The Republican journal., 1873-03-06
Best Thoughts of the Best Authors.

Best Thoughts of the Best Authors.
Who follows truth carries his star in his
brain. Alger.
Life outweighs all things if love lies
within it. [Geothe.
To know how to wait is the secret ol
success. De Maistre.
Better than fame is still the wish fol
fame, the constant training tor a glorious
strife. [Bulwer.
Words become luminous when the fin
gel of the poet touches them with his
phosphorus. Jouber.
The man to whom Nature begins to
reveal her open secret feels an irresistible
longing for its worthiest cXponent-art
Goethe.
Health is best OF mortal man; next
beauty; thirdly, well-gotteu wealth
fourhly, The pleasure of youth among
friends. Simonides.
Despise not any man, and do not spu1n
anything for there is no man that has not
his hour, nor is there anything that has
not its place. Rabbi Ben Azai.
That man will never be perfect gen
tleman who lives only with gentlemen.
To he a man of the world we must view
that world in every grade and in every
perspective. Bulwer Lytton
think | restrict myself within bounds
in saying that so far as | have observed
in life, ten men have failed from defect in
morals, where one has failed from defect
in intellect. Horace Mann.
Life in these times is too full and thick
We lose half its sweetness by overcrowd-
ing so There isn't time to even glance
at the flowers that grow by the roadside,
let alone smelling of them. Freeman
Clarke.
We did not make the world, hut we
may mend it, and must live in it. We
shall find that it abounds with fools who
are too duh to be employed. and knaves
who are too sharp. The compound charac-
ter is not common, and is that with which
we have the most to do. [Colton.
Genius can never be initiative in the
most contracted sense of the word largely
initiative it will always be it takes a deel
impression from every truth that is uttered,
and reproduces that utterance newly,
more beautifully shaped, till it becomes
an eternal eloquence Tor the universe.
Lady Pollock.
Society Is commonly too cheap. We
meet at very short intervals, not having
had time to acquire any new value ion
each other. We meet at meals three times
a day, and give each other a new taste of
that old musty cheese that we are We
have had to agree on certain set of rules
called etiquette and politeness, to make
the frequent meeting tolerable and that
we need not come to open war. H. ID.
ThOreau.
To live is not merely to breathe, it is
to act, it is to make use of our organs,
senses faculties, of all those parts of our
selves which give us the feeling of exis-
tence. The man who has lived longest is
not the man who has counted most years
but he who has enjoyed lie most. Sucl
a one was buried a hundred years old
but he was dead from his birth. He would
have gained by dying young; at least he
would have lived till that time. Rosseau
IL Is Geltltu tIldl il lItidI OHc6 DIOuS III
up young lion, and finding him veal
and harmless, never attempted to contro
him. Every day the lion gained in strength
and became more difficult to manage. A
last when excited by rage, he fell upor
the Indian and tore him IN pieces. 1t j:
thus with evil passions and bad habits
They are like this lion. If indulged il
youth, they will cause us much veXatior
in after life, and may perhaps destroy us
Youth, remember, and beware!
The voice of conscience is gentle voice
gentle rs the voice OF mother. 1t il
so still and quiet that we are ready to
say: ''Can this be voice of authority
| Divine voice within us?" 1t is even SO
! The voice of the Judge-the voice which
shall be as the sound of many waters
which shall roll awfully like thunder
| filling the everlasting heavens-that voic'
will be but the very echo of the almos
| inaudibIe voice of conscience In thi
world the gentle mothers voice of con
science often becomes feebler and feebler
till passes into a moan, and then con
science dies 1t is as if a mans dyin!
mother said to him. 90! do not thi
thing that hate" But he turned coldl'
away; whereas, had he softened and wept
he would have given life to his mother
she would have revived to counsel and t,
care for him. Lynch.