and is never satisfied; both ruin-one the intellect, the other the health, and together, the soul. The makers and venders of each are equally guilty and equally corrupters of the community; and the safeguard against each is the same-total abstinence from all that intoxicates mind or body.

BOOKS, EVIL.-A wicked book is the worse that it cannot repent.

BOOKS, GOOD.—A good book, in the language of the booksellers, is a saleable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.- Chambers' Dictionary.

BOOKS, HOW USED.— -We of this age have discovered a shorter and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or thinking. The most accomplished way of using books at present is twofold: either first to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly, and then brag of their acquaintance; or sec ondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail. For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate, requires an expense of times and forms; therefore, men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back door.-Swift.

BOOKS, HOW VALUED.-Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.-Sir W. Temple.

BOOKS, POISONED.- -It has long been the policy of the devil to keep the masses of the world in ignorance; but finding at length that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.-Kirk.

BOOKS, THEIR ABUSE.—Books, while they teach us to re

spect the interests of others, often make us unmindful of our own; while they instruct the youthful reader to grasp at social happiness, he grows miserable in detail, and, attentive to universal harmony, often forgets that he himself has a part to sustain in the concert.- Goldsmith.

BOOKS, THEIR INFLUENCE.—Books are company; and the company of bad books is as dangerous as the company of bad associates, while that of good books is like that of good

men.

BOOKS, THEIR MULTIPLICATION.—The continued multiplication of books not only distracts choice, but disappoints inquiry. To him that hath moderately stored his mind with images, few writers afford any novelty; or what little they have to add to the common stock of learning is so buried in the mass of general notions, that like silver mingled with the ore of lead, it is too little to pay for the labor of separation; and he that has been often deceived by the promise of a title, at last grows weary of examining, and is tempted to consider all as equally fallacious.—Johnson.

BOOKS, THEIR TEACHINGS TO BE PRACTISED.—Books, (says Lord Bacon) can never teach the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself, as to think he can receive but little light from books, nor so meanly as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.-Johnson.

BOOKS, THEIR USE.-Books, to judicious compilers, are useful-to particular arts and professions absolutely necessary -to men of real science they are tools: but more are tools to them.-Joineriana, 1772.

Books, THEIR VALUE.-There is not so poor a book in the world, that would not be a prodigious effort, were it wrought

out entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior inves tigators. Johnson.

BOOKS, TO BE CAREFULLY SELECTED.-Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?-Foster.

BOOKS, TO BE ESTEEMED AS FRIENDS.-Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again-for, like true friends, they will never fail us-never cease to instruct-never cloy.— Joineriana, 1772.

BOOKS, USEFUL.-Next to acquiring good friends, the best. acquisition is that of good books.-Colton.

BRIBERY.—A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible. Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens, confounded their statesmen, struck their orators dumb, and at length argued them out of all their liberties.—Addison.

BUILDING.-Never build after you are five-and-forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.-Kett.

BUSINESS. To men addicted to delights, business is an interruption to such as are cold to delights, business is

an entertainment.

For which reason it was said to one who commended a dull man for his application, "No thanks tc him; if he had no business, he would have nothing to do." -Steele.

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CALAMITIES.-He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.-Porteus.

CALUMNY." Boerhaave," says Johnson," was never soured by calumny and detraction, nor ever thought it necessary to confute them; for, said he, they are sparks, which if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves." And, says Cato, "We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to despise them."

CANT. When a man's fancy gets astride on his reason, when his imagination is at cuffs with his senses, and common understanding, as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors, the first proselyte he makes is himself; and when that is once compassed, the difficulty is not so great in bringing over others; a strong delusion always operating from without, as vigorously as from within. For cant and vision are to the ear and the eye, the same that tickling is to the touch.-Swift.

CARD-PLAYING.-It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense, passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards, with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?-Spectator.

CAUTION.-Caution in crediting, reserve in speaking, and

in revealing one's self to very few, are the best securities both of peace and a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds.-Thomas à Kempis.

CENSORIOUSNESS.-The most censorious, are generally the least judicious, who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, who has enough of his own.-Rule of Life.

CENSURE. The censure of our fellow-men, which we are so prone to esteem a proof of our superior wisdom, is too often only the evidence of the conceit that would magnify self, and of the malignity or envy that would detract from others.-T. Edwards.

CENSURE.-Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.-Swift.

CENSURE AND ADMONITION.-To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends, or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one, or the admonitions of the others. Diogenes.

CENSURE, HOW RECEIVED.-There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world; to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.Swift.

Censure, How TO AVOID.—The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.-Demosthenes.

CENSURE OF OPPONENTS.-The censure of those that are opposite to us, is the nicest commendation that can be given us.-St. Evremond.