The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-04
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
LAreH if you are wise.-Martial.

9 GEMS OF THOUGHT.
: LAUGH if you are wise.-Mdrtidl.
THE borrower runs in his own debt
TEE strong hours conquer u.s.
Schiller.
GUr1r is spiritual Rubicon.-Jane
Porter.
F1IRrAT1oS is attention without at
attention.
LANGUAGE is the dress of thought
johnson.
CLAD in the beauty of thousand stars.
-MdrLOace.
A SIGH can shatter castle in the air.
w r. Alger.
wrrE just enough of learning to
misquote. Byron.
How use doth breed habit in a man.
Shakespeare.
HE'LL trembles at a heaven-directed
eye.-BishoE Ken.
VIcroRY belongs to the most perse-
vering. -Napoleon.
FELICITY. not fuency, of language is
a merit Whipl'Ie.
Few love to hear the sins they love
to act.-ShakspeGre.
Mans love is of man apart-it is
woman's whole existence.-ByrOIl.
DEnrcAcY is to the mind what fra
grancy is TO the fruit.-Achilles Poip-
celet.
DEw-DRoPs are the gems of the morn
ing, but tears of mouFnful eve Col
/ eridge.
: PEACE is the happy natural state of
Aman war his corruption, his disgrace.
Thompson.
APURcHAsE no friends by gifts when
pa ceasest to give such will cease to
e.-Fuller.
WHAT is becoming is honest, and
.sSs- is honest must always be be-
rsToM is the tyranny of the lower
zan faculties over tie higher
dame Necker.
IF man makes me keep my distance,
.he comfort is he keeps his own at the
same time.-SlOiH
TIE constancv of the wise is only the
art of keeping disquietude to ones
self. -Rochef0ucGuLd.
YAsr colossal destiny, which raises
man to fame, though it may also grind
him to powder.-SchilIeT.
RELIGION converts despair, which
destroys, into resignation, which sub
mits--Lddy BlessingtOn.
WHETsroNEs are not themselves able
to cut, but make iron sharp and capa-
bic of cutting.
How poor, how rich, how subject,
how august, how complicated, how
wonderful is man = Young.
FRANK sincerity, though no invited
guest, is free to all, and brings his
welcome with him.-HdUaTa.
WHAT bankers were hardest off dur
ing the late panic Those who couldn't
even pay one little attention.
SCANDALS breed hatred hatred be-
gets division; division makes faction,
and faction brings ruin.- Qudrzes.
THE training of children is a pro-
fession, where we must know how to
lose time in order to gain it--RousSeau
THE tale-bearer and the tale-hearer
should both be hanged up, back to back,
one by the tongue, the other by the ear.
South.
MIDNIGHT = strange mystic hour
when the veil between the frail present
and the eternal future grows thin
Mrs. St010e.
THE riotous tumult of a laugh, take
il, is the mob law of the features, and
proeriety the magistrate who reads the
riot act.-HolD1es.
IF YOU would be pungent be brief,
for it is with words as with SUI beams
the more they are condensed the deeper
they burn.-Sdre.
SCIENCE confounds everything it
gives to the flowers an animal appetite,
and takes away from even the plants
their chastity.-Joubert.
THE fool is willing to pay for anything
but wisdom. No man buys that of
which he suPposes himself to have an
abundance NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Love and friendship exclude each
other. Love begins by love, and the
strongest friendship could only give
birth to a feeble loye.-DuCOeur
MIsTRUsr the man who finds every
thing good, the man who finds every
thing evil, and still more, the man who
is Indifferent to everything.
Do NOT allow your daughters to be
taught letters by man, though he be
a St.lPaul, or st. Francis, of Assissium.
The saints are in heaven.-B Bishop
Lig,ao1'i.
ONE tires of page of which every
sentence sparkles with points-of SEN
timentalist who is always pumping the
tears from the eyes of your own
1hackeray.
IT Is the first rule in oratory that
man must appear such as he would per-
suade others to be and that can only
be accomplished by the force of his
ife.-S1Uift.
TIE more weakness the more false
hood strength goes straight every
csnnon-ball that has in it hollows and
holes goes crooked. Weaklings must
he.-R5tchling.
EVERY man should study conciseness
in speaking it is a sign of ignorance
not to know that long speeches, though
they may please the speaker, are the
torture of the hearer.-Felthdna.