HUMOR.

none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.-Quarles.

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.-There is such a thing as an honest pride and self-respect. Though we may be servants of all, we should be servile to none.-E. H. Chapin.

The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.-Bp. Reynolds.

Humility and love are the essence of true religion; the humble formed to adore; the loving to associate with eternal love.Lavater.

Truly, this world can get on without us, if we would but think so.-Longfellow.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.-Jonathan Edwards.

The richest pearl in the Christian's crown of graces is humility.-Good.

Humility is the eldest born of virtue, and claims the birth-right at the throne of heaven. Murphy.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do, exercises the truest humility.-Colton.

The saint that wears heaven's brightest crown in deepest adoration bends; the weight of glory bows him down the most when most his soul ascends; nearest the throne itself must be the footstool of humility.-J. Montgomery.

By humility I mean not the abjectness of a base mind, but a prudent care not to overvalue ourselves.-Crew.

Humility is to have a right estimate of one's self-not to think less of himself than he ought. The higher a man is in grace, the lower will he be in his own esteem.Spurgeon.

Humility is the truest abstinence in the world. It is abstinence from self-love and self-conceit, from vaunting our own praise and exploits, from ambition and avarice, the strongest propensities of our nature, and consequently is the noblest self-denial. -Delany.

True humility makes way for Christ, and throws the soul at his feet.-J. Mason.

HUMOR. (See "GOOD-HUMOR.")

Wit may be a thing of pure imagination, but humor involves sentiment and character. Humor is of a genial quality; dwells in the same character with pathos, and is always mingled with sensibility.—Giles.

I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill-health, and other evils of life, by mirth. I am persuaded that every time a man smiles--but much more so when he laughs-it adds something to this fragment of life.-Sterne.

There is certainly no defence against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.T. W. Higginson.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart.-It is not contempt; its essence is love.-It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, .which lie far deeper.-Carlyle.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.—Thackeray.

These poor gentlemen endeavor to gain themselves the reputation of wits and humorists by such monstrous conceits as almost qualify them for bedlam; not considering that humor should always lie under the check of reason, and that it requires the direction of the nicest judgment, by so much the more as it indulges itself in the most boundless freedoms.—Addison.

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever present sense of humor; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

The union of genuine, rich humor with deep piety, and the chastened, spontaneous use of it under the guidance of a sound judgment, are among the rarest manifestations of intellectual power.-G. B. Cheever.

Good humor is the clear blue sky of the soul, highly favorable to the discoveries and progress of genius.

It was the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject that would not bear raillery was suspicious, and a jest that would not bear a serious examination was certainly false to it.-Shaftesbury.

HUNGER. (See "APPETITE.")
HURRY. (See "HASTE.")
HUSBAND.-(See "FAMILY.")

HYPOCRISY.-The hypocrite was a man, who stole the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in.-Pollok.

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.-Bacon.

Satan was the first that practised falsehood under saintly show, deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.-Milton.

'Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, or carry smiles and sunshine in my face,

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when discontent sits heavy at my heart.Addison.

Oh, what authority and show of truth, can cunning sin cover itself withal!-Shakespeare.

As a man loves gold, in that proportion he hates to be imposed upon by counterfeits; and in proportion as a man has regard for that which is above price and better than gold, he abhors that hypocrisy which is but its counterfeit.— Cecil.

Grace is the new nature of a Christian, and hypocrisy that art that counterfeits it and the more exquisite it is in imitation, it is the more plausible to men, but the more abominable to God.-Bp. Hall.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.Johnson.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, is like a villain with a smiling cheek; a goodly apple rotten at the heart: Oh, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!-Shakespeare.

If the devil ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has; they serve him better than any others, but receive no wages; nay, what is still more extraordinary, they submit to greater mortifications to go to hell, than the sincerest Christian to go to heaven.-Colton.

He was a man would say untruths, and be ever double, both in his words and deeds. He was never, but where he meant to ruin, pitiful.-Shakespeare.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation, part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop. Contempt is the proper punishment of affectation, and detestation the just consequence of hypocrisy.-Johnson.

Hypocrisy, of course, delights in the most sublime speculations; for never intending to go beyond speculation, it costs nothing to have it magnificent.-Burke.

Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.—Addison.

But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, tell them-that God bids us do good for evil: and thus I clothe my naked villainy, with old odd ends, stolen forth of Holy Writ and seem a saint, when most I play the devil. Why, I can smile, and

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murder while I smile and cry, content, to that which grieves my heart; and wet my cheeks with artificial tears, and frame my face to all occasions.-Shakespeare.

