SELF-PRAISE.

Self-love is better than any gilding, to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.-Sir P. Sidney.

SELF-PRAISE.

A man's praises have very musical and charming accents in another's mouth, but very -Xenophon. flat and untunable in his own.

One seldom speaks of the virtues which one has, but much oftener of that which fails_us.Lessing. SELF-RELIANCE.

Men on all occasions throw themselves upon foreign assistances to spare their own, which are the only certain and sufficient ones with which they can arm themselves.—Montaigne.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.—
George Herbert.

Great is the strength of an individual soul true to its high trust; mighty is it, even to the redemption of a world.-Mrs. L. M. Child.

For they can conquer who believe they can.—
Virgil.

Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the true instruction is not that which transmits notions wholly formed, but that which renders him capable of forming for himself good opinions. That which they have said in regard to the intellectual faculties applies equally to the moral faculties. There is for the soul a spontaneous culture, on which depends all the real progress in perfection.-Degerando.

We must calculate not on the weather, nor may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He never in the encounter with our exigencies.— Simms.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to Heaven.-Shakespeare.

He who thinks he can find within himself the means of doing without others is much mistaken; but he who thinks that others cannot do without him is still more mistaken.Rochefoucauld.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.-Goethe.

Time and I against any two.

Philip the Second.

Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed. Sir P. Sidney.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute my self.-Montesquieu.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.—Lessing.

As it is in himself alone that man can find true and enduring happiness, so in himself alone can he find true and efficient consolation

Let every eye negotiate for itself, and trust in misfortune.-Babo. no agent.-Shakespeare.

Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.-Marcus Antoninus.

Opposition is what we want and must have, to be good for anything. Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.

John Neal.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.—

Emerson.

Men seem neither to understand their riches of the former they believe nor their strength, Self-reliance and self-denial will greater things than they should; of the latter teach a man to drink out of his own cistern, and much less. eat his own sweet bread, and to learn and labor truly to get his living, and carefully to expend the good things committed to his trust.-Bacon.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.-Thales.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failIn the assurance of strength there is ures. strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.-Bovee.

It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.—Schiller.

Weakness has many stages. There is a difference between feebleness by the impotency of the will, of the will to the resolution, of the resolution to the choice of means, of the choice of the means to the application.

SENSUALITY.

We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and coverts.-Landor.

It is with feeling as with religion; if a man really have any, he will have "none to speak of."-H. N. Hudson.

SENSITIVENESS.

Quick sensibility is inseparable from a ready understanding.-Addison.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism. Indeed, excessive sensibility is only another Cardinal de Retz. name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our

Lawless are they that make their wills their objects and less of ourselves.—Bovee. law. Shakespeare.

Breasts that beat and cheeks that glow.Johnson. The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart.-Halleck.

How many people there are that are desperate by too quick a sense of a constant infelicity! Jeremy Taylor.

Mere sensibility is not true taste, but sensibility to real excellence is.-Hazlitt.

There are moments when petty slights are harder to bear than even a serious injury. Men have died of the festering of a gnat-bite.— Cecil Danby.

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure, thrill the deepest notes of woe.-Burns.

Such war of white and red within her checks.—Shakespeare.

SENSUALITY.

All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually. They are but one appetite, and we only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is.— Thoreau.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.-Bovee.

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.-Fenelon.

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.-Shakespeare.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.— Colton.

If any sensual weakness arise, we are to yield all our sound forces to the overthrowing of so unnatural a rebellion; wherein how can we want courage, since we are to deal against so feeble an adversary, that in itself is nothing but weakness? Nay, we are to resolve that if reason direct it, we must do it; and if we must do it, we will do it; for to say "I cannot" is childish, and "I will not" is womanish.

Sir P. Sidney.

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over a worn-out body to old age.-Cicero.

Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and therefore by the senses it commonly works, and these are the doors and the windows by which iniquity entereth into the soul. Baxter.

If sensuality were happiness beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.-Seneca.

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs. Anacreon himself declares that "the flowers swim at the top of the bowl!"Jane Porter.

