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“ Epigram and Epitaph 
 
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EPIGRAM AND EPITAPH. 
 
 An epigram is like a bee—a thing 
 Of little size, with honey and a sting. 
 —WIGGLESWORTH, /rom Martial. 
 
 Only the actions of the just 
 Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. 
 —JAMES SHIRLEY, 
 
 yf)! seems to me there are two ways of defining the 
 iA @) word epigram. The idea at first suggested is that 
 eww} of a striking thought set forth in sharp, terse, 
 usually antithetical language, which carries conviction. The 
 second idea is that expressed in the dictionary definition— 
 ‘*‘a pointed couplet or stanza, a short poem ending in a turn 
 of wit.’”? This refers toa form of epigram that came to be 
 the exact opposite of the other,—a labored, punning rhyme, 
 generally ill-natured. Many English writers, from Ben 
 Jonson to Praed, have affected this style of writing ; but we 
 can say of their epigrams, as Campbell said of the works of 
 Gay : ‘‘ They are on our shelves, but not in our pockets ; in 
 our remembrance, but not in our memories.’”’ The fact that 
 they are in rhyme excludes selection from them for this 
 volume. The ancient Greeks and Romans, and the French 
 writers of fifty years ago, are masters of the first-mentioned 
 form of epigram ; although some of the most notable speci- 
 mens are found much nearer home. Holmes’ remark in the 
 “‘Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” ‘‘ I never wrote a good 
 line in my life, but the moment after it was written it seemed 
 a hundred years old,’”’ applies peculiarly to epigrams. They 
 have a flavor of age, they impress you as having been growths 
 and not creations, they are the crystallizations of old thought, 
 and so have been made by accretion. The old-fashioned 
 essay gave much more opportunity for their production than 
 the modern novel. 
 
 The words of celebrated men, either at death or in memor- 
 able crises, seem appropriate in this collection, as well as 
 epitaphs, the best of which are a form of epigram, I have 
 given a few rhymed epitaphs, since they are so fine or so 
 famous that to leave them out merely because the general 
 plan included only prose, seemed unnecessary. 
 
Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 Spllables gobern the world. 
 
 JOHN SELDEN. 
 
 & must die in harness, like w hero or a horse. 
 HOOD. 
 
 Brabe men ure brabe from the berp first. 
 CORNEILLE. 
 
 Che language of truth is simple. 
 EURIPIDES, 
 Go be prepured for far is one of the most 
 
 effectual means of preserbing peace. 
 GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
 
 Drise prejudices out. by the door, they fill 
 re-enter by the window. 
 
 FREDERICK THE GREAT, 
 Che God foho gube us life gube us liberty at 
 the same time. THOMAS JEFFERSON. 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 “Gt for guin one more such bictorp ober the 
 Romans, fe ure lost,” 
 
 Said Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, after two victories 
 which cost him many friends and generals, 
 
 “ dile habe fallen im oith the enemp,” said an 
 othcer. “Rather the enemy bus fallen in With 
 us,” answered Pelopidas, 
 
 Che silence of the people is the lesson of kings. 
 
 LOANEN, BISHOP OF SENEZ. 
 
 Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. 
 
 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 
 
 Inscription on the cannon near which the ashes of Prest- 
 dent Fohn Bradshaw were lodged, on the top of a 
 high hill near Martha Bay, in Famaica. 
 
 Alo floterp rod lends to glorp. 
 
 LA FONTAINE. 
 
 Au prostrating me, thep babe onlp throton 
 Doton the tree of liberty in San Domingos. dt 
 foill pet repel them with its roots, hich are deep 
 
 und numerous, TOUSSAINT L’'OUVERTURE. 
 
 Che best form of gobernment is that in bobich 
 the people obey the rulers, und the rulers obep 
 the latus, SOCRATES. 
 
Epigram and Epitaph 
 
 Chere is wu higher law than the Constitution. 
 
 WILLIAM H. SEWARD. 
 
 dt is u tempest in w glass of fouter. 
 PAUL, GRAND DUKE OF RUSSIA. 
 
 Concerning an insurrection in Geneva. 
 
 4 think, therefore J am. DESCARTES. 
 
 qrogress is lame. SAINTE-BEUVE. 
 
 Drespotism is the bery essence of mp gobern- 
 
 ment, und if suits the genius of mp land, 
 EMPEROR NICHOLAS OF RUSSIA. 
 
 Sf thou bust neber beew w fool, be sure thon 
 foilt neber be w fise man. THACKERAY, 
 
 dt is much eusier to get a nebo buckler than a 
 
 nefo Itfe. ARCHILOCHUS. 
 
 Pencenbly if fe can, forcibly if foe must. 
 
 JOSIAH QUINCY. 
 
 All is lost, madam, sabe honor. 
 FRANCIS I. 
 In a letter to his mother after the battle of Pavia. 
 
 doe to the bangquished | LIVY. 
 
 ddeas outlibe men. GARFIELD, 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 “AHebolution is the name gibew to successful 
 treason und rebellion,” 
 
 Is an old classic saying, from which Sir Thomas Bar- 
 rington formed his fanious epigram : 
 
 Creason does neber prosper; hut ’s the reason ? 
 hp, When it prospers, wone dare cull it treason. 
 
 Ruoboledge is potver. BACON, 
 
 He smells not foell hose smell is all perfume. 
 MARTIAL, 
 
 Our Federal Anion: Ft must be preserbed. 
 
 ANDREW JACKSON, 
 Che remedy is Morse thaw the disewse. 
 BACON, 
 
 © foeurisome condition of humanity | 
 LORD BROOKE. 
 
 Eheresocber, Mbhensoeber, or holusorber, fue 
 shall be culled to make our exit, foe foill die 
 
 freemen, JOSIAH QUINCY, JR. 
 
 They only employ Words for the purpose of 
 concenling their thoughts. VOLTAIRE, 
 
 Alothing is easier thuw to aseribe the blame of 
 wn act to the dead. JULIUS CAESAR. 
 
Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 Virtue hus many preachers, but feb martyrs. 
 HELVETIUS. 
 
 Self-lobe is the greatest of flatterers. 
 
 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 
 
 Ghery Gnglishman is un island. 
 NOVALIS. 
 
 Style is the dress of thought. 
 
 CHESTERFIELD. 
 
 A public office is a guest fhich receibes the 
 best usage from them fobo neber inbited i. 
 THOMAS FULLER. 
 Che tree of liberty onlp grows fhen toxtered 
 by the blood of tyrants. 
 
 BERTRAND BARERE, 
 Ae foho weber lenbes bis country is full of 
 prejudices. GOLDONI., 
 
 His fit, being snuffed by fount, burned clenr, 
 
 THOMAS KILLEGREW. 
 
 Our later is neber equal to our case. 
 ANON. 
 
 Calking is one of the fine arts. 
 HOLMES. 
 
 & twill die in the last ditch. 
 
 WILLIAM OF ORANGE, 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 ® Hiberty! Xiberty! bot manp crimes are 
 
 committed in thy name ! 
 MADAME ROLAND, 
 
 dt is sheet and glorious to Die for one’s 
 country. HORACE. 
 
 Che heart of a statesman should be in bis 
 
 bend. NAPOLEON I. 
 
 GDhe first sigh of lobe is the Inst of foisdom. 
 
 ANTOINE BRET. 
 
 Chey make w desert, und cull it peace. 
 TACTITUS. 
 
 GHbere law ends, tyranny begins. 
 
 WILLIAM PITT. 
 
 Fortune fabors the brabe. TERENCE. 
 
 Of the hing’s creation you may be; but be 
 fho makes a count neber made x man. 
 THOMAS SOUTHERNE. 
 Many saints habe been canonized Moho ought 
 
 to habe been cannonaded. 
 CALEB C. COLTON. 
 
 Yt is not the Mweathercoch that changes, it is 
 
 the find. DESMOULINS. 
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Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 GHe ulays weaken whateber foe exaggerate. 
 
 JEAN FRANCOISE DE LA HARPE., 
 
 Che best fire does na flare up the soonest. 
 GEORGE ELIOT, 
 
 Che enbions fill die, but enbp neber, 
 MOLIERE, 
 
 Crouble brings trouble to trouble. 
 SOPHOCLES. 
 
 Mf J held eberp truth in mp hand, J fould 
 
 befoare of opening it to men, 
 FONTENELLE,. 
 
 Musing near the walls of the Bastile. 
 
 Ge read on the forehead of those fho are 
 surrounded Sy a foolish luxury, that Sortune 
 sells fobat she is thought to gibe. 
 
 LA FONTAINE, 
 
 There is no Damocles like unto self-opinion. 
 SIR THOMAS BROWNE, 
 
 Che fu to be safe is neber to feel secure. 
 
 BURKE, 
 
 Plough deep fohile sluggurds sleep. 
 FRANKLIN. 
 Honor eberp truth by use. EMERSON. 
 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Often the cock-loft is empty in those fhom 
 Mature hath built many stories high. 
 RICHARD FULLER. 
 at is as bard to find a man Without guilt us x 
 fish Without a backbone. ARCHYTOS, 
 
 Millions for defence, but not ome cent for 
 
 tribute. CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY. 
 
 Chese are the times that try men’s souls, 
 THOMAS PAINE, 
 
 GHestminster Abbep or bictorp ! 
 HORATIO NELSON. 
 Ox boarding the ‘** San Nicolas.” 
 
 Because thy library is full of books which 
 thou bust bought, dost thou think thyself x man 
 of letters ? AUSONIUS. 
 
 Che pedunt cares more to teach us Mobat be 
 knows than fbat fe do not kro. 
 
 ANON, 
 ings fill be tyrants from policy, fohen sub- 
 jects ure rebels from principle. 
 EDMUND BURKE, 
 GHbhen one runs after Mit, be is sure to catch 
 
 WOWSE INE, MONTESQUIEU. 
 To 
 
Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 Hypocrisy is the homage bice puns to birtue. 
 
 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 
 
 Gentility is nothing but ancient riches. 
 LORD BURLEIGH. 
 
 Patience is the art of hoping. 
 
 VAUVENARGUES, 
 
 Cruth is not impatient. BOILEAU. 
 
 Hees ure sometimes drofoned in the honey 
 fobich they collect, so some foriters are lost in 
 their collected learning. HAWTHORNE. 
 
 He that hath lobe iw bis breast bath spurs 
 in bis side. ANON, 
 
 Crifles muke perfection, but perfection is no 
 
 trifle. MICHAEL ANGELO, 
 
 Gime onlp respects that in Which he bus w part. 
 
 LAMARTINE. 
 
 Gherp one is the sow of his of forks. 
 
 CERVANTES. 
 
 He foo suffices for himself is rich. 
 
 EPICTETUS. 
 
 GHomen ure un uristocrucy, MICHELET. 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Che success of the greater part of things de- 
 
 pends upon knowing hots long it takes to succeed, 
 MONTESQUIEU. 
 
 Che greut ure onlp great becanse fe are on 
 sur knees; let us rise up. PRUD’HOMME, 
 
 Che man thut procrastinates struggles eber 
 ith ruin. HESIOD, 
 
 Deen bengeance is the daughter of deep silence. 
 
 ALFIERI. 
 
 Che deepest ribers hube the least sound. 
 QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS. 
 
 He hud a face like x benediction, 
 CERVANTES. 
 
 GAho best can suffer can do, MILTON, 
 
 Good-breeding neber forgets thut “ umour- 
 propre’ is unibersal. HOLMES. 
 
 St is great cleberness to knot boty to concenl 
 
 our cleber TWeSS, LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 
 
 Curn the perspective-glass, and a giant appears 
 
 a pigmy. THACKERAY. 
 
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Epigrdm and Epitaph. 
 
 Gberp man is the architect of his ofon fortune. - 
 SALLUST. 
 
 Che man who masters himself is free. 
 EPICTETUS. 
 
 Books are spectacles to read nature. 
 DRYDEN, 
 
 Custom is the universal ruler. PINDAR, 
 
 How dificult it is to sube the bark of reputa- 
 tion from the rocks of ignorance ! 
 
 PETRARCH, 
 Auobledge und timber should wt be much 
 used till they ure seasoned. HOLMES, 
 
 A man fobho is not content With wu little is 
 content ith nothing. EPICURUS. 
 
 dt is nothing to die; it is frightful not to libe. 
 
 VICTOR HUGO, 
 
 GHe acquire the strength toe babe obercome. 
 
 EMERSON. 
 Aropbecy is no fatalism, AUGUSTINE. 
 @ld friends ure best. JOHN SELDEN. 
 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Quillery is x mode of speaking im fabor of 
 
 one’s fit aguinst one’s good nature. 
 MONTESQUIEU, 
 
 Reading maketh a full man, speaking a readp 
 man, foriting an exact man, BACON. 
 
 Gbery one’s reason is bis pribute way of 
 Deceibing himself. ANON. 
 il 
 
 Che best of prophets of the future is the pust. 
 
 BYRON, 
 “SA fool could not be silent,” 
 
 Satd Demaratus, when asked if he was silent through 
 Jolly. 
 
 “dt is as sharp as slander,” 
 Satd Thearidas, of the sword he had just whetted, 
 
 Hobs bomen lobe lobe ! HOLMES. 
 
 Riches, the greatest source of human trouble. 
 SENECA, 
 
 He dwells nowhere Who dwells eberviobere. 
 
 MARTIAL, 
 
 Gratitude is the memorp of the heart. 
 MASSIEU. 
 
 Ghat thou lobest, thon libest. FICHTE. 
 
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Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 Coo much is seldom enough. Pumping after 
 
 pour bucket is full prebents its keeping so. 
 AUGUSTUS HARE, 
 
 After all, it is the imponderables that mobe 
 the foorld,—heut, electricity, lobe.  Hormes. 
 
 A man is seldom more manly than foben be is 
 fohut you call unmanned. THACKERAY, 
 
 Che too noblest things ure shoeetness und light. 
 
 JONATHAN SWIFT, 
 Atheism is the suicide of the soul. 
 
 ANON, 
 
 Che oibine hunger of genius. 7 
 GARFIELD. 
 
 Manners maketh man. 
 WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM, 
 
 av essentials unity, in things doubtful liberty, 
 in ull things charity. MELANCHTHON, 
 
 AMindnesses misplaced ure nothing but w curse 
 and disserbice. ENNIUS, 
 
 Patred is like fire; it mukes eben light rubbish 
 
 deadly. GEORGE ELIOT. 
 15 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Caste is the soul’s literary conscience. 
 JOSEPH JOUBERT. 
 
 Man proposes, but God disposes. 
 THOMAS A KEMPIS. 
 
 Duty is the soul’s fireside. 
 
 JOSEPH COOK, 
 
 Chat thou mapest be lobed, lobe. 
 
 MARTIAL. 
 
 Dost thon lobe life, then do not squander 
 
 time, for that is the stuff life is made of, 
 FRANKLIN. 
 
 Hor to cust aay av birtuons friend, J call us 
 bad us to cast ufoap one’s oto life. 
 
 SOPHOCLES. 
 Pou hube silber bessels, but exrthentoure rea- 
 sons, principles, appetites. EPICTETUS. 
 
 Men exist for the sake of one another. 
 Geach them, or bear with them. 
 
 MARCUS AURELIUS, 
 Che dibine image in man map be burned, but 
 it cannot be burned ont. ST. BERNARD. 
 
 Gisdom is althemp. Glse it could not be 
 
 fisdom, AUGUSTUS HARE, 
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Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 Hature is ua tag-merchunt, fho forks up 
 
 eberp shred and ort and end into nebo creutions. 
 EMERSON, 
 
 “ Disquise thyself us thon tilt, still, Slabery,” 
 said a, “still thou urt u bitter draught.” 
 
 STERNE. 
 GHbut is u feed? A plant whose birtues 
 habe not pet been discobered. EMERSON, 
 
 Passion often makes x fool of the ublest man, 
 
 and an able man of the most foolish. 
 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 
 
 Au brief, ull things are urtificial ; for ature 
 
 is the urt of Good. SIR THOMAS BROWNE, 
 
 Alature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice 
 
 is foewh. JULIUS HARE. 
 
 4 am neber less at leisure than foben at 
 
 leisure, nor less alone than oben J am alone. 
 SCIPIO AFRICANUS. 
 
 Christ alone, like bis emblem, the light, passed 
 through wll things undefiled. 
 
 BISHOP HORNE, 
 
 Gbery character is the joint product of nature 
 
 nnd nurture. GARFIELD, 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Put me in chains? Ho, no! pou may put 
 my leg in chains, but not eben Zeus himself can 
 muster mp fill. EPICTETUS. 
 
 Aw ucre in Middlesex is horth w principality 
 in Qtopia. MACAULAY. 
 
 GHhosoe’er is not more than boise enough is 
 
 foise. MARTIAL. 
 
 Che uncients orended death ; the Christian can 
 only fear dying. AUGUSTUS HARE. 
 
 Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an 
 aged bosom. WILLIAM PITT. 
 
 Cragedp openeth the greatest founds, and 
 showeth forth the ulcers that ure cobered ith 
 
 tissue, SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 
 
 Chose oho fount friends to fhom to open their 
 griefs, ure cannibals of their of hearts. 
 BACON. 
 Chep ure neber ulone that ure accompanied 
 
 ith noble thoughts. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 
 
 4 can promise to be sincere, to be impartial g 
 
 cannot, GOETHE. 
 18 
 
Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 Sin hus many tools, but w lie is the bundle 
 that fits them all. HOLMES. 
 
 Chat chastity of honor fohich felt w stain like 
 x found. BURKE. 
 
 Now blessings light ow him thut first inbented 
 
 sleep. CERVANTES. 
 
 How many ure unboorthy of the light! and 
 pet the dap dufons, SENECA. 
 
 Che judge is condemned whew the guilty is 
 
 nequitted. PUBLIUS SYRUS, 
 
 Ghew tohen the bird foulks, toe see thut it hus 
 
 foings. ANTOINE-MARIN LEMIERRE. 
 
 Gminence is to merit fhut fine attire is to 2 
 
 handsome person. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 
 
 Whew Greeks joined Greeks, then foas the 
 
 tug of far. NATHANIEL LEE, 
 
 Fortune gibes too much to many, enough to 
 
 mone, MARTIAL. 
 19 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 alo longer talk wbout the kind of man that w 
 good man ought to be, but be such. 
 
 MARCUS AURELIUS. 
 Our most genuine birtues are those Mbich fhe 
 suspect the least. ANON. 
 
 dio man fous eber great boithont dibine inspi- 
 
 tation. CICERO. 
 
 All the foit im the World is nseless to him 
 
 fho bus none. LA BRUYERE. 
 
 Amputience dries the bloot sooner than age 
 
 or sorrof. SIR THOMAS BROWNE, 
 
 A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by 
 
 others. MARCUS AURELIUS. 
 
 Be bas wv deed half done who bas made a 
 beginning. HORACE, 
 
 Do not praise the fairness of the day till 
 ebening. SOLON. 
 
 Do and bube done. The former is far the 
 
 ester. AUGUSTUS HARE, 
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Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 Go libe is offer wu orenter proof of wu firm 
 soul thaw to die. ALFIERI. 
 
 Ghat shadows fe are, and whut shudotes 
 
 fe pursue | BURKE, 
 
 Che Wormwood of conscience embitters eben 
 sorroby. RICHTER. 
 
 GAbat the urts ure to the Morld of matter, 
 
 literature is to the foorld of mind. 
 GARFIELD. 
 
 Het him foho hath conferred u fabor bold 
 
 his tongue. SENECA, 
 
 at is more thaw w crime, it is a political 
 
 blunder. JOSEPH FOUCHE. 
 
 4 babe knoton that 
 
 / ama man, and that to 
 me there is no more share in to-morrof’s dap 
 
 than to yon, SOPHOCLES, 
 
 A friend may fell be rechoned the masterpiece 
 
 of wuture. EMERSON, 
 
 Passions are defects or birtues in the highest 
 
 potner, GOETHE, 
 PAA, 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 dt is not be ho forms dibine images in gold 
 und marble that makes them gods, but he tho 
 kneels before them. MARTIAL. 
 
 He that studieth rebenge heepeth bis of 
 founds green. BACON, 
 
 alo fickedness proceeds on any grounds of 
 TeHSON.  LIVY, 
 
 Gpigram said to habe been made by Queen 
 Glizabeth, ther ushed fhat she thought our 
 Sabiour meant fohen be said, “ Chis is mp 
 body.” dt is ulso attributed to Dr. Donne: 
 
 Christ Mas the word that spake it ; 
 He took the bread and brake it ; 
 And fohat that ford d1d9 make it, 
 Chat J beliebe, and take it. 
 
 df any man bus done forong, the harm is bis 
 oon. But perbaps be bas not done brong. 
 
 MARCUS AURELIUS. 
 Vou make but a poor trap to catch luck, if 
 you go und bait it for’ Mirhedness. 
 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 The dispute ubout religion and the practice of 
 it seldom go together. YOUNG. 
 
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Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 af then dribe the bishops from their palaces, 
 they fill take refuge in the hobels of the poor 
 fohom they bube supported. af then take from 
 them their cross of gold, thep fill assume w cross 
 of feood; it fas w cross of Mood Which subed the 
 
 forld, BISHOP MONTLOSIER. 
 
 Grim denth, PHILIP MASSINGER. 
 
 Anscription on the refectory of x Franciscan 
 conbent ut Xyons, France : 
 Hefoure—Ol wishing all vow see ; 
 Of beliebing all vow hear ; 
 Of saving ull pou knob ; 
 Of doing all pou can. 
 
 Che state—it is J. LOUIS XIV. 
 
 The World fas giben us for our ofvw edifien- 
 tion, not for the purpose of raising sumptuous 
 buildings ; Wife, for the discharge of moral and 
 religions duties, not for plensurable modnlgence ; 
 Weulth, to be liberally bestotoed, not abarictonsly 
 hourded ; Learning, to produce good actions, not 
 empty disputes, 
 
 Inscription over an Arabic Mosque, copied by Sir Wil- 
 
 diam Fones. 
 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 He tho does chil that good may come, paps a 
 toll to the debil to Iet him into heaben. 
 
 AUGUSTUS HARE. 
 
 God looks to pure und not to full bands, 
 
 PUBLIUS SYRUS. 
 
 Steep and craggy is the pathway of the gods. 
 
 PORPHYRY. 
 
 Af God spare mp life, ere many pears J will 
 cause uw bon that dribes the plough to knob more 
 of the Scriptures than pow do. TYNDALE. 
 
 Grimes sometimes shock us too much; hices 
 wmost ulfoaps too littl. = aucusrus HARE. 
 
 A fault seems smaller fobich it takes little 
 
 time to conrmit, ANON. 
 
 Che intellect of the Oise is like glass: it ud- 
 mits the light of heaben, und reflects it. 
 
 AUGUSTUS HARE. 
 
 Che medicine of the mind. 
 
 Inscription on a Library at Alexandria, Founded 
 300 B.C. 
 
 Repentance is wv goddess und preserber of those 
 fobo babe erred. JULIAN, 
 2 
 
 | 
 
Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 GHith malice toward none, with charity for all, 
 with firmness in the right us God gibes us to see 
 the right, let us finish the fork foe are in, to bind 
 up the watiow’s toounds, to care for him bobo 
 shall habe borne the battle, und for bis widens 
 and bis orphans, to do all Mhich may achiebe and 
 cherish n just und lasting peace among ourselbes 
 wd fith all nations, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
 
 4 knots that be can toil terribly. CECIL, 
 In regard to Sir Walter Raleigh. 
 
 Denth borders upon our birth, und our cradle 
 
 stands in the grabe. BISHOP HALL. 
 
