minds. I call it a duty; it would also be a folly not to do so. Humboldt.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us. Ib.

One fruit only our mother earth offers up with pride to her maker—her human children made noble by life upon earth. Westminster Review.

The souls of the Sons of God are greater than their business; and they are thrown out, not to do a certain work, but to be a certain thing; to have some sacred lineaments, to show some divine tint, of the Parent Mind from which they come. Martineau.

The common burden of humanity, which we have all to bear, more or less, must lie heaviest on those whose mental powers are the earliest and the most widely unfolded. We may grow up under the sheltering care of parents and of kindred; we may lean on parents and on friends; we may be amused by acquaintances; we may be made happy by those we love; — yet" to this conclusion do we come at last,”— that man is turned back upon himself. Goethe.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for

worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none. It is not without preëstablished harmony, this sculpture in the memory. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. Emerson.

It is well known that at a certain period of life the character of a man begins to be more distinctly marked. He appears to become separated from that which surrounds him - to stand in a measure aloof from his associates - to raise his head above the shadow of any earthly object into the light of heaven, and to walk with a more determined step on the earth beneath. This is the manifestation of a character which has always existed, and which has, as it were, been accumulating by little and little, till at length it has attained its full stature.

When a man has become his own master, it is left to himself to complete his own education. It is left to himself to decide how far his character shall remain in its present form. This is indeed a period of deep responsibility. He has taken the guidance of a human being, and is not the less accountable, that this being is himself. Let him not be made dizzy from a sense of his own liberty,

nor faint under his own weight; but let him remember that the eye of God is now fixed full, it might almost be said anxiously, upon him. Sampson Reed.

As a plant is formed by the upward tendency of the living principle shown in the sap and the leaf buds, and also by the woody matter sent down from the leaves, and as there can be no growth without these two; so character is formed by strong aspirations which gather to themselves materials and produce deeds.

Let People's Tongues and Actions be what they will, my business is to keep my Road and be Honest; and make the same Speech to myself that a piece of Gold or an Emerald should, if it had Sense and Language. "Let the World talk and take their Method, I shan't, but sparkle and shine on, and be true to my Species and my Colour."

Is it not a scandalous business, that an Architect or a Physician should have more regard for his Profession than a Man has for his? For His, I say, in which he has the honor of the Gods for his Partners. And what's a man's Trade, simply considered as a Man. Why nothing but the study and practice of Virtue and Moral Philosophy.

Can't you leave foreign Humours and Things to their own Mismanagement and Bias? Your business is only to mind your Conduct, and give a turn of Advantage to the Emergency. Does the present Accident

hinder your being Honest and Brave, Temperate and Modest, Judicious and Unservile?

Do they Curse you? Do they threaten to Kill and Quarter you? Let them go on. They can never murther your Reason, nor your Virtue. Those privileges run for Life if you please. All this Barbarity signifies little. 'Tis much as if a Man that stands by a Lovely Spring should fall a railing on 't. The Water is never the worse for his foul Language. Which way now are you to go to keep your Springs always running, and never Stagnate into a Pool? I'll tell you: You must be always drudging at the Virtues of Freedom and Independence, of Sincerity, Sobriety and Good-nature. Make yourself but Master of these Qualities, and your business is done.

Nature has armed you at all points, provided some Virtue or other against all sort of Vice or Immorality. If you have to do with a troublesome Blockhead, you have Meekness and Temper for your Guard, and so of the Rest. Besides, what harm have you received? If you examine the Case you'll find none of these provoking Mortals have done your Mind any Damage. And that is the only place in which you are capable of being hurt.

When People treat you ill, blame your conduct, or report any thing to your Disadvantage, shoot yourself into the very Souls of them, rummage their Understandings, and see how their Heads are Furnished. A thorough Inquiry into this Matter will set you at rest.

Antoninus.

Persons lightly dipped, not grained in generous honesty, are but pale in goodness, and faint-hued in sincerity; but be thou what thou virtuously art, and let not the ocean wash away thy tincture; stand magnetically upon that axis where prudent simplicity hath fixed thee, and let no temptation invert the poles of thy honesty; and that vice may be uneasy and even monstrous unto thee, let iterated good acts and long-confirmed habits make virtue natural, or a second nature in thee. And since few or none prove eminently virtuous, but from some advantageous foundations in their temper, and natural inclinations, study thyself betimes, and early find what nature bids thee to be, or tells thee what thou mayest be. They who thus timely descend into themselves, cultivating the good seeds which nature hath set in them, and improving their prevalent inclinations to perfection, become not shrubs, but cedars in their generation; and to be in the form of the best of the bad, or the worst of the good, will be no satisfaction unto them. Sir Thomas Browne.

It is a happiness to be born and framed unto virtue, and to grow up from the seeds of nature, rather than the inoculation and forced grafts of education. Yet if we are directed only by our particular natures, and regulate our inclinations by no higher rule than that of our reasons, we are but moralists; divinity will still call us heathens. Therefore this great work of charity must have other motives, ends, and impulsions. I give no alms only to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accom