hose to whom you
have given nothing but money.

* * * * *

Once give your mind to suspicion, and there will be sure to be food
enough for it. In the stillest night, the air is filled with sounds for
the wakeful ear that is resolved to listen.

* * * * *

A misproud man resolves to abide by the evil words which he has spoken in
anger. This freezing of foam is wilfully unnatural; and turns a brief
madness into a settled insanity.

* * * * *

A man of any wisdom, in domestic authority, so far from making large
claims to the love of those whom he rules, and exacting all manner of
observance as his due, will often think with fear how unworthy he is of
the affection even of the dullest and least-gifted creature about him.

* * * * *

In commenting on any error of an agent or dependant, beware of making
your own vexation, and not the real offence, the measure of your blame.
This is a most frequent source of injustice, and one, moreover, which
tends to prevent anything like consistent training.

* * * * *

The poor, the humble, and your dependants, will often be afraid to ask
their due from you: be the more mindful of it yourself.

* * * * *

With what degree of satisfaction do you feel that you could meet those
persons in a future state over whom you have any influence now? Your
heart's answer to this question is somewhat of a test of your behaviour
towards them.

* * * * *

How ready we should often be to forgive those who are angry with us, if
we could only see how much of their anger arises from vexation with
themselves for having begun to be angry at all.

* * * * *

I am not sorry to introduce a maxim, like the above, which relates,
perhaps, rather more to dependants than to those in authority, and which
claims a place among precepts on social government, only as it may tend
to promote social harmony and peace. I have not attempted, throughout,
to give any account of the duties of dependants, which, however, are
easily inferred as supplementary to the duties of masters. It is not to
be supposed that any relation in life is one-sided, that kindness is to
be met by indifference, or that loyalty to those who lead us is not a
duty of the highest orde