Happy the man, of mortals happiest he,
Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;
Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears tor-
ment.

But lives at peace, within himself content;
In thought, or act, accountable to none
But to himself, and to the gods alone.
b.

GEO. GRANVILLE (Lord Lansdowne)-
Epistle to Mrs. Higgons, 1690. L. 79.

Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content;
The quiet mind is richer than a crown;
Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent ;
The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown:
Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep,
such bliss,

Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss.

C. ROBERT GREENE-Song. Farewell to Folly. Let's live with that small pittance which we have;

Who covets more is evermore a slave. d.

HERRICK-The Covetous Still Captive. Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee. HERRICK-The Present Time Best

e.

h.

MARY HOWITT-The Poor Man's Garden.

Contentment furnishes constant joy. Much covetousness, constant grief. To the contented, even poverty is joy. To the discontented, even wealth is a vexation.

i. MING SUM PAOU KEËN-In Chinese Repository. Trans. by Dr. Milne.

O what a glory doth this world put on
For him who, with a fervent heart, goes forth
Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks
On duties well performed, and days well spent!
j. LONGFELLOW-Autumn.

The eagle nestles near the sun;

The dove's low nest for me!-
The eagle's on the crag; sweet one,
The dove's in our green tree!
For hearts that beat like thine and mine
Heaven blesses humble earth;-

The angels of our Heaven shall shine
The angels of our Hearth!

0. J. J. PIATT-A Song of Content.

Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf,

Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

p.

POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. II. L. 261. For mine own part, I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.

9.

Henry IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 1.
L. 23.

He is well paid that is well satisfied.
Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1.
L. 415.

T.

He that commends me to mine own content
Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
8. Comedy of Errors. Act I. Sc. 2.
L. 33.

I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm. t. As You Like It. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 77.

If it were now to die,
'Twere now to be most happy; for I fear
My soul hath her content so absolute
That not another comfort like to this
Succeeds in unknown fate.

u. Othello. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 191.

So when two dogs are fighting in the streets, When a third dog one of the two dogs meets : With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.

a. HENRY FIELDING-Tom Thumb the Great. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 55.

Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend;

And each brave foe was in his soul a friend. b. HOMER-The Iliad. Bk. VII. L. 364. Pope's trans.

His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly. T. SAM'L JOHNSON-Johnsoniana.

Kearsley. L. 604.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

8. SAM'L JOHNSON-Boswell's Life of Johnson. Vol. VI. Ch. IV. 1776.

Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.

A single conversation across the table with

a wise man is better than ten years' study of books.

She'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.
e. T. B. ALDRICH-Quatrains. Coquette.
Like a lovely tree

She grew to womanhood, and between whiles
Rejected several suitors, just to learn
How to accept a better in his turn.
f.

BYRON-Don Juan. Canto II. St. 128.

Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No,"

And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing

On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow,

Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

g. BYRON-Don Juan. Canto XII. St. 63.

In the School of Coquettes

Madam Rose is a scholar;

O, they fish with all nets
In the School of Coquettes!
When her brooch she forgets
'Tis to show her new collar;
In the School of Coquettes

Madam Rose is a scholar!

h. AUSTIN DOBSON-Rose-Leaves. Circe.

How happy could I be with either,
Were t'other dear charmer away!
But while ye thus tease me together,
To neither a word will I say.

i. GAY-Beggar's Opera. Act II. Sc. 2. Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practise it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason. j. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD-Maxims and Moral Sentences.

No. 252. It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.

* thieves at home must hang; but he
that puts

Into his overgorged and bloated purse
The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.
q.
COWPER-Task. Bk. I. L. 736.

At length corruption, like a general flood
(So long by watchful ministers withstood),
Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on,
Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
t. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. III. L. 135.
Blest paper credit! last and best supply!
That lends corruption lighter wings to fly.
POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. III. L. 39.

u.