Barking dogs rarely bite, and Brag is a good dog, but hold-fast is a better. Cowards are fond of noise and blustering, under which they hope to hide their baseness; but men of couragre, having nothing that they wish to conceal, are sedate and quiet, as the deepest waters flow with the least noise. Churchill has well depicted cowardice in the following lines.

–––«Caution before
With heedful steps the lanthorn bore,
Pointing at graves, while in the rear,
Trembling and talking loud went Fear».

To be always singing the same tune, or telling the same stories, which, though at the first they might be interesting and pleasant, at length become, by repetition, tiresome and disgusting. Dieu nous garde d'un homme qui n'a qu'une affaire; God keep us, the French say, from a man who is only acquainted with one subject, on which he is capable of conversing; he will introduce it on all occasions, though it have no affinity to the subject which the company are discussing. He will lug it in by the neck and shoulders.