He that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

Be temperate in all things.

Watch against anger, neither speak nor act in it; for, like drunkenness, it makes a man a beast, and throws people into desperate inconveniences.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise;
their praise is costly, designing to get by those they
bespeak; they are the worst of creatures-they lie
to flatter, and flatter to cheat; and, which is worse,
if you believe them you cheat yourself most danger-
ously. But the virtuous, though poor, love, cherish,
and prefer. Remember David, who asking the Lord,
"Who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell
upon thy holy hill?" answers, "He that walketh
uprightly, worketh uprighteousness, and speaketh the
truth in his heart; in whose eyes the vile person is
contemned, but honoureth them who fear the Lord."

Next, my children, be temperate in all things;
in your diet, for that is physic by prevention
it keeps, nay, it makes people healthy, and their
generation sound. This is exclusive of the spiritual
advantage it brings.

Be also plain in your apparel;
keep out that lust which reigns too much over some;
let your virtues be your ornaments, remembering life
is more than food, and the body more than raiment.
Let your furniture be simple and cheap. Avoid
price, avarice, and luxury. Make your conversation
with the most eminent for wisdom and piety; and
shun all wicked men as you hope for the blessing of
God, and the comfort of your father's living and

The heart of the wicked is little worth.

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.

It is not enough to speak, but to speak true.

Speak not evil of any man.

dying prayers. Be sure you speak no evil of any, no,
not of the meanest; much less of your superiors, as
magistrates, guardians, tutors, teachers, and elders in
Christ.

Be no busybodies; meddle not with other folk's
matters, but when in conscience and duty pressed, for
it procures trouble, and is ill manners, and very
unseemly to wise men.

In your families remember Abraham, Moses, and Joshua, their integrity to the Lord; and do as you have them for examples.

Let the fear and service of the Living God be encouraged in your houses, and that plainness, sobriety, and moderation in all things as becometh God's chosen people; and as I advise you, my dear children, do you counsel yours if God should give you any. Yea, I counsel and command them as my posterity, that they love and serve the Lord God with an upright heart, that He may bless you and yours from generation to generation.

And as for you, who are likely to be concerned in the government of Pennsylvania, and my parts of East Jersey, especially the first, I do charge you before the Lord God and His holy angels, that you be lowly, diligent, and tender, fearing God, loving the people, and hating covetousness. Let justice have its impartial course, and the law free passage. Though to your loss, protect no man against it; for you are

All pride is willing pride.

Truth hath better deeds, than words, to grace it.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due.

Be not afraid of sudden fear.

not above the law, but the law above you. Live there-
fore the lives yourselves you would have the people
live, and then you have right and boldness to punish
the transgressor. Keep upon the square, for God
sees you; therefore do your duty, and be sure you
see with your own eyes, and hear with your own ears.
Entertain no lurchers, cherish no informers for gain or
revenge; use no tricks; fly to no devices to support
or cover injustice; but let your hearts be upright
before God, trusting in Him above the contrivances of
men, and none shall be able to hurt or supplant.

Oh! the Lord is a strong God, and he can do
whatever he pleases; and though men consider it
not, it is the Lord that rules and over-rules in the
kingdoms of men, and He builds up and pulls down.
I, your father, am the man that can say, "He that
trusts in the Lord shall not be confounded."

Finally, my children, love one another with a true endeared love, and your dear relations on both sides, and take care to preserve tender affection in your children to each other.

So farewell to my thrice dearly-beloved wife and

children!

Yours, as God pleaseth, in that which no waters can quench, no time forget, nor distance wear away, but remains for ever,

WILLIAM PENN.

Worminghurst, fourth of sixth month, 1682.

The tongue of the just is as choice silver.

The path of the just is as a shining light.

Duties cannot have too much diligence.

Well begun is half done.

ACTIVITY NOT ALWAYS ENERGY.

HERE are some men whose failure to succeed in life is a problem to others, as well as to themselves. They are industrious, prudent, and economical; yet, after a long life of striving, old age finds them still poor. They complain of ill-luck; they say fate is against But the real truth is that their projects miscarry because they mistake mere activity for energy. Confounding two things essentially different, they suppose that if they are always busy, they must of a necessity be advancing their fortune; forgetting that labour misdirected is but a waste of activity.

them.

The person who would succeed in life is like a marksman firing at a target-if his shot misses the mark, it is but a waste of powder; to be of any service at all, it must tell in the bull's-cye or near it. So, in the great game of life, what a man does must be made to count, or it had almost as well be left undone.

The idle warrior, cut from a block of wood, who fights the air on the top of a weather-cock, instead of being made to turn some machine commensurate with his strength, is not more worthless than the merely active man who, though busy from sunrise to sunset, dissipates his labour on trifles, when he ought skilfully to concentrate it on some great end.

Some look up, others look down.

Boast not thyself of to-morrow.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself.

Never venture, never win.

Every person knows some one in his circle of
acquaintance who, though always active, has this
want of energy. The distemper, if we may call it
such, exhibits itself in various ways. In some cases,
the man has merely an executive faculty when he
should have a directing one; in other words, he
makes a capital clerk for himself, when he ought to
do the thinking work of his establishment. In other

cases, what is done is either not done at the right
time, or in the right way. Sometimes there is no
distinction made between objects of different magni-
tudes, and as much labour is bestowed on a trivial
affair as on a matter of great moment.

Energy, correctly understood, is activity propor-
tioned to the end. The first Napoleon would often,
when in a campaign, remain for days without un-
dressing himself, now galloping from point to point,
now dictating despatches, now studying maps and
directing operations. But his periods of repose, when
the crisis was over, were generally as protracted as
his previous exertions had been. He has been known
to sleep for eighteen hours without waking. Second-
rate men, slaves of tape and routine, while they would
fall short of the superhuman exertions of the great
emperor, would have considered themselves lost
beyond hope if they imitated what they call his
indolence. They are capital illustrations of activity,
keeping up their monotonous jog-trot for ever; while

Look before you leap.

To everything there is a season.