70.
If a man be not so happy as he desires, let this be his comfort—he is not so wretched as he deserves.
R. Chamberlain.
71.
In conversation humour is more than wit, easiness, more than knowledge; few desire to learn, or to think they need it; all desire to be pleased, or, if not, to be easy.
Sir W. Temple.
72.
The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction.
Tom Browne.