Chapter M (19)

=The great mass of people have eyes and ears, but not much more, especially little power of judgment, and even memory.= _Schopenhauer._

=The great modern recipe is to work, still to work, and always to work.= _Gambetta._

=The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak.= _Thackeray._

=The great point is not to pull down, but to= 30 =build up, and in this humanity finds pure joy.= _Goethe._

=The great portion of labour is not skilled; the millions are and must be skilless, where strength alone is wanted.= _Carlyle._

=The great principle of all effort is to endeavour to do, not what is absolutely best, but what is easily within our power, and adapted to our temper and condition.= _Ruskin._

=The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed.= _George Eliot._

=The great role of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time.= _Lavater._

=The great school for learning is the brain itself= 35 =of the learner.= _Carlyle._

=The great soul of the world is just. There is justice here below; at bottom there is nothing else but justice.= _Carlyle._

=The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.= _J. G. Holland._

=The great source of calamity lies in regret or anticipation; he therefore is most wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or the future.= _Goldsmith._

=The great spirits that have gone before us can survive only as disembodied voices.= _Carlyle._

=The great successes of the world have been= 40 =affairs of a second, a third, nay, a fiftieth trial.= _John Morley._

=The great thieves punish the little ones.= _Pr._

=The great thing, after all, is only Forwards.= _Goethe._

=The great world-revolutions send in their disturbing billows to the remotest creek, and the overthrow of thrones more slowly overturns also the households of the lowly.= _Carlyle._

=The greater and more various any one's knowledge, the longer he takes to find out anything that may suddenly be asked him; because he is like a shopkeeper who has to get the article wanted from a large and multifarious store.= _Schopenhauer._

=The greater height sends down the deeper fall: / And good declin'd turns bad, turns worst of all.= _Quarles._

=The greater man the greater courtesy.= _Tennyson._

=The greater proportion of mankind are more sensitive to contemptuous language than unjust acts; for they can less easily bear insult than wrong.= _Plutarch._

=The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received at first with distrust.= _Schopenhauer._

=The greatest benefit which one friend can= 5 =confer upon another, is to guard, and excite, and elevate his virtues.= _Johnson._

=The greatest braggards are generally the greatest cowards.= _Rousseau._

=The greatest clerkes= (scholars) =ben not the wisest men.= _Chaucer._

=The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.= _Goethe._

=The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.= _Bovee._

=The greatest expense we can be at is that of= 10 =our time.= _Pr._

=The greatest felicity that felicity hath is to spread.= _Hooker._

=The greatest flood hath the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.= _Socrates._

=The greatest genius is the most indebted man.= _Emerson._

=The greatest happiness of the greatest number.= _Priestley._

=The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue= 15 =and the worst dogs, is quiet.= _Jean Paul._

=The greatest man in history was the poorest.= _Emerson._

=The greatest man is ever a son of man= (_Menschenkind_). _Goethe._

=The greatest man living may stand in need of the meanest as much as the meanest does of him.= _Fuller._

=The greatest men even want much more of the sympathy which every honest fellow can give than that which the great only can impart.= _Thoreau._

=The greatest men of a nation are those whom= 20 =it puts to death.= _Renan._

=The greatest men of any age, those who become its leaders when there is a great march to be begun, are separated from the average intellects of their day by a distance which is immeasurable in ordinary terms of wonder.= _Ruskin._

=The greatest men, whether poets or historians, live entirely in their own age, and the greatest faults of their works are gathered out of their own age.= _Ruskin._

=The greatest men will be necessarily those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.= _James Harris._

=The greatest miracle of love is to eradicate flirtation.= _La Roche._

=The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able= 25 =to bear misfortune.= _Bias._

=The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.= _Goldsmith._

=The greatest of all economists are the fortifying virtues, which the wisest men of all time have arranged under the general heads of Prudence, or Discretion, the spirit which discerns and adopts rightly; Justice, the spirit which rules and divides rightly; Fortitude, the spirit which persists and endures rightly; and Temperance, the spirit which stops and refuses rightly.= _Ruskin._

=The greatest of all injustice is that which goes under the name of law.= _L'Estrange._

=The greatest of all perversities is to deny one's own nature and act contrary to its innate moral principle.= _Sophocles._

=The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be= 30 =conscious of none.= _Carlyle._

=The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other advantage.= _Schopenhauer._

=The greatest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.= _Jean Paul._

=The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.= _Napoleon._

=The greatest part of mankind labour under one delirium or another.= _Fielding._

=The greatest prayer is patience.= _Buddha._ 35

=The greatest skill is shown in disguising our skill.= _La Roche._

=The greatest scholars are not always the wisest men.= _Pr._

=The greatest star is that at the little end of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after, nor looked at.= _Theo. Parker._

=The greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.= _Emerson._

=The greatest truths are commonly the simplest.= 40 _Malesherbes._

=The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men.= _Hare._

=The greatest vessel hath but its measure.= _Pr._

=The greatest virtues of men are only splendid sins.= _Augustine._ (?)

