Only good and wise men can be friends, all others are but companions.

By doubling joy, and dividing sorrow, friendship increases happiness and diminishes grief.

The opportunity of receiving good and faithful advice, is one great advantage of friendship. To rely always on our own opinion is dangerous, and wretched is his case, who, when he needeth admonition, hath none to admonish him.

One friend is not bound to share in the follies of another friend, it is his duty rather to dissuade him from them, and if his endeavours prove vain, to tell him, as Phocion, the virtuous Athenian, did Antipater the ruler of Macedon: "I cannot be, at the same time, thy friend and thy flatterer."

Without the sympathy of a friend, affliction would be an overwhelming burden; and happiness itself, without participation, might become tedious.

It is better not to speak at all, than not to speak to the purpose; but to speak to the purpose, it is necessary to consider both what is fit to be spoken, and when it is fit to speak it.

Regard not so much the person who speaks, as the value of what is spoken.

He who can never hold his tongue must often utter folly. It is one thing to talk much, and another to talk wisely. Where there is most noise, there is commonly least depth.

Admonitions come with greater effect when not personally aimed. We may glance at faults, without violating civility; but we cannot stare upon them, without rudeness and ill manners.

We learn more truth concerning ourselves from enemies than from friends.

Too great a desire to please, frequently leads to error, and the subject of discourse is often weakened, by excessive care to adorn it with variety. What is solid, is lost in the immoderate pursuit of what is ornamental. There is a time when nothing should be spoken; there is a time when some things should be spoken; but there is no time when all things should be spoken.

There is far more satisfaction in doing, than in receiving good. To relieve the oppressed, is one of the most glorious acts of which man is capable; since it is, in some measure, co-operating with God and Providence, and is attended with pleasure, known to those only who are beneficent and liberal.

It is better to be in the number of those who need relief, than of those who want hearts to give it.

It is a good rule for those who possess competency of fortune, to lay aside a certain portion of their income for pious and charitable uses. They will then be able to give always easily and cheerfully.

Wherever there is flattery, there likewise is folly. If the flatterer be detected, the folly falls to his share; if he be not, to his whom he deludes.

He who gains a fortune by his own industry, will know better how to keep it, and, probably, how to use it, than he who finds one ready made to his hand.

Loss of time, loss of reputation, loss of health,

loss of fortune, loss of temper, ruin of families, defrauding of creditors, and often loss of life itself; such are the evils which attend the habit of gaming.

To tell one lie is an easy matter, but to tell only one is a difficult task; for one lie requires many more to maintain it.

It is not necessary that we should always speak all that we know; that were folly; but what we do say, should be what we think;

otherwise it is knavery.

Did men take as much care to amend, as to conceal their failings, they would spare themselves the trouble of dissimulation, and would moreover gain the commendations to which they aspire, by their seeming virtues.

Not to form the habit of any one particular gratification, is an excellent rule of life.

Only what is honestly gained is true gain.
Form is good, but not formality.

Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; prayers hinder no work.

Rise from table always with an appetite, and you will never sit down to table without one. In the morning think what thou hast to do, and at night ask thyself what thou hast done.

By reading we enjoy the dead, by conversation, the living, and by contemplation, ourselves. Reading enriches the memory; conversation polishes the wit; and contemplation improves the judgment. Of these, reading is the most valuable, as it includes both the other.

Good men are happy both in life and death; the wicked in neither.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise; which having no guide, overseer, nor ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure and trouble therewith.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife. A mischievous man soweth dissention, and a whisperer divideth friends.

Haughtiness of heart is the forerunner of ruin; but humility is the forerunner of honour.

Poor shall he be who delighteth in feasting; he who loveth wine and mirth shall not grow rich. The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and the lazy shall be clothed in rags. Boast not of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

There is an evil to be seen under the sun, and which is common among men. When God hath

given unto a man riches, and wealth, and abundance, and when nothing is wanting of all the things which he can desire, yet he hath not the spirit to use them, but a stranger is to enjoy them. This is folly, and a grievous infirmity.

Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, ere the evil days come and the years arrive, when thou shalt say, no pleasure have I in them.

Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole that concerneth man, since God will bring to judgment every deed and every secret, whether they shall have been good or evil.

PART II.

HISTORICAL SELECTIONS.

THE FIRST INVASION OF BRITAIN BY THE ROMANS.

JULIUS CESAR, whose exploits are well known to all who are acquainted with the Roman history, having made great progress in the conquest of Gaul, began to cast an ambitious eye upon the adjacent isle of Britain, and to think of adding this little sequestered world, also, to the Roman empire. He is said to have been prompted to form this design by the beauty and magnitude of the British pearls, which he greatly admired: and to have been provoked by the assistance which some of the British tribes had

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