 As for myself, ¥ consider mp life as but a 
 moment ; und to fll that moment {ith duty, is 
 
 my nll. FRANCIS MARION, 
 
 Che name of Putnam is not forgotten, nor 
 fill it be but toith that stroke of time tobich shall 
 obliterate fromy my mind the remembrance of all 
 those toils and fatigues through which fe babe 
 struggled for the preserbution and establishment 
 of the rights, liberties, and independence of our 
 
 country. GEORGE WASHINGTON, 
 To Israel Putnam. 
 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 J fous the last man in mp kingdom to consent 
 to pour independence; und J shall be the last to 
 do unp thing to infringe it. GEORGE IIL, 
 
 To Mr. Adams, American Minister. 
 
 Co the memorp of the man, first in four, first 
 
 in peace, and first in the benrts of bis countrymen. 
 HENRY LEE, 
 On Washington. 
 
 He fous one of the feto greut rulers whose 
 fisdom increased With bis potoer, and fohose 
 spirit greby gentler und tenderer as bis triumphs 
 foere multiplied. GARFIELD, 
 
 On Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 Che Wound is for pou, the sorrow is for me. 
 
 CHARLES Ix., 
 To Coligny, on the night of St. Bartholomew. 
 
 4 neber could beliebe that Drebidence had sent 
 a feo mew into the world, ready booted und 
 spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and 
 
 bridled to be ridden, RICHARD RUMBOLD, 
 Upon the scaffold, 
 
 Co lobe ber fous w liberal education, 
 SIR RICHARD STEELE, 
 Of Lady Elizabeth Hastings. 
 26 
 
 a 
 
Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 Chut execruble sum of all billainies, commonly 
 culled x Slabe Crade. JOHN WESLEY. 
 
 Shukespeare fous not for un age, but for all 
 
 time. BEN JONSON, 
 
 Heonidus, being told that the number of Per- — 
 sian arrows ould bide the sun, anshoered: 
 “Then foe shall fight in the shade.” 
 
 Come quickly, O Death! for fear that ut last 
 4 should forget myself. 
 
 MARCUS AURELIUS. 
 Remember thy end. 
 Engraved on the bedstead of Charles I., at Cowes. 
 Hincolw’s heurt fous us greut as the Morld, but 
 there fous no room in it to bold the memory of a 
 
 frog. EMERSON, 
 
 Gentlemen, for babe a muster; this poung 
 man does eberp thing, is uble for eberp thing, and 
 fills eberp thing. SIEVES, 
 
 Of Bonaparte. 
 
 GHe ure met by the foill of the nation; te 
 
 shall retire only by compulsion. 
 MIRABEAU, 
 In reply toa message from Louis XVI, 
 
 27 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 But pour irust in God; but mind to heep 
 
 pour pofoder drp. OLIVER CROMWELL. 
 Aw the midst of life foe ure in deuth. 
 NOTKER, 
 
 A monk of St. Gall. 
 
 “@ome und take them,” said Leonidas, in 
 
 reply to Xerxes’ demand that he surrender his 
 arms, 
 
 That is fine, und ¥ Mould habe praised you 
 
 more if pow bud praised me less. 
 LOUIS XIV., 
 
 To Botleau. 
 
 4 um the first of mp line. 
 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, 
 
 9, ulso, wm a painter ! CORREGGIO, 
 As he gazed ona picture by Raphael. 
 
 Forgibe others many things, yourself nothing. 
 PUBLIUS SYRUS. 
 4 fos born uv American; J libe av Ameri- 
 
 car; J shall die av American, 
 DANIEL WEBSTER. 
 
 4 would rather posterity should inquire hp 
 no statues Sere erected to mr memory, than Obp 
 
 then fere, CATO. 
 28 
 
Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 Underneath this stone doth lte 
 As much beauty us conld die, 
 | Which im life Did harbor give 
 Co more birtue than doth libe. 
 
 BEN JONSON, 
 On Elizabeth L. H. 
 
 4 direct that mp name be inscribed in plain 
 Gnglish letters on mp tomb, fithout the addition 
 of “Mr.” or “Esquire.” J conjure mp friends 
 on no account to make me the subject of anp 
 monument, memotinl, or testimonial ftobateber. 
 § rest mp claims to the remembrance of mp 
 country upon mp nnblished forks, und to the 
 remembrance of my friends upon their experience 
 
 of me. CHARLES DICKENS, 
 In his will. 
 
 Hor my ame und memory, F lenbe it to men’s 
 charitable speeches, to foreign mations, und to the 
 next ages. BACON. 
 
 After me the deluge. 
 
 MADAME DE POMPADOUR, 
 
 And pet it mobes. GALILEO. 
 After he had recanted his heresy that the world 
 moved. 
 
 29 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Co feign w birtue is to hube its opposite bice. 
 ANON, 
 
 Generosity is the flower of justice. 
 HAWTHORNE. 
 
 § can make nobles hen J choose; God alone 
 can make a man such as be fohom foe are going 
 
 to lose. FRANCIS I., 
 On leaving the death-bed of Leonardo da Vinci. 
 
 GAbut is Plato but Moses in Attic Greek. 
 
 NUMENIUS THE PYTHAGOREAN, 
 
 § am going to sech w great Perhaps. 
 DYING WORDS OF RABELAIS., 
 
 4 would meet mp Creator ufoake. 
 
 MARIA THERESA, 
 On her death-bed. 
 
 Underneath this suble hearse 
 
 Hies the subject of all berse ; 
 Sidney's sister! Pembrohe's mother |! 
 Death! ere thou bust slain another, 
 Hearned, und fair, and good us she, 
 Gime shall throw w dart at thee. 
 
 This epitaph, from the Lansdowne MSS. in the British 
 Museum, ts there attributed to William Browne, 
 but Whalley says tt ts universally attributed to 
 Ben Fonson, and William Gifford says it was writ- 
 ten by the Earl of Pembroke. 
 
 30 
 
Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 Chere taught us hot to like; and (oh, too high 
 
 The price for knowledge!) taught us hot to die. 
 TICKELL, 
 
 On the death of Addison. 
 
 Alus! hot much less delightful it is to libe 
 
 fith those that surbibe, than it is to cherish 
 recollection of pon. SHENSTONE. 
 
 On Miss Dolmen, at the Leasowes. 
 
 Here is that Raphael by Hhom, surbibing, 
 Nature feared she Mould be surpassed, pet bith 
 fobom, dying, she feared she fould die. 
 
 CARDINAL BEMBO, 
 
 Here lies Estrella, obo transported w large for- 
 fune to beaben in acts of charity, und hus gone 
 thither to enjoy it. ITALIAN EPITAPH. 
 
 Good friend, for Jesus’ suke forbenr 
 
 Go dig the dust enclosed here ; 
 
 Hlest be the man that spares these stones, 
 And curst be he thut mobes my bones. 
 
 On Shakespeare's tomb, supposed to have been written 
 by himself. 
 
 Though J belong to the utheran confession, 
 
 J do not desire to be followed to the grabe by any 
 EY ST 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 tlerguman of thut denomination, und J fish to 
 Dispense fith any other sacred solemnity at mp 
 burial, bis is wot the foewk fancy of u free- 
 thinker. Sor the lust four pears J bube cust 
 aside all philosophical pride, and babe again felt 
 the potwer of religions truth. 
 
 HEINRICH HEINE, 
 In his will, 
 
 Pes, foe shull see God us he is, fuce to face. 
 CONDE, 
 
 When dying. 
 Anu judgment a Restor, in genius x Socrates, 
 in art u Virgil. 
 
 On Martin Luther’s tomb. 
 
 Shakespeure, the thousand-souled, 
 COLERIDGE. 
 
 She wenrs the crofn without the conflict. 
 GARFIELD, 
 On his infant child. 
 
 “Tho plucked that flower,” cried the gar- 
 Dener, us be foalked through the garden. Bis 
 fellof-serbunts answered: “Che Master,” and 
 the gardener held bis peace. 
 
 In an old English Churchyard. 
 37 
 
 ee ee —_—<— 
 
 or 
 
Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 Peaben deprives me of w fife Hho neber cansed 
 me ung other grief thaw that of ber denth. 
 
 LOUIS XIV. 
 
 alot lost, but gone before, 
 
 On Mary Angell, at Stepney, 1693. 
 
 OChe society of Acsuits is a shoord Whose bundle 
 is at Rome, and its point eberpiohere. 
 DUPIN. 
 Stranger, go tell the Pacedemonians thut foe 
 lie here obedient to their command. 
 
 Inscription on the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae. 
 
 Pou habe made, sir, three faults in orthography. 
 
 DE FAVRAS, 
 To the clerk of the court which had given his death- 
 sentence. 
 
 Che blood of the martyrs is the seed of the 
 
 Church. TERTULLIAN. 
 
 A poet, naturalist, und historian, Moho scarcely 
 left any style of foriting untouched, and touched 
 nothing that he did not adorn, 
 
 SAMUEL JOHNSON, 
 On Goldsmith. 
 
 The uttentibe eves that suf the manners in 
 
 the face. SAMUEL JOHNSON, 
 On Hogarth, 
 
 2 
 
 “i 33 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 And so sepulehered, in such pomp dost lie, 
 Chat kings, for such a tomb, Mould wish to die. 
 MILTON, 
 On Shakespeare. 
 Angelicr Ranfiman, doomed to tears and grief, 
 to her sheetest, kindest husband, wot us she bad 
 prapen. 
 On the tomb of Antonio Zucchi. 
 My epitaph shall be my name alone ; 
 Af that With honor fail to cron mp clap, 
 Ob, may no other fame mp deeds repay ; 
 Chat, only that, shall single out the spot, 
 By that remembered, ox foith that forgot. 
 
 Byron's epitaph on himself. 
 
 Harewoell! but not foreber. COWPER, 
 On Northcote. 
 
 God fills us free, man fills us slaves; JF will 
 as God fills, God's will be done! Bere lies 
 the boop of Aohw dach, u natibe of Africa, tho 
 died in March, 1723, uged about sixty penrs. 
 Though borw in wv land of slaves, he boas born 
 free; though be libed iv a land of liberty, be 
 libed uw slabe, till, bo his honest though stolen 
 
 lubors, he ucquired the source of slaberp, Which 
 34 
 
 a 
 
Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 gube him bis freedom; though not long before 
 Death, the grand tyrant, gabe him his final eman- 
 tipation and set bim on uw footing fith hings. 
 Chough w slabe to hice, he practised those birtues 
 fithout fhich kings ure but slabes. 
 
 From a stone in the Concord, Mass., burying-ground. 
 
 d fous Epictetus, a slube, a cripple, and a beg- 
 gar, and dear to the immortals. 
 
 Epitaph obich Fock Poung, av Oxfordshire 
 squire, caused to be ent ow the stone that cobered 
 donson’s grabe: 
 
 © rare Ben Aonson! 
 
 § made mp life mp monument. 
 BEN JONSON, 
 On Sir Charles Cavendish. 
 
 Here lies AEschylus, son of Euphorion, born 
 in Aiticn. Be died in the fertile probinee of 
 Gela, Persiv, and the grobes of Marathon will 
 
 eber bear boitness to bis balor. 
 
 On Atschylus,a brave soldier who fought at Marathon, 
 written by himself. 
 
 He hus emigrated. 
 
 On the tontb of Hans Sachs. 
 35 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Go this sud shrine, foho’er thou wrt! drab near; 
 Bere lies the friend most lobed, the son most dear, 
 Who wer knew joy but friendship might dibive, 
 Or gabe his father grief but thew he died. 
 Epitaph on Harcourt. 
 Hor there is no dap, hofeber bewntiful, thut is 
 not follofed by its night. 
 
 On the tomb of Fean ad’ Orbesan, at Padua. 
 
 Here J lie entombed; therefore J knol not, 
 
 Hor do J care fohether thou knotoest : 
 
 Aft thou urt foell, it is Well; fobile libing, J fous 
 foell, 
 
 And naphap J am fell eben nob ; 
 
 Hut be it so or not, J cannot tell thee. 
 
 On the ** Philosopher of Mantua,” Pomponazat (written 
 by himself). 
 
 4, the great Captain Peon Stoz3i, J do not 
 lie here im this urn, for so small an ur could 
 not contain so great a man; earth holds me no 
 longer, for w glorp wider thaw the earth bus 
 raised me to beaben as a beantiful star for mari- 
 ners, so that, us in the olden time the foaters 
 carried and sustained mp ships, and trembled 
 
 under me, eben nolo it pleases me to become the 
 36 
 
Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 God of the sex. Go, then, pe Who follow me 
 and ure entrusted foith my office, go boldly forth 
 upon the foaters ; for there ¥ bube traced out for 
 
 pe a safe and certain path, 
 
 Composed by Dubellay, for Leon Stozzt, a seaman in the 
 service of France. 
 
 Gdlit’s last edition is nol 7’ th’ press. 
 
 HENRY VAUGHAN, 
 On Fletcher. 
 
 Boe! Hoe! who lies here? 
 
 ¥, the good Earl of Debonshire ; 
 
 With Wand, my wife, ta mee full dere, 
 
 Gale Inbed together ffty-fbe pear. 
 What foe gue, we habe ; 
 Ghat we spent, foe had; 
 GAhat toe left, for lost. 
 
 On the tomb of Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon. 
 
 On the tomb of Francois de Mercy, w general 
 foho died of founds receibed iv battle nt Nord- 
 lingen : | 
 
 Stop, trabeller, thow trendest upon wu hero, 
 
 dlature and nature’s latos lay bid iv night ; 
 God suid, “Het Aebotow be!” and all fous light. 
 
 POPE, 
 
 On Str Isaac Newton. 
 
 oe) 
 i 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 an Westminster Abbey, on Ephraim Cham- 
 bers (fritter by himself) : 
 
 Heard of by mang, kuown to fel, Who led a 
 Wife between Fame und Obscurity, neither 
 abounding nor deficient in learning, deboted to 
 study, but us a man bho thinks himself bound to 
 wl offices of humanity, habing finished bis life 
 and bis labors together, bere desires to rest, 
 Ephraim Chambers, obiit, May Toth, W240. 
 
 Sardanapalus, son of Anacpndaraxes, caused 
 the tofons of Anchiales und Carsus to be built in 
 one Day. Bass on, stranger; eat, drink, and 
 
 amuse thyself, for nought else is Worth w flip. 
 
 On the tomb of Sardanapalus, according to Strabo, the 
 Greek geographer. 
 
 And at departure he fill say: “* Manst thou 
 rest soundly and quietly, and map the light turf 
 
 lie cusp on thy bones,” 
 Epitaph written by Tibullus. 
 
 He wus in truth a libing Bible endowed with 
 breath, fobere the tooo cobenunts boere inscribed ; 
 
 the Gospel und the Aa had each a bolume on 
 38 
 
Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 bis heart. Mis head fous the index of the holy 
 bolume ; his name the title, und bis life w com- 
 mentary upow the text. Ob, tbat w Morthy and 
 precious moment fobew be shull reappear in a 
 nebo edition, Mithont errata; be Will then be re- 
 
 bound for eternity. 
 
 Ox Rev. Fohn Cotton, the New England preacher, who 
 died, 1652. 
 
 He is gone where ulone bis melodies tan be 
 
 exceeded, 
 On the tomb of Purcell, the English musical contposer. 
 
 Mere lies Benry, the Scourge of Srance, 
 1422. Virtue surmounts all opposition. Mere, 
 uso, fith ber baliant spouse, lies the beautiful 
 Catherine, Reep from sloth. 
 
 On King Henry V.—Westminster Abbey. 
 
 Che following is from a burping-ground in 
 GHindsor, Connecticut, und is suid to be the oldest 
 
 inscription on a monument in the State : 
 
 Here Ipeth Ephraim Hoit, sometime teacher 
 to the church of Gindsor, Sho died, September, 
 Ath, 1-H. 
 
 GAho fohen hee liked fore drew our bitull breath, 
 39 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Cho Mhen hee dpid his dying fxs our denth, 
 tho fous pe stay of Stute, ve chorshes stuff. 
 Alas! the times forbid uv epitaph, 
 
 Here lies Aohw Higley, those father and 
 mother foere drofned on their pussage from 
 America, Bad both libed, they would hube been 
 
 buried here. 
 Lipitaph in Belturbet, Ireland. 
 
 Gpitaph composed by Simonides for Cimo- 
 creon, w forestler and satirical rhpmester : 
 
 Here lies Cimocreon, the Ahodian, Hho spent 
 his days im eating, drinking, und slandering 
 eberpbodp. 
 
 182). Here lies, interred in the Eternity of 
 the Qast, from fohence there is no resurrection 
 for the dups,—twhuteber there muy be for the 
 dust,—the Chirty-thivy Pear of aw ill-spent 
 Hite, which, after a lingering disease of manp 
 months, sunk into a lethargy, and expired, 
 danuarp 22d, 1821, A.D., leabing a successor 
 inconsolable for the berp loss fohich occusioned 
 
 its existence, 
 Lord Byron's epitaph on his 33d year. 
 
 40 
 
Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 Bere lies the body of Thomas Vernon, the 
 
 only surbibing son of Admiral Vernon. 
 In Plymouth, England. 
 
 Che modest front of this smull floor, 
 Beliehe me, reader, ca say more 
 Chav manp wa braber marble can,— 
 “Here lies wv truly honest man.” 
 
 On Ashton. 
 
 Gpitaph placed by a Frenchman on bis moth- 
 er’s tombstone : 
 Hiret at the rendezbous, 
 
 Gpituph ow the celebrated Groglish printer and 
 bookseller, Jacob Conson, tho died in 1730: 
 
 The bolume of his life being finished, here is 
 the end of ducob Conson. Gleep, uuthors, and 
 brewk pour pens: pour Conson, effaced from the 
 book, is no more; but print this last inscription 
 ow this last page of death, for fear that, delibered 
 fo the press of the grabe, he, the editor, should 
 fount a Title. “Here lies a bookseller, the leat of 
 bis life being finished, nboaiting wu nef edition, 
 
 fo 
 
 angmented and corrected.” 
 41 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Sn Aliscombe churchyard, Debonshire, is the 
 follotoing : 
 
 Here lie the remains of James Padp, brick- 
 maker, late of this parish, in hopes that bis clay 
 foill be remoulded in wx forkmanlike manner, far 
 superior to his former perishuble materials. 
 
 Che body of Benjamin Franklin, printer 
 (like the cober of an old book, its contents torn 
 out, and stript of its lettering und gilding), lies 
 bere, food for Morms; pet the foork itself shall 
 not be lost, for it fill uppeur once more in w nebo 
 and more beantiful edition, corrected und amended 
 by the uuthor. (He was born dan. bth, 1706 ; 
 died April 17th, 1790.) 
 
 Franklin’s epitaph, designed by himself. 
 
 Gndernenth is buried Sir Christopher Wren, 
 builder of this church und city, Soho lied about 
 ninety pears, not to himself, but to the public 
 good. Reader! if thou seekest bis monument, 
 
 look round, 
 On Str Christopher Wren, in St. Paul’s, London. 
 
 Aear this spot ure deposited the remains of 
 one foho possessed beauty fithont banity, strength 
 42 
 
Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 Mithout insolence, courage bithout ferocity, and 
 all the birtues of man foithout bis bices. This 
 praise, Which would be unmeaning flattery if 
 inscribed ober human ashes, is but a just tribute 
 to the memory of Boutshouin, u dog, ho fas 
 born ut Aewofoundland, May, 1809, and died at 
 dleostend Abbey, Nob. 18, 1808. 
 
 Epitaph written by Lord Byron on his dog. 
 
 GAi kindly bleat, fohew she did spp him, 
 She ran for’ speed: 
 A friend mair faithful ne'er came nigh him, 
 Chaw Maile dead. 
 ROBERT BURNS, 
 On his favorite sheep. 
 A resurrection to immortality is here expected 
 for fohat fas mortal of the Reberend Mr. John 
 Richardson, once fellow of Barbard College, 
 ufteroards teacher to the church of HAewbury. 
 put off April 7, VH28. 
 Epitaph in Newburyport, Massachusetts. 
 The following epitaph is at pebosey, Bedford- 
 shire, Grgland : 
 Bere lies the body of udp O'Hooney, great- 
 
 wiece of Burke, commonly called the Sublime. 
 43 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 She foxs bland, passionate, and deeply religions ; 
 also she painted im Water-colors, and sent seberal 
 pictures to the Exhibition. She fous first cousin 
 fo Lady Jones, and of such is the kingdom of 
 benben. 
 
 Richard Basset, the old clerk of this parish, 
 foho had continued the offtce of clerk and sexton 
 for the spuce of forty-three pears, tobose melodp 
 fous farbled forth as if he bad been thumped on 
 the buck foith a stone, fous buried om the 20th 
 September, 166. ln a Sussex chuvchvard: 
 
 The epitaph on Thomas Wilson, Lord Bishop 
 of the Asle of Wan, closes thus : 
 
 Chis monument fons erected by his son, 
 Thomas Wilson, w native of this parish, who, 
 inv obedience to the express commands of bis 
 father, declines gibing bim the character be justly 
 Deserbed. Wet this island speak the rest. 
 
 Gpitaph on X. Gedge, a printer, died 1818, 
 in the churchyard of Bury St. Edmunds: 
 
 Here rest the remains of X. Gedge, printer. 
 44 
 
Epigram and Epitaph. 
 
 Hike x Wworn-out character, he hus returned to 
 the Founder, hoping that be fill be re-cust in a 
 better und more perfect mould. 
 
 oor Charles! His innocent pleasure fas to 
 roto ow the Souter. Alas! he fous the bictim of 
 this fatal desire, fohich conducted bim to the 
 tomb, Reader! consider that the futer in Which 
 he fous drofoned is the amassed tears of bis rela- 
 HOES ANN ATIENNS, rn the cemetery of Montmartre. 
 
 An epitaph on wu tombstone im Nebmarket, 
 
 Gugland, ov one of tho Wwibes of Com Sexton, 
 TeAds : 
 
 Here lies the body of Sarah Sexton, 
 She fous u bite that neber bexed one, 
 d can’t say so much for the one ut the wert stone. 
 
 45 
 
Philosophy 
 
PHILOSOPHY. 
 
 Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy.—Romeo and $ultet. 
 N attempting to define what utterances may be 
 properly classified under the head of Philosophy, 
 it seemed to me that they should generally be those 
 which set forth or suggest a definite principle. Worldly 
 philosophy and worldly wisdom are so near allied that per- 
 haps any distinction would be fanciful; and the same is 
 almost as true of Christian philosophy and religious wisdom. 
 Still, I imagine that there is a metaphysical aspect to all 
 themes, which is entitled to be called Philosophy rather than 
 by the designation of her more irrefragable sister, Wisdom. 
 
 4 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 \ 
 
 Rothing can be put, us it bere, into wv mental 
 fucuum, and knofon in and bp itself. 
 
 JAMES MARTINEAU, 
 
 Man map Inp hiolent hands on himself and on 
 bis ofow blessings, und for this he must im the 
 second round deplore bis crime With unabailing 
 penitence, Oar 
 
 Che surest means to conbince one’s self of a 
 life ufter denth is so to act im the present that 
 one must fish it. FICHTE, 
 
 GHhen thou art preparing to commit uw sin, 
 think not that thou wilt conceal it; there is a God 
 
 that forbids crimes to be hidden. — yputvs. 
 51 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Che grent Creator foe behold not; he beils 
 himself foithin his ofow eternal lus. Che seep- 
 fic sees their operution, but be beholds wot him. 
 “Hberefore un God?” he cries; ‘ the world itself 
 suffices for itself.” And the piety of no Chris- 
 finn has praised him more than docs this sceptic’s 
 blasphemy. SCHILLER, 
 
 Any nebo formula which suddenly emerges in 
 our consciousness hus its roots in long trains of 
 thought ; it is birtually old When it first makes 
 its uppeurunce among the recognized grofoths of 
 our intellect. One 
 
 4 neber, indeed, could persuade mpself thut 
 souls confined in these mortal bodies can be prop- 
 erly said to libe, und that, fohen thes lenbe them, 
 they die; or thut they lose all sense Moher parted 
 from these bebicles: but, om the contrary, MOohen 
 the mind is fwholly freed from all corporal mix- 
 ture, and begins to be purified, and recober itself 
 again, then, und ther only, it becomes tralp 
 
 knofsing nnd foise. CICERO, 
 52 
 
Philosophy 
 
 Do pou foonder that man goes to the gods? 
 God comes tr men; nay, hat is pet neurer, be 
 comes into men, alo good mind is holy without 
 
 Gov. SENECA, 
 
 Mere art deprubes taste; just us mere the- 
 
 ology deprabes religion. hearst fue 
 
 St is impossible for the human mind to think 
 fyhat it thinks existent lapsing into non-existence, 
 either in time pust or im time future, 
 
 SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, 
 
 The utheist, seeking God in hain through 
 nuture, seems like the shudol denying the evist- 
 
 ence of the sum because it never strikes upow it. 
 ANON. 
 
