Note 1 — "AN OLD OFFENDER."

"Ars longa, vita brevis;"1 and indeed "man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long."2 An oriental writer has told us that "all flesh is grass," to which a Scots poet3 has replied, that "A man's a man for a' that." There is a Greek aphorism, not sufficiently well known, which says γνῶθι σεαυτόν. This has been ably rendered by Pope in the words "Know thyself."4 Proverbially "piety begins at home," but it is wrong to deduce from this that education ends when we leave school; "it goes on through life."5