to fall, but stoop to rise.--_Massinger._

~America.~--Child of the earth's old age.--_L. E. Langdon._

The name--American, must always exalt the pride of
patriotism.--_Washington._

In America we see a country of which it has been truly said that in no
other are there so few men of great learning and so few men of great
ignorance.--_Buckle._

America is as yet in the youth and gristle of her strength.--_Burke._

If all Europe were to become a prison, America would still present a
loop-hole of escape; and, God be praised! that loop-hole is larger than
the dungeon itself.--_Heinrich Heine._

Ere long, thine every stream shall find a tongue, land of the many
waters.--_Hoffman._

America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but
cartilages.--_Fisher Ames._

~Amusement.~--Amusement is the waking sleep of labor. When it absorbs
thought, patience, and strength that might have been seriously employed,
it loses its distinctive character, and becomes the task-master of
idleness.--_Willmott._

~Analogy.~--Analogy, although it is not infallible, is yet that telescope
of the mind by which it is marvelously assisted in the discovery of both
physical and moral truth.--_Colton._

~Anarchy.~--The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule;
the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and
baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slop-shirts attainable
three-half-pence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal
souls.--_Carlyle._

~Ancestry.~--We take rank by descent. Such of us as have the longest
pedigree, and are therefore the furthest removed from the first who made
the fortune and founded the family, we are the noblest. The nearer to
the fountain the fouler the stream: and that first ancestor who has
soiled his fingers by labor is no better than a parvenu.--_Froude._

Breed is stronger than pasture.--_George Eliot._

The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither
their good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.--_Sallust._

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding nobility of
mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but
it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.--_Colton._

Honorable descent is in all nations greatly esteemed; besides, it is to
be expected that the children of men of worth will be like their
fathers, for nobility is the virtue of a family.--_Aristotle._

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