The ear trieth words,

As the palate tasteth meat.

-Job, Ch. XXXIV., ver. 3.

Words are like leaves, and where they most abound,

Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. -Pope. Essay on Criticism, Pt. II., line 309.

Moral life is no creation of moral phrases. The words that are truly vital powers for good or evil are only those which, as Pindar says, the tongue draws up from the deep heart."

-Whipple.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

-Dryden.

Words may be false and full of art,

Sighs are the natʼral language of the heart! -Shadwell. Psyche (Cupid), Act III.

Words pay no debts. -Shakspere. Troilus and Cressida (Pandarus), Act III., Sc. II.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go. -Shakspere. Hamlet (King), Act III., Sc. III.

Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers

you inadvertently in his words.

He who has a

superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

-Lavater.

One word alone is all that strikes the ear,
One short, pathetic, simple word,

dear!

"Oh

-Bloomfield. The Farmer's Boy, Autumn, line 157.

What is honor? a word. What is that word honor? air. -Shakspere. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Falstaff), Act V., Sc. I.

Many a shaft, at random sent,

Finds mark the archer little meant !
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
-Sir W. Scott. The Lady of the Lake,
Can. V., XVIII.

A man may be concise and utter much at the same time, especially in writing; for in conversation a great talker and a sayer of nothing do generally signify but one and the same thing. -Coste.

A soft answer turneth away wrath :
But a grievous word stirreth up anger.
-Proverbs, Ch. XV., ver. 1.

Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,
Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow,
As seek to quench the fire of love with words.
-Shakspere. Two Gentlemen of Verona
(Julia), Act II., Sc. VII.

A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.

-Carlyle.

SORROW.

To wake, to weep, to entertain
A thousand fruitless fears;

To suffer worlds and worlds of pain
While smiling through our tears;
To pass through scenes of storm and strife
And dread the coming dawn;
This cannot be the sum of life,
Somewhere, the soul lives on.

-J. C. H.

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, The Tree of Knowledge is not that of life.

-Byron. Manfred, Act I., Sc. I.

Let sorrow lend me words, and words express The manner of my pity-wanting pain

-Shakspere. Sonnet, CXL.

For 'tis some ease our sorrows to reveal,
If they to whom we shall impart our woes,
Seem but to feel a part of what we feel,
And meet us with a sigh but at the close.
-S. Daniel. The Tragedy of Cleopatra
(Seleucus), Act IV., Sc. I.

The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow.

-Shelley.

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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless

sorrow.

-Dr. Johnson. Letter to Mrs. Thrale, 12th April, 1781.

Cast away care; he that loves sorrow Lengthens not day, nor can buy to-morrow; Money is trash; and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, Fortune will send it. -Ford and Dekker, The Sun's Darling.

One can never be the judge of another's grief. That which is a sorrow to one, to another is joy. Let us not dispute with any one concerning the reality of his sufferings; it is with sorrows as with countries,-each man has his own.

-Chateaubriand.

The longest sorrow finds at last relief. -W. Rowley. A Woman Never Vexed (Wife), Act IV., Sc. I.

Sorrow and joy, in love, alternate reign; Sweet is the bliss, distracting is the pain. -Edmund Smith. Phædra and Hippolitus (Theseus), Act. III.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

-Longfellow. Evangeline, Part the Second, I.

Sorrow breaks seasons, and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.