Chapter M (1)

=Ma vie est un combat=--My life is a battle. _Voltaire._

=Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep; / Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, / The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, / Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, / Chief nourisher in life's feast.= _Macb._, ii. 2.

=Mach' dich nicht zu hoch, die Thür ist niedrig=--Don't carry your head too high; the door is low. _Ger. Pr._

=Mach' es Wenigen recht: Vielen gefallen ist= 30 =schlimm=--Be content to please a few; to please many is bad. _Schiller._

=Machines cannot increase the possibilities of life, only the possibilities of idleness.= _Ruskin._

=Macht, was ihr wollt; nur lasst mich ungeschoren=--Produce what ye like, only leave me unmolested (_lit._ unshorn). _Goethe._

=Mächtig in Werke, nicht in Worte=--Mighty in deeds, not in words. _Ger. Pr._

=Macies et nova febrium / Terris incubuit cohors=--A wasting disease and an unheard-of battalion of fevers have swooped down on the earth. _Hor._

=Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra=--Go 35 on in new deeds of valour, my son! That is the way to the stars. _Virg._

=Macte virtute=--Persevere in virtue; go on and prosper.

=Macte virtute diligentiaque esto=--Persevere in virtue and diligence. _Livy._

=Maculæ quas incuria fudit=--The blemishes, or errors, which carelessness has produced. _Hor._

=Mad bulls cannot be tied up with a packthread.= _Pr._

=Mad dogs cannot live long.= _Pr._ 40

=Mad people think others mad.= _Pr._

=Madame fut douce envers la mort, comme elle l'était envers tout le monde=--She was gentle towards death, as she was towards every one. _Bossuet._

=Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.= _Ham._, iii. 1.

=Madness is consistent, which is more than can be said for poor reason. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy, but begin to shift and waver as we return to reason.= _Sterne._

=Madness is the last stage of human debasement.= 45 =It is the abdication of humanity. Better to die a thousand times!= _Napoleon._

=Madruga y verás, trabaja y habrás=--Rise betimes, and you will see; labour diligently, and you will have. _Sp. Pr._

=Magalia quondam=--Formerly humble huts stood here. _Virg._

=Magasins de nouveautés=--Linen-draper's, or fancy goods', shop. _Fr._

=Magis gaudet quam qui senectam exuit=--He rejoices more than an old man who has put off old age, _i.e._, has become young again. _Pr._

=Magis magni clerici non sunt magis sapientes=--The 50 greater scholars are not the wisest men. _Pr._

=Magister alius casus=--Misfortune is a second master. _Pliny the elder._

=Magister artis ingeniique largitor / Venter=--The belly (_i.e._, hunger or necessity) is the teacher of arts and the bestower of genius. _Pers._

=Magister dixit=--The master has said so.

=Magistratum legem esse loquentem, legem autem mutum magistratum=--A judge is a speaking law, law a silent judge. _Cic._

=Magistratus indicat virum=--Office shows the 5 man. _M._

=Magna Charta=--The Great Charter (obtained from King John in 1215).

=Magna civitas, magna solitudo=--A great city is a great desert. _Gr. and L. Pr._

=Magna comitante caterva=--A great crowd accompanying. _Virg._

=Magna est admiratio copiose sapienterque dicentis=--Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. _Cic._

=Magna est veritas et prævalebit=--Truth is 10 mighty, and will in the end prevail.

=Magna est vis consuetudinis: hæc ferre laborem, contemnere vulnus et dolorem docet=--Great is the power of habit: teaching us as it does to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. _Cic._

=Magna fuit quondam capitis reverentia cani, / Inque suo pretio ruga senilis erat=--Great was the respect paid of old to the hoary head, and great the honour to the wrinkles of age. _Ovid._

=Magna servitus est magna fortuna=--A great fortune is a great slavery. _Sen._

=Magna vis est, magnum nomen, unum et idem sentientis senatus=--Great is the power, great the authority, of a senate which is unanimous in its opinions. _Cic._

=Magnæ felicitates multum caliginis mentibus= 15 =humanis objiciunt=--Great and sudden prosperity has a deadening (_lit._ densely darkening) effect on the human mind. _Sen._

=Magnæ fortunæ comes adest adulatio=--Adulation is ever the attendant on great wealth.

=Magnanimiter crucem sustine=--Bear up bravely under the cross. _M._

=Magnanimity is the good sense of pride, and the noblest way of acquiring applause.= _La Roche._

=Magnanimity owes to prudence no account of its motives.= _Vauvenargues._

=Magnas inter opes inops=--Poor in the midst 20 of great wealth. _Hor._

=Magni animi est injurias despicere=--It is the mark of a great mind to despise injuries. _Sen._

=Magni animi est magna contemnere, ac mediocria malle quam nimia=--It is a sign of a great mind to despise greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. _Sen._

=Magni est ingenii revocare mentem a sensibus, et cogitationem a consuetudine abducere=--It argues a mind of great native force to be able to emancipate itself from the thraldom of the senses, and to wean its thoughts from old habits. _Cic._

=Magni nominis umbra=--The shadow of a great name. _Lucan._

=Magni refert quibuscum vixeris=--It matters a 25 great deal with whom you live. _Pr._

=Magnificat=--The song of the Virgin Mary (_lit._ she magnifies). _Luke_, i. 44-45.

=Magnificence cannot be cheap, for what is cheap cannot be magnificent.= _Johnson._

=Magnis excidit ausis=--He failed in bold attempts. _Ovid._

=Magno conatu magnas nugas=--By great efforts to obtain great trifles. _Ter._

=Magno cum periculo custoditur, quod multis= 30 =placet=--That is guarded at great risk which is coveted by many. _Pub. Syr._

=Magno de flumine mallem / Quam ex hoc fonticulo tantundem sumere=--I had rather take my glass of water from a great river like this than from this little fountain. _Hor., in reproof of those who lay by large stores and never use them._

=Magnorum haud unquam indignus avorum=--Never unworthy of his illustrious ancestors. _Virg._

=Magnum est argumentum in utroque fuisse moderatum=--It speaks volumes for man that, when placed in quite different situations, he displays in each the same spirit of moderation.

