Chapter D (2)

~Flowers.~--Luther always kept a flower in a glass on his writing-table; and when he was waging his great public controversy with Eckius he kept a flower in his hand. Lord Bacon has a beautiful passage about flowers. As to Shakspeare, he is a perfect Alpine valley,--he is full of flowers; they spring, and blossom, and wave in every cleft of his mind. Even Milton, cold, serene, and stately as he is, breaks forth into exquisite gushes of tenderness and fancy when he marshals the flowers.--_Mrs. Stowe._

Flowers, leaves, fruit, are the air-woven children of light.--_Moleschott._

Ye pretty daughters of the Earth and Sun.--_Sir Walter Raleigh._

I always think the flowers can see us and know what we are thinking about.--_George Eliot._

What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile,--a feast without a welcome! Are not flowers the stars of the earth? and are not our stars the flowers of heaven?--_Mrs. Balfour._

What a pity flowers can utter no sound! A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle,--oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!--_Beecher._

The bright mosaic, that with storied beauty, the floor of nature's temple tessellate.--_Horace Smith._

~Fools.~--You pity a man who is lame or blind, but you never pity him for being a fool, which is often a much greater misfortune.--_Sydney Smith._

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.--_Moliere._

Of all thieves fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.--_Goethe._

Fortune makes folly her peculiar care.--_Churchill._

It would be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade him that he had none.--_Babinet._

There are many more fools in the world than there are knaves, otherwise the knaves could not exist.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

There are more fools than sages, and among sages there is more folly than wisdom.--_Chamfort._

~Foppery.~--Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb and always a coxcomb.--_Johnson._

Foppery is the egotism of clothes.--_Victor Hugo._

Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.--_Addison._

~Forbearance.~--The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends, I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellow-man with Him from whose hand it came.--_Longfellow._

~Forethought.~--Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.--_Colton._

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.--_Schiller._

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.--_Charles Buxton._

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.--_Confucius._

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth: we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.--_George Eliot._

~Forgetfulness.~--There is nothing, no, nothing, innocent or good that dies and is forgotten: let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes, or drowned in the deep sea. Forgotten! Oh, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear! for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves!--_Dickens._

~Forgiveness.~--It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us, than the powerful whom we have injured. That conduct will be continued by our fears which commenced in our resentment. He that has gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion will not feel himself quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.--_Colton._

They never pardon who commit the wrong.--_Dryden._

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.--_Dickens._

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive than for offense to ask it.--_Thomson._

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

It is easy enough to forgive your enemies, if you have not the means to harm them.--_Heinrich Heine._

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Fortitude.~--White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.--_Theophile Gautier._

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.--_Tuckerman._

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.--_Locke._

~Fortune.~--Fortune loves only the young.--_Charles V._

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.--_Ben Jonson._

It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.--_Bovee._

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own producing.--_Goldsmith._

Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who certainly cannot help themselves.--_Colton._

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.--_Douglas Jerrold._

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.--_Cowley._

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, she has made them fortunate.--_Montaigne._

See'st thou not what various fortunes the Divinity makes man to pass through, changing and turning them from day to day?--_Euripides._

Fortune is but a synonymous word for nature and necessity.--_Bentley._

Foolish I deem him who, thinking that his state is blest, rejoices in security; for Fortune, like a man distempered in his senses, leaps now this way, now that, and no man is always fortunate.--_Euripides._

They say Fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.--_George Eliot._

If Fortune has fairly sat on a man, he takes it for granted that life consists in being sat upon. But to be coddled on Fortune's knee, and then have his ears boxed, that is aggravating.--_Charles Buxton._

~Fraud.~--The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily will it be swallowed; since folly will always find faith wherever impostors will find impudence.--_Colton._

~Friendship.~--Friendship has steps which lead up to the throne of God, though all spirits come to the Infinite; only Love is satiable, and like Truth, admits of no three degrees of comparison; and a simple being fills the heart.--_Richter._

Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.--_Bible._

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.--_Douglas Jerrold._

Experience has taught me that the only friends we can call our own, who can have no change, are those over whom the grave has closed; the seal of death is the only seal of friendship.--_Byron._

What is commonly called friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.--_Thoreau._

So great a happiness do I esteem it to be loved, that I fancy every blessing both from gods and men ready to descend spontaneously upon him who is loved.--_Xenophon._

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.--_Thoreau._

The friendship between great men is rarely intimate or permanent. It is a Boswell that most appreciates a Johnson. Genius has no brother, no co-mate; the love it inspires is that of a pupil or a son.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity; as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.--_Colton._

Never contract a friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.--_Confucius._

There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright, friendship with the sincere, and friendship with the man of much information,--these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs, friendship with the insinuatingly soft, friendship with the glib-tongued,--these are injurious.--_Confucius._

Friendship survives death better than absence.--_J. Petit Senn._

This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in half: for there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.--_Bacon._

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the declining sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.--_Washington Irving._

It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of _old_ wood to _take_, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.--_Whately._

An old friend is not always the person whom it is easiest to make a confidant of.--_George Eliot._

~Fun.~--There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, and I do like it in others. Oh, we need it,--we need all the counter-weights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?--_Haliburton._

~Futurity.~--The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, the last duty done.--_George MacDonald._

We always live prospectively, never retrospectively, and there is no abiding moment.--_Jacobi._

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.--_J. Petit Senn._

The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.--_Milton._

G.

~Gambling.~--Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do, in general, exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.--_Blackstone._

A mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.--_Johnson._

~Gems.~--How very beautiful these gems are! It is strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate one, like scent. I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St. John. They look like fragments of heaven.--_George Eliot._

~Generosity.~--A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity as in everything else.--_Spurgeon._

Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.--_Corneille._

It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don't carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow-trade; you must know where to find yourself.--_George Eliot._

If cruelty has its expiations and its remorses, generosity has its chances and its turns of good fortune; as if Providence reserved them for fitting occasions, that noble hearts may not be discouraged.--_Lamartine._

~Genius.~--Genius is rarely found without some mixture of eccentricity, as the strength of spirit is proved by the bubbles on its surface.--_Mrs. Balfour._

All great men are in some degree inspired.--_Cicero._

This is the highest miracle of genius: that things which are not should be as though they were; that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.--_Macaulay._

The path of genius is not less obstructed with disappointment than that of ambition.--_Voltaire._

One misfortune of extraordinary geniuses is that their very friends are more apt to admire than love them.--_Pope._

Genius speaks only to genius.--_Stanislaus._

A nation does wisely, if not well, in starving her men of genius. Fatten them, and they are done for.--_Charles Buxton._

Genius has no brother.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Genius never grows old; young to-day, mature yesterday, vigorous to-morrow: always immortal. It is peculiar to no sex or condition, and is the divine gift to woman no less than to man.--_Juan Lewis._

~Gentleman.~--A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say, simply, "fineness of nature." This is of course compatible with heroic bodily strength and mental firmness; in fact, heroic strength is not conceivable without such delicacy.--_Ruskin._

It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of society. To possess this character is a dignity of itself, commanding the instinctive homage of every generous mind, and those who will not bow to titular rank will yet do homage to the gentleman. His qualities depend not upon fashion or manners, but upon moral worth; not on personal possessions, but on personal qualities. The Psalmist briefly describes him as one "that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart."--_Samuel Smiles._

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.--_Thackeray._

~Gentleness.~--Fearless gentleness is the most beautiful of feminine attractions, born of modesty and love.--_Mrs. Balfour._

Gentleness is far more successful in all its enterprises than violence; indeed, violence generally frustrates its own purpose, while gentleness scarcely ever fails.--_Locke._

Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.--_Sidney._

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.--_Cudworth._

~Gifts.~--One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!--_George Eliot._

Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.--_Luther._

And with them words of so sweet breath composed as made the things more rich.--_Shakespeare._

