--_Duport._ 412 A smiling countenance indicates courtesy, joy, good humor and happiness. 413 The character of a man's native country is as strongly impressed on his mind as its accent is on his tongue. --_Rochefoucauld._ 414 RURAL LIFE. The fact that the following verses are heard to-day proves their "convenience," to say the least, for they were written by William Livingston in 1747:---- Mine be the pleasure of a rural life, From noise remote, and ignorant of strife, Far from the painted belle and white-gloved beau, The lawless masquerade, and midnight show, From lapdogs, courtiers, garters, stars, Fops, fiddlers, tyrants, emperors, and czars! --_Christian Advocate_ 415 THE COUNTRY. A breath of unadulterated air, The glimpse of a green pasture, how they cheer The citizen, and brace his languid frame. Even in the stifling bosom of the town; A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms That soothe the rich possessor. And are these not all proofs that man immured In cities, still retains his inborn inextinguishable Thirst of rural scenes, compensating his loss By supplemental shifts the best he may? 416 LOVE OF COUNTRY. Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, "This is my own--my Native Land!" Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go--mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim-- Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. --_Sir Walter Scott._ 417 The wise men of Greece were asked which was the best governed country. Clemenese replied, "the people who have more respect for the laws than the orators." 418 He who loves not his country, can love nothing. 419 A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of courage. --_S. Smith._ 420 Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. --_Emerson._ 421 The courtesy with which I receive a stranger, and the civility I show him, form the background on which he paints my portrait. 422 Courtesy on one side, never lasts long. 423 Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. --_Pope._ 424