PHILOSOPHY.--Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery: it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. The great source of calamity lies in regret or anticipation; he therefore is most wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. This is impossible to a man of pleasure; it is difficult to the man of business, and is in some degree attainable by the philosopher. Happy were we all born philosophers--all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.--_Goldsmith._ * * * * * There are but two means in the world of gaining by other men--by being either agreeable or useful. * * * * * Artificial modesty disparages a woman’s real virtue as much as the use of paint does the natural complexion. * * * * * It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.--_Rochefoucault._ * * * * * A prison is a grave to bury men alive.--_Mynshul._ * * * * * A titled nobility is the most undisputed progeny of feudal barbarism.--_Sir James Mackintosh._ * * * * * The worthiest people are the most injured by slander; as we usually find that to be the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.--_Swift._ * * * * * A miser grows rich by seeming poor, an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.--_Shenstone._ * * * * * There is not greater difference between the living and the dead, than between a wise man and a blockhead.--_Aristotle._ * * * * * A man who has good judgment has the same advantage over men of any other qualifications whatsoever, as one that can see would have over a blind man of ten times the strength.--_Steele._ * * * * * Printed and published every Saturday by GUNN and CAMERON, at the Office of the General Advertiser, No. 6, Church Lane, College Green, Dublin--Agents:--R. GROOMBRIDGE, Panyer Alley, Paternoster Row, London; SIMMS and DINHAM, Exchange Street, Manchester; C. DAVIES, North John Street, Liverpool; J. DRAKE, Birmingham; SLOCOMBE and SIMMS, Leeds; FRASER and CRAWFORD, George Street, Edinburgh; and DAVID ROBERTSON, Trongate, Glasgow. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 26, December 26, 1840, by Various