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Ear.– A side intelligencer. —Lamb.
Eyes and ears, two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores of will and judgment. —Shakespeare.
The wicket of the soul. —Sir J. Davies.
The road to the heart. —Voltaire.
Early-rising.– Early-rising not only gives us more life in the same number of our years, but adds likewise to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same measure of time, but increases also the measure. —Colton.
The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern an empire, and said to his companion, "This man surely will be emperor, he is so early." —Caussin.
When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up. —Wellington.
The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life. —Doddridge.
Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of the day are commonly spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy and profit by them. —Southey.
Economy.– Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. —Spurgeon.
Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. —Franklin.
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse; borrowing only lingers and lingers it out; but the disease is incurable. —Shakespeare.
The back-door robs the house. —George Herbert.
The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance. Yet a slack hand shows weakness, a tight hand, strength. —Charles Buxton.
Education.– Education gives fecundity of thought, copiousness of illustration, quickness, vigor, fancy, words, images, and illustrations; it decorates every common thing, and gives the power of trifling without being undignified and absurd. —Sydney Smith.
Still I am learning. —Motto of Michael Angelo.
If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity. —Daniel Webster.
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous. —Mme. de Staël.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, and the hero, – the wise, the good, and the great man, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred and brought to light. —Addison.
Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching; for he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master. —Ben Jonson.
I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards. —Johnson.
The essential difference between a good and a bad education is this, that the former draws on the child to learn by making it sweet to him; the latter drives the child to learn, by making it sour to him if he does not. —Charles Buxton.
Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education. —Bulwer-Lytton.
Education is all paint: it does not alter the nature of the wood that is under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it is sometimes so long before you get to see under the varnish! —Lady Hester Stanhope.
Eloquence.– The poetry of speech. —Byron.
This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration, and awe; that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity. —Goldsmith.
Eminence.– I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power from an obscure condition ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The Temple of Honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle. —Burke.
Emotions.– All loving emotions, like plants, shoot up most rapidly in the tempestuous atmosphere of life. —Richter.
Emotion has no value in the Christian system save as it stands connected with right conduct as the cause of it. Emotion is the bud, not the flower, and never is it of value until it expands into a flower. Every religious sentiment; every act of devotion which does not produce a corresponding elevation of life, is worse than useless; it is absolutely pernicious, because it ministers to self-deception and tends to lower the line of personal morals. —W. H. H. Murray.
There are three orders of emotions: those of pleasure, which refer to the senses; those of harmony, which refer to the mind; and those of happiness, which are the natural result of a union between harmony and pleasure. —Chapone.
Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow; whether raised at a puppet-show, a funeral, or a battle, is your grandest of levelers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic. —Bulwer-Lytton.
Employment.– The wise prove, and the foolish confess, by their conduct, that a life of employment is the only life worth leading. —Paley.
Life will frequently languish, even in the hands of the busy, if they have not some employment subsidiary to that which forms their main pursuit. —Blair.
Emulation.– Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living. —Fuseli.
Enemies.– It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous. —Rojas.
Energy.– The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one man and another – between the weak and powerful, the great and insignificant – is energy, invincible determination; a purpose once formed, and then death or victory. This quality will do anything that is to be done in the world; and no two-legged creature can become a man without it. —Charles Buxton.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. —Napoleon.
To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. Thus earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence. —Samuel Smiles.
Oh! for a forty parson power. —Byron.
Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers. —Sydney Smith.
This world belongs to the energetic. —Emerson.
Enjoyment.– Whatever advantage we snatch beyond the certain portion allotted us by nature is like money spent before it is due, which at the time of regular payment will be missed and regretted. —Johnson.
Ennui.– I have also seen the world, and after long experience have discovered that ennui is our greatest enemy, and remunerative labor our most lasting friend. —Möser.
I am wrapped in dismal thinking. —Shakespeare.
Enthusiasm.– Enthusiasts soon understand each other. —Washington Irving.
Enthusiasm is an evil much less to be dreaded than superstition. Superstition is the disease of nations; enthusiasm, that of individuals: the former grows inveterate by time, the latter is cured by it. —Robert Hall.
Enthusiasm is that temper of mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. —Warburton.
Great designs are not accomplished without enthusiasm of some sort. It is the inspiration of everything great. Without it, no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. —Bovée.
Enthusiasm is supernatural serenity. —Thoreau.
