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"Caelum non animum" is a very old proverb: his first impulse, no doubt, was to change the scene, and seek under other skies an altered frame of mind, in defiance of Horace and his worldly wisdom, so rarely at fault. In these days a code of behaviour has been established by society to meet every eventuality of life.
Old jokes are dynamometers of mental tension; an old joke tells better among friends travelling than at home, which shows that their minds are in a state of diminished, rather than increased vitality. There was a story about "strahps to your pahnts," which was vastly funny to us fellows on the road from Milan to Venice. Caelum, non animum, travellers change their guineas, but not their characters.
Never was human being destined so sadly and signally to illustrate the coelum non animum aphorism as the unhappy passenger on the Speedwell. Southey shall describe his condition when he left England; and his own pathetic lines to William Wordsworth will picture him to us on his return.
Now, how low should a price be? or what degree of confidence should there be to make a bargain be set aside? a bargain, which is a wager of skill between man and man. If, indeed, any fraud can be proved, that will do. When Dr. Johnson and I were by ourselves at night, I observed of our host, 'aspectum generosum habet; 'et generosum animum', he added.
But there is courage in the letter, too, when he tells his correspondent what he believes to have been the cause of the coldness of which he complains: "Quod verere ne cujus animum offenderes" "Because you fear lest you should give offence to some one." But let me tell you, he goes on to say, that my Consulship has been of such a nature that you, Scipio, as you are, must admit me as your friend.
He knows the conditions of the will; he knows that, at the worst, I must have thirty thousand pounds, if I live a few months longer. I will go to him." ANIMUM nunc hoc celerem, nunc dividit illuc.* VIRGIL. * "Now this, now that, distracts the active mind." THE late Mr.
Old jokes are dynamometers of mental tension; an old joke tells better among friends travelling than at home, which shows that their minds are in a state of diminished, rather than increased vitality. There was a story about "strahps to your pahnts," which was vastly funny to us fellows on the road from Milan to Venice. Coelum, non animum, travellers change their guineas, but not their characters.
'If they occasionally use the knife a little naturam expellas furca, Mr. Logan, but the knife is a different thing it is only in a homely war among themselves that they handle it in the East-end of London. 'Coelum non animum, said Logan, determined not to be outdone in classical felicities; and, indeed, he thought his own quotation the more appropriate.
Otherwise, a man is the slave of what other people are pleased to think, and how little it requires to disconcert or soothe the mind that is greedy of praise: Sic leve, sic parvum est, animum quod laudis avarum Subruit ac reficit. Therefore it will very much conduce to our happiness if we duly compare the value of what a man is in and for himself with what he is in the eyes of others.
"Ut necesse est, lancem in Libra, ponderibus impositis, deprimi, sic animum perspicuis cedere." By how much the soul is more empty and without counterpoise, with so much greater facility it yields under the weight of the first persuasion. And this is the reason that children, the common people, women, and sick folks, are most apt to be led by the ears.
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