Chapter 9
There are treasures laid up in the heart,--treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him beyond death when he leaves this world.--_Buddhist Scriptures._
In aught that tries the heart, how few withstand the proof!--_Byron._
The hearts of pretty women are like bonbons, wrapped up in enigmas.--_J. Petit Senn._
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.--_Dickens._
To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.--_Bossuet._
There are chords in the human heart, strange, varying strings, which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch. In the most insensible or childish minds there is some train of reflection which art can seldom lead, or skill assist, but which will reveal itself, as great truths have done, by chance, and when the discoverer has the plainest and simplest end in view.--_Dickens._
A willing heart adds feathers to the heel, and makes the clown a winged Mercury.--_Joanna Baillie._
Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.--_Douglas_ _Jerrold._
~Heaven.~--The love of heaven makes one heavenly.--_Shakespeare._
Where is heaven? I cannot tell. Even to the eye of faith, heaven looks much like a star to the eye of flesh. Set there on the brow of night, it shines most bright, most beautiful; but it is separated from us by so great a distance as to be raised almost as high above our investigations as above the storms and clouds of earth.--_Rev. Dr. Guthrie._
When at eve at the bounding of the landscape the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope,--a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.--_Madame de Stael._
Few, without the hope of another life, would think it worth their while to live above the allurements of sense.--_Atterbury._
Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought. David and Isaiah will sweep nobler and loftier strains in eternity, and the minds of the saints, unclogged by cumbersome clay, will forever feast on the banquet of rich and glorious thought.--_Beecher._
~Heroes.~--A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.--_Chesterfield._
In analyzing the character of heroes it is hardly possible to separate altogether the share of Fortune from their own.--_Hallam._
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.--_George Eliot._
No one is a hero to his valet.--_Madame de Sevigne._
~History.~--The Grecian history is a poem, Latin history a picture, modern history a chronicle.--_Chauteaubriand._
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!--_Coleridge._
History, which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.--_Gibbon._
We must consider how very little history there is; I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought we can depend upon as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy of history, is conjecture.--_Johnson._
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.--_Joubert._
To be entirely just in our estimate of other ages is not only difficult,--it is impossible. Even what is passing in our presence we see but through a glass darkly. The mind as well as the eye adds something of its own before an image, even of the clearest object, can be painted upon it; and in historical inquiries the most instructed thinkers have but a limited advantage over the most illiterate. Those who know the most approach least to agreement.--_Froude._
The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror which merely reflects objects, but of the judge who sees, listens, and decides.--_Lamartine._
In every human character and transaction there is a mixture of good and evil: a little exaggeration, a little suppression, a judicious use of epithets, a watchful and searching skepticism with respect to the evidence on one side, a convenient credulity with respect to every report or tradition on the other, may easily make a saint of Laud, or a tyrant of Henry the Fourth.--_Macaulay._
History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.--_Washington Irving._
History has its foreground and its background, and it is principally in the management of its perspective that one artist differs from another. Some events must be represented on a large scale, others diminished; the great majority will be lost in the dimness of the horizon, and a general idea of their joint effect will be given by a few slight touches.--_Macaulay._
Violent natures make history. The instruments they use almost always kill. Religion and philosophy have their vestments covered with innocent blood.--_X. Doudan._
Each generation gathers together the imperishable children of the past, and increases them by new sons of light, alike radiant with immortality.--_Bancroft._
What history is not richer, does not contain far more, than they by whom it is enacted, the present witnesses! What mortal understandeth his way?--_Jacobi._
He alone reads history aright, who, observing how powerfully circumstances influence the feelings and opinions of men, how often vices pass into virtues, and paradoxes into axioms, learns to distinguish what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.--_Macaulay._
~Home.~--Home is the grandest of all institutions.--_Spurgeon._
The first sure symptom of a mind in health is rest of heart, and pleasure felt at home.--_Young._
To most men their early home is no more than a memory of their early years, and I'm not sure but they have the best of it. The image is never marred. There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.--_George Eliot._
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.--_Payne._
Stint yourself, as you think good, in other things; but don't scruple freedom in brightening home. Gay furniture and a brilliant garden are a sight day by day, and make life blither.--_Charles Buxton._
Home is the seminary of all other institutions.--_Chapin._
~Honesty.~--If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.--_Johnson._
Persons lightly dipped, not grained, in generous honesty, are but pale in goodness.--_Sir T. Browne._
Refined policy has ever been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so, as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.--_Burke._
Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.--_J. Petit Senn._
The honest man is a rare variety of the human species.--_Chamfort._
