Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image
it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out
of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind
words in such abundance as they ought to be used.--_Pascal._
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of
life.--_Johnson._
To remind a man of a kindness conferred is little less than a
reproach.--_Demosthenes._
Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of
white hair.--_O. Feuillet._
Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them.--_Mme. de
Stael._
~Kings.~--Kings wish to be absolute, and they are sometimes told that
their best way to become so is to make themselves beloved by the people.
This maxim is doubtless a very admirable one, and in some respects true;
but unhappily it is laughed at in court.--_Rousseau._
Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings
resort.--_Patrick Henry._
A king ought not fall from the throne except with the throne itself;
under its lofty ruins he alone finds an honored death and an honored
tomb.--_Alfieri._
One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in
kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so
frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a
lion.--_Thomas Paine._
He on whom Heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears
it.--_Corneille._
Kings' titles commonly begin by force which time wears off, and mellows
into right; and power which in one age is tyranny is ripened in the next
to true succession.--_Dryden._
~Kisses.~--It is as old as the creation, and yet as young and fresh as
ever. It preexisted, still exists, and always will exist. Depend upon
it, Eve learned it in Paradise, and was taught its beauties, virtues,
and varieties by an angel, there is something so transcendent in
it.--_Haliburton._