The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1876-04-06

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor.
He is a good man whose intimate
friends are all good.
When the catholic spirit is there is
the Catholic Church.-Hedge.
There ate wron-ers of subjects, as
veil as writers on them.-Coleridge.
The prime condition cf life ever
found, is life eve. lost.-Robert Col
lyer.
The various sects ale only different
enhances to the one CITY, HiRdoo Pun
dit
Better make penitonts by gentleness
than hypocrites by severity.-St. Fran
ciS de Sales.
| 1t is more honorable to contend with
Hercules, than disgraceful to be over
come by him.-Oui0.
Force is the queen of the world, and
not opinion; but opinion is that which
uses force Pascal.
\ gully conscience is like whirlpool.
drawing in all to itself which would
otherwise pass by.-Fulier.
The road is easier after a saint like
Jesus has trodden it; but no saint travels
the whole length. h.-Thco. Parker.
Conceit is to nature what paint is to
beauty, it is not only needless. but i'm
pairs what it would improve.-Pope.
Despise man, and YOU become of the
I kind you would make him; love him and
you lift him into yours.-George Mac
/ DOndid.
1t is only necessary to grow old to be-
come more indulgent. | see no fault
committed that have not committed
myself-Goethe.
The true church is an association of
men for the cultivation of knowledge,
the practice of piety, and the promotion
of virtue.-CrdbJe Robinson.
There is but one unfailing good; and
that is fidelity to the everlasting law
written on the heart and rewritten and
republished in Gods word -Channing
Scholars may quote Plato in studies,
| but the hearts of millions shall quote the
Bible at their daily toll, and draw
strength from its inspiration, as the
meadows draw it from the brook M.
! ID. COnUay.
Reverence the highest, have patience
with the lowest Let this davis per-
formanoe of the meanest duty be thy re-
ligion. Are the stars too distant, pick
up the pebble that lies at thy feet and
from it learn the all Magaret Fuller.
will govern my life and my thoughts
as if all the world were to see the one
and to read the other; for what does it
signify to make anything a secret to my
neighbor, when to God I'll our privacies
are open?-iSeneca.
Men who, to support creed, would
shake our trust in the calm, deliberate,
and distinct decisions Of our rational and
moral powers, endanger religion more
than its open forces, and forge the dead
llest weapon for the infdel. Manning
Many who are called Gospel ministers
are more chargcable with concealing
truths than affirming direct error; with
ncgecting some part of their duty, than
actually committing crimes; with not
properly building the house, than will
fully pulling it down. II'iherspoon.
To do the simplest work is to save re-
ligion from the most aggravated misan-
thropy. For man to light his last
candle and set it in the window of his
cot, with the hope that it may catch the
eager eye Of the struggling Mariner who
would give the world for 'iaht is tn
please God more than to perform the
most stately ceremony, as if the earth
were no longer the abode of suffering
humanity. Parker, d. d.
Christianity sends each faculty of our
nature to It's proper office; our venera-
ton to Christ; our wills to their duty.
1t precipitates us on action as the proper
school OF affection: and reversing the
morallst's principle, values not the pure
heart as the tool for producing honorable
deeds, but for the good deeds, as at once
the expression and nourishment Of that
greatest Of possessions, a good mind.
1t was not by retiring into himself. but
by going out of himself, that Christ
overcame the world; not the spiritual