sunshine and shade, calm and storm, smiles and frowns; glad of favour, but pressing on without it; thankful for aid, but fixed on advancing at all events such men establish for themselves a character which cannot but be seen and honoured."

"To get on in this world, you must be content to be always stopping where you are; to advance, you must be stationary; to get up, you must keep down; following riches is like following wild geese, and you must crawl after both on your belly; the minute you pop up your head, off they go whistling before the wind, and you see no more of them. If you haven't the art of sticking by nature, you must acquire it by art; put a couple of pounds of birdlime upon your office stool, and sit down on it; get a chain round your leg, and tie yourself to your counter like a pair of shop scissors; nail yourself up against the wall of your place of business, like a weasel on a barn-door, or the sign of the spread eagle; or, what will do best of all, marry an honest, poor girl, without a penny, and my life to yours if you do n't do business.

Never mind what your relations say about genius, talent, learning, pushing, enterprise, and such stuff; when they come advising you for your good, stick up to them for the loan of a sovereign, and if ever you see them on your side of the street again, skiver me, and welcome; but, to do any good, I tell you over and over again, you must be a sticker. You may get fat upon a rock, if you never quit your hold of

No rock is so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

Tennyson.

In time we see the craggy drops
The craggy stones make soft;
The slowest snail in time, we see,
Doth creep and climb aloft.

PROCRASTINATION,

Greene.

"The morrow brings with it enough dutieslet it not bear those of its predecessor."

Come,-I have learn'd that fearful commenting Is leaden servitor to dull delay;

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary: Then fiery expedition be my wing,

Jove's mercury, and herald for a king!

Shakespeare.

Lord, I do discover a fallacy, whereby I long have been deceiving myself, which is this: I have desired to begin my amendment from my birth-day, or from some eminent festival, that so my repentance might bear some remarkable date. But when these days were come, I have adjourned my amendment to some other time. Thus, whilst I could not agree with myself when to start, I almost lost the running of the race. I have resolved thus to befool myself no longer. I see no day but to-day; the instant time is

always the fittest time. In Nebuchadnezzar's image, the lower the members, the coarser the metal. The further off the time, the more unfit. To-day is the golden opportunity; to-morrow will be the silver season; next day but the brazen one; and so on, till at last I shall come to the toes of clay, and be turned to dust. Grant, therefore, that to-day I may hear thy voice, and if this day be obscure in the calendar, and remarkable in itself for nothing else, give me to make it memorable to my soul, hereupon, by thy assistance, beginning the reformation of my life. Thomas Fuller.

PROMPTITUDE.

Let's take the instant by the forward top;
For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees
The inaudible and noiseless foot of time
Steals ere we can effect them.

Shakespeare.

PATIENCE.

Patience, unmoved, no marvel though she

pause;

They can be meek that have no other cause.
A wretched soul bruised with adversity,

We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry;

But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. Shakespeare.

That which in mean men we entitle-patience, Is pale cowardice in noble breasts.

Shakespeare.

How poor are they that have not patience.

Shakespeare.

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

Shakespeare

Patience doth conquer by out-suffering all.

Peele.

POVERTY.

For herein fortune shows herself more kind
Than is her custom: it is still her use,
To let the wretched man out-live his wealth,
To view with hollow eye, and wrinkled brow,
An age of poverty.

Shakespeare.

It is not poverty so much as a pretence, that harasses a ruined man-the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse-the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpness.

Washington Irving.

Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more

imaginary than real. The shame of povertythe shame of being thought poor-it a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.

Cobbett.

"The least fault a man in distress commits, is a sufficient pretence for the rich to refuse him all assistance; they would have the unfortunate entirely perfect."

PROSPERITY.

Prosperity 's the very bond of love;

Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together

Affliction alters.

Shakespeare.

PRAISE.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume o'er the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper light

To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.

Good wine needs no bush.

Shakespeare.

Shakespeare.