19, 1859. Quotations. Opinion—Retribution— Reward. BUSH, PAUL, (Bishop of Bristol,) born, 1490; an eminent divine; died, 1558. Quotation : Grumbler. BUSHE, CHARLEs KENDAL, born, 1767; an elo- uent Irish lawyer, and judge ; died, 1674. Quotations : Xarefulness—Cheerfulness. BUSHNELL, HORACE, D.D., born at New Pres- ton, Litchfield , county, Connecticut, April 14, 1802; an American theologian, journalist, and, lawyer; died, 1876. Quotations: Drama—Duty—Family— Light—Nature—Phi- losophy—Wrong. BUSTI, ABö 'L-FATH ALI IBN MUHAMMAD AL, born about 1040; an Arabian poet of great celebrity; died g Bukhara, 1109. Quotations: Politeness—Presumption— SCOT'n. - BUSSY, ANTOINE ALExANDRE BRUTUS, born at Marseilles, France, 1794; a French physician and scientific writer. Quotation : Physic. EUSSY-RABUTIN, ROGER, COUNT DE, born in Nivernais, France, 1618; an eminent Writer, Satirist, and courtier; died. 1693. Quotations : Ballad—Love. BUTLER, ALBAN, born in Northampton, England, 1710; an English Catholic divine, and author of “Lives of the Saints :” died, 1773. Quotation : Decay—Motive—Pil- grim—Zeal. BUTLER, BENJAMIN F., born, December 15, 1795: an American lawyer, and attorney-general of the United States in the cabinet of President Van Buren; died, Nov- ember 8, 1858. Quotations: Aspiration—Employment. BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, born at Deer- field, New Hampshire, November 5, 1818; an American jur- ist, politician, and general of volunteers. Quotations : Condition—Lightning—Motive—Party. BUTLER, CHARLEs, born in London, 1750: an English jurist and Catholic writer; died, 1832. Quotations: Blustering—Correction —Economy—Expression—Father— Letter—Listlessness—Neatness. BUTLER, FANNY KEMBLE. See KEMBLE, FANNY. BUTLER, Joseph, (Bishop of Bristol and Durham,) born at Wantage, 1692; an eminent writer and author of “The Analogy of Religion;" died, 1752. Quotations: Anal- ogy—Antiquity–Delay — Government—Immortality-In- flexibility—Liberty–Nature—Prejudice-Probability--Pro- sºmation-Revelation—scripture—soletude-speech- irtue. BUTLER, SAMUEL, born in the parish of Strens- ham, Worcestershire, England, 1612; an eminent wit and poet, and the author of the celebrated work, “Hudibras;” died, ś 1680; Quotations : Antiquary—Charac. ter—Ep gram-Faiſing:Giuttony:Knavery:Law:Meian- º y—Nickname—Obstimacy—Peace—Rebellion—Travel— €OIIla, Il. 1086 AD A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER, born at Annerville, near Clonmel, Ireland, 1814; a philosopher and poet : died, July 5, 1848. Quotations: Pantheislin — Preaching—Uni- VēI"Se. BUWAITI, ABū YAKöB Yûsuf IBN YAHYA, AL, born about 776; a distinguished Arabian poet and a very * man; died in prison, March, 846. (Jºtotation : Misfor- ll]] (2. BUXTON, JEDEDIAH, born near Chesterfield, 1705 ; an English arithmetician and Writer; died, 1774. Qºto- tattion : Memory. BUXTON, SIR THOMAS Fow ELL, born at Castle Hedingham, Essex, 1786; an eminent lºnglish philanthro- ist and writer; died, 1845. Quotations : Determination— nergy—Perseverance—Purpose. BUYS, PAULUS, born about 1550 ; an eminent Dutch statesman; died about 1600. Quotation : Blustering. BUZOT, FRANÇors, LÉONARD, NICOLAS, born at Evreux, France, 1760; an eminent French Girondist; found murdered near Bordeaux, June, 1794. Quotation : Condem- nation. BWYDDYD, or BRYDDYD, PHYLIP ; a Welsh bard and prosé writer. Quotation : Failing. BYLES, MATHER, born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 26, 1706; an American clergyman and noted humor- ist ; died in Boston, July 5, 1788. Quotation . Itesurrection. BYNKERSHOECK, KORNELIS, VAN, born at Mid- delburg, Holland, 1673; a celebrated jurist; died, 1745. Quo- tation : Monolmania. BYRD, WILLIAM, F.R.S., born at Westover, Vir- ginia, March 28, 1674; an American jurist and Writer, and the founder of the towns of Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia ; died, August 26, 1744. Quotation : Use. BYRD, or BIRDE, WILLIAM, born, 1540 ; an emi- nent English composer of church music: died, 1623. Quto- tation : Music. BYRN, M. LAFAYETTE, M.D., born about 1825: an American writer and novelist, (New York, 1852.) Quota- tions: Change—Crime—Desert—Modesty—Money—Parent —Quackery—Servant—Victory. BYROM, John, born near Manchester, England, 1691; an English writer and poet; died, 1763. Quotattion : Genius. BYRON, LORD, (GEORGE GORDON NOEL,) born in London, January 22, 1788; the most distinguished and great- est poet of the age in which he lived ; died at Missolonghi, April 19, 1824. Quotations : Admiration — Adversity–Au- thor—Bores—Circumstances—Curiosity--Danger—Deform- ity–Despair—Dreams—Endurance – Ennui-Evil—Experi- ence—Fäme—Fortune — Freedom — Grave—Hate—Impres- sion—Infidelity—Ingratitude — Jealousy—Justness—Rind- ness— Kisses – Knowledge – Lying — Melancholy — Men— Mystery—Past–Poetry-Quill—Rapture—Scandal–Soli- tude–Sorrow—Suspicion – Sympathy—Tears—Thought— Traitor—Woman—Writing. BYRON, HENRY JAMES, born at Manchester, Eng- land, 1835; an English actor, dramatist, and writer of bur- lesque. Quotation : Comedy. - BZOWSKI, ABRAHAM, born, 1657 : a Polish theo- logian ; died, 1637. Quotation : Understanding. AAB, or KAAB, BEN Zoh AIR, flourished about 650 A.D.; a distinguished Arabian poet ; died, 662. Quo- tations: Applause—Condemnation—Right. CABANA, MORETO Y, Quotation: Threats. CABANIS, PIERRE JEAN GEORGE, born at Conac, near Saintes, France, 1757; an emincht philosopher, au- thor, and physician; died, 1808. Quotation : Charms. CABESTAING, or CABESTAN, GUILLAUME, lived about 1200; a Provençal troubadour. Quotations: Charms—Inquiry. CABOT, SEBASTIAN, born in Bristol, England, 1477; a navigator of great eminence; died, 1557. Quota- tions : King–Navigation. CADALSO, José, DE, born at Cadiz, Spain, 1740; a popular poet and satirist; killed at the Siege of Gibraltar, February, 1782. Quotation : Blushing. CADOG THE WISE : a Welch bard of the sixth century. Quotations: Disability—Proverbs. CAESAR, AUGUSTUS, born at Velitrae, near Rome, 63 B.C.: the first emperor of Rome, and the author of many works in prose and Verse; died, August, 14 A.D. Quotat- tº Advantage—Exposure-ſhaste-fºroſii *–8.; ck- IlCSS. CAESAR, CAIUs JULIUs, born, July, 100 B.C.; one of the greatest men that ever lived ; he was alike cele- brated as a soldier, orator, and author; assassinated, 44 B.C. Quotations. Advantage—Aggression—Amnesty— Hºnº — Belief – #. - Cause –Clemency—Cow- * jice—Fear—Hope—Insensibility—Soldier-War—Wife— 1I].62. CAESARIUS, SAINT, (Bishop of Arles,) born at Châlons, France, 470; an eminent and influential French prelate; died, 542. Quotations: Benevolence—Fasting. CAIETAN, CARDINAL, (THOMAS DE VIO,) born at Caieta, Naples, 1469; an Italian bibliographer and transla- tor. Quotation : Revelation. CAIRD, JoHN, born at Greenock, Scotland, 1823; a Presbyterian minister and eloquent pulpit orator. Quo. tations: Privacy—Religion—Ritual—Truth. CAIRNES, JoBN ELLIOT, born in Ireland, 1824; an English writer on political economy; died, 1875. Quo- tation : Perjury. CAIRNS, HUGH MCCALMONT, (LORD CAIRNs,) born near Belfast, Ireland, 1819; an eminent lawyer and writer. Quotation : 1°hilosophy. CAIUS, JoHN, born at Norwich, England, 1510; an eminent English physician; died, 1573. Quotations: Dogs—Hell—Philosophy. CALABAR ; the name of a coast district of upper Guinea, Africa; the inhabitants are barbarians, and with- out literature, except a few proverbs. Quotation : Guest. CALAMY, EDMUND, born in London, 1600; an able English divine, died, 1666. Quotations: Convenience —Dalliance—Determination—Fellowship. CALANSON, GIRARD, born in Gascony, France, in the twelfth century; a French troubadour ànd writer. Quotation : Excellence. CALANUS, (SPHINES ;) a Hindoo philosopher of the sect of Gymnosophists, who accompanied Alexander the Great on his Indian expedition; he was then in his eighty-third year, and being taken sick, he voluntarily burned himself on a pile, 325 B.C. Quotations: Body- Necessity. CALCINE. Quotations: Country—Prettiness. CALCOTT, WELLINs: a writer on Freemasonry, (London, 1769.) Quotation : Freemasonry. CALDERON, DE LA BARCA, PEDRO, born in Ma- drid,1600; a celebrated dramatic writer; died, May 25, 1681. Q7zotations: Action —Color—Contentment—Crowd—Cru- elty—Dawn—Events—Friendship—Good—Hearing—Honor —Housewife—Mind – Occupation—Patience—Poverty– Prudence—Rock—Ship—Star—Sun —Time—Virtue—Woe— WOIman. CALDERWOOD, DANIEL, born, 1575: an emi- ment Scottish divine ; died, 1651. Qztotation : Exchange. CALDWELL, CHARLEs, M.D., born in Caswell county, North Carolina, May 14, 1772; an American physi- cian; died, July 9, 1853. Quotation : Philanthropy. CALEF, ROBERT ; a merchant of Boston, who published in 1700, a book_against witchcraft; died, 1719. Quotations: Witchcraft—Wonder. . CALHOUN, JOHN CALDWELL, LL.D., born in Abbeville district, South Carolina, March 18, 1782. an emi- nent American statesman ; died at Washington, March 31, 1850. Quotations: Affection—Alien—Constitution—Dema- gogue—Freedom—Slavery. CALIGULA, CAIUS CAESAR, born, 12, A. D.; a Roman emperor; assassinated, 41 A.D. Qztotations: Sub- ject—Thunder. CALIXTUS, SAINT, or CALIXTUS I: a bishop of Rome, who succeeded Zephyrinus in 219 A.D.; died, 223. Quotation : Persecution. CALKINS, NoFMAN A.; an American educator and writer, and editor of the “Student,” (New York, 1850.) Quotations : Good-Humor—Schoolmaster–Study—Swear- ing—Thought—Unfortunateness—Wish—Words. CALL, JAN, born at Nymwegen, 1655; a Dutch designer and engraver; died, 1703. Quotation : Faults. CALLENBERG, JoHANN HEINRICH, born at Saxe- Gotha, 1694; a German author and Lutheran divine; died, 1760. Quotation : Friendship. CALLIMACHUS, flourished about 250 B.C.; a Greek poet and grammarian. Quotations : Mortality — Temper—Will. CALLISTHENES, born at Olynthus, in Thrace, Greece, 365 B.C.; an eminent Greek rhetorician; he was executed for treason, 328 B.C. Quotations: Mortality — Repentance. CALMET, AUGUSTIN, born near Commercy, Lor- raine, France, 1672; a Benedictine monk; died in Paris, 1727. Quotations: Honor—Mercy—Testament—Writing. CALTHORP, JoHN, born in London, 1700; an #h divine and author, (London, 1759.) Quotation : MI'l St. CALVERT, GEORGE HENRY, born in Baltimore, Maryland, January 2, 1803; an American poet, dramatist, journalist, and miscellaneous writer. Quotations : Harlot —Idea—Nun—Perjury—Type. CALVERT, LEONARD, born, 1582 : the first gov- ernor of Maryland; died, 1647. Quotation : Opinion. CALVIN, JOHN, born near Noyon, Picardy, France, July 10, 1509 : the founder of the Calvanists, and One of the chief apostles of the Reformation; died, May 24, 1564. Quotations: Confession—Conscience—Hell—Heresy —Impatience—Opinion—Ordinance — Papacy—Predestina- tion—TOrture. A / O G. A. A /* // / C A Z / M /) A X. 1087 CAMBACERES, JEAN JACQUES REGIs, born at Montpelier, France, 1757; an eminent statesman and jurist ; died in Paris, 1824. Quotation : Reputation. CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN, born in London, 1714; an ingenious English writer; died, 1802. Quotations: Quarrels Ridicule faste. * CAMBRONNE, PIERRE JACQUES ETIENNE, BAR- on, born at Nantes, 1770; a French general ; died, 1842. Quotation : Guard. CAMBYSES, King of the Medes and Persians, son of Cyrus the Great, and succeeded him 550 B.C.; he was accidentally wounded by his own sword, and died in conse- Quence, 521 B.C. Quotation : Tenown. CAMDEN, WILLIAM, born in London, 1551 ; an eminent English antiquary and Writer; died, 1623. Quotat- tions: Care—Pedigree—Poet—Scholar—Wisdom. CAMERARIUS, JoACHIM, born at Bamberg, Ba- Varia. 1500; an eminent German Scholar and Writer; died at Leipsic, 1574. Quotation : Deceit. CAMERON, ARCHIBALD, M.D., born, 1698; a Scottish Jacobite; hung for treason, 1753. Quotation : Prophet. CAMERON, MRS. H., born, 1810 : an English au- th9ress, who wrote many of her books for the benefit of children; died about 1860. Quotations: Murmur—Patience —Prayer—Usefulness CAMERON, SIMON, born in Lancaster county Pennsylvania, March 8, 1799; an American politician and diplomatist. Quotations : Assertion—Kindness—Law. CAMILLUS, MARCUS FURIUS ; a celebrated Ro- man dictator, whose history has been embellished with many fabulous exploits; died, 364 B.C. Quotation: War. CAMOENS, LUIz, born at Lisbon, Portugal, 1517; the most celebrated of the Portuguese poets ; died, 1597. Quotation : Affectation—Eye—Fame—Poet. CAMP, G. S. Quotation: Quietness. CAMPAN, JEANNE LOUISE HENRIETTE GENEST, Madame, born in Paris, 1752; a French lady, eminent as a teacher and Writer. She was the confidante of Marie An- toinette, and the author of her memoirs; died, 1822. Qwo- tattºons: Debt—Development—Girl. CAMPANELLA, TOMMASSO, born at Stilo, Cala- bria, Italy, 1568; an Italian philosopher and monk; died, 1639. Quotations : Indiscretion—Intolerance—Policy. CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER, D.D., born in the coun- ty of Antrim, Ireland, June, 1788; the founder of the relig- ious sect known as the “ Disciples of Christ;” died, March 4, 1866. Quotations: Labor—Quarrels. CAMPBELL, BARTLEY, born about 1835; an American journalist, dramatic critic and writer. Quota- tion : LOVe. CAMPBELL, SIR COLIN, (LORD CLYDE,) born in Glasgow, October 20, 1792; a celebrated English general, and the immortal hero of Cawnpore; died at Chatham, August 14, 1863. Quotation : Determination. CAMPBELL, GEORGE, D.D., born in Aberdeen, Scotland, 11195 a divine eminent for his talents and learn. ing ; died, 1796. Quotations: Discussion—Quotation. CAMPBELL, HELEN. Quotations: Dirt – Failure — Housekeeping—Remembrance. CAMPBELL, JOHN, LL.D., born in Edinburgh, 1708. A Scottish writer on history, biography, and politics; # 1775. Quotations: Fate — Opinion –Politics—Prece: €Ilt. CAMPBELL, LORD, JoHN, born near Cupar, Fife. shire, Scotland, September 15, 1799; an eminent, lawyer. Statesman, and author, and lord Chancellor of England; died, June, 23, 1861. Quotations: Index—Judges—Justice —Refutation. CAMPBELL, JULIET H. L.; a native of Pennsyl- Vania, and a daughter of Judge Lewis: a poetess and mis- cellaneous writer. Quotation : Voyage. CAMPBELL, THOMAS, born in Glasgow, July 27, 1777; an eminent British poet and miscellaneous writer; died, June, 15, 1844. Quotations : Conversation—Pilgrim— Poetry—Prophecy. CAMPISTRON, JEAN GILBERT, DE, born at Tou- louse, France. 1556: a French dramatist; died, 1723. Quo- tºtions : Fear—Heart. CANDOLLE, AUGUSTIN PYRAMUs DE, born at Geneva, Switzerland, February 4, 1778; an eminent bota- mist and naturalist, and the author of several works ; died in Geneva, September, 1841. Quotation : Botany. CANFELD, FRANCESCA, ANNA, born in Philadel- phia, 1803; a celebrated linguist and poetess: died, 1823. Quotations : Fact—Money—Sociability. CANNING, GEORGE, born in London, April 11, 1770; an eminent statesman, author, and wit : died, Au- gust 8, 1827. Quotations : Advice — Beneficence — Compa- my—Fact—Government—Negroes. CANO, MELCHOIR, born at Tarançon, Spain, 1523; a Spanish theologian ; died, 1560. Quotattions : Giant — Housekeeping. CANOVA, ANTONIO, born at Possagno, in Vene- tia, November 1, 1757 : a celebrated Italian sculptor; died in Venice, October, 1822. Quotattion : Sculpture. CANSTEIN, CARL HILDEBRAND, BARON, voN born at Lindenberg, 1667; a German philanthropist and Writer; died, 1719. Quotation : Tomb. CANT, ANDREW, lived in the reign of Charles the First of England; an eminent Presbyterian minister. The Word “Cant ’’Originated from his affected tone and manner of preaching; died, 1664. Quotation : Office. CANTACUZENUS, MATTHEw, born, 1325; albyz- antine emperor; died about 1387. Quotation : Necessity. CANTER, WILLEM, born at Utrecht, Netherlands, 1542; an able Dutch critic and philologist; died at Louvain, 1575. Quotation : Nobility. - CANUTE, the second King of Denmark ; he was noted for his virtues and holiness; died, 1036. Quotation : Haughtiness—Sea. - CAPAC, MANCO. See MANCO CAPAC. CAPACELLI, F. A., born in Italy ; an Italian poet, Quotation : Craft—Dancing—Zest. CAPDUEIL, PONs, born about 1120; a French troubadour of noble birth. Quotation : Crusades. CAPELL, EDwARD, born at Troston, Suffolk, England, 1713; an English critic and a distinguished com- mentator on Shakspeare; died, 1781. Quotations: Inquisi- tiveness—Occupation. CAPELLUS, LOUIs, born at Sedan, France, 1579; an eminent French Protestant and learned divine; died, 1658. Quotations : Scripture—Testament. CAPRON, MISS. Quotation: Hope. CARACALLA, MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUs Bassianus, born at Lyons, France, 188 A.D.; a Roman em- peror; died near Edessa, in Asia, 217 A,D. Quotations : Rival—Sword. CARACCIOLI, LUIGI ANTONIO, born in Paris, 1721; a popular author; died, 1803. Quotation : Authorship. CARATHEODORY, PASHA, ALEXANDER, born in Constantinople, about 1817; One of the Imost distinguished of the Greek community in the Turkish capital, and an eminent statesman and diplomatist. Quotation : Censure. CARAVAGGIO, MICHEL ANGELO, born at Car- avaggio, Italy, 1569; a celebrated Italian painter: died, 1609. Quotation : Color. CARBERRY, COUNTESs OF, born, 1605; a lad possessing many virtues and accomplishments; died, 1650. Quotation : Ileisure. CARBONENSIS, DE, born, 1579 ; an eminent di- Vine and theologian. Quotattion : Fugitive. CARCANO, FRANCESCO, born in Milan, Italy, 1733; an Italian writer; died, 1794. Quotations: Conversa- tion—Guilt. CARDAN, JEROME, M.D., born at Pavia, Italy, September 24, 1501; an Italian P.": mathematician, and author; died at Rome, September 20, 1576. Quotations: Brevity—Laconics—Mind—Pun. º CAREW, LADY ELIZABETH, lived in the reign of James the First ; an English dramatic writer. Quotation : Injury. CAREW, GEORGE, (EARL OF ToTNESS, and BARON Carew,) born, 1557; a British general and author; died, 1629. *totation : Honor. CAREW, SIR GEORGE, born about 1550: an Eng- }; ambassador and author; died, 1612. Quotation : Repu- tation. CAREW, RICHARD, born, 1555; an English law- yer and writer; died. T620. Quotation : Cowardice. CAREW, THOMAs, born in Gloucester, 1589; an English poet and courtier; died, 1639. Quotation : Courtesy. CAREY, HENRY, the natural son of the Marquis of Halifax, born about 1683; an English poet and musician; killed himself, 1743. Quotation : Song. CAREY, HENRY CHARLEs, born in Philadelphia, December 15, 1793; a political economist and writer; died, October 13, 1879. Quotation : Ingenuity. CAREY, MATHEw, born in Dublin, 1760; and emigrated to Philadelphia, 1784; a bookseller and writer on political economy; died, 1839. Quotation : Penetration. CARGILL, DONALD, born in Perthshire, Scotland, 1610; a zealous and uncompromising Scottish covenanter; executed for treason, 1681. Quotation: Devil—Sound. CARLEN, EMILIE FLYGARE SCHMIDT, born at Stockholm, 1808; a popular Swedish novelist. Quotations; ce—Selfishness—Smile. CARLETON, SIR DUDLEY, (LORD DORCHESTER,) born in Oxfordshire, 1573; an English Statesman ; died, 1631. Q?totation : Error. CARLETON, GEORGE, (Bishop of Chichester, ) born at Norham Castle, about 1551 ; a learned prelate and Writer; died, 1628. Quotation. Craft. 1088 A) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. CARLETON, WILLIAM, born at Clogher, Tyrone county, Ireland, 1798: an eminent Irish novelist; died, Jan- uary 30, 1869. Quotations : Enjoyment—Feeling—Love. CARLIELL, ROBERT, born in England, about 1554; an English divine and writer, (London, 1619.) Quo- tation : Extravagance. CARLILE, RICHARD, born at Ashburton, Devon- shire, England, 1790: an English religious sceptic; died, February 10, 1843. Quotation: Infidelity. CARLISLE, SIR ANTHONY, born near Durham, England, 1768: an eminent English surgeon and writer; died, 1840. Quotations: Beauty—Manners. CARLISLE, EARL OF, (FREDERICK. HowARD, ) born, 1748; an English poet and Statesman ; died, 1825. Qºto- tation : Parting. CARLISLE, EARL OF, and VISCOUNT MORPETH, (George William Frederick, Howard,) born, April 18, 1802; a celebrated Statesman and author; died, December 5, 1864. Quotations : Reciprocity. CARLYLE, G. ; born in England, about 1740 ; an English writer; died, 1795. Quotation : Freemasonry. CARLYLE, JOSEPH DACRE, born at Carlisle, Scotland, 1759; an English Orientalist ; died, 1804. Quotat- tion : Misery. CARLYLE, THOMAs, born at Ecclefechan, Scot- land, December 4, 1795; a distinguished British essayist, historian, and speculative philosopher. It is claimed that no man has exercised a wider and deeper influence on Eng: lish and American literature, and on the English and American mind, than this singularly and relmarkably ec- centric man; died at Chelsea, near London, February 5, 1881. Quotations: Action — Adventure—Author—Benevo- lence—Biography — Books — Cant—Caution — Character— Conscience—Creed—Dandy—Deeds — Duty—Earnestness— Effort—Emigration—Evil – Experience—Extremes—Eye— Faults—Gold — Good — Gunpowder — Habit — Happiness— Heroism—Hope—Ideality—Indigence—Infinity—Intemper- ance—Laughter—Light — Literature — Love—Lying—Mad- ness—Man—Melody—Midnight—Minister—Mistake—Music —Obedience—Obstacle—Pleasure — Poetry—Possibilities— Poverty – Puritanism – Quackery— Rascality — Reform— Rest—Right—Ritual—Sarcasm—Silence—Sincerity—Space —Speech-Star—Stupidity—Subsistence—Symbol—Talent —Taste—Thinking—Thought—Toil —Tradition —Truth— Dnbelief—Unhappiness—Universe —Use—Value—Volition —Wisdom—Wonder—Work. CARNEADES, born at Cyrene, Africa, 215 B.C. : a celebrated Greek philosopher; died, 125 B.C. Quota- tions: Acting—Alone—Beauty— isody:Pain — Progress— Riding—Sound—Tyranny. CARNOT, LAZARE NICOLAS MARGUERITE, born at Nolay, Burgundy, May 13, 1753; an eminent French states- man, geometrician, and revolutionist ; died at Madgeburg, 1823. Quotation : State. CARO, ANNIBALE, born at Città Nova, in the March of Ancona, 1507; one of the most popular of the Italian authors; died at Rome, 1566. Quotations: Boasting —Robbery. CAROLINE AMELIA, ELIZABETH, Queen of Eng- land, born, 1768; died, 1821. Quotation : Cure. CARPENTER, WILLIAM BENJAMIN, C.B., M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., born, 1813; an eminent Eng- lish physiologist. Quotation : Forbearance — Frugality— Holiness. CARREL, NICOLAS ARMAND, born at Rouen, France, May 8, 1800; a celebrated journalist and leader of the republican party; died, July 24, 1836. Quotations : Hope—Inconsistency. CARRON, GUI Touss AINT JULIEN, ABBAE, born at Rennes, France, 1760; a benevolent priest and moralist ; died. Iš1. Quotation : Cloud. CARRUTHERS, ROBERT, born, November 5, 1799; a Scottish journalist and miscellaneous writer; died, May 26, 1878. Quotation : Gold. CARSTAIRS, WILLIAM, born in Cathcart, Scot- 1and, 1649; an eminent theologian and negotiator; died, 1715, Quotation: Benevolence. CARSTENS, ASMUSJACOB, born near Sleswick, Tenmark, 1754; a Danish historical painter; died in Rome, 1798. Quotation : Painting. CARTE, THOMAs, born at Clifton, 1686; an Eng- lish historian; died, 1754. Quotation : Faults. CARTER, ELIZABETH, born in Deal, Kent, Eng- land, 1717; an English authoress and classical scholar: died, !; Quotations: Pride—Religion—Society—Sorrow— Ule. CARTER, JoHN, born in London, 1748; an emi- nent architect and antiquary; died, 1817. Quotation8: Country—Native-Land. CARTER, THOMAS, D.D., born in England, about 1550; an English divine and author, (London, 1645.) Quo- tation : Existence. CARTWRIGHT, THOMAS, born in Hertfordshire, 1535; an English Puritan of great eminence and learning ; died, 1603. Quotation : Proverbs. CARTW RIGHT, WILLIAM, born at Northway, 1611 : an English poet and dramatist: died, 1643. Quotation : Extortion. CARY, ALICE, born near Cincinnati, Ohio, April 26, 1820; a talented poetess and prose writer; died in New York, February 12, 1871. Quotations: Ghosts—Moonlight —Suffering. CARY, PHOEBE, sister of the preceding, born near Cincinnati, Ohio, September 4, 1824; an American writer and poetess; died at Newport, Rhode Island, July 31, 1871. Quotation : Home. CARY, ROBERT, (Archdeacon of Exeter,) born in Deyonshire, 1615; a learned English divine; died, 1688. Quo- tation : Opinion. CARYL, JOSEPH, born in London, 1602; a Non- conformist divine and one of Cromwell's chaplains; died, 1673. Quotations : Godliness—Man—Text—Trust. CARYLL, JoHN, born, 1687 : an English drama- tist; died, 1718. Quotation : Good. CASANOVA, GIOVANNI GIACOMO DE SEING ALT, born in Venice, 1725; an Italian who was remarkable for his Wit and accomplishments ; died, 1803. Quotation : Science. CASAS, BARTOLOMé, DE LAS, born near Seville, Spain, 1474; a benevolent Spanish missionary, noted for his zeal in behalf of of the oppressed Indians; died, July, 1566. Quotation : Superstition. CASAUBON, ISAAC, born of French Protestant parents at Geneva, February 8, 1559; one of the most emi- ment critics and scholars of his time; died in London, 1614. Quotation : Truth. - CASAUX, C, DE, born in Paris; a French littéra- teur. Quotation : Cheapness. CASE, JoHN, M.D., born at Woodstock, England ; a noted disputant and philosopher; died, 1600. Quotation : Eternity. CASIMER III, surnamed THE GREAT, born in Po- º and became king, 1333; died, 1370. Quotation : Cap- 1V1ty. CASIMIR, SARBIEVIUs, born in Poland, 1595 ; a Latin lyric poet; died, 1640. Quotation : Will. CASPIPINA. Quotations: House—Humility. CASS, LEWIS, LL.D., born at Exeter, New Hamp- Shire, October 9, 1782; an American statesman and patriot; died, June 17, 1866. Quotations: Agriculture—Mountain. CASSANDER, GEORGE, born in the island of Cad- sand, Flanders, 1515; a learned theologian ; died, 1566. Quo- tation : Christ. - CASSINI, JEAN DOMINIQUE, born near Nice, France, June 8, 1625; a celebrated astronomer; died, 1712. Quotation : Star. g CASSIODORUS, MAGNUs AURELIUS, born at Scylacium, in Italy, 470; a Latin histºrian and minister of state to Theodoric the Goth ; died, 559. Quotations: In- discretion—Theology. CASSIUS, LONGINUs, CAIUS, a famous Roman conspirator and general, and a friend of Marcus Brutus; killed himself at the battle of Philippi, 42 B,C. Quotation : Tyrant. CASTELAR, Y RISSOLI, EMILIO, born, 1832 ; an eminent Spanish orator, socialist, and republican, and pres- ident of the Spanish republic from September, 1873 to Jan- uary 3, 1874. Quotation : Offense. CASTLETON, D. R., born at Salem, Massachu- setts; an American writer. Quotations: Intellect—Magic. CASTRO, ALFONS, DE, born at Zamora, in Leon, Spain, 1495; a noted Spanish theologian and pulpit Orator; died, 1558. Quotation : Stealing. CATALAN. Quotation: Fire. CATE, MISS E. J. Quotation: Indifference. CATESBY, MARK, F.R.S., born, 1680; an emi- ment English naturalist and artist; died in London, 1749. Quotation : Trees. CATHERALL, SAMUEL, born in England, about 1650: an English divine and author, (London, 1692–1721.) Quotations : Judgment—Learning—Perspicuity—Poetry— Prosperity—Song—Thinking. CATHERINE OF ARAGON, Queen of England, born, 1486; eminent and respected for her many virtues; died, 1536. Quotations: Damnation—Salvation. CATHERINE II, Empress of Russia, born at Stettin, I729; a woman of most extraordinary natural tal- ents for governing a state and civilizing a rude nation, but of insatiable lust and unbounded ambition ; died, 1796. Quotations: Change — Drunkenness—Greatness— Irreso- lution. CATLIN, GEORGE, born in Wilkesbarre, Pennsyl- vania, 1795; an American artist, writer, and traveller; died in Jersey City, December 22, 1872. Quotation : Inhumanity. CATO, DIONYSIUs, lived in the third century; a Latin moralist of whom but little is known. Quotation : Thought. A / O G R A P Aſ / C A / / /V /O AE A . I ()S9 CATO, MARCUs Porcius, THE YouNGER, born in Utica, in Rome, 95 B.C.; a celebrated Roman, Stoic philos- opher, and patriot, and one of the purest, and noblest of men; died at Utica, by his own hand, 46 B.C. Quotations: Acting—Anger—Appétite— Blushing–Duilding –Calumny —Condition—Crowd— Death — Difference—Enemy—Fami- liarity—Fool - Friendship — Good — Good-Breeding–Gov: ernment—Guilt—Husbandry---Indolence—Lover–Mischief —Old Age—Punishment—Secrecy—Silence—Soldier–Soli- tude — Speech—Statues—Temperance –Tongue—Travel– Truth—Usefulness—Usury—Vagrant—Woman. CATTELL, J. D.; a social reformer and lecturer. Quotation : Seclusion. CATTERMOLE, RICHARD, D.D., lived about 1800; an English divine and author, (London, 1832.) Qtto- tation : KeenneSS. CATTHO, ANGELO, born at Tarento, Italy; a learned bishop ; died, 1494. Quotation : Stability. CATULLUS, CAIUs VALERIUs, born at Verona, Italy, 87 B.C.; a.celebrated Latin poet ; died 47 B.C. - Quo- tations: Faults—Flowers—Girl—Gladness-Hour–Laugh- ter—Love—Pity—Rest—Right—Vows—Writing. CAUGHEY, J. Quotation : Revivals. CAUSSIN, NICOLAS, born at Troyes, Champagne, France, 1582; a French writer and priest; died in Paris, July, 1651. wOtatio??.S. Application — Ambition — Awk- wardness – Charity-Devotion – Envy— Heaven – Lady— Passion—Piety—Riches—World. CAUVIN, JosłPH, born in England about 1785 ; an English scholar, chiefly known as an assistant editor of Brande’s “Dictionary of Science,” (London, 1842.), Quota- tions: Alphabet—Ballot—Belles-Lettres— Divination—En- igma — Irony — Lecture — Letters—Libel —Nun—Rhyme— Synonym—Taxation—Vows—Witchcraft. CAVAILLON, GUI, DE. Quotation : Congratulation. CAVALCANTI, GUIDO, born about 1240 ; a Flo- rentine poet and writer; died, 1800. Quotation : Guest, CAVALLO, TIBERIO, born in Sºlº, Italy, 1749; an Italian philosopher and writer; died, 1809. Quotation : Munificence. CAVAZZI, GIovaNNIANTONIO, born at Montecu- culo, Italy, about 1610; an Italian monk and missionary, made cardinal in 1685; died at Genoa, 1692. Quotation : People. CAVE, EDWARD, born at Newton, Warwickshire, February 29, 1691; an English printer who established in 1731 the “Gentleman's Magazine,” the parent Of modern periodicals; died, 1754. Quotation : Contentment. CAVE, WILLIAM, D.D., born in Leicestershire, 1637; a learned English divine and scholar; died, 1713. Quo- tations : Paganism—Zeal. CAVENDISH, HENRY, born at Nice, France, 1731; an English natural philosopher and author; died in Lon- don, 1810. Quotation : Caution. CAVENDISH, MARGARET, the wife of the Duke of Newcastle, born about 1620; an English authoress; died, 1673. Quotation : Luck. CAVOUR, CAMILLO BENSO, DI, COUNT, born at Turin, Italy, August 1, 1810; an illustrious Italian states- man ; died, June 6, 1861. Quotation : Censure. CAWDREY, DANIEL, born about 1790 ; a Non- conformist divine; died, 1664. Quotations : Concord — Confession—Courtesy — Custom — Disobedience — Faith— Godliness—Hell—Idleness—Learning–Lust—Minister—Mi- sery—Murmur—Pastor—Resurrection — Service—Strife— Well-Doing. CAXTQN, WILLIAM, born in Kent, England, 1412; an English printer, and a man worthy to be held in immor- tal "...ºf as the first who gave to England the means #. the diffusion of knowledge; died. 1492. Quotation : Ilk. CAYLEY, ARTHUR, F.R.S., D.C.L., LL.D., born at Richmond, Surrey, England, 1821; an English mathema- tician and writer, on educational subjects, Quotations: Education—Eternity. CAZENAVE, DR. A., ; a French writer on the “Art of Human Decoration,” (Paris, 1874.) Quotations: Perfume–Sleep—Smelling—Stomach—Supper—Swimming Table—Walking. CEBA, ANSALDO, born at Genoa, Italy, 1565; an Italian writer; died, 1623. Quotations : Alien—Courage— Descendant–Dwarf–Eating — Extravagance—Fortitude— Instability—Liberality—Licentiousness—Lust—Magnani- mity—Miser—Name—Obstinacy—Philosophy--Poet—Prodi- gality—Regard—Republic. CECIL, RICHARD, D.D., born in London, 1748; an eminent English clergyman and pulpit orator; died, 1810. Quotations: Christ—Commentator—Duty—Dwarf–Enemy —Forethought—God—Patience—-Profession—Providence— Story—Ungodliness—Union. CELESTINE III, Pop E, (GIACINTO, ORSINI,) born, 1106; elected pope in 1191; died, 1198. Quotation : Popery. CELESTINE V, Pope, (PIETRO DA MURRONE, ) born in Apulia, Italy, 1215; died in prison, 1296. Quota- tions: Popery—Slyness, CELLARIUS, CHRISTOPH, born at Schmalkalden, 1638; an eminent German philologist and author; died at Halle, 1707. Quotation : Geography. CELLINI, BENVENUTO, born at Florence, 1500 ; a celebrated Italian artist; died at Florence, 1570. Quotation : 1pS. CELSUS, lived in the second century ; an Epi- curean philosopher; the time of his death is unknown. Quotations : Aid—Drunkenness—Eating—Religion. CELTES, CONRAD, born at Wipfeld, 1459; a Ger- man poet and Scholar; died, 1508. Quotation : Care. CEM-QU, lived in the time of Confucius and one of his most famous disciples and his chief biographer and commentator. Quotations: Beggar—Son--Thought. CEOLFRID, born in Northumbria, 642; an Anglo- Saxon Writer; died, 716. Quotation : Fortitude. CERI, S. Quotation : Girl. CERVANTES, SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE, born of noble parents at Alcala de Henares, New Castile, Spain, October 9, 1547; a celebrated Spanish writer and dramátist, and the author of that masterpiece of Spanish literature, “Don Quixote,” which still remains without a rival: died at Madrid, April 23, 1616. Quotations : Absence—Accident —Age—Army–Author — Beauty — Comedy — Command— Company—Comparison — Contentment — Courage—Covet- ousness—Critic—Cross —Discretion — Dress—Envy—Favor —Fear—Fool—Gluttony—Gunpowder — Hand—Handsome- ness—Health—History – Homeliness— Hoº —Ignorance— Ills—Indiscretion – Ingenuity — Injury — Justice—Knight- hood—Letters—Liberality — Liberty — Luck—Misfortune— Mob-Money—Mouth—Pain --Pen—Poet—Poetry—Poverty —Praise—Preacher—Proverbs — Recreation —Reform—IRé- membrance —Reserve — Self-Praise — Secrecy — Sickness— Sleep—Son—Spirit–Stealing—Stubbornness-Sword-Ti- Wº: ty — Truth —Valor — Vice — Virtue — Widow —Wife— CETAWAYO, King of the Zulus, an African tribe; taken prisoner by the English, 1879. Quotations: Letter— Money. CHABOT, FRANÇOIs, born in Rouergue, France, 1759; a fanatical French Jacobin and demagogue; died, 1794. Quotation : Affliction CHADBOURNE, PAUL ANSEL, born at North Berwick, Maine, October 21, 1823; a distinguished Ameri- can naturalist and author. Quotation : Prairie. CHADWICK, J. W. Quotations : obsequies—Years. CHAILLU, PAUL BELLONI DU, born in Paris, Ju- ly 31, 1835; a French traveller, African explorer, author, and lecturer. Quotation : Sport. CHALES, or CHALLES, CLAUDE FRANÇors Milliet, de, born at Chambéry, France, 1621; a French math- ematician and author ; died, 1678. Quotations: Life — Traitor. CHALKLEY, THOMAS, born in London, 1675 ; a minister of the Society of friends; died at Tortola, West Indies, 1742. Quotations : Providence—Sentences. CHALLONER, RICHARD, born at Lewes, Sussex, England, 1691; an English Catholic writer; died, 1781. Quotation. Company. CHALMERS, ALEXANDER, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, 1757: a British editor and critic; died; 1831. Quo- tattion : COvetousness. CHALMERS, GEORGE, born at Fochabers, Scot- land, 1742; a writer and lawyer; died, 1825. Quotations : Conscience—Morality—Vanity. CHALMERS, THOMAs, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L., born at Anstruther, Fifeshire, Scotland. March 17, 1780; an emi- ment divine, pulpit orator, and writer; died, May 30, 1847. Quotations: Alms—Belief–Benevolence—Charity—Con- jecture—Death—Evil—Fashion — Good—Holiness—Infidel- ity—Mercy—Minister—Missionary—Morality—Name—Pain —Politics–Popularity—Scholar—Sensibility—Usefulness— Warrior—World. CHALONER, SIR THOMAS, born in London, 1515; an eminent statesman and author; died, 1565. Quotation : Generosity. CHALVET, MATHIEU, born in Auvergne, France, 1528; a French scholar; died, 1607. Quotation : Death. CHAMBERLAYNE, WILLIAM, born in Dorset- Shire, England, 1619; an English physician and poet ; died, 1 Quotation : Good. CHAMBERS, EPHRAIM, born at Kendal, West- moreland, England, May 15, 1740; the author of the cele- brated “Encyclopoedia; ” died, 1740. Quotation : Integrity. CHAMBERS, Rob ERT, LL.D., born at Peebles, July 10, 1802; a well known Scottish publisher and miscel- laneous writer; died, March 17, 1871 Quotations: Body— Books—Circumstances—Courtship. CHAMBERS, WILLIAM, LL.D., brother of the pre- ceding, born at Peebles, 1800: an eminent publisher, com- º * writer. Quotations: Children — Convenience — pllaph. 69 1090 A) A Y '.S. C. O /, / A C O V. CHAM-CHI; a Chinese philosopher and a disciple §: £ºnfucius. Quotations: "Determination — Sovereign — ſalor. - CHAMFORT, SEBASTIEN ROCH NICOLAs, born near Clermont, in Auvergne, France, 1741 : an eminent and very successful French writer, and a member of the French Academy; died by suicide, 1794. Quotations ... Author— Calumny—Covetousness — Egotism – Falsehood-Faille— Fashion—Fool-Friendship—Happiness--History--Intellect —Knowledge—Library—Life — Love — Obscurity-Philoso- phy–Pleasure—Public—Society—Success—Tragedy–Trifle —Wit—Worth. CHAMISSO, Louis CHARLEs ADELAIDE, DE, born in Champagne, France, 1781; a popular pºet, prose. Piter, and naturalist; died, 1838. Quotation : Fiction. * , CHAM-P1-PI., lived about the middle of the eigh- teenth century; a Chinese mandarin writer. Quotalion. Despotism. CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL, born at Brouage, France; the founder of Quebec, and the first goyernor of Canada, and a brave and honorable man; died in Quebec, 1635. Quotations: Salvation—Voyage. CHAMPNEYS ; an English Presbyterian divine. Quotation : Foulness. CHAMPOLLION, JEAN FRANÇors, born at Figeac, * ? - in the department of Lot, France, December, 1791; a French savant, linguist, and Egyptologist ; died, March, 1832. Qtto- tattiore. Inscription. CHANDLER, EDwARD, D.D., (Bishop of Lich- field and Durham,) born in Dublin; a learned divine and author; died, 1750. Quotation. : Renown. CHANDLER, Joseph R., born in Kingston, Mas- sachusetts, 1792; a distinguished philanthropist and diplo- lomat. Quotation : Advantage. CHANG-WAN. See WAN-CHANG. CHANG-TSZE. See TSZE-CHANG. CHANNING, EDwARD TYRREL, LL.D., born at Newport, Rhode Island, December 12, 1790; an American writér and scholar: died, February 8, 1856, Quotation : Happiness. CHANNING, WALTER, M.D., born at Newport, Rhode Island, April 15, 1786; an eminent physician and au- thor. Quotation: Penury. CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY, a son of Walter Channing, born in Boston, June 10, 1818; a poet, journalist, and writer. Quotation : Instruction. CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY, D.D., born at Newport, Rhode Island, April 7, 1780; an American Unita- rian divine, and one of the most eloquent writers America has ever produced. He was the recognised leader of the Unitarian Church in the United States ; died, October 2, 1842. Quotations : Amusement — Beauty – Biography – Books—Character—Child—Conscience—Delay—Discussion —Education—Enthusiasm— Example—Family—Fashion— Freedom—God—Grandeur —Greatiness—Home—Judgment —Labor—Liberty—Literatnre—Man— Mirth—Opinion—Pa- rent—Pleasure—Poetry—Preachiug—Reading— Religion— reverie — Rhetoric — Self-Culture — Student — Suffering— Sunday-School—Teaching— Theatre—Theology—Thought —Travel—Truth—Virtue—War—Worship. CHANNING, WILLIAM HENRY, a nº of the preceding, born in Boston, May 25, 1810; a Unitarian min- ister and w!iter, Quotation : Circumstances. CHAPIN, AARON LUCIUs, D.D., born in Hartford, Connecticut, February 6, 1817; an American Presbyterian divine. Qztotation, . Knowledge. CHAPIN, ALONZO Bow EN, D.D., born at Somers, Connecticut, March 10, 1808; an American Episcopalian divine ; died, July 9, 1858. Quotations : City–Odd-Fellow. CHAPIN, CALVIN, D.D., born at Springfield, Mas- sachusetts, July 22, 1763; an American Congregational di- vine ; died, March 17, 1851. Quotation : Husband. CHAPIN, EDWIN HuBBELL, born in Union Vil- lage, Washington, county, New York, December 29, 1814; a distinguished Universalist divine, and an eminent pulpit, orator, writer, and lecturer; died, December 27, 1880. Quotations : Affection—Ages—Amusement—Angels–Ap- É.-É.-º. — Conscience — Conservatism— ontempt—Country—Courage — Curse – Decay-Evil–Fa- naticism—Flowers—Future–Gayety-Genius—God-Good- mess—Grave—Heart—Home—Humanity—Humility—Idea— Impatience—Individuality—Indolence-Innocence—Intel- lect—Liberty—Life—Luck—Man—Marriage—Martyr—Min- ister—Modesty—Mother—Mystery—Native-Land—Ostenta- tion—Past—Patience—Peace — Poetry—Position—Power— Preaching—Press—Profanity—Scepticism–Silence-Sin— Sorrow—Swearing –Sympathy—Temptation —To-Morrow —Tribulation—Truth—Type—Virtue—War. CHAPMAN, GEORGE, born, 1557; an English dra- matic writer, and the first English translator of Homer; died, 1634. Quotations : Counsel—Envy—Extremes–Fool —Judgment—Opinion—Piano. CHAPMAN, H. C., born in the United States ; an American divine and writer, and author of the “Evolution of Life,” (Philadelphia, 1873.) Quotations: Credulity – Crime–Fortune–Löve—Peace—Wit. CHAPONE, HESTER, born in Northamptonshire, England, 1727; an English miscellaneous writer; died, 1801. Quotattions : Hermit—Holiness—Sarcasm—Sublime. CHAPPELL, WILLIAM, born in Nottinghamshire, England, 1582: a learned divine; died, 1649, Quotation : Usefulness. CHAPPELLSMITH, MARGARET, born in Aldgate London, February, 1806; an English religious sceptic and writer. Quotation : Falling. CHAPPUZEAU, SAMUEL, born at Geneva, 1625; a Swiss litt-rateur; died, 1701. Quotation : Refinement. CHARDIN, SIR John, born in Paris, 1643; a cele- brated traveller and author; died near London, 1713. Quotation : Sea. CHARECRATES. Quotation: sympathy. CHARISIUS, AURELIUS ARCADIUs, lived about 350 A.D.; a Roman jurist and author. Quotation : Words. CHARLEMAGNE, or CHARLES I, King of France, and Emperor of the West, born at the castle of Salzburg, in Bavaria,742 A.D.; a great conqueror, and re- ligious reformer ; died at Aix-la-Chapelle, January, 814. Quotations : Insincerity—People. CHARLES THE BALD, or CHARLES I, King of France, born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, 823; died, 877. Quotation, . Tongue. CHARLES I, (CHARLES STUART,) King of Eng- land, born at Dunfermline, Scotland, November 19, 1600; he was a good writer and speaker, and a man of strict mo- rals in private life, and possessed a fine taste for the fine arts; died upon the scaffold, January 30, 1649. Quotations : Formality —Martyr – Policy — Reform — Remembrance — Schism—Zealot. CHARLES II, King of England, the eldest son of Charles the First, born, May 29, 1630; he lacked the virtues of his father, being noted for his immoralities; died, Feb- ruary 6, 1685. Quotations : Exile—Infamy—Starvation. CHARLES III, called THE GREAT, DUKE OF LOR- raine, born at Nancy, France, 1543; died, 1608. Quotation : Humility. CHARLES V, King of France, called THE WISE, born at Vincennes, 1337; died, 1380. Quotation : Clemency —Condemnation. CHARLES V, (DON CARLOS I, OF SPAIN,) Emper- or of Germany; died, September 21, 1558. Quotation : Re- tirelllent. CHARLES VI, Emperor of Germany, born, 1685; died, October, 1740. Quotation : Cookery. CHARLES IX, King of France, son of Henry the Second, born at Saint Germain-en-Laye, 1550; the instigator of the terrible massacre on “Bartholomew's Day,” August 24, 1572; died, May 30, 1574. Quotations : Enemy—Rebellion —Sword—Treachery. CHARLES IX, King of Sweden, born, 1550; died, 1611. Quotation : Blood. CHARLES XI, King of Sweden, born, Decem- ber, 1655; he was a great promoter of commerce, manufac- tures, and the fine arts; died, 1697. Quotation : Sleep. CHARLES XII, King of Sweden, born at Stock- holin, June 27, 1682; a Celebrated Conqueror, and a Singular rather than a great man; killed by a ball, at the battle of Frederikshall, December 11, 1718. Quotation : Arithmetic. CHARLESWORTH, MARIA LOUISA, born, 1830 ; an English miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Lips. CHARNAGE, DUNOD DE, SOPHIE EDOUARD, born at Besançon, 1783; a French administrator and jurist; died, 1826. Quiotations: Compassion—Pity. CHARNOCK, STEPHEN, born in London, 1628; an eminent English Non-conformist divine and writer; died, July 27, 1680. Quotations: Beginning—Creator-Church— Consciênce—Conversion—Design — Eye – God—Holiness— Instinct—Judgments—Law—-Man—Motion—Prayer—Provi- dence—Reverence—Self-Denial—Self-Love—Soul—Time— Trinity—Unbelief—Worship. CHARRON, PIERRE, born in Paris, 1531; a French Catholic priest and philosopher, and eminent as a preacher and author; died in Paris, 1603. Quotations: Adversity— ºediation. A varice-birth ºfty-fespair-Gifts-Grâti- tude—Intoxication—Money —Mutability—Obligation—Op- portunity—Reserve—Richés—Self-Denial. CHARTERY, DR. Quotation : Debt. CHARTIER, ALAIN, born in Normandy, 1885; a fººted French poet and writer; died, 1455. Quotation : Hermit. CHARTIER, RENá, born at Vendôme, France, #; an eminent French physiclan; died, 1654. Quotation : lay. CHASE, SALMON PORTLAND, born at Cornish, New Hampshire, January 13, 1808; an eminent American statesman and chief justice of the Supreme court; died, May 7, 1873. Quotations: Expediency—Temperance. CHASLES, VICTOR EUPHEMION PHILARETE, born near Chartres, France, 1799; a French journalist and litté- rateur; died, August 3, 1873. Quotation : Revolution. A / O Gº AC A P // / C A /, / AV /O AE X. I ().91 CHATEAUBRIAND. FRANÇois AUGUSTE, VI- comte, de, born at St. Malo, Brittany, September 14, 1759; a celebrated French author; died, J º 4, 1848. Quotations: Aristocracy—Autumn—Birds — Christianity – Crusades — Glory—Grief—Infirmity—Justice—Music—Sorrow—Taste. CHATELET, GABRIELLE EMILIE LE TONNELIER de Breteuil, Marquise, du, born, 1706: a French Savante, and one of the most remarkable women of her time; died, Au- gust 10, 1749. Quotation : Wealth. - CHATFIELD, PAUL. See SMITH, HORACE. CHATHAM, EARL OF, (WILLIAM PITT,) born at Boconnoc, Cornwall, November 15, 1708; an illustrious Eng- lish statesman and orator; died, April 11, 1778. Quotations : Confidence—Early Rising—Farmer—Good-Breeding—Mod- eration—Tillage—Trade. CHATTERTON, LADY GEORGIANA, born about 1830; an English authoress; died, 1876. Quotation : Forti- tude. CHATTERTON, THOMAs, born at Bristol, Novem- ber 20, 1752; an English poet and dramatist ; died by Suicide. August, 1770. Quotation : I)espondency. CHAUCER, GEOFFREY, born in London, 1328; the father and day-star of English 8; died, October 25, 1400. Quotations: Abstinence — Chiding — Despising — Fasting—Jangle. - CHAUDON, ESPRIT Joseph, born at Valensole, Lower Alps, 1738; a French littérateur; died, 1800. Quota- tion : Grumbler. CHAUNCY, CHARLEs, D.D., born, 1705; a writer on theology; died, 1787. Quotation : Good. CHAUSSEE, PIERRE-CLAUDE NIVELLE, DE LA, born in Paris, 1692; a popular dramatic author; died, 1754. Quotation : World. CHAVES, DE, MANUEL DE SILVEYRA PINTO DE Fonseca, Marquis, and Count of Amarante, born at Villa- Real, Valencia, Spain; an eminent general and wit: died, 1830. Quotation : Wit. - CHEDWORTH, LoRD JoHN, born about 1755; an English writer. Quotation. Ingratitude. CHEEVER, GEORGE BARRELL, D.D., born at Hallowell, Maine, April 17, 1807; an eloquent preacher and Writer. $# Indolence—Insignificance—ProCras- tination—Puritanisin–Religion—Scandal—Slavery. CHEEVER, HENRY THEODORE, brother of the preceding, born at Hallowell, Maine, 1814; an American author and Congregational minister. Quotations : Humor —Industry—Monuments—Mountain. CHEKE, or CHEEKE, SIR JOHN, born at Cam- bridge, 1514: an eminent English scholar and author; died, 1557, Quotation : Curiosities. CHELBOH, RABBI. Quotation: Worship. CHEMNITZ, MARTIN, born at Treuenbrietzen, in Brandenburg, 1522; a German Protestant divine ; died at Brunswick, 1586. Quotation : Limit. CHENELLES. Quotation : Devil. CHENEVIX, RICHARD, born about 1770; an Irish § died, 1830. Quotations : Adversity — Affliction — action. CHENEY, MRs. HARRIET V., born in Massachu- se; iºn American authoress. Quotattions : Employment —Limit. - CHENIER, MARIE JOSEPH, DE, born at Constan- tinople, of French parents, 1764; a poet and dramatist ; died, 1811. Quotations : Mother—Tyrant—Wit. CHERASKOW, M. M.; a Russian modern epic poet and writer. Quotation : Caution. CHERBULIEZ, VICTOR, born at Geneva, 1832; a French novelist. Quotation : Mirth. CHESHIRE, THOMAS, born in England ; an emi- #. divine and author, (London, 1641.) Quotation : Foun- 8, U1011. CHESTERFIELD, LORD, (PHILIP DORMER STAN- hope,) born in London, September 22, 1694; an English au- thor and courtier, distinguished for his §. polished manners, extensive acquirements, and versatile talents ; died, March 24, 1773. Quotations ; Ability—Address—Affa- bility—Age —Air—Amiability — Antiquary–Application— Army—ASSurance —Awkwardness— Bashfulness—Benefits —Calmness—Ceremony — Character – Civility—Comedy– Company—-Compliment—Congratulation—Contempt—Con- troversy—Court—Culture — Dancing — Debt—Diffidence— Dress-Eagerness--Equivocation--Experience--Face—Flat- tery—Friendshi fº — Genius — Good-Breeding— Good-Nature — Handwriting — Heart — Hour—Humanity— Humor—Hurry—Idleness— Inclination — Indolence—Insol- yency-Joke--Knowledge—Language--Lawyer—-Learning— Letter—Lying—Manners—Merit—Music—Mystery—Obser- vation – Occupation—Oratory – Perfection — Pleasure — Proyerbs—Restraint-Ridicule—Ridigulousness—Secrecy— Self-Possession—Smile-Style —Talking—Theatre—Time— Timidity—Toleration—Trifle—Ugliness—Vice—Virtue–Vi- Vacity—Vulgarity—Weakness—Woman—World—Youth. CHETTLE, HENRY, born, 1540; an English dra- matist; died, 1604. Quotation : Curiosities. CHEVREAU, URBAIN, born in Loudun, in the department of Vienne, France, 1613; an ingenious writer; died, 1701. Quotation : Old Age. CHEYNE, GEORGE, born, 1670: a celebrated Scottish physician ; died at Bath, 1742. Quotations: Age —Common-Sense—Harmony—Human-Nature—Reality. CHEYNE, JAMES, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, about 1535; a learned philosopher and author; died, 1602. Quotation : Ideality. CHILD, LYDIA MARIA, whose maiden name was Francis, born at Medford, Massachusetts, February 11, 1802; a popular American writer, and journalist, and for fifty ears one of the leading lights of American female lite ,ture, Her Writings are chiefly on social topics; died, October 20, 1889. Quotations: Domesticity—Enjoyment— —Flowers—Friendship—Happiness--Heart-Human-Nature —Love—Melancholy—Music—Nature—Old Age—Politeness —Progress—Quarrels—Revenge. CHILDS, EDMUND B., born in New York, 1828; an American journalist, novelist, and miscellaneous writer. Quotations : Land—Wife. CHILDS, G. B ; an English writer on natural physics, and author of “Improvement of the Female Fig- ure,” and other works. Quotation : Dress. CHILDS, GEORGE WILLIAM, born in Baltimore, Maryland, 1829; an American publisher and journalist, dis- tinguished for his energy, enterprise, and liberality. Quo- tation : Newspaper. CHILLINGWORTH, WILLIAM, born in Oxford, October, 1602; an eminent English writer and divine ; died in Chichester, January 30, 1644. Quotations: Argument— Others—Popery—Prince. CHILO, or CHILON, born in Sparta, in Greece ; one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece. He became a mag- istrate of Sparta, 556 B.C.; his maxims which have been recorded by history justify his reputation for wisdom; and that important saying is ascribed to him, “Know Thyself: ” he died of joy, at Pisa, after embracing his son, who had gained a victory at the Olympian games. Quotations: Anger—Age—BenefitS—COnsideration—COVetousness—De- rision—Desire – Difficulty—I)ivination—Entertainment— Envy—Friendship—Haste— Impossibility—Lamentation— Law—Leisure—I,enity—Liar—LOWe—Lying—Meanness— Memory—Mercy— Morning—Multitude—Old Age—Origin- § 1. º.º.º. º.º. Self-Knowledge—Self-Opinion—Servant—Suspicion—Tem- er–Temperance–Threats—Tongue—Virtue—Wisdom— it. CHILPERIC I, King of the Franks, born, 539; assassinated, 584. Quotation : Separation. CHIPMAN, NATHANIEL, LL.D., born at Salisbury, Connecticut, November 15, 1752; an American soldier and jurist ; died, Quotations : Inattention — Jealousy— Sympathy—Yawning. CHISHOLM, CAROLINE, born in Northampton- shire, 1810; a philanthropic Englishwoman; died, March 25, 1877. Quotation : Wife. CHI-TSCHANG-SUN ; a Chinese philosopher and a disciple of Confucius. Quotation : Troubles. CHITTY, JOSEPH, born, 1776 ; an eminent Eng- lish legal author and Special pleader; died, 1841. Quota- tions : Judgment—Wills. CHOATE, RUFUS, LL.D., born in Essex, Massa- chusetts, October 1, 1799; the most eminent advocate of New England; died, July 13, 1859. Quotations: Boo Fatigue—Shame. CHOBER. Quotation: Christ. CHOISEUL, ETIENNE FRANÇors, (DUC DE CHOI- Seul et d'Amboise,) born, 1719 ; an eminent French states- man ; died, 1785. Quotation : Jesuit. CHORLTON, WILLIAM, of Staten Island, New York; an American writer on horticulture, (New York, 1852.) Quotation : Vine. CHOULES, John Over TON, D.D., born at Bris- tol, England, 1801 ; an English Baptist minister and writer; died in New York, 1856. Quotations : Childhood—Infamy —KnOW ledge. CHOW-KUNG, or the DUKE OF CHow ; a Chinese philosopher. Quotation : Adaptation. CHRISTIAN, EDwARD, born about 1750; an Eng- lish writer and professor of law; died, 1823. Quotations: Infamy—Progress. - - CHRISTINA, Queen of Sweden, born, December 8, 1626; a woman of uncommon genius and talents; died in Rome, 1689. §"# : Desert—Merit—Obligation—Phi- losophy—Reading—Ridiculousness—Self. - CHRYSANTHUS or CHRYSANTES, (Bishop of the Novatians,) born about 360: an eminent divine ; died, 419. Quotations: Physic—Riding. CHRYSIPPUS, born at Soli, in Cecilia, 280 B.C.; a celebrated Stoic philosopher; died, 207 B.C. Quotations : Favor—Life—Slander—Tomb. CHRYSOLORAS, DEMETRIUS, flourished about #: a Greek theologian and philosopher. Quotation : ravery. 1092 J) A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. CHRYSOLORAS, EMANUEL, born in Constanti- nople ; a Greek schoiar, and the restorer Of Greek litera- ture; died, 1415. Quotation : Letters. CHRYSOSTOM, SAINT, JoHN, born at Antioch, in Syria, 350 A.D.; a pre-eminent Greek father, and Orator; died at Comana, 407. , Quotations: Charity — Concord — Damnation—Envy—Good—Hell — Heresy—Honor—Jews— Misery—Pedigree –Prayer — Pride–Priest—Psalms—Self- Accusation — Service — Soul — Suffering — Ungodliness — Union—Usury. CHUBB, THOMAs, born near Salisbury, 1679; an English Deistical writer; died, 1746. Quotations: Mirth— Prayer—Revelation—Soul. CHULALONGKORN, born, 1850; the present King of Siam, and one of the most enlightened and pro- ressive monarchs of Asia. He entertained General U. S. rant. Quotation : Guest. CHUNG-KUNG ; a Chinese philosopher and a dis- ciple of Confucius. Quotation. Talent. CHURCH, PHARCELLUs, D.D., born in Seneca, New York, September 11, 1801; an American minister and writer. Quotation : Missionary. CHURCH, MRS. Ross, (FLORENCE MARRYAT,) the daughter of Captain *Tarr at, the novelist, born at Brighton, July 9, 1837: a popular English novelist and maga- zine writer and editor. Quotations: Furniture—Innocence —Insincerity—Light—Pleasure. CHURCHILL, CHARLEs, born at Westminster, 1731; a popular English poet, prose writer, and Satirist; died, 1764. Quotations: Casties-in-the-Air: Envy—fashion —Genius—Independence—Jest—Patience—Pleasing. CHURCHYARD, THOMAs, born in Shrewsbury, 1520; an English poet and prose writer; died, 1604. Quota- tion : Treachery. CHWANG-MANG ; a Chinese philosopher, and a disciple of Confucius. Quotation : Fool. CHYWAID, E. Y.; a Welch bard and prose wri- ter. Quotation. Grumbler. CIAMPINI, GIov ANNI, GIUSTU's, born at Rome, 1633; a learned Italian writer and antiquary ; died, 1698. Quotation . Thunder. CIBBER, COLLEY, born in London, 1671; a cele- brated dramatic author and actor; died, 1757. Quotations: Offense—Ring—Sobriety—Tea—Value. CIBBER, SUSANNA MARIA, born in London, 1716; a celebrated English actress; died, 1766. Quotation : Italiſt8. CICERO, MARCUs TULLIUS, born, January 3, 106 B.C.; one of the greatest writers of antiquity, and as an Orator he had but one rival; died, 43 B.C. º; : Ability—Absence—-Abuse—Accusation—Action--Activity— Advantage—Advice--Advocate—Affability–-Age—Agony— Alien—Amiability–Amusement—Anecdotes—Antiquity— Apothegm--Appetite--Arbitration--Argument—Army—AS- iration—Author — A varice— Bard — Beginning— Books— ounty--Bravery—Brevity-Calmness--Candidate—Charac- ter—Citizen — Clemency—Commonwealth — Community— Constancy—Contempt—Controversy—Conversation —Cor- rection—Counsel —Countenance–Čounterfeit—Country— Courage–Craft—-Credit--Crime--Culture—Dancing—-Danger Diligence--Discord--Discretion--Dishonesty–Dissimulation Doctrine—Earth–Eating—Economy—Eloquence—Enemy Envy—Estate—Events—Evil—Exercise—Exile–Existence Expediency--Experience—Extenuation—Eye—Falsehood— Fame — Father — Faithfulness — Faults — Favor — Fear— Fickleness — Fidelity — Fireside — Fitness — Fool — Fore- thought—Fortune—Fraud—Friendship—Frugality—Gener- Osity—Gentleness—Gesture—Glory—God—Good–Govern- ment—Gracefulness—Gratitude—Grave—Greatness—Grief Guilt—Habit—Hate—Health—History—Honor— Horror— Husbandman—Hypocrisy—Ignorance—Ills—Immortality— Impropriety—Impunity—Impudence—Indolence—Injury— Innocence—Inquiry—Insignificance—Inspiration—Instruc- tion — Intuition — Jeopardy— Jest— Joke—Joy— Judges— Justice—Knowledge—Labor—Laughter–Law—Lawyer— Learning–Leisure—Letters—Liberty—-License—Licentious- ness—Literature—Loquacity—Love—Loyalty—Lust—Lux- ury—Lying—Majority—Malice-Man—Manners–Master— Mélancholy—Memory—Men— Mind—Mirth—Misery—Mis- fortune—Mistake—Modesty—Moment—Money—Morose- ness—Mortality—Motive—Multitude—Murder—Neatness— . Necessity—Neighbor—Nobility— Obedience—Observation —Old Age—Opinion—Oratory—Ostentation—Pain—Paint- ing—Passion—Patriotism—Peace—People—-Perdition—Per- fidy—Perjury—Philosophy—Physician–Pictures—Piety— Pilot—Pleasure—Poet—Populace– Posterity—Praise—Pre- cedent—Predestination—Prejudice—Pretension—Pride— Procrastination—Profession--Profuseness—-Prophet—Pros- perity—Prudence—Public– Punishment—Pursuit—Quack- ery—Quarrels—Habble—Rank—Rarity—Rashness—Reason Recompense—Relaxation—Relations—Remembrance— Re- .*s;..."gº.” Life— Satiety— ea—Self-Knowledge—Self-Preservation—Sense—Sensual- ity—Sentences—Silence—Slavery—Sleep— Society—Song— Soul—Speaking—Speech—Station—Student—Study—Sui- Cide—Superstition—Suspicion—Talent—Taxation—Teach- infºr Terror—Thinking—Thought—Threats —Thrift—Time—Timidity—Touch—Traitor—Trees—Trifles —Truth—-Tumult—Understanding—-Unhappiness—-Untruth- fulness — Uprightness – Viciousness — Victory — Virtue— Voice —Vote — War — Weather — Wickedness — Wisdom— Woe—Wonder—Words—Writing—Wrong—Youth. CICOGNA, EMMANUEL ANTONIO, born in Venice, 1789; an Italian littérateur. Quotation : Man. CID, THE, (RUY DIAz DE BIVAR,) born at Burgos, in Spain, 1040; a celebrated Castilian hero ; died in Valen- cia, 1099. The poem of “The Cid" was written in 1200, but its author is unknown. Quotation : Supper. CIENTZ, or CENTZ, C. P., born in England ; emi- grated to the United States ; a lawyer, and author of “Re- public of Republics,” (Boston, 1880.) Quotation : Secession. CIMON, born, 500 B.C.; an eminent Athenian general and Statesman; died, 449 B.C. Quotation : Table. CINCINNATUS, LUCIUs, QUINTUs, born, 520 B.C.; Qne of the most illustrlous of the Roman patriots; died, 435 B.C. Quotation : State. CLAGETT, S. H. Quotation : Legends. CLAIBORNE, JOHN F. H., COLONEL, born in Natchez, Mississippi; an American writer. Quotation: Compliment. CLAIRON, (Leyris de la Tude,) MADEMOISELLE, Claire-J º Hippolyte, born near Condé, Flanders, 1723; a famous French actress; died, 1803. Quotations: Favor —Mother—Remorse—Spite. CLAP, ROGER, born at Sallom, Devonshire, Eng- land, April 6, 1609; the founder of Dorchester, Massachu- setts, died, February 2, 1691. Quotation : Witness. CLARENCE, DUKE, OF, (WILLIAM IV OF ENG- land,) born, August 21, 1765; the third son of George the Third; died, June 20, 1837. Quotation : Homeliness. CLARENDON, EARL OF, (EDwARD HYDE,) born at Dinton, Wiltshire, February 16, 1608; an eminent Eng- lish historian and statesman ; died at Rouen, France, De- cember 9, 1674. Quotations : Ambition—Anger—Beauty— BOOks— Conversation—Deformity—I)runkenness—Ease— Envy—Example—Friendship—3 ood-Will— Human–Nature —Industry–Law—Life— Pride— Promise— Proselyte—Re- pentence—War—Wisdom—World. CLARK, ANNIE E., born in London, 1790; an English authoress, (London, 1813.) Qztotation : Innocence. CLARK, CHARLES HEBER, (MAX ADELER ;) an American writer and novelist. Q7zotation : Jail. CLARK, LEWIS GAYLORD, born at Otisco, New York, 1810; an American writer; died, 1873. Quotations: Contemporary—Report. CLARK, RUFUs W, born at Newburyport, Mas- sachusetts, 1813; a Presbyterian minister and writer. Quo- tation : Self-Condemnation. CLARK, WILLIAM GEORGE, M.A., born at Bar- ford Hall, Darlington, Yorkshire, 1821; an English divine and essayest. Quotation : Dirt. CLARK, WILLIS GAYLORD, a twin-brother of L. G. Clarke, born at Otisco, New York, 1810; an American journalist and poet ; died, 1841. Quotations: Bereavement —Fame—Summer. CLARK, W. M. Quotation: Reward. CLARKE, ADAM, LL.D., born near Londonderry, Ireland, 1762; a Methodist minister, and an eminent bibli- cal commentator; died of Cholera, in London, 1832. Quo- tations : Chance—Dancing — Death—Disagreement—Ego- tism–Gospel—Justification—Occupation—Omnipresence— Politics— ºry — Sectarianism — Tenderness—Trying — Unity—Words. CLARKE, ALEXANDER, born in England, 1700; an English theologian and writer, (London, 1763–1779.) Quotation : Conduct. CLARKE, CHARLES, born, 1743; an English bard and writer; died, 1750. Quotation : Seduction. CLARKE, CHARLES M, born about 1780; an Eng- lish writer on medical Science, (London, 1814.) Quotation : Eating. CLARKE, CHARLOTTE. Quotation : Stage. , CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL, LL.D., born at Wil- lingdon, Sussex, England, 1769; a distinguished traveller; died, 1832. Quotation : Concord. CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN, D.D., born at Han- over, New Hampshire, April 4, 1810; an eminent American Unitarian minister and Writer, Quotations: Girl—Influ- ence—Pity. CLARKE, JOHN A., D.D., born at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, May 6, 1801: an Episcopalian divine, and ā opular pulpit orator and writer of religious works; died, R. ovember 27, 1843. Quotations: Missionary—Variance— Zion. CLARKE, MARCUS. Quotation : Heart—Pilot—Scorn. CLARKE, MARY Cow DEN, born in London, June, 1811; an English authoress, and the gompiler of “The Com- pleté Concordance of Shakespeare.” Quotations: Oppres- sion—Revenge. CLARKE, McDon ALD, born, 1798; an American writer and poet; died, 1842. Qztotation. Curse. CLARKE, SIR JAMES, born at Cullen, Banffshire, Scotland, 1788; an eminent physician and writer; died about 1854. Quotations: Beauty—Quackery. A / O G AC A P Aſ / C A Z / M7 /) A. Y. 1093 CLARKE, SAMUEL, born at Woolston, 1599; an English theological writer; died, 1682. Quotations: Eter- nity—Faith—Religion—Scepticism—Temptation—Virtue. CLARKSON, BISHOP ; an American Episcopalian divine, lecturer, and writer. Quotation : Christ. CLARKSON, DAVID, born at Bradford, England ; an eminent Non-conformist divine and WI'iter; died, 1686. Quotation : Christ. CLAUDE, JEAN, born at La Sauvetat, near Agen, 1619; an eminent French Protestant minister and auth9r; died at The Hague, 1687. Quotations : House—Observation —Superstition. CLAUDE, MERMOT. See MERMOT CLAUDE. CLAUDIAN, CLAUDIUs, flourished about 400 A.D.; a Latin poet. , Quotations : Avarice—Clemency— Death—Envy—Exaltation—Fate—Fury—King–Lust–Lux- ury–Nature—Passion—Pity—Position— Reason— Royalty —Sailor—Time—Viciousness—Violence—Virtue. CLAUDIUS, MATHIAS, born at Rheinfeld, near Lubeck, 1743; a popular German poet and prose Writer; died at Hamburg, 1815. Quotations: Itevenge—Temptation. CLAUDIUS, TIBERIUS DRUSUS NERO. born at Lyons, 10 B.C.; the fourth emperor of Rome; died, 54 A.D. Qºzotations : Ancestry—King—Nobility—Pride—Sacrifice. CLAXTON, SARAH ; a modern writer of fiction. Quotation : wife. CLAY, CASSIUS MARCELLUS, born in Madison County, Kentucky, October 19, 1810; an American lawyer, statesman, and writer. Quotations: Commerce—Decay— Expediency. CLAY, HENRY, born in Hanover county, Virgi- nia, April 12, 1777; an eminent American Statesman and Ora- tor; died at Washington, June 29, 1852. rtot (thions. Bal- lot —Candidate— Constitution—Courage—Liberty–Nation —Office—Oratory—Policy—Revolution—Right. CLAYTON, CECIL, born about 1810; an English novelist. Quotation : Quackery. CLAYTON, ELLEN CREATHORNE, born in Dublin; an English artist and novelist, (London, 1860–77.) Quotat- tions : Innocence—Reason. CLAYTON, ROBERT, F.R.S., born in Dublin, 1695; a learned Irish divine; died, 1758. Quotation : Tem- per. CLEANTHES, born at Assos, in Asia Minor, 300 B.C., a Greek Stoic philosopher, and a disciple of Zeno. Quotations : Harmony—Ignorance—Nature—-Pain--Silence. CLEAVES, ANNE ; a modern writer of fiction. Quotations : Cheerfulness—Plumpness. CLEEVE, ALEXANDER, born, 1740; an English divine and theological writer, (London, 1773–1801.) Quota- tion : Pleasing. CLEEVE, J. K., born about 1780; an English divine and author, (London, 1812.) Quotation: Labor. CLEMENS OF ALExANDER, (TITUs FLAVIUs, ) born about the middle of the second century; an eminent Father of the Christian church ; died, 220 A.D. Quota- tions : Delay—Denial—Idleness—Soul. CLEMENS, JEREMIAH, born at Huntsville, Ala- bama, December 28, 1814; an American jurist, politician, and novelist - died at Huntsville, 1865. Quotation : Cir- CumstanceS, CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE, (Mark Twain,) born in the village of Florida, Monroe county, Missouri, November 3, 1835; an American humorist and author of Several WorkS. Quotations : Human-Nature—Imitation— Joke—Roran—Loneliness—Moonlight—Parable—Railroad —Traitor—Travel—Utility—Visits—Voyage. CLEMENT, SAINT, or CLEMENT I, (Bishop of Rome,) he succeeded Linus in 67 A.D.; a Christian martyr, and a fellow-laborer with Saint Paul ; died, 100 A.D. £º: tations : Banishment—Companion—Gossip—-Holiness—-Pov- erty—Worship. CLEMENT VI, Pope, (PIERRE RogFR,) born at Limousin, France ; died, 1352. Quotations. Popery. CLEMENT, VII, Pope, (GIULIo DE MEDICI ;) died, September, 1534. Quotation : Popery. CLEMENT XIV, POPE, (GIOvANNI VINCENZO Antonio Ganganelli,) born at Saint Arcangelo, near Rimi- ni, 1705; eminent for his learning and piety; died, Septem- ber, 1774. Quotations : Murder—Self-Abasement. CLEOBULUS, (King of Lindus,) born in Caria, in Greece, 634 B.C.: one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece, and the author of a large number of apothegms; died, 564 B.C. Quotations : Covetousness—Dalliance—Danger—Difficult —Employment—Enemy—Envy—Exercise—Force—Friend- ship—Gold—Good—Hearing—Marriage—Mediocrity—Pros- perity—Reproof–Suspicion—Vice—Virtue—Vows. CLEOPATRA, Queen of Egypt, the daughter of Ptolemy, of Anletes, born, 69 B.C.: celebrated for her per- Sonal charms and her various accomplishments; died by suicide, 30 B.C. Quotation : Lover. CLERC, JEAN, LE, born at Geneva, 1657 : an em- § syss critic and divine; died, 1736. Quotation : Dis- COIlú£Ilú. CLERK., JOHN, (LORD ELDIN,) born in Scotland, 1757; an eminent judge and an eloquent advocate ; died, 1832. Quotation. Difference. CLEVELAND, CHARLES DEXTER, LL.D., born at Salem, Massachusetts, December 3, 1802; an American writer; died, August 18, 1869. Quotations: Kindness`Poli. tics. - CLINTON, DE WITT, born at Little Britain, Or- ange county, New York, March 2, 1769; an American states- ; died at Albany, february 11, 1828. Quotation: Know- edge. CLINTON, GEORGE, born in Ulster county, New York, July 26, 1739; the fourth Vice-President of the United States; died, April 12, 1812. Quotation : People. CLINTON, G. W., born in Buffalo about 1810; an American lawyer. Quotations: Love—Itumor. CLISTHENES, flourished about 500 B.C.; an Athenian statesman. Quotation : Wrath. CLITOMACHUS, flourished about 150 B.C. ; a Carthaginian philosopher. Quotation : Yielding. CLOOTZ, ANARCHARSIS, BARON, born near Cleves, IRhenish Prussia, 1755: a Prussian enthusiast in the French revolution; executed, March, 1794. Quotations : Virtue—Worship. CLOSE, FRANCIS, D.D., (Dean of Carlisle,) born, 1797; an eloquent English Protestant divine. Quotations: Beau—Holy Spirit—Introduction—Text. CLOTHILDE, or CLOTILDE, SAINT, Queen of the Goths; eminent for her virtue and piety; died, 545. Quotation : Prison. CLOTZIUS, or KLOTZIUS, STEPHEN, born at Lippstadt, 1606; a German theologian and author ; died, 1668. Quotation : Salvation. CLOUI), SAINT, born at the end of the fifth cen- tury; an eminent ecclesiastic ; died,560. Quotation : Zeal. CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH, born, 1819; an Eng- lish poet and miscellaneous writer; died, 1861. Quotation : Machinery. CLOVIS, King of the Franks, born, 466 : in his reign commenced the glory, religion, and laws of France; died, 511. Quotations: Wrong–Zeal.' CLULOW, WILLIAM B., born about 1800 : an English writer and the author of “Aphorisms and Reflec- tions,” (London, 1843.) Quotations. Conversation—Dreams Error—Esteem—Fancy--Friendship—Genius—Imagination —Knowledge—Language—Learning— Literature—Merit— Miser —Oratory—Originality—Punctuality—Scandal—Soli- tude—Study—Time. CLYDE, ALTON, born about 1815; an English novelist, author of “Tried and True,” and “Under Foot.” Quotation : Kisses. COATES, BENJAMIN H., M.D, born at Philadel- phia, 1787; an American physician and writer; died about 1854. Quotation : Contemplation. COBB, LYMAN, born in Tompkins county, New York, 1805; an American philologist and the author of a number of school books. Quotations : Absence—Cozening —Deceit—Dreams—Examination—Fable—Play. COBB, SYLVANUs, D.D., born in Norway, Maine, 1799; an American Universalist minister and bibliogra- pher; died in East Boston, Massachusetts, October 31, 1866. Quotation : Brute. COBB, SYLVANUs, JR., son of the preceding, born in Waterville, Maine, 1823; an American writer and jour- nalist. Quotation : Loyalty. COBBE, FRANCEs Pow ER, born in Dublin, De- cember 4, 1822; a popular writer on religion and morals. Quotations: Facetiousness—Humanity—Marriage, COBBETT, WILLIAM, born at Farnham, Surrey, England, March 9, 1762; an eminent statesman, reformer. and writer; died, June 18, 1835. wotations: Drinking— Independence—Intemperance—Labor—Politics—-Poverty— Reputation—Subsistence—Woman. COBBIN, INGRAM, M.A., born, 1800; an English divine and author. Quotation : Pride. COBDEN, RICHARD, born at Dunford, near Mid- hurst, Sussex, June 3, 1804; an eminent English statesman, reformer, and political economist; died, April 2, 1865, Qºto- tations: Debate—Extravagance—Luck— Motion—Politics —Slavery. COBURN, CHARLES P., born at Owego, New York, + *: 1818; an American educator. Quotation : School- Iſl?.Ster". COBURN, R. C. Quotation: Usefulness. COCCEIUS, JoHN, born at Bremen, 1603; an eminent theologian and author; died, 1669. Quotation : Scripture. COCKBURN, CATHERINE, born, 1679; a Scottish miscellaneous writer, dramatist, and poetess; died, 1749. Quotation : Concealment. COCKBURN, LORD, (HENRY THOMAN,) born, 1779; an able Scottish judge; died, 1854. Quotation 8: Duelling —Religion. *} 1094 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. COCKE, WILLIAM ARCHER, born about 1800; an American writer, (Philadelphia, 1858.) Quotation : States- COCKTON, HENRY, born, 1808; an English hu- morous novelist. Quotations: Firmness—Kisses—Mirth. COCO, VINCENzo, born at Campomarana, Italy, 1770; an Italian littérateur; died at Naples, 1823, Quota- tion : COuntry. COCQUARD, FRANÇOIs BERNARD, born at Dijon, France, 1700: a French poet and prose writer; died, 1772. Quotation : Midnight. CODRINGTON, ROBERT, born, 1602 : an English writer; died, 1665. Quotation : Contumely. CODRUS, the last king of Athens, who reigned about 1060 B.C. Quotation : Victory. COE, MRs. EMMA R : an American writer and public speaker. Quotations: Destiny—Equality, CCECILIANUS. Quotation : Appetite—Artifice. CCEDITUS. Quotation : Soldier. CCEDMAN, or CAEDMAN, the father of English song, flourished in the Seyenth century; a Saxon ecclesi- astic, poet and author; died, 680 A.D. Quotation : Crea- tion—Firmness. COELIUS, or CAELIUS, ANTIPATER, flourished about 125 B.C.; a Roman historian and jurist. Quotations: Talent—Wit. CCEUR, JACQUES, born at Bourges, France, about 1380; a French merchant and able financier; died at Scio, 1456. Quotation : Impossibility. CCEUR, PIERRE LOUIs, born at Tarare, (Rhône, ) France, 1805; a French bishop and eloquent preacher. Quo- tations : Confidence—Friendship—Love—Secresy. COGAN, THOMAS, born at Rowell, 1736 : an Eng- lish physician and writer; died, 1818. Quotations: Benevo- lence—Education —Imagination —Joy–Memory—Morality —Reason—Remorse—Self-Love—Sense—Shame. COHAUSEN, JOHANN HEINRICH, born at Hildes- heim, Hanover, 1665; a German physician and author of several professional works; died, 1750. Quotation : Health. COKE, SIR EDMUND, born at Mileham, Norfolk, February 1, 1552; an eminent English jurist and judge; died, September 3, 1633. Quotations : Abridgment – Cor- oration — Damage — Exception — Fee — House — Law — axims--Occupancy—Proof-Reason--Testimony—-Treason —Witchcraft. COLANUS, (read CALANUS, q.v.) Quotation: Life. COLBY, CELESTIA R. Quotations: Flowers—Purity. COLBERT, CHARLEs, (MARQUIS DE CROISSY, ) brother of the great Colbert, born in Paris, 1629; a distin- guished French statesman and diplomatist ; died, 1696. Quotation : Treason. COLBERT, JACQUES NICOLAs, (Archbishop of Rouen,) son of the preceding, born in Paris, 1654; an emi- nent divine, noted for his talents and piety; died, 1707. Quotation : Contentment. COLBERT, JEAN BAPTISTE, brother of Charles Colbert, born at Rheims, August 29, 1619; an eminent French statesman and financier; died, September 6, 1693. Quotation : Office. COLBERT, JEAN BAPTISTE, (MARQUIS DE SEIG- nelay,) eldest son of the preceding, born in Paris, 1651; a French financier and politician; died, 1690. Quotation : Contentment. COLBERT, JEAN BAPTISTE, (MARQUIS DE TORCY,) son of the Marquis de Croissy, born in Paris, 1665; an emi- ment diplomatist and politician ; died, 1746. Quotation : Courtesy. COLBY, H. G. O., born in New Bedford, Massa- ºÉ an American agriculturist and writer. Quota- 2072, lºſ) OT. COLDEN, CADWALLADER, born at Dunse, Scot- land, 1688; an eminent physician who emigrated to the United States in 1708, was lieutenant-governor of the state of New York, and the earliest author of note in the city of New York; died, 1776. Quotation : Sentiment. COLE, SETH. W., born in New England: an Ameri- can agriculturist, writer, and editor of the “New England Farmer,” (1852.) Quotations: Fruit—Horticulture. COLE, WILLIAM, born in Cambridgeshire, 1714; an English antiquary and divine ; died, 1782. Quotation : Blustering. COLEBROOKE, HENRY THOMAs, born, 1765: an English Orientalist and writer; died, 1837. Quotation : Interference. COLEMAN, LYMAN, D.D., born at Middlefield, Massachusetts, June 14,1796; an eminent American Scholar, teacher, and author. Quotation : Eating. COLEMAN, WILLIAM, born, 1769; an American journalist and writer; died, 1829. Quotation : Monastery. * COLENSO, John WILLIAM, D.D., (Bishop of Na- tal,) born, January 24, 1814; an English theologian and Writer. Quotation : Unrighteousness. COLERIDGE, DERw ENT, son of S. T. Coleridge, born at Keswick, Cumberland, September 14, 1800; an Eng- lish divine and author. Quotation : Betting. COLERIDGE, HARTLEY, born at Clevedon, near Bristol, 1796; an English poet and writer; died, 1849. Quo- tations: Busybody—Creator—Obstinacy. COLERIDGE, MRS. H. Quotation : Fruit. COLERIDGE, HENRY NELSON, born, 1800; an English lawyer and distinguished scholar; died, 1843. Quotations: Drinking—Profession. COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR, born at Ottery- Saint-Mary, Devonshire, October 21, 1772; an eminent Eng- lish poet and miscellaneous, writer; died in London, July 25, 1834. Quotations: Architecture—Beauty—Belief—Bible —Qant—Care-Chance—Consolation--Conversion—Creator -Curiosity—Dancing—Dew — Dupes–Education—Error— Evil—Experience—Face—Faith — Falsehood—Fate—Fore- thought—Friendship—Genius — Gentleman — Ghosts—God —Good—Government —Happiness—Honor—Hope—Humor —Ignorance – Impression - Indignation — Individuality— Infidelity—Insignificance—Knowledge—Language--Litera- ture—Love—Madness—Man—Mankind—Marriage—Maxims R-Mºditation. Metaphysic; Methodºſisery. Nonsense. Novels—Painting—Past — Pedantry—Philosophy—Pictures —Plagiarism—Pleasure — Poet — Poetry—Prophecy—Prov- erbs—Prudence—Pulpit—Rage—Reading—Reason—Refine- ment—Reflection—Sabbath – Scepticism—Self-R nowledge -Sensibility — Silence — Sophistry- jº, —Talent— Thinking—Truth—Understanding —Will—Wisdom—World —Worldiness. COLERIDGE, SARA HENRY, the only daughter of S. T. Coleridge, born at Keswick, Cumberland, 1803; an English poetess, translator, and miscellaneous writer; died, 2. Quotation : Forbearance. COLERIDGE, WILLIAM HART, D.D., (Bishop of Barbadoes,) born, 1790; an eminent English divine and au- thor; died, 1850. Quotations : Company—Review. COLES, ELISHA, born in Northamptonshire, 1640; an English teacher and author: died, 1710. Quotation : IRegularity. COLEY. S. Quotations : Affectation—Mind–Trial. COLFAX, SCHUYLER, born in the city of New York, March 23, 1823; an American statesman. Quotations: Interest—Learning. COLLENDER, DR. JoHN H.; superintendent of Hospital for the insane, at Nashville,Tennesee. Quotation : Insanity. COLLET, or COLET, John, (Dean of Saint Paul’s) born in London, 1466; an eminent scholar; died, 1519. Qºto- tations : Children—Commentator—Fitness—Guest. COLLIER, JEREMY, born at Stow-Quy, in Cam- bridgeshire, England, September 23, 1650; a famous Eng- lish theologian and divine ; died, April 26, 1726. Quotat- tions : Affectation—Affection —Appetite —Artifice —Athe- ism—Body—Boldness—Books—Bravery—Conceit—Conver- sation—Courage—Death-Bed— Dependence—Despair—I)e- spondency—Discretion—Ease-Emulation—Envy–Esteem —Face—Fame —Firmness— Flattery— Fortitude—Friend- ship—Goodness—Gracefulness —Greatness— Hero–Hope— Humility—Idleness—Ignorance — Imagination — Injury— Intemperance—Knowledge— Learning— Love—Memory— Mind–Miracle-–Modesty-–Nose--Physiognomy—-Pleasure— Poet--Precipitancy—Presence—-Pride–Principle—-Prudence Reading— Reason—Remorse — Revenge–Rhetoric—Satis- faction—Self-Conceit—Self-Opinion--Sermon--Sloth--Smile —Stage—Success—Talking—Temperance–Thanks—Thea- tre—Truth—Tyranny—Usury—Vanity—Youth. COLLIER, JOHN PAYNE, born in London, Janu- ary 11, 1789; an eminent English critic and antiquary. Qºto- tation : Bride. COLLIN, HEINRICH JOSEPH, born in Vienna, 1772; a German dramatic poet; died, 1811. Quotation : Limit. COLLINGWOOD, LORD, (ADMIRAL CUTHBERT,) born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1750; an eminent English admiral, and the intimate friend of the immortal Nelson; died at sea, 1810. Quotations: Anger—Duty. COLLINS, ANTHONY, born at Heston, Middlesex, 1676; an English writer on theology: died, 1729. Quota- tions : Falling—Prophecy—Punishment—Yeoman. COLLINS, MRS. EMILY, born in South Bristol, New York, 1818; an American writer on social reform ; died at Rochester, 1858. Quotation : Mountain. COLLINS, MoRTIMER, born, 1827; an Engli. poet and novelist : died, July 28, 1876. Quotation . Contempla- tion. COLLINS, WILLIAM WILKIE, born in London, 1825: an English novelist. Quotations: Husband—Intrigue. COLLUTHUS : a priest of Alexandria, who main- tained that God was not the author of the wicked ; he was executed as a heretic in 324 A.D. Qºtotation : Sin. COLLYER, ROBERT, born at Keighley, Yorkshire, 1823, emigrated to the United States, 1859; an able and elo- quent Unitarian divine. Quotation : Independence. A / O Gº Aº A A' Aſ J C A /, / AV ZD E Y. I 095 COLMAN, BENJAMIN, D.D., born at Boston, Mas- sachusetts, October 19, 1673; a Congregational divine and writer; died in Boston, August 29, 1747. Quotation: Se- CéSSIOI]. COLMAN, GEORGE, (“The Younger,”) born, 1762; a celebrated dramatic writer; died, 1836. Quotattions.' Comedy—Gesture. COLMAN, HENRY, born in Boston, Massachusetts September 12, 1785; a Unitarian minister and writer: Gied in London, England, August 14, 1849. Quotattions. Agri- Culture—Soil. - COLOMBO, MICHELE, born about 1735; an Ita- lian novelist ; died about 1790. Quotations : Craft—Frailty. COLONNA, FRA FRANCESCA, born at Venice, 1435; an Italian writer; died, 1527. Quotation : Title— Virtue. - COLSTON, EDwARD, born about 1640 ; an Eng- lish writer; died, 1710. Quotations : Celibacy—Wrong. COLTELLINI, AGOSTINO, born 1613 ; an Italian poet and prose writer; died, 1693. Quotattion : Gloom. COLTON, CHARLES CALEB, born, 1780; an Eng- lish and Of but of habits ; at Fon- Abuse— Afflic- Anger — Ap- iveness- riendship— Gentlemen — Theory— Tra. Usurpation —Vanity — Iainy—Virtue —Vivacity— mess—Wealth—Wickedness— Wisdom—Wish— Woman—Words—Work—W Writing—Wrong. COLUMBRILLE, or COLUMBA, SAINT, born at Gartan, in the county of Tyrconnel, 521 A.D.; an Irish au- stere monk; died, 597 A.D. Quotattons. Injustice—Esteem. ant. —War — * COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER, born at Genoa, Italy, 1436; the most illustrious of navigators and discoverers; died in poverty, at Valledolid, Spain, May 20, 1506. Quota. tions: Discovery—Omen. COLUMELLA, LUCIUs.JUNIUS MODERATUs, born in Cadiz, Spain, about 10 B.C.; an eminent agriculturalist, and Writer; the date of his death is unknown. Quotations : Master—f actice—Wisdom. COLWELL, STEPHEN, born in Brooke county, Virginia, March 25, 1800; an American author; died, Janu- ary 15, 1871. Quotation : Money. COLWELL, W. J., (read CALDWELL.) Quotations: Jail—Pauper—Soul. COMBE, ANDREw, M.D., born in Edinburgh, 1797; an eminent Writer ; died, 1847. Quotation : Harmony. COMBE, CHARLEs, born in London, 1743; an Eng- lish antiquary and writer; died, 1817. Quotation: Con- sideration. COMBE, GEORGE, born in Edinburgh, 1788; an eminent phrenologist and author; died, 1858. Quotations: BOdy—Brains—Health. COMBER, THOMAS, D.D., (Dean of Durham,) born in Kent, 1644; a learned English theologian ; died, 1699. (juotation: World. COMBERMERE, LORD, (STAPLETON COTTON,) born, 1773; an English general; died, 1865. Quotation : Freemasonry. - COMELIUS, (Bishop of Rome,) succeeded Fabi- anus 251 A.D.; died, 252. Quotation : Repentance. COMFORT, MRS. LOUISA R.; an American mis- cellaneous writer. Quotattion : Solitude. COMINES, PHILIPPE, DE, (LORD OF ARGENTON,) born near Menin, Flanders, 1445 ; an eminent historian died, 1509. Quotation . Acquirement. COMINS, LIZZIE B., (Laura Caacton,) born in the United States; an American novelist. Quotation : Light- Heartedness. COMMERFORD, JoHN, born in New York, 1808; a labor reformer; died, 1880. Quotations: Bank — Depre- Ciation. COMMODUS, LUCIUs AELIUS AURELIUS, born, 161 A.D.; a Roman emperor; executed, 192 A.D. Quota- tions : Progress—Strength. COMSTOCK, ANDREw, M.D., born in New York, I795; a professor of elocution and phonetics. Quotation : Nervousness. COMSTOCK, ANTHONY : the president of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- dren. Qzzotation. Nuisance. COMSTOCK, GROVER. S., born at Ulysses, New York, March 24, 1809; an American missionary: died at Burmah, India, April 25, 1844. Quotation : Missionary. COMSTOCK, JOHN LEE, M. D., born at East Lynne, Connecticut, 1789; an American author: died at Hartford, November 21, 1858. Quotation : Wind. COMSTOCK, MRs. SARAH DAVIs, born at Brook- line, Massachusetts, September 24, 1812; an American mis- sionary, and author of “Mother's Book,” and other works; died at Arracan, India, April 28, 1843. Quotation : Mother. COMYNS, SIR John, born about 1665; an English jurist who was the author of a “Digest of the Laws of ngland; ” died, 1740. Quotation : Justice. CONANT, THOMAS J., D.D., born at Brandon, Vermont, December 13, 1802; an eminent American biblical scholar. Quotation : Country. CONDAMINE, CHARLES MARIE, LA, born in Paris, 1701 : an eminent French author; died in Paris, 1774. Quotation : Fitness. CONDILLAC, ETIENNE BONNOT, (Abbé de Mur- eaux,) born at Grenoble, Spain, 1715; an eminent French philosopher; died, 1780. Quotation: Reflection. CONDORCET, MARIE JEAN ANTOINE NICOLAS Caritat, Marquis de; born in Picardy, France, September 17, 1743; a celebrated mathematician and philosopher; died in prison, 1794. Quotations: Comparison—Countenance. CONFUCIUS, born, 550 B.C.: the most illustrious of Chinese philosophers, and the most learned and virtuous man of his age, He labored strenuously in refining the manners of his countrymen; his memory and the moral works he wrote, are held in the highest veneration by them ; died, 477 B.C., Quotations: Ability—Advancement Advantage-Adversity—Affability--Amendment—Ancients —Anxiety—Assistance—Attainment -Aversion – Benevo- lence—Brotherhood–Caution—Charity–Choice-Conceal- ment—Cowardice—Daintiness—Death–Dignity–Diligence —Dishonesty—Eating—Error — Excess—Exercise—Experi- ence—Faults—Favor-Flattery—Flowers–Food—Fortune –Gain—Generosity—Good — Gravity—Grief—Guide–Hap- »iness—Harshness —Hate — Heart — Heaven —Humanity— #jºisºnor. In jºiniºn. flexibility—Insincerity—Insinuation — Jar—Joy—Killing— } | Kindness – Knowledge–Labor-Language – Learning.— Licentiousness—Lust–Luxury—Mankind–Meanness-MG- chanics—Meditation - Minister-State—Misery— Motive— Mourning–Murmur—-Music—Nature--Neighbor--Notoriety 1096 AJ A Y’.S CO / / A C O AV. Obstinacy—Omen—Ordinance—Parsimony—Passion—Past – People — Plan — Play — Pleasing — Plow–Precaution — Prince—Principles—Prodigality – Profit — Prudence—Pun- ishment—Quarrels—Rabble—Reason—Reciprocity--Recom- ense — Reform — Reformation – Reproof– Reverence - tiches—Rudeness—Ruler–Self-Accusation—Self-Exami- nation — Self-Opinion — Sentences — Silence — Sincerity — }lander—Slaughter—Smelling –Son—Sorrow—SOvereign— peech — Spirituality — Station — Strength — Superfluity— Talking — Tea — Temperance – Tenderness — Thinking— Thought—Throne —Tongue—Trust—Truth—Unrighteous- ness—Uprightness—Usefulness—Vexation—Virtue—Voca- tion —Vulgarity — War – Weeds — Wickedness — Words— Worship—Wrangling—Years—Youth. CONGREVE, WILLIAM, born at Bardsay Grange, near Leeds, February, 1670: a popular witty, and original dramatic poet ; died, January 19, 1729. Quotations. Appe- tite—Artifice-Courtship—Expectation –Gaming-Great- ness—Love—Marriage—Reading—Uncertainty—Wife CONNELLY, EMMA. M. Quotation: Weather. CONNOLLY, JOHN, M.D., born about 1785 ; an English physician and writer, (London, 1831.) Quotation : Knowledge. CONRAD II, called THE SALIC, elected King of Germany, 1024; died, 1039. Quotation : Manners. CONRAD III, born, 1093 ; Emperor of Germany : died, 1152. Quotations : Conversation—Dissimulation. CONSTANCE, FAULCON, born in Cephalonia, 1648; an ambitious Greek adventurer; died, 1688. Quota- tion : Necessity. CONSTANS II, FLAVIUS HERACLIUS, born at Constantinople, 630 A.D.; an Emperor of the East ; assas- sinated at Syracuse, 668 A.D. Quotation : Fear. CONSTANT, BENJAMIN, (DE REBECQUE,) born at Lausanne, Switzerland, 1767; a French orator and politi- cian; died in Paris, December, 1830. Quotation : Day. CONSTANTINE, a native of Carthage ; one of the most learned and pious men of his time; died, 1087. Quo- tation : Christianity. CONSTANTINE, CHLORUs I, the father of Con- stantine the Great, born, 250 A.D.; a Roman emperor; died at York, England, 306. Quotation : Victim. - CONSTANTINEI, FLAVIUS VALERIUS AURELIUs Surnamed The Great, born 272 A.D.: the first Christian Em- peror of Rome; died at Nicomedia, 337 A.D. Quotations : Conquest—Peace—Trouble. CONSTANTINE II, (FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS,) born at Arelatum, 312 A.D, ; a Roman emperor; killed in battle, 340 A.D. Quotation : Pleasure. CONSTANTINEIII, (FLAv1Us HERACLIUs,) born, 612; an emperor of the East ; died, 641. Quotations : Haste —Quickness. CONSTANTINE IV., surnamed POGONATUs ; a HOman emperor Who Succeeded his father Constans II, in 668; died, 685. Quotation : Soul. CONY BEARE, JOHN, (Bishop of Bristol,) born near Exeter, 1692; an eminent English theologian ; died, 1755. Quotation : Self-Denial. CONVERSE, F. H. Quotation : Frankness. CONVERSE, S. Quotation : Apparel. CONWAY, MONCURE DANIEL, born in Stratford county, Virginia, March 17, 1732; an American clergyman and writer. Quotation : Superstition. COOK, CAPTAIN JAMES, born at Marton, York- shire, 1728; a celebrated English Inavigator; killed at Ha- waii, February 14, 1779. Quotation : Volcano. COOK, ELIZA, born at Southwark, London, 1817; a popular English poetess and miscellaneous writer. Quo- tations : Community--Dancing–Early-Rising — Exaggera- tion—Heart—Knowledge-Plainness—Poet—Rank—Speak- ing—Sunset—Truth—UglineSS. COOK, JOHN, D.D., born in Scotland ; a professor of divinity and writer, (Edinburgh, 1821.) Quotation : Remedy. COOKE, SIR ANTHONY, the grandfather of Lord Bacon, born, 1506: an English Scholar; died, 1576. Quota- tions : Science—Wrong. COOKE, JoHN ESTEN, born at Winchester, Vir- ginia, November 3, 1830; an American lawyer and novelist. Quotation : Lecture. COOKE, SIR WILLIAM FOTHERGILL, born at Eal- ing, Middlesex, 1806: an English professor of anatomy and §: he constructed, in cónjunction with Professor eatstone, the first magnetic telegraph in England. Qºto- tation : Electricity. COOLEY, LE ROY C., Ph. D., born in Lyme, Jefferson county, New York, 1833; an American writer on natural philosophy. Q7zotations: System—Thought. COOMBE, WILLIAM, born at Bristol, 1741 ; an ingenious English writer; died, 1822. Quotations : Ear. COOPER, ANTHONY ASHLEY, (EARL OF SHAFTES- bury,) born in London, 1671; an eminent writer; died at Naples, February, 1713. Quotation : Law. i ſ COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON, born at Brooke, in Norfolk, 1768; a celebrated English surgeon and writer: died, 1841. Quotation : Subject. COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE, born at Burlington, New Jersey, September 15, 1789; a popular American nov. elist; died at Cooperstown, September 14, 1851. Quota- tion 8: Absurdity—Impulse — Mercy — Reason — Success— Wisdom. - COOPER, JOHN GILBERT, born at Nottingham- shire, 1723; an English writer; died, 1769. Quotation: Con- Sideration. COOPER, PETER, born in the city of New York, February 12, 1791; a successful merchant and a noble phi: lanthropist, and the founder of the “Cooper Institute "in New York city. Quotations: Army—Bank—Legislature— Wealth. COOPER, SUSAN FENIMORE, a daughter of the novelist, born, 1825: a successful novelist of refined taste and talent of no common order. Quotation : Trees. COOPER, THOMAS, (Bishop of Lincoln,) born at Oxford, 1715; a learned English divine and eminent preach- er and writer; died, 1594. Quotation : Day. COOPER, THOMAs, M.D., LL.D., born in London, October 20, 1759; a natural philosopher and lawyer; died, May 11, 1839. Quotations: Law—Opinion. - COPE, CELSUS. Quotation : Advertisement. COPE, MICHAEL ; author of “Exposition on Prov- erbs,” (Genève, 1557.) Quotation, Tongue. COPELAND, THOMAs, born, 1780; an English surgeon, and the author of several professional works; died, 1855. Quotations: Anatomy—Duty. COPERNICUS, NICOLAs, born at Thorn, Prussia, February, 1473; an eminent astronomer, and the author of Hºopernican System; died, May 24, 1543. Quotation : ight. COPLAND, SAMUEL D.D., born about 1730; an English author, (London, 1785.) Quotation : Fondness. COPLESTON, EDwARD, (Bishop of Llandaff, ) born in Devonshire, 1776; an English theologian and au- thor; died, 1849. Quotations: Literature—Time. COPWAY, GEORGE, (Kahgegwagebow,) born in Michigan, August, 1820; a converted American Indian of the Ojibway tribe ; physician, preacher, lecturer, journal- ist, and author. Quotations. Destiny—Health—Remedy. COQUEREL, ATHANASE LAURENT CHARLEs, born in Paris, 1795; a French Protestant divine; died, 1868. Quotation : Consideration. CORAM, THOMAS, born, 1668; a benevolent Eng- lishman; died, 1751. Quotations : Age—Grumbling—Itegu- larity. CORBIN, CAROLINE FAIRCHILD ; an English nov- elist. Quotation : Congratulation. CORDAY, D'. ARMANS, MARIE ANNE CHAR- lotte, born at Saint Saturnin, in Normandy, 1768; a female of great beauty and courage, who, in revenge for the death of her lover, became the murderer of the infamous Marat • exccuted, July 17, 1793. Quotations. Justice—Patriotism —Result—Task—Tears—Tyrant. CORELLI, ARCANGELO, born at Fusignano, near Imola, Italy, 1653; an eminent Italian musical composer and performer; died, 1713. Quotation : Harmony. CORN COBB : a chief of the Choctaw Indians, who formerly inhabited the state of Mississippi. Quota- tion. Writing. CORNARO, FLAMINIO, born in Venice, 1693 : an Italian hagiographer, antiquary, and statesman; died, 1777. Cú. Quotations: Company—Prospe CORNARO, LUDOVICO, born, 1467 : an Italian lit- térateur and hygienist ; died, 1566. Quotations: Long- evity—Sobriety—Temperance. CORNEILLE, PIERRE, born at Rouen, France, 1606; one of the most celebrated of the French dramatists; died, 1684. Quotations: Ability — Ambition — Benefits— Bravery—Change—Clemency—Conquest—Crown–Danger —Enemy—Enjoyment-Evil—Example—Fire—Generosity –Gifts—Greatness— Happiness-- Honor—Hope - Insult— Justice—Kindness—Liar-Love—Lover—Lying—Moment— Multitude—Offense—Omnipotence—Pardon—Persecution —Present—Result—Sadness — Severity – Silence—Spirit— Submission—Sympathy—Threats—Tinle–Torture. CORNET,IA, the mother of the Gracchi, and daughter of Scipio Africanus: a female Roman philoso: pher and lecturer. She possessed the highest qualities of mind, and was the noblest woman of her time; died, 230 B.C. Quotation : Son. CORNELL, MISS M. H. : an American novelist, and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Temptation. CORNWALL, BARRY. See PROCTOR, BRYAN W. CORNWALLIS, CHARLES, (EARL AND MARQUIS,) born, 1738: a British general who surrendered his army to Washington, October 19, 1781; died in India, 1805. Quota- tion : Design. A / O G A' A /? // / C A / / /V /) / X. 1 ()97 CORN WELL, JAMEs, born in England ; the pub- lisher of many useful educational works. Quotations : Gratitude—Language—Vice. CORONELLI, MARCO VINCENZO, born at Venice, 1650; a learned Italian geographer and illonk; died, 17 18. Quotation : Geography. CORREA, DE SAA, SALVADOR, born, 1594; a dis- tinguished Portuguese admiral ; died, 1680. Quotation : Guard. CORREGGIO, ANTONIO ALLEGRI, DA, born in Correggio, Italy, 1494; an illustrious Italian painter; died, 1534. Quotation : Painting. CORRIE, DANIEL, (Bishop of Madras,) born, 1776; an English divine and writer; died, 1837. Quotation : Trinity. CORSON, HIRAM, born in Philadelphia, 1828 ; an American scholar and teacher. Quotation : Talking. CORTEZ, HERNANDEz, born at Medelin, a village of Estrémadura, Spain, 1485; the conqueror of Mexico; died at Seville, Spain, 1547. Quotations: Sloth–Truth. CORWIN, THOMAS, born in Bourbon county, Ken- tucky, July 29, 1794; an American statesman and orator; died at Washington, December 18, 1865. Quotations: Con- Stitution—Destiny. CORYAT, GEORGE, born about 1530; an English divine; died, 1606. Quotation : Extortion. CORYATE, THOMAs, born at Odcombe rectory, 1577; an eccentric English traveller and author; died at Surat, India, 1617. Quotation : Winter. COSIN, JOHN, born at Norwich, 1594; an English divine and author; died, 1672. Quotations: Contumely — Investigation. COSNODYN ; a Welch bard and prose writer. Quotations: Devil—Fiends. COSTAING, DE PUSIGNAU, JEAN JOSEPH FRAN- cois, born, 1770; an eminent French antiquary and author ; died, 1820. Quotation : Longevity. COSTE, PIERRE, born at Uzès, France, 1668; a ºneh littérateur; died, 1747. Quotations: Prison—Writ- Iłºſ. costELLO, LOUISA STUART, born in Ireland, 1815; a popular authoress; died, 1870. Quotations : Color. COTA, RODRIGO, born at Toledo, Spain ; a Spanish poet and dramatist ; died, 1470. Quotations: Love—Play. COTGRAVE, JOHN, born about 1610; an English writer and compiler, (London, 1665.) Quotation : Caprice. COTHI, L. G.; a Welch prose writer. Quotations: Devil—Fire. COTOLENDI, CHARLEs, born at Aix, France ; a French littérateur; died, 1710. Quotation: Wrangling. COTTON, CHARLEs, born in Staffordshire, 1630 ; an English translator and humorous poet; died, 1687. Quo- tation, COnceit. COTTON, JOHN, born in Derby, December 4, 1585; an English Puritan minister Who emigrated to Massachu- setts, 1633, and became the great opponent of Roger Wil- liams; died, December 23, 1652. Quotation : Mortification Tšabbath-Seif-ignoranée-Study–Worship. COTTON, NATHANIEL, born, 1707 ; an English physician, poet, and miscellaneous writer; died, 1788. Quo- tation. Deformity. COTTON, SIR. Rob ERT BRUCE, born at Denton, Huntingdonshire, 1570; an eminent English antiquary : died, 1631. Quotations: Consciousness—Dexterity. COULIN, F., D.D., born at Geneva, Switzerland, November 17, 1828; a distinguished preacher and Writer. Quotation : Sermon. COURET DE VILLENEUVE, MARTIN, born, 1719; a French printer and littérateur ; died, 1780. Quota- tion : Mercy. - COURTEN, WILLIAM, born in London, 1642 : an English naturalist and writer; died, 1702. Quotation : WearineSS. COURTENAY, JoHN, born, 1740; an Irish poli- tician and writer; died, 1816. Quotation : Garden. COURTEPEE, CLAUDE, born, 1721; a French cler- gyman, historian, and miscellaneous writer; died, 1781. Qatotation : Parting. COUSIN, VICTOR, born in Paris, November 28, 1792; a celebrated French philosopher and metaphysician; died, January, 1867. atotations : Adoration — Beauty— Greatness—Law—Man—Philosophy–School—Success. COUTTS, BURDETT, or BURDETT COUTTS, THE Right Honorable Angela Georgiana, Baroness, born, 1814; an English lady noted for her Wealth and munificence. Q?totation : Woman. COUVAY, LOUIS, DE, born about 1610: a French physician and author: died, 1681. Quotation : Conscious- IlêSS. COVERDALE, MILES, (Bishop of Exeter, born in Yorkshire, 1487; an eminent English divine and Reform- er; died, 1568. Quotattion : Degradation. COWAN, ANDREw, M.D., born, 1740; an English educator and Writer; died about 1815. Quotation, ; Action. COWDERY, FRANKLIN, born in Albany, 1802 ; an American printer and editor. Quotation. Dandy—Rind- Il GSS. - COWELL, JOHN, born in Devonshire, 1554; an English jurist and writer; died, 1611. Quolºttion : Thief. COWLEY, ABRAHAM, M.D., born in London, 1618; a celebrated English poet, and writer; died; 1667. Quotations: Acquaintance--Affectation—Avarice—Change —Covetousness — Disparageinent — Fortune — Greatness— Heraldry— Honesty—Kisses—Liberty—Life—Lying— Man Ičeason—Servitude—Sleep–Solitude—Tilne—Want—Wo- IIlall. COWLEY, HANNAH, born at Tiverton, 1743; an English dramatist ; died, 1809. Quotation : Kindness. COWPER, WILLIAM, born at Great Berkham- stead, Hertfordsliire, November 26, 1731; one of the most eminent of English poets and writers; died, April 25, 1800. Quotations : Affliction — Affront — Alteration — Author’— Xare— Idleness— Innocence—Ivy— Judgment— Knowledge –Labor—Life—Littleness—Modesty—Opportunity—Poet— Scenery—Society--Spring—Tea—Thinking--Variety--Visits —War—Wisdom. te COX, FRANCIS AUGUSTUs, D.D., born, 1783; an English theologian and writer: died, 1853. Quotation : Curiosities. COX, GEORGE WILLIAM, born, 1827; an English clergyman and miscellaneous writer. Quotation: Duration. COX, JOHN EDMUND, D.D., F.S.A., born in Nor- §§ 1812; an English clergyman and author. Quotation : 8, VIOI". COX, MELVILLE BEVERIDGE, born, 1831; a Wes- leyan divine and missionary; died in Liberia, 1834. Quota- tion : Missionary. COX, RICHARD, (Bishop of Ely,) born in the coun- ty of Bucks, 1499; an English divine and author; died, 1581. }*totations : Christ—Dictionary. LL.D., born at COX, SAMUEL HANSON, D.D. Leesville, New Jersey, August 25, 1753; a Presbyterian di- Vine and author. Quotations: Eccentricity—Profanity— Quakerism—Tobacco. COX, SAMUEL SULLIVAN, born at Zanesville, Ohio, September 30, 1824; an American writer and lecturer. Quotation : Satire. COXE, JUDGE ; an American lawyer and judge Who tried Guiteau for the assassination of President Gar- field. Quotation : Insanity. COXE, MARGARET, born at Burlington, New Jersey; an American authoress. Quotation : Neutrality. COXE, TENCH, born, 1756; an American writer on political economy; died, 1824. Quotation : Federalism. COXE, WILLIAM, born in London, 1747; an Eng- lish historical writer; died, 1828. Quotation : Actor. COYNE, JOSEPH STERLING, born in King's county, Ireland, 1805; a popular dramatist; died, 1868. Quotation : GOOd. - CRABB, GEORGE, born, 1778; an English etymo- logist, philologist, and author; died, 1854. Quotations : Ability—Abridgment—Affability—Affectation—Affection —Affluence—Agony—Alarm —Alliance—Anguish—Animo- sity—Anxiety—Arbitration—Artifice —Artist—Attention— Attempt—Audacity — Beatitude — Blame — Bravery—Bur- lesque — Calmness — Cavil — Chastening — Chastisement — Chiding—Compensation—Conceit – Congregation—Conse- quence—Consideration—Consistency-Contradiction--Con- venience—Convention—Corruption-Counterfeit—-Courage —Credit—Cure—Curse-Daring-Debate—Debility—Decla- mation—Declaration—Defeat—Degradation—Delay—Dex- terity— Diffidence—Discernment — Disdain–Dishonesty— Dishonor—Dislike —Dispatch — Disparagement—Display— Docility—Doubt—Dutifulness—Ear—Ectasy—Effrontery— Embarrassment—Emulation—Encouragement—Enterprise —Enthusiasm—Epicure — Equity — Equivocation—Error— Events—Exactness—Examination —Example—Exchange— Exercise—Exigency—Experience—Experiment—Expiation —Explanation—Expression—Extenuation—Extortion—Ex- tremes—Facetiousness—Facility—Fact—Fallacy--Fascina- tion—Fastidiousness—Fellowship—Festival–Fickleness— Fiction—Fidelity—Fondness — Fitness —Force—Foresight —Form—Formality–Fortitude—Friendship –Gain—Gal- lantry-Gifts—Godliness—Good-Good-Humor—Graceful- ness—Grandeur-Gravity-Greediness—Harshness—Heat— Heinousness — Heresy — Hesitation – Holiday— Homage— Honesty—Hope – Hopelessness - Humanity-Idiot—Igno- miny—Ignorance—Illustration—Imbecility—Impertinence —Importance—Imposition—Improvement—Imprudence— Inability--Inaction–Inattention--Incapacity--Indifference Indignation—Indigence — Inducement—Infatuation—Infe- riority— infamy — Infirmity — Influence — Insolvency—In- strument—Intrusion — Invective — Jest—Joke—Rindred— Lamentation—Leader—Learning — Letter—Lewdness—Li- centiousness—Love—Lowliness—Lying—Malice—-Malignity —Masquerade— Massacre – Matter — Maxim — Meanness Mediogrity.— Meekness–Melody— Method — Might—Mild- ness—Mirth—Miser–Moderation — Modesty—Monarchy— A) --! Y S C O / / A C O AV. Morality.— Moroseness – Mortification — Motive—Munifi- gence—Navy–Neglect—Notoriety—Obligation—Oblivion— Obsequies—Obstinacy– Occupancy—Qpposition—Painting —Pardon—-Parsinnony-Pastine—Peevishness—-Penetration -Perverseness — Plan – Politeness–Politics—-Portrait— Possession—Possibilities - Practice — Praise—Precedent— Precision— Pretension — Prettiness — Privilege—Probity— Production—Profligate—Prohibition —Projector–Prompt- ness—Proof — Prosecution — Prospect —Protection—Punc- tuation—Quarrels – Rage — Rapture — Harity—Rashness— Rebuke—Recapitulation — Reception —Hedress—IRefusal— IRegard—Regret – Relief— Remorse — Iłepartee—lteport— Reprehension — Resentment— Reserve–Resignation—Re- sistance—Retreat—Retribution—Retrospection—Review— Rigor—Risks—Itival—Rivalry—Robbery–Satiety—Schem- ing--Scorn—Security—Sedition—Selection--Self-Sufficiency —Self-Will — Sense— Sensibility — Serenity— Service—Ser- vility—Shamelessness–Silliness—Simile-Simplicity–Sin- gularity — Skill — Slyness —- Sobriety — Solitude – Spy — Stranger—Story—Stratagem —Stability—Strife—Stubborn- ness—Suavity — Subordination — Subtlety—Surgeon—Sus- pense-Sycophant —Symbol —Tales—Tenderness —Thanks — Theory — Thrift — Torment — Transgression —Travel — Treaty—Trust—Type —Unbelief—Uncertainty—Undertak- ing—Unhappiness-Untruthfulness—l'rbanity--Usefulness —Usurpation —Utility—Value —Variety—Veneration —Ve- racity-Vision —Vivacity – Volatility-Voluptuousness— Warning—Weeping —Whim — Will – Witness—Wooing— Wrath—Wretchedness. CRABBE, GEORGE, born at Aldborough, Suffolk, 1754: a popular English poet ; died, 1832. Quotation : Learning. CRACHERODE, CLAYTON MoRDAUNT, D.D., born, 1729; a distinguished antiquary and biographer ; died, 1799. Quotation : Costume. CRACROFT, EDWARD. hibition. CRADOCK, WALTER, born about 1590: a Puritan divine and writer; died, 1660. Quotation : Parent. CRAFTS, WILLIAM, born, 1787; an American lawyer, poet, and editor: died, 1826. Quotation : IRudeness. CRAIG, Isa, born in Edinburgh, October 17, 1831; a popular poetess, miscellaneous writer, and journalist. Quotation : Fashion. CRAIG, SIR THOMAS, born in Edinburgh, 1540: an eminent Scottish lawyer, antiquary, and author; died, 1608. Quotation : Courage. CRAIK, GEORGE LILLIE, born in Fifeshire, Scot- land, 1799; an eminent historian and critical writer; died, June, 1866. Quotation : Consistency. Quotations: Honesty — Pro- CRAIK, GEORGIANA M., born about 1810; an English novelist. Quotation : Fastidiousness. CRAIK, JAMEs, born in Scotland, 1731 ; an emi- nent medical practitioner who emigrated to the United States, and became playsician to General Washington ; died at Mount Vernon, 1814. Quotation : Hardihood. CRAKANTHORPE, RICHARD, , D.D., born in Westmoreland, 1567; an eminent English divine and Writer; died, 1624. Quotation : Fallibility. CRANCH, WILLIAM, LL.D., born at Weymouth, Massachusetts, July 17, 1769: an eminent American jurist ; died, September 1, 1855. Quotation: Thought. CRANMER, THOMAS, (Archbishop of Canter- bury,) born at Aslacton, Nottinghamshire, July 2, 1489; an English statesman, divine, and reformer; died at the Stake, March, 21, 1556. Quotations: Prayer—Sorrow—Truth—Un- godliness. CRANTOR, born at Soli, 300 B.C.; a Greek phi- losopher and moralist. Quotations : Life—Tragedy. CRASHAW, RICHARD, born in London, 1616; an English clergyman and poet; died, 1650. Quotation: Fu- turity—Grief—Tears. CRASHAW, WILLIAM, father of the preceding, born about 1550; an English author; died about 1620. Quo- tation : Gentile. CRATES, flourished at Athens, about 450 B.C.; an excellent Greek poet. Qtotation&. Abstinence—Aid— Change—Diffidence—Evil—Extortion–Gifts—Gluttony— Hººknowledge —Life—Love—Notoriety—Sport—Wick- €CineSS. CRATINUS, born 519 B.C. : a celebrated Athe- # poet and dramatist; died, 422 B.C. Quotation : De- ght. CRATIPPUS, born at Mitylene, Greece; an emi- ment philosopher and teacher to Cicero; the date of his death is unknown. Quotation: Office. CRAVEN, MADAME AUGUSTUS, (PAULINE LA Ferronays,) born about 1835; a French novelist and mis- cellaneous writer. Quotation : Congruity. CRAWFORD, J. Quotation: Saint. CRAWFURD, GEORGE, born about 1650; a Scot- tish historian: ăied about 1725. Quotation : Negroes. CREBILLON, PROSPER JOLYOT, DE, born at Di- jon, France, 1674; an eminent French poet and dramatist ; died, 1762. Quotations: Pleasing—Winter. CREIGHTON, JAMES : an English divine and au- thor. Quotation : Damage. CRESSIN : an agriculturist who lived in the time Of Pliny. Quotation : Estate. CREWE, LORD, (THE RIGHT HONORABLE JoHN Crewe,) born, 1744; an English statesman; died, 1809. Quotations : Study—Time. CRICHTON, ANDREw, born about 1800 : an Eng- lish Writer on religious subjects, (London, 1848.) Quota- tion? : Christ. CRICHTON, JAMES, (Admiral Crichton,) born at the castle of Cluny, Perthshire, 1560; a Scottish prodigy and a remarkable genius; killed by his pupil, 1582. Quota- tion. Dalmage. CRILLON, LOUIs, DES BALBES DE BERTOR DE, born in Provence, France, 1541; a famous French warrior; died, 1615. Quotation : Assassination—Guard. CRIRIE, JAMEs, D.D., born about 1750; a writer On Scottish scenery, (London, 1803.) Quotation : Storm. CRISP, ToBIAs, born in London, 1600: an English theologian and writer; died, 1642. Quotations. Abridg- ment—Bribery. CRITTENDEN, JOHN JoFDAN, born in Woodford county, Kentucky, September 10, 1786; an American states- man: died, July 26, 1863. Quotations: Infirmity—People— Secession. CROCKER, HANNAH MATHER, granddaughter of Cotton Mather; an American authoress. Quotation : De- formity. CROCKER, JAMEs, born in England, 1829; an American builder. Quotation : Speculation. CROCKETT, DAVID, born in Tennessee, August 17, 1786 : a famous American adventurer, hunter, Senator, au- thor, and humorist ; taken prisoner by Santa Anna, and executed, March 6, 1836. Quotations : Destitution—Right. CRCESUS, King of Lydia, born about 590 B.C.; a great patron of learning, and the fine arts, and supposed to be the richest man of his time; the time of his death is unknown. Quotations: Loss—Opinion. CROFT, HERBERT, D.D., (Bishop of Hereford, ) born in Oxfordshire, 1603; an English divine and theologi- cal writer; died, 1691. Quotation : Belief. CROKER, John WILSON, born in Galway, Ire- land, 1780; an Irish miscellaneous writer ; died, 1857. Quo- tºttion : Laziness. CROKER, THOMAs CROFTON, born at Cork, 1798; an Irish miscellaneous writer; died, 1854. Quotation : Contempt. CROLY, DAVID G., born about 1829 : an Ameri- can writer and journalist. Qtotations : Advertisement— Editor—Flowers—Habit—History—Journalism–Lawyer— Newspaper—Theory. - CROLY, GEORGE, D.D., LL.D., born in London, 1780; an Irish poet and voluminous writer; died, 1860. Quo- tations : Ceremony—Freedom. CROMBIE, ALEXANDER, LL.D., born in Aber- deen, 1760; a Presbyterian divine and author; died, 1842. Quotations: Conscience—Humility. CROMMELIN, MAY : an English novelist and miscellaneous writer. Quotations: Carelessness—Fool— Harm. - CROMWELL, OLIVER, born at Huntingdon, April 25, 1509; Protector of the Commonwealth of England; died, September 3, 1658. Quotattions : Assassination—Con- cord—Conspiracy—Death — Dying — Glory—Providence— Quakerism—Soldier—Subtlety—Words. CROMWELL, RICHARD, eldest son of . Oliver Cromwell, born at Huntingdon, 1626; Succeeded his father, September 3, 1658, but was dethroned, April, 1659; died, 1712. Quotation : Slaughter. CROSBY, HowARD, D.D., LL.D., born in New York City, February 27, 1826; an eminent Presbyterian di- vine and religious writer. Quotation : Commandments. CROSLAND, MRS. CAMILLA, (CAMILLA TOUL- min,) born in Aldermanbury, London, June 9, 1812; an Eng- lish miscellaneous writer and novelist. Quotation. Mag- nanimity. CROSS, Joseph, born in Somersetshire, 1784; and English Methodist minister and writer; emigrated to the United States, 1825. Quotation : Heaven. CROSS, SAMUEL ; a Methodist minister of Ithaca, New York. Quotation : Adieu. CROUSAZ, JEAN PIERRE, born at Lausanne, 1663; a Swiss writer on philosophy and logic; died, 1750. Quota- tion : Philosophy—Satire. CROWE, CATHERINE, born at Borough Green, Kent, 1800; an English authoress; died, 1876. Quotations : Love—World. CROWELL, Moses, born in Tompkins county, Rºi York, about 1812; an American lawyer. Quotation : Mle (11CII) e. A / O G A' A P Jºſ Z C A / / /V /D E X. 109.9 CROWELL, WILLIAM, born in Middlefield, Mas- sachusetts, 1806; an American religious Writer. Quotation : Friendship. CROWLEY, ROBERT, D.D., born about 1517; an English Protestant divine, poet, and author; died, 1588. Quotation : Degradation. CROWQUILL, ALFRED. The pseudonym of AL- fred Henry Forrester, the artist and author, (Q. V.) CROXALL, SAMUEL, D.D., (Archdeacon of Sal- 3# born at Walton-upon-Thames, about 1680; an English divine and writer. The author of a popular version of AEsop's Fables; died, 1752. Quotations: Ability—Agricul- ture—Alliance—Arbitration--Assistance–Bandit—Blessing —Dress— Dwarf–Estate—Fame— Fear— Impudence— Inl- punity--Ingratitude—Iniquity--Injury--Innogence--Justice —Kindness—Lending—Masquerade—Merit—-Mind—Mirth— Mischief–Neglect—Qath—Obedience —Opinion— Opposi- tion—Oracle—Party—Persecution— Persuasion—Physician —Precaution—Pretension—Pride–Procrastination—Quiet- mess— Relations — Religion — Renegade— Retaliation— Re- yenge—IReward—Rogue—Self-Love— Sincerity—Slavery— Submission—Suspicion—Swimming—Taxation—Temper— Tongue—Treachery— Treason — Tribulation — Trust— Un- fortunateness—Ungratefulness—Wit, CRUDEN, ALExANDER, born at Aberdeen, 1700; a celebrated bibliographer, and author of a Bible Concor- dance ; died, 1770. Quotations: Perseverance—Prayer. CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE, born, September 27, 1792; a celebrated English artist, distinguished for his comic humor and skill in caricature; died, February 1, 1878. Quotation : Fiend—Portrait. CRUSO, TIMOTHY, D.D., born, 1657; an English dissenting divine; died, 1697. Quotation : Peace. CRUTWELL, CLEMENT, born in Berkshire, 1745; an English divine and writer; died, 1808. Quotation : Wooing. CRWYDRAD ; a Welch bard and prose writer. Quotation. Destiny. CTESIPHON ; an Athenian who proposed that a crown of gold should be decreed to Demosthenes for his public services, 330 B.C. Qzzotation : Victory, CUDLIP, MRS. PENDER, (ANNIE THOMAs,) born *}} 1830; an English novelist. Quotations : Blushing— PêII. CUDWORTH, RALPH, born at Aller, Somerset- shire, 1617; an eminent English philosopher, and Arminian divine; died, 1688, Quotations : Deity — Gospel—Holiness —yºuthropy-painting-Reprehension-Truth-weather -Z, E81. CUJAS, JACQUES, born at Toulouse, France, 1520; ºº jurist and teacher; died, 1590. Quotation : Con- S1(1621’8,tlOI). CULBERT, John, born about 1824; an English miscellaneous writer; died, 1869. Quotation : Sorrow. CULLEN, WILLIAM, born at Lanarkshire, Scot- land, 1712; an eminent physician and medical writer; died, February 5, 1790. Quotations: Death—Insanity. CULVERWELL, NATHANIEL, born abont 1600 ; an English writer, (London, 1652.) Quotation : Rebellion —Religion—Soul. CUMBERLAND, RICHARD, born at Cambridge, 1732; an eminent poet, essayist, novelist, and dramatic writer; died, 1811. Quotations: Actor—Agreeableness— Annoyance-Charity-Duelling-Education:- Employment —Fayor–Flattery—Gaming—Gratitude- Idea—Justice— Passion — Philanthropy — Pleasing — Politeness — Pride — Thanks. CUMMING, JoHN, D.D., born in Aberdeenshire, 1810; a popular, Scottish preacher and theological writer. Quotations: Christianity– Communion — Congregation— Cººgijºu'...ºniºteºblºn —Prayer — Pulpit – Religion — Revelation — Soul — Text — |Union. - CUMMINS, MARIA S., born at Salem, Massachu- Setts, April 10, 1827; a popular American novelist; died, October 1, 1866. Quotation : Conscience. CUNHA, DOM ROBRIGO, (Archbishop of Braga and Lisbon, ) born in Lisbon, 1577; a patriotic Portuguese divine; died, 1643. Quotation : Guide. CUNHA, TRISTAM, DA, born about 1450; a Portu- guese navigator; died about 1520. Quotation : "Custom. CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN, born at Blackwood, Dumfriesshire, 1785; an eminent poet, novelist, and miscel- laneous Writer; died, 1842. Quotations: Destiny—Scandal. CURAEUS, JoACHIM, born at Freystadt, in Silesia, 1532; a German historian and philosopher; died, 1573. Qºto- tation 8: Christ—Resurrection—Soul. CURRAN, JOHN, PHILPOT, born at Newmarket, near Cork, Ireland, July 26, 1750; an eminent Irish lawyer ag. orator; died, October 14, 1817. Quotations: Painting —SIavery. - CURRY., JABEZ LAMAR MonROE, D.D., LL.D., born in Lincoln county, Georgia, June 5, 1825; a professor of languages in Richmond College, Virginia. - Qztotations: Religion—Rights. CURTIN, ANDREW GREGG, born at Bellefonte, Centre county, Pennsylvania, April 22, 1817; an American politician, and twice elected governor of his Own State. Quotation : Union. CURTIS, BENJAMIN ROBBINS, LL.D., born in Watertown, Massachusetts, November 4, 1809 : an Ameri- gan lawyer, and Writer; died at Newport, Rhode Island, September 15, 1874. Quotation : Equity. CURTIS, EDWARD, born in New York city, 1798; an American politician ; died, 1865. Quotations. Democ. racy—Legislature—Monopoly. CURTIS, GEORGE WILLIAM, born at Providence, thode Island, February 24, 1824; a popular American au- thor and lecturer. Quotations : Editor—Hero—History— Journalism—Newspaper—Old Age—Press. CURTIS, HENRY PETER, born about 1810 : an American poet and prose writer; died about 1862. Quota- tion : Sol'l’OW. CURTIS, WILLIAM, born at Alton, Hampshire, 1746; an eminent English botanist and author; died, 1799. Quotation : Horticulture. CURTIUS, MARCUs, lived in the fourth century; a ROman youth Celebrated for his patriotic devotion ; Sac- rificed himself, 360. Quotation : Instability. CURTIUS, RUFUs QUINTUS, flourished about 150 A.D.: a ROman historian who wrote the life of Alexander #. Great. Quotations : Infamy—l’ositiveness—Presump- l'OIl. CURWEN, SAMUEL, born at Salem, Massachu- setts, 1715; an American jurist, traveller, and author; died, 1802. Quotation : Expense. CURZIO-TULLIANO, born, 1623 ; a Corsican historian ; died, 1690. Quotation : History. CUSA, or CUSANUS, NICHOLAs, DE, born at Cusa, Prussia, 1401 ; a pious and learned prelate; died, 1464. Quotation. Ability. CUSHING, MRS. CALEB ; the wife of William B. Cushing. Quotation : Trifle. CUSHMAN, CHARLOTTE SAUNDERs, born in Bos- ton, July 23, 1816; a distinguished American actress; died, February 18, 1876. Quotation : Drama. - CUSHMAN, ROBERT, born in England, 1580; an eminent prelate who emigrated to Plymouth, and was one of the Plymouth colony. He preached in December, 1621, the first sermon that was printed in America; died, 1625. Quotations : Modesty—Self-Love. CUSSAY, N ; a governor of Angers who told the Luke of Guise, when he ordered the Protestants of Anjou to be massacred, that his fellow-citizens were brave and loyal, but not assassins. QuotattiO7. Soldier. CUSTINE, ASTOLPHE, MARQUIs, DE, born in Paris, 1793; a French traveller and writer ; died in Russia, 1857. Quotation : Nation. CUTHBERT, SAINT, (Bishop of Lindisfarne,) lived in the seventh century; a pious Anglo-Saxon monk; died, 686. Quotation : Zeal. CUTLER, MRs. , HANNAH. T.; an American lec- turess on social reform. Quotation : Equality. CUTTER, CALVIN, M.D.; a popular American lec- turer and writer on physiology. T Qzzolation : Negroes. CUTTER, DR. STARR, born in Tompkins county, New York, 1820. Quotation : Electricity. CUTTS, LADY, born about 1676 ; a lady eminent for her piety and benevolence; died, 1684. Quotation : Lenity. CUVIER, GEORGE CHRIÉTIÉN LÉOPOLD FREDER- ic, Dagobert, Baron, born at Montbéliard, Würtemberg, August 23, 1769; a celebrated French naturalist, philoso- pher, statesman, and author; died, May 13, 1832. Quota- tions : Genius—Speech. CUVILLIER-FLEURY, ALFRED AUGUSTE, born, 1802; a French litt rateur and journalist; died about 1873. Quotation : Ease. CUYLER, THEODORE LEDYARD, D.D., born at Cayuga Lake, New York, January 10, 1822; a prominent préacher and voluminous writer. Quotations: Faithful- ness—Timidity. CYAXARES : a king of the Medes, who ascended the throne, 634 B.C.; died, 594 B.C. Quotation : Vengeance. CYBAR, SAINT, (EPARCUS,) a recluse of Angou- léme; pious monk noted for his extraordinary virtues and miracles; died, July 1, 581. Quotation: Destitution. CYBO, ARANO, born at Rhodes, 1377; a viceroy of Naples, and the father of Pope Innocent VIII; died, 1457. Quotation : Condemnation. CYDIAS, born, 350 B.C.; an Athenian orator. Quotation : Daintiness. CYGNE, MARTIN, DU, born at Saint-Omer, 1619; a Flemish scholar and writer; died, 1669. Qºtotation : Repetition. | CYNDDELIO : a Welch bard and prose writer. Quotation : Concord. 1 100 JD A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. CYNEWULF, (Bishop of Lindisfarne,) born, 737 ; an eminent divine and writer ; died, 782. Quotation : Eye. CYNCETHUS, born at Chios, about 500 B.C.; a Greek rhapsodist, who was the author of the “Hymn to Apollo.” Quotation : Virtue. CYPRIAN, THASCIUS CAECILIUs, SAINT, (Bishop of Carthage,) born at Carthage, 200 A.D.; a Latin Father of the Church. He was eminent for his learning, elo- quence, and piety; suffered martyrdom under Valerian, 258 Å.D. Quotations: Burial — Chastity—Confession — Con- tentment—Custom—Death — Earnestness—Imprudence— Ingºton–Licentiousness- Pleasure—Prayer—Temple —Unity. CYR, SAINT. See Hugues de Saint Cyr. CYPIL, SAINT, (Archbishop of Alexandria,) born in Alexandria, Egypt, 412 A.D.; an arrogant prelate, and anti-Jewish fanatic; died, 444 A.D. Quotation : Blindness. CYRILL, SAINT, born at Thessalonica ; the Apos- tle of the Slavi; died, 868. Quotation : Guest. CYRIL-LUCAR, born in Candia, 1572 ; a Greek Protestant prelate ; executed. 1637. Quotation : Rage. CYRIL, SAINT, (Bishop of Jerusalem,) born at Jerusalem, 315 A.D.; a pious and learned man ; died, 386. Quotations : Devil—Hell—Sin. CYRUS, King of Persia, surnamed, THE GREAT ; the founder of the Persian empire, and the greatest of the Persian kings; he was killed in battle, 529 B.C. , Quota- tions : Charins—Clemency—Crown—Duplicity—Friendship —Humanity—Hunting—immorality— Multitude—Omen- Order—Hetreat—Riding— Separation— Servant—Slander— Soul—Thirst—Wine. CZAIJKOWSKI, MICHAEL, (SADIK PASHA,) born in Pondolia, Poland, 1808: a Polish novelist who embraced the Moslem religion. Quotation : Defeat. CZARTORYSKI, ELIZABETH, born, 1743; a lady possessed of great mental endowments; died, 1835. Qºto- tation! : Kisses. CZARTORYSKI, MICHAEL FREDERICK, born, 1695; a noble Polish statesman and diplomatist; died, 1775. Quotation : Ceremony. CZVITTINGER, DAVID, born, 1660: a Hungarian biographer; died about 1725. Quotation: History. CZYMMERMANN, ANTON, born about 1470; a gºman theologian and writer; died about 1545. Quotation: OOl. AA, LUDWIG. KRISTENSEN, born in Saltdalen, - Nordland, 1809; a Norwegian miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Daintiness. DABERNA, or TABERNA, born, 1599; a Sicilian theologian and writer; died, 1677. Qutotation : Damage. DABNEY, RICHARD, born in Louisa county, Vir- ginia, 1786; an American poet, Inniscellaneous Writer, and translator of rare excellence; died, 1825. Quotation : Do- mesticity. DACH, SIMON, born at Memel, East Prussia, 1605; a German poet and littérateur; died, 1659. Quotation : Reverie. DACIA, or DACIANO, born in Friuli, Italy, 1520; an Italian physician and writer; died, 1576. Quota- tion : Marriage. DACIER, ANDRá, born at Castres, France, 1651 ; a French scholar and critic: died, 1722. Quotation : Clergy. DACIER, MADAME, (ANNE LEv£VRE, ) born at Saumur, France, 1654; a French prodigy of learning, and One who has rendered a great service to literature : died, 1696. Quotation : Scripture. DACRE, LADY, born about 1800; an English au- thoress, (London, 1833.) Quotations: Bells—Love—Sus- picion—World. DAFI, H.; a Welch poet and prose writer. tions: Deceit—Expense. DAGOBERT I., King of the Franks, born, 602; died, 638. Quotation : Beatitude. DAHHAIR, IBN SAfD AD, born at Bagdad, 1101: *Arabian writer; died at Mosul, 1174. Quotation : Tal- €Ilú. DAISENBERGER, GERHARD RODERICH, born about 1795; a German theologian and author; died, 1863. Quotations: Testament—Type. DALE, ROBERT WILLIAM, M.A., born in Lon- don, December 1, 1829; an English Independent minister. Quotation : Fountain. DALE, THOMAS, (Canon of St. Paul's,) born in London, 1797; an English divine and poet; died, 1870. Qºto- tation : SOldier. DALEN, CARL, VAN : an American writer on Freemasonry. Quotation : Freemasonry. DALIKAN, AD. Quotation : Levity. DALIN, OLAUs, Won, born, 1708; a Swedish poet and historian ; died, 1763. Quotation : Words. Quota- DALL, CAROLINE HEALEY, born in Boston about 1835; an American miscellaneous writer on social and po- litical topics. Quotation : Equality. DALLAS, ALEXANDER JAMES, born in the island of Jamaica, West Indies, 1759, and emigrated to Philadel- phia, 1788; an American statesman and lawyer; died, 1817. Quotation : Soil. - DALLAS, ALEXANDER ROBERT CHARLEs, a son of R. C. Dallas, born, 1798; an English clergyman, mission- ary, and writer. Quotation : Delusion. DALLAS, GEORGE MIFFLIN, LL.D., a son of A. J. Dallas, born in Philadelphia, July 10, 1792; an American statesman; elected Vice-President, 1844; died, December 31, 1864. Quotations : Instability—Sovereignty. DALLAS, MARY KYLE, born about 1835 ; an American magazine writer. Quotation: Insanity—Smell- AIlg. DALLAS, ROBERT, CHARLEs, a brother of A. J. Dallas, born at Kingston, in the island of Jamaica, West Hºs. 1754; a British author ; died, 1824. Quotation : € OU. DALRYMPLE, SIR DAVID, (LORD HAILES,) born in Edinburgh, 1726; an eminent British judge and anti- Quary : died, 1792. Quotation : Envy. DALTON, John, born in Cumberland, 1709; an English divine and dramatist ; died, 1763. Quotation : Cruelty. DALY, AUGUSTIN, born about 1840; an English dramatic author. Quotation: Learning. DALZIEL, THOMAS, born in Scotland : an emi- ment Scotch royalist, who on the fall of Charles the First escaped to Russia, and was made a general by the Czar. Quotation : Sovereign. DAMASCENUS, JoHANNES, born in Damascus, 700 A.D.; an eminent theologian and author; died, 760. Quotation : Cross. DAMASUS I, SAINT, (Bishop of Rome,) born in Spain, 314; an eminent divine ; died, 384. Quotations : Psalms—Usury. DAMHOUDER, JossE, DE, born, 1507; a Flemish jurist and writer; died, 1582. tuotations: Feeling—Hear- ing—Land—Learning—Office—Peace—Pleasure—Irejoicing —Silence–Storm—Supper. DAMIANI, PIETRO, born at Ravenna, 988; an Itº, prelate and writer; died, 1072. Quotations: Counsel —Decay. DAMIENS DE DAMICOURT, AUGUSTE PIERRE, born, 1723; a French littérateur; died, 1790. Quotation : &ll), DAMILAVILLE, ETIENNE NoíčL, born, 1721; an eminent French littérateur; died, 1768. Quotation : Fear. DAMINDAS. Quotation : Dying. DAMM, CHRISTIAN TOBIAs, born at Geithain, near Leipsic, 1699; a German Scholar and theological wri- ter; died, 1778. Quotation : Constancy. DAMO : a daughter of Pythagoras, to whom he entrusted the writings containing the Secrets of his philo- sophy. Quotations: Daughter—Obedience. DAMOCLES ; a Syracusan courtier and the flat- terer of the tyrant Dionysius. Quotation : Station. DANA, CHARLES ANDERSON, born at Hinsdale, New Hampshire, August 8, 1819; an American journalist, statesman, and author. Quotations: Army—Editor—Gam- ing—Journalism—Newspaper—Peace—Press—Treachery. DANA, JAMES, DWIGHT. LL.D., born at Utica, New York, February 12, 1813; an eminent American natur- alist, geologist, and author. Quotation : Rock. DANA, MARY STANLY BUNCE, born at Beaufort, South Čarolina, 1810: an American poetess and prose writer. Quotation : Propriety. DANA, RICHARD HENRY, born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 15, 1787; an American poet, es- sayist, and miscellaneous writer; died, 1879. Quotations: Benevolence—Immortality--Life—Love—Rage—Vice—Vir- tlle. DANA, RICHARD HENRY, JR., son of the preced- ing, born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 1, 1815; an eminent American lawyer and author; died, 1881. Quota- tions : Sailor—Soil. DANA, WILLIAM C., born at Newburyport, Mas- sachusetts, 1810; an American Presbyterian divine. Quo- tation : Faults. DANBORNE, ROBERT. Quotation : Charity. DANBY, CECIL. Quotations: Habit—Insensibility. DANBY, WILLIAM, born about 1765 ; an English moral philosopher and writer; died, 1833. Quotation : Self-Knowledge. DANCER, DANIEL, born, 1715 : a motorious Eng- lish miser; died, 1774. Quotation : Dirt. DANCOURT, FLORENT CARTON, born at Fontaine- bleau, France, 1661; a popular French COmic author; died, 1726. Quotation : Old Age. A / O Gº A' A P Aſ / C A / / /V ZD E X. II ()1 DANES, PIERRE, born in Paris, 1497; a French scholar and author ; died, 1577. Quotations : Patience— Scepticism. DANGEAU, LOUIS COURCILLON, ABBAE, born in Paris, 1643; a French scholar and writer; died, 1723. Quo- tation : Theology. DANIEL DE LA VIERGE, born in Belgium, 1615; a Belgian theologian and writer; died, 1678. Quotation : Holiness. DANIEL, SAMUEL, born at Taunton, 1562 ; an eminent English poet and historian ; died, 1619. Quota- tion : Adversity. DANIELL, JoBN FREDERICK, F.R.S., D.C.L., born in London, March 12, 1790; an English natural philoso- her and author; died, March 13, 1845. Quotations: Past– hought. - - - DANTE, ALIGHIERI, born at Florence, Italy, 1265; The most distinguished and illustrious of Italian poets; died at Ravenna, September 14, 1321. Quotations. Art— Custom—Delay--Grief—Heaven–Leaves–Liberty—Love— Minister—Nečessity—Pride — Remembrance–Thought- Twilight. DANTON, GEORGE JACQUES, born at Arcis-sur- Aube, 1759; one of the most active of the unprincipled demagogues of the French revolution ; executed, April 5, 1794. Quotation : Character. DAR, ED, Evan o ABER ; a Welsh poet and prose writer. Quotation : Conduct. 1)ARIUS I, King of Persia ; he ascended the throne, 521 B.C.; died, 485 B.C. Quotation : Emperor. DARLEY, GEORGE, born in Dublin, 1785; a poet and mathematician ; died, 1849. Quotation : Quackery. DARLEY, JoBN RICHARD, (Bishop of Kilmare, Elphin, and Ardagh,) born at Fairfield, County Monaghan, Ireland, November, 1799; an eminent Scholar and author. Quotations : Integrity—Secrecy. DARLEY, PIERRE, born in Paris, 1650; a French priest, author, and writer; died, 1709. Quotation : Author- Ship. DARLING, GRACE, born at Bamborough, Novem- ber 24, 1815; a heroic young Englishwoman, who at the imminent peril of her life, saved nine persons from the wreck of a steamer, September 7, 1838; died, October 20, 1842. Quotation. : Moment. - DARNLEY, LORD, (HENRY STUART,) born in England, 1545; a Scottish noble ; killed, February 9, 1567. Quotation : Fool. DARRAJ, AL-ANDALUSI, IBN, ABū OMAR, born, 958: an Arabian katib and poet ; died, 1030. Quotations: Jealousy—Morning—Star. DARU, PIERRE ANTOINE NOEL BRUNO COUNT, born at Montpelier, France, 1767; an eminent French states- man and author ; died, 1829. Quotation : HOSes. DARWIN, CHARLEs Rob ERT, LL.D., F.R.S., randson of the poet Erasmus Darwin, born at Shrewsbury, ebruary 12, º an eminent geologist and naturalist; died, April 20, 1882. Quotations : Selection—Uniformity. DARWIN, ERASMUS, M.D., born at Elton, near Newark, Lincolnshire, 1731 ; an eminent English poet and philologist; died, 1802. Quotation : Intellect. DASENT, SIR GEORGE WEBBE, born, 1818; an English author. Quotation : Congruity. DAUBENY, CHARLEs, D.D., born, 1744; an Eng- lish divine and author; died, 1802. Quotation : Religion. DAVENANT, John, (Bishop of Salisbury,) born in London, 1576; an English divine distinguished for his piety and zeal; died, 1641. Quotations : Calamity—Redress. DAVENANT, SIR WILLIAM, born at Oxford, 1605; an English dramatic poet; died, 1668. . . Quotations: Abuse — Action — Ambition—Anger—Credulity—Honor— Jealousy—Physic—Sorrow. DAVENPORT, JOHN, B.D., born at Coventry, England, 1598; an English Puritan who emigrated to Mäs- Sachusetts, ſé37. He was the first minister in Siew, Haven, Connecticut; died in Boston, March 15, 1670. Quotations: Care–Wanderer. DAVID, JACQUES LOUIS, born in Paris, 1748; a celebrated historical writer; died, 1825. Quotation : Posi- tiveneSS. DAVID, SAINT, born in Cardiganshire,490; the patron Saint of Wales; died, 544. Quotation : Sorrow. DAVIDIS, FRANZ, born in Hungary, 1510; a So- cinian minister; died, 1579. Quotation : Christ. DAVIDSON, JAMES WooD, born in Newberry, South Carolina, 1829; an able and interesting writer, and #: author of many valuable works. Qzzotation. Origina- 1ty. DAVIE, ADAM, born about 1312 ; an English poet and prose writer; died about 1780. Quotation : Eye. DAVIE, WILLIAM RICHARDSON, born in England, 1756, emigrated to America, 1762; an eminent patriot and diplomatist; died, 1820. Quotations : Federalism— Foul- Il CSS. DAVIES, CHARLEs, LL.D., born in Washington, Litchfield county, Connecticut, January 22, 1798; an Ameri- can officer and professor of mathematics; died, September 18, 1876. Quotations : Arithmetic—Science. - DAVIES, EDwARD, born, 1756 ; a Welch divine and writer; died, 1831. Quotations : Infancy—Proselyte— Revival–Ritual—Salvation—Sin—Soul—Sovereign—Study —Theology. DAVIES, JOHN LLEWELYN, M.A., born at Chi- chester, February 26, 1826; an eminent English divine, bib- liographer, poet, and author. Quotations : Apostacy— Atonement—Church—Ordinance—Parent—Pastor— Psalm - Quotations - Religion — Song — Symbol —Text—Title— Voice—Worship—Year. DAVIES, SIR JOHN, born in Wiltshire, 1570; an eminent English judge, poet, and writer: died, 1626. Quo- tation. Balbarism—Conquest—Idleness—Wife. DAVIES, SAMUEL, D.D., born near Summit Ridge, New Castle county, Delaware, November 3, 1723; an Améri. Can, Presbyterian divine and an eminent pulpit orator; died, February 4, 1761. Quotations: Grave—Influence. DAVIES, THOMAS, born, 1712; an English actor and bookseller; died, 1785. Quotation : Despondency. DAVIES, T. G. C. Quotation: Peace. DAVIS, ANDREW JACKSON, born at Blooming Grove, Orange county, New York, August 11, 1826; an American, clairvoyant, and a prominent Spiritualist and Writer. Quotations: Motion—Physician–Regeneration— Sin–Trade. DAVIS, HENRY WINTER, LL.D., born at Annapo- lis, Maryland, August 16, 1817; an American statesman; died, December 30, 1865. Quotation : Constitution. DAVIS, JEFFERSON, LL.D., born in Christian County, Kentucky, June 3, 1808: an American statesman and author. He was a prominent leader of the secession movement, and President of the Southern Confederacy. Quotations: Minority—Secession—Truth. DAVIS, JOHN, LL.D., ( Honest John, ) born in Northborough, Massachusetts, January 13, 1787; an Ameri- Can Senator and a governor of Massachusetts; died, April 19, 1854. Quotation : Firmness, DAVIS, PAULINE WRIGHT: an American writer, and advocate of “Women's Rights. Quotation : Kindness. DAVIES, MRS. REBECCA. H. Quotation : Danger. DAVREUX, CHARLEs JOSEPH, born, 1806: a Flemish chemist and medical author. Quotation : Dainti- DAVY, SIR HUMPHREY, F.R.S., born at Penzance, Cornwall, December 17, 1778; a distinguished philosopher, who has contributed much to enlarge the bounds of med. içal science; died at Geneva, Switzerland, May 28, 1829. Quotations : Belief – Chemistry—Faith – Immortality – Innocence—Knowledge—Language—Machinery-Material- ism—Nature—Obstacle—Philosophy—Progress—Religion— Science—Thinking—Weather. DAWES, RICHARD, born at Market Bosworth, 1708; an English critic and Greek scholar; died, 1766. Quo- tation : Hope. DAWLAT, IBN HAMDAN SAIF, AD, born at Wä- sit,916; an Arabian poet and prose writer; died at Aleppo, 967. Quotations: Separation—Servant. DAWSON, GEORGE, M.A., born, 1821; a popular minister of Birmingham, England, and an eminent lec- turer; died in Birmingham, November 30, 1876. Quotations: Death-Bed—Dying—Investigation. DAWSON, JOHN WILLIAM, LL.D., F.R.S., born at Pictou, Nova Scotia, October, 1820; an eminent geolo- gist. Quotations. Fear—Life. DAY, CHARLEs WILLIAM, born in England, about 1800; an #. writer, and author of “Maxims, Experi- ences, and Observations of Agogos.” Q?totations: Dignity sºon-Rogue—sincerity—success-sympathy–Tact- OI’i(1. DAY, EDwARD PARSONs, born in Richmond, On- tario county, New York, June 15, 1822; educated at Geneva Lyceum, and Geneva College : an American teacher, prin- ter, and journalist. He was editor of, “The Educator,” Rochester, (1847–48,) “America's Own,” New York, (1849– 50,) and has devoted almost his entire life to the compila- tion of the “Collacon.” Q?totations : Ability —Absence— Abuse —Address–Advertisement—Affront–Age—Agree- ableness—Agriculture—Aim—Alliance—-Anarchy--Angling —Arbitration — Aristocracy —Arithmetic—Astrology—At- tachment—Attempt—Aversion--Awkwardness—Ballot.— Bible—Books — Borrowing — Building — Burlesque—Cere- mony—Clemency—Compassion –Conceit—Conservatism— Contumely—-Conversation—Credit—Crime--Critic—-Custom -Cynicism—Deafness-Debt — Declaration—Deformity— Delay–Demagogue — Democracy — Denial—Derision—De- Sert—DiscOrd—Disease—Drunkenness—Duelling—Dupes— Duty—Ear-Earnestness – Ease —-Editor-Effort-Embar- rassment—Error—Eternity — Exchange — Exile—Expatria- tion—Faithfulness—Faults—Fidelity—Flirtation—Forti- tude—-Freemasonry--Friendship—Fright—Frugality—-Fruit --Grammar–Greeting—Handsomeness – Hate—Heaven— Help—History—Home — Homeliness —Hospitality—Hour— House—Humbug—Hurry—Idea —Idiot —Idolatry—Illusion 1102 JD A Y 'S CO / / A C O AV. —Immorality—Impossibility—Incapacity—Indolence—In- feriority—Infancy--Infidelity—Intemperance – Inyention —Jealousy—Jest—Joke—Jury—KOran—Laconics–Labor— Land—Laughter—Lawyer—Laziness—Lecture—-Legislature —Liberty—Littleness—Love — Loyalty—Machinery—Mar- riage—Mechanics – Merchant — Mind–Minority—Mirth— Money—Moss-Mouth—Munificence—Navigation—Neglect Fºº, Old Age – Omission — Paganism – Painting— Panic — Paradise – Party — Persecution — Photography — Plant—Pledge — Portrait — Post Office — Poverty—Press— Printing—Promise—Property—Purity – Quackery—Quar- rels—Quickness—Quill – Railroad — Rascality— Recluse— Reporter—Republicanism – Resignation—Revelation—Re- view—IRiches—Hiddles—Hing — Rule—Ruler—Scars—Scho- lar—Sculpture-Secrecy—Self-Adoration — Self-Conceit– Servant—Servility–Silence—Slyness — Snare—Speaking— Station—Stranger—Stratagem—Stubbornness—Stupidity— Subjection—Suffering —Sunshine — Surety—Taciturnity— Talking—Tariff—Tenderness—Theatre—Toleration--Tomb —Tongue—Torture–Trifle—Ubiquity—Ugliness—Unbelief — Usury —Vanity — Virtue – Vocation —Vote — Wages — Wastefulness—Weakness—Wealth —Wickedness—Wills— Wind--Wine--Wisdom—-Witchcraft--Work—-Wrong-- Years. DAY, FISK Holbrook, M.D., born in Richmond, New York, March 11, 1826; resident of Wauwatosa, near Milwaukee, Wisconsin; an American physician. Quota- tão/vs. Health—Remembrall Ce. DAY, FREDERICK CHARLEs, a son of Edward Parsons Day, born in Le Roy, New York, October 2, 1865. Quotation : Eagerness. DAY, GEORGE EDWARD, D.D., born at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, March 19, 1815; an American theologian, educator, and author. Quotation : Descent. DAY, GEORGE EDWARD, F.R.S., born 1815; an English chemist and author ; died, January 31, 1872. Quo- tation : Chemistry. DAY, HARRIET HUBBARD, born in Sandisfield, Massachusetts, 1831; died at Le Roy, March 19, 1868. Quo- tation : Will. DAY, HELEN EvelyN, a daughter of Edward Parsons Day, born in Brooklyn, Long Island, February 10, 1863. Quotations: Botany—Mildness—Moss. DAY, HENRY NOBLE, born at New Preston, Con- necticut, August 4, 1808; an American author and educa- tor. Quotations: Condition—Eye-Service—Sound. DAY, JEREMIAH, D.D., LL.D., born in New Pres- ton, Connecticut, August 3, 1773; an American professor of mathematics and natural philosophy; died, August 22, 1867. Quotations: Determination—Mathematics—Mind. DAY, MARTHA, the daughter of President Day of Yale College, born, 1813; authoress of several works; died, 1833. Quotation: Self-Condemnation. DAY, THOMAS, born in London, June 22, 1748; an English writer, the author of “Sandford, and Merton; ” killed by the kick of a horse, September 28, 1789. Quota- tions : Cottage—Creature—Hardihood—Hardship—Power. DAY, WARREN, born in Sharon, Vermont, 1789 : an American Presbyterian clergyman ; died at Richmond, New York, May 19, 1864. Quotations: Covenant—Geology. DAY, WILLIAM, (Bishop of Winchester,) born about 1520; an eminent English divine and theological writer; died, 1596. Quotations : Baptism—Church. DDOETH, CATWC ; a Welch poet and prose wri- ter. Quotations: Ills—Remembrance. DEAN, AMOS, LL.D., born at Barnard, Vermont, January 16, 1803; an eminent American lawyer and writer; died, January 26, 1868. Quotations: Animals—Property. DEANE, SILAs, born at Groton, Connecticut, De- cember 24, 1737; an American diplomatist; died in England, August 23, 1789. Quotations: Horticulture—Mind. DEAR, ROBERT, D.D.; an English divine and au- thor. Quotation, ; Prayer. DECATUR, STEPHEN, born at Sinnepuxent, Ma- ryland, January 5, 1779; a celebrated American commo- dore : killed in a duel, near Bladenburg, Maryland, by Cap- tain James, March 22, 1820. Quotation : Country, DECIUS. CAIUS MESSIUs QUINTUs TRAJANUs, born in Pannonia, Rome, 200 A.D.; a Roman emperor; killed in battle, 251 A.D. Quotations: Power—Torture. DECKER, THOMAS, born about 1567; an eminent English dramatist ; died, 1638. Quotations. Angels—Argu- Iment—Earth—Patience. DEE, JOHN, born in London, 1527; a famous Eng- lish astrologer and mathematician; died, 1608. Quotations: Science—Spirit. DEERING, NATHANIEL, born in Portland, Maine, 1800; an American dramatist. Quotations: Death—Envy. DEFFAND, MARIE DE VICHY-CHAMROUD, DU, born, 1697; a French lady of much literary talent: died, 1780. Quotation : Woman. DEFOE, DANIEL, son of a butcher, born in Lon- don, 1661; a popular English writer of original genius. He was the author of “Robinson Crusoe :” died, April 24, 1731. Quotations : Adventure—Blood–Business—Credit—Flat- tery—Missionary—Opportunity—Pride—Satire—Surprise— Tobacco–Travel—Truth. DEGERANDO. See Gerando De. DEHARBE, JOSEPH : an English Catholic divine and author, (London, 1862.) Quotation : Purgatory—Saint —Wickedness. DEHON, THEODORE, D.D., (Bishop of South Caro- lina,) born at Boston, 1776; an American Episcopalian min- ister and writer; died, 1817. Quotation : Development. . DEINHARDSTEIN, JOHANN LUDw1G, born in Vienna, Austria, 1794; a German dramatist. Quotation : Dandy. DELANY, PATRICK, born, 1686; a learned Irish divine; died, 1768. Quotations: Debt—Humility. DELAVAN, EDWARD C., born in Schenectady County, New York, 1793; an American temperancereformer and journalist; died, January 15, 1871. Quotations: Absti- mence—Drunkenness—Intermperance. DELAVIGNE, JEAN FRANÇois, born at Havre, France, April 4, 1793; a popular French poet and dramatist; djed at Lyons, December, 1843. Quotation : Fool. DELEON, or DE LEON, Louis, born, 1527; a Spanish poet and theologian ; died, 1591. Quotation: Con- gregation. DELILLE, or DE LILLE, JACQUES, born at Aigue- perse, near Clermont, in Auvergne, France, 1738; an emi- nent French didactic poet and littérateur; died in Paris, May, 1813. Quotations: Friendship—Life—Nose. DE LOLME, JOHN LOUIs, born at Geneva, 1740; a Swiss lawyer and author; died in Switzerland, 1806. Quo- tations : Peace—Solitude. DELRIO, MARTIN ANTOINE, born at Antwerp, 1551; a learned Jesuit and author; died, 1608. Quotations: Author—Divination—Peace. - DELSARTE, FRANÇors, born, 1805; a French mu- Sician and author ; died about 1863. Quotation : Art. DELUC, JEAN ANDRé, born at Geneva, 1728; a celebrated Swiss natural philosopher; died at Windsor, 1817. Quotation : Dislike. DELUZY, MADAME ; a French novelist and mis- cellaneous writer. Quotations : . Amiability—Blushing— Conceit—Coquetry—Crime—Dignity—Ennui-Forgiveness —Heart — Indifference—Intrigue — Joy—Love — Offense— Passion—Perseverance—Poverty—Pride—Sentiment. DELVAN, ALFRED, born, 1825; an eminent French author. Quotation : Chivalry. DEMADES, born about 375 B.C. : an Athenian orator and demagogue; died, 318 B.C. Quotation: Modesty. DEMALLIA. Quotation : Ancestry. DEMARES, JOSSE, born, 1590 ; an eminent Flem- ish philologer; died, 1637. Quotation : Disobedience. DEMARETES, born, 480 B.C.; a princess of Syra- cuse. Quotation : Flattery. DEMETRIUS, flourished about 412 B.C.; an Athe- nian comic poet of the Old comedy. Quotations: Blushing —Wickedness. DEMETRIUS OF CORINTH, lived in the first cen- tury: a Greek Cynic philosopher. Quotation : Precept. DEMETRIUS, PHALEREUs, born at Phalerum, in Attica, Greece, 345 B.C.; a Greek philosopher and orator. - %tions: Despotism—Folly—-Government—-Mirth—-Pros- perity. DEMOCRITUS, born at Abdera, in Thrace, Greece, 460 B.C.; a Greek philosopher of eminence; died, 351 B.C. Quotations : A We—Gain—Grief—Happiness—In- justice—Laughter—Old Age—Reproof–Speech—Thanks— Thing—Truth—Wrong. DEMONAX, born at Cyprus, about 135 A.D.: a C” Inic Pºsº. and philanthropist. Quotations: Audi- €In Ce— ust—Practice— Oluptuousness. DEMOPHILUS; a philosopher of un- he Of WOrks On , Of 8.Te ealth—. Outh. DEMOSTHENES, the son of a sword maker, of Athens, born, 382 B.C.; the greatest of Greek oratoys. He was accused of accepting bribes, and fled to the island of AEgina, where he died by placing a poisoned pen in his mouth. Quotations: Ability—Accusation—Action—Assis- tance—Bribery—Censure — Citizen — Concord – Counsel— Deceit-Denial-Despotism—Disorder–Drinking—Earnest- ness—Faults—Friendship—Greatness—Humility–-Injustice —Kindness—Labor — Misfortune — M %. — Opinion— Power-Praise—Prosperity—Pursuit—Remedy—Renegade —Self-Deceit — Self-Praise — Speech — Success —Threats— Truth—Tyrant—Virtue—Wisdom—Wit. DEMPSTER, THOMAS, born at Muriesk, 1579 : a Scottish historian and commentator; died, 1625. Quota- tion : Eagle. A / O Gº AC A P Aſ / C A / / /V /O AE A . 