ANCIENT MAXIMS. "A MAN'S actions are good whenever, while acting, he can consider himself as an instrument of the deity.' Heraclitus. "A man knows enough for his happiness, if he knows and governs himself." Idem. "To have begun well is to have done something, but not much." Socrates. "He who first distinguished usefulness from justice was a detestable man.' Idem. "" "There is no true friendship between two bad men, nor between a good one and a bad one.' Idem. "There are sordid occupations that must be declined as degrading the soul." "Idem. "One of the most important and difficult arts is to unlearn vice." Artisthenes. "Use great personages like fire, always keeping at a proper distance." Diogenes. They who keep an accurate account of all the days of their lives, may exactly know how long they have lived." Seneca. "Melancholy tempers ought to avoid solitude as a place where sorrow is digging them a grave." idem. He is truly generous who benefits an ungrateful man." Idem. " "The past and the future may be alike delightful to ns; that by remembrance, this by hope." Idem. "Catu lived happy without Fortune, and Socrates, in spite of her, died contented." Idem. "He is wise who learus something of every man." Abon-Ezra "A timid person never learns well; and an erascible man is always a bad teacher." Idem. "Before you judge of a man, put yourself in his place, and always begin with supposing him ingocent. Idem. "A nation is more powerful by virtue, than by fire and water. I never saw a people perish who took virtue for their support." Confucius. "Love mankind in general, but cherish virtuous men. Forget injuries, but never forget benefits.” Idem. TALES OF THE HALL, VOL. II. NOW were her nerves disordered: she was weak, While the good lady, twenty years a wife, How soon he understood them, and how well. LEOLINE: A TALE,old rally "Bless'd be ye with your hoard 1383 } Of transient bliss, and be ye safe from harm, Ye fond, fond pair! But think not joys so high Can be inwoven with reality! 199 Charles Lloyd's Titus and cl Gisippus. YOUNG Leoline, while yet a child, o bo A And saw in Juliana's eye, Affection's gentle witchery. Just They grew together-and long years They gave their hearts to old romance, And waked its spirits bright and bland, That makes the feeling bosom quail→ |