concerns when discovered, and not benefit your friend when he knows it.

Never forget the kindnesses which others do for you; never upbraid others with the courtesies which you do for them.

No monster in nature ought to be more carefully shunned than he that returns reproach and calumny for kindness and civility.

Remember to requite, at least to own kindnesses, lest your ingratitude prove a considerable diskindness. The greatest benefits of all have no witness, but lie concealed in the conscience.

Let no one be weary of rendering good offices, for by obliging others we are really kind to ourselves.

No man ever was a loser by good works, for though he may not be immediately rewarded, yet, in process of time, some happy emergency or other occurs to convince him that virtuous men are the darlings of Providence.

Gratitude is a duty of both natural and revealed religion, and was very much recommended, pressed, and practised by all the good and wise heathens.

As to the matter of gratitude and ingratitude, there never was any man yet so wicked as not to approve of the one and detest the other, as the two things in

the whole world, the one to be the most esteemed, and the other the most abominated.

Friendship is the medicine for a misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.

Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always in our own disposal.

If the bounties of heaven were given to man without prayer, they would be received without acknowledgment. Prayer, administering the perpetual lesson of humility, of hope, and of love, makes us feel our connection with heaven through every touch of our necessities. It binds us to Providence by a chain of daily benefits; it impresses the hearts of all with a perpetual remembrance of the God of all.-Croly.

Our trouble is, that we write our mercies on the sand, and engrave our affections upon a rock.

JUDICIOUS wife is always nipping off from her husband's moral nature little twigs that are growing in wrong directions. She keeps him in shape

by continual pruning. If you

will affectionately tell you so.

say anything silly she

If you declare you will

If you

do some absurd thing, she will find some means of preventing your doing it. The wisest things a man commonly does are those which his wife counsels him to do. Whenever you find a man whom you know little about oddly dressed, or talking absurdly, or exhibiting an eccentricity of manner, you may be tolerably sure that he is not a married man; for the corners are rounded off, the little shoots pared away, in married men. Wives generally have much more

sense than their husbands, especially when their husbands are clever men.

No trait of character is more valuable in a woman than the possession of a sweet temper. Home can never be made happy without it. It is like the flowers that spring up in our pathway, reviving and cheering us. Let a man go home at night, wearied and worn out by the toils of the day, and how soothing is a word dictated by a good disposition. It is sunshine falling upon the heart. He is happy, and the cares of life are forgotten. A sweet temper has a soothing influence over the minds of the whole family. Where it is found in the wife and mother, you observe kindness and love predominating over the natural feelings of a bad heart. Smiles, kind words and looks characterise the children, and peace and love have their dwelling there. Study, then, to acquire and retain a sweet temper. It is more valuable than gold, and captivates more than beauty, and to the close of life retains all its powers.

I cannot fitlier compare marriage than to a lottery, for he that ventures may succeed, and may miss ; and if he draw a prize, he hath a rich return of his venture; for in this lottery (as in others) there is a pretty store of blanks to every prize.-Robert Boyle.

The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam. Not made out of his head, to top him; not out of his feet, to be trampled upon by him; but out of his side, to be equal with him; under his arm, to be protected; and near his heart, to be beloved.Henry.

Things never go well when the authority of a parent runs low in a family.-Henry.

He that will thrive must ask his wife leave.Henry.