Ability :- An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions: he is neither hot nor timid.

:- Chesterfield Ability :- The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. :- Gibbon Action :- He that is overcautious will accomplish little. :- Schiller. Action :- Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at l eisure. we must be always doing or suffering. :- Zimmerman. Action :- Actions speak louder than words. :- Unknown. Activity :- Activity is liable to commit some injuries ; but indolence is sure t o do no good. :- Zimmerman Adversity :- Adversity makes a man wise, though not rich. :- Thomas fuller. Adversity :- Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most ea sily becomes acquainted with himself, then, especially, being from flatterers. : - Johnson. Advise :- He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it . :- Von Knebel. Ambition :- A slave had but one master, the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his future. :La Bruyere. Amusement :- Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think . :- Pope. Anger :- Anger punishes itself. :- Fuller. Anger :- When a man grows angry his reason rides out. :- Thomas Fuller. Anger :- To be angry is to revenge the fault of others upon overselves. :- Pope. Anger :- I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conse rve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world. :- Mahatma Gandhi. Appearance :- There is a great deal in the first impressions. :- Congreve. Appearance :- Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of int roduction. :- Aristtle Appreciation :- Contemporaries appreciate the marather than the merit ; but post erity will regard the merit rather than the man . :- Colton Argument :- To strive with an equal is a doubtful thing to do ; with a superior a mad thing with an inferior, a vulgar thing. :- Seneca. Ass :- I would rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me . :- Herbert Author :- Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on it ; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it. :- R ichter. Authorship :- There are three difficulties in authorship : to write anything wor th the publishing, to find honest men to publish it and to get sensible men to r ead it. :- Colton Avarice :- Poverty wants much, but avarice everything . :- Syrus. Avarice :- Avarice and happiness never go hand in hand . :- Unknown. Beauty :- A thing of beauty is a joy for ever . :- Keats Beauty :- There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, mod esty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. :- Ray Beauty :- The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless. :- Ruskin . Beauty :- I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I woke and found that life w as duty . :- E.S. Hooper. Beginning :- A fool beholdeth only the beginning of his works, but a wise man ta keth heed to the end. :- Unknown. Behaviour :- Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can , to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. :- John Wesley. Belly :- The belly carries the legs, and not the legs the belly. :- Cervantes. Beneficence :- A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth and spr eading fertility , it is therefore more delightful and more honourable to give t han receive . :- Spicurus

Blessings :- Blessings are not valued till they are gone . :- Thomas Fuller Boasting :- Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may b ring forth. :- Soloman. Books :- Books are standing counselors and preaches always at hand always disint erested, having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repe at their lesson as often as we please . :- Chambers Books :- Wear the old coat and buy the new book. :- Austin Phelips. Books :- Every great book is an action, and every great action is book. :- Luthe r Books :- Books are ships which pass through the vast seas of time . :- Bacon Business :- Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee. :- George Shapman. Candle :- A candle lights others and consumes itself. :- H.G.Bohn Candour :- Plain speaking is a jewel and he that useth it shall die a begger. :Henry Porter. Candour :- Frankness is a natural quality. :- Joubert. Candor :- Nothing astonishes men so much as plain speaking. :- Cicero. Caution :- It s a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. :- P ublius Syruus Caution :- Beware equally of a sudden friend and a slow enemy. :- Home. Chance :- Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. :- Euripides. Character :- Character is much easier kept than recovered . :- Thomas Paine. Character :- Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone. :- Bartol. Character :- Truthfulness is a corner stone in character, and if it be not firml y laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the coundation. :- J.Da vis. Charity :- With malice towards none with charity for all . :- Abraham Lincoln. Charity :- He who receives a good turn should never forget it. he who does one s hould never remember it . :- Charron. Cheating :- He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated. :- Sir Edward Coke. Cheerfulness :- Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness and its power of endura nce the cheerfulness man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer than the sad or sullen. :- Carlyle Circumstances :- Circumstances are beyond the control of man but his conduct is in his own power. :- Benjamin Disraeli. Cities :- A great city a great loneliness. :- Unknown. Cleanliness :- Unless the vessel is clean whatever you pour into it turns sour. :- Jorace Cleverness :- Clever men are good but they are not the best. :- Carlyle. Cheerfulness :- Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness and its power endurance the cheerfulness man will do more in the same time will do it better will prese rve it longer than the sad or sullen. :- Carlyle. Cleverness :- It is great cleverness to know how to conceal ones cleverness. :La Rochefoucauld Comforts :- Most of the luxuries and many of the so- called comforts of life are not only, not indispensable, but positive hindrance to the elevation of mankind . :- H.Thoreau. Companions :- Ill company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves most . :- Swift. Compliment :- Compliments cost nothing yet many pay dearly for them. :- T. Fulle r. Compromise :- All great alterations in human affairs are produced by compromise. :- Sydney Smith Conceit :- Conceit is the most incurable disease that is known to the human soul . :- H.W.Beecher. Conceit :- The more any one speaks of himself the less he likes to hear another talked of. :- Lavater. Concentration :- The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated to a s ingle object is the sure mark of a superior genius. :- Chesterfield Confession :- The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works . :- Augustine.

