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

GRUMBLING.

Dr. Pulsford.

GUILT.

GUILT.

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use. Shakspeare.

Adversity, how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver, in comparison with those of

Guilt!-Blair.

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. Wordsworth.

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. Dryden. Where, where, for shelter, shall the guilty fly? - Young.

Confess thee freely of thy sin; for to deny each article with oath, cannot remove nor choke the strong conception that I do groan withal. Shakspeare.

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary. Southey.

The ghostly consciousness of wrong.

Carlyle.

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Shakspeare.

No one becomes guilty by fate, -Seneca. A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven as frenzy thoughts. — Shakspeare. receives. Swift.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame; but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick despatch.

Thomas Paine.

Wickedness consists in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated. Cicero.

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

Coleridge.

Every man bears something within him that, There are no greater prudes than those if it were publicly announced, would excite women who have some secret to hide. feelings of aversion.

Goethe.

George Sand.

H.

HABIT.

For use almost can change the stamp of Nature. Shakspeare.

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.-H. W. Shaw.

A large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits. Paley.

Habit is the nursery of errors.-Victor Hugo.

Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?-L. E. Landon.

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies too, still thou art bound to The chain of habit coils itself around the vice, and still a slave. -Dryden. heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

Hazlitt. Habit is the most imperious of all masters. Goethe.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. - Hosea Ballou.

The will that yields the first time with some reluctance does so the second time with less hesitation, and the third time with none at all, until presently the habit is adopted.

Henry Giles. The mind becomes weak where it has once given way. - John Foster.

Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

Spurgeon.

Like a white brow through its o'ershadowing hair. - Bailey.

Other parts of the body assist the speaker, but these speak themselves. By them we ask, we promise, we invoke, we dismiss, we threaten, Gray hair is beautiful in itself, and so soften-wo entreat, we deprecate; we express fear, joy, ing to the complexion and so picturesque in its effect that many a woman who has been plain in her youth is, by its beneficent influence, transformed into a handsome woman. — Miss Oakey.

A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery' comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall. Leigh Hunt. His hair is of a good color, - an excellent color; your chestnut was ever the only color. Shakspeare. God doth bestow that garment, when we die, that, like a soft and silken canopy, is still spread over us. In spite of death, our hair grows in the grave; and that alone looks fresh when all our other beauty's gone.

Decker.

grief, our doubts, our assent, our penitence; we show moderation, profusion; we mark number and time. - Quintilian.

The hand that gives, gathers. — Eugene Sue. The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates. Cervantes.

The white wonder of Juliet's hands.

Shakspeare.

Lavater told Goethe that, on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in

dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly

different and individually characteristic.
Mrs. Jameson.

The mind's only perfect vassal.

Tuckerman.

My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity. Euripides.

The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism, but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends.

HAPPINESS.

Disraeli.

It is not great but little good-haps that make up happiness. Richter.

This ocean of felicity is so shoreless and bottomless that all the saints and angels cannot exhaust it. - Boyle.

Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth. — Sheridan. One cannot be fully happy until after his sixtieth year. - Bonstetten.

Happiness lies beyond either pain or pleas ure, is as sublime a thing as virtue itself, indivisible from it; and under this point of view it seems a perilous mistake to separate them. Mrs. Jameson.