.--_William Henry
Herbert._

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the
man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.--_George Eliot._

He who would arrive at fairy land must face the
phantoms.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Courtier.~--The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is
made up of very hard and very polished people.--_La Bruyere._

With the people of court the tongue is the artery of their withered
life, the spiral-spring and flag-feather of their souls.--_Richter._

~Covetousness.~--Desire of having is the sin of
covetousness.--_Shakespeare._

The character of covetousness is what a man generally acquires more
through some niggardness or ill grace, in little and inconsiderable
things, than in expenses of any consequence.--_Pope._

The world itself is too small for the covetous.--_Seneca._

~Cowardice.~--At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in
the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and
steel because they cannot face public opinion.--_Chapin._

~Credulity.~--Quick believers need broad shoulders.--_George Herbert._

Let us believe what we can and hope for the rest.--_De Finod._

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the
intellect.--_Joubert._

What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text,
whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it,
and even his bad grammar is sublime.--_George Eliot._

Observe your enemies for they first find out your faults.--_Antishenes._

Action is generally defective, and proves an abortion without previous
contemplation. Contemplation generates, action propagates.--_Feltham._

~Crime.~--If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father
of them.--_Bruyere._

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers are
capable of being incendiaries.--_Burke._

~Criticism.~--Solomon says rightly: "The wounds made by a friend are worth
more than the caresses of a flatterer." Nevertheless, it is better that
the friend wound not at all.--_Joseph de Maistre._

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism,--never cut with a knife
what you can cut with a spoon.--_Charles Buxton._

The critic eye, that microscope of wit.--_Pope._

Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts, than in
that which is innocuous; and are more tolerant of the severity which
breaks hearts and ruins fortun