Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-07
WIT AND WISDOM.

Patience is but lying TO, and riding out
the gale.
An evil heart can make hell without
the aid of devil. a-
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much
used till they are seasoned.
There is little use of the sense of hear
ing if we can't hear seuse. ..,.5
It is right to be contented with what we
have, but never with what we are.
The surest way to gaining mems respect
is to prefer your own appreciation 70 tne'tS'
Attention can really be as little preach
ed or Aogged into young person as aDiiity'
That man is rich indeed in friends who can
lose two or three and not be bankrupt
Nothing but efforts after virtues we have
not can keep alive the virtues we have.
When a man says, az would not be ego.
tistical," he might as we'll add "if could
help it."
If you think that your opportunities are
not good enough, you had better improve
them.
thought, and We can make breathing
difficulty by thinking about.it. '&-,it5 Z
Events are constantly taking place. and
politicians are constantly DESTROYS OF do
ing the same tnluB. r. 81 e.
Good manners are a part of good morals,
and it is as much your duty as your inter-
est to practice in both.
The science that could teach many men
TO forget would be more welcome to them
than all the trickery of Mnemonics.
We admire to see fellow take twenty
cent cigar from his mouth to grumble at
paying five cents for morning paper.
1t matters not how trihing the specially,
if man only knows something that mo-
body else knows, the world will respect
him. f-s ~:
what philosophers have advised about
never opening our mouths unless we have
something to say, is impracticable non
sense.
Woman. as we learn from Genesis, is d
bone, and that may be the reason why 80
many dogs are always fighting for her.
Every rule has its exceptions; then THE
rule itself has its exceptions-that is, there
are rules without exceptions.
In everything thatis repeated daily there
must be three periods; in the frat Il Is
new, in the second old and weari5omei the
third is neither-it is habit.
Travelling is said to take all that is wood
en- from men, as transplanting takes the
alas. there is very little left.
There is certainly no rarer; more amiabIe
and candid quality, than habitual justice to
the motives of people not in our set, and
not subject to our Influences. sll
Don't expect an author, in his daily con
versation, like the girl in the fairy tale, t.
be always talking pearls and diamonds
An author can't be always authoring.
The truest self.respect lies, not in exact
ing honor that IS undesetVed, but IN strtv.
ing to attain that worth which receive
honor and observance as its righttul due
An Irishmsn who had been asked l.
furnish proof of his marriage, took Of hi
hat and exhibited a scar on his head
"Here," said he, sis me marriage certi6
cate. That's Judy's mark"
Julius Cesar Hannibal, giving an &C
count of his sea voyage, says: can d
messengers was heavfn' and as ifthat wash
enough, de captain gave orders for de shi
TO heave too, and she hove"
You may have genius, sense, learnin
and the power of expression, so as to writ
prose to rival Burke or johnson, and ate
all may make yourself ridiculous by trytn
your hand at poetry.
my brethren,n said Swift in a sermon
"there are three kinds of pride, namely,
birth, of riches. of intellect. l shall nc
speak of the latter, none of You being Ii
able to that abominable vice."
A child, speaking ofhis home to frien'
was asked, "Where is your homer" LooE
ing with loving eyes at his MOTHER ne r.
piled, "Where mother isl" Was ever
question more truthfully, beautifully, c
tOuGhipGly answered
The minds of scholars are libraries; thoI
of antiquariSns, lumber rooms those
spOrtsmen, kennels; those of epicures, lei
ders and cellars; and those of young dan
sells the play grounds of bewhiskered icai
alters. u IIst - u
Sir Peter Lely made it a rule never
look at bad picture, having found by e.
perience that whenever he did so his penC
took a tint from It. Always apply the San
rule to bad books and bad company.
Look out for people who are bitqall
suspicious and ready TO believe that 9th
ers act from bad motives. In man
cases, the evil they attribute to other
is only what they feel inclined to d
themselves. " lt
The MUD that has learnt things an
forgotten themis on superior footip
to that which has never received th
teaching. Most things learnt may b
partially forgotten in everythingbut th
training they have given. lCuftivatio
is consistent Hitha great deal of igno
rance.
A young pupil in the nonsresistah
school of philosophy was once elected t
the Legislature, of course from one of tn
interior counties True to his principles
he drew up bill abolishing all punish
ment for crime, and then prepared IN
other forbidding people to commit crimes
Old Father Bushnell of Vermont, use
to say, that the best criticism he eve
yaceived on his preaching was from,