THEME CLXXXIX.-Ill workmen find fault with their

tools.

Bunglers and fools

Complain of their tools.

Méchant ouvrier ne trouvera jamais bons outils.

Opifex infabrum opus armis vitio dat.

THEME CXC.-The worth of a thing is best known by its want.

"So it falls out,

That what we have we prize not to the worth
While we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost,
Why, then we rack the value; then we find
The virtue, that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours.-Shakspeare.

Vache ne scait que vaut sa queüe,
Jusques à ce qu'elle l'ait perdue.

Chose perdüe est lors continue.

Bien perdu, bien connu.

Sublatam ex oculis virtutem quærimus.-Horace.

THEME CXCI.-Fear is the mark of a mean spirit.
Degeneres animos Timor arguit.— Virgil.

THEME CXCII.-What's sweet to taste, proves, in digestion, sour.-Shakspeare.

Ubicunque dulce est, ibi et acidum invenies.

THEME CXCIII.-No pains, no gains.

Qui fugit molam, fugit farinam.

Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus.

Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult frangat nucem.

THEME CXCIV.-Praise is the hire of virtue.

Fame is the perfume of good actions.-Socrates.

Virtus est per se ipsa laudabilis, et sine qua nihil laudari potest.-Cicero.

THEME CXCV. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings.—Isa. lii. 7. Good news doeth good like medicine.

Bonnes nouvelles adoucissent le sang.

THEME CXCVI.-Live within' your means.

Intra fortunam quisque debet manere suam.—Ovid.

THEME CXCVII.-The useful and the beautiful are never apart.-Periander.

Venus, the goddess of beauty, was the wife of Vulcan, the artist of every excellent work.

In eadam re, utilitas et turpitudo esse non potest.Cicero.

THEME CXCVIII. Poor and content is rich and rich enough. Shakespeare,

Is maxime divitiis utitur, qui minime divitiis indiget. -Seneca

THEME CXCIX.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunella.-Pope. Magnos homines virtute, metimur non fortuna.-Nepos.

THEME CC.-Either never attempt, or persevere to the

Aut nunquam tentes, aut perfice.

Nunquam quiescet, priusquam id quod petit, perficit.— Plautus.