Against the grain. [ French ]

Against good morals.

No fence against gold. [ Proverb ]

Set good against evil. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No fence against a flail. [ Proverb ]

A war of all against all.

No gaping against an oven. [ Proverb ]

No fence against ill fortune. [ Proverb ]

Strive not against the stream. [ Proverb ]

Blow not against the hurricane. [ Proverb ]

Grudge not one against another. [ St. James ]

There's no armour against fate. [ Shirley ]

Set hard heart against hard hap. [ Proverb ]

A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still. [ Butler ]

I am a man
More sinned against than sinning. [ King Lear ]

Abuse is no argument against use. [ Proverb ]

He that complies against his will,
is of the same opinion still. [ Butler ]

Who against hope believed in hope. [ Bible ]

Virtue is not secure against envy. [ Proverb ]

Solid pudding against empty praise. [ Pope ]

Remorse turns us against ourselves. [ Chamfort ]

He that complies against his will.
Is of his own opinion still.
Which he may adhere to, yet disown,
For reasons to himself best known. [ Butler ]

Craft against craft makes no living. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No age is shut against great genius. [ Seneca ]

A defence of spikes against cavalry. [ French ]

There is no protection against slander. [ Moliere ]

Against the flying ball no valor avails. [ Luther ]

There is no striving against one's fate. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

If God is our defence, who is against us? [ M ]

There is no fence against a panic fright. [ Proverb ]

Put no money in the scale against virtue. [ Proverb ]

Against diseases here the strongest fence.
Is the defensive virtue, abstinence. [ Herrick ]

An act I do against my will is not my act. [ Law Max ]

Stake not your head against another's hat. [ Proverb ]

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive. [ Montgomery ]

Labour for labour's sake is against nature. [ Locke ]

Against change of fortune set a bold heart. [ French Proverb ]

Men shut their doors against a setting sun. [ William Shakespeare ]

No pleader can pervail
Who prays against the laws of Time or Fate,
No matter how we murmur and bewail.
The robins will not build in winter hail
Nor lilacs bloom in February. Wait. [ Elizabeth Akers ]

It deserves with characters of brass,
A forted residence against the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion. [ William Shakespeare ]

The poor wren,
The most diminutive of birds, will fight,
Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

No doors are shut against honest grey-hairs. [ Proverb ]

No lock will hold against the power of gold. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

These eyes tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot.
Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot.
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year.
Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not
Against Heaven's hand or will, nor have a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward. [ Milton ]

Patience is the best buckler against affronts. [ Proverb ]

It is true fortitude to stand firm against
All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity. [ Massinger ]

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce! [ Schiller ]

Two to one in all things against the angry man. [ Proverb ]

How well he is read, to reason against reading! [ William Shakespeare ]

The poor too often turn away unheard,
From hearts that shut against them with a sound
That will be heard in heaven. [ Longfellow ]

Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels men rebel;
And who but wishes to invert the laws
Of order, sins against the Eternal cause. [ Pope ]

Against God's wrath no castle is thunder-proof. [ Proverb ]

Set the hare's head against the goose's giblets. [ Proverb ]

He stands like a rock unmoved against the waves. [ Motto ]

A wolf will never make war against another wolf. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Even the lion has to defend itself against flies. [ German Proverb ]

Love should have some rest and pleasure in himself,
Not ever be too curious for a boon,
Too prurient for a proof against the grain
Of him ye say ye love. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The wolf never wants for a pretense against a lamb. [ Proverb ]

The abuse of a thing is no argument against its use. [ Law Max ]

Against the wild-fire of the mob there is no defense. [ Proverb ]

Even the gods are unable to contend against necessity. [ Simonides ]

A thread-bare coat is armour-proof against highwaymen. [ Proverb ]

It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride. [ Proverb ]

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it. [ Burke ]

Will without reason is blind, and against reason is mad. [ Proverb ]

Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self. [ Mrs. Campbell Praed ]

He that is open to flattery is fenced against admonition. [ Proverb ]

A promise against law or duty, is void in its own nature. [ Proverb ]

It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it. [ Hazlitt ]

It is an unhappy wit that stirs up enemies against itself. [ Proverb ]

Against the evil of death there is no remedy in the garden.

