ly in the midst of danger, he told them that _Parmenio_ watched.
Oh, how securely may they sleep over whom He watches that never slumbers
nor sleeps! "I will," said David, "lay me down and sleep, for thou,
Lord, makest me to dwell in safety."--_Venning._

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.--_Shakespeare._

Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; when
courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly
gone.--_Bowring._

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to
sleep.--_Bible._

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.--_Alcott._

Night's sepulchre.--_Byron._

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all offices of death,
except to kill.--_Donne._

Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a
friend.--_Ebenezer Elliott._

The soul shares not the body's rest.--_Maturin._

Our foster nurse of nature is repose.--_Shakespeare._

~Sloth.~--Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many
virtues.--_Colton._

~Smile.~--A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy--the smile that
accepts a lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on
the first-born baby.--_Haliburton._

Smiles are smiles only when the heart pulls the wire.--_Winthrop._

Those happiest smiles that played on her ripe lips seemed not to know
what guests were in her eyes, which parted thence as pearls from
diamonds dropped.--_Shakespeare._

The smile that was childlike and bland.--_Bret Harte._

A soul only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to
enter the palace of dreams.--_Victor Hugo._

~Sneer.~--The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at
others. They are safe from reprisals, and have no hope of rising in
their own esteem but by lowering their neighbors. The severest critics
are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in
original composition.--_Hazlitt._

~Society.~--If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent
to be taught many things which you know already.--_Lavater._

Formed of two mighty tribes, the bores and bored.--_Byron._

Society undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized,
it is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is
not amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken.
Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. The civilized man
has built a coach, but has lost