Sir Peter Lely made it a rule never to look at a bad picture, having found by experience that whenever he did so, his pencil took a tint from it. Bishop Home said of the above: "Apply this to bad books and bad company." 535 I am endowed by God with power to conquer all evil. _Ursula._ 536 How quickly and quietly the eye opens and closes, revealing and concealing a world! 537 OTHER'S EYES. Achilles: This is not strange, Ulysses, The beauty that is borne here in the face The bearer knows not, but commends itself To other's eyes: nor doth the eye itself, That most pure spirit of sense behold itself, Not going from itself, but eye to eye oppos'd Salutes each other. --_Shakespeare._ 538 The silent upbraiding of the eye is the very poetry of reproach; it speaks at once to the imagination. --_Mrs. Balfour._ 539 Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears. --_Plautus._ 540 Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off. 541 The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should never want a fine house nor fine furniture. --_Franklin._ 542 The eyes are the windows of the soul. --_Hiram Powers._ 543 We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. --_La Harpe._ 544 He who has seen much of the world, is very prone to exaggeration. 545 Every man is bound to tolerate the act of which he has himself given the example. --_Phaedrus._ 546 Noble examples excite us to noble deeds. 547 He who makes excuses, himself accuses. 548 A man must often exercise, or fast, or take physic, or be sick. --_Sir W. Temple._ 549 I am no longer the fool I was, I have learned by experience. 550 All is but lip-wisdom, which wants experience. --_Sir Philip Sidney._ 551 Among all classes of society we see extravagance keeping pace with prosperity, and indeed outstripping it, realizing Archbishop Whately's paradox: "The larger the income, the harder it is to live within it." --_Hugh S. Brown._ F 552 A clouded face Strikes deeper than an angry blow. 553 FACE PICTURES. We write our lives upon our faces, deep, An autograph which they will always keep. Thoughts cannot come and leave behind no trace Of good or ill; they quickly find a place Where they who will may read as in a book, The hidden meaning of our slightest look. 554