deceased; she for a little tried
To live without him, liked it not, and died."

Certainly there are few higher tributes in the world to a good husband
than this.

2027

The wife is the key of the house.

2028

A man's best fortune--or his worst--is a wife.

2029

WIFE.

A modest, chaste, and an obedient wife,
Lifts her poor husband to a knightly throne:
What though the livelong day with toils be rife,
The solace of his cares at night's his own.
If she be modest and her words be kind,
Mark not her beauty, or her want of grace;
The fairest woman, if deformed in mind
Will in thy heart's affections find no place:
Dazzling as Eden's beauties to the eye,
In outward form: foul is her face within.
Better in dungeon, bound with chains, to lie,
Than, with at home, a wife of frowning mien.
Better bare feet than pinching shoes. The woes
Of travel are less hard than broils at home.
Contentment's door upon that mansion close,
Whence wrangling women's high-pitched voices come.

--_From Littell's Living Age._

2030

When a man has secured a good wife he can rest on his laurels; the world
has no greater prize to offer him.

2031

When the will is ready, the feet are light.

2032

When the will is prompt, the legs are nimble.

--_Italian._

2033

Where there is a will, there is a way.

2034

WILLS.

What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the
lawyers will be your heirs.

--_Osborn._

2035

I hear the wind among the trees
Playing celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument.

--_H. W. Longfellow._

2036

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

--_Henri Estienne._

2037

Winter finds out what Summer lays up.

--_Hans Andersen._

2038

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies--seldom safe to
venture to instruct, even our friends.

2039

To know how to grow old, is the master work of wisdom, and one of the
most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

--_Ami