gift itself. There is a princely manner of giving and accepting.

_Lavater._

355.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the
transition from the former to the latter.

_Carlyle._

356.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds; and they must be
tolerated in an admixture of it in some trifling or enthusiastic
shape or other; else you will deprive weak minds of a resource found
necessary to the strongest.

_Burke._

357.

Fair words without good deeds to a man in misery are like a saddle
of gold clapped upon a galled horse.

_Chamberlain._

358.

There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort
of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these
men--in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do
sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their
follies.

_Sir Thomas Browne._

359.

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as
frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the
water-side.

_Richter._

360.

Our time is like our money; when we change a guinea the shillings
escape as things of small account; when we break a day by idleness
in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our
eyes.

_Sir Walter Scott._

361.

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same
person.

_Lavater._

362.

Wit and wisdom differ. Wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is in
bringing about ends.

_Selden._

363.

Real and solid happiness springs from moderation.

_Goethe._

364.

In all the world there is no vice
Less prone t'excess than avarice;
It neither cares for food nor clothing:
Nature's content with little, that with nothing.

_Butler._

365.

Beside the streamlet seated, mark how life glides on:
That sign, how swift each moment goes, to me's e