How can that gift leave a trace which has left no void?--_Madame Swetchine._

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.--_Mrs. Balfour._

Examples are few of men ruined by giving. Men are heroes in spending, very cravens in what they give.--_Bovee._

When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow.--_George Herbert._

Strange designs lurk under a gift. "Give the horse to his Holiness," said the cardinal. "I cannot serve you!"--_Zimmermann._

~Glory.~--To a father who loves his children victory has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.--_Napoleon._

Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actaeon, must pursue the game not only where there is a path, but where there is none. They must be able to simulate and dissimulate, to leap and to creep; to conquer the earth like Caesar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus; to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale; or, like Nelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, while she is hesitating where to bestow them.--_Colton._

Obloquy is a necessary ingredient in the composition of all true glory.--_Burke._

The best kind of glory is that which is reflected from honesty,--such as was the glory of Cato and Aristides; but it was harmful to them both, and is seldom beneficial to any man whilst he lives; what it is to him after his death I cannot say, because I love not philosophy merely notional and conjectural, and no man who has made the experiment has been so kind as to come back to inform us.--_Cowley._

Nothing is so expensive as glory.--_Sydney Smith._

The love of glory can only create a hero, the contempt of it creates a wise man.--_Talleyrand._

~Gluttony.~--Whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame.--_Bible._

The kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.--_Buck._

~God.~--He that doth the ravens feed, yea, providentially caters for the sparrow, be comfort to my age!--_Shakespeare._

To escape from evil, we must be made as far as possible like God; and this resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.--_Plato._

Whenever I think of God I can only conceive him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine nature inspires me with such confidence and joy that I could have written even a _miserere_ in _tempo allegro_.--_Haydn._

All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in him again.--_Zoroaster._

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, and the other is contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity.--_Bacon._

I have seen two miracles lately. I looked up, and saw the clouds above me in the noontide; and they looked like the sea that was hanging over me, and I could see no cord on which they were suspended, and yet they never fell. And then when the noontide had gone, and the midnight came, I looked again, and there was the dome of heaven, and it was spangled with stars, and I could see no pillars that held up the skies, and yet they never fell. Now He that holds the stars up and moves the clouds in their course can do all things, and I trust Him in the sight of these miracles.--_Luther._

This avenging God, rancorous torturer who burns his creatures in a slow fire! When they tell me that God made himself a man, I prefer to recognize a man who made himself a god.--_Alfred de Musset._

This is one of the names which we give to that eternal, infinite, and incomprehensible being, the Creator of all things, who preserves and governs everything by his almighty power and wisdom, and is the only object of our worship.--_Cruden._

~Gold.~--Midas longed for gold. He got gold so that whatever he touched became gold, and he, with his long ears, was little the better for it.--_Carlyle._

A mask of gold hides all deformities.--_Dekker._

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp,--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station, but he must know something more to keep it.--_Colton._

Thou true magnetic pole, to which all hearts point duly north, like trembling needles!--_Byron._

Judges and senates have been bought for gold.--_Pope._

Gold is, in its last analysis, the sweat of the poor, and the blood of the brave.--_Joseph Napoleon._

Gold all is not that doth golden seem.--_Spenser._

There is no place so high that an ass laden with gold cannot reach it.--_Rojas._

~Good.~--When what is good comes of age and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.--_George Eliot._

How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil!--_Carlyle._

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.--_Milton._

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.--_Goldsmith._

The true and good resemble gold. Gold seldom appears obvious and solid, but it pervades invisibly the bodies that contain it.--_Jacobi._

He is good that does good to others. If he suffers for the good he does, he is better still; and if he suffers from them to whom he did good, he is arrived to that height of goodness that nothing but an increase of his sufferings can add to it; if it proves his death, his virtue is at its summit,--it is heroism complete.--_Bruyere._

That is good which doth good.--_Venning._

The Pythagoreans make good to be certain and finite, and evil infinite and uncertain. There are a thousand ways to miss the white; there is only one to hit it.--_Montaigne._

