DRUNKENNESS. Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania. Seneca. PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY. The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. . . . Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. Bacon. PAST AND FUTURE. Die Vergangenheit und die Zukunft verhüllen sich uns; aber jene trägt den Wittwe-Schleier, und diese den jungfräulichen. Jean Paul Richter. JOYS AND SORROWS. Die Rose blüht nicht ohne Dornen. Ja; wenn nur aber nicht die Dornen die Rose überlebten ! Jean Paul Richter. PARTING AND FORGETTING. Parting and forgetting? What faithful heart can do these? Our great thoughts, our great affections, the Truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they cannot separate from our consciousness; shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal. Thackeray. FAINT PRAISE. C'est un grand signe de médiocrité de louer toujours modérément. PRAISE. Vauvenargues. To praise anything well is an argument of much more wit than to abuse. Tillotson. ADMIRATION. There is a pleasure in admiration, and this is that which properly causeth admiration, when we discover a great deal in an object which we ་ ༈ understand to be excellent; and yet we see (we. know not how much) more beyond that, which our understandings can not fully reach and comprehend. Tillotson. RIGHT ADMIRATION. Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things: narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. Thackeray. COMMENDATION. C'est en quelque sorte se donner part aux belles actions, que de les louer de bon cœur. La Rochefoucauld. POLITENESS. La politesse est à la bonté ce que les paroles sont à la pensée. Joubert. POLITENESS. Il me semble que l'esprit de politesse est une certaine attention à faire que, par nos paroles et nos manières, les autres soient contents de nous et d'eux-mêmes. Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful fire-fly whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles. Arthur Helps. GOOD SENSE AND GOOD-NATURE. Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candour, is the product of right reason, which of necessity will give allowance to the failings of others, by considering that there is nothing perfect in mankind. Dryden. UNSELFISH FRIENDSHIP. Convey thy love to thy friend as an arrow to the mark, to stick there; not as a ball against the wall, to rebound back to thee. Quarles. THE COURT. La cour est comme un édifice bâti de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composée d'hommes fort durs, mais fort polis. La Bruyère. PLACE-MEN. A ruler who appoints any man to an office, when there is in his dominions another man better qualified for it, sins against God and against the state. Koran. |