nt "Only Me" had place
And part with Pet in tender mother-love.

587

We like better to see those on whom we confer benefits, than those,
alas! from whom we receive them.

588

It is not the quantity of the meat but the cheerfulness of the guests,
which makes the feast.

--_Lord Clarendon._

589

Feast to-day with many makes fast to-morrow.

--_Plautus._

590

FEASTING AND FASTING.

Accustom early in your youth
To lay embargo on your mouth;
And let no rarities invite
To pall and glut your appetite;
But check it always, and give o'er
With a desire of eating more;
For where one dies by inanition,
A thousand perish by repletion:
To miss a meal sometimes is good,--
It ventilates and cools the blood.

--_Raynard._

591

Every young man has a fine season in his life when he will accept no
office, and every young woman has the same in hers, when she will accept
no husband; by and by they both change, and often take one another into
the bargain.

--_Richter._

592

FIDELITY.

He was--True as the needle to the pole,
Or as the dial to the sun.

593

MY OWN FIRESIDE.

Let others seek for empty joys
At ball or concert, rout or play;
Whilst, far from fashion's idle noise,
Her gilded domes, and trappings gay,
I while the wintry eve away,--
'Twixt book and lute the hours divide
And marvel how I e'er could stray
From thee--my own Fireside!

594

All that a fish drinks goes out at the gills.
(Spent as soon as got.)

595

Did we not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never hurt
us.

--_Rochefoucauld._

596

_Boswell_: "No quality will get a man more friends than a disposition to
admire the qualities of others. I do not mean flattery, but a sincere
admiration." _Johnson_: "Nay, Sir, flattery pleases very generally. In
the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but in
the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those
whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered."

--_Boswell's Johnson._

597

_Flowers.