1 1 ()3 DENHAM, SIR JOHN, born in Dublin, 1615; an eminent poet and miscellaneous writer: died at Sierra Leone, Africa, 1828. Quotations : Ambition – Poetry — Translation. - - DENINA, GIACOMMARIA CARLO, born at Revello, in Piedmont, Italy, 1731 ; an Italian historian, priest, and author; died, 1813. Quotation : Consideration. DENIS, SAINT, the patron saint of France, and the first bishop of Paris; he suffered martyrdom during the persecution of Valerian, 272 A.D. Quotation : Trinity. DENISON, MARY ANDREws, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1826; an American authoress. Quotations: Children—COnsent. DENMAN, JACOB SMITH, born in Springfield, New Jersey, September 27, 1814; an American educator, and the author of a series of reading books for children: he was also the originator of Teachers' Institutes, the first, being held at Ithaca, New York. April, 1843. Quotations : Instruction—Place—Words—Youth. DENMAN, THOMAs, born at Bakewell, Derby- shire, 1733; an English physician and author ; died, 1818. Quotation : Physician. DENNIE, JOSEPH, born in Boston, August 30, 1768; an American author, critic, and journalist; died, Jan- uary 7, 1812. Quotations. Early IRising—Neatness—Spring Tempest-Winter. DENNIS, JOHN, born in London, 1657 : an English writer, critic, and dramatist ; died, 1734. Quotations: Dra- lma—Multitude—Reputation. DENTON, DANIEL ; the author of “A Brief De- scription of New York,”(London. 1670.) Qototattion : Riches. DERBY, EARL OF, (EDWARD GEOFFREY SMITH Stanley,) born in Lancashire, March 29, 1799; an eminent British statesman and orator; died, October 23, 1869. Quo- tation : Party. DERBY, ELIAS HASKETT, born in Salem, Massa- chusetts, August 16, 1739; an Almerican merchant, and a breeder of merino sheep : died, September 16, 1826. Quo- tations: Agriculture—Farmer—Harvest. DERHAM, WILLIAM, born near Worcester, Eng- land, 1657; an eminent divine and Whºsopher: died, 1735. Quotations: Blunder—Stomach—Wind. : DERING, SIR EDWARD, born in Kent, England, 1598; an English politician; died, 1644. Quotation : Christ. DERZHAVIN, GABRIEL ROMANOVITCH, born in Razan, 1743; a celebrated lyric poet of Russia; died, 1816. Quotations: Activity—Surfeit. DESAGULIERS, JoHN THEoPHILUs, born at Ro- chelle, France, 1683; a celebrated French natural philoso- pher and author; died, 1744. Quotation : Politeness. DESART, EARL OF, born about 1820; an English novelist. Quotation : Autumn. DESBORDES-VALMORE, MARCELINE, born at Douai, France, 1787; a popular French writer; died, 1859. Quotation : Dreams. DESCARTES, RENE, born at La Haye, in Tou- raine, France, March 31, 1596: , an illustrious philosopher and author; died at Stockholm, February, 1650. Quota- tions: Contemplation—Offense—Truth. DESCHAMPS, EMILE, born at Bourges, France, 1791; a French dramatist ; died, 1871. Quotation : Ennui. DESHOULIERES, MADAME, (ANTOINETTE DU- Ligier-de-la-Garde,) born in Paris, 1633; an eminent French poètess and littérateur ; died, 1694. Quotations: Fortune —Pleasure—Rogue—SuperStition. DESMAHIS, Jos（PH FRANÇOIS EDOUARD DE COR- sembleau, born at Sully-sur-Loire, France, 1722; a French poet and littérateur; died, 1761. Quotation : Evil. DESNOYER, LOUIS FRANÇOIS CHARLEs, born at Amiens, France, 1806; a prolific French dramatist; died, 1858. Quotation : Woman. DESTOUCHES, PHILIPPE NERICAULT, born at Tours, France, 16 actor; died, 1754. Quotations : Criticism—Nature. DEVERE, MAXIMILIAN SCHELE, born in Sweden, 1820; emigrated to the United States, 1843; an eminent writer and scholar. Quotations : Nature—Philosophy. DEWEY, ORVILLE, D.D., LL.D., born in Shef- field, Massachusetts, March 28, 1794; an eminent Unitarian divine and author; died in Sheffield, March 21, 1882. Quo- tations : Benevolence—Democracy — Loss —Misfortune— Party—Recreation—Study—Truth. DEWITT, JOHN, born at Dort, in the Netherlands, 1625; one of the most eminent statesman that the Dutch gº has produced ; died, August 20, 1672. Quotation : 8,562. DEXTER, TIMOTHY, born at Malden, Massachu- Setts, January 22, 1747; an eccentric merchant; died at Newburyport, October 22, 1806. Quotation : Soul. DHAMMAPADA, THE ; a collection of sayings attributed to Guatama Buddha, 500 B.C. They were com- mitted to writing from tradition, 246 B.C., and first trans- lated into English, 1870. Quotations : Truth — Vanity— War—World—WOrth. ; a popular French dramatic writer and . DIAGORAS, surnamed THE ATHEIST, born in the island of Melos, and flourished in Athens, 412 B.C.; a Greek poet and philosopher; the date of his death is unknown. Q2totations : Atheism—Thief. DIAZ, DINIZ, flourished about 1445 ; a Portuguese navigator: died, 1480. Quotation : Negroes. DIBDIN, CHARLES, born at Southampton, Eng- land, 1745; an English poet, actor, dramatist, and writer; died at Camden Town, near London, 1814. Quotations: Curiosity—Mother—Sailor—Stage—Submission. DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL, D.D., born in Cal- cutta, 1776; an English bibliographer; died, 1847. Quota- tion. Parent. DIBDIN, THOMAs, born, 1772; an English drama- tist and Song Writer; died, 1842. Quotation : Contempt. DICAEARCHUS, born, 300 B.C.: a Greek peripa- tetic philosopher, gºpher. and historian; died about 225 B Quotation : Gods. DICK, THOMAS, LL.D., born near Dundee, 1772; a Scottish author; died, 1857. Q?totations : Benevolence— Confidence—Desire—Earth—Immortality--Morality—Time —Truth—Voice—Wisdom. DICKENS, CHARLEs, born at Landport, Ports- mouth, February 7, 1812; the most popular novelist of mo- dern times; died at Gad's Hill, June 9, 1870. Quotations: Advertisements--Affection—Alms—ASSOciation--Austerity —BOres—Care—Children — Christmas —Comfort—Conceal- ment—Crime—Death—Desire—Dishonesty—-Dreams--Earn- estness—Editor—Essay—Face—Forgetfulness—Fun--Good —Grave—Handsomeness—Heart — Hearth—Home—Hope— Idea—Ignorance — Isolation — Kisses — Language—Love— Mob—Mother—Nature—Neighbor–Nobody-Novels–Phy- siognomy-Reflection—Renown–Silliness-Sister–Sleep- Solitude--Spite--Spring—Stupidity–-Vice--Walking--World. DICKENSON, A. E., D.D.; an American divine and writer. Quotation : Dying. DICKINSON, ANNA ELIZABETH, born in Phila- delphia, of Quaker parents, October 28, 1842; an American social and political reformer, of acknowledged talent and considerable popularity. She, however, abandoned the po- sition of a first-class lecturess, and a second-class authoress, to attain that of a fifth-rate actress. Q?totations: Lecture —Stage—Wound—Wrong. DICKINSON, DANIEL STEvKNS, LL.D., born in Goshen, Connecticut, September 11, 1800; an American Senator and lawyer; died, April 12, 1866. Quotations : Agri- Culture—Secession. - DICKINSON, JoHN, LL.D., born in Maryland, November 13, 1732; an American statesman and lawyer; died, February 14, 1808. Quotation : Detraction—People. DICKS, J. B. Quotation: Odd-Fellow. DICKSON, JOHN, born about 1809; an English divine and author; died, 1874. Quotation : Christian. DIDEROT, DENIS, born at Langres, in Cham- pagne, France, October 5, 1713: a French philosopher and author of great talents and extensive knowledge ; died in Paris, July 30, 1784. Quotations : Author — Ignominy — Justice—Life —Lips — Love — Philosophy — Self–Silence— WOman. DIDIUS, JULIANUs SEVERUS, born at Milan, Italy, 133 A.D.; a Roman emperor; died, 161 A.D. Quota- tion : Empire—Money. DIETERICH, JOHAN GEORG, born about 1685 : a German theologian and Writer; died about 1742. Quota- tion : Creation. DIGBY, KENEL.M HENRY, M.P., born in Ireland, 1800; an eminent antiquary and theologian. Quotation : Observation. DIGBY, SIR KENELM, F.R.S., born in Cambridge- Shire, June 11, 1603; a learned English author; died in Lon- don, June 11, 1665. Q2totation. Blindness. DIGGES, DUDLEY, born, 1612; an English writer; died, 1643. Quotation. Subject. DILKE, SIR CHARLES WENTwo RTH, BART, M.P., born at Chelsea, September 4, 1843; an English author and journalist. Quotation : Detraction. DILLWYN, LOUIs WESTON, born, 1778; an Eng- lish naturalist and author: died, 1855. Quotations: Faults —Law—Patience—Prosperity—Repentance. DIMMITT, J. G. Quotation : Seasons. DINANT, DAVID. Quotation: Matter. DINGLEY, ROBERT, born, 1620; an English Puri- tan divine and author; died, 1659. Quotation : Sinner. DINNIES, ANNA PEYRE, the daughter of Judge Shackelford, born in South Carolina; an American poetess and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Simplicity. DINTER, GUSTAv FRIEDRICH, born at Borna, in Saxony, 1760; a popular German teacher and educational writer: died, 1831. Quotations : God — Knowledge –Plow —Surety. DIODATI, John, born at Geneva, 1576 : a Pro- testant theologian ; died, 1649. Quotation : Cross. 1 104 D A Y'S CO / / A Co A. DIOCLETIAN, CAIUs VALERIUS AURELIUS, born at Dioclea, in Dalmatia, 245 A.D.: a Roman emperor; died, 313 A.D. Quotations : Retirement—Zeal. DIOGENES, born at Sinope, in Pontus, Asia Mi- nor, 413 B.C.; a cynic philosopher, and disciple of Antis- thenes, for whom he acted as slave. The stories told of him are of very doubtful authority: died at Corinth, 323 B.C., Quotations : Ability — Admiration – Arrogance — Blushing—Calumny--Censure—Dalliance—Eating—Effemi- nacy—Enemy—Favor—God —Harlot—Hope—Immorality— King—Liberality—Ilove—Lust—Modesty—-Passion—Perfec- tion—Poyerty—Self-Reproach–Silliness—Soul-Speech- Sword— Sycophant —Valor—Value —Vanity —Virtue —Vi- ciousness—Wit—Wrong. DION, born at Syracuse 410; B.C. : an eminent statesman and patriot, and a friend of Plato ; died, 354 B.C. Quotation : Resignation. DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNAssus, born at Hali- carnassus, in Caria, Greece, 70 B.C.; a celebrated Greek antiquary and historian ; died, 7 B.C. Quotation S : Author —Engagement—Enyy–Gifts—Glory—God–Health–Jeal- ousy—Liberty—Lust— Multitude—Necessity—Rabble—Re- pentance—Schoolmaster–Strength — Superiority—Suspi- - cion—Tyrant—Understanding—War. DIOSCORUS, born about 400 A.D.: an eminent patriarch of Constantinople; died, 454. Quotation : Har- lłl Olly. DIPHILUS, born in Sinope, Asia Minor, and flour- ished about 300 B.C.: an eminent Athenian Comic poet of the new comedy. Quotations: Blushing—Life—Misery— Money—Mortality—-Poor—Poverty—Prudence—Shameless- neSS—Trouble—Vicissitude. DISRAELI, BENJAMIN, D.C.L., (EARL OF BEA- consfield, K.G.,) born in London, December 21, 1805 : a dis- tinguished English statesman and novelist ; died, Decem- ber 21, 1881. Quotations: Action —Artist —Attachment— Books—Candor—Character—Dawn—Dissipation–Dynasty —Eloquence—Emigration — Empire —Flattery—Fortune— Jacobin--Knowledge--Mediocrity—Men—Opinion--Respec- tability—Romance–System—Youth. DISRAELI, ISAAC, D.C.L., the father of the pre- ceding, born at Enfield, near London, May, 1766; an English littérateur; died, January 19, 1848. Quotations : Anecdotes —Apology—Author—Celerity—Criticism—Genius—Library —Literature—Plagiarism—Proverbs—Quotations—-Reading —Satire—Solitude—Taste—Thought. DIX, DoREATHEA. LYNDE, born at Worcester, Massachusetts, 1794; an American authoress and philan- thropist. Quotations: Listlessness. DIX, JoBN ADAMS, LL.D., born at Boscawen, New Hampshire, July 24, 1798; an American statesman and general; died, 1879. Quotation : Flag. DIXON, WILLIAM HEPworth, born in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1821 ; an English writer and critic. Quotation : Faculties. DMITRIJEFF, Ivan IVANowITSCH, born, 1760 ; an eminent Russian poet and prose writer; died, 1837. Quotation : Infancy. DMOCHOWSKI, FRANCIS XAvTER, born, 1762 : ºn poet and littérateur ; died, 1808. Quotation: Judg- II, CIll. DMUSZEWSKI, LOUIS ADAM, born, 1782 : an eminent Polish writer and actor; died, 1848. Quotation : LicentiousneSS. DOANE, AUGUSTUS SIDNEY., M.D., born in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, 1808: an American physician and au- thor; died, 1852. Quotation : Debt. DOANE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, D. D., LL.D., (Bishop of New Jersey,) born at Trenton, New Jersey, May 27, 1799; an American Episcopalian divine and author: died, April 27, 1859. Quotations: Cathedral— Diamond— Gentleman—Justice—Modesty—Taste. DOANE, J. Quotation : Dying. DOBELL, SYDNEY, born in Kent, 1824: an Eng- lish poet and writer; died, August 22, 1874. Quotations: Duty—Zealot. I)OBSON, MRS. SUSANNAH, born in England about 1740, authoress of “Literary History of the Troubadours,” and other works, Quotation : Crusades. DODD, MARY ANN HANMER, born at Hartford, Connecticut, 1813; an American poetess and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Pen. DODD, WILLIAM, D.D., born at Bourne, Lincoln- shire, 1729; an unfortunate English clergyman and author. He was convicted of forgery and executed, June 27, 1777. )wotations: Adultery. —Anarchy — Ill-Humor—Impurity— assion—Sensuality—Station—Temperance. DODDRIDGE, PHILIP, born in London, 1702 : an eminent dissenting minister; died at Lisbon, 1751. Quota- tions : Bed—Early-Rising — Good — Love — Persecution — Study—Wain-Glory. DODGE, MARY ABIGAIL, (Gail Hamilton, q.v.) DODGE, MARY MAPES : an American novelist and magazine writer. Quotation : Crusades. DODGE, R. J. Quotation : Garden. DODINGTON, GEORGE BUBB, (LORD MELCOMBE.) born, 1691; an English courtier and politician ; died, 1762. Quotattions: Kindness—Opposition. DODSLEY, ROBERT, born near Mansfield, Not- tinghamshire, 1709: a noted English bookseller and author. He rose from the menial position of a footman, to one of eminence in literature ; his “ Economy of Human Life" was at its first publication credited to a suppositious Brahman author, named Dandamis; died, September 25, 1764. Quota- tions: Affliction—Anger—Anguish–Anxiety—Babe-Bene- factor-Benevolence-Boldness—Brother – Compassion— CQūsideration–Constancy—Contemplation—Covetousness -Dalliance—I)eceit-Declamation – Defamation—Delay— Desire–Despair — Diligence – Disdain—Ear—Emulation– Enjoyment-Equity—Evil — Exaltation — Excitement—Fi- delity–Fortitude – God — Gold — Goodness – Grandeur— Grief–Hope—Importance — Impossibility— Inconstancy— Indiscretion — Innocence — Insensibility— Instability—In- Strument-Justice—Killing-Kindred–Kisses—Learning— Life—Lust–Luxury—Man-Master—Merit—Mirth—Motive —Murder–Nobility – Nose — Qak— Obedience — Omnipo- tence—Opinion—Qppression — Pleasure—Precept—Present —Presumption — Principles — Probability— Quality—Quar- rels—Rebuke — Reflection — Renown — Reproof–Riches— Right—Rigor—Sacrifice—Sadness—Self-Praise—Sentences —Separation— Servant — Sincerity— Sloth—Son—Station— Submission—Success — Summer–Sun–Talking—Temper- ance—Terror–Tiimidity—To-Morrow — Tranquility—Trust –Tyranny-Vexation—Wanderer–Wantonness—Wisdom —Wrath—Wrong. DOES, PETER VAN DER, born about 1520; a Dutch admiral ; died in the island of St. Thomas, West Indies, 1599. Quotation : Counsel. DOLBEN, JOHN, (Bishop of Rochester,) born at Stanwick, 1625; an English divine and author; died, 1686. Quotation : Speculation. DOLCE, LUIGI, born in Venice, 1508; an Italian littérateur; died, 1566. Quotation : Rogue. DOMAT, JEAN, born at Clermont, in Auvergne, France, 1625; an eminent French jurist; died in Paris, 1695. Quotation : Profuseness. DOMINIC, SAINT, born at Calahorra, in Old Cas- tile, 1170; the founder of Dominicans, and an eloquent preacher; died, 1221. Quotation : Zeal. DONEAU, HUGUES, born at Châlons-sur-Saône, France, 1527; an eminent jurist and author; died, 1591. Quotation : Prosperity. - DONI, ANTONIO . FRANCEsco, born at Florence, 1208; an Italian littérateur; died, 1574. Quotation : Country. DONNE, JOHN, born in London, 1573 : an eminent English poet and divine; died, 1631. Quotations : Creature —Despair-—Epitaph--Joy–-Martyr-Psalms--Rhyme--Storm. DOOLITTLE, JAMEs RooD, LL.D., born at Hamp- ton, Washington county, New York, january 3, 1815: an American lawyer and Statesman. Quotation : Obedience. DORAN, JOHN, born in London, 1807; an English author and miscellaneous writer; died, January 25, 1878. Quotation : Dinner. DOREN, VAN : an eminent divine and author. Quotation : Harm. DORR, THOMAS WILLIAM, born at Providence, Rhode Island, November 5, 1805; an American politician ; died, December 27, 1854. Quotation : Congratulation. DORSEY, SARAH A., born in Natchez, Mississippi, 1830; an American novelist. Quotation : Envy. DOUCE, FRANCIS, born, 1762; an English anti- quary and writer; died, 1832. Quotation : Riches. DOUGLAS, AMANDA. M. ; born in the city of New York; an American novelist. Quotation : Remembrance. DOUGLAS, JAMES, M.D., born, 1675: an eminent iºn physician and author; died, 1742. Quotation : ruth. DOUGLAS, JoHN, F.R.S., (Bishop of Carlisle,) born in Fifeshire, Scotland, 1721 : an eminent divine and author; died, 1807. Quotation : Goodliness. DOUGLAS, STEPHEN ARNOLD, born at Brandon, Rutland county. Vermont, April 23, 1813; one of the most eminent of American Statesmen ; died at Chicago, June 3, 1861. Quotations: Land–Secession. DOUGLASS, FREDERICK, born in Tuckahoe, Tal- bot county, Maryland, 1817; , Originally a mulatto slave : a distinguished American orator and lecturer. Quotations: Equality—Majority—Mankind—Prejudice—Printing. DOUGLASS, J. M., born about 1830 ; an English divine and writer. Quotations: Pulpit—Sword—Tyranny. DOW, ALEXANDER, born at Crieff, Scotland, about 1802; an eminent writer and Orientalist; died, 1779. Quo- tation : Conspiracy. - DOW, LORENzo, born in Coventry, Connecticut, October 16, 1777: an eccentric Methodist minister;, died, February 2, 1834. Quotations: Blasphemy—-Reason--Sinner. DOW, NEAL, born at Portland, Maine, 1803; the originator of the celebrated “Maine Law.” Quotation : Intemperance. A / O G. A. A /? // / C A Z / M /) A X. 1105. DOWLING, JOHN, D.D., born, 1807; an eminent English Baptist divine. Quotations : Papacy—Popery. DOWNAME, GEORGE, D.D., (Bishop of Derry,) born about 1560; an eminent divine and author; died, 1634. Quotation : Innocence. DOWNEY, WILLIAM Scott, B.D., born in Eng- land; emigrated to the United States in 1853, and became a resident of Boston, 1856: a Baptist minister, missionally, and author of a volume of “Proverbs,’’ (Philadelphia, 1853.) Quotations : . Argument — Deeds-Diligenge–Poçº trine—Dogs—Drinking-Error–Eye–Faith—Faults-Fool –Gayety—Godliness—Gold—Hell–Holiness–Hospitality— Humility—Husband—Ignorance—Imperfection-Impiety- Impudence—Impunity—Indolence—Industry-Injury-In- sulf—Integrity—Intolerance – Intoxication—Jest—Judges —Knowledge-Labor—Lady–Law - License - LOYº-Loy- alty—Lying—Marriage—Mind–Minister–Miser-Mødesty –CŞbstimacy—Party – Perception — Plagiarism –Politics- Precipitančy--Preparation--Probation-Production-Profi- gate—Prosperity—Punctuality-Purity—Reason-Redemp- tion–Reformation—Religion-Respect—Revelation I-Spiri- tuality—Sweetness—Sword—Tranquility —Ungodliness— UXOriousneSS. DOWNING, ANDREw JACKSON, born at New- burgh, New York, October 31, 1815; an accomplished writer on landscape gardening; lost his life on the burning of the steamer Henry Clay, July 28, 1852. Quotations: Architec- ture—Building—Cottage—Dwelling—Fruit—-Horticulture— #ouse†andscape Toak—Éiant Trees. Vine:Woods. DRABICIUS, NIKOLAUs, born in Moravia, 1587; a German visionary and impostor; executed at Presburg, 1671. Quotation: Vision. DRACO, flourished about 600 B.C.; an Athenian legislator, celebrated for his Sanguinary penal code, which was SO Severe that it was Said to have been Written in blood. Quotation : Offense. - - DRAKE, CHARLES DANIEL, born at Cincinnati, Ohio, April 11, 1811; an American jurist. Quotations : Anarchy—Constitution—Secession. DRAKE, DANIEL, M.D., father of the preceding, born in New Jersey, October 20, 1785; an American physi- cian, philanthropist, and author; died at Cincinnati, NO- vember 6, 1852. Quotation : Medicine. - DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS, born in Devonshire, 1540 ; an English navigator and naval hero ; died near Puerto Bello, 1595. Quotation : Victory. DRAPER, JoHN WILLIAM, born in Liverpool, England, May 5, 1811; emigrated to America in 1833; a dis- tinguished chemist, and physiologist ; died, 1882. Quota- t?On : Farmer. DRAPER, LYMAN, C., born near Buffalo, New York, September 4, 1815: an American historian and biog- rapher. Quotation, . Sunrise. DRAYTON, MICHAEL, born in Warwickshire, 1563; an English poet; died, 1631. Quotation : Surfeit. DRELINCOURT, CHARLEs, born in Paris, 1633; a physician and author: died, 1697. Quotation : Fruit. DREW, DANIEL, born in Carmel, Putnam county, New York, 1797; a noted New York capitalist ; died, 1879. Quotation : Choice. DREW, SAMUEL, born in Cornwall, 1765 : a self- educated shoe-maker. He became the author of several works; died, 1833. Quotation : Success. DREXELIUS, JEREMIAH, born at Augsberg, 1581; a German Jesuit and pulpit Orator; died, 1638. Quotations : Sacrament—Self-Command. DROZ, FRANÇors XAVIER JOSEPH, born at Besan- çon, 1733; a French writer, and moralist; died, 1850. Quo- tations: Quality—Unhappiness. DRUMMOND, D. T. K., born, 1800; a Scottish Episcopalian divine; died, 1868. Quotation: Church. DRUMMOND, MAURICE, born 1040; an English statesman and courtier; died about 1112. Quotation : Celebrity. DRUMMOND, SIR WILLIAM, of Logie Almond, Scotland; a scholar and ingenious Writer; died at Rome, 1828. Quotations: Common-Sense — Divorce—Reason. DRURY, ANNA. HARRIET, born, 1815 : an English novelist Quotations : Knowledge—Usefulness. DRUIS or DRUYS, John, born, 1568; a Flemish ecclesiastic and writer; died, 1634. Quotation : Oak. DRYDEN, JoHN, born at Aldwinckle in North- amptonshire, August 9, 1631 ; an illustrious English poet and, writer;, died, May 1, 1700. Quotations: Anger—Art- Author:Buily-Cheating—Come y--Conquest—Consciêſe —Contradiction—Courage—Critic—Criticism—Deism—Dis- ease—Dishonor—Dutifulness — Eccentricity–Enemy—Epi- am—Fallacy—Fame—Farce — Fiction – Forgiveness— Ortitude—Future – Generosity — Good — Good-Nature— Grace-Grammar—Happiness—Head—History—Humility— Imitation—Interest—Invective —Jar—Jealousy–Lampoon —Laughter—Love—Luck—Men—Miser—Morality—Parting —Patience—Pleasure — Poetry — Profuseness—Rashness— Reason-Repartee—Revenge–Reward - Rhyme—Riches— Satire-Sculpture--Secrecy—Sense—Solitude--Spirit-Stage — Sublimity—Theatre —Trust—Truth —Tyrant —Virtue— Wickedness—Wit—Woman—WOOing—Words. DUBAY, SANIAL. —Sincerity. - - DUBOlS, GUILLAUME, born at Brive-la-Gaillarde, in Limousin, France, 1656; a French cardinal and minister of state; died, 1725. Quotation : Duelling. DUBOIS, JEAN BAPTISTE, born in Burgundy, France, 1753; a French author; died, 1808. Quotations: Books—Dress—RiSSes. DU BOSE or DUBOS, CHARLES FRANÇOIS, born, 1661; a French ecclesiastic and writer; died at Luçon, 1724. Quotation : Christ. DUCHE, JACOB, D.D., born in Philadelphia, 1739; an Episcopalian divine and writer: died, 1798. Quotation : Esteem. - DUCHESS, THE ; the pseudonym of an English novelist. Quotations: Burden—Features—Wife. DUCIS, JEAN FRANÇOIS, born at Versailles, Au- gust, 1733; an eminent dramatic poet ; died, 1816. Quota- tion . Providence. DUCLOS, CHARLES PINEAU, born at Dinam, France, 1704; a witty and ingenious writer; died, 1772. Quo- tations : Pride—Reputation—Tact. DUDEVANT, MADAME, (Georges Sand,) AMAN- tine, Lucille Aurore Dupin, born in Paris, July 5, 1804; a celebrated French novelist, and One Of the most remarka- ble women of her time; died, June 8, 1876. Quotations. Knowledge—Love—Pleasure—Poetry. DUDITH, ANDREw, (Bishop of Tina,) born at Buda Hungary, 1533; a Hungarian reformer and writer; died at Breslau, 1589. Quotation : Wrath. DUDLEY, LORD, (JoBN WILLIAM WARD,) born, 1781; an English littérateur; died, 1833. Quotation : Books. DUDLEY, THOMAs, born in Northampton, Eng- land, 1576; emigrated to America in 1630, and was one of the early governors of Massachusetts; died, 1652. Quota- tio?? : Literature. • DUDOYER DE GASTELS, GERARD, born, 1732; a French dramatic author: died, 1798. Quotation : Joy. DUFAILLI, or DU FAIL, NoFL, (siew, de la Pierissaye,) born about 1530; an eminent French jurist and burlesque writer; died about 1587. Quotation : Experience. DUFF, ALEXANDER, D. D., born in Perthshire, Scotland, 1806; a Scotch Presbyterian divine ; died, Feb- ruary 12, 1878.. Quotation : Theatre. DUFFERIN, LORD, (FREDERICK TEMPLE BLACK- wood,) born at Florence, Italy, 1826; a British peer, diplo- matist, scholar, and author. Quotation : Curiosity. DUFFY, MRS. E.B., of Philadelphia ; the author of “What Women Should Know.” Quotations : Love— Mother. - DUFRENOY, ADELAIDE, born in Paris, 1765; an enlinent French poetess and miscellaneous writer ; died, 1825. Quotation : Narrative. DUGANNE, AUGUSTINE JOSEPH HICKEY, born in Boston, 1823; an American poet and writer. Quotation : Pleasure. - DUGDALE, SIR WILLIAM, born at Shustoke, Warwickshire, 1605; an eminent English antiquary ; died, 1686. Quotation : Exactness. DUKE, RICHARD, born in Devonshire, 1655 ; an English divine and poet; died, 1711. Quotation : Curiosity. DUMAS, ALEXANDER, born at Viller-Cotterets, (Aisne,) France, 1803; an eminent French novelist and dramatist ; died, December, 1870. Quotations : Absence— Art—Death—History—Jealousy—Love—Slander—Sleep— Utility—Woman. DUMAS, ALEXANDER, JR., son of the preceding, born in Paris, 1824: a popular French romance writer and comic dramatist. Quotation : Enemy. DUMONT, ANDRE, born in Picardy, France, 1764; a French Jacobin ; died, 1836. Quotation : Expatriation. DUMONT, HENRIETTA ; an American poetess and miscellaneous writer, and authoress of the “Floral Offer- ing,” (Philadelphia, 1853.) Quotations : Absence—Activity —Flowers--Genius—Isolation—MOSS—Oak—Plant—-Punish- ment—Riches—Roses—Submission—Truth. DUMONT, MRs. JULIA, L., born at Waterford, Connecticut, 1794; an American poetess and prose Writer. died, 1857. Quotation : Kindness. - DUNCAN, ADAM, (VISCOUNT OF CAMPERDOwn,) born at Dundee, 1731; an able British admiral; died, 1804. Quotation : Victory. DUNCAN. HENRY, D.D., born near Dumfries, 1774 ; a Scottish divine and author; died, 1846. Quotation : yle. DUNCAN, RobHRT, born in Edinburgh, 1699 ; a Scottish divine and author; died, 1729. Quotation : Ex- patriation. DUNCAN, WILLIAM, born in Aberdeen, 1717; a jº, Greek scholar and author; died, 1760. Quota- tion : Envy. Quotations: Egotism—Love—Miser 70 1 106 J) A Y’.S. C. O Z /. A C O AV. DUNGLISON, ROBLEY, M.D., born at Keswick, England, January 4, 1798; an eminent physician and medi- cal writer; died, April 1, 1869. Quotation : Heat. DUNLAP, WILLIAM, born, 1766 : an American painter and author; died, 1839. Qºtotation : Stage. DUNLOP, DURHAM ; an English writer on hydro- pathics, (London, 1873.) Quotation : Bath. DUNLOP, WILLIAM, born, 1692 : a Scotch divine and author died, 1720. Quotation : Future. DUNRAVEN, EARL OF, born, 1841; an English traveller and author. Quotation : Starvation. DUNS SCOTUS, JOHN, surnamed THE SUBTLE Doctor, born at Dunse, Scotland, 1265; a famous theologian and metaphysician; died at Cologne, 1308. Quotation : Failings. DUNSTAN, SAINT, (Bishop of London,) born at Glastonbury, England, 925; an eminent and ambitious Eng- lish divine and statesman; died, 988. Quotattion : Money. DUNTON, JoHN, born, 1659 : an English printer, bookseller, and polygrapher; died, 1733. Quotation : Jade. DUPANLOUP, FéLIx ANTOINE PHILIBERT, (Bishop of Orleans,) born at Saint-Félix, Savoy, 1802; an eminent divine and author, Quotation : Liberty. DUPARQUET, JACQUES DIEL, born, 1587 ; a Erench officer; died, 1658. Quotation : Imprudence. DUPIN, LOUIs ELLIES, born in Paris, 1657; an eminent French critic and author; died, June, 1719. Qºto- tations : Jesuitisin–Passio, 1. DUPONCEAU, PETER. S., born in the isle of Rhé, on the coast of France, 1760; emigrated to America with Baron Steuben, 1777; an eminent lawyer and Scholar; died in Philadelphia, 1844. Quotation : Enemy. DUPONT DE NEMOURS, PIERRE SAMUEL, born in Paris, 1739; emigrated to America, 1798; a celebrated French writer and economist; died, 1817. Quotation : Ob- Stinacy, DUPONT, LÉONARD, born, 1795 : a French sculp- tor and naturalist ; died, 1828. Quotation : Secrecy. DUPPA, BRIAN, born at Lewisham, Kent, 1588 ; an English divine and author; died, 1662. Quotations : Patience—VOWS. DUPPA, RICHARD, born, 1776 : an English lawyer and writer; died, 1831. Quotation : Quarrels. DUPUIS, CHARLES FRANÇors, born at Trie-le- Château, October 16, 1742; a distinguished French philoso- pher and Savant ; died near Dijon, September 20, 1809. Quotation : Photography. DUPUY, ELIZA ANN, born in Petersburg, Virgi- nia ; an American authoress. Quotation : Spring. DURAND, DAVID, born in Languedoc, France, 1680: a French Protestant divine and author; died in Lon- don, 1763. Quotation : Faith. DURBIN, JOHN PRICE, D.D., born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, 1800; an American methodist preacher; died, October 19, 1876. Quotation : Trifle. DURHAM, EARL of, (John GEORGE LAMBTON,) born at Lambton Castle, 1792 : an able English statesnian ; died, July, 1840. Quotation : Religion. DURIE, JOHN. Quotations: Pilgrim—Work. DURIVAGE, FRANCIS ALEXANDER, born in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, 1814; an American actor and miscella- neous writer; died in New York, February 1, 1881. Quota- tions : Artlessness—Merit. DUTCHER, A. P. Quotation : Physiology. DUTENS, LOUIs, born at Tours, France, 1730; a French Protestant writer ; died in London, 1812. Quota- tion : PoliteneSS. DUTTON, THOMAs, born about 1740; an English writer and translator; died about 1812. Quotation : Eye- Service. DUVAL, VALENTINE JAMERAY, born in Cham- pagne, France, 1695; a French writer on numismatics; died, 1775. Quotation : VisitS. DUWAD, IBIN ABI, born at Basra, 776 : an Ara- bian teacher of the Koran; died at Bagdad, 854. Quota- tions : Deeds—Envy–Friendship—Hate—Murder—Power —Reproach. DUYCKINCK, Eva RT AUGUSTUS, born in the city of New York, November 23, 1816; an American editor and essayist; died, August, 1878. Quotation : Equivocation. DUYCKINCK, GEORGE LONG, brother of the pre- ceding, born in the city of New York, Qctober 17, 1823; an American author; died, March 30, 1863. Quotation : Es- teem. DWIGHT, SERENOEDwARDs, D.D., born at Green- field Hill, Connecticut, May 18, 1786; an American divine and author died, November 30, 1850. Quotation : Enjoy- II]{2I]t. DWIGHT, THEODoRE, born in Northampton, Mas- sachusetts, December 16, 1765: an able journalist and wri- ter; died, July 12, 1846. Quotations : Arithmetic—School. DWIGHT, THEODoRE, son of the preceding, born at Hartford, Connecticut, March 3, 1796; an American his- tºn and Writer; died, October 16, 1866. Quotation : No- Ody DWIGHT, THEODoRE WILLIAM, LL.D., born at Catskill, New York, July 18, 1822; an American jurist, pro- fessor, and editor. Quotation : Panic. DWIGHT, TIMOTHY, D.D., LL.D., born in North- ampton, Massachusetts, May 14, 1752 : an eminent divine and Scholar; died at New Haven, January 11, 1817. Quota- tions: Alien-Ancients—Angels—Bible—Crusades—Debt— Devotion–Dreams – Duelling — Election – Emigration — Emulation—Expatriation — Extenuation—Falsehood—Fop –Government—Grammar – Heaven—Hospitality—Immor- tality-Infidelity-Jews-Judges–Labor—Language—Law- yer-Laziness — Life – Lying— Machinery— Magistrate — Mankind—Millennium–Minister-- Miraclé—Mob-Modera- tion–Money–Moon–Morality – Murder—Navy-Party— Press—Punctuality—Quackery—Quotation — Reading—Re- dress—Riding—Sailor—School—Sermon—Solitude—Song- Soul—Stage—Theatre—Theory—Treason–Trinity—Tyrant —Vagrant—Walking. DWIGHT, WILLIAM THEODORE, D. D., son of President Timothy Dwight, born at Greenfield Hill, Con- necticut June 15, 1795; an American Congregational divine and author: died at Andover, Massachusetts, October 22, 1865. Quotation : Desire. DYCE, ALExANDER, born in Edinburgh, 1798 : a British editor and critic; died, May, 1869. Quotation : Echo. DYCTYS. Quotation : War. DYER, SIR EDWARD, born, 1540; an English poet and writer; died, 1615. Quotation : Murmur. DYER., JOHN, born at Aberglasney, Caermarthen- shire, 1700: an eminent Welch divine, poet, and writer; died, 1758. Quotations : Christ—Cross—Library—Proof. DYER, SAMUEL, born, 1725 : an English scholar and author; died, 1772. Quotation : Depreciation. DYER, SYDNEY, born at White Creek, Washing- ton county, New York, 1814 : an American Baptist minister and author; Quotations. Iniquity—Prayer—Repentance— Sin–Threats—Trial. DYER, WILLIAM, born, 1636 : an English Puritan divine and writer; died, 1659. Quotation: Self-Righteous- 110SS. DYFNWAL; a Welch poet and prose writer. Quotation : Guide. DYKE, DANIEL, born about 1547 : an eminent Puritan divine; died, 1614. Quotation : Watchfulness. DYMOND, JonATHAN, born at Exeter, 1796 : an eminent English moralist and writer; died, 1828. Quota- tion : Advocate. DYSCINETUS, born, 370 B.C.; an Athenian ar- chon ; died about 306 B.C. Quotation : Excess. DZIALYNSKI, TITUS, COUNT OF, born, 1797 : a Polish historian and patriot; died, 1868. Quotation : Con- Sistency. DZOU'L-ROMMET, ABOU'L HARITZ GHEILAN ben Ocha, born, 695; an Arabian poet ; died, 755. Quota- tion . Credit. ACHARD, JoHN, D.D., born in Suffolk, Eng- land, 1637; an English clergyman and writer; died, July 7, 1697. Quotation : Examination—Hell. EADEMUS, born, 250 B.C.; a Platonic philoso- pher: died, 183 B.C. Quotation : Misery. EADFRITH, (Bishop of Lindisfarne,) born, 698; an eminent divine; died, 721. Quotation : fetermination. EADMER, (Abbot of St. Albans,) born about 1060; #. ºlish historian and monk: died, 1124. Quotation : u10gy. EAMES, J. Quotation: Odd-Fellow. EAMES, WILBERFORCE, born in Newark, New jº 1855; an American Ethnologist. Quotation : Le- gends. EARLE, JABEZ, D.D., born, 1676 ; an English dis- senting divine and writer; died, 1768. Quotation : Exag- geration. EARLE, John, (Bishop of Worcester and Salis- bury,) born at York, England, 1601 ; an eminent English divine and author; died, 1665. Quotations : Child—Drunk- enness—Learning—Play–Scholar—Tavern. EASTMAN, MARY HENDERSON, born, 1817; an American authoress. Quotation : Elegance. EATON, DANIEL CADY, born at Fort Gratiot, Michigan, September 12, 1834: an American botanist and writer. Quotations: Sound—Time. EBERWEIN, T. M. Quotation : Gifts. EBERS, GEORG MORITZ, born, 1837; an eminent Orientalist. Quotation : Emigration. EBRARD, JoHANN HEINRICH AUGUST, born at Erlangen, 1818; a prominent German Protestant theolo- gian. Quotation : Christ. A / O G /ø A /? // / C A / / AV /) A X. 1 107 ECCARD, Jofi ANN GEORG, born in Duningen, 1674; a German historian ; died, 1730. Quotation : Moun- tain. ECHARD, LAURENCE, born in Suffolk, England, 1571; an English historian and author; died, 1730. Quotat- tions : Mythology—Profligate. ECKERMANN, JOHANN PETER, born at Winsen, Hanover, 1792; a German littérateur ; died, 1854. Quota- tion : Literature. ECKIUS, Johann, born, 1486 : a German chan- cellor of the University of Ingolstadt, and an opponent of Luther; died, 1543. Quotattion : SaVing. EDEN, SIR FREDERICK MoRTON, born, 1766; an English: Wººl economist and author; died, 1809. Quo- lattiO72. Whiln. EDERSHEIM, DR. Quotation : Type. EDGEWORTH, MARIA, born near Reading, Berk- shire, January 1, 1767; a popular English novelist and mis- gellaneous writer; died at Edgeworthstown, Ireland, May 21, 1849. Quotations: Beauty—Confidence—- Conscience— §ſentment-oblivion- Present—Procrastination— Tilm- idity. EDGEWORTH, RICHARD LOVELL, F.R.S., father of the preceding, born at Bath, England, 1744; an ingenious mechanician, and an elegant writer ; died in Ireland, June 13, 1817. Quotation : Pleasing. EDING, RUTGER, born about 1500 ; a German theological writer; died about 1575. Quotation : IReputa- UiOI]. EDIS, ROBERT W. Quotations: Fitness—Furniture. EDLIN. Quotations : Ink—Reputation. EDMESTON, JAMEs, born, 1791; an English poet and miscellaneous writer; died, 1867. Quotation : Bells. EDMUND, SAINT, (Archbishop of Canterbury,) born at Abingdon, about 1170; an English divine and wri- ter; died, 1:3. Quotation : Duty. EDMWNT, E. A.B.; a Welch poet and prose wri- ter. Qztotation. Lips. - EDWARD I, King of England, born at Westmin- ster, 1239; an able and ambitious prince ; died, 1307. Quo- tations: Popery—Wisdom. EDWARD III, King of England, born at Windsor, 1812; a popular monarch ; died, 1377. Quotation. Evil. EDWARD IV, King of England, born at Rouen, Trance, 1441 ; a brave prince, possessing many anniable qualities; died, 1483. Quotation : Destruction—Words. EDWARD VI, King of England, born at Hampton Court, October 12, 1537; an almiable and humane monarch, and author of several works; died, 1553. Quotations : Pop- ery—Soul. EDWARDES, ANNIE, born in England ; an Eng- lish novelist and miscellaneous writer. Quotations : Mon- ey—Neglect—Reality. EDWARDS, AMELIA BLANDFORD, born, 1831; an English novelist and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Experience. EDWARDS, BELA BATEs, D.D., born in South- ampton, Massachusetts, July 4, 1802; an American theolo- gian ; died, April 20, 1852. Quotation : Knowledge. EDWARDS, JOHN, D.D., born at Hartford, Eng- land, 1637; a learned English Calvinistic divine; died, I716. Q?totation : Experience. EDWARDS, JONATHAN, born at Windsor, Con- necticut, October 5, 1703; an eminent American divine and metaphysician ; died at Princeton, New Jersey, March 22, 1758. Quotations: Controversy-Health—Heaven—Homé —Hope—Hypocrisy—Morality–Position—Profanity— Re- venge—Temperance—Testimony—Truth— Virtue— Will— World—Wrath. El)WARDS, RICHARD, born in Somersetshire, 1523: an English dramatic poet; died, 1566. Quotation, World. EDWARDS, THOMAS, born near London, 1699 ; an eminent English critic; died, 1757. Quotations : Apolo. gy—Littleness—Mind–Nature—Parting–Prayer—Reading —Regret—Religion. EDWIN, King of Northumbria, born about 585; a powerful prince, in whose reign Christianity became the established religion; slain in battle, 633 A.D. Quotations: Gods—Health. EFFENDI, IBRAHíM. See Ibrāhīm Effendi. EFIEC. Quotations: Belly—Cookery–Daintiness–Daugh- ter—Diamond—Equality. EGEDE, PAUL, (Bishop of Greenland,) born, 1708 : an eminent Danish divine and missionary; died, 1789. Quo- tations : Voyage—Weather—World. EGERTON, JOHN, (Bishop of Hereford,) born in London, 1721; an eminent English divine; died, 1787. Quo- tation : Wrangling. EGG, JoHN CASPAR, born at Ellikon, 1738; a Swiss economist; died, 1794. Quotation : Thrift. EGGLESTON, EDwARD, D.D., born in Vevay, Switzerland county, Indiana, 1837; a distinguished Metho- dist divine and author. , Quotations : Agreement—Eye— Failure— Fiction — Gossip — Journalism — Lawyer— Life— Love—Perdition—Heproach— Itevival— Reward—Self-Con- trol—Talking. EGIL, born in the tenth century ; an Icelandic poet and Warrior. Quotation : Sorrow. EGRED, (Bishop of Lindisfarne,) born about 785; an eminent divine and writer; died, 869. Quotation: War. EGWIN, (Bishop of Worcester,) born in the dis- trict of Hwiccas, about 647; an eminent divine, who de- Sgended from one of the Mercian kings; died, December 30, 717. Quotation. Iniquity. EGWULF, (Bishop of London,) born, 701; a pious divine and Writer; died, 773. Quotation : Gifts. EGYPTIAN. Quotations : God—Good–Heart. EICHTHAL, GUSTAVE, D', born at Nancy, France, 1804; an eminent French essayist, journalist, and political economist. Quotation : Essay. EISLER, TOBIAs, born, 1683; a German theolo- gian and writer : died, 1753. Quotation : Essay. ELBEE, GIGOT, born in Dresden, 1752 : a Vendean general ; shot, January, 1794. Quotation : Providence. ELDER, WILLIAM, born, 1809; an American phy- Sician and author. Quotation : Liberty. ELDON, LORD, (John SCOTT,) born at Newcastle, June 4, 1751; an eminent English jurist and lord chancellor of England ; died, January 13, 1838. Quotations : Lawyer —Letter—Oratory. ELEANOR OF ARRAGON, Queen of Portugal, born in Arragon, about 1880; a lady eminent for her vir- tues; died, 1445. Quotation : Marriage. ELEAZER, RABBI, born at Worms, about 1160; a German rabbi, scholar, and author; died, 1238. Quota- tions: Learning— Lending—Modesty— Money–Murmur— Name — Parent-Passion—Peace — Piety – Itecompense— Reproof–Sin—Slander—Strife—Temptation—Wrangling. ELEUCIDARUS. Quotations: Devil—Fiend—Fire. ELEUTHERIUS, (Bishop of Rome,) born in Ni- copolis : an eminent and J. divine ; died, 192. Quota- tions : Pastor—Refusal—Victory. ELIAZAR, RABBI, (SAMUEL HA-LAVI,) born in Mayence, about 1255; a German rabbi, Scholar, and author; died, 1327. Quotations. Nickname—Pity—Question. ELIEZER, RABBI, (ISAAC,) born about 1000; an eminent Jewish rabbi and author; died, 1050. Quotattic?as: Boasting—Modesty—Oath—Visits. ELLIOT, D. G. Quotation: Dying. ELIOT, GEORGE, (the mom de plume of MARIAN C. Evans,) the wife of the distinguished writer, G. H. Lewes, (q.v.) born in the north of England, 1820; one of the most popular of English novelists; died, December 22, 1880. Quotations; Betrayal — Childhood – Confidence—Crime— Cross—Decision—Distinction—Error—Eye—Face—Force— Hobby—Humility—Inspiration—King – Marriage—Maxims —Memory—Mercy—Mountain—Sin—Sympathy—Wrong. ELIOT, JOHN, called the apostle to the Indians, born in England, 1604; emigrated to £30ston, 1631 ; a cele- prated minister, traveller, and writer; died, May 20, 1690. {{{tions: Heaven—Jealousy—Sabbath—Sky—Thanks— "ine. ELIOT, JOHN, D.D., born in Boston, May 31, 1754; an American minister and biographer; died, Febru- ary 14, 1813. Quotation : Sermon. ELIWLOD, ARTHUR, A. C. : a Welch poet and prose writer. Quotation : Gladness. ELIZABETH, PRINCESS PHILIPPINE MARIE Hé- léne, born at Versailles, 1764; a sister of Louis the Six- teenth ; executed, May, 1794. Quotation : Resignation. ELIZABETH, Queen of England, the daughter of Henry the Eighth and Ann Boleyn, born at Greenwich, September 7, 1533; a highly accomplished woman ; died, March 24, 1603. Quotations: Anger—Arrogance—Christ— Cowardice—Face— Fox—Freedom—Guard—Jest— Light- Hºness-power-sea-sentences—time—translation —Truth. ELLENBOROUGH, LoRD, (EDwARD LAw,) born at Great Salkeld, Cumberland. England, 1750; an eminent English lawyer : died, 1818. Quotation : Quotation. ELLERY, WILLIAM, born at Newport, Rhode Island, December 22, 1728; an American patriot; died, February 15, 1820. Quotation : State. ELLET, ELIZABETH FRIES, born at Sodus Point, New York, Qctober, 1818; an American authoress. Quo- tºttion : Landscape. ELLIOTT, CHARLOTTE, sister of EDwARD BISHOP Elliott, an English clergyman ; a celebrated poetess and prose writer. Quotation : Resignation. ELLIOTT, EBENEZER, born at Masborough, near Rotterdam, Yorkshire, March 17, 1781; an English poet and prose writer; died, 1849. Quotation : Death. 1 108 JD A Y '.S. C. O J. Z. A C O AV. ELLIOTT, STEPHEN, LL.D., born at Beaufort, South Carolina, November 11, 1771 : an American naturalist and author; died, March 28, 1830. Quotation : Space. ELLIS, DANIEL, born, 1775; an English writer on natural philosophy; died, 1849. Quotation : Exercise. ELLIS, GEORGE, F.R.S., born, 1745 ; an accom- plished English writer; died, 1815. Quotation : Etiquette. ELLIS, GEORGE JAMES WELBORE AGAR, (LORD Dover, ) born, 1797 : an English author; died, 1833. Quota- tion : GOvernment. ELLIS, SIR HENRY, born in London, 1777; an *Hºry: died, January, 1869. Quotation : Self-Condem- Ilātl OI!. ELLIS, JAMEs, (Sww.m. Cwigwe,) born in Liver- pool, April 22, 1832; an English journalist, poet, and littéra- teur. Quotations : Address–Advertisement—Affection— Affliction—Anarchy–Angels—Approbation—Arbitration— Artifice—Attachment —Attempt –Audacity –Authority— Birth—Bluntness—Blustering – Baldness — Bondage—BOr- rowing—Brute—Clock—Cloud—Consequence—Consolation —Constitution—Contemplation—Contumely—-Con Venience nºr owardice—Critic—Curse—Dainti- ness—Deafness—Declaration—Defeat-–Degeneration—De- lay–Delicacy—Delusion—Demagogue — Derision-Deser- tion – Desperation — Despising—I)espondency – Develop- ment—Diffidence—Diplomacy — Discernment — Disgord- Disdain—Disguise—Dishonesty—I)islike—Disorder-Docil- ity—Doubt–Dress - Drunkenness-Dupes—Duplicity– Dwarf–Eagerness—Early-Rising—Earnestness—Ecstasy– Editor — Effort— Ennui – Enthusiasm — Estrangement— Ethics—Evening—Exile– Extortion — Extremes—Fables— Facetiousness—Fact—Failure—Faithlessness—Fal'ewell— Fascination —Fickleness — Fiction — Fireside — FOp—FOT- bearance—Forethought — Forgetfulness —Fortitude—Fra- termity—Freedom—Friendship — Gain—Garden—Gayety— Generosity — Gentility — Good — Good-Humor— Gossip — Grandeur-Greeting — Gunpowder — Hardship — Hearth— Heedlessness—Help-Heraldry—Hero —Hobby—Homage— Home—HOneSt. º-ºº: ospitality—Hour —Humanity – Humility—Hymn—Ideality – Identity—Ill- Humor—Ill-Will — Illusion — Imbecility — Innpotence—Im- provement—Impropriety—Impulse—Index–Indiscrimina- tion —Inducement—Inequality—Infamy—Infancy—Infirm- ity — Inflexibility — Influence — Ingenuity — Inheritance— Inhumanity—Insincerity—Insolvency--Institution--Intern- perance—Intention—Irony— Irresolution —Jury—Justness –Keepsake — Kindness—IXnowledge—Laconics-Lady– Lamentation—Lampoon—Landscape –Laziness—Leaves— Lecture—Legacy—Legislature—Leisure—Lending—Lesson —Lewdness—License—Life —Literature—Littleness—Love —Lowliness—Loyalty—Luck—Lust—Machinery–Madness —Magic— Magistrate — Magnanimity — Maiden—Malice— Man-Mankind–Massacre-Maxims–Mechanics--Melan- choly—Memory — Merchant — Metals—Midnight-Might— Mind–Misanthropy—Mischief—Misery—Mistake—Moham- medanism—Moment —Monopoly—Monster–Monuments— Moroseness—Moss–Mother – Munificence—Native-Land— Neutrality-Newspaper—Nobody–Notoriety–Nuisance— Nuptials—Oak—Object—Obligation — Oblivion—Obscurity —Observation —Obstacle — Office — Oligarchy—Omission— Omniscience—Opposition—Ostracism—Painting—Panic– Paradise—Paradox—Partiality—Past--Pastime—Pathos— Patriotism—Patronage—Pedantry – Penalty – Penance— jºuaiſºnº. £ºn hysiology—Piano—Pilot — Plagiarism — Pledge– liancy—positiveness—Position — Possibilities—-Posterity —Post Office—Poverty—Precision — Presence—Press—Pre- vention—Principle—Prodigality—Production—Projector’— Promptness—Prophet—Prosecution—Proselyte—Quality— Qualification-Queen—Quill — Quotation—Railroad-Rain- bow—Rank—Itascality—Reception — Recompense—Refine- ment—Refusal—Reputation — Regret — Remorse – Report —Reporter — Republicanism — Reputation – Reserve–Re- spectability—Restlessness—Retribution—Reverie–Riddles —Risks—Rogue—Sagacity—Scars —Scheming—Seclusion- Self-Accusation—Self-Condemnation — Self-Control—Self- §.sgºgº.º.º.º. --Self- Heliance—Self-Reproach—Self-Sufficiency—Severity—SO- giability—Solitudé–Stature—Stratagem–Stubbornness— Subordination—Summer—Sumptuousness—Sunrise—Sun- shine—Superfluity—Supper–System --Tact—Tardiness— Tariff—Task-Tattling–Thought – Torment-Traitor – Tribulation—Truism—Twilight—Ubiquity—Ugliness—Un- faithfulness—Uniformity-Universe - Uše—Usurpation— Value —Vengeance —Versification —Vicissitude —Vision— Vote — Wanderer — Wastefulness — Weariness —Weeds — Well-Doing —Whim —Winter—Woe — Woman —Woods — Worldliness—Worth—Wrong—Yearning—Yesterday. ELLIS, John, born in London, 1698; a literary scriverier and wit; died, 1791. Quotation : Expectation. ELLIS, SARAH STICKNEY, born, 1812; a popular English authoress. Quotations: Charity—Household— Housewife—Sister. ELLIS, WILLIAM, husband of the preceding, born, 1800; an English divine, missionary, and author; died, June 9, 1872. Quotation : Ignorance. ELLWOOD, THOMAS, born at Crowell, in Oxford- shire, 1639; an English Quaker minister and author; died, 1713. Quotation: Famine. ELLYS, ANTHONY, (Bishop of Saint Davids', ) born, 1693; an English divine and Writer; died, 1761. Quo- tatio? : Wrong. - Q ELMES, JAMES, born in London, 1782; an emi- ment architect; died, 1862. Quotations: Bravery—Courage. ELMHAM, THOMAS, D', born about 1385 ; an Eng- lish historian ; died about 1457. Quotation : World. ELPHINSTON, JAMEs, born in Edinburgh, 1721; anºtric grammarian ; died, 1809. Quotations: Truth — VII’t Ule. ELSTOB, WILLIAM, born at Newcastle, 1673; an English antiquary; died, 1714. Quotation: Thing. ELTON, SIR ARTHUR HALLAM, born, 1818; an English writer. Quotations: Dinner–Emotion. ELWES, JOHN MEGGOT, M.P., born in London, 1714; an English miser; died, November 26, 1789. Quota- tions : Affluence—Thrift. ELXAUS, the founder of a sect among the Jews, in the Second century; he taught his followers to pray to- Ward Jerusalem. Quotation : "Worship. ELYOT, SIR THOMAs, born, 1495; an English diplomatist and lexigographer; died, 1546, Quotations : Dancing—Humility--Ingratitude—Obstimacy--Unkindness. ELZEVIR, LODEwijk, born, 1540 ; a celebrated publisher, and the first member of this eminent family; died, 1617. Quotations: Schism—Union. EMBURY, EMMA CATHERINE, born in the city of New York, 1806; an American authoress; died, February 10, 1863. Quotations: Household — Multitude — Sickness— Warrior—Will. EMERSON, GEORGE BARRELL, LL.D., born in Kennebunk, York county, Maine, September 12, 1797; an American teacher and writer. Quotations: Arithmetic — ºrammar — Handwriting — Partiality — Physiology—Sun- Słll Iſle. EMERSON, RALPH WALDO, LL.D., born in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, May 25, 1803; an American Unitarian divine, poet, and essayist; died, April 27, 1882. Quotations: Action—Adaptation—Agreeableness—Allegory—Apology -Architecture—Art—Aspiration — Beauty – Biography— Borrowing—Character—City–Common-Sense—Conserva- tism--Consistency--Conyersation-Courtesy—Crime--Cyni- cism—Debt—Degeneration —Diffidence—Divinity—Domes: ticity-Dreams—Education — Egotism—Eloquence—Ennui —Enthusiasm—Envy-Eternity—Evil—Excess—Eye-Face – Fashion — Fate — Fear—Features — Flowers — Form — Friendship—Genius—Gentleman—Gods— Good—Goodness —Greatness—Grief—Health—Heart – Hermit-Heroism— History—Hope—Hour—Housekeeping—Humility—Imagi- nation—Imitation—Immortality—Individuality—Infinity— Insolvency--Intellect–ſnyention—Knowledge--Landscape -Language—Library—Life – Light–Love—Lover—Luck— Man—Mankind–Manners—Marriage-Martyr-Master— Meanness—Minister—Mob— Money–Morality—Morning— Mother—Music—Necessity — Object—Opinion—Painting— Parting-Poverty—Prayer-Preaching–Proverbs—Proyi- dence—Quotation—Race —ſtepose—Riches—Rogue—Rude- ness- Science.—Sculpture—Self-Help — Self-Love — Self- Opinion—Sentiment—Silence—Simplicity—Sky—Society— Solitude—Soul —Star—Talent —Taste —Thought—Unity— Vegetation—Wealth—Weeds—Wisdom—Woods—World— Writing. EMLYN, THOMAs, born at Stamford, England, ſº an English Unitarian minister; died, 1743. Quotation : ye. EMMANUEL, King of Portugal, born at Alcon. cheta, 1469; during his reign the glory and power of Por- #. attained their greatest height ; died, 1521. Quotation : I”3, Wel. EMMANUEL, VICTOR II. See VICTOR-IMMANUEL. EMMETT, ROBERT, born in Cork, Ireland, 1780 : an Irish enthusiast and orator ; executed for treason, Sep- tember 20, 1803. Quotations: Epitaph—Freedom—Inscrip- Il. EMMETT, THOMAS ADDIS, LL.D., brother of the preceding, born at Cork, 1764; an Irish lawyer; died, 1827. Quotation: Friendship. EMMONS, EBENEZER, M.D., born in Middlefield, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, May 16, 1799; an Ameri- can geologist and author; died, Qctober 1, 1863. Quota- tions : Agriculture—Rhetoric—Self. EMMONS, NATHANIEL, D.D.: born in East Had- dam, Connecticut, April 20, 1745; an American theologian and writer; died, September 23, 1840. Quotations: Punc- tuality—Style, EMPEDOCLES, born at Agrigentum, Sicily, flourished about 450 B.C.: a celebrated Greek philosopher. Quotations : Eating—Feasting—Love. EMPSON, WILLIAM, born, 1790 : an English jour- nalist; died, 1852. Quotations: Temper—Trifle.' ENCLOS, NINON DE L', born in Paris, 1616; a French courtesan, distinguished for her fine understand- ing: died, 1706. Quotations : #:-º"Rio. Equality—Hate—Indiscretion—Kisses—Love—Moonlight— Oath—Scars—Sentiment. ENFIELD, WILLIAM, LL.D., born at Sudbury, 1741; an English dissenter and writer; died, November 3, 1797. Quotations: “Gesture—Writing. A / O Gº A' A' A' AH / C A / / /V /O AE X. 1109 ENGEL., JOHAN JAKOB, born, 1741; a German hilosopher and author; died, 1802. Quotations: Heresy– istening—Poverty—Promise—Soul. ENGEL, KARL CHRISTIAN, born, 1752 : a German dramatist and author; died, 1801. Quotation : Disdain. ENGEL, M. E., born at Plannen, 1767; a German author. Quotations: Calamity—Equanimity. ENGLISH, GEORGE BETHUNE, born, 1787; an American adventurer, theologian, and linguist; died, 1828. Quotation : Examination. ENGLISH, THOMAS DUNN, M.D., born in Phila- delphia, June 29, 1819; an American lawyer, doctor, poet, and novelist ; died, 1878. Quotation : Ambition. ENNIUS, QUINTUs, born at Calabria, 239 B.C.; an eminent Latin poet ; died, 169 B.C. Quotations: Delay —Friendship—ICindness—Uniformity. ENOS, JAMES LYSANDER, born in the state of New York, 1825; an American writer on education. Quotations: Odd-Fellow—Prairie—Progress. ENSE, VARNHAGEN, VON. See VARNHAGEN voN Ense. ENSOR, GEORGE, born in Dublin, 1769; an Irish writer; died, 1843. Quotations: Ugliness—Vote. EPAMINONDAS, born, 411 B.C.: an illustrious Tººn statesman and warrior; died, 362 B.C. Quotation : €all). EPAPHRODITUS ; one of the primitive Chris- tians, Who Was a companion and “fellow soldier " of the Apostle Paul. Quotation : Zeal. EPEE, CHARLEs MICHEL, ABBAE DE L', born at Versailles, 1712; a French abbot and philanthropist ; died, 1789. Quotation : Zeal. EPHORUS, born, 380 B.C.; a Greek historian and orator; died, 330 B.C. Quotation : Ostracism. EPHRAIM, or EPHREM, SAINT, THE SYRIAN, born at Nisibis, in the fourth century; an eminent ecclesi- astic ; died, 378. , Quotations : Death–Debility—Heresy— Lust—Morality—Surfeit—Virtue—Woman. EPICHARMUS, born in the island of Cos, 490 B.C.; an eminent philosopher and poet, and a pupil of Py- thagoras; died, 372 B.C. Quotation. Truth. EPICTETUS, born at Hieropolis, in Phrygia, 60 A.D.: a celebrated Stoic philosopher; died, 120 A.D. Quo- tations: Abuse—Apology—Children—Contradiction—Con- Versation—Courage—Difficulty— Duty— Excellence — Fear — Freedom—Hymn—Industry—Judgment—Liar—Manners Fººtººººººº...ºgºsº Pleasure—Progress—Religion—Reproach—Sin—Soul—Suf- fering--Temperance—Tranquility-–Unhappiness—-Universe —Vice—Wrong. EPICURUS, born in the island of Samos, 340 B.C.; an eminent Greek philosopher; died, 270 B.C., Quotations: Abstinence—Beneficence—Fate — Fiction—Genius—Grati- tude--Ingratitude—Intemperance—Life—Nothing--Opinion —Piety—Pleasure—Poverty—Prosperity—Simplicity—Wir- tue—Wealth—Wisdom. EPIMENIDES, born at Grossus, in Crete, 598 B.C.; a Greek philosopher and poet ; died about 530 B.C. Quo. , tations: Artist—Futurity—Prophecy—Retirement. EPINAY, LOUISE FLORENCE PáTRONILLE DE LA Live d', born, 1725; a celebrated French authoress; died, 1783. Quotation : Friendship. EPIPHANIUS, SAINT, (Bishop of Constantia,) born near Eleutheropolis, in Palestine, 310 A.D.; a dogma- tical bishop ; died, 402. Quotations : Wills—Worship. EPISCOPIUS, SIMON, born in Amsterdam, 1583; a Dutch divine; died, 1643. Quotation : IRiches. . EPONINA, the wife of Julius Sabrinus, a chief of Lingones, yhQ reyolted against Vespasian ; she was put to death. With her husband, 78 A.D. Quotation. Wedlock. ERASISTRATUS, the grandson of Aristotle, born at Iulis, in the island of Ceos, 310 B.C.; a celebrated Greek physician and anatomist ; died, 257 B.C. Quotations: Love —Voluptuousness. ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS, born at Rotterdam, Oc- tober 25, 1467 ; a German littérateur, philologist, poet, and critic; died, July 12, 1536. §§ : Abundance—Adorn- Iment – Contemplation — Desperation — Eagerness — Emi- nence—ExceSS—Experience— Humility–Labor—Laughter —Learning–Loye—Misery - Money-Proverbs—Punish- Wººlches–Rumor-study—sumptuousness–Tongue- Wrath. ERATOSTHENES, born at Cyrene, 276 B.C.; a Greek astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, historian. and poet; died, 196 B.C. Quotation. Politéness. ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN, the compound name of two French novelists, who have always written in col- laboration. With each other; they were born respectively, May 20, 1822, and December 18, 1826. Quotation : Fatigue. ERDAVIRAPH. Quotation: Wine. EREMITA, DANIEL, born at Antwerp, 1584: a Flemish writer; died at Leghorn, 1613. Quotation : In- dulgence. - ERICHSEN, JoHN ERIC, F.R.S., born, 1818; a Celebrated English writer and essayist on medical science. Quotation : Essay. . ERIGENA, JOANNES SCOTUS, born in Ireland, about 800 A.D.; an Irish philosopher and scholastic theolo- gian ; died, 875. Quotations : Banishment—Vice. ERIZZO, SEBASTIAN, born, 1525; an Italian anti- quary and littérateur; died, 1585. Quotation : Craft. ERNESTI, JOHANN AUGUST, born at Tennstedt, in Thuringia, August, 1707; an eminent German critic and author; died, 1781. Quotation : Favor. ERPENIUS, or ERPE, THOMAs, van, born, 1584; a Dutch Orientalist ; died, 1624. Quotation : Opportunity. ERSCH, JOHANN SAMUEL, born at Gross Glogan, in Silesia, 1766; a German bibliographer and journalist; died, 1828. Quotation : Misery. ERSKINE, RALPH, born at Monilaws, Scotland, 1685; an eminent divine; died, 1752. Quotation : Music. ERSKINE, THOMAs, LORD, born in Edinburgh, January, 1750; an eminent English jurist, and the most celebrated of modern forensic orators and legal advocates; died, November, 1823. Quotations. Alone—Animals—Elo- Quence—Gentleness – Humanity — Jews — Justice—Law— Oratory—Prejudice—Providence—Reason—Sovereign. ESLING, CATHERINE H. WATERMAN, born in Philadelphia, 1812; an American poetess and miscellaneous writer. Quotations : Affection—Melancholy. ESPINASSE, CLAIRE FRANÇors JEANNE ÉLÉo- nore, de l’. See Alembert, Madame, d”. ESPINOY, PHILIPPE DE L', SEIGNEUR DE LA CHA- #. (Viscount de Therouanne,) born, 1552; a Flemish istorian ; died, 1633. Quotation : Eye-Service. ESQUIROS, HENRI ALPHONSE, born in Paris, 1814; a French socialist, poet, and novelist; died, May 12, 1876. Q7zotation. Enigma. ESSEX, EARL OF, (ROBERT DEVEREAUx,) born at Netherwood, 1567; the special favorite of Queen Elizabeth, and a man of many noble qualities; executed, 1601. Quo. tation : Genius. ESTRANGE, SIR RogFR L', born in Norfolk, England, 1616; an English political writer; died, 1704. Q?totattions. Accident—Affliction—Ambition—Appétite— Applause–Audience—Avarice—Blessing—Blunder—Blus- tering—Bravery — Hºey — Brute — Busybody— Choice— CQntempt—Conversion –Custom – Delay–Despondency— Diligence — Discontent — Dislike — Ease–Enemy—Envy— Events—Evil—Expostulation ºº:: ties—Fancy —Flattery—Formality — Frankness — Fraternity—Friend- ship—Gratitude—Greatness—FIope—Industry—Ingratitude -Injustice—Instability—Judgment —King—Labor—Law— Libel-Life-Love—Männers—Masquerade—Mind—Money Morality — Mortification — Nature — Necessity—Opinion— Partiality—Passion—Peeyishness — Philosophy—Prayer— Prison—Providence—Quality—Quarrels—Raillery—Rascal- ity—Reading—Reason–Reciprocity— Reputation—Resolu- tion — Satisfaction — Sensuality–Silliness—Sloth—Stead- fastness — Superfluity — Swearing–Table —Title—Truth— Tuition—Tyrant—Urbanity—Vanity—Wickedness —World —Youth. ETHEREGE, SIR GEORGE, born, 1636; an Eng- lish wit and dramatic author; died, 1690. Quotation: Wit. ETHERIDGE, EMERSON, born in Nashville, Ten- nessee, 1807; , an American statesman; died, 1872. Quota- tion : Secession. ETOVOS, JozRF, BARON, born, 1813; a Hungarian statesman and author. Quotation: Communism. EUBULIDES, born at Miletus, 380 B.C.: a cele- brated Greek philosopher; died, 320 B.C. Quotations: De- ceit—Liar. EUCLID, (of Alexandria,) born, 323 B.C.; an emi- nent Greek geometrician and mathematician; died, 283 B.C. Quotations: Forbearance—Resentment. EUDOCIA, ATHENIAS, wife of Theodosius the Se- Cond, born at Athens, 394 A.D.; a Roman princess, distin- guished for her beauty and talents; died, 460. Quotation : Wealth. EUDOXIUS, (Bishop of Antioch,) born in Arme- nia, about 390 B.C.; a patriarch of Constantinople ; died, 370. Quotation : Innocence. EUDOXUS, born, 366 B.C.; a Greek philosopher and astronomer; died about 302 B.C. Quotaſſions: Ability —Animals. EUGENE, FRANÇors, Prince of Savoy, born in Paris, 1663; a celebrated commander in the Austrian army; died, 1736. Quotations. Temperance —Time —Vigilance— World. EUGENIE, MARIE, DE MONTIJo, Empress of France, wife of Napoleon III, born at Granada, Spain, May 5, 1826; a lady richly endowed with many virtues. Quotation : Intention. EULALIUS, (Bishop of Antioch,) lived about 329 A.D.; an eminent divine and theologian. Quotation : Love. EULER, LEONARD, born at Bâle, April 15, 1707; a Swiss mathematician and author; died, 1783. Quotation: Self-Preservation. 1110 AD A Y',S C O /, / A C O AV. EULOGIUS, (ARCHBISHOP OF ToI.EDO, ) born about 789; a Christain martyr; died, 859. Quotation : Firmness. EUNAPIUS, born, 347 : a Greek Sophist ; died about 409. Quotation : Future. EUNOMIUS, born at Dacora, in Cappadocia : an eminent bishop and heresiarch; died, 394. Quotation : Sa- WIOI’. EUPHRON, flourished about 300 B.C.; an Athe- nian comic poet of the middle comedy. Quotations : Man- . agement—Sorrow. EUPOLIS, born, 446 B.C.; an Athenian poet of tº: old comedy ; died, 411 B.C. Quotations: Adventure — IC:{2. EURIPIDES, born at Salamis, 480 B.C.; an emi- ment Greek tragic poet; died, 406 B.C., Quotations: Actor —Affliction—Ambition—Assistance—Baseness—Beginning —Bride—Calamity— Candidate — Colmhlendation—Country —Courage—Craft — Daughter — Deeds – Demagogue—De- mocracy—Discretion — Distress — Divorce—Envy-Exile— Fate–Fidelity—Fool — Friendship – Glory—Gods—Gold— Good–-Greatness—Hand—Happiness—HaSte—Hope—Hope- lessness—Husband—Ignorance—Impudence-Inclination— Jealousy–Labor—Licentiousness — Light-Moderation— Music—Name—Necessity—Neighbor–Nobility—Nuptials— Old Age–Opinion—Ornament – Patience—Populace—Pos- terity-Poverty—Prophet—Prosperity—Prudence—Punish- ment—Rabble-Rank—Reason –Reconciliation—Relations —Revenge–Rhetoric — Riches — Itivalry–Sea—Sedition— Silence—Slavery-Sociability—Soldier—Song—Speaking— State—Success—Sympathy —Temperance Theatre ºf ine —To-Morrow—Tongue—Truth—-Tumult—-Tyrant—Unright- eousness—Valor—Vengeance—Viciousness—Virtue—Wan- derer—Wedlock—Wife—Wine—Wisdom—YOuth. EUSDEN, LAwrBNCE, born in Spotsworth, York- shire, about 1665; an English poet and clergyman; died, 1730. Quotation : Acquaintance. EUSEBIUS, PAMPHILUs, (Bishop of Caeserea,) born, 270 A.D.; an eminent theologian and historian ; died, 338. Quotations: Idea—Trouble—Worship. EUSTACE, JOHN CHETwop E, born, 1765: an Eng- lish writer and Roman Catholic priest ; died at Naples, 1815. Quotation : Pardon. EUSTATHIUS, (Archbishop of Thessalonica, ) born at Constantinople ; an eminent Christian commenta- ror, and one of the most learned men of his time; died, 1198. Quotations: Drama—Virtue. EUTROPIUS, FLAVIUs, flourished in the fourth century; a Roman historian. Quotations: Banishment— Recompense—Self-Murder—Victim. EUTY CHIANUS, (Bishop of Rome,) born about 210; an eminent divine; died, 283. Quotation: Martyr. EUTY CHIUS, born at Alexandria, 876 ; an Ara- bian historian and patriarch ; died, 940. Quotation. Christ. EVAGORAS, lived about 50 B.C.; a Greek writer and historian. Quotations: Oath—Threats. EVANS, CALEB, born at Bristol, 1737: an Eng- lish Baptist minister; died, 1791. Quotations: Prayer— Solitude. EVANS, CHRISTMAs, born in Philadelphia, about 1805; an American divine and author, (Philadelphia, 1854.) Quotation : Death. EVANS, GEORGE HENRY, born in Bromyard, Herefordshire, England, March 25, 1805; a religious sceptic, also editor of “Young America,’ a land reform journal of New York; died in Granville, New Jersey, February 2, 1855. Quotations : Infidelity—Land. EVANS, JAMES HARRINGTON, born at Salisbury, England, 1785; an English Baptist minister; died, 1849. $º:ons: Conversation — Ease — Humility—Idolatry— Oy—Love— Mercy—Minister— Obedience—Satan—Savior —Universe. EVANS, JoHN, D.D., born at Wrexham, 1680; an English dissenting divine ; died, 1730. Quotations : Christianity—Effect—Kneeling. EVANS, MARIAN C. See ELIOT, GEORGE. EVANS, ROBERT WILSON, born at Shrewsbury, 1790; an English divine and author. Quotation : Pardon. EVARTS, JEREMIAH, born in Sunderland, Ver- mont, 1781; an American editor; died, 1831. Quotation : Subordination. EVARTS, DR. ORPHEUS ; superintendent of Sa- nitarium Hospital for the Insane, College Hill, Ohio. Quo- tation : Insanity. EVELYN, JOHN, born at Wottom, Surrey, Octo- ber 31, 1620; an eminent English natural philosopher; died, February, 1706. Quotations: Garden—Grave—Politeness —Trees—Wisdom. EVERARD, EDwARD, D.D., born in England ; an English writer and author of a Latin grammar, (LOn- don, 1843.) Quotation : Grammar. w EVERETT, ALExANDER HILL, LL.D., born in Boston, March 19, 1792; an American scholar and diploma- tist ; died at Canton, China, June 29, 1847. Quotations.' History—Occupation. EVERETT, EDwARD, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L., born in Dorchester, Norfolk county, Massachusetts, April 11, 1794; a distinguished American scholar, orator, and states- iman; died, January 15, 1865. Quotations: Agriculture — Aristocracy—Bible—Education – Farmer—Husbandman— Labor-Liberty – Literature — Night — Patriotism —Rural Life—Secession—Success—Yeoman. EVERETT, JOHN; a famous highwayman, who was executed at Tyburn, February 20, 1729. Quotation : Sympathy. EVREMOND, SAINT, CHARLEs MARQUETEL DE Saint Denis, Seigneur de, born at Saint Denys-le-Guast, near Coutances, France, 1613; a French courtier, wit, and littér- ateur; died in London, 1703. Quotations: Adaptation — Affectation—Censure —Enjoyment — Excess—Hunger—In- nocence- Judgment — Liberality—Miser—Pastime—Pleas- ure-Politeness—Poverty — Reputation—Study—Success— Truth—War. EWALD, FRIEDRICH, born, 1730; a German poet and littérateur; died about 1800. Quotations: Learning — Plow—Shame—Slander—Sword. EWALD, GEORG HEINRICH AUGUST, born at Göt- tinger, November 16, 1803; an eminent German Orientalist and biblical critic ; died, May 4, 1875. Quotation : Useful- IlêSS. • EWALD., JOHANN LUDwig, born in Hesse-Darm- Stadt, 1748; a German Protestant theologian and writer; died, 1822. Quotation : Ear. EWALD, JoHN, born at Cassel, 1744;...a Danish general ; died, 1813. Quotation : Help. §f E.W.BANK, THOMAs, born in the county of Dur- ham, England, March 11, 1792; emigrated to the United States, 1820; an American writer and commissioner of pa- tents: died, September 16, 1870. Quotations : Employment —Slavery. EWING, JoHN, D.D., born in Nottingham, Mary- land, June 22, 1732; an American Presbyterian divine : died, September, 1802. Quotation : Romance. EWING, THOMAS, LL.D., born in Ohio county, Virginia, December 28, 1789; an American statesman ; died, October 26, 1871. Q?totations : Anticipation—Omen. EXMOUTH, VISCOUNT, (EDwARD PELLEw,) born at IDover, 1757: an eminent English admiral ; died, 1833. Quotation. Desertion. EYRE, CHARLEs, born, 1784; an English poet, journalist, and biblical scholar; died, 1864. Quotation : Sinner. EYNARD, J. G., born in Lyons, France, 1775; a merchant who devoted himself to the cause of Greek na- tionality. Quotation. : Desertion. EYRING, ELIE MARTIN, born, 1673 : a German theologian and Writer; died, 1789. Quotation : Derision. EZENGANSTI, GEORGE, born, 1338 : an Ameri- can theologian ; died, 1400. Quotation. : Tribulation. EZGUERRA, ALFONso, born, 1568 ; a Spanish poet and writer; died, 1641. Quotation : Tumult. EZRA-ABEN. See ABEN-EZR.A. ABARIA, CoNRAD DE, born about 1407; a Swiss monk and writer; died about 1463. Quotation : Custom. FABAS, JEAN DE, (VISCOUNTE DE CASTETS :) a French Protestant chief; died, 1654. Quotation : Eye. FABBRA, LUIG A DELLA, born, 1655; an Italian physician ; died, 1723. Quotation : Disease. FABBRIZI, LUIGI CINZIo DE, born, 1450; an Ita- lian littérateur; died, 1526. Quotation: Honor. FABER, FREDERICK WILLIAM, D. D., born in England, 1815; a Roman Catholic priest and writer; died, September 26, 1863. Quotations: Faith—Salvation—Self- Examination. FABER, GEORGE STANLEY, born near Bradford, Yorkshire, 1773; an eminent English theologian and au- thor; died, 1854. Quotation : Christian. FABERT, ABRAHAM, born at Metz, 1599: a fa- mous French general ; died, 1662. Quotations : Name— Reputation. RABIUS, MAxtMUs VERRUCOSUS QUINTUs: one of the greatest of the Fabian line, was consul for the first time in 233 B.C.; died, 203 B.C. Quotation : Weakness. FABRICIUS, JOHANN CHRISTIAN, born at Ton- dern, in the duchy of Sleswick, January, 1743; an eminent German entomologist; died at Kiel, 1807. Quotation : Snare. FABRIZIO, GERONIMO, born at Acquapendente, near Orvieto, 1537; an Italian anatomist and surgeon ; died, 1619. Quotation : Remedy. FAGIUOLI, GIAMBATTISTA, born at Florence, 1660; a celebrated comic and burlesque poet; died, 1742. Quo- tration : Patronage. - FAGIU.S. PAUL, (Batcheim,) born in the Palatinate, 1504: a learned Protestant theologian and Hebraist; died, November, 1550. Quotation : Pleasure. A / O G A 4 A 2 // A C A /. A V /O A. Y. 111 || FAHRENHEIT, GABRIEL DANIEL, born at Dant- zic, 1390; an eminent German natural philosopher, and maker of philosophical instruments; died, 1740. Quotat- tion. Nature. FAIRFAX, EDwARD, born at Denton, Yorkshire, in the latter part of the sixteenth century: a celebrated English poet ; died, 1632. Quotation : Versification. FAIRFIELD, F. G.; an American miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Civilization. FAIRHOLT, FREDERICK WILLIAM, born, 1814; an English miscellaneous writer ; died, April 3, 1866. Quo- tations: Painting—Vacation. FAIYAD, ABù MUHAMMAD ABD ALLAH IBN MU- hammad A1, born about 957 : an Arabian8% and private secretary to Saif Ad-Dawlat ; died, 1023. Quotations: Lev- ity—Merit—Ornament—Virgin—Wish. FALCONER, COLIN, (Bishop of Argyle and Mor- ay,) born, 1623; an eminent 'divine and writer; died, 1686. Quotation : Property. FALCONER, WILLIAM, born at Chester, 1743; an eminent English physician and author; died, 1839. Qºto- tations : Eating—Profession. FALCONER, WILLIAM, born in Edinburgh, 1735; a Scottish poet and writer; died, 1769. Quotations : Fact. FALLOUX, FREDERIC ALFRED PIERRE, VICOMTE de, born at Angers, France, May 7, 1811; an eminent French statesman and miscellaneous writer. Quotations : Joy — Resignation. FALLOWS, S.; an American writer on Freema- sonry. Qºtotation : Freemasonry. FANDER., JOHN ; a German writer, and author of a “History of Religion,” Quotattion : Sunday. FANE, SIR FRANCIS, born, 1650; an English au- thor and statesman; died about 1718. Quotation: Law. FANU, LE ; a French novelist and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Nonsense. FARABI, ABù NASR AL, born at Fărăb, 865 : a celebrated Arabian philosopher and linguist ; he was mur- dered in Syria, 954. Quotations : Innocence—Patience— Retirement. FARADAY, MICHAEL, F.R.S., born at Newing- ton, Surrey, 1791 ; an English chemist and natural philoso- pher of great eminence; died, 1867. Quotation : Man. FARAGUT, DAVID GLASCOE, born near Knox- ville, Tennessee, July 5, 1801; a celebrated American admi- ral ; died at Portland, Maine, August, 1870. Quotations: Preparation—Prevention—Risks—Sailor—Victory. FAREL, or FARELLUS, GUILLAUME, born near Gap, France, 1489; a distinguished, French. Protestant re- former ; died, 1565. Qazotations : Christ—Ridicule—Suffer- ing—Truth. FARINDON, ANTHONY, born, 1596; an English minister and author; died, 1658. Quotations : Opinion— Religion—Sin. FARIS, IBN, AR-RAGI, born, 930 ; an Arabian philologer; died, 1000. Quotation : Money. FARJEON, B. L., born in England, about 1820 ; an English novelist. Quotation : Miser. IFARLEY, HARRIET, born at Claremont, New Hampshire: a literary, factory girl of Lowell, Massachu- setts. Quotation : Sin. FARMER, HUGH, born near Shrewsbury, 1714 : an eminent English dissenting minister; died, 1787. Quo- tation : Satan. FARMER, RICHARD, born at Leicester, 1735; an English author; died, 1797. Quotation: Opportunity. FARO, SAINT (Bishop of Meaux,) born, 592 : an eminent French divine; died, October 28, 6.2. Quotation : Insolence. FARQUHAR, GEORGE, born at Londonderry, Ireland, 1678; a distinguished dramatic writer; died in Lon. don, 1707. Quotattions: Husband — Invention — Love—Ma- lice—Woman—Zeal. FARQUHARSON, born about 1660; an English author; died, 1739. Quotation : Christmas. FARRA, AL, BAGHAWI, AL, born about 1045 : an Arabian traditionist and commentator on the Koran ; died, February, 1117. Quotation : House—Science. FARRAR, REV. JOHN, born at Alnwick, Nor- thumberland. July 29, 1802; an English Wesleyan minister and theological writer. Quotations: Future—Past. FARRAR, FREDERIC WILLIAM, D.D., F.R.S., (Canon of Westminster,) born in the Fort, Bombay, Au. gust 7, 1831; a celebrated English scholar and author. Quo- tation : Life FAUCHET, CLAUDE, born at Nivernais, 1744: a French ecclesiastic ; died, October, 1793. Quotations : Au- thor—Cemetery. FAUCHEUR, MICHEL LE, born about 1595 : a French Protestant divine and author; died in Paris, 1667. Quotation : Blood. FAUCIT, HELEN, born, 1816; an English actress of considerable repute. Quotation : Drama. FAULKNER, CHARLES J. Quotation: Property. FAULKNER, GEORGE, born, 1700 : the first Irish printer of any note; died, 1775. Quotation. : Wrath. FAUST, JOHN, born in Würtemberg, lived in the latter part of the fifteenth century. : a famous magician and astrologer. Quotations: Health—Quarrels—Surprise. FAUST, or FUST, Johann, born at Mentz, about 1392: one of the inventors of printing ; died, 1470. Quota- tion : Printing. FAVART, CHARLEs SIMON, born at Paris, 1710; the Son of a pastry cook, distinguished at an early age for his literary and political talents; died, 1792. Quotations : Citizen—Jest—Sublimity. FAVORIN US, born at Arles, in Gaul : he removed to Rome under the reign of Trajan, where he became Celebrated for his learning. Quotations : Courtier—Dis- pute. FAWCETT, RICHARD, born about 1542; an Eng- lish divine and author; died, 1610. Quotation: Housewife. FAY, THEODORE SEDGwick, born in the city of New York, 1807; an American author and diplomátist. Quotattions : Bath—Christinas—Letter. FAZEL, ABüL, or ABOUL FAZL, born about 1523 : an eminent Arabian historian ; assassinated, 1600. Quotations: Pen—Writing. FEARON, HENRY BRADSHAw, born in England ; a London Surgeon and author, (London, 1784.) Quotations: Grief—Solitude. FEATHERSTON, W. S., born in Mississippi; an American statesman. Quotation : Slavery. FEATLY, DANIEL, born, 1582 : an English con- troversial divine ; died, 1644. Quotation : House. FEE, MADAME, the wife of A. L. A. Fée, the French naturalist, a novelist and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Gifts—Love. FELIX I, SAINT, (Bishop of Rome, ) born about 200; an eminent divine and writer; died, 274. Quotation : Flattery. FELL, JoHN, born at Cockermouth, Cumberland, 1735; an English dissenting divine and writer; died, 1797. Quotation. Sea. FELLENBERG, VON PHILIP EMANUEL, born at Berne, June, 1771; a celebrated Swiss philanthropist and author; died, November, 1844. Quotations : Culture — School. - FELLOWES, ROBERT, born in Norfolk, 1770; an English divine and theological writer; died, 1847. Quota- tion : Effort. FELLOWS, JoHN, born, 1740; an English Metho- dist divine and writer; died about 1815. Quotations : Mo- rality—Torture. FELTHAM. Owen, born, 1610 : a learned Eng- lish writer; died, 1678. Quotations : Adversity—Advocate —Alms—Apparel–Arrogance–Belief–Business—Change - Charity–Companion—Contemplation — Contentment— Courtesy–Credulity–Dependence—Despair — Discontent — Disposition—Economy – Enjoyment—Envy—Friendship —Galming—Gold–Happiness—Honesty—Hope—Humility— Idleness—Irresolution—Jealousy–Jest—Lady-Law—Lo- quacity—Love—Meditation—Moderation—Music—Neglect –Passion—Perfection — Philosophy—Fleasing—Pleasure— Praise–Prayer—Prevention— Rebuke—Religion— Repen- tance--Singularity--Slavery--Speech—Spirit—-Time--Travel —Valor—Wit—Woman—Wrong–Zeal. FELTON, CORNELIUS CoNw AY, LL.D., born at West Newbury, Massachusetts, 1807; an eminent scholar and author; died, 1862. Quotation. Swearing. FELTON, HENRY, born in London, 1679; an Eng- lish divine and writer; died, 1740. Quotations: Alms—Ed- ucation—Eloquence—Knowledge—Language—Masquerade —Metaphor—Sermon—Translation—Truism—Words. FENELON, FRANÇOIs DESALIGNAcDE LA MOTHE, (Archbishop of Cambray, ) born at the Chateau de Féné- lon, in Perigord, France, of an ancient and illustrious fam- ily, August 6, 1651 : an eminent statesman and littérateur: died, January 7, 1715. Quotations: Benevolence—Books— Children — Despondency—Education — Expense—Faults — Imperfection—King—Manners — Melancholy — Minister— Misanthropy–Moment—Nature—Neatness—Opportunity— Qratory—Pain—Passion—Peace — Piety — Reading—Self- Confidênce—Self-Love — Sensuality – Šimplicity – Soul— Temptation—Time—-Usefulness—-Wealth—Wisdoin—-Youth. FENN, GEORGE MANVILLE, born, 1831; an Eng- lish novelist. Quotation : Injury. FENN, LADY ELEANOR, born, 1743 : an English § of juvenile books; died, 1813. Quotation: Disinter- €Słę(1]] (2SS. FENNAPEHO. Quotation : Prayer. FENNELL, REV. R. Quotations: Quarrels—Reflection. 1112 A) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. FENTON, ELIJAH, born near Newcastle, Stafford- shire, 1683; an English poet and miscellaneous writer; died in Berkshire, July, 1730. Quotation : Flattery. FERDINAND I, Emperor of Germany, born at Alcalá, in Spain, 1503; died, July, 1564. Quotation : Justice. FERDINAND OF ARAGON, (Archbishop of Sara- gossa and Viceroy of Aragon, ) born at Madrid, 1514; an eminent. Catholig divine and author; died, 1575. Quota- tions: Civility—Courtesy—Insolence. FERGUSON, ADAM, LL.D., born, 1724 ; an Eng- lish philosophical writer and historian ; died, 1816. Quota- tion : Deceit. FERGUSON, DAVID, born, 1523: a Scottish di- vine and compiler; died, 1598. Quotation : Affront. FERGUSON, JAMES, the son of a day-laborer, born near Keith, Scotland, 1710; an extraordinary phenom- enon of the self-taught, particularly in astronomical sci- ence ; died, November 16, 1776. Quotations: Air—Analogy —Brute—Greatness. FERGUSON, ROBERT, M.D., born, 1799; a Brit- ish medical writer; died, 1865. Quotation : Luxury. FERGUSON, RoRERT, D.D., born, 1628; an Eng- lish divine and writer; died, 1714. Quotation : Infallibility. FERN, FANNY, (the mom de plume of SARAH Payson Willis Parton, ) born at Portland, Maine, July 7, 1811; a celebrated American authoress, who gained a wide. Spread reputation as a writer of short, spicy articles on topics of the day; died, October 10, 1872. Quotations : Ad- yice — Aim — Bachelor—Behavior—Brains—Courtship — Crown—Eye— Good-Bye-Grief— Heart—Hospitality—Jar —Lady–Love— Mother—Nature—Night—Orphan-Poor —Stomach–Sunrise – Temptation — Threats — Ugliness— Uxoriousness—Victory—Widow. FERNANDEZ, ANTONIO, born, 1558; a Portu- guese Jesuit and missionary ; died, 1628. Quotation : Hunger. FERNANDO I, King of Castile, crowned, 1035 ; died, 1065. Quotation : Crown. FERREIRA, ANTONIO, born, 1528: a Portuguese poet and writer; died, 1569. Quotation : Love. FERRER, SAINT VINCENT, born at Valentia, Spain, January 23, 1857; an eminent Roman Catholic di- }. noted for his extreme piety; died, 1419. Quotation : €I] (1. FERRERS, GEORGE, born, 1512; an English his- torian and poet; died, 1579. Quotation : Good-Breeding. FERRIAR, JoBN, born at Chester, 1764; an Eng- lish physician and author; died, 1815. Quotation : Mod- esty. FERRIER, JAMES F., born, 1808 : a British wri- ter on moral philosophy; died, 1864. Quotations: Atten- tion—Fate. FERRIER, LOUIS, born at Arles, France, 1652; a French author; died, 1721. Quotation : Good. FERRIER, MARY, born in Edinburgh, 1782; a Scottish Inovelist ; died, 1854. Quotations. Housewife — Parent—Poor—Poverty—Silence–Solitude—Sunday. FERRONAYS. Quotation : Gentile. FERTIAULT, FRANÇors, born at Verdun, 1814; a French poet and littérateur. Quotation: Essay. FESSENDEN, WILLIAM PITT, born at Boscawen, New Hampshire, October 16, 1806; an American senator; died, September 9, 1869. Quotation : Life. TÉTIS, FRANÇois Joseph, born at Mons, 1784; a Belgian composer, critic, and biographer; died, 1871. Quotation : Singing. FEUERBACH, PAUL JoHANN ANSELM, born at Jena, 1775; a distinguished German jurist and reformer of criminal law ; died at Frankfort, 1833. Quotations: Reli- ligion—Theology. FEUILLET, OCTAVE, born at Saint-Lô, (Manche,) August 11. 1812; a French novelist and dramatist. Quota- tions : Approval—Ideality—Love—Wife. FEVAL, PAUL HENRI CorINTIN, born, 1817; a French novelist. Quotation : Culture. FEVRE, NICOLAs, LE, born in Paris, 1544: an eminent French scholar; died, 1611. Quotation : Will. FEY DEAU, ERNST AIMá, born in Paris, about 1830; a French writer and the author of “The Art of Pleasing,” and other works. Qztotation : Perfume. FEYJOOY MONTENEGRO, FRANCISCO BENITO Jeromino, born at Cardamiro, Spain, 1676; a learned Spa- nish moralist and critic; died at Oviedo, 1764. Quotations : Ǻor—his —Lending—Pilgrim — Reason—Sleep—Sloth— ICe. FFOULKES, EDMUND SALUSBURY, born at Eri- viatt, Denbigh, North Wales, January 12, 1819; an English divine and author. Quotation : Country. & FICHET, GUILLAUME, born at Aunay, near Paris, about 1420; a French theologian and rhetorician ; died about 1487. Quotation : Talking. FICHTE, IMMANUEL HERMANN, son of Johann Gotlieb Fichte, born at Jena, July 18, iſº"; a German phi- losopher and author. Quotation : Fright. FICHTE, JOHANN GOTLIEB, born at Rammenau, near BiSchofswerda, in Upper Lusatia, May 19, 1762; a Ger- man philosopher and author: died, January 29, 1814. Quo- tations: Ability—Action— Happiness—Hobby—Hypocrisy —Improvement—Joy—Life— Nature—Praise—Teaching— Want—Will. FICINUS, MARSILIO, born at Florence, º October 19, 1433: an Italian Platonic philosopher and phi- lologer ; died, 1491. Understanding. FIDDES, RICHARD, born near Scarborough, 1671 ; an English divine and writer ; died, 1725. Quotation 8 : Creed—Zeal. FIELD, PROFESSOR BARNUM ; an American edu- cator and author, (Boston, 1840.) Quotation : Geography. FIELD, CYRUs WEST, born at Stockbridge, Mas- sachusetts, November 20, 1819; an American merchant, distinguished by his successful effort to open telegraph communication between Europe and America. Quotation : Telegraph. FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY, born at Haddam, Con- necticut, 1805; an American jurist. Quotation : Jury. FIELD, FREDERICK, M.A., born in London, 1801: an English divine and theological writer. Quotation : Frugality. FIELD, HENRY MARTYN, D.D., brother of Cyrus W. Field, born at Stockbridge, Massachusetts April 8, 1822 ; an American divine and theologian. Quotation: Funeral. FIELD, JoHN, M.A., born at Wallingford, Berk- shire, 1812; an English divine and writer. Quotation : Genius. FIELD, KATE, born in St. Louis; an American lecturess and writer. Quotation : Gossip. RIELD, NATHANIEL, born, 1570 : an English ac- tor; died, 1624. Quotation. Opinion. FIELD, RICHARD, born at Hempstead, in Hert- fordshire, 1561 ; a learned and liberal English divine; died, 1616. Quotation : Lawyer. FIELD, STEPHEN Johnston, LL.D., brother of Cyrus W. Field, born at Haddon, Connecticut, November 4, 1816; an American jurist. Quotation : Favor. FIELD, REv. WALTER, born in England, about 1785 ; an English Methodist divine and author, (London, 1828.) Quotations: Bells—Burial. FIELDING, HENRY, born at Sharpham Park. Som- ersetshire, April 22, 1707 : an eminent English novelist; died at Lisbon, Portugal, October, 1754. (97totations : Ad- miration — Adversity— Affectation —Amiability— Anger— A varice—Beau—Beauty—Benevolence—Biography—Books —Burlesque —Character— Charity—Commendation —Com- panion—Compassion—Constitution –Contempt—Coquetry —Critic — Custom – Debate — Discontent — Disguise — Dis- tance— Domesticity—Drinking — Fashion — Fear—Friend- ship— Gaming— Good-Breeding— Good-Nature—Grayity— Habit—Heart—Husband— Hypocrisy— Imposition—Impu- dence—Ingratitude—Inquisitiveness— Insolence— Insult— Jealousy—Joy–-Kindness—Law—Learning–Love—Luxury —Malice—Man—Marriage—Matrimony—Mind—Misfortune – Money—Monomania—Necessity–News—Object–Obliga- tion— Pleasure — Politeness— Politics — Pride — Promise— Prudence—Raillery—Reason—Riches—Scandal— Slander— Sleep—Stage—Statesman—Superstition—Sword–Taste— Tobacco–Trade—Vanity—Williany—Wirtue—Want—War— Wine–Wisdom—Wit—Woman—Wonder—Worth–Zeal. FIELDING, SARAH, sister of the novelist, born, 1714: an English authoress of great learning; died at Bath, 1768. Quotation : Forbearance. FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 1817; an American publisher, poet, and miscellaneous writer; died, 1880. Quotation : Forgetful- Il CŞS. FIENNES, JEAN BAPTISTE, born, 1669; a French Orientalist and diplomatist ; died, 1744. Quotation : In- tellect. FIFE, JOHN, M.D., born in England : an English medical writer on hydropathy. Quotation : Bath. FIJI : King of the Fiji Islands. Quotatons : Reproof —Trifle. FILICAIJA, VINCENzo, D.D., born at Florence, Italy, 1642; a celebrated Italian lyric, poet and Senator; died, 1707. 'Quotations : Retirement–Secrecy. FILLMORE, MILLARD, born in Cayuga County, New York, January 7, 1800; the thirteenth President of the United States; died, March 8, 1874. Quotations: Despot- ism—Liberty—Revolution. FILMER, SIR ROBERT, born, 1612 : an English philosophical writer: died, 1688. Quotation : Gold. FINCH, FRANCIs M., born in Ithaca, New York, 1828; an American lawyer. Quotation : Woman. FINDLAY, CECILIA : an English novelist and miscellaneous writer. Quotations: Chivalry—-Knighthood. Quotations : Grief – Lover—Piety— A / O G. A. A. P. Aſ / C A / / /V /O AE X. 1113 FINKELSTEIN, MISS L. M. Quotation: Dissolution. FINLAYSON, GEORGE, born at Thurso, 1790; a Scottish surgeon and writer; died, 1823. Quotattion. Man. FINNEY, CHARLEs G., born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, 1792; an American theologian and popular reacher; died, 1875. Quotations : Conviction–Disease— I'Ovidence. FIORENTINO, FRANCESCO MARIA, born, 1711; an Italian littérateur ; died, 1794. Quotation : Danger. FIORENTINO, PIETRO ANGELO, born in Naples, 1810; an Italian littérateur. Quotation : Death. EIRDOUSEE, born at Toos, in Khorassān, 940 A.D.; an eminent Persian poet; died, 1022. Quotations: Parsimony—Satire. FIRMIN, THOMAs, born, 1632; an English philan- thropist ; died, 1697. Quotation : Wrong. FISHER, ALICE ; an American novelist and mis- cellaneous writer. Quotation : Christmas. FISHER, MIss, F. C.; an American authoress. Quotation : Furniture. FISHER, John, (Bishop of Rochester, ) born at Beverley, Yorkshire, 1459; a learned English divine : exe- cuted, June, 1535. Quotation : Savior. FISHER, MARIA, born about 1650; a Quakeress missionary; died about 1723. Q?totation : Worship. FISK, PLINY, born at Shelbourne, Massachusetts, 1792; an American missionary ; died at Beyroot, India, 1875. Quotation : Missionary. - FISK, WILLIAM, D.D., born at Brattleborough, Vermont, 1792; a distinguished Methodist divine and au- thor; died, 1839. Quotation : Punctuality. FISKE, JOHN ; an American professor of philoso- phy and author. Quotation : Soul. FITCH, DR. SAMUEL S ; an American physician and author. Quotations: Dancing—Eating—Exercise. FITE, D. L.A. See LA FITE, D. FITZGERALD, PERCY, born, 1834; an English novelist. Quotation : Horror. FITZGERALD, PRESTON, born in England ; an eminent poet and miscellaneous writer, (London, 1813.) Quotation. Greeting. FITZHERBERT, SIR ANTHONY ; a distinguished English lawyer under the reign of Henry VIII; died, 1538. Quotation : Agreement. FITZOSBORNE, SIR THOMAs, (MELMOTH WIL- liams, q.v.) FLAGG, WILLIAM J. : an American writer, (New York, 1869.) Quotation : Utility. FLAMINIUS, CAIUS, a Roman general noted for his valor, became tribune of the people in 232 B.C.; slain in battle, 217 B.C. Quotations: Discipline—Success. FLAMMARION, CAMILLE, born at Montigny-le- Roi, (Haute-Marne, “Eebruary 25, 1842; a French astrono- mer and writer. Quotation. Youth. FLATMAN, THOMAS, born in London, 1633 : an English lawyer, poet, and painter; died, 1688. Quotations: : Absence—System. FLAVEL, John, born in Worcestershire, 1627; an eminent English Non-Conformist and Calvinist divine : died at Exeter, 1691...Qtotations: Action—Atheism—En- joyment—Flattery–Holiness — Morality—Orthodoxy—Pa- tiénce—Providence—Reason — IReligion—Roses—Serimon— Soul—Zeal. FLAXMAN, ANN, wife of John Flaxman, the celebrated sculptor, born in London, 1760; a lady distin- º for her many virtues; died, 1820. Quotation : Mercy. FLAXMAN, JOHN, born in York, 1755 ; an emi- nent English sculptor; died, 1826. Quotation : Wedlock. FLECKNOE, RICHARD, lived in the reign of Charles the Second ; an English poet and dramatist; died, 1680. Quotation : Pain. FLEETWOOD, WILLIAM, born in London, Janu- ary 1, 1656; an eminent English divine and author; died, August, 1723. Quotation: Adversity, FLEMING, JOHN, born near Bathgate, in Linlith- gowshire, 1785; an eminent Scottish naturalist and author: died, November, 1857. Qztotation : Truth. FLEMING, PATRICK, born, 1599 : an Irish monk, philosopher, and Writer ; died, 1631. Quotation : Laziness. FLEMING, ROBERT, born at Yesta, 1630 ; a Scot- ºneologian and author; died, 1694. Quotation : Gene- roSlty. FLEMING, WILLIAM, born about 1527: an Eng- lish divine; died about 1592. , Quotations : Apathy—Beauty — Common-Sense — Dogmatism — Proverbs — Prudence — Science—Self-LOVe—Virtue—Wisdom. FLEMMING, PAUL, born at Hartenstein, in Sax- ony, 1609: a German poet and writer; died, 1640. Quota- tions: Debt—Discontent—Sublimity—Wisdom—Woman. FLETCHER, (of Saltoun,) ANDREw, born at Sal- toun, 1653; an able Scottish writer and Orator; died in Lon- don, 1716. Quotations : Ballad—Perfection. FLETCHER, GILEs, born, 1588 ; an English di- vine and religious writer; died, 1623. Quotation ºf Christ. FLETCHER, JAMES, born, 1811 ; an English wri- ter; died by suicide, 1832. Quotations: Fanaticism—Honor —Regeneration. FLETCHER, JOHN, born in Northamptonshire, 1576; an English dramatic writer, who in conjunction with Francis. Beaumont, Wrote a large number of excellent plays; died, 1625. Quotations: Money. FLETCHER, MATILDA, of Council Bluffs, Iowa ; an American lecturess, writer, and advocate of Women's Rights. ... (9:40 ſtions: , Impurity – Intermperance — Love— Morning – Patience—Patriotism—Peace– Philanthropy— Politeness—Prudence—Punctuality–-Self-Denial—Self-Pos- Session-Self-Reliance—Self-Respéct—Smoking–Temper- ance–Tobacco—Traitor—Vote. FLETCHER, PHINEAs, born, 1584; an English poet and writer; died, 1650. Quotation : Curiosity. FLETCHER, SAMUEL. Quotations : Melody—Mercy— Protection. FLINT, TIMOTHY, born at North Reading, Massa- chusetts, 1780; an American author and traveller; died in Massachusetts, 1840. Quotation : Early-Rising. FLORIAN, JEAN PIERRE CLARIs, born at the Chateau de Florian, in the department of Gard, France, 1755: a French novelist and poet ; died near Paris, 1794. Quotations : Men—Work. FLORIO, JoHN, born in London, 1545; an Italian philologist and grammarian ; died, 1625. Quotations: Chastisement—Company — Confession — Determination — Eagle—War. FLOURENS, MARIE JEAN PIERRE, born near Béziers, France, April 15, 1794; an eminent French philoso- her, *ś and author; died, December 6, 1867. Quotation, €1}{2i 8C. §OI’. FCELIX, (Bishop of Urgel,) lived in the eighth cen- tury; an eminent divine; died 818. Quotation : Sacrifice. FOHI or FOO-HEE, born in the province of Shan- see, 3300 B.C.; the founder of the empire of China, and be- came its first emperor; he taught the advantages of civil Society, invented instruments of music, and established laws and ordinances. Quotations: Proof–Society. FOIX, MARC ANTOINE, DE, born, 1627; a French Jesuit and writer; died, 1687. Quotation : Field. FOIX, SAINT, GERMAIN FRANÇOIs Poull,AIN, DE, born, 1698; a French littérateur and dramatic author: died, 1776. Quotations : Light-Heartedness—Self-Acquaintancé —Wit—WrinkleS. FOLENGO, TEOFILO, (Merlino Coccaſe, ) born, 1491 : an Italian Benedictine and poet; died, 1544. Quota. tion : TroubleS. FOLGER, CHARLES J.; an American jurist and statesman. Quotation : Federalism. FOLGER, PETER, the grandfather of Benjamin Franklin, and one of the settlers of Nantucket, born in England, 1617; an American poet and writer; died, 1690. Quotation: Eye-Service—War. FOLLETT, SIR WILLIAM WEBB, born at Top- sham, 1798; an able English lawyer and writer; died in London, 1845. Quotations: Genius—Justice. FOLQUET DE MARSEILLE, (Bishop of Tou- louse,) born, 1160: a celebrated French troubadour; died, 1231. Quotations : Chivalry—Crusades. FONSECA, ELEANORA. PIMENTEL, MARCHIONESS de, born in Naples, 1768; a beautiful and gifted Italian lady; executed, 1799. Quotations: Pleasing—Slavery. FONSECA, PEDRO, DA, (THE PORTUGUESE ARIS- totle,) born at COrtizada, 1528; a Portuguese Jesuit and writer; died, 1599. Quotation : Good-Humor. EONTAINE, JEAN, DE LA, born at Château-Thier- ry, Champagne, July 8, 1621; an eminent French poet, fabu- list, and miscellaneous writer; died, April, 1695. Quota- tions: Absence — Ancestry - Antiquary–Appearances — Court—-Deceit--Dreams—Editor—Evil—Example--Exertion - Expediency – Fastidiousness — Fortune–Friendship — Gentleness—Glory—Habit—Help –Imitation—Imprudence –ſº;;−Hºuſ. isery –Novelty—Obligation — Patience – Rashness—Religion- Rogue—IRuins—Self-Help — Suffering—Table—Ungrateful- ness—World—Wretchedness. FONTANA, DOMENICO, born at Mili, near Lake Como, 1543: a celebrated Italian architect and engineer; died at Naples, 1607. Quotation : Resolution. FONTENELLE, BERNARD LE BovieR, DE, born at Rouen, February 11, 1657 : an eminent French littérateur, philosopher, and mathematician ; died, January, 1757. Quotations: Anatomy—Beauty—Clock—Culture—Dress— Eating—Exactness—Folly — Greatness — History—Inclina- tion-Judgment--Mind–Nature-Noise—Passion--Pleasure —Suffering—Theatre—Theory—Truth — Universe—Useful- neSS—Want—Wonder. FOOTE, A. L. Quotation : Contemplation. 1114 D A y's co Z Z. A co w. FOOTE, EDwARD BLIss, born on the Connecticut' Western Reserve in Ohio, 1829; an American printer and philosophical thinker and writer. Quotations: City–Ear. FOOTE, HENRY S., born in Fauquier county, Vir- ginia, 1800; an American jurist and Statesman. Quota- tion : Conjecture. FOOTE, SAMUEL, born at Truro, Cornwall, 1720 ; a witty English comedian ; died, 1777. Quotations: Drama —Tongue. FORBES, ALEXANDER PENROSE, D.C.L., (Bishop of Brechin, ) born, 1817; an eminent Scottish divine and writer; died, 1875. Quotation: Grumbler. FORBES, ARCHIBALD, born, 1828; a celebrated English journalist, lecturer, and war correspondent. Quo- tation : Freedom. - FORBES, DUNCAN, born at Culloden, 1686; an eminent Scottish judge and patriot ; died, 1747. Quota- tion : Affliction. FORBES, JAMES DAVID, D.C.L., born, 1809; an English scientific writer; died, 1868. Quotation : Gener- Osity. FORBES, PATRICK, (Bishop of Aberdeen, ) born, 1564: an eminent divine and author; died, 1635. Quota- tion : Laconics. FORCHHAMMER, Johan N NICOLAs GEORG, born, 1827; a Danish classical scholar and writer. Quota- tion, . GOOd. FORCHHAMMER, PAUL WILHELM, born, 1803; a German traveller and writer. Quotation : Polygamy. FORD, JOHN, born at Islington, 1586 : an eminent dramatic writer, contemporary with Shakspeare; died, 1639. Quotations : Affection—Contentment—Title FORDE, WILLIAM BROwnLow, born, 1823; an English magistrate and politician. Quotation : Self. FORDY CE, DAVID, brother of Sir William For- dyce, born at Aberdeen, 1711; a Scottish moralist and wri- ter; died, 1751. Q?totations: Preacher—Zest. FORDYCE, GEORGE, nephew of the preceding, born near Aberdeen, 1736; an eminent Scottish physician; died, 1802. Quotation : Imprudence. FORDYCE, JAMES, D.D., brother of Sir William Fordyce, born at Aberdeen, 1720; a Scottish divine and author; died, 1796. Quotation : Minister. FORDYCE, SIR WILLIAM, brother of David For- dyce, born at Aberdeen, 1724; an eminent physician and author; died, 1792. Q?totation : Horse. FOREIRO, (Forerius.) FRANCISCUs, born, 1523; an eminent Portuguese Dominican, theológian, hebraist, and preacher; died, 1587. Quotation : Bread. FORESTIER, PIERRE, born, 1654 : an eminent French theologian and biblical commentator; died, 1723. Quotation : Science. FORNEY, JoHN WEISS, born at Lancaster, Penn- Sylvania, 1817; an American journalist and politician; died, December 9, 1881. Quotations: Virtue—Vote. FORREST, EDw1N, born in Philadelphia, March 9, 1806: a popular American actor; died, December 12, 1872. }*totation : Drama. - FORRESTER, ALFRED HENRY, (Alfred Crow- quill) born in London, 1805; an English artist and comic and miscellaneous writer; died, 1872. Quotations: Greedi- meSS—IdleneSS—To-Morrow. FORRESTER, REV. J. F. : an American metho- dist clergyman and lecturer. Quotations: Freemasonry— —Goodness—Idea—Truth FORSTER, JoHANN GEORG, born near Dantzic, November 20, 1754; a celebrated German naturalist, tra. yeller, and writer; died in Paris, February 13, 1794. Quo- tations: Action – Circumstances — Control—Despotism— Disinterestedness–Example—Fame—Fancy—Fate–Free- dom-Friendship— Happiness—Misfortune–Organization –Pain—Perfection–Preaching—Principle—Prison—Prose. lyte—Quality-Skill–Sociability—Thought—Truth--Virtue —Vocation—Wisdom. FQRSTER, JOHN, born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1812; an eloquent English author and editor; died, 1876. Quotation : Creed. FORSYTH, WILLIAM, born in Scotland, 1737; a writer on horticulture; died, 1804. Quotation : ‘Trees. FORTEGUERRI, SCIPIONE, (Carteromaco,) born at Pistoia, 1466; an Italian critic and author; died, 1515. Quotation : Iteputation. FORTESCUE, SIR John, born, 1422 : an eminent English lawyer and author; died, 1476. Quotations: Law —Liberty—Slavery. FORTINI, BENEDETTO, born, 1675: painter; died, 1732. Quotation. : Credit. FORTIO, ANGE, born, 1500; an Italian physician and astrologer; died, 1568. Quotation : Physician. FOSBROKE, REv. B. Quotation : Freemasonry. FOSCARI, FRANCESCA, born, 1372 : a celebrated doge of Venice; died, 1457. Quotation : Neighbor. a Florentine FOSCOLO, UGO, born at Zante, 1776; an eloquent Italian poet and prose writer; died near London, 1827. Quotations : Pictures—Solitude—Vivacity. FOSTER, REV. CHARLES. Quotation: Mohammedan- lSill. FOSTER, ELON, D.D.; an American divine, and author of the “New Cyclopædia of Prose and Poetical Il- lustrations,” (New York, 1876.) Quotations: Adaptation— Beauty–Fortune—Heathen–Hope— Idolatry— Inconsist- aucy—Intolerance—Omniscience–Order—Payment—Pee- yishness — Preparation — Priyilege – Rejoicing — Study — Teaching—Thanks—Trifle—Unbelief–Wickedness. FOSTER, JoHN, born at Halifax, September 17, 1770; an English moralist, essayist, and author; died, QC- tober, 1843. Quotations : Advantage—Affection—Calamity —Character—Courtesy—Cross— Decision—Delay- Educa- tion—Emulation— Eternity—Feeling—Futurity— Genius– Guilt – Humanity — Kindness — Marriage — Mediocrity – Metaphysics—Miser—Mortality—Name–Obedience- Ob- Servation—Old Age— Omniscience—Parent—Pilot—Pleas- ure—Politics—Pride— Procrastination— Profanity—Prose- Wiśºgº; —Retribution—Reward—Romance—-Sacrifice—-Self-Interest -Sensation – Sensibility — Solitude — Success - Sunday- School—Theology—Thought—Time—Understanding—Uni- verse—Vanity. FOSTER, STEPHEN S.: an American advocate of Women's Rights. Quotation : Equality. FOTHERGILL, GEORGE, born in Westmoreland, 1705; an English divine; died, 1760. Quotation: Greatness. FOUCHE, Josh PH, Duke of Otranto, born at Nantes, 1763; a French Jacobin, and minister of police under Napoléon I ; died at Trieste, 1820. Quotation : Toy- alty. FOULIS, ROBERT, born in Glasgow, April 20, 1707; an eminent printer and a great promoter of the fine arts in Scotland; died in Edinburgh, 1776. Quotation : Buying. , FOUQUE, HENRI AUGUSTE, BARON DE LA MOTHE, born at The Hague, 1698; a Prussian general and littéra- teur; died, 1774. Quotations: Ills—Legends. FOURIER, FRANÇois CHARLES MARIE, ( The Phalamsterian,) born at Besançon, France, 1772; an emi- nent French socialist, and the founder of the system of “Fourierism;” died in Paris, 1837. , Quotations: Courtier —Enjoyment – Harmony—Impossibility—Isolation—Wa- riety. . FOWLER. CHISTOPHER, born, 1611 : an English divine and author: died, 1676. Quotation : Gold. FOWLER, ORSON SQUIRE, born at Cohocton, New York, 1809; an eminent American and phrenologist and editor; died, 1876. Quotations: Botany—Conversation –Disorder—Duration—Education— Eloquence—Grammar – Human-Nature — Idleness — Individuality – Language— Man—Memory— Music—Nature— Observation—Oratory— Parable—Pictures—Poetry—Progress— Recreation-Regu- larity–-Reporter--Scenery--Seeing—Singing--Song--System –Thunder—Travel—Weather. FOX, CHARLEs JAMES, born in London, January 24, 1749; an eminent English orator and statesman ; died, September 13, 1806. Quotations: Earnestness—Equality— Humanity—Justice—Resistance—War. FOX, GEORGE, born at Drayton-in-the-Clay, (Fen- my Drayton,) Leicestershire, July 1624; the founder of the Society of Friends ; , died in London, 1690. Quotations: Naturé—Queen—Resistance—Truth. FOX or FOXE, JOHN, born in Boston, Lincoln- shire, 1517; an eminent English diyine, and author of the celebrated “Book of Martyrs;” died, 1587. Qatotation : Pain. FOX, RICHARD, (Bishop of Winchester,) born at Ropesley, Lincolnshire, 1466; an English divine and states- man; died, 1528. Quotation : Revenge. FRA DIAVOLA, (MICHEL POZZA,) born at Itri, 1769; a Calabrian brigand; executed at Napies, 1806. Quo- tation : State. FRANC, MARTIN, LE, born at Arras : a French poet and writer; died, 1460. Quotation: Glory. FRANCILLON, ROBERT EDWARD, born at Glou- cester, 1841; an English novelist. Quotation : Liberty. FRANCIS DE SALES, Saint, (Bishop of Geneva,) born at Sales, 1567; an eminent divine and prince; died, 1622. Quotation : Zeal. FRANCIS, JoHN WAKEFIELD, born in New York, November, 1789; an American physician and author; died, 1861. Quotation: Man. FRANCIS II, (Joseph KARL,) Emperor of Ger- many, and Francis I, of Austria, born at Florence, Italy, February, 1768; a popular and able monarch ; died, March, 1835. Quotation : "Well-Doing. FRANCIS, MISS. Quotation : Eloquence. FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP born in Dublin, 1740 ; an eminent statesman and writer, and the undoubted author of the letters of Junius; died in London, December, 1818. Quotation : Action. A / O 'G' A' A P Aſ / C A / / /V /O AE X. 1 115 FRANCIS, SAINT, (of Assisium, ) born, 1182 ; the founder of the order of Franciscans; died, 1226. Quota- tions: Indigence—Insensibility. FRANCIUS, PETER, (Fransz,) born at Amster- dam, 1645; a Dutch orator and poet; died, 1703. Quotation : Blustering. FRANCKLIN, THOMAs, D. D., born, 1784; an English poet and writer; died, 1852. Quotation : Fruitful- IłęSS. FRANCO, NICCOLô, born at Benevento, 1505; a satirical and licentious Italian littérateur and poet; died, 1569. Quotation : Speech. FRANKHUM. Quotations: Abstinence—Appetite. FRANK, MARK, (Archdeacon of St. Albans,) born, 1613; an English divine and writer; died, 1664. Quotations: Deism—Seeing. FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, born in Boston, Massa- chusetts, January 17, 1706; a Self-taught American Scholar, statesman, and philosopher; died in Philadelphia, April 17, 1790. Quotations: Absence-Action—Advice--Agriculture —Angling —Appearances —Applause — Babe — Bachelor — Bargain–Bible—Boldness—Borrowing—Buying-Calamity —Carelessness—Chess — Counsel —Credit — Death—Debt— Deceit-Diligence—Dispute — Dreams — Dress–Drunken- mess—Duelli jºx, Enemy — Equality—Exchange —Excuse—Expediency—Experience — Extravagance—Eye —Face—Faith—Farmer — Federalism — Flattery—Fortune —Friendship—Gain—Gaming–Good-Nature—Government —Greatness--Happiness--Haste-Health– Heayen--Honesty —Hope—Humility—Hunger — Idleness - Ill-Will—Impossi- bility—Industry — Injury – Jest—Justice – Knowledge— Lawyer—Laziness—Leisure—Life—Master—Method—Min- ister–Money — Morality — Neglect — Opinion — Patience— Payment — Politeness — Politics — Post-Office — Poverty — Press—Pride—Principles —Punctuality –Quarrels—Quota- tion—Reason—Religion—Repentance —Resentment — Say- ing—Secrecy—Self—Self-Deceit — Servant — Silence — Sla- very—Sleep—Sloth–Soul — Spectacles — Subsistence—Su- Rºſiº. upper—Sympathy–Taxation—Temperance — ime—To-Day–Tongue-Trade—Trifle —Trouble—Trust— Use —Usefulness–Vanity—Vice —Visits —War —Wealth— Widow –Wife —Work— Worth. FRASER, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, LL.D., born at Ardchattan, ArgyleShire, September, 1818: a Scottish metaphysician and author. Quotation : Vegetation. FRASER, JAMES BAILLIE, born, 1783; a Scottish writer; died, 1856. Quotation : Moss. FRAUNCE, ABRAHAM, lived in the time of Queen Elizabeth ; an English poet and writer; died about 1590. Quotation : Father. FRAZER, JoHN, (Bishop of Ross,) born, 1429 ; an eminent divine and author; died, 1507. Quotations: Cha- rity—Conversion. FREADLEY, J.; an American traveller and wri- Quotations: Business—Calculation—Success. FREDEGISUS, (Abbot of St. Tours,) born about 760 à an eminent English poet; died, 834. Quotation : Re- medy. FREDERICK I, (Frederick III of Brandenburg,) born at Königsburg, 1657; died, 1713. Quotation : Jesuit. FREDERICK I, Emperor of Germany, born, §: drowned in the river Calycadmus, 1190. Quotation : 11611 Ce. FREDERICK II, King of Sicily and Aragon, born, 1272; the founder of Sicilian nationality; died, 1337. Quo- tation : Hardship. FREDERICK II, surnamed THE GREAT, King of Prussia, born at Berlin, January 24, 1712; a man Of Strong and acute intellect, and an excellent writer; died at the palace of Sans-Souci, August 17, 1786. Quotations : Books IÉ. unting—King—Music—Prejudice—Quakerism —Religion—' Talent. FREDERICK II, Emperor of Germany, born at Jesi, Italy, 1194; eminent for courage and generosity; died, Quotations: Destruction—Threats. FREDERICK III, Archduke of Austria, born, 1286; died, 1330. Quotation : Oblivion. TREDERICK III, King of Denmark and Norway, born, 1609; died, ičić. Quotations: Dancing—Revelation. FREDERICK IV, King of Denmark, born, 1671 ; a man of great ability; died, 1730. Quotation : Hypocrisy. FREEDLEY, EDw1N T., born in Philadelphia ; a º; economist and author. Quotations: Grumbler— egends. FREEKE, WILLIAM, born, 1663 : an English So- cinian and Writer ; died about 1711. Quotation : Gods. FREER, MARTHA WALKER, born, 1822; an Eng- lish authoress. Quotation : Danger. FREIND, JoHN, born, 1675; an English physician and elegant writer; died, 1728. Quotation : Health. FRELINGHUYSEN, THEODORE, born in Somer- Set county, New º 1787; an American Statesman ; died, 1862. Quotation : Libel. FREEMAN, EDWARD AUGUSTUs D.C.L., LL.D., born at Harborne, Staffordshire, 1823; an English writer on architecture and history. Quotation : Gunpowder. FREEMAN, J. J., born about 1792; an English Methodist minister and missionary; died, 1852. Quotation : Missionary. FREMONT, JESSIE BENTON, daughter of Thomas H. Benton, and wife of J. C. Fremont; an American au- thoress. Quotation. Disappointiment. FREMONT, JOHN CHARLEs, born at Savannah, Georgia, January 21, 1818; an American general and explo- rer. Quotations : Labor–Press. FRENCH, JUSTUS CLEMENT, born at Geneva, New York, 1832; an American divine. Qazotation : Time. FRENCH, JUSTUs W., born in Montpelier, Ver- mont, 1800; a Presbyterian clergyman, an eminent educa- tor, for many years principal of the Lyceum at Geneva, New York; died 1865. Quotations : Circumstances—Eva- Sion—Imattention—King—Remembrance. * FRENCH, NICHOLAs, (Bishop of Ferns,) born at Wexford, 1604; an Irish Roman Catholic divine and writer; died, 1678. Quotation : Humility. FRENEAU, PHILIP, born in New York, 1752; an American poet and journalist; died, December, 1832. Quo- tattiO), . Presents. FRERE, JOHN HOOKHAM, born, 1769; an English diplomatist and author; died, 1846. Quotation : Forgive- IlêSS. - FRERET, NICO CAs, born in Paris, 1628; a French philosopher, geographer, chronologist, Orientalist, and grammarian ; died, 1749. Quotation : Gods. FREYTAG, GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH, born at Lüneberg, 1788; an eminent German philologist and writer; died, November, 1861. Quotation : Fastidiousness. FRISBIE, LEVI, born at Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1784: an American poet and professor of moral philosophy; died, 1822. Quotations : Mountain—Principles. FRISWELL, JAMES HAIN, born, 1827 : an English essayist, novelist, and poet. Q?totations. Infallibility— Martyr—Poverty—Purpose—World. FRITH, John, born at Sevenoakes, Kent ; an English Protestant martyr, and author of several works on theology; burnt at Smithfield, 1553. Quotations: Christ —Sorrow. FROBELL, JULIUS, born at Griesheim, near Stad- tilm, 1806: a German writer and traveller, and the founder of the “Kindergärten” system of schools. Quotation : Education. - FROISSART, JEAN, born at Valenciennes, 1337; a French historian and poet ; died, 1400. Quotation: Jeer- 1Ilg. FROMAGE, PIERRE, born, 1678; a French Jesuit ºnary and Orientalist; died in Syria, 1740. Quotation : €Stilt. - FROST, S. : an American writer, and author of “The Art of Dressing Well.” Quotation : Etiquette. FROUDE, JAMES ANTHONY, born at Dartington, Devonshire, April 23, 1818; an eminent English historian. Quotations: Calumny—Change—Lying—Morality—Sedi- tion—Self. FROWDE, PHILIP, born, 1680; an English dra- matic poet; died, 1738. Quotation : Generosity. FRUGONI, CARLO INNOCENZIo, born in Genoa, 1692; a §. Italian poet and elegant writer; died at Parma, December, 1768. Quotation : Idleness. , FRY, ELIZABETH, born in Norwich, England, 1780; an eminent. philanthropist and writer; died, 1845. Quotations: Lowliness—Pleasure—Trifle—Truth. FRY, JoHN, brother of the preceding ; an English divine and author. Quotation : Father. FUCHS, LEONHARD, born at Weindingen, in Ba- varia, 1501; a distinguished German botanist. The Fuchsia was named after him ; died, 1565. Quotation : Morning. FULCO, or FOULQUES, (Archbishop of Rheims,) born, 850; an eminent French prelate ; executed, 900. Qºto- tation. Pilgrim. - FULDA, FRIEDRICH CARL, born, 1724 : a German philologist and grammarian ; died, 1788. Quotation: Queen. FULGENTIUS, FABIUS CLAUDIUS GORDIANUs, (Bishop of Carthage,) born at Leptis, 478; an eminent Afri- can prélate and writer; died, 533. Quotations: Daintiness —Esteem—Remembrance. FULLER, ANDREw, born at Wicken, Cambridge- shire, 1754; an eminent English Baptist minister;, died, 1815, Quotations: Admiration-God-Ordinance—Patience Philosóphy — Pleasure—Poverty—Prophecy — Unbelief– Ungodliness—Vice—Vows. TULLER, ANDREW S. : an American writer on forest-tree culture, (New York, 1866.) Quotations: Horti- culture—Vine. FULLER, FRANCIS, born in England ; an English Non-conformist divine; died, 1701. Quotation : Infancy. 1116 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. FULLER, MARGARET SARAH, (MARCHESA D'OS- soli,) born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 23, 1810: a distinguished and popular, American authoress; perished with her husband and child, off Fire Island, June 16, 1850. Quotations: Duty—Genius–Melancholy—Progress. FULLER, RICHARD, born at Beaufort, South Ca- rolina, April 22, 1804; a Baptist minister and writer; died, October 20, 1876. Quotation : Familiarity. FULLER, THOMAS, born at Aldwinckle, Nor- thamptonshire, 1608; an eminent English divine and au- thor ; died, 1661. Quotations : Affection —Affliction —Art —Association—Beard —Blushing — Books — Bread—Cheer- fulness — Contentment — Counsel — Courtesy— Curiosity— Disobedience—-Dullness—Ease—Education—Ethics--Exam- le—Eye-Faith—Fame — Fancy — Faults—Friendship — łames—Generosity—Gentility—Gentleman–Gifts—Gold— Gravity— Gunpowder — Haste — History — Husband—Hus- bandry — Ill-Will — Improvement — Index – Industry—In- ratitude — Injury — Inquisitiveness — Insolvency—Jal" — ealousy—Jest—Joy – Knowledge — Language —Library— Life—Logic—Lowe-Manners —Marriage—Master—Mathe- matics—Memory—Minister — Mirth — Moderation–Monu- ments—Morning —Mortality—Music—Negroes—Obedience —Passion—Pastime — Pastor — Poetry — Praise –Prayer— Precipitancy—Presents—Promise – Proverbs—Providence —Pyramid—Quarrels— Rashness — Reason—Recollection— repentance—Satan—Scofting—Sermon –Servant—Service —Silence—Sim—Sleep—Success—Sunday—Suspicion--Tears —Twilight — Usury –Wickedness—Widow—Wife —Will— Woman—Yeoman. FULLERTON, LADY GEORGIANA, second daugh- ter of the Earl of Granville, born about 1810; a popular English novelist. Quotations : Dew—Futurity. FULTON, CHARLES CARROLL; an American wri- ter, and author of “Europe Viewed Through American Spectacles,” (Philadelphia, 1874.) Quotation : Happiness. FULTON, ROBERT, born in Little Britain, Lan- caster county, Pennsylvania, 1765: a celebrated engineer and inventor; died in New York, February, 1815. 740tóz- tion : Steam. FULTON, STEPHEN W., born in England about 1827; a popular English author, (London, 1851. ) Quota- tion : Skill. FULVIA, born, 80 B.C.: the wife of Marc An- thony ; died, 40 B.C. Quotations: Tongue—Vengeance. FUNCK, JoHANN GASPAR, born, 1680; a German §. and cosmographer; died, 1729. Quotation : nowledge. FUNCK, JoBANN NICOLAs, born at Marburg, 1693; a German philologer and antiquary; died, 1777. Quo- tation : Lust. FUNCK, JoHANN, born near Nuremberg, 1518; a German chronologer and commentator; executed for trea- son, 1566. Quotation? ... Heresy. FUNCK, KARL WILHELM FERDINAND VON, born at Brunswick, 1761; a German general and historian ; died, 1828. Quotation : Inconstancy. FUNES, MARTIN DE, born, 1560; a Sºil. theo- logian and writer; died, 1617. Quotation : Impatience. TURGAULT, NICOLAs, born, 1706: a French hu- morist and author; died, 1795. Quotation : Ills. FURITIERES, ANTOINE, born in Paris, 1620 ; a French writer; died, 1688. Quotation : Zeal. FURIUS, FEDERICO, (Seriolanus,) born in Valen- cia, Spain, 1510; a Spanish writer and moralist ; died, 1592. Quotation : Holiness. FURNESS, WILLIAM HENRY, born, 1802 ; an American theologian and author. Quotation : Hesitation. FURST, JULIUS, born in the duchy of Posen, May 12, 1805; a German Orientalist; died, February, 1873. Quo- tation : Instinct. FUSILI, JoHN HENRY, born at Zurich, 1742; a celebrated historical painter and author; died in London, 1825. Quotations : Expression—Fashion—Painting. FUSS, GEORG ALBERT, born, 1806; a Swiss math- *cian and philosopher; died, 1854. Quotation: Hospi- railly. FUSS, NIKOLAUS VAN, born at Bale, 1755; a Swiss Inatural ºpher and mathematician; died, 1826. Quo- tation : HOn Or. FUZELIER, LOUIS, born, 1672; a French littéra- teur and dramatic author; died, 1752. Quotation : Homage. FYENS, THOMAs, born at Antwerp, 1567; a Flemish physician and author; died, 1631. Quotation : Troubles. FYOT DE LA MARCHE, CLAUDE, born, 1630 ; a Kºch historian and writer; died, 1721. Quotation : Ill- FYOT DE VAUGIMOIS, born, 1689; a French ascetic writer; died, 1750. Quotation : Humanity. FYPOZ SHAH III, born 1297 : a Mohammedan King of Delhi: died, 1387. Quotation : Treason. FYROZ II, King of Persia, son of Yezdejerd the Second ; killed in battle, 488 A.D. Quotation : Tyrant. AAB, JOHANN FRIEDRICH, born at Göppin- gen, 1761; a German Protestant theologian and author; died, 1882. Quotation : Serulon. - GABORIAU, EMILE, born in Paris, 1832; a French novelist. Quotations : Assurance—Business. GABRINI, TOMMASO MARIA, born, 1726; an emi- ment Italian divine, mathematician, and author; died, 1807. Quotation : Interference. GADATAS, born, 550 B.C.; an Assyrian satrap. Quotation...: fevenge. GAGE, MATILDA JOSLYN : an American advocate of Women's Rights. Quotations: Equality—Free-Think- 1Ilg. GAIL HAMILTON, the mom de plume of MARY Abigail Dodge, born at Hamilton, Massachusetts, 1838; a popular and piquant writer, and one of the most brilliant contributors to current literature. Quotations: Fact— Good-Breeding. GAINSBOROUGH, THOMAs, born at Sudbury, 1727; an excellent landscape painter; died in London, Au- gust, 1788. Quotation ... Wealth. GAIR, ARTHUR, born in Northamptonshire, May # 1805; an English divine; died, 1873. Quotation : Sacri- C.C. GALLAGHER, HUGH M., born in Ireland, 1825; a Baptist clergyman and eminent lecturer. Quotations: Greatness—Money—Popularity. GAL or GALL, SAINT, (Bishop of Clermont,) born, 489 : an eminent divine ; died, 554. Quotation : Insolence. GALBA, SERVIUS SULPICIUs, born 3 B.C.: a Ro- man emperor; died, 69. A. D. Quotations: Discipline — Election—Privacy—Soldier—Vote. GALE, JOHN, born, 1680; an English Baptist preacher and writer; died, 1721. Quotation : Holiday. GALE, THOMAs, D.D., born at Scruton, Yorkshire, 1636; an eminent English classical scholar and critic; died, 1702: Quotations: Humility—Simplicity. GALEN, CLAUDIUS, born at Pergamus, in Mysia, 131 ; a celebrated Greek medical writer and pagan philoso- pher; died, 210. , Quotations ; Abstinence–Anatomy—Em- . loyment—Famine–Hand-Indolence—Laziness—Remem- §: "soº"; erºsº. GALGACUS, leader of the Caledonians, famous for his noble resistance against Agricola ; died, 84 A.D. Quotations: Freedom—Robbery. GALIANI, FERDINANDO ABBf, born at Chieti, in the Abruzzi, 1728; an Italian political economist and author; died at Naples, 1787. Quotation: Money. GALILEO or GALILEI, born at Pisa, February 15, 1564; an eminent astronomer, and the inventor of the ºg; died near Florence, January 8, 1642. Quota- tions: Scripture—Space—World. GALLATIN, ALBERT, born in Geneva, Switzer- land, January, 1761; emigrated to the United States, 1780; an eminent statesman ; died, 1849. Quotation : Labor. GALLIENUS, PUBLIUS LICINIUs VALERIUS, born, 233; a Roman emperor, poet, and, rhetorician; died, 268. Quotations: Prosperity–State. GALLOWAY, THOMAs, born, 1796 ; a Scottish mathematician and author: died about 1865. Q?totation 8 : Analysis—Astronomy—Caricature— Comet— Mathematics —Sophistry—Sound—Steam. g GALLUS, CAIUS CORNELIUS, born at Forum Julii 66 B.C.; an eminent, Roman courtier and critic; died, B.C. Quotation: Crime—Mind–Reason—Sycophant. GALLUS, CAIU's VIBIUS TREBONIANUS, born in the isle of Gerba, Africa, 205 A.D.; a Roman emperor, who was unpopular and despised; killed by his own soldiers, 253 A.D. Quotations: Grace—Procrastination—Report. GALT, John, born at Irvine, May, 1779; a Scot- tish author; died at Greenock, 1839. Quotations: Disap- pointment—Gentleness. GALVANI, ALOISIO, born at Bologna, 1737 : an eminent Italian physician and physiologist; died, Decem- ber, 1798. Quotation : Zeal. GAMALIEL, lived in Jerusalem, in the first cen- tury; a Pharisee and eminent Jewish doctor; died, 88 A.D. Quotation : Age. GAMBETTA, LÉON, born at Cahors, France, of a Genoese family, October 30, 1838; a French Statesman. Quotation: Dissipation. Died, December 31, 1882. GAMBIER, MRS. J., born in England, 1820; an English authoress. Quotation : Exclusiveness. GAMBOLD, JoBN, born in South Wales, 1710; a learned English Moravian divine; died at Haverfordwest, 1771. Quotation : Philanthropy. GARBETT, JAMES, (Archdeacon of Chichester.) born, 1773: an English theologian and author; died, 1857. Quotations : Church–Jargon. GARCIA DE MASCARENHAS, BRAZ, born at Avo, 1596; a Portuguese poet and writer; died, 1656. Quo- tations: Concealment—To-Morrow—Traitor. A / O G. At A P Aſ / C A Z / M7 /O AE X. II 1 7 GARCILASO DE LA VEGA, born at Toledo, Spain, 1503; an eminent Spanish poet and miscellaneous writer; died at Nice, France, November, 1536. Qtt0t(4tion : Distress. GARDINER, STEPHEN, (Bishop of Winchester,) born at Bury-Saint-Edmunds, 1483; an English prelate and statesman; died, 1555. Quotations: Religion—Worship. GARDNER, GEORGE, M.D., born at Glasgow, 1812; a Scottish botanist and author; died in Ceylon, India, 1849. Quotation : Dwelling. GARFIELD, JAMES ABRAM, born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 1831; the twentieth President of the United States; shot by Guiteau, July 2, 1881, and died at Elberon, Long Branch, New Jersey, September 19, the Same year. Quotation : Fitness—People. GARIBALDI, GIUSEPPE, born at Nice, July 7, 1807; a celebrated Italian patriot and general ; died in the island of Caprera, June 2, 1882. Quotation : Freemasonry. GARLINGHOUSE, Joseph, born at Albany, New York, 1798; died at Richmond, Ontario County, 1877. Quo- {{ztion, . Funeral. GARNETT, HENRY HIGHLAND, born a slave in Maryland, 1816; a colored clergyman and orator; died in Liberia, Africa, 1882. Quotation : Faculty. GARNETT, THOMAS, born at Casterton, 1766 : an English physician and author; died, 1802. Quotation : Zoology. GARNHAM, ROBERT HowARD, born, 1753 : an #ish divine and writer; died, 1802. Quotation : Venera- 1Oll. - GAROFALO, BLASIO, (Caryophilus,) born, 1677 ; an Italian antiquary, hellenist, hebraist, and author; died. 1762. Quotattion. Variance. GARRICK, DAVID, born at Hereford, 1716; a fainous English actor; died, February, 1779. Quotations: Benevolence—Life—Mirth. GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD, born in Newbury- port, Massachusetts, December 12, 1804; an American jour- inalist, philanthropist, and anti-slavery advocate ; died, 1879. Quotations: Allegiance — Covenant—Equality—Sla- very—World. GARTH, JOHN, born in London, 1742; a writer on miscellaneous topics; died, 1802. uotations : Exile— Learning. GARTH, SIR SAMUEL, born in Yorkshire, 1672 : an English physician and poet ; died, 1718. Quotations: Death—Facetiousness— Heraldry—Hermit-Homeliness— Hunger— Husband — Indiscrimination — Jail — Jar— Judg- ment—King— Kisses—Marriage— Master— Paradox— Self- Reproach—Subtlety—Translation—Wretchedness. GASCOIGNE, CAROLINE LEIGH, born, 1813; an English novelist. Quotation : Error. GASCOIGNE, GEORGE, born, 1530; an English poet and writer; died, 1577. Quotation : Gladness. GASCOIGNE, SIR WILLIAM, born in Yorkshire, 1850; an English judge noted for his moral courage; died, 1420. Quotation. : Wrath. GASKELL, ELIZABETH CLEGHORN, born, 1811 ; 8,Il English authoress; died, November 12, 1865. Quota- tä07? ... POOr. GASPARIN, N. BoISSIER, COMTESSE DE, born, 1815; a French authoress. Quotations. Death—Faith— Grief— Old Age—Psalms—Resurrection—Time—Years. GASTON, WILLIAM, born at Newbern, North Carolina, 1778; an eminent American jurist; died, 1844. Q?totations : Purpose—Slavery. GATAKER, THOMAS, born in London, 1574; an English divine and critic of great learning; died, 1654. Quotation : Jar. GATTI DE GAMOND, Zoe, MADAME, born, 1812; a celebrated French authoress. Quotation: Woman. GATTY, ALFRED, D.D., born, 1813; an English miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Gifts. GATTY, MARGARET, wife of the Pºdiº; born, §." popular English authoress; died, 1873. Quotation : &Ill. GAUBIL, ANTOINE, born at Gaillac, 1689 : an eminent French missionary and Jesuit; died in Pekin, China, 1759. Quotation : Antiquity. GAULI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, (Baciccio,) born in Genoa, 1639; a celebrated Italian painter; died, 1709. Quo- tations: Painting—Portrait. GAULTIER, JEAN BAPTISTE, born, 1685; a French divine and miscellaneous writer; died, 1755. Quotation : Righteousness. GAULTIER, LEONHARD, born at Mentz, 1552; a German engraver; died, 1615. Quotation : Study. GAULTIER, LOUIS EDMOND, born, 1799; a French traveller and littérateur: died, 1843. Quotation : Visits. GAURICU or GAURICO, (Bishop of Civitata, ) born at Gifoni, 1476; an Italian astrologer; died, 1558. Quo- tation. Difference. GAUTAMA. See BUDDHA. Quotations : Purity— Rain—Ruin—Sim — Stealing —Trees—Wealth—Wickedness —Worship. GAUTIER, (Dw War,) ISIDORE MARIE BRIGNOL- les, born, 1769; a French politician and author; died, 1824. Quotation : Wit. GAVAUDAN, JEAN SEBASTIEN FULCHRAN Bos- quier, born, 1776; a French actor and dramatist; died, 1843. Quotations: Caprice–Crusades. GAY, JOHN, born at Barnstable, 1688; an English oet and miscellaneous writer; died, 1732. Quotations : ostume—Education—Farge–Fortitude—Genius—Love— Pride—Shadow—Trinity—Variety. GAYARRE, CHARLES ARTHUR, born at New Orleans, January 3, 1805 ; an American historian and law- yer. Quotations : Frailty—Prairie. GEBHARDT, JOHANN, born, 1692; a Dutch phi- lologist and Writer; died, 1732. Quotation : Ingenuity. GED, WILLIAM, born in Edinburgh, 1690; a Scot- tish goldsmith and artist; died, 1749. Quotation : Writing. GEDDES, ALEXANDER, born in the county of Banff, Scotland, 1737; a Roman Catholic divine, controver- Salist, and translator; died, 1802. Quotation : Humanity. GEER, CARL DE, BARON, born, 1720 ; a distin- guished Swedish naturalist and author; died, 1778. Quo- tations: Nature—Spring. GEHL.E.R., JOHANN SAMUEL TRAUGOTT, born at Görlitz, 1751; a German physician, naturalist, and writer; died, 1795. Quotations : Goodness—Tobacco. GEIKIE, ARCHIBALD, born, 1835; a Scottish geol- ogist and writer. Quotation : Ivy. GEILER, JoHANN, born at Schaffhausen, 1445 ; a Swiss preacher and writer; died at Strasburg, 1510. Quo- tottiO), . Priest. GELASIUS I, SAINT, (Bishop of Rome,) born in Africa, about 419 ; died, 496. Q?totation : Scripture. GELLERT, CHRISTIAN FüRCHTEGOTT, born at Hainichen, in Saxony, July 4, 1715; a German poet, fabu- list, and dramatic author: died at Leipsic, December, 1769. Quotations : Creation—Critic–Earth—Prayer—Writing. GELLI, GIov ANNI BATTISTA, born at Florence, 1498; an Italian philologist, dramatic author, and philoso- pher; died, 1563. Quotation : Theatre. GELLIUS, AULUs, born in Rome in the early part of the second century; a Roman judge and writer; died in the reign of Marcus Aurelius. Quotations: Ballot —Neutrality—Superstition. GEMELLI-CARERI, GIov ANNI FRANCESCO, born, 1651 ; an Italian traveller and author: died, 1725. Quotation : Tongue. GEMINIANI, FRANCEsco, born at Lucca, Italy, 1680; an eminent composer and violinist ; died in Dublin, 1762. Quotation: Music. GENEVIEVE DE BRABANT, lived in the eighth century, daughter of the Duke of Brabant, and wife of Siffroi, palatin d'Offtendick. Quotation : Haughtiness. GENEVIEVE, SAINT, born, 419 ; the patron saint of Paris; died, 512. Quotation: Hymn. GENLIS, STÉPHANIE FáLICITÉ, (Ducrest de St. A ubin,) Countess of, born, 1746; a celebrated French au- thoress; died, 1830. Quotations : Absurdity—Gayety—Hap- piness—Love—Virtue. GENNADIUS, born at Marseilles, 423 : a French ecclesiastical writer; died, 492. Quotation : Superstition. GENOVESSI, ANTONIO, born near Salerno, 1712; an eminent Italian theologian, metaphysician, philosopher, and economist ; died at Naples, 1769. Quotation : Tyranny. GENTZ, FRIEDRICH voN, born at Breslau, 1764; a distinguished German publicist and author; died, 1882. Quotations: Progress—Secresy. GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH, (Bishop of St. Asaph,) #; 1100; an English historian ; died, 1154. Quotation : elp. GEOFFRIN, MARIE THäRi:SE RODET, MADAME, born in Paris, 1699; a French lady distinguished as a }. troness of learning and the fine arts; died in Paris, 1777. Quotation : Friendship. GEORGE I, LOUIs, King of England, born at Os- naburg, May, 1660; died at Osnaburg, June, 1727. Quota- tion : World. GEORGE III, FREDERICK WILLIAM, King of Great Britain, born, June 4, 1738; died, January, 1820. Quo- tations : Calling—Country—Desperation—Self–Trade. GEORGE IV, AUGUSTUs FREDERICK, King of Great Britain, born, August 12, 1762 ; died, June, 1880. Quo- tation : Conduct—Dying—Wife. GERANDO, JOSEPH MARIE, DE, born at Lyons, 1772; a French scholar and philosopher: died in Paris, 1842. Quotations: Delicacy—Love—See ng—Soul—Thinking. GERARD, (Cremonensis,) born, 1114 : an Italian Orientalist, astronomer, and translator; died, 1187. Quo- tation : Witchcraft. 1118 A) A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AW. GERARD, GILBERT, born at Aberdeen, 1748 ; an eminent scholar and theologian ; died, 1815. Qttotation : Genius. GERBERT, MARTIN, (BARON voN HORNAU,) born at Horb, Würtemberg, 1720; an eminent Austrian theolo- gian, scholar, and Writer. Quotation : Astronomy. GERDIL, GIACINTO SIGISMONDO, born in Savoy, 1718; a learned Italian Cardinal and philosopher ; died, 1802. Quotations: Reason—Iteserve. GERSCHOM, BEN JUDAH, born in France, 960 ; a celebrated Jewish rabbi and writer on the Talmud; died 1030. Quotation : Polygamy. GERSON, JEAN CHARLIER, born at the village of Gerson, near Rheims, 1363; an illustrious French theologi- cal and critical writer; died at Lyons, 1429. Quotation : Conscience. GERTRUDE, SAINT, (Abbess of Nivelle,) born in Brabant, 626; died, 659. Quotation: Wish. GERVASIUS, SAINT, a Christian of the first cen- tury, who suffered martyrdom under Nero. Quotation : Fil'Inness. GESNER, CONRAD, born at Zurich, March 26, 1516; a celebrated Swiss naturalist and scholar ; died at Zurich, December, 1565. Quotation. Fossils. GESSNER, SOLOMON, born at Zurich, 1730 ; a Swiss poet and artist ; died, 1787. totations : Alms—Be- nev Olence— Emplºyment- Good—Love—Misery—Moon— Passion—Sun—Virtue. GETHIN, LADY GRACE, born in Somerset, Eng- land, 1676; an English literary lady and moralist; died, 1697. Quotations: Compliment—Culture—Profanity—Re- venge—Study. GEYER, ERIC GUSTAv, born at Wärmeland, January 12, 1783; an eminent Swedish historian and poet; died, April 13, 1847. Quotation : Honor. * GHAZZI, ABū ISHAK AL-KALBI, AL, born at Ghazzi, 1049; a celebrated and talented Arabian poet and philosopher; died at Khorasan, 1130. Quotations: Induce- ment—Submission—Wound. GHILINI, GIROLAMO, born at Mouza, 1589 ; a learned Italian priest : died, 1670. Quotation : Refusal. GIBB, or GIB, ADAM, born in Perthshire, 1713; a Scottish theologian; died, 1788. Quotation : Faithfulness. GIBBES, JACQUES ALBAN, born, 1616; a French physician and author; died, 1677. Quotattion : Mercy. GIBBON, CHARLEs, born about 1550 : an English author: died, 1625. Quotations: Conjecture—Emotion. GIBBON, EDw ARD, born at Putney, 1737 ; one of the most eminent of English historians; died in London, January, 1794. Qtotations: Allegory— Books—Conversa- tion—Crusades—Education— History—Inpulse—Metaphor —Navigation—Reading—Religion—Self-Education. GIBSON, EDMUND, (Bishop of Lincoln,) born in Westmoreland, 1669; an eminent English divine—and wri- ter; died, 1748. Quotattion : Scepticism. GIBSON, THOMAs, born about 1492; an English naturalist and Protestant divine ; died, 1562. Quotations : Scoffing—Solitude—Wisdom. GIFFORD, ANDREw, born, 1700 : an English Bap- tist minister and noted antiquary ; died, 1784. Quotation : Virtue. GIFFORD, RICHARD, born, 1725; an English di- vine ; died, 1807. Quotation : Celebrity. GIFFORD, WILLIAM, born at Ashburton, Devon- shire, April, 1757; an enlinent English critic, and the prin- cipal founder of the “Quarterly Review ; ” died, Decem- ber, 1826. Quotation : Judgment. GILBERT, ELIAS STEELE, born in Richmond, New York, 1818; an American reform lecturer. Quota- tion. Alliance—Wrong. * GILBERT, JoBN, born in Kent, 1817 ; an English historical painter. Quotation : Pictures. GILBERT, WILLIAM, born at Colchester, 1540 ; an eminent English physician and scientific writer; died, 1603. Quotation: Gladness. GILBERT, WILLIAM SCHWENCK, B.A., born at 17, Southampton Street, Strand, London, November 18, 1836; an eminent English dramatic author and humorous writer. Quotations : Old Age—Truth. GILDAS, (Sapiens,) SAINT, born in Wales, 493 : an eminent ecclesiastic, and the earliest English historian ; died, 570. Quotation : Caprice. GILES, HENRY, born in Wexford county, Ireland, 1809; a Unitarian minister, and writer; emigrated to the United States, 1840. Quotations: Books—Esteem—Faith— Friendship—Heart – Laughter—Life— Literature — Man— Motive—Music—Obedience—Passion—Resolution—Song— Sorrow—Sympathy. GILFILLAN, GEORGE, born in Perthshire, 1813; a Scottish divine, critic, and popular essayist; died, Au- gust 13, 1878. Quotations: Children—Hell–Murder—Para- ble—Passion—Procrastination—Prophet. GILL, JOHN, born at Kettering, Northampton- shire, 1697; an English Baptist divine of great learning; died, 1771. Quotations: Honesty—Regeneration—Song. GILMAN, CAROLINE How ARD, born in Boston, Qctober 8, 1794; an American authoress. Quotations: Wife—Youth. GILPIN, BERNAR1), (Archdeacon of Durham, ) b9rn in Westmoreland, 1517; an exemplary English divine; died, 1583. Quotations: Mind—Music—Perjury—Pleasure —Trust—Utility—Virtue. GILPIN, WILLIAM, born at Carlisle, 1724; an eminent English divine and author; died, 1804. Quotations: Amusement—Analogy—Awe-Blushing— Boys—Caution— Company—Creed—Exaggeration—Grave-Guilt—Iniquity Z. J ºffee — Lying — Oak — Sacrament — Table — Trinity— €8110t. GILPRAZER, a Portuguese priest, of the fifteenth century. Quotation : Children. GIL VICENTE, born in Andulasia, Spain, 1745; a Spanish friar, distinguished as a preacher; died, 1815; Quotations: Evasion—Iright. GIORGI, ANTONIO AGOSTINO, born near Rimini, 1711; an Italian monk, linguist, and writer; died, 1797. Q?totation : Crusades. GIRARD, (la Père Girard,) GREGOIRE, born at Freyburg, 1765; a Swiss pedagogue and educational writer; died, 1850. Quotation : Consent. GIRARD, (Abbé Girard,) JEAN DE VILLETHIERRI born in Paris, 1641; an eminent French ecclesiastic and moral philosopher; died, 1709. Quotation : Dexterity. GIRARD, STEPHEN, born near Bordeaux, France, May 24, 1750; from a poor cabin boy he became a rich phil- adelphia merchant and banker, and died worth nine mil- lions of dollars. He founded the Girard College for Orphan Boys; died, 1831. Quotations : Audacity—Money—Mor- GlRARDIN, DELPHINE GAY, MADAME, born at Aix-la-Chapelle, January, 1804; a very popular French au- thoress; died in I’aris, 1855. Quotations : Grief—Hope— Inconstancy— Innocence — Instinct — Love — Pretension— Self-Interest—Society—Vanity—Youth. GIRARDIN, EMILE, DE, born in Switzerland, June 22, 1806; a celebrated French writer, publicist, and politician ; died in Paris, April 27, 1881. Quotation : Con- fidence. * GIRAUDIERE, LA, born in Paris, 1813; a French poet and littérateur. Quotation : Men. GIRONI, ROBUSTIANO, L' ABBé, born, 1769; an Italian bibliographer and archaeologist ; died, 1838. Quo- tattion : Childhood. GIRY, FRANÇois, born, 1635; a French theologian, pºcher. and hagiographer: died, 1688. Quotation : Me- Ody. e GISBORNE, THOMAs, born at Derby, 1758; an English divine and poet; died, 1846. Quotations : Rindness —Principles—Reason—Ireligion. GLADSTONE, WILLIAM EwART, M.P., born in Liverpool, December 29, 1809; a distinguished English statesman, orator, and author. Quotations : , Advertise- ments—Commerce—Duty—Government--Ireligion—Youth. GLAN VILL, Joseph, born at Plymouth, 1636; an eminent English divine and author ; died at Bath, 1680. Quotations: Congruity—Dogmatism—Eyasion-Imitation -Impiety—Index-Innocence— Men-Mind- Qbstinacy— Opinion—Organization—Pedantry—Policy—Politics—Pre- cipitancy—Self-Knowledge — Soul—Spirit—Style–Trial— Truth—Understanding—Versification—Words. GLANVILLE, RANULPH.Us DE, born about 1121 ; an eminent English lawyer, statesman, judge, and Crusa- der ; killed at the siege of Acre, 1190. Quotations: Admi- ration—Judgment. GLASS, JoHN, born in Fifeshire, 1695; a Scottish clergyman and writer; died, 1773. Quotation: Religion. GLEIG, GEORGE ROBERT, born, 1796; a Scotch clergyman and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Intim- a Cy. - GLEIM, JOHN WILHELM, LUDwig, (Father Gleim,) born at Ermsleben, 1719 : a popular German poet : died, 1803. Quotations : º—ºing –Procrastination—Prosperity—Roses—To-Day—Youth. GLION, GUTo Y.; a Welch bard and prose writer. Quotation : Fireside. GLOUCESTER, ROBERT OF. Gloucester. GLOVER, CAROLINE HARRIET, a daughter of Mrs. Caroline Gilman, born, 1823; an American authoress. Quotation : Language. GLOVER, RICHARD, born in London, 1712; an English poet and scholar; died, 1785. Quotation : Hypoc- r1sy. GLYNDON. HENRY, an American lecturer and writer, Quotation : Civilization. See ROBERT OF A / O G /ø A /2 Aſ / C A Z / AV /) A X . 1 119 GMELIN, SAMUEL THEOPHILUs, born, 1743; a German physician, traveller, botanist, and writer; died, 1774. Quotation : Vegetables. GOBRYAS, born about 487; a Persian noble and conspirator against Smerdis; died, 540.’ Quotation : Pros- perity. GOCH, YNAD ; a Welch prose writer. Quotation : Fiend, - GODEAU, ANTOINE, (Bishop of Grasse and Vence,) born, 1605; a French poet and ecclesiastical historian ; died, 1672. Quotation : Right. GODFREY OF BOULOGNE. See GOTHOFREDUS. GODFREY, THOMAs, born at Philadelphia, 1672 ; an American mathematician and astronomer; died, 1749. Quotation : Mathematics. GODFREY, THOMAS, born in England, 1692 ; an eminent divine and religious writer; died, 1763. Quotat- tions : GOOdneSS—Prince. GODKIN, E. L., born about 1830 ; an American journalist and magazine writer. Quotations : Journalism —News—Press. GODKIN, JAMEs, born in London, 1806; an Eng- lish editor, essayist, and miscellaneous writer. Quottſ- tion : Innocence. GODWIN, FRANCIS, (Bishop of Llandaff and Hereford,) born, 1561; an English antiquarian and ecclesi- astical historian ; died, 1633. Quotation : Woe. GODWIN, MARY. See WALLSTONECROFT. GODWIN, PARKE, born at Paterson, New Jersey, February 25, 1816; an American editor and author. ...Qtto- zations. Anarchy—Editor — Independence — Journalism— Motive—Newspaper—Press—Reserve—Sympathy. GODWIN, THOMAs, (Bishop of Bath and Wells,) born in Berkshire, 1517; an eminent Fnglish divine and writer; died, 1590. Quotation : Eloquence. GODWIN, WILLIAM, born in Cambridgeshire, 1756; a celebrated English novelist; died, 1836. Quota- tions : Equality—Kisses— Love—Sincerity—Slavery—Soci- ety—Storm—Zest. GCETHE, JOHN WOLFGANG, VON, born at Frank- fort, 1749; an eminent German dramatic author, poet, naturalist, and Savant, and the most illustrious name in his country's literature ; died, March 22, 1832. R&Ot(!tions : Absence —Action — Activity — Advantage —Affectation — Ages—Anticipation—Appreciation —Art—Aspiration—Au- thors—Beauty—Beginning —Behavior—Blockhead—Boys— Carefulness—Care—Change—Character—Church—Circuln- stances—City – Confidence — Contem §ºol Contempt— Conversation—Conversion — Counterfeit—Courage—Cour- tesy—Cowardice – Creator — Danger — Derision —Desire— Destiny—Devil — Devotion — Dogs — Doubt — Education— Employment—Encouragement —Energy—Enigma—Enjoy- ment—Enthusiasm—Equality—Error– Excellence—Expla- nation—Faith—Falsehood—Fancy—Fate—Faults—Feeling —Folly—Fortune—Freedom—Friendship—Future—Genius —Gifts—Girl—God—Good — Good-Will—Grief—Hair—Hap- iness—Hate — Heart — Hero — History — Home—Humor— ypocrisy— Ignorance — IIl-Nature — Imagination—Imita- tation—Improvement — Inaction — Inclination—Infinity— Ingratitude—Inheritance—Instinct—Instrument--Intellect — Intemperance — Irresolution — Isolation — Judgment — Kindness—Knowledge—ROran —Land–Language—Laugh- ter—Law—Liberality — Life – Light-Literature—Loye— Masquerade—Men—Merit—Method —Miracle—Mirth—Moh —Moderation — Money — Moon — Moonlight — Multitude— Music—Name — Necessity– Nobility—Old Age—Opinion— Originality—Others—Passion — Past — Patriotism—Persua- sion—Plant—Pleasure — Poet — Politics—Position—Posses- sign-Power—Praise—Predestination—Present--Prettiness —Privacy—Progenitor – Prosperity — Prudence —Public– Quarrels—Question —Quotation — Rabble—Rank—Reading —Reason--Relations—Religion--Resignation—Rest—-Riches —Rights–Rogue — Sabbath — Sacriflce — Sculpture — Self- Agcusation--Self-Confidence—-Self-Government--Self-Love —Selfishness — Sensitiveness — Silenge — Silliness—Sister— Slavery—Sleep—Society—Solitude—Sorrow—Soul—Specta- cles--Spirit. Study–Style—Success—Superstition-Surgeon –Talent —Teaching-Tenderness —Testament-Theatre— Thought—Throne —Time —Truth —Understanding—Unity — Usefulness — Uxoriousness —Vanity —Virtue — Voice — Wanderer — Warrior — Weakness — Wife — Will —Wish — Woman—World—Writing—Years—Youth. GOETNER, C.C. : a German dramatist and mis- cellaneous writer. Quotation : Necessity. GOEZ, DAMIAN DE, born near Lisbon, 1501; a flººse historian and author; died, 1573. Quotation: €al'111g. GOLDINGE, WILLIAM, born, 1548 ; an English divine, and miscellaneous writer; died, 1613. Quotation : Fashness. GOLDONI, CARLO, ( the Italian Molière, ) born at Venice, 1707 : an Italian dramatist and theatrical re- former; died, 1793. Quotations: Blushing—Gluttony—Her- esy—Laughter—Marriage—Nobility—Prejudice—Prudence Talking–Travel—World. GOLDSMITH, J. C. : an American journalist. Quotations : Föitor—Press. GOLDSMITH, OLIVER, born in Pallas, county Longford, Ireland, 1728; a celebrated poet and miscella- neous Writer; died, April 4, 1774. Quotations : Ability — Absence —Absurdity — Advice — Affectation — Ancestry— Antiquity—Appetite—Attachment — Authors — Benefits— Books—Calamity—Ceremony—City–Compliment—Critic— Culture—Discontent—Dogs—Dress—Education—Epitaph— Error—Falling—Fancy — Faults — Fear—Features—Fool— Friendship – Frugality – Future — Generosity — Genius — Good—Good-Nature—Greatness — Handsomeness — Heart —Human-Nature — Husband — Ignorance — Imprudence — Incredulity—Innocence—Jest—Knowledge — Labor—Lady —Language—Law—Life—Loquacity—Love—Luxury–Mar- riage—Mind — Minister — Miser— Misfortune — Modesty— News—Novels — Philosophy — Pity — Pleasure — Politics — Poor—Poverty—Praise—Present — Pride—Projector—Pru- dence—Prudery—Quality — Quarrels —Question — Reserve —IRetirement—Riches—Sagacity–Silence—Sincerity–Soul —Speech—Tenderness —Thinking —Title —Trifle — Wife— Wisdom—Wit. GONTHIER, F. ALBERT, born 1807; a protestant divine. Quotation : Gentile. GONZALES, SAINT PETER, (SAINT TELM,) born at Astorga, 1190; an eminent and pious divine ; died, 1246. Quotation : Zeal. GONZAGA, LUCREZIA DI, born about 1512; an lºrious Italian authoress; died, 1576. Quotation : Pow- erty. GOOD, JOHN MASON, born at Epping, May, 1764; an English physician and author; died, January, 1827. Q&otation. Instinct. GOODELL, WILLIAM, born about 1800 ; an Amer- ican clergyman, a vigorous writer on slavery, temperance political and church reform, and author of “T)emocracy o Christianity,” (New York, 1849.); died, 1880. Quotations : Army—Bondage—Brotherhood—Democracy—I}espotism— Equality—Humanity— Jews—Judges—Jury—King—Legis- lature—Mankind – Iłace — Statute —Tariff—Usurpation— Worship. - GOODMAN, CHRISTOPHER, born at Chester, 1520; *English Puritan divine; died, 1602. Quotation : Hon. esty. GOODMAN, GoDFREY, , (Bishop of Gloucester,) born in Denbighshire, North Wales, 1583; an eminent di- Vine and author; died, 1655. Quotation : Good-Nature. GOODRICH, CHAUNCEY ALLEN, born at New Hayen, Connecticut, October, 1790; an American scholar and divine ; died, 1860. Quotations ; Abridgment—Abuse —ACQuirement--Allegiance—Awe--Axiom--Ridiculousness —Synonym. GOODRICH, SAMUEL GRIswold, (Peter Parley,) born at Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1793; an American com- piler and writer; died, 1863. Quotations: Courage—Curi- Osity—Fireside — Habit — Parent — Patriotism — Persever- ance—Self-Government, GOODWIN, John, born, 1593; an English Puritan divine and writer; died, 1665. Quotation : Tyrant. GOODWIN, THOMAs, born in Norfolk, 1600; an English Non-conformist divine and writer; died, 1679. Quotation: Bereavement. GOODWIN, WILLIAM, born in London, 1573 ; an English divine and author ; died, 1642. Quotations: Atone- ment—Death—Severity. GOOGE, BARNABY, born, 1538; an English trans- lator and poet ; died, 1609. Quotation : Ending. GORDIANUS, MARCUs ANTONIUs, (Africanws,) born, 157 A.D.; proconsul of Africa and emperor of Rome; died by suicide, 238. Quotation : Prince. GORDON, GEORGE, born in London, 1750; the leader of the “Gordon Tiots;” died in prison, 1793. Quo- tºttiolus : Conscience—Despotism. GORDON, PRYSE LOCKHART, born in England, 1782; an English author; died, 1847. Quotation : Speech. GORE, CATHERINE GRACE, born in Nottingham- shire, 1799: a distinguished English authoress; died, 1861. Q?totations : Chastisement — Egotism — Misanthropy—Na- ture—Self–Youth. GORGIAS, born in Leontini, in Sicily, 480 B.C.; hetorician and philosopher; 365 B.C. Quotation : Rey- elry. GORLAEUS, ABRAHAM, born at Antwerp, 1549; a distinguished antiquary, numismatist, and author; died, 1609. Quotation : Perseverance. GORMANSTON, ROBERT, VISCOUNT, born about 1440; deputy-lieutenant of Ireland; died, 1531. Quotation : Nobility. GORNICKI, LUCAs, born, 1530; a Polish political writer; died, 1600. Quotation : Calculation. GOSS, GUSTAvus F#NELON, born at Montpelier, Vermont, 1820; an American scholar; died, 1847. Quota- tion : Dandy. GOSSE, HENRI ALBERTET, born at Geneva, 1753 : a Swiss chemist and writer; died, 1816. Quotation : Bath. GOSSNER, John ; an English divine and writer. Quotations : Persecution. 1 120 A) A Y'S CO /, / A C O AV. GOSSON, STEPHEN, born in Kent, 1554; an Eng- # divine and dramatist ; died, 1623. Quotation : Forti- ..ll.016. GOSSUIN, (Abbot of Anchin, ) born, 1086 ; a #. theologian and philosopher; died, 1166. Quotation: Oil IA628S. GOTZE or GOETZE, GEORG HEINRICH, born in Leipsic, 1667; an eminent Lutheran divine and author; died in Berlin, 1728. Quotation : Decoration. GOTHOFREDUS, BolonLENSIs, (GoDEFROID OF Boulogne,) born near NiVille, France, 1058; the illustrious leader of the first Crusade ; died, 1100. Quotattiolus : Crown —Yielding. GOTTHOLD, JoHANN E. L.; a German poet and miscellaneons Writer. (Attolations. Bees—Cloud—Friend- ship—Guest—Hypocrisy—Pleasure. GOTTI, VINCENZIo LUIGI, born, 1664; an Italian cardinal, controversialist, and author; died, 1742. Quota- tion. Haughtiness. GOTTLIEB, JOHANN CHRISTOPH, born in Berlin, 1710; a celebrated German poet and miscellaneous writer; died in Geneva, 1779. Quotalionts : Head–Ingratitude— Intemperance. GOUCHARD, VICTOR, a modern French writer. Quotation : Precocity. GOUGE, THOMAS, born near Stratford, 1605; an eminent English Nonconformist divine and author ; died, 1681. Quotation : Death. GOUFFIER, MARIE GABRIELAUGUSTE LAURENT, (Comte de Choiseul,) born, 1752; a French writer, travel- ler, and diplomatist: died, 1817. Quotation : Petition. GOUGH, JoHN B., born at Sandgate, Kent, 1817, emigrated to the United States, 1829; a celebrated orator and lecturer on temperance. Quotations : Company – Drinking—Infatuation—Snare—Sympathy—Temperance. GOUJET, CLAUDE PIERRE, born in Paris, 1697; a French writer: died, 1767. Quotations: Perseverance — Talking. GOULBURN, EDWARD MEYRICK, D.D., (Dean of Norwich,) born, 1818; an English theologian and master of Rugby School. Quotations: Prayer — Progress — Provi- dence—Spirituality—Success. GOUVEA, (Goveanu,) ANTONIO DE, born, 1505; a Portuguese jurist, philosopher, and author ; died, 1566. Quotation : Hearing. GOWANS, WILLIAM, born in Lanark, Scotland, 1805; an eminent bibliographer. Quotation : Love. GOWER, JoHN, born, 1320 ; one of the earliest of English poets; died, 1402. Quotations: Caprice—Oblivion. GOWER, JoFIN, EARL OF, (SIR JOHN,) born, 1710 ; Wºnglish Courtier and Statesman; died, 1781. Quotation : IIe GOZLAN, LÉON, born at Marseilles, 1806; a wor- thy French dramatist; died, 1866. Quotations: Love — Opinion. GOZZI, CARLO, COUNT, born at Venice, 1720; an #ºn littérateur and dramatist; died, 1806. Quotation : €8, St. GRACEY, ROBERT, born in London, 1812; an English divine. Quotation : Innovation. GRAGALIA, born at Geneva, Switzerland, about 1836; a Swiss communist and advocate of labor reform. Quotation : Remedy. GRAHAM, F. TAVERNER : an American educa- tional writer, (New York, 1875.) Quotation : Elocution. GRAHAM, GEORGE FARQUHAR, born about 1800; a , Scottish educational writer. Quotations : Ability — Abridgment—Answer—Capacity— Conjecture— Culture— Custom-Defect—Derision- Difficulty—Divinity —Doubt— Eccentricity--Equivocation—Excitement—Facility—-Hand- Someness— Hope— Hopelessness – Hurry— Impossibility— Inhumanity—Insolence—Keeping—Listening—Refutation -Security – Taciturnity — Temple — Value — Vegetation— Victory. GRAHAM, ISABELLA, born in Lanarkshire, July 20, 1742, emigrated to the United States 1789 : a Scottish philanthropist and writer; died in New York city, July 27, 1814. Quotations : Usefulness—Widow. GRAHAM, MARY JANE, born in London, 1803; a literary Englishwoman ; died, 1830. Quotation : Expense. GRAHAM, SYLVESTER, born in Suffield, Connec- ticut, 1794; a noted American reformer and writer; died. 1851. Quotation : Bread. GRAHAME, NELLIE, the mom de plume of Mrs. A. K. Dunning, born in New York, about 1835; a popular American authoress. Quotation : Illusion. GRANADA, FRAY LUIs DE, born, 1505; a dis- tinguished Spanish Dominican writer and pulpit orator; died, 1588. Quotations : Death—Life—Pleasure—Wisdom. GRANGER, FRANCIS, born in Hartford county, Connecticut, 1787; an American politician; died, 1868. Quo- tations: Slavery—Trade. GRANT, SIR, ALEXANDER, BART, LL.D., born, 1826; an English philosopher. Quotation : Essay. GRANT, JAMES, born in Edinburgh, August 1, 1822; a popular writer. Quotation Vagrant * - º GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON, born at Point Pleas- ant, Clermont county, Ohio, April 27, 1822; the eighteenth President of the United States, and a distinguished gen. eral. Quotations: Expediency–Party—Peace–People. GRANVILLE, GEORGE, Viscount LANDspowNE, born, 1667; an English statesman, poet, and courtier; died. 1785. Quotations: Congruity—Harm—Reputation. GRAPALDUS or GRAPALDI, FRANCESCO MA- ria, born, 1464; an Italian poet and writer; died, 1515. Quto- tottion : Appreciation. GRAS, ANTHONY, LF, born, 1695; a French eccle- Siastic ; died, 1761. Quotation : Satire. GRATAROLI or GRATAROLUS, GUGLIELMO, born, 1516; an Italian poet and author; died, 1568. Quota- tion : Applause. GRATIAN, born about 1100 : an Italian Benedic- tine divine and writer; died, 1177. Quotations: Friend- Ship—Speaking. - - GRATTAN, HENRY, born in Dublin, 1750 ; a dis- tinguished Irish statesman and Orator; died, May, 1820. Quotations: Age—Hate. GRATTAN, THOMAS COLLEY, born in Dublin, 1795; a popular Irish novelist; died, 1864. Quotation : Jewels. GRAUMANN, Joh ANN PHILIPPE, born, 1710; a Prussian financier, economist, and writer; died, 1762. Quo- tation : Hope. GRAUNT, EDwARD, born, 1550; an English scho- lar and wit: died, 1601. Quotation : Polygamy. GRAUNT, John, born in London, 1620; an Eng- lish merchant and writer; died, 1674. Quotation : Horse. GRAVES, RICHARD, born in Gloucester, 1715 ; an FInglish divine and writer; died, 1804. Quotations : Com- plaint—Grumbler. GRAVINA, GIov ANNI VINCENzo, born at Rog- giano, Calabria, 1664; a distinguished Italian jurist and writer; died in Rome, 1718. Quotation : Humanity. GRAY, JOHN CHIPMAN : an American writer and essayist, (Boston, 1856.) Quotation : Speech. GRAY. THOMAS, born in London, 1716 : an emi- nent English poet and writer; died, July, 1771. Quota- tions: Employment—Faults. GRAY, WILLIAM, (Bishop of London and Lin- coln,) born, 1368; an eminent English divine ; died, 1436. Quotation : Fury. GRAY, WILLIAM, born in Boston, Massachusetts, about the middle of the eighteenth century; a Successful American merchant. Quotation, ; Business. GRAYSON, P. W.; an American writer, (New York, 1830.) Quotation : Christianity. GRAZIANI, ANTONIO MARIA, (Bishop of Amelia,) born, 1537 : an eminent divine and writer; died, 1611. Quo- tation : Taciturnity. - GRAZIANI, GIROLAMO, born, 1604 ; an Italian poet; died, 1675. Quotation: Jealousy. GRECOURT, JEAN BAPTISTE, DE, born at Tours, 1684; a French poet and littérateur ; died, 1743. Quota- tion : Reproof. GREELEY, HORACE, born at Amherst, New Hampshire, February 3, 1811; an American journalist, po- litical economist, and author. He founded the “New York Tribune,” and was distinguished as an Opponent of slavery; died, November 29, 1872. Quotations: Advertisements— Approbation—Character—Debt--Editor—Education--Fame —Grief –Intemperance— Intoxication— Journalism- Mis- signary–Monopoly-Newspaper—Panic–Pastime—Purity —Rest—Scheming—Work. GREEN, HENRY L., born at Salamanca, Pennsyl- vania, 1837; an American sceptic and reform lecturer. Quotation : Free-Thinking. GREEN, JOHN, (Bishop of Lincoln.), born, 1706; an eminent divine and anthor; died, 1779. Quotation : Catechism. e GREEN, MATTHEw, born in London, 1696 : an English poet and writer; died, 1737. Quotation : News. GREEN, ROBERT, born at Ipswich, 1560; an Eng- lish dramatist; died, 1592. Quotations: Versification – ice. GREEN, THOMAS, born at Ipswich, 1769 : an Eng- lish writer; died, 1825. Quotation: Humbug. GREENE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, born, 1811; an American author and diplomatist: died, 1879. Quotation : Geography. & e GREENE, NATHANIEL, born in Warwick, Rhode Island. May 27, 1742: a distinguished American general; died of sunstroke, June 19, 1786. Quotations: Humanity— War. A / O G A' A P // / C A / / /V ZD AE A . I 121 GREENE, ROBERT, born, 1560; an English lit- térateur and humorous poet ; died, 1592. Quotation : Flat- tery. - GREENLEAF, SIMON, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1783; all Alinerican jurist and Writer; died, 1853. Quotation : Proof. - GREENOUGH, HoRATIO, born in Boston, 1805 ; an American sculptor and essayist; died, December, 1852. Quotation : Neatness. GREEN WELL, DORA, born, 1821 ; an English poetess and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Difficulty. GBEEN WOOD, FRANCIS WILLIAM PITT, born in Boston, 1797; an American Unitarian minister; died, 1843. Quotations: Spring—Winter. GREEN WOOD, GRACE, the nom de plwme of Sarah Jane (Clarke) Lippincott, born at Pompey, Qnondaga county, New York, 1823; a popular authoress and lecturess." Quotations: Candor – Childhood — Cookery – Creation — Lips—Memory—Weeping. GREEN WOOD, John, born, 1545 ; an English Puritan divine and author; died, 1612. Quotation : idiot. GREG, WILLIAM RATHBONE, born, 1810; an Eng- lish miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Religion. GREGG, John, (Bishop of Cork,) born, 1798; an eminent divine and writer. Quotations: Communion — Theology—Proverbs. GREGORY I, Pope, surnamed, THE GREAT, born, 550; eminent for his piety; died, 604. Quotation : Power. GREGORY VI, Pop E, (GIov ANNI GRATIANO, ) born in Rome, about 972; became pope, 1044, and was de- posed, 1046; died, 1047. 2008࠘. Praise. GREGORY VII, Pope, born near Soana, in Tus- cany, 1015; died, 1085. Quotations : Popery—Worth. GREGORY XVI, POPE, (MAURO CAPPELLARI,) born at Belluno, 1765: an eminent Statesman and diploma- tist ; died, 1846. Quotations: Conscience—Popery—Press —Separation—Tradition. GREGORY, EDMUND, born, 1650 ; an English author; died, 1723. Quotation : Equivocation. GREGORY, JAMES, M.D., born at Aberdeen, 1753; a Scotch physician and author; died, 1821. Quotation : Usefulness. GREGORY, NAZIANZEN, SAINT, born near Na- zeenzus, 328; a celebrated Greek Father and theologian ; died, 389. Quotations : Accusation—Beginning—Bribery— Caprice — Change — Chastity – Confession – Conscience— Corruption—Creature— Ending—Envy—Error—Goodliness —Liberty—I life. - GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT, LL.D., born in Huntingdonshire, 1774; an eminent English mathematician and philosopher; died, 1841. L_Q?totations : Astrology — Cluristianity–Devil—Heaven–Help-Humility—Ignorance —Prodigality—Proselyte—Biches— Scepticism—Sensation —Sunshine—Tears. GREPPI, GIov ANNI, born at Bologna, 1751; an Italian dramatist ; died, 1811. Quotation, Paradise. GRESHAM, SIR. THOMAS, born in London, 1519; a wealthy English merchant, and the founder of the Royal Exchange ; died, 1579. Quotations: Usefulness—Wealth. GRESLEY, WILLIAM, born, 1801 ; a popular English writer; died, 1877. Quotations: Fashion—Laugh- ter—Society—Viciousness. GRESSET, JEAN BAPTISTE LOUIS, born at Ami- ens, 1709; a French dramatist ; died, 1777. Quotation : Wisdoln. GREVILLE, SIR FULKE, (LORD BROOKE,) born in Warwickshire, 1554; an English poet and miscellaneous writer; died, 1628. Quotations: Adversity — Ambition— Beauty--Character—Conduct—Contentment—-Conversation —Courage — Cunning — Discernment— Doubt— Freedom— Generosity--Good-Humor—-Government—-Grief—-Judgment —King—Knowledge—Laughter—Light—Love—Misfortune —Music — Neutrality – Offense — Penetration — Pliancy — —Policy—Politeness—Prejudice—Pride—Self-Deceit—Soul —Statues—Taste—Temper—Vanity—World. GREVILLE, H.; an English miscellaneous writer and author. Qºtotation : Miser. GREW, NEHEMIAH, born at Coventry, 1628; an English naturalist and writer; died, 1711. Quotations: Brute—Choice-Condemnation -— Consent—Contemplation —Contentment — Duration — Omnipotence — Spectacles— Time—Truth. GREW, OBADIAH, D.D., father of the preceding, born in Warwickshire, 1607; an English Puritan divine died, 1698. Quotation : Home. GREY, MRS. E. C.; an English novelist and mis- cellaneous writer. Quotation : Futurity. GREY, LADY JANE, granddaughter of Henry the Seventh, born, 1537; a lady of extraordinary talents and learning; executed, 1554. Quotations: Bible—Trial. GREY. THERESA, THE HONORABLE MES., wife of William Grey, born, 1800; an English authoress and travel- ler; died, 1867. Quotations : Government—Riches. GREY, ZACHARY, born in York, 1687; an English divine and author: died, 1766. Quotation : Intemperance. GRIBALDUS or GRIBALDI, MATTEO, (Mosa, ) born, 1520; an Italian jurist and writer; died, 1564. Quotat- tion : Abundance. GRIFFIN, EDWARD DORR, D.D., born at East Haddain, Connecticut, 1770; an American Presbyterian divine ; died, 1837. Quotation : Savage. GRIFFIN, GERALD, born at Limerick, 1803; an Irish novelist: died, 1840. Quotation : Boasting. GRIFFITHS, RALPH, born, 1720; an English bookseller, and the first editor and proprietor of the Month- ly Review ; died, 1803. Quotation : Kissing. - GRIMBOLD, NICOLAs, born, 1519: an English translator and poet; died, 1563. Quotation : Love. GRIMESTONE, or GRYMESTONE, EDw ARD, born, 1528; an English historian and politician ; died, 1609. Quotations : Judgments—Wisdom. GRIMKE, ANGELINA, born in Charleston, South Carolina, 1810; a lecturer on Slavery and Women's IRights. Quotation : Zeal. GRIMKE, SARAH M., sister of the preceding ; an American writer on the equality and condition of women, (BOston, 1838.) Quotation : Insect. GRIMKE, THOMAS SMITH, LL.D., father of the two preceding, born in Charleston, South Carolina, 1786; an American jurist and philanthropist ; died, 1834. Quota- tions : Fiction—Mathematics—Translation. GRIMM, FRIEDRICH MELCHOIR, BARON DE, born in Ratisbon, December 25, 1723; a witty German writer; died at Gotha, December, 1807. Q?totations: Fanaticism— Greatness—Night—Office—Success. GRIMM, JAKOB LUDWIG, born at Hanau, January 4, 1785: ... a distinguished German jurist, historiographer, and philanthropist ; died in Berlin, September 20, 1863. Quotation : Language. GRINDON, LEOPOLD HARTLEY, born at Bristol, March 28, 1818; an English natural philosopher and writer. Q?totations : Air Auth orship — Burial—Cloud —Creator— Critic–Eating—Enjoyment–Entertainment — Exertion— Existence—Fear—Life—Motion—Reading—Sublimity— Work—Years. GRISWOLD, RUFUs WILMOT, born at Benson, Rutland county, Vermont, February, 1815 : an American critic and editor: died in the city of New York, August, 1857. Quotation : , Instruction—Interest—Invention—Lit- erature—Poet—Pride—Security—Utility—Writing. GROSART, ALExANDER. B. : an English Presby— iº minister and author. Q7zotritions: Fasting—Irregu- arity. g GROSVENOR, BENJAMIN, born, 1675: an English dissenting divine ; died, 1758. Quotation. Death. GROT, J. C. Quotations: Death—Sinner. GROTE, GEORGE, D.C.L., F.R.S., born near Beck- enham, Kent, 1794; an eminent English historian ; died, June 18, 1871. Quotations. Honesty—Oratory. GROTIUS, HUGO, born at Delft, April 10, 1583; a distinguished Dutch theologian, jurist, and political wri- ter; died, August, 1645. Qttotations: Sea—Soldier–State. GROVE, HENRY, born in Somersetshire, 1683 ; an English dissenting divine; died, 1738. Q7zotations: Be- nevolence—Fullness—Man—Prudence—Trees, GROW, GALUSHA A., born in Windham county, Connecticut, 1823; an American politican. Quotation : Defense. GRUBER, GREGOR MAXIMILIAN, born at Horn, Austria, 1739; a German antiquary; died, 1799. Qºtotations : Regularity—Weather. GRUFFUDD, T.; a Welch poet and prose writer. Quotation: Destruction. GRUN, ANATASIAs, (COUNT ANTON ALEXANDER Von Auersperg,) born at Laybach, Austria, 1806; a German pº and littérateur. Quotations: Lending—Love—Plow —Tea,I’S. GRUN, JEAN JACQUES CHARLES ALPHONSE, born, 1801; a French jurist and littérateur. Quotation : Discontent. GRYPHUS, ANDREAs, born at Glogan, Silesia, 1616; a celebrated German poet and dramatist; died, 1664. Quotation : Grave. GUALTER, RODOLPH, born about 1502; a classi- cal scholar and author; died, 1577. Quotations: Bees— Church—Reserve—Sailor. GUERCHOIS, MADELEINE, born, 1679; a cele- brated French authoress ; died, 1740. Quotation : Dili- gence. GUERET, GABRIEL, born, 1641 ; a French advo- cate and littérateur; died, 1688. Quotation: Credulity. GUERET, Louis GABRIEL, born, 1678; a French ecclesiastical writer; died, 1758. Quotation: Covetousness. 71 1122 A) A Y '.S C O /, / A C O AV. GUERGUIL, ABBé JEAN BAPTISTE, born, 1693 ; a French theologian and orator; died, 1764. Quotation : Credulity–Danger. GUERICKE, OTTo voN, born, 1602; a German experimental philosopher ; died, 1686. Quotation : Brains. GUERIN, CAMILLE, born, 1819; a French physi- cian and political writer. Quotation : Mildness. GUERIN, EUGENIE, DE, born at the château Du Cayla, in ianquedoc, 18tº ; an enminent French authoress, and endowed with rare intelligence ; died, May, 1848. Quo- tation: Humanity. GUERIN, GEORGES MAURICE DE, DU CAYLA, brother of the preceding, born near Albi, in Lanquedog, 1810; a French poet and miscellaneous writer; died, 1839. Quotations : Christ—Happiness. GUERIN, GERARD, born, 1626 : a French ecclesi- astical writer and préacher; died, 1696. Quotation : Ne- cessity. GUERIN, Joseph XAVIER BENEZET, born, 1775; a French littérateur, historian, and naturalist; died, 1850. Quotation : Money. - GUERIN, NICOLAs FRANÇors, born, 1711 ; a French ecclesiastical writer; died, 1782. Quotation : Per- July. GUERIN, SAINT, (Bishop of Autun,) born, 626 ; an eminent divine; died, 678. Quotation : Conversation. GUERIN D' ESTRICHE, ARMAND GRESINDE Claire Elisabeth, wife of Molière, born, 1645; a French actress; died, 1700. Quotation : Motive. GUERIN DE GY L'EVESQUE, born, 1280; a French hagiographer; died, 1348. Quotation : Credulity. GUERIN DUROCHER, FRANÇois RobºFT, born, 1736; a French missionary and writer; died, 1792. Quota- tion. Meanness. GUERIN DU ROCHER, PIERRE, born, 1731: a French Jesuit, archaeologist, and littérateur; died, 1792. Quotation : Misery. GUERINEAU DE SAINT PERAVY, JEAN NIC- olas Marcelin, born, 1735; a French miscellaneous writer; died, 1789. Quotation : Critic. GUEVARA, ANTONIO DE, (Bishop of Cadiz,) born, 1490; a Spanish preacher and historiographer; died, 1544. Quotation : Virtue. GUEVARA, LUIs VALEz DE LA DUENAs Y, born in Andulasia, 1576; a celebrated Spanish dramatist, author, and novelist ; died, 1644. Quotations: Acting—Counsel— Liscretion—Honor—Indigence—News—Speech—Station. GUICCIARDINI, FRANCEsco, born at Florence, of one of the most illustrious families of Italy, March 6 1482; a celebrated historian, jurist, and diplomatist ; died by suicide, May 27, 1540. Quotations : Advice–Ambassador —Caution--Counsel—Country--Deceit–Decision--Duplicity —Enemy—Events—Evil—Excuse— Extremes—Forgiveness —Gifts—Good—Home — Hope — Imitation — Ingratitude— Jealousy—Knayery–Marriage—Men—Necessity–Neutral- it prºpºr.º.º.º.º.ºn — Plan—Prince—Prudence—Reconciliation— Reputation— Result—Revenge — Silenge—Sincerity—Son—Table—Ven- geance—Victory—Vote—Wisdom—Yielding. GUICCIARDINI, LUIGI, nephew of the preceding, born, 1523; an Italian historian and littérateur; died, 1589. Quotation : Impatience. GUIDO, GUERRA, lived about 1254 ; an Italian military captain. Quotations: Idleness—Smoking. GUILD, OsCAR N., born at Perry, New York, 1819; an American miscellaneous writer. Quotation: Dan- d r Y. GUILLEVILLE, GUILLAUME DE, (Prior of Cha- liz, ) born, 1295; a French poet and littérateur; died, 1360. Quotation : Exposure. GUILLOTIN, JOSEPH IGNACE, born at Saintes 1738; a French physician, who as a member of the Nationa ASSenably, proposed that criminals should be decapitated. He was m0t the inventor of the instrument which bears his name; died, 1814. Quotation : Punishment. GUITEAU, CHARLEs JULIUs, born at Freeport, Illinois, September 8, 1841; an American lawyer, and the assassin of President Garfield; executed at Washington, June 30, 1882. Quotation : Insanity. GUIZOT, ELISABETH CHARLOTTE PAULINE DE Meulan, wife of M. Guizot, born in Paris, 1773; a celebrated French ſemine de lettres ; died, 1827. Quotation : Sorrow. GUIZOT, FRANÇors JEAN, son of Pauline Guizot, ; 1815; a French writer; died, 1837. Quotation: Indo- ſ:Il Cé. GUIZOT, FRANÇois PIERRE GUILLAUME, son of an able advocate who fell a victim to the reign of terror, born at Nimes, October 4, 1787 : an eminent French states- man and historian; died. September 12, 1874. Quotations: Aristocracy—Art— Civilization –Cominon-Sense— Custom —Government — Misfortune — Mohammedanism — Revolu- tion—Schoolmaster—Secrecy. GURNALL, WILLIAM, born, 1617; an English di- vine and author; died, 1679. Quotations : Affliction—Bold- neSS—Godliness— Minister—Oulission—Ordinance—Prayer —Preaching—Pride—Pulpit—Sermon—Watchfulness. . GURNEY, SIR JOHN, (Baron of the Exchequer,) born, 1768; an eminent English judge ; died, 1845. º tions : Drunkenness—Thief. GUSTAVUS I, (GUSTAvus VASA,) King of Swe- den. born near Stockholm, 1496; a wise and beneficent mo- narch ; died, 1559. Quotation : Adoration. GUSTAVUS III, King of Sweden, born, 1746; a distinguished Statesman, poet, and dramatist; assassina- ted, 1792. Quotation : Agóny—Esteem—Hour. GUTHRIE, THOMAs, D.D., born at Brechin, 1800; a Scottish divine; died, February 24, 1873. Quotations: Apostle–Baptism—City – Commandments—Drunkenness –Fullness— Gospel — Grace — Heaven— Immortality—In- fancy. Prayer-Pulpit — Heligion — IResponsibility—Salva- tion—Satan — Self-Righteousfiess — Sin — Sunday-School— Sympathy—Temper—Text—Union. GUTHRIE, WILLIAM, born in the county of An- gus, 1708; a Scotch litterateur; died, 1770. Quotation : Rnowledge. GUY., JOSEPH, born in England ; a professor of geography at the Royal Military College, England, and author of many educational works of a high reputation. }*totations : Assistance — Behavior — Brother— Censure— hange—Evening—Expectation—Father—Reproach. GUYON, JEANNE MARIE BOUVIER DE LA MoTTE, Madame, born at MOntargis, 1648; a French mystic and *ess; died, 1717. Quotations: Nature—Silence—Suf- C1'111g. GUYOT, ARNOLD HENRY, PH.D., LL.D., born near Neuchâtel, Switzerland, September 8, 1807; emigrated to the United States, 1848; a meritorious writer on physical geography. Qºotation : Heat. GUZMAN, BARTHOLOMEW Lou RENgo, born at Santos, 1680: a Portuguese mechanician and ecclesiastic ; died, 1725. Quotation : Prosecution. GWALCHMAI, EIN AB ; a Welch poet and prose writer. Quotations : Failure—Remembrance. GWILT, JOSEPH, born, 1784; a distinguished Eng- lish writer on architecture; died, 1863. Quotations: Paint- ing—Statues. GWILYM, DAv1D AB, (the Welch Ovid,) born, 1340; a Welch bard, and prose, writer; died, 1400. Quota- tions: Boasting—Fire—Seclusion. GWRGENAU, GR. AB.; a Welch poet and prose writer. Quotation : Ills. GWYNNE, ELEANOR, born in London, 1650; an English actress, mistress of Charles the Second ; died, 1687. Quotation : Harm. GWYNNE, TALBOT, born, 1831 : an English novel- ist. Quotation. Love. AAFNER, M., born, 1742; a Dutch writer, died, 1809. Quotation : Vulgarity. HAAG, EMILE, born, 1810; a French miscellan- eous writer. Quotation : Affection. HAAG, EUGäNE, born, 1808; a French littérateur. Quotation: Desperation. HABBAKKURC ; an eminent Jewish rabbi and writer. Quotation : Superfluity. HABBERTON, JOHN, born in Brooklyn, New York, 1842; an American printer, bookseller, journalist, and author. Qztotation. Confinement. HABINGTON, WILLIAM, born, 1605; an English oet and miscellaneous Writer; died, 1645. Quotation : appiness. HADDAD, ABö 'L-MANSUR ZÄFIR AL-KASIM AL, born, 1060; a celebrated Arabian poet; died in Egypt, Oc- tober, 1134. Quotations: Fortuné—Generosity. HADERMANN, JANET H. : an English novelist and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Seclusion. HADRIAN, EMPEROR. See ADRIAN. HAFI,BISHR IBN AL-HARITH AL, born in the vil- lage of Matersām, 767; a holy devotee of Mahomet; died at Bagdad,841. Quotations: Grief--Mourning-Resignation. HAFIZ, OBAIDI, AL, born at Askalon, September, 1074; an Arabian sultān; died, October, 1149. Quotation: Wife. HAFIZ, MoHAMMED SHEMs-ED-DEEN, born , at Shiraz, 1300; a celebrated. Persian poet, and regarded as the greatest lyric poet of Persia; died, 1890. Quotation8: Enterprise—Modesty—Truth. HAGEDOBN, FRIEDRICH, voN. born at Hamburg, April 23, 1708; an elegant German poet; died, 1754. Quota- tions: Abundance— Consistency—Country— Discontent- Treasure. .." HAGENBACH, KARL RUDOLF, born at Bâle, 1801; a Swiss Protestant theologian. Quotation: Church. A / O G. A. A PA / C A Z / M D Z X. 1123 HAGUE, WILLIAM, born in New York, 1805; an American Baptist minister. Quotation S. Nature—Sim- plicity. HAHN-HAHN, IDA MARIE LOUISE FREDERIKA Gustava Sophie, Countess VOn, born, 1805 : a German poet- ess and novellst. Quotations. Debility—Pyramid. HAINES, REv. LEMUEL, born in Vermont, 1783; a mulatto clergyman of Considerable Wit and talent; died, 1831. Quotation : Vote. - HAIS-BAIS, ABú SAAD, born at Bagdad, 1110 ; an Arabian scholar and writer; died, 1179. Quotation : Deeds—Wine—WOrth. HAJJAJ, ABö ABD ALLAH AL-HUSAIN IBN MU- hammad Ibn Al, born at Bagdad, 935; an Arabian katib and oet; died at An-Nil, May 27, 1001. Quotations : LOVer — oetry—Self-Reproach—Sleep—Words—Zephyr. HAKEWELL, GEORGE, D.D., (Archdeacon of Surrey,) born at Exeter, England, 1759; an eminent English divine and author: died, 1649. Quotations: Ability—Colli- sion—Honor—Ostentation—Power—Satiety. HALE, LUCRETIA. P. : an American authoress, (Boston, 1867.) Quotation : Bravery. HALE, SIR MATTHEw, born at Alderley, Novem- ber 1, 1609; a distinguished judge ; died, December, 1676. Quotations: Aftliction—Antiquity—Bible—Brute—Charity —Consideration— Debt–Deity—Determination—Duration — Goodness—Instinct—Judgment— Jury—Language—Law —Laziness—Lust—Lying —Passion — Prudence—Sabbath— Satan—Spirituality—Threats—Visits—Will. HALE, NATHAN, CAPTAIN, born at Coventry, Connecticut, 1755; an American patriot ; he was taken pri- soner by the British as a spy, and executed, September, 1776. Quotation : Country. HALE, SALMA, born about 1805 ; an American historical writer. Quotation : Plow. HALE, SARAH JOSEPHA, born at Newport, New Hampshire, 1795; an American, authoress ; died, April 30, § Quotations : Queen — School—Selfishness—Silence— OIlla, Il. HALES, JoBIN, (The Ever Memorable,) born at Bath, 1584; an eminent English Scholal' and Årminian di- vine; died, 1656. Q?totations : Activity—-Antiquity—Heresy —Sophistry. HALEY, WILLIAM D, born about 1810; an Ameri- can Congregational divine and author, (Boston, 1855.) Quo- tations : Freemasonry—Intemperance—Laziness—Library —Reading—Self-Education—Tobacco. HALFORD, SIR HENRY, born, October 2, 1766; an eminent English physician ; died, 1844. Quotation : Nuisance. HALI-BEIGH, (ALBERT ROBowski,) born about ſº i a Polish linguist and writer; died, 1675. Q?totation : Zealot. HALIBURTON, THOMAS CHANDLER, (Sam Slick.) born in Nova Scotia, 1796; a humorous and popular English author; died, 1865. Quotations: Anger.—Artist — Bully— Care —Charity — Cheerfulness — College — Disobedience— Duty—Fastidiousness—Faults—Fun—Harvest—Hope—Im- agination—Innocence— Kisses—Lesson— Life—Memory— Mirth—Nickname—Parent—Plenty—Smile—Truth—Waves —Woman—WOrk HALIFAX, CHARLES MONTAGU, MARQUIs. OF, born at Horton, Apl'il, 1661; an English Statesman, poet, and author; died, 1715. Quotations : Contentment—Dress —Law—Merit—Power—Property—Religion—Union. HALKERSTON, PETER, born in England, 1789; 3.11 ºlish law writer; died, 1853. Quotation : Duty— Ex- ception. HALL, A. G. Quotation: Lust. HALL, A. OKEY, born, 1825: an American law- yer, politician, journalist, and author. Quotation : Neat- I] {*SS. HALL, CAPTAIN BASIL, born in Edinburgh, 1788; # English traveller and author; died, 1844. Quotation : In SCCt. HALL, EDWARD, born in London, 1472; an Eng- lish jurist and historian ; died, 1547. Quotation: Cure. HALL, JAMES, born in Philadelphia, 1793; an American jurist and writer; died, July, 1868. Quotations: Early-Rising—Prairie—Superstition. HALL, JOHN, born at Durham, 1627; an English Oet and author ; died, 1656. Quotations: Civilization— eformity—Genius. HALL, JOSEPH, (Bishop of Exeter and Norwich,) born at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, July 1, 1574; an eminent, Eng- lish divine and author; died, 1656. ... Quotations: Ability- Age— Ambition — Apparel — Appetité— Atheism — Benefi- gence—Calling — Contumely — Courtesy — Covetousness— Craft—Deformity—Deity—Delay—Design—Desire—Devo- tion–Discontent—Dislike—Distrust–Doctrine — Domes- ticity—Economy—Education—Emulation—Envy—Evasion Faith—Guilt—Head—Heart—Holiness— Home—Hypocrisy -Idolatry— Ignorance—Ills—Impatience — Inconstancy— Incredulity—Intention—Judgments—Justice—-Lust—Malice —Matrimony—Meditation—Minister—Moderation—Modes- ty— Multitude—Necessity—Neglect – Oath—Obedience— Ordinance—Paganism—Passion—Prayer—Purpose—Purse —Quarrels—Reason—Rebuke—Reproach— Reproof–Reso- lution — Reyenge — Satan — Scripture — Self–Accusation— Sophistry—Soul-Sound—Stoicism—Strife—Subtlety—Suc- cess — Superstition — Talking – Temptation — Thanks — Throne—Treason — Treaty— Uprightness–Vanity — Vigi- lance—Virtue—Want—Wine–Worldliness—Wrath—Yield- lhg. HALL, NEWMAN, born at Maidstone, Kent, May 22, 1816; an eminent English dissenting minister. Quota- tion : Labor. HALL, ROBERT, born at Arnsby, Leicestershire, May 2, 1764; a celebrated English Baptist divine and theo- logical Writer; died, 1831. Quotations : Affectation—An- gels–Argument--Attention—Authority—Biography—Body —Books-Celebrity– Confidence – Contentment—Contro- yersy-Despotism– Eternity—Evil—Expediency—Faith— Falsehood-Fame-Family--Fanaticism--Freedom-Friend- Ship-Godliness—Gold–Good—Government—Greatness— Guide-Guilt—Habit--FIappiness—Heaven--Humility–-Idle- ness-Ignorange—Ill-Wilſ—Immortality—Impiety—Infidel- ity–-Ingrati i. fºerºcºcº"; Ing -Knowledge-Language—Law—Life—Manners—Marriage Matrimony--Meditation--Men—Minister—Mystery--Nature –Neutrality—Qstentation—Patriotism-- Perfection—Per- Seçution-Politics—Press—Profanity-Riches—Speculation --SuperStition—Swearing—Talent-Thought—Troubles— Unrighteousness—Vice—Vocation—Wows–War—Warning —Weakness—Wealth—Weariness— Weather—Wickedness —Wrong—Youth. HALL, MRS. S. C., (ANNA MARIA FIELDING,) wife of Samuel Carter Hall, born at Wexford, Ireland, 1802; a Opular authoress and miscellaneous writer. Quotations: eauty—Love—Theatre—Thunder. HALL, SAMUEL CARTER, F.S.A., born at Top- Sham, Devonshire, 1801; an English barrister-at-law, editor, and critic. Quotation : Girl. HALLAM, ARTHUR HENRY, born in London, February 1, 1811; an English critic and essayist ; died at Vienna, September, 1833. Quotation : Intellect. HALLAM, HENRY, LL.D., father of the preced- ing, born at Windsor, 1777; an English historian and critic; died, 1859. Quotations : Hero—Mirth. HALLECK, R. F. Quotations: Love—Soul. - HALLER, ALBERT VON, born at Berne, October 16, 1708; a Swiss physician and writer; died, 1777. , Quota- tions : Enjoyment—Men—Plant— Salvation—Truth. HALLEY, EDMUND, born in London, October 26, 1656 : an eliminent English astronomer and mathematician; died, January, 1742. Quotation. Comet. HALLIDAY, SIR ANDREW, born, 1772; an emi- ment British historian and physician; died, 1839. Quota- tion : Respect. HALLIFAX, SAMUEL, D.D., LL.D., born at Mans- field, 1733; an English scholar and author; died, 1790. Quotation : Good. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPS, JAMES ORCHARD, born at Chelsea, 1820; a learned British archaeologist and writer. Quotation : Greatness. HALLOCK, WILLIAM ALLEN, D.D., born at Plain- field, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, 1794; an American divine and writer. Quotation : Swearing. HALM, FRIEDRICH, (the nom de plwme of MüNCH- Bellinghausen, Eligias Franz Joseph, Baron,) born at Meck- lenburg-Schwerin, 1806;... a German poet and dramatist. §º : Labor—Nothing –Plow—Poverty—Surgeon— We OCK HALSTEAD, MURAT ; an American journalist. Quotations: Advertisements —Editor—Journalism—News —Newspaper—Press. HALYBURTON, THOMAs, born at Duplin, near Perth, 1674; a Scottish divine and author; died, 1712. Quo- tation : Hell. HAMBLETON, JOHN, born about 1790; an Eng- lish theologian and educational writer; died, 1859. Quota- tion : Education. HAMELIN, JACQUES FELIX EMMANUEL, BARON, born, 1768; a French admiral; died, 1839. Quotation: Voyage. HAMER, ABUD. Quotation : Koran. HAMERTON, PHILIP GILBERT, born at Laneside, near Shaw, Lancashire, September 10, 1834; an eminent English poét, littérateur, and artist. Quotation : Poetry. HAMID, ABū Mūs A SULAIMÁN IBN MUHAMMAD Al, born at Bagdad, 840; an Arabian grammarian and poet; died at Bagdad, June, 910. Qztotation : Excuse. HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, born in the West In- dian island of Nevis, January 11, 1757; an illustrious Amer- ican statesman, orator, and general; killed in a duel with Aaron Burr, July 12, 1804. Qztotations : Constitution — Federalism — Government — Hesitation — Native-Land — People—Policy—Politics—Privilege—Superiority—War. HAMILTON, REV. C. Quotation: Home. HAMILTON, MRS. C. V. DAKIN, born in England, 1826; an English novelist. Quotations: Spring—Tears. I 124 AD A Y',S C O Z / A C O AV. HAMILTON, ELIZABETH, born at Belfast, Ire- land, 1758; a meritorious writer; died at Harrowgate, 1816. Quotation: Benevolence. HAMILTON, GAIL. See GAIL HAMILTON. HAMILTON, JAMEs, D.D., born at Paisley, 1814; a popular British author and Presbyterian divine; died, 1867. Quotations : Adoration—Bible—Blessing—Epistle— Fidelity—Gentleness—Goodness—Hearth—Home—Hope— Humility – Idleness–Joy — Kindness — Knavery — Know- ledge—Malice—Mediocrity—Misfortune — Name — Neglect —Notoriety—Peace— Plainness — Poetry—Prayer—Profes- sion--Providence—Psalms—Rejoicing—Repentance—Scrip- ture—Temperance—Text. HAMILTON, MAY, born in London, 1780; an English authoress; died, 1840. Quotations: Heart—Mother. HAMILTON, PATRICK, born, 1503; a Scottish reformer: burnt at the stake as a heretic, 1526. Quotat- tion : Baptism. HAMILTON, RICHARD WINTER, born in London, 1794; an English divine and writer; died, 1848. Quota- tions : Error–Paganism—Pity—Student. HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM, born at Glasgow, March 8, 1788: a celebrated British writer and one of the greatest metaphysicians and philosophel's Of Inodern times ; died in Edinburgh, May 6, 1856. Quotations. Analysis — Attention—Hell–Identity—Ignorance — Infinity—Instinct —Life— Logic — Metaphysics—Mind—Philosophy—Powers —Practice—Reading—Sabbath—Understanding—Worship. HAMILTON, THOMAs, born, 1789 ; an English captain in the British army and author; died, 1842. Qzzo- tation : Intention. HAMLINE, LEONIDAS L, D. D.; an American divine and author, (Cincinnati, 1871.) Quotation : Om- nipresence. HAMMERICH, FREDERIK PEDER ADOLF, born at Copenhagen, 1809; a Danish divine, poet, and historian. Quotation : House. HAMMER-PURGSTALL, JOSEPH, BARON, born at Grätz, in Styria, 1774; an eminent German Orientalist and historian ; died, 1856. Quotation : Assurance. HAMON, JEAN, born, 1618; a French physician and writer; died, 1687. Quotation : Rivalry. HAMMOND, ANTHONY, born at Somersham Place, England, 1668; an English author, Orator, and states- man ; died, 1738. Quotation: Inferiority. HAMMOND, REV, CHARLEs, born near Roches- ter, New York, 1812; a spirit medium, and author of “Light from the Spirit World,” (Rochester, 1852.) Quotations : Alteration—Craft—Deceit—Design — Evasion—God—Holi- ness—Humility—Predestination—Procrastination—Seeing —Untruthfulness—Wonder—Wrong. HAMMOND, HENRY, born at Chertsey, 1605; an English divine and author;, died 1660. , Quotations: Con- firmation—Covenant — Daring — Despair — Engagement— Hope—Indulgence — Literature—Love — Orthodoxy—Piety —Prophet—Repentance—Sensitiveness—Success—Vision— Wisdom. HAMMOND, JAMES HAMILTON, born in New- berry district, South Carolina, 1807; an American states- man ; died, 1861. Quotations : King—Press—Progress. HAMPDEN, John, born in London, 1594; , an illustrious English patriot; died, June, 1643. Quotation : Liberty. HAMPTON, WADE, born in South Carolina, 1828; an American general and politician. Quotation : Princi- pleS. HANCOCK, John, born in Quincy, Massachusetts, January 12, 1737; an American statesman, and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence ; died, Octo- ber, 1793. Quotations : Commerce—People. HANCOCK, WINFIELD SCOTT, born in Montgom- ery county, Pensylvania, 1824; a distinguished American genera: Quotation: Ballot. HANIFA, ABö, AN-NoMAN, born at Kūfa, 699 ; an Arabian jurisconsult; died in prison, August, 767. Quo- tations : Cunning—Prayer—Resentment—Ruler—Self-Con- Ceit—Violence. HANMER, MEREDITH, born, 1543; an English divine and ecclesiastical writer; died, 1604. Quotation : Infamy. - HANNA, WILLIAM, LL.D., born in Belfast, 1808; a British cler an and author. Quotations : Futurity— Paradise—Redemption. HANNAY, ALEXANDER. Quotation : Foundation. HANNAY, DAVID, born in England about 1800; an English novelist. Quotation : Sorrow. - HANNAY, JAMES, born at Dumfries, 1829 ; a successful British writer; died, January 9, 1873. Qztota- tions : Mourning—Nun. HANNIBAL, born, 247 B.C.: a Carthagenian general, and one of the greatest military commanders that ever lived: died, 183 B.C. Quotations: Adversity—Reason. HANNO, lived about 509 B.C.; a famous Cartha- genian navigator. Quotation : Savage. HANSARD, LUKE, born at Norwich, 1752; an English printer; died, 1828. Quotation : Ridicule. HANS-SACHS, born at Nuremberg, 1494; a shoe- maker and a pºpular, German poet; died, 1576. Quota- tions : Rhyme—Thought. HANWAY., JONAS, born at Portsmouth, 1712; a benevolent English merchant and author; died, 1786. Quo- tations. GOOd-Nature—Time. HARBAUGH, HENRY, born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, 1817; an American theologian and writer; died, 1867. Quotation : Church. HARDENBERG, FRIEDRICH LUDwig, voN, (Nov- alls, q. V.) HARDENBERG, KARL AUGUST, voN, PRINCE, born at Essenroda, Hanover, May, 1750; an able Prussian statesman; died at Geneva, 1822. Quotation : Right. HARDWICKE, EARL OF, (PHILIP YORKE,) born at Dover, 1690; an eminent English jurist and author ; died, 1764. Quotations. EYidence—Riding—Truth. HARE, AUGUSTUS WILLIAM, born at Rome, 1792; an English divine and author; died, 1834. Quota- tions. God—Heart—Humanity – Hypocrisy—Innmorality— Independence — Ingratitude — Intellect — Intention — Jea- lousy–Joke–Judgment— Love—Nature—Painting—Prin- ciples—Review—Fight — Sabbath—Suffering —Temptation —Unbelief—Variety. HARE, JULIUS CHARLEs, brother of the preced- ing, born, 1796; an eminent English divine and author; died, 1855. Q7(otations:... Angels—Art—Artifice–Atheism —Delief—Christian—Civilization—Crime—Doctrine—Faith —Flowers—Form—Friendship— Gentleman—Good–Good- neSS— Handsomeness— Heart—Heaven—Heroism—History – Home—Honor—Humor—Idea—Ideality—Idolatry—Igno- rance –Illustration— Imagination — Imposition — Impulse — Independence — Infallibility—Intellect— Jest — Joke — Judgment--Language—Leayes--Light—Love—Lying–Mad- ness—Malice—Mammon—Man—Management—Materialism —Memºry-Mind–Modesty—Mythology—Nature—Novels —Qbedience—Qpinion —Qstracism — Painting—Pantheism -Philosophy—Poetry — Politeness — Politics—-Polygamy— Portrait—Praise—Principles–Prosperity--Purity--Reading —Reason—Reproof–Resolution –Reyiew—Riches–Right —Self-Examination--Self-Love--Self-Righteousness—-Sense —Shadow–Simplicity—Snow—Song—Spirit— Statesman— Success—Sun–Sunday—Suspicion-Sympathy–Talking— Temptation — Theatre – Thought —Thrift–Toleration— Translation—Truism—Tuition—Unbelief—Use—Vice—Vir- tue—Winter—Wisdom—Wit. . HARE, MARIA. Quotation: Fountain. HARGRAVE, FRANCIS, born, 1741 ; a distinguish- ed English lawyer and author; died, 1821. Quotations : Imprudence—Woman. HARIRI, ABù MUHAMMAD AL-KASIM. IBN OTH- mán, Al-Basri Al, born at Basri, 1054; an eminent Arabian scholar, and one of the ablest writers of his time; died at ɺl, 1122. Quotations: Freedom — Lover — Moonlight— (211. HARLAND, MARION, the mom de plume of MISS Mary Virginia Hawes, (Mrs. Terhune,) born in Richmond, Virginia, 1832; a popular American authoress. Quotation ; Daughter. HARLEY, GEORGE DAVIES, born, 1738 : an Eng- #. comedian and author; died, 1804. votation. Philan- thropy. HARNDON, EARL OF, born, 1751; an English nobleman and philanthropist ; died, 1781. Quotation : Pa- tience. HARNESS, WILLIAM, born in Hampshire, 1790; an English theologian and dramatic Writer. Quotation : * e HARNISCH, WILHELM, born, 1787; a German miscellaneous writer and littérateur; died, 1856. Quota- tion : Cruelty. HAROUN-AL-RASCHID, born, 766 A.D. ; a re- nowned Eastern Caliph, and the most Pºrtº, SOvereign of the dynasty of the Abassides; died, 809. Quotations: Learning—Peñ—Science—Want. HARPE, JEAN FRANÇOIS DE LA, born in Paris, 1739; a popular French author; died, 1803. Quotations: Exaggeration—Learning—Prison--Self-Love-Superstition. HARPER, ROBERT GooDLOE, born near Freder- icksburg, Virginia, 1765; an eminent lawyer and Senator of the United States; died, 1825. Quotation : People. HARRINGTON, SIR John, born at Bath, 1561 ; an English poet and courtier; died, 1612. Quotations: Satiety—Treason. HARRIS, JAMES, born at Salisbury, 1709; an English author: died, 1780. Quotation : Art. HARRIS, JOHN, D.D., born at Ugborough, 1804: an English dissenting minister: , died, 1856. Quotations: Capacity– Church—Contemplation — Geometry — Gold – Pun—Society—Soldier—Translation. HARRIS, J. M., born in Maryland , an American politician. Quotation : Secession. A / O G R A PA / C A Z / A D F X. 1125 HARRIS, MIRRLAM. COLE, born in England ; an English novelist. Quotation : Ghosts. HARRIS, THOMAS LEONARD, born in England, emigrated to the United States at an early age ; a Spiritu- alistic poet, Hºer, and writer. Quotations : Error— Evil—GOOd—Heart. - HARRISON, W. H., born in England about 1800; an English writer, (London, 1839.) Quotation : Conscience. HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY, born in Charles COunty, Virginia, February 9, 1773; the ninth President of the United States. He lived only one month after his inau- guration ; died, April 4, 1841. Quotations: Constitution— Party—Power—Union—Vote—Youth. HARTE, FRANCIS BRET, born at Albany, New York, August 25, 1839; an American poet and miscellan- eous writer, and author of “The Heathen Chinee." Quo- tation : Deceit. HARTLEY, DAVID, M.D., born at Armley, York- Shire, 1705; a distinguished English physician and philoso- pher; died, 1757. totations : Children — Comparison — Confidence—Control-Conversation—Courtesy--Difference —Dignity—Dispute—Virtue. HARTSHORNE, HENRY, M.D., born in Philadel- É. 1823; an American scientific writer. Quotation : CSS. HARTSOEKER, NIKOLAAs, born at Gouda, March, 1656; a Dutch natural philosopher and optician ; died, 1725. Quotation : Patience. HARTWIG, GEORGE, M.D., born, 1800; an Eng- lish physician and author. Quotation : Ocean. HARVEY, WILLIAM, born at Folkestone, Kent, April, 1578; an eminent English physician who discovered th; ºlation of the blood; died, 1657. Quotation : Blood -L8,00I’. HARVIER, ERNEST, born in New York city, June 16, 1858: an American dramatic critic and author. Quotations: Drama—Genius. HAVARD, WILLIAM, born, 1710; an English ac- tor and author; died, 1778. Quotations: Credulity—Free- dom—Guilt—Injustice—Perseverance—Sincerity—Success. HAVERSTICK, H. Quotation : Festival. HASLAM, JoHN, born, 1764; a British physician and author; died, 1844. Quotations : Insanity – Ortho- doxy. HASTINGS, SIR FRANCIS, son of the earl of Hun- tingdon, born in England, about 1550; an eminent writer, (London, 1598.) Quotation : Illustration. HASTINGS, PEREZ, born in the state of New York, 1800; an American Christian merchant; died, 1860. Quotation : Sunday-School. HATHERLY, LORD, (SIR WILLIAM PAGE WooD,) E.R.S., born in London, 1801; an eminent English lawyer and statesman. Quotation : Sunday-School. HATIMI, AL, born at Bagdad, 984; a learned Arabian scholar; died, 998. Quotations: Dishonor—Fate. HATTON, SIR CHRISTOPHER, born, 1540 ; an English statesman and courtier; died, 1591. Quotation, ; SWOI’d. HATTON, Joseph, born at Andover, 1839; an English novelist and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : GreedineSS. HAUFF, WILHELM, born at Stuttgart, 1802; a German poet and novelist; died, 1827. Quotations: Grief —Keenness—Painting. HAUGHTON, WILLIAM, born, 1560; an English dramatist: died, 1631. Qztotation : Gifts. HAVAMAL. See SNORRI-STURLUson. HAVELOCK, SIR HENRY, born at Bishop's Wear- mouth, Durham, April 5, 1795, a distinguished English gen- eral; died in India, November, 1857. Quotation: Dying. HAVEN, ALICE B., (Emily Bradley,) born at Hud- son, New York, 1828; an American authoress; died, 1863. Quotation : Ill-Nature. HAVEN, ERASTUs OTIs, D.D., LL.D., born in Boston, 1820; an eminent Methodist divine and writer; Quotations: Dancing—Fact—Harmony. HAWEIS, THOMAS, born at Truro, 1734; an Eng- lish divine and author; died, 1820. Quotation : Sinner. HAWES, JOEL, D.D., born in Medway, Massachu- Setts, 1789; an American minister and writer; died 1867. Quotations: Character— Circumstances—Rectitude—Try- ing—Youth. HAWEs, MARY VIRGINIA. See MARION HAR- a Il Cl. HAWK, BLACK. See BLACK HAWK. HAWKER, ROBERT, born at Exeter, 1753 ; an English Calvanistic divine and author; died, 1827. Q?tota- tº 072 . Church. HAWKESWORTH, John, born in London, 1715; an English essayist and author; died, 1773. Quotations: DeSertion—Inducement—Risks. HAWKINS, BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE, F.G.S., born in London, February 8, 1807; an English naturalist, geologist, and lecturer. Quotation : Courage. HAWKINS, SIR JOHN, born in London, 1719 : an English º: and miscellaneous writer; died, 1789. Quotation : Theatre. HAWKS, FRANCIS LISTER, D.D., born at New- belºn, North Carolina, 1798; an American divine and author; died in the City of New York, 1866. Quotation : Humility. HAWLEY, Joseph, born at Northampton, Mas- Sachusetts, 1724; an American patriot; died, 1788. Quota- tion. Federalism. HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL, born at Salem, Mas- Sachusetts, July 4, 1804; a popular American author; died, 1864. }*totattions : Brute — Death — Experience — ‘Eye - Friendship— Grave — Happiness — Heaven— Heroism-In- temperance—Love—Malice–Monuments—Nature—Satire —Solitude—Ugliness—Youth. HAXTHAUSEN. Quotation: Jews. HAY, MARY CECIL ; an American novelist and miscellaneous writer. Quotations: Coyness—Daughter— —Death–Deceit–Fool—Good-Bye. HAY, REV. PHILIP C., D.D., born at Newark, New Jersey, 1795; a Presbyterian clergyman; died, 1866. Quotation : Promptness. HAY, WILLIAM, born in Sussex, England, 1695; an English essayist and politician; died, 1755. Quotation : Scheming. HAYDEN, JOHN, (Archdeacon of Surrey,) born about 1800; an English divine and author. Quotation : Emperor. HAYDN, JOSEPH, born at Rohrau, on the frontier of Austria and Hungary, March 31, 1732; a celebrated Ger- lman composer; died at Vienna, May 31, 1809. Quotation : Reputation. HAY DON, R. Quotation : Borrowing. HAYES, RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD, born at Dela- Ware, Ohio, October 18, 1822; an American lawyer, major- general, and the nineteenth President of the United States. Quotattions : Flag—Party. HAYLEY, WILLIAM, born at Chichester, 1745; an English author; died, 1820. Quotation : Humility. HAYNE, PAUL H., born at Charleston, South Carolina, 1831; an American journalist and poet. Quota- tion : Isolation—Prudery. HAYS, MARY. Quotations: Love—Pity. HAYTIEN. Quotations: Belly — Boasting — Curiosity— Intimacy. HAYWARD, John, born about 1800; an Ameri- Can writer, (New York, 1833.) Quotation.S. Blame—Secur- ity—Theology. HAYWOOD, ELIZA, born, 1693 ; an English mis- cellaneous writer; died, 1756. Quotation : Good. HAZARD, Row LAND G., born in South Kingston, Rhode Island, 1801; an American writer on language. Quo. tattiO72. LOnelineSS. HAZARD, THOMAS R., father of the preceding, born in South Kingston, Rhode Island, 1784: an American writer. Quotation : Marriage. HAZEN, EDwARD H., an American writer on educational subjects, and author of a series of school books. Quotation : Words. HAZEWELL, CHARLES C., born in Rhode Island, about 1818; an American printer and editor. Quotation : Printing. HAZLITT, WILLIAM, born at Maidstone, April 10, 1778; a distinguished English Critic and miscellaneous wri- ter; died, 1830. , Quotations : Absence—Actor—Adversity —Affectation—Art—Authors—AVarice—Birds— Business— Cant—Ceremony—City–Complacency—Congeit—Conyer- sation—Coquetry—Cowardice – Critic—Dandy–Deceit– Decision—Despair—Elegange -Enterprise—Enthusiasm— Evil–Faith—Fame—Familiarity—Fashion—Folly—Fool— Friendship — Genius — Gentility—- Gentleman -—Grace— Gracefulness—Grandeur — Grief— Habit—Hypocrisy—Im- agination—Indolence—Insult— Jealousy—Jest—Judgment —Learning—Liar—Love—Magnanimity-Man-Monuments -Occupation --Opinion — Order—Passion—Persecution— Pleasure—Prejudice—Pride---Principles—Reading—Refine- ment—Reflection—Reputation—Self-Command—Self-Love —Sensibility—Service-Simplicity—Sneer—Style—Success —Sympathy—Talent—Talking—Tyranny—Vice—Violence —Virtue—Weakness—Wit—Words. HAZLITT, WILLIAM CAREw. born, August 22, 1834; an English author. Quotation: Heedlessness. HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, born near Rochester, Kent, January 1, 1793: a popular English miscellaneous writer; died, July 20, 1875. Quotation : Index. HEADLEY, JOEL TYLER, born in Delaware coun- ty, New York, 1814 : an American divine and author. Quotations : Grief—Humbug —Plan—Refinement—Taste— Vice—Weakness. 1126 AX A Y 'S CO / C A C O AV. HEADLEY, PHINEAs CAMP, brother of the pre- ceding, born at Walton, Delaware county. New York, June 24, 1819: an American divine and historical Writer. Qtto- tation : Effort. HEARD, JoHN B. : an English divine and author. Quotations : Evangelist—Preacher—Preaching—Revival. HEATH, A. S.; an American miscellaneous wri- ter. Quotation : Itural-Life. HEATH, JAMES, born, 1629 : an English histo- rian and author; died, 1664. Qttotation : Luck. HEATH, RICHARD, born about 1630 ; an English baron of the Exchequer; died, 1702. Quotation : IRogue. HEATHCOTE, RALPH, D.D., born in Leicester- shire, 1721; an English divine and writer: died, 1795. Quo. tation : Itecolimpense. HEA-TSZE. See TSZE-HEA. HEBER, REGINALD, (Bishop of Calcutta,) born at Malpas, Cheshire, April 21, 1783; an eminent English di- vine and poet; died at ..º. of apoplexy, April 3, 1826. Quotations : Holmeliness—Retribution—Spring. HECKEWELDER, John, born in Bedford, 1743; an English Moravian missionary ; died, 1810. Quotation : Old Age. HEDGE, FREDERICK HENRY, D.D., born at Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, December 12, 1805; an American divine and author. Qiaotations: Dreams—Earth—Ideality —Talent. IHEDWIG, JoHANN, born at Cronstadt, in Tran- Sylvania, 1730; a German botanist and playsician ; died, 1799. § : Moss—Trees. HEDWIGES, SAINT, born, 1172; consort of Henri, duke of Silesia and Poland ; a pious and noble woman ; died, 1243. Quotation : Destitution. HEEN-MANG. See MANG-HEEN. HEGEL, GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH, born at Stuttgart, 1770; one of the most eminent philosophers of the German School of metaphysics; died, 1831. Quotation : Greatness. HEGESIAS, lived about 300 B.C.; a Cyrenaic philosopher. Quotations: Death—Fasting— Longevity— Suicide. HEGESIPPUS ; an ecclesiastical historian, was a Jew by birth, converted to Christianity in 157, and lived in Rome in his late years; died, 180. Quotation : Offense. HEIDEGGER, Joh ANN JAKOB, born at Zurich, 1659; a Swiss adventurer; died, 1749. Qºtotation : Ugliness. HEINE, HEINRICH, born at Dusseldorf, 1800; a celebrated German poet and author; died, February, 1856. Quotations: Compliment—Help—Wooing. HEINECKEN, CHRISTIAN HEINRICH, born, 1721: a German infant prodigy; died, 1725. Quotation : Age. HEINSEN, C. Quotation : Tariff. HEINSIUS, ANTOON, born, 1641 ; a distinguished Płº, gatesman; died, 1720. Quotations : Office—Pleasure — l'Illef. HEINTZELMAN, SAMUEL P., born in Pennsyl- Vania, 1807; an American general. Quotation : Honor. HEINZEN, CARL PETER, born in Rhenish Prussia, 1809; emigrated to the United States, 1848: a German- American journalist and author. Quotation : Faithlessness. HELIODORUS, (Bishop of Tricca and Thessala.) born at Emessa, in Syria, in the fourth century; a Greek author. Quotation : Belief. HELIOGABALUS, (Elagabalus,) MARCUs AURE- lius, Antoninus, born at Antioch, 204: an infamous Roman emperor; assassinated, 222. Quotations : Heir—Sun. FIELMONT, JAN BAPTISTA, VAN, born at Brus- Sels, 1577; a famous chemist and physiologist; died near Vilvorde, 1644. Quotation. Physician. HELPER, HINTON ROWAN, born in Rowan coun- ty, North Carolina, 1829; an American writer and author of “The Impending Crisis in the South." Quotations : Slavery—Thief. HELPS, SIR ARTHUR, K.C.B., born, 1817; an English poet, essayist, and miscellaneous writer; died, March 7, 1875. Quotations : Advice—Business—Calumny— Cheerfulness — Tepreciation — Dispatch — Fool—Human- Nature—Innprovement—Jealousy--Kindness—Love—Lover —Morality— Passion — Patience – Religion— IRiches—Self- Cº. —Self-Respect—Terror– Thought—War—Words - YOUlt.H. HELVETIUS, CLAUDE ADRIAN, born in Paris, 1715: a French philosopher and author; died, 1771. Qrto- tations : A Varice—Ennui-Esteem—Genius— Idea—Love— Miser — Passion — Press — Reputation — Understanding — Virtue. HEMANS, FELICIA DOROTHEA, born in Liver- pool, September, 1794; an amiable and highly accomplished poetess; died in Dublin, 1835. Quotations : Flowers–For- getfulness—Love—Mother—Strength. HEMMENWAY, MOSEs, D.D., born, 1736 : an American divine and writer; died, 1811. Quotation: Truth. HEMMING, John, M.D., born in England, 1735 ; an English physician and writer, (London, 1789.) Quota- tions: Freemasonry—Tact. HEMSTERHUYS, TIBERIUS, born, 1685 ; a Dutch hellanist and critic ; died, 1766. Quotation : Combination. HEN, LLYWARCH, lived in the sixth century; a Welsh bard, and prose writer. Quotations: Blustering— Equality—Head—Zeal. HENAULT, CHARLEs JEAN FRANÇors, born in Paris, 1685; a French historian; died, 1770. Quotation : Age. HENDRICKS, THOMAS A., born in Muskingum county, Ohio, 1819; an American politician and senator. Quotation : Government. HENRY I, (Beauclerc.) King of England, brother of Wiiliam Rufus, born at Selby, Yorkshire, 1068; a brave and eloquent monarch; died, 1135. Quotation: Author– Allıg. HENRY I, King of Castile, born, 1204: a wise and noble prince; died, 1217. Quotation : People. HENRY I, Emperor of Germany, (The Fowler,) born, 876; the first German emperor who granted munici- pal privileges; died, 936. Quotation : Revenge. HENRY II, King of England, born at Le Mans, France, 1133; the founder of the Plantagenet dynasty; died at Chinon, 1189. Quotation : Zealot. HENRY II, King of France, born at Saint-Ger- main-en-Laye, 1518; died, lºš9. Qºtotºtion : Rnighthood. HENRY IV, (Bolingbroke, ) King of England, born at Bolingbroke, 1366; a monarch of great prudence, vigilance, and foresight; died, 1413. Quotattions: Christ- In las—SOn. HENRY IV, Emperor of Germany, born, 1050; died, 1106. Quotation : Self-Knowledge. HENRY IV, King of France, born at Pau, De- cember 14, 1553: the founder of the royal house of Bour- bon ; assassinated, May 14, 1610. Quotations : Horror— Mouth—Throne—Toleration. HENRY V, Emperor of Germany, born, 1081 ; # last of the Salic line; died, 1125. Quotations : Death— IIC. HENRY VIII, King of England, born in Green- wich, 1491; a monarch detested for his tyranny and oppres- sion ; died, 1547. Quotations: Absence—Peace. HENRY, MATTHEw, born in Iscoyd township, Flintshire, October, 1662; an eminent English divine and bibliographer; died, 1714. Quotations : Affliction—Anger -ɺ. Church — Confinement — Disposition—Faith —God—Greatness—Hypocrisy— Lust-Pleasure–Prayer— Providence—Quarrels – Religion— Riches— Saint — Sin— Superstition—Tears. HENRY, PATRICK, born at Studley, Hanover county, Virginia, May 29, 1736; a celebrated orator and pa- triot; died, June 6, 1799. Quotation : Battle—Emigration —God—Hope—Liberty—Slavery—Treason. HENRY, PHILIP, the father of Matthew Henry, born in London, 1631; an English dissenting divine; died, 1696. Quotations : Apostasy — Conscience — Fountain — Fullness—Grumbler–Holiness — Joy — Meditation—Meek- ness—Mercy—Mortification— Plainness—Repentance—Re- proof–Sabbath—Sacrament—Sanctification. HENSHAW, . JoHN PRENTICE KEwlEY, D.D., (Bishop of Rhode Island,) born in Middletown, Connecti- cut, 1792; an American Episcopalian diyine; died, 1852. Quotations : Affliction—Pleasure—Sin—Slander. HE-PI. See PI-HE. HEPWORTH, GEORGE H., born about 1830 ; an American divine and author. Quotation : Furniture. HERACLIDES, born at Heraclea, in Pontus, in the fourth century, B.C.: a Greek philosopher of the Pytha- gorean School. tlotations : Crown—Old Age. HERACLITUS, born at Ephesus, 500 B.C.; a cele- brated §º philosopher; died, 440 B.C. Quotations: Evil—Folly—God—Injury—River—Victory. HERAUD, John A., born, 1799; an English epic poet and dramatic writer. Quotation : Jehovah. HERBERT, EDwARD, (LoRD HERBERT OF CHER- bery,) born at Montgomery, North Wales, 1581; a distin- guished English philosopher and author; died, 1648. 710- tations: Anatomy— Forgiveness — Horse—Infidelity—Ora- tory—Retribution—Revelation. HERBERT, GEORGE, brother of the preceding, born at Montgomery, North Wales, 1593; an English divine, poet, and miscellafiéous writer; died, 1632. Quotations: Abundance —Argument — Beast — Blustering – Chance – Dancing—Eloquence-God–Jade-Lying—Pardon—Fajor —Preacher—Pülpit –Spring — Suspicion—Victory—Wife— Wisdom—Wit. HERBERT, WILLIAM, (Dean of Manchester,) born at Highclerg Castle, Buckinghamshire, 1777; an English author: died, 1847. Quotation : Melody. HERDER, E. P. Quotation: Thought. . A / O G. A. A P AE/ / C A /, / AV /O AE X. I 127 HERDER., JOHANN GOTTFRIED, born at Mohrun- gen, Prussia, 1744; a German philosopher and Writer; died, 1803. Quotations : Contentment — Excess—Fate—Forget- fulness — Friendship — Health — Kindness — Lady—Love— Mouth—Nation—Perseverance—Power—Revolution--Saint —Soul--Sunset--Thinking—Vicissitude--Violence—-WOman. HEREWALD, (Bishop of Llandaff,) born, 1056; an eminent divine; died, 1104. Quotation : Ungodliness. HERIS, GUILLAUME HERMAN DE, SAINT BARB, born, 1657; a Belgian religious writer; died, 1707. Quota- tion: Mortality. HERISSANT, LOUIS ANTOINE PROSPER, born, 1745; a French botanist and littérateur ; died, 1769. Qºto- tattào), . Birds. HERITIER, DE VILLANDON, MARIE JEANNE l", born in Paris, 1664: a French poet and miscellancous Wri- ter; died, 1734. Quotation : Grief. HERLE, CHARLEs, born, 1598; an English divine and author; died, 1659. Quotations: Discourse—Error— Self-Conquest. HERMAND, LORD ; an English jurist, natural philºsopher, and author. Quotations : Scepticism—Sta- tut,é. HERMANN, JEAN, born at Barr, near Strasburg, 1738; a distinguished German philologist and critic; died, 1800. Quotation : Mythology. HERMELIN, SAMUEL GUSTAvus, born at Stock- holm, 1744; a learned Swedish baron and mineralogist ; died, 1820. Quotation : Nature. HERMENEGILD, born about 520; a prince of the Visigoths, in Spain; died, 586 Quotation : Damnation. HERMES, JOHANN AUGUST, born at Mºš 1736: a German Protestant Writer on theology; died, 1822. wotations: Anger—Bride– Chastity— Commonwealth— reation—Discretion—Duplicity—Ear—Fidelity—Impurity —Jealousy— Maiden—Peevishness— Prayer—Providence— Rabble—Thought—Woman—Youth. HERMIPPUS, born at Smyrna, flourished about 220 B.C.; an eminent Greek philosopher and biographer. Quotation : Plant. HERNE, THOMAS, born about 1651 ; an English controversial writer; died, 1722. Quotation : Cemetery. HEROD, THE GREAT, King of Judea, born at As- calon, 'í2 B.C.; a monarch whose name is proverbial for violence, tyranny, Cruelty, and murder; died, 1 A.D. Quo- tations: Benefactor—Death. HERODOTUS, “The Father of History,” born at Halicarnassus, in Caria, 484 B.C.; one of the earliest of Greek historians, and to whom we are indebted for Our knowledge of the origin and progress of the Persian mon- archy, and that of the Medes and Assyrians; died, 406 B.C. }votations : Amusement — Calumny — Circumstances — ompetency—Danger—Discussion—Dreams—Envy—Festi- val—Force—God—Happiness—Infallibility—-Misery--Moun- tain—Opinion—Power—Providence—Rashness — Reason— River—Seeing—Thunder. HERRICK, ROBERT, born in London, 1591 ; an English divine and poet; died, 1674. Quotations: Eye— HardneSS—LOVe. HERRIES, JoHN CHARLEs, born, 1780; a British financier and writer; died, 1855. Quotation : Misfortune. HERSCHEL, CAROLINE LUCRETIA, born in Han- over, March 16, 1750; sister of Sir William Herschei, and the devoted assistant to the distinguished astronomer ; died, January 9, 1848. Quotation : Snow. HERSCHEL, SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM, born at Slough, near Windsor, March 7, 1792: an emingnt English astronomer and philosopher; died, May 11, 1871. Quotations: Books--Chemistry--Comet—Knowledge—Phi- losophy—-Posterity—Quickness--Reading—-Reason--Science —Self-Respect—Star—Truth. HERSCHEL, SIR WILLIAM, born at Hanover, November 15, 1738: one of the greatest, astronomers that any age or nation has produced ; died, August, 1822. Q7zo- tation : Old Age. HERTRELL, THOMAS, born in New York, 1790 : an American jurist and Sceptic, and a vigorous writer on social reform ; died, 1877. Quotation : Sunday. HERVEY, ALFRED, LORD, born, 1816; an English politician and writer. Quotation : Statute. HERVEY, ANGUs HENRY, LORD, born, 1837; an English politician. Quotation : Positiveness. HERVEY, ARTHUR CHARLEs, LORD, (Bishop of Bath and Wells,) born, 1808; an English divine and writer. Quotation : Affliction. HERVEY, ELEONARA LOUISA, born at Liver- pool, 1811 : an English authoress. Quotation. Scandal. HERVEY. GEORGE WINFRED, born in South Dur- ham, New York, November 28, 1821: an American divine and miscellaneous writer. Quotations: Eagle— Insect— Instinct — Offense — Redemption—Riches—Sabbath—Self- Praise–Sun–Talking. HERVEY, JAMEs, born. 1714; an English theolo- gian and moralist; died, 1758. Quotation : Death. HERVEY, THOMAS KIBBLE, born, 1804; an Eng- ; poet and littérateur; died, 1859. Quotation: Litera- All Pe. HESE, RICHARD HESIUs, born, 1548 ; a Dutch hellenist and writer; died, 1631. Quotation : Government. HESIOD, born at Ascra, in Boetia, and flourished about 850 B.C.; a celebrated Greek poet. Quotattions : As- sistance—Bard—Emulation – Envy—Gain—House—King— Littleness — Money — Neighbor — Punishment — Report — Shame—Virgin—Wealth—Wickedness—Wife—Work. HESS, Johann JAKOB, born, 1741 : a Swiss Pro- testant theologian ; died, 1828. Q2totation : Invective. HESHUSIUS, TILEMANNUs, born, 1526 ; a Ger- man Lutheran divine and writer; died, 1588. Quotation : Competency. HESMIVY D'AURIBEAU, PIERRED', born, 1756; a French littérateur and author; died, 1830. Quotation : Discovery. HESYCHIUS, born in Jerusalem, in the fifth Century; a Greek religious writer. Quotation : Wrath. HEUGH, HUGH, born, 1782; a Scottish divine ; died, 1846. Quotations: Calculation—Sanctification. HEUHEU TE, born about 1780 : one of the most distinguished of the New Zealand chiefs; died, 1846. Quo- tations: Peace—Sectarianism. HEURTLEY, CHARLES ABEL, born, 1806; an English divine and author. Quotation : Error. HEWEY, LADY E. : an English miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Sympathy. HEWLETT, J. G., D.D., born in England, 1803; an English author. Quotation : Thought. HEY, WILLIAM, born, 1736: an English surgeon, and a writer of a series of moral and theological tracts and essays; died, 1819. Quotation : Church. HEYCOCK or HEACOCK, GROsvenoR. W. born, at Buffalo, New York, 1819; a Presbyterian clergyman; died, 1872. Quotation : Soul. HEYDENREICH, KARL HEINRICH, born at Stol- pen, Saxony, 1764; a German philosopher, poet, and prose writer; died, 1801. Quotation : Girl. HEYLIN, PETER, born at Burford, 1600; an Eng- lish writer; died. 1662. Quotation : Soul. HEYNES, SIMON, (Dean of Exeter,) born, 1483 : an English divine and author; died, 1552. Quotation : Emulation. HEYWOOD, JASPAR, born, 1535; an English writer and Jesuit; died, 1598. Quotation : Treachery. HEYWOOD, John, lived in the reign of Henry the º: an English dramatic poet; died, 1565. Quota- tion : Infidelity. HEYWOOD, OLIVER, born in Lancashire, 1629: an English Non-conformist divine and religious writer: died, 1702. Quotation : Politeness. HIAO-KING-TI, born, 188 B.C.: a Chinese em– emperor, of the dynasty of Han ; died, 141 B.C. Quota- tion. : Extravagance. HIAO-TSOUNG, born, 1469 ; a Chinese emperor of the dynasty of Ming; died, 1505. Quotation : Exile. HIAO-WEN-TI, born, 202 B.C.; the fourth Chi- nese emperor, of the dynasty of Han; died, 157 B.C. Quo- tºt/#O7) : MaSSacre. - HIBBARD, SHIRLEY, born about 1800; an Eng- lish author, (London, 1850.) Quotation : Boys. HICKERINGILL, EDMUND, born, 1630; an Eng- lish divine and Writer: died, 1708. Quotation : Income. HICKOK, LAURENS PERSEUS, D.D., born in Dan- bury, Connecticut, December 29, 1798; an American divine and metaphysician; died, June 10, 1876. Quotation : At- tainment. HICKS, ELIAS, born at Hempstead, Long Island, 1748; the founder of the “Hicksites,” or anti-Orthodox di- vision of the Society of Friends; died, February 27, 1830. Quotation : Jews. HICKS, WILLIAM, born, 1620; an English reli- gious writer; died, 1659. Qºtotation : Declamation. HIEMPSAL, Prince of Numidia, a son of Micipsa. flourished about 125 B.C.; an African historian; slain by Jugurtha, 112 B.C. Qºtotºttior). Zone. HIEROCLES, born, 450 : an eminent Platonic philosopher. Quotations: Bigotry — Justness — Money— Scripture—Swearing. HIEROME. See SAINT JEROME. - HIFFERNAN, PAUL, born in the county of Dub- #. 1719 ; an Irish literary hack; died, 1777. Quotation : Ope. - HIGDEN, RANULPH, born about 1280 : an Eng- lish Benedictine Monk, and author of a Latin chronicle “The Polychronicon; ” died, 1370. Quotation : Gladness. HIGGINS, John, born, 1544 : an English divine and religious writer; died, 1605. Quotation : Heresy. I 128 A) A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. HIGGINSON. John, born in England, 1616; emi- ted to Massachusetts, 1629: a learned divine; died, 1708. Quotation : Children. HIGGINSON, THOMAs WENTwo RTH, CoLONEL, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1823; an American au- thor and IniscellaneOuS Writer. Quotations: Applause— Babe—I)eath—Love—Originality—Selfishness—Travel. HIGGONS, BEVIL, born, 1670 ; an English au- thor; died, 1735. Quotation : Success. HIGGONS, SIR THOMAs, born in Shropshire, 1624; a zealous English Jacobite; died in France, 1735. Quota- tion : Lips. HILARION, SAINT, born at Tabatha, near Gaza, 292; a noted ascetic of Palestine, and pioneer of monastic life ; died, 372. Quotation : Destitution. HILARIUS, SAINT, (Bishop of Arles,) born, 400 A.D.; a divine of great piety and learning ; died, 449. Qºto- tation : Maiden. HILARY, SAINT, (Bishop of Poitiers,) born about 295; an Orthodox theologian ; died, 367. Quotation, S.: Hauglutiness—Ill-Will. HILDEBERT, (Archbishop of Tours,) born, 1055 ; a French philosopher and poet ; died, 1133. Quotation : Remembrance. HILDRETH, EZEKIEL, born, 1785 : an American teacher and author; died, 1856. Quotation: Oratory. HILDRETH, RICHARD, born at Deerfield, Massa- chusetts, June 28, 1807; an American historian and journal- ist; died at Florence, July 11, 1865. Quotations: Jealousy —Slavery. HILL, AARON, born in London, 1685 ; an English writer; died, 1750. Quotations: Birth—Courage—Deceit— I)oubt — Fear—Honor— Jealousy— Justice — Law— Mono- Imania—Passion—Reason—Tears. HILL, DANIEL HARVEY, born, 1824: an American Confederate general. Quotations : Peace—Union. HILL, FRANCEs M., born in the city of New York, about 1800; an eminent American philanthropist and edu- cator. She is deservedly honored for her long and bene- ficial Cºxertions in the CauSe Of female education in Greece. Quotation : Good. HILL, ISAAC, born in Ashburnham, Massachu- setts, 1788; an American journalist; died, 1851; Quotation : Agriculture-—Soil—Tillage. HILL, JOHN, born about 1522; an English divine and author; died, 1593. Quotation : Unbelief. HILL, SIR JOHN, born at Spalding, 1716 ; an Eng- lish writer and literary quack; died, 1775. Quotations: Adventure—Courtier—Regret. HILL, John, born at New Brunswick, New Jer- sey, 1818: an American Unitarian divine and mathemati- Cian. Qatotation : Etiquette. HILL, JOSEPH, born, 1625; an English divine and lexicographer; died, 1707. Quotation : Friendship. HILL, ROWLAND, born at Hawkstone, Shropshire, 1744; a pºpulº, English divine, and a follower of Whitfield; died, 1833. Quotations: Christianity—Duty—Money—Pro- gress—Redemption—Religion—Schism—Sin—Temptation. HILL, SIR. Row LAND, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S., born at Kidderminster, 1795: an Englishman known as the author of the cheap postage system ; died, 1881. Quota- tion : Birth. HILL, THOMAS, born at New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1818; an American Unitarian divine and mathema- tician. Quotation : Etiquette. ' HILLARD, GEORGE STILLMAN, born in Machias, Maine, 1808; an American lawyer, writer, and author. Quotations: Artist—Books—Conversation–Flowers—Hope —Liberty — Miser—Pictures—Selfishness—Sentiment—Sol- itude—Sunset—Temptation. * HILLARD, HENRY W., born in Cumberland coun- ty, North Carolina, 1808; an American lawyer and politi- cian. Quotation : Music. HILLEL, born at Babylon, about 110 B.C.; was descended from King David ; a celebrated Jewish rabbi, who is supposed to be the author of the Talmud or Mish- Ina : died, 10 A.D. Quotations : Cunning—Judgment—Law —Learning —Men —Neighbor—Others – Passion—Peace— Poetry—Self–Soul—Tradition. HILLHOUSE, JAMES ABRAHAM, born at New Haven, Connecticut, 1789; an American poet and dramatist; died, 1841. Quotation : Oracle. HILTON, HENRY : an American lawyer and mer- chant. Quotation : Buying. HILTON, WALTER, born about 1429 : an English Ascetic monk and writer; died about 1497. Quotations : Pleasure—Poetry. HINCMAR, (Archbishop of Rheims,) born, 806 : an eminent French theologian and controversalist; died, . Quotation : Income. HINGHAM, SIR RALPH, DE, horn, 1232; an Eng- lish magistrate, divine, and juridical writer; died, 1308. Quotation : Monastery. - HINOJOSA Y CARBAJAL, ALVARO DE, lived about 1620: a Spanish writer. Quotation : Chastity. HINTON, JoHN, born in England, about 1700 : an English editor, and publisher of the “Universal Magazine,” 8::::::::::::: 1750, et seq.). Quotations: Affability—Beggar— ourtier-Distress–Divination—Failing—History—Inno- Cence—Mind — Missing—Sycophant —Tea — Uneasiness— Variety—Widow. HINTON, JOHN HowARD, born at Oxford, March 24, 1791; an English Baptist divine and writer on history and theology; died, December 17, 1863. Quotations : Imi- Inortality—Sinner. HIPPARCHIA, born at Meronea about 305 B.C. : the consort of Crates the cynic, and the supposed authoress of many pithy sayings. Quotation: Bride. HIPPARCHUS, born at Nicaea, in Bithynia, and flourished about 150 B.C.; the founder of the science of astronomy. Quotations: Astronomy—Skill. HIPPEL, THEODoR GOTTLIEB, voN, born at Ger- daugn, in Hºrussia, 1741; a German humorist and Original thinker; died at Königsberg, 1796. Quotations : Humility —Plow—Power—Reproof–Soul. HIPPOCRATES, “The Father of Medicine,” born in the island of Cos, 460 B.C.; the most eminent Greek Pºn of antiquity; died about 375 B.C. Quotations: isease—Eating—Impatience—Jealousy—Medicine–Wine. HIPPOCRATIDAS. Quotation : Company. HIPPOLYTUS, SAINT, (Bishop of Portus Roma- nus,) born about 163; a Christian martyr and ecclesiastical writer; suffered martyrdom, 238. Quotation : Remedy. HIPPONAX, born at Ephesus, lived about 540 B.C.; an eminent Greek satiric poet. Quotation : World. HITCHCOCK, EDwARD, born at Deerfield, Mas- sachusetts, May 24, 1793; an American geologist and Con- fººtional minister; died, 1864. Quotation : Adversity— OCK. HOADLEY, BENJAMIN, born at Westersham, in Kent, 1676: an English divine and author: died, 1761. Quo- tattions. Indifference—Politics. - HOARE, CHARLES JAMES, (Archdeacon of Sur- rey,) born about 1774; an eminent English divine. Quota- tion : Sunday. HOBART, JoHN HENRY, D.D., (Bishop of New York,) born in Philadelphia, 1775; an American º: lian divine and author; died, 1880. Qztotations : Church— Equity—Sacrament—Salvation—Schism. HOBBES, THOMAs, born at Malmesbury, 1588 ; a famous English philosopher and Writer; died, 1679. Qºzo- tations : Aggression—Church—-Compassion—Conceit—Cou- rage — Curiosity— Death—Desire—Emulation— Envy—Ex- erience —Folly— *Wii Good—Laughter — Obligation— ity—Scripture—Sin—Will—Words. HODGE, ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, D.D., born at Princeton, New Jersey, 1825; an American theological wri- ter. Quotations: Atonement—Eternity—God—Inspiration —Maxims—Pantheism—Responsibility—Resurrection. HODGE, CHARLES, born in Philadelphia, Decem- ber 28, 1797; an American theologian and author; died, June 19, 1878. Quotations : God—Holiness—Humility—Re- ligion. HODGSON, SAMUEL, born, 1520; an English au- thor; died, 1590. Quotation : Free-Thinking. HODGSON, WILLIAM, born about 1742; an Eng- lish author, ( London, 1795.) Quotation : Ridicule. HODSON, MARGARET, (MISS HOLFORD,) born at Chester, 1781; an English poetess and miscellaneous writer; died, 1847. Quotation : Grief. HODY, HUMPHREY, D.D., (Archdeacon of Oxford,) born at Oldcombe, 1659; an English divine and writer; died, 1706. Quotations : Instability—Youth. HOESCHELIUS, DAVID, born, 1556; a German hellenist and author; died, 1617. Quotation. : Wrangling. HOEY, MRs. CASHELL : an American novelist and miscellaneous writer. Quotations : Ambition — Mis- anthropy. © HOFFMAN, CHARLEs FENNO, born in the city of New York, 1806; a popular American novelist and poet. Quotations: Love—Water. HOFFMAN, DAVID, LL.D., J.U.D., born in Bal- timore, 1784; an eminent lawyer and writer; died, 1854. Quotations: Fame—Writing. HOFFMAN, John T. born in the village of Sing Sing, New York, January 10, 1828; an American politician. Quotation : Sorrow. HOFLAND, BARBARA, born at Sheffield, 1770; a popular English novelist; died, 1844. Quotations: Gar- den—Valet. HOFMANNSWALDAU, CHRISTIAN HoFMANN, von, born at Breslau, 1618; a German poet and author: died, 1679. Qosotations : Concert—Earth—Prayer—Resignation. HOGARTH, WILLIAM. D.D., born in Geneva, New York, 1814; an eminent educator and Congrgational divine. Quotations : Apostle—Right. A / O G AC A P // A C A / / /W /O A. Y. | 120 HOGABTH, WILLIAM, born in London, 1697 ; a celebrated English satirical painter: died, 1764. Quota- tions. Caricature— Genius– Music—Painting—POrtrait— Scholar. HOGG, JAMES, (The Ettrick Shepherd, ) born in Ettrick Forest, Scotland, 1772; a Scotch poet and romance writer; died, 1835. Quotation . Boast1ng. HOGG, THOMAS, born about 1765; an English au- thor and editor, (London, 1822.) Quotattion. Death. HOHENHAUSEN, ELISE PHILIPPINE AMALIE, Baroness, von, born at Cassell, 1789: a German poetess, novelist, and litterateur ; died, 1861. Quotation : Good. HOLBACH, PAUL HEINRICH THIERRY, BARON von, born at Heidelsheim, 1723; a Gel’man sceptical philos- opher and writer; died, 1789. Quotation? : Matter. HOLBEIN, JOHANN, born, 1498; a Swiss painter ; died, 1554. Quotation : Caricature. HOLBERG, LUDwig, BARON voN, born at Ber- gen, Norway. 1684; a distinguished Danish author and comic poet; died, 1754. Quotation : Meanness. HOLBROOK, ALFRED, born in Derby, Connecti- cut, 1816; an American educator and writer. Quotation : Politics. HOLBROOK, ANTHONY, born about 1680 ; an Fºll author, (LOndon, 1715.) Quotations : Gallantry— I'll St. HOLBROOK., John EDwARDs, M. D., born at Beaufort, South Carolina, 1795; an American physi Cian and author; died, September 8, 1871. Quotation : Exchange HOLBROOK, SUSAN, born in Cummington, Mas- sachusetts, 1788; died at Rushville, New York, 1872. Quo- tation : Management. HOLCOMBE, JAMES P., born in Lynchburg, Vir- ginia, 1820; an American writer and jurist ; died, 1873. Quotation : Lampoon—Slavery. HOLCROFT, THOMAS, born in London, 1744; an English dramatist and translator; died, 1809. Quotation : Nation. - - HOLDEN, FRANK: an American journalist and publisher. Quotation : Education. HOLDEN, HENRY, born in Lancashire, 1596; an English Itoman Catholic priest and author ; died, 1662. Qıtotalion : Sense. HOLDEN, HENRY EVANs, born in Barbadoes, about 1762; an English miscellaneous writer, (London, 1783.) Quotations : Brute—Speaking. HOLDEN, WILLIAM, F.R.S., born in Nottingham- Shire, 1614; an English divine and author; died, 1697. Quo- tation : Immorality—Persecution. HOLDERLIN, JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH, born at Lauffen, 1770; a German poet and littérateur; died at Tübingen, 1843. Quotations : Assertion—Hell—Nature. HOLE, RICHARD, born, 1732; an English author : died, 1803. Quotation : Laconics. HOLFORD, GEORGE, born about 1749; an Eng- lish author and statesman, (London, 1789.) Quotatio). Judgments. HOLFORD, MRS. M., born about 1756; an Eng- lish author, (LOndon, 1783.) Quotation : Politeness. HOLINSHED, RAPHAEL, born about 1509 : an #ºn historian and chronicler; died, 1580. Quotation : Il Clex. HOLL, FRANCIS XAVIER born, 1720: a German - º of ecclesiastical law; died, 1784. Quotation . 1Uel’a UUll’é. HOLLAND, ELIHU G., born at Solon, Cortlandt county, New York, 1817; an American essayist, dramatist, #. micellaneous Writer. Quotations : Mystery — Self. 1St I'll St. HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT, M.D., born at Bel- Chertown, Massachusetts, July 24, 1819; a popular Ameri- Can Writer, journalist, and poet. In 1870, hē became editor of “Scribner's MQnthly,” which position he ably filled un- til his death; died in New York, October 11, 1881. Quota- t?008: Artº Benefactor-Intemperance—Name—Old Age -Pauper-Perfection — Pilgrim – Position – Prevention:- Prºgress-Providence – Religion — Reputation – Respect- ability— Riches—Self-Respect—Sensuality— Speculation— Temptation—Theology — Thought — Treachery – Trust— Vice – Villiany—Wealth—Wife—Woman—Work. HOLLAND, IADY, (MISS SABA SMITH,) daughter Qf Sydney Smith; a popular English miscellaneous writer; died, 1867. Quotation : Troubles. HQLLAND, LORD, (HENRY RICHARD VAssALL FOX,) born in Wiltshire, 1773; an English statesman and author; died, 1840. Quotation : Knowledge. HOLLAND, PHILEMON, born at Chelmsford, 1551; an English physician and teacher; died, 1636. Quotations : Perseverance—Physic. | HOLLAND, SIR HENRy, M.D., F.R.S., born at Knutsford, Cheshire, October, 1778; an eminent English physician and author; died, 1873. Quotation : Memory. HOLLEBEECK, EwALD, born, 1722 : a Dutch theologian ; died, 1796. Quotattion : Littleness. HOLLEY, HORACE, D.D., born at Salisbury, Con- necticut, 1731 : an American Unitarian minister and wri- ter; died, 1827. Quotations : Pictures—Rhetoric. HOLLINGS, John FREDERICK, born, 1803; an English writer; died, 1857, Quotation : Solitude. HOLLINGSHEAD, WILLIAM, D.D., born about º it an American divine ; died, 1817. Quotation : Evan- gellSt. HOLMAN, JAMES, born, 1791; an English travel- ler and author; died, 1857. Quotation : Matter. HOLLMANN, SAMUEL CHRISTIAN, born, 1696; a German philosopher; died, 1787. Quotation : Laughter. HOLMES, ABIEL, D.D., father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, born at Woodstock, Connecticut, 1763; an Ameri- can divine; died, 1837. Qazolation? ... Pleasure. HOLMES, MARY J., born at Brookfield, Worces- ter county, Massachusetts; an American novelist. Qtto- tations : Adieu-Geology—Liberty—Preface. HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, M.D., born in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, August 29, 1809 : an eminent Ameri- can author, wit, and poet, He has acquired an enduring fame as a writer of magazine articles. (Juotations: Apol- Ogy—Authorship— Belhavior—Belief – Benevolence—Body —Books—Brains—Company—Conceit—Courtesy—Critic– Decay—Devotion—Dullness—Egotism— Elegance—Emula- tion—Existence—Faith—Fashion—Folly—Freedom—Gen- ius—Good-Breeding—Humility-– Insanity – Knowledge– Laughter—Love—Lying — Mind – Money—Mountain—Ob- servation—Past — Plagiarism — Poetry—Pun — ſteputation — Scholar—Science—Secrecy--Sensibility—Symbol--Talent —Talking—Tears—Thought—Truth—Woman. HOLMES, ROBERT, born, 1749 ; an English divine and miscellaneous writer; died, 1805. Quotation : Gifts. HOLMSKJOLD, THEODOR voN, born, 1732; an eminent Danish physician, botanist, and writer; died, 1793. Q?totation : Inequality. HOLOBOLUS, MANUEL, born about 1235; a By- zantine bishop and writer; died, 1301. Quotation : Lust. HOLT, FRANCIs LUDLow, Q.C., born, 1770; an English jurist, journalist, and author; died, 1844. Quota- tion : IRiches. HOLT, SIR JOHN, born at Thame, December, 1642; an eminent English judge; died, 1709. Quotation: Rejoic- Ing. HOLT, JosłPH, born in . Breckenridge county, Rentucky, 1807; an American jurist and Statesman. Qzzo- tation: Secession. HOLTY, LUDwig HEINRICH CHRISTOPH, born at Mariensee, Hanover, 1748; an excellent German lyric poet and author; died, 1746. Quotattions : Earth – Hearing— Jest—Justice—Love—Speaking—Summer—Woods. HOLYDAY, BARTON, D.D., born at Oxford, 1593; an English divine and writer; died, 1661. Quotations: Gluttony—Lust—Paradox—Royalty–Unity. HOLYOAKE, GEORGE JACOB, born in Birming- ham, 1817; an English freethinker and reformer. Quota- tion : Community. - HOLYOKE, EDWARD, born in Massachusetts, 1690; an American divine and author; died, 1769. Quota- tion : Stabllity. HOLYOKE, EDWARD AUGUSTUs, M.D., born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1728; an American Writer; died, March 31, 1829. Quotation: Self-Education. HOMER, the greatest name in the history of epic #9. he lived at so remote a period, that his existence s considered by some as a myth, the date of his birth va- rying no less than five hundred years-1184 B.C., to 684 B.C Many towns claimed his birth-place, but Smyrna seems to have established the best claim ; he is Said to have died at Ios, one of the Cyclades. Quotations: Arbitration–Bards —Beauty—Be ; ºººººº. Envy—Evil—Fate–Fool—Friendship—Gifts—Grief—Hap- piness—Hunger—Idleness — Jealousy— Life—Misery—Ne- cessity—Nobility—Oak—Oath — Perjury—Poor-Quickness —Race—Reproach—Rogue—Satiety—Shame-Skill–Son— Sorrow—Söul—Statesman—Strength – Strife — ºreº. Sword–Talent—Tongue—Union-Vagrant—Victory—Vir- tue –Wanderer – Want — War — Warrior—Will–Wine— Woman—Yawning. HOME, JOHN, born at Ancrum, 1724 : a popular Scottish dramatist; died, 1808. Quotation : Marriage. HONE, WILLIAM, born, 1779; an English writer and satirist ; died, 1842. Quotation : Artist. HONORORIUS II, Pop E, (LAMBERT DE FAGNAR,) born, 1057; died, 1130. Quotation : Crusades. HOOD, EDw1N PAxTON, born at Weston, 1820; an English divine and author. Quotations : Anecdotes— gºce—mustration —Memory—Oratory—Preaching— €TIO, OI!. - -HOOD, THOMAS, born in London, 1798 : a famous English poet and humorist ; died, 1845. Quotations: Duty –5. LºßT iterature—Mirth —Nobody—Pulpit—Ridicule—Sickness. I l 30 A) 4 Y S C O Z / A C O AV. HOOFT, PETER CORNELIs, VAN, born, 1581 ; a Dutch dramatic poet ; died, 1647. Quotation : Sneer. HOOK, JAMES, LL.D., (Dean of . Worcester, ) brother of Theodore E. Hook, born in London, 1771; a cele- brated English writer; died, 1828. Quotation : Girl. HOOK, THEODORE EDWARD, born in London, 1788; an English journalist and miscellaneous writer; died, 1841. Q?totations : Mother—Pride. HOOKE, NATHANIEL, born, 1690 ; an Irish histo- rian and miscellaneous writer; died, 1763. Quotation : LOSS. HOOKE, ROBERT, M.D., born at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, 1635; an English natural philosopher and writer; died, 1703. Quotation : Invention. HOOKER, HERMAN, D.D., born at Poultney, Rut- land county, Vermont, 1804; an American Episcopalian divine and author; died, 1857. Quotations: Affection— Alteration—Beauty — Bondage— Caution — Change—Com- mendation—Contempt—Counterfeit—Credulity–Curiosity —Delusion—Destruction — Disdain — Doubt—Enjoyment— Envy-Eye-Fact—Faith—Fiction—Genius—Good–Great- ness—Happiness—Independence — Jealousy–Mediocrity- Merit—Occupation—Poetry—Punishment-ſtemorse—Self- Love—Sensibility—Success —Theology—Virtue—Vulgarity —Wrong. HOOKER, Joseph, born, 1819 : an American major-general ; died, October 31, 1879. Quotation : Answer. HOOKER, RICHARD, born at Heavy tree, near Exeter, 1553; an English divine, and one of the most emi- nent philosophical theologians of the Elizabethian period : died, 1600. Quotations : Affection —Angels—Apocra pha- Authority—Axiom—Benignity–Capacity—Choice—Clergy —Controversy—Conviction — Declamation—Declaration— Defect—l)escent—Earnestness—Errol' – Evil—Excellence— Exigency— Fact — Faculties — Fear—Fitness —Godliness— GOOd — Goodliness — Government — Heinousness–Hope— Idolatry--Ignorance— Imbecility — Impotence — Infinity – Influence — Iniquity — Judgment — Justification — IX now- ledge—Law— Legends—Love—Melody--Minister—Modesty Morality--Order–Organization – Perdition — Perfection— Prayer – Probability—Prosperity— Psalms — Reason—Re- ward–Sensibility—Sky-Sophistry-Soul—State-Stomach —Thanks—Timidity—Tradition–Tribulation—Tyranny— Ubiquity—Veneration—Virtue—Will. HOOKER, THOMAS, born at Marfield, England, 1586, emigrated to Massachusets, 1633; one of the founders of the city of Hartford, Connecticut, and a popular divine ; died, 1647. Quotation : Sin. HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON, F.R.S., born at Norwich, 1785; an English botanist and author: died, 1865. Quotation : Rabble. HOOKER, WoRTHINGTON, M.D., born in Spring- field, Massachusetts, 1806; an American essayist and au- thor; died, 1867. Quotation : Opinion. HOOLE, CHARLEs, born at Wakefield, 1610; an fºglish writer and educator; died, 1666. Quotation: Kiss- D.g. HOOLE, JOHN, born in London, 1727; dramatist and translator ; died, 1803. stancy. HOOPER, JoHN, (Bishop of Gloucester,) born in Somersetshire, 1495; an eminent English divine and mar- t, jºurned at the stake, 1553. Quotations: Innocence— ruth. HOOPER, LUCY, born at Newburyport, Massa- chusetts, 1816; an American miscellaneous writer; died, 1841. Quotation : Fortitude. HOOPER, ROBERT, born about 1742: a British medical writer; died, 1812. Quotation : Punishment. HOOPER, WILLIAM, born in Boston, 1742; an American patriot; died, 1790. Quotation : Merchant. HOORN VAN VLOOSWICK, PETER NICOLAUs, Baron van, born, 1742; a Dutch antiquary ; died, 1809. Quotation : Style. - HOPE, JAMES, M.D., born, 1771 ; a British physi- cian and author; died, 1840. Quotation : Smoking. HOPE, JOHN, M.D., F.R.S., born, 1725 : a Scot- tish botanist and writer; died, 1786. Quotation : Tobacco. HOPE, SIR THOMAs, born in Edinburgh, 1577; an eminent Scottish jurist; died, 1646. Quotation.: Quality. HOPE, THOMAS, born, 1774 ; a Scottish antiquary and littérateur; died, 1831. Quotations: Buying—Enigma —Mechanics. HOPE, WILLIAM, M.D., born about 1790; an Eng- lish operative chemist and writer, (London, 1839.) Quo- tation. Heart. HOPITAL, MICHEL DE L', born at Aigueperse, in Auvergne, 1505; a French chancellor, and an illustrious legislator, statesman, and author; died, 1573. Quotation : Justice. HOPKINS, CHARLEs, born, 1664: an English poet and miscellaneous writer; died, 1699. Qxtotation : Lust. HOPKINS, ERASTUs, born at Hadley, Massachu- setts, 1810; an American senator and writer. Q7totation : Pleasure. an English Quotation : Con- HOPKINS, EzekiEL, (Bishop of Raphoe and Lom- donderry,) born at Sandford, Devonshire, 1633; an English Calvinistic divine and writer; died, 1690. Quotations : Af- fliction—Conscience—Error—Expiation—Godliness—Heart —Heaven—Joy— Justification — Minister— Mortification— Patience—Prayer—Proverbs—Redemption — Regeneration —Scripture—Sin—Sinner—Swearing. HOPKINS, Louis A PAYSON, born at Portland, Maine, 1812; an American miscellaneous writer for the young. Quotations : Hope—Wrong. HOPKINS, MARK, D.D., LL.D., born in Stock- bridge, Massachusetts, 1802; an American essayist, and Filent of Williams College. Quotations: Exercise— &l HOPKINS, SAMUEL, born at Waterbury, Con- necticut, 1721; an American divine and writer; died, 1803. Qrtotations. Purity—Sin—Wickedness. HOPKINS, STEPHEN, born at Scituate, Rhode #. º an American statesman ; died, 1785. Quotat- loſt . Jury. HOPKINSON, FRANCIS, born in Philadelphia, 1737 : an American patriot, and a distinguished author and Wit: died, 1791. Quotations : Habit—Property—Success. HOPPER, Is AAC TATEM, born near Woodbury, New Jersey, 1771; a distinguished American philanthro- pist ; died, 1852. Quotation : Miser. HOPTON, SUSANNA, born, 1627; an English au- #. on religious subjects; died, 1709. Quotation : €al"t, Il. HORACE, QUINTUs FLACCUs, born in Venusia, on the confines of Apulia and Lucania, December 8, 65 B.C.; one of the most eminent Itoman Latin lyric poets; died, 8 B.C. . Quotations: Absence—Admiration —Adoration— Adversity–Advocate—Ages—Air-Alarm—Amiability— Anger—Art—Backbiter—Brevity—Care—Change—Compe- tency—Composition — Contentment — College–Country— Court—Covetuousness—Critic — Day—Death—Denial—De- spair—Diet—Ear—Eating — Education—Enjoyment—Envy —Epicure—Error—Exaltation —Example—Excess—Exile— Explanation—Eye — Fate — Faults — Fidelity—Flattery— Folly—Forgiveness—Friendship — Future—Genius—Glóry —Gluttony—Gold—Good — Happiness—Heir–Hope—Hope- lessness—Hunger—Incapacity—Income—Indigence—Indo- lence—Infamy — Innocence — Inquisitiveness — Insanity— Instruction—Integrity — Judges — Justice—Labor—Litera- ture—Love—Lover—Luck—Madness---Mediocrity—Merit— Mirth — Miser — Misfortune — Moment — Money — Mote— Mother—Ocean—Painting—Passion—Patience—Pedigree— Perdition—Perseverance—Pictures—Poetry--Pomp—Popu- lace—Poverty—-Praise—Precept—Present—Principles—Pri- vacy—Profession—Property – Punishment — Purity—Pur- suit — Pecommendation — IResolution — Revelry—Riches— Ridicule—Ruler—Self-Denial –Shame—Simplicity—Song— Sorrow—Spendthrift—Sport—Stomach—Strength—Subject –Summer—Superfluity—Surprise - Sympathy —Tears — Thrift—Time--Translation--Trifle—-Usefulness--Vengeance —Vice —Virtue — Wantoness — War —Wealth —Wedlock— Wine—Wrath—Writing. HORAPOLLO, or HORUS APOLLO, lived in the fourth century; a Greek grammarian. Quotation : Expec- tation. HORNBERG, WILLIAM. Pledge. HORNE, GEORGE, D.D., (Bishop of Norwich,) born at Otham, Kent, 1730; an English divine and author; died, 1792. Quotations : Advice–Association – Birds — Body— Christ-Cloud—Employment – Faithfulness—Goodness— Heaven–Hope--Hour--Knowledge—Man--Morning—News- paper—Patience—Prayer—Prosperity—Psalms-Reforma- tion—Riches—Solitude—Sorrow–Visits—Wit—Words. HORNE, RICHARD HENRY, born in London, 1802, emigrated to Australia, 1852; an English poet and drama- tist. Quotations : Scoffing. HORNE, THOMAS HARTwPLL, D.D., born, 1780; an eminént English author: died, January, 1862. Quota- tion : Affection. HORNECK, ANTHONY, D.D., (Prebendary of Exe- ter,) born at Bacharach, 1641; removed to England, 1660; a German religious writer; died, 1696. Quotations: Com- anion — Consideration — Preparation — Retirement—Self- gnorance. HORNER, FRANCIS, born in Edinburgh, 1778; a distinguished English statesman and lawyer; died at Pisa, 1817. Quotation : Trifle. HORROX, JEREMIAH, born at Toxketh, near Li- verpool, 1619; an eminent English astronomer; died, 1641. Quotation : Usury. HORSFORD, MARY GARDINER, born in the city of New York, 1824; an American authoress, Quotation: Distance. HORSLEY, SAMUEL, LL.D., (Bishop of Saint David's and Saint Asaphs,), born in London, 1733; an emi- nent Fnglish divine and writer; died, 1806. Quotations : Despotism —Prophecy—Riches—Science—Slavery—Specu- lation—Wonder. HORTA, GARCIU's AB, lived in the sixteenth cen- Bă Aspanish herbalist and philosopher. (J7totation : 131IIl OHC1. Quotations. Literature — A / O G AC A P // / C A / / AV /O AE X. 1131 HORTENSE, EUGENIE DE BEAUHARNAIS, Queen of Holland, and mother of Napoleon III, born, 1783; a poet- ess and romance writer; died, 1837. Quotation. Hope. HORTENSIA, the daughter of Quintus Horten- sius, born, 85 B.C.; a Roman lady renowned for her Virtue and eloquence. Quotation : Woman. HORTENSIUS, LUCIUS, born about 152 B.C.; a Roman praetor of Sicily; died, 87 B.C. Quotation : Will. HORTENSIUS, QUINTUs, born, 114 B.C. : an emi- # Roman orator and poet; died, 50 B.C. Quotation : nfamy. - HORTON, THOMAS, born about 1600; an English fligne and religious writer; died, 1673. Quotation : Kneel- Ilg. HOSE, HENRY G., born in London, 1847; an Eng- lish printer and journalist. Quotation : Laconics. HOSIUS, SAINT, (Bishop of Cordova,) born, 257; § ºnent Spanish religious Writer; died, 357. Quotation : Olćl. HOSMER, WILLIAM HENRY CUYLER, born, 1814; º American lawyer, author, and poet. Quotation : Mer- Chant HOSPINIAN, RUDOLF, born at Altorf, 1547: an eminent Swiss Protestant theologian ; died, 1626. Quota- tion. Popery. HOSMER, HARRIET G., born in Watertown, Massachusetts, October 9, 1830; an American sculptor. Quotation: Woman. HOTEP- NOFAR ; a priest of ancient Thebes. Quotation : Gods. HOTEP-PTAH : an Egyptian high priest of the Court of Amenophis III. Quotations : Hearing—Horse— Rilling—Labor—Listening—Master— Mother—Neighbor— Old Age—Pleasure—Relations—Servant— Silence—Sloth— Son—Thought —Tyrant—Wantonness –Wickedness—Wife. —Wine HOTTINGER, JoHANN HEINRICH, born, 1681; a Swiss theologian and author; died, 1750. Quotation : Clock. HOTTINGER, Johann HEINRICH, born, 1620; a Swiss theologian and author; died, 1667. Quotation : Sus- pic10n. HOUAT, EUSTACHE ANTOINE, born, 1759; a French magistrate and legislator; died, 1836. Quotation : Spendthrift. Af - HOUDEDOT, ELISABETH FRANÇoſsE SOPHIE, DE la Livre de Bellegarde, Countess, born, 1730; a French º and littérateur ; died, 1813. Quotation : Content- IIlêIlt, HOUGH, JoHN, D.D., (Bishop of Oxford, Lich- field, and Worcester,) born in Middlesex, 1651; an eminent English divine and scholar; died, 1743. Quotation : Joke. HOUGHTON, LORD, M.P., (RICHARD MONCKTON Milnes,) D.C.L., F.R.S., born, June 19, 1809; an eminent English scholar, poet, statesman, and author. Quotation : Aristocracy. HOUNG-WOU, or TCHOU-YOUAN-TCHANG, born, 1327; a celebrated Chinese emperor; died, 1398. Quo- tation? : Wisdom. HOUSE, ERWIN ; an American essayist and mis- cellaneous writer. Quotation : Bravery–Devil—Health. HOUSTON, MRS. born in England, 1807; an Eng- lish authoress and traveller, (London, 1844.) Quotation. Benevolence. HOUSTON, SAM, born near Lexington, Virginia, 1793; an American statesman and general; died, 1862. Quo- tation : Ceremony. - - HOVE, ANTOINE, VAN, (Horoews Antonius,) born, 1505; a Dutch Latin poet and historian; died, 1568. Quota. tion : Custom. HOW, JAMES, born in England about 1685 ; an English divine and author. Quotation : Spy. HOWARD, ANNE, (VISCOUNTEss IRWIN,) born, 1705; an English poetess and miscellaneous writer; died, 1760. Quotation : Superstition. HOWARD, EDWARD, born, 1779; a popular Eng- lish novelist; died, 1842. Quotations: Pity—Suspicion. HOWARD, GEORGE EDMUND, born, 1725: an Eng- lish poet and political writer; died, 1786. Quotation : Birth. HOWARD, HENRY, born, 1757: an English mis- cellaneous writer; died, 1842. Quotation : Change. HOWARD, JOHN, F.R.S., born at Hackney, near London, 1726; an eminent English philanthropist and prison reformer; died at Cherson, on the Black Séa, 1790. Quo- tations: Buriai Punishment. HOWARD, SIR ROBERT, born, 1626; an English politician, poet, and historian; died, 1698. Quotations: Côwardice—Despair. - HOWARD, THOMAS, (DUKE of NoFFOLK,) born. 1473; an eminent English statesman; died, 1554. Quota- tion : StateSman. HOWE, JOHN, born at Loughborough, May 17, 1630; an eminent English dissenting minister and author, and chaplain to Oliver Cromwell; died, 1705. Quotations : Delight—Desire—God—Indigence—Intellect— Life—Order ––Pleasure—Religion—Self—Strength. HOWE, JULIA WARD, born in New York, 1819 : an American poetess, journalist, and miscellaneous wri- tel'. Qtotations: Daughter— Ideality—Ornament—Trifle —Truth—Walking. HOWE, NATHANIEL, born, 1764 ; an American Congregational divine and author; died, 1837. Quotations: Persecution—Want—Watchfulness. HOWE, SIR WILLIAM, (LORD Howe,) born, 1725; an English general; died, 1814. Quotations: Adornment —Riches—Time. HOWEL, LAURENCE, born, 1660; an English theo- logian and Writer; died, 1720. Quotation Good-Breeding. HOWEL THE GOOD, (Hywel Dda,) born, 870 ; a Welch king; died, 948. Quotation : Luck. HOWELL, JAMES, born in Carmarthen, North Wales, 1595 : an English historian ; died, 1666. Quotations: Amnesty—I)istance— Epistle—Heaven–History—Inaction Laconics-Liberty—Others-Pardon—Pen–Policy—Pro- mise—Quill—Secrecy—Sin—Soul—Theology—Vengeance— Words. HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN, born at Martinsville, Ohio, March 11, 1837; an American poet and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Confinement. HOWELS, R. ; an American divine and writer ; Quotation : Bible. HOWISON, ROBERT R., born, 1820; an Ameri- can lawyer, historical and biographical writer. Quota- tion : ReaSOn. HOWITT, MARY, born at Uttoxeter, 1804; a pop- ular English poetess, moralist, and authoress. Quotations: çºn- Delicacy—Miser—Poor—Sin—Sinner—Words— Oll - HOWITT, WILLIAM, husband of the preceding, born at Heanor, Derbyshire, 1795; an eminent English au- thor. , Quotations: Christ—Laconics—Mountain—Popery —Spring—Trees. HOWLEGLASS, (The Merry Jester,) born at Cav- elling, Saxony, about 1310; a dwarf, noted for his wit and Smart sayings; died at Möllen, near Lubeck, 1380. Quota- tions: Burden—Fatigue—Food—Fool. HOWMAN, JOHN, (JOHN OF FECKENHAM,) born, 1516; a celebrated English writer; died, 1585. Quotation : Industry. HOYT, JESSE, born in the state of Connecticut, 1793; a New York lawyer and politician; died, 1861. Quo- tations. Law—Teaching. HRAFNKEL, (Freysgode,) lived in the tenth cen- tury; a Norwegian heathen priest. Quotation : Trans- greSSion. - HUABALDE, born, 840; a French divine and author; died, 930. Quotation : Legacy. HUALCOPO-DUCHICELA, born, 1440; the four- teenth sovereign of Quito ; died, 1463. Quotation : Woods. HUARTE, JUAN DE DIOS, born in Navarre, 1535; a Spanish physician and philosopher; died, 1600. Quota- tions: Study—Truth. HUAYNA-CAPAC, (THE CONQUEROR ;) an Inca of Peru; died, 1525. Quotation : Feasting. HUBBELL, MARTHA STONE, born at Oxford, Con- necticut, 1814; a popular American, writer of children's stories, and authoress of “Shady Side; ” died, 1856, Qwo- tation : Lamentation. HUDSON, FREDERIC, born, 1819; an American journalist and writer, and managing editor of the “New York Herald; ” died, October 21, 1875. Quotations : Editor —Journalism—PreSS. HUDSON, HENRY NORMAN, born in Cornwall, Vermont, 1814; an Episcopalian clergyman and author. Qg5#.” : Flowers— Imagination—Infancy—Knowledge —SIſ) IIC. HUE, born about 1210; a celebrated French litté- rateur and minstrel ; died, 1279. Quotation : Woman. HUEBSCH, REv. DR.: a German divine and mis- cellaneous writer. Quotation : Trust. HUFELAND, CHRISTOLPH WILHELM, born at Langensalza, Prussian Saxony, 1762; a German phººn and medical writer; died, 1836, Quotations : Joy—Moss— Nature—Physic. HUFT, J. H., born, 1778; an English divine and author, (London, 1818.) Q?totations : Metals—Poverty— Usury. HUGESSEN, KNATCHBULL. Hugessen. HUGGINS, MoRRISON, born in Marion, New York, August 3, 1817; an American divine ; died at Rock- §. Illinois, February 15, 1859. Quotation 8: Charity— I'ê3, LOT”. See KNATCHBULL- I 132 AD A Y 'S CO / / A C O AV. HUGHES, John, born at Marlborough, 1677 ; an English poet and essayist. He contributed numerous well written essays to the “Spectator,” “Tattler,” and “Guar- dian ; ” died, 1720. Quotations: Agreeableness—Avarice— Bashfulness—Beauty—Cheating—Defamation—Distinction Pºiº — Dullness — Example — Eye —Face—Fea- tures—FOp—Gaming — Glory — Government—Humanity— Merit—Power—Prejudice—Scandal—Sermon—Wag. HUGHES, JoBN, (Bishop of New York,) born in Ireland, 1798, emigrated to America in 1817; an eminent Boman Catholic divine, lecturer, and author; died, Janu- ary 3, 1864. Quotations : Jesuitism—Rivalry—Romance— Self-Esteem—Yawning. HUGHES, JoHN G., born about 1800 ; an English author, (London, 1844.) Quotations : Good-Nature—Piety. HUGHES, THOMAs, M.P., born in Berkshire, Oc- tober, 1823; an English barrister, SOcial economist, and *:::::: of “Tom Brown's School Days.” Quotation : Edu- Cà, L1011. HUGUES, GUILLAUME D', (Archbishop of Em– brun,) born, 1571; an eminent French divine and writer; died, 1648. Quotation : Weariness. HUGO, VICTOR MARIE, VICOMTE, born at Besan- con. February 26, 1802; a distinguished French lyric poet and dramatist. Quotations : Address—Eye—Faith—Free- masonry—Gentleman —Heart-Love—Nature—Progress— Religion—[teverie—Solitude—Sword—Will—Writing. HUIE, JAMES A., born, 1801 : an English writer on religious subjects, (London, 1842.) Quotation : Lust. HULL, EDWIN S.; an American miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Fruit. HULL, JOHN, M.D., born at Manchester, 1745; an English physician and writer; died, 1819. Quotation : Physician. HULL, THOMAS, born in London, 1728; an Eng- lish dramatic author and littérateur; died, 1808. Quota- tions: Public—Righteousness. HULPHERS, ABRAHAM ABRAHAMSON, born, 1734; a Swedish traveller and archaeologist ; died, 1797. Quotation : Landscape. HULSIUS, ANTHONY, born, 1615; a German Pro- testant divine and writer; died, 1685. Quotation : Courage. HULSEMANN, JOHN, born, 1602; a German Lu- theran divine and writer; died, 1661. Quotation: Economy. HUMAIDI, IBN YASIL ALLAH, AL, born, 1029; an Arabian poet and philosopher; died at Bagdad, Decem- ber 18, 1095. Quotation : Visits. HUMBOLDT, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ALExANDER, Baron, von, born in Berlin, September 14, 1769; an illus- trious German traveller and author; died, May 6, 1859. agºons: Animals—Equality-–Nature--Seasons--Slavery —sſº. I’. HUMBOLDT, KARL WILHELM, BARON, voN, born at Potsdam, June 22, 1767; a distinguished German statesman and philologist ; died at Tegel, near Berlin, April 8, 1835. Quotations: Advice-Change--Cheerfulness—Death —Education—Enjoyment—Existence—Fame—Fancy--For- tune—Friendship—Future—Harmony— Health– Héaven— Home—Language—Letter—Merit—Mirth—Misfortune— Observation—Old Age—Pain—Past—Peace—Prayer—Pride —Providence—Religion—Resignation—Besolution— Sculp- ture—Sea—Sleep--Sorrow--Statesman--Temperance--Trees —Will—Work—Years. HUME, DAVID, born in Edinburgh, April 26, 1711; a distinguished English historian and philosopher; died, August, 1776. Quotations : Ambition—Ancients—Apathy —AI'rogance—Art—Attachment—Belles-Lettres—BOOkS— Censure—Circumstances— Compensation—Contentment— Deeds— Discretion — Dogmatism — Drama – Eloquence — Exaggeration— Excellence—Expression— Faction—Favor - Generosity — Genius — Good-Breeding – Goyernment— Happiness—Hell—History—Hope-Ills-Imagination—In- clination — Jealousy— Justice — Liar —Life — Literature — Loyalty—Luxury — Manners — Metaphysics — Monarchy— Nature—Object--Opinion—Opposition—Philosophy--Pleas- ure—Politeness—Polytheism—Positiveness—Praise–Press — Proof — Public — Puritanism — Reason — Refinement — Riches — Scepticism — Science—Self-Denial — Self-Love — Sentiments—Taste—Temper—Thinking—Tillage— Time— Vanity—Wealth—Wisdom—Wit. HUMPHREY, HEMAN, D.D., born at Simsbury Connecticut, 1779; an American Presbyterian divine ańá author; died, 1861. Quotations : Minister—Mistake. HUMPHREY, LAURENCE, born, 1527 : an English divine and writer; died, 1590. Quotation : Christ. HUMPHREYS, DAVID, LL.D., born in Derby, Connecticut, 1753; an American poet, prose writer, and patriot; died, 1818. Quotation : Intemperance. HUMPHREYS, HENRY NOEL, born at Birming- ham, 1810; an English antiquary and author. Quotation : Isolation. HUMPHREYS, JAMES, born in Montgomery, North Wales; a Welch jurist and author; died, 1830. Quo- tation : Secession. HUNERIC, or HUNNERIC, the second King of the Vandals of Africa ; died, 484. Quotation : Religion. HUNT, SIR AUBREY DEVERE, born about 1780: an English poet and dramatist ; died, 1846. Quotations : Delnagogue—Music. HUNT, FREEMAN, born in Quincy, Massachusetts, 1804; an American editor and author; died, 1858. Quota. tion : Money. HUNT, HARRIOT K., M.D., born in Boston, Mas- Sachusetts, 1805; a distinguished female physician and ad- vocate of “Women's Rights.” Quotation : Girl. HUNT, JOHN H., born in the State of New York, about 1809; an American politician and financier. Quota. tions: Metals—Poverty—Usury. HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH, commonly known as “Leigh Hunt,” born’at Southgate, near London, 1784; a popular English poet and author; died, August 28, 1859. fuotations. Beauty—Books – Death—Eye—Good—Hair— unanity-Immortality—Infancy—Laughter-Melancholy -Mirth — Occupation — Patience—Prayer — Revolution- Secrecy—Sleep—Sorrow—Tears—Wit. - HUNT, ROBERT, born at Devonport, 1807; an English physician and author. Quotation : #oet. HUNT, SAMUEL F., born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1826; an American lawyer and orator. Quotation : War. HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIs, born, 1824; an Ameri- can artist; died, September 7, 1879. Quotations: Pictures —Remembrance—Truth. HUNTER, HENRY, D.D., born at Culross, 1741; a Scotch divine and author; died, 1802. Quotation : Pity— Satan—Scripture. HUNTER, JOHN, born at Long Calderwood, near Glasgow, 1728; a celebrated physician and surgeon; died, 1793. Quotation : HUNTER, John, born at Closeburn, 1747; a Scot- tish professor of light literature, critic, and author; died, 837. utotations. Attempt — Idleness—Reproof–Subjec- tion—Trying. HUNTER, MRS. J.; an American miscellaneous writer. Quotation: Absence. HUNTER, ROBERT MERCER TALIAFERRO, born in Essex county. Virginia, April 21, 1809; an American statesman. Quotation : Truth. HUNTER, WILLIAM, brother of John Hunter, born at Long Calderwood, near Glasgow, 1718; an eminent #. physician and anatomist ; died, 1783. Quotation : a DCy. HUNTINGDON, SELINA, COUNTEss of, born, 1707; an English lady eminent for her piety; died, 1791. Quotations : Chastity—Munificence. HUNTING FORD, GEORGE ISAAC, D.D., born at Winchester, 1748; an English theologian and writer; died Quotations: Philosophy—Precaution. HUNTINGTON, FREDERICK D., D. D., born in Hadley, Massachusetts, 1819; an American divine and au- thor. Quotation : Advice. HURD, RICHARD, D.D., (Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry,) born at Congreve, 1720; an eminent English writer and critic ; died, 1808. Quotations : Bashfulness— Jangle—Orthodoxy—Politeness—Prejudice—Writing. HURDIS, JAMEs, born in Sussex, 1763; an English poet and writer; died, 1801. Quotations: Bread—Reading. HURNDALL, W. F. Quotation: Christianity. HURTY, JAMEs ; an American educator and mis- cellaneouis writer. Quotation : Teaching. HUS, AUGUSTE, born, 1769; a French littérateur and author; died, 1829. Quotation : Night. HUSAIN, IBN, AL-MUTAIR, AL, born, 700 : an Arabian poet and philosopher; died, 767. Quotation . Des- pising—Fate. & tº - HUSS, JOHANN, born at Husinec, in Southern Bo- hemia 1373; a celebrated reformer of the Church; burned at the stake, 1414. Quotations: Blood–Christ–Simplicity. HUSKISSON, WILLIAM, born in Worcestershire, 1770; an English statesman and financier; died, September 15, 1830. Quotation : Self-Distrust. HUTCHESON, FRANCIS, born in Ireland, 1694; an Irish littérateur and novelist; died, 1747. Quotation : Mind. - HUTCHINSON, JOHN, born at Spennithorne, 1674; an English writer and philosopher, and the founder of the Hutchinsonian or mystical school of biblical inter- pretation ; died, 1737. Quotation : Critic. HUTCHINSON, LUCY, born, 1620; an English au- thoress; died, 1659. Quotation : Modesty. HUTTON, CHARLEs, LL.D., born at Newcastle- upon-Tyne, 1737; a distinguished English mathematician and author; died, 1823. Quotation : Rumor. HUTTON, JAMEs, M.D., born in Edinburgh, 1726; a distinguished British philosopher and geologist; died, 1797. Quotations: Charity—Sobriety. HUTTON, M. S., D.D.; an American divine and writer. Quotation : Missionary. A / O G /ø A P Aſ / C A /, / AV ZD E X. 1133 HUTTON, WILLIAM, born at Derby, 1723; an English antiquary and author ; died, 1815. Quotation : Multitude. HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRY, LL.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., born at Ealing, Middlesex, 1825; a distinguished English physician, naturalist, and author. Quotations. Literature —Minister—Orthodoxy—Science—Thought—Wisdom—Wo- II].8.ll. HWUY OF HEA LEw, the posthumous title of Chen Hwo ; an Officer of the town of Loo, China, and a phil- osopher and disciple of Confucius. Quotation : Murmur. HYACINTHE, PERE, (CHARLEs LOYSON,) born at Orleans, 1827; a French Carmelite preacher, and an emi- nent pulpit orator. Quotations : Catechism—Celibacy. HYACINTHE, SAINT, born, 1182 ; an eminent and pious Dominician divine ; died, 1257. Quotation : De- Spondency. - HYATT, JOHN, born, 1767; a Calvinistic Metho- dist preacher; died, 1826. Quotation : Sclf-Preservation. HYDE, LORD HENRY, (LORD CORNBURY,) born, 1572; an English miscellaneous writer; died, 1653. Quota- tion : Amiability. HYDE, John, born about 1815; a Mormon elder, and one of the chief supporters of Brigham Young, but an opponent of polygamy. Quotattion. Polygamy. HYDE, THOMAs, D.D., born in Shropshire, 1636; a learned English divine, Orientalist, and writer ; died, 1703. Qzzotoztion : Respect, HYDE, THOMAS, DE LA, born, 1239; an English judge ; died, 1314. Quotation : Judges. HYDE, WILLIAM : an American journalist and editor of the “Missouri Republican.” Quotations: Editor —Journalism—Reporter. HYDER-ALI, KHAN BAHADOR, born, 1717; an Indian prince, sovereign Of Malabar; died, 1782. Qºzotot- tion : Monarchy. HYDER-MIRZA-DOGHLAT, born, 1500; a Mon- & prince and Persian historian; died, 1551. Quotation : TOIlg. HYNEMAN, LEON, born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, 1806; an American writer and editor. Qilo- tation, Physician. HYPATIA, born, 370 ; a celebrated Greek female mathematician and, philosopher: put to death by Cyril, 415. Quotations: Philosophy–Science—Sin. . HYPERIDES, the son of Glaucippas, born about 388 B.C.; a pupil of Plato, and one of the Ten Orators of Athens: put to death by Antipater, 322 B.C. Quotation : Well-Doing. HYRCANUS I, JoANNEs, son of Simon Macca- beus, high priest of the Jews ; whom he succeeded in 135 B.C.; died, 103 B.C. Quotation : Speaking. HYRTLESHAM, ROBERT, (Bishop of Sevastopo- lis,) born about 1331 ; a learned divine, and Suffragan of Norwich ; died, 1407. Quotation: Melody. HYSTASPES, the father of Darius I, lived about 550 B.C.; a satrap of Persia, who introduced into Persia the learning of the Brahmins. Quotation : Expatriation. born about 2283 B.C. ; minister of state to the 2 Chinese emperor Chun ; died about 2220 B.C. Quota- tion : Detraction. IA, SAINT, flourished in the fourth century ; an Irish virgin, who persuaded the nobility to erect a church on the river Severn, in Shropshire. Qºtotation : Expense. IACAIA, born about 1552; a Turkish adventurer ; died, 1620. Quotation : Despising. IARCHAS ; a learned Indian philosopher. tion : Blustering. IBBOT, BENJAMIN, D.D., born, 1680; an English writer and divine; died, 1725. Quotation : Praise. IBRAHIM I, (ABū ABDALLAH,) born in Arabia, about 740; the founder of the dynasty of Aglabides in Af- rica ; died, 813. Quotation : Dancing. IBRAHIM, BEN OMAR. See OMAR, IBRAHiM BEN. IBRAHIM, BEN VALID. See VALID, IBR&HiM Ben. IBRAHIM EFFENDI, or NABI-EFFENDI, born, 1640; a Turkish poet, writer, and translator; died, 1697. Quotations : Raillery—Religion—Science. IBYCUS, born at Rhegium, Italy, about 500 B.C.; a Greek lyric poet. Quotation: Ill-Nature. IDE, GEORGE BARTON, born in Coventry, Ver- mont, 1806; an American Baptist clergyman; died in Spring- field, Massachusetts, April 16, 1872. Quotation: Detraction. IECHIEL, RABBI Asch ER, born in Germany, about 1250: a gelebrated German rabbi, savant, and com- mentator: died, 1327. Qrtotations : Gratitude—Greeting— Instruction — Neighbor – Obstinacy— Quarrels—Secrecy— Shame—Travel—Trifle—Wain-Glory. Quota- IFAN, H. D. AB. : a Welsh poet and prose writer. Qezotºtions : Failure—Guard. IFFLAND, AUGUST WILHELM, born at Hanover, 1759; a celebrated German drainatist and actor ; died, 1814. Quotation : Prudence. IGNATIUS, SAINT THEOPHORUS, (Bishop of An- tioch,) born in Syria, 67 A.D.; one Of the earliest of the Christian Fathers, and the most eminent among the im- mediate successors of the Apostles: suffered martyrdom at Rome by being devoured by wild beasts, 107 A.D. Quo. tations : Despondency—Jews. IHRE, JOHN, born at Upsal, 1707; an erudite Swede, professor of poetry, rhetoric, and politics; died, 1780. Quotation : Talent. II, JOHN, born in Hawaii ; a counselor and school- teacher. Quotations : Good—Missionary—Prayer. ILDEFONSO, SAINT, (Archbishop of Toledo, ) born, 607; a Spanish divine and author; died, 669. Quota- tion, Nature. ILIVE, JACOB, born, 1710; an English theological writer; died, 1763. Quotations: Idleness—Public. ILLICINI, BERNARDO, born at Sienna, Tuscany, about 1390; an Italian novelist of whom little is known. Quotations. Dying—Expectation. ILSLEY, CHARLES P.; an American miscellaneous writer, (Boston, 1856.) Quotation : Situation. IMAD, AD-DíN AL-ISPAHANI, “The Katib,” born at Ispahān, July 6, 1125; a Persian historian, littérateur, poet, and diplomatist; died at Damascus, June 5, 1201. Quo. taſtion : ACCuracy. IMAN, ABū ALLAH MALIK ALI, born, 795 : one of the most eminent of the Arabian imans of Islamism; died, 874. Quotation : Pen. IMBERT, BARTHOLOME, born, 1747 ; a French poet and prose writer; died, 1790. Quotation : Self-Love. IMISON, JOHN, born about 1718 ; an English mechanician and writer; died, 1788. Quotation : Deceit. IMMERMAN, KARL LEBRECHT, born at Madge- burg, 1796; a German dramatist and poet; died, 1840. Q7zo- tation. Ignorance—SCOffing. IMPERIALI, GIUSEPPE RENATO, born at Genoa, 1651: an Italian cardinal, distinguished for his patron of learning ; died, 1737. Quotations: Fºuh. ... INCHBALD, ELIZABETH SIMPSON, born at Sten- ningfield, 1753; a popular English actress and authoress; died, 1821. Quotations : Curiosity—Joy—Love—Wealth. INCHIQUIN, LUCIUs O'BRIEN, BARON, born, 1800; an Irish politician and writer. Quotation : Com- bination. INCHOFER, MELCHIOR, born, 1584; a Hungarian Jesuit, jurist, theologian, historian, and astronomer; died, 16. Quotation: Self-Abasement. INGELOW, JEAN, born at Ipswich, Suffolk, 1830 ; #. ºlish poetess and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : arting. INGEMANN, BERNHARD SEVERIN, born in the island of Falster, May 28, 1789; a popular Danish poet and novelist; died, 1862. Quotation : Seduction. INGERSOLL, CHARLES JARED, L.L. D., son of .Jared Ingersoll, born in Philadelphia, October 3, 1782; an American lawyer and writer; died, January 14, 1862. Quo- tattion, ; Merchant. INGERSOLL, JARED, LL.D., born in Connecticut, 1749; an American jurist and politician; died, 1822. Qvo- tattion : Economy. INGERSOLL, JOSEPH REED, LL.D., D.C.L., Son of the preceding, born in Philadelphia, June 14, 1786; an American jurist, Statesman, and author; died, December 1863. Quotation : Remedy. INGERSOLL, ROBERT G., born in Northern Ohio, about 1832; an American lawyer, orator, lecturer, and infl- del. , Quotations: Belief–Free-Thinking—Infidelity—Su- perstition—Usefulness. INGLIS, HENRY DAVID, born in Edinburgh, 1795; a Scottish writer; died. 1835. Quotation : Deceit. INGLIS, John, D.D., born in Edinburgh, 1763; a Scottish divine and writer; died, 1834. Quotation: Destiny. INGLIS, SIR ROBERT HARRY, M.P., born, 1786 : an English statesman; died, 1855. Quotation : Income. INGMETHORPE, THOMAS. Quotations: Prodigality —Simplicity. INGRAHAM, EDWARD D., born about 1795 : an American lawyer; died, 1854. Quotation : Prosperity. INGRAHAM, Jose,PH. H., born at Portland, Maine, 1809; an American divine and novelist. Quotation : Haughtiness. INGRAM, ALExANDER, born in Scotland, about É a Scotch mathematician and writer. Quotation : tl I er". 1134 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. INGRAM, JAMES, D.D., born in Wiltshire, 1774 ; an English divine and author; died, 1850. Quotation : Transgression. INGRAM, ROBERT ACKLOM, born, 1762; an Eng- lish divine and author; died, 1809. Quotations: Sympathy. INGUIMBERT, Joseph DominiquE D,” (Bishop of Carpentras,) born at Carpentras, 1683; a French divine, writer and translator; died, 175i. Quotation : Lewdness. INGULPHUS, (Abbot of Croyland,) born in Lon- don, 1080: an English monk, chronicler, and author; died, 1109. Quotation : Pleasure. IN-KYO-TEU-WO, born, 375; the twentieth Ja- panese emperor; died, 453. Quotattion : Deceit. INMAN, HENRY, born at Utica, New York, 1802; an American portrait and landscape painter; died, 1846. Quotation : Photography. INMAN, THOMAs, M.D., born, 1820; an English atheist and writer; died, May 3, 1876. Qttotation : Gods. INNES, HUGH; an English theological writer, (Glasgow, 1756.) Quotation : Prudence. INNES, THOMAS, born, 1662 : a Roman Catholic priest and writer: died, 1744. Quotation : Quackery. INNOCENT III, POPE, (CARDINAL LOTARIO DE Conti di Segni,) born in Rome, 1161 ; the most learned inan and the ablest statesman of his time; died, 1216. Quotat- tion : Crown. INNOCENT VI, Pope, (ETIENNE AUBERT,) born near Pompadour, France, about 1300; died, 1362. Quota- tions : Economy—Priest. INSKEEP : publisher and editor of “Mirror of Taste” and “Dramatic Censor,” (Philadelphia, 1810.) Quo- talion : Act 01'. INSKIP, John S., born at Bedfordshire, England, 1816; a Methodist preacher, and author, who emigrated to the United States in early life. Quotation : Youth. INVEGES, AGOSTINA, born at Sciacca, 1595 ; a iºn historian and ecclesiastic ; died, 1677. Quotation : Oll!”. INWOOD, HENRY WILLIAM, born, 1794; an Eng- lish architect and author: died, 1843. Quotation : Truism. IRAHAN, RANGI, born at Ispahān, August, 875 ; a Persian philosopher, poet, and grammarian ; died, Octo- ber, 943. Quotation: Murder. IRAILH, AUGUSTIN, SIMON, born at Puy-en-Ve- lay, 1719; a French monk, historian, and littérateur; died, 1794. Qrtotation: Fame. IRAKI, ABö ISHAK AL, born at Old Cairo, 1116; an Arabian jurist and preachel'; died, 1200. Quotations : Delay—Exaggeration–Language—Truth. * IRBY, CHARLES, LEONARD ; , an English naval officer, traveller, and author, (London. 1823.) Quotations : Immorality—Meanness—Rebuke. IREDELL, JAMES, born in England, 1751, settled in North Carolina, 1768; a distinguished jurist and law wri- ter: died, 1799. Quotations: Mother—People — Sister— Šíavery-Woman. IREDELL, JAMES, Son of the preceding, born at Edenton, North Carolina, 1788; an American lawyer, States- man, and writer; died, 1853. Quotation : Photography. IRELAND, JOHN, D.D., born at Ashburton, 1761 ; an English writer; died, 1842. Quotation : Holiday. IRELAND, SAMUEL, born in London, 1760 : an Fºl miscellaneous writer; died, 1800. Q?totation : NaI'- 1°3,t} V e. IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY, born, 1777; an English miscellaneous writer; died, 1835. Quotation : Throne. IRENAEUS, SAINT, (Bishop of Lyons,) born in Asia Minor, 130 A.D.; a Christian Martyr; put to death by Septimus Severus, 202. Quotations: Obedience—Scripture. IRENE, Empress of Constantinople, born of ob- scure parents, at Athens, 752; a woman remarkable for her beauty, energy, and talents, but her ambition and cruelty was her ruin; died in exile, 803. Quotation : Deceit. IRETON, HENRY, born, 1610 ; an eminent English general and statesman ; died, 1651. Quotation : Precept. IRIARTE, TOMAs DE, born in Teneriffe, 1750; a Spanish author and poet; died, 1790. Quotation : Practice. IRICO, ABBá, GIov ANNI ANDREAs, born, 1704; an Italian theologian, archaeologist, historian, and littéra- teur: died, 1782. Quotation : Conversation. IROQUOIS, CHIEF. Quotation: Emigration. IRVINE, CHRISTOPHER: an English medical wri- ter, (London, 1656.) Quotation : Sweetness. IRVINE, K : an English miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Singing. IRVING, DAVID, LL.D. : a Scottish biographer and law writer. (London, 1804.) Quotation 8: Composition —Mythology—Pomp—Taste. IRVING, EDWARD, born at Annan, 1792; a cele- lorated and elegant pulpit orator and author: died at Glas- gow, December, 1834. Quotations: Procrastination—Pro- phel—Sectarianism. IRVING, John TREAT, brother of Washington Iving, born, 1778; an American judge, journalist, and po- litical writer; died, 1838. Quotation: Health. IRVING, JoHN TREAT, son of the preceding, born in New York; an American lawyer and author, (New York, 1835.) Quotation : Insolvency. IRVING, THEODORE, LL.D, nephew of Washing- ton Irving, born in New York, 1809; an American Episco- palian divine, educator, and author. Quotation : Tattling. IRVING, WASHINGTON, born in New York, April 3, 1783; an eminent and popular American author and humorist, and one of the most cherished names in the an- nals of American literature ; died, November 28, 1859. Quo- tattions: Absence—Affection — Ambition—Bees—Books— Circumstances— Childhood— Christmas — Critic— Desire— Enjoyment— Enthusiasm— Exertion — Fairies—Funeral— Good-Humor— Good-Nature— Grave—Happiness— Heart— Hearth—Home—Hospitality—Imagination—Intemperance —Kindness—Landscape — Love — *ś"#. Misfortune— Mother—Occupation—Pleasing–Prairie—Property—Quali- fication— Recollection— Rural-Life—Sea— sºjºs Talent—Talking–Tavern–Tears–Tongue—Tranquility— Travel—Voyage—War—Wife —Wit—Woman—Worship— Yeoman. IRVING, WILLIAM, brother of the preceding, born in New York, 1766; an American merchant, poet, and writer: died, 1821. Quotation : Immortality. ISAEUS, flourished about 400 B.C.; a famous Greek orator and scholar. Quotations. Inspiration—Misanthropy —Rebuke. ISCANUS, JOSEPH, born at Exeter, about 1151 ; an English poet; died, 1224. Quotations: Rhyme—Threats. ISCHOMACHUS, flourished about 508 B.C.: an Olympic victor. , Quotations : Carelessness—Industry— Occupation—Work. ISDEGERDES : a famous Persian sovereign. Quotation : Insolence. ISELIN, ISAAC, born at Bâle, 1728; a Swiss jurist and law writer; died, 1782. Quotation : Poverty. ISFARAINI, ABC HAMID, AL, born at Isfairain, 955 ; an Arabian professor and lecturer; died at Bagdad, 1016. Quotations: Excuse—Insult—Tongue. ISFENDIYAR, lived between the fifth and sixth centuries; one of the most celebrated heroes in Persian history. Quotation : Ungodliness. ISHAK, ABū, born about 700 ; an Arabian histo- rian ; died, 768. Quotation : Truth. ISHAM, CHESTER, of New Haven, Connecticut ; an American divine and author. Quotation : Prudence. ISHAM, ZACHEUS, (Prebendary of Canterbury,) born about 1637; an English divine and author; died, 1705. Quotation : Pleasure. ISHIDA, AL-HUSAIN, born at Bagdad, July, 715 ; an Arabian poet and philosopher ; died at Alexandria, October, 779. Quotation : Parent. ISHMAEL BEN ELISHA, HA-CoREN, RABBI ; a Jewish theologian and author; died, 121. Quotations : Matter—Profanity—Profligate—Sin. ISIDORUS, born, 350: a teacher of philosophy at Alexandria: died, 423. Quotation : Deeds. ISIDORUS, CARDINAL, (Archbishop of Thessa- lonica,) born about 1400; a Russian patriarch of Kiev and Moscow ; died at Rome, 1463. Quotation : Eating. ISIDORUS, SAINT, (Bishop of Cordova, ) born about 312; a Spanish divine, theologian, and historian ; died, 380. Quotation : Instability. ISIDORUS, SAINT, born at Peluseum, 370 : an Egyptian ecclesiastical writer noted for his piety and wis- domſ; died, 450. Quotation : Despair. ISIDORUS, SAINT, “Hispalensis the Younger,” (Bishop of Seville,) born at Carthagena, 570; a Spanish chronićler and ecclesiastical Writer; died, 636. Quotations: Indigence—Inspiration. ISLA, Josí FRANCISCO, born at Segovia, 1703: a witty and popular Spanish author: died, 1781. Quotations: Imbecility—fmsincerity—Monastery–Silliness—Summer. ISLA, P. JEAN, LE, born, 1703.; a Spanish Jesuit, preacher, and littérateur; died, 1781. Quotation. Distor- tion. - ISMAELOFF, or IZMAILOF, VLADIMIR VASI- lievitch, born, 1773; a Russian author; died about 1888. Quotations : Conviviality—Expediency—Fox. ISOCRATES, born at Athens, 436 B.C.; one of the ten great Athenian orators; died, 338 B.C., Quotat- tion?& Adversity—Doubt—Eagerness—Killing— Learning —Misfortune – Poet—Speech — Thrift — Want — Wrath — Wretchedness. ITALICUS, SILIUS CAIUS. See SILIUs, ITALICUS Caius. A / O G /ø A P Aſ / C A / / /V /) A X. ITTIG, or ITTIGHIUS, THOMAS, born, 1643; a German theologian, bibliographer, and professor ; died, 1710. Quotation : Purity. ITURBIDE, Emperor of Mexico, (DON AUGUSTIN,) born at Valladolid, Mexico, 1784; the master-Spirit of a successful plot for the liberation of his country from Span- ish rule. He was proclaimed emperor, in May, 1822; abdi- cated and banished, May, 1823. In 1834, he returned and Was arrested and shot as a traitor. Quotation : Instability. IVANOF, FEODOR-FEODoRow1tch, born, 1777; a Russian dramatic author; died, 1816. Quotalion Regret. IVES, CHARLEs ; an American poet, and miscel- laneous writer, (New Haven, 1848.) Quotation : Self-Dis- trust. IVES, John, F.R.S., born at Yarmouth, 1751 ; an English antiquary; died, 1776. Quotation : Affront. IVES, LEv1 SILLIMAN, (Bishop of North Carolina,) born in Meriden, Connecticut, 1797; an American Episco- palian divine and theologian. Quotation USury. IVETEAUX, or DESY VETEAUX, NICOLAs Wanquelin, Seigneur des, born near Falaise, 1560; a French poet, preceptor to Louis the Thirteenth ; died, 1649. Quo- tottion. Virtue. IVIMEY, Jose,PH ; an English Baptist divine and writer, (London, 1809.) Quotation: Utility. IYESADA, (Tycoon,) born about 1780 ; a celebra- ted shögun of the Tokugawa family of Japan. . He had a great influence in the affairs of state, and gained many military honors; died, 1858. Quotation : People. IYEYASU, MINAMOTo Tokugaw A, born about 1550: a Japanese warrior, who with Nobunaga and Hidé: yorhi subdued the greater part of Japan, and established feudalism. Being the only one of the three generals of royal blood, he became Sei-i-Tai Shögun, and founded the resent Mikado dynasty; died, March 8, 1616. Quotattion : 1)SOlence. IXTLILXOCHITL, DON FERNANDO D’ALVA, born, 1568 ; a Mexican historian ; died, 1648. Quotation : Design. IZAACKE, RICHARD, born in Exeter, 1638; an English antiquary, topographer, and author; died, 1700. Q?totation : Earnestness. IZARD, RALPH, born in South Carolina, 1742; an American senator; died, 1804. Quotation?... Pledge. IZARN, born at Lanquedoc, about 1130; a French poet ; died, 1192. Quotation : Chastity. IZZEN - CHOLLACH, ( Ketchedfizadeh, ) born about 1763; a Turkish dramatic poet ; died, 1830, Q?&Otat- tio). Praise. IZZI, SOLIMAN, born about 1682 ; a celebrated Turkish historian ; died, 1755. Quotation : Tea. AACOB, born in Tunis ; an eminent Jewish rabbi and writer of the sixth century. Quotation : Hu- mility. JAAFAR, IBN YAHYA IBN KHALID IBN JAMAS Al-Barmaki Abū l’-Fadl, “The Barmekide,” born, 754: an Arabian writer, philosopher, and Scholar; he was Chief vizier to Caliph ar-Raschid, by whom he was executed, 803. Quotations; Astrology—Death-Duty—Lover—Misfortune —Recollection—Safety—Star—Tongue—Weeping—Widow. JAAPHAR, IBN TOPHAIL, born about 1128 ; an Arabian philosopher and physician ; died, 1198. Quotrº- tions : Nature—Virtue. JABB, JOHN, º of Limerick,) born at Drog- heda, 1775; an Irish Protestant divine and author; died, 1833. Quotations: Chastening—Christianity—Education— Reformation—Scandal. JABET, WILLIAM, born, 1717; an English writer of sermons and other religious subjects; died, 1789. Quo- tations : Injury—Insignificance—Satire. JABLONOWSKI, Joseph ALEXANDER, PRINCE, # 1711; a Polish littérateur ; died, 1777. Quotation : €V11. JABLONSKI, DANIEL ERNST, born at Dantzic, 1660; an eminent Prussian Protestant theologian and wri- ter; died in Berlin, 1741. Quotation : Sectarianism. JACCARD, FRANÇois, born, 1799 : a French mis- sionary ; died, 1838. Quotation : Discretion. JACKSON, ANDREW, MAJOR-GENERAL, born in Waxhaw Settlement, South Carolina, March 15, 1767; a celebrated American general and Statesman, and the Sey- enth President of the United States; died, June 8, 1845. wotations : Aristocracy—Army—Constitution— Emigra- tion—Majority—Minority—Office —Right—Secrecy--Trade. JACKSON, ARTHUR, born in Suffolk, 1593; an English Nonconformist ecclesiastic ; died, 1666. Quotat- tion : Munificence. JACKSON, CHARLES THOMAS, born at Plymouth, Massachusetts, June, 1805; an American Chemist, geologist, and author. Quotation : Meditation. JACKSON, JAMES C., M.D., born at Utica, New York, 1814; an early anti-slavery lecturer, and subsequently a hydropathic physician. Quotation : Liberty. JACKSON, JANE M., born in New Jersey, August 19, 1830; an American miscellaneous writer and essayist. Quotation : Love. JACKSON, THOMAS, D.D., (Dean of Peterborough,) born in Durham, 1579 ; a learned English divine and writer; died, 1640. Quotations: Devotion—Persecution—Provi- dence. JACKSON, THOMAS JonATHAN, (Stonewall Jack- son,) born in Lewis county, Virginia, January 21, 1824; an American lieutenant-general in the Confederate army; a man of indomitable Courage and purity of character; died, May 10, 1863. Quotation : Trees. JACKSON, WILLIAM, D.D., (Bishop of Oxford,) born at Stamford, 1750: an English divine and Writer; died, 1815. Qzzotation : Savior. JACKSON, WILLIAM, born in Ireland, 1737; a clergyman of the Anglican church ; died, fº. Q?tota- tion. : Mouth. JACOB, GILES, born at Romsey, Hampshire, 1686; an English author; died, 1744. Quotation: Insincerity. JACOB, HENRY, born, 1606; an English philo- logical writer; died, 1652. Quotation : Criticism. JACOB, HENRY, born in Kent, 1562; an English Puritan and Independent divine; died, 1626. Quotation : Learning. - - JACOBI, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH, born at Dussel- dorf, 1743; a distinguished German writer and thinker; died, 1819. Quotations: Justice — Life—Poverty—Self— Thought. JACOBI, JoHANN GEORG, brother of the prece- ding, born at Dusseldorf, 1740; a German poet, philosopher, and theologian ; died, 1814. Quotations: Faith—Govern- ment—Passion—Philosophy--Prejudice—Principles—Relig- ion—Superfluity—Unrighteousness—Work. JACOBS, H. S.; an American miscellaneous wri- ter. Quotations: Reform—Winter. JACOBS, SARAH S., born in Rhode Island ; an American poetess. Quotation : Tears. JACOBUS, MELANCTHON WILLIAM, D.D., born at Newark. New Jersey, 1816; an American author, and professor of oriental and biblical literature. Quotations: Jest—Neighbor. JACQUES, MATTHIEU JOSEPH, born, 1736 : a dis- tinguished French grammarian, mathematician, and theo- logian ; died, 1821. Quotations: Democracy—Equality — Injustice—Monopoly. JAGO, RICHARD, born in Warwickshire, 1715 ; an English clergyman and poet; died, 1781. Quotation : In- difference. JAGUCHINSKI, PAUL Iv ANow ITCH, born, 1683; a Russian statesman ; died, 1736. Quotation : Envy. JAHIR, FAKHR AD-DAwlAT, IBN, “The Vizier,” born at Mosul, 1008; an Arabian statesman and philoso- #. died, 1090. Quotations : Divorce—Eagle—Expostu- & U101). JAHM, ABö 'L-HASAN ALI IBN AL, born, 807: an eminent Arabian poet ; died, 863. Quotations : Prison— Reputation—Sword. JAHN, JOHANN, born in Moravia, 1750; a Ger- man Orientalist, theologian, and archaeologist ; died, 1816. Quotations: Jew—Piano. JAKOUBOVITCH, EMULE, DE POUSHKIN, born, 1781 a Russian poet; died, 1839. Quotation : I)eceit. JAMAKECKARI ; the mom de plwme of an Eng- lish writer. Quotation. Bliss. JAMBLICUS, born at Chalcis, Syria, and flour- ished about 350; an eminent Syrian philosopher. Quotat- tions. Usury. JAMES I, King of England and VI of Scotland, born in the Edinburgh Castle, June, 1566; author of several works, and under whose supervision the present version of the Bible was translated ; died, March, 1625. Q?totations: Children—Peace—Translation—Wit. JAMES II, King of England and VII of Scotland, born at Saint James's, London, 1633; a brave, determined, and energetic monarch ; died at Saint Germain's, France, September, 1701. Quotation : Crown. JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFORD, born in London, 1801; a voluminous English novelist and historian. His writings amount to one hundred and eighty-nine vol- umes; died, 1860. Quotations. Chivalry—Excitement— Memory-obstimacy-sickness. JAMES, John ANGELL, born at Blandford, Dor- setshire, 1785; an eloquent English dissenting divine, and one of the most popular and useful writers of his time. He was for many years the pastor of Carr's Lane Chapel, Bir- mingham, and acquired great influence by his extempora- neous preaching; his works have had an immense circula- tion ; died, 1859. Quotations. Ages—Amiability—Assurance —Congregation—Consistency—Conversation—Decision — Future — Godliness—Humility — Idolatry – Inflexibility— Luck—Minister—Pastor–Pleasure—Poet—Prayer—Pride— Pulpit—Rapture—Revival—Salvation--Self-Deceit—-Slavery —Tavern—Temper—Time—Torment—Youth. 