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MAXIMS 
 
 POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, 
 
 AND 
 
 MORAL. 
 
 BY 
 
 EDWARD ^UNSEL 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 TWENTY THOUSAND (20,000) 
 
 ORIGTNAL AIRS 
 
 AND MUSICAL PIECES, 
 "MELODIES OF EBIN," ETC. 
 
 WITH AN 
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 SECOND EDITION (AUGMENTED). 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 IN submitting to the public the Second augmented Edition of the 
 MAXIMS, the author deems it necessary to offer some introductory 
 remarks, so as to arrive at a proper understanding of his motives in 
 publishing the present unpretentious volume. 
 
 Besides the original edition of this work (which only comprised 
 some 3,200 Maxims embodied, however, in the present issue), I have 
 published two Musical Works, viz., "Melodies of Erin" (twelve 
 songs), and also a Song with pianoforte accompaniments. Par- 
 ticulars of these as also my other productions may be consulted 
 in the APPENDIX. 
 
 For the above-mentioned works I have been favoured by letters of 
 approval accepting the books and placing them permanently in 
 their libraries from several of the leading Universities of Europe 
 and America, amongst which may be mentioned the world-famed 
 Military College of West Point, Oxford, Cambridge (report), Dublin, 
 Louvain, Bonn, Jena, Heidelberg, Gottingen, California, Sydney, etc. 
 
 For the " Melodies," and in some cases the Maxims (first edition), 
 the Municipalities of Paris, Seville, New York, Philadelphia, Man- 
 chester, and others ; the National Library of Madrid, British 
 Museum, Connecticut State Legislature, Parliaments of Victoria and 
 South Australia, University Libraries of Ghent, Utrecht, Lund, 
 Upsala, and other prominent public bodies. 
 
 Copies of these letters (selected from a considerable number 
 received) will be found in the Addenda of Public Correspondence at 
 the end of the volume. They embrace letters in Spanish, French, 
 Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, and Latin. They have not been 
 translated, but are presented in the original languages. 
 
 I have composed, probably, more ORIGINAL AIRS, and other 
 varieties in the way of music, than any other musical writer in the 
 world exceeding in number twenty thousand (20,000). For a list of 
 the different varieties vide APPENDIX. 
 
 In my theory of an "Universal Melodic Composing (Themal) 
 Faculty" which will be cursorily glanced at in another portion of 
 this work from investigations I have made, supported, too, by some 
 undoubted proofs I have come to the astounding conclusion that 
 
iv. PREFACE. 
 
 all human beings, without exception, possess the germs of a 
 creative original melodic composing faculty ; I have even formulated 
 some theories on the subject, and . read a lecture unfolding my 
 discoveries. 
 
 I am prepared to admit, however, that in the majority of instances 
 the faculty may be dormant or latent : simply for the want of being 
 exercised a philosophy certainly very flattering to haman nature. 
 
 Perhaps I may be afforded an opportunity of reproducing my 
 lecture upon this interesting art-subject with practical examples. 
 
 To return more particularly to the subject matter of the present 
 volume. 
 
 MAXIMS exert no small influence upon our lives and faculties. They 
 are inward monitors directing the motives and actions to be pursued 
 in every imaginable undertaking, not only of individuals, but of 
 nations. 
 
 Unvoiced Maxims have ruled, and must ever continue to rule, the 
 destinies of all nations. Their influence lasts through all time. 
 Philosophy (first acquired, probably, by the knowledge of human 
 errors), like Nature, is ever renewing her strength. It is the common 
 possession of all common as the blood that supports the air we 
 breathe universal as are our perceptions and faculties; and, if we 
 but reasoned justly, we would discover at the close of our investiga- 
 tions that all men are originally created on a dead-level of intellect. 
 
 There are degrees of cause and effect. One produces many, but 
 each man can contribute infinitely. 
 
 If there are grave mysteries in nature not to be unfolded yet, why 
 repine, my friends ? What we are already possessed of if we but 
 exercise the faculty may be termed an infinite possession. 
 
 Some of the following Maxims or reflections are essentially specula- 
 tive ; and, consequently, have not arrived at the dignity of settled 
 opinions. 
 
 Let this fact be distinctly understood in the examen, or discussion 
 of the propositions. 
 
 I do not hold myself responsible for the misapplication of any of 
 my theories. If some of the Maxims have a political bearing, nothing 
 of a revolutionary tendency is attempted to be propounded ; more- 
 over, the author being a Boman Catholic, every proposition is 
 necessarily advanced in accordance with, and subject to, the great 
 principles of CATHOLICITY. 
 
 Some of the ideas and positions here attempted to be advanced 
 contain if we look under the surface with a just and liberal inter- 
 pretation the germs, I think, of new philosophic principles, for 
 under every idea lies a philosophy, leading, each in turn, to an 
 
PREFACE. V. 
 
 infinitude of systems. Yet, should they be considered merely in 
 the light of speculative enquiry, may not be altogether devoid of 
 fruit. Whatever shows the force of unchanging Truth and 
 philosophic conviction in a new or unusual light is not wholly lost, 
 or without significance, as contributing to the general progress of 
 thought, no less than of material advancement. 
 
 Ideality surrounds us as by a circle or halo ; mentality is infinite 
 in productive faculty ; yet, in all probability, the greatest will 
 never (?) be unearthed. 
 
 In approaching these subjects of analytical thought and discussion, 
 however, it is incumbent upon us, in our enquiries, to be humble in 
 spirit otherwise we attain not to the practice of wisdom (that 
 divine and co-eternal principle, the greatest gift from GOD to man) 
 with a due regard, also, and submission to those : Alutoi aporiai 
 those " difficulties of hard solution" involved in the discussion. 
 
 We can assemble upon this common ground of human faculty by 
 contributing to the great republican store of true literature, which 
 is Wisdom the endless legacy, the eternal possession of all mankind 
 co-partner with Faith itself the parent of all our thoughts and 
 faculties. 
 
 I speak not in the interests of a clique or clasa, nor even of any 
 distinct nationality, but for man in the aggregate from the broad 
 philanthropic standpoint of human charity. 
 
 Perhaps it may be urged as an objection that I dogmatise too 
 frequently. 
 
 But when I state that I adopt that method of inculcating the ideas 
 here humbly submitted to the judgment of the candid and judicious 
 enquirer after truth it is solely for the purpose of condensing the 
 matter. 
 
 Such a course of treatment, it will be seen, was inseparable from a 
 discussion of the many subjects under examination. 
 
 I speak not as one possessing authority in any way. 
 
 It behoves us, as I have remarked in these enquiries i.e., in 
 speculations involving mysteries and indeterminate positions ever to 
 be humble in spirit, for true humility is the daughter of wisdom. 
 
 We must be abject to be wise. 
 
 The ideas or theories here submitted for your consideration are 
 presented in aphoristic form simply to condense the matter, not 
 in a dogmatic spirit of inquiry (which I utterly disclaim). They are 
 advanced in maxim form, but not decided: submitted to the 
 judgment of my readers of all nationalities totally removed from 
 any show of "authority" on the part of the author. 
 
A glance at a few of the leading Axioms of iny New .Esthetic and 
 Literary Theories (dealt with more at large in the body of the work) 
 may not be here out of place. 
 
 The principal Axioms may be briefly enumerated as follow : 
 
 SYNOPSIS. 
 
 1. That there are no actual termini to the operations of the 
 human intellect (aesthetical, philosophic, or in the domain of the 
 composing faculty), when once fairly aroused in the human mind or 
 called into existence. 
 
 2. That whatever the mind (mind- soul, or Nous) produces can be 
 added to, the human mind being more capable of producing than of 
 receiving. 
 
 3. That the idea we ascribe to " Genius" is an exercised faculty, 
 and, in the department of music (melodic combination), common to 
 all. 
 
 4. That we are all originally born with equal creative faculties 
 i.e., in the .productive power, or energeia. 
 
 5. Degrees of effect and cause. 
 
 6. Under every idea a philosophy, and thence systems. 
 
 7. The realms of thought, being infinite, are productive as those of 
 nature. 
 
 8. That to think is to be to exist. We cannot, therefore, cease 
 to think, or we cease to be. What can reproduce mind? We 
 cannot exist, then, ivithout we think. 
 
 9. The interidealisation of practice and theory. 
 
 10. That arguments change not facts. The facts unalterable 
 remain. 
 
 With many others of like import. 
 
 The absence of notes, quotations, explanatory matter, etc., may 
 be remarked. 
 
 Let be esta bueno. 
 
 I was not born to be a commentator. 
 
 I survey the field ; let the draftsman come after to fill in the 
 details. 
 
 Eead but to weigh, and, if possible, add to the ideas here pro- 
 mulgated ; for the human mind is more capable of producing and 
 
PREFACE. Vil. 
 
 that to a comparatively infinite extent (durante vita being necessarily 
 conceded) than of receiving. For, while life the mind-soul 
 (mentality) remains, our thoughts of a necessity progress (i.e., 
 during vitality) ; but in the mentalic suspension of our faculties (or 
 death-state), may not a moment be or appear to us as an infinite 
 (comparatively speaking, of course) extension of time ? . . . 
 
 To all mankind is granted, as a divine legacy, the wisdom of IDEAS. 
 
 Bather than ask for "more light," let us use the light from 
 within exert and bring forth our innate faculties for the progress 
 and benefit of our fellow-man. True progress is attained by inter- 
 change of thought and benefits, and thereby unite all men in the 
 great bond of progress, brotherhood, charity. 
 
 Let there be charity, too, amongst the nations as amongst indi- 
 viduals. Let us subdue our national prejudices. 
 
 There is an eternal spring of ideas and faculties in man did he but 
 call them forth. Let the Maxims be improved upon, disseminated, 
 tested. 
 
 The practical adaptation of our theories (which are solely literary 
 in their aspects, and do not entrench upon the domain of doctrine) 
 must not, in our enquiries, be overlooked. 
 
 The objections to "mere theory" are, perhaps, as universal as are 
 the theories the much-abused theories themselves. 
 
 Strange infatuation and contradiction in man ! 
 
 What is theory, and what is practice ? Why, without the theory 
 you cannot have the practice. They are inseparable. Two fruits it 
 may be, but growing on the same tree; or place it in this light: 
 Theory is the seed, practice the fruit. Aye, and unless we sow the 
 seed, we cannot reap the fruit. Is it not well ? 
 
 We must still look to the discriminating public the progressive 
 peoples of Europe and their descendants in the new world for 
 European blood governs that of other nationalities to all intents and 
 purposes the Americas and colonies differing but in government, not 
 in blood, these in the first place ; to publishers and societies ; and 
 to men of influence and worth in the social scale ; to leaders of public 
 opinion ; to government (the philosophy of power) ; and, above all, to 
 the Holy Religion of the True Cross CATHOLICITY founded by Christ 
 Himself and bequeathed to His Holy Church the great truths of 
 which, through the Apostles still influence the most powerful and 
 generous of the nations : for the promulgation of just ideas, tending 
 to the welfare that significant watchword of the philanthropist the 
 progress and intellectual advancement of the peoples. 
 
 But the reader is necessary as the book, for what is unknown is 
 lost. 
 
Vlll. PEEFACE. 
 
 That man would but exercise the endless faculties implanted in his 
 nature by a beneficent and all-wise CREATOR for the common benefit 
 of us all. 
 
 Oh, this glorious domain of infinite perception and faculty 1 
 
 IDEAS will outlive the epoch of empire and of dynasties : nay, all 
 that the universe contains of a very necessity sprung from one idea 
 that of the Infinite one, the OMNIPOTENT ; and Wisdom the eternal 
 undying sentiment His thought : from which ours are derived in 
 the primal cause. 
 
 The soul's meditation Divine WISDOM which interidealise the 
 universe. 
 
 From the WORD all things have arisen. 
 
 Or, to present the idea in the Spanish as befitting the majesty of 
 the subject : 
 
 Las paldbras de Dios son acciones. 
 
 Yet, in all let there be a well-defined a practical object : 
 The welfare the progress of human nature. 
 This is a glorious mission and the best part. 
 This is the furnace that will try their merit. 
 
 One part of the picture I have finished ; the other the knowledge 
 of it lies in the future. 
 
 EDWARD COUNSEL. 
 
MAXIMS: 
 
 POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, 
 
 AND 
 
 MOEAL. 
 
 BY 
 
 EDWARD COUNSEL, 
 
 AUTHOR 
 
 OF 
 
 TWENTY THOUSAND ORIGINAL AIRS, &c. 
 
 1. The words of God are deeds. 
 
 2. Just the truth, and that truth just. 
 
 3. Reason is the touchstone of philosophy. 
 
 4. From THE WORD all things have arisen ; a co-eternal thought 
 produced the world. 
 
 5. 111 success is the contempt of fortune. 
 
 6. Hope hath a large mouth. 
 
 7. If we could unfold the future, the present would be our greatest 
 care. 
 
 8. Law is oftentimes the shield of the despot. 
 
 9. To obey a despot is not allegiance. 
 
 10. Time is never idle with us, although we may idle with time. 
 
 11. Hope is the helpmate of patience. 
 
 12. Constancy is the mansion of truth. 
 
 13. For the good of the people for the good of the state. 
 
 14. Truth is the right hand of God. 
 
 15. Jealousy is the daughter of fame. 
 
 16. Virtue must govern. 
 
 17. Ideas lead revolutions. 
 
 18. Death is just to the just. 
 
 19. Do not walk on both paths. 
 
 20. We must be abject to be wise. 
 
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 21. Money is the test of friendship. 
 
 22. We cannot exist without we think ; to think is to be (to 
 exist). What can reproduce mind ? When can our ideas really be 
 said to be exhausted ? The more we think or write the more we may. 
 
 23. All that is good is great. 
 
 24. Consider not one fault where there are many virtues. 
 
 25. Beauty is but for a day. 
 
 26. Use Nature well and she will recompense thee well. 
 
 27. Enmity hath a large tether, but the chain often ends at 
 destruction. 
 
 28. All is part of time ; time never ends itself, but ends all. 
 
 29. What will be may (?) be resolved ; what is not capable of being 
 resolved cannot, perforce, be ; but it does not lie with us, neither is it 
 our mission, to resolve all. 
 
 30. Wisdom is the energia and phasis of the Deity. 
 
 31. Truth is a certain foundation. 
 
 32. That which is indestructible (not admitting the possibility of 
 being destroyed) must be in its very essence eternal. The soul is 
 therefore immortal, and eternally co-existing with the mind and 
 faculties as not admitting, and being incapable of, destruction. The 
 thoughts are of and from the soul. This is possible ; and, being so, 
 is conformable to reason (the perceptive faculty of right). Even 
 improbability must have a basis of probability to work upon, 
 
 33. Repentance is nothing but mockery when it comes too late. 
 
 34. Genius cannot be bought with gold. 
 
 35. Fancy is the golden-flower of reason. 
 
 36. Health is the best wealth. 
 
 37. The way to true wealth is by the paths of honesty. 
 
 38. Away ambition ! false hourly phantom ! 
 
 39. None are free from slander. 
 
 40. Death ! where is thy conqueror? 
 
 41. All have their miseries incorporated with our nature ; he is 
 not truly a man who has not experienced adversity. 
 
 42. Two roads lead before thee ; which wilt thou follow ? 
 
 43. Grapple with fortune stoutly you will prove victorious if 
 firm. 
 
 44. To be immoderate in anything is to be moderate in nothing. 
 
 45. If you intend well there is no cause for shams. 
 
 46. You love drink, and yet you like not poison. 
 
 47. Do not call every wind a tempest. 
 
 48. A charitable mind cannot harbour envy. 
 
 49. If you are honest you are prudent. 
 
 50. Idle thoughts are foes to industry. 
 
 51. Be firm, but not stoical ; he who does not mind the storm 
 may perish by it. 
 
 52. Money, like a running horse, should be kept well-in-hand. 
 
 53. Any one may have the power of doing good. 
 
 54. People admire science, but love art. 
 
 55. Scorn not those of inferior station. Flatter not those above 
 thee. 
 
 56. Be true to thy truthful yearnings. 
 
 57. Ask me for time and offend me. 
 
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 58. Talk not to men of what they know not. Talk to a carpenter 
 about wood ; to a mason of stone. 
 
 59. There are more actors in real life than upon the stage. 
 
 60. Consider thy meals as a duty, not pleasure. 
 
 61. Merit is not always appreciated. 
 
 62. An original melody is worth a thousand fantasias. Your 
 " scientific " melody is an abomination ; " science " is the bane of 
 all true melody. 
 
 63. Show a bold front to a dog. 
 
 64. Woe be to the nations that profess not arms. 
 
 65. Pride is useless. 
 
 66. Walk only on the common road when a better cannot be 
 found. 
 
 67. Every state in life has its sorrows. 
 
 68. If thou art just, fear nought that can be said of thee. 
 
 69. In all let there be virtue. 
 
 70. Ask of those who can give. 
 
 71. Judge not from the face. 
 
 72. Avoid extremes. Violent exposures to heat and cold beget 
 cramps. 
 
 73. Do not sit on a hedge and then say thou art unknown. 
 
 74. It is better to be brave where discretion is useless. 
 
 75. If the vicious have no shame, shall the virtuous have ? 
 
 76. Be not turned from the course by a straw. 
 
 77. We know not what the child may become. 
 
 78. In conversation suit yourself to your hearers. 
 
 79. Evil is not advantageous to a people. 
 
 80. War is sometimes the security of life. 
 
 81. Even a successful war is a loss to most families. 
 
 82. Gold requires no lexicon. 
 
 83. Guilt is always present to the mind (of the guilty). 
 
 84. It is good in life (as in physic) to deviate from the common 
 road sometimes. 
 
 85. Too many commanders spoil the victory. 
 
 86. You know not who is your friend until you prove it (him). 
 
 87. A fool is better than a knave. 
 
 88. Decide and begin. 
 
 89. Men like to talk of themselves. 
 
 90. Epitaph (to a scornful reader) : - I have died to live ; thou art 
 living to die. 
 
 91. Variety is pleasing in discourse. 
 
 92. If you have done anything worthy praise, say not that you are 
 unworthy of it. 
 
 93. It is better to be happy than to be great. 
 
 94. There is no thornless path in the world. 
 
 95. There is a road to every house. 
 
 96. Neglect not business for pleasure. 
 
 97. Intend well and you will do well, for the good intent redeems. 
 
 98. No one has a right to call another fool. 
 
 99. Wise men know each other. 
 100. To delay sometimes is to lose. 
 101. Riches cannot be compared to wisdom 
 
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 102. To be independent is to be rich. 
 
 103. Talent how dear to the possessor of it. 
 
 104. To lose often is to gain. 
 
 105. Those who want shame ought also to want mercy from 
 others. 
 
 106. Those who praise nature often cannot bear the sight (site) of 
 trees. 
 
 107. Receive all in honesty. 
 
 108. Forget not a favour done thee. 
 
 109. Language is the parent of words. 
 
 110. Savages do not want eloquence. 
 
 111. To seem wise often is to be so. 
 
 112. Imitation is not genius. 
 
 113. There are other things besides fame. 
 
 114. To be artful in everything is to be natural in nothing. 
 
 115. Order in battle is greater than numbers. 
 
 116. Arms and armour are of little account if what they cover be 
 faint-hearted. 
 
 117. Bad citizens often make good soldiers. 
 
 118. Do not labour and destroy again. 
 
 119. When there is no law but that of the sword, let the people 
 look to themselves. 
 
 120. Liberty is often praised by those who practise despotism. 
 
 121. To have liberty with a despot is to be a slave. 
 
 122. Slavery is evil. 
 
 123. There is but right and wrong. 
 
 124.- Different people prefer different things. 
 
 125. Let the marriage bed be inviolate. 
 
 126. Love often moves the sternest. 
 
 127. Destruction (often) lurks in women's eyes. 
 
 128. A virtuous woman deserves a good husband. 
 
 129. Mind not frivolous pursuits. 
 
 130. To please often is to conquer. 
 
 131. A word makes thy fortune sometimes. 
 
 132. The vicious have a wholesome fear of the law. 
 
 133. A numerous and powerful people should not allow bad laws 
 to be imposed upon them. 
 
 134. Against God and fallen ! 
 
 135. Let those be destroyed who are against the common good. 
 
 136. Nations must bow to events. 
 
 137. What is justice in one place is injustice in another. 
 
 138. Envy not the dying but pity. 
 
 139. Believe not every one. 
 
 140. Pity and love are nearly allied. 
 
 141. To admire is not always to praise. 
 
 142. Let not the chance of doing good go by. 
 
 143. To be silent oft is to learn. 
 
 144. Beware of those who flatter. 
 
 145. Write with art, but learn from nature. 
 
 146. Dogmatism does not carry conviction (always). 
 
 147. To be sincere is better than to be polite. 
 
 148. A suitable employment is a preservative of virtue. 
 
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 149. Of the thousands in the amphitheatre there was but one 
 Virgil. 
 
 150. How often does hypocrisy impose (upon us). 
 
 151. Do not know everything. 
 
 152. Encourage industry. 
 
 153. Do not run into water and then blame another for taking 
 you out. 
 
 154. The powerful are harmed very little by ridicule. 
 
 155. Turn not at every corner ; stop not to examine all. 
 
 156. To see some things once is too often. 
 
 157. Honour is the cause often of ruin to families and genera- 
 tions. 
 
 158. When will prejudices be removed? National prejudices 
 accord not well with progress. To be truly impartial and pro- 
 gressive, should we first begin by denationalising ourselves ? 
 
 159. Many people admire merely an imitation of others. 
 
 160. Passion makes a burlesque of the features. 
 
 161. The end of time is the birthday of Eternity. 
 
 162. All literature is but a word a thought a maxim amplified. 
 
 163. There are many great people in the world if we value what 
 they say of themselves. 
 
 164. Some say even slavery has its joys. 
 
 165. Grasp not always at the highest place, for, if you should 
 happen to fail, your disappointment will be the more severe. 
 
 166. Cringe before no man. 
 
 167. Too much bashfulness is as bad as too much boldness. 
 
 168. Thoughts are as the sands of the seashore - infinite. 
 
 169. Discipline should be acquired. 
 
 170. Men naturally wish to govern. 
 
 171. What dangers people encounter for fame 1 
 
 172. Some disorders are not positive injuries. 
 
 173. Let there be order and system in most things. 
 
 174. To prefer certain things there must be comparison. 
 
 175. Politeness is not essential at all times. 
 
 176. There is life (and death) in the grape. 
 
 177. The tongue how often an enemy. 
 
 178. Self-love (in excess) is an enemy. 
 
 179. Call one thought, and another will follow. 
 
 180. Frugality is not always to be commended, nor liberality to- 
 be condemned. 
 
 181. Abundance is often a dangerous good. 
 
 182. Empires will fall dynasties fade away ; but the mind of 
 man will survive the destruction of all inanimate matter its 
 destiny is eternal. 
 
 183. Fortune's favours are too often like thunderbolts -which kill. 
 
 184. War is oftentimes the best monitor. 
 
 185. Be active ; let not thy life run smoothly as the stream. 
 
 186. There is no praise for being a proficient in some things. 
 
 187. Laws change as the seasons. 
 
 188. Life is not always to be imitated on the stage. 
 
 189. A hard grasp of the hand is not always the proof of 
 friend. 
 
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 190. To speak too much of a good action lessens its value. 
 191. It is the fee that draws the doctor. 
 
 192. I do not wish it to be understood as a reflection upon the 
 many members of a worthy profession when I give expression to the 
 remark that lawyers are men who will swear black is white if they 
 are paid for it. 
 
 193. To shake the world and raise a feather. 
 194. Some people make use of all their eyes. 
 195. There are grave mysteries in science. 
 196. Expensive lawsuits are doubtful benefits. 
 197. Some arts may be learned from savages. 
 198. Do not interrupt the thread of a profitable discourse. 
 199. Last to be served though first in importance. 
 200. Exercise the system ; the loom, if suffered to rest, requires 
 oiling. 
 
 201. Be not ashamed to own thy ignorance of some things. 
 202. Curses seldom convince. 
 203. Eidicule is a weak form of satire. 
 204. " The right is a powerful weapon." 
 
 205. The brave should not have a private pique against each 
 other. 
 
 206. Wars of pen and ink often lead to wars of cannon and 
 bayonets. 
 
 207. The press is a powerful censor (except in despotisms). 
 208. Beading useless books is like sowing bad seed your trouble 
 does not reward you. 
 
 209. Pleasure is oftentimes a trouble, and work a pleasure. 
 210. Pleasures mostly begin well and end ill. 
 211. Think of the absent. 
 
 212. Though perhaps a worse fortune in the end a better in the 
 present. 
 
 213. Eloquence can save souls. 
 214. Many books little reading. 
 
 215. There are faces and bodies, and of all forms, nearly. 
 216. Of all " dears" (so say the philosophers) wisdom is the 
 dearest. 
 
 217. Wisdom is mostly the fruit of experience. 
 218. How many are there who seem to live well -yet, if we knew 
 them well, live ill ? 
 
 219. The pen how often an antagonist 1 
 220. A wife is the dearest, and often the dearest. 
 221. A judge must not have sympathy. 
 
 222. How often does conversation intoxicate more than drink 1 
 223. Wisdom is great if there is little wisdom. 
 224. One's own wisdom is dearest. 
 
 225. You can be kind to your horse, although you curb him. 
 226. Doing, and not to talk. 
 
 227. The ignorant and simple are sometimes our tutors. 
 228. How extravagant we are sometimes when we want and have 
 no money ! 
 
 229. Bad from best is an easy transition. 
 230. Many people write to us about what they have not to tell us. 
 
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 231. It is the mind, and not the body, which contains enmity. 
 
 232. Every art has its stepping-stones. 
 
 233. Last in the campaign, an 1 first in the fame. 
 
 234. Man often finds it his interest to buy a neighbour's good-will. 
 
 235. To take wood from us and give us the shavings. 
 
 236. Many may prefer, but may not choose. 
 
 237. We have often to be thankful for hopes frustrated. 
 
 238. Know who a man is before you let him smell your purse. 
 
 239. Do not affect the company of pot-house friends; and of 
 strangers there beware ! 
 
 240. To guard against ill is better than to be able to foretell it. 
 
 241. Fame is of little account without profit. 
 
 242. 'Tis merry in a crowd sometimes. 
 
 243. No comfort where there are many. 
 
 244. Every thought is a book. 
 
 245. The praise of the uncharitable is sometimes as foolish as 
 their censure. 
 
 246. When full of .wine we ask for water. 
 
 247. It is not the number of books which constitute the literature 
 of a country. 
 
 248. How often are observations misapplied ! 
 
 249. Follies will never have an end. 
 
 250. Letters are sometimes capital things if they are answered. 
 
 251. Trade with thoughts as with gold. 
 
 252. The world is ruled by thought. 
 
 253. To look into ourselves this is one art. 
 
 254. Guesses are oftentimes the surest answer. 
 
 255. Who can harp on the strings of a well-guarded heart ? 
 
 256. The successful man seldom blames the ingratitude of man- 
 kind. 
 
 257. There are great trials in the air. 
 
 258. He swallows a tree at every gulp. 
 
 259. Truth is centred in the soul ; who can outroot from the 
 conscience a falsehood? 
 
 260. A man has the power to abstain from any evil the work of 
 man (as wine, etc.) 
 
 261. Be not too methodical, and do not affect the martinet. 
 
 262. The business of amusement it encircles the world. 
 
 263. Guard against excess in eating, as in drinking. 
 
 264. The way of the world is " jolly," says the inebriate ; and 
 " sad," says the melancholy man. 
 
 265. KINO AND SAGE King" How old art thou ?" Sage " Both 
 young and old, sire." King " How sayest thou?" Sage "I am 
 young in goodness, and old in sin." 
 
 266. The soul often laughs at the sallies of the mind. 
 
 267. When your credit is lost your honour is imperilled. 
 
 268. Seek to know before you teach. 
 
 269. We may often study in a crowd, while unable to study in 
 our closet. 
 
 270. A loud voice is not always the index of a true courage. 
 
 271. Laughter is often the cause of tears, and tears laughter. 
 
 272. Humility and pride are often allied. 
 
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 273. What is owned by none is owned by all. 
 
 274. Be of good cheer when you see friends dear. 
 
 275. - Indifference often degenerates into satiety. 
 
 276. Let liberty reside in your mansion. 
 
 277. From the meeting of friends often spring the encounter of 
 foes. 
 
 278. Never be abashed when you meet with a rebuff ; it tests one's 
 philosophy. 
 
 279. LINES FOR A DIAL : 
 
 It's easy to count the hours as they flee ; 
 Think well of lost time when looking at me. 
 
 280. Advice that is sought for by your enemy must be good advice 
 indeed. 
 
 281. A rich man's tears would water a poor man's garden. 
 
 282. Seek knowledge from the purest source. 
 
 283. Many things good in themselves appear evil when used 
 unwisely. 
 
 284. The first in appearance is not always the first in importance. 
 
 285. Walk not against the will. 
 
 286. He is wise who can advise himself. 
 
 287. The wisest man is he who does not require advice. 
 
 288. From the different views of wisdom spring our greatest errors. 
 
 289. Vanity is the flatterer of the soul. 
 
 290. Self-interest is often stronger than blood. 
 
 291. The world often excuses the want of virtue in one who is 
 possessed of wealth. 
 
 292. A rich man is seldom in want of an auditor. 
 
 293. That which is unknown is (nearly) lost. 
 
 294. Wine is the bond of friendship (and enmity). 
 
 295. The soul is (often) born a twin. 
 
 296. Value is comparison. 
 
 297. Look from the future. 
 
 298. The mind is the duplicate of the soul. 
 
 299. To hear some people talk you would think they had bodies 
 only body-men, who never think. 
 
 300. Could we unfold futurity we might behold War on Peace ; 
 start at shadows ; and find that all shadows would be substance. 
 
 301. Written thoughts are the fancies embodied. 
 
 302. Keep from debt, and peace expect. 
 
 303. The will is the most dangerous rival of the soul, and its 
 strongest enemy. 
 
 304. Many important views escape the eye of he that is on the 
 mountain top, which is easily discernible to the traveller on the 
 plain. 
 
 305. Peace of mind arises from the remembrance of few evil, and 
 many good, acts (performed). 
 
 306. Resolve well, and try to attain your good resolves if you 
 would be happy. 
 
 307. Live well now, that thou may live well hence. 
 
 308. Vice is a thorn to the soul. 
 
 309. Walk where virtue does not lean. 
 
 310. Destiny pursues as the hare runs. 
 
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 311. Judge in good time now that time may not rashly judge 
 hence. 
 
 312. Be wise before the storm. 
 
 313. To rule thyself is better than to rule others. 
 
 314. Pride is the child of honour. 
 
 315. Be wise when both paths lie open not when one is closed. 
 
 316. To govern thyself is to overcome most evils. 
 
 317. We cannot combat ills unknown. 
 
 318. Wisdom is confined to no set speech or men. 
 
 319. Wine draws more "friends " than wisdom. 
 
 320. Lend to thyself first. 
 
 321. Fair promises are seeds unsown. 
 
 322. Fire is the heart of Nature. 
 
 323. The easiest trade is that which is hardest learned. 
 
 324. For gold, Governments sometimes offer a premium for vice. 
 
 325. Folly is distorted wisdom or wisdom in a cloud. 
 
 326. Tyranny in some measure seems to be a necessity to all 
 Governments. 
 
 327. To the strong mind Fortune retires (or smiles). 
 
 328. Spend less on pleasure the more you earn. 
 
 329. The applause of the public is (like) golden sands. 
 
 330. The frame is often more valuable than the picture the case 
 than the jewel. 
 
 331. He who pays well is followed more than he who says well. 
 
 332. Swim in the ditch if you can't in the sea. 
 
 333. Not he that looks ill, but he that does it. 
 
 334. Confusion often brings forth light. 
 
 335. Dreams make all men authors. 
 
 336. The same action does not always lead to the same result. 
 
 337. That which is impossible were it possible would not 
 serve us. 
 
 338. That we have is not so sweet as that we would have. 
 
 339. Many give that they may get. 
 
 340. Some fame is easily acquired. 
 
 341. Wait in pain, rather than decide in haste. 
 
 342. There is some resemblance in men's thoughts and features. 
 
 343. Nature ever changes never rests. 
 
 344. A hovel in a storm is better than a house beyond. 
 
 345. Guilt is oftentimes the strongest witness against itself. 
 
 346. Wisdom is the helper of mind and body. 
 
 347. Lost time is that which is badly spent. 
 
 348. Act well in the present the future will act well for thee. 
 
 349. No immorality on chance (of things). 
 
 350. Death aims only once, but never misses fire. 
 
 351. One day of good fortune is better than ten of hope. 
 
 352. What wills often effects. 
 
 353. Like gold in the hands of a savage are the sayings of wisdom 
 in the mouth of a fool ; wisdom valuable in itself, but of no value to 
 the possessor. 
 
 354. False the dogma false the doctor. 
 
 355. Our friends frequently serve us more by their wishes than 
 by their deeds. 
 
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 356. -Empty the heart of enmity, and you will store it with virtue. 
 
 357. Arguments change not the fact. 
 
 358. The intention condemns sometimes before the act. 
 
 359. We proceed in life by station(s) ; we succeed by station. 
 
 360. Duty may be performed by all. 
 
 361. To form the excuse before the committal. 
 
 362. Great in evils little in virtues. 
 
 363. The greater the dross, the greater often the brilliancy. 
 
 364. We repeat the advice on taking it. 
 
 365. Necessity offers more than gratitude can fulfil. 
 
 366. We give example by taking it. 
 
 367. Terror flies from the frequent contemplation of it. 
 
 368. Many are rejected from the ignorance of those parts of 
 learning (or art) which are unnecessary. 
 
 369. Without prudence, without sense. 
 
 370. Distrust that state of life which is most prosperous. 
 
 371. We often learn by unlearning. 
 
 372. What we know is built on what we do not know. 
 
 373. The greater the palace, the narrower the principles. 
 
 374. Patience is stronger than force. 
 
 375. Wisdom is often counted folly by the unwise. 
 
 376. The very certainty of gain does not always draw followers. 
 
 377. The reception we obtain is not always what we expect. 
 
 378. Not the sword, but the arm that wields it. 
 
 379. The fate of men is often decided by one oftener by many. 
 
 380. There is small gain in that (which if we lose) we regret not. 
 
 381. Time lengthens with the wise. 
 
 382. The same scene does not always give rise to the same feeling. 
 
 383. Fortune favours thought. 
 
 884. Wisdom is oftentimes at variance with " honour." 
 
 385. Many are up early and late yet never wise. 
 
 386. The foes that are unseen are often stronger than those that 
 are seen. 
 
 387. A good guard is better than a bad strike. 
 
 388. Time and place change the value. 
 
 389. A disagreeable neighbour is sometimes missed. 
 
 390. It is a good temper that can stand the attack of a child. 
 
 391. The cause of joy does not always cause it. 
 
 392. Hope is a day the end of which we may never see. 
 
 393. Soiled honour is often a net to catch riches. 
 
 394. It is necessary only to agree with some to make them 
 abashed. 
 
 395. What we laugh at now we are often obliged to follow. 
 
 396. Eule hope. 
 
 397. Self-defence is Nature's wisdom. 
 
 398. We often deny ourselves for fashion's sake. 
 
 399. National feelings are mostly illiberal (to other nations). 
 
 400. No remedy without the proof. 
 
 401. Evils which we think ended are often displaced by worse 
 ones. 
 
 402. He who gives a good example through life may live another 
 life by his example ; for a useless life is less than a life. 
 
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 403. How often does a study tyrannise over us 1 yet we delight in 
 our servitude. Fame lightens labour. 
 
 404. Some hands always write gold ; a writer often tires his 
 reader, yet spins for himself gold. 
 
 405. Ideas come from an endless vista. 
 
 406. Fancy often leads to acts great and terrible. 
 
 407. The same is not always the same. 
 
 408. -.-A speech not remembered is but a breath. 
 
 409. Some fame is easy gotten and forgotten. 
 
 410. A virtuous and hardy youth is a glorious scene of life long 
 to be remembered. 
 
 411. He who is not virtuous ought not to have arrived at any age. 
 
 412. We love that little (which, when we lose) we love not. 
 
 413. The will is not always with the body. 
 
 414. Peace is the bright star of the world ; yet must not war be 
 universally condemned. A righteous war is a legacy from heaven 
 oftentimes the handmaid of a nation's liberty. 
 
 415. Retreat but to breathe stronger. 
 
 416. Memory is the greatest traveller. 
 
 417. Flattery is often involuntary. 
 
 418 The sword that rests rusts. 
 
 419. Time is a strict monitor. 
 
 420. Think your breathings may be numbered. 
 
 421. Time renews sometimes. 
 
 422. As a rod so life may be divided. 
 
 423. Trivial things have often been the springs of great actions. 
 
 424. The first beginnings are generally crude. 
 
 425. Although you have the wood you are not always sure of the 
 fire. 
 
 426. The longer -the lesser of labour. 
 
 427. Thought is mightier than action. 
 
 428. Our actions often make the cause ; and there is a cause for 
 actions. 
 
 429. Anger is often comparison. 
 
 430. True politeness is a great servitor. 
 431. The flower fades that is not looked upon. 
 432. Fancy often leads to fact. 
 433. Fancy and fact often change places. 
 434. The history of the book is oftentimes the greatest history. 
 435. The reason we so frequently travel over the same road is 
 that there is no other whereby we may travel. 
 436. Printing is the breath of literature. 
 437. Wisdom takes most when it requires least. 
 438. Let thyself be eclipsed if by doing so thy follies are. 
 439. Time begets more than fiction can create. 
 440. Useless is that he fruit whereof lasts not. 
 441. Unseen, often huge seen, little. 
 442. More would you know, and know not one? 
 443. Reason is the pathway of virtue. 
 444. We may often learn from our own works. 
 445. The thought of virtue is a sword at evil. 
 446. Abjure the wrong, adjudge the evil. 
 
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 447. Mistrust thyself when the road is smoothest. 
 
 448. Friendship's eye is (often) blind. 
 
 449. Bear thy greatest fortune as if thou deserved it not. 
 
 450. A true friend has double cares. 
 
 451. That which hurts the mind and body hurts the soul. 
 
 452. A good name is a preventive to evil. 
 
 453. Liberty is often a book unclosed, and made as books are 
 for us. 
 
 454. Wisdom ia a treasure, the key whereof is never lost. 
 
 455. Scorn not wisdom ; for it will be without thee. 
 
 456. Time is often a magnet to the unwise. 
 
 457. Justice is often the wind that blows the criminal to his 
 punishment. 
 
 458. Firm is often the resolve, and infirm the action. 
 
 459. There is frequently a poison in fortune's gifts. 
 
 460. The body should be gauged by temperance, as the soul by 
 virtue. 
 
 461. The remembrance of good deeds should be an antidote to 
 evil ones. 
 
 462. We envy him not whose fate we may not envy. 
 
 463. A disguise may often prove a hard trial to a true friend. 
 
 464. The strictest economy will waste at times. 
 
 465. Not the effect but the intention often causes the evil. 
 
 466. Define strictly the line between thy wishes and necessities. 
 
 467. Wisdom's door is ever open. 
 
 468. To do things well should be the great aim of life. 
 
 469. Fear flies through fancy's door. 
 
 470. Admiration often subdues the soul to chance. 
 
 471. Truth often spoils the dinner. 
 
 472. Care flies on money's wings. 
 
 473. We are not adjudged by one human judgment. 
 
 474. Meditation is the longest book. 
 
 475. Music is one of the allowed pleasures of the soul. 
 
 476. The matter, not the words, forms the length or value of a 
 book. 
 
 477. A spendthrift's purse is like a tree that never blossoms. 
 
 478. Kesemblance is a bond of favour. 
 
 479. Truth is the foundation of justice and honour. 
 
 480. Make it well for thee to live, and thou shalt live well. 
 
 481. Fortune acts without conditions. 
 
 482. One cause of misery is the inability to change. 
 
 483. The manner is often an index to the heart. 
 
 484. Virtue is a standard which is upheld by many strong arms. 
 
 485. Accident is a great monitor. 
 
 486. That which we are in want of ourselves is often blamed when 
 it is in the possession of others. 
 
 487. The heart is often elated when the face is calm. 
 
 488. Dress is like a letter, which is sometimes well and sometimes 
 ill received. 
 
 489. We do not state the same to everyone. 
 
 490. It is difficult to walk through brambles without some of them 
 sticking to you. 
 
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 491. Joy hath many features. 
 
 492. You have not lost all when you have life. 
 
 493. You are not always safe even when far from the precipice. 
 
 494. Our feelings often colour the truth. 
 
 495. Accident often lurks in the simplest movement. 
 
 496. Nature has no remorse. 
 
 497. Many obstacles are placed when our interest sets them. 
 
 498. The slightest sign of evil is frequently the strongest con 
 firmation of it. 
 
 499. Hope is a powerful weapon. 
 
 500. Self-interest is a chain upon our actions. 
 
 501. The course of justice often prevents it. 
 
 502. The law's course frequently prevents a just action. 
 
 503. The uncertainty of justice often prevents it. 
 
 504.- The just often fear to be served rightly. 
 
 505. No fruit without the root. 
 
 506. Want is both parent and child of war. 
 
 507. Where evil is there doth evil emanate. 
 
 508. Nothing is by itself; the mirror reflects several when it 
 reflects one. 
 
 509. When anger walks it is strongest ; let it rest and it gets weak. 
 
 510. Consider life a debt which must be discharged. 
 
 511. Fear fathoms many things. 
 
 512. It is not good to improve the danger. 
 
 513. One key opens many sciences. 
 
 514. Time is the creditor of pleasure. 
 
 515. We (often) please others while we pain ourselves. 
 
 516. We often welcome evils, yet turn from good tidings. 
 
 517. Wisdom rewards often by taking from us. 
 
 518. Thou hast been formed for a cause let that cause form thee. 
 
 519. Words which enlighten some darken others. 
 
 520. The result is equal to the cause. 
 
 521. Many retreat who have the best vantage ground. 
 
 522. That which makes thee miserable oft serves thee best. 
 
 523. The clearest moral is dark through a strange tongue or 
 uncouth delivery. 
 
 524. That which furthers the country (or empire). 
 
 525. Any state of life contents if we know no other. 
 
 526. Be careful in those things which will be known. 
 
 527. Language is the key of knowledge. 
 
 528. Self-interest is a strict monitor. 
 
 529. The eye is the best key. 
 
 530. Wisdom is a lesson which is never too well known. 
 
 531. Let prudence clothe thy conduct. 
 
 532. Detraction is the heir of jealousy. 
 
 533. Our conduct, like our clothes, often requires mending. 
 
 534. Prudence hath two elements. 
 
 535. The best friend does not always receive the best welcome. 
 
 536. The resemblance to evil is often the cause of it. 
 
 537. When wisdom leaves the house folly enters it. 
 
 38. Feeling is the oil of life. 
 
 539. To be pleased with good actions is the unction of life. 
 
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 540. Fear hath a numerous progeny. 
 541. Beauty is but a lease from nature. 
 542. Deepise not that which may make thee despised. 
 543. Do not scold with a woman who is a linguist, for, though 
 you may withstand her French, her German may annihilate you. 
 544. Bead, admire, and tire yourself; how often is it called 
 
 545. A hungry cat will not acknowledge the friendship of a rat. 
 
 546. Knowledge is very often not wisdom. 
 
 547. He speaks as a sage and acts as a fool. 
 
 548. There is hardly anything more to be condemned in generals 
 than senseless valour. 
 
 549. Your appetite call not your constitution. 
 
 550. Tastes alter with years. 
 
 551. To know one thing we must forget another. 
 
 552. We all (if we have a mind to) can draw from wisdom as from 
 a fountain. 
 
 553. To strive and to become unknown. 
 
 554. Deep thoughts are deep, when the surface ruffles. 
 
 555. Life is a continual march towards the grave. 
 
 556. There is (often) great substance in air. 
 
 557. A just man prosperous the happiest in the world. 
 
 558. In the greatest misfortune oft lies the greatest hope. 
 
 559. The certainty of succeeding makes the road easy. 
 
 560. It is often the interest of another that we admit that which 
 is not our interest. 
 
 561. It is a gocd maxim that bears the tests of ail weathers. 
 
 562. Never ask for what you cannot repay. 
 
 563. A Spaniard without a cigar is like a steamer without a 
 funnel. 
 
 564. Genius is books to-morrow. 
 
 565. Literature triumphs when liberty is on the wane. 
 
 566. Look right and left then go ahead. 
 
 567. Rotten is that bond which depends but on a name. 
 
 668.' Look over a dirty face where there's a clean band. 
 
 569. Live one day well, and let that day be thy year. 
 
 570. Honour is great, but truth is greater. 
 
 571. A meerschaum pipe, some lager beer, and good sauer kraut 
 are three things which a German can't do well without. 
 
 572. The phrase of sorrow doth oft the sad heart make gay ; 
 while gaiety doth oft the soul o'erpress with leaden woe. 
 
 573. Often is a favour asked when none is required. 
 
 574. Design that well which is to bear the test of ages. 
 
 575. In the greatest advancement oft lurks the greatest obstruc- 
 tion. 
 
 576. Nature hath always an after-thought. 
 
 577. The substance often flies when the shadow is greater. 
 
 578. Anxiety is the attendant of much travel. 
 
 579. Morning is the fresh page of nature. 
 
 580. A bad mouth empties the bag. 
 
 581. It is too long to wait for the proof of everything. 
 
 582. An interchange of literature is the conversation of nations. 
 
BY FDWARD COUNSEL. 23 
 
 583. The sick man's wish is often the scorn of he that is in good 
 health. 
 
 584. That which obstructs hope often increases it. 
 
 585. An hour of labour sometimes gives to others years of work. 
 
 586. Wishes people the world. 
 
 587. The gate of death is never at rest. 
 
 588. What is wise in Catalonia is not always wise at Biscay. 
 
 589. Un hidalgo a Priego un paysano en Madrid (i.e., a gentle- 
 man at Priego is only a peasant at Madrid). 
 
 590. Good nature will condone the faults of ill-taste. 
 
 591. Self-denial is the first step towards economy. 
 
 592. Consider that day as a debt which diminishes thy fortune. 
 
 593. It is not always wise to add all that may be added. 
 
 594. Fancy gives a large interpretation. 
 
 595. Good manners is the food of humility. 
 
 596. Let virtue be the mantle of thy conduct. 
 
 597. It is better to deny thyself than for others to deny thee. 
 
 598. When expense is necessary think well of the morrow. 
 
 599. Let no " friend" be the controller of thy purse. 
 
 600. That fortune which improves not is loss. 
 
 601. Profit walks with economy. 
 
 602. Leave nothing to chance for gain. 
 
 603. Self-denial will bear thy fortune. 
 
 604. Let thy firm resolves in virtue be as oaths to bind you. 
 
 605. Economy in this life and virtue in all. 
 
 606. It is better to die well than live ill. 
 
 607. Many friends many losses. 
 
 608. Often are losses multiplied when known to others. 
 
 609. Prejudice sees through an obscure vision or lens. 
 
 610. What one has proved to be right, another has found not to 
 prosper with him. 
 
 611. Success is a hidden jewel, and is found but by few. 
 
 612. Thy fortune is never at the lowest when you have health. 
 
 613. Our experience tells us what is labour and recreation. 
 
 614. Many of our writers labour but for the production of 
 volumes " book-making." 
 
 615. All nations contribute to the great march of progress. Let 
 there be charity amongst nations, as amongst individuals. Let us 
 subdue our national prejudices. 
 
 616. A constitution imperilled justifies revolution. 
 
 617. If everything were easy of attainment, merit would be only 
 a word. 
 
 618. Boldness oft stares discretion, as discretion bows before 
 success. 
 
 619. Adopt those things Nvhich pain the will (or body), but 
 improve the health. 
 
 620. Let thy work be thy penance. 
 
 621. The defenders of evil deeds deserve the same punishment as 
 the doers. 
 
 622. Where a proof may be forthcoming it is not wise to scorn. 
 He may be justly confident in those things that are known but to 
 himself. 
 
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 623. Motto : Honour to the end. 
 
 624. Do not, for regard of others, be out of regard for thyself. 
 
 625. To admire too much is to humble thyself and to lessen thy 
 self-esteem. 
 
 626. Truth, justice, and honour is the trefoil flower of wisdom. 
 
 627. To ask and give advice is the cheapest bargain. 
 
 628. Defend thyself against ill-tidings. 
 
 629. A wise man's thought may when he sees it next speak 
 through volumes. 
 
 630. The principal thought of flattering "friends" is: What 
 lessens or increases thy fortune. 
 
 631. He who is prepared hath double armour. 
 
 632. War hastens fortune. 
 
 633. " Novelty " often consists in putting a new face on old 
 materials. 
 
 634. Virtue's years are never-ending ages. 
 
 635. Memory sometimes rests on action. 
 
 636. Faith in God is a stout armour. 
 
 637. Always feel an interest in that which is stamped with a 
 great a generous nation's approval. 
 
 638. It would be well if we could be despotic over our follies. 
 
 639. Often is memory half the remedy. 
 
 640. Time that is the cause of all grief appeases it also. 
 
 641. The eye is the best book of thy profits (or possessions). 
 
 642. Best not overmuch, for life itself is but a pause ; consider 
 only what life is on an age (or cycle). 
 
 643. What the poor slight the rich often fear. 
 
 644. We write down our bad debts, but not our bad deeds. 
 
 645. The soul rests with virtue. 
 
 646. Stay not for the proof of that which deceives. 
 
 647. Perseverance is allied to study. 
 
 648. Koutine is a mound of obstruction ; he deserves praise who 
 like a surveyor, let us say can a road clear through it. 
 
 649. The most valued is always at hand. 
 
 650. The present is the food of the future. 
 
 651. Let thy firm resolves in virtue be as a deed. 
 
 652. Countless ages have produced, and will yet produce, that 
 which passes and rests not. 
 
 653. There is no virtue in poverty if it breeds discontent (or envy). 
 
 654. Virtue is always near us if we receive it. 
 
 655. The greatest value wears a mask. 
 
 656. Death, the most certain and uncertain it solves all, yet not 
 to be solved itself. 
 
 657. Uncertainty is allied to pain. 
 
 658. Eepentance is the debt one owes to virtue. 
 
 659. Virtue hath many branches. 
 
 660. Truth is the key to all virtue. 
 
 661. Much time is spent on that which we know to be unprofitable. 
 
 662. Profit has a deep purse. 
 
 63. Confidence in the right, even when undefended. 
 
 664. Be firm (as that which hath passed) in the right. 
 
 65. Time is the support of all. 
 
BY EDWABD COUNSEL. 25 
 
 66. Destiny always surrounds thee. 
 
 667. A proof is required of a friend. 
 
 668. When the highest step of fortune is reached many wants are 
 still unsatisfied. 
 
 669. Life is the servant of time. 
 
 670. He who has the conduct of a war should consider the 
 responsibility as if his life were under trial, and the punishment 
 unknown. 
 
 671. Probability strengthens caution. 
 
 672. Nearly all our life is one continual obstacle. 
 
 673. Griefs and troubles accumulate with years. 
 
 674. Our fortune is often made to feel what we feel or think not 
 of (ourselves). 
 
 675. Let recreation balance, but not over-weigh, labour. 
 
 676. Happy is the man who can labour on the abstract. 
 
 677. Exercise is the parent of originality. 
 
 678. From a single pause *of ten springs a lengthened work. 
 
 679. Truth and virtue are flowers that die not. 
 
 680. Eevenge and regret both meet over the grave. 
 
 681. A man may be despotic in books ; but if we seem to be 
 dogmatic at times, it is solely for the purpose of condensing the 
 matter. 
 
 682. Speculation is not opinion. I do not hold myself responsible 
 for the misapplication of any of my theories. 
 
 683. Be accountable but for thy one leading idea in truth, and not 
 for any misconstructions that may be brought against it. 
 
 684. War often gives subjects of history in a few words (or 
 actions). 
 
 685. War is the revenge of fortune. 
 
 686. Conditions are the stays of war. 
 
 687. Ambition finds its greatest support and obstruction in war. 
 
 688. The strong will is not to be conquered (except by device). 
 
 689. Firm resolve is the armour of the soul. 
 
 690. Hope is the spur of life. 
 
 691. Profit is the target which good and bad aim at. 
 
 692. War which destroys is often the very bread of existence. 
 
 693. It is the way in which we understand offence that makes it. 
 
 694. The hands of patience never tire ; the work of patience 
 never wears. 
 
 695. Even a reward is not good when ill-timed. 
 
 696. A wish is a great substitute ; he loses not much who loses in 
 his wish only. 
 
 697. Mistakes have sometimes produced greater actions than if 
 there had been no " failures." 
 
 698. He who rests at times causes the most trouble (or injury). 
 
 699. Consider impartially that which is allied to prejudice. 
 
 700. What is good for one man in all things is good for the 
 commonwealth. 
 
 701. Friendship is on (half)-wings to fly when it hesitates. 
 
 702. Luxury is the magnet of war. 
 
 703. Be thou thyself the test of thy beat wisdom. 
 
 704. Life is but a prelude (or destiny) of the soul. 
 
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 705. We cannot well envy that we do not understand. 
 
 706. Even patience requires rest. 
 
 707. Years increase in value to him who hath made good use of 
 them. 
 
 708. Virtue seeks the greatest distance from vice. 
 
 709. Fury sometimes is the first movement towards safety. 
 
 710. War is the greatest spendthrift and gainer. 
 
 711. War requires a long purse. 
 
 712. Assertion has double features ; one often wears a strong 
 mask. 
 
 713. Economy lives under fortune's smile. 
 
 714. Let ill-tidings work sometimes untold. 
 
 715. Gain is the test of fortune. 
 
 716. Hasten the result if well considered. 
 
 717. Nature rests on change. 
 
 718. Truth wears an unchanging countenance. 
 
 719. Industry sorts well with order. 
 
 720. Live in content die in content. 
 
 721. Law out of its place is a flower which changes its texture. 
 
 722. Waste is often cherished. 
 
 723. Speech is a mirror of the man. 
 
 724. Trust little to mere fortune. 
 
 725. Pity flies far from fortune. 
 
 726. A bad habit acquired is a virtue lost. 
 
 727. Hugged, at times, is the path of strict economy. 
 
 728. Envy often branches from ill-success. 
 
 729. Duty converts danger to pleasure. 
 
 730. When wisdom beckons, let thy senses be in excess. 
 
 731. Labour is the root of riches. 
 
 732. He is strongest in war who can rest longest with safety. 
 
 733. A good intention is a seal of virtue. 
 
 734. Happy those good resolves,. when certain. 
 
 735. Virtue is the chain that binds all wisdom. 
 
 736. Mark thy life's stages. 
 
 737. Be true to the end of thy road. 
 
 738. And this is requisite to obey the soul. 
 
 739. Let not thy constitution labour for thy appetite. 
 
 740. Uncertain where it falls is the arrow from fortune's shaft. 
 
 741. Fortune differs in this* that the same pains taken do not 
 give the same result. 
 
 742. Fit time is the support of success. 
 
 743. Weigh well thy words when thou art to be judged by them. 
 
 744. A good maxim is the frame whereon wisdom's thought is 
 enshrined. 
 
 745. Wisdom is the first model and best exercise for thought. 
 
 746. First to know virtuous life ; next, the proper use of life. 
 
 747. A virtuous thought is a comfort to the soul in affliction. 
 
 748. Obey not dictates that offend the soul. 
 
 749. Proof of good is the wish of virtue, 
 
 750. Certainty is the wing of life. 
 
 751. The use is the text-question of theory. 
 
 752. The sun dims through fancy's grief. 
 
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 753. Seek even danger in quest of right. 
 
 754. Commend the good intention, even if unsuccessful. 
 
 755. Wisdom always speaks from a good vantage-ground. 
 
 756. Wisdom we can approach and partake of, but not exhaust. 
 
 757. The best imagination is that which resembles fact. 
 
 758. Wisdom's scorn oft blesses. 
 
 759. Never let thy thought be in danger. 
 
 760. Wisdom is the eternal principle the motive power of 
 creation the greatest gift from God to man. 
 
 761. Ask of virtue ; when it fails thee, it is a silent but sure 
 monitor. 
 
 762. Seek goodness on its own station. 
 
 763. Many articles may be read in reason ; reason and the cause 
 justify unusual research. 
 
 764. Nothing so poor but brings riches to the store of thought. 
 
 765. Jewels require a large ground for growth. 
 
 766. Cleanliness is a simple remedy yet the first. 
 
 767. Wisdom is the universe of thought. 
 
 768. Scorn has generally a dimmed sight. 
 
 769. Curiosity is frequently a step towards favour. 
 
 770. Evil is the canker of life. 
 
 771. Prosperity, instead of increasing, sometimes subdues our 
 desires. 
 
 772. Teach not thy talents so as to be too closely followed or 
 rivalled ; the last seal obliterates the impression of the former. 
 
 773. Give to accident the largest interpretation. 
 
 774. Let proportion of desires be thy rule in all expectations. 
 
 775. Nature's maxims own no voice. 
 
 776. A good maxim carries jewels in its sentence as in a diadem* 
 
 777. Life is an uncertain flower oft by the tempest o'erthrown. 
 
 778. Practical wisdom is an equable possession. 
 
 779. The result is the key often of our hopes the goal of hope 
 at death. 
 
 780. Death is the key of hope. 
 
 781. Books, like bricks, depend upon each other for support. 
 
 782. Make reason thy habit. 
 
 783. Reason is but half a virtue if misplaced by evil. 
 
 784. Habit hath many reasons, but is a bad listener. 
 
 785. If reason were wholly our rule, the ilia of life would seldom 
 harm us. 
 
 786. Let honour be thy still unchanging habit. 
 
 787. In dreams no man wears a mask. 
 
 788. An ill word is oftentimes a brand of enmity. 
 
 789. A plain board cleans best. 
 
 790. Reason sorts well with industry. 
 
 791. Time is a never-failing emp'oyer. 
 
 792. Revolution is often a sword of necessity, and creating the 
 necessity of it. 
 
 793. The result is frequently a victorious answer to folly and 
 envy. 
 
 794. Truth frequently controls our hopes. 
 
 795. Acknowledge no sbame when right is thy portion. 
 
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 796. Adopt that judgment which wisdom seals. 
 
 797. It is too much always to be responsible for other's failures. 
 
 798. We do not blush with a messenger. 
 
 799. The stomach of the intemperate is at continual war. 
 
 800. The features are oft silent words. 
 
 801. Shall wisdom cease because it incurs a frown ? 
 
 802. A frown is sometimes both an approval and contradiction. 
 
 803. Vanity is a searcher. 
 
 804. Nobility of conduct, not of caste. 
 
 805. Truth hath a strong memory. 
 
 806. Success is a magnet that draws many followers. 
 
 807. Labour (or exercise) is the medicine of nature. 
 
 808. Destiny resides with, and follows, change. 
 
 809. Armour is the greatest mask. 
 
 810. Wisdom wears a sober guise. 
 
 811. Lessen thy wants ; you cannot be too poor in evil. 
 
 812. An unsuccessful past heightens the present favour. 
 
 813. Let there be an object for thy actions ; time is never too 
 much worn. 
 
 814. The lease of time (till it is no more) is always open. 
 
 815. Kemember that the mind receives little at one time. 
 
 816. Innocence tinctures all things with brightest hues. 
 
 817. Simplicity is the frame of nature. 
 
 818. The vain man is like a painter who continually draws but 
 his own picture. 
 
 819. The ambitious man is not content with his own approval ; 
 yet are there many laudable ambitions wisdom and progress sanction. 
 
 820. Sloth is frequently the child of honour and of despair. 
 
 821. Metaphor is the topmost branch of passion's tree. 
 
 822. A good author will draw nourishment from that which 
 would escape the notice of another in the desert. 
 
 823. Like water in the desert is wisdom to the soul. 
 
 824. Think of the labour that is lost, and the small pain that 
 lasts. 
 
 825. To weigh most against time is often an examination of 
 capacity. 
 
 826.- Value to wear, but not to wear the value. Do not polish so 
 that it will wear the worth (or value). 
 
 827. The past is a towering mansion. 
 
 828. Let thy model bear thy best principles. 
 
 829. Literature has its seasons of youth and age. 
 
 830. Hard to know an ill ; evil sometimes requires labour. 
 
 831. Labour is lost when the result is evil. 
 
 832. No care is there greater than to have " no care." 
 
 833. The greatest precaution sometimes causes evils. 
 
 B34. Life is a flower which but blooms when it dies. 
 
 835. Silence is sometimes the mask of flattery. 
 
 836. Humour is sometimes an apology for ill-success. 
 
 837. Humour, when justifying evil, is a pain. 
 
 838. In anger all our passions clash by turns. 
 
 839. Nature wars in the elements. 
 
 .840. Evil is never a friend. 
 
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 841. Survey thy conduct, and let self-denial be a visitor. 
 
 842. That which encourages true self-denial is no flatterer. 
 
 843. Our judgment is the rule by which most things are levelled. 
 
 844. Truth is both arms and armour. 
 
 845. Wisdom and time are ever patent. 
 
 846. When virtue and wisdom make a compact, friendship seals it. 
 
 847. Perfection is an undiscovered jewel. 
 
 848. Glory is the past. Wants increase with greatness ; you have 
 not that until you guard. 
 
 849. Nature hath an angry tooth. 
 
 850. Small gains pave the way for larger ones. 
 
 851. Number lessens number. 
 
 852. Mark well if thou would wish not to be marked. 
 
 853. Destiny is the sword that spares not. 
 
 854. Great is he who can contemn greatness. 
 
 855. Levity is the daughter of scorn. 
 
 856. Scoffing owns no judgment. 
 
 857. Impatience is a severe taskmaster. 
 
 858. The truest worth is that which is most lasting. 
 
 859. The words of evil are at variance with worth. 
 
 860. Design is the parent of art. 
 
 861. Purity is the diamond of the soul. 
 
 862. Scorn is sometimes the beacon to much labour. 
 
 863. Happy is he whose desires are limited. 
 
 864. It is the mind and the feelings that define labour and amuse- 
 ment. 
 
 865. Amusement to some gives labour to others. 
 
 866. Favour exists on favour. 
 
 867. Many are the author's friends we have unknown. 
 
 868. A card is sometimes a good interpreter. 
 
 869. Our best introduction repels often at first. 
 
 870. Caution reads in the book of advice. 
 
 871. The pen hath an endless progeny. 
 
 872. Good nature is the flower of the heart. 
 
 873. A good maxim is oft our protection against the tempest of 
 despair. 
 
 874. Poor is that maxim which cannot withstand a frown. 
 
 875. In a short maxim often is there an endless lecture. 
 
 876. Improvisation is the key to many words. 
 
 877. The severest laws are generally those which we make against 
 ourselves. 
 
 878. It is hard to carry even the proofs of all with us. 
 
 879. The body is the test of most wisdom. 
 
 880. The goal of hope is never reached ; it is not possible to 
 want a want. 
 
 881. The soul and body require resting-places. 
 
 882. What is not seen or used hath no use. 
 
 883. There is a maxim (whether known or not) for every action, 
 
 884. A solution is necessary to most difficulties. 
 
 885. The origin of things hath many colours. 
 
 886. There is a plot in every life. 
 
 887. Events (sometimes unseen) work for us. 
 
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 888. Often does fortune (and not ourselves) flatter us. 
 
 889. Caution is a poor friend to accident. 
 
 890. We cannot appease the anger of Nature but by submission. 
 
 891. Virtue wears well in any garb. 
 
 892. Wealth is often a necessity and beacon to war. 
 
 893. When reason's voice is heard, let thy tablets be employed. 
 
 894. The mind has also its tablets ; the feelings are the tablets of 
 the mind. 
 
 895. Give to every due thought wisdom's support. 
 
 896. Practice is the seal of theory. 
 
 897. Theory is the mind of science. 
 
 898. Fair is the resolve that stands on unsullied ground. 
 
 899. The road to true wisdom has seldom been spanned by 
 mortals. 
 
 900. Wisdom is the last and only true test. 
 
 901. Every game rests on change. 
 
 902. There is a desert of time as well as of land. 
 
 903. A thought which owns not wisdom is ill. 
 
 904. There is often most wrath beneath the placid. Ocean 
 smiles at the ill it causes. 
 
 905. Prudence is the best case when the jewel of fortune is set. 
 
 906. Money hath good features. 
 
 907. The grave where destruction rests. 
 
 908. Fear often flies from prosperity, but is necessary to it. 
 
 909. Wisdom is ever fresh; other things grow stale, but this is 
 the evergreen flower of nature. 
 
 910. Life is still the same unchanging phase, which o'ermasks all. 
 
 911. Still let the pupil learn, though learned in all. 
 
 912. 'Tis well to welcome when your loss is naught. 
 
 913. Mark wisdom well, and everlasting glory shall acknowledge 
 her teachings just. 
 
 914. Constancy is the seal of friendship. 
 
 915. Time makes much, but is never made. 
 
 916. Evil is the contagion of life. 
 
 917. Feeling often wears a mask. 
 
 918. Fame is oftentimes the canker of wisdom ; still is there a 
 just, philanthropic ambition which must not be condemned. 
 
 919. Glory is the heart and soul of an army. 
 
 920. Prosperity is the seal of boldness. 
 
 921. Success is the best jewel. 
 
 922. Success is an easy road (when gained). 
 
 923. Dishonesty is no medicine. 
 
 924. He deserves wealth who grieves not when it is lessened. 
 
 925. Pride seldom reasons. 
 
 926. Just expense is a necessity of life. 
 927. We are sometimes even humbled in conferring a favour. 
 928. Let the injury a neighbour is capable of doing be a guard 
 against too much favour. 
 
 929. True contentment owns a modest mansion. 
 930. Division is the alloy of nations. 
 931. Poverty is a garment which may be made to fit all. 
 932. The favour of welcome varies. 
 
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 933. Wisdom (when can her praises be exhausted ?) is ever a 
 willing lender, and exacts no interest. 
 
 934. Caution, at times, is the best bravery. 
 
 935. Memory is a bad book-keeper. 
 
 936. Vice is the magnet of the wicked. 
 
 937. He who gives most knowledge answers less. 
 
 938. Futurity has no pedigree. 
 
 939. Time rests on time. 
 
 940. Silence often has the strongest voice. 
 
 941. Fortune is often built on steps. 
 
 942. It is not wise to blame that which is inevitable. 
 
 943. That coat is ill-made which will fit no one. 
 
 944. The pen is a great traveller. 
 
 945. Money makes the smoothest plane. 
 
 946. If you obtain another's possession, you will not always 
 obtain his fortune. 
 
 947. Wisdom is true feeling and thought. 
 
 948. Those who bring sticks to the fire ought to have a property in it. 
 
 949. Literature owns a large treasury. 
 
 950. He that has no interest lessens his fortune. 
 
 951. Reason is the essence of nature. 
 
 952. Thought is necessary as health ; do what you can, you must 
 think. 
 
 953. Dreams produce no results both their causes are despotic. 
 
 954. There are many gates to the house of wisdom. 
 
 955. Permission to confer a favour is often the greatest. 
 
 956. Safety is the best land-mark. 
 
 957. Virtue sanctions all. 
 
 958. Worth often neglected, and its habits only noticed. 
 
 959. Who leaves behind him no memory leaves no worth. 
 
 960. Worth is the heir of memory. 
 
 961. Wisdom hath a generous voice for all. 
 
 962. Wisdom is the beacon of all things. 
 
 963. Disunion is a step towards failure. 
 
 964. Exercise is the armour of health. 
 
 965. He that is deceitful is like a bridge broken ; your fall may 
 be irretrievable if you trust to it. 
 
 966. Wisdom shines forth from all things. 
 
 967. Most things are right if the eye be just. 
 
 968. Honour gives a bountiful recompense. 
 
 969. Wisdom knows no denial if sought for with diligence. 
 
 970. Evils are the incrustations of the soul. 
 
 971. The knowledge of the true source of a wrong we receive 
 often appeases the anger of it. 
 
 972. Shut the door against conceit of thine own and others. 
 
 973. Still to the superior wisdom let all thy faculties be 
 subjected. 
 
 974. Conquer thy own evils before you judge others. 
 
 975. Chicanery permeates the law. 
 
 976. Flattery has its stages. 
 
 977. Wisdom is an endless tower who but One hath eter 
 attained the summit? 
 
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 978. Divine wisdom the true antidote to all pain. 
 
 979. He who can suffer in joy can contemn pleasures. 
 
 980. Nothing shall prosper against the cross. 
 
 981. Action is nature's language. 
 
 982. Evils are the breathings of the unjust. 
 
 983. A true friend has often a greater necessity than your own. 
 
 984. Wrath is sometimes the sword of virtue. 
 
 985. Let wisdom span the greatest desires. 
 
 986. Deem not him idle that produces worth ; we are not idle- 
 always when at leisure, for rest is oftentimes the action of the soul. 
 
 987. Scorn sometimes meets support, but owns little proof. 
 
 988. We are just when we feel a righteous scorn. 
 
 989. Improbability is the home of fancy. 
 
 990. Fancy loves to walk in a maze. 
 
 991. Necessaries are ever sober, but pleasures intoxicate. 
 
 992. Many proofs are required of a friend. 
 
 993. Pride serves mostly at the door of success. 
 
 994. Let wisdom be thy life and habit wear and protection. 
 
 995. Knowledge is the mirror, and success gilds it. 
 
 996. Knowledge is a mirror which requires reflection. 
 
 997. Success gilds the pen. 
 
 998. Necessaries are light; and with them we can travel the 
 longest road. 
 
 999. He is strong indeed whom pleasures and excess hurt not. 
 
 1000. Wisdom is a never-failing mine. 
 
 1001. Deception is generally the mask which pleasure wears. 
 
 1002. He who fears himself oft shows the greatest bravery. 
 
 1003. Good deeds are the flowers of wisdom. 
 
 1004. He who never hears seldom approves. 
 
 1005. He who loves ill seeks it. 
 
 1006. Desire is a great traveller. 
 
 1007. Wisdom in the present makes judgment in the future. 
 
 1008. Wisdom is constant, and knows no excess or surfeit ; but 
 pleasure inconstant ever is driven about by every breeze. 
 
 1009. Knowledge often owns weak resolves. 
 
 1010. Moderation is the balance of wisdom and contentment. 
 
 1011. Forgetfulness of luxuries is the medicine or antidote to 
 them. 
 
 1012. Fortune leaps the strongest barriers. 
 
 1013. Wickedness doth not gain always in worldly store ; and 
 virtue's road is sometimes pleasant. 
 
 1014. To do that which others wish you not to do (and which, if 
 done, would injure) is to contemn profit. 
 
 1015. Let an aim be as a necessity. 
 
 1016. An aim is a frequent visitor. 
 
 1017. Two feet cannot stand on the same ground ; displace not 
 another if it displaces thee. 
 
 1018. Causes have slept, but awaken to rejuvenate the world. 
 
 1019. Pleasure is a crumbling statue. 
 
 1020. Profit wears a hood. 
 
 1021. The grave has no dishonesty. 
 
 1022. A wish betokens many things. 
 
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 1023. Life is a journey we are always travelling ; but, unlike most 
 others, seldom care we to reach the end. 
 
 10'24. See that thy just measure of economy be never empty ; and 
 let thy gains never be less than thy gifts. 
 
 1025. Never give less than thy gains give thee. 
 
 1026. Wisdom does not always grant present remedy ; but when 
 ill-fortune is prevented, this is of itself a gain. 
 
 1027. The tongue is often the mirror of the ignorant (or wicked) 
 man, and by its use we see him best. 
 
 1028. Virtue is the best knowledge. 
 
 1029. Evil is a foe to knowledge. 
 
 1030. The past and future the frame which encircles all. 
 
 1031. When wisdom seeks out ill it is but the present the 
 antidote. 
 
 1032. Short is life, but endless is the theme. 
 
 1033. Prudence satisfies the just. 
 
 1034. Where science ends nature will still begin. 
 
 1035. Wisdom and health preserve prosperity and wealth. 
 
 1036. Often are the words of wisdom given to senseless and useless 
 folly. 
 
 1037. Wisdom knows no ill. 
 
 1038. Let custom have the best tools, and it will produce the best 
 work. 
 
 1039. When labour is easily surmounted it often breeds a love for 
 it. 
 
 1040. Encourage the desires of the righteous. 
 
 1041. Critics have been so prone to error that a false interpreta- 
 tion has often given fame. 
 
 1042. A good example is the reflection of virtue. 
 
 1043. Silence often subdues the desires of the envious. 
 
 1044. Position, not principle, is oftentimes the criterion. 
 
 1045. Silence is not always peace. 
 
 1046. Cares are fortune's problems. 
 
 1047. Health and patience are among the best friends of adversity. 
 
 1048. Let health be the test of pleasure, and wisdom of the mind. 
 
 1049. Accident is often the cloak of injury. 
 
 1050. The intention is ofttimes a strong plaster to the ill it 
 causes. 
 
 1051. Many-tinted are the eyes of fashion. 
 
 1052. Wisdom enjoins temperance in all things. 
 
 1053. Fashion and philosophy are oft at variance. 
 
 1054. The body is the test of the mind's success. 
 
 1055. Let knowledge of evils be as armour to ward them off. 
 
 1056. Difficulties is oftentimes a heavy weight that crush the just 
 powers of the mind, and leaves the body to support it. 
 
 1057. Few are the pleasures which improve. Pleasure is a bad 
 instructor. 
 
 1058. The future is not to be ignored, because the present prospers. 
 
 1059. Give to fortune its best recompense. 
 
 1060. The higher we ascend, the greater also the depth mental 
 solutions are victories ; yet is their origin oft buried low. 
 
 1061. Life has many different roads, but death is the home of all. 
 
 
 
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 1062. We know our wisdom when we know our frailties. 
 
 1063. Strive to increase the just stores of wisdom and decrease 
 the number of thy follies. 
 
 1064. Our best home is our possessions. Then worth should be 
 our first concern. 
 
 1065. Too much rest fatigues. 
 
 1066. Money gives no fruit which knows no aim. 
 
 1067. Truth and honour are the preservers of knowledge. 
 
 1068. Bad deeds are bad debts. 
 
 1069. Kules are frequently but substitutes for our wishes. 
 
 1070. Sight is our only property in those things which we see and 
 cannot come by. Our greatest possession we oft contemn. 
 
