_Hindu Drama._

185.

Opportunities lose not, for all delay is madness;
'Mid bitter sorrow patience show, for 'tis the key of gladness.

_Turkish._

186.

Man is the only animal with the powers of laughter, a privilege
which was not bestowed on him for nothing. Let us then laugh while
we may, no matter how broad the laugh may be, and despite of what
the poet says about "the loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind."
The mind should occasionally be vacant, as the land should sometimes
lie fallow, and for precisely the same reason.

_Egerton Smith._

187.

The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of
a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his
life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of
splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.

_Herodotus._

188.

Love of money is the disease which renders us most pitiful and
grovelling, and love of pleasure is that which renders us most
despicable.

_Longinus._

189.

He who labours diligently need never despair. We can accomplish
every thing by diligence and labour.

_Menander._

190.

Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs
Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.

_Juvenal._

191.

In one short verse I here express
The sum of tomes of sacred lore:
Beneficence is righteousness,
Oppression's sin's malignant core.

_Sanskrit._

192.

A wound inflicted by arrows heals, a wood cut down by an axe grows,
but harsh words are hateful--a wound inflicted by them does not
heal. Arrows of different sorts can be extracted from the body, but
a word-dart cannot be drawn out, for it is seated in the heart.

_Mahabharata._

193.

To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere
threshing of chaff.

_Hitopadesa._

194.

All the blessings of a household come through the wife, therefore
should her husband honour her.