Shakspeare. There is a silence which hath been no sound; there is a silence which no sound may be in the cold grave. - Hood. Bekker is silent in seven languages. The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves. —Joubert. The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to disSchleiermacher.pense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm. Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth. Pope. When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence. Corneille. Balzac. If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, Simplicity of character is the natural result but hell. - Thomas à Kempis. of profound thought. - Hazlitt. SIMPLICITY. Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself. Fénelon. The most agreeable of all companions is a simple frank man, without any high preten sions to an oppressive greatness. - Lessing. For never anything can be amiss when simpleness and duty tender it. Shakspeare. Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as The world could not exist if it were not simwell as for flowers. When the tapestry (co-ple. This ground has been tilled a thousand rolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx) is excessive, years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a luxuriant, it is unproductive. The fertile flow- little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows ers are single, not double. Thoreau. green again. — Goethe. Simplicity is doubtless a fine thing, but it often appeals only to the simple. Art is the only passion of true artists. Palestrina's music resembles the music of Rossini, as the song of the sparrow is like the cavatina of the nightingale. Choose! - Mme. de Girardin. Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. Emerson. Simplicity is the great friend of Nature. Sterne. The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods. Socrates. Simplicity is Nature's first step, and the last of Art.-P. J. Bailey. There is a majesty in simplicity which is far above the quaintness of wit. - Pope. Nothing so truly becomes feminine beauty as simplicity. Mme. Deluzy. Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind. Longfellow. SIN. The fairest lives, in my opinion, are those which regularly accommodate themselves to the common and human model, without miracle, without extravagance. - Montaigne. In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. Longfellow. To me more dear, congenial to my heart, one native charm, than all the gloss of art. Goldsmith. The farther we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently of the Godhead. endless, complicated, and multiform operations Colton. There is one show of breeding vulgarity seldom assumes, simplicity. SIN. George Macdonald. Sin, let loose, speaks punishment at hand. — Cowper. Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face. Trench. -- Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day is in its glory, scarce appear. Towards our evening how great and monstrous they are! Sir J. Suckling. "T is the will that makes the action good or ill. Herrick. Suffer anything from man, rather than sin against God. Sir Henry Vane. A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to Never let any man imagine that he can pur-ance than he took the first step while his conthe utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctsue a good end by evil means, without sinning science was yet vigilant and tender. against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the evil effect on himself is certain. Southey. Atterbury. Sin and her shadow, death. — Milton. God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor, misery. - Bryant. An Italian proverb says, "In men every mortal sin is venial; in women every venial sin is mortal." And a German axiom, that "There are only two good women in the world: one of them is dead, and the other is not to be found." G. A. Sala. Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God's grace, and every fibre of it. Purpose strongly, by the grace and strength of God, wholly to sacrifice this sin or sinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thou leave of He that falls into sin is a man; he that it none remaining, neither root nor branch.-grieves at it may be a saint; he that boasteth E. B. Pusey. of it is a devil. Thomas Fuller. Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe. - Pollok. Angels for the good men's sin wept to record, and blushed to give it in. Campbell. Sin is a state of mind, not an outward act. Sewell. Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel, — dark misgivings at the inmost heart. Schiller. Oh, what authority and show of truth can cunning sin cover itself withal ! - Shakspeare. Sin hath broken the world's sweet peace, unstrung the harmonious chords to which the angels sung.-R. H. Dana, Let guilty men remember their black deeds do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. John Webster. A few sensual and voluptuous persons may for a season eclipse this native light of the soul, but can never so wholly smother and extinguish it but that, at some lucid intervals, it will recover itself again, and shine forth to the conviction of their conscience. - Bentley. SINCERITY. Let grace and goodness be the principal Man-like is it to fall into sin; fiend-like is it loadstone of thy affections; for love which hath ends will have an end, whereas that which is founded on true love will always continue. Dryden. Sincerity is religion personified. — Chapin. Sincerity is impossible unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. - Lowell. Sincerity is the way to heaven. - Mencius. The true measure of life is not length, but honesty. - John Lyly. Weak persons cannot be sincere. Rochefoucauld. No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the | surrender. — Lowell. When the tongue of slander stings thee, let this be thy comfort: they are not the worst fruits on which the wasps alight. — Bürger. Slander is a shipwreck by a dry tempest. George Herbert. Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness. - Barrow. No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue. Sir P. Sidney. You may miss your Never throw mud. And they were canopied by the blue sky, so cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, that God mark, but you must have dirty hands. alone was to be seen in heaven.· Byron. Joseph Parker. |