ife will pass in misery.

Respect and protect the females of thy family."

1314

The meals which are eaten in company are always better digested than
those which are taken in solitude.

--_Dr. Combe._

1315

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get
a stomach for his meat.

1316

Johnson said melancholy people were apt to fly to intemperance for
relief, but that it sunk them much deeper in misery. He observed, that
laboring men who work hard and live sparingly, are seldom or never
troubled with low spirits.

--_Boswell's Johnson._

1317

Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.

--_Rochefoucauld._

1318

By attention ideas are _registered_ on the memory.

1319

An old deacon was accustomed to offer this prayer: "Help us to forget
what we ought not to remember, and to remember what we ought not to
forget."

--_Weekly Paper._

1320

What nicer, what sweeter, than--
The remembrance of a past in boyhood's village days without regret!

1321

So many we find to be well fed but ill taught.

1322

_The Greatest Men Arose from the People._--The greatest scholars, poets,
orators, philosophers, warriors, statesmen, inventors, and improvers of
the arts, arose from the people. If we had waited till courtiers had
invented the arts of printing, clockmaking, navigation, and a thousand
others, we should probably have continued in darkness till this hour.

1323

I would as soon attempt to entice a star
To perch upon my finger; or the wind
To follow me like a dog--as try to make
Some people do what they ought.

1324

ABBOTSFORD.

When Washington Irving visited Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott introduced
him to many of his friends and favorites, not only among the neighboring
farmers, but the laboring peasantry. "I wish to show you," said Scott,
"some of our really excellent plain Scotch people. The character of a
nation is not to be learnt from its fine folks, its fine gentlemen and
ladies; such you meet everywhere, and they are everywhere the same."

--_Smiles._

1325

MEN--UNLUCKY.

Never have anything to do with an unlucky man. I never act