He who has not the weakness of friendship 45 has not the strength. Joubert.
He who has nothing to boast of but his ancestry is like a potato; the only good belonging to him is underground. Sir T. Overbury.
He who has published an injurious book sins in his very grave, corrupts others while he is rotting himself. South.
He who has reason and good sense at his command needs few of the arts of the orator. Goethe.
He who imitates what is evil always exceeds; he who imitates what is good always falls short. Guicciardini.
He who in any way shows us better than we 50 knew before that a lily of the fields is beautiful, does he not show it us as an effluence of the fountain of all beauty—as the handwriting, made visible there, of the great Maker of the universe? Carlyle.
He who indulges his senses in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance. Scott.
He who, in opposition to his own happiness, delighteth in the accumulation of riches, carrieth burdens for others and is the vehicle of trouble. Hitopadesa.
He who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself or by another. Plato.
He who is a fool and knows it is not very far from being a wise man. J. B. (Selkirk).