1136 AD A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. JAMES, THOMAS, (Vicar of Theddingworth, 1848;) an English divine, and author of a new version of AEsop's fables, (London, 1847.) .. Quotations. Condemnation-Dis- position—Fable--Ingratitude--Interference—-Joke—Liberty —Murder—Neighbor—Notoriety—Oppression— Piety—Pre- sumption—Pretension— Principles–Profession – Itepent- ance—Security—Strife—Will. JAMESON, ANNA MURPHY, born in Dublin, May 19, 1797; an Irish authoress, essayist, and art historian ; died, March 18, 1860. Quotations: Absence--Affection—Art —Aspiration—Avarice —Blessedness — Bondage — Brains— Charity—Cunning — Ease — Fame— Faults— Fear — Gener- osity—Government—Happiness—History—Humility—Love —Lying—Memory— Occupation — Opinion— Passion—POV- erty—Talking—Taste—Vănity—Virtue—Youth. JAMESS, J. B. Quotation: Physiology. JAMſ, Moola-Noor-ED-DEEN ABD-ER-RAH- man, “The Persian Patriarch,” born at Jam, in Khorassān, 1414; a celebrated Persian poet; died, 1492. Quotation : Old Age. JAMIESON, John, D.D., born in Glasgow, 1759 ; a learned Scottish divine and Writer; died, 1838. Quotat- tion : Insolence. JAMSETJEE. See JEEJEEBHOY, SIR. J. JANCOURT, LOUIS DE, born, 1704; a French pºliº littérateur, and physician; died, 1779. Quota- tion. Chiding. JANES, C. Quotations: Exultation—Joy. JANES, EDMUND STONER, , born in Salisbury, Connecticut, 1807; an American Methodist bishop. Qilo- tation : Papacy, º JANIN, JULES GABRIEL, born at Saint Etienne, December 24, 1804; a celebrated French critic and littéra- teur; died, June, 1874. Quotation : Expense—Inspiration. JARAM, CHARLEs, born, 1761 : an English divine, and author of “Christian Minister Exemplified in the Life of St. Paul.” Quotation : Apostle. JARCHI, SOLOMON BEN ISAAC, born at Troyes, 1040; a distinguished French Jewish writer; died, 1105. Quotation : Jesuitism. JARDINS, MARIE CATHERINE DES, (MADAME DE Villedieux,) born, 1640; a talented and profligate French authoress: died, 1683. Quotations : Widow—Yielding. JARMAN, THOMAS ; a celebrated English law writer, (London, 1841.) Quotations. Christ–Legislature. JARRETT, THOMAs, M.A., born, 1805; an English Protestant divine and author. Quotation : Fortune-Tell- I Ilg. JARRIGE, PIERRE, born at Tulle, 1605; a French Jesuit and writer: died, 1660. Q7zottetion : Zeal. JARVES, JAMES JACKSON, born in Boston, Mas- Sachusetts, 1818; an American diplomatist, writer, and traveller. Quotation : Bluntness. JARVIS, EDwARD, M.D., born at Concord, Mas- sachusetts, about 1808; an American physician and author. Q?totattions : Creation—Pleasure. JARVIS, SAMUEL FARMER, D.D., LL.D., born in Middletown, Connecticut, 1786; an American Episcopalian divine and author; died, 1851. Quotation : Pity. JASMIN, JACQUES, (The Barber Poet of Agen,) born at Agen, March 6, 1798; a popular French poet and writer; died, October 2, 1864. Quotations : Ill—Inspiration. JAY, GUY MICHEL LE, born, 1588 ; a French ad- vocate and author, and publisher of the polyglot Bible; died, 1674. Quotations : Supper—Surgeon. JAY, John, born in New York. December 12, 1745; an illustrious American Statesman, and the first chief justice of the United States. He was a conspicuous politi- cal writer of the Revolutionary period, and was associated with Hamilton and Madison in the production of “The Federalist:” died, May 17, 1829. Quotation : Equity—Tem- per—To-Day. - JAY, WILLIAM, son of the preceding, born in New York, 1789; an American philanthropist and writer; died at New Bedford, 1858. Qºţotations : Benevolence—Consti- tution — Counterfeit — Country — Eccentricity — Insignifi- cance—Patriotism—PlumpneSS. JAY, WILLIAM, born at Tisbury, Wiltshire, 1769: a popular English dissenting minister and writer; died, ºper, 1853. Quotations : Faith — Prayer — Seasons — OUILI1. JEACOCKE, CALEB, born about 1720 : an English religious controversalist: died, 1786. Quotation : Predes- tination. * JEAFFRESON, JOHN CORDY, born at Framling- ham, Suffolk, January 14, 1831; an English author. Quota- tion : Sympathy. JEANES, HENRY, born at Allensay, Somerset- shire, 1611; an English divine and author; died, 1662. Qwo- tation : Magnanimity. JEAURAT, EDME SEBASTIEN, born, 1724 ; a dis- tinguished French astronomer, mathematician, geogra- pher, and writer; died, 1803. Quotation : Rashness. JEBB, SAMUEL, M.D., born in Nottinghamshire, 1695: an English physician and philologist ; died, 1772. Quo- tations: LOVe—Self-Adoration. JEDAHIAH- HAPPENINI - BEDRASCHI, BEN Abraham, born, 1250: a Jewish rabbi, poet, and theologian ; died, 1318. Quotation : Hesitation. JEEJEEBHOY, SIR JAMSETJEE, born in Bom- bay, 1783; a Hindoo merchant and a munificent benefactor. Quotation : Advantage. JEFFERSON, THOMAs, born at Shadwell, Vir- ginia; April 2, 1743; an American statesman and author, and the third President of the United States; died, July 4, 1826. Quotations : Advertisements — Anger — Buying — Change – Country – Democracy — Despotism — Disease — Education — Election — Equality – Error — Federalism — Friendship—Government—Happiness—Ignorance—Intem- Rºº Intolerance—Intrigue–Justice—Liberty—Life— Misery-Monopoly—Morality–Nature—Neighbor—News- pº. 9º. pinion — Pain — Pleasure — Press—Pride— Priyacy-Providénce— Reason–Slavery–Society—Spend- thrift–Tears–To-Morrow—Vigilance—Will. JEFFREY, LORD FRANCIS, born in Edinburgh, Qctober 23, 1773; an eminent Scottish critic and essayist; died, January, 1850. Quotations: Disease—Derision-Good- Will–Knowledge—Leisure—Medicine—Minister—Name— Poetry—Prejudice—Satire—Scoffing—Society—Virtue. JEFFREY, JoHN, born at Ipswich, 1547 ; an Eng- lish divine and author ; died, 1720. Quotations : Indul- gence—Seduction—Self-Conquest. JEFFREYS, R. T. : an English divine and mis- cellaneous writer. Quotation : Prosperity. JEHUDA ; a Jewish rabbi and theological writer. Quotations : Gifts— Ingratitude— Injustice—Jews—Para- dise—Parent—Quarrels. - JEKYLL, SIR JOSEPH, born, 1633; an English jurist and Master of the Rolls ; died, 1738. Q totation : Surety. JELF, RICHARD WILLIAM, D.D., born, 1798; an English divine and author: died, September 19, 1871. Quo- tattions : Idleness—Laconics—Lovel'. JEMSHEED, flourished 800 B.C.: an ancient Per- sian emperor, who introduced the solar year and invented tents. Quotattion : Wine. JENKIN, ROBERT, D.D., born in Minster, in the isle of Thanet, 1656; an English divine and theological wri- ter; died, 1727. Quotation : Pesolution. JENKINS, EDwARD, born, 1838 : an English au- thor. Quotation : Precocity. JENKINSON, CHARLEs, (EARL of LIVERPOOL,) born in Oxfordshire, 1727; a British Statesman and author; died, 1808. Quotations: Sycophant—Trade. JENKS, BENJAMIN, born, 1646; an English divine and writer: died, 1724. Quotation : Chastity. JENKS, (COUNSELLOR JENKS,) born, 1710; an English Jurist ; died, 1782. Quotation : Law. JENKS, WILLIAM, D.D., born about 1800; an American Episcopalian divine and author. Quotations: Expectation—Itashness. JENKYN, THOMAs W., born, 1800; an English theological writer, (London, 1842.) Qºtotation : Atone- ment—Holiness—Holy Spirit—Revival. JENNER, CHARLEs, born, 1737 : an English lit- térateur and poet ; died, 1774. Quotation : Harmony. JENNER, EDWARD, M. D., born at Berkeley, Gloucestershire, 1749; an English physician, naturalist, and writer. He was celebrated for having introduced the prac- tice of vaccination ; died, 1823. Quotation : Remedy. JENNINGS, DAVID, born, 1691 ; an English dis- senting theologian and author; died, 1762. wotation : Corporation. JENNISON, CHARLEs A., born in the State of New York, 1820; an American educator and clergyman. Quo- totion. Apostle. e tº JENOUR, ALFRED: an English divine and scholar, was rector of Killisford, Somersetshire. He published in 1830 a “Translation of Isaiah, with notes.” Quotation : Production. - JENYNS, SOAME, born in London, 1704; an emi- nent English writer and politician; died, 1787. Quotations: Cºpºº.” Rºº.” wºxury- Profligate– Profuseness – Rage — Treachery— 8,I’. JEPHSON, John, born, 1781; an English divine and writer; died, 1843. Quotation : Corpulency. JERDAN, WILLIAM, born at Kelso, 1782 : a Scot- tish writer and critic; died, 1869. Quotations: Harm—Op- portunity—Talking—Toleration. - JERMIN, MICHAEL, D.D., born, 1592; an English divine, bibliographer, and commentator; died, 1659. Quo- tºrtion . Sunrise—War. JERNINGHAM, EDwARD, born, 1727; an Eng- lish poet and dramatic author; died, 1812. Quotation : * Disappointment. A / O G R A P H / C A Z / M D E X. 1 137 JEROME, or HIEROME, SAINT, (EUSEBIUs HIE- ronymus Sophronius,) born at Stridon, in Dalmatia or in Pannonia, 340 A.D.: One Of the most learned of the Latin Fathers of the Church ; died, 420 A.D. Quotations: Apoc- rapha-Clergy—Devil—Employment—Hunger—Life—Mis- ſºle- Pastor—Riches— Soul—Translation— Triumph— I’ll UIl. JERROLD, DOUGLAS WILLIAM, born in London 1803; a very popular humorist, journalist, dramatist, an Satirical writer ; died, 1857. Quotations : Author—Child— Childhood — ConScience— COnServatism— Curiosity— Dog- matism—Drunkenness—Duty–-Earth–Etiquette—Intellect —Laughter—Law—Life—Love—Money—Peace—Pleasure— Religion—Slander—Treason—War—Words. JERUSALEM, JoHANN \ FRIEDRICH WILHELM, born, 1709 ; a German preachêr and littérateur; died, 1789. Quotation : Prosecution. JESSE, EDWARD, born, 1780; an English natur- alist and writer; died, 1868. Quotations: Birds—Flowers —Home—Nature—Quarrels—Ring—Unkindness. JESSE, JOHN HENEAGE, born, 1815; an English littérateur and author; died, July 7, 1874. Quotation : Money. JESSEN, JULIANA MARIE, born, 1737; a Danish oetess and miscellaneous writer; died, 1832. Quotation : tl{26]] . - JESSEY, HENRY, born in Yorkshire, 1600 ; a learned English divine; died in prison, 1663. Quotation : Imitation. - JESTYN, AP Gw RGANT, born about 989 ; a Welch king ; died, 1059. Quotation : Trust. JETER, JEREMIAH B, born in Bedford county, Virginia, 1802; an American Baptist divine and author: Quotation. : Proverbs. JEUNE, JEAN LE, born in Franche-Comté, 1592 ; a celebrated French divine and writer; died, 1672. Quota- tion). Sunrise. JEVON, THOMAs, born, 1653; an English actor and dramatic author; died, 1688. Quotation. : Lust. JEWELL, JoHN, D.D., (Bishop of Salisbury,) born in Buden, Devonshire, 1522; an eminent English divine, greatly esteemed for his extreme piety and vast theological knowledge ; died, 1571. Quotations : Childhood—Christ— Church—Scripture. JEWEL, WILLIAM, born in Devonshire ; an Eng- lish author and miscellaneous Writer, (London, 1612.) Quo- tation. Steadfastness. JEWRY, LAURA ; an English novelist, (London, 1852.) Quotation : Ring. JEWSBURY, GERALDINE ENDSOR, born at Man- chester, 1821; an English novelist. Quotation : Precept. JEWSBURY, MARIA JANE, sister of the prece- ding, born in Warwickshire, 1800; an English authoress; died, 1833. Quotations: Love—Others. - JINGU, KOGO, (OKINAGA TARASHI HIMé,) born about 160; the wife of Mikado Jingu, who after his death became Empress, and made extensive conquests, including Corea ; died, 215. Quotation : Insolence—Yielding. JIU-I-SHIU ; a Japanese book—a “Collection of Odes." Quotation : Zephyr. JOAN OF ARC, “The Maid of Orleans,” born in the hamlet of Dom-Remy, in Lorraine, 1411; the most illus- trious of the heroines of history; burnt at the stake, May 31, 1431. Quotations. Damnation—Vision. JOCELINE, ELIZABETH, born about 1604 ; an English authoress, (London, 1634.) Quotation : Memory. JOCHANAN, BEN ELIEZER, born in Palestine, #P3 a Jewish rabbi and writer; died, 279. Quotation : *UllèI’. JODRELL, RICHARD PAUL, born, 1745; an Eng- #. Aramatic and classical writer; died, 1831. Quotation. OOCl. JOHN, King of England, (“Lackland,”) the young- est son of Henry the Second, born in Oxford, 1166; a cruel, fickle, and licentious prince, who left one of the darkest names in the history of the English kings. The famous Magna Charta was reluctantly signed by him at Runny- mede, June 15, 1215; died, 1216. Q7zotation : Carol. JOHN III, King of Sweden, the second son of Gustavus Vasa, born, 1537; died, 1592. Quotation : Popery. JOHN V., Pope, born at Antioch, in Syria ; was chosen pope 685; ăied, 687. Quotations: Famine—Saint. JOHN OF SALISBURY, (Bishop of Chartres,) born at Salisbury, 1110; a learned scholastic philosopher, and writer; died, 1182. Quotation : Zeal. JOHN, SAINT, H. R. See SAINT JOHN H. R. JOHN, SAINT, J. A. See SAINT JoHN, J.A. JOHN, SAINT, OF GOD, born in Portugal, 1495; the founder of the order of charity, and a fervent pious divine, died, March 8, 1550. Quotation : Girl. JOHN, SAINT, P. B. See SAINT-JOHN P. B. JOHN, SAINT, THE ALMONER, born, 555 ; a patri- %. of Alexandria; died, 619. Qºtotations: Indigence— €8.1. JOHNSON, ANDREw, born at Raleigh, North Carolina, December 29, 1808; a self-educated tailor, and the seventeenth President of the United States; died, July 21, 1875. Quotations : Constitution—Flag. JOHNSON, ANNA CAROLINE ; an American mis- cellaneous writer, (New York, 1854.) Quotation : Kisses. JOHNSON, BENJAMIN P.; an American writer on agriculture and secretary of the New York State Agricul- tural Society. Quotation : Agriculture. JOHNSON, W. C.; an American educator and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : School. JOHNSON, EDWARD, born in Kent, England, 1600; One of the early historians of New England; died, 1672. Quotation. Preface. JOHNSON, JOHN, born, 1662 : an English theolo- gian and writer; died, 1725. Quotation : Culture. JOHNSON, REVERDY, born at Annapolis, Mary- land, May 21, 1796; an American lawyer, and politician; died, February 10, 1876. Quotation : Freedom. JOHNSON, RICHARD, lived in the time of Queen Elizabeth and James the First : an English author; died, 1620. Quotation : Benevolence. JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR, born near Louis- ville, Kentucky, 1780; the ninth Vice-President of the Uni- ted States ; died in Frankfort, Kentucky, 1850. Quota- tions : Deity—Injustice—Sunday—Toleration. JOHNSON, SAMUEL, born in Staffordshire, 1649 ; § English divine and writer; died, 1703. Quotation: Wor- Snlp. JOHNSON, SAMUEL, D.D., born in Guilford, Con- necticut, 1696; an American Episcopalian divine and wri- ter; died, 1772. Quotations : Existence—Grave—Grief. JOHNSON, SAMUEL, LL.D., born at Lichfield, September 18, 1709; an eminent lexicographer, philologist, biographer, moralist, dramatist, essayist, novelist, and poet, and One of the most profound Writers of the eigh- teenth century; died. 1784. Quotations : Abstinence—Ac- quaintance—Admiration--Adversity–Adversary-–Advice— Affectation—Affection—Ambassador—Animosity–Apho- rism —Applause —Arithmetic —Attainment—Author—Au- tumn—A varice—Axiom — Bachelor-Beatitude—Beauty— Books—Bully—Capacity—Change—Charity—Christianity— City–Civilization—Commerce—Compassion—Complaint— Confidence – Confinement - Conscience –Consideration— Contempt—Contentment—Conversation—Courtship—Cox- comb—Credulity—Criticism—Dawn—Debt—Decay--Deceit —Defamation—Defeat-Denial—Desire–Diſtidence-Dili- ence—Discernment—Dishonor—Disorder—Domesticity— ramma--Dreams--Drinking--Eagerness--Economy--Ecstasy —Elegance—Empire--Emulation--Encouragement—Enjoy- ment—Enterprise—Envy—Equality—Equivocation—Error —Esteem—Exactness—Excellence--Expectation—Extrava- gance—Extremes--Eye—Fable—-Fallacy--Falsehood—Fanne —Familiarity—Farce—Fastidiousness— Fellowship— Tield —Flattery—Fop—Forbearance- Forgiveness-Friendship —Frugality—Gayety—Genius—Glory—Gold —Good-Humor —Government—Grammar–Greatness–Habit—Happiness —Health—Heat—History--Home—Hope—Hour—Hypocrisy —Idea—Idleness—Ignominy— Ignorance—Imagination— Imbecility—Impatience – Improvement — Indigence – In- discrimination—Indulgence—Industry—Infidelity—Insan- ity—Insult—Intention—Irresolution—Jest— Joke—Knowl- edge – Laconics–Lamentation — Lampoon –Language— Law—Learning–Leisure—Library—Love—Luck–Lux ury –Lying–Madness—Majority-Marriage—Master–Matri- mony—Mediocrity-Memory–Metaphor—Mind–Miracle— Misery–Modesty—Money-Morality—Mortality—Motion— Narrative--Negessity--Neglect–Novelty--Oath--Obedience –Obstinacy– Occupation – Offense—Qmission — Opportu- nity—Order-Partiality—Patriotism—Patronage—Peevish- ness–Pension — Perseverance — Piety—Pity- Pleasing— Politeness—Praise—Preaching— Press—Pretension— Piet- tiness—Pride-Privacy—Profit—Profuseness—Prohibition -Projector–Prosecution-Providence—Prudence—Pun– Puritanism–Ouackery—Qualification—Question— Quick- neSS— Quotation – Reason–Reciprocity— Rectitude-Re- finement—Regret—Renown—Repentanče–Reprehension— Resentment – Retirement — Tevenge – Rhyme — Risks— Rudeness-Selection-Sensation-Sensibility—Sentence— Silence–Slander—Solitude—Sophistry—Stoicism—Student —Subordination-Success--Superiority--Suspicion--Tavern Temptation—Threats—Timidity—Translation—Travel— Trying–Veneration – Vicissitudes —Vision—Volatility— Want—War—Wastefulness-Wealth—Wickedness—Will— Winter—Words—Writing—Zoology. JOHNSON, SAMUEL WILLIAM : an American professor of Chemistry and writer on agriculture. Qzzota- tion : Chemistry. JOHNSON, SARAH BARCLAY, born in Albermarle county, Virginia, 1837; an American authoress. Quota- tion : Benignity. JOHNSON, THOMAs, born, 1675; an English clas- #. scholar and editor; died, 1750. Quotation : Presump- 1OIl. JOHNSTON, ALExANDER KEITH, LL.D., F.R.S., born at Kirkhill, December 28, 1804 : an eminent Scottish geographer and author; died, July 9, 1871. Quotation : Tea. 72 I 138 AD A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. JOHNSTON, BRYCE, D.D., born, 1747: a Scottish divine and writer; died, 1805. Quotation : Tribulation. JOHNSTON, JOHN, born about 1547 : a Scottish poet and schoiar; died, 1612. Quotation : Memory. JOLIBOIS. Quotations: Desertion—Remembrance. JOLLY, ALEXANDER, D.D., (Bishop of Moray,) born, 1755; a Scottish divine and writer; died, 1838. Quo- tation : Inspiration. JOLY, JOSEPH ROMAINE, (le Père,) born, 1715 ; a French theologian and historian ; died, 1805. Quotation : Intellect. - JONAS, SAINT, born about 250 ; a Christian mar- tyr; put to death by torture, 327. Quotattion : Destruction. JONCOUX, FRANÇOISE, MARGUERITE DE, born, 1660: a French authoress; died, 1715. Quotation : Life. JONES, EDWARD D.; an American educator. Quotation : Teaching. - JONES, EDWARD, ( fishºp of Cloyne and St. Asaph's,) born about 1630; an English divine and writer; died, 1703. Quotation : Cruelty. JONES, GRIFFITH, born, 1721; an English editor and publisher; died, 1786. Quotation : Merchant. JONES, J. ELIZABETH : an American lecturess, and advocate of “Women's Rights." Quotation : Lightning. JONES, JAMES CHAMBERLAIN, born, 1809 : an American statesman and Writer; died, 1859. Quotation : Jeopardy. JONES, JEREMIAH, born, 1693 ; an English theo- logian and Writel' : died, 1724. Quotation : Miser. JONES, JoHN : an American miscellaneous wri- ter. Quotation : Odd-Fellow. JONES, JoBN, born, 1500; a Welch medical wri- ter; died, 1570. Quotation : Lying. JONES, Owen, born, 1809; an English architect and author. Quotation : Fitness. JONES, PAUL, or John PAUL, born at Arbig- land, Scotland, 1747; a famous naval adventurer and com- modore in the American navy; died in Paris, 1792. Quota- tion : Liberty. JONES, RICHARD, born, 1791; an English divine and political economist, and professor of history and po- litical economy at the East India College, Hertfordshire; died, 1855. Quotation : Sea. JONES, THOMAS, born, 1719 ; an American divine and writer; died, 1774. .. Quotations: Opportunity—Orna- ment—Unity—Uniformity. JONES, WILLIAM ALFRED, born, 1817: an Ameri- can writer and critic. Q(totation. Insensibility. JONES, WILLIAM, born about 1548 ; an English author, (London, 1595.) Quotation : Leaves. JONES, WILLIAM, of Maryland, born in North- amptonshire, 1726: an eminent English divine and writer ; d; 1800. Quotations : Angels—Courage—Food—Manners —Play. JONES, SIR WILLIAM, born in London, Septem- ber 28, 1746; a distinguished Orientalist and writer; died at Calcutta, April 27, 1794. Quotations: Bible—Greatness— Mob-Riches—Sabbath. JONSON, or JOHNSON, BEN, born at Westmin- ster, London, 1574: a celebrated English poet and drama- tist. He was the posthumous son of a Protestant clergy- man; his mother Subsequently married a master bricklayer, who made young Ben his assistant. The young poet re- volted against this position and entered the army as a rivate Soldier; On his return from the wars, he studied at t. John's College, Cambridge, but his means being small he turned his attention to the stage for a living ; this brought him fame, but not fortune. He was made poet- laureate in 1617, with a salary of one hundred pounds per year; died, 1637. Quotations: #"ºw Calumny—Carelessness—Counsel—Countenance—Courtesy —Courtier—Death— Envy – Excuse — Flattery—Fortune— Gentility—Good — Good-Humor—Guest — Héll — Honesty —Honor—Hope—Language—Laughter—Learning—Mind— Opinion—Oratory—Praise— Prince—Raillery—Reputation —Secrecy—Self-Education— Sharpness—Slander-Style— Talking—Trees—Truth—Valor—Virtue—Words. JORDAN, DoROTHEA BLAND, born, 1762; an Irish actress; died, 1816 Quotation : Drama. JORDAN THOMAs, born about 1612; an English poet and dramatist; died, 1685. Quotation : Masquerade. JORTIN, JOHN, D.D., (Archdeacon of London,) born at St. Giles, Middlesex, 1698: an English divine and critic, of great learning; died, 1770. Quotations: Control — Controversy— Esteem—Labor—Passion—Praise—Riches —Virtue. JOSEPH, ABOU, born at Koofah, 731 : an eminent Moslem teacher; died, 798. Quotation: Virtue. JOSEPH, FRANÇors LECLERC DU TREMBLAY, (Le Pere,); born, 1577; a French diplomatist, Capuchin, and gº of Cardinal Richelieu ; died, 1638. Quotation : ourtesy. JOSEPH II, Emperor of Germany, born in Vien- na, 1741; a liberal lmonarch, who introduced many civil and ecclesiastical reforms into his dominions; died, February, 1790. Quotations : Guide—Virtue. JOSEPH, John, (Bishop of Llandaff,) born, 968 ; a Welch divine and writer; died, 1033. Quotation : besert. JOSEPH, SAINT, JoHN OF THE CROSS, born at Ischia, in the island of Ischia, Naples, 1654; a pious and learned divine; died, 1734. Quotation : Desert. JOSEPHINE, MARIE ROSE TASCHER DE LA PA- gerie, Wife of Napoleon I, born in the island of Martinique, 1763; an accomplished. Witty, and vain woman, with a re- markable memory; died, 1814. Quotation : Sabbath. JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUs, “The Grecian Livy,” born at Jerusalem, 37 A.l.).; the ancient historian of the Jews; died, 95 A.D. Quotations: Famine—God–Harlot—Hymn —Sabbath. JOSIKA, MIKLOS, BARON, born, 1796; a Hunga- rian novelist and linguist ; died, 1865. Quotation : Mirth. JOSS, or JQSSE, LOUIs, born, 1685; a French poet and littérateur ; died, 1749. Quotation : Cavil. JOST, ISAAK MARCUS, born, 1793; a German Jew- ish Scholar; died, 1860. Quotation : Burial. JOUBERT, JOSEPH, born at Montignac, 1754; an eminent French moralist and writer; died, 1824. }240tt- tions. Antiquity–Author-- Books—Charity—Children— Cleanliness-Comedy–Critic—Dispute—Error–Esteem— Eye-Familiarity—Faults— Fear— Fortune–Friendship— Happiness—Haughtiness—Idea—Ills— Imagination—Intel- ligence–Language–Lenity—Levity—Light—Literature— Love—Luxury--Mind—Moderation-Monuments—Morality —Obscurity— Opinion— Order — Ornament — Passion—Pa- tience—Piety— Poetry—Foliteness—Proverbs—Prudence— Tabble— Reason— Religion—Science—Slander—Success— Temperance—Tenderness—Thought— Time—Virtue–Wit —WOman—Words. JOURDAIN, AMABLE LOUIS MARIE MICHEL BRá- chillet, born, 1788; a French Orientalist, biographer, and littérateur ; died, 1818. Quotation : Grave. JOURDAIN, IARON DE, born, 921 ; a French ec- clesiastic and writer; died, 990. Quotation : Hell. JOUFFROY, FRANÇOIS GASPARD DE, (Bishop of Gap,) born, 1723; a French divine; died, 1797. Quotation : Hymn. z JOUY, VICTOR JOSEPH ETIENNE DE, born near Versailles, 1764; an eminent French littérateur and drama- tic author; died, 1846. Quotation : Haughtiness. JOVELLANOS, GASPAR MELCHIOR, born at Gi- jon, in Asturias, 1744; a Spanish statesman and author; died, 1811. Quotation : Philosophy. JOYCE, JAMES WAYLAND, born, 1812; an Eng- lish divine and author. Quotation : Deceit. JOY CE, JEREMIAH, born, 1764 ; an English Uni- tarian divine and author ; died, 1816. Quotation : Reason. JOVIANUS, FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS, born at Pan- nonia, 331 A.f.; a Roman emperor; died, 364 A.D. Quota- tion, . JOVINIAN, born in the fourth century ; an Ital- ian monk who preached against, the Superstitions of the Hºan Church ; died, 410. Quotations: Christ—Conten- tion. JOWETT, WILLIAM, born, 1787; an English di- vine and missionary: died, 1855; Quotation : Sycophant. JOY, JOHN, born, 1492; an English reformer and author; died, 1553. Quotation : Insult. JOY, WILLIAM, (Archbishop of Tuam,) born, 1437; an Irish divine and writer; died, 1501. Quotation : Blessing. JO-YEW. See YEW-JO. JUAREZ, BENITO, born in Oajaca, March 21, 1806; a Mexican statesman, and president of the republic of Mexico; died, July 18, 1872. Quotation : Thunder. JUDA, LEO voN, born, 1482; a German Protestant reformer and writer: died, 1542. Quotations : Antiquity —Will. - JUDAH, HAKKADOSH, or JUDA-HAKKADOSH, Saint, born in Galilee, 123 A.D.; a learned Jewish rabbi, compiler of the Talmud; died, 190. gºatoms : Mother— Mourning—Physician—Prodigality—Zeal. JUDAH, HIOOG, or JUDA HIOUG, born at Fez, in Africa, lived about 104; a Jewish, rabbi and physician, who gained great distinction for his learning and skill. Quotation: Wound. JUDD, SYLVESTER, born in Westhampton, Massa- chusetts, 1813; an American Unitarian minister and Writer died, 1853. Quotation : Earth. w JUDD, ORANGE, born at Niagara Falls, July 26, 1822; an American editor and writer on agriculture. Quo- tºrtion : Ivy. JUDOEUS, PHILO. See PHILO JUDGEUs. JUDSON, ADONTRAM, born in Malden, Massachu- setts, 1788; an eminent Baptist, divine and missionary; died at sea, April, 1850. Quotation : Unwillingness. A / O G A' A P Aſ / C A / / /V /O AE X. 1139 JUDSON, ANNE HAssELTINE, wife of the preced- ing, born, 1789; an American authoress; died, 1826. Qºto- tation : Youth. JUDSON, EMILY CHUBBUCK, (Fanny Forester.) wife of Adoniram Judson, born at Eaton, New York, 1811; an American authoress; died at Hamilton, New York, 1854. Quotations: Prayer—Tears. JUDSON, L. CARROLL, born in Pittsburg, Pennsyl- vania, 1795; an American lawyer, and author of “Probe; or One Hundred and Two Essays on the Nature of Men and Things,” (Philadelphia, 1847.) Quotations: Ability. Ad- vice-Agriculture – Debt — Despair – Duelling —Enemy- Envy-Fame-Fanaticism — Farmer–Gaming - Goyern- mont—Gratitude—Greatness —Happiness–Honesty–H9pe —Hospitality—Human Nature — Idleness—Ignorance—Im- position-Improvement—Imprudence-Im udence-Incon- sistency— Independence – Indifference- ndignation—In- dolence—Inequality—Infidelity— Ingratitude-Instruction lº-Intelligence—Intermperance — Judgment-King-Know- ledge-Îabor–Law–Life—Love –Luxury–Marriage-Ma- trimony–Matter–Mechanics — Meekness — Mind–Miser– Money-Morality—Nuptials—Occupation-Qcean-Office— Opinion—Oratory–Party–Passion —Patriotism—Pauper- §§"Ej'Pºpºłocłaśnºmise – Prosperity.— Prudence — Punctuality – Quarrels–Recti- tude--Reporter-Republicanism-Revenge--Scandal--Scorn -Security —Selfishness—Sensibility—Speculation-Spend- thrift – Šubsistence — Sunday – Sycophant – Talking — Tºº-Trine —Union – Usefulness —Vanity—Variety— ealth. JUIGNE, ANTOINE ELÉONORE LÉON LECLERC, DE, (Bishop of Chalons,) born in Paris, 1728; a celebrated iºn divine and writer; died, 1811. Quotation : Hu- mility. JUKES, JosłPH BEETE, F.R.S., born near Bir- mingham, 1811; an English geologist, naturalist, and all- thor; died, 1869. Quotation : Faculties. JULIAN, FLAvius CLAUDIUS, “The Apostle,” born in Constantinople, 331; a Roman emperor; died, 363. Quotations: Doctrine—Mind—Opinion-Paganism—Rea- son—Itepentance—Statues—Teaching—Temple. JULIAN, GEORGE WASHINGTON, born in Centre- ville, Indiana, May 5, 1817; an American educator, politi- cian, and advocate of “Women's Rights.” Quotations: Effort—Inspiration. JULIANUS, DIDIUs. Vel’ll S. JULIUS I, SAINT, (Bishop of Rome,) was elected Pope, 337; a man of learning and piety; died, 352. Quota- tion, ... Creed. JULIUS II, POPE, (CARDINAL GIULIANO DELLA IRovere,) born, 1441; a haughty and ambitious man ; died, 1513. Quotation: Serenity. JULIUS III, POPE, (CARDINAL GIOCCI, GIOVANNI Maria della Monte,) born at Monte San Savino, near Arez- zo, 1487; died, 1555. Quotattions: Fortune–Popery. JUNCTIN, FRANCESCO GIUNTINo, born in Flo- rence, 1523; an Italian astrologer and monk; died, 1590. Quotation : Decalogue. JUNIUS ; the assumed name of a political writer, who in January, 1769, began to issue in London, a series of famous letters, which he continued until January, 1772. In his dedication to the people of England, he said: “I am the Sole º of my own secret, and it shall perish with me; ” but it is now generally conceded that Sir Philip Francis (q.v.) was the author. Quotattions : Ancestry — Anger—Argument —Assertion —Awkwardness — Beauty— Books—Character —Compassion — Conduct—Conscience— Cowardice—Critic—Defense — Degeneration—Disappoint- ment—Discretion—Dishonor—Evil-Friendship—Generos- ity—Government—Guilt—Insensibility-Insult—Intemper- ance—Interest—Jest—Judges — Ring—KnaVery—Kneeling —Lawyer — Multitude — Munificence — Nation—Opinion— Oppression — Patriotism — Politics — Power—Precedent— Press—Pride—Punishment Hºrº, —Self-Sufficiency--Superstition--Talent--Treachery--Trut —Vanity—Vice—Wit—Zeal. JUNIUS, FRANCISCUs, born at Heidelberg, 1589; an eminent French philologist and theologian ; died at Windsor, England, 1677. Quotation : Tongue. JUNKIN, GEORGE, D.D., born near Kingston, Pennsylvania, 1790; an American divine and writer; died, 1868. Quotation : Šecession. JURIEU, PIERRE, born at Mer, in Orléanais, 1637; a French theologian and controversialist; died, 1713. Quo- tation : Decalogue—Sensibility. JUSSIEU, LAURENT PIERRE, DE, born in Lyons, 1792; a French moralist and writer; died, 1869. Quotation: Contempt. JUSTIN, SAINT, “The Martyr,” born at Neapolis, in Palestine, 103 A.D.: One Of the earliest and most learned of the Christian Fathers; suffered martyrdom at Rome, 165 A.D. Quotations : Consideration — Dress — Eulogy — Heresy—Money—Ornament—Shame—Tongue. JUSTINIAN I, THE GREAT, (FLAVIUS ANICIUs.) born in Dardania, May 11,483; one of the most celebrated of the emperors of the Eäst; died, 565. Quotations : Con- science — Corporation — Damage — Election —Eminence— Emperor—Eye-Witness—Fruit—House—Law—Rejoicing. See DIDIUS Jull ANUS SE- JUSTINIAN II, son of Constantine the Third, ascended the throne of Constantinople, 685; his great cruel- ties to his subjects caused him to be killed in 711 by Philip- picus Bardanes, who succeeded him. Quotation : Con. tentiment—Liberty. JUSTINUS II, a nephew of Justinian the First, whom he succeeded as Emperor of Constantinople, 565; died, 578. Quotation : People—Ruler. JUVENAL, DECIMUS Jun IUS, born in Aquinum, a Volscian town, 40 A.D.; one of the most celebrated of the Latin Satirical poets. Qºtotattions: Assassination — Astrology—Avarice–Beast—Commendation-Credit—Din- ner—Dispute — Entertainment — Example —Face—Farne— Fortune–Gain—Good — Honesty — Huimility—Ignominy— Impurity— Injustice – Killing — Knowledge — Lampoon — Land—Lover — Luck — Men — Money–Nature—Old Age— Pedigree — Perdition — Philosophy — Portrait — Poverty— Prudence—Purse – Ital)ble – Itarity-ſtemorse-Renown— Repetition — IRevelry — IRevenge — Robbery —Teaching — Tears–Tongue —Vengeance —Vice — Wealth—Wickedness —Wound—Writing. JUVENAL DES URSINS, JEAN, (Archbishop of Rheims,) born, 1388; a French divine, historian, and theo- logical writer; died, 1473. Quotattion. Deeds. JUYNBOLL, DIETRICH WILLEM JAN, born, 1802; a Dutch Orientalist; died, 1861. Quotallion. Custom. JUXON, WILLIAM, (Bishop of Hereford, London, and Archbishop of Canterbury,) born at Chichester, 1582 ; an English divine and writer; died, 1663. Quotation: Risks. Kºś the daughter of Keeaumoku, a distinguished warrior, born, 1773; Queen of the Sand- wich Islands; died, June 5, 1882. Quotation 8: Gods—Idola- try—Missionary. - RAAS, NICOLAs, born, 1535; a distinguished Dan- ish theologian and politician; died, 1594. Quotations. Des- peration—Peace. KABISI, ABö 'L-HASAN ALI IBN KHALAF AL- Maāfiri Al-Karawi Abſ, Al, born, June, 936; an eminent Arabian traditionist and author; died, October. 1012. Quo- tations : Nature—Old Age—Resolution–Valor. RABUS, IBN WUSHMAGHIR SHAMS AL-MAALI, (The Saty of Eacalted Qualities, ) born, 960; an Arabian Emir, philosopher, and poet; assassinated, 1012. Quota- tion : Trouble. RADJIMNA ; a governor of ancient Egypt, in whose tomb was discovered a papyrus Scroll of Sentences, in hieroglyphics, which have recently been translated. These are probably the most ancient words of wisdom in the world. Quotations : Time–Wisdom. RADJIRUNA. Quotation : Virtue, KADJUNNA. Quotation : Gluttony. RADLUBEK, VINCENT, (Bishop of Krakow,) born, 1161 ; a Polish historian ; died, 1223. Quotation : Remorse. EAEUFFER, CHRISTIANTHEoPHILUs, born, 1757; a German historian ; died, 1830. Quotation : . Wit. RAFUR, AL-IKHSHIDI ABö 'L-MISk, (The Father of Musk,), born, 903; an Arabian Statesman and philoso- pher; died, 968. Quotation : Praise. RAINI, ABö 'L-TAMAHAN AL, born, 1037; an §ºlan poet and philosopher; died, 1108. Quotation : &Y’. KALAKAUA, DAVID, the seventh # of Ha- waii, born, November 16, 1836; he was elected King, Feb- ruary 12, 1874. His parents were both chiefs of an ancient line ; he is an intelligent and well-minded prince. Quota- tion : Affectation—Gratitude. KALAKIS, IBN, (The Worshipfull Kadi,) born at Alexandria, December 20, 1137 ; an Arabian poet and travel- ler; died at Aidab, May, 1172. Quotations: Eye — Home —Mohammedanism—Travel—Water. KALIDASA, lived 50 B.C.: the Shakspeare of India, and the most illustrious of Hindoo poets. Quota- tion : Virtue. KALL, ABRAHAM, born in Jutland, 1743; an emi- ment Danish scholar; died, 1821. Quotation : Foulness. KALM, PEHR, born, 1715 ; a Swedish traveller and agriculturist: died, 1779. Quotation: Trees. RAMEHAMEHA I, # of Hawaii, Sandwich Islands, “The Caesar of Hawaii,” born at Kokoiki, Kohala, 1736; an iron-framed warrior, the first legislator, and law- giver of the Hawaiian race; died, May 8, 1819. Quotation : and. RAMEHAMEHA II, (LIHOLIHO) King of Hawaii, born, 1797; in November, 1823, he visited England with his queen Kamamalu, where she died on July 8, 1824: his grief was So intense at her loss that he died on the thirteenth of the same month. Quotations: Gods—Idolatry—Sabbath. EAMEHAMEHA, III, son of Kamehameha the First, (Kauikeaouli.) King of Hawaii, born, March, 1814; he ascended the throne, 1833, and was styled “The Good Ring,” and was honored and loved by the whole nation: ; ſºmber 15, 1854. Quotations: King—Popery—Sec- 8.TI&IllSIſl. 1140 AD A Y’.S C O /, / A C O AV. KAMEHAMEHA IV, the adopted son of Kame- haméha the Third, (Alexander Liholiho,) King of Hawaii, born, February 9, 1834; a noble young pringe whose reign was peaceful and prosperous. e visited Europe in 1852, and ascended the throne 1854; died, November 30, 1863. Quotation: Cheapness. RAMEHAMEHA V, (LOT LIHOLIHo,) brother of the preceding, born, December 11, 1830; a stern man with an iron will who ruled his people with arbitrary, power; died, December 25, 1872. Quotations: Property—Slavery— Throne. RAMES, LORD, (HENRY Home,) born at Kames, 1696; an eminent Scottish jurist and author; died, 1782. votations : Abstinence—Affection—Allegory—Analysis— eauty – Benevolence — Burlesque — Chance — Charms — Color–Congruity–Contemplation — Gourage — Criticism —Custom – Delicacy—Dignity— Dwelling — Emotion—ES- teem—Friendship — Glory—Horror — House – Humanity— Ignorance—imagination—Impropriety--Impulse--Industr –Ingratitude—Injury--Interest—Irony—Judgment—Land- scape—Light— Littleness- Logic—Love—Luxury—Mind- Moderation— Morality—Mother – Oak —IPassion — Perspi- cuity—Pleasure—Politeness—Praise–Prayer--Precaution— Pride—Profuseness—Propriety—Regularity—IReputation— Resentment—Revenge—ſtidicule—Scorn—Self-Love—Self- Preservation—Sensation—Simplicity—Sound—Style—Sym- pathy--Taste—Unhappiness--Variety--Versification—Want —Wisdom—Wit—Zealot. FCANE, ELISHA KENT, M.D., born in Philadel- phia, February 20, 1820; a distinguished American explorer; died at Havana, February, 1857. Quotation: Veracity. KANT, IMMANUEL, born at Königsberg, 1724; the founder of modern, German philosophy, and one of the most profound thinkers of the eighteenth century; died, 1804. Quotations: Aim–Benevolence—Education—Ending Enthusiasm— Imitation — Intuition — Lady—Multitude- Nº-Populace–Prayer—Renection-sincerity-society —Tºulfl. RANURI: a country in Africa, with little or no literature except proverbs. Quotation : I)aughter. RAOU, (PUH-HAE ;) a Chinese philosopher, and a disciple of Confucius. Quotation : Food. RAPNISTE, or KAPNIST, VASILI - VASILIE- Witch, born, 1756; a ſkussian poet and author; died, 1824. Quotations : Care—Creator. RAPPARA, BAR, born, 1178; a celebrated Ara- bian philosopher and writer; died, 1242. Quotation: Joy. RAR.R., JEAN BAPTISTE ALPHONSE, born in Mu- nich, 1808; a popular French novelist. Quotations: Beard —Fullness—Love—Memory—To-Day. KARSCH, ANNA LUISE, “The German Sappho,” born near Śchwieius, 1722; a German poetess and miscel- laneous Writer, who rose from poverty and obscurity by her literary talents; died, 1791. Quotation : Emperor. KATARI, IBN AL-FUJAA, (The Kharijite,) born about 645; an Arabian warrior; killed in battle, 697. Quo- tations; Cowardice—Wealth. KATTAA, IBNAL, ABö 'L KASIM ALI, born in Sicily, October, 1041; a celebrated Arabian philologer and author: died, April, 1121. Quotations: Lust–Salvation. KAUMUALII, King of Kauai, (Sandwich Islands) Quotation : God—Idolatry—Reading—Worship. KAVANAGH, JULIA, born at Thurles, 1824: a distinguished Irish lady writer of tales and romances. Q?totations. Employment—Insult. KAWITI, born about 1797; a New Zealand chief ; died, 1853. Quotation : Peace. KAY, JOHN, born, 1458: an English poet and miscellaneous writer; died, 1511. Quotation. Pride. RAY, or KAYE, JoBN, 1510 : an English physi- gian and writer, and the founder of Caius Collegé, Cam- bridge; died, 1573. Quotation : History. KAY, or KAYE, JoHN, (Bishop of Bristol, and Lincoln,) born, 1784: an English divine and author; died, 1853. Quotation : Religion. RAY, or KAYE, John WILLIAM, born, 1814; an English littérateur. Quotation : Temperance. - KAY, Jose.PH, born about 1713; an English au- thor; died, 1788. Quotations: Crime—Flattery—Improve- ment—Perseverance—Prudence—Sensitiveness. KEACH, BENJAMIN, born in Buckinghamshire, 1640; an English Baptist minister and writer; died, 1704. Quotations: Darkness—Providence—Resurrection. KEAN, CHARLEs JOHN, Son of Edmund Kean, born in Waterford, Ireland, 1811; a distinguished English actor; died, 1868. Quotation : Drama. KE-ANG : a Chinese philosopher, moralist, and writer. Quotation: Murder—Robbery. - REATE, GEORGE, F.R.S., born in Wiltshire, 1729; an English author; died, 1797. Quotations: Coquetry— Waves. IKEATS, JOHN, born in Moorfields, London, 1796; a celebrated English poet; died at Rome, 1821. Quotations: Kisses—Philosophy—Poetry. KEBLE, JOHN, born at Fairford, Gloucestershire, April 25, 1792: an English divine and poet; died, 1866. Quo- tation : Nature. KECKERMAN, BARTHOLOMAUs, born at Dant- Zic, 1573; a Prussian Calvinistic divine and author ; died, 1609. Quotations. Recapitulation—Suffering. KEDDIE, MIss H. (Sarah Tytler ;) an English authoress and novelist. Quotation : Eloquence. KEEN-MIN-TSZE. See MIN-TSZE-KEEN. REEN, W. W.; an English theologian and miscel- laneous writer, (London, 1837–39.) Quotation : Rogue. KEITH, ALEXANDER, D. D., born at Keith Hall, North Berwick, 1791; a Scottish theologian, traveller, and writer; died, February 12, 1880. Quotations: Error–Hor- ºmnaelity-Prophecy-Religion-Righteousness —Scrip- lil'C. REKAULUOHI, the wife of Liholiho, Premier, of Hawaii. Quotation : Subject. KELLOGG, ELIJAH, born at Portland, Maine, about 1824; an American writer of story-books for the young. . The speech of Spartacus to the Gladiators was written by him. Quotations : Ugliness—Unluckiness. RELLY, HUGH, born in Killarney, 1739 ; an Irish flººſe and political writer; died, 1777. Quotation : Gal- antry. RELLY, JOHN ; an American politician. Quota- tion : ConScience. RELTON, ARTHUR, lived in the time of Edward the Sixth ; an English author. Q2totation. Forwardness. REMBLE, FRANCES ANNE, born in London, 1811; a popular English actress and authoress. Quotation : Drama—Lust. KEMP, JAMES, D.D., (Bishop of Maryland,) born, 1764; an American Protestant Episcopal divine; died, 1827. Quotation : Failings. KEMPELEN, WolfGANG, BARON voN, born at Presburg, 1734; a Hungarian Imechanician and iittérateur, and inventor of the Chess machine ; died, 1804. Quota- tions : Skill—Vice. REMPIS, THOMAS A, (Malleolus,) born at Kem- en, Switzerland, 1380: a celebrated German ascetic writer; ied, 1471. Quotations: Adversity—Caution—Evil—Exam- ple—F 9;..."gº.”;..."; —Self—Self-R nowledge—Self-Opinion — Sickness—Simpli- city—Sloth—Tranquility—Want. REMPSTER, WALTER ; a distinguished Ameri- can physician. QttotºttiO71 . Insanity. REN, THOMAs, (Bishop of Bath and Wells,) born at Berkhamstead, 1637; a celebrated English divine; died, 1711. Quotations : Eye—Legacy—Music. FCENDALL, AMOS, born at Dunstable, Massachu- setts, 1789; an American statesman and lawyer; died, 1869. Quotation : Hemedy. RENDALL, GEORGE WILKINS, born at Amherst, New Hampshire, 1810; an American writer and journalist. Quotation : Irregularity. RENDI, or KINDI, ABU-YUsuf-YAKOUB IBN Ishah, Al, (The Philosopher of the Moslems.) lived in the ninth century; an Arabian astrologer, physician, and Wri- ter. Quotations : Anger— Enemy — Koran — Patience — Zealot. RENEALY, EDwARD VAUGHAN HYDE, D.C.L., M.P., born, 1819; a celebrated English barrister, linguist, and journalist; a man of surprising Versatility and yarled accomplishment: he became most widely known for the ersistency which characterised his conduct in the cele- brated Tichborne case; died, April 16, 1880. Quotation : Pleasing. KENMUIR, GORDON VISCOUNT : a Scotch rebel ; executed 1716. Quotation : Corruption. KENNEDY, GRACE, born in Ayrshire, 1782 ; a popular Scottish authoress; died, 1825. Quotation : Gloom. RENNEDY, JOHN PENDLETON, born at Balti- more, Maryland, 1795; an American statesman and popular writer; dièd, August, 1870. Quotation. Enemy. RENNEDY, WILLIAM, born, 1759; a Scotch anti- quary and author; died, 1836. Quotation : Gluttony. RENNET, BASIL, born, 1674; an English theolo- gian and archaeologist : died, 1715. Quotation : Benignity. KENNEY, JAMES, born, 1770; an English drama- tist ; died, 1849. Quotation. Corpulency. RENNICOTT, BENJAMIN, born at Totness, Devon- shire, 1718; a learned divine and writer; died at Oxford, 1783. Quotation : Enjoyment. RENRICK, WILLIAM, born in Hertfordshire, 1720; an English writer; died, 1779. Quotation : Will. FCENT, JAMES, LL.D., born in Putnam county New York. July 31, 1763; an eminent American jurist, ańd chancellor of the State of New York ; died in New York, December 12, 1847. Quotations: Christianity—Statute. A / O G AC A P // / C A / / /V /D E X. I 141 KENT, WILLIAM CHARLES MARK, better known as Charles Kent, born in London, November 3, 1823; an English poet and journalist. Quotations. Adornment – Fain. RENTIGERN, SAINT, surnamed SAINT MUNGHO, (Bishop of Glasgow,) born, 516; an ancient British Kyn- deyrn, and a pious and learned divine; died, 601. Quota- tions: Expectation—Zeal. RENYON, JOHN, born, 1783; an English Quaker poet and philanthropist; died, 1856. Quotation: Will. EENYON, LLOYD, LORD, born at Greddington, Flintshire, October 5, 1732; an eminent, English jurist, and chief justice of the King's Bench; died, 1802. Quotation. Wrong. REOKUK, (RUNNING Fox,) born about 1800; a owerful chief of the Sac and Fox Indians, Who joined É. Hawk in the war against the United States. Q2/ota- tion. Hevenge. KEOPUOLANI, an Hawaiian princess, daughter 3. Kiwalao, King of Mani; died, May, 1841. Quotation: 3,V1OI’. REPPEL, SIR HENRY, born, 1809; an English naval commander. Quotation: Wound. RER, John, born in London, 1740: an eminent English bibliographer; died, 1804. Quotations: Danger — PSalmS. REREEM, or KERYM, KHAN : became sovereign of Persia in 1750; died, 1780. Quotation : Tobacco. FCESSELL, J. Quotation: House. - KE-SUN ; a Chinese philosopher and disciple of Confucius. Quotations: Right—Speaking. RETT, HENRY, born in Norwich, England, 1761; a learned English theologian and author; died, 1825. Quo- tations : Building—Commerce—Epitaph—Travel. KETTLEWELL, JoHN, born at Northallerton, Yorkshire, 1653; an English divine and author; died, 1695. Quotation : Nuisance. KEYSER, JoHN H., born in New York, 1818; an ; advocate of “Labor and Land Reform.” Quotation : à D.C. KHAIYAT, ABö ABD ALLAH IBN MUHAMMAD Ibn Ali, born at Damascus, 1058; an Arabian poet and Wri- ter; died at Damascus, 1123. Quotation : Reflection. RHAJAH, SELMAN, born about 1300; a Persian philosopher; died, 1866. Quotation : Zenith. RHALID, IBN ABū ALI YAHYA, born, 740; an Arabian scholar; died in the prison of Ar-Räfika, 805. Quo- tations : Excuse—Favor. KHALTL, ABU ABD AR-RAHMAN IBN AHMED AL, born, 718; one of the great Arabian masters in the art of grammar, and the discoverer of the rules of prosody; died at Basra, 894. Quotation: House. RHALLIKAN, SHEMs-ED-DEEN ABö-ABBAs-AH- med, Ibn, born at Arbela, September 22, 1211 ; a celebrated Arabian historian, and the author of a “Biographical Dic- tionary of Famous Moslems,” containing several hundred articles. This work was translated from the Arabic into French by Baron Mac Guckin De Slane, (q, v.,) and pub- lished in Paris in 1843. The compiler of the present work is indebted to the translatOrfor many Of the extracts which are given from Arabian authors; died at Damascus, Octo- ber 20, 1282. Quotations: Business—Force — God—Gram- mar—Koran—Mohammedanism—Preface. JKHAN, CUBLAI, born, 1213; grand Khan of the Mogul nation; died, 1294. Quotation : Christianity. KHAN, ZINGIS. See ZINGIS KHAN. RHATTABI, ABū SULAIMAN HAMD IBN MUHAM- mad, Ibn Ibrahim, Al, born about 930; an Arabian philolo- gist and author ; died at Bust, March, 998. Quotations: Protection—Sympathy. RHAYYAM, OMAR, born in the eleventh century; a Persian astronomer and poet. Quotation : Worship. FCHELL, JOSEPH VON KHELLBURG, born at Linz, 1714; a German friar, Orientalist, numismatic, and writer; died, 1772. Quotation : Success. KHILAFAT, IBN SHANIAL, born, 1048; an Ara- º author and philosopher; died, 1125. Quotation : Dis- I'êSS. RTHILAI, ALI IBN AL-HASAN IBN AL-HUSAIN Ibn Muhammad, Al, born at Misr, July, 1014; a celebrated Arabian jurist and author; died, December, 1099. Quota- tion : Prospect. * RHIVESE ; the name of a people who inhabit Khiva, a country of Central Asia. Quotation : Head. EHRISPIN, or CRISPIN, SAINT ; born, 230; a Frenchman of noble birth, who embraced Christianity, and made shoes for the poor of the church; suffered mar- tyrdom, 287. Quotation : Destitution. RIAM, Queen of China, born, 800 B.C.: an illus- trious and noble WOman, Who Was noted for her Virtue and goodness. Q?totation : Amusement. RID, JOHN, born near Bothwell, about 1630; suf- fered martyrdom at Edinburgh, August 14, 1778. Quota- tion : Zion. KIDD, JOHN, M.D., born, 1775; an English phy- Sician and author; died, 1851. Quotation : Love. KIDD, SAMUEL, born at Hull, 1801; an English gºalist, missionary, and Writer; died, 1843. Quotation : RIDDER, RICHARD, (Bishop of Bath,) born, 1635; a learned English theologian and author; died, 1703. Quo- lations: Approbation—Childhood. RIEN-LONG, or KHIHAN LOUNG, born, 1710; emperor of China; died, 1799. Quotation : Jesuits. KILLIGREW, THOMAs, born in Middlesex, 1611; an English dramatist ; died, 1682. Quotations : Vain- Glory. KILLIGREW, SIR WILLIAM, brother of the pre- ceding, born, 1605; an English dramatist; died, 1693. Quo- tation : U.Sury. KIMBALL, HEBER C. : a Mormon elder and fol- lower of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Quotation : Polygamy. EIMBALL, RICHARD BURLEIGH, born at New Lebanon, New Hampshire, 1818; an American lawyer and writer. Quotation : Defamation. RIMCHI, DAVID, born in Narbonne, about 1170; a French Jewish rabbi, lexicographer, and commentator; died, 1240. Quotation : Worship. KINAU, JOCHEBED ; daughter of Kamehameha the Second, born, 1819; a noble and pious woman. She was premier of Honolulu for several years; died, April 4, 1838. Quotation : Prayer. KING, ALBERT J., born in Ohio, 1836; editor of “Bee-Keepers' Magazine,” New York. Quotation : Bees. Kºº, REV. DAVID. Quotations: Sabbath—Servant— WOTK. RING, FRANCEs E., born, 1769; an English au- thoress ; died, 1821. Quotations. Earth — Life — Speech— WOman. RING, HENRY, D.D., (Bishop of Chichester,) born in Buckinghamshire, 1591; an English divine and poet; died, 1669. Quotations : Avarice—Honor. RING, JOHN, born in Buckinghamshire, 1559; an English theologian ; died, 1621. Quotation : Diligence. RING, PRESTON, born at Ogdensburg, New York, 1806; a celebrated American statesman; died by Suicide, 1865. Quotation : Toil. - RING, RUFUs, born in Scarborough, Maine, 1755; an American statesman ; died, April, 1827. Quotation : People. RING, THOMAS, born in London, 1730; an Eng- lish actor and dramatist ; died, 1805. Quotation. Drama. RING, THOMAS STARR, born, 1824; an American dººna writer; died, 1864. Quotations: Charity—Skill —TI’UIUR). KING, WILLIAM, (Archbishop of Dublin,) born in Antrim, 1650; an Irish Protestant divine and author; died, 1729. Quotation : Atheism. RING, WILLIAM, born in London, 1663 ; a learned English satirical writer; died, 1712. Quotation : Jargon. RINGSLEY, CHARLEs, born at Holne Vicarage, Hants, June 12, 1819; an English divine, novelist, and lec- turer; died, January 23, 1875. Quotations : Books—Cir- cumstances — Fairies— Feeling—Music — Heligion—Self- Conceit—Success—Words. . RINGSLEY, HENRY, brother of the preceding, born, 1830; an English novelist; died, May 24, 1876. Quo- tations: Eloquence—Plagiarism. KINGSTON, A. Quotation : Life. RINGSTON, W. H. G. : an English novelist and traveller, (London, 1843–55.) Quotation : Eloquence. RINNEY, COATES, born on Crooked Lake, Penn Yan, New York, 1826; an American lawyer, poet, journal- ist and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Language. RINNEY, ELIZABETH_CLEMENTINE, daughter of David L. Dodge, born in New York; an American poetess and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Frailty. KINNEY, WILLIAM BURNET, born in New Jersey, 1799; an American journalist, litterateur, and diplomatist; died, 1880. Quotation : Exaggeration. RINSELLA, THOMAS ; an American journalist and politician, and proprietor of the “Brooklyn Eagle.” Quotations : Ancestry—Assassination. RTN-YO-SHIU, a Japanese book, a “Collection of Golden Leaves.” Quotation : . Failure. RINZIE, MRS. J. A.; an English novelist and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Sunrise. KIPPIS, ANDREw, born in Nottingham, 1725; an English dissenting minister, and an eminent biographer; died, 1795. Quotation : God. 1142 ZD A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. RIRBY, WILLIAM, born in Suffolk, England, 1759; an eminent English entomologist and author; died, 1850. Quotation : Birds. FCIRCHER, CONRAD, born, 1558 ; a German phi- lologist and theologian ; died, 1622. Quotation : Deity. IKIRK, JOHN FOSTER, born at Frederickton, New Brunswick, 1824; an American historian. Quotation : Self- Reproach. RIRK, THOMAS. Quotations: Fable—Fidelity—Parent —Reading—Tongue—War. RIRKHAM, SAMUEL, born in the State of Massa- chusetts, 1790: author of “English Grammar, in Familiar Lectures;” died, 1854. Quotation : Ambition. RIRECTAND, CAROLINE MATILDA STANSBURY, (Mary Clavers,) born in the city of New York, 1808; an American authoress, who attained great Success as a deli- neator of pioneer life; died, 1864. Quotations: Alchemy— Fastidiousness—Gifts—Hospitality. EIRRIYA, ABö SULAIMÁN AIYUB AL-HILALI Ibn Al, born about 643; an untutored Arab Of the desert, noted for many wise sayings, and the author of a number of Arabic proverbs. His head was struck Off by Al-Hajjaj Ibn Yusuf, for giving sharp and trite answers to questions propounded to him; died, 703. Quotations. Ambassador —Ambition —Anger — Clemency – Company- Embarrass- ment — Exertion- Forgetfulness–Horse—Qpportunity— Property—Self-Adoration—Tradition—Wexation. KIRTLAND, DR. JAMES ; born in Cleveland, Ohio, 1820; Quotation : Bees. RIRWAN, WALTER BLAKE, born at Galway, 1754; an Irish Episcopalian clergyman, distinguished for his eloquence; died, 1805. Quotations: Miser—Spendthrift. RITTO, John, D.D., born in Plymouth, 1804: an English Writer, and a biblical Scholar; died at Cannstadt, Würtemburg, 1854. Quotations: Respectability—Truth. ECIU-O, Dö-WA ; a book of Japanese sermons, by a priest of the Shin-ga-ku sect, professing to combine the excellences of Buddha, Confucius, and Shin-To. Quota- tions : Conscience — Feasting—Fidelity—Heart—Heaven— Mind—Passion—Prayer—Repentance—Shame. EIUN-LAOU. See LAOU-KIUN. RLEIN, FRIEDRICH AUGUST, born, 1793: a Ger- man theologian, preacher, and author; died, 1823. Quota- tion : Corporation. ELOPSTOCK, FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB, born at 3. in Prussian Saxony, July 2, 1724; a celebrated erman poet ; died at Hamburg, March, 1803. Quotations: God— Opinion—Ostentation—Pilgrim — Solitude — Type— Winter—Woe—Zephyr. RLOPSTOCK, MARGARET, wife of the preceding, born in Hamburg, March 19, 1728; a German authoress, and an accomplished woman; died, 1758. Quotations : Pleas- ing—Presence. - RMITA, PETER, born, 1495; a Polish statesman ; died, 1551. Quotation : Fickleness. RNAPP, ALBRECHT, born in the duchy of Wür- temberg, 1798; a German divine and writer. Quotations : Angels—Hypocrisy. KNAPP, GEORG CHRISTIAN, born at Halle, 1753; a German theologian and writer; died at Halle, 1825. Quo- tation : Inspiration. RNAPP, JACOB, born at Otego, New York, De- cember 5, 1799; an eminent Baptist clergyman and revival- ist ; died in Illinois, March 2, 1874. Qzzotation. Dancing. RNAPP, SAMUEL LORENzo, born in Newbury- port, Massachusetts, 1784: an American miscellaneous wri- ter; died, 1838. Quotation : Biography. KNAPP, WILLIAM I. : an English divine and wri- ter. Quotation : Penetration. ENATCHBULL-HUGGESSEN, EDwARD, M.P., son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, born at Mersham Hatch, Kent, April 29, 1829; a popular English writer of story- books for children. Quotation : Jest. RNEBEL, KARL LUDw1G, VON, born at Waller- Stein, in Franconia, 1744: a German littérateur; died, 1834. Quotations: Advice—Error—Hope—Scepticism. FCNEELAND, ABNER, born in Gardner, Massa- chusetts, April 7, 1774; an American writer and sceptic on religious subjects. Quotations: Free-Thinking—Indepen- dence—Infidelity—Investigation—Mind—Superstition. ENIGGE, ADOLF FRANZ FRIEDRICH, BARON VON, born near Hanover, 1752; a German philosopher and writer; died, 1796. Quotation : Gaming. KNIGHT, CHARLEs, born in Windsor, England, 1791; an eminent English editor, author, and publisher, and one of the first literary benefactors of the age in the diffu- sion of useful knowledge ; died, March 9, 1873. Quotations: Knowledge—Printing—Prosperity. ENIGHT, RICHARD PAYNE, M.P., born in Here- fordshire, 1750; an English antiquary and writer; died, 1824. Q7zotations : Critic—Precocity. ENIGHTON, SIR WILLIAM, born, 1776; an Eng- lish author; died, 1836. Quotation : Imitation. KNOWLES, JAMEs SHERIDAN, born in Cork, 1784; a distinguished Irish actor and dramatic author; died, 1862. Quotations: Error—Love—Men—Mind—Mountain— Thunder. KNOWLES, RICHARD, born, 1545; an English historian and philologist; died, 1610. Quotation : Death. RNOWLES, MRS. T. K. E.; an American miscel- laneous writer. Quotation : Home. KNOWLTON, CHARLEs, M.D.; born at Temple- ton, Massachusetts, May 10, 1800; an American physician, and Writer on physiology; died, February 20, #. Quota- tion : Skill. KNOX, ALEXANDER, born about 1773; an Eng- lish author; died, 1831. Quotation : Orthodoxy. KNOX, HENRY, born at Boston, July 25, 1750; an American, general and statesman ; died at Thomaston Maine, October, 1806. Quotation : Indiscretion. KNOX, J. A.; an English divine and writer. Quotation : People. KNOX, JOHN, born at Gifford, in East Lothian, 1505; the most famous and greatest of the Scottish reform- ers; died, 1572. Quotations: Excess—Hope—Pain—Pathos —Sinner—Solicitude—Vigilance. KNOX, John S., D.D., born in Pennsylvania, 1790; an American clergyman ; died, New York, 1858. Quota- tions: Prayer—Pulpit. KNOX, VICESMIUs, D. D., born at Newington Green, Middlesex. 1752; a celebrated English clergyman and author ; died, 1821. Quotations : Deity—Man—Military —Profession—Religion—Tomb—Valet. RNUZEN, MATTHIAs, born in Holstein, about 1611; a German sceptic and writer; died, 1642. Qzzotations: Atheism—COnScience. KOANG-SEE-MA : a Chinese philosopher and text-giver. Quotations : Privacy—Study. ROBLER, JoHN, born in Virginia, 1768 ; an American pioneer Methodist clergyman of the West; died, 1838. Quotation: Insensibility. ROENIG, GEORG MATTHIAS, born at Atláorf, in Franconia, 1616; a German writer; died, 1699. Quotation : Difficulty. RO-JI-KI ; the Japanese bible, or book of old tra- ditions. Quotations: Ills—People. RO-KIN-SHIU : a Japanese book, a “Collection of Pieces, Ancient and Modern.” Quotations: Deceit — Instability. KOLLIKER, ALBERT, born, 1818; a German phy- Siologist and writer. Quotation : Dinner. KÖNIG, CHARLEs, born, 1775; an English natur- alist, and keeper of the mineralogical collection in the British Museum ; died, 1851. Quotation : Insect. RONIGSMARK, MARIA AURORA, COUNTESS, born in Bremen, 1670: a German lady celebrated for her beauty and accomplishments; died, 1728. Quotation : Ir- regularity. RORAN : the sacred book of the Mohammedans, which, according to their belief, was dictated to their prophet by the angel Gabriel. Its language is of surpassing elegance and purity, and no human pen is supposed to be capable of producing anything similar—a circumstance adduced by Mahomet himself, as a clear, proof of his mis- sion. Quotations : Life — Mohammedanism — Neighbor— Patronage—Place—Promise—Revelation—Right—Shame— Tillage, RORNER, KARL THEODOR, born in Dresden, 1791; a celebrated German poet and dramatist ; killed in battle near Rosenberg, 1813. Quotation. Grief. RCORTUBI, ABū BAKR YAHYA IBN SAADöN IBN Muhammed Al-Az di Al, (Preserver of the Faith,) born at Cordova, Spain, 1093; an Arabian teacher of the Koran, grammar, and philologist; died at Mosul, August 4, 1172. Quotation : Liar. RÖSHI, KUNG-FU-TsU ; a Japanese name of Mo- shi, who is the Chinese Mencius (or Men-Tse.) ROSSUTH, Louis, born of a noble family, at Mo- nok, in the county of Kemplin, 1802: a distinguished Hun- arian statesman, orator, patriot, and Writer. Quotations: ible—Brotherhood—Collision —Education—Expediency— Freedom—Fugitive—History—Interference—Judgment— Liberty—Loyalty—Nation–Neutrality—Old Age—Peace— Protection—Religion—Tyrant—Unity—Will—Words. ROTZEBUE, AUGUST FRIEDRICH FERDINAND, . von, born at Weimar, 1761; a German historian, dramatist, and political writer; assassinated at Mannheim, by Karl Ludwig Sand, a student, 1819. Quotations: Sun—World. ROVEN, JAMES DE : an American divine and writer. Quotation : Death. ROZLOF, IVAN IVANOVITCH, born, 1774 ; a Rus- sian poet; died, 1838. Quotation : Logic—Memory—Plea- SUIPé KRASICKI, IGNATz, (Prince-Bishop of Warmia,) born, 1735: a Polish littérateur, poet, and historian; died, 1801. Quotation : Condition. A / O G AC A P AE/ / C A / / AV ZD E X. 1143 KRAUTH, CHARLEs PORTERFIELD, born at Mar- timsburg, Virginie, March 17, 1823; an American Lutheran divine and writer. Quotation : Projector. ERISHNA, born, according to Hindoo mythology, in the kingdom of $fathura, the eighth a Watar Of Vishnu, and regarded as the most glorious manifestation Qf that deity. Quotations : Adultery--Injury—Misfortune–Neigh- bor–Passion—Praise—Reward—Vice—Work. JKROYFT, MRS. SARAH H. DE ; an American wri- ter, author of “A Place In Thy Memory,” (New York, 1850.) She was, unfortunately, in one month, a bride, a widow, and blind. Quotations: Aspiration—Blindness-Gratitude —Grave—EIappiness—Lesson–Night— Noise— Prayer—Re- flection—Tears—World. ERUDENER, JULIANA, born at Riga, 1766; a Russian mystic or enthusiast, and romance Writer. She abounded in works of charity toward the poor; died, 1824. Quotations: Beauty—Preaching—Prophecy—Zeal. RRUMMACHER, FRIEDRICH ADOLF, born at Tecklenburg, in Westphalia, 1768; a distinguished German theologian and religious writer, whose “Parables,” and many other works, are well known throughout the civil- ized world; died at Bremen, 1845. Quotations. Affliction —Destruction—Discontent — Eloquence—Humility—Life— Mischief—Misery—Mother—Motive — Parable—Patience— Peace–People—Plant—Repentance—Revenge—Sanctifica- tion—Simplicity—Slayery— Star – Storm—Sun—Tempest— Truth — Unbelief —Viciousness — Vicissitudes —Virtue — Wisdom. FCULMAN, ELIZABETH, born at St. Petersburg, 1808; a Russian poetess of German extraction. She wroté in Russian, German, and Italian; died, November 9, 1825. \totations. Cowardice—Hunger—Impossibility—Judges— low—Praise—Spring. RUNG-CHOW ; a Chinese philosopher and a disciple of Confucius. Quotattions: Office—Relations. RUNG-CHUNG : a Chinese philosopher and mor- alist. Quotation : Exactness. KUNG-TSZE. See TSZE-KUNG. RUNZE, JoBANN CHRISTOPH, born, 1740; a Ger- man Protestént divine and author; died, 1807. Quotation : Decalogue. * KUPANEA, S ; a native of the Sandwich Islands. Quotation : Trees. A A EURRA, ABö 'L-HASAN THABIT IBN HARöN IBN, born, 836; a great Arabian arithmetician, and philosopher; died, February, 901. Quotations: Learning—Physician. KUTAIBA, BAKKAR IBN, born at Basra, 798 ; a }º Arabian jurist; died at Misr, June, 884. Quota- 2070, . O3, LIl. KYQ-SYA, (Nan-ryð;) a Japanese scholar, who revised “Man-yo-Shiu,” an old collection of Japanese poetry, (1842.) KYRLE, JOHN, (The Man of Ross,) born, 1637; an English philanthropist ; died, 1754. Quotations: Ava- rice—Speculation—Words—Wrong. AALE, PEDER, born about 1432 : a Danish 4 poet and writer; died about 1497. Quotation: Despera- Ołł. ti LABAT, JEAN BAPTISTE, born in Paris, 1663 ; a French monk and author; died, 1738. Quotation : World, LABE, LOUISE, (La Belle Cordière,) born, 1526; a French poetess and writer; died, 1566. Quotation : Girl. LABERIUS, DECIMUs, born about 107 B.C.; a Roman knight distinguished as a Writer of mimes; died, 43 B.C. Quotations : Aid— Burden — Counsel — Danger— Dignity—Friendship—Haste—Hunger–Love—Quickness— Self-Cômmand—Task—Union. LABOULAYE, EDOUARD RENE, LEFéBVRE, born in Paris, January 18, 1811; a French jurist and historical writer. Quotation : Duplicity. LABROUSSE, CLOTILDE SUZANNE DE COURCEL- les, de, born in Périgord, 1747; a French enthusiast who professed to be a prophetess ; died, 1821. Qzzotations: Po- pery-Priest. * LACEPEDE, BERNARD GERMAIN ETIENNE, DE LA Ville, Count of, born, 1756; a French naturalist and writer; died, 1825. Quotation : Date. LACORDAIRE, JEAN BAPTISTE HENRI, born at Recey-sur-Ource, 1802; a celebrated French preacher and founder of a new order of Dominicans; died, November, 1861. Quotation : Report. LACRETELLE, PIERRE LOUIs, born, 1751; a ; littérateur and jurist; died, 1824. Quotalion : 1Otºh eI’. LACTANTIUS, LUCIUS COELIUS FIRMIANUs, “The Christian Cicero,” is supposed to have been a native of Africa, and flourished about the third and fourth cen- turies; an eloquent Latin Father and rhetorician; died, 3.25. wotations. Accusation—Aggression—Artlessness— Charity—Conviction—Government—Hell–Hopelessness— Ignorance—-Innocence—Justice--Law--Memory--Seduction —Wisdom—Wrath—Youth. TACY, JOHN, born, 1623 ; an English dramatic author and actor; died, 1681. Quotation : Extremes. LACYDES, born at Cyrene, 280 B.C.; a Greek Platonic philosopher; died, 215 B.C. Quotation : Old Age. LAFAYETTE, MARIE JEAN PAUL ROCH Yves Gilbert Motier, Marquis de, born at Chavagnac, September 6, 1757: an illustrious French statesman and patriót; died, May 20, 1834. Quotations: Assistance—Military. LAFAYETTE, MADAME, the wife of the preced- ing, and granddaughter of the duke of Noãilles; a devoted * and a noble Woman; died, 1807. Quotation : Sepa- T’ai 10Il. LA FITE, DE LA, J. P.; a French novelist and Iniscellaneous Writer. Quotation : Acting. LA HIRE, PHILIPPE DE, born in Paris, 1640 ; a §§ geometer and author; died, 1718. Quotation : Science. LAINA, ABU, or ABULAINA, (q.v.) Quotations : Farewell—Fortune–Hope—Tongue. LAING, MALCOLM, born, 1762 ; a Scottish histo- rian ; died, 1818. Quotation : Feeding. LAIRESSE, GERARD,' born at Liege, 1640 ; a skill- ful Flemish historical painter, engraver, and writer; died, 1711. Quotations. Painting—Sight. LAIS, born at Corinth in the fifth century ; a cele- brated Greek courtesan, notorious for her avidity and ca- rice ; Aristippus was One of her lovers ; the citizens of §i) erected a monument to her. This Lais must not be confounded with the Luis of Sicily, who was stoned to death by the women of Thessaly. Quotation : Philosophy. LAKE, ARTHUR, (Bishop of Bath,) born, 1550 ; an English divine and ecclesiastical writer; died, 1626. Quo- tation : Jealousy. LALAIN, JACQUES DE, (Le Bom Chevalier,) born, 1421; a French warrior; died, 1453. Quotation : Failings. LAMACHUS, born, 470 B.C.; an Athenian gen- §: killed at the battle of Syracuse, 414 B.C. Quotaſſione. 3.]". LAMARTINE, ALPHONSE, DE, born at Maçon, on the Saône, October 21, 1792; a French poet, orator, and his- torian of great celebrity; died, February, 1869. Quota- tions; Cruelty—Earth-Freedom—Grief–Habit—Heaven —History—Humility—Idea— Kindness— Lawyer — Love— Man–Monarchy—Mother—Mystery–Newspaper— Party— Poetry—Prayer—Press— Religion—Tears—Virtue—Wife— Woman. LAMB, CHARLES, born in London, February 18, 1775; an eminent English poet, dramantist, and miscella- neous writer; died, December 27, 1834. Quotations: Actor --Affectation--Antiquity--Appetite–Ballad--Bells--Charity —Child-Childhood-Choice-Company—Disguise–Dress– Faith—Folly—Good–Irony—Knowledge- £aughter Tii. brary–Miser—Money—Music—Negroes–Nothing—Philan- thropy—Pleasure—Poverty--Quakerism—Quietness—Read- ing—Relations—Sickness–Solitude—Truisin–-Vice-Voice. LAMBERT, ANNE THERESE DE MARGUENAT DE Courcelles de Marquese, born in Paris, 1647; a French au- thoress; died, 1733. Quotations: Friendship—Pleasure. LAMBIN, DENIS, born at Montreuil-sur-Mer, Pi— cardy, 1516; a learned French professor, and classical scho- lar ; died of grief for the massacre of the Protestants, 1572. Quotation : Redress. LAMBRUN, MARGARET, born about 1557; a Scot- tish woman, whose zeal for the cause of Mary, Queen of Scots, induced her to make an attempt against the life of Queen Elizabeth. Quotations : Restraint-Vengeance. LAMENNAIS, HUGUES F#LICITÉ ROBERT DE, Abbé, born at Saint Malo, June, 1782: a celebrated French Writer On religion and # ; died, 1854. Quotations: Assistance—Equality—Family—Father-Fraternity—Hu- manity — Hunger — Law — Love — Matrimony — Misery — Mother—Murder—Necessity — Plenty— Prayer—Priest — Rebellion—Ruins—Self-Preservation—Selfishness–Sover- eign—Sympathy–Tongue—Woman. LAMILLETIERE, THEOPHILE, BRACHET DE, born, 1596; a French Protestant controversialist ; died, 1665. Quotation : Jesuitism. LAMONT, DAVID, D.D., of Kirkpatrick, Durham ; an English divine and writer, (London, 1760–87.) Quota- tion : Despising. LANCASTER, ANNIE ELIZABETH, (MRS. JAMES Ellis,) born in Northumberland, April 6, 1852; an English poetess and prose writer. Quotations: Accent — Change Cloud—Consequence—COwardice—Daintiness—Deafness— Declaration — Discord — Dupes — Earnestness — Ecstasy— Examination-Exile—Extenuation—Familiarity—Fascina- tion – Forgetfulness — Generosity—Gossip - Grandeur — Greediness — Haughtiness — Hearth — º Hº. Hospitality—Husband—Hypocrisy-Idiot—Ill-Will—Imbe- cility—Imitation — Inhumanity — Inspiration — Kindred— Lacónics–Lady-Love—- Luck — Maiden—Melancholy— Memory—Moss–News—Penalty—Photography–Piano— Plainness — Plagiarism — Polygamy--Prettiness—Quill — Quotation.Raig —Rascality—Reception —Responsibility— Restlessness—Scars—Self-Conquest—Self-Possession—Su- Hº! ty—Tact—Task—Tattling— Thought— ribulation—Twilight—Uniformity—-UxOriousness--Value. 1144 A) A Y',S C O /, / A C O AV. LANDELS, or LANDELLS, JAMES ; an English poet and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Jealousy. LANDER, RICHARD, born at Truro, 1804; an Eng- lish traveller and writer, who rendered his name memora- ble by Solving the problem of the course Of the Niger; § in Western Africa by the natives, 1835. Quotation : 3.lil. LANDER, SARAH W.; an American miscellaneous writer, (Boston, 1864–69.) Quotation : Enigma. LANDIS, SAMUEL M.; an American writer, and enterprising business man. Quotations: Orthodoxy—Pre- judice. LANDO, MICHELE, (Cardewr,) born about 1312 ; a gonfalonier of Florence. Quotation : Charity. LANDO, ORTENSIO, flourished in the sixteenth century; an Italian novelist. Quotation. Desperation. LANDON, LETITIA ELIZABETH (“L.E.L.,”) born in Brompton, near London, 1802; a popular English poetess and novelist, who gained a great reputation by her writ- ings, and enabled her to support herself. . On June 7, 1838, she married George Maclean, Governor Of Cape Coast Cas- tle, and was found dead in her new house, October 15, 1839. It is supposed her death was caused by an over-dose of prussic acid, which she was in the habit of taking for the relief of spasms. Quotations : Circumstances – Ennui — Fame — Frankness–Hope—Life — Love—Music—Occupa- tion—Praise—ſtegret — ſtidicule — Repentance—Scandal— Self-ſteproach –Society—Sympathy–Tears—Thought — Truism—Youth. LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE, born at Ipsley Court, Warwickshire, England, January 30, 1775; a celebrated English poet, philosopher, essayist, and critic. He served in the Spanish army against Napóleon, from 1808 to 1814; died at Florence, September, 1864. Quotations: Absence— Abstinence —Absurdity — Affectation — Affection —Afflic- tion —Air–Ambition — Amusement—Approbation—Aris- tocracy — Austerity — Barbarism — Beauty — Biography — Change—Character—City—Climate—Companion—Compas. Sion—Contentment—Country—Civitic–Cruelty—Dancing— Delay–Democracy–Despotism—Dignity—Ease—Elegance —Error—Evil—Expression — Falsehood —Fancy—Farewell —Faults—Flattery-Friendshi p—Future—Gaming—Genius —Glory—Good—Goodness—Government—Gravity—Great- neSS—Happiness —Harmony—Hate—History—Hope—Idle- ness—Imitation—Impatienge – Ingratitude—Jury—King— Kisses—Law—Learning—Life — Love—Malice—Marriage— Merit — Mistake — *sº Monuments — Moroseness — Music—Mystery—Name—Nation—Necessity—Obscurity— Painting—Poetry—-Politeness — Politics—Pórtrait—Power - Pride — Principle — Prose – Prosperity—Punishment— Quietness—Quotation—Regret – Republicanism—Resigna- tion--Ridicule—Sculpture—Sea—Self-Love—Serenity-Sim- plicity—Slavery—Smile—Snow—Sophistry—Statues--Study —Sunset—Tears —Toleration —Tragedy—Unbelief—Virtue —Vision—Vote – Voyage—Vulgarity — War — Warrior — Wealth—Wisdom—Wish—Wit—Woman—Words—Writing —Wrong—Youth. LANG, JoHN DUNMORE, D.D., A.M., born about 1800; an Australian writer, and author of “Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia,” and other works, (London, 1834–52.) Quotation : Sovereign. LANGBAINE, GERARD, born, 1608; an English dramatic historian; died, 1692. Quotation : Comedy. LANGBIEN, JULIUS C. J.; an American writer and lecturer, and author of “An Essay on the American Flag.” Quotation : Flag. LANGDALE, LORD, (HENRY BICKERSTETH,) born at Kirby-Lonsdale, 1783; an English judge; died, 1851. Quo- tation : MOther. LANGE, FRIEDRICH ALBERT ; a German writer, and author of “History of Materialism,” (Boston, 1877 ) Quotation : Co-Operation. LANGFORD, JoHN ALFRED, LL.D., born in Bir- mingham, September 12, 1823; a self-educated English printer, journalist, poet, and miscellaneous writer. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Greeneville and Tusculum College in 1869. Quotations : Perseverance—Poetry—Reporter–Wrong. LANGHORNE, JOHN, born in Westmoreland, 1735; an English poet, translator, and novelist; died, 1779. Quotation : Love. LANGLEY, THOMAS, born about 1508, an English divine and author; died, 1581. Quotation : Home. LANGSDORFF, G. H., DE. Quotation: Distortion. LANGSTAFF, LAUNCELOT; the pseudonym under which Washington Irving, (q.v.) William Irving, (q.v.) and James K. Paulding, (q.v.) published “Salmagundi,” a collection of amusing and Satirical essays. Quotation : Equality. LANJUINAIS, Joseph, born in Bretagne, 1741 ; ºn theologian and writer; died, 1808. Quotation : ange. LANSDOWNE, LORD, (HENRY PETTY, FITz-MAU- rice, born, 1780; an English statesman; died, February 1, 1863. Quotations : Jealousy—Parting—Patience—Rights. LANZI, LUIGI L’ABB£, born, 1732 : an Italian Jesuit. antiquary, philologist, and biographer; died, 1810. Q?totation : Antiquary. LAO-KIUN, or LAO-TSE, born in the province of Honan, 565 B.C.; a celebrated Chinese philosopher and Sage, Whose influence is not yet lost in China ; the time of his death is unknown. Quotations : Credulity — Gods— Harshness— Insensibility— Self-Knowledge — Sovereign — Zephyr. LAPLACE, PIERRE SIMON, born at Beaumont-en- Auge, March 23, 1749; an eminent French astronomer and lmathematician; died, March 6, 1827. Quotations: Analy- Sis–Ignorance—Religion—Science—Time—Truth. LARCOM, LUCY, born, 1826; an American au- thoress. Quotation : Benevolence. LARDNER, NATHANIEL, D.D., born in Hawk- hurst, Kent, 1684; an English theologian and writer; died, 1768. Quotations: Repetitance—Sea. LARGORYSKY, Count ; a Russian writer on political economy. Quotation : Estate. LARIVEY, PIERRE DE, born at Troyes, 1550 ; a French dramatic poet; died, 1612. Quotation : Reputation. LARRABEE, LAWRENCE ; an American writer and contributor to the “Ladies’ Repository.” Quotations: Existence—Spring—Vacation. LARROGUE, MATHIEU DE, born at Lairac, near Agen, 1619; an eminent French Protestant theologian and author; died, 1684. Quotation : Self-Confidence. LASCARIS, ANDREAs JOHANNES, (Rhysiolacews,) born about 1460; a noble Greek Savant, at the court of ; the Eighth of France ; died, 1535. Quotation : Re- Ile1116 Ilt. LATHROP, John, born, 1740; an English divine and author: died, 1816. Quotation : Misery. LATHY, THOMAS P.; an English novelist and dra- matist, (London, 1800–9.) Quotation : Politeness. LATIMER, HUGH, (Bishop of Worcester,) born at Thurgaston, Leicestershire, 1472; chaplain to Anne Bo- leyn, and a celebrated English reformer distinguished for his courage, zeal, and piety; burned at the stake, at Oxford, October 16, 1555. Quotations : Charity — Forgiveness — Persecution—Popery. LATOUR, W. DE ; a French divine and miscella- neous writer. Quotation : Death. LATREILLE, PIERRE ANDRá, (The Prince of En- tomology,) born, 1762; a French entomologist, naturalist, and author; died, 1833. Quotation : Forwardness. LAUD, WILLIAM, D.D., (Archbishop of Canter- bury,) born at Reading, 1573; a celebrated English divine who disgraced himself by his persecution of the Puritans; beheaded, 1645. Quotation. Parent—Starvation. LAUDERDALE, EARL OF, JAMES MAITLAND, born, 1759; an able Scottish Whig statesman; died, 1839. Quotation : Capital. LAVATER, JoHANN CASPAR, born at Zurich, 1741; a celebrated Swiss Protestant theologian and phy- siognomist, and a Worthy and benevolent man ; he was shot by a soldier at the capture of Zurich by Massena, Septem- ber, 1799, and after suffering from the wound for more than a year, he died in 1801. Quotations: Abstinence—Acquaint- ance—Affectation—Agreeableness--Art—Boasting—Books —Calumny—Cavil — Cheating — College — Company—Con- cealment–Confidence – Countenance – Credit—Cruelty— Curiosity–Decision—Delay–Dependence—Egotism—Ene- my – Enjoyment—Evasion – Eye – Face—Fanaticism — Fashion–Faults – Firmness-Forgiveness — Friendship— Generosity—Genius–Gifts—God—Good-Gravity—Great- mess—Hard-Heartedness—Hate—Heart—Hero–Honesty— Humanity—Humility—Impertinence—Indiscretion—Indo- lence—Inheritance—Injustice—Intuition— Jealousy—Jest —Joy–Knavery--Laughter-L9Ve–Magnanimity–Man- ners-Men —Mirth—Modesty—Morality–Obligation—Ob- servation—Obstimacy--Opportunity—Qrder—Passion—Ped- antry—Philosophy—Physiognomy-Plagiarism–Pleasure —Populace—Pretension—Pride–Procrastination-Quack- ery—Reform—Religion—Repose—Secrecy—Sectarianism— Seeing–Silence—Simplicity—Smile–Sneer—Sophistry— Superstition—Talent-Teeth-Thinking-Time-Trust— Truth —Volatility—Want–Weakness—Will—Wisdom — Wish—Words—Worth. - LAVENU, L. S.; a French novelist and miscella- neous writer, and author of “Erlesmere; Or, Contrasts of Character.” Quotation : Corpulency. LAVINGTON, GEORGE, (Bishop of Exeter,) born in Wiltshire, 1683; a learned English divine and author; died, 1762. Quotation : Grace. LAVOISIER, ANTOINE LAURENT, born in Paris, August 26, 1743; a French chemist, philosopher, and author; died by the guillotime, May, 1794. Quotation : Necessity. LAW, EDMUND, D.D., (Bishop of Carlisle, ) the father of Lord Ellenborough, born in Cartmal, Lanca- shire, 1703: an eminent English metaphysician and author; died, 1787. Quotations. Clergy–Devotion—Employment –Goodness–Levity—Life—Minister–Misery—Payment— Prayer—Pride—Pulpit—Sunday-School—Threats—Tillage —Value—Woman. LAW, WILLIAM, born in King's Cliff, Northamp- tonshire, 1686; an English mystic divine and writer; died. 1761. Quotations: Angels—Charity—Gluttony- Horror– Mortification—Mother—Regeneration—Solicitude–Soul. A / O G. A. A. P. Aſ / C A / / /V /O AE X. 1145 LAWRENCE, AMOs, born at Groton, Massachu- setts, 1786 : a distinguished American philanthropist; died, 1852. Quotation : Comirion-Sense. LAWRENCE, EUGENE, born, 1817; an American author. Quotations : Investigation–Jews—Man—Speak- Ilg. LAWRENCE, JAMES, CAPTAIN, born at Burling- ton, New Jersey, 1781 : an American naval officer of dis- tinguished bravery; died, June, 1813. Quotattion . Ship. LAWRENCE, SAINT, (Archbishop of Dublin,) born about 1107; an Irish divine, noted for his piety and miracles; died, November 14, 1180. Quotation : Destitution. LAWRENCE, WILLIAM, F.R.S., born, 1783; an English surgeon and author; died, 1867. Quotation. Spec- tacles. LAWRENCE, WILLIAM BEACH, born in the city of New York, October 23, 1800; an American jurist, states- man, and author; died, March 26, 1881. Quotattion. Alti- Ce LAWRIE, ALExANDER ; a Scotch writer, and author of a “History of Freemasonry,” (London, 1804.), Quotation : Freemasonry. LAWSON, GEORGE, born in West Linton, 1749; a learned Scottish divine and writer; died, 1820. Q?tota- tion. Resurrection. LAWTON, Josh UA R.; an American writer on practical agriculture. Quotations: Farmer–Soil. LAYARD, SIR AUSTEN HENRY, G.C.B., D.C.L., M.P., born in Paris, March 5, 1817; a celebrated English statesman, diplomatist, traveller, Orientalist, antiquary, and author. (Qtotation : Object. LEAKE, WILLIAM MARTIN, born, 1777: an Eng- lish lieutenant-colonel, archaeologist, and traveller; died, 1860. Quotation : Geography. LEAR, HARRIET, L. S.; an English authoress and miscellaneous Writer, (London, 1875.) Qºtot(ltion : Com- Imunion. LEASK, WILLIAM, D.D. : an English divine, and author of soveral religious publications, (London, 1839–55.) Quotation : Eye. - LEBAS, PHILIPPE, born in Paris, 1794 : a French archaeologist, and preceptor to Louis Napoleon. Quota- Zion! : Self-ACCusation. -, LEBRUN, PIERRE, born, 1661; a French theolo- gian and writer; died, 1729. Quotation : Surfeit. LECLERC, JEAN, born at Geneva, 1657; an emi- nent Swiss divine, critic, and author; died, 1736. Quota- tions : Passion. LECOQ, KARL CHRISTIAN ERDMANNEDLER, born at Torgau, 1767; an able German general; died, 1830. Quo- tation. Wealth. LEDSHAM, MRS. E. S. : an American miscella- neous writer. Quotations: Deformity—Duty—Treachery. LEDYARD, JOHN, born at Groton, Connecticut, 1751 : an American traveller, and Celebrated as the Com- panion of Captain Cook: , died at Cairo, Egypt, August, 1788. Quotations: Despotism — Enterprise —Hospitality — Liberty—Ornament—Woman. LEE, ARTHUR, born, 1740 ; an American states- man.: died, 1792. Quotation : Lampoon. LEE, CHARLES A., born about 1819; an American writer and author of “Elements of Geology and Mineralo- ogy.” Quotation : Physiology. LEE, DAY KELLOGG, born about 1820; an Ameri- can novelist and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Capital. LEE, EDWARD, (Archbishop of York,) born, 1482; an English divine, diplomatist, and author; died, 1544. Quotation : Ambition. LEE, ELEANOR PERCY WARE, born near Natchez, Mississippi, 1820; an American poetess and miscellaneous writer; died, 1850. Quotation : Betrothal. LEE, ELIZA BUCKMINSTER, born about 1800; an American authoress. Qrtotation : Silence. LEE, GEORGE, born, 1497; an English divine and author; died, 1565. Qilotſttion : Aid. LEE, GIDEON, born in Massachusetts, about 1788 : an American merchant, Who rose from a poor Shoemaker, and became mayor of New York, and member of Congress: died in Geneva, New York, 1865. Quotations : Improve- ment—LaZineSS—POSsibilities. LEE, HANNAH. F., born at Newburyport, Massa- chusetts, 1780; an American novelist and Imiscellaneous writer; died, 1865. Quotations : Pleasure—Presence. LEE, HARRIET, born, 1756; an English authoress; died, 1851. Quotations : Betrayal—Eminence. LEE, MARGARET : an English novelist and miscel- laneous writer. Quotation : Awkwardness. LEE, MARY ELIZABETH, born, 1813; an American authoress; died, 1849. Quotation : Landscape. LEE, NATHANIEL, born at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 1657; an English dramatist, §es and actor: died. 1691. Quotations. Alteration—Doubt—Suffering—Writing. LEE, ROBERT EDMUND, born at Stratford, West- moreland, Virginia, 1806; a celebrated American general, and the commander-in-chief of the Confederate forces; died at Lexington, October 12, 1870. Quotations: Duty— Frankness—Right—Virtue—Wrong. LEE, WILLIAM, D.D. : an English divine and theo- 19gical writer, and author of “Discourses on the Inspira- tion of the Holy Scriptures,” (London, 1854.) Quotation : Meekness. * LEECH, JOHN, born in London, 1816 : an English artist and Caricaturist; died, 1864. Quotation : Fairies. LEECHMANN, WILLIAM, born in Lanarkshire, 1706: a learned Scottish theologian and author: died, 1785. Quotation : Prayer. LEETON, WALTER, born, 1823; an English mis- cellaneous Writer. Quotation : Lending. LEFRANC, JEAN JACQUES. See POMPIGNAN, J. J. L. LEGARE, HUGH Sw1NTON, born in Charleston, South Carolina, 1796; an eminent American scholar and writer; died, 1843. Quotations : Government—Liberty— Theory. LEGER, SAINT. See SAINT LEGER. LEGGETT, WILLIAM, born in the city of New York, 1802: an American political and miscellaneous wri- ter of considerable reputation; died, April, 1840. Quota- tions : Democracy—Land–Monopoly. - LEGOUVE, GABRIEL MARIE JEAN BAPTISTE, born in Paris, 1764 : a French poet and dramatist ; died, 1812. Quotation : Labor. LEHMUS, J. A. Quotations: Curse–To-Morrow. LEIBNITZ, GoTTFRIED WILHELM, BARON voN, born at Leipsic, July 6, 1646; a German philosopher, histo- rian, mathematician, jurist, theologian, and philologer. He was a scholar of the highest order of intellect, and stood pre-eminent among the moderns as a universal ge- nius; died at Hanover, November 14, 1716. Quotations: Destiny—Dictionary—Knowledge—Present. - LEIGH, SIR EDw ARD, born, 1602; an English theologian, critic, and philosopher; died, 1671. Quota- tions: Christ—Contempt—Pleasure. LEIGH, WILLIAM HENRY, EARL OF, born, 1824; an English liberal peer. Quotation : Politeness. LEIGHTON, ROBERT, (Archbishop of Glasgow,) born in London, 1612; an English divine and writer; died, 1684. Quotations : Change—Conscience—Contention—Con- tradiction — Doubt – Faith — Forgiveness — Gentleness — Grace—Heart—PHope—Humility—Jesuitism–Mind—Prayer —Riches—Sanctification—Sin–Tongue—Wisdom. LEITCH, NATHANIEL ; an English writer on social and political economy, (London, 1840.) Qwtotations: Gold —Immorality. LELAND, JOHN, born in London, 1506; an Eng- lish scholar, antiquary, and author , died, 1552. Quota- tion : Eternity. LELAND, JOHN, born in Lancashire, 1691 ; an English dissenting minister, and author; died, 1766. Quo- tations : Annihilation—Superstition. LELAND, JOHN, born at Grafton, Massachusetts, 1754: an American Paptist divine and writer; died, 1841. Quotation : Righteousness. - LELAND, T. C. : an American sceptic and advo- cate of religious and social reform. Q?totation : Free- thinking. LELAND, THOMAs, D.D., born in Dublin, 1722; an Irish classical scholar. historian, and translator ; died, 1785. Quotation : Quarrels. LELY, SIR PETER, (Van der Faes,) born at Soest, Westphalia, 1617; a celebrated Dutch portrait painter; died in London, 1680. Quotation. Pictures. LEMESLE, CHARLEs ; a French miscellaneous writer and littérateur. Quotation : Woman. LEMIERRE, ANTOINE MARIN, born in Paris, 1723; a French dramatist; died, 1793. Quotation: Allegory. LEMOINE, ETIENNE, born at Caen, 1624; a French Protestant divine and Orientalist; died, 1689. Quotation : Courtier. LEMOINE, PIERRE, (Le Père,) born at Chaumont, Bassigny, 1602; a French poet and Jesuit; died, 1671. Quo- tation Universe. LEMON, MARK, born in London, November 30, 1809; an English journalist, dramatist, and humorist; died, May, 1870. Quotations: Caricature—Influence—Ocean. LENFANT, JACQUES, born at Bazoche, 1661; a Trench Protestant minister, historian, and controversial- ist; died, 1728. Quotation : Doubt. LENTHALL, WILLIAM, born in Oxfordshire, 1591; an English statesman and jurist ; died, 1682. Quota- tion : Neighbor. LENTULUS, PUBLIUS CoRNELIUs, (Sura :) a dis- tinguished Roman consul; put to death by the Order of Cicero. 62 B.C. Quotation : Suicide. 114.6 J) A Y’.S. C. O Z Z A C O AV. LEO III, (FLAVIUS ISAURICUS,) born in Isauria, of obscure parents, 680; one of the most able emperors of the East; died, 741. Quotation : Fortune. LEO X., POPE, (CARDINAL GIov ANNI DE MEDICI,) born at Florence, 1475; a celebrated patron of literature and the fine arts; died, 1521. Quotations: Miracle—Slavery. LEO XII, POPE, (CARDINAL ANNIBALE DELLA Genga,) born near Spoleto, 1760; an able divine, and a pru- dent statesman; died, February, 1829. Quotations : Bible —Indifference—Toleration. LEO XIII, Pope, (VINCENzo GIOACCHINO PECCI,) born at Carpineto, Italy, March 2, 1810, he was elected Pope, February 20, 1878, and one of his first acts was the restora- tion of the hierarchy in Scotland. Quotation 3 : Oppression — Reformation—Resignation—Truth. . LEO, SAINT, lived in the third century ; one of the early Roman martyrs. Quotattion : Gods. LEO DE SAINT JOHN, born, 1600; a French Car- melite monk, and miscellaneous writer; died, 1671. Quto- tottion, Deceit. LEON, PONCE DE. See PONCE DE LEON. LEONICENUS, OMNIBONUs, born at Lonigo, 1428; an eminent Italian grammarian and philologist; died, 1500. Quotation : Grammar. LEONIDAS I, born about 540 B.C.; a heroic king of Sparta, renowned for his invincible courage, patriotic devotion, and noble and tragical end ; killed at Thermo- pylae, 480 B.C. Quotation : Supper. LEOPOLD II, Emperor of Germany, born, Ma 5, 1747; a wise and liberal monarch ; died, March 1, 1792. Q?totation : Jacobin. LEPELLETIER DE SAINT-FARGEAU, LOUIs Michel, born in Paris, 1760; a French revolutionist; assas- sinated by Paris, a royalist, January, 1793. Quotation : People. LEPIDUS, MARCUs AEMELIUS, “The Triumvir ;” a Roman praetor under Caesar; died, 13 B.C. Quotation : Frailty. LEROUX, PIERRE, born, 1798; a French philoso- pher and economist ; died, April 12, 1871. Quotation : In- Vective. LESLEY, John, (Bishop of Ross,) born, 1527; a Scottish Catholic divine, noted for his fidelity to Mary, Qū; of Scots; died, 1596. Quotations: Patience —Vows — Wrong. LESLIE, CHARLEs, born in Ireland, 1650 : an Irish polemical writer on politics and religion ; died, 1722. Quto- tattion. Revelation. LESLIE, ELIZA, born in Philadelphia, 1787 : a opular American writer; died, 1857. Quotations: Fool— leasure—Question. LESLIE, JOHN, (Bishop of Raphoe and Clogher,) born in Scotland, 1570: a celebrated royalist divine, who defended his castle against Oliver Cromwell, and was the last in Ireland who submitted to the victor; died, 1671. Quotation : Scandal. LESSEY, THOMAS ; an English Methodist divine and writer. Quotation : Reputation. LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM, “The father of the New Era of German Literature,” born at Kamentz, Upper Lusatia, 1729; an eminent German philosopher, lit- terateur, and poet. His “Letters on Literature,” formed a new epoch in German literature; died at Brunswick, 1781. Quotations: Accident—Advice —- Beggar — Devil — Gifts—Goods—Gratitude— Happiness — Heart — Heaven— Indifference—Joy--Laughter—Moment--Ornament—Paint- ing— Prayer—Preparation-Religion—Self–Sense—Sim- plicity—Story—Suspicion—Truth —Vagrant —Virtue—Wo- II].8 Il. LESSIUS, LEONARD, born at Brechtan, Brabant, 1554; a. Flemish Jesuit, lecturer, and author; died, 1623. Quotation : Sobriety. LESTER, CHARLES EDWARDs, born at New Lon- don, Connecticut, 1815; an American diplomatist and mis- cellaneous writer. Quotations : Creed—Equality—Events –Fiction—Labor—Liberty—Life — Loneliness—Missionary —Odd-Fellow—Puritanism—Solitude. L'ESTRANGE, SIR. R. See ESTRANGE, SIR POGER L'. Quotation : Fox. LETI, GREGORIO, born at Milan, 1630; an Italian historical writer; died, 1701. Quotations: Right—War. LETRONNE, JEAN ANTOINE, born in Paris, 1787; a French antiquary and critic; died, 1848. Quotation : Zodiac. LETTSOM, JoHN CoAKLEY, born, 1744: an Eng- lish physician and naturalist; died, 1815. Quotations: Abstinence—Approval. LEUCIPPUS, lived about 450 B C.; a famous Greek philosopher. Quotation : Rogue. LEUWENHOEK, ANTOON, VAN, born in Delft, º: an eminent Dutch naturalist; died, 1723. Qrtotation : AN3, tº 11°C. LEVIN, LEwis C., born in South Carolina, No- vember 10, 1808; an American politician and orator; died, March 14, 1860. Quotations: Jesuitism—Religion. LEVER, CHARLES JAMES, M.D., born in Dublin, 1809; a popular Irish novelist; died, June 1, 1872. Quota- tions : Ability—Baseness—Condition—Decay. LEVERETT, SIR JoBN, born, 1616; an English flººr Of the Colony of Massachusetts. He was made a aronet by Charles the Second; died,. 1679. Quotation: Amendment. LEVERT, or LE VERT, OCTAvTE WALTON, born near Augusta, Georgia, 1820; an American authoress. Quo- tations: Jest—Maxims. LEVI, LEONE, born, 1821 ; an English statistician and author. Quotation : Cheapness. LEVI-BEN-GHERSHOM, born, 1290; a Spanish Jewish rabbi and author; died, 1370. Quotation : Woman. Lºha, RABBI. See ELIAZAR. Quotation: Hu- In 111ty. LEVIS, PIERRE MARC GASTON, DUC DE, born, 1755; an American statesman and littérateur ; died, 1830. Quotations. Compensation-Honesty—Human Nature— Idleness—King—Kisses—Laziness—Pleasure—Politeness. LEWES, GEORGE HENRY, husband of “George Eliot,” born in London, April 18, 1817; a popular English author and dramatist ; died, November 30, 1878. Quotation : EmbarraSSment. LEWES, MARION E. See ELIOT, GEORGE. LEWIS, DIO : an American physician and writer, (Boston, 1861–74.) Quotation : Debility. LEWIS, ESTELLE ANNA ROBINSON, (Stella,) born at Baltimore, 1834; an American novelist and dramatist ; died, November 23, 1880. Quotation : House. LEWIS, SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL, BART., born in London, October 21, 1806; a distinguished English states- man and author; died, April 13, 1863. Quotations : Ill — |Unwillingness. LEWIS, JoHN, born in Bristol, 1675 ; an English theologian and antiquary ; died, 1746. Quotations. Advan- tage—Horticulture. LEWIS, MATTHEw GREGORY, M.P., better known. as “Monk Lewis,” born in London, 1775: an English nove- list and dramatist; died at Sea, 1818. Quotation: Rain. LEWIS, WILLIAM, born, 1509 : an English divine and author; died, 1571. Quotation : Spirit. LEWIS, WILLIAM HENRY, born, 1803; an Ameri- can divine and author. Quotation : Idleness. LICHTWER, MAGNUs GOTTFRIED, born at Wur- zen, Saxony, 1719; a German fabulist, poet, and writer: died, 1782. Quotations: Debt—Laconics–Plant—Zeal. LIDDON, HENRY PARRY, D.D., D C.L., (Canon of Saint Paul's, 1870:) an English divine, and an eloquent preacher. Quotations : Adoration—Belief—Christ—Unbe- lief. LIDDON, JOHN : an English journalist and mis- cellaneous writer. Quotation : Sublimity. LIEBER, FRANCIS, LL.D., born in Berlin, March 18, 1800, emigrated to the United States, 1827; a German historian, political economist, and author; died, Qctober 2, 1872. Quotations: Harmony—Opportunity—Perfection. LIEBIG, JUSTUs voN, BARON, born at Darmstadt, Germany, May 12, 1803: a German philosopher and chemist; died, April 18, 1873. Quotations : Chemistry—Truth. LIGHTBODY, John, born, 1542; an English scien- tific writer, (London, 1694–95.) Quotation : Light.” LIGHTFOOT, JoHN, born in Staffordshire, 1602; an English divine and writer; died, 1675. Quotation: Re- joicing. - - - LIGNAC, JOSEPH ADRIEN LE LARGE, DE, born at Poitiers, 1710; a French abbé, oratorian, theologian, natu- ralist, and author; died, 1762. Quotation : Mountain. LIGOURI, ALFONSO MARIA DA, born at Naples, 1696; an Italian priest and casuist; died, 1787. Quotations: Prudence—Quality. LILIENTHAL, THEODORE CHRISTIAN, born, 1717; 8, ºnan theologian and writer; died, 1782. Quotation : Study. LILLIE, MRS. JOHN ; an American miscellaneous writer. Quotation: Feeling. - LILLO, GEORGE, born in London, 1693; an Eng- lish jeweller and dramatist, and author of the celebrated drama, “George Barnwell:” died, 1739. Quotations: Birth —Death—Fiend—Retrospection—Truth. LILLY, WILLIAM, born at Oldham, Hampshire, 1468; a distinguished English Schoolmaster, philologist, and author; died, 1523. Quotations : Grammar—Sorrow. LILLY, WILLIAM, born in Leicestershire, 1602; a famous English astrologer; died, 1681. Quotations : Am- bition—Danger. A / O G. A. A P Aſ / C A / / /V ZD E X. 1147 LIMAYRAC, PAULIN, born at Caussade, Febru- ary 26, 1817; a French littérateur and editor of “La Patrie,” § ºily paper of Paris; died, April 15, 1865. Quotation : II’l. LIMBORCH, PHILIPPUs, v AN, born in Amster- dam, June 19, 1633: a learned Dutch theologian and author ; died, 1712. Quotations: Contentment--Fortitude--Modesty —Repentanče–Sobriety—Temperance. . LINACER, or LINACRE, THOMAS, born at Can- terbury, 1460; an eminent English physician and Scholar; died, 1524. Quotations: Date–Daughter. LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, born in Hardin county, Kentucky, February 12, 1809; the sixteenth President of the United States. His ancestors were of English descent. After a life of many vicissitudes, he was elected to Con- gress in 1834, and was twice elected to the highest office in the gift of the nation; and though torn from it in the mo- ment of triumph, his name will remain one of the greatest in American history, as the liberator of the colored race; he was shot by Wilkes Booth, April 14, 1865, and expired on the morning of the fifteenth. uotation.S. Constitution— R. —Labor—Law— Office — Prayer — Secession—Storm— O-Day. LIND, JENNY, (MADAME GOLDSCHMIDT,) born in Stockholm, October 21, 1821; a celebrated Swedish vocalist and philanthropist, whose generous disposition has been instrumental in adding many thousands of dollars to the charitable institutions of every, country which she has visited. Quotations: Charity—Singing. LINDLEY, GEORGE, born about 1756; an English horticulturist and writer, (London, 1796. ) Quotation : Garden. LINDSAY, SIR DAVID, born, 1495; a Scottish oet and miscellaneous writer; died, 1567. Quotation : 8, WIl. LINDSLEY, PHILIP, D.D., born at Morristown, New Jersey, 1786; an American divine and Scholar; died, 1855. Quotation : Innocence. LINEN, JAMES ; an American poet and miscella- neous writer, (New York and San Francisco, 1866.) Quo- tations: Blasphemy—Creed–Doubt — Dreams—Heathén— Ignorance—Infirmity—Koran—Neglect—Opinion—Oppres. Sfon—Pedigree—Polytheism—Puritanism—Purity—Quack- ery—Rascality—Rebellion--Relations-—Revelation--Science Sensation—Sermon—Sleep—Soul—Steadfastness--Strength –Sun–Sycophant –'ſ radition—Treason—Truth–Tyranny —Virtue—Vulgarity—Weeping. LINNAEUS, CARL, born at Rashult, in Smaland, May 24, 1707; a celebrated Swedish botanist and naturalist; died, January, 1778. Quotations: Moss–Nature—Plant. LINQUET, SIMON NICOLAS HENRI, born in the city of Rheims, 1736; an eloquent French advocate, littéra- teur, and political writer; executed by the tyrant Robes- pierre, 1794. Quotation : Heligion. LINTON, ELIZA LINN, born, 1822; an ºng. 8,UI- thoress, and miscellaneous Writer. Quotations. Longevity —Sublimity. * LINUS, SAINT, (Bishop of Rome,) born in Volterra, Tuscany; the immediate successor of Saint Peter; suffered martyrdom, 78 A.D. Quotations: Omnipresence—Temple. LINWOOD, WILLIAM, (Bishop of Saint David's,) born, 1372; a Welch divine and writer; died, 1446. Quota- £3072 : Blasphemy. LIN WOOD, WILLIAM, born, 1817; an English di- vine and author. Quotation. Imbecility. LIONTINI, GORGIA, or G.ORGIAS OF LEONTINI, born at Leontini, Sicily, and was contemporary with Soc. rates; a celebrated orator and Sophist; died at the age of one hundred years. Quotattion : Eating. LIPPARD, GEORGE, born in Chester county, Penn- sylvania, 1822; an American author; died, 1854. Quota- tions : Brotherhood–Congord-Covenant-Fraternity—In- tº it --Labor—Land—Life—Machinery--Religion—Seduc- On—Spy. LIPPINCOTT, SARAH JANE. See GRACE GREEN- wood. Quotation : Home. LIPSIUS, JUSTUS, born at Isque, between Brus- Sels and Louvain, 1547; a Flemish scholar, critic, and phi- lologist ; died, 1606. Quotation : Fallibility. LISLE, THOMAS DE, (Bishop of Ely,) born, 1300; an English divine; died, 1361. Quotation: Knowledge. LISTER, THOMAS HENRY, born, 1800; an English author; died, 1842. Quotation : Giant. LISTON, JOHN, born in London, 1776; a popular English comedian ; died, 1846. Quotation. Drama. LITHGOW, WILLIAM, born, 1570 ; an English tra- Weller and writer; died, 1640. Quotation : Fondness. LITTLETON, EDWARD, LL.D., born, 1662 : an English divine and poet; died, 1734. Quotation : Effect. LITTLETON, THOMAs, born in Devonshire, 1420 ; a celebrated English jurist, and law writer; died, 1481. Yuotations : Law—Reason—Right—Uncertainty—Vision— ills—Wrong. LIVERPOOL, EARL OF, (ROBERT BANKS JENKIN- son,) born, 1770; a conservative British statesman ; died, December, 1828. Quotation : Youth. LIVINGSTON, EDwARD, born at Clermont, New York, 1764; an American jurist and statesman ; died at Rhinebeck, New York, May, 1836. Quotations: Candidate —Judges—Law. LIVINGSTON, JOHN, born, 1603; a Scotch Pres- byterian divine and Writer; died, 1672. Quotations: Praise —Corpulency. LIVINGSTON, ROBERT R., (Chancellor,) born in New York, 1746; an American statesman ; died, February, 1813. Quotation: Federalism. LIVINGSTONE, DAVID, born, 1817; an English traveller, missionary, and African explorer; died at Ilala, beyond Lake Bemba, Africa, May 4, 1873. Quotations: Expiation—Prayer—Travel—Work—Writing. LIVY, TITUS, born at Patavium, (Padua,) 59 B.C. : a celebrated Roman historian ; died at Padua, 17 A.I). Quotations : Adversity—Alarm—Appearances–Apprehen- Sion—Army—Arrogance—Barbarism---Candidate—Circum- stances—Counsel—Courtier—Custom—Deceit.--Demagogue Despair—Duplicity—Envy— Evil—Taction—Fame—Fate— Faults—Favor—Fear—Fortune —Friendship—Government —Gratitude—Guilt—Haste —Honor—Hypocrisy—Interest— Law—Laziness—Liberty—Luxury — Management—Merit— Moderation--Multitude—Necessity--Night--Past--Populace —Position—Prosperity — Rabble – Rashness — Religion — Renegade – Reputation — Resolution — Reward — Ruins— Safety—Scheming—Sedition — Shame — Sobriety—Spirit— State—Suffering–Toil—Traitor—Treachery—Trifie—Truth —Wickedness—Wit—Wound. LLANDAFF, BISHOP OF. See CoPLESTON, ED- ward. Quotation : Conscience. LLEFOED ; a Welch poet and miscellaneous wri- ter. Quotations: Conduct—Seclusion. LLOYD, CHARLEs, son of Charles Lloyd, the bank- er, born in Birmingham ; an English poet; died, 1839. Quo- tations : Falsehood—Jest—Review. LLYGLOW ; a Welch poet and prose writer. Quotation: Eulogy, LOARING, H. J., born about 1830 ; an English Pººl; and author, (London, 1870.) Quotations: Belle- ettres—Carol. LOBB, THEOPHILUS, born, 1678; an English phy- Sician and medical author; died, 1763. Quotation : Babe. LOBINEAU, GUI ALEXIS, born at Rennes, 1666 ; a learned French Benedictine monk; died, 1727. Quota- tion : Dispute. - LOCKE, DAVID Ross, (Petroleum V. Nasby,) born at Vestal, Broome County, New York, 1833; an American rinter, journalist, and humorous writer. Quotations: #jołºś. LOCKE, JANE ERMINA STOCKWEATHER, born about 1812; an American poetess and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Blessing. LOCKE, John, born at Wrington, Somersetshire, August 29, 1632; an English philosopher, theologian, and author. He was one of the most illustrious of men, not less distinguished for his virtues and piety than for his extraordinary intellectual endowments, which he used for the improvement of mankind; died, October 28, 1704. Quotations: Abridgment - Affectation — Angels– Anger —Animals— Argument - Authority — Axiom — Bargain — Beauty—Boys—Brute-Chiding—-Comparison—Constancy— Contemplation—Contemporary–Controyersy—Cozening— Craft—Credit—Crime–Cunning—Curiosity-Damage—De- bate—Decision — Degeneration — Deity—I)elay–Democ. racy—Desire—Despair—I)etermination — Discipiine—Dis- . play—Dissolution–Diversion – Doctrine-Doom-Dreams —Duration—Eagerness—Early-Rising—Eating—Ecstasy— Education—Effect—Enthusiasm—Epistle—Error—Eternity —Evidence—Evil — Examination — Experience—Face —Fa- cility—Faculties - Falsehood — Fancy—Fashion -Fellow: ship—Fortitude—Freedom-Fright—Games—Garden-God —Good—Good-Breeding —GOvernment—Grammar—Guard — Habit — Happiness — Hardihood — Harmony — Health — Heedlessness—Home—Honesty — Hope – Idea—Identity— Idleness— Impression — Indignation — Infancy— Infinity— Inheritance—Intuition — Joy — Judgment — Rnowledge— #;";"º"Kºśº Mankind–Mathematics–Maxims —Memory—Metaphor— Mind–Miracle—Moment—Monster—Morality—Necessity— Observation—Organization—Partiality—Perception—Phy- sig=Physiognomy-Politics—Power-Precision-Prejudice —Principles—Proof–Prospect—Prudence—Question-Quo- tation—Race—Reason–Rebuke—Reflection-Revelation– Reverie—Sagacity-–Satisfaction—Self--Self-Love—-Severity —Simile--Smelling—Space—Stealing—Stubbornness—Sub- jection—Theology--Toleration-Treasure—Trees—Trial— Trifle —Understanding — Uneasiness – Ungodliness—Uni- verse—Virtue—Volition—Wit—World—Wrangling. LOCKER, ARTHUR, born in Greenwich Hospital, July 2, 1828; an English novelist, magazine writer, and lit- téråteur. Quotation : Kišses. LOCKER, EDwARD HAWKE, born in Kent, 1777 ; an English writer and editor; died, 1849. Quotation : Con- versation. LOCKHART, L. W. M. Quotation: Misanthropy. 1 148 JJ A V 'S CO /, / A C O AV. LOCKMAN, JoHN, born in England, 1698; an English miscellaneous writer and translator; died, 1771. Quotations: Silence—Tongue. LOCKYER, Joseph NoFMAN, F. R. S., born at Rugby, May 17, 1836; an English astronomer and writer. Quotations: Patience—Reputation—Respectability. LODI, CADA-MOSTA MARCO DA, born, 1527; an Italian poet; died about 1583. Quotation: Charity. LODOLI, CARLO, CONTIDE, born, 1690; an Italian Franciscan monk, archaeologist, and author ; died, 1761. Quotations: Beast—Fool. LOFFT, CAPEL, born in London, 1751; an English lawyer, political and miscellaneous writer; died in France, 1824. Q7zotations : Corporation—Liberty. LOGAN, (TAH-GAH-JUTE,) born, 1725; a celebrated Indian chief of the tribe of the Cayugas; killed in battle, 1780. Quotattion : Peace. LOGAN, JAMES, born in Lurgan, Ireland, 1674; a colonial statesman and author, who accompanied William Penn to America, as his secretary; died near Philadelphia, 1751. Q7zotations: Autumn—Singularity—Youth. LOGAN, JOHN, born at Soutra, 1748; a Scottish divine and poet; died, 1788. Quotation : Religion. LOGAN, GEORGE, a grandson of James Logan, born near Philadelphia, 1753; an American physician, diplo- matist. and philanthropist; died, 1821. Quotation : Life. LOKMAN, IBN AAD ; an ancient black Abyssinian slave, belonging to an Israelite in time of King David, who was celebrated for his wisdom. Quotations: Truth — WOrdS. LOMONOSOFF, or LOMONOSSOV, MIKHAIL Wassiliewitch, born at Kolmogory, Archangel, 1711; a Russian poet and littérateur; died, 1765. R&OłóttiO77S : Poetry—Sovereign. LONG, GEORGE, M.A., born at Poulton, Lanca- shire, 1800; an English classical Scholar and journalist. Quotation : Greatness—Lawyer. LONG, THQMAs, born in Exeter, 1621; an English clergyman and writer; died. 1700. Quotation : Firesſic. LONGDEN, REv. J. : an English divine and wri- ter. Quotation : Pulpit. LONGEPIERRE, HILAIRE BERNARD DE REQUE- leyne Baron, born in Dijon, 1658; a French poet and dra- matist ; died, 1721. Quotation : Rnpture. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSworth, born in Portland, Maine, February 27, 1807; an eminent American poet, scholar, and author ; and One of the most popular of American, writers; died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 24, 1882. Quotations: Ambition—Author—Ballad— Care —Cemetery — Child — Coquetry — Critic — Dancing — Death — Disappointment — Enemy – Error — Eye—Faith— Fame—Farewell — Feeling — Fountain — Future—Genius– Greatness--Grief—Heart–Hope—L9ve--Manners--Memory —Monastery-Morality—Mother—Motion—Night—Old Age —Paradise–Passion-Principles—Providence—Rain-Rest- lessness—Reverie—Ruins—Sabbath—Scholar–Simplicity— Sin—Singing — Sleep — Sorrow – Sound — Spring—Study— Style—Success—Sunset — Sunday —Thought —Time—Twi- light—Voice—World. LONGINUS, DIONYSIUS CASSIUs, born, 213 ; an eminent Greek. Critic and philosopher; died, 273. Quotat- tions: Ancients—Contempt—Genius — Greatness—Liberty —Nature—Pleasure—Slavery—Sublimity—Thought. LONGUS, lived in the fourth century ; a Greek romance writer. Quotation : Chastity. LONGWORTH, NICHOLAs, born at Newark, New Jersey, 1782; an American horticulturist; died, 1863. Quo- tation : FaithfulneSS. I.OOMIS, ELIAS, LL.D., born in Tolland county, Connecticut, 1811; an American natural philosopher, astro- nomer, physician, and author. Quotations : Zoology. LOOMIS, ELISHA, born in Yates county, New York, 1798: a printer, teacher, and one of the first Imissiona- ries to the Sandwich Islands; died at Rushville, New York, 1838. Quotations : Geology—Superstition—Words. LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO, FELIX, born in Ma- drid, November 25, 1562; a celebrated Spanish poet and dramatist ; died, 1635, Quotations : Immortality—Manners —Mind–Mirth—Viciousness—WOOds. LORD, NATHAN, D.D., born at Berwick, Maine, 1792; an American Congregational divine and writer; died, 1870. Quotations: Church—Sermon. LORENS, JACQUES DU, born, 1583 : a French sa- tirical writer: died, 1648. Quotation : Slander. LORING, DR. F. D.; an American physician. Quotation : Insanity. LORING, JAMES SPEAR, born at Boston, Massa- chusetts, 1799: an American author and publisher. Quota- tion : Self-Examination. LORRAINE. See STANISLAUS. age—Understanding. LOSSING, BENSON JoHN, born at Beekman, Dutch- ess county, New York, February 12, 1813: an American his- torian and engraver. Quotation : Odd-Fellow. e Quotations : Cour- LOTHARIUS, Emperor of Rome, succeeded his father, Ludovicus Pius, 841; died, 856. Quotation : Sweet- IlêSS. LOUDON, JOHN CLAUDIUS, born at Cambuslang, 1783; an eminent Scottish writer on agriculture and horti- culture; died, 1843. Quotations: Oak–Plant—Trees. LOUGHBOROUGH, LoRD, (ALEXANDER WED- derburn,) and Earl of Rosslyn, born in East Lothian, 1733; an eminent Scottish jurist and politician; died, 1805. Quo- tattion : Press. LOUIS I, (THE PIOUs,) Emperor of the West, and King of France, born at Casseneuil, 778; a pious, but weak monarch ; died, 840. Quotation : Honesty. LOUIS II, King of France, (LE BAEGUE,) son of Charles the Bald, born,846; died, 879. Quotation : Soldier. LOUIS IV, (D’OUTRE-MER,) King of France, born, 920; died, 954. Quotations : Counsel–Idleness. LOUIS IX, (Saint Louis,) King of France, born, 1215; a pious prince, and in all respects a model for men. He Was canonized in 1297 ; died near Carthage, August, 1270. Quotation : Burial—Expense. LOUIS XI, King of France, born, 1423 ; his reign was remarkable for many important events, among others the establishment of post-offices throughout France; died, 3. Quotations: Death—Pride–Rebellion—Remorse. LOUIS XII, King of France, (The Father of the People,) born at Blois, 1462; a wise and generous monarch ; died, January 1, 1515. Quotations: Prodigality—Revenge —Taxation. LOUIS, XIV, (THE GRAND,) King of France, born, September 16, 1638; a wise prince whose reign was the most brilliant in the literary history of France; died, Septem- ber, 1715. Quotation : Advancement—Gunpowder—Law— Perfulne—Reward–Sermon—State. LOUIS XV, King of France, born at Fontaine- bleau, February 15, 1710: a weak and licentious man, who was a disgrace to the throne of France; died, 1765. Quo- tation : Prince. LOUIS XVI, King of France, born at Versailles, August 23, 1754; a noble man who possessed too many vir- tues for a monarch ; executed, January 21, 1793. Quota- tions : Flattery—Happiness. LOUIS XVII, King of France, the second son of #. preceding, born, 1785; died in prison, 1795. Quotation : Sil Ilg. LOUIS XVIII, King of France, brother of Louis the Sixteenth, born at Versailles, 1755; a monarch of man good qualities which were more brilliant than solid; died, September, 1824. Quotation : Punctuality. LOUIS, PHILIPPE, DUKE OF ORLEANs, King of France, (The Citizen King,) born in Paris, October 6, 1773; a wise and political monarch ; died in England, August, 1850. Quotations: Servant—Valet. LOUIS OF BAVARIA, born, 1183 : he was better known as Louis the First, Duke of Bavaria ; died, 1231. Quotation : Property. LOUTREL, ALFRED M., born in New York, 1820; an American educator. Quotation : Quarrels. LOVE, CHRISTOPHER, born in Cardiff, Wales, 1618; a Presbyterian theologian, who entered into a conspiracy to restore Charles the Second ; executed, August, 1651. Quotations: Comfort —Prayer — Quakerism — Self-Adora- tion—Talking—Whim. LOVEJOY, Owen, born at Albion, Kennebec county, Maine, 1811; an American Congregational minister, politician, and writer; died in Brooklyn, March, 1864. Quotations: Constitution—Robbery—Slavery. LOVER, SAMUEL, born in Dublin, 1797; an Irish painter, poet, dramatist, musician, and novelist; died, July 6 1868. Quotations: Circumstances—Ring. LOW, ABIEL AUGUSTUS, born at Salem, Massa- chusetts, 1811 : New York merchant, President of Chambe of Commerce. Quotation : Telegraph. - LOW, C. G.; an American miscellaneous writer. Quotations: Avarice—Miser. LOW, John, (Bishop of Saint Asaph's,) born, 1387; an English divine and writer; died, 1467. Quotation : Ad- vice. a' LOWE, John, born about 1730; an English divine and writer, (London, 1795.) Quotation : Dutifulness. LOWE, LIEUT.-GENERAL, SIR HUDSON, K.C.B., G.C.M. &. born in Galway, Ireland, July 28, 1763; a British general ; died, July 10, 1844. Quotation : Advantage. LOWE, ROBERT, born at Bingham, Nottingham- shire, 1811; an English statesman. Quotation : Celerity. LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL, born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 22, 1819; a distinguished American poet, critic, scholar, and diplomatist. Quotations: Base- ness--Charity—Death—Fashion--Fortune--Good-–Humility —Intellect--Intolerance--Life—Light—-Love—Piety—-Poetry —Praise—Pride—Sympathy—Truth. LOWELL, JoHN, born at Newburyport, Massa- chusetts, October, 1769; an American lawyer and political writer; died in Boston, 1840. Quotation : Incredulity. A / o G R A P H / CA / / W D F x. 1149 LOWELL, MARIA E. WHITE, born, 1821 ; an American poetess and translator; died, 1853. Quotation : Forwardness. LOWER, MARKANTHONY, born, 1813; an English littérateur; died, March 22, 1876. Quotation : Fortune- Telling. LOWNDES, WILLIAM THOMAS, born about 1778 ; an English bibliographer; died, 1843. Quotation : Failings. LOWTH, ROBERT, D.D., (Bishop of Saint David's,) born at Winchester, 1710; an English divine, and an eminent writer; died, 1787. Quotations: Ballad–Justice–Rule. , LOYOLA, IGNATIUS DE, SAINT, (DON INIGO LOPEZ de Recalde,) born at Loyola Castle, in Biscay, 1491 : a cele- brated Spanish reformer, and the founder of the order of Jesuits. " He was canonized as a Saint by the pope, 1622; died, 1566. Quotations: Discipline — Jesuit—Jew—Obedi- ence—Zeal. LUBBOCK, SIR John, BART., M.P., born in Lon- don, April 30, 1834; an English banker, Savant, naturalist, and entomologist. Quotation. Betting. LUC, JEAN ANDRF, DE. See DELUC, JEAN ANDRE. Quotation : Patience. LUCANUS, MARCUs ANNAEUs, born at Cordova, Spain, 38 A.D.; a celebrated Latin epic poet: died, 65 A.D. Quotations: Anarchy–Ancestry—Bard–Bravery — Com- ſºlº. uck—Multitude–Opposition—Poetry—Power—Procrasti- nation—Prosperity – Rage — Renown — Rumor —Unfortu- nateneSS-Virtue—Will. LUCAS, RICHARD, D.D., (Prebendary of Westmin- ster,) born in Radnorshire, 1648; a learned Welch divine ; died, 1715. Quotations : Happiness — Holiness — Life — Prayer—Reason—Religion—Retirement—Thanks—Zeal. LUCIAN, born at Samosata, on the Euphrates, 120 A.D.; one of the most witty and original of the Greek writers. Quotations : Christianity—Wickedness. LUCILLIUS, CAIUS, born at Suessa, 149 B.C.; a Latin poet; died, 103 B.C. Quotation, . Action. LUCITAMES, Z. Quotation: Woman. LUCRETIUS, TITUS CARUS, , born in Italy, 95 B.C.; a celebrated Latin poet; died, 51 B.C. Quotations : Ambition—Bees — Care — Contentment — Couräge—Covet- ousness—Dreams — Fear — Infancy – Intelligence — Life— Masquerade—Matter—Nation–Nothing—Opinion—Safety —Sense—Sleep—Thrift—Thunder—To-Morrow. LUCULLUS, LUCIUS LICINIUS, born, 110 B.C.; a celebrated Roman general; died, 57 B.C. Quotation : Ad- versity. LUCY, ARCHIBAL.D. Quotation : Knighthood. LUDILOW, EDMUND, born in Wiltshire, 1620; an able English republican general; died, 1693. Quotation : Executive. LUDOVICUS PIUS, Emperor of Rome, born about 770; succeeded his father Charles the Great, 814; died, 841. Quotation : Time. LUDOVICUS II, Emperor of Rome, succeeded his father, Lotharius, 856; died, 876. Quotattion : Success. LUDOVICUS, or LUDOVICI, CARL GUNTHER de, born at Leipsic, 1707; a learned German professor and author; died, 1778. Quotation : Inscription. LUGO, FRANCISCO DA, born, 1580: a Spanish Je- suit and theologian ; died, 1652. Quotation : Pastor. LUIGI, DA PORTO, born at Venice, 1489; an Ital- ian writer; author of the novel, “La Gulietta,” from which Shakspeare formed the plot and incidents of his drama, “Romeo and Juliet;” died at Venice, 1529. Quota- tions : Death—Dying. LUIS I, DON, King of Portugal, born, 1838; a man of a noble and cultured mind. He married, in 1862, Maria, Pia, a daughter of Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy. Quo- tations: Drama—Translation. LUKENS, ESTHER ANN ; an American miscella- neous writer. Quotation : Interest. LULLE, RAYMOND, . born at Parma, Majorca, 1235: an Italian philosopher and author; died, 1315. Quo. lation. : Recommendation. - LUMLEY, JOANNA, LADY, born, 1564; an English authoress; died, 1620. Quotation : Amiability. LUMLEY, ROBERT ; an American divine. Quota. tion, ... Youth. IUN, CHIN ; a Chinese philosopher, and a disciple of Confucius. Quotation : Peace. LUNEL, FOI.QUET DE, born, 1244; a French trou- badour. Q2totations : Consciousness—Inn—Eilling. LUNT, GEORGE, born at Newburyport, Massachu- setts, 1807; an American lawyer, author, and journalist. Quotation : Benevolence. LUSHER, RICHARD, born, 1532 : an English scho- lar ; died about 1597. wotation : Party. LUSHINGTON, THOMAs, (Prebendary of Salis- bury,) born, 1590; an English divine and author; died, 1661. Quotation : Meekness. LUSSAN, MARGUERITE DE, born in Paris, 1682 ; a French novelist; died in England, 1758. Quotations: Patience—Reality—Yawning. LUTHARDT, CHRISTIAN ERNST, D.D.; a German divine and author. Quotation : Death. LUTHER, MARTIN, born at Eisleben, in Saxony, November 10. 1483; an eminent German divine, and the parent of the Protestant religion; died at Eisleben, Feb- ruary 18, 1546. , Quotations: Action—Alone—Birds—Brother —Calling—Celibacy — Covetousness — Creation—Creator— Creed-Crgwºn-Death-Pespair-Divinity-Eyening-Faith —Fame—Fellowship — Flowers — Fright —Gifts—Gospel— Heart—Hero–Holiness—Hope—Ignorance—Love—Lying— Mammon-Marriage—Melancholy — Minister–Miracle— Music—Neighbor—Obedience—Papacy—Patience—Poor— Populace–Prayer—Preacher—Preaching—Printing—Pur- gatory—Reason—Resurrection—Rhetoric—Riches—Saint— Satan—School—Sermon–Sin— Slavery—Song—Teaching— Temptation —Thanks —Trial — Tribulation —Vain-Glory— Vocation—War—Woman—Worship. LUZERNE, CÉSAR GUILLAUME, CARDINAL, (Bi- shop of Langres,) born, 1738: a French representative, ecclesiastical writer, and statesman ; died, 1821. Quota- tion : Blessing. LYCON, lived about 300 B.C.: a Greek philoso- pher; died, 237 B.C. Quotations: Boys—Repentance—Ten- derneSS. LYCURGUS, lived about 890 B.C.; a famous Spar- tan lawgiver. Quotations: Citizen—Traitor. LYCURGUS, born, 396 B.C.; an Athenian orator; died, 323 B.C. Quotations. Deity—Equality—Pride—Pun- ishment. LYDGATE, JOHN, born, 1375; an English poet ; died, 1460. Quotation : Jest. LYELL, SIR CHARLEs, born at Kinnordy, For- farshire, November, 1797; an eminent Scottish botanist and author. Quotation : Rock. LYERE, ADRIAN VAN, (Lyrens,) born, 1588; a Flemish Jesuit, ecclesiastical wr, ter, and author; died, 1661. Quotation : Nuptials. LYLE, H. F.; an American divine. Congregation. - LYLY, JoHN, born in Kent, 1553; an English dra- matic writer; died, 1600. Q2totations. Bargain—Extrava- gance—LOVe. LYMAN, HENRY, born at Northampton, Massa- chusetts, 1810; a Congregational minister, and One of the first missionaries to the East Indian Archipelago : author ... of “Condition of Females in Pagan, Countries;” with his companion, Rev. Samuel Munson, he was killed and de- voured by cannibals of the island of Sumatra, June 28, 1834. Quotation : Missionary. - LYMAN, JOHN B. ; an American prose writer. Qzzotation : Daring. LYMAN, MRS. LAURA. E. : an American miscella- neous writer. Quotations: Care—Daring—Dirt—Dwelling. LYMAN, THEODORE, born in Boston, 1792; an American author; died, 1849. Quotation : Pleasing. LYNCH, ANNE CHARLOTTE, (MRS. BOTTA,) born at Bennington, Vermont : a miscellaneous and magazine writer; died, 1880. .. Quotations : Culture — Hate—Heart— Humanity—Poet—Solitude—Vice—Vulgarity—Writing. LYNCH, T. T.; an English divine and miscella- neous writer. Quotations. Beauty—Sermon. LYNDHURST, LORD, (JOHN SINGLETON COPLAY.) born at Boston, Massachusetts, 1772; an eminent English statesman ; died, 1863. Quotation. Difficulty. LYNGE, NICHOLAs, lived about 1580; an English rinter, and one of the *4 COmpilers Of a Small CO!- ection of aphorisms, entitled, “Politeupheuia ; or, Wit's Commonwealth,” (London, 1669.) Quotations: 'Beginning —Charity—Chastity—Choice—Conviviality—Cruelty—Des- peration—Efficiency—Embarrassment—Gentleness. & LYRA, NICOLAS DE, (Lyranºws,) born, 1270; a French Cordelier and theologian ; died, 1840. Quotation : Villainy. LYSANDER, lived about 450 B.C.; a famous Spar- tan general, who defeated the Athenian fleet, and ended the twenty-seven years war; killed in battle, 396 B.C. Quotation Oracle. LYSIPPUS, born at Sicyon, and flourished in the reign of Alexander the Great, about 330 B.C.; a celebrated Greek statuary. Quotation. Artist. - LYTTLETON, LORD GEORGE, born, 1709; an Eng- lish author and statesman; died, 1778. Quotations: Enemy —History—Longevity—Love—Wit—Woman LYTTON, BULwFR, EARL, (SIR EDWARD GEORGE) See Bulwer, Baron Lytton. LYTTON, BULwFR, LADY. Lytton. LYTTON, RobºFT EDwARD BULWER, BARON, (Owen Meredith,) born, November 8, 1831; an English poet, novelist, and diplomatist. Quotation : Genius. Quotation : See BULWER, LADY I 150 JD A Y '.S C O / / A C O AV. M AALER, JosuK, born, 1529; an eminent Swiss philologer; died, 1597. Quotation : Suspicion. MAAN, JEAN, (Canon of Tours,) born at Mans: a French historian and ecclesiastic, became canon of Tours, 1648. Quotation. Desperation. MAANEN, VAN CORNELIS FELIX, born at the Hague,. 1769; a Dutch statesman and writer; died, 1843. Quotation : Distrust. MAARRI, ABU 'L-ALA AL, born, December, 973; a celebrated Arabian philologer and poet; died, May, 1057. Q?totation : Star. MAASHAR, JAAFAR IBN MUHAMMAD IBN OMAR Al-Galkhi Abū ‘l, born at Balkh, about 815; an Arabian astrologer; died, 885. Quotation. Persecution. MABILLON, JEAN, born at Rheims, 1632; a French Benedictine monk and Savant; died, 1707. Quota- tion : Restlessness. MABINOGION, THE ; or, “Fairy Tales of the Welch,” translated from the original Cymric, by Lady Charlotte Guest. Quotations: Deceit—Health. MABLY, GABRIEL BONNOT DE, ABBé, born at Grenoble, 1709 ; a French historical writer : died, 1785. Q?totations. Retrospection—Thunder—Vice. MACALL. Quotation: Common-Sense. MACARIUS I, (Bishop of Jerusalem,) born about 280: a pious and learned divine; died, 350. Quotation : Ambition. MACARIUS, SAINT, (The Elder,) born, 300 : an eºſ hermit of Egypt; died, 390. Quotations: Esteem —UrF3,C8. MACARIUS, SAINT, (The Yownger,) born in the fourth century; an ancient, author, noted for his piety; diffi: * Quotations: Dalliance—Fiend— Righteousness —'II*U1ST. MACAULAY, CATHERINE SAWBRIDGE, born in #; 1733; an English authoress; died, 1791. Quotation : I’ll LIl. MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON, BARON, born at Ruthley Temple, Leicestershire, October 25, 1800; an emi- ment English politician, poet, critic, essayist, orator, and historian ; died, December 28, 1859. Quotations: Abridg- ment—Allegory—Alphabet — Ancients — Apothegms—Ar- ment — Aristocracy — Army — Astronomy — Bigotry — Omedy—Critic—Demagogue – Democracy—Drama—Edu- Cation — Egotism — Excitement — Expression — Fiction — Freedom – Genius — Government — Grave — Greatness — Heathen—History—Human-Nature — Imagination — Influ- ence—Justice—Law—Liberty—Literature—Logic—Maxims —Medicine–Mercy—Minister-State–Monarchy—Morality —Motive—Novels—Office — Oligarchy — Opinion—Oppres- Sion—Oratory–Party—People – Philosophy—Poetry-PQ- liteness--Politics—Popery-- gºeºtºit —Power—Predestination — Press–Progress—Property— Puritanism—Quackery—Renegade—Republicanism—Revo- lution—Satire–Scepticism—Slavery—Society—Statesman wººle- Šublimity — Theatre — Usury —Vanity—Variety— 3.1°. MACBEAN, ALEXANDER, born about 1730; an English writer, (London, 1773.) Quotation : Church. MACCARTHY, DENIs FLORENCE, born, 1820; an eminent Irish poet and littérateur; died in London, 1882. Quotation : Elect. MACCARTHY, JUSTIN, born in Cork, Novem- ber, 1830; an Irish littérateur, journalist, miscellaneous writer, and author. Quotation: Proselyte. MACCAUTIEY, DR. Quotation : Eagerness. MACCHEYNE, ROBERT MURRAY, born in Edin- burgh, 1813; a Scottish divine and writer; died, 1843. Quo- tations : Minister—Ordinance—Sermon —World. MACCLINTOCK, JoHN, D.D., born in Philadel- phia, 1814; an American minister of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, and an eminent scholar; died, March, 1870. Quotation : Temple. MACCORMAC, HENRY, M.D., born in Belfast: an Irish physician and author. Quotations: Animals—Fact —Sense—Sight. MACCOSH, JAMEs, D.D., LL.D., born in Ayr- shire, 1811; emigrated to the United States, 1868; an emi- ment Scottish writer on theology and metaphysics, and £j of Princeton College, New Jersey. TQ7zotations : antheism—Prayer—Providence—Warning—Will. MACCULLOCH, JoHN, M.D., F.R.S., born in Guernsey, 1773; an English geologist and naturalist; died, 1835. #ions : Creator – Critic–Fastidiousness—Uni- VēI'Se—W in MACCULLOCH, JoHN RAMSAY, born in Wig- tonshire, 1789; an eminent Scottish writer on political economy and commerce; died, 1864. Quotations: Alliance —Ballot-Baptism—Credit—Cynicism—Despotism—Diplo- macy—Emigration—Etiquette — Exchange — Executive— Games—Heresy–Labor — Negroes — Post-Office—Profit— Pyramid—Treaty—Witchcraft. MACDONALD, E. A., M.D.; superintendent of New York Asylum for the Insane, Ward's Island. Quota- tion : Insanity. MACDONALD, JAMEs M., D.D., born in Limerick, Maine, 1812; an American divine and author; died, 1876. Quotation : Plant. MACDONALD, NoFMAN, born in New York, 1792; an American writer, and author of “Maxims and Moral IReflections,” (New York, 1827.) Quotations: Ability— Advice — Affability - Affection — Authority — Aversion — Bounty – Civility– Compliment — Courage – Credulity— Crime – Dishonor — Doubt — Eccentricity–Enemy—Evi- dence—Examination— Example—Experience — Faults — Greatness—Hate—Hypocrisy—EIll-Humor—Inconsistency— Innocence—Intemperance—Life—Love—Lover—Maxims— Motive—Mystery— Noise — Obstimacy – Opportunity—Pri- Yacy-Probity – Refusal – Reputation — Hidicule—"Rule— Simplicity—Situation –Snare — Soldier—Son—Sport—Sta- tion—Submission — Suspicion — Testimony —Toleration— Trifle—Ungratefulness—Writing—Wrong. MACDONALD, WILLIAM, (Archdeacon of Wilt- Shire;) an English divine and author, (London, 1824.) Quo- tation. Consecration. MACDUFF, JOHN R., born, 1809; an English re- ligious Writer, (London, 1858.) Quotations: Capital—Eter- nity—Patience—Vanity. MACDUFFIE, GEORGE, born, 1788: an American statesman: died, 1851. Quotation : Fallibility. MACEDONIUS I, (Patriarch of Constantinople, 356;) a Greek heresiarch. Quotation : Health. MACELLIGOTT, JAMES-N., LL.D., (Oliver Old- ham,) born in Richmond, Virginia, October 3, 1812; an American educator and author; died in New York, Octo- ber 22, 1866. Quotation : Vacation. MACFARLAND, MRS. ABBY SAGE RICHARDSON. See Richardson, Mrs. A. S. M. MACGREGOR, John, born at Stornoway, county of Ross, 1797; a Scottish economist and writer; died, 1857. Quotation : Christianity. MACGUCKIN DE SLANE, WILLIAM, BARON, born, 1810; a distinguished Hibernico-Gallic Orientalist, member of the Asiatic Society of Paris, and author. His greatest WOrk Was the translation of Ibn Khallikan's vast “Biographical Dictionary of Distinguished Arabians; ” died in Paris. August, 1878. Quotations : Koran—Zeal. MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO, born at Florence, 1469 : a Celebrated Italian political Writer, historian, and littérateur: died, 1527. Quotations : Ability—Ambition — Capacity–Comparison—Expression—Fraud-Immorality— Injury—Judges — Law — Liberty — Men — Minister-State— Modesty—Multitude—Nation — Prince – Republicanism— Rule—Severity—Simplicity—State — Subject—Teaching— Threats—Time—Title—War—Wickedness—World—Wrong. MACILVAINE, J. H.; born about 1825: an Ame- rican educator and author, (New York, 1870.) Quotations: Elocution—Eloquence—Fatigue. MACINTOSH, JoHN, born in Georgia, about 1761; an American soldier of the Revolution; died, 1826. Quo- tation : Legends. MACINTOSH, MARIA. J., born in Sunbury, Lib- erty county, Georgia, 1803; an accomplished American authoress. She has Written a large number Of novels and tales, all Of a dolmestic character, and excellent in tone and Spirit. Quotations. Aspiration—Marriage—Sunday. - MACK, EBENEZER, born in the State of New York,. 1793; an American publisher and agriculturist ; died, 1863. Quotations : Agriculture—Farmer—Harvest. MACKAY, CHARLEs, LL.D., born in Perth, 1814; a popular Scottish poet, journalist, and miscellaneous wri- ter. Quotation : Experience. MACKAY, ROBERT WILLIAM ; a Scottish theolo- gian and writer, (London, 1867.) Quotation. Philosophy. MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER SLIDELL, born in the city of New York, 1803; an American naval officer and mis- cellaneous writer; died, 1848. Quotations: Affliction — Fame—Fashion—Trifle—Unhappiness. MACKENZIE, SIR GEORGE, born in Dundee, 1636; a Scottish lawyer and writer; died, 1691. Quotations: Luxury—Mankind. MACKENZIE, HENRY, born in Edinburgh, 1745; an eminent Scottish novelist and essayist; died, 1831. Quotations: Alms—Bashfulness—Benefigence—Craft—De- ceit — Delusion — Duelling — Fortune-Telling — Old Age— Pedantry—Reason—Sound–Wag. MACKENZIE, ROBERT SHELTON, D.C.L., born of Scotch parents, in Drew's Court, Limerick County, Ireland, 1809, settled in the United States, 1852; a writer and journa- list of much ability; died in Philadelphia, November 21, 1881. Quotations: Blockhead—Fame. MACKENZIE, WILLIAM Lyon, born at Dundee, 1794; emigrated to Canada in early life and became a jour- nalist, and the leader of a party which took arms against the government in December, 1837. He sought refuge in New York, where he died, 1861. Quotations: Duelling— Indigence—Treason. MACKEY, ALBERT GALLATIN, M.D., born at Charleston, South Carolina, 1807; an American physician and journalist. Quotations: Freemasonry — Symbol — Thought. A / O Gº AC A P H / C A Z / ZY ZD E X. 1151 MACKINNON, HENRY, born near Winchester, 1773; an English general ; died in battle, at Cindad Rodrigo, Spain, 1812. Quotation : Daring. MACKINTOSH, SIR JAMES, LL.D., born, 1765; an eminent modern Scotch philosopher, historian, states- man, and political writer; died, 1832. Quotations. Activity —Contentment—Knowledge — Magic—Mankind—Martyr— Maxims—Praise—Selfishness—Slyness. MACKLIN, CHARLEs, born at Westmeath, 1690; a popular Irish actor and dramatist; died, 1797. Quota- tion : Drama—Interest—La W. MACLAREN, DAVID ; an American divine, born in Maryland, 1816. Quotation : Cross. MACLAURIN, JOHN, (LORD DREGHORN,) born in Edinburgh, 1734; a Scottish judge and miscellaneous wri- ter; died, 1796. Quotation : Anxiety—Cross—Unbelief. MACLEAN, JOHN, born, 1732; a Scottish Baptist divine, and writer; died, 1812. Quotations. Law—Sabbath. MACLEHOSE, MRS. (Clarinda,) born in Edin- burgh, about 1770; a gontemporary with Itobert Burns, with whom she engaged in a Spirited correspondence under the names of Sylvander and Clarinda. Quotations: Fic- tion—Love. MACLEOD, NORMAN, D.D., born at Campbell- town, 1812; a Scotch divine and author; died, June 16, 1872. Quotations : Congregation-Death–Dependence—Enjoy- ment—Eye—Love—Prayer—Revival—Sabbath—Sunday. MACNEILE, HUGH, D.D., born at Ballycastle, in the ºnly of Antrim, 1794; an Irish Protestant divine and author. Quotations: Reputation—Ritual—Salvation—Tes- & tament—Trinity—Zeal. MACNEVIN, WILLIAM JAMES, M.D., born at Bal- º: county of Galway, 1763, and emigrated to merica, 1805; professor of chemistry, and writer on scien- tific topics; died, 1841. ing—Scenery. MACOY, ROBERT, born, 1806; an American au- thor on Masonry and other subjects. Quotations: Knight- hood—Pyramid. MACQUOID, KATHARINE S.; an American nov- elist. Quotation : Disagreement. MACROBIUS, AMBROSIUS AURELIUS THEODO- sius, lived about 422; a Roman philosopher and gramma- rian. Quotation : Self-Esteem. MADAN, MARTIN, born near Hertford, 1726 ; an English clergyman and author; died, 1790. Quotations: Elect—Passion—Space. MADDEN, SAMUEL, born, 1687; an Irish clergy- man and writer; died, 1765. Quotation : Artist. MADISON, DoROTHY PAYNE, wife of James Madi- Son, born about 1769; the Widow of Mr. Todd, a lawyer of Philadelphia, and a Woman of many excellent qualities; died, July 22, 1849. Quotation : Youth. MADISON, JAMES, D.D., (Bishop of Virginia,) born in Rockingham county, Virginia, 1790; an American divine and author; died, 1812. Quotation : Eternity. MADISQN, JAMES, born at Port Conway, King George County, Virginia, March 5, 1751; an American states. man and political Writer, and the fourth President of the United States; died, 1836. Q?totations : Army— Faction – Government—Independence—Liberty—Object—War. MADOX, THOMAS, born, 1669; an eminent Eng- lish antiquary and jurist; died, 1736. Quotation : Worship. MAFFITT, JoHN NEWLAND, born in Dublin, 1794; emigrated to the United States, 1819; a noted Methodist preacher and journalist; died, 1850. Quotation : Freema- Sonry. MAGALOTTI, LORENZO, COUNT, born, 1637; an Italian philosopher and Writer; died, 1712. Quotations : Blushing—Excess. - MAGEE, THOMAS D'ARCY, born in Ireland, 1820; an. Irish-American Writer, and journalist; assassinated, 1867. Quotattion : Emigration. MAGHRIBI, AL-WAzîR AL, (The Mahribite Vizir) born, June, 981; a celebrated learned Arabian statesman and philosopher; died, October, 1027. Quotations: Day– Jealousy—Old Age—Repose. MAGIRUS, TOBIAs, born at Angermünde, 1586: a German º theologian, and biographer; died, 1651. Quotation : Inscription. MAGIUS, JEROME, born in Tuscany, about 1509 : an ingenious and learned mathematician, philosopher, and Critic ;... Strangled in Constantinople by the Turks, 1572. Quotation : Victory. MAGLIABECCHI, ANTHONY, born in Florence, 1633; an Italian bibliographer, and a man of extraordinary Imemory and learning; died, 1714. Quotations: Author- Library—Memory—Reading—Tobacco. MAGNUS II, King of Sweden, (Smek,) born, 1316; the son of Duke Eric : died, 1374. Quotation: Temple. MAGNUS, OLAUs, (Archbishop of Upsal,) born at Linköping, 1490; a Swedish divine and writer; died, 1568. 24!!!” : Fortune–Honor—Rebellion--Self-Love--Sport —TT3.1t Ol". Quotations : Agriculture — Farm- GOON, ELISHA L., D.D., born at Lebanon, New Hampshire, 1810; an American Baptist divine and author. Quotations. Ability—Architecture — Assertion— Bribery—Censure—Chastity – Contempt—Cynicism—Deli- cagy—Depravity–Despair:-Detraction--Dignity--Diligence -Disgrace—Dishonesty—Disposition — Drinking—Dupes— Duty–Emotion—Enterprise — Esteem — Excellence—Exis- tence—Extravagance—Falsehood—Frugality—Gain—Gen- §"{ijºji Will — Heart—PIero–Holiness—Hon- esty—Hospitality—Idleness—Inconsistency—Independence —Indiscrimination — Indolence — Indulgence—Industry— Infallibility—Infamy—Iniquity — Instrument —Integrity— Intellect – Intemperance -— Intention — Joy – Kindred — Language—Laziness–Levity—Listlessness—Love—Lying —Maxims—Mediocrity—Mečkness—Mercy—Merit—Minis- ter—Moderation—Money— Motion — Necessity—Old Age— Opposition — Originality — Penury — Perfidy —- Privilege— Prodigality—Projector – Purity – Pursuit – Quality— Re- Sentment—[{espect — Scorn — Seduction — Self— Self-Con- demnation—Self-Itighteousness—Sincerity—Snare—Spend- thrift—Spite —Success—Suffering — Sycophant-Sympathy —Temperance—Theology—Timidity–Trifle—Virtue—Vo- luptuousness—Watchfulness—Wrong—Youth. MAGUS, SIMON. See SIMON MAGUS. MAHABHARATA ; the name of the great epic poem of the Hindoos ; it is said to contain, two hundred thousand lines. Tradition ascribes it to Wiyāsa, the editor Of the Vedas, but there is reason to believe that it is the production or compilation of many writers living in differ- ent ages. Quotation. : Wife. MAHA CHIEF ; a chief of the Maha Indians. Quotation : Grief. MAHAFFY, John PEYTLAND, born at Chafon- naire, near Vevay, on the Lake of Geneva, February 26, 1839; a celebrated Swiss author and littérateur. Quota- tions. History—Legends. MAHAN, ASA, D.D., born in Vernon, New York, 1799; an American Iminister and author. Qºotgtions: Equality--Perfection--Sanctification--Temptation--Words. MAHDſ, IBRAHIM IBN AL, born, July, 779; an Arabian Scholar and poet; died at Sarr-man-rāa, July, 839. Quotation : Freedom. MAHDI, MUHAMMAD AL, succeeded his father, Al-Mausur, in ''if; as the third Abbeside caliph of Bagdad, died, 785. Q7zotºction : Riches. MAHOMET, or MOHAMMED, born at Mecca, 569 A.D.; the African founder of the Mussulman religion. He was a celebrated religious teacher and pretended prophet, and the doctrines he taught are now more widely diffused than any other religious sect. He is the supposed author the Köran (q.v. :) died, 632 A.D. totations : Ability — Backbiter—Captivity– Character— Charity—Christ—Crea- tion—Dying—Evil — God — Hypocrisy—Idleness—Ill-Will— Ink—Judge—Kneeling—Koran — Patience — Prayer—Pres- ents—Truth—Worship. MAIDANI, ABU 'L-FADL AHMAD IBN MUHAMMAD Ibn Ahmad Ibn Ibrahim Al, born at Naisàpſu, about 1051; an emingnt Arabian littérateur and philologer, and the author of a book of Arabian proverbs; died, 1124. Quota- tions. Industry—Thought. MAILLARD, OLIVIER, born in Bretagne, 1440 : a #. cordelier and preacher; died, 1502. Quotation : Ctl|Ö. MAILLER, J. W. Quotation: Exercise. - MAIMONIDES, MosFS BEN MAïMOUN, born a Cordova, 1135; one of the most celebrated of the spanish rabbis. He was physician to Saladin; died, 1204. Qºtota- tions: Prophecy—Translation—Worship. MAIN, YAHYA IBN ABU ZAKARIYA, born in Bag- dad, 771 ; a celebrated Arabian häfiz and traditionist ; died, July 28, 848. Quotations : Excuse—Honesty—Wealth. MAINE, JASPAR. Quotations: Jest—Understanding. MAINTENON, FRANÇors E D ' AUBIGN£, MAR- quese, de, (Madame Scarrón,) born in the prison of Niort, 1635 ; the widow of Scarron, the burlesque poet and wit, and the morganatic wife Of Louis the Fourteenth, and as such she inflicted much serious injury upon France; died, 1719. , Quotations: Contempt — Evil — Manners — Scars — Troubles—Virtue. MAIR, JOHN, born about 1700; a Scotch educa- tional writer; died, 1769. Quotations : Army— Birds—Cle- inency—Covetuousness — Dispatch — Field— Generosity— Good–Honesty—Horse—Intimacy—Lust—Master—Miséry —Modesty—Money— Morning — Mortality—Neglect—Ora- tory—-Praise—Rashness—Reputation—Self-Conquest—Star. MAISTRE, JOSEPH MARIE, COUNT DE, born at Chambéry, Savoy, 1754; an eminent French political writer and philosopher, distinguished as an original thinker; died; 1821. Quotations : Child—Genius—Love. MAITLAND, JAMES A., born about 1812 : an American editor and author. Quotation : Expostulation. MAJNUN, ABö SHUJA FÅTIKAL, surnamed THE Great, born in Asia Minor, about 900; a learned Greek who became emir, and was also a celebrated poet and philoso- pher; died at Old Cairo, November, 961. Quotation. Mon- ument S. MAJUS, HEINRICH, born, 1632; a German natur- alist and philosopher; died, 1696. Quotation. Accusation. II 52 A) A Y’.S C O /, / A C O AV. MAKKI, ABU 'L-HAGM. IBN RAIYAN IBN SHABBAH Ibn Sălih Ad-Darîr, born at Mäkisin, 1146; an Arabian grammarian and teacher of the Koran ; died at Mosul, May 6, 1207. Quotationes : Favor—Fortune–Gifts. MAKKI, ABU MUHAMMAD IBN ABI TALIB, HAM- Imtish, born at Kairawān, August 13. 