Bend your head before truth only

256. — A free country near an enslaved nation is to the latter a mirror to see îts deformîtîes.*

257. — We may judge what little value God attaches to riches by the manner in which he distributes them.

258. — Financiers support the nation, as the cord supports the hanged man.

259. — Death bas nothing dreadful for him mho bas nothîng to dread in another world.

260. — Complète ignorance is better than an il! regulated éducation.

261. — Dignities are but a few additional syllables for an epîtaph.

262. — Digressions are like rich omaments upon a pretty woman, they cause the principal object to be lost sight of.

263. — The most sincère admirers of diligence are the idle. (34)

264. — Do not speak of yourself in the superlative, for fear that others should speak of you in the diminutive.

265. — The most important thing to the ^eater part of men in the course of their lives is a good dinner.

* 266.— 'The ink of diplomatists is easily effaced, if not drîed up with g^npowder.