It iz eazy enuff, perhaps, for us tew tell what we admire, esteem and respekt, in a man, but tew tell what we love ain’t so eazy. Amung the vast number ov phools in this world thare iz only a phew who are born so. Accepting praize that iz not our due iz not mutch better than tew be a receiver of stolen goods. Thoze who have once tasted the joys ov _Humility_ will tell yu that it iz the sweetest cup their Heavenly Father ever held to their lips. INK BRATS. I thank Heaven for one thing, that thare iz not in this wide world a human, or inhuman being, that i would not rather help than hurt. I find this sentiment in mi conscience, or i wouldn’t dare claim it, and i kno mi own conscience better than enny boddy else duz. Better lend yure dimes tew a stranger than yure affeckshuns. Better lend yure _dollars_ to enny boddy than yure _dolors_. Silence iz venerable; if thare iz enny thing older than the Creator, it must hav bin silence. The _buty_ ov gratitude iz that a beggar kan be az grateful az a prince, and the _power_ ov gratitude iz that “I thank you,” makes the beggar equal tew the prince. A good conscience iz the best friend we kan hav, and a bad one the worst, becauze it never deserts us. Put not oph till to-morrow what can be enjoyed to-day. Marrid life iz too often like a game ov checkers--the grate struggle iz tew git into the king row. Fear makes evry thing and evry body masters over us; it iz the wust slavery thare iz. How common it iz tew see folks laff vividly without meaning enny thing; this i kall heat lightning. I say, owe no man; owing iz but little better than stealing. We are governed more by opinyun than we are bi conscience; this iz giving up a noble prerogative, and playing a very poor seckond fiddle. The man who iz striktly honest, and nothing over, haint got enny thing more tew brag on than a pair ov steelyards haz. Sum ov the meanest cusses i ever knu had got tew be so honest, bi long praktiss, that they could guess at a pound. If a man haint got grit enuff tu stand the temptashun ov a gin cocktail, how kan he fight a real diffikulty when he gits a chance? Awl plezzures are lawful that don’t end in making us feel sorry. The man who kan be proud in the presence ov kings, humble when he communes with himself, sassy tu poverty, and polite tu truth, iz one ov the boys. Natur duz awl her big and little jobs without making enny furse; the earth goes around the sun, the moon changes, the eklipses, and the pollywog, silently and taillessly, bekums a frog, but man kant even deliver a small-sized 4th ov July orashun without knocking down a mountain or two, and tareing up three or four primeval forests by the bleeding rutes. Dutys are privileges. Liberty iz a just mixture ov freedom, restraint and protektion. Advice iz like kastor-ile, eazy enuff to give, but dredful uneazy tew take. A good conscience iz a foretaste ov heaven.