The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1862-10-08

(oR, THINGS MORE MIGHT BE SAID ABOUT

BIN has Its uses.
There are men who chew misfortune as
asses chew thistles.
Satan turks in honeysuckles as we'll as
behind marble pillars.
Law is the buoy of the good citizen
che rock of the bad one.
We clap Vice In fetters and then call
IL Virtue.
How much we owe to our poets! Ho-
nsr's Achilles has made thousand heroes
Instead of fighting Misfortune We too
oftea make it prisoner.
It 10 when the work ID finished that we
feel how unfinished is the workmanship.
"Still water runs Deep" but are not
muddy waters mostly still!
Reformers are too apt to tear up the
floor of raft to erect jury-masts.
To tell boy what books he shall read,
10 like telling bee what fowers it 'shaI
suck.
Praise is sometimes as powerful as Gen.
sure. 1t is as bad to be blown iutO the
air as to be cast into pit.
Terror is the strongest when underlined.
If we knew what Death was like, men
would as soon die as sleep
The example Of ruler should have
the force of law, and all the laws of rul-
er should be enforced by his example.
In the best of US, our sins toss about
like ships at anchor; in the worst we
slip the cables and let the ships run free.
An inidel only call upon God when,
ut the last moment, God designs to call
upon the in6del.
The religion of some folks is mere
matter of ornament, like the stone gods
which rich men set up in their gardens.
The shepherd has quite gone out of
modern poetry. Let us hope the wolf
has left the modern poets door.
A great fault in the books and conver-
sation of some men is, that the mind ap-
pears to be always watching itself.
The law is the wall of state, and
when prince shows his head above it he
deserves to have it taken off.
Public applause is even jealous of its
own verdict, and thus the men who have
been most abused have been generally
those who have been most praised.
We aspire and aspire and then give in.
Life in this particular is like coffin,
which widens up to certain point and
then tapers off again.
To bear evil.speakiug and illitRrate
judgment with equanimity, is the high
ost bravery. 1t is, in fact, the ropose of
mental courage.
4 shame attaches to Venice for losing
the art of making ruby glass greater than
the merit which Is due to her for discov-
ering it.
Do ninety.nlne favors for man and
refuse the hundredth, and he hates you
ninety times more than if you had
never done him favor at all.
Many virtue is locked up, like Cine.
vray in the oaken chest, until it becomes
a mere skeleton of itself. Virtue, like
everything else, rots and wastes if not
used.
Great men pay this tribute to Fame
they must always be great. If they re.
move their laurels for an instant, Stupid
ity plumps upon them, as the falling tor,
toiss struck the head of the old philloso.
pher and dashed out his brains.
There is a man down east, rather a
facetious fellow, whose namo is New
He named his first child Something
it was Something New. The next child
was nothing: it being named Nothing
New.
It is a proof of the high estimation
which the world, after all, places upon
intellect, that every mother would rather
know that her child was clever than come.
ly. They fall back on the comely when
the clever is out of the question.
What a terrible thing is this crusade
against fancy and brilliance! Would my
style write any the worse because there
was diamond at the top? Would my
aword strike the less deadly if the hilt
were jeweIled? Is Pactolus necessarily
shallow because it is golden?
If you would be known to all the world,
YOU must know all the world. If you
live only for yourself, there shall be no
memory of you when you are no more
Men are great in their work and in their