Experience has taught us little, if it has not instructed us to pity the errors of others, and to amend our own. ERRORS. They who weep over errors, were not formed for crimes. FRIENDSHIP. Those who would preserve a faith in friendship, should never require its aid. DUTIES. Those who fulfil their duties, without feeling them to be irksome, are happy; but those who discharge them from a consciousness of their importance, are praiseworthy. FASHION. People who fall into the stream of fashion, like those who tumble into the Mississippi river, are seldom saved from its vortex. FLATTERY. Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer. DEATH. To reconcile us to Cimmerian death, Th’ approach of which strikes terror to all hearts, The God of mercy takes what most we love; And we no longer dread to follow them. FRIENDS. Guard, if it be possible, your friends from injuring you, lest they, by so doing, become your bitterest enemies, never forgiving the wrongs they have themselves inflicted. PASSION. The hurricane of passion withers the milder feelings, even as the blast of the simoom dries up and consumes all that it passes over. SORROW. The fountain of true poetry is sealed, And sorrow’s touch alone can bid it flow: Then only are its waters all reveal’d, For inspiration’s ever bought with woe. PRIDE. Pride prevents not the commission of unworthy actions, though it forbids the avowal of them. HAPPINESS. In seeking happiness we overlook content, which is always attainable, while happiness, though sometimes in view, is never within reach. GENIUS. Genius is the gold in the mine—education the miner who elicits it. GREAT MEN. Intrepidus was a naturally, and Diplomaticus an artificially great man. The first reposing a just confidence in his own powers, required no extraneous aid; while the latter solely depended on his implements for success or failure. SOCIETY. We must learn to bear with society, or to live without it. The latter appears the least difficult task to pursue. BOYS AND MEN.