er is the fruit.--_Alfred Bougeart._

Oratory, like the Drama, abhors lengthiness; like the Drama, it must be
kept doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy.
Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should
be produced on the audience, become blemishes.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

The fewer words the better prayer.--_Luther._

~Business.~--Not because of any extraordinary talents did he succeed, but
because he had a capacity on a level for business and not above
it.--_Tacitus._

C.

~Calumny.~--Neglected calumny soon expires; show that you are hurt, and
you give it the appearance of truth.--_Tacitus._

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains, and traverses deserts with
greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and, like him, rides upon a
poisoned arrow.--_Colton._

~Cant.~--The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply
cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.--_Swift._

There is such a thing as a peculiar word or phrase cleaving, as it were,
to the memory of the writer or speaker, and presenting itself to his
utterance at every turn. When we observe this, we call it a cant word or
a cant phrase.--_Paley._

~Caution.~--Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss
for the engines to play a little on our own. Better to be despised for
too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a
security.--_Burke._

~Censure.~--Censure pardons the ravens, but rebukes the doves.--_Juvenal._

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an
opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their
virtues.--_Hazlitt._

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest
mountains.--_Balthasar Gracian._

~Chance.~--There must be chance in the midst of design; by which we mean
that events which are not designed necessarily arise from the pursuit of
events which are designed.--_Paley._

Chance generally favors the prudent.--_Joubert._

It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there
is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these
words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an
agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance
of the real and immediate cause.--_Adam Clarke._

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of
heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill