_Theophrastus._

529.

Rich presents, though profusely given, Are not so dear to righteous
Heaven As gifts by honest gains supplied, Though small, which faith
hath sanctified.

_Mahabharata._

530.

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow;
Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow:
O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee;
Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

_Omar Khayyam._

531.

Leave not the business of to-day to be done to-morrow; for who
knoweth what may be thy condition to-morrow? The rose-garden, which
to-day is full of flowers, when to-morrow thou wouldst pluck a rose,
may not afford thee one.

_Firdausi._

532.

Virtue beameth from a generous spirit as light from the moon, or as
brilliancy from Jupiter.

_Nizami._

533.

The worth of a horse is known by its speed, the value of oxen by
their carrying power, the worth of a cow by its milk-giving
capacity, and that of a wise man by his speech.

_Burmese._

534.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing
meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.

_Longfellow._

535.

If a man die young he hath left us at dinner; it is bed-time with a
man of three score and ten; and he that lives a hundred years hath
walked a mile after supper. This life is but one day of three meals,
or one meal of three courses--childhood, youth, and old age. To sup
well is to live well, and that's the way to sleep well.

_Overbury._

536.

There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing
melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads upon the heels of
great and unexpected riches.

_La Bruyere._

537.

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or
absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or
dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture
of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to
others is in some one thing which we think mos