251.

No place is dearer than home.

252.

A good mind cannot be bought, but a bad one is the most venal thing on earth.

253.

Faithful found among the faithless.

254.

Nor number, nor example, with him wrought, to change his constant mind.

255.

This is servitude, to serve an unjust rebel.

256.

Spirits that live throughout, vital in every part, cannot but by annihilating

die.

257.

Strength from truth divided, and from just, through infamy seeks fame.

258.

The stupid do nothing right.

259.

They astonished, all resistance lost,

all courage.

260.

Modesty is the strongest defence of the heart.

261.

Suspicion is always worse than the

fact.

262.

But pain is perfect misery, the worst of evils, and excessive, overturns all patience.

263.

Science has no enemy but ignorance.

264.

The most ignorant are the most impudent.

265.

Those who know every thing in general, know nothing in particular.

266.

A partizan is never a friend.

267.

Of all changes, that from happiness to misery is the worst.

268.

True love would do good beyond its power.

269.

A slip of the tongue lets out the truth.

270.

All troubles are welcome to a resolved mind.

271.

Truth, however bitter, does the mind

good.

272.

Heaven is for thee too high to know what passes there.

273.

Who himself beginning knew.

274.

Love refines the thoughts.

275.

For only in destroying, I find ease to my relentless thoughts.

276.

To stand, or fall, free in their own arbitrament it lies.

277.

For nothing lovelier can be found in woman, than to study household good, and good works in her husband to promote.

278.

For smiles from reason flow, to brutes denied, and are of love the food.

279.

And love hath oft, well-meaning, wrought much wo, yet always pity, or pardon, hath obtained.

280.

For he who tempts, though in vain, at least, asperses the tempted with dishonor foul.

281.

I, from the influence of thy looks, receive access in every virtue.

282.

Within man's self, his danger liesyet lies within his power.

283.

With goodness, principled not to reject the penitent.

284.

For solitude, sometimes, is best so

ciety.

285.

Reasonings, through mazes, lead me still but to my own conviction.

286.

O conscience! into what abyss of fears thou hast driven me.

287.

Longing to be seen, though by the devil himself.

288.

Miserable it is, to be to others cause

of misery.