Apollo said that every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.1 Book ii. Chap. xii. Apology for Raimond Sebond. How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation! 2 Chap. xvi. Of Glory. The mariner of old said to Neptune in a great tempest, "O God! thou mayest save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayest destroy me; but whether or no, I will steer my rudder true.” 3 One may be humble out of pride. Ibid. Chap. xvii. Of Presumption. I find that the best virtue I have ture of vice. Chap. xx. Saying is one thing, doing another. has in it some tincThat we taste nothing pure. Chap. xxxi. Of Anger. 4 Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre ? + Chap. xxxvi. Of the most Excellent Men. Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem. Chap. xxxvii. Of the Resemblance of Children to their Brothers. There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity." Of the Resemblance of Children to their Fathers. The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre. Book iii. Chap. i. Of Profit and Honesty. Like rowers, who advance backward." Ibid. I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older. 1 XENOPHON: Mem. Socratis, i. 3, 1. 8 SENECA: Epistle 85. 5 See Browne, page 218. Chap ii. Of Repentance. 2 See Bentley, page 284. 4 See Shakespeare, page 69. 6 See Burton, page 186. Few men have been admired by their own domestics.1 Book iii. Chap. ii. Of Repentance. It happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.2 Chap. v. Upon some Verses of Virgil. And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one. Ibid. All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me. So. Ibid. "T is so much to be a king, that he only is so by being The strange lustre that surrounds him conceals and shrouds him from us; our sight is there broken and dissipated, being stopped and filled by the prevailing light.3 Chap. vii. Of the Inconveniences of Greatness. We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.* Chap. viii. Of the Art of Conversation. I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.5 Ibid. What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out? Ibid. The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried." Chap. ix. Of Vanity. 1 See Plutarch, page 740. 2 See Davies, page 176. 3 See Tennyson, page 629. 4 LACTANTIUS: Divin. Instit. iii. 28. 5 Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of great design as of chance. Maxim 57. 6 See Churchill, page 413. 7 LIVY, xxiii, 3. ROCHEFOUCAULD: Not because Socrates said so, as my compatriots. ... I look upon all men Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity. My appetite comes to me while eating.1 Ibid. There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. Ibid. Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general." Ibid. A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty. of stupidity.2 Habit is a second nature.3 We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled. Ibid. Chap. x. Chap. xi. Of Cripples. Ibid. I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. Men are most apt to believe what they least understand. Ibid. I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together. Chap. xii. Of Physiognomy. Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.1 Ibid. I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. Chap. xiii. Of Experience. There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret the things, and more books upon books than upon all other subjects; we do nothing but comment upon one another. 1 See Rabelais, page 771. 2 See Walpole, page 389. 4 See Churchill, page 413. Ibid For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts. Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience. The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods. Ibid. Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. Ibid. I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head. 1 Ibid. I, who have so much and so universally adored this ǎpiσtov μéтρov, “excellent mediocrity," 1 of ancient times, and who have concluded the most moderate measure the most perfect, shall I pretend to an unreasonable and prodigious old age? Ibid. (From his "Divine Weekes and Workes,” translated by J. Sylvester.) The world's a stage 2 where God's omnipotence, Do act the parts. First Week, First Day. And reads, though running, all these needful motions. Ibid. Ibid. Mercy and justice, marching cheek by joule. 1 See Cowper, page 424. 8 See Cowper, page 422. 2 See Shakespeare, page 69. 4 See Burton, page 186. Ibid. What is well done is done soon enough. First Week, First Day. And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by. Night's black mantle covers all alike.1 Hot and cold, and moist and dry." Ibid. Ibid. Second Day. Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes), Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies. 5 Ibid. From north to south, from east to west." Ibid. Bright-flaming, heat-full fire, The source of motion." Not that the earth doth yield In hill or dale, in forest or in field, "T is what you will, or will be what Or savage beasts upon a thousand hils. 1 Come, civil night, . . . with thy black mantle. SHAKESPEARE: Ro meo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 2. 2 See Milton, page 229. 8 Report of fashions in proud Italy, - 7 Heat considered as a Mode of Motion (title of a treatise, 1863). —— JOHN TYNDALL. 8 See Marlowe, page 40. The cattle upon a thousand hills. — Psalm i. 10. |
