PUNISHMENT.

If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender.-Locke.

Wickedness, when properly punished, is disgraceful only to the offender; unpunished, it is disgraceful to the whole community.-C. Simmons.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it. Cato.

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.-Voltaire.

We do not aim to correct the man we hang; we correct and warn others by him. -Montaigne.

The object of punishment is three-fold: for just retribution; for the protection of society; for the reformation of the offender. -Tryon Edwards.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former.-Horace Mann.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.Augustine.

Even legal punishments lose all appearance of justice, when too strictly inflicted on men compelled by the last extremity of distress to incur them.-Junius.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions that every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.-Moore.

The seeds of our punishment are sown at the same time we commit the sin.-Hesiod.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary; they must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.-Simms.

The very worst use to which you can put a man, says Wilkes, is to hang him; but the hanging is not to make the man useful, but to punish his crime and protect society.C. Simmons.

We will not punish a man because he hath offended, but that he may offend no more; nor does punishment ever look to the past, but to the future; for it is not the result of passion, but that the same thing may be guarded against in time to come.-Seneca.

Faults of the head are punished in this world; those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so is their punishment.-Colton.

There is no future pang can deal that

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justice on the self-condemned, that he deals on his own soul.-Byron.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it dreads it.-Colton.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary, and when grace doth most avail. -Sir P. Sidney.

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.— Quesnel.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens within the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.-Emerson.

The object of punishment is the prevention of evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.-Horace Mann.

Never was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.—Mrs. Jameson.

The exposition of future punishment in God's word is not to be regarded as a threat, but as a merciful declaration.-If in the ocean of life, over which we are bound to eternity, there are these rocks and shoals, it is no cruelty to chart them down; it is an eminent and prominent mercy.-H. W. Beecher.

The existence of future punishment and everlasting destruction is an evidence of the goodness, the justice, and the wisdom of God: of goodness, in that it is a motive to prevent sin and turn men from evil; of justice, in that it is the righteous doom of irreclaimable sinners; and of wisdom, in that God can thus make the penalty of sin a motive to deter from sin.-J. B. Walker.

PURITY. I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.-Socrates.

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.--Sterne.

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple; if the ill spirit have so fair a house, good things will strive to dwell with it.-Shakespeare.

Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold. -Buckingham.

Evil into the mind of God or man, may come and go, and yet, if unapproved, still without sin.-Milton.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now. Courage, however

Man proposes, but God disposes.Thomas à Kempis.

It is better by a noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate, than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen.Herodotus.

It is the old lesson-a worthy purpose, patient energy for its accomplishment, a resoluteness undaunted by difficulties, and then success.- W. M. Punshon.

There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose.-Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every sort. T. T. Munger.

A man with a half-volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little wisdom in it.-Carlyle.

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder-a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.Carlyle.

PURSUIT. I take it to be a principal rule of life, not to be too much addicted to one thing.-Terence.

The fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow for me.-Lady Montague.

There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.-Colton.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.-Longfellow.

Q.

QUACKERY.-Heroes have gone out, quacks have come in the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century.

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The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. One portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.-Carlyle.

He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises, is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary, is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants, is an impostor.-Lavater.

Pettifoggers in law and quacks in medicine have held from time immemorial the fee simple of a vast estate, subject to no alienation, diminution, revolution, nor tax -the folly and ignorance of mankind.— Colton.

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it is literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men.-Thoreau.

Out, you impostors; quack-salving, cheating mountebanks; your skill is to make sound men sick, and sick men to kill.-Massinger.

• From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains.-Man's love of life, his weakness and his pains-these first induce him the vile trash to try, then lend his name that others too may buy.-Crabbe.

Quackery has no such friend as credulity. -C. Simmons.

That science is worse than useless which does not point to the great end of our being. Therefore literary, scientific, and theological quacks have done immense mischief in human society.-Thacher.

Said a clever quack to an educated physician, "How many of the passing multitude, do you suppose, appreciate the value of science, or understand the impositions of quackery?"-"Not more than one in ten," was the answer.-"Well," said the quack, "you may have the one, and I'll have the nine."

We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to try ourselves whether there is any truth in them.-Hazlitt.

QUALITIES.-Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.-Goethe.

