Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets,
With a third dog one of the two dogs meets,
With angry teeth he bites him to the bone,
And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.1

Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 6.

Of right and wrong he taught

Truths as refined as ever Athens heard;

And (strange to tell!) he practised what he preached. The Art of Preserving Health. Book iv. Line 301.

1 Thus when a barber and a collier fight,

The barber beats the luckless collier-white;
The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack,
And, big with vengeance, beats the barber-black.
In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'erspread,
And beats the collier and the barber-red;
Black, red, and white, in various clouds are tost,
And in the dust they raise, the combatants are lost.

Christ. Smart, The Trip to Cambridge. Campbell's
Specimens, Vol. vi. p. 185.

2 Compare Addison. Page 252.

3 Amiable weaknesses of human nature. - Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Ch. xiv.

4 See Bolingbroke, On the Study of History, Letter v., 1735; Horace Walpole, Advertisement to Letters to Sir Horace Mann, 1742; Macaulay, History of England, Vol. i. Ch. 1.

If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies;

And they are fools who roam :
The world has nothing to bestow;
From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear hut, our home.

To be resigned when ills betide,
Patient when favours are denied,

The Fireside. Stanza 3.

And pleased with favours given,Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part; This is that incense of the heart Whose fragrance smells to heaven.

1 Compare Bacon. Page 141.

Stanza 11.

According to Dr. A. S. Bettelheim, Rabbi, this is found in the Hebrew fathers. He cites Phinehas ben Yair, as follows: "The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness." Literally next to godliness.

Thus hand in hand through life we'll go;

Its checkered paths of joy and woe
With cautious steps we 'll tread.

The Fireside.

Stanza 13.

Vision iv.

Yet still we hug the dear deceit. Content.

Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.1 To-morrow.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 1706-1790.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.2 Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

God helps them that help themselves.

Poor Richard.

Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for

that is the stuff life is made of.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do

to-day.

Three removes are as bad as a fire.

Ibid.

Ibid.

1 Quoted by Longfellow in Kavanagh,

2 This sentence was much used in the Revolutionary period. It occurs even so early as November, 1755, in an answer by the Assembly of Pennsylvania to the Governor, and forms the motto of Franklin's Historical Review, 1759, appearing also in the body of the work. -Frothingham's Rise of the Republic of the United States, p. 413. 3 Help thyself, and God will help thee.

Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. Aide toi et le Ciel t'aidera. - Fontaine, Book vi. Fable 18. Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles, Frag. 288, ed. Dindorf.

Vessels large may venture more,
But little boats should keep near shore.

Poor Richard.

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

The Whistle. Nov., 1719.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.1

Let observation with extensive view
Survey mankind, from China to Peru.2

Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 1.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

Line 159.

He left the name at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Line 221.

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know

That life protracted is protracted woe.

Line 257.

An age that melts in unperceived decay,

And glides in modest innocence away.

Line 293.

1 It hath been said that an unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war.-S. Butler, Speeches in the Rump Parliament. Butler's Remains.

2 All human race, from China to Peru,

Pleasure, howe'er disguised by art, pursue.

Thomas Warton (1728-1790), Universal Love of Pleasure.

Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage.

Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 208.

Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise!

From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow.
And Swift expires, a driveller and a show.
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,
Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?

Line 316.

For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill.

Line 345.

Line 362.

Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. London. Line 166.
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed,
Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Each change of many-coloured life he drew,
Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new.

Line 176.

Prologue on the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre.

And panting Time toiled after him in vain.
For we that live to please must please to live.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies;

Life's a short summer, man a flower;

Ibid.

Ibid.

He dies, alas! how soon he dies! Winter. An Ode.

Officious, innocent, sincere ;

Of every friendless name the friend.

Verses on Robert Levet. Stanza 2.

In misery's darkest cavern known,
Iis useful care was ever nigh1
Where hopeless anguish poured his groan,
And lonely want retired to die.

1 Var. His ready help was always nigh.

Stanza 5.