RESTLESSNESS.

cannot be happy in one way, be happy in another; and this facility of disposition wants but little aid from philosophy; for health and good-humour are almost the whole affair. Many run after felicity like an absent man hunting for his hat, while it is on his head or in his hand. Though sometimes, small evils, like invisible insects, inflict great pain, yet the chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex one, and in prudently cultivating an undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.

RETIREMENT.

Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay,
While resignation gently slopes the way;
And, all his prospects brightening to the last,
His heaven commences ere the world be past!
Goldsmith.
RETIREMENT-Men of.

We are men of secluded habits, with something of a cloud upon our early fortunes; whose enthusiasm, nevertheless, has not cooled with age; whose spirit of romance is not yet quenched; who are content to ramble through the world in a pleasant dream, rather than ever waken again to its harsh realities. We are alchemists, who would extract the essence of perpetual youth from dust and ashes, tempt coy Truth in many light and airy forms from the bottom of her well, and discover one crumb of comfort, or one grain of good, in the commonest and least-regarded matter that passes through our crucible. Spirits of past times, creatures of imagination, and people of

and, unlike the objects of search with most philosophers, we can insure their coming at our command. Dickens.

RETIREMENT-Necessity for.

He must know little of the world, and still less of his own heart, who is not aware how difficult it is, amidst the corrupting examples with which it abounds, to maintain the spirit of devotion unimpaired, or to preserve, in their due force and delicacy, those vivid moral impressions, that quick perception of good, and instinctive abhorrence of evil, which form the chief characteristics of a pure and elevated mind. These, like the morning dew, are easily brushed off in the collisions of worldly Hence the necessity of frequent intervals of interest, or exhaled by the meridian sun. retirement,-when the mind may recover its scattered powers, and renew its strength by a devout application to the Fountain of all grace. Robert Hall

RETIREMENT-Reprehension of.

Exert your talents and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. laziness, drives into a corner, and who does I hate a fellow, whom pride, or cowardice, or nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. Johnson.

RETIREMENT-Sweets of.

Ah, prince! hadst thou but known the joys which dwell

With humble fortunes, thou wouldst curse thy royalty!

Wish.

He who studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green. Bacon.

A pure and simple revenge does in no way restore man towards the felicity which the injury did interrupt. For revenge is but doing a simple evil, and does not, in its formality, imply reparation; for the mere repeating of our own right is permitted to them that will do it by charitable instruments. All the ends of human felicity are secured without revenge, for without it we are permitted to restore ourselves; and therefore it is against natural reason to do an evil, that no way co-operates the proper and perfective end of human nature. And he is a miserable person, whose good is the evil of his neighbour; and he that revenges, in many cases, does worse than he that did the injury; in all cases as bad.

REVENGE-Folly of.

Jeremy Taylor.

Shakspeare.

REVENGE-to whom Sweet.
But O! revenge is sweet.
Thus think the crowd; who, eager to engage,
Not so mild Thales nor Chrysippus thought,
Take quickly fire, and kindle into rage.
Nor that good man who drank the pois'nous
draught

With mind serene, and could not wish to see
His vile accuser drink as deep as he:
Exalted Socrates! divinely brave!
Injured he fell, and dying he forgave:
Too noble for revenge; which still we find
The weakest frailty of a feeble mind. Drydea.

REVENGE-Vindication of.
Lo, by thy side, where Rape and Murder stand:
Now give some 'surance that thou art Revenge,
Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot-wheels;
And then I'll come, and be thy waggoner,
And whirl along with thee about the globes,
Provide thee proper palfries, black as jet,
To hale thy vengeful waggon swift away,
And find out murderers in their guilty caves;
And, when thy car is loaden with their heads,
I will dismount, and by the waggon-wheel
Trot, like a servile footman, all day long;
Even from Hyperion's rising in the east,
Until his very downfall in the sea. Shakspeare.

But they were not aware that there are things Which make revenge a virtue by reflection, And not an impulse of mere anger; though The laws sleep, justice wakes, and injured souls

desperate a boldness as those who, having nothing to lose, hope to gain by them? Sir T. More. REWARD-Expectation of Future. The Christian expects his reward, not as due to merit; but as connected, in a constitution of grace, with those acts which grace enables him to perform. The pilgrim who has been led to the gate of heaven will not knock there as worthy of being admitted; but the gate shall open to him, because he is brought thither. He who sows, even with tears, the precious seed of faith, hope, and love, shall "doubtless come again with joy and bring his sheaves with him," because it is in the very nature of that seed to yield, under the kindly influence secured to it, a joyful harvest. Cecil.

If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune, or, what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy conversation; condescend to men of low estate, support the distressed, and patronise the neglected Be great; but let it be in considering riches as they are, as talents committed to an earthen vessel; that thou art but the receiver, and that to be obliged and to be vain, too, is but the old solecism of pride and beggary, which, though they often meet, yet ever make but an absurd society.

Sterne.