Keep thyself at a distance from those who are incorrigible in bad habits, and hold no intercourse with that man who is insensible to kindness. Convert not the goods of others. Be sensible of your own value, estimate justly the worth of others: and war not with those who are far above thee in fortune." _Fifth Side._--"Be envious of no man, and avoid being out of temper, or thy life will pass in misery. Respect and protect the females of thy family." 1314 The meals which are eaten in company are always better digested than those which are taken in solitude. --_Dr. Combe._ 1315 The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach for his meat. 1316 Johnson said melancholy people were apt to fly to intemperance for relief, but that it sunk them much deeper in misery. He observed, that laboring men who work hard and live sparingly, are seldom or never troubled with low spirits. --_Boswell's Johnson._ 1317 Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment. --_Rochefoucauld._ 1318 By attention ideas are _registered_ on the memory. 1319 An old deacon was accustomed to offer this prayer: "Help us to forget what we ought not to remember, and to remember what we ought not to forget." --_Weekly Paper._ 1320 What nicer, what sweeter, than-- The remembrance of a past in boyhood's village days without regret! 1321 So many we find to be well fed but ill taught. 1322 _The Greatest Men Arose from the People._--The greatest scholars, poets, orators, philosophers, warriors, statesmen, inventors, and improvers of the arts, arose from the people. If we had waited till courtiers had invented the arts of printing, clockmaking, navigation, and a thousand others, we should probably have continued in darkness till this hour. 1323 I would as soon attempt to entice a star To perch upon my finger; or the wind To follow me like a dog--as try to make Some people do what they ought. 1324 ABBOTSFORD. When Washington Irving visited Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott introduced him to many of his friends and favorites, not only among the neighboring farmers, but the laboring peasantry. "I wish to show you," said Scott, "some of our really excellent plain Scotch people. The character of a nation is not to be learnt from its fine folks, its fine gentlemen and ladies; such you meet everywhere, and they are everywhere the same." --_Smiles._ 1325 MEN--UNLUCKY.