Confession :- A fault confess'd is half amended. :- J.Harington Confidence :- Trust him with little who, without proofs, trusts you with every t hing or, when , he was proved you, with nothing . :- Lavater Conscience :- He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keepin g . :- Caussin Content :- Content is wealth the riches of the mind, and happy he who can such r iches find. :- J.Dryden. Contentment :- That happy state of mind so rarely possessed, in which we can say , I have enough is ht e highest attainment of philosophy, happiness consists, no t in possessing much, but in being content with what we possess. he who wants li ttle always has enough. :- Zimmerman Contentment :- He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more e xcellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. :- Hume. Conversation :- One of the greatest pleasures of life is conversation. :- S.Smit h. Conversation :- For god or ill, your conversation, is your advertisement. every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. do they see it well cl othed, neat, businesslike. :- Bruce Barton. Conversation :- Be sincere. Br simple in words manners and gestures. amuse as we ll as instruct. if you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you. :- Alfred E.Smith. Conversation :- To listen well is as powerful a means of influence as to talk we ll and is as essential to all true conversation. :- Anon. Cooks :- The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of man than the discovery of a star. :- Savarin. Courage :- It is easier to use a gun than to show courage. :- H.M.Tomlinson. Courage :- True courage is cool and calm. the bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence and in the very time of danger are found the most se rene and free. :- Shafsbury Courtesy :- Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy. :- Emerson. Courtesy :- Courtesy costs you nothing but buys you every thing. :- Unknown. Coward :- Cowards die many times before their death . :- Shakeespeare. Conversation :- Not only to say the right thing in the right place but far more difficult still to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting. :- Sala Conversation :- The first ingredient is truth, the next good sense the third goo d humour and the fourth wit. :- W.Temple. Credulity :- He who believes everything is a pious ass. :- Seneca. Creeds :- As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a dise ase of the intellect . :- Emerson Crime :- Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness. :- Bulwer7 Crime :- Mans crimes are his worst enemies following him like shadows, till they drive his steps in to the pit he dug. :- Creon. Criticism :- You know who critics are ? the men who have failed in literature an d art. :- Benjamin Diseraeli Criticism :- The generous critic found the poet's fire. and taught the world wit h reason to admire. :- Pope. Criticism :- No critic has ever settled anything. :- James Hunker Criticism :- It is impossible to think of a man of many actual force and origina lity who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men . :- H.L.Mencken. Criticism :- Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award , these are the true aims and duties of criticism. :- Simms Cruelty :- All cruelty spring from hard heartedness and weakness. :- Seneca :Cunning :- The greatest cunning is to have none . :- Unknown. Cunning :- Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost a lways cunning . :- Samuel Jlhnson. Custom :- Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools. :- John. Curiosity :- The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity. :- Jruke.

Curiosity :- Curiosity is one of ht e permanent and certain characteristics of vigorous intellect. every advance into knowledge opens new prospects and produce s new incitements to further progress . :- Johnson Danger :- A timid person is frightened before a danger; a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards. :- Richter Darkness :- All colours will agree in the dark. :- Franis Bacon. Dawn :- Day's sweetest moments are at dawn. :- E.W.Wilcox Day :- Enjoy the blessing of his day if god sends them; and the evils bear patie ntly and sweetly. for this day only is ours ;we are dead to yesterday, and we ar e not born to tomorrow . :- Jeremy taylor. Death :- Death , like birth is a secret of nature. :- Marcus Aurelius. Death :- The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all abjects appear more lovely to the dying. :- Richter. Debt :- He is rich enough who owes nothing . :- Unknown. Deception :- The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself . all sin is easy after that. :- Bailey. Deception :- You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the peo ple some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. :- A. Lincoln. Decision :- The shortest answer is doing. :- George Herbert. Democracy :- Democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the pe ople. :- A.Lincoln Desire :- The fewer desire, the more peace . :- Thomas wilson Difficulty :- It has been the glory of the great masters in all arts to confront and to overcome; and when they had overcome the first difficulty to turn it int o an instrument for new conquests over new difficulties; thus to enable them to extend the empire of science. :- Unknown. Dignity :- True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when houours ar e withdrawn. :- Massinger. Diligence :- The expectations of life depend upon diligence; and the mechanic th at would perfect his work, must first sharpen his tools. :- Confucius. Discussion :- Who ever is afraid of submitting any question, civil or religious, to the test of free discussion, is more in love with his own opinion than with truth. :- Bishhop Watson. Disease :- Sickness comes on horse back, but goes away on foot. :- W.C. Hazliti. Dishonesty :- Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages. : - Boveee. Distance :- Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, but look'd too near have neither heat nor light. :- John Webster. Dogs :- If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. :- Mark Twain. Doubt :- It is never worthwhile to suggest doubts in order to show how cleverly we can answer them. :- Whately. Dreams :- The more a man dreams, the less he believes. :- H.L.Mencken. Dreams :- Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creativ e power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare. :- Hedge. Dreams :- Regard not dreams, since they are. but the images of our hopes and fea rs. :- Cato. Dress :- Dress has a moral effect upon the conduct of mankind. let anygentleman find himself with dirty boots, old suit out, soiled neckcloth and a general negl igence of dress, he will, in all probability, find a corresponding disposition b y negligence of address. :- Sir John Barrington. Drinking :- Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness. :- Seneca. Drinking :- For when the wine is an the wit is out. :- Thomas Bacon. Duty :- I hate to see a thing done by halves; it if be right, do it boldly; it i f be wrong, leave it undone. :- Gilipin. Duty :- Duty is carrying on promptly and faithfully the affairs now before you. it's to fulfill the claims of today . :- Goethe. Eagle :- Eagle fly alone, they are but sheep that always flock together. J.C.Per