=The Greeks and Romans are the only ancients who never become old.= _Weber._

=The Greeks cared for man only, and for the= 45 =rest of the universe little or not at all; the moderns for the universe only, and man not at all.= _Ruskin._

=The Greeks were the first to exalt spirit to lordship over nature; it was Christ who first taught us what that spirit is in itself.= _Ed._

=The grey mare is the better horse.= _Pr._

=The grief that does not speak / Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.= _Macb._, iv. 3.

=The grief which all hearts share grows less for one.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._

=The groundsel speaks not save what it heard= 50 =at the hinges.= _Pr._

=The guilty mind debases the great image that it wears, and levels us with brutes.= (?)

=The habit and power of reading with reflection, comprehension, and memory all alert and awake, does not come at once to the natural man any more than many other sovereign virtues.= _John Morley._

=The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand a year.= _Johnson._

=The habit of lying, when once formed, is easily extended to serve the designs of malice or interest; like all habits, it spreads indeed of itself.= _Paley._

=The habit of party in England is not to ask the alliance of a man of genius, but to follow the guidance of a man of character.= _Lord John Russell._

=The hand of little employment hath the daintier= 5 =sense.= _Ham._, v. 1.

=The hand that gives, gathers.= _Pr._

=The Hand that hath made you fair hath made you good; the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty brief in goodness; but grace, being the soul of your complexion, should keep the body of it ever fair.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.

=The happiest of men were he who, understanding his craft and working intelligently with his hands, and earning competence and freedom by the exercise of his wits, found time to live by the heart and by the brain, to understand his own work, and to love the work of God.= _Mme. George Sand._

=The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions,--the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasant thought and feeling.= _Coleridge._

=The happiness of man depends on no creed= 10 =and no book; it depends on the dominion of truth, which is the redeemer and saviour, the Messiah and the King of glory.= _Rabbi Wise._

=The happiness of the human race is one of the designs of God, but our own individual happiness must not be made our first or our direct aim.= _W. R. Greg._

=The happiness we owe to ourselves is greater than that which we owe to our surroundings.= _Metrodorus._

=The happy day will come when mind, heart and hands shall be alive together, and shall work in concert; when there shall be a harmony between God's munificence and man's delight in it.= _Mme. George Sand._

=The happy have whole days, and those they choose; / The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.= _Colley Cibber._

=The happy man is he who distinguishes the= 15 =boundary between desires and delight, and stands firmly on the higher ground.= _Landor._

=The happy think a lifetime a short stage: / One night to the unhappy seems an age.= _Lucian._

=The hardest step is over the threshold.= _Pr._

=The hardships or misfortunes we lie under are more easy to us than those of any other person would be, should we change conditions with him.= _Hor._

=The hare leaps out of the bush where we least look for her.= _Sp. Pr._

=The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers= 20 =are few.= _Jesus._

=The hatred which is grafted on extinguished friendship must bring forth the most deadly fruits.= _Lessing._

=The head cannot understand any work of art unless it be in company with the heart.= _Goethe._

=The head is a half, a fraction, until it is enlarged and inspired by the moral sentiments.= _Emerson._

=The head learns new things, but the heart for evermore practises old experiences.= _Ward Beecher._

=The head only reproduces what the heart= 25 =creates; and so we give the mocking-bird credit when he imitates the loving murmurs of the dove.= _G. J. W. Melville._

=The health of a state consists simply in this, that in it those who are wisest shall also be strongest.= _Ruskin._

=The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick.= _Carlyle._

=The healthy man is the compliment of the seasons, and in winter summer is in his heart. There is the south!= _Thoreau._

=The healthy understanding is not the logical argumentative, but the intuitive; for the end of understanding is not to prove and find reasons, but to know and believe.= _Carlyle._

=The heart always sees before the head can= 30 =see.= _Carlyle._

=The heart aye's the part aye / That mak's us right or wrang.= _Burns._

=The heart benevolent and kind / The most resembles God.= _Burns._

=The heart can ne'er a transport know / That never feels a pain.= _Lyttelton._

=The heart has eyes that the brain knows nothing of.= _C. H. Parkhurst._

=The heart has its arguments with which the= 35 =understanding is not acquainted.= (?)

=The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.= _Hugo de Anima._

=The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?= _Bible._

=The heart is like a millstone, which gives meat if you supply it with corn, but frets itself if you don't.= _C. J. Weber._

=The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.= _Saadi._

=The heart is like the sea, is subject to storms,= 40 =ebb-tide and flood, and in its depths is many a precious pearl.= _Heine._

=The heart is the best logician.= _Wendell Phillips._

=The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.= _Bible._

=The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.= _Bunyan._

=The heart must be divorced from its idols.= (?)

