136.

Confidence contributes more to con

versation than wit.

137.

It is easier to know men in general, than to know a man in particular.

138.

Shame and jealousy, are bitter an

guish.

139.

The mind often passes from love to ambition, but seldom returns.

140.

No fools are so insufferable, as those who affect to be wits.

141.

It is not so bad to suffer evil, as to consent to it.

142.

I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, than one of the same metreballad mongers,

143.

He who distinguishes and questions well, learns well.

144.

Innocence is free in truth and in

deed.

145.

Truth fears nothing but conceal

ment.

146,

He who seeks a reason for every thing, subverts reason.

147.

Let your own discretion be your

tutor.

148.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, and coquetry by true love.

149.

Without modesty, no virtue, or knowledge, can preserve dignity.

150.

Brevity is the soul of wit,

151.

Every braggart is a coward.

152.

"Tis the mind that makes the body

rich.

153.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

154.

Thou hast no speculation in those eyes which thou dost glare with.

155.

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where !

156.

What's more miserable than discon

tent.

157.

The thorny point of bare distress hath taken from me the show of smooth civility.

158.

Man is but an ass, if he go about to expound his dreams.

159.

Of chastity the ornaments are chaste.

160.

Know'st thou not me by my clothes!

161.

Sweets grown common, lose their dear delights.

162.

Eye to eye opposed, salute each other with each other's soul.

163.

In time we hate what we often fear.

164.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, to have a thankless child.

165.

The grief is fine, full, perfect which I taste, like a lily I'll hang my head and perish.

166.

Dying love, is ceremoniously polite.

167.

The purest treasure, is spotless reputation.

168.

Chaste and immaculate in very thought.

169.

We can carry nothing out of this world, but a good or bad conscience.

170.

Love-knots are tied with eyes, and made fast with thoughts.

171.

Life is much shortened by vain hopes and idle thoughts.

172.

The mind is stupified by gross eat

ing.

173.

It is no shame for a man to learn by asking questions.