--_Sir John Bowring's translation of Derzhavin's "Ode to God."_ 953 Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up. 954 A young man idle, an old man needy. 955 Labor is the divine law of our existence; repose is desertion and suicide. 956 If you want anything done, go to a busy man; Man of leisure never has time to do anything. 957 Lose this day loitering--'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory. --_Goethe._ 958 If any man wish to escape idleness let him fall in love. 959 Better lose your labor than your time in idleness. --_Dutch._ 960 Idleness must thank itself if it go barefoot. --_From the German._ 961 I would not waste my spring of youth In idle dalliance; I would plant rich seeds, To blossom in my manhood and bear fruit When I am old. --_Hillhouse._ 962 Never remain ignorant for the want of asking questions. 963 Ignorance is often a voluntary misfortune. --_From the French._ 964 Rather bear the ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of. --_Shakespeare._ 965 Man's ills are in the main of his own seeking. 966 Those who imitate us we like much better than those who endeavor to equal us. Imitation is a sign of esteem, competition of envy. 967 LONGING AFTER IMMORTALITY. It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. --_Addison._ 968 _Impertinence._--That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in. --_Fully._ 969 Airs of importance are often the credentials of insignificance. --_Lavater._ 970 LIVING WITHIN OUR INCOME.