966; a celebrated Ara- bian teacher of the Koran ; died at Cordova, July 19, 1045. Quotations: Craft—Visits. MALCOLM, SIR JOHN, G.C.B., born in Dumfries- shire, 1769; a Scotch general and historian ; died, 1833. Quo- tation 8: Greatness—Relaxation. MALCOM, HowARD, D.D., born in Philadelphia, 1799; an American Baptist divine and missionary, and one of the founders of the American Tract Society, and of the American Sunday School Union. Quotation : Expediency. MALEBRANCHE, NICOLAs DE, born in Paris, August 6, 1638; a French philosopher and writer; died in Rºctober, 1715. Quotations: Attention — Error — €8,1{Il. MALESHERBES, CHRIáTIEN GUILLAUME DE LA- moignon, de, born in Paris, 1721; a meritorious French judge and philanthropist ; died by the guillotine, April, 1794. Quotations: Eternity—Friendship—Truth. MALESPINI, CELIO, born, 1540 ; an Italian au- thor; died, 1608. Quotation. Calumny. MALHERBE, FRANÇOIS DE, born at Caen, 1555; an eminent French lyric poet; died, 1628. Quotation : Woman. MALIK, ABU YAHYA IBN DINAR, born at Basra, about 680; an Arabian writer of the Koran ; died at Basra, 748. Quotation : Miser—Resolution. MALLET, DAVID, (Malloch,) born at Crieff, Perth- shire, 1700: a Scottish poet and Writer; died, 1765. Quota- tions : Affliction—Fame—Multitude—Uncertainty. MALLET, EDME, born at Melun, 1713; a French divine and littérateur; died, 1755. Quotation : Rejoicing. MALLET, PAUL HENRI, born in Geneva, 1730 ; a ; historian and writer; died, 1807. Quotation : Mis- Ol't'll 110. MALLOCK, W. H. Quotation: Free-Thinking. MALMESBURY, EARL OF, (JAMES HARRIs,) born in Salisbury, 1746; an English diplomatist and writer; died, . Quotation : Country. MALMESBURY, EARL OF, G.C.B., (JAMES HOw- ard Harris,) grandson of the preceding, born in London, March 25, 1807; an English Statesman and writer. Quota- tion : Populace. MALMESBURY; WILLIAM of. of Malmesbury. MALTHUS, THOMAS ROBERT, born in Surrey county, England, 1766: an English political economist, and author of the Malthusian theory; died, 1834. Quotation : Commerce. MALTRAVERS, SIR RICHARD, the pseudonym Of the Earl of Russell, better known as Lord John Russell, (q.v.) Quotations: Astronomy—Calamity—Consistency— Contentiment—Envy—Evil—Excitement—-Hope--Hypocrisy —Immortality—Infinity — Intelligence —Marriage—Mathe- matics—Memory—Mind–Nature — Passion –Past—Physi- cian—Printing – Punishment — Reason — Self-Love — Self- Respect—Solitude—Spy—State—Statesman–Sun–Tyrant. MALVEZZI, VIRGILIO, MARCHESE DE, born at Bologna, 1599; an Italian historian and diplomatist ; died, 1654. Quotation : Banishment. MAMAKU, TE, KARMU, NGA-TAI, HEMI Top INI, (James Stovin;), a New Zealand chief who became con- verted to Christianity. Quotations: Negroes—Speech. MAMMATI, AL-ASSAAD IBN, AL-KADI, ABU 'l-Makārim, born, 1147; an Arabian poet and philosopher; died, November, 1209. Quotations: Secrecy—Suspicion. MANCO-CAPAC, flourished about 1000 A.D.; the founder of the first Inca. Of Peru. He instituted the Wor- ship of the Sun of which he pretended to be the offspring. Quotation : Sun. MANDA, YAHYA IBN ABU ZAKARIYA AL-ABDI, born at Ispahān, June 1, 1043: a distinguished Arabian ha- fiz. and one of the most eminent among the Traditionists; died at Ispahān, March 24, 1119. Quotations : Detraction— ListleSSneSS. MANDEVILLE, BERNARD DE, born at Dort, Hol- land, 1670; a Dutch physician who settled in London, and became an ingenious writer and satirist; died, 1733. Quo- tations: Honor—Luxury—Shame—Vice. MANDEVILLE, SIR John DE, born at St. Alban's, 1300; a famous English traveller; died, 1372. Quotation : Visage. MANETHO, born at Sebennytus, and flourished about 300 B.C.; a celebrated Egyptian writer and priest. Quotations : Gods—Star. MANG-HEEN, born in Loo, and flourished in the time of Confucius: a Chinese minister and a disciple of Confucius. Quotation : Horse. MANGUM, A. W. Quotation: Mother. See WILLIAM MANICHAEUS, born in Persia, 240 : the founder of the heretical sect of Manichaeans; put to death by Va- ranes, King of Persia, 272. Quotation : Gods. MANIHERA, born about 1792; a converted Nga tiruanui chief of New Zealand, and many years the head teacher of his tribe at Waokena and Whareroa ; killed, March 12, 1847. Quotation : Preaching. - MANILIUS, or MANLIUS, MARCUs, is supposed to have lived in the reign of Augustus, or of Tiberius, be- tween 20 and 50 B.C.: a celebrated Latln poet, and author of an astrological poem, called, “Astronomica.” Quota- tions: Docility—Experience – Gifts — God—Good—Hour— Life—Mind—Mother—Soul—Want—Years. - MANN, HORACE, LL.D., born at Franklin, Nor- folk County, Massachusetts. May 4, 1796 : an American Statesman, and ºriter, on educational topics. He was an heroic and gifted philanthropist, who by his enlightened and untiring efforts º a large measure of Suc- cess in the cause of education ; died, August 2, 1859. Quo- tºtions: Acting—Affectation—Astronomy—Benevolence— Biography—Books—Chastisement — Culture—Education— Evil—Generosity — Glory — Habit — Happiness — Health — Hour – Ideality–Idleness — Ignorance – Intermperance — Knowledge—Love—Majority—Man —Manners—Martyr— Mob—Morality—Opinion—Profanity—Reading—Reproof– School—Sense—Teaching—Temperance—Truth. MANNERS, LORD JoHN JAMES ROBERT, M.P., born at Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, December 13, 1818 : an English statesman, poet, and littérateur. Quotation : Distraction. MANNERS-SUTTON, CHARLEs, (Bishop of Nor- wich and Archbishop of Canterbury,) born, 1755; died, 1828. Quotation : Faculties. MANNI, DOMENICO MARIA, born, 1690; an Italian grammarian, antiquary, and printer; died, 1788. Quota- tion : Death. MANNING, ANNE, born, 1807 : an English novel- ist, (London, 1850–66.) Qatotºttion : Exposure. MANNING, EGBERT S., born in New York, 1824: * American Social reformer; died, 1860. Quotation : Col- ege. MANNINGHAM, THOMAs, (Bishop of Chichester,) born, 1709; an English divine and writer; died, 1722. Quo- tation : Rejoicing. MANSELL, HENRY LONGUEVILLE, (Dean of Saint Paul's) born at Cosgrove, Northamptonshire, October 6, 1820; an English professor of moral and metaphysical phi- losophy, and theological writer; died, July 30, 1871. Quo- tation : Intuition. MANSFIELD, EDWARD DEERING, born at New Haven, Connecticut, 1801; an American scholar, editor and author ; died, 1880. , Quotations. Action — Analysis— Aristocracy — Arithmetic — Attainment — Constitution — Degradation—Earth—Government —Grammar—Hope—In- stability—Intelligence — Judgment — Jury— Knighthood— Lesson—Letter—Light—Mathematics—Mother—-Mutability —Novels—Polygamy—Press — Republic — Hepublicanism— School—Slavery—Soul—Study—Teaching. MANSFIELD, LORD, (WILLIAM MURRAY,) born in Perth, 1704: a Scottish jurist, lord chief justice, and ora- tor of great merit ; died, 1793. Quotations: Multitude — Persecution—Popularity—Testimony. MANSI, GIov ANNI DOMENICO, (Archbishop of Lucca,) born at Lucca, 1692; an Italian divine and writer; died, 1769. Quotation : Robbery. MANSUR, ABC 'L-HASAN IBN ISMAIL IBN OMAR at-Tamimi, born at Rås-Ain. in Mesopotamia, about 850; a celebrated Arabian jurisconsult and philosopher; died at Old Cairo, 918. Quotations : Generosity—Heſp—Learning. MANT, RICHARD, D.D., (Bishop of Down and Connor,) born at Southampton, 1776; an English divine and commentator ; died. 1848. Quotations. Coyetousness— Friendship—Good—Honesty—Opinion—Religion—Sacrifice —Schism—Station. MANTON, THOMAS, D.D., born in Lawrence-Ly- diard, Somersetshire,’ 1620; an English Nonconformist divine ; died, 1677. Quotations : . Meditation—Mystery— Press—Profession—Sense—Yearning. MANUEL, JACQUES ANTOINE, born at Barcalo- nette, Low Alps, 1775; a French orator and republican ; died, 1843. Quotations: Good—Praise—Reserve. MANUTIUS, ALDUs, born at Bassiano, in the Pa- pal States, 1447; a celebrated Italian printer and author; died, 1515. Quotations : Apostacy—Country. MANUZIO, ALDO, born at Venice, 1547; a cele- W. Italian author and printer; died, 1597. Quotation : OFK. MAN-YO-SHIU ; a book of Japanese poetry com- iled about the year 900. Quotations: Appetite—Gods— eaven—Joy—Pärting—Valor. MANZONI, ALESSANDRA, COUNT, born at Milan, March 8, 1784: an Italian novelist and poet; died, May 22, 1873. Quotation : Rigor. MAPES, JAMEs J., LL.D., born in the city of New York, May 29, 1806; an American chemist and writer. Quotation : Agriculture. A / O G. A. A /? // / C A / / /V /O A. Y. I 153 MAPES, WALTER, born in Wales, 1150 ; an Eng- lish author: died about 1222. Quotation : Morality. MAR, HELEN. Quotation : Mother. MARAM, IBN KARAM, ALI AL, born, 1130; an Arabian philosopher and poet ; died, 1180. Quotation : Cruelty. - MARATTI, or MARATTA, CARLQ, born at Ca- murano, May, 1625; an Italian painter; died, 1713. Quotat- tion : Painting. MARBLE, MANTON ; an American journalist and democrátic politician. Quotations : Editor —Journalism —Press. MARCA, PIERRE DE, (Archbishop of Paris,) born, 1594; an eminent French divine, historian, theologian, and statesman ; died, 1662. Quotation : Apostasy. MARCELLINUS, SAINT, (Bishop of Rome,) born, 220; an eminent, Roman pope and divine; died, 304. Quo- tations : Despising—Repentance—Writing. MARCELLINUS-AMMIANUS, born at Antioch, 320: a Greek Latin historian of great merit; died, 390. Quotations : Fate – Idolatry — Prudence – Retribution — Scripture—Sense—Truth. MARCH, DANIEL, D.D.; an American divine and writer. Quotation : Death. MARCION, born at Sinope, in Pontus, in the second century; a celebrated Greek heresiarch, and foun- der of the sect of Marcionites. Quotation : Repentance. MARCY, WILLIAM L., born at Southbridge, Mas- sachusetts, 1786; a distinguished American statesman ; died at Ballston Spa, July 4, 1857. Quotations: Faction— Victory. MARECHAL, PIERRE SYLVAIN, born in Paris, Hº: a French poet and littérateur; died, 1803. Quotation : OVC. MARGARET, QUEEN OF NAVARRE, born, 1492; a lady distinguished for her beauty, talents, and superior culture ; died, 1549. Quotation : Jealousy. MARIE ANTOINETTE, JosipHE JEANNE D’AU- triche, born at Vienna, 1755; the wife of Louis the Six- teenth of France, and the daughter of Maria Theresa and the Emperor Francis I, of Germany. She possessed extra- ordinary personal charms and great vivacity of disposition; executed by the Jacobins, October, 1793. Quotation : Grief. MARIET, MRS.; an American authoress and mis- cellaneous writer. Quotation : Wonder. MARINELLA, LUCRETIA, born in Venice, 1571; an Italian poetess: died, 1535. Quotation : Woman. MARION, FRANCIS, born in South Carolina, 1732; a celebrated general of the Revolution; died, 1795. Quo- tation : Liberty. MARITI, ABBé GIOVANNI, born, 1736 ; an Italian divine and traveller; died, 1806. Quotattion : Adulation. MARIUS, CAIUS, born, 153 B.C.; a famous Roman general and demagogue; died, 86 B.C. Quotation : Action. MARIVAUX, PIERRE CARLET DE CHAMBLAIN de, born in Paris, 1688; a French novelist and dramatist; died, 1763. Quotation : Money. MARLBOROUGH, DUCHESS OF, (SARAH JEN- nings,) born, 1660; a lady celebrated for her beauty, ambi- tion, and political influence; died, 1774. Quotation: Relief. MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER, born, 1565; an Eng- lish actor, and dramatist ; died, 1593. Quotations : Good- neSS—Violence. - MARMION, SHAKERLEY, born in Northampton- shire, 1602; an English poet and dramatist; died, 1639. Quotation : Concealment. MARMONTEL, JEAN FRANÇors, born at Bort, in Limousin, 1723: a French littératēur, dramatic author, and historiographer; died of apoplexy, 1799. Quotations : Family—Reform—Virtue. MARQT, CLEMENT, born at Cahors, 1495; a French poet; died, 1544. Quotation : Sorrow. MARRYAT, FLORENCE. See CHURCH, MRs. OSS. MARRYAT, FREDERICK, CAPTAIN, R.N., C.B., born in London, July 10, 1792; a popular, English novelist, and an officer of the British navy, in which he bore a high pººl reputation for energy, bravery, and scientific nowledge. He acquired great fame as a graphic depicter of naval Scenes, customs, and characters, and his novels have a World-Wide notoriety; died, 1848. Quotations : Ab- Sence-Adventure –Adversity — Habit —Honor—Indepen- dence—Leader—Lying—Nature — Pride—Renegade—Sailor -Sea—Sedition --Slavery — Sloth — Smoking—Suspense— Tobacco–Travel—Vanity—Waves. MARSAIS, CÉSAR CHESNEAU DU, born at Mar- Seilles, 1676; an eminent French grammarian, philosopher, and author; died, 1756. Quotation : Truth. MARSH, ANNA CALDwell, born in Staffordshire, 1798; a popular English authoress. Quotations: Conjec- º–ºry-Memory-Poor—Result—Reverence-sick. IlêSS—TOImb. MARSH, GEORGE PERKINs, LL.D., born in Wood- stock, Windsor county, Vermont, March, 1801 : an Ameri- can philologist, lawyer, Stateshlan, and diplomatist. (J tº 0- tattions : Civilization—I)omesticity—Language. MARSH, HERBERT, (Bishop of Llandaff and Peterborough,) born, 1757 : an eminent English divine and Writer; died, 1839. Quotations: Community—Hardness. MARSH, NARCISSUs, (Archbishop of Dublin and Ormagh,) born in Wiltshire, 1638; a learned English divine; died, 1713. Quotation : Type. MARSTON, HENRY ; an English divinie and wri- ter. Quotation : Revival. MARSTON, JOHN, born, 1575 : an English drama- tist and poet ; died, 1634. Quotations : Cowardice — Roy- alty—Uprightness—Woman. MARSTON, WESTLAND, LL.D., born in Boston, Lincolnshire, January 30, 1820; an English lawyer, novelist, and littérateur. Quotations : Carefulness—Jewels. MARTELL, MARTHA ; an American miscellane- ous writer and novelist, and author of “Second Love,” §§ York, 1851.) Quotations : Present — Recreation — &epentance — Self-Abasement -— Speaking — Sympathy — Weakness. MARTENS, KARL, VON, born, 1790 ; a German diplomatist and author. Quotattion : Diplomacy. MARTHE, SAINT, (ANNE BIGET,) born, 1748; a French nun and philanthropist ; died, 1824. Quotation : Jealousy. MARTIAL, or MARTIALIS, MARCUs VALERIUS, born at Bibilis, in Spain 40 A.D.; a celebrated Latin, epi. grammatic poet; died, 103. Quotations: Books—Busybody —Coxcomb–Day—Doubt—Fame—Fortune—Genius–Gifts -º-º-ºpeº —Idolatry—Joy--Laughter--Life—Martyr–Misery-Mourn. ing—Order—Perfume –Physiognomy— i.º.o.” Rarity—ſtenown–Silliness — Smelling—Suspense—Trifle— Vagrant—Vice—Wretchedness—Writing. MARTIGNAC, ETIENNE ALGAY DE, born at Brives-la-Gaillarde, 1620; a French littérateur; died, 1698; Quotations : Miser—Voice. MARTIN I, POPE, succeeded Theodore, 649 : an eminent Saint and martyr; died, 655. Quotation : Celibacy. MARTIN V, POPE, (CARDINAL OTHo, CoLONNA,) elected pope, 1417; died, 1431. Quotation : Heresy. MARTIN, BENJAMIN, born in Surrey, 1704; an English mathematician and author; died, 1807. Quotation : Shame. MARTIN, DAVID, born at Revel, 1639; a French Fººtant theologian and author; died, 1721. Quotation : ying. MARTIN, ELLEN: an American novelist, author of “Feet of Clay." Quotations: Lightning—Soul. MARTIN, EMMA, born in Bristol, 1812; an Eng- lish SGeptic and tractarian, who gained considerable noto- riety by her “Weekly Address to the Inhabitants of Lon- don,” and other tracts, devoted to the dissemination of infidelity and Socialism: died at Finchley Common, near London, October, 1851. Quotations: Lady—Tattling, MARTIN, LOUIS AIMé, born in Lyons, 1781 : an eminent French littérateur, and professor of rhetoric and history; died, 1847. Quotations : Love—Mother—Parent. MARTIN, SAINT, (Archbishop of Braga, Portu- gal,) born in Hungary, about 508; a celebrated theological Writer, and the founder of a number of monasteries in Ga- licia ; died, 580. Quotation : Christ. MARTIN, SAINT, (Bishop of Tours,) born in Pan- nonia, a province in the ancient Roman Empire, 316; an eminent ecclesiastic; died, 396. Quotation : Peace. MARTIN, SAINT, DE VERTON, born in the sixth ºy: 3. iéarneå divine; died about 615. Quotation : 1101. MARTIN, SARAH, born near Yarmouth, 1791 : an English, prison philanthropist; died, 1843. Quotations: GOld—Mortification. MARTIN, W. S. Quotation: Consistency—Pleasure. MARTINEAU, HARRIET, born in Norwich, June 12, 1802; an English authoress, and one of the most eminent of the female writers of England; died, June 27, 1876. Quotations : Commerce--Infancy—Kisses—Love—Modesty —Polygamy. MARTINEAU, JAMES, LL.D., younger brother of the preceding, born at Norwich, April 21, 1805; an Eng- lish Unitarian divine, theologian, and professor of moral and metaphysical philosophy. Quotations: Grief—Immor- tality—Independence — Life — Morality—Speech—Tears— Years MARTINIANUS, MARTINUs AUGUSTUs, born about 254; a Roman emperor; died, 323. Quotation: Fire. MARTYN, HENRY, born in Truro, Cornwall, 1781; an eminent English divine, missionary, and Orientalist; died, 1812. Quotations : Adversity—Affection — Anxiety— Beneficence—Charity— Contention — Controversy—COvet- º-Economy—Gentleness — Honesty—Hope—Irreso- UlúIOIl. 78 1154 A) A Y',S C O Z Z. A C O AV. MARTYN, John, born in London, 1699; an Eng- lish physician, botanist, and writer; died, 1768. Quota- tion : Calculation. MARTYN, JOHN, born about 1369; an English judge; died, 1436. Quotation : Throne. MARTYN, L. E. Quotations: Plainness—Plumpness. MARTYR, JUSTIN. See JUSTIN, SAINT, “The Martyr." Quotations: Fate—Prayer—I:esignation—Sing- ing—Sunday. . . MARULLUS, MARCUS ; a Latin satiric poet in the time of Marcus Aurelius. Quotation : Worship. MARVEIL, AMAND DE, born about 1138; a French troubadour; died, 1200. Quotations : Calling – Knight- hood. MARVELL, ANDREW, M.P., born at Kingston- upon-Hull, Yorkshire, 1620; an eminent English political writer, patriot, poet, and satirist ; died, 1678. , Quotations: Credit—Imperfection—Landscape—Prince—Printing. MARY I, (TUDOR,) Queen of England, the daugh- ter of Henry the Eighth, by his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, born at Greenwich, 1516; she was commonly called “Bloody Queen Mary,” in consequence of her cruel perse- cution of the Protestants; died, November, 1558. Quota- tions : Popery—Sloth—Woman. MARY, SAINT, born, 378; an Egyptian devotee ; died, 431. Quotations : Mountain—Remembrance. MASHAM, LADY DAMARIs, born at Cambridge, 1658; a learned English authoress; died, 1708. Quotation : Worship. MASHTUB, IBN IMAD AD-DIN, born at Napläs, 1179; an Arabian emir and philosopher; died at Harrān, 1222. Quotation : Time. MASON, EBENEZER PORTER, born in Washington, Litchfield county, Connecticut, 1819; an American astrono- Imer and author: died, 1840. Qztotation . Development. MASON, ERSKINE, D.D., born in Pennsylvania, 1805; an American divine and author; died, 1851. Quota- tions : Benevolence—Contentment—Pleasure, MASON, FRANCIS, (Archdeacon of Norfolk,) born in Durham, 1566; an eminent, English Protestant divine, chaplain to King Charles the First; died, 1621. Quotation : Conscience. MASON, FRANCIS, D.D., born in York, England, emigrated to America; a learned Baptist divine and mis- sionary in India. Quotation : Heresy. MASON, GEORGE, born, 1735; an English littéra- teur: died, 1806. Quotations: Charity — Moment — Self- Acquaintance — Self-Deceit – Self-Ignorance — Self-suffi- Ciency. MASON, GEORGE, born in Stafford, (now Fair- fax,) county, Virginia, 1726: a celebrated American states- man; died, 1792. Quotations. Accusation —Army — Inde- pendence—Military—Office—Power—Press—Slavery. MASON, GEORGE, (Bishop of Sodor and Man,) born, 1710; an eminent English divine; died, 1783. Quota- tions : Affliction—Moderation—Revenge—Sin. MASON, SIR JOHN, born at Abingdon, 1500; an English statesman; died, 1566. Quotations : Conscience— Temperance. MASON, JOHN, born, 1705 ; an English Noncon- formist divine and author; died, 1763. Qztotations: Bard —Company— Heaven— Humility – Idleness — Judgment— Jury–Melancholy—Prayer — Prudence—Self-Abasement— §elf-Acquaintanée-Self:Possession. Sincerity—Solitude— Time–Trifle—Virtue—Woe—Wrangling. MASON, JOHN MITCHELL, D.D.; born in the city of New York, 1770; an American divine and author; died, 1829. Quotations: Brother—Perdition—Pleasure—Politics —Uprightness. MASON, ROBERT, born, 1574 ; recorder of Lon- don, died, 1635. Quotation : Time. MASON, WILLIAM, born in Hull, Yorkshire, 1725; an English divine and poet; died, 1797. Quotations : Lust –Politics–Steam—Variety. MASONIC MANUAL ; a text-book of Freema- sonry. Quotations: Architecture—Atheism—Fortitude— Freemasonry—Harmony—Immorality—Mortality—Sword —Truth—Wine—Woman. - MASPERO. Quotation : Symbol. MASSASOIT, born in Massachusetts, about 1594; an Indian chief of the Womponoags; died, 1661. Quota- tion. : Water. MASSEY, GERALD, born near Tring, Hertford- Shire, May 29, 1828; an English poet, journalist, and scep- tic. Quotations: Cross—Tears. MASSIEU, GUILLAUME, born at Caen, 1665; a French litterateur; died, 1722. Quotation : Grătitude. MASSILLON, JEAN BAPTISTE, born at Hières, Prºvence, 1663; a celebrated French pulpit orator; died, 1742. Quotations : Charity—Christian–Damnation—God— Gospel–Graye-Matrimony—Preacher—Pride—Sin—Sian- der—Time—Yielding. MASSINGBERD, MRs. ; an English miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Sickness. MASSINGER, PHILIP, born in Salisbury, Wilt- shire, 1584; an eminent English dramatic poet; died, 1640. Quotations. Captivity–Company—Conscience—Curiosities —Despair—Diamond–Dress–Göld—Mercy—Money—Peti- tion—Secrecy—Self-Murder—Virtue. MATHER, COTTON, D.D., born in Boston, Massa- chusetts, 1663; a celebrated American theologian and wri- ter; died, 1728. , Quotations : Injury — Righteousness — Superfluity—Truth—Witchcraft. MATHEW, FATHER, (THEOBOLD, ) born in the county of Tipperary, 1790; an eminent Irish Catholic priest, and the Apostle of Temperance; died, 1856. Quotations: Intemperance — Oppression — Persecution — Preaching — Temperance. MATHEWS, JULIA, A, daughter of James M. Mathews, Chancellor of the University of the City of New York: an American authoress and writer of story-books for the young. Quotation : Cruelty. MATHEWS, WILLIAM, LL.D. : an American edu- cator and Writer, and author of “Getting On in the World,” and other works, (Chicago, 1873–76.) Qºſºtations : Abilit —Agreeableness — Aim — Austerity — Treformation — Self- Help—Self-Reliance—Solitude—Tact—Talking. MATHON DE LA COUR, CHARLEs JOSEPH, born at Lyons, 1738; a French littérateur ; guillotined at iyons, 1793. Quotation : Writing. MATRUH, IBRAHîM. IBN AL-HUSAIN IBN, born at Uzjût, Upper, Egypt, June 8, 1196 : an Arabian philosopher and writer; died in Old Cairo, October 19, 1251. Quotations: Guests—Illness—Lips. MATTHEWS, HENRY, born about 1770; an Eng- lish physician and author, (London, 1817–20.) Quotation : Correction. MATTHIAS, Emperor of Germany, born, 1557; died. 1619. Quotations: Concord—Union. MATTSDOTTER, MARIA M. Quotation : Threats. MATURIN, CHARLEs ROBERT, born in Dublin, 1782; a distinguished Irish poet, novelist, and pulpit orator; died, 1824. Quotation : Flirtation. MAUCROIX, FRANÇois DE, (Canon of Rheims,) born at Noyon, 1619; a French abbé, translator, and poet; died, 1708. Quotation : To-Day. MAUD, JOHN : an American scientific writer, (Philadelphia, 1736–38.) Quotation : Novelty. MAUND, B., born about 1785 ; an eminent Eng- lish writer on horticultural topics : (London, 1824–50.) Quotations: Creation—Nature. MAUNDER, GEORGE, born about 1810 : an Eng- lish writer, and author of “Eminent Christian Philanthro- pists,” (London, 1853.) *totations: Ethics — Fate – In- stinct—Intellect—Persecution—Prejudice. MAURICE, John FREDERICK DENNISON, born, 1805; an English Unitarian clergyman, theologian, and phi- losopher; died, 1872. Quotation : Fortune-Telling. MAURITIUS, FLAVIUs TIBERIUs, born in Ş. padocia, 539; an emperor of the East; put to death, 602. Quotation : Cruelty. MAURUS, TERENTIANUs, born at Carthage in the #.gentury; a Latin grammarian and poet. Quotation : OOKS. MAURY, JEAN SIFFREIN, (Archbishop of Paris,) born in the Venaissin, 1746; a French Cardinal, political orator, and littérateur; died, 1817. Quotation : Bible. MAURY, MATTHEw, LL.D., born in Spottsylva- nia county, Virginia, January 14, 1806; an American naval -officer, astronomer, and hydrographer; died, February 1, 1873. Quotations: Sea—Water—Zone. - - MAUSILI, ABù MUHAMMED ISHAK IBN IBRAHIM A1, born at Arrajan, 767; a celebrated Arabian traditionist, oet, and philosopher; died, 850. Quotations : Avarice — enerosity—Liberality—Miser. MAUVILLON, JACOB, born at Leipsic, 1743; a German author and historian ; died, 1794. Quotation : Jacobin. MAVERICK, AUGUSTUS ; an American journal- ist and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Electricity. MAVOR, WILLIAM FORDYCE, LL.D., born in Aberdeenshire, 1758; a Scotch divine, educator, and litté- rateur; died, 1837. Quotations: Air-Astronomy—Biogra- phy—Example—Flowers—Ridicule–Snow—Stage—Sun. MAXCY, JonATHAN, D.D., born at Attleborough, Massachusetts, 1768; an American Baptist divine and au- thor; died, 1820. Quotation : Invention. MAXIMILIAN I,. Emperor of Germany, born at Neustadt, 1459; died, 1519. Quotations: Action — Self- Control. MAXIMILIAN II, Emperor of Germany, born, 1527 ; died, 1576, Quotation: Conscience. MAXIMUS, (The Cynic,) born about 300 : a Greek philosopher and pretender, put to death by Festus, 373. Quotations: Appetite—Art. A / O G A' A P A / C A Z / M D B X. I 155 MAXIMUS, TYRIUs, born at Tyre, in the second century; an eminent Platonic Greek philosopher and rhe- torician. Quotations : Affection—Charity—God. MAXIMUS, VALERIUS. See VALERIUS MAXIMUS. MAXWELL, MARIA, born about 1800; an Eng- lish novelist, (London, 1840.) Quotations : Prison —Trees —Trust—Virtue. MAY, SAMUEL Joseph, born in Boston, 1797; a celebrated American clergyman and abolitionist ; died at Syracuse, July 1, 1871. Quotations : Decalogue—Remedy. MAY, THOMAs, born in Sussex, 1595 : an English poet and historian ; died, 1650. Quotations : Charity—Care —Scholar—Wonder. - MAYER, BRANz, born in Baltimore, 1809; an American lawyer and author. Quotattion : Ungodliness. MAYHEW, AUGUSTUs, born in London, 1810; one of the Mayhew brothers, a literary fraternity, of whom there were Henry, Thomas, and Horace. Quotation. Hos- pitality. MAY HEW, HENRY, born in London, 1812; an an English littérateur and journalist. He was the founder and editor of “Punch." Quotation : Employment. MAY HEW, HoRACE, born in London, 1814; an English novelist, and author of many amusing publications. He was also a contributor to “Punch.” Quotation. Miser. MAY HEW, THOMAs, born in London, 1816 ; an English journalist, who early distinguished himself, with his brothers as collaborators, in the cause of cheap educa- tional literature. Quotation : Speculation. MAYHURST, MARTHA : an American writer and lecturer. Quotation : Failure. MAYNE, JASPAR, born in Devonshire, 1604 ; an English divine and poet; died, 1672. Quotation : Famine. MAYO, SARAH C. EDGARTON, born at Shirley, Massachusetts, 1819; an American authoress ; died, 1848. Quotations: Friendship—Influence—Memory—Solitude. MAZARIN, GIULIO, (Mazarini,) born, 1602 ; a French cardinal and Statesman ; died, 1661. Quotation.’ Amnesty. - MAZARIN, GIULIO, CARDINAL, born in Italy, 1602; a celebrated courtier and prime minister of France; died at Vincennes, March, 1661. Quotations: Proof–Rogue. MAZARREDO, Y SALAZAR or MAZARD, José Maria, born at Bilbao, 1714; a Spanish admiral; died, 1812. Quotation : Head. MAZZINI, GIUSEPPE, born at Genoa, June 28, 1808; an Italian patriot and writer, distinguished for his sterling Veracity, humanity, and nobleness of mind: died, March 10, 1872. Quotations: Community—Harmony—Ma- terialism—Treachery. MEAD, E. : an American minister of the Reformed Church at Coeymans, New York. Quotation : Death. MEAD, RICHARD, M. D., born at Stepney, near London, August 11, 1673; a celebrated English physician, and one of the most learned men of his age : died, 1754. Quotation : Lover. MEAD, R. W.; an English divine and writer. Quotation : Repentance. MEAUCHARD. Quotations: Innocence—Mammon. MEDHURST, WALTER HENRY, D.D., born, 1796; an English missionary and Writer; died, 1857. Quotations : Righteousness—Self-Righteousness. MEDINA, COUNT COELI, born about 1630; a vice- roy of Naples ; died, 1710. Quotation : House. MEEK, ALEXANDER BEAUFORT, born at Colum- bia, South Carolina, 1814; an American lawyer and writer; died, 1865. Quotation : Pleasing. MEGASTHENES, born in the third century, B.C.; a Greek historian and geographer under Selencus Nicator, King of Syria, whom he served as secretary. Quotation : Creation. - MEILYR, lived in the twelfth century; a Welch bard and prose writer. Quotation : Girl. MEIR, BEN TODIOS, born about 1170; a learned Spanish rabbi; died, 1244. Quotations : Riches—Suffering. MEJID, ABDUL, Sultan of Turkey, born, 1823; died, 1861. Quotation : Idolatry. MELANCTHON, PHILIP, born at Bretten, in the Palatinate, 1497; an eminent German reformer and Scho- lar; died, 1560. Quotations : Anatomy—Christ—Humanity —Marriage—Music—Sycophant—Unity. MELBOURNE, LORD, (WILLIAM L.AMB,) born, 1779; an eminent English statesman and author; died, 1848. Quotation : Woman. MELITO, SAINT, (Bishop of Sardis,) lived in the second century: an ecclesiastical writer. Quotation : Hard-Heartedness. MELLEN, GRENVILLE, born in Biddeford, Maine, June 19, 1799; an American poet and miscellaneous writer; died in New York, September 5, 1841. Quotations: Inno- cence—To-Day. . MELLOR, REV. D.R.: an English Episcopalian di- vine and writer. Quotation : Providence. MELLOR, SIR JOHN, born, 1808; an English judge, Statesman, and author. Quotation : Foundation. MELMOTH, WILLIAM, (Sir Thomas Fitzosborne,) born, 1710; an English littérateur. Several of his works were published under the ſtom de plume of Sir Thomas FitzOsborne; died, March 15, 1799. Quotations : Anec- *Art—conversation — Misfortune–Riddles—Study— 111Uy. MELPOYNT, W. Quotations: Sea. MELTON, JOHN, lived in the early part of the Seventeenth century; an English writer. Quotations : Rnowledge—Rectitude. - MELVILL, HENRY DUNDAS, (Canon of Saint Paul's,) born at Pendennis Castle, Cornwall, September 14, 1798; an eloquent English diyine and chaplain to Queen Victoria ; died, February 9, 1871. Quotation : Oratory— Revelation—Salvation—Singing. MELVILL, PHILIP, born about 1760 ; an English naval Officer and Writer, (London, 1812.) Quotation : Con- tradiction. MELVILLE, GANESvorT, born in the City of New York, 1816; an American diplomatist and politician; died, 1847. Quotation : State. - MELVIILE, GEORGE: JOHN WHYTE, born, 1821; a Scottish novelist; died, December 5, 1878. Quotations: Head–Immorality—Pledge. MELVILLE, HERMAN, born in the city of New York, August 1, 1819; an American novelist and traveller. Quotations: Elect—Worship. MELVILLE, SIR JAMEs, born, 1535; a Scotch historian; died, 1607. Quotation : Biessedness. MELZI, GAETANO, COUNT, born, 1783; an Italian bibliographer; died, 1852. Quotation : Reputation. MENAS ; a Roman admiral under Pompey; slain in battle, 35 B.C. Quotations: Insolvency—Prodigality. MENCIUS, (MEN-TSE,) born in the state of Tsow, 370 B.C.; an eminent Chinese philosopher and follower of Confucius; died, 288 B.C. Quotations: Abundance—Agree- ment—Ambition – Anatomy–Appetite —Apprehension— Beast — Chess — Concealment — Condemnation — Extrava- gance—Faults— Feeling — Field — Goodness — Greatness— Heresy—Husbandry — mº – Impropriety—Logua- City—Man— Mechanics — Minister-State-Nose— Passion— Profit-Purity—Reproof–Resentment— Respect—Rigor— Sagacity—Self-Examination—Self-Respect—Shamelessness Tājºi. —Soul - Sovereign — State—Submission— §. —Tribulation — Thirst — Unrighteousness—Wife— I'Ong. MENEDEMUS, born at Eretria, in the fourth cen- tury, B.C.; a Greek philosopher; died, 277 B.C. Quota- tions: Celibacy—Extravagance—Feasting—Marriage. MENKEN, ADAH ISAACS ; born about 1809; an English actress and poetess ; died in §: in the city of New York, about 1858. Quotations. Littleness—Neglect— Popularity—Work. MENU, or MANU ; a celebrated Hindoo sage, the son of Brahma, and the revealer of the code of laws known as the “Institutes of Manu,” which it is supposed received its present form about 880 B.C. Quotations : Acting — Appetite—Injury—Justice—Offense – Purity—Scripture — Seduction — Slander—Speech—Talking—Temptation—Tes- timony— Truth—Universe—Wantonness—Woman. MENZEL, WolfGANG, born at Waldenburg, in Silesia, 1798; a German litterateur and critic. Quotations: Idea—Truth. MENANDER, born, 342 B.C.: a Greek dramatic poet : drowned in the harbor of Perroeus. Quotations: Advantage — Assistance – Birth — Blushing — Calumny — Chance—Country—Daughter — Disposition – Envy—False- hood—Father—Fool— Fortune — Happiness—Heir—Honor — Husband—Ignorance—Imprudence—Impudence—Injury —Labor—Law—Liar—Life—Love—Lover–Malice—Money —Monuments—Peace—Persuasion — Pleasure—Poor—Pro- crastination — Prophet — Prudence — Relations — Result – Riches—Rural Life—Servant—Slander—Traitor–Truth— Understanding—Wastefulness—Wealth—Wife—Wisdom— Wish—Woman—Words—Youth. MERCEIN, IMOGEN ; an American writer, and author of a little devotional book, “The Garden of the Lord,” (New York, 1881.) Quotation : Fact. - MERCER, MARGARET, born in Hampshire, 1796; an American philanthropist ; died, 1846. Quotation : Plan. MERCIER, LOUIS SEBASTIEN, born in Paris, 1740 ; an eccentric French writer; died, 1814. Quotations: In- jury—Wrong. MEREDITH, GEORGE, born, 1828; an English littérateur. Quotation : Intrusion. MEREDITH, L. P., born about 1830 ; an English dentist, and author of “The Teeth and How to Save Them,” (London, 1871.) Quotation : Teeth. MEREDITH, MRS. LOUISE TwAMLEY, born at Birmingham, 1812; an English poetess, author “Loved and Lost,” (1860,) and other poems. Quotation : Enjoyment. 1156 JD A Y’.S. C. O / / A C O AV. MERES, FRANCIS, born, 1570; author of “Wits' Treasury,” and other works. Quotation : Self-Opinion. MERIVALE, CHARLES, D.D., born, 1808; an Eng- lish divine and historian. Quotations : Gentile—Paganism —Polytheism—Predestination—Theology. MERIVALE, HERMAN, elder brother of the pre- ceding, born, 1805; an English writer and political econo- mist. Quotation : Witness. MERIVALE, JOHN HERMAN, the father of the preceding, born at Exeter, 1779; an English lawyer and writer; died, 1844. Quotation : Coxcomb. MERKEL, GARLIEB, born in Livonia, 1776 : an intimate friend of Kotzebue, with whom he was associated as editor of the “Freimuthigen '' in Berlin ; died, 1850. Quotation : Character. MERKLE, JAMEs, born, 1730; a Scotch author ; died, 1799. Quotation : Death. MERMET, CLAUDE, born at Saint Rambert, 1550 ; a French tragic poet and writer; died, 1601. Quotations: Friendship—Insignificance—Reason. MERRICK, JAMES, born at Reading, January 8, 1720; an º divine and poet ; died, January 5, 1769. Quotation : Lady. MERRILL, STEPHEN M., D.D., born in Ohio, 1825; an American divine, and editor of “Western Christian Ad- vocate.” Quotations: Horror–Plan. MERSUATEF, SOTEM ; an ancient Egyptian scribe. The name of this writer was deciphered from hie- roglyphics. Quotation : To-Morrow. MESMER, FRANZ ANTON, born at Itzmang, May 23, 1783; a German physician and the discoverer of Mes- ºism; died at Meersburg, March 5, 1815 Quotation : Na- l] I'ê. META, the pseudonym of Mrs. Mary Lewis, an American writer, and author of “Heart Echoes,” (Bal- timore, 1873.) Quotation : Sumptuousness. METASTASIO, PIETRO BonAvRNTURA (TRAPAS- si, “The Racine of Italy,” born at IRome, January 13, 1698; an eminent Italian poet. At an early age he manifested extraordinary talents for improvisation, and when only twelve years of age he translated Homer; he was the au- thor of sixty-three tragedies and Operas, locsides innumer- able poems: died at Vienna, April 12, 1782. Q?totations : Adversity—Cowardice—Despair—Error—Fortune--Friend- ship—God —Grief –Guilt – Heart — Ill— Innocence—Judg- ment—Lover —Oak — ()bedience—Omnipotence—Remorse —River — Sea — Ship — Skill — Snare — Soldier — Tongue — Ubiquity—Unrighteousness—Words. METELLUS, QUINTUS CAECILIUs, (Macedonicus,) born about 180 B.C.; a Roman praetor, consul, and censor; died, 115 B.C. Quotation : Wife. METEZEAU, CLéMENT, born at Dreux ; a French architect : died, 1612. Quotation : Work. METIUS, JAKOB, born, 1609; a Dutch astronomer and philosopher; died about 1670. Quotation : Aid. METRODORUS, born at Lampsacus about 340 B.C.; a Greek philosopher; died, 277 B.C. Quotation : Universe. METZ, Joseph, voN, born in Ebenhofen, Bava- ria, March 9, 1758: an eminent German theological writer: died, January 4, 1819. Quotations: Jest—Truth. MEYER, FREDERICK JEAN LAURENT, born, 1760; a French author; died, 1844. Quotation : Greatness. MIALL, EDwARD, born in Portsmouth, 1809 ; an English dissenting divine, journalist, and statesman. Quo- tation : Commonwealth. MICHAELIS, JOHANN DAVID, born at Halle, in Saxony, February 27, 1717; an eminent German theologian and Orientalist ; died, August 22, 1791. Quotations : De- traction—Memory. MICHELET, JULES, born in Paris, August 21, 1798; an eminent French historian, educator, and littéra- teur. His principal works are a “History of the French Revolution,” “History of France,” “L’Amour,” and “La Femme;" died, February 9, 1874. Quotations : Affection —Alone—Bride—Celibacy—Cottage—Gracefulness—Home- liness—Love—Marriage—Mother—River—Society—Suffer- ing—Table—Tenderness—Widow—Wife—Woman. MICHIEL, GIUSTINA RENIER, born, 1755 : an Italian female littérateur; died, 1832. Quotation : Time. MICITHUS. Quotation: Trust. MICKLE, WILLIAM JULIUS, born in Dumfries- shire, September 29, 1734; a Scottish poet and translator; died, October 28, 1788. Quotation : Moon. MIDDLETON, CoNYERs, D.D., born in York, De- cember 27, 1683; an eminent English scholar, divine, and controversalist: died, July 28, 1750. }rtotations : Favor— Jealousy—Revenge—Self-Possession—Thought. MIDDLETON, THOMAS, born at London, 1570 : an English dramatic author; died, July 15, 1627. Quotations: glº-Craft —Lowliness — Manners — Motto—Parting— alºne. MILBURN, WILLIAM HENRY, (The Blind Preach- er,) born in ‘Philadelphia, September 26, 1823; an American divine and traveller. Quotations: Blindness—Lending. MILDERT, WILLIAM v.AN, (Bishop of Llandaff and Durham,) born about 1761 : an English divine and au- thor: died, 1836. Quotation : Reason. 1522; an English MILDMAY, SIR WALTER, born Statesman, and founder of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; . 1589. Quotations : Compensation—Friendship—Pre- Ju(11Ce. MILL, JAMES, father of John Stuart Mill, born at Montrose, 1773; a Scottish historian and writer on politi- cal economy; died, 1836. Quotation : Government. MILL, John STUART, born in London, May 30, 1806; an eminent Fnglish philosopher and economist; died, May 9, 1873. , Quotations: Aristocracy—Despotism—Indyiduality —Justice — Labor—Opinion — Originality—Self-Help — Se- Verity—State—Thinking. MILLAR, JOHN, born in Lanarkshire, 1735; an eminent Scotch jurist and author; died, 1801. Q?totation : Disinterestedness. MILLE, JAMES DE, born at St. John's, New Bruns- wick, 1833; an English miscellaneous Writer. Quotations: Ambassador—Sorrow—Strength. MILLER, ABRAHAM B., born in western New York, 1820; an American educator and writer. Quotation : Self-Culture. MILLER, G. B., D.D., born about 1800; an Ameri- can diviné and author. Quotations: Parable—Plainness. MILLER, HUGH, born at Cromarty, October 10, 1802; an eminent Scottish geologist and Writer ; died b suicide, December, 1856. Quotations: Atheism—Hospitali- ty—Materialism—Mechanics—Nature—Praise—Revelation —Rock—Sky—Unbelief. MILLER, JAMES, born in Dorsetshire, 1703 ; an English dramatist and satirical writer; died, 1744. Quota- tion : Retirement. MILLER, JAMES, CoLONEL, born at Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1776; an American officer in the war of 1812; died, 1851. Quotation : Trying. - MILLER, JOHN, born, 1760; an eminent English divine and author; died, 1831. Quotation : Infinity. MILLINGTON, JOHN, born in London, 1799; an eminent English professor of natural philosophy and chem- istry, and author; died, 1859. Quotation : Fancy. MILLINGEN, J. G., M.D., born about 1800; an English army surgeon, and an eminent author. Qztota- tions : Talking—Truth. MILLS, CHARLEs, born at Greenwich, 1788; an English writer; died, 1825. Quotation : Chivalry. MILLS, ROBERT Q., born in South Carolina ; an American statesman ; died at Washington, 1855. Quotat- tion. : Right. MILMAN, HENRY HART, D.D., born in London, February 10, 1791; an English divine, poet, and dramatist, and author of the well known tragedy of “Fazio:” died, September, 1868. Quotations: Christianity—Death—Inde- pendence. MILNER, Isa AC, D.D., born near Leeds, January 1, 1751 : an eminent English divine and mathematician ; died, 1820. Q7zotations: Conduct—Insincerity--Self-Abase- ment—Self-Righteousness—Task. MILNER, JoHN, D.D., born in Dondon, 1752; an eminent Catholic theologian and antiquary ; died, April 19, 1826. Quotations: Persecution—Sabbath. MILNER, JOSEPH, born near Leeds, 1744; an Eng- lish divine, and author of “Church History; ” died, 1797. Quotations: Profession—Religion. MILTON, JOHN, “The Homer of Great Britain,” born in Bread Street, London, December 9, 1608; an im- mortal English poet, and One of the most illustrious in ge- nius, philanthropy, learning, and Virtue; died in London, November 8, 1674. Quotations : Ability —Anarchy— Bible —Books—Childhood – Controversy – Confirmation—Cour- age—Cynicism—Debate—Faith — Fame—Freedom—Great- ness—Hate—Hell—Heresy–Hope—Ingratitude—Intellect— Joy – King — Learning — Legislature – Liberty – Light — Loneliness—Lust—Mind—Mote—Music—Necessity—Peace —Perfection — Phllosophy — Preaching–Preface—Predes- tination—Principles—Printing — Prudence–Reformation —Scripture—Self-Government—Superstition —Teaching— Trial—Truth—Tyrant—Will. MIMNERMUS, born, 630 B.C.; a Greek elegiac º Hºle poet; died about 540 B.C. Quotations: Mirth— (outh. MIN-LI-CHI: a Chinese philosopher and disciple of Confucius. Quotation : Trial. MINOR, LUCIAN, born in Louisa county, Virginia, 1802; an American lawyer and author. Quotation : Idle- In ESS. MINOS, born about 450 B.C.: an Olympic victor, died, 390 B.C. Quotation : Confinement. A / O G R A P H / C A Z / MW D E X. 1157 MINOT, THOMAs, (Archbishop of Dublin,) born, §: an English divine and writer; died, 1375. Quotation : II’l. MIN-TSZE-KEEN; a Chinese philosopher and dis- ciple of Confucius. Quotation : Refusal. MIRA.BEAU, HonoRIUS GABRIELLE RIQUETTI, Count de, born at Bignon, near Nemours, March 9, 1749; a famous French orator and Statesman; died, April 2, 1791. ğtions : Death—Development — Flattery—Music—Ug- 1I] eSS. MISHNA, THE, is the text of the fundamental code of the Jewish civil and canonical law, Which With the Gemara form the Talmud, (q.v.) Quotattion : Precept. MISRI, (Zūn-Nūn,). IBN IBRAHiM, ABU 'L-FAID Thaubän, Al, born at Ikhmim, Upper Egypt, 800; a cele- brated Arabian scholar, and Saint. He was the first person of the age for his learning, devotion, communion. With the divinity, and acquaintance with literature; died, 860. Q700- tations : Gifts—Good—Heart—Music. MITCHELL, JAMEs, born at Edinburgh, 1637; a Scottish divine and martyr; executed, January 16, 1875. Quotations: Deceit—Zeal. MITCHEL, JoHN, born in the county of Derry, November 3, 1815; an Irish adventurer and politician. Quo- tation : Fugitive. MITCHEL, ORMSBY MACKNIGHT, LL.D., born in Kentucky, 1810: an American astronomer, and a popular lecturer and writer; died, 1862. Quotations : Brains—Re- sponsibility—Universe. MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, (Ik Marvel,) born in Norwich, Connecticut, April, 1822; a distinguished American writer. }\totations. Accuracy — Astronomy— Coquetry—Future–Giant— Letter—Work, MITFORD, A. B., born about 1830; an English author and traveller, (London, 1874.) Quotation. SWOrd. MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL, born in Alresford, Hampshire, December 16, 1786; a charming English writer; died, January 10, 1855. Quotations: Disinterestedness— Influence—Riches. MIZA, SAMUEL, or MIRZA SAM, born near Ispa- hān, 1490; a Persian historian ; died, 1550. Quotations: Man—Mortality. a A A MOAD, ABö ZAKARIYA AR-RAZI IBN YAHYA, born at Rai, 791 ; a celebrated Arabian preacher, poct, and reciter; died at Naisapur, March 30, 872. Quotations. Ex- posure—Hell–Hunger–Lover—Resurrection—Sadness. MOBERLEY, GEORGE, D.D., D.C.L., (Bishop of Salisbury,) born, 1803; an English divine and author. Quo- tation : Expiation. MOELMUD, born in the fourth century; a Welch king who was the author of several of the Welch Triads. Quotations: Concord—Ill-Nature—Learning–Love—Song —Ugliness. - MCETZNER, or MAETZNER, EDWARD, born about 1830 ; an eminent German philologist and Writer. Qºtota- tion : Grammar. MOGRIDGE, GEORGE, (Old Hwmphrey,) born, 1784: a celebrated English writer for the young ; died, 1854. Juotations: Beggar—Christmas – Education — Exaggera- tion–Flirtation–Fondness — Food—Humility—Idleness— Intoxication—Mother —Occupation — Pen–Pilgrim—Pres- ent—Priest—Sabbath—Sagacity—Sailor—Selfishness—Sick- ness—Temperance —Temptation—Union—Utility—Vanity —Wills—Wisdom. MOIR, DAVID MACBETH, M.D., born at Mussel- burgh, January 5, 1798; a distinguished Scottish writer and pºleº died, Jul; 6, 1851. Quotattons : . Difficulty — ase — Education — Heaven—Injury — Life — Mob — Orna- ment — Punctuality—Temper. MOLE, LOUIS MATHIEU, COUNT, born, 1781; an eminent French statesman and author; died in Paris, 1855. Quotgtion : Talking. MOLE, MATHIEU, born, 1584 ; an eminent French magistrate ; died, 1656. Quotations : Coquetry—Right. MOLESCHOTT, JAKOB, born at Bois-le-Duc, 1822; % Dutch naturalist, physiologist, and author. Quotation : lowerS. MOLESWORTH, SIR WILLIAM, born in Surrey, 1810; an eminent English Statesman and author; died, 1855. Quotation : Health. MOLIERE, JEAN BAPTISTE PoquELIN, born in Paris, January 15, 1622; a celebrated French comic author and actor. He was the son of an upholsterer, yet from his low birth and meagre education, and by the Striving genius within him, he rose to be the greatest actor and dramatic writer of the age; he continned to act to the last moment of his life, and may almost be said to have died upon the stage. His works, like those of all men of true genius, are the property of universal humanity; died, Feb- ruary 17, 1673. Quotations : Action—Austerity— Beauty— Birth–Civility—Dinner — Dupes—Envy—Folly—Fortune— Gold—Grammar—Haste—Heir–Honor—Household—Inno- cence—Intention—Knavery—Love —Lover—Manners—NO- bility—Obstacle –Piety — Praise — Promptness- Reason— Repårtee—Resentment — Severity — Slander — Speaking— Trust—Understanding—Vice—Wit—Woman. MOLINA, LUIS, born in New Castile, 1535 ; a cele- brated Spanish Jesuit and theologian ; died, October 12, 1601. Quotation : Gifts. MOLINOS, MIGUEL, born at Saragossa, 1630 ; a Spanish theologian, and the founder of the sect of Quie- tests ; died, 1696. Quotation : Silence. MOLLIUS, or MOLLIO, GIov ANNI, born in Mon- talcino, about 1500: a distinguished Italian theologian and martyr; put to death by order of the Inquisition, Septem- ber 5, 1553. Quotation : Truth. MOLTKE, HELMUTH, KARL BERNARD, BARON, von, born at Parcham, Mecklenburg, October 26, 1800; an eminent Russian general, Chief Marshal of the German Empire. Quotation : Adventure. MOLYNEUX, WILLIAM, LL.D., born in Dublin, 1656; an eminent Irish mathematician, astronomer, and author; died, 1698. Quotation : Night. MOMPESSON, WILLIAM ; an English divine and author. Quotation : Piety. MONBODDO, LORD. See BURNET, JAMEs. Quo- tattions : Cause—Wit. MONCRIEFF, SIR HENRY WELLwooD, born in Perthshire, 1750: a distinguished Scottish divine and con- troversialist; died, 1827. Quotation : Intolerance. MONETTE, John WESLEY, M.D., born in Louisi- ania, 1798; an American historian and writer, (New York, 1846;) died in Madison, Louisiania, March 1, 1851. Quota- tion : Laziness. MONIMUS, born about 316 B.C.; a Macedonian officer. Quotation. Opinion. MONK, GEORGE, (DUKE OF ALBERMARLE,) born, #. a successful English general ; died, 1670. Qztotation : tage. MONOD, ADOLPHE, born at Copenhagen, January 21, 1802; an eminent Swiss Protestant divine and writer; died in Paris, April 6, 1856. Quotation. Thanks. MONRO, ALEXANDER, F.R.S., born in London, 1697; an eminent English physician, anatomist, and au- thor; died, 1767. Quotation. : Politeness. MONRO, JoHN, M.D., born in Greenwich, Kent, 1715; an English physician and author; died, 1781. Quota- tions: Criticism—Curiosity—Insanity. MONROE, JAMEs, the fifth President of the Uni- ted States, born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, April 28, 1758; an eminent American statesman ; died, July 4, 1831. Quotations : Government — Peace — Usurpation — Worship. MONS, NAT DE, born at Toulouse, 1200; a French Troubadour. Quotation : Bashfulness. MONTAGU, EDwARD WORTLEY, son of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, born in Yorkshire, 1713; an Eng- lish statesman and author; died, 1776. Quotation : Wisdom. MONTAGU, LADY MARY WORTLEY, (LADy Mary Pierrepont,) born in Nottinghamshire, 1690; a cele- brated English authoress; died, 1762. Quotations: Civility —Conscience—Hypocrisy—Intelligence—Novels—Pleasure —IReading—Suicide. MONTAGUE, ELIZABETH ROBINSON, born in Yorkshire, 1720; a celebrated English lady and authoress; died, 1800. Quotations : Constancy—Situation. MONTAGUE, S. Quotations: Ambition — Change— HeedleSSneSS. MONTAIGNE, MICHEL EYQUEM DE, born at the château de Montaigne, in Périgord, February 28, 1533; a celebrated French philosopher, moralist, and essayist; died. September, 1592. Quotations: Action—Ambition.--Anger —Argument—Avarice—Beauty—Books—Brains—Cheerful- ness-Confidence—Constangy—Contentment- **ś. Custom—Day—Death—L)eceit–Disdain– ºpºlº RT1- ulation—I)ivinity— Drunkenness— Eloquence — Equivoca- tion—Example—Eye—Face—Falsehood—Fortune–Friend- ship—Future—Ghösts—Glory—Gold-Good–Government —Health– History—Honesty—Humility—Ignorance— Indi- gence—Infamy—Intemperance – Joy– Judgment—Judg- ments—Knowledge—Law—Lawyer – Learning-Liberality —License—Life – Lying – Madness — Malice – Marriage— Mediocrity—Memory—Military-Mortification—Obedience –Obstinačy—Old Age – Oligarchy— Oratory – Pain – Pas- sion—Pedantry—Physic—Pledge-Plenty--Poetry--Preach- infºrm tion—Pretension—Quotation—Rank-Rarity – Remedy–Remorse–Repentance–Reyolution-Riches— Satiety–t Self — Self-Opinion—Sense—Sight–Singerity— Sleep-Solicitude–Soul-Study--Submission–Suffering— Sun-Time—Timidity–Truth–Tuition –Valor—Wexation —Vice—Viciousness—Virtue—Will—Wine—Wisdom—Wit —Work—World—Writing—Zeal. MONTALEMBERT, CHARLES FORBES, COMTE de, born in London, 1810; a distinguished French States- man, orator, and political writer; died, March, 1870. Quo- tation : Coquetry. MONTALVAN, JUAN PEREZ DE, born at Madrid, 1602; an eminent Spanish dramatist; died, 1638. Quotation : Ruler. MONTANUS, born in Phrygia, in the second cen- tury; a Greek heresiarch, and the founder of the sect of “Montanists.” Quotation : Wife. * 1158 A) A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. ...* MONTAUDON, THE MONK OF, born at the Castle of the Vic, in the twelfth century; a celebrated French troubadour of the noble family of Auvergne. Quotations : Charity—Knighthood. MONTESQUIEU, CHARLES DE SECONDAT, BAR- on de la Brède et de, born near Bordeaux, January 18, 1689 a brilliant, original, and popular French author, jurist, philosopher, and littérateur. His greatest work “The Spirit of Laws,” ( L’Esprit des Lois,”) created universal admira- tion, and was translated into every language of Europe. In this arduous enterprise of exploring the labyrinths of history and political science, he was in advance of his age as an advocate of liberty and humanity; died in Paris, Feb- ruary, 1755. Quotations: Adulation –Ambassador-Aris- tocracy—Army—Atheism—Beast—Brains— Brute–Buying —Chivalry — Climate — Commerce – Courtier—Greator– Crime — Delicacy—Democracy — Despotism — Difficulty– Dispute–Divorce- Dress – Envy— Equality— Etiquette—- J Example—Exchange— Executive—Fashion–Feudalism— Freedom—Gold--Government—Happiness--Heresy.--Honor —Hospitality—Hunting— Ignorance—Intrigue— Judges— Justice—King—Knavery—Land—Law—Laziness–Legisla- ture — Lending — Lemity – Liberty—Loquacity-Luxury- Machinery—Magic-Măganimity–Man-Meghanics—Mer- chant— Metals – Military— Minister-State— Modesty—MO- hammedanism–Monarchy—Money–Nature–Occupancy— Oratory—Paganism—Pain—Patriotism— Penance-Place— Politeness—folygamy—Power—Precept—I’riest-Prince— Principles — Próñity – Punishment-Quality- Raillery – Reading — l'econciliation – Republic – Republicanism — Retaliation—Revelation—River-Self-Esteem-Self-Help- Simplicity—Slavery—Society—Speaking—State—Statute —Stoicism—Success—Talent—Taſking—Taxation--Temple —Toil—Toryment — Truth — Uniformity — USury—Vanity— Vegetation—War—Woman—Writing. MONTEZUMA II, born, 1470; the last Aztec em- eror of Mexico; died, 1520. Quotations: Bandit —King— unrise. MONTGOMERIE, KATE : an English poetess and miscellaneous writer. Quotations : Sarcasm—Teaching. MONTGOMERY, ALExANDER ; a Scottish poet under the reign of j.ames the Sixth ; died, 1610, Quotation : Curiosities. MONTGOMERY, GEORGE WASHINGTON, born in Valencia, Spain, 1804, settled in the United States; a Span- § author; died in Washington, June 5, 1841. Quotation : - nvy. MONTGOMERY, GEORGE W., born, 1816; an American Universalist clergyman, and author of “Law of Rindness." Quotation : Kindness. MONTGOMERY, JAMEs, born at Irvine, Ayr- shire, November 4, 1771; a distinguished Scotch poet : died, April 30, 1854. Quotations : Faith—Night—Soul—Time. MONTGOMERY, RICHARD, born in Ireland, 1737; a distinguished Irish general, served in Canada under Wolfe, and subsequently entered the American army; killed at the assault on Quebec, December, 1775. Quota. tão/2 . Soldier. MONTGOMERY, RoRERT, born in Bath, 1807: an English divine and poet ; died, 1855. Qºtotations: Com- mentator—Providence. MONTHOLON, CHARLEs TRISTAN, MARQUIs DE, born in Paris, 1782; a French general and author; died, 1853. Quotation : Woman, MONTLOSIER, FRANÇors DOMINIQUE REYNAUD, Comte de, born at Clermont-Ferrand, 1755; a French jour- malist ; died, 1838. Quotations: Home—Wit MONTPELIER, C. A. J., DE, (Bishop of Liege,) born about 1825; an eminent French Catholic theologian and writer. Quotations: Evening—Habit. MONTPELIER, GERMONDA DE ; a female trouba- dour of the twelfth century. Quotations: Deceit — Ill- Nature. MONVEL, JACQUES MARIE BOUTET, born at Lu- néville, 1745; a French actor and dramatist; died, 1821. Quotations: Emulation—Wish. MOODIE, SUSANNAH, sister to Agnes Strickland, born, 1803: an excellent English writer. Quotations: Ava- rice—Contemplation — Countenance—Jealousy—Scenery— Spendthrift—Sun—Time—Universe. MOODY, DWIGHT DYMAN, born at Northfield, Massachusetts, February 5, 1837; an American revival preacher. Quotations: Captivity—Christ. MOODY, JAMES, born, 1744; an American farmer and author: died, 1809. Qxtotation : Violence. MOORE, DANIEL, born about 1800; an English divine and author, (London, 1844–56.) Quotations : Anec- dotes—Elocution—Introduction—Progress. MOORE, DANIELD. ToMPKINS, born in Michigan, 1820; a distinguished American Agricultural editor, and publisher of “Genesee Farmer,” “Rural New Yorker,” and other agricultural journals. Quotations : Agriculture —Arbitration—Flowers—Garden—Vocation. MOORE, EDWARD, born in Berkshire, 1712: an s English littérateur; died, 1757. Quotation: Common-Sense. MOORE, ELY, born about 1800 : an American printer, Orator, and politician. Quotation : Monuments. MOORE, SIR FRANCIS, born, 1558 ; an English jurist and writer; died, 1621. Quotation : Talking. MOORE, FRANK, born in Concord, New Hamp- Shire, 1828; an American writer ; author of “Rebellion Record,” “American Eloquence,” and other works. Quo- tation : Indiscretion. MOORE, HUGH, born about 1800; an English Writer, and author of “A Dictionary of Quotations from Various Authors in Ancient and Šišić Languages,” (London, 1840.) Quotations: Acting—Adieu-Lučk. MOORE, JOHN, M.D., born in Stirling, 1730; a Scottish physician and writer; died, 1802. Quotations: Opinion—Severity—Vanity. MOQRE, JOHN HAMILTON, born, 1735: an English Writer; qied, 1801. Quotations: Nickname—Refusai—Se- crecy—Youth. MOORE, SYDENHAM, born in Alabama, 1808: an American Statesman. Quotation : Secession. MOORE, SAMUEL ; an English jurist and writer, (London, 1801.) Quotation : Constitution. MOORE, THOMAs, born in Dublin, May 28, 1779; a celebrated Irish poet; died, February 25, 1852. Quota- tions : Assurance— Critic—Humility — Military – Punish. Iment—Statesman—Tears. - MOORE, WILLIAM THOMAs, born in Henry coun- ty, Kentucky, 1832; an American minister and editor. Quo- tations : Consistency—Star. MORANGE, MARY ELIZABETH, born in Oakwood, #. Carolina, 1815; an American authoress. Quotation : OII]{2. MORATA, OLYMPIA FULVIA, born at Ferrara, 1526; an Italian female Savant and poetess ; died, 1555. Q7zotations : Scripture—World. MORDAUNT, CHARLEs, (EARL OF PETERBOR- ough,) born, 1658; a famous English general ; died, 1735. Quotations : Affection—Mind—Voice. MORE, HANNAH, born in the village of Staple- ton, Gloucestershire, 1745 : one of the most illustrious fe- male poets and writers of England; died, September 7, 1 Quotations : Activity—Adoration—Applause—Biog- raphy—Blessing–Despair:DeVotion- Domesticity--Duty —Economy--Education—Eternity--Evil–Fiction—Flattery —Flirtation— Genius— Hate — Infidelity— Joy–Jealousy— #ºw Martyr-Method—Motive—Observation— Physician–Play—Praise— Prayer—Prudence—Retirement —Sensibility—Sociability—Theatre—Troubles—Vivacity— Woman—Worship. MORE, SIR THOMAs, born in London, 1480; an eminent, English wit, philosopher, orator, and statesman; executed at Tower Hill, July 6, 1535. Quotations : Ad- vancement — Cheerfulness — Fortune — Industry — Law — Love—Mirth— Omnipotence — Opinion — Probation—Sym- metry—Thief—Truth—World. MORE, HENRY, D.D., born in Grantham, Lincoln- shire, October 12, 1614; an eminent English divine and author; died, September 1, 1687 Quotations: Feudalism— Omnipresence. MORE, JOHN, born, 1521 ; an English divine and author; died, 1592. Quotation. Worship. MORELL, SIR CHARLEs, the pseudonym of the Rev. James IRidley, (q.v.) Quotations. Example—Reason. MORELL, J. D.; an English contemporary writer, and inspector of schools in Great Britain. Quotation : Philosophy. MORELL, WILLIAM, born in England about 1590; an English divine and author, who #. Captain Gorges to America in 1623; and resided at Plymouth, Mas- sachusetts, about a year. Quotation : Benevolence. MORELLET, ANDRE, ABBAE, born in Lyons, 1727; an eminent French littérateur; died, 1819. Quotations: Friendship—Riches. MORFORD, HENRY, born at New Monmouth, Monmouth county, New Jersey, 1823; an American jour- Inalist, poet, and writer. Quotation : Flattery. MORGAN, JOHN T., born at Athens, Tennessee, June 20, 1824; an American jurist and statesman. Quota- tion : Slavery. MORGAN, LADY, (MISS SYDNEY OwensON,) the daughter of an actor, born in Dublin, 1783; a celebrated English novelist, poet, and miscellaneous writer; died, 1859. Quotations: Architecture — Ignorance — Opinion— Polygamy—Vulgarity. MORGAN, SIR THoMAs CHARLES, M.D., born, London, 1783; an English physician and author; died, 1843. Quctatio:\s: Necessity—Self-Murder—Suicide—Wisdom. MORIER, JAMEs, born, 1780; a popular English novelist: died, 1848. Quotations : Providence—Words. MORLEY, GEORGE, D.D., born, 1597 : an English miscellaneous writer; died, 1684. Quotations : Equivoca- tion—Poetry. . MORLEY, HENRY, born in London, 1822; an Eng- liº writer, critic, and biographer. Quotations : Collision —ESSay. A / O G. A. A /2 // / C A / / AV ZD Aº X. 1159 MORLEY, LORD, (EDMOND PARKER,) born, 1810: an English liberal, Quotation : Authorship. MORLEY, THOMAS, born, 1550 ; an English mu- sician and composer; died, 1604. Quotattion : Music. MORLIN, SARAH W. Quotation : Subordination. MORNAY, PHILIPPE DE, (DU PLESSIS-MoRNAY,) born at Buhy, in Vexin, 1549; a noble French Protestant, gºnent for his virtue and talents; died, 1623. Quotation : l!Il. MORPETH, LORD, (GEORGE WILLIAM FREDER- ick Howard,) and Earl of Carlisle, born, 1802 : an English statesman and author; died, 1864. Q2totation : Character. MORREN, CHARLES FRANÇOIS ANTOINE, born at Ghent, 1807; a Belgian scholar; died, December, 1858. Quo- tation : Zoology. MORRIS, EDwARD JOY, born in Philadelphia, 1817; an American statesman, writer, and traveller. Quo- Cºttion : Self-ACCuSation. MORRIS, FRANCIS ORPEN, born at York, March 25, 1810; an English clergyman and Writer on natural his- tory. Quotation : Zoology. MORRIS, GEORGE P., “The Song Writer of Ame- rica,” born in Philadelphia, 1802; an eminent journalist, oet, and author; died, 1864. Quotations : Authority – achelor—Complacency–Dress — Esteem — Exile—Genius —Hermit—Intellect—Judges—Jury—King–Labor–Laugh- ter—Law—Learning–Love—Magic—Merit—Moon-Music —Parable—Philanthropy— Precedent—Quarrels – Riding— Scenery— Seasons — Sénsibility — Sentiment – Sincerity — Smile—Talking—Trees—Ungratefulness—Youth. MORRIS, GOUVENEUR, born at Morrisiana, New York, January 31, 1752; an able American statesman ; died, November 6, 1816. Quotations: Alien—Minister-State. MORRIS, JoHN G., D.D., born at York, Pennsyl- vania, November 14, 1803; an eminent American Lutheran divine and theologian. Quotation : Grammar. - MORRIS, LEWIS, born at Morrisania, 1726 : an American statesman and a signer of the Declaration of In- dependence; died, January 22, 1798. Quotation : Sim- plicity. MORRIS, RICHARD, M.A., LL.D., born at Ber- mondsey, Southwork, September 8, 1833; an English di- vine. Quotation. Decalogue. MORRIS, ROBERT, born in Lancashire, England, January 20, 1734, who in early youth emigrated to America, and took an active part in the Revolution; he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence ; , also an able finan- cier for the new government; died at Philadelphia, Sep- tember 8, 1806. Quotations: Superfluity—Wealth. MORRIS, THOMAS, born in Virginia, January 3, 1776; an American statesman, and an early opponent of slavery; died at Bethel, Ohio, December 7, 1844. Quota- tion : Expression. MORRIS, THOMAS A., born in Kanawha county, Virginia, 1794; an American Methodist divine and bishop. Qzzotation : Revival. MORRISON, JOHN HOPKINS, born at Peter- borough, New Hampshire, 1808; an American divine and theological writer. Quotation : Tact. - MORRISON, RoPERT, D.D., born in Northumber- land, 1782; an eminent English Orientalist, and missionary; died, 1834. Quotation . Dissipation. MORSE, E. M.; an American miscellaneous wri- ter. Quotation : Mountain. MORSE, EDwARD SYLVESTER, born at Portland, Maine, June 18, 1838: an American professor and lecturer on comparative anatomy and Zoology. Quotation : Zool- Ogy. MORSE, SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE, born at Charles- town, Massachusetts, April 27, 1791; an American inventor, artist, and improver of the electric telegraph; died, April 2, 1872. Quotations: Electricity—Telegraph. MORSE, SYDNEY EDWARDs, brother of the pre- ceding, born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, February 7, 1794; an American educator, journalist, and author; died, December 23, 1871. Quotations : Geography—Geometry. MORTON, JAMES MADDISON, born in the present century; an English author and dramatist. Quotation : Hard-Heartedness. MORTON, MARCUs, born at Freetown, Massachu- setts, 1784; an American statesman and jurist; elected governor by a majority of a single vote; died, 1864. Quo- tation : Insensibility. MORTON, NATHANIEL, born in England, 1612 : one of the early Settlers of Plymouth, New England; died, 1685. Quotation : Wine. MORTON, SAMUEL GEORGE, M.D., born in Phila- delphia, January 26, 1799; an American, naturalist, and scientific writer; died, May, 1851. Quotation • Law. MORTON, THOMAS, (Bishop of Chester, Lichfield, and Durham,) born at York, 1564; an English divine and author; died, 1659. Quotation : Neighbor. MORTON, THOMAs, born at Durham, 1764; an English dramatist; died, 1838. Quotation : Wine. MOSBY, COUNTESS OF. Quotation: Dutifulness. MOSCHUS, born at Syracuse, and flourished about 210 B.C.; a Greek idyllic poet, a pupil of Bion. His Idyls are among the most beautiful specimens of ancient pastoral poetry. Quotations : Tomb—World. MOSELLANUS, PETERSCHADE, born about 1450; * §ºman hellenist and philologist; died, 1524. Qzzolation : Jhrist. MöSER, Joh ANN JAKOB, born in Stuttgart, 1701; a prolific German writer; died, 1785. Quotation : Insignifi. CàIlC6. MOSER, JUSTUs, (The German Franklin,) born at Osnabrück, 1720; an eminent German writer, jurist, his- torian, and litterateur; died, 1794. Quotations : Climate— Ennui–Lawyer—Prayer—Right—Wife. MOSES-BEN-NACHMANN, born, 1194: a cele- brated Spanish rabbi; died, 1240. Quotations : Prayer — Voice—Wrath. MOSHEIM, Joh ANN LORENz, born at Lubeck, 1694; an eminent German theologian, pulpit Orator, and historian ; died, 1755. Quotations: Church–Imposition. MOTHE-LE-VAYER, FRANÇors DE LA, born in Paris, 1588; a French writer; died, 1672. Quotations: Eter- nity—Hero–Miser—Pride—Sloth. MOTHELUTU ; a prince of the Fejee Islands. Quotation : Trees. MOTHERWELL, WILLIAM, born in Glasgow, Oc- tober 13, 1798: a Scottish poet and miscellaneous writer; died, November 1, 1835. Quotation : Fame. MQTLEY, John LOTHROP, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, April 15, 1814; an eminent American diplo. º and historian; died, May 30, 1877. Quotation : Rep- 2.]"tee. MOTT, LUCRETIA COFFIN, born on the island of Nantucket, January 3, 1793; an American, philanthropist, reformer, and preacher of the Society of Friends; died, No. Vember 11, 1880. Quotations. Dancing—Sabbath—Woman. MOTT, VALENTINE, born at Glen Cove, Long Island, August, 1785; a distinguished American surgeon ; died at New York, 1865. Quotation : Expediency. MOTTE, ANTOINE HOUDART DE LA, born in Paris, 1672; a French critic and dramatist; died, 1731. Quota. tions : Ennui–Independence—Mother. - MOTTEVILLE, FRANÇoſsE BERTAUT, born in Normandy, 1621; a French lady and author, and companion to Queen Anne of Austria; died, 1689. Quotation : Gravity. MOUCHY, PHILIPPE DE NOAILLES, T) UC DE, born in Paris, 1715; a distinguished French marshal ; executed, 1794. Quotation : Cookery. - MOULTRIE, JOHN, born, 1800; an English poet and author; died, December 26, 1874. Quotation : Co- Operation. MOULTRIE, WILLIAM, born in South Carolina, 1731 ; a distinguished American general ; died, September 29, 1805. Quotation : People. MOUNT, S. Quotation: Massacre. MOUNTCASHEL, LADY. Quotations: Humility— Physician. - MOUNTFORD, WILLIAM, born in Worcestershire, May 31, 1816; an English Unitarian divine, who became astor of a church at Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1850. He is the author of several works. Quotations: Eternity— Faith—Loyalty—Pity—Pleasure—Suicide—World. MOURAVIEFF, MICHAIL NIKITICH, born, 1757; a Russian poet, historian, and philosopher; died, 1807. Quotation : Prince. MOWBRAY, M. Quotation: Daring. MOY, DE. Quotations : Affection—Nose—Ostentation— Quality. - MOYLE, WALTER, born in Cornwall, 1672; a learned English Scholar. Writer, and jurist; died, June 9, 1721. Quotation : Zenith. MOZART, JOHANN CHRYSOSTOM WOLFGANG Amadeus, born at Saltzburg, January 27, 1756; a celebrated German composer; died in Vienna, December 1, 1791. Qxto- tation : Music. - MUBARRAD, ABù 'L-ABBAS MUHAMMAD AL, born at Basra, March 25, 826; a celebrated Arabian philolo- gist and grammarian ; died at Bagdad, December 5, 899. Quotations: Dress—Fortune—Heart. MUDIE, ROBERT, born in Forfarshire, 1777; a Scottish naturalist and littérateur. Quotation: Self-Igno- I’a. Il Cé. MUGHALLIS, ABù MUHAMMAD ABD AL-Aziz Ibn Ahmad Ibn As-Sid Al-Kaisi al-Andalusi Ibn, born in Spain, 968; an Arabian philologer and grammarian; died, arch, 1036. Quotation : Glory. MUHALLAB, IBN ABI SUFRA AL, born about 630; an Arabian philosopher and poet ; died, December, 703. Quotations : Honor—Miser. MUHAMMAD. See MAHOMET. I 160 AD A Y',S C O L / A C O AV. MüHLENBERG, GoTTHILF HENRY ERNST, born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1753: an American clergyman, botanist, and author ; died, 1815. Quotation : Plant. MUIR, JAMES, of Alexandria, Virginia; an Ameri- can minister and author; died, 1820. Quotation : Liberty. MUIR, JoHN, born at Glasgow, 1810; a celebrated Scottish Orientalist and writer. Quotations : Fortune- Telling—Honor. MUKLA, ABū ALI MUHAMMAD IBN ALI AL-HA- San Ibn, born in Bagdad, March, 886: an eminent katib and vizir; died in prison, in Bagdad, July 19, 948, Qatotations: Favor—Kindness—Pen—Slander. MUL.K, JAMAL IBN AFFAH AL, born at Bagdad, 1077; an Arabian poet; died at Bagdad, 1141. Quotations: Fity—Ugliness. MULLER, FREDERICK MAx, born at Dessau, Up- per Saxony, December 6, 1823; a celebrated German philo- logist, Orientalist, and author. He is the author of many valuable works. Quotations: Critic — Immortality—Reli- gion—Words. MULLER, JOHANN, (Regiomontamws,) born near Rönigsberg, June 6, 1436; a celebrated German astronomer, mathematician, and classical Scholar ; died in Rome, July 6, 1476. Quotation : Zenith. MULLER, JoHANN, born at Coblentz, July 14, 1801; a German scientific writer on physiology and other topics; died at Berlin, April, 1858. Quotation : Insinuation. MULLER, JoHANNES voN, born at Schaffhausen, January 3, 1752; a celebrated Swiss historian ; died, 1809. Quotations: Bible—Freedom—Ridicule. MULLER, OTHO FREDERICK, born at Copenhagen, 1730; a celebrated Danish scholar; died, 1784. Quotation : Littleness. MULLNER, AMADEUs GOTTFRIED ADOLF, born near Weissenfels, October 18, 1774; an eminent German dramatic writer; died, June 11, 1829. Quotations. Heir— Piano. MULLOIS, ABBá, born in Paris, about 1810 : an eminent French Protestant divine. Quotations: Acquire- ment—Action—Confirmation—Preacher—Preaching—Pul- pit—Self-Denial—Sermon—Vice. ` MULOCK, DINAH MARIA, (MRS. CRAIK,) born at Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, 1826; an eminent and popular English novelist. She has written admirably upon a variety of subjects, for which she obtained a literary pension of sixty pounds per annum from the civil list. Quotations: Author-Bees—Date–Duty—Failings—Favor —Food—Judgment—Mother—Prohibition. MULSO, THOMAS, born in the middle of the eigh- teenth century; an English writer. Quotation : Truth. MUNAJJIM, ABö 'L-HASAN ALI IBN YAHYA IBN Abi Mansfºr Al, born,821; an Arabian poet and philosopher; died at Sarra-man-raa, 889. Quotations : Desert—Lover. MUNCER, or MUNTZER, THOMAs, born about 1450; a German fanatic and disciple of Luther, and chief of the Anabaptists. He taught that all distinctions of rank were usurpations on the rights Of mankind ; executed at Mülhausen, 1525. Quotation : Yawning. MUNCH-BELLINGHAUSEN. See HALM. MUNDAY, ANTHONY, born, 1553; an English dramatist and author; died, 1633. Quotation : Vain-Glory. MUNDT, KLARA. MüLLER, (LUISE MUHLBACH.) born, January 2, 1814: a German authoress; died at Berlin, September 27, 1873. Quotation : Genius. MUNIR, ABö 'L-HUSAIN AHMAD IBN MUFLIH AT- Tarābolusi Ibn, born at Tripoli, Syria, 1080; an Arabian poet, philologer, and writer; died at Damtiscus, 1152. Qwo- £ations. Folly—Neglect—Obscurity—Talent. MUNSHI, KADIR ABDULLAH BIN ABDUL : a Ma- lay author, of Maxims, and Proverbs, selected from his “Rikayat,” published at Singapore. Quotations : Miser— Moderation—Pedigree-Plant—Quietness—Secrecy—Son— Suavity—Trouble—Ugliness—Will. MUNSON, SAMUEL, born at New Sharon, Maine, 1804; an American clergyman and missionary to Sumatra, on which island he was killed, June 24, 1834, and with his companion, Rev. Henry Lyman, devoured by cannibals. Quotation : Missionary. MUNSTER, SEBASTIEN, born at Inglesheim, 1489: a German theologlan and Orientalist ; died at Basil, 1552. Quotation : Sickness. MURAT or MARAT, JEAN PAUL, born near Neufchâtel, 1744; a notorious Swiss Jacobin, demagogue, and French Revolutionist; assassinated by Charlotte Cor- day, July, 1793. Quotation : Murder. - MURAT, JoACHIM, King of Naples, born at La Bastide, in the southern part of France, May 25, 1771; a dis- tinguished French marshal, and friend of Napoleon i: exe- cuted, October 15, 1815. Quotation : Expectation. MURATORI, LUDov ICO ANTONIO, born at Vig- nole, near Modena, 1672; an Italian littérateur, died, 1750. Quotation : Zealot. - MURE, COLONEL WILLIAM, M.P., born in Cald- well, July 9, 1799; a Scottish critic and scholar of great eminence; died, April 1, 1860. Quotations: Language — Wrong. MURET, MARC ANTOINE, born at Muret in Li- mousin, 1526; a French classical scholar ; died in Rome, 1585. Quotation: Fury. MURILLO, BARTHOLOMé ESTEBAN, born at Sev- ille, January 1, 1618; an eminent Spanish painter; died, 1682. Q?totation : Character. MURPHY, ARTHUR, born at Clooniquin, county of Roscommon; 1780; an Irish dramatist and miscellaneous Writer; died, 1805. Quotation: Calumny—Ridicule—Sleep —Writing. MURRAY, HUGH, born in East Lothian, 1779; a Scottish geographer, and miscellaneous writer; died, 1846. Quotation : Formality—Precept. MURRAY, LINDLEY, born at Swatara, near Lan- Caster, Pennsylvania, 1745; settled in England, and became known by his School books and several other eminent Works ; died, January 26, 1826. Quotations : Action — Cun- ning–Deity—Fop — Grammar – Mother—Neatness—Opu- lence-Paganism—Possession — Present—Prosperity—Pu- rity-Pursuit— Rank—Reading— Remorse —Resignation— Roses – Rumor— Science — Sincerity–Slovenliness–So- briety—Temperance–Tenderness-Transgression–Trial —Understanding—Utility—Valor—Vice—Youth. MURRAY, NICHOLAs, (Kirwan,) born in Ireland, 1803; Presbyterian divine at Elizabethtown, New Jersey; died, 1861. Quotation : Insinuation. MUSAFUS, Joh ANN CARL AUGUST ; born at Jena, 1735; a German novelist, author of “Dumb Lover,” and other popular tales; died, October, 1787. Quotations: Burial—People. MUSCULUS, WolfGANG, born in Lorraine, 1497; a German hebraist reformer, Protestant theologian, Scho- *: and author; died, 1563. Quotations : Pleasure—Scrip- Ull'ê. MUSONIUS, RUFUs CAIUs, born in Etruria, and flourished about 70 A.D.; a Stoic phiiosopher. Quotations: Banishment—Life. MUSSET, LOUIS CHARLEs ALFRED, born in Paris, November 11, 1810; a celebrated . French poet; died in Paris, May, 1857. Quotations : Life — Love — Patience— Promise. MUTANABBI, ABū TAYíB AHMAD IBN AL-HU- sain As-Samad Al-Jofi Al-Kindi Al, born at Kufa, 915; slain in battle, September, 965. Quotations: Pen—Poet. MUTSUHITO, born, November 3, 1850; Emperor of Japan, and the 123rd mikado of the line. Quotations : Education—Knowledge. MWYNVAWR : a celebrated Welch king, who established many wise laws: died, 500. Quotation. War. MYCONIUS, Osw ALD, born in Lucerne, 1488; a Swiss divine ; died, 1552. Quotations : Church—Study, MYLNE, A., D.D., of Edinburgh : a publisher of SOme excellent School-books. Quotation : Tongue. MYNSHUL, GEFFRAY, born, 1547; an English philanthropist. (London, 1613.) Quotation: Prison. MYNSTER, JAKOB PETER, born in Copenhagen, 1775; a Danish theologian ; died, 1854. Quotation : Horse. MYRDDIN or MERDDIN, born in the sixth cen- tury: a celebrated Welch poet and prose writer. Quota- tion : Listening. AA, KAREL DIEDEBICK VAN, born at Ham- burg, 1752; a Dutch scholar, theologian, and author; died in Amsterdam, 1812. Quotation : Medicine. NAAS, LORD, (RICHARD SOUTHWELL BOURKE,) born, 1822; an frish Statesman. Quotation : Insinuation. NABBES, THOMAs, born about 1572; an English poet and dramatist; died, 1645. Quotation. Fortitude. NADAL, BERNARD H., D.D., born in Maryland, 1815; a distinguished Methodist glergyman ; died at Madi- son, New Jersey, June 20, 1870. Quotation: Indiscretion. NAFIS, ABö 'L-ABBA's AHMAD IBN ABI 'L-KASSIN Al-Lakmi An, born, 1136; an Arabian poet and author; died at Kûs, 1206. Quotation : Feasting. NAKDAN, SAMSON, (BERACHJAHA) flourished in Spain about 1240; a celebrated Jewish writer. Quotation: Merit. NAKNOSOO, Jose:PH, born at Sanchetcantacket, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, 1665; an Indian gonyert to Christianity; died at Chilmark, 1385. Quotation : Psalms. NAMAHANA, wife of Kaméhaméha I, (q.v.) and sister and wife of the king of Maui, 1770. Quotation. Sin. NANEK, born in Lahore, India, 1468; an Indian author, and the founder of the sect of Sikhs ; died at Kir- tipur, 1539. Quotation : God. NANT, DOMENICO MIRABELLI, born about 1420; an Italian savant and author; died, 1482. Quotation : Cru- elty. A / O G R A P // / C A Z / M D E X 1 161 NAORGORGUS, THOMAs, born in Bavaria, about 1509; a Bavarian writer of satires; died, 1578. Quotations: Renegade—Vice. NAPIER, SIR CHARLES JAMES, born at Whitehall, August 10, 1782; a British general and author; died, Au- gust 29, 1853. Quotation : War. NAPIER, SIR CHARLEs JOHN, K.C.B., born in Scotland, March 6, 1786; an eminent British admiral and au- thor; died, November 6, 1860. Quotatio), ZOne. NAPIER, JOHN, (BARON OF MERCHISTON,) born at Merchiston Castle, near Edinburgh, 1550: a Scottish mathematician, celebrated as the inventor of logarithms; died, April 4, 1617. Qrtolation : Sound. NAPIER, MACVEY, born in Stirlingshire, April 12, 1777; a Scottish journalist, and editor of the Seventh edition of the “Encyclopædia Britannica:” died, February 11, 1847. Quotation : Fee. NAPIER, MARK, born about 1800; a Scottish his- torian and littérateur, (London, 1840.) Quotation. Theory. NAPOLEON I, Emperor of the French, (NAPO- leon Bonaparte,) born at Ajaccio, in Corsica, August 15, 1769; the greatest general of modern times. He was a man possessed of splendid and varied talents, and of some vir- tues: died of cancer in the stomach, at the island of St. Helena, May 5, 1821, Quotations : Aristocracy — Army— Battle —Birth — Calumny — Christ — Christianity—Circum- stances–Clergy—Conscience —Courage—Crime-Energy— Equality—Existence — Faults — Flag – Friendship—Fun— Gentleman—Gospel—Hand—Heart—History—Imagination —Impossibility—Independence—Ingratitude-Intelligence —Journalism—King — Life — Love — Men—Minister—Mod- esty—Moment—Mother — Music — News—Newspaper—Oc- cupation—Parent—Pen — Perseverance — Policy—Power— Predestination—ſteligion — Revolution — Ridiculousness— Society—Soldier——Song—Soul — Suicide—Tragedy–Trifle— Truth—Vengeance—War—Wealth. NAPOLEON III, Emperor of the French, born in the Tuilleries, Paris, April 20, 1808; died in England, Janu- ary 9, 1873. Quotattions: Battle—Greatness—People—War. NARCISSUS, born about 5 A.D.; a profligate courtier, and favorite of the emperor Claudius; put to death, 54 A.D. Quotattion : Riches. NARES, ROBERT, born at York, June 9, 1753; a distinguished English critic and theologian ; died in Lon- don, March 23, 1829. Quotations: Law—Rage. NASH, RICHARD, (Beaw Nash,) born at Swansea, Wales, October 18, 1674; a leader of fashion in England; died at Bath, February 3, 1761. Quotation : Decency. NASH, THOMAs, born in Suffolk, 1564; an § h wit and dramatist; died, 1601. Quotations: Extortion— Interference. NASHI, ABū 'L-HASAN ALI IBN ABD ALLAH IBN Wasif Al-Hallà 'l-Asghar An, born, 884; a celebrated Ara- bian poet and theologian ; died at Bagdad, 975. Quota- tions: Ease—Pretension—Protection—Repose—Silence. NASMITH, JAMEs, D.D., born, 1740 : an English divine and author; died, 1808. Quotation : Co-Operation. NAST, THOMAS, born at Landau, Bavaria, Sep- tember 29, 1840, emigrated to the United States when very § i an American artist and caricaturist. Quotation : 3,1"IC3, UUII'ê. NATHALAN, SAINT, (Bishop of Aberdeen,) born about 381; a celebrated ancient Scottish divine ; died, 452. Quotation : Estate. NATHALIE, ZAïRE MARTEL, born, 1816; a cele- brated French actress. Quotationis. Impertinence. NATHUSIUS, MARIA, born at Breslau, 1712; a Silesian writer; died, 1761. Quotation : Enjoyment. NAUDIN. Quotation : Jade. NAZIANZEN, GREGORY, “The Theologian,” born, 328, A.D.; a celebrated Greek Father and writer; died, 389, A.D. Quotations: Coimbination—Godliness. NAZZOUMEE or NAZAMI, ABU-MUHAMMAD, born at Ganja, near Tiflis, 1100; a celebrated Persian poet; died, 1180. Quotation : Correction. NEAL, JOHN, born at Portland, Maine, October 25, 1793; an Ameriean poet and littérateur ; died, 1876. *totations : Children — Eagle — Mechanics -Öpposition: oetry—Prose—Soul. NEAL, JOSEPH C., born at Greenland, New Hamp- shire, February 3, 1807; an American journalist and hu- morous Writer: died in Philadelphia, June 18, 1847. Quota- tion : Franchise. NEALE, ERSKINE, born, 1805; an English divine l - and author. Quotation : Wealth. NEALE, JOHN MASON, born, January 24, 1818; an English theologian and historical, writer; died in East Grimstead, August 6, 1866. Quotation : Talent. NEANDER, JoACHIM, born, 1610; a German theo- logian ; died, 1680. Quotation : God. NEANDER, JoHANN AUGUST WILHELM, born at Göttingen, January 17, 1789; an eminent German theologian and ecclesiastical historian - died in Berlin, July 14, 1850. Quotation : Church. NE-CHUNG, CONFUCIUs ; a Chinese philosopher and disciple of Confucius. Quotations: Moderation—Pur- Suit. NECKER, SUSANNE CURCHOD, born at Crassieur, 1739; an accomplished and literary Swiss lady : died. 1794. )wotations : Blushing—Conversation—Custom—Distrust— lattery— Fortune — Gallantry — Hero — Love —Memory— Obstinacy—Order—Satire—Sin—Style—Tongue—Wit. NECLUES or NECHO, PHARAOH, King of Egypt, reigned from 617 B.C., to 601 B.C.: a wal'like prince, who commenced the canal from the Nile to the Red Sea. Quo- tration. Navigation. NEEDLER, HENRY, born, 1685 ; an English mu- Sician and writer; died, 1760. Quotattion : Jargon. NEEDE, HENRY, born in London, 1798; an Eng-. lish miscellaneous writer; died, 1828. Quotation : Sorrow. NEFF, FELIx, born in Geneva, 1798; a meritori- ous Swiss missionary; died, 1829. Quotations: Prayer— Rest—Self-Adoration. NEFTANISH, S. Quotation: Heart. NEIL, JAMEs, born, 1744; an English writer on debts and debtors; died, 1814. Quotation : Self-Reliance. NEILD, JAMEs, born in Cheshire, 1744; an emi- ment English philanthropist and author; died, 1814. Quo- tation : Riddles. NELSON, DAVID, M.D., born near Jonesborough Tennessee, September 24, 1793; an American physician an Presbyterian clergyman, author of “Cause and Cure of Infidelity;”, died at Oakland, Illinois, October 17, 1844. Quotation : Decalogue. - NELSON, HORATIO, LORD, born at Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, September 29, 1758; an English naval hero, and admiral; killed at the battle of Trafalgar, Octo- ber 21, 1805. Quotations: Duty—Merit. NELSON, ROBERT, born, 1656 ; an English devo- tional writer; died, 1715. Quotations : Holy Spirit—Koran —Moroseness—Parable—Politics—Slander. NELSON, THOMAS A. R., born in Tennessee, 1810; an American stasesman. Quotation. Secession. NEMESIUS, (Bishop of Emesa,) lived between 350 §§ 450 A.D.; a Greek philosopher and author. Quotation : 8,ta, Il. NEMOURS, DUPONT DE. IIl Olli’S. NENNIUS, born in the ninth century ; an English historian. Quotation : Fruitfulness. NEPOS, CORNELIUS, born at Verona, and flour- ished 40 B.C.; a Latin historian. Quotations: Common- wealth—Democracy—Empire – Envy—Evil—Exile—Fear— Greatness—Light—Manngrs---Ostracism—Report—Respon- sibility—Secrecy—War—Wisdom. NERBIA, DUKE OF. Quotation: Unluckiness. NERO, LUCIUs DomiTIUS CLAUDIUs, born, 37 A.D.; the Sixth of the Roman emperors, and one of the basest of tyrants; destroyed himself, June 11, 68 A.D. Quotations: Art—PCilling—Usurpation—World. NERVA, MARCUs CoCCEIUs, born in Umbria, 32 A.D.; a Roman emperor ; died, January 27, 98 A.D. 7/0- tation : Sovereign. NESS, or NESSE, CHRISTOPHER, born in York- shire. 1621; an English divine and author: died, 1705, Qwo- tation : Injury. NESTOR, “The Pylian Sage :” a celebrated Gre- cian hero. Quotation : Wine. NETTLETON, AsAHEL, D.D., born at Killing- worth, Connecticut, 1784; an American divine and revival- ist ; died at East Windsor, Connecticut, May 16, 1844. Q7zo- tation. : GOOd. .* NEUHOF, THEODORE ETIENNE BARON voN, born in Westphalia, 1690; a German adventurer; died, Decem- ber 11, 1756. Quotation : Waves. NEVAY, JoHN, born at New Mills, about 1620; a Scottish divine who was banished to Holland ; died at Rot- terdam, October 22, 1668. Quotation : Zion. NEVILLE, MoRGAN, born at Pittsburg, Pennsyl- vania, 1786; an American editor and author; died, 1839. Quotation : Table. NEVIN, JOHN WILLIAMSON, born in Pennsylva- nia, 1803; an American Presbyterian divine, and author of several theological works. Quotation : Zealot. NEVINS, WILLIAM, born about 1807: an English divine and author, (London, 1856.) Quotations : Duty— Error—Life—Madness—Prayer–Procrastination—Purpose —Repentance—Revelation—Safety—Sublimity. NEWBERRY, E. Quotations: Disease—Motive. NEWBERRY, John STRONG, M.D., born at Wind- sor, Connecticut, December 22, 1822; an American physi- cian and naturalist. Quotation : Zoology. NEWBY, MRs. C. J.; an English novelist. She is the author of several works of fiction, (London, 1855–65.) Quotation : Novels. See DUPONT DE NE- 1162 A) A Y '.S. C. O / / A C O AV. NEWCASTLE, DUCHESS OF, (MARGARET LUCAs,) born at St. John's, near Colchester, Essex, 1624: an English authoress: died, 1673. Quotations: Motion—Poetry. NEWELL, HARRIET Atwood, born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, October 10, 1793; an American authoress and missionary; died, 1812. Quotation : Missionary. NEWELL, Robert HENRY, (Orphews C. Kerr,) born in New York City, Deçember 13, 1836: an American journalist and humorous author. Quotation : Franchise. NEWELL, SAMUEL, born in Durham, Maine, July 24, 1784; an American clergyman and missionary ; died at Bombay, May 30, 1821. Quotation : Remembrance NEWLIN, THOMAs, born in Winchester, 1687 ; an English miscellaneous writer; died, 1743. Quotattion : Iłeason. - NEWMAN, FRANCIS WILLIAM, born in London, June 27, 1805; an English author. Quotations : Energy — Instinct. NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY, D.D., brother of the receding, born in London, February 27, 1801 ; an eminent £nglish theologian. He became a member of the Roman Catholic Church in 1845, and was soon after made a cardi- nal. Quotations : Humility—Popery—Pride—Religion. NEWMAN, SAMUEL P., born at Andover, Massa- chusetts, 1797; an American rhetorician and author; died, 1842. Quotations: Grammar—Reading—Scenery. NEWTON, SIR ISAAC, born at Woolsthorpe, Lin- colnshire, December 25, 1642; an illustrious English philoso- pher and geometrician; died, March 20, 1727. Quoiations : Analysis—Application – Conviviality – Error–Fashion— Instinct-–Matter--Nature—Order—-Philosophy--Providence —Scripture—Star—System. NEWTON, JOHN, born in London, July 24, 1725: an English divine and author ; died, December 21, 1807. Quotations: Burden-Evil —Heathen — Heir - Learning — License—Minister—Religion – Rumor—Sea—Temptation— Trade–Trial—WOman. NEWTON, RICHARD, (Canon of Christ Church, Oxford,) born, 1675: an English divine. He was the founder of Hertford College, Oxford; died, 1753. Quotation : In- Significance. NEWTON, ROBERT, born at Roxby, September 8, 1780; a very {}}". Scottish Methodist clergyman. He was appointed in 1839 a delegate to the General Conference of the United States: died, April 30, 1854. Atonement. NEWTON, THOMAs, (Bishop of Bristol,) born at Lichfield, January 1, 1704; an English divine and author; died, February 14, 1782. Quotation : Prophet. NEWTON, THOMAs, born in the county of Essex, 1534; an English littérateur; died, 1607, Revenge. NEY, MICHEL, DUKE OF ELCHINGEN, PRINCE OF the MQSkwa, born at Sarre-Louis, January, 1769; a famous French marshal; shot, December 7, 1815. Quotation: Soul. NICEPHORUS, BLEMMIDAs, born in the thir- teenth century, and lived in Nicæa ; a Greek ecclesiastic. Q?totation : Gods. NICETAS, ACOMINATUS, born in the twelfth cen- § a Byzantine historian ; died, 1216. Quotation : Anec- OtGS. - NICHOL, JOHN, born about 1789; an English law- yer and political writer. Quotation : Reciprocity. NICHOL, R. B. Quotations: Bible—Godliness. NICHOLLS, WILLIAM, born in Buckinghamshire, 1664; an English divine and author; died, 1712. Quota. tions: Testament—Threats—Type. NICHOLS, MRS. C. H. Quotations: College—Interest. NICHOLS, John Bowy ER, born, 1780; an English historian and antiquary ; died, 1863. Quotation : Franchise. NICHOLS, John GOUGH, F.S.A., son of the pre- ceding, born in London, 1806; an English antiquary and author: died, November 13, 1873. Quotation : Harm. NICHOLS, MARY SARGENT Gove NEAT, M.D., (Mary Orme,), born at Goffstown, New Hampshire, 1810; an American physician and authoress. Quotation : People. NICHOLSON, ASEN, born about 1800 : an Irish historical and statistical writer, (London, 1850.) Quota- tion. Kindred. NICHOLSON, CHARLEs, born near Fishkill, in Dutchess County, New York, 1818; an eminent antiqua- rian and bibliographer, resident of Sandwich, Illinois. Quotations: Ability—Damage—Delay. NICHOLSON, M. Quotation: Christ. NICHOLSON, W.; an English writer and com- piler, and author of “Pearls of Great Price,” (London, 1840.), Quotations: Affliction—Omniscience—Omnipotence —Ordinance. NICHOLSON, WILLIAM, (Archdeacon of Breck- nock,) born, 1600: an English divine and writer ; died. 1671. Quotation : Sincerity. NICIAS, son of Niceratus, born about 440 B.C.; an Athenian general ; died, 413 B.C. Quotation : Dalliance. Quotation : NICOCLES; an ancient Greek poet and philoso- pher. Quotation : Physician. NICOLAI, CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH, born at Berlin, 1733; a celebrated German littérateur; died, 1811. Quota- tion : Space. NICOLE, PIERRE, born at Chartres, 1625; an emi- ment French theologian and philosopher; died, 1695. Quo- tations. Gratitude – Happiness — Ignorance — Mind—Ro- lmance—Truth—Visits. NICOLSON, WILLIAM, (Archbishop of Cashel,) born in Cumberland, 1655; an English divine and historian: died, 1727. Quotation : Lewdness. NICON, SAINT, born about 920; a Greek monk and Writer; died, 998. Quotation : Annihilation. NICOSTRATUS, a son of Aristophanes ; an Athe- nian comic poet. Quotations : Happiness—Speech—Time. NIEBUHR, BARTHOLD GEORG, born at Copen- hagen, August 27, 1776; a celebrated German historian, gritic, and philologist; died at Bonn, January, 1831. Quo- tations: Courage — Extremes—Geography — Judgment-- Language—Opinion—Relief—Talent-Truth—Wirtue. NIFTAWAIH, ABU ABD ALLAH IBRAHíM MU- hammad Orfa Solaimān Ibn Al-Moghaira, born at Wäsit. 858: an Arabian grammarian and poet; died at Bagdad, 935, Quotations: Formality—Prudence. NIGHTING-ALE, FLORENCE, born at Florence, Italy, May, 1820; a lady, whose name has been rendered illustrious by her philanthropic efforts to alleviate the suf- ferings of the sick and wounded in time of war. Quota- tion : Air. NIGU. Quotations: Friendship—Jest—Motive. NIHONGI; the book of cosmogony on the mytho- logical history of the Japanese, completed, 720. Quotation: Instability. NILES, JoHN MILTON, born at Windham, Con- necticut, August 20, 1787; a prominent American political journalist; died at Hartford, May 31, 1856. Quotation : eceit. NILES, SAMUEL, born at Braintree, Massachu- *; 1744; an American divine ; died, 1814. Quotation : geS. - NIMMO, WILLIAM, born about 1720 : a Scottish historian and divine. Quotations: Alarm—Beatitude. NIPHUS, AGOSTINO, born at Calabria, 1473; an Italian scholar and philosopher: died, 1538. Quotations : Absence — Chastity – Constancy — Kisses — Love —Oath— Priest—Serenity. NISBET, CHARLEs, D.D., born, January 21, 1736: emigrated to the United States, and became the first Presi- dent of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; died, January 18, 1804. Quotation : Philosophy. NISBET, John, born at Hardhill, 1627; a Scottish covenanter and martyr, executed, December 4, 1685. Quo- tation. Zion. NIVERNAIS, LOUIs Ju LES BARBON MARICINI Mazarini, Duc de, born in Paris, 1716; a distinguished French littérateur and diplomatist; died, 1798. Quotation : Necessity. NIXON, MRS.: a member of the Mormon Church at Salt Lake, Utah. Q?totation : Polygamy. NOAH, MoRDECAI MANUEL, born in Philadelphia, July 19, 1785: an American journalist and politician ; died, March 22, 1851. Quotations: Bashfulness—Beau—Sensa- tion—Schism—Sleep. NOBLE, ANNETTE L. : an American writer of books for the young, about 1870. Quotation : Distraction. NOBLE, WILLIAM ; an English writer of the pre- sent century. Quotation : Justice. NODIER, CHALEs, born at Basançon, 1783; an eminent frenchittérateur; died, 1844. Quotation : Books. NOEL, BAPTIST WRIOTHESLEY, born at Leight- mount, Scotland, July 10, 1799: an eminent Scotch dissent- ing minister; died, January 19, 1873. Quotations : Jews— Minister. NOEL, GERARD THOMAs, brother of the preceding, born about 1802; an eminent divine and author; died, 1851. Quotation : Prayer. NCEVIUS, QUINTUS, lived about 80 B.C.; a Latin comic poet. Quotation : Stage. NOGAROLA, ISOTTA, born at Verona, 1420; an Italian lady, celebrated for her talents and learning; died, 1466. Quotation : Bandit. NOIR, JEAN LE, born at Alençon, 1622; a French Jansenist priest and writer ; died, 1693. Quotation : Self- Sufficiency. NOLIN, DENIs, born, 1648; a French advocate and writer on divinity; died, 1710. Quotation : Astrology. NOLLET, JEAN ANTOINE ABBAE, born at Pimpré, Noyon, 1700: an eminent French philosopher and author; died, 1770. Quotations: Care—College—Speech. NORBURY, LoRD ; an English writer and bibli- Ographer. Quotation : Expectation. A / O G A' A P J/ / C A / / /W /O AE X. 1163 NORDHOFF, CHARLEs, born at Erwitte, Prussia, 1830, brought by his parents to the United States, 1834; an American author and journalist. Quotations: Experience —Suffering—Thought. NORRIS, John, born in Wiltshire, 1657; a learned English philosopher and mystical divine; died, 1711. Quo- tations : Frailty—Heaven—Miser. NORRIS, JoHN, born in Norfolk, 1734; an Eng- lish divine and philanthropist; died, 1777. Quotation : Yielding. NORTH, CHRISTOPHER. See WILSON, JOHN. NORTH, SIR DUDLEY, born, 1641; an English merchant and able financier; died, 1691. Quotation : Ad- Venture. NORTH, SIR THOMAs, born about 1512; an Eng- lish writer and translator ; died, 1560. Quotation : Blunt- I}{2SS. NORTHCOTE, JAMEs, born in Plymouth, 1746 : an English artist, historian, and miscellaneous writer; died, 1831. Quotation : Truth. NORTHMORE, THOMAs, born about 1750; an English author. Quotations: Action—Actor. NORTON, ANDREws, D.D., born at Hingham, Massachusetts, December 31, 1786 : an eminent American theologian and scholar; died at Newport, September 18, 1853. Quotations : Example—Writing. NORTON, CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERI- dan, born, 1808; an eminent Irish novelist and poetess; died, June 15, 1877. Quotattions : Babe—Child—Reserve. NORTON, CHARLEs B., born at Hartford, Con- necticut, 1825; an American editor and publisher. Quotat- tion: Seclusion. NORTON, JOHN PITKIN, born at Farmington, Connecticut, , 1822; an American writer on agricultural chemistry: died in New Haven, September 5, 1852. Quotat- tion : Geology. NORTON, JoHN, born in Hertfordshire, May 6, 1606; an English Puritan divine and theological writer, who emigrated, to America, in 1635, and became a minister at Boston; died, April 5, 1663. Quotation : Suffering. NOTLEY, MRS. : an English novelist and miscel- laneous writer. Qzzotations. Cross—Duty—Jealousy. NOTT, ELIPHALET, D.D., LL.D., born at Ashford, Connecticut, June 25, 1773; an American divine and wri- ter. He was president of Union College for sixty years; died, January 29, 1866. Quotations : Avarice—Bible—Gan- ing—Intemperance—Nature—Trees. NOTTIGE, J. T., lived in the eighteenth century ; an English divine. Quotation : Heart. NOTTINGHAM, LORD, (DANIEL FINCH,) born, 1647; an English Statesman ; died, 1730. Quotation : Com- IY) Gºl"Ce. NOUE, FRANÇOIs DE LA, (Bras de Fer,) born near Nantes, in Brittany, 1531; a celebrated French Huguenot commander and prose writer; killed at Lamballe, 1591. Quotations : Advice—Bravery. NOUE, ODET DE LA, (SEIGNEUR DE TéLIGNY, ) born, 1550; a French Officer and º: died, 1618. Quotat- tions : Deceit—Fame—Plenty—Slot NOURISSON, JEAN FELIX, born, 1825; a French rofessor of philosophy and author. Quotation : Rest- €SSI) CSS. NOURSE, JAMEs D., born in Bardstown, Ken- tucky, 1816; an American editor and magazine writer; died, 1854, Quotattion : Forgiveness. NOVALIS, the assumed name of FRIEDRICH VON Hardenberg, born at Widerstädt, Saxony, May 2, 1772; a Celebrated German philosopher and mystical writer of wonderful genius and talents; died, 1801. Quotations : Artist—Bible—Character—Delicacy— Dreams—Friendship —Humanity—Innocence—Intelligence—Life—Marriage — Nature — Prayer — Right — Shame — Sickness — Solitude — Spring—Strength—Wit. NOWAS, ABU-ALI-AL-HASSAN ABU, born in the eighteenth century; an Arabian poet. Quotation : For- getfulness. NOWIKOFF, NIKOLAJ Iw ANowITSCH, born, 1744; a Russian writer; died, 1818. Quotation : Ill-Nature. NOY, WILLIAM, born, 1577 : a celebrated English lawyer and author; died, 1634. Quotation : Sensitiveness. NOYES, GEORGE RAPALL, born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, March 6, 1798; an American divinë and writer; died, 1868. Quotation : Law. NOYES, JOHN HUMPHREY, born at Brattleboro’, Vermont, September 3, 1811; one of the founders of the Qmeida Community. He has written several works on American Socialism, (New York, 1860–75.) Quotations: Monopoly—Shame. NOYES, WILLIAM CURTIs, born at Schodach, New York, August 19, 1805; an American lawyer and wri- ter; died in New York, 1864. Quotation : Remedy. NUGENT, THOMAs, LL.D., born, 1700 : an Irish writer and compiler; died, 1772. Quotation : Alarm. NUGIDAS, OF MONDUS, MADAME : a female trou- badour of the thirteenth century. Quotation : Crusades. NUKTA, ABū BAKR MUHAMMAD IBN ABD AL- Ghani Ibn Shujāa Al-Hanbali Ibn, born at Bagdad, 1140; an eminent Arabian traditionist ; died at Bagdad, December 19, 1231. Quotations: Exultation—Sympathy. NUNEZ, FERNANDO DE GUZMAN, born at Valla- dolid, 1470; a distinguished Spanish Scholar and author ; died, 1553. Quotation : Proverbs. NUSAIR, ABö ABD AR-RAHMAN MUSA. IBN, “The Conquerer Of Spain;” a celebrated Arabian commander ; died at Marr–Az-Zahran, 715. Quotations : Duplicity — Eagerness—Exposure—Husband—Wisdom. NUTTAL, THOMAs, born in Yorkshire, 1786; an English botanist and writer; died, 1859. Quotation : Joy. NUWAIRI, SCHEHAR EDDIN AHMED, born, 1262; an Arabian musician and writer; died, 1331. Quotation : Ill-Nature. NYE, JAMES W., born in Madison County, New York, June 10, 1815: an American lawyer and politician. Quotations : Freemasonry—Servitude. NYE, PHILIP, born, 1596; an English Non-con- formist divine and author; died, 1672. Quotation : Rage. NYNDE, W. W. Quotation : Eloquence. NYSSEN, J. J., lived about 1850; a French wri- ter. Quotations : Self-Denial—ltest. O FRANÇois, MARQUIS D', born in Paris, 1534; 2 an erminent French financier and Writer. He Was Su- perintendent of finance to Henry the Third; died, 1594. Quotation : Incapacity. OADE, THOMAS, born about 1670 : an English author, (London, 1718.) Qatotation : Quakerism. O’AEDHA, Joseph, (Bishop of Ferns,) born, 1110 ; an able Irish divine and writer; died, 1185. Quotation : Development. OAKES, URIAN, D.D., born in England, 1631 ; a learned English Nonconformist divine, who emigrated to America, and settled as minister at Cambridge, Massachu- setts, 1671 ; died, 1681. Quotation: Vocation. OAKLEY, HENRY A., born in the city of New York, 1827 : an American educational author and miscella- neous writer. Quotation : Friendship. O’BEIRNE, THOMAS LEw Is, D.D., (Bishop of Meath,) born in the county of Longford, 1748; an Irish di- vine and writer; died, 1823. Quotation : Friendship. OBERLIN, JEAN FREDERIC, born at Strasburg, August 31, 1740; an eminent German philanthropist and reformer ; died at Waldbach, June 1, 1826. Quotations : Prayer—Right. OBOOKIAH, HENRY, born in the Sandwich Is- lands, 1792 : was brought to the United States, where he became a convert to Christianity; died at Cornwall, Con- necticut, February 17, 1818. Quotation : Horror. O’BRIEN, CHARLOTTE G.; an Irish novelist, au- thoress of “Light and Shade,” and other works. (Jºzota- £307). Lawlessness. OCCAM, WILLIAM, “The Invincible Doctor, " born at Ockham, Surrey, 1280; an English Franciscan su- § and eminent as a philosopher and logician ; died at Munich, 1347. Quotations: Alchemy—Misery. OCELLUS, LUCANUS, born in Lucania, Italy, and flourished about 500 B.C.; a Greek philosopher, and disciple of Pythagoras. Quotation : Universe. OCHINO, BERNARDINo, born at Sienna, 1487; a § Italian divine ; died in Moravia, 1564. Quotation : esultism. OCKLEY, SIMON, born in Exeter, 1678; an Eng- lish divine and Oriental Scholar; died at Swansea, August 9, 1720. Quotations : Rage—Feudalism. O'CONNELL, DANIEL, “The Great Irish Agita- tor,” born at Carhen, near Cahirciveen, county Kerry, Au- gust 9, 1775; a famous Irish orator and political agitator; died at Genoa, Italy, May 15, 1847. Quotations: Crime— Deceit—Equality—Liberty—Slavery. ODERICUS, GASPARO LUDovico, born, 1725; an Italian antiquary, and librarian of the university of Genoa; died, 1803. Quotation : Predestination. ODI. Quotation : Melody. ODO, (Bishop of Cambray,) born at Orleans; a French diviné of great learning and influence; died, 1113. Quotation : Estate. CECOLAMPADIUS, (JOHANN HAUSSCHEIN,) born in Franconia, 1482; an eminent German reformer; died, 1531. Quotations: Piety—Purity—Sacrament—Sermon. OEHLENSCHLAGER, ADAM GOTTLOB, born near Copenhagen, November 14, 1779; an eminent Danish poet and writer; died, January, 1850. Quotations: Chil- dren—Eating—Interference—Success. OERTEL, P. F. W., (W. O. von Horn,) born, 1798; a popular German story book writer; died, 1867. Quota- tion : Elocution. 1164 A) A Y'S CO Z /. A C O AV. OGDEN, SAMUEL, born at Manchester, 1716; an English clergyman and author; died, 1778. Quotation : Prayer. OGIER, CHARLEs, born in Paris, 1595 : a French scholar and author: died, 1654. Quotation : Crusades. OGIER, FRANÇOIS, brother of the preceding, born, 1599; a French Writer and ecclesiastic; died, 1670. Quota- tion : Eating. OGILBY, John, born in Edinburgh, 1600; a Scot- tish littérateur and printer; died, 1676. Quotation : Par- Slmony. * > OGILVIE, JoHN, born, 1733 ; a Scottish divine and writer; died, 1814. Quotation : Redemption. OGLETHORPE, JAMEs EDwARD, born in London, 1698; an able English general, and a distinguished philan- thropist. He was the founder of the State of Georgia ; died, 1785. Quotation : Recompense. O'HARA, KANE, born, 1717; an Irish dramatist ; died, 1782. Quotation : Prejudice. OJI or ASANTE: a powerful African tribe on the coast of Guinea, having no literature except proverbs, or common sayings. Quotations: Bully—Children—Fast- ing—Haughtiness. OKEN, LORENz, born in Bohlsbach, in Würtem- burg, August, 1779; an eminent German naturalist and writer; died, 1851. Quotation : Speech. OLAHUS, NICOLAs, (Archbishop of Strigonia,) born at Hermannstadt, 1493; a learned Hungarian divine and writer; died, 1568. Quotattion : Reason. OLAUS, MAGNU.S. See MAGNUS OLAUS. OLBRECHT, U. Quotation : Science. OLD KNIFE, (LETELESHA,) lived about 1800; a Pawnee chief. Quotation : Torture. OLDMIXON, JOHN, born in Somersetshire, 1673; an Englisſ, historical and political writer; died, July 9, 1742. Quotation : Want. OLDYS, WILLIAM, born, July 14, 1690; an Eng- lish biographer and bibliographer; died, April 15, 1761. Quotation : Jest. O'LEARY, ARTHUR, born at Cork, 1729 ; an Irish Catholic clergyman and author: died, 1802. Quotation : Toleration. OLIER, JEAN JACQUES, born in Paris, 1608 ; a French ecclesiastic and reformer; died, 1671. Quotation : Artlessness. OLIN, STEPHEN, D.D., LL.D., born in Leicester, Vermont, 1797; an American Methodist divine and pulpit orator, died, 1851. Quotation : Moonlight. OLIPHANT, LAwRENCE, born, 1832; an English traveller and writer. Quotattion : Gaming. OLIPHANT, MARGARET WILSON, born in Liver- pool, 1818; an English novelist and biographer. She has produced a long series of works of fiction, which secured for her a wide spread reputation not only in England, but also in the United States. Quotations: Children—Maxims —Perfection. OLIVER, GEORGE, D.D., born at Paplewick, 1782; an English antiquary and writer. He is the author of several excellent works on Freemasonry : died at Lincoln, March 3, 1867. Quotation : Freemasonry. OLIVER, PROFESSOR. J. E.; an American educa- tor and writer on social reform. Quotation: Free-Think- 1Ilg. OLIVER, PETER, born at Malmesbury, 1601 ; an English monk and writer; died, 1660. Quotation : Skill. OLIVER, SOPHIA HELEN, born in Lexington, Kentucky, 1811; an American poetess and miscellaneous writer, Quotation. Distraction. OLNEY, JESSE, born at Union, Connecticut, Octo- ber 12, 1796; an American author of school books ; died at Stratford, July 30, 1872. Quotation : Zone. OMAR I, ABU-HAFSAH-IBNUL-KHATTAB, born, 581; succeeded Mohammed the Prophet; died, 644. Quo- tation : Traitor. OMAR, IBRAHIM BEN. Quotation : opulence. OMAR-IBN-HAFSOON, born at Ronda, Spain ; a famous Moorish chieftain ; died, 883. Quotation : Ex- pectation. ONDERDONK, HENRY UsTCH, LL.D., born at Columbus, South Carolina, 1793; an American Episcopalian bishop; died, 1858. Quotation : Decalogue. ONESICRITUS, of AEGINA, lived about 350 B.C.: a Greek historian and disciple of Diogenes. Quotation : Amnesty. ONOSANDER, lived in Rome during the reign of Claudius and Nero ; a Greek author and Platonic philoso- pher, and one of the principal military writers of antiquity. Quotation : Valor. OOSTERZEE, J. J. VAN, born at Rotterdam, 1817; an eminent Dutch theologian and author. Quota- tions: Death—Jeopardy. - OPIE, AMELLA, born at Norwich, 1769 : an Eng- lish writer, eminent both in prose and poetry: authoress of “Illustrations of Lying,” and other works ; died, 1853. uotations : Affection — Gossip — Instruction – Lying— isanthropy—Perseverance—Preface — Reputation—Siln- plicity—Tales—Temptation—Truth—Vanity. OPIE, JOHN, husband of the preceding, born near Truro, Cornwall, 1761; a distinguished English painter; died, 1807. Quotation : Art OPITZ, MARTIN, born at Bunzlau, Silesia, Decem- ber 23, 1597; a celebrated German critic and writer; died, August 20, 1639. Quotations : Daughter — Epicure—Joy– #. — Littleness —Owner — Shame—Sport—Suffering— & Ste. OPOIX, CHRISTOPHE, born at Provins, 1745; a French author and savant; died, 1840. Quotation : Chess. OPPIAN, born at Anazarba, in Cilicia, in the sec- Ond Century; a celebrated Greek poet. Quotation : Poetry. ORDERICUS, VITALIs, born near Shrewsbury, 1075; one of the most distinguished of the early English listorians ; died, 1150. Quotation : Adversary. ORIBASIUS, born at Sardis, in Lydia, in the fourth century; a Greek physician and medical writer; died, 400. Quotation : Wine. O'REILLY, JoHN BOYLE ; an American journal- ist and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Betrayal. ORIGEN, ADAMANTIUs, born in Alexandria, 185; 8 Il ##### writer, and one of the most influential Of the early Christian writers; died, 253. Quotations : Apocrapha —Confession —Conscience — Difference — Dissimulation — Drunkenness—Gladness — Ignorance—Love—Matrimony— Priest—Sloth. ORLANDO LASSUS, (ROLAND DE LATTRE,) born at Mons, Flanders, 1520; a famous musical composer; died, 1595. Qztotation : Love. ORME, ROBERT, born of English parents at An- jengo, Hindostan, 1728; an English historian and writer; died, January 13, 1801. Quotation : Heathen. ORNE, MISS C. F., born in Cambridge, Massachu- Setts; an American authoress and magazine writer. Quo- tation : Reproof. - ORNE, MRS, CAROLINE, born in Georgetown, Mas- Sachusetts, about 1812; an American authoress. Quota- tions : Agreement—Benefits. ORONO, born, 1688 : an American Indian chief of the Penobscot tribe, who was faithful in his attachment to the Whites, and labored to promote Christianity among his own people; died, 1801. Quotation : Religion. OROSIUS, PAULUs, born at Tarragona, and lived about 410; a Spanish Latin historian and presbyter; died, 459. Quotations: Calamity—Sickness—War—World. ORR, John, D.D., (Archdeacon of Ferns,) born about 1690; an English divine and author, (London, 1739.) Quotation : Disinterestedness. ORRERY, LORD, (CHARLES BOYLE,) born at Chel- Sea, 1676; an eminent English scholar and writer; died, 1731. Quotations : Affront—Jury. ORTIGUE, PIERRE D', born at Apt, 1610; a dis- tinguished French novelist; died, April, 1693. Quotation : Smelling. ORTON, JOB, born at Shrewsbury, 1717: an Eng- lish Nonconformist divine and writer; died, 1783. Quota- tions : Preaching—Sermon. ORTON, REGINAULD, born, 1810 : an English sur- geon and medical writer; died at Sunderland, September, 1862. Quotation : Illness. ORTON, WILLIAM, born at Cuba, (Olean) Allegany county, New York, 1826; an American school teacher, rinter, and publisher. He became President of Western nion Telegraph §§ and retained the position until his death; died, April 25, 1878. Quotations: Fable—Health —Rascality. ORTU ; a King of the Feejee Islands, noted for his opposition to missionary efforts. Quotation : Adultery. OSARSIPH, lived about 1300 B.C.; an Egyptian p priest. Quotations: Peace—Sacrifice—Worship. OSBORN, LAUGHTON, born in New York, about 1806; an American author. .. Quotations: Buying—Fame— Honesty–Pride—Reading—Wills. OSBORNE, FRANCIS, born in Bedfordshire, 1589; an English writer; died, 1650. Quotations: Controyersy— Covetousness—Curiosity—Knighthood— Pleasure—Sleep— Society—Speaking-Student– Surety—Swimming—Travel —Trust—Wit—Writing. - OSBORNE, SIR THOMAS, (DUKE OF LEEDS,) born, 1631; an English statesman and writer; died, 1712. Quota- tions: Benevolence—Impudence—Taste. OSCAR I, King of Sweden, born in Paris, 1799 ; the son of General Bernadotte. He married Josephine, a daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais; died, 1859. Quota- tion : King. OSCEOLA, NIKKANOCHEE, born in Florida, 1803 : an Indian chief of the Seminoles: died, January 30. 1837. Quotations: Grave—Native-Land—Soldier. A / O G. A. A P H / C A / / AV /O AE X. II 65 OSGOOD, FRANCEs SARGENT, born in Boston, 1812; an American poetess and miscellaneous writer; died, 1850. Quotations : 131ushing—Hand–Neglect. OSGOOD, SAMUEL, D.D., LL.D., born in Charles- town, Massachusetts, August 30, 1812; died in New York City, April 14, 1880. Quotation. Want. OSIUS, or OSIO, FELICE, born at Milan, 1587; an Italian littérateur, and professor of rhetoric ; died, 1631. Quotation : Sophistry. OSLER, EDwARD, born about 1800; an English historical writer, (London, 1844.) Quotation : Faith. OSMAN, TopAL; a Turkish grand vizier to Mah- moud the First ; died, 1833. Quotation : Fugitive. OSORIUS, JERONYMO, (Bishop of Silvey,) born at Lisbon, 1506; a learned Portuguese divine and Writer; died, 1580. Quotation : Descent. OSSIAN, born in the third century ; a semi-fabu- lous Scottish Irish bard and hero, the son of Fingal, King of . Morven. A pretended translation of his poems was Fººd in 1765, by James Macpherson, who was born at Ruthven, in the county of Inverness, 1738; a schoolmaster and poet ; the lºns here given are taken from these doubtful translations. Quotations: Death — Old Age — Sleep—Song—Sword—Youth. OSTERWALD., JEAN FREDERIC, born at Neuf- châtel, 1663; a Swiss Protestant divine ; died, 1747. Quota- tion : Religion. OSWALD, SAINT, King of Northumbria, born, 604 ; a noble and pious prince ; killed in battle, 642. Quota- tions : Despondency—Firmness. OTHO I, THE GREAT, Emperor of Germany, born, 912 : he was the son of Henry the First, and succeeded him, 936; died, 973. Quotation : Death. OTHO II, son of the preceding, Emperor of Ger- many, born, 955; died, 983. Quotation : Quarrels. - OTHO III, son of the preceding, Emperor of Ger- many; died, 1002. Quotations: Union—Valor. OTHO IV, Emperor of Germany, born, 1174; died, 1218. Quotation: Insignificance. OTHO, MARCUs SALVIUS, born, 32 A.D. : an em- peror of Rome, and an associate of Nero ; killed himself, April,69 A.D. Quotations: Multitude—Suffering—War. OTIS, HARRISON GRAY, born in Boston, October, 1765; an American statesman and an eloquent orator; died in Boston, October, 1848. Quotation : Pleasing. OTIS, JAMES, born at West Barnstable, Massachu- setts, February 5, 1725; an American orator and patriot : killed by lightning at Andover, May, 1783. Quotations : - Abuse—Avarice—Dew—Right. OTMAR, NACHERZHAHLT VON, (NACHTIGALL, ) born at Strasburg, 1486; a German scholar and writer; died, 1535. Quotation : Devil. - OTT, JoBANN HEINRICH, born in the canton of Zurich, 1617; a Swiss divine and Orientalist ; died. 1682. Quotation : Acquirement. OTTER, WILLIAM, (Bishop of Chichester,) born about 1770; an English divine and author: died, 1840. Quo- tations: Name—Service. OTTLEY, WILLIAM YoUNG, born, 1771; an Eng- lish artist, connoisseur, and able writer on art; died, 1836. Quotation : Sensibility. OTTO, LORD, HEINRICH, born, 1489; count pala- tinate of the Rhine; died, 1559. Quotation : Christ. OTTO, LOUISE, born, 1825 ; a German novelist and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Farewell. OTWAY, THOMAs, born at Trottin, Sussex, 1651: a celebrated English dramatist, and author of the well. known tragedy, “Venice Preserved : " died, 1685, in a state of extreme destitution. Quotations : Ambition—Court— Fortune–Obligation—Woman. OUDRAADT, JEAN, (Gerebulus, ) born, 1540: a Dutch theologian and author; died, 1606. Quotation : Memory. OULDHALL, EDMUND, º of Meath,) born, 1489; an English divine and anthor; Gayety—Wealth. OUSELEY, SIR WILLIAM, (VISCOUNT CLARA- mont,) born in Monmouthshire, Wales, 1771; an English Orientalist, traveller, and author; died, 1842. Quotation : Lawyer. OVERALL, JOHN, (Bishop of Lichfield and Nor- wich,) born, 1559; an English divine and author; died, 1619. Quotation : Christ. - OVERBURY, SIR THOMAs, born at Compton- Scorfen, Warwickshire, 1581 ; an English courtier, poet, and author; poisoned in the tower of London, 1613. 27to- tations: Ancestry—Character—Courtier—Flattery—Jeal- ousy—Knighthood—Love—Military—Pedantry—Wit. OUVERTURE, TOUSSAINT L'. See TOUSSAINT l'Ouverture. OVERALL, JoHN, (Bishop of Norwich,) born, 1559; an English divine; died, 1619. Quo-tations: Christ. ed, 1559. Quotation: OVID, PUBLIUS NASO, born at Sulmo, (Sulmona,) in the mountains of Peligni, ninety miles east of Rome, 43. B.C.: a popular Roman poet, and one of the finest of the Augustan age. His best work is his “ Metamorphoses.” He enjoyed the favor of the emperor Augustus, but was banished by him on account of an intrigue with his daugh- ter Julia ; died in exile, at Tomi, on the shores of the Black Sea, 18 B.C. Quotations : Advantage—Ages—Amiability— Angling—Approbation—Beauty—Birth—Boldness--Bounty —Bravery—Chance—Chastity — Cheerfulness — Considera- tion—Corruption—Countenance — Country—Crime—Dawn —Deeds—Delay— Dignity — Disease — Distress — Dreams— Dress—Earth – Echo – Encouragement – Ending—Envy— Fame—Field–Fortune — Friendship —Genius–Gifts—God —Gold—Grief—Guilt—Habit — Hand — Heaven–Hope—In- spiration—Instruction—Interest—Keeping—Land-–Leisure —Life—Lips—Love—LOver — Luck — Manners—Marriage— Medicine-Mell—Mind–Misery—Moment—Money--Murder —Music—Nation—Neatness—Nervousness — Novelty—Old Age—ODpºrtunity; Patience—Peace—Perverseness—Phy- sician–Pleasure—Plenty— Pliancy—Poet—Populace—Pov- erty—Preparation — Progenitor — Prohibition — Promise— Prosperity—Rage—Reason—Report—Riches—Rival—River —Roses—Humor—Sailor — Scandal — Sculpture—Seasons— Ship—Silence—Simplicity—Spirit —Summer—Sword–Task Thanks.--Title—Trifle--Undertaking—-Utility--Woe--Wound Wretchedness—Writing—Yielding. OVIEDO, ANDREs, DE, (Bishop of Hieropolis,) born at Ilhescas, about 1500; a Spanish Jesuit and missionary; died, 1577. Quotation : Wanderer. OVIEDO, MATTHEw DE, (Roman Catholic Arch- bishop of Dublin,) born about 1545; an eminent Irish di- vine and writer; died, 1618. Quotation : Heresy. OVINGTON, JOHN, born about 1640 ; an ###, ecclesiastic and traveller, and chaplain to James the First; died, 1712. Quotation : Maxims. OWAIN, GRUFFYDD, lived in the seventeenth cen- tury: a Welch poet and prose writer. Quotations: Light- ning—Lips. OWEN, HENRY, born in Marionethshire, 1716; a learned Welch divine and theological writer; died, 1795. . Quotation : Feeding. OWEN, JOHN, born at Stadham, Oxfordshire, 1616; an English Nonconformist minister and Puritan ; died, 1683. Quotations: Foundation—Minister—Old Age—Sin. OWEN, JOHN, born in London, 1765: an eminent English divine and author; died, September 26, 1822. Quo- tations: Christ—Prayer—Swearing. OWEN, JOSEPH. B. ; born about 1792; an English divine and author, (London, 1835.) }*(OtattiO70s. COIlSiS- tency—Egotism—Exaggeration—Tale-Bearer. OWEN, LEwis, born in Merionethshire, 1572; a Welch theologian and author; died, 1642. Quotation.’ Jeopardy. OWEN, RICHARD, born at Lancaster, 1804; an English comparative anatomist. Quotations : Anatomy— Deafness. OWEN, RoRERT, born at Newtown, Montgomery- shire, North Wales, 1771; a Welch socialist and philanthro- § died, 1858. Quotations : Monomania —Thirst — ZO- O1Ogy. . OWEN, RobºFT DALE, son of the preceding, born at New Lanark, November 7, 1081; a distinguished political and miscellaneous author, poet, and Statesman. He emi- grated to America at an early age, and Settled in Indiana, and was elected to Congress by the Democratic party in 1843; died, June 24, 1877. Quotations : Infidelity—Intoxi- gation—Love—Lying–Mind–People --Physiology—Press— Reputation — Seduction — Stoicism — Suspicion – Truth — Vice-World. OWEN, Rosa MOND DALE, a daughter of the pre- ceding, born at New Harmony, Indiana, 1834. Quotation : Ill-Nature. OWGAN, HENRY, born about 1791; an English writer, and author of “Out on the World,” (London, 1856.) Quotation : Life. OXENDEN, Ashton, (Bishop of Montreal,) born about 1800; an English divine and author, (London, 1846.) Quotations: Child—Confirmation—Report—Worship. OXENFORD, JoHN, born in Camberwell, Lon- don, 1812: an English dramatist, translator, and miscella- neous writer; died, February 21, 1877. Quotation : Co- Operation. OXENSTIERN, AxEL, Count, (Chancellor of Sweden,) born at Fant), in Upland, June 16, 1583; one of the greatest statesmen of modern times; died, August 28, 1654. Quotations: Books— Government — Idleness — Ridicule— Sarcasm—Wisdom. - OXENSTIERN, ERIK, son of the preceding, born, 1624; an eminent Swedish diplomatist and author; died, 1656. Quotation : Maxims. OZEREZKOFSKY, NIKOLAI JAKOWLEWITSCH, born, 1750; a Russian Writer and Statesman; died, 1827. Quotation : Ill-Nature. OZEROF, VLADISLAs ALExANDROWITCH, born, §: a Russian poet and writer; died, 1816. Quotation : €Il. 1166 A) A Y '.S C O Z / A C O ZV. AA, CHRISTIAN ROBID#, born in Amsterdam, 1672; a Dutch philosopher and historian ; died at Vien- y Quotation : Libel. - PAALUA, (KALANIMOKU ;), a celebrated Ha- waiian general and counsellor of Kaahumanu from 1824 to 1832, who was then regent. Quotation. Perseverance. PAALZOW, AugustEvoN, born at Berlin, 1788; a German lady author and romance writer; died, 1847. Quotation : Modesty. PAC, NICOLAs, (Bishop of Vilna,) born in the seventeenth century; a Spanish divine and writer. Qºto- tation : MOtto. PACHOMIUS, born in the Thebiad, in the fourth century; an Egyptian ascetic; died, 348. Quotation: Motto. PACKARD, SILAs S.; an American teacher. He has published several educational works on business train- ing, (New York, 1867–73.) Quotation : Cowardice. PACUVIUS, MARCUs, born at Brindisi, Italy, 218 B.C.: an eminent Roman tragic poet and painter: died, 128 B.C. Quotations: Adversity—Busybody–Deceit–Fortune —Ill-Humor—Old Age. PAEZ, JOSE ANTONIO, born at Varinas, a province of Venezuela, 1785; a South American general. Quota- tion : Recreation. PAGE, DAVID, born about 1800 ; an English wri- ter and author of high authority, (London, Edinburgh, and New York, 1844–64.) Quotation : Moonlight. PAGE, DAVID P., born at Epping, New Hamp- shire, 1810; an American educational writer. He was the first principal of the New York State Normal School ; died, 1848. Quotation : School. PAGE, SIR FRANCIS, born, 1661; an English jus- tice and writer; died, 1741. Quotation : Tale-Bearer. PAGES, PIERRE MARIE FRANÇors, born at Tou- louse, 1748; a French voyager and writer; massacred by the negroes in Saint Domingo, 1793. (Juotation : Careless- Ił6:SS. PAGES DE L’ARIEGE, JEAN PIERRE, born in Ariége, 1784; a French political writer and journalist. Quotation : Gaming. PAGES, FRANCOIs XAvTER, born in Aurillac, 1745; a French littérateur; died, 1802. Quotation : Op- pression. PAGI, FRANCOIS, born at Lambesc, 1654; a French historian ; died, 1721. Quotation : Bandit. PAINE, ROBERT TREAT, born in Boston, 1731; an American jurist, and signer of the Declaration of Inde- pendence; died, 1814. Quotation : Contemporary. PAINE, THOMAs, born in Norfolk, 1737 : an Eng- lish political and deistical writer; died, 1809. Quotations: Amendment – Cruelty—God–Literature–Monarchy—Per- dition—Power—Prejudice—Reason—Religion—ſteputation —Science—Sublimity—Tears—Testament—Title—Triumph –Tyranny-Virtue—War—World—Wrong -> PALAEMON, QUINTUS REMMUs, lived in the time ºus, 45 A.D.; a Roman grammarian. Quotation : W 18CRORYı. PALAEOLOGUS I, (MICHAEL,) Emperor of the East, who took Constantinople from the Latins, and put an end to the empire ; died, 1283. Q7zotation : Backbiter. PALEY, FREDERICK APTHORP, born near York, 1816 : an English scholar and author. Quotation : Corres- pondence. - PALEY, WILLIAM, D.D.; the father of the pre- ceding, born at Peterborough, 1743; an eminent English divine, theologian, moralist, and writer; died, May 25, 1805. Qºzotºtions. Aim—Anger—Apothegm —Astronomy—Cant —Contentment—Conversation — Drunkenness—Duelling— Eternity—Ethics—Evil—Expense—Habit—Happiness—His- tory—Independence—Infidelity – Innocence – Insect—In- stinct—Jury--Liberty--Lying–Miracle–Monarchy--Motive —Obedience—Occupation — Old Age –Pain—Parent—Poli- tics—Poor–Probation — Promise—Property—Republic— Resentment — Revelation — Revenge — Sneer — Solitude— Truth—Virtue—Wal'—Youth. - PALFREY, JoHN GoRHAM, D.D., LL.D., born in Boston, May 2, 1796; an American historian and divine, and one of the oldest of American writers ; died in Cam. bridge, Massachusetts, April 26, 1881. Quotation : Intol- €Pa. Il Ce. PALFREY, SARAH H., (E. Fonton,) daughter of º preceding; an American authoress. Quotation : Sen- Siti Vell tº SS. PALGRAVE, SIR FRANCIS, K.H., F.R.S., born in London, 1788; an English historian and author ; died, July, 1861. Quotation: Tobacco. PALGRAVE, FRANCIS TURNER, LL.D., son of the preceding, born, September 28, 1824; a celebrated Eng- #: art critic and author. Quotations : Humility—Lamen- 3.01 Oil. PALGRAVE, WILLIAM GIFFORD, brother of the É."; horn in Westminster, January 24, 1826; an Eng- }. ºlitary officer, traveller, and author. Quotation : €SCCI). I. PALIN, WILLIAM, born, 1810; an English divine and writer. Quotation : Earth. PALISSY, BERNARD, born near Agen, (Lot-et- Garonne,) 1506; a celebrated French potter and enameller. He was noted for his faithful adherence to the Reforma- tion; died in prison, 1590. Quotation : Annihilation. PALL, R. Quotation: Affliction. PALMER, ELIHU, born in Connecticut, 1763; an American Congregational minister, but subsequently be: came a deistical preacher, and a violent radical political agitator; died in Philadelphia, 1806. Quotations : Enemy —Writing. PALMER, HENRIETTA LEE, born in Baltimore, 1834; an American authoress. Quotations: Indiscretion— Joy—Obsequies. PALMER, RAY, D.D., born in Rhode Island, 1808: an American Congregational minister and author. Quota- tions: Knowledge—Minister — Old Age—Prayer—Resigna- tion—Sunrise—Wit. PALMER, T. H.; an American teacher, and au- thor of several Inathematical Works, (1850.) Quotation : Handwriting. PALMERSTON, VISCOUNT, (HENRY JOHN TEM- le,) LL.D., born in London, ()ctober 20, 1784; an eminent 2nglish statesman and diplomatist ; died, October 18, 1865. Quotations : Dirt—Fugitive—Revolution—Right. PALMIERI, MATTEO, born at Pisa, 1423 : an Ita- lian philologist and author; died, 1483. Quotation : Curi- Osity. PANCOAST, JOSEPH, born, 1805 : an American . Surgeon and medical writer. Quotation : Insinuation. PANCHOUCKE, ANDRé Joseph, born, 1700 : a French writer and bookseller ; died, 1753. Quotation : Writing. PANDOLFINI, ANGELo, born at Florence, 1360; an Italian statesman, and Writer; died, 1446. Quotations: Idleness–Picture—Tilne. PANIZZI, SIR ANTHONY, K.C.B., born at Bres- cello, in the duchy oi Modena, September 16, 1797; an Ita- lian scholar and author, and principal librarian of the Brit- ish Museum until 1866. Quotation : Unity. PANTHEA, born in the early part of the sixth century; she was the wife of Abradatas, king of the Lu- sians, and a beautiful and noble woman; killed herself on the body of her husband who was slain in battle. Quota- tions : Calamity—Shame—Valor. PAPHNUTIUS, º of Thebes,) born about 260; an Egyptian saint and divine, who opposed the celi- bacy of the clergy, and warmly supported the cause of Athanasius, at the council of Tyre; died, 335. Quotations: Priest—Wedlock. PAPINIANUS, AEMILIUS, born, 175 A.D.; a cele- brated Roman jurist ; died, 212. Quotation : Wrong. PAPPUS, born in Alexandria, and flourished about 390 A.D.; an eminent Greek geometer. Quotation : TardineSS. PARACELSUS, PHILIPPUS AUSEOLUS. THEO- phrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim, born at Einsiedeln, Switzerland, 1493; a famous alchemist, and charlatan; died in poverty at Saltzburg, 1541. Medicine—Physician. PARDEE, RICHARD GAY, born in Sharon, Con- necticut, 1811; an American writer. Quotations: Recapit- ulation. PARDOE, JULIA, born at Beverley, Yorkshire, 1808; an English authoress; died, 1862. Quotations: Re- ligion—Travel. PARDON, GEORGE FREDERICK, (Captain Craw- §§ born about 1815; an English writer. Quotation : Emo- tion. PARIS, GASTON, son of the eminent Paulin Paris, born about 1820; a French writer, and the author of several works, (Paris, 1862.) Quotation : Đisaster. PARIS, MATTHEw, (Monk of Saint Albans,) born, 1195; an English historian ; died, 1259. Quotations: Credu. lity—Leader—Torment. PARK, EDWARD AMASA, D.D., born in Provi- dence, Rhode Island, 1808: an American divine and pro- fessor of Christian theology. Quotation : Theology. PARK, SIRJAMES ALLAN, D.C.L., born in Surrey, 1763: an English lawyer and writer; died, 1839. Quotation : Self-Culture. PARK, MUNGO, born in Yarrow, Selkirkshire, 1771; an eminent Scottish explorer of Africa, and author; he perished by drowning near Yaouri, 1805. Quotation : Mother. PARK, THOMAS, born, 1759; an English literary editor and poet; died, 1834. Quotation : Intoxication. PARKER, MIss FRANCIS S., born about 1800; an English authoress, (London, 1840.) Quotation : Shame. PARKER, GEORGE, born about 1750 ; an English writer; died, 1819. Quotation : Angling. Quotations. Fancy — A / O G. A. A /2 // / C A /, / AV /O AE X. I 167 PARKER, JENNY MARSH, born at Milan, New York, 1836; an American authoress of a number of juvenile story books. Quotations: Ocean—Sympathy. PARKER, JoEL, D.D.. born at Bethel, Vermont, August 27, 1799; an American Presbyterian minister of great eminence; died in New York, May 2, 1873. Quota- ãons : Chastisement—Dew—Preaching. PARKER, JoEL, LL.D., born in New Hampshire, January 25, 1795; a prominent American lawyer and jurist; died, 1875. Quotation : Truth. PARKER, JosłPH, D.D., born about 1810; an English divine and author, (London, 1857.) Quotation : Kneeling. PARKER, MATTHEw, (Archbishop of Canter- bury,) born at Norwich, 1504; a learned English divine and author; died, 1575. Quotation : Liberty. PARKER, RICHARD GREEN, born in Boston, 1798; an American educator and writer... Quotations: Diligence —Diversion—Dress—Novels—Quality—Zephyr. PARKER, ROSA ABBOTT, born, 1830 ; an Ameri- can authoress, (Boston, 1867.) Quotation : Gentility. PARKER, SAMUEL, born at Ashfield, Massachu- setts, 1779; an American divine, traveller, and writer; died, 1866. Quotation : Barbarism. PARKER, SAMUEL, (Bishop of Oxford,) born in Northampton, 1640; an English divine and author; died, 1687. Quotation : Grave. PARKER, SAMUEL, born in Worcestershire, 1759; an English chemist and author; died, 1825. Quotation : Perfection. PARKER, THEODORE, born at Lexington, Massa- chusetts, August 24, 1810; an American Unitarian divine, and a distinguished scholar and rationalistic theologian. In addition to his duties as minister, and his laborious in- tellectual pursuits, he devoted much of his time to lectur- ing upon slavery and temperance; died at Florence, Italy, Mº 10, 1860. Quotations: Bible—Books—City—Education —Flowers—Gesture — Greatness — Heart–Heaven— Hu- manity—Ideality — Immortality — Injustice — Judgment— Justice—Labor-Love—Man—Marriage – Miser–Money— Nature—Past—Politics—Prayer — Promise — Prophet—Sci- ence—Sectarianism — Silence — Spring—Success—Temper- ance--Testament—Truth—Wirtue—Wrong. PARKES, SIR HENRY, K.C.M.G., born at Stone- leigh, Warwickshire, 1815; the son of a farmer, who emi- grated in 1838, to Sydney, Australia, and found employment as a laborer. In 1854 he was elected to the legislature, and in 1877 he was knighted by the Queen for his political Ser- vices. Quotation : Virtue. PARKHURST, John, (Bishop of Norwich,) born in Surrey, 1511; an English divine and author; died, 1574. Quotation: Holiness. PARKMAN, FRANCIS, D.D., born, 1788; an Ame- rican Unitarian divine, and pastor of the New North Uni- tarian Church, Boston. He was the founder Of the Park- man Professorship of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral Care. in the Cambridge. Theological School; died, 1852. Quota- tion : Forgiveness. PARKMAN, FRANCIS, J.R., son of the preceding, }. in Boston, 1823; an American writer. Quotation. 3.Se. PARMENIDES, born at Elea, in Italy ; a distin- guished Greek philosopher who was associated with Soc- rates in the Eleatic school about 450 B.C. Quotation : Thought. - º PARNELL, THOMAS, (Archdeacon of Clogher,) born in Dublin, 1679; an eminent Irish Protestant divine, oet, and writer; died, July, 1717. Quotations: Folly — Olitude. PARR, CATHERINE, the widow of Lord Latimer ; she married Henry the Eighth, King of England, in 1543, #. his sixth and last wife ; died, 1548. Quotation : World- neSS." PARR, HARRIET, born in Yorkshire, 1811; an English novelist. Quotation : Beau. PARR, SAMUEL, born at Harrow on the Hill, 1747; an English scholar and critic, renowned for his learning: died, 1825. 7totations: Animals — Education — Gratitude —Idleness — Inconsistency — Justice — Legislature—Men— Beform—War. PARR, THOMAS, born in Shropshire, 1483 ; an Hºhman of great longevity; died, 1635. Quotation : 8, DOT. PARRHASIUS, born at Ephesus, and flourished about 400 B.C.; a celebrated Greek painter. Quotation : Torture. PARRY, SIR WILLIAM EDwARD, born at Bath, 1790; an English navigator and artic explorer; died at Ems, Germany, 1855. Quotation : Voyage. PARSONS, EDwARD, born, 1740; an English Dis- senting minister and writer: died, 1815. Quotations: Hor- ticulture—Minority. PARSONS, JoHN, (Bishop of Peterborough,) born, 1750; an English divine and author; died, 1819. Quotation : Mortality. PARSONS, JONATHAN, born at West Springfield, Massachusetts, 1705; an American divine and author; died, 1776. Quotation : Mourning. PARSONS, LEVI, born, 1792; an American mis- Sionary and author; died, 1822. Quotations: Calumniator —GOOd-Nature. PARSONS, ROBERT, (Robert Cowbuck,) born at Nether Stowey, Somersetshire, 1546; an English Jesuit; died at Rome, 1610. Quotation : Imprudence. PARSONS, THEOPHILUs, LL.D., born in New- bury, Essex county, Massachusetts, february 24, 1750; an American jurist and writer; died, 1813. Quotationis: Money —Precocity. PARSONS, THEOPHILUs, LL.D., son of the pre- ceding, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, May 17, 1797; an eminent American jurist. Quotation : Panic. PARSONS, WILLIAM LEONARD, D.D., born at Fair Haven, Vermont, 1811; an American divine and au- thor. Quotation : Nobody. PARTON, JAMES, born in Canterbury, February 9, 1822, became a resident of New York, 1826: an able and popular American Writer and journalist. Quotations: Limit—Rival—Wealth—Woman. PARTON, SARAH PAYSON WILLIS, wife of the preceding, and brother of N. P. Willis. See Fern, Fanny. PASCAL, BLAISE, born at Clermont-Ferrand, in Auyergne, June 19, 1623;, a celebrated French philosopher, mathematician, and littérateur, and one of the most pro- found scholars and writers of the seventeenth century. His intellectual powers were such as have rarely been be- Stowed on any of the children of men; and the extreme delicacy of his wit, the purity, the energy, the simplicity of his rhetoric has never been equalled; died in Pariš, August 19, 1662. Quotations : Amusement—Angels—Argu- ment—Atheism—Belief– Ceremony—Chance – Change— Christ –Credulity—Custom— Diversion— Doubt—Earnest- neSS-Egotism—Eloquence—Ennui-Esteem—Eternity— Evil—Extremes—Faith—Fancy--Fickleness—Force—Glóry — God — Godliness — Gospel – Government — Gratitude — Greatness—Happiness—Hate—Heart-Hypocrisy—Imagi- nation—Incredulity—Independence—Justice—Littleness— LOSS—Love—Lying— Malice—Man—Mediocrity—Misery— Moderation— Motion — Multitude—Munificence — Name— Necessity–Nobility— Novelty– Occupation – Opinion — Originality—Painting—Passion—Philosophy--Piety--Pleas- ing–Pleasure—Present—Presumption— Pride–Progress— Quietness. Reason-Religion-Repose-Resurrection— River–Rule—Self — Slander— Sleep — Speaking — Style— Sympathy--Temptation — Thinking—Thought – Truth— nity-Universe-Vanity—Wexation—Vice—Victory—Vir- tue—Voluptuousness—Weariness—Woe. PATER, PAUL, born, 1656: a Hungarian mathe- matician and astronomer; died, 1724. Quotation : Alle- giance. PATERSON, SAMUEL, born in London, 1728; an English bibliographer and author; died, 1802. Quotation: Malignity. PATON, CAPTAIN JOHN, born at Meadowhead about 1610; a Scottish covenanter, who suffered martyr- dom, May 9th, 1685. Quotation : Indiscrimination. PATRICK, SAINT, born at Bannevan, a small village of Tabernia, in Scotland, 372 A.D.; the apostle and # Saint of the Irish ; died, 454 or 493. Quotation : €8.H.I. PATRICK, SAMUEL, LL.D.,, born about 1672; an English philologist, divine, and writer: died, 1748. Qizota- tions : Joy–Mischief. PATRICK, SIMON, (Bishop of Chichester,) born at Gainsborough, 1626; an eminent English divine and author; died, 1707. Quotations. Confidence—Troubles. PATTERSON, DANIEL ; an American educator and author. Quotation. Grammar. PATTERSON, JUDGE : an American jurist and temperance advocate. Quotallions: Drinking—Intemper- 3,Il Cé. PATTERSON, ROBERT Hog ARTH, born in Edin- burgh, 1821 : a Scotch author. Quotation : Capital. PATTISON, SAMUEL Row LEs, born about 1809; an English geologist and author. Quotation : Fossils. PAUL, JEAN. See RICHTER, JEAN PAUL. Quo. tation. Joy. PAUL THE HERMIT, SAINT, born at Lower Thebais, in Egypt. 