For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward--Plutarch.

A woman should not paint sentiment till she has ceased to inspire it.-Lady Blessington.

Sentiment and principle are often mistaken for each other, though, in fact, they widely differ. Sentiment is the virtue of ideas, and principle the virtue of action. Sentiment has its seat in the head; principle, in the heart. Sentiment suggests fine harangues and subtle distinctions; principle conceives just notions, and performs good actions in consequence of them. Sentiment refines away the simplicity of truth, and the plainness of piety; and, as Voltaire, that celebrated wit, has remarked of his no less celebrated contemporary Rousseau, gives us virtue in words, and vice in deeds.” Sentiment may be called the Athenian who knew what was right; and principle, the Lacedemonian who practised it.-Blair.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.-Lowell.

All sentiment is sight; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right.-Hume.

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fancy.— Madame Deluzg. SENTIMENTALISM.

What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true, not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them, things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel. F. W. Robertson.

SEPARATION. vapor,

I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.Joubert.

When two loving hearts are torn asunder, it is a shade better to be the one that is driven away into action, than the bereaved twin that petrifies at home.-Charles Reade.

When loving hearts are separated, not the one which is exhaled to heaven, but the survivor, it is which tastes the sting of death.Duchesse de Praslin. SERVANTS.

Let thy servants be such as thou mayest command, and entertain none about thee but yeomen, to whom thou givest wages; for those that will serve thee without thy hire will cost thee treble as much as they that know thy fare.

Sir Walter Raleigh.

Be not served with kinsman, or friends, or men intreated to stay; for they expect much, and do little; nor with such as are amorous, for their heads are intoxicated; and keep rather too few, than one too many.-Lord Burleigh.

SERVITUDE.

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on nating nature for the purposes of expression, her.-Seneca.

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordibeyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by a subtile spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.-Emerson.

I look on Shakespeare as an intellectual miracle.-Dr. Chalmers.

A rib of Shakespeare would have sufficed to produce a Milton, and a rib of Milton all the poets that have succeeded him.-Landor.

Never has mind of superior mould, and of lettered tastes, made any advance in comprehension or power, without an increase of admiration for the matchless, resplendent creations of Shakespeare.-W. B. Clulow.

Shakespeare is indeed the great conservator of our language. He has imparted to it his own immortality.-Bovee.

What has been best done in the world-the works of genius-cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.- -Emerson.

Shakespeare must have seemed a dull man at times, he was so flashingly brilliant at others. Bovee. Shakespeare was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have The assertion of Bacon, that the most corwanted learning give him the greater commen-rected copies of an author are commonly the dation; he was naturally learned; he needed least correct, may advantageously be stamped not the spectacles of books to read nature; he as an introductory motto for every copy of looked inward, and found her there.-Dryden.

Sweet swan of Avon!-Ben Jonson.

Shakespeare stands alone. His want of erudition was a most happy and productive ignorance; it forced him back upon his own resources which were exhaustless.-Colton.

Things came to Raffaelle and Shakespeare; Michael Angelo and Milton came to things.Fuseli.

Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.

Coleridge. Shakespeare knew innumerable things; what men are, and what the world is, and what men aim at there, from the Dame Quickly of modern Eastcheap, to the Cæsar of ancient Rome.-Carlyle.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.-Goethe.

I honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any man.— -Ben Jonson.

Shakespeare.-Willmott.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity; of Spencer, remoteness; of Milton, elevation; of Shakespeare, everything!-Hazlitt.

The conjecture had only a poetical boldness, which supposed that a student might linger over Shakespeare, dwelling upon him line by line, and word by word, until the mind, steeped in brilliancy, would almost scatter light in the dark.-Willmott.

He extorts from us the assenting conviction, that if such beings should exist, they would be and do as he represents them.-Schlegel.

Admirable as he was in all parts of his art, we must admire him for this, that while he has left us a greater number of striking portraits than all other dramatists put together, he has scarcely left us a single caricature.-Macaulay.

He is indeed natural; so profoundly natural as to be beyond the depth of most of us.-Lamb