another, or it will soon rain through.

--_Owen._

1116

Life is a journey, and they only who have traveled a considerable way in
it, are fit to direct those who are setting out.

1117

A term of life is set to every man,
Which is but short; and pass it no one can.

--_Burton._

1118

Better, ten-fold, is a life that is sunny,
Than a life that has nothing to boast of but money.

1119

I have found by experience that many who have spent all their lives in
cities, contract not only an effeminacy of habit but of thinking.

--_Goldsmith._

1120

LIFE--DIFFERENT AGES OF.

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at
forty, the judgment.

--_Gratian._

1121

I find one of the great things in this world is not so much where we
stand, as in what direction we are moving.

1122

There's a Divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them as we will.

--_Shakespeare._

1123

The husband and the wife must, like two wheels, support the chariot of
domestic life, otherwise it must stop.

1124

NOT A CANDIDATE.

The following well-merited rebuke by a slave to his master, shows that
persons occupying mean positions in this life are sometimes superior to
those above them.

A gentleman in the enjoyment of wealth, and of high social standing, and
wholly given up to the pleasures of this world, knowing that one of his
slaves was religious, and happening to see him in the garden near the
porch of his house, called him up rather to amuse himself than for any
serious purpose. When the slave came to him, cap in hand, he said, "Tom,
what do you think of me; do you believe I will be one of the elect when
I die?"

With a low obeisance, the slave replied: "Master, I never knew any one
to be elected who was not a candidate."

The master, struck with the gentle but just rebuke of the man's answer,
turned and entered his mansion, and from that hour became a candidate,
living thereafter a good life.

--_Belhaven._

1125

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices: whoever saw old age,
that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?