g.

_Feltham._

493.

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious
ancestors is like a potato--the only good belonging to him is
underground.

_Sir Thos. Overbury._

494.

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be
ridiculed out of it.

_L'Estrange._

495.

Women are ever in extremes, they are either better or worse than
men.

_La Bruyere._

496.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured
of his happiness.

_Goethe._

497.

The man of worth is really great without being proud; the mean man
is proud without being really great.

_Chinese._

498.

Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right
moment.

_La Bruyere._

499.

Outward perfection without inward goodness sets but the blacker dye
on the mind's deformity.

_R. Chamberlain._

500.

As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so wise men falter not
amidst blame or praise.

_Dhammapada._

501.

Of what avail is the praise or censure of the vulgar, who make a
useless noise like a senseless crow in a forest?

_Mahabharata._

502.

Hark! here the sound of lute so sweet,
And there the voice of wailing loud;
Here scholars grave in conclave meet,
There howls the brawling drunken crowd;
Here, charming maidens full of glee,
There, tottering, withered dames we see.
Such light! Such shade! I cannot tell,
If here we live in heaven or hell.

_Bhartrihari._

503.

The every-day cares and duties which men call drudgery are the
weights and counterpoises of the clock of Time, giving its pendulum
a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion; and when they
cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendulum no longer sways, the
hands no longer move, the clock stands still.

_Longfellow._

504.

A man of little learning deems that little