t the positive truth, but the idealized image of a
truth.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

An outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has
been refused.--_Gibbon._

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly apprehend
itself.--_Goethe._

~Bed.~--The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet
we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it
early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it
late.--_Colton._

What a delightful thing rest is! The bed has become a place of luxury to
me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the
world.--_Napoleon._

~Beggars.~--He is never out of the fashion, or limpeth awkwardly behind
it. He is not required to put on court mourning. He weareth all colors,
fearing none. His costume hath undergone less change than the Quaker's.
He is the only man in the universe who is not obliged to study
appearances.--_Lamb._

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.--_Goldsmith._

~Benevolence.~--There cannot be a more glorious object in creation than a
human being, replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he
might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good
to his creatures.--_Fielding._

Genuine benevolence is not stationary but peripatetic. It _goeth_ about
doing good.--_Nevins._

It is an argument of a candid, ingenuous mind to delight in the good
name and commendations of others; to pass by their defects and take
notice of their virtues; and to speak or hear willingly of the latter;
for in this indeed you may be little less guilty than the evil speaker,
in taking pleasure in evil, though you speak it not.--_Leighton._

The root of all benevolent actions is filial piety and fraternal
love.--_Confucius._

True benevolence is to love all men. Recompense injury with justice, and
kindness with kindness.--_Confucius._

It is in contemplating man at a distance that we become
benevolent.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Bible.~--As those wines which flow from the first treading of the grapes
are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press, which gives
them the roughness of the husk and the stone, so are those doctrines
best and sweetest which flow from a gentle crush of the Scriptures and
are not wrung into controversies and commonplaces.--_Bacon._

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those
discoveries which God hath made in Scripture, would stand out against