 1071. Simplicity and worth are the nearest approaches to perfec- 
 tion. 
 
 1072. Fortitude is the sinews of war. 
 
 1073. Wisdom breaks the stroke of passion. 
 
 1074. Wisdom hath concern in all things. 
 
 1075. When the world frowns, heaven smiles. 
 
 1076. Never let pride sit with humility. 
 
 1077. Wisdom's words in folly's mouth are but pilfered. 
 
 1078. Silence is often the key to comfort and safety. 
 
 1079. Let truth and honour be the necessities of the soul. 
 
 1080. A good maxim is a mirror of thought. 
 
 1081. Justice is the key of all difficulties. 
 
 L082. True friendship is like a ship unladen which enriches the 
 owner. 
 
 1083. Fame is a bright flower, but weeds abound mostly around it. 
 
 1084. Fame dies when time frowns. 
 
 1085. Fame is a large inheritance. 
 
 1086. Time is the proof of all. 
 
 1087. Death welcomes all; but the reward is not for all. 
 
 1088. A trade is a lasting coat to the man that knows it well. 
 
 1089. The result is the picture of the intention. 
 
 1090. Grief labours hardest in resting; be employed, and the 
 mind will help to subdue it. 
 
 1091. He that contemns fortune when it favours may court death. 
 
 1092. Wait for the result before you count too eagerly your profit. 
 
 1093. It takes longer to cure evil than to seek it. 
 
 1094. Let charity be the standard of thy conduct towards all. 
 
 1095. Glory to the greatest. Good deeds to the less. 
 
 1096. Support nature well, and she will recompense thee well. 
 
 1097. Wisdom's life gives a lasting page. 
 
 1098. Merit is not always a safe investment. 
 
 1099. Eeward is a vassal, and follows merit. 
 
 1100. The conflict of minds often bring forth amity. 
 
 1101. Seek far to know worth. 
 
 1102. That which is scarce to have value must have worth. 
 
 1103. 111 subsists on ill; but -the life of it is the spasms of death. 
 
 1104. That which asks a people's favour should be for the people's 
 worth. 
 
 1105. Enmity lives with despair. 
 
 1106. Time applauds the efforts of wisdom. 
 
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 1 107. Wisdom searches all time. 
 
 1108. Glory must have recompense. 
 
 1 109. Hope never retrogrades. 
 
 1110. Hope ever looks forward ; it admits no retrospection (but as 
 a spur to further action). 
 
 1111. Stability is the test of worth. 
 
 1112. Evil ever walks with unsteady gait. 
 
 1113. Destiny is the seal of fate. 
 
 1114. Good actions are mirrors which reflect themselves. 
 
 1115. This world would be a wretched place, indeed, if ills only 
 had possession of it. 
 
 1116. Better is it to die well than live ill. 
 
 1117. Every man is master of his destiny. 
 
 1118. A smile is sometimes self-approbation. 
 
 1119. Nothing satisfies without profit ; it even makes your enemy 
 think well of you. 
 
 1120. Profit is the test of station. 
 
 1121. Number is much akin to glory nowadays. 
 
 1122. War always rejoices some. 
 
 1123. A new union of words is something like a marriage often 
 at first sight odd, but which wears off in time. 
 
 1124. Life is in words; and sometimes words are lives. 
 
 1125. A laugh often requires study. 
 
 1126. Time never ends itself, but ends all. 
 
 1127. Things are often most worthy as they are thought of, not 
 as they are. 
 
 1128. There is more worth in writing a maxim than in a wilder- 
 ness of bald talk. 
 
 1129. That which has no sense has no worth. 
 
 1130. Is not the mind the best volume ? 
 
 1131. Fashion is often propriety. 
 
 1132. Propriety is one of the shields (or safeguards) of society. 
 
 1133. It is as easy to have a theme as an idea. 
 
 1134. Let truth be the standard by which all thy words and 
 actions are measured. 
 
 1135. Praise that the intention of which is harmless ; nay, more, 
 praise the good intention even when followed by failure. 
 
 1136. There are difficulties in every labour. 
 
 1137. Can pedantry exist without some degree of scholarship ? 
 
 1138. Fortune sometimes knocks like a schoolmistress, but then 
 she teaches when she does. 
 
 1139. He who welcomes what is not to bis good welcomes ill. 
 
 1140. Position is the armour of life. 
 
 1141. It is thy station, and not thy worth, which often draws 
 followers. 
 
 1142. To tell a follower from a friend requires a searching eye. 
 
 1143. Wisdom is the only true criterion. 
 
 1144. A blind pnrse fills soonest. 
 
 1145. Action is the language of the eye. 
 
 1116. Nature looks with an equal smile on all. 
 
 1147. Lending often entails labour of mind and body. 
 
 1148. The best age is the best volume in which to see wisdom. 
 
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 1149. Let not wisdom be like life to rise and fall ; but let it still 
 ever rise with time. 
 
 1150. Freedom is the heir of labour. 
 
 1151. Where wants abound, the purse frowns. 
 
 1152. Profit is the repetition of success. 
 
 1153. Often do our follies support others who scorn us. 
 
 1154. That which obstructs us may advance others. 
 
 1155. Independence is liberty. 
 
 1156. When we profit not, we have repeated in some degree our 
 follies. 
 
 1157. Many things prosper nt>t him who prospers many. 
 
 1158. Our appetites are often our greatest creditors. * 
 
 1159. Knowledge often cuts the root that supports it. 
 
 1160. He who is particular in all things which are not necessary 
 will meet with many stumbles. 
 
 1161. Evil lives meander in the plains of death. 
 
 1162. Let duty direct thy conduct above profit. 
 
 1163. Let duty be thy unfailing sign. 
 
 1164. Fame increases in size unseen. 
 
 1165. Never consider thyself secure unless thou hast these three 
 things health, profit, and hope of advancement. 
 
 1166. A new thought is often a new trade. 
 
 1167. Receive thy best resolves from heaven. 
 
 1168. Let no satisfaction be entertained which injures and profits 
 not. 
 
 1169. Adopt not that which may not be shaped strictly to justice 
 and equity. 
 
 1170. Truth is the corner-stone of all knowledge. 
 
 1171. The soul loves its reflection. 
 
 1172. Virtue lives in contemplation and practice. 
 
 1173. Law is but suggestion. 
 
 1174. FIFTEEN PLAIN MOTTOES : 1. Scorn ail folly. 2. Seek for 
 substance. 3. Exercise the faculties. 4. Love industry, and reward 
 will follow thee. 5. Be entertained with wise discourse. 6. Conquer 
 all envy. 7. Wise forbearance is the victor of anger. 8. Be firm in 
 thy best intention. 9. Harken to nature's just complaints. 10. 
 Praise is often irksome. 11. Cherish good examples. 12. Evils love 
 their like ; they flourish but to poison ; their influence, infamy. 
 13. The greatest will never be known. Two Seal Mottoes : 14. 
 Nothing will be forgotten while this is unforgot. 15. Chain Motto : 
 Friendship is a slave, and this chain binds it. 
 
 1175. Genius lives in a mirror. 
 
 1176. Anger weakens with distance and time. 
 
 1177. Slight not wisdom. 
 
 1178. Be thou before the storm. 
 
 1179. Take wisdom for thy best guide. 
 
 1180. As thoughts, so are the arts and sciences endless, except 
 with time. 
 
 1181. Science meant to bless will be the cause of future wars. 
 
 1182. Philosophy was first acquired by the knowledge of human 
 errors. 
 
 1183. Know no nation's ill approval. 
 
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 1184. Pause well when inventions direct towards danger. 
 
 1185. Alteration is a key of science and invention. 
 
 1186. There is sometimes utility in chance. 
 
 1187. We cannot appease the frown of time. 
 
 1188. In all things bear a prudent mind. 
 
 1189. Life is a fountain which o'erspreads all. 
 
 1190. He who rejoices at what pains others should have never 
 rejoiced (or have felt the strength of comfort). 
 
 1191. Be first in just resolves. 
 
 1192. The good intention hides many faults. 
 
 1193. Do good to all, and detest only the follies of all. 
 
 1194. When we endeavour to be just, we may perhaps stand at 
 times in risk of contamination ; be we cannot be contaminated if we 
 are just. 
 
 1195. Fear not thou dangers which apply to all. 
 
 1196. Let the great result be thy chief aim of life. 
 
 1197. Life is but a waiting ; for a short time we wait on life. 
 
 1198. That is no life which gives no result. 
 
 1199. Double thy industry when failure whispers. 
 
 1200. Wisdom is the teacher of all. 
 
 1201. Industry is a fruitful monitor at times. 
 
 1202. Philosophy teaches best when she wears an humble garb. 
 
 1203. Pride (only) does not always repel a just man. 
 
 1204. Trust time it never natters. 
 
 1205. Let humility be the jewel of thy conduct. 
 
 1206. The just shall not be repelled. 
 
 1207. True pleasure consists in the absence of all folly. 
 
 1208. "Fair and honest," says the world, but does not prac- 
 tise it. 
 
 1209. Men's ears are ever open when profit beckons. 
 
 1210. Injustice feeds the law. 
 
 1211. Exchange (without loss) is gain to both. 
 
 1212. Every day brings forth a new destiny. 
 
 1213. Be convinced well, and fear not the result. 
 
 1214. Deem nothing impossible that admits of reason and use. 
 
 1215. Do not always spend thy best judgments. 
 
 1216. Names are often facts. 
 
 1217. We would be more diligent did we but think that our life 
 may be any day at stake. 
 
 1218. The future is not always bright ; often is it o'ercast with 
 dark clouds which depress hope. 
 
 1219. Scorn not necessity. 
 
 1220. Spend not time without an object. 
 
 1221. Use is often dangerous if we are negligent in observing 
 wisdom's rule. 
 
 1222. When envy frowns the evil often lessens. 
 
 1223. Diligence co-exists with use and habit. 
 
 1224. It is not a good rule which will not stand a double test ; if 
 thou art favoured to-day, and not the next, look to thy tablets. 
 
 1225. Fancy the lightest of all yet hath strongest arms. 
 
 1226. If thou may'st, think well and die well let thy life be the 
 security at any hour. 
 
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 1227. Wisdom is a safe ship ; and we may trust ourselves to it in 
 all weathers. 
 
 1228. Report has a malicious tongue. 
 
 1229. Interest often qualifies praise, and checks admonition. 
 
 1230. Often is life (to some) but a flourish and with the same use, 
 
 1231. Truth and justice are weapons with which we may 
 encounter any dangers. 
 
 1232. For life it is wise to live ; for truth it is wise to die. 
 
 1233. Evils often leave us when their support fails. 
 
 1234. Reason enlarges with time and experience. 
 
 1235. Hope is often an enlarged mirror. 
 
 1236. Preserve thy purse and mind's peace ; if one is lessened, 
 both suffer. 
 
 1237. Men have more faculties than they are aware of. 
 
 1238. Time and wealth create wants ; these wants ideas (and 
 how to compass them). 
 
 1239. Sympathy for one lessens when the danger is universal. 
 
 1240. Justice should exist in all actions. 
 
 1241. That which often gives the hardest labour gives often the 
 least in the beginning. 
 
 1242. Let there be no delay in what is proved of worth. 
 
 1243. Be concerned in no evil. 
 
 1244. By-truth we rise and fail not. 
 
 1245. Exchange true friendship with him only who has proved 
 that he is worthy of it. 
 
 1246. Favour in heart gives strength. 
 
 1247. Not lost is that which bears fruit and profit. 
 
 1248. Certain is truth, and as certain the punishment (by trans- 
 gressing it). 
 
 1249. Works achieved (and capable of being repeated) are the true 
 tests of talent. 
 
 1250. In our best interests consist our safety. 
 
 1251. Levity is engrossed by folly. 
 
 1252. The cause is the body of effects. 
 
 1253. Fail not with the desires of hope. 
 
 1254. Ill-will is a dull limner. 
 
 1255. Ill-will clouds best intentions. 
 
 1256. As the body (with costumes), so may ideas be dressed in 
 many garbs. 
 
 1257. The mind finds comfort sometimes in repetition (of grief). 
 
 1258. Need asks simple tools, and knows no scorn. 
 
 1259. Words surround facts like leaves among trees. 
 
 1260. Wisdom applies to all tests. 
 
 1261. Grant a favour when asked if conformable to reason, 
 and by which profit is unlessened. 
 
 1262. Mark men that are not marked. 
 
 1263. Never perfect if with one ailment. 
 
 1264. True to report, true to fact. 
 
 1265. Good principles can never be too well known. 
 
 1266. Cherish ideas when strengthened in truth. 
 
 1267. Endeavour after those ideas or pursuits which have been 
 tested with profit. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 39 
 
 1268. Let the soul always share a part. 
 
 1209. Truth dislikes all subterfuge. 
 
 1270. The pursuit of that which does not reward sometimes 
 brings forth fruit in its course. 
 
 1271. Sanction not the errors of the ignorant. 
 
 1272. Prudence oft co-exists with grief. 
 
 1273. To hear some people one would think they came into the 
 world as to a laughing hall. 
 
 1274. Justice often fails where the intention is just. 
 
 1275. Justice hath but few tears for honesty in straits. 
 
 1276. Prudence is a strong bulwark against impending destruc- 
 tion. 
 
 1277. Great minds contemn a level. 
 
 1278. Light sometimes obstructs research. 
 
 1279. The first step in our journey of prosperity often is defeat. 
 
 1280. There is a link binding all human actions. 
 
 1281. Well to be wise wise to be well. Good health is often 
 more in our power than we imagine/ 
 
 1282. The power to destroy (unless it be evil) is ever an 
 ungracious office. 
 
 1283. Negligence at times breeds much labour. 
 
 1284. If against the best with the worst. 
 
 1285. Study to forego thy follies, and define thy own evil ways 
 but to mend them. 
 
 1286. Mark not the words or ways of the evil man ; his con- 
 demnation is his practice. 
 
 1287. 'Tis fit that great things be not understood by all. 
 
 1288. Virtue is the only true victor. 
 
 1289. A good example is a picture of virtue. 
 
 1290. When little meets the eye much may still present itself to 
 the mind. 
 
 1291. Maxims, like money, profit not if unused. 
 
 1292. Virtue has a generous thought for all. 
 
 1293. Value grows fast with scarcity. 
 
 1294. Remember that death is certain as life. 
 
 1295. Age is but a comparison. 
 
 1296. Tongue-praise mostly ends in words. 
 
 1297 The practice of wisdom is the test of it. 
 
 1298. Great events often take place quickly, but are brought 
 about slowly. 
 
 1299. He who can answer all and satisfy all must be wise and 
 rich. 
 
 1300. Maxims live in all years. 
 
 1301. Interest is a patient listener. 
 
 1302. Be not the first always to account for ill-deeds. 
 
 1303. To produce our knowledge is not wise at all times and 
 places. 
 
 1304. Victory ennobles battalions. 
 
 1305. Peace is stronger than war. 
 
 1306. When the road is known it is but a matter of steps ; trouble 
 (or anxiety) is a weary traveller. 
 
 1307. Praise is sometimes tyranny. 
 
40 MAXIMS. 
 
 1308. Carefulness often saves error and trouble. Error is trouble. 
 1309. Truth is well allied. 
 
 1310. Public opinion the root which nourishes most arts and 
 sciences. 
 
 1311. If we made the best of all things there would then be but 
 few ills in life. 
 
 1312. The farther from truth the farther from happiness. 
 
 1313. Digression the parent of many thoughts and acts. 
 
 1314. A philosophy may be raised from its ashes the seal may be 
 reproduced. 
 
 1315. Let there be some profit in that which concerns us. 
 
 1316. Keceive that well which thou canst account for well. 
 
 1317. Favour not the envious. 
 
 1318. Just actions are the passports to favour. 
 
 1319. The proof must still come from one's own mind. 
 
 1320. Wisdom is the necessity of the just. 
 
 1321. A good memory is the best portrait. 
 
 1322. That in which we excel we do not always admire in others. 
 
 1323. The structure is weak unless truth upholds (or builds) it. 
 
 1324. Acts not stamped with success are but as trials. 
 
 1325. Dislike is sometimes borrowed enmity. 
 
 1326. Often to seek earnings is to seek (to know) troubles. 
 
 1327. He who is out of favour let him be chary of his words. 
 
 1328. Where there is want of support is there want of success. 
 
 1329. How oftentimes is that followed which profits not. 
 
 1330. Dress is with many the picture of your station, and regu- 
 lates the conduct of these. 
 
 1331. Many rebuffs meet one. Not to observe is the best con- 
 tempt ; nay, value a rebuff occasionally it tests one's philosophy. 
 
 1332. Try that the least where accident threatens. 
 
 1333. Admire not, except stamped with justice and equity. 
 
 1334. The best has often been despised. 
 
 1335. Life is with some but a mirror, and all that they wish is to 
 reflect themselves and their follies. 
 
 1336. Property often cures neglect of thyself. 
 
 1337. Property is a strong argument. 
 
 1338. Only that is worth acquiring which may be justly kept, and 
 in safety. 
 
 1339. Penance after evil deeds is the best repairer of them. 
 
 1340. Pain is understanding at times. 
 
 1341. True happiness looks to the future. 
 
 1342. Virtue has this strong recommendation over vice that it 
 agrees with life and ordinary actions. 
 
 1343. Store up wisdom for future, as well as for present, use ; 
 let not wisdom be but an occasional visitor let it ever dwell with 
 thee. 
 
 1344. Seek not for those things which J are not stamped with 
 hope. 
 
 1345. The frame of wisdom (or philosophy) is of simple materials. 
 
 1346. Evils live when knowledge (or prudence) is dead. 
 
 1347. Ignorance is to be commended where the intention (or act) 
 is just. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 41 
 
 1348. Best thoughts are those best acted upon. 
 
 1349. Please all, that all may be pleased. 
 
 1350. If charity lies not in a neighbour, practise it yourself. 
 
 1351. One good thought (or action) redeems much frivolity, but 
 not all. 
 
 1352. When thou art deceived let not thy soul meet enmity. 
 
 1353. Kevenge is but a small circle. 
 
 1354. How many are the ills which we are unable to influence 1 
 
 1355. The house is a great traveller. 
 
 1356. When there is no probability hope is a buen retire. 
 
 1357. Just are those things which give just results. 
 
 1358. Prudence often lives (and dies) with success. 
 
 1359. Evils die oftener where wisdom errs not. 
 
 1360. War leads a nation quickly ; but the fruits of it are got 
 slowly. 
 
 1361. A rough road travelled quickly. 
 
 1362. War is the great manager of destiny. 
 
 1363. War often holds destiny ; and gives to fortune certainty. 
 
 1364. Little exertion often gives food for the mind ; all is not 
 great that is done by mighty hands. 
 
 1365. Imperfections crowd the world. 
 
 1366. Pleasure only lives where wisdom dies ; the former can be 
 ever deferred without loss, the latter may be fatal if once omitted. 
 
 1367. Wisdom guards us often unknown ; its principles must be 
 stamped with habit. 
 
 1368. Sow evils none, and virtue's growth will strengthen. 
 
 1369. Interest is often a dire foe to virtuous conduct. 
 
 1370. Bow with submission before thy soul's dictates rather than 
 before the world's. 
 
 1371. To act upon an unlawful oath is to court destruction. 
 
 1372. Wisdom ever cherishes its work. 
 
 1373. Strive to overcome that which betrays when thyself may 
 be involved. 
 
 1374. That which betrays is a bad support. 
 
 1375. What is got unrighteously is of more danger to the possessor 
 than the owner of it. 
 
 1376. Save thy conscience against all comers. 
 
 1377. Serve not ill-advisers by support. 
 
 1378. Examples are the pictures of wisdom. 
 
 1379. Home wisdom make soundest maxims. 
 
 1380. True wisdom, like pearls, requires time to discover. 
 
 1381. The despair of success often produces charity towards rivals. 
 
 1382. The pen travels over all space. 
 
 1383. Ideas are visitors often coming ; but the most valued do 
 not always stay longest. 
 
 1384. Time confirms sometimes by forgetting the origin. 
 
 1385. Some ideas are virtues unborn. 
 
 1386. What is often misery in peace is pleasure in war. 
 
 1387. The mind has its theme ; and about this wisdom either 
 beckons or keeps silent. 
 
 1388. There is a wisdom in all our actions, although we may be 
 unconscious of it. 
 
42 MAXIMS. 
 
 1389. It is not possible to live without some degree of wisdom ; it 
 is ever a theme and problem. 
 
 1390. Wisdom o'ergoverns all, and is often present when least we 
 expect it. 
 
 1391. Caution is temperance. 
 
 1392. Taste is often the child of prejudice. 
 
 1393. Certainty of gain is fortune unmasked. 
 
 1394. Patience is temperance of conduct. 
 
 1395. Virtue does not consist merely in overcoming one obstacle 
 of life, but all. 
 
 1396. Let thy conduct be as colours carefully blended. 
 
 1397. Truth is the best advantage. 
 
 1398. Excellence is never single. 
 
 1399. Let disdain be far from thee ; for charity is no visitor 
 where disdain or envy hold their dwellings. 
 
 1400. Possibility is often destruction, and " impossibility " 
 safety. 
 
 1401. Let the heart ever be the most persistive questioner. 
 
 1402. The soul is the root of all our faculties. 
 
 1403. Truth is, at times, the only guarantee of value. 
 
 1404. The most difficult things are built on simplicity. 
 
 1405. Simplicity is the foundation of Nature. 
 
 1406. 111 returns make bad custom. 
 
 1407. Caution is the foundation of valour. 
 
 1408. Negligence often gives interest and power to others. 
 
 1409. Things desired are oftentimes of less value than our present 
 possessions. 
 
 1410. To live or die where honour leads (the soldier's maxim). 
 
 1411. Art gives labour, and makes even leisure, at times, employ- 
 ment. 
 
 1412. Ideas are born in chaos. 
 
 1413. Perfection is a great theme of argument. 
 
 1414. The greatest benefits do not come singly. 
 
 1415. Natural justice few are ignorant of. 
 
 1416. Quarrels are the children of perfection. 
 
 1417. What is good is the foundation of honour and valour. 
 
 1418. A good maxim is a spring of thought which nourishes all. 
 
 1419. We must depend on Heaven for all things. 
 
 1420. Possession often gives command of conduct. 
 
 1421. When Eight meets Danger, Caution approves. 
 
 1422. Excess is the canker of all things. 
 
 1423. Satisfy the just desires of the righteous. 
 
 1424. Be slothful only to meet evils. 
 
 1425. Desire of praise is a fruitful tree. 
 
 1426. Desire of praise sometimes produces good effects. 
 
 1427. Value well that advice which prospers thee. 
 
 1428. Fortitude is a strong armour against ill report. 
 
 1429. Ills often give boldness. 
 
 1430. Every living creature but man is born satisfied with. its 
 station . 
 
 1431. When Nature finally commands it is useless to argue. 
 
 1432. Our feelings are often the habits of the mind. 
 
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 1433. Perception is the only reward. 
 
 1434. Desires satisfied are but as seeds sown a second time (to 
 the enquiring mind). 
 
 1435. Certainty is a rapid traveller. 
 
 1436. To be just in all desires is to act with wisdom. 
 
 1437. Fashion is a sieve, and money spent on it as dust. 
 
 1438. Change not justice's rule. 
 
 1439. Never let custom lessen thy purse. 
 
 1440. Pleasure is a great humbler of pride. 
 
 1441. Time levels at last every purse. 
 
 1442. Kecommendation has two faces. 
 
 1443. The fewer acquaintances the more friends. 
 
 1444. Of two friends seldom are both equal. 
 
 1445. Fashion is not always with honour. 
 
 1446. 111 success sometimes produces good in others. 
 
 1447. Good resolutions broken are like doora ajar which are 
 blown open by the wind ; when one opens, another follows. 
 
 1448. Pleasure often hurts in the name of necessity. 
 
 1449. Profit often consorts with vanity. 
 
 1450. When the mind is pleased, often does the body labour. 
 
 1451. What is saved now will perhaps serve thee afterwards. 
 
 1452. Consider before thou spend : whether the present is the 
 best time, and the article the best value. 
 
 1453. Eesolve slowly on that which has no present security. 
 
 1454. Oftentimes is pleasure the ally of scorn. 
 
 L455. How often does pleasure produce ill towards others ! 
 
 1456. He who submits to present favour often makes for himself 
 future trouble. 
 
 1457. Literature is an orchard. 
 
 1458. Nothing is wise which does not conform itself to the 
 dictates of the Almighty. 
 
 1459. The proper care of money is the only worth of it. 
 
 1460. Harken (in thy present success) to the probabilities of the 
 future. 
 
 1461. Education follows but does not always produce wisdom. 
 
 1462. A. short friend is oft a true friend ; time alters and lessens 
 (instead of increasing) good faith in one. 
 
 1463. If we repine at the present, success moves farther off. 
 
 1464. That which profits most, and quickly. 
 
 1465. Be accountable but for thy one leading idea in Truth, and 
 not for any definitions that may be brought against it. 
 
 1466. Unless patience is founded on hope it stagnates. 
 
 1467. Fate is but wisdom, and this governs all ; for where there is 
 no wisdom there is no government. 
 
 1468. Ideas are centralised in space. 
 
 1469. Manner is but association. 
 
 1470. Our natures are only unaffected when we are unconscious. 
 
 1471. Wisdom with successful talent favours body and mind. 
 
 1472. Profit is the best patent. 
 
 1473. Fools often scoff at that which is unattainable by them. 
 
 1474. Habit and practice are the clouds which darken virtue's 
 precepts ; few minds are ignorant of prudence. 
 
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 1475. To see and observe rightly this is experience. 
 
 1476. Qur appetites are the basest flatterers. 
 
 1477. Let meditation utilise the pipe. 
 
 1478. If you will have a habit, adopt those only which hurt least, 
 though better to have none, for that is only peace. 
 
 1479. In all think rightly ; be charitable, and thy acts will neces- 
 sarily follow. 
 
 1480. The soul is still the director. 
 
 1481. Contemn not that which rightly supports thee. 
 
 1482. Civility is an enduring favour. 
 
 1483. The knowledge of useful things is a purse seldom lost. 
 
 1484. If you know wisdom and do not practice it your knowledge 
 is but encumbrance. 
 
 1485. Degrade not wisdom by applying it to those things that are 
 not worthy of it. 
 
 1486. To have succeeded in little matters is still as a labour 
 misapplied. 
 
 1487. Observe anything that gives a profitable thought. 
 
 1488. Security is the key of business. 
 
 1489. Trust that point which can bear great prosperity with as 
 even a mind as poverty. 
 
 1490. Sometimes neglect brings accession of fortune. 
 
 1491. That gift is but a bait which expects a return. 
 
 1492. Fortune often usurps wisdom's name. 
 
 1493. Money is a great discoverer. 
 
 1494. Exertion enhances reward (and gilds it). 
 
 1495. Memory is a guilder. 
 
 1496. He who satisfies not thy mind by his conduct may still 
 satisfy his own, and with justice. 
 
 1497. Conversation is ever weak \vhen built on folly, except to 
 .controvert it. 
 
 1498. Often is wisdom unuttered, but proven. 
 
 1499. Much care is the dross of possessions. 
 
 1500. He who speaks ill of another often drops the shield of pro- 
 iection. 
 
 1501. Speak not as thou would not act -evil. 
 
 1502. He who asserts evil supports it. 
 
 1503. Laws are a nation's egotism. 
 
 1504. Proof shortens argument and often enforces it. 
 
 1505. Duration is the essence of worth. 
 
 1506. A dissolute life often makes weak the most solemn oaths. 
 
 1507. It is thy property which regulates the conduct of most men. 
 
 1508. Knowledge is the scale which balances respect and disdain. 
 
 1509. Where tyranny is practicable in a prince it will soon come 
 4o be (as) a necessity. 
 
 1510. Cherish that which is stamped with just hope. 
 
 1511. Fashion often blinds men to good manners. 
 
 1512. Observation is the door to custom. 
 
 1513. Present success is but a question of futurity. 
 
 1514. Often is ignorance a sieve of folly ; it does not rest with it. 
 
 1515. Exchange is the balance of life. 
 
 1516. Often does enmity undermine the knowledge of good. 
 
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 1517. Hope is the measure of joy or success. 
 
 1518. Thy follies may be support to others, but never to thystlf. 
 
 1519. Let necessity be a security to the just. 
 
 1520. Rumours generally grow deformed as they travel. 
 
 1521. Leaven all thy deeds with justice, for this is the best 
 essence of things, and lasts even when the things desired fade away. 
 
 1522. Do not waver in what is evil, but let thy first word be as 
 strong as the condemnation virtue gives. 
 
 1523. Deny all things wherein justice and virtue consent not. 
 
 1524. He who spends his earnings in folly sets seeds of future 
 work and trouble. 
 
 1525. Lose not, discard not, in justice. 
 
 1526. The best deserts do not always receive the best rewards. 
 
 1527. Mystery is the magnet of inquiry. 
 
 1528. Fair and firm resolve is a strong bridge of life. 
 
 1529. It is not wise to let necessity (or the hope of It) be discarded. 
 
 1530. The pursuits of a friend is oftentimes a strong index of the 
 value of one. 
 
 1531. Misapplied wit is a film over virtue's eyes. 
 
 1532. No safety unless where wisdom (or justice) leads. 
 
 1533. Danger is nearly in every place if means are used. 
 
 1534. Without means without nature. 
 
 1535. Wisdom is ever present if thou do not engage it. 
 
 1536. The rewards of wisdom are not given for nothing ; we must 
 deny many things to ensure possession of them. 
 
 1537. Propriety is one of the strongest supports of civilisation. 
 
 1538. Balance inadvertence with self-denial. 
 
 1539. A little amusement is not folly, but much leads to expense 
 and loss of fortune. 
 
 1540. When the present makes it impossible, to defer it and not 
 to forget is the best course. 
 
 1541. Memory is often prompt. 
 
 1542. Wise is it to know our advantage and not to use it at all 
 times. 
 
 1543. Abstain when wisdom warns ; grief is a bad substitute for 
 argument. 
 
 1544. Often is a name the picture of a theme. 
 
 1545. Blame hath a busy life. 
 
 1546. Interpret to the best the actions of the just. 
 
 1547. Observation is the support of example. 
 
 1548. Favour without profit is but guilding. 
 
 1549. Curiosity is often labour masked. 
 
 1550. Truth is capable of being exercised in every place. 
 
 1551. Duty binds with unlocked golden chains. 
 
 1552. Be as peremptory in the dismissal of unjust friends as the 
 admittance (or acknowledgment) of unknown ones. 
 
 1553. We seldom know many people without being known to our 
 disadvantage. 
 
 1554. Build thy best resolves on truth. 
 
 1555. Early solved early safe. 
 
 1556. Value not present profit unless the foundation of it is good. 
 
 1557. Agreement of follies is the stronghold of evil. 
 
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 1558. To misinterpret just actions is to undermine them (or the 
 cause of them). 
 
 1559. New friends often new mystery. 
 
 1560, The best supports of the mind are gone when evil is 
 deemed reward. 
 
 1561. Merit (?) no evil reward. 
 
 1562. Feelings are sometimes unjust interpreters. 
 
 1563. Truth to God is truth to thy neighbour. 
 
 1564. Civility often clouds much knowledge of men. 
 
 1565. Observation is a good traveller. 
 
 1566. Scorn not necessity in humble things. 
 
 1567. A good test is often a card to fortune's favour. 
 
 1568. Probity is a good support of hope. 
 
 1569. Open not the door that may be turned on thee. 
 
 1570. Seek the best time for the best effort. 
 
 1571. Let conversation vary ; then will ideas, perchance, be 
 heard. 
 
 1572. The possibility should not be forgotten in the certainty of 
 a just action. 
 
 1573. Memory often entails much labour. 
 
 1574. Let thy greatest hope be certain as life. 
 
 1575. Many things we may be ignorant of, especially those which 
 improve neither mind nor body. 
 
 1576. Let amusement cultivate and humour the feelings and 
 improve the faculties of the mind. 
 
 1577. Wishes are often stronger than necessities. 
 
 1578. Adopt not that which may not be justly ruled. 
 
 1579. What is food for wit may often be made good for truth. 
 
 1580. The conduct is the signal of good or evil. 
 
 1581. The grave is ever awake. 
 
 1582. Wisdom abjures none that properly seek it. 
 
 1583. Evil is the child of destruction. 
 
 1584. Good rest is a good possession. 
 
 1585. Let health be ever level ; what is against the balance is 
 .against the constitution. 
 
 1586. Kational fancy is allied to truth. 
 
 1587. Some men, like pictures, may be seen in different views. 
 
 1588. Let no opportunity be neglected for the practice of good 
 motives; for a good motive is oftentimes a good example. 
 
 1589. We live as we die, and die as we live. 
 
 1590. Do not plant all at once ; one benefit is naught till its 
 fruit is seen. 
 
 1591. Never regard any enmity that follows good actions. 
 
 1592. Trust wisdom to the fore. 
 
 1593. The misinterpretation of necessity or rational pleasure is 
 the cause of much misery. 
 
 1594. Life is a volume we may ever read (and require no library). 
 
 1595. Proofs are ever weak when enmity directs them. 
 
 1596. See that thou justify thyself when doing so by others. 
 
 1597. Eeceive in justice as thou would'st do in justice. 
 
 1598. Banish evil men as thou would'st the evils practised by 
 ihem. 
 
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 1599. Moments are seeds of time, and when well sown good 
 fortune will be oft the fruit. 
 
 1600. Let this idea-question be the avant-coureur of all thy 
 actions " Is this conformable to wisdom's rule ?" 
 
 1601. Many actions and words would be rendered unnecessary if 
 necessity were truly followed. 
 
 1602. It is unwise not to hope when justice and possibility 
 sanction the end. 
 
 1603. Go not round and round, but let thy end be ever in view. 
 
 1604. Just wishes are present bounties. 
 
 1605. Deception ever sojourns with excess. 
 
 1606. As the body, so does the soul seek profit in good things. 
 
 1607. Just desires are just possessions. 
 
 1608. Just truths dwell with just desires. 
 
 1609. Possessions are not always tangible. 
 
 1610. Certify just honour. 
 
 1611. It is no ignorance to be unmindful of those things wherein 
 knowledge retrogrades. 
 
 1612. Growth is the motive power of creation. 
 
 1613. Life is an arch. 
 
 1614. Perfection is the heart of wisdom. 
 
 1615. Custom often gives poor possession. 
 
 1616. Virtue is a plant which might have grown on any field. 
 
 1617. Words not weighed [or heard of value] are (as) no words. 
 
 1618. Save even thy just expenses by economy. 
 
 1619. Complete only good works. 
 
 1620. Good principles are good guarantees. 
 
 1621. Prejudice and taste often undermine principles. 
 
 1622. Subject, cause, and result is a trio of necessity. 
 
 1623. The visions of true wisdom are facts. 
 
 1624. The support is often intended (like pillars in buildings) for 
 ornament and not use. 
 
 1625. Wisdom will still continue to be heeded, and not, through 
 All time. 
 
 1626. Use and experience (often) convert labour to exercise. 
 
 1627. Unjust indecision is the bane of party. 
 
 1628. A healthy public opinion should ever consider that which 
 is unjust as unnational. 
 
 1629. Profit sometimes draws necessity after it. 
 
 1630. Ideas and actions are both modellers, and change sides. 
 
 1631. Complexity without use is like a foundation without value. 
 
 1632. Faint hope deals often with exception. 
 
 1633. A good opinion is often a seal of success. 
 
 1634. Just moments passed give even the uncertainty of life a 
 value. 
 
 1635. MOTTO : To-day for thee ; to-morrow for memory. 
 
 1636. Merit enlarges as it is generalised. 
 
 1637. Let action be good for all, and merit will be enhanced. 
 
 1639. Proofs are the fruits of the mind. 
 
 1639. To seek for excellence is often to meet it unawares. 
 
 1640. Knowledge, like a friend, is sometimes unexpectedly met 
 with. 
 
48 MAXIMS. 
 
 1641. Custom oft gives authority and usurps worth. 
 1642. The best advantage is the best choice (or when we can 
 choose the best). 
 
 1643. Friendship, like a dinner, cools if we do not accept the 
 warning of it in time. 
 
 1644. Either labour or be charitable. 
 
 1645. Idleness with charity is better than action with enmity. 
 
 1646. Evil is never a sure protection. 
 
 1647. Sense may at times discard sound, but should bs deemed a 
 necessity of it. 
 
 1648. Unless generosity is reciprocal it is seldom gain. 
 
 1649. Anger leads some to wealth. 
 
 1650. A light heart always is (often) a " light head." 
 
 1651. Profitable ideas are the mind's best expenditure. 
 
 1652. Much repetition makes memory habitable. 
 
 1653. Let the armour of wisdom be ever thy habit. 
 
 1654. We cannot successfully contend with wisdom throughout 
 life. 
 
 1655. The wise man will select good models as he would gifts. 
 
 1656. True humility does not obstruct our talents. 
 
 1657. Wisdom is ubiquitous ; ever present at all times and 
 places whether disregarded or not. 
 
 1658. Wisdom is the destiny of truth. 
 
 1659. A bad heart has no neutrality. 
 
 1660. Where necessity seems to be disregarded there is it often 
 used. 
 
 1661. Fame is, at times, even sweet to a shepherd. 
 
 1662. Wishes are often the text-books of conversation. 
 
 1663. Position is (at times) the best support of propriety. 
 
 1664. Good intentions redeem involuntary offence. 
 
 1665. Examples are often rules to youth. 
 
 1666. Liberty most favoured has still much dependence. 
 
 1667. Measure obligations by benefits. 
 
 1668. Aimless conversation is like a road leading to many 
 habitations, but not to our own. 
 
 1669. A just doer is the best designer. 
 
 1670. Concession is often proof. 
 
 1671. Solitude should govern best intention. 
 
 1672. Remember that effects grow strong with knowledge. 
 
 1673. The origin oft repels, while the fact assures. 
 
 1674. Good intentions not forsaken are as deeds to the mind. 
 
 1675. Let caution ever be present when probability of failure 
 intercepts. 
 
 1678. We cannot be just to God if we are unjust to mankind. 
 
 1677. Change is often the test of proof. 
 
 1678. Certainty is the foundation of justice. 
 
 1679. Self does not always accurately distinguish in life where 
 prejudice obtains. 
 
 1680. Progress consists often in the knowledge of the effects (of 
 our actions) in others. 
 
 1681. Admit of exceptions in what is uncertain in life. 
 
 1682. Labour sometimes decreases in value by practice. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 49 
 
 1683. Madness often affords a good passport where merit meets 
 none. 
 
 1684. Prejudice is often inclination ; we are seldom entirely 
 neutral. 
 
 1685. To give ideas form is the great spring of exertion. 
 
 1686. Amusement is a powerful magnet, and draws often the 
 wise man (unconsciously). 
 
 1687. A good inclination is often a successful traveller. 
 
 1688. Without admiration without friendship. 
 
 1689. Philosophy reckons well when used well. 
 
 1690. Possess many things which no friendship may command. 
 
 1691. Folly lessens the value of things. 
 
 1692. Satisfaction is reward. 
 
 1693. Prudence is sometimes a fruit of despair. 
 
 1694. He often excels who is satisfied. 
 
 1695. Ideas and words change often like the body ; and sound 
 lives well when the body is but ill. 
 
 1696. No definition is entirely true which can admit of a better. 
 
 1697. Never envy the success of folly. 
 
 1698. Good use is good interest. 
 
 1699. Difficulty gives much exc*use. 
 
 1700. Make exchange an equivalent : often are those things of 
 less value which we possess than what we give. 
 
 1701. Despair springs from wishes unsatisfied. 
 
 1702. Be only satisfied with those things which are reasonable. 
 
 1703. Thought is a many-sided mirror. 
 
 1704. Time admits no argument ; it often justifies reason when 
 it seems to deny it. 
 
 1705. Simple things, if attentively regarded, oft lead to wisdom. 
 
 1706. To measure some things properly is to lessen their 
 advantages. 
 
 1707. Enmity never has a lasting seal. 
 
 1708. Time shapes itself to many actions. 
 
 1709. Proper time is often certain fortune. 
 
 1710. How often is endeavour allied to fortune. 
 
 1711. What follows ever alters. 
 
 1712. Little waste is often great profit. 
 
 1713. Meditation works in rest, and gives fruit for further action. 
 
 1714. It were hard to say if life or ideas give most themes ; both 
 are necessary, but the best use is the best necessity. 
 
 1715. Association is the foundation of prejudice. 
 
 1716. Of little value to us are those things when the mind 
 approves not by the test of experience. 
 
 1717. Truth, like good medicine, is oftentimes repugnant to our 
 present feelings, but gives vigour afterwards. 
 
 1718. To speak with advantage we should know with advantage. 
 
 1719. Bad causes are born deformed. 
 
 1720. As people, so may ideas, live by association. 
 
 1721. A good intention is the best foil to misconstruction. 
 
 1722. That which brings no present custom (if properly valued) 
 often produces most. 
 
 1723. True contentment must conquer many evils. 
 
50 MAXIMS. 
 
 1724. To be wise by proxy is to gain and not labour. 
 
 1725. Truth and virtue will satisfy the best desires of the 
 vrituous. 
 
 1726. To reward chance is sometimes to pay for evil. 
 
 1727. Blame not that which is necessary. 
 
 1728. Good motives following good ideas are the proper exchanges 
 of the mind. 
 
 1729. The mind can sometimes afford an example in which life 
 is deficient. 
 
 1730. Evil laws or intentions have a long tether. 
 
 1731. Folly is ever a bad exchange ; if we give without reason 
 we support, in some measure, folly. 
 
 1732. Content and discontent are two travellers of time which 
 often change places in the journey. 
 
 1733. He who lives without reason is a worse enemy to himself 
 than others can be. 
 
 1734. Wit retreats (does not exist) with mystery. 
 
 1735. Let light ever rise. 
 
 1736. Good intentions to be improved. 
 
 1737. Our very ignorance of the cause of many things brings forth 
 more knowledge than if we were cognizant of nature's works. 
 
 1738. Muddy waters are ever shallow. 
 
 1739. There are no ideas without branches. 
 
 1740. A just conviction of excellence is a just proof of it. 
 
 1741. Instinct may draw towards destruction when sense averts it. 
 
 1742. Often are efforts the food of hope. 
 
 1743. Eeason well followed is nature well followed. 
 
 1744. Hope is often reason. 
 
 1745. Destruction exists only when reason and hope are lost. 
 
 1746. It would be as possible to complete every idea as to write 
 every book. 
 
 1747. Truth is the best employment. 
 
 1748. The duty of life is more necessary than the amusements 
 of it. 
 
 1749. To economise justly is to labour well; and labour is fol- 
 lowed by rest and safety. 
 
 1750. No true rest without safety. 
 
 1751. The soul is the invisible magnet of all things. 
 
 1752. The feelings and prejudices of man are generally the touch- 
 stones by which things are tried. 
 
 1753. With some people truth (to be accepted) must flatter. 
 
 1754. A great name sometimes throws a cloak over folly. 
 
 1755. The knowledge of the origin causes us often to value less. 
 
 1756. Disdain is scorn if unsupported by reason and truth. 
 
 1757. Profit seldom tires. 
 
 1758. The first knowledge of wisdom is the birth of it. 
 
 1759. A good intention is a firm support. 
 
 1760. Good intention is often good wisdom. 
 
 1761. Of two gifts choose that the possible abuse of which is 
 farthest from danger. 
 
 1762. Time well spent is good fortune. 
 
 1763. We deny hope when we surrender its effects to others. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 51 
 
 1764._He who hath contemned pleasure hath received much. 
 
 1765. We cannot be virtuous if our wishes are not conformable 
 to justice and truth. 
 
 1766. A good knowledge of things past is an armour against 
 events to come. 
 
 1767. Wisdom is an endless legacy ; the more we take from it the 
 more we may. 
 
 1768. The body is the creditor of the soul, and must repay for its 
 ills to Heaven. 
 
 1769. The trust in God the strong foundation of the soul. 
 
 1770. If we followed necessity truly many ills would be unknown. 
 
 1771. Success is ever a bad tree when evil is the root. 
 
 1772. To excel previous efforts is possible while life remains. 
 
 1773. Happy when the absence of evils make them impossible. 
 
 1774. Plain features ornament the greatest place. 
 
 1775. If thou hast achieved excellence once the remembrance of 
 it may prove a surety to future excellence. 
 
 1776. From God the soul receives the highest inspirations ; from 
 the soul springs the greatest we can effect ourselves. 
 
 1777. Advice is often built on interest. 
 
 1778. Interest is a spur to many actions. 
 
 1779. Skill often springs from successful means. 
 
 1780. Allurements are seldom known in disguises. 
 
 1781. Severity is often the shield of economy. 
 
 1782. Augment thy fortune in peace and justice. 
 
 1783. To practise truth is the attestation of it. 
 
 1784. Let thy soul be the ground wherein all good thoughts (seeds 
 to good actions) are sown. 
 
 1785. The practice and fruits of vice are sufficient to deter. 
 
 1786. True knowledge is the mirror of nature. 
 
 1787. Pride seeks for many meanings. 
 
 1788. Friendship when indiscriminate is as a chain stretched too 
 far. 
 
 1789. Truth is fertile in just actions. 
 
 1790. We can never be unjust towards evil. 
 
 1791. A good intention is seldom (entirely) lost. 
 
 1792. Best in thought best in worth. 
 
 1793. Pride will undermine the best intentions. 
 
 1794. Nature requires support in all things. 
 
 1795. To attain unto some reward may be called the necessity of 
 most actions. 
 
 1796. Knowledge is a security of credit. 
 
 1797. Often does prosperity favour the envied. 
 
 1798. Envy generally admires and abhors out of proportion. 
 
 1799. Ideas are the pulses of the soul. 
 
 1800. We disgrace wisdom when we would strive to support it 
 with folly. 
 
 1801. Use.the best means with the best sanctioned by justice. 
 
 1802. Endeavours are good only when the intention is. 
 
 1803. Bight is the armour of the mind. 
 
 1804. Self sees with double vision. 
 
 1805. Just desires are mostly just securities. 
 
52 MAXIMS. 
 
 1806. Where pleasure is a visitor virtue is ever about to retire. 
 
 1807. Supported by virtue, discern no ill but to avoid it. 
 
 1808. Ills are ever present to avoid. 
 
 1809. Let us blame but when example is necessary (for us and 
 others). 
 
 1810. That judgment which blames is often most deserving of it. 
 
 1811. False judgments are ill " presents." 
 
 1812. Duty does not live where evil threatens. 
 
 1813. Learn to strengthen the uses of life. 
 
 1814. Impart knowledge with prudence and discernment. 
 
 1815. Favour simplicity, for we cannot present it. 
 
 1816. Need is a prudent dispenser of possessions. 
 
 1817. Youth is often a scoffer at destiny. 
 
 1818. Keward and punishment both end and commence at the 
 same gate. 
 
 1819. Solitude rightly understood is a sphere of golden thoughts. 
 
 1820. Learned in truth practise in truth (and it is sealed with 
 justice). 
 
 1821. Consider good actions and thoughts as debts to Heaven. 
 
 1822. Often is the ear the debtor of the eye. 
 
 1823. Be absent in an evil not evil to us if not used towards 
 or by us. 
 
 1824. 111 is not a friend to right judgments. 
 
 1825. The best state is not the exercise or prosperity of the body, 
 but where the soul is active in virtue towards God. 
 
 1826. This world satisfies the just but as a state leading to future 
 excellence. 
 
 1827. The designs of evil have always some flaws. 
 
 1828. Guard against strangers until you know them, for thy best 
 efforts will sometimes incur their enmity. 
 
 1829. He who makes for himself many wants requires many 
 supports. 
 
 1830. The mind sometimes creates wants, and with justice. 
 
 1831. We may sometimes embellish the approaches of truth, but 
 we can never improve the mansion. 
 
 1832. The love of philosophy germinates ideas in the soul as the 
 body affords ideas to satisfy its wants. 
 
 1833. The body which divests itself of its material nature gives- 
 essence of futurity. 
 
 1834. Anger (related to disdain) is oftentimes the food of envy. 
 
 1835. Knowledge is the great spirit of enquiry. 
 
 1836. The despair of the best is frequently an arm against it. 
 
 1837. Vices leave not where they are supported. 
 
 1838. Forsake unjust things. 
 
 1839. Good principles attract the just. 
 
 1840. Good principle is the magnet of prudence. 
 
 1841. Let good principle, like a current, still carry thee forward. 
 
 1842. Seek not after the alliance of discord. . 
 
 1843. Discord is a road ever leading from happiness. 
 
 1844. Good endeavours are wholesome fruits. 
 
 1845. Where diligence grows idleness is weakened. 
 
 1846. Fear evils only where virtue is in danger. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 53 
 
 1847. Be ever absent from the evil will of man. 
 
 1848. Endeavour rightly weighed is often the gate of success. 
 
 1849. We may be frequently just with severity, and unjust by a 
 too easy compliance. 
 
 1850. He who would rightly judge, let the first judgment be 
 himself. 
 
 1851. Be first in the intention of good, and some success will 
 assuredly be thine. 
 
 1852. When we lessen fortune's chances we increase the ills. 
 
 1853. Do not invent faults, but subdue them. 
 
 1854. Often has humility triumphed over pride and power. 
 
 1855. Do not scorn too soon scorn should be ever slow. 
 
 1856. Man owes much to his ignorance of many things. 
 
 1857. Knowledge is not gained well where discontent is the result. 
 
 1858. Our joys differ as our wants. 
 
 1859. An evil interest is often the cause of an evil example. 
 
 1860. Consider evil ever as bad handiwork. 
 
 1861. Evil method is the tree of bad fruits. 
 
 1862. Evil is a bad builder. 
 
 1863. Ignorance is often the blindness of the soul. 
 
 1864. Ignorance has blunted feelings. 
 
 1865. True knowledge consists not so much in the knowledge of 
 evils as in the antidote to them. 
 
 1866. Wherever we are virtue or evil rests. 
 
 1867. A difference of words often leads to many roads : sometimes 
 to many good and bad fortunes. 
 
 1868. Truth will ever conquer the contempt of it. 
 
 1869. Be wise in good time ; fortune may be made attentive if we 
 are wise to note it. 
 
 1870. Dependence ever turns to approach when thy fortune is 
 diminished. 
 
 1871. Have a guard against strange faces as you would against 
 strange money. 
 
 1872. A good result must ever follow reason. 
 
 1873. Be wise in thy wanderings, and thy rest shall produce fruit. 
 
 1874. Sow thy best designs in Heaven. 
 
 1875. Wise men sometimes meet accidents, but fools court them. 
 
 1876. Misfortune often proves a bitter medicine to " friends." 
 
 1877. Discern also other minds when you trust to your own. 
 
 1878. Let virtue ever be allied to knowledge. 
 
 1879. Reward has bright eyes. 
 
 1880. The best things do not always require the longest study. 
 
 1881. Knowledge is the material of the mind. 
 
 1882. Be cautious in those things that may be abused. 
 
 1883. Let caution be ever necessary. 
 
 1884. All things are well or evil as they improve our mind. 
 
 1885. Often do we wander to seek for proofs when they are close 
 at hand. 
 
 1886. Time is the great debtor ; all we have or expect we owe to 
 time. 
 
 1887. Exceptions thrive where generalities (totally) condemn. 
 
 1888. It is good sometimes to be infirm where power thrives. 
 
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 1889. Deceit often lurks in view of argument. 
 
 1890. Diligence contemns folly. 
 
 1891. If we improve our own at the expense of another it is often 
 the first step towards defeat. 
 
 1892. The pursuit of the right in all things is sometimes a difficult 
 road. 
 
 1893. The adherence to truth and justice never confines any true 
 liberty. 
 
 1894. Drunkenness is often a scheme of enmity. 
 
 1895. There is no peace in those things the just mind disap- 
 proves. 
 
 1896. Duty requires us to be firm in the pursuit of right. 
 
 1897. To be just towards all brings more justice to us than evil. 
 
 1898. Time ill-spent is as the lapse of time. 
 
 1899. All ages meet in time. 2. Time is young and old, 
 3. Time presents with nothing. 
 
 1900. Anxiety is the labour of hope. 
 
 1901. Knowledge rightly gained will rightly inherit. 
 
 1902. If we are not prudent ourselves, often is the law prudent 
 for us. 
 
 1903. Charity is the true golden bond of liberty. 
 
 1904. Calumny admits proof but to controvert it. 
 
 1905. In whatever place we are virtue is still practicable. 
 
 1906. Riches seldom reach the utmost goal of the desires. 
 
 1907. Never let wrath be lasting ; we are often active in useless- 
 things, and idle when good might be effected. 
 
 1908. We trust to evils when we trust to enemies. 
 
 1909. Profit is generally the foreground of craft. 
 
 1910. Frugality in the present gives profit in the future. 
 
 1911. If we spend in the best time we may gain in the worst. 
 
 1912. Ever look forward to future excellence (as to necessity). 
 
 1913. Choose those things (if possible) the abuse of which hurta 
 least. 
 
 1914. Conquer the intention of evil, and you will subdue it. 
 
 1915. Let thy greatest recompense be the favour of Heaven. 
 
 1916. Discord is the breath of anger. 
 
 1917. Justice is the best kindness. 
 
 1918. Death is even with all destinies. 
 
 1919. Conjectures are but half ideas. 
 
 1920. We employ ourselves best when we employ wisdom. 
 
 1921. Wicked men may sometimes fancy they have conquered 
 simple folly, whereas they are only tested by it. 
 
 1922. Be ever fertile in good. 
 
 1923. Let reason make just motives for ideas, and then she will 
 best order them. 
 
 1924. Few notions are there where wisdom does not either praise 
 or blame. 
 
 1925. Wisdom inter-leavens all, either with light or dark clouds. 
 
 1926. Could all ideas be followed to the end, few actions would 
 begin ; a proper division of ideas and actions is (often) the road to 
 success in life. 
 
 1927. Let just desires be good commendation. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 55 
 
 1928. Interest looks over many faults. 
 
 1929. Interest is an indulgent task-master. 
 
 1930. He deserves to be fortune's favourite who can use her 
 gifts with an even hand. 
 
 1931. Egotism lives by favour. 
 
 1932. A rule is not straight to every hand that uses it. 
 
 1933. Ideas are like portraits (or views) if we examine too 
 closely or too far the image is indistinct. 
 
 1934. Ignorance and prejudice are the bitters of the mind. 
 
 1935. If we trust evils we trust shadows. 
 
 1936. Make life a legacy to thought and wisdom. 
 
 1937. Words are sometimes strong witnesses ; be wary, at times, 
 of words, and thou shalt be wary of thy wealth. 
 
 1938. Mortality ever aims at all. 
 
 1939. Manners are often the breathings of fortune. 
 
 1940. Present labour makes future labour easier. 
 
 1941. Hope is the beacon which points to prosperity. 
 
 1942. Fortune hath many roads. 
 
 1943. Labour grows with age and lessens with good will. 
 
 1944. Wealth continually changed is ever ready to come or go. 
 
 1945. He knows well who knows all his possessions. 
 
 1946. Courtesy is a pleasant picture to look upon, but often of 
 no worth when we test it. 
 
 1947. Fame sometimes diminishes follies. 
 
 1948. The temptations of folly to a wise man are but as beggar's 
 gifts (to the wealthy). 
 
 1949. A rich man may ever command a present. 
 
 1950. Often is gaiety the false heart of despair. 
 
 1951. He who wishes his fortune not to be diminished must 
 refuse many applications ; the more " friends " one has, the more 
 must he refuse to aid them. 
 
 1952. There is (plainly speaking) never a necessity for anger 
 (evil, defamation, etc.) ; when there is a just cause for anger does it 
 not then cease to be an evil ? 
 
 1953. Truth hurts no man, unless he takes it to his hurt. 
 
 1954. To be content in all places, we would frequently have to 
 discard hope. 
 
 1955. Many " friends " are generally poor consolations. 
 
 1956. Promises are like fortune's shadows. 
 
 1957. Let caution ever watch where proofs come not. 
 
 1958. The power to oblige increases the obligation. 
 
 1959. Let thy ends ever be just towards Heaven. 
 
 1960. Wherever we move to wisdom still has gifts to bestow. 
 
 1961. He who can perform much with few materials will 
 generally excel where means are equal. 
 
 1962. For protection we must often meet danger half way. 
 
 1963. It is the wrong consideration of our faults which often 
 produce them. 
 
 1964. True knowledge knows much care. 
 
 1965. Pains bestowed are often labours gained. 
 
 1966. Prosperity ill-used will often lead to devious traoks. 
 
 1967. It is not necessary to speak ill for justification. 
 
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 1968. Malice condemns its speech. 
 
 1969. Where the general rule is good let the exceptions weigh 
 not. 
 
 1970. The words of malice are destroyed as they are uttered. 
 
 1971. Evil is the plague of the soul. 
 
 1972. Friends mostly test other's prosperity by their own ; all 
 "wealth is but comparison of wealth. 
 
 1973. Envy has little discrimination (in justice). 
 
 1974. Envy sometimes wanders to the cause and not the person. 
 
 1975. Beasons are the pillars of the mind. 
 
 1976. Just to mankind just to the ideas and knowledge we have 
 of man. 
 
 1977. Education and time may improve and augment the uses 
 of truth, but cannot alter the structure, which is ever the same as 
 proceeding from the Eternal. 
 
 1978. Let civility be ever a just exchange. 
 
 1979. Do not that which you would shrink from being examined 
 by. 
 
 1980. The less tastes are inured the better ; but let them submit 
 to order. 
 
 1981. That which worthless passes, and leaves no fruit, is like 
 the shadow of evil. 
 
 1982. Bead to weigh but not always weigh. 
 
 1983. We are unjust with time if we do not wisely use it. 
 
 1984. Enthusiasm is often the beacon to much labour 1 
 
 1985. Friendly sentiments cost little, yet they sometimes 
 improve the purse. 
 
 1986. Maintain dignity of thought in others ; but let it not 
 be always transparent, lest it may in time be allied with contempt. 
 
 1987. That state must be insecure where wealth commands duty. 
 
 1988. Great events are sometimes concluded with as much ease 
 as insignificant ones. 
 
 1989. Be careful of small concerns, which may often command 
 thee to great ones. 
 
 1990. What is less to the people is often greater to thyself. 
 
 1991. The heart is the best case of memory. 
 
 1992. He who creates one good idea may sometimes command 
 many words in others. 
 
 1993. Satisfaction is a good tenant of hope. 
 
 1994. A general level produces most favour. 
 
 1995. Where the hopes are even let the conduct be level. 
 
 1996. Anger is often followed by reasonable thoughts, like true 
 friends that show the error of it. 
 
 1997. Thoughts, like mirrors, reflect the evils of many actions ; 
 well is he who is guided by them to justice and truth. 
 
 1998. Do not produce clouds where calmness justly rests. 
 
 1999. Misfortune darkens the joy of true friends. 
 
 2000. Many befriend us to whom we think ourselves under no 
 obligation. 
 
 2001. To give up hope is to give up some of the best motives to 
 success. 
 
 2002. We must sometimes be bold when worth is at stake. 
 
BY KDWABD COUNSEL. 67 
 
 2003. The just man may own to some transgressions, but not to 
 any merit in them, for there can be no merit in those things that 
 are of evil. 
 
 2004. Evil has no (true) heart. 
 
 2005. Abstain from much grief as thou would'st from satiety, for 
 satiety is ever repugnant to good. 
 
 2006. The truly valiant heart will be no less brave when it 
 relents at the sight of misery. 
 
 2007. Never let it be thy worldly interest to in j are. 
 
 2008. Dullness often mends an offence. 
 
 2009. Be absent from rage as thou would'st from trouble to 
 thyself. 
 
 2010. Excess is ever possible to those who love pleasure. 
 
 2011. Forgetfulness is idle memory. 
 
 2012. The strongest may have need of more strength. 
 
 2013. Just ideas are printed on all minds, but not read by all. 
 
 2014. Success makes real obstacles seem to disappear. 
 
 2015. Be never cheerful at the misery of others, for accident 
 respects no person. 
 
 2016. Self-interest is often the food of anger. 
 
 2017. Proof of good things will bear repetition. 
 
 2018. Solitude is the companionship of nature. 
 
 2019. Forgetfulness of obligations is memory's debt. 
 
 2020. Error's arguments are often armoured against itself. 
 
 2021. The fancy of ill minds often embroils the soul. 
 
 2022. Let justice be the mansion of duty. 
 
 2023. Duty is the nourishment of justice. 
 
 2024. 111 words often employ those who are unconcerned with 
 profit. 
 
 2025. Wit never stands on its proper foundation when it neglects 
 good nature. 
 
 2026. Contrition is received as a debt in heaven. 
 
 2027. Value does not always jingle. 
 
 2028. A bad action is often an overweight which makes the 
 building fall. 
 
 2029. Admiration is often a monitor of good results. 
 
 2030. Fear not ever when thou art just before God. 
 
 2031. When reasons abound in truth the cause is easy. 
 
 2032. Situation gives many hints (or thoughts). 
 
 2033. Memory makes wisdom our own. 
 
 2034. Words may ever rise on words. 
 
 2035. Books, like words, increase sometimes in value by repetition. 
 
 2036. Ideas support the senses. 
 
 2037. Wisdom is a glorious legacy to all (if we will only grasp it). 
 
 2038. If we examine the foundation of error we will ever find it 
 ill grounded. 
 
 2039. Sense (or reason) is the only real fruit of words. 
 
 2040. Wisdom is the body and essence of all things. 
 
 2041. Evil and virtue first pass each other at the gate of death. 
 
 2042. All pleasures and evils have their first gate in death. 
 
 2043. Life is but a field which we soon travel over, and the vale 
 of eternity presents itself. 
 
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 2044. Love to live but for virtuous things. 
 
 2045. Be more prudent the more prosperity favours thee. 
 
 2046. Death is a certain creditor that is never ignored. 
 
 2047. Let cheerfulness and wit ever spring from sense. 
 
 2048. Most have age and time for support, when it would be 
 best to be understood by all. 
 
 2049. Science does not acknowledge prestige. 
 
 2050. What is well ordered may have a just prospect of stability. 
 
 2051. Order is the framer of great things. 
 
 2052. The actions of good men are of themselves rewards. 
 
 2053. Virtue rewards often in work, and not in rest. 
 
 2054. Virtue is discrimination, and has conscience for its friend. 
 
 2055. Evil ideas crossed lash themselves. 
 
 2056. Truth is the essence of all good. 
 
 2057. Let not too much confidence in others betray your own trust. 
 
 2058. Pity is (often) an eloquent advocate. 
 
 2059. When our just interests do not clash we may be justly 
 neutral. 
 
 2060. Peace only exists where virtue is action. 
 
 2061. Honesty is the worker of truth. 
 
 2062. Let promises be conditional where the merit is not known. 
 
 2063. Just promises are the bonds of the mind. 
 
 2064. Approved merit and honesty require few conditions. 
 
 2065. We live with diminished virtue if evil has one entrance. 
 
 2066. Prodigality is a false mirror of liberty. 
 
 2067. Conscience is an enduring monitor. 
 
 2068. Be prepared to see hope often obstructed, and " favour " 
 prosperous. 
 
 2069. All hopes should meet in the just completion of life. 
 
 2070. Impute not improbability for error in others. 
 
 2071. Manners are often the assumptions of the form, but not 
 the essentials of morality. 
 
 2072. Misfortune to one is not always so to another. 
 
 2073. That which draws much (praise) from men's minds must 
 either possess great or little merit. 
 
 2074. Decrease the distance (for in the distance is sometimes 
 the quantity) of thy wishes. 
 
 2075. Beward often returns to the hand that gives it. 
 
 2076. What is new is not always true. 
 
 2077. Intention of good is the model, and action the work, of 
 truth. 
 
 2078. Blest with over-care we often die unknown. 
 
 2079. Folly is a beacon of ill success. 
 
 2080. Much change little change. 
 
 2081. Expectation which is satisfied in part increases as it 
 travels. 
 
 2082. The use of things to us is generally as we use them. 
 
 2083. Self-denial is the mind's economy. 
 
 2084. Folly is ever a mark for bad fortune. 
 
 2085. If we neglect conscience most evils are possible. 
 
 2086. It is not prudent to rely upon one who considers long 
 between duty and desire. 
 
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 2087. How often does pleasure tempt profit to pursue ill fortune t 
 
 2088. Manner is a frame unfinished if not supported by probity. 
 
 2089. Amusement and pleasure support many who contemn 
 them. 
 
 2090. Be partial to your just interests. 
 
 2091. Praise without judgment is no praise. 
 
 2092. Truth is the substance of the soul. 
 
 2093. He who looks for great power searches for perils. 
 
 2094. A recent hero is twice a hero. 
 
 2095. Late victors are the favourites of glory. 
 
 2096. The greatest hopes and aims are sometimes set at nought 
 for the possession of a phantom. 
 
 2097. Time is an impartial distributor. 
 
 2098. Let conscience be well " armoured," andjit will not retreat 
 from any danger. 
 
 2099. What is scornful to some is merit to others. 
 
 2100. The mind rebukes more often than does the tongue ; but 
 when the voice stamps it, only let it be regard. 
 
 2101. Observe propriety in all things, and it will render ill-will 
 useless. 
 
 2102. 111 feelings never change the mind on right. 
 
 2103. Good reason deserves to be acted upon. 
 
 2104. Never let virtue be idle with thee. 
 
 2105. Think in good, and you will act in good. 
 
 2106. Truth is existence. 
 
 2107. The greatest contrast in men consists in their wisdom. 
 
 2108. Errors should be only remembered for their refutation. 
 
 2109. The test of excellence is the parent of disputation. 
 
 2110. The proof of words are sometimes the effect of them on 
 others ; words are not proofs without effect. 
 
 2111. Pride increases itself, when hope (or fortune) flatters only. 
 
 2112. Rules hold even with failures. 
 
 2113. Branches often overweigh the root (of things). 
 
 2114. Interest gives a large interpretation. 
 
 2115. Few " strong feelings " are there that are not allied to 
 weak judgments. 
 
 2116. He manages well who can make time ever favourable to 
 his (just) ends. 
 
 2117. He works double who works well in the beginning. 
 
 2118. Some consolations cover all defeats. 
 
 2119. Without consolation is to be without reason. 
 
 2120. Interest has generally the largest share in human actions. 
 
 2121. Property sometimes mends ill manners. 
 
 2122. Where many minds contend many evils mend. 
 
 2123. Often does worldly success travel under the arch. 
 
 2124. The greater the value the lesser the chance. 
 
 2125. Riches often require fortune to interpret them. 
 
 2126. Order varies in different stations. 
 
 2127. True prudence will seek much, yet be contented with little. 
 
 2128. Thought is the great line of all distinctions. 
 
 2129. Folly often thinks itself bound by folly. 
 
 2130. Folly is flattered by its taste in the contempt of wisdom. 
 
60 MAXIMS. 
 
 2131. Opinions, like weapons, are often made for defence as well 
 as offence. 
 
 2132. We subdue evil when we ally ourselves to virtue. 
 
 2133. The steps of power are often steps on sand. 
 
 2134. Any words may be a guide for wisdom if ranked with it. 
 
 2135. Beware of those promises which do not injure if unre- 
 deemed. 
 
 2136. Interest in one evil will increase others. 
 
 2137. Strength is a potent argument with the wicked. 
 
 2138. Profit is ever pleasant. 
 
 2139. Contented looks are not certain monitors. 
 
 2140. Manner is the first introduction, but hardest to discipline. 
 
 2141. Interest gives bad evidence. 
 
 2142. Fashion often forms spurious principles, and use binds evil 
 to them. 
 
 2143. Use is often the dark cloud of evil. 
 
 2144. Knowledge submits much to gain much. 
 
 2145. Assiduity is the breath of success. 
 
 2146. The real test of support is in the continuance of it. 
 
 2147. That which is not profitable to be known in reason is not 
 of reason. 
 
 2148. The strongest causes are not always seen. 
 
 2149. Exert not thy fullest power at all times, for it is frequently 
 best to seem ignorant both of success and failure. 
 
 2150. There are reasonable restrictions on all pleasures. 
 
 2151. He diminishes the value of his success who seems too 
 conscious of it. 
 
 2152. We give danger direction over us when we neglect prudence. 
 
 2153. That which is not formed of truth is of bad texture. 
 
 2154. Danger and safety are like cross swords of life. 
 
 2155. Liberty is in chains where force breathes in safety. 
 
 2156. Let eloquence build ever with propriety. 
 
 2157. Reason owns many combatants who dispute her intention. 
 
 2158. The ties of interest, like distant views, are generally 
 weaker the farther off. 
 
 2159. Do not always wear thy prosperity as a habit. 
 
 2160. We are not fit to receive virtue if we do not grant it. 
 
 2161. Proper time is your best attendant. 
 
 2162. He has the best profession who can trade profitably with 
 just ideas. 
 
 2163. Work in wisdom, for it does not lose. 
 
 2164. Let it be thy duty never to justify others' ill contempt of 
 thee. 
 
 2165. Wisdom is the never-failing granary of thought. 
 
 2166. Wisdom is a vale before all ; if only travelled on, fruits 
 may be gathered. 
 
 2167. Justify thine own resolves by just action to others. 
 
 2168. Every manner has an index. 
 
 2169. Prudence shuns design of ill. 
 
 2170. Have few or no scruples when knowledge and justice are 
 proved. 
 
 2171. Be just ever in the discovery of justice. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 61 
 
 2172. Often are faculties the gifts of practice and patience. 
 
 2173. Practice levels science and art. 
 
 2174. Often does science owe much to its difficulties. 
 
 2175. Science and art are both servitors to nature. 
 
 2176. Ornament is often a medium for custom. 
 
 2177. Necessity often has a brow of despair. 
 
 2178. Wisdom is the foundation of all good history and experience. 
 
 2179. True compassion ever leans on wisdom. 
 
 2180. What is often most essential is often most uncompromising. 
 
 2181. Some things the heart reads first. 
 
 2182. Caution is the heart's prudence. 
 
 2183. Hope that fades weakens the foundation of it. 
 
 2184. Happy is it that all feelings are so powerless to effect ill. 
 
 2185. The greatest trespasser on justice still wishes it done to him. 
 
 2186. Unprofitable age sometimes use the gifts of wisdom as a 
 child may use gold without a proper knowledge of its value. 
 
 2187. Youth is but an insecure custodian. 
 
 2188. If discontent were to be confined, virtue would be more free. 
 
 2189. Discontent is sometimes a cloak to perfidy. 
 
 2190. If perfidy does not always follow discontent it often opens 
 the door to it. 
 
 2191. Sound is knowledge where only sense is suppressed. 
 
 2192. His conduct is the best that needs no reparation. 
 
 2193. Riches would hurt not if our wants increased not. 
 
 2194. To direct anger at one whom you know not may be taking 
 a nail out of your shoe. 
 
 2195. The choice of civility is easier than the obligation. 
 
 2196. What may be just in comparison may not be in design. 
 
 2197. Praise increases where the excellence is attained but by few. 
 
 2198. Let not conscience be controlled by interest. 
 
 2199. It is well when conscience and interest meet. 
 
 2200. What is in our possession is often of more worth than that 
 we seek. 
 
 2201. Knowledge is sometimes responsibility. 
 
 2202. It is easier to collect numbers than to follow. 
 
 2203. A nation that relies solely on defence would seem to con- 
 temn a hope of victory. 
 
 2204. To contemn science is sometimes to contemn power. 
 
 2205. Fairness gives favour in receiving it. 
 
 2206. Let justice ever be supported, for, if it be not, distrust is 
 possible. 
 
 2207. We may well discard that scorn which does not weaken. 
 
 2208. A good acceptance is sometimes a reward. 
 
 2209. Consider thy troubles so as to gain from them. 
 
 2210. Fortune may flatter us, but she herself is not to be flattered. 
 
 2211. Occasions sometimes suit the absent. 
 
 2212. How far from necessity are the principal themes of con- 
 versation ! 
 
 2213. Reproof is sometimes a trap for applause. 
 
 2214. Destiny is the essence of worldly powers. 
 
 2215. Cunning is sometimes the dupe instead of the love of folly. 
 2216. Good wishes often bind wisdom. 
 
62 MAXIMS. 
 
 2217. Moments well spent ever occur to give proofs. 
 
 2218. Enchantment is sometimes the support of hope. 
 
 2219. Good direction will give more than one road. 
 
 2220. Good aims often lead to future possessions. 
 
 2221. Scorn is a bad capital. 
 
 2222. Wants, like birds, flutter till they have found a place of rest. 
 
 2223. If wants flatter the feelings, they are apt to follow thee on 
 all journeys. 
 
 2224. Kevoke not a good intention ; invoke no evil one. 
 
 2225. Suffer for truth rather than thrive for evil. 
 
 2226. Early danger is sometimes a protection against future ill. 
 
 2227. Time will at last reward a good resolution. 
 
 2228. Think of good things but to practise them. 
 
 2229. The intention is the dividing line of virtue and vice. 
 
 2230. Let thy intentions be just in every end. 
 
 2231. Judge not with many eyes seeing but with one. 
 
 2232. Circumstances are like bladders, which increase and 
 decrease. 
 
 2233. Envy has many watchwords. 
 
 2234. Impudence often springs from profit. 
 
 2235. Profit has often an ill eye. 
 
 2236. The friendship of a cunning man is treachery to some. 
 
 2237. Amity should seek the knowledge of good-will. 
 
 2238. Let events never find thee without a preparation. 
 
 2239. War is a severe doctor; but it sometimes heals grievances. 
 
 2240. Consider oftentimes life as a guard against evil. 
 
 2241. Let not knowledge be a flatterer 0f thy feelings, but a 
 necessity. 
 
 2242. Truth is the jewel of all knowledge. 
 
 2243. If conscience directs the truth, the event may well linger. 
 
 2244. Pride is often but the dress of place. 
 
 2245. Men will seldom be just till they are humble. 
 
 2246. Success is but poor when wishes do not sanction it. 
 
 2247. Make not gratitude a servitor. 
 
 2248. Deceit often lurks in " bounty." 
 
 2249. He has much knowledge indeed who knows all adverse 
 things. 
 
 2250. A great example is often tyranny. 
 
 2251. Humility should be the ground of courtesy. 
 
 2252. Discord is sometimes a spice of life. 
 
 2253. Economy often makes uncertain hope gratified. 
 
 2254. Diligence does not dwell with despair. 
 
 2255. Enemies sometimes enlarge'the deeds of greatness. 
 
 2256. The just man will wait for virtue's sake. 
 
 2257. Profit increases expectation. 
 
 2258. If the present time is well used the future may be the 
 essence of it. 
 
 2259. Great in good deeds the best of happiness. 
 
 2260. What cannot be tested with virtue can never be of 
 enduring worth. 
 
 2261. Difference is the soul of politics. 
 
 2262. Obligations sometimes bend ill humour. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 63 
 
 2263. Interest will often give a favourable interpretation to ill 
 usage. 
 
 2264. Extremes are seldom just. 
 
 2265. Folly is often the sport of worse folly. 
 
 2266. Satisfaction is sometimes the resting-place of contempt. 
 
 2267. Trust not ignorance to ignorance (or dishonesty). 
 
 2268. Fools generally judge others by their own station. 
 
 2269. Independence and worth may well afford to smile at pride 
 and contempt. 
 
 2270. Trouble hurts not him who can wait with profit. 
 
 2271. Hasty friendships sometimes make hasty trials. 
 
 2272. Ignore no just expenses when interest assents. 
 
 2273. He who disclaims pride should also disclaim contempt. 
 
 2274. Happiness is the soul in peace. 
 
 2275. Gold often commends the unworthy. 
 
 2276. To seek is often to accept evil. 
 
 2277. A sure labour is better than an uneasy rest. 
 
 2278. Gratitude does not dwell with despair. 
 
 2279. Pleasure is never a necessity. 
 
 2280. Good hopes are the bulwarks of fortune. 
 
 2281. Silence gives no proposals ; we can only be silent when we 
 have achieved wealth. 
 
 2282. True repentance is the anguish of virtue. 
 
 2283. Preparations too long delayed create obstacles. 
 
 2284. Force without reason often acts against itself. 
 
 2285. Seek not that which profits not. 
 
 2286. The best alliance is that of virtue. 
 
 2287. If we could act as strongly without as with necessity we 
 would overcome many obstacles. 
 
 2288. Gain has ever a ready ear. 
 
 2289. Time often changes manner with power and place. 
 
 2290. Fatigue subdues, at length, interest. 
 
 2291. 111 nature is a bad possession. 
 
