Fancy.—­“It is the most boundless and restless faculty of the soul; for while the Understanding and the Will are kept, as it were, in libera custodia to their objects of verum et bonum, the Fancy is free from all engagements:  it digs without spade, sails without ship, flies without wings, builds without charges, fights without bloodshed; in a moment striding from the centre to the circumference of the world; by a kind of omnipotency creating and annihilating things in an instant; and things divorced in Nature are married in Fancy as in a lawless place.”

Infants.—­“Some, admiring what motives to mirth infants meet with in their silent and solitary smiles, have resolved, how truly I know not, that then they converse with angels; as indeed such cannot among mortals find any fitter companions.”

Music.—­“Such is the sociableness of music, it conforms itself to all companies both in mirth and mourning; complying to improve that passion with which it finds the auditors most affected.  In a word, it is an invention which might have beseemed a son of Seth to have been the father thereof:  though better it was that Cain’s great-grandchild should have the credit first to find it, than the world the unhappiness longer to have wanted it.”

St. Monica.—­“Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven, and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body."[1]

[Footnote 1: 

“The soul’s dark cottage, batter’d and decay’d,
Lets in new lights through chinks which time has made.” 
WALLER.]

Mortality.—­“To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body, no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.”

Virgin.—­“No lordling husband shall at the same time command her presence and distance; to be always near in constant attendance, and always to stand aloof in awful observance.”

Elder Brother.—­“Is one who made haste to come into the world to bring his parents the first news of male posterity, and is well rewarded for his tidings.”

Bishop Fletcher.—­“His pride was rather on him than in him, as only gait and gesture deep, not sinking to his heart, though causelessly condemned for a proud man, as who was a good hypocrite, and far more humble than he appeared.”

Masters of Colleges.—­“A little allay of dulness in a Master of a College makes him fitter to manage secular affairs.”

The Good Yeoman.—­“Is a gentleman in ore, whom the next age may see refined.”

Good Parent.—­“For his love, therein like a well-drawn picture, he eyes all his children alike.”

Deformity in Children.—­“This partiality is tyranny, when parents despise those that are deformed; enough to break those whom God had bowed before.”

Good Master.—­“In correcting his servant he becomes not a slave to his own passion.  Not cruelly making new indentures of the flesh of his apprentice.  He is tender of his servant in sickness and age.  If crippled in his service, his house is his hospital.  Yet how many throw away those dry bones, out of the which themselves have sucked the marrow!”