XI.
Unto each man comes a day when his favourite sins all forsake him,
And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.
XII.
Be not too anxious to gain your next-door neighbour's approval:
Live your own life, and let him strive your approval to gain.
XIII.
Who would succeed in the world should be wise in the use of his pronouns.
Utter the You twenty times, where you once utter the I.
XIV.
The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish
Could they hear all that their friends say in the
course of a day.
XV.
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table:
Luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.
XVI.
Pleasant enough it is to hear the world speak of your virtues;
But in your secret heart 'tis of your faults you are proud.
XVII.
Try not to beat back the current, yet be not drowned in its waters;
Speak with the speech of the world, think with the thoughts of the few.
XVIII.
Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady
sifting,
Some of them turn into friends.
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