Hill!"—and then pausing for some time, during which I felt greatly (said Lord Eldon) and painfully on his account―at last he broke silence, saying "I don't know, though, that the loss was so great, for she had all her property, Mr. Attorney, to her separate use."

On the departure of Bishop Selwyn for his diocese of Cannibals, New Zealand, the Reverend Sydney Smith took leave of him in these affectionate terms: "Good bye, my dear Selwyn; I hope you will not disagree with the man that eats you!"

Walter Scott, in his Autobiography, said "Through every part of my literary career, I have felt pinched and hampered with my own ignorance."

Do not always follow the same track. It is well sometimes to vary your course, in order to frustrate curiosity, especially that of your envious neighbours : for if they remark the uniformity of your actions, they will learn how to injure your enterprises. It is very easy to shoot the bird that flies in a direct line, but not so easy the one whose flight is an irregular one-neither should the same trick be always resorted to, since it would be discovered. A good player never plays the card that his adversary expects, and still less the one he wishes.

Never accept the invitation of a man who is known to be ruled by his wife; neither bargain with him, un

less the terms be written down; nor give him counsel in any shape.

Do not brave the opinion of the world. You may as well say that you care not for the light of the sun.

A little girl visiting Paris, observed that the people there walked about the streets "like ladies and gentlemen going a visiting!"

Fabius Maximus conquered, not by fighting a powerful enemy, but by avoiding him—and saved Rome.

"The great utilities you may reap from a well-acted tragedy," writes the Countess Carlisle in her maxims for young ladies, "are the exciting your compassion to real sufferings, the suppression of your vanity in prosperity, and the inspiring you with heroic patience in adversity.

"In comedy, you will receive continual correction, delicately applied to your errors and foibles: be impartial in your application, and divide it humbly with your acquaintance and friends, and even with your enemies."

A man of spirit should learn prudence from his very pride, and consider every unnecessary debt he contracts as a wanton diminution of his character. The moment he makes another his creditor, he makes himself a

slave. He runs the hazard of insults which he can never resent, and of disgraces which are seldom to be mitigated. He incurs the danger of being dragged like the vilest felon into a felon's prison and such is the depravity of the world, that guilt is more likely to meet with indulgence, than misfortune.

No deity presides where Prudence is absent.

Never write Letters about any affair that has occasioned, or may occasion, a difference. A difference looks bigger in a letter than in conversation.

Speech ventilates our intellectual fire,
Speech burnishes our mental magazine,
Brightens for ornament, and whets for use.
What numbers, sheathed in erudition, lie
Plunged to the hilts in venerable tomes,
And rusted in, who might have borne an edge
And played a sprightly beam, if born to speech-
If born blest heirs of half their mother's tongue!

The great art of Conversation is to hear patiently, and answer precisely.

Look into those they call unfortunate,

And closer viewed, you'll find they were unwise;
Some flaw in their own conduct lies beneath;
And 'twas a trick of fools, to save their credit,
Which brought another language into use.

When Toasts were uniformly drunk, it would occasionally occur that some one who conceived himself endowed by nature to shine in this way of wit, would attempt some such sentiment as-"Hoping that he," his host, "might make a better man than his father," or, "Live 'till all his friends wished him dead;" while the more humble pot-companion contented himself by saying, with a most imposing gravity in his air, "Come! here's luck," or by expressing some other equally comprehensive wish. In every instance the veteran landlord was requested to imitate the custom of the cupbearer to kings, and taste the liquor he presented by the significant invitation of "After you is manners;" with which request he ordinarily complied by wetting his lips, first expressing the wish of "Here's hoping—” leaving it to the imagination of the hearers to fill the vacuum by whatever good each thought most desirable.

A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” is worse to man than worst necessity.

The Spartans had a law which imposed a fine upon a citizen who had suffered several injuries without resenting them.

At Milan, the Ambrosian Library contains the manuscript Virgil which belonged to Petrarch, and which he was said always to read; on which, in a fair and

beautiful small hand, is written the date of the first day when he saw Laura, and that on which she died.

Aristotle calls cleanliness, one of the half virtues.

Two Irishmen visiting Paris for the first time, wishing for oysters, and being at a loss for the French word, one undertook to describe to the garçon in the best manner he could, what they wanted; and as a preliminary, called out, in his Cork accent, "Weeter! Weeter!" to which the man replied, “Oui, Monsieur," and disappeared; but in a short time, to their utter surprise, returned with a dish of oysters. The unconscious Hibernian having pronounced huître so correctly that he was immediately comprehended by the ready attendant.

In the gardens of Portici, at Naples, is a fort built. to teach the King, during his childhood, the art of fortification; and in the upper apartments is a curious machine, which is made to furnish a dinner without the attendance of domestics.

In the centre of the table is a trap-door; the dinner is sent up by pullies from the kitchen below. Each person has six bell-handles attached to his place, which ring in the kitchen, inscribed with the articles most in request at dinner. These are hoisted up by invisible agents, something after the fashion of Beauty and the Beast, or, to compare it with something less romantic and nearer home, Mr. Owen's establishment

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