A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their way not without wounds, and who hover in his mind as patron saints, invisibly helping. —George Eliot.
The insufficient passions of a soul expanding to celestial limits. —Sydney Dobell.
Envy.– A man who hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other. —Lord Bacon.
Pining and sickening at another's joy. —Ovid.
Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind. —Addison.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below. —Byron.
An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation. —Shakespeare.
Equality.– Whether I be the grandest genius on earth in a single thing, and that single thing earthy, or the poor peasant who, behind his plow, whistles for want of thought, I strongly suspect it will be all one when I pass to the Competitive Examination yonder! On the other side of the grave a Raffael's occupation may be gone as well as a plowman's. —Bulwer-Lytton.
All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man, or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions. —Thomas Paine.
By the law of God, given by him to humanity, all men are free, are brothers, and are equals. —Mazzini.
The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference. —Bulwer-Lytton.
Liberty and equality, lovely and sacred words! —Mazzini.
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. —Hazlitt.
Equanimity.– A thing often lost, but seldom found. —Mrs. Balfour.
Error.– If those alone who "sowed the wind did reap the whirlwind," it would be well. But the mischief is that the blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale. —Colton.
There is a brotherhood of error as close as the brotherhood of truth. —Argyll.
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means, one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies. —George Eliot.
Our follies and errors are the soiled steps to the Grecian temple of our perfection. —Richter.
But for my part, my lord, I then thought, and am still of the same opinion, that error, and not truth of any kind, is dangerous; that ill conclusions can only flow from false propositions; and that, to know whether any proposition be true or false, it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences. —Burke.
Error in itself is always invisible; its nature is the absence of light. —Jacobi.
There is no place where weeds do not grow, and there is no heart where errors are not to be found. —J. S. Knowles.
Our understandings are always liable to error; nature and certainty is very hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense. —Marcus Antoninus.
Let error be an infirmity and not a crime. —Castelar.
Errors such as are but acorns in our younger brows grow oaks in our older heads, and become inflexible. —Sir Thomas Browne.
Erudition.– 'Tis of great importance to the honor of learning that men of business should know erudition is not like a lark, which flies high, and delights in nothing but singing; but that 't is rather like a hawk, which soars aloft indeed, but can stoop when she finds it convenient, and seize her prey. —Bacon.
Estimation.– A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, – by deeds, not years. —Sheridan.
To judge of the real importance of an individual, one should think of the effect his death would produce. —Léves.
Eternity.– Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance. —Addison.
Eternity is a negative idea clothed with a positive name. It supposes in that to which it is applied a present existence; and is the negation of a beginning or of an end of that existence. —Paley.
Etiquette.– Whoever pays a visit that is not desired, or talks longer than the listener is willing to attend, is guilty of an injury that he cannot repair, and takes away that which he cannot give. —Johnson.
The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, are to be observed in social or official life. —Prescott.
Good taste rejects excessive nicety; it treats little things as little things, and is not hurt by them. —Fénelon.
The law of the table is beauty, a respect to the common soul of the guests. Everything is unreasonable which is private to two or three, or any portion of the company. Tact never violates for a moment this law; never intrudes the orders of the house, the vices of the absent, or a tariff of expenses, or professional privacies; as we say, we never "talk shop" before company. Lovers abstain from caresses, and haters from insults, while they sit in one parlor with common friends. —Emerson.
Events.– Man reconciles himself to almost any event however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of Heaven. —Humboldt.
There can be no peace in human life without the contempt of all events. He that troubles his head with drawing consequences from mere contingencies shall never be at rest. —L'Estrange.
Evil.– Evil is in antagonism with the entire creation. —Zschokke.
Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discern rays of light and hope; and gradually come to see in suffering and temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love. —Channing.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. —Bible.
If we will rightly estimate what we call good and evil, we shall find it lies much in comparison. —Locke.
Not one false man but does uncountable evil. —Carlyle.
This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still, it brings forth evil. —Coleridge.
The truly virtuous do not easily credit evil that is told them of their neighbors; for if others may do amiss, then may these also speak amiss: man is frail, and prone to evil, and therefore may soon fail in words. —Jeremy Taylor.
Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us. —Rousseau.
"One soweth, and another reapeth," is a verity that applies to evil as well as good. —George Eliot.
If you believe in evil, you have done evil. —A. de Musset.
Example.– We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live. —Joubert.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. —Shakespeare.
