SATIRE.

In fashionable circles, satire which attacks the fault rather than the person, is unwelcome; while that which attacks the person and spares the fault is always acceptable.-Richter.

A little wit and a great deal of ill nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance and value of wit is to commend well.-Tillotson.

Satire! thou shining supplement of public laws.-Young.

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

To lash the vices of a guilty age. Churchill.

Of a bitter satirist-Swift, for instance-it might be said, that the person or thing on which his satire féll shrivelled up as if the devil had spit on it.-Hawthorne.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.-Swift.

Satirical writers and talkers are not half so clever as they think themselves, or as they are thought to be.-They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed on the chaff.-It requires talent and generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, but only self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or imagine faults.—Sharpe.

Arrows of satire, feathered with wit, and wielded with sense, fly home to their mark. -C. Simmons.

Of satires I think as Epictetus did: "If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. By dint of time and experience I have learned to be a good post-horse; I go through my appointed daily stage, and care not for the curs who bark at me along the road.-Frederick the Great.

It is much easier for an ill-natured, than for a good-natured man to be witty; but the most gifted men are the least addicted to depreciate either friends or foes.-Your shrewd, sly, wit-speaking fellow is generally a shallow personage, and frequently he is as venomous and false when he flatters as when he reviles.-Sharp.

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.—Juvenal.

The most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a useful member of society, yet he is only ranked with the hangman, whom we tolerate because he executes the judgment we abhor to do ourselves, and avoid with a natural detestation of his office. The pen of the one and the cord of the other are inseparable in our minds.-Jane Porter.

Viewed in its happiest form satire has one defect which seems to be incurable, its uniformity of censure. Bitterness scarcely admits those fine transitions which make the harmony of a composition. Aquafortis bites a plate all over alike. The satirist is met by the difficulty of the etcher. - Willmott.

Curst be the verse how well so'er it flow, that tends to make one worthy man my foe, gives virtue scandal, innocence a fear, or from the soft-eyed virgin steals a tear.Pope.

The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction, and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender, than the physician is to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.—Dryden. If satire charms, strike faults, but spare the man.-Young.

SCANDAL. (See "SLANDER.") Believe that story false that ought not to be true.-Sheridan.

Number among your worst enemies the hawker of malicious rumors and unexplored anecdote.-Lavater.

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Scandal is a never-failing vehicle for dulThe true-born Englishman had died silently among the grocers and trunk-makers, if the libeller had not helped off the poet.—I. B. Brown.

"No one," says Jerome, "loves to tell a tale of scandal except to him who loves to hear it." Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure. Never make your ear the grave of another's good name.

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done much less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.-Sheridan.

Without the consent of the world, a scandal doth not go deep; it is only a slight stroke upon the injured party, and returneth with the greater force upon those that gave it.-Saville.

SCANDAL.

How large a portion of chastity is sent out of the world by distant hints,―nodded away and cruelly winked into suspicion, by the envy of those who are past all temptation of it themselves. How often does the reputation of a helpless creature bleed by a report which the party propagating it beholds with pity, and is sorry for it, and hopes it may not be true, but in the meantime gives it her pass, that at least it may have fair play in the world,-to be believed or not, according to the charity of those into whose hands it shall happen to fall.— Sterne.

The tale-bearer and the tale-hearer should be both hanged up, back to back, one by the tongue, the other by the ear.-South.

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

Great numbers of moderately good people think it fine to talk scandal; they regard it as a sort of evidence of their own goodness.-F. W. Faber.

The improbability of a malicious story serves to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the one who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible.--Sterne.

Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.-Quarles.

If hours did not hang heavy what would become of scandal ?-Bancroft.

I never listen to calumnies, because, if they are untrue, I run the risk of being deceived, and if they are true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.-Montesquieu.

There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, and who murder characters to kill time; will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it. -Sheridan.

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.-W. B. Clulow.

In scandal, as in robbery, the receiver is always as bad as the thief.- Chesterfield.

There is a lust in a man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame; on eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are but born and die.-Harvey.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.- -George Eliot.

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.—George Eliot.

Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise. -Pope.

The greatest scandal waits on greatest state.-Shakespeare.

SCEPTICISM. Scepticism is slow suicide.-Emerson.

The great trouble with the scepticism of the age is, that it is not thorough enough. -It questions everything but its own foundations.-J. M. Gibson.

Free thinkers are generally those who never think at all.-Sterne.

Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything provided it is only sufficiently improbable; it is at matters of fact that such people stumble.- Von Knebel.

I know not any crime so great a man could contrive to commit, as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.-Johnson.

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition, than in air rarified to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief; in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.-Richter.

Men are ready to believe everything when they believe nothing. They have diviners when they cease to have prophets; witchcraft when they cease to have religious ceremonies; and they open the caves of sorcery when they shut the temples of the Lord. Chateaubriand.

The sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct. When he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, he will find that the treasures he bears about him will only sink him the deeper in the abyss.-Colton.

Imperfect knowledge is the parent of doubt thorough and honest research dispels it. Tryon Edwards.

Scepticism has never founded empires, established principles, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been men of faith.-E. H. Chapin.

The sceptical writers are a set whose business it is to prick holes in the fabric of knowledge wherever it is weak and faulty; and when these places are properly repaired, the whole building becomes more firm and solid than it was before.—Reid.

SCHOLARSHIP.

The prejudices of sceptics, are surpassed only by their ignorance.-Coleridge.

When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts, they will soon be brought to live like beasts also.South.

A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man.-Young.

The sceptic, oft, at the believer sneers, calling his faith credulity. And yet 'tis hé that's credulous; for he believes against both evidence and reason.- Williams.

Just as fast as we live all that we believe, we shall believe more than we live.-Wé cannot deal untruthfully by ourselves at one point, and then expect to win truth for ourselves at another point.-C. H. Parkhurst.

Scepticism is often only excessive credulity; "the simple believeth every word."

SCHOLARSHIP.-Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age.

There is another personage abroad, a person less imposing,-in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.-Brougham.

Costly apparatus and spendid cabinets have no magical power to make scholars. In all circumstances, as a man is, under God, the master of his own fortune, so is he the maker of his own mind. The Creator has so constituted the human intellect that it can only grow by its own action; and by its own action and free will, it will certainly and necessarily grow. Every man must, therefore, educate himself. His book and teacher are but helps; the work is his. A man is not educated until he has the ability to summon, in an emergency, all his mental powers in vigorous exercise to effect its proposed object. It is not the man who has seen most, or read most, who can do this; such a one is in danger of being borne down, like a beast of burden, by an overloaded mass of other men's thoughts. Nor is it the man who can boast of native vigor and capacity. The greatest of all warriors in the siege of Troy had not the pre-eminence because nature had given strength and he carried the largest bow, but because selfdiscipline had taught him how to bend it. -Daniel Webster.

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

The criterion of a scholar's utility is the number and value of the truths he has circulated, and the minds he has awakened.Coleridge.

There is no royal road to learning.-—Only by diligence in study and persevering effort can one become a scholar.

SCIENCE.-Science is the topography of ignorance.-O. W. Holmes.

True science, which is the knowledge of facts, and true philosophy, which is the knowledge of principles, are always allied to true religion, which is the harmony of the soul with both facts and principles.

The highest reach of human science is the recognition of human ignorance.-Sir W. Hamilton.

False interpretation of the Bible has often clashed with science, as false science has with true interpretation; but true science is the natural ally of religion, for both are from God.— Tryon Edwards.

Science is a first rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.-O. W. Holmes.

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied. Colton.

Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy.Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the throne.-E. H. Chapin.

As knowledge advances, science ceases to scoff at religion; and religion ceases to frown on science. The hour of mockery by the one, and of reproof by the other, is passing away. Henceforth, they will dwell together in unity and good-will. They will mutually illustrate the wisdom, power, and grace of God. Science will adorn and enrich religion; and religion will ennoble and sanctify science.

Science-in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance; but it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.— 0. W. Holmes.

Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion.-Sir David Brewster.

Human science is an uncertain guess.Prior.

SCIENCE.

It has been said that science is opposed to, and in conflict with revelation. But the history of the former shows that the greater its progress, and the more accurate its investigations and results, the more plainly it is seen not only not to clash with the latter, but in all things to confirm it. The very sciences from which objections have been brought against religion have, by their own progress, removed those objections, and in the end furnished full confirmation of the inspired Word of God.-Tryon Edwards.

Twin-sister of natural and revealed religion, and of heavenly birth, science will never belie her celestial origin, nor cease to sympathize with all that emanates from the same pure home. Human ignorance and prejudice may for a time seem to have divorced what God has joined together; but human ignorance and prejudice shall at length pass away, and then science and religion shall be seen blending their particolored rays into one beautiful bow of light, linking heaven to earth and earth to heaven. -R. D. Hitchcock.

