The clock that stands still, points right twice in the four-andtwenty hours; while others may keep going continually, and be continually going wrong.

The Mexicans say to their new-born offspring, "Child, thou art come into the world to suffer. Endure, and hold thy peace."

Balzac makes mention of a man who never uttered his own name without taking off his hat, as a mark of reverence for the exalted appellation.

Gibbon says: As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

In the works of Prof. Thomas Cooper it is said,-Mankind pay best, 1. Those who destroy them, heroes and warriors. 2. Those who cheat them, statesmen, priests and quacks. 3. Those who amuse them, as singers, actors, dancers and novel writers. But least of all, those who speak the truth, and instruct them.

Wax-lights, though we are accustomed to overlook the fact, and rank them with ordinary commonplaces, are true fairy tapers, a white metamorphosis from the flowers, crowned with the most intangible of all visible mysteries-fire.

An illustration of false emphasis is supplied by the verse, (I. Kings xiii. 27,) "And he spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.”

Shakspeare, in the compass of a line, has described a thoroughly charming girl:

Pretty, and witty; wild, and yet, too, gentle.

The foundation of domestic happiness is confidence in the virtue of woman; the foundation of political happiness is reliance on the integrity of man; the foundation of all real happiness, temporal and spiritual, present and eternal, is faith in the mercy of God through Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

Buckingham's Epitaph on Thomas Lord Fairfax:

He might have been a King,

But that he understood

How much it is a meaner thing

To be unjustly great, than honorably good.

A favorite exclamation of the Parisian mob, who must always have a "vive" something or other, became during the Revolution, "vive la mort!"

Alphonso, King of Aragon, in his judgment of human life, declared that there were only four things in this world worth living for: "Old wine to drink, old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to converse with."

David refers to a good old form of salutation and valediction in Psalm cxxix. 8:

"The blessing of the Lord be upon you; we bless you in the name of the Lord."

An eastern sage being desired to inscribe on the ring of his Sultan a motto, equally applicable to prosperity or adversity, returned it with these words engraved upon the surface: "And this, too, shall pass away."

Oliver Cromwell's grace before dinner:

Some have meat, but cannot eat,
And some can eat, but have not meat,
And so the Lord be praised.

Life and Death.

ALL death in nature is birth, and in death appears visibly the advancement of life. There is no killing principle in nature, for nature throughout is life: it is not death that kills, but the higher life, which, concealed behind the other, begins to develop itself. Death and birth are but the struggle of life with itself to attain a higher form.-FICHTE.

I came in the morning,-it was spring,
And I smiled;

I walked out at noon,-it was summer,
And I was glad;

I sat me down at even,-it was autumn,
And I was sad;

I laid me down at night,-it was winter,

And I slept.

BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS OF LIFE.

What a fine passage is that of Bishop HEBER, which is said to have suggested to COLE his justly-famed series of paintings, entitled The Voyage of Life!

Life bears us on like the stream of a mighty river. Our boat at first glides swiftly down the narrow channel, through the playful murmurings of the little brook and the windings. of its grassy borders: the trees shed their blossoms over our young heads, and the flowers on the brink seem to offer themselves to our young hands; we rejoice in hope, and grasp eagerly at the beauties around us; but the stream hurries us on, and still our hands are empty.

Our course in youth and manhood is along a wider and deeper flood, and amid objects more striking and magnificent. We are animated by the moving picture of enjoyment and industry that is passing before us; we are excited by some short-lived success, or depressed and rendered miserable by some shortlived disappointment. But our energy and dependence are alike in vain. The stream bears us on, and our joys and griefs are left behind us: we may be shipwrecked, but we cannot

anchor; our voyage may be hastened, but cannot be delayed; whether rough or smooth, the river hastens toward its home; the roaring of the waves is beneath our keel, the land lessens from our eyes, the floods are lifted up around us, and we take our last leave of earth and its inhabitants, and of our future voyage there is no witness save the Infinite and the Eternal!

THE ROUND OF LIFE.

From the Aphorisms of Dr. Horne, Bishop of Norwich :—
Some are serving,- -some commanding;
Some are sitting,-some are standing;
Some rejoicing,-some are grieving;
Some entreating,-some relieving;
Some are weeping, some are laughing;
Some are thirsting,-some are quaffing;
Some accepting,-some refusing;
Some are thrifty,-some abusing;
Some compelling,-some persuading;
Some are flattering,-some degrading;
Some are patient,-some are fuming;
Some are modest,-some presuming;
Some are leasing,-some are farming;
Some are helping,-some are harming;
Some are running,-some are riding;
Some departing,-some abiding;
Some are sending, some are bringing:
Some are crying,-some are singing;
Some are hearing,-some are preaching;
Some are learning,-some are teaching;
Some disdaining,-some affecting;
Some assiduous,-some neglecting;
Some are feasting,-some are fasting;
Some are saving,-some are wasting;
Some are losing,-some are winning;
Some repenting,-some are sinning;
Some professing,-some adoring;
Some are silent,-some are roaring;
Some are restive,-some are willing;
Some preserving, some are killing;
Some are bounteous,-some are grinding;
Some are seeking,-some are finding;
Some are thieving,-some receiving;
Some are hiding,-some revealing:

Some commending,-some are blaming;
Some dismembering,-some new-framing;
Some are quiet,--some disputing;
Some confuted and confuting;

Some are marching,-some retiring;
Some are resting,-some aspiring;
Some enduring,-some deriding;
Some are falling,-some are rising.
These are sufficient to recite,

Since all men's deeds are infinite;

Some end their parts when some begin;

Some go out, and some come in.

RULES OF LIVING.

From Rev. Hugh Peters' Legacy to his Daughter.

London, A.D. 1660.

Whosoever would live long and blessedly, let him observe these following rules, by which he shall attain to that which he desireth :

The great American philosopher and statesman, Benjamin Franklin, drew up the following list of moral virtues, to which he paid constant and earnest attention, and thereby made himself a better and happier man :—

Temperance.-Eat not to fulness; drink not to elevation. Silence.-Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

Order. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.