Man is the merriest species of creation; all above and below him are serious. Addison. Many men resemble glass, smooth and polished and dull, until broken, then sharp and every splinter pricks. - Richter. Men are a sort of animal that if ever they are constant, it is only when they are ill-used. Lady Montagu. My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceedingly tall men had ever very empty heads. Bacon. It is an error to suppose that a man belongs Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable to himself. No man does. He belongs to his animal. - Alexander Hamilton. Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Lamartine. wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.— G. A. Sala. It matters not what men assume to be; or Man is his own star; and that soul that can good or bad, they are but what they are. be honest is the only perfect man. Beaumont and Fletcher. He is compounded of two very different ingredients, spirit and matter; but how such unallied and disproportioned substances should act upon each other, no man's learning yet could tell him. - Jeremy Collier. Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man! - Daniel. In all our reasonings about men, we must lay down as a maxim that the greater part are moulded by circumstances. — Robert Hall. Most of the eminent men in history have been diminutive in stature. — Sydney Smith. Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end of the telescope, the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at. Theodore Parker. Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds of high resolve, on fancy's boldest wing.-Shelley. Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin. Washington Irving. Bailey. For we are animals no less, although of dif- MANNERS. ferent species. Samuel Butler. Three fifths of him genius, and two fifths sheer fudge. Lowell. Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!-Horace Walpole. Just as politeness imitates kindness, so does grace imitate modesty. - Joubert. The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable. Chesterfield. Men make laws; women make manners. Ségur. With many men, their fine manners are a lie all over, a skin-coat or finish of falsehood. They are not brave enough to do without this When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man sort of armor, which they wear night and day. is dead! Whittier. 1 consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great! He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command any thing. Burke. Thoreau. Manners are an art. Some are perfect, some The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker commendable, some faulty; but there are none is a finished man. - Humboldt. What is the question which is now placed before society, with the glib assurance which to me is most astounding? That question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels. - Beaconsfield. that are of no moment. How comes it that we have no precepts by which to teach them, or at least no rule whereby to judge them as we judge sculpture and music? A science of manners would be more important to the virtue and happiness of men than one would suppose. Joubert The maid improves her charms with inward MATHEMATICS. gentleness, unaffected wisdom, and sanctity of - Addison. manners. There are saintly women who nurture their love through shame and sorrow, and it is deeper and holier than that which is reared in joy. Bulwer-Lytton. Arnobius tells us that this martyrdom first of all made them seriously inquisitive into that religion which could endue the mind with so much strength and overcome the fear of death. Addison. For some not to be martyred is a martyrdom. Donne. It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition. Lamartine. The mathematics are friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of imagination, and purge the mind from error and prejudice. Arbuthnot. Mathematics are the most abstracted of Bacon. knowledge. Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the conThe study of the properties of numbers, templation of pure truth, and raises us above He would have his the material universe. disciples apply themselves to this study, not that they may be able to buy or sell, not that they may qualify themselves to be shopkeepers or travelling merchants, but that they may learn to withdraw their minds from the evershifting spectacle of this visible and tangible world, and to fix them on the immutable essences of things. Macaulay. MATRIMONY. Wedlock 's like wine, of till the second glass. - not properly judged Douglas Jerrold. The malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course of life,- that its two days of happiness are the first and the last. Dr. Johnson. The first wife is matrimony; the second, company.- Dr. Johnson. The most unhappy circumstance of all is, when each party is always laying up fuel for dissension, and gathering together a magazine of provocations to exasperate each other with when they are out of humor. Steele. |