ary right in
kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so
frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a
lion.--_Thomas Paine._

He on whom Heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears
it.--_Corneille._

Kings' titles commonly begin by force which time wears off, and mellows
into right; and power which in one age is tyranny is ripened in the next
to true succession.--_Dryden._

~Kisses.~--It is as old as the creation, and yet as young and fresh as
ever. It preexisted, still exists, and always will exist. Depend upon
it, Eve learned it in Paradise, and was taught its beauties, virtues,
and varieties by an angel, there is something so transcendent in
it.--_Haliburton._

Dear as remembered kisses after death.--_Tennyson._

Or leave a kiss but in the cup, and I'll not look for wine.--_Ben
Jonson._

He kissed her and promised. Such beautiful lips! Man's usual fate--he
was lost upon the coral reefs.--_Douglas Jerrold._

Eden revives in the first kiss of love.--_Byron._

You would think that, if our lips were made of horn, and stuck out a
foot or two from our faces, kisses at any rate would be done for. Not
so. No creatures kiss each other so much as birds.--_Charles Buxton._

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love
which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.--_George Eliot._

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.--_Leigh Hunt._

Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection,--these are
love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.--_Bovee._

~Knavery.~--Unluckily the credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the
invention of knaves. They never give people possession; but they always
keep them in hope.--_Burke._

After long experience in the world I affirm, before God, I never knew a
rogue who was not unhappy.--_Junius._

By fools knaves fatten; by bigots priests are well clothed; every knave
finds a gull.--_Zimmerman._

~Knowledge.~--The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not
in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book
learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is
the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national
degeneracy and ruin.--_G. W. Curtis._

Knowledge, like religion, must be "experienced," in order to be
known.--_Whipple._

The pleasure and delight of knowledge far sur