=Magnum hoc ego duco / Quod placui tibi qui turpi secernis honestum=--I account it a great honour that I have pleased a man like you, who know so well to discriminate between the base and the honourable. _Hor._

=Magnum hoc vitium vino est, / Pedes captat= 35 =primum; luctator dolosus est=--This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. _Plaut._

=Magnum pauperies opprobrium jubet / Quidvis aut facere aut pati=--Poverty, that deep disgrace, bids us do or suffer anything. _Hor._

=Magnum vectigal est parsimonia=--Thrift is a great revenue. _Cic._

=Magnus ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo=--The great cycle of the ages begins its round anew. _Virg._

=Magnus Alexander corpore parvus erat=--The great Alexander was small in stature. _Pr._

=Magnus animus remissius loquitur et securius=--The 40 talk of a great soul is at once more careless and confident than that of other men. _Sen._

=Magnus Apollo=--A great oracle.

=Magnus sine viribus ignis / Incassum furit=--A great fire, unless you feed it, spends its rage in vain. _Virg._

=Mãi aguçosa, filha preguiçosa=--A busy mother makes slothful daughters. _Port. Pr._

=Maidens' bairns and bachelors' wives are aye weel bred.= _Sc. Pr._

=Maidens, like moths, are ever caught with= 45 =glare, / And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.= _Byron._

=Maidens should be mild and meek, / Swift to hear, and slow to speak.= _Pr._

=Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1.

=Maids should be seen and not heard.= _Pr._

=Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them they want everything.= _Somerset Pr._

=Maids well summered, and warm kept, are like= 50 =flies at Bartholomew-tide--blind, though they have their eyes.= _Hen. V._, v. 2.

=Maintien le droit=--Maintain the right. _M._

=Mair by luck than gude guiding= (management). _Sc. Pr._

=Mais au moindre revers funeste / Le masque tombe, l'homme reste / Et le héros s'évanouit=--But at the least sad reverse the mask drops off, the man remains, and the hero vanishes. _J. B. Rousseau._

=Mais de quoi sont composées les affaires du monde? Du bien d'autrui=--By of what is the business of the world made up? Of the wealth of other people. _Béroalde Verville._

=Maison d'arrêt=--A jail, a prison. _Fr._

=Maison de force=--A house of correction. _Fr._

=Maître Jacques=--A handy fellow who is ready to 5 undertake all kinds of work. _Fr._

=Major e longinquo reverentia=--Respect is greater at a distance. _Tac._

=Major famæ sitis est quam / Virtutis; quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam, / Præmia si tollas?=--The thirst for fame is greater than that for virtue; for, if you take away its reward, who would embrace virtue? _Juv._

=Major hereditas venit unicuique nostrum a jure et legibus, quam a parentibus=--A more valuable inheritance falls to each of us in our civil and legal rights than comes to us from our fathers. _Cic._

=Major privato visus, dum privatus fuit, et omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset=--He was regarded as greater than a private individual so long as he remained one, and, by the consent of all, would have been deemed worthy to rule had he never ruled. _Tac., of the Emperor Galba._

=Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo=--A greater 10 succession of events presents itself to my muse. _Virg._

=Major sum quam cui possit Fortuna nocere / Multaque ut eripiat, multo mihi plura relinquet. / Excessere metum mea jam bona=--I am above being injured by fortune; though she snatch away much, more will remain to me. The blessings I now enjoy transcend fear. _Ov._

=Majore tumultu / Planguntur nummi quam funera, nemo dolorem / Fingit in hoc casu / ... Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris=--Money is bewailed with a greater tumult than death. No one feigns grief in this case.... The loss of money is deplored with true tears. _Juv._

=Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ=--And the shadows lengthen as they fall from the lofty mountains. _Virg._

=Majori cedo=--I retire before my superior.

=Majority is applied to number, and superiority= 15 =to power.= _Johnson._

=Majus et minus non variant speciem=--Greater and less don't change the nature of a thing.

=Make a crutch of your cross.= _Pr._

=Make a virtue of necessity.= _Burton._

=Make all sure, and keep all pure.= _Pr._

=Make clean thy conscience; hide thee there.= 20 _Quarles._

=Make clean work, and leave no tags. Allow no delays when you are at a thing; do it and be done with it.= _Prof. Blackie._

=Make doors fast upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the keyhole.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1.

=Make every bargain clear and plain, / That none may afterwards complain.= _Pr._

=Make good cheese, if you make little.= _Pr._

=Make haste slowly.= _Pr._ 25

=Make hay while the sun shines.= _Pr._

=Make it an invariable and obligatory law to yourself never to mention your own mental diseases. When you talk of them, it is plain that you want either praise or pity; for praise there is no room, and pity will do you no good.= _Johnson._

=Make knowledge circle with the winds; / But let her herald, Reverence, fly / Before her to whatever sky / Bear seed of men and growth of minds.= _Tennyson._

=Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.= _Colton._

=Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy sad= 30 =soul.... He goes always heavy-loaded, and thou must bear half.= _Fenélon._

=Make not another's shoes by your own foot.= _Pr._

=Make not thy friend too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend.= _Pr._

=Make not thy sport abuses; for the fly, / That feeds on dung, is coloured thereby.= _George Herbert._

=Make not thy tail broader than thy wings.= _Pr._

=Make not two sorrows of one.= _Pr._ 35

=Make short the miles with talk and smiles.= _Pr._

=Make temperance thy companion, so shall health sit on thy brow.= _Dodsley._

=Make the most and the best of your lot, and compare yourself not with the few that are above you, but with the multitudes which are below you.= _Johnson._

=Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.= _Goethe._

=Make the night night, and the day day, and= 40 =you will have a pleasant time of it.= _Port. Pr._

=Make the plaster as large as the sore.= _Pr._

=Make thee my knight? my knights are sworn to vows / Of utter hardihood, utter gentleness, / And, loving, utter faithfulness in love, / And uttermost obedience to the king.= _Tennyson._

=Make thick my blood, / Stop up the access and passage to remorse, / That no compunctious visitings of Nature / Shake my fell purpose.= _Macb._, i. 5.

