DISCIPLINE.

Discipline, like the bridle in the hand of a good rider, should exercise its influence without appearing to do so, should be ever active, both as a support and as a restraint, yet seem to lie easily in hand. It must be always ready to check or to pull up, as occasion may require ; and only when the horse is a runaway, should the action of the curb be perceptible.

U.*

TRIUMPH OVER PASSIONS.

Rest not in an ovation, but triumph over

thy passions.

Sir Thomas Browne.

SYMPATHY.

Those who want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

Bacon.

* From "Guesses at Truth," edited by Archdeacon Hare.

CHEERFULNESS AKIN TO GRATITUDE.

The

The cheerfulness of heart which springs up in us from the survey of Nature's works, is an admirable preparation for gratitude. mind has gone a great way towards praise and thanksgiving that is filled with such a secret gladness: a grateful reflection on the Supreme Cause who produces it, sanctifies the soul, and gives it its proper value. Such an habitual disposition of mind consecrates every field and wood, turns an ordinary walk into a morning or evening sacrifice, and will improve those transient gleams of joy, which naturally brighten up and refresh the soul on such occasions, into an inviolable and perpetual state of bliss and happiness.

Addison.

SMILES.

Of all the appearances of the human countenance, methinks a smile is the most extraordinary. It plays with a surprising agreeableness in the eye, breaks out with the brightest

distinction, and sits like a glory upon the countenance. What sun is there within us, that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigour ? To see the soul flash in the face at this rate, one would think would convert an atheist. By the way, we may observe, that smiles are much more becoming than frowns. This seems a natural encouragement to good humour; as much as to say, if people have a mind to be handsome, they must not be peevish and untoward.

PLEASURES.

Jeremy Collier.

Sic præsentibus utaris voluptatibus ut futuris

non noceas.

Seneca.

THE STOMACH.

Venter præcepta non audit: poscit; appellat: non est tamen molestus creditor: parvo dimittitur, si modo das illi quod debes, non quod

potes.

C

Seneca.

DRUNKENNESS.

Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria

insania.

Seneca.

PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. . . . Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Bacon.

PAST AND FUTURE.

Die Vergangenheit und die Zukunft verhüllen sich uns; aber jene trägt den Wittwe-Schleier, und diese den jungfräulichen.

Jean Paul Richter.

JOYS AND SORROWS.

Die Nose blüht nicht ohne Dornen. Ja; wenn nur aber nicht die Dornen die Rose überlebten !

Jean Paul Richter.

PARTING AND FORGETTING.

What faithful heart

Parting and forgetting? can do these? Our great thoughts, our great affections, the Truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they cannot separate from our consciousness; shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal.

Thackeray.

FAINT PRAISE.

C'est un grand signe de médiocrité de louer toujours modérément.

PRAISE.

Vauvenargues.

To praise anything well is an argument of

much more wit than to abuse.

Tillotson.

ADMIRATION.

There is a pleasure in admiration, and this is that which properly causeth admiration, when