=The heart must glow before the tongue can= 45 =gild.= _W. R. Alger._

=The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.= _Jean Paul._

=The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.= _Pr._

=The heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any.= _Confucius._

=The heart of childhood is all mirth.= _Keble._

=The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of reproof if the archer can but take a proper aim.= _Goldsmith._

=The heart of man is the place the devils dwell= 5 =in.= _Sir Thomas Browne._

=The heart of the righteous studieth to answer; but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.= _Bible._

=The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.= _Bible._

=The heart sees farther than the head.= _Pr._

=The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touched by the thorns.= _Moore._

=The heart that once truly loves never forgets.= 10 _Pr._

=The heart, unlike the fancy and the imagination, is not complex, and may be reached by the same weapons of thought in the most luxurious court of Christendom as in the tent of the Arab or the wigwam of the Cherokee.= _C. Fitzhugh._

=The heart which truly loves puts not its love aside ... but grows stronger for that which seeks to thwart it.= _Lewis Morris._

=The heart will break, yet brokenly live on.= _Byron._

=The hearts of men are their books, events are their tutors, great actions are their eloquence.= _Macaulay._

=The heavenly powers never go out of their= 15 =road.= _Emerson._

=The heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, think ye we have created them in jest?= _Koran._

=The heavens and the earth are but the time-vesture of the Eternal.= _Carlyle._

=The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.= _Bible._

=The heavenward path which a great man opens up for us and traverses generally, like the track of a ship through the water, closes behind him on his decease.= _Goethe._

=The heaviest head of corn hangs its head= 20 =lowest.= _Gael. Pr._

=The heavy and the weary weight / Of all this unintelligible world.= _Wordsworth._

=The Hebrew Bible, is it not, before all things, true, as no other book ever was or will be?= _Carlyle._

=The height charms us, the steps to it do not; with the summit in our eye, we love to walk along the plain.= _Goethe._

=The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age we live in.= _La Roche._

=The heights by great men reached and kept /= 25 =Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.= _Longfellow._

=The hell of these days is the infinite terror of Not getting on, especially of Not making money.= _Carlyle._

=The hen of our neighbour appears to us as a goose.= _Eastern Pr._

=The herd of people dread sound understanding more than anything; they ought to dread stupidity, if they knew what was really dreadful. Understanding is unpleasant, they must have it pushed aside; stupidity is but pernicious, they can let it stay.= _Goethe._

=The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.= _Johnson._

=The heroic heart, the seeing eye, of the first= 30 =times, still feels and sees in us of the latest.= _Carlyle._

=The higher character a person supports, the more he should regard his minutest actions.= _Not traceable._

=The higher enthusiasm of man's nature is for the while without exponent; yet does it continue indestructible, unweariedly active, and work blindly in the great chaotic deep. Thus sect after sect, and church after church, bodies itself forth, and melts again into new metamorphosis.= _Carlyle._

=The higher the culture, the more honourable the work.= _Roscher_

=The higher the wisdom, the closer its neighbourhood and kinship with mere insanity.= _Carlyle._

=The higher we rise, the more isolated we= 35 =become, and all elevations are cold.= _De Boufflers._

=The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout man.= _Prof. Blackie._

=The highest elevation attainable by man is a heroic life.= _Schopenhauer._

=The highest exercise of invention has nothing to do with fiction; but is an invention of new truth, what we can call a revelation.= _Carlyle._

=The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.= _Chapin._

=The highest gift which we receive from God= 40 =and Nature is Life, the revolving movement, which knows neither pause nor rest, of the self-conscious being round itself. The instinct to protect and cherish life is indestructibly innate in every one, but the peculiarity of it ever remains a mystery to us and others.= _Goethe._

=The highest happiness of us mortals is to execute what we consider right and good; to be really masters of the means conducive to our aims.= _Goethe._

=The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near from every point, and thou must find it, if at all, by methods native to thyself alone.= _Emerson._

=The highest in God's esteem are meanest in their own.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=The highest joys spring from those possessions which are common to all, which we can neither alienate ourselves nor be deprived of by others, to which kind Nature has given all an equal right--a right which she herself guards with silent omnipotence.= _Goethe._

=The highest liberty is in harmony with the eternal laws.= _H. Giles._

=The highest man of us is born brother to his contemporaries; struggle as he may, there is no escaping the family likeness.= _Carlyle._

=The highest melody dwells only in silence--the sphere melody, the melody of health.= _Carlyle._

=The Highest not merely has, but is, reason and understanding.= _Goethe._

=The highest political watchword is not Liberty,= 5 =Equality, Fraternity, nor yet Solidarity, but Service.= _A. H. Clough._

=The highest price a man can pay for a thing is to ask for it.= _Pr._

=The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality.= _Goethe._

=The highest problem of literature is the writing of a Bible.= _Novalis._

=The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty reasoning on policy, and vain conjectures on the public management.= _La Bruyère._

=The highest thing that art can do is to set= 10 =before you the true image of the presence of a noble human being. It has never done more than this, and it might not do less.= _Ruskin._

=The highest virtue of the tropics is chastity; of colder regions, temperance.= _Bovee._

=The highest wisdom is not to be always wise.= _M. Opiz._

=The highway of the upright is to depart from evil.= _Bible._

=The hind that would be mated by the lion / Must die for love.= _All's Well_, i. 1.

