The Sabbath of eternity, one Sabbath deep this, the next world's bud. and wide. - On Sunday heaven's gates stand open. George Herbert. How still the morning of the hallowed day! Mute is the voice of rural labor, hushed the ploughboy's whistle and the milkmaid's song. O day most calm, most bright, the fruit of The poor man's day. Oh, what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through Jordan! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath-day holy. I can truly declare The Sabbath-day is the savings-bank of hu- that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable. — Wilberforce. manity. Frederic Saunders. Grahame. If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized. - Macaulay. The Sabbath is not a day to feast our bodies, but to feed our souls. Empress Josephine. Sunday observe; think, when the bells do chime, 't is angels' music; therefore come not late. George Herbert. E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me.Pope. I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year. Coleridge. He who ordained the Sabbath loved the poor.-O. W. Holmes. It has been forcibly said that he who forgets to keep the Sabbath, the first day, holy, will forget before the end of the week that he is a Christian. Chapin. The opportunities of making great sacrifices for the good of mankind are of rare occurrence; The happiness of heaven is the constant keep- and he who remains inactive till it is in his ing of the Sabbath. Heaven is called a Sab-power to confer signal benefits or yield imporbath, to make those who have Sabbaths long tant services is in imminent danger of incur for heaven, and those who long for heaven love ring the doom of the slothful servant. Robert Hall. Sabbaths. Philip Henry. A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Sarcasm, I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil. - Carlyle. A true sarcasm is like a sword-stick; it appears, at first sight, to be much more innocent than it really is, till, all of a sudden, there leaps something out of it- sharp and deadly Alas that we must dwell, my heart and I, and incisive-which makes you tremble and so far asunder! Christina G. Rossetti. recoil. Sydney Smith. A surfeit of the sweetest things the deepest loathing to the stomach brings. — Shakspeare. The feathered arrow of satire has oft been If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me wet with the heart's blood of its victims. every day, I would break with him. Mme. de la Fayette. Steele. Disraeli. If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, corAttainment is followed by neglect, possession rect thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. by disgust. Dr. Johnson. Epictetus. The best good man, with the worst-natured muse, was the character among us of a gentleman as famous for his humanity as his wit. Steele. Her caustic manner of speaking of friends as well as foes caused Madame du Deffand to be compared to the physician who said, "My friend fell sick, I attended him; he died, I dissected him."— J. A. Bent. Satire's my weapon; but I'm too discreet to run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. - Pope. You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility. - Roscommon. Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended. — Dryden. It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse. SCAFFOLD. When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric. -Swift. - To lash the vices of a guilty age. — Churchill. The men of the greatest character in this kind were Horace and Juvenal. There is not, that I remember, one ill-natured expression in all their writings, not one sentence of severity, which does not apparently proceed from the contrary disposition. - Steele. SAVAGE. When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe. Plato. The most savage people are also the ugliest. Mary Somerville. The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry. Brisbane. Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature. Plutarch. Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.Shakspeare. SCAFFOLD. They are sending me to the scaffold. Well, my friends, we must go to it gayly. - Danton. of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the I will never, for the future, paint the portrait scaffold.-J. L. David. That a scaffold of execution should grow a scaffold of coronation. Sir P. Sidney. I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner. Danton. It is the toilet of death, but it leads to immortality. Charlotte Corday. Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object. Shakspeare. When they go smiling to the scaffold, it is time to break in pieces the sickle of death. Danton. I hope the edge of your guillotine is sharper Granville. I than your scissors. - Duclos. On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, while virtue's actions are but born and die. Stephen Harvey. Her tea she sweetens, as she sips, with scandal. - Rogers. There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame. Juvenal. It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that laudable in a man's self. way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what Steele. No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope.-is A little scandal is an excellent thing: nobody by precept and detract by rule! — Sheridan. Ye prime adepts in scandal's school, who rail is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors. Ouida. Scandal has something so piquant, it is a sort of cayenne to the mind. Byron. Scandal is what one half the world takes Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. - Bible. Flavia, most tender of her own good name, is rather careless of a sister's fame. Couper. pleasure in inventing, and the other half in calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent deBe deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, believing. Chatfield. tractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord and division, distract the tranquillity of charity and all friendly society. These are the tongues that set the world on fire, cankerers of reputation, and, like that of Jonah's gourd, wither a good name in a single night. Sir T. Browne. - Skilled by a touch to deepen scandal's tints with all the high mendacity of hints. - Byron. SCEPTICISM. Improbability is the food upon which scepti cism is nourished. - Locke. The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact. Von Knebel. I will listen to any one's convictions; but, pray, keep your doubts to yourself. Goethe. |