cival. Early rising :- The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock in the m orning for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same h our at night is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life. :- Doddridge. Ears :- We have two ears and one mouth that we may listen the more and speak the less. :- Zeno. Eating :- To lengthen the life, lessen thy meals. :- B.Franklin. Eating :- He who eats too much knows not how to eat. :- Savarin. Economy :- Beware of little expense. a small leak will sink a great ship. :- Fra nklin Economy :- No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means and no one is poor , whose incomings exceed his outgoings. :- Haliburton. Economy :- Economy is of itself a great revenue. :- Cicero. Economy :- Economy is the poor man's mint. :- M.F.Tupper. Education :- They who provide much wealth for their children, but neglect to im prove them in virtue, do like those who feed their horse high, but never train t hem to the manage. :- Socrates. Education :- The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil . :- Emerson. Education :- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. :- Arist otle. Education :- A human being is not, in any proper sense , a human being till he i s educated. :- H. Mann. Education :- Character development is the great, if not the sole aim of educatio n. :- O'shea. Employment :- Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happin ess. :- Galen. Endurance :- He that endures is not overcome. :- George Herbert. Enemy :- Have you fifty friends? it is not enough. have you one enemy? it is to o much. :- Italian Proverb. Enemy :- Every man is his own greatest enemy. :- Unknown. Enemy :- Secret paths hold secret foes. :- Cicero. Enough :- You never know what is enough, unless you know what is more than enoug h. :- William Blake. Enthusiasm :- Enthusiasm without imagination tends to make a man crank. :- B.C.L eeming. Envy :- Envy not greatness; for thou mak'st there by thyself the worse. :- G.Her bert. Equality :- We are all born equal, and are distinguished alone by virtue. :- Unk nown. Error :- Error is the discipline through which we advance. :- William Ellery. Error :- It you can shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out. :- Tag ore. Evil :- No evil man is happy :- Juvenal. Example :- One example is more valuable than twenty precepts written in books. : - Roger. Excuse :- An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a l ie guarded. :- Pope Exercise :- Inactivity, supiness and effeminacy had ruined more constitution tha n were destroyed than were destroyed by excessive labours, moderate exercise and toil, so far from prejudicing, strengthen and consolidate the body. :- Dr. Rush . Exercise :- If is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intel lectual, moral and physical machinery that keeps from rusting and so becoming us eless. :- C.Simmons. Expectation :- Blessed are those that naught expect, for they shall not be disap pointed . :- Walcot. Experience :- Experience teacheth fool, and he is a great one that will not lear n by it . :- Thomas Fuller. Experience :- Experience is the mother of knowledge . :- Nichol Breton.

Experience :- Human experience like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illumines only the path which we have passed over. :- Coleridge. Experience :- This is one of the sad conditions of life , that experience is not transmissible. no man will learn from the suffering of another; he must suffer himself. :- Unknown. Eyes :- The eyes do not go wrong if the mind rules the eyes. :- Publilius Syrus. Exercise :- The wise for cure on exercise depend . :- Dryden. Eyes :- The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people. :- German Pr overb. Face :- Faces are as legible as books, with this in their favour that they may b e pursued in much less time, and are less liable to be misunderstood. :- F.Saund ers. Face :- look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking, if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his coun tenance. :- Chesterfield Failure :- There's no defeat, in truth, save from within. Unless you are beaten there, You're bound to win. :- A. Austin. Faith :- Surely investigation is better than unthinking faith. :- R.G.Ingersoll. Faith -: Faith must have adequate evidence else it is mere superstition. :- A.A. Hodge. Faith-: Works without faith are like a fish without water; it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundat ion, end every good action is as a stone laid .-: Fetham. Fall :- Hasty climbers have sudden falls . :- Joohn Ray. Fame :- The temple of fame stands upon the grave. :- W.Hazlitt. Fame :- Fame is a food that dead men eat. I have no stomach for such meat . :- A ustin Dobson. Fame :- Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds . :- Socrates. Familiarity :- Familiarity breeds contempt. :- Publiius Syrus. Fancy :- We may take fancy for a companion, but must follow reason as our guide. :- S.Johnson. Farming :- He who sows the ground with care a acquires a greater stock of religi ous merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers :- Zoroas ter. Father :- like father, like son. Every good tree maketh good fruits. :- William Langland. Faults :- The faults, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in overselves, that we are underlings. :- Shakespeare. Fault :- Just as you are pleased at finding faults, you are displeased at findin g perfections. :- Lavater. Fear :- He that's afraid of every grass must not sleep in a meadow. :- Samuel Pu lmer. Fear :- Good men have the fewest fears. He who fears to do wrong has but one gre at fear; he has a thousand who has overcome it . :- Bovee. Fighting :- When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. :- Ro bert Browning. Flattery :- Flattery corrupts both the receiver and giver . :- Edmund Burke. Flattery :- He that hath no honey in his pot let him have it an his mouth . :- G .Herbert. Flattery :- Flattery is a sort bad money, to which our vanity gives currency. :La Rochefoucauld. Flowers :- Flowers are words which even a babe may understand. :- Aurther C.Coxe . Flowers :- Flowers are the sweetest thing god ever made, and forgot to put a sou l into. :- Henry Ward Beechen. Fool :- A fool always find a bigger fool to admire him. :- Boileow. Fool :- If all fools wore white caps, we should seem a flock of geese. :- George Herbert. Fool :- It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the s ong of fools. :- Old Testament

