Withhold not good from them to whom it is due.

Be not afraid of sudden fear.

not above the law, but the law above you. Live there-
fore the lives yourselves you would have the people
live, and then you have right and boldness to punish
the transgressor. Keep upon the square, for God
sees you; therefore do your duty, and be sure you
see with your own eyes, and hear with your own ears.
Entertain no lurchers, cherish no informers for gain or
revenge; use no tricks; fly to no devices to support
or cover injustice; but let your hearts be upright
before God, trusting in Him above the contrivances of
men, and none shall be able to hurt or supplant.

Oh! the Lord is a strong God, and he can do
whatever he pleases; and though men consider it
not, it is the Lord that rules and over-rules in the
kingdoms of men, and He builds up and pulls down.
I, your father, am the man that can say, "He that
trusts in the Lord shall not be confounded."

Finally, my children, love one another with a true endeared love, and your dear relations on both sides, and take care to preserve tender affection in your children to each other.

So farewell to my thrice dearly-beloved wife and children!

Yours, as God pleaseth, in that which no waters can quench, no time forget, nor distance wear away, but remains for ever,

WILLIAM PENN.

Worminghurst, fourth of sixth month, 1682.

The tongue of the just is as choice silver.

The path of the just is as a shining light.

Duties cannot have too much diligence.

Well begun is half done.

ACTIVITY NOT ALWAYS ENERGY.

them.

HERE are some men whose failure to succeed in life is a problem to others, as well as to themselves. They are industrious, prudent, and economical; yet, after a long life of striving, old age finds them still poor. They complain of ill-luck; they say fate is against

But the real truth is that their projects miscarry because they mistake mere activity for energy. Confounding two things essentially different, they suppose that if they are always busy, they must of a necessity be advancing their fortune; forgetting that labour misdirected is but a waste of activity.

The person who would succeed in life is like a marksman firing at a target-if his shot misses the mark, it is but a waste of powder; to be of any service at all, it must tell in the bull's-eye or near it. So, in the great game of life, what a man does must be made to count, or it had almost as well be left undone.

The idle warrior, cut from a block of wood, who fights the air on the top of a weather-cock, instead of being made to turn some machine commensurate with his strength, is not more worthless than the merely active man who, though busy from sunrise to sunset, dissipates his labour on trifles, when he ought skilfully to concentrate it on some great end.

Some look up, others look down.

Boast not thyself of to-morrow.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself.

Never venture, never win.

Every person knows some one in his circle of
acquaintance who, though always active, has this
want of energy. The distemper, if we may call it
such, exhibits itself in various ways. In some cases,
the man has merely an executive faculty when he
should have a directing one; in other words, he
makes a capital clerk for himself, when he ought to
do the thinking work of his establishment. In other

cases, what is done is either not done at the right
time, or in the right way. Sometimes there is no
distinction made between objects of different magni-
tudes, and as much labour is bestowed on a trivial
affair as on a matter of great moment.

Energy, correctly understood, is activity propor-
tioned to the end. The first Napoleon would often,
when in a campaign, remain for days without un-
dressing himself, now galloping from point to point,
now dictating despatches, now studying maps and
directing operations. But his periods of repose, when
the crisis was over, were generally as protracted as
his previous exertions had been. He has been known
to sleep for eighteen hours without waking. Second-
rate men, slaves of tape and routine, while they would
fall short of the superhuman exertions of the great
emperor, would have considered themselves lost
beyond hope if they imitated what they call his
indolence. They are capital illustrations of activity,
keeping up their monotonous jog-trot for ever; while

Look before you leap.

To everything there is a season.

A wise man changes his opinion-the fool never.

Do well and have well.

Napoleon, with his gigantic industry, alternating with
such apparent idleness, is an example of energy.

We do not mean to imply that chronic indolence,
if relieved occasionally by spasmodic fits of industry,
is to be recommended. Men who have this character

run into the opposite extreme of that which we have
been stigmatising, and fail as invariably of securing
success in life. To call their occasional periods of
application energy, would be a sad misnomer. Such
persons, indeed, are but civilised savages, so to speak;
vagabonds at heart in their secret hatred of work, and
only resorting to labour occasionally, like the wild
Indian who, after lying for weeks about his hut, is
roused by sheer hunger to start on a hunting
excursion. Real energy is persevering, steady,
disciplined. It never either loses sight of the object

to be accomplished, nor intermits its exertions while
there is a possibility of success. Napoleon on the
plains of Champagne, sometimes fighting two battles
in one day, first defeating the Russians and then
turning on the Austrians, is an illustration of this
energy.

The Duke of Brunswick, idling away
precious time when he invaded France at the out-
break of the first Revolution, is an example to the
contrary. Activity beats about a cover like an un-
trained dog, never lighting on the covey. Energy
goes straight to the bird at once and captures it.
FREEMAN HUNT.

Well is that well is.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes.

Eagles fly alone, but sheep herd together.

Perseverance overcometh difficulties.

THE LADDer of Life.

HE steps from the bottom of the ladder of fortune to the summit are not many, nor, after a knowledge of what they are constituted has been acquired, are they difficult to ascend. Each has a name and a nature which must be distinctly learned and understood by all who would seek to climb. The first step is faith, and without this none can safely rise; the second, industry; the third, perseverance; the fourth, temperance; the fifth, probity; and the sixth, independence. Having gained this position on the ladder, the future rise is easy; for faith will have taught the climber never to doubt or despair; industry will have kept him from vice, either in thought or deed; perseverance will have shown him how easily difficulties are surmounted when calmly met; temperance will have preserved both health and temper; probity will have ensured respect and given stability to the character; and independence of spirit, while it gives dignity to the man, will also gain the admiration of the world. One step more has to be acquired, which is experience, the only true knowledge of life, and then the summit of the ladder is within easy reach.

Acquire and beget a temperance.

The word of an honest man's enough.