FORGIVENESS. 1. WHEN on the fragrant sandal tree Peace to her foes, and love to all. 2. How hardly man this lesson learns, But render only love again! This spirit not to earth is given - No curse he breathed, no plaint he made, MORAL AND SELECT SENTENCES. 1. THE character of the person who commends you is to be considered, before you set much value on his praise. 2. The only benefit to be derived from flattery is, that by hearing what we are not, we may be instructed in what we ought to be. 3. The lips of talkers will be telling of such things as do not at all concern them, but the words of such as have understanding are weighed in the balance. The heart of fools is in their mouth, but the tongue of the wise is in their heart. 4. Gratitude is a delightful emotion. The grateful heart, in the performance of its duty, endears itself to all. 5. Ingratitude is a crime so shameful, that the. man was never yet found who would acknowledge himself guilty of it. 6. Never insult the unfortunate, especially when they implore relief and assistance. If you cannot grant their requests, refuse them mildly and tenderly. 7. No object is more pleasing to the eye, than the sight of a person whom you have obliged; neither is any music so agreeable to the ear, as the voice of one who owns you for his benefactor. 8. The difference between honor and honesty seems to be chiefly in the motive. The honest man does that from duty, which the man of honor does for the sake of character. 9. Honor is but a fictitious kind of honesty; it is a sort of paper credit, with which men are obliged to trade, who are deficient in the sterling cash of true morality and religion. 10. What affects the mind with the most lively and transporting pleasure, is the feeling that we are acting, in the eye of infinite wisdom, power, and goodness, in a manner that will crown our virtuous endeavors with a happiness hereafter, large as our desires, and lasting as our immortal souls; without this, the highest state is insipid, and with it, the lowest is a paradise. 11. Next to their duty to God, there is no virtue, adapted to the capacity and practice of the young, more lovely than duty to their parents. It is at once their ornament, their interest, their honor, and their pride. It will be esteemed by good men, as the brightest jewel in their conduct. 12. The retirement of the closet is hallowed ground. There the inspiration of religion is more There deeply felt, and devotion elevates the soul. falls the tear of contrition; there the sigh of the heart rises towards heaven; there the soul, melting with tenderness, pours itself forth before its Creator. 13. It is of the highest importance to season the passions of a child with devotion, which seldom dies in a mind that has received an early tincture of it. The 14. Philosophy makes us wiser, Christianity makes us better men. Philosophy elevates and steels the mind, Christianity softens and sweetens it. former makes us the object of human admiration, the latter of divine love. That insures us a tem poral, but this an eternal happiness. 15. Philosophy may infuse stubbornness, but religion only can give patience. 16. Science may raise to eminence, but virtue alone can guide to felicity. SELECTIONS IN POETRY. 1. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches: none Go just alike, but each believes his own. 2. Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest; More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. 3. Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, B Can be transferred: it is the only good 4. O, who can hold a fire in his hand 5. Or wallow naked in December's snow Not a breeze 6. If there's a Power above us, (And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue; 7. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? 8. All that's worth a wish, a thought, 9. It is not from his form, in which we trace 10. That form, the labor of Almighty skill, O, 'tis excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous I DID NOT THINK OF THAT 1. ONE day, as Mr. Lawson, a merchant tailor, stood at his cutting board, a poorly-dressed young woman entered his shop, and, approaching him, asked, with some embarrassment and timidity, if he had any work to give out. 2. "What can you do?" asked the tailor, looking rather coldly upon his visitor. "I can make pantaloons and vests," replied the girl. 3. "Have you ever worked for the merchant tailors?" "Yes, sir, I have worked for Mr. Wright." "Has he nothing for you to do?" 4. "No, not just now. He has regular hands, who always get the preference." "Did your work suit him?" "He never found fault with it." "Where do you live?" 5. "In Cherry Street," replied the young woman. "At No.- 99 Mr. Lawson stood and mused for a short time. 6. "I have a vest here," he at length said, taking a small bundle from the shelf, "which I want by to-morrow evening at the latest. If you think you |