go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

Those who are embarked in that greatest of all undertakings, the propagation of the gospel, and who do so from a thorough conviction of its superior utility and excellence, may indeed fail in sav ing others, but they are engaged in that labour of love by which they are most likely to save themselves, particularly if they pray that through God's assistance both ends may be obtained.

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ, is worth contending about.

Faith and works are as necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works, the body.

Solomon has said, 'There is nothing new under the sun; and perhaps destruction has caused as much novelty as invention; for that is often a revival which we think a discovery.

It is an unfortunate thing for fools, that their pretensions should rise in an inverse ratio with their abilities, and their presumption with their weakness; and for the wise, that diffidence should be the companion of talent, and doubt the fruit of investigation.

There are three kinds of praise; that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.

We generally most covet that particular trust which we are least likely to keep. He that thoroughly knows his friends, might, perhaps, with safety, confide his wife to the care of one, his purse to another, and his secrets to a third; when to permit them to make their own choice, would be his ruin.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; the passions are powerful pleaders, and their very silence, like that of Garrick, goes directly to the soul; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least, will most excel in; it is the quackery of eloquence, and deals in nostrums, not in cures.

When honours come to us, rather than we to them; when they meet us, as it were, in the vestibule of life, it is well if our enemies can say no more against us, than that we are too young for our dignities; it would be much worse for us, if they could say that we are too old for them; time will destroy the first objection, but confirm the second.

Pickpockets and beggars are the best practical physiognomists, without having read a line of Lavater, who it is notorious, mistook a philosopher for a highwayman.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats.

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism; as he that struggles, tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.

A revengeful knave, will do more than he will say; a grateful one, will say more than he will do.

In naval architecture, the rudder is first fitted in, then the ballast is put on board, and last of all, the cargo and the sails. It is far otherwise in the fitting up and forming of man; he is launched into life with the cargo of his faculties aboard, and all the sails of his passions set; but it is the long and painful work of his life, to acquire the ballast of experience, and to form the rudder of reason; hence, it too often happens that his frail vessel is shipwrecked before he has laid in the necessary quantity of ballast, or that he has been so long in completing the rudder, that the vessel has become too crazy to benefit by its application.

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others, think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other. The Chinese affect to despise European ingenuity,

but they cannot mend a common watch; when it is out of order; they say it is dead, and barter it away for a living one. The Persians think that all foreign merchants come to them from a small island in the northern waters, barren and desolate, which produces nothing good or beautiful; ' for why else,' say they, 'do the Europeans fetch such things from us, if they are to be had at home?' The Turk will not permit the sacred cities of Mecca or Medina to be polluted by the residence or even footstep of a single Christian; and as to the grand Dairo of Japan, he is so holy that the sun is not permitted to have the honour of shining on. his illustrious head. The king of Malacca, styles himself lord of the winds; and the Mogul,, to be equal with him, titles himself conqueror of the world, and his grandees are denominated rulers of the thunder storm and steersmen of the whirlwind; even the pride of Xerxes, who fettered the sea, and wrote his commands to Mount Athos; or of Caligula, who boasted of an intrigue with the moon are both surpassed by the petty sovereign of an insignificant tribe in North America, who every morning stalks out of his hovel, bids the sun good-morrow, and points out to him with his finger, the course he is to take for the day: and to complete this climax of pride and ignorance, it is well known that the Khan of Tartary, who does not. possess a single house under the canopy of Heaven, has no sooner finished his repast of mare's milk and horse-flesh, than he causes a herald to proclaim from his seat, that all the princes and potentates of the earth have his permission to go to dinner. The Arab,' says Zimmerman, in the conviction that his Calif is infallible, laughs at the stupid credulity of

the Tartar, who holds his Lama to be immortal. Those who inhabit Mount Bata, believe that whoever eats a roasted cuckoo before his death, is a saint, and firmly persuaded of the infallibility of this mode of sanctification, deride the Indians, who drag a cow to the bed of a dying person, and by pinching her tail, are sure, if by that method they can make the creature void her urine in the face of the patient, he is immediately translated into the third heaven. They scoff at the superstition of the Tartarian princes, who think that their beati fication is secure, provided they can eat of the holy excrements of the Lama; and the Tartars, in their turn, ridicule the Bramins, who for the better purification,of their country, require them to eat cow-dung for the space of six months, while these would, one and all, if they were told of the cuckoo method of salvation, as heartily despise 2nd laugh at it. I have cited these ridiculous extravagances, to show that there are two things in which all sects agree, the hatred with which they pursue the errors of others, and the love with which they cling to their own.

We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, or porter into vials. Delicate minds. may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect, as some fine ladies, who would be shocked at the idea of a dram, will not refuse. a liqueur. Some indeed there are, who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are, nevertheless, to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.