It iz awl important that fashion should be perfumed with az mutch morality az possible, for it controls more people than law or piety duz. 7 per cent haz no rest, nor no religion, it works nights, and Sundays, and even wet days. Thare iz az mutch difference in takt, az thare is in the strength ov gunpowder; sum kinds ov takt, lokate their bullets, not only right between the eyes, but deep in the meat, while other kinds hit everything but the center; and glance oph at that. Genius iz like a hop vine, it will run, and spread enny how, and hav a whole lot ov haff wild hops on it, but tew be a good krop, it must be poled, and cut back, and suckered. _Precept_, iz a buck saw, _experience_ the elbow grease, that runs the cussed thing. Thare iz this difference between talent, and genius, one iz a blood houn, that follows only by scent, the other a grey houn, that runs only by sight. Thare iz nothing more dangerous tew most men than praize, it iz like filling them up with gunpowder, and putting a slow match tew them. “Do unto others az yu would hav them do unto yu.” Praize in others what yu would like to hav praized in yu, iz the very sublimity ov blowing yure own trumpet. If we would be happy in this world and in the world to cum, we should live az tho this day waz our last here, and tommorow our first in eternity. Ceremony iz the necessity ov phools; good breeding iz the luxury ov the wise. Tew be agreeable iz simply tew be easily pleazed--if this is so, how easy and pleasant it is tew be agreeable. He whom the good praize and wicked hate ought tew be satisfied with hiz reputashun. It has been ascertained, by a learned professor, in Yale College, that the wicked work 50 per cent harder, tew git to hell, than the righteous do, to reach Heaven--what a waste of time and muscle! Thare is menny who wont know enny thing but what they kan prove--this akounts for the little they know. Most people hev found out sumhow, that they “kant serve God and mamon too,” and so they serve mamon. Excentricitys, most ov them, are mere vanity, banish the excentrik man into a wilderness, and he soon bekums az natral a tudstool. A pure heart iz like a looking glass, it keeps no sekrets, and dispenses no flattery. A cheerful old man, or old woman, iz like the sunny side ov a wood-shed, in the last ov winter. Avarice iz like a grave yard, it takes all that it kan git, and givs nothing back. Paint a humming bird, sucking honey from a flower, and yu hav got a verry good piktur ov love, trieing teu liv upon buty. The best investment I kno ov, iz charity, yu git yure principle back immediately, and draw a dividend every time you think ov it. Everything on this earth iz bought and sold, except air and water, and they would be if a kind Creator had not made the supply too grate for the demand. A good book iz like a good law. Politeness looks well to me in every man, except an undertaker.