We punish vanity by not paying attention to it

930. — Young people imagine that erery one is looking at them ; old men, that no one sees them. (97)

931. — Although invisible, there are always too witnesses whose eyes are upon us: God and our conscience.

932. — Great talents throw out a transient glory ; great virtues alone can regenerate a nation.

933. — To hâve a quick understanding is not an advantage if it wants accuracy ; the perfection of a clock does not consist in its going fast, but in its being well regulated.

934. — Method is to the productions of the mind what the regularity of features is to beauty.

935. — Foolish things appear only the more silly for being well printed and bound.

936. — Despair remédies nothing, résignation remédies everything.

937. — Public opinion is lîke a balloon ; it may be fiUed but not managed; it is the wind of gênerai interest which steers it.

938. — ^When honesty and poverty happen to meet, they agrée so well that they will not part again.

939.— We should be obliged to renounce companv if we wanted only to see men n'ee from defects. (98)

940. — A good heart hastens to make amends for the fanlt» uf a bad head.

941. — A wige man does not repent, but reclaims hîmself ; the mass does not reclaim îtself, but repents.