[Footnote 20: Napoleon said on some occasion, '_Il faut vouloir vivre et savoir mourir_.' M. Littre prefaces the third volume of that heroic monument of learning and industry, his _Dictionary of the French Language_, by the words: 'He who wishes to employ his life seriously ought always to act as if he had long to live, and to govern himself as if he would have soon to die.'] [Footnote 21: No. 223.] [Footnote 22: No. 300.] [Footnote 23: No. 264.] [Footnote 24: _Reflexions Critiques sur quelques Poetes_, i. 237.] [Footnote 25: _OEuv_. i. 248.] [Footnote 26: _Reflexions Critiques sur quelques Poetes_, i. 238.] [Footnote 27: _OEuv._ i. 243.] [Footnote 28: _OEuv._ i. 275.] [Footnote 29: _Correspondance_. _OEuv._ ii. 131, 207.] [Footnote 30: Long-winded and tortuous and difficult to seize as Shaftesbury is as a whole, in detached sentences he shows marked aphoristic quality; _e.g._ 'The most ingenious way of becoming foolish is by a system;' 'The liker anything is to wisdom, if it be not plainly the thing itself, the more directly it becomes its opposite.'] [Footnote 31: No. 278 (i. 411).] [Footnote 32: _OEuv._ ii. 115.] [Footnote 33: _Ib._ i. 87.] [Footnote 34: Doch Zuweilen ist des Sinns in einer Sache Auch mehr, als wir vermuthen; und es waere So unerhoert doch nicht, dass uns der Heiland Auf Wegen zu sich zoege, die der Kluge Von selbst nicht leicht betreten wuerde. _Nathan der Weise_, iii. 10.] [Footnote 35: _Reflections on the French Revolution_, Works (ed. 1842), i. 414.] [Footnote 36: _OEuv._ ii. 170.] [Footnote 37: No. 111.] [Footnote 38: _OEuv._ ii. 74.] [Footnote 39: No. 285.] [Footnote 40: 'A man may as well pretend to cure himself of love by viewing his mistress through the artificial medium of a microscope or prospect, and beholding there the coarseness of her skin and monstrous disproportion of her features, as hope to excite or moderate any passion by the artificial arguments of a Seneca or an Epictetus.'--Hume's _Essays_ (xviii. _The Sceptic_).] [Footnote 41: _OEuv._ i. 163.] [Footnote 42: Nos. 296-298, 148.] [Footnote 43: _Sur le Libre Arbitre_. _OEuv._ i. 199.] [Footnote 44: _Politique Positive_, iii. 589.] [Footnote 45: _Ib._ i. 194.] [Footnote 46: _Politique Positive_, 205.] [Footnote 47: _Ib._ 206, 207.] [Footnote 48: No. 330.] [Footnote 49: Nos. 462, 463.] [Footnote 50: _Correspondance_. _OEuv._ ii. 163.] [Footnote 51: _OEuv._ i. 310.] [Footnote 52: _OEuv._ i. 325.] [Footnote 53: _OEuv._ i. 326.] [Footnote 54: No. 236.] [Footnote 55: _OEuv_. ii. 188.] End of Project Gutenberg's Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3), by John Morley