Part 30 (1/2)

With thee conversing, I forget all time

--_Milton_

399

It is better to turn back than to go astray

--_From the German_

400

He who converses with no one, learns nothing

401

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man

--_Antisthenes_

402

_Corporations have no souls_:--Lord Chancellor Thurlow said, ”that corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like”

403

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an unth: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority

--_Beaumont and Fletcher_

404

The thatched cottage where one is merry, is preferable to a palace where one weeps

--_From the Chinese_

405

Good counsel never comes too late

--_German_