~Good-humor.~--Honest good-humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant.--_Washington Irving._

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use: they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.--_Dryden._

This portable quality of good-humor seasons all the parts and occurrences we meet with, in such a manner that there are no moments lost, but they all pass with so much satisfaction that the heaviest of loads (when it is a load), that of time, is never felt by us.--_Steele._

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them.--_Johnson._

That inexhaustible good-nature, which is the most precious gift of Heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.--_Washington Irving._

~Goodness.~--Nothing rarer than real goodness.--_Rochefoucauld._

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of Heaven are upon it.--_Archdeacon Hare._

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.--_Pope._

Goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems.--_Milton._

~Gossip.~--A long-tongued babbling gossip.--_Shakespeare._

He sits at home until he has accumulated an insupportable load of ennui, and then he sallies forth to distribute it amongst his acquaintance.--_Colton._

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church-steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.--_George Eliot._

~Government.~--The proper function of a government is to make it easy for people to do good and difficult for them to do evil.--_Gladstone._

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.--_Burke._

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.--_Burke._

Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another. It is the sentinel who watches, in order that the common laborer be not disturbed.--_Abbe Raynal._

But I say to you, and to our whole country, and to all the crowned heads and aristocratic powers and feudal systems that exist, that it is to self-government, the great principle of popular representation and administration, the system that lets in all to participate in the counsels that are to assign the good or evil to all, that we may owe what we are and what we hope to be.--_Daniel Webster._

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.--_Montesquieu._

Of governments, that of the mob is the most sanguinary, that of soldiers the most expensive, and that of civilians the most vexatious.--_Colton._

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest, and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils to choose the least.--_Thomas Paine._

~Grace.~--As amber attracts a straw, so does beauty admiration, which only lasts while the warmth continues; but virtue, wisdom, goodness, and real worth, like the loadstone, never lose their power. These are the true graces, which, as Homer feigns, are linked and tied hand in hand, because it is by their influence that human hearts are so firmly united to each other.--_Burton._

The king-becoming graces--devotion, patience, courage, fortitude.--_Shakespeare._

Know you not, master, to some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies? No more do yours; your virtues, gentle master, are sanctified and holy traitors to you. Oh, what a world is this, when what is comely envenoms him that bears it!--_Shakespeare._

How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance!--_Coleridge._

That word, grace, in an ungracious mouth, is but profane.--_Shakespeare._

Grace comes as oft clad in the dusky robe of desolation as in white attire.--_Sir J. Beaumont._

~Gratitude.~--Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.--_Johnson._

God is pleased with no music below so much as the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.--_Jeremy Taylor._

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.--_Colton._

Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind: we never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.--_Goldsmith._

Gratitude is the virtue most deified and most deserted. It is the ornament of rhetoric and the libel of practical life.--_J. W. Forney._

~Grave.~--Since the silent shore awaits at last even those who longest miss the old Archer's arrow, perhaps the early grave which men weep over may be meant to save.--_Byron._

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors; and that equality the grave will perpetuate to the end of time.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

The reconciling grave.--_Southern._

The grave where even the great find rest.--_Pope._

Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!--_Philip, King of Macedon._

The cradle of transformation.--_Mazzini._

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console us.--_Arsene Houssaye._

~Gravity.~--The very essence of gravity is design, and consequently deceit; a taught trick to gain credit with the world for more sense and knowledge than a man is worth.--_Sterne._

Gravity is but the rind of wisdom; but it is a preservative rind.--_Joubert._

Gravity must be natural and simple. There must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who formalizes on everything is a fool, and a grave fool is perhaps more injurious than a light fool.--_Cecil._

~Greatness.~--There is but one method, and that is hard labor; and a man who will not pay that price for greatness had better at once dedicate himself to the pursuit of the fox, or sport with the tangles of Neaera's hair, or talk of bullocks, and glory in the goad!--_Sidney Smith._

A really great man is known by three signs,--generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, and moderation in success.--_Bismarck._

The great men of the earth are but the marking stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.--_Mazzini._

