Middletown transcript., 1877-06-09
Uarirfes.

Seneca.
Times chariot wheels make their
road in fairest faces.
Never kill a fly with club when
feather will do as well.
God gives every birdits food, butdoes
not throw it into the nest.
He who sows courtesy reaps friend
ship, and he who plants kindness gath
ers love.-Basil.
Never relate your misfortunes toan-
other, and never grieve over what you
cannot prevent.
Never meet a woman on the day she
is not content with herself. She viii
not forgive you in a lifetime.
Let your expenses be such as to leave
a balance in your pocket. Ready money
is always friend in need.
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold oft by the handle of
faith.-Janses Fireman Clarke.
Be thou the rainbow to the storm Of
life ! the evening beam that smiles the
clouds away, and lights tomorrow with
prophetic ray.
Human brutes, like other beasts, find
names and poisons in the provisions of
life, and are allured by their appetites
to their destruction.
Truthfulness is a cornerstone in
character; and if it is not firmly laid in
youth, there will always be a weak spot
in the foundation.
Often the grand meanings of faces
as well as written words may lie chiefly
in the impression of those who look on
them.
Is it to be thought unreasonable that
the people, in atonement for the wrongs
of a century, demand the vengeance of
a single day.
By annihilating the desires you an
initiate the mind. Every man with
out passions has within him no princi=
pie of action, nor motive to act.
Satires and lampoons on particular
people circulate more by giving copies
in confidence to the friends of the par
ties than by printing them.
Selfsatisfaction is the compensation
oflittleness. Greatness is diseontented
and self-upbraiding, and remorseful
that it accomplishes so little.
By looking into physical causes our
minds are opened and enlarged, and
in this pursuit whether we lose the
game, the chase is certainly of service.
Incidence is distressing state we
must be doing something to be happy.
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instructive tendencies of human
frame
If you have any curiosity to know
how subtle the devil is, you need not
ask your neighbors. Just take quiet
survey of your own life and you will
find out.
There is something in religion, when
rightly comprehended, that is mascu-
line and grand. 1t removes those lit
tie desires which are "the constant
hectic Of a fool"
Profigaey consists not in spending
years of time or chests of money, bat
in spending them off the line Of your
career. Spend for your expense, and
retrench the expense which is not
yours.
Bayard Taylor is said to have re-
marked that it is a withering satire on
our civilization that no sculptor has
dared, or ever will dare, to model a
statue wearing stove-pipe hat.
In China any criminal possessed of
fifteen dollars may procure a substitute
who, having deposited the money in
the hands Of his poor relatives, will
cheerfully undergo the operation Of de
capitation.
There are three means Of living
by inspiration, by reason, and by Gus
tom. Christianity, which is the only
rational institution, does not yet admit
none for its sons who do not believe by
inspiration.
"If we are to live after death, why
don't we have some knowledge of it 2"
said a skeptic to a clergyman. "Why
didn't you have some knowledge of
this world before you came into it p
was the caustic retort.
Whatever is preached to US, and
whatever we learn we should still re-
member that it is man that gives and
man that receives; it is a mortal hand
that presents it to us; it is a mortal
hand that accepts it.
1t is remarkable that Providence
has given all things for our advantage
near at hand I; but iron, gold and sill
yer; being both the instruments of
blood and slaughter, and the price of
it, nature has hidden them in the bow
els of the earth.
Falsehood is difficult to be main-
tanned. When the materials of build
ing are solid blocks of stone, very
rude architecture will suffice; but
structure of rotten materials needs the
most careful adjustment to make it
stand at ALL
cannot call riches better than the
baggage of virtue; the Roman word
is better. For as the bag
gage is to an army, so is riches to vir-
tue; it cannot be spared nor left be-
hind, but it hindereth the march
yea, and the care of itsometimes loseth
Or disturbeth the victory.
1t is sad weakness in us, that the
thought of a mans death hallows him
anew to us; as if life were not sacred
'oo; as if it were very a light thing to
all in love and pay reverence to the
brother who has to climb the whole
oilsome steen with MS. and all our tears