15 Love your own house better than your neighbour's, and love your own wife, if you wish her to love

you.

16 Keep no servants that have hangers on.

17 A gentleman to dress like a groom, is the world turned upside down.

18 Much may be done in a short time. Your barber bestows 150 strokes daily on your beard.

19 Dress modestly, but not fine, unless the world knows you can afford it.

20 Insure your life, and you will sleep the better for it. 21 Never enter an auction room, for there you will be tempted to buy what you do not want.

22 Keep no more servants than you can employ. 23 Never pay a tradesman's bill till you have cast it up. 24 Pay all your bills at Christmas.

25 If you owe money, be regular in discharging the interest.

26 Be not, a collector of books, without determining to read them.

27 Teach your children their multiplication table, and do not permit them to leave off figures till they have passed the Rule of Three.

28 Do not put too much money in your children's pockets on going to school. It is sowing the seeds of prodigality.

29. Instead of drinking three glasses of wine after dinner, drink only two, and if you want more, drink a

glass of ale. The saving will bring wine back to its old price.

30 If you mean to buy a house, that you intend to alter I and improve, be sure to double the tradesman's

estimate.

31 Look out for the deserving poor of your own neighbourhood, and give them what you can spare.

32 Do not let a day pass without thanking God that you was not born a poor labouring man.

33 A good servant considers his master's interest as his

own.

34 Never be without a will, read it over every two years, and make a new one every time you make a purchase of freehold land, otherwise, it will not pass to the uses of your will, but go to your

heir at law.

35 If you lend a man a small sum, be sure to ask him for it before he forgets it.

36 If you are in trade, keep no more houses than you can support; a summer-house, and a winter-house, has forced many a man to a poor-house,

37 When you take a journey in winter, put on two shirts; you will find them much warmer than

an additional waistcoat.

38 A little spittle takes' out grease spots from woollen cloth.

39 Idleness travels very leisurely, and poverty soon overtakes her.

40 To be unkind to the brute creation, shows yourself to be a brute.

41 Do not look down upon your neighbour, because he is not so rich as yourself.

42 The man who caricatures you, would murder you if he durst.

43 After we have eat a hearty meal, we think no man

is hungry.

44 Nothing is so endearing as being courteous to our

inferiors.

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45. Conscience is our best friend, but if once offended

46. If you have a family, and not very affluent, remember, that a pin a day is a groat a year. 47. When you take a journey in a stage coach, take with you a pillow. Put your head upon it in a

corner of the coach, during the night, and sit upon it in the day time.

48. An ounce of common sense is worth a pound of learning.

49. A gossip has no home.

50. Give no alms to a man who begs well, but reserve it for the silent beggar.

51. It is a merciless act to confine an unfortunate and industrious man in a jail. Ask yourself if it be

not revenge.

52. Whatever your miseries may be, there are others more miserable than yourself.

53. If you keep a drunken servant, insure your house against fire, and yourself against the censures of your neighbours.

54. If you are rich, be liberal in your expenses.

55. A covetous man has generally a spendthrift heir. 56. Never write a letter when in a passion.

57. A gamester is either a fool or a knave. 58. A woman who marries a gamester must never expect to have a good night's rest.

59. A female gamester generally borrows money on personal security.

60. Choose a wife from a watering place where the

company live under one roof. It is as safe a measure as buying a horse upon trial.

61. A woman who has many lovers, generally chooses the worst of them.

62. The extent of a woman's modesty may be estimated by her dress.

63. Waste not; want not; is a good motto for a kitchen. 64. Let him who has no faults, throw the first stone at his neighbour.

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65. When you sit down to a luxurious banquet, consider how many persons there are in the world who would be glad of the crumbs that fall from your table.

66. A spendthrift and graceless son ought to have no father.

67. A glutton eats as much to-day, as if he expected to die to-morrow; and he builds a house, as if he expected to live for ever.

68. A deaf man who has

a scold for his wife, ought to

thank God for his misfortune.

69. To quarrel with your relations, is treason against

nature.

70. A wise man has almost as many prejudices as a fool. 71. Things done in a passion are seldom right. 72. Proverbial wisdom teaches more in one hour, than a large volume of morality in a season. 73. When you plant a wood, you are only paying posterity what you borrowed of your ancestors. 74. Seldom venture on giving advice, without being

asked.

75. You must not expect others to keep your secrèt, when you cannot keep it yourself.

76. Allow a man to have wit, and he will allow you to

77. When religion is made a science, there is nothing more intricate; when made a duty, there is nothing more easy.

78. They who are the most ready to correct the faults of others, are the least disposed to correct their

own.

79. Do not brave the opinion of the world. You may as well say, that you care not for the light of

the sun.

80. In England law and reason go hand in hand. In most other countries they hardly know each

other.

81. In ancient times the Bishop fed his sheep, but now the flock is only kept to be shorn.

82. In the morning, think on what you are to do in the day, and at night, think on what you have done.

83. If you are ever so wise, there are many things of which you are ignorant.

84. If you are disposed to grow fat, keep your eyes open, and your mouth shut.

85. Live to-day as if you were to die to-morrow. 86. Money got by industry, is Heaven's gift. 87. Eating is the spur to industry. Could we live without eating, all the world would be idle. 88. An honest man thinks every body as honest as himself.

89. If you marry ill, don't repent of it, as repentance will obtain you no forgiveness.

90. If you have lost your love, and think that there

is not such another in the world, consider, that

there is as good a fish in the sea as ever was taken out of it.