=The historian is a prophet with his face directed= 15 =to the past.= _Fr. v. Schlegel._

=The history of a man is his character.= _Goethe._

=The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it. We lose the right of complaining sometimes by forbearing it, but we often treble the force.= _Sterne._

=The history of every man should be a Bible.= _Novalis._

=The history of persecution is a history of endeavours to cheat Nature, to make water run uphill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one, a tyrant or a mob.= _Emerson._

=The history of reforms is always identical; it= 20 =is the comparison of the idea with the fact.= _Emerson._

=The history of the Church is a history of the invisible as well as of the visible Church; which latter, if disjoined from the former, is but a vacant edifice; gilded, it may be, and overhung with old votive gifts, yet useless, nay, pestilentially unclean; to write whose history is less important than to forward its downfall.= _Carlyle._

=The history of the world is nothing but the history of successful or unsuccessful grumbling; operating in great things as in small, ... inculcating through all of them the great moral, that it is not good for a man to be contented with evils that he can remove.= _John Wagstaffe._

=The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.= _Bible._

=The hollow sea-shell which for years hath stood / On dusty shelves, when held against the ear / Proclaims its stormy parent.= _Eugene Lee-Hamilton._

=The Holy Supper is kept indeed / In whatso= 25 =we share with another's need; / Not what we give, but what we share, / For the gift without the giver is bare.= _Lowell._

=The honest heart that's free frae a' / Intended fraud or guile, / However Fortune kick the ba', / Has aye some cause to smile.= _Burns._

=The honest man does that from duty which the man of honour does for the sake of character.= (?)

=The honest man, though e'er so poor, / Is king o' men for a' that.= _Burns._

=The honourablest part of talk is to give the occasion; and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance.= _Bacon._

=The horse is prepared against the day of battle:= 30 =but safety is of the Lord.= _Bible._

=The horse thinks one thing, and he that rides him another.= _Pr._

=The host should be indeed a host, and a lord of the land, a self-appointed brother of his race; called to this place, besides, by all the winds of heaven and his good genius, as truly as the preacher is called to preach.= _Thoreau._

=The hottest love has the coldest end.= _Socrates._

=The hour of all windbags does arrive; every windbag is at length ripped and collapses.= _Carlyle._

=The hours should be instructed by the ages,= 35 =and the ages explained by the hours.= _Emerson._

=The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.= _Goldsmith._

=The house of the childless is empty; and so is the heart of him that hath no wife.= _Hitopadesa._

=The house that is a-building looks not as the house that is built.= _Pr._

=The household is the home of the man as well as of the child.= _Emerson._

=The human creature needs first of all to be= 40 =educated, not that he may speak, but that he may have something weighty and valuable to say.= _Carlyle._

=The human face is my landscape.= _Sir Joshua Reynolds._

=The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.= _W. R. Alger._

=The human heart is like a millstone in a mill; when you put wheat under it, it turns, and grinds, and bruises the wheat into flour; if you put no wheat in, it still grinds on; but then it is itself it grinds and slowly wears away.= _Luther._

=The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.= _Fredrika Bremer._

=The human mind cannot go beyond the gift= 45 =of God.= _Wm. Blake._

=The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labours to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.= _Zimmermann._

=The human mind is to be treated like a skein of ravelled silk, where you must cautiously secure one free end before you can make any progress in disentangling it.= _Scott._

=The human mind will not be confined to any limits.= _Goethe._

=The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.= _Dante._

=The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.= _Epes Sargent._

=The human voice has an authority and an= 5 =insinuating property which writing lacks.= _Joubert._

=The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.= _St. Paul._

=The hypocrite shows well and says well, and himself is the worst thing he hath.= _Bishop Hall._

=The idea you have once spoken, if even it were an idea, is no longer yours; it is gone from you, so much life and virtue is gone, and the vital circulations of yourself and your destiny and activity are henceforth deprived of it.= _Carlyle._

=The Ideal always has to grow in the Real, and to seek out its bed and board there in a very sorry way.= _Carlyle._

=The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never= 10 =located.= _Mme. de Sévigné._

=The ideal of beauty is simplicity and repose; from which it follows that no youth can be a master.= _Goethe._

=The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.= _Mme. Swetchine._

=The idle always have a mind to do something.= _Vauvenargues._

=The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.= _Ward Beecher._

=The ignorant peasant without fault is greater= 15 =than the philosopher with many.= _Goldsmith._

=The Iliad and the Shakespeare are tame to him who hears the rude but homely incidents of the road from every traveller.= _Thoreau._