 Che footprints of u burbariun in the sand 
 probe the presence of man to that same atheist 
 foho denies the existence of a God of Mhose hand 
 the fohole uniberse bears the maths. = non, 
 
 Philosophy, like eberw thing else in a Chris- 
 dan nation, should be Christian. 
 
 AUGUSTUS HARE, 
 a3 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Gt is the terror thut urises from bis ofon dis- 
 honest and ebil life that chiefly torments a man; 
 bis foickeduess dribes him to and fro, raching 
 him to madness ; the consciousness of bad thoughts 
 and forse deeds terrifies him: these are the neber- 
 dying Furies that inwardly gua bis life aap. 
 
 CICERO, 
 
 Chey foho boust of their tolerance, merely gibe 
 others lenbe to be us careless ubout religion us 
 
 they are themselbes, AUGUSTUS HARE. 
 
 Che idle business of shot, plans om the stuge, 
 flocks of sheep, herds, exercises bith spears, 2 
 hone cust to little dogs, a bit of bread in fish- 
 ponds, Inborings of unts, and burden-carrping 
 runnings ubont of little frightened mice, puppets 
 pulled by strings,—this is fohat life resembles. 
 at is thy duty, then, in the midst of such things 
 to shot good humor, and not # proud air; to 
 understand, hotueber, that ebery man is forth just 
 so much us the things are Worth about Mhich he 
 
 busies himself. MARCUS AURELIUS. 
 Tosh 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Chere is ulvans room for x man of force, 
 and he makes room for many. Society is a 
 troop of thinkers, and the best bends among 
 them tuke the best places. EMERSON. 
 
 He foho does not see God eberpiobere fill find 
 bim nofobere, ANON. 
 
 Obe difference bethoeen heathen birtue und Chris- 
 tian goodness is the difference betfoeen ours und 
 suils, ov rather betfoeen guilens and ships. 
 
 AUGUSTUS HARE, 
 
 WHe must recognize w God from our fo minds 
 before foe can detect a God in the universe of ma- 
 
 ture. SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON. 
 
 Fath in the beracity of our fuculties, if it 
 means anp thing, requires us to beliebe that things 
 are us they appear,—that is, appear to the mind 
 in the last and highest resort. 
 
 JAMES MARTINEAU. 
 
 As to the immortality of the soul, the doctrine 
 
 of stience can determine nothing; for there is 
 55 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 according to it no soul, und no Dping or mor- 
 tality—therefore, ulso, no immortality ; but there 
 is only life, and this is eternal in itself, and 
 fhatcber life is it is just us this; therefore it 
 ufirms, us desus 10: “Wbhosorber beliebeth in 
 me, he neber dies, but it is giben to him to babe 
 life in himself.” FICHTE, 
 
 4 habe heard that, foheneber the mame of man 
 is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is an- 
 
 nounced ; it cleabes to bis constitution. 
 EMERSON, 
 
 for us laws ure necessary that good manners 
 mip be preserbed, so there is need of good manners 
 that Infos may be maintained. MACHIAVELLI. 
 
 Hoble sentiments belong alike to the cultibater 
 und to the rude; the former express, Mobile the 
 Intter feel, them. ANON, 
 
 Chere is no policy like politeness; and w good 
 manner is the best thing in the World, either to 
 
 get one x good name or to supply the fant of it, 
 
 BULWER. 
 56 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Small draughts of philosophy lend to atheism; 
 but larger lead buck to Goo. NicoM 
 
 Ge must reach one of tho results: either 
 learn und discober bof the fact really stands; or 
 else, should this be impossible, at least take up 
 foith the best and most incontrobertible human 
 belief respecting it; and then, borne upon this us 
 im w shiff, benture the bovuge of life,—unless hoe 
 run find w securer and less hazurdons passage on 
 the firmer support of some Divine foord. 
 
 PLATO, 
 
 Hor Mhen J find that the middle condition of 
 life is by far the happiest, J look with little 
 fabor on thut of princes. HORACE. 
 
 BHeanty is ut once the ultimate principle und 
 the highest wim of urt. GOETHE, 
 
 An instinctibe taste teaches men to build their 
 churches in flat countries bith spire-steeples ; 
 fobich, us they cannot be referred to ung other 
 object, point as bith silent finger to the shy and 
 stars, COLERIDGE, 
 
 57 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 All high beauty bus u moral element in it, 
 and J find the untique sculpture as etbicul as 
 Marcus Antoninus, and the beauty eber in pro- 
 portion to the depth of thought. 
 
 EMERSON, 
 
 Calent crentes a fork; genins keeps it from 
 dying. 
 
 ANON. 
 
 Che crofoning fortune of w man is to be born 
 to some pursuit tobich finds him in employment 
 and buppiness,—tohether it be to make buskets, 
 ot broadshords, or cunuals, or statutes, or songs. 
 
 EMERSON, 
 
 For many other reasons, the souls of the good 
 uppear to me to be dibine and eternal ; but chiefly 
 on this uccount, beeuuse the soul of the best and the 
 foisest hus such anticipation of a future state of be- 
 ing, that it seems to centre its thoughts only on 
 
 eternity. CICERO. 
 
 This forld is to the shurpest, benben to the 
 most forthy. ANON. 
 58 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 at is a mistake to sap that it is doubtful 
 fobether there is a God or not. Bt is not in 
 the least doubtful, but the most certain thing in 
 the World, nay, the foundation of all other cer- 
 tainty—the only solid, absolute objectibitp—thut 
 there is x moral gobernment of the forlb. 
 
 FICHTE. 
 
 Mt does not eben need philosophy to ennble us 
 to despise poberty. Wook at the poor: are thep 
 not often obbiously happier than the rich ? 
 
 SENECA, 
 
 Crention is conceibed, und is by us conceib- 
 able, only us the ebolution of existence from 
 possibility into actuality by the fiat of the Meitp. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, 
 
 "C is the fine souls foho serbe us, und not 
 fohut is culled fine society. Sine society is onlp 
 a self-protection uguinst the bSulguritics of the 
 street und the tabern. EMERSON, 
 
 GHe get benutiful effects from foit,—all the 
 prismatic colors,—but neber the object us it is 
 in fair daplight. ; HOLMES, 
 
 9 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 G feeble man can see the farms that ure 
 fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The 
 
 strong man sees the possible houses und farms, 
 EMERSON, 
 
 Co the maw of superficial cleberness almost 
 ebery thing readily takes a ridiculous aspect; to 
 the man of thought ulmost nothing is really 
 ridiculous, GOETHE, 
 
 at is ensier to do justice to those foho ure no 
 longer life, than to those Mho are onlp absent. 
 
 ANON, 
 
 Man is not born to solbe the problems of the 
 universe, but to find ont fohere the problem be- 
 gins, und then to restrain himself within the 
 limits of the comprebensible. GOETHE. 
 
 Co deul With the fact that things “only 
 appear,” us if it constituted un eternal exile 
 from their reality, is to attribute lunacy to 
 
 unibersal reason. JAMES MARTINEAU. 
 
 Man must ulfups in some sense cling to the 
 belief that the unknofwable is knofouble, otherwise 
 
 speculation Mould cense. GOETHE. 
 60 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Co drat carientures of our contemporaries is 
 not difftcult ; it requires only w small portion of 
 
 talent und wu grent fant of courtesy, 
 B. DISRAELI. 
 
 J look upow eberp true thought us v baluuble 
 acquisition to society, fohich cannot possibly hurt 
 or obstruct the good effect of anp other trath 
 
 fohutsorber. MIDDLETON, 
 
 g take with me eberpiohere that best of men, 
 Demetrins ; und, lending those who wear purple 
 robes, J talk with bim tho is bulf-nahed. . . . 
 Che shortest roud to riches lies through contempt 
 of riches, But our Demetrius lives not us though 
 he despised ull things, but as though be simply 
 suffered others to possess them. Eran 
 
 @w reberence for the nuthority of bygone gen- 
 erations Depends the permanence of ebery form 
 of thought or belief, as much us of all social, 
 national, und family life; but on reberence of 
 the spirit, not merely of the letter; of the 
 methods of our ancestors, not merely of their 
 
 conclusions. CHARLES KINGSLEY. 
 61 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Gn ull that surrounds him, the egotist only 
 sees the frame of bis ofw portrait. anon, 
 
 Repetition is the mother, not only of study, 
 but of education. Wike the fresco-puinter, the 
 teacher lays colors ow the fort plaster obich eber 
 fade uoap, and fohich he must eber rene until 
 they remain and brightly shine. — ricurer. 
 
 No hope so bright but is the beginning of its 
 ofon fulfilment. Gbherp generalizntion shows the 
 bap to w larger. TMIER Eo 
 
 Che theist, {ho holos the doctrine of a posi- 
 tibe creation of all things by un uct of bolition, 
 Does not suppose that the Dibine nature suffers 
 decrement by the sum of crevted existences; nor 
 does be think of God as nol, in part eben, met- 
 umorphosed into the uniberse; but us babing 
 made space richer by an absolute angmentation of 
 
 being. JAMES MARTINEAU, 
 
 Qn the nature of Zens, om account of the 
 causal potver, there probes to be inherent » hingly 
 
 liging soul and kingly mind. SOCRATES. 
 62 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 as Dubens by one stroke conberted x lungh- 
 ing into x crping child, so nature frequently 
 mikes this stroke im the original; a child’s epe, 
 like the sun, neber dratos fonter so readily us in 
 the hot temperature of pleasure.  icurer. 
 
 Che ultimate tendency of cibilizution is toward 
 
 barbarism. _AUGUSTUS HARE, 
 
 Sf pou cannot frame pour cirenmstunces in 
 uccordunce fith pour fishes, frame pour bill 
 
 into burmonp With pour circumstances. 
 EPICTETUS., 
 
 St is only before those fho are glad to hear 
 it, und unxions fo sprend it, that be find it 
 ensp to speak ill of others. LEAS, 
 
 Plato knew, and proclaimed foith xs much de- 
 tision us Comte on the other side, thut there could 
 be no compromise; and that men must make their 
 choice, tobetber im this uniberse they foere libing 
 in the grasp of a blind, delirious giant, or bold- 
 ing, us a child, the gracious band, and looking 
 np into the clenr epes of Anfinite Dight and 
 
 Dewson, ‘ JAMES MARTINEAU. 
 3 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Since it is Probidence that determines the fates 
 of men, their inner nature is thus bronght into 
 unison. Chere is such hurmong, us in ull things 
 of nature, that one might explain the Whole fith- 
 out referring to a higher Providence. But this 
 only probes the more cleurly and certainly this 
 higher Probidence, tobich hus giben existence to 
 ibis harmony. WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT. 
 
 Ebery thing bus tho handles: one by which 
 it map be borne, the other by which it cannot. 
 df pour brother be unjust, do not take up the 
 matter by that hundle—the handle of bis injus- 
 tice,—for that handle is the one by fobich it 
 cannot be taken up; but rather by the handle 
 that be is pour brother, und then pou fill be 
 taking it up us it can be borne. gpicrerus. 
 
 Hothing is clearer than that all things ure in 
 ull things, and that just according to the intensity 
 und extension of our mental being fe shull see 
 the mang in the one and the one in the mang. 
 
 3 HOLMES. 
 Chose blessings fhich fe ure foreber expect- 
 
 ing are the only ones fobich neber deceibe us, 
 
 64 ANON. 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Fortune is un ebil bond of the bodp, hice of 
 the soul; for he is a slube those bodp is free 
 but fobose soul is bound, und, on the contrary, 
 be is free fohose body is bound but Mhose soul 
 
 is free. EPICTETUS. 
 
 Che names of ulmost all animals, so long us 
 they ure alibe, are Saxon; fohen dressed and 
 prepared for food they become Norman. . . 
 Che Suxow bind had the charge und labor of 
 fending and feeding them, but only that thep 
 might appear on the table of bis Norman lord, 
 Thus, ox, steer, cow, ure. Saxon, beef is Hor- 
 man; calfis Saxon, Seal is Gorman; sheep is 
 
 Suxon, but mutton, Torman. TRENCH. 
 
 Did the Almighty, holding in his right band 
 Truth, and in bis left Search after Cruth, deign 
 to proffer me the one 4 might prefer, in all bu- 
 mility, but foithout hesitation, J should request 
 
 Search after Cruth. LESSING. 
 
 To encourage talent is to create it, 
 ANON, 
 5 65 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Fatalism and atheism ure conbertible terms. 
 Che only balid arguments for the existence of a 
 Gov, und for the immortality of the human soul, 
 rest on the ground of man’s moral naiure; con- 
 sequently, if that moral nature be unnibilaten, 
 fohich in any scheme of thorough-going neces- 
 sity it is, ebery conclusion, estublished on such u 
 nature, is unnibilated likebvise. 
 
 SIR WM. HAMILTON. 
 Go refer ull plensures to ussociation is to uc- 
 knofoledge no sound but echo. syeusrus HARE. 
 
 Chere is always w best tap of doing ebery thing, 
 if it be to boil an egg. MMunners are the happy 
 foups of doing things: euch once u stroke of 
 genius ot of lobe,—nol repeated and hardened 
 
 into usage. EMERSON, 
 
 At ’s fwell Me should feel ws life’s w reckoning 
 foe can’t make tice ober ; there's wo real making 
 amends in this world, any more nor pou can 
 mend a forong subtraction by domg pour addi- 
 
 tion right. GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 dt is a bard but good laty of fate, that us ebery 
 
 ebil, so eberp excessibe potuer, forars itself ont. 
 
 HERDER. 
 66 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Ebery individual man bus a bins hich he 
 must obey; und it is only us be feels and obeps 
 this that he rightly debelops and attains bis legiti- 
 mate potoer iw the forld. mreaSOn! 
 
 Cruth is so related and correlated thut no de- 
 partment of ber realm is tobollp isolated. 
 
 GARFIELD. 
 
 Marriage is the beginning und the summit of 
 all cibilizution. at mukes the subage mild; and 
 ihe most highly cultibated man bas no better 
 
 means of demonstrating bis mildness. 
 GOETHE, 
 
 Gf life, like the olibe, is a bitter fruit, then 
 grasp both with the press, and they fill afford 
 the stoeetest oil. RICHTER. 
 
 Ho fe not ull ugree to cull rapid thought, 
 noble impulse, by the name of inspiration? 
 After our subtlest analpsis of the mental pro- 
 cess, foe must still sup that our highest thoughts 
 and our best deeds ure all giben to us, 
 
 GEORGE ELIOT, 
 
 Che soul is the perceiber und rebenler of truth. 
 
 Ge know truth fohem foe see it, let sceptic and 
 67 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 scoffer sup fobut they choose. Wile know truth 
 fohen foe see it, from opinion, us We knob fen 
 foe are nbouke that fe are nfowke. prerson. 
 
 allusion is just as possible by error in the 
 mind's neutral tint, as by a false laping om of 
 
 the pure color. * JAMES MARTINEAU. 
 
 Sumpuathize bith others, ut least externally, 
 fohen they are in sorrow and misfortune; but 
 remember in pour of heart that to the brabe 
 and foise and true there is really no such thing 
 as misfortune. EPICTETUS. 
 
 GAhut this country longs for is personalities, 
 grand persons, to counteract its materiulities, 
 for it is the rule of the uniberse that corm shall 
 gerbe mun, and not man corn. HERON 
 
 Of all that exists, the only thing susceptible 
 cf the prerogatibe of reason Wwe must pronounce 
 to be soul; and this is inbistble, fohile fire and 
 fonter, and earth und ait, all present themselbes 
 
 th) bisible bodies. PLATO. 
 68 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Che larger the uniberse of our faith, the more 
 copious are the phenomens delivered to our phil- 
 osophy. So that Christianity, far from con- 
 fracting the compuss of our science, rather expands 
 it fo its ofon sublime proportions. 
 
 JAMES MARTINEAU, 
 
 Jou must libe for another, if pow wish to 
 
 libe for pourself. SENECA, 
 
 Thut last day brings not to us extinction, but 
 merely change of place. erunet 
 
 My soul begaw to regret the harshness of mp 
 first fords; J ulmost think it regretted them a 
 moment before they foere uttered. dm like man- 
 ner, foben one mects in the round a rut or a pud- 
 dle, one sees it, but has not time to uboid it. 
 
 XAVIER LE MAISTRE, 
 
 Chow hast not what others habe, and others 
 fount fobut thow hast got; out of this imperfect 
 state of things springs the social good of the 
 fyorld. df the gifts Which nature bestofoed on 
 me did not fail mp neighbor, he Mould think of 
 himself alone, and neber fouste u thought on me. 
 
 CHRISTIAN GELLERT. 
 69 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Our deeds determine us, xs much us foe deter- 
 mine our deeds; und until fe know what bus 
 been or Will be the peculiar combination of ont- 
 fourd Mith intourd facts, obich constitutes a man’s 
 critical uctions, it fill be better not to think our- 
 
 selbes foise nbout his character. oop op Pater 
 
 Co communicate our feelings und sentiments is 
 naturul ; to take np What is communicated just as 
 it is communicated, is culture. uric 
 
 Che charlatun ascends to the lowest point of 
 intellectual Iebel, like those rocks on the shore 
 hich only grofw large us the tide goes out. 
 
 ANON, 
 
 Che name of “ foise” seems to me, O Phe- 
 drus! w great mutter, und to belong to God 
 alone, A maw may be more fitlp denominated 
 “ philosophus,” “ foould-be-foise,” or some such 
 
 wHMme, PLATO. 
 
 He is not berw sure of self-upprobation fhe 
 
 foo eagerly seeks thut of others. ANON, 
 70 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Concentration is the secret of strength im poli- 
 tics, iv four, in trade; in short, in all manage- 
 ment of human uffuirs. EMERSON, 
 
 4 canna turn ber, say Oobhat ¥ will. Ft’s 
 allaps the fap for them meeh-faced people; pou 
 map ’s foell pelt a bug o’ feathers us talk to ’em. 
 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Che little dissutisfaction fMhich eberp artist 
 feels at the completion of Work is the germ of x 
 nef fork, AUERBACH. 
 
 Genins is a mind of large general polvers, 
 uccidentally determined to some particular direc- 
 
 fiom, JOHNSON. 
 
 at is ulups more bopeful—uloays, us J 
 think, more philosophic—to throw the blame of 
 failure on man, ow our ston selbes, rather than on 
 God und the perfect lato of bis universe. 
 
 CHARLES KINGSLEY, 
 
 The grent doctrines of u future state, the 
 dangers of a course of foichedness, and the eff- 
 
 cacy of repentance ure not only confirmed in the 
 pa 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Gospel, but are taught—especially the last is— 
 with wu degree of light to Which that of nature is 
 darkness, rear 
 
 UHisdom is not, as pou think, wn art that can 
 be learned; fisdom comes from abobe. Jt is 
 fohat Heabew sends, und only to the children of 
 earth foho turn themselbes to it. 
 
 PAUL FLEMING. 
 
 All the wise, true to the conscions dignity 
 of Wisdom, sup, Mith one accord, that mind is 
 king of beabew and earth. SOCRATES. 
 
 All thut clothes a man, eben to the blue skp 
 fohich cups bis hewd,—a little loosely,—shapes 
 itself to fit exch particular being benenth it. 
 
 HOLMES. 
 
 Bow mang of our most cherished beliefs ure 
 like those drinking-glasses of the ancient pattern, 
 that serbe us forll so long as foe keep them in our 
 hand, bnt spill all if foe attempt to set them dofon. 
 
 HOLMES. 
 
 That experience Which docs not make ug better, 
 
 mukes us Morse. ANON. 
 72 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Af vow fish to behold God, pou map see him 
 mt ebery object nround; search in- pour breust, 
 and pow fill fnd him there. And if pou do 
 not pet perceibe fohere he dtwells, confute me, if 
 
 pou can, and sap fohere be is not. 
 METASTASIO. 
 
 Hut understandest thow hots much eusier it is 
 to be w pious bisionarp than to act an honest part 
 in life? hot foillingly the forst of men is a 
 pious enthusiast only—at times be himself is not 
 really aboare of bis motibes—that he map not re- 
 quire to uct un honest part ? LESSING. 
 
 qreserbe pour just relations to other mew ; 
 
 their misconduct does not affect pour duties. 
 EPICTETUS. 
 
 Gberp man bas libed long enough tbo bas 
 gone through all the duties of lite with unblew- 
 ished character. CICERO, 
 
 Those foho ure altoxps seeing happiness among 
 others ure those foho cam find it nolohere for 
 themselbes. ANON. 
 
 73 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Cime is no ugent, us some people appear to 
 think, that it should accomplish unp thing of 
 
 rself. AUGUSTUS HARE. 
 
 Ahetoric may be taught, if uny one thinks it 
 forth lexrning ; but eloquence is a gift us inmate 
 as the genius from which it springs. parpar. 
 
 GHhen the ambitions man foithdraws from the 
 parties fobich habe raised him to potver, be re- 
 sembles the fool, f&ho, mounting a ladder, breaks 
 the rounds ufter bimv: should be fall, it Mould be 
 into wn ubpss. on 
 
 bo eber knew truth put to the Morse in a 
 free and open encounter ? MILTON. 
 
 Wang people caw ride ow borsebach fhe find 
 it hurd to get on und to get off fithout ussist- 
 ance, One has to dismount from an wen, nnd 
 
 get into the saddle aguin, at ebery parenthesis. 
 HOLMES. 
 
 Mt seems us if foe kept part of that happiness 
 fobhich foe gabe abap. ANON. 
 74 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Chere is in ebery unimal’s epe w dim image 
 and gleam of humanity, x flash of strange light 
 through which their lite looks out und up to our 
 great mystery of command ober them, und claims 
 the fellowship of the creature, if not of the soul, 
 
 RUSKIN. 
 
 Chat fobhich fe ure foe shull teach, not bol- 
 untarilp, but inboluntarily. Thoughts come ints 
 our minds by wbennes fobich foe neber left open, 
 and thoughts go out of our minds through 
 abennes fohich fe weber Soluntarily opened. 
 Character teaches ober our head. emerson. 
 
 Che best of us being unfit to die, fhat at in- 
 expressible ubsurdity to put the worst to death! 
 
 HAWTHORNE, 
 
 Chere ure human tempers, bland, glowing, and 
 genial, foithin Whose influence it is good for the 
 poor in spirit to libe, us it is for the feeble in 
 
 frame to busk in the glow of noon. 
 CHARLOTTE BRONTE, 
 
 The hate fe beur our enemies injures their 
 
 happiness less than ours. ANON, 
 75 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Che umbitions mun treats his friends like the 
 rounds of a ladder, first seizing them by the band 
 to mount uphard, und then trampling them 
 underfoot. ANON, 
 
 Genius, like w torch, shines less in the broad 
 light of the present than in the night of the past. 
 
