The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-10-16
VARIETY.

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.
That's but an empty purse that is full Of other
folks money.
One might as well be out Of the world as beloved
by nobody in It,
He that knows useful things, and not he that knows
many things is the wise man.
AS we must render an account of every idle word
so must we likewise Of our idle silence.
He is a worthless fellow who lives only to hnlsclf
Depend not upon fortune but conduct.
Begin life with but little show, you may increase II
afterwards
Advise not what is the most pleasant, but the most
useful.
Be contented and thankful cheerful spirit
makes labor light, sleep sweet and all arodnd cheer
full.
There is one good wife in this country, and every
thinks he hath her.
Fast men, like f rivers, are generally the shall
lowest
In feeding with corn, sixty pounds of ground goes
as far as one hundred pounds in the kernel.
The time of an editor is ten times valuable at
some times than at others. But few of the public
know it.
Perhaps no man regrets any hardships he has ever
endured, when he is once completely delivered from
them.
POPULAR DELUsIoNs.-It takes keen observer to
detect all the popular fllaces that are rife in the
country. We, en- passant, note few of them:
1t is popular deluson to believe that editor is
public bellows, bound to puff every thing and every
body that wants to use him.
That the most certain road to fortune is through the
turnpike of politics.
That mans intellect IS IN ratio with his aSsu-
rance.
That poor, hungry player though he does wear
a tinsel crown, can feel rs happy king.
That the most Christian-like course which clergy
man can follow is to slander and vilify those who
differ with him in points of faith
That powder on lldy's face has the effect as
in the pm of a muskot-asssts her to go off,
That Nature when she made '' lovely woman, -
meant, but omitted, to have finished her of with q
hustle.
That the music of consumptivo piano is fully equal
to that of the spheres.
That a Formidable moustache inspires a poltroon
with the courage of II brave soldier.
That ones country owes him living, and vii d $
charge the debt without any effort his part for its
| recovery.
That an ignorant and vulgar man, by being snug
glel into of the learned professions is scholar
and gentleman.
1t good reply of Plato, to one who murmured
! al his reproving him for 4 small matter
'' Custom, says he, g is small matter custom
or habit of life does frequently alter the natural ncl
nation either to good or evil
1t is refreshing to find upon the tombstone of de-
parted worth such delicate sentiments of nrofonnd
respect as are embodied in the following lines cut
upon very ancient tombstone -
i "Here lies Mayor Parker,
= Whom the Lord fit o slaughter
He died without any fears
Was buried without any tears,
And where he's gone now he fares
/ Nobody knows and nobody cares''
i Thackery says a woman's heart is just like litho
graphers stOne-what is once written upon it can
be rubbed out. This is So Let an heires5 once fl
her affections stable boy, and all the preaching
in the world get her heart above oat boxes
curry combs. ''What is written on her heart can
be rubbed out This flct shows itself, not only il
love but in religion Men change their Gods dozer
times a To convert Sister of Char
ity to Methodsm would require greater amount o
) power than you would have to overturn the Pyra
mids.