=Make thy claim of wages for this world, and all worlds, at zero--at nothing; thus, and thus only, hast thou the world at thy feet.= _Carlyle._

=Make your educational laws strict, and your= 45 =criminal ones may be gentle; but leave youth its liberty, and you will have to dig dungeons for age.= _Ruskin._

=Make your hay as best you may.= _Pr._

=Make your mark, but mind what your mark is.= _Pr._

=Make yourself an ass, and you'll have every man's sack on your shoulders.= _Dan. Pr._

=Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.= _Carlyle._

=Make yourself necessary to the world and= 50 =mankind will give you bread.= _Emerson._

=Make yourselves necessary to somebody.= _Emerson._

=Mal à propos=--Ill-timed; unseasonable. _Fr._

=Mala causa silenda est=--'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause. _Ovid._

=Mala fides=--Bad faith.

=Mala gallina, malum ovum=--Bad hen, bad egg. _Pr._

=Mala grammatica non vitiat chartam=--Bad grammar does not vitiate a deed. _L._

=Mala mali malo mala contulit omnia mundo=--The jawbone of the evil one by means of an apple brought all evils into the world.

=Mala mens, malus animus=--Bad mind, bad 5 heart. _Ter._

=Mala merx hæc, et callida est=--She's a bad bargain and a crafty one. _Plaut._

=Mala ultro adsunt=--Misfortunes come unsought. _Pr._

=Maladie du pays=--Home-sickness. _Fr._

=Male cuncta ministrat / Impetus=--Violence (of passion) conducts everything badly. _Stat._

=Male imperando summum imperium amittitur=--By 10 misgovernment the supreme rule is lost. _Pub. Syr._

=Male parta male dilabuntur=--Things ill gotten go ill. _Pr._

=Male partum male disperit=--Property ill got is ill spent; lightly come, lightly go. _Plaut._

=Male secum agit æger, medicum qui hæredem facit=--A sick man acts foolishly for himself who makes his doctor his heir.

=Male verum examinat omnis / Corruptus judex=--Badly is the truth weighed by a corrupt judge. _Hor._

=Male vivunt qui se semper victuros putant=--They 15 live ill who think they will live for ever. _Pub. Syr._

=Malebranche saw all things in God, and M. Necker saw all things in Necker.= _Mirabeau._

=Maledicus a malefico non distat nisi occasione=--An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer in nothing but want of opportunity. _Quinct._

=Malesuada fames=--Hunger that tempts to evil. _Virg._

=Malheureux celui qui est en avance de son siècle=--Unhappy is the man who is in advance of his time. _Fr. Pr._

=Mali principii malus finis=--Bad beginnings have 20 bad endings (_lit._ a bad end of a bad beginning). _Ter._

=Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient.= _Government of the Tongue._

=Malice sucks up the greatest part of our own venom, and poisons herself.= _Montaigne._

=Malim indisertam prudentiam, quam stultitiam loquacem=--I prefer sense that is faulty in expression to loquacious folly. _Cic._

=Malim inquietam libertatem quam quietum servitium=--I would prefer turbulent liberty to quiet slavery.

=Malis avibus=--With a bad omen (_lit._ with bad 25 birds). _Cic._

=Malo benefacere tantumdem est periculum / Quantum bono malefacere=--To do good to the bad is a danger just as great as to do bad to the good. _Plaut._

=Malo cum Platone errare, quam cum aliis recte sentire=--I had rather be wrong with Plato than think right with others. _Cic._

=Malo mihi male quam molliter esse=--I prefer being ill to being idle. _Sen._

=Malo mori quam fœdari=--I had rather die than be disgraced. _M._

=Malo nodo malus quærendus cuneus=--For a 30 hard knot a hard tool must be sought. _Pr._

=Malorum facinorum ministri quasi exprobrantes aspiciuntur=--Accomplices in evil actions are always regarded as reproaching the deed. _Tac._

=Malum consilium consultori pessimum=--Bad advice is most pernicious to the adviser. _Ver. Flaccus._

=Malum est consilium quod mutari non potest=--That is bad counsel which cannot be changed. _Pub. Syr._

=Malum in se=--A thing evil in itself.

=Malum nascens facile opprimitur; inveteratum= 35 =fit robustius=--An evil habit is easily subdued in the beginning, but when it becomes inveterate it gains strength. _Cic._

=Malum prohibitum=--A crime because forbidden by law, such as smuggling. _L._

=Malum vas non frangitur=--A worthless vessel is seldom broken. _Pr._

=Malus bonum ubi se simulat, tunc est pessimus=--A bad man, when he pretends to be a good one, is worst of all. _Pub. Syr._

=Malus est enim custos diuturnitatis metus, contraque benevolentia fidelis vel ad perpetuitatem=--Fear is a bad preserver of that which is intended to last; whereas mildness and good-will ensure fidelity for ever. _Cic._

=Malus usus est abolendus=--An evil custom should 40 be abolished. _L._

=Mammon has enriched his thousands, and has damned his ten thousands.= _South._

=Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell / From heaven.= _Milton._

=Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.= _Byron._

=Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.= _Sir W. Temple._

=Man always worships something; always he= 45 =sees the infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.= _Carlyle._

=Man am I grown, a man's work must I do. / Follow the deer? follow the Christ, the King, / Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King--/ Else wherefore born?= _Tennyson._

