JEWELS. A Mandarin who took much pride in appearing with a number of jewels on every part of his robe, was once accosted by an old sly Bonze, who followed him through several streets, and bowing often to the ground, thanked him for his jewels. "What does the man mean," cried the Mandarin. "Friend, I never gave thee any of my jewels.""No," replied the other, "but you have let me look at them, and that is all the use you can make of them yourself. So there is no difference between us, except that you have the trouble of watching them, and that is an employment I don't much desire."-Goldsmith's Citizen of the World.

LAW.--A Spanish proverb says, that the Jews ruin themselves at their passover, the Moors at their marriages, and the Christians in their law-suits.

REBUKE.-Pythagoras gave one of his scholars a reprimand in the presence of the rest, which so seriously affected him that he could not survive it, and killed himself. Thenceforth Pythagoras, instructed and infinitely afflicted by so mournful an example, never rebuked any body except in private. Rollin's Ancient History.

PERSEVERANCE.-Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance; yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigour three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.-Rasselas.

FRIENDSHIPS.-Dr. Johnson, at a late period of his life, observed to Sir Joshua Reynolds, "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he passes

through life he will soon find himself left alone. A man, should keep hisfriendships in constant repair.

SINCERITY.-Sincerity is to speak as we think; to do as we pretend and profess; to perform and make good what we promise; and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

Archbishop Tillotson's Rule of Life.

SILENCE.-Zeno, of all virtues, made his choice of silence; for by it, said he, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.-Ibid.

PRIDE. If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is he keeps his at the same time.-Dr. Swift.

DRUNK.-It is an honour to their (the Spaniards) laws, that a man loses his testimony who can be proved once to have been drunk.

Sir Wm. Temple's Works.

DRINK.--Rarely drink but when thou art dry-the smaller the drink the clearer the head and the cooler the blood, which are great benefits in temper and business.-Wm. Penn's Works.

CUSTOM.-Pythagoras gave this excellent precept: "Choose always the way that seems best; how rough soever it be. Custom will render it easy and agreeable."-M. Dacier's Pythagoras.

Men often bring habitual hunger and thirst on themselves by custom.--Locke.

Depreciate no one-an atom has a shadow.

FOLLY.-The reason that most people cast their eyes upon the follies of others is, that they may not have to perceive their own.- -Crousaz.

MERIT.-True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.-Marquis of Halifax.

Books.--You complain, my Lucilius, that where you are there is a mighty scarcity of books. You should consider it is not the multiplicity but the goodness of that commodity which you ought to regard; perusing a number of books it is true gives pleasure; but 'tis a fixed and certain reading that affords benefit: for whoever resolves to arrive at any particular place pursues his journey through one, not various roads, for that would be not to travel but to wander.--Seneca.

EPITAPH ON JOHN DRYDEN,

By the Bishop of Rochester.

This Sheffield rais'd, to Dryden's ashes just,
There fix'd his name, and there his laurel'd bust.
What else the Muse in marble might express,
Is known already: Praise would make him less.
Pope's Works.

ON MILTON.

Three poets in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn ;
The first in loftiness of thought surpast-
The next in majesty; in both the last.
The force of Nature could no further go;
To make a third she join'd the former two.

INTENDED FOR SIR ISAAC NEWTON.
In Westminster Abbey.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
Pope's Works.

NIGHT.

As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night,
O'er heaven's pure azure spreads her sacred light;
When not a breath disturbs the deep serene
And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene,
Around her throne the vivid planets roll,
And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole,
O'er the dark trees a yellow verdure shed,
And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head:
Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise,
A flood of glory bursts from all the skies;
The conscious swains rejoicing in the sight,
Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.

BEAUTY.

Pope's Homer.

What is the blooming tincture of a skin
To peace of mind, to harmony within?
What the bright sparkling of the finest eye
To the soft soothing of a calm reply?
Can comeliness of form, or shape, or air,
With comeliness of words or deeds compare?
No, those at first the unwary heart may gain,
But these, these only can that heart retain.

Rowe's Art of Charming.

Beauty, tho' it shine

Like day, will quickly find an evening time.
Cowley, Pyramus and Thisbe.

Cato the Censor said to a very debauched old fellow, "Friend, old age has deformities enough of its own-do not add to it the deformity of vice." ` Plutarch's Lives.

DISPUTE.-Dont use thyself to dispute against thine own judgment, to show thy wit, lest it prepare thee to be too indifferent about what is rightnor against another man to vex him, or for mere trial of skill, since to inform or be informed ought to be the end of all conferences.-Penn's Works.

B

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well spent youth; therefore instead of its introducing dismal and melancholy prospects of decay, it should give us hopes of an eternal youth in a better world. Palmer's Aphorisms.

IMMORTALITY.-The greatest part of those who deny the immortality of the soul, only maintain this opinion because they wish it. They fancy to themselves that they can allay the stings of conscience with which they are pricked. But in the height of their debaucheries and pleasures, the truth, which stares them in the face, whether they will or no, begins those punishments to which they are doomed after death.-Jewish Spy.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth as that may be said to possess him. Lord Bacon.

LAW. To seek redress of grievances by having recourse to the law, is too aptly compared to sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

Dillwyn's Reflections."

The early conductors of the press used to affix to the end of the volume which they printed, some device or couplet concerning the book, with the addi

* A small book under this unostentatious title, was published in 1816, in Burlington, N. J. and reprinted in London. It gives the occasional reflections of George Dillwyn, an eminent and pious minister of the Society of Friends, who travelled over Europe and America to disseminate the Gospel. The book is too little known and read, and is, therefore, recommended to the lovers of sound apothegms and religious truths.