This rain will wash the dirt away,
And leave the pavements nice and clean;
I needn't use the hose to-day
To keep the front yard looking green.
1622
My high birth suffocates me. If thou love me, mother, thou wilt not on
all occasions quote my high rank; it is those only who have no peculiar
good in their own nature who are constantly speaking of their noble
birth.
1623
A man who attempts to read all the new publications must do as the fly
does--skip.
1624
Man is not the prince of creatures,
But in reason. Fail that, he is worse
Than horse, or dog, or beast of wilderness.
--_Field._
1625
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good
reason for letting it alone.
--_Sir Walter Scott._
1626
"Live and let live" was his rule: no more I'll say.
1627
There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's
life, that word is reciprocity;
What you do not wish done to yourself,
Do not do to others.
--_Confucius._
1628
The bow cannot possibly stand always bent, nor can human nature subsist
without recreation.
--_Cervantes._
1629
_Regret._--It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.
--_Whately._
1630