It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

Maxim 322.

Maxim 338.

When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all. A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.'

Maxim 357.

Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.2

Maxim 358.

No tears are shed when an enemy dies.

Maxim 376.

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

Maxim 388.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Maxim 469.

It is better to have a little than nothing.

Maxim 484.

It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.

Mazim 499.

1 See Heywood, page 14.

2 The sea being smooth,

How many shallow bauble boats dare sail

Upon her patient breast.

SHAKESPEARE: Troilus and Cressida, act i. sc. 3.

8 See Cowper, page 419.

4 Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur,—the motto adopted for the "Edinburgh Review."

5 Practice makes perfect. - Proverb.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.1

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

2

Maxim 511.

Maxim 524.

Never promise more than you can perform. Maxim 528.
A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

8

Maxim 540.

Maxim 545.

No one should be judge in his own cause.*
Necessity knows
no law except to conquer.5 Maxim 553.
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently."

Maxim 557.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to

have.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Maxim 559.

Maxim 571.

Maxim 580.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.7
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Maxim 581.

Maxim 584.

Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

1 See Shakespeare, page 48.

9

Maxim 593.

Maxim 596.

2 See Heywood, page 14.

8 Yet do I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of neces

sity.

EURIPIDES: Hercules Furens, line 281.

4 It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own -PASCAL: Thoughts, chap. iv. 1.

cause.

5 See Milton, page 232.

6 See Chaucer, page 3.

When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back. - PLUTARCH: Of the Training of Children.

8 No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it. JOHNSON: The Rambler, p. 150.

Did thrust as now in others' corn his sickle.

Weekes and Workes, part ii. Second Weeke.

Not presuming to put my sickle in another man's corn. - NICHOLAS

YONGE: Musica Transalpini. Epistle Dedicatory. 1588.

He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he

is not so.

A guilty conscience never feels secure.1

Maxim 598.

Maxim 617.

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our

last.2

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Maxim 633.

Maxim 640.

Maxim 656.

He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.

Maxim 673.

You should go to a pear-tree for pears, not to an elm.ʼ

Maxim 674.

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please every body.

Maxim 675.

We should provide in peace what we need in war.

Maxim 709.

Marim 723.

Look for a tough wedge for a tough log. How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!

Maxim 725.

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands."

Maxim 759.

He gets through too late who goes too fast. Mazim 767. In every enterprise consider where you would come

out.?

1 See Shakespeare, page 136.

Maxim 777.

2 Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. - MARCUS AURELIUS: Meditations, ii, 5.

8 See Shakespeare, page 45.

4 You may as well expect pears from an elm.-CERVANTES: Don Quixote, part ii. book ii. chap. xl.

6 See Washington, page 425.

6 The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.- PLUTARCH: Of the Tranquillity of the Mind.

7 In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then un dertake it.-EPICTETUS: That everything is to be undertaken with circum spection, chap. xv.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.

Maxim 780.

Maxim 781.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what

you are.

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Maxim 785.

Maxim 786.

The next day is never so good as the day before.

Maxim 815.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's

mishap.

bl

Maxim 825.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest essings.

Maxim 827.

It matters not how long you live, but how well.

Maxim 829.

It is vain to look for a defence against lightning.1

Maxim 835.

No good man ever grew rich all at once.2

Maxim 837.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.3

Maxim 847.

It is better to learn late than never."

Marim 864.

Maxim 865.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.5

Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.

Maxim 866.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Maxim 872.

Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad."

Maxim 911.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Maxim 914.

He knows not when to be silent who knows not when

to speak.

1 Syrus was not a contemporary of Franklin.

Maxim 930

2 No just man ever became rich all at once. - MENANDER: Fragment.

8 See Butler, page 213.

See Bacon, page 166.

4 See Shakespeare, page 64.

6 See Dryden, page 269.

You need not hang up the ivy-branch over the wine that will sell.1

Maxim 968.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.2

Maxim 995.

Maxim 1042.

Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.3 Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency.

Maxim 1060.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.*

Maxim 1070.

Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.

Maxim 1072.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Maxim 1073.

SENECA. 8 B. C.-65 A. D.

Not lost, but gone before."

Epistola. 63, 16.

Whom they have injured they also hate."

De Ira. i. 33.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

De Providentia. 5,9

There is no great genius without a tincture of mad. ness.9 De Tranquillitate Animi. 17.

Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.10

1 See Shakespeare page 72.

8 See Shakespeare, page 102.

Hercules Furens. i. 1, 84.

2 See Maxim 144.

4 Simonides said "that he never repented that he held his tongue, but often that he had spoken."- PLUTARCH: Rules for the Preservation of Health.

6 See Cowper, page 424. 7 See Dryden, page 275.

9 See Dryden, page 267.

See Rogers, page 455.

8 See Beaumont and Fletcher, page 197 10 See Theobald, page 352.