... Without art, a nation is a soulless body; without science, a
straying wanderer. Without warmth and light, nature cannot thrive, nor
humanity increase: the light and warmth of humanity is "art and
science."--_Kozlay._

~Cunning.~--Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than
from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no
extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.--_Johnson._

Cleverness and cunning are incompatible. I never saw them united. The
latter is the resource of the weak, and is only natural to them;
children and fools are always cunning, but clever people
never.--_Byron._

Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom.--_Locke._

Cunning signifies especially a habit or gift of overreaching,
accompanied with enjoyment and a sense of superiority. It is associated
with small and dull conceit, and with an absolute want of sympathy or
affection. It is the intensest rendering of vulgarity, absolute and
utter.--_Ruskin._

~Curiosity.~--A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the
crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of the bees,
will often be stung for his curiosity.--_Pope._

The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than
confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by
instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.--_Johnson._

~Custom.~--The despotism of custom is on the wane; we are not content to
know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.--_John Stuart
Mill._

Immemorial custom is transcendent law.--_Menu._

In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would
find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross
sense.--_Emerson._

Custom doth make dotards of us all.--_Carlyle._

~Cynics.~--It will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually
at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least
pleasant samples.--_Dickens._

Cynicism is old at twenty.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

D.

~Dandy.~--A dandy is a clothes-wearing man,--a man whose trade, office,
and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his
soul, spirit, person, and purse is heroically consecrated to this one
object,--the wearing of clothes wisely and well; so that as others dress
to live, he lives to dress.--_Carlyle._

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat
still.--_Rivarol._

~Danger.~