Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle. Part ii. Chap. zzz"Sit there, clod-pate!" cried he; "for let me sit wherever I will, that will still be the upper end, and the place of worship to thee." 1

Chap. zzzi,

Building castles in the air,2 and making yourself a laughing-stock.

It is good to live and learn.

Ibid.

Chap. zzzii.

He is as mad as a March hare.

Chap, zzziii.

I must follow him through thick and thin.*

Ibid.

There is no love lost between us."

Ibid.

In the night all cats are gray.

Ibid.

All is not gold that glisters."

I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.

Honesty is the best policy.

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.

A good name is better than riches.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I

have no occasion.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
Heaven's help is better than early rising.

I have other fish to fry."

Ibid.

Ibid.

Chap. zzzie

Chap. zzrt.

1 Sit thee down, chaff-threshing churl! for let me sit where I will, that is the upper end to thee. - Jarvis's translation.

This is generally placed in the mouth of Macgregor: "Where Mac gregor sits, there is the head of the table." Emerson quotes it, in his “American Scholar," as the saying of Macdonald, and Theodore Parker as the saying of the Highlander.

2 See Burton, page 187.

4 See Spenser, page 28.

6 See Heywood, page 11.

8 See Publius Syrus, page 708.

8 See Heywood, page 18.
5 See Middleton, page 173.
7 See Chaucer, page 5.
9 See Rabelais, page
773.

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.1

But all in good time.

Matters will go swimmingly.

Part in. Chap. xxxv.

Chap. xxxvi.

Ibid.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Chap. xxxvii.

They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot.

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.
You may as well expect pears from an elm.8

Ibid.

Ibid.

Chap. xl.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Chap. xlii.

5

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake; and store's no sore.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

What a man has, so much he is sure of.

Chap. xliii.

Ibid.

Ibid.

When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.

The pot calls the kettle black.

This peck of troubles.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Chap. lin.

Chap. liv.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome."

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

1 To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back. Part ii. Chap. lei.

Liberty... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

As they use to say, spick and span new.1

I think it a very happy accident.2

I shall be as secret as the grave.

Chap. leiii.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Chap. Lrii.

Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.3

Rome was not built in a day.a

Chap. lxviii.

Chap. Izzi.

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.

Ibid.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.5

Chap. Izziv.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. The Little Gypsy (La Gitanilla). My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain."

1 See Middleton, page 172.

2 See Middleton, page 174.

Ibid.

3 Blessing on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts, the food that appeases hunger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold that moderates heat, and, lastly, the general coin that purchases all things, the balance and weight that equals the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise.-Jarvis's translation. 4 See Heywood, page 15.

5 See Longfellow, page 613.

• See Byron, page 554.

JOHN SIRMOND. 1589 (?) -1649.

If on my theme I rightly think,

There are five reasons why men drink, -
Good wine, a friend, because I'm dry,

Or lest I should be by and by,

Or

any other reason why.2

Causa Bibendi.

FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU. 1604-1655.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; 3

Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness

grinds He all.

Retribution. (Sinngedichte.)

Man-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein;
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
God-like is it all sin to leave.

1 Goethe adopted this motto for his "Travels in Italy.”

Sin. (Ibid.)

2 These lines are a translation of a Latin epigram (erroneously ascribed to Henry Aldrich in the "Biographia Britannica," second edition, vol. i. p. 131), which Menage and De la Monnoye attribute to Père Sirmond: Si bene commemini, causæ sunt quinque bibendi:

Hospitis adventus; præsens sitis atque futura;

Et vini bonitas, et quælibet altera causa.

3 See Herbert, page 206.

Menagiana, vol. i. p. 172.

Οψὲ θεοῦ μύλοι ἀλέουσι τὸ λεπτὸν ἄλευρον. — Oracula Sibylliana, liber viii, line 14.

Οψὲ θεῶν ἀλέουσι μύλοι, ἀλέουσι δὲ λεπτά. -- LEUTSCH AND SCHNEIDEWIN: Corpus Paræmiographorum Græcorum, vol. i. p. 444.

Sextus Empiricus is the first writer who has presented the whole of the adage cited by Plutarch in his treatise "Concerning such whom God is slow

to punish."

794

DE BENSERADE.

- LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

ISAAC DE BENSERADE. 1612-1691.

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry ;
And, born in bed, in bed we die.
The near approach a bed may show
Of human bliss to human woe.1

FRANCIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 1613-1680.

(Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims.)

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.2 We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfor tunes of others.

Marim 19.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

Maxim 22.

We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil for

tune.

Maxim 25.

Maxim 26.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye. Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

Maxim 39.

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.

Mazim 49.

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

1 Translated by Samuel Johnson.

Marim 71.

2 This epigraph, which is the key to the system of La Rochefoucauld, is found in another form as No. 179 of the Maxims of the first edition, 1665; it is omitted from the second and third, and reappears for the first time in -AIME MARTIN.

the fourth edition at the head of the Reflections.

3 See Goldsmith, page 401.