Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-27
Orient Pearls at Random Strung.
God is love.

Seiden says; Syl'aDles govern the
world.
To see what is right and not to do
It, is want of courage.
Love is the spark that burns up
he mountains of iniquity.
\ beautiful external life symbol
yes beautiful internal life.
Gain one clear, distinct truth and
Il becomes a centre of light.
What you do not want done to
yourself, do not to others.
What one dies for, and not his
ying, glorifies him.-LotoeH.
Pericles says: The whole world is
The monument of illustrious men.
To lead an uninstructed people
lie into war, is to throw them away.
Learning without thought is Ia
Dor lost; thought without learning
is perilous.
At night thou must go in prayer
as beggar, but by day thou wilt
carry myself as king.
ira man in the morning hear, and
regard the right, he may die in the
evening without regret.
The pleasure of love is in loving.
We are happier in the passion we
feel than in that we excite.
We cannot look, however imper-
fectly, upon great man without
gaining something by him.
Beecher says: Genius unexalted is
no more genius than bushel Of
acorns is forest of oaks.
Words are wise mems counters
they do but reckon by them; but
they are the money of fools.
Confuscius declares that he that
speaks without modesty will find it
hard to make his words good.
Montesquieu says: There is very
little difference To me between the
society CT fools and men of sense.
Pope says
Love seldom haunts the heart here learn
ing lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise
The putting in order is a delight
full occupation, and it is at least
analogous toa virtue. Virtue is the
love otorder. e-N, -~
Sir john Harrington says
Treason doth never prosper. What's the
reaSony
Why, If 1t prosper none dare call it treason.
Two things indicate an obscure
understanding-to be silent when
we ought to converse; and to speak
when he should be silent.
DR.. johnson once said, it matters
not how man dies, but how he
lives. The art of dying is not of i'm
portance, it lasts SO short time.
To man who looks long at the
sun, the sun imprints itself upon
everything he looks at. So it is
with man who looks long at God.
Swedenborg says: To be able to
learn that what is true, is true, and
that what is false IS false, this is the
mark and character of intelligence.
Human life is thus briefly summed
up by Coleridge-
To know, TO esteem, to love-and thea to
part
The minds of some of our states
men, like the pupil of the human
sc, contract themselves the more
stronger light there is shed upon
hem.
Religion is the basis upon which
~ivil government rests-that from
hich power derives its authority,
Avs their efficacy, and both their
notion.
Confucius asks: If doing what is
y be done, be made the first bust
ness, and success a secondary con-
1eration-is not this the way to
Salt virtue?
Sir Henry Walton thus quantity
sketches the character OF an ambas-
sador. An ambassador is an l. onest
man sent to lie ABROAD for the COM
monwealth.
Goeth says: l am glad there is
something l hate, for otherwise one
is in danger of falling into the habit
ofhterally finding all things good
in their place; and that is destruc-
tive of all true feeling.
y man should say l am not con-
cerned that have no place. am
concerned how l may fit myself for
one. All not concerned that L am
not known-I seek to be worthy TO
be ConfuSciUS.
We are all sculptors and painters.
and our material is our own flesh
and blood and bones. ANY noble
ness begins at once to refine a mans
features, any meanness or sensual
itY to imbrute them.
Bartoe says: Private sincerity is
public welfare. A common faith is
Il fortress we agree to defend, and
have to desert. How many creeds
once alive and swarIning with
champions resemble the mouldy
castles Of the Danube and Rhine?
Dean Stanley recently said, in a
sermon delivered before the prin-
ters of London, that once Architec-
ture was the press, and told great
thoughts TO the world in stone, but
now the press was architecture, and
is building up the world of ideas
and usages.