Whom does it harm?

Whom does it benefit?

Do good, no matter to whom. [ Italian Proverb ]

I know in whom I have believed. [ Motto ]

He's poor indeed whom God hates. [ Proverb ]

Whom great men wrong, they hate. [ Proverb ]

Thou whom avenging powers obey.
Cancel my debt (too great to pay)
Before the sad accounting day. [ Wentworth Dillon ]

In time comes he, whom God sends. [ Proverb ]

But they whom truth and wisdom lead
Can gather honey from a weed. [ Cowper ]

Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. [ Hebrews ]

No one loves the man whom he fears. [ Aristotle ]

Happiest they of human race,
To whom God has granted grace
To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,
To lift the latch and force the way;
And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. [ Scott ]

Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom we that have not seen Thy face,
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
Believing where we cannot prove. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Rattle his bones over the stones!
He's only a pauper whom nobody owns. [ Thomas Noel ]

A youth to whom was given
So much of earth, so much of heaven. [ Wordsworth ]

Woe to the youth whom fancy gains
Winning from reason's hand the reins. [ Scott ]

He whom love guards, is well guarded. [ Voltaire ]

The first men that our Saviour dear
Did choose to wait upon Him here,
Blest fishers were; and fish the last
Food was, that He on earth did taste:
I therefore strive to follow those,
Whom He to follow Him hath chose. [ Izaak Walton ]

He dances well to whom fortune pipes. [ Proverb ]

He whom nature thus bereaves,
Is ever fancy's favourite child;
For thee enchanted dreams she weaves
Of changeful beauty, bright and wild. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

He carries well to whom it weighs not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No man hates him at whom he can laugh. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Be sure they sleep not whom God needs. [ Robert Browning ]

Strongest minds
Are often those of whom the noisy world
Hears least. [ Wordsworth ]

He must needs go whom the devil drives. [ Proverb ]

To whom God will, there be the victory! [ William Shakespeare ]

One in whom persuasion and belief
Had ripened into faith, and faith became
A passionate intuition. [ Wordsworth ]

Men hate those to whom they have to lie. [ Victor Hugo ]

He dances merrily whom fortune pipes to. [ Proverb ]

A verse may find him whom a sermon flies
And turn delight into a sacrifice. [ George Herbert ]

Choose you this day whom ye shall serve. [ Bible ]

Illusions ruin all those whom they blind. [ E. de Girardin ]

Whom a serpent has bitten fears a lizard. [ Italian Proverb ]

From the great,
Illustrious actions are a debt to Fame.
No middle path remains for them to tread,
Whom she hath once ennobled. [ Glover ]

Whom have not flowing cups made eloquent? [ Horace ]

They need much whom nothing will content. [ Proverb ]

A woman whom we truly love is a religion. [ Mme. de Girardin ]

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. [ Tennyson ]

He's a good man whom fortune makes better. [ Proverb ]

For whom ill is fated, him it will strike. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

Be not the first by whom the new is tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. [ Pope ]

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude;
But grant me still a friend in my retreat.
Whom I may whisper - solitude is sweet. [ Cowper ]

He seems wise with whom all things thrive. [ Proverb ]

Socrates
Whom, well inspired, the oracle pronounced,
Wisest of men. [ Milton ]

Whom God loves his house is savoury to him. [ Proverb ]

Heaven is not always angry when He strikes,
But most chastises those whom most He likes. [ Pomfret ]

Friends I have made, whom envy must commend.
But not one foe whom I would wish a friend. [ Churchill ]

Venus always saves the lover whom she leads. [ Delatouche ]

His folded flock secure, the shepherd home
Hies merry-hearted; and by turns relieves
The ruddy milk-maid of her brimming pail;
The beauty whom perhaps his witless heart.
Unknowing what the joy-mixed anguish means,
Sincerely loves, by that best language shown
Of cordial glances, and obliging deeds. [ Thomson ]

He is the free man whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves besides. [ William Cowper ]

The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules. [ H. Brooke ]

Dreadful is their doom, whom doubt has driven
To censure fate, and pious hope forego. [ Beattie ]

Brook! whose society the poet seeks,
Intent his wasted spirits to renew;
And whom the curious painter doth pursue
Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks.
And tracks thee dancing down thy waterbreaks. [ Wordsworth ]