 2292. Pride of place is not always worth of place. 
 
 2293. Pride seldom convinces. 
 
 2294. Desires are partial. 
 
 2295. Truth is the bond of success and peace of mind. 
 
 2296. The care of truth is lasting truth. 
 
 2297. Scorn is an unjust arbitrator. 
 
 2298. Scorn should not weigh in prospects. 
 
 2299. Secure are those benefits which are just. 
 
 2300. Great increase of prosperity sometimes weakens the 
 supports of it. 
 
 2301. Double guard that which increases in evil. 
 
 2302. To fail in some things is accession of fortune. 
 
 2303. What we gain in time we often lose in ease. 
 
 2304. We are generally either near or far from danger. 
 
 2305. We must trust to our own experience when no other avails 
 as. 
 
 2306. The deeds of the just increase in worth. 
 
 2307. Power mends conduct in others. 
 
 2308. He who gives orders should be responsible for them. 
 
64 MAXIMS. 
 
 2309. Be true to thy truthful yearnings. 
 
 2310. There are many things which we deem necessary that 
 might be abstained from with profit. 
 
 2311. True peace does not consist so much in rest as to labour in 
 safety. 
 
 2312. Let severity be a friend to moderation. 
 
 2313. Envy often uses power for argument. 
 
 2314. Keason often overturns experience. 
 
 2315. Experience does not always prosper. 
 
 2316. The best securities often weigh most heavily upon us. 
 
 2317. Riches sometimes advance when " friends " retreat. 
 
 2318. Let previous knowledge ever weigh in a neighbour's regard 
 
 2319. Near friends are the purse's rent. 
 
 2320. Civility often becomes a troublesome creditor. 
 
 2321. There is always work for wisdom. 
 
 2322. Order lives in chaos, as charms in difficulty. 
 
 2323. Sympathies are ever current. 
 
 2324. The bulwarks of reason support the soul. 
 
 2325. Just support is the right arm of hope. 
 
 2326. Often is duplicity contemned, and rewarded. 
 
 2327. Let virtue be the monitor of silence. 
 
 2328. Increase gives essence often of excellence. 
 
 2329. A fancy gained is often a fancy sealed. 
 
 2330. What is beyond necessity is fancy. 
 
 2331. Do not trust worth to fair promises only. 
 
 2332. If the law cannot compel justice we are ever at the mercy of 
 one who gives us a promise. 
 
 2333. Adversity is a living test of experience. 
 
 2334. Renown often requires rest, but does not always live in 
 repose. 
 
 2335. Repose is no security without strength. 
 
 2336. Justice in the present deals with the future. 
 
 2337. Favour with power is ever bearable. 
 
 2338. Posterity is the great court of judgment. 
 
 2339. Increasing numbers lessens the probability of future impar- 
 tiality. 
 
 2340. Gratitude is one of the best responses of obligation. 
 
 2341. Pleasure is oftentimes the web of the eye. 
 
 2342. The senses the judgment court of the mind. 
 
 2343. There is a process in the knowledge of all things. 
 
 2344. We can never be just too often. 
 
 2345. If we cannot at all times do the best, let us not do the worst. 
 
 2346. He prospers best who is favoured by virtue. 
 
 2347. Worldly happiness is like a golden palace, but with no 
 entrance. 
 
 2348. There are countless necessities in all things. 
 
 2349. Evil takes many forms and colours. 
 
 2350. If you speak not you cannot speak evil. 
 
 2351. Order embarks with security. 
 
 2352. First fancies often possess the seed but not the fruit. 
 
 2353. The greatest praise is under value if knowledge does not 
 sanction it. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 65 
 
 2354. Prejudice is the glass through which most things are seen 
 and judged. 
 
 2355. Just deeds to all should be the bonds of security. 
 ' - 'JSJbG. Dignity should be the just pride of all mankind. 
 
 2357. Divine truth the standard of all knowledge. 
 
 2358. Success has many eyes. 
 
 2359. We must endure when the law cannot. 
 
 2360. Smother all enmity in the root. 
 
 2361. If the tree of evil grows, give thou no help to plant it. 
 
 2362. Strength devoted to evil is lost. 
 
 2363. Keep far from the necessity of compliments. 
 
 2364. Words frequently surrender power to the opposer. 
 
 2365. True content rests on justice. 
 
 2366. Discord is often born of trifles. 
 
 2367. With good things the use often increases. 
 
 2368. Wisdom is never idle ; it presents itself whichever way we 
 look. 
 
 2369. Wisdom intermingles in all things. 
 
 2370. Store the mind with rules of justice. 
 
 2371. True ease fortifies the mind against evil. 
 
 2372. To all things a just comprehension. 
 
 2373. Be not humbled without justice. 
 
 2374. Let enmity never walk with fame. 
 
 2375. Let enmity be ever distant. 
 
 2376. Wisdom may be consulted in every action. 
 
 2377. We are likely to take up false positions when we abandon 
 just ones. 
 
 2378. Skill must be provided for to provide. 
 
 2379. Assert only just sentiments. 
 
 2380. A just delivery is often a boon to many. 
 
 2381. Habit sometimes gives strength to trade. 
 
 2382. We give when we take interest. 
 
 2383. The present heightens the colour. 
 
 2384. Myriads will at length take up least room. 
 
 2385. Memory is lost when it remembers evil. 
 
 2386. Late rest is often late loss. 
 
 2387. Death ends at last the fear of it. 
 
 2388. Dissimulation is sometimes a mask which closes the 
 wearer's eyes. 
 
 2389. Let not folly ever instruct. 
 
 2390. Folly never balances truly. 
 
 2391. If we limit our desires to a certain time fortune will settle 
 
 some way either for or against us. 
 
 2392. Fame makes time itself sometimes a worker for thee. 
 
 2393. Comparisons nearly differ as much as do the objects. 
 
 2394. Work when you can with profit, not when you might, for 
 work that is left to the future is work undone. 
 
 2395. Reserve often preserves from folly. 
 
 2396. Dangerous companions are often worse than open enemies. 
 
 2397. We may with reason expect the least in that which is left 
 to fortune to decide. 
 
 2398. A talent is often a reserve of safety. 
 
66 MAXIMS. 
 
 2399. Poor and rich may deal equally in promises if unknown. 
 
 2400. Knowledge often wears a mask. 
 
 2401. There would be no gratitude if there were no profit. 
 
 2402. A good maxim is the salt of knowledge. 
 
 2403. A good maxim will flavour many things. 
 
 2404. He can only trespass who can repair the injury with profit. 
 
 2405. Honesty of purpose will generally control the obstacles it 
 may meet with. 
 
 2406. The rich man will often have to travel far to know his faults. 
 
 2407. Flattery diminishes when common danger threatens. 
 
 2408. There is no place where wisdom may not be applicable. 
 
 2409. Ideas change in some degree with every visit. 
 
 2410. Prudence asks no ill. 
 
 2411. Health will generally attend thee well if thou attend it well. 
 
 2412. It is some degree of folly even to witness pride. 
 
 2413. Evil is never a true recompense. 
 
 2414. Let content ever be the fruit of abstinence. 
 
 2415. He who is required to study out of proportion hath lost 
 eome time. 
 
 2416. Death favours none ; and yet men by their conduct would 
 often seem to think so. 
 
 2417. Many things that are infinite, if pursued, may still be 
 unprofitable. 
 
 2418. Concessions to prudence are gains. 
 
 2419. Let truth and honesty ever be the springs of conduct. 
 
 2420. Prudence is the design of justice. 
 
 2421. Excellence is comparative ; but profit is a great test of the 
 success of it. 
 
 2422. Industry that walks slow often gains the summit first. 
 
 2423. We have not to seek far for obstacles. 
 
 2424. The strongest probability is often the surest fortune^ 
 
 2425. Probability is the mask of fortune. 
 
 2426. Success is oftentimes a mountain of observation. 
 
 2427. Life is a bounteous legacy. 
 
 2428. Wisdom's problems are ever being worked out. 
 
 2429. We may at any time make a contract with prudence. 
 
 2430. We must generally endeavour to meet success half way in 
 order to attain it. 
 
 2431. Perseverance does not always reach the goal of hope. 
 
 2432. What is always present is often least times thought of. 
 
 2433. Position is sometimes a chair of affliction. 
 
 2434. The ground of fact produces most fancy. 
 
 2435. Give ever through the hands of hope. 
 - 2436. It is not impossible to be prudent in the greatest afflictions. 
 
 2437. Be wary in affliction. 
 
 2438. Pride has generally impudence for its ally. 
 
 2439. Pride is often a bait to respect. 
 
 2440. Firmness with prudence will strengthen action. 
 
 2441. He who makes obstacles at every step will not surmount 
 them. 
 
 2442. Wise is he who can in no way be affected with the manner 
 of others. 
 
BY EDWABD COUNSEL. 67 
 
 2443. Present delay is often but an index of worth. 
 
 12444. Unconfined liberty often tempts control. 
 
 2445. Justice should be a necessity of existence. 
 
 2446. Discord ever commands the ear of folly. 
 
 2447. Wisdom often confers with duty. 
 
 2448. The knowledge of the use often diminishes the interest. 
 
 2449. Let right ever reward with right. 
 
 2450. Truth makes all things beautiful. 
 
 2451. Let thy will be just, and thy labour will be so. 
 
 2452. Even virtue, to be of worth, must be enduring. 
 
 2453. The precepts of God shall decide above all things. 
 
 2454. We should ever approach holy things with humility. 
 
 2455. Confidence is a hasty reasoner. 
 
 2456. Not to repeat is sometimes to acknowledge. 
 
 2457. Some degree of prosperity is necessary to a tranquil life. 
 
 2458. Hopes sometimes justify present loss. 
 
 2459. Never justify contempt by anger. 
 
 2460. The greatest power is not always for the leader. 
 
 2461. Truth rides a long road. 
 
 2462. Victory flies from equality. 
 
 2463. Gold gathers more than a shovel. 
 
 2464. Where a test is practicable do not neglect it. 
 
 2465. What is useless singly may, by repetition and quantity, 
 support millions. 
 
 2466. Exchange is often the balance of evils. 
 
 2467. Without sickness or sorrow wait till to-morrow. 
 
 2468. Money spent smiles with some. 
 
 2469. Money spent withdraws its charm. 
 
 2470. An unjust action is a spring of falsehood. 
 
 2471. Power and mind do not always go together. 
 
 3472. Envy wealth for its power of good, not ill. 
 
 2473. Grief makes even pleasures single. 
 
 2474. Let ill be ever far from hope 
 
 2475. Wishes make most exceptions. 
 
 2476. The warnings wisdom gives are gains. 
 
 2477. Money creates often the want of it. 
 
 2478. Neglect of pride often repays it best. 
 
 2479. The manner, and that alone, is oftentimes the obligation. 
 
 2480. Manners and pride ever need a witness. 
 
 2481. Profit, like applause, generally comes at the close. 
 
 2482. Tastes often strengthen with the neglect of " tastes." 
 
 2483. Let just profit ever be the ally of concession. 
 
 2484. Grief does not always discern the best gifts. 
 
 2485. Remembrance of good is of itself a safeguard. 
 
 2486. Knowledge and truth create most wants. 
 
 2487. Unknown is unlocked for. 
 
 2488. Dependence often leans on former scorn. 
 
 2489. Ostentation frequently levels distinction, for its sake. 
 
 2490. Profit is often a friend to pleasure. 
 
 2491. To make the best use of things is always to abstain from 
 the abuse of them. 
 
 2492. Wisdom may have a home in any place. 
 
68 MAXIMS. 
 
 2493. Distance sometimes improves friendship. 
 
 2494. Interest comprehends well. 
 
 2495. Liberality often owes much to caution, 
 
 2496. Govern thy best designs with prudence. 
 
 2497. Sequels ever found if searched for. 
 
 2498. Projects which are just are capable, for what is capable in 
 reason is just. 
 
 2499. Wisdom is oftentimes greatest in ill success. 
 
 2500. Success has often a bad memory. 
 
 2501. 111 fortune makes often good caution. 
 
 2502. Wealth has many weaknesses. 
 
 2503. The prudent will must be obeyed if we would either attain 
 success or secure it. 
 
 2504. Where two " necessaries" of life do not mutually support, 
 one is unnecessary. 
 
 2505. A " friend" who needs expenses is not a necessary one. 
 
 2506. Admiration is often an awkward labour. 
 
 2507. Friends, like obstacles to the sight, should be held at a 
 certain distance. 
 
 2508. Example increases with number. 
 
 2509. The just allow no reprisals. 
 
 2510. Compassion sometimes makes pain a favour. 
 
 2511. Vanity is sometimes the builder of probity. 
 
 2512. Favours soon forgotten take long to remember. 
 
 2513. Fortune is sometime or other at her utmost. 
 
 2514. Look still to the substance in thy best designs. 
 
 2515. Anger doubles work and time. 
 
 2516. Give to no injustice. 
 
 2517. Lend to probity rather than to acquaintances. 
 
 2518. 111 possessions are worth no security. 
 
 2519. Accept nothing that may diminish wisdom and prudence. 
 
 2520. All things are bounded by all. 
 
 2521. He who makes nourishment an amusement does not use it 
 rightly. 
 
 2522. The forest is nature's habitation. 
 
 2523. Concern for others sometimes turns on ourselves. 
 
 2524. Misfortune is the heir of retrospection. 
 
 2525. Calamities ever increase with knowledge. 
 
 2526. A troublesome fortune is best where evil lessens. 
 
 2527. Prudence gives mostly the best welcome. 
 
 2528. Custom is sometimes an easier road than experience. 
 
 2529. Hasty purchases often make lasting griefs. 
 
 2530. Independence thrives on thrift. 
 
 2531. He who gives aid also gives responsibility. 
 
 2532. Let virtuous intention be the vanguard of all thy actions. 
 
 2533. Success is the brightest colour. 
 
 2534. We generally boast least of necessities. 
 
 2535. Evil supports are not lasting. 
 
 2536. Credit not (with) despair. 
 
 2537. Fact is the market of profit. 
 
 2538. True manners seek neither good nor bad fortune. 
 
 2539. A fit habitation is the delight of justice. 
 
BY EDWABD COUNSEL. 69 
 
 2540. Pleasure, at times, blinds the eye of gain. 
 
 2541. Were all wishes gratified, few would there be to enjoy them. 
 
 2542. Wisdom gives, but asks no favour. 
 
 2543. Let there be no exultation without wisdom. 
 
 2544. Keep close bound by virtue. 
 
 2545. He who sees good sees farthest. 
 
 2546. Amusement often drowns even the voioe of profit. 
 
 2547. Neglect not the future in anything. 
 
 2548. Evil has easy problems to solve. 
 
 2549. Good hope is often a sign of fortune. 
 
 2550. Profit visits not where sellers outnumber. 
 
 2551. When science cures money is well spent. 
 
 2552. Cures are better than coins. 
 
 2553. Till we lose a possession thought is often silent about it. 
 
 2554. Ideas are oftentimes the soul's signals. 
 
 2555. Unknown mystery is often the most certain. 
 
 2556. Words are often the bonds of honour. 
 
 2557. Without aid without fortune. 
 
 2558. Learn no evils from hope of worth. 
 
 2559. 'Tis hard to choose in mysteries. 
 
 2560. Absence makes hasty work. 
 
 2561. We often know best in ignorance. 
 
 2562. Pride often depends for support on humility. 
 
 2563. Means often make difficulties vanish. 
 
 2564. Refusals are fairer than falsehood. 
 
 2565. Industry is often a book of fortune. 
 
 2566. Ill-success makes even worth diminish in some eyes. 
 
 2567. Pleasures are often born of custom. 
 
 2568. Ingratitude springs (often) from profit. 
 
 2569. Knowledge ought to walk with proof. 
 
 2570. Wishes labour long. 
 
 2571. " Branch words " sometimes get the first place. 
 
 2572. Intentions often die with words. 
 
 2573. Promptness often conquers cunning. 
 
 2574. Many fancy ideas as they do clothes by their brightness. 
 
 2575. That which has no use hath required many. 
 
 2576. Profit can well spare introductions. 
 
 2577. The dispenser of fortune does not always feel it. 
 
 2578. Wish only for righteous things ; all others are losses. 
 
 2579. Wealth is but the pensioner of time. 
 
 2580. Money hath two handles. 
 
 2581. Contempt often springs from inability. 
 
 2582. Position often makes difference of fortune. 
 
 2583. Fortune sometimes subsists on distrust. 
 
 2584. Evils come and go for naught. 
 
 2585. Chance is but a poor possession. 
 
 2586. Good-will gives good deeds. 
 
 2587. Families make often fame. 
 
 2588. Kindness should be the true bond of esteem. 
 
 2589. Forgetfulness of evils oft surmount them. 
 
 2590. Enmity often entails labour. 
 
 2591. Time well employed is better than insecure riches. 
 
70 MAXIMS. 
 
 2592. Ill-will is often the sequel of favour. 
 
 2593. True generosity is a foe to folly. 
 
 2594. Honour is seldom impartial. 
 
 2595. Facts surround all things. 
 
 2596. Society and solitude balance each other in obstacles. 
 
 2597. Decision is a link of destiny. 
 
 2598. Restriction is the tutor of propriety. 
 
 2599. The sympathy of the unjust lessens with means. 
 
 2600. Hope is often born of fear. 
 
 2601. The proof of success generally depends on matter. 
 
 2602. There is a bounty on good deeds. 
 
 2603. Destiny smiles at ill-placed force. 
 
 2604. Proportion seldom regulates all wishes. 
 
 2605. Words never wear. 
 
 2606. Hope sometimes opens the book of misery. 2. Hope some- 
 times knocks at misery's gate. 
 
 2607. Sense finds a difficult entrance where fashion bars the way . 
 
 2608. Economy vaults with hope. 
 
 2609. Welcome, like waves, ever rise and fall. 
 2610. He who speaks first often speaks last. 
 2611. Ill-will likes no distribution of goods. 
 2612. Capability is judgment. 
 
 2613. Praise diminishes with ignorance and number. 
 2614. Misfortune ever comes too soon. 
 261 5. Endeavours are not safe investments. 
 2616. Economy must be often deaf. 
 2617. Be deaf to the ear of pride. 
 2618. There is no gratitude in force. 
 2619. Fear is ever near sadness. 
 2620. Good advice errs not with choice. 
 2621. Wit ever resides near injustice. 
 2622. Truth has a large area. 
 2623. Choices are often beacons to contempt. 
 2624. Models are often invisible monitors. 
 
 2625. Fortune has more baits offered her than she cares to bite 
 at. 
 
 2626. Reason will stop success which only seems so. 
 2627. Poverty is never complete. 
 
 2628. Eegrets are often heirs of memory. 2. Eegrets are often 
 regretted. 
 
 2629. Nature intended originally for every living thing to thrive. 
 
 2630. Chance often delights to trip the sure footed. 
 
 2631. Chance is a bad friend for help. 
 
 2632. He is a poor friend who has always to show his face. 
 
 2633. Strong words have often weak intentions. 
 
 2634. Judgment carries through the longest road. 
 
 2635. Dangers make fools diligent. 
 
 2636. He who always excuses himself deals^in fiction. 
 
 2637. Gifts are often obstructions. 
 
 2638. The law hath still too many favours. 
 
 2639. Poverty is seldom impartial with interest. 
 
 2640. The memory of right often makes a grateful man. 
 
BY EDWABD COUNSEL. 71 
 
 2641. If interest could be speedily awarded there would be many 
 to attain excellence. 
 
 2642. Passion is ever a debtor to reason. 
 
 2643. Death never loses. 
 
 2644. Fire goes with time. 
 
 2645. Favour gladdens with success. 
 
 2646. Gilded is not always got. 
 
 2647. Humility sometimes rests on favour. 
 
 2648. Friends are sometimes the best when they do not always 
 make themselves necessary. 
 
 2649. True civility sees but few faults. 
 
 2650. Let not accomplishments precede necessities. 
 
 2651. A good time is often the best cause. 
 
 2652. He who certifies to all ills may have to_be charged with the 
 knowledge of some. 
 
 2653. Acceptance is often far from favour. 
 
 2654. Flattery often sees the best hopes. 
 
 2655. Anger is the worst kind of anxiety. 
 
 2656. The greatest value is often the unsoundest seat. 
 
 2657. Often are trials better borne than is the thought of them. 
 
 2658. Sorrow is certain with time. 
 
 2659. A good rest makes a good renewal. 
 
 2660. Wants give many welcomes. 
 
 2661. Welcomes oft repeated lose strength. 
 
 2662. Hold the captain by his own rope. 
 
 2663. Wisdom's problems are ever present. 
 
 2664. Paid assistance is readiest. 
 
 2665. Singularity is sometimes good profit. 
 
 2666. Often when most excellent least wanted. 
 
 2667. We seldom see servility in a rich man. 
 
 2668. Pleasure is never a just balance. 
 
 2669. Experience does not always redeem folly ; for folly never 
 reasons justly. 
 
 2670. Many maxims are there made for comforts. 
 
 2671. Dross often comes with wealth, but does not leave with it. 
 
 2672. Wisdom is the guard of reason. 
 
 2673. Deceit sometimes gives value for ill intention. 
 
 2674. The debts of peace are often obstructions for its continuance. 
 
 2675. Talent brought to market is often left there. 
 
 2676. Gold brightens even fancy. 
 
 2677. The greatest excellence has often but short limits. 
 
 2678. When gain retreats, interest may keep it company. 
 
 2679. Imperfections crowd on the guilty. 
 
 2680. If known in all places often to your cost. 
 
 2681. Every mouth makes a new taste of facts. 
 
 2682. Instruction often seals against the intent. 
 
 2683. Futurity is the vision of truth. 
 
 2684. Be just to all ; more so to those who wish justice but can- 
 not procure it. 
 
 2685. Never let injustice tarry. 
 
 2686. Often is destruction encased with present safety 
 
 2687. Satisfaction dwells not with anger. 
 
72 MAXIMS. 
 
 2688. Anger deals not with necessity. 
 
 2689. Evils are ever in excess. 
 
 2690. Effort is the good of hope. 
 
 2691. The best friend does not always show the best mouth. 
 
 2692. Be friendly to thy best sentiments. 
 
 2693. General respect should be everywhere engaged. 
 
 2694. Manners display often against the wish. 
 
 2695. He who looks for praise does not forget also profit. 
 
 2696. Admiration seeks monitors of gladness. 
 
 2697. Fancy may endure contempt, and be above showing it. 
 
 2698. Fame ever gets satisfaction for its name, if not help. 
 
 2699. We may bow to a beggar and be no loser. 
 
 2700. Models are easy where fame precedes. 
 
 2701. Admiration increases with the distance of contrast. 
 
 2702. What is successful in the single test may not be in the 
 abstract. 
 
 2703. All authority lost is not the best equality. 
 
 2704. If we follow not with justice we do not befriend. 
 
 2705. Applause is often entrapped by fame. 
 
 2706. Gold is a sponge for sorrow. 
 
 2707. A reasonable hope is a good index. 
 
 2708. Speech is labour if against will or interest. 
 
 2709. Good desires are lamps of virtue. 
 
 2710. Let caution ever accompany increase of riches. 
 
 2711. First intentions are often strongest. 
 
 2712. Attention is the door to experience. 
 
 2713. Circumspection is the armour of prudence. 
 
 2714. We must be on our guard with civility when allied with 
 interest. 
 
 2715. Intentions unconfirmed are but as problems unsolved. 
 
 2716. We must know aims to judge rightly actions. 
 
 2717. Know no " friend " or acquaintance who makes dress the 
 standard of worth. 
 
 2718. Conversation on one side only is a rebuke to equality. 2. 
 Equality is the ground whereon conversation sits best. 
 
 2719. To be inclined to wisdom is to excel. 
 
 2720. What begins in despair often ends in hope. 
 
 2721. Without hope destinies would be just. 
 
 2722. Knowledge should ever be the lamp of virtue. 
 
 2723. Break not with proven supports. 
 
 2724. Examinations lighten when proofs precede. 
 
 2725. Justice in the present is often a key of future excellence. 
 
 2726. Receptions are full of change, and seldom balanced with 
 equality. 
 
 2727. Prosperity reaped without aid diminishes the want of 
 friends. 
 
 2728. A true friend will censure another, even if it is against his 
 interest. 
 
 2729. It is the use, not possession, which gives true worth . of 
 things. 
 
 2730. We would never frown at morality if we knew the good 
 results springing from it. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 73 
 
 2731. Hope is often the road leading to interest. 
 
 2732. Culture is oftentimes a preserver of safety. 
 
 2733. When good order follows it would seem to attest the justice 
 of a war. 
 
 2734. Wisdom, though often deemed hasty, is generally lasting in 
 its effects. 
 
 2735. Danger is oftentimes the ordeal of ambition. 
 
 2736. Time and events control the actions of the world. 
 
 2737. Infinity is a globe which encloses all things. 
 
 2738. It is the thought that justifies the labour. 
 
 2739. If space is equal to time, it may (?) increase also with it. 
 
 2740. Wisdom sanctions haste and delay for good. 
 
 2741. Successes are but problems to the wise. 
 
 2742. Eternity is a circle which surrounds all things. 
 
 2743. It is a duty we owe to others to preserve properly our own 
 possessions. 
 
 2744. Ideas of unknown things should be ever founded on 
 humility. 
 
 2745. Life without success in it is a blank page of ambition. 
 
 2746. A holy wish hath effected all things. 
 
 2747. There is little interest where knowledge is a blank. 
 
 2748. Secrets only as they affect us are of worth. 
 
 2749. Best hopes work best. 
 
 2750. We often receive on hearsay that which requires labour to 
 know properly. 
 
 2751. Maxims live often without a portrait. 2. Maxims are dumb 
 monitors. 
 
 2752. Fame, like bees, ever seeks a place to settle. 
 
 2753. It is hard to change wishes if profit resides. 
 
 2754. Time only gives that which will wear. 
 
 2755. Time creates much wishing. 
 
 2756. Learn to acknowledge justice against thy interests. 
 
 2757. Interest is not always a sure countenance. 
 
 2758. Prudence exists with moderation. 
 
 2759. Moderation has fewer labours for the future. 
 
 2760. Be indolent only with wrath. 
 
 2761. Prosperity should be housed with caution. 
 
 2762. Let caution travel never alone. 
 
 2763. Never give up virtue for vice's phantoms. 
 
 2764. The truth, and not the style ; gold is the same in any 
 pocket. 
 
 2765. Seek no favour if it incurs promises not to be met with 
 justice. 
 
 2766. It may be best to be first in that which is inevitable. 
 
 2767. lleason has many echoes on the road. 
 
 2768. First draughts generally strengthen most. 
 
 2769. Success produces sometimes more hope. 
 
 2770. Gaming is ever time ill-spent, and gains unearned. 
 
 2771. Frugality is the heir to much possessions. 
 
 2772. Thought is at last the grave of all. 
 
 2773. Learning sometimes lessens deeds. 
 
 2774. Saved expenses (in the present) often save future honour. 
 
74 MAXIMS. 
 
 2775. Ever despise excesses. 
 
 2776. Much power given generally gives a bad recompense. 
 2777. Give not power to walk alone. 
 2778. Need asks few choices. 
 2779. Tastes are chains often forged by ourselves. 
 2780. Practice is the essence of hope. 
 2781. An important motive is a wide collection. 
 2782. Fame is strengthened by industry. 
 2783. Talent knows no station. 
 
 2784. Learning is oftentimes the cushion of indolence. 
 2785. Patronage is often led by folly. 
 2786. If we sit still events will often seem to hasten. 
 2787. Bitter often pays best. 
 2788. Facts are the best potions for contempt. 
 2789. Civility measures well without arithmetic. 
 2790. Plumes not secured will fall to the ground. 
 2791. Want is oftentimes want of prudence. 
 2792. He is wise who acknowledges truth in his sufferings. 
 2793. Ease will not end with ease. 
 2794. Hope ever makes the present unhappy. 
 2795. Best often comes when we wish it not. 
 2796. Luxury is the chimera of fashion. 
 2797. Let envy ever stay shortest. 
 2798. Hearing is often the food of support. 
 2799. Propriety is often a foe to talent. 
 2800. Unless we command evil we cannot serve good. 
 2801. Motives well built rest on sure interests. 
 2802. Seek not favour with unjust hope. 
 2803. Time is the silent arm of strength. 
 2804. Care lessens no discretion. 
 2805. Death regards all with calm and watchful eye. 
 2806. Folly is the great tempter of death. 
 2807. Tuition shall go well with great favour. 
 2808. Ideas are the semblances of the soul vouchsafed us. 
 2809. Often is life but a waiting for effects come or ceased. 
 2810. Good thought is the best food of the soul. 
 2811. Examine not with presumption things unresolved by man. 
 2812. The past o'erclouds the ignorant. 
 
 2813. Commendation without knowledge seldom measures well. 
 2814. The armour of evil is no safety. 
 
 2815. Like steel, we may bend, but should not break with labours. 
 2816. He who labours hard shall labour short. 
 2817. Keason may be likened to a circle of ideas which meet and 
 support the soul. 
 
 2818. Infancy is the golden light of the soul. 
 
 2819. Begin and end in peace and truth with all. 
 
 2820. Be a friend to nothing sinister. 
 
 2821. Wisdom approved in talent is well-approved ambition. 
 
 2822. Announcing evils often lessens favour. 
 
 2823. Difference in the beginning enlarges with time. 
 
 2824. Offences are seldom measured justly by interests. 
 
 2825. Models against custom often bring forth wrath. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 75- 
 
 2826. Custom is oftentimes the real despot. 
 
 2827. Motives are the hardest workers. 
 
 2928. Power is often the cloak of manner. 
 
 2829. How often is pride a mirror 1 
 
 2830. Money and fame laugh at pride. 
 
 2831. Good precepts are born anew with the memory of them. 
 
 2832. Pride is the ground where evil sets its seed. 
 
 2833. Falsehood is a contribution to the store of evil. 
 
 2834. Bounty smothers even danger at times. 
 
 2835. Let labour ever endow with truth. 
 
 2836. To be " favourably" known, we must be generally so to our 
 great cost. 
 
 2837. There is little rivalry where there is impossibility. 
 
 2838. Enthusiasm surrenders its power (often) to others, what 
 might be kept for itself. 
 
 2839. Hope often springs from the amusements of the fancy. 
 
 2840. The one-half of good requires the foundation of it. 
 
 2841. Ask not misery to mourn with increase of it. 
 
 2842. When interest leavens hope it is not to be trusted. 
 
 2843. Time frowns at last upon definitions. 
 
 2844. Our regard does not alter facts in themselves. 
 
 2845. Those ideas are good which commend without fruits. 
 
 2846. Necessaries require no ornament. 
 
 2847. It is frequently man's own pride that makes him angry at 
 that of others. 
 
 2848. Facts (if not fate) are often the warnings of it. 
 
 2849. Standards, like tastes, change with time. 
 
 2850. Right, with many, is like a uniform adopted for a time. 
 
 2851. Anxiety should ever dwell with caution. 
 
 2852. The soul's awe smiles at death. 
 
 2853. Reason controlled by power is never just. 
 
 2854. Great to Heaven, less to all evils. 
 
 2855. Let justice guard the absent. 
 
 2856. Strong opinions guard not prudence. 
 
 2857. There is never an obligation in envy. 
 
 2858. Promises without security are half broken. 
 
 2859. When good has to admit questions it seldom increases with 
 them. 
 
 2860. To defray righteous debts is the soundest duty of business. 
 
 2861. Trust him not whose will is in excess. 
 
 2862. The sound of evil should be as a trumpet to warn thee off. 
 
 2863. He that lends to another without security will often be tied 
 to ill manners. 
 
 2864. Desire and hope are the keys of many actions. 
 
 2865. When the law is ignorant it will invent reasons. 
 
 2866. Golden favour is often bought with dross. 
 
 2867. If a cause depends not on just reason, to follow it is unjust. 
 
 2868. More is generally lost for phantoms than for facts. 
 
 2869. Misfortune of others beam but on the guilty. 
 
 2870. Disappointment ever resides near. 
 
 2871. Let justice ever find an entrance. 
 
 2872. Inattention is a sieve of knowledge. 
 
76 MAXIMS. 
 
 2873. He that is twice " welcome" is not always doubly welcome. 
 
 2874. Let propriety be ever the monitor of excess. 
 
 2875. True justice permits no abuse of it. 
 
 2876. There is little respect without knowledge. 
 
 2877. Security is the test of peace. 
 
 2878. Folly seldom lives without increasing. 
 
 2879. Evil is not a just inheritance. 
 
 2880. When once proven at your cost, let the future be a guard. 
 
 2881. Indolence is the truant of time. 
 
 2882. Many thoughts are dropped in pleasure's ocean. 
 
 2883. Surrender not just fears. 
 
 2884. Fancy is the soul's pageant. 
 
 2885. Eisk often lights on luck. 
 
 2886. Invention makes often more difficulties in the present, but 
 lessens them in the future. 
 
 2887. Place and time often change boldness to timidity. 
 
 2888. Authors often make profit of that which others would lose. 
 
 2889. Eight with might is the most glorious inheritance. 
 
 2890. If necessities were strictly followed the greatest boldness 
 would often be incompetent. 
 
 2891. Honour untested is equal. 
 
 2892. A people's good should be the world's respect. 
 
 2893. Chance is the only (present) truth of fortune. 2. Chance 
 is of fortune's ill favour. 
 
 2894. A maxim which fails in the practice may still be a shield 
 for ignorance. 
 
 2895. He that scorns ignorance shall often scorn power. 
 
 2896. Success and failure in part is better than excess of either. 
 
 2897. Wisdom hath still a place in all times. 
 
 2898. What so pleasant as wisdom's reward ? 
 
 2899. Moderation will sometimes grasp double positions. 
 
 2900. He that writes much and freely, his words will often be a 
 friend to him. 
 
 2901. True fervour is only for Divine things. 
 
 2902. To Heaven all is due. 
 
 2903. Satisfaction only dwells with virtue. 
 
 2904. Use life well, and death will beam at the close of it. 
 
 2905. Spurious welcome is that which is given to place and not to 
 worth. 
 
 2906. If we are favoured we are often indebted. 
 
 2907. There is no control against Heaven. 
 
 2908. It is as easy to be successful sometimes as to fail. 
 
 2909. He who profits only by the success of others will not profit 
 singly. 2. Like one who has escaped from a wreck is he who 
 prospers singly. 
 
 2910. Justice should control tedious animosities. 
 
 2911. Anger ill requires a problem. 
 
 2912. Flatterers generally see through a glass of hope. 
 
 2913. Endurance of labours is often the test of them. 
 
 2914. Sloth aims back at itself. 
 
 2915. Prudence lives with the just. 
 
 2916. Accept if faith concurs. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 77 
 
 2917. Follow him not who hates just things. 
 2918. Right of punishment must own a just cause. 
 2919. Evil has a short lease. 
 2920. Charity is the radiance of the heart. 
 2921. Sympathy is strong when it secures habit. 
 2922. Sanction gains with truth. 
 2923. Necessity requires no slander. 
 2924. Truth ever beams from the eternal.-" 
 2925. To please the unjust is to have erred. 
 2926. True justice asks no concession from wisdom. 
 2927. How often is "friendship " but a habit 1 
 2928. Joy that runs before us is ever uncertain. 
 2929. Mercy is a branch of charity. 
 
 2930. Let us be careful of acquisitions in wisdom as in wealth. 
 2931. Wisdom is the breath of eternal things. 
 2932. Interest is a cunning tyrant. 
 2933. That which is not preserved hastens to its close. 
 2934. The worst services are those of evil. 
 2935. Where evils are absent some content is ever possible. 
 2936. Contentment is a large field where we may always reap. 
 2937. Consent to good is the best signature. 
 2938. Who loves justice is a debtor to it. 
 2939. Abandon not a friend in truth. 
 2940. Evils bear gratitude as poisons fruit. 
 2941. Against truth and reason, ever insecure. 
 2942. Ability sometimes measures weakness for strength. 
 2943. Let the intention be as the gild of truth. 
 2944. Success sometimes corrects the errors of the indolent. 
 2945. Time is generally favourable to good designs of it. 
 2946. Questions should exist but on sufferance. 
 2947. Wisdom is the safe journey of the soul. 
 2948. Evils die not where justice mends not. 
 2949. Seek no unjust countenance. 
 2950. Reason is the frame of wisdom. 
 2951. Faults are often debts which we set to others' cost. 
 2952. Trust should ever own a relation to good. 
 2953. Be justly assured of right, then follow. 
 2954. Repetition is the tutor of memory. 
 2955. The greater the importance the lesser the memory. 
 2956. Meditation is the book we may never lose. 
 2957. The poorest invention is often fertile in ill. 
 2958. He that contemns prudence oft surrenders without cause. 
 2959. What is best known often wears a mask. 
 2960. Order is the corner-stone of a nation's success. 
 2961. Order bears best the frowns of destiny. 
 2962. Folly ever stands on doubt. 
 2963. Facts bear well with arguments. 
 
 2964. Use (invention's test) and art are still near neighbours. 
 2965. Fancy with virtue is a just legacy of the eoul. 
 2966. To maintain a difficult position is often as hazardous as to 
 attain thereunto. 
 2967. Memory sets many seals. 
 
'78 MAXIMS. 
 
 2968. The door of success is often closed to hope. 
 
 2969. Useless words are like many cases for a poor jewel. 
 
 2970. Just principles are the pillars of the soul. . - 
 
 2971. After ills prudence joins. 
 
 2972. Prudence suggests no indolence. 
 
 2973. What is first a taste only is frequently followed by arduous 
 labour and industry. 
 
 2974. Supports accompany all things. 
 
 2975. Profit often follows rich folly. 
 
 2976. Let consideration ever meet novelty. 
 
 2977. Evils vanish where justice sets her seal. 
 
 2978. Hasty men frequently confirm obstacles when they think 
 they are but met. 
 
 2979. It is the manner in which we consider ill that often 
 makes it. 
 
 2980. Speak and act so that ill report may not hold. 
 
 2981. A reward maybe ill received, and yet be a compliment; 
 but a compliment ill received is seldom a reward 
 
 2982. Where justice but gleams, this is a sufficient introduction to 
 candour. 
 
 2983. Contention in good will improve the faculties. 
 
 2984. Use makes ease ensue. 
 
 2985. When insolence flourishes patience must be on one side. 
 
 2986. Time is sometimes better than a debt paid. 
 
 2987. He that stops suddenly in success has met either an enemy 
 or thinks he knows some. 
 
 2988. What is unknown is often a bait for subtlety. 
 
 2989. As we cannot live without some degree of wisdom, let us 
 acknowledge it in all things. 
 
 2990. He who hath all proofs hath not all rewards. 
 
 2991. What is not done in good time often makes double labour. 
 
 2992. It is not always wise to improve difficulties with the hope 
 of favours. 
 
 2993. We should not abide by the decision of envy. 
 
 2994. True respect for ourselves makes us ever a debtor to others. 
 
 2995. Errors need many masks. 
 
 2996. What seems at first an ill reception is frequently a hidden 
 'bounty. 
 
 2997. Gratitude should dwell with reward. 
 
 2998. 111 content often undermines generosity. 
 
 2999. Work in justice rather than rest in ill. 
 
 3000. Evil ever lessens where wisdom gains. 
 
 3001. When truth speaks it is confident. 
 
 3002. Digression is sometimes commendable. 
 
 3003. Justice hath an eternal destiny. 
 
 3004. Wisdom is bounty which may be always obtained. 
 
 3005. We have achieved the best when we have not exceeded. 
 
 3006. The farther from reason the farther in doubt. 
 
 3007. The best success is that approved by wisdom. 
 
 3008. Much endeavour meets many cares. 
 
 3009. Let thy mind still applaud where wisdom sanctions. 
 
 3010. Power sometimes lessens our former wishes. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 79 
 
 3011. What is often worthless singly is not so when allied. 
 
 3012. Interest often requires discovery. 
 
 3013. Things are useless to us if they are impossible. 
 
 3014. He discovers well who observes few wants. 
 
 3015. There is no power in the world without weakness. 
 
 3016. Often do our preparations for avoiding scorn meet it. 
 
 3017. Every man has an eternal spring of wisdom in his soul did 
 he but geek it. 
 
 3018. Art often gives success in art. 
 
 3019. Truth to God is greater than all other truth. 
 
 3020. Prudence sometimes lives with the recollection of ill. 
 
 3021. Friendship is the magnet of the just. 
 
 3022. The fear of evil is a good antidote. 
 
 3023. First with scorn is often first with reward. 
 
 3024. Eight saves much labour. 
 
 3025. Let thy best friend be thy mind. 
 
 3026. He who despairs shall not come singly. 
 
 3027. The eye travels farthest . 
 
 3028. The greatest confidences are worthless at times. 
 
 3029. What cannot be repeated leans to failure. 
 
 3030. He who loses time (often) employs his enemy. 
 
 3031. Knowledge may open many doors, but does not always 
 meet with welcome. 
 
 3032. We may as well lose gain as time. 
 
 3033. Where there is rivalry success is not all secured. 
 
 3034. Curiosity is often feigned first and felt afterwards. 
 
 3035. Great names are often heavy weights. 
 
 3036. Reason loves the best designs of life. 
 
 3037. To endeavour to prove everything is to be a searcher only. 
 
 3038. Justice is often called upon to decide perfection (or that 
 which cannot be decided.) 
 
 3039. Power in States is their last standard. 
 
 3040. When right resides with thee happiness is never impossible. 
 
 3041. The eye is often called upon to judge (more than the court.) 
 
 3042. The simplest thing hath infinite and complex surroundings. 
 
 3043. We seldom attend to our own and others' interests with the 
 same zest. 
 
 3044. We often despair at lesser difficulties when we have already 
 surmounted great ones. 
 
 3045. We appeal often to wisdom in thought and word. 
 
 3046. He who speaks much must speak many unnecessary things. 
 
 3047. Ignorance of art often contemns its cultivators. 
 
 3048. Let a man look more to his own mind, and therein will he 
 read more thoughts than books. 
 
 3049. If thy thoughts be of worth, still let print be the outcome ; 
 for he that thinks, as he that has written well, should be deemed an 
 author. 
 
 3050. Some people cannot judge of others without being sup- 
 ported by their own idea of wealth. 
 
 3051. The purse makes eloquence where poverty is mute. 
 
 3052. Integrity is the support of a virtuous heart an honest mind. 
 
 3053. Darkness is oftentimes the sleep of excellence. 
 
80 MAXIMS. 
 
 3054. Where there is no perfection excellence is level. 
 3055. The eye is the lamp of fashion. 
 3056. The observance of others is the food of pride. 
 3057. Wealth gives authority often to the ignorant. 
 3058. Fear is oftentimes the fainting of hope. 
 3059. When justice dies vice attains power. 
 3060. Successes increase respect. 
 3061. Wisdom should rest in the soul. 
 3062. The vain love not rivalry. 
 3063. Support merit in its integrity only. 
 
 3064. Find but a study or truth which may forward some 
 inherent virtue or faculty in man, and thou shalt never be at a loss 
 for an audience. 
 
 3065. Eternity is the plain of the soul. 
 
 3066. If we think well in reason we shall never be in want of a 
 monitor in action. 
 
 3067. As we die in truth so do we die for it. 
 3068. Profit and interest are the great motors of human nature. 
 3069. From life springs the hope of it. 
 3070. Even profit is sometimes unselfish. 
 
 3071. Often do those things differ most which resemble in 
 appearance. 
 
 3072. Good nature often dims the heart's contempt. 
 3073. We are never truly successful when we contemn. 
 3074. Despair is not only a bad reaper, but makes more labour. 
 3075. 111 success is often the admonition of wisdom. 
 3076. The soul is the light of eternal things. 
 3077. Infinity dwells in the soul, as the soul in infinity. 
 3078. There are many causes for the soul's fertile dismay. 
 3079. Deem not a just task difficult. 
 
 3080. It is the way in which we value things which makes them 
 indispensable. 
 
 3081. Despair flies from those things that are certain. 
 3082. The support of evil is undermined by enmity to thee. 
 3083. Let due time weigh well in thy actions. 
 3084. We should not account that altogether ill which has been 
 worked with a good intention. 
 
 3085. Fear the least frown from wisdom's anger. 
 3086. Satiety is the desert of the soul. 
 3087. Maxims come from any moment. 
 3088. Meditation is profit for the present and future. 
 3089. Meditation often enchains hope to best resolves. 
 3090. For one thought many a life has worked to its goal. 
 3091. We see, at times, far for others' good ; but our best interests 
 come home to ourselves. 
 
 3092. Let our interests ever give place to wisdom. 
 3093. What is our interest is often best for another's. 
 3094. Many live with truth on compulsion. 
 3095. Interest is not always single. 
 3096. We welcome ill when we countenance it. 
 3097. If you are truly just to yourself, others' ill will not prove 
 unjust to thee. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 81 
 
 3098. The interest of others fades before our own. 
 
 3099. No one can be truly just to you if you are unjust to yourself. 
 
 3100. Meditation is both the leisure and work of the soul. 
 
 3101. Meditation is the directing power which employs the 
 faculties of the soul. 
 
 3102. Truth never requires an unjust arbitrator. 
 
 3103. The faculties of the soul are the breathings of Heaven. 
 
 3104. Ill handiwork sometimes brings forth best intentions and 
 designs. 
 
 3105. Fortune has no desire of ill. 
 
 3106. Actions are the tools of fortune. 
 
 3107. Try truth in armour. 
 
 3108. All things bow before charity. 
 
 3109. Confidence in right is support in wrong. 
 
 3110. Our best actions are not always our best intentions. 
 
 3111. He who fails, hope neglects. 
 
 3112. Be bold with proved assurance. 
 
 3113. Certainty of right makes boldness just. 
 
 3114. Approve nothing except with justice. 
 
 3115. The realms of thought are infinite, and as productive as 
 those of Nature. 
 
 3116. Prudence should extend to all things. 
 
 3117. Weigh not with envy. 
 
 3118. Prejudice often makes taste a bad standard. 
 
 3119. That is never useless which virtue sanctions. 
 
 3120. The knowledge of others' successes is sometimes the best 
 reward for ourselves. 
 
 3121. Wisdom only balances rightly. 
 
 3122. Truth is the reward of rightful inquiry. 
 
 3123. He has lived well who is necessary to virtue. 
 
 3124. When we come to think, there is an eternity of thought as 
 of time. 
 
 3125. A second visit (like a second view) often makes things look 
 better. 
 
 3126. 111, at times, seems to decrease in enormity if looked upon 
 twice. 
 
 3127. How often do the eyes labour ill ! 
 
 3128. Success is often fertile in admonition. 
 
 3129. Passion makes the simplest resolves in wisdom difficult. 
 
 3130. Moments are the roots of years. 
 
 3131. Receive not that ill which harms not and is well inten- 
 tion ed. 
 
 3132. Extremes are never just standards. 
 
 3133. Many live ill who live in (worldly) content. 
 
 3134. Gain is the root of most actions. 
 
 3135. When we discard hope the future has a certain frown. 
 
 3136. Economy hath not always need of a house (to preserve it). 
 
 3137. ON LETTERS 1. Letters are the conversations of absence. 
 2. Letters are the couriers of destiny. 3. Letters are often like 
 lamps, that burn at first with a pleasant flame, but afterwards grow 
 dim. 4. Letters are the mind's pageants. 5. Letters are sometimes 
 capital things if they are answered. 6. A letter is like a friend 
 
82 MAXIMS. 
 
 who is well or ill received as his favour is prosperous or not ; or r 
 like a new book, we know not what is contained therein until we 
 open it. 7. Despise not the letter ; to address an influential body 
 of public men is as much a public act as it is to print a book or 
 issue a pamphlet. 
 
 3138. Look on recent quarrels as old ones. 
 
 3139. The work of the soul is rest in peace. 
 
 3140. Take not after injustice. 
 
 3141. The first use of life is to abstain from evil. 
 
 3142. Ask not every opinion to weigh. 
 
 3143. Seek weU for the imagination. 
 
 3144. Trust hath a time for delay. 
 
 3145. Whatever road you travel let wisdom bear thee company. 
 
 3146. Many arts are given to us to know their uselessness ; 
 where these are no use the designs may be. 
 
 3147. Seek firmness in right, but let it be right. 
 
 3148. True hope is that which is built on virtue. 
 
 3149. Every advantage is not gotten with industry alone. 
 
 3150. Neglect is the canker of hope. 
 
 3151. War, like fortune, deals in surprises. 
 
 3152. To know rightly is to practise in all humility. 
 
 3153. Have no opinions except those founded on justice. 
 
 3154. If we entertain unjust views we cannot be virtuous, for we 
 cannot approve by actions and be untainted. 
 
 3155. With life hours are sometimes destinies. 
 
 3156. Time still works out its end unknown to us. 
 
 3157. That which we take for justice is often only the appearance 
 of it. 
 
 3158. Power can bear many frowns. 
 
 3159. What is stamped by truth is a strong defence. 
 
 3160. Ideas and principle still control peace and war : material 
 power (only) is the brute's prerogative. 
 
 3161. Own thy humility when it behoves thee to do it. 
 
 3162. Let fatigue rest with wisdom. 
 
 3163. Endeavour to understand rightly your position and posi- 
 tions, for thousands affect to despise the very rules (which are 
 maxims) they are, unwittingly, governed by. 
 
 3164. Without justice, ever with danger. 
 
 3165. We take up our residence with danger when we discard 
 justice. 
 
 3166. Endless is the good of just things. 
 
 3167. Justice unnoticed works time back at us. 
 
 3168. Gratitude of favours is a redemption of ill. 
 
 3169. Sense loves a just interpretation. 
 
 3170. Knowledge of useless things is loss of knowledge. 
 
 3171. We cannot be wise unless we pull down the structure of 
 prejudice. 
 
 3172. Faith, justice, and hope are the three supports of the soul 
 in affliction. 
 
 3173. Reason requires no injury. 
 
 3174. War the great problem of power and time. 
 
 3175. Judgments are often from favour. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 83 
 
 3176. Do not contemn just arts. 
 
 3177. Be advised slowly when thy just interests are threatened ; 
 let possibility divide the line. 
 
 3178. Hope always for just things and wisdom will favour thee. 
 
 3179. Performance is the seal of promise. 
 
 3180. Safe is he who dwells with right and piety. 
 
 3181. Fortune often retires when made too welcome. 
 
 3182. Words often frame thought and signals to the soul. 
 
 3183. Words often prove enemies to plague you. 
 
 3184. Till all be heard let thy verdict incline to good report. 
 
 3185. Success is brighter than the diamond. 
 
 3186. Truth is the best idea ; all designs are incomplete with- 
 out it. 
 
 3187. Ideas are often the strongest facts. 
 
 3188. Justly sanction the best intentions. 
 
 3189. To hope often is the best prudence. 
 
 3190. What is not thought is not prejudged. 
 
 3191. He labours hard who pleases all. 
 
 3192. The less " friends " the less to please. 
 
 3193. Common sense is a trusty support. 
 
 319 i. Ask no unjust recompense. 
 
 3195. Remember that words are often judged intentions. 
 
 3196. Do right by all. 
 
 3197. What we smile on now often is the cause of (future) 
 danger. 
 
 3198. It is the interests of men that often divide them. 
 
 3199. Interest spreads as it grows. 
 
 3200. Hunger makes more work than will. 
 
 3201. To give welcome to evil is to be an enemy to thyself. 
 
 3202. Best are those things which do not deny best. 
 
 3203. The calm journey of the soul still accompanies desert. 
 
 3204. Chance has given many certainties, but it is a bad founda- 
 tion. 
 
 3205. There is no exit from the soul's domain. 
 3206. Without some practical view most intentions are irresolute. 
 3207. The station of life in which we find ourselves is oftentimes 
 the greatest obstacle we have to surmount. 
 
 3208. Be pleased with the justice of the action and not the 
 applause. 
 
 3209. Remember that in birth, as in death, we are ever the 
 measure of our graves. 
 
 3210. Many who are thought friends are often concealed enemies. 
 3211. Be thou never a hook for ill report. 
 
 3212. III report is ever a thankless office ; the just know it not 
 in ill. 
 
 3213. Trust not except to approved wisdom. 
 
 3214. Good principle is the foil to evil. 
 
 3215. Speak not except with proof. 
 
 3216. Agreement is often a just standard. 
 
 3217. Content is relative ; all is content if desires are subdued. 
 
 3218. Take time for wisdom, and it will increase in value. 
 
 3219. We lose time when we do not seek it. 
 
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 3220. Reason is a friend at all times. 
 
 3221. The best friends are (often) those you see not. 
 
 3222. What we know not is oftentimes our best support. 
 
 3223. Few evils are single. 
 
 3224. If we work and do not think, there may not be time to think. 
 
 3225. Anxious hours wait on the imprudent. 
 
 3226. Just principles are the support of all things. 
 
 3227. Pride lessens even a good result. 
 
 3228. We must owe somewhat to others' as well as to our own 
 interest. 
 
 3229. Half the world would be sublime if pride were absent. 
 
 3230. Business (or a calling) is often the key of philosophy. 
 
 3231. Let not gain, or hope of gain, ever subvert principle. 
 
 3232. Taste hath a large tether. 
 
 3233. Folly, after all, meets the most contempt. 
 
 3234. Truth the seal of all justice and virtue. 
 
 3235. What suits most is often never intended for thee. 
 
 3236. Never favour the decisions of evil. 
 
 3237. Wisdom is the one unfailing resource. 
 
 3238. The Universe is the will-birth of the Deity. 
 
 3239. Moderation is, at times, the best conqueror. 
 
 3240. Patience is often the smile of discord. 
 
 3241. Wonder equalises valour. 
 
 3242. Weigh the truth and possibility not the profession. 
 
 3243. Theory is not a foe to simple knowledge. 
 
 3244. Words own many latitudes. 
 
 3245. The justice of an action involves also its responsibility. 
 
 3246. Know the faults of others, but practice the virtues. 
 
 3247. Vanity has produced more works than study. 
 
 3248 It is the application, and not the invention, that becomes 
 useful to the nations. 
 
 3249. It is opposed to natural justice that one man should dictate 
 laws to a multitude. 
 
 3250. When will the people learn that it is just to overturn or 
 destroy, not only all tyranny, but the appearance of it ? 
 
 3251. Ideas are systems, and have infinite surroundings. 
 
 3252. Your true king's court is where the people may judge and 
 arraign. 
 
 3253. Do the right and scorn the wrong : then peace of mind to 
 you'll belong. 
 
 3254. Tyrants in literature or politics withhold allegiance from 
 either. 2. A government or system without a people is but a myth. 
 3255. Let the era of fadism and the "unities" be once and for 
 ever exploded. Literature should submit, not direct. 
 
 3256. Can it be possible there may be one leading idea, which, 
 if it could be infallibly solved, might be the key of all knowledge, as 
 there is a goal to all human efforts ? 
 
 3257. The much belauded " liberty of thought " has certainly 
 many limitations, and thousands are there who follow or adopt a 
 certain strain of sentiments for all thought is sentiment influenc- 
 ing their actions, without being able to assign a valid reason for 
 such. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 85 
 
 3258. If taxpayers had only to contribute their just quota to the 
 expenses of government it would be well ; but when a non-produc- 
 tive class reap the benefits, it is but tyranny to the governed the 
 responsibilities, without the advantages of government. 
 
 3259. Laws and human systems may be changed or altered to any 
 extent if capable of being improved by so doing. 
 
 3260. A book has a longer lease of life than the ephemeral 
 magazine or newspaper, as the latter may be destroyed without 
 incurring the fault of vandalism. We do not burn the book, and 
 preservation is posterity. Give me, then, the book, and not the 
 daily print, for a lasting record. 
 
 3261. Libel in the Press should be met with drastic legislation ; 
 a more healthy tone would then be given to public morals, and 
 society would reap incalculable advantages. The law is always open 
 to "treat." 
 
 3262. Circumstantial evidence can never be considered as a 
 foundation of true justice. 
 
 3263. Contemplate all with kindly feelings, and let our views ever 
 be through the lens of charity. 
 
 3264. A retreat from justice is but too frequently exemplified in 
 the judgment and verdict. 
 
 3265. The authority of name only is not philosophy; dicta 
 interested is but philosophy on probation. 
 
 3266. New ideas should ever be advanced with deference. 
 
 3267. The cause may instruct when experience is at fault. 
 
 3268. The maxims of the just increase in worth. 
 
 3269. Practice is the will in action ; actions the assertions of 
 energy. Mystery, or the unknown, is the ground of equality. 
 
 3270. When the question is solved the result may still demand 
 enquiry. 
 
 3271. Dismay is sometimes the best prudence, for prudence hath 
 divisions. 
 
 3272. Faculty oft teaches, and we may labour from our own. 
 
 3273. A just national cause should never want an alliance. 
 
 3274. The greatest despots are those in common life. 
 
 3275. Against mere convenance and old fashioned fadism hit out 
 straight from the shoulder. Let the authority of mere " style " be 
 abolished. Again, revolutionise the languages; if the vernacular 
 does not supply a suitable term for the idea or question in debate, 
 adapt from the Spanish, Greek, Latin, French, or German, or, better 
 still, invent it. Let the pen and print, henceforth, constitute publi- 
 cation. Why, again, is there not a system of plumal (or manuscript) 
 publication? All writers cannot publish' or print books. 
 
 3276. The influence of Music the influence it might be made to 
 exercise on our lives and faculties has not, I think, been fully dwelt 
 upon. Of all the arts that civilise and elevate, that transforms man 
 from the " brute" he is born (if, indeed, the expression be not too 
 warm rather let us say " unsophisticated child of nature ") to a 
 being of civilised culture and refinement, Music, the concord of sweet 
 sounds and the beacon to an unseen perfection, is, perhaps, the most 
 generally acceptable to the masses. If science and arms may be 
 justly considered as the foundations the corner-stones of a nation's 
 
86 MAXIMS. 
 
 material greatness and stability, the fine arts, on the other hand, 
 are no less necessary to the complete glory of a State. Is not this 
 fully exemplified in the history of ancient Greece, and do we not 
 think more frequently of her divine arts than of the departed glory 
 of her arms ? This is progress. Science and art are the twin sisters 
 of progress. No nation is truly great, truly progressive, where both 
 do not flourish. 
 
 3277. Many writers have entertained the public with disquisitions 
 on the possible advent of an " universal language," but each and 
 all are ultra-national in other words, prejudiced. In such a dispute 
 we must throw nationality to the winds. All the languages of 
 Europe have their peculiar excellencies the vigour of the English 
 and German the majesty of the Spanish the French refinement 
 and the melody of the Italian. Let us suppose a man born without 
 a tongue with a language to choose which should he prefer? Let 
 us first consider what he should avoid : granted their many 
 excellencies, he should avoid, perhaps, the ultra-liquidity of the 
 Italian, and the elisions of the French ; the sibilancy of the English, 
 and the too pronounced (if vigorous) gutturals of the Deutsch the 
 Latin and Greek not being resuscitable. What, then, remains ? the 
 SPANISH the veritable " idioma de cielo," as it has (not unaptly) 
 been called. Spanish should be the universal language: it combines 
 the vigour of the English the ease and polish of the French the 
 rapidity and verve of the Celtic or Irish the melody of the Italian 
 or Greek the majesty of the old Eoman, with the strength and 
 depth of the German. 
 
 3278. The voice of true justice and sentiment echoes even from 
 the grave. 
 
 3279. It's parlous, sirs, when we see the sword of justice in the 
 hands of ignorance. 
 
 3280. The grave owns a large treasury. 
 
 3281. Impossibility is neither consolation nor comfort. 
 
 3282. A people's language is sacred ever respect it. Probably 
 all languages may be equal : for actual use, or even for expressing the 
 ordinary phases of the human mind. 
 
 3283. The harmony of verse has had its due influence upon the 
 genius of all languages. Most nations have a brilliant poetic record. 
 If we examine the poetry (especially the canciones, or songs) of Spain, 
 for instance, what melody (a rival to Italian in the future of the 
 opera), what strength, what orchestral sound ! It is difficult to 
 write Spanish verse without being harmonious ; it is like playing on an 
 instrument which always gives a good tone. The world of song has 
 too long depended (for canzonic words if the term may be employed) 
 upon the Italian, French, and German. Why not enter upon a new 
 domain in musical art? open the portal. Let us, henceforth, utilise 
 Spanish (and even Greek in ordinary letters) for our concert and 
 operatic songs, in conjunction with the languages above mentioned. 
 Progress should apply to the concert and musical world as to art and 
 politics. But, it may be enquired, where is the precedent for this ? 
 Public encouragement requires no precedent in suggestions print and 
 publication have the force of law. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 87 
 
 3284. Frequently the origin of tyranny may have been mere 
 impudence. 
 
 3285. Often is the heart far from the pen. 
 
 3286. After all, men think more alike than is generally supposed. 
 Did you ever hear of a hungry man not think of his dinner? 
 
 3287. I think, and I think not ; when I do not " think, I think : 
 how hard it is to think. 
 
 3288. Under or over the arch : pursue the right road. 
 
 3289. In war, attack is at times the best, as it is the only defence. 
 
 3290. He would be a good despot who could destroy the clique 
 of art professions. 
 
 3291. Tickle the heels of a public cause, and you will soon seethe 
 feet kick. 
 
 3292. Prudence is the best lever to discontent. 
 
 3293. Can unknown forces be justly applied to the removal of 
 known ones? 
 
 3294. Politics is an extensive prospect ; and if the world could be 
 extended, politics would not be left behind. 
 
 3295. Place a grasping politician in an important and influential 
 post, and you have an embryo despot. 
 
 3296. Your " office man " is not always a man in office. 
 
 3297. In every phase of life and change of scene there is 
 opposition. 
 
 3298. Perhaps there is comparison in all things: States to 
 families national and domestic history. 
 
 3299. Human vanity has much to answer for; it possesses 
 advantages, however, and is the motive power and backbone of many 
 of our undertakings. 
 
 3300. Be first thyself in the avowal of shortcomings, and thereby 
 gain a useful point in philosophy. 
 
 3301. Wishes and tangibility are two opposing forces ; when 
 realised the latter is more valued. 
 
 3302. Human nature requires much levelling ; we can never 
 consider your proud man a gentleman : the best pride is that which 
 is kept in abeyance. 
 
 3303. To ignore just rights is to court tyranny. 
 
 3304. Energy is frequently the fruit of discontent. 
 
 3305. General grief is too frequently theoretical. 
 
 3306. Modern sympathies have a granite foundation. 
 
 3307. Restriction of power is the conservation of nations. 
 
 3308. Print makes each man's opinion his ukase. 
 
 3309. Divided by territory but not public sentiment. 
 
 3310. The insatiable desire of power (and wealth) is never extin- 
 guished in individuals or nations. 
 
 3311. Progress sometimes demands that a nation should exceed 
 its just bounds. 
 
 3312. National security should not depend upon alliance. 
 
 3313. A strong alliance often entails loss of strength. 
 
 3314. Suppress custom when not founded upon reason. 
 
 3315. The greatest powers at last are mercy and punishment. 
 
 3316. A purse that owns many friends is never without a rent 
 in it. 
 
88 MAXIMS. 
 
 3317. A letter and signature have often made history. 
 
 3318. Do not discuss the disposal of the standard till the battle i 
 gained. 
 
 3319. Necessity may make Federated States, a co-Empire, or 
 Eepublic : a federation of nations as States. 
 
 3320. Victorious display is but the sign of a nation's illiberality. 
 
 3321. Eeal power can afford to contemn history. Modern history 
 is too frequently international libel your unfaithful historian is the 
 worst libeller. Let us hear the end of these unjust aspersions on 
 national character. 
 
 3322. The world was never intended (cursed be the possibility) 
 for the domination of one nation. 
 
 3323. Land without people or government : who may not 
 dominate ? 
 
 3324. A life that is not just should be deemed a blank. 
 
 3325. Power must be circumscribed by power. 
 
 3326. The ; assertion of principles and motives is too frequently 
 accepted as their solution. 
 
 3327. We are surrounded by causes, but their solution is not at all 
 times to be commended. 
 
 3328. With the best resources often the least effected. 
 
 3329. "Unprogressive minds require a strong effort to discard habit 
 and custom. 
 
 3330. Illiberality and national prejudice are the most difficult 
 forts to assail. 
 
 3331. To display his own " style " is the literary and musical 
 hack's object, rather than that of the book or piece. 
 
 3332. Pride is the worst kind of humanity. 
 
 3333. To endeavour to pursue good objects, and to serve the cause 
 of human progress, is more frequently to meet with opposition. 
 
 3334. Kely upon certain opposition, if you have the temerity to- 
 oppose habit and national custom. 
 
 3335. The critic is your most infamous blood-sucker. 
 
 3336. Death invites without cards of entree. 
 
 3337. Mystery is often power, and perhaps the strongest forces 
 are unknown. 
 
 3338. Power is allied to peril. 
 
 3339. We cannot choose our sepulchre. 
 
 3340. That man's history must be considered a printer's dot 
 who has never contributed one iota to human progress. 
 
 3341. Considering the vast number of man's ideas and faculties, 
 we may well conclude that all men have (if exercised) infinite powers, 
 which only require opportunity to develop, and print to record* 
 The subjects of books nay, libraries are ever flitting by. 
 
 3342. Are quotations necessities of a book ? Yet, what in the- 
 entire circle of literature itself is a necessity ? Perhaps the best and 
 most approved history extant may be dispensed with, and the general 
 public be no loser. In the " melodic composing theory," for instance 
 i.e., when the faculty has been fairly aroused in the mind (and 
 exercised) it is actually more practicable to compose original airs or 
 themes than to copy music (already composed), and with greater 
 facility. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 8 
 
 3343. The mind is independent of mere names in art. Names are 
 facts ; but the facts exist have existed before the names. Where 
 all is discursive or idealistic the conclusions derivable are not, 
 necessarily, theoretic, although practice must be preceded by theory ; 
 in other words, thought is prefacial to actions ; mental, creative, or 
 inceptional energy to matter. 
 
 3344. Rouseabout Simon : stick to your principles, for if you do 
 or you don't, you must die, man. 
 
 3345. Our efforts are all one when forgotten. 
 
 3346. The public, like artistes, have frequently a musical (and 
 forgetful) ear. 
 
 3347. Due restriction is the bulwark of true liberty. 
 
 3348. We cannot disassociate a certain degree of dishonour from 
 a general public petition ; it is not becoming that the governing 
 cause should sue. 
 
 3349. The public should decide on purely public questions. 
 
 3350. Constitutions are too frequently swords pointed against 
 ourselves. 
 
 3351. He that speaks as a rule " strongly " does not always 
 think so. 
 
 3352. The domain of human thought is like a tangled brushwood : 
 we may travel all our life through it. 
 
 3353. When the cause is solved the result is too frequently a 
 ba'rren victory. 
 
 3354. What is capable of being improved should never be 
 
 3355. Too much weight is attached at times to the mere asser- 
 tions (wordy vapourings) of political fadists. 
 
 3356. One public work effected confers no claim for continuous 
 recognition. 
 
 3357. The public is over-officered and " servanted." 
 
 3358. Of all things the grave is lowest, yet cannot we despise it. 
 
 3359. We may express ourselves brusquely, yet be withal truly 
 charitable ; true charity is of varied texture. 
 
 3360. The book of one idea has always one reader. 
 
 3361. So powerful is the force of association that it may be 
 termed an acquired nature. 
 
 3362. We cannot be ultra-singular with prudence. 
 
 3363. Theory and practice are ever recurrent ; we often write 
 without necessity, and. compose when there is no practical object. 
 
 3364. Our vanity we often cloak under the name of employment. 
 
 3365. There is one unmistakable solution in all books the end. 
 
 3366. Wealth is too frequently the direst foe to progress. 
 
 3367. The man who has prospered by art is often its greatest 
 enemy in others. 
 
 3368. It would be well if we had a court to judge the conduct of 
 artists. Even the golden eagle is not always an introduction to their 
 favour ; there are two patronages : public and artists. 
 
 3369. If you are possessed of power, wealth, and influence, sup- 
 press all cliquism ; the very existence of the latter is its condemna- 
 tion. Do not reason with the illiberal here the exercise of power 
 is just. 
 
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 3370. A just Government should always be constitutionally 
 indictable. 
 
 3371. If politics be the province of government, the due progress 
 of art should also be an axiom. 
 
 3372. As to useless disquisitions discuss them in Aztec. 
 
 3373. Pride is not absent from either the carpenter's bench or 
 the blacksmith's forge. 2. Pride in work and truth, not in name. 
 
 3374. The human heart drops truth often unconsciously. 
 
 3375. Let division and apportionment ever reign in internal power. 
 The salvation of Europe (for Europe is the world) consists in being 
 divided in power. Progress never sanctions that the dominant 
 power should be possessed by any one nation. There is no leading 
 nation when alliances can be brought against it. 
 
 3376. Where the interests of families are concerned, a man 
 should not be empowered to utterly alienate the land just invest- 
 ment of funds excepted. Let a Land Court be instituted to deal 
 with this. The cumbrous system of deeds might also be simplified 
 by the establishment of a duplicate record office the registration 
 in which to be equivalent to the actual deed. 
 
 3377. The rights of labour duly regulated in accordance with 
 constitutional usages are those of humanity, for no Governments 
 can exist without labour. Let, therefore, the just rights of the 
 honest working man be duly conserved, but with stern repression of 
 illegal combination unionistic or otherwise. A court of accommoda- 
 tion (under the aegis of Government, for in all things count with a 
 good stable Government) could be instituted to decide, and finally 
 decide, questions or interests of an exceptional nature. Motto : 
 Progress, accommodation, conciliation. 
 
 3378. There is no trade lost for want of a workman. 2. That 
 which is found to obstruct may be abolished with advantage. 
 
 3379. Life is one continual subjection : we are ever influenced 
 by our surroundings. 
 
 3380. In danger he who holds the rope abuse not. 
 
 3381. To persevere in good works is to practise them. 
 
 3382. The best deeds to the best time is the practise of wisdom. 
 
 3383. Let your duties ever be controlled by sentiments of 
 justice. 
 
 3384. Necessity controls power, but wisdom necessity. 
 
 3385. There is no appeal beyond Eternal Wisdom. 
 
 3386. The CKOSS having once conquered is destined to do so 
 ever : for the dictates of God are unchanged and infallible. 
 
 3387. Where a just comparison is made we must assume the 
 existence of perfection which is not in humankind. 
 
 3388. Obstructive causes destroy more than vandalism. How 
 many discoveries have been made, ideas originated, designs perfected, 
 but lost, owing to the hateful spirit of obstruction, want of wealth, or 
 patronage ! 
 
 3389. Is it Utopian to hope for an impartial tribunal : to test the 
 discoveries or inventions in art and science ? 
 
 3390. From the want of unanimity in political parties it would 
 seem that politics were originated to show how men could differ. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 91 
 
 3391. Translations are not unfrequently improvements : you 
 41 turn over a new leaf " at every page. 
 
 3392. Progress will, at length, be found to sanction revolutions 
 needed both in politics and in the lexicon. Someone must take 
 the initiative. Have at it, my masters ! Print and publication in 
 these matters is tantamount to law. Avaunt, ye critic-mongers ! 
 and bow your necks to the yoke. We advance our forces against 
 your precious lexicon. Our first parallel : Invent a word (name or 
 term) if the lexicon does not supply it. Thus, in pendom, tha pen 
 may plumalise (or issue on manuscript otherwise : plumally issue, 
 or issue a plumal publication). " But the lexicon is in arms." Arm 
 yourselves in reply be armed. We will deal with the remaining 
 candidates (knocking at the portal and waiting admission term 
 students biding their time) further on, when we come to discuss the 
 " Dicendial Philosophy " (or the practical philosophy musical and 
 verbal). 
 
