The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character. Ibid. LAUGHTER AND DELIGHT. Our comedians think there is no delight without laughter, which is very wrong; for though laughter may come with delight, yet cometh it not of delight, as though delight should be cause of laughter; but well may one thing breed two together. Sir P. Sidney. inue. It expresses our satisfaction in a Vulgar. Steele. The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. Goldsmith. A CHEAP LUXURY. Then let us laugh. It is the cheapest luxury man enjoys, and, as Charles Lamb says, "is worth a hundred groans in any state of the market." It stirs up the blood, expands the chest, electrifies the nerves, clears away the cobwebs from the brain, and gives the whole system a shock to which the voltaic-pile is as nothing. Nay, its delicious alchemy converts even tears into the quintessence of merriment, and makes wrinkles themselves expressive of youth and frolic. Wm. Matthews. OF MADNESS. Madness, we fancy, gave an ill-timed birth To grinning laughter and to frantic mirth. ADVANTAGES OF. LAW. Law does not the least restraint Alas! how many causes that can plead well for themselves in the courts of Westminster, and yet in the general court of the universe, and the free soul of man, have Carlyle. no word to utte-. CHARACTERISTICS OF. The good needs fear no law, DEFINITION of. Swift. Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things do her homage, the very least as feeling her care; and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy. Hooker. ENGLISH AND CHINESE. The English laws punish vice; the Ch nese laws do more, they reward virtue. Goldsmith. FOLLY OF GOING TO. He that with injury is griev'd, Is sillier than a sottish chouse, Who, when a thief has robbed his house, Applies himself to cunning men, To help him get his goods again. Butler. To go to law, is for two persons to kindle a fire at their own cost, to warm others, and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree, to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves, that others may be decorated with their feathers. Feltham, INEQUALITY of. Laws are like spider webs, small flies are ta'en While greater flies break in and out again. NEEDLESS. Braithwaite. All beings have their laws; the deity has Needless was written law, where none op- his laws, the material world has its laws, prest; CORRUPT. LAWS. Nabb. superior intelligences have their laws, the beasts have their laws, and man his laws. Montesquieu. WISE AND Fixed. Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as nature, and as fix'd as fate. LAW SUITS. TO BE AVOIDED. Avoid law suits beyond all things; they influence your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. La Bruyere. LAW AND JUSTICE. In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as When the state is most corrupt, then the mariners die of thirst, in the midst of water. .aws are most multiplied. OF GOD. Tacitus. Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death! I say, the laws are there, and thou shalt no: disobey them. It were better for thee not. Better a hundred deaths than yea! Terrible "penalties" withal, if thou still need penalties, are there for disobeying! Carlyle. HONESTY OF. LAWYERS. Colton. A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair, Honesty shines with g eat advantage there. Cowper. PRACTICE OF. Do as adversaries in law, strive mightily, But eat and drink as friends. Shakespeare. SKILL OF. I know you lawyers can with ease, ILL EFFECTS. Learning, that cobweb of the brain, Twist your words and meanings as you Profane, erroneous and vain ; LEADERS. NATURAL TO FOLLOW. The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love him, and to imitate him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue. Milton. NOTHING WITHOUT GOODNESS. Many persons, after they become learned cease to be good; all other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of honesty and good nature. Montaigne. LIMIT OF. It is an instinct in our nature to follow the track pointed out by a few leaders; we are gregarious animals in a moral as well as a physical sense, and we are addicted to routine, because it is always easier to follow We say that learning's endless, and blame the opinions of others, than to reason and judge for ourselves. LEARNING. ACQUISITION of. Paris. A little learning is a dangerous thing! In fearless youth we tempt the height of arts, fate For not allowing life a longer date; And found them not so large as was his LIKE MERCURY. Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful the most mischievous. Pope. LIKE MONEY. Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin, as to be utterly void of use; or if But more advanced, behold with strange sterling, may require good management to surprise, make it serve the purposes of sense and happiness. Shenstone. New distant scene of endless science rise. more ways of exposing himself; and he | When you ask for it back again, you find a that hath sense knows that learning is not friend made an enemy by your own kindknowledge, but rather the art of using it. ness. If you begin to press still furthereither you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. Plautus. VALUE OF. Steele. Learning is better worth than house or land. Crabbe. VORACIOUS. Voracious learning, often overfed, This forager on others' wisdom, leaves LEARNING AND WISDOM. * * He that would thoroughly accomplish himself for the government of human affairs, should have a wisdom that can look forward into things that are present, and a learning that can look back into things that are past. * * Wisdom, however, and learning, should go hand in hand, they are so beautifully qualified for mutual assistance. But it is better to have wisdom without learning, than learning without wisdom; just as it is better to be rich without being the possessor of a mine, than to be the possessor of a mine without being rich. A CURTAIN. LECTURE. Colton. Letters which are warmly sealed are often but coldly opened. Richter. Lloyd. USE of. You cannot find an instance of any man, who is permitted to lay out his own time, contriving not to have tedious hours. Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid: They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires, Warm from the soul, and faithful to its fires; The virgin's wish, without her fears, impart; Excuse the blush, and pour out all the heart; Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole. OF WOMEN. Pope. Our thoughts, as expressed in our respective letters, are very much alike, but comparison will prove, what has been so often remarked, that female correspondence has a charm in it, of which that of my sex is always devoid. Earl of Eldon. Liberty! Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name. Madame Roland. LEVITY. A COWARD. LIAR. Seneca. Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world. Epictetus. PUNISHMENt of. I am charmed with many points in the Turkish law, particularly the punishment of the convicted. They are burnt on the forehead with a hot iron when they are proved the authors of any notorious falsehood. Lady M. W. Montague. This is the liar's lot: he is accounted a South. Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties. ATTRIBUTES OF. Milton O liberty! heav'ns choice prerogative! BLESSINGS OF. Brooke. O liberty, pest and a nuisance; a person marked out Parent of happiness, celestial born for infamy and scorn. When the first man became a living soul; Dyer. His sacred genius thou. THE GIFT OF HEAVEN. TRUE. LIBERALITY. Liberality does not consist so much in giving a great deal as in giving seasonably. La Mierre. Freedom is The brilliant gift of heav'n, 'tis reason's self, The kin of Deity. IN THE HEART. Brooke. Eternal spirit of the chainless mind! Brightest in dungeons, liberty! thou art! For there thy habitation is the heart. JOY OF. Byron. Liberty like day Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from |