A wound inflicted by arrows heals, a wood cut down by an axe grows, but harsh words are hateful—a wound inflicted by them does not heal. Arrows of different sorts can be extracted from the body, but a word-dart cannot be drawn out, for it is seated in the heart. _Mahābhārata._ 193. To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff. _Hitopadesa._ 194. All the blessings of a household come through the wife, therefore should her husband honour her. _Talmud._ 195. Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows. _Goethe._ 196. All that is old is not therefore necessarily excellent; all that is new is not despicable on that account alone. Let what is really meritorious be pronounced so by the candid judge after due investigation; blockheads alone are influenced by the opinion of others. _Hindu Drama._ 197. One of the diseases of this age is the multitude of books. It is a thriftless and a thankless occupation, this writing of books: a man were better to sing in a cobbler’s shop, for his pay is a penny a patch; but a book-writer, if he get sometimes a few commendations from the judicious, he shall be sure to reap a thousand reproaches from the malicious. _Barnaby Rich._ 198. We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance. _Goethe._ 199. The angel grows up in divine knowledge, the brute, in savage ignorance, and the son of man stands hesitating between the two. _Persian._ 200. She is a wife who is notable in her house; she is a wife who beareth children; she is a wife whose husband is as her life; she is a wife who is obedient to her lord. The wife is half the man; a wife is man’s dearest friend; a wife is the source of his religion, his worldly profit, and his love. He who hath a wife maketh offerings in his house. Those who have wives are blest with good fortune. Wives are friends, who, by their kind and gentle speech, soothe you in your retirement. In your distresses they are as mothers, and they are refreshment to those who are travellers in the rugged paths of life. _Mahābhārata._ 201. He that is ambitious of fame destroys it. He that increaseth not his knowledge diminishes it. He that uses the crown of learning as an instrument of gain will pass away. _Talmud._ 202.