emselves; and where men are subjected to over-guidance and
over-government, the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively
helpless.--_Samuel Smiles._

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.--_Bovee._

A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources
virtually has them.--_Livy._

The supreme fall of falls is this, the first doubt of one's
self.--_Countess de Gasparin._

It's right to trust in God; but if you don't stand to your halliards,
your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the
bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.--_George MacDonald._

The best lightning-rod for your protection is your own
spine.--_Emerson._

~Sensibility.~--The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the
heart.--_Halleck._

Sensibility is the power of woman.--_Lavater._

Feeling loves a subdued light.--_Madame Swetchine._

~Sensitiveness.~--Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that
as a sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth
innuendoes.--_George Eliot._

That chastity of honor which felt a stain like a wound.--_Burke._

~Sentiment.~--Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide,
civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debaucher
of sentiment?--_Emerson._

~Separation.~--Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and
return to one another, because they can do no better.--_Madame
Swetchine._

~Shakespeare.~--There is only one writer in whom I find something that
reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is
Shakespeare.--_Heinrich Heine._

Far from fearing, as an inferior artist would have done, the
juxtaposition of the familiar and the divine, the wildest and most
fantastic comedy with the loftiest and gravest tragedy, Shakespeare not
only made such apparently discordant elements mutually heighten and
complete the general effect which he contemplated, but in so doing
teaches us that, in human life, the sublime and ridiculous are always
side by side, and that the source of laughter is placed close by the
fountain of tears.--_T. B. Shaw._

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the
heart of man may be found in his plays.--_Goethe._

In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is
all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark
atmosphere.--_Coleridge._

No man is too busy to read Shakespeare.--_Charles Bux