TAKE time; it is no use to fume or fret, or do as the angry housekeeper who has got hold of the wrong key, and pushes, shakes, and rattles it about the lock until both are broken, and the door remains unopened. The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures. Try to regard present vexations as you will a month hence. Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. It is not riches; it is not poverty; it is human nature that is the trouble. The world is like a looking-glass. Laugh at it, and it laughs back; frown at it, and it frowns back. Angry thoughts canker the mind, and dispose it to the worst temper in the world — that of fixed malice and revenge. It is while in this temper that most men become criminals.—Religious Intelligencer.