THE man who fawns upon the great is apt to lose no opportunity of making himself amends, by acting the tyrant among those who will let him.

HE who has merited friends will seldom be without them; for attachment is not so rare as the desert which attracts and secures it.

He who buys a house ready wrought has many a pin and nail for nought.

No man is always wrong; a clock that does not go at all is right twice in the twenty-four hours.

THE Real is the Sancho Panza of the Ideal.

POSITIVE decision in youth upon things which experience only can teach, is the characteristic of vain impertinence.

ALMOST as rare as genius itself is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

SCIENCE sees signs; poetry, the thing signified.

THE human heart is like a feather-bed-it must be roughly handled, well shaken, and exposed to a variety of turns, to prevent its becoming hard and knotty.

CRUELTY Constitutes the greatest moral distance at which an intelligent creature can be removed from a God of forbearance and mercy.

ANGER wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; and pride, two bent knees.

He who studies his body too much becomes sick; he who does the same by his mind becomes mad.

Ir is a strange way of showing our love and reverence for the Creator, to be perpetually condemning and reviling everything that He has created. Were you to tell a poet that his poems are detestable, would he thank you for the compliment?

No condition so low but may have hopes, and none so high but may have fears. ·

A PROMISE is a just debt which should always be paid, for honour and honesty are its security...

WORDS, like bellows, often blow a spark into a flame: the fire that wants vent will suppress itself.

NEVER suffer yourself to be worried about trifles; think how insignificant such matters will appear a twelvemonth hence.

THE brightest blaze of intelligence is of less value. than the smallest spark of charity.

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FAITH, Hope, and Charity, or Love, are three such inseparables that they have been likened to a plant, Faith being the root, Hope the upward-rising stem, and Love the bright and glowing fruit.

THE ungrateful are not so certainly bad characters as the grateful are certainly good."

WE may respect where we cannot love, but love necessitates respect.

PERSONS endowed with strong feelings and passions, are apt, like children with a box of jewels, to squander their precious things without knowing their value.

HISTORY is the Newgate Calendar of kings and rulers. It finds no materials in the happiness or virtue of states, and is therefore little better than a record of human crime and misery."

HAVE nothing to do with those good-natured friends who make a practice of letting you know all the evil which they may hear spoken about you.

NOTHING is more unwise than to judge of a man on a short acquaintance or a slight knowledge.

SOME men have so much of the serpent's subtlety that they forget the dove's simplicity.

Ir thou wilt be cured of thy ignorance, confess it.

THE world is only rigid for petty and common faults; a rare audacity astonishes it, a splendid aggression disarms it.

WHEN a man is unhappy, the mean-spirited are ready to find him faulty, lest they should be forced to pity him.

Ir is proper to have the consciousness of having done well; but it is the height of vanity to wish to be informed of it.

PUBLIC opinion is a jurisdiction which the wise man will never entirely recognise, nor wholly deny.

THE vain abhor the vain; but the gentle and unassuming love one another. It is the effect of sympathy with the latter, the want of it with the former.

SOME Confine their view to the present; some extend it to futurity. The butterfly flutters round the meadows; the eagle crosses the seas.

PHILOSOPHY, like medicine, has abundance of drugs, few good remedies, and scarcely any specifics.

THE glutton is the lowest souled of all animals; the butcher's boy is to him an Atlas bearing heaven on his shoulders.

Ir is much better to mend one fault in yourself than to find a hundred in your neighbour.

MUSIC is a prophecy of what life is to be; the rainbow of promise, translated out of seeing into hearing.

He who believes only what he understands, has the shortest known creed.

Ir thou lookest too often in thy glass, thou wilt not so much see thy face as thy folly.

CONVERSATION is the music of the mind, an intelligent orchestra where all the instruments should bear a part, but where no two should play together.

Ir is a difficult thing to talk good nonsense. No person can do it but one of first-rate ability.

GOOD-WILL, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.

AMBITION is about as valid a proof of a strong and sound mind, as gormandizing is of a strong and sound body.

THE true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and the hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

BIGOTRY murders religion, to frighten fools with her ghost.

Ir is better to need relief than to want heart to give it.

WHEN thou hast no observers, be afraid of thyself.

To love one that is great is almost to be great one's self.

SOME read to think,-these are rare; some to write, -these are common; and some read to talk,—and these form the great majority.

THE mind is enlightened by contradictions, when these arise from a natural desire of seeking and discovering the truth.

REGARD not who it is that speaks, but weigh that which is spoken.

THERE is no stronger sympathy than that between truth and good.

INDULGE not in anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or to destroy thy friend.

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