f Empire.

_Bhartrihari._

514.

The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the
charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom as many vain fears as idle
hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay
flattering hue than one which inspires terror.

_Von Humboldt._

515.

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that
quality to absurdity has reached it, which is always a source of
pleasure to sensible people.

_Wieland._

516.

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each
subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters
used to hide themselves.

_Longfellow._

517.

Women never reason and therefore they are, comparatively, seldom
wrong. They judge instinctively of what falls under their immediate
observation or experience, and do not trouble themselves about
remote or doubtful consequences. If they make no profound
discoveries, they do not involve themselves in gross absurdities. It
is only by the help of reason and logical inference, according to
Hobbes, that "man becomes excellently wise or excellently foolish."

_Hazlitt._

518.

Reprove not in their wrath incensed men,
Good counsel comes clean out of season then;
But when his fury is appeased and past,
He will conceive his fault and mend at last:
When he is cool and calm, then utter it;
No man gives physic in the midst o' th' fit.

_Randolph._

519.

It is not flesh and blood, it is the heart, that makes fathers and
sons.

_Schiller._

520.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole
fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and
renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than
about the means of removing it.

_Feltham._

521.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and
snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their
sympathies.

_Goethe._

522.

A just and reason