s waft from blooming trees,
So, too, the grateful savour spreads
To distant lands of virtuous deeds.

_Sanskrit._

138.

In this world, however little happiness may have been our portion,
yet have we no desire to die. Whether he can speak of life as
cheerful and delicate, or as full of pain, anxiety, and sorrow,
never yet have I seen one who wished to die.

_Firdausi._

139.

When morning silvers the dark firmament,
Why shrills the bird of dawning his lament?
It is to show in dawn's bright looking-glass
How of thy careless life a night is spent.

_Omar Khayyam._

140.

Be thou generous, and gentle, and forgiving; as God hath scattered
upon thee, scatter thou upon others.

_Sa'di._

141.

In the body restraint is good; good is restraint in speech; in
thought restraint is good: good is restraint in all things.

_Dhammapada._

142.

Men say that everyone is naturally a lover of himself, and that it
is right that it should be so. This is a mistake; for in fact the
cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this
excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved,
so that he passes a wrong judgment upon what is just, good, and
beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honour what belongs to
himself, in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great
man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what
is just, whether it happens to be done by himself or by another.

_Plato._

143.

A man eminent in learning has not even a little virtue if he fears
to practise it. What precious things can be shown to a blind man
when he holds a lamp in his hand?

_Hitopadesa._

144.

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty
furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to
understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its
moral and its beauties.

_Schopenhauer._

145.

Good actions lead to success, as good medicines to a cure: a healthy
man is joyful, and a diligent man attains learnin