GOOD DEEDS.

A wise man's heart is like a broad hearth that keeps the coals (his passions) from burning the house. Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers to make a fire next day.

THE PLEASURE OF SINNING.

Overbury.

Dr Barrowby, the physician, was very fond of

swine's flesh.

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One day, when he was eating it, he said, “I wish I were a Jew!" Why so?" said somebody; "the Jews are not allowed to eat your favourite meat. 66 Because," said he, "I should then have the gust of eating it, with the pleasure of sinning."

A PHILOSOPHICAL ACTOR.

Johnson.

Legrand, who was both an actor and an author, but a man of a short and disagreeable figure, after playing some tragic part in which he had been ill-received, came forward to address the house, and concluded his speech thus :-" And in short, ladies and gentlemen, you must see that it is easier for you to accustom yourselves to my figure, than for me to change it."

Avellete.

TERMS IN LOGIC.

There are syllogisms, long swords; enthymemes, short daggers; dilemmas, two-edged swords that cut on both sides; sorites, chain shot: and for the defensive, distinctions, which are shields; retortions, which are targets with a pike in the midst of them, both to defend and oppose. Thomas Fuller.

THE SUM OF KNOWLEDGE.

The greater part of the sciences comprise but one single word, perhaps; and the whole history of mankind contains no more than three: they are born, suffer, and die. Dabshelim.

THREE THINGS TO BE DONE WITHOUT THINKING. Shutting one's-self up in a convent, marrying, and throwing one's-self over a precipice, are three things which must be done without thinking too much about them. Sorbiere.

WAR CONDUCIVE TO LAWLESSNESS.

Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold. Burke.

THE GROWTH OF GOOD.

How indestructibly the Good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of Evil.

ADMIRATION AND LOVE.

Carlyle.

There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other we are flattered, into compliance. Burke.

THE IMPOTENCE OF ANGER.

Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man; it affects nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is directed. Clarendon.

FALSEHOOD.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

Raleigh.

NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS.

To mark the character of the Italians, Spaniards, and Greeks, it has been said that one ought to write in Italian, boast in Spanish, and cheat in Greek. Menage.

THE GHOST of WIT.

An experiment very frequent among modern authors is to write upon nothing when the subject is utterly exhausted, to let the pen still move on; by some called the ghost of wit, delighting to walk after the death of its body. And to say the truth, there seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done. Swift.

FRIENDSHIPS BROKEN.

Friendship is a vase which, when it is flawed, by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious ones, never. Landor.

VALUE OF REFINEMENT.

If refined sense and exalted sense be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects make some compensation, and render the admiration of mankind; as gold, though less serviceable than iron, acquires, from its scarcity, a value which is much superior. Ните.

BIBLIOMANIA.

To buy books, as some do who make no use of them, only because they are published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

A LAWYER.

Pope.

A learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it to himself.

DEATH THE Leveller of all.

Brougham.

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

Bulwer.