=Man and man only can do the impossible; / ... He to the moment endurance can lend.= _Goethe._

=Man becomes greater in proportion as he learns to know himself and his faculty. Let him once become conscious of what he is, and he will soon also learn to be what he should.= _Schelling._

=Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.= _Amiel._

=Man, behind his everlasting blind, which he= 50 =only colours differently, and makes no thinner, carries his pride with him from one step to another, and on the higher step blames only the pride of the lower.= _Jean Paul._

=Man can dispense with much but not with men.= _Börne._

=Man can elect the universal man, / And live in life that ends not with his breath.= _R. W. Dixon._

=Man can invent nothing nobler than humanity.= _Ruskin._

=Man can only learn to rise from the consideration of that which he cannot surmount.= _Jean Paul._

=Man cannot be a naturalist, until he satisfies all the demands of the spirit.= _Emerson._

=Man cannot choose his duties.= _George Eliot._

=Man cannot live without his formulas.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=Man carries under his hat a private theatre,= 5 =wherein a greater drama is acted than ever on the mimic stage, beginning and ending in eternity.= _Carlyle._

=Man consists in truth. If he exposes truth, he exposes himself. If he betrays truth, he betrays himself. We speak not here of lies, but of acting against conviction.= _Novalis._

=Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the day of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl.= _Sydney Smith._

=Man creeps into childhood, bounds into youth, sobers into manhood, and softens into age.= _H. Giles._

=Man darf nur sterben, um gelobt zu werden=--One has but to die to be praised. _Ger. Pr._

=Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither.= 10 _Ham._, ii. 2.

=Man disputirt mehr über die Schaale, als über den Kern=--People dispute more about the shell than the kernel. _Ger. Pr._

=Man does not willingly submit himself to reverence; or rather, he never so submits himself: it is a higher sense which must be communicated to his nature, which only in some peculiarly favoured individuals unfolds itself spontaneously, who on this account too have of old been looked upon as saints and gods.= _Goethe._

=Man does not wish to be told the truth.= _Pascal._

=Man doth what he can, and God what He will.= _Pr._

=Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to= 15 =love.= _Tennyson._

=Man ever tends to reckon his own insight as final, and goes upon it as such.= _Carlyle._

=Man everywhere is the born enemy of lies.= _Carlyle._

=Man findet tausend Gelehrte, bis man auf einen weisen Mann stösst=--We may come upon a thousand men of learning before we stumble upon a single wise man. _Klinger._

=Man for the field and woman for the hearth; / Man for the sword and for the needle she: / Man with the head and woman with the heart: / Man to command and woman to obey; / All else confusion.= _Tennyson._

=Man, forget not death, for death certainly forgets= 20 =not thee.= _Turkish Pr._

=Man gives up all pretension to the infinite while he feels here that neither with thought nor without it is he equal to the finite.= _Goethe._

=Man had not a hammer to begin, not a syllabled articulation; they had it all to make--and they have made it.= _Carlyle._

=Man has a brief flowering season and a long fading.= _Uhland._

=Man has a silent and solitary literature written by his heart upon the tables of stone in Nature; and next to God's finger, a man's heart writes the most memorable things.= _Ward Beecher._

=Man has a soul as certainly as he has a body;= 25 =nay, much more certainly; properly it is the course of his unseen spiritual life, which informs and rules his external visible life, rather than receives rule from it, in which spiritual life the true secret of his history lies.= _Carlyle._

=Man has always humour enough to make merry with what he cannot help.= _Goethe._

=Man has ever been a striving, struggling, and, in spite of wide-spread calumnies to the contrary, a veracious creature.= _Carlyle._

=Man has in his own soul an Eternal; can read something of the Eternal there, if he will look.= _Carlyle._

=Man has not a greater enemy than himself.= _Petrarch._

=Man has quite a peculiar pleasure in making= 30 =proselytes; in causing others to enjoy what he enjoys, in finding his own likeness represented and reflected back to him.= _Goethe._

=Man has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman but she has a presentiment of it some moments before.= _Sterne._

=Man has two and a half minutes here below--one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.= _Jean Paul._

=Man, if he compare himself with all he can see, is at the zenith of his power; but if he compare himself with all he can conceive, he is at the nadir of his weakness.= _Colton._

=Man is a born owl.= _Carlyle._

=Man is a bundle of habits.= _Pr._ 35

=Man is a darkened being; he knows not whence he comes, nor whither he goes; he knows little of the world and least of himself.= _Goethe._

=Man is a fallen god, who remembers heaven, his former dwelling-place.= _Lamartine._

=Man is a forked radish with head fantastically carved.= _Swift._

=Man is a forked straddling animal with bandy legs.= _Swift._

=Man is a military animal, / Glories in gunpowder= 40 =and loves parade.= _P. J. Bailey._

=Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.= _Sir T. Browne._

=Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.= _Hazlitt._

=Man is a spirit, and bound by invisible bonds to all men.= _Carlyle._

=Man is a stream whose source is hidden.= _Emerson._

=Man is a substance clad in shadows.= _John_ 45 _Sterling._

=Man is a sun; his senses are the planets.= _Novalis._

=Man is a tool-using animal; ... without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.= _Carlyle._

=Man is actually here, not to ask questions but to do work; in this time, as in all times, it must be the heaviest evil for him if his faculty of action lie dormant, and only that of sceptical inquiry exert itself.= _Carlyle._

=Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.= _Burke._

=Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this.= _Adam Smith._

=Man is an imitative creature, and whoever is foremost leads the herd.= _Schiller._

=Man is, and always was, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest than to think and consider.= _Carlyle._

=Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.= _Saadi._

=Man is born not to solve the problems of the= 5 =universe, but to find out where the problem begins, and then to restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible.= _Goethe._

=Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.= _Bible._

=Man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and, in his manners, equal the majesty of the world.= _Emerson._

