The Christian religion wants no help and prop for belief; and he who wants any help or prop, in addition to the internal evidences of its truth for his belief, never was and never will be a Christian. 746 B. R. Haydon: Table Talk. A Christian who does nothing is not only undeveloped as a man of power, but he absolutely knows nothing. 747 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil. Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens. 748 Daniel Webster: Discourse, Plymouth, Dec. 22, 1820. First Settlement of New England. A Christian runs greater hazard from commendation than from an unjust calumny. 749 Thomas Wilson: Maxims of Piety and of Christianity. CHURCH, The - see Devil, The, Religion. Churches should be schools of friendship, 750 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth It is the office of the church to teach, not to train. I recognize in the church an institution thoroughly, sincerely catholic, adapted to all climes and to all ages. 752 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Sybil. Bk. ii. Ch. 12. Victor Hugo: Ninety-Three. Pt. ii. Bk. iii. Ch. 2. CIRCUMSTANCES. Launched upon the ocean of life, like an innumerable fleet, each man may spread what sails God has given him, whether he be pinnace, sloop, brig, bark, ship, or man-of-war; and no commodore or admiral may signal what voyage he shall make or what canvas he shall carry. 754 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. Circumstances are beyond the control of man; but his conduct is in his own power. 755 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Contarini Fleming. Pt. vii. Ch. 2. Man is not the creature are the creatures of men. more powerful than matter. 756 of circumstances, circumstances We are free agents, and man is Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Vivian Grey. The necessity of circumstances proves friends and detects enemies. 757 Epictetus: Fragments. CLIV. (Long, Trans.) Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape their shadows. 758 Froude: Thomas Carlyle, First Forty Years. Vol. i. Ch. 20. Circumstances alter cases. 759 Thomas C. Haliburton (" Sam Slick"): The Old Judge. Ch. 15. Accidents rule men, not men accidents. 760 Herodotus: Bk. iv. Polymnia. Sec. 49. (Cary, Circumstances are things round about; we are in them, not under them. 761 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. Samuel Johnson and John Horne (Tooke). Great and small have the same accidents and the same vexations and the same passions; but one is at the circumference of the wheel, and the other near the centre, and thus less agitated by the same movements. 762 Pascal: Thoughts. Ch. viii. Sec. 16. (Wight, That depends upon the circumstances. 763 Sheridan: The School for Scandal. Act iii. Sc. 1. Conditions are pleasant or grievous to us according to our sensibilities. 764 CITIES. Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur. Bk. vi. Ch. 2. If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones; others to have danced forth to light, fantastic airs. 765 Hawthorne: American Note-Books, Jan. 4, 1839. CITIZENS. Many-headed multitude. 766 Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act ii. Sc. 3. CIVILIZATION - see Imagination, Liberty, Obedience, Religion, Sunday, Woman. Civilization degrade(s) the many to exalt the few. 767 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. III. Pursuits. Callings. Civilization is first and foremost a moral thing. 768 Amiel Journal, Oct. 26, 1870. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) Civilization means the recession of passional and material life, and the development of social and moral life. 769 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. Wealth may not produce civilization, but civilization produces money. 770 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. 771 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Speech, Manchester, April 3, 1872. Every prison is the exclamation point and every asylum is the question mark in the sentences of civilization. 772 Samuel Willoughby Duffield: Essay. Righteousness. What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women. 773 Emerson: Miscellanies. Woman. The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. 774 J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth. Civilization is simply a series of victories over nature. 775 Moses Harvey: Where Are We and Whither Tending? Lect. i. A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. 776 Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson. II. 130. (George Birkbeck Hill, Editor, 1887.) Civilization obeys the same law as the ocean; it has its ebb and its flow, and where it advances on one shore it recedes on the other. 777 Lord Lytton: Speeches. XIV. Leeds Mechanics' Institution, Jan. 25, 1854. Civilization dwarfs political machinery. 778 Wendell Phillips: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. Lincoln's Election, Nov. 7, 1860. CLEANLINESS Cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God. 779 Bacon: Advancement of Learning. Bk. ii. Although it is humiliating to confess, yet I do confess, that cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, mathematics and classics, you must cultivate a taste for them. 780 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Speech, Aylesbury, Sept. 21, 1865. Royal and Central Bucks Agricultural Association. Slovenliness is no part of religion; neither this [1 Pet. iii. 3, 4], nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin; "cleanliness is, indeed, next to godliness." 781 CLEVERNESS. John Wesley: Sermons. On Dress. Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. 782 Amiel: Journal, Feb. 16, 1868. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) CLOUDS. They come to the dullest and dreariest of scenes like the splendid cortége of an Oriental sovereign who traverses some miserable village. 783 Hamerton: Landscape. Ch. 38. The Two When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it. 784 Hawthorne: American Note-Books, Jan. 4, 1839. Nature is always kind enough to give even her clouds a humorous lining. 785 COLOR Lowell: My Study Windows. Thoreau. -see Dawn, Nature. Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs, as in the flowers. 786 Colors find homes of color. Color. Leigh Hunt: The Seer. Leigh Hunt: The Seer. Color. All good color is in some degree pensive; the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. 788 Ruskin: Stones of Venice. Of all God's gifts to the sight of the most divine, the most solemn. 789 Ruskin: Stones of Venice. COMFORT see Sympathy. The Sea Stories. Ch. 5. man, color is the holiest, The Sea Stories. Ch. 5. God alone can properly bind up a bleeding heart. 790 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. Love, Friendship, Friends. XXVIII. (Hapgood, Trans.) Comfort is tedious when it lasts too long. 791 Elizabeth Stoddard: Two Men. Ch. 22. Comfort is the god of this world, but comfort it will never obtain by making it an object. 792 E. P. Whipple: Literature and Life. Intellectual COMMERCE. God is making commerce his missionary. 793 Joseph Cook: Boston Monday Lectures. Conscience. Matthew Arnold's Views on Conscience. Commerce changes entirely the fate and genius of nations, by communicating arts and opinions, circulating money, and introducing materials of luxury she first opens and polishes the mind, then corrupts and enervates both that and the body. 794 Thomas Gray: The Alliance of Education and Government. (Edmund Gosse, Editor.) COMMON SENSE. Common sense is the measure of the possible: it is composed of experience and prevision: it is calculation applied to life. 795 Amiel: Journal, Nov. 12, 1852. (Mrs. Humphrey Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. 796 Alexander Pope: Thoughts on Various Subjects. COMMUNISM. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. This damaging equation is repellent to the conscience, and causes merit to complain. 797 P. J. Proudhon: First Memoir on Property. The Alpha and Omega of socialism is the transmutation of private competing capital into united collective capital. 798 Schaffle: Quintessence of Socialism. COMPANIONSHIP see Culture, Reading, Solitude. Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other. 799 Emerson: Representative Men. Uses of Great Men. The beams of joy are made hotter by reflection when related to another; and otherwise gladness itself must grieve for want of one to express itself to. 800 Thomas Fuller: The Holy and Profane States. The Holy State. Of Company. The heart is always hungry. No man lives happily alone. The wisest and the best is wiser and better for the friends he has. 801 Roswell D. Hitchcock: Eternal Atonement. XIV. Receiving and Giving. |