A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the - Bacon. one and destroy the other. No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the regis ter of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where The age of chivalry has gone; the age of would be the room for growth in such a syshumanity has come. Charles Sumner. Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity. - Samuel Smiles. tem of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed. Arthur Helps. As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. Coleridge. I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. - Socrates. Human nature is not so much depraved as to hinder us from respecting goodness in others, though we ourselves want it. - Steele. I do not know what comfort other people find in considering the weakness of great men; but it is always a mortification to me to observe that there is no perfection in humanity. Lady Montagu. Humanity is the equity of the heart. Confucius. Mankind have ever been prone to expatiate on the praise of human nature. The dignity of man is a subject that has always been the favorite theme of humanity. They have declaimed with that ostentation which usually accompanies such as are sure of having a partial audience; they have obtained victories because there were none to oppose. Goldsmith. It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another. Swift. www All the world, all that we are, and all that we have our bodies and our souls, our actions and our sufferings, our conditions at home, our accidents abroad, our many sins and our seldom virtues — are so many argu. ments to make our souls dwell low in the deep valley of humility. — Jeremy Taylor. Leighton. HUMOR. Keep this thought always prevalent, that you are only one atom of the mass of humanity, and have neither such virtue nor vice as that you should be singled out for supernatural favors or afflictions. Dr. Johnson. Modest humility is beauty's crown. — Schiller. The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility. Richardson. He who sacrifices a whole offering shall be awarded for a whole offering; he who offers a burnt-offering shall have the reward of a burntoffering; but he who offers humility to God and man shall be rewarded with a reward as if he had offered all the sacrifices in the world. — Talmud. They that know God will be humble; they that know themselves cannot be proud. The most essential point is lowliness. Flavel. Fénelon. If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own God makes the glow-worm as certainly as the eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.-star; the light in both is divine. If mine be an earth-star to gladden the wayside, I must cultivate humbly and rejoicingly its green earth-glow, and not seek to blanch it to the whiteness of the stars that lie in the field of blue. George Macdonald. It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God. Tupper. Love's humility is love's true pride. Bayard Taylor. Humility and resignation are our prime virtues. Dryden. Do not practise excessive humility. Dr. John Todd. Humility does not make us servile nor insensible, nor oblige us to be ridden at the pleasure of every coxcomb. - Jeremy Collier. I believe the first test of a truly great man is There is a consanguinity between benevo- his humility. — Ruskin. lence and humility. Burke. Humility is the first lesson we learn from reflection, and self-distrust the first proof we give of having obtained a knowledge of ourselves. Zimmermann. I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now or then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered - Newton. Nothing can be further apart than true before me. humility and servility. Beecher. It Humility, the loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. is so frail, so delicate a thing, it is gone if it but looks upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves, by that single thought, she has it not. Mrs. E. Fry. HUMOR. It was the saying of an ancient sage, that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject that would not bear raillery was suspicious, and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit. Shaftesbury. Among all kinds of writing, there is none in which authors are more apt to miscarry than in works of humor, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel. Addison. Hunting is a relic of the barbarous spirit that Flashes of merriment that were wont to set thirsted formerly for human blood, but is now the table on a roar. Shakspeare. content with the blood of birds and animals. — Bovie. The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humor and so little wit in their literature. Coleridge. Hypocrisy is a privileged vice, which with its hand closes everybody's mouth, and enjoys its repose with sovereign impunity. - Molière. No task is more difficult than systematic Humor is of a genial quality, and closely hypocrisy. - Bulwer-Lytton. allied to pity. -- Henry Giles. The genius of the Italians is acute, profound, and sensual, but not subtle; hence what they think to be humorous is merely witty. Coleridge. Humor is the pensiveness of wit. Willmott. I agree with Sir William Temple, that the word "humor" is peculiar to our English tongue, but not that the thing itself is peculiar to the English, because the contrary may be found in many Spanish, Italian, and French productions. Swift. Humor has justly been considered as the finest perfection of poetic genius. — Carlyle. "There is no such thing as a female punster." This remark struck me forcibly; and on reflection, I found that I never knew or heard of one, though I have once or twice heard woman make a single detached pun, -as have known a hen to crow. -0. W. Holmes. HUNTING. a I The fawning, sneaking, and flattering hypocrite, that will do or be anything for his own advantage. - Stillingfleet. Hypocrites act by virtue, like Numa by his shield. They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade in all public assemblies and processions; but the original of what they counterfeit, and which may indeed be said to have fallen from heaven, they produce so seldom that it is cankered by the rust of sloth, and useless from nonapplication. - Colton. Few are endowed with virtue, in comparison with the number of those who wish us to believe they possess it. Cicero. Cromwell is thus described by his confiden tial physician, George Bate: "A perfect master Hunting is not a proper employment for a of all the arts of simulation and of dissimulathinking man. Addison. tion; who, turning up the whites of his eyes, and seeking the Lord with pious gestures, will A man who can, in cold blood, hunt and tor-weep and pray and cant most devoutly till an ture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much opportunity offers of dealing his dupe a knockcompassion for the distress of his own species. down blow under the short ribs." Frederick the Great. Bulwer-Lytton. Every man is a hypocrite. - Frederick IV. Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together. - Burke. IDEALITY. Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion, mocks God, presenting to him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy. - Jeremy Taylor. As a man loves gold, in that proportion he Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of hates to be imposed upon by counterfeits; and religion. Hosea Ballou. in proportion as a man has regard for that which is above price and better than gold, he abhors that hypocrisy which is but its counterfeit. — Cecil. Hypocrisy, detest her as we may, — and no man's hatred ever wronged her yet, - may claim this merit still: that she admits the worth of what she mimics with such care. — |
