Pearls of Thought Part 28

Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.--_Addison._

Irresolute people let their soup grow cold between the plate and the mouth.--_Cervantes._

~Irritability.~--Irritability urges us to take a step as much too soon as sloth does too late.--_Cecil._

An irritable man lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, tormenting himself with his own p.r.i.c.kles.--_Hood._

~Ivy.~--The stateliest building man can raise is the ivy's food at last.--_d.i.c.kens._

The ivy, like the spider, takes hold with her hands in king's palaces, as every twig is furnished with innumerable little fingers, by which it draws itself close, as it were, to the very heart of the old rough stone. Its clinging and beautiful tenacity has given rise to an abundance of conceits about fidelity, friends.h.i.+p, and woman's love, which have become commonplace simply from their appropriateness. It might also symbolize the higher love, unconquerable and unconquered, which has embraced this ruined world from age to age, silently spreading its green over the rents and fissures of our fallen nature.--_Mrs.

Stowe._

J.

~Jealousy.~--What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes.--_Gay._

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying gla.s.ses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, suspicions truths.--_Cervantes._

'Tis a monster begot upon itself, born on itself.--_Shakespeare._

Women detest a jealous man whom they do not love, but it angers them when a man they do love is not jealous.--_Ninon de L'Enclos._

A jealous man always finds more than he looks for.--_Mlle. de Scudery._

Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is the brother of angels.--_Boufflers._

~Jesting.~--Jests--Brain fleas that jump about among the slumbering ideas.--_Heinrich Heine._

The jest loses its point when the wit is the first to laugh.--_Schiller._

And generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of other's memory.--_Bacon._

~Jewelry.~--Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.--_Douglas Jerrold._

~Jews.~--Talk what you will of the Jews; that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for their being hated, why Christians hate one another as much.--_Selden._

They are a piece of stubborn antiquity, compared with which Stonehenge is in its nonage. They date beyond the Pyramids.--_Lamb._

~Joy.~--The soul's calm suns.h.i.+ne, and the heartfelt joy.--_Pope._

Worldly joy is like the songs which peasants sing, full of melodies and sweet airs.--_Beecher._

Redundant joy, like a poor miser, beggar'd by his store.--_Young._

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Joy is the best of wine.--_George Eliot._

Joy in this world is like a rainbow, which in the morning only appears in the west, or towards the evening sky; but in the latter hours of day casts its triumphal arch over the east, or morning sky.--_Richter._

~Judgment.~--The more one judges, the less one loves.--_Balzac._

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.--_Wellington._

Judgment and reason have been grand jurymen since before Noah was a sailor.--_Shakespeare._

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.--_Goethe._

In judging of others a man laboreth in vain, often erreth, and easily sinneth; but in judging and examining himself, he always laboreth fruitfully.--_Thomas a Kempis._

I have seen, when after execution judgment hath repented o'er his doom.--_Shakespeare._

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice, but an accident alone, here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death!--_Carlyle._

Human judgment, like Luther's drunken peasant, when saved from falling on one side, topples over on the other.--_Mazzini._

The contemporary mind may in rare cases be taken by storm; but posterity never. The tribunal of the present is accessible to influence; that of the future is incorrupt.--_Gladstone._

Upon any given point, contradictory evidence seldom puzzles the man who has mastered the laws of evidence, but he knows little of the laws of evidence who has not studied the unwritten law of the human heart; and without this last knowledge a man of action will not attain to the practical, nor will a poet achieve the ideal.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.--_Southey._

~Justice.~--It is the pleasure of the G.o.ds--that what is in conformity with justice shall also be in conformity to the laws.--_Socrates._

Justice delayed is justice denied.--_Gladstone._

Justice advances with such languid steps that crime often escapes from its slowness. Its tardy and doubtful course causes too many tears to be shed.--_Corneille._

Justice is truth in action.--_Joubert._

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes we may have truer and n.o.bler ideas of it; but while we are in this life we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.--_Pope._

Strike if you will, but hear.--_Themistocles._

When Infinite Wisdom established the rule of right and honesty, He saw to it that justice should be always the highest expediency.--_Wendell Phillips._

But Justice s.h.i.+nes in smoky cottages, and honors the pious. Leaving with averted eyes the gorgeous glare obtained by polluted hands, she is wont to draw nigh to holiness, not reverencing wealth when falsely stamped with praise, and a.s.signing each deed its righteous doom.--_aeschylus._

G.o.d's mill grinds slow but sure.--_George Herbert._

Who shall put his finger on the work of justice, and say, "It is there?"

Justice is like the kingdom of G.o.d--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.--_George Eliot._

Justice claims what is due, polity what is seemly; justice weighs and decides, polity surveys and orders; justice refers to the individual, polity to the community.--_Goethe._

K.