through it. It is like an eel-trap; very easy to get into, but very difficult to get out of.

"Tin Trumpet."

What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.

F. Osborn.

To go to law, is for two persons to kindle a fire at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree as to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves, that others may be decorated with their feathers.

Feltham.

LIBERTY.

"There is no real liberty, where darkness and bigotry exist."

Equal nature fashion'd us

All in one mould. The bear serves not the bear, Nor the wolf the wolf; 'twas odds of strength in tyrants,

That pluck'd the first link from the golden chain With which that thing of things bound in the world.

Why then, since we are taught by their examples To love our liberty, if not command,

Should the strong serve the weak, the fair deform'd ones?

Or such as know the cause of things pay tribute To ignorant fools? All's but the outward gloss,

And politic form, that does distinguish us.

Massinger.

LENDING.

"Never be too ready to convince yourself that it is right to involve yourself largely, in order to help any person into a particular station in society; rather let him begin at the bottom, and he will be all the better fitted for his place when he reaches it, by having fought his way up through the lower stages."

LAUGHTER.

Laughter is a most healthful exertion: it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was founded on true medical principles.

Hufeland.

One should take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison.

Democritus, who was always laughing, lived one hundred and nine years; Heraclitus, who never ceased crying, only sixty. Laughing,

then, is best; and to laugh at one another is perfectly justifiable, since we are told that the gods themselves, though they made us as they pleased, cannot help laughing at us.

LOGIC.

Steevens.

Ethics makes a man's soul mannerly and wise; but logic is the armoury of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons.

Thomas Fuller.

LABOUR.

"Sir, I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm; and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze, and my lambs

suck.

Shakespeare.

MAN PROPOSES.

"Man feels yearnings which nothing here can satisfy; entertains hopes which on this side of the grave never can be realised; forms designs which, by reason of the shortness of his mortal existence, cannot be accomplished."

MAN.

As we used to deny the effect to the instrumental cause, and attribute it to the principal in the manner of speaking, when our purpose is to affirm a thing to be the principal and of chief influence :-so we say, it is not the good lute but the good hand which makes the music; it is not the body but the soul that is the man; and yet he is not the man without both.

Jeremy Taylor.

Men have knowledge and strength to fit them for action; women affection for their better compliance; and herewith beauty to compensate for their subjection, by giving them an equivalent regency over men.

Grew.

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.

Shakespeare.

Ah! how unjust to Nature and himself
Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!
Like children babbling nonsense in their sports,
We censure Nature for a span too short;
That span too short, we tax as tedious too;
Torture invention, all expedients tire,
To lash the lingering moments into speed,
And whirl us (happy riddance!) from ourselves.
Art, brainless art! our furious charioteer
(For Nature's voice unstifled would recall),

Drives headlong along the precipice of death, Death most our dread; death thus more dreadful

made,

O, what a riddle of absurdity!

Young's Night Thoughts.

The proper study of mankind is man.

Pope.

Men are but children of a larger growth,
Our appetites as apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving too, and full as vain;
And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing;
But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind,
Works all her folly up, and casts it outward
To the world's open view.

MASTER AND SERVANT.

Dryden.

Masters must correct their servants with gentleness, prudence, and mercy; not with upbraiding and disgraceful language, but with such only as may express and reprove the fault, and amend the person.

Jeremy Taylor.

"In the preservation of respect from the servant to the master, it is necessary that the latter use no undue familiarity, or else the servant assumes to himself a right to do the like in return, moreover, feeling conscious of his fancied