Fools :- Of all thieves fools are the worst ; they rub of your time and temper. :- Goethe. Fools :- The world is full of fools, and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking glass. :- Boilea u. Fools :- None but a fool is always right :- Hare. Forgetfulness :- Life's best balm-forgetfulness. :- James Beattie Forgiveness :- Father, Forgive them for they know not what they do. :- New Testa ment. Forgiveness :- The more we know, the better we forgive. :- Madane de Stael. Fortune :- Good fortune is not known until it is lost. :- Cervantes. Fortune :- Fortune favours the brave. :- Terence. Fraud :- The first and worst of all fraud is to cheat oneself . :- Bailey. Freedom :- No man is free who is not master of himself. :- Epictetus. Freedom :- Man is created free and is free even though born in chains. :- Schi ller. Friend :- Friends are like melons . shall I tell you why? to find one good, you must a hundred try. :- Claude Mermet. Friend :- A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, lon ger to be retained, and indeed, never to be parted with . :- Jeremy Taylor. Friend :- In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. : - Churton Collins. Friend :- Just as Gold is tested in the fire, so is friendship tested by adversi ty. :- Ovid. Friend :- Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. :- Publilius Syrus. Friend :- A friend must not be wounded, even in jest. :- Pubililus Syrus. Friend :- A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound . :- Tho mas Fuller. Friend :- A friend to all is a friend to none. :- Aristotle. Friend :- Fate makes relatives but choice makes friends. :- Delile. Friend :- Friends are like fiddle-strings; they must not be screwed too tight. : - H.G.Bohn. Friendship :- Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. :- Thomas Wilson . Friendship :- The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorus seen plain test when all round is dark. :- Crowell Friendship :- He makes no friends who never made a foe. :- Tennyson. Future :- A wise man guards against the future as if it were the present. :- Pub lilius Syrus. Gain :- Honour and profit lie not all in one sack. :- George Herbert. Gambling :- Gambling is the child of avarice; but the parent of prodigality. :C.C.Cotton. Gambling :- There are two times in a man's life, when he should not speculate; w hen he can't afford it, and when he can. :- Mark Twain. Gambling :- A gamester the more master he is in his art, the worse man is he. :Francis Bacon. Gambling :- Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity and the fa ther of mischief. :- Washington. Genius :- Genius is fostered by industry. :- Cicero. Genius :- Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration . :- Thomas A.Edison. Genius :- Genius is an infinite love of taking pains :- J.M.Barrie. Genius :- Genius begins great works; labour alone finishes them. :- Joubert. Genius :- Talent is that which is an a man's power; genius is that in whose powe r a man is. :- J.R.Lowell. Genius :- Somebody has said that a king may make a nobleman, but he cannot make a gentleman. :- Edmund Burke. Genius :- Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows int o genius. :- Bulwer Gifts :- We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly and without hes

