By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom. _Omar Khayyām._ 123. The best thing is to be respected, the next, is to be loved; it is bad to be hated, but still worse to be despised. _Chinese._ 124. To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied. _Pindar._ 125. He only does not live in vain Who all the means within his reach Employs—his wealth, his thought, his speech— T’advance the weal of other men. _Sanskrit._ 126. If you injure a harmless person, the evil will fall back upon you, like light dust thrown up against the wind. _Buddhist._ 127. In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us, but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient cause. _Longfellow._ 128. Man is an intellectual animal, therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two without the possibility of its ever being otherwise. A mere physical being or a pure spirit can alone be satisfied with itself. _Hazlitt._ 129. The pure in heart, who fear to sin, The good, kindly in word and deed— These are the beings in the world Whose nature should be called divine. _Buddhist._ 130. If thou desirest that the pure in heart should praise thee, lay aside anger; be not a man of many words; and parade not thy virtues in the face of others. _Firdausī._ 131. A wise man takes a step at a time; he establishes one foot before he takes up the other: an old place should not be forsaken recklessly. _Sanskrit._ 132. The fish dwell in the depths of the waters, and the eagles in the sides of heaven; the one, though high, may be reached with the arrow, and the other, though deep, with the hook; but the heart of man at a foot’s distance cannot be known.[9] _Burmese._ [9] Cf. Proverbs, XXV, 3. 133.