Every great example takes hold of us with the authority of a miracle, and says to us: "If ye had but faith, ye could also be able to do the things which I do." —Jacobi.
Excellence.– Nothing is such an obstacle to the production of excellence as the power of producing what is good with ease and rapidity. —Aikin.
Excelsior.– Man's life is in the impulse of elevation to something higher. —Jacobi.
Excess.– Too much noise deafens us; too much light blinds us; too great a distance or too much of proximity equally prevents us from being able to see; too long and too short a discourse obscures our knowledge of a subject; too much of truth stuns us. —Pascal.
O fleeting joys of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes. —Milton.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. —Plato.
Excitement.– There is always something interesting and beautiful about a universal popular excitement of a generous character, let the object of it be what it may. The great desiring heart of man, surging with one strong, sympathetic swell, even though it be to break on the beach of life and fall backwards, leaving the sands as barren as before, has yet a meaning and a power in its restlessness with which I must deeply sympathize. —Mrs. Stowe.
Violent excitement exhausts the mind, and leaves it withered and sterile. —Fénelon.
The language of excitement is at best but picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. —Thoreau.
This is so engraven on our nature that it may be regarded as an appetite. Like all other appetites, it is not sinful, unless indulged unlawfully, or to excess. —Dr. Guthrie.
Excuse.– Of vain things, excuses are the vainest. —Charles Buxton.
Expectation.– 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were. —Suckling.
It may be proper for all to remember that they ought not to raise expectations which it is not in their power to satisfy; and that it is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke. —Johnson.
Expediency.– When private virtue is hazarded upon the perilous cast of expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their stability, are infected with decay at the very centre. —Chapin.
Men in responsible situations cannot, like those in private life, be governed solely by the dictates of their own inclinations, or by such motives as can only affect themselves. —Washington.
Experience.– Life consists in the alternate process of learning and unlearning; but it is often wiser to unlearn than to learn. —Bulwer-Lytton.
Experience, the shroud of illusions. —De Finod.
To have a true idea of man, or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once. —Taine.
What we learn with pleasure we never forget. —Alfred Mercier.
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end? —Mme. de Maintenon.
Experience is the extract of suffering. —Arthur Helps.
Every generous illusion adds a wrinkle in vanishing. Experience is the successive disenchantment of the things of life. It is reason enriched by the spoils of the heart. —J. Petit Senn.
Extravagance.– Expenses are not rectilinear, but circular. Every inch you add to the diameter adds three to the circumference. —Charles Buxton.
Extremes.– Extremes are dangerous; a middle estate is safest; as a middle temper of the sea, between a still calm and a violent tempest, is most helpful to convey the mariner to his haven. —Swinnock.
Superlatives are diminutives, and weaken. —Emerson.
Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them. —Pascal.
Eye.– Stabbed with a white wench's black eye. —Shakespeare.
The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves. —Paxton Hood.
Ladies, whose bright eyes rain influence. —Milton.
Where is any author in the world teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? —Shakespeare.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. —Shakespeare.
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. —Tennyson.
The eyes have one language everywhere. —George Herbert.
Glances are the first billets-doux of love. —Ninon de L'Enclos.
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Face.– A February face, so full of frost, of storms, and cloudiness. —Shakespeare.
Demons in act, but gods at least in face. —Byron.
A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth, as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather: what is she to believe in, if not in this vision woven from within? —George Eliot.
The worst of faces still is a human face. —Lavater.
Fact.– There should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric, and pure invention is but the talent of a deceiver. —Byron.
Every day of my life makes me feel more and more how seldom a fact is accurately stated; how almost invariably when a story has passed through the mind of a third person it becomes, so far as regards the impression that it makes in further repetitions, little better than a falsehood; and this, too, though the narrator be the most truth-seeking person in existence. —Hawthorne.
Faction.– A feeble government produces more factions than an oppressive one. —Fisher Ames.
It is the demon of discord armed with the power to do endless mischief, and intent alone on destroying whatever opposes its progress. —Crabbe.
Failure.– But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail! —Shakespeare.
Albeit failure in any cause produces a correspondent misery in the soul, yet it is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully eschew. —Keats.
Every failure is a step to success; every detection of what is false directs us toward what is true; every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so, but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. —Whewell.
Faith.– In affairs of this world men are saved not by faith but by the want of it. —Fielding.
All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single word, —faith. —Napoleon.
O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings! —Milton.
