Part 11

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.--BISHOP BUTLER.

Liberty must be limited in order to be enjoyed.--BURKE.

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.--AUERBACH.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. --ADDISON.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.--HILLARD.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits. --ALFRED DE MUSSET.

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.--COWLEY.

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.--CHANNING.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.--BURKE.

LIFE.--Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.--SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer--man a flower-- He dies--alas! how soon he dies! --DR. JOHNSON.

Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God. --BAILEY.

In the midst of life we are in death.--CHURCH BURIAL SERVICE.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the scene of good or evil, as you make it.--MONTAIGNE.

Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind what happens let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. --DRYDEN.

Nor love thy life nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short permit to heaven. --MILTON.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.--PSALM 90:10.

A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning.--GEORGE HERBERT.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.--CHARLOTTE BRONTE.

That man lives twice that lives the first life well.--HERRICK.

He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best; and he whose heart beats the quickest lives the longest.--JAMES MARTINEAU.

Life is probation: mortal man was made To solve the solemn problem--right or wrong. --JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too long.--LADY RACHEL RUSSELL.

Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone; Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long. --DR. WATTS.

And he that lives to live forever never fears dying.--WILLIAM PENN.

We live in deeds, not years; in thought, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. --BAILEY.

This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him: The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And,--when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening,--nips his root, And then he falls. --SHAKESPEARE.

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.--SOCRATES.

For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow.--JOB 8:9.

You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.--JAMES A. GARFIELD.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.--DR. JOHNSON.

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty. --ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.--WILLIAM PENN.

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.--BISHOP KEN.

LIGHT.--We should render thanks to God for having produced this temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world, spreading it like a cloth of gold over the face of the air and earth, and lighting it as a torch by which we might behold His works.--CAUSSIN.

Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven first-born.--MILTON.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.--JAMES A. GARFIELD.

I am the light of the world.--JOHN 9:5.

No wonder that light is so frequently used by the sacred oracles as the symbol of our best blessings. Of the Gospel revelation one apostle says, "The night is far spent, and the day is at hand." Another, under the impression of the same auspicious event, thus applied the language of ancient prophecy: "The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up."--BASELEY.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,--the sun, and the student's lamp.--BOVEE.

LOVE.--Love is the purification of the heart from self; it strengthens and ennobles the character, gives higher motives and a nobler aim to every action of life, and makes both man and woman strong, noble, and courageous.--MISS JEWSBURY.

We never can willingly offend where we sincerely love.--ROWLAND HILL.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know it has begun. A thousand heralds proclaim it to the listening air, a thousand messengers betray it to the eye. Tone, act, attitude and look, the signals upon the countenance, the electric telegraph of touch,--all these betray the yielding citadel before the word itself is uttered, which, like the key surrendered, opens every avenue and gate of entrance, and renders retreat impossible.--LONGFELLOW.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.--EMERSON.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.--N.P. WILLIS.

The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity, in a girl it is boldness. The two sexes have a tendency to approach, and each assumes the qualities of the other.--VICTOR HUGO.

The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.--WALTER SCOTT.

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.--A.B. EDWARDS.

Let those love now who never loved before, Let those that always loved now love the more. --PARNELL.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love. --SCOTT.

If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor, thy love to God is nourished.--QUARLES.

Love's like the measles--all the worse when it comes late in life. --JERROLD.

Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.--SONG OF SOLOMON 8:6-7.

Love is the fulfilling of the law.--ROMANS 13:10.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.--BOVEE.

A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.--WASHINGTON IRVING.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?--HARE.

It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved. --HAZLITT.

Who never loved ne'er suffered; he feels nothing, Who nothing feels but for himself alone. --YOUNG.

Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear. --SWIFT.

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.--HENRY HOME.

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. --POPE.

But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream. --MOORE.

They do not love, that do not show their love. --SHAKESPEARE.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food and raiment.--LONGFELLOW.

That you may be beloved, be amiable.--OVID.

All these inconveniences are incidents to love: reproaches, jealousies, quarrels, reconcilements, war, and then peace.--TERENCE.

Love seizes on us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance from the fair, fixes and determines us. Friendship, on the contrary, is a long time forming; it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.--LA BRUYÈRE.

Love is a child that talks in broken language, Yet then he speaks most plain. --DRYDEN.

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health, is short-lived.--ERASMUS.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with only a single thread.--BURTON.

It is possible that a man can be so changed by love, that one could not recognize him to be the same person.--TERENCE.

Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others. --ABEL STEVENS.

If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world, if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could by any possibility marry.--HOLMES.

True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise. --ABRAHAM COLES.

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.--BEECHER.

MAN.--Man is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.--1 COR. 11:7.

Do you know what a man is? Are not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?--SHAKESPEARE.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.--GOETHE.

Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things. --TENNYSON.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.--G.A. SALA.

The record of life runs thus: Man creeps into childhood,--bounds into youth,--sobers into manhood,--softens into age,--totters into second childhood, and slumbers into the cradle prepared for him,--thence to be watched and cared for.--HENRY GILES.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! --YOUNG.

