SEXES,

SEXES. No improvement that takes place in either of the sexes, can be confined to itself; each is a universal mirror to each; and the respective refinement of the one, will be in reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other.-Colton.

A person who despises or undervalues, or neglects the opposite sex, will soon need humanizing. What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.-C. Sim

mons.

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fulness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.-W. Hall.

For contemplation he, and valor formed for softness shie, and sweet attractive grace; he for God only, she for God in him.Milton.

SHAME. — While shame keeps watch virtue is not wholly extinguished from the heart, nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the mind of tyrants.-Burke.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.-Plautus.

Nothing is truly infamous but that which is wicked, and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.Sherlock.

It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.-Corneille.

Blush not now, said a distinguished Italian to his young relative whom he met coming out of a haunt of vice; the time to have blushed was when you went in.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.-Seneca.

Shame is a great restraint upon sinners at first; but that soon falls off: and when men have once lost their innocence, their modesty is not like to be long troublesome to them. For impudence comes on with vice, and grows up with it. Lesser vices do not banish all shame and modesty; but great and abominable crimes harden men's foreheads, and make them shameless. When men have the heart to do a very bad thing, they seldom want the face to bear it out.-Tillotson.

Those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame.-Churchill.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.Swift.

Of all evils to the generous, shame is the most deadly pang.-Thomson.

Honor and shame from no condition rise act well your part-there all the honor lies.-Pope.

Shame is nature's hasty conscience.Maria Edgeworth.

Be assured that when once a woman begins to be ashamed of what she ought not to be ashamed of, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.-Livy.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.-Goldsmith.

SICKNESS.-Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.— C. Simmons.

Sickness and disease are in weak minds the sources of melancholy; but that which is painful to the body, may be profitable to the soul. Sickness, the mother of modesty, puts us in mind of our mortality, and while we drive on heedlessly in the full career of wordly pomp and jollity, kindly brings us to a proper sense of our duty and destiny.-Burton.

In sickness let me not so much say, am I getting better of my pain? as am I getting better for it ?-Shakespeare.

Of all the know-nothing persons in this world, commend us to the man who has

never known a day's illness." He is a moral dunce, one who has lost the greatest lesson in life; who has skipped the finest lecture in that great school of humanity, the sick-chamber.-Hood.

Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.-Thomas à Kempis.

It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.-H. Ballou.

In sickness the soul begins to dress herself for immortality. And first she unties the strings of vanity that made her upper garments cleave to the world and sit uneasy. -Jeremy Taylor.

When a man is laboring under the pain of any distemper, it is then that he recollects there is a God, and that he himself is but a man. No mortal is then the object of his envy, his admiration, or his contempt; and, having no malice to gratify, the tales of slander excite him not.-Pliny.

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state. -Pope.

As in the body, so in the soul; they are oft most desperately sick who are least sensible of their disease, while he that fears

SILENCE.

each wound as mortal, seeks a timely cure, and is healed.-A. Warwick.

SILENCE. (See "TONGUE," and 'SPEECH.")

He can never speak well, who knows not how to hold his peace.-Plutarch.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. It is a great virtue; it covers folly, keeps secrets, avoids disputes, and prevents sin.—Penn.

Some men envelop themselves in such an impenetrable cloak of silence, that the tongue will afford us no symptoms of the mind. Such taciturnity, indeed, is wise if they are fools, but foolish if they are wise; and the only method to form a judgment of these mutes, is narrowly to observe when, where, and how they smile.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself.-Rochefoucauld.

Euripides was wont to say that silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.-Plutarch.

Silence is the understanding of fools, and one of the virtues of the wise.-Boileau.

Of all virtues, Zeno made choice of silence; for by it, said he, I hear other men's imperfections, and conceal my own. -Rule of Life.

A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.-Colton.

I do know of those that therefore only are reputed wise, for saying nothing.Shakespeare.

Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.-Bouhours.

If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts. Burke.

The silence, often, of pure innocence, persuades when speaking fails.-Shake

speare.

Silence is the highest wisdom of a fool as speech is the greatest trial of a wise man. If thou wouldst be known as wise, let thy words show thee so; if thou doubt thy words, let thy silence feign thee so.-It

is not a greater point of wisdom to discover knowledge than to hide ignorance.— Quarles.

