But oh, the crowds of wretched souls
Fetter'd to minds of different moulds
And chain'd t' eternal strife!

--_Dr. Isaac Watts._

2130

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for
every one we lose.

2131

What is youth?--a dancing billow,
Winds behind, and rocks before!

--_Wordsworth._

2132

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well, and
working easy: you've no notion of running afoot before you get on
horseback.

2133

Heavy work in youth is sweet repose in old age.

--_From the Italian._

Z

2134

_Excessive Zeal._--An Indian, having heard from a white man some
strictures on zeal, replied--"I don't know about having too much zeal;
but I think it is better the pot should _boil over than_ not boil at
all."

--_Macleod._

INDEX

Abilities, No man's, are so remarkably, 1

Absence, Pains of, wiped away, 2

Abuse, Weapon of vulgar, 3

Acorns, It is told of Admiral Collingwood, 4

Acquaintance, Easier to make, than to shake, 5
Softens, 6
Sometimes lowers opinion of one, 7

Act, Speaks out in, etc., 8
What is done by one, all may do, 9
Which makes a friend and enemy, what, 10

Acting, World practices, 11

Action, Do what you can, etc., 12
Good, receives recompense, 13
Judged by motive for, 14
Our, are our own, 15
Speak not of, before doing, 16
Thought, compared with, 17
What I must do, is all that concerns me, 18

Actor, Compared with preacher, 19

Adieu, Sweet, bids return, 20

Adversity, Contrasted with prosperity, 21
Does not take away true friends, 22
Effect of, 23
He who never was acquainted with, 24
Proud man in, nobody knows him, 25
The finest friendships have been, 26

Advice, Ask not for, when assistance wanted, 27
Before giving, we must have secured its, 28
Difficult to make agreeable, 29
Friends required, 30
Give not to self-conceited man, 31
Pouring water on a duck's, 32
Who comes for, wants not to be corrected, 33

Affectation, Clerical abhorred, 34
Cure of, 35
Lights candle to our defects, 36
Vain and ridiculous, 37

Affections, Sad to see them changed, 38