ter of the principles and judgments of
men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what
evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us.--_John Adams._

He repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.--_Quarles._

O brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your
chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your
bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of
religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to
be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth
as it is in Jesus.--_Spurgeon._

O Luxury! Thou curst of heaven's decree.--_Goldsmith._

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives
longer.--_Shakespeare._

~Lying.~--Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.--_Southern._

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.--_Pascal._

Every brave man shuns more than death the shame of lying.--_Corneille._

It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided
king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a
vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set
the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear
under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger, when all above is
calm.--_Washington Allston._

Lies exist only to be extinguished.--_Carlyle._

A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.--_Tennyson._

M.

~Madness.~--Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life
without having it perceived. For example, a madness has seized a person
of supposing himself obliged literally to pray continually; had the
madness turned the opposite way, and the person thought it a crime ever
to pray, it might not improbably have continued unobserved.--_Johnson._

~Man.~--It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is
to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his
greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without
his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either;
but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.--_Pascal._

Man, I tell you, is a vicious animal.--_Moliere._

He is of the earth, but his thoughts are with the stars. Mean and petty
his wants and his desires; yet they serve a soul exalted with grand,
glorious aims,--with immortal longings,--with though