 ANON, 
 
 Che best o° Working is, it gibes pou a grip 
 hold o' things outside pour oben lot. 
 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Ao man bus w prosperity so bigh or firm but 
 thoo or three foords can dishearten it. GOhere is 
 no calamity fobich right tords fill not begin to 
 redress. ANON. 
 
 Be thut striketh un instrument With shill, may 
 cunse nothithstanding a bery unpleasant sound 
 if the string Whereow pe strikes chance to be 
 
 incapuble of harmony, RICHARD HOOKER, 
 
 Altaps there is w black spot im our sunshine ; 
 
 it is the shadotv of ourselbes, ena ek 
 76 
 
Philosophy 
 
 Gmotion, J fear, is obstinately irrational ; it 
 insists ow carmg for indibiduals ; it absolutely 
 refuses to adopt a quuntitatibe bie of human 
 anguish, and to admit that thirteen happy libes 
 are a set-off uguinst thelbe miserable lites, fbich 
 
 leabes a clear balance ow the side of sutisfaction. 
 GEORGE ELIOT, 
 
 Sop is the muinspring im the Whole round of 
 eberlusting ature ; jop, joo mobes the Wheels of 
 the great timepiece of creation; she it is that 
 loosens flowers from their buds, suns front their 
 firmament; she that rolls spheres in distant 
 
 space, seen not by the glass of the astronomer. 
 SCHILLER. 
 
 ¥ sometimes think the less the hint thut stirs 
 the antomatic machinery of association, the more 
 
 easily this mobes us. HOLMES. 
 
 Aw the centuries before us, humanity appears 
 io us to be growing up; in those fohich come 
 nfter us, to be fading afay; im our ofon, to 
 
 burst forth in glorious bloom: thus do the 
 oF 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 clouds, onlp foben iv our Zenith, seem to mobe 
 straight forward ; those in front of us come np 
 from our horizon, the others behind us sail dofn- 
 fourd with foresbortened forms. RICHTER. 
 
 Che protection of the great is like the shelter 
 of those high trees Shich protect us from the 
 rain but attract the lightning. ANON. 
 
 He Hho hus wx good sent should not lebe it, 
 
 DON JUAN MANUEL. 
 
 Chere is wo external politeness Mhich bus not a 
 root in the moral nature of man. Forms of 
 politeness, therefore, should neber be inculeated 
 on poung persons fithout letting them under- 
 stand the moral ground on tobich all such forms 
 
 Tesh. GOETHE. 
 
 Wherever there is failure there is some guddt- 
 
 ness, some superstition vbont luck, some step 
 
 omitted, fobicy nature neber pardons. 
 ; EMERSON, 
 
 dior the boty cannot possibly stand altouns 
 bent, nor caw human nature or human frailty 
 
 subsist Without some lnwful recreation, 
 
 CERVANTES. 
 78 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Cle cannot probe our faith by spllogisms. 
 The urguent refuses to form in the mind. You 
 cannot make uw foritten theory or demonstration 
 of this. dt must be sucredly trented. 
 
 EMERSON. 
 
 Che ablest foriter ig a gurdener first, and then 
 
 a cook, Ais tasks are, carefully to select and 
 
 cultibate bis strongest und most nutritibe thoughts, 
 
 and, foher thes ure ripe, to dress them fobole- 
 somely, and so that they map babe w relish. 
 AUGUSTUS HARE. 
 
 How con wu maw learn to know himself? By 
 reflection weber, only by uction, Aw the meusure 
 in fohich thou seekest to do thy duty shalt thou 
 know fohut is iw thee. But Mbhat is thy dutp? 
 Che demand of the hour. 
 
 GOETHE. 
 
 J care for myself. Ohe more solitary, the 
 more friendless, the more unsustained J um, the 
 
 more J foill respect myself. 
 CHARLOTTE BRONTE, 
 
 GAhew pou ure reading wv book, and an agree- 
 able iver suddenly enters pour imagination, pour 
 soul attaches herself to the nefo iden at once, and 
 forgets the book, tobile pour eves follow mechani- 
 
 79 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 cully the fords und lines. Bou get through the 
 page Without understanding it, and without re- 
 membering fhat pow babe rend. low this is 
 because pour soul, hubing ordered her companion 
 to read to her, guoe no foarning of the short ub- 
 sence she contemplated, so that the other foent on 
 reading fohat the soul no longer attended to, 
 
 XAVIER LE MAISTRE., 
 
 Gberp man has w rainy corner of bis life, ont 
 of fohich foul Wenther proceeds, und follots wfter 
 
 bam. RICHTER. 
 
 Fools that fe ure! Why should fe fear 
 our knees to horn, and sorrofofullp beat our 
 breasts, praping day und night to Wammon, 
 foho, if be fwould eben hear us, has almost 
 nothing to gibe? For, granting that the dend 
 brute-god foere to relent for our sacrificings—to 
 change our gilt brass into solid gold, and, instead 
 of hungry actors of rich gentility, make us all in 
 herp deed Rothschild-Hobards to-morro—twhat 
 good feere it? Are fe not ulreadp denizens of 
 this fondrous England, With its high Shake- 
 speares and Bampdens; nap, of this foondrous 
 
 80 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 uniberse, bith its qulaxies und eternities, und un- 
 speakuble splendors, that foe should so forty, 
 and scramble, und fear one another in pieces for 
 some uctes (nap, still oftener, for the shot of 
 some ucres), more or less, of clay property? the 
 largest of Mobich properties—the Sutherland itself 
 —is inbisible from the moon. CARLYLE. 
 
 Jf pou ure robbed, remind pourself that pour 
 pence of mind is of more balue und importance 
 
 thun the thing Which has been stolen from pou, 
 EPICTETUS., 
 
 Go recall benefits fe bube bestowed shots 
 fount of tact; to forget those bestobed on us, 
 shotus fount of beart. ANON, 
 
 Virtue is not to be considered im the light of 
 mere innocence or ubstaining from harm; but us 
 
 the exertion of our faculties in doing good. 
 JOSEPH BUTLER. 
 
 Chere is no uccounting for the difference of 
 minds or inclinations; fbich leads one man to 
 
 obserbe with interest the debelopment of phenom- 
 6 81 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 ena, another to speculate on the causes; but fere 
 it not for this hupppy disagreement it may be 
 doubted fohether the higher sciences could eber 
 hube attained eben their present degree of perfec- 
 
 tion, SIR JOHN HERSCHEL, 
 
 One morsel ’s us good us another fMben pour 
 
 month ’s out o’ taste. GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 at must indeed be an undiseriminating nund 
 fohich cannot see that a true cause is one thing, 
 and guite another is that fithout Mbich the cause 
 could neber babe causality ; pet this, it seems, is 
 fohat most men, With thought groping us in the 
 bark, designate as the cause itself, ussigning it a 
 name to fobich it bas no right. Pres 
 
 at is true that misfortune—renl misfortune 
 (vot imaginary, fobich foe ereute for onrseloes)— 
 is the surest touchstone of human excellence, and 
 that equanimity and strength of mind belong es- 
 pecinlly to it; to ork Without constraint on the 
 fyorld, fohew fate cuts off ull our springs of en- 
 jopment, and eben binds our bands in forking. 
 
 GEORGE FORSTER. 
 82 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Mow munpy think to atone for the ebil they. 
 bube done by the good thep intend to do, and are 
 only Sirtuons in prospectibe ! ANON. 
 
 Our thoughts are often more than foe are, just 
 as they are otten better than fe wre. And Gord 
 sees us as fe are altogether, not in separate 
 feelings or actions, as our fellof-men see ns, 
 GHe ure uloaps doing each other mjustice, und 
 thinking better or forse of each other thaw fe 
 Deserbe, because fe only hear separate feelings or 
 
 actions, le don’t see each other's fhole nature. 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Abstract wWens and great conceit are eber on 
 
 the rond to produce terrible catastrophes. 
 GOETHE. 
 
 The ludicrous hus its place iv the uniberse; it 
 is not x human inbention, but one of the Divine 
 ens, illustrated in the practical jokes of hittens 
 and monkeps long before Aristophanes or Shake- 
 
 SPeare, HOLMES. 
 
 Our efficiency depends so much ow our concen- 
 
 tration, that lature usually, in the instances 
 83 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 fohere & marked mun is sent into the forld, 
 oberlouds him bith bias, sucrificing bis symmetry 
 to his forking potoer. arneert 
 
 Hiberty is the right to do Mohut the laws allot; 
 and if w citizen could do fohat they forbid, it 
 foould be no longer liberty, because others fould 
 babe the same potoers. MONTESQUIEU. 
 
 Che present is neber our goul: the past and 
 the present are out means; the future alone is 
 our goul, Obhus foe are neber libing, but foe 
 hope to live; and looking forfoard ulfoaps to be 
 happy, it is inebitable that foe should weber be so. 
 
 PASCAL, 
 
 df pou choose to represent the barions parts in 
 life by holes upon w table, of different shapes, 
 some citculur, some triangular, some aquure, 
 some oblong; und the persons acting those purts 
 by bits of food of similar shapes, foe shall gen- 
 erally find that the triangular person bus got ints 
 the square bole, the oblong into the triangular, 
 and w squire person bas squeezed himself into 2 
 
 round bole. SYDNEY SMITH. 
 84 
 
Philosophy 
 
 dlature seems to exist for the excellent? The 
 forld is upheld by the berucity of good men: 
 they muhke the earth foholesome. We cull our 
 children und our lands by their names; their 
 
 forks und efhgies ure i our houses. 
 EMERSON, 
 
 Che reuson fohp so felv people ure agreeable in 
 tonbersution is, that each is thinking more on 
 fohat be is intending to say thaw on fohat others 
 nre saying, und that foe neber listen Moher foe are 
 
 Desitous to speak, LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 
 
 Hot difficult it is to bring wv matter before the 
 mind of another for his opinion, tithout gibing 
 a bias to bis judgment ! PRSGALE 
 
 As foe grow lees poung, the aged grow less 
 old: us if time guoe ns the peurs it took from 
 
 them. ANON. 
 
 A man that is poung in pears mug be old in 
 hours, if he bube lost no time, fobicl happeneth 
 
 rarely. BACON- 
 85 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Che brillimney of genins is wdmired less than 
 its defects are noticed; us the sun is especinlly 
 obserbed on the dups of its eclipse. anon, 
 
 GHorloly fame is nothing but w breath of find 
 that blots not this foup, nob that, and changes 
 name us it changes sides. DANTE 
 
 Che more fe deny ourselbes, the more the gods 
 supply our fants. HORACE. 
 
 GHomen, iv a course of auction, deseribe w 
 smaller circle thaw men: but the perfection of a 
 circle is not i its Dimensions, but im its correct- 
 
 WlES, HANNAH MORE, 
 
 Pou weber weed think pou can turn ober any 
 old falsehood fithout w terrible squirming and 
 scattering of the horrid little population thut 
 Divells under it. HOLMES, 
 
 GHbhere there ure laws, he Who bas not broken 
 them need not tremble. AL aTERT: 
 86 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Andicision mars all success: there caw be no 
 good find for thut sailor foo knots not to fohut 
 port he is bound, ANON. 
 
 As for farming, it’s putting money into pour 
 pocket for pour right band and fetching it out for’ 
 pour left, . . . Gt’s more thun flesh and 
 blood ’ull bear sometimes, to be toiling and strib- 
 ing, and np carly and dofow late, and hardly 
 sleeping a Wink fohen pow lie dofn for thinking 
 as the cheese may smell, or the coos map slip 
 ther caloes, or fohent may grow green uguin i’ the 
 sheaf ; and atter all, at th’ end of the peur, it’s 
 as if pou ’d been cooking a feast and bad got the 
 
 smell of it for pour puins. PE OR OTT TOT 
 
 Che bee and the serpent often suck ut the self- 
 same flower; but the food undergoes in then 
 grent change, for the flower becomes poison in the 
 breast of the serpent, fobile in the bee it becomes 
 
 n sboeet liquid. METASTASIO, 
 
 Cruth fos the message fobich all great men 
 
 bad to communicate to the human race; truth, 
 87 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 the relation of things to one another und to us. 
 Chey discharged properly their commission, and 
 gube ns truth, the jeboel of the hise, the shord in 
 
 the fool's band. GEORGE FORSTER. 
 
 De who gives np the smallest part of w secret 
 bas the rest uo longer in his poter. 
 RICHTER. 
 
 GHe prefer to perfect people those Hho are 
 worth something to ourselbes, ANON, 
 
 A foenk mind sinks under prosperity us foell 
 ag under udbersity. A strong and deep mind 
 bus theo highest tides,—foben the moow is ut the 
 
 full, and fobhew there is no moon, 
 JULIUS HARE, 
 
 Be cannot habe w grent deal of mind fhe can- 
 not afford to let the larger part of it lie fallofy, 
 
 MARGARET FULLER. 
 
 Che clearness of the wir ow mountain tops 
 Deceibes the epe, und brings the distant objects 
 wear; und, in like manner, the clearer the talent 
 
 of un author, the ensier it seems to reach. 
 
 ANON, 
 88 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Power will uccomplish more by gentle than bp 
 hiolent means, und calmness fill best enforce the 
 
 imperial mundute, CLAUDIANUS. 
 
 GHe ure neber good enough at the bottom in 
 out ofen eyes to be abobe trping to appear so to 
 
 the epes of others. ANON, 
 
 ® faithful conscience, delicately clear, hobo doth 
 w little failing found thee sore | DANTE. 
 
 GHooden folks bud weed bu’ Wooden things to 
 
 bundle, GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 dt is by no means necessary to understand 
 
 things to speak confidently ubout them. 
 BEAUMARCHAIS, 
 
 Gile gibe altogether too little importance to 
 hat fe say of others, und too much to fohat © 
 
 they sup of neg, ANON. 
 
 Who is the happiest person? We Whose na- 
 ture ashs for nothing that ibe foorld dors not 
 ish und nese, GOETHE. 
 
 89 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 du speaking of a child, foe bube pleasure not 
 onlp from fwhat toe see, but eben from fohut foe 
 
 ho pe for. GOETHE. 
 
 GHe may receibe so much light as not to see, 
 wd so much philosophy as to be forse than 
 
 foolish, LANDOR. 
 
 A man cur neber do any thing at bariance With 
 his ofow nature, He carries oithin him the germ 
 of his most exceptional action; and if foe Wise 
 people make eminent fools of ourseloes on anp 
 particular occasion, foe must endure the legitimate 
 conclusion that foe carry a feo grains of folly to 
 our ounce of foisdom., GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 The longer J lie and learn experience, the 
 more J wm conbinced that indibidual actions 
 probe nothing either for or ugninst a man; the 
 fohole life must be takew into uccount, for there is 
 wo other mensure of character thaw the relation of 
 the foill to the conscience, or the feeling of right 
 and hrong. GEORGE FORSTER. 
 
 gO 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Go succeed in our fork, We should exuggerate 
 its importance. ANON. 
 
 The feo mew Who think iv common bith us 
 are much more necessary to us thaw the fohole of 
 the rest of mankind; thep gibe strength and tone 
 
 to ont principles. GEORGE FORSTER. 
 
 Gf thow conquerest, do not exult too openly; 
 nor, if thow art conquered, befowil thy fate, Iping 
 dofow in thy house. HORACE. 
 
 Chere is w fellowship among the birtues, by 
 fohich one great, generous passion stimulates 
 
 another ; GARFIELD. 
 
 GHhen the political economist reckons np the 
 unproductibe classes, he should put at the bead the 
 tliss of pitiers of themselbes, crubers of sym- 
 
 pathy, betowiling imaginary disasters. 
 EMERSON, 
 
 Che ingratitude of our children recalls to us 
 the kindness of our fathers. eS. 
 gi 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Sin hae many tools, but a lie is the handle 
 fhich fits them all. Nee 
 
 Che modernness of ull good books seems to 
 gibe me um existence us Wide as man. What is 
 foell done J feel us if ¥ did; What is ill done J 
 
 rech not of, EMERSON. 
 
 The desire of potoer in excess caused angels to 
 fall; the desire of knotoledge in excess cansed 
 man to fall; but in charity is wo excess, neither 
 
 can man ot angels come into danger by it. 
 BACON. 
 
 Gherp thing in Which J habe beew enguged in 
 this foorld, as the wisest of men think, will be 
 regarded in vfter-ages us belonging to my souls 
 at present, ut ull chents, J delight myself with 
 such thoughts and hopes. CICERO. 
 
 GB Wise man fill so uct that Mhateber he does 
 map rather seem Soluntary und of bis ofow free 
 fill than done by compulsion, boleber much he 
 
 may be compelled by necessity. 
 
 MACHIAVELLI. 
 92 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Loud indignation aguinst bice often stands for 
 birtue fith bigots. ANON, 
 
 Gile place a happy life in tranquillity of mind. 
 
 CICERO, 
 
 Success feeds foith fresh hopes; they are able 
 
 to conquer because then seem to be able. 
 VIRGIL. 
 
 Che goods of fortune seldom ubuil anp thing 
 tofoard the relief of misfortunes sent from henben. 
 
 CERVANTES. 
 
 Speech is like cloth of QArras opened und put 
 abrowd, fobereby the imagery doth appear in 
 figure; fobereas in thoughts they lie but us in 
 
 packs. PLUTARCH. 
 
 Men's libes are as thoroughly blended with 
 exch other us the wir they breathe; ebil spreads 
 ns necessurily as diseuse. GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Af he does really think that there is no distinc- 
 tion betfoeen birtue und hice, Ooby, sir, oben be 
 
 lenbes our houses lef us count our spoons, 
 
 JOHNSON. 
 93 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 St requires more charms und uddress in omen 
 to rebibe one fainting charm than to kindle nebo 
 
 Owes, SWIFT. 
 
 Gf we Wish to be just judges of ull things, let 
 ug fitst persuade ourseloes of this :—thut there is 
 not one of us Without fault. Cenont 
 
 The philosopher und lober of man babe much 
 barm to say of trade: but the historia fill see 
 that trade fas the principle of liberty; that trade 
 plantes America and destroped Feudalism; that 
 it mukes peace and keeps pence. emerson. 
 
 Hemember that pou ure un uctor of just such # 
 part us is assigned pou by the Poet of the plap; 
 of a short purt, if the purt be short; of a long 
 part, if it be long. Should He Mish you to uct 
 the part of beggur, take care to uct it naturally 
 and nobly; and the same if it be the purt of a 
 lame man, or a ruler, or x private man; for this 
 is in pout potoer, to uct fell the part assigned to 
 pou; but to choose thut part is the function of 
 
 another : EPICTETUS. 
 94 
 
Philosophy 
 
 Che lu is w sort of hocus-pocus science, that 
 smiles in per fuce fobile it picks per pocket; and 
 ihe glorious unceriuinty of it is of mair use to 
 
 the professors thuw ihe justice of it. 
 MACKLIN. 
 
 Gherp one feels that he is something else than 
 a nothing fobich bus been animated bo another. 
 From this urises the confidence that death, though 
 it may put an end to life, does not close man’s 
 
 existence. SCHOPENHAUER. 
 
 Chere ’s things go ow in the soul, und times 
 fohen feelings come into pou like w rushing mighty 
 find, us the Scripture suns, and part pour life in 
 ioo u’most, so us pou look ow yourself us if pon 
 
 fous somebody else, GHORGCHE HELIO TR. 
 
 Pou foould fish to be proud of pour daughters 
 and not to blush for them—thew seek for them 
 an interest and an ocenpution fobich shall raise 
 them ubobe the flirt, the munenbrer, the mischief- 
 making tale-benrer. CHARLOTTE BRONTS, 
 
 Let aman foho funts to find abundance of 
 employment, procure a Soman and a ship; for 
 
 93 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 no tho things do produce more trouble if pou 
 begin to equip them; neither ure these thoo things 
 eber equipped enough, nor is the largest amount 
 
 of equipment sufficient for them. rus, 
 
 Ge praise fwillingly in others those merits 
 fohich foe fancy fe ourselbes possess. 
 
 ANON, 
 
 Suppose fe put a fax upow learning ? 
 Henrning, it is irue, is x useless commodity, but 
 d think foe bud better lay if om ignorance; for 
 learning being the property of fel, and those poor 
 ones, ¥ am afraid foe cam get little among them; 
 fohereas ignorance fill inke inv most of the great 
 
 fortunes in the kingdom. FIELDING. 
 
 Be thut hus once done pou w kindness fill be 
 mote ready to do pou another than be Shom pou 
 pourself habe obliged, HOLMES. 
 
 Che caprices of Momanhind are not limited by 
 any climate or nation, and they are much more 
 uniform than can be imagined. SWIFT, 
 
 gO 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Co the student oho professes his Mish to rise 
 to u loftier grude of birtue, J Would answer that 
 this is mp wish ulso, but J dare not hope it. g 
 amt preoccupied foith hices. SENECA. 
 
 Chere is this disadbuntage in foriting, Mhich 
 brings it into exact unalogy foith painting: The 
 artist's productions stand before pou as if thep 
 foere ulibe; but if pou ask them anp thing, thep 
 keep w solemm silence. Gust so with an anthor’s 
 language; pou fould fancy it actually churged 
 frith the thoughts it speaks; but if pow ash it 
 nbout something fobhich pou fant to bube ex- 
 plained, it only looks ut pou With the same inbari- 
 able sign. PLATO. 
 
 Gberp one is ulone Moho hus an indibidual 
 
 nature: there is no complete agreement. 
 AUERBACH. 
 
 “Holo did pou acquire pour great fortune?” 
 ous asked of Zampis, the ship-ofner. “Wy 
 great fortune, easily; my small one, by dint of 
 exertion,” he anstvered. NON 
 
 ‘ 97 
 
Short Sayings of Famous. Men. 
 
 Make men realize holo much better w different 
 choice Would render them, und this nebo light fill 
 
 change their soul. SOCRATES. 
 
 GAith ull troubles, mew suffer far less from the 
 things ihemseloes thaw from the opinions thep 
 
 babe of them. EPICTETUS. 
 
 dlature bas her language, and she is not un- 
 berucions ; ut fe don’t know all ihe intricacies 
 of her apntax just pet, and iv a busty reading foe 
 map huppen to extract the berp opposite of ber 
 
 real mening. GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Ansanity is often the logic of uw accurate mind 
 oberiusked, Good mental machinery ought to 
 break its of foheels and Iebers, if anp thing is 
 ihrust among them suddenly fohich tends to stop 
 ihem or reberse their motion, sets 
 
 Time has delicate little fowbes, but the shurpest- 
 cornered pebble, after all, becomes smooth and 
 blunt therein at last. eee 
 
 Q 
 
 98 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 G say uguin that this is most true, und all bis- 
 forp bears testimonp to it, that mem map second 
 fortune, but they cannot thoart ber,—thep man 
 foenbe her foeb, but they cannot break it. 
 
 MACHIAVELLI. 
 
 Che grentest punishment uw rascal can habe is 
 to find out himself. RNON 
 
 Go rule one’s self und subdue one’s passions is 
 so much the more praiseworthy, us feb knob bof 
 io do so, und in proportion us the canses that 
 
 excite our indignation and desires are more just. 
 GUICCARDINI, 
 
 Hoble blood is uw accident of fortune; noble 
 actions characterize the great. GOLDONI. 
 
 Ghose ucts wv hundred times With high moral 
 principle before be speaks of it once, thut is a 
 man fobom one could bless und clasp to one’s 
 heart. ¥ am far from saping that be is on thut 
 account free from faults, but the plus et minus— 
 the degree of stribing alter perfection und birtue 
 
 —Netermines the bulue of the man, 
 GEORGE FORSTER, 
 oH, 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Gherp man bus his block gisen him, and the 
 figure he cuts foill depend berp much upon the 
 shape of that—npon the hnots and thists fobich 
 existed from the beginning, . . . ft is the 
 bain endenbor to make ourseloes fobut fe are not 
 that bus stretow history with so many broken 
 purposes, und libes left in the rough. 
 
