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TO-DAY - see Promptness, To-morrow.

One to-day is worth two to-morrows.

5429 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac. To-day is always different from yesterday.

5430

TO-MORROW.

Ålexander Smith: Dreamthorp. Books and
Gardens.

Ask me questions concerning to-morrow.

5431

Congreve: Love for Love. Act iv. Sc. 15.

To-morrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows

stale.

5432

Johnson: Letters to and from the Late Samuel
Johnson. From Original MS., by Hester
Lynch Piozzi. London, 1788. I. 94. (George
Birkbeck Hill, Editor.)

TONGUE, The.

We may see the cunning and curious work of Nature, which hath barred and hedged nothing in so strongly as the tongue, with two rows of teeth, and therewith two lips; besides she hath placed it far from the heart, that it should not utter that which the heart hath conceived; this also should cause us to be silent, seeing those that use much talk, though they speak truly, are never believed.

5433 TRADE.

John Lyly: Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit.
Of the Education of Youth.

Trade is a social act.

5434

TRADITION

John Stuart Mill: On Liberty. Applications.

There is only one thing better than tradition, and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

5435

TRAINING.

Lowell: My Study Windows. Thoreau.

In all human action those faculties will be strong which are used. 5436

TRAITORS.

Emerson: Conduct of Life. Culture.

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

5437 Victor Hugo: Ninety-Three. Pt. i. Bk. iii. Ch. 2. (Benedict, Translator.)

An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England!

5438 Shakespeare: King Henry V. Pt. ii. Act iv. Sc. 8.

TRANQUILLITY.

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

5439

Epictetus: Fragments. CLVIII. (Long, Trans.)

TRANSLATIONS —see Translators.

I have translated some part of his works, only that I might perpetuate his memory, or at least refresh it, amongst my countrymen.

5440

Dryden: Fables. Preface.

Something must be lost in all transfusion, that is, in all translations; but the sense will remain, which would otherwise be lost, or at least maimed, when it is scarce intelligible, and that but to a few.

5441

Dryden: Fables. Preface.

TRANSLATORS -see Translations.

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

5442

TRAVEL.

Johnson: Lives of the Poets. Dryden.

Travelling s no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

5443 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. II. Enterprise. Travelling.

Travel teaches toleration.

5444 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Contarini Fleming.

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He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Johnson: The Idler. No. 97.

5446

TRAVELLERS - see Books.

Every traveller has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

5447

Dickens: Speeches, Literary and Social. XIV.
Commercial Travellers. London, Dec. 30, 1854.

Travellers must be content.

5448

TREACHERY.

Shakespeare: As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4.

There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

5449 Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. i. Act i. Sc. 2. TREASON.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
5450 Burke: Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with
Respect to France.

1793.

Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.

5451 Thomas Fuller: The Holy and Profane States. The Profane State. The Traitor.

Cæsar had his Brutus - Charles the First, his Cromwelland George the Third — (“Treason!" cried the speaker} may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the

most of it. 5452

Patrick Henry: Speech, Virginia House of Burgesses, May, 1765.

Love of country is one of the loftiest virtues which the Almighty has planted in the human heart, and so treason against it has been considered among the most damning sins. 5453 Emery A. Storrs: Political Oratory. Ch. 3.

TREES - see Humor, Sound.

Orchards are even more personal in their charms than gardens, as they are more nearly human creations.

5454

A. Bronson Alcott: Tablets. 1868.

A vast

Of all man's works of art. a cathedral is greatest. and majestic tree is greater than that. 5455 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. Nature.

What a noble gift to man are the forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe for their utility and their beauty!

How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man! The winds of heaven seem to linger amid their balmy branches, and the sunshine falls like a blessing upon the green leaves; the wild breath of the forest, fragrant with bark and berry, fans the brow with grateful freshness; and the beautiful woodlight, neither garish nor gloomy, full of calm and peaceful influences, sheds repose over the spirit. 5456 Susan Fenimore Cooper: Rural Hours. Summer. July 28.

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

5457

Hamerton: The Sylvan Year. March. XIV. What are these maples and beeches and birches but odes and idyls and madrigals? What are these pines and firs and spruces but holy hymns, too solemn for the many-hued raiment of their gay, deciduous neighbors ?

5458

Holmes: Extract from Letter.

