al
powers to advantage, or to be agreeable, intelligent companions.

"If it be true," said he, "that our pleasures are chiefly of a
comparative or reflected kind, how supreme must be theirs, who
continually reflect on each other the portraitures of happiness,
whose amusements

"Though varied still, are still the same
In infinite progression."

[_NY Weekly_: Panegyric on Marriage:

If it be true, that our pleasures are chiefly of a comparative or
reflected kind--How supreme must be theirs, who continually reflect
on each other, the portraitures of happiness--whose amusements--

"Tho' varied still--are still the same--in infinite progression."]

"How tranquil must be the state of that bosom, which has, as it were,
a door perpetually open to the reception of joy or departure of pain, by
uninterrupted confidence in, and sympathy with, the object of its
affection!" "I know of no part of the single life," said Albert, "more
irksome than the privation we feel by it, of any friendly breast wherein
to pour our delights, or from whence to extract an antidote for whatever
may chance to distress us."

[_NY Weekly_: Panegyric on Marriage:

How tranquil is the state of that bosom, which has, as it were, a
door perpetually open to the reception of joy, or departure of pain,
by uninterrupted confidence in, and sympathy with, the object of its
affection! I know of no part of the single or bachelor's estate,
more irksome than the privation we feel by it, of any friendly
breast in which to pour our delights, or from whence to extract an
antidote for whatever may chance to give us pain--]

"The mind of a good man is rather communicative than torpid. If so, how
often may a person of even the best principles, expose himself to very
disagreeable sensations, from sentiments inadvertently dropped, or a
confidence improperly reposed. What but silence can be recommended,
since, in breaking it, so much danger is incurred among those who are
little interested in our welfare? A good heart, it is true, need not
fear the exposition of its amiable contents. But, is it always a
security for us, that we mean well, when our expressions are liable to
be misconstrued by such as appear to lay in wait only to pervert them to
some ungenerous purpose?"

[_NY Weekly_: Panegyric on Marriage:

The mind of a good man, I believe to be rather communicative than
torpid:--If so, how often may a youth, of even th