=The "Iliad" of Homer is no fiction, but a ballad history, the heart of it burning with enthusiastic, ill-informed belief.= _Carlyle._

=The ill that's wisely feared is half withstood, / And fear of bad is the best foil to good.= _Quarles._

=The image of God cut in ebony=, _i.e._, the negro. _Fuller._

=The imagination, give it the least license, dives= 20 =deeper and soars higher than Nature does.= _Thoreau._

=The imagination is a fine faculty; yet I like not when she works on what has actually happened; the airy forms she creates are welcome as things of their own kind; but uniting with reality she produces often nothing but monsters, and seems to me, in such cases, to fly into direct variance with reason and common-sense.= _Goethe._

=The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.= _Bible._

=The imaginative power always purifies, the want of it therefore essentially defiles.= _Ruskin._

=The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.= _Emerson._

=The importunities and perplexities of business= 25 =are softness and luxury, compared with the incessant cravings of vacancy, and the unsatisfactory expedients of idleness.= _Johnson._

=The impressions of our childhood abide with us, even in their minutest traces.= _Goethe._

=The indignation which makes verses is, properly speaking, an inverted love; the love of some right, some worth, some goodness, belonging to ourselves or others, which has been injured, and which this tempestuous feeling issues forth to defend and revenge.= _Carlyle._

=The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.= _Chapin._

=The individual loves and hatreds, which sum up existence and life, are the brood of Eros; for hatred is only love in some form, crossed and thwarted, and always in nature so much hostility, so much affection of some kind is there.= _Ed._

=The individual soul should seek for an intimate= 30 =union with the soul of the universe.= _Novalis._

=The infant / Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. / And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, / And shining morning face, creeping like snail / Unwillingly to school.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.

=The infinite is more sure than any other fact. The infinite of terror, of hope, of pity; did it not at any moment disclose itself to thee, indubitable, unnameable? Came it never, like the gleam of preternatural eternal oceans, like the voice of old eternities, far-sounding through thy heart of hearts?= _Carlyle._

=The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.= _Voltaire._

=The influence which we exercise over other objects depends on the influence we have over ourselves.= _Cötvös._

=The injuries of life, if rightly improved, will be= 35 =to us as the strokes of the statuary on his marble, forming us to a more beautiful shape, and making us fitter to adorn the heavenly temple.= _Mather._

=The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.= _Junius._

=The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.= _Goldsmith._

=The initial virtue of the race consists in the acknowledgment of their own lowly nature, and submission to the laws of higher being.= _Ruskin._

=The ink of the scholar and the blood of the martyr are of equal value in the eye of heaven.= _The Koran._

=The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow.= 40 _Cowper._

=The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.= _Bacon._

=The insolence of condescension.= _Burns._

=The insolence of office.= _Ham._, iii. 1.

=The inspiration of the Almighty giveth man understanding.= _Bible._

=The instinctive feeling of a great people is often wiser than the wisest men.= _Kossuth._

=The instruction merely clever men can give us is like baked bread, savoury and satisfying for a single day; but flour cannot be sown, and seed-corn ought not to be ground.= _Goethe._

=The integrity of the upright shall guide them.= _Bible._

=The intellect has only one failing: it has no conscience.= _Lowell._

=The intellect of the wise is like glass; it= 5 =admits the light of heaven and reflects it.= _Hare._

=The intellectual power, through words and things / Went sounding on a dim and perilous way.= _Wordsworth._

=The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.= _Emerson._

=The intolerant man is the real pedant.= _Jean Paul._

=The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.= _Emerson._

=The inventor of a spinning-jenny is pretty sure= 10 =of his reward in his own day; but the writer of a true poem, like the apostle of a true religion, is nearly as sure of the contrary.= _Carlyle._

=The invisible world is near us; or rather it is here, in us and about us; were the fleshly coil removed from our soul, the glories of the unseen were even now around us; as the ancients fabled of the spheral music.= _Carlyle._

=The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.= _Mid. N. Dream_, v. 1.

=The irreligious poet is a monster.= _Burns._

=The= _is_ =of this moment is not the explanation of the= _is_ =of the next. Except in the idea of God there is no nexus between the two.= _Ed._

=The Israelitish people never was good for= 15 =much, as its own leaders, judges, rulers, prophets have a thousand times reproachfully declared; it possesses few virtues, and most of the faults of other nations; but in cohesion, steadfastness, valour, and when all this would not serve, in obstinate toughness, it has no match.= _Goethe._

=The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once.= _Lavater._

=The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.= _Addison._

=The jest which is expected is already destroyed.= _Johnson._

=The joy of a peaceful conscience is sown in tears.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=The joys of parents are secret, and so are= 20 =their griefs and fears.= _Bacon._

=The judgment is like a pair of scales, and evidences like the weights; but the will holds the balance in its hand; and even a slight jerk will be sufficient, in many cases, to make the lighter scale appear the heavier.= _Whately._

=The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.= _Sir P. Sidney._

=The judgments of the understanding are properly of force but once, and that in the strictest cases, and become inaccurate in some degree when applied to any other.= _Goethe._

=The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.= _Bible._

=The justice, / In fair round belly with good= 25 =capon lined, / With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, / Full of wise saws and modern instances; / And so he plays his part.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.

