THE passionate man rides a horse which runs away with him.

WHEN all speak, no one hears.

KINDNESS, like grain, increases by sowing.

BOASTERS are first-cousins to liars.

Down beds do not keep away sleepless nights.

OUR last robe needs no pockets.

HE that holds the stirrup may be as honest as him who leaps into the saddle.

He who sows no corn will have to reap thistles.

BAD workers are often the sharpest lookers on.

IF you would eat the kernel, you must first crack the shell.

THE table and cellar are often our greatest robbers. THERE is little wisdom in taking a forge-hammer to break an egg-shell.

THE noble mind has no resentments.

Ir Folly were Pain, there would be weeping in every house.

LET a selfish person be seated on thy shoulder, and he will soon try to mount on thy head.

BETTER ride an ass that is safe than a horse which throws us.

He who wonders is ignorant in the same proportion.

ERRORS are good examples.

MANY a cow in a rich meadow looks wistfully at a cow on the poor common.

WE are apt to cut broad thongs from other people's leather.

SOME millers would have water only for their own mill.

MAN judges the crime, but God knows the circum

stances.

SOME can smell no fragrance but in flowers of their own gathering.

SOME minds are so nobly pure that, like sunbeams, they pass through pollution unpolluted.

IF you wish to make the most of a small income, merely ask this one question before making a purchase, "Do I really want it?"

THE centre of God is everywhere: His circumference nowhere.

A YOUNG man is on the high-road to ruin when he can say, without blushing, "I don't care what others think of me."

MALICE is the spur of Wit: Good-nature the bridle.

REPENTANCE is the fair child of a deformed parent.

DIGNITY is never injured by condescension: the thorough-bred courser always deigns to lift his mighty legs over the farm-yard chickens.

To render good for evil is God-like; to render good for good is man-like; to render evil for evil is brutelike; but to render evil for good is devil-like.

WHEN a good woman marries without giving her heart, the first signature of her wedded name is her spirit's epitaph.

DEFINITIONS.

PATIENCE-A virtue which some people think every one wants but themselves.

CIRCUMSTANCES-The whippers-in of the human pack. LOVE-The embroidery of the Imagination on the stuff of Nature.

POETRY-The best thoughts in the best language. TOLERATION-Being wise enough to have no difference with those who may differ from us.

FASHION-Gentility running away from Vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by her.

IGNORANCE-A barren country, of which the natives are either idiots or savages.

BACHELOR-One who prefers selfish liberty to generous love.

NAPOLEON-A naughty boy who was put in a corner because he wanted the world to play with.

MONK-One who has stared at the light of Religion until he has become blind.

CANDLE-One who lives on the fat of the land.

DEATH-The dark scene in Life's pantomime before the grand "Transformation."

SUN-The golden crown on the head of King Day. LANGUAGE-The brain's livery servant.

HUNTING-The amusement of gentlemen; the labour of savages.

TONGUE-The mysterious membrane which turns Thought into Sound.

STOMACH-The epicure's deity.

ECHо-The shadow of a sound.

TAXES-The nation's little account for board and lodging.

CIVILISATION-The drill sergeant who makes a smart soldier of the country bumpkin.

INK-The Black Sea on which Thought rides at anchor.

JUDGMENT-A faculty of which many people have not sufficient to know that they want more.

ROMANCE-The reality of Imagination and Youth.

CUSTOM-A reason for irrational things, and an excuse for inexcusable ones.

WAR-A hideous form of delirium, to be cured only by copious bleeding.

FRIENDSHIP-Love without his bandage.