Life grows dark as we go on, till only one clear light is left shining on it, and that is faith. —Madame Swetchine.
When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason. —Rousseau.
Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if thou wantest charity for thy neighbor; and think not thou hast charity for thy neighbor, if thou wantest faith to God: where they are not both together, they are both wanting; they are both dead if once divided. —Quarles.
We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing. —Froude.
The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief. —G. H. Lewes.
Falsehood.– Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality. —Colton.
Do not let us lie at all. Do not think of one falsity as harmless, and another as slight, and another as unintended. Cast them all aside: they may be light and accidental, but they are ugly soot from the smoke of the pit, for all that: and it is better that our hearts should be swept clean of them, without one care as to which is largest or blackest. —Ruskin.
It is more from carelessness about the truth, than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world. —Johnson.
Falsehood and fraud shoot up in every soil, the product of all climes. —Addison.
Round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. —Lord Bacon.
To lapse in fullness is sorer than to lie for need: and falsehood is worse in king than beggar. —Shakespeare.
A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. —Montaigne.
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. —Pope.
No falsehood can endure touch of celestial temper but returns of force to its own likeness. —Milton.
Figures themselves, in their symmetrical and inexorable order, have their mistakes like words and speeches. An hour of pleasure and an hour of pain are alike only on the dial in their numerical arrangement. Outside the dial they lie sixty times. —Méry.
Fame.– Fame, as a river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off; so exemplary writers depend not upon the gratitude of the world. —Davenant.
Grant me honest fame, or grant me none. —Pope.
Much of reputation depends on the period in which it rises. The Italians proverbially observe that one half of fame depends on that cause. In dark periods, when talents appear they shine like the sun through a small hole in the window-shutter. The strong beam dazzles amid the surrounding gloom. Open the shutter, and the general diffusion of light attracts no notice. —Walpole.
Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler. —Bulwer-Lytton.
One Cæsar lives, – a thousand are forgot! —Young.
Few people make much noise after their deaths who did not do so while they were living. Posterity could not be supposed to rake into the records of past times for the illustrious obscure, and only ratify or annul the lists of great names handed down to them by the voice of common fame. Few people recover from the neglect or obloquy of their contemporaries. The public will hardly be at the pains to try the same cause twice over, or does not like to reverse its own sentence, at least when on the unfavorable side. —Hazlitt.
Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives. —Emile Souvestre.
Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it; feel it, and hate in silence. —Washington Allston.
Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead. —Béranger.
I hope the day will never arrive when I shall neither be the object of calumny nor ridicule, for then I shall be neglected and forgotten. —Johnson.
A man who cannot win fame in his own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True there are some half dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery. —Bulwer-Lytton.
Fame is the thirst of youth. —Byron.
Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities. —Addison.
Even the best things are not equal to their fame. —Thoreau.
Fanaticism.– Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. —Voltaire.
Painful and corporeal punishments should never be applied to fanaticism; for, being founded on pride, it glories in persecution. —Beccaria.
The false fire of an overheated mind. —Cowper.
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. —J. Fletcher.
Fashion.– Fashion is the great governor of this world. It presides not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and all other things of the gravest kind. Indeed, the wisest of men would be puzzled to give any better reason why particular forms in all these have been at certain times universally received, and at other times universally rejected, than that they were in or out of fashion. —Fielding.
Fancy and pride seek things at vast expense. —Young.
A beautiful envelope for mortality, presenting a glittering and polished exterior, the appearance of which gives no certain indication of the real value of what is contained therein. —Mrs. Balfour.
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the willful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes, – the vulgar. —Leigh Hunt.
Faults.– To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed is modesty; to discover them to one's friends, in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride. —Confucius.
The first fault is the child of simplicity, but every other the offspring of guilt. —Goldsmith.
Fear.– It is no ways congruous that God should be frightening men into truth who were made to be wrought upon by calm evidence and gentle methods of persuasion. —Atterbury.
Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. —Sir P. Sidney.
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. —George Sewell.
Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones. —Chesterfield.
Felicity.– The world produces for every pint of honey a gallon of gall; for every dram of pleasure a pound of pain; for every inch of mirth an ell of moan; and as the ivy twines around the oak, so does misery and misfortune encompass the happy man. Felicity, pure and unalloyed felicity, is not a plant of earthly growth; her gardens are the skies. —Burton.
Fickleness.– Everything by starts, and nothing long. —Dryden.
It will be found that they are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change. —Ruskin.