A WELL-DOer.

A father wished to dissuade his daughter from any thoughts of matrimony. "She who marries does well," said he; "but she who does not marry does better." "My father," she answered meekly, "I am content with doing well; let her do better who can."

A GOOD SALAD.

Horace Walpole.

Four persons go to make a good salad-a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt, and a madman to stir up all.

MAN COMPARED TO A BOOK.

Spanish Proverb.

Man is like a book; his birth is the Titlepage; his baptism is the Epistle Dedicatory; his groans and crying are the Epistle to the Reader; his infancy and childhood are the Argument, or Contents of the whole ensuing Treatise; his life and actions are the Subject, or Matter of the book; his sins, and errors of his life, are the Errata or faults escaped in the printing; and his repentance is the Correction of them.

Gove.

QUIN'S WIT AND WISDOM.

Quin sometimes said things at once witty and wise. Disputing concerning the execution of Charles I. "But by what laws," said his opponent, was he put to death?" Quin replied, "By all the laws he had left them." Horace Walpole.

TRICKS versus LAW.

A Jew and a Christian, both Italians, united their endeavours in a snuff-shop. On Saturday, the Sabbath, the Jew did not appear; but on Sunday he supplied the place of the Christian. Some scruples were started to the Jew, but he only answered, "Trovata la legge, trovato l'inganno," "-when laws were invented, tricks were invented. Horace Walpole.

INVASION MADE EASY.

'Tis but going to sea, and leaping ashore: cut ten or twelve thousand unnecessary throats, fire seven or eight towns, take half-a-dozen cities, get the leader into the market-place, crown him Richard the Fourth, and the business is finished!

Ford.

A TAVERN.

It is the busy man's recreation, the idle man's business, the melancholy man's sanctury, the stranger's welcome, the inns-of-court man's entertainment, the scholar's kindness, and the citizen's courtesy. Earle.

SOCIAL OPINION.

Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness and defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.

ESSAYS ON TASTE.

Jameson.

There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste, and if they take my advice they never will; for they can no more improve their taste by so doing, than they could improve their appetite or digestion by studying a cookery book. Southey.

DISCRETION NECESSARY IN JESTING.

Laughter should dimple the cheek, not furrow the brow. A jest should be such, that all shall be able to join in the laugh which it occasions; but if it bears hard upon one of the company, like the crack of a string, it makes a stop in the music. Feltham.

MASCULINE EFFEMINACY.

Some of the manly sex amongst us are so effeminate that they would rather have the commonwealth out of order than their hair; they are more solicitous about trimming and sprucing up their heads than they are of their health or of the safety of the public; and are more anxious to be fine than virtuous. Seneca.

THE ADVANTAGES OF READING TOGETHER. A great advantage is derived from the occasional practice of reading together, for each person selects different beauties, and starts different objections, while the same passage perhaps awakens in each mind a different train of associated ideas, or raises different images for the purposes of illustration. Horner.

GOOD THINGS TO DO.

Positively the best thing a man can have to do is nothing, and next to that, perhaps, good works. Charles Lamb.

RELIGION IN A Hat.

In New, as formerly in Old England, Quakers objected to take off their hats. A judge in the former once remarked thereon, that if he thought there was any religion in a hat, he would have the largest he could purchase for money.

DINNER IN ENGLAND.

Doran.

England is a dining nation, and her people a dining people—as, indeed, Voltaire said long ago. What is there in the way of show, of ceremony, of association, of charity, of pleasure, of conviviality, of business, in England, which is unaccompanied? The coronation itself concludes with a dinner. Is not the king's speech first promulgated to the members of either house of parliament after dinner?-can vestries transact parish business without dinner? With high and low, with great and small, eating is the soul and spirit of English society. Hook.

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