lenient as to make people presume. _Sa'di._ 118. Be patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit of actions, never damped by failure, conquering all impediments. _Bharavi._ 119. As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion breaks through an unreflecting mind. _Dhammapada._ 120. Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated. _Goethe._ 121. Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill. _Carlyle._ 122. By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom. _Omar Khayyam._ 123. The best thing is to be respected, the next, is to be loved; it is bad to be hated, but still worse to be despised. _Chinese._ 124. To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pi