A multitude of eyes will narrowly inspect every part of an eminent man, consider him nicely in all views, and not be a little pleased when they have taken him in the worst and most disadvantageous lights.--_Addison._

What you can manufacture, or communicate, you can lower the price of, but this mental supremacy is incommunicable; you will never multiply its quantity, nor lower its price; and nearly the best thing that men can generally do is--to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this; learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds out of our own charcoal.--_Ruskin._

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.--_Bacon._

The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd supposes. But the same feelings which in ancient Rome produced the apotheosis of a popular emperor, and in modern times the canonization of a devout prelate, lead men to cherish an illusion which furnishes them with something to adore.--_Macaulay._

Great men never make a bad use of their superiority; they see it, they feel it, and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.--_Rousseau._

He who is great when he falls is great in his prostration, and is no more an object of contempt than when men tread on the ruins of sacred buildings, which men of piety venerate no less than if they stood.--_Seneca._

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.--_Beecher._

Greatness seems in her [Madame de Maintenon] to take its noblest form, that of simplicity.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Grief.~--Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? for every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making.--_Sydney Smith._

Some griefs are medicinable; and this is one.--_Shakespeare._

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be _digested_. And then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.--_Johnson._

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.--_P. J. Bailey._

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness, while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.--_Madame Swetchine._

Grief has been compared to a hydra, for every one that dies two are born.--_Calderon._

Grief, like night, is salutary. It cools down the soul by putting out its feverish fires; and if it oppresses her, it also compresses her energies. The load once gone, she will go forth with greater buoyancy to new pleasures.--_Dr. Pulsford._

What's gone, and what's past help, should be past grief.--_Shakespeare._

~Guilt.~--All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.--_Shakespeare._

Think not that guilt requires the burning torches of the Furies to agitate and torment it. Frauds, crimes, remembrances of the past, terrors of the future,--these are the domestic Furies that are ever present to the mind of the impious.--_Cicero._

Guiltiness will speak though tongues were out of use.--_Shakespeare._

Despair alone makes guilty men be bold.--_Coleridge._

The sin lessens in human estimation only as the guilt increases.--_Schiller._

There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide.--_George Sand._

~Gunpowder.~--If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind.--_Gibbon._

A coarse-grained powder, used by cross-grained people, playing at cross-grained purposes.--_Marryatt._

Gunpowder is the emblem of politic revenge, for it biteth first, and barketh afterwards; the bullet being at the mark before the report is heard, so that it maketh a noise, not by way of warning, but of triumph.--_Fuller._

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~Habits.~--Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.--_Cowper._

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.--_Cicero._

Unless the habit leads to happiness, the best habit is to contract none.--_Zimmerman._

The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.--_George D. Boardman._

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature, as the common saying is; but unskillfully and unmethodically directed, it will be as it were the ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly.--_Bacon._

That beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectably and unhappy men to live calmly.--_George Eliot._

Habits are the daughters of action, but they nurse their mothers, and give birth to daughters after her image, more lovely and prosperous.--_Jeremy Taylor._

~Hair.~--The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.--_Luther._

Her head was bare, but for her native ornament of hair, which in a simple knot was tied above; sweet negligence, unheeded bait of love!--_Dryden._

The robe which curious nature weaves to hang upon the head.--_Dekker._

Robed in the long night of her deep hair.--_Tennyson._

~Hand.~--Other parts of the body assist the speaker, but these speak themselves. By them we ask, we promise, we invoke, we dismiss, we threaten, we entreat, we deprecate; we express fear, joy, grief, our doubts, our assent, our penitence; we show moderation, profusion; we mark number and time.--_Quintilian._

The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony, declined with Paganism; but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends. At present it is only practiced as a mark of obedience from the subject to the sovereign, and by lovers, who are solicitous to preserve this ancient usage in its full power.--_Disraeli._

~Handsome.~--They are as heaven made them, handsome enough if they be good enough; for handsome is that handsome does.--_Goldsmith._