The fox knows well with whom he plays tricks. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease.
Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please. [ Pope ]

He has the power whom the majority believe in. [ Raupach ]

Affliction is not sent in vain -
From that good God who chastens whom He loves! [ Southey ]

Greatness, with private men
Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse;
And we, whom from our high births they conclude
The only free men, are the only slaves:
Happy the golden mean. [ Massinger ]

Oh! the pain of pains
Is when the fair one, whom our soul is fond of,
Gives transport, and receives it from another. [ Young ]

Whom the gods love die young, was said of yore. [ Byron ]

Great honours are great burdens; but on whom
They're cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. [ Ben Jonson ]

He's not honest whom the lock only makes honest. [ Proverb ]

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution.
She lives, whom we call dead. [ Longfellow ]

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Those whom God to ruin has designed.
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. [ Dryden ]

For whom does the blind man's wife paint herself? [ Proverb ]

He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling. [ Bacon ]

It is a sign of a worthy spirit whom honour amends. [ Proverb ]

When you dance, take heed whom you take by the hand. [ Proverb ]

Trust not the treason of those smiling looks.
Until ye have their guileful trains well tried;
For they are like but unto golden hooks.
That from the foolish fish their baits do hide:
So she with flattering smiles weak hearts doth guide
Unto her love, and tempt to their decay;
Whom, being caught, she kills with cruel pride,
And feeds at pleasure on the wretched prey. [ Spenser ]

There are, whom heaven has blessed with store of wit,
Yet want as much again to manage it;
For wit and judgment ever are at strife,
Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. [ Pope ]

To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty. [ Franklin ]

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach. [ Cicero ]

Merit is born with men; happy those with whom it dies! [ Queen Christina ]

All the world, will beat the man whom fortune buffets. [ Proverb ]

In most men there is a dead poet whom the man survives. [ Sainte-Beuve ]

He is the lawful heir whom marriage points out as such. [ Law ]

He rideth easily enough whom the grace of God carrieth. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Fortune is a divinity in whom there are no disbelievers. [ Senac de Meilhan ]

A man places himself on a level with him whom he praises. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

We easily hate those whom we have given cause to hate us. [ Mme. de Lussan ]

O, happy youth! for whom thy fate reserved so fair a bride. [ Dryden ]

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature. [ Diderot ]

There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult. [ Ségur ]

He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels. [ Claudian ]

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies? [ Coleridge ]

Named softly as the household name of one whom God had taken. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Possession makes tyrants of some men whom desire made slaves. [ Brignicourt ]

Well for him to whom God has given enough with a sparing hand. [ Horace ]

A tomb now suffices for him for whom the world did not suffice. [ Apropos of Alexander the Great ]

Mothers are the only goddesses in whom the whole world believes.

Great men are the true men, the men in whom Nature has succeeded. [ Amiel ]

It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous. [ Rojas ]

We like those to whom we do good better than those who do us good. [ De Saint-Real ]

Ill-fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. [ Ben Jonson ]

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid.
Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. [ Horace Greeley ]

Truth irritates only those whom it enlightens, but does not convert. [ Pasquier Quesnel ]

It is better for the man whom God helps than for him who rises early. [ Cervantes ]

Folly was condemned to serve as a guide to Love whom she had blinded. [ La Fontaine ]

We may forgive those who bore us, we cannot forgive those whom we bore. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable. [ Carlyle ]

The woman we love most is often the one to whom we express it the least. [ Beauchene ]

It is the wit, the policy, of sin to hate those men whom we have abused. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

Not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. [ St. Paul ]

My highest wish is to find within the God whom I find everywhere without. [ Kepler ]

Providence seems to have forgot the man to whom it sends but few friends. [ Proverb ]

There is pleasure in meeting the eyes of those to whom we have done good. [ La Bruyere ]

Fortune never seems so blind as to those upon whom she confers no favors. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

A woman with whom one discusses love is always in expectation of something. [ Poincelot ]

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured. [ Tacitus ]

A woman by whom we are loved is a vanity; a woman whom we love is a religion. [ E. de Girardin ]

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony. [ William Shakespeare ]

Often the cockloft is empty in those whom nature hath built many stories high. [ Thomas Fuller ]

We meet in society many attractive women whom we would fear to make our wives. [ D'Harleville ]

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love. [ Rochefoucauld ]

He on whom Heaven bestows a sceptre knows not the weight of it till he bears it. [ Corneille ]

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. [ Mme. de Stael ]

He whom fortune has never deceived rarely considers the uncertainty of human events. [ Livy ]

Few men are much worth loving in whom there is not something well worth laughing at. [ Hair ]

Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable. [ Agnesi ]

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. [ N. Caussin ]

Alas! how galling is it to be injured by one against whom you dare make no complaint. [ Publius Syrus ]

There are no women to whom virtue comes easier than those who possess no attractions.

