as he is satisfied in himself. We
cannot enjoy the good qualities of a friend if he seems to be none
the better for them.

_Hazlitt._

28.

It was a false maxim of Domitian that he who would gain the people
of Rome must promise all things and perform nothing. For when a man
is known to be false in his word, instead of a column, which he
might be by keeping it, for others to rest upon, he becomes a reed,
which no man will vouchsafe to lean upon. Like a floating island,
when we come next day to seek it, it is carried from the place we
left it in, and, instead of earth to build upon, we find nothing but
inconstant and deceiving waves.

_Feltham._

29.

He is not dead who departs this life with high fame; dead is he,
though living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

_Tieck._

30.

In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not.
If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness
thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the
more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more
firmly prepared.

_Quarles._

31.

A prudent man will not discover his poverty, his self-torments, the
disorders of his house, his uneasiness, or his disgrace.

_Hitopadesa._

32.

Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively;
another understands so far as it is explained; and a third
understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is
excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether
useless.

_Machiavelli._

33.

It is difficult to understand men, but still harder to know them
thoroughly.

_Schiller._

34.

Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind;
anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of
the body.

_Chinese._

35.

Alas, for him who is gone and hath done no good work! The trumpet of
march has sounded, and his load was not bound on.

_Persian._

36.

Hum