"I WILL not ask where thou liest low,
Nor gaze upon the spot,

There flowers or weeds at will may grow,
So I behold them not."

"THE love where Death hath set its seal,
Nor age can chill, nor rival steal,

Nor falsehood disavow."

Byron.

SAVAGE.

"His biography, will not be without its use, if those who in confidence of superior capacities or superior attainments, disregarding the common maxims of life, shall thus be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity long continued, will make knowledge useless, and genius contemptible." - Dr. Johnson.

FORBEARANCE.

"WHAT are another's faults to me?

I've not a vulture's bill,
To peck at every fault I see,
And make it wider still;

"I'st not enough for me to know
I've follies of my own,

On my own heart the care bestow,
And let my friends alone?"

ETYMOLOGIES.

"Bankrupt." Anciently, the money changers of Italy, had each his own bench in the Bourse, or Exchange. If he became unable to meet his obligations, he lost his

place, and his bench was broken. Thenceforward, he was called banco-rutta, or him of the broken bench. From this the English formed, first their old word "bankerout," and then "bankrupt."

An old writer says,

"Dainty bits

Make fat the ribs, but bankerout the wits.”

"Mind your P's and Q's." In the English ale-houses of the olden times, the charges of pints and quarts, were made with these elisions; and this proverbial expression was a call to careless customers, to be watchful of their accumulating scores.

· TRUE NOBILITY.

"IF thou hast received a title of nobility by birth, add to it one derived from thyself; that both together may form a true nobility. Between the nobility of thy father and thine own, there is the same difference that exerts between the food of yesterday, and of to-morrow, neither would give thee nourishment for to-day." Arabian Poet.

PRECEPTS OF QUEEN CHRISTINA,

"THE past is gone: the future may never come: the present is but a point; yet on that terrible point hangs, Eternity."

"THE Ocean is the type of truly great souls; however agitated the surface may be, the most profound tranquility reigns beneath it."

"MEN should seek in themselves the commencement of ancestral distinction."

RELIGION.

On his death bed, Patrick Henry said to his children, "If I could will to you the Christian religion, how gladly would I do so; for with this, and without any earthly possession you would be infinitely rich with out it and with all else that the heart can wish, you would be miserably poor."

"GIVE what Thou wilt, without Thee I am poor;
And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away."

Young.

GIBBON'S SUFFRAGE.

EDWARD GIBBON, the historian, it would seem must have changed his opinion, for towards the close of life, he said, or wrote to a near relative, "I consider religion the best guide of youth, and the only support of old age."

AN ARABIAN PROVERB.

"By these six qualities may a fool be known: by anger without cause, speech without profit, change without motive, questions without an object, putting trust in a stranger, and wanting capacity to discrimi nate between a friend and foe."

FRANKLIN TO PAINE.

THOMAS PAINE having submitted to Dr. Franklin's perusal, and infidel work in manuscript, received from him a letter in which is the following passage: "I ad

vise you to burn this, before it is seen by any other person. If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it."

THE GOOSE.

"WELL fare the gentle goose. She is man's comfort both in peace and war, in sleeping and in waking. How well doth she make him fare at his table, how easily doth she cause him to lie in his bed; and even as her feathers are in the arrow for shooting, so are her quills in his hand for writing." - Roger Ascham.

PATIENCE.

"PATIENCE and composure, under pain, distress, or affliction; a steadfast confidence in God, and dependance upon his final goodness, when everything around is discouragiug and adverse; and what is no less difficult to retain a cordial desire for the comfort and happiness of others, even when we are deprived of our own; are among the severest, sublimest, and perhaps most meritorious duties of which we are capable." — Paley.

DIFFUSENESS.

"DIGRESSION is so much in modern use,
Thought is so rare, and fancy so profuse,
Some never seem so wide of their intent
As when returning to the theme they meant,
As mendicants, whose business is to roam,
Make every parish but their own, their home.”

Cowper.

ORIENTAL PROVERBS.

"DEATH is the black camel, which kneels at every man's gate."

"THE morning hour hath gold in its mouth."

"When the tale of bricks is doubled, Moses comes: or in English, "Man's extremity is God's opportunity."

BURKE, OF HIS SON.

"He was born a public creature, and had no enjoyment at all, but in the performance of some duty."

Hop'd, till the shade of hope had fled ?
Then wept till feeling's fount was dry?"

Alaire A. Watts.

DISCONTENT.

"DISCONTENT casts a cloud over the mind, and ren

ders it more occupied about the evil that disquiets, than the means of removing it." - Feltham.