229 A.D.: a devout and learned man, who lived as a hermit for ninety years, and it is said that he was miraculously fed during this time with bread brought him every day by a raven; died, 342 A.D. Quotation : Devil. PAULA, SAINT, WIDow, born, May 5, 347; an illustrious Roman widow who surpassed all others of her Country, in riches, birth, devotion, and endowments of mind; died, January 26, 404. Quotation : Indigence. PAULDING, JAMES RIRKE, born at Pleasant Valley, Dutchess county, New York. August 22, 1779; a popular American novelist, and miscellaneous writer; died, 1860. Quotation : Bees. PAULET, SIR. A. Quotation: Insolence. II.68 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. PAULET, WILLIAM, (MARQUIs of WINCHESTER,) born, 1475; an English courtier: died, 1572. Quotation : Party. PAULZE, N., born, 1725; a Frenchman of great intelligence and erudition; died by the guillotine, 1794. Quotation: Refusal. PAVILLON, ETIENNE, born in Paris, 1632; a French poet; died, 1705. Quotation : Fame. PAVILLON, NICOLAs, (Bishop of Aleth,) born in Paris, 1597; a French divine and Jansenist ; died, 1677. Quotation : Fashion. PAXTON, SIR JOSEPH, born near Woburn, Bed- fordshire, 1803; an English architect and gardener; died, 1865. Quotation : Variety. PAYN, JAMES ; a popular English novelist of the present century. Quotations: Childhood—Failings--Mirth. PAYNE, JOHN HowARD, born in the city of New York, 1792; an American actor and dramatic writer. He Was the author of several dramas, but he is chiefly known }. his beautiful and popular song of “Home, Sweet Home.” e Was appointed in 1851 consul to Tunis; died in Tunis, 1852. Quotation : Home. PAYNE, ROGER, born, 1739; an English book- binder; died, 1797. Quotation : Work. PAYSON, EDwARD, D.D., born at Rindge, New Hampshire, 1783; an American Congregational divine and author; died, 1827. Quotations. Tenderness—Troubles. PAZ, JAGO ALVAREZ DA, born in Toledo, 1560; a Spanish Jesuit and religious writer; died, 1620. Quotation : Judgment. PAZZI, COSMO, (Archbishop of Florence,) born, #; i an Italian divine and author; died, 1515. Quotation : I'18.1. PEABODY, ANDREw PRESTON, D.D., LL.D., born at Beyerly, Massachusetts, March 19, 1811; an Ameri. Can Unitarian divine, theologian, and author. Quotation : Anxiety—Decay. PEABODY, EPHRAIM, born, 1807; an American divine and author: died, 1856. Quotation : Fireside. PEABODY, GEORGE, born in Danvers, (now Pea- body,) Massachusetts, February 18, 1795; an American mer- chant and philanthropist. His memory deserves to be held in remembrance for his princely gifts to the cause of edu- cation and benevolence ; died in London, November 4, 1869. Quotations: Frugality—Indigence. PEACHAM, HENRY, born in the latter part of the Seventeenth century; an English miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Trinity. PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE, born at Weymouth, 1785; an English humorist and poet; died, 1866. Quota- tion : Zephyr. PEARCE, JAMES A., born at Alexandria, Vir- ginia, 1805; an American Senator and lawyer; died, 1862. Quotations: Farmer. PEARCE, ZACHARY, D.D., born in London, 1690; an English divine and writer; died, 1774. Quotation : Quackery. - PEARSE, EDWARD, born, 1603; an English divine and author; died, 1673. Quotation : Church. PEARSON, JOHN, (Bishop of Chester,) born at Snoring, Norfolk, 1613; an eminent English divine and au- thor; died, 1686. Quotations : Church — Resurrection — Sectarianism. PEARSON, THOMAs, of Eyemouth, North Britain; a Scotch divine and author, (London, 1853.) Quotations : God—Pulpit. PECCHIO, GUISEPPE, Count, born at Milan, 1785; an Italian Writer and political economist; died at Brighton, England, 1835. Quotation : Promptness. PECK, MYRON, born in New York, 1830 ; an American lawyer. Quotation : Lawyer. PECOCK, REYNQLD, (Bishop of Chichester,) born, 1390; an English divine and author; died, 1460. " Quota. tions : Christian—Church. PEDRO I, (DOM PEDRO,.) ANTONIO Jozá, DE AL- Cantara, Emperor Of Brazil, and King of Portugal, born at Queluz, 1798; died, 1834. Quotations: People—Submission. PEDRO. II, (DOM PEDRO.). DE ALCANTARA, Em- peror of Brazil, born at Rio Janeiro, December, 1825; a #º º: fine attainments, and a popular ruler. Quotation : I’a,Vel, PEEBLES, JAMES M., born in Whitingham, Ver- mont, March 23, 1822; an American Spiritualist and editor. Qztotations : Anger—Deeds—Free-Thinking—Sin—Soul. PEEL, SIR ROBERT, M.P., D.C.L., born at Bury, Lancashire, February 5, 1788; a celebrated English states- man; thrown from his horse, June 29, 1850, receiving in- juries from which he died on July 2, of that year. tion. Prohibition. PEIRCE, OLIVER BEALE, born in Massachusetts, 1808; an American grammarian and historian. Q7zota- tions: Audience—Change — Earnestness — Examination— Grammar—Idea—Maxims. Quota- PELAGTUS I., PopF, born in Rome, 495, became pope, 555; died, 559. Quotation : Refutation. PELLAT, CHARLES AUGUSTE, born at Grenoble, 1793; an able French jurist. Quotation : Perjury. PELLETIER, CASPAR, born at Middleburg, about 1585; a Dutch physician and botanist; died, 1659. Quotit- tion : Soil. PELLICO, SILVIO, born at Saluzzo, Piedmont, 1789; an Italian poet and author; died, 1854. Quotations : Seduction—Truth. PELUSIOTA, IsIDORUs. Seum. Quotation : Gentile. PEMBROKE, COUNTEss of,(MARY SIDNEY.) sister of Sir Philip Sidney; an accomplished lady and authoress; died, 1621. Quotation : Worth. PENDLETON, EDMUND, born in Virginia, 1721 ; an eminent American statesman and judge; died at Rich. mond, 1803. Quotation : Federalism—People—Sovereign. PENN, WILLIAM, born in London, October 14, 1644; an eminent English philanthropist, and the founder of Pennsylvania ; died, July 13, 1718. Quotations: Ambi- tion — Appetite — Caution — Cheerfulness — Constancy — Country— Courage — Covetousness — Cunning — Dispute— Drunkenness — Flattery—Friendship—Frugality— Good— Harvest– Hate—Humility—Indiscretion— Innocence —In- terest—Justice—King—Rnowledge—Labor—-Lending—Life -LOVe—Lust –Luxury— Lying – Marriage—Mechanics— Method—Mischief–Name— Nature—Neutrality—Office— Opinion—Passion — Plenty—Popularity—Posterity—Prodi- §e. Proverbs — Religion – Rhetoric — Riches—Self– Self-Reproach—Silence— Simplicity—Slander—Superfluity —Temptation — Time — Truth — Vanity — Virtue — Wit – WOOds—World—Zeal. See ISIDORUS OF PELU- PENNANT, THOMAs, born at Downing, Flint- Shire, 1726; a Welch naturalist and antiquary ; died, 1798. Qºtotºtion Zoology. IPENNELL, HARRY CHOLMONDELY, born, 1836; an English poet and prose writer, and inspector of fisheries. Quolation : Co-Operation. PENTATHLUS, born, 620 B.C.; an Athenian archon ; died, 550 B.C. Quotation : Key PEPYS, SAMUEL, born in Brampton, Hunting- donshire, 1632; an English gentleman, littérateur, and au- thor; died, 1703. Quotation : Self-Interest. PERCIVAL: the pseudonym of an American wri- ter on Odd-Fellowship. Quotation: Odd-Fellow. PERCIVAL, JAMES GATEs, M.D., born at Berlin, Connecticut, 1795; an American poet and statesman ; died, 1856. Quotations : Advice — Credulity— Faith—Mother— Night—Old Age—Poetry—Roses—Storm—Study—Truth. PERCY, THOMAS, (Bishop of Dromore,) born at Bridgenorth, Shropshire, 1728; an eminent English scholar and writer; died, 1811. Quotations. Awkwardness—Con- viviality—Justice. PERDICCAS, born about 390 B.C. : one of the friends and favorites of Alexander the Great ; assassinated by his soldiers, 321 B.C. Quotations : Ages—Pleasing. PERIANDER, born, 665 B.C.; a º Cor- O g inth, and reckoned one of the Seven * * died, 585 Ortline — - — Rest -- - PERICLES, born, 499 B.C.; an illustrious Athe- nian statesman and Orator; died, 429 B.C. Quotations : Hypocrisy— Memory — Mortality — Neighbor–Poverty — Prodigality. PERIZONIUS, JAMES VOORBROEK, born at Dam, Groningen, October, 1651 : an eminent Dutch philologist and critic ; died, 1715. Quotation : Grammar. PERKINS, A. Quotation : Kindness. PERKINS, JAMES H., born, 1810; an American writer; died at Cincinnati, 1849. Quotations: Marriage— Mortality. PERKINS, WILLIAM, born at Marston, War- wickshire, 1588; an eminent English Calvinistic divine; died, 1602. Quotations: Christ—Convenience—Neighbor— Tresurrection. PERLES, JOSEPH, born in the present century : a Jewish rabbi archaeologist and writer. Quotations: Jews —Polygamy. PERRY, JAMEs, born in Aberbeenshire, 1756 ; a Scottish journalist; died. 1821. Quotations: Self-Abase- ment—Speech. PERSIUS, FLACCUs AULUs, born at Volaterra, Etruria, 34 A.D.; a Roman satirist; died, November, 62 A.D., Quotations: Belly-Disease—Disposition—Mankind -Piety—Prevention—Self–Self–Acquaintance–Silence— iºns – Stomach — Thunder — TO-Morrow — Trifle – yrant. - A / O G. A. A P Aſ / C A Z / M D / X. 1 169 PERTINAX, PUBLIUS HELVETIUs, born at Alba. Pompeia, on the Tanaro, 126 A. D.; a Roman Emperor; murdered in his palace, March, 193 A.D. Quotation : Pro- fanity. PESTALOZZI, JOHANN HEINRICH, born in Zu- rich, 1746; a Swiss teacher, celebrated for having intro- duced a new method of education; died, February 27, 1827. Quotations: Åim-Faith-Home-Knowledge Toppression —Thinking. PETERS, HUGH, born in Cornwall, 1599; an English dissenting divine, Who preached in Salem, Massa- chusetts, between 1635 and 1641; hung for treason, 1660. Quotations: Sensibility—Talking. PETERS, SAMUEL ANDREW, LL.D., born at He- bron, Connecticut, 1735; an American Episcopalian divine and writer; died, 1826. Quotation : Garden. PETERSON, CHARLEs J., born in Philadelphia, 1818; an American editor, and proprietor of Petersons' La- dies' Magazine. Quotations : "Autumn—Melody—Winter. PETER THE GREAT, (PETER I,) Czar of Russia, born at Moscow, June 10, 1672; a man of violent passions, and indomitable energy; died at Saint Petersburg, Janu- ary 28, 1725. Quotations : Ambassador—Honesty—Quaker- ism—Subject—Wrath. PETER THE HERMIT, born at Amiens, in the middle of the eleventh century; a famous French enthu- siast, agitator, and Crusader; died, 1115. Quotation 8: Cru- Sades—Pilgrim. PETIT, JEAN, born, 1360; a French theologian and author; died, 1411, Quotation. Wit. PETRARCH, FRANCESCO, born at Arezzo, in Tus- cany, July 20, 1304; an eminent Italian poet and author; died, July 19, 1374. Quotations: Books—Enemy—Imitation —Love—Old Age—Peace—Remembrance—Reputation— Virtue. PETRONIUS, ARBITER TITUs, flourished, 50 A.D.: a polite writer of antiquity: bled to death by Order of Nero, 65 A.D. Quotations : Acting—Beauty—Envy-For- tune—Gods—Ingratitude--Opportunity—-Parent--Physician —Sinner–Snow. PETTY, SIR WILLIAM, born at Romsey, Hamp- shire, 1632; an eminent English political economist; died, 1687. Quotation : Occupation. PFLEIDERER. Quotation: Egotism. PFEIFFER, IDA, born in Vienna, 1795; a cele- brated German lady traveller and writer; died, 1858. Quo- tºtion : Oblivion. BHAEDRUS, JULIUS, born about 8 B.C.; an ele- gant Latin fabulist ; died, 71 A.D. Quotations : Advice— Affluence—Amusement — Appearances — Backbiter—Blus- tering—Busybody – Calumniator — Care — Covetousness— Dignity—Exaltation—Example —Fool—Fraud—Gladness— Imitation—Learning—Liar—Mote— Plan—Play—Poverty— Precaution—Profit—Riches — Seeing—Speech—Sport—Suc- cess—Usefulness—Wit. PHAVORINUS, (Bishop of Nocera,) born near Camerino ; a celebrated Italian divine, noted for his learn- ing; died, 1537. Quotation : Sympathy. PHELPS, AMOs A., born, 1805; an American di- vine and author; died, 1847. Quotation : Unrighteousness. PHELPS, ALEXANDER ALONZO, born at Monte- rey, New York, 1836; an American Congregational clergy- man and author. Quotation : Soul. BHELPS, ALMIRA. HART LINCOLN, born at Berlin, Connecticut, 1793; an American educator, and author of a number of School books. Quotation : Agreeableness. PHELPS, AUSTIN, D.D., born in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, 1820; an American divine and professor of sacred rhetoric at Andover; author of “The Still Hour,” and other works. Quotations: Devotion—Duty. PHELPS, ELIAKIM, D.D., born in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, 1789; an American Congregational divine; died at Weehawken, New Jersey, December 29, 1880. ðuotation : SOvereign. PHELPS, ELIZABETH STUART, the wife of Austin Phelps, and daughter of Moses Stuart, of Wilton, Connec- ticut, born in Andover, Massachusetts, 1815; an American authoress: died, November 30, 1852. Quotation: Wife. PHELPS, ELIZABETH STUART, daughter of the pre- ceding, born in Andover, Massachusetts, 1844; an Ameri- can writer, and author of the celebrated work, “Gates Ajar.” Quotations: Child—Christ—Death—Horror. PHELPS, OLIVER, born at Windsor, Connecticut, 1749; an American jurist and large land-holder in western New York; died at Canandaigua, New York, February 21, 1809. Quotation : Indiscretion. PHELPS, SAMUEL, born at Devonport, 1806; an eminent English tragedian ; died, November 6, 1878. Quo- tation : Tragedy. PHELPS, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, M. A., born at Auburn, New York, February 15, 1822; an eminent Ameri- can educator. Quotation : Sound. PHERECRATES, lived about 438 B.C.: an Athe- nian poet contemporary with Plato and Aristophanes. Quo- tation : Old Age. PHERECYDES, born at Syros, 600 B.C.; a Greek hilosopher, and the teacher of Pythagoras. Quotations: isease—Gold—Honor. PHERON, a celebrated king of ancient Egypt. Quotation : Vows. PHILADELPHUS, (PTOLEMY II,) King of Egypt, from 283 to 247 B.C., born, 311 B.C.; a wise prince who en- couraged literature, founded the Alexandrian library, and caused the Holy Scriptures of the Jews to be translated into Greek; died, 247 B.C. Quotation : Writing. PHILARETE, VASIL DROSOF, (Archbishop of Moscow,) born near Moscow, 1782; Metropolitan of Mos- cow, and author; died, 1867. Quotattion. Sport. PHILELPHUS, FRANCEsco, born at Tolentino, 1398; a celebrated Italian philologist ; died at Florence, 1481. Quotation : Violence. PHILEMON, born, 395 B.C.; a Greek dramatist, and author Of ninety-Seven comedies: died from excessive laughter, 262 B.C. Quotations : Advice — Equanimity — Evil–Farce—Father—Grief—Husbandry—Justness—Man —Minister—Passion—Prudence—Slavery—Spring—Theory —Wish—Worship. - PHILIP, (Metacom,) “King Philip,” son of Mas- SaSoit, born about 1630; a Chief of the Pokanokets, or Walm- panoags, a tribe Of the Narragansets, who dwelt around the bay of Rhode Island. . He formed a plot to destroy the English colony, and was killed 1676, and his tribe extermi- nated. Quotation : Failure. PHILIP II, King of Macedonia, the father of Alexander the Great, born, 382 B.C.; a man possessed of great military and political talents, with some virtues, among which we may name generosity. He was, on the other hand, sensual, unscrupulous, and perfidious; assas- sinated, 336 B.C. Quotations : Bribery—Conquest—Mor- tality—Prince—Wastefulness—Victory. PHILIP III, King of Spain, born in Madrid, 1578 : a timid, indolent, and incapable monarch ; died, March, 1621. Quotation : Care. BHILIP III, Emperor of Germany. Quotations: Bliss—Retreat. PHILIP, ROBERT, D.D., born, 1791; an English dissenting divine and voluminous writer; died, 1858. Quo- tations: Home—Penitence. PHILIPPA, OF HAINAULT, wife of Edward the Third, King of England; a lady of great Wisdom and gene- rosity. Quotation : Esteem. PHILIPPE : an American divine and author. Quotation : Death. PHILIPPIDES, flourished about 330 B.C. ; an Athenian comic poet. Quotations: Bliss—Faults. PHILIPS, CATHERINE, (Matchless Orinda,) born, 1631 : an English poetess; died, 1664. Qºtotation : Quick- IlêSS. PHILISCUS, flourished about 440 B.C.; an Athe- nian archon and writer. Quotation : Temper. PHILLIPS, CHARLEs, born in Sligo, 1787; an Irish barrister and author: died, 1859. Quotations: Bigo- try—Education—Empire—Prejudice—Press. PHILLIPS, JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL. See Halliwell Phillips, James Orchard. PHILLIPS, SIR RICHARD, born in London, 1767 : an English writer and journalist; died, 1840. Quotation : Repetition. PHILLIPS, WENDELL, born in Boston, 1811 : an American reformer and abolitionist. He is a vigorous thinker and writer on the great moral and political topics of the day. Quotations: Debt—Defeat—Education—Fa- naticism – Government—Justice—Liberty–Newspaper— Opinion—Politics—Power—Press—Progress—Repetition— Revolution—Society—Telegraph—Trifles—Want. PHILLIPS, WILLARD, born at Bridgewater, Mas- sachusetts, December 19, 1784; an American judge and author; died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 9, 1873. Quotation. : Refutation. PHILO, JUDAEUS, born at Alexandria, and lived between 20 B.C., and 50 A.D.; a Greek philosopher. Quo- tations : Devil—Extortion— Heaven — Institution—Know- ledge—Lover—Priest—Self-Opinion—Undertaking. PHILOLAUS, born at Crotona, and flourished #. B.C.; a Greek Pythagorean philosopher. Quotation : OSCS. PHILOSTRATUS, FLAvTUS, born in Lemnos, ſº # p. a Greek historian and biographer. Quotation : OIT O. PHILPOT, JoHN, (Archdeacon of Winchester, ) born at Compton, 1492; an English theologian and martyr; burned at the stake, December 18, 1555. Quotations: Chris- tian—Church—Elect—Gospel—Resurrection. PHIN, JOHN. born in Scotland, emigrated to the |United States, 1851; a celebrated writer on grape culture, (New York, 1862.) Quotation : Garden. PHOCAS, born about 540 ; a Roman emperor ; died, 610. Quotations : Empire—Fortune. 74 1170 JD A Y’.S C O /, / A C O AV. PHOCAS, SAINT, born about 230 ; a Byzantine martyr; died, 303. Quotation : Accusation. PHOCION, born, 400 B.C.; an Athenian statesman and general, illustrious for his virtues, no less than for his talents; put to death by poison, 318 B.C. Quotations. Mul- titude—Peace—Pride—Ruler—Self-Examination—Thought —Tranquility. PHOCION, WIFE OF; the wife of the preceding, noted for her many virtues. Quotattion : Wife. PHOCYLIDES, born in Miletus and flourished al) out 540 B.C.; an Ionian poet. Quotations. Thief--Tongue —Vulgarity—Wages—Wickedness. PHOTIUS, (Patriarch of Constantinople,) born in Constantinople, 815; a celebrated Byzantine theologian, lºſºpher, and writer; died in exile, 891. Quotation : eatre. PHRYNE, born in Thespia, in Boetia, in the fourth century; an Athenian courtesan. She was the model of #. statues of Venus, produced by Praxiteles. Quotation: a SS10D. PICHLER, CAROLINE, born at Vienna, 1769; a pºlar German novelist; died, 1843. Qrtotation : Sun- SIll Ile. . PICKETT, ALBERT : an American educational writer, (New York, 1820.) Quotations: Birds—Boys—EX- emption—Sun—Winter. PICKETT, ALBERT JAMEs, born in North Caro- luna, 1810, but removed in early life to Alabama ; an Ameri- can historian ; died, 1858. Quotation : Teaching. PICKEN, ANDREw, born in Paisley, 1788; a Scotch writer of fiction ; died, 1833. Quotation : Self- Knowledge. PICTET, RAOUL, born in Geneva, about 1782; an eminent Swiss divine and theologian ; died about 1847. Quotation : Christ. PIEDMONT, MIRANDA OF, born in Piedmont, 1463; an Italian theologian and philosopher; died, 1494. Quotation : Modesty. PIERCE, FRANKLIN, born at Hillsborough, New Hampshire, November 23, 1804; the fourteenth President of the United States; died, 1869. Quotation : Wrong. PIERPONT, JoHN, born at Litchfield, Connecti- cut, April 6, 1785; an American poet and Unitarian divine; died at Medford, Massachusetts, August 27, 1866. Quotat- tions: Chastity—Estate—Sea —Unfortunateness—Wonder. PIERSON, HAMILTON WILCox, D. D., born at Bergen, New York; an American divine and author, and in 1858 was elected president of Columbia College, Ken- tucky. Quotation : Missionary. PI-HE or PIH-E ; the honorable epithef of a Chi- nº; ºlosopher of the Shang dynasty. Quotations: Sight —SOUlll(i. PIIS, AUGUST DE, born in Paris, 1755 ; a French poet and dramatic writer; died, 1832. Quotations: Felicity —Mistake—Sleep. PIKE, MARY H. GREENE, (Mary Langdom,) born at Eastport, Maine, 1827; an American authoress. Qºtotºt- tions. Exclusiveness—Fairies. PIKE, ALBERT, born at Boston, 1809; an Ameri- can printer, poet, and journalist. Quotations : Free-Ma- sonry—Prairie—Zealot. PIKE, JOHN GREGORY, born about 1791 : an American Baptist minister and a popular writer, (New York, 1830–65.) Quotations: Agony—Damnation. PINCKARD, GEORGE, M.D., born, 1760 : an Eng- lish army surgeon and author, (London, 1806.) Quotations: Joy—Liberty. PINCKNEY, CHARLEs CoTEsworth, born at Charleston, South Carolina, February, 1746; an American statesman; died at Charleston, 1825. Quotation : Feder- alism—People. PINDARUS, born near Thebes, 522 B.C.; one of the most eminent of Greek lyric poets ; died, 442 B.C. Quo- tations: Affluence — Custom — Day — Destiny—Envy—Ex- tremes — Fable — Future— Gifts — Gods — Hope — Merit — Mirth—Mistake—Nature—Obedience—Old Age—Opinion— Patience—Poet—Possession — Praise — Prosperity—Song— Truth—Valor—Virtue—Water—Wealth. PINEDA, JUAN DE, born at Seville, 1557; a Span- ish theologian and author; died, 1637. Quotations : Science —Theology. PINKERTON, JOHN, born in Edinburgh, 1758 ; a Scottish historian, poet, and antiquary; died in Paris, 1826. Quotation : Guide PINKNEY, WILLIAM, born at Annapolis, Mary- land, March, 1764; an eminent American lawyer, orator, and writer; died, February, 1822. Quotation : Alliance. PINTO, FERNAO MENDEz, born near Coimbra, 1510; a Portuguese traveller and author: died, 1583. Quo- trations : Jar—Jealousy—Lying—Promise—Remembrance. PIOMINGO, born, 1744; a celebrated Indian chief of the Chickasaws, who served under Washington and Jackson; died, 1839. Quotations: Fright. PIOMINGO, the pseudonym of an English writer who lived in the seventeenth century. Quotations: Ancients—Quackery. * * PIOZZI, ESTHER LYNCH SALUSBURY, ( Mrs. Thrale,) born in Carnarvonshire, 1739; an English author- ess; died, 1833. Quotations: Cure—Uncertainty. PIRAMOWICZ, GREGOIRE, born, 1733; a Polish littérateur; died, 1801. Quotation : Cookery. PISE, CHARLES CONSTANTINE, D.D., born at An- napolis, Maryland, 1802; an American Catholic divine, poet, and author. Quotations: Carol—Christ. PISISTRATUS, born, 612 B.C.; a tyrant ruler of Athens: died, 527 B.C. Quotation : Wound. PITCHER, MoLLY, (MRs. MARY PITCHER,) born in New Jersey, 1750, wife of an American officer in the Revolutionary War. who, on seeing her husband shot down, took his gun and led his company till the close of the bat- tle, and was afterwards known as “Captain Molly.” Quo- tattion : Desertion. PITMAN, ISAAC, born at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, January 4, 1813; an English inventor of phonetic writing, and author of a number of works on phonography. Quo- tation : Sound. PITT, WILLIAM, born at Hayes, Kent, England, May 28, 1759; one of the most celebrated statesman of Eng- land. He was a consummate debater, and unequalled as a master of sarcasm; died, January 23, 1806. Quotations : Analogy—Business—Eloquence—Necessity—Slavery. PITTACUS, born at Mitylene, in Lesbos, 650 B.C.; one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece; died, 569 B.C. Quo- tations: Adulation—Future — Land-Misery-Neighbor— Opportunity — Pleasure — Power —- Sea -— Sloth — State — Tongue—Truth—Victory. - PITTS, A. Quotation: Subordination. PITTS, J. LUSBY, of Frederick, Maryland. Quo- taction : Odd-Fellow. PIUS I, Pope, born at Aquileia, Italy; elected pope, 142; died, 157. Quotation : Law. PIUS II, POPE, (AENEAs SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI,) born at Corignano, Tuscany, 1405; elected pope, 1458. He distinguished himself as an able diplomatist and Orator, and was the author of several histories; died. August, 1464. Quotations: Fool— Learning— Lust–Lying – Marriage— Miser—Priest—Subjection—Sycophant—Trust. PIUS V, POPE, (MICHELE GHISLIERI,), born at Alexandria, 1504; elected pope, 1566, noted as a rigorist and a violent persecutor of dissenters ; died, 1572. Quotations: Harlot—Heresy—Hunting. PIUS VII, POPE, (CARDINAL GREGORIO BARNABA Luigi Chiaramonte,) born, 1742; elected pope, 1800; died, August, 1823. Quotation : POpery. |PIUS IX, Pope, (GIov ANNI MARIA MASTAI FER- rette,) born at Sinigaglia, near Ancona, May 13, 1792; a noble and pious man; died, 1878. Quotations: Pen—Public. PIXERECOURT, RENé CHARLEs GUILBERT DE, born at Nancy, 1773; a French dramatist and operatic wri- ter; died, 1844. Quotation: Books. PIZZOLI, MARIA L. Quotations: Resignation—Sing- i * Ilg. . g - PLANCHE, JAMEs RORINSON, born in London, February 27, 1796; an English dramatist and burlesque writer. Quotation : Summer. PLANCHE, MATILDA ANNE,(MRS. MACKARNESS,) daughter of the preceding; an English novelist. Quota- tion : Jealousy. PLATO, born, 428 B.C.; the celebrated philoso- pher of Athens, and the founder of the Academic sect; ăied while writing in the eighty-first year of his age, 347 IB.C. Quotations: Abstinence-Adaptation--Adultery- Anger—-Arro gance—Atheism--Audacity--Austerity-Battle –Béauty—Beginning–Boasting- Books—Boys—Comfort —Commonwealth—Contentment—Conversation—Country —Cunning—Dancing—Deceit —Democracy-Dependenge– Descendent–Despondency — Diligence — Disgrace — Dis- honor—Effrontery–Enemy – Equality-Estrangement— Evil-Exaltation – Excellence — Excess—Exclusiveness— Exercise—Experience — Extravagance-Fate–Fear—Fru- gality— Fury—Gladness – Gluttony L. Good—Goodness — Government — Greediness—Habit—Harmony—Health— Honor–Hope—Idleness—Ignorance—Imitation-Indiffer- ence—Injustice — Insolence — Intemperance - Judges — judgments—Kind-Knowledge—Lawyer—Learning-Legis- lature–Lending — Lewdness – License—Licentiousness— Love—Lust—Master–Melancholy—Misanthropy-Modesty —Monuments—Music – Nºtº. Obedience— Opinion — Oratory—Ostracism—Parent—Passion—Peace-Perfidy— Presents—Pride—Probity—Question—Rabble—Race–Rec- titude—Feproof–Resignation — Ruler–Savage—Seasons— Self–Self-Adoration—Self-Love—-Servant—Slavery—Son— Soul—Sovereign--State—Story—Study—Suicide—Surfeit— Table–Thanks—Thing—Trial—Triumph—Truth—Unright- eousness —Viciousness —Victory —Virtue —War—Wicked- ness—Wine–Wit—Wonder—Work—World. FLATINA, BARTOLOMEO DE SACCHIS, born at Piadena, near Cremona, 1421; an able Italian historian ; died, 1481. Quotation : Activity. A / O G ſº A A' AH / C A / / /W D F X. 1171 PLATT, JAMES, born about 1830 ; an English wri- ter and iecturer. Quotations : Action—Aspiration. PLATT, S. H., born about 1800; an American di- vine and author, (New York, 1856.) Quotations: Pride— Sympathy. PLAUTUS, MARCUs ACCIUs, born in Sarsina, in . Umbria, probably about 254 B.C.; the most celebrated of the comic poets of ancient Rome. , Little is known of his history; in his youth he served a baker by grinding corn. His literary career commenced about 224 B.C.; died, 184 B.C. Quotations: Absence-Abuse –Advantage-Advice –Agony—Ancients—Bees—Beneficence—Bells—Blessing— Busybody—Buying-Contentment-Death—Disgrace—Dis- play--Disposition-Eating—Envy--Equivocation--Evidence —Feasting—Festival — Fortitude — Gain—Genius–Gifts — God—Good—Guest—Guide —Guilt—Habit—Handsomeness —Ignorance—Inclination—Jest—Keeping—Kindness–Law —fending-Life ºf ove-ºiloverlº Madness- Manners— Merit — Modesty–Nature —Neighbor — Obscurity – Orna- ment—Passion — Patronage — Plan — Pomp — Profit — Pru- dence— Quarrels—Rage —Rashness — Relations—Remem- brance — Riches — Seeing –Shame—Ship — Slander – Sloth —Sorrow—Steadfastness— Stratagem—Suspigion—Truth— Ungratefulness—Uprightness—Valor—Vexation —Virtue— Wine —Wisdom—Wish—Witness—Woman—Words-—WOrth Wretchedness—Wrong—Youth. PLAVILSCHTSCHIKOF, ALEXAIEVITSCH PE- ter, born, 1760; a Russian dramatic author; died, 1812. Quo- tation : Vivacity. PLAYFAIR, JoBN, born at Benvie, Forfarshire, March 10, 1748; an eminent Scottish mathematician and astronomer; died, 1819. Quotation : Nature. PLINY, TEIE ELDER, or CAIUS SECUNDUS, born at Verona, or Novum Comun, the modern Como, 23 A.D.; a celebrated Roman naturalist ; died by suffocation, at the eruption of Vesuvius, in 79 A.D. Quotations: Chance — Equality—Novelty. PLINY, THE YOUNGER, or CAIUS CAECILIUS Se- Cundus, a nephew and adopted son of the preceding, born at Como, 61 or 62 A.D.: lie was the son of Caius Cæcilius and Plinia, a sister of Pliny the Elder. At the age of four- teen he wrote a Greek tragedy, and he became an eminent Latin author and orator; died, 115. Quotations; Ability— Action—Adyersity–Advice–Assistance—Ayarice—Ballot —Bargain—Candidate—Cheerfulness—Christianity--Comet —Custom—Diet–DQubt—Earth--Eloquence—-Envy-Equity —Evil—Example—Falsehood —Fear – Fruitfulness—Glory —Gravity—Grief – Guest — FIappiness — History—Honor— Hope—Injury— Innocence — Inquisitiveness — Lewdness— Liar—Liberality – Liberty—Life – Loquacity— Lust–Me- diogrity—Mind–Monuments — Multitude—Nature–Object —Obscurity— Opinion — Opportunity — Oratory—Pardón— Philosophy—Physician–Position — Praise — Prodigality— Public—ſtank—Reputation — River—Science—Sense—Sick- neSS—SOul—Statues—Study—Success—Suffering—Terror— Time—Variety—Vicissitudes —Voice —Vote—War—Will— Wine—Wisdom—Woe—World—Wrong. - PLOTINUS, born at Lycopolis, in Egypt,204 A.D.; an eminent, Greek Pºlº of the Neo-Platonic school. He taught philosophy at Rome, and had many disciples; died, 270 A.D. Quotations: Concord—Counterfeit—Covet. Qusness—Equality—Estate — Gluttony—Lying — Perfidy— Report. PLOWDEN, EDMUND, born in Shropshire, 1517; an English judge and author; died, 1585. Quotation : Fee. PLUMER, WILLIAM Swan, D.D., LL.D., born at Griersburg, (now Darlington,) Beaver county, Pennsyl- Vania, July 25, 1802; an American divine, theologian, and author. Quotation : Teaching. PLUMPTRE, EDwARD HAYEs, D.D., born, Au- #. 6, 1821; an English clergyman and poet. Quotation : €6. PLUMPTRE, HELEN. ; an English devotional and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Idolatry. PLUTARCH, born in Chaeronea, in Boetia, about 50 A.D.; an eminent Greek biographer, philosopher, and moralist, and one of the most celèbrated writers of an- tiquity. His greatest work, for which he is most distin- uished, is his “Parallel Lives of Forty-Six Greeks and Omans: '' died, 120 A.D. Quotations: Abundance–Ad- Versary–Anger—Apothegms— Bashfulness—Belly—Books -Bravery–Capacity—Climate — Contentment—Conversa. tion-Courage-Courtesy – Cowardice-Crime—Dancing— Deism—Dignity—Divorce—Eating — Education—Enemy— Entertainment—Envy—Error—Events—Evil—Exile—Éxul- tation-Eye-Fortuné—Glory—God—Goodness--Happiness -Hate—Honor—Ignominy—Impertinence—Indiscretion— Insult-Justice-King—Labor — Lamentation—Licentious- ness—Luxury—Malice —Man – Marriage — Mother—Muta- bility—Neighbor—Peevishness—Perseverance—Philoso hy -Poverty–Power—Practice—Praise—Pretension—Pride- i.pegº - Protection – Rage — Refusal – Religion—Re- proo –Savage — Self-Knowledge – Self-Love—Sérvility- SOYereign-Speech—Statesman—Superstition—Symbol— Talking-Teaching—Tears—Temple–Tongue—Trouble— Undertaking—Usury —Vice—Victory—Villainy—Virtue— War—Words—Worship—Wrath. POCAHONTAS, the daughter of Powhatan, an Indian chief of Virginia, born, 1594; she was convertéd to Christianity, and married to John Rolfe, an English gen- tleman; died, 1617. Quotations: Kindred–Savage. POINCELOT, ACHILLES. POCOCK, EDWARD, born in Oxford, 1604 ; an eminent English divine and Orientalist ; died in Oxford, 1691. Quotation : Habit. POE, EDGAR ALLEN, born in Boston, February 19, 1809; an ºninent American poet and prose writer; died, October 7, 1849. Quotations: Intemperance—Perverseness. POGGIO, BRACCIOLINI, GIov ANNI FRANCESCO, born , near Florence, 1880; a distinguished Italian scholar; died in Florence, 1459. Quotation 3 Deceit. POICTERS, WILLIAM OF. See WILLIAM OF PoictierS. - Quotations : Delicacy — Gratitude—Idleness—Obligation—Simplicity—Taste. POINSETT, JOEL ROBERTs, born in Charleston South Carolina, March 2, 1779; an American statesman an author; died, December 12, 1851. Quotation : Flag. POITIERS, DIANī, DE, DUCHESS DE VALENTINOIs, born, September 3, 1499; a beautiful French lady and wri- ter; died, April 22, 1566. Quotations : Victory—Wretched- IlêSS, POITOU, WILLIAM, Count OF, born about 1080; a celebrated French troubadour'; died, 1122. Quotation : Crusades. POLANO, H.; an American Jewish Rabbi, and professor of the Hebrew language. He published in 1876, “Selections from the Talmud,” and other works. Quota- tion : Neighbor. POLE, REGINALD, (Archbishop of Canterbury,) born at Stoverton Castle, Staffordshire, 1500; a celebrated English cardinal and author; died, 1558. Quotations : Minister—Piety. POLE, WILLIAM DE LA, born about 1300; an Eng- lish chancellor of the exchequer; died, 1866. Quotation : CommandmentS. POLEMO or POLEMON, born at Athens; a Greek g|Hººghº. died, 272 B.C. Quotations: Reformation— olitude—Temperance—Voice. POLHILL, EDWARD, born about 1627; an Eng- lish jurist and miscellaneous writer, (London, 1673.) Qzzo- tations: Hope—lnsolence. POLIGNAC, AUGUSTE JULES ARMAND MARIE, Prince de, born at Versailles May 14, 1780; a French states- man and diplomatist ; died in Paris, March 2, 1847. Quota- tion. IndiSCretion. BOLITEUPHUIA ; or, WIT'S COMMONWEALTH: the name of a Small collection of classical quotations and maxims, supposed to have been compiled by John Boden- ham, (q.v.) and Nicolas Lynge, (q.v.) published in London, 1669. Quotations: Temperance –Thinking —Treachery — Usury. - POLK, JAMEs KNOx, born in Mecklenburg coun- ty, North Carolina, November 2, 1795; the eleventh Presi- dent of the United States; died at Nashville, June 9, 1849. Quotations: Machinery—People—Tariff. POLO, GASPER GIL, born at Valencia, about the middle of the sixteenth century; a Spanish poet and novel- ist. Quotation : Early-Rising. POLO, MARCO, born at Venice, about 1250 ; a dis- tinguished Italian traveller; died at Venice, 1323. Quota- tê0% HOrSe—ZOne. POLYBIUS, born at Megalopolis, in Arcadia, 204 B.C.; a celebrated Greek historian ; died, 122 B.C. Quota- tions: Ability—Beginning—Cause—Climate— Condition— Conquest—Conscience – Courtier— Empire—Enemy-Ex- pectation—Government—History—Ill-Will— King— Multi- tude — Peace — Penury— Power — Rashness—Statesman — Troubles—Truth—Victory—War. - POLYCARPUS, SAINT, (Bishop of Smyrna,) born in the first century; an eminent Father of the Church and Imartyr, and a §ºle of Saint John the evangelist; burnt at the stake, 167 A.D. Qºtotations: Bed—Neglect—Threats. POMEROY, MARK M., about 1816; an American journalist and politician. tions. Frugality—Zest. POMPADOUR, JEANNE ANTOINETTE POISSON, Marquise de, born in Paris, 1720; a French adventuress and diplomatist, at the court of Louis the Fifteenth ; died at Paris, 1764. Quotation : Friendship. POMPEY THE GREAT, CNEIUs, born, Septem- ber 30, 106 B.C.; a famous Roman general and triumvir; died, September, 48 B.C. Quotations: Glory—Sunrise. POMPIGNAN. JEAN GEORGES LE FRANC, DE, (Archbishop of Vienne,) born at Montauban, 1715; a French divine and author; died, 1790. Quotation: Delight. POMPIGNAN, JEAN JACQUES LE FRANC DE, Marquis, a brother of the preceding, born at Montauban, 1709; a French poet and author; died, 1784. Quotations: Advancement—Avarice—Jest. PONCE DE LEON, JUAN, born in Leon, 1460 : a Spanish navigator, and the discoverer of Florida ; died in Cuba. 1521. Q7zotation : Fountain. POND, ENOCH, D.D., born at Wrentham, Massa- chusetts, 1791; an Américan Congregational divine and Writer. Quotation: Queen. (Brick Pomeroy,) born Q7zota- 1172 IX A Y'S CO L / A C O AV. PONIATOWSKI. See STANISLAUS. PONSONBY, LADY EMILY CHARLOTTE MARY, daughter of the fourth Earl of Besborough, born, 1817; an English novelist. Qttotation : Native-Land. - PONTANUS, JoHANN ISAAC, born at Elsinore, 1570: a Danish #919. and historian; died; 1639. Quo- tations : Humility — Neglect — Offense — Opinion — Self- Abasement. PONTIAC, born, 1712; a North American Indian chief, of the Ottawa tribe ; killed in Illinois, 1769. Quota- tions : Deceit—InSolence—Peace. PONTOPPIDAN, ERIK, (Bishop of Drontheim,) born in Funen, 1620; a Danish poet and divine ; died, 1678. Quotation : Money. POOLE, JOHN, born about 1830 ; an English wri- ter and dramatist, (London, 1863.) Quotation : Christmas. POOLE, MATTHEw, born in York, 1624; an Eng- lish Nonconformist divine; died, 1679. Quotation : Sun- I'1SC. POPE, ALExANDER, born in Lombard street, Lon- don, May 22, 1688; a popular English poet and critic; died, May 30, 1744. Quotations : Absence —Absurdity —Anger— Argument—Atheism—Author—Beatitude—Beauty--Block- head — Bravery — Common-Sense — Company – Conceit — Qourtship—Covetousness – Qredulity—Crowd—Curiosity— Death-Bed--Disagreement--Disposition--Elegance--Enemy —Epitaph—Excuse—Fame—Faults — Flattery—Fool—For- giveness—Fortune—Friendship--Generosity-–Good-Humor -Government—Gratitude —Happiness—Honesty—Human- ity— Ignorance — Ill-Nature — Independence — Infirmity— Ingratitude—ſing—Learning —Libel–Life—Lying—Mean- ness—Merit—Mind— Mirth — Monastery—Multitude—Neu- trality—Noise—Nothing —Painting—Passion—Positiveness —Reading—Ridicule—Right— Romance—Self—Self-Love— Sickness—Simile—Simplicity — Study — Suffering—Truth— Urbanity—Vanity—Vulgarity—World—Wrong—Years. PORDAGE, SAMUEL, born about 1610; an Eng- lish poet and writer, (London, 1660.) Quotation : Features. PORSON, RICHARD, born in Norfolk, December 25, 1759; an English Greek scholar and author: died in London, September, 1808. Quotations : Lawyer—Wealth. PORTA, GIAMBATTISTA, born in Naples, 1540 ; an eminent Italian natural philosopher ; died in Naples, 1615. Quotation: Irregularity. - PORTALIS, JEAN ETIENNE MARIE, born at Baus- set, (Val',) 1745; a distinguished French jurist, and minister of state; died, 1807. Quotation : Formality. ~ PORTER, ANNA MARIA, born in Durham, 1780; an English novelist; died, June 21, 1832. . Quotations : Amusement—Diversion—Lover. PORTER, DR. ; an American physician and au- thor. Quotations : Beauty — Bride— Celibacy—Conserva- tism—Convention— Deformity— Dress—Expression—Eye— Features— Food–Hand–Infancy—Lips—Longevity—Love —Luxury—Mother—Nervousness--Nose-–School—Selection —Teeth—Transgression. PORTER, DUFF; an American journalist, miscel- laneous writer, and author. Quotation : Harm. PORTER, EBENEZER, born at Cornwall, Connec- ticut, October 5, 1772; an American Congregational divine and author: died, April 8, 1834. Quotation : Pathos. PORTER, HARLow, born, 1791; an American miscellaneous writer; died, 1842. Quotation : Alms. PORTER, JANE, sister of Anna Maria Porter, born at Durham, 1776; an English authoress, and the first histori- cal novelist ; died, 1850. Quotations : Abuse — Beauty — Cheerfulness—Confidence—Cowardice--Credulity-–Despair Despondency—Education — Flattery—Form—Friendship— Gracefulness—Grief – Happiness — Imagination—Indepen- denge—Intoxication-Knowledge – Love—Lying—Magna- nimity—Maiden—Mob — Nature — Nobility—Pity—Punish- ment--Teligion—Revenge—Right—Rumor—Satire—Satiety -º-Self — Self-Love — Sensuality—Slavery—Virtue — W 63. It il. PORTER, RIPPIN : an English author, (London, 1816.) Quotation : Benevolence. PORTEUS, BEILBY, (Bishop of London,) born at York, 1731 : an English divine and author: died, 1808. Qzzo- tations : Artlessness—Bible—Blessing—Calainity—Fabie— Good—Guilt—Sabbath—Slavery—Thought—World. POSIDIPPUS, born at Cassandria, in Macedonia, about 320 B.C.: á Greek comic writer and dramatist ; died about 250 B.C. Quotation : Sorrow. POSIDONIUS, born at Apamea, in Syria, 135 B.C.; a Greek Stoic philosopher, historian, astronomer, and geographer; died about 54 B.C. Quotation: Honor. POSSELT, ERNST LUDw1G, born at Durlach, in Baden, 1763: a German historian and author; died, 1804. Q?totation. Denial. POSSEVINO, ANTONIO, born at Mantua, 1534; an Italian Jesuit, negotiator, and writer; died, 1611. Quo- tation : Delay. POSTEL, GUILLAUME, born in Normandy, 1510 : a French visionary, philologist, and traveller, and one of the most learned men of his time; died in Paris, 1581. Quotation : Yearning. POSTHUMOUS, MARCU's CASSIANUs LATINIUS, born about 200 A.D.: a Roman general, and one of the thirty tyrants of lºome, after the capture of Valentinian. He was appointed governor of Gaul, by Valerian, and was proclaimed emperor by his army, 257; assassinated by his lmutinous soldiers, 267. Quotation : SoVereign. PQSTLETHWAYT, MALACHI, born, 1707; an English writer; died, 1767. Quotation : Denial. POTAMO, born in Alexandria, and lived in the Second century; a Greek Platonic and eclectic philosopher. Quotation : Change. POTEMKIN, GREGOR ALExANDROVITCH, PRINCE, born near. Smolensk, 1736; a Russian field-marshal, and a . favorite ºf Catherine the Second; died near Jassy, Octo- ber 15, 1791. Quotations: Starvation—State. POTOCKI, , STANISLAs KosTKA, Count, born, 1757; a Polish patriot and statesman; died, 1821. Quota- tion : Ridiculousness. POTTER, ALONzo, D.D., LL.D., (Bishop of Penn- Sylvania,) born in Dutchess county, New York, July 10, 1800; an eminent American Episcopalian divine and au- thor: died in San Francisco, 1863. Qzzolations : Christian- ity–Culture—Intemperance—Melody-Politics—Poverty— Rural Life—School—Teaching—Thinking—Want. POTTER, HoRATIO, D.D., D.C.L., (Bishop of New York) brother of the preceding, born in Dutchess county, New York, 1802; an American divine and author; died in New York, 1861. Quotation : Orthodoxy. POTTER, H. L. D., an American elocutionist and author. (New York, 1871.) Quotation : Elocution. POTTER, John, D.D., (Archbishop of Canter- bury,) born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, 1674; an eminent Eng- lish divine; died, 1747. Quotation : Self-Respect. POTTER, ROBERT, born, 1721; an English poet and translator; died, 1804. Qweotationz. Heaven. POTTER, W. J. : an American writer, and author of “Reason and Revelation,” (Boston, 1872.) Quotation : Worldliness. POTTS, J. H., an English clergyman and writer. Quotation : Futurity. POUSSIN, NICOLAs, born at Andelys, on the Seine, in Normandy, 1594; an eminent French painter of Mºy and landscapes; died, November, 1665. Quotation: I*th SL. POUSSIN or POUSSINES, PIERRE, born at Lau- rac, 1609; a French Jesuit and writer; died, 1686. Quota- tion : Religion. POWELL, BADEN, born at Stamford Hill, 1796; an English natural philosopher and writer; died, June 11, 1860. Quotation : Christianity. POWELL, EDWARD, born, 1465 : an English Ro- Iman Catholic divine and author ; died, 1540. Juotation : Frankness. POWELL, SIR JOHN, born in Carmarthenshire, about 1620; a Welch judge, noted for his honesty ; died, 1696. Qttotations : Law—Learning — Ring—Self-Command —Self-Praise. POWELL, THOMAs, born in London, 1809; emi- grated to the United States, 1849; an English writer and dramatist. Quotation : Corpulency. POWER, PHILIP BENNETT, born, 1810 : an Eng- lish divine and author, (London, 1868.) Quotation : Im- patience. POWERS, HIRAM, born in Woodstock, Vermont, July 29, 1805; an eminent American sculptor; died, June 27, 1873. Quotation : Eye. POWERSCOURT, THEODOSIA. A., VISCOUNTESS : a celebrated English lady, noted for her many accomplish- ments. Her letters and papers were edited by the Rev. R. Daly, and published in Dublin, 1839, and in New York, 1861. Quotations : Christian—Murmur—Reserve—Trust. POYNDER, JoHN, born, 1779; an English writer; died, 1849. Quotations : Care—Creature—Darkness. POYNET, John, (Bishop of Rochester, ) born, 1516: an English divine and author; died, 1556. Quotation Invective. PRADES, JEAN MARTIN DE, born, 1720; a French theologian ; died, 1782. Quotation : Woman. PRADT, DOMINIQUE DUFOUR, ABBAE DE, (Arch- bishop of Malines,) born in Auvergne, 1759; a celebrated French divine, diplomatist, and political writer; died, 1837. Quotations : Lady—Rogue. PRAM, CHRISTIAN HENRIKSEN, born in Guld- bransdale, Norway, 1756; a distinguished littérateur and journalist; died, 1821. Quotation : Justice. PRASLIN, MADAME DE. Quotations : Affection — Happiness—Lamentation—Separation. PRATT, DANIEL JoHNSON, M. D., born in West- moreland, New York, March 8, 1827 : an eminent American educator. Quotation : Employment. PRATT, ORSON, born in Hartford, New York, September 19, 1811; a leading Mormon writer, and superin- tendent of the acadamy at Utah. Quotation : Polygamy. A / O G AC A P Aſ / C A /, / AV /O AE X. 1173 PRATT, ZADoc, born at Stephentown, New York, 1790; an eminent Almerican mechanic, merchant, and busi- nes man ; died at Bergen, New Jersey, April 6, 1870. Quo- tation : Money. PRAXITELES, born at Athens about 400 B. C., ºnost eminent of Grecian Sculptors. QuotattiO7t. De- Cé1ü. PRENTICE, GEORGE DENISON, born at Preston, New London, Connecticut, December 18, 1802; a celebrated American journalist and poet. He founded in 1828 “The New England Review,” and in 1831 he became editor of the Louisville Journal,” which acquired the reputation of being the ablest journal in the country; died, January 22, 1870. Quotations: Ability —Angels–Assertion—Author— A varice—Dandy— Darkness – Deafness — Debt–Delight— Diet—Dignity—Dispute — Doctor — Dogs–Dress–Duelling —Editor–Enemy—Fact—Fascination —Faults—Forgetful- ness—Fortune—Generosity-Government—Grace–Hand— Heart—History — Home — Hope — Hulmanity – Humility— Hunger—Hymn—Ill-Humor — Ingenuity—Instinct—Intein- erance—Intolerange–Judges – Kisses-Language—Lend- flºw: — Lying — Malignity—Marriage— Memory—Mind–Miser—Mouth – Nothing—Opinion—Pee- Vishness--Pen—Politics—Poor—Position—Possession--Pru- dery—Question — Reading — IReason – Itelations—Safety— Slander-Smoking-Stomach —Stupidity – Suffering—Sus- picion—Talking—Taste —Taxation–Teeth-Temper-Tim- idity — Tobacco — Tongue – Ugliness-Villainy – Virtue— Waſking—Water—Wife—World—Writing. PRENTISS, SERGEANT SMITH, born at Portland, Maine, 1808: an American politician and Orator; died near Natchez, Mississippi, 1850. Quotattion : Starvation. PRESCOTT, WILLIAM HICKLING, born at Salem, Massachusetts, May 4, 1796; an eminent American histo- rian and miscellaneous writer; died, January 28, 1859. Quo- tations : Architecture—Energy–Mathematics. PRESTON, ANN, M.D., born in Chester county, Pennsylvania ; an American female professor of physiol- ogy and medicine, and author of several works on the medical education of women. Quotation : Character. PRESTON, John, D.D., born at º North- amptonshire, 1587; an eminent English Puritan divine • died, 1628. Quotation : Death. PRESTON, WILLIAM CAMPBELL, born at Phila- delphia, December 27, 1794; an American Senator and ora- tor; died at Columbia, South Carolina, May 22, 1860. (J710- tations : Freemasonry—God—Ornainent. PRETIEUSE, LA ; a French writer and dramatio author. Quotation : Words. PRICE, MRs. ABBY H., an American reform lec- turer, and advocate Of Women's Rights. Q2tolation 8. Equality—Girl. PRICE, AUBREY C., an American miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Feasting. PRICE, BARTHOLOMEW, born at St. Dennis, Glou- cestershire, 1818; an Engllsh professor of natural philoso- phy and scientific author. Quotations: Expostulation. PRICE, BENJAMIN, born in New York, 1825; an American military officer : killed in battle, at Petersburg, Virginia, 1865. Quotation : Fright. PRICE, RICHARD, D.D., born at Tynton, Glamor- ganshire, February 22, 1723; an eminent Welch dissenting minister and speculative philosopher; died, April 9, 1791. Quotation : Oath. PRICHARD, JAMES COWLES, born at Ross, Here- fordshire, 1785; an eminent English ethnologist and physi- ologist ; died, December 22, 1848. Quotation : Franchise. PRICHARD, MISS S., born about 1830 ; an Ameri- can authoress. Quotations. Kisses—Knowledge—Love. PRICHARD, SAMUEL, born about 1789 : an Eng- lish author; (London, 1730.) Quotation: Absence. PRIDEAUX, HUMPHREY, son of Matthias Pri- deaux, born at Padstow, Cornwall, May 3, 1648; an eminent English divine and historian: died, November 1, 1724. Quo- tattion . MOtto. PRIDEAUX JoHN, (Bishop of Worcester,) born at Stowford, Devonshire, 1578; an English divine of great learning, and author of many works on theology and logic ; died, 1650. Quotations: Controversy—Printing. PRIDEAUX, MATTHIAs, M.A., son of the preced- ing, born, 1622; an eminent English theologian and author of “An Easy Compendium for Reading All Sorts of Histo- ries:” died, 1646. Quotations : Lying—Perjury—Victim. PRIERIO, SILVESTRO MAzoLINA DE, ( Prierias,) born at Prierio, 1460: an Italian Dominican controversal- º º theologian. Quotations : Resignation—Swearing— 8,1] [. PRIESTLEY, JosłPH, born at Birstal-Fieldhead, near Leeds, Yorkshire, March 18, 1733; an eminent English dissenter, theologian, chemist. and experimental philoso- pher. He emigrated in 1794 to Northumberland, Pennsyl- Yº: died, February, 1804. Quotations: Date—Lying— 8,111. PRIME, SAMUEL IRENAEUs, D.D., born in Sara- toga county, New York, 1812; an American Presbyterian divine and author. Quotation : Faults. PRIME, WILLIAM CowPER, brother of the pre- Ceding, born at Cambridge, New York, 1825; an American lawyer, traveller, and Writer. Quotations : Smoking — Tobacco. PRINCE, EDWARD, an American writer on api- culture, horticulture, and other topics. Quotattion : Bees. PRIOR, MATTHEW, born at Wimborne-Minster, Dorsetshire, July 21, 1664: a distinguished English diplo- matist, poet, and Iniscellaneous writer; died at Wimpole, September 18, 1721. Quotations: Author — Blessedness — Labor—Mortification—Poet-Wretchedness. PRISCIAN US, born at Caesarea, and flourished about 525 A.D.; a distinguished Christian Roman gramma- rian. Quotation : Separation. PROBUS, MARCUS AURELIUS, born at Sirmium, 235 A.D.; an excellent IRoman emperor; assassinated by his soldiers, 282 A.D. Quotation : Barbarism. PROCLUS, (Diadochºws,) born at Constantinople, 412 A, D.; an eminent Greek philosopher ; died, 485 A.D. Quotations : Abstinence—Feasting—Philosophy. PROCLUS, SAINT, (Bishop of Constantinople,) born about 370 A.D.; a Greek divine and writer; died, 446. Quotation : Self-Murder. PROCOPIUS, born at Caesarea, in Palestine, 495; an emingnt Byzantine historian ; died, 565. Quotations: Army—Shame. PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE, daughter of Bryan Waller Procter, born in London, 1835; an English poètess and writer; died, February 2, 1864. Quotation : Control. PROCTER, BYRAN WALLER, (Barry Cornwall,) born, November 21, 1790; an English poet and miscellaneous writer; died, October 4, 1874. Quotations : Death—Happi- ness—Love—Progress. PROCTOR, RICHARD ANTHONY, born, March 23, 1837; a popular English writer and lecturer on natural sº and astronomy. Quotations : Theology — Theory –Z, Olle. PROPERTIUS, SExTUs AURELIUS, born at As- sisium, in Umbria, 50 B.C.; an eminent Roman elegiac poet: died about 15 B.C. Quotations : Advantage — Boldness — Business—Complaint-Constancy—Coquetry—Eye—Gold— Grave—Love—Obsequies—Riches—Sailor—Sin–Success. PROTAGORAS, born at Abdera, in Thrace, 488 B.C.; a Grecian Sophist and philosopher ; , perished by ship- wreck, 418 B.C. Quotations : Conversation — Equity—Fi- delity—Gods—Indigence—Precept—Thrlft. PROUDFIT, ALExANDER MONCRIEFF, D.D., born at Pequa, Pennsylvania, 1770; an eminent American Pres- byterian clergyman; died, 1843. Quotation : Obligation. PROUDHON, PIERRE JOSEPH, born at Besançon, July 15, 1809; a French socialist and political writer; died in Paris, January 19, 1865. Quotation : Communism. PROUT, FATHER, (FRANCIS MAHONEY,) born in Ireland, 1805 ; an Irish journalist and humorist, who wrote under the assumed name of “Father Prout; ” died, May 18, 1866. Quotation : Reason. PRUDENTIUS, CLEMENS AURELIUS, born in Spain, 348 A.D.; a Latin Christian poet ; died, 408. Quota- tion. Rights. - PRUDHOMME, LOUIS MARIE, born at Lyons, 1752; a French revolutionist; died, 1830. Quotations: En- tertainment—Greatness. PRUEN, THOMAs, born about 1775; an English divine and Writer, (London, 1815.) Quotations : Psalms — SOciety. PRYNNE, WILLIAM, born near Bath, 1600 ; an English Puritan politician and antiquary ; died, October 24, 1669. Quotation : Adventure. PSALMANAZAR, GEORGE, born, 1679; a French literary impostor and savant, whose proper name remains a secret. He afterwards became religious, and wrote an excellent universal history; died in London, 1763. Quota- tãoze. Suavity. PSAMMITICHUS, King of Egypt, born, 671 B.C.; the founder of the Saitic dynasty; died, 617 B.C. Quota- tion : Stranger. PSELLUS, MICHAEL CONSTANTINUs, born at Con- stantinople, 1020; a celebrated Greek writer: died, 1105. Quotations : Fiend—Pride–Usury. PTOLEMY, CLAUDIUs, born in Egypt, 138 A.D.; a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician ; died about 206, A.D. Quotations: Astrology—Star. PUAAIKI, BARTIMEUS, born about 1797 : an Ha- waiian blind preacher, who was converted to Christianity, and was the means of doing much good among his country- men in the cause of religion and civilization. Quotation : 1I] . PUBLIUS, SAINT, flourished about the year 369 ; an ancient Greek abbot and divine. Quotation : Zeal. PUFFENDORF, SAMUEL, BARON VON, born near Chemnitz. Saxony, January 8, 1632: an eminent German jurist and publicist; died in Berlin, October 6, 1694. Quo- tºttion. Right. 1174 JD A Y',S C O /, / A C O AW. PUFFER, REUBEN, born, 1756 : an American di- vine and author; died, 1829. Quotation : Jewels. PUISIEUX, MADELEINE D'ARSANT DE, born in Paris, 1720; a French authoress: died, 1798. Quotations : Fashion—Jealousy—Love—Wrong. PULASKI, CASIMER, COUNT, born, 1747; a Po- lish exile, who took part in the American IRevolution; killed at Savannah, 1779. Quotation : Fright. PULCI, LUIGI, born in Florence, 1431; an Italian poet and writer; died, 1487. Quotation: Itival. PULLAN, MATILDA MARIAN, born at Prospect House. Ireland, 1821; an Irish authoress of several educa- tional and other works. (Jºtotations: Love—Riches. PULSFORD, John, D.D., born at Hull, about 1800; an English divine and author, (London, 1857.) Quo- tations: Evangelist—Humility—Man—Prophet— Reason— Righteousness–Self-Distrust—Self-Sufficiency—Time. PULSFORD, WILLIAM, born, 1800; an English translator and writer, (Edinburgh, 1852.) Quotation. DeW. PUMFRET, JOHN. Quotation : Machinery. PUNCH : an English comic weekly paper, pub- lished in London, and first saw the light July 17, 1841. The Original editors were Horace Mayhew, (q.V.,) its founder, and Mark Lemon, (q.v.) Quotation : Smoking. PUNSHON, WILLIAM MORLEY, D.D., born at Doncaster, 1824; a popular English Wesleyan divine. At the age of sixteen he was appointed local preacher at Sun- derland, and at twenty-one, he was made pastor of a church at Maiden, Kent; in 1868, he visited Canada and the United States, and returned to England in 1873; died at Brixton, near London, April 14, 1881. Qºţotºttions: Activity– Con- sistency—Grace–Hope— Infidelity—Penitence—Scripture —Unbelief—Zeal. PURANA, THE, a Sanscrit word, signifying am- cient, and applied to certain sacred books of the Hindoos, and is supposed to have been written by the author of the Yeſlas, (J.V.,) and the Mahabharata, (q.v.) Q2007&tions." Wife—Wolman. - PURCHAS, JoBN, D.D., born about 1820; an ɺl divine and author, (London, 1853.) Qºtotation : Xros S. PURCHAS, SAMUEL, D. D., born at Thaxted, Essex, 1577; an English divine, and compiler Of travels; died, 1628. Quotations : Rank—Saint–World. PUSEY, EDwARD BouvBRIE, D.D., born, 1800; an English divine and author, and the founder of Puseyism. He favors auricular confession and several doctrines and ractices of the Catholic Church. Quotations. Illness— estraint—Self-Love—World. PUTNAM, GEORGE PALMER, born in Brunswick, Maine, February 7, 1814; a celebrated American publisher and compiler of several good books; died, December 20, 1872. Qxiotations: Pictures—Simplicity. PUTNAM, ISRAEL, born in Salem, Massachusetts, January 7, 1717; a major-general in the American Revolu- tion ; died at Brooklyn, Connecticut, May 29, 1790. Quota- tion : Horse. - PUTNAM, MARY Low ELL, sister of James Rus- sell Lowell, born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, about 1812; an American authoress and magazine Contributor. Quto- tattºo??... SCO1"n. PUTNAM, SAMUEL, born about 1785 ; an Ameri- can educational writer, (Boston, 1816.) Q7totation : Pre- cipitancy. PUTZ, WILHELM, a German scholar and author. Quotation : Geography. - PUVIS, MARC ANTOINE, born at Cuiseaux, (Saône- et-Loire,) 1776: a French agriculturist, who rendered im- portant services by his experiments and writings on agri- culture; died, 1851. Quotation : Horticulture. PYE, HENRY JAMES, born in London, 1745; an English poet and writer; died, 1813. Quotation : Money. PYM, John, M.P., born at Brymore, Somerset- shire, 1584; an eminent, English statesman and orator: dº Nºvember, 1643. Quotations: Amendment—Misery —Tyrant. PYRRHO, born at Elis, 380 B.C.: an eminent Greek philosopher and skeptic: died, 290 B.C. Quotations: Excess—Humanity—Nothing. PYTHAGORAS, born at Samos, 586 B.C.: a cele- brated Greek philosopher, mathematician, and inventor of gtringed musical instruments. He founded the Italic school and taught the doctrine of metempsychosis, or transmi- gration of souls. His writings are not extant, although it is ciaimed the work known as the “Golden Verses,” were written by him. He was driven into exile, and sought refuge in the temple of the Muses at Metapontum, where it is said he starved to death, 497 B. C. Quotations : Age —Anger—Beginning-Brevity—Care – Counsel — Custom —Desire–Display—Divination — Fating — Exercise – Ex- tenuation — Fate — Friendship — Gods — Goodness — Igno- rance—Insincerity—Integrity—Justice—Knowledge—Love —Lust—Memory—Reverence-Sedition—Self-Command— Self-Examination—Silence—Soul—Stranger–Taciturnity —Tardiness—Tongue—Truth—Union—Wealth—Wit—Wor- ship—Youth. UA, GUGLIELMO DI, born at Laino, 1733 ; an Italian natural philosopher, and author of several edu- cational works on botany and geology; died in Flo- rence, September 10, 1799. Quotation : Angel'. QUACKENBOS, GEORGE PAYNE, born in New York, 1826; an American teacher and educational writer. Quotation : Youth. QUADRATUS, SAINT, (Bishop of Athens,) born about 75 A.D.; one of the Christian apologists: died, 149 A.D. Quotation : Recommendation. QUADRIGARIUS, QUINTUs CLAUDIUs, lived *. 80 B.C.; a Roman historian and author. Quotation : Ill). OCCIl C62. QUAIFE, B., born, 1778; an English divine and writer; died, 1849. Quotation : Knowledge. QUAIN, J. R., born, 1802; an English jurist and law writer, (London, 1853.) Quotation : Punishment. QUAIN, JONES, M.D., born in Mallow, 1800; a skillful Irish anatomist ; died, 1865. Quotation : Feeding. QUAIN, RICHARD, brother of the preceding, born at Mallow, 1801; a distinguished Irish anatomist and Sur- geon. Quotation : Self-Praise. QUAINT, ALONZO HALL, born at Barnstead, Néw Hampshire, 1828; an American divine, editor, and author. Quotation. : Photography. QUANE, WILLIAM, born in the Isle of Man, 1798; an English writer; died, 1859. Quotation : Ship. QUARLES, FRANCIS, born at Stewards, near Rumford, Essex, 1592; a popular English writer and poet: died, 1664. Quotations : Advantage — Adversity – Affec- tion—Affliction—Alms—-Ambition—Anger—Apparel—Argu- ment— Banishment — Beauty—Brother— Care — Censure— Child—Clemency—Commonwealth — Complaint-Confes- sion—Conquest-Contentment—Conversation—Courage— Covetousness—Cross—Crown— Custom—Design—I) espair —Devil — Discontent — Discourse — Disposition — Doubt — Drunkenness – Effeminacy—Eloquence – Enemy—Enjoy- ment—Envy—Esteem—Evil —Example—Exercise—Experi- ment — Faith — Fame — Fancy — Fashion — Fear — Folly— —Friendship— Gifts—God- Gold -- Government— Grace— Grave — Grumbler — Happiness — Heart — Heaven— Heir — Honor—Humility—Hunting—Idiot —Idleness—Ignorance— Infamy—Injustice—Innocence—Intention—Jest—Justness —Knowledge—Language—Laughter— Law—Light— LOSS— Love—-Lust–Luxury--Magistrate–Magnanimity–-Marriage Meditation—Mirth—Moderation—Money— Mother—Multi- tude—Mystery – Name — Necessity–Neutrality—News— Obedience—Opinion—Oppression—Pain—Pardon—Passion —Peace—Philosophy—Piety—Place—Pleasing— Pleasure— Poor —Popularity— Possession—Praise— Pride— Privacy— Promise — Prosperity – Puritanism — Reading— IReason— Recreation—Redemption—Repentance—Reproof–Resolu- tion—Rest—Riches— Roses—Safety—Satan— Savior—Scan- dal—Self—Self-Deceit—Servant-Silence—Sin–Soldier— fiº — Superstition — Swearing — Table—Theology — Thief—Time—Tongue—Treasure—Truth—Tuition—Under- standing—Undertaking—Vain-Glory—Valor—Vanity—Wir- in —Virtue—Wages—Wanderer—Want—War — Wealth— Wedlock — Wife – Wisdom — Words — World — Wrath — Wrong. QUARLES, JoBN, son of the preceding, born in Essex, 1624; an English writer and poet; died, 1665. Quo- tation : Benefits. QUARLL, PHILIP, (The Hermit, ) born about 1700; an English writer, (London, 1826.) Quotation: Merit. QUATREFAGES, DE BREAU, JEAN Louis AR- mand de, born at Vallerange, ( Gard,) February 10, 1810; an eminent French Protestant natural philosopher and au- thor. Quotation : Union. QUEEN, FRANK : an American publisher and journalist ; died, 1882. Quotation : Games. QUELEN, HYACINTHE LOUIs, DE, (Archbishop of Paris,) born in Paris, 1778; an eminent French divine and author; died, 1839. Quotation. Evil. QUELLYN, ERASMUs, born at Antwerp, 1607; an eminent Flemish painter of history and landscapes; died, 1678. Quotation : Art. QUENSTEDT, JOHANN ANDREAs, born, 1617; a German Lutheran theologian and author; died, 1688. Qwo- tortion : Anger. QUENTAL, BARTHOLOMEW DA, , born, 1626; a Portuguese theologian and author; died, 1698. Quotation : Liberty. - QUERBEUF, Yves MATHURIN MARID, VON, born, 1726: a German priest, littérateur, and publisher: died, 1799. Quotation: Constancy. QUERINI, ANGELO, MARIA, CARDINAL, (Argh- bishop of Corfu.) born in Venice, 1680: an eminent Italian scholar, who was respected for his benevolenge, liberality, and learning; died, 1755. Quotation : Indiscrimination. QUESNAL, Joseph, born in France, 1750 emi- grated to Montreal, Canada; a French poet and writer; died in Montreal, 1809. Q7zotation : Care. QUESNAY, FRANÇors, born at Mérei, near Moul- fort l'Amaury, 1694; a French physician and author: died, 1774. Quotation : Idleness. A / O G. A.' A A' Aſ Z C A / / /V /O A. Y. II 75 QUESNE, JACQUEs SALBIGOTON, born at Pavilly, 1778; a French littérateur ; died, 1859. Quotation : Valor. QUESNEL, PASQUIER, born in Paris, 1634; a French Jansenist writer; died in Amsterdam, 1719. Quo- tations: Anger—Antiquary– Charity–Curiosity—Heart— Ill—Passion–Pastor—Punishment—Teaching—Truth. QUETIF, JACQUEs, born, 1618; a French Domini- can and bibliographer; died, 1698. Quotation : Humility. QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS, FRANCISCO GOMEz, born in Madrid, September, 1580; an eminent, and original Spanish author; died, 1645. Quotation : Prodigality. QUICK, CHARLEs WILLIAM, born in New York, 1822; an American divine and author. Quotation : Zeal. QUICK, JoBN, born, 1636; an eminent English divine and author; died, 1706. Quotation : Zealot. QUIEN DE LA NEUFVILLE, JACQUES, LE, born, 1647; a French historian and author; died, 1728. Quota- tion : Decency. QUIGNONEZ, FRANCESCO DA, CARDINAL, (Bishop of Palestine,) born in the kingdom of Leon, 1470: an emi- nent Spanish divine and confessor to Charles the Fifth ; died, 1540. Quotation : Derision. QUILLINAN, DORA, the only daughter of the poet Wordsworth, born about 1813; an English authoress; died, July 9, 1847. Quotation : Sensibility. QUILLINAN, EDWARD, husband of the preceding, born in Oporto, Spain, of Irish parents, 1791; an Irish writer and poet ; died, 1851. Quotation : River. QUIN, JAMES, born in London, 1693; a celebrated English actor and bibliographer ; died, 1766. Quotation : Benevolence. QUIN, MICHAEL J., born, 1796; an English editor and magazine writer: died at Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1843. Quto- tation : Affliction. QUIN, P. T., born in New Jersey; a distinguished American Writer on gardening, and author of “Money in the Garden,” (New York, 1869.) Quotation : Horticulture. QUINAULT, PHILLIPE, born in Paris, 1635 ; a French dramatic poet; died, 1688. Quotattion : War. QUINBY, GEORGE W., born at Westbrooke, §º, 1810; an American religious Writer. Quotation : tory. QUINCEY, THOMAS DE, or more properly DE Quincey, (The Opium Eater,) born near Manchester, Au- gust 15, 1785; an eminent English miscellaneous writer; died in Edinburgh, December 8, 1859. MOtations : Anec- dotes — Duty — Exercise — Language – Laughter — Mathe- matics—Poet—PreSS—Reserve—Story—Style. QUINCY, ELIZA, SUSAN, daughter of Josiah Quin- cy, Junior, born about 1798; an American female biogra- phical writer. Quotation : Benevolence. QUINCY, JoHN, born, 1652; an English medical Writer and author; died, 1723. Quotations: Appearance— Sophistry. - QUINCY, JOSIAH, born in Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 23, 1744; an American Orator and patriot ; died at sea, 1775. Quotations : Commonwealth—Liberty—Tyrants. QUINCY, JosLAH, JR., LL.D., son of the preced- ing, born in Boston, February 4, 1772; an eminent Ameri- can statesman and Scholar; died, July, 1864. Quotations: Agriculture—Farmer—Harvest. QUINCY, SAHERUS DE, (EARL OF WINCHESTER,) born, 1211; an English judge and writer; died, 1290. Quo- tation : Impartiality. QUINET, EDGAR, born, February 10, 1803 ; a French littérateur; died, March 27, 1875. Quotation : Birth. QUINET, LOUIS, born, 1595 : an eminent French theologian and author; died, 1665. Quotation : Extrava- gance. QUINQUARBOREUS, JEAN, born, 1513; a French Orientalist and author; died, 1587. Quotation : Delight. QUINT, ALONZO HALL, born at Barnstead, New Hampshire, 1828; an American divine, editor, and author. Quotation : Photography. QUINTAN, MANUEL José, born in Madrid, April, 1772; a distinguished Spanish poet and patriot; died, March, 1857. Quotation : Envy. QUINTARD, CHARLEs ToDD, M.D., D.D., LL.D., (Bishop of Tennessee,) born about 1824; an American phy- Sician, and Episcopalian divine and author. Quotation : Church. QUINTILIAN, MARCUS FABIUs, born at Cala- gurris, in the upper Valley of the Ebro, 40 A.D.; a cele- brated Roman rhetorician and author; died, 118 A.D. Quo- tations: Allegory—Ambition—Art—Axiom—Beginning — Brevity—Brotherhood–Capacity—Duplicity—Education— Ending—Experience—Genius–Habit—Hand–Handwriting —Imitation—Introduction— Jest—Laughter—Lying—Mind —Neighbor— Obscurity—Oratory— Perfection — Pledge— Position— Praise— Profanity—Prosperity – Punishment— Remorse—Revelry—Rumor—School—Schoolmaster—Song —Speech—Teaching—Torment—Wickedness—Words. QUINTINE, MICHAEL, born about 1600; an Eng- lish author, (London, 1641.) Quotation : Frankness. QUINTINIE, JEAN DE LA, born near Chabanais, 1626; an eminent French gardener and author; died. 1784. Quotations: Horticulture—Trees. QUINTON, JOHN ALLAN, born about 1810; an English printer and writer, (London, 1849.) Quotation : BenefitS. QUINTUS, CURTIUS RUFUs. See CURTIUs, RU- fuS Quintus; also Rufus, Quintus Curtius. QUINZANO, GIov ANNI FRANCEsco CoNTI, (Qwin- tianus Stoa,) born, 1484; an Italian writer, poet, and phil- ologist; died, 1557. Quotation. Landscape. QUINZE, LOUIS, (LOUIS V., King of France,) born, 966; he was surnamed “Le Faniéaut,” “The Idle,” or “Do. Nothing; ” died, 987. Quotation : Birth. QUIROGA, JOSE, born in Galicia, 1707 ; a Spanish Jesuit; died, 1784. Quotation : Sovereign. QUIROS, PEDRO FERNANDEz DA, born, 1560; a Spanish navigator; died, 1614. Quotation. Determination. QUITA, DOMINGOs DOS REIS, born, 1728; a Por- tuguese poet and Writer; died, 1770. Quotation : Estate. QUITMAN, JOHN ANTHONY, born in Dutchess county, New York, 1799; an American general and poli- tician; died, 1858. Quotation : Valor. QUIZ, ROLAND, born about 1800; an English poet and-writer, (London, 1856.) Quotation : Vice. QUOY, JEAN, RENE CONSTANT, born, 1790; a #. naturalist and author; died, 1871. Quotation : lūIlCle]". AA, WENZEL, born in Vienna, 1792 : a German litterateur and author; died, 1847. Quotation : Courage. RAAB, LEOPOLD FRIEDRICH, born in Silesia, Prussia, 1657; a German musician and composer; died, 1721. Quotation : Melody. RABAN, EDOUARD, born, 1570; a Dutch printer and antiquary; died, 1643. Quotation: Sovereign. RABANUS, MAURUs MAGNENTIUs, (Archbishop of . Mentz,) born near Mentz, 786; a German theologian, hebraist, hagriographer, and poet; died, 856. Quotation : Sovereign. RABAUT, PAUL, born at Bédarieux, 1718 ; an eminent. French Protestant divine and author; died at Nimes, 1794. Quotation : Insinuation. RABAUT-POMMIER, JACQUES ANTOINE, born at Nîmes, 1744; a French Girondist and author. Some wri- ters claim for him the honor of the discovery of vaccina- tion; died, 1820. Quotation : Delay. RABAUT-SAINT-ETIENNE, JEAN PAUL, bro- ther of the preceding, born at Nîmes, 1743; a celebrated French Protestant minister and historian ; died by the guillotine, 1793. Quotation : Authority. RABBE, ALPHONSE, born at Riez, in Provence, 1786: a French littérateur and author; died, 1830. Quota. tion. Character. RABELAIS, FRANÇOIs, born at Chinon, in Tou- raine, 1483; a celebrated French wit, and one of the deepest and boldest thinkers of his time; died, 1553. Quotations: Benefits — Borrowing — Clemency — Cowardice — Debt — Dress — Health – Hour– Key— Opportunity— Physician — Strength—Wedlock—Woman. RABſ, ABū ‘L FADL IBN YêNUs AR, born, 765; an eminent Arabian poet; died, July, 786. Quotations: Quality—Time. RABUTIN, BUSSY. See BUssy-RABUTIN. Quo. tation : Dancing. RACINE, JEAN, born at Ferté-Milon, (Aisne,) December 21, 1639; an eminent French poet and dramatist; died, 1699. Quotations: Distrust — Evangelist—Father— Future—Happiness — Innocence — Joy–Rindness—Love— Money—Mother—Plan—Woe—Words. RADCLIFFE, ANN WARD, born in London, 1764: a popular English novelist; died, 1823. Quotations: Labor —Light-Heartedness. RADCLIFFE, JoHN, born in Wakefield, York- shire, 1650; an entinent English physician ; died, Novem- ber, 1714. Quotation : World. RADCLIFFE, MARY ANN, born, 1765: an Eng- lish authoress, (London, 1799.) Quotation : Self. RADEGONT).E, SAINT, born, 521 : a Thuringian princess who was noted for her piety and works of charity. She founded the abbey of Saint Croix; died, 587. Qztota- tion. : Wrong. RAE, JOHN, M.D., LL.D., born in the Orkney Islands, about 1800; a Scottish writer on political economy; died, 1868. Quotations: Idleness—Profession. RAE, LUZERNE, born, 1811 : an American teacher of the deaf and dumb: died, at Hartford, Connecticut, 1854. Quotations: Precocity—Self-Respect—Weariness. 1176 A) A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. RAE, SIR WILLIAM, born, 1772; a Scottish law- yer and writer; died, 1842. Quotation : Vacation. RAE, WILLIAM, (Bishop of Glasgow,) born, 1292; a Scottish divine and writer; died, 1370. Quotation : Ux- OTIOUISElèSS. RAE, W. S. Quotation : Creation. RAFFLES, THOMAS, D.D., LL.D., born in Lon- don, May 17, 1788; an English dissenting divine and author; died in Liverpool, August 18, 1863. Quotations : Adapta- tion—GOd—Trifle. RAFINESQUE, CoNSTANTINE SMALTz, born at Galata, near Constantinople, Of French parents, 1784; be- came professor of botany and natural history, at Transyl- vania University, Lexington, Kentucky, and subsequently settled in Philadelphia, and published a book of travels and several botanical works ; died, 1840. Quotation : Praise. RAGG, THOMAS, born at Nottingham, 1808; an English printer, bookseller, and poet, was ordained as a minister of the Church of England, in 1864. Quotations: Pain—Hevelation—Sacrifice. RAGLAN, LORD, (JAMES HENRY FITZROY SOM- erset,) born, 1788; an English general; died in the Crimea, 1855. Quotation : Slaughter. RAHBEK, KUND LYNE, born at Copenhagen, {º ; a Danish author and critic; died, 1830. TQuotation : 3.II’le:S. RAHEL, C. Quotations: Freedom – Free-Thinking — Martyr—Sleep—Tenderness. RAIKES, ROBERT, born at Gloucester, 1735; an English printer, philanthropist, and the founder of Sunday- Schools; died, 1811. Quotation : Trying. RAINOLS, WILLIAM, born at Apt, in the county of Forcalquier about 1130; a French troubadour. Quota- tion : Lawlessness. RALEIGH, ALEXANDER, D.D., born about 1810 : a Scotch divine and author, (Edinburgh, 1863–74.) Quota- tions : Earth—Style. RALEIGH, SIR WALTER, born at Hayes, in the parish of Budleigh, Devonshire, 1552; a famous English warrior, navigator, Courtier, and author. He was a man illustrious both in arms and literature : executed, October 29, 1618. Quotations : Ambition — Beauty—Castles-in-the- Air--Costume—-Desire—Drunkenness--Eccentricity-Fancy —Fate—Flattery—Fortune — Friendship — Good-Govern- ment—Heat—Heaven—Honesty—Infinity—Injustice—King —Life—Loguacity—Lying — Marriage—Mind–Nature—Oc- cupancy—Perdition—Providence – Righes-Sea—Self-Gov- ernment—Servant — Simile–Soul — Speaking — Surety — Sycophant —Talking — Thrift — Time - Tongue —Trade— Trust—Truth—Virtue—Want—War—Wine—World. RALPH, JAMES, born in Philadelphia, and emi- grated to England in company with Benjamin Franklin, in 1725; an American poet and dramatist ; died, 1762. Quota- tions : Instruction—Repetition. RAMAGE, CRANFORD TAIT, LL.D., born at Anne- field, near Newhaven, September 10, 1803; an English trans- lator, litterateur, and author. Quotations: Quotation— Statues. RAMBOUILLET, CATHERINE DE VIVONNE, MAR- quise, born at Rome, 1588; a celebrated Italian literary lady, noted for her many accomplishments; died in Paris, December 2, 1665. Quotation : Housewife. RAME, LOUISA DE LA, (Ouida,) born at Bury St. Edmunds, 1840; a voluminous English novelist, better §ºwn by her moºn de plume, “Ouida." Quotation : Good- lli. RAMESES I: a king of ancient Egypt, who reigned about 1650 B.C. Quotation : Temple. RAMESES II; a king of ancient Egypt, who reigned about 1600 B.C. Quotation : Sun. RAMMOHUN, Roy, born in Bengal, India, 1776 : a Hindoo reformer, linguist, and diplomatist; died near Bristol, England, 1833. Quotation : Promise. RAMSAY, ALLAN, born at Leadhills, Lanark- shire, 1685; a distinguished Scottish poet ; died, 1758. Q7zo- tation : Paganism. RAMSAY, ANDREW MICHAEL, (Chevalier Ram- &ay,) born at § 1686; a SCOtch litterateur and mathema- #. died in France, 1743. Quotations: Politics — He- 1g IOIl. RAMSAY, DAVID, M.D., born in Lancaster coun- ty, Pennsylvania, 1749; an eminent American historian and physician; killed by a pistol Shot in the hands of a lunatic #. . streets of Charleston, 1815. Quotations: Expense— eople. RAMSAY, EDWARD BANNERMAN, born, 1793 : a §. divine and author. Quotations : Covetousness— OţIlêI’. RAMSAY, GRACE, born, 1835; an English writer. and author of “A Salon in the Last I)ays of the Empire,” (London, 1873.) Quotations: Engagement—Good-Will. BAMSAY, JAMES, born in Aberdeenshire, 1735: #Scotch divine and philanthropist ; died, 1789. Quotation: €3. SOH]. RAMSAY, J. G., M.D., born in Tennessee, 1800 : an American writer. Quotation : Trying. RAMSAY, MARTHA LAURENs, wife of David Ramsay, born, 1759; an American lady esteemed for her learning, benevolence, and piety; died, 1811. Quotations : Self-Denial—Station. RAMUS, PETER, born in Vermandois, 1515; a French philosopher and classical scholar; perished in the massacre of Saint Bartholomew, in Paris, 1572. Quota- tions : Punishment—Travel. RANCE, W., born about 1800 : an English writer and author, (London, 1850.) Quotations: Caution— Indi- gence. - RANDALL, HENRY STEPHENS, LL.D., born in Madison, New York, 1811; an American historian and wri- ter. On husbandry. Quotation : Report. RANDOLPH, MRS. C., born about 1818; an Eng- lish writer, and author of “A Chaplet of Pearls,” (London, 1851.) Quotation : Calmness. RANDOLPH, EDMUND, born about 1736; elected governor of Virginia in 1786; died, 1813. Quotation : Crea- t;0I’. RANDOLPH, JOHN, OF ROANOKE, born at Caw- sons, Chesterfleld county, Virginia, June 2, 1773; an emi- nent orator, statesman, and author. He claimed to be a descendant in the seventh degree from Pocahontas, (q.v.;) died in Philadelphia, June 24, 1833. Quotations: Disap- ointment— Kisses — Mother — Navy— Opulence – Poet – Reform—Slavery. RANDOLPH, PASCHAL BEVERLEY, M.D., born in New York, 1825; an American physician and author. Quotation : Rhetoric. RANDOLPH, THOMAS, born at Canterbury, 1701 ; an English theologian and author: died, 1783. Quotations : Self-Respect—Talking. RANGIHAEATA, (The Morning Sunbeam,) born - about 1770; a New Zealand chief; died, 1837. Quotations: Murder—Native-Land. BANKEN, ALEXANDER, D.D., born about 1760 ; a Scotch divine and author, (London, 1801.) Quotation : Self-Culture. RANNIE, D. W. Quotation: Disability. RANTOUL, ROBERT, born in Beverley, Massa- chusetts, 1805; a distinguished American Statesman, Orator, and philanthropist; died, August, 1852. Quotation : Habit. RANYARD, MRS. L. N., born in London, about 1820; an English authoress, (London, 1853.) Quotations : Memory—Stubbornness. - RAPER, LIEUTENANT HENRY, born about 1790: an English naval commander and author, (LOndon, 1828.) Quotations : Firmness--Storm--Tempest--Weather--Wind. RAPIN, RENE, born at Tours, 1621; a French Jesuit, distinguished as a Latin poet ; died in Paris, 1687. Quotations: Endurance—Stratagem. RASCHID, HAROUN AR. See HAROUN-AR-RAS- Chid. RASHI, SHELOMI IZAAKI, RABBI, born in Troyes, 1040; an eminent French Jewish commentator and exegete; died, 1005. Quotation. Righteousness. RASHID, AL-KADI ABù 'L-HUSAIN AHMAD AR, born about 1100; a celebrated Arabian poet and author; executed, October, 1167. Quotations : Dress — Exile—Mis- fortune—Youth. RASPE, RODOLPH ERIC, born in Hanover, 1737 ; a German antiquary and author; died in Ireland, 1794. Quotation : Time. RATHBONE, HANNAH MARY, born about 1800 : an English authoress, (London, 1841. Quotation : Injustice. RATHBONE, WILLIAM, born about 1815 ; an Eng- lish author, (London, 1867.) Quotations: Self-Reliance— Veneration. RATU. Quotations: Rest—Rivalry. RAUPARAHA, TE, born at Maunzatautari, about 1770; a New Zealand chief of the Nga-ti-raukawa ; died at Olaki, 1849. Quotations: Revenge–Thought. RAVAILLAC, FRANÇOIS, born at Angoulême, 1578; a French assassin and fanatic; executed, May, 1610. Quotation: Assassination. RAVIGNAN, GUSTAVE FRANÇOIS XAVIER DELA- croix, born at Bayonne, 1795; a French Jesuit and author, and noted as a pulpit orator; died, 1858. Quotations : Liberty—Solitude. RAWLE, WILLIAM, LL.D., born in Philadelphia, 1759; a distinguished American jurist and writer; died, 1836. Quotations: Insincerity—Secession. RAWLINSON, GEORGE, born, 1815; an English author, (London, 1858.) Quotations: Indiscrimination— Laconics. RAWSON, ALBERT LEIGHTON, born in Chester, Vermont, 1829; an American traveller and author. Quota- tion : Electricity. A / O G A' A P H / C A Z / M D Aº X. 1177 RAY, ISAAC, M.D., born at Beverley, Massachu- setts, 1807 : an American physician and author. (Qtdota- tions : LazineSS—Name. RAY, JOHN, born at Black-Notley, near Brain- tree, Essex, November 29, 1627; an eminent English botan- ist, geologist, and author; died. January 17, 1705, Q(total- tions: , Apothegm — Dying – Envy—Eternity—Humility— Listening— Monarchy— Necessity– Obsequies — Organiza- W.W. Proverbs—Purse— Repentance—Talking—Winter— OII) all. RAYMOND, HENRY JARVIS, born at Lima, Liv- ingston, county, New York, 1820; an eminent American journalist, and one of the founders of the “New York Times;” died in the city of New York, June 18, 1869. , Quo- tations: Editor—Journalism--Negroes—Newspaper—-Press. RAYMENT, A. B. : an American divine and au- thor, (Baltimore.) Qazotation : Jehovah. RAYMUND DE PENAFORT, SAINT, born at Barcelona, 1186; a Spanish Canonist and Dominican ; died, 1275. Quotation : Destruction. RAYNAL, GUILLAUME THOMAS FRANÇOIs, L’ Abbé, born at Saint-Geniez, in Rouerque, 1711; an eminent French litterateur, historian, and philosopher; died in Paris, 1796. Quotations : Genius — Innocence — Liberty — Oath—Piumpness—Politics—Title. RAZI, ABö ABD MUHAMMAD IBN OMAR AL-HU- sain Fakhr Addin Ar, (Glory of the Faith,) born at Rai, in Taberestan, January, 1150; an eminent Arabian Scholar, , theologian, and philosopher; died at Herat, March, 1210. Quotation : Soul. REACH, ANGUS BETHUNE, born at Inverness, 1821; a Scottish author and journalist ; died, 1856. Quota- tions: Insincerity—ſtuler—Task. READ, GEORGE, M. C., born in Cecil county, Maryland, 1734; an American patriot and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was a member of the Convention which framed the United States Constitution ; he was also chief justice of the supreme court of the State of Delaware ; died at Newcastle, 1798. Quotation : Indis- Crimination. - READ, HOLLIS, born at Newfane, Vermont, 1802; an American Presbyterian foreign missionary and author. Quotattions : Eye—Men—Mind. READ, JOHN, son of George Read, born at New- castle, Delaware, 1769; an eminent American statesman and author: died, 1854. Quotation : Youth. READ, JOHN MEREDITH, LL.D., son of the pre- ceding, born in the city of Philadelphia, July 21, 1797; an American lawyer, and judge of the supreme court of Penn- sylvania; died, November 29, 1874. Quotation : Panic. READ, JOHN MEREDITH, JUNIOR, GENERAL, F.S.A., M.R.I.A., born in Philadelphia, February 21, 1837; an eminent American jurist, military commander, diplo- matist, and author. Quottation : Fright. READ, THOMAS BUCHANAN, (The Poet Pointer,) born in Chester, Pennsylvania, March 12, 1822; a distin- guished American poet and artist; died, May 11, 1872. Quo- tation : River. READE, CHARLEs, D.C.L., born, 1814 ; an emi- ment English novelist and dramatist. Quotation : Bargain —Care—Injustice—Interference — Lying—Nature—Sleep— Tongue—Woman—Zeal. READE, JOHN, EDMUND, born about 1802 ; an English poet, littérateur, and author; died, 1870. Quota- tion : Respect. READE, JOSEPH, M.D., born about 1765 : an English poet and prose writer, (London, 1804.) Quotation: Sabbath. READE, WILLIAM, (Bishop of Chichester,) born, 1313; an English divine and author; died, 1385. Quota- tions : Soul—Worship. READING, WILLIAM, born about 1690; an Eng- ſº ºrarian and author, (LOndon, 1720.) Quotation : Ta, Weſ. RECAMIER, JEANNE FRANÇorse: JULIE AD£- laïde Bernard, born at Lyons, 1777; a beautiful and accom- plished French lady; died, 1849. Quotation : Awkwardness. RECORDE ROBERT, M.D., born in Tenby, Pem- brokeshire, 1500; an eminent English mathematician; died, 1558. Quotation : Vanity. REDDING, CYRUs, born at Penryn, North Wales, # a Welch journalist; died, 1870. Quotation : Testa- IIł6. Ilú. REDFIELD, WILLIAM. C., born in the parish of South Farms, near Middletown, Connecticut, 1789; an American geologist and meteorologist; died, 1857. Quota- tions : Metals—Symmetry. REDFORD, GEORGE, D.D., LL.D., born about 1787; an English biographer, historian, and religious wri- ter, (London, 1818–47.) Quotations: Bible—Travel. RED JACKET, (Sagoyewatha,) born, 1759: a chief Of the Seneca tribe, one of the Six Nations. He was celebrated for his wisdom and eloquence ; died, January , 1830. Quotation/x : God — Maxims — Religion — Repent- ance—Time. * REDPATH, JAMES, born in Ireland, 1833; emigra- ted to the United States in 1848; an anti-slavery lecturer, and author of “ Echoes from Harper's Ferry,” and “Life of Captain John Brown.” Quotations : Zealot, REED, ANDREW, D.D., born, 1787; an English Independent divine, philanthropist, and author; died, 1862. Q?totations: Action—Sensibility—Smile. REED, HENRY, born in Philadelphia, 1808; a dis- tinguished American Scholar and writer. Quotation : Re- port. Drowned at Sea, 1854. REED, ISAAC, born in London, 1742; an English editor, Critic, and biographer; died, 1807. Quotation : SImoking. REED, JOSEPH, born at Trenton, New Jersey, 1714; an officer, in the American IRevolution ; died, 1785. Quotation. Indigence. REES, ABRAHAM, born in North Wales, 1743 : an English encyclopedist; died, 1825. Quotation : Knighthood. REEVE, CLARA, born at Ipswich, 1725; an Eng- lish authoress; died, 1803. Quotation : Universe. REEVE, HENRY, C.B., born at Norwich, 1813 : an English historian and author. Quotation : Forwardness. REEVE, TAPPING, born on Long Island, 1744; an American lawyer and writer; died, 1823. Quotation : In- Sinuation. REEVES, PAUL ; an American writer, author of “Students' Own Speaker,” (New York, 1871.) Quotation : Oratory. REEVES, WILLIAM, born, 1668 ; an English cler- gyman and author; died, 1726, Qzzotation : Mind. REGENBOGEN. Quotation : Cheapness. REGNARD, JEAN FRANÇOIs, born in Paris, 1655; a popular French poet and dramatist; died, 1799. Quota- tions: Felicity—Gaming—Reason. REGNIER, MATHURIN, born at Chartres, 1573 ; a celebrated French writer of satires, epistles, elegies, and epigrams; died, 1613. Quotations. Scholar–Suspicion. REGULUS, MARCUs ATILLIUs, born about 300 B.C.; a Roman general, distinguished in the first Punic war; died a victim to the cruelty of his captors. Quota- tion : Sovereign. REHNSKJOLD, CARL GUSTAv, Count of, born at Straslund, 1651 ; a Swedish general who gained a victory over the King of Poland: died, 1722. Q2totation : Sovereign. REID, JAMES SEATON, D.D., born in Lurgan, Ire- land, 1798; an Irish Presbyterian divine and author; died, 1851. Quotations: Common-Sense—Funeral—Touch. REID, Joseph, born near Romeo, Michigan, 1842; an Ameritan Presbyterian divine and author; died, 1877. Quotation : Situation. * REID, MAYNE, CAPTAIN, born in the north of Ireland, 1818; an Irish novelist. Quotation : Reason. REID, THOMAs, D.D., born at Strachan, Kincar- dineshire, Scotland, April 26, 1710; an eminent Scottish di- vine, and writer on mental philosophy; died at Glasgow, October 7, 1796. Quotations : Accuracy—Grandeur—Iden- tity—Imagination—Intuition—Judgment—Parent—Reflec- tion—Scepticism—Speech—Time—Volition—Will. REID, WHITELAW, born in Xenia, Ohio, 1837 : an an eminent American journaiist and proprietor of the New York Tribune. Quotations: Editor—Journalism—News- paper—Press—Reporter. REINER, WENZEL LORENz, born at Prague, 1686; a German painter; died at Prague, 1743. Quotation : Art. REMBRANDT WAN RIJN, PAUL, born near Leyden, June 15, 1606; a celebrated Dutch painter Of his- tory and portraits; died at Amsterdam, October, 1669. Quotation : Art. REMOND, CHARLES LENNOx, born at Salem, Massachusetts, about 1818; a colored American anti-Slavery lecturer. Quotation : Slavery. REMOND, SARAH P., (sister of the preceding,) born at Salem, Massachusetts, about 1825; a colored Ame- rican lady of considerable talent and energy. Quotation : Haughtiness. REMUSAT, CHARLEs, COUNT DE, born in Paris, 1797; a French philosopher, minister of State, and author; died, June 6, 1875. Quotation: Decency. REMUSAT, CLAIRE ELISABETH JEANNE, COUN- tess de, mother of the preceding, born in Paris, 1780; a French littérateur, and companion to the empress Jose- phine. She was the author of an “Essay on the Education of Women ; ” died, 1821. Quotations : Excess—Kindness— Wrinkies. RENAN, Jose,PH ERNEST, born at Trégnier, (Côtes du Nord,) February 27, 1823; an eminent. French writer, Orientalist, and critic, and author of the well known “Life of Jesus.” Q/totations: Seeing—Work. RENARD, CECILE. Quotation : Tyrant. RENNELL, THOMAS, D.D., born in Winchester, 1787: an English theologian and author: died, 1824. Quo- tations : Humility—Religion. 11 78 A) 4 Y '.S C O L / A C O AV. RENNIE, GEORGE, born in Surrey, J º 3, 1791; an eminent civil engineer and author; died, March 30, 1866. Quotation : Decay. RENOUF, P. LE PAGE ; a celebrated French Egyptologist, who has since 1870, published several impor- tant works on the language and religion of Ancient Egypt. Quotation : Zodiac. RENTI, GASTON JEAN BAPTISTE BARQN DE, born near Bāyeux, 1611; a French ascetic noted for his piety; died, 1648. Quotations: Forgiveness—Rinowledge. RENWICK, JAMES, born in Dumfriesshire, Feb- ruary 15, 1662; a noted Scotch Nonconformist divine and covenanter: executed, February 17, 1688. Quotation : Christ. RESTIF DE LA BRETOUNE, NICOLAs EDME, born near Auxerre, 1734; a prolific and licentious French writer of fiction; died in Paris, 1806. Quotation: Itashness. RETZ, JEAN FRANÇOIS PAUL DE GONDI DE, CAR- dinal, born at Montmirail, 1614; an ambitious French pre- late, remarkable for his daring and intriguing Spirit. : died, 1679. Quotations: Blunder–Fear –Persecution—Reputa- tion—Secrecy. * & * REVEILLERE-LEPAUX, or LAREVEILLERE- LEPAUX, born at Mortagne, 1753; a French republican statesman ; died, 1824. Quotation : Calumny. REYNARD, C. Quotation : Wealth. REYNOLDS, EDwARD, (Bishop of Norwich,) born in Southampton, 1599; an English, divine, and author of several religious works; died, 1676. Quotations : Church —Curse—Dew—Law—Mercy. REYNOLDS, FREDERICK, born, 1764; an English dramatist ; died, 1841. Quotation : Poetry. REYNOLDS, SIR. Joshu A, born at Plympton, Devonshire, July 16, 1723; the most celebrated portrait painter that England has produced... He was the founder of the British School of Painting; died, February 23, 1792. Quotations: Ability—Art—Civility – Color- Death—Elo- uence—Excellence—Extenuation — Faith—Forgiveness— }enius— Industry — Intellect — Invention — Knowledge — Labor–Manners — Mind — Nothing — Novelty — Opinion — Painting —Perseverance – Pictures — Portrait— Reforma- tion—Style—Taste—Truth—Words. RHAM, WILLIAM LEWIS, born in Utrecht, in the Netherlands, 1778; an eminent Dutch divine and writer on agriculture; died, 1843. Quotation : Horticulture. RHEMESTES; one of the ancient kings of Egypt, who was afterwards deified about the eighteenth century B.C. Quotation : Sun. RHODES, ALEXANDER, born, 1591 : a French divine and missionary in Cochin-China, and Tonquin; died in Persia, 1660. Quotation: Decalogue. RIASHI, ABö 'L-FADL AL-ABBAs IBN FARAJAR, born, 794; an Arabian grammarian, poet, and philologist; died, September, 871. Quotation : Deceit. RICARD, DOMINIQUE, ABBé, born at Toulouse, 1741 : an eminent French divine, translator, and author; died, 1803. Quotation, ; Music. FICARDO, DAVID, M.P., born in London, April, 1772; an eminent English statesman land pºlitical €COIl O- mist; died, September, 1823. Quotation : Nature. RICAUT, SIR PAUL, F.R.S., born in London, 1632; an English diplomatist and historical writer: died, 1700. Quotation : Speculation. RICCI, SCIPIONE, (Bishop of Pistoia and Prato,) born in Florence, 1741; an Italian religious reformer ; died, 1810. Quotation : Union. RICCOBONI, MARIE JEANNE LABORAS DE MÉ- zières, born in Paris, 1714; a successful French novelist, actress, and littérateur; died in poverty, 1792. Quotation : Fortune. RICE, LUTHER, born at Northborough, Massa- chusetts, 1783; an American Baptist divine and autnor; died, 1836. Quotation : Remorse. RICH, BARNABY, born about 1530; an English author, (London, 1574.) Quotation : Wrong. RICH, EzekiEL, born in Vermont, 1788 ; an American clergyman and writer; died at Albany. New York, 1868. Quotations : Advancement—Blame—Careful- ness — Controversy – Envy – Error — Example — Favor – Forethought—Harshness—Heedlessness—Help--Imbecility —Impulse—Investigation—Marriage—Offense—Promptness —Property—Quickness—Self—Self-Control—Self-Denial— Student—System. RICHARD, JAMES, born, 1767; an American di- vine and author; died, 1843. Quotation: Missionary. RICHARD I, (Coewr de Lion,) King of England, born at Oxford, 1157, a frank, generous, and brave prince ; killed by an arrow at the siege of a castle near Limoges, sº er, 1191. Quotations : Chivalry—Crusades—Right —V1ctory. RICHARD DE BURY, (Bishop of Durham, ) whose family name was Richard Angerville, born at Bury Saint Edmunds, 1287: an eminent English divine and patron of learning ; died, 1345. Quotations: Books—Instruction —Eeputation—Surfeit. RICHARDS, JAMES, born, 1767 ; an American divine and author; died, 1843. Quotation : Missionary. RICHARDSON, ABBY SAGE McFARLAND, the second wife of Albert D. Richardson, noticed below ; an American actress, lecturer, and author. Quotations: Alarm—AWe—Emotion. RICHARDSON, ALBERT D., born in Franklin, Massachusetts, 1833; an eminent American journalist and gorrespondent; he was shot in the “Tribune” office by Mr. Daniel McFarland, and died December 2, 1869. Quotti- tion : Advertisement. RICHARDSQN, CHARLEs, born, July, 1775, an eminent English lexicographer; died, October 6, 1865. Quotations. Beard – Conseñt—Dictionary—Distraction— Executive—Penance—Slyness. RICHARDSON, J. W., born about 1820; an Eng- lish divine and author. Quotation: Intrusion. RICHARDSON, SIR. John, born at Dumfries, 1787 ; a Scottish naturalist, traveller, and author; died, 1865. Quotations: Appetite—Eye. RICHARDSON, SAMUEL, born in Derby, 1689: the first great, English, novelist, and author of “Pamela.” and “The History of Clarissa Harlowe; ” died. July 4, 1761. Quotations. Error—Manners—Politeness. RICHELIEU, ARMAND JEAN DUPLESSIs, CARDI- nal de, born in Paris, September 5, 1585; an ambitious French statesman, who became great at the expense of every virtue. He became so obnoxious to the people that at his death they expressed their joy by bonfires; died in Paris, December 4, 1642. Quotations : Artifice—Friendship —Handwriting—Ingratitude—Virtue. RICHMOND, LEGH, born in Liverpool, 1772; an English divine and author ; died, 1827. Qatotations : Crea- € - tion—Doctrine—Music—Time. RICHTER, JoHANN PAUL FRIEDRICH, (Jean Panel,) born at Wunsiedel, near Baireuth, Bavaria, March 21, 1765; an eminent German philosopher, litterateur, nov- elist, and miscellaneous writer; died at Baireuth, Novem- ber, 1825. , Quotations : Advice — Affection - Affliction — Angels — Appreciation — Battle — Beauty — Blessedness — Brother—Care — Character — Cheerfulness — Conscience — Courage—Creation—Criticism — Danger–Diamond–Dress —Earth—-Education—Frnotion—Ennui-Explanation--Face —Falsehood—Fancy—Farewell — Fate —Father—Feeling— Flattery — Flowers — Fool — Forgiveness — Friendship — Fright-Gladness—God —Good–Grave—Greatness—Grief —Happiness—Hate — Heart — Heroism – Holiness—Hope— Hour – Humility — Idleness — Individuality — Infinity—In- tolerance—Jealousy—Joy–Kindness—Laughter--Learning Letter—Life— Love — Maiden — Martyr — Memory—Men— Mind–Moderation—Modesty—Mother--Multitude—Nature —Night—Nobility—Old Age — Paradise —Parting—Passion —Past—Patience – Peevishness — Pleasure — Poetry—Pov- erty—Prayer—Present—Pride—Principles—-Purpose-Regu- larity—Religion—Remembrance–Remorse – Repetition— Rest—Iłiches—ſtidiculousness—Royalty—Scholar—Secresy —Self-Knowledge – Sensitiveness – Separation—Silence— Sincerity—Sleep—Solitude —Sorrow — Spring—Star—Story —Study—Sublimity–Sun–Sunset — Superstition—Sympa- thy–Taciturity —Tears—Tenderness—Thought —Time — Trifle—Unbelief—Uprightness---Vanity—Wexation—Virgin —Virtue—Visits—Voluptuousness—Weakness—Wife-Wis- dom. —Woe — Woman — Words — Worldliness —Worship — Wrong—Youth. RICIUS, PAUL, flourished about the middle of the fifteenth century: a converted Jew, professor of philoso- hy in Paris, and afterwards physician to the emperor Maximilian. Quotation : Satire. RICORD, ELIZABETH, born, 1787; an American educator, and authoress of “Philosophy of the Mind.” “Zamba,” and other works: died, 1865. Quotations. De- spondency—Merit—Remembrance. RICORD, FREDERICK WILLIAM, son of the §. ceding, born in the city of Petit Bourg, Guadaloupe, West Indies, 1819; an American educator and author. Quota- tion : becay—Frankness-Zeal. RIDDELL, CHARLOTTE, ELIZA LAWSON, wife of J. H. Riddeil, born about 1830; an English novelist. Some of her works were published under the pseudonym of F. G. Trafford. Quotations: Desertion—Furniture. RIDDELL, HENRY SCOTT, born, 1810; an English poet and writer, (London, 1857.) Quotation : Inscription. RIDGWAY, Jose.PH, born about 1809; an Eng- lish divine, educator, and author, (London, 1858.) Quota- tºo?? ... Youth. RIDLEY, JAMES, (Sir Charles Morell,) born about 1732; an English divine, novelist, and miscellaneous Wri- ter. Under the ſºft of Sir Charles Morell, (q.v.) he wrote “Tales of the Genii,” translated from the Per- sian, and other works; died, 1765. Quotation: Volcano. RIGGS, LEwis EMERSON, born at Groton, Tomp- kins county, New York, October 2, 1827; an American lawyer. Quotation : Law—Quarrels. RIGGS, MARCUs CROCKER, brother of the preced- ing, born at Groton, New York, September 5, 1822; an American lawyer ; died at Rutherford, New Jersey, Janu- ary 4, 1875. Quotation: Eye-Witness. A / O G R A PA / C A Z / M D Z X. 1179 RIGGS, SARAH BRYANT, wife of the preceding, born at Richmond, Ontario county, New York, 1825: an American artist and writer; died in Brooklyn, January 21, 1861. Quotation : Failure. RIGGS, ZENAs, born about 1790 ; an American Presbyterian clergyman; died, 1855. Quotation: Baptism. RIGHTS, PENNSYLVANIA DECLARATION OF. Quo. tation : Government. RIG-VEDA ; the name of the chief division of the Védas, (“Knowledge,”) the sacred books of the Brahmans. They consist of four parts, of these the Rig-Véda is the most important, and is confessedly the oldest extant por- tion of Sanscrit literature. Quotation . Deceit. RILAND, JOHN, born about 1800 ; an English divine and author. Quotation : Native-Land. RILEY, HENRY THOMAs, born in Southwark, Sur- *} about 1812; an English author. Quotations: Shadow — 1 l'é8 SOIl. RINGELBERG, JoACHIM STERCK, VAN, born in Antwerp, 1500; a Flemish philosopher and professor of Greek; died, 1536. Quotations : Reprehension—Study. RINUCCINI, OTTAvro, born in Florence, 1565; an Italian poet and dramatist; died, 1621. Quotations: Recompense—Victim. - RIPLEY, GEORGE, born at Greenfield, Massachu- Setts, 1802; an American editor and author. Quotation : Desperation. RIST, JOHANN, born near Hamburg, 1607; a popu- lar German poet and dramatist; died, 1667. Quotations: Credit—House—Nature—News—Nothing—Owner—Pilgrim —Plagiarism—Privacy—Proverbs— Reason—Shame—Sun— Tranquility—Wit. RISTORI, ADELAIDE, (MARQUISE DEL GRILLO,) born at Cividale, in Friuli, 1821; an eminent Italian actress. Q?totation. : Remembrance. * RITCHIE, A., born about 1821 ; an American divine, and author of “First Lessons in Theology,” “Chris- tian's Friend,” “Matter and Manner,” and other works, (Cincinnati, 1868–71.) Quotations: Blasphemy—Consecra- tion — Covetousness — Cross — Depravity— Faithfulness — GOdliness—Gold— Gospel— Heathen— Heaven— Holiness— Humility—Idleness— Idolatry— Ignorance— Immortality— Influence—Inheritance—Joy–Judgments— Justification— Kindness—knowledge— Love—Lust— Lying—Meekness— Mercy —Millennium – Mother — Mystery —Opportunity— Providence—Reading— Regeneration— Revival—Reward— Self-Examination—Self-Righteousness — Sunday-School — Sympathy—Transgression—Trust—Vows—Witness. RITCHIE, ANNA CoRA OGDEN MowATT, born in Bordeaux, France, of American parents, 1822; a celebrated American actress and authoress; died, 1870. Quotations : Misfortune—Tact. RITCHIE, LEITCH, born in Greenock, 1800 ; a Scotch journalist; died, 1865. Quotation : Poverty. RITSON, ISAAC, born near Penrith, Cumberland, 1761; an English printer and writer; died in London, 1789. Quotation : Correspondence. RITSON, JOSEPH, born at Stockton, Durham, 1752; an English antiquary and poetical critic; died, 1803. Quotation : Fondness. RITTER, ABRAHAM, born, 1792; an American writer; died, 1860, Quotation : Nature. RITTER, CARL, born, 1779; a German geogra- pher and author; died, 1859. Quotations : Commerce — Geography. RIVAROL, ANTOINE, COMTE DE, born at Bagnols, in Lanquedoc, 1753: a French littérateur, and a witty and Satirical writer: died in Berlin, 1801. Quotations : Civili- Zation—Clemency—-Gold—History—Hope—Indolence—Life —Memory—Mob- Modesty-Money—Mystery—Oblivion— . Praise—ReaSOn—Reverie—Silence— Solitude —Tenderness —Thought—Time—Ungratefulness—Vice—Will—Wrong. RIVERS, EARL OF, (ANTHONY WooDVILLE, ) brother of the #. of Edward the Fourth, born, 1442; an a CCOmplished English peer and author; he was beheaded by Richard the Third, without trial, 1483. Ancients—Apostle—Author. RIVET, ANDRſ, born at Saint Maxent, 1572; a French Protestant minister and biblical critić : died at Breda, 1651. Quotation. : Wonder. ROANE, SPENCER, born, 1762; an American judge and politieal writer ; died, 1822. Quotation : Secession. ROBACK, DR, C. W., born about 1810; a Swe- dish astrologer and writér, and author of “Mysteries of Astrology and Wonders of Magic,” (Boston, 1854.) Qazo- tattion : Astrology—Zodiac. ROBBINS, ELIZA, born, 1805; an American edu- cational writer, (New York, 1852.) Quotations : Cathedral —Roses—Trifle. ROBBINS, ROYAL, born at Wethersfield, Connec- ticut, 1787; an American divine and author; died, 1861. Quotations : Crusades—Steam—Travel. ROBERT OF AVESBURY, born about 1300 : an English chronicler and historian ; died, 1360. Quotation : Ingratitude. Q7zotations: ROBERTS, RICHARD, born about 1805; an Eng- lish divine and author, (i.ondon, 1860.) Qazotations : Cow- ardice—Imagination—Novels—Thinking—Thought. ROBERTSON, FREDERICK WILLIAM, M.A., born in London, February 3, 1816; an eminent English theolo- gian, lecturer, and preacher. . He was a deep thinker and an eloquent Writer; three series of his sermons have been published and passed through eight editions. He was idolized by the "Christian working-men of England; died, August 15, 1853. Quotations : Amusement—Commerce— Controversy–Degradation — Earnestness – Evil— Home— Immortality—Innocence—Life—Meditation—Merchant— Nature–Obedience—Parent—Peace—Perspicuity—Poetry -Reading—Remorse-Sensation—Sentiment—Simplicity- Sin— Slander—Smoking — Subjection— Thought—Truth— Veracity—Worldliness. ROBERTSON, JAMEs, D.D., born, 1803; a Scot- tish divine and author; died, 1860. Quotation : Faith. ROBERTSON, JAMES BURTON, born, November 15, 1800; an Irish writer, and professor of history and litera- ture ; died, February 14, 1877. Quotation : Development. ROBESPIERRE, MAXIMILIAN MARIE ISIDORE, born at Arras, May 6, 1758; a French demagogue and Jaco- bin, noted and abhorred by all lovers of true liberty; died by the guillotine, July 28, 1794. Quotations: God—Liberty — Pauper — Punishment — Republic — Revolution – Ven- gean Ce. ROBERTSON, THOMAS WILLIAM, born, 1829; an English dramatist; died, 1871. Quotation : Irregularity. ROBERTSON, WILLIAM, born at Birthwick, in Mid-Lothian, 1721; a Scotch divine and historian ; died, June 11, 1793. Quotation : Crusades. ROBINS, BENJAMIN, born in Bath, 1707 : an emi- nent English Irlathematician and author: died at Madras, 1751. Quotation : Sailor. ROBINSON, CHARLEs S., born about 1815; an American divine and author. Quotation : Death. ROBINSON, EDwARD, S.T.D., D.D., LL.D., born in Southington, Connecticut, April 10, 1794; an eminent American philologist and biblical scholar, and one of the most learned men America has produced ; died in New York, January, 1863. Quotation : Home. ROBINSON, JANE, born about 1809; an English novelist, (London, 1845.) Quotation : Piety. ROBINSON, MARTHA WALKER, born in Leices- ter, 1822; an English historical writer. Quotation: Yearn- 1Ilg. ROBINSON, ROBERT, born at Swaffham, Nor- folk, 1735; an English Baptist minister and author; died, 1790. Quotation : Custom. ROBINSON, SOLON, born near Tolland, Connec- ticut, 1803; an American author, and writer on agriculture, (New York, 1853–67.) Quotation : Flowers. ROBINSON, WILLIAM E., (Richeliev,) born in Ireland, 1818: an American journalist, lecturer, and poli- tician. Quotations : Indiscretion—Ostracism. ROBY, John, born in Lancashire, 1800; an Eng- lish antiquary and author; perished in the wreck of the Orion, June, 1850. Quotations: Franchise—Grammar. ROCH, SAINT, born in Montpelier, 1295; an emi- nent French ecclesiastic, who was renowned for his charity and his humane attentions to the sick; died, 1327. Quota- tion. : Remedy. ROCHE, SIR BAYLE. pointment—Misfortune. ROCHE, MARIA REGINA, born, 1764; a popular English novelist, and author of the well-known book, “The Children of the Abbey ; ” died, 1845. Quotation : Dissolu- tion. ROCHE, MICHEL DE LA, born, 1650; a French lit- térateur; died, 1715. Quotations : Crime—Duty. ROCHEFOUCAULD, FRANÇoſs DUC DE LA, (Prince de Marsillac,) born, December, 1613; a celebrated French courtier and moralist. His fame. as a man of let: ters, rests chiefly on his “Maxims and Moral Reflections.” which do more gredit to his head than his heart; died, 1680. Quotations: Ability—Absence.—Accent – Accident–AC- quaintance—Action – Admiration — Advice—Affliction – Agreeableness—Ambition—Anticipation—Appearances— Artifice–Avarice–Benefits— Bravery–Capacity-Carica- ture –Censure— Chance—Change—Character— Civility— Clemency—Commendation—Compensation—Concealment —Confidênce—Constancy—Contempt—Control—Conversa- tion—Crime–Cunning—Curiosity—Death—Deceit–Decen- cy–Deeds—Desire—jespising—Diffiden ce—Disguise—Dis- honesty—Dispute–Distress-Distrust-Dupes-Education— Eloquence—Employment—Enemy—Envy–Esteem-Eyil— Example — Expectation—Failings–Familiarity—Faults— Favor— Fear – Fidelity—Firmness— Folly— Friendship — Funeral— Generosity—Gold— Good— Gracefulness—Grati- tude — Grayity— Greatness — Greediness— Grief - Hate— Head—Health– Heart—Hero–Hope—Humility—Humor— Hypocrisy— Idleness — Imitation – Impossibility — Incon- stancy—Indolence- Ingratitude—Injury—Injustice—Inno- cence—Interest—Intrigue — Jest– Judgment— Justice— King – Knowledge—Labor — Levity – Liberality — Life — Love—Lover—Luck—Luxury— Magnanimity–Marriage-- Masquerade—Maxims—Mediocrity—Memory—Men—Merit Quotations: Danger — Disap- I 1 S() /) A Y'S CO Z Z A C O M. —Mind —Mischief— Miser— Moderation— Motive— Obliga- tion—Obstinacy—Office—Old Age— Opinion— Opportunity Oratory--Passion--Past--Penetration--Perseverance--Piety Pity—-Position—Power-Praise—Pride–Promise—Prudence —Quality— Quarrels—Raillery— Reason— Reconciliation— Refinement— Reputation—Scholar—Self —Self-Confidence —Self-Deceit—Self-Love —Silence—Silliness— Simplicity— Sincerity— Slander—Society—Speaking – State — Study— Subtlety — Success — Talent — Taste — Tears — Temper — Treachery--Treason—Trifle—-Trust-Truth—-Understanding —Unfortunateness — Ungratefulness — Unhappiness — Un- truthfulness —Valor — Value — Vanity—Vice —Violence — Virtue — Vivacity— Voice–Weariness — Will — Wisdom — Wish—World—Worth—Wrong—Youth. ROCHEJAQUELEIN, MARIE LOUISE VICTOIRE de Donnissan, Marquise de la, born in Versailles, 1772; a celebrated French authoress ; died, 1857. Quotations : Character—Wit. ROCHESTER, EARL OF, (JoBN WILMQT,) born in Oxfordshire, 1647; a witty and profligate English courtier; he died in 1680, professing penitence for his sins. Quota- tions. Custom—Envy. & * RODD, THOMAS, born, 1763; an eminent English bookseller and author; died at Clothall End, near Baldock, 1822. Quotation : Sharpness. RODD, THOMAS, son of the preceding, born, 1796; an English bookseller and author; died, 1849. Quotation : Temperance. RODGERS, M. M., M.D., born about 1800 ; an Anierican writer on the physical education and medical management of children, ( Rochester, 1848.) Quotations : Agriculture—Machinery—Nature—Rock. RODIER, ANNE CHARLES PROSPER, BARON, born, 1790; a French magistrate. Quotation: Date. RODNEY, LORD, (GEORGE BRYDGES, ), born at Walton-upon-Thames, 1718; a celebrated English admiral; died, 1792. Quotation. Child. RODRIGUEZ, ALFONso, born in Valladolid, 1526 : a Spanish theologian and author: died, 1616. Quotations : Christianity—Retribution. ROE, AZEL STEVENs, born in the city of New York, 1798, an American writer, and one of the most popu- lar of modern novelists. Quotations : Autumn—Credit— Creed–Hunger—Lightning–Mind—Neglect— Obedience— Orphan—Sectarianism—Tenderness—Wealth—Woman. ROE, EDwARD PAYSON, born in the State of New York, 1888; an eminent American novelist and miscellane- ous writer, wotations: Anticipation—Disappointment— Eloquence—Failings—Girl—Horse. ROEBUCK, JOHN ARTHUR, M.P., born in Madras, 1801 ; an eminent English politician and author. Qºtotºt- tion : Fugitive. ROEDERER, PIERRE LOUIS COMTE, born at Metz, 1754; a French statesman and author: died, 1835. Quota- tions : Language—Taste. ROGERS, HENRY, born at Saint Albans, October 18, 1806; a distinguished English essayist and divine ; died, August 20, 1877. Quotations : Impossibility—Index—Past, —Prophecy—Universe—Years. ROGERS, John, born, 1509 ; an English Roman Catholic priest and translator of the Bible. . He was con- verted to Protestantism, and suffered Inartyrdom as a here- tic in 1555. Quotations: Affluence—Redemption. ROGERS, SAMUEL, the son of a London banker, born, July 30, 1763; an eminent English poet and prose wri- ter, and author of “The Pleasures of Memory ; ” died, De- cember 18, 1855. Quotations: Alone — Anxiety — Compli- ment —Crime — Diversion — Duration — Encouragement— Exactness-Example — Exigency — Failings — Foresight— Frailty — Heinousness — Intimacy — Maxims – Mildness — Sensation—Service—Stability—Tomb—Uneasiness. ROGERS, WILLIAM, D. D., born at Newport, Rhode Island, 1751; an American Baptist divine and au- thor; died, 1824. Quotation : Providence. ROGERS, WILLIAM BARTON, born in Philadel- phia, 1805; an American natural philosopher, geologist, and author. Quotation : Decay. ROGET, PETER MARK, F.R.S., born, 1779; an English philologist, pºliº; and author ; died, Septem- ber, 1869. Quotation : Jeering. ROINE, JEANNE : a French social reformer, and an advocate of Women's Rights. Quotation : Equality. ROLAND, MARIE JEANNE PHILIPON, (Madame Roland,) born in Paris, March 17, 1754; an eminent French authoress and republican politician, and One of the most noble and highly-gifted women that France has produced; died by the guillotine, November 9, 1793. Quotations: For- tune—Genius—Leisure—Liberty—Slander–Woman. ROLAND, PAULINE : a French social reformer, and advocate of Women's Rights. Quotation : Equality. ROLLE, PIERRE NICOLAS, born at Châtillon-sur- ; 1770; a French writer; died, 1855. Quotation : Dia- IſlOI) Ol. ROLLIN, CHARLEs, born in Paris, January 30, 1661; an eminent French historian and professor of belles- lettres; died, September 14, 1741. Quotations: Belles-Let- tres—Cause—Talent. ROLLOCK, ROBERT, born near Stirling, 1555; a Scottish divine and scholar ; died, 1598. Quotation : Christ. ROMAINE, WILLIAM, born in Hartlepool, Dur- ham, 1714; an eminent English Calvinistic theologian and author; died, 1795. Quotations: Bible—Christ – Cross— —Salvation—Spirit—Unbelief—Watchfulness. ROMANZOF, NICHOLAs, born, 1754; a Russian minister of State, and patron of learning; died, 1826. Quo- tation : Soldier. ROMILY, SIR SAMUEL, M.P., born, March 1, 1757; a celebrated English lawyer and statesman; died, November, 1818. Quotations: Innovation—Wife—Woman. ROMUALD, SAINT, born in Ravenna, 956 : a ious Italian abbot and divine, and the founder of the Xamaldules ; died in his monastry, in the valley of Castro, Ancona, Italy, June 19, 1027. Quotations: Despising--Devil. ROMULUS, born, 750 B.C.; the founder of Rome; a semi-fabulous personage. Quotation : Stranger. ROSA, SALVATOR, born at Arenella, near Naples, June 20, 1615; a famous Italian painter of history, land- scapes, and battles; died, March, 1673. Quotations: Ado- ration—Longevity. ROSCIUS, QUINTUs, born near Lanuvium, 129 B.C.; a celebrated Roman actor; died, 61 B.C. Quota- tions: Actor—Gesture—Stage. ROSCOE, WILLIAM CALDwell, born, 1823; an English writer and author. Quotation : Fee. ROSCOMMON, EARL OF, (WENTwo RTH DILLON,) born in Ireland, 1633; an Irish author; died, 1684. Quota- tions : Author—Invention—Multitude—Satire—Use. ROSE, ERNESTINE LOUISE SUSMOND PALOwsky, born at Peterkoff Tribunalski, in Poland, January 13, 1810; a Polish free-thinker and advocate of Women's Rights: she has contributed a great deal toward intellectual free- dom. Quotations : Exception—Equality—Infidelity. ROSE, HUGH JAMES, born in Surrey, 1795; an English divine and voluminous writer; died in Florence, 1838. Quotation : Decalogue. ROSENTHAL, FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN, born at Griefswalde, 1779; a German anatomist and author; died, 1829. Quotation : Immortality. ROSS, ANDREW, born about 1820 ; an English author. Quotattion : Daughter. ROSS, DANIEL BARTON, born in Canadice, Onta- rio county, New York, 1880; an American school teacher and author; died in Louisiana, 1860. Quotations : Deafness —Deformity—Explanation—Inability—Vacation. ROSS, ELIZABETH, born in Philadelphia, about 1750; a lady who designed and wrought the first flag of the United States. Quotation : Flag. ROSS, John WILLIAM, born about 1830 ; an Eng- lish writer and one of the editors of the “Universal Dec. orator,” (London, 1858-60.) Quotation : Vanity. ROTHSCHILD, MAYER ANSELM, BARON, born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1743; a famous German Jewish banker, and the founder of the great monetary house of Rothschild; died, 1812. Quotations : Acquaintance —Bar- gain—Caution—Injury— Integrity—Ilying— Manners—Par- ent—Passions—Pósitiveness— IRéputation—Right—Trial— Unluckiness—Veracity—Wrong. ROTHSCHILD, NATHAN MAYER, BARON DE, son of the preceding, born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1777; an eminent German Jewish financier and millionaire ; died, June 28, 1836. Quotations : Principles—Promptness. ROUCHER, JEAN ANTOINE, born at Montpelier, 1745; a French poet and author; died by the guillotine, July, 1794. Quotations: Annihilation—Destruction—Mat- ter—Violence. ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUEs, the son of a watch- maker, born at Geneva, June 28, 1712: a celebrated Swiss §º. and eloquent, writer. His works are numer- ous, and replete with brilliant, and suggestive reasonings, much eloquence and force of imagination, energy of ex- ression, and such a boldness of conception as to entitle #. to a place amongst the first Writers of his age; died of apoplexy at Ermenoville, July 2, 1778, Quotations: Absti- nence—Accent—Actor —Anxi ey –Body—Brains—Child— Childhood—Christ—Christian — City–College–Conscience —Consolation—Conversation — County-Courage–Custom —Dancing—Deceit–Democracy— Distrust–Dress–Educa- tion – Endurance — Enjoyment - Equality — Existence - Falsehood—Fame—Fashion — Felicity—Freedom—Friend- ship—Gloom — Government — Gracefulness—Gratitude— Hate--Health—Heart—Horse—Idea—-IdleneSS--Immortality —Impossibility—Inequality—Innocence—Interest–King- Knavery—Knöwledge—Liberty—Life—Men—Merit-Might –Mind—Moss—Motſon —Nation - Occupation—Patience— Pº.º.º.º. osition-Precision —Promise—Punishment—Purity— Rank—Reality—Reason —Recollection—Remorse —Scripture—Self-Love-Shame— Silliness—Slavery—Stage—Student—Stupidity—Subjection. –Superstition—Taste-Teaching-Temperance —Time— Tranquility—Truth — Usury —Vanity —Villainy —Virtue — Voice—Will—Woman—Work—Writing. ROWE, ELIZABETH SINGER, born at Ilchester, Somersetshire, 1674; an English authoress ; died, 1737. Quotations: Poor—Temptation—Tongue. A / O G AC A P AE/ / C A / / /V /O AE X. 1181 ROWE, John, born about 1605; a popular Eng- lish preacher; died, 1677. Quotation : Reproof. ROWE, NICHOLAs, born at Little Beckford, Bed- fordshire, 1673; an English dramatic poet. He became poet-laureate in 1714; died, 1718. Quotations : Attachment —Blushing—Death—Lust—Mercy. ROWELL, GEORGE P.; an American advertising agent of New York City. Quotation : Advertisements. ROWLAND, WILLIAM, born about 1600; an Eng- lish author, (London, 1652.) Quotation : Keenness. ROWLEY, WILLIAM, flourished in the reign of James the first, and was contemporary with Shakspeare; an English dramatic poet. Quotation : Self-Praise. ROY, JULIEN DAVID, born in Paris, 1726 ; a French architect and author; died, 1803. Quotations: Buying — Favor—Lawyer—Winter. ROYALL, ANNE, born in Virginia, 1769 ; an American authoress; died at Capitol Hill, Washington, September 1, 1854. Quotation : [indness. ROYOU, JACQUES CORENTIN, born at Quimper, 1745; a French historian, advocate, and author; died, 1828. Quotation : People. RUBENS, PETER PAUL, born at Siegen, in West- phalia, June 29, 1577; an eminent Flemish historical and portrait painter, and diplomatist; died in Antwerp, May, 1640. Quotation : Public. RUCELLAI, GIov ANNI, born in Florence, Italy, 1475; an eminent Italian poet and dramatic writer; died, 1525. Quotation : Ugliness. RUCKERT, L. J., born about 1800 ; an English writer, (London, 1842.) Quotations: Reverence—Youth. RUDBECK, OLAUs, born at Westerås, 1630 ; an eminent Swedish anatomist and botanist ; died, 1702. Quo- tation : Remedy. RUDD, MARGARET CAROLINE, born, 1750; an English authoress, (London, 1788.) Quotation : Good-Bye. RUDEL, GEOFFROI, (Prince of Blaye,) born at Blaye, near Bordeaux, about 1175: a celebrated French poet and writer; died, 1235. Quotation : Distance. * RUDOLPH I, Emperor of Germany, born, 1218 ; the founder of the Austrian empire; died, 1291. Quota- tion : Government. RUDOLPH II, Emperor of Germany, born, 1552; died, January, 1612. Quotation: God. RUDRAWARI, ABö SHUJAA MUHAMMAD IBN Al-Husain, Ibn Abd Allah Ar, (The Chaºpion of Religion,) born, 1045; an Arabian Vizer, poet, and author; died, June, 1095. Quotations: Dishonor—Fortune—Health. RUFFINI, GIov ANNI, (Lorenzo Bomoni,) born in Genoa, September, 1807; an Italian patriot, diplomatist, and novelist ; died at Taggia, on the Riviera, Italy, Novem- ber, 1881. Qazotations: Beauty—Benevolence – Ceremony —Confidence — Credit — Curse – Despotism — Discretion — Fancy—Favor-Heart—Love — Mother—Obligation—Rank —Smile—Teaching. RUFUS, QUINTUS CURTIUS. See CURTIUS, RU- fus Quintus. Quotations. Counsel — Country — Despair — Envy—Father—Fear—Firmness--Fortune–Habit—Misfor- tune—Necessity–Neglect—Predestination — Prosperity— River—Sleep — Superstition — Sword—Vicissitude–Weak- IlêSS. RUFUS FESTUS, born, 350 A.D.; a Roman his- torian ; died, 419 A.D. Quotation : Treason. RUMFORD, SIR BENJAMIN THOMPSON, COUNT, born at Woburn, Massachusetts, March 26, 1753; a celebra- ted Engllsh natural philosopher and economist ; died, Au- gust 20, 1814. Quotation. Cleanliness. RUMI, ABö 'L-HASAN IBN AR, the son of a Chris- tian, born at Bagdad, June, 836; a celebrated Arabian poet and author; died at Bagdad, July, 896. Quotations: Ava- rice—Debt—Doctor—Generosity–Hair—Life—Mohammed- anism—Neglect—Sorrow—Soul—Wealth. RUPERTI, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, born, 1353; died, 1390. Quotation : Pity. RUSH, BENJAMIN, M.D., born in Byberry town- ship, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1745; an American physician and author; died, April 19, 1813. Quotations : Amusement–Anger—Anguish—Confinement —Disease—Effeminacy—Employment – Ennui-Exercise— Fear — Illusion — Madness — Mathematics — Melancholy — Mirth—Quackery-–Schoolmaster–Smoking—Sport—Teeth —Theatre—Tobacco. RUSHWORTH, JoHN, born in Northumberland, 1607; an English lawyer and historian ; died, 1690. Quota- tion, . Secession. RUSKIN, JOHN, M.A., LL.D., born in London, February, 1819; an eminent English art critic, and author of several excellent works on art, painting. and architec- ture. Quotations : Art — Beauty — Cheerfulness — City – Color—Courage—Day–Dress–Enjoyment—Eye—Face— Faults—Greatness—House —Humanity-Infidelity-Know- ledge—Labor—Man—Moss — Nation —Opinion—Patience— Peace—Plagiarism-Poor–Reposp—Scenery--Ships-Soldier —Sword—Taste—Thought —Trifle —Ugliness—Unkindness —Worship. RUSSEL, ALEXANDER, born in Edinburgh, 1814; a Scottish journalist and author: died, 1876. tº Olćttºo?)." Correspondence. RUSSELL, ALEXANDER FREDERICK, born in Shrewsbury, April 23, 1820; an English author; died, Feb- ruary 28, 1879. Quotation : Kneeling. RUSSELL, SIR CHARLEs, BART., M.P., born at Southern Hill, Reading, June 22, 1826; an English military Commander and Statesman. Quotations : Disaster — Ex- CGSS. RUSSELL, LORD JOHN, (EARL RUSSELL,) born in London, August 18, 1792; an eminent English statesman ; died, May 28, 1878. Quotations : Agriculture — Chivalry — Collision—Imagination—Proverbs. RUSSELL, MICHAEL, LL.D., D.C.L., (Bishop of Glasgow,) born in Edinburgh, 1781; a Scottish divine and writer: died, 1848. Qzzotation. Disappointment. RUSSELL, LADY RACHEL WRIOTHESLEY, born, 1636; one of the most noble and lovely of English women; died, 1723. Quotations : Atonement — Grief—Life—Resur- rection—Unhappiness—Virtue—Wine. RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM, born, 1639; an emi- ºnglish patriot ; executed, July 22, 1683. Quotation: €8.IIl. RUSSELL, WILLIAM, LL.D., born at Selkirk, Scotland, 1741 ; a Scottish historian, died, 1793. Quota- tions : Fear—State. RUSSELL, WILLIAM, born in Glasgow, 1798 : a Scotch author; died, 1863. Quotation : Redress. RUSSELL, WILLIAM How ARD, born of English parents at Lilyvale, county of Dublin, March 28, 1821; a celebrated English author, and the famous war correspon- dent of the “London Times.” Quotation...: Commerce. RUSSI, GIOVANNI DE, born about 1450; an Italian painter; died, 1507. Quotation : Jews. RUTHERFORD, SAMUEL, born at Nishet, Rox- burghshire, 1600; a Scottish minister and covenanter; died, 1661. Quotations. Comfort—Cross–Rock. RUTHERFORTH, THOMAs, D.D., F.R.S., (Arch- deacon of Essex,) born in Cambridgeshire, 1712; an English divine and author: died, 1771 Quotation : Christ. RUTINI, GIONANNI MARCO, born, 1730; an Ital- ian pianist and composer; died, 1797. Quotation : Music. RUTLAND, LADY ELIZABETH. HowARD, DUCH- ess of, born, 1780; an English authoress; died, 1825. Quo- tºttiO72, ... Castles-in-the-Air. RUTLEDGE, EDwARD, born at Charleston, South Carolina, 1749; an American jurist, and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; died, 1800. Quota- tion: Money. RUYSBROEK, JAN DE, born, 1294 : a Flemish mystic and writer: died, 1381. Quotation. Result. RUZZIR, ABö 'L-GHARAT TALĀI As-SALIK IBN (The Virtuous Prince,) born, 1101; a celebrated Arabian Vizer, poet, and author: assassinated, September, 1161. Quotations : Grief—Sorrow—Vicissitudes. RYAN, FATHER, born about 1820; an American Roman Catholic priest, and an eminent poet and writer. Quotations: Memory—Ruins. RYCGIUS, JUSTUS, born, 1587; a Flemish anti- Quary and poet; died, 1627. Quotation : Authorship. RYDER, SIR DUDLEY, born in London, 1694 : an English judge and author; died, 1756. Quotation : State. RYDER, HENRY, D.D., (Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry,) the younger son of the Earl of Harrowby, born. 1777; an eminent English divine and author; died, 1836. Quotation : Education. w RYLAND, JoHN, D.D., born in Warwick, 1753 ; an English ‘Baptist minister and author: died, 1825. Quota- tions: Conviction—Christ. RYLAND, JONATHAN, EDw ARD, born, 1798; an English author: died, 1866. Quotation : Prayer. RYLE, JOHN CHARLEs, born, 1816; an English divine and author. Quotations : Cross—Sunshine. RYMER, THOMAS, born in Yorkshire, 1638 : an English antiquary and editor; died, 1714. Quotation : Scenery. RYNDERS, ISAIAH, born in the city of New York, 1814; a noted American politician. Quotation : Bet- ting—Despotism. RYS, THOMAS DAVYDD AB HYWEL, lived about 1560; a Welch poet and prose writer. Quotation : Devil. RY VES, BRUNO, born in Dorsetshire, 1580 : an English divine of the Anglican Church, and author of sev- eral excellent sermons; died, 1677. Quotation : Decalogue. RY VES, ELIZABETH, born in Ireland about 1730; an Irish novelist; died in London, 1797. Quotation : Inti- macy. RZEWIESKY, WENCELSAs, born, 1705; a Polish general and nobleman, noted for his literary attainments. He was the author of poems, dramas, and other miscella- neous works; died, 1779. Quotation : Taste. | | S2 A) A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. A, MANOEL DE, born, 1530; a celebrated Portu- guese Jesuit, theologian, commentator, and professor of divinity. He was employed by Pius the Fifth, to superin- tend a new edition of the Vulgate ; died, 1596. Quota- tions: Superiority—Theology. SAADI or SADI, SHEIKH MUSLIH ADDIN, born at Shiraz, 1184: one of the most celebrated of the Persian poets and prose writers. The most famous of his works is the “Gutislav,” or rose-garden, a moral work in prose and verse, containing a large number of excellent maxims and philosophical sentences, and from which the following quotations are taken ; died, 1291, one hundred and seven years, old. Quotations : Adversity—Benevolence—Caution —Dress—Falsehood—Forgiveness— Fortune—Gentleness— Heart — Humility— Ignorance — Justice — Ring— Labor — Learning—Liberality—Lust— Misfortune—Nobility— Obe- . dience—Offense—Pardon—Perseverance—Poverty—Repu- tation—Riches—Secrecy—Silence—Slander—Sleep—Speak- ing—To-Morrow—Tongue—Travel—Tyrant—Ungrateful- ness—Well-Doing —Wisdom –Worth—Wound—Wretched- neSS—Youth. SAAL, ANTON WILHELM CHRISTIAN, born, 1737 ; a German composer; died, 1785. Quotation : Melody. SABIR, ABù Yūsuf YAKöB IBN BARAKAT IBN Ammār Al-Maujanika. Ibn, born in Bagdad, January 26, 1159; an Arabian poet and philosopher; died in Bagdad, January 26, 1229. Quotations: Frugality—-Perfidy--Temple. SACCHETI, FRANCO, born in Florence, 1335 ; an Italian poet and novelist; died, 1410. Quotations. Experi- ment—Remembrance. SACHEVERELL, HENRY, D.D., born, 1672; an English divine and author; died, 1724. Quotations: Igno- rance—Preaching. SACHO, R.; an English writer and social re- former. Quotation. Estate. SADAIHE, GON-CHIU-NAGON, born about 1190 ; a Japanese priest and poet, and author of the poem, “Chok- sen-shiu; ” died, 1241. Quotations : Desertion—Fellowship —Suffering—Vows. SADE, DONATIEN ALPHONSE FRANÇoſs, MARQUIs de, born in Paris, 1740; a French novelist; died, 1814. Quo- tation : FOOl. SA DE MIRANDA, FRANCISCO DE, born in Coim- bra, 1495; a Portuguese poet and author; died, 1558. Qato- tation. : Majority. SADLER, ANTHONY, born in Wiltshire, about 1619; an English divine and writer; died, 1680. Quotations : Serenity—Traitor. SADLER, MICHAEL THOMAS, born in Derbyshire, 1780; an English philanthropist, statesman, and author; died, 1835. Quotation. Insinuation. SADOC, lived about 250 B.C.; a learned Jew, and the principal founder of the Sadduces Quotation : Re- Surrection. SADQLETO, JACOPO, (Bishop of Carpentras,) born in Módena, 1477; an eminent Italian cardinal and writer; died in Rome, 1547. Quotation : Cavil. SADOTH, SAINT, (Bishop of Celeucia and Ctesi- phon,) born about 270 A.D.; a celebrated Persian martyr; died, 342. Quotation : Gods. SAFFAR, ABù YùSUF YAKöB IRN AL-LAITH AL- Rhāriji As, born, 818; a celebrated Arabian warrior, phi- lººpher, and poet; died, 878. Quotations: Fortune—Pros- perity. SAGAMORE CHIEF; a head-chief of the Algon- kin tribe. Quotation : Water. SAGE, AENEAS ; an English divine and author. Quotations. Morality—Revenge. . SAGE, ALAIN RENE LE, born at Sarszeau, near Vannes, (Morbihan,) May 8, 1668; a celebrated French dramatic writer and novelist ; died in Boulogne, Novem- ber, 1747. Quotations : Good—Valet–Wine—Writing. SAGE, HENRY L. : an English miscellaneous wri- ter and author. Quotations : Solitude—Water. SAGE, JOHN, born in Fifeshire, 1652; a bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and writer; died, 1711. Quotation. Desert. SAIGIYO ; a celebrated Japanese poet and Budd- hist priest. Quotation : Flowers. SAINT EVREMOND. See EvKEMOND, SAINT. SAINT-FOIX. See FOIx, SAINT, G. F. P. Quota. tion, Wrinkle. SAINT-JOHN, BAYLE, born in Kentish town, London, August 9, 1822; a celebrated English historian; died, 1859. Quotations : Fear—Mind. SAINT-JOHN, HORACE Roscoe, brother of the preceding, born, 1832; an English journalist and author. Quotation : Harmony. - SAINT-JOHN, JAMES AUGUSTUS, father of the two preceding, born in Caermarthenshire, Wales, 1801; an English author and editor. Quotation : Poetry. SAINT-JOHN, PERCY BoIINGBROKE, son of the preceding, born, 1821; an English journalist and miscella- neous Writer. Quotation : Coyness. SAINT-LEGER, W. N. Situation. SAINT-PIERRE, CHARLEs IR£NÉE CASTEL, DE, born at Saint Pierre Eglise, near Barfleur, Normandy, 1658; a French writer and priest. He was noted for his benevo- lence, and it is said he was the first to use the word, bien- ſqisance (“Beneficence.”) He was an honor to his age and his Species; died, 1743. Quotations: Abuse –Agriculture -Air—Beauty—Harvest-Instinct — Mankind–Nature-- Pain—Party–Passion — Prejudice — Feason—Sleep—Tomb —Virtue—Woman. SAKALLI, ABū MUHAMMAD ABD AL-JABBAR, Ibn Ali Bakr Ibn Hamdis Al-Azdi, As, born, 1052; an Ara- bian poet of consummate ability; died in the isle of Mai- yorka, (Majorca,) 1.132. Quotation : Patience. SALA, GEORGE AUGUSTUS HENRY, the son of an Italian gentleman, who married a favorite English singer of West Indian extraction, born in London, 1828; a cele- brated English littérateur, journalist, and writer. .. Quota- tions: Affection— Beauty—Education— Esteem—Flowers —Future—Generosity—Greatness—Home—Hope—idleness -Infancy—Judgment—Kindness—Knowledge—Laziness— Littleness—Society—Success—Thought—Trifle. SALADIN, or SALAH-AD-DIN, MALEK - NASIR- Yūsuf, born in the castle of Tekrit, on the Tigris, 1137; a famous Arabian Sultan of Egypt, noted for his bravery and humanity; died in Damascus, March, 1193. Quotations: Fury—Kindness. SALD, U. D.E. : a celebrated French painter of the seventeenth century. Quotation : Painting. SALE, ANTOINE DE LA, born, 1398; a French wri- ter; died, 1461. Quotation : Love. SALES, MADAME DE, wife of Charles de Sales, born about 1630; a French authoress ; died, 1650. Quota- tions: Depreciation—Gentleness. SALES, LOUIS COMTE DE, born in Chablais, 1577; an eminent Savoyard diplomatist and warrior; died, 1654. Quotation : Judgment. SALES, SAINT FRANCIS, brother of the preceding, (Bishop of Geneva,) born at Sales, in Savoy, August 21, 1567; an eminent Sayoyard divine and writer; died in Lyons, December, 1622. Quotation : Silence. SALIS, JOHANN GAUDENZ, VON SEEWIS, born at Bothmar Castle, near Malans, in Graibundten, 1762; a Swiss poet and writer; died at Malans, Jauuary 28, 1834. Qºtota- łions : Action—Grave— Justice—Liar—Light—Mischief – Necessity—Pleasing—Practice—Slander—Wisdom. SALISBURY, EARL OF, (ROBERT CECIL,) born, 1560; an English statesman; died, 1612. Quotation : Death. SALLO, DENIS DE, (Siewr de La Courdraye,) born in Paris, 1626; a French writer, and the founder of modern literary journals; died, 1669. Quotation : Recom- mendation. SALLUST, CAIUS CRISPUS, born of a plebian family, at Amiternum, in the Sabine country, 86 B.C.; a celebrated Roman historian and Statesman ; died, 34 B.C. Quotations: Accusation—Age--Almbition--Anger--Avarice Concord — Cowardice—Gods— Idleness— Ignominy—IKing —Life—Love—Mind —News— Opportunity— Pauper—Pedi- gree— Pleasure—Pride— Profuseness–Progenitor-Pros- perity—Punishment—Pursuit—Jeality—Renown-Reputa- tion--Resignation — Revelry— Reward — Sloth — Station — Terror—Union—Wain-Glory. SALM-DYCK, CoNSTANCE MARIE DE THESIS Princess, (Madame Pipelet,) born, 1767; a German poetess and writer ; died, 1845. Quotations: Absenge—Confidence —Evil—Excuse—Experience— Friendship—Hate—Intrigue —Love—Misfortune–Sentiment. SALM-SALM, (Le Clerg,) PRINCESS DE : the de- voted wife of Prince Felix de Salm-Salm, who accompan- ied Maximilian to Mexico. Quotation : Effort. SALOMON, ELIE, lived in the thirteenth century; an eminent French priest, philanthropist, and theologian. Quotation : Benevolence. - SALTER. H. G., D.D., born, 1840; an English divine and author. Quotations. Meditation—Ordinance— —Prayer—Righteousness—Sanctification—Union. SALVANI or SALVINI, ANTONIO MARIA, born in Florence, 1653; an Italian philologist and author; died, 1729. Quotation : Author. SALVIANUS, born in Cologne, 390; a French priest and ecclesiastical writer; died, 484. Quotations: Commandments—Providence. SALVINI, ToMMAso, born in Milan, January 1, 1830; a celebrated Italian tragedian. Quotation : Drama. SAMMAK, ABU 'L-ABBA's MUHAMMAD IBN SABiH Ibn, born, 930: an Arabian philosopher and writer; died in Bagdad, June 7, 996. Quotations : Lust—Sweetness. SAMPSON, THOMAs, born, 1517; an English Pu- ritan divine and author: died, 1589. Quotations: Christ— Church. SAMSON, GEORGE WHITFIELD, D.D., born in Worcester county, Massachusetts, 1819; an American Bap- tist divine, and an eminent writer. Quotations : Architec- tutºrºlor-Painting-Pyramid — Shadow—Space—Touch — Y Olće, Quotations: Possibilities — A / O G A' A' A' AH / C A Z / AW /) A X. 1 183 SAMUEL BEN MEIER, RABBI, (Rashbam,) born in Ramero, Italy, 1085; a celebrated Jewish commentator and Rabbinical writer; died, 1154. Quotations. EYasion- Shame. - SANBORN, E. D., A.M.; an American professor at Dartmouth College. Quotation : Tillage. SANBORN, E. K., M.D., born in Pennsylvania, about 1800; an American physician and writer; died at Ship Island, 1862. Quotation : Indiscretion. SANBORN, F. B., born about 1829; an American journalist. Quotations: Editor—Journalism—Newspaper. SANCHONIATHON, born in Berytus, and flour- ished 1400 B.C.; a Phoenician writer. Quotations : Air– Gods—Tillage–Worship. SAND, GEORGE, the mom de plume of Madame Dudevant, (q.v.) Quotation : Knowledge. SANDBACH, MRs. HENRY ROSCOE, born, 1810 ; an English poetess and authoress, (London, 1840.) Quota- tions : Learning—Modesty. SANDERS, CHARLEs W., born in Herkimer coun- ty, New York, 1805; an American educational writer. Quo- tattion. Sound. SANDERS, John, born, 1600; an English writer, ºndon, 1655.) Quotations : Effeminacy—Joy—Masquer- C. 8, SANDERSON, JOHN, born near Carlisle, Penn- §ylyania: an American littérateur; died, 1783. Qıtotation : Virtue. SANDERSON, ROBERT, D.D., (Bishop of Lin- coln,) born at Rotherham, Yorkshire, September 19, 1587; an English divine and author; died, January 29, 1663. Quo- tations: Fraud—Study—Wickedness. SANDFORD, JAMES, born, 1500; an eminent Eng- lish scholar and author. Quotation : Feeling. SANDFORD, MRs. John, born about 1800; an English authoress, (London, 1832.) Quotations: Kisses— Literature—Religion—Romance. e SANDS, ROBERT CHARLEs, born in the city of New York, 1799; a distinguished American journalist and litterateur, whose early death was universally regretted ; died, 1832. Quotation : Nature. SANDYS, GEORGE, born at Bishopsthorpe, 1577; an English poet and writer; died, 1644. Quotations: Twi- light—Zephyr. SANNAZARO, GIACOMO, born at Naples, 1458: an elegant Italian #; and Writer; died, 1530. Quota- tions : †y:#vii. riendship--Misery—-Remedy--Woman. SANSOVINO, FRANCESCO TATTI IL, born in Rome, 1521; an Italian littérateur and grammarian ; died, 1586. Quotationz. Coxcomb. , SANTICILIA, JUAN Y, JoFGE DON, born at Ori- huela, in Valencia, 1712: a celebrated Spanish mathemati- gian, naval commander, and author; died, 1774. Quota- tion : Navy. - - SANTOB, RABBI DE, flourished about 1350 ; a Spanish author of a celebrated poem, addressed to Peter the Cruel. Q&otations: Boasting—Heart—Marriage—Pity —Precept—Roses. SANVEUR, JOSEPH, born at La Flèche, 1653; a French mathematician and philosopher; died, 1716. Quo- tattion : Agreement. SANVITALE, GIACOMO ANTONIO, Count, born at Parma, 1699; an Italian poet and diplomatist; died, 1780. Quotation : Ill-Nature. - SAPOR II, King of Persia, born, 310 ; noted for his persecution of the Christians; died, 380. Quotation : Success. SAPRICUS ; an eminent Christian Father and Writer. Quotation : Gods. SARAGOSSA, MAID OF, (Agostina ;) a Spanish heroine; died, 1826. Quotation : War. SARDANAPALUS, is supposed to have lived about 880 B.C.; the last king of Assyria, noted for his weak- ness and effeminacy of character. Quotations : Eating— Pleasure. SARGENT, EPES, born in Gloucester, Massachu- chusetts, 1814; an American journalist and miscellaneous writer; died, December 30, 1880. Quotation : Soul. SARGENT, HENRY WINTHROP, of Wodenorthe, New York; an eminent and reliable writer on landscapé gardening. Q?totations : Garden—Plant. SAULT, RICHARD, born about 1635 ; an English author, (London, 1694.) Quotations: Disease—Novelty. SAUNDERS, FREDERIC, born in London, 1807; an English miscellaneous writer. Quotations: Cross — Sabbath—Seasons—Sumptuousness. SAUNDERS, LAURENCE, born about 1480 ; an English divine, linguist, and martyr; executed, 1555. Quo- tations : Prayer—Tribulation. SAURIN, BERNARD-Joseph, born in Paris, 1706 : an eminent, French dramatic writer; died, 1781. Quota. tions. Annihilation—Gospel—Paganism—Slander. SAUSTER ; an eminent Persian writer. Quotation: Unfortunateness. SAVAGE, JAMES, LL.D., born in Boston, 1784; an American lawyer and author. Quotation : Stoicism. SAVAGE, JOHN, born about 1777 ; an English di- Vine and author; died, 1747. Quotation : Thought. SAVAGE, RICHARD, born in London, January, 1697; an English poet and writer, noted for his misfortunes and dissolute habits; died, July 31, 1743. Quotattions: Anger —Disappointment—Virtue. SAVARIN, BRILLAT ; an eminent French physi- Qlogist, and author of the “Physiologie du Goſit," (Lon- don, 1865.) Quotations: Dinner — Eating—Food—Feeding —Intemperance—Man—Presumption—Thirst. SAVILE, SIR HENRY, born in Yorkshire, Novem- ber 30, 1549; an English mathematical and classical scho- lar; died, February 19, 1621. Quotations : Affectation— Amusement—Diversion—Drunkenness—Dullness—Fame— Government — Gravity — King — IRecreation — Religion — Report—Woman. SAVILLE, B.T.; an English religious writer, and author of a little work, “Meetness for Heaven,” (Lon. don, 1850.) Quotation : Liberty. SAVILLE, J. FAUCIT, born, 1783; an English actor, theatrical manager, and dramatic writer; died, 1853. Quotations: Beggar—Business—Change—Scandal. SAWYER, THOMAs JEFFERSON, D.D., born in Windsor county, Vermont, 1804; an American Universalist preacher and author. Quotation. Church. SAXE, JOHN GODFREY, LL.D., born in Franklin County, Vermont, 1816; a distinguished American humor- ous poet. Quotations : Nuptials—Order. SAY, THOMAS, born in Philadelphia, 1787; an American naturalist and author: died, 1834. Quotation : Inconsistency. SAYCE, ARCHIBALD HENRY, born in Shirehamp- ton, near Bristol, September 25, 1846; an English philoſo- gist and author, (London, 1872–77.) totation : Alphabet. SCALA, ALESSANDRA, lived in the fifteenth cen- tury; an Italian lady distinguished for her private virtues and her knowledge of classical literature; died, 1506. Quo- tattºo??, Virtue. SCALIGER, JULIUS CAESAR, born in Padua, April 23, 1484; a celebrated Italian scholar and critic; died, 1558. Quotations: Books—Study. SCARELLA, JOHN BAPTIST, born at Brescia ; an Italian divine and writer. Quotation : Truth. SCARGILL, WILLIAM PITT, born about 1780; an English writer and novelist, (i.ondon, 1815–1857; ) died about 1854. Quotation : Tact. SCHAFF, PHILIP, D. D., born in Switzerland, 1819, emigrated to the United States, 1844: a celebrated German-American theologian, divine, and author. Quota- tion. Language. SCHEFER, LEOPOLD, born at Muskan, Lower Lusatia, 1784: a German physician, littérateur, and author; died, 1862. - Quotations : Enyy – Grief–Hope — Miser– Pleasure—Prayer—Sorrow—Usefulness. SCHELLING, FRIEDRICH WILHELM. Joseph, born in Leonberg, near Stuttgart, January 27, 1775; an emi- nent German philosopher, and author; died in Ragaz, Switzerland, August, 1854. Quotation Costume. SCHENCHEZER, Johann KASPAR, born in Zu- º Hº $ § German writer; died in London, 1729. Quota- 70?? - Truth. SCHILLER, Johan N CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH, voN, born in Marbach, in Würtemberg, November 11, 1759: the national poet and dramatist of Germany, and one of the most illustrious of German writers. To his mother it is thought he owed the preternatural endowments of his in- tellect: she was of huimble origin, the daughter of a baker, but righ in the gifts, of the heart and understanding. ... He Riº, a happy childhood with his pious parents; died, [ay 9, 1805. Quotations : Art—Pabe-Beauty—Blessings— Blockhead—Bravery — Brother — Building — Carefulness— Chance—Character—Contemplation —Conversation—Crea- jºnºmº-ººrººººººº. ment—Enthusiasm—Eternity— Eye—Fable—Fame—Fancy -Fate–Fear—Flowers—Force —Forethought—Freedom- Futurity—Genius—God—Gracefulness — Greatness—Guilt —Hair— Hearth — History — Holiness — Honesty — Hope — Hour—Humility — Imitation — Ingratitude — Innovation — Intellect—Jealousy—Jest—Joy — Justice — Life — Light— Maj ºntºy — Mind —Mob—Nation— Native-Land–Nature—Necessity — Nobility—Oath—Oppo- sition—Peace—Perception — Perfection — Philosophy–Pil- grim–Place—Pleasing —Poet – Purity—Quietness—Race— Rage—Relations—Restraint— Revenge—Reward—Rigor— Self—Self-Will–Simplicity—Sin–Son—Sorrow—Spirit— Spring—Statues—Stupidity—Tale-Bearer—Thunder-Time —Victory—Virtue —Vote —War —Warrior — Wine —Woe – Woman—World—Youth. SCHLEGEL, KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH, VON, born in Hanover, March 10, 1772; an eminent German critic and philosophical writer: died in Dresden, 1829. , Qztota- tions : Art—Authorship—Beauty— Difficulty—Mohamme- danism—Nature—Preaching—Thinking. 11 S4 A) A Y',S C O /, / A C O AV. SCHLEIERMACHER, FRIEDRICH DANIEL ER- nest, born in Breslau, November 21, 1768; a German philo- Sophic theologian, and author of great eminence. He was the Son of a poor army chaplain in Silesia, who belonged to the Calvanistic communion ; died, February 12, 1835. łuotations : Father — Friendship — Indolence — Letter — leasure—Present—Virtue. SCHLIEMANN, HEINRICH, F.S.A., born at An- kershagen, Mecklenburg, 1822; an eminent German arch- abologist, Egyptologist, and author. In his extensive ex- plorations, he has been greatly assisted by his wife, who is an accomplished Greek. Quotations: Youth–Zealot. SCHMOLCK, BENJAMIN, born in Liegnitz, 1672 ; a gifted German hymnologist and theologian ; died, 1737. Quotation : Error. SCHOELCHER, VICTOR, born in Paris, 1804; a French journalist and littérateur; died about 1872. Quo- tations : Happiness—Pride. SCHOLASTICA, SAINT, sister of Saint Benedict, born about 480; a pious French Virgin, Who consecrated her whole life to º: Church ; died, 543. Quotation : In- temperance. SCHOLEFIELD, WILLIAM, M.P., born in Bir- mingham, 1809; an eminent English merchant, liberal re- former, and statesman; died, July 9, 1867. Quotation : Politics. SCHOOCKIUS ; an eminent German geologist and author, of the present century. Quotation : Fossils. SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY Row E, LL.D., born in Guilderland, near Albany, New York, March 28, 1793; a distinguished American traveller, ethologist, and scientific Writer; died, 1864. Quotations: Legends—Martyr —My- thology—Translation. SCHOPENHAUFER, ARTHUR, born in Dantzic, February 22, 1788; a celebrated German pessimist philoso. pher, and author; died in Frankfort, September 21, 1860. Quotations: Ability—Artifice–Author—Authority—Brains –Ennui-Face—Genius — Monarchy—Old Age—People— Republicanism—Science—Sleep—Style—Thinking–Trifle— Truth—Virtue—Youth. SCHOPENHAUFER, JohannA, mother of the § born in Dantzic, 1770; a German authoress ; ied, 1849. Quotation : Difficulty. SCHOVENKFELD, C. : a celebrated German geologist, traveller, and author of the present century. Quotation : Fossils. SCHUBART, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH DANIEL, born in Obersontheim, March 26, 1739; a German littéra- teur, poet, and author; died, 1791. Quotation : Sorrow. SCHULTZ, FRIEDRICH, born in Madgeburg, 1762 : a German novelist and historical writer; died, 1798. Quo. tation : Passion. SCHURZ, CARL, born near Cologne, 1829, emi- grated to the United States, 1852; a German-American orator, journalist, and military officer. Quotation : Flag.) SCIPIO, AFRICANUS MAJOR PUBLIUS CORNE- lius, born, 235 B.C.; an illustrious Roman commander ; died, 183 B.C. Quotations: Dancing—Leisure—Subject— Sympathy. SCOT, ALEXANDER, born about 1563; an English writer, (London, 1593–1622.) Quotation : Felicity. SCOTT, JOHN, (LORD ELDON, q.v.) Quotation : Decency. SCOTT, JoBN, D.D., born in Wiltshire, 1638; an English divine and writer: died, 1694. Quotation : Magic. SCOTT, THOMAS, D.D., born in Lincolnshire, 1747; an English Calvinistic divine and author: died, 1821. Quo- tations: Equity—Melancholy—Prayer—Sabbath—Study. SCOTT, SIR WALTER, born in Edinburgh, August 15, 1771; a celebrated Scottish novelist and poet. He stood in the foremost rank as a novelist, for few have even §§ and scarcely any have surpassed him ; died at Abbotsford, September 21, 1832, Quotations : Adversity— Affection — Ambition — Calamity—Conversation—Credit— Critic—Crowd—Curse—Death—Error—Excess—Experience —Face—Friendship—Guilt — Help-Hope—Intemperance— Law—Literature—Love—Lover—Man—Marriage—Maxims —Meanness—Melancholy—Mildness — Moon — Necessity— Nervousness—Reason—Self-Denial — Self-Education—Sen- sibility--Sentiment—Sin—Skill—Sorrow--Stranger–Tavern —Tears—Temper—Time—Treason—Wit—World—Zeal. SCOTT, WINFIELD, born at Petersburg, Virginia, of Scottish parents, January 13, 1786 : one of the most dis- tinguished of American generals: died at West Point, May 29, 1866. Quotations: Accent—Drunkenness–Horse— Light—Murder. SCOTUS, DUNS. See DUNS SCOTUS. Conjecture—Flattery. SCOUGALL, HENRY, born in East Lothian, 1650; a Scottish divine and professor of philosophy; died, 1678. Quotation : Rebellion. . SCRAGGS, GEORGE GLYNN, born in London, about 1723; an English miscellaneous writer, (London, 1790.) Q7(otations : Virtue—Woman. SCREFSTA. Quotation: Destitution. Quotations : SCRIVER, CHRISTIAN, born in Rendsburg, 1629: a German divine and author; died, 1693. Quotation: Dying. SCROPE, GEORGE POULET THOMSON, F.R.S., born, 1797; an English geologist and author; died, Janu- ary 19, 1876. Quotation : Credit. SQUDERI, GEORGE DE, born in Havre, 1601; a French dramatist and author; died, 1667. Quotation : Mankind. SCUDERI, MADELEINE DE, sister of the preceding, born at Eetzel, in East Friesland, Hanover, 1607; a popular French novelist; died, 1701. Quotations'; 'Complacency – Love—Marriage. SEABURY, SAMUEL, D.D., (Bishop of Connecti- cut.) born at Groton, Connecticut, 1729; an American di- Vine and author; died, 1796. Quotation Church. SEAVER, HORACE ; an American free-thinker and Social reformer. Quotation: Free-Thinking. SEBASTIAN, I, DOM, King of Portugal, born in Lisbon, 1554; died, 1578. Quotation : Ambassador. SECKER, THOMAs, (Archbishop of Canterbury,) born at Sibthorpe, Nottinghamshire, 1693; an eminent Eng- lish divine and writer; died, 1768. Quotations: Anger— Example—Gratitude—Scholar. SECKER, WILLIAM, born about 1618; an English dissenting divine and author, (London, 1653.) Quotations : Bells—Christian—Faults—Prayer—Resistance—Unbelief. SEDGWICK, ADAM, LL.D., born in Dent, York- shire, 1785: an eminent English geologist and author; died, January 27, 1873. Quotation : Influence. SEDGWICK, CATHERINE MARIA, born in Stock- bridge, Massachusetts, 1789; an eminent American moralist and authoress ; died, July 31, 1867. Quotations. Nobility— Parent—Providence—Riches—Sermon. - SEDGWICK, THEODORE, born in Hartford, Con- necticut, 1746; an eminent American jurist and statesman ; died in Boston, January, 1813. Quotation : Owner. SEDGWICK, THEODORE, a grandson of the pre- ceding, horn in Albany, 1811; a celebrated American law— yer and writer; died, 1859. Quotation : Indiscrimination. SEDGWOOD, CHARLEs, born, 1829 ; an English divine and author. Quotation : Creature. SEDLEY, SIR CHARLEs, born in Kent, 1639: an English poet and dramatist ; died, 1701. Quotation : Cor- respondence. SEED, JEREMIAH, born in Clifton, Cumberland, about 1772; an English divine and author: died, 1747. Quo- tations: Ability—Domesticity—Happiness— Infinity—Man —Modesty — Quality — Scholar — Sense — Understanding— Wit—Wrong—Yearning. * SEELBACH, CARL, born, 1810 : a German writer and compiler. He emigrated to the United States, and pºlished a small edition of proverbs. Quotation : Back- iter. SEGAR, JOSEPH, born in Virginia, 1816; an Amer- ican politician and statesman, (1861.) Quotation : Seces- SEGNERI, PAOLO, born near Rome, 1624; an Italian Jesuit and celebrated pulpit Orator; died, 1694. Quotation: Jade. SEGUIER, PIERRE, born, 1504; a French diplo- matist and writer; died, 1580, Quotation : Scoffing. SEGUR, JOSEPH ALEXANDER PIERRE VICOMTE de, born, 1756; a French littérateur and dramatic author; died, 1805. Quotations : Character—Truth. - SEKESA : an African convert to Christianity, of the tribe of Bechuana. Quotations : Water—Wind—Woe. SELEY, CHARLEs, born, 1801 ; an English dra- matic writer; died, 1863. Quotation : Money. SELDON, JOHN, born at Salvington, Sussex, De- cember 16, 1584: a celebrated English lawyer and states- man, and one of the most learned men of his time; died, Novémber 30, 1654. Quotations: Bible—Ceremony—Con- science—Display—Doubt – Enemy— Equity.