Show gems of thought As aa we rne rise from childhood to youth we look with contempt on tile the toys aud and trifles trifler which our hearts have hitherto been set upon old age fills us its with mortifying reflections upon a lile ike mis spent in the pursuit of anxious wealth or uncertain honor prosperity is no just scale adversity is the only balance to weigh friends singularity is ia laudable laua aMe when in contradiction to a multitude it adhe res to the dictates of conscience morality and honor cleanliness Chean liness may be said to be the foster mother of love beauty indeed most commonly com mony produces that passion in the mind but cleanliness preserves it pain poverty or infamy are the natural product of vicious cious ii and imprudent acts as the contrary blessings are of good ones like those who walk upon a line if we keep our eye fixed upon one point demay we nay step forward securely whereas an imprudent or cowardly glance on either side will infallibly destroy us though laughter is looked upon by tile the philosophers as tile property of reason the excess of it has been always considered as the mardof mark of tolly folly there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant cfall of all the rules of obart art than in the works of blittle a liitle genius who not only knows but scrupulously observes them there are fourteen hundred millions of acres in the united states to be disposed of and to dispose di pose of them fay by the existing system of sales would acquire nine hundred years |