The difference, he, Johnson, observed between a well-bred and an ill-bred man is this: One immediately attracts your liking, the other your aversion. You love the one till you find reason to dislike him; you dislike the other till you find reason to love him. --_Boswell's Life of Johnson._ 1257 THE UNPUNCTUAL MAN. He is a general disturber of other's peace and serenity. Everybody with whom he has to do is thrown from time to time into a state of fever; he is systematically late; regular only in his irregularity. --_Smiles._ 1258 NO. No is a surly, honest fellow, speaks his mind rough and round at once. 1259 A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. 1260 He had nothing and was content. He became rich and is discontented. 1261 Thou canst mould him into any shape like soft clay. --_Horace._ 1262 None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in error. 1263 A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant. --_Montaigne._ 1264 "HOW MUCH DID HE LEAVE?" The question is asked concerning the property of every rich man who dies; and it was answered very happily by Cloots, who was executor upon the estate of the late Mr. Snodgrass. His neighbor, Mr. Nailroad, was an exceedingly inquisitive man. The day after the funeral, Nailroad visited Cloots, and, with an inspecting face, began to question him. "Mr. Cloots," says he, "if it is not improper, will you inform me how much my particular friend Snodgrass left?" "Certainly," said Cloots:--"He _left_ every cent he was worth in the world, and didn't take a copper with him." 1265 Who does the best his circumstances allow, Does well, acts nobly; angels could do no more. --_Young._ 1266 If you would know a man truly, know him off duty, when the duties of the day are over and he has left his post. --_Observer._ 1267 Men who want to do everything their own way must make a world to suit them, for it can not be done in this. 1268 The man whom I call deserving the name, is one whose thoughts and exertions are for others, rather than himself. --_Blanchard._ 1269 If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the wilderness, the world will make a beaten path to his door. --_Emerson._ 1270 He who doth not speak an unkind word to his fellow-creatures is master of the whole world. 1271 Those who think must govern those who toil. 1272