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.-Bovee.

Speech is great, but silence is greater.Carlyle.

The silence of the place was like a sleep, so full of rest it seemed.-Longfellow.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but little happy if I could say how much.-Shakespeare.

He who, silent, loves to be with us, and who loves us in our silence, has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.-Lavater.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.-Tillotson.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.-Mrs. S. J. Hale.

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.-Emerson.

It is the wisc head that makes the still tongue.-W. J. Lucas.

This is such a serious world that we should never speak at all unless we have something to say.-Carlyle.

Silence in woman is like speech in men ; deny it who can.-Ben Jonson.

Most men speak when they do not know how to be silent. He is wise who knows when to hold his peace. Tie your tongue, lest it be wanton and luxuriate; keep it within the banks; a rapidly flowing river soon collects mud.-Ambrose.

Fellows who have no tongues are often all eyes and ears.-Haliburton.

There are three kinds of silence. Silence from words is good, because inordinate speaking tends to evil. Silence, or rest from desires and passions is still better, because it promotes quietness of spirit. But the best of all is silence from unnecessary and wandering thoughts, because that is essential to internal recollection, and because it lays a foundation for a proper reputation and for silence in other respects.—Mad. Guyon.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. The unknown is always wonderful. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint.— F. W. Robertson.

What a strange power there is in silence! How many resolutions are formed, how many sublime conquests effected, during

SILENCE.

that pause when the lips are closed, and the soul secretly feels the eye of her Maker upon her!-They are the strong ones of earth who know how to keep silence when it is a pain and grief unto them, and who give time to their own souls to wax strong against temptation.-Emerson.

Silence is the ornament and safeguard of the ignorant.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.-Zimmermann.

The main reason why silence is so efficacious an element of repute is, first, because of that magnification which proverbially belongs to the unknown; and, secondly, because silence provokes no man's envy, and wounds no man's selflove.-Bulwer.

Silence in times of suffering is the best. -Dryden.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.-George Eliot.

The unspoken word never does harm.Kossuth.

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.- - Chesterfield.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; if he were sensible of this he would not be ignorant.-Saadi.

If you would pass for more than your value, say little.It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.

Learn to hold thy tongue.-Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks of silence. Fuller.

As we must render an account of every idle word, so we must of our idle silence.Ambrose.

Silence is the ecstatic bliss of souls, that by intelligence converse.- -Otway.

I spake no word; inferior joys live but by utterance; rapture is born dumb.-H. Neele.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.—Carlyle.

The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth, and can, by dig

nified silence, contrast with the garrulity of trivial minds, the more will the world give him credit for the wealth he does not possess.-Bulwer.

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.-De Sales.

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.Theodore Parker.

A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life. Chesterfield.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.-Quarles.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do. -Alfieri.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.-Shenstone.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigor and decision. Who hastens to the end is silent; loudness is impotence.—Lavater.

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.-Diderot.

As men of sense and genius say much in few words, so on the other hand the weak and foolish speak much and say little.Rochefoucauld.

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.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.-George Eliot.

If any man think it a small matter to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.-Plutarch.

Of a distinguished general it was said that "he could hold his tongue in ten languages."

It is only reason that teaches silence; the heart teaches us to speak.-Richter.

It is better either to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in

SIMPLICITY.

many words, but a great deal in a few.Pythagoras.

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.-Franklin.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.- Cato.

If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two.-Rabbi Ben Azai.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well-bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.-Blair.

Silence never shows itself to so great an advantage as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation.-Addison.

SIMPLICITY.-In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.-Longfellow.

When a man is made wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances, and often discredits his best actions.-Addison.

Simplicity, of all things, is the hardest to be copied.—Steele.

He is of a free and open nature that thinks all men honest who but seem to be so, and will as tenderly be led by the nose as asses are.-Shakespeare.

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united. The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.-H. Martineau.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.-Emer

son.

Whose nature is so far from doing harms that he suspects none.-Shakespeare.

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.-Hazlitt.

The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness-one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper, and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.-Lessing.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and

all temporary nature.-Simplicity is in the intention; purity in the affection: simplicity turns to God; purity unites with and enjoys him.—Thomas à Kempis.

