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The hand of diligence defeateth want; prosperity and success are the industrious man's attendants.

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The Duke of Orleans, on being appointed Regent of France, insisted on having the power of pardoning. "I have no objection," said he, "to have my hands tied to prevent their doing harm, but I will have them free to do good."

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A lady, after performing, with the most brilliant execution, a sonato on the pianoforte, in the presence of Dr. Johnson, turning to the philosopher, took the liberty of asking him if he was fond of music? No, madam," replied the doctor; "but of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."

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If a man should write down his thoughts, but of one day, and read them at night, he would reckon himself half distracted, and be greatly amazed at himself.

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Hope is the prophet of youth - young eyes will always look forward.

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Gracious hearts reflect most upon themselves; they do not seek so much what to reprove in others, as what to amend in themselves; they love to look inward - and being sensible of their own failings, are tender in reflecting on the weaknesses of others.

Whereas, those who are most prying into the lives of others, are most careless in reforming their own.

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A widow, who had just lost her husband, was weeping bitterly for the dear departed. A friend tried to console her, "No, no," said the fair mourner, "let me have my cry out; after that I shan't think any thing about it."

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At Leyburn there was painted over a shop door, "Bride cakes, and Funeral biscuits."

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A retired cheesemonger, who hated any allusion to the business that had enriched him, said to Charles Lamb, in the course of a discussion on the Poor Laws - "You must bear in mind, sir, that I have got rid of that sort of stuff which you poets call "milk of human kindness!" Lamb looked at him steadily, and gave acquiescence in these pithy words, "Yes, I am aware of that - you turned it all into cheese several years ago!"

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The son of a small shopkeeper having put some candles in a cellar one day, his father told him he thought it was too damp a place for them, and that they would be likely to mould, "Likely to mould!" replied the lad; "if that is the case, we had better put all our dips there, and perhaps they will turn to mould candles."

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James I. of England and VI. of Scotland was a waverer. He was aware of this defect, and heard of a preacher singularly happy in his choice of texts. James appointed him to preach before him, that he might put his abilities to the test. The preacher, with the utmost gravity, gave out the text in the following words: James the first and sixth, in the latter part of the verse: "He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven by winds, and tossed." "He is at me already," said the King.

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"Ah, Mr. Simpkins, we have not chairs enough for our company," said an extravagant wife to a frugal husband. "Plenty of chairs, ducky, but a little too much company," replied Mr. Simpkins, with a knowing wink.

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After telling several amusing anecdotes, Mrs. Piozzi mentioned one of Sir Richard Jebb. One day somebody had given him a bottle of castor oil, very pure. It had but lately been brought into use. Before he left his home he gave it in charge to his man, telling him to be careful of it. After a lapse of a considerable time, Sir Richard asked his servant for the oil. "Oh, it is all used," replied he. "Used!" said Sir Richard, "how, and when, sir?" "I put it in the castor, when wanted, and gave it to the company!"

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It is not what we earn, but what we save, that makes us rich. It is not what we eat, but what we digest, that makes us strong. It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. All this is very simple, but it is worth recollecting.

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A gentleman having occasion to call upon an author, found him at home in his study. He remarked the great heat of the apartment, and said, "It is as hot as an oven." "So it ought to be," replied the writer, "for here it is I make my bread!"

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Henceforth let us have a care of our words, let us give our voice to wisdom, ever speak to some useful purpose, and on all just and fit occasions open our mouths with boldness in the cause of God and goodness.

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The best cure for low spirits is business. One half of the melancholy that you run against is caused by indolence. The best fun in the world is activity.

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See'st thou not that the angry man loseth his understanding? Whilst thou art yet in thy senses, let the wrath of another be a lesson to thyself.

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See'st thou not that the angry man loseth his understanding? Whilst thou art yet in thy senses, let the wrath of another be a lesson to thyself.

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A cow consumes on an average one hundred pounds of green food in twenty-four hours. This, for one hundred and eighty-five days of summer, is eighteen thousand five hundred pounds. In winter, forty-five pounds of roots a day; or for one hundred and eighty days, eighty-one hundred pounds. One-third of this may be potatoes; the rest, other roots. But she gives, if well fed, two thousand quarts of milk a year.

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A young lady, after dancing all night, and several hours longer, will generally find, on consulting the looking-glass, that the evening's amusement will not bear the morning's reflection.

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Sink not beneath reverses. Play the game of life boldly. Here, at least, you may sometimes copy the gambler, who doubles his stakes as fast as he loses.

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Sink not beneath reverses. Play the game of life boldly. Here, at least, you may sometimes copy the gambler, who doubles his stakes as fast as he loses.

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"Mamma," said a little fellow, whose mother had forbade him to draw horses and ships on the mahogany sideboard with a sharp nail, "mamma, this ain't a nice house. At Sam Rackett's we can cut the sofa, and pull out the hair, and ride the shovel and tongs over the carpet; but here we can't have any fun at all!"