It is the greatest madness to be a hypocrite in religion. The world will hate thee because a Christian even in appearance; and God will hate thee because so only in appearance; and thus having the hatred of both, thou shalt have no comfort in either.-Bp. Hall.

Hypocrisy desires to appear rather than to be good; honesty, to be good rather than seem so.-Fools purchase reputation by the sale of desert; wise men seek desert even at the hazard of reputation.— Warwick.

Some people speak as if hypocrites were confined to religion; but they are everywhere; people pretending to wealth when they have not a sixpence, assuming knowledge of which they are ignorant, shamming a culture they are far removed from, adopting opinions they do not hold.-Albert Goodrich.

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.-Rochefoucauld.

An atheist is but a mad ridiculous derider of piety; but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action; like an impudent debtor, who goes every day to talk familiarly tó his creditor, without ever paying what he owes.-Pope.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.-Johnson.

The most terrible of lies is not that which is uttered but that which is lived.-W. G. Clarke.

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where truth is not at the bottom nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or another.-Tillotson.

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.-M. Henry.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.-Shakespeare.

Hypocrisy is folly.-It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of what he is not.-Cecil.

The hypocrite shows the excellence of virtue by the necessity he thinks himself under of seeming to be virtuous.—Johnson.

There is some virtue in almost every vice except hypocrisy ; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is, at the same time, a compliment to it.—Hazlitt.

IDEALS.

The hypocrite pays tribute to God that he may impose upon man.

Hypocrisy is much more eligible than open infidelity and vice, it wears the livery of religion, and is cautious of giving scandal.—Swift.

Hypocrisy, detest her as we may, and no man's hatred ever wronged her yet, may claim this merit still, that she admits the worth of what she mimics with such care. -Cowper.

'Tis a cowardly and servile humor to hide and disguise a man's self under a visor, and not to dare to show himself what he is. By that our followers are trained up to treachery. Being brought up to speak what is not true, they make no conscience of a lie.-Montaigne.

Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.-Milton.

Saint abroad and devil at home.-Bunyan.

With devotion's visage, and pious action, we do sugar o'er the devil himself.-Shakespeare.

No man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another tó the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one.-Hawthorne.

One may smile and smile and be a villain still.-Shakespeare.

I.

IDEALS.-The best and noblest lives are those which are set toward high ideals. And the highest and noblest ideal that any man can have is Jesus of Nazareth.—Al

meron.

A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be.-They create an ideal character the perfections of which compensate in some degree for imperfections of their own. -E. P. Whipple.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things. -Tryon Edwards.

We all have day dreams of what we wish to be, or have, or do; and the high imaginary standard, like the good resolutions we form, aids us, often, to a higher and better life.

Every life has its actual blanks which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare and profitless forever.-J. W. Howe.

Every man has, at times, in his mind the

ideal of what he should be, but is not. In all men that seek to improve, it is better than the actual character.-No one is so satisfied with himself that he never wishes to be wiser, better, and more holy.-Theodore Parker.

Ideality is only the avant-courier of the mind, and where that, in a healthy and normal state goes, I hold it to be a prophecy that realization can follow.H. Mann.

Ideals are the world's masters.-J. G. Holland.

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. -Hedge.

Ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never located.-Maď. Sévigné.

We build statues of snow, and weep to see them melt.- Walter Scott.

Great objects form great minds.-Em

mons.

A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.-W. G. T. Shedd.

Nothing more powerfully argues a life beyond this than the failure of ideals here. Each gives us only fragments of humanity, of heart, of mind, of charity, of love and of virtue.

Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward.-The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.M. F. Osseoli.

IDEAS.-Ideas control the world.-Gar

field.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.-Jean Ingelow.

In these days we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.-H. Heine. Old ideas are prejudices, and new ones caprices.-Dondan.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them.-They surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.-A. Phelps.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. That which was a weed in one becomes a flower in the other, and a flower again dwindles down to a mere weed by the same change. Healthy growths may become poisonous by falling upon the

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wrong mental soil, and what seemed a night-shade in one mind unfolds as a morning-glory in the other.-O. W. Holmes.

Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind.-But, in truth, the ideas and images in men's minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.—Jonathan Edwards.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it is simply a brutality.—Garfield.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.- Voltaire.

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.-Bulwer.

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. -Bp. Vincent.

By what strange law of mind is it, that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light as a discovered diamond? -Mrs. Stowe.