 3393. People may laugh, but necessity is no joke. How few 
 things we in reality (thoroughly) know ! What is the best thing a 
 man can do with his last shilling ? 
 
 3394. Recognition is better than an introduction. 
 
 3395. The sphere of accident victory, defeat, and sorrow is 
 more extended in a powerful nation. 
 
 3396. No human beings must be deemed unnecessary, but many 
 live as if they thought so. 
 
 3397. Measures concocted in the tent have often overruled 
 Parliaments. 
 
 3398. Commerce, which should prevent war, is often the cause 
 -of it. 
 
 3399. Where the decisions of authority are at variance, they must 
 be considered as assumptions. 
 
 3400. There is no apology in force. 
 
 3401. What a simple child of nature may, at times, effect, a 
 powerful nation is frequently unable to demand. 
 
 3402. Nature is an unfailing beacon. 
 
 3403. A principle may be acted upon, while the mind may not 
 be conscious of it. 
 
 3404. The child is frequently a severe critic. 
 
 3405. On the subject of wine in its useful aspect let us accord 
 to its influence (occasional) fruitfulness of suggestion frequently 
 the friend of art and parent of originality ; moreover, an important 
 commercial interest. Its continual use, however, can only result in 
 vil to man's constitution, and certainly the rich wine-bibber's 
 curse gout is not in the category of benefits. What unstrings 
 cannot serve the nerves ; it is too much, indeed, to expect that 
 pleasures can strengthen the system. 
 
 3406. He who has prospered by the practice of an art or system 
 often opposes the possession of the like faculties in another. 
 Seldom, indeed, is rivalry charitable. 
 
 3407. There are many steps of sentiment that are not defined by 
 name. 
 
 3408. The content, discontent, and vanity of writers are the 
 mainsprings of literature. 
 
92 MAXIMS. 
 
 3409. There are whole branches of literature which, so far from> 
 being necessary, are excrescences. 
 
 3410. Verbosity is the backbone of journalism. 
 
 3411. By what authority, it is asked (notwithstanding our 
 previous aphorism), are the people sought to be dominated by 
 writers simply because the pen is supported by print? Let the 
 dicta of such be considered only in the light of suggestion. 
 
 3412. The proud and purse-full writer (enemy of his kind) seldom 
 writes at length without the cloven foot appearing somewhere. 
 Where shall we look for human charity and honest dealing in the 
 literature of the day ? 
 
 3413. What affects to be ridicule is more frequently hidden 
 enmity. 
 
 3414. While the present affects to contemn, the future may 
 reward. 
 
 3415. Just sentiments cannot be suppressed by the contemptuous. 
 
 3416. Who blames the evil often practises it. 
 
 3417. Mere form has too much influence upon some minds. 
 
 3418. Ingratitude ever resides near power. 
 
 3419. A just commander should never be implacable. 
 
 3420. Honest rivalry not opposition should be the guiding 
 maxim of allies. 
 
 3421. Unless under dire necessity alliances cannot be con- 
 sidered as equitable national policy. 
 
 3422. What trenches upon independent action is a source of 
 weakness in States. A compulsory alliance is national evil. 
 
 3423. The cause of progress would be, perhaps, better served if 
 our sentiments were European, rather than solely or distinctively 
 national. 
 
 3424. A people's just will is the benison of Heaven. 
 
 3425. From a meeting influence may form an empire. 
 
 3426. History has included many unwritten facts and unknown 
 victories. 
 
 3427. When a mystery has at length been " solved," the solution 
 itself is frequently the greatest question to be proved. 
 
 3428. Profit and interest are seldom liberal. 
 
 3429. Capital is derived from labour ; therefore is it just that it 
 be the first to negotiate and concede with grace. When will Govern- 
 ments consider that the labour interest is still the backbone of a 
 nation ? 
 
 3430. The accumulation of undue wealth (yet apart from 
 socialistic significance or tendency) in a non-productive class should 
 be restricted. 
 
 3431. True power and glory are, after all, of the Continent, 
 whose history is that of the world. United a continent is unas- 
 sailable for a world cannot move against itself. 
 
 3432. To "cultivate" Governments, like the land, and reap, con- 
 sequently, the manifest advantages by so doing, is a diplomatic axiom 
 often acted upon, if not avowed. 
 
 3433. To expect a bottle of amontillado, and to be entertained at 
 the pump. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 93 
 
 3434. TWENTY PLAIN MOTTOES: 
 
 1. Founded on right, secure in strength: our star gives light 
 
 to the nations, and bars no just principle. [Motto for 
 the American flag.] 
 
 2. Con ESPANA con Honra. [With the nation honour.] 
 
 3. Exalt not national prejudice to principle. 
 
 4. Power is the seal of diplomacy. 
 
 5. Chance often makes the enemy and victor. 
 
 ('). It is time that shams should be exploded; national 
 customs have much to answer for herein national 
 conceit more. Remove the wig from both bench and 
 bar, much of the court paraphernalia (the ruling 
 element) could also be abolished with advantage. It is 
 the conduct of those in power that confers true nobility 
 not the trappings (the draper's art). 
 
 7. Let not national prejudice deter the codifier. 
 
 8. The acceptance, by the public, of a book constitutes publi- 
 
 cation, and not the book-dealer's fiat. 
 
 9. A long purse a long visit. 
 
 10. He dug for coal, and found a diamond. 
 
 11. The book is your true general dealer. 
 
 12. In war we may be compelled to concede, and even with 
 
 grace. Naval etiquette is, pejhaps, the most inspiriting, 
 as it is the most agreeable of international courtesies. 
 
 13. The equable use of power a tempered (yet not ultra- 
 
 liberal) authority a just administration. Such are the 
 bulwarks of a State desiring, and deserving, to be free 
 and, consequently, progressive. A liberal (yet well- 
 ordered) constitution is the motive power of progress. 
 
 14. Sentiments that deserve to be exploded their discussion 
 
 may be suppressed. 
 
 15. Neither the appearance (nor avowal) is the true index 
 
 to character. 
 
 16. The just may well grieve at the triumphs of unjust policy ; 
 
 but good actions deserve fortune's favours. 
 
 17. Who shall presume to limit nature in her operations, or 
 the mind in its faculties ? 
 
 18. Perhaps one of our greatest wants is the correct knowledge 
 
 of our wants. 
 
 19. In this age of universal intelligence and progress it is not 
 
 unreasonable to hope that some plan may be devised to 
 publicly record all useful suggestions or ideas. 
 
 20. Philosophy is a school of human enquiry; it is not 
 
 essentially theoretical ; the scientist, artist and work- 
 man in short, all humanity are included in its scope. 
 Practice is, again, not a distinct branch or offshoot of 
 philosophy, but an unalienable portion. 
 
 3435. Fate deals not in alternatives. 
 343f>. Fiscality is often rascality. 
 
 3437. When fate signs she seals also : beware how you touch the 
 button if there is a torpedo at the end of it. 
 
94 MAXIMS. 
 
 3438. A meeting of five conspirators founded the Persian empire ; 
 and perhaps modern empires had no better origin if we investigated 
 truly. 
 
 3439. An assembly of two or three influential men is often 
 equivalent to a myriad. 2. No power without commutation of 
 power. 
 
 3440. Internationally should ever over-ride purely national 
 traditions. 
 
 3441. There are separate publics as individuals or classes each 
 with diverse interests, but a book should be written in the interests 
 of humanity at large. Languages differ thought is one. Ultra- 
 nationality is generally illiberal ; it is not impossible to be just to 
 another as to our own nationality. 
 
 3442. Influence without money is like a body without a back- 
 bone. 
 
 3443. Investigation frequently shortens the prospect. 
 
 3444. Partiality is no just proof. 2. Proofs in degree tend 
 towards completeness. 
 
 3445. Although there may be no actual necessity for some axioms 
 or positions advanced (the author has consulted no library for these 
 his impressions), yet their expression in public is to be commended ; 
 deem nothing useless if capable of influencing the enquiring mind. 
 
 3446. Your truthful enquirer should be generous ; the era of 
 generous artists and liberal professors has not yet arrived. 
 
 3447. A. necessary or indispensable despot may not be, at times, 
 entirely evil, and violent changes in government are not, invariably, 
 followed by anarchy ; but an ungenerous use of victory upon either 
 side is a blot on the scutcheon. 
 
 3448. Facts continue the same whether we look at them on the 
 bright or dark side. 
 
 3449. The step taken, some result must follow; in what is 
 inevitable, choice is not to be considered. 
 
 3450. If the desire of undue greed could be for ever extinguished 
 in the human breast, the virtues would flourish and greater gain be 
 the result. 
 
 3451. When fortune beckons she generally requires some equiva- 
 lent for her smile. 
 
 3452. Excellence is still further improved by time and place. 2. 
 None without mystery. 
 
 3453. Proofs of the best are not suitable for all places. 
 
 3454. True character in any art should ever deserve a record. 
 Kepetition is frequently stability. 
 
 3455. Wisdom requires that the heart and soul should ever be in 
 unison. 
 
 3456. Systems and problems are more easily formed than solved. 
 
 3457. Immutable forces generally act with promptitude. 
 
 3458. The just aspirations of a nation should ever be respected by 
 those in power. 2. Where conspiracy is possible it is a source of 
 weakness. 3. Just demands granted is a reasonable concession : 
 better timely concession than possible anarchy. 
 
 3459. DO not always endeavour to soar : the highest note loses its 
 effect when too often repeated. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 95 
 
 3460. The clepsydra and the definition-monger should never be 
 in separable. 
 
 3461. Do not read a journal or listen to a speech unless you 
 consider first: whether the time might not be more profitably 
 employed. 
 
 3462. Pride in the orator is but a reflection on his audience. 
 
 3463. Mistakes are sometimes considered as ornaments. 
 
 3464. As no two people are of exactly the same features, so in 
 music or a song no two performers are alike. Renderings, therefore, 
 being various, so may be their excellencies. Do not follow servilely 
 the notes upon all occasions, for in some positions the performer is 
 above the author. It is assuredly an incontrovertible axiom to 
 improve what is capable of being amended. 
 
 3465. We can always add, if we cannot improve. The most 
 unskilful like to criticise your bumpkin now philosophises, and the 
 farmyard is not without its nestheticism, although transcendentalism 
 has not altogether banished agricultural ethics but we live in hope. 
 Retrogression is not in the vocabulary of modern progress. 
 
 3466. Necessity, or the excuse of it, has cloaked many an unjust 
 intention and deed. 
 
 3467. The position sometimes imparts courage ; suitable time 
 and place is better than armour. 
 
 3468. Admiration that is compulsory is akin to disdain. 
 
 3469. We should never publicly reflect upon a great and powerful 
 nation : a country must conserve its power and extend its influence. 
 It is not a generous act that a public writer should slander in any 
 case. The people do not always approve a despot's acts. To be 
 assailed is never impossible ; and remember that power is never 
 without agents or tools. Let us, then, hear no more of this ridiculous 
 hectoring behind stone walls. 
 
 3470. The same paper may contain a law and a libel. Is there, 
 in fact, ever a necessity for libel ? 
 
 3471. What constitutes the right of one nation denouncing the 
 politics or government of another equally independent? If you 
 thoroughly denounce the solution is war. " War for a principle," 
 says one : a hazardous experiment, too often frustrated. A nation 
 that is contented with its form of government (national content 
 being sver a strong bulwark) is powerful to contest and defend. A 
 strong lever must be applied to that which affects the vital forces. 
 The memory of the past is no guarantee for the glory of the future, 
 and a great battle is stern philosophy. 
 
 3472. Power and money can, at times, make (and mar) philo- 
 sophic axioms. 
 
 3473. Remember that truth and wisdom (which cannot be too 
 frequently referred to) always reside near. 
 
 3474. Ridicule (without proof) is no vital principle, but mongrel 
 satire ever distorted. 
 
 3475. The subject being truth, guesses may assist the investigation 
 of it ; suggestions (merely) do not confound opinions. 
 
 3476. The semblance of wisdom is still preferable to untruth. 
 
 3477. To the verge of the grave self is still the criterion. 
 
96 MAXIMS. 
 
 3478. You may be truly a man without a distinct nationality, but 
 you cannot be strictly national if you are not a man. 
 
 3479. Progress is of THE PEOPLES : not one, but all nationalities. 
 
 3480. To advance a position is not always to prove or accept it. 
 
 3481. Eternity being unoriginated owns no cause (except the 
 inscrutable will-birth of the DEITY), unless its effects may be so 
 considered. The cause and effect (both co-eternal) may be in the 
 interidealisation of Divine Faculty 
 
 3482. The opinions or maxims of, not for, the people a work 
 recording these I consider a feasible idea, although a shade compre- 
 hensive in its scope. The reader's dictum, too, is frequently pre- 
 ferable to the author's, although not in influence, for there is no 
 traveller like your published and printed book in its ubiquity. Once 
 let the book go forth, and it defies the united strength of empires to 
 bar its progress, and to recall an edition exceeds by far the fabled 
 labours of Hercules, or those of the Augean virtuoso. Let, then, a 
 record of public judgment, as of public law, be publfshed and 
 disseminated the veritable book of the people (all nationalities). 
 The political federation of mankind must only be considered in the 
 light of a myth; but there is another federation existing already if 
 men would only think so and practise the lessons inculcated 
 namely, the federation of HUMAN FACULTY. [Vide author's theories 
 of the Universal Composing Faculty (inherent in all mankind) 
 further on] . 
 
 3483. Sentiment (or theory) not capable of immediate practical 
 {i.e., public) application may, nevertheless, amuse the fancy and 
 influence the judgment. 
 
 3484. The old system (relic of vandalism) : to destroy that which 
 we cannot fathom. 
 
 3485. The pen and rest is the author's best. 
 
 3486. Lash with a thousand thongs the knave who promulgates 
 slander, but do not advertise him. This involves money; better 
 still, withhold your patronage. 
 
 3487. Maxims may be termed book lines : an aphorism can 
 always be turned into a paragraph, and these repeated the book. 
 The best points, too, of the dramatist, essayist, moralist, and poet 
 are, undoubtedly, the apophthegms ; and the great majority of the 
 quotations from the classics and modern writers are generally the 
 maxims of their books. Hitherto, apophthegmatic literature seems 
 to have been too much neglected in modern times, while verbiage 
 (an indifferent substitute) has usurped its place. Probably the leading 
 idea of most books could be comprised in a maxim. Every circum- 
 stance might form one. Posterity will have many questions to 
 discuss, theories to solve, labours to undertake ; among the latter, 
 let us express a hope that a comprehensive and exhaustive MAXIM 
 LIBRARY will not be suffered, by the before-mentioned posterity, to 
 iall into abeyance. 
 
 3488. All governments depend on time nay, all the world is a 
 system of dependence. 
 
 3489. The people's will independence achieved is the pre- 
 history of most nations. Better the perilsjiof government than no 
 government at all. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 97 
 
 3490. The best may be smMl, and the huge worthless. 
 
 3491. Who can justly decide upon disputed worth ? Inequality 
 in man is more universal than perfection. 2. The lower steps are as 
 necessary as the highest. 
 
 3492. Your " leading man " is often the lowest fellow in the 
 company. 
 
 34<3. Much is lost owing to the want of proper time, or oppor- 
 tunity, and place. 
 
 3494. Destiny does not make laws, but executes them. 
 
 3495. Destiny and power are often close kindred. 
 
 3496. We often assume excellence when we cannot find it. 
 
 3497. Alloy is still alliance. 
 
 3498. There is one thing can be said of mystery : we cannot 
 correct its shortcomings. 
 
 3499. There is no end to a subject, nor is the lexicon ever 
 oomplete. 
 
 3500. We must certainly "assume " the excellence of that which 
 is undecipherable. 
 
 3501. Division in office is strength. 
 
 3502. No regulations no, breaches of them. 
 
 3503. Resuscitation is the greatest book. 
 
 3504. The critic of a day should not judge the work of a century. 
 
 3505. International slander is, perhaps, more to be reprehended in 
 a writer than even personal libel. 
 
 3506. The contemplative man can always find an extensive 
 prospect. 
 
 3507. Mistake not national habit and custom for principle. 
 
 3508. Avoid despotic regulations in your enactments. The law 
 should inculcate justly not terrorise. Remember, without the 
 people there would be no law; and an army is but an armed populace. 
 
 3509. Civility is social strategy, and frequently undermines power. 
 
 3510. The imagination is never realised. 
 
 3511. A spirit of clique is too frequently observant both in 
 admiration and disdain. 
 
 3512. Carelessness is often a weapon with the point where the 
 handle should be. 
 
 3513. Carelessness is near kindred to confusion. 
 
 3514. Stern by report gracious in manner worthless in act : 
 such is the applicant's general experience of officialdom. 
 
 3515. We often affect to admire when we inwardly condemn. 
 2. Our sentiments of perfection are often far from it. 
 
 3516. We should like to see Governments make more provision for 
 the due record of art and its works rather than to patronise recognised 
 professors who generally do not require their support. But your 
 ordinary wealthy professor will never refuse to further line his coffer, 
 or open his mouth, even when filled to suffocation. Compensation 
 to such is prodigality. 
 
 3517. If we consider probity to consist in usefulness, perhaps the 
 vocation of the surveyor is one of the most noble of professions 
 his " base line" notwithstanding. The founder of cities with his 
 lieutenant, the draftsman he forms modern progress and plans 
 events. His labours affect the destiny of generations linking the 
 
98 MAXIMS. 
 
 present with posterity. Bidicule and satire, too, that have so often- 
 times levelled their shafts against the professions of the law and 
 medicine, meddle not with the surveyor's useful vocation. 
 
 3518. Nature's voice is frequently inferred, not heard. 
 
 3519. To the present and posterity like superfluity at a 
 banquet more is offered than can be well consumed. 
 
 3520. The manuscript that is undecipherable is a blank. 
 
 3521. Purely political principles are not unalterable, and 
 retraction is not to be condemned at all times. To disagree is the 
 very essence of politic party ; just retraction is, therefore, commend- 
 able. Eetraction of wrong is consistency in right. 
 
 3522. What is extravagant in one language may be tame in 
 another. 
 
 3523. Manner is unmistakable, however the language may be. 
 
 3524. The process is often condemned, while the result is praised. 
 
 3525. When the product is ill, the original may not be also. 
 
 3526. Dogmatism is not fact, but opinion of fact. 
 
 3527. There is nothing unallied. 
 
 3528. Original experiments in government are hazardous ; just 
 models are preferable. 
 
 3529. Apply not the term "revolution" (in its opprobrious 
 sense) to just radical changes. 
 
 3530. Mystery knocks at every door. 
 
 3531. Imagination often stands for fact in things unknown. 
 
 3532. A right should not depend on favouritism. 
 
 3533. Equable taxation on the basis of income. 
 
 3534. Pretexts advance on interest. 
 
 3535. The present decides upon past and future. 
 
 3536. It is not your true friend that generally accuses you of 
 avarice. 
 
 3537. Mere assertions are too frequently weighed and accepted. 
 
 3538. Themes or subjects are fumes words the life. 
 
 3539. Where there is no certainty, supposition is the only 
 resource. 
 
 3540. Government should ever be the shield of industry. 
 
 3541. Fancy and opinion are oftentimes confounded. 
 
 3542. Public enthusiasm should never degenerate into violence. 
 
 3543. Just resolves lasting benefits. 
 
 3544. Assertion is the purse, proof the gold. 
 
 3545. Gradation is the essence of service. 
 
 3546. The future may applaud and confirm what the present 
 condemns, and a cause that now goes a-begging may be " taken up " 
 (in the book-man's phrase) by posterity. 
 
 3547. Many minds many mentors. No man has a dearth of 
 ideas expression is the instrument or voice. Ideas not promul- 
 gated are as dead. 
 
 3548. An idea of a moment has often proved a law (or theme) for 
 a century. 
 
 3549. Wisdom is not antagonistic to theory ; but when wisdom 
 theorises, its adaptability should be considered or weighed. 
 
 3550. Patronage to sale is bribery on lease. 
 
 3551. Praise hath many gradations and latitudes. 
 
DT EDWARD COUNSEL. 99 
 
 3552. Authority is more powerful than the legion. 
 
 3553. Where the people acquiesce there is no tyranny. 
 
 3554. To attract the minds of men is a greater victory than the 
 power to command. 
 
 3555. Peace is the benison of charity. 
 
 3556. Wishes ever recurrent : when one is realised, another 
 succeeds it. 
 
 3557. The hand is often raised to obstruct the benefit. 
 
 3558. Speculation is not to be condemned if facts have been, or 
 are, producible. 
 
 3559. There is never a dearth of myths. 
 
 3560. Haughtiness without knowledge is the (assumed) " dignity " 
 of ignorance. 
 
 3561. Safety and fear are both anxieties. 
 
 3562. The branches of heresy ever point downwards. 
 
 3563. Even a part-principle is better than evil. 
 
 3564. Power walks with industry. 
 
 3565. Some strength but points to the grave. 
 
 3566. Excess of light is often the most unpreventible. 
 
 3567. Inventions that affect the well-being of a State should be 
 common to all.. There can be no sole property in national law. 
 
 3568. Ideas of power may control empires. 
 
 3569. Strict law is not without beneficence. 
 
 3570. Unlimited resources often degenerate into labour. 
 
 3571. Responsibility is care, and ever attends us. 
 
 3572. In endeavouring to work out a problem for man's benefit, 
 obstruction is never far distant. 
 
 3573. An author's intention is often far from his profession. 
 
 3574. The rich man is not, necessarily, unjust ; and the unfortu- 
 nate one may deserve his fate. 
 
 3575. Do the right not merely praise it. 
 
 3576. When all praise, the influence of custom has some voice. 
 
 3577. Nature is sometimes blamed, and art only regarded. 
 
 3578. Let me tell you that it is no child's play to fully aot up 
 to your motto upon all occasions. 
 
 3579. Time, place, and habit a transformation frequently seen 
 and felt. 
 
 3580. Money and will are stronger than granite walls. 
 
 3581. The declaration of law is its promulgation. 
 
 3582. Record is favouritism many a race is run that leaves no trail. 
 
 3583. Chance is frequently potent in argument. 
 
 3584. All literature is submission. 
 
 3585. Change is, at times, confounded with improvement. 
 
 3586. Worth in the shade must be tested in the light. 
 
 3587. Formality is ever a copyist. 
 
 3588. In true valour we assume the existence of a just cause. 
 
 3589. The record of unjust sentiments is not to be commended ; 
 but indifferent designs in art may have their use as suggestions to 
 the proficient. 
 
 3590. Gain being a gift is invariably welcome. 
 
 3591. Record to be of use, must be accepted ; much has been 
 lost for want of an introduction. 
 
100 MAXIMS. 
 
 3592. What is lost to all ages may be considered as unborn. 
 
 3593. Might, if not justice, may still produce it. 
 
 3594. New songs old sentiments. 
 
 3595. Just renown may claim payment in advance. 2. Just and 
 lawful gain must never be considered mercenary. 
 
 3596. Control even just desires by aptitude. 
 
 3597. It is the effect, not house, that constitutes publication. 
 
 3598. Enactments should be strictly defined as well as enforced, 
 
 3599. The possibility of adaptation is half the value of ideal 
 inventions. 
 
 3600. Influence is seldom stationary it either rises or falls. 
 
 3601. Capacity is the justification of endeavour. 
 
 3602. Analysis is not always research. 
 
 3603. If we do not act up to just sentiments, we condemn. 
 
 3604. Truth has many living examples. 
 
 3605. It matters not which we praise where all is indifferent. 
 
 3606. A just concession is no diminution of authority. 
 
 3607. Solved, and to be solved : such the experience of the 
 inquirer into life's problems. 
 
 3608. Subjects or positions are bright or dark, as they are con- 
 sidered. 
 
 3609. The world is only as it affects you. 
 
 3610. Let mere style henceforth be considered as secondary, 
 truth primal. 
 
 3611. Satire (or, in its lesser form, ridicule) should have a sound 
 and just basis for its exercise, otherwise it is the direst foe to charity. 
 
 3612. The man (or nation) accustomed to wonders is not easily 
 astonished. 
 
 3613. Many are the judgments given for which there are no- 
 foundations. 
 
 3614. The hunter rules on his own trail. 
 
 3615. Grateful for benefits, the wise man your cool and calm, 
 ever unimpassionable wise man accepts and increases them. 
 
 3616. Adorn thy soul with jewels of truth. 
 
 3617. Military and civil company have many things in common : 
 advance, retreat, position ; do you reserve your own forces. 
 
 3618. It is not the happiest man who has the least responsibility, 
 
 3619. The frown of power is often more injurious than the bite. 
 
 3620. Verbosity deals largely in extras not necessities and is 
 the backbone of bookmaking. 
 
 3621. Prodigality in one station may be deemed economy m 
 another. 
 
 3622. It is not position or number that constitutes power in a 
 
 nation, but in its ability to conserve and extend. 
 
 3623. As far as completeness is concerned, the majority of books 
 
 may be considered only as apologies. 
 
 3624. Compared to description, the view may be considered 
 inspired. 
 
 3625. Lo ! the sometime despised is our very existence. 
 
 3626. It is the province of civilisation to extend rules and adjust 
 their number : anarchy, and consequently weakness, justify inter- 
 vention. 
 
BY EDWABD COUNSEL. 101 
 
 3627. Misplaced doubt is a foe to true argument : if you move, 
 doubt not that you move. 
 
 3628. Descriptions are too frequently like false signals, that 
 mislead. 
 
 3629. The sword still rules men, the pen satraps. 
 
 3630. Vows are laws to the just. 
 
 3631. Pride is the destruction of the intellect. 
 
 3632. Feasible projects justify investigation. 
 
 3633. Publishers are the producers for posterity libraries the 
 record. 
 
 3634. Although fate be prior to power, it often follows it. 
 
 3635. If we judge by practicable effect, many of our impressions 
 sti 1 remain in the province of the ideal. 
 
 3636. Before you pity or assist, see that there is just cause. 
 
 3637. Let truth be still your friend wisdom your guardian. 
 
 3638. Systems, like trees, are widely extended ; the trunks 
 narrow. 
 
 3639. Progress rejoices in division of power and responsibility ; if 
 one people reject, another may sanction and position is the goal. 
 
 3640. The night will still continue to return as of old when the 
 conversation has ceased and the lights have burned low ; the pen 
 laid down never to be resumed. 
 
 3(J41. Facts make no apologies. 
 
 3S42. One useful hint or idea should redeem a book many have 
 none at all ; fiction, however, is employment. 
 
 3643. Be servant to your own possessions. 
 
 3644. Assertion, so far from being self-praise, is sometimes a 
 duty. 
 
 3645. The brave man honours the laurel in another. 
 
 3646. Humour is sometimes a sturdy director. 
 
 3647. The best friend comes sometimes unannounced, and 
 fortune delights in surprises. 
 
 3648. -The practice, not analysis only, of wisdom's problems. 
 
 3649. Unless national security demands, alliance is not justifiable. 
 
 3650. To improve thine own interests and not to injure those of 
 others is a measure of success. 
 
 3651. While you accept, fear with becoming and just principle ; 
 neither disobey the sternness of the soul. 
 
 3652. We must, to a certain extent, regard life as a probationary 
 course. 
 
 3653. The lesson of existence is still to be learned ; the applica- 
 tion (which is the life) must follow. 
 
 3654. Truth aims with willing eye. 
 
 3655. Fear and acceptance are strict monitors. 
 
 3656. Charity should be stronger than force. 
 
 3657. The just care (and, consequently, proper application) of 
 Being a maxim for present and future. 
 
 3658. There are forces that exceed human limits, and even 
 thoughts. 
 
 3659. The foundation affects the structure. 
 
 3660. Power with charity is, perhaps, the noblest display of a 
 State. 
 
102 MAXIMS. 
 
 3661. Destiny is never quiescent. 
 
 3662. Wisdom is the lexicon of truth. 
 
 3663. Aggression is " conquest " in the victor's mouth. 
 
 3664. Fate is an eccentric geometrician, and erratic spheres her 
 province. 
 
 3665. A just government to possess rather than to tax all 
 property, is certainly an eccentric idea on the face of it yet are all 
 governments ideas or the results ; but, if the fruits resulted in 
 sufficiency, absence of crime, impartiality, justice nay, the whole 
 category of the virtues would the exchange be commendable ? 
 
 3666. No mind without its faculty, circumstance without ita 
 cause or plot, life without its destiny. 
 
 3667. He who has an itch to spend is never without an unjust 
 cause for its exercise. 
 
 3668. Delay has spoiled many a good inheritance. 
 
 3669. To " save " may be the mouth-adage of your quondam 
 friend, but to " spend " his real object. 
 
 3670. We need never travel far to meet interest. 2. Interest 
 makes many excuses for outlay. 
 
 3671. What is gained in the passage is often lost in the room. 
 
 3672. Eespect and arms are too frequently like jewels that are 
 dropped into the ocean. 
 
 3673. Life is the greatest worldly value, though oftentimes 
 deemed but an incubus by the unhappy. 
 
 3674. Undue independence displayed before an audience is, per- 
 haps, the worst kind of effrontery. 
 
 3675. About Doors. Receptions may be fashioned. The door 
 does not always unhinge at the knock, and the window is sometimes 
 substituted. He who is always received at the door cannot well 
 survey the room. Three door-receptions need hardly be repeated 
 for ceremony. 
 
 3676. Objections that are not accepted are but as phantoms. 
 
 3677. All interested in wealth is a wide margin either its pos- 
 session or disposal. 
 
 3678. Sympathy is approval ; withhold all consent in evil. 
 
 3679. Just in the enactment should not be weak in the enforce- 
 ment. 
 
 3680. Metaphor is often preferred to fact. 
 
 3681. Accuse not the irresponsible. 
 
 3682. Our interest in the past is memory ; the present, fact ; the 
 future, probability. 
 
 3683. Time and space are still guided by the Eternal Wisdom. 
 
 3684. Mutual dependence is the relationship of the universe. 
 
 3685. Popular customs have long leases. 
 
 3686. It is difficult to assign the limits to popular acceptance of 
 designs or inventions. It may be safely assumed, however, that the 
 labours of societies having no public significance must be barren of 
 result ; nothing that may not be strictly applied to the interest of the 
 public can be considered truly progressive. 
 
 3687. Victory takes no note of dilemmas. 
 
 3688. The power to incommode should be restricted by prompt 
 legislation. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 103 
 
 3689. Patronage is generally secluded, and hives with suspicion. 
 
 3690. Honesty of purpose should still be circumspect, and not 
 allied with weakness. 
 
 3691. Supreme efforts are only warranted by a just concentration 
 of power. 
 
 3692. The origin may be simple and the solution difficult. 
 
 3693. When two political questions are diametrically opposed, 
 and neither of which can be satisfactorily solved, would it be 
 advantageous to accept the best views of each by assimilation to the 
 question in debate ? as two pairs of long-range spectacles will enable 
 a man to read, when each (singly) will not answer the purpose. 
 
 3694. Truth, in law, may punish as well as befriend. 
 
 3695. Kemember that losses may not always be recovered, nor 
 labours repeated. 
 
 3696. Trifles repeated amount to importance. 
 
 3697. Notwithstanding the importance of literature, it is, after all, 
 but a branch (or department) of the human intellect, and the use 
 often secondary. To produce is more meritorious than to admire 
 to contribute to man's progress than to receive benefits; therefore, 
 the preference must undoubtedly be given to faculties exercised, 
 results achieved, axioms proved in philosophy or art. 
 
 3698. Perhaps it is beneficial to man that some of our most 
 startling and suggestive inventions have not been completed ; for they 
 may be considered more valuable in their incomplete state, as 
 opening up new vistas of research. 
 
 3699. Eloquence is but a branch, wisdom the tree. 
 
 3700. If you want to know what opposition is, attack a custom or 
 national habit. Who originated these customs? Singly or in con- 
 clave, whence their origin ? Nevertheless, customs, sanctioned by 
 justice, respect and preserve. Custom the unwritten statute is 
 the very foundation of common law. [The plan of these aphorisms 
 admit no digression ; bound hand and foot by laws of his own 
 making, our toiling scribe has not even the privilege of the common 
 journalist to expand his views. Your maxim, in short, is most 
 peremptory.] 
 
 3701. There is always scope for wisdom. 
 
 3702. There can never be a superfluity of wisdom or prudence. 
 
 3703. If copiousness in a language be commendable, why assign 
 it limits ? 
 
 3704.- Conventional signs are only valuable as they are accepted 
 the notes in music, letters of the alphabet, and otherwise. Thus, an 
 air may be written in ordinary letters. It is in the acceptation of 
 new ideas, or forms, by the public that constitutes authority and 
 custom. 
 
 3705. Originality in rasthetic faculty is not the only merit due 
 application is requisite. 
 
 3706. There is an artinity in all the professions, and no pursuit 
 can be said to be entirely distinct. 
 
 3707. In truth, heart and soul the people commanding (a motto 
 for rulers and ruled). 
 
 3708. A constitution approved by the people should commend 
 itself to those appointed to enforce it. 
 
104 
 
 MAXIMS. 
 
 3709. Surround your soul with a guard of preventive axioms 
 against indiscriminate approaches. 
 
 3710. True bravery, like charity, though not without a cause, 
 needs not a witness. 
 
 3711. Even should anger (much has been, but more can be said 
 on anger) prompt ill wishes or desires, charity forbids the realisation. 
 
 3712. When the exception sanctions violence, one of either cause 
 generally comes to grief. 
 
 3713. We may not rest at every place, but die at all. 
 
 3714. Theie is never time to be unjust. 
 
 3715. Thought is the language of the soul ; expression, the 
 heart. 
 
 3716. A multiplicity of materials should not confound research ; 
 men are always equal to the works of men, and a certain capacity 
 may be assumed in all. Many aids, therefore, sooner erect the 
 structure. 
 
 3717. Be patient for the honour, if duty warrants. 
 
 3718. Life constitutes the present time. 
 
 3719. Tax the land tax the elements. 
 
 3720. When the effect is good, we assume the cause to be also. 
 
 3721. Eesponsibility lies with the intention, as producing the act. 
 
 3722. Faculty and time are never exhausted. 
 
 3723. Life is never without its themes. Faculties may be made 
 to overwhelm us without books or commentaries did we only 
 think so. 
 
 3724. Pride is exempt from no station in life ; nor is arrogance 
 invariably associated with wealth. 
 
 3725. Consider useless pursuits as obstructions. 
 
 3726. Many (nay, countless) public abuses exist, although 
 remediable. 
 
 3727. The mind of the codifier is eminently interrogative to 
 form difficulties, and then to solve them. 
 
 3728. Supposition has certainly much debatable ground to work 
 upon. 
 
 3729. Conscience, like the firmament, is above human laws. 
 
 3730. A nation is not the less ruled by strictly constitutional 
 usages than by irresponsible power. 
 
 3731. The combination of power and justice in a state is the seal 
 (or security) of order. 
 
 3732. It is no small matter, at times, to dispute a thesis, and to 
 satisfactorily solve its opposite. 
 
 3733. Strong opinions are too frequently like pictures where the 
 colours are too thickly laid on. 
 
 3734. Deem that an advantage which is best for the occasion. 
 
 3735. Consider not your present acts only, but also whether the 
 memory of them will be justified. 
 
 3736. There must be a cause for every principle, as for every 
 idea. Fate and fortune, therefore, may, when proven, be considered 
 as the natural result of causes hitherto unknown. 
 
 3737. Eternal Power and unerring Wisdom in all things is the 
 province of the Divine Buler. Wisdom which preceded the world 
 will follow it. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 105 
 
 3738. Divine injunctions observe, and receive as benefits. 
 
 3739. Just anger (kin to admonition) still temper with charity. 
 
 3740. If the aim be good the endeavour is also commendable. 
 
 3741. If the end has been justified in general cases, a trial in 
 special ones is not to be altogether contemned. 
 
 3742. It is virtuous to seek, for the sake of virtue. 
 
 3743. The law, like the sword, defends and punishes. 
 
 3744. To diminish store is easy tuition. 
 
 3745. Approved invention is the friend of commerce. 
 
 3746. Courage should submit to just comment. 
 
 3747. Proofs of truth are fruits opinions the kernels. 
 
 3748. The effects, rather than the origin (unsolvable), are to be 
 considered of Divine Creation. 
 
 3749. Consistency of conduct is the habit of virtue. 
 
 3750. Deliberation should prefer that which is reasonable to that 
 which is probable. 
 
 3751. That man's state is certainly not to be envied who spends 
 with the great and loses with the little. 
 
 3752. The present concerns both the known and unknown. 
 
 3753. Caution in extreme may be considered delay, not delibera- 
 tion. 
 
 3754. Principles are steadfast, but comparisons waver. 
 
 3755. We must investigate faculty in the domain proper to it. 
 
 3756. Kule habit, or it will rule thee. 
 
 3757. Custom and nature are often ill-allied. 
 
 3758. Disguise is the most constant habit of evil. 
 
 3759. A standing menace is power unjustified. 
 
 3760. The power that is not built on truth can never be considered 
 enduring. 
 
 3761. Progressive principles should be deemed monuments of 
 truth and power. 
 
 3762. It is not the strongest that last longest. 
 
 3763. Influence affects even the unwary. 
 
 3764. There are several ways to attain an object, and in an honest 
 cause. 
 
 3765. We sometimes gain a just object by a side movement. 
 
 3766. Many die without a declaration or sign, as old paper 
 sometimes burns without a blaze. 
 
 3767. He that leads the passions of the people can sometimes 
 command their purses. 
 
 3768. Satire should not be levelled at principle and honourable 
 custom. 
 
 3769. It is no detriment to wait for good things. 
 
 3770. The day that passes without loss or detriment to health 
 value as gain. 
 
 3771. Complete health and reasonable wealth are to be preferred 
 to the thorny path of ambition and desires unattainable. 
 
 3772. Uncertain the effects, but certain the cause. 
 
 3773. Power builds her house on adamant her promises on 
 sand. 
 
 3774. Supposition in law has sometimes the force of precedent. 
 
 3775. Dictation generally leans on a broken crutch. 
 
106 MAXIMS. 
 
 3776. Precedent is too frequently but deception of principle, and 
 looks stronger than it is. 
 
 3777. It is not every judge that has justice for his portion. 
 
 3778. We stand upon quick-sands when we adopt all decisions in 
 intricate cases. 
 
 3779. Plainness and candour, even in a just cause, are too fre- 
 quently judged demerits. 
 
 3780. Precedence should ever be regulated by principle. 
 
 3781. There is only one time for one deed ; circumstance and 
 repetition ever vary. 
 
 3782. In individuals influence must be the criterion or approval ; 
 in nations, power. 
 
 3783. Fate and fortune have always time at disposal. 
 
 3784. If for a term only, a certain degree of independence may be 
 justly surrendered to a liberator. 
 
 3785. Alliances too long continued are not only standing menaces 
 to the peoples, but incitements to war. 
 
 3786. Alliances are never equable ; therefore must they be con- 
 sidered as wrong international policy as reflecting on each nation's 
 independent action. 
 
 3787. When man is bereft of mind, fortune, too, departs, for 
 fortune must be tangible to effect. 
 
 3788. Desire nothing that lessens the consciousness of the soul in 
 right. 
 
 3789. CATHOLICITY is union of Strength and Faith : proved by 
 innumerable miracles the ever-just lives of Saints countless 
 martyrs. Heresy, on the other hand offspring of error self-bound 
 in iron bands is ever unstable ; its assumed liberty of thought 
 degenerates into license of error. Unchanging Union and Faith is 
 bequeathed to the Catholic Church by Divine warranty. 
 
 3790. Charity descends to man from Heaven without loss or 
 detriment. 
 
 3791. The majority of our parliamentary and other " speeches" 
 are mere air-fillings, distinguished chiefly by the absence of all 
 thought, the old world-worn platitudes and positions nothing sug- 
 gested for the mind to dwell upon ; but verbosity run riot (the same 
 in journalism), mere words, or, rather, the vapouring of words. 
 Without ideas, speeches are idle blasts of the desert. There are 
 whole libraries of speeches and reports, novels and histories, essays 
 and articles, without one poor aphorism to record, or one useful 
 suggestion that may be practically applied. 
 
 3792. We cannot disassociate mental and material advancement. 
 
 3793. While life the mind-soul (mentality) remains, our 
 thoughts necessarily progress i.e., during vitality ; for in a 
 mentalitic suspension of our faculties (or death-state) may not a 
 moment appear to us as an infinite (comparatively speaking, of 
 course) duration of time ? . . 
 
 3794. Let there be charity in all things, for where there is no 
 charity there is no humanity. 
 
 3795. " Be practical ; nothing but practical. Throw mere ' Ideas,' 
 you know, to the dogs ; in fine, be eminently practical," says your 
 body-man of the world, and the age endorses the sentiment. Thus 
 
BY KDWABD COUNSEL. 10T 
 
 is the mind the immortal part subdued, or left in abeyance, 
 while that hateful sentiment of materialism, and the thousand- 
 and-one errors following in its train, is exalted at the expense of 
 man's mental faculty, from which, nevertheless, practice must be 
 derived. 
 
 3796. Let us ever be above an unjust judgment. 
 
 3797. General remarks, when candid and made in honesty of 
 purpose, should never offend the susceptibilities of any man. 
 
 3798. No modern nation boasts an original language ; they are 
 all dependent upon each other. What, then, does Practice (from the 
 Greek praktikos) consist in ? Imbodied ideas. So it springs from 
 Ideality after all the Mind? Well, that is some admission, 
 certainly. No Idea, then, can exist (or be created) of itself, but 
 must lean on, or be attached to, some other idea as a support or 
 foundation ? nothing without its history and foundation. A 
 solution necessarily attends all things even if not for us in this our 
 present stage the knowledge. Practice without Theory ! What, 
 then, is the player's vocation ? Chop off an actor's head and then 
 you have an actor " without Theory." Let not practice, therefore, 
 be contradistinguished from theory, but henceforth be associated : 
 for they are inseparable as soul and body are inseparable. 
 
 3799. " THE MELODIC UNIVERSAL COMPOSING FACULTY " (which 
 the author claims to have proved to a certain extent, and which will 
 be referred to more at large in another portion of this work). It is 
 maintained that it exists in all human beings if exercised. The 
 melodic faculty knows no finale. All our ideas, in like manner, 
 could be carried out to infinity during life-being, necessarily, con- 
 ceded. 2. We all possess unvoiced monitors within us, compared to 
 which all the libraries of the world are as fields that have been sown 
 and will not yield. 3. Let us earnestly " enquire within " (in the 
 secret recesses of the soul and mind), and we will never fail to get an 
 answer. But you must enquire ; call one thought another will follow, 
 and on, on to the revolving end of the chain of cause and effect. 
 There is nothing stationary in the world all is perpetually " on the 
 move." 4. The human mind and faculty must ever be held superior 
 to the inanimate works of human hands. Never be abashed, or 
 humbled, therefore, in the presence of the works of man, or man 
 himself. Man is but one after all, but his faculties are not one. 
 5. When I behold the humblest man that crawls this earthly sphere, 
 or the simplest child (for we are all children still when we contem- 
 plate the mysteries of creation) : when I consider their mental state 
 the actual existence of the melodic composing (themal) faculty in 
 all, what do I behold? Temples enshrouding infinite faculties, 
 capable of being infinitely productive, too temples enshrouding 
 endless philosophic systems (for every idea contains the germ 
 of a system) but temples locked ; vast resources but unused ; 
 dis-soulcd faculties unexercised, therefore, useless. They still 
 exist, have existed, and will to all succeeding ages. 6. What 
 is the soul-being must (in the very fact of its existence 
 or being amongst us) be eternal, inasmuch as it cannot 
 be annihilated. 7. In the branch of the aesthetics, therefore, 
 relating to melodic faculty (for branches exist, even if not 
 
"108 MAXIMS. 
 
 .acknowledged) being universal in its application, it must, neces- 
 sarily, be the common property of all. " Genius " in the art, 
 henceforth, should be considered as but a chimera of the old 
 philosophy ; call it rather an exercised faculty. 
 
 3800. Ideas (which may be converted into systems) can never be 
 exhausted. The position cannot be well gainsaid. Take any word 
 (for all words are subjects) from the lexicon : government, art, or the 
 .eesthetics, politics, temperance, literature, morals, music, etc. even 
 an ordinary letter it would require millions of ages to record or say 
 all that could be said, and then we would have scarce begun ; and 
 yet we hear of subjects being " exhausted !" So is it with our thoughts 
 and faculties they are " limited," but only as time (life), or space, are 
 limited. 
 
 3801. Let millions of worlds cease to exist, so that mentality (the 
 mind-soul) survives. The total annihilation of one single mind 
 would be dearly purchased by the destruction of a material world and 
 its effects : as the DIVINE IDEA (or Deosophical Judgment if the 
 term may be allowed) which called it into existence the Power and 
 Word-Deeds of the OMNIPOTENT is superior, and so much exalted 
 above inanimate Facts. Life is so much exalted above matter (or 
 materialism) as the Word-Power of the Great Euler of all things is 
 above that which has been called into existence by the Divine opera- 
 tion and will. 
 
 3802. The tine arts are the soul's material perceptions expecta- 
 tions formed (and in part realised) to meet a want. What is this 
 want? The aspiration after perfection. This it is which has 
 produced the most eminent works in art and literature. Faculty 
 still remains a vast field, to a great extent unexplored; aye, and 
 man has really in innumerable branches of art and philosophical 
 investigation only begun to think. In the arts especially all is, in a 
 measure, aspiration : we are ever beginning. 
 
 3803. Truth is often veiled. 
 
 3804. How often does prejudice strengthen error ! 
 
 3805. Civil orders are not essential to the independence or liberty 
 of a State, and are at best but badges of quasi-dependence, if not of 
 servitude. Their non-adoption, too, in that phenomenal nation of 
 progress America (daughter of old Europe) is a proof that there is 
 no real necessity for them yet are we no levellers. Power and honour 
 of States is not in the order or cordon, but in national prowess in 
 just principle. 
 
 3806. No art without the science of art. 
 
 3807. ActSj when repentance follows not, are just. 
 
 3808. To originate taste we must often forestall custom. 
 
 3809. Ultra-refinement will fancy blemishes where none exist. 
 
 3810. The eye is the audience of nature. 
 
 3811. Many are the scenes of life that know no painter. 
 
 3812. The best inventions sleep long. 
 
 3813. The top of the ladder is not always danger nor the lowest 
 rung safety. 
 
 3814. Expectation is often a sullen tyrant. 
 
 3815. Let but ideas be approved in art or science thence follow 
 -trades, professions, history, posterity. 
 
BY EDWABD COUNSEL. 109^ 
 
 3816. It is the expression of the facts, rather than the facts 
 themselves, that often mislead. 
 
 3817. Beware of eloquence that is opposed to charity. 
 
 3818. Be not too sanguine : the present may be our fortune at 
 the height. 
 
 3819. Decision, rather than discussion, is the province of the law. 
 
 3820. Fate commands the mightiest. 
 
 3821. Where there is no popular representation, the road is ever 
 open to tyranny. 
 
 3822. That power is not diminished which supports right in the 
 governed. 
 
 3823. Reciprocity between States is both strength and gain- 
 alliance without its drawbacks. 
 
 3824. Progress has frequently a stern countenance, and her 
 dictates destiny. 
 
 3825. It is not necessary only to be charitable in the intention, 
 but in the act. 
 
 3826. Democracy (as its name implies) being popular government, 
 he who denounces it blames the people. 
 
 3827. Just power should not retain benefits, or rights, but diffuse 
 them. 
 
 3828. No true progress can be the outcome of a dominant nation 
 or language. 
 
 3829. Rivalry and clique are sworn brothers; nor is any station- 
 of life exempt from them. 
 
 3830. Let evil be as lost to thee, and conscience will be the 
 gainer. 
 
 3831. Ideas and faculties are valuable, or otherwise, as they 
 influence, not as they exist. 
 
 3832. The mind is never vacant ; ideas are constant tenants. 
 
 3833. If right lengthens the journey, wisdom sanctions it. 
 
 3834. In all thy journeys let wisdom be thy unfailing monitor. 
 
 3835. Divine injunctions are laws, unchangeable, incontrovertible. 
 
 3836. So important to us is wisdom that it may be termed the 
 leading faculty of the soul. 
 
 3837. When approved by influence, dross is turned into gold. 
 
 3838. Because evil is disguised is it followed ; we see the 
 precipice and avoid it. 
 
 3839. Enmity is no necessity ; defer, and defer again ever. 
 
 3840. We tread upon our house in life we inhabit it only afr 
 death. 
 
 3841. Under this clod lies an enemy of earth. 
 
 3842. The explanation is, at times, more abstruse than the 
 solution. 
 
 3843. Of virtues charity may be made the sternest. 
 
 3844. Apply the test of utility to all expenditure. 
 
 3845. Remember that the future is never careless. 
 
 3846. Time waits, and there is no end of preamble ; let the law 
 be declared. 
 
 3847. A view is general, examination particular ; analogy 
 requires both. 
 
 3848. Honour proved is better than an escutcheon. 
 
. MAXIMS. 
 
 H 3849. All causes (known and unknown) have space and time for 
 'their revolution or entity. 
 
 3850. Infinity is the reserve of futurity. 
 
 3851. No invention without the application of known forces. 
 
 3852. Suppress not only the vocation, but the name of slave. 
 
 3853. Where all are nobles, who is to cut the cabbage ? 
 
 3854. A well-guarded idea of economy would be to consider 
 moneys spent like types distributed, all of which have to be 
 replaced. 
 
 3855. Become your courage after the event. 
 
 3856. If prudence justifies the expense, incur it ; yet still (even in 
 necessity) let moderation draw the line. 
 
 3857. Where just probability exists, the research is likewise 
 justified. 
 
 3858. The best existence is that of life in right. 
 
 3859. Consider the worth of wisdom in benefits and gifts. 
 
 3860. All the ideas of man are allied none that are solely indi- 
 vidual. 
 
 3861. To serve is the reward in general public interest. 
 
 3862. Be earnest in the pursuit of just investigation. 
 
 3863. Serve, rather than destroy the cause where power com- 
 mands life. 
 
 3864. Wisdom and right are always friends. 
 
 3865. History is often in the packet empire and government in 
 -the letter. 
 
 3866. Just power asks no unjust concession. 
 
 3867. Alliance, often a friend to collective force, a foe singly. 
 
 3868. If both powers abide by the result, there is no unjust con- 
 cession ; victory is neutrality. 
 
 3869. Alliances are seldom equable, and should not be stretched 
 beyond certain bounds. 
 
 3870. Charity is generally the virtue least thought of in office. 
 
 3871. The envious man's vision is always blurred. 
 
 3872. Eloquence is not alone essential; the auditory must be 
 influenced. 
 
 3873. Discontent frequently follows good and ill fortune. 
 
 3874. The soul's domain is before and after : death is the dividing 
 line. 
 
 3875. Could we renew life, still, as ever, should the dictates of 
 wisdom be obeyed. 
 
 3876. When the law nods, evil stalks abroad. 
 
 3877. Just opposition if need be by war is not conspiracy. 
 
 3878. Parentage oft points to the precipice. 
 
 3879. Much has been lost in the pursuit of fame which might 
 have been justly expended on virtue. 
 
 3880. Only deny with charity. 
 
 3881. If you fall short of undue expectation in gifts, your charity 
 while accepted is impugned. 
 
 3882. Difficulties must not be encountered with anger, but patience. 
 
 3883. Weakness shows want of proof, no less than of strength. 
 
 3884. What was originally a prejudice often becomes a national 
 .custom. 
 
BY KDWABD COUNSEL. Ill 
 
 3885. Time, or the elements, are never exhausted. 
 
 3886. Occasional merit owns but a small theatre. 
 
 3887. Chicane, clique, and a spirit of uncharitableness, too fre- 
 quently usurp the provinces of art and literature. 
 
 3888. Hear when we speak of just things. 
 
 3889. Wisdom is sometimes the greatest friend in defeat. 
 
 3890. The intelligence of a nation should guide its powers ; 
 injustice should be treated as bad matter. 
 
 3891. The struggles of a whole life are often the results of a 
 thought. 
 
 3892. It is the adaptation of trifles that makes them important. 
 
 3893. Some wisdom is a property of the soul, and is inseparable 
 from it. 
 
 3894. Fancy is, sometimes, the doctor and ailment. 
 
 3895. If we imagine a reception beforehand, seldom does the 
 sequel fully realise it. 
 
 3896. Present benefit is a bridge over the torrent : future the 
 torrent without the bridge. 
 
 3897. Speculation frequently requires a closed mouth. 
 
 3898. Empire enlarges its bounds more by the weakness of 
 neighbours than by strict justice. 
 
 3899. In the house the principles of government clash by turns. 
 
 3900. The virtue of ancestors is better than the monument. 
 
 3901. It is humanity that gives the worth of action, not the world, 
 which is but the theatre. 
 
 3902. Life is an enigma told to all, but not solved. 
 
 3903. Those that least need often obtain the most honour. . 
 
 3904. If all benefits were lasting, we might seek and prefer 
 difficulties. 
 
 3905. What the soul approves, the evil will often rejects. 
 
 3906. Deceit aims at virtue but as a hope forlorn. 
 
 3907. National struggles require power rather than arbitration. 
 
 3908. Anarchy generally of quick pulse not without power, 
 but of short duration. 
 
 3909. The sunset concludes many destinies. 
 
 3910. Public dangers should not be continuous. 
 
 3911. Fashion, after all, makes a great many sacrifices. 
 
 3912. To gain fortune easy is as to excel by chance. 
 
 3913. No true bravery that does not submit to order. 
 
 3914. Words leave legacies. 
 
 3915. Appeal to rocks rather than to unjust governments. 
 
 3916. That which lives in truth no power can destroy. 
 
 3917. Chance corrected may become design. 
 
 3918. Designs, like thoughts (or chance), may be infinitely 
 varied in form and power. 
 
 3919. The most powerful are often the weakest in intention. 
 
 3920. Exactness count not perfection, but as a division of it. 
 
 3921. Wisdom divided is not lost, but unjustly weighed. 
 
 3922. In this world the best results are but as divisions of 
 wis lorn. 
 
 3923. A blameless record is too frequently a blank one. 
 
 3924. True public duty is never a sinecure. 
 
112 MAXIMS. 
 
 3925. When greatness is beneficial it is deserved. 
 
 3926. If the people could exercise their power to its fullest extent 
 public sentiment would be authority. 
 
 3927. After all, friend Lopeon, there are so many excellences in 
 human nature that it is difficult to assign to any the preference ; for 
 if excellence does not exist in man where (in this world) must we 
 seek it? 
 
 3928. Do not lower your brow, nor play the philosopher at every 
 change of scene. Events must be accepted as they occur ; endeavour 
 to make the best use of life's agents as they are presented, and your 
 peace (in reason) is assured. 
 
 3929. The loss of prudence is the ailment of the guilty. 
 
 3930. Causes, like roots, may be few, while the branches (or 
 deviations) are innumerable ; so in nature something ever precedes, 
 and the origin of causes are not to be determined. 
 
 3931. Guilt lives in a cloud of its own making. 
 
 3932. The benefits of wisdom are desired by interest. 
 
 3933. Life and death are two opposing forces, certainly both 
 necessary, but governed by different laws. What in life is rejected, 
 in death is accepted. Our art societies and musical society gather- 
 ings might take a liberal-spirited lesson from Death, inasmuch as 
 he rejects none ; singly or in score he accepts and conducts 
 all. Yet, may Death be a generous foe after all ; precedence ia 
 assigned only, not taken. The grave befits its position. Fate 
 makes us all converge at the portal. 
 
 3934. The thoughts of man are living libraries. 
 
 3935. We often confound necessity with use or habit. 
 
 3936. The difference in life is but the knowledge of wants wished 
 for, but unrealised. 
 
 3937. Luxury is the real foe of wealth a tree with poisoned fruit. 
 
 3938. Nature is a foe to those who contemn her just principles 
 and laws. 
 
 3939. To the man who errs through simple ignorance (and in 
 how few things is man perfect), strict justice should be tempered. 
 
 3940. Let knowledge be as the bait of instruction. 
 
 3941. No new system without an old alliance. 
 
 3942. Cause and mystery are close kindred. 
 
 3943. Public acceptances have a numerous progeny. 
 
 3944. Practice is often built on mystery. 
 
 3945. Death ends both lot and shot. 
 
 3946. Let your decisions be as edicts when your means warrant 
 not the outlay. 
 
 3947. Excessive age and ease (even if combined with great 
 wealth) are not to be compared with a healthy, moderate competence. 
 
 3948. It is not the best sentiment that shows the man, so much 
 as the action that befits him. 
 
 3949. The courage that is not honourable is but knavery. 
 
 3950. It deserves death if it does not meet it to persevere in 
 inhuman or evil desires. 
 
 3951. The Divine Law makes the memory of evil acts (unless 
 penance follows) an eternal brand. 
 
 3952. The pen and approval of authority is a bounteous exchequer. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. . 113 
 
 3953. We often blame a man for his position, not worth. 
 
 3954. The moat just in principle is the best in power. 
 
 3955. If reason be not inconsistent, there is ever probability. 
 
 3956. Rejoice in the accomplishment of the desires if the cause 
 of truth be the gainer. 
 
 3957. What is not seen is often the most important. 
 
 3958. When fashion approves, even ridiculous things become 
 important. 
 
 3959. Admiration is kin to respect, and often are both feigned. 
 
 3960. It is the position, and not the heart, that frequently induces 
 pride. 
 
 3961. Hasty measures are generally ill-advised. 
 
 3962. In the necessity is often the cause and result. 
 
 3963. As the soul directs and controls all human faculty, it may 
 work by single rather than compound ideas. 
 
 3964. Impossibilities should never be regretted. 
 
 3965. As in the air we can only exist up to a certain point, so in 
 cogitation has the soul its limits ; the soul, time, and life regulate 
 all our ideas and actions. 
 
 3966. Atone only for evil deeds. 
 
 3967. When the virtues do not condemn, all actions are just. 
 
 3968. Knowledge is not unfrequently allied with pleasure. To 
 keep en rapport with modern developments life, fashion, science, 
 art entails labour both of mind and body. We must make a 
 distinction, therefore, between the idle and the man of leisure. 
 
 3969. Always keep the theme well before the eye, and remember 
 that unnecessary verbiage is rather weakness than strength ; on the 
 other hand, if the public demand, drain the vat to the last drop, for 
 in that case satiety is a virtue a rule well known to your fiction- 
 monger, who makes up for the originality and merit of his first 
 venture with padding in his successive volumes ever " to be 
 continued," till old Father Time with his scythe (warranted to cut) 
 beckons, and ends the record. 
 
 3970. Hospitality is a duty when desert claims it. 
 
 3971. Authority is manifestly unjust to its office when it 
 patronises the dice. The support given to party and sectional 
 elements must also be strongly reprobated. 
 
 3972. It is the manner in which we consider fortune that makes 
 it endurable. 2. Fortune accepted is but consideration. 
 
 3973. Riches are, after all, in the mind ; when this is not 
 cognisant, riches have no fruit. 
 
 3974. The mind must still approve to sanction the act. 
 
 3975. Human systems are ever capable of alteration and im- 
 provement. We assume only that alterations in government are 
 national benefits. 
 
 3976. The just power of the people does not consist in Socialism, 
 for true political principle is never unjust to a class. A perfect 
 constitution, complete in all its details (probably man is unequal to- 
 ils conception), is what the world has never yet seen, nor probably 
 ever will. Let us be content, therefore, with a modified perfec- 
 tibility in government where the rights of man (which are also- 
 those of property) are conserved, for your tax-payer is the backbone 
 
114 MAXIMS. 
 
 of all governments, money being! the motive power both of govern- 
 ment and war ; a reasonable degree of liberty (not degenerating into 
 riot), with an approved soldiery to guard the treasury. For, after a 
 nation's liberty has once been secured, the palladium of all civil 
 rights is money. The dollar is your true dictator. 
 
 3977. A class or system founded upon unjust principle only 
 should be opposed. The greatest liberty still requires strict limita- 
 tion. Socialistic tendencies accepted in legislation would be liberty 
 run wild. Submit, then, to recognised authority, even if you have to 
 constitute it. 
 
 3978. In every gathering there is some pre-eminence ; nothing is 
 level. 
 
 3979. Given a dominion and power, the government is but a 
 promenade. 
 
 3980. Actions are often the pictures of the intent. 
 
 3981. Useless to blame what is unavoidable. 
 
 3982. If choice presents itself, still seek wisdom in the best 
 company. 
 
 3983. A history of human faculty is yet to be written ; but the 
 prospect is so extensive that we can never hope to reach the limit. 
 
 3984. Great value requires strong guarding ; good plantations 
 are well fenced. 
 
 3985. The world is an audience, but the play is never ended. 
 
 3986. Patronage has leaden ears. 
 
 3987. Thoughts acted upon are, in a measure, proved. 
 
 3988. Action is the test of ideality. 
 
 3989. A prudent design is a good inheritance. 
 
 3990. If you have been successful in many undertakings, even 
 your failures will not be without pretension. 
 
 3991. Speak of fortune after the event ; fortune is no precursor. 
 
 3992. Truly, the least ability in a pursuit is, at times, the most 
 favoured. 
 
 3993. Governments should consider the rights and duties of 
 labour as inseparable. 
 
 3994. The conservation of nationality admits no opposing force. 
 
 3995. Fate is often insidious, and its results destructive of life 
 and power. 
 
 3996. Fortune's problems are solved by war. 
 
 3997. Time is the arbitrator death the goal of all human efforts. 
 
 3998. Feeling is the best description. 
 
 3999. We exhaust a library at every view and thought. 
 
 4000. Remember that number is not strength unless directed 
 by the wisdom of the occasion ; there are no possible events where 
 wisdom is inapplicable. 
 
 4001. From matter we ascend to mind both opposing forces, 
 yet inseparable. 
 
 4002. Many books are now written in the manner of the shovel- 
 man to fill up his cart. 
 
 4003. He who says " he is well " has forgotten something. 
 
 4004. Eschew a tendency to vandalism both public and private ; 
 the destruction of public documents is seldom, if ever, justifiable. 
 
 4005. Life is better than destruction. 
 
BY EDWABD COUNSEL. 115 
 
 4006. The banker's note is stronger than a fort. 
 
 4007. There is a time in life when we may discard the patience 
 of study, and reading has its limits. 
 
 4008. Quotations are ornaments not essentials. 
 
 4009. Who can hope that the approval of measures or senti- 
 ments will ever become universal ? 
 
 4010. " Proud flesh," mind, and platitudes are seldom absent from 
 long-winded orations. 
 
 4011. We must not unfrequently recede to obtain a better view ; 
 and retrogression is often solution or victory. 
 
 4012. Let there be international unions of literature and art, as 
 well as politics. 
 
 4013. If sanctioned by power and fashion (a formidable alliance), 
 the most crude suggestions are adaptable. 
 
 4014. Dead works are not to be placed in opposition to living 
 humanity. 
 
 4015. A graceful bow and manner is not less acceptable than a 
 just execution. 
 
 4016. Position is frequently opposition. 
 
 4017. There is frequently a philosophy in guess, as truth in 
 certainty. 
 
 4018. Chance has given many a problem and directed many a 
 course of life. 
 
 4019. Never let the voice of economy be wholly in abeyance. 
 
 4020. Necessity is a small domain, and the fruits thereof are few. 
 
 4021. Not light if unallied to light. 
 
 4022. Fate is the cloak of destiny. 
 
 4023. To be alone and simple is to live on a precipice. 
 
 4024. Conciliation of party is the union of progress. 
 
 4025. Wine is a liberal commentary. 
 
 4026. Let us consider economy a duty (not unallied to pleasure), 
 as the beacon to independence. Pleasure only pleases for the 
 present, but economy is good for present and future. 
 
 4027. When fashion sanctions moderation, adopt it. 
 
 4028. When we consider the bravery displayed by all civilised 
 armies, let us rejoice that man, after all, does not degenerate. 
 
 4029. Fate lies with her head uppermost. 
 
 4030. Arbitration is the standard of peace. Where there is an 
 international consensus of opinion, and power equal, the result 
 may be assumed. 
 
 4031. Let rage ever be absent from the ruler. 
 
 4032. National defiance is not philosophy, unless wisdom 
 directs it. 
 
 4033. Could we, in reverting to first principles, satisfactorily 
 solve them, the details springing therefrom might be well left for 
 future disputation. 2. There is also a secondary wisdom; but 
 what is best for the occasion is the best criterion. 
 
 4034. Define honour before you assert it. 
 
 4035. Necessity is often viewed through the eye of prejudice. 
 
 4036. The subject should be worthy the enthusiasm it excites. 
 
 4037. Admiration is frequently partial, and varies with time and 
 place. 
 
116 MAXIMS. 
 
 4038. In the continuation of right is its security. 
 
 4039. Credit is honour attachable a shield of gold. 
 
 4040. Ideas rule the court and judgment. 
 
 4041. What is friendship in war is often enmity in peace. 
 
 4042. Mercy has its limitation, no less than justice its dis- 
 cretionary power. 
 
 4043. Objections impede our views; hardly any step may be 
 taken but what may be objected to. 
 
 4044. If you are not bold in your own house it hardly becomes 
 you to be so in that of another. 
 
 4045. Completeness is sometimes satiety. 
 
 4046. The soul owes nothing to itself, but is a debtor to its acts. 
 
 4047. Philosophy has been often proved without speech. 
 
 4048. We may sometimes gain in wisdom what we lose in caste. 
 
 4049. Our spiritual nature knows neither age nor satiety. 
 
 4050. Every idea is a picture unlimned. 
 
 4051. The tyrant's victory is the scorn of the wise. 
 
 4052. Political party is one vast imposition where just principles 
 govern not. 
 
 4053. We admire the results of science, not the cause. Science 
 to the majority has leaden eyes, but ever bright are the visions of art. 
 
 4054. Seek for good in its own domain. 
 
 4055. Many are there in the world to apply if the idea be 
 promulgated. 
 
 4056. Be not biassed by mere appearance, but after due exami- 
 nation. 
 
 4057. If there is reasonable ground for proof, even exceptional 
 statements or assertions, demand enquiry. 
 
 4058. Effort may be grace, but it is grace at a discount. 
 
 4059. It must be confessed that the problems of life present 
 themselves to us at every moment, and each have infinite bearings. 
 So is it with all human ideas ; grant but the existence of an idea its 
 promulgation and the endless appears. 
 
 4060. The retention of fortune is better than her gifts. 
 4061. Happy the man in whose heart just principle is not as a 
 passing cloud, but strong bulwark. 
 
 4062. True glory is the daughter of national power, and kin to 
 justice. 
 
 4063. International justice is the principle of progress ; a nation's 
 interest may, at times, condemn a principle, but there is ever a 
 saving clause. 
 
 4064. The eye is power. 
 
 4065. Easier to destroy the strongest fort than accepted public 
 sentiment. 
 
 4066. Books and pamphlets containing sentiments on inter- 
 national subjects may be read on sufferance, but are not without 
 influence. It is not necessary that every point should be exhaustively 
 discussed. In nature herself we only find glimpses of cause mazes 
 exist in the most frequented forests if we leave the path. 
 
 4067. Materialism is no principle, and is evolved after all out of 
 our innermost mental perceptions. All ideas originate in mentality 
 the soul-mind, or nous. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 117 
 
 4068. To know things in their right use sanctioned by 
 experience ; for just sanction is proof. 
 
 4069. In admiration and disdain the mind is still critical. 
 
 4070. Truth is justice ; honour, life. 
 
 4071. Interest is pain or pleasure, according to the circumstance 
 that brings it forth. 
 
 4072. Originality frequently proceeds from meditation, time, 
 position, or fortunate circumstance; yet, not singly does it flourish, 
 but requires influence as an ally. 
 
 4073. Judgment which is influenced by what is implied only has 
 no certainty; we can only judge rightly that which is uttered. 
 
 4074. Mind should ever rule matter; materialism is to be sub- 
 jected. 
 
 4075. Imitation has no futurity ; it is always retrospective. 
 
 4076. Unstable is the stationary man, uninfluenced by pro- 
 gressive sentiments. 
 
 4077. Decision is the backbone of nature. 
 
 4078. If you are compelled by the force of circumstances to adopt 
 a certain line of conduct, necessity approves or cannot ; for where 
 there is no choice can there exist evil in form. 
 
 4079. In difficulties, persistence may increase them ; when retreat 
 is possible, without undue loss or risk (and reason sanctions), adopt it. 
 
 4080. Prudence asks but few concessions ; due management of 
 work is the security of it. 
 
 4081. There are always problems in life to solve, enquiries to make, 
 difficulties to overcome. Nature knows no blank. 
 
 4082. Merit grows with opportunity. 
 
 4083. Good patronage that is available is better than an unused 
 legacy. 
 
 4084. When ornaments and details encumber, they degenerate 
 into obstacles ; value is of worth only in its due position. 
 
 4085. There is no equality or comparison between music and 
 words either must be pre-eminent. Where the air possesses cha- 
 racter the words may be considerad secondary ; better when both are 
 combined. Unless the language be known, all libretto is but froth. 
 
 4086. The consensus of opinion must decide public report. 
 
 4087. To judge of some causes is loss of time anguish of spirit. 
 
 4088. Wisdom to be of service must be continuous. 
 
 4089. Solution is the moiety of being ; every principle carries its 
 own solution, and inseparable from it. 
 
 4090. Where there is being must there be philosophy ; chance 
 partaking of either must, therefore, be productive in both. 
 
 4091.*- Variation is the scheme of nature and being; equality is 
 not of the soul, but of government. 
 
 4092. Often is the termination of labour the beginning of dis- 
 appointment. 
 
 4093. Wisdom is the same whether looked upon with calm or 
 eager eye. 
 
 4094. Success is the declaration of fortune. 
 
 4095. We are never at the lowest, when we can avoid excess or 
 danger. 
 
118 MAXIMS. 
 
 4096. Politeness in the powerful is too frequently a cloak of 
 perfidy. How little real human charity do we find after all in the 
 influential ! Office and political power seem to make men stoical. 
 
 4097. Power is a necessity of government, as dependence in those 
 governed. 
 
 4098. An internal state is not justified in the promulgation of 
 even just political ideas outside its territory, unless in strict accord 
 with the principles of the general government. Partial views should 
 accommodate themselves to the national constitution. 
 
 4099. If a constitution is at fault, ever consider it remediable. 
 
 4100. Who accepts the worst and prospers with it is certainly 
 favoured by fortune. 
 
 4101. Principles are but as words if not acted upon. 
 
 4102. It is not for every man to test all opinions. 
 
 4103. Go with the stream if you travel in company ; even to affect 
 to do so is at times not hyprccisy, but necessity. 
 
 4104. Life is inheritance, and the soul is ever cognisant. 
 
 4105. Destiny has concern for all created beings. 
 
 4106. Necessity is a guiding principle of creation. 
 
 4107. What is placed on record and accepted by the peoples, 
 consider as international property. There should be no reserved 
 rights in international literature. 
 
 4108. The rights of humanity is the standard of progress. 
 
 4109. Power, without the necessity of employing it, implies good 
 government and just national sentiment. 
 
 4110. Government is the right, no less than the necessity, of a 
 people ; give it due support, therefore, for the general welfare. Per- 
 fection is certainly not of this world, and completeness of detail 
 must not be looked for in any system of legislature. 
 
 4111. Scorn not theory if productive. Let our hearts, like 
 flames, ever rise from earth to the purer empyrean. Even abstract 
 thought is not to be continual, and practicable (or material) adapta- 
 tion has its limits. 
 
 4112. Ideas not affecting the status of government should be 
 recognised by it. 
 
 4113. Ideas are of weight only in their promulgation, not 
 inception. 
 
 4114. Charity is mostly assumed in men of rival pursuits. 
 
 4115. Nature halh many divisions, nor can there be division 
 without dependence, which is a principle of nature and existence in 
 all their phases ; in this view spirit and materialism may be con- 
 sidered, in a measure, conjoint. 
 
 4116. Strike only with the sword of justice and authority. 
 
 4117. Language is but an aide not principal. 
 
 4118. Comment should be judged by power and station. 
 
 4119. Admiration in excess berefts the soul of animation. 
 
 4120. Endeavour so to rule your conduct that memory will justify 
 the past. 
 
 4121. We cannot know the day till the light comes. 
 
 4122. Be strict upon your own actions, and endeavour to be just 
 <o those of others. 
 
 4123. A corresponding view is not always equal power. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 119 
 
 4124. Respect position rather than person; the judge is not 
 always a judge at home. 
 
 4125. In some things the greatest is not known. 
 
 4126. The soul-mind (mentality) is the guardian of the intellect. 
 
 4127. Hope always accompanies us; life without it would be 
 devoid of energy. 
 
 4128. Avoid undue expenses ; to expend unwisely upon another 
 may be esteemed as a token of inferiority. 
 
 4129. Be ever ruled by maxims of justice [rather than those of 
 convenance. 
 
 4130. Destruction should never take place unless a manifest 
 advantage to the public weal warrants. Kecords of nationalities 
 should ever be respected by power ; look upon vandalism as an 
 illiberal and unnational sentiment. 2. When order returns to a 
 State amnesty should accompany it as a companion principle. 
 3. Many principles constitute lightning, but the effect is one. 
 
 4131. If all our ideas were money-worth, riches would be only a 
 fiction. 
 
 4132. Contemplation is a necessity to the man who has only 
 misfortune for an ally. 
 
 4133. There is a commentary in contrasts. 
 
 4134. Meditation is the beacon of practice. 
 
 4135. Still rejoice at success in part, for happiness is an idea 
 seldom thoroughly realised. 
 
 4130. Mathematics in its multiform phases practical and theo- 
 retical is a beautiful, refined, and interesting (?) object of research 
 and study round the corner. 
 
