characterized by the imprudence often attendant on genius. He thought not of the morrow; the "heaviest of metals" was so light in his estimation as to be carelessly parted with, though laboriously earned. He and poverty had been so long acquainted, that even when an opportunity offered of casting her off by the success of his pen, they knew not how to separate. He lived too much in pecuniary difficulties, and he died so. He died at the age of fortysix, an age at which Johnson was little more than beginning to become known to the public, and after which that great writer completed several of those books which render him the pride of our nation. Had poor Goldsmith lived to attain an equally venerable term of years, there is no doubt, both from his necessities and thirst for distinction, that the national literature would be enriched much more than it is, by the labours of his pen.

Prior's Life of Burke.

PATIENCE.-An Emperor of China, making a progress, discovered a family, in which the master with his wives, children, grand-children, daughters in law and servants, all lived in peace and harmony. The emperor admiring this, inquired of the old man what means he employed to preserve quiet among such a number of persons; the man taking out a pencil wrote only these words: Patience, Patience, Patience.

Care is no cure, but rather corrosive

For things that are not to be remedied.—Shakspeare.

Sad accidents and a state of affliction, is a school of virtue; it corrects levity and interrupts the confidence of sinning.-Atterbury.

TIME. In all actions that a man 'performs some part of his life passes. We die with doing that for which only our sliding life was granted. Nay, though we do nothing, Time keeps his constant pace, and flies as fast in idleness, as in employment; whether we play, or labour, or sleep, or dance, or study, the sun posts on, aud the sand runs. An hour of vice is as long as an hour of virtue. But the difference which follows upon good actions, is infinite from that of ill ones. The good, though it diminish our time here, yet it lays up a pleasure for eternity, and will recompense what it takes away, with a plentiful return at last. When we trade with virtue, we do but buy pleasure with expense of time.-Feltham's Resolves.

'Tis a shame when the church itself is a cemeterium, where the living sleep above ground as the dead do beneath.

Fuller's Holy and Profane States.

Absence lessens small passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes tapers, and kindles fire.

It is impossible that an ill-natured man can have a public spirit; for how should he love ten thousand men who never loved one?

Let us not love those things much which we are not sure to live long to love, nor to have if we should.. Of the shortness of Time by Francis Fuller.

QUALIFICATIONS.-Five things are requisite to a good officer. Ability, clean hands, despatch, patience and impartiality.-Wm. Penn.

REPROACH.-Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting: Consider within thyself whether his reproaches are true? if they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, though he hates what thou appearest to be. If his reproaches are true, if thou art the envious, ill-natured man he takes thee for, give thyself another turn, become mild, affable and obliging, and his reproaches of thee will naturally cease, or, if they continue, thou art no longer the person he reproaches.-Spectator.

JUSTICE.

Justice must be from violence exempt,
But fraud's her only object of contempt;
Fraud in the fox, force in the lion dwells,
But justice both from human hearts expels;
But he's the greatest monster without doubt,
Who is a wolf within, a sheep without.-Denham.

FREEDOM.

These teach in homespun clothes, with tastes refin'd
To dine on humble food, but feast the mind;

To dare be poor and free, with just disdain,
To scorn the wretch that drags a willing chain;
In proper bounds my wishes to confine,
Though disappointed never to repine;
With silence and contempt unmov'd to see
The flatt'rer or buffoon preferred to me;
To eat at common hours, nor fasting wait,
That other folks may see me dine in state;
For pride convenience never to forego,
Or sacrifice a substance to a show.

Satires of Ludovico Ariosto.

VIRTUE.-Learn to pursue virtue from the man that is blind, who never makes a step without first examining the ground with his staff.

NEEDY.-God, the Lord and Father of all, has given no one of his children such a property in his peculiar portion of the things of this world, but that he has given his needy brother a right in the surplusage of his goods, so that it cannot justly be denied him when his pressing wants call for it.

Locke.

EXTREMES.-Extremes meet, it seems difficult therefore to pronounce whether the statesman at the top of the world, or the ploughman at the bottom, labours hardest.-Maxims, Characters, &c.

Idleness is the hot-bed of temptation, the cradle of disease, and the canker-worm of felicity. In a little time, to the man who has no employment, life will have no novelty, and when novelty is laid in the grave, the funeral of comfort will enter the church yard. From that moment it is the shade, and not the man, who creeps along the path of mortality. On the contrary, what solid satisfaction does the man of diligence possess? What health in his countenance? What strength in his limbs? What vigor in his understanding? With what a zest does. he relish the refreshments of the day? With what pleasure does he seek the bed of repose at night? It is not the accidental hardness of a pillow that can make him unhappy, and rob him of sleep. He earns his maintenance and he enjoys it. He has faithfully labored in the day, and the slumbers of the night are a sweet retribution to him.-To the diligent man every day is a little life, and every night is a little heaven. The toil has been honest and the reward is sure.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.-Swift.

Supineness and effeminacy have ruined more constitutions than were ever destroyed by excessive labours; moderate exercise, far from prejudicing, strengthens and consolidates the body.-Dr. Rush.

LIFE. To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our councils, or enliven by our presence, is to lament the loss of that which we possess, and is just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

Sir Thomas Fitzosborne's Letters..

He who would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young consider that he shall one day be old, and lay up knowledge for his support, when his powers of acting shall forsake him, and remember when he is old that he has once been young, and forbear to animadvert with unnecessary rigour on faults which experience only can correct.-Rambler.

FRIENDSHIP.-Crito must be a miserable man, who never was known to have a friend even of his own degree. He is rich, he is great, he has wit; any of these three qualities would have got another man either friends or followers.He has not good nature.-Rowe.

GREATNESS.-When a man who is not indolent himself, sees with pleasure the talents of another of the same profession with himself—the excellent use he makes of them, and the fruits he receives from them, this generous part which he takes in the interests of another, is in my opinion one of the most incontestable proofs of the greatness of his soul, and of the purity of his virtues.-Crousaz.