X.
Old shoes are easiest, because they have accommodated themselves to the feet. Old friends are least intolerable because they have adapted themselves to the inferior parts of our character.
XI.
Between old friends and old shoes there are other points of resemblance.
XII.
Everybody professes to know that it would be difficult to find a needle in a haystack, but very few reflect that this is because haystacks seldom contain needles.
XIII.
A man with but one leg is a better man than a man with two legs, for the reason that there is less of him.
XIV.
A man without any legs is better than a man with one leg; not because there is less of him, but because he cannot get about to enact so much wickedness.