of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.-Tillotson.

MCLXXVI.

What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come, is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty:

Then come kiss me sweet and twenty,
Youth's a staff will not endure.

MCLXXVII.

Shakspeare.

To laugh in sin and misery, and make merry so near the endless wo, is a greater shame to your understandings, than to make sport to set your house on fire.Baxter.

MCLXXVIII.

In nature there's no blemish, but the mind;
None can be call'd deform'd, but the unkind:
Virtue is beauty; but the beauteous-evil

Are empty trunks, o'erflourish'd by the devil.
Shakspeare.

MCLXXIX.

A multitude held together by force, though under one and the same head, is not properly united: nor does such a body make a people. 'Tis the social league, confederacy, and mutual consent, founded in some common good or interest, which joins the members of a community, and makes a people one. Absolute power annuls the public: and where there is no public or constitution, there is in reality no mother country or nation.-Shaftesbury.

MCLXXX.

It is one thing to take God and heaven for your portion, as believers do, and another thing to be desirous of it, as a reserve when you can keep the world no longer. It is one thing to submit to heaven, as a lesser evil than hell; and another thing to desire it as a greater

good than earth. It is one thing to lay up treasures and hopes in heaven, and seek it first; and another thing to be contented with it in our necessity, and to seek the world before it, and give God that the flesh can spare. Thus differeth the religion of serious Christians, and of carnal worldly hypocrites.-Baxter.

MCLXXXI.

Flavius. All broken implements of a ruin'd house. 3 Serv. Yet do our hearts wear Timon's livery, That see I by our faces; we are fellows still, Serving alike in sorrow: leak'd is our bark; And we, poor mates, stand on the dying deck, Hearing the surges threat: we must all part Into this sea of air.

Flavius. Good fellows all.

The latest of my wealth I'll share amongst you.
Wherever we shall meet, for Timon's sake,
Let's yet be fellows; let's shake our heads, and say,
As 'twere a knell unto our master's fortune,
We have seen better days. Let each take some;

[Giving them Money. Nay, put out all your hands. Not one word more: Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor.

Timon of Athens-Shakspeare.

MCLXXXII.

The human mind is so mutable, that no individual can fix a standard of his own faith, much less can he commission another to establish one for him and his posterity. And this power would in no hands be so dangerous, as in those of the statesman or priest, who has the folly and presumption to think himself qualified to exercise it.-Percival.

MCLXXXIII.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.-Swift.

MCLXXXIV.

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them; and none worse when they come to them. Be not penny-wise: riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves, sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.-Lord Bacon.

MCLXXXV.

The weariest and most loathed worldly life,
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
Can lay on nature, is a paradise

To what we fear of death.

Where great esteem is without affection, 'tis often attended with envy, if not with hate; which passions detract even when they commend, and silence is their highest panegyric.—Dennis.

MCLXXXVII.

A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage: people may be amused, and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought up against him on some subsequent occasion.— Johnson.

MCLXXXVIII.

I hate a lover, that can dare to think he draws a moment's air, independent on the bounty of his mistress. There is not so impudent a thing in nature, as the saucy look of an assured man, confident of success.Congreve.

MCLXXXIX.

That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat
Of habit's devil, is angel yet in this;
That to the use of actions fair and good
He likewise gives a frock, or livery,
That aptly is put on: refrain to-night;
And that shall lend a kind of easiness

To the next abstinence: the next more easy:
For use almost can change the stamp of nature,

And either curb the devil, or throw him out
With wondrous potency.

MCXC.

Shakspeare.

None have more need of friends than monarchs; and though ingratitude is too frequent in the most of those who are obliged, yet encouragement will work on generous minds; and if the experiment be lost on thousands, yet it never fails on all; and one virtuous man in a whole nation is worth the buying, as one diamond is worth the search in a heap of rubbish. But a narrow-hearted prince, who thinks that mankind is made for him alone, puts his subjects in the way of deserting him on the first occasion; and teaches them to be as sparing of their duty, as he is of his bounty.-Dryden.

MCXCI.

The glories of your ladies be
But metaphors of things,
And but resemble what we see
Each common object brings.
Roses outred their lips and cheeks,
Lilies their whiteness stain:
What fool is he the shadow seeks,
And may the substance gain!
Then if thou'lt have me love a lass,
Let it be one that's kind,
Else I'm a servant to the glass

That's with canary lin❜d.

MCXCII.

Brome.

Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of behaving with just subordination to our superiors, and grateful dependants on heaven; by this we become fonder of marriage, in order to be capable of exacting obedience from others in our turn: by this we become good magistrates; for early submission is the truest lesson to those who would learn to rule. By this the whole state may be said to resemble one family, of

which the emperor is the protector, father, and friend. --Goldsmith.

MCXCIII.

Mr. Boyle, in the preface to his Essays, makes an apology for the frequent use of the words perhaps, it seems, 'tis not improbable, as implying a diffidence of the justness of his opinions: and this diffidence arose, as he informs us, from repeated observations, that what pleased him for a while, was afterwards disgraced by some farther, or more recent discovery.-Percival.

MCXCIV.

The most affluent may be stript of all, and find his worldly comforts like so many withered leaves dropping from him.-Sterne.

MCXCV.

We quarrel in print, by the book; as you have books for good manners: I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort courteous: the second, the Quip modest; the third, the Reply churlish; the fourth, the Reproof valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with circumstances; the seventh, the Lie direct. All these you may avoid, but the Lie direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel; but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as if you said so, then I said so; and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.-Touchstone-As you like it-Shakspeare.

MCXCVI.

It appears evident that frugality is necessary even to complete the pleasure of expense; for it may be generally remarked of those who squander what they know their fortune not sufficient to allow, that in their most jovial expense, there always breaks out some proof of discontent and impatience; they either scatter with a kind of wild desperation and affected lavishness, as criminals brave the gallows when they cannot escape it,