these times test a man.-A. K. H. B., Autumn Holidays, Ch. x.

If you observe the dissatisfied part of mankind, you shall find no small number of them to be indolent and unoccupied. Idleness breeds in them discontent; and discontent increases their aversion from business; and then everything displeases them. - ARCHDEACON JORTIN, Sermons, vol. ii, Serm. 2.

Love the art, poor as it may be, which thou hast learned, and be content with it; and pass through the rest of life like one who has entrusted to the Gods with his whole soul all that he has, making thyself neither the tyrant nor the slave of any man.- M. ANTONINUS, translated by G. Long,

iv. 31.

Nothing has so strong and fast an hold upon the nature and mind of man, as that which delights it for whatsoever a man delights to do, by his good-will he would be always doing: delight being that which perpetuates the union between the Will and the Object, and brings them together, by the surest, the most voluntary, and constant returns. And from hence, by the way, we may affirm it, as a certain unfailing truth, that no man ever was or can be considerable in any art or profession whatsoever which he does not take a particular delight in; for that otherwise, he will never heartily and assiduously apply himself to it; nor is it morally possible that he should.-SOUTH, Sermons, 15 Oct. 1699, Matt. vi. 21.

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It is very easy to be attached to a profession in which one earns early and rapid success: the merit is in being attached to it through years of comparative discouragement. * Success depends very much on what men are accustomed to call accident.- DUKE OF ARGYLL, Speech in Parliament, Vol. Serv. Gaz., 21 Nov. 1863.

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"We know what independence is," said W L* "but we do not know what is meant by riches."

Content hangs not so high, but that a man upon the ground may reach it.- Puckle's Club, 1817, p. 49.

Quod siquis verâ vitam ratione gubernet, divitiæ grandes homini sunt, Vivere parcè æquo animo; neque enim 'st unquam penuria Parvi :

At claros se homines voluere esse, atque potenteis,

ut fundamento stabili fortuna maneret,

et placidam possent Opulenti degere vitam: Nequicquam; quoniam ad summum succedere honorem

certantes, iter infestum fecêre viaï.

Et tamen e summo quasi Fulmen dejicit ictes Invidia interdum contentim in Tartara tetra: ut satiùs multò jam sit parere quietum, quàm regere Imperio res velle, et Regna tenere. Proinde, sine, incassum defessi sanguine sudent angustum per iter luctantes Ambitionis;

invidiâ quoniam seu Fulmine summa vaporant

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plerumque, et quæ sunt aliis magis edita cun

que:

quandoquidem sapiunt alieno ex ore; petuntque res ex auditis potiùs, quàm sensibus ipsis: nec magis id nunc est, nec erit mox, quàm fuit ante.

LUCRETIUS, de Rerum Nat., v. 1116.

Though a contented mind enlargeth the dimension of little things; and unto some 'tis wealth enough not to be poor; and others are well content, if they be rich enough to be honest, and to give every man his due: yet fall not into that obsolete affectation of bravery, to throw away thy money, and to reject all honors or honorable stations in this courtly and splendid world. Old generosity is superannuated, and such contempt of the world out of date. — SIR T. BROWNE, Christ. Mor., P. 1, S. xxvi.

Men have diversities of gifts: some have one power within them, some an other; but in all the gifts and in all the operations there is a "spirit" to lead to good, as there is a power to degenerate to evil. If a man can only take a pleasure in dogs and horses, let him do so; shoot well and hunt well; and go to the Colonies. There the natural gifts which made him hunt well here, will make him rough it well there with rough natures of men and things; and be of infinite use to his fellow-men there, and prove an honor to his country: but by no means let him be here a

Barrister or a Physician. So it is throughout. The training for life is as various as the modes of life. All subject-matter, and all modes of life rightly used, become the means of true education. -H. W. ACLAND, M.D., Health, Work, and Play, 1856.

In a new country the desires and aims of the Colonists must be in a great measure bounded by material wants and necessities. The struggle is more for the body than the mind; and all that may rouse and animate the latter must be wholly subordinate to mere barter and to the provision of food and clothing. The old associations of names and places are wanting to the new country; while only the old feuds and the religious or political jealousies have not been left behind. The finer and more generous feelings are gone, or almost gone; and a hard competition for life or for riches, and the feelings which spring naturally from this condition, have taken their place. Hence in early colonial society there is a coarseness and, in strictness of speech, a vulgarity which is especially distasteful to those who have grown up in a country full of time-honored traditions of ancient worth and greatness.- Saturday Review, 5 April 1862.

In Colonial life, where there is a general dearth of servants, and both ladies and gentlemen turn. their hand to any work that may be needful without any thought of indignity or degradation,

their best and most hopeful faculties are developed without any loss to their love of self-improvement, or to their intrinsic refinement.. Athenæum.

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At a public meeting in one of the Colonies, a gentleman of education, who held a high office in the Colony, used the phrase, "classes of society." One of the Colonists, in the course of his speech, said, "Classes of society! what does the learned gentleman mean? Are we not all equal in the eyes of our Maker?"-"If man classifies himself, he must be a proud being," said my informant. He added, "When a man gets out there, he tumbles on his head, not on his heels; and it takes a good while before he turns himself back again."