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A man should not keep company with one whose character, family, and abode are unknown.
His action no applause invites Who simply good with good repays; He only justly merits praise Who wrongful deeds with kind requites.*
The lustre of a virtuous character cannot be defaced, nor can the vices of a vicious man ever become lucid. A jewel preserves its lustre, though trodden in the mud, but a brass pot, though placed upon the head, is brass still.
The wife of bad conduct?constantly pleased with quarrelling?she is known by wise men to be cruel Old Age in the form of a wife.
To consider, Is this man of our own or an alien? is a mark of little-minded persons; but the whole earth is of kin to the generous-hearted.*

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