of prayer;
'Tis prayer that church bells waft upon the air;
Kaaba and temple, rosary and cross,
All are but divers tongues of world-wide prayer.

_Omar Khayyam._

20.

In no wise ask about the faults of others, for he who reporteth the
faults of others will report thine also.

_Firdausi._

21.

He that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door,
Embittering all his state.

_Horace._

22.

Nothing is more becoming a man than silence. It is not the preaching
but the practice which ought to be considered as the more important.
A profusion of words is sure to lead to error.

_Talmud._

23.

Consider, and you will find that almost all the transactions of the
time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You
there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children,
sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture,
flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for
the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing for
consulship--yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

_M. Aurelius._

24.

The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank
with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.

_Bharavi._

25.

His action no applause invites
Who simply good with good repays;
He only justly merits praise
Who wrongful deeds with kind requites.[3]

_Panchatantra._

[3] Matt. V, 43, 44.

26.

Death comes, and makes a man his prey,
A man whose powers are yet unspent;
Like one on gathering flowers intent,
Whose thoughts are turned another way.

Begin betimes to practise good,
Lest fate surprise thee unawares
Amid thy round of schemes and cares;
To-morrow's task to-day conclude.[4]

_Mahabharata._

[4] Eccles. IX, 10; XII, 1.

27.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, we feel
satisfaction in his society only