=Adorning.=

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

35 GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village,_ Line 232.

Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.

36 THOMSON: _Seasons, Autumn,_ Line 204.

=Adversity.=

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

37 SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry; But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

38 SHAKS.: _Com. of Errors,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

I am not now in fortune's power: He that is down can fall no lower.

39 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto iii., Line 877.

For of fortunes sharpe adversite, The worst kind of infortune is this,-- A man that hath been is prosperite, And it remember whan it passed is.

40 CHAUCER: _Troilus and Creseide,_ Bk. iii., Line 1625.

=Advice.=

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

41 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

Know when to speak--for many times it brings Danger, to give the best advice to kings.

42 HERRICK: _Aph. Caution in Council._

The worst men often give the best advice.

43 BAILEY _Festus,_ Sc. _A Village Feast._

'Twas good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.

44 CRABBE: _The Learned Boy._

=Affectation.=

There affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen; Practis'd to lisp, and hang the head aside; Faints into airs, and languishes with pride; On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe, Wrapt in a gown, for sickness, and for show.

45 POPE: _R. of the Lock,_ Canto iv., Line 31.

=Affection.=

Why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on.

46 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

Affection is a coal that must be cool'd, Else, suffer'd, it will set the heart on fire.

47 SHAKS.: _Venus and A.,_ Line 387.

=Affliction.=

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

48 YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night ix., Line 406.

Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction.

49 JOHN BROWN: _Barbarossa,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

=Affronts.=

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.

50 ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act ii., Sc. 5.

=Age.=

When the age is in, the wit is out.

51 SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act iii., Sc. 5

His silver hairs Will purchase us a good opinion, And buy men's voices to commend our deeds; It shall be said,--his judgment rul'd our hands.

52 SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

Manhood, when verging into age, grows thoughtful.

53 CAPEL LOFFT'S _Aphorisms. Published in_ 1812.

I am declin'd into the vale of years.

54 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety; other women Cloy th' appetites they feed; but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies.

55 SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

An old man, broken with the storms of State, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity!

56 SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

We see time's furrows on another's brow...

How few themselves in that just mirror see!

57 YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night v., Line 627.

O, sir! I must not tell my age.

They say women and music should never be dated.

58 GOLDSMITH: _She Stoops to Con.,_ Act iii.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age?

What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?

To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth as I am now.