ave man
circumspect, had furnished him with an account-book, to carry always
with him. Yet it neither burthens nor takes up room.

_Feltham._

415.

He who will not freely and sadly confess that he is _much_ a fool is
_all_ a fool.

_Fuller._

416.

The man with hoary head is not revered as aged by the gods, but only
he who has true knowledge; he, though young, is old.

_Manu._

417.

No fathers and mothers think their own children ugly, and this
self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the
mind.

_Cervantes._

418.

In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not
too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between
affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel
is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel
is.

_Quarles._

419.

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it
than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the
one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth
of facts in the other.

_Hazlitt._

420.

It is easy to lose important opportunities, and difficult to regain
them; therefore when they present themselves it is the more
necessary to make every effort to retain them.

_Guicciardini._

421.

Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed man who is an oculist.

_Arabic._

422.

Gold gives the appearance of beauty even to ugliness; but everything
becomes frightful with poverty.

_Boileau._

423.

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness
of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

_R. Chamberlain._

424.

Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like
energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.

_Bhartrihari._

425.

The greatest difficulties lie wher