 LOWELL, 
 
 Co be puffed np by x good action is to gibe 
 
 reason to suppose thut it is out of our usual corse. 
 ANON, 
 
 St is eusier to acquire aw birtue than to get rid 
 of a bie. ANON. 
 
 Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders 
 of the fobole toorld, in order to conceibe thetr great 
 idens or perform their great deeds. That is, there 
 must be un atmosphere of greatness round about 
 them. A bero cannot be w hero unless in an 
 
 heroic foorld. HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Choice or thrice the poung bird map be deceibed, 
 but before the epes of the full-fledged it is bain to 
 
 spread the net, or speed the arrow.  panre. 
 I0O 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Sw literature, quotation is good only fohen the 
 foriter Hhom J follow gocs my way, and, being 
 better mounted thaw d, gibes me wu cast, us fe 
 sap; but if g like the gap equipage so fell us to 
 go ont of my road, J bud better babe gone afoot. 
 
 EMERSON, 
 
 Anbentibe potoer is the only quality of which 
 the Greatibe Intelligence seems to be economical ; 
 just us foith our largest human minds, thut is the 
 dibinest of faculties, und the one that most ex- 
 
 bausts the mind tobich exercises it. 
 HOLMES. 
 
 Che minds of our statesmen, like the pupil of 
 the human epe, contract themselbes the more, the 
 stronger light there is shed upon them. 
 
 MOORE. 
 
 Of foe should take atony from the length of our 
 days those fobich the impatience of our desires 
 bus fished aboap, the longest lite Mould be much 
 shortened, ANON. 
 
 Strength goes straight. Gberp cannon-ball 
 that bas in it bollows and holes goes crooked. 
 
 RICHTER. 
 IOI 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 GHe begin by proftting by the foewkness of u 
 man tubo is too hind, and end by laughing at bim. 
 
 ANON. / 
 
 When at a game of chance, the play is ended, 
 the loser, griebing, stays, und repeating each 
 throw, sadly lenrns hot fortune map be mended, 
 fobile all the rest go with the immer. panre. 
 
 A philosophy tohich creates antinomies map 
 habe the highest merit but one; the highest of ull 
 is reserbed for u philosophy that resolbes them. 
 
 JAMES MARTINEAU. 
 
 Go err is human; but the pain felt for the 
 crime that bas beew committed separates the good 
 from the bad. ALFIERI. 
 
 J beliebe—J daily find it probed—that foe can 
 get nothing iv this orld worth keeping, not so 
 much us a principle or a conbiction, except out of 
 purifving flame, or through strengthening peril. 
 
 CHARLOTTE BRONTE, 
 A fide-spreading, hopeful disposition is pour 
 
 only true umbrella in this bale of tears. 
 
 ALDRICH. 
 102 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 As fire, fohen it is throtew into fater, is cooled 
 Down and put out, so also u false uccusation, 
 fohen brought ugainst w man of the purest und 
 
 holiest character, falls atoap ut once and bunishes. 
 CICERO. 
 
 All successful men bube agreed in one thing, 
 —ihep foere cuusationists. Chey beliebed thut 
 ibings foent not by luck, but by Inf. Belief in 
 compensition—or, that nothing is got for noth- 
 
 ing—thuracterizes ull buluable minds. 
 EMERSON. 
 
 A thought is often original though you babe 
 uttered it a hundred times. dt bus come to pou 
 ober w nef route, by a webs und express train of 
 
 ussocintions. HOLMES. 
 
 Happiness is fohere it is found, and seldom 
 fohere it is songht. ANON, 
 
 GHe ure not all able to accomplish the sume 
 
 things. VIRGIL, 
 
 Gnrbp, like flame, blackens that which is ubobe 
 
 it and fobich it cannot rench. ANON. 
 103 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 A rogue wlibe to the ridiculous is still conber- 
 tible. Af that sense is lost, bis felloto-men can 
 Do little for him. EMERSON, 
 
 An enemp’s misfortune softens the rancor of 
 the good, but strengthens that of the bud, as sun 
 melts the snow and burdens mud. ANON. 
 
 Sw extreme danger, fexr turns x deaf ear to 
 eberpy feeling of pity. CASAR. 
 
 Chere is nothing Mbhich tings its flight so 
 swiftly us calumny, nothing tobich is uttered bith 
 more euse; nothing is listened to foith more 
 readiness, nothing dispersed more fidelp. 
 
 CICERO, 
 
 Ao man can make w speech alone, Ot is the 
 great human potoer that strikes up from a thou- 
 sand minds thut ucts upon bim and makes the 
 
 speech, GARFIELD. 
 
 GHhen ang one remains modest not after praise 
 
 but after censure, them be is truly so, 
 RICHTER. 
 104 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 § commend fortune fbile she stays; if she 
 flaps ber shiftlp-mobing tings, J resign fobhut 
 she has bestotoed, and, forapping myself in the 
 mantle of mine ofr integrity, seek only honest 
 poberty. HORACE. 
 
 Hament pour kinsmen ith moderation, for 
 they ure not dead, but bube gone before on the 
 same rod along fohich foe must necessarily pass ; 
 then foe, too, herenfter, shall come to the same 
 resting-place, about to spend the remainder of our 
 time ulong fith them. ANTIPHANES. 
 
 Che imprudent man reflects on Hhat he hus 
 said; the foise man, on obhat be is going to say. 
 ANON. 
 
 The critic is often more plensed fith the fanlt 
 he wlone finds in a book, thaw fith all the beauties 
 fohich he admires in the rest of the fork. 
 
 ANON, 
 
 Some disheliebe in others’ Woes that they need 
 not pity them; others deplore all, that they map 
 
 get rid of allebiating any. ANON. 
 105 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Do not be supercilions, but cling to the things 
 fobich appear best to pou in such a manner us 
 though pow foere conscions of bubing been up- 
 pointed by God to this position. jpicrerys. 
 
 GHe often bute for one little reason, fMohen 
 there ure u thousand fhp be should lobe. 
 
 ANON, 
 
 Chere ’s nothing like settling with ourselbes as 
 there 's u deal foe must do fithont 7’ this lite.” 
 
 GEORGE ELIOT, 
 
 Chou shouldst eat to libe, not lige to eat. 
 CICERO, 
 
 Chere is no luck in literary reputation. Chep 
 foho muke up the final berdict upon ebery book 
 are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour 
 foe it appears, but u court us of ungels, x pub- 
 lic wot to be bribed, not to be entrented, und not 
 to be oberatoed. EMERSON. 
 
 GHe alwuns find better reasons for liking life 
 than the fear of death, and pet that is the best. 
 
 ANON, 
 106 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Che worst drop of bitterness can weber be 
 frung on to our lips from fithout: the lotvest 
 depth of resignation is mot to be found iv mar- 
 tyrdom; it is onlp to be found fhe foe habe 
 cobered our bends im silence, and felt: “ J um not 
 forthy to be w martyr; the truth shull prosper, 
 but not by me.” GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 GAberefore foe must by all means keep distinct 
 tho hinds of canse,—the one necessary, the other 
 dibine, And lobile, ith wu biew to the true 
 blessedness of life, it is the dibine that, us far xs 
 our nature permits, foe should eberplohere seek ; 
 pet, us a means to this ewd, fe must inbestigate 
 the necessarp too, PLATO. 
 
 Af foe knefo the reasons of the regard others 
 benr us, foe should be astonished to see bolo little 
 onr ston merit bus to do fith it. tase 
 
 How many there ure bho consult us less to be 
 ‘benefited by our counsel thaw to be justified by 
 
 our approbation ! ANON. 
 ey. 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Bo pou not remember that ¥ am av frail human 
 being ? und therefore J hube erred. 
 
 TERENCE, 
 
 Alo proposal is insignificant hem wddressed to 
 the innocent: purity, like snofv, receibes nothing 
 on its surface that does not lewbe either a trace or 
 a stain. ANON. 
 
 GHe can neber learn hut sort of persons 
 people ure fohen they come to us; foe must go to 
 them, if foe fould know fohat stuff they wre made 
 of, and bo they manage or mismanage their 
 surroundings, GOETHE. 
 
 GHe hube often thought that the doctrine of the 
 incarnation may babe been an indispensuble 
 means of guarding the Church from the most 
 pestilent delusion of philosophy,—tbat to be d1- 
 
 bine, x mature must not feel. 
 JAMES MARTINEAU. 
 
 We estimate serbiced rendered us bp others, 
 more by the good they do us thaw bp the trouble 
 thep babe giben them. NON 
 
 108 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 Philosophy is w good horse in the stable, but 
 wi arrant jude ow a journey. Aa neuTtre 
 
 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little 
 minds, wored by little statesmen and philosophers 
 and dibines, WHith consistency u great soul bus 
 simply nothing to do. He may us fell concern 
 himself with bis shadow on the foall. Spewk 
 fobat pou think nof in hard fords, und to- 
 morrot speak fohat to-morrof thinks in hard 
 fords uguin, though it contradicts eberp thing 
 pou suid to-day. EMERSON, 
 
 A man can do fobat be onght to do; and Hohen 
 he sups be cannot, be fill not. FICHTE. 
 
 @ perceibe that the things fohich fe do are 
 silly ; but fohut can one do? According to men’s 
 habits and dispositions, so one must pield to them, 
 
 TERENCE, 
 
 As certain perfumes dribe ufouy noxious in- 
 sects, so Does pure lobe embalm the heart, and 
 
 dribe afoay its baser instincts, ANON. 
 109 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 All things come from a umibersal, ruling 
 potoer, either directly or by fay of consequence. 
 : Do not therefore imagine that hurtful 
 things are of unother hind from that tobich thou 
 
 dost benerate. MARCUS AURELIUS. 
 
 Men willingly beliebe Mohut they fish. 
 
 CAESAR, 
 
 Chere is progress fohereber there is a propen- 
 sity wot only to thought but to after-thonght. 
 
 NOVALIS. 
 
 Che Olo Cestument literature fous unterior to 
 eben the incipient approximation between the tooo 
 directions of thought; und interpreters {bo in- 
 fuse into it Platonic idens to take out its stains 
 do but bleach utoup the rich colors of its natibe 
 life, und destrop one of the most picturesque und 
 instructibe contrasts in the history of the human 
 
 THEE. JAMES MARTINEAU. 
 
 Chat man, J think, bas bud a liberal educa- 
 tion foho has been so trained in ponth that bis 
 bobdp is the readp serbant of bis fill, 
 
 HUXLEY, 
 IIo ; 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 He ho is soonest checkmated,—he foho, jud- 
 ging by Mhut is seem merely, comes by the evrliest, 
 most disustrons Ddefeat,—mup in reality habe fon 
 the highest moral bictorp. SHIARP, 
 
 Alot to beliebe in our talent, except to thank 
 God for it, is to sunctify self-lobe. anon, 
 
 Gherp ultimate fact is only the first of wu nef 
 seties. Gberp general law only a particular fact 
 of some more general law presently to disclose 
 
 itself, EMERSON. 
 
 Philosophy is properly u home-sichness, w 
 longing to be eberpiohere at home. 
 
 NOVALIS. 
 
 % can’t abide to see men throf wbay their 
 tools 7’ that fav, the minute the clock begins to 
 strike, as if they took no pleasure 1 their fork, 
 and fous afraid o’ doing a stroke too much. . . . 
 The bery grindstone “ull go ow turning x bit 
 
 iter pou loose it. GEORGE ELIOT. 
 Te 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 All our strong feelings, like ghosts, hold shap 
 only up to w certain hour; and if a man fould 
 alwuns sup to himself, “Chis passion, this grief, 
 this rapture, fill in three days certainly be gone 
 from this soul,” then fould be become more and 
 more tranquil and composed, RICHTER. 
 
 All truly {ise ieerine hube been alrendy 
 thought thousands of times; but to make them 
 trulp ours foe must think them ober aguin bon- 
 estly, till they take firm root im our personal 
 
 experience, GOETHE. 
 
 Mf there ure fords und forongs like knibes, 
 those Deep-inflicted lacerutions neber heal,—cut- 
 ting injuries and insults of serrated und poison- 
 dripping edge,—so, too, there ure consolations of 
 tone too fine for the ear not fondly bent foreber 
 
 to retuin the echo. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 
 
 Growth is better than permanence, und per- 
 manent grofoth is better than all. 
 
 GARFIELD. 
 II2 
 
Philosophy. 
 
 dio fou bus heen found for making heroism 
 ensp, eben for the scholar. Mubor, iron labor, 
 is for him. Obhe world fous crented as un wndi- 
 ence for him; the atoms of tobich it ts made are 
 
 opportunities. EMERSON. 
 
 Chings change less than our Wap of looking at 
 
 them. ANON. 
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Sentiments 
 
SENTIMENTS. 
 
 Golden opinions from all sorts of people.—MACBETH. 
 
 S| HE sayings in this little volume are brought together 
 by no closer resemblance than a general one, in that 
 they are simple, brief, strong utterances of thought, 
 opinion, or advice. Yet the suggestive form of the truths em- 
 bodied distinguishes them from the questioning air of philos- 
 ophy, and the commanding one of wisdom, while it marks 
 them as at the same time both wise and philosophic. 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Chere is wo serbice like his that serbes because 
 
 he lobes. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY’. 
 
 Crue courage is like w kite, x contrary find 
 raises it higher. ANON, 
 
 An ugly criticism mukes more noise than w 
 good book. ANON, 
 
 Society is dibided into thro classes, the shearer 
 und the shorn. Ge should alfoaps be with the 
 
 former uguinst the latter. TALLEYRAND. 
 
 Rothing is further than earth from beaben: 
 
 nothing is nearer than heaben to earth. 
 JULIUS HARE, 
 IIg 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 @Ahen foe hube not fhut fe lobe, foe must lobe 
 fobut foe hube. BUSSEY-RABUTIN. 
 
 Bretexts are not foanting When one Wishes » 
 
 thing. GOLDONI. 
 
 ile is long enough for him who knows bo 
 
 to use it. VOLTAIRE. 
 
 Puck is an ignis fatuus. Pou muy follof it 
 
 to rnin, but neber to success. 
 GARFIELD. 
 
 Gherp man’s task is his life preserber. Che 
 conbiction thut his fork is Dear to Good, and can- 
 not be spared, defends him. EMERSON. 
 
 Be tho libes toell is the best preacher. 
 
 CERVANTES. 
 
 Manp habe lived on a pedestal Hho will weber 
 bube wu statue fohew dead, BERANGER. 
 
 An impatient and untutored spirit regrets and 
 
 bates toords of instruction, OVID. 
 I20 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Gile evsily forget our faults fohen they are 
 
 knofu onlp to ourselbes, 
 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 
 
 Ghere is something stoeeter than receibing 
 pruise ; the feeling of habing deserbed it. 
 
 ANON. 
 
 Sincerity und pure truth in eberyp age still puss 
 
 current. MONTAIGNE. 
 
 Che round is long from the intention to the 
 completion. MOLIERE, 
 
 Che World is a beautiful book; but of little 
 use to bim fobho cannot rend it. GOLDONI. 
 
 Che shullotoness of w foxter-nivie’s soul map 
 
 babe w charm until she becomes didactic. 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 dt is more shameful to be distrustful of our 
 friends than to be deceibed bp them. 
 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 
 
 121 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Che lobe of the pust is often but the hatred of 
 the present. DORION, 
 
 He takes the grentest ornament from friendship 
 fsbo takes modesty fronr it. CICERO, 
 
 People like to gibe iv the browd daplight, but 
 to receibe in the dark. ANON, 
 
 Aeep close to the shore; let others launch into 
 the muin. VIRGIL, 
 
 Renunciation remains sorrow, though sorrow 
 borne foillingly. GEORGE ELIOT, 
 
 A veal friend is hivofow in adbersity. 
 EMICUS. 
 
 He who does w deed by the bund of unother, is 
 the sume as if be did it himself. 
 
 BONIFACE VIII. 
 
 The moon looks on many night-flowers, the 
 
 night-floter sees but one moon. 
 SIR WILLIAM JONES. 
 I22 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Fashion is not good sense wubsolute, but rela- 
 tibe; not good sense pribate, but good sense en- 
 
 tertaining compann. 
 EMERSON. 
 
 Che first thing w kindness deserbes is uccept- 
 
 ante ; the next, transmission. 
 GEORGE MACDONALD. 
 
 4 bate niggurdly bands: gibe us roses in 
 abundance. HORACE, 
 
 Che heart bus no forinkles. 
 
 MADAME DE SEVIGNE. 
 
 Our likings ure regulated by circumstances. 
 
 CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 
 
 Old-fashioned poetry, but choicelpy good. 
 
 IZAAK WALTON. 
 
 Bis own is beuntiful to each. CICERO. 
 
 Helo persons hube courage enough to appear 
 
 us good as they really ate. 
 AUGUSTUS HARE, 
 
 123 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Books ure not ubsolutelp dead things, but doe 
 contain a potencie of life in them to be us actibe 
 
 as the sonle toas hose progenp thew ure. 
 MILTON, 
 
 Che durts of the gods are fixed im the minds 
 of the ficken. CICERO. 
 
 Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant 
 foben they are incensed or crushed. BACON. 
 
 A man’s of manner and character is What 
 best becomes him. CICERO. 
 
 Grow fe must, if foe ontgrof all that lobe 
 
 ns, HOLMES. 
 
 Some persons gibe one x notion of an abpss 
 
 of shullotoness, AUGUSTUS HARE. 
 
 Af pou ure not too large for the place, pou are 
 too smull for it. GARFYELD. 
 
 Good deeds ring clear through heaben like a 
 
 bell, DICKENS. 
 124 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 GH pound of pluck is forth w tow of luck. 
 
 GARFIELD. 
 
 Ghat ought not to be done do not eben think 
 
 of Aoing. EPICTETUS. 
 
 Feeling ’s u sort o knofledge. 
 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Co Adam, Paradise fas home; to the goor 
 
 among his descendants, home is Paradise. 
 AUGUSTUS HARE, 
 
 Harer than the author Sho makes his books 
 liked, is the one tho makes himself lobed in 
 
 them. ANON, 
 
 Be not simply good—be good for something. 
 
 THOREAU. 
 
 4 dare no more fret than ¥ dure curse and 
 
 shyeur. JOHN WESLEY. 
 
 Che life of the dend arises from being present 
 
 to the mind of the libing. CICERO, 
 125 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 So fohut signifies fishing und hoping for 
 better times? @ile map make these times better, 
 if foe hestix onrselbes. TT RANICLENT 
 
 dw u mist. the heights caw for the most part 
 
 see each other; but the balleps cunnot. 
 AUGUSTUS HARE. 
 
 A straight line is the shortest in morals us in 
 
 mathematics. MARIA EDGEWORTH. 
 
 at ’s the fill o Chem abobe us a many 
 things should be dark to ns; but there ’s some 
 things us J be neber felt 7 the dark about, and 
 thep ‘re mostly fobut comes i’ the day's fork. 
 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Chere is w great deal of unmapped countrp 
 within us fobich fould bube to be take into 
 
 uecount im an explanation of our gusts and 
 storms, GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Do not foeep, my dear Indy; pour tears are 
 too precions to be shed for me; bottle them up, 
 
 and may the cork weber be drafon. STERNE. 
 126 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Che right ord is uloans x potver, and com- 
 municates its definiteness to our action. 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Che cundlestich set in u lof place has given 
 
 u 
 
 light as faithfully, tobere it fous needed, us that 
 
 upon x bil. MARGARET FULLER. 
 
 Che Pyramids themselbes, doting With age, 
 Habe forgotten the names of their founders. 
 THOMAS FULLER. 
 
 Che supreme happiness of lite is the comnbic- 
 tion that foe ure lobed; lobed for onrselbes—sap, 
 rather, iv spite of onrselbes. VICTORUTIOGO! 
 
 Riches habe wings; for J see those Who once 
 bad then falling from thei high bopes. 
 
 EURIPIDES. 
 
 A sensible man does not brag, uboids mtro- 
 Yucing the names of his creditable companions, 
 omits himself us bubitually as another man 
 
 obtrudes himself in the discourse, and is content 
 127 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 ith putting bis fact or theme simply on its 
 ground, EMERSON. 
 
 A mind that is softened and humanized by 
 friendship cannot bear frequent reproaches : 
 either it must quite sink under the oppression, 
 or ubute considerably of the bulue and esteem 
 it had for bim foho bestofos them. 
 
 ADDISON. 
 dt is one of the precions mysteries of sorrof 
 that it fnds solace in unselfish thought. 
 
 GARFIELD. 
 
 A speech, being u matter of adaptation, and 
 babing to fiw opinions, should contain a little for 
 the feo, and a great deal for the manp. 
 
 AUGUSTUS HARE, 
 
 Che death of a mother is the first sorroh wept 
 foithout ber. ANON. 
 
 Co Whomsoeber the holy dend are of no conse- 
 quence, to him the liking are sotoo. pycurer. 
 
 Che heart hus reusons that reason dors not 
 
 knots, BOSSUET. 
 128! 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Modesty und dew alike lobe the shade; both 
 
 shine forth in daplight only to sour to heaben. 
 ANON. 
 
 Benebolence is inbincible, if it be not an 
 
 affected smile, nor acting a part. 
 MARCUS AURELIUS, 
 
 Aite appears to me too short to be spent in 
 
 nursing animosity or registering Wrongs. 
 CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 
 
 GHAhut is our life but an endless flight of Minged 
 facts or ebents! aw splendid bariety these 
 chunges come, all putting questions to the buman 
 
 spirit, EMERSON, 
 
 Anquisitibe people ure the funnels of conbersa- 
 tion; thep do not take in ang thing for their ofr 
 
 use, but merelp to pass it to another. 
 STEELE, 
 
 dHe must not take the faults of onr pouth 
 into ont old uge; for old age brings foith it its 
 
 ofr defects, GOETHE. 
 9 129 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Che human soul is hospitable, and bill enter- 
 tain conflicting sentiments and contradictory 
 opinions with much impartiality. 
 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Che cash foill long retain the odor of thut 
 fohich has once been poured into it Hben new. 
 
 HORACE, 
 
 Most men emplop the first part of their life 
 
 to make the other part miserable. 
 LA BRUYERE. 
 
 All mew are fools, and be Hho docs not fish 
 to see them must remain in bis chamber and 
 
 break bis looking-glass. 
 MARQUIS DE LADE. 
 
 Hy diligence und self-command, let a man put 
 the brend be ents at bis of disposal, that he map 
 not stand in bitter und false relations to other 
 men; for the best good of foeulth is freedom. 
 
 EMERSON. 
 
 Stand firm us any toler, fobich neber shakes 
 its top, Whateber Wind may blow. DANTE. 
 
 130 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 A philosopher is the last sort of animal J 
 should choose to resemble. ¥ find it enough to 
 
 libe, fithont spinning lies to account for life. 
 GEORGE ELIOT 
 
 Ge see men fall from high positions becunse 
 of the berp faults through which then rose. 
 
 LA BRUYERE. 
 
 Che happiest Momen, like the happiest nations, 
 
 bube no historp. GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Che basis of good manners is self-reliance. 
 Slecessity is the late of ull Moho ure not self- 
 possessed. Chose toho ure not self-possessed ob- 
 irude, and pain us. EMERSON. 
 
 GHAboeber knows how to return u kindness be 
 
 bas received must be a friend beyond all price. 
 SOPHOCLES. 
 
 Che moral sentiment of {hat is called the 
 orld, is made np in great mensure of ill-hill 
 and enbp. 
 
