COURAGE.

God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder, then, that health and virtue should most abound, and least be threatened in the fields and groves.Cowper.

I fancy the proper means for increasing the love we bear to our native country, is, to reside some time in a foreign one.Shenstone.

Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.Daniel Webster.

Our country, however bounded or described-still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts-to be defended by all our hands.-R. C. Winthrop.

COURAGE.-Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.-Richter.

True courage is cool and calm.-The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free. -Shaftsbury.

The truest courage is always mixed with circumspection; this being the quality which distinguishes the courage of the wise from the hardiness of the rash and foolish. -Jones of Nayland.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.-Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.-Bulwer.

Courage that grows from constitution, often forsakes the man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty, acts in a uniform manner.— Addison.

Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.-Dryden.

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.-Froude.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.-J. F. Clarke.

Courage in danger is half the battle.Plautus.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.- Whitehead,

No man can answer for his courage who has never been in danger.-Rochefoucauld.

Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than'physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue, and renders a man, in the pursuit or defence of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt.-S. G. Goodrich.

Physical courage which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man both are necessary.-Colton.

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.-Confucius.

True courage is the result of reasoning. -Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins; and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism. -Collier.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.-Niebuhr.

A great deal of talent is lost in this world for the want of a little courage.-Sydney Smith.

Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but are the first to rescue when others are endangered.-Richter.

Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage.-Hardiness should not darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome. -Sir P. Sidney.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.-Plutarch.

That courage is poorly housed which dwells in numbers.-The lion never counts the herd that is about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.-Hill.

By how much unexpected, by so much we must awake, and endeavor for defence; for courage mounteth with occasion. -Shakespeare.

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, for that were stupid and irrational but he whose noble soul subdues its fear, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.-Joanna Baillie.

COURTESY. - (See

"CIVILITY.")

When saluted with a salutation, salute the person with a better salutation, or at least return the same, for God taketh account of all things.-Koran.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater, ennoble it,—Bovee.

Hail! ye small sweet courtesies of life; for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.—Sterne.

COURTS AND COURTIERS.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love.-From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.-Goethe.

Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.---Emerson.

As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors.—Fuller.

Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.-M. A. Kelly.

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.-Goethe.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.-Sir P. Sidney.

We should be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of the best light.Emerson.

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to further intimacy and friendship. -Montaigne.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy.-A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could add.— Emerson.

The courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart. It is the picayune compliments which are the most appreciated; far more than the double ones we sometimes pay.-Henry Clay.

Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.-Sir P. Sidney.

A

COURTS AND COURTIERS. court is an assemblage of noble and distinguished beggars.-Talleyrand.

The court is a golden, but fatal circle, upon whose magic skirts a thousand devils sit tempting innocence, and beckon early virtue from its center.-N. Lee.

An old courtier, with veracity, good sense, and a faithful memory, is an inestimable treasure; he is full of transactions and maxims; in him one may find the history of the age, enriched with a great many curious circumstances which we never meet with in books; from him we may learn rules for our conduct and manners, of the more weight, because founded on facts, and illustrated by striking examples.Bruyère.

Bred in camps, trained in the gallant openness of truth that best becomes a soldier, thou art happily a stranger to the baseness and infamy of courts.-Mallet.

The court is like a palace built of marble -made up of very hard, and very polished materials.-Bruyère.

The chief requisites for a courtier are a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.-Lady Blessington.

With the people of courts the tongue is the artery of their withered life, the spiral spring and flag-feather of their souls.Richter.

See how he sets his countenance for deceit, and promises a lie before he speaks.— Dryden.

Poor wretches, that depend on greatness's favor, dream, as I have done, and wake and find nothing.-Shakespeare.

COURTSHIP.-Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.-Sterne.

The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved, kind, with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing motions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.—Addison.

She half consents, who silently denies.Ovid.

She is a woman, therefore may be wooed; she is a woman, therefore may be won.Shakespeare.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of yourself, fill her above the brim with love of herself: all that runs over will be yours.-Colton.

