He that lends you hinders you to buy.

Better buy than borrow.

nail out of it, and scatter its timbers to the waves.
Faith in God and all trust in man will eventually
be lost, and he will get no reward for his guilt. The
winds will sigh forth his iniquity; and " a beam will
come out of the wall," to convict and smite him.

Better the noble resolution of Franklin-" My
years roll round," said he, writing to his honoured

mother, in early manhood, "and the last will come,
when I had rather have it said, 'he lived usefully,'
than that he died rich.'"

BORROWING.

friend.

EWARE of suretyship for thy best friend.
He that payeth another man's debt, seeketh
his own decay. But if thou canst not other-
wise choose, rather lend thy money thyself
upon good bonds, although thou borrow it. So
shalt thou secure thyself, and pleasure thy

Neither borrow money of a neighbour or a
friend, but of a stranger; where, paying for it, thou
shalt hear no more of it. Otherwise thou shalt
eclipse thy credit, lose thy freedom, and yet pay as
dear as to another. But in borrowing of money be
precious of thy word; for he that hath care of keeping
days of payment is lord of another man's purse.
LORD BURLEIGH.

Borrowing causeth sorrowing.

Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that hath it.

The use of knowledge is to know God.

THE USE OF Knowledge.

F knowledge, as of wealth, the true value

depends upon its use. Laid up, under lock and key, in the coffers of the miser, the largest amount of riches, in bags of rusting gold and silver, serves no good end.

Its owner

may please himself with the thought of having it, and of being known to have it. He may take delight in opening his chests and gloating his eyes from time to time on his accumulating heaps; but how mean and pitiful such a gratification even to a reasonable, and how much more to a morally responsible being! Yet, in a similar way, a man may plume himself on the extent and variety of his knowledge. He may feed his vanity in enumerating to himself its subjects, and the amount of it on each. And the gratification arising from the possession of it-apart from the thoughts of vanity—may be of a far higher and more rational kind than that of the former; but if its possessor keeps it all hidden in the depths of his own mind-shut up in the coffers of his memory, uncommunicated, unapplied to any useful purpose— what character does he bear but that of being an intellectual miser?

DR. WARDLAW.

All our knowledge is, ourselves to know.

Knowledge is the candle by which Faith sees to work.

By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

Precepts of Gold.

TRIVE not with a mighty man, lest thou fall
into his hands.

Be not at variance with a rich man, lest
he overweigh thee: for gold hath destroyed
many, and perverted the hearts of kings.

Strive not with a man that is full of tongue,

and heap not tongue upon his fire.

Jest not with a rude man, lest thy ancestors be
disgraced.

Reproach not a man that turneth from sin; but
remember that we are all worthy of punishment.
Dishonour not a man in his old
age; for even

some of us wax old.

Rejoice not over thy greatest enemy being dead, but remember that we die all.

Despise not the discourse of the wise, but acquaint thyself with their proverbs; for of them thou shalt learn instruction, and how to serve great men with

ease.

Miss not the discourse of the elders; for they also learned of their fathers, and of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give answer as need requireth. ECCLESIASTICUS.

Sin is a reproach to any people.

A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just.

Hopes and fears checker human life.

POLONIUS TO LAERTES.

HESE few precepts in thy memory.

See thou character. Give thy thoughts no
tongue,

Nor any unproportioned thought his act.

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,

And they in France of the best rank and station,
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

SHAKESPEARE.

Anger is no attribute of justice.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

A slothful hand makes a slim fortune.

By doing nothing, we do ill.

NOTHING TO DO.

WHERE are few words from the lips of a youth that furnish so broad an invitation to the tempter as those too frequent ones, "I have nothing to do." They form the motto with which many a besotted wretch has set out on his downward career, and might be inscribed as the epitaph upon the grave of the degraded drunkard, the infatuated gambler, the slave of lust and sensuality, and the high-handed criminal.

"Nothing to do!" What, with that immortal mind to be trained and informed with truth and wisdom; with those exalted powers within you, for whose improvement you are so soon to give account; with those hands that are so strong for toil; with that soul that shall live or die for ever?

"Nothing to do!" Oh, say it not when thy brother is perishing; when desolate hearts are waiting your kind mission to them; when there are burdens to be lifted from the weary, and tears to be wiped from the eye of sorrow!

Be not a drone in God's busy hive; the world, in these stirring days, has no room for such; but make haste to fill your minds, your hands, with blessed activities, that they may be proportionably emptied of sin and sorrow,

Idle young, needy old.

If Satan find you idle, he'll set you to work.