is temper, will laugh or
weep at the folly of mankind.--_Gibbon._

A coarse-grained powder, used by cross-grained people, playing at
cross-grained purposes.--_Marryatt._

Gunpowder is the emblem of politic revenge, for it biteth first, and
barketh afterwards; the bullet being at the mark before the report is
heard, so that it maketh a noise, not by way of warning, but of
triumph.--_Fuller._

H.

~Habits.~--Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off,
'tis being flayed alive.--_Cowper._

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the
individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.--_Cicero._

Unless the habit leads to happiness, the best habit is to contract
none.--_Zimmerman._

The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act and you
reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and
you reap a destiny.--_George D. Boardman._

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature,
as the common saying is; but unskillfully and unmethodically directed,
it will be as it were the ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the
life, but only clumsily and awkwardly.--_Bacon._

That beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live
respectably and unhappy men to live calmly.--_George Eliot._

Habits are the daughters of action, but they nurse their mothers, and
give birth to daughters after her image, more lovely and
prosperous.--_Jeremy Taylor._

~Hair.~--The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used
to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.--_Luther._

Her head was bare, but for her native ornament of hair, which in a
simple knot was tied above; sweet negligence, unheeded bait of
love!--_Dryden._

The robe which curious nature weaves to hang upon the head.--_Dekker._

Robed in the long night of her deep hair.--_Tennyson._

~Hand.~--Other parts of the body assist the speaker, but these speak
themselves. By them we ask, we promise, we invoke, we dismiss, we
threaten, we entreat, we deprecate; we express fear, joy, grief, our
doubts, our assent, our penitence; we show moderation, profusion; we
mark number and time.--_Quintilian._

The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their
hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform
the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a
religious ceremony, declined wit