peasant, who finds peace in his home.

_Goethe._

254.

If with a stranger thou discourse, first learn,
By strictest observation, to discern
If he be wiser than thyself, if so,
Be dumb, and rather choose by him to know;
But if thyself perchance the wiser be,
Then do thou speak, that he may learn by thee.

_Randolph._

255.

Being continually in people's sight, by the satiety which it
creates, diminishes the reverence felt for great characters.

_Livy._

256.

There is a great difference between one who can feel ashamed before
his own soul and one who is only ashamed before his fellow men.

_Talmud._

257.

By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control the
wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can
overwhelm.

_Dhammapada._

258.

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to
think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities
they will not complain of the want of them in us.

_Hazlitt._

259.

To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority
and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of
others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy
to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world
will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

_Schopenhauer._

260.

Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty,
retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She
is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console
her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she
gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.

_Cervantes._

261.

How can we learn to know ourselves? By reflection, never, but by our
actions. Attempt to do your duty, and you will immediately find what
is in you.

_Goethe._

262.

Man is supreme lord and master
Of his own ruin and disaster,
Controls hi