never appeared, it is because it has never been properly sought for.

322.

The reason why lovers and their mistresses are never weary of being together is, that they always talk of themselves.

323.

Why must we have memory enough to retain even the minutest details of what has happened to us, and not enough to remember how many times we have told them to the same person?

324.

The extreme pleasure we take in talking of ourselves should make us fear that we give very little to those who listen to us.

325.

What commonly prevents us from exhibiting the bottom of our hearts to our friends is

323. "Montaigne also notices 'old men who yet retain the memory of things past and forget how often they have told them' as most tedious companions."-Essays, book i. chap. 9.

not so much any distrust we have of them as the distrust we have of ourselves.

326.

Weak persons cannot be sincere.

327.

It is not a great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but it is an unsupportable one to be under an obligation to a vulgar man.

328.

We find means to cure folly, but none to reclaim a distorted mind.

329.

We cannot long preserve the sentiments we should have for our friends and benefactors if we often allow ourselves the liberty of speaking of their faults.

330.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to speak evil of them with impunity.

330. "I'raise undeserved is satire in disguise."

POPE, Imit. Horace, b. ii. ep. 1.

This maxim may recall to the readers of Scott's novels

331.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we like.

332.

It is only those who are despicable who fear being despised.

333.

Our wisdom is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

334.

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.

335.

We often console ourselves through weakness for evils in which reason is powerless to console us.

the scene in Woodstock, where Alice Lee, in the presence of Charles II., under the assumed name of Louis Kerneguy, describes the character she supposes the king to have. "Kerneguy and his supposed patron felt embarrassed, perhaps from a consciousness that the real Charles fell far short of his ideal character as designed in such glowing colors. In some cases exaggerated or unappropriate praise becomes the most severe satire."— Woodstock, vol. ii. c. 4. Edition 1832.

336.

Ridicule dishonors more than dishonor.

337.

We confess our little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones.

338.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

339.

We sometimes fancy that we hate flattery, but in reality we only hate the manner of flat

tery.

340.

We forgive so long as we love.

341.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill-treated by her.

339. "And when I tell him he hates flatterers,

He

says he does, being then most flattered." SHAKSPEARE, Julius Cæsar.

341. "Our aunts and grandmothers always tell us that

342.

Women know not the whole of their co

quetry.

343.

Women never have a complete severity of demeanor except towards those whom they dislike.

344.

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

men are a sort of animals that if ever they are constant 'tis only when they are ill used. "Twas a kind of paradox I could never believe, but experience has shown me the truth of it."-LADY M. W. MONTAGUE, Letters.

"Les femmes s'attachent aux hommes par les faveurs qu'elles leur accordent. Les hommes guérissent par les mêmes faveurs."-LA BRUYERE, Des Femmes.

"The rigors of mistresses are troublesome, but facility to say truth is more so. 'Si qua volet regnare diu contemnat amantem.' (Ovid. Amor. ij. 19.)”—MONTAIGNE,

b. ii. c. 15.

"Prythee tarry,

You men will never tarry.

O foolish Cressid, I might have still held off,

And then you would have tarried."

Troilus and Cressida.