The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-10-29

THAT is true plenty, not to have, but
not to want, riches.-tT. Ch1Yaoston,
DEFECT in manners IS usually the
deficiency of fine perceptions finer
son.
Do not speak of your happiness to II
man less fortunate than yourself
PIut0rch.
CONTENT is to the mind like moss to
a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop
its growth.-HaLJnr.
CITIES force growth, and make men
talkative and entertaining, but they
make them artificial. Emerson. -
THOUGHTS come into our minds by
avenues which we never left open, and
thoughts go out of our minds through
avenues which we never voluntarily
opened. -Emersoa.
TURN over new leaf All, those
new leaves If half of them were turned
over that are talked about, what gi
gantic volume would they form in the
lie Oh every Ou6 O1 ls'
THE taste for emotion may become q
dangerous taste; we should be very
cautious how we attempt to squeeze
out of human life more ecstasy and par
oxysm than it can we'll afford. .-Sydaoey
Smith.
How earthly old people become
moldy as the grave. Their wisdom
smacks of the earth there is no fore
taste of immortality in it. They re
mind one of earth-worms and mole
crickets. S. WOreGu.
IT is only in exalted moments that
we remain faithful witnesses to the di-
vine moods of nature. Only in certain
conditions do we interpret her voices
Alright, or read and retain her lessons
as we ought. '@
ATTRACTION acts on all and at all dis
tanees. To feel lepulsion we must be
very near. 1t is a petty and personal
feeling or at best, is the protest OF
natural affinities against unsought prox~
imity.--14fS. LOaOeU.
IFwe once truly love, we love forever.
There is no time in real affections rs
far as this life is corcerned-it has no
existerce-or, it is an eternity, nothing
save the proved .worthlessness of the
object of our regard can rend the bonds
of affection.
IF we Judge from history, Of, what is
the book of glory composed? Are not
it's leaves dead mems skm--its letters
stamped in human blood-its golden
clasps the pillage Of nations? 1t is illu-
minated with tears and broken hearts.
Douglas Jerrogd. ~ ..-@
THOUGH you be sprung in direct line
from Hercules, if you show a low-born
meanness, that long succession of an
cestors whom you disgrace are SO many
witnesses against you; and this grand
display of their tarnished glory but
serves to make your ignominy more
evident. .-Bo&BeGes.
In sculpture and architecture forms
are rendered visible by exterior light.
In painting, on the contary, matter, OBJ
scnre in itself, has within itself its in
ternal element, it's ideal-light it
draws from itself both clearness and
obscurity. Now, unity, the combina-
tion of light and dark, is color.--HegeL
Two persons who have chosen each
other out Of all the species, with the
design to become each others mutual
comfort and entertainment, have, in
that action, bound themselves to be
good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiv-
ing, patient and joyful, with respect to
each others frailties and perfectiOns, to
the end of their lives.-Addisor.
THE instincts of the ant are very I'm
important, considered as the ants; but
the moment ray Of relation is seen to
extend from it to man, and the little
drudge is seen to be a monitor, q lit
tie body with a mighty heart, then all
its habits, even that said to be recently
observed, that it. never sleeps, becomes
sublime. - Emerson. ---..
n is not merely the multiplicity OF
tints, the gladness Of tone, or the balm
iness Of the, air which delight in the
spring it is the still consecrRted spirit
of hope, the prospect of happy days yet
to come the endless variety of nature,
with presentiments OF eternal flowers
which never shall fade, sympathy with
hIessedness of the ever-deVelop1ng
world. MORALS.
How we're friendship possible? In
mutual devotedness to the good and true;
otherwise impossible, except as armed
neutrality or hollow commercial league
A man, be the heavens praised, is sufi-
cient for himself yet were ten men,
united in love, capable of being and ii
doing what ten thousand singly would
fail in. Infinite is the help man can
yield to man.-CorJyte.
HoME is not name, nor a4orm, nor q
routine. tt is a spirit, presence, a
principle. Material. and method Will
not, and cannot, make it. 1t must get
its light and sweetness from those who
inhabit il, from flowers and sunshine,
from the sympathetic natures which, in
their exercise of sympathy, can lay
aside the tyranny Of the broom and y
awful duty of endless scrubbing,>
Holland. a.