The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-02-10
Sense and Sentiment.


FEDERATION is the child, not of faith
but of doubt.
APPREHENSION of evil is often worse
than evil itself:
An honest employment is most ex-
cellent patrimony
The divine faculty is to see what
everybody may look it.
The only preparation for freedom is
ireedom.-LOrd Bro1ghona.
HE sternest irony of fate may lie in
the tulfiliment OF our wishes.
HE rays of happiness, like those of
light, are colorless when unbroken.
CONFINEMENT is of so great value
that 1t can never be dearly purchas-
MANY mans vices have at first been
nothing else than good qualities run
wild
MoNTEsQUIEU wrote; Happy is
that people whose annals are written in
sand -
IHE music is the body, the word the
soul of the musical drama.-Adoiph
SfdhH.
HOPE Is like a bad clock, forever
striking the hou" of happiness, wheth-
Ell 1t has come or not.
10 be very attractive to all sorts of
different people, one must have great
readiness OF sympathy.
AN industrious and virtuous educa-
ton OF children is better inheritance
for them than a great estate.
Ii is higher exhibition of Christian
manllness to be able to bear trouble
than to get rld of il. Beecher.
We hate some persons because we do
not know them, and we will not know
them because we hate them.
THERE are two things which abhor
the learned in his infdelities, and the
fool IL MS devotions. -Nohon,need.
PosTERIrY is able to be impartial,
and restores the too great admiration
OF contemporaries to the proper de-
gree.
No man deserves to be praised for
his goodness unless he has strength of
character to be wicked-Lo Rochefou-
c0utd.
If, says Lemennais, earnest cohvic-
tons were not obstructed by organized
facts, the world would go to pieces in
month.
HEGEL is reported to have said that
there was only one man in Germany
who understood him, and he n,isunder-
stood him.
a PROMISE should be given with eau
tlon and kept with care 1t should be
made with the heart and kept with the
head
LET the simple soul extend, unim-
peded. its fiery energy. The immortal
heart should be the leader; but let all
your eyes look upward -Zoroo8ter.
He whose wishes respecting the pos
sessions of this world are the most
reasonable and bounded, is likely to
lead the safest, and. for that reason,
the most desirable lite.
A MAN ought to carry himself in this |
world as an orange tree would If 1t |
could walk up and down in the garden.
swinging perfume from every little cen
ser 1t holds up to the air.
Coop words, like the golden earrings
OF the lsraelltes, are valuable in them |
selves; but if once erected into a gold |!
en- calf to be worshiped and relied up
on, are damning pernicieus. 3op!bdy. |
THERE Is but one door to come into
the world, thousand to go out Death
has choice of ways to let out life: and |
while we are busily watching at one |
door, he comes in at anotber-A dams. |
We Po through life like a man with |
dark lantern, throwing light only on
the few steps before but since, little
by little, all the miles of mysterious
darkness that stretch beyond our sight
will become the few steps before us.
the light, thank God. is enough for
the whole way.
To use books rightly is to go to them
for help; to appeal to them when our
own knowledge and power fail 30 be
led by theth into wider sight, puler
conception than our own, and receive
from them the united sentence of the
Judges and councils of all time against
our solitary and unstable opinions. -
RuSkin
Build thee mote stately mansions, 0 my soul.
As the swift seasons roll
Let each temple: nOhler THAI tEe iasi.
shut thee ftFm beaten with dome more vast
'fn thou at length art free.
Leaving thine Out-worn shell on hfes unsounded
II is easy, no doubt to Journey alone
III tliO ''lcit SilISllillt anu OH Tie beaten
highway of our lot; but over the mid
night plain and beneath thJ sill i'm
mensttf Of darkness the traveller seeks
some fellowship for his wanderings.
And what IS religion but the midnight
hemisphere of life, whose vault is filled
with the silence of God, and whose
everlasting stars, IL Giving 10 clear
light, yet fill the soul with dreams of
unreasonable glory?
EMERSON says: l visit occasionally
the Cambridge Library and seldom go
there without renewing the conviction
that the best of all IS already within
the four walls of my study at home.
The inspection of the catalogue briees
me continually back to the few standard
writers who are on every private shelf
and to these it can afford only the most
slight and casual additions The
crowds of centuries of books are only
commentary and calculation, echoes
and weaknesses of the great voices OF
time.
IT 10 the slipperiness of our hearts
that causes SO many slips in our lives,
Conscience cannot be urged or awed
with forgotten truth but keep it in
IN the heart and it will keep both heart
and life upright, 1.-The law of his God
is III his heart; none of his steps shall