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For a man to make mere recreations his main actions and grand employments, is full as foolish and unreasonable as if he should make all his diet of physic and sauces, and his whole garment of nothing but fringes.

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The proof of a pudding is in the eating; the proof of a woman is in making the pudding; and the proof of a man is in being able to appreciate both.

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When, in a case of doubtful morality, you feel disposed to ask, "Is there any harm in doing this?" pray answer it by asking yourself another, "Is there any harm in letting it alone?"

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All the influence which women enjoy in society, the wholesome restraint which they possess over the passions of mankind, their power of cheering us when old, depends so entirely upon their personal purity, that to insinuate a doubt of its real value is wilfully to remove the broadest cornerstone on which civil society rests, with all its benefits and all its comforts.

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Bishop Cumberland, being told by some of his friends that he would wear himself out by intense application, replied in the words of Bacon, "It is better to wear out than rust out,"

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If thou bearest slight provocations with patience, it shall be imputed unto thee for wisdom; and if thou wipest them from thy remembrance, thy heart shall not reproach thee.

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The arts of life, in a great measure, consist of the saving and judicious use of waste matter. Paper is merely the refuse linen, cotton, and tow of the rags of society, the left-off clothes of the rich and the poor. These rags are carefully collected and after having served the inferior purpose of clothing the body, they are made instrumental in adorning the mind. They are translated from the temporal to the spiritual sphere; they are invested with holy orders, and made to administer consolation to the afflicted, and courage to the fearful.

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Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

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Captain Marryat expressed the opinion, in his book of American Travels, that a British army of thirty thousand men could walk from one end of the Union to the other. We guess they would frequently "break," like some trotting horses, into a run.

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Furnish thyself with the proper accommodations belonging to thy condition; yet spend not to the utmost of what thou canst afford, that the providence of thy youth may be a comfort to thy old age.

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The greatest truths are the simplest; the greatest men and women are sometimes so too.

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He that likes a hot dinner, a warm welcome, new ideas, and old wine, will not often dine with the great.

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Sometimes a name will excite a remark. All the papers copied the marriage of Mr. Apple and Sarah Apple; but we could see no impropriety in making the two apples into one pair!

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A Scotch family removed to London, wished to have a sheep's head, prepared as they were accustomed to at home, and sent a servant to the butcher's to procure one. "My gude man," said she to the butcher, "I want a sheep's head." "There's plenty of them," replied he; "choose which you will." "Na," said she, 'that winna do; I want a sheep's head that will sing (singe)." "Go, you idiot," said he; "who ever heard of a sheep's head that could sing." " Why," replied she in wrath, "it's ye that are the idiot; for sheep's head in Scotland can sing; but I discover yer English sheep are just as grit fules as their owners, and they can do naething as they ocht."

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A barrister once tormented a witness with questions, until he declared himself to be so exhausted that he could not proceed without a drink of water. Upon this the judge remarked, "I think, sir, you must have done with the witness now for you have pumped him dry.."

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If thou believest a thing impossible, thy despondency shall make it so; but he that persevereth shall overcome all difficulty.

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Quin was at a small dinner party. There was a delicious pudding, of which the master of the house begged him to partake. A gentleman had just before helped himself to an immense piece of it. "Pray," said Quin, looking first at the gentleman's plate and then at the dish, "which is the pudding?"

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Gold is the only idol that is worshipped in all lands without a temple, and by all sects without hypocrisy.

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What fashionable game are the frogs fond of? Croquet (croaky).

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Men are born with two eyes and with but one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

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Frederick the great, in surveying one evening some of the advanced posts of his camp, discovered a soldier endeavoring to pass the sentinel. His majesty stopped him, and insisted on knowing where he was going. "To tell you the truth," answered the soldier; "your majesty has been so worsted in all your attempts, that I was going to desert." "Were you?" answered the monarch; "remain here but one week longer, and if fortune does not mend in that time, I'll desert with you, too."

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Boast not of thyself, for it shall bring contempt upon thee. Neither deride another, for it is dangerous.

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The times, at present, are very hard - but the country is generally healthy. The only complaint extensively prevalent, is a stricture of the chest.

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The name, Chocolate, is an Indian name, and is compounded from atte, or atle, which in the Mexican language signifies water - and from the sound which the water wherein the chocolate is put makes, as choco, choco, choco, when it is stirred in a cup by an instrument called a molinet.

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Economy is the art of drawing in as much as one can; but it was never intended that young ladies should "draw in," under the pretence of avoiding a waist!

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We follow the world in approving others; but go before it in approving ourselves.