CLEANLINESS.-Cleanliness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.-Bacon. Certainly, this is a duty-not a sin.Cleanliness is, indeed, next to Godliness.John Wesley. Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, thy clothes, and thy habitation.-Herbert. The consciousness of clean linen is, in, and of itself, a source of moral strength, second only to that of a clean conscience.A well-ironed collar or a fresh glove has carried many a man through an emergency in which a wrinkle or a rip would have defeated him.--E. S. Phelps. Even from the body's purity the mind receives a secret sympathetic aid.-Thom son. So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously attentive to cleanliness who was a consummate villain.--Rumford. Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it.-Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied-like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, which we look on with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.-Addison. Cleanliness may be recommended as a mark of politeness, as it produces affection, and as it bears analogy to purity of mind.As it renders us agreeable to others, so it makes us easy to ourselves.-It is an excellent preservative of health; and several vices, destructive both to body and mind, are inconsistent with the habit of it.-Addison. CLEMENCY.-Clemency is not only In general, indulgence for those we know, is rarer than pity for those we know not. Rivarol. Clemency is profitable for all; mischiefs contemned lose their force.-Stretch. CLOUDS. Those playful fancies of the mighty sky.-Albert Smith. That looked as though an angel, in his upward flight, had left his mantle floating in mid-air. Joanna Baillie. My God, there go the chariots in which thou ridest forth to inspect thy fields, gardens, meadows, forests, and plains. They are the curtains, which, at thy good pleasure, thon drawest as a covering over the plants, that they may not be withered and destroyed by the heat; and not seldom are they the arsenal in which thou keepest thine artillery of thunder and lightning, at times to strike the children of men with reverential awe, or inflict on them some great punishment.-Gotthold. COMFORT.-Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.- Rutherford. It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; and yet, on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned, it will fall like the choicest music.-Talfourd. I have enjoyed many of the comforts of life, none of which I wish to esteem lightly; yet I confess I know not any joy that is so dear to me, that so fully satisfies the inmost desires of my mind, that so enlivens, refines, and elevates my whole nature, as that which I derive from religion-from faith in God.-May this God be thy God, thy refuge, thy comfort, as he has been mine.-Lavater. Most of our comforts grow up between our crosses. Young. the privilege, the honor, and the duty of a The comforts we enjoy here below, are prince, but it is also his security, and better than all his garrisons, forts, and guards to preserve himself and his dominions in safety. It is the brightest jewel in a monarch's crown.-Stretch. Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.- Washington. Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.-Rochefoucauld. As meekness moderates anger, so clemency moderates punishment.-Stretch. not like the anchor in the bottom of the sea, that holds fast in a storm, but like the flag upon the top of the mast, that turns with every wind.-C. Love. Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule, taking the utmost care not to apply those arts improperly.-Fielding. COMMANDERS.-He who rules must humor full as much as he commands.George Eliot, It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.-De Foe. The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.- Voltaire. A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.-Sir P. Sidney. A man must require just and reasonable things if he would see the scales of obedience properly trimmed.-From orders which are improper, springs resistance which is not easily overcome.-Basil. COMMERCE.-I am wonderfully delighted to see a body of men thriving in their own fortunes, and at the same time promoting the public stock; or, in other words, raising estates for their own families by bringing into their country whatever is wanting, and carrying out of it whatever is superfluous.-Addison. Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce, as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.-Patrick Henry. Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain destruction and animosity between nations.-It softens and polishes the manners of men.-It unites them by one of the strongest of all ties-the desire of supplying their mutual wants.It disposes them to peace by establishing in every state an order of citizens bound by their interest to be the guardians of public tranquillity.-F. W. Robertson. Commerce has made all winds her messengers; all climes her tributaries: all peoples her servants.-Tryon Edwards. Commerce may well be termed the younger sister, for, in all emergencies, she looks to agriculture both for defence and for supply.-Colton. Every dollar spent for missions has added hundreds to the commerce of the world.-N. G. Clark. It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth, as even the love of truth itself. Bovee. A well regulated commerce is not like law, physic, or divinity, to be over-stocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.-Addison. A statesman may do much for commerce -most, by leaving it alone.-A river never flows so smoothly as when it follows its Own course, without either aid or check.Let it make its own bed; it will do so better than you can. Commerce defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades every zone. Bancroft. Commerce is no missionary to carry more or better than you have at home.-But what you have at home, be it gospel, or be it drunkenness, commerce carries the world over.-E. E. Hale. COMMON SENSE. (See "SENSE.") Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.-Tryon Edwards. Fine sense, and exalted sense, are not half as useful as common sense.-There are forty men of wit to one man of sense.-He that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for readier change.-Pope. To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is; and despise affectation.Walpole. Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.-C. E. Stowe. "Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom; with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.-Farrar. If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense.-If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.-H. W. Beecher. He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.-C. Kingsley. The crown of all faculties is common sense. It is not enough to do the right thing, it must be done at the right time and place. Talent knows what to do; tact know when and how to do it.