33
It is difficult to understand men, but still harder to know them thoroughly.
Schiller.
34
Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind; anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of the body.
Chinese.
35
Alas, for him who is gone and hath done no good work! The trumpet of march has sounded, and his load was not bound on.
Persian.
36
Human experience, like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illumines only the path which we have passed over.
Coleridge.
37
Man is an actor who plays various parts:
First comes a boy, then out a lover starts;
His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar’s rags;
Then he’s a merchant with full money-bags;
Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean;
At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.*
Bhartrihari.
Notes
* Cf. Shakspeare:
“All the world’s a stage,” etc.—As You Like It, Act II, sc. 7.