in there,--in a condition in which, spite of himself, he is
forced to think chiefly of release, though he had a scheme of the
universe in his soul.--_George Eliot._

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as
furies.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Deceit.~--No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to
himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered
as to which may be true.--_Hawthorne._

Idiots only may be cozened twice.--_Dryden._

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.--_Fontaine._

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which
perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are
cheats.--_Chapin._

Like unto golden hooks that from the foolish fish their baits do
hide.--_Spenser._

Libertines are hideous spiders that often catch pretty
butterflies.--_Diderot._

~Decency.~--As beauty of body, with an agreeable carriage, pleases the
eye, and that pleasure consists in that we observe all the parts with a
certain elegance are proportioned to each other; so does decency of
behavior which appears in our lives obtain the approbation of all with
whom we converse, from the order, consistency, and moderation of our
words and actions.--_Steele._

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to
separate them from each other but in our imagination.--_Tully._

~Declamation.~--Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods,
delicate allusions, or musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose
style, where the periods are long and obvious; where the same thought is
often exhibited in several points of view.--_Goldsmith._

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that
speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to
read.--_Colton._

~Deeds.~--A word that has been said may be unsaid: it is but air. But when
a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to
all the mischiefs that may follow.--_Longfellow._

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill
done!--_Shakespeare._

Legal deeds were invented to remind men of their promises, or to convict
them of having broken them,--a stigma on the human race.--_Bruyere._

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own
deeds.--_Cervantes._

We should believe only in works; words are sold for nothing
everywhere.--_Rojas._

~Delay.~--We do not directly go about the execution of the purpos