One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes.
—Spanish.
500
What is told in the ear, is often heard a hundred miles off.
—Chinese.
501
'Tis easy for any man who has his foot unentangled by sufferings, both to exhort and to admonish him that is in difficulties.
—Aeschylus.
502
If you take things easy when you ought to be doing your best work, you will probably have to keep hard at work when you might be taking it easy.
503
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
—From the German.
504
He that eats longest lives longest.
505
Half of what we eat is sufficient to enable us to live, and the other half that we eat enables the doctors to live.
—Dr. Osler.
506
Economy is the easy chair of old age.
507
He that will not economize may some day have to agonize.
—Confucius.
508
Economy is no disgrace; it is better living on a little, than living beyond your means.
509
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
—Mencius.
510
Lay up something for a rainy day; it may be needed some day.
511
Economy is something like a savings-bank, into which we drop pennies and get dollars in return.
—H. W. Shaw.
512
Take care to be an economist in prosperity: there is no fear of your being one in adversity.
—Zimmerman.
513
For age and want, save while you may,
No morning sun lasts a whole day.
514
Economy is too late at the bottom of the purse.
515
Spend not when you must save,
Spare not when you must spend.
—Italian.
516
Every man must educate himself. His books and teacher are but helps; the work is his.
—Webster.
516a
Scottish Education. "A boy was compelled by the poverty of his parents to leave school and take temporary work as an assistant to Lady Abercombie's gardener. When his services were no longer required, the lady gave him a guinea and said, 'Well, Jack, how are you going to spend your guinea?' 'Oh my lady,' he replied, 'I've just made up my mind to tak' a quarter o' Greek, for I hadna got beyond Latin when I left school."
—Dr. J. Herr.
517
Nearly all things are difficult before they are easy.
—From the French.
518
There is as much eloquence in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the air of a speaker, as in his choice of words.
—Rochefoucauld.
519
EXTERNAL SIGNS OF EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS.
One would not imagine who has not given particular attention, that the body should be susceptible to such variety of attitudes and emotions, as readily to accompany every different emotion with a corresponding expression. Humility for example, is expressed naturally by hanging the head; arrogance, by its elevation; and languor or despondence, by reclining it to one side. The expressions of the hands are manifold by different attitudes and motions; they express desire, hope, fear; they assist us in promising, in inviting, in keeping one at a distance; they are made instruments of threatening, of supplication, of praise, and of horror; they are employed in approving, in refusing, in questioning; in showing our joy, our sorrow, our doubts, our regret, and our admiration.
—Lord Hames.
520
The evil one does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.
—Jeremy Taylor.
521
To be employed is to be happy.
—Gray.
522
Do good to thy friend, that he may be more thy friend; and unto thy enemy, that he may become thy friend.
523
He who has a thousand friends,
Has never a one to spare,
And he who has one enemy,
Will be apt to meet him everywhere.
524
Boswell said of Dr. Johnson—"Though a stern true-born Englishman, and fully prejudiced against all other nations, he had discernment enough to see, and candour enough to censure, the cold reserve too common among Englishmen towards strangers. 'Sir,' said he, (Johnson) 'two men of any other nation who are shown into a room together, at a house where they are both visitors, will immediately find some conversation. But two Englishmen will probably go each to a different window, and remain in obstinate silence. Sir, we as yet do not enough understand the common rights of humanity.'"
525
Rochefoucauld said, "The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy."
526
If we did but know how little some enjoy the great things they possess, there would not be so much envy in the world.
527
All matches, friendships, and societies are dangerous and inconvenient, where the contractors are not equal.
—Estrange.
528
Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
—From the French.
529
What has been done amiss should be undone as quickly as possible.
530
Beware of errors of the mouth.
—Hindu.
531
The man who never makes any blunders, seldom makes any good hits.
532
Etiquette.—Good taste rejects excessive nicety; it treats little things as little things, and is not hurt by them.
533
Certain signs precede certain events.
—Cicero.
534
AVOIDING THE SUGGESTION OF EVIL.
Sir Peter Lely made it a rule never to look at a bad picture, having found by experience that whenever he did so, his pencil took a tint from it. Bishop Home said of the above: "Apply this to bad books and bad company."
535
I am endowed by God with power to conquer all evil.
Ursula.
536
How quickly and quietly the eye opens and closes, revealing and concealing a world!
537
OTHER'S EYES.
Achilles: This is not strange, Ulysses,
The beauty that is borne here in the face
The bearer knows not, but commends itself
To other's eyes: nor doth the eye itself,
That most pure spirit of sense behold itself,
Not going from itself, but eye to eye oppos'd
Salutes each other.
—Shakespeare.
538
The silent upbraiding of the eye is the very poetry of reproach; it speaks at once to the imagination.
—Mrs. Balfour.
539
Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
—Plautus.
540
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.
541
The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should never want a fine house nor fine furniture.
—Franklin.
542
The eyes are the windows of the soul.
—Hiram Powers.
543
We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.
—La Harpe.
544
He who has seen much of the world, is very prone to exaggeration.
545
Every man is bound to tolerate the act of which he has himself given the example.
—Phaedrus.
546
Noble examples excite us to noble deeds.
547
He who makes excuses, himself accuses.
548
A man must often exercise, or fast, or take physic, or be sick.
—Sir W. Temple.
549
I am no longer the fool I was, I have learned by experience.
550
All is but lip-wisdom, which wants experience.
—Sir Philip Sidney.
551
Among all classes of society we see extravagance keeping pace with prosperity, and indeed outstripping it, realizing Archbishop Whately's paradox: "The larger the income, the harder it is to live within it."
—Hugh S. Brown.