itation, for there is no grace in a benefic that sticks to the fingers. :- Senec a. God :- God helps them who help themselves. :- Algernon Sidney. God :- God enters by a private door into every individual . :- Emerson God :- I am endeavouring to see god through service of humanity, for i know that God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in every one. :- Gandhi Gold :- Gold opens all lock. :- Geroge Herbert. Goodness :- It is not enough to do good. One must do it the right way. :- John M orley. Goodness :- There is no good without ill in the world. :- Euripides. Government :- A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed not attempts to govern others. :- La Bruyere Government :- Every country has the government it deserves . :- Joseph De Maistr e. Government :- No Government has ever been or ever can be wherein time serves and blockheads will not be uppermost. :- Dryden. Grapes :- The fox when he cannot reach the grapes says they are not ripe. :- Geo rge Herbert. Gratitude :- Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people. :- S.Johnson Gratitude :- Swift gratitude is sweetest; if it delays all gratitude is empty an d unworthy of the name. :- Ovid Greatness :- The great man is be who does not lose his child's heart. Mencius. Greatness :- It is not enough to have great qualities; one must make good use of them. :- Seneca. Greatness :- Nothing great comes into being all at once-not even the grape or th e fig. :- Epctetus Greatness :- The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. :- J.C.Hare. Greatness :- Humility is the ornament of the truly great. :- Longfellow. Great thing :- A great thing can only be done by a great man; and he does it wit hout . :- Carlyle. Greatness :- Great men are great in spite of what others say about them. :- V S. Smith. Grief :- Light griefs can speak, but deeper ones are dumb. :- Livy. Guilt :- Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves. :- Young. Habit :- There's no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature . :- Shakespeare. Hand :- Many hands make light work. :- Ovid. Happiness :- He who values the merits of others has discovered the key of true h appiness . :- Goethe Happiness :- Happiness is made to be shared. :- Corneille. Happiness :- The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. :- J.O.Penhien. Happiness :- Happiness is nothing if it is not known, and little if it is not en vied. :- Samuel Johnson. Happiness :- We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it tha n to consume wealth without producing it. :- Bernard Shaw. Happiness :- No man can be happy through the unhappiness of another :- Seneca. Happiness :- Real happiness is cheap enough yet how dearly we pay for its counte rfeit. :- H.Ballow. Happiness :- One is never happy or unhappy as one thinks. La Rochefoucauld. Happiness :- Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it, seek for duty, and happiness will follows as the shadow comes with its sunshine. :- Tryo n Edwards Happiness :- There is his difference between happiness and wisdom, that he think s himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. :- Colton. Haste :- Haste usually turns upon being late, and may be avoided by a habit like that of Lord Nelson, to which he ascribed his success in life, of always being

ten minutes too early. :- Bovee. Happiness :- A happy life is invariably a quiet life. :- Cicero. Haste :- Haste and success don't go together. :- J.Gay. Haste :- Manners require time and nothing is more vulgar than haste. :- Emerson. Hatred :- I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man. :- Boo ker T.Washington. Hatred :- Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly. :- G.Eliot. Hatred :- Love, Friendship, respect do not unite people as much as a common hatr ed for something. :- Anton Tchekhov. Hatred :- Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. by love alone they cease . This is an ancient law. :- Buddha. Health :- Life is not to be merely alive, but to be well . :- Martial Health :- Your best doctor is Dr.Diet. :- Seneca. Health :- No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it. :- Seneca. Health :- A sound mind in a sound body; if the former be the glory of the latter . the latter is indispensable to the former. :- Tryon Edwards. Heart :- No sky is heavy if the heart be light. :- Churchill. Heart :- kind hearts are more than coronets. :- Tennyson. Heart :- The heart has its activities which reason does not know. :- Pascal. Heart :- That which comes from the heart will go to the heart :- J.Ray Heart :- The heart of man is made to reconcile contradictions :- Davis Hume. Heaven :- Heaven and hell are states of mind, not places. :- Milton. Heresy :- In the history of the world, the man who is ahead is called a heretic. :- Ingersoll Hero :- No man is a hero to his valet. :- Corneille. History :- In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial. :- Emerson. Home :- Be it ever so humble there is no place like home. :- J.H.Payne. Home :- He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. :- Goethe. Honesty :- Honesty is a fine jewel but much out of fashion. :- T.Fuller. Honesty :- An honest man is the noblest work of God. :- Pope. Honesty :- No honest man ever repented of his honesty :- T.Fuller. Honour :- All honour's wounds are self inflicted. :- A. Caruegie. Honour :- It is a worthier thing to deserve honour than to possess it. :- T.Full er. Hope :- Hope is a good breakfast, but an ill supper. :- Unknown. Hope :- Hope is the sheet- anchor of human life. :- Plato Horse :- One man may lead a horse to the water, but twenty cannot make him drink . :- S. Johnson. Hospitality :- The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, and the thir d a pest. :- R.Hovery. Hours :- An hour of pain in as long as a day of pleasure. :- T.Fuller. Humility :- No man will learn anything at all, unless he first will learn humili ty. :- O.Meredith. Humour :- Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. :- Wi ll Rogers. Hunger :- Hunger is sharper than the sword. :- Beaumont & Fletcher Hypocrisy :- Face flatterer and back biter are the same . :- Tennyson. Idleness :- An idler is a watch that wants both hands . :- Cowper. Idleness :- Evil thoughts intrude in an unemployed mind, as naturally as worms a re generated in a stagnant pool . :- Collier. Ignorance :- Where ignorance is bliss it is folly to be wise. :- Thomas Gray. Imagination :- Imagination is more important than knowledge. :- A.Einstein Impossibility :- Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fool s. :- Napoleon. Industry :- If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate a bilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-dir ected labour; nothing is ever to be attained without it. :- Sir Joshus Reynolds.

