still retains his inborn inextinguishable
Thirst of rural scenes, compensating his loss
By supplemental shifts the best he may?

416

LOVE OF COUNTRY.

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
"This is my own--my Native Land!"
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned
As home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go--mark him well;
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim--
Despite those titles, power and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.

--_Sir Walter Scott._

417

The wise men of Greece were asked which was the best governed country.
Clemenese replied, "the people who have more respect for the laws than
the orators."

418

He who loves not his country, can love nothing.

419

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of courage.

--_S. Smith._

420

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

--_Emerson._

421

The courtesy with which I receive a stranger, and the civility I show
him, form the background on which he paints my portrait.

422

Courtesy on one side, never lasts long.

423

Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

--_Pope._

424

_Courtship and Marriage._--"Their courtship was carried on in poetry."
Alas! many a pair have courted in poetry, and after marriage lived in
prose.

--_Foster._

425

Courtship may be said to consist of a number of quiet attentions, not so
pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

--_Sterne._

426

_Covetousness._--A young man once picked up a sovereign lying in the
road. Ever afterward, in walking along, he kept his eye fixed steadily
upon the ground in hopes to find another. And in the course of a long
life he did pick up, at different times, a goodly number of coins, gold
and