The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-17

Obtuseness is sometimes q virtue.-[Riv
arol
No fowery road leads to glory. Fon
tame.
Haste is needsul in a desperate case
shakespeare.
God never made his work for man to mend
II dryden.
Time is an herb that cures all diseases.
This near miss Of happiness is great mis-
ery.-[Leighton.
| Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.
| shakespeare.
The virtue lies in the struggle, not in tn,
prize.-[R NJ. Mines.
God made him, and therefore let him pas:
for NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Men are ottener treacherous through weak
ness than design Rochefoucauld.
Incredulity robs us Of many pleasures, and
gives us nothing in return.-[Lowell.
How immense appear to US the sins that we
have not committed.-CMme.N ecker.
Nothing is more simple than greatness.
Indeed, to be simple is to be great
son.
Penetration seems kind of inspiration; it
gives one an idea OF prophecy.-[Lord Gre
vile.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, be-
lieve me, than in half the creeds.-(Tenny-
son.
Objects imperfectly discerned take forms
from the hope or fear OF the beholder.-
johnson.
Usually speaking. the worst bred person in
company is young traveller from abroad
[Swift.
Clocks will 60 as they are set; but man, ir-
regular man, is never constant, never certain.
I[Otway.
The tongue of fool is the key of his coun-
sci, which, in Q wise man, wisdom hath in
keeping .-[Socrates.
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates ad-
versity, controls youth, and delights old age.
-(Lactantius.
1t is the Just decree Of Heaven that traitor
never sees danger till his ruin is at hand
[Metastasio.
Human reason is like drunken man on
horseback; set it up on one side and it tumbles
over to the other.-[Lu Luther.
When thought is too weak to be simply
expressed, it is clear proof that it should be
rejected [Vanvenargues.
The most virtuous of all men is he that
contents himself with being virtuous without
seeking to appear so.-[Plato
The advantage to be derived from virtue is
so evident that the wicked practice it from
interested motives Vanvenargues.
I have played the fool, the gross fool, to
believe the bosom of a friend would hold
secret mine own could not contain.-[Mas-
singer.
The most perfect would be the most exact
ing and severe; but, fortunately, mercy is one
of the attributes Of perfection. F. Boyes.
What is revenge but courage to call in our
honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others
self-love into our own protection?-[ Young.
mil ho1 hx,k~ hat
they can comprehend; and there are but few
things that such are able to comprehend.
[St. Evremond.
Man is a central creature between the ami
mails, that is to say, the most perfect form,
which unites the traits Of all in the most COM
plete epitome. Herder.
He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he
he that hath calling hath place of profit
and honor. A plowman on his legs is higher |
than gentleman on his knees. Franklin.
Mortal joy is ever on the wing, and hard to |
bind. It can only be kept in closed box;
with silence we best guard the tickle good,
and swift it vanishes if fippant tongue |
haste to raise the lid.-[Schiller.
There is nothing more pitiable in the
world than an irresolute man, oscillating be-
,ween two feelings, who would willingly unite
The two, and wLo does not perceive that |
lOthing can unite them.-TGoethe.
The general rule always holds good. In |
constitutional States liberty is compensa-
ion for the heaviness of taxation. In des-
,otic States the equivalent for liberty is the
ightness of taxation. Il Montesquieu.
To be good traveller argues one no ordi-
nary philosopher. A sweet landscape must
sometimes be allowed to atone for an indiffer-
mt supper, and an interesting ruin charm
way the remembrance of a hard bed-lTuck-
,rman.
Opinions are accidental in people-have a
air. A man valuing himself
IS the organ of this or that dogma, is dull
enough; but opinion native to
he speaker is sweet and refreshing, and in
eparable from his image. Emerson.
Laughter should dimple the cheek, not
urrow the brow. A jest should be such that
II shall be able to join in the laugh which it
but if it bears hard upon one
# the company. like the crack of string, it
makes stop in the music.-[F eltham.
To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an
Infamous history. The Canaanitish woman
ives more happily without q name than
Herodias with one ; and who would not rather
nave been the penitent thief than PLATE P
Sir Thomas Browne.