414.--Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

415.--Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

416.--The vivacity which increases in old age is not far removed from
folly.

["How ill {white} hairs become {a} fool and jester."-- Shakespeare,
King Henry IV, Part II, Act. V, Scene V, King}.

"Can age itself forget that you are now in the last act of life? Can
grey hairs make folly venerable, and is there no period to be reserved
for meditation or retirement."-- Junius, To The Duke Of Bedford, 19th
Sept. 1769.]

417.--In love the quickest is always the best cure.

418.--Young women who do not want to appear flirts, and old men who
do not want to appear ridiculous, should not talk of love as a matter
wherein they can have any interest.

419.--We may seem great in a post beneath our capacity, but we oftener
seem little in a post above it.

420.--We often believe we have constancy in misfortune when we have
nothing but debasement, and we suffer misfortunes without regarding
them as cowards who let themselves be killed from fear of defending
themselves.

421.--Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

422.--All passions make us commit some faults, love alone makes us
ridiculous.

["In love we all are fools alike."--Gay{, The Beggar's Opera, (1728),
Act III, Scene I, Lucy}.]

423.--Few know how to be old.

424.--We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have,
thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

425.--Penetration has a spice of divination in it which tickles our
vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

426.--The charm of novelty and old custom, however opposite to each
other, equally blind us to the faults of our friends.

["Two things the most opposite blind us equally, custom and novelty."-La
Bruyere, Des Judgements.]

427.--Most friends sicken us of friendship, most devotees of devotion.

428.--We easily forgive in our friends those faults we do not perceive.

429.--Women who love, pardon more readily great indiscretions than
little infidelities.

430.--In the old age of love as in life we still survive for the evils,
though no longer for the pleasures.

["The youth of friendship is better than its old age." --Hazlitt's
Characteristics, 229.]

431.--Nothing prevents our being unaffected so much as our desire to
seem so.

432.--To praise good actions heartily is in some measure to take part in
them.

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