404.--It appears that nature has hid at the bottom
of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It
is only the passions that have the power of bringing
them to light, and sometimes give us views more
true and more perfect than art could possibly do.
405.--We reach quite inexperienced the different
stages of life, and often, in spite of the number of our
years, we lack experience.
["To most men experience is like the stern lights of a
ship which illumine only the track it has passed."--
Coleridge.]
406.--Flirts make it a point of honour to be jealous
of their lovers, to conceal their envy of other women.
407.--It may well be that those who have trapped
us by their tricks do not seem to us so foolish as we
seem to ourselves when trapped by the tricks of
others.
408.--The most dangerous folly of old persons who
have been loveable is to forget that they are no
longer so.
["Every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself
handsome. The suspicion of age no woman, let her be
ever so old, forgives.
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