All the world practices the art of acting. --_Petronius Arbiter._ 12 Do what you can, when you cannot do what you would. 13 A good action performed in this world receives its recompense in the other, just as water poured at the root of a tree appears again above in fruit and flower. 14 If the world were to see our real motives, we should be ashamed of some of our best actions. 15 Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven. --_Francis._ 16 What thou intendest to do, speak not of, before thou doest it. 17 There is as much eloquence in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the air of a speaker, as in his choice of words. --_Rochefoucauld._ 18 _Actions_--What I must do, is all that concerns me, and not what people think. --_Emerson._ 19 An actor, when asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury why actors were more successful in impressing their auditors than preachers, replied, "Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary." 20 ON LEAVING, AFTER A SHORT VISIT. She gazed as I slowly withdrew; My path I could hardly discern; So sweetly she bade me "adieu," I thought that she bade me return. --_W. Shenstone._ 21 Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. --_Carlyle._ 22 Adversity does not take from us our true friends; it only disperses those who pretended to be so. 23 Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. --_Horace._ 24 He who never was acquainted with adversity, has seen the world but on one side, and is ignorant of half the scenes of nature. 25 In prosperity the proud man knows nobody; in adversity nobody knows him. --_From Scottish-American._ 26 The finest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity. --_Latin._ 27 It is a disingenuous thing to ask for _advice_, when you mean _assistance_; and it will be a just punishment if you get that which you pretended to want. --_Sir A. Helps._ 28 Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or rather, have made it desired. --_Amiel._ 29 There is nothing more difficult than the art of making advice agreeable. 30 Every man, however wise, sometimes requires the advice of a friend in the affairs of life.