A secret at home is like rocks under tide. e. D. M. MULOCK-Magnus and Morna. Sc. 2.

And whatsoever else shall hap to-night, Give it an understanding, but no tongue. f. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 249.

But that I am forbid,

To tell the secrets of iny prison-house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul.

g. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 13.

If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,
Let it be tenable in your silence still.
h.

Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 247.

Speak no more:

Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul;
And there I see such black and grained spots
As will not leave their tinct.

n. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 88.
There is a luxury in self-dispraise;
And inward self-disparagement affords
To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

0. WORDSWORTH-The Excursion. Bk. IV. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours; And ask them what report they bore to

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T.

CICERO.

Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous. FROUDE-Short Studies on Great Subjects. Party Politics. Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd and unsung. SCOTT-Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto VI. St. 1. What need we any spur but our own cause, To prick us to redress?

t.

Julius Cæsar. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 123. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might;

Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight. TENNYSON-Locksley Hall. L. 33.

น.

SELF-LOVE.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

a.

HAZLITT-Table Talk. On the Look of a Gentleman.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. b.

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD-Maxims. No. 3. To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for th' observer's sake. C. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. I. L. 11. I to myself am dearer than a friend. d.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 6. L. 23. O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four times seven years; and since I could distinguish betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found man that knew how to love himself.

8.

It seem'd as if each thought and look
And motion were that minute chain'd
Fast to the spot such root she took,
And-like a sunflower by a brook,
With face upturn'd-so still remain'd!
MOORE-Loves of the Angels. First
Angel's Story. L. 33.
Prompt sense of equity! to thee belongs
The swift redress of unexamined wrongs!
Eager to serve, the cause perhaps untried,
But always apt to choose the suffering side!

t. HANNAH MORE-Sensibility. L. 243. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please;

Oh, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence,
A small unkindness is a great offence.
U. HANNAH MORE-Sensibility.
And the touch'd needle trembles to the pole.
POPE-Temple of Fame. L. 431.

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SEPTEMBER (See MONTHS).

SERVICE.

We are his,

To serve him nobly in the common cause, True to the death, but not to be his slaves. w. COWPER-Task. Bk. V. L. 340.

When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

X. EMERSON-Essays. Of Gifts.

Who seeks for aid Must show how service sought can be repaid. y. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)— Siege of Constantinople.

But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he. a. DRYDEN-The Tempest. Prologue. Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. b. EMERSON-May Day and Other Pieces. Solution. L. 39. The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

C.

EMERSON-Letters and Social Aims.

Quotation and Originality. What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme,
Have not we sworn it, many a time,
That we no more our verse would scrawl,
For Shakespeare he had said it all!

f. R. W. GILDER-The Modern Rhymer. For a good poet's made, as well as born, And such wast thou! Look how the father's face

Lives in his issue; even so the race

Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shine

In his well-turned and true-filèd lines;

In each of which he seems to shake a lance,
As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.
g.
BEN JONSON-Lines to the Memory of
Shakespeare.

He was not of an age, but for all time!
And all the Muses still were in their prime,
When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm
Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm!
h.

BEN JONSON-Lines to the Memory of
Shakespeare.

I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.

Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hath built thyself a livelong monument. 9. MILTON-An Epitaph.