One would not imagine who has not given particular attention, that the
body should be susceptible to such variety of attitudes and emotions, as
readily to accompany every different emotion with a corresponding
expression. Humility for example, is expressed naturally by hanging the
head; arrogance, by its elevation; and languor or despondence, by
reclining it to one side. The expressions of the hands are manifold by
different attitudes and motions; they express desire, hope, fear; they
assist us in promising, in inviting, in keeping one at a distance; they
are made instruments of threatening, of supplication, of praise, and of
horror; they are employed in approving, in refusing, in questioning; in
showing our joy, our sorrow, our doubts, our regret, and our admiration.
--_Lord Hames._
520
The evil one does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.
--_Jeremy Taylor._
521
To be employed is to be happy.
--_Gray._
522
Do good to thy friend, that he may be more thy friend; and unto thy
enemy, that he may become thy friend.
523
He who has a thousand friends,
Has never a one to spare,
And he who has one enemy,
Will be apt to meet him everywhere.
524
_Boswell said of Dr. Johnson_--"Though a stern true-born Englishman, and
fully prejudiced against all other nations, he had discernment enough to
see, and candour enough to censure, the cold reserve too common among
Englishmen towards strangers. 'Sir,' said he, (Johnson) 'two men of any
other nation who are shown into a room together, at a house where they
are both visitors, will immediately find some conversation. But two
Englishmen will probably go each to a different window, and remain in
obstinate silence. Sir, we as yet do not enough understand the common
rights of humanity.'"
525
Rochefoucauld said, "The truest mark of being born with great qualities
is being born without envy."
526
If we did but know how little some enjoy the great things they possess,
there would not be so much envy in the world.
527
All matches, friendships, and societies are dangerous and inconvenient,
where the contractors are not equal.
--_Estrange._
528
Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
--_From the French._
529
What has been done amiss should be undone as quickly as possible.
530
Beware of errors of the mouth.
--_Hindu._
531
The man who never makes any blunders, seldom makes any good hits.
532
_Etiquette._--Good taste rejects excessive nicety; it treats little
things as little things, and is not hurt by them.
533
Certain signs precede certain events.
--_Cicero._
534