Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-22
Pen-SpGtterS.

A rogue is n roundabout fool.
Modesty and merit are handsome couple.
Without good-nature. man is only sort
of vermin.
Ifit is the truth, what does it matter who
says it?
When IS it right to take any one in when
it rains.
Many children, many cares; no children.
no felicity.
Search others for their virtues, and thyself
for thy vices.
A failure in a good cause is better than n
triumph in bad one.
A promising young man is all very well;
better have paying one.
The test of mans honesty is in the sacri-
fees he will make to preserve it.
To love is to place our happiness in the
happiness of another.
What fruit is the most visionary?-The
apple of the eye
Wise men have but few confdants, and
cunning men, none.
A wize man never enjoys himself so
mutch, nor phool so little, az when alone.
There is no trade or employment but the
young man following it may become hero.
The finest compliment that can he paid to
n woman OF sense is to address her MS such.
Pen-makers are n bad lot. They make
people steel pens, and they say they do write.
Plato says God has so framed his laws
that it is for the advantage Of every one to
observe them.
The higher life begins for us when we re-
nounce our own will to bow before n divine
law.
We get ut the outlines of things from what
we read and hear, but the filling up must be
through our own experience.
Do not wait Tor extraordinary Circumstance
es to do good actions; try to use ordinary
situations.
The popular notion ofgenius is-ofone who
can do almost everything-eXcept making n
living.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success. 1t
is the ardor of the assailant that makes the
vigor of the defendant.
Trying to define love, is like trying tew
tell how you kun tew brake thru the ice,-
all yu know about it IL, yu fell in and got
ducked.
Such rs the natures are, separately taken,
such will be the collective sum; no crowd of
pigmies can add themselves up into God ;
and self-love multiplied by self-love will on
ly become self-love of higher power.
Cure for dyspepsia: Have right good
talk, with funny anecdote or two, and hall
dozen hearty laughs, with each meal. This
shovelling in the proyender in solemn 81
lence will give dyspepsia to an ostrich.
"Here's your invaders" shouted NOM
ber of the llth Mississippi regiment as Gen.
Lees veteran army plunged into the Poto-
mac on its way to Gettysburg "And here's
your wetter'uns,n echoed a soldier Of the old
4th Alabama.
What greater thing is there for two hu'
man souls than to feel that they are Joined
for life, to strengthen each other in all labor
to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minis
ter to each other in silent, unspeakable mem
ories ut the moment of the last parting.
The proud duke of Somerset had SECOND
wife, who one day threw her arms round his
neck, and aflectlonately kissed him. Look
ing at her with naughty GOODNESS, he said
Madam, my first wife was Percy, and she
would not have taken such n liberty!
man once went to n lawyers office ant
told the legal gentleman that he had beer
II, t..Il to
and desired to know what he should do, The
lawyer suayely said II wouldn't advise you
to go the law doesn't compel you"