Believe me, the much-praised lambs of humility would not bear themselves
so meekly if they but possessed tigers' claws.--_Heinrich Heine._
Trees that, like the poplar, lift upwards all their boughs, give no
shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly
shelter and shade us when, like the willow, the higher soar their
summits, the lowlier droop their bows.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low
in thine own eyes. Forgive thyself little and others much.--_Archbishop
Leighton._
~Humor.~--The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtile, without
being at all acute: hence there is so much humor and so little wit in
their literature. The genius of the Italians, on the contrary, is acute,
profound, and sensual, but not subtile; hence what they think to be
humorous is merely witty.--_Coleridge._