Still to the last it rankles, a disease,

Not to be cured when love itself forgets to please. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II. Verse xxxv. LORD BYRON.

APPEARANCE. Affectation of

In every profession, every individual affects to appear what he would willingly be esteemed; so that we may say, the world is composed of nothing but

appearances.

Maxims, XI.--ROCHEFOUCAULT.

APPEARANCES. Against judging by

A civil habit

Oft covers a good man; and you may meet,

In

person of a merchant, with a soul

As resolute and free, and all ways worthy,
As else in any fill of mankind.

The Beggar's Bush, Act II. Scene III.

JOHN FLETCHER.

APPLICATION.

Triumph of

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success.

Maxims, XXXIX.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

APTNESS.

What need the bridge much broader than the flood? The fairest grant is the necessity!

Look, what will serve is fit.

Much Ado about Nothing, Act I. Scene I.-SHAKSPERE.

ASS. The

Poor little foal of an oppressed race!

I love the languid patience of thy face:
And oft with gentle hand I give thee bread,
And clap thy ragged coat, and pat thy head.
To a Young Ass.-SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.

As if

Hereafter I will admire God more, and fear astrologers less; not affrighted with their doleful predictions of dearth and drought, collected from the complexions of the planets. Must the earth of necessity be sad, because some ill-natured star is sullen? the grass could not grow without asking it leave. Whereas God's power, which made herbs before the stars, can preserve them without their propitious, yea, against their malignant aspects.

Scripture Observations, XVIII.-THOMAS FULLer.

ATHEISM rebuked.

Or own the soul immortal, or invert
All order. Go, mock-majesty! go, man!
And bow to thy superiors of the stall:

Through every scene of sense superior far:

They graze the turf untill'd; they drink the stream
Unbrew'd and ever full, and un-embitter'd

With doubts, fears, fruitless hopes, regrets, despairs;
Mankind's peculiar! Reason's precious dow'r !
No foreign clime they ransack for their robes;
Nor brothers cite to the litigious bar;
Their good is good entire, unmix'd, unmarr'd;
They find a paradise in every field,

On boughs forbidden, where no curses hang:
Their ill no more than strikes the sense; unstretch'd
By previous dread, or murmur in the rear:

When the worst comes, it comes unfear'd; one stroke
Begins and ends their woe: they die but once;
Blest, incommunicable privilege! for which
Proud man, who rules the globe, and reads the stars,
Philosopher, or hero, sighs in vain.

Night Thoughts, VII. Line 290.-EDWARD YOUNG.

ATHEISTS.

The great atheists indeed are hypocrites, who are ever handling holy things but without feeling; so as they must needs be cauterized in the end.

Essay on Atheism.-LORD BACON.

AVARICE.

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas it is only a mean of attaining it.

Maxims, XLI.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

AVARICE springs from Covetousness.

The character of covetousness is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. A very few pounds a-year would

ease that man of the scandal of avarice.

Thoughts on various subjects.—ALEXANDER POPE.

AVARICE. Imperfection of

Extreme avarice almost always makes mistakes. There is no passion that oftener misses its aim; nor on which the present has so much influence, in prejudice of the future.

Maxims, XLIII.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

Beauty. Power of

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

As You Like It, Act I. Scene III.-SHAKSPERE.

BEAUTY, like Summer Fruit.

Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and, for the most part, it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtues shine, and vices blush.

Essay on Beauty.-LORD BACON.

BEAUTIFUL and USEFUL.

The

The useful encourages itself; for the multitude produce it, and no one can dispense with it; the beautiful must be encouraged; for few can set it forth, and many need it. Wilhelm Meister.-GOETHE.

BENEFITS and INJURIES.

Men are not only apt to forget benefits and injuries, but even to hate those who have obliged them, and to cease to hate those who have injured them. The very attention to requite kindnesses, and revenge wrongs, seems to be an insupportable burden.

Maxims, XLVI.-ROCHEFOUCALT.

BIRTH and BURYING.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun,
As tapers waste that instant they take fire.
Night Thoughts, v. Line 719.-EDWARD YOUNG.

BLESSINGS.

A double blessing is a double grace;
Occasion smiles upon a second leave.

Hamlet, Act I. Scene III.-SHAKESPERE.

BLESSINGS should be used.

Blessings unused, pervert into a waste
As well as surfeits.

Emblems, Book I. i.-FRANCIS QUARLES.