Detraction.Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending .Shakespeare.

Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.Was hington Irving. It would be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade him that he h ad none.Babinet. Happiness and misery are the names of two extremes, the utmost bounds whereof we know not.Locke. I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are conce rned.Wellington. There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it t han not.Johnson. Love with old men is as the sun upon the snow, it dazzles more than it warms the m.J. Petit Senn. Newspapers.In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.He inrich Heine. Chance opportunities make us known to others, and still more to ourselves.Rochefo ucauld.[Pg 189] Refinement.Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refin ement.Beecher. It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind i t or no.Emerson. I love everything that's old. Old friends, old times, old manners, old books, ol d wine.Goldsmith. We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we lo ve.Mme. de Stal. "One soweth, and another reapeth," is a verity that applies to evil as well as g ood.George Eliot. O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, thou hovering angel, girt with gol den wings!Milton. It is easy enough to forgive your enemies, if you have not the means to harm the m.Heinrich Heine. Gold is, in its last analysis, the sweat of the poor, and the blood of the brave .Joseph Napoleon. Persons lightly dipped, not grained, in generous honesty, are but pale in goodne ss.Sir T. Browne. Irritability.Irritability urges us to take a step as much too soon as sloth does too late.Cecil. But to enlarge or illustrate this power and effects of love is to set a candle i n the sun.Burton. Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy .Joubert.[Pg 184] Opinion.The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.H einrich Heine. The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.Voltaire. Vulgar minds refuse to crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs without repining.Thomson. Sect.The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.Macaulay. There is no one study that is not capable of delighting us after a little applic ation to it.Pope. He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more th an a king.Milton. All the proud virtue of this vaunting world fawns on success and power, however acquired.Thomson. Surfeit.They are sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothi ng.Shakespeare. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we wake and whe n we sleep.Milton.

According to the security you offer to her, Fortune makes her loans easy or ruin ous.Bulwer-Lytton. In this world of change, naught which comes stays, and naught which goes is lost .Madame Swetchine. If we rightly estimate what we call good and evil, we shall find it lies much in comparison.Locke. How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.Shakespeare. Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?M me. de Maintenon. All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single wor d,faith.Napoleon. No falsehood can endure touch of celestial temper but returns of force to its ow n likeness.Milton. The bright mosaic, that with storied beauty, the floor of nature's temple tessel late.Horace Smith. A coarse-grained powder, used by cross-grained people, playing at cross-grained purposes.Marryatt. The use we make of happiness gives us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or re pentance.Rousseau. He kissed me hard, as though he'd pluck up kisses by the roots that grew upon my lips.Shakespeare. How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, a wake them?Lessing. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes the throned monarch better than his crown.Shakespeare. Repentance.-Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past i s laid.Sterling. There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man but in every particl e.Emerson.[Pg 264] It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.Fielding. With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon i n his mouth.Madden. It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his helper is omnipo tent.Jeremy Taylor. Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a th reat.J. Petit Senn. Injustice.The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often his mercy.M adame Swetchine. Mercy.Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call ju stice!Longfellow. What would we not give to still have in store the first blissful moment we ever enjoyed!Rochepdre. The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an inf amous life.Beecher. If reasons were as plenty as blackberries I would give no man a reason upon comp ulsion.Shakespeare. The spring, the summer, the chiding autumn, angry winter, change their wonted li veries.Shakespeare. The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.J. Stuart Mill. Every inordination of religion that is not in defect is properly called supersti tion.Jeremy Taylor. Toleration.The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vis ion.George Eliot. Affection.None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch, but lo ve and envy.Bacon. An outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been re fused.Gibbon.[Pg 27]

By the law of God, given by him to humanity, all men are free, are brothers, and are equals.Mazzini. Estimation.A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,by deeds, not years.Sheridan. The first fault is the child of simplicity, but every other the offspring of gui lt.Goldsmith.[Pg 88] Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.Bible. Gratitude.Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gro ss people.Johnson. All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kil ls them.Aim Martin. It is a little stream which flows softly, but freshens everything along its cour se.Madame Swetchine. All nature is a vast symbolism; every material fact has sheathed within it a spi ritual truth.Chapin. Oh vanished times! splendors eclipsed for aye! Oh suns behind the horizon that h ave set.Victor Hugo. We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possib ilities.Bolingbroke. No man can do right unless he is good, wise, and strong. What wonder we fail?Char les Buxton.[Pg 223] He who would keep himself to himself should imitate the dumb animals, and drink water.Bulwer-Lytton. Villainy.Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to im posture.Goldsmith. What rein can hold licentious wickedness, when down the hill he holds his fierce career?Shakespeare. Winter.After summer ever more succeeds the barren winter with his nipping cold.Sha kespeare.[Pg 277] Here's neither want of appetite nor mouths; pray Heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.Shakespeare. Man has still more desire for beauty than knowledge of it; hence the caprices of the world.X. Doudan. Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.George Eliot. Eyes and ears, two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores of will and judgmen t.Shakespeare.[Pg 70] I have often maintained that fiction may be much more instructive than real hist ory.Rev. John Foster. Ignorance, which in behavior mitigates a fault, is, in literature, a capital off ense.Joubert.[Pg 128] I am sure that since I had the use of my reason, no human being has ever heard m e laugh.Chesterfield. Nothing.There is nothing useless to men of sense; clever people turn everything t o account.Fontaine. Poverty.Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single wantthe want of money.Zimmerman. From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it i s bestowed.Atterbury. Threats.Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execut ion of them.Colton. Welcome.Heaven opened wide her ever-during gates, harmonious sound! on golden hin ges turning.Milton. Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.George Eliot. This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still, it brings forth evil.Coleridge.[Pg 79] Habits.Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.Cowper.