=The keeping of bees is like the directing of sunbeams.= _Thoreau._

=The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys.= _Emerson._

=The kind fool, of all kinds of fools, is worst.= _Sir Richard Baker._

=The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.= _Carlyle._

=The king goes as far as he may, not as far as= 30 =he would.= _Sp. Pr._

=The king, like other people, has now and then shabby errands, and must have shabby fellows to do them.= _Scott._

=The king may gang the cadger's gate=, _i.e._, may one day need his help. _Sc. Pr._

=The king protecteth the people, and they support the greatness of their sovereign. But protection is better than greatness; for the one cannot exist without the other.= _Hitopadesa._

=The king's errand may come in at the cadger's gate.= _Pr._

=The king's favour is toward a wise servant.= 35 _Bible._

=The king's honour is that of his people. Their real honour and real interest are the same.= _Junius._

=The kings of modern thought are dumb.= _Matthew Arnold._

=The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.= _Bible._

=The kingdom of God does not lie in elegance of speech or fineness of parts, but in innocence of life and good works.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=The knowledge of man is an evening knowledge,= 40 ="vespertina cognitio," but that of God is a morning knowledge, "matutina cognitio."= _Emerson, from the Schoolmen._

=The knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.= _Cervantes._

=The labour we delight in physics pain.= _Macb._, ii. 3.

=The labourer is worthy of his hire.= _Jesus._

=The lake's silver dulls with driving clouds.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._

=The lamp of genius burns quicker than the= 45 =lamp of life.= _Schiller._

=The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.= _Bible._

=The land is mother of us all; nourishes, shelters, gladdens, lovingly enriches us all; in how many ways, from our first wakening to our last sleep on her blessed mother-bosom, does she, as with blessed mother's arms, enfold us all!= _Carlyle._

=The land, properly speaking, belongs to these two: to the Almighty God; and to all his children of men that have ever worked well on it, or that shall ever work well on it.= _Carlyle._

=The language of truth is simple.= _Euripides._

=The largest soul of any country is altogether its own.= _Ruskin._

=The last act crowns the play.= _Quarles._

=The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.= _Jean Paul._

=The last drop makes the cup run over.= _Pr._

=The last ounce breaks the camel's back.= _Pr._ 5

=The last pale rim or sickle of the moon, which had once been full, now sinking in the dark seas.= _Carlyle by the bedside of his dying mother._

=The last perfection of our faculties is that their activity, without ceasing to be sure and earnest, become sport.= _Schiller._

=The last stage of human perversion is when sympathy corrupts itself into envy; and the indestructible interest we take in men's doings has become a joy over their faults and misfortunes.= _Carlyle._

=The last thing that we discover in writing a book is to know what to put at the beginning.= _Pascal._

=The Latin word for a flatterer= (_assentator_) =implies= 10 =no more than a person that barely consents; and indeed such a one, if a man were able to purchase or maintain him, cannot be bought too dear.= _Steele._

=The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.= _Swift._

=The law always limits every power which it bestows.= _Hume._

=The law cannot equalise men in spite of nature.= _Vauvenargues._

=The law has no eyes, the law has no hands, the law is nothing--nothing but a piece of paper, till public opinion breathes the breath of life into the dead letter.= _Macaulay._

=The law is good if a man use it lawfully.= _St._ 15 _Paul._

=The law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life.= _Bible._

=The law is past depth to those that, without heed, do plunge into it.= _Timon of Athens_, iii. 5.

=The law is the friend of the weak.= _Schiller._

=The law is what we must do; the gospel what God will give.= _Luther._

=The law of nature is the strictest expression= 20 =of necessity.= _Moleschott._

=The law of perseverance is among the deepest in man; by nature he hates change; seldom will he quit his old house till it has actually fallen about his ears.= _Carlyle._

=The law of the wise is a fountain of life.= _Bible._

=The law often permits what honour prohibits.= _Saurin._

=The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.= _Thoreau._

=The law's made to take care o' raskils.= _George_ 25 _Eliot._

=The laws of morality are also those of art.= _Schumann._

=The laws of nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them.= _Longfellow._

=The laws of nature never vary; in their application they never hesitate, nor are wanting.= _Draper._

=The laws undertake to punish only overt acts.= _Montesquieu._

=The lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your= 30 =estate from your enemies, and keeps it to himself.= _Brougham._

=The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.= _Carlyle._

=The lean and slippered pantaloon, / With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; / His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice / Turning again towards childish treble, pipes / And whistles in his sound.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.

