, 1853-06-25
Diamond Dust.

ihlrchcS win The age.
Some men have slddlr-bag minds, in
which wisdom is balanced by folly.
Winter carries off more single drls Than
frightlul epidemic.
Men who MAXI a great fus, usually make
a small figure.
The best solaco Of affection, next to re-
lslOus trust, is necessary labor.
He who waits 10 do a great deal of good,
at once, will seldom do any good at all.
To be really and truly Independent, is to
support ourselves by our own exertions.
He who murmurs at his lot is like one
barring his feet to lr1al upon thorns.
Nobody was ever reasoned Inlo Love or
out OF it; Love is not logician.
He that loses his conscience has nothing
left that is worth keeping.
He that cannot keep his own secret
should not complain if another tells it.
A sense of honor is the only sure and
broad foundation of a sense Of religion.
Poverty and pride are inconyenient COM
panions, but when idleness unites with
them, the death Of wrelchedncss ID at
tanned.
A man who is not ashamed Of himself,
need not be ashamed Of his early condition
in life.
The more tender aud delicate the bios
SONS of joy, the puror must be the hand
that wilHcull them.
A child's heart responds to the tones of
its its mothers voice like a harp 10 the
wind
Intellect is not the moral power con-
science is. Honor, not talent makes the
gentleman.
As it sometimes rains when the sun shines
so there may be JOY in a saints heart when
there are tears in his eyes.
Ideas hang together in the mind by nu-
merous hooks, and the more ideas a man
has, the more he can hitch on.
Great takers think loud. They resemble
young children, who cannot read without
speaking.
Some writers throw out words seemingly
as a challenge to ingenious readers 10 find
ideas to fit them. o..
Scrnples are like sand-bags in a balloon
He who throws them all overheard rises
with case, but is likely 10 come down with
a jounce.
II a man will moi endure the pain Of pro
bing bis own faults, he cannot have the sat
islaction Of curing them.
These si1-the pcevish, the nggard, the
dissatisfied, the Passionate, :he suspicious,
and those who live upon others mean'-
are for ever unhappy.
The wife is the sun Of the social system
unless she attracts, there is nothing TO keep
heavy bodies like husbands from flying off
into space.
If women know their real power, and
wished TO exert it, they would always en-
deavor to show sweetness OF temper, for
there they are irresistible.
Idleness is the dead sea that SWALLOWS all
virtues, and the self made sepulchre Of Q
living man. The idle man is the sdevil's
urchin, whose livery is rags, and whose diet
and life are famine and disease.
RULES roR HrALTH.-Rise, and retire at
a fixed hour take a gentle walk before
breakfast take your meals at the same hours
daily, and retire at fixed hour.
The less quantity of fermenlcd liquors
you drink the better.
Abstain from the use Of spirits, und dram
drinking.
When mild brcwed beer agrees with your
constitution, keep to it as a leverage.
Where water docs moi disagree, ,sue the
privilrgc, and continue 1t.
The quantity taken is more burtful than
the quality.
Sir Ashley Cooper used to say bottle
Of wine should last man four dayS.
Avoid excitement Snc excesses Of all
kinds.
Take daily exercise in proportion 10 your
strength.
Daily use dry friction, then cold 'Pong-
ing, then dry friction.
Lord Bacon observes, there is 8 wisdom
in the government or management Of health
beyond the rules OF physic a mans own
observation OF what he finds good and what
he finds hurilul is the best physic TO pre-
serve health. But it is safer conclusion
to say. 'This agreelh moi WILL with me,
Therefore, III not continue it, than this, !
find no offence Of this, therefore ] may use
it > for strength of nature in youth passelh
over miny cKcrsyes which are owing mao
ill his IL