s out her huge left arm and grasps her victim. The mighty hand
is invisible, but the victim totters under the dire clutch.--_George
Eliot._

"One soweth and another reapeth" is a verity that applies to evil as
well as good.--_George Eliot._

~Revenge.~--Revenge at first, though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself
recoils.--_Milton._

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest
and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.--_Colton._

There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies,
but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on
their heads.--_F. A. Durivage._

~Revery.~--In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to
the mind.--_Wordsworth._

~Revolution.~--The working of revolutions, therefore, misleads me no more;
it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may
not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of
humanity blossoms.--_Herder._

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets,
and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material
sphere.--_Mazzini._

All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed.--_Jefferson._

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution hut what was ripe in the
conscience of the masses.--_Ledru Rollin._

Revolution is the larva of civilization.--_Victor Hugo._

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more
violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was
necessary! The violence of these outrages will always lie proportioned
to the ferocity and ignorance of the people: and the ferocity and
ignorance of the people will be proportioned to the oppression and
degradation under which they have been accustomed to live.--_Macaulay._

Let them call it mischief; when it's past and prospered, 't will be
virtue.--_Ben Jonson._

~Rhetoric.~--In composition, it is the art of putting ideas together in
graceful and accurate prose; in speaking, it is the art of delivering
ideas with propriety, elegance, and force; or, in other words, it is the
science of oratory.--_Locke._

Rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no
root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are
caught with a free expression, when they und