 4137. When nature laughs you may be sure she is serious. 
 
 4138. The man who promulgates unjust principles sins after 
 death. 
 
 4139. Fortune generally holds the prize too high to be ever 
 grasped at. 
 
 4140. Sobriety is a sterling principle good in theory and fact. 
 
 4141. Just principles proved can withstand adverse commentary. 
 
 4142. What concerns all should be duly learned by all. 
 
 4143. Activity must be combined with labour in the man who 
 would make the best use of every circumstance. 
 
 4144. The ruling power should endeavour to be impartial where 
 conflicting interests are involved. Leave partiality to the sections. 
 
 4145. In disputed internal state subjects no dilemmas should be 
 recognised. Constitutional usages must decide. 
 
 4146. In accepting Court " honours " a man places himself in 
 antagonism with the sentiments and usages of a progressive people. 
 
 4147. Commerce is the national shield of progress. 
 
 4148. The customs should be less stringently enforced where the 
 advantages of exchange are reciprocal. 
 
 4149. Suspicion abounds in reasons rather than proofs. 
 
 4150. In the greatest prosperity there are still generally many 
 grounds of discontent. 
 
 4151. To do the wrong thing at the "right moment" is the wish 
 of the enemy's commander. 
 
120 MAXIMS. 
 
 4152. There are so many public clarions (musical and non- 
 musical) nowadays, that one's ears are confounded by the din. 
 4153. Given the position and power, the tools are ever at hand. 
 4154. Esteem only those things that can be justly used. 
 4155. Unless where dire necessity demands, it is better for inde- 
 pendent nationalities to eschew alliances. 
 
 4156. The people are too frequently swayed by prejudice and 
 influenced by national custom. Prejudice and custom must ever be 
 considered as antagonistic to true progressive sentiment. Man is the 
 world not the world man. 
 
 4157. Man unobserved is often a savage. 2. Man is a dual being, 
 and, like his coat, has an outer and inner side. In society we mostly 
 act ; in solitude only are we natural. There is a lot of " put on " in 
 human nature. 
 
 4158. A pursuit affects the habit of man, like salt or colour in 
 water. 
 
 4159. In wine and at the social board aphorisms are composed 
 quickly, but applied slowly ; applicable or otherwise accepted or 
 taken on sufferance. 
 
 4160. Judge caution or thrift rather by the result than appear- 
 ance. 
 
 4161. Count not that man's mission useless whose ideas have 
 influenced just minds. 
 
 4162. A library of admonitions may be easily collected from the 
 great store of human nature, and a man may himself be fertile in 
 them. 
 
 4163. Fashion should be so regulated as not to incommode, and 
 in accordance with nature. 
 
 4164. Irresponsible power in one hand is a dark cloud or blot on 
 the constitution. 
 
 4165. The world is only for man, as it affects him while living ; we 
 are all birds of passage. 
 
 4166. Existence is surrounded by unseen dangers and terrors ; 
 perhaps the greatest dangers appear only in part. 
 
 4167. Unknown motives are frequently dangers in abeyance. 
 4168. Where strangers are concerned, unfold their business rather 
 than your own. To know the business of other people may, at times, 
 be useful. Just knowledge knows no exception. 
 4169. Time is dumb ; its effects are only heard. 
 4170. To print ideas is to promulgate them ; acceptance is the 
 test of their influence. 
 
 4171. Rivalry allied to power is possible enmity. 
 4172. New men often old measures. 
 
 4173. A mere chance or whim has influenced many a critique 
 
 both in literature and society. We cannot judge without being 
 
 critical. We are all critics born, and the eye is ever a commentator. 
 
 4174. Progress springs from what is stationary, but sees only in 
 
 front, and deals with unknown causes, yet fertile in hope. 
 
 4175. Strike the black standard, and surrender an evil cause. 
 4176. There is no disgrace when necessity sanctions the end. 
 4177. The voice of living power has influenced beyond the dead 
 author's aphorism. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 121 
 
 4178. The acceptation of principles is national memory. When 
 the memory of principles is lost only expect their discontinuance. 
 4179. We are ever living at a " distance." 
 
 4180. Victory too often degenerates into injustice when power is 
 in excess. 
 
 4181. It is a bad international precedent when success follows 
 illegal (or inter-legal) courses in a State. 
 
 4182. Assumed loss of prestige in a State is only international 
 opinion, unless proved by the result of war. 
 
 4183. The end will come whether we wait or not. 
 4184. Perhaps cycles are but as minutes in a future state. 
 4185. We cannot avail ourselves of the benefits of law or govern- 
 ment without also acknowledging the penalties. 
 4186. Time is only to us as we use it. 
 
 4187. In some cases better results might follow if international 
 conferences could be extended for a term of years rather than sum- 
 marily decided upon. 
 
 4188. When the cause of quarrel is forgotten the enmity should be 
 also. 
 
 4189. There are fluctuations in influence of nations as in money. 
 4190. Victory is the fickle sister of fortune. 
 
 4191. Endeavour to avail yourself of those things which are 
 (justly) deemed indispensable. 
 
 4192. The best expenditure is to invest judiciously hard-earned 
 savings. 
 
 4193. To be justly economical is to secure domestic independence. 
 The spendthrift is ever dependent. 
 4194. Take care that your tastes do not tyrannise. 
 4195. Opposites are too frequently enmities. 
 4196. Often is hand joined to hand where the heart consents not. 
 4197. The law is the great curb on the ill-advised measures or 
 desires of the heart. 
 
 4198. Power shall respect and uphold the judge's decision due 
 allowance being made for human frailty ; for few decisions will ever 
 be in strict accord with the maxims of infallible justice. 
 4199. Truth is sometimes best at a disadvantage. 
 4200. A common saying is common philosophy. Wisdom, in 
 some degree, can never be absent from sense, for sense can be 
 amplified, and what is extended may often open up new grounds of 
 research. 
 
 4201. Your thoughts are often your true tyrants, for we are 
 governed (sometimes to our hurt) by them. 
 4202. Wisdom is the true light of the soul. 
 4203. Eternal causes are benefits. 
 
 4204. Regard palaces and human structures but as material 
 forms intended for, and useless without, life ; nay, even the firma- 
 ment itself is inferior to life, for this gives it value. 
 
 4205. Wisdom is the soul of faculty the all-pervading. Nothing 
 is exempt from her influence ; for, as colour affects liquid, so does 
 wisdom (the colour of eternity) permeate through all created beings, 
 and forces with its power. Nor is it yet in excess, for just causes or 
 their solutions are incapable of excess, as being in their natures just. 
 
122 MAXIMS. 
 
 4206. Great causes being necessary, are, therefore, just. 
 
 4207. In adversity endeavour to be jast to the situation in which 
 you are placed by an all too cruel fate repining is ever weakness ; in 
 prosperity, command your desires not let them command you. 
 
 4208. Wisdom is an unfailing lexicon ; truth, the best application 
 or commentary. 
 
 4209. There are always positions to defend, principles to adopt,, 
 faculties to be exercised. 
 
 4210. When the exercise of just faculty and the public weal com- 
 bine, the labour justifies. 
 
 4211. Eleemosynary considerations should be influenced by 
 necessity, not time. 
 
 4212. We assume the possession of strength when enervation 
 follows ; let strength follow, and there will have been no weakness. 
 
 4213. The ablest politician cannot reasonably expect to gain at 
 every point. 
 
 4214. Be sure where the (assumed) end tends before you adopt it 
 
 4215. Peer or body of peers the honest mind and popular will 
 should command. 
 
 4216. Law is a graded scale. First, the idea or inception ; then, 
 the idea examined discouragement and approval the pen at work 
 the debate and reply the vote, publication, the act law. Yet 
 (originally), perhaps a crude idea (or sub-maxim) scouted even by 
 the composer himself. History in like manner. So much for the 
 dignity of origins. 
 
 4217. Wisdom often deals in exceptions. 
 
 4218. It is not always that a general rule is, necessarily, right. 
 
 4219. In your strongest denunciations forget not that your 
 opponent (or enemy) is also human. 
 
 4220. In the ocean one drop is as good as another, and of the 
 same quality, choose where you may. 
 
 4221. Gold commands choice. 
 
 4222. Interest is sometimes assumed, not felt, because it is our 
 interest to assume. 
 
 4223. It is the acceptation of ideas or measures by the people 
 that revolutionise. What is confined to books only must be con- 
 sidered as not possessing due influence or weight. Society may 
 promulgate ideas and advance new political axioms, but, unless the 
 public are influenced by them, they are as bolts from the firmament 
 that do not reach the earth. 
 
 4224. Exceptions have prying eyes and long arms ; yet, if the 
 design commends itself, there is reasonable hope for the work. 
 
 4225. If we could revolutionise the cause we might command the 
 result. 
 
 4226. It is better to utilise than endeavour to command the 
 effects of nature. 
 
 4227. The most profound mysteries may possibly have simple 
 solutions, for simplicity is favoured by nature. 
 
 4228. There is some primideal causation ever anterior to both 
 cause and effect in all things ; but this principle (and its solution) 
 is the province only of the OMNIPOTENT. 2. The universe is 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 129 
 
 complete as being the design of the Unerring Power. It is not the 
 world that is at fault, but our own ideas of it. 
 
 4229. The present state of man is satisfactory or the contrary- 
 as the mind of each man (i.e., in relation to himself) may determine. 
 Creation cannot be altered or affected by human power. 
 
 4230. Economy often proves a bounteous legacy possessed, not 
 promised. It points to, and is the haven of, independence. 
 
 4231. The length of an harangue may impose upon us at times, 
 but the substance of it should only determine. 
 
 4232. Competency requires opportunity. 
 
 4233. The public often confound the desire with necessity in that 
 which is available. 
 
 4234. Truths and subjects are always at hand ; the lexicon is 
 not only a list of words, but of topics for we cannot speak out of the 
 dictionary. 
 
 4235. Melody is the soul, as science the body, of harmony. 
 
 4236. Be content with what you possess justly rather than seek 
 for unattainable possessions. 
 
 4237. Your man of rank is frequently rank indeed. 
 
 4238. Space and eternity may be considered as the repetition of 
 effects continually extended without pause or limit. 
 
 4239. No principle is self-existent, but depends upon either 
 matter or mind. 
 
 4240. It is better to fail through charity than disdain. 
 
 4241. Number is not, in all places, strength. 
 
 4242. Consider life, and its continuance, the best fortune. 
 
 4243. The world is the position man the problem. 
 
 4244. The greatest interest proceeds from our own self-conscious- 
 ness. 
 
 4245. It matters not whether the axiom has been elegant or other- 
 wiseif profitable in the result. 
 
 4246. Assumption of truth is only theory of truth ; or, in other 
 words, theory is assumption of truth truth the proof of assump- 
 tion. 
 
 4247. Independence covers many disadvantages. 
 
 4248. The world is only for one idea at the end. 
 
 4249. Custom is too frequently imitation merely. The adherence 
 to old-fashioned customs or habits often makes men, unconsciously, 
 enemies to modern progressive developments. 
 
 4250. The knowledge of an art intensifies the errors, as the 
 pleasures of it. 
 
 4251. The house is bravely built which time does not weaken. 
 
 4252. A stout foe is sometimes favoured by fortune, and a well- 
 contested field is not devoid of honour. 
 
 4253. National efforts are the forerunners of acts. 
 
 4254. The acts of a State are positions declared ; public opinion 
 (only) has no legal status. 
 
 4255. It depends upon national interests whether acts should 
 follow intentions. 
 
 4256. Victory, like fortune, has many friends. 
 
 4257. Extend your territory by peace, decrease it in war. 
 
124 MAXIMS. 
 
 4258. Strict justice in law is more frequently assumed than 
 proved. 2. Decision stands in the place of proof: the law should 
 admit no dilemmas. 
 
 4259. If division reigns, endeavour to cast it off on the shoulders 
 of the enemy. 
 
 4260. Simple rules become important when acted upon by 
 number and force. 
 
 4261. Justice should not be occasional, but continuous. 
 
 4262. Alliances are to be condemned or approved only as 
 necessity, or the time, sanctions. 
 
 4263. The Truth of CATHOLICITY seeks the Eternal Life, and finds 
 it. God being One, sanctions but one only true system of Religious 
 Belief which is that of the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. There are 
 no diverse roads in Faith. 
 
 4264. A crowd of exceptions always follow national interests : 
 exemplified in war and peace. 
 
 4265. Number, space, and time may (?) ever remain (as) 
 assumptions so far as their perfect solution is concerned. 
 
 4266. A prudent will is ever a just possession of the soul. 
 
 4267. Be just in the contemplation of Divine Mystery, as in the 
 obedience to Divine Law. 
 
 4268. If the principle be just, so should also the application. 
 
 4269. So many positions so many theories. 
 
 4270. Could we decide all questions, we might solve all theories. 
 
 4271. We admit the power and influence of the mind, although 
 we cannot correctly analyse it. 
 
 4272. Mystery is, perhaps, of more advantage in its own sphere 
 and influence than if solved. 
 
 4273. Nothing unjust proceeds from inherent good. 
 
 4274. Prudence gained by experience should not be lost by folly. 
 
 4275. Power and station frequently overrule philosophy and 
 wisdom. 
 
 4276. Position and habit mostly induce pride, or the appearance 
 of it. 
 
 4277. The acceptance, by the influential, is publication. 
 
 4278. Liberty run wild allied with license ever tends to 
 disorganisation in a State. 
 
 4279. Happy the law (or State) that stands not in need of 
 remediable measures. 
 
 4280. The laws of a State are to be followed and enjoined 
 rather than public dicta. 
 
 4281. No ideas but what are allied ; thoughts occur in myriads 
 not to benefit, but through necessity. 
 
 4282. The future is a kind of reserve for the soul. 
 
 4283. Millions live and die who could yet make no sign self 
 being their world, not the progress of humanity. The curse of 
 public forgetfulness is upon them. Printing (retention's fiat) might 
 not unaptly be termed the philosophy of resuscitation. 
 
 4284. Philosophy treads every ground, but her solutions (and 
 axioms) are variable. 
 
 4285. There must be and must not ; either may be the truth, one 
 is certain. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 125" 
 
 4286. Just mediation is the salve of honour and divider of 
 victory. 
 
 4287. We cannot limit the influence of just principle recognised. 
 
 4288. Ambiguity is often a crooked road to a straight end. 
 
 4289. Honesty stands not in need of ornament, for truth if 
 simplicity. 
 
 4290. Words, like some people, are often exalted above their 
 proper sphere. 
 
 4291. A. book without ideas may be considered as a catalogue of 
 words but misplaced. 
 
 4292. Practical adaptation should, nevertheless, accept theory 
 as being an integral portion of it. 
 
 4293. What emanates from the ETERNAL is sanctioned. 
 
 4294. Even in danger let the cause justify or determine resolu- 
 tion. 
 
 4295. Presence is always a subject. 
 
 4296. Promptness should be regulated by the necessity, or the 
 occasion. 
 
 4297. The book of one idea might not unaptly be named from 
 it ; mere verbiage (unless considered as a catalogue of words) is but 
 vapour. 
 
 4298. Laws that press heavily on the husbandman (such as the 
 game and other enactments) should never be countenanced by the 
 maker of new constitutions, for to alter is to make new codes. 
 Concession (where reasonable public benefit is in prospective) should 
 be made in the interest of the governed ; yet we frequently find 
 political power too tenacious of its (so called) privileges to surrender 
 them even in a just cause. 
 
 4299. The prolongation of life beyond what is necessary or 
 beneficial would result in mystery above that which disposes or 
 concludes. 
 
 4300. It is surprising how men should follow luxury that 
 weakens, and forsake virtue which strengthens soul and body. 
 
 4301. Philosophy does not depend upon appearances, although 
 influenced by custom and habits of life. 
 
 4302. If present circumstances presage possible loss, use rather 
 the tools to hand. 
 
 4303. Ideality deals largely in exceptions ; we cannot (reasonably) 
 expect practicable results to spring from all our ideas. 
 
 4304. When the powerful yield, it is but concession ; with the 
 equal defeat. 
 
 4305. Impartiality should be the sphere of mediation. Nationality 
 is but prejudice where conflicting interests are sought to be 
 reconciled between States. 
 
 4306. We cannot dis-associate the soul and the senses as being 
 allied, and mutually dependant. 
 
 4307. Before facts are brought about, their possibility must ever 
 precede. 
 
 4308. Destruction is certainly a stern disposer, and final. 
 
 4309. Life is a system of interruptions, yet may these sometimes 
 be employed to our advantage. 
 
f26 MAXIMS. 
 
 4310. There is no finality even to one idea i.e., if we proceed 
 to details, or amplification ; how, then, can we ever (in life) expect 
 to exhaust the imagination of man ? 
 
 4311. Prudence is generally the eequel to just discernment. 
 
 4312. All poisons are coloured in dark, and evil sometimes 
 affects the light. 
 
 4313. Nature is perfection in her own province only ; art (as far 
 AS perfection is possible) in her adherence to nature. 
 
 4314. Excess is never a true success. 
 
 4315. Explanation, in excess, frequently clouds the meaning 
 and subverts the judgment. 
 
 4316. Intelligence combined with practical application with 
 .custom (the fortune of trade) concurring is the secret of success in 
 business. 
 
 4317. Obstacles are only tests to the energetic. 
 
 4318. Apathy (influenced by fashion) neglects faculty to fly after 
 phantoms. Every member of the public possess faculty, but 
 unacknowledged hence lost : for non-exercise is loss of faculty. 
 Intelligence should never consort with apathy. 
 
 4319. Brilliant phantoms are generally preferred to sober truths. 
 
 4320. The just will of nationalities is the progress of the world. 
 
 4321. Perhaps all critiques might be lost, and be no loss (?) ; 
 yet, being the fruits of labour more so than the composition of 
 Maxims true charity cannot commend the idea. Whatever is 
 approved by general humanity is still human in its interest 
 {although interest is not, invariably, worth), and to be preserved. 
 Vandalism is one of the most uncharitable and senseless sentiments 
 of the human heart. 
 
 4322. The will is created free for the cause of truth, not truth 
 -for the will. 
 
 4323. There are few ideas (acted upon) where profit and interest 
 do not intermingle. 
 
 4324. After all (candour that dictates the maxim may also 
 disown it), man's own innate wisdom stands not in actual need of 
 the formal aphorism, or proverb. Thought may rule the conduct 
 (and in the majority of cases, perhaps, does so) without expression. 
 
 4325. Constitutions exalt maxims to laws. 
 
 4326. The power to aid the cause of art (or progress) is often 
 possessed without the will ; the will without the power. 
 
 4327. Safety is not always unity, nor unity safety. 
 
 4328. Time dissolves the strongest alliances. 
 
 4329. Assumed gains are but theoretical ones. 
 
 4330. It is a nation's necessity only that makes exceptional law 
 justice. 
 
 4331. Contemplation is the sequel only of aims accomplished. 
 
 4332. The cause of life is unchangeable ; whether joy or sorrow, 
 is for the soul to determine. 
 
 4333. The plan of a just life is the best design. 
 
 4334. It is equally the duty of just government to suppress 
 internal revolt as outward attack. 
 
 4335. Be cautious in favours to the unknown ; but knowledge 
 (and reputation) diminishes risk and shortens inquiry. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 127 
 
 4336. To defer ever is the b.est course with an unreasonable 
 demand. 
 
 4337. Where men do not agree, it is the argument that is at 
 fault not the truth. 
 
 4338. Reserved knowledge (like a collection or magazine) should 
 be adaptable. 
 
 4339. Disputation affects not the truth of a thesis. 
 
 4340. The just contemplation of the present is a reasonable hope 
 for the future ; for hope and the future are both necessities. 
 
 4341. Be not over hasty in using treasure on speculation ; experi- 
 ment rather with money secured. 
 
 4342. The ear is yet sufficient for all it hears. 
 
 4343. The known universe may be but a miniature of the 
 actuality of creation. 
 
 4344. There is reason in that which is inevitable. 
 
 4345. We should take stock of the fact rather than origin. 
 
 4340. To serve or fall in the right only deserves a monument. 
 
 4347. The adviser's task is ever easier than that of the advised. 
 
 4348. Interest soothes the innermost heart and mind, and makes 
 labour palatable. 
 
 4349. The DIVINE POWER gives to the soul cognition of just 
 means. Virtue is less allied to anxiety than vice, and to each man 
 is conceded the government of his own soul, directed by the True 
 Faith, which is the Religion of the Cross CATHOLICITY interpreted 
 by the Church. Miracles but one proof amongst incalculable others 
 {and proved, moreover, only in Catholicity) is a certain test of its 
 divinity ; and hence its authority (whose original is from CHRIST) is 
 infallible. 
 
 4350. The authority of the Catholic Church and her glorious 
 saints ever tend to the divine progress of the human soul as to the 
 glory of the Eternal Church. Heresy, on the other hand (ever 
 repugnant to God's Words), is but a system of devious tracks 
 wanting in charity and in all divine attributes ever advocating 
 disunion the beacon of destruction ; setting man against man 
 class against class contemning all human charity a system of 
 religious libels. Earth impregnates all their sentiments, and the 
 worldly power of States is their criterion, rather than Truth and 
 Faith. 
 
 4351. Wisdom (unerring) is the necessity of the Creator's power ; 
 originated by Him, from whom all mind and matter springs. 
 \Vhatever is impure is the work of man. 2. Faith is conscience, 
 wisdom, and all the virtues. 
 
 4352. Search below know your weakness, but accept not its 
 responsibilities. 
 
 4353. Ever respect life, and be charitable to your own just ends 
 and their consequenceo, or of those of your neighbour. 
 
 4354. The best independence is to depend upon divine dictates 
 for dependence is creation. 
 
 4355. Could we accept the position that there is no time for evil, 
 we would conquer it. 
 
 4356. The difficulty in excess is to determine its actual limitation. 
 
 4357. Contentment is of nature discontent of man. 
 
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128 MAXIMS. 
 
 4358. The silent man generally learns, but does not impart. 
 4359. We often mistake interest for necessity. 2. Interest is- 
 often a false mirror of necessity. 
 4360. Painting and the arts are builders. 
 
 4361. The atomic theory, reproduced and extended, encircles the 
 universe. 
 
 4362. Ambition checked frequently increases in its intensity or 
 determination. 
 
 4363. Strategy must still be regulated by force and number. 
 4364. The knowledge of man's weakness is a ground of vantage. 
 4365. Necessity is benefit in the limitation of unjust desires. 
 4366. Guard the soul by rectitude of conduct. 
 4367. Keep down ambition which aims too high ; on the other 
 hand, just ambition in the service, and tending to the progress of a- 
 State, should be countenanced. 
 
 4368. Faculty is useless, unless exercised and continuous. 
 4369. The surroundings are as necessary as the position. 
 4370. No place is unsuitable for wisdom, or the exercise of it. 
 4371. The world moves whether we command or not. 2. In 
 some things we are all commanders. 
 4372. Destiny is ever present in the elements. 
 4373. Comparative prosperity is but limitation. 
 4374. Truths, to influence, depend upon two things : promulgation 
 and acceptation. 
 
 4375. It is the mind that indicates the standard by which 
 virtues increase or decrease. 
 
 4376. To obey and fear divine laws is to be just in the promulga- 
 tion of human ones. 
 
 4377. Wishes should be regulated by prospects. 
 4378. Wisdom fits itself to every condition. 
 4379. A deserved gift is a just bounty. 
 4380. Divine Wisdom precludes argument. 
 4381. Change of position often converts disdain into respect. 
 4382. Unseen forces play their part no less than those that are 
 seen. 
 
 4383. Endeavour so to regulate .the mind that charity and 
 impartiality shall ever be inseparable. 
 
 4384. Wisdom, if rightly understood, is the appeal-court of the 
 soul. 
 
 4385. The fruits of faculty lost can only be valued in reproduc- 
 tion. 
 
 4386. A just system of investment (in the interest of government 
 and people) is a labour worthy the attention of legislators. 
 
 4387. Legislators make the laws, but the people make the legis- 
 lators. Mutual dependence is the foundation of all government, nor 
 is the universe an exception. 
 
 4388. Compassion is of man destiny of science. 
 4389. All human blood is the same : our opinions of it only 
 differ ; yet opinion, when accepted by number, rises to the dignity 
 of law. 
 
 4390. Let dignity and necessity decide, and rank will have to 
 forego many of its privileges. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 129 
 
 4391. There is no millennium in goods and chattels ; and the 
 contest between rich and poor capital and labour is likely to 
 widen rather than diminish with increase of number. 
 
 4392. If man can be formed into one enduring alliance, it would 
 be in an intercommunity of faculty not material property. 
 
 4393. Public approval is public property. 
 
 4394. Given the cause of destiny, then only may you endeavour 
 to control or regulate it. 
 
 4395. Retreat is sometimes power and judgment. 
 
 4396. Worth is not always negotiable. 
 
 4397. Prosperity is never unalloyed ; and possible misfortune 
 ever accompanies its progress. 
 
 4398. Repetition often becomes a second nature to us. 
 
 4399. It is the wrong application of nature's benefits that 
 frequently make them evils. 
 
 4400. Cherish and maintain your public libraries, for they are 
 the repositories of much that would be otherwise lost, and preserve 
 not only an author's memory, but that of the people in their history ; 
 the substitutes, too, for a people's memory. [Certainly, the scope 
 of our libraries (otherwise excellent) European and American 
 might be greatly extended by musical and art sections (complete) 
 for reference and practical use. Upon this interesting subject the 
 author will submit a few suggestions in the APPENDIX.] 
 
 4401. The number of proffered services contribute to distract 
 the public attention. [What the public might themselves effect in 
 the domain of human faculty will be cursorily glanced at in another 
 portion of this volume.] 
 
 4402. There is no charity for non-being. 
 
 4403. Wish only for the morrow to perform just actions. 
 
 4404. Admonition is, too frequently, assumed vantage-ground. 
 
 4405. It becomes not man to contemn man. 
 
 4406. Live in this state of being as if the future just hopes of 
 the soul were realised. 
 
 4407. Exaggeration is the octopus of the mind all extending ; 
 and perhaps language itself is wanting in actual definitions. 
 
 4408. Wisdom demands that the soul and body should be in 
 accord ; where they are at variance, evil ever has an entrance. 
 
 4409. The true use of benefits not the possession only. 
 
 4410. Myriad-souled are the faculties, no less than the thoughts 
 of man. 
 
 4411. It is certainly a gracious regulation of government 
 departments (and cannot be over-estimated), namely in the 
 preservation of Designs and Notes submitted however we may 
 question the utility of preserving also all correspondence. Progress 
 springs from light, and light is preservation. There is no progress 
 without publicity; the approval, therefore, of Designs, etc., by the 
 influential (and all governments are influential) is, in a measure, 
 tantamount to publication. Some suggestions (necessarily brief) 
 upon these topics will also be submitted in the APPENDIX more 
 particularly touching a proposed " Government Suggestion Book, or 
 Official and Public Record;" also, "Popular Data, or Book of 
 Public Designs." 
 
130 MAXIMS. 
 
 4412. Advance and retreat with the people. 
 
 4413. What may be wants the element of certainty ; uncertainty 
 Is ever the bugbear of political measures. Not the people that may, 
 but that do, govern. Such guide or form destiny. The destiny of a 
 nation produces history. 
 
 4414. We may be truthful, although we cannot solve all the 
 problems of truth. 
 
 4415. We sometimes assume carelessness when our hopes are 
 realised. 
 
 4416. Like ready money is it to possess the means to act. 
 
 4417. Scenes that are never seen are as no scenes. 
 
 4418. If you cannot attain perfection in all things, yet endeavour 
 t0 be perfect in reason, according to your lights your station in 
 life. If you wish to assume, be sure that you will duly " become " 
 the high hat and fancy collar. 
 
 4419. What is beyond strict justice, if not actual excess, is kin 
 to it. 
 
 4420. Present stability, although subject to mutation, is still a 
 guarantee for future good. 
 
 4421. Fair dealing is open charity. 
 
 4422. Non-responsibility is the fertile cause of so many unjust 
 decisions. 
 
 4423. We direct our wisdom in being ruled by it. 
 
 4424. It is easier to adopt (and compose) than to follow maxims. 
 
 4425. Exceptions are allied to nearly every position, but they 
 are not necessarily to be regarded so as to unduly influence the 
 judgment. 
 
 4426. It is in the idea of futurity wherein it is possible the 
 present is only tangible. 
 
 4427. A stout populace is a strong defence. 
 
 4428. The mind is a power of evil or virtue generally as it is 
 influenced, and interests prompt. 
 
 4429. Just self-interest is not incompatible with progressive 
 sentiments. 
 
 4430. Independence frequently scorns just offers, while expecta- 
 tion makes a favour of ordinary benefits. 
 
 4431. Your cunning time-server generally knows the sentiment 
 that " pays." 
 
 4432. Approval of past actions is like rest after labour. 
 
 4433. We are sometimes more economical with large than with 
 small sums ; and hard-heartedness is not unfrequently the associate 
 of affluence. 
 
 4434. We all meet at last at the barrier : judge and judged alike. 
 
 4435. Perception forewarns, and is increase of knowledge. 
 
 4436. How can we spend in excess without detriment ? In all 
 expenditure endeavour to distinguish luxury from necessity. 
 
 4437. When a people attains liberty, its support and continuance 
 should be the national maxim. 
 
 4438. Situation governs chance, which, nevertheless, has often 
 sprung from it. 
 
 4439. Truth and utility of design justify reasonable expenditure. 
 
 4440. The witness makes the cause public. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 131 
 
 4441. Change is not always enlargement, but enlargement is 
 always change. 
 
 4442. Let us not apply the term " luxury " to the domain of art 
 or ornament ; nor must we expect actual utility to be invariably the 
 test of art. 
 
 4443. Strike often rather than once or too soon. Kepetition is 
 advertisement. 
 
 4444. Necessity disarms jealousy. 
 
 4445. Science that springs from destiny often controls it. 
 
 4446. Causes rightly understood and used give conquest. 
 
 4447. Be attracted rather by mind and faculties than manner. 
 
 4448. Where there is undue bias there is no candour. 
 
 4449. Ridicule is frequently a sentiment without cause, and a 
 cause without sentiment. 
 
 4450. Custom is fertile in wrong conclusions. 
 
 4451. The agreement of reader and author is a kind of distant 
 friendship. The disapproval of reader, on the other hand if 
 influenced by ridicule (solely), generally unargumentative (or part 
 scepticism) is, in a measure, enmity. 
 
 4452. In man may be similied creation and the universe not in 
 theory only, but in fact. 
 
 4453. Let there be no law of Philology (too authoritative and 
 determinate hitherto in its exactions) henceforth at least, prohibiting 
 the introduction (or the addition) of new words and terms to any 
 language. Accession of new forces is invariably strength, and 
 necessity rules " propriety " where any logophonical, or rather, let 
 me say, themographical (literally " the description of theme "), 
 utterances are sought to be promulgated, or ideas (supposed) to be 
 associated with such may be involved. Necessity is the best critic. 
 Philology must be energetically grappled with, in short not 
 approached with gloved fingers. Add to the dictionary even to 
 satiety for future use, if not for the present. Posterity has plenty 
 of time on its hands. 
 
 4454. After this linguistical bout we come down again to plain, 
 homely prose: An unjust system can be sufficiently condemned 
 without direct or personal reprehension. 
 
 4455. Attack may be compared to scepticism in war ; conquest 
 the proof. 
 
 4456. He that possesses the power to realise his just wishes shall 
 
 never want subjects; for the exercise of, etc., complete the 
 
 sentence. (Advanced on sufferance.) 
 
 4457. Screw the lyre a little higher : Could we distinguish cause 
 from effect, the latter would, in many cases, be found not to spring 
 from a necessary cause ; although, be it understood (for we 
 endeavour to be lucid in all our positions advanced with due 
 submission, however), every effect (or action performed) must, of 
 a necessity, be preceded by cause. 
 
 4458. Charity and humility (companion virtues of the soul) are 
 not of earthly thrones ; in the irresponsible possession of power 
 there is always a possibility (yet not necessarily) of being unjust. 
 Injustice is no law. 
 4459. Charity should not be dictatorial, but submissive. 
 
132 MAXIMS. 
 
 4460. The just sentiments of the soul have eternal life. 
 
 4461. CATHOLICITY is the only true universality of Faith 
 ordained by the CREATOR; it knows neither repulse, defeat, nor 
 exhaustion. As being eternal, and the belief of the CREATOR, it 
 should be that of mankind. Divergence from Faith is heresy. 
 
 4462. The CREATOR has unfolded what it benefits man to know 
 Divine laws and injunctions the interpretation of which is relegated 
 by our Divine BEDEEMER only to the Boman Catholic Church. The 
 rock of Truth, the certainty of belief. Catholicity is the unerring 
 destiny of Faith. 
 
 4463. The cause (or axiom) exists without the promulgation. 
 
 4464. Scepticism affects not Divine law, which precedes all 
 things. 
 
 4465. Themes are open subjects common to all for there is no 
 property in language. 
 
 4466. There is no " rank" in books. With a pen and Press the 
 beggar may become a despot on paper ; while your emperor may 
 go a-begging for an audience. 
 
 4467. There is something beyond the present time and property, 
 and its claims should be allowed. Are we not all in advance of 
 posterity, as it were ? And only for our " posterity " we would not 
 be here. 
 
 4468. Take the pen in hand, but show us your head first. 
 
 4469. Perhaps the best ideas of human-kind will ever remain a 
 problem. 
 
 4470. Disguise is not without influence, but publicity is only true 
 influence. 
 
 4471. Bivalry exists not upon a ground of equality. 
 
 4472. Temptation usurps the right and property in virtue. 
 
 4473. Similes have always exceptions. 
 
 4474. Originality in all things is not to be commended; and 
 better is it to be a copyist of good models than to originate evil 
 ones. 
 
 4475. Let the strongest measures still have a leaven of justice 
 and virtue in them. 
 
 4476. A State's power in a state of transition is seldom rightly 
 interpreted. 
 
 4477. The best laws are those that accord with the most widely- 
 diffused and sanctioned principles of humanity. We cannot (justly) 
 go beyond humanity. 
 
 4478. Besults that do not satisfy just public wants should ever be 
 considered as remediable. 
 
 4479. The pipe ally of wisdom and folly. While the " benefits" 
 of tobacco may be called into question, still, as aids to reflection (tastes 
 concurring), the honest pipe, cigarito, or more pretentious Habana 
 should not, perhaps, be utterly despised. As actual necessities, they 
 may be classed with coffee or tea ; like other luxuries the draw- 
 backs perhaps militate against, or overrule, the advantages (?). 
 Arguments that admit of no lights being thrown upon, and incapable 
 of satisfactory solution, must, of a necessity, remain open questions ; 
 and with this our pronunciamento upon this momentous question 
 we take our leave of the subject. 
 
DY EDWABD COUNSEL. 133 
 
 4480. Means sometimes regulate and change desires. 
 4481. Liberty and the just cause are the patriot's rewards. 
 4482. The simile of bird-lime may be applied to speculation in 
 
 4483. Liberty is ever in jeopardy where international alliances 
 rule, or great powers contend. 
 
 4484. The Caucasian race carry conquest in their heads, as in 
 their arms. 
 
 4485. To estimate majorities truly we must analyse their mental 
 and material power. 
 
 4486. Conquest not nature makes demarcation in States. 
 
 4487. The wisdom fittest for the occasion is better than the 
 formal rule or maxim. 
 
 4488. It is the cruel fate of nations that patriotism is not 
 perpetual. 
 
 4489. Familiarity with evils does not lessen the responsibility. 
 
 4490. The best form of government is that which the majority 
 approve ; government against the majority must be considered as 
 existing on sufferance only. 
 
 4491. National independence is not necessarily internal liberty 
 in a State. 
 
 4492. The world loses much, but recuperates itself with interest. 
 
 4493. Where life is there is nature also. 
 
 4494. The public often influence without being influenced. 
 
 4495. The senses are frequently disguises that cloud just 
 principles. 
 
 4496. Expectation, when ill considered, is justly doomed in its 
 disappointment. 
 
 4497. Deem it a duty to publish ideas or designs tending to the 
 cause of progress. The cause will sanction their promulgation ; 
 seek no other authority. 
 
 4498. The publisher in his domain (which includes past, present, 
 and future an extensive prospect) is a veritable dictator ; and 
 publicity itself dependent upon him. 
 
 4499. When a community approves a writer's suggestion or 
 dictum, the idea is no longer the sole possession of its author, for 
 common property gives equal rights. 
 
 4500. Print, and its preservation in our public libraries, makes 
 posterity our debtors. 
 
 4501. A government, in surrendering the land to the people, 
 should not forego its claim over it. The non-alienation of land is a 
 principle that has much to recommend it, as also some drawbacks 
 (inseparable in all legislation). 
 
 4502. Fallacious are those positions which begin and end only in 
 theoretical assumptions. 
 
 4503. Facts are solutions, and preclude argument. 
 
 4504. Wisdom is sometimes accidental, and prudence gained 
 inadvertence. The truth is not always discovered even by the 
 willing mind. 
 
 4505. It is not the conception of ideas only that is necessary, but 
 also their promulgation through the proper channel a leading 
 publishing house so as to influence the public. 
 
134 MAXIMS. 
 
 4506. Attach not too much importance to the mere dicta of 
 ephemeral journalism. 
 
 4507. In the soul (and wisdom) consists the intermentality of 
 faculty. The soul must either direct or be guided by wisdom. If 
 the former guides, or is guided by the latter (or vice versa), the 
 result is the same ; for the ideas they respectively bring forth are 
 co-equal in their application to the purposes of human life. 
 
 4508. Principles are laws, as they are accepted or adopted by 
 power. Yet many principles that now dominate governments future 
 ages will consider as untenable, for, as the world progresses, new and 
 altered systems (with their correspondent axioms) are preferred to 
 the old. 
 
 4509. Leading ideas may be called the alphabet ; the details, 
 the language or design. The rest leave to the worker (or builder), 
 who obtains the least credit. 
 
 4510. In music, science, art, and literature we must ever con- 
 sider the interpretation inferior to the origination. 
 
 4511. There is no earthly power without dependence. 
 
 4512. Continuous warfare is no mender of charity. 
 
 4513. "When justice and liberty are conjoined in a State, change 
 affecting their stability is anarchy, and to be repressed without 
 argument. 
 
 4514,-^The balance of wisdom equalises exchanges; to gain one 
 advantage we must, at times, forego another. 
 
 4515. Death seeks the Eternal through life ; the soul, through 
 the Eternal. 
 
 4516. The soul is concerned in Divine laws, as a participator in 
 the benefits. 
 
 4517. Glory and commerce have some affinity no sentiments or 
 principles without influence upon each other for systems inter- 
 idealise, as being dependent, nothing being self-existent. 
 
 4518. Words are names, subjects and books : ever available in a 
 people's lexicon, and only wait to be called upon. 
 
 4519. Poetry and prose might well relieve each other occasion- 
 ally, and thus avoid monotony. 
 
 4520. To employ the power of a State, national honour first 
 demands that it be justified. 
 
 4521. Assertion is too frequently the mask of Truth, rather than 
 the substance. 
 
 4522. In all let just exception have its due influence. When 
 dogmatism is condensation only, it deserves to be weighed, if not 
 accepted. 
 
 4523. Thoughts (ever increasing) should rise or fall in their 
 significance. 
 
 4524. Responsibility rests on the destroyer; mercy to such is 
 injustice to the living. 
 
 4525. Humour and seriousness are only as the occasions justify. 
 
 4526. In all thy transactions still give room to a little philosophy. 
 
 4527. What is so ultra-refined as not to be understood, class as 
 mystery, or " class " it not. 
 
 4528. History is too often attainted by prejudice the vice of 
 national power. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 135 
 
 4529. Human sorrow is far-reaching, rejecting none; and the 
 time will at length arrive when it shall enclose all. 
 
 4530. We are all marked with indelible traits of character, yet 
 more frequently influenced by custom. 
 
 4531. We cannot only affect to despise what is beyond our 
 interest. 
 
 4532. The cause never justifies the excess. 
 
 4533. Impatience increases, but contentment diminishes the 
 labour. 
 
 4534. We are all heroes if we were justly described. 
 
 4535. There is ever a principal motive at work which does not 
 always declare itself. 
 
 4536. Temper your reflections on those capable of returning the 
 admonition. Free and uncontrolled scope is only for the unknown. 
 
 4537. Prosperity can always command brilliant prospects. 
 
 4538. What is best, is best in its own province. 
 
 4539. The command of the hopeful only is assured results. 
 
 4540. If we broach a new theory, we are not compelled also to 
 disentangle its intricacies. 
 
 4541. Inviolate is the system that cannot be altered without 
 detriment. 
 
 4542. Underground is often over ground, if known the miner's 
 caution. 
 
 4543. What tends to true excellence, if not perfection, is not of 
 evil. 
 
 4544. What is not of evil, still consider as a recommendation. 
 
 4545. The most prosperous state of life may be but a plumed 
 sorrow, could we but see the end. 
 
 4546. Retain the thought of justice, for it may be applied to some 
 position. 
 
 4547. The desire may be well conceived, yet not true ; for, what 
 is truthful should be, and rest in, faith. 
 
 4548. Scepticism is but assumption backed by prejudice offshoot 
 of schism ; with nothing stable ever wandering and unreliable. 
 
 4549. In prose and poem the sentence should in general be just 
 and direct. 
 
 4550. There are no systems without being influenced, which is- 
 their foundation. Influences are causes, and these are not seen 
 until influenced by cause. 
 
 4551. The interest, not will, of the majority should be the mission 
 of true progressive government. 
 
 4552. The will of Heaven shall rule above a thousand laws. 
 
 4553. Assertion is but sound ; fact, substance. 
 
 4554. It seems to be the scheme of creation that it shall continue 
 to be productive to all time. 
 
 4555. Play not riot with approved sentiments ; justify the soul 
 within bound and reason. 
 
 4556. Prose and poetry is one head with two faces. 
 
 4557. Money sometimes converts old systems to her attractions. 
 Fashion would be more in accord with reason if restriction and 
 uniformity were less regarded. 
 
136 MAXIMS. 
 
 4558. Poetry is sometimes the better music, for the mind sings 
 it. When there is music without words, the hearer must find the 
 expression in his own soul. 
 
 4559. Prudence seeks two benefits hope for the future, truth for 
 the present. 
 
 4560. The true interest of the commonwealth (and exceptions 
 weigh not) demands that no man shall have power in excess. A just 
 division of power is true constitutional privilege. 
 
 4561. The administration is the cause and test of just govern- 
 ment. 
 
 4562. In the greatest liberty there should be restrictions. 
 
 4563. When justice favours the idea the result may be reasonably 
 hoped for. 
 
 4564. When cause and result are equal in degree (for degrees are 
 equal in their several powers), then are they justified. 
 
 4565. Strong measures are not necessarily so at all times ; the 
 public weal must be the test of expediency. 
 
 4566. Obstacles are influences. How often are best intentions 
 influenced by inability and opportunity 1 
 
 4567. Eight is the truth of Heaven ; wrong, the condemnation. 
 
 4568. We cannot go out of the elements. 
 
 4569. All things have their foundation and alliances. 
 
 4570. Truth may be driven into a corner, but not defeated. 
 
 4571. Woe to the cause that is overruled by injustice. 
 
 4572. A people should exist under rules sprung from themselves, 
 for number is just power, and without this there is no government. 
 Curb the ruler, not in his acts only, but wishes. 
 
 4573. What is non-being or non-existent is not of the soul. 
 
 4574. There should be equality of interest in government and 
 governed. 
 
 4575. Justice cannot decide beyond the truth. 
 
 4576. Time is patient without heart. 
 
 4577. The saints' lives are holy maxims, for examples of the 
 just teach more than worldly prudence. 
 
 4578. The Good Shepherd has pre-ordained that the True Fold 
 (when attacked) shall be secure from loss. 
 
 4579. The extreme of hope is only justified when it rests upon 
 Divine Law. 
 
 4580. Let the sword defend the Church, for it cannot destroy it. 
 
 4581. God has destined that there shall be ever One True Faith 
 the Religion of the Cross and Catholicity. Divergence of belief is 
 repugnant to the Creator ; for divergent systems, like lines extended 
 to infinity, never meet or reach the end wherein is Divine solution of 
 all powers justified by the soul's aspirations, sanctioned by the 
 unerring and ETERNAL WORD. 
 
 4582. To be favoured of Heaven is to be victorious over all 
 enmity. 
 
 4583. There is no earthly power ever destined to be victor over 
 Faith. 
 
 4584. Write with a pen of blood, but let that blood be charity. 
 
 4585. No man can escape from his thoughts ever recurrent. 
 
 4586. The more heresy proceeds, the more unjust it becomes. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 137 
 
 4587. The testimony of CATHOLICITY is above all human argu- 
 ment. The history of the saints are living miracles by example and 
 precept. Their influence ever extends over the faithful. It is 
 impossible for that to err which God Himself, in the person of Our 
 Blessed Eedeemer, has founded. His WORDS are Laws to all time 
 the Catholic Church the only just interpreter of those Divine Laws. 
 Heresy (name and system of error), on the other hand, is but a 
 record of schismatic human laws ever divergent, nothing stable ; 
 abortive systems, in error only constant. What is unalterable in 
 error must ever be prejudged. Truth has not two roads. 
 
 4588. Let ideas ever subserve Divine Doctrine. 
 
 4589. Truth is name and act, and knows no division. The 
 beautiful and soul-inspiring Devotion of the SACRED HEART cannot 
 be too strongly urged : ever fertile in just aspirations of soul. May 
 the influence of this beautiful Devotion so favoured by the Church, 
 and sanctioned not only by the authority of our DIVINE REDEEMER and 
 the BLESSED VIRGIN, but also by the example of the glorious phalanx 
 of Saints spread and extend till it embrace the entire universe in its 
 comprehensive grasp. Yet, in all Divine contemplation, let there be 
 constancy of soul. We must be true to the end of the road, for 
 truth may be likened to the declaration or hand of GOD ; or, to adapt 
 the phrase to another and more expressive language appropriate 
 for converse of Divine subjects the majestic and sonorous Lengua 
 Espanola : Constancia es la casa de Verdad, y Verdad el alma de 
 DIGS. 
 
 4590. When God approves our intentions, the acts own no 
 responsibility. 
 
 4591. A law should be justice equalised before and after promul- 
 gation ; what is proved to be unjust releases the obligation to obey 
 it. 
 
 4592. Good and faithful heart shall merit the benison of 
 Heaven. 
 
 4593. The truth of the soul must be extended beyond worldly 
 bounds. 
 
 4594 How often is knowledge built upon or affected by chance, 
 motives, and events ? 
 
 4595. Be mild with admonition when the soul of thy adversary 
 consents not, for there is no authority in admonition where the 
 listener rejects it. 
 
 4596. Endeavour so to regulate your interests, that they may 
 accord with truth and charity. 
 
 4597. The choice of the just is only excelled by the possession 
 which justifies it. 
 
 4598. There is an excess in condensation of property ; the 
 essence (only) is not a good commercial axiom. 
 
 4599. Repetition in worth and evil increases as it is applied. 
 
 4600. The originator should have a claim on the possession ; the 
 possessor upon the originator. Let justice draw the line. 
 
 4601. How often do we transgress the maxims and dictates of 
 charity, not in acts only, but in wishes ? 
 
 4602. Enmity and excess both own unjust causes. 
 
138 MAXIMS. 
 
 4603. Where interests are problematical, or affected by theory 
 elements of truth, advices taken thereupon are ever parti-coloured. 
 
 4604. Singularity should be strongly founded to justify its 
 exercise. 
 
 4605. Assertions are often confounded with principle when 
 approved by the union of sentiments the watchwords of strength ; 
 but principles are ideas to be subjected. Assertion must be proved 
 by its principles. 
 
 4606. The public is a shrewd critic, and ever favourable to its 
 own opinion. 
 
 4607. By doing the best we undo the worst ; and for every step 
 in virtue we leave vice behind at a disadvantage. 
 
 4608. Truths once promulgated must work out their history by 
 influence. Eecorded ideas are not the only essentials of progress, 
 but their acceptation. 
 
 4609. Where excess is probable, think of obstacles and use thenu 
 2. To invent obstacles is sometimes to retreat with safety. 
 
 4610. Person and principle should equalise influence. 
 
 4611. The foibles of mankind have many abettors when profit 
 is the result or expectation. 
 
 4612. How many pursuits there are, friend Lopeon, that support 
 mankind in business or in affluence, and yet, if unknown, would be 
 no loss ! Knowledge, or want of knowledge, is the test of value. 
 
 4613. -^Futurity and the past are dead auditories the present is 
 the living ; yet, in influence recorded, all is life. 
 
 4614. Cloud the mind with prejudice, and the light of truth is 
 not made manifest. 
 
 4615. The light of the just soul is an unfailing lamp. 
 
 4616. Use not light to obstruct light, but to increase it. 
 
 4617. Borrow not from evil, for it exacts interest both for will 
 and deed. 
 
 4618. We hope for all things but death ; let us hope for that, too, 
 so that the end may be justified. The just end of all should be the 
 hope of all. 
 
 4619. The soul is the light-centre of the virtue faculties that 
 takes without diminution. 
 
 4620. Thousands of pursuits, yet unknown, will support industries 
 of the future ; for as time progresses, so do the faculties and ideas 
 open up new grounds of research. Necessity increases the need of 
 application. 
 
 4621. Necessity makes pain beneficial. 
 
 4622. There are some sentiments that can hardly be too frequently 
 dwelt upon ; while others may be summarily dismissed and not 
 recalled. 
 
 4623. Injury is sometimes greater than its appearance, and 
 appears greater than it is. 
 
 4624. Truth is manifold in light and influence. 2. Truth is not 
 only light itself, but its reflection gives light also. 
 
 4625. Not community of wealth, but of faculty and interest. 
 
 4626. An adherence to nature's laws does not injure. 
 
 4627. Infinite space and time are necessary to the scheme of the 
 universe. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 139 
 
 4628. Causes proved are justified in the cause, so far as their 
 just influence is involved. Cause is singular, or self-existent as 
 cause ; but proofs are infinite. 
 
 4629. Revolving creative energy is more productive in effect and 
 cause than a possible stationary system. Life is movement and 
 motive power, influenced by change in all its phases. 
 
 4630. Time forms problems restores or solves them. 
 
 4631. What is unsolvable, consider whether (if solvable) know- 
 ledge would be benefited, or our present solutions. 
 
 4632. In some cases, could we be patient like death, life would be 
 recompensed. 
 
 4633. Class is not always unanimity. 
 
 4634. Sentiments are pictures which often come by chance, and 
 made a rule of life. If the world is not chance, our duty may be. 
 
 4635. The Divine Power that can create can re-create. Divinity 
 is no limitation. 
 
 4636. Fortune may favour or disgrace, but she does not threaten. 
 
 4637. There is a great difference in thriving by wine and thriving 
 on it. 
 
 4638. Beware of anger even when concealed. It often begets 
 enmity (a branch of pride) the poison of the soul, abhorred of 
 Heaven. 
 
 4639. The SACRED HEART give me to praise, to love, to under- 
 stand to justify memory.in trial : the armour of the soul. 
 
 4640. More than the soul can deserve or conceive is possible to 
 Divine Justice. 
 
 4641. Strike for the head of iniquity, and tear it down from its 
 pedestal. 
 
 4642. Be calm and wait when desperate courses (countenanced 
 by power) are capable of repetition. 
 
 4643. The mind rests on infinity, which needs not existence for 
 action. 
 
 4644. There is nothing in creation but what is founded on proba- 
 bility and reason. Impossibility has no law. 
 
 4645. Time is inexorable in life and death. 
 
 4646. New theories as old and received ones have, and have 
 had, their initiatory stages; new and old must be mutually promul- 
 gated. 2. Popularity is a key to wisdom not the house. 3. The 
 public generally consider number as authority ; but the germ-idea 
 of great principles existed before man. 
 
 4647. Most substances are worthy in their place ; it is the utility 
 of matter that renders it valuable. 
 
 4648. Position, like money, if left to itself, bears no interest. 
 
 4649. The virtues should not remain idle ; there is a rust of soul 
 as well as satiety of body. 
 
 4650. Meditation is often the fruit of discord. 
 
 4651. Existence is the bond of understanding. 
 
 4652. If we analyse language, wisdom may be sometimes brought 
 to light through the chance opposition of words and sentences. 
 
 4653. With money, opportunity and facility, the book writes 
 itself. Candour is more appreciated by the public than patronage ; 
 the production of a book often depends upon money only. 
 
140 MAXIMS. 
 
 4654. A plan devised to include all ideas and suggestions in the 
 interest of progress would be commendable. No well-considered 
 ideas should be utterly lost, for all consideration is philosophy in 
 eome degree. 
 
 4655. The fruits of the past the hope of the future only remain. 
 Life is the present : the centre of time revolving. 
 
 4656. The squanderer helps to make the power to overwhelm 
 him. 
 
 4657. Nature hath problems never-ending problems. 
 
 4658. To exhaust, we must first begin. 
 
 4659. There is ever materialization in worldly glory. 
 
 4660. Political liberty should be confined to its own province, and 
 not invade (but conserve) constitutional rights and privileges. Just 
 usages of society have their duties ; and liberty, when antagonistic to 
 such, is but the license of party. 
 
 4661. What was pre-eminent before the battle is oftentimes the 
 least after it; and, in general, it may be affirmed that infantry 
 in action is more decisive cavalry, in retreat. 
 
 4662. In thy best designs let a broad spirit of humanity be 
 considered. 
 
 4663. The triumph of the CROSS or, to give the idea in the 
 majestic and sonorous Spanish (fit language for the expression of 
 Divine sentiment) : Triunfo de la Santa Cruz is not subjected to 
 fortune or worldly powers, but certain as cause proved, effect 
 realised. 
 
 4664. Human methods vary Divine Spirit is unalterable. The 
 Eternal Power cannot, therefore, be assailable or altered by either 
 force or spirit, for HE is the cause of causes of all creative effects, and 
 effort seen in their effects. Effects, therefore, cannot influence causes. 
 . . . [NOTE. There is no dogmatism in advancing positions. 
 My gracious and patient HEADERS are again reminded, with becoming 
 deference, and referred to some remarks having particular relation 
 to the discussion of these positions in the Preface. Enquiries after 
 truth must not be confounded with infallible dicta. With this 
 sub-note I will, therefore, end the remarks on my positions 
 advanced. Many of the Maxims also partake of a dual nature 
 (especially those of indeterminate application), and may be said to 
 carry their own commentaries with them. Not in the interests of a 
 clique, or even a nation, is this my book issued, but in the interests 
 of HUMANITY at large. I have presented the Maxims generally as they 
 have dropped from the heart, with the blood upon them warm 
 and gushing it is to be hoped. Nor has undue "revision" 
 (in the ordinary acceptation of the term) been exercised. 
 On the contrary, so far from being a "laboured" work 
 for the composition of aphorisms imply no inordinate study 
 they have been given as originally written currents calamo, 
 in the original and unaltered wording, with a few and very 
 few unimportant exceptions. Such as they are, however, they 
 are my own. No other authors have been laid under contribu- 
 tion, ancient or modern. Here may not be found : quotations, 
 extracts, commentaries, scraps of poetry, notce, " parallel passages." 
 The glorious classical phalanxi, too the Latin and Greek authors 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 141 
 
 (for whom, nevertheless, I profess an enthusiastic, if distant, admira- 
 tion) are, as will have been seen (if you read to the end), entirely 
 ?nis-represented throughout. But what an unseemly digression I 
 One word more: If I have the good fortune to be translated into 
 any of the leading foreign languages the Spanish, French, Italian, 
 or German let me be dealt with in good faith. Include all reject 
 none. A glance at the APPENDIX OF PUBLIC CORRESPONDENCE will 
 prove (if proof were wanting) that the ORIGINAL EDITION of this 
 unpretentious brochure (containing only the first 3237 of the 
 11 MAXIMS") was received in a favourable spirit. Certainly several of 
 the " Letters" (selected from a considerable number received) are 
 essentially formal missives. Exceptions may be made, however, to 
 those from West Point, Paris, New York, and Seville, with others, 
 which (slightly) verge on the " enthusiastic." . . . In fine, let me 
 not be misinterpreted. Add to the Maxims according to the genius 
 of the language in which I may have the honour to be translated 
 expand the expression rectify the style or mode. But traduce me 
 not. Give me honourable treatment. Remove not the land-mark 
 alter not the record ; and, above all, remember the saving and 
 eternal clause the Divine injunction CHARITY.] 
 
 4665. When the great majority of the people decide that a law 
 should be repealed, the law, in its original state, becomes unjust. 
 
 4666. Wisdom, like the elements, may be made beneficial to man, 
 but is unassailable. 
 
 4667. Polite society is more likely to attain power in government 
 than brute force for intellect leads number ; or, when the latter only 
 direct the course of affairs, then is the government aground, or, say, 
 rather, in a transitional state. Number cannot lead number. 
 
 4668. Liberality (in money) is more frequently weakness than 
 strength. 
 
 4669. When your would-be patron is a rival, your book is in the 
 position an envious man would wish the patron to be, and hangs 
 "fire." 
 
 4670. He who has learned " thoroughly " has neglected many 
 essentials. 
 
 4671. Thoroughness and assiduity are as the cause demands. 
 
 4672. Futile is the labour of recalling false impressions, unless it 
 be to analyse them and disapprove. Such deserve no record. 
 
 4673. Fashion makes all its votaries publishers the publication 
 of body. 
 
 4674. Reserve is no publication ; we must see the book (or 
 picture) to judge them. 
 
 4675. There is no " singularity" in the public everything is in 
 the aggregate. We cannot visit number. 
 
 4676. Originality springs from desires intensified nourished by 
 the soul's own fire. 
 
 4677. Desires that cannot be publicly declared should hold no 
 place in the heart of the just-thinking man. 
 
 4678. The heart that sickens at evil has already attained some 
 virtue. 
 
 4679. All created properties need support. 
 
142 MAXIMS. 
 
 4680. Time ascenda the endless scale of time by repetition, and 
 repetition of causes generates ideality. 
 
 4681. To attain wisdom it is not indispensable we should be 
 unduly abstruse, for the greatest profundity must have foundation, 
 and foundation (if not the cause) is generally simple in accordance 
 with the rule of nature in her operations. 
 4682. To bow to truth is to be victorious. 
 
 4683. There is not a surrender of justice where wisdom's dictum 
 is accepted. 
 
 4684. Mystery owns a cause as cause, mystery. 
 4685. If the road be not too long one refreshment is sufficient, 
 and one good axiom in a book should redeem the rest from utter 
 destruction. 
 
 4686. The fire of a city repels, that of a battle attracts, the brave. 
 4687. Non-allied with truth, there is no security or happiness. 
 4688. It is not within man's power to make power lasting ; after 
 death your influence is only memory. 
 
 4689. We can all be replaced ; there is never a void in life. All 
 arts and faculties bear repetition. 
 
 4690. The critic who produces nothing should, nevertheless, 
 possess the knowledge and power of creative faculty. There is some 
 consistency even in an unjust critic i.e., he may be just to his own 
 vocation. 
 
 4691. If truth springs from your pen, let it go forth, like the 
 elements, respecting not, nor fearing man. Truth is the best 
 41 apology" for truth. 
 
 4692. The knowledge deem as necessary as the will-duty : all are 
 not competent even to serve the cause of progress. 
 4693. Let thy actions be as mirrors of the soul. 
 4694. We sometimes accept that we do not admire, but we seldom 
 admire that we are unwilling to accept. 
 
 4695. Compulsion is a powerful motor both in war and peace, 
 thought and action. 
 
 4696. Gold is not worth, except in its true place. 
 4697. If the stroke of a sword on a kneeling sycophant and slave 
 to the laws of convenance can confer " nobility," let us consider it as 
 a " rank " manufacture. 
 
 4698. What springs from the ground partakes of it. The soul 
 should look upward. 
 
 4699. In a long speech the indispensable or necessary portions of 
 it are as an ounce to the pound. 
 
 4700. Happy is it for man when his cognizance of power is 
 influenced by its integrity. 
 
 4701. The just sentiments of the soul should, if available, be 
 practically applied. 
 
 4702. In the journey of life be careful in the light as in dark- 
 ness fate deals in both. 
 
 4703. Wishes are often baits to deceive. 
 
 4704. Truth, and constancy in truth virtues only occasionally 
 exercised ever have a possibility of downward tendency. 
 
 4705. War, at best, is but a grievous misfortune, if not evil. It 
 -cuts home, however, and decides what might be otherwise endless 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 143 
 
 distraction and dispute. The resistance to unjust demands (if power 
 sanctions) is a national duty at all times. 
 
 4706. In every view there is an endless prospect. 
 
 4707. Maximise your books, and let us have, friend Lopeon, 
 the gist of current literature, and that of old, if we cannot all sup at 
 the original source. Life itself is often but a condensation. 
 
 4708. Military governments should see that luxuries never become 
 a source of weakness in the citizen ; nor must fashion (too often 
 thereto allied) have carte blanche. Classes must be positioned. The 
 interest of the State must not sanction what is opposed to the power 
 of the State. Degeneracy is, therefore, opposition, and to be sternly 
 repressed. 
 
 4709. Number and one sometimes agree, but generally differ. 
 Interests, as they are extended, so is the nature of them subject to 
 alteration. 
 
 4710. The future is an unwritten history ; but, judging from the 
 present and past, we may safely assume that inventions will progress, 
 as also arts and arms nor will men degenerate. 
 
 4711. If your opinions be just, so ought also your feelings. 
 
 4712. The fortune that does not injure is the best. 
 
 4713. Give me tranquillity in all things, friend Lopeon, and for- 
 tune can neither influence favour nor discontent. 
 
 4714. When just wishes have been realised, count other losses as 
 gain. 
 
 4715. The soul will form and heart will speak, though destiny 
 endeavour to obstruct or destroy. 
 
 4716. Limitation of hope is the best course when the obstruc- 
 tions are (or seem to be) too great to successfully overcome. 
 
 4717. If the eye (first proof of knowledge) be dear to you, so, in 
 like manner, should all the senses be preserved and justly employed. 
 
 4718. Consider and weigh new influences ; precipices are found 
 in deviation from the main track. 
 
 4719. There is cause for anxiety, not only in the certainty of 
 evil, but in the appearance of it. 
 
 4720. Life is but a round of repetitions, and ever these have short 
 limitation. 
 
 4721. Designs diminish in worth as they diverge from practi- 
 cable use. 
 
 4722. If man's faculty of suggestion be thoroughly aroused, it 
 may suggest work for a world of worlds. It cannot be hoped that 
 even man's reasonable and practicable ideas (in their entirety) can 
 ever bear application or proof ; like faculty, possible utility may also 
 be infinite. 
 
 4723. When the cause exists in man, there also is the applica- 
 tion. 
 
 4724. Let us mutually control each other's thoughts in 
 philosophy and faculty. Progress sanctions this intermentality 
 the union and consensus of mind. 
 
 4725. Haste is ever a foe to due proportion. 
 
 4726. The various dispositions of man are more selected than 
 natural. 
 
 4727. Contentment seeks no excess. 
 
144 MAXIMS. 
 
 4728. How seldom we see power allied to generosity to all- 
 world progressive sentiment. 
 4729. Dignity is outward show worth, inward. 
 4730. Slow is time in repetition when opportunities are past. 
 4731. Let truth be just without recompense. 
 
 4732. Cause is the root of things effect, the branches. 
 
 4733. Conscience demands no evil association. 
 
 4734. Undue severity is influenced by temper and habit. Where 
 habit and custom influence actions, they are more likely to be 
 repeated than neglected or forgotten. 
 
 4735. The longest book can be condensed, as power can be 
 undermined. 
 
 4736. There can be nothing less than a name, for all properties 
 can bear one. 
 
 4737. Ideas are soul-pictures ever recurring. 
 
 4738. Power may be extended when glory favours. 
 
 4739. The adulteration of food cannot be too strongly repre- 
 hended. Quality is a cloak of many disguises commerce should 
 not injure, but conserve. 
 
 4740. Profit from pain is not a just axiom of political or social 
 economy. 
 
 4741. What is subject to fact must also be fact. 
 
 4742. In ill-fortune the temper and habit either controls or is 
 controlled by it. 
 
 4743. They are just repulses as undeserved successes. 
 
 4744. Number is distraction of spirit. 
 
 4745. The cause need not always be presented when the effect 
 is justified or proved. 
 
 4746. Need is sometimes a good friend to need, but more often a 
 barren hope. 
 
 4747. If there be truth in an aphorism, the expression will right 
 itself in due time. Time develops theory. 
 
 4748. Before the law is often under it ; beyond the law is no law. 
 
 4749. Do not confound the authority claimed with the possession. 
 
 4750. A man's opinion is generally his criticism also. 
 
 4751. In the regulation of our ideas and motives we should take 
 into account time and probability. 
 
 4752. Much unavailing criticism is spent upon the absent. 
 
 4753. A word-essay book of ordinary ideas, with the general 
 significations, would not be an unsuggestive appendix to the 
 Lexicon. 
 
 4754. If we have not each a life-lexicon, we possess the materials 
 of one. 
 
 4755. There are still many supports of life we wot not of. 
 
 4756. Many things improve by limitation, but the diamond is 
 worse for the paring. 
 
 4757. There is no true advance where wisdom is in abeyance. 
 
 4758. Beneficence of heart is approved by the will, but in the 
 exercise of the virtues it is incumbent upon us to employ them as 
 the lessons of wisdom inculcate. 
 
 4759. If there be but one word or position, wisdom can be applied 
 to it. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 145 
 
 4760. If exceptions were removed there would be a wondrous 
 dearth of axioms. 
 
 4761. Be not ruled by customs that enervate. 
 
 4762. To the weak man pleasure is a tyrant ; to the just, a servant. 
 
 4763. Influence that approves often proves. 
 
 4764. Trifles recorded are more likely to increase in importance 
 as time rolls on than to diminish. 
 
 4765. The practice of the virtues need not be indiscriminate, but 
 exercised in their just provinces. 
 
 4766. Power is not wisdom, but in the just exercise of it. 
 
 4767. Vanity is often the parent of anger. 
 
 4768. Rarity is often in the estimate of it in the worth. 
 
 4769. Wisdom may spring from chance at times, but prudence is 
 the commentary. 
 
 4770. Comparison must decide the extent of misfortune. 
 
 4771. Broken clouds unite in rain, and what is evil to one may 
 benefit another. 
 
 4772. Manner and bearing impose at times upon the watchful 
 and wary. 
 
 4773. After the event carry your glory : if as a hero, yet do not 
 forget the man. Man, when manly, deserves best of man. 
 
 4774. When the cause of revolution has passed by, the sequel 
 should be pacification. Amnesty should ever be substituted for 
 possible anarchy. 
 
 4775. Most of the nations of Europe boast a brilliant dramatic 
 record that of Spain pre-eminently so. Let us hear no more of 
 national prejudice in literature ; but mete out justice to that of all 
 nations. The grand literary trio of modern times, also, is the boast 
 of Spain LOPE DE VEGA, CALDEBON, CERVANTES. In what other 
 drama of the nations (and excellencies abound in all of them) can we 
 find the fertility of the marvellous and unapproachable LOPE, the 
 pithy and golden-expressioned verse of CALDERON DE LA BARCA, and 
 the noble (human) sentimentality and philosophy of CERVANTES? 
 Let us hope that the era of international translation of approved 
 authors Spain, France, Italy, and Germany (and the other 
 nationalities) is about soon to dawn. Locked temples cannot dis- 
 close their treasures. Let a system of international alliances or 
 unions of literature be inaugurated an all-world literature to 
 unite all mankind in one bond of Progress Sentiment Truth 
 Humanity. 
 
 4776. In considering the great importance which must be, 
 undoubtedly, attached to the work (so fertile, too, in original results) 
 of our UNIVERSITIES those of Europe the Continent, and America 
 (N. and S.), we must not, on the other hand, overlook some of their 
 shortcomings. As every man is the master of his own letter, so, in 
 like manner, every author is the " dictator " of his own book. 
 Universities are the mainsprings of a nation's progress and develop- 
 ment ; their manifest advantages cannot be enumerated. They are 
 necessary to us to the progress of modern thought, of philosophical 
 investigation. Estn bien. In truth, in justice, in wisdom, in 
 the exercise and diffusion of our faculties, in a broad principle of 
 philanthropic CHARITY, are the true " classics" the classics of the 
 
146 MAXIMS. 
 
 human heart and not in the devotion of all our best energies, and 
 the most valued portion of our lives, to the study (or acceptance) of 
 a heathen and effete philosophy, with nothing but the " style" 
 to recommend it ignorant of man's real nature: sophistry and 
 error its basis. Let us not forget what we owe to the Ancients. We 
 must still continue to consult and study them. To the Ancients 
 (the star that sinks in the west horizon rises again in the east) we 
 owe our languages, our government and laws. In the drama, in 
 sculpture, in the "beauties" of diction and "graces" of style 
 (sense being discounted), in the poetics (delightful, yet most 
 difficult of human arts) to them (perhaps) the palm. Homer 
 oldest and best of bards the mighty Virgil the dramatic trio 
 rare old Pindar the votaries of the lyre Horace. In some 
 branches of the arts, too, we still find it impossible to improve 
 upon the grace of the Greeks in their sculpture in their poetics and 
 in vain strive to surpass the more than Roman grandeur of their 
 architecture. [In, perhaps, the most acceptable of all the arts music, 
 in the province of melody we cannot but ever regret that not one 
 of the ancient Greek melodies have come down to us.] 
 But, in their philosophy ? Discard it, once and for ever. It is not 
 in accord with modern sentiment or truth. Plato has, indeed, given 
 us some isolated positions eminently idealistic in their tendency 
 and may be classed as beacons, or approaches of truth. Socrates 
 approached nearer the perfect mentality who brought down their 
 incongruous system of ethics, the so-called " philosophy " of the time, 
 from its ideal position in the clouds, to take house with plain 
 humanity ; and for this reason demands our esteem. It is the 
 manner of Plato, again, rather than his weight, that has earned for 
 him the world's admiration. But they were still human, and vanity 
 might not have been without exercising its due influence. Both 
 Socrates and Plato and the third literary power the Stagirite, 
 may be added were unwilling to admit faculties and ideas, 
 unless possessed by " philosophers." They were wanting in the 
 great principle of comprehensiveness, upholding a class system of 
 philosophy rather than in its universality. 
 
 4777. Morality may appear severe, but it best bears record. 
 
 4778. The soul records by memory. 
 
 4779. Formality and fashion are not without their uses : we 
 avoid undue observation by not being singular we incur it by 
 transgressing conventional usages. 
 
 4780. What justly protects deserves service in return ; mutual 
 interest demands mutual support. 
 
 4781. Where all is perfection there is no pre-eminence. 
 
 4782. Let us consider wisdom ever as the necessity of the soul. 
 
 4783. A few leading principles branch out and enclose infinity 
 of time and space, the universal influences awhile being increate. 
 The universe owns causes superior to human knowledge or specula- 
 tion ; could we unfold all its secrets, we would find that man, 
 instead of having attained knowledge, has only entered the 
 threshold. 
 
 4784. Prefer no cause that cannot be justly defended. 
 
 4785. Equity tempers law as water, spirit. 
 
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 4786. Hope not so much for many benefits as the continuity 
 of one. 
 
 4787. In the continuance of virtues consist their possession and 
 benefits. 
 
 4788. Service should be rendered to a just cause attacked. 
 
 4789. Utility deserves, but does not always produce, profit. 
 
 4790. Endeavour to control the power of habit in what is repug- 
 nant to the soul. 
 
 4791. What you are apt to do is only problematical ; what you 
 do deserves the most attention. 
 
 4792. The present time is always of the utmost importance as 
 being certain ; the future is a problem and mystery. 
 
 4793. If we assume the death (or end) of wisdom, so end all 
 things ; but there cannot be an end of all creative beings ; therefore 
 wisdom is eternal, and knows no end. 
 
 4794. Equitable exchange is the just axiom of commerce. 
 
 4795. Worth in earth is worth in soul. 
 
 4796 You increase fortune by amending the faults caused by it. 
 
 4797. Probability is often confounded with fact. There is neither 
 fate nor fortune until after the event. No victories are prospective. 
 
