Oh, lives there, heaven! beneath thy dread expanse one hopeless, dark idolater of chance? Campbell. Human knowledge is the parent of doubt. Greville. Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable. Von Knebel. Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one. Lowell. SCIENCE. What made our Revolution a foregone conclusion was the act of the General Court, passed in May, 1647, which established the system of common schools. - Lowell. To him and all of us the expressly appointed schoolmaster and schoolings are as nothing. Carlyle. To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a race-horse in a mill. Colton. Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes. - Shenstone. The opening of the first grammar-school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly Free-thinkers are generally those who never in Church and State; the first row of trammels think at all. - Sterne. and pothooks which the little Shearjashubs and Elkanahs blotted and blubbered across their copy-books was the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. - Lowell. Not only the needle-gun, but the schools have won our battles. Lehnert. Public instruction should be the first object of government. - Napoleon I. Whose school-hours are all days and nights of our existence. - Carlyle. As the man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in A great school is very trying; it never can a vain attempt to be wise, beyond what is per-present images of rest and peace. mitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises and would fain instruct. Colton. Dr. T. Arnold. Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, - a person less imposing, in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. - Brougham. SCIENCE. Far eastward cast thine eye, from whence the sun and orient science at a birth begun. Pope. Toil of science swells the wealth of art. Schiller. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man has n't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient. O. W. Holmes. Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate. — Burke. Who thinks all science, as all virtue, vain. Dryden. Science is knowledge certain and evident in itself, or by the principles from which it is deducted, or with which it is certainly connected. It is subjective, as existing in the mind; objective, as embodied in truths; speculative, as leading to do something, as in practical science. William Fleming. Science is the topography of ignorance. O. W. Holmes. Science seldom renders men amiable; women, never. Beauchêne. Science is simply common sense at its best, - that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. - Huxley. Thou mayst from law, but not from scorn escape. The pointed finger, cold, averted eye, insulted virtue's hiss, thou canst not fly. Charles Sprague. Infamous wretch! so much below my scorn, I dare not kill thee. - Dryden. SCRIPTURE. The help, the guide, the balm of souls perplexed. -Arbuthnot. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. Shakspeare. The illumined record of celestial truth. — Hosea Ballou. Writ in the climate of heaven, and in the language spoken by angels. - Longfellow. Whence but from heaven could men unskilled in arts, in several ages born, in several parts, weave such agreeing truths? - Dryden. This book of stars lights to eternal bliss. George Herbert. Thus I clothe my naked villany with old odd ends, stolen out of holy writ; and seem a saint when most I play the devil. - Shakspeare. Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light. Dryden. The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero. SCULPTURE. Thy shape in every part so clean as might instruct the sculptor's art. Dryden. Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized In him alone. Can Nature show as fair? - Byron. The idea of the painter and the sculptor is undoubtedly that perfect and excellent example of the mind, by imitation of which imagined form all things are represented which fall under human sight. - Dryden. He, like Amphion, makes those quarries leap into fair figures from a confused heap.- Waller. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot. - Dr. Johnson. It was Dante who called this noble art God's grandchild. - Washington Allston. SECRECY. Never inquire into another man's secret, but Was never secret history, but birds tell it in carefully conceal that which is intrusted to the bowers. you, though pressed both by wine and anger to reveal it. Horace. Emerson. Constant you are, but yet a woman; and for secrecy, no lady closer; for I well believe thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know. Shakspeare. Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men. - Dr. Johnson. Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away?— Shakspeare. When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds. — Swift. A man is more faithful in preserving the secret of another than in keeping his own; a woman, on the contrary, preserves her own secret better than another's. — Bruyère. SECRECY. 443 SELF-DENIAL. In that corroding secrecy which gnaws the SELF-CONTROL. heart to show the effect, but not the cause. Byron. SECTS. Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. Thomson. Chain up the unruly legion of thy breast. Lead thine own captivity captive, and be Cæsar within thyself. - Sir T. Browne. We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones. I will be lord over myself. Montaigne. Goethe. The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudi- the things they have learned to do without. narianism. De Quincey. Phillips Brooks. |