Morning Star

How To Live.-A man should live in the world like a true citizen; he may be allowed to have a preference to the particular quarter, or square, or even alley in which he lives; but he should have a generous sympathy for the welfare of the whole; and if, in his rambles through this great city, the world, he chances to meet a man of a different habit, language, or complexion, from his own, still he is his fellow creature, a short sojourner, in common with himself; subject to the same wants, infirmities, and necessities; and one who has a brother's claim on him for his charity, comfort or relief.

"No man," says Seneca, "is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities, or a more amiable disposition."

It is certainly true, that the greatest instances of virtue and excellence of every kind, have originated in the middle order. "Give me neither poverty nor riches," was a prayer, founded on a knowledge of human nature, and fully justified by experience. The middle station affords the best opportunities for the improvement of the mind, is the least exposed to the temptations, and most capable of happiness and virtue.

Virtue is nobility; personal merit, useful, generous, benevolent exertion, the only honorable distinction. The trappings which every tailor can make to clothe a poor puny mortal, add no real dignity. In ages of ignorance they might strike with awe. Those ages are no more. Nor will they ever return, notwithstanding the efforts of petty despots to keep the people in ignorance.

God Almighty, who gives his sun to shine with as much warmth and radiance on the cottage as on the palace, hath dispensed the glorious privilege of genius and virtue to the poor and middle classes with a bounty perhaps, seldom experienced in any of the pretenders to hereditary or official grandeur.