_Cervantes._

101.

Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but in taking away
some fire.

_Fuller._

102.

It is difficult to personate and act a part long, for where truth is
not at the bottom Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and
will peep out and betray herself one time or other.

_Tillotson._

103.

The truest characters of ignorance
Are vanity, pride, and arrogance;
As blind men use to bear their noses higher
Than those that have their eyes and sight entire.

_Butler._

104.

It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the
air of undeserved commendation.

_R. Chamberlain._

105.

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and
guided by love.

_Sir P. Sidney._

106.

Never put thyself in the way of temptation: even David could not
resist it.

_Talmud._

107.

Pride is a vice which pride itself inclines every man to find in
others and overlook in himself.

_Johnson._

108.

By six qualities may a fool be known: anger, without cause; speech,
without profit; change, without motive; inquiry, without an object;
trust in a stranger; and incapacity to discriminate between friend
and foe.

_Arabic._

109.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances,
but by the character of their lives and conversations. 'Tis better
that a man's own works than another man's words should praise him.

_Sir R. L'Estrange._

110.

To exert his power in doing good is man's most glorious task.

_Sophocles._

111.

Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are
prepared to use it; when they do not require it they allow it to
remain unbent, for otherwise it would be unserviceable when the time
for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote
himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking
the monotony by cheerful amusements, he