Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, And lose the medium in the wild extreme. --_Aaron Hill._ 2129 YOUTH. Happy the youth that finds the bride Whose birth is to his own allied, The sweetest joy of life: But oh, the crowds of wretched souls Fetter'd to minds of different moulds And chain'd t' eternal strife! --_Dr. Isaac Watts._ 2130 In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose. 2131 What is youth?--a dancing billow, Winds behind, and rocks before! --_Wordsworth._ 2132 You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well, and working easy: you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback. 2133 Heavy work in youth is sweet repose in old age. --_From the Italian._ Z 2134 _Excessive Zeal._--An Indian, having heard from a white man some strictures on zeal, replied--"I don't know about having too much zeal; but I think it is better the pot should _boil over than_ not boil at all." --_Macleod._ INDEX Abilities, No man's, are so remarkably, 1 Absence, Pains of, wiped away, 2 Abuse, Weapon of vulgar, 3 Acorns, It is told of Admiral Collingwood, 4 Acquaintance, Easier to make, than to shake, 5 Softens, 6 Sometimes lowers opinion of one, 7 Act, Speaks out in, etc., 8 What is done by one, all may do, 9 Which makes a friend and enemy, what, 10 Acting, World practices, 11 Action, Do what you can, etc., 12 Good, receives recompense, 13 Judged by motive for, 14 Our, are our own, 15 Speak not of, before doing, 16 Thought, compared with, 17 What I must do, is all that concerns me, 18 Actor, Compared with preacher, 19 Adieu, Sweet, bids return, 20 Adversity, Contrasted with prosperity, 21 Does not take away true friends, 22 Effect of, 23 He who never was acquainted with, 24 Proud man in, nobody knows him, 25 The finest friendships have been, 26 Advice, Ask not for, when assistance wanted, 27 Before giving, we must have secured its, 28 Difficult to make agreeable, 29 Friends required, 30 Give not to self-conceited man, 31 Pouring water on a duck's, 32 Who comes for, wants not to be corrected, 33 Affectation, Clerical abhorred, 34 Cure of, 35 Lights candle to our defects, 36 Vain and ridiculous, 37 Affections, Sad to see them changed, 38 Afflictions, "Be still, sad heart," etc., 39 For every sort of, 40 Sons of, brothers, 41 Affronts, Young men soon give, 42