~Happiness.~--The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman; the foundation of political happiness is confidence in the integrity of man; the foundation of all happiness, temporal and eternal, is reliance on the goodness of God.--_Landor._

To remember happiness which cannot be restored is pain, but of a softened kind. Our recollections are unfortunately mingled with much that we deplore, and with many actions that we bitterly repent; still, in the most checkered life, I firmly think there are so many little rays of sunshine to look back upon that I do not believe any mortal would deliberately drain a goblet of the waters of Lethe if he had it in his power.--_Dickens._

That man is never happy for the present is so true that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.--_Johnson._

It is a lucky eel that escapes skinning. The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.--_George Eliot._

That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally _satisfied_, but not equally _happy_. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.--_Johnson._

Happiness doats on her work, and is prodigal to her favorite. As one drop of water hath an attraction for another, so do felicities run into felicities.--_Landor._

Sensations sweet, felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.--_Wordsworth._

Great happiness is the fire ordeal of mankind, great misfortune only the trial by water; for the former opens a large extent of futurity, whereas the latter circumscribes or closes it.--_Richter._

Prospective happiness is perhaps the only real happiness in the world.--_Alfred de Musset._

Nature and individuals are generally best when they are happiest, and deserve heaven most when they have learnt rightly to enjoy it. Tears of sorrow are only pearls of inferior value, but tears of joy are pearls or diamonds of the first water.--_Richter._

How many people I have seen who would have plucked cannon-balls out of the muzzles of guns with their bare hands, and yet had not courage enough to be happy.--_Theophile Gautier._

All mankind are happier for having been happy, so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.--_Sydney Smith._

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.--_Lamotte._

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to _fourteen_. O man, place not thy confidence in this present world!--_The Caliph Abdalrahman._

If I may speak of myself (the only person of whom I can speak with certainty), _my_ happy hours have far exceeded, and far exceed, the scanty numbers of the caliph of Spain; and I shall not scruple to add that many of them are due to the pleasing labor of the present composition.--_Gibbon._

For which we bear to live, or dare to die.--_Pope._

We buy wisdom with happiness, and who would purchase it at such a price? To be happy we must forget the past, and think not of the future; and who that has a soul or mind can do this? No one; and this proves that those who have either know no happiness on this earth. Memory precludes happiness, whatever Rogers may say or write to the contrary, for it borrows from the past to embitter the present, bringing back to us all the grief that has most wounded, or the happiness that has most charmed us.--_Byron._

The happiness you wot of is not a hundredth part of what you enjoy.--_Charles Buxton._

Every human soul has the germ of some flowers within; and they would open if they could only find sunshine and free air to expand in. I always told you that not having enough of sunshine was what ailed the world. Make people happy, and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there is.--_Mrs. L. M. Child._

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy, and can make them wretched.--_Feltham._

Happiness and misery are the names of two extremes, the utmost bounds whereof we know not.--_Locke._

There comes forever something between us and what we deem our happiness.--_Byron._

Philosophical happiness is to want little; civil or vulgar happiness is to want much, and to enjoy much.--_Burke._

How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour.--_Young._

Plenteous joys, wanton in fullness.--_Shakespeare._

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.--_Arsene Houssaye._

For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.--_Mme. de Girardin._

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.--_George Eliot._

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down.--_Quarles._

The use we make of happiness gives us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.--_Rousseau._

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.--_J. Petit Senn._

In regard to the affairs of mortals, there is nothing happy throughout.--_Euripides._

~Hardship.~--The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food,--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.--_George Eliot._

~Haste.~--Let your haste commend your duty.--_Shakespeare._

The more haste ever the worst speed.--_Churchill._

Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices of dispatch and skill; but neither of them ever learn their master's trade.--_Colton._

All haste implies weakness.--_George MacDonald._

~Hatred.~--We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.--_Colton._

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.--_Beecher._

Love is rarely a hypocrite. But hate! how detect, and how guard against it. It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties whilst it favors its disguise; for civilization increases the number of contending interests, and refinement renders more susceptible to the least irritation the cuticle of self-love.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Hatred is like fire--it makes even light rubbish deadly.--_George Eliot._

