other reason on earth than because he stands in

need of your friendship.

I said that I could laugh at the simplicity of my early notions of friendship, and I said truly; for, assuredly, they were simplicity itself: since then, however, I have seen much of the manners and customs of this wide world, and am become wiser. I now know that friendship is, too frequently,

A card-house on a sugar-loaf,

Built on its very crown :-
Move softly round the tenement,
A breath will blow it down!

I hope you will never be rich enough to forsake a poor friend, nor poor enough to require the friendship of a rich one. Be satisfied, as I am, with a moderate store of this world's good, and if you feel any gratitude to me for the good advice which I have given you, when you find a

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real, an unchangeable friend, do let me look at him I should like to see one before I die, therefore, bring him along, just as you find him, and then I will not only undertake to renounce many of my present opinions, but also to talk for a whole day, without intermission, in commendation of friendship.

SCHOOL DAYS.

Remember, whate'er be thy sorrow and joy,
That the peace of old age all depends on the boy.

THE man who remembers not his boyhood, and the season which he passed at school, must indeed. have a wretched memory. These things are graven on the heart, as well as impressed on the brain; we may forget a thousand things, but we never forget them. The haunts of our boyhood form a fairy land, over which we love to roam. Here grows a tree that we planted, there stands a hut which we helped to build, and yonder is the green on which we gaily gambolled. The

proud importance of the man can never blot from his memory the pleasures of the boy.

Though he gazes around him, before and behind,
Not a sight can he see, not a joy can he find,
As he rides in his carriage, or feasts in his hall,
Like his kite and his peg-top, his hoop and his ball.

There is nothing in after-life like the fresh feelings of boyhood; therefore, enjoy them while you may. Take the lead among your schoolfellows; be the first at play and the best at study why should you not be so? I talk enough on all subjects, but on the subject of my childhood and my youth I could talk for ever. Now mark me! In the midst of all the hopes you may encourage, the projects you may form, and the desires that are for ever rising in youthful bosoms, if you do not make the principles of virtue your foundation, all your castle-building will crumble into ruins. I had rather depend on

a spider's thread in a storm, than on the expectation of him who fosters vice and despises virtue. Experience has whispered it, spoken it, and proclaimed it aloud, that the vicious shall not prosper; and the words of Holy Writ are, "There is no peace to the wicked." Be not deceived by the wealth, the popularity, and the glittering gewgaws of the unworthy. If the hope be not bright, and the heart at ease; if the pillow be stuck with thorns, and the fair feature be overshadowed with clouds, all the rest is as nothing: thousands of gold and silver will not lull a guilty conscience to sleep. Be vicious, and you cannot be happy; be virtuous, and I defy you to be miserable. Be not satisfied then with digging your little garden, and in sowing seeds there, but cultivate your heart and your head at the same time; for the seeds which you sow there shall spring up, and