For friendship’s tones have kindlier power Than odorous fruit, or nectared bowl, To soothe, in sorrow’s languid hour, The sinking soul. _Sa’dī._ 347. The faults of others are easily perceived, but those of oneself are difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbour’s faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides as a cheat hides the false dice from the gamester. _Dhammapada._ 348. Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man. _Aristotle._ 349. Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection. _Livy._ 350. Enjoy thou the prosperity of others, Although thyself unprosperous; noble men Take pleasure in their neighbours’ happiness. _Mahābhārata._ 351. Neither live with a bad man nor be at enmity with him; even as if you take hold of glowing charcoal it will burn you, if you take hold of cold charcoal it will soil you. _Buddhist._ 352. In the sandal-tree are serpents, in the water lotus flowers, but crocodiles also; even virtues are marred by the vicious—in all enjoyments there is something which impairs our happiness. _Hitopadesa._ 353. There is no pleasure of life sprouting like a tree from one root but there is some pain joined to it; and again nature brings good out of evil. _Menander._ 354. The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself. There is a princely manner of giving and accepting. _Lavater._ 355. Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter. _Carlyle._ 356. 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.