Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion. _George Eliot._ 584. The sage who engages in controversy with ignorant people must not expect to be treated with honour; and if a fool should overpower a philosopher by his loquacity it is not to be wondered at, for a common stone will break a jewel. _Sa’dī._ 585. Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres. _Bhāravi._ 586. A feverish display of over-zeal, At the first outset, is an obstacle To all success; water, however cold, Will penetrate the ground by slow degrees. _Hitopadesa._ 587. Treat no one with disdain; with patience bear Reviling language; with an angry man Be never angry; blessings give for curses.[31] _Manu._ [31] Cf. Matt. V, II, 44. 588. E’en as a traveller, meeting with the shade Of some o’erhanging tree, awhile reposes, Then leaves its shelter to pursue his way, So men meet friends, then part with them for ever. _Hitopadesa._ 589. Single is every living creature born, Single he passes to another world, Single he eats the fruit of evil deeds, Single, the fruit of good; and when he leaves His body, like a log or heap of clay, Upon the ground, his kinsmen walk away: Virtue alone stays by him at the tomb, And bears him through the dreary, trackless gloom. _Manu._ INDEX. Abilities, 17. Absent friend, 496. Abuse of the great, 398. Actions to be avoided, 570. Actor, man an, 37. Admonition, friendly, 553. Advance step by step, 131. Adversity, 8, 30, 57, 78, 175, 184, 185, 330, 366, 393, 477, 576, 577. Advice, 82, 172, 193, 443. Affectation, 87. Age should be indulgent, 464. Age, reverence for, 484. Agreeableness, 258, 296. Alms-giving, pride in, 318. Ambition, petty, 165. Amusements necessary, 111. Ancestry, boast of, 239, 240, 385, 395, 493. Angel, brute, man, 199. Anger, 117, 119, 130. Angry man, 518, 587. Annoyances, 387. Anxiety, needless, 298. Apparel, 418. Arrogance, 267. Arts, mothers of the, 540. Associates to be avoided, 571. Associates, wicked, 215. Associations, 542. Attributes of hand, head, etc., 513.