On Faultfinding.
If you can pull out, pull out your own grey hairs. (Oji.)
Before healing others, heal yourself. (Wolof.)
With which we may compare the Chinese:—
Sweep the snow from your own doors without troubling about the frost on your neighbour’s tiles.
On the Value of Experience.
Nobody is twice a fool. (Accra.)
Nobody is twice ashamed. (Accra.)
He is a fool whose sheep run away twice. (Oji.)
He dreads a slowworm who has been bitten by a serpent. (Oji.)