LEVELLERS.

long required easing of their burthen,there is yet enough-there is more than enough-in these old letters, to plead an excuse for so sacredly preserving them.Albert Smith.

LEVELLERS.-Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.Johnson.

Those who attempt to level never equalize. In all societies some description must be uppermost. The levellers, therefore, only change and pervert the natural order of things; they load the edifice of society by setting up in the air what the solidity of the structure requires to be on the ground. -Burke.

Some persons are always ready to level those above them down to themselves, while they are never willing to level those below them up to their own position. But he that is under the influence of true humility will avoid both these extremes. On the one hand, he will be willing that all should rise just so far as their diligence and worth of character entitle them to and on the other hand, he will be willing that his superiors should be known and acknowledged in their place, and have rcndered to them all the honors that are their due.-Jonathan Edwards.

Death and the cross are the two great levellers; kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places-at the foot of the cross, and in the silence of the grave.-Colton.

LEVITY. - Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.— Seneca.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men, a shameful defect; in old age, a monstrous folly.-Rochefoucauld.

Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, takes from attention its strength, from thought its originality, from feeling its earnestness.-Mad. De Staël.

There is always some levity even in exccllent minds; they have wings to rise, and also to stay.-Joubert.

A light and trifling mind never takes in great ideas, and never accomplishes anything great or good.-Sprague.

Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; the mind that is most open to the former is frequently a stranger to the latter.-Levity may be the offspring of folly or vice; cheerfulness is the natural offspring of wisdom and virtue.—Blair.

LIARS. (See "FALSEHOOD" and "LYING.")

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be discovered in a lie; for as Montaigne saith, "A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man."-Bacon,

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.Aristotle.

He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain one.-Pope.

A willful falsehood told is a cripple, not able to stand by itself without another to support it.—It is easy to tell a lie, but hard to tell only one lie.-Fuller.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.-Corneille.

Liars-past all shame-so past all truth. Shakespeare.

Thou canst not better reward a liar than in not believing whatever he speaketh.Aristippus.

They begin with making falsehood appear like truth, and end with making truth itself appear like falsehood.-Shenstone.

I am charmed with many points of the Turkish law; when proved the authors of any notorious falsehood, they are burned on the forehead with a hot iron.-Lady Montague.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.-I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me. -Carlyle.

This is the liar's lot; he is accounted a pest and a nuisance, a person marked out for infamy and scorn.-South.

Ono lic must be thatched with another, or it will soon rain through.-Owen.

The hell that a lie would keep a man from, is doubtless the very best place for him to go to.-G. Macdonald.

Who dares think one thing, and another tell, my soul detests him as the gates of hell.-Pope.

LIBERALITY. (See "BENEVOLENCE.")

Liberality was formerly called honesty, as if to imply that unless we are liberal we are not honest, either toward God or man. -Tryon Edwards.

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.-M. Henry.

LIBERALITY.

Be rather bountiful than expensive; do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.-Penn.

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to these we give to Jove is lent.-Homer.

No communications can exhaust genius; no gifts impoverish charity.—Lavater.

Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God in anger proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. -Quarles.

Liberality consists rather in giving seasonably than much.-Bruyère.

The office of liberality consists in giving with judgment. - Cicero.

The way to have nothing to give, is to give nothing.

He that lays out for God lays up for himself.

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.J. Sterling.

Frugality is good, if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality. Both together make an excellent temper. Happy the place where that is found.-Penn.

In defiance of all the torture, the might, and the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power his defense, God's love and favor his reward, and God's word his security.-Barrow.

He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more.-W. S. Plumer.

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.Sir P. Sidney.

What we call liberality is often but the vanity of giving; we are more fond of the ostentation than of the generosity of the act.-Rochefoucauld.

The liberality of some men is but indifference clad in the garb of candor. Whately.

Men might be better if we deemed better of them. The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.-Bailey.

'Tis hard to school the heart to be. in spite of injury and envy, generous still. Ellison.

One always receiving, never giving, is

like the stagnant pool, in which whatever flows remains, whatever remains corrupts. -J. A. James.

LIBERTY.—True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.-Jonathan Edwards.

Reason and virtue alone can bestow liberty.-Shaftesbury.

There is no liberty worth anything which is not a liberty under law.-N. J. Burton,

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.-Bulwer.

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely, according to conscience, above all other liberties. Milton.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Jefferson.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? -Forbid it, Almighty God!-I know not what course others may take, but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.-Patrick Henry.

In the same proportion that ignorance and vice prevail in a republic, will the government partake of despotism.-Sprague.

Easier were it to hurl the rooted mountain from its base, than force the yoke of slavery upon men determined to be free.Southey.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.-Bolingbroke.

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man is being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God, and of his country.-Cowley.

The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and love of man, and made courageous in the defense of a trust, and the prosecution of a duty.—Simms.

What is life? It is not to stalk about, and draw fresh air, or gaze upon the sun; it is to be free.-Addison.

LIBERTY.

Oh, give me liberty! for even were paradise my prison, still I should long to leap the crystal walls.-Dryden.

There are two freedoms, the false where one is free to do what he likes, and the true where he is free to do what he ought.— C. Kingsley.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen. It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.-Patrick Henry.

Personal liberty is the right to act without interference within the limits of the law.-J. Oerter.

It is foolish to strive with what we cannot avoid; we are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty; he that does this, shall be free, safe, and quiet; all his actions shall succeed to his wishes.—Seneca.

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. Human agency cannot extinguish it. Like the earth's central fire, it may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it; mountains may press it down; but its inherent and unconquerable force will heave both the ocean and the land, and at some time or another, in some place or another, the volcano will break out and flame to heaven.-Daniel Webster.

