Love of display injures the art of pleasing

69. — To make a great noise on a little sucoess, Is to confess one*s weakness.

70. — ^At a distance the world appears like a nosegay ; nearer, it is found to be only a bundle of thoms.

71. — He who shoots beyond the mark, misses it, as well as he who does not reach it.

72. — ^There is more harm donc in the cabinet than on the field of battle.

73. — ^Too much magnificence is a defect : riches conceal beauty.

74. — The money-taker is the best judge of the merit of a play. (16)