Part 52

~Kindness.~--Yes! you may find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil and twopence.--Sydney Smith.

Paradise is open to all kind hearts.--Béranger.

Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.--Pascal.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.--Johnson.

To remind a man of a kindness conferred is little less than a reproach.--Demosthenes.

Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hair.--O. Feuillet.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them.--Mme. de Staël.

~Kings.~--Kings wish to be absolute, and they are sometimes told that their best way to become so is to make themselves beloved by the people. This maxim is doubtless a very admirable one, and in some respects true; but unhappily it is laughed at in court.--Rousseau.

Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.--Patrick Henry.

A king ought not fall from the throne except with the throne itself; under its lofty ruins he alone finds an honored death and an honored tomb.--Alfieri.

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion.--Thomas Paine.

He on whom Heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.--Corneille.

Kings' titles commonly begin by force which time wears off, and mellows into right; and power which in one age is tyranny is ripened in the next to true succession.--Dryden.

~Kisses.~--It is as old as the creation, and yet as young and fresh as ever. It preëxisted, still exists, and always will exist. Depend upon it, Eve learned it in Paradise, and was taught its beauties, virtues, and varieties by an angel, there is something so transcendent in it.--Haliburton.

Dear as remembered kisses after death.--Tennyson.

Or leave a kiss but in the cup, and I'll not look for wine.--Ben Jonson.

He kissed her and promised. Such beautiful lips! Man's usual fate--he was lost upon the coral reefs.--Douglas Jerrold.

Eden revives in the first kiss of love.--Byron.

You would think that, if our lips were made of horn, and stuck out a foot or two from our faces, kisses at any rate would be done for. Not so. No creatures kiss each other so much as birds.--Charles Buxton.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.--George Eliot.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.--Leigh Hunt.

Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.--Bulwer-Lytton.

Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection,--these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.--Bovée.

~Knavery.~--Unluckily the credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. They never give people possession; but they always keep them in hope.--Burke.

After long experience in the world I affirm, before God, I never knew a rogue who was not unhappy.--Junius.

By fools knaves fatten; by bigots priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.--Zimmerman.

~Knowledge.~--The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.--G. W. Curtis.

Knowledge, like religion, must be "experienced," in order to be known.--Whipple.