=Man is but a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a reed that thinks.= _Pascal._

=Man is created free, is free, even if he were born in chains.= _Schiller._

=Man is created to fight; he is perhaps best of= 10 =all definable as a born soldier; his life "a battle and a march" under the right generals.= _Carlyle._

=Man is emphatically a proselytising creature.= _Carlyle._

=Man is ever the most interesting object to man, and perhaps should be the only one to interest him.= _Goethe._

=Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history.= _Emerson._

=Man is fire and woman tow; the devil comes and sets them in a blaze.= _Pr._

=Man is first a spirit, bound by invisible bonds= 15 =to all men; and secondly, he wears clothes, which are the visible emblems of that fact.= _Carlyle, the two main ideas emphasised in "Sartor."_

=Man is for ever the born thrall of certain men, born master of certain other men, born equal of certain others, let him acknowledge the fact or not.= _Carlyle._

=Man is for ever the brother of man.= _Carlyle._

=Man is free as the bird is in its cage: he can move about within certain limits.= _Lavater._

=Man is God's image; but a poor man is / Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard. / God reckons for him, counts the favour His.= _George Herbert._

=Man is greater than a world, than systems of= 20 =worlds; there is more mystery in the union of soul with the physical than in the creation of a universe.= _H. Giles._

=Man is his own star, and the soul that can / Render an honest and a perfect man, / Commands all light, all influence, all fate; / Nothing to him falls early or too late.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._

=Man is intended for a limited condition; objects that are simple, near, determinate, he comprehends, and he becomes accustomed to employ such means as are at hand; but on entering a wider field he now knows neither what he would nor what he should.= _Goethe._

=Man is like the worker at Gobelins, who weaves on the wrong side a tapestry of which he does not see the design.= _Renan._

=Man is made great or little by his own will.= _Schiller._

=Man is man by virtue of willing, not by virtue= 25 =of knowing and understanding; and as he is, so he sees.= _Emerson._

=Man is man everywhere.= _Carlyle._

=Man is man only as he makes life and nature happier to us.= _Emerson._

=Man is more often injured than helped by the means he uses.= _Emerson._

=Man is more than constitutions.= _Whittier._

=Man is neither an angel nor a brute, and it is= 30 =his evil destiny if he aspires to be the former, to sink into the latter.= _Pascal._

=Man is neither the vile nor the excellent being which he sometimes imagines himself to be.= _Disraeli._

=Man is not a piece of clay to be moulded, but a plant to be cultivated.= _Garve._

=Man is not as God, / But then most godlike, being most a man.= _Tennyson._

=Man is not born to be free, and for the noble there is no fairer fortune than to serve a prince whom he honours.= _Goethe._

=Man is not God, but hath God's end to serve, /= 35 =A master to obey, a course to take, / Somewhat to cast off, somewhat to become.= _Browning._

=Man is not made to question, but adore.= _Young._

=Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.= _Disraeli._

=Man is nothing but contradiction; the less he knows it the more dupe he is.= _Amiel._

=Man is of the earth, but his thoughts are with the stars. A pigmy standing on the outward crest of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.= _Carlyle._

=Man is often a wolf to man, a serpent to God,= 40 =and a scorpion to himself.= _Spurgeon._

=Man is one, and he hath one great heart.= _Bailey._

=Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.= _George Herbert._

=Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.= _Disraeli._

=Man is only what he becomes, but he becomes only what he is.= _Amiel._

=Man is physically as well as metaphysically a= 45 =thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.= _Emerson._

=Man is placed in this world as a spectator; when he is tired with wondering at all the novelties about him, and not till then, does he desire to be made acquainted with the causes that create those wonders.= _Goldsmith._

=Man is properly an incarnated word; the word that he speaks is the man himself.= _Carlyle._

=Man is, properly speaking, based upon Hope, he has no other possession but Hope; this world of his is emphatically the Place of Hope.= _Carlyle._

=Man is quite sufficiently saddened by his own passions and destiny, and need not make himself more so by the darkness of a barbaric past. He needs enlightening and cheering influences, and should therefore turn to those eras in art and literature during which remarkable men obtained perfect culture.= _Goethe._

=Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his belief to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.= _Macaulay._

=Man is so prone to occupy himself with what is most common, the soul and the senses are so easily blunted to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that one ought by all means to preserve the capability of feeling it. We ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see an excellent painting, and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.= _Goethe._

=Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows, like the palm, from within outward.= _Emerson._

=Man is the arch-machine of which all these= 5 =shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as the need is=. _Emerson._

=Man is the circled oak, woman the ivy.= _Aaron Hill._

=Man is the dwarf of himself.= _Emerson._

=Man is the end towards which all the animal creation has tended.= _Agassiz._

=Man is the favourite= (_Günstling_) =of Nature, not in the sense that Nature has done everything for him, but that she has given him the power of doing everything for himself=. _Zachariae._

=Man is the higher sense of our planet, the= 10 =star which connects it with the upper world, the eye which it turns towards heaven=. _Novalis._

=Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.= _Theo. Parker._

=Man is the maker of expedients, but not of laws. In his solicitude as to his approaching lot, he has neither time nor desire to raise his eyes to the heavens to watch and record their phenomena; no leisure to look upon himself and consider what and where he is. In the imperious demand for a present support, he dare not venture on speculative attempts at ameliorating his state; he is doomed to be a helpless, isolated, spellbound savage, or, if not isolated, the companion of other savages as careworn as himself.= _Draper._

=Man is the merriest species of the creation.= _Addison._

=Man is the Messiah of Nature.= _Novalis._

=Man is the meter of all things; the hand is= 15 =the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms=. _Arist._

=Man is the Missionary of Order; he is the servant not of the devil and chaos, but of God and the universe.= _Carlyle._

=Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, / And souls are ripened in our northern sky.= _Mrs. Barbauld._

=Man is the slave of beneficence.= _Arab. Pr._

=Man is the sum-total of all the animals.= _Oken._

=Man is the sun of the world; more than the= 20 =real sun. The fire of his wonderful heart is the only light and heat worth gauge or measure. Where he is, are the tropics; where he is not, the ice-world=. _Ruskin._

=Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.= _Pliny._

=Man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie enfolded already in the first man.= _Emerson._

=Man is the will and woman is the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.= _Emerson._

=Man is to man the sorest, surest ill.... / Earth trembles ere her yawning jaws devour; / And smoke betrays the wide-consuming fire; / Ruin from man is most conceal'd when near, / And sends the dreadful tidings in the blow.= _Young._

=Man is too near all kinds of beasts--a fawning= 25 =dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, a rapacious vulture=. _Cowley._

=Man ist nur eigentlich lebendig, wenn man sich des Wohlwollens Anderer freut=--A man is only truly alive when he enjoys the goodwill of others. _Goethe._

=Man, it's surely a pity that thou should'st sit yonder, with nothing but the eye of Omniscience to see thee, and thou with such gift to speak.= _James Carlyle to his son, when he first discovered this gift in him._

=Man kan geen loopend paard beslaan=--One cannot shoe a running-horse. _Dut. Pr._

=Man kann den Menschen nicht verwehren, / Zu denken, was sie wollen=--There is no hindering people from thinking what thoughts they like. _Schiller._

=Man kann ein klarer Denker ohne Gefühl=, 30 =aber kein starker, kühner Denker ohne dasselbe sein=--Without feeling one may be a clear thinker, but not a powerful and a bold. _Klinger._

=Man kann in wahrer Freiheit leben / Und doch nicht ungebunden sein=--One may enjoy true freedom, and yet be in chains. _Goethe._

=Man kann nicht stets das Fremde meiden, / Das Gute liegt uns oft so fern. / Ein echter deutscher Mann mag keinen Franzen leiden, / Doch ihre Weine trinkt er gern=--We cannot always avoid what is foreign; what is good often lies so far off. A true German cannot abide the French, and yet he will drink their wines with the most genuine relish. _Goethe._

=Man kann nicht wider sein Geshick=--There is no striving against one's fate. _Schiller._

=Man knows nothing but what he has learned from experience.= _Wieland._

=Man kommt zu schaun, Man will am liebsten= 35 =sehn=--People come to look; their greatest pleasure is to feast their eyes. _Goethe._

=Man lebt nur einmal in der Welt=--Only once is it given us to live in the world. _Goethe._

=Man, like the gen'rous vine, supported, lives;/ The strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.= _Pope._

=Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them.= _Goldsmith._

=Man lives in Time, has his whole earthly being, endeavour, and destiny shaped for him by Time; only in the transitory Time-symbol is the ever-motionless eternity we stand on made manifest.= _Carlyle._

=Man lives where he acts.= _Renan._

=Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the overmastering present.= _Schiller._

=Man lobt den Künstler dann erst recht, wenn= 5 =man über sein Werk sein Lob vergisst=--We first truly praise an artist when the merit of his work is such as to make us forget himself. _Lessing._

=Man löst sich nicht allmählich von dem Leben!=--It is by no gradual process we detach ourselves from (lose our hold of) life. _Schiller._

=Man loves before he sees; his heart is open before his eyes; love must irradiate his world for him before he well knows he is in it, what it is made of, and what to make of it.= _Ed._

=Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.= _Basta._

=Man, made of the dust of the world, does not forget his origin; and all that is yet inanimate will one day speak and reason.= _Emerson._

=Man mag Amphion sein und Fels und Wald= 10 =bewegen, / Deswegen kann man doch nicht Bauern widerlegen=--One may be a very Amphion and be able to move trees and rocks, and yet be unable to reduce peasants to reason. _Gellert._

=Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.= _H. R. Haweis._

=Man muss die Menschen nur mit dem Krämergewicht, keinesweges mit der Goldwage wiegen=--We must weigh men with merchant's scales, and by no means with the goldsmith's. _Goethe._

=Man muss handeln können, wie man will, um zu handeln, wie man soll=--We must be able to act as we would in order to act as we should. _Zachariæ._

=Man muss keinem Menschen trauen, der bei seinen Versicherungen die Hand auf's Herz legt=--We should trust no man who in his protestations lays his hand on his heart. _Lichtenberg._

=Man muss nicht reicher scheinen wollen, als= 15 =man ist=--We must not wish to appear richer than we are. _Lessing._

=Man muss seine Irrthümer theuer bezahlen, wenn man sie los werden will, und dann hat man noch von Glück zu sagen=--Men must pay dearly for their errors, if they would be free from them, and then they may regard it a happiness to do so. _Goethe._

=Man muss, will man ein Glück geniessen, / Die Freiheit zu behaupten wissen=--If we would enjoy what fortune gives us, we must know how to maintain our freedom. _Gellert._

=Man must hold fast by the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible, otherwise he would not search.= _Goethe._

=Man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure; critics all are ready made.= _Byron._

=Man never comprehends how anthropomorphic= 20 =he is.= _Goethe._

=Man, never so often deceived, still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own.= _Emerson._

=Man, on the dubious waves of error tost.= _Cowper._

=Man only can create music, for nothing is perfect until, in some way, it touches or passes through man.= _T. T. Munger._

=Man only mars kind Nature's plan, / And turns the fierce pursuit on man.= _Scott._

=Man ought always to have something which= 25 =he prefers to life.= _Seume._

=Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.= _Browning._

=Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice.= _Arist._

=Man proposes, God disposes.= _Pr._

=Man, proud man, / Dress'd in a little brief authority; / Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, / His glassy essence, like an angry ape, / Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, / As make the angels weep.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.