=The learned understand the reason of the art, the unlearned feel the pleasure.= _Quinct._

=The legacy of heroes--the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.= _Disraeli._

=The legal and proper mercy of a king of= 35 =England may remit the punishment, but ought not to stop the trial.= _Junius._

=The lenient hand of time is daily and hourly either lightening the burden or making us insensible to the weight.= _Burns._

=The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the better we like him.= _Emerson._

=The less men think the more they talk.= _Montesquieu._

=The less routine the more of life.= _A. B. Alcott._

=The less the wise man pleases himself, the= 40 =more the world esteems him.= _Gellert._

=The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.= _Molière._

=The less we have to do with our sins the better.= _Emerson._

=The lessons of adversity are not always salutary; sometimes they soften and amend, but as often they indurate and pervert.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.= _St. Paul._

=The liberal deviseth liberal things; and by= 45 =liberal things shall he stand.= _Bible._

=The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.= _Bible._

=The liberty of writing letters with too careless a hand is apt to betray persons into imprudence in what they write.= _Blair._

=The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.= _Jesus._

=The life of a fool is worse than death.= _Apocrypha._

=The life of a man is tormented not by things,= 50 =but by opinions of things.= _Immermann._

=The life of a nation is usually, like the flow of a lava stream, first bright and fierce, then languid and covered, at last advancing by the tumbling over and over of its frozen blocks.= _Ruskin._

=The life of all gods figures itself to us as a sublime sadness,--earnestness of infinite battle against infinite labour.= _Carlyle._

=The life of an animal, until the hour of his death, passeth away in disciplines, in elevations and depressions, in unions and separations.= _Hitopadesa._

=The life of an egoist is a tissue of inconsistencies, of actions that, from his own point of view, are absurd and foolish.= _Renan._

=The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.= _J. M. Barrie._

=The life of every man is as the well-spring of a stream, whose small beginnings are indeed plain to all, but whose ulterior course and destination, as it winds through the expanses of infinite years, only the omniscient can discern.= _Carlyle._

=The life of man is a journey; a journey that= 5 =must be travelled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.= _Goldsmith._

=The life of the Divine Man stands in no connection with the general history of the world in his time. It was a private life; his teaching was a teaching for individuals.= _Goethe._

=The life of the lowest mortal, if faithfully recorded, would be interesting to the highest.= _Quoted by Carlyle._

=The life which renews a man springs ever from within.= _Goethe._

=The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer.= _Emerson._

=The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.= 10 _George Eliot._

=The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorus--seen plainest when all around is dark.= _Crowell._

=The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.= _Jesus._

=The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.= _St. John._

=The light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.= _Bacon._

=The light (which you refuse to take in) returns= 15 =on you, condensed into lightning, which there is not any skin whatever too thick for taking in.= _Carlyle._

=The lightning is the shorthand of the storm, / That tells of chaos.= _Eric Mackay._

=The limbs of my buried ones touched cold on my soul and drove away its blots, as dead hands heal eruptions of the skin.= _Jean Paul._

=The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.= _W. R. Alger._

=The lion is not so fierce as painted.= _Fuller._

=The lips of the righteous feed many; but fools= 20 =die for want of wisdom.= _Bible._

=The litigant, unlike the goose, never gets trust= (trussed), =although he may be roasted and dished.= _John Willock._

=The little done vanishes from the sight of man who looks forward to what is still to do.= _Goethe._

=The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.= _As You Like It_, i. 2.

=The little man is still a man.= _Goethe._

=The little mind will not by daily intercourse= 25 =with great minds become one inch greater; but the noble man ... will, by a knowledge of, and familiar intercourse with, elevated natures, everyday make a visible approximation to similar greatness.= _Goethe._

=The little that a just man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.= _Bible._

=The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.= _Junius._

=The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=The loftiest mortal loves and seeks the same sort of things with the meanest, only from higher grounds and by higher paths.= _Jean Paul._

=The loftiest of our race are those who have= 30 =had the profoundest grief, because they have had the profoundest sympathies.= _Henry Giles._

=The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming.= _Schopenhauer._

=The longer life the more offence, / The more offence the greater pain, / The greater pain the less defence, / The less defence the lesser gain.= _Sir T. Wyatt._

=The longer we live and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends.= _Johnson._

=The longer you read the Bible the more you will like it.= _Romaine._

=The longest day soon comes to an end.= _Pr._ 35

=The longest life is scarcely longer than the shortest, if we think of the eternity that encircles both.= _Carlyle._

=The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.= _Emerson._

=The look of a king is itself a deed.= _Jean Paul._

=The loom of Fortune weaves the fine and coarsest web.= _R. Southwell._

=The loom of life never stops; and the pattern= 40 =which was weaving when the sun went down in the evening is weaving when it comes up to-morrow.= _Ward Beecher._

