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 enough. Behold this world's delights, and view its various pains: If not to you, the joy it shows to me's enough.
Háfiz.
366.
The lake no longer water holds-- Off fly the fowls, the lilies stay: If friends are friends when wealth is gone, The lily's constancy they share.
Hindu Poetess.
367.
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
Aristotle.
368.
All property which comes to hand by means of violence, or infamy, or baseness, however large it may be, is tainted and unblest. On the other hand, whatever is obtained by honest profit, small though it be, brings a blessing with it.[17]
Akhlak-i-Jalálí.
[17] See 44.
369.
We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.
Goethe.
370.
Root out the love of self, as you might the autumn lotus with your hand.
Buddhist.
371.
Whoever has the seed of virtue and honour implanted in his breast will drop a sympathising tear on the woes of his neighbour.
Nakhshabí.
372.
Do naught to others which, if done to thee, would cause thee pain: this is the sum of duty.[18]
Mahábhárata.
[18] Cf. Matt. VII, 12.
373.
A bad man, though raised to honour, always returns to his natural course, as a dog's tail, though warmed by the fire and rubbed with oil, retains its form.[19]
Hitopadesa.
[19] Cf. Arab proverb: "A dog's tail never can be made straight."
374.
The man who cannot blush, and who has no feelings of fear, has reached the acme of impudence.
