rough an ill-thatched house, passion breaks through
an unreflecting mind.

_Dhammapada._

120.

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties;
every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others:
these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have
cultivated.

_Goethe._

121.

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which
if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for
him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten,
though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure
against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again,
has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his
own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

_Carlyle._

122.

By Fate full many a heart has been undone,
And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone;
Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength:
Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.

_Omar Khayyam._

123.

The best thing is to be respected, the next, is to be loved; it is
bad to be hated, but still worse to be despised.

_Chinese._

124.

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

_Pindar._

125.

He only does not live in vain
Who all the means within his reach
Employs--his wealth, his thought, his speech--
T'advance the weal of other men.

_Sanskrit._

126.

If you injure a harmless person, the evil will fall back upon you,
like light dust thrown up against the wind.

_Buddhist._

127.

In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling,
which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had
touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the
air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes
which produce these changes may have been long at work within us,
but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without
sufficient cause.

_Longfellow._