XXXVIII.

HE MIND.-The mind has a certain vegetative power, which cannot be wholly idle. If it is not laid out and cultivated into a beautiful garden, it will of itself shoot up in weeds or flowers of a wild growth.-Spectator.

XLIII.

UDGMENT.-The most necessary talent in a man of

conversation, is a good judgment. He that has

this in perfection is master of his companion, without letting him see it; and has the same advantage over men of any other qualifications whatsoever, as one that can see would have over a blind man of ten times his strength.— Steele.

XLIV.

ONVERSATION.-It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse, by giving them the history of their pains and aches; and imagine such narrations their quota of the conversation. This is of all other the meanest help to discourse, and a man must not think at all, or think himself very insignificant, when he finds an account of his head-ache answered by another's asking what news in the last mail.-Ibid.

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XLV.

DVICE.-There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it

ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of our own influence, importance, or worth.— Young.

XLVI.

HE END OF PRUDENCE.-The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours, which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot

XLIX.

OLLY AND MADNESS.-Folly consists in the drawing of false conclusions from just principles, by which it is distinguished from madness, which draws just conclusions from false principles.-Locke.

L.

OPICS OF DISCOURSE.-The weather is not a safe topic of discourse; your company may be hippish: nor is health; your associate may be a malade imaginaire: nor is money; you may be suspected as a borrower.-Zimmerman.

Raleigh.

LI.

ICH AND POOR.-The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this-the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.-Sir W.

LII.

IBERTY.-The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God, and of his country. Cowley.

LIII.

HILOSOPHY.-Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock,