--_R. Blair._ 1015 I cannot speak, tears so obstruct my words, And choke me with unutterable joy. --_Otway._ 1016 Joy when it's shared, its pleasure doubles, And sorrow, loses half its troubles. 1017 _Johnson_: "It is commonly a weak man who marries for love." We then talked of marrying women of fortune; and I (Boswell) mentioned a common remark, that a man may be, upon the whole, richer by marrying a woman with a very small portion, because a woman of fortune will be proportionally expensive; whereas a woman who brings none will be very moderate in expenses. _Johnson_: "Depend upon it, Sir, this is not true. A woman of fortune, being used to the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion." --_Boswell's Johnson._ 1018 Never risk a joke, even the least offensive in its nature and the most common, with a person who is not well-bred, or possessed of sense to comprehend it. --_La Bruyere._ 1019 A CONSCIENTIOUS JUDGE. Sir Matthew Hale was very exact and impartial in his administration of justice. One of the first peers of England went once to his chamber and told him--"That having a suit in law to be tried before him, he was there to acquaint him with it, that he might the better understand it when he should come to be heard in court." Upon which Sir Matthew interrupted him, and said--"He did not deal fairly to come to his chamber about such affairs, for he never received any information of causes but in open court, where both parties were to be heard alike," so he would not suffer him to go on. Whereupon his grace (for he was a Duke) went away not a little dissatisfied, and complained of it to the king, as a rudeness that was not to be endured. But his majesty bade him content himself that he was no worse used, and said--"He verily believed he would have used himself no better, if he had gone to solicit him in any of his own causes." 1020 When we are too young our judgment is at fault; so also when we are too old. --_Pascal._ 1021 Give every one the benefit of a doubt. You might be sadly in need of it yourself some day! --_N. S. Murphy._ 1022 Gently to hear, kindly to judge. 1023 We shall be judged, not by what we might have been, but what we have been. --_Sewell._ 1024 He hears but half, that hears one party only. --_Aeschylus._ 1025 Any time is the proper time for saying what is just. --_From the Greek._ 1026