fered, and represent to myself, the struggles and temptations it has passed through; vicissitude of hope and fear; the pressure of want; the desertion of friends; the scorn of a world that has little charity; the desolation of the mind's sanctuary; the threatening voices within it; health gone; happiness gone; even hope that remains the longest, gone; I would fain lay the erring soul of my fellow-man, tenderly in His hand, from whom it came." - Henry W. Longfellow. THE EYE, THE EAR, AND THE TONGUE. "THE eye, and the ear, are the mind's receivers; the tongue is busied only, in distributing the treasures received. If the treasures of the mind, are dispersed as fast, or faster than they are taken in, it cannot be but that the mind must needs be bare, and can never lay up aught for future purchases. But if the receivers still continue to take in, without utterance, the mind may soon grow a burden to itself, and unprofitable to others. I would not lay up too much, and disperse nothing, lest I be covetous; nor spend much, and store up little, lest I be prodigal, and poor."- Bishop Hall. MEMORY, AS AN ACCUSER. "THOUGH there be none to witness an evil action, yet shall we be galled sufficiently, by our own peculiar memory. There is no perpetual Etna, in the soul of man, but what memory makes. The worm would die, did not memory feed it, through all Eternity. As good actions, and ignorance of ill, keep a perpetual calm in the mind; so, questionless, doth every secret vice, beget a secret horror."— Feltham. WOMAN. "IT is the part of woman, like her own beautiful planet (Venus) to cheer the dawn and the darkness,— to be both the morning and evening star of man's life. The light of her eye is the first to rise, and the last to set, upon manhood's day, of probation and suffering." LONG SPEECHES. "OH! seldom-speaking Cromwell, whose vocation was by no means to talk, but who made Europe tremble, Ireland orderly, and England great, why need we wonder that any true worker like thee, should pray the Lord, to be delivered from Sir Harry Vane's. Oh! silent Washington, who could conquer the mighty, and found the greatest empire in the world, how would a D'Israeli confound thee in utterance. Oh! taciturn Brutus, who could make Rome illustrious, and efface Carthage from earth's map, but could not outspeak the most ignorant of our reporters." Carlyle. MILTON. "SUSCEPTIBLE to the attraction of historical prescription, of royalty, of chivalry, of an ancient church installed in cathedrals, and illustrated by old martyr doms, he threw himself, the flower of elegance, on the side of the reeking conventicle, the side of humanity, unlearned, and unadorned." “His was the life of labor, and toil, — labor unrewarded, save by the secret sunshine of his own breast, filled with the consciousness of divine approbation, and hearing from the far future, the voice of universal fame. Yet was his a life not perfect; there were acerbities of temper, peculiarities of opinion, proving him mortal, and grappling him to earth with difficulty, like a vast balloon ere it takes its last bound upward. It was the life of a patriot, found, among the faithless, faithful only he;' and Abdiel, his own dreadless angel, was only Milton, translated to the skies.” — Gilfillan. TRUE PHILOSOPHY. "TRY to understand the worth of the soul, before you are called on to resign it." THE PLEASANT HOME. “It is just as possible to keep a calm and cheerful house, as a neat and orderly one. Where is the difficulty of consulting each others' weaknesses, tempers, tastes, any more than their wants, or their health? Almost any one may be cautious, forbearing, and patient in the house of a neighbor. If anything goes wrong there, or disagreeable, or out of tune, it is made the best of, — not the worst; efforts are even made to excuse it, or to show that it is not felt, or observed; or else it is attributed to accident, not design: and this is not only easy, but quite natural, in the house of a friend. What is, therefore, so natural in the home of another, I will not believe impossible in our own; but maintain, without fear, that all the courtesies of domestic intercourse, may be upheld in domestic life. A husband, as willing to be pleased at home, and as anxious to please, as in that of another; and a wife as intent on making things comfortable and pleasant every day to his family, as on set days to her guests, could not fail to make a happy household." Phillips. CHARITABLE OPINIONS. "WHEN I find a man sound and whole, at a certain point where we can meet, I do not busy myself with other points, which I hear only from vague rumor, and which I have no direct means of ascertaining. I am not surprised at inconsistencies. What surprises me is, how a rag of us can hang together. Look at parentage, early associates, accidents, myriads of things, how strange that the mass of humanity comes out as homogeneous as it does. Let us be thankful for the measure of consistency there is in man, nor grumble that it is not more entire. Is not poor humanity like a crow's nest on a high tree in a windy day? How any of the sticks retain their position is the wonder, not that a few of them should. snap, or get out of shape? I have long noted down. practical rules of life, either from wise books, or the conversation of men of experience, or what my own conviction had forced upon me. One of these rules is simple, but carries me very far, (viz.) to put the best construction upon every human action, until a bad is proved, and to call what is bad, no worse than it is fully proved to be." - Leigh Hunt. REMEMBERED HAPPINESS. "MANKIND are always the happier for having been once happy; so that if you make them happy now, you make them so, twenty years hence, through the memory of it. Childhood passed with a mixture of rational indulgence, under fond and wise parents diffuses over the whole of life, a coloring of calm pleasure, and even in extreme old age, is the last remembrance that time can erase from the mind of man. No enjoyment, however inconsiderable, is confined to the present moment. A man is the happier through life, for having once made an agreeable tour, or lived for any length of time among pleasant people, or enjoyed any considerable interval of innocent pleasure; and it is more probably the recollection of their past joys that contributes to render old men so inattentive to the scenes passing around them, and carries them back to a world that is past, and scenes that can never be again restored." Rev. Sidney Smith. ANCIENT Epitaph in the Abbey of Melrose, Scotland. "The earth goeth to the earth glistering like gold, |