Men are April when they woo; December when they wed.-Shakespeare.

With women worth being won, the softest lover ever best succeeds.-A. Hill.

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and wou.-To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Washington Irving.

The man that has a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.--Shakespeare.

Let a woman once give you a task and you are hers, heart and soul; all your care and trouble lend new charms to her for whose sake they are taken.-To rescue, to revenge, to instruct, or to protect a woman, is all the same as to love her.-Richter.

COVETOUSNESS.-Desire of having

is the sin of covetousness.-Shakespeare.

COVETOUSNESS.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.-Bacon.

Covetousness, by a greediness of getting more, deprives itself of the true end of getting: it loses the enjoyment of what it had got.-Sprat.

The only gratification a covetous man gives his neighbors, is, to let them see that he himself is as little better for what he has, as they are.-Penn.

Covetous men are fools, miserable wretches, buzzards, madmen, who live by themselves, in perpetual slavery, fear, suspicion, sorrow, discontent, with more of gall than honey in their enjoyments; who are rather possessed by their money than possessors of it; bound 'prentices to their property; mean slaves and drudges to their substance.—Burton.

The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world; to take in everything and part with nothing.-South.

Covetousness swells the principal to no purpose, and lessens the use to all purposes.-Jeremy Taylor.

A man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither does money the covetous heart of man.-Spenser.

When all sins are old in us and go upon crutches, covetousness does but then lie in her cradle.—Decker.

Covetousness is both the beginning and end of the devil's alphabet-the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.-South.

Why are we so blind?-That which we improve, we have; that which we hoard, is not for ourselves.-Mad. Deluzy.

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy, but to have them; he starves himself in the midst of plenty; cheats and robs himself of that which is his own, and makes a hard shift to be as poor and miserable with a great estate as any man can be without it. Tillotson.

Refrain from covetousness, and thy estate shall prosper.--Plato.

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.-T. Adams.

After hypocrites, the greatest dupes the devil has are those who exhaust an anxious existence in the disappointments and vexations of business, and live miserably and meanly only to die magnificently and

rich. They serve the devil without receiving his wages, and for the empty foolery of dying rich, pay down their health, happiness, and integrity.-Colton:

COWARDICE.-The craven's fear is but selfishness, like his merriment.- Whittier.

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.-Hazlitt.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him.-It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.-Junius.

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.-Queen Elizabeth.

Peace and plenty breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is the mother.Shakespeare.

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice.-Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.-E. H. Chapin.

Cowards die many times before their death; the valiant never taste of death but once.-Shakespeare.

COXCOMB.-(See "FOPPERY.")

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first in his profession.-Colton.

Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.-Addison.

Foppery is never cured.-It is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified.—Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.-Johnson.

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.-Collon.

A coxcomb is ugly all over with the affectation of the fine gentleman.—Johnson.

CREDIT.-Credit is like a looking-glass, which, when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired. Walter Scott.

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easier six months longer; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.-Franklin,

CREDITOR.

Too large a credit has made many a bankrupt; taking even less than a man can answer with ease, is a sure fund for extending it whenever his occasions require.The Guardian.

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men aré under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.Cicero.

CREDITOR.-Creditors have better memories than debtors; they are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.—Franklin.

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams, and his foot on storms.— Lavater.

CREDULITY.-O credulity, thou hast as many ears as fame has tongues, open to every sound of truth, as falsehood.-Harvard.

Credulity is belief on slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. In this sense it is the infidel, not the believer, who is credulous. "The simple," says Solomon, "believeth every word.”—Tryon Edwards.

The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever impostors will find impudence.-Bovee.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.-Sir P. Sidney.

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.-Johnson.

Credulity is perhaps a weakness, almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.- Tuckerman.

As credulity is a more peaceful possession of the mind than curiosity, so preferable is that wisdom which converses about the surface, to that pretended philosophy which enters into the depth of things, and then comes back gravely with the informations and discoveries that in the inside they are good for nothing.-Swift.

