We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more
violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was
necessary! The violence of these outrages will always lie proportioned
to the ferocity and ignorance of the people: and the ferocity and
ignorance of the people will be proportioned to the oppression and
degradation under which they have been accustomed to live.--_Macaulay._
Let them call it mischief; when it's past and prospered, 't will be
virtue.--_Ben Jonson._
~Rhetoric.~--In composition, it is the art of putting ideas together in
graceful and accurate prose; in speaking, it is the art of delivering
ideas with propriety, elegance, and force; or, in other words, it is the
science of oratory.--_Locke._
Rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no
root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are
caught with a free expression, when they understand not
reason.--_Selden._
The florid, elevated, and figurative way is for the passions; for love
and hatred, fear and anger, are begotten in the soul by showing their
objects out of their true proportion, either greater than the life, or
less; but instruction is to be given by showing them what they naturally
are. A man is to cheated into passion, but reasoned into
truth.--_Dryden._
All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing
else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby
mislead the judgment.--_Locke._
Rhetoric is very good, or stark naught; there's no medium in
rhetoric.--_Selden._
~Riches.~--The shortest road to riches lies through contempt of
riches.--_Seneca._
One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches,
is that they very seldom make their owner rich.--_Johnson._
Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can
carry no more out of this world than out of a dream.--_Bonnell._
If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should
become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the
search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I
love.--_Confucius._
I have a rich neighbor that is always so busy that he has no leisure to
laugh; the whole business of his life is to get money, more money, that
he may still get more. He is still drudging, saying what Solomon says,
"The diligent hand maketh rich." And it is true, indeed; but he
considers not that it is not in the power of riches to make a man happy;
for it was wisely said by a man of great observation that "there be as
many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them."--_Izaak Walton._
Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he
is much more noble who deserves a benefit, than he who bestows
one.--_Owen Feltham._
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of
ambition.--_Joubert._
~Ridicule.~--Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed
buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off, not
a stone goes through.--_Beecher._
~Rogues.~--Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will
act as a wolf; that is the most certain of all things.--_La Fontaine._