an experience, like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illumines
only the path which we have passed over.

_Coleridge._

37.

Man is an actor who plays various parts:
First comes a boy, then out a lover starts;
His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar's rags;
Then he's a merchant with full money-bags;
Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean;
At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.[5]

_Bhartrihari._

[5] Cf. Shakspeare:

"All the world's a stage," etc.--_As You Like It_,
Act II, _sc._ 7.

38.

Through avarice a man loses his understanding, and by his thirst for
wealth he gives pain to the inhabitants of both worlds.

_Hitopadesa._

39.

Men soon the faults of others learn,
A few their virtues, too, find out;
But is there one--I have a doubt--
Who can his own defects discern?

_Sanskrit._

40.

In learning, age and youth go for nothing; the best informed take
the precedence.

_Chinese._

41.

Mention not a blemish which is thy own in detraction of a neighbour.

_Talmud._

42.

Affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth headlong.

_Sa'di._

43.

A man who has learnt little grows old like an ox: his flesh grows,
but his knowledge does not grow.

_Dhammapada._

44.

Unsullied poverty is always happy, while impure wealth brings with
it many sorrows.

_Chinese._

45.

Both white and black acknowledge women's sway,
So much the better and the wiser too,
Deeming it most convenient to obey,
Or possibly they might their folly rue.[6]

_Persian._

[6] Cf. Pope:

Would men but follow what the sex advise,
All things would prosper, all the world grow wise.

46.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are
dissatisfied with ourselves.

_Hazlitt._

47.

No one is more profoundly sad than he wh