The matrimonial knot is sometimes tied so tightly that it wounds those whom it unites. [ De Varennes ]

Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free. [ La Roche ]

The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth. [ Arsene Houssaye ]

There are few husbands whom the I wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. [ N. Hawthorne ]

Happy he for whom a kind heavenly sun brightens the ring of necessity into a ring of duty. [ Carlyle ]

Necessity is the only real sovereign in the world, the only despot for whom there is no law. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved. [ Mme. Necker ]

There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

A kinsman, a friend, or whom you entreat, take not to serve you, if you will be served neatly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen? [ St. John ]

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused. [ Gibbon ]

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgment sound. [ Plautus ]

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human-being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. [ George Eliot ]

She is the most virtuous woman whom Nature has made the most voluptuous, and reason the coldest. [ La Beaumelle ]

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. [ Rochefoucauld ]

That is a treacherous friend against whom you must always be on your guard. Such a friend is wine. [ Bovee ]

We are often governed by people not only weaker than ourselves, but even by those whom we think so. [ Lord Greville ]

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace. [ Seneca ]

If there is any person to whom you feel dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. [ Cecil ]

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy. [ Seneca ]

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face. [ Longfellow ]

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life. [ Ik Marvel ]

He ought to remember benefits on whom they are conferred; he who confers them ought not to mention them. [ Cicero ]

There are in the world circumstances which give us for masters men of whom we would not make our valets. [ Mme. Roland ]

The mean man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom meanness withholds some important benefit. [ Emerson ]

I ever held this sentence of the poet as a canon of my creed, that whom God loveth not, they love not music. [ T. Morley ]

The greatest satisfaction a woman can feel is to know that a man whom many other women love loves her alone.

We lose some friends for whom we regret more than we grieve; and others for whom we grieve, yet do not regret. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, and to whom they are related. [ Heine ]

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

We seldom find persons whom we acknowledge to be possessed of good sense, except those who agree with us in opinion. [ Rochefoucauld ]

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware. [ Lavater ]

It hath been well said that the archflatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self. [ Bacon ]

Those whom we call the ancients were in truth novices in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind. [ Prescott ]

Very great benefactors to the rich, or those whom they call people at their ease, are your persons of no consequence. [ Steele ]

Women detest a jealous man whom they do not love, but it angers them when a man they do love is not jealous at times. [ Mlle, de Scuderi ]

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men. [ Cicero ]

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions. [ Blair ]

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. [ Stanislaus ]

The man that lays his hand on woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward. [ Tobin ]

He in whom there is much to be developed will be later than others in acquiring true perceptions of himself and the world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it. [ Mme. de Stael ]

What we have pleases us if we do not compare it with what others have; he never will be happy to whom a happier is a torture. [ Seneca ]

Self-sacrifice is a thing that should be put down by law. It is so demoralizing to the people for whom one sacrifices oneself. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

There are few men so obstinate in their atheism whom a pressing danger will not reduce to an acknowledgment of the Divine power. [ Plato ]

Happy the man to whom Heaven has given a morsel of bread without his being obliged to thank any other for it than Heaven itself. [ Cervantes ]

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. [ Beaconsfield ]

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all. [ Carlyle ]

People are not aware of the very great force which pleasantry in company has upon all those with whom a man of that talent converses. [ Steele ]

Dead is she? No; rather let us call ourselves dead, who tire so soon in the service of the Master whom she has gone to serve forever. [ W. S. Smart ]

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtues of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes or envy struck dumb. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger. [ Dr. Johnson ]

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak. [ Madame Necker ]

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation. [ Johnson ]

To be impatient at the death of a person concerning whom it was certain he must die is to mourn because thy friend was not born an angel. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware. [ Seneca ]

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand. [ Hawthorne ]

He by whom the geese were formed white, parrots stained green, and peacocks painted of various hues - even He will provide for their support. [ Hitopadesa ]

Would you console yourself when you die for parting from those with whom you liked to live? Think that they will be soon consoled for your death.

