The mere aspiration is partial realization. - The names of great painters are like passing-bells in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leo-world. Even on attaining to his highest possiThere must be something beyond man in this nardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality. — Ruskin. ASPIRATION. Aspiration, worthy ambition, desires for higher good for good ends, all these indicate a soul that recognizes the beckoning hand of the good Father, who would call us homeward towards himself.-J. G. Holland. bilities, he is like a bird beating against his - no higher than a bird can soar. The movement of the species is upward. It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. By steps we may ascend to God. George Eliot. Milton. We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for. Bulwer-Lytton. It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the - Carlyle. poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Oh for a muse of fire that would ascend the highest heaven of invention! — Shakspeare. ASSASSINATION. Assassination has never changed the history of the world. - Beaconsfield. If the assassination could trammel up the consequence, and catch, with his surcease, success; that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here, but here, upon this The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are bank and shoal of time, we'd jump the life high. Thoreau. to come. Assassination makes only martyrs, not con- Lamartine. verts. Associate with men of judgment, for judgment is found in conversation, and we make another man's judgment ours by frequenting There are moral as well as physical assassina- his company. - Thomas Fuller. tions. Voltaire. Those who are unacquainted with the world take pleasure in the intimacy of great men; those who are wiser dread the consequences. Horace. We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. Diderot. Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there. Quarles. Friends are good, — good, if well chosen. De Foe. We make others' judgment our own by frequenting their society. - Thomas Fuller. As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them, and which, if you do otherwise, emit what is unpleasant and noxious, so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable: a more intimate one would be unsatisfactory and unsafe. — Landor. My friends! There are no friends. — Aristotle. The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie. Shakspeare. Astrologers that future fates foreshow. We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself. - Trench. There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look with an aspect favorable. Shakspeare. Strange an astrologer should die without one wonder in the sky. Swift. The astrologer who spells the stars, mistakes his globes, and in her bright eye interprets heaven's physiognomies. John Cleaveland. I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.-L. E. Landon. ATHEISM. 27 ATTRACTIVENESS. No one is so much alone in the world as a and memory is accumulated genius. - Lowell. denier of God. - Richter. Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction. Colton. I never knew any man cured of inattention.Swift. It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says. -L'Estrange. It is difficult to instruct children because of their natural inattention; the true mode, of course, is to first make our modes interesting to them. Locke. Atheism can never be an institution, because most precious of the intellectual habits. In the power of fixing the attention lies the it is a destitution. Robert Collyer. Atheism can benefit no class of people, neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid. - Chateaubriand. ATTRACTIVENESS. Robert Hall. Rarity gives a charm: thus early fruits are Women and flowers are made to be loved for most esteemed; thus winter roses obtain a their beauty and sweetness, rather than themhigher price; thus coyness sets off an extrava-selves to love. - Ninon de Lenclos. gant mistress: a door ever open attracts no young suitor. — Martial. A woman's natural quality is to attract, and having attracted to enchain; and how influenNothing is so apt to inflame passion as hopes tial she may be for good or evil, the history of and fears. Henry Horne. The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction. Victor Hugo. I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.-E. Lynn Linton. every age makes clear. Mrs. H. R. Haweis. A poor beauty finds more lovers than hus- accomplishes it, when the hour is come, with bands. George Herbert. God, who prepares his work through ages, the feeblest instruments.- Merle D'Aubigné. tioned by usage. Authority is only established criterion sancGaribaldi. - Authority is properly the servant of justice, and political powers are arbitrary and illegiti mate if not based upon qualification for that service. This is the doctrine of the ethical derivation of authority or public power, as op Her very frowns are fairer far than smiles of posed to that of an unconditioned and inherent other maidens are. Coleridge. sovereignty.-D. A. Wasson. |