--_Shakespeare._

1210

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds,
I do not make the accident of birth
The standard of their merit.

1211

MAN.

What a piece of work is man!
How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties!
In form and moving how express and admirable!
In action how like an angel!
In appearance how like a god!
The beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!

--_Shakespeare._

1212

Direct not him, whose way himself will choose.

1213

He that can please nobody, is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody
can please.

--_Colton._

1214

To quarrel with a drunken man is harming the absent.

1215

Goethe said that there is no man so commonplace that a wise man may not
learn something from him. Sir Walter Scott could not travel in a coach
without gleaning some information or discovering some new trait of
character in his companions.

1216

LIFE AND DEATH.

I have seen the wicked in great power,
And spreading himself, like a green bay-tree;
Yet he passed away, and, lo! he was not;
Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Mark the perfect man,
And behold the upright,
For the end of that man is peace.

--_Psalms xxxvii, 35-37v._

1217

He who stands high is seen from afar.

--_From the Danish._

1218

I confess that increasing years bring with them an increasing respect
for men who do not succeed in life, as those words are commonly used.

--_G. S. Hillard._

1219

Beauty is good for women, firmness for men.

--_Bion._

1220

A man who is always forgetting his best intentions may be said to be a
thoroughfare of good resolutions.

1221

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really
appreciated, but by his equal or superior.

--_Ruskin._

1222

It takes a great man to make a good listener.

--_Sir Arthur Helps._

1223

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we
fall. A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfe