earth. Pleasure palls, and idleness is "many gathered miseries in one name." But business gets over the hours without counting them. It may be very tired at the end, still it has brought the day to a close sooner than anything else.

- Call on a man of business in business hours only on business; transact your business, and go about your business, that he may attend to his business. Endeavour to follow your business, because it is your duty rather than your interest the latter is inseparable from a just discharge of your duty; ever look at the profits in the last place. At first setting out, fervently wish, and afterwards constantly endeavour, to do your business with all the diligence you can, as a present duty, and repress every rising idea of its consequences; knowing there is a Hand which can easily overthrow every pursuit of this kind, and baffle every attempt to acquire either wealth or fame. Employ your thoughts as business requires, and let that have place according to merit and urgency, giving everything a review and due digestion; you will thus prevent many errors and vexations, as well as save much time to yourself in the course of your life. Experience is a safe guide; and a practical head is a great help in business. Dull fellows frequently prove very good men of business. Business relieves them from their own natural heaviness, by furnishing them with something to do. Industry cannot be wholly unfruitful. There is a kind of good angel waiting upon diligence, that ever carries a laurel in his hand to crown her. A man who sets out in the world with real timidity and diffidence, has not an equal chance in it; he will be discouraged, put by, or trampled upon. To succeed, a man (especially a young one) should have inward firmness, steadiness, and intrepidity, with exterior modesty and seeming diffidence. He must modestly, but resolutely, assert his own rights and privileges. He should possess frankness, openness, and a readiness to oblige in the smallest matters. Observe living characters-some for imitation, others for admonition: take notice of that man; see what disquieting, intriguing, and shifting he has to go through,

merely to be thought a man of plain dealing; another, possessed of honesty and integrity, is saved all this trouble. Launch forth with a low sail-hoist by degrees. To strike were a disgrace: better go slow than overset. Bear whatever happens with an undaunted mind. Dispatch what you have

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to do, lest something be left undone. What is gained by ill means is usually spent in an ill manner. A wise man is moderate in prosperity and valiant in adversity. prudent man looketh well to his going; but the simple pass on, and are punished."

"But."

"But" is a more detestable combination of letters than "No" itself. "No" is a surly, honest fellow; speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptious sort of conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup when it is just at your lips.

A wasp you should never attack, unless you are sure to destroy it, or it will assail you again with increased exasperation and redoubled vigour.-Mirabeau.

“ Cannot-be-Helped.”

A mode of expression by which we throw upon necessity and nature the blame of our own artificial morals and conventional manners.

"Cannot do it.”

"I cannot do it."-Yes, you can. Try-try hard, try often-and you will accomplish it. Yield to every discouraging circumstance, and you will do nothing worthy of a great mind. Try, and you will do wonders. You will be astonished at yourself-your advancement in whatever you

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undertake. "I cannot" has ruined many a man; has been the tomb of bright expectation and ardent hope. Let "I will try," be your motto in whatever you undertake, and, if you press onward, you will steadily and surely accomplish your object, and come off victorious. Try-keep trying, and you are made for this world.

Capacity.

Women, in their course of action, describe a smaller circle than men; but the perfection of a circle consists not in its dimensions, but in its correctness. There may be here and there a soaring female who looks down with disdain on the paltry affairs of "this dim speck called earth;" who despises order and regularity as indications of a grovelling spirit; but a sound mind judges directly contrary. The larger the capacity, the wider is the space of duties it takes in. Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity and judgment than a well-proportioned expenditure.-More.

Capital.

The working man's capital is health and not wealth. It does not consist in landed property, but in sinew and muscle, and if he persist in the use of intoxicating liquors, they will strike at the very root of his capital-a sound physical constitution. After this is lost, he becomes unfit for the workshop, for no master will employ a man who wants capital. He has then to repair to the poorhouse or the infirmary.— Hunter.

Cards (When to Play at).

When Scott's wild witchery is o'er,

When Byron's verse can charm no more,
When Milton's heavenly muse we scout,
And Shakespere's magic light is out;
When Dickens, Smollett, Jerrold, Fielding,
Have lost the power of pleasure yielding;
When music is no longer blended,
When humour's stories all are ended,

When sense, nor wit, nor mirth regards--
Then is "the time to play at cards."

Care.

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,

And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.-Shakespere.

Carelessness.

Carelessness is little better than a half-way house between accident and design.

Castle in the Air.

A structure which usually consoles the architect for a hovel on earth.

Castles.

They stand, as stands a lofty mind,
Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd,
All tenantless, save to the crannying wind,
Or holding dark communion with the cloud.
There was a day when they were young and proud,
Banners on high, and battles pass'd below;
But they who fought are in a bloody shroud,

And those which waved are shredless dust ere now,
And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow.

Cataract.

The sounding cataract

Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock,

Byron.

The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,
Their colours and their forms, have been to me
An appetite.-Wordsworth.

Caution.

Though you have acted with integrity and circumspection, yet be solicitous about the consequences; care keeps the moralist continually awake.-Zimmerman.

Think when you speak-but speak not all you think; Drink when you thirst-but thirst not after drink.

- With three sorts of men enter into no serious friendship; the ungrateful man, the multiloquious man, or the coward; the first cannot prize thy favours; the second cannot keep thy counsel; the third dare not vindicate thy honour.

Censure.

The tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.— Addison.

Ceremony.

Ceremony was but devised at first

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes;
Recanting goodness sorry ere 'tis shown:

But where there is true friendship there needs none.

Chance.

Shakespere.

Chance is the Bible of the fool.-Anon.

What an uncommonly strange thing chance is!
What heaps of sin, like charity, it hides,
Or, rather, altogether blots them out!

For who's to blame for that he had no hand in?
Which was not meant-was never once foreseen-
Which happen'd-some way—as a thing might drop
Out of the clouds; though, very strange to say,
It always falls exactly where we'd have it.
Chance is a scapegrace, who, in all his life
Did never do a proper action yet.

He puts his hand to nothing but he blunders;
Mistakes his neighbour's pocket for his own;
Ruins good causes without fault in the pleader;
Gives the wrong medicine and kills the patient;

And, like an awkward knave, makes poor young ladies--
The least designing creatures in the world—

Meet the same man, at the same place, and hour,

Day after day; who never for a moment

Dreamt in their walks to meet with any thing

But fields and trees, and charming scenery.-J. S. Knowles.

Chance can do nothing-there's no turn of earth,

No, not the blowing of the summer wind,

Or the unstable sailing of a cloud,
Much more the destiny of mighty states,
But hath a Will that orders it.-Croly.