en to the softly-falling dew, but shut
up in the violent down-pour of rain.--_Richter._

~Conversation.~--They who have the true taste of conversation enjoy
themselves in a communication of each other's excellences, and not in a
triumph over their imperfections.--_Addison._

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of
others.--_Montaigne._

Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without
scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency,
learned without opinion, and strange without heresy.--_Shakespeare._

No one will ever shine in conversation who thinks of saying fine things;
to please one must say many things indifferent, and many very
bad.--_Francis Lockier._

Conversation warms the mind, enlivens the imagination, and is
continually starting fresh game that is immediately pursued and taken,
and which would never have occurred in the duller intercourse of
epistolary correspondence.--_Franklin._

~Coquetry.~--The most effective coquetry is innocence.--_Lamartine._

God created the coquette as soon as he had made the fool.--_Victor
Hugo._

Affecting to seem unaffected.--_Congreve._

Though 'tis pleasant weaving nets, 'tis wiser to make cages.--_Moore._

Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!--_Shakespeare._

New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.--_Dryden._

~Courage.~--God holds with the strong.--_Mazzini._

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal
of the most precious things.--_Colton._

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes the man when he has
occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a
uniform manner.--_Addison._

Courage from hearts, and not from numbers, grows.--_Dryden._

As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with _the two o'clock in the
morning courage_. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on
an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen
events, leaves full freedom of judgment and decision.--_Napoleon._

Courage our greatest failings does supply.--_Waller._

To bear is to conquer our fate.--_Campbell._

Moral courage is more worth having than physical; not only because it is
a higher virtue, but because the demand for it is more constant.
Physical courage is a virtue which is almost always put away in the
lumber room. Moral courage is wanted day by day.--_Charles Buxton._

It is only in little matters that men are cowards