=Man reconciles himself to almost every event,= 30 =however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary that he rebels against.= _W. v. Humboldt._

=Man rettet gern aus trüber Gegenwart / Sich in das heitere Gebiet der Kunst, / Und für die Kränkungen der Wirklichkeit / Sucht man sich Heilung in des Dichters Träumen=--We are fain to escape out of the distracted present into the untroubled sphere of art, and for the miseries of real life we seek healing in the dreams of the poet. _Uhland._

=Man schont die Alten, wie man die Kinder schont=--We bear with old people as we do with children. _Goethe._

=Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.= _Bible._

=Man should let alone other's prejudices and examine his own.= _Locke._

=Man should not be over-anxious for a subsistence,= 35 =for it is provided by the Creator. The infant no sooner droppeth from the womb than the breasts of the mother begin to stream.= _Hitopadesa._

=Man sieht sich, lernt sich kennen, / Liebt sich, muss sich trennen=--We greet each other, learn to know each other, love each other, and then--we part.

=Man soll die Stimmen wägen und nicht zählen=--Votes ought to be weighed, not counted. _Schiller._

=Man soll kein Buch nach dem Titelblatt beurtheilen=--We should not judge of a book from the title-page. _Ger. Pr._

=Man soll nicht mehr Teufel rufen, als man bannen kann=--One should raise no more devils than one can lay. _Ger. Pr._

=Man spends his life in reasoning on the past,= 40 =complaining of the present, and trembling for the future.= _Rivarol._

=Man spricht selten von der Tugend, die man hat; aber desto öfter von der, die uns fehlt=--We seldom boast (_lit._ speak) of the virtue which we have, but oftener of that which we have not. _Lessing._

=Man spricht vergebens viel, nur zu versagen, / Der and're hört von allem nur das Nein!=--In vain we speak much only to refuse; the other, of all we say, hears only the "No!" _Goethe._

=Man spricht vom vielen Trinken stets, / Doch nie vom vielen Durste=--They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst. _Scheffel._

=Man steigt den grünen Berg des Lebens hinauf, um oben auf dem Eisberge zu sterben=--We ascend the green mountain of life in order to die up there upon the glaciers. (?)

=Man steigt nicht ungestraft vom Göttermahle / Herunter in den Kreis der Sterblichen=--One does not descend from a banquet with the gods into a company of common mortals without suffering for it. _Grillparzer._

=Man supposes that he directs his life and= 5 =governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.= _Goethe._

=Man, that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.= _Bible._

=Man, the aristocrat amongst the animals.= _Heine._

=Man, the little god of this world, is still ever of the same stamp, and is as whimsical as on the first day.= _Mephisto in Goethe._

=Man the peasant is a being of more marked national character than man the educated and refined.= _Ruskin._

=Man thee for the high endeavour, / Shun the= 10 =crowd's ignoble ease! / Fails the noble spirit never, / Wise to think and prompt to seize.= _Goethe._

=Man thereby= (by his fantasy as the organ of the godlike), =though based to all seeming on the small visible, does nevertheless extend down into the infinite deeps of the Invisible, of which Invisible, indeed, his life is properly the bodying forth.= _Carlyle._

=Man thinks he has an estate of reputation, and is glad to see one that will bring any of it home to him; it is no matter how dirty a bag it is conveyed to him in, or by how clownish a messenger, so the money is good.= _Steele._

=Man! / Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and a tear.= _Byron._

=Man, though, as Swift has it, "a forked straddling animal with bandy legs," yet is also a spirit, and unutterable mystery of mysteries.= _Carlyle._

=Man unconnected is at home everywhere,= 15 =unless he may be said to be at home nowhere.= _Johnson._

=Man verändert sich oft und bessert sich selten=--People change often enough, but seldom for the better. _Ger. Pr._

=Man wants but little here below, / Nor wants that little long.= _Goldsmith._

=Man was created to work--not to speculate, or feel, or dream.= _Carlyle._

=Man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.= _Bacon._

=Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.= 20 _Lamb._

=Man, who lives to die, dies to live well, / So if he guide his ways by blamelessness / And earnest will to hinder not, but help, / All things both great and small which suffer life.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._

=Man wird nie betrogen; man betrügt sich selbst=--We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. _Goethe._

=Man without patience is the lamp without oil, and pride in a rage is a bad counsellor.= _A. de Musset._

=Man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.= _Ward Beecher._

=Man yields to custom as he bows to fate, /= 25 =In all things ruled--mind, body, and estate; / In pain, in sickness, we for cure apply / To them we know not, and we know not why.= _Crabbe._

=Man's activity is all too fain to relax; he soon gets fond of unconditional repose.= _Goethe._

=Man's best candle is his understanding.= _Pr._

=Man's body and his mind are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining--rumple the one, you rumple the other.= _Sterne._

=Man's conviction should be strong, and so well timed that worldly advantages may seem to have no share in it.= _Addison._

=Man's extremity is God's opportunity.= _Pr._ 30

=Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world.= _Addison._

=Man's grand fault is, and remains, that he has so many small ones.= _Jean Paul._

=Man's grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and discontent is immortality.= _Young._

=Man's gullability is not his worst blessing.= _Carlyle._

=Man's heart eats all things, and is hungry= 35 =still.= _Young._

=Man's highest merit always is as much as possible to rule external circumstances, and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.= _Goethe._

=Man's history is little else than a narrative of designs that have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.= _Johnson._

=Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.= _Burns._

=Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of his neighbours.= _Farrar._

=Man's life and nature is as it was, and as it= 40 =will ever be.= _Carlyle._

=Man's life is a progress, and not a station.= _Emerson._

=Man's life is an appendix to his heart.= _South._

=Man's life is filed by his foe.= _Pr._

=Man's life is never anything but an ever-vanishing present.= _Schopenhauer._

=Man's life is not an affair of mere instinct, but= 45 =of steady self-control.= _Goethe._

=Man's life never was a sport to him; it was a stern reality--altogether a serious matter to be alive.= _Carlyle._

