They who know no evil will suspect none. Ben Johnson.

INDUSTRY.

As fast locked up in sleep, as guiltless labour,
When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones.
Shakespeare.

Industry-
To meditate, to plan, resolve, perform,
Which in itself is good-as surely brings
Reward of good, no matter what be done.

Pollok.

Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.

Whately.

He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honour; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes.

Franklin.

"We act awkwardly, merely from want of reflection or industry."

To be rich, be diligent; move on

Like heaven's great movers that enrich the earth,

Whose moment's sloth would show the world

undone ; And make the spring straight bury all her birth, Rich are the diligent who can command

Time-nature's stock.

Davenant.

All exertion is in itself delightful, and active amusement seldom tires us. Helvetius owns that he could hardly listen to a concert for two hours, though he could play on an instrument all day long. In all pursuits, efforts, it must not be forgotten, are as indispensable as desires. The globe is not to be circumnavigated by one wind. We should never be idle. "It is better to wear out than to rust out," says Bishop Cumberland. "There will be time enough for repose in the grave," said Arnauld to Nicole. In truth, the proper rest for man is change of occupation. Sharpe.

IDLE TALK.

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice; his reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.

Shakespeare.

INCONSISTENCY.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart: but, good my brother,

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny road to heaven;
Whilst like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own read. [Minds not his
own advice.]

Shakespeare.

Dogs are as often beat for barking,
As therefore kept to do so.

Shakespeare.

Fair fruit in an unwholesome dish

Is like to rot untasted.

Shakespeare.

"Fly, pride," says the peacock.

Shakespeare.

The raven chides blackness.

Shakespeare.

INSINCERITY.

A woman sometimes scorns what best contents

her.

Shakespeare.

"The worst form of insincerity is undoubtedly that which leads one to pretend to feel a warm friendly interest in the welfare of a person who is an object of indifference to him.

ILLNESS.

The weakest kind of fruit
Drops earliest to the ground.

Shakespeare.

INTEGRITY.

The good man maintains his integrity, according to his judgment, whatever may befall him.

Whichcote.

INTEMPERANCE.

Intemperance doth weaken reason and contradict religion, and in a little time doth either stupify or enrage our spirits.

Whichcote.

It weaks the brain, it spoils the memory,
Hasting on age, and wilful poverty:
It drowns thy better parts, making thy name
To foes a laughter, to thy friends a shame.
'Tis virtue's poison, and the bane of trust;
The match of wrath, the fuel unto lust.
Quite leave this vice, and turn not to 't again,
Upon presumption of a stronger brain;
For he that holds more wine than others can,
I rather count a hogshead than a man.

Randolph.

As surfeit is the father of much fast,
So every scope by the immoderate use
Turns to restraint: our natures do pursue
(Like rats that ravin down their proper bane)
A thirsty evil; and when we drink, we die.

Shakespeare.

I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again, but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick: if I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves.

Shakespeare.

Oliver.-What's a drunken man like, fool? Clown.-Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

Shakespeare.

Some men are like musical-glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. Coleridge.

There was a Scottish gentleman that had sore eyes, who was counselled by his physicians to forbear drinking of wine; but he said he neither could nor would forbear it, maintaining it for the lesser evil, to shut up the windows of his body, than to suffer the house to fall down through want of reparations.

Wit and Mirth, 1635.