~Honor.~--Keep unscathed the good name, keep out of peril the honor, without which even your battered old soldier, who is hobbling into his grave on half pay and a wooden leg, would not change with Achilles.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
~Hope.~--Hope warps judgment in council, but quickens energy in action.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
"I have a fine lot of hopes here in my basket," remarked the New Year; "they are a sweet-smelling flower--a species of roses."--_Hawthorne._
Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life, if it be not too often frustrated; but entertaineth the fancy with an expectation of good.--_Bacon._
The mighty hopes that make us men.--_Tennyson._
Thou captive's freedom, and thou sick man's health.--_Cowley._
I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate in reversion, if one can keep from the temptation of turning it into certainty, which may spoil all.--_George Eliot._
Hope, folding her wings, looked backward and became regret.--_George Eliot._
Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little scruple of reveling to-day on the profits of to-morrow.--_Johnson._
It is necessary to hope, though hope should be always deluded; for hope itself is happiness and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.--_Johnson._
Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.--_Victor Hugo._
~Humanity.~--A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds: therefore let him seasonably water the one and destroy the other.--_Bacon._
I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.--_Burke._
Human nature is not so much depraved as to hinder us from respecting goodness in others, though we ourselves want it. This is the reason why we are so much charmed with the pretty prattle of children, and even the expressions of pleasure or uneasiness in some parts of the brute creation. They are without artifice or malice; and we love truth too well to resist the charms of sincerity.--_Steele._
I do not know what comfort other people find in considering the weakness of great men, but 'tis always a mortification to me to observe that there is no perfection in humanity.--_Montagu._
The true proof of the inherent nobleness of our common nature is in the sympathy it betrays with what is noble wherever crowds are collected. Never believe the world is base; if it were so, no society could hold together for a day.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
~Humility.~--It is from out the depths of our humility that the height of our destiny looks grandest. Let me truly feel that in myself I am nothing, and at once, through every inlet of my soul, God comes in, and is everything in me.--_Mountford._
Should any ask me, What is the first thing in religion? I would reply, The first, second, and third thing therein, nay all, is humility.--_St. Augustine._
Epaminondas, that heathen captain, finding himself lifted up in the day of his public triumph, the next day went drooping and hanging down his head; but being asked what was the reason of his so great dejection, made answer: "Yesterday I felt myself transported with vainglory, therefore I chastise myself for it to-day."--_Plutarch._
In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.--_Franklin._
Believe me, the much-praised lambs of humility would not bear themselves so meekly if they but possessed tigers' claws.--_Heinrich Heine._
Trees that, like the poplar, lift upwards all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lowlier droop their bows.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes. Forgive thyself little and others much.--_Archbishop Leighton._
~Humor.~--The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtile, without being at all acute: hence there is so much humor and so little wit in their literature. The genius of the Italians, on the contrary, is acute, profound, and sensual, but not subtile; hence what they think to be humorous is merely witty.--_Coleridge._
The oil and wine of merry meeting.--_Washington Irving._
These poor gentlemen endeavor to gain themselves the reputation of wits and humorists, by such monstrous conceits as almost qualify them for bedlam; not considering that humor should always lie under the check of reason, and that it requires the direction of the nicest judgment, by so much the more as it indulges itself in the most boundless freedoms.--_Addison._
~Hyperbole.~--Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied with hyperbole.--_Bruyere._
Let us have done with reproaching; for we may throw out so many reproachful words on one another that a ship of a hundred oars would not be able to carry the load.--_Homer._
~Hypocrisy.~--Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to him the outside, and reserving the inward for his enemy.--_Jeremy Taylor._
Hypocrisy has become a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.--_Moliere._
Hypocrisy is much more eligible than open infidelity and vice: it wears the livery of religion, and is cautious of giving scandal.--_Swift._
Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy.--_Mme. de Maintenon._
As a man loves gold, in that proportion he hates to be imposed upon by counterfeits; and in proportion as a man has regard for that which is above price and better than gold, he abhors that hypocrisy which is but its counterfeit.--_Cecil._
Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.--_Milton._
Hypocrisy, detest her as we may, and no man's hatred ever wronged her yet, may claim this merit still: that she admits the worth of what she mimics with such care.--_Cowper._
I hate hypocrites, who put on their virtues with their white gloves.--_Alfred de Musset._
Such a man will omit neither family worship, nor a sneer at his neighbor. He will neither milk his cows on the first day of the week without a Sabbath mask on his face, nor remove it while he waters the milk for his customers.--_George Mac Donald._
The fatal fact in the case of a hypocrite is that he is a hypocrite.--_Chapin._
'Tis a cowardly and servile humor to hide and disguise a man's self under a vizor, and not to dare to show himself what he is. By that our followers are train'd up to treachery. Being brought up to speak what is not true, they make no conscience of a lie.--_Montaigne._
I.