Ideas are cosmopolitan.-They have the liberty of the world. You have no right to take the sword and cross the bounds of other nations, and enforce on them laws or institutions they are unwilling to receive.But there is no limit to the sphere of ideas. Your thoughts and feelings, the whole world lies open to them, and you have the right to send them into any latitude, and to give them sweep around the earth, to the mind of every human being.-H. W. Beecher.

Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots. W. M. Paxton.

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.Bulwer.

A soul occupied with great ideas best performs small duties.-H. Martineau.

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken, we moderns are building houses for them.-A. B. Alcott.

Ideas, though vivid and real, are often indefinite, and are shy of the close furniture of words.-Tupper.

Our land is not more the recipient of the men of all countries than of their ideas.Bancroft.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think, is to weave them into garlands.Mad. Swetchine.

An idea, like a ghost, according to the common notion of ghosts, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.Dickens.

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.-E. H. Chapin.

Bred to think as well as speak by vote, we furnish our minds, as we furnish our houses, with the fancies of others, and according to the mode and age of our country. We pick up our ideas and notions in common conversation, as in schools.— Bolingbroke.

Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, filtering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen them from the mountains on which they rest.—D'Aubigné.

When young men are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed.That is a very important period.—But the period in which the ideas of the young are formed and adopted is more important still.

For the ideal with which you go forth to measure things determines the nature, so far as you are concerned, of everything you meet.-H. W. Beecher.

Ideas in the mind are the transcript of the world; words are the transcript of ideas; and writing and printing are the transcript of words.-Addison.

A vague recollection fills my mind, an image dazzling, but undefined, like the memory of a gorgeous dream. It crowds my brain confusedly, but will not stay.-It changes like the tremulous sunshine on the wave, till imagination itself is dazzled, bewildered, overpowered.-Longfellow.

He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea, that is of one great overmastering purpose, overshadowing all his aims, and guiding and controlling his entire life.-Bate.

IDLENESS. (See "INDOLENCE.")

Idleness is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the cushion upon which the devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause not only of melancholy, but of many other diseases; for the mind is naturally active; and if it be not occupied about some honest business, it rushes into mischief or sinks into melancholy.-Burton.

IDLENESS.

The idle man is the devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease, who, as he is incapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.—Bp. Hall.

Idleness is the hot-bed of temptation, the cradle of disease, the waster of time, the canker-worm of felicity. To him that has no employment, life in a little while will have no novelty; and when novelty is laid in the grave, the funeral of comfort will soon follow.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profiteth others and ourselves.-Baxter.

Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.-Spurgeon.

In idleness there is perpetual despair.Carlyle.

From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb, which says, that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.-Colton.

If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy.-Sydney Smith.

The first external revelations of the dryrot in men is a tendency to lurk and lounge; to be at street corners without intelligible reason; to be going anywhere when met to be about many places rather than any; to do nothing tangible but to have an intention of performing a number of tangible duties to-morrow or the day after.-Dickens.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.- Chesterfield.

Troubles spring from idleness, and grievous toils from needless ease: many without labor would live by their own wits only, but they break for want of stock.-Franklin.

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever.Burke.

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.-Rochefoucauld.

If you are idle you are on the way to ruin, and there are few stopping places upon it. -It is rather a precipice than a road.-H. W. Beecher.

Some one saying to the famous Marquis Spinola, that a distinguished general had died of having nothing to do, he replied, 'Upon my word, that is enough to kill anybody."

Life is a short day; but it is a working day. Activity may lead to evil, but inactivity cannot lead to good.-Hannah More.

Not only is he idle who is doing nothing, but he that might be better employed.Socrates.

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has to do the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.-Sir M. Hale.

I would have inscribed on the curtains of your bed, and the walls of your chamber, "If you do not rise early, you can never make progress in anything. If you do not set apart your hours of reading, if you suffer yourself or any one else to break in upon them, your days will slip through your hands unprofitable and frivolous, and really unenjoyed by yourself."-Lord Chatham.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches; and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.-Johnson.

A man who is able to employ himself innocently is never miserable. It is the idle who are wretched. If I wanted to inflict the greatest punishment on a fellow-creature I would shut him alone in a dark room without employment.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.-Hannah More.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.— Jeremy Taylor.

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service but idleness taxes many of us much more; sloth, by bringing on diseases, absolutely shortens life. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and there will be sleeping enough in the grave!-Franklin.

By nature's laws, immutable and just,