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction. [ Plautus ]

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations. [ Bernard ]

Neither coat nor cloak will hold out against rain upon rain. [ Proverb ]

Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity. [ Plato ]

Audacity as against modesty will win the battle over most men. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

An ass that kicks against the wall, receives the blow himself. [ Proverb ]

Spit not against heaven, it will fall back into your own face. [ Proverb ]

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. [ Montaigne ]

Excess and violence are the greatest outrages against liberty. [ Villemain ]

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. [ Napoleon ]

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God. [ Confucius ]

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. [ Locke ]

Beauty is a witch, against whose charms faith melteth into blood. [ William Shakespeare ]

You may row your heart out, if the wind and tide set against you. [ Proverb ]

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace. [ Cicero ]

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one. [ A. Karr ]

The friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Silence is a good receipt against such faults as may cause offense. [ Proverb ]

No argument can be drawn from the abuse of a thing against its use. [ Latin ]

The friar preached against theft, when he had a goose in his sleeve. [ Proverb ]

It is possible to sin against charity, when we do not against truth. [ Proverb ]

Against rebels it is cruelty to be humane, and humanity to be cruel. [ Corneille Muis ]

To go against reason and conscience, is to rebel against God himself. [ Proverb ]

Who draws his sword against his prince, must throw away his scabbard. [ Proverb ]

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it. [ Chalmers ]

The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running. [ Yogi Berra ]

His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. [ Bible ]

Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time. [ Willmott ]

I entrench myself in my books, equally against sorrow and the weather. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Struggle against it as thou wilt, yet heaven's ways are heaven's ways. [ Lessing ]

Everybody exclaims against ingratitude. Are there so many benefactors? [ Alfred Bougeart ]

A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience. [ Horne ]

I shall ne'er beware of mine own wit till I break my shins against it. [ William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 4 ]

Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. [ The Lord's Prayer ]

As lazy as Ludlam's dog, that leaned his head against the wall to bark. [ Proverb ]

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. [ Hood ]

Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [ Horace ]

Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one. [ Goldsmith ]

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness! [ Victor Hugo ]

Heaven protect me from my friends; I will protect myself against my enemies. [ Proverb ]

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances. [ Hamerton ]

The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The head, however strong it may be, can accomplish nothing against the heart. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]

To no more purpose, than it would be to knock one's heels against the ground. [ Proverb ]

Trifles unconsciously bias us for or against a person from the very beginning. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

No better armor against the darts of death than to be busied in God's service. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit against one's good nature. [ Montesquieu ]

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence. [ Pope ]

The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods. [ Hazlitt ]

Be kind to my remains; and O defend Against your judgment, your departed friend. [ Dryden ]

If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if be repent, forgive him. [ Bible ]

There is no conferring a favour (involving obligation) on a man against his will. [ Law Max ]

It is a sin against hospitality to open your doors, and shut up your countenance. [ Proverb ]

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

O popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? [ Cowper ]

Don't contend with words against wordy people; speech is given to all, wisdom to few. [ Cato ]

But who would force the Soul, tilts with a straw against a champion cased in adamant. [ Wordsworth ]

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

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

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. [ Landor ]

Virtue, as understood by the world, is a constant struggle against the laws of nature. [ De Finod ]

Women have always been picturesque protests against the mere existence of common sense. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Every author, in some degree, portrays himself in his works even be it against his will. [ Goethe ]

The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops were close against the sky. [ Hood ]

All things are double, one against another. Good is set against evil, and life against death. [ Ecclus ]

It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men, than her reputation against women. [ Rochebrune ]

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders. [ Fielding ]

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

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. [ James Hervey ]

I have not wounded any one with stinging satire, nor does my poetry contain a charge against any man. [ Ovid ]

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. [ Carlyle ]

Women are a fascinatingly wilful set. Every woman is a rebel and usually in wild revolt against herself. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. [ Johnson ]

Correct opinions well established on any subject are the best preservative against the seduction of error. [ Bishop Mant ]