Happy is he to whom his business itself becomes a puppet, who at length can play with it, and amuse himself with what his situation makes his duty. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company. [ Swift ]

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward. [ Horace Mann ]

Nature sent women into the world that they might be mothers and love children, to whom sacrifices must ever be offered, and from whom none can be obtained. [ Jean Paul ]

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. [ Colton ]

Thrice happy they, and more than thrice, whom an unbroken link binds together, and whom love, unimpaired by evil rancour, will not sunder before their last day. [ Horace ]

Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking, if you wish to know his real sentiments; for he can command his words more easily than his countenance. [ Chesterfield ]

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended. [ Whately ]

There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run by patience and love, unless they are harder than the rocks which the soft water penetrates in time. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations. [ Sprat ]

When a woman is deliberating with herself whom she shall choose of many near each other in other pretensions, certainly he of the best understanding is to be preferred. [ Steele ]

There is no man whom Fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door and flies out at the window. [ Cardinal Imperiali ]

I have never believed that friendship supposed the obligation of hating those whom your friends did not love, and I believe rather it obliges me to love those whom they love. [ Morellet ]

There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering, as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us. [ Bulwer ]

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour? [ Dr. Johnson ]

As friendship must be founded on mutual esteem, it cannot long exist among the vicious; for we soon find ill company to be like a dog, which dirts those the most whom he loves the best. [ Chatfield ]

We may deserve grief; but why should women be unhappy? - except that we know heaven chastens those whom it loves best, being pleased by repeated trials to make these pure spirits more pure. [ Thackeray ]

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to the masterpieces of art and nature is the problem of civilisation. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A friend is he who sets his heart upon us, is happy with us and delights in us; does for us what we want, is willing and fully engaged to do all he can for us, on whom we can rely in all cases. [ William Ellery Channing ]

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted. [ Colton ]

We are more jealous of frivolous accomplishments with brilliant success, than of the most estimable qualities without. Dr. Johnson envied Garrick, whom he despised, and ridiculed Goldsmith, whom he loved. [ Hazlitt ]

Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God. [ Luther ]

How many of these minds are there to whom scarcely any good can be done! They have no excitability. You are attempting to kindle a fire of stone. You must leave them as you find them, in permanent mediocrity. [ John Foster ]

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers. [ Helvetius ]

No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. [ Bacon ]

He that will have no books but those that are scarce evinces about as correct a taste in literature as he would do in friendship who would have no friends but those whom all the rest of the world have sent to Coventry. [ Colton ]

Rely on principles; walk erect and free, not trusting to bulk of body, like a wrestler, for one should not be unconquerable in the sense that an ass is. Who then is unconquerable? He whom the inevitable cannot overcome. [ Epictetus ]

A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby; take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone. [ Saadi ]

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true, but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom be flatters of consequence enough to be flattered. [ Johnson ]

Now, my young friends to whom I am addressing myself, with reference to this habit of reading, I make bold to tell you that it is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. [ Anthony Trollope ]

He said - and his observation was just - that a man on whom heaven hath bestowed a beautiful wife should be as cautious of the men he brings home to his house as careful of observing the female friends with whom his spouse converses abroad. [ Cervantes ]

Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence, probity, and grace, to wear out life with, - persons with whom we can speak a few reasonable words every day, by whom we can measure ourselves, and who shall hold us fast to good sense and virtue. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it most; most of all upon our equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we each do least of all. [ Henry Drummond ]

Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us. [ Pilpay ]

Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars. [ Whipple ]

Extreme old age is childhood; extreme wisdom is ignorance, for so it may be called, since the man whom the oracle pronounced the wisest of men professed that he knew nothing; yea, push a coward to the extreme and he will show courage; oppress a man to the last, and he will rise above oppression. [ J. Beaumont ]

It is in the time of trouble, when some to whom we may have looked for consolation and encouragement regard us with coldness, and others, perhaps, treat us with hostility, that the warmth of the friendly heart and the support of the friendly hand acquire increased value and demand additional gratitude. [ Bishop Mant ]

Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world, words with little meaning, actions with little worth, one loves to reflect on the great empire of silence. The noble silent men, scattered here and there each in his department, silently thinking, silently working; whom no morning newspaper makes mention of. [ Carlyle ]

There is nothing more necessary to establish reputation than to suspend the enjoyment of it. He that cannot bear the sense of merit with silence must of necessity destroy it; for fame being the genial mistress of mankind, whoever gives it to himself insults all to whom he relates any circumstance to his own advantage. [ Steele ]

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat; men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority - demanding, not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of sacrifice - comes graceful and beloved as a bride. [ Emerson ]

Wise men, for the most part, are silent at present, and good men powerless; the senseless vociferate, and the heartless govern; while all social law and providence are dissolved by the enraged agitation of a multitude, among whom every villain has a chance of power, every simpleton of praise, and every scoundrel of fortune. [ John Ruskin ]

How sacred, how beautiful, is the feeling of affection in pure and guileless bosoms! The proud may sneer at it, the fashionable may call it fable, the selfish and dissipated may affect to despise it; but the holy passion is surely of heaven, and is made evil by the corruptions of those whom it was sent to bless and to preserve. [ Mordaunt ]

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or in good order. A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, showeth shallowness and weakness. [ Bacon ]

At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day. [ Hawthorne ]

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them, and which, if you do otherwise, emit what is unpleasant and noxious, so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsatisfactory and unsafe. [ Landor ]

There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than the adoration of the beautiful. All the higher arts of design are essentially chaste without respect to the object. They purify the thoughts as tragedy purifies the passions. Their accidental effects are not worth consideration, - there are souls to whom even a vestal is not holy. [ Schlegel ]

Was man made to disdain the gifts of nature? Was he placed on earth but to gather bitter fruits? For whom are the flowers the gods cause to bloom at the feet of mortals? It pleases Providence when we abandon ourselves to the different inclinations that He has given us: our duties come from His laws, and our desires from His inspirations.

There is scare any lot so low, but there is something in it to satisfy the man whom it has befallen, Providence having so ordered things, that in every man's cup how bitter soever, there are some cordial drops, some good circumstances, which if wisely extracted, are sufficient for the purpose he wants them, that is, to make him contented, and if not happy, at least resigned. [ Sterne ]

It is a hasty conclusion, and one which marks an inadequate apprehension of the nature of friendship, to say we lose a friend when he dies; death is not only unable to quench the genuine sense of friendship between the living and the dead, but it is also unable to prevent the going forth of a real feeling of friendship for the dead whom, it may be, we have never known at all. [ H. C. Trumbull ]

O God, whom the world misjudges, and whom everything declares! listen to the last words that my lips pronounce! If I have wandered, it was in seeking Thy law. My heart may go astray, but it is full of Thee! I see, without alarm, eternity appear; and I can not think that a God who has given me life, that a God who has poured so many blessings on my days, will, now that my days are done, torment me for ever! [ The last prayer of Voltaire ]

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight. [ Emerson ]

The mother, under whose sole influence the child is for years, from whom it acquires its tastes and character, should not only be educated, but educated in the most thorough manner, and have her mind stored with varied learning, so that she may be able to answer the multitude of questions that will be put to her by her inquisitive child on art, science, literature, and religion, and thus to stimulate his curiosity, and awaken his mind. [ E. B. Ramsay ]

Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height. [ Bruyere ]

As soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldest not, as of a prince whom thou couldest not look upon, will trouble thine eyes if the wind blow it thither; and when a whirlwind hath blown the dust of the churchyard into the church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeoman, this the plebeian bran? [ Rev. Dr. Donne ]

If I were to choose the people with whom I would spend my hours of conversation, they should be certainly such as labored no further than to make themselves readily and clearly apprehended, and would have patience and curiosity to understand me. To have good sense and ability to express it are the most essential and necessary qualities in companions. When thoughts rise in us fit to utter among familiar friends, there needs but very little care in clothing them. [ Steele ]

His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]

When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion of envy dies; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsake me: when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying beside those who deposed them, when I behold rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. [ Addison ]

A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chairs of the ladies and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbors sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing. [ Martial ]