e we are not looking for them.

_Goethe._

426.

We must oblige everybody as much as we can; we have often need of
assistance from those inferior to ourselves.

_La Fontaine._

427.

We magnify the wealthy man, though his parts be never so poor. The
poor man we despise, be he never so well qualified. Gold is the
coverlet of imperfections. It is the fool's curtain, which hides all
his defects from the world.

_Feltham._

428.

There is nothing more operative than sedulity and diligence. A man
would wonder at the mighty things which have been done by degrees
and gentle augmentations. Diligence and moderation are the best
steps whereby to climb to any excellence, nay, it is rare that there
is any other other way.

_Feltham._

429.

In sooth, it is a shame to choose rather to be still borrowing in
all places, from everybody, than to work and win.

_Rabelais._

430.

Behaviour is a mirror in which every one shows his image.

_Goethe._

431.

There is nothing more daring than ignorance.

_Menander._

432.

It is not easy to stop the fire when the water is at a distance;
friends at hand are better than relations afar off.

_Chinese._

433.

The lustre of a virtuous character cannot be defaced, nor can the
vices of a vicious man ever become lucid. A jewel preserves its
lustre, though trodden in the mud, but a brass pot, though placed
upon the head, is brass still.

_Panchatantra._

434.

Noble birth is an accident of fortune, noble actions characterise
the great.

_Goldoni._

435.

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

_Hazlitt._

436.

When anyone is modest, not after praise, but after censure, then he
is really so.

_Richter._

437.

Experience has always shown, and reason shows, that affairs whic