"Deed may ye, my woman," replied her husband in an equally pawkie tone; "and when ye get yours hung up over the sofa there, we'll just put up anither motto on't, and say, 'Never wrang.'" 1544 Not every man who has an easy place has a soft pillow. 1545 CONCEALING POVERTY. If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat. 1546 Poverty is the only burden which grows heavier when loved ones help to bear it. 1547 Poverty is in want of much, but avarice of everything. --_Publius Syrus._ 1548 POVERTY. A poor man resembles a fiddler, whose music, though liked, is not much praised, because he lives by it; while a gentleman performer, though the most wretched scraper alive, throws the audience into raptures. 1549 The love of power is an instinct of the human heart. --_Tacitus._ 1550 Power often goes before talent. --_From the Danish._ 1551 When power puts in its plea, The laws are silent. --_Massinger._ 1552 A partnership with men in power is never safe. --_Phaedrus._ 1553 And (strange to tell) he practised what he preached. --_Armstrong._ 1554 Praise is the best diet for us after all. --_Sydney Smith._ 1555 Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. --_Johnson._ 1556 The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns more or less and glows in every heart. --_Dr. E. Young._ 1557 Most persons are like Themistocles that never found himself so well contented, as when he heard himself praised. 1558 PRAISE. How could my tongue Take pleasure, and be lavish in thy praise! How could I speak thy nobleness of nature! Thy open, manly heart, thy courage, constancy And inborn truth, unknowing to dissemble! Thou art the man in whom my soul delights In whom, next heaven, I trust. 1559 _Self-Praise._--It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking, if your own tongue must praise you. 1560 The sweetest of all sounds is,--praise! 1561 No man ever praised two persons equally--and pleased them both. 1562 DIRECTED IN A DREAM. A zealous divine, who had prayed earnestly that God would teach him the perfect way of truth, was directed in a dream to go to a certain place, where he would find an instructor; when he came to the place, he found a man in ordinary attire, to whom he wished a good morning.