~Dandy.~--A dandy is a clothes-wearing man,--a man whose trade, office,
and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his
soul, spirit, person, and purse is heroically consecrated to this one
object,--the wearing of clothes wisely and well; so that as others dress
to live, he lives to dress.--_Carlyle._
A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat
still.--_Rivarol._
~Danger.~--It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on
a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea, and encounters
a storm to avoid a shipwreck.--_Colton._
~Death.~--It is not death, it is dying, that alarms me.--_Montaigne._
What is death? To go out like a light, and in a sweet trance to forget
ourselves and all the passing phenomena of the day, as we forget the
phantoms of a fleeting dream; to form, as in a dream, new connections
with God's world; to enter into a more exalted sphere, and to make a new
step up man's graduated ascent of creation.--_Zschokke._