MENTAL RECREATION.
Mental Recreation, or Select Maxims, is about one of the best col- lections of Sayings we remember. They are selected from writers of all ages and all countries, and consequently present every shade of wisdom. They are quite as pithy as L. E. L.—and most of them a good deal more true.
For instance— No wheedler loves.—Larater.
A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
When a woman saith she loveth thee, take more heed of those words than when she revileth thee.
The authority for this is SOCRATES, and he ought to know .something about the matter.
Paint and patches give offence to the husband and hopes to the gallant.— A woman whose ruling passion is not vanity, is superior to any man of equal faculties.—Lavater.
Give thy wife no power over thee ; for if thou suffer her to-day to tread upon thy foot, to-morrow she may tread upon thy head.—Seneca.
Love and pride stock bedlam.
.Every one can tame a shrew but he that hath her.—Fielding.
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