The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1874-01-14
WEEKLY:
BITS OF WISDOM,

every battle.
No WISE man ever wished to be youn-
ger.-a0if,
NOTHING dies without in some way
leaving a trace of its existence.
FRIENDSHIP is the wine of existance;
love- the dram neutrality-suspicious..
MOMENTS of triumph are not always
moments of happiness Mrs Ellis.
GET atop of your troubles, and then
they re half cured IL. A. 1lcoH.
We do not count mans years until
he has nothing else to count.-Emlcr-
son.
Flowers are the sweetest things God
ever made and forgot to put soul
with.
MEMORY is the only paradise from
which nothing can ever drive us.
Richter.
WomAN's hopes are woven sof sun-
beams shadow annihilates them'
George Eliot.
IT is not miserable to be blind he
only is miserable who cannot acquiesce
in his blindness with fortitude. Milton.
GRATITUDE is the throwing ont of our
hearts in the light of another's kind
ness.
TyE never any pity for conceited peo-
pie, because I think they carry their
comfort about with them.-Gc0rgc
Eliot. o
WHO can doubt that anything which
makes ~ man diocUIlUcntua With his
state, without giving him the certainty
of better, is a curse?-G. p. r.
James. n
THERE is something verys,sublime,
though very faneiful, in Plato7s deserip-
ton of the Supreme Being, that truth
is his body, and light his shadow"
14ddi8On.
A GOOD citizen must know how to be
able to command and to obey ; he ought
also to know in what manner freeman
ought to govern and to be governed.
ITiStONc.
SELF-RENUNCIATI0N is not surrender
of will. The will is never SO strong as
in giving up, for principle and the COM
mon veal, self-interest or sensual de-
Iight.-C 4. Barto2.
THE golden moments in the stream of
life rush past us, and we sec nothing
but sand; the angels come to visit us,
and we only know them when they are
gone.-G George Eliot.
LIKE breakfast-time better than any
other moment in the day. No dust has
settled on ones mind then, and it pre-
sents clear mirror to the rays of
things. s.-GeOrge Eliot.
He is no common benefactor who
hrewdly gathers from the worlds man
ifold literature its words of finest wit
and maturest wisdom for our entertain
ment, instruction, and inspiration.
THERE is power in the direct glance
of a sincere and loving human soul,
which will do more to dissipate preju-
dice and kindIe charity than the most
elaborate arguments. George Eliot.
THERE is no funeral so sad to follow
as the funeral of our own youth, which
we have been pampering with fond de-
sires, ambitious hopes, and all the
bright berries that hang in poisonous
clusters over the path of life. LGndor
ALL things are literally better, lowell
er, and more beloved for the Imperfect
tions that have been divinely appointed,
that the law of human life may be effort
and the law of human judgment mercy.
Ru8ki1.
IT is precisely the proudest and most
obstinate men who are the most liable
to shift their position and contradict
themselves everything isneasier to
them than to face the simplenfact that
they have been thoroughly defeated,
aud must begin life anew.-George
Eliot. IF
The strong emotions from which the
life of human being receives new
bias win their victory as the sea wins
his though their advance may be sure,
they will often, after a mightier wave
than usual, seen to roll back so far as
to lose all the ground hey had made
George Eliot.
AFTER you are once awakened, be
sure to use the first consciousness in
getting upon the floor. If you allow
yourself to parley single moment,
sleep, like an armed man, will probably
seize upon you, and your resolution is
gone, your hopes dashed and your
habits destroyed.-Dr.. Todd.
MEN in general are neither very good
nor very bad they are simply medi-
ocre. I have never closely examined
even the best without discovering faults
and frailties invisible at first. [ have
always in the end found among the
worst, certain good elements andholding
points of honesty. There are two men
in every man it is childish to see only
one; it is sad and unjust to look only
at the other De 1ocqueVjLLe.
"A discussion in the National Con-
vention of friends, the other day, would
seem to indicate that even the Quakers
are beginning to yield TO the esprit of
the age" One speaker advised that
"the question of dress should be one
simply of utility and convenience and
said, moreover, that "the practice of
wearing the hat in meeting, which so
long prevailed, was remarkable chiefly
for being a stupid violation of sanitary
lawp
THERE can be no ideal companionship
where time is not permitted to set his
seal and harden his wax. Age is need
T. l.,