 GOETHE. 
 eM 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 A grateful mind is not only the greatest of 
 
 bittues, but the purent of ull the other birtues. 
 CICERO. 
 
 Het us beliebe neither half the good people say 
 of ns nor bulf the ebil they sap of others. 
 
 ANON. 
 
 Che bine bears three clusters; the first of 
 pleasure; the second of drunkenness: the third 
 
 of insult. : 
 EPICTETUS, 
 
 dt is ulong the paths of birtue that fe sour up- 
 foard to the blessed state of those pure spirits 
 foho dwell in paradise. 
 
 SALOMON GESSNER, 
 
 When what is good comes of age and is likely 
 to libe, there is reuson for reyorcing. 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 He tho imitates fohut is ebil altoays goes be- 
 youd the example that is set; ov the contrarp he 
 ho imitates fobat is good ulfaps falls short. 
 
 GUICCIARDINI. 
 132 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 There isu certain noble pride through which 
 merits shine brighter than through modesty. 
 
 RICHTER 
 
 Af the course of human ebents be considered, it 
 foill be seew that many things arise against fohich 
 
 Heuben does not allow us to guard. 
 MACHIAVELLI. 
 
 Gberp thing that one says too much is insipid 
 
 und tedious. BOILEAU. 
 
 'C is w greut point in a gallery, bow pou bung 
 pictures; and not less in society, hol pow seat 
 pour party. Wher a man meets bis accurate 
 
 mute, society begins, und life is delicions. 
 EMERSON, 
 
 A man’s accusations of himself are ulboaps 
 beliebed, bis paises neber. MONT ATER 
 
 Aibers ure roads fohich mobe, and carry us 
 fobithersocber toe wish to go. ery 
 
 GHe are ull strong enough to endure the mis- 
 
 fortunes of others. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 
 133 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 All-gotten guins ure neber forth the price, amd 
 a good conscience neber costs fohat it is forth. 
 ANON. 
 
 Chese roses under my indo make wo refer- 
 ence to former roses or to better ones; thep are 
 for fohat then ure; they exist with God to-day, 
 
 EMERSON. 
 
 Che bery truth bath « color from the dispost- 
 tion of the utterer, ey a. 
 
 ds life so Dear, or pence so shoect us to be pur- 
 chased ut the price of chains und slaberp? Sor- 
 bid it, Almighty Goo! J kno not hat course 
 others muy take; but as for me, gibe me liberty 
 
 or gibe me death. PATRICK HENRY. 
 
 At is not ft that ¥ should gibe myself pain; 
 for J habe neber intentionally giben pain eben to 
 
 another. MARCUS AURELIUS. 
 
 4 am conbinced that if the birtuost could once 
 find out w foorld in the moon, With a passage to 
 it, our fomen fwould fear nothing but tbat 
 directly came from thence. aay 
 
 134 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Manners must adorn knofoledge and smooth 
 its foay through the world. CHESTERFIELD. 
 
 Che theatre hus oftew been ut bariance With the 
 pulpit; they ought not, J think, to quarrel. 
 How much is it to be wished that in both, the 
 celebrution of nature and of God fere intrusted 
 fo none but men of noble minds. GOETHE. 
 
 Che Ia of the table is Beantp—a respect to 
 the common soul of all the guests. Gbhery thing 
 is unseasonable which is pribate to tho or three 
 or any portion of the company. EMERSON. 
 
 dAben the sting of slander stings thee, let this 
 be thy comfort: Chey ure not the worst fruits on 
 fhich the Husps alight. BURGER. 
 
 DHowt be wu cynic and disconsolate preacher. 
 Don't bebail and bemoan. Omit the negatibe 
 propositions. Nerve us With incessant affrma- 
 tibes. Won't foaste pourself im rejection, nor 
 bark uguinst the bad, but chant the beauty of the 
 
 good. EMERSON. 
 
 4 cannot abide to see men throw abap their 
 135 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 tools the minute the clock begins to strike, us if 
 they took no pleasure in their fork, und boas 
 afraid o° doing aw stroke too much. The berp 
 grinstone ‘Il go on turning a bit ufter pow loose 
 
 it. GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Pathos wv situations that ure homely, or at all 
 connected bith domestic uflections, naturally mobes 
 in Saxon fords. . . . Because the Saxon 
 is the original element of our language it com- 
 prebends all the ideas tobich ure natural to the 
 heart of man, and to the elementarp situations of 
 
 Irfe, TRENCH. 
 
 By friendship, J suppose pou mean the greatest 
 lobe, the greutest usefulness, and the most open 
 communications, and the most exemplary faithful- 
 ness, und the seberest truth, und the heartiest 
 counsel, und the greatest union of minds, of 
 
 hich brabe men and bomen are capable. 
 JEREMY TAYLOR. 
 
 Amagined ills puinted by our fears, ure alboays 
 
 greater than the true. METASTASIO. 
 136 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 The court is like a palace built of marble; g 
 mean that it is made up of berp bard and berp 
 polished people. LA BRUYERE. 
 
 Plans tohich ure boise and prudent in them- 
 selbes, are rendered bain foben the execution of 
 
 them is carried on negligently and bith impru- 
 dence, GUICCIARDINI. 
 
 Aleber hold any one by the buttow or the band 
 iw order to be heard out; for, if people are un- 
 foilling to bear’ pou it is better to bold pour 
 
 tongue thaw them. CHESTERFIELD. 
 
 Gil habits soil w full oress more than mud; 
 Hood manners, bp their deeds, ensily set off a 
 lofolp gurb, PLAUTUS. 
 
 dt ig w sad Weakness, in us, after all, that the 
 thought of a man’s death ballows bim ane to 
 us; us if lite foere not sucred too ;—uas if it bere 
 comparatibely w light thing to fail in lobe and 
 reberence to the brother Who bas to climb the 
 fohole toilsome steey foith us, and all our tears 
 and tenderness foere dune to the one Mobo is spared 
 
 that bard journep. GEORGE ELIOT. 
 137 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Mt ig an odd debice, fohen a fellow commits x 
 crime, to send him to the untipodes for it. That 
 a rogue, by picking a pocket, should earn the cir- 
 cuit of bulf the globe, seems reallp meant us a 
 parody on the conceptions of those Moho bolo that 
 the happiness of uw future life fill consist mainly 
 in going the round of all the countries thep babe 
 not bisited in the present. AUGUSTUS HARE. 
 
 GAbat is it fe look for in the landseupe, in 
 sunsets and sunrises, in the sea and the frma- 
 ment? début but a compensation for the cramp 
 and pettiness of human performance. 
 
 EMERSON. 
 
 As for me J am persuaded that if in mp pouth 
 J bad been tanght all the truths of which J bube 
 since sought the demonstrations, J should neber, 
 perhaps, babe kof anp others, or ut lenst 
 neber hube acquired the habit and facility which J 
 think J possess of finding nebo ones. 
 
 DESCARTES. 
 
 Chere is as much difference between good poetrp 
 and fine berses, a8 betoocen the smell of a flofer- 
 garden and x perfumer’s shop. 
 
 AUGUSTUS HARE. 
 138 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Hife is made up, not of great sucribees or 
 Duties, but of little things, im fbich smiles and 
 kindnesses and sniall obligutions, giben habitually, 
 are fohut Win and preserbe the heart, and secure 
 
 comfort. SIR HUMPHREY DAVY. 
 
 Co be right im great memorable moments, is 
 perhaps the thing fe meed most desire for our- 
 
 selbes. GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 GHbere und hho J shull be, J shull be, that J 
 am nob, a potoer in the systenr of all powers, w 
 being iw the interminable harmony of wu orld of 
 
 Gov. HERDER. 
 
 How often fhile Homen and girls sit farm at 
 stort firesides, their hearts and imaginations are 
 doomed to diborce from the comfort surrounding 
 their persons, forced ont bp night to funder 
 through dark fans, to dare stress of hoeather, 
 fo contend With the snof-blast, to fait at lonely 
 gates und stiles in fildest storms, fontching and 
 listening to see and hear the father, the son, 
 
 the husband coming home. 
 CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 
 
 Our opinion of ourseloes, like our shadowy, 
 
 makes us either too big or too little. ANON, 
 139 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Man is eber clogged With his mortality, and it 
 fas my mortal nature Mobich not pattered and 
 
 plained. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 
 
 Che prevarication and fobite lies hich a mind 
 that heeps itself ambitionsly pure is us uneasy 
 under as a great artist under the false touches 
 that no epe detects but bis ofr, ure form as 
 lightly as mere trimmings foben once the actions 
 habe become w lie. GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 alo mockery in this forld eber sounds to me 
 so holloty us that of being told to cultibate bappi- 
 ness. . . . Mappiness is not u potato to 
 be planted iv mould and tilled fith manure. 
 Happiness isa glory shining far doh upon us 
 
 out of heaben. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 
 
 Au merit ceuses the moment fe perfornr an 
 uct for the sake of the consequences. Crulp in 
 this respect fe babe our reard. HUMBOLDT. 
 
 Chere is nothing fhich continues longer than a 
 moderate fortune; nothing of Mbich one sees the 
 end sooner thun uw large fortune. 
 
 LA BRUYERE, 
 140 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Absence lessens fewk und increases biolent 
 passions, as find extinguishes tapers and lights 
 
 up w fre. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 
 
 Halt the sorrows of Momen fould be nberted 
 if they could repress the speech they kuow to be 
 useless—nap, the speech they babe resolbed not to 
 
 utter. GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Moderate speed is u sure help to all proceed- 
 ings; fobere those things tobich are prosecuted 
 fith biolence of endenbor or desire, either succeed 
 
 not, or continue not. JOSEPH HALL. 
 
 Modesty is to merit What shade is to figures 
 ina picture, gibing it strength and relief. 
 
 LA BRUYERE. 
 
 Ghuteber fe conceive foell toe express clearly, 
 and fords fot fith erase. BOILEAU. 
 
 Gsuallp, the more fortune a maw acquires, the 
 less Does he care to please others; im return, thep 
 become more anxious to please him; so thut the 
 sum of cibilities betteen them remains the same, 
 but differently dibided. ANON. 
 
 141 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Cime flies, und draws us With it. Che mo- 
 ment in fohich J um speaking is alreadp far from 
 
 NTE, BOILEAU. 
 
 Be only is fit to be chosen for w friend, oho 
 can do those offices for tohich friendship is excel- 
 
 lent. JEREMY TAYLOR. 
 
 Friendship closes its epes rather than see the 
 moon eclipsed; fobile mulice denies that it is eber 
 
 at the full. AUGUSTUS HARE. 
 
 Childhood hus no forebodings; but thew it is 
 
 soothed bp no memories of ontlibed sorroh. 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 8 often shed tenrs in the motley Strand, for 
 feeling of jop ut so much life. LAMB. 
 
 GHherefore, Publins, thou und all the good 
 must keep the soul in the bodp, nor must men 
 lenbe this life fithout the permission of the Being 
 
 bp fohon it has been giben. CICERO, 
 142 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Het ns choose the best rowd to lewd to the 
 right; but to escupe the ebil, let us take the 
 shortest cut. ANON. 
 
 Che rose docs not bloom without thorns. 
 Grne; but would that the thorns did not outlibe 
 
 the rose! RICHTER. 
 
 Bonor is like un island, rugged and without # 
 landing place; fe caw neber more re-enter Mhen 
 foe ure once ontside of it. BOILEAU. 
 
 ds not anger a cursed bice? Bes, Gertes. 
 Alas, it taketh aap from maw bis fit and rev- 
 gon, und all bis debonaire life spiritual, that 
 should keep bis soul. CHAUCER. 
 
 4 ’m no fool myself ; J 'm forced to fink a good 
 deul, for fear of seeing too much, for a neigh- 
 borly man must let himself he cheated w little. 
 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 aot only the incoming and outgoing of life 
 are hidden fith uw manifold beil, but eben the 
 
 short path itself; us around Gguptian temples, 
 143 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 so aronnd the greatest of ull temples, sphinees lie; 
 and, rebersing the case us it fous With the sphine, 
 be only solbes the riddle Soho dies. 
 RICHTER. 
 So may Heaben’s grace clear away the foam 
 from thy conscience, that the riber of thy thoughts 
 
 map roll limpid thenceforth. 
 DANTE. 
 
 Chere is no greater grief thaw iw miserp to 
 turn our thoughts back to happier times. 
 
 DANTE, 
 
 Aw eberlasting How reigns in Hature, which 
 bangs the sume roses ow our bushes tobhich 
 charmed the Roman and the Chaldean iv their 
 banging gardens. EMERSON. 
 
 Ob, the found of conscience is no scar, and 
 Time cools it not With his Ming, but merely keeps 
 
 it open foith bis septhe. 
 RICHTER. 
 
 Thy true speech fill sow in my heart meek 
 humility, and allay fohat tumors rankle there. 
 DANTE. 
 144 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 4 consider that the spirit of politeness 1s v cer- 
 tin desire to bring it about, that by our words 
 and manners others man be pleased with us and 
 foith themselbes. MONTESQUIEU. 
 
 Hotweber foell disposed be may be to forgive 
 the hurm suid of us, it is better neber to babe 
 knoton it than to bube it to forget. ANON, 
 
 Che schoolmaster is ubrowd, and J trust to him, 
 armed foith his primer, uguinst the soldier iv full 
 
 military array, LORD BROUGHAM. 
 
 Calking is like plaping the harp. There is as 
 much in laping the band ow the strings to stop 
 their bibrations as in thanging them to bring out 
 
 the music. HOLMES. 
 
 Any man may occasionnlly be mistaken as to 
 the means most conducibe to the end fohich be bas 
 iv biel, but if the end be just and pruiseforthy, 
 it is by it that be Will be ultimately judged. 
 
 CANNING. 
 
 Ab, 9 often think it’s foi th’ old folks us it 
 is foi’ the bubbies ; they ’re sutished foi’ looking, 
 
 145 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 no mutter fohut they ’re looking ut. at's Gov 
 A’mighty’s fap o” quietening “em, J reckon, 
 afore they go to sleep. 
 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Ge ought to bear ut least one little song ebery 
 Day, read u good poem, see a first-rate panting, 
 
 and, if possible, speak w febo sensible Mords. 
 GOETHE, 
 
 Chep oho bube the Mit thut is in you, often 
 transfer to themselbes the glory got by others’ 
 care and toil, TERENCE. 
 
 Ge lobe Addison for his hunities us much us 
 for bis birtues. Ghat is ridiculons is delightful 
 in him; foe are so fond of him becunse foe langh 
 
 at him so, THACKERAY. 
 
 Che man that neither blushes nor fears, hus 
 
 the imitintibe to eberpy hind of shumelessness. 
 YOUNG. 
 
 Persons fho can only be graceful und orna- 
 mental—tobo gibe the forld nothing but flowers 
 —should die poung, und neber be seen ith grap 
 
 hairs and forinkles, . . . Hot that beauty is 
 146 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 not Worthy of immortality. Hothing else, indeed, 
 is foorthy of it; und thence, perbups, the sense of 
 impropriety fohew foe see it triumphed ober by 
 
 time. HAWTHORNE. 
 
 J foeigh the man, not his title; “tis not the 
 king's stamp can make the metal better. 
 WYCHERLEY. 
 
 Seriously speaking, we must hold it w remark- 
 able thing that ebery Gnglishman should be 
 “gentleman ’’; that in so democratic w countrp 
 our common title of hononr—tobhich all men as- 
 sert for themselbes—should be one fohich profess- 
 edly depends on station, ow accidents, rather than 
 on qualities! or ut best, us Coleridge interprets 
 it, “ow w certain indifference to money mutters” ; 
 fohich certain indifference aguin must be foise or 
 mad, pou foould think, exactly as one possesses 
 much monep or possesses little! Gile suppose it 
 must be the commercial genius of the nation, 
 counteracting und suppressing its political genius ; 
 for the Americuns are suid to be still more nota- 
 ble in this respect than fe. Hot, what a hol- 
 
 low, indy bacuity of internal character this in- 
 147 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Dicates; hot, in place of w rightly-ordered heart, 
 foe stribe only to exhibit a full purse; and all 
 pushing, rushing, elbowing ow tofard u false 
 aim, the courtier’s hibes are more und more 
 galled by the toe of the peasant: and ow eberpy 
 side, instead of faith, hope, und charity, We habe 
 
 Needless, greediness, und bain glorp. 
 CARLYLE. 
 
 Besides the general infusion of fit to heighten 
 cibility, the direct splendor of intellectual potver 
 is eber fuelcome in fine society us the costliest ad- 
 dition to its rule und its credit. EMERSON. 
 
 4% gathered, from some conversation that g 
 heard, that u sow of Adum is to be buried this 
 afternoon from the meeting-house; but the name 
 escaped me, Gt is no great mutter, so it be 
 foritten in the Book of Hite. HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Chere exists in Grgland w gentlemanly charac- 
 ter, a gentlemantyp feeling, bery different ebew from 
 that fobich is the most like it—the character of a 
 fell-borw Spaniard, and unevampled in the rest 
 
 of Gurope. COLERIDGE. 
 148 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 4 knofe no such sure test of a gentleman as 
 this, that be neber corrects a solecism in conbersi- 
 tion, or seems to kno that w solecisny bus been 
 
 conunitted. BALZAC. 
 
 Che man who melts with social sympathy, 
 though not wllied, is of more forth than x thou- 
 
 sand kinsmen, EURIPIDES. 
 
 Che spirit of chibalry left behind it w more 
 buluuble successor. Che character of hmight 
 
 gradually subsided in that of gentleman. 
 HALLAM, 
 
 de join ourseloes to no party that dors not 
 curry the flag and keep step to the music of the 
 
 Wnrion. RUFUS CHOATE. 
 
 Gentleman is a bery expressibe ford in our 
 language—a ford denoting an assemblage of 
 manp real birtues, and av union of manners at 
 
 mnce pleasing and commanding respect, 
 CHARLES BUTLER. 
 
 dt is the glory of w foman that she fas sent 
 into the foorld to libe for others, rather thuw for 
 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 herself ; und therefore J shull sup, let her smallest 
 
 rights be respected, her smallest forongs redressed. 
 KINGSLEY. 
 
 . J bate boldness—thut boldness fohich is of the 
 brassy brow und insensate nerbes; but J lobe 
 the couruge of the strong heart, the ferbor of the 
 
 Henevous blood. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 
 
 Reserbe is the freedom and abandonment of 
 lobers; At is the reserbe of fhat is hostile or 
 indifferent iv their nutures, to give place to ohat 
 is kindred and hurmonious. & true friendship 
 is as boise ns it is tender. THOREAU. 
 
 Angenions philosophers tell pou, perbaps, that 
 the grent fork of the stewm-engine is to create 
 leisure for mankind. Do not beliche them: it 
 only creates w Sacuum for eager thought to rush 
 
 in, Ghen Adleness is eager now. 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 4 maintain that those Moho hube died honorably, 
 are ulibe, ruther thaw that those libe toho lewd dis- 
 honored libes. EURIPIDES, 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Perbups if fe could penetrate Nuture’s secrets 
 fre should find that fohat foe call weeds are more 
 essentinl to the foell-being of the forld than the 
 most precions grain or fruit, HAWTHORNE, 
 
 Garth shotws no fairer sight than the old man 
 whose forn-ont brat and nerbes make it pain- 
 ful, und perbups impossible, to produce fresh 
 thought himself, but fobo can pet elcome smil- 
 ingly the fresh thoughts of others; Who keeps 
 unoearied bis faith in God's gobernment of the 
 universe, iv God's continual education of the 
 human race, KINGSLEY. 
 
 4 cannot help expressing to pou bow happy 
 beyond description A feel, ow reflecting that mp 
 father fas uble to exert, in their full bigor, the 
 sentiments und eloquence that alfaps distin- 
 guished him. . . . Me spoke in a glow of 
 eloquence, und foith w beauty of expression, ani- 
 mated und striking bepond description, 
 
 From a letter written by William Pitt tohis mother, con- 
 cerning his father’s speech in favor of cessation of hostili- 
 ties with America. 
 
 TSI 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Chere is no rewl life but cheerful lite; there- 
 fore buletudinarians should be sworn, before they 
 enter into company, not to say u bord of them- 
 selbes till the meeting breaks up. ADDISON. 
 
 Gberp person's feelings hube a front-door und 
 x side-door by fohich they may be entered. The 
 front-door is on the street. Some keep it ulups 
 open; some keep it latched; some locked; some 
 bolted,— ith u chain that fill let pou peep in, 
 but not get iv; und some nail it up, so that noth- 
 ing caw puss its threshold. Chis front-door leads 
 into x pussuge fobich opens into an ante-room, 
 and this into the interior apartments. Che side- 
 door opens ut once into the sucred chambers. 
 
 HOLMES. 
 
 an the pathwoup of life only great obstucles ure 
 seen, und pet it is the little hindrance that ober- 
 comes us. A fall map stop us perhaps, but a 
 little stone trips us up. ANON, 
 
 One morning follows another; then, Mobile fe 
 are heedless of our coming doom, suddenly the 
 
 bath owe fill step in. AMMIANUS. 
 152 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 dlo perpetual motion, God be praised! bus pet 
 been discovered for free gobernments, For the 
 impulse fobich keeps them going, they ure indebted 
 
 mainly to subordinate reforms. 
 AUGUSTUS HARE, 
 
 Che fhole countenunce is a certain silent lan- 
 guage of the mind. CICERO, 
 
 An passing ulong the path of life, unless foe 
 habe the light of Heaben shed upon us ebery bold 
 spirit is seized foith dismap; the heart fails and 
 
 the feet fulter. METASTASIO. 
 
 Pou neber stained pour face {ith falnut-juice 
 or rouge; pon neber delighted iw dresses indeli- 
 cately lof ; pour single ornament fous u lobeliness 
 fohich no uge could destroy; pour special glory 
 
 fous w conspicuous chastity. * SENECA, 
 
 In a letter to his mother. 
 
 Chose fho till w spot of earth scarcely larger 
 thaw is lounted for w grave, hube deserbed that the 
 
 sun should shine upon its sod fill biolets ansher. 
 
 MARGARET FULLER. 
 153 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Time, ith its mighty strides, fill soow reuch 
 a future generation, and leabe the present in 
 
 Death und in forgetfulness behind it. 
 CHALMERS, 
 
 Slander is a poison fohich extinguishes charity, 
 both in the slanderer and inv the person who 
 listens to it; so that w single calumny may probe 
 fatul to un infinite mnmber of souls, since it hills 
 not only those who circulate it, but also all those 
 
 foho do wot reject it. SAINT BERARD, 
 
 dt is herp plensunt to see some men turn round; 
 pleasant as x sudden tush of farm air in fointer, 
 
 ox a flash of firelight in the chill dusk. 
 GEORGE ELIOT, 
 
 fohich the routine of life is foashed, und its de- 
 tnils udorned. Of they ure superficial, so are 
 the Dedrops fohich gibe such uw depth to the 
 morning mendolos, EMERSON. 
 
 Manners form at lust wa rich barnish, with 
 
 Mp soul tasted that heabenly food which gibes 
 
 nebo appetite bobile it sutisfies, DANTE. 
 154 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Cruth, J cried, though the heabens crush me 
 for following ber; no falsehood, though a whole 
 
 celestial Iubberland fwere the price of apostasy. 
 CARLYLE. 
 
 Co become w good man is truly dittenlt, square 
 us to bis bunds and feet, fashioned fithout 
 
 fault. HORACE. 
 
 Piety and religion chiefly flourish in our souls 
 
 fohen foe ure occupied in dibine serbices. 
 PYTHAGORAS. 
 
 Books ure x guide in pouth and an entertain- 
 ment for age. Chew help us to forget the cross- 
 ness of men and things, compose our cares, und 
 lup our disappointments asleep. GAben foe are 
 foeary of the libing, fe may repair to the dead, 
 foho babe nothing of peebishness, pride, or design 
 in their conbersution. JEREMY TAYLOR. 
 
