THERE is no malady more severe than habitual dis

content.

If we would perpetuate our names, we must do things worth writing, or write things worth reading.

He is a good reasoner who can persuade himself to do that which he ought to do.

WHERE there is not great sympathy, there will be little influence.

THE friendships of the world are often confederacies in vice.

LIFE is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

A BREAKING wave is one of the few things in nature which is most beautiful in the moment of its dissolution.

THE fetters of rhyme are no more than a bracelet to the true poet.

RIDE not post for your marriage; if you do, you may, in the period of your journey, take Sorrow for your inn, and make Repentance your host.

An honest man is believed without an oath, for his reputation swears for him.

THE great art and philosophy of life is to make the best of the present, whether it be good or bad.

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No summer but it has a winter he never reaped comfort in his adversity who sowed it not in his prosperity.

AN ape is ridiculous by nature, but men become so by art and study.

THE morning hour has gold in its mouth.

POETRY is the music of the soul, and above all, of great and feeling souls. One merit of poetry few persons will deny-it says more in fewer words than prose.

He who attempts to teach religion without exemplifying it, loses the advantage of its best argument.

REPLIES are not always answers.

It is happy to have so much merit that our birth is the thing least respected in us.

THE wisest men have friends with whom they do not care how much they play the fool.

QUACKS are the oracles of those who want sense, and the plagues of those who have it.

Do not expect more in a woman than pertains to her sex, and you will find her as perfect and well-suited to her sphere as the self-styled "lord of the creation" is to his.

JEALOUSY is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy, our uneasiness under it.

WHOEVER looks for a friend without imperfections will never find what he seeks. We love ourselves with all our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like

manner.

COMPLY with some humours, bear with more, but

'serve none.

COURAGE ought to have eyes as well as arms.

CAUTION is the lower storey of prudence.

GROSS jealousy is distrust of the person loved; delicate jealousy is distrust of one's self.

THAT which appears philanthropy is often not the love of man but the desire of being thought to love him.

ALL men need truth as they need water; if wise men are as high grounds where the springs rise, ordinary men are the lower grounds which their waters nourish.

THERE are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

MEASURE not thyself by thy morning shadow, but by the extent of thy grave.

WHILE maliciously felling the tree of our neighbour, we must be careful that it does not fall on our own head.

LAUGH not at the suffering or the sick; the broken spirit or the sinking stomach may be thine to-morrow. PERSEVERANCE is to patience what the thread is to the needle.

THAT which is too little for luxury is abundantly enough for nature.

GREAT is the number of those who might attain to true wisdom if they did not already think themselves wise.

LIBERALITY consists less in giving much than in giving wisely and kindly.

MEN and actions, like objects of sight, have their points of perspective; some must be seen at a distance, to look well.

THE fear of being thought poor has been the ruin of thousands.

HE who cannot keep his own secret ought not to complain if another tells it.

KINDNESS pains more than cruelty, when it is given instead of love.

CROSSES are ladders that help us to rise to heaven.

FEELINGS are often made the excuse of temper; whereas temper much more frequently influences feelings.

FLATTERY, like champagne, soon gets into the head. LOVE well understood is wisdom.

THE poetic is the unselfish, the loving, and the pure. WISDOM Comes after thought; wit, before it.

TRUTH is a gem which will only reflect the rays that come direct from heaven.

WE always dislike those whom we have injured.

ERROR must die; if it does not perish in the crucible of the philosopher, it will crumble in the hands of Time.

MANNERS are more esteemed in society than virtues : though the first are artificial, like false brilliants; and the other pure, like real jewels.

POETRY is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature.

AMBITION is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon, -it first blinds us, and then compels us to tower, by reason of our blindness.

A TRULY good memory is forgetful only of injuries. DEATH is the sleeping partner of life.

DELICACY and respect are the fruits not so much of intellect as sensibility. We are considerate towards others, in proportion as our own consciousness gives us accurate insight; and sympathies are the best teachers of politeness.

A ROOM is the large outer garment of a person, it betrays the habits, and somewhat of the character remains impressed on it. It is for this reason that the chambers of famed or loved individuals are so much visited-one seems to look into their minds.

LIFE is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contribution of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky.

POETRY should be more than common sense, but it must be that at least.