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.- -Halleck.

The general goodness which is nourished in noble hearts, makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.-Sir P. Sidney.

It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness, will be our credulity as to the mysterious powers assumed by others.-Colton.

You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.-Terence.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy,-their own selflove.-Pope.

Generous souls are still most subject to credulity.-Davenant.

Some men are bigoted in politics, who are infidels in religion.-Ridiculous credulity!-Junius.

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection.-Is not this sad?-Mad. Deluzy.

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.-P. T. Barnum.

Your noblest natures are most credulous. — Chapman.

To take for granted as truth all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity that men would blush at on any other subject.-Jane Porter.

Beyond all credulity is the credulousness of atheists, who believe that chance could make the world, when it cannot build a house.-Clarke.

The remedy for the present threatened decay of faith is not a more stalwart creed or a more unflinching acceptance of it, but profoundly spiritual life.-Lyman Abbott.

Charles the Second, hearing Vossius, a celebrated free-thinker, repeating some incredible stories about the Chinese, said, This is a very strange man. He believes everything but the Bible !"

CREED. (See "BELIEF.")

A good creed is a gate to the city that hath foundations; a misleading creed may be a road to destruction, or if both misleading and alluring it may become what Shakespeare calls a primrose path to the eternal bonfire.-Joseph Cook.

In politics, as in religion, we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.—Colton.

If you have a Bible creed, it is well; but is it filled out and inspired by Christian love?-J. F. Brodie.

Though I do not like creeds in religious matters, I verily believe that creeds had something to do with our Revolution.-In

CRIME.

their religious controversies the people of New England had always been accustomed to stand on points; and when Lord North undertook to tax them, then they stood on points also.-It so happened, fortunately, that their opposition to Lord North was a point on which they were all united. -Daniel Webster.

The weakest part of a man's creed is that which he holds for himself alone; the strongest is that which he holds in common with all Christendom.-Mc Vickar.

CRIME. (See "CONCEALMENT.") Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Heaven will permit no man to secure happiness by crime.—Alfieri.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.—Bulwer.

Of all the adult male criminals in London, not two in a hundred have entered upon a course of crime who have lived an honest life up to the age of twenty.-Almost all who enter on a course of crime do so between the ages of eight and sixteen.-Shaftesbury.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.—Hare.

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.-Racine.

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment. Voltaire.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague.-Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.-Napoleon.

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes, are ever backward to suspect others.-Rochefoucauld.

It is supposable that in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but in degree of wickedness.- Willmott.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.-Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.-Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.-Emerson.

If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them.—Bruyère, Man's crimes are his worst enemies, following him like shadows, till they drive his steps into the pit he dug.-Creon.

We easily forget crimes that are known only to ourselves.-Rochefoucauld.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.-Burke.

Crime is not punished as an offence against God, but as prejudicial to society.— Froude.

The villainy you teach me I will execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.-Shakespeare.

For the credit of virtue it must be admitted that the greatest evils which befall mankind are caused by their crimes. Rochefoucauld.

CRITICISM.-Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.-Johnson.

Criticism is the child and handmaid of reflection. It works by censure, and censure implies a standard.-R. G. White.

It is ridiculous for any man to criticise the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances.— Addison.

Criticism is as often a trade as a science requiring more health than wit, more labor than capacity, more practice than genius.Bruyère.

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.-Richter.

It is easy to criticise an author, but difficult to appreciate him.- Vauvenargues.

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.-Pope.

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.-Charles Buxton.

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism.-Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award-these are the true aims and duties of criticism.—Simms.

It is a maxim with me, that no man was ever written out of a reputation but by himself.-Bentley..

Of all the cants in this canting world, deliver me from the cant of criticism. Sterne.

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather than its defects.-The passions of men have made it malignant, as the bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.-Longfellow.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.-Disraeli.