I do not much like weasels, but I hate rats; and therefore I say, success to the weasels! William Cobbett. Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked. J. Petit-Senn. DISEASE. It is not advisable to reward where men have the tenderness not to punish. - L'Estrange. Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life. - Chapin. Discreet women have sometimes neither eyes Mme. Deluzy. nor ears. —— DISCUSSION. Of a certain class of disputants it has been wittily observed that their conclusions are al Great ability without discretion comes always right and their reasons for them invariably wrong. J. C. Jeaffreson. most invariably to a tragic end. - Gambetta. A house kept to the end of display is impos- Narrow waists and narrow minds go together. She who desires to see, desires also to be seen. — - Cervantes. Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire. Lysander A blaze first pleases and then tires the knew this when he refused the rich garments sight. Dr. Johnson. Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character. Rochefoucauld. that the tyrant Dionysius proffered to his daughter, saying that they were fit only to make unhappy faces more remarkable. -- Zimmermann. Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.-ally launch out into indiscriminate display. People newly emerged from obscurity gener Bulwer-Lytton. I have some wounds upon me, and they smart to hear themselves remembered. Shakspeare. No one can disgrace us but ourselves. J. G. Holland. Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the Jean Ingelow. If a young lady has that discretion and hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.-worth, she will never make an ostentatious modesty without which all knowledge is little DISHONESTY. Ouida. parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she What is dishonestly got vanishes in prof- has. Hannah More. ligacy. Cicero. DISTRUST. 111 DOMESTICITY. DISTRUST. How absurd to try to make two men think The feeling of distrust is always the last alike on matters of religion, when I cannot which a great mind acquires. - Racine. make two timepieces agree! Charles V. Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick. H. W. Shaw. Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.- As health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil, so there is no repubrican road to safety but in constant distrust. Wendell Phillips. In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust. - Rochefoucauld. Self-reliance is demanded in woman; the supreme fall of falls is the first doubt of one's self. Mme. de Gasparin. All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny. - Goethe. He knew how to weaken his divinity, on occasion, as well as an old housewife to weaken her tea, lest it should keep people awake. 0. W. Holmes. Of the two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that a good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine. For the sect, if once established, will survive the founder. Colton. DOGMATISM. He who is certain, or presumes to say he knows, is, whether he be mistaken or in the William Fleming. Women distrust men too much in general, right, a dogmatist. and too little in particular. Commerson. DOCTOR. They utter all they think with violence. — It is a wrong use of my understanding to When men are the most sure and arrogant, they commonly are the most mistaken. Hume. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, in sunbeams; and he grows angry that his neighbor does not see it in the same light. Dr. Watts. The doctor is not unfrequently death's pilot-be positive or dogmatical on any subject. Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to fish. G. D. Prentice. Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, DOMESTICITY. necessity is often the doctor's. Zimmermann. It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome. H. W. Shaw. Hume. Housekeepers, home-makers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral. - R. Herbert Newton. An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of from the large aggregate of little things, death. - Abu Avicenna. DOCTRINE. Hannah More. If a a woman is not fit to manage the internal Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and up and stuffed. - Beecher. Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life. Prior. should never be put in a house or over a house, any way. Good housekeeping lies at the root of all the real ease and satisfaction in existence.— Harriet Prescott Spofford. The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy. — Richter. The man at the head of the house can mar Home should be the centre of joy, equatorial make it; that must rest with the woman, and the pleasure of the household, but he cannot and tropical. it is her great privilege. Arthur Helps. Beecher. The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life. To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and William Penn. unfair. Pascal. -- Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.- Sir J. Denham. Our distrust justifies the deceit of others. Rochefoucauld. To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. — -Massinger. DRAMA. Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. Shakspeare. Remember Talleyrand's advice, "If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't!" The advice applies to many doubts in Bulwer-Lytton. Doubt follows white-winged Hope with trem-life besides that of letter-writing. bling steps. - Balzac. Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.-Thoreau. DOWRY. A woman's true dowry, in my opinion, is virtue, modesty, and desires restrained, not that - Plautus. Modest doubt is called the beacon of the which is usually called so. wise. Shakspeare. There is no weariness like that which rises from doubting. It is unfixed reason. — - South. Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt. - Huxley. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. Carlyle. Human knowledge is the parent of doubt. Greville. Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt. Victor Hugo. The doubts of an honest man contain more No richer dowry than a heart untainted and a love undivided. - Mme. Deluzy. In France the money a woman brings with her to the marriage altar is the main thing. She is sold, actually sold, like merchandise, and like merchandise is eventually considered. Anna Cora Mowatt. The poetry of operas is generally as exqui• moral truth than the profession of faith of peo-sitely ill as the music is good. - Addison. ple under a worldly yoke.-X. Doudan. Never do anything concerning the rectitude of which you have a doubt. - Pliny the Younger. Doubt is the vestibule of faith. - Colton. There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. — Tennyson. consisted in reality of three dramas, called toOn the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, gether a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day. - Coleridge. that patterns of piety, decently represented, I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, may second the precepts. Dryden. |