_Scotland_:--With a rigorous climate and a small country, much of it wild and untillable mountain and moor, and with fewer people in the whole country than in the city of London, and to-day she wields an influence in the world out of all proportion to her population and resources. In fact, the Scotch are in many respects the greatest people of modern times. --_From "A Year in Europe."_ --_By Walter W. Moore, D. D., LL. D._ 1697 Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach. --_Douglas Jerrold._ 1698 How sweet it is, mother, to see the sea from the land, when we are not sailing! --_Archippus._ 1699 THOUGHTS AT SEA. There is something grand, even to awfulness, in the thought of utter helplessness which you feel at sea. Sky and water--with no living thing visible over the vast expanse--for days together just your own vessel with its human freight--and God! To a thoughtful mind there is no surer teaching both of humility and trust. --_Punshon._ 1700 Old people see best in the distance. --_German._ 1701 'Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it. --_Shakespeare._ 1702 A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast. 1703 What is known to three is usually known to everybody. 1704 Those who enquire much into the affairs of others are seldom capable of retaining the secret that they learn; Therefore, Shun the inquisitive and curious man, For what he hears, he will relate again. 1705 To keep your own secrets is wisdom; but to expect others to keep them is folly. --_Holmes._ 1706 Secrets make a dungeon of the heart, and a jailer of its owner. 1707 Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. --_Johnson._ 1708 Be able at all times to yield your personal preference. --_Gestfeld._ 1709 Be what your friends think you are; avoid being what your enemies say you are. 1710 Wouldst thou be crowned monarch of a little world, command thyself. 1711 CONCEIT OF SELF REBUKED. "When I was younger than I am now," says a lawyer who is still somewhat this side of middle age, "I had a position in the office of a man who has a big reputation. Naturally, I felt my responsibility. It was plain to me that the head of the firm had outlived his usefulness, and I used to feel sorry to think what would happen to him if I ever left him. Sheer magnanimity made me overlook a lot of things.