Perfect conformity to the will of God is the sole sovereign and complete liberty.D'Aubigné.

No man can always do just as he chooses until he always chooses to do God's will; and that is heaven. There is no liberty in wrong-doing. It chains and fetters its victim as surely as effect follows cause.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.-Joseph Cook.

Men do things which their fathers would have deprecated, and then draw about themselves a flimsy cordon of sophistry, and talk about the advance of humanity and liberal thought, when it is nothing after all but a preference for individual license.-John Hall.

False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes-whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.-F. W. Robertson.

There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long be separated from religious liberty without danger, and ultimately without destruction to both. Wherever religious liberty exists, it will, first or last, bring in and establish political liberty. Wherever it is suppressed, the church establishment will, first or last, become the engine of despotism, and overthrow, unless it be itself overthrown, every vestige of political right. -Story.

If we must accept fate, we are not less compelled to assert liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character. We are sure, though we know not how, that necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with the spirit of the times.-Emerson.

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.-John Randolph.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.-De Tocqueville.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed. - G. Macdonald.

The freedom of some is the freedom af the herd of swine that ran violently down a steep place into the sea and were drowned.

The only liberty that is valuable, is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.-Burke.

Liberty is the right of every human creature, as soon as he breathes the vital air and no human law can deprive him of that right, which he derives from the law of nature.

LIBERTY.

True liberty consists in the privilege of enjoying our own rights, not in the destruction of the rights of others.-Pinckard.

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of his neighbors.-Farrar.

Liberty is the right to do what the laws allow; and if a citizen could do what they forbid, it would be no longer liberty, because others would have the same powers. -Montesquieu.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day, and not miss them in a century.-Montesquieu.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.Hillard.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite is placed somewhere ; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be of it without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate habits cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.-Burke.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.-Colton.

Where liberty dwells, there is my country. -Milton.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.-Rous

seau.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the ground-work of human freedom.-Horace Greeley.

To do what we will, is natural liberty; to do what we may consistently with the interests of the community to which we belong, is civil liberty, the only liberty to be desired in a state of civil society.Paley.

When I see the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong principle at work; and this, for a while, is all I can possibly know of it. The wild gas, the fixed air, is plainly broke

loose but we ought to suspend our judgment until the first effervescence is a little subsided, till the liquor is cleared, and until we see something deeper than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface. I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they have really received one.Burke.

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty. -Dante.

Liberty and union, one and inseparable, now and forever.-Daniel Webster.

Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.- Washington.

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.-Cowley.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district,-all studied and appreciated as they merit,-are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.-Franklin.

The greatest glory of a free-born people, is to transmit that freedom to their children.-Havard.

The spirit of liberty is not, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any one, whether high or low, should be wronged or trampled under foot.-Channing.

Liberty consists in the right which God has given us, of doing, getting, and enjoying all the good in our power, according to the laws of God, of the State, and of our conscience.—True liberty, therefore, can never interfere with the duties, rights, and interests of others.-C. Simmons.

What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue ?-It is the greatest of all possible evils, for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.-Burke.

O liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name !-Mad. Roland. The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.-Burke. "God

The Protestant principle, that alone is Lord of the conscience," has done more to give the mind power, and to strike off its chains, than any principle of mere secular policy in the most perfect "Bill of Rights."-G. Spring.

The love of religious liberty is a stronger sentiment, when fully excited, than an at

LIBRARIES.

tachment to civil freedom. Conscience, in the cause of religion, prepares the mind to act and to suffer, beyond almost all other causes. It sometimes gives an impulse so irresistible, that no fetters of power or of opinion can withstand it. History instructs us, that this love of religious liberty, made up of the clearest sense of right and the highest conviction of duty, is able to look the sternest despotism in the face, and, with means apparently inadequate, to shake principalities and powers.-Daniel Webster.

A day, an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity of bondage.—Addison.

The true danger is, when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.Burke.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves beside.—Cowper.

There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings ; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.-H. W. Beecher.

LIBRARIES.-Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.-Colton.

Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.-Bacon.

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed, may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.-Dyer.

Let us pity those poor rich men who live barrenly in great bookless houses! Let us congratulate the poor that, in our day, books are so cheap that a man may every year add a hundred volumes to his library for the price of what his tobacco and beer would cost him. Among the earliest ambitions to be excited in clerks, workmen, journeymen, and, indeed, among all that are struggling up from nothing to something, is that of owning, and constantly adding to a library of good books. A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a young man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. -H. W. Beecher.

What laborious days, what watchings by the midnight lamp, what rackings of the brain, what hopes and fears, what long lives of laborious study, are here sublimized into print, and condensed into the narrow compass of these surrounding shelves!-Horace Smith.

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.-Longfellow.

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians were reposing here, as in some dormitory or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.Lamb.

My library was dukedom large enough.Shakespeare.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.-Seneca.

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.-Emerson.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.-The great consulting room of a wise man is a library.-G. Dawson.

What a world of wit is here packed together! I know not whether the sight doth more dismay or comfort me.-It dismays me to think that here is so much I cannot know; it comforts me to think that this variety yields so good helps to know what I should.-Blessed be the memory of those who have left their blood, their spirits, their lives, in these precious books, and have willingly wasted themselves into these during monuments, to give light unto others.-Bp. Hall.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.-Carlyle.

From this slender beginning I have gradually formed a numerous and select library, the foundation of all my works, and the best comfort of my life, both at home and abroad.—Gibbon.

No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and de