He who gives advice to a fool, beats the air with a stick. 605 None is a fool always, everyone sometimes. 606 _Infallible Test._--A theological student, supposed to be deficient in judgment, was asked by a professor, in the course of a class examination, "Pray, how would you discover a fool?" "By the questions he would ask," was the rather stunning reply. 607 One never needs one's wits so much as when one has to do with a fool. 608 Nothing is so silly as to insist on being the only person who is right. 609 How ill white hairs become a fool and jester. 610 If all fools wore white caps, the majority of us would look like a flock of geese. 611 Young folks tell what they do, old ones what they have done, and the others (fools) what they intend to do. 612 Where force prevails, right perishes. --_Spanish._ 613 If there is a harvest ahead, even a distant one, it is poor thrift to be stingy of your seed-corn! --_Carlyle._ 614 A FOREST IDYL. Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm To thy sick heart. --_Bryant._ 615 A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. 616 If there be One of you all that ever from my presence I have with sadden'd heart unkindly sent, I here, in meek repentance, of him crave A brother's hand, in token of forgiveness. 617 'Tis easier for the generous to forgive Than for the offender to ask it. 618 THE ALTERNATIVES. A gentleman went to a friend, in great anger at a real injury he had received, which he intended to resent. After relating the particulars, he enquired if it would not be _manly_ to resent it? His friend replied, "Yes; it would doubtless be _manly_ to resent it, but it would be _godlike_ to forgive it." 619 FORGIVENESS. How beautifully falls Forgiveness--'tis the attribute of God-- From human lips that bless'd word, Forgive; Thrice happy he whose heart has been so schooled That he can give it utterance; it imparts Celestial grandeur to the human soul, And maketh man an angel. 620 We forgive just as long as we love. 621 FORGIVE. Hast thou a grudge within thy breast, Which time will not repair? Is hatred still a lurking guest To intercept thy prayer? "Forgive, and thou shalt be forgiven" Is the decree of heaven.