Industry :- Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement . :- Goldsmi th. Industry :- Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, an d the purse full . :- C.Simmons. Ingratitude :- Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. :- Ausonius. Inheritance :- To inherit property is to be still born. :- H.D. Thoreau. Injustice :- It is better to suffer injustice than to do it. :- Emerson. Iron :- We must beat the iron while it hot, but we may polish it at leisure. :J.Dryden. Insult :- Insults are like bed coins; we cannot help their being offered to us, but we need not take them. :- C.H.Spurgeon. Jealousy :- Jealousy is born with love, but does not die with it. :- La Rochefou cauld. Joke :- A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend. :- T.Fuller. Joy :- Excess of sorrow laughs; excess of joy weeps. :- W.Blake. Joy :- To pursue joy is to lose it, The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy and then. like sheep. It comes most s urely unsought and we being in the way the angle of God. bright haired joy, is s ure to meet us. :- A.Maclaren. Judge :- We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, While others judge us by what we have already done. :- Longfellow. Judgment :- Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own. :- Terrace. Judgment :- He makes speed to repentance who judges hastily. :- P.Syrus. Justice :- The extremity of justice is extreme injustice. :- R.Grafton. Justice :- One hour in doing justice is worth a hundred in prayer. :- Livy. Kindness :- Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. :- R.G.Ingersoll Knowledge :- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. :- Tennyson. Knowledge :- It is one thing to remember, another to know. :- Seneca. Knowledge :- He knows enough that knows nothing; if he know how to hold his peac e. :- Guazzo. knowledge :- Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age and if we do not plant it while young, it will not give us s hade when we grow old. :- Lord Chesterfield. Knowledge :- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. :- B.Frankllin. Knowledge :- We know what we are but know not what we may be . :- Shakespeare. Labour :- Genius beings great works; labour alone finishes them. :- Jaubert. Labour :- The labour we delight in physics pain. :- Shakespeare. Labour :- Honour lies in honest toil . :- G.Cleveland Language :- Language is the dress of thought. :- S.Johnson Lateness :- The bird cries out too late when it is taken. :- J.Walker. Laughter :- It is a good thing to laugh, at any rate and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but th ey cannot laugh. :- Dryden Laughter :- I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart , that shows a t the heart, that shows at the same time pearls and the soul. :- Victor Hugo. Laughter :- Better the last smile than the first laughter. :- J.Ray. Law :- Laws are not masters, but servants and he rules them who obeys them. :- H .W.Beecher. Law :- Laws, like houses, lean on one another. :- Edmund Burke. Law :- Be you never so high the law is above you. :- Thomas Fuller Law :- Laws are not made for particular cases, but for men in general. :- S.John son. Law :- Law can discover sin, but not remove it . :- Mitton. Law :- Ignorance of the law is no excuse. :- Saurin Law :- The state with defective laws will have defective morals. :- Seneca. Learning :- Learning by study must be won T' was ne'er entailed from son to son. :- John Gay. Leisure :- Leisure is the reward of labour. :- John Ray. Leisure :- Leisure is the time for doing some thing useful. :- N.Howe.

Liberty :- Liberty means responsibility, that is why most people dread it. :- B. Show. Lies :- This is the punishment of a lier. He is not believed even when he speaks the truth. :- Tamud Life :- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. :- S. Johnson. Life :- He that begins to live begins to die :- F.Quarles. Life :- If anything forbids you to live nobly, nothing forbids you to die nobly :- Seneca. Life :- Life is a tragedy to those who feel, a comedy to those who think. :- Dis raeli. Life :- Be such a man, and live such a life that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's paradise. :- Philips Brooks Life :- As long as you live, keep learning how to live. :- Seneca. Life :- Many people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. :- Henry Van Dyke. Light :- Light even though it passes pollution is not polluted. :- St. Augustine . Listening :- To listen well is a mark of wisdom. :- Dryden. Love :- Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. :- Fre nch Proverb. Love :- Love is the business of the idle . :- Bulwer Lytton. Love :- We learn only from those we love. :- Goethe. Love :- Love is like getting drunk, marriage is like the headache the next morni ng, and divorce is the aspirin tablet. :- B. Shaw. Love :- Life is a tragedy to those who fall in love, a comedy to those who jump out of it. :- O. Wilde. Luck :- I never knew an early-rising, his earning and strictly honest who compla ined of bad luck. A good character, good habits and industry are impregable to t he assaults of all the ill luck that fools ever dreamed it. :- Addision. Luck :- Ill luck is, is nine cases out of ten, the result of saying pleasure fir st and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second. :- T.T. Munger. Luck :- Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect. :Emerson. Lying :- Half the vices in the world rise out of cowardice, and one who is afrai d of lying is usually afraid of nothing else. :- Froude. Machine :- One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extra-ordinary man. :- Elebert Hubbard. Majority :- The opinion of the majority is not the final proof of what is right. :- Schiller. Majority :- As a rule the majority are wrong. :- Eugene V. Debs. Man :- It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually. :- Ovid Man :- Man is the only animal that eats when he is not hungry, and drinks when h e is not thirsty. :- Mark Twain. Man :- Women may fall, when there's no strength in men. :- Shakespeare. Man :- Good and bed men are each less so than they seem. :- Coleridge Man :- Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him. :- William Ellery. Marriage :- Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women the ir happiness. :- B.Shaw. Medicine :- Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. :- Aristot le. Medicine :- An apple a day keeps the doctor away. :- Unknown. Medicine :- He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most med icines. :- M.Twain Medicine :- All that medicines do is to exchange one disease for another. :- M.B . Eddy Memory :- The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject d epends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which had made a deep impr ession on our minds. :- Tryon Edwards. Memory :- The true art of memory is the art of attention. :- S.Johnson.

