A poor man claimed a house which a rich man had seized. The former produced his deeds and instruments to prove his right, but the latter had provided a number of witnesses; and, to support their evidence the more effectually, he secretly presented the cadi with a bag containing five hundred ducats, which the cadi received. When it came to a hearing, the poor man told his story and produced his writings, but lacked witnesses. The other, provided with witnesses, laid his whole stress on them and on his adversary's defective law, who could produce none; he, therefore, urged the cadi to give sentence in his favor. After the most pressing solicitations, the judge calmly drew from beneath his sofa the bag of five hundred ducats, which the rich man had given him as a bribe, saying to him very gravely, "You have been much mistaken in the suit; for if the poor man could produce no witnesses in confirmation of his right, I, myself, can furnish him with at least five hundred." He threw him the bag with reproach and indignation and decreed the house to the poor plaintiff. 915 What greater ornament is there to a son than a father's glory; or what to a father than a son's honorable conduct? 916 The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator. --_Shirley._ 917 _By Hook or Crook._--This saying is probably derived from a forest custom. Persons entitled to fuel wood in the king's forest were only authorized to take it of the dead wood or branches of trees in the forest, "with a cart, a hook, and a crook." --_From Mulledulcia._ 918 Who bids me hope, and in that charming word Has peace and transport to my soul restor'd. --_Lord Lyttleton._ 919 In all things it is better to hope than to despair. --_Goethe._ 920 How often disappointment tracks The steps of hope! --_Miss Landon._ 921 He that lives upon hopes will die fasting. 922 Hoping is the finest sort of courage and you can never have enough of it. --_C. Wagner._ 923 Who loses money, loses much; Who loses friends, loses more; Who loses hope, loses all: for he that wants hope is the poorest man alive. 924 Were it no for hope the heart wad break. --_Scotch._ 925 Our hopes often end in--hopes. 926 The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. --_Longfellow._ 927 Hope is sometimes a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow. 928 So we do but live, There's hope. --_Terence._ 929