Fraud and falsehood are his weak and treacherous allies; and he lurks trembling in the dark, dreading every ray of light, lest it should discover him, and give him up to shame and punishment. 2315 Fielding: Amelia. Bk. iv. Ch. 5. Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. 2316 Fielding: Amelia. Bk. iii. Ch. 11. Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying. 2317 GYPSIES. Johnson: The Rambler. No. 68. There are men and women who are in life as the wild river and the night-owl, as the blasted tree and the wind over ancient graves. 2318 Charles G. Leland: American Gypsies. The To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. 2319 Amiel: Journal, Dec. 30, 1850. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother. 2320 Auerbach: On the Heights. (Bennett, Translator.) Nothing really pleasant or unpleasant subsists by nature, but all things become so by habit. 2321 Epictetus: Fragments. CXLIII. (Long, Trans' Habit is the approximation of the animal system to the organic. It is a confession of failure in the highest function of being, which involves a perpetual self-determination, in full view of all existing circumstances. 2323 Holmes: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Ch. 7. Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain. 2324 Johnson: Rasselas. Ch. 29. HAIR. A large head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one. 2325 Lycurgus: Plutarch's Lives. Lycurgus. HAND. There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook's trencher, a cold claminy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palm-leaf! Sometimes it is what a knife shaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by! 2326 C. A. Bartol: The Rising Faith. Training. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. 2327 Shakespeare: Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 1. There is no better sign of a brave. mind than a hard hand. 2328 Shakespeare: King Henry VI. Pt. ii. Act iv. Sc. 2. HAPPINESS - - see Beauty, Bibliophilism, Character, Contentment, Goodness, Hope, Joy, Matrimony, Money, Opinion, Peace, Religion, Silence, Suspicion, Temperance, Trust. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. It loves shade and solitude, and naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields and meadows; in short, it feels everything it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators. 2329 Addison: The Spectator. No. 15. Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. 2330 Amiel: Journal, April 3, 1865. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love. 2331 Amiel: Journal, Oct. 27, 1853. (Mrs. Humphrey Happiness we set down as in every way and altogether the end, and perfect. 2332 Aristotle: Ethics. Bk. i. Ch. 10. (Browne, No man praises happiness as he would justice, but calls it blessed, as being something more divine and excellent. Aristotle: Ethics. Bk. i. Ch. 12. (Browne, Translator.) 2333 Friendship and esteem, founded on the merit of the object, is the most certain basis to build a lasting happiness upon. 2334 Benedict Arnold: Letter to Miss Peggy Shippen, Sept. 25, 1778. Happiness is the natural flower of duty. 2335 Phillips Brooks: Sermons. II. The Withheld There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness. 2336 Carlyle: Sartor Resartus. The Everlasting Yea. Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation of the word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt. 2337 Lord Chesterfield: Letters to His Son. London, Dec. 16, 1749. Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be. 2338 Happiness lies, first of all, in health. Colton: Lacon. 2339 George William Curtis: Lotus-Eating. Trenton. Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature, and these will prompt very simple measures. 2340 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Contarini Fleming. Pt. iii. Ch. 17. 2341 Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things. Epictetus: Discourses. Bk. iv. Ch. 1. About Freedom. (Long, Translator.) There is no happiness, then, but in a virtuous and selfapproving conduct. Unless our actions will bear the test of our sober judgments and reflections upon them, they are not the actions, and, consequently, not the happiness, of a rational being. 2342 Benjamin Franklin: On True Happiness. (Pennsylvania Gazette, Nov. 20, 1735.) Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion. 2343 Froude: Thomas Carlyle, First Forty Years. Vol. i. Ch. 16. Let such as have not got a passport from nature be content with happiness, and leave to the poet the unrivalled possession of his misery, his garret, and his fame. 2344 Goldsmith: The Critical Review, 1759. III. Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool. 2345 John M. Good: The Book of Nature. Series iii. Lecture vii. Happiness is rather a negative than a positive term in this world, and consists more in the absence of some things than in the presence of others. 2346 Sam Slick (Thomas C. Haliburton): The Old Judge. Ch. 5. Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it; but likely enough it is gone the moment we say to ourselves, "Here it is!" like the chest of gold that treasure-seekers find. 2347 Hawthorne: American Note-Books, Nov., 1852. There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow; the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of eternity, so that spirits still embodied may well tremble at it. 2348 Hawthorne: American Note-Books, July, 1843. Human happiness, according to the most received notions, seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure, and indolence; and though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the particular disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying, in some measure, the relish of the whole composition. 2349 Hume: Essays. XXIV. Of Refinement in the Arts. When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness. 2350 Hume Essays. XVII. The Sceptic. Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven. 2351 Washington Irving: The Sketch-Book. Christmas. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. 2352 Douglas Jerrold: Specimens of Jerrold's Wit. Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from the time to come. In youth we have nothing past to entertain us, and in age we derive little from retrospect but hopeless sorrow. 2353 Johnson: The Rambler. No. 203. Happiness is not found in self-contemplation, it is perceived only when it is reflected from another. 2354 Johnson: The Idler. No. 41. Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. 2355 Johnson: Rasselas. Ch. 22. That man is never happy for the present, is so true that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. 2356 Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson. III. 53. (George Birkbeck Hill, Editor, 1887.) A happy life is not made up of negatives. Exemption from one thing is not possession of another. 2357 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. Lord Brooke Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. 2358 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. and Sir Philip Sidney. Lord Brooke We are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. 2359 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable. 2360 Moral Maxims. La Rochefoucauld: Reflections; or, Sentences and First Supplement. No. 7. The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes. 2361 La Rochefoucauld: Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. No. 61. The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. 2362 Longfellow: Kavanagh. Ch. 13. It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well. 2363 Quarles: Enchiridion. Cent. II. No. 84. How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! 2364 Shakespeare: As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2. Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears. 2365 Alexander Smith: Dreamthorp. Death and Dying. We are never happy: we can only remember that we were So once. 2366 Alexander Smith: Dreamthorp. Death and Dying. Fortitude, justice, and candor, are very necessary instruments of happiness, but they require time and exertion. 2367 Sydney Smith: Lecture. Conduct of the |