Mind :- to be bored by noble thing is characteristic of small minds. :- Ovid Mind :- It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. :- Monta igus. Miser :- The miser is as much in want of that which he has as of that which he h as not. :- Publius Syrus. Moderation :- Remember this, that every little is needed to make a happy life. : - Marcus Aurelius. Modesty :- Modest. expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent an d genius. :- E.H.Chapin. Money :- It is not money, as is sometimes said, but the love of money, the exces sive, selfish, coventous love of money, that is the root of all evil. :- Mulock. Money :- Money is a good servant but a bad master. :- F.Bacon. Money :- You must spend money if you wish to make money. :- Plautus Moon :- Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. :- M.Twain. Mother :- Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. :- Thackeray. Motives :- If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him . :- Buddha. Music :- Music is the only sensual gratification in which mankind may indulge to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. :- Addsion. Name :- The evil wound Os cured, but not the evil name. :- John Ray Nature :- Nature never deceives us, it is always we who deceive ourselves. :- Ro usseau. Newspaper :- The newspaper is a people's university. :- T.Young . Night :- Night bring out stars as sorrow shows us truths. :- P.j.Bailey. Nobility :- Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long. Although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to liv e long. :- Seneca. Obedience is the mother of success. :- Aesshylus. Obedience :- Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently. :- Se neca. Obedience :- He who knows how to obey, knows how to command, Learn obedience. Le arn obedience first. We want organisation, Organisation is power, and the secret of that is obedience. :- Vivekananda. Observation :- Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life. :- G.M eredidth. Opinion :- Do not think of knocking out another person's brain because he differ s in opinion from you, It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head bec ause you differed from yourself ten years ago. :- Horace Mann. Opinion :- The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof t o bolster his opinion. :- Elbert Hubbard. Opinion :- A difference of opinion, though in the merest trifles, alienates litt le minds . :- Lord Chesterfiled. Opinion :- public opinion has its natural flux and reflux. :- Macaulay. Opportunity :- When fair occasion calls it is fatal to delay. :- Lucan. Opportunity :- An opportunity well taken is the only weapon of success. :- John Vdall. Opportunity :- four things come not back. The spoken word, The sped arrow. Time past, The neglected opportunity. :- Omar Ibn. Orator :- What orators lack in depth they make up to you in length. :- Montesqui eu. Order :- Good order is the foundation of all good things. :- E. Bruke. Pain :- He has seen but half the universe who never has been shewn the house of pain . :- Emerson. Pain :- Remember that pain has this most excellent quality; if prolonged it cann ot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged. :- Seneca. Painting :- Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of sp eech. :- Simonides. Painting :- I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know than all the alle

gorical paintings in the world. :- Samuel Johnson. Parents :- If parents want honest children they should be honest themselves. :Ingersoll. Party :- He serves his party best who serves his country best. :- R.B.Hayses. Patience :- Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet. :- Rousseaul People :- The lard prefers common looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them. :- Abraham Lincoln. Perseverance :- Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. He that shall walk, With Vigor, Three hours a day, will pass in seven years, a space equal to the circumference of the globe. :- Johnson. Perseverance :- No road it too long to the man who advances deliberately, And wi thout undue haste, and no honours are too distant to the man who prepares himsel f for them with patience. :- Bruyere. Personality :- Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. :- C.M.Schwa r. Pleasure :- Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. :- S.Johnson. Pleasure :- There is little pleasure in the world that is sure and sincere besid e the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good. I am sure no other is comparabl e to this. :- Tillotson. Pleasure :- Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may sat isfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. :- Tryon Ed ward. Poetry :- Poetry is the most beautiful way of expressing thought. :- Mauthew Gre ene. Politeness :- The politeness is perfect ease and freedom. If simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. :- Chesterfiled. Possession :- We give to the rich and take from the poor . :- G.Herbert. Poverty :- The pleasure of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor. :- Th omas Fuller. Poverty :- Poverty is not a shame, but being ashamed of it is. :- T.Fuller. Praise :- Praise makes good men better and bed man worse. :- Thomas fuller. Praise :- Praise undeserved is satire in disquise. :- Broadhurst. Praise :- Words of praise indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a congenial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to childr en what the sun is to flowers. :- Bovee. Pride :- Pride, however disguised in its own majesty, is littleness. :- Wordswor th. Pride :- Pride in prosperity turns to misery in adversity. :- Thomas Fuller. Pride :- The mind of a proud man is like a mushroom, which starts up in a night his business is first to forge himself, and then his friends. :- South. Pride :- The proud never have friends not prosperity, For then they know nobody; And not in adversity, for then nobody knows them. :- Sydney Smith. pride :- A proud man is seldom a grateful man for he never thinks he gets as muc h as he deserves. :- H.W. Beecher. Progress :- Life means progress, and progress means suffering. :- Ovid Promise :- I had rather do and not promise than promise and not do . :- A.Warwic k. Prophecy :- Prophets are all a money getting tribe. :- Sophocles. Prosperity :- One is never more on trail than in the moment of excessive god for tune. :- Lew Wallace. Proverbs :- The maxims of men reveal their characters. :- Carlyle . Proverbs :- The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them. :- Issac D' Israeli. Providence :- It is the part of a fool to give counsel to others, but himself no t to be on his guard . :- Phadrus. Prudence :- Whose house is of glass must not throw stones at others. :- George H erbert. Prudence :- The first years of man must make provision for the last. :- Samuel J ohnson. Prudence :- A stitch in time may save nine . :- Thomas Fuller. Purpose :- Purpose is what gives life meaning. :- Cicero.

