and the other loses; but if it is essential to any transaction that only one side shall gain, the thing is not of God.-G. Macdonald.

BASENESS.-Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.-Sir P. Sidney.

There is a law of forces which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness the deeper we get the easier the sinking.-J. R. Lowell.

Baseness of character or conduct not only sears the conscience, but deranges the intellect.-Right conduct is connected with right views of truth.- Colton.

BASHFULNESS.-There are two kinds of bashfulness: one, the awkwardness of the booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb; the other, a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove.— Mackenzie.

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than with over-assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the effect of downright stupidity.—Shenstone.

Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; it is therefore good to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company of the better sort.--Bacon.

Conceit not so high an opinion of any one as to be bashful and impotent in their presence.-Fuller,

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.-Aristotle.

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to Borrow or remorse.-Johnson.

We do not accept as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence.-Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.--None are truly great without this ornament.-A. B. Alcott.

We must prune it with care, so as only to remove the redundant branches, and not injure the stem, which has its root in a generous sensitiveness to shame.-Plutarch.

BEARD. He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath none is less than a man.-Shakespeare.

Beard was never the true standard of brains.-Fuller.

BEAUTY.-Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature, and Ovid, that it was a favor bestowed by the gods.

The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

If virtue accompanies beauty it is the heart's paradise; if vice be associate with it, it is the soul's purgatory.-It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace.Quarles.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.-Bacon,

Beauty hath so many charms one knows not how to speak against it; and when a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul-when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, it raises our thoughts up to the great Creator; but after all, beauty, like truth, is never so glorious as when it goes the plainest.-Sterne.

The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.-Bovee.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.-Washington Irving.

There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than the adoration of beauty.All the higher arts of design are essentially chaste. They purify the thoughts, as tragedy, according to Aristotle, purifies the passions.-Schlegel.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Even virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person.— Virgil.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite.-Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.-Bancroft.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.-Ninon de l'Enclos.

If either man or woman would realize the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and

purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding the capacities of the soul, gives expansion and symmetry to the body which contains it.Upham.

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism.-St. Pierre.

To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.— Boree.

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded.—Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.—Channing.

To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.-Steele,

If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter, it would have changed the history of the world.-Pascal.

Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or a sharp sword beyond reach. -The one does not burn, or the other wound those that come not too near them.-Cervantes.

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.-Zim

merman.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth.-For all beauty is truth.-True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.-Shaftesbury.

How goodness heightens beauty!-Hannah More.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue.Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.-Emer

son.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.Tuckerman.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty by only the help of speech.—Hughes.

Beauty is like an almanack if it last a year it is well.-T. Adams.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty with

out the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.-Ray.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.-) -Rochefoucauld.

How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!-Bruyere.

Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtues shine and vice blush.-Bacon.

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.― Gibbon.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the faces of women who are naturally screne and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.-Richter.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.-Méré. If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly; for if the devil hears it he will echo it many times.-Durivage.

An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to beauty.Burke.

Beanty is.but a vain and doubtful good ; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.Shakespeare.

What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!--Young.

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.-From the French. Loveliness needs not the aid of foreign ornament, but is, when unadorned, adorned the most.-Thomson.

I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.-Socrates.

All beauty does not inspire love; some beauties please the sight without captivating the affections.-Cervantes.

The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases on examination; if false, that it

lessens.-There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the inere creation of fancy.-Greville.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.-Cecil.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.-Howard.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.-H. B. Stowe.

Beauty attracts ns men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold or silver, it attracts with ten-fold power.-Richter.

There should be as little merit in loving & woman for her beauty, as a man for his prosperity, both being equally subject to change.-Pope.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.-Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.-Emerson.

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must not be the mere shell that we admire, but the thought that this shell is only the beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.-Jane Porter.

O! how much more doth beauty beauteons seem, by that sweet ornament which truth doth give !---Shakespeare.

BED. (See "SLEEP.")

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet w quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.-Collon.

What a delightful thing rest is !-The bed has become a place of luxury to me.— I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.-Napoleon.

In bed we langh; in bed we cry; in bed are born; in bed we die; the near approach the bed doth show, of human bliss to human woe.-Benserade.

Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.-Franklin. Night is the time for rest; how sweet

when labors close, to gather round an aching heart the curtain of repose; stretch the tired limbs, and lay the weary head down on our own delightful bed.-J. Montgomery.

BEGINNINGS.-Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.-Alex. Clark.

When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning.-Polybius.

Meet the first beginnings; look to the budding mischief before it has time to ripen to maturity.-Shakespeare.

BEHAVIOR.-Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image.Goethe.

What is becoming in behavior is honorable, and what is honorable is becoming.— Cicero.

A consciousness of inward knowledge gives confidence to the outward behavior, which, of all things, is the best to grace a man in his carriage.-Feltham.

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.-Seneca.

Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius, but when they do, they are its misfortunes and blemishes.-The man of true genius will be ashamed of them; at least he will never affect to distinguish himself by whimsical peculiarities, -Sir W. Temple.

BELIEF. (See "RELIGION.")