 4798. The properties of unknown forces and inventions exist 
 as undiscovered continents before discovery. 
 
 4799. Power and number the condensation of effect and cause. 
 
 4800. Invention is the division of knowledge intensified. 
 
 4801. There may be excuse for boasting if assertions made are 
 capable of being proved effects, with proofs multiplied. 
 
 4802. The person may blanch, but print is steadfast. 
 
 4803. If the intention and effect be good, call it what you may. 
 Terms are not principles. 
 
 4804. Wisdom works by truth, as truth through wisdom : dual 
 natures ever inseparable. 
 
 4805. Not your affirmation, but practice ; the first is uncertain, 
 the latter sure ground. 
 
 4806 Life may be considered as void of faculties where oppor- 
 tunities are not presented for their exercise. 
 
 4807. The contemplation of the LIVES OF THE GLORIOUS SAINTS OF 
 THE CHURCH so fertile in just examples for our model, and maxima 
 for our guidance cannot be too strongly inculcated. CATHOLICITY 
 is particularly fertile in just and holy examples. Founded in Truth 
 one, sole, and inseparable it cannot, like human institutions, be 
 subject to error. Its doctrine and practice as derived from CHRIST 
 Himself are infallible. Out of the Church the soul of man is but a 
 wreck. There is no rivalry with the Blessed their attributes Perfec- 
 tion : for all that is Divine, as compared to humanity, is Perfection. 
 From OUR BLESSED REDEEMER to the Apostles, and from the Apostles 
 to succeeding Saints, the Faith has been transmitted through the 
 Church to the present time : pure and unsullied. Has not Christ 
 Himself declared in words now world-widely known that, out of 
 the Church, there is no salvation ? GOD speaks to man through 
 His Saints those living stars of Religious Belief ornaments of 
 Heaven and Earth ; the Rock of the Eternal Church, the glorious 
 ST. PETER, the eloquent ST. PAUL, and the Holy Apostles. The 
 
148 MAXIMS. 
 
 fatherly interest of the CREATOR in His Church knows no failing no 
 diminution, but is like His Being eternal in its influence. Divine 
 Truth, in its very nature, must conquer, being in itself the emanation 
 of the Divine Energeia. Contemplate the Saints' Lives their energy 
 in the service of God their example (living and holy maxims) let 
 us ever bear in the memory of our hearts, not for meditation only, 
 but for practice. Let our hearts live ever, too, in the spirit of that 
 devotion (inspiring of souls) of the Sacred Heart. Like them, let us- 
 be energetic constant charitable : in accordance with the principles 
 (unalterable as being the authority of CHRIST) inculcated, diffused, 
 and practiced by the Koman Catholic Church. The Catholic Church 
 is the interpreter of the Divine Truth between GOD and man. 
 There is no other Authority, and the glorious galaxy of Saints the 
 Fathers of the Church ST. AUGUSTINE, ST. AMBROSE, ST. JOHN 
 CHRYSOSTOM, and ST. JEROME to which may be added the Divine 
 ST. BERNARD (the author of the beautiful Memorare, and so pre- 
 eminently fervent in his devotion to the BLESSED VIRGIN) bear us 
 out in these views. Again, the influence of the Holy Saints of GOD 
 reach to modern times, and are still (as they will be ever) employed 
 for our eternal benefit, if we only seek their intercession for us 
 at the everlasting throne of the Almighty. One Faith one 
 truthful Church gives one eternal salvation. GOD and the 
 Saints look down upon us. GOD wills the salvation of the Just. 
 Hear the Church obey her dictates be firm in the Faith continue 
 to the end. If we come to modern times what nation has not been 
 influenced by the great work and example of the ever-glorious 
 ST. IGNATIUS DE LOYOLA the founder of the great Order named from 
 Our Blessed Redeemer the Society of JESUS ? The labours of the 
 grand Order of the Jesuits have not only resulted in incalculable 
 benefit both to the cause of Religion and Education, but in con- 
 solidating the political power of Catholic States let their enemies 
 assert to the contrary as they will. GOD'S WORK cannot be 
 obstructed permanently by the machinations of the powers of Evil. 
 What GOD approves cannot be affected to its detriment by the 
 demoniacal envy of Heresy, Schism, or Scepticism. The Angelic 
 Doctor the Divus Thomas ST. THOMAS AQUINAS (who might, not 
 unaptly, be named the father of modern religious eloquence and 
 the holy philosopher of the Church) has given us many a profound 
 aphorism lessons in the pure faith, to follow, maxims (excelling in 
 wisdom both ethical and political) that even secular States might 
 adopt, and in their entirety. Perhaps the most fertile of all the 
 Saints a library of Divine wisdom and philosophy. The glorious 
 Bishop-Saint: ST. PATRICK, too, who brought the pure Faith to 
 Ireland. ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, also, who, if he did not write works, 
 left examples (proved by divine miracles for all miracles are divine) 
 for future worlds to remember and follow. The last that shall be 
 mentioned for our space is limited shall be the Saint of Divine 
 and Human Charity ST. FRANCIS DE SALES who, in his " Consoling 
 Thoughts," has opened the gate of Heaven unbereft of hope to 
 all Catholics, rejecting none. An aspiration subject to the will 
 of God. Our Saviour refrained at times to exert His full power : 
 that the Scriptures might be fulfilled. Nothing that is just is- 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 149 
 
 impossible to GOD. If the will of GOD sanctions, our Faith and 
 Hope are justified. Be firm, therefore, in the Divine truth follow 
 and obey the only true guide that of the Roman Catholic Church 
 the religion of Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, America 
 (North and South the greater portion) of Erin (ever steadfast in 
 the Faith), and of all generous nations. The Saints have not died 
 they live noiv, in their influence. Their intercession will ever avail 
 us. The power of GOD is above any material universe, and His 
 WILL is the Redemption for the truly humble in faith unsullied 
 and humility of spirit. In the GODHEAD the Trinity may be 
 exampled for man a great United Principle : the Three, or Trional, 
 States of Existence past, present, and future of the Saints: 
 Divine and human in justice. As its name implies, CATHOLICITY is 
 universal in its application one Fold one Shepherd one Faith 
 human and DIVINE CHARITY. 
 
 4808. We can no more retain every idea than recover all lost ones. 
 
 4809. We are generally our own models of perfection. 
 
 4810. A public book of record of the SUGGESTIONS [sentiments 
 or ideas, designs and works] of the people (willing to contribute) 
 would serve the cause of progress. Hitherto have we had but 
 books for the people ; let there be also books or records by the 
 public. A census of faculty and design. 
 
 4811. Desert should not assume, but act. 
 
 4812. Necessity condenses rule and enlarges use. 
 
 4813. Despair is no resource; substitute hope rather, for that is 
 reason. 
 
 4814. Look for the semblance of mentality in all reason. Man is 
 his own commentary. What is here presented is your own mind, 
 under different forms, for addition or condensation. Reason, like 
 the air of the firmament, is the property of all ; let all, therefore, be 
 concerned in the promulgation of its lessons truth (Catholic faith) 
 being the standard. 
 
 4815 The need is not always acknowledged where the oppor- 
 tunity has been neglected. 
 
 4816. Arguments should terminate, for the time being, with just 
 proofs. 
 
 4817. Association is, frequently, prejudice confirmed by example. 
 
 4818. The greatest force should still be controlled by reason. 
 War should be so conducted that the verdict of history shall justify 
 both combatants. 
 
 4819. Feign things according to nature, not will. 
 
 l V 20. Sound wisdom is above genius or faculty. 
 
 4821. There are no flaws or faults in designs favoured by 
 Heaven. 
 
 4822. Let us have more exercise of faculties common to all than 
 the examination of them. 
 
 4823. There is material for contemplation in every movement, 
 idea, or effect. 
 
 4824. Power may necessitate new wants, but nature is content 
 with few. 
 
 4825. The ideal world is still bound by practice as materialism 
 by ideality. 
 
150 MAXIMS. 
 
 4826. The virtues change their positions, not their effects. 
 
 4827. Credit is not always impartial, but impartiality should be 
 credit. 
 
 4828. There is no favouritism in the elements, nor is destiny to 
 be controlled. 
 
 4829. As far as the human mind can discover or penetrate, there 
 is ever an eternity of design, invention, or faculty beyond. 
 
 4830. The mind revolves when it cannot proceed, and time 
 compels the observation of time. 
 
 4831. Possession is sometimes fertile in wants. 
 
 4832. What is eternal ever demands the consideration of the 
 soul. 
 
 4833. Mottoes are too frequently assumptions only, built upon a 
 structure of prejudice. 
 
 4834. Nationality when widespread, and with number dies a 
 slow death. 
 
 4835. Faculty has its scope best in those dispositions favoured by 
 time and opportunity. 
 
 4836. There are no half ideas. Every idea (as a sole idea) is 
 perfect in itself, but the application is not always so : the furtber we 
 go from a point, or situation, the less distinct it will become. 
 
 4837. Theory is anterior to practice cause to effect. 
 
 4838. What ceases to be just ceases to be a true benefit. 
 
 4839. The greatest earthly power is controllable. 
 
 4840. A nation's flag should be the emblem of just and liberal 
 sentiment, no less than of power. 
 
 4841. To cherish the memory and preserve the works of the poets 
 is ever an honourable sentiment in a nation. 
 
 4842. A reflex of his own thoughts is grateful to the reader: an 
 introduction of sympathy not formal. 2. Headers are the dictators 
 of literature. 
 
 4843. Placate rather than imprecate ; submit rather than dictate. 
 
 4844. Power and fate are stern commentaries. 
 
 4845. Both hypocrisy and the assumption of it are controlled by 
 interest. 
 
 4846. The duties of the governed must not be confounded with 
 the disadvantages. 
 
 4847. Opposition and defence are two forces seldom equal. 
 
 4848. The present ever assumes to be a vantage-ground over the 
 past. 
 
 4849. Influence is not only force (or power), but the approval of 
 it also. 
 
 4850. Long-continued influence is fertile in descent. 
 
 4851. People are more apt to forget those who may be of no 
 service to them. 
 
 4852. Distance is a weak alliance. 
 
 4853. Where a character may not be justly assumed, imagination 
 must supply the deficiency. 
 
 4854. It is but just that the public should decide upon its .own 
 interests. 
 
 4855. Sum up the greatest amount of human happiness, and 
 perhaps the disadvantages still preponderate. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 151 
 
 4856. Wisdom never profits in that wherein it is transgressed. 
 
 4857. Virtue is both example and proof. 
 
 4858. Great truths are not the less when condensed, for wisdom 
 is essence and power. 
 
 4859. The world is full of opposition, but virtue is the true con- 
 ciliation. 
 
 4860. We are subject to many forces and dictations of which we 
 are not cognisant. 
 
 4861. Charity is not weakness, and is sometimes victorious over 
 power. 
 
 4862. Publicity is myriad-formed in application. 
 
 4863. Applied ideality is theory unmasked. 
 
 4864. Eegard no precepts that are not conformable to reason 
 sanctioned by Divine law. 
 
 4865. Causes outnumber known effects. 
 
 4866. Disputations and origins are of many homes. 
 
 4867. Excess seeks variety, yet weakens ; virtue's repetitions gain 
 strength. 
 
 4868. As riches unjustly employed, or promised gifts withheld, so 
 are faculties unexercised. 
 
 4869. An approved maxim will furnish texts for a library, and 
 every idea or subject possesses materials for a volume ; for what is 
 capable of addition may be regarded as a library or lexicon. 
 
 4870. Conditions may change the theme, but not the cause. 
 
 4871. There is more latitude in reason than in speculation, 
 inasmuch as proofs can be adduced and worked out in the former ; 
 whereas, in speculation, there is nothing actually tenable. 
 
 4872. Wisdom must divide the line between want and prosperity. 
 
 4873. Not only are ideas capable of infinite expansion, but their 
 explanations also. 
 
 4874. Inequalities are governed by equal causes. 
 
 4875. It is the wrong consideration of remedy that frequently 
 influences our action. 
 
 4876. He who does not repine at ill-fortune is apt to duly value 
 prosperity should it favour him. 
 
 4877. The publisher's dictum is more powerful than the patron's 
 favour. 
 
 4878. Pay the same deference to the maxims of your own (proved) 
 prudence or economy as to the order of a benefactor. 
 
 4879. Opposition is frequently the rejection of sentiments. 
 
 4880. Events displace each other in importance, as new hopes 
 arise, by the probability of their realisation. 
 
 4881. Charity of soul is generosity of intention. 
 
 4882. Seek not only the just approval of others, but also of your 
 own conscience. 
 
 4883. The truths of conscience may always be declared before 
 the world and applied ; what affects business solely and ordinary 
 motives need no publicity. 
 
 4884. Books (ordinary and non-doctrinal) are generally but as 
 thoughts committed to the world ever variable in their application, 
 as each individual reader may approve or condemn. 
 
 4885. There is no difficulty in being just, either in intention or act. 
 
152 MAXIMS. 
 
 4886. Nature is fertile in defensive sentiments. 
 
 4887. Assertions before the deed or occasion are as theories untried. 
 
 4888. Number encourages or threatens as it may be considered 
 or used. 
 
 4889. Good principles increase only in their proofs, but the 
 original cause is unalterable. 
 
 4890. Invention creates new wants ; yet is the convenience of 
 every age sufficient for it. 
 
 4891. We must not confoend speculation with mysticism ; for 
 speculation may produce what is in accordance with reason, while 
 actual mystery generally remains unsolvable. What is untenable 
 may not always remain so. 
 
 4892. As the present is in relation to the past and futurity, so is 
 wisdom the central point of all our ideas and faculties of the soul. 
 
 4893.' It becomes the moralist to submit with humility his 
 general propositions, rather than presume to teach all. Assumption 
 precedes acceptance. 
 
 4894. Wisdom is a domain open to all without tuition, without 
 precedence. Prudential axioms are of nature. 
 
 4895. The wider new systems in the arts are promulgated, 
 the more likely their leading principles are to be misinterpreted. 
 Opposition opens up extensive vistas. 
 
 4896. Error is the sieve of knowledge barren of just proof. 
 
 4897. Truth bears proof error confounds it. 
 
 4898. In losses we lose also the drawbacks. 
 
 4899. The precept for the occasion, and acted upon, is the 
 substance of wisdom. 
 
 4900. What is available hath double advantage. 
 
 4901. All causes are old if we look to the future. 
 
 4902. Memory arrests time, and even makes the past profitable. 
 
 4903. Keason and just principle override all enactments. 
 
 4904. If alliance be strength, reason should bind or consolidate it. 
 
 4905. Reason and power combined in a State need fear neither 
 ordinary difficulties nor adverse circumstances. 
 
 4906. The mind often decides when the will does not perform. 
 When we make our own laws their transgression is also borne by 
 ourselves. 
 
 4907. Decision is not always expression. 2. The tongue gives 
 and demands labour. 
 
 4908. To analyse terror weakens the support of it. 2. Analysis 
 discovers weakness and strength. 
 
 4909. Ideas first-born of the mind and last possession. 
 
 4910. To live in the contemplation of the Divine Beneficence 
 (which is the wisdom of the soul), and the observance of its lessons 
 and duties. 
 
 4911. If we could always live in a sphere of wisdom, knowledge 
 would present itself without effort. 
 
 4912. Virtues are new and old, and of all time. 
 
 4913. To destroy the power of evil is to build up forces of virtue. 
 
 4914. The DEITY who originated the Universe and Cause hath 
 cognisance of all. 2. There is an universality of secondary causes 
 infinite in effect and application. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 153 
 
 4915. Duty well understood is either pain or pleasure in a just 
 cause. 2. Duty is wisdom with conscience for its friend. 
 
 4916. There is no moderation to be proved in what is unsolvable. 
 
 4917. Every book contains matter for a myriad. Subjects (like 
 ideas) are, of a necessity, innumerable ; for what has limitation is 
 neither subject, practice, nor theory. 
 
 4 ( J18. Profusion is the proof of money, but not the just use of it, 
 for excess is ever in extreme. 
 
 4919. Diversity may light on truth, but plain knowledge 
 secures it. 
 
 4920. Except for speculative reasons to propound positions, let 
 us first consider if they are tenable. 
 
 4921. Speculative ideas may wander, but should rest on reason 
 not improbability. 
 
 4922. A maxim may be formed upon every instance, for wisdom 
 is never outplaced. Positions are of positions. 
 
 4923. Points, positions, and rules are but of the ideas ; natural 
 wisdom is intuitive, and if the result of inquiry be reached, formal 
 rules can be left unconsidered. 
 
 4924. There is delight both in action and meditation ; but the 
 best course is to use both, and the present time, justly. 
 
 4925. The author affirms much, but the reader can more ; for 
 the longest book may be exceeded by the commentary. Publicity is 
 the test of position. 
 
 4926. Who can be offended at general axioms that apply to all ? 
 Generalities that weaken force in argument may result in power in 
 practice. 
 
 4927. It certainly appears to be an anomaly, in essentially inde- 
 pendent and popular representative government, that monarchical 
 usages or customs should not only be cited, but adopted, as con- 
 stitutional precedents. 
 
 4928 Bevels are ever inconsiderate. 
 
 4929. Interest levels conduct ; often is the applicant above the 
 benefactor. 
 
 4930. If SAINTS taught in colleges, their instruction would be on 
 the lines of many of our excellent convents those of the SACRED 
 HEART (Divine name and model) and the GOOD SHEPHERD, for 
 instance, with others. In fact, the advantages of convent education 
 for the young (a blessed vocation, too), both religious and secular, 
 cannot be too highly estimated. 
 
 4931. Wisdom is myriad-souled : with positions and applications, 
 results and causes, multiform. We cannot realise infinity of faculty; 
 but its possession, or energeia, is no satiety. 
 
 4932. There is a kind of universality in every idea, not only as 
 existent, but also in application. All things may be generalised. 
 4933 Knowledge is the map of theory. 
 
 4934. Honour the PRIESTHOOD, for their whole lives are dedicated 
 to the service of GOD : the interpreters of Christian Doctrine 
 (identical with that taught by CHRIST to the Apostles), of which the 
 CATHOLIC CHURCH is the sole and infallible repository. The Priest- 
 hood, monastic and conventual, are just vocations recommended 
 by the SAINTS themselves, and, consequently, more to be valued by 
 
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 those whose object is the eternal salvation of souls, rather than the 
 maxims of worldly prudence. The principles on which they are 
 founded die not, for they are eternal. Neither do they know any 
 diminution. The number of the faithful increases with the age and 
 progress of the world. GOD is ever with the Church, because it is 
 His Church : the one, true and inseparable. His light and inspira- 
 tion ever descends upon it and strengthens. 
 
 4935. The scope of the sentiments alter with the position and 
 necessity. 
 
 4936. Invention is only marvellous in its possibility ; improba- 
 bility is never a foundation of nature. 
 
 4937. Not contemplation only, but its continuity and fruits, must 
 be considered. 
 
 4938. Repetition knows neither loss nor non-being. 
 
 4939. To repine is sometimes to regret benefits secured. 
 
 4940. To possess and to solve are distinct : understanding we all 
 possess not so the solution. How can we reasonably expect to 
 solve all mystery when we cannot even solve the mystery of our own 
 being ? But, even if we could, faith would be unalterable. Granted 
 a mystery exists, there is no improbability. Existence is always 
 fact. 
 
 4941. The right is complacency and justice, however received. 
 
 4942. Speculation loves to debate on indefinite ground. If 
 nothing be the subject of disputation, much still may be advanced, 
 and even result in fact. All results are of a nature real, but nothing 
 knows no idea. 
 
 4943. The power of conquest makes sometimes the necessity 
 of it. 
 
 4944. Just respect is kindred to sympathy. 
 
 4945. We may overlook the best where all is gold. 
 
 4946. The cause of sentiments need not always be advanced to 
 judge the necessity of them. 
 
 4947. That which is inevitable has general application. 
 
 4948. It is reasonable to hope that human faculties, invention, 
 and power will increase in the future, as the present overrules or 
 outnumbers the past. 2. What has been effected may be increased, 
 for number enlarges number. 
 
 4949. Indelible are the records of conscience. 
 
 4950. Judge fictitious those wants or wishes that will not bear 
 the test of reason. 
 
 4951. Possibility may for the time be indefeasible, but improba- 
 bility has no reasonable status. Ideas must be centralised before 
 being generalised. 
 
 4952. Many are the assertions and positions of authors that are 
 just only in the intention. 
 
 4953. Disingenuousness clouds literature as in a shroud. 
 
 4954. Much power is much privation. 
 
 4955. The picture or journey of Fate is as the shadow of the dial. 
 
 4956. Error rises to the surface like indifferent fortune. 
 
 4957. Power has generally more adherents than the justice of the 
 cause. 
 
 4958. What peace rebukes war often sanctions. 
 
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 4959. Precedence strengthens violent measures rather than 
 remedies them. 
 
 4960. Begin and end, at times, before the bell. 
 4961. Truth can best bear its own work. 
 4962. Humanity makes position valuable. 
 
 4963. Custom itself has been inceptioned ; new ideas must pre- 
 cede new customs. 
 
 4964. Novelty is but alteration of preceding systems extended 
 in their uses. 
 
 4965. Power subject to alteration is not thoroughly reliable ; and 
 stability, though deemed a fact, is but an idea. 
 
 4966. Retrenchment of extras is the moderation of riches. 
 
 4967. Necessity may have a wide margin of free will, but 
 moderation is the just boundary line. 
 
 4968. Fate is a kind of dumb wisdom. 2. Voices that are heard 
 may be weighed, but wisdom can teach without expression. 
 
 4969. Trouble is not removed by the contemplation of it, but by 
 the remedy. 
 
 4970. Not only remedy, but what proposes remedy, demands 
 recognition. 
 
 4971. Have the best works been lost, or can the best be pro- 
 duced ? Futurity is free scope an infinite domain ; and number 
 sanctions probability. 
 
 4972. Logic existed before the forms of it as all books have 
 been preceded by their subjects. 
 
 4973. Valour is sometimes compulsatory, and necessity alters 
 conditions. 
 
 4974. If you light on the best at the first step, you need not 
 pursue that cause further for the time. Consider well efforts that 
 alter first successes. 
 
 4975. Patience is the monitor of action. 
 
 4976. Injustice exists but in its transgressions. 
 
 4977. Caution in difficulty is reason in action. 
 
 4978. Power is far from speculation, although its origin may 
 have been derived from it. 
 
 4979. Power should decide the extreme. To maintain the just 
 prestige of a nation is the duty of Government. 
 
 4980. Ideas and positions could be advanced without end, could 
 we deal satisfactorily with the exceptions. The unfailing solution of 
 objections is kin to mystery. 
 
 4981. Every just idea is principle. 
 
 4982. Each book has its own province, as word its position. 
 
 4983. Determination is not always solution. 
 
 4984. Delusion misplaces truth and distorts fact. 
 
 4985. Teaching may be considered as opposition learning, unity 
 of sentiment. 
 
 4986. Reason is no enemy to fancy, but rather strengthens it. 
 
 4987. Change is the sphere of mortality. 
 
 4988. That which is bestowed should justify giver and receiver. 
 
 4989. To form is better than to investigate to prove, than 
 question. 
 
 4990. The judgment blends all the sentiments. 
 
156 MAXIMS. 
 
 4991. Literature is strong in forms, divisions, assumptions, 
 41 unities " of drama and the poetics rules originated by an authority 
 without authority confounding essentials with excrescences one 
 vast confusion. Henceforth, let it be an open domain liberty of 
 action and motif-power with reason and nationality our mentors; 
 and, with regard to our " second parallel " : add new words or terms to 
 all languages even to satiety. Philology has been, hitherto, too 
 much circumscribed. A language that is limited and stationary can 
 never be progressive. Number is power in the lexicon, as in 
 politics. 
 
 4992. The great principles of human justice still hath strong 
 guards of dependence in every liberal nation. Virtuous principle is 
 yet a match for anarchy. An army is natural principle embodied. 
 
 4993. A system promulgated is fertile in examples, which spread 
 as branches from the tree. The cause is the frame, as the protec- 
 tion, of principle. 
 
 4994. We may compose as we read, and in an indifferent book 
 [yet few books there are that do not afford infinite titles for books ; 
 nay, conversation, too, endless in form a hint for our dramatists 
 or fictionists] we may consider the words as affording subjects of 
 thought, apart from the matter disputed. 
 
 4995. Present misery may be future peace. 
 
 4996. Public acceptance is a lease of futurity. 
 
 4997. : Books are the friendships of souls present and past. 
 
 4998. The drawbacks of an age are generally balanced by its 
 excellencies. 
 
 4999. The greatest store can be added to, as the simplest idea 
 expanded. No principle rests with limitation. 
 
 5000. We oppose the works of man, but cannot those of nature. 
 
 5001. Persuasion is oftentimes the gilt on bad metal. 
 
 5002. Current influence is more than gold. 
 
 5003. Designs may be conceived in a moment that would require 
 centuries for their due application. 
 
 5004. We must, of a necessity, occupy time, but cannot exhaust 
 it. Cause-subjects can never be terminated. 
 
 5005. Formality permeates all literature, and yet these formal 
 rules and restrictions are not of nature, but art, transgressing in 
 many essential points nature's precepts. 
 
 5006. Variation is the productive ground of known science and 
 unknown power. 
 
 5007. The soul should be the receptacle of just ideas truthful 
 axioms. 
 
 5008. Promulgate wisdom without conditions. 
 
 5009. Appearance is, oftentimes, the cause and result. 
 
 5010. Authorship is but the disposal of forces ; the lexicon, like 
 the air, is common property. Dictionaries have no rights. 
 
 5011. Imagination uncontrolled is improvisation without a 
 proviso. 
 
 5012. Fate ends with the tombstone. 
 
 5013. Beading shows what has been effected meditation what 
 may be. 
 
 5014. Be only indulgent in these things prudence approves. 
 
BY EDWABD COUNSEL. 157 
 
 5015. What is unacted ia no proof of demerit. Each nation has 
 its classical drama, independent of any stage. 
 
 5016. There ought to be some power to control fashion when it 
 approves that which is inferior. Again, fashions that affect the 
 military status and health of a nation should be sternly repressed. 
 The majority of modern fashionable usages and customs in society 
 (who invent these ordinances more despotic than the edicts of the 
 Medes and Persians ?) might be abolished, or kept in abeyance, and 
 with advantage. The State is above fashion; let fashion, then, 
 submit to reason. 
 
 5017. Books are necessary in number as the growth of new 
 ideas with every age. 
 
 5018. Pain is the caution of nature. 
 
 5019. If the public decide upon conventional forms, alteration 
 (or innovation) is of slow growth. 
 
 5020. To receive is not, necessarily, to commend. 
 
 5021. Form is but custom the matter is the criterion. 
 
 5022. To publish is submission ; but pronunciamentos are not 
 authorities. 
 
 5023. Undue haste with power is law in jeopardy. 
 
 5024. The desire of good is the inception of it. 
 
 5025. Expression is a veil of mystery. 
 
 5026. Obstruction is oftentimes the outcome of vanity on both 
 sides. 
 
 5027. The understanding is never single, but multiform in 
 strength. 
 
 5028. No works of man can outvalue the worth of man. 
 
 5029. It is our application that distorts wisdom and clouds sense. 
 
 5030. Take due care in the consideration of both pleasure and 
 pain that the mind be justified. 
 
 5031. Power that advocates excess is to be reprobated; and 
 better is it to possess no power than to be without responsibility. 
 
 5032. Publicity (which is the knowledge of many) enlarges the 
 application of causes proved or ideas advanced. 
 
 6033. Let time and wisdom still control patience. 
 
 5034. Revenge is grounded on unjust sentiment: as affecting 
 liberty of the will and action in others. 
 
 5035. Memories are the tablets of the soul. There is a wisdom 
 in contemplation, as in expression a record. 
 
 5036. What contributes to the proof of any reasonable position or 
 axiom deserves recognition. 
 
 5307. Assumed equality of power includes also equal respon- 
 sibility. 
 
 5038. Science increases power and diminishes effort. 
 
 5039. Decision is the order-tone of policy. 
 
 5040. Resources duly employed give the growth-power of nation- 
 ality. 
 
 5041. Just discernment is the mirror of prudence. 
 
 5042. Strict impartiality is one of those sentiments often praised, 
 but seldom followed. In history, and literature generally, it may be 
 considered an unknown force. 
 
 5043. Causes own their own solutions and responsibilities. 
 
158 MAXIMS. 
 
 5044. The power of a State is a moving scale. 
 
 5045. Myriad forms of inter-sentiment (or intermentality) may 
 spring or be derived from proved or unproved axioms. 
 
 5046. Time is ever of circumstance. Variations of force are keys 
 to possession and power. 
 
 5047. Celerity oft begets wisdom, but is more frequently an 
 excuse for it. 
 
 5048. Number applies to all things, for there is nothing unallied. 
 
 5049. Necessity and time frequently eclipse fortune, if they do 
 not hasten it. 
 
 5050. Support is not always proof. 
 
 5051. License is rather the insecurity than the proof of liberty. 
 
 5052. Not above or without it, but under just government is the 
 truest liberty. 
 
 5053. Let the constituted authorities of a State ever endeavour 
 to be just in their motives. Just motives control just acts. 
 
 5054. Wisdom's rules are simple in execution just in result. 
 
 5055. Just is the opposition to power that exceeds its due 
 influence. What is in excess is ever illiberal. 
 
 5056. Success should still be tempered with caution. 
 
 5057. Hope is the guard of invention ; design, the voice power ; 
 production, the restoration of former forces. 
 
 5058. There are countless forces that affect us, which, never- 
 theless, we are destined never to discover. 
 
 5059. We are affected by the sentiments, but we cannot affect the 
 sentiments themselves. 
 
 5060. The sentiments are leagued with each other, and the soul 
 advances some while retarding others, as wisdom directs, or as the 
 occasion may require. There is no power without a certain degree 
 of unity, for mutual support is the great necessity of all forces. 
 
 5061. Sternness is a military vice as well as virtue, and should 
 be regulated by just interest and policy. 
 
 5062. Common sense is frequently uncommon wisdom. 
 
 5063. Life is a series of positions : ever varied, yet theories in all. 
 
 5064. City land is the property of the city and Government, 
 subject to resumption at any time. 
 
 5065. Eestrict the power of capitalists in the purchase of land 
 out of due proportion to the public interest. The resumption of 
 lands should ever be the reserve power of a Government. 
 
 5066. Kespect that flag which is allied to a just cause. 
 
 5067. False representations in any contract should, in the strict 
 interpretation of justice, render it invalid. The law should not 
 support views or actions contrary to recognised principle. 
 
 5068. Justly defend the rights of all ; evil deserves no favour. 
 
 5069. There is no excess when reasonable expectations are gratified. 
 
 5070. What is approved by the Divine Authority is incorruptible 
 in life or death. 
 
 5071. All that is beyond the necessity of a work could be excised ; 
 but we must not strictly apply this position to works of imagination 
 the drama, poetry, or fiction for latitude is their necessity. 
 Even verbiage may have its uses ; and if in nothing else, there may 
 be a choice of words, with expression varied. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 159 
 
 5072. What is that which knows no age, birth nor death always 
 in being, yet neither new nor old? The public. 
 
 5073. If that which is may not be, can that which may not be 
 (because it is not) come to be ? 
 
 5074. Questions rise on questions, like power on power ; solutions 
 known and unknown, beyond all human ken endless; also the 
 similes or comparisons of each, infinite as the specks or atoms of 
 the Universe. 
 
 5075. Life is ever fertile in themes of life. 
 
 5076. Difficulties are life's problems; it behoves us to exercise 
 our power and use our influence on behalf of the afflicted. 
 
 5077. Compensation should not exceed equity. 
 
 5078. There is always occupation for life, ending only with life. 
 
 5079. The past is realised ; the present, occupies ; the future, to 
 be solved. In all things there must be unity of perceptions. 
 
 5080. Sympathies, before being declared, should be observant. 
 
 5081. Truth bears best its own recognisance. 
 
 5082. Let just sentiments be exchanged without diminution. 
 
 5083. The greatest haste must be patient for the result. 
 
 5084. Mutual aid and submission are the necessities of cause and 
 effect. 
 
 5085. Many are still the advantages that may not be restricted. 
 
 5086. Money lessens exception. 
 
 5087. Presentation and acceptance should be the equity of 
 sympathy. 
 
 5088. Arrogance demands more than a just compliance can 
 endorse. 
 
 5089. Eepetition makes one cause endless in effects. 
 
 5090. Events are the unfolded problems of destiny. 
 
 5091. When the end can be served by delay, promptitude is 
 misplaced. 
 
 5092. Trifles sometimes profit, and labours risk no advantage. 
 
 5093. Fortune allied to truth may command knowledge, or its 
 effects. 
 
 5094. Let there be no bar to the publicity of just design and 
 knowledge capable of being applied to human service or wants ; nor 
 must we demand practicable application in all submitted. Ideas 
 ever precede inventions, and are the causes of them. 
 
 5095. We are often indolent when the cause demands activity, 
 and neglectful in important affairs. 
 
 5096. Destiny meets many questions. 
 
 5097. Mystery has this advantage, that it is fertile in ideas. 
 Speculation has no tether. 
 
 5098. Responsibility is the precipice of power. 
 
 5099. Thou art, indeed, of importance and station, friend Lopeon 
 (who boasts a constant friendship, although imaginary many 
 friendships are imaginary), if the world hath necessity of thee. 
 
 5100. You can never make nature a blank : destruction of force 
 or matter is but their removal. 
 
 5101. There is nothing unoccupied ; while there is space there is 
 never want of space. 
 
160 MAXIMS. 
 
 5102. Knowledge, like time, is never completed ; the farthest 
 journey we can travel hath still stages beyond. 
 
 5103. There are two leading forces in man the inward and out- 
 ward soul, conception and realisation. We cannot opinionate 
 without being affected by one or other of these. What is affected by 
 outward force must not be confounded with inceptive opinion. 
 Still, like some other assumptions in this book, what cannot be 
 proved is submitted. Even a themal question, for friendly dispute, 
 has its advantages. 
 
 5104. There are no exceptions apart from change. 
 
 5105. The warnings of nature are not to be ignored. 
 
 5106. When death presents its bill it must always be met. 
 
 5107. Hauteur, pride of heart and conduct, are bastard dignities. 
 
 5108. The just necessities of the people warrant only the change 
 of constitutions. 
 
 5109. The vision of right is theory in substance. 
 
 5110. Feeling is often thought, or the occasion of it. 
 
 5111. Many are the thoughts unexpressed, and expressions not 
 thought of. 
 
 5112. What affects us most may be termed the feelings of the 
 mind. -If the effect is the same, the expressions may vary. 
 
 5113. Time ever flitting, ever coming : all is replaced by new 
 forces. 
 
 5114. Revolution is sometimes a card of invitation to the bold. 
 
 5115. To control number is victory ; to control mind is approval 
 of minds. 
 
 5116. Property and power can never be equable. 
 
 5117. Life and death are both of perfection as they are justly 
 used. 
 
 5118. Virtue is a globe of perfection truth the centre. 
 
 5119. Secure right theory and you may command practice. 
 
 5120. To originate an art is better than to practice or approve 
 of it. 
 
 5121. Favourable results achieved are the tests of theory and 
 approval. 
 
 5122. Often are the means at hand to do good, and the inclina- 
 tion absent. 
 
 5123. Rash motives are positions out of position. 
 
 5124. We often seek the cause when we are controlled by it. 
 Consideration must precede solution. Could all mysteries be solved, 
 the soul might be inclined to materialise, at times, even known 
 effects. 
 
 5125. The leisure of the righteous is still just occupation. 
 
 5126. There is never a dearth of objects either to pursue or 
 disregard. 
 
 5127. Confidence should lean on power of effort. 
 
 5128. Simple explanations have their limits, but questions or 
 theories are unlimited. 
 
 5129. If fortune possessed mind she would often relent. 
 
 5130. Judge of the ruler, not by his intentions, but acts. 
 
 5131. Agreements entered into (except on the basis of cash) is 
 possible law in prospective. 
 
BY EDWABD COUNSEL. 161 
 
 5132. Endeavour to thwart, not the pride, but the machinations 
 of the scheming or dishonest. 
 
 5133. Decision is a maxim adopted if not expressed ; and an 
 occasion may be made fertile in them. 
 
 5134. Ridicule is the consort of vanity. 
 
 5135. Worth is the test of value value of worth. 
 
 5136. From one there is history ; from history, variance. 
 
 5137. Nothing is of worth unless in its relation to humanity. 
 
 5138. All knowledge must be partial, as additions or extensions 
 are possible. 
 
 5139. As designs must be disclosed to be of use, so should truth 
 be diffused and proved. 
 
 5140. The greatest and justest liberty is controllable. Let duty 
 command. 2. New forms new powers. Work seeks for worth 
 labour rewards. 
 
 5141. What descends to bless hath power to raise. 
 
 5142. Time and necessity make the best laws. 
 
 5143. We can neither diminish the air of heaven nor the store of 
 wisdom. 
 
 5144. Life is a continuous round of problems to solve maxims 
 and ideas positions to determine. 
 
 5145. Let us not lose sight of the benefits of life when we discuss 
 the disadvantages. We should ever be just to this our present 
 state. 
 
 5146.J That law is best which admits no partiality ; there should 
 be no distinction of class in a court of justice. 
 
 5147. It is the right use of precepts that benefit, rather than the 
 knowledge only. 
 
 5148. Stability is a portion of wisdom, not all. 
 
 5149. Expression and ideality are myriad-form and allied to 
 number, which cannot be satisfied. 
 
 5150. Hope and imagination are bad exchanges for lack of 
 prudence. 
 
 5151. Confidence is excellence, if proved by truth. 
 
 5152. The greatest space (as the smallest atom) is surrounded and 
 affected by unseen power. Nothing without its history and indi- 
 viduality. 
 
 5153. Comprehension (in submission to reason) is fair ground of 
 research. 
 
 5154. Knowledge can be equally tested in all places. 
 
 5155. Prosperity is too often the sink of riches. 
 
 5156. Dependence is the fertile theme of disconsolate maxims. 
 All thoughts may be deemed maxims as capable of being formed of 
 them. 
 
 5157. War changes hope and alters destiny. 
 
 5158. Hypocrisy has a golden lining. 
 
 5159. Power need never want service ; conscientiousness, duty. 2. 
 The power of conscientiousness makes duty strength. 
 
 5100. Desert should still be increased with the last proof. 
 
 5161. Will of good is the truth of intention. 
 
 5162. The virtues seek for all when prudence requires sufferance. 
 
 51C3. Evil anxieties are self-imposed labours. 
 
162 MAXIMS. 
 
 5164. Be true in heart steadfast in resolution the justice of 
 the cause concurring. 
 
 5165. What is beyond moderation is either loss or weakness. 
 
 5166. We must bear that which is unalienable : life is the last 
 possession. 
 
 5167. We must be true to each to justify each. 
 
 5168. The true heart has ever a store of benefits. 
 
 5169. Life is a palpable virtue or evil as it is in accordance with 
 wisdom. 
 
 5170. Wisdom, the eternal principle, preceded man, as it will 
 survive his end. 
 
 5171. Be patient with necessity we may rule it only by being 
 ruled. 
 
 5172. Emptiness is but a chimera of the mind ; there is no empty 
 space or loss in time. Occupation is part of cause and effect in all 
 things. 
 
 5173. Witnesses give a fillip both to reason and bravery, perhaps 
 to all the virtues. 
 
 5174. We secure success oftentimes through inequality. 
 
 5175. The social cigar and honest pipe have often proved the 
 thinker's friend : the symposium of smoke fertile in simile. 
 
 5176. A good iviney throat is, at least, a guarantee of profit to 
 the seller. 
 
 5177. Happiness is but a vision of the mind, in which the heart 
 has no constancy. 
 
 5178. When the law overlooks, or is at fault, let it be our duty to 
 either serve or amend it. 
 
 5179. Where there is honour there is no servitude. 
 
 5180. Not just principles (only which sit well upon all), but 
 conduct guided by rectitude. 
 
 5181. Let wisdom and virtue ever find in thee a defender an 
 advocate. 
 
 5182. Be not too curious with unknown forces. 
 
 5183. What is intended for support often causes defeat. 
 
 5184. Expression should never evil will, yet are ill- wishes no 
 support to the evil. 
 
 5185. Speculation that results not in anything useful may still 
 exist as real or suggestive theory, deserving only man's regard as 
 affording suggestions that may ultimately lead to practice or 
 adaptation. 
 
 5186. The subject or pursuit that profits one is always ready 
 interest. 
 
 5187. Profits reaped day by day is a time of gold. 
 
 5188. The opinions of historians (as opinions) are ever debatable. 
 In considering history let us separate the sound from the theory 
 opinions from the facts. 
 
 5189. Endeavour to build upon a strong foundation that which is 
 to stand the test of time. 
 
 5190. Number is often destiny in the attack. 
 
 5191. There is no ambition so high but prudence may regulate. 
 
 5192. When we despair of the cause, independence is put to 
 hazard. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 163 
 
 5193. War is destiny, but with two chances. Ponder well before 
 submitting either to the ever-changing decision of fortune. 
 
 5194. Will is stronger in defeat than victory, but weaker in action. 
 
 5195. Ambition not commensurate with its power lives on a 
 precipice. 2. Danger is not less danger when it becomes habitual. 
 
 5196. The cause presents itself the opinion forms ; opinion is 
 not always judgment, but precedes it. Some results follow all 
 things. 
 
 5197. Many influences contribute to form public opinion : causes 
 which can never be thoroughly discussed, for they are innumerable. 
 
 5198 Want of knowledge in extremities is where the senses are 
 at fault. 
 
 5199. It does not always follow that what is immature at the 
 outset will always remain so. 
 
 5200. Time directs when to ignore or implore conditions. 
 
 5201. Benefits gained by benefits are equitable exchanges. 
 
 5202. The time is well employed that improves the knowledge of 
 our failings to remedy them. 
 
 5203. Civilisation is in accord with the progressive power of 
 States. It is destined to rule with iron will and resolution of forces. 
 
 5204. Literature is the home of the intellect. 
 
 5205. First readings are generally the first fruits. 
 
 5206. Value must not accumulate in every place. 
 
 5207. The law must be stern, because justice that is yielding is 
 against the spirit of law. Let the causes determine, yet still to the 
 judge must be conceded liberty of interpretation. 
 
 5208. Printing binds all nations in a leagua of intellect. 
 
 5209. Books outlast great houses and pedigrees. A book has 
 survived a race, for where there is no record is there no life to 
 record. 
 
 5210. We cannot justly decide unless knowledge be confirmatory. 
 
 5211. If the cause justifies the will, the act must also be just, 
 for justification knows no exception. 
 
 5212. Where anger makes the merit, the cause must be just. 
 
 5213. There would be no hazard but for the brave or 
 adventurous. Discovery, or useful knowledge, justify dangers. 
 
 5214. Hate considers not the true definition of it. 
 
 5215. Deeds are sentiments realised : no action without its cor- 
 responding or influencing sentiment. 
 
 5216. The leisure of some is the labour of others. 
 
 5217. Principles are causes : some ever recede and follow. 
 
 5218. There is no true peace of soul except under the Crosier. 
 The Cross is above all human standards. 
 
 5219. The opponents of the CATHOLIC FAITH may as well 
 endeavour to control the order of the universe as that of the 
 universal Church CATHOLICITY which has been founded by the 
 Divine Authority and Will. Heresy (which works out the sentiments 
 of the infernal powers) has already been pre-judged and condemned. 
 CATHOLICITY is benignant, charitable, just of undivided sentiments 
 in truth. It can never be affected or controlled to its detriment. 
 
 5220. Divine promises (which are as eternal laws) know no 
 deviation, neither can they be controlled. 
 
164 MAXIMS. 
 
 5221. Diligence in truth is better than a rich man's surety. 
 5222. Trust not even the just with power to injure. 
 
 5223. We may point the way if we cannot direct the conduct. 
 
 5224. To save number, exceptions are bound by no strict latitude. 
 
 5225. Fads increase with the profit of them. Profit is not of the 
 retreating genus. 
 
 5226. Glory is ever partial. 
 
 5227. Armies and navies are the preservers of power and indepen- 
 dence. 
 
 5228. Time, at length, will know no distinctions. 
 
 5229. In prudence the just senses die last. 
 
 5230. Gold gilds all actions. 
 
 5231. Respect is often built upon the foundation of hope. 
 
 5232. The mind is generally sufficient for its accustomed fortune. 
 
 5233. Many positions and mysteries come to the surface in con- 
 versation many solutions hazarded, but improved. 
 
 5234. Direction makes its own exceptions. 
 
 5235. Science has no heart. 
 
 5236. Look for no genuine love of art where a society clique rules. 
 
 5237. A People's Hall for the discussion of public wants, with 
 free entry to all, and open doors. To admit a free record of all 
 human design and faculty. A public Press, too, to enter a record 
 of all suggestions submitted. 
 
 5238. The severest law cannot go beyond the sword. 
 
 5239. In every act or opinion of the heretic there is always a 
 poison strain. 
 
 5240. The soul is the receptacle of wisdom. 
 
 5241. Each man's mind must interpret his own feelings ; the 
 sentiments declared we can only judge. 
 
 5242. Strategy is wisdom influenced by art and legitimate 
 deception. 
 
 5243. Praise that advances a cause is money. 
 
 5244. Weakness may wear the mask of strength, but proofs 
 unfold. 
 
 5245. Declaration is only power in will, the acts must prove. 
 
 5246. There is no history on assumption. 
 
 5247. Hope knows no entire submission. 
 
 5248. Wrest not the truth, or event, to ill interpretation. 
 
 5249. Fictitious are those desires that reason and possibility 
 sanction not. 
 
 5250. Power is the field-marshal's weakness, or strength. 
 
 5251. Will and stamina in the soldier are better than a bold front 
 or length of arm. 
 
 5252. The will of a powerful nation is stronger than its arma- 
 ments. 
 
 5253. Invention knows no boundary-line. 
 
 5254. Let the population be considered as the probable forces of 
 a great nation. 
 
 5255. Ideas of right are bulwarks against wrong. 
 
 5256. Time lessens the importance of events, but increases the 
 knowledge. The greatest events come at last to the peasant's home, 
 
 5257. Custom and authority make value. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 165 
 
 5258. In truth shall virtue find her domain. 
 5259. Creation knows no loss. 
 
 5260. Good deeds are flowers that blossom in futurity ; nor are 
 their present bounties stayed. 
 
 5261. Where exceptions rule positions-are but interrogatory. 
 
 5262. Truth in office is just regard. 
 
 5263. All have their prejudices. Bear thine own. We are not 
 responsible for the prejudices of others. 
 
 5264. Knowledge is the beacon of fortune. 
 
 5265. We are always either before or after war and peace, and so 
 of all events. 
 
 5266. Kecovery is second life. 
 
 5267. Philosophy gives many records, and record many philo- 
 sophical systems. 
 
 5268. Appearance and description seldom tally. 
 
 5269. There is no just competence without truth. 
 
 5270. The will is power in riches, leading action and labour. 
 
 5271. Seldom does fortune present two courses to follow. 
 
 5272. To control the present is to provide for the future. 
 
 5273. Economy is independence and a man's true liberty. 
 
 5274. Expend thy judgments amongst acquaintances rather than 
 the contents of thy purse. 
 
 5275. Never incur a charge of weakness even in generous deeds. 
 
 5276. In your greatest expectations endeavour to make satisfac- 
 tion fall a little short of the hope or goal of your original wishes. 
 
 5277. It is not the assertion of sentiments only, but their just 
 application that is to be regarded. 
 
 5278. The eye is an additional labourer. 
 
 5279. Assumption is the ground of speculation. 
 
 5280. Money is the sun that many interested principles surround. 
 
 5281. In all speculations let reason be the station, or resting- 
 place. 
 
 5282. Pen-slips should not be considered as lasting or final 
 judgments. 
 
 5283. He who would befriend a weak cause is like to suffer 
 either in person or purse. 
 
 5284. It is difficult to define content where the extent of one's 
 means are not known. 
 
 5285. The table is often disguise with open eyes. 
 
 5286. The power of good the harvest of the heart. 
 
 5287. No nation without its lost history. 
 
 5288. Upright truth is downright honesty. 
 
 5289. The ensample of virtue is the model of perfection. 
 
 5290. Still temper resentment with the leaven of caution. 
 Bemember that the strongest assertions may be questioned; and 
 what is capable of being answered may be so justly. 
 
 5291. We must not give sentiments opportunity to injure either 
 ourselves or others. 
 
 5292. Sentiments acted upon are born anew. 
 
 5293. When the position is bettered the old becomes but a foil 
 to the new. 
 
 5294. Integrity is a sound reputation. 
 
166 MAXIMS. 
 
 5295. Censure that which is incompatible with integrity and 
 open countenance. 
 
 5296. Hope the flower of the heart : ever budding. 
 
 5297. For the purposes of the dramatist or poet, fiction is fact. 
 
 5298. The poet exalts the mole-hill to a mountain. 
 
 5299. In the discontinuance of many old-fashioned customs their 
 loss is real gain. 
 
 5300. Nothing can be effected without the exercise of some at 
 least of the sentiments. 
 
 5301. He that would learn just truths and the best examples in 
 life wisdom with the practice go read and study the lives and 
 works of the saints that justify the best and highest aspirations of 
 the heart the utmost the soul can reach. 
 
 5302. Be but truthful in thy desires, and the result will be assured. 
 
 5303. To re-judge thine own intentions and acts is a com- 
 mendable course. 
 
 5304. The contemplation of Divine Truth is a silent prayer. 
 2. The meditation of Divine Truths should not only better the soul, 
 but increase even worldly wisdom. 
 
 5305. To uncreate, we may assume, enters not into the plan of 
 the Divine Wisdom. The universal creation is founded on the 
 eternal stability of Divine Power. 
 
 5306. The days equal in time, not in the effects. 
 
 5307. So many minds, so many hopes and divided interests. 
 
 5308. We may concede to literature many advantages, perhaps, 
 but the important one of necessity. How little does life, after all, 
 depend upon books ; and yet, what nation would willingly surrender 
 its literature ? Affection for a pursuit is often confounded with the 
 necessity of it. It may, however, be safely affirmed that without 
 literature and the arts a nation cannot attain true civilisation. 
 
 5309. In all Public Libraries of any pretension there should be 
 a duplicate lending section. If a book be worth anything at all, 
 let it be duplicated ; also, manuscript sections. Let charity extend 
 to dead and living authors alike. Be just to the memory of the dead, 
 who can wield the pen no more for justification. It is as ungracious 
 to vilify the memory of the dead as to injure the helpless infant. 
 
 5310. Let a man respect himself in his family ; govern rather by 
 charity than unkindness, and stay the hand to punish helpless 
 childhood even the weak and erring unless dire necessity com- 
 mands and justifies the act. 
 
 5311. No subject can be exhausted, and property is always an 
 extensive domain ; for, whatever there is of it, less can be found. 
 
 5312. Through want of opportunity many designs have been 
 lost yet is the world a sphere of human exertion. Arts and 
 inventions will increase as time lengthens. 
 
 5313. If every atom were an universe, they would still be but a 
 blank in the immensity of space. Power is fully realised, but it 
 cannot be presented to human views. 
 
 5314. Nature re-produces the principle of life not life itself. 
 
 5315. Principles precede all things. 
 
 5316. The concentration of power is in the mind. The soul that 
 argues should have just hope for its basis. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 167 
 
 5317. To denote true wisdom in all is a difficult position ; let us 
 endeavour rather to be wise, as the occasion may demand. Good 
 endeavour itself is wisdom in part. 
 
 5318. The adulteration of food is as bad as debasing the coinage ; 
 let the same penalties be meted out to both. 
 
 5319. When there are two courses to be pursued seldom is the 
 scale exactly balanced. 
 
 5320. The best resolves are sometimes destroyed by precipitancy. 
 
 5321. Do not, as a rule, entertain or discuss generous and 
 philanthropic subjects in the cellar. 
 
 5322. It is, after all, best to obey the dictates of wisdom ; and 
 in doing so we may justly surrender our independency of action. 
 
 5323. What is frequently considered as a gift of nature is but 
 association ; and manners but usages. 
 
 5324. Level the conduct to just desires. 
 
 5325. Imagination deals generally with that all men know, but 
 in varied forms : new lights on old pictures. 
 
 5326. Let us consider in faculty what all men are capable of 
 effecting rather than what they might. 
 
 5327. All books afford variety of words, if not subjects ; thus use 
 may be made of them lexicon-wise. 
 
 5328. Principle is one applications infinite. 
 
 5329. If) we could imagine a key to the solution of all mental 
 questions, there might be a central thought (wisdom's faculty) a 
 principle inherent, with solutions possible. 
 
 5330. Truth has still its alliances beyond all earthly power to 
 foil or prevent. 
 
 5331. Where a laugh is argument, it is ready assumption. 
 
 5332. Your weak points give strength to the opposer. 
 
 5333. Let no positions be advanced to mislead; virtue gives 
 nothing but to benefit. 
 
 5334. i n battling with suspected cunning, make sport the debate. 
 
 5335. What the occasion demands is the best choice of the 
 virtues. 
 
 5336. The first step is as necessary as the last ; we are ever com- 
 mencing and ending. 
 
 5337. Exception is the corner-stone of assertion. 
 
 5339. The effect of cause is more simple than its foundation. 
 
 5339. We must not unduly meditate on all subjects. Time is 
 patient, but peremptory at last. 
 
 5340. Do not fortify danger with the fear of it. 
 
 5341. Old rules may be deterrent to modern sentiments ; but it is 
 not indispensible to true progressive developments that all ideas 
 should be novel. 
 
 5342. Taxation has a long tether ; and the measure of revenue is 
 seldom filled to the brim. 
 
 5343. Be true to the principles of justice, even if it prosper thine 
 enemy. 
 
 5344. Hazard an expression, and wisdom will sometimes sanc- 
 tion it. 
 
 5345. It is possible to re-produce and excel human work, as 
 being short of perfection ; possibility advances the greatest. 
 
168 MAXIMS. 
 
 5346. Beproach from the influential not only shortens labour at 
 times, but destroys the worth of it. 
 
 5347. The opposite direction is the length of a world. 
 
 5348. Governments affected alter destiny. 
 
 5349. Kevolution is frequently the pivot of a nation's destiny. 
 
 5350. We are only influential as we act or direct. Kemember 
 that in all constituted governments there is authority to suppress, or 
 even destroy, internal anarchy. 
 
 5351. Meditation justifies inaction for merit. 
 
 5352. True peace of soul is not inaction of faculty, but exercise ; 
 for good is labour and worth. 
 
 5353. Place life on one side, balance by straightforwardness on 
 the other. Judge these the true necessities of conduct. 
 
 5354. To duly consider thine own failings is, of itself, an advance 
 in virtue. 
 
 5355. Cast not thine eye where the soul consents not. 
 
 5356. Delightful is the just man by his example like a prayer 
 vouchsafed. 
 
 5357. What print takes in hand, the issue who can tell ? 
 Influence or positions accepted by the public being tantamount to 
 their declaration is part of destiny. 
 
 5358. We have essences of nature and value why not also the 
 essentials of literature, condensed in apothegmatic form? The 
 labouring eye is not always strong, and time wears on with the most 
 patient. 
 
 5359. Use gives facility in thought and the arts. Music (in the 
 composing branch) may as readily be dictated and composed as the 
 ephemeral literature, or even conversational matter, of the day that 
 is unrecorded. These fruits are ever to be gathered, for they die not, 
 but increase with the consumption. Again : Fictitious names (or 
 titles) not wanting in euphony may be formed of nearly every 
 tri-syllable word in every language : a mint of character-names for 
 our fiction -writers, poets, or dramatists. . 
 
 5360. Words from any of the poets nay, even prose passages 
 can be accommodated to written or improvised music ; equally 
 echoes from harmony's cave. Good poetry is not an essential of 
 good or characteristic music. All faculties include these charac- 
 teristics. 
 
 5361. The record of the just soul is not without its objective 
 interest. 
 
 5362. Philosophy renders the truth transparent, subject to 
 wisdom and faith. Mystery may solve mystery by an abstract 
 process, for all solutions of mystery must be considered, in a 
 measure, abstract. The mind, as with all history, at length will find 
 a denouement, on the assumption that the end is necessary as the 
 beginning in all true philosophical investigations. 
 
 . 5363. Events are ever springing from events preceding, as air 
 supports and produces air. Dependence and mutual support are the 
 strata of the universe. 
 
 5364. Words are subjects, and lexicography may be termed a list 
 of philosophical systems, for a word contains the principle of a 
 system, as a single thought may be expanded to, comparatively, 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 169 
 
 endless volumes. Thus the domain of philology may be enlarged 
 as including thought, language, and philosophy ; yet, in a measure, 
 all the systems of the human mind may be said to interpenetrate 
 rather than be self-existent. 
 
 5365. Fill with mud the eyes and ears of your modern sceptics, 
 yet will they dilate upon them, for the modern pen is ever ready. 
 They would question the influence of the elements mental doubters, 
 not oblivious of death and bodily pain. 
 
 5366. True progress is above national glory, as international or 
 combined power exceeds that of any one single nation. 
 
 5367. Let the rulers of all States give the public more of the man 
 and less of the paraphernalia of office. Men are they still, but 
 blinded by false opinions of their own importance ; mere show and 
 parade (consorts of vanity) are not true human dignities. 
 
 5368. We respect, perforce, a writ, although we might not the 
 origin of it. The origin of some laws are closed doors, for dignity 
 would be out-countenanced with the knowledge. 
 
 5369. Great power can bear great criticism. 
 
 5370. Division in States is, at times, more to be reprobated than 
 unjust revolution. 
 
 5371. The people that support a State should govern it. 
 
 5372. When the army is in direct antagonism to the people's will, 
 the government (as far as just principle is concerned) may be said to 
 be indirect in its influence. In national difficulties mutual conces- 
 sions are preferable to transgressions upon either side. 
 
 5373. If the time compels, the pen must declare. Asseverate not ; 
 but down with your dictum down with the die. 
 
 5374. Vanity gathers often but to display or distribute rather 
 Chan to store. 
 
 5375. Mannerism is character, but at a disadvantage. 
 
 5376.^Seek influence by every lawful means, if the cause warrant 
 
 5377. All worldly gain is decided by time. 
 
 5378. Human nature is responsible only to the extent reason 
 demands. 
 
 5379. Let thy just actions and thoughts be thorough and constant : 
 like the light of the sun, which sets but to re-appear. 
 
 5380. Exempt from its duty is no living soul, for all existence is 
 dependence on the CREATOR. 
 
 5381. The will blinds the follower of heretical opinions to his 
 own destruction. There is no cause for the soul to aspire to when 
 the true faith (Catholicity) is declined from. Unlike modern- 
 devised systems, those of the saints have been proved by Divine 
 Authority sanctioned by countless miracles. The power God 
 Almighty has given to the Koman Catholic Church to teach the 
 nations can by no power of the world be withdrawn ; for the deci- 
 sion of the Almighty liuler is never repealed. Divine judgments are 
 eternal in justice being founded upon it. 
 
 5382. The wise man approves only the glory attached to just 
 actions. 
 
 5883. Just power is not content with its own interests. 
 
 5384. Impart the knowledge that improves without derogation. 
 
170 MAXIMS. 
 
 5385. Success, as well as misery, still draws to its close. 
 
 5386. No sooner is a system or invention approved than the 
 insatiable spirit of clique endeavours to secure the benefits. 
 
 5387. Give us & literature with impartial views in accordance 
 with the principles of fair play and human justice, as between man 
 aod man suppressing personalities. 
 
 5388. Eetrench proportionably for exceptional expense. 
 
 5389. Will, power, and opportunity are the three essentials of 
 success. 
 
 5390. If the effect be the same, learning and unwit are equal. 
 
 5391. Call not earnest endeavour in a public cause vanity; a just 
 cause stands in need of support from all. 
 
 5392. Many a good bag has an indifferent lining. 
 
 5393. Begulate thy time by maxims of prudence, nor is it neces- 
 sary to consult books to adopt or form them. Each man may 
 compose, for thoughts are authorised by the thinker, and the day 
 comes at last when maxims avail not ; but truth is never out of use. 
 Still be truthful to the end of the journey. 
 
 5394. Time controls many fortunes between cause and result. 
 
 5395. Give truth the fairest expression, and influence not the 
 judgment beyond its due province. 
 
 5396. The people's approval (the true sanction of law) should 
 ever be considered the only guerdon of the government or ruler. 
 
 5397. Never sanction peculation in office : repetition of such 
 weakens the force of law itself. 
 
 5398. Libel should be once and for ever exploded by man, as 
 being unnecessary, abhorrent to all just sentiment, and an evil. 
 Let the strong common-sense of writers render the libel law a blank 
 in the statute. Bring even the supposition of an advanced age to 
 your aid, and act up to the sentiment ; supposition in the interest of 
 virtue is preferable to the declared passion of enmities. 
 
 5399. Money is a potent salve for interest; but public apology 
 should be admissible instead public disavowal of alleged libellous- 
 utterance, stringent and compulsory withal. 
 
 5400. Old usage is the magnet of custom. 
 
 5401. Perhaps all our thoughts are maxims capable of being 
 aphoristically expressed ; nor is the kitchen without its philosophy, 
 and similes (the strong point of your well-worn proverb or adage), 
 may be found in all subjects. 
 
 5402. Could we choose our state of life, we would probably lose 
 by want of energy. 
 
 5403. It is in the application, rather than the sense, wherein 
 words differ. 
 
 5404. If you are suffering under an embarras de richesse, what, 
 then, is your definition of pain ? Yet, pause, where many paws are 
 
 held out eleemosynary considerations involved. To exhaust your 
 
 store is a simple word. 
 
 5405. The man that loves danger should be still ruled by the 
 necessity of it. 
 
 5406. Desires controlled ensure peace of soul. 
 
 5407. Some commands are commendations. 
 
BY EDWABD COUNSEL. 171 
 
 5408. Justify thy life by labour in the cause of humanity. We 
 take nothing out of the world, but we can leave good sentiments 
 and examples (fruits of faculty) behind. 
 
 5409. International adages or proverbs might prove more accept- 
 able if they referred more to mental and less to material injunction. 
 
 5410. A publisher's friendship is preferable to the favour of 
 courts. 
 
 5411. Welcome still the appearance of books, and rejoice at the 
 increase of a nation's population. The more people the more 
 readers (a small audience is but a partial public, an incomplete 
 judgment), the more and adverse criticism. Yet, welcome number, 
 for without it there is neither glory nor strength. The alliance of 
 minds is a stronger power than that of the sword ; yet, contemn no 
 army : the soldier defends the nation honour his escutcheon. 
 
 5412. Public philanthropic advisers might be instituted men of 
 standing and repute to advise (gratuitously) in domestic, and even 
 public, affairs and negotiations. 
 
 5413. The office-man is seldom impartial in views affecting his 
 own status. 
 
 5414. Rejoice at the extinction of enmity rather than pain. 
 
 5415. Consider for three days proposals that have no monetary 
 basis, and then let judgment be deferred. Some proofs cannot bear 
 repetition. 
 
 5416. As water leavens bread, so does equity temper the law's 
 severity. 
 
 5417. Successful negotiations concluded are many dangers passed 
 through. 
 
 5418. One mind, numberless influences. Opinions are never 
 unleavened. 
 
 5419. Consider all subjects irrelevant that advance not the main 
 idea. 
 
 5420. Contention sometimes clouds the best sentiments. 
 
 5421. Force without due guidance is but a blank shot inert 
 matter. 
 
 5422. Every property requires its domain wherein to act. 
 
 5423. Let reason command discretion. 
 
 5424. Assertions and proverbs must be accepted only as their 
 results justify. 
 
 5425. What is not sanctioned by Divine Law is ever subject ta 
 evil interpretation. 
 
 5426. Before you adopt a patient attitude, be sure the ground of 
 it stands well under you. 
 
 5427. If we suffer in a reasonable undertaking, should we 
 "prosper" in an unreasonable one? 
 
 5428. Evil increases with the approbation of it. 
 
 5429. New forces are derived from old ones, and in all is there 
 mutual dependence. We cannot exhaust nature, neither can we 
 destroy it. 
 
 5430. We often attiibute that to "fortune" which is properly 
 but the result of cogitation. 
 
 5431. There is no true sphere for inert nationality : power must 
 be pronounced. 
 
172 MAXIMS. 
 
 5432. Be good and take good : welcome is bounty. (A TOAST.) 
 5433. The Religion of the CROSS must conquer, for the True 
 Faith knows no victor. Heretics and Sceptics, ye only agree in the 
 sceptical part. Tell the world where your faith-certainty is. 
 Does it lie if so, where ; or, say it lies, once and for all, and abjure. 
 If it is a principle, where is your foundation? Nothing? Then ye 
 are "nothing," and yet, human? All that is opposed to the 
 Catholic Church is self-condemnatory as antagonistic to the 
 Divine Law and Scriptures. GOD has condemned heresy and has 
 prejudged it; and, in fact, Scepticism is not even a Principle: as 
 being abhorrent to the True Faith which is that founded by 
 CHBIST and the Apostles - the one and only true Eoman Catholic 
 Church. The CBEATOB has given no warranty for schism or 
 scepticism. His laws are unalterable, and decisions not to be revoked. 
 Return, therefore, to the bosom of the One True Faith, wherein is 
 only Peace. 
 
 5434. The lives of the glorious Saints the true epics of the 
 Soul are examples of the force and power of Faith (unlike fictitious 
 narrative) : of interest and benefit. 
 
 5435. The True Faith supported by the Divine Power shall 
 conquer, at length, all animosity. 
 
 5436. The heart that is influenced by true sentiments of Divine 
 Beneficence exists in a sphere of holiness. 
 
 5437. It is only for Divine souls to attain the uttermost in Divine 
 perfection. 
 
 5438. It is Divinity only that is capable of just solutions of human 
 causes. 
 
 5439. Facts are but mysteries solved, and yet but partly solved. 
 We may (in justice) use a gift, without requiring its actual solution. 
 
 5440. Truth has ever the power of expansion, and the teaching 
 of principles. 
 
 5441. To eschew evils is to destroy them as affecting your own 
 soul. 
 
 5442. Prayer is the expression of the soul to the Divine Creator 
 in gratitude for benefits received earnest for bounties to come. 
 
 5443. The Cross is the standard which towers above all. The 
 spirit of Faith cannot be controlled by earthly power. 
 
 5444. Public approval justifies repeal of the statute the con- 
 sideration of new measures : the true theme of enactments ever 
 variable. Your ever constant enactment is inconstant legislation. 
 
 5445. Books come and depart like the seasons, and seem to be 
 as constant. Yet as new ideas come to the surface, so the necessity 
 of new books for explanation arises. If ideas are books (or capable 
 of being formed into books), the world may be considered as a huge 
 library. 
 
 5446. Business is, generally, unimaginative in fact, or assumed 
 to be ; and yet sentiments (maxims) support it. 
 
 5447. Poverty is but want of influence. 
 
 5448. Language is an open plain : we can all walk over it. 
 
 5449. Less models of just living and more proofs of it. 
 
 5450. Novelty has generally an obstacle before it. Custom is a 
 strong barrier. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 173 
 
 5451. If the Truth were not assailed, there would be no need for 
 defending it; but as evil is ever in the world (and its insidious 
 motives countenanced by number), so must it be strenuously 
 opposed. 
 
 5452. Wisdom is before us, but we often look the other way, aa 
 from a friend we do not wish to recognise. 
 
 5453. Life is, perhaps, the strangest mystery in its partialities. 
 
 5454. The Being of the Soul may be the spirit conscious ; the 
 consciousness of the body is the heart, controlled by the soul. The 
 body (guarded by wisdom) guards these, by some inscrutable law of 
 our Being, while guarded by it. 
 
 5455. Could the value of the material world, be concentrated in 
 one object, wisdom would still control it. 
 
 5456. In forsaking the world, let us, at least, rejoice that Death 
 renders evil innocuous. 
 
 5457. Power, in giving sentence, sometimes controls a thousand 
 destinies. 
 
 5458. Ambition seeks more the more it is favoured, like the 
 wealthy artist and miser seek gold. The public is the spring-source 
 of most human ambitions not to be contemned when devoted ta 
 progress and the advancement of public interests. 
 
 5459. What is impossible to man is also to peace and war. 
 
 5460. Perils crowd land and sea, for accident is never dead. 
 
 5461. If perfection be unattainable let us not regret it, for we 
 should not mourn impossibilities. 
 
 5462. Where reason is proved by right, its portion is right. 
 
 5463. Essentials are sometimes lost sight of in the confusion of 
 party or revolution ; but when secure government is established, 
 they should first be recognised. 
 
 5464. What is, is the voice or power of destiny : which is neither 
 felt before nor after the event other than by its effects remaining. 
 
 5465. Wisdom (never absent if called upon) is the faithful 
 attendant of the soul in all just works and aspirations. 
 
 5466. Speak not of terror to infancy, but let all colours be bright. 
 
 5467. Humour on grave subjects is often more affected than felt. 
 
 5468. Of all transgressors of Divine Wisdom, perhaps the scoffer 
 is the worst. Mere scoffing is neither rule nor argument. 
 
 5469. What concerns all imports possibility and benefits ; the 
 less a sentiment affects humanity at large, so, in the same degree, is 
 its effect diminished. 
 
 5470. If thy thought plays false with thee, curb it with the soul's 
 disdain. Let disdain ever follow what is contrary to right : the soul 
 may consent to, but cannot approve of evil. 
 
 5471. Dangers are generally encountered with more avidity when 
 numbers witness. Thus is there, not unfrequently, a spirit of vanity 
 in meeting death itself. 
 
 5472. Difficulties are frequently but the sentiments at variance. 
 
 5473. Anarchy seeks a model of government, but neglects the 
 decision. 
 
 5474. The three essentials in the policy of States may be said to 
 comprise: good law, its impartiality, and decision. Law extended 
 over years owns either a bad cause or weak argument. 
 
174 MAXIMS. 
 
 5475. Advance your own kindred if you have the power, for they 
 are of the same blood (we must never deny blood), and their interest 
 in your work your glory or peril is ever stronger than that of the 
 stranger. 
 
 5476. Be faithful with confidence reposed, for it is the deed of 
 the heart. 
 
 5477. Caprice is rather folly in intention than in fact. 
 
 5478. Where the Cross or Catholicity is unknown there is 
 perpetual blindness : want of faith darkness of soul. 
 
 5479. We may be of the world, yet forsake its deceits (luxury 
 being one of the most poisonous). Have faith, wherein the soul finds 
 peace. There is still peace to be found in the monastery or the 
 solitude of thine own soul: for the contemplation of justice divine 
 and perpetual. 
 
 5480. Rule your present state in obedience to Divine law, justice 
 to man, equal respect of thyself and neighbour, and firm reliance 
 upon Divine promise. What wisdom (the voice and authority of the 
 Catholic Church) sanctions, Heaven favours. 
 
 5481. Books have too frequently proved battle-fields of jarring 
 sentiments. A new era is desirable. Lei charity be the watchword ; 
 union of efforts (national and international the object), to the entire 
 exclusion of unbecoming personalities. A lasting record suits best 
 charitable construction. Equality is the corner-stone of the republic 
 of literature ; let charity be the standard. 
 
 5482. OF THE AUTHOR'S THEORY OF AN UNIVERSAL MELODIC COM- 
 POSING (THEMAL) FACULTY. SOME INFERENCES DRAWN. 
 
 [The author read a lecture upon this subject, but the plan of the 
 present work does not admit of more than a cursory glance at some 
 of the leading principles of the system.] 
 
 LEADING IDEAS. 
 
 1. That all human beings possess the germs or faculty of a 
 melodic composing (themal) faculty. 
 
 2. That, if once fairly aroused, there are no termini to the opera- 
 tions of this faculty. 
 
 3. That the human mind is more capable of producing than of 
 receiving ; and that whatever, consequently, is productive may be 
 added to. 
 
 As the author has observed in the preface, he is the composer of 
 twenty thousand original airs, and other musical pieces ; but he 
 could have attained one hundred thousand (or more) if time per- 
 mitted, or the public demanded. 
 
 The "melodic composing faculty," he maintains, is possessed by 
 all human beings inherent in our very nature, and coeval with the 
 birth of time i.e., the creative power of originating melody (the 
 germal theory) a natural faculty, even to a comparatively infinite 
 extent. 
 
 How THE SYSTEM COULD BE PRACTICALLY APPLIED. 
 
 We will take, for example, a single university, consisting, say, of 
 one thousand members to begin with. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 175 
 
 Each of these our composers or melodists could write (compose) 
 at least ten original airs, or themes, per diem. [This is but a 
 moderate computation, the author having composed one hundred and 
 twenty in one day, but could in the same period. attain four or five 
 hundred.] 
 
 Now, mark the sequel of these our musical statistics, which apply 
 to all nationalities to all the human race, in fact. 
 
 Ten airs composed by each of our thousand members amounts, in 
 one day, to ten thousand; a week (of six days) gives sixty thousand ; 
 a month (thirty days) presents three hundred thousand tunes 
 harmonical progression, certainly, or rather melodic scoring without 
 11 scoring ;" and a year of three hundred days (excluding the 
 Sundays) reaches the rather considerable aggregate of three million 
 (3.000,000) original airs all the production, be it observed, of only 
 one single institute. 
 
 Yet even this record is nothing simply nothing to what could be 
 effected. 
 
 " Expand the expression," as the algebraists say apply it to all 
 the universities, musical institutes, or societies, and public bodies of 
 Europe and America, and where does that land us ? 
 
 N.B. Truly, in many branches, both in philosophy and art, 
 man has really only begun to think. 
 
 All these results are possible quite feasible if the system be but 
 once accepted by the public. . . . Space warns. 
 
 Thus more original melodies (a monstrous record for posterity 
 but where could we find players? yet could selections be made) 
 might in this manner be composed, and in one short year (or less), 
 than the history of the world has recorded since the creation 
 enough to satisfy and task the musical resources, perhaps, of a 
 quadrillion of inhabitants. We are only in the childhood of the 
 arts. . . . 
 
 It is suggested (vide APPENDIX) that the system ought to be tested 
 by some of the universities or societies, by founding an INTERNATIONAL 
 INSTITUTE OF ORIGINAL MELODIC COMPOSITION, with liberal rules of 
 entry and membership, open to all nationalities, with corresponding 
 members in every part of the globe. To include a public record of 
 results : music composed to be ultimately published or preserved in 
 manuscript. 
 
 [Other suggestions may be consulted in the APPENDIX. The 
 author will also be glad (D.V.) to afford further information, with 
 additional suggestions, to public bodies interested.] 
 
 5483. OF SOME NEW THEORIES (LITERARY AND ESTHETIC), 
 entitled, THE DICENDIAL PHILOSOPHY. 
 
 SYNOPSIS. 
 
 1. The Dicendial Philosophy. The " Spoken " or Practicable 
 Philosophy, Dicendialism. 
 
 II. The Primideal Philosophy ; or, Primideality. The Origin and 
 Nature of First or Themal (Primal) Ideality conceptive ideas 
 examined. 
 
176 MAXIMS. 
 
 III. The Universal Melodic Composing Faculty. Keferred to 
 above. The Faculty Power of Originating Melodic Themes (the 
 germs), and upon which Original Airs can be formed to a compara- 
 tively infinite extent, on the assumption that whatever the human 
 mind produces can be added to, and more capable of producing than 
 of receiving. 
 
 IV. The Multidean Theory; or, the Philosophy of the Many 
 Idead. Including aH Faculties and Conceptional Ideas: Imagina- 
 tion, Invention, Composition, Logic, Ideas on Space, Eternity, 
 Infinity, etc., in relation to the practical bearing of our Ideas on 
 Mentality. 
 
 V. The Universal Mentality ; or, Conceptional Ideality. Founded 
 upon an Axiom : that the Faculties of Mentality and Dicendialism 
 are endless, infinite in productive energeia, and common to all 
 human beings ; and that all men are equal, not in the degree or 
 scale, but in mentalic productive power. The System applies also 
 to the Theory of an Universal Melodic (Themal) Composing Faculty. 
 
