If thou shouldst find thy friend in the wrong reprove him secretly, but in the presence of company praise him.
Arabic.
548.
Modesty is attended with profit, arrogance brings on destruction.
Chinese.
549.
The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is quiet.
Richter.
550.
Is a preface exquisitely written? No literary morsel is more delicious. Is the author inveterately dull? It is a kind of preparatory information, which may be very useful. It argues a deficiency of taste to turn over an elaborate preface unread: for it is the attar of the author’s roses, every drop distilled at an immense cost. It is the reason of the reasoning, and the folly of the foolish.