Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
"This is my own--my Native Land!"
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned
As home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go--mark him well;
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim--
Despite those titles, power and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
--_Sir Walter Scott._
417
The wise men of Greece were asked which was the best governed country.
Clemenese replied, "the people who have more respect for the laws than
the orators."
418
He who loves not his country, can love nothing.
419
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of courage.
--_S. Smith._
420
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
--_Emerson._
421
The courtesy with which I receive a stranger, and the civility I show
him, form the background on which he paints my portrait.
422
Courtesy on one side, never lasts long.
423
Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
--_Pope._
424
_Courtship and Marriage._--"Their courtship was carried on in poetry."
Alas! many a pair have courted in poetry, and after marriage lived in
prose.
--_Foster._
425
Courtship may be said to consist of a number of quiet attentions, not so
pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
--_Sterne._
426
_Covetousness._--A young man once picked up a sovereign lying in the
road. Ever afterward, in walking along, he kept his eye fixed steadily
upon the ground in hopes to find another. And in the course of a long
life he did pick up, at different times, a goodly number of coins, gold
and silver. But all these years, while he was looking for them, he saw
not that the heavens were bright above him, and nature beautiful around.
He never once allowed his eye to look up from the mud and filth in which
he sought his treasure; and when he died--a rich old man--he only knew
this fair earth as a dirty road to pick up money as you walk along. Thus
you see the desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
--_Dr. Jeffrey._
427
The coward only threatens when he is secure.
--_Goethe._
428
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
429
Credit, like a looking-glass, broken once, is gone, alas!
430
He who doesn't take care of his credit will soon have none to take care
of.
431
There are two directly opposite reasons why some men cannot get
credit--one is because he is not known--the other because he is.
432