Whatever pretensions people may make to learning, politemess, or civilization, we will venture to affirm, that while they neglect cleanliness, they are in a state of barbarity.

NEVER employ yourself to discern the faults of others, but be careful to mend and prevent your own.

The devil has lent an eye to him, who will discover nothing but the imperfections of another.

He that has descried his own failings, and resolved on amendment, has examined himself in a mirror sent from Heaven; and looks forward through a medium which will lead him thither.

II. Nothing is more unmanerly, than to reflect on any man's profession, sect, or natural infirmity. He who stirs up against himself another's self-love, provokes the strongest passions in human nature.

There is no greater instance of a weak and pusillanimous temper, than for a man to pass his whole life in opposition to his own sentiments, and not dare to be what he thinks he ought to be.

WHAT good morals are to society in general, good manners are to particular ones; their band and security. Of all actions, next to that of performing a good one, the consciousness of rendering a civility is the most grateful.

Void of good breeding, every other qualification will be imperfect, unadorned, and, to a certain degree, unavailing.

II. Never think to entertain people with what lies out of their way, be it ever so curious in its kind. Who would think of regaling a circle of ladies with the beauties of Homer's Greek, or a company of country squires with Sir Isaac Newton's discoveries?

To offer advice to an angry man, is like blowing against a tempest.

Bid farewell to all grandeur, if envy stir within thee.

A WISE man, said Seneca, is provided for occurrences of any kind; the good he manages, the bad he vanquishes; in prosperity he betrays no presumption, in adversity he feels no despondency.

He, who in your face smiles, and absent from you calum. niates, is like a serpent, with an eye to entice, and a heart to devour.

The tale-bearer, and he who speaks to the disadvantage of another with an injunction of secresy, is but a little dis tant in rank from the prince of darkness.

II. The meanest spirit may bear a slight affliction; but in bearing a great calamity, there is great glory and a great reward.

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, that must be drawn backward with horrible anguish; else it will be your destruction.

MALEVOLENCE to the clergy is seldom at a great distance from irreverence to religion.

Never ridicule sacred things, or what others may es teem such, however absurd they may appear to you. The scoffer carries in his bosom a live coal from that eternal fire denounced on the wicked.

Levity should not be indulged in any place where the people are professedly engaged in acts of devotion.

II. Never think the worse of another on account of his honest difference from you in political or religious opinions; the freedom of the mind is not the smallest blessing of freedom.

An honest man is believed without an oath, for his rep utation swears for him.

LESSON XXXI.

YOUTH should enterprise nothing without the advice of age; for though youth is fittest for action, yet age is best for counsel.

He who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.

II. He that will take no advice, but be always his own counsellor, is sure to have a fool often for his client.

Set about nothing, without first thinking it over carefully. To say, " 1 did not think of that"-is much the same as saying, "You must know, I am a simpleton."

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

All affectation is the mean and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.

LESSON XXXII.

SWEARING and obscenity are offences not only against all that is sacred, but against all that is polite. They are sins without temptation, without alleviation, and without reward.

The most contemptible of those that ever were, or ever can be despised by the wise, is he who, with opportunities of being acquainted with what is noble, pure, grand, gives himself airs of despising it.

II. A truly great mind, from mere reverence for itself, would not descend to think a base thought, if it was never to be known to God or man.

The time is near, when the great and the rich must leave his land and his well built house; and of all the trees of his orchards and woods, nothing shall attend him to his grave, but oak for his coffin, and cypress for his funeral.

IF in company I would disuse my segar, because its whiffs might offend, would I indulge in oaths and obscenity,

when they are equally a breach of the rules of politeness, and offensive to Him who the gave power of utterance? As the stalk which rises in a garden will become unalterably crooked, if permitted to grow in a wrong direction; so the minds of youth will become incurably vicious, if suffered to retain a wrong inclination.

II. To have a portion in the world, is a mercy; to have the world for a portion, is a misery.

By suffering we may often avoid sinning; but by sinning we can never avoid suffering.

He that is not content in any state, will be content in no state for the fault is not in the thing, but the mind.

Adversity does not take from us our true friends; it only disperses those who pretended to be such.

LESSON XXXIV.

IF you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

Of all felicities, how charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens our cares, softens our sorrows, and assists us in extremities: It is a sovereign antidote against calamities.

There are two requisite qualities in the choice of a friend'; he must be both a sensible man and an honest man: for fools and vicious men are incapable of friendship.

Every man is capable of being an enemy, but not a friend; few are in a condition of doing good, but almost all of doing mischief.

II. Remember your bottle companions will not bear you company at your death; nor lighten your sentence at the dreadful day of judgement Let the vicious, therefore, go alone at present; since their company may heighten, but will not abate your punishment.

IF you think twice before you speak once, you will speak twice the better for it.

Vile and debauched expressions are the sure marks of an abject and grovelling mind, and the overflowings of a vicious heart,

The heart of fools is in their mouth; but the tongue of the wise is in their heart.

II. Never trust a man for the vehemence of his assertions, whose bare word you would not trust; a knave will make no more of swearing to a falsehood, than of affirming it.

Beware of one who has been your enemy, and all of a sudden, nobody knows how or why, grows mighty loving and friendly.

To imitate the best, is the best of imitations, and a resólution to excel, is an excellent resolution.

LESSON XXXVI.

HE who gives a trifle meanly, is meaner than the trifle.

Smiles, at the relation of inhumanities, betray a fund of inhumanity.

For people of worth, it is not necessary to fetch praises from their predecessors; 'tis enough to speak of their own particular merit: It is happy to have so much merit, that our birth is the least thing respected in us.

II. The luxurious live to eat and drink; but the wise and temperate eat and drink in order to live.

Whatever promotes the interest of the soul, is also conducive to our present felicity.

Wisdom is better without an inheritance, than an inheritance without wisdom.

A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misforThe more riches a fool has, the greater fool he is.

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LESSON XXXVI.

PLEASURES, unduly taken, enervate the soul, make fools of the wise, and cowards of the brave. A libertine life is not a life of liberty.

It is not the lustre of gold, the sparkling of diamonds and emeralds, nor the splendour of the purple tincture, that adorns or embellishes a woman; but gravity, discresion, humility, and modesty.