We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride. _Metastasio._ 410. Empty is the house of a childless man; as empty is the mind of a bachelor; empty are all quarters of the world to an ignorant man; but poverty is total emptiness. _Hitopadesa._ 411. The wicked have no stability, for they do not remain in consistency with themselves; they continue friends only for a short time, rejoicing in each other’s wickedness. _Aristotle._ 412. It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves. _Demosthenes._ 413. A man ought not to return evil for evil, as many think, since at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbour.[22] _Plato._ [22] Cf. Rom. XII, 19; 1 Thess. V, 15. 414. In all that belongs to man you cannot find a greater wonder than memory. What a treasury of all things! What a record! What a journal of all! As if provident Nature, because she would have man circumspect, had furnished him with an account-book, to carry always with him. Yet it neither burthens nor takes up room. _Feltham._ 415. He who will not freely and sadly confess that he is _much_ a fool is _all_ a fool. _Fuller._ 416. The man with hoary head is not revered as aged by the gods, but only he who has true knowledge; he, though young, is old. _Manu._ 417. No fathers and mothers think their own children ugly, and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. _Cervantes._ 418. In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is. _Quarles._ 419. We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other. _Hazlitt._ 420.