-W. Matthews. The figure which a man makes in life, the reception which he meets with in company, the esteem paid him by his acquaintanceall these depend as much upon his good sense and judgment, as upon any other part of his character. A man of the best intentions, and farthest removed from all injustice and violence, would never be able to make himself much regarded, without a moderate share of parts and understanding. Hume. Common sense is only a modification of talent.-Genius is an exaltation of it.--The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.-Bulwer. No man is quite sane.-Each has a vein of folly in his composition-a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which he has taken to heart.-Emerson, If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars.Caballero. One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.-Persian Proverb. If you haven't grace, the Lord can give it to you. If you haven't learning, I'll help you to get it.-But if you haven't common sense, neither I, nor the Lord can give it to you.-John Brown (of Haddington, to his students). COMMUNISM.-What is a communist?-One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.--Idler or bungler, he is willing to fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.-Ebenezer Elliott. Your levelers wish to level 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, and death.-Heine. COMPANIONSHIP.-(See "Associ ATES.") Good company, and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.-Izaak Walton. It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first, because one cannot hold out in that proportion.-Bacon. It is expedient to have an acquaintance with those who have looked into the world; who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.-Bp. Horne. Be cautious with whom you associate, and never give your company or your confidence to those of whose good principles you are not sure.-Bp. Coleridge. No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.--Colton, What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?-Landor. Wicked companions invite and lure us to hell.-Fielding. No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint. Chesterfield. No man can be provident of his time, who is not prudent in the choice of his company.--Jeremy Taylor. Evil companions are the devil's agents whom he sends abroad into the world to debauch virtue, and to advance his kingdom; and by these ambassadors he effects more than he could in his own person.Anthony Horneck. Take rather than give the tone of the company you are in.-If you have parts, you will show them, more or less, upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's choosing than of your own.Chesterfield. The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging, alike, at all hours; above all, of a golden temper, and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.-Lessing. COMPARISON.-If we rightly estimate what we call good and evil, we shall find it lies much in comparison.-Locke. The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.-Johnson. When the moon shone we did not see the candle so doth the greater glory dim the less. A substitute shines lightly as a king until a king be by, and then his state empties itself, as doth an inland brook into the main of waters.-Shakespeare. COMPASSION.-There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.South. It is the crown of justice and the glory, where it may kill with right, to save with pity.-Beaumont and Fletcher. The dew of compassion is a tear.Byron. Compassion to an offender who has gross All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.-Hume. No evil is without its compensation.The less money, the less trouble.-The less favor, the less envy.-Even in those cases which put us out of our wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.-Seneca. Whatever difference may appear in the fortunes of mankind, there is, nevertheless, a certain compensation of good and evil which makes them equal.-W. Rochefoucauld. If the poor man cannot always get meat, the rich man cannot always digest it.Giles. If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence.-When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.-Rivarol. When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.-H. More. When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.-Swinburne. As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain. If thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it.-If thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy.-If sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride.-Set the allowance against the loss and thou shalt find no loss great. He loses little or nothing who reserves himself.—Quarles. COMPLACENCY.-Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agree It able, and an inferior acceptable. smooths distinction, sweetens conversation, and makes every one in the company pleased with himself. It produces good nature and mutual benevolence, encourages the timorous, soothes the turbulent, humanizes the fierce, and distinguishes a society of civilized persons from a confusion of savages.-Addison. Complacency is a coin by the aid of which all the world can, for want of essential means, pay its club bill in society. It is necessary, however, that it may lose noth ing of its merits, to associate judgment and prudence with it.-- Voltaire. Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a luster to every talent a man can be possessed of. I would advise every man of learning, who would not appear a mere scholar or philosopher, to make himself master of this social virtue.-Addison. Complaisance pleases all; prejudices none; adorns wit; renders humor agreeable; augments friendship; redoubles love; and united with justice and generosity, becomes the secret chain of the society of mankind.-M. de Scuderi. COMPLAINING.-We do not wisely when we vent complaint and censure.-We cry out for a little pain, when we do but smile for a great deal of contentment.Feltham. Every one must see daily instances of people who complain from a mere habit of complaining; and make their friends uneasy, and strangers merry, by murmuring at evils that do not exist, and repining at grievances which they do not really feel.Graves. I will chide no brother in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. -Shakespeare. The man who is fond of complaining, likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. It is at the moment that he declares them insupportable that he will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance.-This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it. -Guizot. I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.-Goethe. Murmur at nothing if our ills are irreparable, it is ungrateful; if remediless, it is vain. A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he |