 VI. Intermentality ; or, the Intermental Philosophy. Intermental 
 Ideas, or Ideality (Theory). The Interidealisation of Human 
 Faculty. Causative Ideas ; also Themality. 
 
 VII. Themality. Theory Practice ; or, Compound Mentality and 
 Practice. 
 
 VIII.Themography. (Literally, " The Description of a 
 Theme.") On subject-matter of above, with Themographic Library, 
 Institute, Course of Study, etc. The New (Future) Literature 
 relating to these and cognate systems, which are infinite also in 
 number, like unto our thoughts and faculties, on the assumption of 
 the position that under every idea lies a philosophy. 
 
 IX. 1. Totalic and Dicendial Philosophy ; or, Theory. Combina- 
 tion of foregoing, solely literary and undoctrinal ; and 
 
 2. The endless and ever-revolving Domain of Thought. 
 
 ADDENDA or TEBMS 
 
 Proposed to be employed in the discussion of the new theories ; 
 other terms, without limitation, to be added at the discretion of 
 writers, on the assumptions that Language, ever changing, like 
 laws and enactments ; and that the lexicon is ever in a transitory 
 state, never completed human ideas never exhausted. 
 
 Dicendial, Dicendialism (from "dieendi"), Interidealise, Inter- 
 idealisation, &c., Themography, Themographic, Primideal, Mentalic 
 (or Mentalitic), Mentalist, Dicendialist, Plumal, Themal, Themality, 
 Multidean, Pseudo-Mentalist, Armied, Affectment, Sonetic, Can- 
 zonic (relating to Song), Lectural, Arcanist, Arcanise, Canzonic- 
 rendering, Tonetic (relating to Tone, Tune, &c.), Untonetic, Tonetic- 
 musings (or impromptu renderings), Tonist (vide " Designs"), Harp- 
 ful, Cartelier, Trional, Datatic, Notal, Sub-note, Sub-notal, Phonody, 
 Phonodic, Phonodise (sound-words), Phonologue, Dialette (Manual- 
 Dial vide "Designs"), Dialetic, Operatist, Singings, Statial, Homo- 
 Boph, Logophon, Guitarine, Guitarinic, Guitarinist, Kegistracy, 
 Volumed, Bibliothetic, Frefacial, Operonist, Unwit, Duetize, Pro- 
 nunciate, Ariettic, Disective, Concertic, Maximist, Maximise, Maxi- 
 mical, Revetic, Choralic, Tonised, Untonised, Canzonics, Phantomic, 
 
BY EDWABD COUNSEL. 177 
 
 Pendom (Plumalist, Plumalise, &o.), Musettio, Voceric, Letrillio, 
 Pifanic, Nominio, Impunitious, Impulsed, Indexial, " Indexial 
 History," Fictionist, Enfame, Tunefelt, Odeonic, Germal, Germalise, 
 Pianic, Rondelic, Injunctive, Themaseum, with others. 
 
 5484. Truth forbids the facts to be distorted. 
 
 5485. Death favours neither the prosperous nor unfortunate. 
 
 5486. Philosophy becomes prudence with discretion of sentiment. 
 
 5487. Expectation provides and influences the welcome. 
 
 5488. Excite only just sentiments ; applaud only prudent actions 
 and resolutions. 
 
 5489. Honesty need seek no trial its action confirms the dictates 
 of conscience. 
 
 5490. Debar not truth admittance. 
 
 5491. Worlds are not presentable. 
 
 5492. The value of a city may be estimated, but not the worth of 
 life. 
 
 5493. Destiny controls all wishes. 
 
 5494. Poetics condensed to facts make strange alterations. 
 
 5495. Poetry and prose are two handles to the same subject two 
 covers to the same table. 
 
 5496. Contentment is a picture indistinct, yet looked at with 
 false lens. 
 
 5497. It is not becoming to reflect upon that which is unavoidable 
 good or bad fortune. 
 
 5498. Hope might be termed the in-blooded sentiment, for it 
 remains with man constant as the blood. 
 
 5499. If we cannot be wise in all our undertakings let us try at 
 least to realise our just endeavours. 
 
 5500. Scorn (pride's neighbour) should only condemn those things 
 that deserve reprobation. 
 
 5501. Variety breaks the chain at times, but mends the interest. 
 
 5502. Just national pride seeks no dishonour. 
 
 5503. What is strength in generalities may be weakness in par- 
 ticulars; herein wisdom gives the solution or controls the exception. 
 
 5504. If the result is the same, what matters it whether it be 
 brought about by genius, faculty, or money? 
 
 5505. Why not prose songs to improvised melodies ? Memory is 
 not always constant, nor a repertoire at hand. 
 
 5506. The law is the vocation of mind and speech. 
 
 5507. How different are the facilities of mankind in the arts and 
 esthetics rivalling the faculties. 
 
 5508. The melodic faculty has declared buoyancy, and is, more- 
 over, always available. Facility in composing (or improvising) 
 increases the power and readiness of the faculty; you may spin 
 melodies (an endless series) round the mind, like cotton round the 
 reel, or the cotton-spinner's machine round the "mules." 
 
 5509. Tone is much, but mind more. 
 
 5510. Let a series of occasional songs be adopted to suit the 
 intervals of, not the acts only, but scenes of both tragedy and 
 
178 MAXIMS. 
 
 comedy. The "Unities" were originally invented, probably, by a 
 few, as also our modes and manners. Let there be more humanity 
 and less character make-up. New rules accepted are proved. 
 
 5511. What a man eats and dreams is a great part of his 
 character being and time. Man is the province wherein sentiments 
 must act. 
 
 5512. Will takes longer to analyse than deeds. 
 
 5513. The dead leave two forces behind to influence example 
 and works. 
 
 5514. The wisdom of others is often credited when it is in reality 
 inferior to your own. 
 
 5515. Practice or facility in an art should not so much give 
 boldness as certainty. 
 
 5516. There is no egotism in the unknown. Praise must be open. 
 
 5517. Ungenerosity is too frequently represented in art and the 
 professions. 
 
 5518. Three " outs" is character measure. 
 
 5519. Extremity is always guilty when strict justice guards the 
 question. 
 
 5520. If you will soar, carry some earth with you. 
 
 5521. Sound and supposition is the backbone of rhythm the life 
 of fiction. 
 
 5522. Politics is the interminable ground of dispute most con- 
 stant in its variety. 
 
 5523. Teach the prudence gained by industry and habit. 
 
 5524. Kevere the Cross, and in faith put your trust as the Divine 
 hope light the standard of eternity. 
 
 5525. We should not condemn in another what we would justly 
 accept. 
 
 5526. There is a volume of injunctive philosophy in the simple 
 word "heed;" many other words of the lexicon may be said to 
 represent, also, principles, and even systems. 
 
 5527. The anonymous may egotise the known, placate. 
 
 5528. Public benefits justify enactments repealed or replaced. 
 
 5529. The law may justly command the appearance with the 
 support of recognition. 
 
 5530. Public approval is better than the ruler's sign-manual. 
 
 5531. We too often hunger after material gains, and neglect 
 those of the virtues the riches of the soul. 
 
 5532. Just severity is no oppression. 
 
 5533. Look not into travels for impartial narrative. Your 
 national (uncosmical) traveller seldom leaves his prejudices behind. 
 
 5534. Suspicion may not be always justified, but in new, and, 
 consequently, unproved undertakings, it is a good guard-com- 
 mentary. 
 
 5535. After the event, history is paper. 
 
 5536. Attraction, repulsion, and support are three potent 
 principles upon which many causes depend. 
 
 5537. In every objection is involved a new principle. 
 
 5538. Superiority and inferiority are two sentiments ever 
 applicable to new ideas or systems. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 179 
 
 5539. Sentiments are transformed as they affect ; adversity, that 
 proves the brave, weakens the faint-hearted. 
 
 5540. In the action is often the conscience exampled. 
 
 5541. Imagination and mystery lean on fact. 
 
 5542. Sufficiency, to be rightly understood, should be an antidote 
 to excess. Rely upon the man who, with the power of exceeding his 
 just wants, contents himself with moderate desires. Trust the self- 
 commanding. 
 
 5543. The material worth of worlds must not be weighed against 
 Divine injunction. 
 
 5544. A constitution rigidly enforced is better than liberty 
 without order or freedom undefined. 
 
 5545. Most nations speak of their laws as if they were to be 
 eternal ; but sober history (both ancient and modern) has given the 
 lie the strong lie to these partial assumptions. The best laws are 
 those most suited to the wants of the present, in accordance with 
 international usages. 
 
 5546. As the mind increases its ideas or gifts by length of years, 
 so may the causes (that the universe surround and affect) be 
 eternally progressive. 
 
 5547. Conscience is the just case of wisdom. 
 
 5548. Authorities of style and language, as they must have been 
 originated (or invented), so, like other inventions, are they capable of 
 being either altered or added to. Need (which should ever command 
 convenance) with due sense of aptitude is sufficient authority for 
 changes in language or alterations in style. 
 
 5549. National antagonism should be confined to the cause, and 
 not descend to hatred. 
 
 5550. Pursuits should be regulated so as to promote the well- 
 being and progress of thyself and others in virtue, with lawful 
 benefits shared. 
 
 5551. Pride, although it may not prevent success, does not 
 justify it. 
 
 5552. Silence and time precede and follow all arguments. 
 
 5553. It is the imagination that defines success or ill-fortune, 
 pain and pleasure. Fact is inert. 
 
 5554. The more societies and cliquism, the more closed doors. 
 
 5555. Difference in imagination is, oftentimes, sameness in fact. 
 
 5556. After shooting the dart, it is too late to examine the head. 
 
 5557. Nothing without its answer for results may be considered 
 answers ; proofs are not always available or essential. 
 
 5558. What is not essential need not be regretted. 
 
 5559. Approval of good is the soul of bounty. 
 
 5500. Posterity is a capacious repository. A theme or melody is 
 superior to an exercise ; therefore, every air or motif composed claims 
 recognition, and deserves preservation, by being publicly recorded in 
 manuscript or print. 
 
 5561. Suspense is the obscurity of fate. 
 
 5562. The removal of some inconveniences often result in the 
 appearance of others. 
 
 5563. Proved or improved, there is always some after-cause. 
 
 5564. The soul must be conscious of its worth, or worth is at fault. 
 
180 MAXIMS. 
 
 5565. What is thought well of prudence must be of it ; for, in 
 just ideas, examples worthy of being followed pre-exist. 
 
 5566. No end shows the proof without some precedence. 
 
 5567. Wisdom is the impetus of the soul. 
 
 5568. Gratitude for life is a bounden duty to the CREATOR. 
 
 5569. Strive for assured results in virtue ; the rest is loss. 
 
 5570. In legitimate undertakings, when the object is just, pay for 
 influence if not otherwise obtainable. 
 
 5571. Eternal wisdom is ever present. The trional sentiment 
 past, present, and future applies to all, unfolding mystery : the 
 solution of the mental and material universe. 
 
 5572. Every action and idea are, in a measure, tests of wisdom 
 adopted or rejected ; for wisdom affects all in general, but its essence 
 is special. 
 
 5573. The mind of man unenmitied and guided by true charity 
 is, after all, a glorious inheritance. 
 
 5574. Still let humility control success, for nothing is completed 
 but death. 
 
 5575. Be firm in truth with friend and foe. 
 
 5576. We often praise that state of life we are not inclined to 
 follow. 
 
 5577. Political systems that are unjust to nationalities should 
 be sanctioned neither by power nor sympathy. 
 
 5578. Seek prudence, not from thine own stores only, but from 
 the proved discretion of others. 
 
 5579. Let us teach what all can attain, not that which none can 
 reach. 
 
 5580. Those arts and sciences that humanise the mind are to be 
 preferred to those tending to destructive force. 
 
 5581. Wisdom is felt before imagined or proved. 
 
 5582. Bear patience in mind charity towards all indulgence to 
 your kind. 
 
 5583. Let follies pass by as rain. 
 
 5584. When the eye can only choose, it is like to err. 
 
 5585. The prelude of a melodic theme exists in any three notes. 
 
 5586. When will invention or possibility, fact and fiction, terminate ? 
 What is not proved to be impossible may justify hope. Adopting 
 this position, is it unreasonable to hope that the time may yet arrive 
 when every considerable house may not only have their own litera- 
 ture, but also melodies the composition of the inmates ? Printing 
 may still be made more available by competition, and what is now 
 difficulty transformed to simplicity. The faculties of the human 
 mind are producible. Let there be, however, in every town a public 
 museum (Themaseum) to preserve all designs and manuscripts sub- 
 mitted National or International governed by restrictive rules. 
 
 5587. The avowal is honour but expressed, the result honour 
 proved. 
 
 5588. Imagination must still be bounded and supported by fact. 
 
 5589. When the general consensus of opinion decides what is the 
 criterion, it will always have some followers. 
 
 5590. Peril is but attraction for the brave. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 181 
 
 5591. There is generally some latent vanity in the man that 
 hastily condemns a book. 
 
 5592. The progress of the human race (rather than the suppres- 
 sion of rights) should be the aim of legislation. 
 
 5593. Diversity of studies must be decided by necessity or taste. 
 
 5594. If all would take, the possessor need not be envied ; the 
 first discoverer, or occupier, makes his own right. 
 
 5595. An international alliance, or league of art and science, is 
 to be preferred to the comparatively ephemeral exposition, which 
 leaves no practicable result no lasting record. 
 
 5596. In truth, trust, honour, charity: a motto wherein the 
 sentiments interidealise. 
 
 5597. To resign and not to lose pleasure ; to produce and not 
 to labour imagination, or the exercise of the melodic faculty ; to 
 be just to all and yet not transgress charity. 
 
 5598. Divine wisdom is eternal surety. 
 
 5599. Master only those subjects that deserve the labour, and 
 which time shall justify. 
 
 5600. Dispositions differ through different results, hoped or 
 gained. 
 
 5601. Dissipation is the abuse of luxury ; even benefits must not 
 be used to excess. 
 
 5602. Dependents have many grievous moments ; there should be 
 equality, not dependence, in the same blood. 
 
 5603. There is no material state without its theoretical one also. 
 
 5604. It is a duty to promulgate ideas (or solutions discovered) 
 that affect the well-being of all, or for the progress of knowledge. 
 
 5605. Celebrity affects the pithy and the unverbosed. 
 
 5606. If the best does not improve, it is altered. 
 
 5607. If the book favours truth (and herein is philosophy), it 
 deserves recognition i.e., public preservation in the libraries. 
 
 5608. The practice is the proof of faculty and its province. 
 
 5609. Space and time affect the most important conceptions of 
 the human mind (of their own bearings). 
 
 5610. The injunctions of the wise may be made fertile in 
 example. 
 
 5611 Example is the advance guard of imitation. 
 
 5612. Life commands matter, as wisdom its vocation. 
 
 5613. An aphorism or position, old or new, affords subject for 
 thought ; but we are never without food for thought or contempla- 
 tion. We are all, necessarily, meditators. 
 
 5614. How often in life does the day end before the fruit appears. 
 
 5615. We must be wise by proxy, for all is dependence in 
 humanity till years prove the benefits. 
 
 5616. Many displacements make nature. 
 
 5617. We " could " be all in other positions in every state of life, 
 but are not. There is no retreat from being. 
 
 5618. Heaven does not grant to lose. 
 
 6619. Let us hear no more of the absence or emptiness of ideas 
 in any human soul. Every idea may be expanded to infinity, as 
 philosophy exists in every idea even to the extent of a system. 
 
182 MAXIMS. 
 
 5620. Accession of new forces is invariably strength ; where 
 there is room for more, no state can be said to be complete until the 
 void be filled. Let literary and musical orders be, therefore, instituted 
 leagues of thought and philosophical enquiry corresponding 
 societies, and systems for the interidealisation of human faculties 
 MS. libraries a more general interchange of ideas all branches 
 and subjects musical corresponding unions by post nay, all the 
 Suggestions of the Designs [see APPENDIX] with view to ultimate 
 publication or preservation in an international institute. 
 
 5621. Nothing is apart from time which is evermore. 
 
 5622. The virtues and sentiments die not but in their applications. 
 
 5623. There are in every society forward men who assume the 
 lead such the origin of power ; in the old times, conspiracy has 
 produced emperors and dynasties. 
 
 5624. Ideas formulated and approved by power have the force of 
 law, for power makes law. 
 
 5625. If evil contention attracts, it is to our demerit. 
 
 5626. The faculties of the soul make worth in sound and sub- 
 stance in thought. 
 
 5627. The virtues being eternal are not of themselves only, but 
 proved in existence. There must ever be a system of life-being, for 
 matter of itself has no direction. 
 
 5628.^Life, as opposed to matter, is always principal. 
 
 5629. Let no man be credited for what is beyond man's province. 
 
 5630. How gracious is it to see youth truthful and age without 
 enmity ! 
 
 5631. When the sun sets, consider how many millions are never 
 destined to behold its rising. 
 
 5632. Invention is destined to control yet more vast provinces 
 confounding man in the new forces gained in theory and fact. 
 
 5633. Never suffer wisdom to retreat before the lesser sentiments 
 or desires. 
 
 5634. Just support is the best support. 
 
 5635. Time knows no distinct division of its properties. 
 
 5636. The creation is justified in its influences. 
 
 5637. Not how much can be written upon a subject, but its 
 application to the matter or cause that is to be considered. 
 
 5638. Inability to employ all the forces of wisdom should not 
 militate against a patient trial. 
 
 5639. One movement may affect countless eventualities. 
 
 5640. If you reasonably hope that the promulgation of your ideas 
 may contribute in any way to the intellectual or material progress of 
 man, the cause justifies, nor can the old objection of vanity be 
 implied; for what may become useful to the public is a duty 
 means and time concurring. 
 
 5641. Assumption is but a stage of enquiry, and that may exist 
 which cannot be proved. 
 
 5642. The virtues should strengthen to the verge of life. 
 
 5643. Speech and presence are important motors in human 
 transactions. 
 
 5644. If hope makes the scale, prudence should balance it. 
 
 5645. Distance does not alter gold. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 183 
 
 5646. Avoid ingratitude and endeavour also not to be a cause 
 for it. 
 
 5647. Spending money without reasonable cause, or receiving 
 just equivalent in exchange, is a loss. Seldom is the ledger of life's 
 expenses equally balanced. 
 
 5648. Why should not Governments, with the immense resources 
 at their disposal (only requiring the will to effect), still enlarge their 
 influence by entering into the domain of literature, the arts, and 
 sciences special and general ? We would like to see all Governments 
 literary as political. Departments of literature and science are not 
 incompatible with politics or law, did we only think so. Authority 
 has the power to sanction (for this is law) new measures in Govern- 
 mental influences. Laws and measures once adopted come to be 
 looked at in time as necessities. 
 
 5649. The future will be fertile in new professions, systems, 
 theatres, philosophical systems (ever producible), trades and inven- 
 tions. 
 
 5650. When we work in a just cause, legitimate failings carry no 
 disgrace ; but all the efforts of evil are to be reprobated. 
 
 5651. Judge not the maximist idle for he works for the pleasure 
 and benefit of others what many may think or approve of (or 
 otherwise), but who do not perform. The faculty exists in all, and 
 may be applied by all. Life itself may be termed a live maxim ; for, 
 as we cannot exist out of time, so cannot we live without wisdom in 
 some degree. We may apportion wisdom and time, but neither can 
 be totally destroyed or rendered inoperative. 
 
 5652. The public like candour, and an author's wish is frequently 
 more potent than his duty. The public, it must be confessed, 
 possess a multiplicity of servants who, unlike the ordinary domestics, 
 are quite willing to work without wages, and not unfrequently even 
 to pay for the privilege. Not of any distinct nationality ; the public 
 libraries being their homes in every land. 
 
 5653. We are not called upon to test every axiom, if we apply 
 justly those accepted in conformity to true recognised principle. 
 
 5654. We may work in accordance with a sentiment unexpressed, 
 or even unthought of ; and the wisest actions are sometimes per- 
 formed without wisdom being actually expressed. At times self- 
 interest (not invariably unjust) guides us yet is this of itself a 
 proportionable wisdom, so to speak ; for we cannot (as above 
 observed) work out of some degree of wisdom as we cannot exist 
 without time. 
 
 5655. If the proposition be understood, and therefore accepted, 
 the applications (like all our ideas, numberless) may be well left for 
 future commentators. Life is indeed too short for the due expansion 
 of every idea that presents itself or axiom that occurs. 
 
 5656. Time may be considered in some measure as a system of 
 displacements, yet without loss ; for how can we decide which is 
 best (or otherwise) on what is indivisible ? 
 
 5657. Let human charity be more generally diffused in laws and 
 enactments ; and the axiom (that should be universally inculcated) 
 that truth should never be impulsed to its detriment. 
 
 TTTTTCT 
 
184 MAXIMS. 
 
 5658. To be truly impunitious you must combine the power of 
 wisdom with the strength of authority. 
 
 5659. Music may be termed the gracious art, yet, above all arts 
 wisdom towers, as being the universal principle, and (in a measure 
 the possession of all the guiding principle of Heaven the soul of 
 the sentiments. 
 
 5660. A man may be said to rob himself when he unjustly 
 diminishes his income or abuses his prosperity. Loss of influence 
 is loss of money. 
 
 5661. Money can make many tongues wag, either in praise or 
 censure. 
 
 5662. Without loss is victory of wisdom. 
 
 5663. Music should be more widely disseminated than it is. It 
 may be emphatically termed the people's art, as being more generally 
 acceptable amongst the people. The melodic composing faculty 
 deserves also to be more widely diffused. The world's universities 
 should spread the knowledge of this great human faculty broadcast 
 amongst the peoples the interidealisation of musical faculty: 
 uniting all mankind in the sesthetic brotherhood of musical art. 
 
 5664. Ever follow the standard of wisdom and repeat its axioms ; 
 inculcate its lessons for the thousandth time. Always present and 
 available, like the air of Heaven, we cannot exhaust its benefits. 
 
 5665. A word in praise of those excellent institutions : the world's 
 universities and public libraries. Let but an author secure the 
 admission of his book, and true justice is meted out to the offspring 
 of his muse or fancy. It is secured from the ravages of time, and, 
 clothed in vellum or russia, defies for the time being the worms that 
 prey on books and men the destiny of all. But duplicate records 
 of a book should be a condition indispensable. One book is no book 
 if it cannot be reproduced. There should also be a printing press 
 attached to all prominent libraries and Government departments. 
 
 5666. Wisdom directs that all desires light on truth. 
 
 5667. Journeys are anxieties and perils equal ; nor at home or 
 abroad are we free from them. There is no " abroad " in position. 
 
 5668. There is time for all ; but whether best or otherwise, time 
 must decide. The soul is like time, for nothing is but as it affects it. 
 
 5669. As moments are but portions of time, so in futurity 
 myriads of ages may appear as already past. 
 
 5670. Whatever the human mind may conceive or imagine 
 (produce) may be made a matter for speculative enquiry. As 
 " nothing " is an impossibility, so no subject can be a theory. 
 Theories must necessarily be subjects, or ideas ; but there is no 
 " theory " without being a subject. Thus, theory and fact inter- 
 idealise. 
 
 5671. Luck is only fortune certified. 
 
 5672. Thoughts must be assumed by acts or expressions. 
 
 5673. Claim for the pen its strict inheritance ; worldly effects are 
 all levelled after death. 
 
 5674. The clubs and societies of the world would be more just in 
 their mission by the entire exclusion of cliquism ; there is room, 
 also, for more charity a more broad-spirited principle of human 
 charity. Eeservation and one-sidedness are no friends to progress. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 185 
 
 5675. A candid man will often admit the excess in wine, but when 
 will he acknowledge that he is in receipt of (or earns) too much 
 money? Yet are both benefits. What benefits are there that 
 cannot be abused ? Wine, moreover, is a great commercial interest ; 
 at the same time, its excesses should be repressed by legislative 
 enactments. A benefit abused is no less a benefit. 
 
 5676. Endeavour to be just and complacent in public assertions. 
 A little book cannot, as we all know, overturn the principles of a 
 great nation ; at the same time, an empire is really founded on one 
 or two leading principles, that may be condensed into the same num- 
 ber of apophthegms. 
 
 5677. Every philosopher argues from his own tenets as every 
 tradesman works after and gives prominence to his own models. A 
 Maxim may be composed or formed upon any subject the spider's 
 web, for instance (fertile in simile). But, even where exceptions to 
 the general dictum are supposed to rule, the aphorism applies. Nor 
 is it essential that the maxim be expressed or written ; depend upon 
 it, that any principle fact or theory to which wisdom appertains 
 may be apophthegmatised. 
 
 5678. The absolute use of art must not be taken as a criterion or 
 necessity. 
 
 5679. The people's will recorded in a serious and formal docu- 
 ment (in accordance with just national and international usages) 
 should have the force of legal enactments. 
 
 5680. The public acceptation of new terms or words is sufficient 
 acknowledgment and authority. There should be, therefore, no 
 restriction on the admission of new words (if in any way appro- 
 priate) to the lexicon. The dictionary must be considered ever in a 
 transitory state ; and the accession of new forces, and, consequently, 
 added power additions to its copiousness to be recommended. If 
 novelty overbalances objection, then is the novelty to be received. 
 Revolutionise, then, the lexicon not by omission, but by adding to 
 its power, for power of words is number, as in population ; and this, 
 too, upon every occasion that presents itself. Themogrify and 
 logophonise to your heart's content ; verbalise, plumalise, and 
 pronunciate your ideas (at any time or place without limitation) 
 touching our old friend, the " word book." 
 
 5681. Hope is, at times, study; we frequently admire those 
 branches (of art) of which we have the least knowledge. 
 
 5682. Influences and wishes differ, according to life and modes 
 of thought. In the book republic, a publisher by two words " The 
 subject write" can command a book which may ultimately prove 
 a bibliothetic cause. 
 
 5683. Many are there that would not exchange the influence of a 
 publisher for that of the highest political power. 
 
 5684. The printer's vocation should not be classed as a " trade," 
 but the noblest of professions, for its effects last after death. 
 
 5685. A book by its mere form pleads against destruction ; but 
 the ephemeral journal is generally consigned to perdition. It seems 
 to be ridiculous to preserve these daily broadsheets in public libraries, 
 as if there were not legitimate books enough in the world to occupy 
 the available space. 
 
186 MAXIMS. 
 
 5686. We can never be certain of the end of a journey, or of a 
 public or private reception. This is essentially an age of tobacco- 
 smoking : the tobacconist's vocation is and involves capital. There 
 is, perhaps, nothing very " romantic " about either the cigar (rhymes 
 with "guitar," however), cigarito, or the honest pipe ; but, combined 
 with music (the Spanish guitar, for instance, or the guitarine when 
 manufactured and the glorious gift of nature the human voice), 
 you may always command a quasi-poetical (fanciful) " situation." 
 For example : Let a friend or two be present ; on the table a bottle of 
 amontillado, wine of Xerez, or other approved liqueur; and then 
 "What then?" Ourpoetical "situation, "of course. Without poetry ? 
 You can be poetical without poetry (paradoxical as it may seem) in 
 this wise : Conceive a Spanish Alcove (such as those drawn by the 
 Poetas in rhyme, or the not less poetic Spanish prose), and a sentence 
 or line oft repeated will suffice for the words. "But a Spanish 
 air may not be at hand?" What then becomes of our melodic 
 composing faculty? Improvise one e.g., any subject minorised will 
 answer, and the imagination will do the rest. "And the words" 
 already referred to, any Spanish sentence (poetry or prose) will 
 suffice (or, in fact, in any language make the idea universal), for 
 instance, " O mia querida Espana," and repeat ad libitum a 
 sentencia or prose song. Fancy is poetical feeling rhyme only an 
 accessory. 2. There should also be improvisation concerts the 
 music to be composed (improvised) by the performers to selected (or 
 adapted) words couplets, or even prose passages (in various 
 languages, ancient and modern), previously determined upon, or 
 chosen by the artistes themselves. [Many other suggestions may be 
 consulted in the author's " Designs "vide APPENDIX.] 
 
 5687. The general (and impartial) reader is not adverse at times 
 to sentiments brusquely expressed, nor does he invariably demand 
 that his beer should be " drawn mild." Eeaders like to have their 
 " dander" (to use the expressive Americanism) raised occasionally, 
 providing the author does it by honest and straightforward means. 
 On the other hand, a book that deals in platitudes, known to all and 
 sugared to meet all tastes, is apt to be thrown down with disgust, as 
 inducing ennui, with the observation " Too mild and tame. Give 
 us something we can improve upon something we can fight.'" 
 There would be no battles for history to record without opposition, 
 and your bravest soldier always admires a stout antagonist. 
 
 5688. Manuscript cannot rival print in its potentiality unless you 
 have a good stout balance in the bank ledger. 
 
 5689. Cursory reading of books is not without its advantages, as 
 affording variety ; and as age advances upon one, we might, perhaps, 
 pay more attention to a great variety of authors rather than to the 
 profundity of a few. The eyes do not always conform to the will. 
 
 5690. What is unattainable by man is not to be justified by hope 
 or inclination. 
 
 5691. Bind not all the imagination by the rule of your would-be 
 purists in diction that may only apply to a branch of it. 
 
 5692. Chance positions may sometimes afford ideas -better 
 adapted, however, for occasional speculation than for serious dis- 
 cussion. Any list of the sentiments will present examples. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 187 
 
 5693. The rich man brought low may, perhaps, experience more 
 anguish than the poor who never knows prosperity. 
 
 5694. Life is the beacon pointing ever to the grave. The know- 
 ledge that we all shall approach the house which is only inhabited 
 once should keep us from sin. 
 
 5695. We should endeavour to root out those desires that, 
 although not proved to be unattainable, would be unjust if realised. 
 
 5696. When we see pride (ever unmanly) associated with rank 
 and power, our feelings are generally in favour of the non-distinction 
 of class. We are all democrats at times ; and perhaps, after all, this 
 important and all-pervading principle of human democracy may be 
 strictly in accordance with the voice of nature. 
 
 5697. Our words are of no avail without just interpretation, for 
 judgment makes the stamp of merit. 
 
 5698. The absence of the leader makes dearth of influence. 
 
 5699. Province favours province; in the mine uncertain is 
 profitable gold certain the rock. 
 
 5700. Envy not the poet his successes ; the muse is privileged. 
 
 5701. Faction is the embroilment of politics. 
 
 5702. Proofs widely disseminated strengthen as law. 
 
 5703. Let the widest interpretation be given to the advice that 
 does not stand on reasonable ground. 
 
 5704. We cannot easily assimilate unconnected sentiments or 
 piece broken china. 
 
 5705. After all, the utmost ambition of men ends in affording 
 subject for the epitaph. 
 
 5706. When sentiments are evolved out of our own minds we 
 should own no disfavour. 
 
 5707. Some deliberation is requisite in all undertakings, but only 
 as the cause and time may reasonably determine. 
 
 5708. There are many to combat what is known ; but mystery has 
 no perception, upon which argument must be based. 
 
 5709. Make a just use of your present destiny; we cannot be 
 responsible altogether for future fate. 
 
 5710. No judgment necessitates delinquency. 
 
 5711. An estimate is not weight; no man can weigh his own 
 head. 
 
 5712. The ten fingers may be made emblematical of the virtues 
 (fancy's emblems), as of number : beacons of memory. 2. A time 
 meter also by the angles of the thumb and index-finger of the right 
 hand on the central vein-line of the left palm a manual dial. 
 [Vide APPENDIX.] 
 
 5713. Your man of severity is not always consistent, and seldom 
 cares to be measured by his own maxim. 
 
 5714. When we sit down to compose or write from the unseen 
 mind, we are, in a measure, children of fate ; nor can we be certain 
 the course the thoughts may take. Devious tracks are possible in 
 every cause, movement, or undertaking. 
 
 5715. Your good listeners comport, but do not impart. 
 
 5716. Condemn not sour and ill-favoured demeanour at all times ; 
 it is often affectation, and may be but a gloss over genuine human 
 charity. 
 
188 MAXIMS. 
 
 5717. There is the widest divergence from true wisdom in 
 assumption as compared to fact, for they can never coalesce. 
 
 5718. Principles survive the destruction of matter. 
 
 5719. Death itself is one of the supports, and subject to eternal 
 principle. 
 
 5720. It is not vouchsafed to man to judge or comprehend the 
 overruling principle that affects all. 
 
 5721. Serious undertakings demand that conscience be satisfied. 
 
 5722. What is intended for the use and benefit of man should 
 not be above his comprehension. 
 
 5723. Principles are universal properties to which we all may 
 have a claim. 
 
 5724. Money, like a bird, is apt to fly away if departed from. 
 
 5725. Subjects and ideas crowd destiny. 
 
 5726. Imitation is sometimes confounded with reliance. 
 
 5727. The pain that improves feeling can alone be justified. 
 
 5728. Words affect (or may be made to affect) ideas, as appear- 
 ances intention. 
 
 5729. It is time that this coronet business should be exploded ; a 
 man that is just to his station is alone ennobled by it. 
 
 5730. Let national antipathies depart from books whose object 
 should be the goodwill of progressive humanity and of the nation. 
 
 5731. For the purposes of simile or contrast, strong assertions 
 may occasionally be indulged in, but should not be confounded with 
 strong opinions. Chance (the general's idea and often victory) is 
 frequently philosophy unawares. 
 
 5732. The longest matter or detail can be condensed by time and 
 necessity. 
 
 5733. Your own opinion, publicly accepted, is public opinion. A 
 published book is public property. 
 
 5734. Books are too frequently the record of enmity or unchari- 
 tableness. Why should not evil intentions be held from the public 
 and posterity? The savage murders, but he does not mangle 
 character (or reputation) also. 
 
 5735. The serious ire of nations is the flambeau pointing to the 
 mysterious and ever-uncertain problem of war. Cursed be the 
 writers who stir up this ire between the peoples without a just cause. 
 
 5736. The greatest power is not incompatible with the calmest 
 assertion. 
 
 5737. Duty should command the ruler and ruled. 
 
 5738. Time tests and controls advantages. 
 
 5739. The book may come from the sword, and both allied. 
 
 5740. A continental public should not rejoice at either victory or 
 defeat, nor should the impartial narrator of events rejoice at the 
 triumph or adversity of opposing nationalities. 
 
 5741. Civil orders, with their adornments, are but the badges of 
 bodily distinction ; the soul cannot be marked, and death displaces all. 
 
 5742. So far as the ideas or subjects of the human mind extend, 
 all books may be considered but as introductions, for every word is a 
 lexicon of ideas. 
 
 5743. Let neither new nor old friends influence you to your 
 detriment. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 189" 
 
 5744. The tears of Government shed diamonds. 
 
 5745. Knowledge is a rock, the want of it sand. 
 
 5746. The just comprehension of difficulty tends to its solution. 
 
 5747. There is melancholy sometimes in the greatest praise. 
 
 5748. The truly brave seeks no unequal foe. 
 
 5749. The sword must be sheathed when the cause cannot be 
 improved. 
 
 5750. Responsibility is increased with power and knowledge. 
 
 5751. All ideas, words, subjects, and designs admit endless 
 variety and number, in relation to which "exhaustion" is no word> 
 or, if it be, inapplicable. 
 
 5752. The constant will (with place) commands discretion by 
 directing the road to be followed. 
 
 5753. Novelty often comes with a smiling face, and departs 
 sorrowing. 
 
 5754. What concerns us in worldly affairs must be estimated, if 
 not decided, by our own judgments. 
 
 5755. There are two great majorities the dead and the living. 
 Futurity is the public in prospective. 
 
 5756. Could chaos be repeated, wisdom would still rule. 
 
 5757. Value does not always shine the eye makes gold. 
 
 5758. When the comment excels the work, the application is 
 superior to the cause. 
 
 5759. Stirring events are not in want of durable records, and 
 departed glory is still live history. 
 
 5760. As money can command labour, so may stable government 
 secure adherents. 
 
 5761. If you rely upon fortune you must be subject to it. 
 
 5762. Posterity is not to be bribed by either name or rank. 
 
 5763. Justice can be applied to even opposing interests. 
 
 5764. If good wine exhilarates, let a word be said, also, in favour 
 of that true golden elixir (worthy of the name), the unmatched olive 
 oil the over-loaded stomach's best friend. As a medicine, and for 
 the table also, let it be introduced to our cuisine. 
 
 5765. The number would present the difficulty, even if solutions 
 were possible in all. 
 
 5766. Feeling should not distort or unduly sway principle. 
 
 5767. Illiberal sentiments are too frequently diffused by assuming 
 weakness in the opponents. 
 
 5768. When wisdom fetters, the chain never galls. 
 
 5769. Inequality of destiny is the cause of difference (or battle). 
 
 5770. Dogmatism is complete in assertion only. 
 
 5771. Deny not philosophy just surroundings. 
 
 5772. Change not principle, even for the basis of argument. 
 
 5773. Ever rejoice at enmities defeated. 
 
 5774. The leading principle of what is known cannot still control 
 investigations unknown. 
 
 5775. What affects all is often silent in its power. 
 
 5776. The cause of internationality is better served by the rivalry 
 than unity of nations. 
 
 5777. In the acceptation of great political principles consist their 
 influence and perpetuity. 
 
190 MAXIMS. 
 
 5778. Where so-called rules in art (probably the invention of one 
 arbitrary dogmatist) affect to their detriment the imaginative 
 faculties, let them be discarded. 
 
 5779. Suggestions or designs in art or imagination, when 
 accepted by the public, are advanced to rules and systems. 
 
 5780. The power to promulgate new ideas and produce new 
 faculties is often possessed by public national institutes of learning, 
 yet controlled by government and the will ; while, on the other hand, 
 the will to produce (in ordinary society) is controlled by the want of 
 power or influence. 
 
 5781. The proud shall suffer by the wants of pride. 
 
 5782. Worth is the best support of fortune. 
 
 5783. Let wisdom regulate all that you undertake. 
 
 5784. If there were no differences, we might crave for them. 
 
 5785. Time gives the cause, as cause the time. 
 
 5786. Justice should ever meet or seek wisdom. 
 
 5787. Uncertainty seeks wisdom, as danger safety. 
 
 5788. In all positions let it "be our duty and aim to endeavour to 
 regulate the soul upon just principles. 
 
 5789. Life is the enquiry of existence. 
 
 5790. The life of man is either benefit or detriment, as employed 
 justly or otherwise. 
 
 5791. When we forsake wisdom's dictates, we can consider 
 nothing stable or permanent. 
 
 5792. The truly just man would sooner see merit in others 
 rewarded than his own inequality advanced. 
 
 5793. We may well assume futurity to be the era of improvement. 
 
 5794. Popularity seldom befriends the less favoured. 
 
 5795. Censure should be guided by charity and necessity. 
 
 5796. The cause of difference is frequently assumed interest or 
 gain. 
 
 5797. Gain the will of the majority, and some power or influence 
 is assured. 
 
 5798. Simplicity, in some measure, must regulate all ideas. 
 
 5799. Even if we could conquer the will of man the result might 
 still be disparagement. 
 
 5800. Succession of events is the displacement of time. 
 
 5801. Contentment favours worth, as worth contentment. 
 
 5802. Cause (or matter) is the house exception the outside. 
 
 5803. It is gracious to respect departed worth. Just public 
 memory is the peoples' conscience. 
 
 5804. By what inherent right are dogmatic rules in literary style 
 (originated it may be by one man) advanced as laws to control ages ? 
 It is time that unprogressive literary rules should be disallowed. 
 
 5805. Wishes originate from observation, as language and most 
 of our actions. 
 
 5806. He who always continues to be rich must possess at least 
 some merit or judgment. 
 
 5807. The memory of glory is strength. 
 
 5808. Patience should be regulated by occasion and necessity. 
 
 5809. Hope oftentimes deceives in its introductions. 
 
 5810. Observation is the food of sight. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 191 
 
 5811. We are always near fact and mystery. 
 
 5812. It is better to consider unanimity of the public in a 
 gracious light. 
 
 5813. In mind and matter there must ever be foundation. 
 
 5814. Public importance never dies. 
 
 5815. Capability must depend upon reason and possibility. 
 
 5816. The truly brave make no choice between danger and safety 
 in a just cause. 
 
 5817. Truth ia neither sanctioned in division nor diminution. 
 
 5818. They who are impartial in theory are often most illiberal 
 in application. 
 
 5819. The greatest solution is not experience of the effects, but 
 knowledge of them. 
 
 5820. When the cause is advanced, destiny awaits its unfolding. 
 
 5821. Prudence should be the guard of commendation. 
 
 5822. Wisdom is ever just to the possibility and true reserve of 
 reason. 
 
 5823. Excess (even of reserve) must be considered as a portion of 
 folly. 
 
 5824. Life disharmonises in its contemplation and gifts. 
 
 5825. Mercy to the erring must be conditional with due regard 
 to the conservation of public rights and interests of the common 
 weal. 
 
 5826. Constitutions embodying the widest latitude, and most 
 liberal institutions, must still be restrictive in their measures : 
 wherein their legal status may be affected. 
 
 5827. Judge not submission in an absent foe. 
 
 5828. We cannot despise all that is unknown, for mystery is our 
 portion of life. 
 
 5829. Could we foresee results we might attach less importance to 
 them. 
 
 5830. Public condemnation is the approval of the opposite senti- 
 ment. 
 
 5831. Lost time is lost power, for we cannot influence it. 
 
 5832. Probably the majority are satisfied. 
 
 5833. Who works in the cause of human progress should not stop 
 short for mercenary interests. 
 
 5834. Endeavour to complete the year by a just record. 
 
 5835. Wealth is not always equal in its advantages.. 
 
 5836. The law must be convinced of just intention and accordant 
 acts. 
 
 5837. Low grounds, high floods : injurious to health and wealth. 
 
 5838. The law has patient ears, but strong arms ; it fears no 
 injustice, because it is competent to meet and control it. 
 
 5839. Regard the intention, which should not disparage the 
 cause. 
 
 5840. Pride of place and power the fertile cause of precipitancy. 
 
 5841. Knowledge of support controls anxiety. 
 
 5842. Time regulates power by the necessity of it. 
 
 5843. Diminish not thy substance, for it may become as thy 
 blood. ' 
 
 5844. Time and necessity teach without formula. 
 
192 MAXIMS. 
 
 5845. Let just principle be thy constant companion. 
 
 5846. Expect not misery to be removed quickly, yet deem it no 
 impossibility. 
 
 5847. Inestimable value ever surrounds us. 
 
 5848. Let responsibility ever be allied with caution. 
 
 5849. Fortune prevents as much as she gives. 
 
 5850. Power is to be possessed ; envy not, therefore, the man 
 who exercises it with moderation and with due regard to public 
 interests. 
 
 5851. Is it reasonable to expect that what may not be might be 
 proved ? 
 
 5852. Live not out of the virtues. 
 
 5853. Divine results being perfection cannot be influenced by 
 human opposition. 
 
 5854. The great in spirit must have means in proof. 
 
 5855. Much may be said against strict economy, but more can 
 be proved in favour of it. 
 
 5856. Lessen not thy well-earned store, for some must labour 
 for its replenishment. 
 
 5857. We must not disavow truth for worldly interest. 
 
 5858. Principles, like minds, differ in their perfectibility. 
 
 5859. All property must at last be parted with even that of our 
 own bodies. 
 
 5860. What is irrelevant may still if the sentiment be just 
 apply to the reason of the matter in dispute. 
 
 5861. What we know is ever a lengthened vista. 
 
 5862. Many words may, after all, be considered the bounties of 
 the intellect. 
 
 5863. Without influence the pen is but a beggar's rod. 
 
 5864. The publisher influences not only the present, but future 
 millions ; there is no tocsin to be compared to his magic dicta 
 " Publish publish." 
 
 5865. Let profit ever be far from cozenage. 
 
 5866. The fruits of man's glory die the cause survives. 
 
 5867. We cannot determine the influence of novelty or imitation. 
 
 5868. There is no blatancy in the tomb. 
 
 5869. Let us rejoice rather in the absence of evils than even in 
 successfully encountering them. 
 
 5870. Conformity of interests is nature's bond. 
 
 5871. Even the faculties and knowledge are sufficient to employ 
 the forces of a thousand worlds. 
 
 5872. It is a great pity we cannot, at times, feel indifference in 
 assuming it. 
 
 5873. To know danger, at times, is enow, without seeking it. 
 
 5874. Unhoped evils sear the mind with double anguish. 
 
 5875. Knowledge serves us not without affectment. 
 
 5876. Determination (if show of reason justifies) is sufficient to 
 meet rebuke, or oppose mere formal routine. 
 
 5877. Swerve not before the mere assertion or diction of the self- 
 sufficient. We are all equal out of space or priority. 
 
 5878. What ends in space ends where there is no ending. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 193 
 
 5879. What is advanced in truth is oftentimes made false by 
 application. 
 
 5880. Each man may be said to invent his own criterion. 
 Admiration differs as the features or faculties vary. 
 
 5881. Selfishness bars the way more than iron doors. 
 
 5882. Property is life and limb, hope and chance the guard of 
 existence. 
 
 5883. Purely literary or verbal dicta consider as open or debatable 
 ground in exercise or speculation. 
 
 5884. Assertion that is opposed to public opinion is often con- 
 founded with it. 
 
 5885. In some questions the throng is right : when there are two 
 suns. 
 
 5886. Let us be just in the benefits vouchsafed us. 
 
 5887. In the amplitude of truth there should be no subjection. 
 
 5888. The unassisted mind is still boundless in faculty, for 
 silence hath causes. 
 
 5889. The mind seeks thought as its necessity. 
 
 5890. The militation of evils is the strength of truth. 
 
 5891. True virtue knows no rebation. 
 
 5892. That must be considered as loss, in some measure, which 
 lessens just interest. 
 
 5893. Example and record live many years : after-grave efforts 
 if their effect influences. 
 
 5894. Charity that could be best aided by influence is seldom 
 allied to it. 
 
 5895. The mind that contemplates truth is ever improving. 
 
 5896. Philosophy teaches the best to suffer with patience, and to 
 be impatient in evils. 
 
 5897. Own no signification of evil. 
 
 5898. The State should see that no customs detrimental to its 
 just interests should be introduced. 
 
 5899. Stability is one of the principal foundations of govern- 
 ment. 
 
 5900. Enfranchise the soul from all unjust aspersion. 
 
 5901. The world is fertile in introductions ; completeness is 
 generally hoped for, rather than seen. 
 
 5902. Guides should be so far above suspicion in being proved. 
 
 5903. Chance is a powerful motor of the imagination. 
 
 5904. Principles are stations of the soul. 
 
 5905. Delay is often oppression. 
 
 5906. That which is unalterable (in accordance with the Divine 
 law) is infallible. The Roman Catholic religion having, therefore, 
 received its doctrines from OUR DIVINE REDEEMER, and sanctioned 
 by numerous miracles (duly attested for proof sufficient), by not only 
 the Apostles, but by the Saints of modern times for a miracle is an 
 utter impossibility for heresy to accomplish CATHOLICITY must, 
 necessarily, contain the only infallible doctrines of Divine and human 
 belief. 
 
 5907. If one be authorised to devise a new structure of sentence 
 or words, it is an undoubted right to improve upon existing custom. 
 Improvement deem lawful, in accordance with progressive sentiment. 
 
194 MAXIMS. 
 
 5908. Where the sphere is infinite, the cause is not to be appor- 
 tioned. 
 
 5909. No man can claim superideal authority unless Divine 
 authority sanctions. 
 
 5910. In retreat and humility often is there strength of wisdom. 
 
 5911. The fiat of the Creator is ever justified in its promulgation 
 And effects. 
 
 5912. Where is the gain in denying just truths? Truth is ever 
 more commendable than the non-observance of it. 
 
 5913. A life of evil ever tends to destruction both of mind and 
 body. 
 
 5914. Material wants only should not satisfy the soul's con- 
 cernment. 
 
 5915. The lexicon may be considered as available, not to over- 
 turn or destroy, but to increase by additions. It is lawful to justly 
 increase all properties. 
 
 5916. History has made many axioms, but is controlled by few. 
 
 5917. Let reason (wisdom's ally) be dispensed as necessities of 
 life supplied. Eegard not materialism where it is not a due support. 
 
 5918. Interchange of ideas in the interest of human progress (for 
 there is no progress out of humanity) is ever fertile in benefit. 
 
 5919. The aspiration of good is, of itself, a just position. 
 
 5920. As maxims rule so should their just realisation be the 
 concernment of nations. 
 
 5921. In encountering difficulties, let it be our first concern to 
 destroy the influence of obstructive routine. 
 
 5922. Where Divine authority has decided, there is no assumptive 
 questions. 
 
 5923. We may consider, with submission, the futurity- of the 
 great universe as a reserve of the Divine Creator's energeia. 
 
 5924. Suffering (like the martyrs of the Church) for virtue is the 
 conqueror of evil. 
 
 5925. Wrecked hopes sometimes lead to future benefits. 
 
 5926. Witnesses of Divine Power are not also to know the 
 disposal or cause. 
 
 5927. Necessity encloses us as a web : humanity is never 
 unaffected. 
 
 5928. It is generally our reception of fortune's favours that make 
 them determinate. 
 
 5929. The CROSS will triumph over all human standards. 
 
 5930. The after-will should counteract the passing intention in 
 what it imposes to its own detriment. 
 
 5931. What is above human power can affect, but is not affected. 
 
 5932. It becomes us in life to consider death as a portion of it. 
 
 5933. What is readily dispensed is sometimes the supplication 
 of favour. 
 
 5934. The might of the Divine Creator governs also the disposal 
 of all things. 
 
 5935. Fervour seeks for Divine favour, as researches truth. 
 
 5936. The key of all knowledge (eternal and unerring wisdom) is 
 the Creator's. The best of earth is submission to Divine dictates. 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 195 
 
 5937. National melody, in music, is capable of more character 
 than merely scientific combination. Like national character, the 
 several modes in melody may possess the advantages and short- 
 comings. The melodies of old Erin, however, are truly sine rivali : 
 echoes of true art, yet conjoined with nature. Science halts behind, 
 unable, as it would seem, to attain equal results. Without the 
 piquancy of those of sunny Spain or Italy, they speak, nevertheless, 
 the musical (melodic) perfection of the human heart. Let us assign 
 to the melodies of Spain and Italy piquancy ; to the French, gaiety 
 of heart ; to the German, science and solidity ; but to the music of 
 Erin, the combination of all these, with nature superadded. 
 
 5938. Heaven's concernment is the preservation of principle. 
 
 5939. Humility and charity of soul are above all faculties, having 
 for their object merely temporal prosperity or advantages. 
 
 5940. In Divine truth is wisdom for the present and futurity. 
 
 5941. We may ascribe to the idea of fate the government of the 
 uncertain. 
 
 5942. Fate will often hover round the application of a new word 
 or term recognised. 
 
 5943. There is nothing without its relation to a maxim, for 
 aphorisms are keys adaptable to all subjects. 
 
 5944. Dominancy gives, and is produced by many causes. 
 
 5945. If the population of a State requires as a life basis the 
 demand for territory is equitable. 
 
 5946. Strong in expression is not always decision ; determination 
 may be implied by calmness. 
 
 5947. The fear of the affectment of power beyond its recognised 
 province is to be combated either by alliances or equality of forces. 
 Power is necessity, if existence depends on it. 
 
 5948. Judge that no dissemblance which favours the State. 
 
 5949. Anarchy is but the parody of government ; for, without 
 constitutional authority, it is ever ill-judged revolution, and subject 
 to disunion. 
 
 5950. All disunion is not weakness, nor is union of nationalities 
 invariably strength. 
 
 5951. A navy may at times be displaced without detriment ; but 
 an army is interest and support to Government. 
 
 5952. With some the present success outweighs all that hope 
 may effect. Judges of the moment ill-considering years. 
 
 5953. The subject-theme may be transitory, yet give lasting effect ; 
 but what relates to ephemeral productions seldom is proved by 
 time. 
 
 5954. Speed of efforts should be founded on necessity. 
 
 5955. He is truly a philosopher that is content with inadequate 
 means. 
 
 5956. Professions are fertile in respects. 
 
 5957. As the ideas and faculties of the human mind are so 
 illimitable, there can be no necessity for adaptation as an excuse for 
 barrenness. 
 
 5958. If brought to the test, justice must ever out-power malice. 
 
 5959. What may be are years to come, and death at last 
 intercepts all research, although it may not obliterate the record. 
 
196 MAXIMS. 
 
 _ 5960. It is best perhaps, after all, to consider mankind in bright 
 limning, for the result is the same. 
 
 5961. Regulate the conduct so that inequality of fortune may 
 not lead to injustice. 
 
 5962. The offer is sometimes enhanced where it is not simply 
 disdained. 
 
 5963. Just pursuits should employ all: idleness is the evil of 
 leisure. 
 
 5964. Earth's experience is our doom well or ill is justified in 
 the end (or by death). 
 
 5965. Death, like life, is ever varied. 
 
 5966. Suffering may be the journey, not doom, of the just. 
 
 5967. To meet death for truth is victory. 
 
 5968. Extravagant tastes require much philosophy (and money) 
 to govern and satisfy. 
 
 5969. There is a reserve in Divinity that prevents, as also to favour. 
 
 5970. If a man could solve all forces he might be inclined to be 
 illiberal. Secured power is generally of two kinds : liberal or 
 antagonistic to human principles. 
 
 5971. We must take much on sufferance for certainty when 
 proofs avail not. 
 
 5972. Wisdom's lessons must be applied to govern. 
 
 5973. Traditive reason is strength of authority. 
 
 5974. There is no spirit of unprinciple that can be eternal in its 
 affectment. 
 
 5975. Estimation is proved by either wisdom or folly. 
 
 5976. What is due to justice is wisdom's debt. 
 
 5977. Eesolution must own just cause. 
 
 5978. Prudence seeks infirmity but to control it. 
 
 5979. No State is extinguished for want of commanders to 
 govern or people to be governed. 
 
 5980. Power likes an open plain, but is sometimes increased 
 with the difficulties, as sight is strained by the darkness. 
 
 5981. From the mild, peaceful university or college spring the 
 leaders of war or revolution. 
 
 5982. The star of the valiant sets only in blood. 
 
 5983. Valour does not improve the unjust cause. 
 
 5984. Let philosophy ever interidealise patriotism. 
 
 5985. Jeopardise not means of life for security ; and be not 
 involved in undertakings of suppositions benefits only. 
 
 5986. Ever respect the labours of the pen ; be charitable to all ; 
 take care that, in being uncharitable to others (and unduly criticising 
 is an uncharity), you unjustify not yourself. Be moderate, also, in 
 hastily condemning a book ; the author's assertions even when 
 most pronounced given (in other words) are not unfrequently thine 
 own. 
 
 5987. Public benefits should be assured, not assumed, even 
 although assumption frequently precedes fact. 
 
 5988. Reason should be content within its due province pre- 
 suming not to decide finally in merely speculative questions. 
 
 5989. Pronounced nationalities are critical and observant. Even 
 reasonable perfection in art has little charity. 
 
BY EDWABD COUNSEL. 197 
 
 5990. We cannot enjoy beyond our lives' precepts. 
 
 5991. Just in blood is discretion's valour. 
 
 5992. Questions or arguments are like the tails of comets : we 
 cannot estimate their length, or the conclusions that may be 
 derived from them. 
 
 5993. There is a cloak over most mysteries that are supposed to 
 be self-evident. 
 
 5994. The benefit of State is frequently the destruction of class. 
 
 5995. There is no true grief, except by the non-observance of 
 virtue's principles. 
 
 5996. Disappointment should never be felt at the defeat of an 
 unjust cause. 
 
 5997. Mode sometimes decides the difference. 
 
 5998. Anxiety presents the problem time the solution. 
 
 5999. There is ever some degree of incipience in worldly attrac- 
 tions. 
 
 6000. The Will of GOD is the controlling power of creation its 
 salvation and origin. 
 
 6001. Advancement has generally two faces under the same 
 hood. Chicane has ever a double countenance. 
 
 6002. What is commended by evil can have no worthy foundation. 
 
 6003. That knowledge profits not the soul which is not directed 
 towards GOD and regulated by Divine Law. 
 
 6004. The example and lives of the Saints are eternal maxims. 
 
 6005. Proofs in professions, trades, or pursuits do not readily 
 terminate, but, of a necessity, own length of life. 
 
 6006. In truth of GOD exists the beneficence. 
 
 6007. Let but the knowledge of new modes in art be once 
 introduced, and their absence will soon be felt, for want is induced 
 by absence. New ideas in art require power and influence to 
 introduce. Necessity is too frequently assumed. Is there, for 
 example, any actual necessity for adhering to the vernacular in all 
 songs ? Why should not Spanish, or even Greek (both daughters of 
 harmony and expression), be employed for the new (future) opera in 
 conjunction with the Italian, French, and German? Let there be 
 also Polyglot, or International, operas, concerts, songs the musical 
 totality of the nations the Eepublic of Art. The staid public (of 
 all nationalities) should accept new modes in art, even as necessities, 
 whose object is the re-adjustment (improvement generally follows 
 adhesion to progressive novelty ideas sanction when the phrase 
 falters) of old-time musical and art records. 
 
 6008. Divine favour is above all human knowledge. 
 
 6009. Let there be no undertaking entered into or carried on, 
 except under the banner of the CROSS. In the beginning and close 
 of all, still work under the CROSS. 
 
 6010. What justly controls the human mind should also com- 
 mand the services and support of man. CATHOLICITY, being divine 
 the only one TRUE FAITH from the REDEEMER to man must, neces- 
 sarily, be above all purely human institutions or laws. Political 
 laws general or particular must be held non-binding if opposed 
 to Divine revelation vouchsafed to the CHURCH. 
 
198 MAXIMS. 
 
 6011. If your enemy approves not CATHOLICITY, it is because his 
 belief (or opinion, rather for heresy is no belief) is influenced by 
 worldly interests. 
 
 6012. Divine wrath is ever just. Prayer is the armour of the 
 afflicted. 
 
 6013. Humility sits well on a man, even in the midst of his 
 greatest success and that of his people. In being humble and with 
 the accordant sentiment of charity we more nearly follow the 
 Divine example. Divine significance shall control all. 
 
 6014. The authority of the CATHOLIC CHURCH (sanctioned by 
 CHRIST Himself) is the only true arbitration of questions involving 
 Divine matters or systems. 
 
 6015. The eternal rights of humanity are still unconquerable. 
 The advent of a purely political " universal language " (rather expect 
 the stars to fall) or all-controlling European Power would be the 
 greatest curse ever brought upon poor afflicted humanity. Even a 
 powerful nation should submit its conquests (savage lands excepted) 
 to the arbitration or, at least, consideration of international law^ 
 a perpetual International Congress, for instance if it could be 
 brought about might decide many questions without the customary 
 appeal to the argument of the sword. Let conquerors submit to the 
 maxims of international law. 
 
 6016. Virtue is not silence, but act. 
 6017. Friends of one faculty are the monitors of genius. 
 6018. We must endeavour to conquer self-will as a safeguard 
 in what tends or points as a beacon to vice. 
 
 6019. What is incomprehensible to man may be possible with 
 Divine sanction. 
 
 6020. The OMNIPOTENT, immense and all-searching in His power,, 
 is not the less gracious in His charity towards His creatures. 
 
 6021 Obedience to Divine will and authority is the best inde- 
 pendence. 
 
 6022. The glorious troops of spirits that surround the ALMIGHTY'S. 
 throne are ever-observant servants to the virtues. 
 
 6023. Even the opinion of a glorious Saint of GOD (promulgated 
 in a spirit of pure and divine charity is a lesson to be remembered 
 of all mankind), namely "That all CATHOLICS would ultimately 
 be saved" the consoling thought of St. Francis de Sales or we 
 may call it a comforting truth for all good Catholics, for a saint of 
 the Church is inspired, and GOD'S power is illimitable. Oat of the 
 Church there is but despair and destruction. Abjure, then, heresy 
 once and for all, ye erring humanists and worldly philosophers, and 
 return to the true strength and security of soul to the Eternal 
 Church founded by CHRIST and the Apostles, which, infallible in its 
 doctrines proved by innumerable and attested miracles knows no 
 detriment, but unfailing, unchangeable the will of the CREATOR. 
 
 6024. Ever be true to that Divine charity inculcated by the- 
 wisdom of the SACRED HEART which favours the rights of 
 the Church that has the spiritual and bodily welfare of not only 
 Catholics, but erring humanity, at heart. There is no rock of 
 security, no hope worthy of the name, no consolation, and no- 
 Divine precept out of the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Not to be a Catholic* 
 
BY EDWARD COUNSEL. 199 
 
 is to deny for all eternity CHRIST and the Apostles the glorious 
 legions of the Saints of Heaven of the world the True and One 
 Only Faith. 
 
 6025. The ALMIGHTY has promulgated but one system one GOD, 
 and one Faith there cannot be divers folds but one : the CATHOLIC 
 CHURCH. Out of it there is no DIVINE SHEPHERD, no guidance, but 
 loss of soul and eternal despair. 
 
 6026. If the termination promises justice, let also the journey 
 be just. 
 
 6027. Honest and virtuous faculty is a bounteous feast of soul. 
 
 6028. Be directed and influenced by the Divine Laws only, as 
 received and promulgated by the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Merely human 
 laws must only be obeyed as a lesser duty in subjection to Divine 
 command. 
 
 6029. Simple are the rules of virtuous life, that all may know ; 
 bnt their transgression is not the less punitive. 
 
 6030. How often do we find in political Government, where right 
 should rule (and with the power of right at hand), that evil usurps. 
 But there is an Eternal Power above that of all humanity that can 
 destroy as well as save. 
 
 6031. When we contemplate the glory of the SAINTS, we should 
 ever contemn merely worldly ambition. Let us, instead of being 
 ambitious for mere human glory, displace it (a just exchange) for 
 DIVINE favour. 
 
 6032. The CATHOLIC CHURCH commands the faithful in doctrine 
 by infallible doctrine ; in truth by infallible truth. 
 
 6033. Human laws are not worthy of the name unless they are 
 in accordance with Divine Authority. 
 
 6034. The Divine maxims taught mankind by CHRIST, and pro- 
 mulgated by the infallibility of the CATHOLIC CHURCH (which, 
 founded by GOD, cannot err), should direct above all human enact- 
 ments. 
 
 6035. Human learning at best is but the anguish of man ; there 
 is no peace of soul except through Divine principles. 
 
 6036. Piety will at length control force. 
 
 6037. As eternity ends not, so the principles of CATHOLICITY 
 (dictated by OUR BLESSED REDEEMER) never die know neither 
 satiety nor death. 
 
 6038. The Divine maxims (principles of the one true faith 
 CATHOLICITY founded by CHRIST) are only to be believed and 
 observed. 
 
 6039. Begin, continue, and endeavour to end all your under- 
 takings under the Divine standard of the CROSS and truth. The best 
 emblem is that of the CROSS ; other designs are futile. 
 
 6040. The dictum of the CATHOLIC CHURCH is above all the 
 human assertions of a thousand worlds. 
 
 6041. The glory of GOD should be the one true substance the 
 support, life, and desire of humanity. 
 
 6042. Whether subscribed to or not, the true faith of CHRIST 
 and His Holy Church (CATHOLICITY) the religion of Erin, Spain, 
 France, Italy, Germany, the Americas, and all generous nations 
 shall not be affected to its detriment. 
 
200 MAXIMS. 
 
 6043. Catholicity is invulnerable to merely human opposition, 
 as being the WORD and Law of OUR SAVIOUR, and possesses Divine 
 Authority and warranty for its support. 
 
 6044. Divine precepts have an eternal record. 
 
 6045. Without humility and charity all human systems are 
 ineffective. 
 
 6046. GOD, CATHOLICITY, and Truth are one : one in Word, Being, 
 and Faith. 
 
 6047. The end comes when GOD wills. 
 
 6048. Be constant in faith that knows no error. 
 
 6049. Vouchsafe error and heresy no support. 
 
 6050. Live in charity towards all. Be truthful towards all. Let 
 enemies envy your charity, and you will be justified. The end of 
 life begins eternity ; well for us if we are justified at last. Unless 
 we are just in life we cannot be just in death. One GOD, one 
 CHURCH, one true spirit of Divine of Human CHARITY. 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 OF 
 
 DE SIG-NS. 
 
 A LIST 
 
 OF THE 
 
 TWENTY THOUSAND (20,000) 
 
 ORIGINAL AIRS 
 
 AND 
 
 MUSICAL PIECES; 
 
 WITH THE OTHER MANUSCRIPT 
 
 WOEKS 
 
 OF 
 
 EDWARD COUNSEL 
 
 [Or SOMERVILLE, vid MELBOURNE, 
 AUSTRALIA.] 
 
 TO WHICH ARE ADDED SELECTIONS OF 
 
 UNIVERSITY & OTHEB PUBLIC CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 RELATING TO THE AUTHOR'S PUBLICATIONS. 
 
APPENDIX. No. I. 
 
 E S I a N S ; 
 
 OB, 
 
 SUGGESTIONS. 
 
 BY 
 
 EDWARD COUNSEL. 
 
 (From the Original Draft as Sent to Various Governments and 
 , with some Additions.} 
 
 [NOTE. Data, Projects, Hints, Proposals, Suggestions for New Entertainments, 
 etc. The plan of the present work admits of no detail. HKADS OF SUH.iKt ra 
 are, therefore, only presented.] 
 
 . ::\v Musical Instrument suggested: 
 The"Gl'IT.\!UNK : or. GriTAR-VIOLIN." 
 (To be played </ In liitifare without a 
 bow. Five strings. Tonetic changes, &c. 
 For accompaniment to voice nither than 
 forsolo-playin<-r.] 
 
 2. Suu"_'f<tion-i for XL-W Kntertain- 
 ii Tournament, YioUn Con- 
 cert, I'iano Coii'-crt. 
 
 3. (.;uit:ir and tiuitarine Concert. 
 
 4. Forest Opera, Avenue Opera Per- 
 formance. 
 
 5. Impromptu Opera ; or, Iinprovisa- 
 illn-tnitL'il vocally). 
 Versos c-mi Mu-iea. 
 
 6. Circus Opera (Opera ( 
 
 7. War Op. ''oncert; 
 
 Infantry Concert. Infants' Concert ; or, 
 
 
 8. Instrumental > 
 
 9. SenU'iicia in prontu ; or. Sentence 
 Improvisation-, .-i-nt'-m-ia Aviv. 
 
 10. Mu-ical and Dramatic Tourna- 
 iin-nt : Douiilc Dnima. 
 
 11. Concert of Air-;, I'hoiio.ly Concert. 
 :::tfnnc.lU-y : or, dill'm-nt Airs 
 arrange*! or i-oinposed to be i)layeil 
 together (tutti). 
 
 13. Snci'L-->inii of Sounds (Tlioor\). 
 
 14. Concerto Maggiore form of Pas- 
 ticcio ; or, Joyful Concert. 
 
 15. Concerto Minore ; or, Requiem 
 Concert. 
 
 16. Recitative Concert ; or, Singing 
 Play. With Recitative ad Ubit'tm. 
 
 2. Pantomime Concert ; or, Operone. 
 17. Recitative Airs. Marino J)ramas, 
 Operas, and Concerts. Marine Play. 
 
 18. Boats, or Gondolas of .Mu-ic (Kn- 
 tmainment). 
 
 2. Veneziana (Irnprovisazionr) and 
 
 Boat Airs. 
 18. Entertainments : 
 
 1. Evenings in Spain and Italy. 
 
 2. El Caballero do Madrid. 
 
 3. Vocero of Corsica, and Vocoric 
 
 Concert. 
 
 4. Hours at Venice. 
 
 5. Hours at Venice and the Adriatic. 
 
 6. Tin- Spanish Sen-nata Entertain- 
 
 ment. 
 
 7. Improvisation Regalia (with 
 
 Synopsis). 
 
 20. Irregular, or Occasional Knt.r- 
 cuinrnent. 
 
 8. Airs of the Public and Improvi- 
 
 sations. 
 3. Meeting Concert-. 
 
IV. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 21. Musical Scenery; or, Hours of 
 Music : 
 
 1st Hour Italian Scene. 
 2nd Spain. 
 3rd Erin, &c. 
 
 22. Concert of Original and Impro- 
 vised Airs. 
 
 23. Counsel Concert ; or, Concert of 
 Counsel's Airs. 
 
 2. Concert of Military Airs of All 
 Nations : Composed by E. 
 Counsel. 
 
 24. International Concerts (American 
 3 nd European) ; or, Cosmopolite Concerts. 
 
 2. Counsel's Concert Seance and 
 Improvisations. 
 
 25. Invisible Concert (the performers 
 being unseen by the audience, and the 
 music illustrated by scenery, &c.) 
 
 26. Public Ftte Concerts, with New 
 and Improvised Music. 
 
 27. -Examination Concerts; or, Enter- 
 tainments. 
 
 2. Steam Whistle Tunes (for Signal- 
 
 ling, &c.) 
 . Musical "Sojournings. 
 
 3 
 
 28. Musical Soiree ; or, "Singings." 
 
 2. La Tertulia Musical ; or, Spanish 
 
 Musical Tertulia (with Original 
 -Music). 
 
 3. Museo de los Ayres. 
 
 29. Race of Musicians (playing). 
 30. Gallery of Music; and Polyglot 
 
 Concerts. Dramatic Concerts ; with Hall 
 for same. 
 
 31. Old and New Modes of Music, 
 illustrated by appropriate Costumes ; or, 
 " Musical Contrasts." 
 
 32. Concerts in Character Dress ; or, 
 the Spanish Nights' Entertainment. 
 
 33." Music of Liberty " (Theory), un- 
 controlled with regard to methode, &c. 
 
 34. Military International Concerts on 
 a large scale. 
 
 2. International Composing Festival. 
 
 35. Verses in Character. 
 
 36. Play Concerts, in lawn or field. 
 
 37. Concerts de Romance. 
 2. Solo Opera. 
 
 38. Musical Continual Entertainments 
 and Concerts. 
 
 39. Sonatone, or Long Sonata, sub- 
 divided and dovetailed. Two Bands. 
 
 2. Concert on Wheels. 
 
 3. Musical Poses. 
 
 40. Public Hall of Musical Compo- 
 sition. 
 
 2. Bureau of Music. 
 
 3. A Musical Fair. 
 
 41. Theatre-Operetta on Wheels ; or, 
 Travelling Theatre. 
 
 42. Public Visiting Entertainment, 
 Concert, Ridotto Concert, &c. ; or, Concert 
 de Visite. 
 
 43. Recitative Chorus. 
 
 44. Ancient Concert (in Costume), with 
 Scenery. 
 
 45. Intermedley of some of these 
 Entertainments. 
 
 [NOTE. The Titles of any of these 
 Suggestions may be given in French, 
 Spanish, German, Latin, or Italian.] 
 
 46. Entertainments : to be decided by 
 votes and vetos. 
 
 47. Universal House ; or, Conservatory 
 of the Fine Arts. 
 
 48. Musical Pictures. 
 
 49. Dioramic Opera. 
 
 50. MISCELLANEOUS SUGGESTIONS. 
 (Suggested several years since.) Monster 
 Bell Organ. 
 
 51. Water Caleche and Swimming 
 Boat. 
 
 52. Circular Boat Oar. 
 
 53. Double, Triple, and Quintuple 
 Copying Pen. 
 
 54. Fore and Aft Screws. 
 
 55. Monster Harp, or Harponia. 
 
 56. Monster Piano, or " Pianon " (with 
 brass resounding plates and immense 
 hammer arrangement). 
 
 57. Piano Organette. 
 
 2. Piano Composing Machine (i.e., 
 to leave copy of Music played). 
 
 58. Indexial History. 
 
 59. Ready Printing. 
 
 60. aval Theatre. 
 
 61. Railway Theatre, and Station 
 Scenes for a " Moving " Play. 
 
 62. Barrel Air Boat. 
 
 63. Galopiues, or Rapid Music Types, 
 &c. 
 
 64. Box Knife. 
 
 65. Self-acting Drum and Organ. 
 
 66. Steam Clariouette and Flute. 
 
 67. Cosmopolitan Play. 
 
 68. Wind Engines and Motive Power. 
 
 69. Sun-glass Cooking. 
 
 70. Railways for Private and General 
 Use. Also, Privats Company Railroads. 
 
 71. Floating Roads. 
 
 72. Floating Wood and Earth Bergs. 
 
 73. Solar ami Magnetic Instruments. 
 
 74. Self-moving Cannon on Rails. 
 
 75. Floating, or Suspended, Tunnels 
 (submarine and otherwise). 
 
 76. Large Steam Flute (for armies). 
 2. Dial Line Pipes. 
 
 77. Sun-moving, or Motive, Power. 
 
 78. Floating Roads (for swamps). 
 
 79. Hand and Rail Veloco. 
 
 80. Steel Spring Veloco. 
 2. Steam Veloco. 
 
 81. Broad Rails for Immense Weights. 
 
 82. Very Broad Maximum Line of 
 Rails. 
 
 83. Incline Self-moving Cars. 
 2. Reel Rail. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 84. Picture Churn. 
 
 (Scenes changed by operation of a 
 catch : suggested as an aid to Artists.) 
 
 85. Atmospheric Veloco. 
 
 2. Naval Veloco. 
 
 3. A Shield Pistol. 
 86. Poly-Piano. 
 
 2. Poly-Organ. 
 
 (Connected with electricity ?) 
 
 87. The Variophoue. (Poly Instru- 
 ment. Vario phone Music.) 
 
 88. Steam Horn. 
 
 89. Street Plans on Stone. (Also, Stone 
 Dialettes: small Sun Dials, in corners of 
 public thoroughfares.) 
 
 90. Steam Tuning Whistle. 
 
 91. Steam Band. 
 
 92. Railway Airs in Signals. 
 
 93. Musical Channels, with Scenery. 
 
 94. Call Strings. 
 
 95. Veloco Road. 
 
 96. House Exposition. 
 
 97. Cheap Publishing Company for 
 Music, Letters, &c. 
 
 98. Street Letter Printer. 
 
 99. Musical and Theatrical Congress. 
 
 100. Amateur Congress. 
 
 101. Panoramic Operatic Drama. 
 
 102. Scenes (with Music), Views, &c. 
 
 103. Original Poses (for effect, &c.). 
 
 104. Pictures in the Air (imaginative). 
 
 105. Incline Long Boat Swing. 
 
 106. Dress Club and Costume Expo- 
 sition. 
 
 107. Free Fine Arts School, or Insti- 
 tute. 
 
 108. The Musical Institute of Original 
 Composition (American, European, or 
 International), with Publishing Club. 
 
 i:. The National Name of any 
 people may be prefixed as a title to any 
 of these Suggestions ; also in various 
 languages.] 
 
 109. A History, <fcc., illustrated by 
 Scenery, and Music in character: the 
 repeated (or rend) in the very 
 (as nearly M poMtble) i History. 
 
 110. Music Publishing Hall, or House 
 for New Pi> 
 
 2. A Musical Palace. 
 
 111. A Musical (Original) K x position. 
 
 112. Mii-i'-.d It. . : also, 
 
 for the Progress of Original Composition. 
 
 113. Long Musical Proo- 
 
 Election of Music and .Musical 
 Instruments containing every 
 variety : Ancient and Modern. 
 
 3. Musical Antiquarian Club. 
 1 14. Piano and Organ Carriage. 
 115. History and Power of various 
 
 ; Instruments examim-d. 
 116. Exposition of Musical Instru- 
 ments, with Performances. 
 117. Entertainment of the Improvisa- 
 
 118. School, or Studio, of Improvisa- 
 tion. 
 
 2. The Themal Melodic School. 
 
 119. School, College, Arcanium, or 
 Grand University of Musical Composi- 
 tion ; with Melodic and Improvisation 
 Sections, to be named " Guards." 
 
 120. Temple (or Themaseum) of Music 
 and the Fine Arts. 
 
 121. Societies of Music: Violin and 
 Guitarine Society; Variophoue Society, 
 and others. 
 
 122. Hall of Melody (or Airs). 
 
 123. Listening, or Echoes' Hall. 
 (Suggested many years back.) 
 
 124. Original Maxims and Couplets : 
 Maxims by one, versified by another, and 
 set to music by a third. To be published 
 in a magazine, or Gaceta de Musica. 
 [ Vide Musical Publication Suggestions.] 
 
 125. Various Musical Magazines, 
 Gacetas, Tonetic Journals, Musical Re- 
 galias (and other titles). 
 
 126. Large Public Music Book, with 
 printed (daily) copies. 
 
 2. Postage Stamp Exchange Depart- 
 ment. 
 
 127. Musical Debating Club. 
 
 128. Acted Oratorios. 
 
 2. Free Practising Hall, or Club. 
 
 129. The Original Musical Composing 
 Institute (supply name of nation, place, 
 city, or town thus : the Music Com- 
 posing Institute of Europe, America, or 
 Colonial, as the case may be). 
 
 130. Music Collecting Society (of all 
 Nations), with Labouring and Corres- 
 ponding Branches. 
 
 2. "Ancient" Greek Concert (or 
 Piece), with Costumes. 
 
 131. Society for the Promotion of Ori- 
 u r in;il Musical Composition (supply name 
 of nation or place) ; or, Original Musical 
 Composition Society. 
 
 132. Masque Concert. 
 
 2. Intermezzo : " Donovello Tonale 
 il Suonatore." (Musical Scenes 
 by E. Counsel violino prinio.) 
 
 133. Music Spinning. 
 
 134. Confusa; or, the Mezcla Musical 
 Entertainment. 
 
 135. Spanish Nights, Italian Nights, 
 with Counsel's Airs. 
 
 136. Instrumental Recitative an I lio- 
 plicas (or Answers ). 
 
 137. A System of Prose Music. 
 
 2. Prose Songs. 
 
 3. Prose Passages Set to Music. 
 
 Solo: (partly) Impromptu, and 
 Vocal Introduction, Vocal Sym- 
 phonies (or in part). 
 
 4. A Musical Newspaper, with Now 
 
 Airs, every morning; also, bi- 
 weekly. 
 
VI. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 133. The " Phonody " (Word Sounds) ; 
 also, "Sound Ode": for use in Musical 
 Comoosition. The Arialiugote, do. 
 
 139. Ancient and Modern "Sojourn- 
 ings " and Musical Pensees. Revetic and 
 Tonetic Musings. 
 
 140. Public Improvisation Concerts. 
 2. Speech Concerts. 
 
 141. Music for Voice and Guitarine (or, 
 Guitarine Impromptu Accompaniments). 
 
 142. Temple or Hall of Perpetual Art 
 and Science (with apparatus for testing 
 new inventions). 
 
 143. Floating Isle. 
 
 144. Museum of Costume and Arts, 
 Models of Furniture, &c. 
 
 145. Large Collections of every kind of 
 Music, arranged alphabetically. 
 2. Concerts for do. 
 
 14G. Casa de los Hechos. 
 
 147. The Melodic Museum (or, Museum 
 of Airs). 
 
 148. New Musical Order : the Order of 
 United Musicians (America, Europe, or 
 name of nationality, as the case may be), 
 with 27 Rules. 
 
 2. Universal Musical Society ; or, 
 Society of United Musicians. 
 
 149. Couplet Airs. 
 
 2. Concerts Founded on Tonetic 
 
 Proverbs (or, Versified Maxims). 
 
 3. Recitative Cadence. 
 
 4. The Autogram (or, Word Letter 
 
 Memorandum). 
 
 150. Maxims, Music, and Pipe-reverie 
 Clubs. 
 
 151. Prose Song ; or, Sentencia Ayre. 
 152. Acting Romances : Hall of the 
 Chivalric Age, with interspersed Music 
 (as above). 
 
 2. Concerts, do. 
 
 (Costumes and Views.) 
 153. Illustration of Music and Speech, 
 imaginary or otherwise. 
 
 154. Musical Telegraph ; also, Music 
 by Letters on a New Principle. 
 
 2. Musical Telegraph Signals. 
 155. Grounds of Plots, for Improvising 
 Plays and Operas. The Musical and 
 Dramatic Plot Book. 
 
 2. Sketches and Synopsis of same. 
 156. Courts of Fine Arts and Music. 
 
 2. Picture Enlarging. 
 157. Collection of Scenes (Music and 
 Painting), by Local Artistes. 
 
 2. Occasional Original Entertain- 
 ment. 
 
 158. Ancient Greek and Roman Con- 
 cert and Play, with Original Music for 
 same, in Costume. 
 
 2. Scenes from History (tonised). 
 159. Imaginary "Historical" Pieces, 
 Plots, Designs, &c. 
 
 160. Large house for any of the above, 
 with changeable front or top. 
 
 161. Cadence of Airs. 
 
 162. Connecting Cadences, or Pieces. 
 
 163. Improvisation Concerts and En- 
 tertainments. 
 
 164. Trades (Working) and Art Expo- 
 sition. 
 
 165. Large Promenade Theatre, with 
 Divisions. Large Mansion for the Fine 
 Arts, with many Halls; or, Escurial of 
 Music and Art. 
 
 166. Double Theatre. 
 
 167. Hotel Theatre. Perpetual Realis- 
 tic Scenes of Life, with Connecting 
 Drama. 
 
 168. Extended Operas (or Operones), 
 Plays, and Series. 
 
 2. Series of Life : imaginary and 
 real. 
 
 169. Government System of 1st and 
 2nd Chamber ; or, People's Observing 
 Hall. 
 
 170. Parliament of Trade and Societies. 
 
 2. Society Constitutions, and Fine 
 
 Art Record. 
 
 3. General Societies' House : num- 
 
 bered for Days and Societies. 
 171. Order of Singers (any nationality). 
 
 2. Society of Singers, with Practising 
 
 Halls. 
 
 3. Registracy of Arts and Science. 
 172 Public Studios of Musical Com- 
 position, Painting, and Literature. 
 
 173. Guitare-Pianette. 
 174. Bag Piano. 
 175. Letter Building. 
 
 2. Dramatic, Literary, and Musical 
 Themaseum ; or, Public Uni- 
 versal Studio. 
 176. Banjonette. 
 177. Banjo Convertible Violin. 
 
 2. Compagnon de Musique. 
 178. The DIALETTE ; or, Manual Dial. 
 To ascertain the (approximate) time on 
 the hand by the veins of the left palm, 
 with the thumb and index finger of the 
 right hand for Gnomon. (Vertical or 
 horizontal.) 
 
 179. Bar Stirrup, or Tapidero. 
 2. Double Gripper Wedges. 
 180. Spring Saddle (combination). 
 181. Lasso Shooter, or Thrower. 
 
 182. Suggestions for MUSICAL JOUK- 
 NALS and PUBLICATIONS (National, City, 
 or Town. Names can be applied ad lib,) 
 Also in various languages : 
 
 1. Melodies of All Nations. 
 
 2. Flowers of Original Melody ; or, 
 
 Fleures de Melodie. 
 
 3. Airs of Erin ; Aires de Espana, &c. 
 
 Aires de Venise. 
 
 4. Wreath of Melody. 
 
 5. Wreath of Erin. 
 
 6. Musical Evenings in Spain. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Vll. 
 
 7. The Irish Harp. 
 
 8. International Musical Alliance. 
 
 9. The Cambrian Melodist. 
 
 10. The American Tonist. 
 
 11. The City (supply name) Tonist. 
 
 12. The Knapsack : Musical Wallet. 
 
 13. Universal Melodies. 
 
 14. Airs of the Entertainments. 
 
 15. Garland of Music and Poetry. 
 
 16. Musical Tour through Spain and 
 
 Italy. 
 
 17. The Tonetic Journal. 
 
 18. Melodic Gem. 
 
 19. The Universal Book of Tunes. 
 
 20. Sonetic and Tonetic Music. 
 
 21. The Canzonic Journal. 
 
 22. Airs for All Nations. 
 
 23. People's Harmonist and Musical 
 
 Broadsheet. 
 
 24. Guitarine Music. 
 
 25. Counsel's Airs for Violin, Flute, 
 
 and Clarionette. 
 2G. Guitarine Instruction Book. 
 
 27. The Violin and Banjo Friendly. 
 
 28. The Spanish Guitar and Guitarine 
 
 Friendly. 
 
 29. Airs and Themes (or Impro- 
 
 visation). 
 
 30. Counsel's Song Airs for All 
 
 Nations. 
 
 31. The Melodic Themal. 
 
 32. Musical Alliances : " Erin and 
 
 America," " France and Spain," 
 "Erin and Spain," &c. 
 
 33. Songs, Cauciones and Canzone. 
 
 34. Canzonic Echoes. The People's 
 
 Music Book, &c. 
 
 183. SOCIETIES Suggested (Musical 
 and Literary) : 
 
 1. Grand International Musical 
 
 Library. 
 
 2. Society (embodying the principal 
 
 features of the foregoing). 
 
 3. Connoisseurs' and Quasi-Connois- 
 
 seurs' Club. 
 
 4. Painters Workers' do. 
 
 5. Students' Social Lawyers' and 
 
 Doctors' do. 
 
 6. Political Principles' Testing So- 
 
 7. The Free Singers. 
 
 8. The Military and Pacific Order of 
 
 ixlic Union. 
 
 10. International, European, Euro- 
 
 pean and American, and Colo- 
 nial Corresponding Musical Com- 
 position Society (with Postal 
 Music). 
 
 11. The Canzonic Society. 
 
 12. The Tonist Club ( vide 182). 
 
 13. The National and Foreign Musical 
 
 14. Occasional, or Weekly, Musical 
 
 Club. 
 
 15. The Musical Composition Club, 
 
 or Compauia. 
 
 16. Amateur Music Publishing So- 
 
 ciety. 
 
 17. Vocal and Instrumental Society. 
 
 18. Universal Society of Musicians 
 
 and Free Singers (for charitable 
 and other concerts). 
 
 19. United Arts' and Trades' Asso- 
 
 ciation. 
 
 20. Musical Composing Company. 
 
 21. Clubs of all Trades, Arts, Recrea- 
 
 tions, and Pursuits. 
 
 22. Composers' Social. 
 
 23. The Co-operative Assembly of 
 
 Inventors and Manufacturers. 
 
 24. A Society Bank. 
 
 25. The Musical Divan ; or, Divan de 
 
 Musique. 
 
 26. The Intercolonial and Foreign 
 
 Musical Corresponding and Com- 
 posing Union. 
 
 27. Society for Extending the Author's 
 
 Theory of " the Universal Melo- 
 dic (Themal) Faculty." 
 
 184. MISCELLANEOUS. Musical Box, 
 with Revolving Views ; or, the Dio- 
 rametta Music Box. 
 
 185. Clock Numberer. 
 2. Clock Fan. 
 
 186. Self-measuring Frame. 
 
 187. Spring Fan, Clock and Colour 
 Signals. 
 
 188. Ready Rails (for timber). 
 
 189. Double Step Saddle and Bar 
 Stirrup. 
 
 190. Fencing Staple and Guide Glass. 
 
 191. The "Expression Box " (suggested 
 more than ten years since), with "Period- 
 turning" Machine. 
 
 192. Melophone. 
 
 2. Autogram Line Letters. 
 
 193. Museo Publico; or, Arcanium of 
 Popular Data. 
 
 194. Violin Spring-jointed Bow. Con- 
 trovertible Violin and Guitarine. 
 
 195. Gacetilla of Universal Music. 
 
 196. Tonetic Aids. 
 
 197. Enlarged Reflecting Air Pictures. 
 
 198. Vapour, or Shower, Instruments 
 and Public Coolers ; Rain Trumpets and 
 Gatherers. 
 
 199. Electrical Plough Mowers, Agri- 
 cultural and other Implements. 
 
 ! 'utent Engine Grippers (" patent " 
 nso.l in the sense of " new "). 
 
 201. Electric Aerial Engines. 
 
 -"i 1 . Shorthand Music. 
 
 203. Musical Cryptogram. 
 
 204. Seal Tuning Fork. 
 
Vlll. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 205. The Gardeners' Cordial : Two 
 Seville oranges to one lemon ; water to 
 taste (without sugar). Mix. 
 
 206. Ready Copier of Extracts (a great 
 desideratum). 
 
 207. The " Ready Signature Pen." [Ex. 
 From a bracket attached to the wall 
 depends a double elastic string, from 
 which (again) depends the pen. Suggested 
 as labour-saving where a great number of 
 signatures are to be attached to vouchers 
 and similar documents.] 
 
 208. Board of Music and Correspond- 
 ence Bureau. 
 
 209. Industrial and Art Institute ; or, 
 Perpetual Exposition. 
 
 210. GOVERNMENT SUGGESTION 
 
 BOOK; or, OFFICIAL RECORD OF SUG- 
 GESTIONS. [With section open to the 
 public, for the purpose of recording all 
 suggestions submitted. It is urged that 
 many useful inventions, ideas, and pro- 
 jects would, by this means, become of use 
 to the public which might not otherwise 
 see the light, as all inventors are not in a 
 position to print books. A Government 
 (or Public Suggestion) Book would, there- 
 fore, result in incalculable benefit to the 
 community at large. Let it be, then, 
 acted upon.] 
 
 211. Postal Cheque (or Government 
 Money Note) System. To be cashed, 
 similar to ordinary bank notes. Silver 
 and gold value. To be available also for 
 postage. 
 
 212. Dicendial and Themographic 
 Library. 
 
 213. Literary and Musical Themaseum. 
 
 214. Musical Corresponding League 
 and Publishing Union (International). 
 
 215. Musical Shadow Notes. 
 
 216. Plumal Music Publishing and Cor- 
 responding Society. [The term " plumal " 
 is employed to signify manuscript pro- 
 ductions made public.] 
 
 217. Original Music Society, or Com- 
 pania. 
 
 218. Pen Chord. 
 
 219. Dial Knife. 
 
 220. Sylvan Concert Drama ; or, Con- 
 cert Comedia. 
 
 221. A Musical Exchange. 
 
 222. A Concert Shop. 
 
 223. Book of Society Constitutions 
 and Rules. Also, to draw up same. 
 
 224. Letterpress Descriptive Music. 
 
 225. The Dicendialisni of Music. 
 
 226. The Knowledge Junto. 
 
 227. Memorandum Seal. Do. Letters ; 
 or, " Mnemonicons." 
 
 228. Pin-Dulcimore. 
 
 229. Miscellaneous Hints : 
 
 1. Burning Lens, by two Glasses of 
 
 Spectacles. 
 
 2. With two Spectacles (pairs, long- 
 
 range) print may be read. 
 
 3. A Lorgnette Glass (unscrewed) 
 
 answers also for a Burning Glass. 
 
 4. Toothache Recipe : One cake of 
 
 strong tobacco. Cut up and boil 
 for ten minutes. The patient 
 (whose head cover with a rug) 
 to inhale the fumes. Not infal- 
 lible, but will relieve in many 
 cases. More efficacious with 
 non-smokers. 
 
 230. Picture Indexia. 
 
 231. Maxim and Music Cards. 
 2. Music Lingua. 
 
 232. Long-sight Observing Channels. 
 (Suggested ten years since.) 
 
 233. Justs and Juntos of Science. 
 
 234. Fine Arts, Music, and Poetic 
 League, illustrated by Professionals, and 
 results published. 
 
 2. Public Talent Book. 
 
 235. Musical Tests. Do. for all Circles 
 of Art and Science, with Lists and 
 Results. 
 
 236. Fine Art and Public Expeditions. 
 2. Public Migrations relative to the 
 Fine Arts. 
 
 237. A Musical Composing Expedition. 
 Collecting do. Results to be afterwards 
 published. 
 
 238. Improved Tent Cities and Camps. 
 A Musical and Literary Camp, with 
 Music and Printing Presses, and in con- 
 nection with Publishing Houses. 
 
 239. A Publishing Congress, with Hall 
 for same, embracing Publishers, Authors, 
 Printers, Music and other Engravers. 
 Objects : 1. Ordinary Publications of the 
 Trade. 2. Special do. 3. Professional 
 and Amateur Departments. 4. Ready 
 System of Publication Music and Book 
 for Amateurs, to include some of the 
 features of an Order, under a Committee 
 of ten members, with Branches, Agents, 
 Corresponding Members, Bureau of De- 
 signs, Suggestion Book ; the principal 
 object being to print and publish (at 
 author's cost) Original Books and Music 
 a combination of the Book and Music 
 Trade. [These ideas could be amplified. 
 If carried into effect, such a society would 
 supply an admitted public want, both 
 for authors and the general public. The 
 advantages would be reciprocal.] 
 
 240. Musical Changeable Box, ar- 
 ranged with various Barrels, Variations 
 in the Teeth or Pegs, &c. 
 
 241. United Musicians' Order Club. 
 [The Author's Twenty-seven Original 
 Rules are available for any society. The 
 plan of these Suggestions does not, as 
 observed in the Prefatory Note, admit of 
 their insertion.] 
 
 242. Carriage and House Frame . 
 
 243. Double Channels and Pipes. 
 
 244. Ladder Stairs. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 IX. 
 
 245. Dinner Plates, with Sail Divi- 
 sions : a hint for the crockery-man. 
 
 246. " Patent " Rolling and Engine 
 Lines. 
 
 _ 17. Box Pipes and Tubes. 
 
 248. Fire Knife and Streaker. 
 
 249. Small Revolving Grindstone and 
 Letters. [These Suggestions are mostly 
 given in the wording of the original 
 draft. For want of space only the titles 
 or l'-din>t ideas can be given in the pre- 
 sent edition.] 
 
 ** 250. REMARK. To Manufacturers, 
 Public Societies, Book and Music Pub- 
 lishers, and Others. The author will be 
 glad to treat with any European or 
 American Societies, Firms, or Publishers 
 willing to take up any of these ideas, with 
 view to practical adaptation of same. 
 Has several other ideas, particularly in 
 musical matters, not herein published. 
 
 [CARD.] 
 To Music Publishers or Societies. 
 
 The most liberal treatment re ORI- 
 GINAL AIRS (over twenty thousand to 
 select from), and other Musical Pieces. 
 1 1 </ LIST.) 
 
 livery information cheerfully afforded. 
 
 Prompt attention to any definite pro- 
 posals. 
 
 ORIGINAL AIRS and Pieces expressly 
 composed for Societies, Publishing 
 Houses, &c. 
 
 Special Music by post. 
 
 Also, LKSSI INS ("i.\- Letter). SUBJECTS : 
 
 1. Violin. 
 
 2. Spanish Guitar and " Guitariiie " 
 
 Mints. 
 
 3. Banjo (American, or Six-string). 
 
 4. Music Writing. 
 
 5. Dialling, and other Branches. 
 Also, join in Musical Society, Miscel- 
 lany, or Publication, and compose for 
 same. Music forwarded by post. 
 
 Nc\v Irish Song (selected words), 
 entitled " Last Glimpse of Erin," with 
 pianoforte accompaniments. Music com- 
 posed by E. Counsel. Now ready (issued 
 September, 1891). Being No. 1 of the 
 author's "Melodies of Erin" Book (which 
 contained thirtern Songs and Airs 
 I poetry to Original Music of 
 
 E. Counsel). 
 
 The last-mentioned work accepted (as, 
 
 author's original edition of his 
 ".Maxims," comprising, however, only 
 some three thousand t\vo hundred) by 
 some of the leading public bodies and 
 I'niversities of Kurope and America. 
 [The first edition of the ' Mn.rims " 
 >f Erin" 
 kember of the same year.] 
 
 251. Sliding .Musical Fivts, Screws, 
 Violin 1 i nd Hoards, for 
 
 various instruments. 
 
 2. Tuning Buttons. 
 
 25.. Spring Knife, Chopper, and 
 Crunchers. 
 
 253. Adaptable Rolling and Plough 
 Wheels. 
 
 254. Miscellaneous Frame Setter. 
 
 255. Double Pens. 
 
 256. Marine Walker. 
 
 257. Music Letters. Music Letter 
 Paper. Card Blotters or Pads. 
 
 258. Carriage VelocoGuider ; enlarged 
 wheels. 
 
 259. Wheel Stampers. 
 
 260. Measuring Frames. 
 
 261. Steam Copier, Pens, and Or- 
 chestra. 
 
 262. Arrow Rope Gun (for throwing 
 ropes, catching horses, &c.). 
 
 263. Appellation Tables. Also, Names 
 and Titles for Books and Music, to be 
 formed from words. 
 
 264. Utilising Wheels. Travelling 
 Manufactures. 
 
 265. Machine Wood and Clearing Chain 
 Engine. 
 
 266. Iron Machine House, covered, for 
 extinguishing fires. Aqueous Chambers, 
 with Hose, &c. For public buildings. 
 Ready Doors, to be opened by machinery. 
 
 267. Monster Hall and Gallery of All 
 Sciences, Arts, and Manufactures. Theatre 
 Partitions. 
 
 2. Building, containing Specimens 
 of all the Productions of the 
 Human Mind. Pol}'- Mansion ; 
 or, Themaseum. 
 
 268. Public Music Courts and Enter- 
 tainments, including 
 
 1. Solo Improvising and Poetic 
 
 Efforts. 
 
 2. Reverse. 
 
 3. Public Music Teaching Conser- 
 
 vatory (or "Arcanium"), with 
 Concert Courts. 
 
 269. New Ideas : Music, Maxims, 
 Science, Art, Literature, Composing All- 
 round Clubs. 
 
 2. Original Melodic Society. 
 270. Compositions and Inventions 
 (Testing) Society. (Books and Papers 
 also upon these subject-. ) 
 
 271. Wisdom of Arts and Science (with 
 Tests). 
 272. People's Book Contributaries. 
 
 273. JofKNAI.S. -,-v/;"/'^"' Titlt'S /<' 
 
 Joi/fHiil*. .Mii'i'i-.in,-*. (-. ; History of 
 Days The Relaxation Leisure 
 The Paper Editor's .Medium All 
 Opinions The Advance of th< 
 Select Paper (or Journal, Maga/inc. 
 People's Column, Ac.) Columns The 
 Public Idea Constitution and the IV. .pV 
 - -The Musical Daily Broadsheet Days 
 of the Year From Monday to Saturday 
 World's Doings The Town's ! 
 Transactions of Society Captain Pen 
 Bullets and P.ayoii.'t-; ,.r. Army 
 Chronicle Diary of Ycr-e and Prose 
 
X. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 The Indifferent ; or, Enmti The Impar- 
 tial Narrator of Events Civil and Mili- 
 tary News Europe's Annals Annals of 
 America, &c. (ad libitum) The Voice 
 Family Legend One Day Spare Mo- 
 ments Melodia The Melodic News- 
 Composers' & Musicians' Journal Public 
 Pensman The Musical Press Cigarito ; 
 or, Fumes of Fashion Gacetilla of 
 Fashion The Musical Day Extractor- 
 Channel of News Facts and Imagina- 
 tions Cream of News Close Observer 
 Round About Concert Journal Every- 
 one's Chronicle Thoughts and Facts of 
 the "Week Maxims of the People Our 
 Doings The Trumpeter Boat News- 
 Journal of Europe, &c. Army and Fleets 
 People's Cannon Loungers' Solace 
 News of the Ocean Wednesday Chronicle 
 Collector Far and Near The Notes 
 The Clef The Dicendial Magazine The 
 Tonist Daily Book Sonetic and Tonetic 
 News World's Revolution. 
 
 274. Daily (and Weekly) Book of Art 
 and Science (with Transactions of a 
 Society, in connection with Publishing 
 House). 
 
 275. Daily Books (in magazine or book 
 form), in various departments. 
 
 276. The Popular SUGGESTION BOOK. 
 To contain the Suggestions of the People 
 at large. [This idea might be greatly 
 expanded.] 
 
 277. Musical Suggestion and Compo- 
 sition Book. 
 
 2. Public Memoranda. 
 
 3. Suggestion Books for all Pro- 
 
 fessions and Trades. 
 
 4. Original Music (Songs, with or 
 
 without Pianoforte Accompani- 
 ments), te be issued as Advertise- 
 ments, with Professional or Trade 
 Notices on the back pages. 
 
 5. Music Bills and Cards. [Good 
 
 idea for Advertisers. People 
 would be inclined to preserve 
 same for the sake of the music. 
 This idea could also be greatly 
 extended.] 
 
 278. Trades' and Professions' Book 
 (with Results). 
 
 2. Collection of Suggestions, in book 
 
 form. 
 
 3. Library of Public Suggestions; 
 
 or, Public Data. 
 
 279. Words of Golden Value. Cream 
 of Libraries. 
 280. Ready Iron "Tents" and Houses. 
 
 2. Movable Apartments. 
 
 3. Wooden Separate Houses. 
 281. Pen and Bent Crank Knife. Com- 
 pass Pen. 
 
 282. Double Piano, and Musical In- 
 strument-playing Aids, with cranks, self- 
 acting and otherwise. 
 
 283. Libretto Carte. Concert do, 
 (Music and Words) : for Public and 
 Private Entertainments. 
 
 284. Plumal Music and Card Concerts. 
 
 285. Fine Arts League. Corresponding 
 do. Musical Tour Round the World. 
 
 286. A String Board Ready Pen. 
 
 287. Painted Photos and Camera (en- 
 larged), with Special Music. 
 
 288. Movable Musical Notes. Also, 
 Keyed Notes : to leave printed impres- 
 sions. 
 
 2. A Musical Stamp Plate. Series 
 of do. 
 
 289. The Music Composing Institute 
 (supply name of city or nation). 
 
 290. Mentality and Dicendial Club. 
 
 291. Musical Composition Excursion 
 Party (for the progress of the art). 
 
 292. Musical Composition and Philo- 
 sophical Clubs. 
 
 293. A Composition Bazaar. 
 
 294. System of Prose Music, with irre- 
 gular Poetic Impromptu and Improvised 
 Music. 
 
 295. An Entertainment, or Institute- 
 embodying the principal of these sugges- 
 tions, with Music Writers to note down 
 results ; the same to be printed, or " plu- 
 mally" issued, in a Journal. 
 
 296. Composing Concert. 
 
 297. A Sj'stem of Appeal Chambers (or 
 3rd Legislative Houses), to decide Con- 
 stitutional Questions. 
 
 298. Revolving Musical Note Box. 
 
 299. Literary Alliances (Poetic) 
 Books to be published with Music to 
 Lyrics, &c. (all European Nations). 
 
 300. The Ancient Greek Lyrists, with 
 Greek in ordinary letters and to original 
 music. Also, Modern (all languages) 
 Concerts of do. 
 
 301. Musical Title-Pages, Fly-Leafs, 
 Emblems (Airs), instead of the ordinary 
 Vignettes, Scroll Work, &c. 
 
 302. A Musical Stamp Plate Manufac- 
 tory (for authors*. 
 
 303. MS. Public Studio. 
 2. An Army Chorus. 
 
 304. A Comprehensive IXTERXATIOX- 
 AL UNITED UNIVERSITY Music COM- 
 rosixGand MELODIC LEAGUE (European 
 and American). Objects : The composi- 
 tion of an immense number of Original 
 Melodies selections to be regularly pub- 
 lished, and all musical contributions sent 
 in to be recorded and preserved. Manu- 
 script and printed. Musical presses to 
 print off impressions of pieces composed. 
 
 305. Symphony, &c., with Recitals 
 intermixed. 
 
 306. Souetic, Canzonic, and other Se- 
 lected Poesias (international), with special 
 music composed. 
 
 307. A System of Musical Columns in 
 the Press ; 'Journals and Miscellaneous 
 Publications. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 xi. 
 
 308. Government Institute ; or, Ar- 
 cunium of Literature, Music, and Science. 
 2. Political Information Bureau. 
 
 309. Volume of Phonodies. 
 2. Phonodic Music. 
 
 310. Handy Music-Staff Copyist ; or, 
 Music-Stave Stamper. 
 
 311. Operatic Beading, or Recital, with 
 improvisation renderings. 
 
 312. National Century of Musical Com- 
 position. 
 
 313. Improvised Musical Lectures and 
 Meetings. 
 
 314. Volume of Names or Titles for 
 Musical Pieces, Books, Fiction, &c. 
 
 315. Free and Independent Musical 
 Junto and Tonist Unions. 
 
 316. Board of Regulation for Public 
 Institutions. 
 
 317. An Exhibition Institute. 
 
 318. International Central Road. 
 
 319. Exchange Stamps and Depart- 
 ment (all Governments). Stamps (of all 
 civilised nations) should be obtainable at 
 all Post Offices. Payment in lieu. 
 
 320. Solo Opera Lecture. 
 
 321. A Comprehensive System of ORI- 
 GINAL COMPOSITION AND MUSICAL 
 LKCTI KKTTKS with Melodies to be com- 
 posed and written in presence of the 
 public. [This idea capable of practicable 
 adaptation could be greatly extended. 
 I n a lecture read at a local institute, on 
 his theory of "The Melodic Composing 
 Faculty," the Author wrote and composed 
 an original Irish Melody in presence of 
 the audience.] 
 
 322. Piano Tonic Scale. By letters to 
 be placed on the black keys, to enable 
 any person to play airs at thu first 
 attempt. 
 
 323. A Ledger Dictionary. 
 
 324. Imaginary Campaigns, with Mili- 
 tary Problems, Fictitious "History," &c. 
 Kx : " The Campaigns of Lopeon." 
 
 325. The Cauzonic ; or, Free Ri-ii'lrrin<_r 
 Mode in Music. Objects : The revolution, 
 to a certain exteut.of existing system and 
 modes in music composition and singing, 
 viz. : 
 
 1. More liberty in the rendition of 
 
 Concert Programmes. 
 
 2. Promim-iicu to be given to the 
 
 tto. 
 
 3. Abolition of all purely conven- 
 
 tional forms. 
 
 4. YIXM! Introduction and Finale 
 
 allowi-'i. 
 
 5. Accompaniments (Piano) to be 
 
 i n,l lUntnm; also musical 
 
 . 
 
 6. More prominenM to be given to 
 
 Manuscript Songs and Jmpro- 
 
 7. Double Songs with connecting 
 
 8. Vocal and Instrumental Sympho- 
 
 nies (alternating). 
 
 9. "Delicate" School in Singing- 
 
 natural style, without straining 
 the voice. 
 
 10. Unlimited use of Cadenza at the 
 
 end of a Song or Piece. 
 
 11. To introduce a fashion of Singing 
 
 from Musical Cards. 
 [These observations might be extended.] 
 
 326. ORIGINAL NAMKS ; or, TITLES. 
 For use in Music and Literature. 
 
 [Selected from above a thousand in- 
 vented by E. Counsel. A few only pre- 
 sented, as specimens, the plan of this 
 Ai'i'K.VDix not admitting detail.] 
 
 Lopeon Delmachoue Vanchero Has- 
 beth Ropiero Donovello Denoca 
 Ragine [Ex: "Ragine, a Tragedy"] 
 Sorfisa Martiga Estorah Velgine 
 laro Inoti e Teranda Therline Tilo 
 Monteto Crathelda Caraibro Parlin- 
 burg Onorigo Manarigo Virtello 
 Persina Xenotle Tenosthenes Malpra- 
 gian Perlucinos Paridoza Senalin 
 Veuquelo Ivadorez Lalblano Imou- 
 tauro Fainora RoppoGitaro Peralauro 
 Shano Thergis Tourigos Giole di 
 Napordi Ilipn Ronsesky Nernish 
 Arauia Pfloreta, or Floretta, Rodantez 
 Avolia Anguila Themasia Valsuka 
 Stiliane Nautherne Tanador Rimongo 
 Eralan Urzolo Froncios Namolka 
 Vilroic Quelinois Tromaline Soranie 
 Orranie Trusigo Calalspa Parohaiba- 
 Alohi bo Detonero Lamurth Tar 1, 1 i 1 1 - 
 Tegaron Terina-Valrotieu Jarnahao 
 Bonnaberg Ouilas Zilacao Natanza- - 
 Giranon Duragenca Ronoc.uo Lidonico 
 FioloSornapori Guabastinho Enversi 
 Foroncio Queviesco Peranocca 
 Dcrontro Umolilo Cimorani Lujulco 
 Lotavia Lahivia Imogar Onamadra 
 Tarenza Ramiugo Rologar Sanilos 
 Poliarto Elmarto Donasberg Amo- 
 rila Poyodata Imitara Amogar 
 Poraliga Alator Moutayco Matanaros 
 Fadhian Alonoise Xalujar Ragiugia 
 Umoligo Maxorebla Mogonena Yua- 
 della Fronaja Mergo Leridon Ma- 
 tingo TerzaYda Zidora Aruiosa 
 Dourex Lose hero Torazia Agoniz 
 Ynarella Manigo Xariava Rolsemoda 
 Feralos Delamarigo Mirloa Raniora 
 Carmogel Arlezona Cheuon Malgroic 
 -Manurka Krmadida Imazora Plu- 
 enja Macha Manaroche Panjorifa 
 Zarexina Giunera Lorejos - I 
 Peznaros Sorreene Larigocia Kan- 
 koseda Sanarina Milamonte Rindo- 
 leah Mcxicia Serova Inocro Arolia-- 
 Monovard Priinondo Hindis Sena 
 I >rnlrnte Amerola Persiella Tirani 
 Munasto Larmino Loacino Lirulio Dr - 
 lagetto lonetha Novrena Scrnoui 
 Biuaiito Meranthe Zelita, &c., 
 
Ml. APPENDIX. 
 
 APPENDIX. No. II 
 
 A LIST 
 
 OF THE 
 
 TWENTY THOUSAND (20,000) 
 
 ORIGINAL AIRS 
 
 AND MUSICAL PIECES 
 
 OP 
 
 COUNSEL. 
 
 NOTE. 1. Read the following LIST in the plural number, thus : Marches, Airs, 
 Songs, and so on. 
 
 2. Also in Spanish, French, German, Italian, &c. 
 
 3. Those in italics are New Varieties. 
 
 4. In the Original Draft they are classed under the general term " AIRS." 
 
 5. These Airs are all strictly Original Compositions, and not " Arrange- 
 
 ments " in any sense whatever mostly THEMES. 
 
 6. Arranged, for easier reference, in form of Index. 
 
 LIST. 
 
 AIRS [every variety of the Air : Ae'r, Aria, Arietta, Arie, Ayre, &c.], Ayres a la 
 Espanola, Adagio, Allegro, All'Improvista, Andante, Appel, Aragonesa. 
 
 Bagatelle, Ballad (Balada, &c. see Note 2), Ballet Air, Baile, Barcarolle, 
 Berceuse, Barcarolle Romanza, Bolero, Bourre, Brando, Breakdown, Buffa Air, 
 Jianjonette, Burletta, Bugula di Monte, Bravura (Aria di). 
 
 Cachuca, Cadenza, Call, Cancion, Cancionita, Cauc.ao, Carol, Carolette, Canon 
 Theme, Cassideh, Canzone, Canzonetta, Canzonic Air, Canto, Capriccio, Caprice 
 Etude, Canon Caucrizans, Cielito, Cavatina, Catch, R. Catholic Hymn, Chant, 
 Litanj', &c., Ceen, Chanson, Chansonnette, Chanson-a-boire, Coranto, Chaunt, 
 Comic Song (Airs only), Coro Theme, Concerto do., Carrillon, Coplas, Cotillion, 
 Chasse, Country Dance. 
 
 Dance Music, Danse (Airs de), Danza Espanola, &c., Dead March, Dirge, Ditty, 
 Divertimento, Double " Valsuka," Dramatic Movement, Duetto. 
 
APPENDIX. xiii. 
 
 " Erin " (Melodies of), Espciuola (Arietas a la), Echo, Elegie, Endecha (Lament), 
 Episode, Entree, Kunlc, Exercise (suitable for Violin, Spanish Guitar, Clarionet, 
 Flute, and other instruments), with Airs in the various European and Oriental 
 modes. 
 
 Fancy Dance (Pas, &c.), Fandango, Finale, Fugue Theme, Fantasia do., Fonu 
 (Airs in the assumed ancient Celtic mode). 
 
 Galop, Gallopade, Toro, or Spanish Bull Galop, Gaj'ta, Gazul, Giga, Gavotte, 
 Glee Tlieme, Gondola Air, Galliard, Ground, Guaracha. 
 
 Hornpipe, Hunt, Havanero, Haven, R. Catholic Hymn (Himno, &c. see 
 Note 2). 
 
 Irish Melodies (Airs composed in the Irish mode numerous), Intermezzo (1st 
 Violin) : " Donovello Tonale il Suouatore," Italiana (Aria), Idylle, Impromptu, 
 Intennedley Air, Introduzione. 
 
 Jaleo, Jacara, Jota (or La Xota), Irish Jig, American Jig, Joydelucten, Joya, 
 Jubilate, Jarana. 
 
 Kossin ia ire, Kassideh . 
 
 LAUDATE, Lament, Lavolta, Laudler, Lay, Lied (Lieder see Note 2), Legenda, 
 Lesson, Letra, Letrilla, Libeslied, Lilt, Luiuig, R. Catholic Litany, Lyric. 
 
 Melody, &c. (in great variety all modes), March, Marche, Marcia, &c., Madrigal 
 Theme, Mareke l'olacc. Mazurka, Meditation, Medley, Maggot, Minuet, Modinho, 
 Morci-aii, Morisco, Motet Air, Messe (Aires pour le), Musica di Camera, Madrilena, 
 Movimento, do. Militaire, The Mezcla, and Miscellaneous. 
 
 National Air (all Nationalities), Napolitana, - Nava, Negro Air and Refrain, 
 Naval Air, Nocturne. 
 
 Ode, Olla, Operatic Air, Overture (Violino Prinio). 
 
 Pas, &c., Pasacalle, Paisana (or Contradanza), Passato, Pastorale, Peusee, 
 Pensee Poetique, Peobreachd (or Pibroch), Plantation Air, Pantomime do., Paspie, 
 Planxtv, Pifferari, Polacca, Piece, Polonaise, Polonaise March* rlnc-<( (^u/nlrill-* 
 Pocttade, I'relude, Prelude Air, Preghiera (Priere), Promptu Militaire, Th<- I'honoiUj. 
 
 Quadrille, Quick March (or Quick Step), Quartela, Quartett and Quiutett Theme. 
 
 Reel, Recitative, Requiem Air, Refrain, Rant, Retreat, Redondilla, Reveille, 
 Rann. Rove, Reverie, Rigodou, Rimas, Riuka, Ritornella, Romance, Romanza, 
 Rondo, Rondo Valse, Round, Roundel, Runes, Romaucero, Religioso (Air). 
 
 Song, &c. (numerous), Salut Militir<-, Saraband, Sang Stund, Saltarelo, 
 Saltareu, Stage Airs, Seguidilla, Scena, Scena ed Aria, Scherzo, Scrabmag, Sketch, 
 Salve, Spinnlicd, Solfeggio, Sonetic Air, Siciliana, Sonata, Skalld, Souvenir, Spanish 
 Hull Calop, Spanish Waltz, Solo, Step, Step Dance, Spring, Suntencia Aire, Strath- 
 spi'y. Sand Dance, Sorbico, Silva, Study, Slow March, and numerous Airs in the 
 Spanish mode. 
 
 TK DKi'M, or CATHOLIC HVMX (Air), Tune (Ton, Tono, Tonada, Tonetic Air, 
 Tonus, Toon, Tuono, &c.), Triumphal March, Tyrolienue, Tarantella, Thema 
 < numerous), Trot, Terzetto Theme, Toro Fiesta (Spanish Bull Fight Airs, &c.), 
 Theatrical Airs, Thumpe, Toro Galope, Trio. 
 
 Valso (Valse Song, Valce Espanola, Valcette, Valse deux Temps, &c.), Valse 
 
 Air, Violin Music, Counsel's "Violin School" (or Studio if published Airs and 
 
 -c>). Vciic'/.iaiiA, Vesper Hymn, Viivlai. Villauc'ico, Voccro, Vilaiii-lla. Vandi>- 
 
 ville Air, Volantc, Vatt-rlund (Aric a la), - Volkslk-d," Voluntary, The "Valsuku" 
 
 (a new measure). 
 
 Waltz (Wai/., Walzer, &c.), War March. 
 
 Xacara, Xota (La). 
 
 /ambapalo, Zambra, Ziraleet, Zorzico, Zapateado, Zarabanda, and 
 
 MlSCKI.I.\M.-'l B AI11-. 
 
XIV. APPENDIX. 
 
 APPENDIX. No. Ill 
 
 A BKIEF SUMMABY 
 
 OP THE 
 
 AUTHOR'S OTHER WORKS, 
 
 AS GIVEN IN THE 
 
 APPENDIX OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF THE MAXIMS. 
 OCTAVO. JULY, 1889. 
 
 1. " MELODIES OF ERIK." Original Melodies to Selected Words. [September, 
 1889.] 4to. 
 
 2. MS. PRODUCTIONS : New Musical and Literary Theories, entitled " THE 
 DICENDIAL PHILOSOPHY." 
 
 3. Letters to Public Bodies and Governments. 
 4. New Musical Measures and Varieties. 
 
 5. New Order (suggested) : THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF UNITED MUSI- 
 CIANS (with 27 Rules). 
 
 6. Two Lectures on Music and Musical Faculty. 
 
 7. Appellations, or Names. For Musical and Literary purposes. (Above a 
 thousand in number.) 
 
 8. Various Public Suggestions. 
 
 9. The Dialette ; or, Manual Dial. " The Ready Signature Pen," with other 
 Suggestions, including a Postal Cheque (or Government Money Note) System 
 submitted to various Governments. 
 
 10. Airs, Examples, &c., for Work on Music (unpublished). 
 11. Variosa and Hints on Music. 
 12. NOT.E, &c. 
 
APPENDIX. XV. 
 
 APPENDIX. No. IV. 
 A LIST OF THE SONGS 
 
 IX THE AUTHOR'S PUBLICATION, 
 ENTITLED 
 
 "MELODIES OF ERIN," 
 
 [4to, 24 pp.] 
 
 THE WORDS BEING SELECTED FROM VARIOUS POETS OF IRELAND, 
 TO 
 
 ORIGINAL MELODIES, 
 COMPOSED BY EDWABD COUNSEL. 
 
 NAMES OF THE SONGS. 
 
 1. "The Last Glimpse of Erin." [Also issued separately, with Pianoforte 
 Accompaniments.] 
 
 2." Vale of Avoca." (No. 1.; 
 
 3. " Dear Harp of My Country." 
 
 4. "Gentle Bri>l 
 
 6. "As a Ik- mi t.Yr the Face of the "\Y;. 
 
 6." Farewell ! but, Whenever," &c. 
 
 7. "Voices of Erin." 
 
 8." The Little Black Rose." 
 
 9." Bonnie Cattlin." 
 
 10.-" Mo Bhmu-hailin Dan" (Fair Little Boy). 
 11. "Owhb Ma 
 12.-" Vale of Avoca." (No. 2.) 
 13. "Dear H.iv .try." (No. 2.) 
 
 14. Original Air, cntitk.l "A Mi-;.-.ly of Krin." 
 
xvi. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 APPENDIX. No. V. 
 
 ADDENDA 
 
 OF 
 
 PUBLIC, UNIVERSITY & OTHER 
 CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 BELATING TO THE AUTHOR'S PUBLICATIONS. 
 
 [NOTE. 1. Slightly condensed. 2. It lias not been deemed essential to the 
 interest of the Letters to attach the Fames of the Writers. 3. Relating to the 
 Original Editions " Maxims " (containing only 3237) and " Melodies of Erin," 
 issued respectively in July and September, 1889,] 
 
 [COPIES.] 
 
 No. 1. 
 
 339. S.M.A. 1889. 
 
 Head-quarters U..S. Military Academy, 
 West Point, N.Y., 
 
 27th December, 1889. 
 Mr. Edward Counsel, 
 
 Somerville, Australia. 
 Dear Sir, I have the honor to acknow- 
 ledge, with thanks, the receipt of a copy 
 of your " Maxims : Political, Philosophi- 
 cal, and Moral," which it will give me 
 pleasure to place in the Library of this 
 Institution. 
 
 Very respectfully yours, &c., 
 COLONEL OF ENGINEERS, 
 
 Superintendent. 
 
 No. 2. 
 Bodleian Library, Oxford, 
 
 12th December, 1889. 
 Dear Sir, I beg you to accept the best 
 thanks of the Curators and of myself for 
 the undermentioned work, by yourself, 
 which you have been so kind as to present 
 to the Library of the University. 
 Yours very faithfully, 
 
 THE LIBRARIAN. 
 
 " Maxims : Political, Philosophical, and 
 Moral." E. Counsel. 
 
 [Also replies to " Melodies of Erin " in 
 many cases.] 
 
 No. 3. 
 
 Library, "U.S. Military Academy, 
 West Point, N.Y.. 
 
 21st May, 1890. 
 
 I have the honor to acknowledge, with 
 thanks, the receipt of the following 
 named publications : " Melodies of Erin," 
 composed by Edward Counsel (2 copies) ; 
 "Maxims : "Political, Philosophical, and 
 Moral," by Edward Counsel (1 copy). 
 Presented by the author to the Library. 
 Very respectfully yours, &c., 
 
 THE LIBRARIAN & PROFESSOR. 
 E. Counsel, Somerville, Australia. 
 
 No. 4. 
 
 Trinity College Library, 
 Dublin, Ireland, 
 
 5th December, 1890. 
 
 Sir, I beg to acknowledge, and to 
 thank you for, the donation mentioned 
 below, 'which you have kindly presented 
 to the Library. 
 
 I am, Sir, yours, &c., 
 
 ASSIST. LIBRARIAN. 
 "Maxims : Political, Philosophical, and 
 Moral," by E. Counsel, Vol. I. 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 xvii 
 
 No. 5. 
 Uuiversiu ui California, 
 
 Berkeley, 19th March, 1890. 
 Mr. Edward Counsel". 
 
 The Regents of the University of Cali- 
 fornia hereby acknowledge your gift of 
 your work, entitled "Maxims : Political, 
 Philosophical, and Moral," for which I 
 am instructed to return their grateful 
 thanks. 
 
 Very respectfully yours, 
 
 Till: SKCHETARY. 
 Placed in the Library. 
 
 Tin: Linn ART AX. 
 
 No. 6. 
 D. 1339. British Museum, 
 
 19th October, 1889. 
 
 Sir, I am directed by the Trustees of 
 the British Museum to inform you that 
 they have received the present mentioned 
 on the other side, which you have been 
 pleased to make to them, and I have to 
 return to you their best thanks for the 
 
 I have, &c., 
 THE PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN. 
 
 u Maxims : Political, Philosophical, and 
 Moral," by E. Counsel. 1889. 
 
 No. 7. 
 
 Office of the Board of Aldermen, 
 No. 8 City Hall, New York, 
 
 13th June, 1890. 
 Mr. Edward Counsel. 
 
 Dear Sir, I have the honor to acknow- 
 ledge, gratefully, the receipt of j r our 
 "Maxims" and '-Melodies," and beg leave 
 to inform you that, as requested, both 
 will be deposited in the City Library, 
 where they will be accessible to the 
 American people, or, at least, such portion 
 thereof as may have occasion to visit the 
 Library either for instruction or infor- 
 mation. I regard your publication as a 
 very desirable acquisition. 
 
 Very respectfully yours, <fcc., 
 
 Tin-: CI.KUK, 
 Corporation Council. 
 
 No. 8. 
 Town Hall, Manchester, 
 
 21st April, 1890. 
 
 thanks, 
 
 nn behalf of the Corporation, ; 
 volume of Maxims." and also ti, 
 dies of Erin," which you have so kindlv 
 mioipa] Library, 
 truly, 
 
 Tm: M\u>u. 
 Mr. i 
 
 No. 9. 
 
 University of Sydney, 
 New South Wales. Australia. 
 
 25th July, 1889. 
 
 Sir, On behalf of the Senate of the 
 University of Sydney I have the honour 
 to acknowledge the receipt of the publi- 
 cation enumerated below. I am also 
 directed to tender you the best thanks of 
 the Senate for this donation, and to 
 inform you that your name has been 
 enrolled as a contributor to the Library 
 of the University. 
 
 I have, &c., 
 
 THE LIBRARIAN. 
 E. Counsel. 
 
 "Maxims : Political, Philosophical, and 
 Moral," by Edward Counsel. 
 
 No. 5110. 
 
 Public Library, Melbourne, 
 
 31st July, 1889. 
 
 Sir, I have the honour, by direction of 
 the Library Committee, to acknowledge 
 the receipt of the work mentioned on the 
 other side, for which the Trustees return 
 you their sincere thanks, and beg to 
 inform you that they have caused your 
 name to be enrolled on the books as a 
 contributor to the Public Library. 
 I have, &c., 
 
 TIIE LIBRARIAN. 
 E. Counsel. 
 
 "Maxims : Political. Philosophical, and 
 Moral" (5 copie- >. 
 
 No. 11. 
 
 Supreme Court Library, 
 Melbourne, 
 
 4th September, 1889. 
 Sir, I have the honor, by direction of 
 the Supreme Court Library Committee, to 
 inform j T ou that two copies of your work 
 (".Maxims: Political, Philosophical, and 
 Moral"), presented by you to the Library 
 of the Supreme Court, have been accepted 
 with thanks. 
 
 I have the honor to be, &c., 
 
 'I'm: Lum.vRiAN. 
 
 To Mr. Edward Counsel, 
 
 Railway Paddoeks, Somorvillc. 
 
 No. 12. 
 
 Library of the Parliament 
 (Melbourne >, 
 
 iMth July, 1889. 
 
 Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge 
 the receipt of your publication, "Maxims," 
 &c., forwarded by ymi fr deposit in this 
 Librarv, and beir to inf"nn you that the 
 Library Committee accept the volume 
 with thanks. 
 
 I 1m v. 
 
 'I'm: 
 i: i '.nisei. Somervillc. 
 
xviii. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. 13. 
 Library, South Australia 
 
 (Legislature), 
 
 Adelaide, 2nd August, 188D. 
 "Maxims," by Edward Counsel. 
 
 Sir, I am directed by the Joint Parlia- 
 ment Library Committee to express their 
 thanks for your contributions, specified 
 in the margin, and to state that such have 
 been deposited in this Library. 
 
 I have, &c., 
 
 THE PARLIAMENT LIBRARIAN. 
 E. Counsel. 
 
 No. 14. 
 Parliament Library. Brisbane, 
 
 4th- November, 1889. 
 Sir, I have the honour to acknowledge, 
 with thanks, the receipt of a copy of 3 T our 
 " Maxims : Political, Philosophical, and 
 Moral," which you have been good enough 
 to send for the use of this Library. 
 
 I have, &c., 
 
 PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARIAN. 
 E. Counsel. 
 
 No. 15. 
 The Mitchell Library, 
 
 Glasgow, October, 1890. 
 Sir The Committee of The Mitchell 
 Library desire me to acknowledge receipt 
 of the donation named on the other side, 
 and to convey to you the expression of 
 their cordial thanks. 
 
 Sir, yours respectfully, 
 
 THE CONVENER. 
 
 "Melodies of Erin," composed by E. 
 Counsel. 
 " Maxims," &c., by E. Counsel. 
 
 No. 16. 
 Connecticut State Library, 
 
 Hartford, 17th June, 1890. 
 Dear Sir, I have the honor to acknow- 
 ledge the receipt of your letter of 7th 
 May, with the two books mentioned 
 therein, and return our thanks for them. 
 Yours respectfully, 
 
 THE STATE" LIBRARIAN. 
 E. Counsel, Somerville, Australia. 
 " Melodies of Erin," by Edward Counsel. 
 4to. 
 " Maxims," &c. 12mo. 
 
 No. 17. 
 
 College of Physicians, 
 Pall Mall East, 
 
 1st February, 1890. 
 
 Sir, I am directed by the College of 
 Physicians of London to return their 
 thanks to you for your kind present. 
 I am, &c., 
 
 THE REGISTRAR. 
 E. Counsel. 
 
 No. 18. 
 National Liberal Club, 
 
 London, 23rd June, 1890. 
 The Librarian begs to acknowledge, 
 with thanks, the receipt of Mr. Counsel's 
 volume of " Maxims " and his " Melodies 
 of Erin." 
 
 No. 19. 
 
 [Extract from the published Thirty- 
 sixth Annual Report of the Library Syn- 
 dicate, University of Cambridge. 4th June, 
 1890] : 
 
 " From the Author : Counsel (E.) 
 ' Maxims : Political, Philosophical, and 
 Moral.' 8vo. Melbourne. (1889.) 
 
 " From the Composer: Counsel (E.) 
 ' Melodies of Erin.' 4to. (1889.)" 
 
 No. 20. 
 
 57. Public Library, Museum, and Art 
 Gallery of South Australia, 
 
 Adelaide, 12th August, 1889. 
 Sir, I have the honor, by direction of 
 the Board of Governors of the Public 
 Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of 
 South Australia, to acknowledge the 
 receipt of the work, noted below, presented 
 by you to the Public Library. 
 
 I am further directed to convey to you 
 the thanks of the Board for this addition 
 to the public collections of the colony. 
 I have the honor, &c., 
 
 THE GENERAL DIRECTOR 
 
 AND SECRETARY. 
 E. Counsel. 
 
 " Maxims : Political, Philosophical, and 
 Moral," by Edward Counsel. 
 
 [Also from various Government De- 
 partments, Municipal and other Public 
 Libraries, Institutes, Societies, &c., &c.] 
 
 No. 21. 
 
 Office of the Mayor, 
 Philadelphia, 
 
 13th June, 1890. 
 Mr. E. Counsel, Somerville, Australia. 
 
 His Honor the Mayor directs me to 
 acknowledge receipt of copy of the ori- 
 ginal edition of your " Melodies of Erin," 
 to express his appreciation and thanks 
 for same, and state that it has been filed 
 in the Library. 
 
 I am, yours respectfully, 
 
 THE MAYOR'S SECRETARY. 
 
 No. 22. 
 
 Bureau of Education 
 
 (Department of the Interior), 
 
 Washington, D.C.", 
 
 3rd October, 1890. 
 
 Sir, Permit me to acknowledge, with" 
 thanks, the receipt from you of the pub- 
 lication mentioned within. It will be 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 xix. 
 
 deposited, for use and reference, in the 
 Library of the Bureau, and a record will 
 bo made of the name of the donor. 
 Yery respectfully, 
 
 THE COMMISSIONER. 
 
 Mr. Edward Counsel. 
 " Melodies of Erin." 
 
 No. 23. 
 
 Bureau of Education, 
 Washington, 
 
 17th October, 1890. 
 
 Dear Sir, I write to thank you for a 
 copy of your "Melodies of Erin." which 
 we have placed in the Library of this 
 Bureau. We hope that you will remember 
 us when you publish a continuation of 
 your musical studies. 
 
 Very respectfully yours, 
 
 THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION 
 
 OF TUK UNITED STATES. 
 
 No. 24. 
 
 Bureau of Education, 
 Washington, 
 
 4th April, 1891. 
 Mr. Edward Counsel. 
 
 Dear Sir, This office is indebted to you 
 for a copy of your " Melodies of Erin," 
 heretofore acknowledged, and for a num- 
 ber of Musical Compositions, in manu- 
 script, which were accompanied with 
 several very polite letters from you. 
 
 While thanking you for your kindness 
 in sending these productions to the 
 Bureau of Education, it seems to me that 
 way to bring the manuscripts to 
 the attention of musicians is to hand 
 them to the Director of the U.S. Marine 
 Hand, the largest and finest musical 
 organisation in the Government service. 
 
 With your permission, then, this course 
 will lit: pursued, ;md the Professor (Di- 
 rector) will be requested to make proper 
 Acknowledgment to you. 
 
 I am, Sir, very respectfully yours, 
 
 Tin: A' TIN<; COM.\II>M'>NI:I:. 
 
 No. 25. 
 
 The Newberry Library, 
 Chicago,! 
 
 tober, 1890. 
 
 Tlit T. :.crry Library 
 
 have the honor to acknowledge the 
 
 f Krin." ] 
 ay, and respectfully 
 tender th-'ir thanks for the same. 
 T. I . 
 
 I in the Library. 
 Tin: 
 
 No. 26. 
 Public Library, St. Louis, U.S., 
 
 3rd October, 1890. 
 To E. Counsel. 
 
 The Board of Management of the St. 
 Louis Public Library takes pleasure in 
 acknowledging receipt of " Melodies of 
 Erin," for which please accept its sincere 
 thanks. 
 Placed in the Library. 
 
 THE PRESI DK.NT OF THE BOARD. 
 
 No. 27. 
 
 Bostonia Condita, A.I). 1630. 
 Boston Public Library (U.S.), 
 
 28th April, 1891. 
 
 The Trustees have received the publi- 
 cation named on the other side, a gift to 
 the Library from Edward Counsel, for 
 which they return a grateful acknow- 
 ledgment. 
 
 PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD. 
 Placed in the Library. 
 
 THE SECRETARY. 
 " Melodies of Erin." 
 
 No. 28. 
 
 4542. Sig. 1891. 
 
 U.S. Signal Office, War Department, 
 Wasliiugton Citv, 
 
 24th April, 1891. 
 E. Counsel. 
 
 Sir, The Acting Chief Signal Officer 
 directs me to acknowledge the receipt of 
 your communication of 4th March, 1891. 
 transmitting your " Melodies of Erin." 
 
 I am further directed to thank you for 
 your courtesy, and to state tliat the 
 volume has been placed in the Library of 
 this office in accordance with your 
 request. 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 TIIK CHIEF CLERK. 
 
 No. 29. 
 Public Library, 
 
 Xc \vca.-tle-upon-Tvnc. 
 Sir On behalf of the Public Libraries' 
 Committee I beg to acknowledge the 
 receipt of the following donation, and to 
 convey to you the expression of their 
 cordial tlianks. 
 
 Yours, &c,, 
 
 THE CHIEF LIBRARIAN. 
 Counsel (Edward : " Melodies of Krin." 
 Demy 4to. Paper, N.D. [1889.] Placed 
 in the Reference Library. 
 
 N>.. 30. 
 Borough of Cambridge. 
 
 l-'r.e Library, Cuildhall. 
 
 7th November. 1890. 
 Sir, The Free Library Conn,, 
 the Borough o; ^ to acknow- 
 
 ledge the receipt of a ropy i,f your 
 88 of Krin " as a gift to the Km- 
 
XX. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Library, for which they request me to 
 convey to you the expression of their 
 thanks. 
 
 THE CHAIRMAN. 
 To E. Counsel. 
 
 [FOREIGN.] 
 
 No. 31. 
 Biblioteca Nacional. 
 
 " Maxims : Political, Philosophical, and 
 Moral," by Edward Counsel. Melbourne, 
 1889. 
 
 "Melodies of Erin," composed by E. 
 Counsel. 
 
 En cumplimiento de honroso deber, doy 
 a V. muy cordiales gracias por las obras 
 cuyos titulos se expresar al margen, y con 
 la cuales se ha servido V. f avorecer a esta 
 Biblioteca. 
 
 Dios guarde a V. muchos anos. 
 
 Madrid, 21 de Enero de 1891. 
 
 EL DIRECTOR. 
 
 Sr. Don Eduardo Counsel. 
 
 No. 32. 
 S. Consilii Npvillissime Sivitatis 
 
 Hispalensis. 
 
 Ayuntamiento de Sevilla. 
 Mr. Edward Counsel. 
 
 Muy Sr. mia y de mi mas distinguida 
 consideracion. A su debido tiempo he 
 tenido el honor de recibir el ejemplar que 
 se ha servido remitirme y que lleva por 
 titulo " Melodies of Erin." El merito 
 indudable de la composicion musical el 
 justo renombre del autor y la firma de la 
 espresiva dedicatoria, la hacen muy digna 
 de figurar en la Biblioteca y Archive de 
 la Excina Corporaciou que tengo la honra 
 de presidez. 
 
 Para ello he dado las ordenes oportunas 
 y al tributar a V. las mas expresivas 
 gracias por tan senalada muertia de con- 
 sideraciou, aprovecho esta circunstancia 
 para ofrecerme de V. sumas ato. S.S. 
 
 Q. S. M. B. 
 Sevilla, 7 Nov., 1890. 
 
 No. 33. 
 
 Monsr. E. Counsel. No. 1476. 
 
 Monsieur, J'ai 1'honneur de vous ac- 
 cuser reception de 1'ouvrage : " Maxims : 
 Political, Philosophical, and Moral" dont 
 vous voulez bien favre hommage a notre 
 Bibliotheque. 
 
 Veuillez agreer, Monsieur, 1'assurance 
 de ma consideration distinguee. 
 
 LE BIBLIOTHECAIRE DE 
 
 L'UNIVERSITE. 
 Louvain, 29 Abril, 1890. 
 
 No. 34. 
 
 Republique Francaise. Ville de Paris, 
 Conseil Municipal. 
 
 Paris, le 7 Octobre, 1890. 
 A Monsieur Edouard Counsel. 
 
 Monsieur, J'ai 1'honneur de vous ac- 
 cuser reception de 1'exemplaire des " Melo- 
 dies of Erin," dont vous avez bien vouler 
 faire hommage a la Bibliotheque du 
 Conseil Municipal de la Ville de Paris, & 
 dont vous etes 1'auteur. 
 
 Ce volume sera place dans notre Biblio- 
 theque, et le Bureau du Conseil vous 
 exprime les remerciements. 
 
 Eeceivez, Monsieur, 1'assurance de ma 
 consideration tres distinguee. 
 
 LE SYNDIC DU CONSEIL MUNI- 
 CIPAL DE PARIS. 
 
 No. 35. 
 
 Gand. Universite de 1'Etat. 
 Bibliotheque. 
 Gand, le 13 October, 1890. 
 Monsieur, Je m'acquitte du devoir le 
 plus agreable de ma charge en venant 
 vous accuser reception de Vouvrage inti- 
 tule : " Melodies of Erin," dont vous etes 
 1'auteur. 
 
 En enrichissant notre depot public, 
 vous avez bien merite de tous ceux a qui 
 il est utile, et c'est en leur noni comme au 
 mien que je vous prie d'agreer, Monsieur, 
 mes remerciements les plus sinceres. 
 
 LE BIBLIOTHECAIRE EN CHEF. 
 A Monsieur E. Counsel. 
 
 No. 3G. 
 
 Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, 
 
 Firenze, 15 Settembre, 1891. 
 Egregio Signore, A nome mio ed a 
 norne degli studiosi rivolgi alia Signoria 
 Vostra Illustrissima i piu sentiti ring- 
 rariamenti per le " Melodies of Erin " 
 che ella gentilmente ha inviate in dono a 
 questa Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. 
 
 II suo fascicolo ci e stato graditissimo, 
 giacche e vemito ad aggiungersi alia 
 nostra ricchissima collezioiie di Musica, 
 cosi antica come moderna, che dall' Italia 
 per diritto di starnpa riceviamo tutta 
 quanta si pubblica, e dall' estero in vien 
 favorita in dono da valenti e geutili com- 
 positori fra i quali 1'onore di anno- 
 verare la Signoria Vostra. Ogni altro 
 suo dono sara molto gradito. 
 Ilo intanto 1'onore di dichiararmi, 
 Delia Signoria, 
 
 Vostra illina devdtissimo, 
 PREFETTO DELLA BIBLIOTECA. 
 Illmo Signore. 
 Sigr. Edward Counsel. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 XXI 
 
 No. 37. 
 
 D. no Eduardo Counsel. 
 
 S.p.d. 
 
 Universitas Carolina Lundensis. 
 
 Ob donum quo Bibliotlu-ram im-tnim 
 
 munitice auxisti nomine Universitatis 
 
 Lundensis debitas <iu;is par est gratias 
 
 Bgimua. 
 
 Universitatis Luudensis. 
 
 Ed. Counsel. 
 
 BibliothecaeUuiversitatisCarolinaLun- 
 di-nsis douo ded. 
 
 "M. 'todies of Erin," composed by E. 
 Counsel. 
 
 No. 38. 
 
 Bibliotheque de 1'Universite de 
 Norvege a Christ iania. 
 Christiania, le 30 Octobre, 1890. 
 - L'Universite ayant recu 1'ouvrage sous 
 nomine que vous avez bien voulu lui faire 
 parveuir, m'a cliarge de vous addresser 
 les reinercimeuts. 
 
 LK BlBLIOTHECAIRE. 
 
 "Melodies of Erin," composed by Ed- 
 ward Counsel. 
 Mr. E. Counsel. 
 
 No. 39. 
 University Library, Upsala, 
 
 Sweden. 
 
 The University Library of Upsala lias 
 received from E. Counsel the following 
 publication : " Melodies of Erin "a gift, 
 [or which it returns a grateful acknow- 
 ledgment. 
 
 THE LIBRARIAN OF TIIE 
 
 UNIVERSITY. 
 Upsala, Oct. 30, 1890. 
 
 No. 40. 
 Biblioteket, Stockholm, 
 
 d. 31 Okt., 1890. 
 11. H'-rr Edward Counsel. 
 
 Miittuj-'andrt uf Kdcr nedan niimnda 
 LMt'va till Biblioteket har jag hiirmi-d 
 iir.in rrkiinna och anhaller fa afliigga 
 fi'.rbindligastt; tarksUjM-u for deu mot 
 -t.uciis silVfiitli^a boksamling salunda 
 (< vsilvilja. 
 
 OPVKRBIBLIOTBKABIBN, 
 
 - 1. K. : -'Mi'lo'lii-of Erin." Somer 
 ville. 
 
 11. 
 
 Bibliothek-Unh .recht. 
 
 M. [22 Oct., 1890.] 
 
 Ondcr vricndcliik.- daiiklu-tiiigin},' lu-1 
 r I' t: lii'richti-n.dat Uw p-s<-lu>uk 
 v.icir ill- (Jniveniteita-Bibliotheek alhie 
 
 UltVilll^l'l). 
 
 BIBLIOTHKCARI8. 
 
 No. 42. 
 Universitiits-Bibliothek. 
 
 I5..IM1, ileu 12 Febr., 1890. 
 lerr E. Counsel, 
 
 In Somerville, Australia. 
 Habe ich die Elire den ergebensten 
 )ank unscrer Bibliothek ans/.usprechen 
 iir das ihr geneigtest iibersendetu Ges- 
 henk "Maxims : Political, Philosopliical. 
 ,ud Moral." 
 
 DER OBERBIBLIOTIIEKAH. 
 
 No. 43. 
 
 P. 18 Marz, 1890. 
 
 Fiir gef. Einsenduug von " Maxims : 
 Political, Philosophical, and Moral," by 
 iird Counsel, Melbourne. Dankt res- 
 )oudlicht. 
 
 DKR VORSTAXD DER UXIVER- 
 BITAT8-BIBLIOTHBK. 
 
 Anst. 186. 
 Unlcersita(&-Biblioth>'k, Jena. 
 
 No. 44. 
 Grossherzoglich Badische Uuiversitiits- 
 
 Bibliothek. 
 
 Heidelberg [21 Feb., 1890]. 
 Ich bestiitige Ihnen hiermit, dass die 
 Universitiits-Bibliothek Ihr Geschenk 
 heute crhalteu hat, uud spree he fur 
 dassclbe den ergebensten Dank ;iu>. 
 
 DER OBERBIBLIOTIIEKAR. 
 
 No. 45. 
 Universitats-Bibliothek. 
 
 Gottingen, d. 30 Aug., 1890. 
 Ew. Hochwohlgeboreu. 
 
 Habe ich die Klire deu ergebensten 
 Dank unserer Bibliothek aus7.iis]in'chun 
 fiir das ihr geneigtest iibersendete Ges- 
 chenk. 
 Hires werkes. 
 " Melodies of Erin," Somerville. 
 
 DKR OBERIU1JUOTI1EKAR. 
 
 All Herru Edward Counsel, 
 Hochwohlgeboren, 
 
 Somerville, Australia. 
 
 N... 46. 
 
 (AV Maxiin-o 
 
 Uuiversitats Bibliotlu-k. 
 
 Ci'Uingen [G June, 1890], 
 Herrn E. Counsel. 
 
 FUr die der IHbliothuk als (iesi-henk 
 gUtigstiib. -rst-ndi-ii' Drnrksrlirift vi-rfdilc 
 irh nicht Naiiu-n-; dcr Vi-r\\;ili .. 
 D;ink /.u .siiron. 
 
 DKH OBKRBIBLIOTHXKAB, 
 
xxii. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. 47. 
 Stadtbibliothek, Hamburg, 
 
 den 25 ten Juni, 1890. 
 Die unterzeiclmete Verwalttmg beehrt 
 sick Ew. Wohlgeboi'en fiir Ihr soeben 
 empfangenes G-eschenk "Melodies of 
 Erin," comp. by E. Counsel, fol. s.l.c.a., 
 ihren verbindliclisten Dank auszuspre- 
 chen. 
 
 DER DIRECTOR DER 
 
 STADTBIBLIOTHEK. 
 
 JN. 1890/1905. 
 An E. Counsel. 
 
 No. 48. 
 Stadtbibliothek. 
 
 Frankfurt am Main, 
 
 den 31 Marz, 1890. 
 
 Suer Hochwohlgeboren beehren wir 
 uas hiemit fiir das unserer Austalt giitigst 
 iiberwiesene Geschenk den verbindlich- 
 sten Dank ganz ergebenst auszusprechen. 
 
 DAS STADTBIBLIOTHEKARIAT. 
 " Maxims : Political, Philosophical, and 
 Moral." 
 Seiner Hochwohlgeboren 
 
 Herrn Edward Counsel. 
 
 Bibliotheque de 1'Uuiversite de France 
 
 a la Sorboune. 
 Paris, le 28 Novembre, 1891. 
 Monsieur, J'ai recu 1'ouvrage que yous 
 avez bien voulu donuer a la Bibliotheque 
 
 de 1'Universite. II a ete immediatement 
 inscrit sur nos catalogues et depose dans 
 nos collections. 
 
 Je vous prie d'agreer, Monsieur, avec 
 les remerciments que j'ai 1'honneur de 
 vous adresser au nom de la Bibliotheque, 
 1'hommage de ma consideration dis- 
 tinguee. 
 
 Pro LE COXSERVATEUR. 
 
 A Monsieur Edward Counsel, 
 
 Somerville, via Melbourne, 
 Australia. 
 
 No. 50. 
 Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, 
 
 Firenze, 28 Novembre, 1891. 
 Eicevo la sua geutillissima lettera del 
 22 Ottobre p.p. che accompagna a questa 
 Biblioteca due copie della sua pubblica- 
 zione musicale : " The Last G-limpse of 
 Erin." 
 
 Le sono ben riconoscente per questo 
 nuovo ed' interessante dono, de quale 
 vedo con molto piacere arricchita questa 
 Biblioteca, e sono betissimo di poter 
 mettere a disposizione degli studiosi 
 anche questa sua pubblicazione, che irene 
 ad aurescere la copiosissima raccolta di 
 pubblicazioni musicali da noi posseduta. 
 IL PREPETTO. 
 Sig. Edoardo Counsel. 
 
 V* NOTE. The Author also forwarded copies of the Original Editions (either 
 " Maxims " or " Melodies ") to the undermentioned Universities and Public Bodies 
 (the principal only named) in Europe and America : 
 
 Universities .-West Point, Salamanca, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Naples, Valladolid, 
 Coimbra, Zaragoza, Lyons, Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig, Munich, Breslau, Halle, Prague. 
 Kouigsberg, Greifswald, Brussels, Leyden, Groningen, St. Petersburg, Moscow, 
 Kazan, Kiev, Padua, Pavia, Parma, Bologna, Turin, Oviedo, Alcala, Copenhagen, 
 Athens, Basle, and the Continent. 
 
 New York, Washington, Wooster, California, Harvard, Yale, and others. 
 
 Maynooth, London, Durham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, St. Andrews, &c. 
 
 Mexico, Habana, Lima, Buenos Ayres, Chili, and Brazil. U.S. State Legis- 
 latures, &c. 
 
 Miscellaneous Governments, Public, Municipal, and Free Libraries, Institutes 
 Societies, &c., in both Hemispheres. 
 
 AUTHOR'S ADDRESS : 
 
 SOMEEVILLE 
 
 (VIA MELBOURNE), 
 
 AUSTEALIA. 
 
 THE END. ] 
 
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