7. A small injury done to another is a great in jury done to yourself. 8. A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth appear like falsehood. 9. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is burdensome, and compels us to invent other lies, to make it pass for truth. 10. We should never be ashamed to own that we have done wrong; for it is but saying, in other words, that we are wiser to-day than we were yesterday. 11. It often happens, that they are the best persons whose characters have been most injured by slanderers; as we commonly find that the fruit which the birds have been pecking at is the sweetest. 12. Diligence, industry, and submission to advice are material duties of the young. 13. Almost every difficulty may be overcome by industry and perseverance. 14. Industry is the parent of every excellence, but idleness is the root of all evil. 15. Nothing is more engaging than a pleasing address and graceful conversation. 16. Complaisance may be styled civility united with a desire of pleasing; it renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable. 17. Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding, that civility is best which is free from all superflu ous formality. 18. He that is truly polite knows how to con tradict with respect, and to please without adula 19. Some men would be thought to do great things, who are but tools and instruments; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ, when he only blew the bellows. 20. It happens to men of learning, as to ears of wheat they shoot up and raise their heads high while they are empty, but when full and swelled with grain, they begin to droop. 21. The richest endowments are temperance, prudence, and fortitude. 22. The greater the difficulty, the more glory there is in surmounting it; skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. 23. To bear provocation is evidence of great wisdom, and to forgive it is proof of a great mind. SELECTIONS IN POETRY. 1. THE bliss of man (could pride that blessing find) Is, not to act or think beyond mankind. 2. O, the dark days of vanity! while here How tasteless! and how terrible when gone! Gone? they ne'er go: when past, they haunt us still. 3. What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize. 4. Two principles in human nature reign — 5. In this our day of proof, our land of hope, 6. O Hope, sweet flatterer, thy delusive touch Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort, Relieves the load of poverty, sustains The captive bending with the weight of bonds, 7. That man must daily wiser grow, 8. His resting-place is noted by a stone 9. Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, 10. Of all the causes that conspire to blind 11. A soul immortal spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarmed DUTIES TO SUPERIORS IN AGE, KNOWLEDGE, OR GOODNESS. 1. In one of the most populous cities of New England, a few years since, a party of lads, all members of the same school, got up a grand sleigh ride. The sleigh was a very large and splendid one, drawn by six gray horses. 2. On the day following the ride, as the teacher entered the school room, he found his pupils in high merriment, as they chatted about the fun and frolic of their excursion. In answer to some inquiries which he made about the matter, one of the lads volunteered to give an account of their trip and its various incidents. 3. As he drew near the end of his story, he exclaimed, "O, sir, there was one little circumstance that I had almost forgotten. As we were coming home, we saw ahead of us a queer-looking affair in the road. 4. "It proved to be a rusty old sleigh, fastened behind a covered wagon, proceeding at a very slow rate, and taking up the whole road. Finding that the owner was not disposed to turn out, we determined upon a volley of snowballs and a good hurrah. 5. "They produced the right effect, for the crazy machine turned out into the deep snow, and the skinny old pony started on a full trot. As we passed, some one gave the old jilt of a horse a good crack, which made him run faster than ever he did before, I'll warrant. 6. "And so, with another volley of snowballs, pitched into the front of the wagon, and three times three cheers, we rushed by. With that, an old fellow in the wagon, who was buried up under an old hat, and who had dropped the reins, bawled out, Why do you frighten my horse?' 7.666 Why don't you turn out then?' says the driver. So we gave him three rousing cheers more; his horse was frightened again, and ran up against a loaded team, and, I believe, almost capsized the old creature. And so we left him." 8. "Well, boys," replied the instructor, whose celebrity and success have never been surpassed, "take your seats, and I will take my turn and tell you a story, and all about a sleigh ride too. 9. "Yesterday afternoon, a very venerable old clergyman was on his way from Boston to Salem, to pass the residue of the winter at the house of his son. That he might be prepared for journeying in the spring, he took with him his wagon, and for the winter his sleigh, which he fastened behind the wagon. 10. "His sight and hearing were somewhat blunted by age, and he was proceeding very slowly and quietly, for his horse was old and feeble, like his His thoughts reverted to the scenes of his youth of his manhood- and of his riper years. owner. - 11. "Almost forgetting himself in the multitude of his thoughts, he was suddenly disturbed, and even terrified, by loud hurrahs from behind, and by a furious pelting and clattering of balls of snow and ice upon the top of his wagon. 12. "In his trepidation he dropped his reins, and as his aged and feeble hands were quite benumbed with cold, he could not gather them up, and his horse began to run away. In the midst of the old |