When, in the former chapter, I wrote down his Lordship's pithy sayings, I found that some came into my own head, which might be serviceable for the Intercalary Day. I have never made one observation alone, but always twenty, thirty, in succession, and this very first one is a proof of it! * When any one remains modest, not after praise, but after censure, then he is really so. * The talk of the people, and still more the letters of maidens, have a peculiar euphony, arising from a constant interchange of long and short syllables (Trochees or Iambuses). * The two things which a maiden most easily forgets are, first, how she looks (hence mirrors were invented); and, secondly, wherein the pronoun _that_ differs from the conjunction _that_. I fear, however, that they will from to-day forward observe the distinction, merely for the sake of upsetting my assertion. And _then_ one of my two touchstones is lost[156] with which I have hitherto tested learned ladies; the second, which I retain, is the left thumb-nail, which the penknife has sometimes notched full of red marks, but seldom, however, because they drive the quill more easily than they make the pen. * One who has received many benefits ceases to _count_, and begins to _weigh_ them, as if they were votes. * The transporting one's self into good characters does more harm to a poet or player, who retains his own, than entering into bad ones. A clergyman who, besides, is free to take only the first of these steps, is more exposed to moral _atony_[157] than the maker of verses and parts, who is able to make up again for a holy part by an unholy one. * Passion makes the best observations and the wretchedest conclusions. It is a telescope whose field is so much the brighter, as it is narrower. * Men require of a new Prince, Bishop, Domestic Tutor, Nursery Tutor, Capon-Stuffer, Town-Musician, or Town-Recorder _only in the first week_ very special merits which were wanting in his predecessor; for in the second they have forgotten what they required and what they missed. * Such sentences please women most and stay by them longest. * Therefore, by way of reward, I will manufacture more than one upon themselves.--They regard others only as younger, not as fairer, than themselves. * They are even ten times more artful and false towards each other than towards us; but we are almost more honest to each other than to them. * They look to it only that one _does_ justify himself with them, no matter _how_. *