TRUTH AND FALsEHoOD.
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It is most dangerous to deviate from truth, even on the most triaing occasion. However guileless may be our intentions, the habit, if indulged, may take root, and gain on us under the cover of various pre- tences till it usurps a leading influence on our conduct. Truth is born with us and we must do violence to nature to shake off our veracity. Plutarch calls lying the vice of slave. Flatterers-those who contin- ually praise themselves, and speak i'll of O. ,hers; and those who affect to depreciale the advantage they enjoy, and to exagger- ate those of others, ought never to be be- lieved on their word. Wegan nothing by falsehood but the disadvantage of not being credited when we speak the truth.