=The Lord bestoweth his blessings where he findeth the vessels empty.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away: blessed be the name of the Lord.= _Bible._

=The Lord is a buckler to all that trust in him.= _Bible._

=The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.= _Bible._

=The Lord will not suffer the soul of the= 45 =righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.= _Bible._

=The loss of territory, or of a wise and virtuous servant, is a great loss, ... for servants are not easily to be found.= _Hitopadesa._

=The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.= _Bible._

=The love of country produces good manners, and good manners also love of country. The less we satisfy our particular passions, the more we leave to our general.= _Montesquieu._

=The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.= _Washington Allston._

=The love of God is broader than the measure= 50 =of man's mind.= _F. W. Faber._

=The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters.= _Hazlitt._

=The love of money is the root of all evil.= _St. Paul._

=The love season is the carnival of egoism, and it brings the touchstone to our natures.= _George Meredith._

=The lover has more senses and finer senses than others.= _Emerson._

=The lover, / Sighing like a furnace, with a= 5 =woeful ballad / Made to his mistress' eyebrow.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.

=The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.= _W. R. Alger._

=The lower has oftentimes to be with sorrow sacrificed to the higher duties of the soul.= _Ed._

=The lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.= _Ward Beecher._

=The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, / Are of imagination all compact.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, v. 1.

=The lust of fame is the last that a wise man= 10 =shakes off.= _Tac._

=The lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl.= _Emerson._

=The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.= _G. H. Lewes._

=The magic power of love consists in its ennobling whatever its breath touches, like the sun whose golden ray transmutes even thunderclouds into gold.= _Grillparzer._

=The main enterprise of the world for splendour, for extent, is the upbuilding of a man.= _Emerson._

=The majority have no other reason for their= 15 =opinions than that they are the fashion.= _Johnson._

=The make-weight! The make-weight! which fate throws into the balance for us at every happiness! It requires much courage not to be down-hearted in this world.= _Goethe._

=The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.= _Goldsmith._

=The man at the head of the house can mar the pleasure of the household; but he cannot make it. That must rest with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.= _Helps._

=The man comes before the citizen, and our future is greater than both.= _Jean Paul._

=The man is only half himself, the other half= 20 =is his expression.= _Emerson._

=The man makes the circumstances, and is spiritually as well as economically the artificer of his own fortune, but the man's circumstances are the element he is appointed to live and work in; so that in a no less genuine sense it can be said circumstances make the man.= _Carlyle._

=The man of consequence and fashion shall richly repay a deed of kindness with a nod and a smile, or a hearty shake of the hand; while a poor fellow labours under a sense of gratitude, which, like copper coin, though it loads the bearer, is yet of small account in the currency and commerce of the world.= _Burns._

=The man of genius can be more easily misinstructed= (_verbildet_) =and driven far more violently into false courses than a man of ordinary capability.= _Goethe._

=The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, sits afar and retired off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, "I wish to be alone--good-bye--farewell!"= _Thoreau._

=The man of good common-sense may, if he= 25 =pleases, in his particular station of life, most certainly be rich.= _Eustace Budgell._

=The man of intellect at the top of affairs; this is the aim of all institutions and revolutions, if they have any.= _Carlyle._

=The man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must have his staff.= _Chamfort._

=The man of wisdom is the man of years.= _Young._

=The man should make the hour, not this the man.= _Tennyson._

=The man that blushes is not quite a brute.= 30 _Young._

=The man that hath no music in himself, / Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, / Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; / The motions of his spirit are dull as night, / And his affections dark as Erebus: / Let no such man be trusted.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.

=The man that makes a character makes foes.= _Young._

=The man that stands by himself, the universe stands also.= _Emerson._

=The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.= _Bible._

=The man to whom the universe does not reveal= 35 =directly what relation it has to him, whose heart does not tell him what he owes to himself and others--that man will scarcely learn it out of books; which generally do little more than give our errors names.= _Goethe._

=The man truly proud thinks honours below his merit, and scorns to boast.= _Swift._

=The man= (Napoleon) =was a divine missionary, though unconscious of it; and preached, through the cannon's throat, that great doctrine, "La carrière ouverte aux talens," "The tools to him that can handle them," which is our ultimate political evangel, wherein alone can liberty lie.= _Carlyle._

=The man who can be nothing but serious or nothing but merry is but half a man.= _Leigh Hunt._

=The man who can thank himself alone for the happiness he enjoys is truly blest.= _Goldsmith._

=The man who cannot be a Christian in the= 40 =place where he is, cannot be a Christian anywhere.= _Ward Beecher._

=The man who cannot blush, and who has no feelings of fear, has reached the acme of impudence.= _Menander._

=The man who cannot enjoy his natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, but must wait and hope for their recognition by others, must expect to reap only disappointment and vexation.= _Goethe._

=The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; but his own whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.= _Carlyle._

=The man who cannot sometimes endure his own company must have a bad heart or a deficient intellect.= (?)