Zeno of all virtues made choice of silence, for thereby he saw others' imperfections, and concealed his own.

Young persons should not only embrace the admonitions and instructions of the aged, but also imitate their virtues and shun their vices.

Passion makes them fools which otherwise are not so, and shows them to be fools which are so.

They that laugh at everything, and they that fret at everything, are fools alike.

Plato, speaking of passionate persons, says they are like men who stand on their heads: they see all things the wrong way.

Anger comes sometimes upon us, but we go oftener to it; and instead of rejecting it, we call it yet it is a vice that carries with it neither pleasure nor profit, neither honour nor security.

The first step to moderation is to perceive that we are falling into a passion. One saying to Diogenes, after a fellow had offended him-"This affront, sure, will make you angry." "No," said he, "but I am thinking whether I ought not to be so."

It is a point of excellent wisdom to keep the golden bridle of moderation upon all the affections we exercise on earthly things.-Flavel.

The philosopher Bion said pleasantly of the king who by handfulls pulled his hair off his head for sorrow -"Does this man think that baldness is a

remedy for grief ?"

He submits to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in a passion.-Lavater. Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Hope, faith, labour,

Make man what he ought to be;
Never yet hath gun or sabre

Conquered such a victory!

Under the greatest provocations it is our wisdom and duty to keep our temper and to bridle our passion. A just cause needs not anger to defend it, and a bad one is made never the better by it.-Henry.

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things: and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.-Colton.

SE not needlessly learned or hard words: he that affects to be thought learned is like to

be accounted a fool.

To be covetous of applause is a weakness; and selfconceit is the ordinary attendant of ignorance.

He that will take no advice, but be always his own counsellor, is sure to have a fool often for his client.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

One boasting to Aristotle of the greatness of his country-"That," said Aristotle, "is not to be considered, but whether you deserve to be of that great country."

Aristotle, seeing a youth very conceited, and withal

ignorant-"Young man," said he, "I wish I were what you think yourself, and my enemies what you are."

No man is content with his own condition, though it be the best; nor dissatisfied with his wit, though it be the worst.

Beauty without virtue is like a painted sepulchre, fair without, but within full of corruption.

Fools measure good actions by the event after they are done; wise men beforehand by judgment upon the rules of reason and faith.

You should never be ashamed to ask questions so long as you are ignorant. Ignorance is a shameful infirmity; and when justified, is the chiefest of follies.

It is the part of fools to be too sagacious in seeing the faults of other men, and to be ignorant of their own. They that reprove others are sometimes guilty of pride; but they that amend their own lives will more easily persuade their fellows.

Vice creepeth upon men under the name of virtue; for covetousness would be called frugality, and prodigality taketh to itself the name of bounty: pride calls itself neatness, revenge seems like greatness of spirit, and cruelty exerciseth its bitterness under the show of courage.

If you are subject to any secret folly, blab it not, lest you appear impudent; nor boast of it, lest you seem insolent. Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame, and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

We soil the splendour of our most beautiful actions by our vain-glorious magnifying them.

If you have providence to foresee a danger, let your prudence rather prevent it than fear it; the fear of future evils brings oftentimes a present mischief; whilst you seek to prevent it, practise to bear it. He is a wise man that can avoid an evil; he is a patient man that can endure it; but he is a valiant man that can conquer it.

If you would not be thought a fool in others' conceit, be not wise in your own; he that trusts to his own wisdom, proclaims his own folly; he is truly wise that shall appear so, that hath folly enough to be thought not worldly wise, or wisdom enough to see his own folly.

Young men, when they are once dyed in pleasure and vanity, will scarcely take any other colour.

Those whom their virtue restrains from deceiving others, are often disposed by their vanity to deceive themselves.