When we plant a tree, we our planet a more wholesome and happier dwelling-place for those who come after us if not for ourselves.

5459

are doing what we can to make

Holmes: Extract from Letter.

Trees have about them something very fair and attractive even in this, that to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, they are witnesses of every change that occurs on the spot; and as some reach an exceedingly great age, they resemble historical monuments, and, like ourselves, they have a life, growing and passing away, - not being inanimate and unvarying like the fields and streams. One sees them pass through different stages, and at last step by step approaching death, which suggests still more the resemblance between them and us.

5460 Wilhelm von Humboldt : Letters to a Female Friend. Vol. i. No. 71. (Catharine M. A. Couper, Trans.) Trees assume, on the approach of winter, an air of anguish, an accent of desolation, which are thrilling. One would say that all these leaves were struggling before they fall and die. 5461 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. Pt. v. xiii. (Hapgood, Translator.)

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

5462 Ruskin: Modern Painters. Pt. iii. Sec 1, Ch. 6, § 9. Lowland forest arches overhead, and checkers the ground with darkness: but the pine, growing in scattered groups, leaves the glades between emerald-bright. Its gloom is all its own; narrowing into the sky, it lets the sunshine strike down to the dew. The third character which I want you to notice in the pine is its exquisite fineness. Other trees rise against the sky in dots and knots, but this in fringes. You never see the edges of it, so subtle are they; and for this reason it alone of trees, so far as I know, is capable of the fiery change which we saw before had been noticed by Shakespeare. When the sun rises behind a ridge crested with pine, provided the ridge be at a distance of about two miles, and seen clear, all the trees, for about three or four degrees on each side of the sun, become trees of light, seen in clear flame against the darker sky, and dazzling as the sun itself. I thought at first this was owing to the actual lustre of the leaves; but I believe now it is caused by the cloud-dew upon them, every minutest leaf carrying its diamond. It seems as if these trees, living always among the clouds, had caught part of their glory from them; and, themselves the darkest of vegetation, could yet add splendor to the sun itself.

5463 Ruskin: Modern Painters. Pt. vi. Ch. 9, Secs. 8-9. The ideal of the mountain oak may be anything, twisting, and leaning, and shattered, and rock-encumbered, so only that, amidst all its misfortunes, it maintain the dignity of oak; and, indeed, I look upon this kind of tree as more ideal thar the other, in so far as, by its efforts and struggles, more of its nature, enduring power, patience in waiting for and

ingenuity in obtaining what it wants, is brought out, and so more of the essence of oak exhibited than under more fortunate conditions.

5464 Ruskin: Modern Painters. Pt. iii. Sec. 1, Ch. 13, § 9.

There is in trees no perfect form which can be fixed upon or reasoned out as ideal; but that is always an ideal oak which, however poverty-stricken, or hunger-pinched, or tempest-tortured, is yet seen to have done, under its appointed circumstances, all that could be expected of oak.

5465 Ruskin: Modern Painters. Pt. iii. Sec. 1, Ch. 13, § 9. The tremendous unity of the pine absorbs and moulds the life of a race. The pine shadows rest upon a nation. The northern peoples, century after century, lived under one or other of the two great powers of the pine and the sea, both infinite. They dwelt amidst the forests as they wandered on the waves, and saw no end nor any other horizon. Still the dark, green trees, or the dark, green waters jagged the dawn with their fringe or their foam. And whatever elements of imagination, or of warrior strength, or of domestic justice were brought down by the Norwegian or the Goth against the dissoluteness or degradation of the south of Europe were taught them under the green roofs and wild penetralia of the pine. 5466

Ruskin

TRICKERY.

Modern Painters.

Pt. vi. Ch. 9, Sec. 11.

A trick is at the best but a mean thing.

5467

Le Sage: Gil Blas. Bk. v. Ch. 1. (Smollett,
Translator.)

I know a trick worth two of that.

5468

TRIFLES.

Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. i. Act ii. Sc. 1.

We must not stand upon trifles.

5469

Cervantes: Don Quixote. Pt. i. Ch. 30.
(Jarvis, Translator.)

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.
5470

Leigh Hunt: Table Talk. Magnifying Trifles.

A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.

5471

Shakespeare: A Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 2. Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life. Alexander Smith: Dreamthorp. Men of Letters.

5472

TROUBLES.

Troubles are God's rains in this world.

5473 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth

Pulpit.

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