=Man's life now, as of old, is the genuine work of God; wherever there is a man, a God also is revealed, and all that is godlike; a whole epitome of the Infinite, with its meanings, lies enfolded in the life of every man.= _Carlyle._

=Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; / 'Tis woman's whole existence.= _Byron._

=Man's obligations do not tend toward the past. We know of nothing that binds us to what is behind: our duty lies ahead.= _C. Richet._

=Man's only true happiness is to live in Hope of something to be won by him, in Reverence of something to be worshipped by him, and in Love of something to be cherished by him, and cherished--for ever.= _Ruskin._

=Man's own heart must be ever given to gain that of another.= _Goldsmith._

=Man's own judgment is the proper rule and measure of his actions.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Man's philosophies are usually the "supplement= 5 =of his practice;" some ornamental logic-varnish, some outer skin of articulate intelligence, with which he strives to render his dumb instinctive doings presentable when they are done.= _Carlyle._

=Man's second childhood begins when a woman gets hold of him.= _J. M. Barrie._

=Man's spiritual nature is essentially one and indivisible.= _Carlyle._

=Man's true, genuine estimate, / The grand criterion of his fate, / Is not--Art thou high or low? / Did thy fortune ebb or flow?= _Burns._

=Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which, with all his cunning, he cannot quite bury under the finite.= _Carlyle._

=Man's walk, like all walking, is a series of= 10 =falls.= _Carlyle._

=Man's word is God in man.= _Tennyson._

=Man's work lasts till set of sun; / Woman's work is never done.= _Pr._

=Manche gingen nach Licht und stürzten in tiefere Nacht nur; sicher im Dämmerschein wandelt die Kindheit dahin=--Many have gone in quest of light and fallen into deeper darkness; whereas childhood walks on secure in the twilight. _Schiller._

=Mancher wähnt sich frei, und siehet / Nicht die Bande, die ihn schnüren=--Many a one thinks himself free and sees not the bands that bind him. _Rückert._

=Mandamus=--We enjoin. A writ issuing from the 15 Queen's Bench, commanding certain things to be done. _L._

=Manebant vestigia morientis libertatis=--There still remained traces of expiring liberty. _Tac._

=Manège=--Riding-house; horsemanship. _Fr._

=Manet alta mente repostum, / Judicium Paridis spretæque injuria formæ=--Deep seated in her mind remains the judgment of Paris, and the wrong done to her slighted beauty. _Virg., of Juno's vengeance._

=Mange-tout=--A spendthrift (_lit._ eat-all). _Fr._

=Manhood begins joyfully and hopefully, not= 20 =when we have made a truce with necessity, or even surrendered to it, but only when we have reconciled ourselves to it, and learned to feel that in necessity we are free.= _Carlyle._

=Manhood, when verging into age, grows thoughtful, / Full of wise saws and modern instances.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.

=Manibus pedibusque=--With hands and feet; with tooth and nail.

=Manibus victoria dextris=--Victory by my right hand. _M._

=Manifold is human strife, / Human passion, human pain; / Yet many blessings still are rife, / And many pleasures still remain.= _Goethe._

=Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.= 25 _Hawthorne._

=Mankind are unco' weak, / And little to be trusted; / If self the wavering balance shake, / It's rarely right adjusted.= _Burns._

=Mankind at large alway resemble frivolous children; they are impatient of thought, and wish to be amused.= _Emerson._

="Mankind follow their several bell-wethers; and if you hold a stick before the wether, so that he is forced to vault in his passage, the whole flock will do the like when the stick is withdrawn; and the thousandth sheep will be seen vaulting impetuously over air, as the first did over an otherwise impassable barrier."= _Carlyle, quoting Jean Paul._

=Mankind in general agree in testifying their devotion, their gratitude, their friendship, or their love, by presenting whatever they hold dearest.= _Burns._

=Mankind is a science that defies definitions.= 30 _Burns._

=Mankind suffer to this hour, and will for long, as is like, because they do not know what to make of the fire of Prometheus. He dared to purloin from the gods and commit into the hands of ordinary men an element= (fire), =which, as the result has shown, only gods and their wise-hearted offspring can with safety handle.= _Ed._

=Mankind will never lack obstacles to give it trouble, and the pressure of necessity to develop its powers.= _Goethe._

=Manliana=--A Manlian, _i.e._, a harsh and severe sentence, such as that of Titus Manlius, who ordered his son to be scourged and beheaded for fighting contrary to orders.

=Männer richten nach Gründen; des Weibes Urteil ist seine Liebe; wo es nicht liebt, hat schon gerichtet das Weib=--Men judge on rational grounds; the woman's judgment is her love; where the woman does not love, she has judged. _Schiller._

=Manners are not idle, but the fruit / Of loyal= 35 =nature and of noble mind.= _Tennyson._

=Manners are of more importance than laws; upon them in a great measure laws depend.= _Burke._

=Manners are stronger than laws.= _Pr._

=Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into a usage.= _Emerson._

=Manners are the root, laws only the branches.= _Horace Mann._

=Manners are the shadows of virtues, the= 40 =momentary display of those qualities which our fellow-creatures love and respect.= _Sydney Smith._

=Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.= _A. B. Alcott._

=Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.= _Horace Mann._

=Manners make laws, manners likewise repeal them.= _Johnson._

=Manners make the man.= _M._

=Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.= _Chesterfield._

=Männliche, tüchtige Geister werden durch Erkennen eines Irrthums erhöht und gestärkt=--Sturdy manly souls are exalted and strengthened in the presence of (_lit._ by the knowledge of) an error. _Goethe._

[Greek: Mantis d' aristos hostis eikazei kalôs]--He is the best diviner who conjectures well. _Eurip._

=Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc / Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces=--Mantua bore me, Calabria carried me off, Naples holds me now. I sang of pastures, fields and heroes. _Virgil's epitaph._