Howe'er it be, it seems to me

'Tis only noble to be good;

Kind hearts are more than coronets,

And simple faith than Norman blood.

Tennyson.

Angels are round the good man, to catch the incense of his prayers,

Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings.
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,
Which pillage they with merry march bring home
To the tent royal of their emperor.
Who, busy'd in his tent, surveys

And they fly to minister kindness to those for The singing mason building roofs of gold;

whom he pleadeth.

Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy.
See the lone wanderer, 'mid the wastes of death,
Rejoicing hails the Alpine blossom's breath,-
As, shuddering at the glacier's awful power,
He seeks the beauty of the meek-ey'd flower,
And there reposes in a stedfast trust
That on the plant no avalanche storm will burst.
What kind'es thus his faith, and calms his fears?
The seal of love and hope the blossom bears;
Though round him heave a dark and frozen flood,
One thought is peace, is safety-'God is good!'
Nor could the wanderer idly turn away;
His lip might move not, but his heart would pray;
And he would gather, in that musing hour,
Amid those trophies of Jehovah's power,
New strength of soul, a grander scope of thought,
His mind to nobler purpose would be wrought,
And feel and own, in this calm, solemn mood,
That 't is man's highest glory to be good!
Mrs. Hale's Constantia.
Man should dare all things that he knows is right,
And fear to do no act save what is wrong;
But, guided safely by his inward light,

And with a permanent belief, and strong,
In Him who is our Father and our Friend,
He should walk stedfastly unto the end.

The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burthens at his narrow gate:
The sad-ey'd justice with his surly hum,
Delivering o'er to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone.

Shaks. Henry V.

Each petty hand

Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will
Govern and carry her to her ends, must know
His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails;
What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers;
Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop
them;

What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten
her;

The forces, and the natures of all winds,
Gusts, storms, and tempests: when her keel
ploughs hell,

And deck knocks heaven, then to manage her,
Becomes the name and office of a pilot.
Jonson's Catiline.

O madam,

Your sex is too imperious to rule;
You are too busy, and too stirring, to
Be put in action; your curiosity
Would do as much harm in a kingdom, as
A monkey in a glass shop; move, and remove,
"Till you had broken all.

Cartwright's Royal Slave.

A kingdom is a nest of families, and a family a small kingdom;

And while "Lord, Lord!" the pious tyrants cried, And the government of whole or part different in

Who in the poor their Master crucified,

His daily prayer, far better understood

In acts than words, was simply DOING GOOD.

Whittier's Poems.

GOSSIP.-(See SCANDAL.)

GOVERNMENT.

So work the honey-bees, Creatures, that by a rule in nature teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king, and officers of sorts,

nothing but extent.

Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy.

The best of human governments is the patriarchal

rule;

The authoriz'd supremacy of one, the prescriptive

subjection of many;

Therefore the children of the East have thriven

from age to age,

Obeying, even as a god, the royal father of Cathay⚫
Therefore shall Magog among the nations arise

from his northern lair,

And rend, in the fury of his power, de insurgent world beneath him;

For the thunderbolt of concentrated strength can | A lovelier nymph the pencil never drew;
For the fond graces form'd her easy mien,
While the dissipated forces of many are harmless And heaven's soft azure in her eye was seen.
as summer lightning.

Milton's Paradise Lost. Improvident?

Massinger, Middleton and Rowley's Old Law.

Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty deck'd her The benefits he sow'd in me, met not