The reason that there is such a general outcry against flatterers is, that there are so very few good ones. [ Steele ]

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals. [ Bryant ]

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [ Tacitus ]

You must say and do nothing against the bent of your genius, (i.e. in default of the necessary inspiration.) [ Horace ]

Who can speak broader than he that has no house to put his head in? - Such may rail against great buildings. [ William Shakespeare ]

People should be guarded against temptation to unlawful pleasures by furnishing them means of innocent ones. [ Channing ]

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. [ William Ellery Channing ]

One could not commit a greater crime against public interests than to show indulgence to those who violate them. [ Richelieu ]

When a strong brain is weighed with a true heart, it seems to me like balancing a bubble against a wedge of gold. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State. [ Lowell ]

He whose life seems fair, if all his errors and follies were articled against him, would seem vicious and miserable. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts. [ Dryden ]

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached upon that subject. [ Saville ]

He that, by often arguing against his own sense, imposes falsehoods on others, is not far from believing them himself. [ Locke ]

Yet I argue not against heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer right onward. [ Milton ]

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same. [ George Sand ]

To hate a man for his errors is as unwise as to hate one who, in casting up an account, has made an error against himself. [ Robertson ]

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. [ Swift ]

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

A great soul is proof against injustice, pain, and mockery; and it would be invulnerable if it were not open to compassion.

A woman who plays with the love of a loyal man is a curse; she may close his heart forever against all confidence in her sex.

The fragrance of the flower is never borne against the breeze; but the fragrance of human virtues diffuses itself everywhere. [ Ramayana ]

But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there. And none so poor to do him reverence. [ William Shakespeare ]

What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions. [ William Penn ]

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse; borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. [ William Shakespeare ]

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful. [ George MacDonald ]

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind. [ Buddha ]

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. [ Lord Bacon ]

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it. [ La Bruyere ]

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it. [ Whately ]

An honorable name or a good reputation is an excellent protection against wrong-doing: we fear to compromise it more through vanity than virtue.

I struggle against an opposing current; the torrent which sweeps away others does not overpower me, and I make head against the on-rushing stream. [ Ovid ]

It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy. [ Chief Justice Mansfield ]

Much complaining I often hear raised against the proud bearing of the great. The pride of the great will disappear as soon as we cease our cringing. [ Körner ]

I'm proof against that word "failure." I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. [ George Eliot ]

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, nature. [ Jeffrey ]

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

It is a revered thing to see an ancient castle not in decay; how much more to behold an ancient family which have stood against the waves and weathers of time! [ Bacon ]

Harmless mirth is the best cordial against the consumption of the spirit; wherefore jesting is not unlawful, if it trespasseth not in quantity, quality or season. [ Fuller ]

Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, yet, with my nobler reason, against my fury do I take part; the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance. [ William Shakespeare ]

To protect one's self against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman, it proves a tempest in the harbor. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

A tendency to slang, to colloquial inelegancies, and even vulgarities, is the besetting sin against which we, as Americans, have especially to guard and to struggle. [ W. D. Whitney ]

If you make a law against dancing-masters imitating the fine gentleman, you should with as much reason enact, that no fine gentleman shall imitate the dancing-master. [ Goldsmith ]

He that would die well must always look for death, every day knocking at the gates of the grave; and then the grave shall never prevail against him to do him mischief. [ Jeremv Taylor ]

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants. [ Johnson ]

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment. [ H. T. Tuckerman ]

The greatest of all injustice is that which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny, the forcing the letter of the law against the equity is the most insupportable. [ L'Estrange ]

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike! [ Bishop Hall ]

It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current. [ Fielding ]

In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book, and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other. [ Madame Necker ]

It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected. [ Fielding ]

It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor, - a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness. [ Whately ]

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable. [ Epictetus ]

Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another; if thou receive not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter; if thou receive them, they flee forward and wound the receiver. [ Quarles ]

The capacity of apprehending what is high is very rare; and therefore, in common life a man does well to keep such things for himself, and only to give out so much as is needful to have some advantage against others. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

I armed her against the censures of the world; showed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they could not bring us to enjoy life, they would at least teach us to endure it. [ Goldsmith ]