~Health.~--Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink; but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished, that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.--_Thackeray._

Those hypochondriacs, who, like Herodius, give up their whole time and thoughts to the care of their health, sacrifice unto life every noble purpose of living; striving to support a frail and feverish being here, they neglect an hereafter; they continue to patch up and repair their mouldering tenement of clay, regardless of the immortal tenant that must survive it; agitated by greater fears than the Apostle, and supported by none of his hopes, they "die daily."--_Colton._

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures, of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.--_Johnson._

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations: there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Heart.~--The heart is like the tree that gives balm for the wounds of man only when the iron has pierced it.--_Chauteaubriand._

The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.--_Calderon._

There are treasures laid up in the heart,--treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him beyond death when he leaves this world.--_Buddhist Scriptures._

In aught that tries the heart, how few withstand the proof!--_Byron._

The hearts of pretty women are like bonbons, wrapped up in enigmas.--_J. Petit Senn._

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.--_Dickens._

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.--_Bossuet._

There are chords in the human heart, strange, varying strings, which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch. In the most insensible or childish minds there is some train of reflection which art can seldom lead, or skill assist, but which will reveal itself, as great truths have done, by chance, and when the discoverer has the plainest and simplest end in view.--_Dickens._

A willing heart adds feathers to the heel, and makes the clown a winged Mercury.--_Joanna Baillie._

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.--_Douglas_ _Jerrold._

~Heaven.~--The love of heaven makes one heavenly.--_Shakespeare._

Where is heaven? I cannot tell. Even to the eye of faith, heaven looks much like a star to the eye of flesh. Set there on the brow of night, it shines most bright, most beautiful; but it is separated from us by so great a distance as to be raised almost as high above our investigations as above the storms and clouds of earth.--_Rev. Dr. Guthrie._

When at eve at the bounding of the landscape the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope,--a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.--_Madame de Stael._

Few, without the hope of another life, would think it worth their while to live above the allurements of sense.--_Atterbury._

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought. David and Isaiah will sweep nobler and loftier strains in eternity, and the minds of the saints, unclogged by cumbersome clay, will forever feast on the banquet of rich and glorious thought.--_Beecher._

~Heroes.~--A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.--_Chesterfield._

In analyzing the character of heroes it is hardly possible to separate altogether the share of Fortune from their own.--_Hallam._

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.--_George Eliot._

No one is a hero to his valet.--_Madame de Sevigne._

~History.~--The Grecian history is a poem, Latin history a picture, modern history a chronicle.--_Chauteaubriand._

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!--_Coleridge._

History, which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.--_Gibbon._

We must consider how very little history there is; I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought we can depend upon as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy of history, is conjecture.--_Johnson._

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.--_Joubert._

To be entirely just in our estimate of other ages is not only difficult,--it is impossible. Even what is passing in our presence we see but through a glass darkly. The mind as well as the eye adds something of its own before an image, even of the clearest object, can be painted upon it; and in historical inquiries the most instructed thinkers have but a limited advantage over the most illiterate. Those who know the most approach least to agreement.--_Froude._

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror which merely reflects objects, but of the judge who sees, listens, and decides.--_Lamartine._

In every human character and transaction there is a mixture of good and evil: a little exaggeration, a little suppression, a judicious use of epithets, a watchful and searching skepticism with respect to the evidence on one side, a convenient credulity with respect to every report or tradition on the other, may easily make a saint of Laud, or a tyrant of Henry the Fourth.--_Macaulay._

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.--_Washington Irving._

History has its foreground and its background, and it is principally in the management of its perspective that one artist differs from another. Some events must be represented on a large scale, others diminished; the great majority will be lost in the dimness of the horizon, and a general idea of their joint effect will be given by a few slight touches.--_Macaulay._

Violent natures make history. The instruments they use almost always kill. Religion and philosophy have their vestments covered with innocent blood.--_X. Doudan._