We should not judge of a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.-Rochefoucauld.

QUARRELS.

Our good qualities often expose us to hatred and persecution more than our bad actions. "Persecuted for righteousness' sake," describes the condition of at least some in this world.

Hearts may be attracted by assumed qualities, but the affections are only to be fixed by those which are real.-De Moy.

It is not enough to have great qualities, we must also have the management of them.-Rochefoucauld.

Good nature and evenness of temper, will give you an easy companion for life; virtue and good sense an agreeable friend; love and constancy a good wife or husband. -Spectator.

QUARRELS.-I consider your very testy and quarrelsome people as I do a loaded gun, which may, by accident, at any time, go off and kill people.--Shenstone.

Quarrels would never last long if the fault was only on one side.-Rochefoucauld.

Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, bear it that the opposer may beware of thee.-Shakespeare.

He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.--Franklin.

In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.-Colton.

Jars concealed are half reconciled; but if generally known, it is a double task to stop the breach at home and men's mouths abroad.-Fuller.

Coarse kindness is, at least, better than coarse anger; and in all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphaut by reason of its dullness.-George Eliot.

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.-Mad. Necker.

The hatred of those who are the most nearly connected, is the most inveterate.Tacitus.

If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimneysweeper who has no objection to dirty work because it is his trade.-Colton.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor. -Shakespeare.

Two things, well considered, would pre

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vent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about. -Colton.

One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.-Goldsmith.

When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at first; but if the strife continue long, both commonly become guilty.-Fuller.

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and he but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.-Shakespeare.

QUESTION,-Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.Voltaire.

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.-J. Abbott.

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can, in this state, receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? And, since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?-Johnson.

QUIET.-What sweet delight a quiet life affords.-Drummond.

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumor of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires. - Shakespeare.

The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.-Bowes.

The grandest operations, both in nature and grace, are the most silent and imperceptible. The shallow brook babbles in its passage and is heard by every one; but the coming on of the seasons is silent and unseen. The storm rages and alarms, but its fury is soon exhausted, and its effects are but partial and soon remedied; but the dew, though gentle and unheard, is immense in quantity, and is the very life of large portions of the earth. And these are pictures of the operations of grace in the church and in the soul.-Cecil.

QUOTATIONS.

My notions of life are much the same as they are about travelling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road, but, after all, one wants to be at rest.-Southey.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.Vulgar persons can't sit still, or, at least, they must work their limbs or features.0. W. Holmes.

I have often said that all the misfortunes of men spring from their not knowing how to live quietly at home, in their own rooms. -Pascal.

QUOTATIONS.- Quotation, sir, is a good thing; there is a community of mind in it: classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.-Johnson.

An apt quotation is as good as an original remark.-Proverb.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.Mazzini.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.-Johnson.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but do not name them.-Selden.

The man whose book is filled with quotations, has been said to creep along the shore of authors, as if he were afraid to trust himself to the free compass of reasoning. I would rather defend such authors by a different allusion, and ask whether honey is the worse for being gathered from many flowers.

It is the beauty and independent worth of the citations, far more than their appropriateness, which have made Johnson's Dictionary popular even as a reading-book. -Coleridge.

If these little sparks of holy fire thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.-Jeremy Taylor.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.-Emerson.

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones.- Trublet.

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get

more. Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it.—Coleridge.

A couplet of verse, a period of prose, may cling to the rock of ages as a shell that survives a deluge.-Bulwer.

Selected thoughts depend for their flavor upon the terseness of their expression, for thoughts are grains of sugar or salt, that must be melted in a drop of water.-J. P. Senn.

A verse may find him who a sermon flies. -Herbert.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.-Simms.

Have at you with a proverb.--Shakespeare.

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram.E. P. Whipple.

A thing is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned.—Seneca.

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.Bovee.

Full of wise saws and modern instances. -Shakespeare.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim, requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.-W. R. Aiger.

Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use as burning glasses, to collect the diffused rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.-Swift.

A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.-What he quotes he fills with his own voice and humor, and the whole cyclopedia of his table-talk is presently believed to be his own.-Emerson.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that everything must soon be reduced to extracts.-Voltaire.

Particles of science are often very widely scattered, and writers of extensive comprehension have incidental remarks upon topics remote from the principal subject, which are often more valuable than former