Books, like Friends, should be few and well chosen.

As a Man to the Earth; but a good

S good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book. Many

Book is the precious Life-blood of a Master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose, to a life beyond life.

divert at any time a troublesome fancy, run to thy

the other out of thy thoughts. They always receive thee with the same kindness.

HAVE ever gained the most profit, and the most plea sure also, from the Books which have made me think the most: and, when the difficulties have once been overcome, these are the Books which have struck the deepest root, not only in my memory and understanding, but likewise in my affections.

BOOKS,

Books. Hare.

as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read Nature. Eschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are Priests who preach and expound the mysteries of Man and the Universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.

Books. — Fuller.

THOT mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes Books serviceable, and gives health and vigour to the mind.

Books. Greville.

THUF man who only relate and sensible Books in general

THE man who only relates what he has heard or read,

or

terms, or of celebrated passages in celebrated Authors, may talk about sense; but he alone, who speaks the sentiments that arise from the force of his own mind em ployed upon the subjects before him, can talk sense.

HE

Books. Clarendon.

E who loves not Books before he come to thirty years of age, will hardly love them enough afterwards to understand them.

Baoks. Colton.

MANY no tmple nation; they made no

ANY Books require no thought from those who read

such demand upon those who wrote them. Those Works therefore are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. For as the solar light calls forth all the latent powers and dormant principles of vegetation contained in the kernel, but which, without such a stimulus, would neither have struck root downwards, nor borne fruit upwards, so it is with the Light that is intellectual; it calls forth and awakens into energy those latent principles of thought in the minds of others, which, without this stimulus, reflection would not have matured, nor examination improved, nor action embodied. Books. Shenstone.

WHEN self-interest inclines a man to print, he should

consider that the purchaser expects a penny-worth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

NEITHER a Borrower, nor a Lender be:
For Loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
The Battle. Johnson.

the Bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

That shakes the rotten carcase of old Death

Out of his rags! Here's a large Mouth, indeed,

That spits forth Death, and Mountains, Rocks, and Seas; Talks as familiarly of roaring Lions,

As Maids of thirteen do of Puppy-Dogs!

What Cannoneer begot this lusty Blood?

He speaks plain Cannon, Fire and Smoke, and Bounce;
He gives the Bastinado with his Tongue;
Our ears are cudgel'd.

NEVER

Building. - Kett.

TEVER build after you are five-and-forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a Brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

Business. Saville.

AMAN, who cannot mind his own Business, is not to

be trusted with the King's.

To Business

men addicted to delights, Business is an interruption;

tainment.

For which reason it was said to one who commended a dull man for his Application, "No thanks to him; if he had no Business, he would have nothing to do." Business. Shakespeare.

MEN

To Business that we love, we rise betime,
And go to it with delight.

EN of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public Business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

Calm. Moore.

[OW calm, how beautiful comes on

H Storms are gone;

When warring Winds have died away,
And Clouds, beneath the glancing ray,
Melt off, and leave the Land and Sea
Sleeping in bright Tranquillity,—
When the blue Waters rise and fall,
In sleepy Sunshine mantling all;
And ev❜n that Swell the Tempest leaves,
Is like the full and silent Heaves
Of Lovers' Hearts, when newly blest,
Too newly to be quite at rest!

TWAS

one of those ambrosial eves
A day of Storm so often leaves
At its calm setting-when the West
Opens her golden Bowers of Rest,
And a moist radiance from the skies
Shoots trembling down, as from the eyes

Of some meek penitent, whose last
Bright hours atone for dark ones past,
And whose sweet tears, o'er wrong forgiven,
Shine, as they fall, with light from Heaven!

thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt

B not escape Calumny.

HE Shrug, the Hum, or Ha; these petty brands,
That Calumny doth use;

For Calumny will sear

Virtue itself:-the Shrugs, these Hums, and Ha's,
When you have said, she's goodly, come between,
Ere you can say, she's honest.

I HOLD it cowardice

To rest mistrustful where a noble Heart

Hath pawn'd an open Hand in sign of Love.

'Tis too much prov'd,—that, with Devotion's Visage, And pious Action, we do sugar o'er

The Devil himself.

A

VULGAR Man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him.

Shakespeare.

CAR kapse Care lodges, Sleep will never lie;

ARE keeps his Watch in every old Man's eye,

But where unbruised Youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden Sleep doth reign.

Care.

Burns.

UT human bodies are sic fools,

B For their colleges and schools,

That when nae real ills perplex them,
They make enow themsels to vex them.

CARE is no cure, but rather corrosive,
For things that are not to be remedied.

Care. Spenser.

Reuter his dhe, me for better car'd;

UDE was his garment, and to rags all rent,

With blistered hands emongst the cinders brent,
And fingers filthie, with long nayles unpar'd,
Right fit to rend the food on which he far'd:
His name was Care: a blacksmith by his trade,
That neither day nor night from working spar'd,
But to small purpose yron wedges made:

Those be unquiet thoughts that careful Minds invade.

Kingly Cares. — Shakespeare.

NIVES not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
U To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep,
Than doth a rich embroidered canopy

To Kings, that fear their subjects' treachery?
O, yes, it doth: a thousand-fold it doth.
The shepherd's homely curds,

His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle,
His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade,
All which secure and sweetly he enjoys,

Is far beyond a Prince's delicates,

His viands sparkling in a golden cup,

His body couched in a curious bed,

When Care, Mistrust, and Treason, wait on him.

Cause of all Causes.

Shakespeare.

Hof does them by the weakest minister:

E that of greatest works is Finisher

So Holy Writ in babes hath judgment shown,

When judges have been babes. Great floods have flown
From simple sources; and great seas have dried,

When miracles have by the greatest been denied.
Oft Expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits,
Where Hope is coldest, and Despair most sits.
It is not so with Him that all things knows,
As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows:
But most it is presumption in us, when
The help of Heaven we count the act of Men.

Caution. Publius Syrius.

IT is a good thing to learn Caution by the misfortunes

of others.