" Wlien I would beget content and increase confidence in the power, 

 and wisdom, and providence of Almighty God, I wiU walk the meadows 

 by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no 

 care, and those many other living creatures that are not only created 

 but fed by the goodness of the God of nature, and therefore trust in 

 him." — Isaac "Walton. 



"When a man has succeeded at length in cultivating his imagi- 

 nation, things the most familiar and unnoticed disclose charms invisible 

 to him before." — Stewart's Essays. 



" It is my duty, if I find myself unequal to the severity of my usual 

 exercises, to devise slighter subjects of employment, which can be re- 

 sorted to in the time of necessity." — Chalmers' Life. 



