Part 85

The florid, elevated, and figurative way is for the passions; for love and hatred, fear and anger, are begotten in the soul by showing their objects out of their true proportion, either greater than the life, or less; but instruction is to be given by showing them what they naturally are. A man is to cheated into passion, but reasoned into truth.--Dryden.

All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment.--Locke.

Rhetoric is very good, or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric.--Selden.

~Riches.~--The shortest road to riches lies through contempt of riches.--Seneca.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.--Johnson.

Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream.--Bonnell.

If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.--Confucius.

I have a rich neighbor that is always so busy that he has no leisure to laugh; the whole business of his life is to get money, more money, that he may still get more. He is still drudging, saying what Solomon says, "The diligent hand maketh rich." And it is true, indeed; but he considers not that it is not in the power of riches to make a man happy; for it was wisely said by a man of great observation that "there be as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them."--Izaak Walton.

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit, than he who bestows one.--Owen Feltham.

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.--Joubert.

~Ridicule.~--Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off, not a stone goes through.--Beecher.

~Rogues.~--Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act as a wolf; that is the most certain of all things.--La Fontaine.

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.--Hazlitt.

~Ruin.~--To be ruined your own way is some comfort. When so many people would ruin us, it is a triumph over the villany of the world to be ruined after one's own pattern.--Douglas Jerrold.

~Sacrifice.~--You cannot win without sacrifice.--Charles Buxton.

What you most repent of is a lasting sacrifice made under an impulse of good-nature. The good-nature goes, the sacrifice sticks.--Charles Buxton.

~Sadness.~--Take my word for it, the saddest thing under the sky is a soul incapable of sadness.--Countess de Gasparin.

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.--Thoreau.

~Salary.~--Other rules vary; this is the only one you will find without exception: That in this world the salary or reward is always in the inverse ratio of the duties performed.--Sydney Smith.

~Sarcasm.~--A true sarcasm is like a sword-stick--it appears, at first sight, to be much more innocent than it really is, till, all of a sudden, there leaps something out of it--sharp and deadly and incisive--which makes you tremble and recoil.--Sydney Smith.

~Satire.~--To lash the vices of a guilty age.--Churchill.

Thou shining supplement of public laws!--Young.

By satire kept in awe, shrink from ridicule, though not from law.--Byron.

When dunces are satiric I take it for a panegyric.--Swift.

~Scandal.~--Believe that story false that ought not to be true.--Sheridan.

Scandal has something so piquant, it is a sort of cayenne to the mind.--Byron.

~School.~--More is learned in a public than in a private school from emulation: there is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one centre--Johnson.

Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad,--a person less imposing,--in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.--Brougham.