—Excellence— Gallantry—Government—Humility – Ignorange – King– Law–-Learning—Libel—Marriage—Men-Morality--Preach- ing—Pride–Rhetoric—Riches—Scripture–Sermon–Super- stition—Wisdom—Wit—Words. SELKIRK, ALExANDER, born at Largo, 1676 ; a Scottish sailor, who was the hero of Defoe's “Robinson Crusoe : ” died, 1723. Quotation. : Waves. - SELMAN, KHAJAH, born about 1300; an Arabian philosopher and poet; died, 1866. Quotation : Zenith. SELMEH, OMAR, born about 1250: an Arabian philologist and grammarian; died, 1825. Quotation: Greedi- neSS. SELUCIDAE, BASIL. Quotation : Feasting. SELWYN, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, (Bishop of Név Zealand and Lichfield,) born, 1809; an English divine and author; died April 11, 1878. Quotation: Cathedral. SENANCOUR, ETIENNE PIVERT DE, born in Paris, 1770; a French author; died, 1846. Quotations : Forget- fulness—Money—Union. A / O G /ø Al Z / / / C A / / /V /D Aº X. 1185 SENECA, LUCIUs ANNEUs, born in Corduba, Spain, 1 A.D.; a celebrated Roman stoic philosopher who was brought to Rome by his parents when a child. He be- came tutor to the emperor Nero, and for some years he acted as his chief minister, but falling into disgrace, he received notice to die, and suffocated himself in a vapor bath, 65 A.D. His wife voluntarily suffered death with him. Quotations : Abstinence—Abuse-–Adversity-–Advice —Affection—Ambition---Ancestry-Anger—Anticipation— Anxiety–Appetite —Assistance — Beauty—Beginning–13c- havior—Benefits—Benevolence — Books—Bounty–Brother —Business—Calamity — Calmness — Citizen — Clemency — Commonwealth—Companion —Compensation—Confession — Counsel — Countenance -— Country — Court — Crime — Cruelty—Culture —Day— Debt — Deformity — Delay—Diffi- culty—Discipline—Disease—Distrust –Livinity— Drinking — Drunkenness — Eating — Economy – Envy — Evil — Ex- ample — Eye—Falsehood — Fate — Favor—Fear—Felicity— Fidelity — Foresight — Fortune — Freedom – Friendship— Future—Genius —God —Gold — Good — Good-Will — Good- ness — Government — Grammal" — Gratitude — Greatness— Grief—Guilt — Harvest —Haste — Hearing—Heaven -Heir —Hero — Honor — Hope — Hour – Humanity — Humility — Hunger — Idleness — ſmmorality—Impossibility—Indiscre- tion—Indolence—Ingratitude — Injury—ſnterference—Joy —Judges — Justice — Kindness — King — Labor —Lamenta- tion – Laughter — Lawyer — Learning — Legacy — Letters —Letter—Levity—Life – Lightning —Love—Loyalty—Lust —Luxury—Malice—Man — Manners — Marriage — Master — Maxims—Memory—Men — Mercy—Might —Mind–Mischief — Misery — Misfortune — Mob — Moderation — Modesty — Money—Mortality—Multitude — Murmur—Necessity—Obe- dience—Obligation—Obscurity—Obstinacy—Old Age—Om- nipresence—Opinion — Opportunity—Opposition—Ostenta- tion—Parent—Parsimony—Passion—Past—Pedigree--Peni- tence—Philosophy — Pleasure— Poor — Posterity—Praise— Prayer—Precept—Prevention – Profuseness—Prosperity— #."... º.º. Punishment — Quarrels — Irabble— Race—ſtage—IRain— eality. Rºncilia ion—Recreation— Relief–Ireport—ićepose—IRepublic —[Reputation—IResigna- tion—Result-Retirement—Riches-River—Royalty--Ruins —Sacrifice—Sadness —Safety — Satisfaction — Saving—Sci- ence—Sea—Seasons—Self–Self-Accusation—Self-Acquain- tance—Self-Denial—Self-Esteem —Self-Examination—Self- Ignorance—Self-Interest—Sensuality—Servitude--Severity —Shadow — Shame — Simplicity — Sin — Soul — Speaking— Speech—Spirit—Stomach—Stranger—Stratagem—Study— Subject—Submission—Success —Sun–Superstition—Sword —Tale-Bearer—Teaching —Tempest—Terror—Thief—Time —Toil—To-Morrow—Torment — Transgression —Trouble— Truth—Tumult—Uncertainty—Unfortunateness--Ungrate- fulness—Vain-Glory—Vanity—Vice--Vicissitudes--Villainy —Violence—Virtue —War—Wickedness —Will —Wisdom— Woe—Woods—Words—Wretchedness—Writing—Years. SENECE, ANTOINE BANDERON DE, born at Mâcon, 1643; a French poet and author; died, 1737. Quotation : Merit. SENHOUSE, RICHARD, (Bishop of Carlisle,) born about 1570; an English divine and author: died, 1626. Quo- tation : Inquiry. SENIOR, NASSAU WILLIAM, born in Berkshire, 1790; an English lawyer and writer; died, 1864. Quotation : Moralitv. SENN-PETIT, or PETIT-SENN, JULEs, born, 1800; a Swiss littérateur and author. Quotations : Love— Pedantry—Politics—Self-Love. SENTZ, or CENTZ, C. P. : an American writer, and author of “Republic of Republics,” (Boston, 1881.) Quotations: Secession—Sovereign. SEN-ZAI-SHIU ; a celebrated Japanese work, “Collection of a Thousand Records.” ()?totations: Ill— Insignificance. SEPULVEDA, JUAN GINEZ DE, born near Cor- dova, 1490; a colebrated Spanish historian and author ; died, 1574. Quotattion : Savage. SERAN DE LA TOUR, born, 1730; a French abbé and littérateur; died, 1798. Quotation : Enemy. SERAPION, SAINT, (The Sindonite,) born in Egypt about 322; a pious priest and philanthropist; died, 388. Quotation : Destitution. SERGEL, JoHAN ToBIAs, born in Stockholm, 1740; an eminent Swedish sculptor; died, 1814. Quotation : Sculpture. SERMINI, GENTILE, supposed to have been born in Sienna, about 1820; an Italian novelist, Qºtotation : Death—Deceit. SERTORIUS, QUINTUs, born in Nursia, in the country of the Sabines, 121 B.C.; a famous Roman general : died, 74 B.C. Quotations: Perseverance—Time. SERVETUS, MICHAEL, born in Aragon, 1509 ; a Spanish theologian and physician ; died at the stake in Geneva, 1553. Quotation : Fasting. SESOSTRIS, lived about 1450 B.C.: a celebrated King of Egypt. Quotations: Emperor—Suicide. SESSA, lived in the eleventh century ; an Indian mathematician, to whom is attributed the invention of the game of chess. Quotation : Recreation. SEUME, JOHANN GOTTLIEB, born, 1763; a Ger- man littérateur and author; died, 1810. Quotations: Idle- ness—Opinion. SEVERANCE, MOSES, born about 1794; an Amer- ican educational Writer, and author of the “American Manual and New English Reader: ” died, 1834. Quota- tions : Seasons—Winter. SEVERIN US, SAINT, born about 417 : a Roman abbot and apostle of Noricum or Austria ; died, 482. Quo- tattion. Expense. SEVERUS, ALEXANDER, born in Phoenicia, 205 A.D.: a Roman emperor; killed by his troops, 235 A.D. Quotattions : Counsel — Faction — Friendship — Iłevenge— Self-Reliance—Wish—Worship—Others. SEVIGNE, MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL, MAR- quise de, born in Burgundy, 1627 : a celebrated French beauty and writer. She wrote the most delightful collec- tion of letters that the world possesses, second only in his- torical interest to those of Cicero ; their grace, wit, liveli- nes's, and truthful spirit will ever render them a model of epistolary col'respondence ; died, 1696. (Juotations : Au- tumn—Circumstances – Egotism – Faults—Ideality—Ill— Ingratitude—Misfortune — Mortification —Pain—Passion— Resignation—Sadness—Thought—Truth—Victory—Words. SEWALL, JONATHAN MITCHELL, born at Salem, Massachusetts, 1748; an American poet and miscellaneous writer; died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1808. Quo- dation : I)ignity. SEWARD, OLIVE R., an adopted daughter of Wil- H. Seward ; author of “Travels Around the World.” Quo- tattions : Crusades—Despotism — Habit —Human-Nature— Missionary— Mohammedanism —Monuments—Mountain— Mythology- Nation—Nayigation — Polygamy—Race – Re- ligion — Society—Strength—Superstition—Telegraph. SEWARD, WILLIAM HENRY, LL.D., born in Florida, Orange county, New York, May 16, 1801; an emi- ment American Statesman, jurist, and author ; died at Au- burn, New York, October 10, 1872. Quotations : Emigration - Government — Inconsistency — Inconstancy – Loyalty— Minister-State—Moderation--Monuments.--Nation—Nature —Opinion—Policy—Right—Treason. SEWELL, ELIZABETH MANNING, sister of William Sewell, born in the Isle of Wight, about 1825; an English authoress. Quotation : Egotism. SEWELL, MARY, born, 1830 ; an English writer * children's books, (London, 1867.) Quotation : Relaxa- 1OIl. SEWELL, THOMAs, M.D., born in Augusta, Maine, 1787; an American professor of anatomy and medi- cal writer; died, 1845. Quotattion : Fear. SEWELL, WILLIAM, M.A., born in the Isle of Wight, 1805; an English clergyman and author ; died, 1874. Qztotation. Yearning. SEXTUS-EMPIRICUS, flourished 200 A.D.; a celebrated Greek philosopher and physician. Quotation : Neighbor. SEY DELL, RUDOLPH ; a distinguished German Writer on Masonry. Quotation : Freemasonry. SEYMOUR, HORATIO, born in Onondaga county, New York, 1811; an eminent American statesman. Quoia. tions : fºrror–Hopel-oid Age—Regret. SHABBA, ABU ZAID IBN ABíDA AN-NUMAIRI Omar Ibn, born, November, 789; an Arabian poet and his- %iºn: died at Sarr man Râa, March, 876. Quotation : €3,1. SHAFFER, CHAUNCEY, born in New York, 1816 : a distinguished American lawyer, orator, and lecturer. Quotation. Secession. SHAFI, ABU ABD ALLAH MUHAMMAD IBN IDRís AS, born, 767 : a celebrated Arabian poet and philosopher; died, January, 820. Quotations : Honor—Truth—Wealth. SHAFTESBURY, EARL OF, K. G., (ANTHONY Astley Cooper,) the eldest son of the sixth Earl, born in London, April 28, 1801; an eminent English philanthropist and Statesman. He has labored in and out of Parliament for the improvement of the social condition of the laboring classes; he is also a prominent member of all those reli. gious Societies which are founded on an evangelical basis, and an active advocate of the abolition of slavery through. out the World. Quotations. Goodness — Liberty — Neu- trality—Religion. SHAFTESBURY, LoBD ASHLEY, and first EARL 9f. (Anthony, Ashley, Cooper, born in, Wimborne, Saint Giles, Dorsetshire, July 22, 1621; an English statesmán and olitician: died in Amsterdam, June, 1683. Quotation : ravery. SHAFTESBURY, ANTHONY COOPER, third EARL Of, and grandson of the first Earl, born in London, 1671; a celebrated English writer and moralist. He was a man of fine genius and generous spirit ; his writings shone with religious sentiment, and their tone lofty, moral, and cle- gant; died in Naples, February, 1713. Quotations : Ad- Vice —Author — Beauty—Company—Couräge — Egotism — Exercise— Fear—Foo! — Gentleman—Gravity— Honesty— Knavery— Magnanimity — Maxims — Morality–Naturé– Passion — Pedantry— Pleasure — Politeness—Prejudice— Punishment — Tridicule – Talking-Temper—Thinking — Truth—Understanding—Virtue—Wonder—Zealot. SHAH-NADIR, or THAMASP-KOULIKHAN, Yºº King of Persia, born, 1688; died, 1747. Quo. 75 1186 D A Y'S CO L L A C O AV. SHAIRP, JoHN CAMPBELL, LL.D., born at Hous- toun House, Linlithgowshire, 1830; a Scottish poet, miscel- laneous writer, and author. Quotation : Good-Nature. SHAKSPEARE, WILLIAM, born in Stratford- upon-Avon, April 23, 1564; the greatest dramatic genius that ever lived, and the glory of English drama; died, April 23, 1616. Quotations: Abstinence—Adversity—Ann- bition —Apparel – Appreciation — Angling — Assurance — Beard—Bees—Betraya]—Blindness—Brevity— Business — Calumny—Care—Cause— Celerity– Ceremony—Chiding— Cozening — Consistency — Controversy – Conversation — Darkness—Daring— Delay— Divinity— Drama— Dreams — ing – Endurance — Enemy— Extenuation— Extremes — Fâce—Fallibility—Fancy—Faults—Fear—Flowers—Fool— Forgetfulness— Fox— Friendship— Fullness—Giant—Gold —Greatness—Grief –Guard—Happiness—Heart—History— Honesty—Hope— House— Ignorance— Ingratitude—Ink— Jade—Jangle—Jest—Jewels—Joke– Joy-Justness—King —Light-Heartedness—Love— Lowliness—Man—Manners— Marriage—Melancholy—Miracle.— Mirth—Miser— Misery— Money–Murmur—Name—Neglect—Qbedience– Parting— Passion — Pleasure — Pomp— Poor—Prince—Providence— Purse—Reason—Repentance— Reproof-Reputation— Hu- mor— Satisfaction—Scars — Scripture –Self — Self-LOVe— Smile—Society—Speaking—Stage— Storm–Surfeit—Sus- picion—Tales—Talking—Thing—Thought— Trayel—Trust —Truth—Use—Virtue–Voice—Wastefulness—Weakness— Wife—Wind—Wine —Wisdom —Wish—Wºolman—Wooing— World—Wound—Wrong. SHANG-PUH, born about 530 B.C. : a Chinese philosopher, and disciple of Confucius. Quotations. Ad- vantagé—Company—Faults—Good. SHARP, GRANVILLE, born in Durham, 1734; an eminent English philanthropist and writer; died, 1813. Quo- tations : Exertion—Farce—Felicity--Memory—Sumptuous- IlêSS. SHARP, JoHN, (Archbishop of York,) born in Yorkshire, 1644; a learned English divine and author; died, 1714. Quotation : Purgatory. SHARP, THOMAs, D.D., (Archdeacon of Northum- berland,) born, 1693; an eminent English divine and author; died, 1758. Quotation : Character. SHARP, THOMAS, (The Coventry Antiquary,) born in Coventry, 1770; a celebrated English antiquary and au- § died, 1841. Quotations : RestleSSIless — Satire—Self- Onceit. SHARPE, DANIEL, F.R.S., born in London, 1806; an English geologist and author; died, 1856. Quotation : Enjoyment. SHARPE, GREGORY, LL.D., born in Yorkshire, 1713; an English divine, Orientalist, and author; died, 1771. Quotations: Difficulty—Enjoyment—Pain—Scepticism. SHARSWOOD, GEORGE, born in Philadelphia, July 7, 1810; an eminent American jurist and author. Quo- tation : Morality. SHASTER, THE ; means literally a book, but the term is especially #. to the authoritative, religious, and legal books of the Hindus. Quotations : Wife--Woman. SHATTUCK, LEMUEL, born in Ashby, Massachu- setts, 1793; an American legislator and historical Writer; died in Boston, 1859. Quotation : Method. SHAW, ABRAHAM M., M.D.; an American physi- cian. Quotation: Insanity. SHAW, HENRY W., (Josh Billings,) born in Berk- shire county, Massachusetts, 1818; an American author and humorous writer. Quotations : Abuse — Ambition — Anxiety—Aphorisms—Avarice — Bigotry—Blunder—Bray- *śl, Circumstances — Comedy–Country-Qredit —Dandy—Debt—Deference —Depravity—Dignity—Disease —Dispatch—Distinction—Doctor — Dogs—Echo-Economy -Effeminacy—Estate — Example — Excnse —Experience— Faith—Fame—Fashion —Faults — Flattery–Fun—Gaming —Genius—Ghosts—Glory— Good-Breeding—Gravity—Hap- F.;*ś. — Humbug — Humility—Idleness— Imagination—Imitation —Impertinence — Impudence—In- jury—Innocence-Insult—Integrity—Joke–Judgment— Judgments—Justice—Kisses—Laziness—Life—Love—Luck —Luxury—Matrimony—Maxims — Miser–Money—Mother —Motiye—Mystery–Nature — Nobility—Obstinacy—Office –Opinion—Passion—Pedantry–Perfection—Pity—Polite- neSS-Politics–Polygamy—Position —Praise—Preaching— Pride–Prosperity-Proverbs—Quill—Rascality–Reform— Religion—Reputation —Ridicule – Rumor—Satire—Scepti- gism--Seclusion-Secrets—Selfishness—Silence—Slandér— Society—Solitude–Stubbornness — Style—Success—Syco- hant—Talking-Temptation -Thief–Travel-Trouble— ruth—Valor—Vanity—Vice—Virtue—Water—Weakness— Wish—Wit—World. SHAW, STEBBING, born in Staffordshire, 1762 : an English divine and author: died, 1802. Qxtotattion : Morality. SHAW, THOMAs, born at Kendal, 1692; an Eng- lish divine and author: died, 1751. Quotation : Cheating. SHAW, THOMAS BUDD, born in London, 1813 : an English Iniscellaneous writer ; died, 1862. Qztotations: PO- Sition—Soldier. SHEA, DANIEL, born in Dublin, 1772 : a distin- guished Irish Orientalist and author; died, 1836. Quotat- tion : Betrothal. 4 SHEA, JoHN GILMARY, LL.D., born in New York, 1824; an American lawyer and teacher, and a most industrious author and translator. Quotation : Harm. SHEBBEARE, John, born in Devonshire, 1709 ; an English physician and political Writer ; died, 1788. Quo- tation : Principles. SHEDAD or SHEDDAD, ANTAR. Quotation : Night. SHEE, SIR MARTIN ARCHER, born in Dublin, 1770; a distinguished Irish portrait painter, poet, and dramatist; died, 1850. Quotations: Justice—Tyrant. SHEIL, RICHARD LALOR, born in Dublin, 1793; a celebrated Irish Orator and patriot; died in Florence, Italy, 1851. Quotattion : Craft—Love. SHELDON, EDWIN AUSTIN, born in Sandisfield, Massachusetts, 1802; an American author and professor of theology. Qºtotation : Goodness. SHELLEY, MARY Wollston ECRAFT, wife of P. B. Shelley, mentioned below, born in London, 1797; an English novelist and miscellaneous writer; died in London, February 1, 1851. Quotation : Love. SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE, born at Field Place, Horsham, Sussex, August 4, 1792; an eminent English poet and author; drowned in the Mediterranean, July, 1822, and his body was burned on its shores, at Via Reggio; his ashes were collected and interred in the Protestant burying ground at Rome, near the graye of his friend Keats. Quo. tations: Love—Poetry—Youth. SHELTON, WILLIAM FREDERICK, born in Jamai- ca, Long Island, 1814; an American divine and author. Quotation : Respect. SHENSTONE, WILLIAM, born in Hales Owen, Shropshire, 1714; an eminent English pastoral poet and author; died, 1763. Quotations : Affront—Ambition—Ap- plause—Argument–Assurance — Ayarice–Bashfulness— Conscience—Country — Courtier—Coxcomb – Critic—Day —Deference—Display–Dress — Economy—Extravagance— Face—Falsehood—Fame —Fashion — Flattery—Fool—For- tune—Friendship — Gentleman — Glory — Grandeur — Her- aldry—Hero—History—Honesty — ºn: dence—Indolence — Inducement-Jealousy—Judgments— Learning—Letter—Liar—Love — Merit—Miser—Modesty— Money—Motive—Music—Native-Land–Necessity--Oratory Painting—Pastime– Patience — Pedantry—Poetry–Popu- larity—Pride—Prose—Prudence-Quarrels–Rank—Recon- ciliation—Repartee— Reserve — Respect – Sentences—Ser- vant—Servility — Silence — Simile — Spirit— Style—Taste— Trifle —Understanding —Virtue —Volatility—Wish —Wit— Writing—Zeal. SHEPARD, THOMAS, born, 1605; an English Pu- ritan divine and author; died, 1649. Quotation : Elect. SHEPHERD, THOMAS JAMES, born, 1800 ; an American divine and author. Quotation : Unbelief. SHERIDAN, FRANCEs, wife of Thomas Sheridan, born in Ireland, 1724; an Irish authoress; died, 1766. Qºto- tation : COZening. See ANTAR. - SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY BUTLER, born in Dublin, September, 1751 ; a celebrated Irish orator, dra- matist, and actor; died, July, 1816. Quotations : Affecta- tion—Aversion—Courage — Delight — Failure—Faith—Gal- lantry—Gossip—Government — Infidelity—Lampoon—Life –Lying–Malice—Marriage—Pity — Reflection—Religion— Scandal—Slander—Wit—WOman. SHERIDAN, THOMAs, born in the county of Ca- van, 1684; an Irish teacher and author; died, 1738. Quota- tion : Savage. • SHERLOCK, RICHARD, D.D., born at Oxton, Cheshire, 1613; an English clergyman, and author; died, 1689. Quotations: Body — Gospel—History—Honor—In- temperance—Man—Mohammedanism—Poor—Shame—Su- perstition. SHERLOCK, THOMAS, (Bishop of Bangor, Salis- bury, and London,) born in London, 1678; an English di- vine and author; died, 1761. Q?totations : Christianity — Religion. SHERLOCK, WILLIAM, D.D., born in Southwark, London, 1641; an eminent English theologian and author; died, 1707. Quotations: Dispute—Heedlessness—Years. SHERMAN, RogFR, born at Newton, Massachu- setts, April 10, 1721; an American statesman; died in New jiàven, july, iº93. Quotations: People—Sovereign. SHERWOOD, MARY MARTHA, born at Stanford, May 6, 1775; an English authoress; died at Twickenham, ijećember 6, 1849. Tºgwotations: Efficiency–Etiquette. SHERWOOD, S. R. : an English miscellaneous writer of the present century. Quotation : Beggar. SHEW, JoEL, M.D., born in Saratoga county, New York, 1816; an American physician and author; died at Oyster, Bay, Long Island, 1855. Quotations: Disease— Idiot—Imbecility—Monomania—Pain—Surgeon—Teeth. SHIELD, WILLIAM, born in the county of Dur- ham, 1750; an English composer and author.; died, 1829. Quotation: Music. SHIELDS, ALEXANDER, born about 1650: an Eng- lish divine and author; died, 1720. Quotation : Church. A / o G R A PA / C A / / A D F x. 1187 SHI-KA-SHIU : a Japanese book, “A Garland of Flowers.” Quotation : Expectation. SHINN, GEORGE W.; an American divine ; author of “Manual of Instruction,” &c. Quotation : Hope. SHIPLEY, JonATHAN, (Bishop of Saint Asaph,) born, 1714; an English divine and author; died, 1788. Quo- tation. : Belief. - SHIRLEY, SIR ANTHONY, born, 1565; an English traveller and navigator; died in Spain, 1680. Quotation : Celebrity. - . . . SHIRLEY, G. E.; an English divine and author. Quotations : Pledge—Religion. SHIRLEY, JAMEs, born in London, 1594 : an English dramatist and author ; died, 1666. Quotations: Ceremony—Knavery—LOve. - SHOLES, C. L.; an American writer and Social reformer. Quotation : Equality. SHONGMUNECUTHE or PRAIRIE WOLF, (The Ietan,) born about 1800: a celebrated chieftain of Once numerous and warlike tribes, consisting of the remnant 9f the Ottoes and Missouries; died, 1834. Quotation : Deceit. SHORE, JANE, born, 1460 ; the wife of a London jeweller, who became the mistress of Edward the Fourth ; died, 1525. Quotation : Wretchedness. SHORE, T. TEIGNMOUTH, born about 1809; an English divine and author. Quotation : Elect. SHORT, JAMEs, born in Edinburgh, 1710; a Scot- tish mathematician, optician, and author; died, 1768. Quo- tation : Bachelor. SHRIMPTON, CHARLEs, born in Canada, 1810; a Canadian Methodist minister, lecturer, and author. Qºto- tations: Penalty—Providence—Sectarianism. SHUN, EMPEROR ; an ancient Chinese sage and ruler. He was raised to the throne on account of his rare wisdom. Quotations: Agriculture—Sorrow—Sovereign. SHUPE, WALTER H.; an American journalist, and advocate of labor reform. Quotation. Labor. SHUTTLEWORTH, PHILIP NICHOLAs, D. D., (Bishop of Chichester,) born at Kirkham, Lancashire, 1782; an English divine and author ; died, 1842. Qºtotation : Life. SIANG-WAN : an ancient Chinese philosopher. Quotation : Statesman. SIAM, KING OF, (CHAR PHA. CHULALONKORN,) son of the preceding king, born, September 27, 1854. See Chulalongkorn. Quotation : Trees. SIBBALD, JAMES, born, 1747; a Scotch author ; died, 1809. Quotation. Intrusion. SIBBALD, SIR ROBERT, born in Fifeshire, about 1650; a Scottish physician and author; died, 1712. Quota- tion : COZening. SIBBES, RICHARD, D.D., born at Sudbury, Suf- folk, 1577; an eminent English Puritan divine and author; died, 1635. Quotations : Companion—Faith—Joy—Life— Thanks—Thing. SIBLEY, MARK H., born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 1796; an eloquent American lawyer; died at Canandaigua, New York, 1852. Quotation : Office. SICULUS, DIODORUS, born at Agyrium, in Sicily, in the first century; an eminent historian. Quotation : Sacrifice. SID, ABū MUHAMMAD ABD ALLAH IBN MUHAM- mad Ibn Al-Batalyausi As, born at Batalyaus, (Badajos,) 1052 ; an eminent Arabian grammarian and philologist : died at Valencia, July, 1127. Quotation : Science. SIDNEY, ALGERNON, born, 1622 ; an eminent English republicanwº executed, December, 1683. Quo- tations : Slavery—Virtue. SIDNEY., SIR HENRY, father of Sir Philip Sidney, born, 1516; an English diplomatist and Statesman ; died, 1586. Quotation : Untruthfulness. SIDNEY., SIR PHILIP, born at Penshurst Castle, Kent, November 29, 1554; an English gentleman, soldier, and author, and one of the most accomplished men in the reign of Queen Elizabeth ; died at Arnham, October 17, 1586. Quotations: Action—Affection—Affliction—Alone—Ambi- tion —Assertion —Authority— Baseness—Beauty—Birth— Bravery—Cause—Chastity— Confidence — Consideration— Constitution—Contentment—Courage—Courtesy—Credit— Credulity—Cruelty—Debt—Defense—Deference—Delusion —Desire–Doubt— Eagle—Endurance—Evil-Exultation— Exercise — Experienge — Fear—Flattery-Forgiyeness— Friendship— Gold— Good — Greatness — Hero — Honesty— Honor—Hope—Hospitality–-Injury--Inquisitiveness-—Joy– Judgment—Justness— Knowledge—Laughter—Law—Lib- erality—License—Love— Magnanimity— Malice—Melody— Mirth — Multitude — Necessity – Nobility – Occupation — Oligarchy—Opinion—Passion–Pedigree–Poverty—Praise —Prince—Reāding—Reason—Recreation—Rumor—Secrecy —Seeing—Self-Confidence—Seif-Love—Sensuality–Servant —Servility—Shame—Solitude--Sorrow—Surgeon–Suspicion —Thinking—Thought— Travel—Treason–Trifle—Truth— Tyranny—Understanding—Ungratefulness-Unluckiness —Vanity— Vice — Victory—Virtue — War — Wickedness— Will – Wisdom — Woe — Woman — World — Worldliness— Youth—Zeal. SIEYES, (Abbé Siéyès, ). EMMANUEL Joseph, Comte, born at Fréjus, May, 1748; a French politician and publicist; died in Paris, 1836. Quotation : Sublimity. SIGFRID, SAINT, (Bishop, Apostle of Sweden,) born about 910; an English divine of York who emigrated to Sweden and Norway in 950; died, 1002. Quotation : Destitution. SIGISMUND I, King of Poland, born, 1466; as- cended the throne, 1507; died, 1548. Qztotation : Fate. SIGOURNEY, LYDIA HUNTLEY, (The American Hemams,) born in Norwich, Connecticut, September 1, 1791; a popular American poet and miscellaneous writer. She was the author of a variety of Works which for their moral character were unexceptionable; died, June 10, 1865. Quo- tations: Anatomy— Books— Botany— Brother—Conversa- tion—Courtesy--Culture--Daughter—-Dreams--Early-Rising —Education—Ethics—Exaggeration— Exercise—Family— Farmer–Fashion – Fear – Fireside — Flowers—Garden— Genius—Gloom--Habit--Handwriting—Ha º —Home—Hour--Housekeeping--Illusion—Infancy—Knowl- edge—Life—Love— Malice– Mankind–Manners—Memory —Morning — Music — Neatness — Nobility — Occupation – Opinion—Order—Qrnament-Passion—Patriotism—Physi- cian–Politeness—-Politics—-Popularity—Praise—Probation –Prosperity—Quietness—Reading—- Reciprocity—Regret— Reserve - River – Sadness — Selfishness — Serenity-Sim- plicity. Slander— Smile— Speaking –Stoicism—Talking— Teaching—Theology—Time —Timidity—Treasure—Trial— Trifle—Virgin—Walking—Wit—Youth. SIKKIT, ABÖ Yūsuf YAKÚB IBN ISHAK IBN As, born, 800; an Arabian poet and philosopher ; died, October 17, 858. Quotations: Idleness — Misfortune — Tongue — Travel. SILIUS ITALICUS, CAIUs, born, 25 A.D. : an eminent Roman poet, consul, and statesman ; died, 100 A.D.: Quotations: Adversity–Country—Faith— Glory— Kindness—Misery—Peace—Reverence—Virtue—War. SILLE, J.; a French miscellaneous writer and lit- térateur. Quotations: Inducement—Infamy. SILLIMAN, BENJAMIN, M.D., LL.D., born in North Stratford, (now Trumbull,) Connecticut, August 8, 1779; an eminent American naturalist and author; died, 1864. Quotation : Water. - SILVESTRE, BERNARD, born about 1520; an Eng- lish writer, and author of “A Shorte Monycyon, or Coun- sayle of the Cure and Gouernaunce of a Householde,” (London.) Quotations : Pastime—Wisdom. SILVESTRE, GREGOIRE, born in Lisbon, 1520; a Portuguese poet and author; died, 1570. Quotation : In- tegrity. SIMEON, CHARLEs, born in Reading, 1759; an English divine and author; died, 1836. Q?totation : Prayer. SIMMONS, CHARLEs, born, 1798; an American divine and author; died, 1856. Quotation : Foulness. SIMMS, WILLIAM GILMORE, LL.D., born in Charleston, South Carolina, April 17, 1806; a popular American poet, novelist, historian, and biographer. He was a very voluminous writer; in fiction he has been the most prolific of American writers; died, June 11, 1870. Quotations : Abstinence—Ambition —Amiability—Birth— Care—Chance—Character—Confidence—Eminence—Fame —Favor—Genius — Government — Humanity — Humility— Judgment—Justice—Liberty—Love — Malice—Moon—Mo- rality—Necessity—Obligation —Office—Opinion—Passion— Philosophy—Pléasure – Poetry— Politeness — Reason-Se- crecy—Self–Solitude — Song — Sorrow —Tears —Vanity— Vice—Wisdom. - - SIMON, MAGUs, lived about 4 B.C.; a Magician of Samaria, who pretended that he was the son of God; died, 66 A.D. Quotation : Air. SIMON, RABBI : a Jewish writer of a portion of the Talmud. Quotations: Mistake—Parent – Passion — Wife—Yesterday. º f SIMON, RICHARD, born in Dieppe, May, 1638; an eminent and liberal French theologian and critic, and a man of profound learning; died in Dieppe, 1712. Quota- tion : Intolerance. SIMON, MRS. ST. ; an American miscellaneous writer and authoress. Quotation : Nature. SIMONS, JOHN W., born about 1820 ; an Ameri- can Freemason and Masonic writer. Quotations: Ambi- tion—Freemasonry—Poetry. SIMONIDES, born, 558 B.C.: a Grecian philoso- her and poet ; died, 469 B.C. Quotations: Accident — ecessity—Painting—To-Morrow—Woman. SIMPLICIUS, SAINT, POPE, born at Tivoli, elec- ted pope 467 A.D.; died, 483. Quotation : Munificence. SIMPSON, DAVID, born at Ingleby, Yorkshire, 1745; a celebrated English Methodist divine and author; died. 1799. Q7zotations: Bible—Revelation. SIMPSON, SIR GEORGE, born in Lochbunn, Ross- shire, 1796; an eminent Scotch scientific writer. Quota- tion : Pleasure. SIMPSON, JANE CROss, born in Glasgow, about 1800: a Scotch poet and miscellaneous writer, (Edinburgh, 1838–68.) Quotations : Missionary—Neighbor. I 18.8 AD A Y',S C O /, / A C O AV. SIMPSON, MATTHEw, D.D., LL.D, born at Cadiz, Ohio, June 21, 1810: an eminent American divine, bishop of the Methodist church, journalist, and writer; died, 1878. Quotations: Church. SIMPSON, JOHN PALGRAVE, born in Norfolk, 1810; an English novelist and miscellaneous writer. Quo- tation. Ignorance. SINCLAIR, CATHERINE, born, April 17, 1800; an English authoress ; died, August 6, 1864. Quotations: Christian—Death-Bed. SINCLAIR, SIR GEORGE, M.P., born in Edin- burg, 1790; a Scottish author and Statesman. Quotations: Drunkenness—Education—Knowledge. SINCLAIR, SIR JOHN, born in the county of Caithness, 1754; a Scottish statesman and philanthropist ; died, 1835. Quotation : Address. SINGALESE : the name of the inhabitants of the island of Ceylon. Their sacred books are identical with those of Burmah and Siam. Quotations: Learning—Mis- fortune. SINJARI, BAHA AD-DIN As, born in Sinjär, 1138; an Arabian poet and doctor; died at Sinjär, 1225. Quota- tion : Zephyr. SINUESSA, SAINT ; a celebrated Roman theolo- logian, divine, and writer. Quotation : Sacrifice. SIRACH, SON OF, (JESUS or JESHUA,) born in Jerusalem, and lived about 200 B.C.; a learned Jew, and the author of the apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus. Quo- tations : Change—Counsel—Friendship—Health. SISINNIUS, POPE, a native of Syria, became pope at the death of John the Eighth, 708; died the next month. Quotation : Temple. SISMONDI, JEAN CHARLES LäONARD, born in Geneva. May 9, 1773; an eminent Swiss historian and au- thor; died in Geneva, 1842. Quotations: Business—Govern- ment—Literature—Printing—Taxation. SISSA ; an ancient Brahmin priest, who flourished about the eighth century. Quotation : Bargain. SIXTUS I, PopF. : a bishop of Rome, of whom little is known ; died, 128. Quotation : Sickness. SIXTUS II, PopF : became bishop of Rome, 257; suffered martyrdom, 258. Quotation : Visage. SIXTUS III, Pop E, born about 370, elected pope, 431; died, 440. Quotations: Church—Martyr—Reconcilia- 1OIl. SIXTUS IV, PopF., (Francesco d’Albescolla della IRovere,) born, 1414; died, 1484. Quotation : Learning. SIXTUS V, Pop E, born near Montalto, Italy, 1521; succeeded Gregory the Thirteenth as pope in 1585; died, 1589. Quotation: Paradise. SKELTON, JOHN, born, 1460 ; an English poet and prose writer; died, 1529. Quotations: Honesty—Law. SKELTON, PHILIP, born near Lisburn, 1707; an Irish divine and author; died, 1787. Quotation: Food. SKINNER, EZEKIEL, M.D., born in Connecticut, 1777; an American physician and Baptist divine; died, 1855. Quotations: Mind—Speaking. SKINNER, JoHN, born in the county of Aber- deen, 1721; a Scottish divine, poet, and author; died, 1807. Quotation: Allegiance. SKINNER, THOMAS HARVEY, D.D., born near Harvey's Neck, North Carolina, 1791; an American Presby- terian divine and author; died, 1871. Quotations: Preacher —Preaching—Revival—Sensuality. SLADE, WILLIAM, JUNIOR, born in Cornwall, Vermont, 1786: an American jurist and politician ; died, January 18, 1859. Quotation: Élection. SLADEN, JOHN, born about 1675: an English Independent divine and author, (London, 1725.) Quota- tion: Elect. SLAMM, LEVI D., born in New York, 1804 ; an American politician and Orator. Quotation : Democracy. SLEEPER, MRS. M. G. QUINCY, born in Rumney, New Hampshire, about 1820; an American authoress, (Bos- ton, 1866.) Quotation: Self-Interest. SLICER, R. T., born about 1843; an American Congregational minister. Quotations : Opinion—Virtue. SLOANE, SIR HANs, born in the county of Down, 1660: a celebrated Irish physician and naturalist ; died, 1753. Quotation : Trees. SMALLEY, GEORGE W. : an English journalist and correspondent. Quotations: Reporter—Telegraph. SMALRIDGE, GEORGE, D.D., (Bishop of Bristol,) born in Lichfield, 1663; a learned English divine and all- thor; died, 1719. Quotations: Deeds—Good—Guard—In- fallibility. SMARIUS, REv. C. F., born about 1820; an American missionary of the Society of Jesus, and author of “Points of Controversy,” (New York, 1871.) Q7zota- tions : Condemnation—Confession—Damnation— Prayer— Printing—Purgatory—Saint—Unbelief. º SMART, BENJAMIN HUMPHREY, born in London, 1789; an English teacher of elocution and author, (London, 1859.) Quotation : Politics. SMEATHMANN, HENRY, born, 1750; an English Hºlst, traveller, and author ; died, 1787. Quotation : IlSeOt. SMEDLEY, EDwARD, born, 1790; an English *ºne and miscellaneous writer; died, 1836. Quotation : If €. SMEDLEY, FRANCIS EDWARD, born, 1814; an English author; died in London, 1864. Quotation : Expos- tulation. SMEDLEY, MANELLA BUTE, born, 1825; an Eng- lish authoress, (London, 1851–68.) Quotation : Review. SMEE, ALFRED, born, 1818 : an English surgeon and Scientific writer; died, January 11, 1877. Quotations: Idea—Report—Retaliation—Suffering—Sunday-School. SMELLIE, WILLIAM, born, 1740; a Scotch natur- alist and author; died, 1795. Quotation : Insect. SMET, FATHER PETER DE, born about 1788 : a Roman Catholic missionary, who from about 1825 to 1863 labored among the Indians of the Rocky Mountains. Quo- tation : Idleness. SMIGLECIUS, MARTIN, born, 1562; a Polish Jesuit and logician. He was the author of several works against Protestanism; died, 1618. Quotation : Captivity. SMILES, SAMUEL, born in Haddingtonshire, 1816; an English journalist, essayist, biographer, and miscella- neous writer. Quotations: Adversity – Attention — Be- havior—Business— Character— Decision— Difficulty—I)ili- gence—Discovery—Engagement— Example— Excellence— Failure— Gentleman— Gentleness— Heart—PHelp-Home— Hope—Hour—Immortality—Independence—Indiscretion— Individuality—Indolence — Indulgence – Industry—Influ- ence--Instruction--Integrity—Intellect--Invention--Know- ledge—Labor—Learning—Library—Life—Literature--Man- ners—Merchant—Method—Misfortune —Mistake—Modesty —Money — Nation — Necessity — Neglect — Observation — Occupation—Opposition—Oratory—Perseverance— Polite- ness—Progress–Promptness—Punctuality—Purpose—Rec- titude— Refinement — Respectibility—Result — Self—Self- Control—Self-Culture — Self-Education — Self-Help-Self- Reliance—Self-Respect--Study—Success—Talent—Task— Teaching— Thinking — Thought — Time — Trial — Trifle — Tyrant—Will—Wisdom. SMITH, ADAM, born at Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, June 5, 1723: a celebrated Scottish philosopher, and writer on social and political economy; died, July, 1790. § tions: Ambition—A varice—Benevolence—BOOkS—Capital Future—PHonor—Inaction—Industry—Labor—Land—Love Man—Morality— Necessity—Post-Office—Poverty—Praise —Prejudice-Profit—Qualification-Resentment—Rivalry —Society—Sophistry—Taxation —Vanity—Wirtue —Wages —Wealth. SMITH, ALBERT, born at Chertsey, May 24, 1816; an English traveller and writer; died, 1860. Quotation : 'ears. SMITH, ALExANDER, born at Kilmarnock, Ayr- shire, December 31, 1830; a Scottish writer and poet; died, January, 1867. Quotations: Earth — Fame — Greatness— Prosperity—Twilight. SMITH, CALEB BILLINGs, born in Boston, 1808; an American politician ; died, January, 1864. Quotation : Self-Denial. SMITH, CATHERINE BARNARD, born, 1840; an English authoress. Quotations: Thought—Wonder. SMITH, CHARLOTTE, born in Sussex, 1749; a popu- lar English novelist; died, 1806. Quotation : Felicity. SMITH, CHARLOTTE, (Kenner Deene,) born about 1825; an English novelist. Quotation : Constancy. SMITH, DELAzoN, M.D, born in Connecticut, 1798; an American Rº: lecturer, Writer, and sceptic; died at Rochester, New York, 1868. Quotations : Matter— Nature. SMITH, ELIZABETH, born near Durham, 1776; an English authoress, who was distinguished for her literary attainments; died, 1806. Quotation: Indulgence. SMITH, ELIZABETH OAKES, the wife of Seba Smith, born near Portland, Maine, 1806; an American poet- ess, and miscellaneons writer. Quotations: Faith--Sorrow. SMITH, GERRIT, born in Utica, New York, 1797; a distinguished American philanthropist ; died at Peter- borough, New York, 1874. Quotations: Hour—Land. SMITH, GoLDw1N, IL.D., M.A., born in Reading, April 13, 1823; an English, moral philosopher, journalist, and writer. Quotations: Adversity—Critic. SMITH, HANNAH., (Hesba Stretton,) born in Wel- lington, Shropshire, about 1820; an English novelist, (Lon- don, 1866.) (Juotation : Explanation. SMITH, HENRY, (The Silver Tongued,) born in Leicestérshire, 1550; an English Puritan divine and author; died, 1595. Quotation : Curiosity. SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON, D.D., LL.D., born in Portland, Maine, 1815; an American Congregational divine and author. Quotation : Features. A / O G R A P H / C A / / /V /O E X. 1189 SMITH, HoRACE, (Paul Chatfield,) born in Lon- don, 1779; a celebråted English humorist, journalist, and miscellaneous writer. He was the author of a variety of amusing books; one of them, “The Tin Trumpet,” was ublished in 1836, under the nom de plume, of “Paul Chat- eld,” (q.v.,) and from which many of the following quo- tations are taken ; died, 1849, Quotations : Actor–Adyer- sity—Advice —Affection —Alchemy—Alphabet –Ambition Ancients—Angling —Antiquary–Antiquity–Apology—AP- gument—Atheism—Audience—Ayarice –Bachelor’—-Bandit —Beneficence—Bigotry—Body— Bores — Bravery—Brute— Candor—Censure—Ceremony—Change—Chess—Chivalry— Circumstanges—Civilization—College–Competency—Con- gregation—Conversation—Conservatism—Coquetry--CQur- tier—Craft—Credulity—Critic—Criticism— Curiosity–Cus- tom—Dandy— Despondency–Despotism—Diet— Dinner— Distinction- Dogmatism— Dreams— Drunkenness— Duel- Iing— Ear-Eating — Echo – Effeminacy-Egotism – Elo- uence—Ennui-Enthusiasm—Epicure—Epitaph— Error— state—Example—Exception—Eye—Fable—Face—Fact— Fashion--Fortune-Telling--Flowers--Fondness--Friendship --Furniture--Fury--Futurity--Gaming—-Gentleman-Gh9sts —Glory—Government—Gratitude—Greeting—Grief— Hap- iness — Hardship-Harmony—Heart—History—Holiday— onesty— Hope - Horse — Hour – Humanity—Humility— Hunger—Hypocrisy—Idleness—Idolatry— Inconsistency— Independence —Individuality— Inferiority—Inhumanity— Innovation—Inquisitiveness—Instinct—Institution—Intol- erance—Joy—-Jealousy--Joke—King—-Language—Laughter —Law—-Learning—Lecture—Leisure—Liar—Libel—Library —Life—Light—Literature— Lovers—Luck— Luxury—Mag- nanimity–-Man--Marriage--Masquerade—-Master--Medicine —Memory— Minority — Miser — Misfortune — Monastery— Morality—Mouth—Mystery — Oath — Oblivion —Old Age— Opinion—Oratory—Passion —Patience—Persecution—Phy- siognomy-Plagiarism — Pleasing — Pleasure—Policy—Po- liteness—Popularity – Position — Possibilities — Poverty— Precept—Precocity—Press—Pride — Prudery—Punishment —Purgatory—Quarrels—Quill—Raillery—Reform--Religion —Repartee—Reputation —Hetirement — Iłevenge—Review —Rhetoric—Rumor—Scandal — Schoolmaster—Sculpture— Self-Love—Servant—Sickness —Slander—Soldier—Specula- tion—Steam—Stomach—Style — Supper—Sympathy–Talk- ing--Tavern—Taxation—Tenderness--Testament--Thought —Time—Toleration—Tomb —Tongue —Travel—Trial—Tri- fles —Ugliness—Usury —Versification —Vice —Vulgarity— Wag—Want—War–Wickedness —Woman —Words—Work —World—Wrath—Writing—Wrong—Yawning—Zeal. SMITH, ISAAC. S., born, 1814; an American poli- tician; died, 1873. Quotations: Equality—Metals. SMITH, J. F., born about 1805 ; an English nov- elist. Quotations : Gentility—Jealousy—Jest. SMITH, SIR JAMEs EDWARD, born in Norwich, 1759; an English physician, botanist, and author ; died, 1828. Quotation : Youth. - SMITH, JoHN, born in Warwickshire, 1563; an English divine and author; died, 1616. Quotations : Sin— Wickedness. & SMITH, CAPTAIN JOHN, born in Lincolnshire, 1579 ; a noted traveller, and early emigrant among the Eng- lish colonists of Virginia ; died in London, 1631. Quota- tions: Adventure—Sailor. i- SMITH, JoHN, (of Cambridge,) born at Achurch, near Oundle, Northamptonshire, 1618; an eminent English divine and writer on theology; died, August 7, 1652. Qºto- tations. Men—Self-Will. SMITH, JoBN, born, 1659; a learned English di- vine, antiquary, and author; died, 1715. Qztotations. Dal- liance. + SMITH, John PYE, D.D., LL.D., born, 1774; an English Congregational divine and author; died, 1851. Qtto- tation : Mistake. SMITH, Jose PH, born in Sharon, Windsor county, Vermont, 1805; the founder of Mormonism ; killed by a mob at Carthage, Illinois, June, 1844. Quotations: Polyg- amy—Protection—Wife. SMITH, MATTHEW HALE ; an American lawyer, lecturer, clergyman, and miscellaneous Writer. Quota- tion : Minister. SMITH, MILEs, born in Hereford, 1658; an Eng- lish divine and author ; died, 1624. Quotation : Minister. SMITH, RICHARD, born in Ireland, 1823, emigra- ted to the United States, 1841; an Irish carpenter, journal- ist, and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Duelling. SMITH, ROBERT, D.D., born, 1689; an English divine, mathematician, and author; died, 1768. Quota- tion, . MOther. SMITH, ROBERT PAYNE, D.D., born, November, lsº . English divine and author. Quotations: Freedom —Jangie. SMITH, ROSweLL C., born, 1797; an American educator and author ; died, 1875. Quotation : Gentleman. SMITH, SAMUEL FRANCIS, D.D., born in Boston, 1808: an American Baptist divine and author. Quotation : Missionary. SMITH, SARAH LANMAN, born in Norwich, Con- necticut, June 18, 1802; an American religious writer whose literary merits were of the highest order; died at Boojah, near Smyrna, in Turkey, September 30, 1836. Quotation : Wrestling. SMITH, SEBA, born in Buckfield, Maine, Septem- ber 14, 1792, an American writer; died, July 28, 1868. Quo- £&íč07&S. Faction— Friendship — investigation — Justige — Manners—Money—Punctuality— Puritanism—Self-Right- eousness—Variety. SMITH, SYDNEY, born at Woodford, Essex, 1771; a celebrated English divine and author: died in London, February 22, 1845. Quotations : Absence—Analogy—Apo- thegm–Benevolence–Bores — Brevity—Conquest—Cour- age--Dullness-Education—Egotism—Enjoyment—Error— EQol —Fop — Happiness - Idleness — Illustration—Joke— Kisses – Knowledge – Life —- Marriage - Melancholy — Memory—Mind-Native-Land–Novelty–Nun–Pictures— Piety—Popery—Praise—Preaching — Pride—Pulpit—Pun— Railroad—Hidicule — Solitude—Speculation—Talent—Vice —Virtue—Wit—Writing. SMITH, SIR THOMAS, LL.D., born at Saffron- Walden, Essex, March 28, 1514: an English statesman, lit- tćrateur, and Scholar; died, August 12, 1577. Quotations: Poor—Popery—Travel—World. SMITH, THOMAs SouTHwooD, M.D., born, 1788 ; an eminent English physician and writer; died, 1861. Quo- tation : Superstition. SMITH, WALTER, born near Airth, 1650 ; a Scot- tish martyr; executed at Edinburgh, July 27, 1682. Quota- tions: Wrath—Yoke. SMITH, WHITEFOORD, born in Charleston, South Carolina, November 7, 1812; a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. Quotation: Religion. SMITH, WILLIAM, born, 1725; a Scottish divine and author, and Chief Justice of the Province of New York; died in Canada, 1793. Quotations : Gaming—In- struction—Quackery. SMITHIES, MRs. GoRDON, born about 1800; an Fnglish authoress. Quotation : Self-Reproach. SMITHSON, JAMES LEwis MACIE, F.R.S., natu- ral son of Sir Hugh Smithson, the first Duke of Northum- berland, and Elizabeth Macie, born, 1765; a celebrated English chemist, and scientific writer. He bequeathed the whole of his property to found at Washington, in the United States, the Institution which bears his name; died in Ge- noa, June 27, 1829. Quotation : Institution. SMOLLETT, TOBIAs GEORGE, M.D., born in the vale of Leven, Cardross, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, 1721 ; a distinguished Scottish novelist and historian; died in Leghorn, Italy, October 21, 1771. Quotations: Blushing— Danger—Wine. SMYTH, THOMAs, D.D., born in Belfast, 1808; emigrated to the United States, 1832; an Irish Presbyterian divine and author. Quotattion : Sympathy. SNEAD, DR. Quotation : Harlot. SNORRI-STURLUSON, born at Hvamma, 1178; One of the most learned Scholars and poets of Iceland. He is supposed to have writtell the first part of the Snorri- Edda; assassinated, 1241. Quotations. Carelessness—Roy- alty—Sorrow—Speech— Stranger—Talking—Tongue—Vice —Wanderer—Wealth—Wickedness. SNOW, LORENZO, born at Boston, 1816; an Ameri- can preacher, who became an elder of the Mormon church. Quotation : Selfishness. SOANE, GEORGE, born, 1791; an English drama- tist ; died, 1861. Quotation : Exposure. SOAVE, FRANCESCO, born in Lugano, 1743; an Italian writer; died in Pavia, 1806. Quotation : Happiness. SOCRATES, born in Athens, 470 B.C.: one of the most illustrious of ancient Greek Writers, Of the Grecian school of philosophy, and IIl OSt. example of wisdom and Virtue ºº:: to us ; he 3.S DagâIn to die by -*. Age — Sè- 3.11C0 — - - *w. fullness— —Want — - WOIman —Words— SOLON, born in the island of Salamis, 638 B.C.; an eminent Greek philosopher, and one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece; died, 558 B.C. Quotations: Ability--Accu- sation —Actor —Affluence — Angels — Anger — Benefits — Blessedness — Chastity — Comfort — Consideration — Con- tempt—Courage—Drunkenness–Enyy—Equality–Eulogy -Experience—Fame—Friendship — Gifts — Government— Happiness–Hope-Immorality—Impropriety—Indiscretion —Injury—Jest — Knowledge –Law — Learning — Lover— Memory—Misfortune–Monarchy— Mother — Mutability— Punishment—Reason-Reproof–Reverence—Riches—Self- Government—Self-Opinion — Soul —Superfluity—Surfeit— Temperance —Time – Tumult — Tyrant–Utility —Vicissi- tudes—Virtue —Wantonness —Wealth —Wickedness—Wis- dom—World—Worship. - 1 190 D A Y'S CO Z Z A Co A. SOMERSET, EDwARD SEYMoUR, EARL OF HART- ford, Duke of Somerset, and Protector of England, brother of Jane Seymour, born about 1492; a celebrated English Protestant bigot ; executed for treason, January, 1552. Quotations : Ancestry—Money. SOMERVILLE, MARY, born at Burntisland, Fife- Shire, 1780; an eminent Scottish astronomer, scientific wri- ter, and author: died, 1872. Quotations: Astronomy—Heat —Progress—Savage—Volatility. SOMERVILLE, WILLIAM, born in Warwickshire, 1692; an eminent English poet and prose writer; died, 1742. Quotations: Precipitancy—Sensation. SOPHOCLES, born in the village of Colonus, near Athens, 495 B.C.; a celebrated Greek tragic poet. He made many important improvements in tragic Compositions, and was the first to introduce three characters together on the stage ; died, 406 B.C. Quotations : Actor — Affluence — An- archy — Army — Baseness — Calamity – Cause — Common- wealth--Decision—Discrimination—Envy—Error—Fancy— Father—Fraud —Gain — Gifts—Good—Gratitude—House— Impotence—Inhumanity— Instruction — Kindness—King— Labor—Laughter—Love—Man-Massacre-Mind–Money— Night—Office—Opportunity—Patience—Physician–Piety— Praise—Rage—IRüdeness –Silence—Theatre—Time—Toil— Treasure—Trees—Trifle —Truth—Wengeance—Wickedness —Will—Wisdom. SORDELLO, born in Mantua, 1200 ; an Italian novelist; died 1256.. Quotations: Adversity—Kindness. SOREL, AGNES, born in Touraine, 1409; a beauti- ful Frenchwoman of superior talent, the mistress of Charles the Seventh of France ; died, 1450. Quotation : Valor. SOSICRATES ; a Greek comic poet, whose time is unknown. Quotation : Conduct. SOSIGENES, born in Egypt, and lived about 45 B.C.: a Greek astronomer. Quotation : Years. SOTER, SAINT, (Bishop of Rome,) born, 102 A.D.; a celebrated Roman divine, who opposed the heresy of Montanus. Upon the death of Anicetus in 173, he was made pope; died, 177. Quotation : Marriage. SOULE, CATHERINE A., born in Albany, 1824; an American novelist. Quotations : Moment—Piety. SOUTH, ROBERT, D.D., the son of a London mer- Chant, born at Hackney, London, 1633 : an eminent English divine, theologian, and author. He was a zealous advocate of the doctrine of the divine right of kings, and strongly Opposed to Roman Catholics and Dissenters ; died, 1716. }votations: Acquaintance—Affection--Affliction--Affront —Ambition—Anger—Army — Beggar — Blame—Bondage— Bribery—Calling—Chance—Cheating--Ciergy--Communion —Compassion—Conceit -- Confidence—Consecration—Con- sideration—Constancy—Contemplation—Contempt—Coun- try — Covetousness — Cowardice — Custom — Death-Bed — Declaration—Defense—Degradation-Demagogue—Depra- vity—Desertion—Desire—Despair — Despising—Detraction —Diligence—Disease—Disparagement—Doubt—Drinking— Ecstasy—Endurance — Enemy – Envy — Epicure — Error— Eternity—Evidence—Evil—Exactness--Exercise—-Exertion —Existence—Experience—Falsehood — Fascination—Fate —Flowers—Fool—Forbearance—Fraternity—Friendship— Tuturity—Gluttony—God—Good—Goodness —Government —Gratitude—Guide—Guilt—Hardihood—Hate—Hell—Holi- ness–Home — Homeliness — Honor— Identity—Idleness— Idolatry—Ignorance—Ill-Nature—Imitation—Impatience— Impiety—Impossibility — Inclination — Infatuation —Infe- riority--Infidelity–Ingratitude-Innogence-Insignificance —Intermperance—Jeer — Jesuitism — Joy–Reenness—Rina- very— Levity—Liar – Limit — Love — Lying — Mammon — 1Meänness—Might—Minister — Miracle — Mirth—Modesty— Money—Monster—Morality—Mote — Motion—Name—Nov- elty—Nuisance—Pain—Painting—Pardon—Partiality—Pas- sion—Payment — Petition—Pleasure — Pliancy—Politics– Practice—Presumption—Prevention—Principles—Profuse- *ś".” —Rashness—Reason-Regularity—Religion—Repentance— Reserve—Robbery—Sagacity—Satisfaction—Security-–Self- Preservation—Self-Sufficiency—Sensuality–Serenity—Ser- yitude-Sharpness—Simile-Simplicity—Solicitude–Soph- istry—Spirit—Spirituality-Stoicism—Success—Superfluity —Suspense—Suspicion—Temperance—Thief—Thought — Trust—Type—Ubiquity — Understanding—Ungratefulness —Vain-Glory—Variety—Vice —Virtue —Volition—Warrior —Watchfulness—Weariness—Will—World—Wrestling. SOUTHCOTT, JoANNA, born in Devonshire, 1750 : an English religious fanatic and pretended prophetess; died, 1814. Quotation : Pride. SOUTHERN, THOMAs, born in Dublin, 1660: an Irish dramatic writer; died. May 26, 1746. Quotations: Ambition—Courage—Guilt—Pity. SOUTHEY, ROBERT, LL.D., the son of a linem draper, born in Bristol, England, August 12, 1774; an emi- ment English author and poet. He was possessed of supe- rior talents and genius, and used them to subserve the best interests of humanity, and of public virtue : died, March 1, 1843. , Quotations: Action —Attainment—Birth—Breyity— Child—Contentment—Design — Early-Rising—Evil—Exist- ence—Festival— Future — Freedom – Genius — Gospel – Guilt—Home—Hour—House—Innocence—Insect—Instinct —Intellect—Jest—Jesuitism — Judgment — Life—Mind— Order—Patriotism — Philosophy — Pleasure-Principles — Pulpit—Reading—Religion – Renegade - Self-Possession— Sin–Society—Speech-Stubbornness—Taste —Time–Un- belief—Vagrant—War—Wisdom—Wit—Words. \ ~~ SQUTHGATE, HENRY, born about 1829; an Eng- lish book auctioneer, and contapiler of “Many Thoughts of Many Minds," and other similar works, (London, 1858-81.) Quotations : Critic—Ease—Hermit—Laconics. SOUTHGATE, RICHARD, born at Alwalton, 1729; ; º divine and author; died, 1795. Quotation : Con- I’II].8.1.101). SOUTHWELL, CHARLEs. Quotation: Belief. SOUTHWORTH, ARABELLA, born about 1820 ; an American authoress, (New York, 1855-70.) Quotation : AVerSiOn. SOUTHWORTH, EMMA. D. E. NEVITTE, born in Washington, District of Columbia, 1818; an American novelist. Quotations: Chivalry—Health. SOUVESTRE, EMILE, born in Morlaix, in Brit- tany, 1806; a French writer, journalist, and littérateur: died in Paris, 1854. Quotation : Wrinkles. SOUZA, ADELE MARIA FLAHAULT, MARCHION- ess de, born in Normandy, 1760; a French romance writer; died, 1836. Quotations : Immortality—Sadness. SOZZINO, FAUSTO, born in Sienna, 1539; an emi- nent Italian theologian and author; died in Poland, 1604. Qztotations: Dancing—I neeling. SPADARA, MADAME DE. Quotation: Mother. SPAGNUOLI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, born in Man- fua, 1461; an Italian poet and monk: died, 1516. Quota- tion : Symbol. SPAIGHT, RICHARD DOBBs, born in Ireland, 1750; an Irish-American statesman; killed in a duel, September 5, 1802. Quotation : Federalism. SPARKS, JARED, LL.D., born in Willington, Con- necticut, May, 1794; a distinguished American historian and biographer ; died, 1866. Quotations: Greatness—Lib- erty—Revolution—Trees—Union. SPARRMANN, ANDREAs, born in the province Of Upland, 1747 : a Swedish naturalist and author; died, 1820. Quotation : Travel. SPEAR, SAMUEL T., born, 1809; an American divine and author. Quotations : God—Materialism—Pan- theism. SPEDDING, JAMEs, born about 1800; an English biographer, historian, and author; died, 1859. Quotation : Yeomanry. SPELMAN, SIR HENRY, born in Norfolk, 1652; an eminent English antiquary and author; died, 1641. Quo- tations : Benefactor—Day. SPENCE, WILLIAM, born, 1783 : an English wri- ter; died, January 6, 1860. Quotations: Daintiness—Self. Reproach. * SPENCER, HERBERT, born in Derby, 1820; a dis- tinguished English philosopher and author. He has re- cently acquired reputation as a Writer On Subjects of intel- lectual, social, and political philosophy. He visited the United States in 1882. Quotations : Contentment —Covet- ousness—Crown—Curse—Destiny—Discipline—Language— Law—Loquacity— Lust — Satan — Surgeon —Temptation— ThankS—Travel. SPENCER, JESSE AMEs, D.D., born in Dutchess county, New York, 1816; an American Episcopal divine, theologian, and author. Quotation. Instinct. SPENCER, John, D.D., born in Kent, 1630; an English divine and author ; died, 1695. Quotations: Ordi- nance—Vacation. SPENCER, JoHN CANFIELD, born at Hudson, New York, 1788; a distingished American jurist and states- man ; died at Albany, 1855. Quotation. Institution. SPENCER, JOSHUAA., born in Connecticut, 1790: an eminent American lawyer:..,died at Utica, New York, 1857. Quotations: Simplicity—Testimony. SPENSER, EDMUND, born in East Smithfield, Lon- don, 1553; an Illustrious English poet. In the Irish rebel- lion his estate was plundered by the rebels, and his house burned ; died in poverty, January 16, 1598. Quotations: Bard–Daintiness--Eulogy--Example--Glory--Poet—Youth. SPERONI, born in Padua, 1500 : an eminent Ital- ian writer and orator; died, 1588. Q?totation : Adversity. SPEUCIPPUS, born in Attica, about 380 B.C.; a Greek philosopher; died, 339 B.C., , Quotations: Education —Mind—Pleasure—Secrecy—Suicide. SPINOLA, FRANCIS CHARLES. Quotation : Zeal. SPINOZA, BENEDICT, born in Amsterdam, No- vember 24, 1632: a celebrated Dutch pantheistical gºś. phy and author; died, February, 1677. Quotation : Schism. SPITZKA, DR. E. C. : an American physician of the present century. Quotation : Insanity. SPOTTISWOODE, WILLIAM, LL.D., F.R.S., born in London, January 11, 1825: a gelebrated English philoso- pher, mathematician, Fºlºgist, Orientalist, and philan- thropist. Quotation : Dreams. SPRAGUE, CHARLEs, born in Boston, October 26, 1791 : an American poet, orator, and miscellaneous Wri- ter. Quotations : Mercy–Murmur. A / O G. A. A /? // / C A Z / MW ZD E X. II 91 SPRAGUE, WILLIAM BUEL, D.D., born in Ando- ver, Connecticut, October 16, 1795; an American Presbyte- rian divine and author ; died, 1876. Quotation : Exertion. SPRATT, THOMAs, D.D., (Bishop of Rochester,) born in Tallaton, Devonshire, 1636; an English divine and author. He was chaplain to Charles the Second : died, 1713. Quotations : Affectation — Commendation — Covet- Qusness—Dislike—Example—Goodness—Head—Humility— Joy—Knowledge—Opportunity—Passion — Reform—Reve- lation—Variance—Zealot. SPRING, GARDINER, D.D., LL.D., born in New- buryport, Massachusetts, 1785; an American Presbyterian divine and author; died, 1873. Quotations: Bible—Merit— Paganism—Preacher. SPROAT, ELIZA. S., born in Philadelphia, about 1810; an American poetess and magazine writer, (New York, 1847–49.) Quotation : Marriage. SPURGEON, CHARLEs HADDON, born at Kelve- don, Essex, June 19, 1834; a popular and eloquent English Baptist divine and religious writer. Quotations: Blessed- ness—Comfort—Employment—Evangelist—Faith— Hell— Holy Spirit—Ignorance–Inaction—Omnipotence—Peace— Pilgrim—Pride—Prophecy—Prophet – Pulpit— Revival— Saint-Scripture—Self-Examination — Sickness — Sunday- School—Triumph—Troubles—Warning. SPURSTOWE, WILLIAM, D.D., born about 1600 : an English divine and author; died, 1666. Quotations : In- tention—Riches. SPURZHEIM, JoHANN KASPAR, born in Long- - wich, near Treves, on the Moselle, 1776; a celebrated Ger- man physician and author, and One of the earliest advo- cates of phrenology. He visited the United States in 1832, and died in Boston the same year. Quotations: Culture— PoliteneSS. SQUIER, MILES P., D.D., born about 1800 : an American divine and professor of Intellectual Moral Phi- losophy, at Beloit, Wisconsin, (New York, 1855–67.) Quo- tation : Preaching. SQUIRE, SAMUEL, D.D., (Archdeacon of Bath,) born in Warminster, Wiltshire, 1714; an English divine and author; died, 1766. Quotation : Mercy. ST.-CYR, HUGUES DE, born in Montegra; a French troubadour. Quotation : Crusades. STAAL, MADAME DE, (DE LAUNAI,) born in Paris, 1693; an eminent French lady and authoress; died, 1750. Quotattºo), ... Distrust. STACKHOUSE, THOMAs, born, 1681; an Eng- lish divine and theological Writer; died, 1752. Quotation : Polytheism. STAEL–HOLSTEIN, ANNE LOUISA GERMAINE Necker, Baronne de, (Madame de Statel,) born in Paris, April 22, 1766; a French lady of great genius, and the most celebrated authoress of modern times: died in Paris, July, 1817. Quotations: Architecture—Artlessness—Character — Conscience—Evening — Face—Faith — Gayety—Instru- ment—Love—Memory—Old Age—Parent—Past—Prayer— Prejudice—Suspicion—Yielding. STAHL, P. J., the pseudonym of PIERRE JULES Hetzel, born in Chartres, 1814: a French littérateur and author. Quotations: Conversion—Homeliness—Love. STANDFORD, CHARLEs, born about 1800; an Eng- lish divine and author. Quotations : Excellence—Savior. STANHOPE, CHARLEs, EARL OF, born, 1753 ; a liberal English statesman, distinguished for his mechanical inventions. He invented the printing press which bears his name; died, 1816, Quotations. Angels—Courage. STANHOPE, GEORGE, D.D., (Dean of Canter- bury,) born at Hertishorn, Derbyshire, 1660; an English divine, pulpit orator, and author; died, 1728. Quotattions: God—Millennium—Philosophy. STANISLAUS, LEszczYNSKI, King of Poland, (Duke of Lorraine and Bar,) born at Lomberg, 1677; he was distinguished for his talents and literary attainments. He was the author of “The WOI’ks of the Benevolent Philoso- pher,” published in French ; died, February, 1766. Quota- tions : Affectation—Applause—Author--Calumny--Câution —Censure—CharmS — Confidence — Conscience—Conversa- tion—Courage—Desire —Doubt — Enjoyment—Equity—Ex- perience—Extortion—Extravagance—Face—Fame—Faults —Fear—Fortune—Gaming—Gayety—Generosity—Genius— Good-Breeding—Good-Humor—Government—Hate—Judg- ment—Justice—Life—Marriage—Miser—Misfortune—Mod- esty—Nature—Office — Passion — Patriotism —Politeness— Prejudice — Presumption — Prodigality—Promise—FRank— Rashness—Reason—Religion—Reputation—Ridiculousness -Rigor—Rival—Science—Sincerity – Speaking—Subject— Success—Superstition—Suspicion--Taste--Tattling-Terror —Thought —Time — Tribulation — Truth — Unhappiness — Valor—Virtue—Want—Will—Wit—Worth—Years. STANLEY, ARTHUR PENRHYN, (Dean of West- minster,) commonly known as Dean Stanley, born at Alder- ley, Cheshire, December 13, 1815; a celebrated Fmglish di- vine, author, and lecturer; died in London, July 18, 1881. Quotations: Bashfulness—Commandments—Modesty. STANLEY, LORD, EDwARD GEOFFREY SMITH, (Earl of Derby,) born in Lancashire, March 29, 1799: an eminent, English statesman and Orator; died, October 23, 1869. Quotations: Character—Creature. STANLEY, HENRY M., born in Denbigh, Wales, 1840; a celebrated English journalist, traveller, and Afri- can explorer. Quotations : Religion—Slavery—Sunset. STANLEY, THOMAS, born in Cumberlow, Hert- fordshire, 1625; an English scholar and author; died, 1678. Quotation : Service. STANTON, ELIZABETH CADY, born in Johnstown, Fulton county, New York, 1816; a distinguished American lecturer, social reformer, and advocate of “Women's Rights.’’, Q2totations. Daughter—Design—Development— Duty—Girl. STANWIX, RICHARD, born 1608 ; an English di- Vine, theologian, and author ; died, 1656. Quotation : In- troduction. STAPLETON, THOMAS, born in Sussex, 1535 ; an English ControverSalist ; died, 1598. Quotation : Kneeling. STARK, JoHN, born in Londonderry, New Hamp- Shire, 1728; an American general Of the IRevolution ; died, 1822. Quotation : Soldier. STASSART, Goswin Joseph AUGUSTIN, BARON de, born in Mechlin, 1780; a Belgian littérateur and states- man ; died, 1854. Quotations: Display–Pledge. STASZYC, XAVIER STANISLAUs, born in Pila, 1755; a Polish philanthropist and miscellaneouſ, writer; died, 1806. Quotation : Conviviality. STATIUS, PUBLIUS PAPINIUS, born in Naples, 60 A.D.; a celebratcd extemporaneous poet; died,96. TQwo- tations : Ages—Anger—Envy–Fear–Passion — Sun—To- Morrow. STEARNS, HENRY P., M.D.; an American physi- cian of the present century. Quotation : Insanity. STEEL, ROBERT, born in Salford, Lancashire, 1800; an English divine and author; died, 1869. Quotation : BrOtherhood. STEELE, SIR RICHARD, born in Dublin, 1671 ; a popular frish essayist, dramatist, and author. He was a sprightly and genial writer; died, September 21, 1732. Q7zo- tations: Ability—Abuse—Address—Affectation—Affection — Anatomy— Audience — Austerity — Beauty—Behavior— Books— Buying—Castles-in-the-Air–Celibacy—Ceremony Charms — Cheerfulness — Circumstances — Clergy — Com- mendation—Company—Compassion —Complacency—Com- plaint—Contentment—Conversation—Conviviality—Coun- try--Court—Coxcomb—Credit—Critic—Cunning—Curiosity —Debt—Decency—Defamation—Dependence—Diffidence— Discontent—Disparagement—Divination—-Dress–Dullness —Economy— Egotism—Envy — Equanimity — Etiquette — Evening — Existence — Extortion — Exultation -— Fable.— Fame—Fashion—Father—Form—Fortune- Generosity— Gentleman—Glory—Good-Breeding—Good-Humor— Good- ness—Greatness—Hard-Heartedness—Humanity—Husband . —Imperfection—Impudence—Indolence— Infidelity—Infir- mity–Jar—- Jest — Judgment — Judgments — Language — Laughter—Lawyer—Learning— Libel–Life— Love—Lover —Luxury— Lying— Man — Manklnd — Marriage— Master— Matrimóny--Mechanics—Merchant—Merit—Mirth—Misery —Modesty—News—Old Age—Passion—Pedantry—Peewish- ness—Perseverance— Pictures— Pleasing— Pleasure—Poet —Praise—Pride— Production—Pun—Punctuality—Purse— Quarrels—Tashness— Reading— Recreation— Heflection — Reproof–Reputation—Resentment—Retirement— Revelry — Rival – Rüdeness — Seasons — Self-Love — Simplicity — Son—Song— Statesman — Story— Study— Sympathy— Tat- tling—Temper—Trade—Tongue—Truth—Ugliness—Under- standing —Uneasiness —USury—Vanity—Wag—Wedlock— Woman—Wonder—Wrong—Youth. STEENWYK, HENDRIK, THE YouNGER, born, 1588: a celebrated Flemish Church decorator and architect; died, 1642. Quotation : Epitaph. STEEVENS, GEORGE, born in Stepney, 1736; an English author; died, 1800. Quotation : Election. STEIN, LUDWIG, born in Sleswick, 1813 : an emi- nent German jurist and author. Quotation . Others. STELLA, GIULIO CESARE, born in Rome, 1564; a Latin poet and author; died, 1624. Quotation : Dwarf. STENNET, SAMUEL, D.D., born in Exeter, 1727; an English divine and author; died, 1795. Quotation : Dis- COntent. STENTON, LOUISE MALCOM, a daughter of Rev. Howard Malcom, (q.v.,) born in Boston, Massachusetts, January 1, 1838: an American poetess and prose Writer. Quotations: Excellence—Reepsake—Visage. STEPHEN, HARDING, SAINT, (Abbot of Citeaux,) born in Sherbourne, I)orsetshire, about 1060; an English divine ; died, March 28, 1134. Quotation : Dalliance. STEPHEN, SIR JAMEs, K.C.B., LL.D., born in London, 1790; an English statesman and writer; died at Coblentz, September 15, 1859. Quotations : Character— History—Hope—Position—Power—Study—Wisdom—Zeal. ' STEPHEN, LESLIE, born about 1830 ; an English theologian, editor, and miscellaneous Writer. Quotations : Genius—Peace. STEPHENS, ALEXANDER. H., born in Taliaferro county, Georgia, 1812: an eminent American statesman, and one of the most prominent men of the South. Quota- tions: Alien—Equality—Mote—Opinion—Perfection—Pre- judice. Died, 1883. I 192 A). A Y 'S CO /, / A C O AV. STEPHENS, ANN SOPHIA WINTERBOTHAM, born in Derby, Connecticut, 1813; a popular American novelist. Quotation : Sadness. STEPHENS, HENRY, born about 1640; an English divine and compiler, (Oxford, 1700.). Quotations: Conyer- sations— Eccentricity — Exaggeration - Fortune–Listen- ing—Pleasing–Quarrels — Rudeness — Story—Table—Tat- tling—Temper—Tobacco. STEPHENS, JEREMY, born in Shropshire, 1592: an English theologian ; died, 1665. Quotation : Faith. STERLING, EDWARD, born, 1773 ; an English journalist and miscellaneous writer; died, 1847. Quota- tion : Adversity. STERLING, JOHN, born in Kaimes Castle, Isle of Bute, July 20, 1803; a Scottish divine, poet, and dramatic writer ; died in Ventnor, Isle of Wight. September 18, 1844. Muotations : Commerce -— Compliment -— Earnestness — ancy — Law — Life — Nature — Pleasure — Poetry — Self- Denial—Specch. STERNE, LAURENCE, born in Clonmel, November 24, 1713; a celebrated Irish humorist and miscellaneous writer, and author of the “Sentimental Journey,” and Imany other works; died, March 18, 1768. Quotations : Af- fection —Affliction — Applause — Beauty — Body — Cant — Charity—Chastity—Complaint—Conscience—Consolation— Contentment—Conversation-Courtesy–Courtship—Criti- cism —Curiosity — Death-Bed — Distress — Divinity — Elo- quence—Enemy—Evil–Fame—Fancy— Flattery—Forgive- ness—Good-Nature—Gravity–-Happiness—Humor--Hunger —Idleness—Impatience—Injury — Integrity—Knowledge— Laughter—Liberty—Love—Madness—Malice—Man—Mean- ness—Mercy— Metaphysics — Mirth — Mischief –Murder— Music—Originality—Pain—Pity—Plagiarism—Positiveness —Precedent—Pride—Principle — Quotation—Reading—Re- demption—Religion—Repentance —Rest—Riches—Scandal —Science—Self-Respect—Sight— Simile — Simplicity—Sin- cerity—Slander—Slavery— Sleep — Society—Solitude—Sor- row—Soul—Sun —Talking —Tears —Time —Title —Trifle — Troubles—Truth — Urbanity —Vanity —Virtue —Wealth — Wind—Wisdom—Wit—World—Writing—Wrong. STEUBEN, FREDERIC WILLIAM AUGUSTUs, BAR- on, born, 1730; an American Revolutionary officer; died in Oneida county, New York, 1794. Quotation : Desertion. STEVENS, GEORGE ALEXANDER, born in London, 1724; an English Strolling player, dramatic author, Vocalist, º lecturer; died, September 6, 1784. Quotation. Court- Slalp. STEVENS, THADDEUs, born in Caledonia county, Vermont, April 4, 1793; an eminent American statesman, distinguished as an opponent of slayery; died in Washing- ton, August 13, 1868. Quotation : Vote. STEWARD, GEORGE, born about 1800 : an Eng- lish author, (London, 1847.) Quotations: Sabbath—Type. STEWART, ALExANDER TURNEY, born in Ire- Iand, October 27, 1802, emigrated to the United States, 1823; an eminent and successful Irish-American merchant; died, April 10, 1876. Quotations : Profit—Success. STEWART, DUGALD, born in the college of Edin- burgh, November 22, 1753: an eminent Scotch author, and professor of moral philosophy; died in Edinburgh, June 11, 1838. Quotations : Composition — Grammar – Imagina- tion—Impression — Inclination — Invention — Self-Love — Thinking—Volition. STEWART, EDwARD W., born in New York, 1837 ; an American writer. Quotation : Agriculture. STEWART, JOHN, born in London, 1750 : an Eng- lish traveller and writer; died in London, 1822. Quotat- tions : Action—Prairie. STEWART, MATTHEw, D.D., father of Dugald Stewart, born at Rothsay, 1717; a Scottish astronomer and author ; died, January 23, 1785. Quotation : Jews. STEWART DENHAM, SIR JAMEs, born, 1713; a Scotch economist and author ; died, 1780. Q?tot(ttiO72. Danger. STIGAND, (Archbishop of Canterbury, ) born about 1000; a celebrated Saxon divine; died in prison, about 1070. Quotation : Failings. STILL, JOHN, (Bishop of Bath and Wells,) born in Lincolnshire, 1543; a learned English divine and author; died, 1607. Quotation : Death. STILLINGFLEET, EDwARD, (Bishop of Worces- ter,) born at Cranbourne, Dorsetshire, 1635; an English di- vine and author, and One of the most learned men Of the English Church; died in Westminster, March 27, 1699. Qºto- tations: Action—Error—God—Good-Nature—Gospel—Har- mony—Hunting—Hypocrisy—Passion—Prayer—Preaching —Seasons—Sinner—Sincerity—Sophistºry—Spring—Wicked- ness—Wisdom—Worship. STILPO, born in Megara, 325 B.C.; an eminent Greek philosopher. Quotations : Fool — Good — Loss — Question. - - STIRLING, EARL OF, (WILLIAM ALEXANDER, ) pºliº: a Scottish statesman ; died, 1640. Quotation : eath. STITH, WILLIAM, born about 1695 : an American divine, and the author of the first history of Virginia; died in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1755. Quotation : Unluckiness. STOBAEUS, JoHANNEs, born in Stobi, in Macedo- nia, 320 A.D.; a Greek writer, whose works contain valua- ble relics of ancient literature. Quotations: Abstinence —Assurance–Banishment—Beginning—- Commonwealth— Country—Courage—L)escent—Desperation— Force—God— Necessity—Son—Thrift–Treasure—Words. STOCK, SIMON, born, 1205 ; an English Catholic, and chief Of the Čarmelites: died, 1265. Quotation : Jail. STOCKTON, FRANK R., born about 1830 ; an American author, (New York, 1870.) Quotation : Health. STOCKTON, RICHARD, born near Princeton, 1730; an American patriot and signer of the Declaration of Inde- pendence; died, 1781. Quotation : Tyrant. STOCKTON, RICHARD, son of the preceding, born at Princeton, New Jersey, 1764; an eminent lawyer and statesman; died at Princeton, 1828. Quotation : Youth. STOCKTON, ROBERT FIELD, son of the preceding, born at Princeton, New Jersey, 1796; an Américan naval officer and statesman ; died 1866. Quotation : Decision. STOCKTON, THOMAS HEwlings, D.D., born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, 1808; an eloquent American Methodist divine and author; died, 1868. Quotation : Love. STODARD, SIR JOHN, LL.D., born in Westmin- ster, 1773; an English lawyer and author ; died, February 16, 1856. Quotations: Darkness—Grammar—Works. STODDARD, RICHARD HENRY, born at Hingham, Massachusetts, 1825; a popular American poet and miscel- laneous writer. Quotation : Reason. STOLBERG, FRIEDRICH LEOPOLD, Count, born in Bramstedt, Holstein, 1750; a German poet and miscel; laneous writer; died, December 5, 1819. Quotations: Court —Joke—Nature. STONE, ELIZABETH, born, 1800; an English au- thoress, (London, 1840.) Quotations: Burial—Cemetery. STONE, LUCY. See BLACKWELL. STONE, WILLIAM LEETE, born in Esopus, Ulster county, New York, 1793; an American journalist and mis- cellaneous writer. Quotation : Repose. STORRS, RICHARD SALTER, JUNIOR, born in Braintree, Massachusetts, 1821 ; an American Congrega- tional divine and author. Quotſition : State. STORY, Joseph, LL.D., (JUDGE STORY,) born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, September 18, 1779; a celebra- ted American jurist and author. His reputation and all- thority as a commentator and expounder of law Stands high wherever law is known and honored ; died in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, September 10, 1845. Quotations : Autumn–Index— Invention— Law–Literature—PerSecu- tion—Republic—Wisdom. STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE, born in Salem Massachusetts, February, 1819; an American lawyer and sculptor. Quotation : Coxcomb. STOUGHTON, JOHN, born about 1800 ; an Eng- lish Independent divine and author, (London, 1843-62.) Quotations : Activity – Bible — Holiness – Observation — Piety—Presumption—Society. STOW, JoHN, born in London, 1525; an English antiquary and writer. He was the author of a “Summar of the Chronicles of England,” and other works; died, 1605. Quotations: Cathedral—Christmas–Festival—Sport. STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER, sister of Henry Ward Beecher, born in Litchfield, Connecticut, June 14, 1812; an American authoress. Her “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” and “Dred,” have assured her a place in the highest ranks of novelists. Quotations : Cathédral – Delicacy—I)emoc- racy—Fanaticism –Friendship—Idea— Influenge—Love— Midnight—Mind—Mountain—Negroes—Ritual—Sorrow. STOWELL, HUGH, born at Douglass, Isle of Man, December 3, 1799; an English divine, theologian, and au- thor; died, October 8, 1865. Quotation : Sabbath. STOWELL, WILLIAM SCOTT, BARON, born near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1745; an English jurist and author: died, 1836. wotations: Alteration—Change—Nuptials. STRABO, born at Amasia, in Pontus, 60 B.C.; an eminent Greek geographer; died, 24 A.D. Quotations: Barbarism—Vine. STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE, VISCOUNT, K.G., (Sir Stratford Canning,) born in the city of London, Janu- ary, 1788; an eminent statesman and diplomatist; died, 1879. Quotation : Calmness. STRATO, born in Lampsacus, flourished about 288 B.C.: a Greek peripatetic philosopher. Quotations: Diligence—Nature. * STRAUSS, DAVID FRIEDRICH, born in Ludwigs- burg, Würtemburg, 1808; a German rationalistic theolo- gian. Quotations: Poet—Sunday. - STREET, ALFRED BILLINGs, born in Poughkeep- sie, 1811; an American poet and miscellaneous Writer. Quotation : Ability. STRETCH, L. M., born about 1720; an English divine, historian, and author, (London, 1769–91.) Quota- tions : 'Action—Affection — Clemency — Compassion — Ser- vant—Treachery—Wife. A / O G A' A P A / C A Z / M /) A X. 1193 STRICKLAND, AGNES, born in Suffolk, 1801 ; an English historical and miscellaneous writer; died, 1874. Quotations: Fun—Gentility—Press—Queen. STRIGELIUS, VICTORIA, born, 1514; a German tºlºgian and author; died, 1569. Quotations: Relations —-Z,10H1. STRONG, JASMIN ; an American physician of the present century. Quotation : Insanity. STRUTHERS, JOHN, born in Lanarkshire, 1776 : a Scottish poet and writer; died, 1853. Quotation : Murder. STRUTT, JosłPH, born in Essex, 1742; an Eng- lish antiquary and engraver; died, 1802. Quotations : Cu- TiOSities—PaStime. STRUVE, FRIEDRICH GEORG WILHELM, born in Altona, Holstein, April, 1793; an eminent German astrono- mer and author; died, 1864. Quotations : Hour—Life. STRYPE, JOHN, born in London, 1643; an Eng- lish divine, biographer, and author; died, 1737. Quotation : Curiosity. STRZELECKI, P. E., COUNT DE, born about 1800; a Celebrated Polish nobleman, traveller, historian, and au- thor. Qºzotºtions. Imagination — Mountain — Nature — Science—Volcano—Wonder. STUART, A. H., born in Staunton, Virginia, April 2, 1807; an American Statesman ; died, 1868. Q?tota- tion?...' Treason. - STUART, CARLOs D., born in Berlin, Vermont, 1820; an American poet and miscellaneous writer; died in Northampton, Massachusetts, January 23, 1862. Quota- t£072 : ArtleSSneSS. STUART, DAVID, born in Dublin, about 1780 : an Irish Protestant divine and author, (Jublin, 1823.) Quota- tions : Expiation—Sinner. STUART, GILBERT, LL.D., born in Edinburgh, 1742; a Scottish writer; died at Musselburgh, 1786. Quota- tion : Study. STUBBES, PHILIP, lived in the time of Queen Elizabeth ; an English miscellaneous writer, (London, 1581–92.) Quotation : Servility. STUBBS, HENRY, born in Lincolnshire, 1631 ; an English writer and Scholar: he was accidentally drowned in 1676. Q?totation : Mutability. STUKELEY, WILLIAM, M.D., born in Lincoln- shire, 1687; an English divine, antiquary, physician, and author; died, 1765. Quotations : Craft—Curiosities. STURGE, JOSEPH, born at Elberton, Gloucester- Shire, 1793; an English Quaker philanthropist and aboli- tionist ; died, 1859. Quotation : Benevolence. STURGES, JONATHAN. LL.D., born about 1750 : an eminent American lawyer, and a strong advocate for the rights of the colonies in 1774 ; died, 1819. Quotation : Progress. STURM, CHRISTOPH CHRISTIAN, born in Augs- burg, 1740; an eminent German moralist, preacher, and author. He wrote a number of popular religious works, among which the most noted was “Meditations on the Works of God in the Kingdom of Nature : " died, 1786. Q?totations: Air–Autumn—Beast—Birds—Cloud—Creator —Dew—Ear—Earth–Ennui —Evening—Flye—Field–Fire— Garden—Grandeur —Harvest — Hymn — Insect—Instinct— Landscape—Leaves—Limit---Melody—Mountain—Nature— Noise—Oak—Ocean—Plant—Possession—Rain—Rainbow— River—Scenery—Sea—Sky—Snow—Storm—Summer—Sun- rise—Tempest—Thunder–Trees —Universe—Vegetation— Wind—Winter—Woods—Zephyr. STURM, JoBANN, (The German Cicero,) born in Schleiden, 1507; an eminent German Scholar and teacher; died, 1589. Quotation : Study. STURTEVANT, JULIAN M., D.D., born in Litch- field, Connecticut, 1805; an American professor and author. Quotations : Acquirement—Zion. STURTEVANT, S. T., D.D., born about 1775: an English divine and author, (London, 1822.) Quotations: Anecdotes—Gesture—Recapitulation—Student–Text. STURZ, HELFREICH PETER, born at Darmstadt, 1736; a German writer and author: died, 1779. Quotations : Merchant—Neighbor—Prayer—Speech—Statesman. STYLITES, SIMEON, SAINT, born in Cilicia, Syria, about 390; an austere monk who spent most of his life on the top of a marble piilar ; died, September 2, 459, while at prayer. Quotation : Wretchedness. SUARD, JEAN BAPTISTE ANTOINE, born in Be- Sançon, 1734; a French journalist and littérateur ; died .1817. Quotation : Adversity. SUAREZ, FRANCIS, born in Granada, 1548 ; a learned and eloquent Spanish Jesuit and theologian ; died, 1615. Quotation : Jesuitism. SUCKLING, SIR John, born at Whitton, Middle- Sex, 1608; an English poet and miscellaneous writer; died in France, 1642. Quotations: Joy – Love — Opportunity— Parting—Quietness. SUE, EUGENE, born in Paris, 1804; a popular French novelist; died, 1857. Quotations: Emulation — Hand—Jesuitism—Joy–Nun—Virtue. SUETONIUS, CAIUs TRANQUILLUs, born in Rome, 70 A.D.; an eminent Latin historian and biographer; died, 123 A.D. Quotations : Christian—Precept. SUHM, PEDER FREDERIK, born in Copenhagen, 1728; an eminent Danish historian and miscellaneous wri- ter; died, 1798. Quotation : Jews. SUHRAWARDI, ABö HAFS OMAR SHIHAB AD- din As, born at Suhraward, 1145 ; a celebrated Arabian di- §: and philosopher; died, September, 1234. Quotation : Ul]]. SUHRAWARDI, ABö 'L FUTúH YAHYA IBN HA- bash Ibn Amírek Shihāb Ad-din As, born at Suhraward, 1153; an Arabian philosopher ; , executed, July 29, 1191. Quotations : God—Hate—Life—Sin. SUHRAWARDI, ABö 'N-NAJIB ABD AL-KAHIR As, born, 1097 : an Arabian jurist and philosopher; died, March, 1168. Quotation : Nature. SUISSICKEY, SIMEON, born in Germany about 1500; an eminent Christian teacher. Quotation : Wrath. SULAIHI, ABū 'L-HASAN ALI IBN ALI As, born at Yemen, about 1010; an Arabian kadi and Warrior ; exe- Cuted, April, 1081. Quotation : War. SULEYMAN I, born about 1350 ; an Ottoman Sultan ; killed in battle, 1410. Quotation. Blood. SULI, IBRAHíM IBN AL-ABBAS IBN MUHAMMAD Ibn Sül-Takin As, born, 792; an Arabian poet and philoso- pher ; died at Sarr-man-raa, December, 857. Quotation : Visits. . SULLA, LUCIUS CoRNELIUS, (The Fortunate,) born, 138 B.C.; a famous Roman general and dictator died, . 78 B.C. Quotation: Sickness. SULLIVAN, JAMES, LL. D., born in Berwick, Maine, 1744; an American author; died, December 10, 1808. Quotation : Burden. SULLY, CHARLES. Quotation: Monarchy. SULLY, MAXIMILIEN DE BETHUNE, (DUC DE and Baron Rosny,) born in Rosny, near. Nantes, December, 1560; a French statesman of great merit and celebrity; died at Willebon, December, 1641. Q?totation. Courage. SULPICIUS, LEMONIA RUFUS SERVIUs, born 106 B.C.; a celebrated Roman jurist and Orator; died, 43 B.C. Quotation : Dalliance. SULZER, JoBANN GEORG, born at Winterthur, 1720; a Swiss philosopher and aesthetic writer; died, 1779. Quotation : Adversity. SUMMERFIELD, JOHN, born in Preston, Lanca– shire, 1798, emigrated to the United States, 1821; an emi- nent English-American Methodist divine and author. He was one of the founders of the American Tract Society; died in New York, 1825. Quotation : Consecration. SUMMERS, THOMAS QSMOND, D.D., born in Dor- setshire, 1812; an English Methodist divine and author. Quotation: Death. SUMNER, CHARLEs, LL.D., born in Boston, Mas- sachusetts, January 6, 1811; an American lawyer and states- man, distinguished as an opponent of slavery; died, 1874. Quotations: Constitution –Faith—Humanity—Liberty— Nation—Redemption—Sovereign. SUMNER, CHARLEs RICHARD, D.D., (Bishop of Winchester,) born, 1790; an English divine and author; died, 1874. Quotation : Communism. SUMNER, JoHN BIRD, D.D., (Archbishop of Can- terbury,) brother of the preceding, born in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, 1780; an English divine and author; died, September 6, 1862. Quotations : Religion—Time. SUOMOROKOW, ALEKSANDER PETROUwitch, born, 1718; a Russian poet and dramatic author, and the gºer of the Russian theatre; died, 1777. Quotation : tage. SURR-DURR, ABù MANSüR ALI IBN AL-HASAN Ibn Ali Ibn Al-Fadl, born, 1009; a celebrated Arabian poet: died, 1072. Quotations: Past—Prayer. SURTEES, ROBERT, born in Durham, 1779; an English antiquary, poet, and author; died, 1834. Quota- 3ton, ... Will. SUSARION, born in Megara, and lived about 575 B.C.; a Greek poet, to whom the origin of the Athenian comedy is attributed. Quotations: Marriage—Wedlock. SUSO, HEINRICH, (Amandws,) born at Constance, 1300; a celebrated Swiss mystic and theologian ; died, 1365. Quotation : Adversity. SUTCLIFFE, MATTHEw, born in Devonshire, about 1558; an English divine and author; died, 1629. Q?totation : Conversion. SUTHERLAND, DUCHESS OF, (GEORGIANA How- ard.) a daughter of the Earl of Carlisle, born, 1806; a dis- tinguished English abolitionist. She was noted for her beauty, talents, and beneficence; died, October, 1868. Quo- tattion : Declamation. SUWADA, or SAWADI, IBN As, born at Wäsit, May, 1089; an Arabian poet; died at Wäsit, 1161. Quota- tions : Rival—Vice, 1194 A) A Y’.S C O Z Z A C O AV. SUWARROW, ALExANDER WASILIEVITCH, born in Finland, 1729; a famous Russian general ; died in St. Petersburg, May, 1800. Quotations : Retreat—Vexation. SVEND, AAGESEN. See AAGESEN, SVEND. SWAIN, CHARLEs, born in Manchester, 1803; an English Writer and engraver. Quotations: Consolation— Flowers. SWAMMERDAM, JAN, born in Amsterdam, Feb- ruary, 1637; an eminent Dutch naturalist and author; died in Amsterdam, 1680. Quotation : Zoology. SWARTZ, C. F. Quotation : Salvation. SWARTZ, JOEL, born in Baltimore, Maryland, 1797; an American Lutheran divine and author, ( Balti- more, 1865.) Quotations: Heathen–Industry—Steadfast- IleSS. SWEDEN BORG, EMMANUEL, born in Stockholm, January 29, 1698; a celebrated Swedish naturalist, mathe- matician, and theosophist. He was the founder of the New Jerusalem Church ; died in London, March 29, 1772. Quotations : Evil—Intelligence—Love. SWEET, SAMUEL N., born, 1805 ; an American lawyer, lecturer on elocution, and author. Quotation : Eloquence. SWETCHINE, SOPHIA SOYMONOF, born in Mos- cow, 1782; a Russian lady writer. She removed to Paris in 1818 and joined the Roman Catholic Church, and was distinguished for her piety and talents; died in Paris, 1857. Quotations: Adyice-Amiability– Chastening—Consola: tion—Courtes --Day--Deeds—Defense—Deference—-Denial —Despair—Development—Disparagement—Doom—Econo- my—Enemy—Engagement—Ennui-Error—Events—Eyil— Example—Texperience— Fable—Faith—Faults— Fidelity— Forgetfulness—Friendship—God–Good –Gospel—Grace— Grief—Habit—Happiness–Holiness-Honesty—Humility— Idea—-Immortality–-Impression--Individuality-–Indulgence —Infirmity—Ingratitude— Injustice – Innocence — Instru- ment—Intelligence— Intention—Intolerance—Joy— Judg- ment— Justice—Justification — Labor— Lesson — Levity— Life—Love—Malice—Marriage— Matter— Memory—Mercy —Merit—Mind–Miracle—Misfortune—Moderation—Mod- esty—Morality—Ocean—Old Age – Party–Passion — Pa- tience—Penetration—Perfection— Piety—Pity—Pleasure— Power—Prettiness—Principles—Prosperity—Purity—Pur- É.º.º.º.º. Redemption—Regard— epentance—Resignation— Respect— Revolution—Right— Sacrifice—Saint—Scandal—Seclusion—Self-Respect—Sensi- tiveness—Servility—Silence—Sincerity–Situation—Soli- tude—Speaking—Spirituality–Steadfastness—Strength— Submission—Suffering—Superiority—Superstition—Sym- Rºy. Tears—Temper — Time—Transgression— Travel— anity—Wirtue —Want—Will — Woman—Words—Wound— Years—Youth. SWIBERT, SAINT, born in Northumberland, about º ; 3. gºlºrated English monk : died, March, 713. Quota- &Q7!. . Z. ea.k. SWIFT, JonATHAN, (Dean Swift,) born in Dublin, November 30, 1667 a celebrated Irish humorist, Satirist, and author. He possessed some of the choicest gifts that have ever been bestowed On the children of men —rare powers of observation, brilliant wit, grotesque invention, and humor Singularly pure, manly, and perspicuous. He was the author of “Gulliver's Travels,” and the “Tale of a Tub : " died in Dublin, Qctober 19, 1745. Quotations: Abridgment—Action – Address — Advice — Agreeableness —Alms—Alone — Ambition — Argument —Astrology—Au- thor—A Varice — Bargain — Belief – Books—Cant—Cause— Censure—Character – Civility—Clergy—Commonwealth— Company—Complaint – Convention - Conversation—Con- viction—Countenance—Craft —Credit—Credulity—Critic— Degeneration—Diet—Discernment —Discretion—Disease— Dispute–Distange- Dress — Dullness—Economy—Educa- tion—Envy—Evil—Face—Faith—Fame—Farmer–Flattery —Folly— Fortune — Freedom — Free-Thinking — Genius — Good-Breeding — Government — Heir — Honor — Human- Nature—Humor—Hypocrisy—Idea—Imagination—-Imperti- nence—lmpropriety – Index — Indigence — Inducement — Injustice—Invention—Jest—King–Language—Law—Law- {#if: "º — Liberty – Lying – Mankind–Manners— Marriage—Maxims—Minister-—Mistake—-Monarchy--Money —Morality — Motive —Neutrality — Nuisance — Old Age — Opinion—Oratory—Parsimony—Party--Pedantry--Pleasure – Poet — Poetry — Populace – Positiveness – Posterity — Power—Praise — Preaching—Preface—Pride—Profligate— Protection--Qualification-Quickness—Quotation--Raillery —Reason—Religion—Reserve — Hevenge—Reward—Riches —Satire—Scheming—Schoolmaster—Self-Opinion—Service —Shame—Simplicity—Sin-Slander—Soil—Soldier–Speak- ing — Speech – Spendthrift — Stability — State — Story — Strength—Style — Subject–Suspense —Talent—Talking— Tavern—Theory—Time—Tongue —Travel—Trifle—Truth— Unbelief—Ungratefulness—Vanity—Variance—Vice—Vir- tue–Vision—Wag-Want-War-Wickedness—Wisdom— Wit—Words—World—Writing—Youth–Zeal. SWINBURNE, ALGERNoN CHARLEs, born near Henley-on-Thames, 1843; an English poet. Quotation : Music. SWING, DAVID, born about 1835 ; an American divine and lecturer. Quotation : Betting. SWINNOCK, GEORGE, born in Maidstone, Kent, about 1600; an English Nonconformist divine and author; died, 1673. Quotations: Mediocrity—Ordinance—Religion —Worship. SWINTON, WILLIAM, born in Salton, April 23 1833, emigrated to the United States, in 1848; a célebrated ſerican journalist, and author of a large number of edu- cational text-books. Quotations: Intelligence—Language —Sight. SWISSHELM, JANE G. C., born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, 1815; an American writer and journalist, and an eminent advocate of the property rights of WOman. Quotations: Infancy—Love. SYA-KYO, (Nan-ryó :) a Japanese scholar, who revised, (1843,) “Man-yo-Shiu,” an old collection of Japa- nese poetry, and wrote the preface. Quotation : Library. SWITHIN, SAINT, (Bishop of Winchester,) born about 800; an English divine, tutor to Prince Alfred, and chaplain to King Egbert; died, 862. Quotation : Poor. SYDENHAM, FLOYER, born, 1710; an English littérateur and author; died, 1787. Quotation : Scandal. SYDNEY, ALGERNON. See SIDNEY, ALGERNON. Quotation : Despotism. - SYKES, ARTHUR ASHLEY, born in London, 1684; an English divine and author; died, 1756. Quotation : Energy. SYLBURG, FRIEDRICH, born near Marburg, 1536; a Celebrated German scholar and author; died, 1596. Qtt0- tation, . Persuasion. - - SYLVESTER II, Pope ; succeeded Gregory the Fifth ; died, 1003. Quotation : Magic. SYLVESTER, SAINT, POPE ; elected bishop of Rome, 314 A.D.; died, 335. Quotation : Sunday. SYMIRAMIS, or SEMIRAMIS ; a celebrated ueen of Assyria, supposed to have reigned about 1250 .C.; killed by her son Ninyas. Quotations : Power—Wit. SYMMACHUS, surnamed the Samaritan, flour- ished about 200 A.D. Quotation : Worship. SYMMES, JoHN CLEVEs, born in New Jersey, 1780; an American soldier who is chiefly known as the ad- vocate of a theory representing the earth as hollow, Open & § poles, and habitable within ; died, 1829. Quotation : Orld. SYMMONS, JELINGER. C., born, 1809; an English writer and philanthropist; died, 1860. Quotation : Poor. syMonds, JoHN ADDINGTON, born about 1800; a celebrated English littérateur, poet, and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Intuition. SYMONTON, WILLIAM, born, 1795; a Scottish theologian and author; died in Glasgow, January, 1862. Quotation : Christ. SYMPHRONIANUS, born at Strasburg, about 1490; a Romish priest, who attempted to reform the Catho- lic church ; 1554. Quotation : Declaration. SYNCLETICA, SAINT, born in Alexandria, about 290 A.D.; a pious Grecian maiden who consecrated her virginity to God ; died, 37.4 A.D. Quotation : Luxury. SYNESIUS, born at Cyrene, in Africa, 378 A.D. ; a celebrated Neo-Platonic philosopher. Quotation : Waste- fulneSS. SYNTIPAS, (Sendebád ;), a Hindoo philosopher, to whom is ascribed a collection of tales and apologues. Quotation : Visage. - SYRA, BEN, an ancient Brahmin teacher, noted for his great learning. Quolations: Bride —Chastisement —Method—Physician—Table—Ungratefulness. SYRIANUS, born in Alexandria about 510 B.C.; a Greek philosopher of the Neo-Platonic School; died about 450 B Quotation : Curiosity. SYRUS, PUBLIUs, flourished 45 B.C.; a slave brought to Rome, of whom very little is known of his per- sonal history, except that at the games exhibited by Caesar he challenged all the dramatists of the day, to contend with him in improvising upon any given theme, and carried off the palm from every competitor. Quotations: Accusation —Ancestry—Affection—Age—Anger–Apathy—Avarice— Beginning—Beneficence–Caution—Companion—Conquest –Countenance — Cowardige–Crime – Custom —Danger— Day—Deafness—Debt—Deity—Delay–Dishonor—Dislike— Disorder-Dispatch—Disposition–Diversion--Doubt–Elo- quence—Empire—Enemy—Envy—Error—Evil-Eye—Face — Faults — Fear — Forgiveness — Fortune — Fraternity— Friendship—Gain—Gaming — Glory-Good–Guard–Haste —Hate—Holiness—Honor-House-Imitation—Indulgence —Injury—Innocence—Judges—Life—Love-Lover–Mad- ness—Magnanimity–Marriage — Master – Mildness—Mis- chief—Miser–Money–Murmur—Necessity–Nothing—Ob- ligation—Oblivion – Obstinacy — Offense – Qpportunity— Pain—Pardon—Parent—Pleasure—Poverty--Power--Praise —Precaution — Privacy – Prudence — Purity—Quickness— Refusal – Reputation – Resentment—Servant—Severity— Shadow—Sickness—Silence — Slander — Sorrow—Station— Submission — Suicide — Suspicion – Sword — Thought — Threats—To-Day–Trust—Ungratefulness—Union–Unity —Usury —Variety — Vice — Victory – Villainy — Wealth – Wickedness—Wine—Wish—Wound. SZIGLIGETI, Josh PH, born in Grosswardain, 1814; a distinguished Hungarian dramatist. Quotation : Versification. * A / O Gº AC A P AE/ / C A / / /V /O AE A . | 195 AAF, JoHN, (Archbishop of Armagh,) born, 1242 : a celebrated Irish divine and author; died, 1306. Quotation : Memory. A TABARI, ABö JAAFAR MUHAMMAD IBN JARíR Ibn Yazid Ibn Khālid At, born at Amul. in Taberestān, 838; an Arabian commentator and historian ; died at Bagdad, February, 923. Quotations: Self-Respect–Wealth. TABARI, ABù 'T-TAIYIB TAHIR IBN, ABD ALLAH Ibn Tāhir Ibn Omar At, born, 1012; an Arabian grammarian and philosopher; died, January, 1077. Quotations: Argu- ment—Vine. TABOR, ELIZA ; a modern English novelist, and miscellaneous writer. Quotations. Daintiness-Death— Disappointment—Dying. TACITUS, CAIUs CoRNELIUS, born about 59 A.D.; a celebrated IRoman historian, and one of the most elo- quent orators of his time; died, 120., Q(totations: Acquire- ment—Adventure—Adversity–Antiquity—Army–Author- ity–Aversion—Chastity—Christian---Compassion—Contro- vérsy.--Coquetry—Cowardice—Crime--Danger--Democracy Dissolution—Eloquence—Empire-- Enemy-Eny y–Esteeml —Falsehood—Fatime—Family--Fear—Flattery--Grief--Hate —History—Hospitality — Household — Industry- Infamy— Jest—Law—Leader—Liberty—Mind— Mob-Opinion— Op- ression—Others—Peace— Populace– Posterity– Power— recedent—Present—Projector— Prosperity – Punishment —Qualifications—Rabble-Remedy–Repose— Reputation— Retaliation— Sedition— Self-Interest— Surprise— Taxation —Tears—Terror—Thing–Traitor—Truth--Turnult—Tyrant —Valor—Vice—Virgin—Virtue–Volcano. TACQUET, ANDREW, born in Antwerp, 1611; a learned Flemish Jesuit; died, 1660. Quotation : Perse- Vera Il Ce. TAE-KEA, son and successor of T'ang, a Chinese emperor. Quotation : Troubles. TAGEN-SHEN : a Chinese diplomatist of the pre- sent century. Quotation. Peace. TAGGART, CYNTHIA; born near Newport, Rhode Island, Qctober 14, 1801; an American poet and prose wri- ter; died, March 23, 1849. Qnotations : Morality—Unkind- In GSSS. TAGGART, CHARLES MANSON, born in Montreal, 1821; a Canadian clergyman and writer; died in Charles- ton, South Carolina, 1853. Q2totation : Feeling. TAHIR, ABU ’T-TAIYIB IBN AL-HUSAIN IBN MU- sāb Ibn Ruzaik Ibn Māhān, Ibn, born, 775; an Arabian Sa- tirist and writer; died at Marw, November, 822. Quota- tions: Insignificance—Satire–Zephyr. TAINE, HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE, born at Vouziers, (Ardennes,) April 21, 1828; an eminent French littérateur, historian, philosopher, and author. Qºtotation. Security. TAIT, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, D.D., (Archbishop of Canterbury, and Primate of all England,) born in Edin- burgh, December 22, 1811; an eminent English divine, theo- §: and author; died, December, 1882. Quotation : rist. TAI-TSOUNG : Emperor of China, lived in the tenth century. Quotations : Government— Prince — Pro- genitor—Ruler—War. TAIU, Kwo-TAI-Ko-GU, born about 1150; a Japa- nese priest and writer. Quotation : Adversity. TARI-TOO-I-TIS, RICHARD, born near the Rocky Mountains, about 1822: Son of a Nez Perces Indian chief ; he was brought by Rev. Samuel Parker and Dr. Marcus Whitman to Rushville, New York, to be educated ; died 1867. Quotation: Gods. TALBOTT, CATHERINE, born, 1720 ; a daughter of the bishop of Durham, and a distinguished writer; died, 1770. Quotation : Ocean. TALBOT, WILLIAM, D.D., (Bishop of Oxford,) born in Stourton Castle, Staffordshire, 1659; an English di- vine and author; died, 1730. Quotations : Arbitration — Convention—Justification — Pension—Perdition—Physiog- nomy—Pleasure—Poverty—Precocity. TALFOURD, SIR THOMAS Noon, D.C.L., born in Doxey, Staffordshire, January 25, 1795; an English jurist, dramatist, and essayist ; died, March 13, 1854. Quotations : Forgetfulness— Gentleman — Metaphysics— Mirth–Monu- • ments—Mystery— Nature — Past— Pleasure— Poet— Senti- ment—Sympathy. TALIACOTIUS, GASPARO, (Tagliacozzi,) born in Bologna, 1546; an eminent, Italian surgeon and author; died, 1599. Quotation : Volition. TALIESEN, (Chief of the Bards,) the son of Henwg, born in the sixth century; a Welch poet, of whose life scarcely anything is positively known. Quotations: Fire—Guard—Zone. . TALLEYRAND - PERIGOPD, CHARLES MAU- rice de, (Prince of Benevento,) born in Paris, February 13, 1754; a celebrated French diplomatist and wit; died in Paris, May, 1838. Quotations: Blunder—Blushing—Cour- tier—Discernment— §§§r, Friendship—Glory —Love—Priest—Reputation--Sensil)ility--Speech—Success. TALLMADGE, NATHANIEL P., born in Chatham, New York, 1795: a distinguished American statesman ; died, 1854. Quotations: Convention—Secession—Slavery. TALMAGE, THOMAS DEWITT, born in Bound- brook, New Jersey, 1832; an American Presbyterian divine and author. Quotations: Child — Clock—Defeat—Eagle— Editor—Enterprise—Farmer—Hobby—Home—Homeliness —Journalism—Joy—Man —Money—Nose—Painting—Pen— Persecution—Pun—Sea—Separation — Spectacles—Success —Trifle—Troubles—Wit—World. TALMUD, THE ; the name of the fundamental code of the Jewish civil and canonical law ; it comprises the Mishna, (q.v.,) and the Gemara, the former is the text, and the latter the commentary. Quotations : Buying — Employment—Hospitality – Humility — Innocence—Jeho- vah—Judges—Justice — Law— Leader — Learning — Liar — Life—Light—Littleness—Love—Miser—Mourning—Name— Noise—Old Age—Opportunity—Parent—Passion—Patience —Peace—Persecution—Piety — Prayer — Pride–Promise— Purity—Rebellion — Redemption — IRepentance—Reward— Righteousness—Roses—Ruler–Satisfaction—Self-Distrust —Shanne—Silence—Sleep— Sorrow — Study—Sunset—Table —Temple—Trade —Trees—Will — Wine —Woods—World— Wrath—Youth. TAMATOA, King of Raiatea, one of the Society Islands, born about 1760; a heathen gonvert to Christianity. died, 1837. Quotations : Worship—Zion. TAMERLANE, born in Kesh, in Independent Tar- tary, 1336; a celebrated Asiatic conqueror; died, 1405. Quo- tations: Perfidy—Sincerity—Victory. TAMIL ; the name of a language spoken through: out the vast plain of the Carnatic, and from the central mountain-range of Southern India to the bay of Bengal. The quotations given below are taken from the Jiſu-Real, a collection of poetical aphorisms, and other works of Tamil literature. Qrtotottions: Bed — Boasting—Burden— T}iamond–Jewels—Mountain—Remedy. TAMMANY., SAINT, born about 1720 ; a celebra- ted Delaware Indian chief, whose name was adopted by a olitical organization, in the United States, at the time of his death, 1789. Quotattion : Unity. TANEY, ROGER BROOKE, LL. D., born in Calvert county, Maryland, 1795; a distinguished American lawyer, jurist, and statesman ; died, 1864. Q2totation : Decision. TANG-CHING : a Chinese statesman, and an of- ficer of the State of Ch’in. Quotation : Ruler. TANKERFIELD, GEORGE, born in York, about 1810; an English martyr, burned at the stake August 26, 1555. Quotation : Christ. .* TANNER, DR. : an American physician, who gained considerable notoriety in New York city in 1880, by fasting forty days. Quotations : Activity—Fasting. TANOA ; a Fejee Island chief ; a cannibal noted for his cruelty. Quotations: War—Wife. TANUKHI, AL-MUHAssiN IBN ABI 'L-KASIM ALI Ibn Muhammad Ibn Abi 'l-Fahm Dăw ſld Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Tamin Abu Ali At, (The Pſadi,) born at Basra, January 1, 939 : an Arabian scholar, poet, historian, and jurist; died at Bagdad, March, 994. Quotation : Nobility. TAPPAN, HENRY PHILIP, D.D., LL.D., born in Rhinebeck, New York, 1810: an American divine and au- thor. Quotation : Admiration. TAPPAN, LEwis, born in Massachusetts, 1788; an American merchant, philanthropist, and an early Oppo- ment of slavery. Quotation: Decision. TARACHUS, or TARACUS, lived about 713, čiš. a celebrated king of Egypt. Quotations : Fire — rods. TARASCON, LOUIs A., born in Marseilles, 1747, emigrated to the United States in 1789; a French-American republican and philanthropist; died, September, 1840. Quo- tſution : Race. TARBOX, INCREASE N. ; an American Congrega- tional divine and author, of the present century. Quota- tions : Farmer—Tillage. TASH-WE-BE-SHIG, . (Hole-In-The-Day; ) born about 1800; an American Indian chief, of the Chippeway tribe : assassinated June 29, 1868. Quotation : Native-Land. TASSO, TORQUATO, born in Sorrento, March 11, 1544; one of the greatest of Italian poets; died, April 25, 1595. Quotations: Laughter—Peace—Soul—Splºit–Trifle. TASSONT, ALESSANDRO, born at Módena, 1565; an eminent Italian Christian divine and author: died, 1685. Quotation: Revenge. TATE, NAHUM, born in Dublin, 1652; an Irish poet and dramatist; died, 1715. Quotation : Servility. TATIAN, born in Syria, 120 A.D.; an eminent writer. Quotation : Salvation. - TAUBMANNUS, FRIEDRICH, born near Baireuth, in Franconia, 1565; a German poet and author: died, 1613. (Jºotation : Trial. TAULER, Joh ANN, born, 1290 ; a German Do- ºn and Mystic writer; died, 1361. Quotation : In- Sanity. TAUNTON, SIR. W. E., born, 1765 : an English jurist and author: died, 1835. Qxtotation. : Men. TAURI, WILLIAM, born, 1710 : a French anatomi- cal professor and author. Quotation : Minister. fº, 1196 A) A Y’.S C O / / A C O AV. TAURUS, CALVISIUs, born about 86 A.D., and flourished under the reign of Antoninus Pius; a celebrated * iºnic philosopher; died about 152 A.D. Quota- 20?? ... 'I 3. Ole. TAVEL, M., born in Paris, about 1782 ; a French 2 & º s writer on social subjects. Quotation : Exposure. TAYLOR, BAYARD, born near Kennett Square, Chester county, Pennsylvania, January 11, 1825; a distin- guished American, poet, miscellaneous writer, traveller, and diplomatist; died in Berlin, Prussia, December 19, 1878. Quotations : Opportunity—Prettiness. TAYLOR, EDGAR, born in London, 1793; an Eng- lish lawyer and author: died, August 19, 1889. Quotattion : Respect. TAYLOR, EDwARD T., born in Virginia, 1794; an American sailor, who became a Methodist clergyman, and § haplain of the Seamen's Bethel ; died, 1871. Quotation : Self. TAYLOR, GEORGE, born in Ireland, 1716; emi- grated to America; one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He was elected to the Continental Con- gress in 1776; died, 1781. Quotation : Freemasonry. TAYLOR, SIR HENRY, D.C.L., born in London, 1800; an English dramatist and essayist. Quotations: Am- bition—Fear—Generosity — Life—Light – Love—Money— Prodigality. TAYLOR, ISAAC, JUNIOR, LL.D., born at Laven- ham, Suffolk, 1787; an eminent English Writer; died at Stanford Rivers, Essex, June 28, 1865. Quotations: Belief —Invention—Meditation—Remorse—Sympathy. TAYLOR, JANE, daughter of the preceding, born in London, September 23, 1783; a meritorious English Wri- ter and poetess ; died in Ongar, Essex, April 12, 1824. Q?10- tations: Castles-in-the-Air—Conjecture — Mistake–Pleas- ure—Reverence—Sabbath. TAYLOR, JEREMY, D.D., the son of a barber, (Bishop of Down and Connor,) born in Cambridge, 1613; an English divine and author of great eminence. His Wri- tings are a perpetual feast, and his sermons are far above any that had preceded them in the English Church, and teem with sound logic, and a warm tone of piety, Sweet- ness, and charity ; died at Lisburn. Ireland, August 13, 1667. , Qrtotations : Absurdity — Advocate – Affliction — Ambition—Ages—Anger—Art—Pounty—Busybody-Ca- lamity—Character—Chastity—Confidence—Confirmation— Conténtment—Covetousness— Death–Debt–Depravity— Disgrace — Disposition – Envy— Evil — Faith — Feligity- Flattery–Fortune–Frailty—Friendship—Garden—Godli- ness—Gold—Good—Greatness—Grief—Guide—Happiness— Harshness—Heaven— Heir—Holiness— Hope— Huiman-Na- ture — Humility — Husband—Hypocrisy—Idleness—Igno- rance– Immortality—Infancy—Infidelity—Infinity—Infirm- ity—Instinct—Intemperance—Jeer—Joy–Judgment— Justice—Knavery—Labor — Laughter—Law— Learning— Listlessness –Lust—Lying—Magistrate—Marriage—Master —Meditation—Mercy–Moderation — Modesty— Opinion — Parting—Patriotism—Pity—Poor—Poverty—Prayer— Pre- destination — Present — Pride — Proselyte — Prosperity — Proverbs—Quotation—Reason— Recollection-Recreation — Reputation— Revenge— Righteousness — Ritual – Sacra- ment—Sadness—Sectarianism—Self–Sense-Sensuality— Shamelessness—Sickness — Sin—Singing–Solitude—Super- stition—Tattling—Temper—Temperance— Thanks—Theol- ogy—Time—Transgression—Unfaithfulness—Vain-Glory— War—Wife—World—Wrong—Yesterday—Zeal—Zealot. TAYLOR., JOHN, D.D., born near Lancaster, 1680; a learned English Unitarian divine and author ; died, 1761. Juotations : Dispute — Doctor —- Early-Rising — Ease — conomy— Emulation—Envy— Existence— Government— Jury—Labor—Laconics–Literature— Marriage—Plainness * Réading Republicºtaxation: War":Worldliness. TAYLOR, J, ORVILLE : an American educational writer. Qztotation : Calculation—School. TAYLOR, RICHARD, born in Norwich, May 18, 1781; an English printer and journalist ; died, 1858. Quo- tations : Mountain—Mythology. TAYLOR, RICHARD, born about 1809; an Eng- lish divine, author, and missionary to New Zealand; died, 1872. Quotations: Jews—Religion—Spring—Summer. TAYLOR, Row LAND, born about 1482; an Eng- lish divine and martyr; burned at the stake, February, 1555. Quotations : Church—Preaching. TAYLOR, STEPHEN WILLIAM, LL.D., born in Berkshire county Massachusetts, 1791; an American teach- er; died, 1856. Quotation : Ignorance. TAYLOR, TOM, born, 1817; a celebrated English dramatist and editor: died in London, July 12, 1880. Quo- tations. Comedy—Dissolution. TAYLOR, WILLIAM COOKE, LL.D., born at You- ghal, Ireland, 1800; an Irish writer; died in Dublin, Sep- tember 12, 1849. Quotations: Domesticity—Family-Man- ners—Party. TAYLOR, WILLIAM, M., D.D.; an American di- vine and author. Quotation : Zeal. TAYLOR, ZACHARY, born in Orange county, Vir- ginia, 1784; a distinguished American general, and the twelfth President of the United States; died, July 9, 1850. Quotations : Executive—People. TAYVRE. Quotation: Ruler. TECUMSEH, born near the Scioto river, Ohio 1770; a celebrated Indian chief of the Shawnee tribe; killed at the battle of the Thames, 1813. Quotations: God—Killing —Land—Life—Lying. - - - TEFFT, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, D.D., LL.D., born in Qneida county, New York, 1813; an Américan Methodist divine and author. Quotations: Education — Harshness— Leisure—Parent—Scholar—Surgeon. TEGNER, ESALAs, (Bishop of Wexio,) born in Wermland, 1782; a Swedish theologian, and the most cele- Hºeg §. of Sweden; died, November, 1846. Quotations: rL—Sleep. TEIGNMOUTH, JoHN SHORE, born in Devon- shire, 1751; an English statesman and writer ; died, 1834. Quotation : Death. TEISSIER, ANTOINE, born at Montpelier 1632; a French jurist and writer; died, 1715. Quotation: Reading. TELEMACHUS, the only son of Ulysses, King of Ithaca, who went in search of his father after the siege of Troy. The fortunes of Telemachus form the subject of the admirable romance of Fenelon, (q.v.,) and from which the following quotation is taken. Quotation : Statesman. TELESIO, BERNARDINO, born in Cosenza, 1508 ; an Italian philosopher, died, 1588. Quotations: Matter— Nature—World. TELESPHORUS, (Bishop of Rome,) supposed to have been elected, 127 A.D.; died, 138. Quotations. Rec- Teation—Tradition. TELLEZ, GABRIEL, (Tirso de Molina,) born in Madrid, 1585; a celebrated Spanish dramatist; died, 1648. Quotation : Marriage. TE-MO-TEI-TEI, born at Tahorrátta, one of the Society Islands, about 1782; a heathen native who was taken to England and converted to Christianity; died, October 2, 1800. Quotation : Decoration. TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, born in Blackfriars, Lon- don, 1628; a celebrated English statesman, diplomatist, and writer; died, January, 1699. Quotations : Ability—Alche- my—Authority—Beauty — Behavior— Boldness—Books— Cómpanion—Controversy—Conversation—Courage–Critic —Diét—Disease—Ease —Eccentricity – Endurance—EXcel- lence—Exercise — Faction — Formality — Friendship—Gar- den–Good — Good-Breeding — Goodness — GOVernment — Greeting—Health—Honor—Humor— Impotence—Industry –Ingenuity— Learning — Leisure — Life – Luxury-Man— Multitude—Music – Party–Passion—Peace—Pedantry- Physician–Poet—Possession — Power—Printing—Prophet —Riches—Eridicule—Sense—Sensitiveness—Sleep–Solitude –State—Study Temperance –Thinking —Trust—Truth— Tyrant—Valor—Wisdom—Work—Youth. TENCIN, CLAUDINE ALEXANDRINE GUERIN, DE, born at Grenoble, 1681; a French courtesan, and the mother of the celebrated D'Alembert, whom she abandoned. She obtained distinction by her literary ability; died, 1749. Quo- tation : Riches. TENCIN, PIERRE GUERIN DE, brother of the pre- ceding, born at Grenoble, 1680; a French cardinal and politician; died, 1758. Quotation: Reason. TEN-KATE, LAMBERT, lived about 1720; a Dutch clergyman and author; died, 1789. Quotation : Eye-Wit- IlêSS. TENNENT, SIR JAMEs EMERSON, K.C.S., LL.D., born in Belfast, 1804; a distinguished traveller, Statesman, and author; died, March, 1869. Quotations : Impulse — Method. TENNENT, WILLIAM, born in Ireland, 1705; an Irish-American divine and author: died at Freehold, New Jersey, March 8, 1777. Quotation : World. TENNEY, SANBoRN, born in Stoddard, New Hampshire, 1827; an American professor of natural history, and author; died, 1877. Quotation : Man. TENNEY, WILLIAM JEWETT, born in Newport, Rhode Island, 1811; an American historian and author. Quotation : Trying. TENNYSON, ALFRED, D.C.L., born at Somerby, Lincolnshire, 1809; an eminent English poet. He succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate, in 1851. Quotations: Hus- band—Prayer—Spring. 3, TERENCE, PUBLIUS AFER, born at Carthage, 195 B.C.; a celebrated Roman comic poet. At an early age he became the slave of a Roman Senator named Terentius flucanus, who gave him his liberty and a good education; died, 159 B.C. Quotations: Ability—Abundance–Acting lºBelief–Bravery – Chance – Circumstances— Custom – Dancing—Danger--Disguise--Doubt--Experience—Fortune —Habit—Heart–Hope-Hopelessness—Humanity-Inclina- tion—Indulgence—Industry—Judgment— Knavery-LOVe —Lover–Malice— Mankind— Marriage— Money—Obstacle —oppression—Payment--Power-Profuseness—Refutation —Repetition—Self-Adoration-Self:Love-Sºp-speech- Suspicion—Tales—Will—Wisdom—Woman—Worth. TERESA, SAINT, born at Avila, in Old Castile, March 28, 1515; a celebrated Spanish, religious Virgin, and the foundress of the reformation of the barefooted Car- melites; died in her cave at Alva, September 30, 1582. Qwo- tations : Ill—Remedy–Wisdom. A / O G R A P // / C A / / /V ZD E X. 1197 TERSTEEGEN, GERHARD, born at Meurs, No- vember 25, 1697; a German divine and writer Of Sacred po- etry; died April 3, 1769. Quotation : Report. TERTRE, JEAN BAPTISTE DU, born in Calais, 1610; a French Domenican ; died in Paris, 1687. Quotation : Conquest. TERTULLIAN, QUINTUs SEPTIMUs FLORENs, born in Carthage, 160 A.D.; an eminent Latin Father, and one of the most learned men of the primitive church ; died, 245. Quotations: Christ—Christian–Confession–Dress— Fashion—Truth—Usury. THAARUP, THOMAS, born in Copenhagen, 1749 : 8, g; poet and writer; died, 1821. Quotations: Custom —S11611C0. THABIT, ABö 'L-HAsAN IBN HARöN IBN KARA- ya. Ibn Marinſis Ibn Mälägeriſis Ibn Kurra, born in Harran, in Mesopotamia, 836; a gelebrated Arabian philosopher, poet, mathematician, and Oriental physician; died, Feb- ruary, 901. Quotation : Judges. THACHER, PETER, D.D., born in Milton, Massa- chusetts, 1752; an American Calvinistic divine and cele- brated pulpit orator; died, 1802. Quotation: Fireside. THACKERAY, ANNE ISABELLA, daughter of W. M. Thackeray, born about 1838; an English novelist and Hºus writer. Quotations: Miser—Nature—Preju- 1Ce—Tea, I’S. THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE, father of the preceding, born in Calcutta, India, 1811; a popular Eng- lish humorist, journalist, novelist, essayist, and lecturer: died, 1863. Quotations : Admiration—Affection—Ancestry — Appreciation—Author — Benevolence — Company— Dis- appointment - Eye — Fame -— Faults -— Forgetfulness — riendship — Gentleman — Humor — Kindred — Letters — Memory—Newspaper—Novelty–Novels—Parting—Pride— §ºse —Spy —Temptation—Tyrant — Woman—World— Outh. THAIS, SAINT, (The Penitent,) born about 310 ; an Athenian courtesan, who became penitent for her sins, and was canonized as a saint in the Greek menologies; died, 348. Quotation : Horror. THALES, born, 639 B.C.; one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece, and the founder of the Ionian philosophy. He was the first to accurately calculate a Solar eclipse; died, 543 B.C. , Quotations: Absenge - Alms– Anger—Ap- plause—Bachelor—Carefulness – Children — Country-Di- vinity—Docility—Ending—Faults—Fortune—Glory—God— Happiness–Hope-Jealousy – Kindness–Labor–Money— Offense-- Peace—Self-Knowledge–Space–Success—Time, —Vice—World—Wrong. THATFORD, STEPHEN H., born in Brooklyn, New York, March 10, 1839; an American volunteer, killed in the iºd battle of Bull Run, September 2, 1862. Quotation : lag. THAUMARTURGUS, GREGORY SAINT, born in Cappadocia, about 210: one of the early Christian theolo- gians, and a disciple of Origen; died, 270. Quotation : Death. THAYER, ALEXANDER W.; an American mis- cellaneous writer. Quotation : Money. THEANO, the wife of Pythagoras, (q.v.,) born in § she was distinguished as a philosopher. Quotation : urluy. THEMISTIUS, (Euphrades, ) born in Paphlago- nia, 315 A.D.; a Greek orator and philosopher: died, 390 A.D. Quotations : Opinion—Sectarianism—Worship. THEMISTOCLES, born, 514 B.C.: an Athenian commander, Statesman, and Orator ; died in Persia, 465 B.C. , Quotations: Exile–Gifts—Greatness—Magistrate— Speech—Suicide. THEOBALD, LEWIS, born in Kent, about 1670; an English critic and commentator on Shakspeare ; died, 1744. Quotation : Invasion. THEOCRITUS, born in Syracuse, and flourished about 272 B.C.; the most famous of the Greek pastoral poets. He was the greator of bugolic poetry. Quotations: Avarice—Beauty—Death—Oblivion—Wealth—Youth. THEODORE, or THEODOSIUS, SAINT, born in Mogariassus, in Cappadocia, 423; a celebrated Greek divine and monk. He was noted for his extreme piety; died, 529. Quotations: Health—Femedy. THEODORET, born in Antioch, 390 A.D.; an emi- ment, Christian writer and ecclesiastic; died, 457, A.D. Quotations : Reprehension—Superstition. THEODORIC, THE GREAT, born, 455 A.D.: King * Ostrogoths; died, 526. Quotations: Religion —Sac- I’lf!Cé. THEODORUS, (Archbishop of Canterbury,) born in Tarsus, a city of Asiatic Turkey, in Caramania, 619; an eminent divine and writer; died, 690. Quotations : Athe- ism–Gossip—Patriotism. THEODOSIUS I, (FLAVIUS THE GREAT,) born in Śºn, 346; a Roman emperor; died, 395 A.D. Quotation : €8.1. THEODOSIUS II, THE YoUNGER, born, 401 A.D.: Emperor of Constantinople; died, 450 A.D. Quotation : Emperor. THEODOSIUS III, (Adramyttenws,) succeeded Anastasius the Second, as Emperor of Constantinople, in 715, A.D. Quotation : Patience. THEOGNIS, born in Megara, and flourished about 540 B.C.; a Greek poet and philosopher. tº OtºttiO70s. Af- fluence—ASSociation —Becommendation—Riches—Tongue zººmery — Ungodliness—Weeping — Wine —Wisdom — Olitſl. THEOMANTIUS ; the pseudonym of a modern Writer. Quotation : Praise. THEOPHRASTUS, born in Eresus, in Lesbos, 374 B.C.; a celebrated Greek philosopher; died, 286 B.C. Quo- tations. Acting — Beauty – Complacency — Existence — Friendship—Ingratitude—License —Night—Opinion—Ora- tory—Order—Prodigality—Slander — Slovenliness—Time— Traitor—Wife. THEOPOMPUS, born in Chios, 378 B.C.; a fa- mous Greek historian, and a disciple of Isocrates; died, 305 B.C. Quotations : Choice — Disobedience — Old Age — Threats—Youth. THERESA, SAINT, born in Avila, 1515; a Spanish nun, celebrated for her piety and talents; died, 1582. Quo- tation. : Wisdom. THESPIS, born in Icaria, in Attica, and flourished about 540 B.C.; a Greek dramatist. He is called the inven- tor of tragedy. Quotations. Actor—Jest. THEURGIST : a sect that flourished during the first and Second Centuries, whose members claimed to WOrk Hºles. and converse with spirits. Quotations : Love— Mll Il Cl. THIERRY, AMáDéE, SIMON DOMINIQUE, born at Blois, 1797; a French historian and author; died in Lon- don, February 13, 1847. Quotation : Life. THOLUCK, FRIEDRICH AUGUST GOTTREN, born in Breslau, March 30, 1799; an eminent German theologian and author; died, June, 1877. Quotation : Old Age. THOMAS A KEMPIS. See KEMPIs, THOMAs A. THOMAS, ANNIE, (MRs. PENDER CUDLIP, q.v.) Quotation : Good-Bye. THOMAS, AQUINAs, SAINT. See AQUINAs, SAINT Thomas. THOMAS, DAVID, born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, 1776: a celebrated American pomologist, florist, and writer on agriculture; died, 1859. Quotations : Horticulture—Innovation—Virtue. THOMAS, ELIZABETH, born, 1675: an English pºss. and a friend of Dryden, (q.v.) Quotation : House- WIIe. THOMAS, FREDERICK WILLIAM, born in Provi- dence, Rhode Island, 1808; an American novelist and mis- cºneous Writer. Quotations : Ambition—Resurrection —SIIl. THOMAS, GEORGE H, born in Southampton county, Virginia, July 31, 1816; a distinguished American general ; died, 1870. Quotation : Zeal. - THOMAS, ISAIAH, LL.D., born in Boston, 1749; one of the most eminent of American printers. He foun- ded the American Antiquarian Society of Worcester; died in Worcester, 1831. Quotation : Printing. THOMAS, JANE PINHORN, born at Woolwich, 1800; an English dramatic and miscellaneous Writer. Quo- tation : Harmony. THOMAS, John J., son of David Thomas, born in Cayuaga county, New York, 1810; an American pomolo- gist and writer on agriculture. Quotations: Flowers— Horticulture—Plant. THOMAS, OR MALMESBURY, flourished in the twelfth century: an English divine. Quotations. Action —AVarice—Mankind. THOMAS, RALPH, born in London, 1835; an Eng- lish bibliographer and law writer. Quotation : Prejudice. THOMAS, SAINT, (Archbishop of Valentia,) born at Fuenlana, in Castile : a celebrated Spanish divine; died, 1555. Quotation : Damnation. THOMAS, WILLIAM, D.D., (Bishop of Worcester,) the son of a linen draper, born in the city of Bristol, Feb- ruary 2, 1613 : an eminent English divine and author. He was chaplain to the Duke of York, and preceptor, to the princess, afterwards Queen Anne ; died, June 25, 1689. Qºto- tations : Acting-Atonement—Belief –Christianity—Crea- tion—Deeds—Fellowship—Mind—Morality—Righteousness —Remorse—Ritual—Science—Sermon—Soul—Theology. THOMASON, A.; an English traveller, and author of “Men and Things in America,” (London, 1838.) Quota- tions: Monarchy—Time. THOMPSON, AUGUSTUS CHARLEs, born at Go- shen, Connecticut, 1812; an American divine and author. Quotation : Death. THOMPSON, DANIEL PIERCE, born in Charles- town, Massachusetts, October 1, 1795: an American novel- ist : died. 1868. Quotation : Pedigree. THOMPSON, EDWARD, born in Hull, 1737 : an English poet and writer; died, 1786. Quotation : Intuition. 1198 JD A Y 'S CO /, / A C O ZV. THOMPSON, ELLA W.; an American writer, and the authoress of “Beaten Paths, or Woman's Vocation.” (Boston, 1874.) Quotation : Efficiency. THOMPSON, GEORGE, born in Manchester, about 1800; an English orator and abolitionist; died, 1867. Quo- tation : Liberty. THOMPSON, WILLIAM, born in Belfast, Novem- ber 2, 1805; an eminent Irish naturalist and author; died, February 17, 1852. Quotation : Self-Preservation. THOMS, WILLIAM JoHN, born, 1803; an English antiquarian Writer and editor, (London, 1828-73.) (Jºtotat- tion : Hardihood. THOMSON, ANDREw, D.D., born in Dumfries- shire, July 11, 1779; a Scottish divine and pulpit orator; died, February 9, 1831. Quotations : Liberty—Salvation. THOMSON, EDwARD, D.D., born at Portsea, 1870, emigrated to America, in 1843; an English-American divine, and Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; died, 1870. Quotations : Anatomy—Form — Mother — Self-Conquest— School—Shame—Thinking. THOMSON, JAMEs, born in Ednam, Roxburgh- shire, September 11, 1700; a celebrated English poet, and author of “The Seasons; ” died, 1748. Quotations: Discon- tent—Dying—Forgiveness — Glory—Honor—Idea—Ingrati- tude—Lover—Manners—Passion—Peace—Press—Variance War—Woe. THOMSON, WILLIAM, D. D., (Archbishop of York, ) born at Whitehaven, Cumberland, February 11, 1819; an English divine and author. Quotation : Logic. THOMSON, WILLIAM M., D.D. : an American di- vine and author. He was for twenty-five years a mission- ary to Palestine. Quotation : Zion. THORBURN, GRANT, born near Dalkeith, 1773; emigrated to the United States, in 1794; a Scottish-Ameri- can author: died in New Haven. Connecticut, 1863. Q/t0- totion : World. - THOREAU, HENRY DAVID, born in Concord, Massachusetts, July 12, 1817; an eminent American natur- alist, Orientalist, and author; died, May 6, 1862. Qºţotſt- tions : Aim—Castles-in-the-Air-Costume—Evil–Fashion —Features—Goodness—Humility–Idleness— Imagination —Life—Money–Noise—Opinion—Sensuality—Simplicity— Solitude—Sunshine—Tinle—Trust—Witchcraft. THORILD, THOMAs, born at Bohuslan, 1759 : a Swedish scholar and miscellaneous writer; died, 1819. Qºto- tations. Orthodoxy—Religion—Sabbath—Temple. THORNBURY, GEORGE WALTER, born, 1828: an English poet, novelist, and miscellaneous writer; died, 1876. Quotations. Coyness—Truth. THORNTON, BONNELL, born in London, 1724; an English littérateur and humorous writer; died, 1768. Quottations: Pedantry—Self. THORNTON, JOHN WINGATE, born at Saco, Maine, August 12, 1818; an American divine and author. Quotations : Precept—Repentance. THORNTON, WILLIAM LLOYD, born in Norwich, 1810; an English divine and author; died, 1874. Quota- tions : Piety—Prayer. THORNTON, WILLIAM THOMAs, born, 1813: an Finglish political economist and author, (London, 1845–73.) Quotation. Companion. THORPE, THOMAS BANGs, born in Westfield, Massachusetts, March 1, 1815; an American artist and lit- térateur. Quotation : Anatomy. THORWALDSEN, ALBERT BERTEL, born on the sea between Iceland, and Copenhagen, November, 1770; a Danish sculptor, died, March, 1844. Quotation : Statues. THRASEA, POETUS, born in Padua : a Roman Senator and Stoic philosopher - died, 66 A.D. Quotation : Friendship. THRASIMUND, born 496; a king of the Vandal tribe of barbarians; died 524. Quotations : Apostasy. THRASYBULUS, born in Attica, 455 B.C.: an eminent Grecian patriot and military commander ; killed near Aspendus, 389 B.C. Quotation : Amnesty. THRAX, MAXIMINUS CAIUs JULIUS VERUs, born in Thrace, 173 A.D.; a Roman emperor, who succeeded Alexander Severus, in 235: killed in Aquileia, 238. Quota- tion : Station. - THUANUS, (De Thow,) JACQUES AUGUSTE, born in Paris, October, 1553; an eminent French historian and Statesman ; died, May, 1617. Quotation : Reform. THUCYDIDES, a son of Olorus, born of a noble family in the demus Halimus, in Attica, 471 B.C.; an emi- nent Greek historian and general. He was a contemporary of Socrates and Euripides; died, 401 B.C. Quotationis: Ab- Sonce – Accusation – Adversity — Aversion — Boasting— Chance—Credit—Democracy — Discipline — Disgrace—Dis- tance—Envy—Evil —Expostulation — Fraud—Hope—Injus- tige—Obscurity—Oligarehy—Perverseness—Poor—-Poverty -Power—Precedent—Prudence—Rank—Revenge—Rival— #. – State — Success — Vengeance —Villainy — War — OIſlan. THUMMOSIS; an Egyptian king who flourished about 1700 B.C. Quotation? Ill-Will. THUNBERG, CARL PEDER, born in the province of Smaland, 1743; a celebrated Swedish botanist, physician, and author; died, 1828. Quotations : Trees. THURLOE, JOHN, born at Abbot's Roding, Essex, 1616; an English minister of state; died, 1668. 7totation : Probabiilty. - THURSTON, ELIZABETH A., born in New Jersey, *ś ; an American educator and author. Quotation : €tl"Othal. TIBERIUS I, (CLAUDIUs NERO,) born, 42 B.C.; a celebrated emperor of Rome; died, 37 A.D. Quotations: Alms – Christ — Christian — Pastor — Physic — Robbery — Slaughter. - TIBERIUS II, (Thraac,) born in Trace, in the early art of the sixth century; a celebrated emperor of the Cast; died, 582 A.D. Quotation: Benefactor. TIBULLUS, AULUs ALBIUs, born about 59 B.C.; a celebrated Latin poet and a friend of Horage; died, 18 B.C. Quotations : Comet—Esteem—Lover—Mirth—Peace —Punishment. TICKELL, THOMAs, born in Bridekirk, Cumber- land, 1686; an English poet and translator; died, April 23, 1740. Quotations : Jade–Popery. TICKNOR, GEORGE, born in Boston, 1791; a dis- tinguished American scholar and author; died, 1871. Quo- tration. : COmmunism. TIECK, LUDw1G, born in Berlin, May, 1773 : an eminent German writer, poet, and novelist; died in Berlin, April, 1853. Quotations : Benevolence—Evening—Flowers —Love—Moment—Nobility—Praise—Sorrow. TIFFIN, EDwARD, M.D., born in Carlisle, Eng- land, June 19, 1766, emigrated to the United States, 1786; a Methodist divine ; died at Chillicothe, Ohio, August 9, 1829. Quotation: Boys. TIHAMI: ABö 'L-HASAN ALI IBN MUHAMMAD AT, born about 958; an Arabian poet and philosopher; died in brison, at Cairo, June, 1025. Quotations: Qualification — Reputation. TILDEN, SAMUEL JONES, born in New Lebanon, New York, February 9, 1814; an American lawyer and Statesman. In 1876 he was nominated for Fº and received a majority of the popular vote, but by the fraudu- lent action of the republican managers, he was deprived of the honor. Quotation : Election. TILLINGHAST, John, born about 1585; an Eng- lish divine and author; died, 1653. Quotations: Idleness —Learning—Peace. TILLOTSON, JOHN, D.D., (Archbishop of Canter- bury,) born in Yorkshire, 1630; a celebrated English divine and author. As a preacher he surpassed all his rivals. and he still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic ; died, 1694. Quotations : Abstinence—Admiration—Affliction— Anger —Anticipation — Aphorism — Appetite — Atheism — Attainment—Backbiter—Boldness—Cheating—-Comparison —Consciousness— Contempt—Contumely—COn Versation— Counterfeit—Covetousness—Declaration—Defeat—Deity— Diligence— Discontent— Eminence—Eternity—Exaltation —Expectation—Experience — Extravagance—Falsehood— Fear—Forbearance--- Future—God—Good— Goyernment— Guilt—Happiness—Hate—Heathen— Heaven—Heinousness —Idleness—Ignorance--Immortality-–Induction—Integrity —Irresolution— Judgments—Laconics— Life—Listlessness —Love— Malice — Mortification — Obligation — Omission— Pardon—Parent— Patience — Perfection—Perfidy—Possi- bilities—Practice—Prodigality—Production—Prohibition— Proselyte– Prospect — lieason – Ireligion – Reputation — Riches—Security—Self-Loye- Service-Seyerity–Shame- lessness—Sincerity—Singularity—Slander—Society—Solici- tude—Success—Swearing- ºolºº –Troubles-Truth— Iſnderstanding — Ungodliness —- Viciousness — Virtue — Wickedness—Wills—Wisdom—Words—World—Zeal. TILLOTSON, MARY E. : an American social re- former, (resident of Vineland, New Jersey.) Quotation: Free-Thinking. - TILTON, THEODORE, born in the city of New York, October 2, 1835; an American miscellaneous writer, journalist, and lecturer. Quotations : Babe—Bells-Chris- tianity—Cloud—Critic—Defeat—Editor—-Election—Equivo- cation—Essay—Expression—Fate—Fear—Frankness—Har- vest—Home — Honor— Integrity — Journalism — Liberty— Love—Manners —Merchant – Music — Negroes—Opinion— Paradise—Party—Pen—Poet — Prejudice — Press—Pulpit— Race—Sectarianism—Sermon —Simile—Statesman—Teach- ing–Time—Toleration —Truth — Usefulness—Weakness— Words. TIMBS, John, born in London, 1801 : an English writer and journalist; died, 1875. Quotations : Anecdotes —Moment. TIMOCLES, flourished about 340 B.C.; an Athe- nian comic poet. Quotations : Ambition—Poverty. TIMOUR. See TAMERLANE. Quotation. Insect. TINDAL, MATTHEw, LL.D., born in Devonshire, 1657; an £nglish jurist and deistical writer; died, 1733. )?totations : Infidelity—Justification —Nature—Religion— evelation—Scripture. TINDAL, NICHOLAs, nephew of the preceding, born in Devonshire, 1687 : an English divine and author; died, 1774. Quotations: Satisfaction—Wag. ‘B / O G R A P H / C A Z / M D E X. 11.99 TINDALL, WILLIAM, born, 1754; an English di- vine and writer ; died, 1804. Quotation Sense. TIN-I-SHIU ; an ancient Japanese author of some note. Quotation : Zephyr. , TISSOT, SIMON ANDRá, born at Grancy, in the Pays de Vaud, France, 1728; a celebrated Swiss physician and author; died, 1797. Quotation : Romance. TITON DU TILLET, EvKRARD, born in Paris, 1677: a French author: died 1762. Quotation : Question. TITUS, FLAVIUS VESPASIANUs, born, 40 A.D.: an emperor of Rome; died, 81 A.D. Quotations: Christian —Prince—Sadness. TI, XI-HOAM, EMPEROR. See XI-HOAM-TI. TOBIN, John, born, 1770 : an English dramatist ; died, 1801. Quotation : Command. TOCQUEVILLE, ALEXIS CHARLES HENRI CLE- rel, de, born in Paris, June 29, 1805; an eminent French Statesman, philosopher, political economist, and author: died at Cannes, April, 1859. Qºtotations : Christianity — Freedom—Woman. TQDD, JOHN, D.D., born in Rutland, Vermont, 1800; an American Congregational divine and author. Quo- tottions. ACCul'ac łoś. – Death — Early-Rising — Humility— Past— Politeness—Reading—Self-Knowledge— Self-Reliance–Smoking—Stealing—Student—Tobacco. TODD, ROBERT BENTLEY, born, 1800; an English physician, and writer on physiology; died, 1860. Quota- tion: Dinner. TOKUHON ; a modern Japanese poet and preach- er. Quotation : Gods. TOLAND, JOHN, born near Londonderry, 1669; an Irish deistical and controversial writer; died, March 11, 1722. Quotations. Goodliness—Superstition. TOLSTOI, PETER, COUNT, born, 1650 ; a Russian diplomatist ; died, 1728. Quotation : Passion. TOMES, ROBERT, born in the city of New York, 1816; an American physician, traveller, and author. Quo. tattºon : Retirement. TOMLINE, GEORGE, (Bishop of Lincoln and Dean of Saint Paul's,) born in Suffolk, 1750; an English divine and author; died, 1827. Quotations: Intrusion—Pardon– Scripture. - TOMYRIS, the Queen of the Massagetae, (Scyth- ians,) when Cyrus the Great invaded Scythia. She defeated him in battle, 529 B.C. Quotations: Satiety—War. TONNA, CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH BROWN, born in Norwich, 1792; an English authoress; died in London, 1846. Quotation : Sister. TONSTALL, CUTHBERT, (Bishop of Durham,) born in Yorkshire, 1475; an eminent English divine, statesman, and writer; died, 1559. Quotation : Evangelist. TQOKE, ANDREW, born in London, 1673; an Eng- lish teacher and writer; died, 1731. Quotation : Truth. TOOKE, JOHN HORNE, M.P., born in Westmin- Ster, London, June 25, 1736; a celebrated English philolo- gist and politician: died, March 18, 1812. Quotations : Lan- guage—Sense. TOOKE, THOMAS, a son of the Rev. William Tooke, mentioned below, born about 1800; an English financier and political economist; died, 1858. Quotation : Advertise- TOQKE, WILLIAM, born, 1744; an English divine and miscellaneous writer; died, 1820. Quotation : Feeling. TOOMBS, ROBERT, born in Wilkes county, Geor- §: 1814; an American politician and author. Quotation : lavery. TOOTHAKER, CHARLEs EveRETT, M.D.; an American physician, and Writer on social topics. Quota- tions: Brotherhood—Odd-Fellow—Opinion. TOPLADY, AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE, born at Farn- ham, Surrey, 1740; an English Calvinistic divine and au- thor; died, August 11, 1778. Quotations : Church—Death— Reformation. TORAH. See MISHNA. Quotations: God—Recreation. TORDENSKIOLD, PETER, born at Drontheim, NQI'Way, 1691; a celebrated admiral in the Danish service; killed in a duel in Hanover, 1720. Quotation : Soldier. TQRREY, CHARLEs TURNER, born at Scituate, Massachusetts, 1813; an American theologian and aboli. tionist ; died in prison at Baltimore, May 3, 1846. Quota- tion : Jail. TORSHELL, SAMUEL, born about 1600; precep- tor to children of Charles I. Quotation : Blunder. TORTUSHI, ABö BAKR MUHAMMAD IBN AL- Walid Ibn Muhammad Ibn Khalaf Ibn Sulaimān Ibn Aiyūb Al-Kurashi Al-Fihri At, born, 1060; an Arabian physician, §. philosopher and author; died, June, 1126. Quotation: oney. TOSAFOT, or TOSAPHOTH, denotes those addi- tions, Qr supplimentary glosses to Rashi's commentary on the Talmud. Quotations: Wills—Wine. TOTTIE, John, (Archdeacon of Worcester,) born about 1702; an English divine and author; died, 1774. Quo- tations : Imbecility—Wirtue. TOULMIN, CAMILLA. See CROSLAND, MRS. NEw- ton. Quotation : Dissipation. TOULMIN, JOSHUA, born, 1740; an English Dis- senting divine and author; died, 1815. Quotations : Com- pany—Harmony. TOURNEUR, CYRIL, born about 1580; an English 3. and dramatist ; died, 1547. Quotations : Listening— Time. TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE, born near Cap François, in Hayti, 1743: a celebrated negro general and liberator; died in prison, in France, April, 1803. Quota- tions : Combination—Liberty. TOWER, DAVID BATEs, born at Boston, Massa- Chusetts, 1808: an American Gducator, and author of School books. Quotattions: Application — Arithmetic — Honor— Nature—Voice. TOWN, SALEM, born in Belchertown, Massachu- Setts 1779; an American Colucational Writer ; died in Indi- ana, 1864. Quotations. Allegory—Freemasonry. TOWNLEY, JAMEs, born in London, 1715 ; an English divine and dramatic writer ; died, 1778. Quota- tion : Physician. TOWNSEND, CALVIN, born, 1814; an American writer on civil government and commercial law ; died, May 25, 1881. Quotation : Law. TOWNSEND, VIRGINIA FRANCEs, born at New Haven, Connecticut, 1818; an American novelist, and mis- cellaneous writer. Quotation : Heart. TOXAIRE, LUCIEN ; a modern French astrono- mer. Quotation : Zenith. TRACY, URIAH, born in Franklin, Connecticut, 1755; an American statesman ; died, 1807. Quotation : Remedy. TRAFFORD, MRs. F. G. See RIDDELL, CHAR- lotte E. L. Quotation : Joy. TRAIL, WILLIAM ; an American divine and au- thor. Quotation : Vocation. TRAILL, JAMES, (Bishop of Down and Connor,) born about 1710; an English divine and author; died, 1783. Quotation : Christ. TRAILL, ROBERT, born in Fifeshire, 1642; a Scotch Calvinistic divine and author; died, 1783. Quota- tions: Cavil—Ignorance—Learning. TRAIN, GEORGE FRANCIS, born in Boston, 1830 ; an American Imerchant, author, traveller, and lecturer. He is marked for eccentricity. Quotation : Illness. TRAPP, JOHN, born, 1601 ; an English divine and author; died, 1669. Quotations: Death—Hope—Hypocrisy —Meekness—Revenge–Unity. TRASK, M. : an American divine, of the present century. Quotation : Tobacco. TRAJAN, MARCUS ULPIUS NERVA, born near Seville, 52 A.D.; a Fºoman emperor: died at Selinus, in Ci- licia, 117 A.D. Quotations: Subject—Unkindness. TRAVERS, WALTER, born about 1557; an Eng- lish divine and author; died, 1609. Quotation : Invasion. TRAYNOR a writer on civil jºriºudence, and author of “Law Maxims,” Quotation: Fee. TREBUTIEN, GUILLAUME STANISLAs, born in Calvados, 1800; a French antiquary and Orientalist. Quo- tattions : Concord—Wine. TREFREDYN 3 a Welch bard and prose writer. Quotation. COnduct. TREFFRY, RICHARD, born, 1805 : an English Wesleyan, divine; died at Penzance, 1838. Quotations: Holy-Spirit—Prayer. TRELLON, CLAUDE DE, born, 1547 : a French poet and author; died, 1605. Quotation : Coquetry. TRENCH, RICHARD CHENEVIx, D.D., (Archbishop of Dublin,) born, September 9, 1807; an eminent Irish eccle- siastic, philologist, and author. Quotations : Captivity — Common-Sense—Congratulation—Controversy—Indolence —Language—Preacher — Proverbs — Punishment—Satan— Self-Love—Speaking—Synonym—Testament—Wit—Words. TRENCHARD, JoHN, born, 1662 : an English journalist and writer; died, 1723. Quotation : Industry. TRENCHFIELD, CALEB : an English author and miscellaneous writer. Quotation: Wit. TRENCK, FRIEDRICH, BARON, born at Königs- berg, 1726: a German Jacobin ; executed in Paris, 1794. Quo- £6&tion : Jealousy—Question. TRESSAN, LOUIS ELISABETH DE LA VERGNE, Count de, born at Mons, 1705: a French officer. and littéra- teur; died, 1783. Quotation : Procrastination TREVANION, F. W., born about 1817; an Eng- lish author. Quotation : Quotation. TREVANION, HENRY, born in London, 1792; an English writer; died, 1859. Quotation: Corporation. | 1200 A) A Y',S C O /, / A C O AV. TREVELY AN, LORD, K.C.B., (SIR CHARLES ED- ward,) born, 1807; an English statesman. Quotation : Capital. TREVOR, GEORGE, born, 1810; an English divine and author. Quotation : Magistrate. TREVOR, RICHARD, (Bishop of Saint David's,) born, 1701; a Welch divine and author; died, 1771. Quotat- tions: Leaves—Punctuality. TRIE, or TRYE, CUVELIER DE, JEAN GUILLAUME Auguste, born, 1766; a French dramatist and littérateur; died, 1824. Quotation : Knighthood. TRIG, FRANCIS, born, 1712; an English miscel- ianeous writer, died, 1779. Guotation: Miñister. TRIMMER, MARY, born about 1735 ; an English authoress. Quotation : Communism. TRIMMER, SARAH KIRBY, sister of the preced- ing, born in Ipswich, 1741; an English authoress; died, December 15, 1810. Quotations. Coyness—Medicine—Na- ture. TRINAL, THEOPHILUs, the pseudonym of T. T. Lynch, (q.v.) Quotation : Meditation. TRIOEDD ; a Welch bard and prose writer. Quo. tattion : Health. - TRISMEGISTUS, HERMES, lived about the third century; a mythical Egyptian priest and writer on philoso- phy and astrology, and the author of “ Aphorisms of Tris- megistus Hermes,” and other works. Quotation : Woman. TRISSINO, GIov ANNI GIORGIo, born in Vicenza, 1478; an Italian littérateur and author; died, 1550. Quota. tion : Honor. TROLLOPE, ANTHONY, the second son of Mrs. Trollope, the Well-known authoress, mentioned below, born, April 24, 1815; a voluminous and popular English novelist ; died, December 7, 1882. Quotation : Name. TROLLOPE, FRANCEs, mother of the preceding, horn, 1790; a popular English novelist; died, 1863. Quota- ito” . MOuth. * TROLLOPE, THOMAS ADOLPHUs, son of the pre- ceding, born, 1810; an English Writer. Quotation : Re- IſlC)1 S6. TROMP, MARTEN HARPERTzoon, voN, born in Briel, in Holland, 1597; a celebrated naval commander ; died, August, 1653. Quotation : Adventure. TROWBRIDGE, R. F.; an English journalist and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Method. TROUCHIN, THEODoRE, born in Geneva, 1709 ; an eminent Swiss physician and author; died in Paris, 1781. Quotation : Diet. TROWER, JoHN WALTER, (Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway,) born, 1804; an English divine and author. Quotation : Capacity. TRUE, CHARLEs K., born about 1812; an English Writer. Quotation : Inhumanity. TRUEBAY COSIO DE, TELESFORO, born in San- tander, Spain, 1805: a distinguished Spanish writer; died, 1835. Quotation: Self-Possession. TRUGILLO, T. D.E. Quotation : Forwardness. TRUMAN, Joseph, born, 1631 ; an English divine and author; died, 1671. Quotation : Evangelist. TRUMBULL, HENRY CLAY, born in Connecticut, 1830; an American divine and missionary. Quotation : Friendship. TRUMBULL, MISS J.; an American miscellane- ous writer. Quotation : Lightning. TRUMBULL, JAMEs R., born in Williamsburg, Massachusetts; an American journalist and writer. Qwo- tations: Mind—Morality—Poetry — Press — Printing—Rea- SOIl. TRUMBULL, JonATHAN, (Brother Jonathan,) born in Lebanon, Connecticut, 1710; an Amerigan states- man, and friend of Washington; died, 1785. Quotation : Progress. TRUSLER, John, LL.D., born, 1735; an English physician, divine, and author; died, 1820. Quotations: Ability—Equity—Equivocation—Interest-Learning—Ma- lignity—Memory—Money—Prohibition—Title. TRYPHIODORUS, born in Egypt, in the latter part of the fifth *ś a Greek poet and grammarian. Quotations : Life—Preface. TSANG, the father of Tsang Sin ; a Chinese phil- osopher and a disciple of Confucius. Quotations: Ability —Awe – Decorum – Endurance — Gravity— Pity— Ruler– Temperance. TSCHIRNER or TZSCHIRNER, HEINRICH GOT- tlieb, born in Saxony, 1778; a German Protestant theolo- gian and author; died, 1828. Quotation : Precedent. TSCHERNING, ANDREAS, born in Bunzlau, 1611; # ºnan lyric poet and author; died, 1659. Quotation : abit. TSCHERNING, ANTON FRIEDRICH, born in Fred- ericksvark, 1795; a celebrated Danish statesman ; died, 1859. Quotations: Devil—Morning—Office. TSCHIRNHAUSEN, EHRENFRIED WALTER voN, born near Görlitz, in Upper Lusatia, 1651 ; an eminent Ger- manºmathematician and philosopher; died, 1708. Quota- tion º Present. TSEU-SE : a Chinese philosopher and a disciple of Confucius. Quotation : Remedy. TSHANG : a Chinese philosopher, disciple of Con- fucius. Quotation : Question. TSIN, DUKE OF : a Chinese ruler who lived in the time of Mencius. Quotations: State—Talent. TSOU-CAO ; a Chinese gºpher, and a disciple of Confucius. Quotation : Nobility. TSZ-LOO,(Chung Yew ;) a Chinese philosopher, and a disciple of Confucius. Quotations: Insincerity — Prayer—State. TSZE:CHANG, (Chuen-sun-Sze ) a Chinese phi- 1989pher, and a disciple of Confucius. Quotations:*Ap- preciation-Hesitation—Talent—Virtue. TSZE-HEA, (Puh-Shang;) a Chinese philosopher, and a disciple of Confucius. Quotations : Inquiry — Me- chanics–Mourning—Perfection-Student—Teaching. TSZE-KUNG : a Chinese philosopher and a dis- çiple of Confucius. Quotations: Learning — Modesty — Rudeness—Sun—Teaching—Tongue—Wisdom. TSZE-SZE ; a Chinese philosopher, and the grand- Son of Confucius. Quotations: Omen—Station—Water. TUBERO, QUINTUs AELIUs, born about 102 B.C.; a Roman orator and jurist, and a friend of Cicero. Quota. tions: Diet–Luxury. TUCKER, ABRAHAM, born in London, 1705; an English metaphysician and author; died, 1774. Quota- tions : Habit—Rectitude. TUCKER, BEVERLY, born in Matoax, Virginia, 1784; an American novelist and political writer; died, Au- gust 26, 1851. Quotation : Love. TUCKER, CHARLOTTE. (A. L. O. E. :) a celebrated English novelist who wrote under the initial-pseudonym of “A Lady of England.” Quotation : Employment. TUCKER, GEORGE, born in Virginia, 1775: an American jurist and author; died, 1861. Quotations: Ridi- Cule—Wisdom. TUCKER, JOSHUA THOMAs, born at Milton, Mas- Sachusetts, 1812: an American Congregationalist divine. Quotations : Merit—Task. TUCKER, JOSIAH., D.D., (Dean of Gloucester,) born in Qarmarthenshire, 1711; a Welch divine and author; died, 1799. Quotations: Correction—Pleasure. TUCKER, JOHN RANDOLPH, born in Virginia ; an American Statesman. Quotation : Power. TUCKER, JOSIAH, D.D., (Dean of Gloucester, ) born, 1711 : an English divine and author; died, 1799. Quo- tation : COrrection—Passion. TUCKERMAN, HENRY THEODORE, born in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, April 20, 1813; an American poet, essay- ist, Critic, and biographer; died, 1871. Quotations : Author —Beauty-Character—Conyersation — Counsel — Earnest- neSS-Enthusiasm – Eye – Fashion — Flattery— Flowers— Hand-Heart-Literature — Love—Loyalty—Manners—Na- tions—Patriotism --Poetry—Privacy—Religion—Sympathy —Travel—Voice—Walking. TUCKERMAN, JOSEPH, D.D., an uncle of the § born in Boston, 1778; an American Unitarian iVine and author; died, 1840. Quotations: Counsel—Self- Respect. TUDOR, WILLIAM, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1779; an American littérateur and author; died, 1830. Quo. tation : Plagiarism. TUFTON_; an English author and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Faithfulness. TUFTS, JoHN, born at Newburyport, Massachu- setts, 1810; an agricultural Writer. Quotations: Farmer— Mechanism—Rural Life. TUKE, SIR SAMUEL, born, 1601 ; an English dra- matist, and author of the celebrated comedy, “The Adven- tures of Five Hours; ” died, 1673. Q7zotation : Servant. TUKE, WILLIAM, born, 1732; an English Quaker and philanthropist; died, 1822. Quotation : Magistrate. TULL, JETHRO, born in Oxfordshire, 1680; an English agriculturist and author; died, 1740. Quotation : Horticulture. TULLOCH, JOHN, D.D., born in Perthshire, 1823: a Scottish theologian and author. Quotations: Business —Communion—Genius–Melody—System. TULLY, Jose.P.H. B., born in Tully, Ireland, 1833; an Irish educational writer. Quotation : Induction. TULLY. THOMAs, born in Carlisle, 1620: an Eng- lish divine and author; died, 1676. Quotations: Decency —Exercise—Traitor. TUNIKHI, ABU L' KASIM AT, born in Antioch, 892; an Arabian poet; died at Basra, 953. Quotations: Friendship—Light—Sun. A / O G. A. A P H / C A Z / M /) A X. 120.1 TUPPER, ELLEN S., born about 1830 ; an Ameri- can bee culturist, resident in the state of Iowa. (2100tſtlion : Bees. TUPPER, MARTIN FARQUHAR, born in London, 1810; an eminent English writer, philosopher, and poet, and author of “Proverbial Philosophy.” Quotations: Adver- sity Alchemy-Analogy—Anger–Babe-Beauty--Boldness -Éride–Brotherhood-Chance – Compensatloil-Content- ment-Cruelty–Despondency – Diamond–Earth–E1191– #xtravagancé–Faith - Greeting - Happiness-Humility- Hypocrisy— Immortality-Invention I. Judgment—Bºno W- ledge--Labor—Life – Loneliness T Love—MeanneSS—Menil- ory”. Nature–Obedience –Pain–Pen-Penuly. Pleasure- Prayer—Pride—Reflection- Resignation—Ridigule—Scoff- ingº Self-Acquaintance-Self-Ignorancº-Self-Interest.