Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-27
"Two things money cannot buy,
Breeding and integrity

"Two things money cannot buy,
Breeding and integrity
'sNeyer allow YOURSELF" said Goethe,
| 'to be betrayed into dispute. Wise
men fall into ignorance if they dispute
| with ignorant men,"
'When heaven would save man, it
enclrcles him with compassion"
"Total ignorance were in no wise a
thing SO vile aad wicked, nor the greatest
! OF evils; but multifarious knowledge and
learning acquired under bad management.
causes much more harm" -PAQto.
Camden said, "that though our tongue
may not be so sacred as the Hebrew, nor
as learned as the Greek, yet it is as fluent
as the Latin, as courteous as the Spanish.
as court-like as the French, and as amonous.
as the Italian; SO that being beaatifieda
and enriched out of these tongues, partly
by enfranchising and endenizing foreign
words, partly by implanting new ones
with artful composition, our tongue is as.
copious, pithy, and signifcative as any ina
Europe"
Cali nations" said Luther, ssthe Jews
especially, school their children more
faithfully than Christians And this is
one reason why religion is SO fallen. For
all its hopes Of strength and potency are
ever committed to the generation that is
coming on the stage. And if this is neg.
/ lected IN its youth, it fares with Christian
lty as with garden that is neglected in
the spring-time. There is no greater OBJ
stacle in the way of piety than neglect
in the training of the young. live would
reinstate religion in its former glory, we
must improve and elevate the children,
as it was. done in days of DID,"
George Chapman, the translator of
Homer, thus speaks of the scholarly Pc
dantries of his time, of which ours affords
too many examples
"For as great clerks can use no English
/ words,
Because (alas! great clerks) English af-
fords,
Say they, no height nor copv-a rude
tongue,
Since t is their native,-but, in Greek
and Latin
Their wits are rare, for thence true poesy
sprung,
Through which, truth knows, they have
but skill to chat in,
Compared with what they might have in
their own"
cit happens, says Plutarch, "that
neither rich furniture, nor moveables. nor
abundance of gold, nor descent from al,
illustrious family. nor greatness Of author
ity, nor eloqueuce, and all the charms of
speaking, can procure so great serenity
of life, as mind free from guilt and kept
untainted, not only from actions but from
purposes that are wicked. By this means
the soul will be not only unpolluted, but
not disturbed; the fountain will run clear
and unsullied, and the streams that flow
from it will be just and honest deeds, full
Of satisfaction, brisk energy of spirit
which makes man an enthusiast in his
JOY, and tenacious memory sweeter
than hope.
A wakeful night will yield as much
thought as long journey. If try
thoughts by their quality, not their guam
tity, may find that restless night will
yield more than the longest journey
-7Horeau
Stories are the idyls of childhood. They
cast about it the romance it loves and lives
in, rendering the commonest- circumstances
and things inviting and beautiful. Nor do
know any means equally acceptable and
SO Immediately conducive to the ends of
teaching; insinuating so softly and persua-
sively the pnrest morals for the fancy aud
the heart. never visit sc,.ool without
co 7eting life TOR its opportunities for en-
joying the pastime of telling tales, every
faculty and affection finding free scope in
this play of alldelights The old memories
waken and youth returns again:
-. sYea deeper import
Turks in the legend told our infant years,
Than lies upon that TRUTH We live to lease:
For fable is Loves world, his home, hss
birth place; S
Delightedly dwells be nong fays and tails
mans
Aud spirits, and deligttedly believes
Diy;nties, being himself disiue.'
-:Alcoa.
Prof. Walker, Cincinnati scientist,