sary's defective law, who could produce none; he,
therefore, urged the cadi to give sentence in his favor. After the most
pressing solicitations, the judge calmly drew from beneath his sofa the
bag of five hundred ducats, which the rich man had given him as a bribe,
saying to him very gravely, "You have been much mistaken in the suit;
for if the poor man could produce no witnesses in confirmation of his
right, I, myself, can furnish him with at least five hundred." He threw
him the bag with reproach and indignation and decreed the house to the
poor plaintiff.

915

What greater ornament is there to a son than a father's glory; or what
to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

916

The honor is overpaid,
When he that did the act is commentator.

--_Shirley._

917

_By Hook or Crook._--This saying is probably derived from a forest
custom. Persons entitled to fuel wood in the king's forest were only
authorized to take it of the dead wood or branches of trees in the
forest, "with a cart, a hook, and a crook."

--_From Mulledulcia._

918

Who bids me hope, and in that charming word
Has peace and transport to my soul restor'd.

--_Lord Lyttleton._

919

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

--_Goethe._

920

How often disappointment tracks
The steps of hope!

--_Miss Landon._

921

He that lives upon hopes will die fasting.

922

Hoping is the finest sort of courage and you can never have enough of
it.

--_C. Wagner._

923

Who loses money, loses much;
Who loses friends, loses more;
Who loses hope, loses all: for he that wants hope is the poorest
man alive.

924

Were it no for hope the heart wad break.

--_Scotch._

925

Our hopes often end in--hopes.

926

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The
brightness of our life is gone.

--_Longfellow._

927

Hope is sometimes a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

928

So we do but live,
There's hope.