— Ščivility -Sièep-speech -Suspicion - Trifle-Ubiquity- tjniverse—Vacation—Wealth—Work—Wrong. TURANDOT : the hero of one of Schiller's dra- matic representations. Quotation : Mouth. TURBERVILLE, GEORGE, born, 1530 ; an Eng- lish poet and writer; died, 1594. Quotation : Sight. TURELL, EBENEZER, born, 1702; an American divine and author ; died, 1778. Quotation : Witchcraft. TURENNE, HENRI DE LA Tour D'AUVERGNE, Vicomte de, born in Sedan, September 11,1611; a famous Fºch general ; killed at Salzbach, July, 1675. Quotattion : 8.1". TURIBIUS, SAINT, (Bishop of Astorga,) born, 390 A.D.; a zealous Spånish ecclesiastic; died, 460. Quotat- tion : Insolence. TURNBULL, JAMES, born about 1807; an English divine, theologian, and author; died, 1863. Quotation : Oratory. - TURNEBUS, ADRIAN, born in Normandy, 1512; an eminent French scholar; died, 1594, Quotation : Indi- gence. TURNER, DANIEL, born, 1710; an English theo- logian and author; died, 1798. Quotations: Freemasonry —Misery. TURNER, SIR EDwARD, born about 1600 ; an English statesman; died, 1669. Quotations: Sabbath – Society. TURNER, SHARON, born in London, September 24, 1768; an English historian, poet, and lawyer; died in Löndon, February 13, 1847. Quotations : Intellect – Lan- gllage. - TUSSER, THOMAs, born in Essex, 1520; an Eng- lish poet, and writer on agriculture ; died, 1580. Quotat- tions: Carol—Christmas—Trees—Wind. TUTHILL, LOUISA CAROLINE HUGGINS, born at New Haven, Connecticut, 1800; an American novelist, and authoress of “My Wife,” and other works. Q200tations : Parent—Self-Government—-Servant--Sin. TUTTLE, MRs. EMMA ; an American authoress on Spiritualism. Quotation : Self-Esteem. TUTTLE, HERBERT, born about 1830 ; an Ameri- can writer, and author of “German Political Leaders,” (New York, 1876.) Quotations: Courage – Crown—Ocean —Thought—Thunder—Universe—Winter. TURRETINE, BENEDICT, born in Zurich, 1588 : an eminent learned Swiss theologian and author; died, 1631. Quotation : Memory. TWEDDELL, JoHN, born in Northumberland, 1769 : an English scholar and author; died, 1799. Quota- tion : Mankind. TWISS, SIR TRAvH.Rs, D.C.L., born in Westmin- ster, 1810; an English lawyer and writer. Quotations : Benefits—Malignity—Sunrise. TYAS, ROBERT ; an English divine and author ; (London, 1840—60.) Quotation : Preface. TYCHSEN, OLAUs, GERHARD, born in Tondern, Sleswick, 1734; an eminent Orientalist and author; died, 1815. Quotations : Maiden–Study. TYLER, ERASTUs B., born in Ontario county, New York, 1822; an American general. Quotation : Coy- Il CSS. TYLER, John, born in Charles-City county, Vir- ginia, March 29, 1790; an eminent American lawyer and statesman, and the tenth President of the United States; died, January, 1862. Quotation : Constitution. TYNDALE, WILLIAM, born in Wales, 1477; an English religious reformer ; died by strangulation, near Brussels, October 6, 1536. Quotation : Faith. TYNDALL, John, LL.D., F.R.S., born in Ire- land, 1820; a distinguished physicist and author. Quota- tions: Benefactor—Christianity—Impurity. - TYNG, STEPHEN HIGGINSON, D.D., born in New- buryport, Massachusetts, 1800; an American Episcopalian divine and author. Quotations: Heraldry—Humanity— Tillage—Treasure. TYRRELL, JAMES, born in London, 1642 : an English political writer; died, 1718. Quotation : Hope. TYNMAN, LEwis, a Welch divine and author, of the present century. Quotation : Labor. TYRANNIUS or TYRANAEUS, born in Aguileia, 350 A.D.; an eminent IRoman monk and theologian ; died, 410 A.D. Quotation : Emperor. TYRIUS, MAxIMUs. See MAXIMUS, TYRIUS. Quotation : Perfection. TYRTAEUS, born in Miletus, and flourished about 685 B.C.; a celebrated Greek elegiag, poet and musician. Quotations: Bravery—Cowardice—Mind. TYRWHITT, THOMAs, born in London, 1730; an eminent English philologist and antiquary ; died, 1786. Quotation : 1&etirement. TYTLER, ALExANDER FRASER, (LORD WOOD- houselee,) born in Edinburgh, 1747; a distinguished Scot- tish historian and jurist; died, 1813. Quotation : Feeling. TYTLER, WILLIAM, born in Edinburgh, 1711; a Scottish lawyer and author; died, 1792. QuotattiO7. Coln- Imand. TZCHANG-SHUN-CHI ; a Chinese philosopher and disciple of Confucius. Quotation : Troubles. TZETZI, born, 1510; a celebrated Hungarian ju- rist, miscellaneous writer, and author; died, 1580. Quolet- tion : Old Age. ASTEJON, ToBDESILLAs, born, 1437; a cele- brated Spanish statesman; died, 1502. Quotation : Con- tempt. |UBALDINI, PETRUCCIO, born in Florence, 1524; an Italian artist and writer: died, 1600. Quotation : Motto. UCHANSKI, JAMES, (Archbishop of Gnesen and Primate of Poland,) born, 1505; a Polish divine and author; died, 1581. QuotattiO7. Youth. UDAL, EPHRAIM, born about 1570; an English Puritan divine and author ; died, 1647. Quotations. De- Cree—Disagreement. UDAIJIN, (KAMAKURA-NO,) son of Udaishi-Yori- tomo, flourished about 1800; a Japanese poet. Quotations: Peace—Strife. UDALL, JOHN, born about 1520; a learned Eng- lish Nonconformist divine; died, 1592. Quotation : Up- rightness. UDALL, NICHOLAS, born in Hampshire, 1506; an English scholar and dramatist; died, 1564. Quotation : Unkindness. UDE, M. ; a French author of the seventeenth century. Quotation : Cookery. UFFENBACH, ZACHARIAs CONRAD, born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1683; an eminent German scholar and author; died, 1734. Quotation : Knowledge. UHLAND, JoHANN LUDwig, born in Tübingen, 1787; an eminent German lyric poet and author; died in , Tübingen, November, 1862. Quotation : Home. UHLICH, LEBERECHT, born in Köthen, 1799: a German theologian and author; died, 1871. Youth. ULLMANN, KARL, born in Epsenbach, in the Palatinate, March 15, 1796; a celebrated German theologian and author; died, January 12, 1865. Quotation : Christ. ULMAR, SAINT, born in Sylviaco, in the territory of Boulogne, in Picardy, about 638; a celebrated Frenc divine and monk; died, July 20, 710. Quotation : Decree. ULPHILUS, born, 318 A.D.; an eminent Gothic scholar and writer; died, 388. Quotations : Scripture — Translation. ULRICI, HERMANN, born in Lowor Lusatia, 1806 : a celebrated German schoiar, critic, and miscellaneous writer. Q?totation : Youth. ULTHORN, GERHARD, M. D. : a German writer of the present century. Quotation : Youth. ULPIAN, DOMITIUS, born about 160 A.D.: an eminent Roman civilian, who was tutor to the Emperor Alexander Severus : killed by the soldiers, 228 A.D. Quota- tions. Prodigality—Testimony. ULSCHOEFFER, MICHAEL, born in Fishkill, New York, 1787; a lawyer and jurist ; died in the city of New York, 1856. Quotation : Indiscretion. UMBREIT, FRIEDRICH WILHELM KARL, born in Saxe-Gotha, 1795; a German Protestant theologian and author: died, 1860. Quotation : Clemency. UNGER, FREDERIKE HELENE, wife of Johann |Unger, mentioned below, born in Berlin, 1751 : a popular German novelist; died, 1813. Quotation. Learning. UNGER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH, born in Berlin. 1750; an eminent German printer, wood-engraver, and author: died, 1804. Quotation : Frugality. TJNPANISHAD CHHANGOGYA : the name of certain Sanskrit works, belonging to the Vedic literature, containing what is most essential in the religious writings of the Hindoos : they were translated into the Burmese }. Buddhagosha, who lived about 40 A.D. Quotations: nderstanding-wili. UNSWORTH, WILLIAM, born, 1754; an English writer; died, 1819. Quotation : Ink. Quotation : 76 1202 AX A Y'S CO / / A C O AV. UNWIN, WILLIAM JAMES, born in London, 1794; an English divine and author; died, 1851. Quotation: Be- nevolence. UPCHER, FRANCES MIss, born about 1757 : an English writer; died, 1802. Quotation: Good-Bye. UPFOLD, GEORGE, D. D., born near Guildford, Surrey, 1796, emigrated to the United States, 1817; an Eng- lish writer. Quotation : Bereavement. UPHAM, THOMAS COGSWELL, D.D., born in Leer- field, New Hampshire, January 30, 1799; an American Con- ºnal divine and author; died, 1871. Quotation : eauty. UPSHUR, ABEL PARKER, born in Southampton county, Virginia, 1789; an eminent American statesman and jurist; killed by the explosion of a cannon on board º iºner Princeton, in February, 1844. Quotation : In- Stitution. |UPTON, JAMES, born in Cheshire, 1760 ; an Eng- lish divine and author; died, 1760. Quotation : Good-Bye. URBAN VIII, Pope, MEFFEO BARBERINI, born in Florence, 1568; succeeded Gregory the Fifteenth as pope in 1623; died, 1644. Quotations: Jesuitism—Tobacco. URCEUS, ANTHONY CopFUs, born in Ravenna, 1446; a most learned and unfortunate Italian. His works consist of speeches, letters, and poems; died in Bologna, 1500. Quotation : Zeal. TJ RE, ALEXANDER, M.D., born about 1712: an eminent Scottish physician and author; died, 1782. Quota- . #072 : Matter. e URE, ANDREw. M.D., son of the preceding, born in Glasgow, 1778; an eminent Scottish physician, chemist, and author: died, June 2, 1857. Quotations: Modesty — Precipitancy—Steam. URFE, HoNORE, D', born in Marseilles, 1567; a celebrated French romance Writer; died, 1625. Quotations: Fruit—Ridicule. |URFEY. THOMAS D’, born at Exeter, Devonshire, 1642 : an English dramatist, wit, and favorite at the court of Charles the Second ; died in London, 1723. Quotation : Friendship. URQUHART, DAVID, born in Cromarty, 1805; an able Scotch writer, politician, and traveller; died, May 16, 1877. Quotations: Bath—Communism. URQUHART, THOMAs, (Bishop of Ross, ) born about 1384; an English divine and author; died, 1452. Quo- tation : Exultation. URQUHART, WILLIAM POLLARD, born in the county of Westmeath, 1814; an English economist and au- thor. Quotation : Invasion. URSINS, ANN MARIE DE LA TREMOUILLE PRIN- cess des, born, 1642; a French lady, famous for her politi- cal influenge and fascinating qualities; died in Rome, 1722. Quotation : Youth. URSINS, JEAN, (Archbishop of Rheims,) born in Paris, 1888; a French divine and author; died, 1473. Quo- tottion : Usury. URSINUS, FULVIUS, born in Rome, 1529; a cele- brated Italian Scholar and antiquary; died, 1600. Quota- tio), ... Wisdoin. URSINUS, ZACHARIAS, born in Breslau, 1534: a learned German divine and author; died, 1583. Quotation : Servant. |URSULA, SAINT, born about 325 A.D. : a celebra- ted French Saint, and martyr; suffered martyrdom, 463. Quotation : Youth. URSUS, NICOLAs RARMARUs, born in Henstedt, in Dithmarsin, 1550; a Danish mathematician, astronomer, and author; died, 1600. Quotation : Zodiac. USHER, HENRY, (Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland,) uncle of James Usher, mentioned be- low, born in Dublin, about 1520; an Irish divine: died, 1613. Quotation : Saint. USHER, JAMES, D.D., (Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland,) born in Dublin, January 4, 1580; an eminent Irish divine and one of the most learned men of modern times; died, March 21, 1656. Quotations; Agree- ableness—Architecture–Lust–Oppression—Painting — Sanctification. |USHUN, ABù SAAD ABD ALLAH IBN ABI's-SARI Muhammad Ibn Habat Allah Ibn Mutahhar at-Tamimi Sharaf Ad-din Ibn Abi, born in Mosul, February, 1099: an eminent Arabian jurist, poet, and philosopher: died in Damascus, October, 1189. Quotations: Man—Mortality— Present—Time. USTARIZ, JEROME, born in Navarre, 1695 : a Spanish political economist: died, 1750. Quotation : Wit. UWINS, DAVID, born in London, 1780: an Eng- lish physician, miscellaneous writer, and author: died, 1837. Q?totſution : Exercise. e UZ, JOHAN PETER, born in Anspach, 1720 ; a Ger- man lyric poet and author: died, 1796. Quotation : Youth. UZZANO, NICCOLO, born, 1360 : a Florentine statesman : died, 1432. Quotation : Wisdom. AART, JAN VAN DER, born in Haarlem, 1647; a Dutch painter and writer; died in London, 1721. Quo. tation : Zodiac. VADE, JEAN, JOSEPH, born in Picardy, 1719 : a iºn dramatist and author; died, 1757. Quotation : Ug- 11162SS. VAHINEUMI, born in Tahuata, one of the Mar- Quesas Islands, about 1800; a heathen convert to Christian- ity. Quotation : Declaration. VAISSETTE, DOM Joseph, born in Gaillac, 1685 : a French Benedictine and historian; died, 1756. Quota- tion : Youth. - VALDEMAR II, (The Victorius,) King of Den- mark, born about 1180; a celebrated Danish monarch and Warrior. He was distinguished for his ability as a ruler; died, 1241. Quotation : Flag. Vº; 3. j; born at Leon about 1493; a dis- inguished Spanish jurist and theologian ; di ſº 1540. Quotation : Zealot. g ied at Naples, VALE, GILBERT, born in the city of New York, 1798; an American iQurnalist, skeptic, and publisher of “The Beacon.” New York, 1837-43. Quotations: Infidelity —Minority—Proof–Religion—Revelation. VALENS, FLAVIUs, brother of Valentinian the First, lmentioned below, born, 328 A.D.: an emperor of the East; killed in battle, near Adrianople, 378 A.D. Qxotº. tions: Orthodoxy—Physician—Scripture. VALENTIA, GREGORIO DE, born in Medina del Campo, 1550; a Spanish Jesuit and theologian ; died, 1603. Quotation : Acting. VALENTINE, SAINT, born about 200 A.D. : a Roman priest and martyr; executed, February 14,270. Quo- tation : Firmness. VALENTINIAN I, FLAVIUs, born in Pannonia, 321 A.D.; Emperor of Rome, who succeeded Jovinian in 364 A.D.; died, 375 A.D. Quotation : Presents. VALENTYN, FRANCIS, born in Dort, 1660; a Dutch preacher and traveller; died, 1725. Quotation : Youth. VALERTAN, PUBLIUS LICINIUS, born about 200 A.D.; Emperor of Rome; died in Persia, 375 A.D. Quota- tion : Reproof. VALERIANO. GIOVANNI PIERIO, born in Bellu- no, 1477; an eminent Italian author; died in Padua, 1558. Quotation : Years. VALERIUS MAXIMUS, flourished during the reign of Tiberius: a distinguished Roman historical writer. Quotations : Kindness—Love—Multitude—Pleasure—Sepa- ration—Will. VALID, or WALíD, IBRAHiM BEN As-SALT IBN Tarik As-Shaibáni Ibn Tarif Al, born about 728; an Arabian military commander, poet, and philosopher; killed in bat- tle, December, 795. Quotation. Concord. - VALLA, LORENZO, born in Rome, 1415: an emi- § classical scholar and author; died, 1460. Quotation : ... O Ke. VALLANCY, CHARLEs, born, 1721 ; an English antiquarian and miscellaneous writer; died, 1812. Quota- tio?? : Trade. WALLANDIGHAM, CLEMENT LAIRD, born in Ohio, 1820; a celebrated American statesman; died by the accidental discharge of a pistol in his own hand, 1871. Quo- tations: Zeal. VALLISNERI, ANTONIO, born in the duchy of Módena, May, 1661; an eminent Italian naturalist and au- thor; died in £adua, 1730. Qzzotation : Zeal. VALMIKI: a Hindoo poet of unknown date. Quotation : Sneer. VALMORE. See DESBORDES-VALMORE. tion : Love. VALOIS, CHARLEs, DE, born in Paris, 1671 ; a French antiquary and author; died, 1747. Quotation : Wrinkles. VALPY, ABRAHAM JOHN, born, 1787; an English classical scholar and author; died, 1854. Quotation : For- giveness. VALPY, RICHARD, D.D., born in the island of Jersey, 1754; an eminent English divine and author: died, 1854. Quotation : Unkindness. VANBRUGH, SIR JoBN, born, 1666; a celebrated English dramatist, architect, and author; died, 1726. Quo- tations: Custom—Matrimony—Pity. VAN BUREN, JoBN, born in Hudson, New York, February 18, 1810; an eminent American statesman; died at sea, October, 1866. Quotations: Desert—Wit. VAN BUREN, MARTIN, born in Kinderhook, Columbia county, New York, December 5, 1782; an Ameri- can statesman, and the eighth President of the United States; died, July 24, 1862. Quotations : Approval—Bank —Constitution—Law—People—Will. VANCE, ZEBULON B., born in North Carolina, 1830; an Americall Statesman and governor of the state at its secession in 1861. Quotation : Zeal. Q?tota- A / O G. A. A P H / C A / / /V /O E X. 1203 T- VAN DALE, ANTOON, born, 1638; a Dutch physi- cian and Mennonire preacher. He was the author of several learned works on lineology and Greek and l&oillain antiqui- ties; died, 1708. Quotattion : Years. VANDERBILT, CoRNELIUS, born, May 27, 1794 : a successful American speculator; died, January 3, 1877. Quotation : Use. - VANE, SIR HENRY, born in Kent, 1589: an Eng- lish statesman, diplomatist, and author; died, 1654. Quo- tation : Conscience. VANE, SIR HENRY, born in Kent, 1612; an Eng- lish republican statesman; executed, June 14, 1662. Quo- tºttion : Sin. VANINI, LUCILIO, born in Taurisano, 1585; an Italian philosopher and sceptic; burned at the stake in Toulouse, 1619. Quotation : Falling. VAN MONS, JEAN BABTISTE, born in Brussels, 1765; an eminent Belgian chemist and pomologist; died, 1842. Quotation : Horticulture. VAQUEIRAS, RAMBAUD DE, born in Orange, France, about 1150; a celebrated French troubadour ; died, 1207. Qatotation : Jargon. VARCHI, BENEDETTO, born in Florence, 1502; an Italian scholar, poet, and historian ; died, 1565. Quotation: Regeneration. VARENES or VARENNES, BURIGNOT, BARON de, born, 1800; a French senator and writer; died, 1872, Quotation : Esteem. VARI, VICTOR DU, born in Paris, 1722; a French littérateur and author: died, 1787. Quotation : Wrinkles. VARILLAS, ANTOINE, born in Guéret, 1624; a French prolific writer and historian; died in Paris, 1696. Quotation : Years. VARNHAGEN VON EUSE, KARL AUGUST LUD- wig Philip, born in Dusseldorf, February, 1785; an eminent German author ; died in Berlin, October, 1858. QRtotations: Poetry—Romance. VARRO, MARCUs TERENTIUS, born, 116 B.C.; a celebrated Latin author ; died, 28 B.C. Quotations : Age— Country—Family—God — Martyr–Medicine — Plainness— Precept—Purpose—Reputation—Wisdom. VARTY, E. : an American publisher of “Book of Maxims,” and other works. New York, 1824. Quotations : Joke—Raillery. VASISHTHAs (Mitra) the name of one of the most celebrated Vedic H'ishis, the author of several hymns of the Rigveda, (q.v.) and a personage of the Brahmanic or riestly caste of the Hindus. He was a sage and priest of #. reputation. Quotation : Perseverance. VATEL, a famous French cook in the time of Charles the Sixth : committed suicide because one of his dishes failed to please the French monarch. Quotation : Cookery. VAUGHAN, CHARLEs JoHN, born, 1817; an Eng- lish divine and author. Quotation : Paptism. VAUGHAN, HENRY, born in Brecknockshire, 1621; a Welch poet and author: died, 1695. Quotations : Adversity–Collision—Death – Grave — History—Judges— Presumption—Profanity—Solitude. VAUGHAN, ROBERT, D.D., born, 1795; an Eng- lish Congregational divine and author; died, 1868. Quota- £ion. ... Youth. VAUGHAN, SIR WILLIAM, born in Carmaerthen- shire, 1577; a Welch poet and author: died, 1640. Quotat- tion : Sycophant. VAUVENARGUES, LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIs de, born in Aix, 1715 : an eminent French moral philoso- her : , died, 1747. , Quolations : Consolation - Courage — riticism — Despair – Discourse — Distrust – Eloquence — Equality—Esteem— Fortune— Gentleman – Glory—Great- ness—Hate—Hope— Idleness— Imperfection— Indolence— Intellect—Justiče–Justness–Labor–Laughter—Litera- ture—Maxims—Patience—Perspicuity— Praise— Presump- tion—Promise— Prudence-Quarrels—Sacrifice—Self-Love —Simplicity—Thought—Violence—Virtue—Wit—World. VAUX, LORD NICHOLAS, born, 1467 : an English military commander; died, 1530. Quotation : Tardiness. VAVASSEUR, FRANÇors, born in Paray, 1605; a French Jesuit, poet, and author; died in Paris, 1684. Quo- tation : Years. VEDA ; the technical name of those ancient San- skrit works on which the first period of the religious belief of the Hindus is based ; they consist of four parts, the Rig- veda, (q.v.), the Yajurveda, the Sanngreda, (q.v.) and the Atharvaveda. They are considered to be of divinely in- spired origin. Quotations : Gods—Light—Morning. VEDA, SAMA ; the name of the second division of the Vedas, (q.v.) Quotation : Sunrise. VEGA, GARCILAsso DE LA, born in Toledo, 1503; an eminent Spanish poet and author; died in Nice, France, November, 1536. Q?totation: Solitude. - VEGITIUS, FLAVIUS RENATUS, (Virillustris, comes,) born in the fourth century; a Roman military writer. Quotations: Danger—Leader. VEITCH, John, born in Peebles, 1830 ; a Scotch professor, mathematician, and miscellaneous writer. Qzzo- tution : Power. VENABLES, ADDINGTON R. P., (Bishop of Nas- sau,) born 1827: an English divine and author; died, Octo- ber 8, 1876. Quotation : Cathedral. VENERONI, JEAN, (Vigmeron,) born in Verdun, 1642; a French grammarian, and author; died, 1708. Quo- tations: Counsel—Love—Manners—Mother—Pride—Prom- ise—Sun–Trust—Wisdom—Woman—Wound—Years. VENN, HENRY, born in Barnes, Surrey, 1725; an eminent English theologian and author: died, 1797. Quo- tation : Ambition — Courage — Fortitude—Politeness—Re- pentance. VENNING, RALPH, born, 1630 ; an English Non- conformist divine and author; died, 1673. , Quotations : Damnation—Heaven—Hypocrisy—Injury--Opinion—Praise —Prayer—Pride—Religion – Repentance — Riches— Right- eousness—Saint--Self—Self-Condemnation—Sense--Service —Sin —Success— Superfluity–Tongue–Virtue—Warning— Well-Doing—World—Worldliness—Wrong. VENTADOUR, BERNARD DE, born at Limousin, 1144; a French troubadour of noble birth. Quotation : Charms—Yoke. VENTUM, HARRIET, born about 1770 ; an English writer, and authoress of “Selena,” and other works, (Lon- don, 1801–13.) Quotation. Precept. VEN-VAM, born about 1300 B.C.; a Chinese em- peror who was noted for his learning; died about 1238. Quotations: Vice—Virtue. VERE, SIR AUBREY HUNT DE, born, 1788; an Irish baronet and dramatic author; died, 1846. Quotations: Life—Man—Purity. VERE, THOMAS AUBREY DE, third son of the pre- $º born, 1814; an Irish poet and author. Quotation : OVC. VERGENNES, CHARLEs GRAVIER, Count, born in Dijon, 1717; a celebrated French statesman and diplo- matist; died, 1787. Quotation : Years. VERGNIAUD, PIERRE VICTURNIEN, born in Li- moges, May 31, 1759; a celebrated French orator and Giron- #: executed, October, 1793. Quotations: Death—Eter- Inity. VERGERIUS, PIETRO PAOLO, THE ELDER, born, 1349; an Italian littérateur and historian; died, 1420. Quo- tation? : Refutation. VERGERIUS, PIETRO PAOLO, THE YOUNGER (Bishop of Capo d'Istria,) born, 1495; an Italian divine an Controversialist ; died, 1565. Quotation : Truth. VERMILYE, THOMAS EDwARD, D.D., born in the city of New York, February 28, 1803; a distinguished Amer- ican divine. Quotation: Missionary. - VERNE, JULEs, born in Nantes, February 8, 1828; a popular French writer and author. He is chiefly known by his scientific romances. Quotations : Laughter—Men— Ocean—Sea –Story. - VERNON, JAMES, born, 1650; an English author; died, 1715. Quotation : Truth. VERPLANCK, GULIAN CROMMELIN, LL.D., born in the city of New York, 1786; a distinguished American scholar and author; died, March 18, 1870. Quotations: Liberty—Schoolmaster. VERRI, PIETRO, born in Milan, 1728; an Italian political economist and author; died, 1797. Quotation : Conquest—Medicine. VERSTEGAN, RICHARD, born in London, of Dutch extraction, 1565: an English etymologist and anti- quary; died, 1635. Quotation : Yeoman. s VERTOMAN, LEwis, born in the island of Jersey, May 23, 1747; a French Norman writer; died, 1809. Quota- tion : Dial nond. VESIK, AHMED, born, 1818: an eminent Ottoman statesman and publicist. Quotations: Diamond—Laziness —Money—Name—Orphan—Patience—Peace—Prayer—Pro- mise—Question—Remedy—Repose-Secrecy—Ship—Sword - Thunder – To-Day — Tongue – Traitor – Well-Doing — WOrld. VESENBECH, MICHAEL, born in Dresden, 1709: a German divine and author; died, 1763. Quotation : Sick- IlêSS. VESPASIAN, TITUs FLAvius, born near Reate, 9 A.D., a Roman emperor raised to the throne, 69 A.D.; his reign was marked by wisdom, moderation, and firmness; died, 79 A.D. Quotations: Day—Emperor—Gain—Money —Rebellion—Riches—ROyalty. VETELIUS, AULUs, born, 15 A.D.; a Roman emperor: put to death by Antonius Primus, 69 A.D. Quo- . tations : Smelling. - VETHAKE, JOHN W., born in the city of New York, 1807 : an American politician and advocate of labor reform ; died, 1872. Q7zotation : Monopoly. VEZIN, or VESIN, EMILE : a French author on olitical economy, of the present century. Quotations: Misfortune–Politeness—Queen. 1204 D A Y'.S C O / / A C O AV. wº VIANNEY, born 1712: an English divine, theolo- ian, and miscellaneous writer; died, 1779. Quotation : ard-Heartedness. VICK, JAMES, born in Portsmouth, 1818, emigra- ted to the United States, 1833; a well-known writer on horticulture and floriculture; died, May 16, 1882. Quota- tion : FlowerS. VICTOR EMMANUEL II, (of Sardinia,) and the first King Of Italy, born in Turin, March 14, 1820: a liberal Ch; died, January 9, 1878. Quotation : GOvernmefit. VICTOR! SAINT, born in Marseilles, France, about 232, A.D.ſ an eminent pious Gallic martyr; died, 303 A.D. Quotation : Saint. VICTORIA, ALEXANDRINA, Queen of Great Brit- ain and Empress of India, daughter and only child of Ed- ward, duke of Kent, the fourth son of George the Third, was born in Kensington Palace, May 24, 1819; one of the most virtuous queens that ever reigned. Her stainless life, her unobtrusive piety, and her careful education of the royal children have borne rich fruits in the stability of the throne, and have obtained for her the respect and admira- tion of the civilized world. She is the author of “The Early Years of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort,” and “Leaves from the Journal of Qur Life in the Highlands.” Quotations : Bible—People—Religion. VIDAL, FRANÇOIS, born in the department of Gironde, 1814; a French Writer on socialism and political economy. Quotations: Baseness—Charms—Reality. VIDAL, PIERRE, born about 1172 ; a French trou- badour ; died, 1241. Quotation : Ostentation. VIERA Y CLAVIJO DE, born in the Canary Islands 1738; a Spanish historian ; died, 1799. Quotations: Acquaintance—Devil—Ill—Remembrance. VIEUSSEUX, GIov ANNI PAOLO, born in Omeglia, Italy, 1779; a learned Genevese bookseller; died, 1863. Quotations: Neutrality—Poetry. - VIGEE, LOUIS JEAN BAPTISTE ETIENNE, born in Paris, 1758: a French author; died, 1820. Quotations: Law- yer—Riches—Self-Love. VIGNEY, ALFRED VICTOR COMTE DE, born at Loches, in the department of Indre-et-Loire, March, 1799; a French poet, author, and littérateur; died, 1863. Quota- tion : Al'my. - VIGOUREUX, CHARLEs, born, 1716; a French divine and author: died, 1782. Quotation : Labor. VIKRAMORVASI; the name of a Hindoo dra- ma, by Kalidasa, (q.v.) Quotation ; Yoke. VILLANI, GIov ANNI, born in Florence, 1280 ; an eminent Italian historian and author; died, 1348. Quotat- tion : Yielding. VILLEFRE, ANTOINE VICTOR, born in Rouen, 1712; a French romance writer; died, 1777. Quotation : Self-Love. VILLEGAS, QUEvKDo. See QUEvepo VILLEGAs. VILLEMAIN, ABEL FRANÇOIs, born in Paris, June 9, 1790: a celebrated French critic, Orator, and minis- ter of state ; died, May, 1870. Qzzotºztion : Psalms. VILLETARD, EDME Joseph, born, 1771; a French littérateur; died, 1826. Quotation : Fatigue. VILLIERS, CHARLES PELHAM, born in London, 1802; an English statesman and author. Quotation : Zeal. VILLIERS, GEORGE. See BUCKINHAM, DUKE OF. Quotations: Fame—Kisses. VILLIERS, HENRY MONTAGUE, (Bishop of Dnr- ham,) brother of Charles Pelham Villiers, born, 1813: an English divine and author; died, 1861. Quotation : Popery. VINCENT, FRANCIS, born in England, 1822, emi- grated to the United States; an English-American journal- ist. Quotation: Self-Possession. VINCENT, G. G. : an English philosopher, writer, and the author of “Science of Moral Nature,” and Other works. Quotation : Station. VICENTE, GIL, born at Barcellos, 1485; a dis- tinguished Portuguese dramatic author; died, 1557. Quota- tion : Anticipation. VINCENT, JACQUES. LOUIs SAMUEL, born, 1787; a French theologian and author; died, 1837. Quotations: Care—Decision. VINCENT, NATHANIEL, born in Hertford, 1621 ; an English Nonconformist minister; died, 1697. Quota- tion : Worth. VINCENT, SAINT, born in Osca, (Huesca,) in Gra- nada, about 228 A.D.; a Spanish martyr; died, 303. Quota- tion, ; Church. VINCI, LEONARDO DA, born in Vinci, near Flor- ence, 1452; a celebrated Italian painter, Sculptor, and archi- º: i ºied in Fontainbleau, France, May, 1519. Quotation : Oll, Il. VINDEX, CAIUs JULIUS, born in Aquitania, about 2 A.D.; a Roman general. He revolted against Nero, and proclaimed Galba emperor: killed himself at Vesontio, (Besançoin,) 68 A.D. Quotation: Years. VINET, ALEXANDER RODOLPHE, born near Lau- Sanne, June, 1797; an eminent Swiss theologian and author: died, 1847. Quotations: Adoration—Approbation—Fasting —Liberty–Novelty—Passion— Religion— Hitual—Service. VINGUT, GERTRUDE FAIRFIELD, born in Phila- delphia ; an American novelist and Iniscellaneous writer. Quotation : Post-Office. VINOT, MoDESTE, born, 1672; a French professor of Latin and rhetoric ; died, 1731. Quotation : Maxims. VIOLA, SANTE, born, 1773; an Italian jurist and antiquary ; died, 1838. Quotation : Moment. VIOT, MARIE ANNE HENRIETTE, born at Dresden, 1756, and removed to France in childhood: a lady distin- guished for Wit, learning, and versatile genius; died, 1802. Q?totations. Betrothal—Homeliness. VIRETUS, PIERRE, born in Orbe, 1511 : an emi- nent Swiss reformer; died in Orthaz, 1571. Quotations: Religion—Sermon º VIRGIL, PUBLIUS MARO, born in Andes, a small village near Mantua, October 15, 70 IR.C. ; the greatest of the Roman poets. The “Eclogues,” ten in number, were first produced ; next followed the “Georgics,” the most perfect of Latin gompositions; but his chief fame rests upon the “AEneid,” which lacking its finishing touches at his death, the poet desired to have burned—which request, however, was happily disobeyed; died, 19 B.C. Quotations : Accuracy —Angels–Autumn — Beauty—Bees – Companion — Demä- gogue – Desire–Diligence—Ech9— Education—Facility— Faith— Fate—Fear —Fortune — Future—Gold—Hope—Hu- mility—Labor — Land — Leaves –Lóve—Loyalty—Night— Pity— Prosperity—Rainbow—Fumor— Safety— Sea—Taste —Tears—Traitor—Tuition —Tumult—Variety—Vice—Woe. VISDELON, CLAUDE DE, born in Brittany, 1656 : a learned French missionary; died in Pondicherry, 1737. Quotation : Ambition. VITACHUCO, born about 1500; an American In- dian cacique, who was conquered, after a long and bloody resistance, by the Spaniards. Qºtotation : Fright. VIVES, JUAN LUIs, born in Valencia, 1492 : a Spanish scholar and littérateur; died, 1540. Quotations: Chiding—Student. - VIVIANI, VINCENzo, born in Florence, April, 1622; a celebrated Italian mathematician and engineer; died in Florence, 1703. Qutotºtion : Poetry. VIZIN, DENIs Ivanov ITCH von, born in Moscow, 1745; a Russian dramatist ; died, 1792. Q2tota-tion : Youth. VOET, GISBERT, born in Heusden, 1589; an emi- nent Dntch scholar and theologian ; died, 1676. Quota- tions: Fortitude—Land. VOILLEZ, MADAME. Quotations: Flattery—Influence. VOITURE, VINCENT, born in Amiens, 1598; a famous French wit, poet, and author ; died, 1648. Qºtota- tions : Prudence—Unwillingness. VOLNEY, CONSTANTINE FRANÇOIS CHASSEBCEUF, Comte de, born in Craon, (Mayenne,) in Anjou, February 3, 1757; an eminent French philosopher, author, and travel- lêr; died, April 25, 1820. Quotations : Jews—Justice—Ko- ran–Nature—Penance—Prodigality—Success–Virtue. VOLTA, ALESSANDRO, born in Como, February 19, 1745: a celebrated Italian electrician and natural phi- losopher; died near Lake Como, April, 1827. Quotation : Poetry. VOLTAIRE, FRANÇois MARIE AROUET DE, born at Châtenay, near Seceaux, February 20, 1694; an eminent French philosopher, poet, critic, and historian, and one of the most brilliant, elegant, and fertile of prose Writers. His death is supposed to ljave been hastened by an over- dose of laudanum which he took to provoke Sleep; died, May 30, 1778. Quotations : Affectation –Age –Ambition— Ancestry–Apostle—Birth — Care — Character-Compensa- tion—Complacency—Country—Cowardice-Crime-Crowd tº; – Equality – Events — Faith—Fame— Fanaticism — Fate—Fortune–Friendship--Gloom-Great- ness— Guilt—Heart—Hermit – History-Idea—Imitation— Intemperance—Jesuitism—Justice –Labor–Law—Liberty – Luck – Marriage — Metaphysics — Miracle-Morality – Name—Native-Land–Opportunity-Oracle—Originality— Parent—PaSSiOn—Peace ... Pººjºjº – Power—Pride — Progenitor-Punishment—Reason—Re- ligion – Repentance-Satire-Sectarianism – Self-Loye— Sensation—'Sense — Silence—Style—Suicide—Superfluity— Superstition—Thunder–Title—Toleration—Treaty—Truth LTyrant—Unluckiness—Vengeance —Virtue–Weakness— Wish—Woman—Words—Writing. VORAGINE, GIACOMO DE, (Archbishop of Genoa,) born in Voraggio, near Genoa, 1230; a celebrated Roman divine ; died, 1298. Quotation : Benefits. VOSSIUS, DIONYSIUs, born in Dort, 1609; a Dutch Orientalist; died in Amsterdam, 1633. Quotation : Adulation. VUTHING, flourished about 1491 B.C.; Emperor of China. Quotations : Dynasty—Station. VYASA, or VEDAVYASA ; the name of a cele- brated Hindoo sage, or Saint, and the reputed arranger of the Vedas, (q.v.) and Puranas ; (q.v.) also reputed author of the Mahbaharata. (q.v.) and the founder of the Vedanta philosophy. Quotation : Youth. A / O G R A P Aſ / C A Z / AV ZD E X. 1205 AA, LUDwig GUSTAV, born in Amsterdam, 1604; a celebrated Dutch statesman and writer; died in Breslau, 1672. Quotation : Falling. - WACE, MAISTRE ROBERT, born in the island of Jersey, 1112; a celebrated Anglo-Norman poet; died, 1184. Quotation : Dissipation. WACH, CARL GoTTFRIED WILHELM, born, 1756; a Germán musician and composer; died, 1833. Quotation : Melody. WACHLER, Johann FRIEDRICH WILHELM, born in Gotha, 1767; a German writer and author; died, 1838. Quotation : Insensibility. WACHSMUTH, ERNEST WILHELM GOTTLIEB, born in Hildesheim, 1784; a German historical Writer and philosopher. Quotation : Zeal. WACHTER, KARL GEORG, born in Marbach, on the Neckar, 1797; a celebrated German jurist, and author of several works on German law ; died, 1873. Quotattion : Contention. - WADDELL, P. HATELY ; a Scottish Presbyterian divine and author. Quotation : Harlot. WADE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, born in Spring- field, Massachusetts, October 27, 1800; an American states- man, distinguished as a zealous opponent of slavery ; died, 1878. Quotation ; Yeomanry. WAGNER, ERNST, born, 1769; a German poet and novelist ; died, 1812. Quotation : Anguish. WAINWRIGHT, JonATHAN MAYHEw, D. D., (Bishop of New York.) born in Liverpool, England, 1792, émigrated to the United States, and in 1812 graduated at Harvard College ; an English American divine and author; died, 1854. Quotation : Missionary. WAIT, WILLIAM, born, 1709 ; an English divine and writer; died, 1771. Quotation : Popery. WAKATAUKI: the name of a number of prov- erbs in use by the natives of New Zealand, from which the following are taken. Quotations : Multitude — Orphan — Perseverance—Plainness — Priest—Rainbow—Reward—Se- crecy—Self-Conceit—Sleep — Sloth — Strength—Summer— Sunrise—Sunset--Talking--Thought--Tillage--Trust--Work —YaWning. WAKE, WILLIAM, D.D., (Archbishop of Canter- bury,) born in Blandford, Dorsetshire, 1657; an English divine and author; died, 1737. Quotations : Affliction — Calamity—Charity— Chastening—Confesslon–Confidence — Dying — Examination — Life — Persuasion — Pleasure — Prayer. - WAKEFIELD, PRISCILLA, born in Tottenham, London, 1751; an English educational writer; died in Ips- wich, 1832. Quotations: Saving—Travel. WAKIDI, ABö ABD ALLAH MUHAMMAD IBN Omar Ibn Wakid Al, born in Medina, September, 747 A.D.; an Arabian writer; died in Bagdad, April 27, 823. Quota- tion : Zeal. WALAEUS, ANTOON, born in Ghent, 1573; a Dutch Protestant divine and author; died, 1639. Quotation: Holi- IlêSS. WALAEUS, JAN, son of the preceding, born, 1604; a celebrated Dutch physician and author; ăied in Feyden, 1649. Quotation : Genius. WALAFRID or WALHAFREDUS, (Strabws,) born, 771; a learned German monk and theologian ; died, 849. Quotation : Creation. WALCH, CHRISTIAN WILHELM FRANZ, born in Jena, 1726; an eminent German theologian, historian, and author ; died, 1784. Quotation : Despising. WALCKENAER, CHARLES ATHANASE, BARON, born in Paris, 1771; an eminent French Writer and Savant; died, 1852. Q&otation. Coxcomb. WALDO, DANIEL, born in Windham, Connecti- cut, 1762; an American Congregational divine and author; died, 1864. Quotation : Insect. WALDO, PIERRE, born about 1175: a French re- former and theologian ; died, 1179. Quotations: Persecu- tion—Scripture. WALES, "PRINCE OF, (ALBERT EDWARD,) eldest son of Queen Victoria (q.v.) and Prince Albert, (q.v.) born in Buckingham Palace, November 9, 1841. As the heir-ap: parent to the English throne, he takes great interest in all institutions of learning, and is an ardent enthusiast of the arts and sciences. Besides being Prince of Wales, he is Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Duke of Cornwall and Rothe- say, and Baron Renfrew. Quotation : Institution. WALEWSKI, FLORIAN ALExANDRE Jose,PH,Co- lonna, Count, a natural son of Napoleon the First and the Countess Walewska, a Polish lady, born in Walewice, 1810; an eminent French statesman and diplomatist; died, 1868. Quotation : Youth. WALFORD, EDWARD, born in Hatfield, near London, 1823; an English divine and author. Quotation : Talent. WALKER, ADAM, born in Westmoreland, 1731 ; an English physician, mechanician, and author; died, 1821. Quotattion : Caprice. WALKER, CHARLES, A.M. ; an American law- er, writer, social reformer, and lecturer. Quotations: ed—Wife. WALKER, CLEMENT, born in Dorsetshire, 1600; an English Presbyterian divine, and historian ; died, 1651. Quotation : Command. WALKER, JAMES, D.D., born in Burlington, Mas- sachusetts, 1794; a distinguished American Unitarian di- vine and author. Quotations : Faults—Liberty. WALKER, JAMES BARR, D.D., born in Philadel- phia, 1806; an American divine and author. .. Quotations: Christ–Doctrine — Idolatry – Intelligence—Irony—Reve- lation—Singing. WALKER, JoHN, born in Devonshire, 1661; an English divine and author; died, 1730. Quotation : Resent- Iment. WALKER, John, born in Colney-Hatch, Middle- sex, 1732; an English lexicographer, elocutionist, and edu- cational writer; died, 180ſ. Quotations: Accent—Brevity —Composition—Narrative—Prose–Vision. WALKER, SAMUEL, born in, Exeter, 1714; an English divine and author; died at Blackheath, 1761. Quo- tations : Ease—Pride. WALKER, THOMAS, born, 1784; an English jurist and humorous writer; died, 1836. Quotation : Co-Opera- tion. WALL, RICHARD, born in London ; an English author. Quotation : Jealousy. WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL, born in Usk, Mon- mouth, Wales, January 8, 1822; a Welch traveller, natural- ist, and author. Quotation : Insect. Q WALLACE, HoRACE BINNEY, born in Philadel- hia, February 26, 1817; an American writer; died in Paris, łºś. 16, 1852. Quotation : Reverence. WALLACE, SARAH S.T.; an American authoress and miscellaneous writer of the present century. Quota- tion : Prejudice. WALLACE, SIR WILLIAM, son of Sir Malcolm Wallace of Ellerslie, in Renfrewshire, born, 1270; a cele- brated Scottish hero and patriot ; condemned as a traitor, and executed, 1305. Quotation : Zeal. WALLAEUS, or WALLIUS, JAMES, born in Cour- trai, Belgium, 1599; a Flemish Jesuit and poet; died, 1680. Q?totation. Reproof. WALLENSTEIN, ALBRECHT WENZEL EUSEBIUs Count of, born in the Castle of Hermanic, in Bohemia, Sep- tember, 1583; a celebrated German general and diploma- tist ; assassinated, February, 1634. Quotation. Youth. WALLER, EDMUND, born in Coleshill, Hertford- shire, March 3, 1605; an eminent English poet and author; died in London, March 2, 1797. Quotation Singing. WALLER, JOHN FRANCIS, LL.D., born, 1810; an English poet and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Be- trothal. WALLER, SIR WILLIAM, born in Kent, 1597; an English statesman ; died, 1668. Qztotations. Fascination —Religion. WALLERIUS, JOHANN GOTTSCHALK, born about 1719 ; a Swedish Savant and author; died, 1785. Quotation : Tillage. WALN, ROBERT, born in Philadelphia, 1765; an American poet and writer; died, 1836. Quotation : Up- rightness. WALPOLE, HORACE, (EARL OF ORFORD,) born in London, October 5, 1717 ; a famous English literary gos. sip, amateur, wit, and author: died in London, March 2, 1797. Quotations : Common-Sense—Country–Deceit—Dif. fidence—-Error—Feeling—Festival—Gratitude—-Life--Music —Paradox–Reserve—Sabbath—Stupidity—Vanity—World. WALPOLE, SIR ROBERT, (EARL OF ORFORD,) born in Houghton, August 26, 1676; a celebrated English statesman; died, March, 1745. Quotations: Favor—History WALSH, MICHAEL, born, 1763; an American teacher and author; died, 1840. Quotations: Youth. WALSH, MICHAEL, (Mike Walsh,) born in Youg- hall, Ireland, about 1800, emigrated to the United States: an American politician and journalist ; died, March 17, 1859. Quotations: Desertion—Neutrality. WALSH, ROBERT, LL.D., born in Baltimore, 1784; an American author: died in Paris, February 7, 1859. Qºto- tations: Domesticity—Equivocation—Evil--Faith--Fanati- cism—Genius–Hope—Journalism — Probability—Republic —Restraint—Sensitiveness—Suspicion—Tongue—Wit. WALSH, ROBERT M. : an American writer, and author of “Living Characters in France,” (Philadelphia, 1839.) Quotation : Reform. - - WALSINGHAM, SIR FRANCIS, born in Chisel- hurst, Kent, 1536; an eminent English Statesman and diplo- matist ; died, 1590. Quotations : Knowledge—Virtue. WALSINGHAM, THOMAS, born in Norfolk, about 1410; an English Benedictine monk and historian ; died, 1471. Quotation : Servitude. 1206 AD A Y '.S C O Z Z A C O AV. WALTERS, EDWARD SAMUEL, born in Welling- ton, Shropshire, 1756; an English lawyer, poet, and prose writer ; died, June 21, 1825. Quotation : Murinur. WALTHER, CHRISTOPH THEODOSIUs, born, 1699 ; a German divine and missionary ; died, 1741. Quotation : Insensibility—Riddles. WALTON, IzAAK, (The Father of Angling.) born in Stafford, August 9, 1598; a celebrated English piscator- ist and writer: died, December 15, 1683. Quotations: Ac- cent —Angling — Blessing — Companion — Company—Con- science—Contentment—Health—Ignorance--Mirth—-Misery —Music—Power—Riches, WALTON, JONATHAN, D.D., born, 1774 ; an Eng- lish divine and author ; died, 1846. Quotation : Resurrec- tion. WAN CHANG ; a Chinese philosopher and disci- ple of Confucius. , Quotations: Acting — Advancement— Ancestry—Sovereign. WAN, THE KING: a Chinese ruler and philoso- pher. Quotation : Burial. WANG-YEOU, or PAOU WANG, born in Wei ; lººse teacher and philosopher. Quotation : Despon- ency. WARBURTON, ELIOT BARTHOLOMEW GEORGE, born in county Galway, 1810; an Irish author; died, 1852. Quotation : Disposition. - WARBURTON, WILLIAM, D. D., (Bishop of Gloucester,) born in Newark, December 24, 1698; an English divine and author; died in Gloucester, June 11, 1779. Quo- tations: Enthusiasm — Fanaticism — Federalism — Insol- vency-Lying—Modesty—Occupancy--Orthodoxy--Precept —Purgatóry—Reason—Religion—Ridicule—Self-Interest. WARD, ARTEMUs, the mom de plume of CHARLES Farrar Browne, (q.v.) WARD, CAROLINE, born, 1752; an English au- thoress: died, 1809. Quotation : Grumbler. WARD, EDwARD, (Ned Ward,) born in Oxford- shire, 1667: an English tayern keeper, and humorous and dramatic writer: died in London, 1731. Quotations: Influ- €IłCé. - WARD, HARRIET, born, 1778; an English author- ess; died, 1832. Quotation : Hope. WARD, JULIUS H., born in Cheshire, Connecti- cut : an American divine, and author of “Life of J. G. Per- cival,” and other works. Quotation. Morality. WARD, NATHANIEL, born in Haverhill, Suffolk, 1570 : an English Puritan divine and author; died, 1653. Quotations : Opinion—Sinner—Text—Woman. WARD, ROBERT PLUMER, born in London, 1765; an English statesman and writer; died, August 13, 1846. Quotation : Analogy. WARD, THOMAs, born in Yorkshire, 1652; an English poet and Roman Catholic controversialist; died, 1708. Quotation : Sight. WARDI, IBN MUHAMMAD KHALAF ABù GHALIB Al, born in Bagdad, 1011 ; an Arabian philosopher; died, 1079. Quotations : Hope—Reverie. WARDLAW, RALPH. D.D., born in Dalkeith, December 22, 1779; a distinguished Scotch divine and theo: logical writer: died, December 17, 1853. Quotations: Head —Regeneration—Repentance—Theology. WARE, HENRY, D.D., born in Sherburne, Massa- chusetts, 1764; an American Unitarian divine and author; died, 1845. Quotation : Attainment. WARE, HENRY, JUNIOR, D.D., son of the preced- ing, born in Hingham, Massachusetts, 1794; an American Unitarian divine and author; died, 1843. Quotation : Ex- tenuation. . WARE, KATHARINE AUGUSTA, daughter of Dr. Rhodes, of Quincey, Massachusetts, born, 1797; an Ameri- can poetess and miscellaneous writer; died in Paris, France, 1843. Quotation : Pleasure. - WARE, WILLIAM, born in Hingham, Massachu- setts, 1797 : a distinguished American author; died at Cam- bridge, February, 1852. Quotations : Heart—Jest. WARFIELD, CATHERINE ANNE, born near Nat- chez, Mississippi, 1820; an American poetess and novelist ; died, 1850. Quotation : Giant. WARNER, CHARLEs DUDLEY, born in Massachu- #; 1829; an American humorist and author. Quotatio?...: oys WARNER, SUSAN, (Elizabeth Wetherell,) born, 1818: an American writer, and authoress of “The Wide, Wide World,” and other Works. She also wrote several novels in conjunction with her sister, Anna B. Warner, (Amy Lothrop.) Quotation : Gentleness. WARREN, JOSEPH, M.D., born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1741; a distinguished American general and patriot; killed at the battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775. Quotations: Ancestry—Liberty. WARREN, JOSIAH, born at Brookline, Massachu- setts, June 26, 1798; an American reform lecturer and seep- tic; died in Boston, April 14, 1873. Quotations : Rule — Work. WARREN, MERCY, born in Barnstable, Massa- chusetts, 1728: an American authoress; died, 1814. Quota- tions : Remorse—Resistance. WARREN, SAMUEL, D.C.L., Q.C., M.P., born in Denbighshire, North Wales, 1807 : an English physician, novelist, and miscellaneous writer; author of “Ten Thous- and a Year,” and other popular works; died, July 29, 1877. Quotations. Abundance-Action—Adversity—Animosity —Appreciation—Blood—Difficulty—Fool. WARRISTON, LORD, born about 1649; an Eng- lish theological Writer; died, 1719. Quotation : Church. WARTER, JoBN WooD, born, 1806; an English divine and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Eloquence. WARTON, John, D.D., born, 1806; an English divine and author. Quotations: Ignorance—Refinement. WARTON, Joseph, D.D., born in Surrey, 1722 : #. pºlish critic, poet, and author; died, 1800. Quotation : al’Ol, - WARTON, THOMAs, born in Basingstoke, 1728; an eminent English critic and author; died, May 21, 1790. Quotation : Romance. WARWICK, ARTHUR an old English divine, au- thor, essayist, and miscellaneous writer of the sixteenth century. Quotations : Appetite — Bounty — Company— Contention — Corruption — Cowardice — Dissimulation — Equanimity—Estate—Evil — Faith — Friendship – Gifts — Hypocrisy—Ingratitude —Luxury — Meditation–Passion— PÖverty—Promise – Repentance—Self-Will–Sin–Sloth— sºy-speaking-speech-Tales-Travel-Usury—want — WW1 U. WARWICK, EDEN, the pseudonym of GEORGE Jabet, an English Writer on Nasology, (London, 1848.) Quotation : Nose. WASHINGTON, GEORGE, born at Bridge's Creek, Westmoreland county. Virginia, February 22, 1732; a dis- tinguished American general, statesman, and patriot, the first President of the United States, “First in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen; " died at Mount Vernon. December 14, 1799. Quotations : Absence —Action —Advantage — Alliance — Anarchy—Animosity— Applause —Approbation —Argument—Army—Association —Attachment—Battle — Bigotry—Calumny—Candor—Care —Commerce—Company—Conscience — Constitution—Con- venience—Conversation —Country — Courtesy—Cowardice —Credit-Danger–Deceit–Defense — Demogracy—Differ- ence—Diffidence—Discipline — Discontent—Disinterested- ness—Dress—Election —Emigration – Evening—Extremes —Flattery—Fraternity—Freedom –Freemasonry—Friend- ship—Games—Gaming — Good-Will —Government—Great- ness—Hardship—Heraldry—Homage—Honesty—Humanity —Husbandry — Ignorance — Independence — Infallibility— Influence—Ingratitude—Insult – Intemperance—Justice— Rnowledge—Learning–Lenity — Letter—Liberty—Luxury —Magistrate — Magnanimity – Military — Minister-State— Morality—Multitude—Navy — Neutrality—Office—Opinion —Oppression—Party-Passion—Patriotism—Peace—Perse- yerance – Policy — Populace — Popularity – Post-Office — Principles–Profanity – Profession – Promise – Public — Reciprocity—Religion—Reproach—Republic—Republican- ism—Reputation—Retaliation — Retirement—Revelation— IReverence—Reward — Right — Secrecy — Security —Sever- ity—Slavery-Soldier–Submission — Swearing-Talent— Taxation—Time–Title—Traitor—Treaty—Tumult—Tyran- ny—Usurpation—Vanity—Vice—Virtue–Vote—War. WASHINGTON, MARY, the mother of Washing- ton: a noble-minded Wolman, lºss. many domestic Virtues. Q?totations : Household—LeSSOn. WASSON, DAVID ATwoOD, born in Maine, 1823; an American Independent divine and author. Quotation : Humility. WATERBURY, D. L. : an American writer and author. Quotation : Science. WATERLAND, DANIEL, D.D., (Archdeacon of Middlesex,) born in Wasely, Lincolnshire, February 17, 1683; an English divine, theologian, controversalist, and author: died, December 23, 1740. Quotations : Affection— ºne- Minister — Pantheism — Peace—Quotation— Sin- cerity. WATS, GILBERT, born, 1590: an English transla- tor and author; died, 1657. Quotation : Witness. WATSON, JOHN SELBY, born, 1815 : an eminent English divine, and author of “Sons of Strength, Wisdom, and Patience." Quotation Misfortune. WATSON, JOHN T., M.D., born in Philadelphia, 1810; an American physician, and author of “Poetical Quotations,” (Philadelphia, 1847.) Quotation : Quotation. WATSON, J. T. : an American writer on agricul- ture. Quotation : Fruit. WATSON, JONATHAN, born, 1809; an English au- thor: died, 1864. Quotation : Misfortune. WATSON, RICHARD, D.D., (Bishop of Llandaff.) born in Haversham, Westmoreland, 1737 : an English divine and author; died, 1816. Quotations : Comet—Evangelist— God—Ignorance—Type. WATSON, RICHARD, born in Barton-upon-Hum- ber, Lincolnshire, 1781; an English Methodist divine and author; died, 1833. Quotation : Heaven–Years. A / O G R A P Aſ / C A / / AV /) Aº X. 1207 WATSON, ROBERT, LL.D., born in Saint An- drews, Fifeshire, 1730; a Scottish historian ; died, March 31, 1780. Quotation : Righteousness. WATSON, THOMAs, born, 1621; an English Non- conformist divine and author; died, 1690. Quotations : Cheerfulness—Discussion — Grace — Hope—Intoxication— Malice—Minister–Obedience-–Paganism—Pastor–Prayer. —Secrecy—Soul—Temptation—Unbelief–Wisdom. WATSON, THOMAs, (Bishop of Lincoln,) born, 1513; an English Roman Catholic divine and author; died in prison, 1582. Quotations: Equality—Infidelity–Saint. WATSON, WILLIAM, born about 1540 ; an English Catholic priest, who formed a conspiracy against James the First : executed, 1603. Quotations: Justice—Redemp- tion. - WATT, JAMEs, LL.D., born in Greenock, January 19, 1736; a celebrated Scottish engineer, philosopher, and inventor, of great merit; died in Heatiſfield, near Birming- ham, August 25, 1819. Quotation : UsefulneSS. WATTEAU, ANTOINE, born in Valenciennes, 1684; an eminent French painter; died, 1721. Quotation : Deco- ration. - WATTERSON, HENRY, born in the District of Columbia, 1840; an American journalist and politician. He was elected to Congress in 1876. Quotations: Editor— Journalism—Newspaper—Press—Telegraph. WATTS, ALARIC ALEXANDER, born, 1799 : an English journalist, poet, and author; died, 1864. Quota- itor, Dissipation. WATTS, Isa AC, born in Southampton, July 17, 1674; an eminent theologian. littérateur, sacred poet, and author; died, November 25, 1748. Qºtotations: Analysis— Anger—Argument—Attention –Authority–Awkwardness —Bigotry—Books— Conscience— Contemplation—Contra- diction—Controversy—Conversation— Credulity-Critic— Custom—Decency — Deism — Piº Piºne —Dis- pute—Dogmatism—Experience—Fallibility-–Fancy—Good- Humor— Čospell. Grave — Harmony — Hermit — History— Hope— Immortality.— Impertinence—Inattention—Index— Inflexibility — Instruction — Investigation — Judgment— Knowledge — Life — Logic — Lover — Matter— Medicine— Meditation—Minister—Mistake — Moroseness—Neighbor— Observation— Painting—Perception — Piety—Prayer—Pre- egºcº-º-º: —Sharpness— Sin—Slyness— Sophistry—Study—Sweetness —System—Teaching —Theology—Tuition —Understanding —Vice—-Wonder. WATTEVILLE, ADOLPHE DU GRABE, BARON, born in Paris, 1799; a French economist, philanthropist, and author; died, 1868. Quotation : Combination. WAUGH, EDw1N, (The Lancashire Poet,) born in Rochdale, Yorkshire, January 29, 1818: an English poet and prose writer. Quotation : Temptation. WAYLAND, FRANCIS, D.D., LL.D., born in New York, of English parentage, March 1í, 1796; an eminent American Baptist divine, philosopher, and author; died, September 30, 1865. Quotations: Adultery – Affection — Carelessness –Citizen—Consciousness— Deity—God—Gov- ernment—Gratitude—Happiness—Hunting—Husband–Im- agination — Indolence -— Indulgence — Iniquity — Injury — Injustice—Innocence — Instrument — Intellect—Interest— Justice—Knowledge -— Liar — Ligentiousness — Marriage— Martyr—Meditation—Misery— Missionary–Morality—Mo- tive—Nation—Neglect – Oath - Obedience — Obligation— Omniscience—Omnipotence — Paganism —Pain—Passion— Penitence—Pledge-Politics — Possession—Power—Prayer ==Profession—Profligate – Purity— Reason–Reciprocity— Fedress—Reformation — Repetition—Reputation—Resolu- tion—Retaliation-Revenge–Šeduction—Selfishness-Sen. sation—Slander—Slavery–Suffering — Superiority—Talent —Temper—Thanks—Truth—Vice—Viciousness—Willainy— Violence—Virtue—Wealth—Wrong. WAYNE, ANTHONY, born in Chester county, Penn- sylvania, January, 1745; an American general ; died at §. Isle, on Lake Erie, December, 1796. Quotation : Oldier. WEAVER, THOMAs, born, 1787; an English ge- ologist, and author of “Memoirs of the East and South of Ireland ;” died, 1855. Quotation : Yesterday. WEBB, MRS. J. B., born in London, 1742; an Eng- lish authoress; died about 1819. Qºtotation : Talent. WEBB, JOANNA, born about 1763; an English au- thoress; died, 1839. Quotation : Rank. WEBB, JAMES WATSON, born in Claverack, New York, 1802; a celebrated American journalist, politician, and diplomatist. Quotation : Zealot. WEBBE, GEORGE, (Bishop of Limerick,) born, 1581; an Irish theologian and author; died, 1641. Quota- tion : COmmon-Sense. WEBBER, CHARLES WILKINS, born in Russell- ville, Kentucky, 1819; an American writer, and author of “The Hunter Naturalist,” “Tales of the Southern Border,” and Gold-Mines of the Gila :” killed in Nicaragua in 1856, yº serving under the filibuster Walker. Quotation. £8.1. WEBER, CARL MARIA FRIEDRICH ERNST, born at Eutin, in Holstein, 1786; an eminent German music com- poser, dramatist, and author: died in London, 1844. Q7zo- tation : Uncertainty. WEBER, HELENE MARIA HASTINGs, born in Paris, Of German parents, 1825; a German authoress and an emi- nent advocate of “Women's Itights.” Quotations : Fran- Chise—Reform. WEBER, HENRY WILLIAM, born in Saint Peters- burg, of German extraction, 1783, and settled in Scotland; hº antiquarian Writer; died, June, 1818. Quotation : KeVenge. WEBSTER, DANIEL, born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, January 18, 1782; a celebrated American states- man, jurist, and Orator; died in Marshfield, October 24, 1852. Q?totations : Action—Ancestry—Animals—Antiquity —Constitution—DeSpotism — Dying—Earnestness—Educa- tion—Eloquence—Employment—Falsehood—Farmer–For- titude—Government—Greatness—Harvest--Heaven—-Labor —Liberty—Marriage—Morality — Morning—Mother—Mur- der—Opinion – Religion – Responsibility–Secession—Se- cresy—Self-Education—Slavery—Suicide—Sunday—Union. WEBSTER, EDWARD, born in Ealing, Middlesex, 1709; an English author; died, 1859. Quotation : Printing. WEBSTER, JOHN ; an English dramatist of the Sixteenth century. Quotation : Maiden. WEBSTER, NOAH, born in West Hartford, Con- necticut, October 16, 1758; a distinguished American phi- lologist, lexicographer, and author. Nearly one half of his life was devoted to the compilation of his justly celebrated “American Dictionary of the English Language, Whi has become as “Familiar as Household Words. In all Eng- lish speaking gountries; died in New Haven, May 28, 1853. Quotations: Ability—Absence—Absurdity— Affectation — Agony — Agriculture -- Allegiance –Allegory—Alteration -Anarchy-Apathy–Appreciation —Apprehension—Bash- fulness — Bliss – Companion — Compensation—Conviction —Qorrespondence= Covenant—Dandy–Decorum—Defect —Degeneration – Degradation — Design — Difficulty—Dili- gence—Disability—Discernment—Discrimination–Disdain - Disgrace – Disguise – Dislike - Diversion — Docility – Doom—Eagerness—Effrontery—Embarrassment—Encour- agement—Engagement—Enterprise—Entertainment—Epi- gram-Equity – Equivocation – Eyasion— Exactness—Ex- emption—Exigency—Existence — Expatriation — Extenua- tion—Exultation—Faithfulness—Fanaticism—Fancy—Fas- cination—Fear—Fidelity — Fop — Forbearance —Forward- ness—Fun-Gaming - Grammar – Handsomeness—Idiot— Imagination—Imbecility--Imitation—Immortality-–Imper- tinence—Imprudence—Impurity—Incapacity—Induction— Inducement—Indulgence – Infatuation — Inspiration—In- Struction—Instrument – Integrity—Interference—Invec- tive—Irregularity-Irresolution —Justification—Language –Magnanimity-Massacre — Materialism—Meanness—Mil- lennium–Miracle-Mortification—Motion – Munificence— Neutrality-Qmnipotence — Orthodoxy — Partiality – Pa- triotism—Perfidy—Precision –Predestination—Prešence— Pretension—Prevention—Privilege– Probation—Profuse- ness –Progenitor–Projector — Prohibition — Propriety— Prospect—Pun - Pyramid – Rashness — Reception—Rečti- tude—Regularity—Remembrance--Heport--Réproof–-Rival –Savage—Scars—Scofing — Seduction—Sharpness—Solici- tude–Song—Spy—Statute—Strife—Suavity—Subject–Sub- jection – Süperfluity - Suspense — Symbol — Symmetry— Synonym –Threats—Tillage —Timidity —Tobacco–Trädi- tion-Treachery-Treason-Treaty —Trust—Unrighteous- neSS-Urbanity--Variance—Veneration--Victim--Vigilance —Vows–Wanderer—Whim—Wrong–Zenith. WEDDERBURN, DAVID, born, 1570 : a Scottish Scholar and poet; died, 1650. Quotation : Companion. WEDEL, JoHANN WolfGANG, born, 1708; a Ger- man botanist and author ; died, 1757. Quotation : Fossils. WEED, THURLow, born in Cairo, New York, Noyember 15, 1797: an emingnt American journalist and politician ; died in the city of New York, November 22, 1882. Quotations: Failure—Frugality—People—Treaty. WEEMS, MASON L., born about 1759 : an Ameri- can divine and author ; died in Beaufort, South Carolina, May 23, 1825. Q7totations : Child—Vengeance. WEIDENMANN, J.; a German author of a work on gardening, (New York, 1870.) Quotation : Horticulture. WEILRACHT, JEROME JACOB, born, 1712; an eminent English divine and author: died, 1767. Quotation...: Idolatry. WEIR, JAMES, born in Greenville, Kentucky, 1821; an American miscellaneous writer. Q?totations : Reputation –Self-Denial. WEIR, MARIA ELIZA, born about 1759; an Eng- lish authoress; died, 1812. Quotation : Ridicule. WEIR, WILLIAM, born in Edinburgh, 1802 : a German writer; died, 1708. Qztotation : Frankness. WEISHAUFT, ADAM, born in Ingolstadt, 1748; a German jurist and philosopher; died, 1830. Quotation : Jacobin. - WEISS, JoHN, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1818; an American writer; died, 1879. Q7zotations : Afflu- ence—Method—Poverty—Prayer—Pretension—Reconcilia- tion—Steam—System—Theory—Vice—Vulgarity. WEISS, SUSAN A. S. T., VON : a German author- ess and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Revenge. WEISSE, J. A. : a Franco-American writer, and author of “ Key to the French Language.” (Boston, 1842.) Quotations: Alphabet–Lady—Modesty—Pleasure. 1208 AD A Y 'S CO Z Z A C O AV. WEISSENBORN, FRIEDRICH, born, 1744; a Ger- man author ; died, 1798. Quotation : Trial. WELBY, HORACE ; an English writer, and author of “Mysteries of Life, Death, and Futurity,” (London and New York, 1863.) Quotations : Affection—Memory. WELD, CHARLEs RICHARD, born in Windsor, 1818; an English author; died in Bath, January, 1869. Quo- tation . Liberty. WELLBELOVED, CHARLEs, born about 1759; an English Unitarian divine and author; died, 1843. Quo- tation : Self-Deceit. WELLINGTON, DUKE OF, (ARTHUR WELLEs- ley,) born in Mornington House, Dublin, May 1, 1769; an eminent English general and Statesman. As a military commander, he had no equal; he was firm, tranquil, and Stubborn in resistance, and vehement and obstinate in at- tack; died in Wallner Castle, September 14, 1852, and buried November 8, 1852, under the dome in Saint Paul's Cathe- dral, London, beside the remains of Lord Nelson. Quotat- tions : Battle—Business — CO Wardice—Religion—ſtetreat— SuCCCSS. WELLS, GEORGE CHARLEs, born, 1744; an Eng- lish divine, theologian, and author; died, 1827. Quotation : HOliness. WELLS, HELENA, born about 1756; an English authoress; died, 1807. Quotation : World. WELLS, THOMAs, (Bishop of Sidon,) born, 1460 : an English divine and suffragan of Canterbury; died, 1526. Quotation : Singing. WELLS, THOMAS, born, 1598; an English gov- ernor of Connecticut ; died, 1660. Quotation : Teaching. WELSH, JOHN, born, 1782 ; an English divine and author: ăied, 1841. Quotation : Faith. WENDT, Johan N AMADEUs, born, 1783; a Ger- man philosopher and author; died, 1836. Quotation : Sun- I'lS62. WENTWORTH, BENNING, son of Sir John Went- worth, born in Portsmouth, England, 1696; an English governor of New Hampshire; died, 1770. Quotation : Housewife. WENTWORTH, THOMAS, born in Oxfordshire, 1567 : an eminent English author; died, 1627. Qatotation : Rapture. WENTWORTH, THOMAs, (EARL of STRAFFORD,) born in London, April, 1593; an English Statesman : execu- ted, 1641. Quotation : Jeering. WENTWORTH, WILLIAM, born, 1610; one of the early settlers of New Hampshire; died, 1730. Quota- tion? : Sarcasm. WEREBURGE, SAINT, daughter of Wulfere, Ring of Mercia, born about 640; an eminent pious abbess; died, 699. Qztotation : Expectation. WEREMBERT or WERIMBERT, born at Curia, (Coire,) 821; a learned German monk. He wrote commen- taries on the books of the Scriptures, and Other WorkS, and taught at Saint Gall ; died, 884. Q?totation . Throne. WERENFELS, PETER, born, 1627; a Swiss Pro- #; divine and author; died, 1703. Quotation : Tale- 68. I’er. WERENFELS, SAMUEL, born in Bâle, 1657; a Swiss scholar, theologian, and author ; died, 1740. Qzzo- tºttiO77 : Shadow. WERF, PETER VAN DER, born in Leyden, 1529; a Dutch patriot, and confidential advisor to William the Si- lent; died, 1592. Quotation : Encouragement. WERGELAND, HENRIKARNOLD, (Siful Sifad- da,) born in Christiansand, 1808; a celebrated Norwegian poet and dramatist; died, 1845. Quotation : Inn. WERMULLERUS, FRIEDRICH, born, 1595 ; a Gº divine and author; died, 1661. Quotations: Blood —Urla l'Ol. WERNER, ABRAHAM GOTTLOB, born at Wehrau, on the Queiss, in Upper Lusatia, September 25, 1750; an eminent German geologist, mineralogist, and author; died in Dresden, June, 1817. Quotation : Geology. WESLEY, JoHN, born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, June 17, 1703; an eminent English reformer, and the foun- der of the Sect of “Methodists; ” died, March 2, 1791. Quo- £ations : Cleanliness--Devil--Disobedience--Dress--Fashion —Haste—Heathen—Influence--Polygamy—Predestination —Reason—Sanctification—Schism—Sinner—Slavery. WESLEY, SARAH : an American miscellaneous writer of the present century. Quotation. : Common- Sense—Temper. WESLEY, SAMUEL, born in Preston, Lancashire, 1664; an English divine and poet; died, 1735. Quotation : Slander. WESSELUS, JoHN, born in Groningen, 1420 ; a gº theologian and reformer; died, 1489. Quotation : rist. WESSENBERG, IGNAZ HEINRICH KARL, BARON, born in Dresden, 1774 ; a German Catholic theologian and author ; died, 1860. Quotations : Mediocrity–Pleasing. WEST, BENJAMIN, born in Springfield, Pennsyl- vania, October 10, 1738, settled in London, 1763; an eminent American painter, and president of the Hoyal Academy of London; died in London, March 11, 1820. Quotation : Kisses. WEST, C. S.; an American author and miscella- neous Writer. Quotation : Science. WEST, GILBERT, LL.D., born, 1705; an English Writer; died, March 26, 1756. Quotations: Sublimity — Evangelist. WESTCOTT, BROOKE Foss, born near Birming- halm, January, 1825; an eminent English divine and author. Quotation : Inn. WESTENRIEDER, LoRENz, voN, born, 1748; a German educational writer; died, 1829. Quotation : Youth. WETHERELL, ELIZABETH, the mom de plume of Susan Warner, (q.v.) WETHERELL, JoHN, born, 1763; an English ºlogian and littérateur; died, 1800. Quotation : Gram- WEY DE, ROGIER v AN DER, born, 1747; a Flem- ish author ; died, 1819. Quotation : Fasting. WHARTON, FRANCIS, D.D., LL.D., born in Phila- delphia, 1820; an American jurist and author. Quotation : Decree—Seclusion. - WHATELY, RICHARD, (Archbishop of Dublin,) born in London, February 1, 1787; an eminent English di- vine, theologian, philosophe]', and author ; died, October 8, 1863. Quotations: Ability.—Adversity –Advocate—Affec. tation—Amusement —Analogy --Anarchy —Appropation— Avarice—Birth —Blessing — Children — Consistency—Con- troversy—Craft—Curiosity — Custom — Decay–Decision— Despotism—Distress—Diversion — Education —Flegance— Eloğluence—Envy—Frror —Expediency—Expense—Experi- ence—Expression—Faith—Falsehood---Fanaticism—Fancy —Fiction—Friendship—Gaming — Good-Nature—Graceful- ness—Heresy–History—Honesty—Human-Nature—Hypoc- risy—Idea—Ideality–Identity – Idiot—Ignorange—Impru- dence—Impudence—Inconsistency—Industry—Infidelity— Instinct — Instruction – Intolerance — Judgment —Knöw- ledge—Learning—Liberality—Logic — Man—Manners—Ma- terialism—Mathematics — Memory—Metaphor—Moonlight —Mythology–Novelty-Office-Opinion – Qpportunity— Oratory—Originality—Party — Perception — Persecution— Pleasure—Precaution—Precept-–Proverbs—Public—Purse —Reason—Rebellion—Reputation —Ruler—Self—Sophistry —Student—Study—Suspicion—System—Talking—Theology —Time—Toleration —Unfaithfulness—Vice —Want—Wish —WOman. WHEDON, DANIEL DENISON, D.D., born in Onon- daga county, New York, 1808; an American Methodist di- vine and author. Quotation : Purity. WHEELOCK, ELEAZAR, D.D., born in Windham Connecticut, 1711; an American divine, theologian, and the first President of Dartmouth College ; died in Hanover, New Hampshire, April 24, 1779. Quotation : Zion. WHETSTONE, GEORGE, born, 1575 : an English pºllaneous writer; died, 1643. Quotations : Marriage— à, (2C. WHEWELL, WILLIAM, D.D., F.R.S., the son of a joiner, born in Lancaster, 1794; a distinguished English scholar and author; died, March 6, 1866. Quotations: Com- mentator — Failure — Immortality—Induction— Man—Na- ture—Prudence—Superiority—Truth. WHICHCOTE, BENJAMIN, born in Shropshire, 1610; an English divine and author: died, 1683. Quota- tions : Government—Jealousy—Modesty—Opinion—Pleas- ure—Sin—Sobriety. WHIPPLE, EDWIN PERCY, born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1819; an eminent American critic, writer, and essayist. Quotations: Activity–Apothegm—Author— Beauty—Character— Cheerfulness— §mºnº Colmpo- sition—Conservatism— Critic—Dignity—Eye—Fanaticism —Genius — Gluttony— Greatness — Grumbler – Heroism — Humanity—Humor— Ideality— Imagination–Indolence— Irony—Knowledge—Literature—Marriage—Minister—Na- ture–Politics—Power—Printing—Puritanism-Scandal— Speech—Style—Talent—Thought—Wealth—Will—Words. WHIPPLE, WILLIAM, born at Kittery, Maine, 1730; an American general of the Revolution; died, 1785. Quotation : Zealot. - WHISTLECRAFT, H. : an American physician and author. Quotation : Anatomy. WHISTON, WILLIAM, born, 1667; an English di- vine and author; died, 1752. Quotation : Taste. WHITAKER, MARY ANN : an American author- ess and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Self-Murder. WHITAKER, WILLIAM, D.D., born in Holme, Lancashire, 1547: a learned English Calvinistic divine and author: died, December 4, 1595. Quotation : Neatness. WHITE, BLYTHE, born in Vermont : an Ameri- can writer, and author of “Green Mountain Girls,” (New York, 1856.) Q7zotation : Truth. WHITE, CHARLEs J., D.D., born in Baltimore, 1807; an American Roman Catholic divine and author. Quotation: Mother. B / O G R A P H / C A Z / A D F X. 1209 WHITE, GILBERT, born in Selborne, Hampshire, 1720; an eminent English naturalist, divine, and author; died, 1793. Quotation : Youth. WHITE, HENRY KIRKE, the son of a butcher, born in Nottingham, March 21, 1785; an English poet and writer. He distinguished himself by his attainments in the ancient and modern languages, theology, music, and natural Sci- ence; died, October 19, 1806. Quotations: Bible—Contem- plation—Epitaph — Existence — Expression —Genius–Har- mony—Hope—Inquiry — Judgments — Life—Melancholy— Past—Philosophy-Piety - Poetry—Pride—Recluse—Seclu- sion—Society—Solitude—Time—War. - WHITE, HORACE, born, 1812 ; an American jour- nalist. Quotations : Editor--Newspaper--Press--Telegraph. WHITE, JAMEs, born, 1804; an English divine, poet, and writer on political eeonomy; died, 1862. Quotat- tion : COmmunisin. - WHITE, JANE ISABELATwATER, born in Homer, New York, August 26, 1822; an American Methodist mis- sionary; died in Fuh-Chan, China, May 23, 1848. Quotation : Missionary. WHITE, John, (The Patriarch of Dorsetshire,) born, 1574: an English divine and popular preacher; died, 1648. Quotation . Forbearance. WHITE, Joseph BLANCO, born, 1775; an English miscellaneous writer: died, 1841. Q?totatio), . Hardness. WHITE, RICHARD GRANT, born in New York, 1822; an American lawyer, critic, magazine contributor, and author. Quotations: Criticism — Dictionary—Experi- ment—Grammar-Rain—Recollection—Reputation—Right —Science—Sin—Style—Tongue—Vice-Words—Writing. WHITECROSS, JoHN, born in New York ; an American author. Quotattions: Benevolence — Saint — Satan—Vanity. WHITEFIELD, GEORGE, born in Gloucester, De- cember, 1714: an eminent English divine and author ; died in Newburyport, Massachusetts, September, 1770. Quota- tions : Death—VOCation—Zeal. WHITEFOORD, CALEB, born, 1734; an English wit and satirist ; died, 1809. Quotation : Trifle. WHITEHEAD, WILLIAM, born in Cambridge, 1715; an English poet and dramatist; died, 1788. Quota- tion : Comedy. WHITELOCKE, BULSTRODE, born, 1605; an Eng- lish government commissioner; died, 1676. Quotation : Betrothal. - WHITGIFT, John, D.D., (Archbishop of Canter- bury,) born in Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, 1530; a distin- guished English divine, theologian, and author; died, Feb- ruary, 1604. (Jnotations : Conquest—Repentance. WHITMAN : an American justice of the peace. Quotation : Intermperance. WHITMAN, MARCUs, M. D., born in Rushville, New York, 1812; an American physician and missionary among the Rocky Mountain Indians: killed in 1838 by or- der of a Nez Perces chief, because the “medicine man” failed to cure one of his squaws. Qatotation : Youth. WHITMARSH, CAROLINE SNow DEN, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1827; an American authoress. Quo. tation : Fasting. * * WHITNEY, WILLIAM Dwight, born, February 9, 1827; a distinguished philologist and Oriental Scholar. )?/Otation? : Grammar. WHITTIER, John GREENLEAF, born near Haver- hill, Massachusetts, December 17, 1807; an eminent Ameri- can poet and philanthropist. Quotattions : Fountain — Starvation—Ugliness—Victory. WHITTLESEY, ABIGAIL GooDRICH, born in Ridgefield, Connecticut, about 1778; a celebrated American philanthropist, and editress of the “Mother's Magazine;” died, 1854. Quotations : Behavior—Daughter—Mother. WIELAND, CHRISTOPH MARTIN, born in Ober- holzheim, near Biberach, Würtemburg, September 5, 1733; an eminent German poet and writer; died near Weimar, January 30, 1813. Quotations : Despair — Experience – Prayer—Sublimity. WIGAN, WILLIAM, born in London, 1657; an English divine and author; died, 1718. Quotation : Brains. WIGFALL, LEWIS T., born in South Carolina, 1824, Settled in Texas; an American lawyer, politician, and general of the Confederate army; died in Gálveston, Texas, February 21, 1879. Q7zotation : Secession. WIGGINS, ALEXANDER. M., born, 1801; an Eng- lish divine and author. Quotations : Mind—Youth. WIGGINS, MARK A.; an American writer, and author of “The Farmers' Instructor,” and other works, (Baltimore.) Quotation : Youth. WIGGLESWORTH, EDWARD, D.D., born in Mal- den, Massachusetts, 1693; an American divine and author; died, January 16, 1765. Quotations: Envy — Opinion–Sar. CaSm—Success—Troubles. WIGGLESWORTH, MICHAEL, born in England, 1631, emigrated to America, 1638; an English diviné, poet, and author ; died, June 10, 1705. Quotation : Years. WIKOFF, HENRY, (The Chevalier,) born in Phila- delphia about 1814; an American lawyer, and author of “Adventures of a Hoving Diplomatist,” and other works. Quotations, Society—Woman. WILBERFORCE, ROBERT Is AAC, born in Clap- ham Common, 1802: an English divine and author; died in Italy, 1857. Quotation : Study. WILBERFORCE, SAMUEL, (Bishop of Oxford,) brother of the preceding, born, Šeptember 7, 1805; an Eng. lish divine and author; died, July 19, 1873. Quotation. Self-Deceit. WILBERFORCE, WILLIAM, born in Hull, Au. gust 24, 1759, an illustrious English philanthropist and statesman ; died in flondon, July 29, 1833. MºlotóttiO72s." Flowers — Forgiveness – Heaven – Industry – Labor—Old Age—Ostentation—Preaching—Sunday—Trees. WILBUR, ANNE T., born in Wendell, Massachu- setts, 1817 : an American authoress. Quotation Caprice. WILCOX, CARLOS, born in Newport, New Hamp- shire, Qctober, 1791; an American poet and author; died. 1827. Quotations: Cross—Dying–Time - WILD, JONATHAN, born about 1672 : a motorious English highwayman; executed, 1725. Quotation : Thief. WILDE, DAVID RICHARD, born, 1809, an English Writer and Journalist ; died 1859. Qºtotation . News. WILDE, OSCAR, born, 1854: an English aesthete and poet. Quotattºons: Benignity— Design. WILDE, RICHARD HENRY, born in Dublin, 1780; an Irish lawyer and author; died in New Orleans, Septem- ber 10, 1847. Quotation, ; Love. WILDER, MARSHALL PINCKNEY, born in Rindge, New Hampshire, 1798. an American merchant, and an emi. ment horticulturist. Quotattºons : Agriculture — Common- Sense—Farmel'. WILEY, C. H.; an American Presbyterian minis- ter and author: resident of Jonesbol o, Tennessee. Quo- tation : ZealOt. - - WILKES, JOHN, born in London, 1727; a cele- brated English politician and author. He was a strenuous gºnent of the American war; died. 1797. Quotation : €3,1. WILKIE, WILLIAM, D.D., born in Linlithgow- shire, 1721 : a Scottish divine and poet ; died, 1772. Quota- tion. Teaching. WILKINS, DAVID, (Archdeacon of Suffolk,) born, 1685 han English divine and author; died, 1745. Quotation : right. WILKINS, JoHN, D.D., (Bishop of Chester,) born in Fawsley, Northamptonshire, 1614; an eminent English divine and author; died, 1672. Qztotations : Good–Gospel —Oratory--Paradox--Prejudice-Prosecution--Self-Opinion —Testament—Testimony—Understanding. WILKINSON, JAMES John GARTH, born in Lon- don, 1812; an English author. Quotation Pyramid, WILKINSON, SIR JOHN GARDNER, born, 1798 : an eminent English archaeologist and author; died, Octo- ber 29, 1875. Quotation : System. WILKS, MARK, born, 1800.; an English republican writer; died, 1869. Quotation : Gladness. WILLARD, ANNIE G. : an American writer on Social reform, and advocate of “Women's Rights,” Quo- t(tition : Distraction. WILLARD, EMMA. HART, born in Berlin, Connec- ticut, February 23, 1787; an éminent American prose wri- ter and essayist, and authoress of “Morals for the Young;” died, 1870. Quotations: Aim—Approbation—Authorship— Botany--Cure—Delusion—Ethics-Holiness—Housekeeping —Impurity.— Machinery—Monster — Morality — Mother — Motive — Neatness—Parent—Pity—Practice — Property – Punishment — Purity— Iłemorse— Righteousness—'Selfish- º pathy—Truth—Understanding— Will -- Wisdom— OrShip. WILLARD, MARY, niece of the preceding : an #ican lecturer and miscellaneous writer, Quotation : OI’t. WILLARD, SAMUEL, born in Concord, New Hampshire, 1640; an American divine and author: died, 1707. Quotation : Witchcraft. WILLET, ANDREw, born in Ely, 1562; an English divine and author; died, 1621. Quotations : Jealousy— Popularity. WILLIAM I, Emperor of Germany, and King of Prussia, born, March 22, 1797. Quotations : Recreation — Reform—Sabbath. WILLIAM I, King of England, and WILLIAM II, , Of Normandy, surnamed, “The Conqueror,” born in Fa- laise, France; died in Rouen, 1087. Quotations: Burial — T'aithlessness—Money. º WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY, born in Somer- Setshire, 1095; an old English historian ; died, 1143. Quota- tion : Invasion. t WILLIAM OF MONTAGNAGOUT, born about 1125; a celebrated French troubadour of Provence; died, 1181. Quotation : Virtue. 1210 J) A Y '.S C O Z / A C O AV. WILLIAM OF NEWBURY, born, 1136: an Eng- lish historian: died, 1208. Quotation : Command. WILLIAM OF POITIERS, born, 1020: a French historian, poet, and troubadour; died, 1090. Quotations: Love — Power —Vulgarity. WILLIAMS, ANNA, born, 1706 : an English wri- ter and poetess, who, having become blind, was taken by Dr. Johnson into his house and supported for the remain- der of her life; died, 1783. Quotation : Perfume. WILLIAMS, SIR CHARLES HANBURY, born, 1709 ; a distinguished English Writer and diplomatist ; died, 1759. Quotation : Yielding. WILLIAMS, DANIEL, born in Wrexham, Den- bighshire, 1644; a Welch Presbyterian divine and author; died, 1716. Quotation : Sinner. WILLIAMS, DAVID, born in Cardiganshire, 1738; a celebrated Welch writer, and the founder of the Literary Fund Society; died, 1816. Quotation : Zealot. WILLIAMS, EBENEZER, born, 1691; an American divine and author; died, 1753. Quotation : Gratitude. WILLIAMS, HELEN MARIA, born, 1759; an Eng- lish painter and littérateur ; died, 1827. Quotation : Fun. WILLIAMS, John. (Archbishop of York,) born in Carnarvonshire, 1582; a distinguished Welch divine and author; died, 1650. Quotation : Preaching. WILLIAMS, John, born in Tottenham, 1796; a celebrated Dissenting divine and missionary : killed by Savages, 1839. Quotations: Missionary—Zealot. WILLIAMS, SIR ROGER, born in Monmouthshire, 1523: an English writer; died, 1595. Quotation : Zeal. WILLIAMS, ROGER, born in Wales, 1606, a cele- brated English Puritan reformer. He emigrated to Bos- ton, February 5, 1631, was banished from the colony, Octo- ber 3, 1635, for upholding the principles of religious liberty. and in the following May he founded the settlement of Rhode Island. He was the first person in the civilized world to assert, the doctrine of the liberty of conscionce; died in Rhode Island, 1683, and was buried in Providence. Juotations: Benevolence—Key–Law—Morality—Pastor— ersecution—Quakerism—Sea—Time. WILLIAMS, Row LAND, D.D., born in Flintshire, 1817 a Welch divine and author: died, January 18, 1870. Quotation : Youth. WILLIAMS, SARAH, born, 1835; an English poet- ess, miscellaneous writer, and author of “Twilight Hours,” (London, 1872.) Quotation : Beauty. WILLIAMS, THOMAs SCOTT, LL.D., born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, 1777: an American jurist, wri- ter, and Chief Justice of Connecticut died, December, 1861. Quotattion : Drunkenness, WILLIAMS, WILLIAM R., D D., born in New York, 1804; an American givine and author. Quotations : Burial—Missionary. WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER, brother of “Fanny Fern,” (Mrs. Parton,) born in Portland. Maine. January 20, 1806; an American prolific writer of beautiful prose and Verse ; died at Idlewild, his romantic retreat on the Hud- Son, January 21, 1867. Quotations: Air–Ambition—Books —Cottage—Despair—Flowers-- Happiness—Innocence—In- telligence— Knowledge – Love—Maiden–Night— Nobility —Rain—Spring—Truth— Valet–Water—Youth. WILLIS, THOMAS, F.R.S., born in Great Bedwin, Wiltshire, 1621 : an eminent English anatomist, physician, and author: died, 1675. Quotation : Yawning. WILLMOTT, ROBERT ARIs, born in Bearwood, 1809: an English divine, scientist, and writer: died, May 27, 1863. Quotations: Association—Attention—Autumn—Bat. tle-Books—Criticism--Drama–Dwarf–Education—Envy –Fiction–Friendship—Grief—History—Humor—Imagina. tion-Imitation- Incredulity—Joy–Knowledge—Learning tºº..."...º.º.º.º. Reflec- tion—Romance—Satire—Strength—Style—Talent—Taste— Wickedness—Wolman—Youth WILLOUGHBY, FRANCIS, born, 1635 : an Eng- lish naturalist and author: died 1672. Quotation Zoology. WILLS, WILLIAM GoRMAN, born in the county of Kilkenny, 1828; an Irish dramatist and novelist. Quo- tation : Temper. WILLS, WILLIAM HENRY, born in Plymouth, 1810; an English littérateur, journalist, and author: died, 1879. Quotation : Yesterday. WILLSON, MARCIUs, A.M., born in West Stock- bridge, Massachusetts, December 8, 1813: an American educator, and author of “General and American Histo- ries,” “Mosaics of Bible History,” two popular series of School, Readers,” and other school books: resident of Vineland, New Jersey. Quotations: Prose—Satire–Truth. WILMOT, DAVID, born in Bethany, in Wayne COunty. Pennsylvania, January, 1814; an American states- man: died in Towanda, March, 1868. Quotation. Sneer. WILSON, ALExANDER, born in Paisley, July 6, 1766, emigrated to America. 1794: a celebrated Scottish- American naturalist, and the founder of American orni- thology; died in Philadelphia, August 23, 1873. Quotation : Covetousness. WILSON, ARTHUR, born, 1596; an English wri- ter; died, 1652. Quotation : Youth. WILSON, CAROLINE, born in Tunbridge, Wells, 1787; an English novelist; died, 1846. Quotation : Ill-Will. WILSON, DANIEL, D.D., (Bishop of Calcutta,) born in Spitalfields, July 2, 1778; an English divine and au. thor; died in Calcutta, India, January 2, 1858. Quotations: Christianity–Feudalism—Opportunity--Redemption—Sab- bath—Sacrifice. WILSON, ERASMUs, born, 1808; an English sur- geon and author. Quotation : Bath. WILSON, FLORENCE, (Volusenws,) born in the C9unty of Moray, 1478: a Scottish philosopher and author; died, 1547. Quotation : Housewife. ' WILSON, GEORGE, born in Edinburgh, 1818; a Scotch chemist, physician, and author: died. 1859. Quota- tions: Duty—Hand. - WILSON, HENRY, born in Farmington, in New Hampshire, jº, 16, 1812: a distinguished American Statesman and Vice-President of the United States: died, November 22, 1875. Quotation : Yielding. WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN, born in London 1786 : an eminent #. Orientalist, and author of several Valuable works; died, 1860. Quotation : Quality. WILSON, JAMES, born near Saint Andrews, 1742 emigrated to America, and was elected to the Continenta Congress, 1775, and was one of the signers of the Declara. tion of Independence: died, 1798. Quotation Federalism. WILSON, JAMEs, M.P., born in Hawick, Rox- burghshire, 1805; a Scottish statesman and journalist: died, August 11, 1860. Quotations : Constitution—Regeneration. WILSON, JOHN, (Christopher North.) born in Paisley, May 19, 1785; a celebrated Scottish writer, critic, and poet: died in Edinburgh, April 3, 1854. Quotations: Affection—Cant—Conversion – Death—Desire—Despair— Envy–Faults—Good-Imagination — Life—Piety-Poor— republicanism—Sophistry — Sorrow — Sovereign—Tender- ness—Truth—Vanity. - WILSON, SIR THOMAs, born, 1520; an English statesman ; died, 1581. Quotation : Effect. WILSON, THOMAs, D.D., LL.D., (Bishop of Sodor and Man,) born in Burton, Cheshire, 1663; an eminent Eng- lish divine and author: died, March 7, 1755. Quotations: Enemy—Faith—Morality—Motive — Pastor–Prayer—Re- Vival. WILSON, THOMAs, son of the preceding, born, 1703; an English divine and author; died, 1784. Quota- tion : Unbelief. WILTON, EDwARD, born in Nottingham, 1820: an English divine and author; died, 1864. Quotation : Lit- tleneSS. WINCHESTER, MRs. JACKSON, born in Ithaca, New York, 1848; an American journalist and miscellaneous writer. Quotations: Aversion — Cleanliness—Courtship— Ectasy—Humbug. WINCRELMANN, JOHANN JOACHIM, born near Stendal, Prussia, 1717; an eminent German critic and wri- ter on art; he was assassinated at Trieste, }. an Italian named Arcangeli, June, 1768. , Quotations: Beauty—Ele- gance—Gracefulness—Pyramid. WINDLE, MARY JANE, born in Wilmington, Delaware, 1825: an American authoress. Quotation: Hope. WINER, GEORG BENEDICT, born in Leipsic, 1789; a German Protestant theologian, Orientalist, and author: died, 1858. Quotation : Instinct. WINGATE, CHARLEs FREDERICK, (Carlfried,) born in New York, 1847; an American journalist and wri- ter. Quotations : Editor—Journalism—Press. WINGFIELD, ANTHONY, born about 1600; an English author; died, 1659. Quotation : Faithfulness. WINSLOW, EDwARD, born in Worcestershire, 1595, came in the Mayflower to New England, 1620: an Eng- lish author, and Governor of Plymouth colony; died at sea, 1655. Quotation : Worship. WINSLOW, FoRBEs, born in London, 1810; an English physician and author. Quotations: Bed—Dreams. WINSLOW, HUBBARD, D.D., born in Williston, Vermont. October 30, 1800; an American Congregational divine and author: died, August 13, 1864. Quotations : Af- fection—Approbation—Approval—Awe-Axiom—- Knowl- edge – Mother— Motive—Nature – Obstinacy – Owner- Patriotism – Penitence — Perception — Piety – Politics– Power—Principles—-Prison-Purity--Qualifications--frepen- tance – Retribution — Rivalry—Selfishness—Self-Respect— Service-Sight–Simplicity—$inner–Sister–Temper–Tor- ture—Treason—Vice–Wealth—Wife. WINSLOW, OCTAv1Us, D.D., born, 1709 : an Eng- lish divine and author: died, 1771. Quotation : Prayer. WINSTANLEY, WILLIAM, born about 1620: an English biographical and historical writer; died, 1690. Quo- tortion : Old Age. WINTER, FRANCIS, born, 1745: an American di- vine, and patriot of the Revolution; died, 1826. Quota- tion : Mutability. A / O G R A P H / C A / / /V /) A Y. 1211 WINTHEROP, John, born in Grotin, Suffolk, Janu- ary 12, 1587; an English governor of Massachusetts; died, Mărch 26, 1649. Quotations : Character—Liberty. WINTHROP, ROBERT CHARLES, LL.D., a descen- dent of Governor Winthrop, born in Boston, Massachu- setts, May 12, 1809; an American statesman and orator. §§ons : Constitution —Horticulture—Mystery—Sky— Illage. WINTRINGHAM, CLIFTON, born, 1695; an Eng- lish surgeon, physiologist, and writer; died, 1748. Quotat- tion : Instinct. WIN WALOE, SAINT, born in Winwaloe, 452 ; a celebrated Welch abbot and divine; died, 529. Quotation : Destitution. - WIRT, WILLIAM, LL.D., born in Bladensburg, Maryland, November 8, 1772; an eloquent American lawyer and author; died in Washington, February 18, 1834. Qº0- tations: Courtesy— Intemperance– Intention- La W-Ob- servation—Purity—Reading—Wealth. WISE, HENRY ALExANDER, born in Drummond- town. Accomac county, Virginia, December 3, 1805 ; a dis- tinguished American politician ; died in Richmond, Sep- tember, 1876. Quotations : Jesuitism—Zeal. WISE, DANIEL, D.D., born in Portsmouth, 1813; an English Methodist divine and author. Quotations: Death—Hard-Heartedness—Invective. WISE, Isa AC M., RABBI : a Jewish divine and writer of New York. Quotations: Happiness—Misfortune. WISEMAN, LUKE H., born about 1825; an English divine, and author of “Men of Faith,” and Other WOrks, (London, 1810.) Quotation : Fasting. WISEMAN, NICHOLAS PATRICE STEPHEN, (Car- dinal Wiseman,) born in Seville, § of Irish parents, August 2, 1802; a distinguished English scholar and author, and chief of the Roman Catholic Church in England ; died in London, February 15, 1865. Quotations: Benignity — Christianity—Watchfulness. WISEMAN, R. L. H. : an English author and mis- cellaneous writer. Quotation : Fasting. WISHART, GEORGE, born, 1514; a celebrated Scotch preacher and martyr; died, 1546. Quotation : Ban- ishment—Presumption. WISNER, BENJAMIN, born, 1795; an American divine and author; died, 1835. Quotattion : Missionary. WISSOWATZE, ANDREw, born in Lithuani, 1608: a Polish Socinian writer ; died in Holland, 1678. Quota- tion : Speech. WISTAR, ANNIE LEE FURNESs, born in Philadel- phia, 1840; an American translator and authoress. Quotat- tions : Marriage. WISZNIEWSKI, MICHAEL, born in Galicia, 1794; an eminent Polish litterateur, critic, philosophical writer, and author. Qutotation: Zealot. WITHERING, WILLIAM, born, 1741 : an English physician and botanist ; died, 1799. Quotation : Plant. WITHERS, GEORGE, born in Hampshire, 1588: an English poet, satirist, and political writer; died, 1667. Quotation : Revenge. WITHERSPOON, JOHN, D. D., LL.D., born in Yester, Haddingtonshire. February 5, 1722; a distinguished Scottish divine. In 1766 he was offered the presidency of Princeton College, New Jersey, which he accepted ; he was elected to the Continental Congress, and was One of the signers of the declaration of Independence; died, 1794. Quotations: Economy—Money—Politeness — Politics—Si- lence—Sin—Theatre—WorldlineSS. *s WITHOF, Johann PHILIPP LoRENz, born in Duis- burg, 1725; a German physician, poet, and prose writer; died, 1789. Quotation : Declaration. WITS’ COMMON WEALTH: the name of a small collection of aphorisms, published in 1678, and supposed to have been compiled by Nicholas Lynge, (q.v.) and John Bodenham, (q.v.) Quotattions: Husband—Proverbs—Sump- tu O Úl SneSS. WITSIUS, HERMAN, born about 1632 : an eminent and learned Dutch divine and author ; died, 1708. Quota- tions : Renegade—Self-Denial. WITTICHIUS, CHRISTOPH, born in Silesia, 1625; a German Protestant theologian and author; died in Ley- den, 1687. Quotation : Timidity. WITZLEBEN, KARL AUGUST FRIEDRICH, (Von Tromlitz,) born near Weimar, 1773: a popular German nov- elist; died, 1839. Quotation : Yesterday. WITZSTAEDT, HEINRICH, born in Breslau, 1772; a German writer; died, 1840. Quotation : Cross. WODROW, ROBERT, born in Glasgow, 1679; a Scottish Presbyterian divine and historical writer; died, 1734. Quotation : Occupation. WOFFINGTON, MARGARET, born in Dublin, 1718; a celebrated Irish actress ; died, 1760. Q7zotation : Draina. WOGAN, WILLIAM, born in Ealing, Middlesex, 1691; an English author; died, 1758. Quotations: Faith— Providence—Sabbath—Sin–Wages. WOLCOTT, John, M.D., (Peter Pindar,) born in Dodbrooke, Devonshire, 1738; an English physician and satiric poet; died, January 13, 1819. Qºtotation, Nervous- IlêSS. WOLF, FRIEDRICH AUGUST DE, born in Hainrode, near Nordhausen, Prussia, February 15, 1759; a celebrated German scholar and critic; died in Marseilles, August, 1824. Quotation : Money. WOLF, PRAIRIE. See SHONGMUNECUTHE. Quo. tations: Prairie—Temperance. WOLFE, CHARLEs, born in Dublin, 1791 ; an Irish divine and author; died, 1823. Quotation : Christ. WOLFF, Johan N CHRISTIAN FREIHERR, born in Breslau, January 24, 1679; a celebrated German philosopher, mathematician, and author: died, April, liá4. (ºtt0&ct!?07 . Instinct. WOLFF, Joseph, born, 1795; an English con- verted Jewish divine and author: died, 1862. Qºtobºtto), : Zion. WOLFGANGIUS, LAZIUS, born in Berlin, 1721 ; a celebrated German author; died in Paris, June 22, 1789. Quotation: Foulness. WOLLASTON, WILLIAM, born in Coton Clanford, Staffordshire, 1659; an English writer on ethics and theolo- gy; died, 1724. Quotattions: Aggression—Axiom—Disagree- ment—Mercy—Misanthropy. & WOLLASTON, WILLIAM HYDE, born in London, 1766; an eminent'English chemist, natural philosopher, and author; died, December, 1828. Quotations: Fate-Right- Truth—Unfaithfulness. WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARY GODWIN, born, April 27, 1759; a celebrated English authoress; died, 1797; after giving birth to a daughter, who became the Wife of the poet Shelley, (q.v.) Quotations: Appetite—Character —Nature—Wife. & WOLOF : a country in West Africa, having no literature except proverbs, or common sayings, and frºm which the following are taken. Quotations. Bed—Child- ren–Cookery—Curiosity–Horse–OWner. WOLSEY, THOMAS, the son of a butcher, (Arch- bishop of York and Cardinal,) born in Ipswich, 1471; a cele- brated English divine, who rose from his menial position to become prime minister of England, and lord high chan- cellor; died in Leicester Abbey, November 28, 1536. Quo- tºttion : IdleneSS. WOLTMANN, KARL LUDwig, born in Oldenburg, 1770: a German historian and author; died, 1817. Quoiſt. tion. ... Yoke. - WOLZOGEN, KAROLINE voN, (Lengsfeld,) born in Rudolstadt, 1763; a German writer and novelist, and sister-in-law of the celebrated Schiller; died, 1847. Quota- tion : Instinct. - WOMBWELL, ANDREw, born 1759; an English author; died, 1818. Quotation : King. WOOD, ANTHONY, born in Oxford, December 17, 1632; an English antiquarian writer; died, 1695. Quota. tion : Parting. - WOOD, ELLEN, PRICE, (MRs. HENRy WooD, ) born, 1820; an English novelist. Quotations: Child—Ocean. WOOD, FERNANDO, born in Philadelphia, 1812; an American politician ; died in New York, 1881. Quota- tion. Institution. WOOD, LADY EMMA, born about 1811: an English authoress: died, 1872. Quotation : Prodigality. WOOD, WILLIAM, born about 1570 : an English author and poet. He emigrated to Massachusetts in 1629, and was one of the chief founders of the Plymouth colony; died. 1639. Q7zotration : Providence. WOODBURY, AUGUSTUs, born in Beverley, Mas- sachusetts, 1825; an American writer. Quotation : Tardi- In GSS. WOODD, BASIL, born in Surrey, 1760 : an English divine and author: died, 1831. Quotation : Christ. WOODESON, RICHARD, born in Surrey, 1745 : an eminent English jurist and legal writer; died, 1822. Quo- tation : Yielding. WOODFALL, HENRY SAMPSON, born, 1748 : an English journalist. He was editor of the “Public Adverti- ser” at the time the famous “Letters of Junius” appeared in its columns: died about 1807. Quotation. : Zeal. WOODFALL, WILLIAM, (Memory Woodfall,) bro- ther of the preceding, born, 1745: an English reporter and journalist, distinguished for his retentive memory; died, 1803. Quotation : Stage. WOODLAND, MISS : an American writer, and authoress of “Tales for Mothers and Daughters,” and Other works, (1807.) Quotation : Truth. WOODNOTH, RICHARD, born, 1724; an English author: died, 1773. Quotation : Injustice. WOODVILLE, ELIZABETH, Queen of England, wife of Fdward the Fourth, and the mother of Edward the Fifth. She was distinguished for her personal beauty, and her many virtues; died, 1488. Quotation : Maiden. AD A Y’.S C O / / A C O AV. WOODWARD, BERNARD BOLINGBROKE, born in Norwich, 1816: an English historian. Quotation : Jargon. WOODWARD, JoHN, born in Derbyshire, 1665; an English physician, geologist, antiquary, and author; died, 1728. Quotations: Diamond—Fossils. WOODWORTH, SAMUEL, born in Scituate, Mas- sachusetts, 1785; an American journalist, poet, and author of the popular lyric “The Old Oaken Bucket; ” died, 1842. Quotation: Yesterday. WOOLEVER, ADAM ; , an American author, and compiler of “Treasury of Wisdom,” (Philadelphia, 1878.) Quotation : Principles. - WOOLMAN, JOHN, born in Northampton, Bur- lington county, West Jersey, 1720; an eminent American preacher of the Society of Friends; died in York, England, October 5, 1772. Quotations: Literature—Slavery. WOOLSEY, THEODORE Dwight, born, 1801; an American scholar, and president of Yale College. Quota- tion : Communism. WOOLSON, CONSTANCE F.; an English authoress of the present century. Quotation : Imperfection. WOOLSTON, THOMAS, born in Northampton, 1669; an English divine, theologian, and author; died, 1733. Quotation : Scripture. WORBOISE, EMMA JANE, born, 1825; an English novelist and writer. Quotation. Farewell. WORCESTER, EDWARD SOMERSET, MARQUIS of, born, 1601; an English philosopher and author; died, 1667. Quotation : Christ. WORCESTER, JOSEPH EMERSON, born in Bed- ford, New Hampshire, 1784; an eminent Almerican lexicog- rapher, and author of the well-known dictionary which bears his name ; died, 1865. Quotation : ZeSt. WORDROEPHE ; a Welch bard and prose wri- ter. Quotation : Dancing. WORDSWORTH, CHARLEs, (Bishop of Saint Andrew's, Dunkeld, and Dunblane,) nephew of the poet William Wordsworth, noted below, born, 1806; an English divine and author. Quotation. Inclination. WORDSWORTH, CHRISTOPHER, D.D., (Bishop of Lincoln,) son of the preceding, born, 1808; a celebrated English divine and author. Quotation : Cathedral. WORDSWORTH, CHRISTOPHER, D.D., father of the preceding, and a brother of the celebrated poet, noted below, born in Cockermouth, 1774; an eminent English º and ecclesiastical historian ; died, 1846. Quota. tion? : Zeal. WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM, D. C. L., born , in Cockermouth, Cumberland, April 7, 1770; an illustrious English poet and writer; died at Rydal Mount, April 23, 1855, Qºţotations: Action — Child — Flowers—Hair–Holi- day—Independence—Rindness—Life—Lowliness—Poetry— Prose—Wisdom—Writing. WORM, OLAUs, born in Jutland, 1588 : a Danish physician and author: died, 1654. Quotation : Zeal. WORONICZ, John PAUL, born in Volhynia, 1757;. an eminent Polish writer and pulpit orator; died, 1829. Quotation : Youth. WORSAAE, JENS JACOB ASMUSSEN, born in Jut- land, 1821 ; a Danish author. Quotation : Riddles. WORTHINGTON, JANE T. L., born in the city g New York, 1847; an American authoress. Quotation : €3,06. WORTHINGTON, JOHN, D.D., born in Manches- ter, 1618; an English divine, theologian, and author; died, 1671. Quotations: Christ—Humility. WORTLEY, LADY EMMELINE STUART, the daugh- ter of the Duke of Rutland, born about 1810; an English traveller and author. Quotation : Frugality. WOTTON, EDwARD, born in Oxford, 1492; an English %; naturalist, and author; died, 1555. Quo- tattiO77 : Zealousness. WOTTON, SIR HENRY, born at Boughton Hall, Kent, 1568; an English diplomatist and writer ; died, De- cember, 1639. §º : Ambassador — Disparagement —Expectation—Felicity—Slovenliness—Thrift. WOTTON, WILLIAM, D.D., born in Suffolk, 1666; an English divine and author; died, 1726. Quotation : Gold. WOUVERMANS, PHILIP, born in Haarlem, 1620; an eminent Dutch painter; died, 1668. Quotation : Paint- Ing. WRANGHAM, FRANCIS, (Archdeacon of Chester,) born, 1769; an English divine and author; died, 1843. Quo- tation : Wrath. - WRANGLE, KARL GUSTAF von, Count, born in Skokloster, 1613; an eminent Swedish general ; died, 1675. Quotation : Hard-Heartedness. WREN, SIR CHRISTOPHER, born in East Knoyle, Wiltshire, October 20, 1632; a celebrated English architect; died in London, February, 1723. Quotation : Institution. WREN, MATTHEw, (Bishop of Ely,) born in Lon- don, 1585; an eminent. English divine and author; died, 1667. Quotation: Ability—Yeoman. WRIGHT, ELIZUR, born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, 1804; an American journalist and philanthro- pist. Quotations: Damnation—Insincerity. WRIGHT, FRANCEs D’ARRUSMONT, born in Eng- land, 1795; an English-American author; died in Cincin- nati, 1852. Quotations: Infidelity—Love—Responsibility. WRIGHT, HENRY C.; an American peace advo- gate, writer, reformer, and author, (Boston, 1841–69.) Quo- tation : Equality. - WRIGHT, JULIA, MCNAIR, born in Oswego, New York, 1840; a prolific American writer of tales. tions: Kindness—Report. Wºº. Sºi, born in Amherst, Massachusetts, !ay 24, 1795; an American statesman; died at Canton, New York, 1847. Quotations: Legislature"—Office. anton, New WRIGHT, THOMAS, born near Ludlow, Shrop- Shire, April 21, 1810; an eminent modern English antiqua- ry. Quotation : History. - WULFSTAN, SAINT, born in Icentum, in War- Wickshire, 1008; an English divine and author ; died, 1095, Quotation : Dancing. - WUNDT, DANIEL LUDwig, born in Krentznach, 1741; a German historian and theological writer; died, 1805. Quotation : Years. --- WURM, JoHANN FRIEDRICH, born in Nürturgen, 1760; a gelebrated German divine, astronomer, and author; died, 1833. Quotation : Wrestling. . WURTEMBERG, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH ALEx- ander, Count, von, born in Copenhagen, 1801; a distin- gººd German poet and author; died, 1844. Quotation : | Olli Il. * - WURZELBAU, JoHANN PHILIPP, born in Nurem- berg, 1651; a celebrated German astronomer and author; died, 1725. Quotation : Zephyr. Quota- WYATT, SIR THOMAs, born at Allington Castle, Kent, 1503; an eminent English poet and statesman ; died at Sherborne, October 11, 1541. Qztotations : Ambassador —Difficulty—Medicine. WYCHERLEY, WILLIAM, born in Cleave, Shrop- shire, 1640; a popular English dramatist ; died, January 1, 17 ū Quotations: Mankind— Patience—Rainbow—Sym- pathy. WYCKOFF, VAN BRUNT, M.D., born in Brook- lyn, New York, 1820; an American physician and writer. Quotations : Brains—Heart—Soul. WYCLIFFE, John, D.D., born in Sprewsal, a small village, near Richmond, Yorkshire, 1324; an eminent English divine, and the “Morning Star,” of the Reforma- tion ; died in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, December 31, 1884. Quotations : Ability–Apocrapha-Christ—Maxims— Pilgrim—Superstition—Translation—Truth. - WYKEHAM, WILLIAM, (Bishop of Winchester,) born in Hampshire, 1324; an eminent English ecclesiastic and statesman ; died, 1404. Quotation : Decree—Manners. WYLIE, ANDREW, D.D., born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, 1789; an American Episcopal divine and author; died, 1851. Quotations: Prophecy—Sabbath. WYLLYS, MRS. GEORGE W., wife of George Yº. an English governor of Connecticut, born about . $ i an English authoress; died, 1654. Quotation. Mis- CI1162T. . WYN, ELIs ; a Welch bard and prose writer. Quotation. Lightning. WYNCHESLAUS ; born in Bohemia, 1361; a German emperor, who executed Burthold Swartz for in- venting gunpowder, and banished the reformer Huss; died, 1419. Quotations: Fool—Gunpowder. WYNNE, RICHARD, born in London, 1725; an English divine and author; died, 1799. Quotations: Knav- ery–Masquerade. WYNNE, SIR WATRIN WILLIAMS, M.P., born, 1820; an English diplomatist and Statesman. Quotation : Popery. WYNTER, ANDREw, M.D., born, 1819; an Eng- lish miscellaneous writer; died, 1876. Quotation : Prop- erty. WYNTERSHYLLE, WILLIAM, born about 1850; an English monk of Saint Albans, and chronicler; died. 1424. Quotation : Son. WYNTOUN, ANDREw, (Prior of Saint Serf,) lived about 1410; a Scottish chronicler. Quotation: Reason. WYSE, SIR THOMAs, born, 1800; an English wri- ter and diplomatist: died, 1862. Quotation : Teaching. WYSOCKI, JosłPH, born in Podolia, 1809 : , a Polish patriot and soldier. He was the author of a treatise on “The Art of War; ” died, 1869. Quotation : Decree. WYTHE, GEORGE, born in Elizabeth City county, Virginia, 1726; an American jurist and patriot ; died in Richmond, 1806. Quotation : Institution. WYTTENBACH, DANIEL, born in Bourne, Switz- erland, 1746; an eminent Swiss critic and author; died, 1820. Quotation : Study. A / o G & A A H M C A Z / A D F x. 1213 ACCA, born about 1150 B.C.; an Indian phi- losopher, whose memory is held in great veneration in China. Quotations. Adoration—MOtto. - XANTIPPE ; wife of Socrates, possessed of many virtues. Quotation : Wife. - . XAUPI, Joseph ABBá, born in Perpignan, 1688; a French priest, antiquary, and author ; died, 1778. Quotat- ...tion : Youth. XAVIER, FRANCIS, SAINT, (The Apostle of the Indies,) born in the kingdom of Navarre, near the foot of the Pyrenees, April, 1506; a celebrated Jesuit missionary : died on the island of Sancian, near the Chinese Coast, De- : cember, 1552. Quotation : Goodliness. XAVIER, GERONIMO, born in Navarre, 1642; a Jesuit missionary in Persia. He was the author of Several religious treatises in Latin and in Persian ; died in Goa, on the west coast of India, 1617. Quotation : Decoration. XENARCHUS, of Selencia, flourished about 330 B.C.; an Athenian philosopher, poet, and teacher at Alex- andria and Rome. Quotation : Pleasure. XENIPHILUS ; a Pythagorean philosopher who 'lived till the age of one hundred and seventy, and enjoyed all his faculties to the last. Quotation : Pleasing. YENOCLES, a son of Carcinus the Elder, flour- ished about 420 B.C.; an Athenian tragic poet. Quotation : Pleasure. - XENOCRATES, born in Chalcedon, 396 B.C.; an eminent Greek philosopher. He was a pºll Of Plato and a fellow-student of Aristotle: died, 314 B.C. Quotations: Ambassador—Counsel—Geometry—Tragedy. XENOPHANES, born in Colophon, in Ionia, 600 B.C.; a celebrated Greek philosopher and poet ; died, 500 B.C. Quotations: Deity—Fossils—Timidity—Universe. XENOPHON, a son of Gryllus, born in the demus Ercheia, 445 B.C.; an illustrious Athenian commander, his- torian, and philosopher; died in Corinth, 360 B Qºtotſt- tions: Agriculture—Association— Brother—Change—Chil- dren—Commonwealth—Corruption--Death—Eating—Exer- cise— Face— FOSSils—GOds—Grief –Instruction—Labor— Love — Omnipotence — Perfection — Praise — Rectitude — Ruler — Self-Praise — Soul — Ungratefulness — Universe— Worship. XENOS, STEFANO, born in Greece, emigrated to ſºn, England; a miscellaneous writer. Quotation : ill (1. XERES, JOHN, born in London, of Spanish extrac- tion. Quotation : Jealousy. XERXES, son of Darius Hystaspis, a famous king of Persia; he succeeded his father to the throne 485 B.C.; assassinated, 465 B.C. Quotation : Restraint. IXI-HOAM-TI, flourished about 2600 B.C.; an em- peror of China, and a descendant of Fohi, (q.v.) Quota- tion : Temple. - XIMENES, AUGUST IN LOUIS, MARQUIS DE, born in Paris, 1726; a French poet and dramatist, of Spanish ex- traction ; died, 1815. Quotation : Yielding. - XIMENES DE CARMONA, FRANCISCO, born in Córdova, 1689; a Spanish medical writer; died, 1757. Quo- tation : Instinct. XIMENES DE CISNEROS, born in Torrelaguna, in New Castile, 1436; a celebrated Spanish Statesman ; died, November 8, 1567. Quotation : Hardship. XIMENES, FRANCISCO, born in Saragossa, 1598; a Spanish painter; died, 1666. Quotation : Symmetry. XIMENES, LEONARDO, born in Trapani, Sicily, 1716; a Sicilian astronomer, geometer, and author; died in Florence, 1786. Quotattion.S.: COndemnation—Star. XIMENES, PETER, born in Middelburg, Holland, of Portuguese parents, 1514; an eminent theologian and author; died, 1595. Quotation : Youth. XIMENES, RODRIGO, (Archbishop of Toledo,) born about 1170; a Spanish divine, historian, and author; died, 1247. Quotation : Christ. - XIMENO, VINCENTE, born in Valencia, 1700 ; a §. biographer and historian ; died, 1762. Quotation : XIPHILIN US, JOANNES, (Patriarch of Constanti- nople,) born at Trapezus, about 1000 A.D.: a celebrated monk and writer; died, 1075. Quotations : Fear—Intimacy. XOGUN, lived in the fifteenth century; a cele- brated Mexican cazique. Quotation : Jesuitism. XOLOTL, King of the Chechemecans, a people in- habiting the country north of Mexico, flourished in the twelfth century. He was a monarch celebrated for his affectionate disposition, courage, and resolution; died after a reign of forty years. Quotations: Pardon – Re- venge. XUARES, GASPAR, born in Paraguay, South Almerica, 1731: a Spanish Jesuit, botanist, and author; died in Rome, 1804. Quotation : Zealot. XYLANDER, GULIELMUs, born in Augsburg, 1582: an eminent German scholar; died, 1576. Quotation: COZening. ACOUB, ABö ABD ALLAH, born, 1178; an Arabian geologist, historian, philosopher, and poet; died, 1227. Quotation : Zenith. YAHYA, ALI, (The Barmekide,) born, 735 ; an Arabian philosopher and poet; died in prison at ar-Rafika, November 29, 805. Quotattions: e Conduct—Detraction. YALDEN, THOMAS, born in Exeter, January 2, 1671 ; an English divine and poet ; died, July 16, 1736. Quo- tattion. Marriage. YALE, CYRUS, born in Lee, Massachusetts, 1786 : an American Writer; died, May 31, 1854. Quotations: Ill— Moderation. - YALE, ELIHU, born in New Haven, Connecticut 1648 ; the Son of an English colonist. He was the principa patrOn % º college called by his name ; died, 1721. Quo- tattion : Zeal. - YALE, ELISHA, D. D., brother of Cyrus Yale born in Lee, Massachusetts, 1780; an American divine an author; died, January 9, 1853. Quotation : Resolution. YAMANI, IBN MUHAMMAD ISA AL, born, 500; an eminent Arabian poet and mathematician; died in Bag- dad, 569. Quotation Peace. - YAMANI II; an ancient Arabian emperor and warrior. Quotation : Deceit. YANCEY, WILLIAM LowNDEs, born in Columbia, South Carolina, 1815; an American politician ; died, Au- gust, 1863. Quotation : Sovereign. º YANG-HOO ; the principal Chinese minister of the Ke family. Quotations: Miser—Opportunity—I&iches. YAO or YAOU, lived about 2000 B.C.: an emi- nent Chinese emperor and philosopher. QuotationS. Fail- ure—Sinnex. YAPP, GEORGE WILLIAM, born in London, 1641; an English writer; died, 1712. Quotations: Hope—Self. . Will. YARD, THOMAs, born in London, 1729 ; an Eng- lish author: died, 1788. Quotation : Goodliness. YARKER, ROBERT, born, 1672; an English wri- ter; died, 1743. Quotation : Revenge. YARRANTON, ANDREw, born at Ashby, Wor- cestershire, 1616; an English mechanician; died, 1689. Qºto- tation. Neighbor. YARRELL, WILLIAM, born in Westminster, Lon- don, June. 1784; an eminent English naturalist and author; died, September 6, 1856. Quotation : Pleasure. YARROW, ISAAC, born in London, 1672; an emi- ment English divine, theologian, mathematician, and au- thor; died, 1741. Quotation. Valor. YART, ANTOINE, born in Rouen, 1710; a French littérateur and author; died, 1791. Quotation. Declama- tion. - YATE, RICHARD, born in London, 1652 ; an Eng- lish writer; died, 1709. Quotation : Laconics. * YATES, ANDREW, born, 1775, an American di- vine and author; died, 1787. Quotation : Self-Abasement. YATES, MRs. AsHTON, born about 1789; an Eng- lish authoress; died, 1867. Quotation. : World. YATES, EDMUND HODGSON, born in London, July, 1831 : an eminent English magazine writer, editor, and no- Velist. Quotation : Newspaper. - YATES, JAMES, born in Highgate, near London, 1789; an English dissenting divine, antiquary, political economist, and author; died, 1868. Quotation : Decorum. YATES, ROBERT, born in Schenectady, New York, 1738; an American jurist and statesman, died, 1801. Q200- tation : People. YATES, WILLIAM, born, 1792 : an English Bap- tist divine, Orientalist, and author; died at sea, 1845. Qºto- tation : Zeal. YAZID, IBN HATIM AL-MUHALLABI ABū KHALID Al, born, 720; an Arabian ruler and philosopher; died in Kairawān, March 13,787. Quotation : Guest. YAZīDI, ABö ABD ALLAH MUHAMMAD IBN AL Abbās Al, born, 840; an Arabian grammarian, philologer, and poet; died, October, 922. Quotation : Space. YAZIROF or JASIKOW, born in Simbirsk, 1805; % Russian lyric poet and author; died, 1846. Quotation : eal. YCHOALEY, born in Mexico, about 1700 : a cele- brated Indian of the tribe of Riihabes. Quotations: Peace —Soldier–Wickedness. YEARSLEY, ANNE, born in Bristol, 1756; an English authoress; was originaly a milkwoman; died, May 8, 1806. Quotation : Hardness. YEARWOOD, RANDOLPH, born, 1738; an English author: died, 1815. Quotation : Play. YEATES, JASPER, born, 1761; an English author; died, 1827. Quotation : Language. - YEATES, THOMAS, brother of the preceding, born, 1768: anºglish Orientalist and author ; died, 1839. Qºto- tation : U Se. 1214 A) A Y S C O / / A C O AV. YELVERTON, MRS. THERESA, born, 1830 ; an English authoress and lecturess. Quotation: Philanthropy. YEMON ; a celebrated Persian philosopher and poet; Quotations: Moon—Night—Repose. YEN-HOEI, born about 580 B.C.; the favorite and most gifted disciple of Confucius. Quotation : Zeal. YEPEZ, ANTONIO, DE, born, 1557; a , Spanish Benedictine monk; died, 1621. Quotattion : Zeal. YEPEZ, DIEGO DE, born near Toledo, 1559 ; a Spanish monk and historical writer; died, 1613. Quotat- tion : Yoke. YERAGUI, Josí, DE, born in Vergara, 1734; an eminent pious and liberal Spanish divine and author. He was preceptor to Charles the Third of Spain; died, 1805. Quotation : Youth. YE-WANG, born, 831 B.C. ; a Chinese emperor ; died, 77.1. Quotation. Expectation. YEW-CHANG; a Chinese philosopher and disciple of Confucius. Quotations: Decision— Disgrace—Impro- priety—Intimacy. YEW-JO ; a Chinese philosopher and disciple of Confucius. Quotations : Agreement—Parent—Piety—Sua- vity—Words. YNGWORTH, RogFR, (Bishop of Dover,) born about 1468; a celebrated English divine and Writel'; died, 1537. Quotation : Youth. YO-CHING : a Chinese philosopher and disciple of Mencius. Quotattion. Remembrance. YONGE, CHARLEs DUKE, born, November, 1812; an English educational and historical Wrlter. Quotation : Wisdom. YONGE, CHARLOTTE MARY, sister of the prece- ding, born, 1823; a popular English novelist and miscella- neous writer. Quotation : Parent. YORITOMO, born, 1146; a celebrated Japenese warrior and priest. Quotation : Yielding. YORKE, CHARLEs, (LORD MORDEN, ) born in London, December, 1722 : an English jurist and Statesman; died, 1770. Quotation : Zeal. YORKE, CHARLES ISAAC, born about 1798 : an ºlish divine and author; died, 1860. Quotation : Prea- CD 01". YORKE, JAMES, (Bishop of Saint David's and Gloucester, born about 1730; an English divine and author; died, 1808. Quotation : Ignorance. YORKE, SAMUEL, born, 1712; an English divine and author; died, 1785. Quotation : Baseness. YORUBA ; a country of Guinea in West Africa, east of Dahomey. The inhabitants are semi-barbarous, having no literature except a few old traditional proverbs, from which the following are taken. Quotations: Ava- rice—Peggar—I3elly—Boasting— Bully—Burden–Calamity —Calculation--Calumniator--Cheapness—Crowd--Darkness — Eye-Service — Eye-Witness — Failings — Food — Fool — House—Jealousy. YOSHITSUNE, lived in the twelfth centnry : a celebrated Japanese hero, who taught the art of civiliza- tion to Japan. Quotation : Youth. YOUMANS, EDwARD LIVINGSTON, born in Coey- mans, New York, 1821; an American chemist and scientific writer. Quotation : Fact—Failure—Physiology. YOUMANS, ELIZA. A., wife of the preceding, born, 1829; an American authoress. Quotation: Affection. YOUNG, ALEXANDER, D.D., born in Boston, 1800; an American Congregational divine and author: dicò, March 16, 1854. Q7totation : Speech. YOUNG, ARTHUR, born in Suffolk, 1741; an emi- nent English agriculturist and writer on economy; died, 1820. Q7zotation : Years. YOUNG, AUGUSTUs, born in Arlington, Vermont, 1785; an American naturalist and geologist; died, 1857. Quotation : Zeal. YOUNG, BRIGHAM, born in Whittingham, Ver- mont, June, 1801; the American high-priest of the Mor- mons; died, 1878. Quotations: Polygamy. YOUNG, SIR CHARLEs GEORGE, born, 1795; an English courtier; died, 1869. Quotation : Travel. YOUNG, CHARLEs M., born, 1771 : a celebrated English tragedian ; died, 1856. Quotation : Drama. YOUNG, EDw ARD, LL.D., born in Upham, Hamp- Shire, 1684; a distinguished English poet, and author of the celebrated, “Night Thoughts; ” died, April 12, 1765. Quo- tations: Activity—Astronomy—Atheism—Bliss—Christian —Competency--Curiosity—Death—Death-Bed—Deity—Dis- guise—Envy–Fame — Fool—Friendship— Grave—Intem- perance-Joy—Night—Opulence--Pleasure—Prayer—Pro- crastination — Prosperity–Satire — Self-Love—Thought— To-Morrow—Trifle—Virtue — Wealth – Wisdom – Wish— Wit—Youth. YOUNG, JoHN CLARK, D D, horn in Greencastle, Pennsylvania, 1803; an American Presbyterian divine and author; died, 1857. Quotation : Zeal. § YOUNG, John RUSSELL, born in Philadelphia, about 1847: an American journalist, politician, and author. Quotations : Liberty–Newspaper—Virtue—Zest. YOUNG, MRS. M., born about 1822 : an English authoress, (London, 1857.) Quotation : Hardness. YOUNG, MARIA D. : an English authoress and miscellaneous writer. Quotation : Smeer. YOUNG, MATTHEw, (Bishop of Clonfert and Kil- macduagh.) born in the county of Roscommon, 1750; an eminent Irish divine, mathematician, and author; died, 1800. Quotations: Devotion—Repetition. YOUNG, ROBERT, born in Edinburgh, 1693; an eminent Scotch printer. He printed an elegant copy of the book of Common Prayer for the use of the church of Scot- land ; died in exile, 1655. Quotation : Zenith. - YOUNG, SAMUEL, born in Lenox, Massachusetts, 1780; an American politician; died at Balston Spa, New York, 1850. Quotations: Labor—Metals—Power—Siavery |Ubiquity. YOUNG, THOMAS, born about 1587; an eminent English Puritan divine. He became master of Jesus Col- lege, Cambridge, and was a tutor of the poet Milton; died, 1655. Quotation : Luxury. YOUNG, THOMAs, born in Milverton, Somerset- Shire, June 13, 1773; an eminent English scholar and phi- losopher; died, May 10, 1829. Quotations: Advice–An- uish-Application— Enjoyment—Godliness— Greatness— ey—Life—luxury—Mirth—Nature—Principles—Revenge —Suspicion—Talent—Unkindness—Wisdom—Wish. YOUNG, SIR WILLIAM, born near Canterbury, 1750; an English writer; died, 1815. Quotation : Distortion. YPEY, ANNAPUs, born in Friesland, 1760; a cele- brated Dutch divine, theologian, historian, and author ; died, 1843. Quotation: Decoration. YPSILANTI, ALExANDER, born in Constantino- pie, 1792; a celebrated Greek patriot and author; died, 1828. Quotation : Rank. YRIARTE, DON JUAN DE, born in the island of Teneriffe, 1702; an eminent Spanish linguist, Scholar, and author of a collection of Spanish proverbs and numerous other works; died, 1771. Quotations: Dress—Field-Heart —House–Kindred– Poverty—Quill—Servant—Vulgarity— Widow. YRIARTE, TOMAS DE, brother of the preceding, born in the island of Teneriffe, 1750; an eminent Spanish oet and journalist. His principal WQTks are “Literary ables,” “Moral Epistles,” and “Miscellanies;” died, 1791. Quotations: Author—Critic—Gravity—Mother—Renown— Style. YSABEAU, VICTOR FREDERIC ALEXANDER, born in Rouen, 1793; a French writer on rural economy; died, 1862. Quotation : Yawning. YSENDOORN, GILBERT, born, 1601.; a French philosopher and author: died, 1655. Quotation : Gloom. YU ; the last of the three ancient Chinese emper- ors. He began to reign about 2205 B.C. Quotation : Zeal. YU or YU-TA, born, 250 B.C.; a Chinese emper- or ; died, 203 B.C. Quotations : Remedy–Trees. YULE, WILLIAM, born, 1541; an English author; died, 1609. Quotations: Irony—Nonsense. YUNG-H.WUY or YEN-HWUY, born about 580 B.C.; the favorite and most gifted disciple of Confucius. Quotation : Killing—Music—Pleasure. YUSUF, ABC AMROO IBN ABD, L' BARR, born in Córdova, Spain, 979; a celebrated Moorish writer; died, 1070. Quotations: Hypocrisy—Question—Science. YU-TSE, born, 515 B.C.: a Chinese philosopher ; died, 453 B.C. Quotation : Pursuit. YVAN, ANTOINE, born, 1576; a celebrated French monk, and founder of the order of nuns of mercy: died, 1653. Qatotation : Yoke. YVAN, MELCHIOR, BARON, born in Basses-Alpes, 1803; an eminent French physician and author. Quota- tion : Year’S. * te YVER, JACQUEs, born in Niort, 1520; a French author; died, 1572. Quotation : Zeal. YVES DE KER-MARTIN, SAINT, born in Bre- tagne, 1253; an eminent French monk and jurist; died, 1303. Quotation : Zeal. YVES, SAINT, (Bishop of Chartres) born, 1040: a celebrated French divine and author; died, 1115. Quota- tions : Gloom—Insincerity. YVON, ABBá, born in Normandy, 1720; a French writer; died, 1790. Quotation : Yawning. YVON, CLAUDE, born, 1714; an eminent French divine and theologian, and author; died, 1791. Quotation : Frugality. YVON, PIERRE CHRISTOPHER, born near. Mans, 1719; an eminent French physician and author; died, 1814. Quotation : Instinct. Y-YN, born, 1840 B.C.: a Chinese statesman ; died, 1770 B.C. Quotation : Youth. A / O Gº AC A P // / C A / / /V ZD Aº X. 1215 Ty AAN, PEDER, born in Amsterdam, 1631 ; , an eminent Dutch Inathematician, astronomer, and author: died in Hamburg, 1697. Quotation : Zodiac. ZABA, N. F.; a Polish writer, author of “Princi- pal Féatures and Literature of Poland,” (London, 1856.) Quotations: Adversity—Place—Queen. - ZABADA, ABU TALIB YAHYA ABI 'L FARAJ Said Ibn, born, March, 1128; an Arabian theologian and mathematician; died, October, 1198. Quotations: Futu- rity—Greatness—Misfortune. ZABARELLA, FRANCESCO, (Cardinal of Flor- ence,) born in Padua, 1839; a celebrated Italian ecclesiastic; died, 1417. Quotation : Author. ZACCARIA, FRANCESCO ANTONIQ, born in Ven- ice, 1714; an Italian Jesuit and author; died, 1795. Quotat- tion : Repetition. ZACH, FRANz XAVER, BARON VON, born in Pres- burg, June, 1754; an eminent German astronomer and au- thor: died in Paris, 1832. Quotation : Years. ZACHARIA, JUST FRIEDRICH WILHELM, born in Frankenhausen, 1726; a German poet and Satirist; died, 1777. Quotation: Trust. ZACHOS, John C., born in Constantinople, 1820; a celebrated divine and author. Quotattion : Man. ZADKIEL, the pseudonym under which Lieuten- ant Richard Thonmias Morrison published his famous Allma- nacS. (Juotation : Zodiac. ZADE, ABU MUHAMMAD IMANN ALI, born, 922; an Arabian philosopher; died, 968. Qxtotittion : Wisdom. ZAGOSKIN, MIKHAIL NICHOLAEviTCH, born, 1789; an eminent IRussian diplomatist and novelist; died, .1852. Quotation : Yoke. ZAHI, ABU ’L-KASIM ALI IBN ISHAK IBN KHA- laf Az, (The Poet,) born in Bagdad, March, 930; an eminent Arabian philosopher, poet, and rhetorician ; died, July, 963. Quotation : Tears. ZAHIR, ABU IshAK IBRAHíM. IBN NASR IBN As- kar, born, 1145; an Arabian jurist and philosopher; died, 1213. Quotation: Wine. ZAHIRI, ABö BAKR MUHAMMAD IBN DAwſ. DIBN Ali Ibn Khalaf Al-Ispähani, Az, born, 878; an Arabian jurist, poet, and scholar ; died, May, 910. Quotation : Face. ZAHSIRI, ABū SULAIMÁN DAwd D Az, born, 817 ; an Arabian poet and philosopher; died, 884. Quotations: Lover—Ruler—Seeing—Sight—Wealth. ZALUSKI, ANDREw CHRYSOSTOM, (Bishop of Ermeland,) born, 1650; an eminent Polish divine, states- man, and pulpit, Orator; died, 1711. Qrtolſtlion. Yoke. ZALUSKI, ANDREW STANISLAS, (Bishop of Cra- cow,) nephew of the preceding, born, 1685 ; a Polish divine and author; died, 1758. Quotation : Zeal. ZALUSKI, JOSEPH ANDREW, brother of the pre- ceding, born, 1701; a celebrated Polish littérateur, biblio- grapher, and author; died, 1774. Quotattion. Yearning. ZALUZIANSKI, ADAM, born about 1529; a Bo- hemian physician and botanist ; died, 1598. Quotation. Dexterity. ZAMOYSKI, ANDREW, born, 1716; a Polish states- man and philanthropist ; died, 1792. Quotation : Zeal. ZAMOYSKI, JoHN SARIUS, born, 1541; an emi- nent Polish Statesman, general, and Scholar; died, 1605. Quotation : Youth. ZANE, GIACOMO, born in Venice, 1529 : an emi- * Italian poet and author; died, 1560. Quotation : Yes- erúay. ZANZAIUS, JACOBUS BARADAEUs, (Bishop of Edessa,), born, 1518; a celebrated monk who distinguished himself by his zeal in reviving the heresy of the Monophy- sites or Eutychians; died, 588. Quotations: Fasting — Worship. ZARA, ANTONIO, (Bishop of Pedena, ) born in Aguileia, 1574; an eminent Italian divine and author; died, 1641. Quotation : Zeal. ZARCO, JOAO GONZALEZ : a Portuguese naviga- tor, who discovered the island of Madeira, in 1419. Quota- tion s : Navigation—Sea. ZCHWARTZ or SCHWARTZ, CHRISTIAN FRIED- rich, born, 1.26; 3 celebrated German divine and mission- aly; died, 1798. Quotation : Reputation. ZEA, DON FRANCISCO ANTONIO. born in Medellin, New Granada, 1770; an eminent South American states. Inan and naturalist; died in Bath, England, 1822. Quota- tion : Zeal. ZEA-BERMUDEZ, DoN FRANCIsco, born in Má- laga, 1773; a distinguished Spanish diplomatist; died in Paris, 1850. Quotation : Yielding. ZECH, BERNARD DE, born, 1680: an eminent Po- #. patriot and political writer; died, 1748. Quotation : (2. ZEIGLER, or ZIEGLER. H. B. : an English artist, and author of “Views in Norway,” and other works. Quo- tott:0/2 . Riches. ZEISBERGER, DAVID, born in Moravia, 1721; a German Inissionary among the American Indians; died, 1808. Quotation : Prettiness. ZEIZENHERT, S. F. : a celebrated German mis- cellaneous writer and author. Quotation : Post-Office. ZELL, KARL, born in Mannheim, 1793; a Ger- nian Scholar and critic; died, 1861. Quotation : Years. ZELLAR, H., born about 1808; an English divine, and author of “Birth of Christ,” and other works, (Lon. don, 1846.) Quotation : Pleasure. ZELLER, EDUARD, born in Kleinbottwar, Wür- temburg, January 22, 1814; an eminent German theologian and author. Quotation : Scripture. ZELLER, JOHANN GOTTFRIED, born in Würtem- berg, 1656: a learned German physician and author; died in Tübingen, 1784. Quotation : Sensuality. ZELOTES, SIMON, SAINT, (The Canaanite,) sur- named the Zealot, born at Cana, in Galilee, and lived in the first century; one of the twelve apostles; suffered martyr- doin at Suanil', in Pel'Sia. Quotation : Zeal. ZENDER, JoACHIM D. L., M.D., born in Paris, 1805, emigrated to America, 1828; a French-American the- ologian and physician. Quotation : Pomp. ZENDRINI, BERNARDO, born, 1679 ; an eminent Italian natural philosopher, and chief engineer to the re- public. He was employed in various important works by the Austrian government, and published several Valuable tratises on hydraulics and astronomy; died, 1747. Quotat- tion : Disability—Plumpness. ZENGER, John PETER, born in Germany, emi- grated to the United States: a German-American miscel- laneous writer; died in New York, May, 1746. Quotation: POWer. ZENO, born in Citium, in the island of Cyprus, 355 B.C.; a celebrated Greek philosopher, the founder of the school of Stojcs. He was a pupil of Crates the Cynic; strangled himself, 257 B.C. Quotations. Admiration — Ambassador – Answer — Association — A varice — Boys — Death—Extravagance—-Friendship—-Hearing--Horse—Love —Lover—Matter–Money–Nature—Prodigality—Heason — Silence—Sander—Soul—Time—Voice. ZENO, APOSTOLO, born in Venice, 1668; an Italian littérateur and dramatist'; died, November, 1750. Quota- tion : Desert. ZENO, JACOPO, (Bishop of Padua,) born, 1417; a celebrated Italian divine and author: died, 1481. Quotat- tion : Years. ZENO, SAINT, (Bishop of Verona,) born about 310; a celebrated Italian divine and theologian; died, 380. Q?totation : Gloom. ZENOBIA, SEPTIMA, Queen of Palmyra, born in Palmyra, about 249 A.D.: one of the most illustrious wo- men that ever swayed the sceptre; died in retirement, near Home, about 301 A.D. Quotation : Teeth. ZENOBIUS, born about 40 A.D. ; a Greek writer. Quotation : Zealot. ZENOBIUS, SAINT, º of Florence,) born in Florence, 334 A.D.: an eminent Italian divine and a zealous Opponent of Arianism ; died. 405. (Jºtolation : Zealousness. ZENODOTUS OF EPHESUS, flourished 280 B.C.; a celebrated Greek grammarian. He was a disciple of Phi- letas, and was the first librarian of the great library of Alexandria ; he revised all the works of the Greek wri- ters, especially those of Homer, in which he made con- siderable changes. He was the author of a Glossary and a “Dictionary of Foreign Phrases.” Quotation : Posterity. ZEPHYRINUS, SAINT, (Bishop of Rome,) born in Rome, about 150: elected pope, 202; died, 217. Quota- tions: Savior—Suffering. ZEROLA, TOMMAso, (Bishop of Minori,) born in Benevento, 1548; an eminent Italian divine and author; died, 1603. Quotation : Youth. ZEUXIS, born in Heraclea, 450 B.C.: a Greek painter of great celebrity; died about 372. Quotation : Artist. ZHENAG : an eminent Persian philosopher and writer. Quotation : Modesty. ZHOOKOFSKY, VASILII ANDREEviTCH, born near Brelev, Penza. 1783; a celebrated Russian poet and author: died, 1852. Quotation : Zeal. ZIEGENBALG, BARTHOLOMEw, born in Lusatia, 1683: a German theologian and missionary: died in Tran- gºbar, in Hindostan, 1719. Quotations: Righteousness— Sin. ZIEMSSEN, HUGO WILHELM voN. born in Griefs- wald, on the Baltic, December 13, 1829: a distinguished German physician, and editor of “Cyclopaedia of Practice of Medicine.” (New York, 1874.) Quotation : Youth. ZILLWOOD, J. O. : an English divine, and author of “Promised ſtest,” (Ilondon, 1857.) Quotation : Visits. ZIMMERMANN, EBERHARD AUGUST WILHELM, born in Uſelzen, in Hanover, 1743: a German geographical, political, and scientific writer; died, 1815. Quotation : De- COI’lllll . ZD A Y 'S CO / / A C O AV. ZIMMERMANN, JOHANN GEORG, born in Brugg, in the canton of Berne, December 8, 1728; an eminent Swiss philosopher and physician. As a physician, a philosopher, a man of general accomplishment, and a Writer of Singular power and fidelity, he was unquestionably one of the most remarkable figures of his time; died in Hanover, October 7, 1795. Quotations : . Affection—Alms—Assertion—Assis- tance— Beauty—Caution— Civility– Conceit—Contempt— Contentment—Conviviality—Crime—Custom—Disappoint- ment — Discourse — Doctor — Drunkenness — Economy — Fame—Fate—Fitness—Fool— Fortune–Friendship-Gam- ing–Gossip—Honor—Hour—Humility—Hunger— Idleness —Ignorange—Indolence—Leisure— Life- Love—Luxury- Money–Necessity–Neighbor—News–Nickname—Novels —Occupation—Opinion–Passion– Pauper—Peace—Perse- cution—Pleasure—Poor—Prejudice—, Prevention— Princi- ples–Promise-Prosperity–-Reading—Reason-Reputation –Scholar—Self—Self-Rnowledge–Silence—-Sloth–Solitude —Suicide—Superfluity--Suspicion--Thinking--Time-Truth —Tyranny— Undertaking—Urbanity—Weakness—Wine— Wit. ZIMMERMANN, MATTHIAs, born near Eperies, 1625; an eminent Hungarian Protestant theologian and author; died, 1689. Qºtotat?07. Yearning. ZINCKE, FOSTER BARHAM, born in Ipswich, 1721; § Il English divine and author; died, 1789. Quotation : Pre- Vention. ZINGA, ANNA, born in Matamba, Africa, 1582 ; Queen of Angola, and a cruel, licentious, and blood-thirsty woman; died, 1663. Quotation. Religiou. ZINGIS KHAN, born, 1164; a celebrated Tartar conqueror. He is said to have caused the destruction of five millions of human beings. He Was the author of a code of laws; died, 1227. Quotution. Valor. ZINZENDORF, NICOLAUs LUDwig, Count, voN, born in Dresden, May 26, 1700; a German theologian, dis- tinguished as the founder or restorer of the sect of Mora- vians; died at Herrnhut, May, 1760. Qzzotations. Nervous- IneSS—Persecution. ZIPPEL, J. G., an English divine, author of the “World's Crisis and Restitution of All Things,” (London, 1854.) Quotation : Prosperity. ZOCHO, REUBIN, born, 1823; an eminent Ger- man divine and theological Writer. He was the author of Several works and Sermons which had a large circulation ; died, 1877. Quotation : Zion. ZOE II, Empress of the East, a daughter of Con- stantine the Ninth: a cruel and debauched princess, was married to Romanus Argyrus, who became emperor, 1028. She caused him to be murdered, and then took in his place Michael the Fourth; died, 1050. Quotation : Liberality. ZOEGA, GEORG, born in the county of Schocken- burg, Jutland, 1755; an eminent Dutch archaeologist; died, 1809. Quotations: Power—Tradition. ZOILUS, flourished about 285 B.C.; a Greek critic and grammarian, and a contemporary of Ptolemy Philadel- phus. Quotation : Unluckiness. ZOLA, GIUSEPPE, born near Brescia, 1739; an eminent Italian theologian and divine ; died, 1806. Quota- tion : Wrestling. ZOLLIKOFFER, GEORG JoACHIM, born in Saint Gall, Switzerland, 1730; an eminent Swiss divine, theolo- gian, and author; died in Leipsic, 1788. Quotations : Favor —Virtue. ZONCE, OTTO THOBALD, born in Gera, 1721; a German writer; died, 1789. Quotation : Plainness. ZORLIN, ROSINA. M., born, 1809 : a German nov- elist; died, 1859. Quotations. Nothing—Superstition. ZOROASTER ; a celebrated Bactrian or Persian philosopher, the reputed founder of the Magian religion, who is suppºsed to have lived under the reign of Darius Hystaspes, 521 B.C.; but the time in which he lived is un- certain, for it is stated by Aristotle that he lived 6350 B.C. He predicted the coming of the Messiah, and the wise men from the east who saw and followed his star, were his dis- ciples. He believed in an infinite Deity, or Being, called “Time without bounds; ” he was the author of the “Zend Ayesta,” known as the Zoroastrian Scriptures, which con- tain; the institutes of his religion. Quotations: Ability— Açtion—Adºration-Age—Air—Anger—Deity—Devotion— Diligence-Doubt-Equity-Error-Evil—Excess—Fasting -Fire—Gods—Good–Hope— Horticulture—Injury—Intel: ligence—Jealousy-Liberty—Love—Lust—Marriage—Mind -Misfortune— Qbedience— Opinion—Paradise -- Parent— Perseyerance—Praise—Question—Reverence—Seduction— Self-Knowledge-Silence–Soil–Soul–Sun–Temperance— Tillage—Trees—Truth—Understanding. ZORRILLA Y MORAL, DON JOSł, born in Val- ladolid, 1817; an Spanish dramatist. Quotation : Wrinkles. ZORZI, ALESSANDRO, born in Venice, 1747; an Italian Jesuit and writer; died, 1779. Quotation : Youth. ZOSIMUS, lived in the fifth century ; a Greek Critic and graininarian. Quotation : Zealot. ZOSIMUS, SAINT, POPE, born about 350: a cele- brated divine and ancient theologian ; died, 418. Quota- tions : Light—Tavern. ZOTTI, ROMUALDO ; an Italian author of the pre- i; century. Quotations. Influence—Medicine—Obliga- 1OI). ZOUCH, HENRY, born, 1723; an English divine and author ; died, 1795. Quotation : Self-Culture. ZOUCH, RICHARD, born in Ansley, Wiltshire, 1590; an English jurist and author ; died, March 1, 1660. Quotation : Trade. ZSCHOKKE, JOHANN HEINRICH DANIEL, born in Madgeburg, March 22, 1771; a popular German author; died, January, 1848. Quotations: Belief—Birth—Falling— Nature—I’ain—-Ikeason—Self–Temptation—Virtue—Whim —World—Yesterday. ZUBAIDI, ABū BAKR Mu HAMMAD IBN AL-HA- San Ibn Madhij Az, born, 926; an Arabian poet and philolo- ger: died, September, 989. Quotations : Dress—Earth— Separation. - ZUBLY, JOHANN JOACHIM, D.D., born in Saint Gall, August 27, 1724, emigrated to the United States: a celebrated Swiss writer; died in South Carolina, July 28, 1781. Quotation : Praise. ZURLA, PLACIDO, born in the Venetian States, 1769; a iearned Italian cardinal and author; died, 1834. Quotation : Decree. ZWANZIGER, Joseph CHRISTIAN, born, 1732; a celebrated Hungarian writer, philosopher and mathe- matician; died, 1808. Quotation. Zealousness. ZWENIGORODSKI, PRINCE SIMEON, born, 1521; an eminent Russian diplomatist, statesman, philosopher, and author: died, 1589. Quotation : ZC.St. ZWINGER, THEODORE, born in Bâle, 1533; an eminent Swiss physician and writer; died in Bâle, 1588. Quotation. : Instinct. ZWINGLE, ULRICH, born, 1484; an eminent Swiss reformer, theologian, and author; killed, 1531. Quotation : Yoke. ZYPAEUS or VAN DEN ZYPE, HENRY, (Abbot of Saint. André,), born in Malines, Belgium, 1577; a cele- brated Flemish divine; died, 1659. 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