 There isu gentle but perfectly irresistible co- 
 ertiow in u bubit of rending, foell directed, ober 
 the fohole tenor of a man’s character and conduct, 
 fohich is not the less effectual because it forks in- 
 
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Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 sensibly, und because it is really the last thing be 
 
 dreams of, SIR JOHN HERSCHEL. 
 
 dt is wu most unjust ambition to desire to en- 
 gross the mercies of the Almighty, nor to be con- 
 fent fith the goods of mind bithout a possession 
 
 of those of body or fortune. 
 SIR THOMAS BROWNE. 
 
 dleber does vw man portray his of churacter 
 more bibidly than in bis manner of portraying 
 another. : 
 RICHTER. 
 
 GAhorber thou art that bust become rich from 
 great poberty, use thy good fortune bith modera- 
 
 tion, 
 AUSONIUS. 
 
 dt foent deep into bis heurt, like the melody of 
 
 x song that sounds up from childhood. 
 RICHTER. 
 
 But fraud, fohich is un ill peculiarly man’s 
 sion, displeases God most; und therefore the 
 fraudulent fall lofer, and groan Sith deeper un- 
 
 guish. DANTE. 
 156 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Chose that dure lose a day, ure dangerously 
 prodigul; those that dure mis-spend it, desperate. 
 
 JOSEPH HALL. 
 
 Books ure the lequeies that genins leabes to 
 mankind, to be delivered doton from generation to 
 generation, us presents to the posterity of those 
 who are pet unborn. ADDISON. 
 
 Gbery thing that thou reprobest in another, 
 thou must ubobe ull take care that thow art not 
 thuself guilty of. CICERO. . 
 
 Sor J am not at all uneasy that J came into, 
 and babe so far passed mp course in this world; 
 because J habe so lived in it, that J habe reason 
 to beliche J hube beew of some use to it; and 
 fohew the close comes, J shull quit life us J would 
 an inn, and not as a real home, CICERO. 
 
 Hame is not fon on dofony plumes nor under 
 canopies ; the man foho consumes bis daps foith- 
 ont obtaining it, leabes such mark of bimeelf 
 
 on earth as smoke on utr, or foam on boater. 
 
 DANTE. 
 157 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 A relationship im pursuits and bubits is al- 
 most us impottunt as the relationship of mame 
 and family. CICERO, 
 
 Che less power x man hus, the more be likes 
 
 to wse it. ANON. 
 
 Pe immortal govs, tohere in the world ure foe? 
 
 CICERO. 
 
 Plato is my friend, Socrutes is mp friend ; 
 but Cruth is a friend that J balue abobe both. 
 
 ARISTOTLE. 
 
 Hature is sunatibe, refining, elebating. How 
 cunningly she hides eberp forinkle of her incon- 
 ceibuble untiquity under roses, und Siolets, and 
 morning deb. EMERSON. 
 
 GHish to fiw the suffrages of pour ofw inboard 
 upprobal, Wish to appeur beautiful to God. 
 
 EPICTETUS, 
 
 for mp part, Fam delighted to find a feb 
 flofers on the mile-stones us J puss along. Ho 
 matter bof simple they are: wu buttercup is as 
 “good us au japonica; somebody placed it there 
 158 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 foho remembered thut J fous going by, und thut is 
 
 sufficient. 
 —Lydia Maria Child on birthday mementoes, 
 
 As characters traced on fobite paper with spm- 
 pathetic ink caw only be made legible by fire, so 
 out heart's characters cannot be read unless 
 farmed by friendship. ANON, 
 
 g know not Why foe should delay our tokens of 
 respect to those foo deserbe them, until the heart 
 that our sympathy could babe gladdened, bas 
 tensed to beat. As men cannot rend the epitaphs 
 inscribed upow the marble that cobers them, so 
 the tombs that foe erect to birtue often only probe 
 our repentance that foe neglected them Mohen with 
 
 us. HORACE, 
 
 Retribution map come from any boice; the 
 hardest, cruclest, most embruted urchin at the 
 street corner can inflict it; surely help and pity 
 re rarer things—more needful for the righteous 
 
 to bestofy. GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 @ announce to ull men that noble children are 
 
 sprung from noble sires, TERENCE, 
 159 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Che true bards hube beew noted for their frm 
 and cheerful temper. omer lies im sunshine ; 
 Chaucer is glad and erect. Not less sobereign 
 and cheerful,—mauch more sobereign and cheerful, 
 is the tone of Shakespeare. EMERSON. 
 
 an a gentleman appear all the great and solid 
 pertections of lite, ith a beautiful gloss and bar- 
 nish; ebery thing thut he says or does is uccom- 
 panied foith a» manner, or rather x charm, that 
 druws the good-will of ebery beholder. 
 
 STEELE. 
 
 The success of a good book may be slolv, but 
 it fill come; that of a bad one map be shift, 
 
 but it soon passes afap. ANON. 
 
 Cell me fohat pou find better or more honora- 
 ble than age. Js not fisdom entailed upon tt? 
 Cake the pre-eminence of it in eberp thing ; in an 
 
 old friend, iw old fine, in an old pedigree. 
 SCOTT. 
 
 dit and Misdom ure born with a man. 
 JOHN SELDEN. 
 160 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Che polite of eberp country seem to hube but 
 one character. at is among the bulgur that 
 foe find those distinctions fhich characterize x 
 
 people. GOLDSMITH. 
 
 dust us music must habe its diminished fifths, 
 its flat sebenths, its flourishes, us fell as its per- 
 fect chords und simple melodies, so conversation 
 must habe its purtial truths, its embellished 
 iruths, its exaggerated truths. HOLMES. 
 
 Che dutifulness of children is the foundation 
 of ull birtues. CICERO. 
 
 dHe caw hardly learw humility and tenderness 
 
 enough except bp suffering. GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Religious principles inculeated in a child’s heart 
 are like golden nails fohich time drives in faster, 
 mod no philosophical claw cor completely drat 
 
 out, ANON. 
 
 GAbhat good does the purple do on the garment ? 
 GAhp, it is splendid in itself, and splendid also in 
 
 the example Which it affords, EPICTETUS, 
 ie 161 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Che remembrance of w belobed mother becomes 
 ashadot to all our actions; it precedes or fol- 
 _ lotos them. ANON. 
 
 Qnless thought perpetually renews its pouth, 
 and lifts a seeking epe afresh to the libing light, 
 Decrepitude und fovste befall tohateber it has 
 
 achieben. JAMES MARTINEAU. 
 
 Gentle sleep despises not the humble cottages of 
 rustics, nor the shaded banks, nor bualleps fhose 
 foliage toubes With the Western fino. 
 
 HORACE, 
 
 Thought is the property of him who can en- 
 iertain it, und of him Who can adequately place it. 
 EMERSON. 
 
 St is u brief period of life thut is granted ns 
 bp nature, but the memorp of a Well-spent life 
 neber dies. CICERO. 
 
 Some people currp their hearts im their heads ; 
 bery manp cartp their beads in their hearts. Che 
 difficulty is to keep them apart, and pet both ac- 
 
 tibelp forking together. MARCUS HARE. 
 162 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Hobe is a secondary passion in those Who love 
 most, x primary in those Moho lobe least. Be 
 foho is inspired by it iv w great degree is inspired 
 hp honor in # greuter. LANDOR. 
 
 dt is one of mp constant regrets, in this gene- 
 ration, that men to fohom the gods bube giben a 
 genius fill insist, im such an earnest time us ours 
 bas grofon, in bringing out their dibine gift in the 
 shape of berse, Which nof no man reads entirely 
 im enrnest. CARLYLE. 
 
 Gheneber wn accumulation of small defences 
 is found, fobether surrounding the prude’s birtue 
 ox the man of the world’s respectability, there, be 
 
 sure, it 18 needed. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 
 
 Che heart's instinctive lopalip to the poet is 
 proof of its consciousness that be is the burmo- 
 
 nizer, strengthener, und consoler. 
 GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. 
 
 Aloups there is seed being sofon silently and 
 unseen, und eberpoobere there come up sleet 
 
 flowers fithout our foresight or lnbor. We reap 
 163 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 fohat foe solv, but Nature has lobe ober und abobe 
 that justice, und gibes us shadot and blossom 
 
 and fruit that spring from no planting of ours. 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Che upparent und the real progress of human 
 uffairs are both fell illustrated in » fouterfall: 
 fohere the sume noisp, bubbling eddies continue 
 for months und pears, though the foater which 
 
 froths in them changes eberp moment. 
 AUGUSTUS HARE, 
 
 A beneficent person is like a fountain foxtering 
 the earth and spreading fertility ; it is therefore 
 more Delightful and more bonoruble to gibe than 
 
 to receibe. EPICURUS, 
 
 Heber hunt trouble. Bolweber dead a shot 
 one may be, the gun he carries ow such expeditions 
 
 is sure to kick or go off hulf-cocked. 
 ARTEMUS WARD. 
 
 dust us those Mho habe beard au symphony 
 carrp in their ears the tune and stoeetness of the 
 
 song oobich entangles their thoughts, and does not 
 164 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 suffer them to gibe their fohole energy to serious 
 matters; so the combersution of flutterers and of 
 those foo praise ebil things, lingers longer in the 
 mind than the time of bearing it. SENECA. 
 
 The port's berse slides into the current of our 
 blood, We read it When young, foe remember it 
 
 fohen old. SAMUEL SMILES. 
 
 Af J foere not the independent gentleman that 9 
 am, tather thaw ¥ would be w retainer of the 
 great, a led captain, or poor relation, J would 
 choose, ont of the delicacy and true greatness of 
 mp mind, to be w beggar. LAMB. 
 
 Children need some childish talk, some childish 
 play, some childish books. But they also need, 
 und need more, difftculties to obercome, und x 
 sense of the bust mysteries fobich the progress of 
 
 their intelligence shull nid them to unrabel. 
 MARGARET FULLER. 
 
 Che heart weeds not for its henber much space, 
 nor mang stars therein, if only the star of lobe 
 
 bus risen. RICHTER. 
 165 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 A helping ford im trouble is often like u 
 stoitch on a railroad track,—but one inch bethocen 
 
 forech und smooth-rolling prosperity. 
 BEECHER. 
 
 Hessons to be learned from the humility and 
 cheerfulness of the gruss. ats humility, in that 
 it seems created only for lobest serbice,—ap- 
 pointed to be trodden upon. dts cheerfulness, in 
 that it seems to exult under all kinds of biolence 
 and suffering. Pou roll it, and it is stronger the 
 next dap; pou mofo it, and it multiplies its shoots 
 as if it fere grateful; pou tread upon it, and it 
 only sends up richer perfume. RUSKIN. 
 
 Adversity reminds men of religion. ivy. 
 
 Girls are protected us if they were something 
 herp frail or silly indeed, fobile bops are turned 
 loose on the World us if they, of all beings in ex- 
 istence, foere the foisest und least linble to be led 
 
 ustrap. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 
 
 God is there the sun glows, God is fobere the 
 biolet blooms, is Hhere pow bird flaps its tings, 
 166 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 is fohere this form is mobing. Though no 
 friend, no mun, be foith thee, fear nothing! Thy 
 God is here. DINTER. 
 
 Feeling Mithout judgment is u Mushy dranght 
 indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is 
 too bitter and bushy a morsel for buman deglu- 
 
 tition. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 
 
 Co find a noble human soul is gain; it is 
 nobler to keep it; and the noblest and most difh- 
 cult is to sube that fohich is already lost. 
 
 HERDER. 
 
 Heabes ure light, und useless, and idle, and 
 foubering, und changeable; they eben dance: pet 
 God has made them part of the owk. dn so 
 Doing He hus giben us uv lesson not to deny the 
 stout-heartedness Within, becunse foe see the light- 
 somencss foithout. AUGUSTUS HARE, 
 
 The power which thinks and Morks within us 
 is, according to its nature, a pober us neber- 
 dying us that Hhich holds together suns und stars. 
 
 dis nature is eternal as the dibine mind, 
 167 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 md the supports of my being (not of mp cor- 
 poreal form) are us firm us the pillars of the 
 
 mnuiberse. HERDER. 
 
 How different is a foulk with a religions man 
 from one with wu bulgur, worldly soul! The 
 earth appeared to him holy, just fallen from the 
 hands of the Greator; it fxs to him as if be 
 foere foulking in w planet banging ober ns and 
 tlothed with flowers. RICHTER, 
 
 Gberp day is a gift J receibe from Heaben ; 
 let me enjoy to-day that Mobhich it bestofes on me. 
 dt belongs not more to the poung than to me, 
 
 and to-morrof belongs to no one. 
 FRANCOIS DE MAUCROIX. 
 
 Che tale of Hibine Pity fous neber yet beliebed 
 from lips that Were not felt to be mobed by human 
 
 pity. GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Pour fame is us the grass, Whose hue comes 
 and gors, und His might withers it, by tohose 
 potoer it sprang from the lap of earth. 
 
 DANTE, 
 168 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 4 ubooke this morning fith debout thanks- 
 gibing for my friends, the old and the nef. Shall 
 @ not call God the Beautiful, Hho daily shotocth 
 himself so to me in bis gifts ? EMERSON. 
 
 Of lu there caw be no less achnofoledged 
 thun that ber seat is the bosom of God, her boice 
 the barmonp of the forld; all things in heaben 
 and earth do her homage, the berp least us feeling 
 her care, und the greatest as wot exempted from 
 
 ber potver. ; THOMAS HOOKER. . 
 
 Hite is u series of surprises, und would not be 
 forth taking or keeping, if it foere not. God 
 delights to isolate us ebery dup, und hide from us 
 the pust and the future. EMERSON. 
 
 As u state ought to ucknobledge God in its 
 public capacity, so ought each indibidual family. 
 VIRGIL. 
 
 ¥ am glad to think that God sees through mp 
 heart, and, if ang angel bus potoer to penetrate 
 into it, he is foelcome to know ebery thing that is 
 
 there, Bes, und so map any mortal obo is capa- 
 169 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 ble of full sympathy, und therefore orthy to 
 come into mp depths. But he must find his of 
 fouy there. ¥ can neither guide nor enlighten 
 
 him. HAWTHORNE, 
 
 He is not trabelling along that darksome path 
 to the bourne from which, they sap, no one eber 
 
 returns. CATULLUS. 
 
 Drawing near her death, she sent most pions 
 thoughts us harbingers to heaben; and her soul 
 sate x glimpse of happiness through the chinks 
 of ber sickness-brokew body. 
 
 THOMAS FULLER. 
 
 dt seems to me it’s the same With lobe and hap- 
 piness us foith sorrof—the more foe knol of it 
 the better foe caw feel that other people's libes 
 are or might be, and so foe shall only be more 
 tender to em, and foishful to bely ’em. 
 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 © Death, thou dost not trouble mp designs, 
 thou uccomplishest them. Muste then, O fabor- 
 
 able Death! BOSSUET. 
 170 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Chou art not born to misery; the Almighty 
 neber culled ung of bis creatures into existence to 
 render them unhappy; vet man map be foretched 
 
 from his ofvw follies und bices, 
 SALOMON GESSNER. 
 
 Religion is the blessedness arising from a 
 knofoledge of God. . . . A code of morality 
 only rules bud, unlobing souls, im order that thep 
 map become first better und ther good. But the 
 lobing contemplation of the souls first friend, 
 fbo abundantly unimates those laos, bunishes 
 not merely the bad thoughts which conquer, but 
 those also fohich tempt. As the eagle flies high 
 abobe the highest mountains, so dors true lobe 
 ubobe struggling duty, RICHTER. 
 
 Ghery one has his allotted time upon earth ; 
 n brief und irretriebable space is giben to all; 
 but it is birtue’s fork alone to stretch the narrow 
 spuce by noble deeds, VIRGIL, 
 
 Au the morning fohen thow risest untoillingly 
 let these thoughts be present: “ad um rising to 
 the fork of a human being, toby, then, um J 
 
 Lie 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 dissatished if J um going to do the things for 
 fohich J exist, und for which J tous brought inte 
 the forld? @r babe J been made for this, to 
 lie im the bedclothes und keep moself fourm? 
 But this is more pleasant.” Dost thou evist, 
 then, to take thy pleasure, and not for action or 
 
 exertion ? 
 MARCUS AURELIUS. 
 
 Che fame of the dead fisherman has outlibes 
 the glory of the ternal City. 
 
 GARFIELD. 
 
 Gbhen from x corner it is possible to spring up 
 into beabern: rise, therefore, and form thyself 
 into a fashion fotthy of God; thou canst not 
 do this, howeber, With gold and silber; an image 
 Ktke to God cannot be formed ont of such mate- 
 
 rinls us these. SENECA. 
 
 they do their father’s friend; they do not deny 
 him; by no means; they only deny themseloes to 
 
 bim, fohen be is good enough to call upon them. 
 AUGUSTUS HARE, 
 
 Some men treat the God of their fathers us 
 
 Ly 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Had J been w nightingale, I should hube sung 
 the songs of u nightingule, or had J been w swan, 
 the songs of u shun; but, being w reasonable 
 being, it is my dutp to hymn God. 
 
 EPICTETUS. 
 
 God is newr pou, is with you, is Hithin pou. 
 SENECA. 
 
 Heber do unp thing concerning the rectitude of 
 fobich pou bube x doubt. 
 
 PLINY THE YOUNGER. 
 
 St is sad to think that the day may come to 
 rach of us, fohen foe shall babe ceased to hope for 
 discoberpy and for progress ; oben w thing will'seem 
 a prior? false to us, simply becuuse it is nebo ; 
 and fohem foe shull say querulously to the Dibine 
 Hight fohich lightens ebery man bobo comes into 
 the World: “ Bitherto shalt thou come, and no 
 farther.” KINGSLEY. 
 
 Rest satished that Whuteber is by the appoint- 
 ment of Heaben is right, is best. 
 
 JAMES HERVEY. 
 
 473 
 
Short Sayings of Famous Men. 
 
 Che grand essentinls of happiness are, some- 
 thing to do, something to lobe, und something to 
 
 hope for. THOMAS CHALMERS. 
 
 Altaps say a kind ford if pou can, if only 
 that it map come in, perhaps, With singular op- 
 portuneness, entering some mourniul man’s darh- 
 ened toom tke a beautiful fire-fly, whose happy 
 conbolutions be cannot but batch, forgetting bis 
 
 troubles. ARTHUR HELPS. 
 
 GHe hold reunions, not for the dead, for there 
 is nothing im all the earth thut pou and J can 
 Do forthe dead. . . . Chey do not need us, 
 
 but foreber and foreber more foe need them, 
 GARFIELD. 
 
 Whateber pour present self map be, resolbe 
 
 fith all pour strength meber io degenerate thence. 
 CHARLOTTE BRONTE. 
 
 Grief, it is truly said, is sacred; but grief 
 brought forfard promiscuouslp, barged upon, 
 condoled ober, made the staple of conbersation, 
 
 becomes rapidly profane. GAIL HAMILTON, 
 174 
 
Sentiments. 
 
 Che grevtness of the mighty dead hus vloays 
 consisted im this, that they were seekers, im- 
 probers, inventors, endued bith that dibine 
 poher and right of discoberp fobich bas been be- 
 stored ow us, eben us ow them. KINGSLEY. 
 
 175 
 
Index. 
 
 EPIGRAM AND EPIGRAPH. 
 
 Acre in Middlesex, 18 Canonized and cannonaded, 8 
 Addison, Joseph, 31 Chambers, Ephraim, 38 
 fEschylus, 35 Chastity of honor, 19 
 American, born as, 28 Christ, 17 
 Amour-propre, 12 Cleverness, 12 
 Architect of fortune, 13 Cock-loft empty, ro 
 Aristocracy, 26 Come and take them, 28 
 Artificial, all things, 17 Concealing thoughts, 6 
 Arts and literature, 21 Confidence, 18 
 Ashton, 41 Conscience, 21 
 Atheism, 15 Content, 13 
 Awake, meet Creator, 30 Cotton, John, 38 
 Bacon, Francis, 30 Count and man, 8 
 Beginning, 20 Cradle and grave, 25 
 Benediction, face like, 12 Crime, more than, 21 
 Beware, 23 Crimes and vices, 24 
 Bishops, 23 Crown without the conflict, 32 
 Blame, 6 Custom, 13 
 Blood of the martyrs, 33 Day and night, 36 
 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 27 Day, praise not, 20 
 Books, 13 Death and dying, 18 
 Brave, fortune favors, 8 Death, come quickly, 27 
 Brave men, 3 Deluge, after me, 29 
 Brickmaker, 42 Despotism, 5 
 Byron, Lord, on himself, 34; | Devon, Earl of, 37 
 
 on his 33d year, 40 Dickens, Charles, 29 
 Cannibals, 18 Die for country, 8 
 
 177 
 
Index. 
 
 Die in harness, 3 
 
 Divine image, 16 
 
 Do and have done, 20 
 
 Dog, on a, 42 
 
 Duty, 16 
 
 Elizabeth, L. H., 29 
 
 Emigrated, 35 
 
 Eminence and merit, 19 
 
 Enemy, fallen in with, 4 
 
 Englishman, 7 
 
 Envy, 9 
 
 Epictetus, 35 
 
 Evil for good, 24 
 
 Exaggeration, 9 
 
 Farewell! but not forever, 34 
 
 Fault, a small, 24 
 
 Favors and silence, 21 
 
 Federal Union, 6 
 
 Fire, the best, 9 
 
 First at rendezvous, 41 
 
 First in war, 26 
 
 First of my line, 28 
 
 Fletcher, 37 
 
 Fool, never been a, 5 
 
 Forgiveness, 28 
 
 Fortune’s gifts, 9 
 
 Fortune transported to heaven, 
 31 
 
 Franklin, Benjamin, 42 
 
 Freemen, 6 
 
 Friend, masterpiece of nature, 
 21 
 
 Generosity, 30 
 
 Genius, hunger of, 15 
 
 Gentility, xz 
 
 Giant and pigmy, 12 
 
 Glory, road to, 4 
 
 Gods, images made, 22 
 
 Goldsmith, Oliver, 33 
 
 Gone before, 33 
 
 Good man,.20 
 
 Government, form of, 4 
 
 Gratitude, 14 
 
 Great, the, 12 
 
 Grief, caused none but her 
 death, 33 
 
 Grim death, 23 
 
 Guilt, man without, 10 
 
 Harcourt, 36 
 
 Hatred, 15 
 
 Heine, Heinrich, 31 
 
 Henry V., 39 
 
 Hero, 37 
 
 Higher law, 5 
 
 Hogarth, William, 33 
 
 Hoit, Ephraim, 39 
 
 Honor, all save, 5 
 
 Humanity, wearisome, 6 
 
 Hypocrisy, 11 
 
 Ideas, 5 
 
 Impatience, 20 
 
 Imponderables, 15 
 
 Independence, American, 26 
 
 Inspiration, 20 
 
 Intellect of the wise, 24 
 
 Isle of Man, 44 
 
 I think, 5 
 
 Kindness misplaced, 15 
 
 Kings will be tyrants, ro 
 
 Knowledge, 6; and timber, 
 13 
 
 Last ditch, 7 
 
 Law and tyranny, 8 
 
 Lawyer and case, 7 
 
 Learning, writers lost in, 12 
 
 Leisure, 17 
 
 Leonardo da Vinci, 30 
 
 Letters, man of, 10 
 
 178 
 
Index. 
 