He is the whole encyclopædia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.--EMERSON.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.--BURKE.

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this,--one dog does not change a bone with another.--ADAM SMITH.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. --POPE.

His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him, that nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!" --SHAKESPEARE.

Man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble. --JOB 14:1.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.--CARLYLE.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.--EMERSON.

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god!--SHAKESPEARE.

There are but three classes of men, the retrograde, the stationary, and the progressive.--LAVATER.

Before man made us citizens, great nature made us men.--LOWELL.

MANNERS.--Evil communications corrupt good manners.--1 COR. 15:33.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.--EMERSON.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.--SWIFT.

I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.--CHESTERFIELD.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct. --LA BRUYÈRE.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.--LYTTON.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.--LAVATER.

Good manners are a part of good morals.--WHATLEY.

One principal part of good breeding is to suit our behavior to the three several degrees of men: our superiors, our equals, and those below us.--SWIFT.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.--LAVATER.

Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.--EMERSON.

Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colors to our lives. According to their quality they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them.--BURKE.

Good breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them.--CHESTERFIELD.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.--HANNAH MORE.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.--CHESTERFIELD.

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.--LYTTON.

MARRIAGE.--Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!--SHERIDAN KNOWLES.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.--GOLDSMITH.

A married man falling into misfortune is more apt to retrieve his situation in the world than a single one, chiefly because his spirits are soothed and retrieved by domestic endearments, and his self-respect kept alive by finding that although all abroad be darkness and humiliation, yet there is a little world of love at home over which he is a monarch.--JEREMY TAYLOR.

A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.--SOUTHEY.

It is not good that the man should be alone.--GENESIS 2:18.

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.

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being. --TUPPER.

An obedient wife commands her husband.--TENNYSON.

No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife. --RICHTER.

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.--ADDISON.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.--AARON HILL.

A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.--DR. JOHNSON.

Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend.--RABBI BEN AZAI.

Were a man not to marry a second time, it might be concluded that his first wife had given him a disgust for marriage; but by taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first by showing that she made him so happy as a married man that he wishes to be so a second time.--DR. JOHNSON.

Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle pow'rs, We who improve his golden hours, By sweet experience know, That marriage, rightly understood, Gives to the tender and the good A paradise below. --COTTON.

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor. --SHAKESPEARE.

God the best maker of all marriages.--SHAKESPEARE.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

The following "marriage" maxims are worthy of more than a hasty reading. Husbands should not pass them by, for they are designed for wives; and wives should not despise them, for they are addressed to husbands:--

1. The very nearest approach to domestic happiness on earth is in the cultivation on both sides of absolute unselfishness.

2. Never both be angry at once.

3. Never talk at one another, either alone or in company.

4. Never speak loud to one another unless the house is on fire.

5. Let each one strive to yield oftenest to the wishes of the other.

6. Let self-denial be the daily aim and practice of each.

7. Never find fault unless it is perfectly certain that a fault has been committed, and always speak lovingly.

8. Never taunt with a past mistake.

9. Neglect the whole world besides rather than one another.

10. Never allow a request to be repeated.

11. Never make a remark at the expense of each other,--it is a meanness.

12. Never part for a day without loving words to think of during absence.

13. Never meet without a loving welcome.

14. Never let the sun go down upon any anger or grievance.

15. Never let any fault you have committed go by until you have frankly confessed it and asked forgiveness.

16. Never forget the happy hours of early love.

17. Never sigh over what might have been, but make the best of what is.

18. Never forget that marriage is ordained of God, and that His blessing alone can make it what it should ever be.

19. Never be contented till you know you are both walking in the narrow way.

20. Never let your hopes stop short of the eternal home. --COTTAGER AND ARTISAN.

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.--LORD ROCHESTER.

Let us no more contend, nor blame Each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive In offices of love, how we may lighten Each other's burden, in our share of woe. --MILTON.

The world well tried, the sweetest thing in life Is the unclouded welcome of a wife. --WILLIS.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.--GOETHE.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.--ANDREW JACKSON.

If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.--MICHELET.

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.--DR. JOHNSON.

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.--SHAKESPEARE.

The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear in a variety of suits every day new; as if a good gown, like a stratagem in war, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband's estate; and if of high parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth, that she forgets what she is by match.--FULLER.

Of earthly goods the best, is a good wife.--SIMONIDES.

Take the daughter of a good mother.--FULLER.

Jars concealed are half reconciled; 'tis a double task, to stop the breach at home and men's mouths abroad. To this end, a good husband never publicly reproves his wife. An open reproof puts her to do penance before all that are present; after which, many study rather revenge than reformation.--FULLER.

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.--MASSILLON.

A good wife is heaven's last best gift to man; his angel and minister of graces innumerable; his gem of many virtues; his casket of jewels; her voice his sweet music; her smiles his brightest day; her kiss the guardian of his innocence; her arms the pale of his safety, the balm of his health, the balsam of his life; her industry, his surest wealth; her economy, his safest steward; her lips, his faithful counselors; her bosom, the softest pillow of his cares; and her prayers, the ablest advocates of heaven's blessings on his head.--JEREMY TAYLOR.