to live upon the square with him, and to make him sensible, in his turn, that prerogatives are given, but privileges are inherent.

The Character of Polybius, the Historian.-JOHN DRYDEN.

FRIENDS. Costly

Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter. Essay on Followers and Friends.--LORD BACON.

FRIENDSHIP. Description of

Friendship is like rivers, and the strand of seas, and the air-common to all the world; but tyrants, and evil customs, wars, and want of love, have made them proper and peculiar. Sermon, by JEREMY TAYLOR.

FRIENDSHIP.

Proof of

I have unclasp'd

To thee the book even of my secret soul.

Twelfth Night, Act I. Scene IV.-SHAKSPERE.

The opinion of an esteemed friend, that one is not very wrong, assists to strengthen a weak and willing mind to do her duty towards that Almighty Being who has, from infinite bounty and goodness, so chequered my days on this earth, as I can thankfully reflect I felt many, I may say many years of pure, and, I trust, innocent, pleasant content, and happy enjoyments as this

world can afford, particularly that biggest blessing of loving and being loved by those I loved and respected; on earth no enjoyment certainly to be put in the balance with it. All others are like wine, intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness, at least not profitable.

Letter to the Earl of Galway.-LADY RACHEL Russell.

FRIENDSHIP in Misery

When a hunted deer runs for safeguard amongst the rest of the herd, they will not admit him into their company, but beat him off with their horns, out of principles of self-preservation. So hard it is in man or

beast in misery to find a faithful friend.

Cause and Cure of a wounded Conscience, Dialogue IV.

THOS. FULLER.

FRIENDSHIP.

Broken

Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth;
And constancy lives in realms above;

And life is thorny; and youth is vain:
And to be wroth with one we love,

Doth work like madness in the brain.

Christabel.-SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.

We are fond of exaggerating the love our friends bear us; but it is often less from a principle of gratitude,

than the desire of prejudicing people in favour of our Maxims, CLXXVI.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

own merit.

Feast-won, fast-lost; one cloud of winter showers, These flies are couch'd.

Timon of Athens, Act II. Scene II.-SHAKSPERE.

FRIENDSHIP subject to Pride.

The strongest friendship yields to pride,

Unless the odds be on our side.

Verses on his own death, by JONATHAN SWIFT.

FRIENDSHIP and CIVILITY.

Be civil and obliging to all, dutiful where God and nature command you; but friend to one, and that friendship keep sacred, as the greatest tie upon earth, and be sure to ground it upon virtue; for no other is either happy or lasting. Memoir by LADY FANSHAWE.

FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, and LIBERTY.

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;

Friendship is a sheltering tree;

O! the joys that came down shower-like,

Of Friendship, Love, and Liberty.

Youth and Age.-SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.

Gaol. Consolations of a

People may say this and that of being in Gaol, but, for my part, I found Newgate as agreeable a place as ever I was in all my life. I had my belly-full to eat

and drink, and did no work; but alas! this kind of

life was too good to last for ever.

Letters from a Citizen of the World, Letter xxv.
GOLDSMITH.

GARDENS.

God Almighty first planted a garden; and indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works: and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection. Essay on Gardens.-LORD BACON.

Give me my scallop shell of quiet,

My staff of truth to walk upon,

My scrip of joy-immortal diet,
My bottle of Salvation;

My gown of glory, Hope's true gage;
And thus I'll take my pilgrimage—
While my soul, like a quiet Palmer,
Travelleth towards the land of Heaven.

The Pilgrimage.-SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

GENEROSITY.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule im

posed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign

law of a rational being.

The Bee, No. III.-GOLDSMITH.

GENIUS.

All the means of action,

The shapeless masses-the materials—
Lie everywhere about us. What we need
Is the celestial fire to change the flint
Into transparent crystal, bright and clear.
That fire is genius!

The Spanish Student, Act I. Scene v.
LONGFELLOW.

GENIUS. Invocation to

Genius, from thy starry throne,
High above the burning zone,

In radiant robe of light array'd,

Oh! hear the plaint by thy sad favourite made,

His melancholy moan.

He tells of scorn; he tells of broken vows,

Of sleepless nights, of anguish-ridden days,

Pangs that his sensibility uprouse

To curse his being, and his thirst for praise. Thou gavest to him with treble force to feel

The stings of keen neglect, the rich man's scorn; And what o'er all does in his soul preside

Predominant, and tempers him to steel,
His high indignant pride.

Genius: An Ode.-H. K. WHITE.