"Si les nues tomboyent, esperoyt prendre alouettes."
* * * * *
"Good nature and good sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive divine."
Pope's _Essay on Criticism_, pp. 524, 525.
* * * * *
"Nay, fly to altars, there they'll talk you dead;
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Ib. pp. 624, 625.
* * * * *
The Emperor Alexander of Russia is said to have declared himself
"un accident heureux." The expression occurs in Mad. de Staël's
_Allemagne_, § xvi.:--
"Mais quand dans un état social le bonbeur lui-même n'est,
pour ainsi dire, _qu'un accident heureux_ ... le patriotisme a
peu de persévérance."
* * * * *