--We only appreciate our good or evil in proportion to our
self-love.

340.--The wit of most women rather strengthens their folly than their
reason.

["Women have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit, but for solid
reasoning and good sense I never knew one in my life that had it,
and who reasoned and acted consequentially for four and twenty hours
together."--Lord Chesterfield, Letter 129.]

341.--The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness
of age.

342.--The accent of our native country dwells in the heart and mind as
well as on the tongue.

343.--To be a great man one should know how to profit by every phase of
fortune.

344.--Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance
discovers.

345.--Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.

346.--If a woman's temper is beyond control there can be no control of
the mind or heart.

347.--We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree
with us.

["That was excellently observed, say I, when I read an author when his
opinion agrees with mine."--Swift, Thoughts On Various Subjects.]

348.--When one loves one doubts even what one most believes.

349.--The greatest miracle of love is to eradicate flirtation.

350.--Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is
because they think themselves more clever than we are.

["I could pardon all his (Louis XI.'s) deceit, but I cannot forgive
his supposing me capable of the gross folly of being duped by his
professions."--Sir Walter Scott, Quentin Durward.]

351.--We have much trouble to break with one, when we no longer are in
love.

352.--We almost always are bored with persons with whom we should not be
bored.

353.--A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.

354.--There are certain defects which well mounted glitter like virtue
itself.

355.--Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater
than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our
regret.

356.--Usually we only praise heartily those who admire us.

357.--Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds
see all and are not even hurt.

358.--Humility is the true proof of Christian virtues; without it we
retain all our faults, and they are only covered by pride to hide them
from others, and often from ourselves.

359.--Infidelities should extinguish love, and we oug