vel down as far as themselves; but they cannot
bear leveling up to themselves. They would all have some people under
them; why not then have some people above them.--_Johnson._

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its
elements are hunger, envy, death.--_Heinrich Heine._

~Comparison.~--All comparisons are odious.--_Cervantes._

If we rightly estimate what we call good and evil, we shall find it lies
much in comparison.--_Locke._

~Compassion.~--The dew of compassion is a tear.--_Byron._

~Compensation.~--Cloud and rainbow appear together. There is wisdom in the
saying of Feltham, that the whole creation is kept in order by discord,
and that vicissitude maintains the world. Many evils bring many
blessings. Manna drops in the wilderness--corn grows in
Canaan.--_Willmott._

It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great
lessons.--_Bovee._

~Complaining.~--We do not wisely when we vent complaint and censure. Human
nature is more sensible of smart in suffering than of pleasure in
rejoicing, and the present endurances easily take up our thoughts. We
cry out for a little pain, when we do but smile for a great deal of
contentment.--_Feltham._

Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst.
Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to
importune him.--_Fontaine._

~Conceit.~--Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.--_Socrates._

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool
than of him.--_Bible._

Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own
making.--_Addison._

Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything
within persuades him that he is everything.--_X. Doudan._

Apes look down on men as degenerate specimens of their own race, just as
Hollanders regard the German language as a corruption of the
Dutch.--_Heinrich Heine._

If its colors were but fast colors, self-conceit would be a most
comfortable quality. But life is so humbling, mortifying, disappointing
to vanity, that a man's great idea of himself gets washed out of him by
the time he is forty.--_Charles Buxton._

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very
unpleasant to find depreciated.--_George Eliot._

The pious vanity of man makes him adore his own qualities under the
pretense of worshiping those of God.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Confidence.~--Confidenc