~Example.~--We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily
the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those
among whom we live.--_Joubert._
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a
naughty world.--_Shakespeare._
Every great example takes hold of us with the authority of a miracle,
and says to us: "If ye had but faith, ye could also be able to do the
things which I do."--_Jacobi._
~Excellence.~--Nothing is such an obstacle to the production of excellence
as the power of producing what is good with ease and rapidity.--_Aikin._
~Excelsior.~--Man's life is in the impulse of elevation to something
higher.--_Jacobi._
~Excess.~--Too much noise deafens us; too much light blinds us; too great
a distance or too much of proximity equally prevents us from being able
to see; too long and too short a discourse obscures our knowledge of a
subject; too much of truth stuns us.--_Pascal._