The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue; wherefore Cyrus said, that none ought to govern, who was not better than those he governed.—Rule of Life.

Men must have public minds as well as salaries; or they will serve private ends at the public cost. It was Roman virtue that raised the Roman glory. Gracian.

MEMORY. Dwells on the Scenes of our Early Days. Mark yon old mansion, frowning through the trees, Whose hollow turret wooes the whistling breeze, That casement, arch'd with ivy's brownest shade, First to these eyes the light of heaven convey'd, The mould'ring gateway strews the grass-grown court, Once the calm scene of many a simple sport; When nature pleas'd for life itself was new, And the heart promis'd what the fancy drew.

See, through the fractur'd pediment reveal'd,
Where moss inlays the rudely-sculptur'd shield,
The martin's old hereditary nest;

Long may the ruin spare its hallow'd guest.—
Now stain'd with dews, with cobwebs darkly hung,
Oft has its roof with peals of rapture rung;
When round yon ample board, in due degree,
We sweeten'd every meal with social glee.

The heart's light laughter crown'd the circling jest;
And all was sunshine in each little breast.
'Twas here we chas'd the slipper by its sound;
And turn'd the blindfold hero round and round.
'Twas here, at eve, we form'd our fairy ring;
And fancy flutter'd on her wildest wing.
Giants and Genii chain'd the wondering ear;
And orphan-woes drew nature's ready tear.
Oft, with the babes we wander'd in the wood,
Or view'd the forest-feats of Robin Hood!
Oft, fancy-led, at mid-night's fearful hour;
With startling step we scal'd the lonely tower,
O'er infant innocence to hang and weep,

Murder'd by ruffian hands, when smiling in its sleep.

Ye household deities! whose guardian eye
Mark'd each pure thought, ere register'd on high;
Still, still ye walk the consecrated ground,
And breathe the soul of inspiration round.—

The school's lone porch, with reverend mosses gay,
Just tells the pensive pilgrim where it lay.
Mute is the bell that rung at peep of dawn,
Quickening my truant-feet across the lawn;
Unheard the shout that rent the noon-tide air,
When the slow dial gave a pause to care.
Up springs, at every step, to claim a tear,
Some little friendship form'd and cherish'd here!
And not the lightest leaf, but trembling teems
With golden visions and romantic dreams!-Rogers.

MATHEMATICS.-The study of the mathematics is like climbing up a steep and craggy mountain ; when once you reach the top, it fully recompenses your trouble, by opening a fine, clear, and extensiveprospect.

AFFLICTION.-What embitters the common accidents of life to most people is, their entertaining a foolish notion that calamities are unnatural, and that we have a right to the pleasures of life. Whereas the true state of the case is, that affliction is what we greatly need and richly deserve, and that the pleasures of life are the mere gift of God, which therefore he may withhold or bestow as he sees fit.

The Dignity of Human Nature.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to that it teaches.-Ibid.

TEMPERANCE. The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all. To which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.-Wm. Penn.

ADVERSITY.-Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is an honest man.-Sir Charles Grandison.

SPENCER AND SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.-Spencer was a stranger to Sir Philip Sidney when he began to write his Fairy Queen. He took occasion to go to Leicester House and introduce himself by sending in a copy of the ninth canto of the first book of that poem. Sidney was much surprised with the description of despair in that canto, and is said to have shown an unusual kind of transport on the discovery of so new and uncommon a genius. After he had read some stanzas he turned to his steward and bid him give the person that brought those verses fifty pounds; but upon reading the next stanza he ordered the sum to be doubled. The steward was no less surprised than his master, and thought it his duty to make some delay in executing so lavish a bounty; but upon reading one stanza more, Sidney raised the gratuity to two hundred pounds, and commanded the steward to give it immediately, lest as he read further he might be tempted to give away his whole estate.-Cibber's Lives of the Poets.

BIOGRAPHY.-There is no part of history which seems capable of either more instruction or entertainment, than that which offers to us the select lives of great and virtuous men, who have made an eminent figure on the public stage of the world. In these we see at one view what the annals of a whole age can afford, that is worthy of notice, and in the wide field of universal history, skipping as it were over the barren places, gather all its flowers, and possess ourselves at once of all that is good in it.-Middleton's Life of Cicero.

SOCIETY.-Disagreeing in little things and agreeing in great ones, is what forms and keeps up a commerce of society and friendship, among reasonable men, and among unreasonable men breaks it. Maxims, Characters and Reflections.

ACTIONS.

The actions of men are like the index of a book; they point out what is most remarkable in them.

GOOD. If thou dost good to man as an evidence of thy love to God, thy virtue will be exalted from moral to divine, and that happiness which is the pledge of Paradise, will be thy reward upon earth. Adventurer.

GRIEF. The philosopher Bion said pleasantly of the king, who by handfuls, pulled his hair off his head for sorrow, "Does this man think that baldness is a remedy for grief."

KNOWLEDGE. Wouldst thou improve thy know. ledge affect not a multitude of books: there are few worthy the reading: what is the whole creation but one great Library? Every volume, and every page in those volumes are impressed with radiant characters of infinite wisdom, and all the perfections of the universe are contracted with such inimitable art in man, that he needs no other book but himself to make him a complete philosopher.-Turkish Spy.

CENSORIOUS.-It is observed that the most censorious are generally the least judicious, who having nothing to recommend themselves will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another who has enough of his own.-Rule of Life.

RELIGION.-The contemplation of the Divine Being, and the exercise of virtue, are in their nature so far from excluding all gladness of heart that they are perpetual sources of it. In a word the true spirit of religion cheers, as well as composes the soul. It banishes indeed all levity of behaviour, all vicious and dissolute mirth, but in exchange fills the mind with a perpetual serenity, uninterrupted cheerfulness, and an habitual inclination to please others as well as to be pleased in itself.

Spectator No. 494.

Oddities and singularities of behaviour may attend genius; when they do, they are its misfortunes and its blemishes. The man of true genius will be ashamed of them; at least he never will affect to distinguish himself by whimsical particularities. Temple's Sketches on various Subjects.

SLEEP. Sleep has often been mentioned as the image of death; "so like it," says Sir Thomas Brown "that I dare not trust it, without my prayers." Their resemblance is indeed striking and apparent; they both, when they seize the body, leave the soul at liberty, and wise is he that remembers of both, that they can be made safe and happy only by virtue.-Ibid.

Mr. Locks was asked, how he had contrived to accumulate a mine of knowledge so rich, and yet so extensive and so deep. He replied, that he attributed what little he knew to the not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to the rule he had laid down of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics chiefly that formed their own peculiar professions or pursuits.