Jehiel Keeler Hoyt

“ Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.
Lessing—Emilia Galotti. IV. 3.
1
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental,
That nothing with God can be accidental.
Longfellow—Christus. The Golden Legend. Pt. VI.
2 By many a happy accident. ”

“ Education.
17 Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Gail Hamilton—Country Living and Country Thinking. Men and Women.
18 A Dwarf on a Giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.
Herbert—Jacula Prudentum.
(See also Butler)
19 C'est une grande habileté que de savoir cacher son habileté.
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. ”

“ ABSENCE
(See also Memory)
11 Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Thomas Haynes Bayly—Isle of Beauty
12
Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
Byron—Don Juan. Canto III. St. 22
13 Absent in body, but present in spirit. ”

“ Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them; for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
Juvenal—Satires. XII. 50.
8 Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.
The love of pelf increases with the pelf. ”

“ Humanity. Kindness. Mercy. Philanthropy. Sympathy. Plagiarism, 598. Books. Borrowing. Plants, see Trees. Pleasure, 600. Poetry Poets Poison Policy Politics Poppy Poplar Popularity Possession Post Posterity Potomac (River) Pottery Poverty Power Praise Prayer Preaching Prejudice Presumption Pride Primrose Principle Printing Prison Probability Progress Growth. Success. ”

“ Humanity. Philanthropy. Sympathy. Kisses, 416. Affection. Love. Parting. Women. Wooing. Knavery, 419. Crime. Fraud. Guilt. Hypocrisy. Sin. Vice. Villainy. Wickedness. Knowledge, 419. Education. Intellect. Learning. Mind. Power. Science. Students. Teaching. ”

“ Sydney Smith—as quoted in Punch.
7 We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. ”

“ Most can raise the flowers now,
⁠For all have got the seed.
Tennyson—The Flowers.
9 Les méchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de l’habileté dans les bons.
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
Vauvenargues—Réflexions. CIII.
10 Possunt quia posse videntur. ”

“ And overpoise of multitudinous leaves,
(In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
Stood reconciling all the place with green.
E. B. Browning—Aurora Leigh. Bk. ”

“ Coriolanus. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 37.
3 How abhorred in my imagination it is!
Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 206.
4
*⁠*⁠*⁠few things loves better
Than to abhor himself.
Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 60. ”