It was an admirable reply of a converted astronomer, who, when interrogated concerning his comparative estimate of religion and the science he had formerly idolized, answered, "I am now bound for heaven, and I take the stars in my way."

Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.-Stanislaus.

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.-Sterne.

The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts. --Blackstone.

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.-Emerson.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.—Bulwer.

In my investigation of natural science, I have always found that whenever I can meet with anything in the Bible on my subject, it always affords me a firm platform on which to stand.—Lieut. Maury.

I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown.-Agassiz.

The person who thinks there can be any real conflict between science and religion

must be either very young in science or very ignorant in religion.-Prof. Henry.

Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.-F. P. Cobbe.

Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible.-Next they say it had been discovered before.-Lastly, they say they always believed it.—Agassiz.

There are hosts of men, of the profoundest thought, who find nothing in the disclosures of science to shake their faith in the eternal virtues of reason and religion. -George Ripley.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity he does.—Dr. J. G. Holland.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.-J. S. Mill.

What is the true end and aim of science but the discovery of the ultimate power— a seeking after God through the study of his ways?-W. H. Furness.

Science cannot determine origin, and so cannot determine destiny. As it presents only a sectional view of creation, it gives only a sectional view of everything in creation.-T. T. Munger.

Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues.-Burke.

It is certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him.-Hume.

When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.-W. R. Alger.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may from a raw recruit, and its methods differ from those of common sense, only as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.-Huxley.

What are the sciences but maps of universal laws; and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a supreme universal mind?-E. Thomson.

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Our abiding belief is, that just as the workmen in the tunnel of St. Gothard, working from either end, met at last, tó shake hands, in the very central root of the mountain, so the students of nature and the students of Christianity will yet join hands in the unity of reason and faith, in the heart of their deepest mysteries.-Ĺ. Moss.

Believe in God, and bid all knowledge God-speed; sooner or later the full harmony will reveal itself, and the discords and contradictions disappear.

There can be no real conflict between science and the Bible-between nature and the Scriptures-the two books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by him to man; the earlier telling of Godmade harmonies coming up from the deep past, and rising to their height when man appeared; the later teaching man's relations to his Maker, and speaking of loftier harmonies in the eternal future.--Prof. Dana.

Science is but the statement of truth found out.

Godless science reads nature only as Milton's daughters did Hebrew, rightly syllabling the sentences, but utterly ignorant of the meaning.-Coley.

If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored in the temple of science. Even from its lofty minarets the philosopher may summon the faithful to prayer, and the priest and sage exchange altars without the compromise of faith or knowledge.-Sir David Brewster.

Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses.-Emerson.

SCRIPTURES.-(See "BIBLE.")

SEA.-Praise the sea, but keep on the land.-Herbert.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue oceanroll, ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; man marks the earth with ruin-his control stops with the shore; upon the watery plain the wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain a shadow of man's ravage, save his own, when, for a moment like a drop of rain, he sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.-Byron.

The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only

SECRECY.

the character of a great natural power, which renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher power. -W. Humboldt.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.-Horace.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.-Herbert.

The ocean's surfy, slow, deep, mellow voice is full of mystery and awe, moaning over the dead it holds in its bosom, or lulling them to unbroken slumbers in the chambers of its vasty depths.—Haliburton.

There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.-Byron.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade, whoever commands the trade of the world, commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself. -Sir W. Raleigh.

Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests : in all time, calm or convulsed-in breeze, or gale, or storm, icing the pole, or in the torrid clime dark-heaving;- boundless, endless, and sublime-the image of eternity-the throne of the invisible; even from out thy slime the monsters of the deep are made; each zone obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.-Byron.

Mystery of waters, never slumbering sea! impassioned orator, with lips sublime, whose waves are arguments to prove a God.-R. Montgomery.

SECRECY.-Secrecy has been well termed the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions, than by discovering those of our enemy. But great men succeed in both.-Colton.

A proper secrecy is only the mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.--Chesterfield.

What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine.—Sir P. Sidney.

Two may keep counsel, putting one away. -Shakespeare.

Talkers and futile persons, are commonly vain and credulous withal; for he that talketh what he knoweth, will also talk what he knoweth not; therefore set it down, that a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.-Bacon.

Secrets are so seldom kept, that it may be with some reason doubted, whether the quality of retention be generally be