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spring of the mind.
Cervantes.
418.
In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is.
Quarles.
419.
We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
Hazlitt.
420.
It is easy to lose important opportunities, and difficult to regain them; therefore when they present themselves it is the more necessary to make every effort to retain them.
Guicciardini.
421.
Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed man who is an oculist.
Arabic.
422.
Gold gives the appearance of beauty even to ugliness; but everything becomes frightful with poverty.
Boileau.
423.
When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.
R. Chamberlain.
424.
Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.
Bhartrihari.
425.
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Goethe.
426.
We must oblige everybody as much as we can; we have often need of assistance from those inferior to ourselves.
La Fontaine.
427.
We magnify the wealthy man, though his parts be never so poor. The poor man we despise, be he never so well qualified. Gold is the coverlet of imperfections. It is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
Feltham.
428.
There is nothing more operative