 Liberty, 3; in San Domingo, 
 43 tree of, 7; crimes in name 
 
 of, 8 
 Lie, as a handle, 19 
 Life and time, 16 
 Life but a moment, 25 
 Life, in the midst of, 28 
 Light, unworthy of, 19 
 Lincoln, Abraham, 26, 27 
 Lived, had both, 40 
 
 Live, frightful to, 13; a firm 
 
 soul, 21 
 Love and spurs, 11 
 
 Love love, 14, 16; and life, 14; 
 
 a liberal education, 26 
 Luck and wickedness, 22 
 Luther, Martin, 32 
 Malice toward none, 25 
 Manners, 15 
 Man proposes, 16 
 Masters himself, 13 
 Medicine of the mind, 24 
 Millions for defence, 10 
 Moves, it, 29 
 My life my monument, 35 
 Nature and nurture, 17 
 Nature a rag-merchant, 17 
 Nature, art, artifice, 17 
 New buckler, 5 
 Newton, Isaac, 37 
 Noble thoughts, 18 
 Nowhere and everywhere, 14 
 Office, 7 
 Old friends, 13 
 O’Looney, Lady, 43 
 Orthography, 33 
 Painter, I also am, 28 
 Parish clerk, 44 
 Passion, 17 
 
 Passions, 21 
 
 Past and future, 14 
 Pathway of the gods, 24 
 Patience, rr 
 
 Peaceably, forcibly, 5 
 Peace, call it, 8 
 
 Peace, to preserve, 3 
 Pedant, 10 
 
 Pembroke, Countess of, 30 
 Perfection, 11 
 
 Perfume, 6 
 
 Perhaps, a great, 30 
 Persian arrows, 27 
 Philospher of Mantua, 36 
 Plato and Moses, 30 
 Plough deep, 9 
 
 Plucked the flower, 32 
 Powder, keep dry, 28 
 Praise, 28 
 
 Prejudices, 3, 7 
 
 Printer, on a, 44 
 Procrastination, 12 
 Progress, 5 
 
 Prophecy, 13 
 
 Purcell, 39 
 
 Pure hands, 24 
 
 Putnam, Israel, 25 
 Raillery, 14 
 
 Raphael, 3x 
 
 Reading, 14 
 
 Reason, 14 
 
 Rebellion to tyrants, 4 
 Recollection, to cherish, 31 
 Religion, 22 : 
 Remedy and disease, 6 
 Remember thy end, 27 
 Repentance, 24 
 Reputation, 13 
 Resurrection, 43 
 
 179 
 
Index. 
 
 Revenge, 22 
 
 Riches, true, 11; and trouble, 
 14 
 
 Rivers, deepest, 12 
 
 Sachs, Hans, 35 
 
 Safety, 9 
 
 Sardanapalus, 38 
 
 Scriptures, knowledge of, 24 
 
 See God, 32 
 
 Self-love, 7 
 
 Self-opinion, 9 
 
 Shadows, 21 
 
 Shakespeare, 27, 32, 343; on 
 himself, 31 
 
 Sheep, on a, 43 
 
 Sigh of love, 8 
 
 Silence, 14 
 
 Silence of the people, 4 
 
 Silver vessels, 16 
 
 Sincerity, impartiality, 18 
 
 Slander, 14 
 
 Slave, epitaph on a, 34 
 
 Slavery, 17 
 
 Slave trade, 27 
 
 Sleep, 19 
 
 Spartans, 33 
 
 Stand erect, 20 
 
 Statesman’s heart, 8 
 
 State, the, 23 
 
 Statues, 28 
 
 Stozzi, Leon, 36 
 
 Strength overcome, 13 
 
 Style, 7 
 
 Success, 12 
 
 Suffer and do, 12 
 
 - Sweetness and light, 15 
 
 Syllables, 3 
 
 Talking, 7 
 
 Taste, 16 
 
 Teach men, 16 
 
 Tempest in glass of water, 5 
 
 Thousand-souled, 32 
 
 Tibullus, 38 
 
 Time, 11 
 
 Times that try, 10 
 
 Timocreon, 40 
 
 Toil terribly, 25 
 
 To-morrow, 21 
 
 Tonson, Jacob, 41 
 
 Too much, 15; and enough, 19 
 
 Tragedy, 18 
 
 Transubstantiation, 22 
 
 Treason, 6 
 
 Trouble, 9 
 
 Truth, language of, 3; if held 
 every, 9; honor every, 9; 
 not impatient, 11 
 
 Tug of war, 19 
 
 Unity, liberty, charity, 15 
 
 Unmanned, 15 
 
 Vanquished, woe to, 5 
 
 Vengeance and silence, 12 
 
 Vernon, Thomas, 41 
 
 Victories, costly, 4 
 
 Virtue, 7; feigned, 29 
 
 Virtues, unsuspected, 20 
 
 Virtuous friend, 16 
 
 Water and tears, 45 
 
 Weathercock, 8 
 
 Weeds, 17 
 
 Westminster Abbey, 10 
 
 Wickedness and reason, 22 
 
 Will, freedom of, 18 
 
 Will of the nation, 27 
 
 Wings, 19 
 
 Wisdom in alchemy, 16 
 
 Wise enough, 18 
 
 Wit and nonsense, ro 
 
 180 
 
Index. 
 
 Wit’s last edition, 37 
 Wit snuffed by want, 7 
 Wit, useless, 20 
 Wives, on two, 45 
 Women, 11 
 
 Works, one’s own, 11 
 
 World, life, wealth, learning, 
 23 
 
 Wound and sorrow, 26 
 
 Wren, Christopher, 42 
 
 Wrong-doing, 22 
 
 Zucchi, Antonio, 34 
 
 PHILOSOPHY. 
 
 Absent, justice to the, 60 
 
 Abstract ideas and conceit, 83 
 
 Abstraction, mental, 79 
 
 Actors’ parts, 94 
 
 Age and youth, 85 
 
 Agreement in thought, gx 
 
 All things in all, 64 
 
 Ambition, mistake of, 74, 76 
 
 Annihilation impossible, 53, 69 
 
 Appearances, reality of, 55, 60; 
 keeping up, 89 
 
 Approbation, 70 
 
 Art and taste, 53 
 
 Association, pleasure referred 
 to, 66; delicacy of, 77 
 
 Atheists’ unreason, 53 
 
 Beauty and art, 57 
 
 Belief, and life, 57 ; cherished, 
 72; and wishes, 110 
 
 Benefits, 81 
 
 Bias, individual, 67; of judg- 
 ment, 85 
 
 Blessings, deceptive, 64 
 
 Blocks, men have, 100 
 
 Blood and actions, 99 
 
 Books, modernness of good, 92 
 
 Calumny, 104 
 
 Can not and will not, 109 
 
 Caricature of contemporaries, 
 61 
 
 Cause and causality, 82 
 
 Change, 113 
 
 Character, a teacher, 75 
 
 Charlatans, 70 
 
 Child, promise of, 90 
 
 Christianity expands science, 
 69 
 
 Christian philosophy, 53 
 
 Church spires, 57 
 
 Circumstances and will, 63 
 
 Civilization, tendency of, 63 
 
 Cleverness and thought, 60 
 
 Compulsion, 92 
 
 Concealment of sin, 51 
 
 Concentration, 71 ; power of, 83 
 
 Confidence and knowledge, 89 
 
 Conscience, primitive power 
 of 54; delicacy of, 89 
 
 Consistency, 109 
 
 Conversation, 85 
 
 Counsel anc approbation, 107 
 
 Courage, 91 
 
 Creation, 59 
 
 Creator and creation distinct, 
 62 
 
 Critic, pleasure of, 105 
 
 Culture, 70 
 
 Daughters, occupation for, 95 
 
 Death, fear of, 106 
 
 Deception, 100 
 
 181i 
 
Index. 
 
 Deeds and character, 70 
 
 Difference of minds, 81 
 
 Directness, ror 
 
 Discrimination, necessity of, 82 
 
 Dissatisfaction in art, 71 
 
 Diversity of gifts, 103 
 
 Divine, the, 107 
 
 Eating, 106 
 
 Egotism, 62 
 
 Eloquence and rhetoric, 74 
 
 Emotion, irrational, 77 
 
 Employment and happiness, 58 
 
 Enemy’s misfortune, 104 
 
 Envy, 103 
 
 Error, sorrow for, ro2 
 
 Excess, danger of, 92 
 
 Executions absurd, 75 
 
 Experience, 72 
 
 Eye, simile drawn from, ror 
 
 Facts and laws, 111 
 
 Failure, blame of, 71; cause 
 of, 78 
 
 Faith unprovable, 79 
 
 Fallow mind, 88 
 
 False accusations, 103 
 
 Falsehoods, turning over old, 
 86 
 
 Fame, mutability of, 86 
 
 Farming, 87 
 
 Faults, universal, 94 
 
 Fear, 104 
 
 Feelings, power of, 95; trans- 
 itory, 112 
 
 Fine society, 59 
 
 Fortune, acquirement of, 97; 
 power of, 99 ; resignation to, 
 105 
 
 Fraility, human, 108 
 
 Freedom and bondage, 65 
 
 Future life, 52 
 
 Genial tempers, 75 
 
 Genius and talent, 58; de- 
 fined, 71; in the past, 76; 
 defects of, 86 
 
 Gentleness, power of, 89 
 
 God, his omnipresence, 55, 733 
 within, 55; his certainty, 59; 
 and fate, 63; arguments for, 
 66 
 
 Good action, complacency of, 
 100 
 
 Good men wholesome, 85 
 
 Goodness not without God, 53 
 
 Gospel, teachings of, 71 
 
 Great men’s needs, 100 
 
 Great, protection of the, 78 
 
 Growth, 112 
 
 Habit, power of, 109 
 
 Happiest person, 89 
 
 Happiness, search for, 73; im- 
 parted, 74; never attained, 
 84; where found, 103 
 
 Hate of enemies, 75 
 
 Hatred, 106 
 
 Heathenism and Christianity, 
 55 
 
 Heroism, 113 
 
 Holes, triangular persons in 
 square, 84 
 
 Hope, 62, 102 
 
 Humanity in 
 growth of, 77 
 
 animals, 75; 
 Ideas, dismounting from, 74 
 Ill of others, 63 
 
 Illusion, 68 
 
 Imagination, men of, 60 
 Immortality, 55, 95 
 Impatience, ror 
 
 182 
 
Index. 
 
 Incarnation, doctrine of, 108 
 Indecision, 87 
 
 Indignation, misleading, 93 
 Individualism, 90, 97 
 Ingratitude, 91 
 
 Injuries and consolations, 112 
 Insanity, 98 
 
 Inspiration, 67 
 
 Inventive power, ror 
 
 Joy, power of, 77 
 
 Kindness, 96, 102 
 
 Laughing and crying, 63 
 
 of, 95 
 Learning and ignorance, tax 
 
 on, 96 
 
 Leaving off work, 111 
 
 Liberty defined, 84 
 
 Life after death, 51; pettiness 
 of, 54; unamendable, 66; to 
 be grasped, 67; and charac- 
 ter, 73 
 
 Literary reputation, 106 
 
 Live for another, 69 
 
 Lives blended, 93 
 
 Loss, learning from, 102 
 
 Love, 109 
 
 Ludicrous, the, 83 
 
 Lying, 92 
 
 Mammon, 80 
 
 Manners, 66; and laws, 56 
 
 Marriage, 67 
 
 Martyrdom, true, 107 
 
 Meekness, power of, 71 
 
 Men of force, 55 
 
 Mental momentum, 69 
 
 Mental tides, 88 
 
 Middle condition of life, 57 
 
 Mind is king, 72 
 
 Misfortune, none to the wise, 
 
 68; atest, 82; relief of, 93 
 
 Modesty, 104 
 
 Moral element in beauty, 58 
 
 Moral victory, 111 
 
 Mourning, 105 
 
 Nature, adaptation of, 72; her 
 language, 98 
 
 New formulas, 52 
 
 | Noble sentiments, 56 
 Laws, fear of, 86; uncertainty 
 
 Old Testament literature, r1o 
 
 Opinions, relative importance 
 of, 89 
 
 Originality, 103 
 
 Others, true knowledge of, 108 
 
 Ourselves, shadow of, 76 
 
 Partial knowledge, 83, 90 
 
 Peace of mind, 81 
 
 Penitence, unavailing, 51 
 
 People, which preferred, 88 
 
 Personalities, 68 
 
 Philosophy, tendency of, 57; 
 excess of, go; the highest, 
 toz; weakness of, 109; a 
 home-sickness, 111 
 
 Piety and honesty, 73 
 
 Poison and food, 87 
 
 Politeness, 56; ground of, 78 
 
 Poverty, 59 
 
 Power, excessive, wears out, 66 
 
 Progress, 110 
 
 Providence, certainty of, 64 
 
 Purity, 108 
 
 Quotation, ror 
 
 Rainy corners, 80 
 
 Mental vacuum, 51 
 Merit and regard, 107 
 
 | Rascal, punishment of, 99 
 | Recreation, necessity of, 78 
 
 183 
 
Index. 
 
 Repetition, 62 
 
 Resignation, 106 
 
 Responsibility, individual, 73 
 
 Reticence, 99 
 
 Reverence, 61 
 
 Riches, contempt of, 61 
 
 Ridicule, power of, 104 
 
 Saxon and Norman, 65 
 
 Sceptic praises God, 52 
 
 Seat, a good, 78 
 
 Secret, when lost, 88 
 
 Self-denial, 86 
 
 Self-knowledge, 79 
 
 Self-love, 111 
 
 Self-respect, 79 
 
 Self-rule, 99 
 
 Services, estimation of, 108 
 
 Sharpness and worthiness, 58 
 
 Skill and harmony, 76 
 
 Sorrow, value of, 102 
 
 Souls, of the good, 58; de- 
 fined, 68; growth of, 92; 
 change of, 98 
 
 Speech, like aras, 93; what 
 makes, 104; reflection on, 
 105 
 
 Statesmen, minds of, ror 
 
 Success, a condition of, g1; 
 power of, 93; cause of, 103 
 
 Superciliousness, 106 
 
 Talent, encouragement of, 65; 
 clearness of, 88 
 
 Time no agent, 74; wear of, 98 
 
 Tolerance, religious, 54 
 
 Trade, 94 
 
 Training, youthful, 110 
 
 Tranquillity of mind, 93 
 
 Troubles, opinions of, 98 
 
 True thoughts, 61 
 
 Truth, search after, 65; all re- 
 lated, 67; soul reveals, 67; 
 in free field, 74; from great 
 men, 87 
 
 Two handles, 64 
 
 Universal power, 110 
 
 Universe, problems of, 60 
 
 Unknowable, the, 60 
 
 Unproductive classes, gt 
 
 Variety of gifts, 69 
 
 Virtue defined, 81; prospect- 
 ive, 83; and vice, 93, 97, 100 
 
 Virtues, fellowship of, 91 
 
 Wisdom, 70; not an art, 72 
 
 Wise thoughts, rr2 
 
 Wit, unjust, 59 
 
 Woes, how regarded, 1o5 
 
 Woman, 86; her charms, 94; 
 and ships, 95; her caprices, 
 96 
 
 Wooden folks, 89 
 
 Words, power of, 76 
 
 Working, 76 
 
 Writers, able, 79 
 
 Writing, disadvantage in, 97 
 
 Zeus, 62 
 
 SENTIMENTS. 
 
 Absence, 141 
 Accusations of self, 133 
 Addison, 146 
 
 Adversity, 122 
 Adversity and religion, 166 
 Affirmatives, incessant, 135 
 
 184 
 
Index. 
 
 Age, 160 
 
 Anger, 143 
 
 Animosity, 129 
 
 Beggar, choose to be a, 165 
 
 Beneficence, 164 
 
 Benevolence, 129 
 
 Birthday mementos, 158 
 
 Blushing and fear, 146 
 
 Boldness and courage, 150 
 
 Books, 155, 157; life of, 124 ;and 
 authors, 125 ; success of, 160 
 
 Book, the world a, rar 
 
 Bourne from which no one re- 
 turns, 170 
 
 Buttonholing, 137 
 
 Candlestick in a low place, 127 
 
 Cask, odor of, 130 
 
 Cheerfulness of poets, 160 
 
 Childhood, 142 
 
 Children, needs of, 165 
 
 Children, noble, 159; dutiful 
 161 
 
 Classes of society, 119 
 
 Conscience, 144 
 
 Consequences, for sake of, 140 
 
 Conversation, 161 
 
 Countenance, language of the, 
 153 
 
 Courage, 119; to appear good, 
 123 
 
 Court, people of the, 137 
 
 Criticism, ugly, 119 
 
 Daily needs, 146 
 
 Dark things, 126 
 
 Darts of the gods, 124 
 
 Days, lost or misspent, 157 
 
 ‘Dead, life of the, 125; and 
 living, 128; sorrow for the, 
 137; the mighty, 175 
 
 Death, welcome to, 170 
 
 Deeds, noble, 171 
 
 Defences, small, 163 
 
 Degeneracy, 174 
 
 Distrustful of friends, rer 
 
 Divine service, 155 
 
 Doing by hand of another, 122 
 
 Eagerness, 150 
 
 Earth and heaven, 119 
 
 Expression, 141 
 
 Fall, cause of, 131 
 
 Fame, 157, 168 
 
 Fashion, 123 
 
 Faults, our own, 121; of youth 
 and age, 129 
 
 Feeling, 125; and judgment, 
 167 ; doors to, 152 
 
 Flattery, 164 
 
 Fools, all men are, 130 
 
 Forgiving and forgetting, 145 
 
 Fortunes, 140, 141 
 
 Fraud, 156 
 
 Fretting, 125 
 
 Friendship, 136, 142, 159 
 
 Gentleman, a, 147, 148, 149, 160 
 
 Girls and boys, 166 
 
 Giving and receiving, 122 
 
 God, 166, 169, 172, 173 
 
 Good come of age, 132 
 
 Good deeds, 124 
 
 Good for something, r25 
 
 Good man, to become a, 155 
 
 Goods of mind, 156 
 
 Governments, free, 153 
 
 Grass, lessons of the, 166 
 
 Grateful mind a, 132 
 
 Great moments, 139 
 
 Grief, the greatest, 144, 174 
 
 Growth, 124 
 
 185 
 
Index. 
 
 Happier times remembered, 
 144 
 
 Happiness, 140; essentials of, 
 174; glimpse of future, 170; 
 supreme, 127 
 
 Heads and hearts, 162 
 
 Heart, has no wrinkles, 123; 
 it reasons, 128; to see into 
 the, 169 
 
 Heavenly food, 154 
 
 Heights in a mist, 126 
 
 Help and pity, 159 
 
 Hindrances, 152 
 
 Home, 139 ; and paradise, 125 
 
 Honor, 143; in death and life, 
 
 150 
 
 Hymning God, 172 
 
 Ill-gotten gains, 134 
 
 Imagined ills, 136 
 
 Imitating good and evil, 132 
 
 Individuality, 139 
 
 Inquisitive people, 129 
 
 Instruction, spirit that hates, 
 120 
 
 Intellectual power, 148 
 
 Intention and completion, 121 
 
 Kindness, 123; returning a, 
 131 
 
 Kind words, 174 
 
 Landscape, 138 
 
 Law, 169 
 
 Leaves, lessons of the, 167 
 
 Liberty or death, 134 
 
 Life, long enough, 120; its! 
 variety, 1293 aS an inn, 157; 
 memory of a well-spent, 162 
 
 Likings, our, 123 
 
 Little things, 139 
 
 Looking, satisfied with, 145 
 
 Love, 163; the star of, 165 
 
 Loving and haying, 120 
 
 Luck, 120 
 
 Manners, 154 ; most becoming, 
 124; and knowledge, 135; 
 good and bad, 137 
 
 Misery, 171 
 
 Misfortunes of others, 133 
 
 Mistakes, 145 
 
 Moderate speed, 141 
 
 Modesty, 122, 129; and merit, 
 141 
 
 Moon and night-flowers, 122 
 
 Mortality, 140 
 
 Mother, death of, 128; Seneca 
 to his, 153 ; remembrance of 
 a, 162 
 
 Nature, 158 
 
 Need of the dead, 174 
 
 Needs, 151 
 
 Niggardly hands, 123 
 
 Now, an everlasting, 144 
 
 Old man’s faith, 15x 
 
 Opinion of ourselves, 139 
 
 Ornamental people, 146 
 
 Pain, 134 
 
 Party, how you seat your, 
 123 
 
 Past, love of, 122 
 
 Pedestal, living on a, 120 
 
 Philosopher, a, 131 
 
 Pitt’s eloquence, 151 
 
 Pity, 168 
 
 Plans, wise ones frustrated, 137 
 
 Pluck, 125 
 
 Poet, the, 163 
 
 Poetry, 138; old-fashioned, 123 
 
 Politeness, 145; universal, 161 
 
 Portraying character, 156 
 
 186 
 
Index. 
 
 Power, use of, 158; within us, 
 167 
 
 Praise, deserving, 121; 
 death, 159 
 
 Preacher, the best, 120 
 
 Pretexts, 120 
 
 Pride and merit, 133 
 
 Progress, end of, 173; appa- 
 rent and real, 164 
 
 Purple, the, 161 
 
 Pyramids, the, 127 
 
 Reading, 155 
 
 Relationships, 158 
 
 Religion, 171 
 
 Religious man, walk with a, 
 168 
 
 Religious principles, 161 
 
 Remembrance after death, 148 
 
 Renunciation, 122 
 
 Reproaches, 128 
 
 Reserve, 150 
 
 Riches, 127 ; use of, 156 
 
 Right word, the, 127 
 
 Rivers, 133 
 
 Roses, of to-day, 
 thorns, 143 
 
 Saint Peter, 172 
 
 Saxon words, 136 
 
 Schoolmaster, the, 145 
 
 Self-approval, 158 
 
 Self-reliance, 131 
 
 Sensible man, a, 127 
 
 Service of love, 119 
 
 Shallowness, 124 
 
 Shore, keep close to, 122 
 
 Sincerity, 121 
 
 Slander, 135, 154 
 
 Sleep, 162 
 
 Social sympathy, 149 
 
 after 
 
 134; and 
 
 Songs of childhood, 156 
 
 Sorrow, 170 
 
 Soul, hospitality of, 130; a 
 noble, 167 
 
 Sowing, universal, 163 
 
 Speech, a, 128; repression of, 
 141 
 
 Sphinxes, 143 
 
 Straight line, a, 126 
 
 Suffering as an educator, 161 
 
 Suicide forbidden, 142 
 
 Surprises, 169 
 
 Table, law of the, 135 
 
 Talking, art of, 145 
 
 Task, every man’s, 120 
 
 Tears, 142; bottle up, 126 
 
 Theatre and pulpit, 135 
 
 Thought, renewal of youth, 
 162; whose it is, 162 
 
 Tilling the earth, 153 
 
 Time, 142; flight of, 154 
 
 Times, better, 126 
 
 Titles, 147 
 
 To-day, as a gift, 168 
 
 Too large and too small, 124 
 
 Transportation, 138 
 
 Trouble, hunting, 164 
 
 True speech, 144 
 
 Truth, colored, 134; search 
 for, 138; at any price, 155; 
 as a friend, 158 
 
 Turning round, 154 
 
 Union, music of the, 149 
 
 Unmapped country, 126 
 
 Unselfish thought, 128 
 
 Valetudinarians, 152 
 
 Verse, obsolete, 163; endur- 
 ing, 165 
 
 Vine, three clusters on, 132 
 
 187 
 
Index. 
 
 Virtue, 124, 132 
 
 Water-nixie’s soul, 121 
 
 Wealth, best good of, 130 
 
 White lies, 140 
 
 Winking, 143 
 
 Wit, power of, 146; and wis- 
 dom, 160 
 
 Woman’s rights and wrongs, 
 
 149 
 
 Women, happiest, 131; their 
 raiment, 134 
 Word, a helping, 166 
 
 Work, stopping, 135; daily, 
 172 
 
 World’s moral _ sentiment, 
 131 
 
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