New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-28

Excerpts from MY Notebook.

have long had a habit of jotting down any
small paragraph that, in my too miscellaneous
reading pleased me; and I have the idea that in
my notebook [ might find something that will
interest your readers, and be little better in tone
and idea than the general run of light literature of
the day. Touching, as they do upon all subjects,
doubt not my dish of scraps will present sauces
to suit all palates from the epicurean faster of
dainty Gates to the solid brownbread and beef
eater, who would disdain anything but hearty
food Should they please, I'll cook them up
often
" At every period of his existence, man is but
chrysalis, equally claimed by the past and the
future, based on nothing; rootIess tree leaning
on a tottering ruin"
Say what we will, there's nothing like youth
all we gain in manhood is dizziness itself compared
to the zest of novelty we feel in LIES spring
tme.n .
" A hos ON friend-the man who falls in love
with, and wins the woman you want to marry
wins all your money at 6cart6, and shoots you
through the lungs some chilly morning"
! "a man has right to his own life-to bear his
burden after his own fashion. It is only your
hired Jester who is bound to swallow his tears and
be merry at the pleasure of his audience"
lone may live long time without the sur
roundings of protecting love, just as there are
plants that will flourish without sunshine but the y
are generally pale, fragile blossoms at the best"
There is nothing more easy to acquire than q
reputation for good nature and in running for the
prize of popularity, the man who says agreeable
things will always win the race against the mar
who only performs benevolent actions in an ungra
cious way
9 Conversation should, like limpid stream
flow smoothly, brightly along, revealing the depths
beneath its current--now sparkling over the obiec
it discloses, now rejecting those by which i
glides."
Truth itself is of no value only as it conduce
to an upright, holy and benevolent practice"
"To find one who hath passed through life with
out sorrow, you must find one who is incapable
of love- or hatred, of hope fear; one that hat
no memory of the past and no thought of the fu
I ture; one that hath no sympathy with humanity
or no feeling in common with the rest Of men,"
The thinking man hath wings, the acting ma
hath only feet and hands,
Man without fault, the sinless monster whic
the world meier saw"
"uast thou power? the week defend,
Light give light, thy knowledge lend
Riches remember him who gaYe,n
Caro- to our coffin adds a nail no Doubt
While every smile right merry draws one out"
"Thc greatest gluttons are those who feed upo
slander.o
''It is not while those to whom we are attache
are around us in the enjoyment of health, that "
ever Judge Of the extent Of our feelings tow0r
them, or how necessary they are to ourhappines
We are, Gold help US, too apt to underrate tn
/ bo,, md In +n ,,,i,
even the most faultless are subject, while the
good qualities are not remembered until som
; cruel blo& with its blightiug power, draws th
veilfrom our eyes, and every virtue, every proc
of their love is remembered with anguish, an
every defect forgotten, and the tenderness thaths
lain dormant in our hearts but awakens to tortul
4 us.
" Here there is room for meditation e'en to ma
ness" as Calista says, but don't intend to carr
mine so far.
: Your friend, JANE EAYsLEY.