ack the morrow,
I sigh the weary, weary nights away.

No need to tell how young I am, and slender--
A little maid that in thy palm could lie:
Still for some message comforting and tender
I pace the room in sad expectancy.

1197

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.

--_Shakespeare._

1198

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of the child.

--_Chinese._

1199

He who does not advance, goes backward; recedes.

--_From the Latin._

1200

A man who is amiable will make almost as many friends as he does
acquaintances.

1201

An angry man is often angry with himself when he returns to reason.

--_Publius Syrus._

1202

AN OLD MAN OF ACUTE PHYSIOGNOMY.

An old man answering to the name of Joseph Wilmot, was brought before
the police court. His clothes looked as if they had been bought second
hand in his youthful prime.

"What business?"

"None; I'm a traveler."

"A vagabond, perhaps?"

"You are not far wrong: the difference between the two, is,
that the latter travel without money, and the former without
brains."

"Where have you traveled?"

"All over the continent."

"For what purpose?"

"Observation."

"What have you observed?"

"A little to commend, much to censure, and very much to laugh
at."

"Humph! What do you commend?"

"A handsome women that will stay at home, an eloquent divine
that will preach short sermons, a good writer that will not
write too much, and a fool that has seen enough to hold his
tongue."

"What do you censure?"

"A man who marries a girl for fine clothing, a youth who
studies law while he has the use of his hands, and the people
who elect a drunkard to office."

"What do you laugh at?"

"At a man who expects his position to command the respect
which his personal qualities and qualifications do not merit."

He was dismissed.

1203

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.

--_W. E. Channing._

1204

As no man is born without faults, the best is he who has the fewest.

1205

Burns, the poet, when in Edinburgh one day, recog