Footnotes
[306:3] See Congreve, page [295].
[307:1] Suetonius says of the Emperor Titus: "Once at supper, reflecting that he had done nothing for any that day, he broke out into that memorable and justly admired saying, 'My friends, I have lost a day!'"—Suetonius: Lives of the Twelve Cæsars. (Translation by Alexander Thomson.)
[308:1] See Shakespeare, page [143].
[308:2] See Beaumont and Fletcher, page [198]. Dryden, page [272].
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
Goldsmith: The Hermit, stanza 8.
[308:4] See Dryden, page [268].
[308:5] See Dryden, page [270].
[309:1] See Dryden, page [268].
[309:2] See Bishop Hall, page [182].
[309:3] See Quarles, page [203].
Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate
Full on thy bloom.
Burns: To a Mountain Daisy.
[310:1] See Sir Thomas Browne, page [218].
[310:2] See Nicholas Rowe, page [301].
[310:3] Speech was made to open man to man, and not to hide him; to promote commerce, and not betray it.—Lloyd: State Worthies (1665; edited by Whitworth), vol. i. p. 503.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.—Robert South: Sermon, April 30, 1676.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.—Goldsmith: The Bee, No. 3. (Oct. 20, 1759.)
Ils ne se servent de la pensée que pour autoriser leurs injustices, et emploient les paroles que pour déguiser leurs pensées (Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts).—Voltaire: Dialogue xiv. Le Chapon et la Poularde (1766).
When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated name, on the chance of reclaiming it if it took. Thus he assigned to Talleyrand, in the "Nain Jaune," the phrase, "Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."—Fournier: L'Esprit dans l'Histoire.
[311:1] And waste their sweetness on the desert air.—Gray: Elegy, stanza 14. Churchill: Gotham, book ii. line 20.
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves, by thumping on your back.
Cowper: On Friendship.
BISHOP BERKELEY. 1684-1753.
Westward the course of empire takes its way;[312:2]
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day:
Time's noblest offspring is the last.
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America.
Our youth we can have but to-day,
We may always find time to grow old.
Can Love be controlled by Advice?[312:3]
[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.[312:4]
Siris. Par. 217.