1. He is happy, and generally prospers in his Designs, who confides more in Providence, than in his own Skill and Industry.

2. Nothing is carried on in the Affairs of Mortals without the Providence of God: we must trust therefore more to the Divine Favor, than to the Counsels or Strength of Man.

3. Have you supplied the young Man, who was trusted to your Care, with Money? Then you have ruined him it is no less than giving him a Sword to destroy himself.

4. You have obliged me by your Reproaches to trust that to you, which was committed to my Faithfulness and Taciturnity; and to disclose that to you, which I was forbid to tell to any one.

5. A prudent Man scarce trusts himself, much less another.

6. Notwithstanding his Adversaries were so powerful, he trusted to himself and his own Virtues.

7. Our Confidence in honest and good Men arises from this: that we have not the least Suspicion of Fraud and Injury, and therefore we think our Persons, our Fortunes, and Families, are safely and properly to be trusted to them.

8. "Tis more adviseable not to commit yourself to Danger, than when in Danger to study how to extricate yourself.

9. Do you think I wili trust my Fortunes to a worthless Servant?

10. Commit nothing but what you can trust an Enemy with.

11. When once Fortune has prevailed with Men to commit themselves entirely to her, she generally makes them more greedy of Power than capable of it.

12. If you would have any Thing done as it' should be, trust it to this Man.

13. I recommend the whole of this Affair to your Sagacity.

14. From all my Distresses this Good has arisen, that I have reduced into Writing Matters which were not sufficiently known to our Times, and yet are most worthy our Attention.

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15. Do not much believe them that seem to despise Riches for when they despair of them, they despise them; and none are more close-fisted when they get them.

16. It is dangerous for a Man too suddenly or too easily to believe himself: therefore let us examine, watch, and inspect our own Hearts; for we ourselves are our greatest Flatterers.

17. He that easily credits an ill Report of his Neighbour, is almost as faulty as the first Inventor of it.

18. It is equally a Fault to believe all Men, and to believe none: but the former I would call a more generous Fault, the latter more safe one.

19. It is ridiculous to give more credit to one who hath heard a Thing, than to him who saw it. 20. If a Man hath but once perjured himself, let him afterwards swear by as many Gods as he will, we ought not to believe him.

21. I could not reflect upon the Treatment we have both received, without thinking it proper to exhort you, well to consider for the future whom you trust, and whom to beware of.

22. Nothing can be more base, than to deceive the Man, who hath enirusted you with both his Fortune and Reputation.

23. No one trusts another unless he thinks him faithful: it is the part of a consummate Villain to deceive those, who had not been hurt, unless they had trusted him.

24. When Men seem to speak more earnestly on the account of some Advantage, it is not convenient to believe them.

25. A Friend should neither be pleased with the Pursuit of, nor easy to believe a Calumny...

VII. Verba Obsequendi, &c.

VERBS signifying to obey, yield to, or comply with, (as obsequor, obedio, parco, cedo, morigeror, servio, &c.) or the contrary Verbs, (as repugno, resisto, contradico, &c.) require the Noun following, whether it be the Person or Thing, to be put in the Dative Case.

1. OBEYING.

1. Whom Men believe to be more prudent in consulting for their Good than themselves, him they will cheerfully obey.

2. Nothing can be more safe, nothing more commendable, than to obey and submit to the Will of God.

3. It has been ever deemed a part of Wisdom, to yield to the Circumstances of the Times: that is, to comply with Necessity.

4. Body ought to be kept in such Action and Order, as that it may be always ready to obey the Dictates of Reason and Wisdom in the Execution

of Business, and in persevering under Hardships.

5. Even Robbers have their Laws, which they obey and observe.

6. Bears and Lions, by good Usage, will be brought to fawn upon their Masters.

7. Even Anger will yield to a Gift: nay, a rich Present, prudently placed, will extinguish that Wrath, which was thought implacable.

8. He that rebukes a Man for his Faults, may perhaps displease him: but when he considers, he could have no other end in it but his Good, he will think himself more obliged to him, than to one who humours him in every Thing.

9. The Drunkard thinks him his Friend that will keep him Company, and the proud Man him that will flatter him.

10. We can never sufficiently admire Philosophy, which if a Man obey, he may pass every Stage

of Life without Trouble.

1. Let us give way to wise Men, and not squabble with Fools.

12. If we would deny ourselves sometimes in unnecessary Desires, even when it is in our power to humour ourselves, and gratify our Desires, it would be of excellent Use.

13. He that gratifies any Man with that which is rather to his Detriment than to his Benefit, is so far from deserving to be called liberal, that he is to be accounted the most pernicious of Flat

14. We must take care not to look upon Things unknown as known, and too hastily assent to them: we must not `assent to cny Thing rashly, nor arrogantly.

15. Ye were free at home, and if Servitude be your Lot here, your best Way will be to submit

to it.

16. As the adding Weight to a Scale necessarily depresses that Scale in a Balance, so, the Mind necessarily yields to what is self-evident.

17. No Man can serve Pleasures and Virtue at the same Time:

18. There are some Men who will bear any Thing, and be Slaves to any Man, if they can thereby compass what they desire.

19. There are certainly no greater Slaves than they who serve Anger.

20. If your Mind gets the better of you, you serve that, and not yourself: they are better Men who conquer the Will, than those whom the Will

conquers.

21. It is sometimes as necessary to comply with the Times, as not to lose an Opportunity when given. 22. He is to be accounted free, who is a Slave to no Vice.

23. It is not right for the Elder to serve the Younger.

24. I pray you take care of your Health, and use not too violent Exercise when you have the Liberty to play.

2. RESISTING.

1. He that resists his own evil_Inclinations, is more worthy of Laurel, than the Captain who conquers a stubborn Enemy.

2. The Virtue of the Mind is of greater Force than Strength of Body: for a whole City of