is pleased with everything that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it had first pleased God and that which pleases Him must be the best.-Colton.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.-Johnson. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint, and the cowardly feeble resolve.-Burns.

COMPLIMENTS.-Compliments are

only lies in court clothes.-Sterling.

A deserved and discriminating compliment is often one of the strongest encouragements and incentives to the diffident and self-distrustful.-Tryon Edwards.

A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it.-Hare.

Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink, and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer. Chesterfield.

Compliments which we think are deserved, we accept only as debts, with indifference but those which conscience informs us we do not merit, we receive with the same gratitude that we do favors given away.-Goldsmith.

COMPROMISE.-Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another,-too often ending in the loss of both.-Tryon Edwards.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.-Charles Sumner.

CONCEALMENT. (See "CRIME.") To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature.-I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.-Dickens.

He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs.-Lavater.

It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.-Rochefoucauld.

"Thou shalt not get found out" is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.-Leonard Bacon.

CONCEIT. (See "SELF-CONCEIT.) Conceit is the most contemptible, and one of the most odious qualities in the world.

It is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admira tion.-Hazlitt.

It is wonderful how near conceit is to insanity!-Jerrold.

Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. Socrates.

He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence.Lavater.

The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all.-H. W. Beecher.

Conceit is to nature, what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.-Pope.

The more one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.-Lavater.

They say that every one of us believe in his heart, or would like to have others believe, that he is something which he is not.-Thackeray.

Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats. The first always imposes on itself: the second frequently deceives others.Zimmerman.

A man-poet, prophet, or whatever he may be readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.-Hawthorne.

None are so seldom found alone, or are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.-Colton.

No man was ever so much deceived by another, as by himself.-Greville.

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.-Home.

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.-Plutarch.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.-Em

mons.

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be, to listen at a key-hole.It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.-Mad. Swetchine

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his life-time.-Legouve.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property, which it is very unpleasant to find depreciated.—George Eliot.

If its colors were but fast colors, self-con ceit would be a most comfortable quality.But life is so humbling, mortifying, disap