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every circumstance must become him. The change of persons or things around him do not at all alter his situation, but he looks disinterested in the occurrences with which others are distracted, because the greatest purpose of his life is to maintain an indifference both to it and all its enjoyments. In a word, to be a Gentleman, is to be a generous and a brave man. What can make a man so much in constant good-humour and shine, as we call it, than to be supported by what can never fail him, and to believe that whatever happens to him was the best thing that could possibly befal him, or else he on whom it depends would not have permitted it to have befallen him at all? [[note]] No: 87. [[/note]] Dissidence and presumption, upon account of our persons, are equally faults; and both arise from the want of knowing, or rather endeavouring to know, ourselves, and for what we ought to be valued or neglected. [[note]] No: 93. [[/note]] Methods for the filling up the empty spaces of life. The first is the exercise of [[underline]] Virtue [[/underline]], in the most general acceptation of the word. That particular scheme which comprehends the social [[underline]] Virtues, [[/underline]] may give employment to the most industrious temper, and find a man in business more than the most active station