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impal es and sustains.Taine. Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the f irst that dies.Colton. Oh, what a world of vile ill-favored faults looks handsome in three hundred poun ds a year!Shakespeare. The change we personally experience from time to time we obstinately deny to our principles.Zimmerman. Promise.Promises hold men faster than benefits: hope is a cable and gratitude a t hread.J. Petit Senn. He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to a ppear to want.Lavater. To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only plea sing solitude.Addison. My plenteous joys, wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves in drops of sorro w.Shakespeare.[Pg 258] When devils will their blackest sins put on, they do suggest at first with heave nly shows.Shakespeare. Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severe st correction.Thoreau. Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing again st the stream.Feltham. Ah! what seeds for a paradise I bore in my heart, of which birds of prey have ro bbed me.Richter.[Pg 66] If we will rightly estimate what we call good and evil, we shall find it lies mu ch in comparison.Locke. Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a great difference in the fruit.Socrates.[Pg 90] Good.When what is good comes of age and is likely to live, there is reason for re joicing.George Eliot. Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.Arsne Houssaye. Improvement.Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Adv ance with it.Mazzini. Light! Nature's resplendent robe; without whose vesting beauty all were wrapt in gloom.Thomson.[Pg 156] Repining love is the stillest; the shady flowers in this spring as in the other, shun sunlight.Richter. When the glad sun, exulting in his might, comes from the dusky-curtained tents o f night.Emma C. Embury. The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing an d forbearing.Epictetus. Imitate time. It destroys slowly. It undermines, wears, loosens, separates. It d oes not uproot.Joubert. Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.Bulwer-Lytton. The best of us being unfit to die, what an inexpressible absurdity to put the wo rst to death!Hawthorne. My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next age.Bacon. Sorrow breaks seasons, and reposing hours; makes the night morning, and the noon tide night.Shakespeare. Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone i s final.Charles Sumner. Our armor all is strong, our cause the best; then reason wills our hearts should be as good.Shakespeare. Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will fin d it a calamity.Johnson. Enthusiasm is that temper of mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.Warburton.

Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the es teem of mankind.Addison. Greatness seems in her [Madame de Maintenon] to take its noblest form, that of s implicity.Bulwer-Lytton. Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his c apacity to hate.Beecher. Logic.Logic differeth from rhetoric as the fist from the palm; the one close, the other at large.Bacon. Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world w ould be palsied.Southey. It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of o ne's ambition.Lamartine. Matrimony.When a man and woman are married their romance ceases and their history commences.Rochebrune. Mourning.Oh, for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is s till!Tennyson.[Pg 180] Secrecy.Thou hast betrayed thy secret as a bird betrays her nest, by striving to conceal it.Longfellow. Soldiers looked at as they ought to be: they are to the world as poppies to corn fields.Douglas Jerrold. Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, by the winds which tell of the vio let's birth.Mrs. Hemans. Wife.Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.Congreve. Agitation.Agitation is the marshaling of the conscience of a nation to mould its laws.Sir R. Peel.[Pg 9] Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.Schiller. Worse poison to men's souls, doing more murders in this loathsome world than any mortal drug.Shakespeare. Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of po rtraying another.Richter. Christianity is intensely practical. She has no trait more striking than her com mon sense.Charles Buxton. The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of hi s own conscience.Beecher. After long experience in the world I affirm, before God, I never knew a rogue wh o was not unhappy.Junius. What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.Tennyson. Sweet daughter of a rough and stormy sire, hoar Winter's blooming child, delight ful Spring.Mrs. Barbauld. If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain from all fermen ted liquors.Sydney Smith. Temptation.No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempte d.George Eliot.[Pg 259] Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.Goethe. Absence.Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much exti nguishes it.Hannah More. A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon t he buyer's judgment.Pliny. True benevolence is to love all men. Recompense injury with justice, and kindnes s with kindness.Confucius. Be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeamsthe more they are condensed, the d eeper they burn.Southey. Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the mo st precious things.Colton.