or, defenseless creatures they would be!--_Douglas Jerrold._

~Welcome.~--Heaven opened wide her ever-during gates, harmonious sound! on
golden hinges turning.--_Milton._

~Wickedness.~--The happiness of the wicked passes away like a
torrent.--_Racine._

The hatred of the wicked is only roused the more from the impossibility
of finding any just grounds on which it can rest; and the very
consciousness of their own injustice is only a grievance the more
against him who is the object of it.--_Rousseau._

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame,
accompanied with terror and commotion, and remorse, and endless
perturbation.--_Plutarch._

What rein can hold licentious wickedness, when down the hill he holds
his fierce career?--_Shakespeare._

~Wife.~--Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou
art the man in the moon.--_Congreve._

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.--_Shakespeare._

O woman! thou knowest the hour when the goodman of the house will
return, when the heat and burden of the day are past; do not let him at
such time, when he is weary with toil and jaded with discouragement,
find upon his coming to his habitation that the foot which should hasten
to meet him is wandering at a distance, that the soft hand which should
wipe the sweat from his brow is knocking at the door of other
houses.--_Washington Irving._

Her pleasures are in the happiness of her family.--_Rousseau._

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.--_Shakespeare._

The wife safest and seemliest by her husband stays.--_Milton._

~Will.~--In the schools of the wrestling master, when a boy falls he is
bidden to get up again, and to go on wrestling day by day till he has
acquired strength; and we must do the same, and not be like those poor
wretches who, after one failure, suffer themselves to be swept along as
by a torrent. You need but _will_, and it is done; but if you relax your
efforts, you will be ruined; for ruin and recovery are both from
within.--_Epictetus._

~Winter.~--After summer ever more succeeds the barren winter with his
nipping cold.--_Shakespeare._

Winter binds our strengthened bodies in a cold embrace
constringent.--_Thomson._

~Wisdom.~--Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a
depraved thing: it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a
house some time before it fall; it is the wisdom of the fox, that
thrusts out the badger, who digged and mad