HUMILITY.

The

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet everybody is content to bear. master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity. Selden.

THE MISSION OF GENIUS.

Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

DEPUTATION.

Emerson.

A noun of multitude which signifies many but does not signify much. Gladstone.

SATIRE.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders generally discover everybody's face but their own, which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. Swift.

FILIAL CONSIDERATION.

"If ever I wanted anything of my father," said Sam, "I always asked for it in a very 'spectful and obliging manner. If he didn't give it to me, I took it, for fear I should be led to do anything wrong through not having it. I saved him a world o' trouble this way, sir." Dickens.

DIFFICULTY-WHAT IS IT?

Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects, a mere notice of the necessity for exertion, a bugbear to children and fools, only a stimulus to Warren.

men.

EARLY CULture.

I, too, acknowledge the all-but omnipotence of early culture and nurture; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree; either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible, luxuriant, green one.

DIFFICULTIES.

Carlyle.

Difficulties spur us whenever they do not check

us.

Reade.

THE LESSONS OF DEBT.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, the sons of genius, fear and hate ;— debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most. Emerson.

BOTH SIDES OF THE PICTURE.

He who is satisfied with existence so long as it shines brightly, forgets that snuffing the candle will not prevent its burning to the socket.

ANTIPATHIES.

Sterling.

Some natural antipathies are extremely singular. Some faint away at the smell of roses. Erasmus, who was born in Rotterdam, had such an aversion for fish that he could not taste it without a fever. The smell of apples was sufficient with Duchesni, secretary to Francis I., to cause a violent discharge of blood from the nose. And a gentleman at the court of the Emperor Ferdinand used to bleed copiously at the nose whenever he heard a cat mew. Chevreau.

IMPORTANCE OF A NATIONAL LITERAture. A country which has no national literature, or a literature too insignificant to force its way abroad, must always be, to its neighbours at least, in every important spiritual respect, an unknown and unestimated country.

THE FATALITY OF PRIDE.

Carlyle.

I have been more and more convinced, the more I think of it, that in general pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong; and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do proudly. Ruskin.

AN APOTHECARY.

A man who pours drugs of which he knows. little into a body of which he knows less.

HOW TO WRITE A LOVE-LEtter.

Voltaire.

To write a good love-letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to. finish without knowing what you have written.

Rousseau.

THE VALUE OF MANNERS.

Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarise or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them. Burke.

EQUITY.

Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have a measure, and know what to trust to equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and, as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make his foot the standard for the measure, we call a chancellor's foot-what an uncertain measure this would be! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot 'tis the same thing in the chancellor's conscience. Selden.