Goethe said that there is no man so commonplace that a wise man may not learn something from him. Sir Walter Scott could not travel in a coach without gleaning some information or discovering some new trait of character in his companions. 1216 LIFE AND DEATH. I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself, like a green bay-tree; Yet he passed away, and, lo! he was not; Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. Mark the perfect man, And behold the upright, For the end of that man is peace. --_Psalms xxxvii, 35-37v._ 1217 He who stands high is seen from afar. --_From the Danish._ 1218 I confess that increasing years bring with them an increasing respect for men who do not succeed in life, as those words are commonly used. --_G. S. Hillard._ 1219 Beauty is good for women, firmness for men. --_Bion._ 1220 A man who is always forgetting his best intentions may be said to be a thoroughfare of good resolutions. 1221 It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated, but by his equal or superior. --_Ruskin._ 1222 It takes a great man to make a good listener. --_Sir Arthur Helps._ 1223 Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall. A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials. --_Goldsmith._ 1224 Be content with the day as it is; look for the good in everything. 1225 An honest man is believed without an oath, for his reputation swears for him. 1226 A thread will tie an honest man better than a rope will do a rogue. 1227 Would you make men trustworthy? Trust them. Would you make them true? Believe them. We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness. --_Robertson._ 1228 If there is any person to whom you unfortunately feel a dislike that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. --_Richard Cecil._ 1229 He is not yet born who can please everybody. 1230 Fenimore Cooper asserts, in one of his books, that there is "an instinctive tendency in men to look at any man who has become distinguished." Said Carlyle: "True, surely, and moreover, an instinctive desire in men to become distinguished and be looked at, too!" 1231 It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. --_Amiel._ 1232 Man is not allowed to know what will happen--tomorrow. --_Statius._ 1233