ures as perfume is to flowers;
it smoothes wrinkles.

1531

Ceremonies are different in every country; but true politeness is
everywhere the same.

--_Goldsmith._

1532

_Dr. Johnson_:--"Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in
the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their
whole conduct proceeds upon it."

--_Boswell's Johnson._

1533

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

1534

Poor folks' wisdom goes for little.

--_Dutch._

1535

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent, is not far from being
poor.

--_Dr. Johnson._

1536

Poor and content, is rich and rich enough;
But riches, is as poor as winter,
To him that ever fears he shall be poor.

1537

Speak gently, kindly, to the poor;
Let no harsh term be heard;
They have enough they must endure,
Without an unkind word.

--_George W. Hangford._

1538

The poor, the humble, and your dependents, will often be afraid to ask
their due from you: be the more mindful of it yourself.

1539

The poor, who envies not the rich, who pities his companions in poverty,
and can spare something for him that is still poorer, is, in the realms
of humanity, a king of kings.

1540

The man who says, "Let me wait a little, when I have something to spare,
I will relieve the poor," will never relieve them.

1541

THE COMPLAINTS OF THE POOR.

"And wherefore do the poor complain?"
The rich man ask'd of me:
"Come, walk abroad with me," I said,
"And I will answer thee."

'Twas evening, and the frozen streets
Were cheerless to behold;
And we were wrapp'd and coated well,
And yet we were a-cold.

We met an old, bareheaded man,
His locks were thin and white;
I ask'd him what he did abroad
In that cold winter's night.

The cold was keen, indeed, he said--
But at home no fire had he;
And therefore he had come abroad
To ask for charity.

We met a young barefooted child,
And she begged loud and bold;
I asked her what she did abroad
When the wind it blew so cold.

She said her father was at home,
And he lay s