Three things are difficult; to keep a secret; to bear an injury
patiently; and to spend leisure well. Visit your friend in misfortune,
rather than in prosperity. Never ridicule the unfortunate. Think before
you speak. Do not desire impossibilities. Gold is tried by the
touchstone, and men are tried by gold. Honest loss is preferable to
shameful gain; for, by the one, a man is a sufferer but once; by the
other always. In conversation make use of no violent motion of the
hands; in walking, do not appear to be always upon business of life and
death; for rapid movements indicate a kind of phrenzy. If you are great,
be condescending; for it is better to be loved than to be feared. Speak
no evil of the dead. Reverence the aged. Know thyself.
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+For the New-York Weekly Magazine.+
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