Many shiver from want of defence against the cold; but there is vastly more suffering among the rich from absurd and criminal modes of dress, which fashion has sanctioned, than among the poor from deficiency of raiment. [ Channing ]

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 ]

A man may kill a tender and delicate wife by cold neglect, and ruin himself and her too by debauchery; but if he keeps within his own dwellings and does not disturb his neighbors, the law would be slow to move against him. [ A. S. Roe ]

Sydney Smith playfully says that commonsense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs. [ Whipple ]

Government began in tyranny and force, in the feudalism of the soldier and the bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way like a thunderstorm against the organised selfishness of human nature. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate - how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition. [ John Neal ]

I have often heard it said, and I believe it to be true, that even the most eloquent man living, and however deeply impressed with the subject, could scarcely find utterance if he were to be standing up alone, and speaking only against a dead wall. [ Erskine ]

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless soul, like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong! [ Chapin ]

Be cheerful, and seek not external help, nor the tranquillity which others give. A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Nature's noblemen are everywhere, - in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman. [ Willis ]

If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. [ Sir John Herschel ]

Man reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven. [ Humboldt ]

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer; for there is no such flatterer as a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. [ Bacon ]

One is more honest in youth, and to the age of thirty years, than when one has passed it. It is only after that age that one's illusions are dispelled. Until then, one resembles the dog that defends the dinner of his master against other dogs: after this period, he takes his share of it with the others. [ Chamfort ]

A literary career is a more thorny path than that which leads to fortune. If you have the misfortune not to rise above mediocrity, you feel mortified for life; and if you are successful, a host of enemies spring up against you. Thus you find yourself on the brink of an abyss between contempt and hatred. [ Voltaire ]

It is sufficient to have a simple heart in order to escape the harshness of the age, in order not to fly from the unfortunate; but it is to have some understanding of the imperishable law, to seek them in the forgetfulness against which they dare not complain, to prefer them in their ruin, to admire them in their struggles. [ Senancour ]

It is wonderful indeed to consider how many objects the eye is fitted to take in at once, and successively in an instant, and at the same time to make a judgment of their position, figure, and color. It watches against our dangers, guides our steps, and lets in all the visible objects, whose beauty and variety instruct and delight. [ Steele ]

Most people give up before they start because they think it is too hard, there is too much against me here, I can’t do this on my own, I don’t have the resources. I was on the back to work scheme when I applied. I didn’t have resources... It never occurred to me to fail. I always knew it was part of my destiny to do that thing. [ Mary Reynolds, 2002 Gold Medal Winner of the Chelsea Flower Show ]

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men. [ Lamb ]

A sense of humor is a saving grace, and happy is that woman who has been blessed by birth with that rare sixth sense of seeing the funny side. If you have it naturally, be gladly grateful, for it is a greater gift than beauty or riches. It means cheerfulness, contentment, courage and, possessing it, you are equipped with a potent weapon against the blows of fate. [ Unknown ]

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and little, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes. [ Montaigne ]

The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain. Their happiness consists entirely in present enjoyment. [ Chalmers ]

The habit of exaggeration in language should be guarded against; it misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive; it imposes on us the society of a balloon, when a moderately-sized skull would fill the place much better; it begets much evil in promising what it cannot perform, and we have often found the most glowing declarations of intended good services end in mere Irish vows. [ Eliza Cook ]

It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. [ Addison ]

I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. [ Emerson ]

Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon. [ Hillard ]

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace. [ Tuckerman ]

Whatever we may say against such collections which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem, to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of the mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant quotations." [ Goethe ]

Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: Soldiers, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries; - those who love freedom and their country may follow me. That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life. [ Kossuth ]

As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions. Some are disposed to view logic as a peculiar method of reasoning, and not as it is, a method of unfolding and analysing our reason. They have, in short, considered logic as an art of reasoning. The logician's object being, not to lay down principles by which one may reason, but by which all must reason, even though they are not distinctly aware of them - to lay down rules not which may be followed with advantage, but which cannot possibly be deviated from in sound reasoning. [ R. Whately ]