LAW.

Law is nothing else but right reason, derived from the inspiration of the gods, calling us imperiously to our duty, and peremptorily prohibiting every violation of it.

AGE SUCCEEDS AGE.

Nothing maintains its bloom forever; age succeeds to age.

TO ERR IS HUMAN.

Any man may commit a a fool will continue in it. best, as the proverb says.

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Cato (Fr. Com. Gr., p. 1131, M.) says:

"Being a mortal you have stumbled; in this mortal life it is a wonder, when a man has been happy throughout his life." And Spenser in the "Faerie Queen "(xii. 52) thus expresses himself:

"For he was flesh (all flesh doth frailty breed!)"

And Pope ("Essay on Criticism," pt. ii. l. 526):

"To err is human, to forgive divine."

And still more beautifully Burns ("Address to the Unco Guid"):

"Then gently scan your brother man,

Still gentler, sister woman;

Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang,

To step aside is human."

So Proverbs xii. 15:

"The way of a fool is right in his own eyes."

A PENITENT.

Change of conduct is the best refuge for a repentant sinner.

LIFE NOT THE HIGHEST GOOD.

The worst of all is to undergo the greatest disgrace from a desire of life.

DEATH FOR ONE'S COUNTRY.

O happy death, which, though we owe it to nature, it is noble to suffer in defence of our country.

LIFE.

It is a brief period of life that is granted us by nature, but the memory of a well-spent life never dies.

FORTUNE.

Fortune is the ruler of human affairs.

WHAT MAKES MEN EQUAL TO GOD.

To conquer our inclinations, to curb our angry feelings, to be moderate in the hour of victory, not merely to raise a fallen adversary, distinguished for noble birth, genius and virtue, but even to increase his previous dignity; these actions are of such a nature, that he who does them, I would compare not with the most illustrious of men but with God himself.

VICTORY.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

THE FRAILTY OF ALL HUMAN THINGS.

There is nothing done by the labor and hands of man, which sometime or other length of time does not bring to an end and destroy.

THE FAULT OF THE AGE TO ENVY VIRTUE.

It is the stain and disgrace of this age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the budding flower of dignity.

So Proverbs xxiv. 17:

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Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth; and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth."

RESULT OF DEVOTION TO ONE PARTICULAR BUSINESS.

Constant devotion to one particular line of business often proves superior to genius and art.

CHANGE OF OPINION ALLOWABLE TO POLITI

CIANS.

I deem it no proof of inconsistency to regulate our opinions as we would do a ship and a ship's course on a voyage, according to the weather which might be prevailing in the commonwealth.

THE FOREHEAD.

The forehead is the gate of the mind.

EAT TO LIVE.

Thou shouldst eat to live, not live to eat.

HIS HOUSE IS A MAN'S CASTLE.

What is more sacred, what more closely fenced round with every description of religious reverence than the house of every individual citizen? This is the asylum of every one, so holy a spot that it is impious to drag any one from it.

HOW MEN APPROACH NEAR TO THE GODS.

Men approach nearer to the gods in no way than by giving safety to men.

So Colossians i. 13:

"Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son."

THE FOOL.

For know this, that those who have no aid or support within themselves to render their lives happy, will find every state irksome; while such as are convinced they must owe their happiness to themselves, will never consider anything as an evil that is but a necessary effect of the established order of nature, which old age most undoubtedly is.

DEATH.

It was absolutely necessary that some term should be set, and that, as it is with the fruits of trees, and of the earth, seasons should be allowed for their springing, growing, ripening, and at last to drop. This wise men will cheerfully submit to; nor could anything else be meant by the stories told of the giants warring against the gods, than men's rebelling against nature and its laws.

DISCONTENT.

But a perverse temper and fretful disposition, will, wherever they prevail, render any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

VIRTUE.

But the best armor of old age, Scipio and Lælius, is a well-spent life preceding it; a life employed in the pursuit of useful knowledge, in honorable actions and the practice of virtue; in which he who labors to improve himself from his youth will in age reap the happiest fruits of them; not only because these never leave a man, not even in the extremest old age, but because a conscience bearing witness that our life was well spent, together with the remembrance of past good

actions, yields an unspeakable comfort to the soul.

So 1 Peter iii. 16:-"Having a good conscience."

GLORIOUS ACTIONS.

For it is neither by bodily strength, nor swiftness, nor agility, that momentous affairs are carried on, but by judgment, counsel, and authority, the abilities for which are so far from failing in old age, that they truly increase with it.

RASHNESS.

For it is a truth but too well known, that rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

POSTERITY.

Nor, if you ask one of these men for whom it is he is thus laboring, will he be at any loss to answer thus: "I do it," he will say, "for the immortal gods, who, as they bestowed these grounds on me, require at my hands that I should transmit them improved to posterity, who are to succeed me in the possession of them."

ENERGY.

What one has, that one ought to use; and whatever we take in hand, we ought to do it with all our might.

RESULT OF SENSUALITY IN YOUTH.

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over a worn-out body to old age.

ITS OWN PECULIAR PERIOD ASSIGNED TO EVERY PART OF LIFE.

Now, if the choice were given you, which would you prefer, Milo's strength of body, or Pythago