Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; heaven were not
heaven, if we knew what it were.--_Suckling._

It may be proper for all to remember that they ought not to raise
expectations which it is not in their power to satisfy; and that it is
more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking
into smoke.--_Johnson._

~Expediency.~--When private virtue is hazarded upon the perilous cast of
expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their
stability, are infected with decay at the very centre.--_Chapin._

Men in responsible situations cannot, like those in private life, be
governed solely by the dictates of their own inclinations, or by such
motives as can only affect themselves.--_Washington._

~Experience.~--Life consists in the alternate process of learning and
unlearning; but it is often wiser to unlearn than to
learn.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Experience, the shroud of illusions.--_De Finod._

To have a true idea of man, or of life, one must have stood himself on
the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least
once.--_Taine._

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.--_Alfred Mercier._

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at
the end?--_Mme. de Maintenon._

Experience is the extract of suffering.--_Arthur Helps._

Every generous illusion adds a wrinkle in vanishing. Experience is the
successive disenchantment of the things of life. It is reason enriched
by the spoils of the heart.--_J. Petit Senn._

~Extravagance.~--Expenses are not rectilinear, but circular. Every inch
you add to the diameter adds three to the circumference.--_Charles
Buxton._

~Extremes.~--Extremes are dangerous; a middle estate is safest; as a
middle temper of the sea, between a still calm and a violent tempest, is
most helpful to convey the mariner to his haven.--_Swinnock._

Superlatives are diminutives, and weaken.--_Emerson._

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard
to them; they escape from us, or we from them.--_Pascal._

~Eye.~--Stabbed with a white wench's black eye.--_Shakespeare._

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes
and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of
themselves.--_Paxton Hood._

Ladies, whose bright eyes rain influence.--_Milton._

Where is any author in the world teaches such beauty as a woman's
eye?--_Shakespeare._

Let every eye negotiate f