414.—Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.
415.—Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.
416.—The vivacity which increases in old age is not far removed from folly.
["How ill {white} hairs become {a} fool and jester."— {Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, Act. V, Scene V, King}.
"Can age itself forget that you are now in the last act of life? Can grey hairs make folly venerable, and is there no period to be reserved for meditation or retirement."— Junius, To The Duke Of Bedford, 19th Sept. 1769.]
417.—In love the quickest is always the best cure.
418.—Young women who do not want to appear flirts, and old men who do not want to appear ridiculous, should not talk of love as a matter wherein they can have any interest.
419.—We may seem great in a post beneath our capacity, but we oftener seem little in a post above it.
420.—We often believe we have constancy in misfortune when we have nothing but debasement, and we suffer misfortunes without regarding them as cowards who let themselves be killed from fear of defending themselves.
421.—Conceit causes more conversation than wit.