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Dr. JOHNSON used always to urge the importance of children being being encouraged to tell whatever they hear particularly striking to some brother, sister, or servant, before the impression was erased by the intervention of newer occurrences.
 
His mother, it seems, was accustomed,  when she told him anything which she thought likely to seize his attention, to send him to a favorable workman in the house, to whom she knew he would communicate the conversation while it was yet impressed upon his mind. The event was what she wished; and it was to that method chiefly that he owned his uncommon facility of remembering distant occurrences.

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Huge fragments of wreck still frequently emerge from the watery gulf whose billows chafe the rocky sides of Trafalgar.
 
They are relics of the enormous ships which were burnt and sunk on that terrible day, when the heroic champion of Britain concluded his work, and died. I never heard but one individual venture to say a word in disparagement of NELSON’s glory; it was a pert American, who observed that the British Admiral was much overrated.
 
“Can that individual be overrated,” replied a stranger, “whose every thought was bent on his country’s honour; who scarcely ever fought without leaving a piece of his body in the fray; and who, not to speak of minor triumphs, was victorious in two such actions as Aboukir and Trafalgar?”
 
- Borrow’s Bible in Spain.

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There is, therefore, strictly speaking, neither freedom of thought in the Romish Church, nor healthy confinement of thought, nor exercise of the understanding, nor trial of faith. Thought is not free, for it is  bound to subscribe, not merely as in the Catholic Church, to the definite body of doctrine which has been received from the Apostles, but to whatever at any time, under the circumstances, the Bishop of Rome may have decreed or may still decree.
 
It is not healthily confined, for popery demanding so much,  which cannot be given from the heart, is obliged to content itself with the acquiescence of the lips, and to leave the mind really without control. The understanding is not exercised, because every answer is given authoritatively, and to be received implicitly.  And the faith is not tried, for where there is no doubt there is no difficulty and where there is  no difficulty there is no faith.
 
- Sewell’s Evidences of Christianity.
 

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A WIFE SHOULD BE AMIABLE, AFFECTIONATE, AFFABLE, ACCOMPLISHED; BEAUTIFUL, BENIGN, BENEVOLENT; CHARMING, CANDID, CHEERFUL, COMPLAISANT, CIVIL, CONSTANT; DUTIFUL, DIGNIFIED; ELEGANT, EASY, ENTERTAINING; FAITHFUL, FOND, FAULTLESS, FREE; GOOD, GRACEFUL, GOVERNABLE; HANDSOME, HARMLESS, HEALTHY; INTELLIGENT, INDUSTRIOUS, INGENIOUS; JUST, KIND, LIVELY, LOVELY, MODEST, MERCIFUL, NEAT, OBEDIENT, PRETTY, RIGHTEOUS, SUBMISSIVE, TEMPERATE, VIRTUOUS, WELL-FORMED, AND YOUNG.
 
When I meet a woman possessed of these requisites, said an eldery bachelor, I will marry.