463.

Law does not put the least restraint

Upon our freedom, but maintain’st;

Or, if it does, ’tis for our good,

To give us freer latitude:

For wholesome laws preserve us free,

By stinting of our liberty.

Butler.

It is only necessary to grow old in order to become more indulgent. I see no fault committed that I have not been myself inclined to.

Goethe.