If ye do well, to your own behoof will ye do it; and if ye do evil,
against yourselves will ye do it.--_Koran._
It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most
monstrous.--_Boileau._
There are sins of omission as well as those of commission.--_Madame
Deluzy._
~Sincerity.~--Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and
profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what
we would seem and appear to be.--_Tillotson._
The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble
energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his
being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.--_Coleridge._
~Skepticism.~--Skepticism is slow suicide.--_Emerson._
~Skill.~--Nobody, however able, can gain the very highest success, except
in one line. He may rise above others, but he will fall below
himself.--_Charles Buxton._
Whatever may be said about luck, it is skill that leads to
fortune.--_Walter Scott._
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest
navigators.--_Gibbon._
~Slander.~--Done to death by slanderous tongues.--_Shakespeare._
Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a
good name. You may kill them, it is true, but there is the
slime.--_Douglas Jerrold._
Slander lives upon succession, forever housed where it gets
possession.--_Shakespeare._
When the absent are spoken of, some will speak gold of them, some
silver, some iron, some lead, and some always speak dirt, for they have
a natural attraction towards what is evil, and think it shows
penetration in them. As a cat watching for mice does not look up though
an elephant goes by, so are they so busy mousing for defects, that they
let great excellences pass them unnoticed. I will not say it is not
Christian to make beads of others' faults, and tell them over every day;
I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the devil feels, you do
know if you are such an one.--_Beecher._
If parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much
importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation
of fame as well as game, there are many would thank them for the
bill.--_Sheridan._
~Sleep.~--When one asked Alexander how he could sleep so soundly and
securely in the midst of danger, he told them that _Parmenio_ watched.
Oh, how securely may they sleep over whom He watches that never slumbers
nor sleeps! "I will," said David, "lay me down and sleep, for thou,
Lord, makest me to dwell in safety."--_Venning._