into practice. Now suppose, at length, we actually come to trial, and, let us say, our feelings become roused, as often before, at the thought of boldly resisting temptations to cowardice; shall we therefore do our duty, quitting ourselves like men? rather, we are likely to talk loudly, and then run from the danger.-Why? rather let us ask, why not? what is to keep us from yielding? Because we feel aright? Nay, we have again and again felt aright, and thought aright, without accustoming ourselves to act aright; and though there was an original connexion in our minds between feeling and acting, there is none now; the wires within us, as they may be called, are loosened and powerless. Newman. HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS. 66 6 “Ан, thank 'ee, neighbour,' said a perspiring sheepdriver the other day, to one who hooted away his flock from going down a wrong road,-Thank 'ee-a little help is worth a deal o' pity!"" WAR. WAR begets Poverty-Poverty, Peace- Old Saw. How all Europe is but like a set of parishes of the same country; participant of the self-same influences ever since the Crusades, and earlier: and these glorious wars of ours are but like parish brawls, which begin in mutual ignorance, intoxication, and boasting speech; which end in broken windows, damage, waste, and bloody noses; and which one hopes the general good sense is now in the way towards putting down in some measure. Carlyle. "Yet here, as elsewhere, not absurdly does 'Metaphysic call for aid on Sense.' The physical science of war may do more to abolish war than all our good and growing sense of its folly, wickedness, and extreme discomfort. For what State would be at the expense of drilling and feeding Dumdrudges to be annihilated by the first discharge of the COMING GUN ?" LOVE WITHOUT END HATH NO END. No wheedler loves. Lavater. Il y a dans la jalousie plus d' amour propre que d'amour. Il n'y a point de deguisement qui puisse long temps cacher l'amour où il est, ni le feindre où il n'est pas. Rochefoucauld. "LOVE ASKS FAITH, AND FAITH FIRMNESS." OUR TIME Is like our money: when we change a guinea, the shillings escape as things of small account: when we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eyes. Sir W. Scott. EXPENSE. COMMONLY it is less dishonourable to abridge petty charges than to stoop to petty gettings. A man ought warily to begin charges, which once begun will continue; but in matters that return not, he may be more magnificent. Bacon. Fuller says, "Occasional entertainment of men greater than thyself is better than solemn inviting them;" and a proverb bids us beware of taking for servant one who has waited on our betters. In both cases we shall have to spend beyond our means, and be despised to boot. TRUTH AND JUSTICE ARE all one for Truth is but Justice in our knowledge; and Justice is but Truth in our practice. Milton. RICHES. THESE times strike monied worldlings with dismay ; And minds not stinted or untill'd are given, What do we gather hence but firmer faith That every gift of nobler origin Is breathed upon with Hope's perpetual breath; That Virtue, and the faculties within, Are vital; and that Riches are akin To fear, to change, to cowardice, and death? Wordsworth. "Ah! Davy," said Johnson to Garrick, who was showing off his fine grounds at Twickenham, "it is these things that make us fear to die." |