Purpose :- A good archer is not known by his arrows but his aim. :- T.Fuller. Quarrelling :- Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side. :- La Rochefoucauld. Quotation :- The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotations. :- Issas. D. Israeli. Reading :- Life being short and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste non e of them in reading valueless books. :- John Ruskin Reading :- It is not reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well reading of a few. :- Richard Baxter. Reading :- Reading without thinking will never make a clear head. :- John Norris . Reading :- Always have a book at hand, in the parlour, on the table, for the fam ily; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and trut hful apothegms. It will impress on your mind a thousand valuable suggestions ' a nd teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a ca sket of jewels for your household. :- Tryon Edwards. Reading :- Books must be read as carefully and sincerely as they are written. :Cicero. Reading :- You may glean knowledge by reading, but you must separate the chaff f rom the wheat by thinking. :- Amon. Reading :- The love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours of life, which come to every one, for hours of delight. :- Montesquieu. Religion :- After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (I) all religions are true (ii) all religions have some error in them. (iii) al l religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as deer to one as one's own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for own faith, Therefore no thought of conversion is possible. :Mahatma Gandhi. Religion :- Man without religion is the creature , is the creature of circumstan ces. :- J.C.A.W.Hare Religion :- To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious. :- Willi am penn. Religion :- Every religion is good that teaches man to be good. :- Thomas Paine. Repentance :- Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repent ance is sorrow converted into action, into a movement towards a new and better. :- M.R. Cincent. Reputation :- The invisible thing called a good name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. :- Lord Halifax. Reputation :- It is better never to be named than to be ill spoken of. :- Susann ah Centliver. Reputation :- An honest reputation is within the reach of all; they obtain it by social virtues and doing their duty. This kind of reputation, though neither br illiant nor startling, is often the most conducive to happiness. :- Duclos. Revenge :- Revenge is like, a boomerang. Although for a time it files in the dir ection in which it is hurled, it takes a sudden curve, and returning hits on you r own head heaviest blow of all . :- Bacon. Revenge :- The noblest revenge is to forgive. :- Unknown. Riches :- There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth by wo rk, by gift or by theft. And clearly, the reason why the workers, get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much. :- Henry George. Riches :- No just man ever become rich all at once :- Menander. Riches :- He that makes haste to be rich shall not be innocent . :- Old Testamne t. Saint :- The way of this world is to praise dead saints and persecute living one s. :- Nataniel Howe. Science :- Only when genius is married to science, can thee highest results be p roduced. :- Herbert. Selfishness :- Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself. :- H.W.Beecher. Service :- So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every ma

n a traitor who having been educated at their expense, pays not to the least hee d to them. :- Vivkanand. Silence :- Silence is a fine ornament for a woman, but it's little worn. :- Tull ar. Simplicity :- In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme exc ellence is simplicity. :- Long Fellow. Simplicity :- Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. Sin :- All the sin that has darkened human life and saddened juman history began in believing a falsehood; all the power of christianize to make men holy is ass ociated with believing in truth. :- J.A.Broadus. Sin :- Sins are like circles in the water when a stone is thrown into it, one pr oduces another . When anger was in Cain's heart, murder was not off :- Philip He nry. Speech :- Never rise to speak till you have something to day; and when you have said it, cease. :- Witherspoon. Strength :- Oh! It is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant. :- Shakespeare. Teaching :- A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself . A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn it's own flame . :- Rabindranath Tagore. Tears :- Tears are the safety valves of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. :- Albert Smith. Thoughts :- Good thoughts are blessed guest's and should be heartily welcomed, w ell fed and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory. :- Spurgeon. Toleration :- It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant . :- Shelley. Truth :- " There is nothing " says Plato, "So delightful as the hearing or the s peaking of truth" . for this reason there is no conversation so agreeable as tha t of the man of integrity who hears without any intention to betray and speaks w ithout any intention to deceive. :- Sherlock." Virtue :- To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue, these five things are: gravity, Generosity of soul, Sincerity, ernestnes and kindness. :- Confucious. Wealth :- Gold is worst poison to men's souls, doing more murders in this loaths ome world, than any mortal drug. :- Shakespeare. Wisdom :- Our Chief wisdom consists in knowing our follies and faults, that we m ay correct them. :- X Work :- The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money not to find much fun in life. :- Charles M.Schwab. World :- The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. :- Horace Walpole. Worship :- We should worship as though the deity were present. If my mind is not engaged in my worship, it is as though I worshipped not. :- Confucius Worth :- The worth of a thing is known by its want. :- T.Fuller. Wounds :- Wounds once healed leave scar behind them. :- J. Hall. Winner's don't do different things, they do things differently ! Zeal :- Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly . :- Horace.