No less than hers: not worn indeed on high
With ostentatious pageantry, but set
With modest grandeur in thy purple zone,
Resplendent less, but of an ampler round.

Come, then, and thou shalt find thy votary calm,
Or make me so. Composure is thy gift;

And whether I devote thy gentle hours

To books, to music, or the poet's toil;

To weaving nets for bird-alluring fruit ;

Or twining silken threads round ivory reels,

When they command whom man was born to please,

I slight thee not, but make thee welcome still.—Cowper.

Ever.

Ever is a little word, but of immense signification. A child may speak it, but neither man nor angel can fully understand it. It is a spring which fills as fast as it empties; an unfathomable ocean; a sea that can never be sailed over from shore to shore.

Exercise.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk far. We value ourselves on having subdued the horse to our use, but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained by it. No one thing has caused so much degeneracy to the human body. An Indian goes on foot nearly as far in a day as an enfeebled white does on his horse; and he will tire the best horse. A little walk of half an hour in the morning, when you first rise, is advisable; it shakes off sleep, and produces other good effects in the animal economy.-Jefferson.

Exertion.

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting where,
And when, and how, the business may be done.
Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller,
Though he alight sometimes, still goeth on.
Active and stirring spirits live alone;

Write on the others, Here lieth such a one.-Herbert.

Expenditure.

Let not thy table exceed the fourth part of thy income; see thy provision be solid and not far-fetched-fuller of substance than art; be wisely frugal in thy preparation, and freely cheerful in thy entertainment; too much, is vanity; enough, a feast.

Experience.

The Scotch have a proverb that a man at forty is either a fool or a physician; and of a truth it is so, our own observations being the best recipes.

To most men, experience is like the stern-light of a ship, which illumines only the track it has passed.

Eye.

The eye hath five tunics to guard it against danger. The first is like a spider's web; the second is like a net; the third a berry; the fourth is like a horn; and the fifth is the cover or lid of the eye. Here is guard upon guard, resembling the various ways Providence hath to secure us from ruin. Hence the five cardinal virtues.

- A most capricious little luminary, through which we frequently view things different from what they really are.

Those whose eyes are brown or dark-coloured should be informed that they are weaker and more susceptible of injury, from various causes, than grey or blue eyes. Light blue eyes are generally the most powerful, and next to these are grey. The lighter the pupil, the greater and longer-continued is the degree of tension the eye can sustain.—Curtis.

Dark blue eyes are most common in persons of delicate, refined, or effeminate nature; light blue, and, much more, grey eyes, in the hardy and active. Greenish eyes have generally the same meaning as the grey. Hazel eyes are the more

usual indications of a mind masculine, vigorous, and profound. Shakespere, it is said, had hazel eyes; Swift, blue eyes; Milton, Scott, and Byron, grey eyes.-Quarterly Review.

Eyes (Black and Blue).
Black eyes most dazzle at a ball;
Blue eyes most please at evening fall;
The black a conquest soonest gains ;
The blue a conquest long retains.
The black bespeak a lively heart,
Whose soft emotions soon depart;
The blue a tender frame betray,
Which lives and burns beyond a day.
The black the features best disclose;
The blue the feelings all repose;
Then let each reign without control,
The black all Mind, the blue all Soul.

The human face is a marvellous book;

And it opens whenever we heed:

Time hath its tale in each wrinkle and nook;

Life hath its legend in every look ;

And he that runneth may read.

Our summers are deepening the dimple of mirth, Our winters the crow's foot of care,

Till years have worn threadbare the velvet of birth, And left it a lesson of beauty's light worth,

Of promises gone to the air.

The beatings of hearts that are breaking unseen,The secrets of closeted thought, —

As the hand of the clock tells the working within,
The innermost hours of the breast and the brain
Are known by the furrows without.

How closely these sorrowful miniatures stand,
And preach to the pulses of youth;
For ever around us their voiceless command;
Their mute inexpressible warnings at hand;
The passionless presence of truth.

Facts.

There is an immense power in facts. The long, and for a time, the barren contemplation of one simple fact, has often led to the sublimest discoveries. The fall of an apple elicited the theory of gravitation; the ascent of a soap-bubble the laws of colour and light. Wherever there is public opinion, wherever there is common sense and common feeling, a fact is sure to have its weight. Tell it in a thousand forms. Tell it with perpetual variety of circumstance, and novelty of view. Tell it of this locality, and tell it of that. Tell it of twenty years back, and tell it of now. Tell it of the mass, and tell it of individuals. Give sums total and particular instances. Give names and places. Make the fact familiar, and yet vast; detailed, and yet marvellous. Do all this with a laborious and painful accuracy, which cannot be gainsaid. Be a very slave to the truth. Before a generation is past, the fact will speak for itself and find a cure. You will have endued a mere fact with life and energy. An undeniable statement, which admits of being comprehended in ten words, and which was once the ineffectual subject of whole libraries, will at last have more power than ten million men. -Times.

Whilst different aims in different lights appear,
What is the chiefest good?—A conscience clear.
Since rolling ages in their course began,

What has been man's worst foe ?-His fellow-man.
Who's rich ?-Who seeks not to increase his store.
Who's poor ?-Who having much yet longs for more.
What is the brightest gem that decks a wife,
And what her noblest dower?-A spotless life.
What woman's chaste ?-Of whom fame fears to lie,
And tongue of scandal never yet came nigh.
What marks the wise ?-When wrong'd for suffer'd ill,
To have the power to hurt, but want the will.
What speaks the fool ?—When hate and spleen devour,
To have the will to hurt, but want the power.-Baynes.

Faith.

A firm faith is the best divinity; a good life is the best philosophy; a clear conscience the best law; honesty the best policy; and temperance the best physician.

And so from youth to age-yea, to the end,
An unforsaking, unforgetting friend,

Thou hoverest round us, and when all is o'er,
And earth's most loved illusions please no more,
Thou stealest gently to the couch of death;
There while the lagging breath

Comes faint and fitfully to usher nigh
Consoling visions from his native sky,
Making it sweet to die.

The good man's ears are faint, his eyes grow dim,
But his heart listens to the heavenward hymn,
And his soul sees in lieu of that sad band,
Who come with mournful tread

To kneel about his bed,

God's white-robed angels, who around him stand
To wave his spirit to "the better land."

Hon. Mrs. Norton.

A strong arm to work for us in health and youth; a

firm shoulder to lean upon in sickness and age.

Nought shall prevail against me, or disturb
My cheerful faith, that all which I behold

Is full of blessings.-Wordsworth.

Faith and Charity.

The true pair of compasses to take the measure of a Christian is Faith and Charity. Faith is the one foot fixed immovably in the centre, while Charity walks a perfect circle of benevolence.-Robert Hall.

Falsehood.

It is more from carelessness about the truth, than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world. Dr. Johnson.