have risen to wealth by such small beginnings; but many more continue to expend the groat a day unnecessarily, and never cease to be poor.-Penny Magazine.

CXIII.

ELF-EDUCATION.-Much less of success in life is in reality dependent upon accident, or what is called luck, than is commonly supposed.

Far more depends upon the objects which a man proposes to himself: what attainments he aspires to; what is the circle which bounds his visions and thoughts: what he chooses, not to be educated for, but to educate himself for; whether he looks to the end and aim of the whole of life, or only to the present day or hour; whether he listens to the voice of indolence or vulgar pleasure, or to the stirring voice in his own soul, urging his ambition on to laudable objects.-Penny Magazine.

CXIV.

ECESSITY OF PROPERLY EXERCISING THE MIND.-As the body from disuse may come in time to be deprived of all its powers, so the mental faculties may lose all their energy, through a neglect of their being exerted duly, and the man be no longer able to act, or not act in the manner that best becomes him. Therefore fathers, although otherwise well assured of the good disposition of their children, forget not to warn them against the company of ill men; knowing, that as to converse with the good must exercise every virtue; so to associate with the bad must be no less pernicious and baneful.-Xenophon.

they might be defenders of themselves; they knew that however men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were done with injury unto others, it was not to be suffered, but by all men and all good means to be withstood. Finally, they knew that no man might in reason take upon him to determine his own right, and according to his own determination proceed in maintenance thereof, in as much as every man is towards himself, and them whom he greatly affects, partial; and therefore that strifes and troubles would be endless, except they gave their common consent, all to be ordered by some, whom they should agree upon, without which consent there would be no reason that one man should take upon him to be lord or judge over another.-Hooker.

CXVII.

MPORTANCE OF FEMALE EDUCATION.-Matrimony, among savages, having no object but propagation.

and slavery, is a very humbling state for the female sex; but delicate organization, great sensibility, lively imagination, with sweetness of temper above all, qualify women for a more dignified society with men ; which is, to be their bosom friends and companions. In the common course of European education, young women are trained to make an agreeable figure, and to behave with decency and propriety: very little culture is bestowed on the mind and still less on the heart, if it be not the art of hiding passion. Education, so slight and superficial, is far from seconding the purpose of nature, that of making women fit companions for men of sense. Due cultivation of the female mind would add greatly to the happiness of males, and still more to that