--ZENO.
Avarice in old age, is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to
increase our provisions for the road, the nearer we approach to our
journey's end?--CICERO.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.--COWLEY.
BASHFULNESS.--Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity;
bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.--MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT.
As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the
gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining
bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature
and humanity.--PLUTARCH.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
--ARISTOTLE.
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest;
and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of
principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a
total ignorance of vice.--COLTON.
BEAUTY.--It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that
completes the charm.--FONTENELLE.
Keats spoke for all time when he said, "A thing of beauty is a joy
forever."--THACKERAY.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to
whom it has been refused.--GIBBON.
What is beauty? Not the show
Of shapely limbs and features. No.
These are but flowers
That have their dated hours
To breathe their momentary sweets, then go.
'Tis the stainless soul within
That outshines the fairest skin.
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