NECESSITY. 329 NECESSITY. NECESSITY. Necessity is a bad recommendation to favors None suffer so much as they who endeavor to of any kind, which as seldom fall to those conceal their necessities. Thomas Paine. who really want them as to those who really deserve them. - Fielding. Necessity is the only real sovereign in the world, the only despot for whom there is no law. Bulwer-Lytton. Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless. H. W. Shaw. Nature requires but little; custom, much. Victor Hugo. Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. Goethe. Nothing is intolerable that is necessary. Jeremy Taylor. We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do. Therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you. For he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. — Colton. Sheridan. The argument of the weak. When God would educate a man, he compels him to learn bitter lessons. He sends him to Teach thy necessity to reason thus: there is school to the necessities rather than to the no virtue like necessity. Shakspeare. graces, that, by knowing all suffering, he may know also the eternal consolation. Celia Burleigh. Seneca. Necessity is stronger than duty. Livy. There is no greater punishment than being abandoned to one's self. — Quesnel. NEUTRALITY. The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many It is well to be independent, also well not beacons, continually burning, to turn others to be neutral. - Kossuth. NEWSPAPER. Quarles. from the rock on which they have been ship wrecked. Bishop Horne. NIGHT. This dead of night is the noon of thought. A softened shade and saturated earth awaits Even the correspondent of a newspaper has the morning beam. occasional scruples. -J. Russell Young. The great shadow and profile of day. — Richter. In the dead vast and middle of the night. I had rather have a fool to make me merry Thus the wise nightingale that leaves her than experience to make me sad.—Shakspeare. home, pursuing constantly the cheerful spring, to foreign groves does her old music bring. NOTORIETY. Novelists pluck their events here and their fortune there, and tie them rashly to their fig. tions. Great is the poverty of their inven"She was beautiful, and he fell in love; these are the mainsprings, — new names, but no new qualities in men or Emerson. women. Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit. Willmott. Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none. Sir Walter Scott. Out of the fictitious book I get the expres sion of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me? - Thackeray. We must have books for recreation and en Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the Eng-tertainment, as well as books for instruction land and France of to-day. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely to amuse his contemporaries. - P. G. Hamerton. and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The canon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need As mere fiction as ever came from a traveller not therefore be banished. We will cultivate or a newspaper. - Fielding. the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose. Balzac. NOVELTY. Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eager ness and alacrity; but art and Nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects; and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent David Masson. I observation. - Dr. Johnson. It has been remarked by Hallam and by others how particularly useful in this way for the historian, as furnishing him with social details of past times, are popular books. |