e worst to death!--_Hawthorne._

~Puns.~--I have very little to say about puns; they are in very bad
repute, and so they _ought_ to be. The wit of language is so miserably
inferior to the wit of ideas, that it is very deservedly driven out of
good company. Sometimes, indeed, a pun makes its appearance which seems
for a moment to redeem its species; but we must not be deceived by them:
it is a radically bad race of wit.--_Sydney Smith._

Conceits arising from the use of words that agree in sound but differ in
sense.--_Addison._

~Purposes.~--Man proposes, but God disposes.--_Thomas a Kempis._

A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his
steps.--_Bible._

It is better by a noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to
half of the evils which we anticipate, than to remain in cowardly
listlessness for fear of what may happen.--_Herodotus._

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into
decay.--_Smiles._

~Pursuit.~--The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished
gain.--_Longfellow._

The fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow for
me.--_Lady Montagu._

Q.

~Quacks.~--Pettifoggers in law and empirics in medicine have held from
time immemorial the fee simple of a vast estate, subject to no
alienation, diminution, revolution, nor tax--the folly and ignorance of
mankind.--_Colton._

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine.
Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case
it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the
credulity of men.--_Thoreau._

~Qualities.~--Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man
becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.--_Goethe._

~Quarrels.~--Coarse kindness is, at least, better than coarse anger; and
in all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of its
dullness.--_George Eliot._

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more
beautiful when they have passed.--_Mme. Necker._

~Questions.~--There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive
mind can, in this state, receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why
was this world created? And, since it was to be created, why was it not
created sooner?--_Johnson._

~Quotation.~--In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read;
others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name
them.--_Selden._

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