~Ideas.~--After all has been said that can be said about the widening influence of ideas, it remains true that they would hardly be such strong agents unless they were taken in a solvent of feeling. The great world-struggle of developing thought is continually foreshadowed in the struggle of the affections, seeking a justification for love and hope.--_George Eliot._
Our ideas are transformed sensations.--_Condillac._
In these days we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.--_Heinrich Heine._
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. That which was a weed in one intelligence becomes a flower in the other, and a flower again dwindles down to a mere weed by the same change. Healthy growths may become poisonous by falling upon the wrong mental soil, and what seemed a night-shade in one mind unfolds as a morning-glory in the other.--_Holmes._
A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.--_Taine._
Old ideas are prejudices, and new ones caprices.--_X. Doudan._
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.--_Joubert._
Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.--_Voltaire._
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
~Idleness.~--If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy.--_Sydney Smith._
Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.--_Spurgeon._
In idleness there is perpetual despair.--_Carlyle._
Doing nothing with a deal of skill.--_Cowper._
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb, which says, that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.--_Colton._
The first external revelations of the dry-rot in men is a tendency to lurk and lounge; to be at street corners without intelligible reason; to be going anywhere when met; to be about many places rather than any; to do nothing tangible but to have an intention of performing a number of tangible duties to-morrow or the day after.--_Dickens._
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.--_Chesterfield._
So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.--_Jeremy Taylor._
Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become broken and his torch extinguished.--_Ovid._
~Ignorance.~--Have the _courage_ to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.--_Sydney Smith._
There is no calamity like ignorance.--_Richter._
'Tis sad work to be at that pass, that the best trial of truth must be the multitude of believers, in a crowd where the number of fools so much exceeds that of the wise. As if anything were so common as ignorance!--_Montaigne._
Ignorance, which in behavior mitigates a fault, is, in literature, a capital offense.--_Joubert._
There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall _by_ the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or _with_ them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.--_Coleridge._
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance.--_Alcott._
The true instrument of man's degradation is his ignorance.--_Lady Morgan._
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.--_George Eliot._
The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes.--_George Herbert._
Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced; it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction.--_Johnson._
~Illusion.~--In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.--_Madame Swetchine._
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.--_Voltaire._
~Imagination.~--We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.--_George Eliot._
A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.--_Spurgeon._
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.--_Joubert._
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.--_Johnson._
~Imitation.~--Imitators are a servile race.--_Fontaine._
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.--_Dr. Vinet._
"Name to me an animal, though never so skillful, that I cannot imitate!" So bragged the ape to the fox. But the fox replied, "And do thou name to me an animal so humble as to think of imitating thee."--_Lessing._
~Immortality.~--When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future; when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries thence arising; I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.--_Cicero._
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and consequently imperishable.--_Aristotle._
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.--_Milton._
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.--_Socrates._
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.--_Marcus Antoninus._
The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.--_George MacDonald._
~Impatience.~--Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.--_Jeremy Taylor._
~Impossibility.~--One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.--_Democritus._
~Improvement.~--Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it.--_Mazzini._
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.--_Goldsmith._
~Improvidence.~--How full or how empty our lives, depends, we say, on Providence. Suppose we say, more or less on improvidence.--_Bovee._
~Income.~--Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.--_Colton._
~Inconsistency.~--Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none: their vows and promises are no more than words of course.--_L'Estrange._
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.--_George Eliot._
~Inconstancy.~--The catching court disease.--_Otway._
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconstancy.--_Addison._
~Indifference.~--Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.--_J. Petit Senn._
Indifference is the invincible giant of the world.--_Ouida._
~Indigestion.~--Old friendships are destroyed by toasted cheese, and hard salted meat has led to suicide. Unpleasant feelings of the body produce correspondent sensations in the mind, and a great scene of wretchedness is sketched out by a morsel of indigestible and misguided food.--_Sydney Smith._
~Individuality.~--There are men of convictions whose very faces will light up an era, and there are believing women in whose eyes you may almost read the whole plan of salvation.--_T. Fields._
Individuality is everywhere to be spared and respected as the root of everything good.--_Richter._
The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.--_Mazzini._
~Indolence.~--I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetite of the brute may survive.--_Chesterfield._
Lives spent in indolence, and therefore sad.--_Cowper._
Days of respite are golden days.--_South._
So long as he must fight his way, the man of genius pushes forward, conquering and to conquer. But how often is he at last overcome by a Capua! Ease and fame bring sloth and slumber.--_Charles Buxton._
Nothing ages like laziness.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
~Indulgence.~--One wishes to be happy before becoming wise.--_Mme. Necker._
~Industry.~--Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.--_Addison._
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest we must sow the seed.--_Bailey._
~Infidelity.~--There is but one thing without honor; smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,--insincerity, unbelief. He who believes no _thing_, who believes only the shows of things, is not in relation with nature and fact at all.--_Carlyle._