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.-Demosthenes.

There are many great truths which we do not deny, and which nevertheless we do not fully believe.-J. W. Alexander.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head or a very short creed.-Colton.

There are three means of believing, by inspiration, by reason, and by custom.Christianity, which is the only rational system, admits none for its sons who do not believe according to inspiration.—Pascal.

A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believes things, only on the authority of others without other reason, then, thongh his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes heresy.-Milton.

Remember that what you believe will depend very much upon what you are.➡ Noah Porter.

Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.-Bp. Warburton.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.- Ovid.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.-Froude.

You believe easily what you hope for earnestly.-Terence.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe.-They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.- Watts.

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.-Bulwer.

A skeptical young man one day, conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed, that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."

I am not afraid of those tender and scrupulous consciences who are ever cantions of professing and believing too much; if they are sincerely wrong, I forgive their errors and respect their integrity.-The men I am afraid of are those who believe everything, subscribe to everything, and vote for everything.-Shipley.

He who expects men to be always as good as their beliefs, indulges a groundless hope; and he who expects men to be always as bad as their beliefs, vexes himself with a needless fear.-J. S. Kieffer.

It is a singular fact that many men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in a divine providence.-Balzac.

Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fenelon, that is to say some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages, have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Condé, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as he is, face to face !"- Vauvenargues.

BENEFICENCE.-Christian beneficence takes a large sweep; that circumference cannot be small of which God is the centre.-Hannah More.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.-Sir P. Sidney.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.-A. Mann.

We should give as we would receive, cheer fully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.-Seneca.

We enjoy thoroughly only the pleasure that we give.-Dumas,

The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.-Gay.

He that does good to another, does good also to himself, not only in the consequences, but in the very act; for the consciousness of well doing is, in itself, ample reward.Seneca.

God has so constituted our nature that we cannot be happy unless we are, or think we are, the means of good to others.-We can scarcely conceive of greater wretchedness than inust be felt by him who know he is wholly useless in the world.—Erskine Mason.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.-Cicero.

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.-They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer. -Bp. Hall.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful; but it is mine if I do not give.-To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.-I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.-Not to return a benefit is a great sin; but not to confer one is a greater.-Seneca.

For his bounty there was no winter to it; an autumn it was that grew more by reaping. Shakespeare.

There is no use of money equal to that of beneficence; here the enjoyment grows on reflection and our money is most truly ours when it ceases to be in our possession.-Mackenzie.

Time is short :-your obligations are infinite.-Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?-Massillon.

I never knew a child of God being bankrupted by his benevolence. What we keep we may lose, but what we give to Christ we are sure to keep.-T. L. Cuyler.

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.-Sir T. Browne.

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.-Bulwer.

Money spent on ourselves may be a millstone about the neck; spent on others it may give us wings like eagles.-R. D. Hitchcock.

You are so to give, and to sacrifice to give, as to earn the eulogium pronounced on the woman, "She hath done what she could."-Do it now.-It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of a cold world.-Guthrie.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.-Lamb.

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practises it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at, length, really to love him to whom he has done good.Kant.

Time, which gnaws and diminishes all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality doth grow continually by our generously thinking of it and remembering it.—Rabelais.

BENEVOLENCE.-(See "Kindness.") To feel much for others, and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfish, and exercise our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.-Adam Smith.

Benevolent feeling ennobles the most trifling actions.-Thackeray.

There cannot be a more glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he may render himself most acceptable to the Creator by doing good to his creatures.-Fielding.

Benevolence is allied to few vices; selfishness to fewer virtues.--Home.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.H. W. Beecher.

He who will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor frozen churl.-Joanna Baillie.

He only does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.-Hindoo Maxim.

I truly enjoy no more of the world's good things than what I willingly distribute to the needy.-Seneca.

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.-Phillips Brooks.

They who scatter with one hand, gather with two, not always in coin, but in kind.

Nothing multiplies so much as kindness.— Wray.

Genuine benevolence is not stationary, but peripatetic; it goes about doing good.-W. Nevins.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions: try to use ordinary situations.-Richter.

The best way to do good to ourselves, is to do it to others; the right way to gather, is to scatter.

This is the law of benefits between men ; the one ought to forget at once what he has given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.-Seneca.

Never did any soul do good, but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love, or gratitude, or bounty practised, but with increasing joy, which made the practiser still more in love with the fair act.-Shaftesbury.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.-F. W. Robertson.

It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was.-Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it.-Fuller.

Rare benevolence! the minister of God.Carlyle.

When Fenelon's library was on fire, "God be praised," he said, "that it is not the dwelling of some poor man.'

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple, is a far nobler property than the finest intellect.-Howells.

He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.-Confucius.

Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of the region of theorizing into the region of benevolent activities.-It is good to think well; it is divine to act well.-H. Mann.

It is no great part of a good man's lot to enjoy himself.-To be good and to do good are his ends, and the glory is to be revealed hereafter.-S. I. Prime.

BEST THINGS.-A firm raith is the best divinity; a good life, the best philosophy; a clear conscience, the best law;