co. Spalding Tu. Claypon, Garfit and Masterman and co. co. Ditto Joint Stock Bank Barclay and co. Spilby M. Claypon, Garfit and Masterman and co. co. Ditto Lincoln and Lindsey Prescott and Stock co. Stamord M. F. Eaton and co. Masterman and co. Ditto Joint Stock Bank Barclay and co. PROVERBS. Few men takes his ADVICE who talks a great deal. And no wonder: for “he who knows but little, presently outs with it.” And, though silence is not necessarily, not in itself a proof of good judgment, excessive talkativeness shows a want of it. The following is an old Grecian adage, translated:—“Tongue! whither goest thou? To build a city and then to destroy it!” signifying, says Erasmus, that the tongue affords great blessings to mankind, and that the same member becomes a cause of dreadful mischief! Our English poet, George Wither, who wrote in 1634, observes in his emblems, No heart can think to what strange ends, The tongue’s unruly motion tends. In vain does he ask ADVICE who will not follow it. “Few things,” says Dr. Johnson, “are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice!” Well BEGUN is half done. This ancient proverb is found in Horace; and there is one in Italian like it. The BEGINNING only is hard and costs dear. We often have great reluctance in setting about an appointed task, the apparent difficulty continuing to increase with delay; but once engaged in it, we proceed with pleasure until it is completed. It is the case in those “trifles which make the sum of human beings.” The young scholar wants courage to set about his lesson in time; the friend, or man of business, to answer a letter or acquire some point of useful information: and to go higher in the application of the maxim, it tells us, that to begin to do good leads on to continued improvement. So the Italians say, BEGIN _your web_, _and God will supply you with thread_! Akin to this, are two valuable proverbs, which chide us for indecision and needless hesitation, _Procrastination is the thief of time_: and _To do what’s right make no delay_, _For life and time slide fast away_. Birds of a feather flock together. Persons of similar manners are fond of associating together; but the bad particularly: indeed, when their characters are known, they cannot easily get other companions. Hence it is a saying,— _Tell me with whom thou goest_, _And I will tell thou what thou doest_!