Each generation gathers together the imperishable children of the past, and increases them by new sons of light, alike radiant with immortality.--_Bancroft._

What history is not richer, does not contain far more, than they by whom it is enacted, the present witnesses! What mortal understandeth his way?--_Jacobi._

He alone reads history aright, who, observing how powerfully circumstances influence the feelings and opinions of men, how often vices pass into virtues, and paradoxes into axioms, learns to distinguish what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.--_Macaulay._

~Home.~--Home is the grandest of all institutions.--_Spurgeon._

The first sure symptom of a mind in health is rest of heart, and pleasure felt at home.--_Young._

To most men their early home is no more than a memory of their early years, and I'm not sure but they have the best of it. The image is never marred. There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.--_George Eliot._

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.--_Payne._

Stint yourself, as you think good, in other things; but don't scruple freedom in brightening home. Gay furniture and a brilliant garden are a sight day by day, and make life blither.--_Charles Buxton._

Home is the seminary of all other institutions.--_Chapin._

~Honesty.~--If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.--_Johnson._

Persons lightly dipped, not grained, in generous honesty, are but pale in goodness.--_Sir T. Browne._

Refined policy has ever been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so, as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.--_Burke._

Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.--_J. Petit Senn._

The honest man is a rare variety of the human species.--_Chamfort._

~Honor.~--Keep unscathed the good name, keep out of peril the honor, without which even your battered old soldier, who is hobbling into his grave on half pay and a wooden leg, would not change with Achilles.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Hope.~--Hope warps judgment in council, but quickens energy in action.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

"I have a fine lot of hopes here in my basket," remarked the New Year; "they are a sweet-smelling flower--a species of roses."--_Hawthorne._

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life, if it be not too often frustrated; but entertaineth the fancy with an expectation of good.--_Bacon._

The mighty hopes that make us men.--_Tennyson._

Thou captive's freedom, and thou sick man's health.--_Cowley._

I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate in reversion, if one can keep from the temptation of turning it into certainty, which may spoil all.--_George Eliot._

Hope, folding her wings, looked backward and became regret.--_George Eliot._

Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little scruple of reveling to-day on the profits of to-morrow.--_Johnson._

It is necessary to hope, though hope should be always deluded; for hope itself is happiness and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.--_Johnson._

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.--_Victor Hugo._

~Humanity.~--A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds: therefore let him seasonably water the one and destroy the other.--_Bacon._

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.--_Burke._

Human nature is not so much depraved as to hinder us from respecting goodness in others, though we ourselves want it. This is the reason why we are so much charmed with the pretty prattle of children, and even the expressions of pleasure or uneasiness in some parts of the brute creation. They are without artifice or malice; and we love truth too well to resist the charms of sincerity.--_Steele._

I do not know what comfort other people find in considering the weakness of great men, but 'tis always a mortification to me to observe that there is no perfection in humanity.--_Montagu._

The true proof of the inherent nobleness of our common nature is in the sympathy it betrays with what is noble wherever crowds are collected. Never believe the world is base; if it were so, no society could hold together for a day.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Humility.~--It is from out the depths of our humility that the height of our destiny looks grandest. Let me truly feel that in myself I am nothing, and at once, through every inlet of my soul, God comes in, and is everything in me.--_Mountford._

Should any ask me, What is the first thing in religion? I would reply, The first, second, and third thing therein, nay all, is humility.--_St. Augustine._

Epaminondas, that heathen captain, finding himself lifted up in the day of his public triumph, the next day went drooping and hanging down his head; but being asked what was the reason of his so great dejection, made answer: "Yesterday I felt myself transported with vainglory, therefore I chastise myself for it to-day."--_Plutarch._

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.--_Franklin._

Believe me, the much-praised lambs of humility would not bear themselves so meekly if they but possessed tigers' claws.--_Heinrich Heine._

Trees that, like the poplar, lift upwards all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lowlier droop their bows.--_Bulwer-Lytton._