When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it is a clear proof that it should be rejected.- Vauvanargues.

The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men.-Hare.

A childlike mind, in its simplicity, practices that science of good to which the wise may be blind.—Schiller.

If ourlove were but more simple, we should take Him at his word, and our lives would be all sunshine in the sweetness of the Lord.-Faber.

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straightforwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferiors, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.—Alford.

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness. -Barrow.

Simplicity is Nature's first step, and the last of Art.-P. J. Bailey.

There is a majesty in simplicity which is far above the quaintness of wit.-Pope.

SIN.-Sin is, essentially, a departure from God.-Luther.

Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of the law of God.-Shorter Catechism.

He that falls into sin is a man, that grieves at it is a saint, that boasteth of it is a devil; yet some glory in that shame, counting the stains of sin the best complexion of their souls.—Fuller.

The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.-Luther.

Sin is first pleasing, then it grows easy, then delightful, then frequent, then habitual, then confirmed; then the man is impenitent, then he is obstinate, then he is resolved never to repent, and then he is ruined.-Leighton.

All the sin that has darkened human life and saddened human history began in believing a falsehood: all the power of Christianity to make men holy is associated with believing truth.-J. A. Broadus.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness thou must never gratify it.-No man is compelled to evil; only his consent makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted; it is to yield and be overcome.-Penn.

SIN.

He who sins against men may fear discovery; but he who sins against God, is sure of it.-Jones.

Few love to hear the sins they love to act. -Shakespeare.

The worst effect of sin is within, and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.-E. H. Chapin.

Our sins, like our shadows when day is in its glory, scarce appear; toward evening, how great and monstrous they are !—Suckling.

Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the further on we go, the more we have to come back.-Barrow.

Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you. You love not death; love not the cause of death.Baxter.

Respectable sin is, in principle, the mother of all basest crime.-Follow it to the bitter end, and there is ignominy as well as guilt eternal.-Horace Bushnell.

If you would be free from sin. fly temptation he that does not endeavor to avoid the one cannot expect Providence to protect him from the other. If the first sparks of ill were quenched, there would be no flame, for how can he kill, that dares not be angry; or be an adulterer in act, who does not transgress in thought; or be perjured, that fears an oath; or defraud, that does not allow himself to covet?-Palmer.

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin.-Carlyle.

Most sins begin at the eyes; by them commonly, Satan creeps into the heart: that man can never be in safety that hath not covenanted with his eyes.

The wages that sin bargains for with the sinner, are life, pleasure, and profit; but the wages it pays him, are death, torment, and destruction. To understand the falsehood and deceit of sin, we must compare its promises and payments together.South.

When we think of death, a thousand sins, which we have trodden as worms beneath our feet, rise up against us as flaming serpents. Walter Scott.

I fear nothing but doing wrong.-Sterne.
As sins proceed they ever multiply; and

like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that went before it.—Sir T. Browne.

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness. The evident consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor.- Walter Scott.

It is as supreme a folly to talk of a little sin as it would be to talk of a small decalogue that forbids it, or a diminutive God. that hates it, or a shallow hell that will punish it.-C. S. Robinson.

No man becomes fully evil at once; but suggestion bringeth on indulgence; indulgence, delight; delight, consent; consent, endeavor; endeavor, practice; practice, custom; custom, excuse; excuse, defence; defence, obstinacy; obstinacy, boasting; boasting, a seared conscience and a reprobate mind.

Sin may open bright as the morning, but it will end dark as night.- Talmage.

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.-Juvenal.

What is human sin but the abuse of human appetites, of human passions, of human faculties, in themselves all innocent? -R. D. Hitchcock.

The course of evil begins so slowly, and from such slight source, an infant's hand might stem the breach with clay; but let the stream get deeper, and philosophy, aye, and religion too, shall strive in vain, to turn the headlong current.

There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving. -Massillon.

There is no sin we can be tempted to commit, but we shall find a greater satisfaction in resisting than in committing.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell.-Howell.

There are three things which the true Christian desires in respect to sin: Justification, that it may not condemn; sanctification, that it may not reign; and glorification, that it may not be.— Cecil.

He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.-Owen.

There is a vast difference between sins of infirmity and those of presumption, as vast as between inadvertency and deliberation. -South,